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Reading 3: Casualties in the Battle of Rivers Bridge -- The Soldiers' Accounts
The Horrid Results of Every Battle
February 3rd. . . .
Many censure General Mower, commanding our division (the 1st Division, 17th A.C.) for shoving his men against the enemy in such a place, even after he knew the crossing had been made by the other divisions, which he did know, as I was present when a staff officer reported it. He ordered Lieutenant Harrison with a company of the 63rd Ohio to charge along the causeway and with an oath told him not to stop until he got into the enemy's fort. He [Harrison] started, but finding his men being swept off by the enemy's artillery, moved them off the causeway into the water, when finding Colonel Parks of the 43rd Ohio, he received orders from him not to try to go any farther as it was madness. General Howard is said to have criticized the whole of Mower's operation, but it is Mower's style.
Died From Loss of Blood
I note, in my pocket roll of Co. "C," 3rd S.C. Cavalry, which I carried at the time and still have, opposite the name of John B. Woods, "wounded, February 2, '65." He was shot in the leg in a skirmish with the yankees, just below Broxton's Bridges, and died that night of exhaustion from loss of blood. Dr. Kirkland, our surgeon, said, "he believed he could have saved him if he only had some whiskey." Woods was buried at Rivers' Bridges, where he died. He was a good soldier--one that could be depended upon in any emergency.
During the fight the next day . . . our troops were forced to abandon their position to prevent being taken in the rear by the enemy. One of our squads . . . rode right in among the yankees. Cox and Jim Floyd were captured. Corp'l Ed. Robinson and Spilliards escaped by a bold dash. Robinson received a bullet though the folds of his blanket rolled behind his saddle and into his haversack, where it wadded up in a pair of woolen gloves.
Floyd lived to get home after the war, but Cox, poor fellow, died in a yankee prison.
Bang! I Got it in the Neck
Officer's Hospital, Beaufort, S.C. Feb. 9, 1865.
I was wounded at a place called River's Bridge . . . where we were forcing the rebels out of a position they had taken up on the opposite side of the stream. ...On the opposite side they were strongly intrenched. In order to effect a crossing of the stream we were obliged to fall trees across. My Company was the first to cross. As soon as the tree was cut I sprang upon it and crossed and ordered the men to follow. In a moment our whole Company were safely over, and in another they were deployed as skirmishers and were engaging the enemy fiercely. ...I had only fairly got my Company deployed and nicely to work, when bang! I got it in the neck, and fell to my knees in water to my waist. I quickly pulled myself to my feet and took a hurried inventory of the damage done me. The blood was gushing out of my wound in great streams and running into my boots. Knowing that I could not stand this loss of blood very much longer, I sent word of my mishap along the line up to the Orderly who was on the right, requesting him to come and take command. On his arrival I wished the boys God-speed and safety, and tottered back to the log over which we had just crossed and struck out for the shore. The balls were flying thick and fast, and if I had been so unfortunate as to be hit again by the enemy, or had fallen off the log in that deep river it would have been all day with me, as I was so crippled in my arms I could not swim. From the river I moved back to where the Regimental Surgeon was stationed and he staunched the flow of blood, then waded back three miles to the field hospital, in water from knee-deep to the waist. ...they wanted to give me an anaesthetic, but I said, "Go ahead, I can stand it." And so I did, but it hurt me frightfully, just the same, to have that great scraggly minie ball cut out of my back.
Left for Dead
At Rivers's Bridge, in the hottest of the fight in the afternoon [Feb. 3, 1865], Capt. Thompson--Joe--went down, a minie ball striking him on the left cheek under the eye and crushing though, came out near the angle of the jaw on the right side of his face. The young captain was left for dead, and was so reported in our "report" of the battle. At our first stop near Branchville, S.C., I kept my promise and wrote to my good friend, Old Col. Thompson, a long letter of condolence and sympathy, informing him of the death of his son, my friend and comrade.
On my first visit to Savannah, after the war, in the fall of 1865, while on my way to call at Col. Thompson's home, I met Capt. DeWitt Bruyn, captain of Company E, of my regiment, and told him of my intended visit and expressed my dread of the meeting the family on account of Joe's death. Bruyn threw his arm around my shoulder and said: "About face and march with me only a block. I want to show you some one and then you can pay your visit to Col. and Mrs. Thompson."
We halted at the open door of an office and Bruyn said: "Go in." I stepped in, a man wheeled about toward me and I stood face to face within five feet of Joe Thompson, ex-captain of Company C, 47th regiment, Georgia volunteers, who had been "killed" at Rivers's Bridge. His face was disfigured and his speech affected, one eye gone, but--there he was. The young captain had, before our retreat, regained consciousness and, one of the favored, had been cared for and removed. He reached Augusta, Ga., and from there, finally, Savannah, and in the chaotic condition of all things, was in his home rapidly recovering when my letter describing his death--reached his family. He had married his pretty sweetheart, Miss Lizzie Gannon, and years after Joe told me that when at home, if feeling kind of blue and reminiscent, he would get out of a safe-keeping place my letter of condolence to his father and read it aloud to his wife and children.
Thirty Years of Suffering
Washington D.C.,
Hon: Commissioners of Pensions:
Dear Sir:
I wish to have my pension case reopened as I am satisfied that my husband died of his army service just as much as though he died in his bed. He went in to the army in perfect health at the age of twenty-eight, leaving me with two little children. After he came out he never saw a well day; his right eye was put out, his nose shot off, so that he was always obliged to breath through his mouth, which brought on lung trouble. He had frequent hemorrhages and spells lasting two weeks at a time that he could only speak in a whisper. While at the hospital at Madison Wis., the doctors gave him chloform which drove him crasy, so they had to lock him in the operating room for the night with nothing on but cotton drawers and this was in april and he was afterwards three hours at one time and two hours in another, under the surgeon's knife with out taking any opiate whatever. He never recovered from the exposure or shock. His brain was never just right after that. After thirty years of suffering he died leaving me without any means of support. I send two physicians certificates. What more proof do I need to get?
I hope you will give my case your earliest attention, as my little pension is all the support I have.
My husband served in the Co., A. 32nd Wis., Infantry.
Questions for Reading 3
1. Which would you consider to be more reliable as a source of information, official reports or personal accounts? Why? What purposes do the personal accounts here serve?
2. What was General Mower's "style" discussed in Lt. Col. Jackson's diary account of the battle? What did Jackson identify as the major problem with Mower's style? What effect did it have on his troops? What were the opinions of some of the Union soldiers about attacking the Confederate position?
3. Sergeant Moore's memoir names several men from his unit who were killed, wounded, or captured at Rivers Bridge, but Moore's regiment, the 3rd South Carolina Cavalry, is not mentioned in the official Confederate casualty list. What does Sergeant Moore's account tell you about the difficulties commanders face in getting accurate casualty reports?
4. Captain Wilson, Captain Thompson, and Private Cherry survived the gunshot wounds they received at Rivers Bridge. Note the differences in tone of their accounts. Do they reveal anything about the severity of the men's wounds and how these men were able to deal with them? Might the differences have anything to do with when and for what reasons the accounts were written? When did Ephraim Wilson write his account and who was it for? When was Ben Williams' memoir written and who probably read it? Why did Mrs. Cherry write her letter?
5. Being shot in a Civil War battle was often just the beginning of a long ordeal for the wounded soldier. What were some of the hardships that wounded Confederate soldiers at Rivers Bridge, such as Captain Thompson, had to endure? How would their travails be similar to or different from those faced by wounded Union soldiers, such as Captain Wilson and Private Cherry?
6. What does Mrs. Cherry's letter reveal about her husband's wound and how it affected him years after the war? What do the content and tone of Mrs. Cherry's letter tell you about the toll her husband's wound had on her and her children?


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation will have a chance to say goodbye to Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, in a memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral on Sept. 13.
The 10 a.m. service will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the websites of the cathedral and space agency. It will be open to the public on a first come, first served basis. But reservations still must be made through NASA.
Armstrong died Aug. 25 and had a private service in Ohio. The Apollo 11 crew delivered a moon rock to the cathedral in 1974 on the fifth anniversary of the moon landing.


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RYE, N.Y. Playland Amusement Park in Rye will receive a $34 million upgrade by Sustainable Playland Inc., thanks to a civic-commercial partnership reached between the Rye-based group and Westchester, County Executive Robert Astorino announced Thursday morning.
It will truly be a destination from morning to night and all seasons. [The plan] will create a portfolio approach to Playland as opposed to one event and thats just come here and walk around an amusement park, or not if its a bad day, said Astorino at the amusement park.
Main institutions of the historic amusement park would remain, including the Dragon Coaster, boardwalk, and Kiddyland. However, new elements that will be added include an Aqua Zone mini-water park and beach attractions; outdoor ball fields and an outdoor field house; renovations to the indoor ice rink and a new outdoor ice rink for the winter; new restaurants; enhanced access to the Edith Read Wildlife Sanctuary; an indoor multi-use facility for rental; and a Great Lawn, with views of the Long Island Sound.
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Playland does belong to everybody and we want to make sure that everyone knows this is their park ... but its not just limited to Westchester, we want the New York metro region, said Astorino. We want this as part of our tourism to be an economic boost continuously and bring dollars from people who would not otherwise come here.
The county executive and Sustainables President Dhruv Narain, a Rye resident, signed a letter of intent to develop a ten-year asset management agreement. Under the terms of the contract, the county will receive an upfront payment of $4 million from Sustainable , as well as a minimum payment of $1.2 million a year beginning in the second year, said Astorino.
The money will go toward ending the countys existing $32 million of debt on Playland. This will be a revenue source once again for the county, said Astorino.
Construction will begin as soon as contracts are signed in the next 90 days. The first phase will be a 12-week project to build the ball fields. If construction begins early enough, Astorino said the newly-planned amusement area could be up and running by next summer. No matter what, he added, the amusement park will be open for the 2013 season.
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When my daughter died of cancer last year, there were many who expressed great sympathy and offered condolence at her memorial service.
When my daughter died of cancer last year, there were many who expressed great sympathy and offered condolence at her memorial service.
But, subsequently, we received only one or two personally written cards commemorating her passing, and certainly none from the primary doctors and surgeons and nurses who attended my daughter in her long illness.
In a strange way I contrasted this with the recent loss of our newly acquired Australian dog — a dog we had found offered by a kennel owner in Sarasota, who said the dog had been evaluated recently by a veterinarian and deemed in good health.
So we bought this lovely dog and took her home with us.
A few days later we took her to our local vet for a follow-up check, only to find that she had an advanced case of canine lymphoma.
Our vet recommended we take her to a Winter Haven veterinarian who specialized in animal oncology.
The staff there were just wonderful, compassionate, thorough, caring and, while providing an extensive review of this illness, subjected the dog to an examination, but, sadly, did not offer much long-term hope for her quality of life.
Not long after, we had our local vet euthanize our pet to keep her from extensive suffering and loss of her functions.
We had her for just a month. I was humbled and astounded by the personal letters of condolence from the staff of both veterinarian offices and both doctors involved.
Perhaps the death of a loved animal does not equate to the loss of a loved family member, but the grief is deep in both cases and immeasurably lightened by the personal letters of sympathy from caregivers.


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BEIJING (AP) — A dissident Chinese poet whose detention has drawn an international appeal for his release was sentenced Monday by a court in southwestern China to 12 years in prison for contract fraud, his lawyer said.
Li Bifeng — formerly imprisoned for five years for involvement in the Tiananmen Square democracy movement — was sentenced at Shehong County Court in Sichuan province, said lawyer Zhao Jianwei. He said the defense would appeal.
"We believe the verdict was not based on the facts and the prosecutors and the court violated procedural laws and regulations," Zhao said.
A court official who declined to give his name confirmed Li's hearing had taken place, but said he didn't have details.
Li's friend — exiled dissident Liao Yiwu — said the 48-year-old Li was targeted because he was suspected of financing Liao's escape from the country last year. Liao said those suspicions are false.
Earlier this year, after Li was detained, Liao launched an international appeal from Germany calling for Li's release. Nobel Prize for Literature winner Herta Muller and Ha Jin, winner of the U.S. National Book Award, were among those who joined the appeal.
Li's wife said Monday's verdict was untenable.
Zhan Xia said the charge related to a sales agreement that her husband had signed with an alcohol company to help sell some apartments on southern Hainan island.
"After the apartments were sold, the company sued him for contract fraud, which is groundless," she said.
"He is a very good friend of Liao Yiwu, but he didn't tell me whether he helped Liao flee. His being on trial must be related to his alleged help of Liao because the economic charge against him can't be proven," she said.
Zhan said she had only seen her husband once since he was detained in September 2011 and that was at his trial in July.
"He wasn't in good mental health and was suffering from high blood pressure," she said.
A man from Shehong County's prosecutor's office said he knew nothing about the case. Calls to Shehong Public Security Bureau rang unanswered.


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Tall Buildings, Short Architects
Why are so many great architects short of stature?
The late San Francisco Chronicle architecture critic Allan Temko used to tell a story about Louis Kahn. In the early 1960s, Kahn was visiting the city, and one evening, after a party in Berkeley, Temko suggested they go and see Bernard Maybeck's First Church of Christ, Scientist, one of the great buildings of the Bay Area. When they arrived at the church, Kahn, running his hands over the entrance portico's smooth concrete columns, which were shining in the moonlight, said, "He was a small man too, wasn't he, Allan?"
I don't know how tall Maybeck was, but Kahn was 5 feet 6½ inches, according to his passport (which is in the University of Pennsylvania archive), and he was obviously sensitive about his stature, judging from his comment. But he was in good company; many famous architects have been short. Julia Morgan, another celebrated Bay Area architect, was only 5 feet tall. Raymond Hood, Ely Jacques Kahn, and Ralph Walker dominated New York high-rise architecture in the 1920s—Hood designed 30 Rock, Kahn was responsible for the wonderful 2 Park Avenue, and Walker produced the Art Deco tower at 1 Wall Street. They were so short they were popularly known as the "Three Little Napoleons of Architecture." (Napoleon was 5 feet 6½ inches.) Contemporary architects as different as I.M. Pei, Robert A.M. Stern, and Daniel Libeskind (5 feet 4 inches) are small men, too. Norman Foster and Frank Gehry are giants on the contemporary architectural scene, but they are not particularly imposing in stature; Gehry is always the shortest figure in group photos. Frank Lloyd Wright claimed to be 5 feet 8 inches, although he was not always a reliable witness and his houses are notorious for their extremely low ceilings.
Could shortness be a job qualification for an architect, as tallness is for presidents? (Thirty-nine of the past 44 U.S. presidents have been of above-average height—Obama is 6 feet 1 inch.) Studies of wage-earners have shown that, all things being equal, it pays to be tall—about $1,000 in annual salary per extra inch. Researchers have speculated that tallness in adolescence encourages more involvement in sports and extracurricular activities, leading to greater self-esteem and leadership abilities. Most successful architects I've met are neither tall nor rich. Self-esteem? Architects have big egos, but they are notoriously insecure. Leadership? Architects tend to be introverts, sketching, imagining, day-dreaming—hardly leadership material. When architects do stray into politics, they appear babes in the woods—one thinks of Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Philip Johnson.
The British architecture critic Deyan Sudjic writes about Mies and Johnson's flirtations with the Nazis in The Edifice Complex, a gossipy book about the relationship between power and architecture that features such diverse architectural patrons as Benito Mussolini, Saddam Hussein, and Michael Eisner. Sudjic devotes a chapter to U.S. presidential libraries and recounts the first meeting between (short) architect James Stewart Polshek and (tall) president Bill Clinton to discuss the design of Clinton's library in Little Rock. "Will you do one of those napkin sketches you architects do?" the president wanted to know. Polshek demurred. Instead, his office prepared drawings and models of three alternatives for the president, who chose the most dramatic, a cantilevered box hovering above the Arkansas River. Sudjic's book is subtitled "How the rich and powerful shape the world," referring not to architects but to their clients, yet it's hard not to see a psychological compulsion at work when short people design tall—or in Polshek's case, very long—buildings. On the other hand, the tallest architect I know, Boston-based Bill Rawn, who is 6 feet 7 inches, designs decidedly understated buildings, so go figure.
Rawn is a prize-winning architect whose firm was recently named the top practice in the country, but his first appearance in print was as a character in Tracy Kidder's House. The most famous architect in literature is undoubtedly Howard Roark in Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, who was played by Gary Cooper in the movie. Coop was 6 feet 3 inches; they should have cast Alan Ladd (5 feet 4 inches) instead.


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(or R/C) cars are usually categorized as either "toy" or "hobby" grade.
Remote control vehicles
are usually of one of two types: control of a vehicle by radio transmission or by a wire connecting between the transmitter and car. This article focuses on the radio-controlled vehicle category, both toy and hobby grades.
Cars are powered by various sources.
Electric cars
are powered by small but powerful electric motors and rechargeable nickel-cadmium, nickel metal hydride, or lithium polymer cells. There are also brushed or brushless electric motors. Most fuel-powered models use glow plug engines, small internal combustion engines fueled by a special mixture of nitromethane, methanol, and oil (in most cases a blend of castor oil and synthetic oil). These are referred to as "nitro" cars. Recently, exceptionally large models have been introduced that are powered by small gasoline engines, similar to string trimmer motors, which use a mix of oil and gasoline. Electric cars are generally considered easier for the novice to work with compared to fuel-driven models, but can be equally as complex at the higher budget and skill levels.
In both of these categories, both on-road and off-road vehicles are available. Off-road models, which are built with fully-functional off-road suspensions, can be used on various types of terrain. In comparison, on-road cars, which generally have a limited or non-existent suspension, are strictly limited to smooth, paved surfaces.
Toy-grade radio control
This Nikko-produced Subaru Impreza WRX STi is a toy grade radio controlled vehicle
The term "toy" or "toy-grade" in regards to radio control cars is used to describe vehicles of the pre-assembled type generally found in discount stores and consumer electronics stores. Sometimes they are colloquially referred to as "Radio Shack cars". Some toy-grade R/C models may also be found in hobby shops in an attempt to gain some market share from discount stores and appeal to younger users.
[edit] Advantages
Cost is one of the main advantages of toy R/C vehicles. The average medium-scale toy R/C car is around $50–$100 cheaper than an entry-level electric hobby class vehicle. Toy class vehicles are easy to operate, have a relatively low danger level (top speeds are typically under 20 mph (32 km/h) (with most capable of only about 10 mph (16 km/h) ), and are even easier to set up than the simplest hobby class ready-to-run vehicles (RTR's). Toy class vehicles are usually modeled after real cars, and often feature details that hobby class vehicles lack, like working lights, sounds, windows, opening doors and hoods, and realistic interiors at the expense of weight and durability. Some vehicles also feature working sound systems with radios or MP3 player inputs. There is also an almost endless array of toy R/C vehicle designs, ranging from common cars and trucks, to tanks, bulldozers, and motor cycles, to increasingly odd vehicles with unorthodox designs.
[edit] Disadvantages
Toy-grade R/C cars are typically manufactured with a focus on design coupled with reducing production costs. Whereas a hobby-grade car has a standardized motor and separate electronic components that are individually replaceable if they fail, toy grade cars are typically made with a non-standard motor, non-replaceable chassis components and a single electronic circuit board integrated into the design of the vehicle. This makes them difficult, if not impossible to repair, with exceptions being Nikko models and some Radio Shack models. Usually when one component on the vehicle fails, the entire vehicle must be thrown away. Performance is poor as well. Most are equipped with small, weak motors and are powered by cheap alkaline or NiCad batteries which means their top speed is usually only 5-15 mph, and they have short run times before new batteries are required. Most lack any form of a suspension and the ones that do feature a suspension have very primitive or rudimentary designs. Steering is typically not proportional (with only three positions: straight, full left, and full right) and there is typically no proportional "throttle" either, with stopped and full power usually being the only options.
[edit] Hobby-grade radio control
In recent years, hobby-grade "ready-to-run" (or "RTR") models have become available from every major manufacturer of radio-controlled cars, attracting many hobbyists who would otherwise have purchased a pre-assembled car (ARTR or Race-Roller). Vehicles of this type need little or no final assembly and in most cases, the bodies are shipped painted and trimmed, requiring little or no work from the owner before they can be used (other than purchasing and installing batteries). A number of cars and trucks are presently available only in ready-to-run form. The growing popularity of the RTR vehicle has prompted many manufacturers to discontinue production of kit vehicles. High-spec racing vehicles are generally still available or sold only as kits, and companies like HPI and Tamiya sell kit and RTR versions with the benefits of a kit version being in upgraded parts or lower costs, respectively.
[edit] Electric models
Electrically powered models utilize mechanical or electronic speed control units to adjust the amount of power delivered to the electric motor. The power delivered is proportional to the amount of throttle called for by the transmitter - the more you pull the trigger, the faster it goes. The voltage is "pulsed" using transistors to produce varying output with smooth transitions and greater efficiency. Electronic speed controllers use solid state components to regulate duty cycle, adjusting the power delivered to the electrical motor. In addition, most electronic speed controllers can use the electric motor as a magnetic brake, offering better control of the model than is possible with a mechanical speed control. Mechanical speed controllers use a network of resistors and switch between them by rotating a head with an electrode around a plate that has electrical contacts. Mechanical speed controllers are prone to being slow to react because they are actuated by servos, waste energy in the form of heat from the resistors, commonly become dirty and perform intermittently, and lack a dedicated braking ability. They are less expensive than high performance electronic speed controls and usually ship in older hobby-grade models. They are gradually being phased out. Most electric cars up to recently used brushed motors but now many people are turning to brushless motors for their much higher power and because they require much less maintenance. They are rated either in relative turns or Kv. The Kv number tells how many RPM the motor will turn per volt, assuming no load and maximum efficiency. However, the ability of the system to put out power is dependent on the quality of the batteries used, wires and connectors supplying power. A well wired brushed system can outperform a poorly wired brushless system in many cases. Due to their power, brushless motors are also used in bigger monster trucks and 1/8 nitro-powered buggies that have been converted to electric. Some 1/5 scale gas to electric conversions are in production but are uncommon due to high price.
[edit] Fuel models
A Traxxas T-Maxx nitro powered off-road monster truck with no body.
Nitromethane fuel powered models utilize a single servo for throttle and braking control; rotation of the servo in one direction will cause the throttle on the carburetor to open, providing more air and fuel mixture to the internal combustion engine. Rotation of the servo in the other direction causes torque to be applied to a linkage and cam which causes friction with the braking material. The brake is commonly located on the driveshaft or spur gear in some cases and applies stopping power only to the driven wheels. Some models will also use an additional servo to control a transmission box, enabling the vehicle to drive in reverse.
Fuel engine sizes most often range between .12-.35 cubic inches. This is due to restrictions by the main sanctioning bodies for radio-controlled racing. Many "outlaw" engines are manufactured larger than these, mainly intended for vehicles which will not be used in sanctioned races and therefore do not need to comply with these regulations. Engine size is related to the class of car; 1/10th scale on and off road vehicles usually are equipped with .12-.18 cubic inch engines, with 1/8th scale vehicles using .21-.32 cubic inch engines. There are exceptions, with many Schumacher and Thunder Tiger/Team Associated RC models being good examples of unusually large engines coming as standard equipment on certain models.
An Ofna Hyper 8 Pro 1:8-scale nitro-powered racing buggy.
Fuel-powered engines allow model cars to reach moderate speeds unmodified. Maximum power is generally achieved at medium to high speeds, and a slightly slower throttle response than electrically powered vehicles is to be expected due to clutching and lack of torque. Electric motors effectively produce instantaneous torque, whereas nitro engines, like full-sized gasoline engines, take time for the engine to spool up and for the clutch to engage. Nitro- (and fuel) powered cars may be refueled and returned to action in a few seconds, as opposed to electrics needing to remove the body shell and battery fasteners to replace a discharged battery. Nitro cars are cooled some by air, some by the oil mixed in with the fuel and may be run continuously with no need to take breaks for cooling down assuming they are properly tuned.
Nitro-powered cars operate like full-sized fuel vehicles more than their electric counterparts do, making use of a two stroke engine rather than an electric motor. The sound of the engine and generally higher stock top speeds are main selling points to nitro enthusiasts. However, their exhaust contains unburned oil, which usually ends up coating the chassis. This, in turn, requires more cleaning than an electric-powered equivalent. Cleaning is usually achieved by the use of compressed air nozzles and solvents (such as denatured alcohol). Tuning a fuel-powered vehicle requires learning to maintain optimum performance and fuel economy, and to minimize engine wear and overheating, even in ready-to-run vehicles. Running a nitro-fuel motor without tuning or tuning improperly can hurt performance in rich conditions, and cause severe damage in lean conditions.
Because of higher stock performance and their ability to be driven for longer periods of time, mechanical wear in nitro vehicles is generally greater than in electric vehicles. In addition, the increased speed and weight of fuel-powered vehicles generally lead to higher speed collisions, causing greater damage to the collided vehicles, and a greater degree of safety concerns needs to be taken into account. Maintenance such as cleaning of the air filter and general chassis cleaning, replacement of worn clutch parts, proper after-run lubrication (necessary for storage) and maintenance of other motor-related items such as glow plug replacement makes for a more frustrating experience for first time RC users. In addition, nitro motors typically require rebuilding or replacement after 2-8 gallons of fuel run through them, due to loss of compression, which can be accelerated by poor tuning and overheating. It is also possible to seriously damage the engines by over-revving them with no load or ingestion of dirt into the carburetor. As such, nitro-powered vehicles are by nature expensive to maintain.
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Gasoline powered vehicles, also known as "fuelies" or "gassers", run on premixed gasoline and oil. They cost much more (usually $800–$3000 RTR) than nitro and electric cars. They are also much bigger and therefore require much more space to run. They don't usually have as high top end speeds (compared to nitro and some electrics) but have lots of power and don't take a lot of fuel to run. Over time the cost of a gas-powered car can be less than some nitro-powered vehicles, because of the high cost of nitro fuel and buying new nitro engines to replace worn-out ones. In addition, gas-powered motors rarely if ever require tuning and have a very long lifespan. These large scale models have been popular in Europe for over a decade and have recently become very popular in the US thanks to companies like HPI Racing producing affordable high quality models locally.
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"I hate poetry, it's stupid," my son states daily. "No, no! Poetry teaches you about life, man's emotions, and writing, it is beautiful," I defend. "It's stupid!" He proclaims again. My dream is that someday he will see and understand the power of word and how it can rule the world, bring down a nation, break a man's heart, lift one's spirit, describe the tiniest of detail, and drive a point home.
The Chicago History Museum hosts the most informative Architectural Boat Tours in the city of Chicago. It is a beautiful tour given by docents who are learned in giving in depth details including names, dates, architectural styles, and more about Chicago's buildings and her architects. I was pleased with these facts, and even more pleased when my docent listed books for us to read, including Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City. But there was one moment while in the lock when the captain of the boat turned the bow back to face the city, and the docent, with raised hands, belted out "Chicago" by Carl Sandberg, bringing some to tears, most to cheers, and all to burn.
by Carl Sandburg
HOG Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:
They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I
have seen your painted women under the gas lamps
luring the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it
is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to
kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the
faces of women and children I have seen the marks
of wanton hunger.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who
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and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing
so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on
job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the
little soft cities;
Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning
as a savage pitted against the wilderness,
Building, breaking, rebuilding,
Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with
white teeth,
Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young
man laughs,
Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has
never lost a battle,
Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse.
and under his ribs the heart of the people,
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of
Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog
Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with
Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
To my son, I give you this poem, that some day you will understand the gifts and power in Words…
Notes on the Art of Poetry
by Dylan Marlais Thomas
I could never have dreamt that there were such goings-on
in the world between the covers of books,
such sandstorms and ice blasts of words,
such staggering peace, such enormous laughter,
such and so many blinding bright lights,
splashing all over the pages
in a million bits and pieces
all of which were words, words, words,
and each of which were alive forever
in its own delight and glory and oddity and light.
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I don't think many people here use junk spy ware programs like gator but if you do or know someone who does you might want to read this.
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Base64 can be can be converted to decimal form using the windows calculator or antionlines very own "encrypted text program" http://www.antionline.com/tools-and-toys/encrypt-text/Gator eWallet Discloses Credit Card Numbers and Passwords to Local Users and Other Information to Remote Users
SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1006891 CVE Reference: GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH (Links to External Site) Date: May 31 2003
Impact: Disclosure of authentication information, Disclosure of user information
Exploit Included: Yes
Advisory: NovaPPC Security Research Group
Description: Lorenzo Manuel Hernandez Garcia-Hierro of NovaPPC Security reported that the Gator eWallet discloses credit cards and passwords to local users. In addition, the Gator Corporation backup servers disclose some user information to remote users.
It is reported that Gator eWallet stores private information, potentially including credit card numbers and passwords, on the target user's computer without encryption. The software reportedly uses Base64 encoding instead of an encryption algorith.
The following files are used to store Gator eWallet information on the local system:
mepoe m.dat
It is also reported that a remote user can retrieve arbitrary user data files from the Gator backup servers.
A demonstration exploit is provided:
GET /scripts/xx/xxY.com.ffz HTTP/1.0
Accept: */*
X-UA: WinInet 6.0.xxxx.1, 1.1, 1.0
If-Modified-Since: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 20:00:06 GMT
User-Agent: Gator/4.1 Script 0
SLRetries: 1
SL-LastServer: xx.gator.com
SL-LastErr: 12152
SL-LastErr: 12152
From: [SPOOFED USER /REQUEST ID]
Script-Version: 0.4
Product-Version: 22.214.171.124
SL-Version: 2
RunMode: 2
Host: xxbackup.gator.com
Connection: open
In the above demonstration, 'xx' is the first two characters of the domain user data file and 'Y' is the remaining characters in the domain. The 'ffz' is the file extension of the script files used by backup server.
[Editor's note: It is not clear exactly what kind of information can be retrieved from the backup servers. We have asked for clarification and will update this alert with any new details.]
Additional information is provided (in Spanish language text) at:
Impact: A local user can view private personal information stored in the eWallet.
A remote user can obtain some data files for arbitrary users from the eWallet backup servers (operated by Gator Corporation).
Solution: No solution was available at the time of this entry.
Vendor URL: www.gator.com/about/ (Links to External Site)
Cause: Access control error
Underlying OS: Windows (Any)
Reported By: Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia-Hierro <email@example.com>
Message History: None
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Max. Sail Size for Kode 94
Hi there
On your website you named a 6.5sqm sail as max. sail size for the Kode 94. I just wondered whether this board could also be used with a 6.9sqm (freestyle) sail. I mean it doesn't need to be perfect, but it should still be fun. (The board should be perfect with my 6.0 and 5.3.) I could imagine to replace the 6.9 by a 6.7, but I don't want to get smaller for my biggest sail - since we often have poor wind conditions on our lakes. I weigh 62kg (137lbs) and my second board is a wave board with 74 ltrs.
With my current 101 ltrs freewave board (which turned out to be a 104 ltrs board, width: 62.5cm / 24.6" ) I miss that feeling of a small board - especially in moderate wave conditions when the wind is not blowing enough for my small wave board. But on the other hand it's great to use it with the 6.9 - even in conditions when other sailors have to pull out ther 120 ltrs freeride board with 8.5 sail ;-).
Thanks for your help.
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At that weight a 6.9 will work very well on the Kode 94. For good planing and upwind you might want to get a bigger fin though but that also depends a lot on your personal preference. Personally I've used the 28cm Drake crossover for 7.0 and felt that is was perfectly OK.
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Thanks for your feedback - sounds great.
Regarding fins:
I tend to use bigger fins in marginal conditions, maybe because of my racing/freeride style sailing and background: With my current 101 ltrs board and 6.9sqm I use up to 32cm (Powerbox) - even with inwards footstrap position - of cause far from being perfect, but I keep on planing ;-). But I would have to find out what's best on a Kode 94 and I know that I have to learn sailing with smaller fins.
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My grandmother had a copy of Archie's birth, death, and marriage records, but that was about all we had pertaining to documentation of the family. All I knew about Archie's parents from the birth record was that they were Alexander and Mary Currie, with no maiden name for Mary, and that they were both born in Ontario. The marriage record was not helpful b/c it was not the official one from the Ontario Registrar General. It looked like it was from the minister who performed the marriage, and it did not list parents' names. The death record did not help because my grandmother was the informant, and she did not know the names of her grandparents. My grandmother did have a picture of Alexander and Mary Currie that she inherited from her dad. On the back it said "Grandma and Grandpa Currie - Taken in studio in Lapeer, Michigan." Here is the pic below:
So this is where my research stagnated for over 10 years.
In August 2005, a kind person with access to census records looked up Archie and his parents in the 1900 U.S. Census in Sanilac Co, Michigan. Of course, this still did not give me a maiden name for Mary, but it did give the name of a sibling of Archie's that my grandmother had never met nor heard of: Archie's older brother, Ervin Currie, born Oct 1883 in Michigan. It also gave me possible birth dates for Alexander (Nov 1837) and Mary (Sep 1852) and a possible year of immigration from Canada (1882). In addition, it stated that Alexander's parents were both born in Scotland, and that Mary's parents were born in Vermont and England. It confirmed both Alexander and Mary's birthplaces as Canada, and stated that Mary had given birth to 6 children, 4 of whom were still living.
Using this info, I decided to search the 1881 Canadian census at FamilySearch. I found an Alexander and Mary E. Currie living in South Dorchester, Elgin, Ontario, but wasn't sure if this was them. They were close to the same ages as my Alex and Mary from the 1900 U.S. census. Archie was not born until 1889, so he wouldn't have been in this 1881 census. Their children were May G. (8), William E. (6), Nancy A. (5), and Alexander (2). Hmmm...Alexander and William were the names of the brothers that my grandmother remembered, though I didn't have ages or birth dates yet to corroborate with. And my grandmother's middle name was Mae, so maybe she was named after her aunt. We knew her first name, Violet, was after her maternal aunt, so maybe her middle name, Mae, was after her paternal aunt.
Then came Christmas 2005 when my parents bought me a copy of FamilyTreeMaker, which came with a free 1-year subscription to Ancestry.com. This is when I found Archie in 1910 working as a farm laborer in Sanilac County, Michigan, as was his brother, Ervin. They were both boarding with other families, probably their employers. I also found Archie's brother, Alex, living with his wife, Minnie, and their son, Donald, in Sanilac County in 1910. I still did not find Archie's parents, Alexander and Mary, in 1910. In 1920, I found Archie living with his widowed mother, Mary, in Sanilac County, so at least I could now narrow down his father's death date. In April 1930, I found Archie and my great-grandmother, Jennie, living in Flynn, Sanilac, Michigan, which is where my grandmother was born 6 months later in October 1930. I also found brother Alex with Minnie and Donald in 1920 and 1930 in Sanilac County. Mother Mary was not found in 1930, giving me a possible range of dates for her death.
In July 2006, a lookup volunteer looked up Alex and Minnie's marriage record in Sanilac County and found that Alex's mother was listed as Mary Brown and his father as Sandy Currie. Great...a name like Mary Brown! Alexander Currie was already a common name in Ontario, so I had been hoping that Mary's name was a little more unusual. But nonetheless, I was so excited that I had found a maiden name for Mary...or so I thought! Also, Alex's age on the marriage record matched the age of the Alexander found in Elgin County, Ontario, on the 1881 Canadian census with Alexander and Mary E. Currie. Hmmm.....
A year later in July 2007, the Ontario Vital Statistics Project transcribed marriage records from 1924 onto their site. Lo and behold, there was Archie Currie and Jennie "Jean" Plaine's marriage record from Lambton County, Ontario!! Archie's parents were listed as Alex Currie, born in Middlesex County, and Mary Raymond!!! Soon after this, Ancestry.com uploaded the images of the marriage records from 1924 into their "Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1857-1924" database, so I was able to confirm the transcription was correct. So now I had another possible maiden name for Mary. Which was correct? I also had a possible birth county for Alexander.
Between July 2007 and December 2008, I looked for a marriage record for Alexander Currie and Mary Brown and Mary Raymond on Ancestry.com's marriage database for Ontario but had no luck. I even searched in the Ontario births database at Ancestry.com to see if I could find anymore siblings of Archie's, but again I had no luck.
In the spring of 2008, I found a birth record and marriage record for Archie's brother, Ervin, on the new FamilySearchLabs site in their Michigan births and marriages databases. As I was focusing on the Pemberton family at the time, I took note of them and filed them away for later investigation.
Then my grandmother passed away in December 2008, which inspired me to keep looking for the origins of her grandparents, Alexander and Mary. I posted a tribute for her on this blog, which caught the attention of Dianne, a fellow genealogist who was doing research on Currie's in nearby Huron County, Michigan. Fueled by my grandmother's passing and by Dianne's interest, I decided to switch my focus to the Currie family for the time being.
The first thing I did was revisit all the records I had on Archie, searching for more clues. Inside the marriage record I had for Archie and Jennie was a list of wedding guests! The only Curries in attendance were Mr. and Mrs. James A. Currie of Dresden. I found that Dresden was in Kent County, Ontario. Could James have been an uncle or cousin or even a brother of Archie's?
I also revisited the "Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1909" database at Ancestry.com in February 2009. This time I tried searching for all children named "Curry" (not just "Currie") with a mother named "Raymond." I was so shocked when I found four birth records, including one for Archie's brother, Alex! Here are transcriptions of the records I found below:
Record #: 4883
When born: 10 Oct 1872
Name: Geneva May
Sex: F
Father: Alex Curry
Mother: Mary Raymond
Occupation of father: Farmer
Informant: Mary Curry, Farmer's Wife, S. Dorchester
When registered: 4 Dec 1872
Physician: Oliver Smith
Registrar: Matthew Fullerton
Division: South Dorchester
County: Elgin
Record #: 4423
When born: 13 Apr 1876
Name: Nancy Alberta
Sex: F
Father: Alexeander Curry
Mother: Mary Ramond
Occupation of father: Farmer
Informant: M?? Margaret Curry, South Dorchester
When registered: 20 Apr 1876
Physician: No Doctor
Registrar: M. Fullerton
Remarks: Informant is Curry's sister
Division: South Dorchester
County: Elgin
Record #: 4710
When born: 11 Sep 1879
Name: Alexander
Sex: M
Father: Alexander Curry
Mother: Mary Raymond
Occupation of father: Farmer
Informant: Alexander Curry, Farmer, South Dorchester
When registered: 15 Oct 1879
Physician: Oliver Smith
Registrar: Matthew Fullerton
Division: South Dorchester
District: East Elgin
Record #: 5447
When born: 18 Sep 1881
Name: Mary Ellen
Sex: F
Father: Alexander Curry
Mother: Mary Raymond
Occupation of father: Farmer
Informant: James Curry, Farmer, South Dorchester
When registered: 8 Oct 1881
Physician: No Doctor
Registrar: M. Fullerton
Division: South Dorchester
District: East Elgin
I now had 3 previously unknown sisters and a a birth date of known brother Alex! I even had a new county (Elgin) for further research endeavors! There was even a sister or sister-in-law of Alexander's mentioned named Margaret Curry, as well as a probable relative named James Curry. To think I had missed these because I hadn't spelled "Curry/Currie" correctly. My fiance thinks it was my grandmother guiding me this time around, and maybe it was, but regardless, I was very excited for this find!!!! And now I could match the Alexander and Mary E. Currie on the 1881 Canadian census with my Alexander and Mary!
I then started doing in depth research on all of Archie's known siblings and posting individual posts about them on my blog throughout February and March. I did posts on Ervin, Alexander, and Bertha (formerly known as Rose). I am still looking for info on Nancy Alberta, Geneva May, Mary Ellen, and William. I suspect William will be the hardest since he ran away on the trains and never came back; not to mention that he has a very common name, and I have no birth date for him (just an approximate one based on the 1881 Canadian census).
Once I found the birth records and all the info I had on the siblings, I thought that was the most exciting part. But it wasn't! I found a message posted by a woman named Doris on an Elgin County message board looking for descendants of James Currie and Margaret McGill of South Dorchester, who had several children, including a son named Alexander, a daughter named Margaret, and a son named James. Could this Alexander be my great-great-grandfather Alexander and could James Currie and Margaret McGill be my great-great-great-grandparents?? As much as I had found on Alexander's other children besides Archie, I still had no clue who his parents were, only that they were possibly born in Scotland. Luckily, Doris' message was only about a year old, so I figured she would probably still have the same email address.
I did not have to wait very long. Doris emailed me back and said that the Mr. and Mrs. James A. Currie of Dresden who had attended my great-grandfather Archie's wedding in 1924 were her great-uncle James Alexander "Jim" Currie and his wife Maggie Estella Stevens. Jim was Archie's first cousin. Below is a picture of Jim Currie and Maggie Stevens.
James Alexander "Jim" Currie was the son of William Currie and Catherine Campbell. William and my great-great-grandfather, Alexander Currie, were brothers. Their parents were James Currie and Margaret McGill, both born in Scotland. This was definitely one of my most memorable genealogy happy dances of all time!! Of course, this does not signify an end to my research on the Curries, but rather a new beginning!


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Police are investigating after awoman was sexually assaulted in Middleton.
At around 5.55am on Saturday 14 March 2015, a 33-year-old woman was approachedby a man as she stood outside Tesco Express on Park Road.
He walked up to her before sexually assaulting her. She managed topush him away and run inside the store before he left in the directionof Middleton Gardens.
The man is described as being black, in his mid 20s, slim to average buildwith short afro style hair.
Now police are circulating an image of a man they would like to speak to.
Detective Constable Nick Price said: "We have circulated the image onour own internal computer system but unfortunately, the person has notbeen traced.
"I would ask people to take a good look at the person in the picture andif you recognise him to call police. I would also make a direct appealto the man himself to come forward so we can eliminate him from our investigation."
Anyone with information should phone police on 0161 856 8701 or the independentcharity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.
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20 mins to clear cop under investigation for 7 years
It took a jury just 20 minutes to clear a police officer who had been under investigation and placed on restricted duties for 7 years.
Why did the investigation take so long? Why should people's lives be placed on hold for so long?
A Met cop was forced behind desk for 5 years and spent seven years not knowing if he had a job at the end.
An investigation that took too long, an investigation that caused a great deal of pain and distress for the officer.
PC Joe Harrington's life was 'effectively put on hold' while under investigation by the police watchdog, after restraining a teenager in custody during the 2011 London riots.
The 15-year-old then accused him of assault and the then Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) were called in.
His case was finally dismissed at a misconduct hearing in June, with the panel citing 'Unreasonable Delay' as the reason. The Police Federation have finally been able to break their silence after being legally bound until the judgement was made public on 20 September when the judgement was made public.
The panel also laid into the IPCC, its successor the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) and the Met for dragging their heels, saying the delays were 'unacceptable' and 'excessive' and they did not think justice could be served after such a lengthy period.
Its judgement said: "[PC Harrington's counsel] has drawn our attention to the impact on the officer's health through the stress of the matter being unresolved for seven years, and to the impact on his career by way of an extended period of restricted duties and subsequent de-skilling.
"In his words:'The personal and professional life of PC Harrington has been stilted and blighted by years of unresolved overhanging suspicion and his family life damaged to devastating effect, together with his health and wellbeing.' "
The Newham based officer's nightmare began when he was suspended from work until the trial in March 2013. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) initially said there was no case to answer, but reversed its decision and charged him with assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
At his trial, the jury took less than 20 minutes to acquit him, but PC Harrington, now 34, was put on restricted duties and banned from leaving the police station.
On one occasion, when he popped out move his car, the complainant spotted him in the street and made a further complaint – which led to the IPCC launching an additional separate two-year investigation.
PC Harrington said:" I spent the five years since my acquittal in a seemingly endless cycle of being investigated and re-investigated, confined to a desk in the station. I was barred from any contact with the public at work, couldn't be promoted, leave the service or move roles.
"The IPCC were unhappy with my acquittal and told the press that they would recommend to the Met that I be sacked. Twice they went to the High Court to overturn reports that they had written, so they could have another stab at it.
"The effect on my private life was horrendous because this investigation was always hanging over me. I have been with my partner Kelly for 14 years and we have a beautiful six-year-old daughter but we had no stability in our home life; Kelly was eight months' pregnant when this originally happened but we felt we could not get married with this hanging over us.
"For a long time there was the fear that I might go to prison, then it was the fear that we might be left with a single income."
Pc Harrington took strength from the support he received from his Met commanders and colleagues, even though he was still on restricted duties. He said: "I was lucky to be supported throughout by the Police Federation, who fought my corner every step of the way."
And in August he and Kelly became proud parents to a baby son. He added: "It got to the point that Kelly and I decided we just had to get on with our lives, which effectively had been put on hold for the past seven years. Policing is all I ever wanted to do and I am thrilled I can now get on with my life and career and even get married without this constant worry hanging over us."
Police Federation conduct lead Phill Matthews said: "Sadly, Joe's story is not an isolated one. Although the IPCC has now been replaced by the IOPC, these lengthy, historic investigations are still going on and they wreak a devastating toll on officers and their families.
"Seven years is just not acceptable and puts officers under appalling pressure, during which they cannot move on or get on with their lives.
"The Federation has been working very hard to work with the IOPC to address those issues, not least to examine whether discipline matters could often be dealt with by way of performance management rather than going straight to misconduct as the default.
"We are calling for less of a blame culture to focus more on training or re-training, raising the performance not just of the individual, but forces as a whole. In Joe's case, the glacial progress of the investigation – after which he was completely exonerated – is disappointing, and we are mindful of the toll this took on both himself and his young family.
"But we believe we are slowly making progress with the IOPC and other policing stakeholders and hope that these damaging over-long investigations will soon become a thing of the past."
Last March it was announced that IPCC commissioner Jennifer Izekor, who was involved with PC Harrington's case, had stood down after being accused of perverting the course of justice in a separate case. The Metropolitan Police have asked Police Scotland to investigate this case and that of another investigator.
And in November, one of the IPCC investigators assigned to PC Harrington's case, Emma Yoxall, was singled out for her role in a separate investigation into officers involved in a fatal police pursuit. A gross misconduct panel threw out the charges against the officers on the grounds of the lengthy delays which 'gravely concerned' them. Ms Yoxall is now working as a Learning and Development Officer in the new watchdog organisation the IOPC.
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BREAKING British and French scrambled to North Sea
British and French jets have scrambled to the North Sea amid reports that Russian planes have entered the UK airspace.
The RAF Typhoon fighter jet is supporting Airbus Voyager plane deployed from Newcastle after 3pm today.
The French have also supported in the deployment supporting with a fighter jet.
RAF Fighter Jet deployed to a location over the northeast from near Newcastle just before 3pm. RAF say it is an ongoing military operation. pic.twitter.com/uKv0aKVwYl
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In total four jets were seen over the North Sea on mapping.
The RAF has declined to comment on the situation describing it as an ongoing military operation.
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Fancy being locked in a haunted police cell?
Forget Halloween Fancy a spooky night of fun, locked in a haunted cell for 24 hours to raise money for charity. Then we have an event that is right up your street.
Following on from the success of the PC Edward Walker Tour, Jules Berry a DDO with the Met Police is back with her spooky haunted cell idea to raise money for COPS UK and WMP History Museum, That is exactly what you can do this Feb.
Met Police Detention Officer Jules Berry is arranging the whole event in partnership with the WMP History Museum and is hoping to raise thousands of pounds for charity.
The event will take place on the 8th and 9th of February 2019, but be quick as places are limited.
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The event is being held to support the restoration of the West Midlands Police Museum and COPS UK.
About COPS
COPS is the UK charity dedicated to helping the families of police officers who have lost their lives in relation to their duty, to rebuild their lives.
Since being founded in 2003, they have helped hundreds of families shattered by the loss of their police officer.
They aim to ensure that surviving family members have all the help they need
to cope with such a tragedy and they remain part of the police family.
What COPS do?
COPS is a peer support charity, enabling Survivors from around the UK to support other Survivors in practical ways. They arrange local and national events that enable Survivors to build friendships and bonds that support them through the good times and bad.
Families are rightly proud of their officer and COPS to help ensure that they remain part of the police family.
What about the WMP History?
The West Midlands Police Museum at Coventry was opened in 1959 and celebrates the history of Coventry City Police which existed between 1839 & 1969, before becoming part of Warwickshire and Coventry Constabulary and in 1974, West Midlands Police.
The site at Sparkhill has been operating since 1995 when it moved there from the force's training facility at Tally Ho! where it been operating as a CID training facility since the mid 1970s. Several of the exhibits had originated from the old Forensic Science Service laboratory when it moved from Newton Street to Gooch Street.
The Sparkhill museum contains items of policing memorabilia and old records from the West Midlands Police predecessor forces of Birmingham City Police, Walsall Borough Police, Dudley Borough Police, Wolverhampton Borough Police and West Midlands Constabulary. Some records are also held of Staffordshire County Police and Worcestershire officers as parts of those forces now fall within the West Midlands Police area.
You can also drop an email [email protected] to sign up, you must raise a minimum of £250 sponsorship.
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Hartlepool School Girl has not returned home
18-year-old Thomas Jones has been missing for five days man arrested on suspicion of his murder
20 mins to clear cop under investigation for 7 years
Found Safe and well, School boy missing for 48 hours
BREAKING British and French scrambled to North Sea
Man who raped and murdered child dumping her body on railway line is on the run
Urgent child safety alert Jacob Mcstravick aged 15 missing from home
Urgent appeal missing 12 and 15 year old missing Hartlepool
Homeless man covered in red spray paint found dead in cemetery days later
Sick child rapist dies seven month into 17 year sentence
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Thames Valley Police launch new Animal Whispering unit
Watch: Teenager groomed and attacked by what he believed was Paedophiles
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Parents warned about grooming after 15-year-old groomed, raped and murdered.
Teesside1 week ago
Man arrested after paint thrown over homeless man Michael Cash who was later found dead
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BREAKING British and French scrambled to North Sea
Teesside6 days ago
Found Safe and well Missing Rachel Turnbull last seen at North Tees Stockton
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Found Safe and well, School boy missing for 48 hours


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Also had a flashback the other day when I saw a dude (yes, a dude) at the mall with a comb in his back pocket. Haven't seen that in ages --- yep, there was a time when I wouldn't have even thought of leaving the house without mine. I had a big red one with a handle at one end, comb at the other. Always put it in the right hand pocket. Thought I was pretty cool. I mentioned the sighting to my husband, wh0 very matter of factly informed me that HE sported a VENT BRUSH in his pocket. What??? A vent brush? Keep in mind, he was a BOY, not Farrah Fawcett. I'm vaguely embarrassed for him, but need to remind myself he grew up in the Valley (San Fernando that is) In LA they tend to take their fashion statements pretty seriously. Apparently.
Anyways, onto the knitting.
Inspired by Johanna's (jofrog) adorable little dinos, and in possession of a ton of this Cherry Tree Hill Pot Luck Superbulky in deep lizard like greens, I'm making the prehistoric trio for my nephew's birthday this month. He's 3. My thought is that I'll use other solid colors - I have orange, red and yellow- for the spikes and fan on Trice, the fins on Mr Stegs, and make some colored elephant like toes on Bronty, but that all three dinos will be out of the same stuff. I just began Mr Stegs here - and about an hour later, I'm pretty far down the tail. These little dudes will fly.
Also have gotten going on hub's socks, but am afraid that they seem v-e-r-y wide and know hubby is a picky one. Stuff could "itch" his feet. He tried 'em on yesterday and said the heel seems a little loose. Am taking a little break before I become too committed. They could become a hat before long. I love the yarn and he's alreaady mentioned how sad it is to hide the colors on his feet. (Am i just ignoring the signs here?)
Anyways, am currently ignoring wails from Zoe, who has been wronged by her sister....
but wanted to also add how great it was to meet a bunch of you from Team Boston this weekend and see all the great stuff you made. My little socks were WAY too easy, and you've all inspired me to shoot higher next year - intarsia? A whole sweater? We'll see. Thanks again to Cara and Wendy for all their efforts - I keep lurking around all your blogs looking for the photos to appear!


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Written by Neil A. Davis, Gothenburg Friday, 21 December 2012 14:43
Jesus spoke about children in this manner, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God. Assuredly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it." Even people who do not believe that Jesus is the son of God or believe in God for that matter, can recognize that a man of that era with this insight, was remarkable.
In America, Christmas is a national holiday. Many people exchange gifts and celebrate the birth of Jesus with family and friends. The giving of gifts is especially focused on children. Many of these gifts are essentially lumps of injection molded plastic, but still parents enjoy watching the anticipation, excitement and joy that lights up the eyes of their children as they unwrap the desired lump they have been waiting for.
In the wake of recent horrific events, I would like to suggest a gift that in my opinion would be more lasting. Thinking of my own shortcomings as a parent, I think we should strive to give the gift of greater involvement in our children's lives. Hold them close and love them. We can't know that the next time we watch as they walk away and see them turn to wave, won't be the last time.


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Bok Prize for research that breathes new life into astronomical images
9 August 2013
Research using a new technique to analyse archival images from the Hubble Space Telescope has won a University of Sydney PhD student the prestigious 2013 Bok Prize.
Ben Pope yesterday received the highest award given by the Astronomical Society of Australia for research conducted by an honours student.
Pope's citation from the Astronomical Society singled out the important potential for new discovery of his research by delivering the first scientific results with a new image analysis technique. The research promises to breathe new life into high resolution astronomical imaging.
"The Hubble Space Telescope has been a truly remarkable observatory, but despite the extreme competition to use it, a lot of the images taken with it have never been analysed to their full potential," explained Pope.
"The data I used for my research was mostly taken around 2005... and it had been sitting on a public archive since then. This data had previously been studied by simple visual inspection, but contained a hidden trove of discoveries accessible only after advanced computer processing."
"The thing that made all the difference for us was being able to apply the very latest leading-edge image analysis technique called kernel phase interferometry. I was fortunate enough to learn about this straight from its inventor, Dr Frantz Martinache, on a visit to Hawaii last year. Together we made the first new discoveries with this powerful new approach," said Pope.
It turns out that despite all the effort and expense, even the multi-billion dollar Hubble Space Telescope does not yield absolutely perfect vision.
The mirrors, lenses and other components that comprise the telescope all bend and warp by tiny amounts as the observatory orbits in space, enough to create subtle shifts in the image that are easy to confuse with real signals from the star being studied. The key breakthrough came with the realisation that the structure in the image could be mathematically divided into two classes: firstly those which could arise from errors in the mirror, and critically, a second class which could not.
"In essence, we divide the image into two parts," explains Dr Martinache, "The first can be corrupted by optical problems, and we discard this. Kernel phase interferometry can then focus exclusively on information in the image which is essentially immune to the noise. It is like a noise-cancelling headset on an aeroplane: you flick off the noise and you can suddenly detect all these faint signals nobody else could find."
Pope's research unleashed this method in the hunt for companions to the intriguing objects known as brown dwarfs which occupy the no-man's-land in mass between gas giant planets like Jupiter, and the smallest, dimmest stars.
"Brown dwarfs are like a missing link between stars and planets, and by studying them we learn more about how the great diversity of star systems in the universe came to be formed," said Pope.
"Although they are incredibly faint, so we never see them except with large telescopes, they are actually very common. Most importantly, nobody is quite sure how they can be formed, and they present a tricky challenge to just about all theories for how matter collapses to form compact bodies like stars and planets... In particular, one of the key tests is to find how often brown dwarfs are found in pairs."
This pairing, or binary factor, is quite high for stars - the in-joke among astronomers is that three in every two stars is a binary.
"What my work here has shown is that it is in fact also higher than previously thought for brown dwarfs too," said Pope.
"You can't help but feel a little poignancy for brown dwarfs... out in the cold reaches of the galaxy, never to see a sunrise and doomed to slowly freeze as generations of stars around them are born and die," said Professor Peter Tuthill, Pope's research supervisor.
"I guess Ben's work gives the poets in us a little solace, in that more of them than we expected are in a stately orbital dance with a partner that will still be going when our own sun has lived its entire life and is but a memory."
Mr Pope's award marks a hat-trick for the University's Sydney Institute for Astronomy which has won this national prize three years in a row with past winners Alison Hammond (2012) and Barnaby Norris (2011).
Dancing in the Dark: New Brown Dwarf Binaries from Kernel Phase Interferometry, Pope, Martinache and Tuthill, is now published in the Astrophysics Journal.
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OAKLAND — A 29-year-old woman was shot in the leg early Friday after she and three other people were confronted by robbers while sitting on a bench in Lakeside Park, the latest in a series of holdups in the area, police said.
The woman was in stable condition at a hospital and is expected to recover.
The shooting and robbery happened about 12:20 a.m. Friday in the park in the 560 block of Bellevue Avenue near Perkins Street.
Police said the woman was with two other women and a man sitting on a bench when they were approached by a man and woman who demanded their valuables. It was not disclosed if the victims lived in the area or somewhere else.
The woman was wounded when she stood up and apparently did something to cause the man to shoot her, police said.
The robbers fled on foot after getting a cell phone and wallet from one of the other people, police said.
Police recently put out an alert to residents in the area warning of a series of at least three robberies that have happened in the 400 block of Perkins and Bellevue and the 350 block of Belmont Street. In those robberies, two men armed with guns have approached victims during late night and early morning hours and demanded their valuables.
Police and Crime Stoppers of Oakland are offering up to $8,000 in reward money for information leading to the arrest of the suspects in Friday's incident. Anyone with information may call police at 510-238-3326 or a tip line at 510-773-2805 or Crime Stoppers at 510-777-8572.


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After months of rumours and hipster-praying, Hypebeast has confirmed the rumour that Kanye West is to design a pair of trainers for Louis Vuitton. The trainers appear rather bland (they're just white high-tops,) but they might prove to be a valuable base for many a winter outift. Kanye tells the online fashion magazine that the trainers are to be released in June of this year.
I wait with bated breath!


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Ana Vargas's lessons about El Salvador's history really hit home when she heard about the nation's civil war from the lips of a former guerrilla fighter during an Alternative Winter Break service-learning trip to the Central American country.
"It's one thing to read the story of violence and pain from text in an article and another to see it displayed in a museum; to meet a guerrilla," said Vargas. "You realize that this part of history is very much alive for the people of El Salvador."
Vargas was among a delegation of 20 students, staff, and faculty who traveled through El Salvador in January, retracing the steps of the late Congressman John Joseph "Joe" Moakley and helping to build two homes through Habitat for Humanity.
As the Congressional investigator of the murders of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter, Moakley helped bring peace to a nation wracked by 12 years of civil war, ending in 1992
Moakley name opens doors
"People would recognize the name Joe Moakley even 20 years after his work in El Salvador, and because of our connection with him, we would be immediately welcome," said Tim Albers, assistant director of service learning and an Alternative Winter Break delegate. "By learning about the work Joe Moakley did, you begin to realize that that piece of Salvadoran history is also our history."
During the fall semester, the students had learned about the history of El Salvador, from the era of the conquistadors through the present. They also participated in a series of service efforts, which included fund-raising for Salvadoran flood victims and soliciting donations to benefit the families and communities they would visit in El Salvador.
Once they reached El Salvador, they toured political and historical centers in the capital, San Salvador, building a foundation of knowledge to help them understand what to expect in the smaller communities they would visit.
"Vivid, wonderful stories"
"What touched me the most were the stories," said student Careese Peters, "I have never heard such vivid, wonderful stories."
From San Salvador, the group traveled to Suchitoto, Cuscatlan. There they found a home with Sister Peggy O'Neill at Centro Arte Para La Paz, an organization that promotes a culture of peace through the arts. Days were spent laying the foundations for two houses, working with and learning from skilled masons. The group befriended the families who will live in the houses and spent free time playing soccer with local youth, learning Spanish, and reflecting on daily activities.
"We heard testimonials from massacre survivors and those who spent their childhoods in the darkness of a violent armed conflict," said Vargas.
A six-hour hike up Guzapa Mountain gave the group a feel for the journey many Salvadorans took to reach safety during the war.
"I left my heart in El Salvador," said student Thay Thao, who called the trip "nothing short of a life-changing experience."
"I will never forget the people we encountered in El Salvador," said Peters. "After all they have struggled through, they are still the most welcoming individuals I have ever met."
The Moakley Institute at Suffolk University and Suffolk's Organization for Uplifting Lives through Service, or S.O.U.L.S., have co-sponsored service-learning trips to El Salvador since 2007.