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Writer-Irwin Allen
Dir-Irwin Allen
Music-Paul Sawtell (some of which is on CD)
The Robot from LOST IN SPACE (okay, not the Robot but the same voice--Dick Tufeld) says, "This is the Seaview, the most extraordinary submarine in all the seven seas. Its public image is that of an instrument of marine research. In actuality, it is the mightiest weapon afloat and is secretly assigned the most dangerous missions against the enemies of mankind. In command of the Seaview, Captain John Phillips; and in overall charge of scientific projects, the creator and builder of the fabulous ship, Admiral Harrimin Nelson. This is Seaview's top secret submarine base. It is carved out of solid rock and is located on the southern California coast, 500 feet beneath the famed Nelson Institute of Marine Research. Few men know of its existence and fewer men even suspect its purpose." While this narration goes on, we see shots of Seaview, the Captain, and the Admiral; then the secret base. A coded message 777 from Washington DC comes in via seaman Kowalski to Admiral Nelson's code 452. Nelson asks for confirmation. A car drives out of the secret dry dock base of Seaview. It goes to the main gate where the painter on top of the gateway paints a large white X on the roof of the car which contains Nelson and Phillips and a few other officers. The motorcycle escorts are attacked by a helicopter which kills the motorcycle guards and Phillips with machine gun fire. The car crashes. Nelson jumps out as the car burns and we see a shot inside and out of this--as the car turns over and over, the window bursts into flames and the interior follows--killing the men still alive in it. Nelson shoots the assassin who was firing now from the ladder of the helicopter. The man falls off and into the ocean. A slip of the effect of him falling and then inter cutting of him falling into the water provides a jerky transition but it is an adequate scene and a fantastic start to the series--a wild move was to kill off what was supposedly the main character of John Phillips. The unaired color pilot of this episode has a different main theme but the syndicated version of the black and white version has the regular Seaview theme.
Titles of ELEVEN DAYS TO ZERO look like the VOYAGE logo--wavy letters designed to look like the ocean churning. Nelson and others in a large room watch films of hurricanes, floods, dams crashing down, and other disasters. Nelson claims in 11 days a titanic wall of water will destroy the coastal regions of half the world. Seismologist Dr. Claude Selby and his aide Dr. Fred Wilson (played with panache by Ed Albert) verify Nelson's findings. The Bering Straits, Hawaii, the British Islands, Western Europe, and the East Coast will all be affected (some sources claim Russia and Japan are mentioned--but in the black and white aired episode they are not). One of the men dressed in a lighter officer outfit, supposedly a General (maybe from the Air Force, Marines, or Navy), claims they should evacuate at once. This man is smoking. Wilson suggests they adopt Nelson's plan for the President's approval--successful evacuation would be impossible. The plan: detonate a nuclear device near the North Pole which will break the force of the tidal waves created by the two massive earthquakes. Nelson reminds them four of his best men and Capt. Phillips (some sources say Mark Phillips) were killed by a power with which they are all too familiar--they want death, all governments crippled, and world domination. The plan is voted in and the Chairman (who reappears in MIST OF SILENCE) tells Nelson the Secretary requisitioned Capt. Lee Crane from the Navy. Nelson calls him a fine officer who served with him on the old Nautilus. Wilson has had some dealings with him and finds him an unimaginative, by the book officer. Nelson explains he will take his chances with Crane, ignoring Wilson's assessment. The Chairman offers Nelson a cigarette from the case on the table, warning Nelson the enemy was really gunning for him. The cigarette case is later in the enemy control room (how it got there seems to be a mystery--the opposing General who voted "Nay" may have been a spy). The General who voted "nay" was smoking, left the meeting first, and was sitting closest to the cigarette case. This General was wearing a blue officer's outfit (Army? Marines? Air Force?). Two of the men in the mostly foreigner-like populated complex looks American or British) with a tape of the chairman's warning to Nelson and probably the entire meeting. At first, I thought perhaps the chairman himself was one of the enemy. The enemy leader is called Dr. Gamma in the credits but as far as can be seen, the name Dr. Gamma never appears on the broadcast episode. Another important side note is that in the original color pilot ELEVEN DAYS TO ZERO, it is quite clear that Dr. Gamma is played by Werner Klemperer (of HOGAN'S HEROES) and the lines are the same but the voice is different; however at other times, it is clearly Theodore Marcuse. The aired black and white version cuts out close ups of Werner's face. The color pilot differs in other ways as well: the Dr. Gamma scenes are well lit as opposed to the black and white aired version which are dark and dim. The leader wants to exploit the misfortune of the western world and make Seaview fail in its mission. Crane sneaks aboard Seaview in dark clothing, going into the conning tower, and down into the control room. Kowalski--Ski for short, CPO Curley Jones, seaman Malone and other men stop him finally--but he punches Ski first. This was a test. Crane yells, "Your security should have stopped me before I came on board!" Later while readying for the mission in the Missile Room, Ski tells a teasing Malone that Crane must have been wearing brass knuckles. Curley arrives and Malone asks what the poop is. Curley looked up Crane's service record--he was intercollegiate middle weight boxing champion (for 2 years). Malone is impressed, "No wonder he decked you, Kowalski." Nelson brings Wilson to the deck outside and he is cold to Lee when Lee says a warm hello to him. Wilson just responds with, "Oh, hello, Crane." Lee tells Chip Morton, the exec, to hurry and get them underway. In his cabin, Lee is putting on a tie, checking it in a bathroom mirror when Ski comes in with his gear. Lee tells him he will stow it and apologizes to him about his jaw. Ski says, "Forgive me for asking, sir," but he asks if he served with the Admiral before to which Lee responds yes to--his first Navy assignment. SKi tells him the Admiral considers the Seaview crew pretty special. Crane reacts hot tempered yells at Ski who merely tells him Nelson is waiting to see him right away in the observation nose. Crane lightens up and slaps Ski's shoulder, "Why didn't you say so in the first place," and leaves, more at ease. Lee comes down the nose ladder to see other officers, Chip, Wilson, and Nelson there, planning. All but Nelson leave. Nelson questions Lee's method of entering the ship. Lee found the gate search thorough enough but the security aboard lax. Nelson yells his own back at Lee now, then tells him he didn't get very far (Malone had pulled a gun on him). Nelson tells Lee that someone recently declared Lee unimaginative but Nelson himself finds that an exaggeration---Crane's own entrance proved his imagination. Nelson tells Crane not to think of the crew as a ragtag civilian crew--they are highly trained specialists in a wide variety of fields. Sparks calls; Seaview is to dive soon; Lee may open their secret sealed orders. In Nelson's cabin, they talk about the orders. Seaview and crew are to be considered expendable but Nelson hopes Lee will bring them all back alive. He calls Lee, "Lad," and tells him he cannot tell the crew about the mission--the crew can take their pressure for themselves but if they knew about their families being in danger--the sub could become a floating pressure cooker. Lee was a bit confused at first--in the Navy he told his crew every detail of every mission. Nelson tells him in a sense they are at war with a worldwide force, that they should run submerged. Seaview is ordered by Lee to dive. Stock from the movie shows us an elaborate dive sequence. Lee watches on the periscope as the water moves over the sub's bow and stern (it isn't anything like what Seaview should look like but it will do). At 90 feet, Lee orders Chip to set them at full speed ahead. Chip asks, "In these waters?" Crane says, "That's right, Mr. Morton." Ski whispers to Malone, "How do you like that--a routine cruise to nowhere and he wants to kill us getting there."
The enemies track Seaview. In the nose, Lee tells Wilson he knows his job when Wilson reminds him about planting the bomb and getting Seaview as close as possible to the ice floes. Nelson tells him Seaview is not expendable until after the triangulation adjustments are made. Seaview shakes; Lee and Nelson run up. Depth charges hit--a strange looking drone plane is dropping the charges. Seaview vertically dives to 1000. Stock footage from the film is of men shaking. These include a man in the hallway with a food tray, men in the Mess Hall and Crew's quarters. The music by Paul Sawtell is fitting and sounds very like the Max Steiner score for the original KING KONG (a compliment to Sawtell). Nelson mentions radar can't reach Seaview now (radar---that's for up in the sky). Missiles and firing systems are knocked out. A crewman's voice (obviously Del Monroe's) from the Missile Room asks, "Captain, what the devil's going on?" Nelson tells Lee to tell them as little as possible. Crane tells them it is top secret and they are now on war alert. Sonar has intermittent readings. The sonar mast has been knocked loose and dragged along the hull. Nelson feels this could end the mission--navigating under the ice without it is suicide. Reminding him he didn't volunteer, Ski complains to Malone that Crane has kicked his compass but Malone already feels, "The Skipper knows what he's doing." It is 6 days to zero with no time for evacuation as Nelson and Wilson figure it while conferring in the nose. Seaview is on the bottom. Wilson feels that they have blown it. Lee suggests they go out and find the mast, surface, repair it in one hour, and get going again. Lee will go with the two divers; Nelson protests--Lee is too valuable to the mission but Lee counters with him with, "If we fail nothing will make much difference." Nelson tells Lee to pick his men. Malone and Curley report to Crane, who is suited up, in the Missile Room. Curley presents himself and Malone as the crew's best divers. Lee wonders about Curley, who is a bit overweight, "Sorry, Chief." Curley wants to go. Nelson tells Crane, "Don't judge his ability by his looks, Lee, he's a fish underwater." Crane lets Curley go and Curley smiles. Wilson tells them he will be the fourth. Crane warns him, "That's no swimming pool out there, doctor." But in reality it was! Wilson suits up, telling him he happens to be the best diver on board. Crane uses sarcasm, "Forgive us, we almost left without you."
A word about the first season: the stories and characters were all very good with only a few of the goofy episodes that would later permeate the third and fourth seasons. One thing it did not have in its favor is the look of the sub and other hardware. The second season is much more preferable in design of the Seaview. For one, the design looks more modern in the second season, even if it is not realistic--the Flying Sub could not fit in the front of the Seaview--if you compare the interiors with the exteriors. This is not too hard to overlook.
I do feel that having the nose on one level and the control room on the other as in this first season takes away from the enjoyment of the show. Characters spent lots of time going up and down the ladder to and from the nose area. The Control Room crew, instead of looking out the viewports, would have to watch the action on a screen or, worse, on sonar and radar. This, while much more truthful, did not help the stories move along smoothly, nor did it help visually.
Thus, the second season, making the nose and the control room all one area is much more direct with its action and movement from window nose to the Control Room than this first season. In season one, the action had to either be split between nose and control room or had to stop so we could see what was going on above in the control room or below in the nose. And this limited what characters could take place in the action above or below. Season two took care of all that by making the nose and the control room together, eliminating story time spent going up and down from one to the other. It made sense and was one of the best things the show ever did. The Flying Sub also helped bolster the more modern look.
The first season also reminded me a bit of the old FLASH GORDON chapter serials---I bring this up at the point in the review where the divers go out the tubes. The tubes in this season were a sorry affair. Not only did they look flimsy but unreliable and very old for the 1970s. In addition to this, the piping, hatchways, and especially the hatch exit out of Seaview, have an antiquated look about them that just does not bode well for a futuristic series. Fortunately, most of these ancient looking set pieces were replaced for Season Two, where Seaview looked very modern and futuristic, if a bit too big and improbable. The black and white also added to the older, classic look along with Paul's music, which, while excellent, reminds one of the old FLASH GORDON chapters, the Universal 1940 FRANKENSTEIN series, films from the black and white TARZANs (some of which Sawtell scored), and 50s monster movies. More on this with VILLAGE OF THE GUILT. Everything seemed a bit too "old" for this to be a scientific, upbeat, progressive series and that all changed in year two.
Nelson and Chip watch the divers swim past the nose windows. The music is quite beautiful here. Crane sees a swordfish-shark which he spears with a spear gun. Just then a squid attacks him just as he seems to find what they are looking for. The squid attack, lifted from the movie, is effective. It grabs him in a tentacle and whirls him toward it.
The divers use spear guns on the squid, which is giant. They free Crane, with Wilson doing the most to stop the monster. They use flares on the creature. One of the divers grabs the squid's tentacle in what looks like a flub. The squid bleeds as the men attack it some more. Back in the Missile Room, Crane jokes how he feels like a sore loser..., "And I do mean sore." Crane thanks Wilson, who returns with the very small sonar mast...or a part of it. Wilson seems to lighten up a bit, "I told you I was the best diver aboard." Seaview surfaces for repairs. We then cut to a nice medley of scenes, accompanied by some of the nicest music ever used on television. Seaview continues on. They reach under the ice floes, some ten to twenty feet thick. The sonar man gets a flash reading astern. Nelson feels they may have to blast their way out of the ice but the firing system isn't yet repaired. There are two hours to zero. A sub is coming at them. The enemy on the sub (voice heard only) calls the enemy leader and his men. The sub is ordered to open fire. It attacks Seaview via the movie stock footage of the sub chasing the Seaview down below crush depth. Seaview rigs for attack, hearing the missiles pass. Wilson wonders how they can outrun a torpedo. Lee answers at the same time as he orders into the mike, "Dive! All dive!" He also asks Nelson, "This is your baby, Admiral, how much pressure can she take?" Nelson feels about 2400---the other sub cannot take that much, Nelson says, "She'll blow." Crane spouts, "She'd better!" Seaview is at 3200 feet. The enemy sub is ordered deeper and it blows up. Seaview shakes. Seaview surfaces nose up (stock from the movie). The enemy leader orders Drone 4-C to resume attack. Lee, Nelson, Ski, and Chip watch from the conning tower as the Snow Cat (with Wilson and Malone in it) leaves Seaview. There is also a huge bomb on a carrying tractor and a ramp from Seaview to the ice. The Snow Cat (which makes an appearance in THE HEAT MONSTER) leaves with one hour and twenty minutes left before the first quake.
The first quake hits Seaview, shaking Curley, an officer, and Nelson in the nose. Alarms go off, water hits Curley. Nelson asks for the figures to be run through number four computer. Wilson calls for a reading but the drone attacks again. The blasts hit the Snow Cat, Wilson and Malone get hit by ice. The plane went under Seaview's radar screen. Nelson waits for Wilson's report, "It may be all over--stand fast and wait is all we can do." Nelson was certainly a bit of a pessimist in this episode with Crane pulling the optimist. If Nelson were testing Crane's ingenuity and good outlook, it was a heck of a time to do so. Wilson calls in. The ice on Wilson and Malone looks kind of fake. The bomb is undamaged but Malone's leg is broken and Wilson took a shard of ice on the shoulder. The Snow Cat is buried under a ton of ice. The next quake is due in three hours and 44 minutes. Crane wants to go dig them out. Nelson asks, "And if you can't...?" Lee's answer, "Then you'll have no choice...pull the plug and scramble."
32 minutes before Seaview must dive. Chip, Ski, and Nelson talk on the conning tower. Ski asks if Captain Crane went out there knowing they might have dive without him. Crane and Curley move through some very nice snow effects (some of the only snow we see in Irwin Allen TV--the other moments include a few LOST IN SPACE sequences--SPACE BEAUTY and THE GALAXY GIFT). ELEVEN DAYS TO ZERO had a full fledged snow storm. Enemies make the drone return. Crane fires a flare, enabling Wilson to lead him to the Snow Cat. Ski tells Nelson and Chip that Sparks has lost all radio contact with the others--Crane and Wilson. There are four minutes to go. Curley and Crane get Wilson and Malone out and clear the Snow Cat. The missiles are repaired on Seaview. Chip warns Nelson they are five minutes past their dive time. Ski pleads, "We leave and they're dead!" Nelson yells, "And if we don't...everyone's dead!" The Snow Cat is moving now and moves out with the four men on board. Chip is ordered to prepare to dive and does so without hesitation--unlike when orders are given in the future seasons, in this season, orders, even orders the men don't like, are carried out right away. But the drone plane is picked up again. Nelson orders it to be destroyed...blasted out of the sky. Chip does this order...and the interceptors from Seaview's upper deck holes blow the drone up. We see the blow up from the enemy viewscreen. Chip then order all dive. Nelson sees something in the snow and yells triumphantly, "Delay that! There they are!" The reunion is a joyous one as it returns to Seaview, other men helping the foursome. The music must also be commended here, adding to the snow, joy, and danger of it all. Nelson orders a crash dive and they all prepare to clear the deck. Later in the nose, Wilson, his arm in a sling, scolds Nelson, "You shouldn't have waited for us. That double blast will kill everyone on board." They are 30 minutes too close to the impact. The second quake hits and the bomb goes off. Controls burst, Seaview shakes, alarms go off. Crane orders the nose camera on. Ice falls all over Seaview and we see it at the windows in the nose. There is 650 from keel to bottom. Seaview goes down to 1000. The enemy leader, bald, and an obvious parallel to Blofeld in the James Bond movie FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, tells his men a terrible blunder has been made--they have underestimated their adversary and overestimated themselves. While reminiscent of Blofeld, Gamma (if that is his name) is calm and doesn't kill off his own men--at least not the ones in the room with him as Blofeld used to do this. He tells the men they must never repeat this blunder.
Seaview's nose: water at the window as it hits surface. They will reach port in two hours. Wilson thanks Crane properly for saving his precious hide. Crane tells him he couldn't lose the best diver on board. Crane figures he'll be going back to active duty in the Navy; Crane adding, "Now that Seaview's job is over."
Nelson says, "Seaview's job is never over. As long as there are destructive forces in the world, as long as there are secrets of nature being probed..there'll be work for us on missions just as vital and dangerous as this one."
Curley delivers message--one that Nelson, he, and Wilson seem aware of already. The message tells him he is out of the Navy. Nelson tells him, "Of course, how else could you accept the post of permanent captain of the Seaview---that is, if you want it."
Crane smiles and nods at the two men. They raise their cups to the new captain of the Seaview.
REVIEW and NOTES: Paul Zastupnevich is the enemy controller of the drone in Gamma's headquarters. Lots of stock footage which would be a staple of VOYAGE throughout its four years. This one, while very good, is also quite strange: the heroes and villains never really meet, it being a contest of strategy. The footage fits in well. Unfortunately, the recent CD of this episode's music doesn't do it homage---most of it is missing and some of it sounds reproduced (poorly)---and the wait music during the fourth act is not there at all--too bad, it is a great score and should have been done justice. The conning tower is used most during this season and it looks great here. The entire Seaview deck is a bit on the thin side when compared to the model we see under the water and riding on the surface but it is adequate and also brave for just trying to be a standing set. The interplay between Wilson, Crane, Nelson, and the agitation between all including the crew and Crane (mostly Kowalski--who seemed to be a real complainer here) makes things most interesting. Wilson was a bit arrogant but in the end he lightened up. The Arctic sequences were well done and for once in an Irwin Allen production, it really looks like outdoor snow and ice! Mr. O'Brien also appears in this episode and the copy I've seen in syndication has the VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA logo reappear at the very end of the end credits.
Paul Sawtell music graced the following TARZAN movies: One of the first full musical scores for any TARZAN film--TARZAN TRIUMPHS (1943 with Johnny Weissmuller vs Nazis), TARZAN'S DESERT MYSTERY (1943-Weissmuller and with giant spider and several enlarged "dinosaur" lizards and Arabians--almost a practice session for his VOYAGE scores), TARZAN AND THE AMAZONS (1945-Weissmuller), TARZAN AND THE LEOPARD WOMAN (1946-Weissmuller-one of the best TARZAN films), TARZAN AND THE HUNTRESS (1947-Weissmuller and the last to feature Johnny Sheffield as Boy, the last movie to feature Boy who was named ONLY Boy), TARZAN AND THE SLAVE GIRL (1950-Lex Barker's second Tarzan film), TARZAN'S SAVAGE FURY (1952 and Lex Barker's fourth Tarzan film and one which had a new "Boy" named Joey), TARZAN AND THE SHE DEVIL (1953-Barker and also starring Raymond Burr as a baddie), and TARZAN'S HIDDEN JUNGLE (1955, Gordon Scott's first Tarz movie).
Nelson Riddle, best known of his 60s TV BATMAN fame, did several scores for TV's TARZAN show in 1966 to 1968 (Ron Ely was Tarzan with a boy called Jai). Riddle wrote season 2's ESCAPE FROM VENICE many parts of which were used again in season 2, 3, and 4.
Henry Kulky (Curley in VOYAGE) appeared as an eye patch wearing villain named Vredak in Lex Barker's first TARZAN movie called TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN (1949), the movie which dealt with a fountain of youth type area in the jungle.
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Y&R is committed to having 20 agencies on the African continent by 2015. Leading the charge to achieve this is Yossi Schwartz, chairman of Y&R South Africa.
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WASHINGTON, US: The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) is seeking nominations for its 2013 Courage in Journalism Awards and Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Yesterday, Tuesday, 3 May 2011, was the 20th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day, begun in Namibia as the Declaration of Windhoek, a statement of principles calling for a free, independent and pluralistic media throughout the world. Celebrations around the world were tempered with concerns about the erosion of press freedom and in South Africa, SANEF called on Government to review its proposed legislations that has seen SA downgrade from 'free press' to 'partly free'.
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WASHINGTON: The number of people worldwide with access to free and independent media declined to its lowest level in over a decade, according a Freedom House study released yesterday, 2 May 2011. The report, Freedom of the Press 2011: A global survey of media independence, found that a number of key countries experienced significant declines, producing a global landscape in which only one in six people live in countries with a press that is designated Free.
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As concern mounts over the fate of Anton Hammerl, a South African photographer missing in Libya alongside two US journalists and one Spanish photographer, the Presidency said yesterday, Wednesday, 20 April 2011, that President Jacob Zuma has been briefed on the attempts made by the SA mission in Libya to locate Hammerl. Reports from Washington DC also suggest that the White House is very concerned about their well-being and it is trying hard to assist them in any way it can.
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The fundamental reason that many African governments ban and harass the media has more to do with personal connotations than other issues, Kenya's Henry Maina, director of Article 19 Eastern Africa, told delegates at the two-day Regulations and Rights media conference last week in Johannesburg.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man who stole a truck containing President Obama's audio equipment has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison.
Eric Brown of Richmond apologized Thursday before U.S. District Judge John Gibney imposed the sentence, which was agreed upon by prosecutors and Brown's attorney. Authorities in three counties surrounding Richmond agreed that if Brown got seven years, they would not prosecute him for 14 similar thefts.
The 49-year-old Brown pleaded guilty in January to theft of government property. The 2005 van was stolen from a suburban Richmond hotel parking lot in October 2011, ahead of an appearance by Obama several days later. Along with audio equipment, the van contained a laptop computer, presidential seals and a podium. Some of the items were later recovered at Maryland pawn shops.


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What I have noticed is that genealogists are starting at a young age. Yes, younger! Just Monday I was working with a die-hard 17 year old. His mother, not interested at all in the family tree, dropped him off at the Mid-Continent Genealogy Library in Kansas City where I volunteer for a good four hours or so, in order for him to research not only his family tree, but the family tree of a friend. Unfortunately, he was terribly stumped and had not gone really past the 1900's with this friend's ancestors, even though he was able to go back to the 1700's on his own.
"The 1900's?, you ask."
"Yes actually 1910."
My next 2 hours working with the young high school student did not consist of the ins and outs of Ancestry.com, or how to use a mouse, but on history. Although the fellow had successfully traced his European descendent family from the 1700's (through census, military, marriage, birth records), he didn't realize that volunteering for his African-American friend would require a lot more detective work, and a grave knowledge of history, culture, and social practices.
Our conversations were a series of me giving history, social and cultural lessons, and him acknowledging the information with a "WOW!" or "That's sad!" I also received quite a few "Really(s)?"
Well, two hours later, he had a lot of knowledge, very little additional information, and he realized that he would have to do some serious digging, and cross-referencing especially to locate maiden names.
I left him with a few valuable tips for seeking African American Heritage, a couple easy to read books on African American history both Pre- and Post Civil War, a list of possible records to search to verify maiden names, and a pat on the back for good luck.
He looked a little overwhelmed, especially when I mentioned microfiche and microfilm, so I started him with my favorite historical fiction book that shares light on the climate, the fears, and lives of a slave from a young man's point of view. You have probably heard by now about "Elijah of Buxton," by Christopher Paul Curtis, based on the true story of Elijah the first born free child of Buxton, Canada; a real town established for runaways.
It's a book of hope, which may give this young genealogist not only the inspiration that he needs to take on such a Herculean task as to research an African American family, but broaden his knowledge of one of America's most intriguing periods.
Genealogists ________ through genealogy!
a) grow
b) become smarter
c) share
d) are more aware
e) all of the above.
Kathleen Brandt
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Hi, my name is Heather. I'm making my way through various genealogy blogs and trying to make contact with other young genealogists. When you get the opportunity, please pass our information along to other young researchers when you meet them. Our group blog, written for and by young genealogists, is over at youngandsavvygenealogists.blogspot.com. Our Google+ group is Young and Savvy Genealogists.ReplyDelete
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I just pulled mself from the quicksand. I've been trapped for the last two days in a fruitless and frustrating back and forth with a pro life, anti euthanasia, creationist... I know, I know "Someone is wrong on the internet" but it is so frustrating recieving her messages. You know you shouldn't look, but the stupid calls to you. "How bad can it be this time" you ask yourself.
Seriously, this girl uses all the talking points! She repeats "questions" over and over looking for a particular answer, not satisfied until it is provided for her to crow over.
She actually said "only a theory" and "show me a half monkey half man" and when I explained we don't come from monkeys using cousins and grandparents to illustrate the difference between ancestors and contemporaries she followed up with puzzlement that I was calling her grandfather a monkey and after some more clarification followed up with "so where are the half monkey men" again as if nothing had happened.
After she tried "only a theory" and when I'd explained evolution is a theory like germ theory she suggested I lick a toilet brush - clearly misunderstanding which of us doesn't accept scientific theories as more than guesswork.Then she loled at herself.
And, of course, I have no morals. Without the bible and god how could I? And I'm not qualified to discuss the bible because I don't understand it. Direct quotes are out of context, obviously. And I have faith, more faith than her. I mentioned to her that I snigger every time a theist uses faith as a dirty wod. I mean it is a dirty word,but it is nice when they acknowledge it.
In the end the only way to escape was to delete the thread, which is a shame. But otherwise I'd never have escaped from the cluthces of ignorance.
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There is a name for people like her: "Troll." It sounds like she was just fucking with you to provoke a response. No doubt she believes in a lot of bullshit, but it sounds like she knows just what to say and how to say it to push your buttons. Perhaps I'm giving her too much credit, but I think she knew what she was doing. Her breed of troll is very common.
With respect to human ancestry, a decent book as a resource is The Complete World of Human Evolution - I believe there is more evidence than most people are aware of with respect to human ancestry.
As far as other discussions about "evidence" for evolution, the TalkOrigins website and the Understanding Evolution (Berkeley) websites are pretty good (in my opinion).
In my experience, most, if not all, the people who do not accept evolution have not read On the Origin of Species or have not been educated sufficiently to be in a position to actually critique evolution. It is likely a person such as the one mentioned here will neither have the inclination nor the capacity to comprehend evolution.


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"In India, cricket is definitely a religion," said Hemant Buch, the Gujarat, India-born founder of the California Cricket Academy, which organizes youth leagues in Cupertino, Fremont and San Jose's Evergreen area.
The nonprofit organization celebrated its 10-year anniversary on Saturday by sponsoring a free cricket coaching clinic for more than 55 young children in the park next to the Cupertino Library, which now has a permanent cricket "pitch" installed thanks to the efforts of Buch and his wife, Kinjal, the California Cricket Academy's president.
Sanjeen Manoli, a Sunnyvale software engineer, grew up in Mumbai, India, playing cricket in college and wanted his 9-year-old son, Soham, to take up a sport in Silicon Valley.
Manoli insists he would have been happy if Soham had chosen, say, soccer or tennis. But when Soham told Manoli that he wanted to learn to play cricket just like his dad, Manoli was thrilled.
"In India, with 1.2 billion people, cricket is the most watched sport," Manoli said. "It's great."
While adult cricket leagues have exploded around the Bay Area over the last decade, the Buchs focused instead on teaching the game of British colonialism to children, including their own sons, Arsh, now 18, and Mohak, now 14.
"At first, our goal was just to get 22 players so we could at least have two teams" of 11 players each, Hemant Buch said.
After 35 families showed up that first year, the Buchs knew they were on to something.
Today, the players and parents continue to represent mostly Indian and Pakistani heritages, with the occasional Australian or Brit thrown in. So the California Cricket Academy's league play has come to represent a social networking opportunity for families from similar backgrounds.
But the Buchs continue to push for more diversity.
"We keep telling people, 'Please bring at least one American kid with you next time,' " Hemant Buch said.
A handful of players out of the California Cricket Academy have gone on to play for the U.S. Under-15 Cricket Team. And Hemant Buch — who is chairman of youth development for the United States of America Cricket Association — each year takes a youth team to India to compete in an eight-match cricket tournament held over 12 days.
In the Bay Area, the association is now working with P.E. teachers in Fremont, Cupertino and Evergreen to incorporate cricket into their schools' programs.
Teaching the fundamentals of cricket to kids who grew up on baseball is easy, said Anirudh Srinivas, 16, who was born in Bangalore, India.
Srinivas, who just finished the season as Monta Vista High School's varsity soccer goalie, also has traveled to Manitoba, Canada, as the opening bowler for the U.S. Under-15 Cricket Team.
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Mahesh Nihalani, a Cupertino Chamber of Commerce director who was raised in Shimla, India, beamed as he watched the coaches put their young players through a series of drills on Saturday designed to make them fundamentally sound cricket players.
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The 20-year-old will definitely develop further, having his career best season at Schalke in the 2012-13 season, scoring 13 goals and creating several chances. Arsenal,though,will have to compete with Italian giants, Juventus who are also interested in signing Draxler - a fee of around £30million might be enough to land him.
Borussia Dortmund midfielder Marco Reus is one of the dynamic attacking midfield players who has taken centre stage, especially last term, with the rise of BVB on the world stage.
Named the fourth best footballer in Europe in 2013 by Bloomberg, Reus has been instrumental in his performances for both club and country,Scoring 19 goals last term. He has continued his top form with four goals this season in just eight matches.
Reus reportedly has a buy-out clause of £34million and the German outfit might want the whole amount to be paid in order to let him leave for North London.
The fee reportedly being planned by Wenger is £64million,according to Caughtoffside.com,to land the German duo.Arsenal already have Ozil, Podolski, Mertesacker in their ranks and it won't be difficult for either of the two Germans to settle in London if they decide to move to Arsenal which would surely make The Gunners the team to beat.
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The new site is way to busy, I liked the old design where I could hit the site if the item was even remotely interesting I'd read the description, and either buy it or move on... now i hit the site, have to futz around to get to the description, and am assaulted by so much stuff scattered all over the page that I'm in overload before i even get reading on the description...
This is certainly not an improvement for me at least...
I suppose 6 years as a Wooter is enough for me. Quirky and endearing has given way to loud and annoying.
And run-of-the-mill.
Things change. I'm an old enough knuckledragging net fossil to know that.
I wish you luck with your new data-mining-driven interface, and presumably its matching business plan. Your Big Data statistics probably show my departure won't cost you a lot (Wooter since 2006, but only 50+ purchases).
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The new page design has lost the simplicity that I liked, and that differentiated Woot from competitors.
I now browse Woot mostly on my iphone, where the new page is unusable. I'm not going to install a Woot app. I'm also not going to farm out any more of my personal info, so the social networking integration bits are a fail with me.
halperez wrote:And it works for home.woot.com/today and all the other sites. Now what about a script that automatically forwards to the /today page?
Do it yourself. Edit your bookmark properties so the http://www.woot.com/today page is the default location for Woot.
Jessara wrote:Do it yourself. Edit your bookmark properties so the http://www.woot.com/today page is the default location for Woot.
Thanks for the common sense link The beta front page is totally annoying.
1. I agree with the majority opinion of the clutter being a huge turnoff, and have already sent a more expanded version of that comment via beta feedback and it doesn't need more rehashing here.
2. The annoyance factor of Woot Plus does deserve more rehashing, though. They are SO BIG. They really should be banished from the main page and given a new sister site Plus! along with the rest of them. At the very least, if they have to stay, create some kind of dynamic link so if a Plus deal is sold out it will remove itself from the main page and there will be less clutter, at least for a little while.
3. I do like the top navigation bar with popup visuals to the other sites, it lets me quickly see whether there are any products I'd consider before clicking through, and are much easier to make out than the thumbnail versions elsewhere.
4. To everyone wanting to link Amazon Prime shipping, don't hold your breath. Woot has long noted that the real costs of shipping are worked into the sales price, the $5 thing has always been a gimmick. They could just as easily have raised the prices on everything by $5 and offered free shipping, but then the deals don't seem as good. $79/yr Prime membership was surely set by all the actuaries at Amazon working out exactly how many orders people make and what it would take to recoup free shipping, and those numbers didn't include adding free Woot orders in. Also, since Woot seems to be run as a completely independent subsidiary, the Woot Poohbahs would take a hit on their financials if Amazon got all the Prime revenue but Woot had to give free shipping with nothing to show for it. So, don't expect free shipping here. If I'm wrong, my avatar will eat his hat.
5. If anyone hasn't gotten enough Woot redesign hate from this forum, here's the forum discussion from the last big redesign in 2009, Woot 3.0. I wonder how many people there said they were never coming back to woot again but of course slunk back in under cover of night?
madfrisbee wrote:Hey, I've been here a while (since '06), so you might just dismiss this feedback as maudlin sentimentality or a tendency toward intransigent nostalgia.
Well anyway, here's my take on the redo so far. Much of this echoes others' comments, but maybe the weight of numbers will make a difference.
I like the actual product pages just fine. The writeup on the left with tabs on the right for the different sections of product info - great. I also like the combining shipping, the account info pages, and the fact that the writers are still writing blog posts.
But I very much dislike having to click through to the full writeup and info page. The large sections of space given to secondary sales will possibly increase your revenue, but it's all just noisy noisemakers that make noise. The simplicity is lost.
Also, on the Shirt site, I think you were doing well before to have the Reckoning showing little scrollable thumbnails or some such. This seems to go against my anti-noisemaker sentiment, but I prefer that to the giant chunk of page given to the weekly themed sale.
My advice: reduce the additional-sale sections drastically. It's a question of identity: are you our favorite lovable deal-a-day site or are you Buy.com?
Just needed to be re-said.
The front page could use a good run-over with a Roomba or Dyson.
What a mess.
Too bad I can't see the pictures of my purchases from 22 June 2005 and earlier. Guess the server crashed. I like the preview of the woot! home! kids! etc. tabs. That's pretty cool. The functions I remember are still here, just in different locations. It's like Easter all over again. Whoever coined "Stuff you bought" should get the plain-speak award; much better than "purchase history". Better use of space on the account page, and a nice breakout of "settings" vrs "stuff you bought". The surveys smack a lot of Amazon, the leader in custom-tailored emails to make you buy more stuff, but the instant feedback in the form of statistics makes up for the blatant research chutzpah. Is there a reason why we can't have a purchase total line in terms of total woots, total items, price totals (amount spent) total days belonging to woot, loyalty ranking, purchase ranking, dollar ranking, etc? I'm sure the marketing geniuses have a few more ideas.
How do you see all the posts from someone? I'm trying to find an old post of mine but can't find that button that lets me see all posts made by me.
Posted this via feedback:
"Boo, front page. The text overlaps the picture with a white background, the I Want One button overlaps the sharing buttons, the lack of the full write-up, and the confusing wootplus brand name thing being way too big.
Once you click "Read More", though, I like that product page layout, with the writeup and the product choices, and the pictures on the side. **That** page should be the first thing you see when you go to woot.com. The frontpage lacks that woot simplicity that I've come to know and love.
The CB thing at the top right is annoying to. I hate opt-out advertising, especially when it's covering something important like my login. I can definitely see myself trying to login and accidentally clicking on the advertising rather than on the tiny red X to make the advertising go away. And don't think that will make me buy something. No, it will make whatever CB is anathema to me.
I do like the green bar with the links to the different woots that stays at the top of your page, but I don't like the drop-down when you hover over with your mouse. I absolutely hate those things. Please, please, make it so we have to click on them.
I also like the combined "stuff you bought". Very convenient having it all there on one page."
One thing, I'm scared to see how this is going to look on my phone. Regular woot was a bit much for my phone's browser, so I can't imagine what this will do to my poor phone.
Hey, was that a shark we just jumped?
Don't like the new Woot. Used to be able to use keywords to search sellout items. Woot, if you make it impossible to do this, or difficult, you just lost me.
rmeden wrote:Isn't fitting on a 1024x768 screen w/o a horizontal scroll bar in Web Design 101???
+1 QUALITY POST. Can I get an "Amen!"
Not much to say, me no like.
Too much busy, too much selling
I'm trying to find positives here...umm, i like being forced to login? No...I like that the font is set to like 24? No...umm...the actual product page IS nice, umm...
Sorry, back to negatives, dump the sharing crap, the only way to share is through a link on YOUR page? People can't share it on their own? How hard is it to email WOOT.COM?
WootPLUS is just ugly.
In short, I reiterate, ME. NO. LIKE.
I agree with the majority of posts on here in that the new site is cluttered. I also wanted to point out that with all the new extensions of Woot (home, kids, shirt, wine, sellout) that I can't really figure out where the original Woot fits in anymore.
On the topic of the beta site design, I thought that this was applicable:
I posted an initial response just to capture my initial reaction in the forums. I cannot find it, but these are my thoughts on redesign after using it a couple days:
Obviously that top nav bar with the rollover previews is the best upgrade, which you have to keep. Very, very good improvement. Thank you for that, very much.
When viewing the forums, there is no option as to how many pages we want to view at once, and no option to view the whole conversation. One page at a time, then a click to advance to the next page. Maybe this is because you only have one ad on that page and you want to jack up your displays. Put more ads on the right of the forum pages, we don't really mind. But consider the ability to load 5 pages at a time, or the whole conversation please. Yes, I know they are frequently 20, 100, or more pages. I have Verizon fios, a Dell 30" monitor, and a beatly computer. Bring it on. Alternatively, adopt new tech and when I reach the bottom, automatically load another page for me right there and extend the page on the fly. Please do not make me click endlessly.
Add a search feature to each forum topic so that I can find my comments, my friends comments, or someone who said something I liked. (UPDATE: FOUND IT! Easy not to notice it though.)
None of us really care about ads. Add them, we do not care. BUT, if you do keep them, have them load last on the page, please. Nothing annoys us more than ads that load first, slowing down our visit. There was a time I could spend 25 seconds on woot! a day and see everything the day offered, and even checkout and buy what I wanted in another 20 seconds. Are those days are behind us?
Have we lost the ability to click our woot! name and view all of our past and current comments and site interactions? Seriously?
I hate having to click "Read More" to learn about the one deal I care about... ( I mean if you can slop up two-to-three ads on the homepage, can't we get a freakin' model number? Seesh. I'm getting over the fact that old woot! is long dead and 6 feet under, but have we so abandoned one deal a day that we now have to click "Read More" to learn ANYTHING of merit about the one thing you're primarily shilling? Damn.
On a much more minor note, one that I can really, really live with, I highly preferred the list of "Discuss this Deal" as opposed to the scrolling one at a time side-slider. But I'll get over it...just feels sellout-ty.
The reckoning no longer having real estate on shirt woot! is very sad. But…I will get over it too. I just will just buy fewer shirts from the reckoning. Sad-face.
Somehow the "I Want One" button has become obnoxious. Before it was awesome. I now don't want to click it. It makes it harder to support you guys now. Just saying.
The name and the concept of woot!plus is not something I particularly like. If you really like, make it it's own woot! like you did for home, shirt, deals, sellout, wine, etc. If we want to buy a ton of crap, let us, otherwise give me back my hilarious long form product description, my product specs, my reckoning, etc.
I really am grateful for all the solid deals and steals that old woot! brought me, the fun of the derby voting, the occasionally decent shirts you enabled designers to sell me, and being part of the genesis of deals woot! from a worthless feature to something that is worth a couple minutes every day.
Best wishes with the new beta future.
Why? Too busy. Woot is dead.
Sharkemperor wrote:Why? Too busy. Woot is dead.
This site was awesome due to it's simplicity. This is too social network like and cluttered. What made this site awesome was the ease of just seeing the details of the deals. I don't like it.
Busy, cluttered, I don't like it. I do not like the feeling I get when I see all the crap on screen.
I generally quickly leave a website that is so cluttered. woot! has turned into one of those.
It was good while it lasted.
Do not like.... too much over the top. Visual array out of bounds.
Oh! Mutating Goodness! You are such a genius! I'll bet you're the first one to figure that out!
| sarcasm.
That's the first thing I did for the woot page. But now when I go from www.woot.com to home.woot.com, I either need a script to ignore the "bad" page or I need to have a second, then a third, up to a sixth bookmark in my toolbar. Now you see why the script might make some sense?
Whatever hapened to one day one deal? That is what made you stand out. Now this site is cluttered like any other marketing site.
WHY would you completely go away from what made you so successful in the first place. Then you geniuses will wonder what happened and why you failed.
AAAAAaaaaahhhhh!!!! You used to be the cool friend who hipped me to a quiet bargain while telling me a story. Don't know what you are now, other than ob-nox-ious. Used car salesmen don't come off so pushy and desperate.
Unbookmark...color me gone.
Hey Woot, I have a great idea. Once you are finished with your "Cram as much as we can on your screen" scheme with the new redesign, please make a little link in the upper right or left corner for those of us who prefer "Woot! Classic". This link can be for those of us who prefer to enjoy the simple things life (or Woot) has to offer, rather than the congested hustle and bustle of urban chaos that has become your homepage. It will also benefit the many who have commented here about viewing the site on net-books and other lower resolution screen devices. The increased website clutter that seems to be running rampant across the internet worries me as it is becoming more and more frustrating, especially for older people who are bombarded with the chaos.
On a side note, I'm further worried that this "redesign" will make my mobile apps, (i.e. Woot Watcher) no longer function, although I am sure the app developer will find a way to fix it pretty quickly.
EDIT: I just jumped to the today page mentioned by Jessara and others in the above comments, and that would make a much better home page than the current one. Slightly less cluttered, full item description, and useful info. I will be modifying my Woot bookmark to take me there rather than to www.woot.com
dpk3062 wrote:Agreed. Woot was simple, Woot was fun. Now it's just another online store.
Concur - No like at all - old woot was fast and simple - one choice per day. New Woot is becoming tiring. Now it is like Work to shop here.
I only allow javascrapt to execute from trusted sources. Previously I had added woot to my trusted list. Things worked ok either way, but checking out was much, much better. Now the images for The Reckoning won't even load unless I add...I don't know? cloudfront? quantserve? Basically, you've turned an occasional shirt customer into a "Only if I notice it on that day" customer...and that's assuming there's not something even more devious and heinous hidden inside of the checkout process.
Sure looks like some corporate flunky is in charge now. Instead of good ideas, they trolled the web for the worst of the worst. It won't be long until the blinking widgets and annoying little windows that slide over the screen content until you dismiss 'em appear.
Overwhelmingly bright (Google)
"Intuitive" UI that is a mystery to anyone but the programmer (Apple)
Shove as many ads as possible on the main page and hide the useful stuff (too many companies to name).
Woot - you lost your mojo and your "hip" score just took a nose-dive.
Add me to the list of people who don't like the new look.
Rather than rehash everything I will say there is not one thing I see in the new look that I like better than the previous look except the ability to see the various Woot! sites at the top of the page.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE go back to how it looked before.
This is the worst site redesign EVER. Sellout Woot now has only one product. The other Woots are like any other daily sale site. Like newspapers in the days of old, I'd get up in the morning and read the humorous Woot descriptions and then buy. Like newspapers, the Woot guys screwed up BIG time. Now Woot is just a mess. The descriptions are relegated to a small corner where I can "READ MORE". As a big company they now won't listen to all the feedback (doubt if anyone even reads the posts) and go back to the old site design. Like New Coke we don't want a New Woot. IT WAS YOUR UNIQUENESS THAT MADE YOU UNIQUE! I can go anywhere for deals, I thought I needed Woot, now it's messy genericness makes me realize I don't.
Once i click on the "read more" link, I actually like the page. If I want Sellout, Home, Kids, Shirt or Pants.Woot I will click a link. But, please clear it off of my homepage. It is to busy and makes me feel like i walked by the cosmetics counter at Macy's, with everyone shoving their product in my face.
So, woot, old buddy... you're saying we're NOT going to fit the new page to the screen? Just want to get that straight.
I'll be over at chainlove.com
They don't sell Dyson products.
P.S. How is it that Amazon fits my screen and woot doesn't? Maybe get a few tips from Daddy??
Anyone notice that some items have expedited shipping options now? That's something for which the community has been clamoring for years. Kudos on that, at least
Thank you for posting this. I can now be in denial about the changes... for now
Jessara wrote: Edit your bookmark properties so the http://www.woot.com/today page is the default location for Woot.
You saw Netflix self-destruct and you want to also. Way to go. You are well on your way!!!!!
I just closed the account. They do not care about all the whimpering. Just close the accounts. That is the only thing these buffoons might understand. Maybee if enough people close they might wake up and bring the old woot back.
Just put things back the way they were. It wasn't broken. There's no need to "fix" or improve anything. I'm always stumped by companies that feel the need to offer "new and improved" versions of a well made, popular product. It shows they are out of touch with their customer base. Just think about New Coke when you decide to make changes.
I fear change and your change has made me frightful. Due to the nature of my cubicle job, I have no place to "flight" to in my "fight or flight" emotional response to fear and have lashed out at the next cubicle over, causing an extreme situation here at the office cubicle.
On top of that I haven't had a drink in days and you have been sold out of these CamelBak Hydration Packs for a few days now and I am starting to weaken from dehydration.
Please don't make me die stuck in this horrible cubicle, revert back to the woot I know and love!
I like the white and green with the tabs too.
The pages are too busy, very much like 1saleaday and I dont go there because it looks tacky which is why I come here daily.
You have added way too many clicks too. Instead of seeing comments on the right now I see one and have to keep on clicking through to see what wooters are saying about the product. I also now have to click Read More to read about the product, I dont want to do that crap I just want to read about it. Its very 1999 where websites thought it was cool that people had to click 100 times to get somewhere, not anymore. A huge step backwards.
In an nutshell tidy the page up or youll make people bored and they wont come back. I know I want. It doesnt matter how good the products and service have been (which the both have been great), if the browsing experience is bad I wont be back.
I like the tabs at the top, allowing a quick switch to the various galaxies of the Wootiverse.
Unfortunately, I hate just about everything else you've done here. There's too much stuff to process, too many places to click, you've made it work to check out the deals.
It was nice while it lasted, I guess.
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Back from Shun Ten 2012
5 comments:
- Tony Tickle said...
I love Hartmuts trees, thanks for letting me see the cherry in flower too!
- March 12, 2012 at 9:36 AM
- Steve Moore said...
That pine is one of those trees that transcends questions of style. Excellent!
- March 12, 2012 at 2:05 PM
- Steve Moore said...
Excellent pine! I would call that a tree with "soul."
- March 12, 2012 at 2:06 PM
Walter, the trees in the images from this particular show seem to be more elegant and graceful than those of say Noelanders. I base this strictly on the observation of the images you have provided. I am no expert, but from what I have seen the trees from other European shows appear more powerful and rugged. It's obvious however that the quality of trees is very high at all of the events you attend. Is it just me, or are the trees at this exhibition any different than Noelanders.
- March 13, 2012 at 3:34 PM
- Walter Pall said...
ton me they are similar. But I am right in the middle of this and thus not the right person to ask. One does not notice the own accent or scent while others do that very quickly. If you say so, then they are different slightly. At the other big shows the Italian dragons are numerous. At Shun Ten only the German speaking Italians from South Tyrol are showing their trees which indeed are more delicate and not obviously aggressively modern. So you are missing the powerful and highly abstract dragons.
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When I graduated from high school, I wanted to be as far away from my family in Virginia as possible, just like every other college-bound teenager. I wanted to live in New York again, so instead of working my way through and paying in-state tuition, I decided to go to the Rochester Institute of Technology. They had a great internship support program, and I thought that would be important when I found a career.
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I was okay with that. I'd be able to pay back the $15,000 per year with the fantastic career I was going to get because of the internships I'd find by going to RIT. My first year out of college, I was only making $7.50 an hour as a programmer. Most of that was because I wasn't looking very hard, but you can't pay college loans back on $7.50 an hour.
I'm still paying on those loans.
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In 2007, on a whim, I took a mission trip to a school in Paraguay. In just two weeks, I fell in love with it so much that I couldn't wait to go back. There's a program that allows North Americans in my church to teach English at the school. In October 2008, I found myself in Paraguay committed for a year.
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Then my life really changed. I fell in love with a girl who actually wanted to marry me! I'll say this now: if I didn't have any college loans, I would have stayed in Paraguay to marry her. For the first time, I felt like my debt was controlling my life and my happiness.
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