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Activity note: The Activity Level for this program is Active and requires enjoying walking up to two miles a day, climbing a few flights of stairs, walking on uneven surfaces, and getting on and off a coach bus multiple times during the day.
Afternoon: Note: All itinerary details are subject to change. Arrive at The Warwick Conference Center in late afternoon for check-in beginning at 4:30 p.m. Enjoy a Wine and Cheese Reception at 6:00 p.m. and introduce yourself to fellow participants.
Dinner: Dinner is in the East House Dining Room. Enjoy a bountiful buffet with entrées varying from turkey, pork, chicken, beef, and fish. Dinner will include a fresh salad bar, vegetables, potatoes, rolls, and dessert. All meals at The Warwick Conference Center include a vegetarian option.
Evening: Following dinner there will be a time of introductions and an orientation session to familiarize everyone with The Warwick Conference Center and the week's activities. Also enjoy an expert-led lecture which will introduce you to the Country Mansions on the Hudson River with Tom Daley and lay the foundation for your visits to these beautiful homes.
Activity note: Be prepared to walk up to a mile and climb a flight of stairs in order to see the mansions today.
Breakfast: Wake up to a hearty breakfast buffet. Daily entrées will rotate, but you can look forward to a variety of breakfast foods including scrambled eggs, pancakes, French toast, ham, bacon, oatmeal, toast, muffins, yogurt, cold cereal, and hot coffee, tea, and orange juice.
Morning: Board the charter bus for Tarrytown, NY. Enjoy a docent-led visit to Lyndhurst, America's finest Gothic Revival mansion and magnificent Hudson Valley estate of railroad magnate Jay Gould dressed for the holidays. Board the charter bus to a local restaurant for lunch.
Lunch: Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant.
Afternoon: Board bus for Garrison, NY. Enjoy a docent-led visit of Boscobel Mansion. Boscobel is a glorious example of Federal domestic architecture that is furnished with fine American decorative arts and antiques from the Federal period. The house has been exquisitely preserved over the years, along with gardens and extensive grounds facing the beautiful Hudson River. Board the charter bus for the return to The Warwick Conference Center.
Dinner: A plentiful buffet dinner will be served buffet style in the East House Dining Room.
Evening: After a relaxing dinner enjoy an expert-led lecture and view slides on Hudson River mansions from our architectural historian in preparation for our visits to the remaining mansions this week. After a short break we will resume with an overview of New York City to prepare you for your independent exploration of Fifth Avenue, Rockefeller Center, and other spectacular sites. Independent walking tour handouts with maps and a list of possible Manhattan eateries will be distributed. Conclude the evening with a Christmas Dessert Reception in the East House Dining Room.
Activity note: Be prepared for lots of walking inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art which encompasses an entire city block.
Breakfast: Enjoy a hearty country breakfast served buffet style in the East House Dining Hall.
Morning: Board the charter bus for New York City and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the United Sates and one of the 10 largest in the world. You will be provided with your own personal audio guide that offers hundreds of hours of content from curators, conservators, and art-historical experts to create a personal, self-guided experience for you as you select the exhibits of your choice. Be sure to visit the Angel Tree which is one of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's most cherished treasures, its installation each year heralding the beginning of the Christmas season.
Lunch: Lunch on your own at one of the restaurants at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Afternoon: Enjoy the wonderful exhibits at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Board the bus in the late afternoon for transport to The Lincoln Center.
Dinner: Dinner on your own near Lincoln Center.
Evening: Enjoy the performance of "The Nutcracker Ballet" at Lincoln Center. After the performance board the bus for the return trip to The Warwick Conference Center. On our way home enjoy a bus ride down Fifth Avenue to view the beautiful sparkling lights and a look at the beautifully decorated tree at the Rockefeller Center.
Activity note: Plan for increased walking today and standing as docents lead us through these beautiful mansions.
Breakfast: Enjoy a hearty country breakfast served buffet style in the East House Dining Room.
Morning: Board charter bus for Poughkeepsie, New York. Enjoy a guided visit of Locust Grove, the home of Samuel F.B. Morse and Poughkeepsie's prominent Young family from 1895 to 1975.
Lunch: Lunch at a local restaurant.
Afternoon: Board charter bus for Rhinecliff, New York. Enjoy a docent-led visit to Wilderstein, the Queen Ann mansion of the Suckley family, home of Daisy Suckley, FDR's cousin and friend. Board the bus for Staatsburgh, New York and visit Mills Mansion, a Gilded Age mansion and country home of Ogden and Ruth Livingston Mills. Both mansions will be elegantly dressed for the holidays.
Dinner: Enjoy a late dinner served buffet style in the East House Dining Room.
Evening: Enjoy a relaxing evening with other participants as you discuss the mansions and beautiful decorations seen during the day.
Activity note: Be prepared to walk several miles as you explore the New York City streets and shops dressed for the holidays.
Breakfast: A hearty country breakfast will be served buffet style in the East House Dining Room.
Morning: Board the charter bus for New York City. Destination: The Radio City Music Hall for the performance of the Rockettes 89th Christmas Spectacular.
Lunch: Lunch on your own at one of New York City's great restaurants.
Afternoon: After lunch you will have several hours on your own to explore the beautifully decorated Fifth Avenue store windows, Rockefeller Center, grand hotels, as well as shopping. Several independent walking tour maps and other interesting sites will have been distributed prior to your visit.
Dinner: Dinner on your own in NYC. A list of restaurants and delicatessens will be provided.
Evening: Board the charter bus at a predetermined location for the early evening return trip back to The Warwick Conference Center.
Breakfast: Breakfast served buffet style in the East House Dining Hall.
Morning: End this week with a Lecture on the Sacred and Secular Music of Christmas. Enjoy the festive sounds as you anticipate the Christmas holiday ahead.
Lunch: Lunch will be served at 11:00 A.M. in the East House Dining Hall. Departure and farewells immediately after lunch.


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Pizzeria Vesuvius
327 Edgewood Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30312 (map); 404-343-4404; pizzeriavesuvius.com
Pizza type: NY style or Neapolitan style
Oven type: Wood
The Skinny: Cool dive serves up dynamite pizzas and boasts a speakeasy bar behind a secret bookcase door
Price: Pepper & Sausage, $17; Kilimanjaro, $16
Alex Friedman didn't necessarily set out to get in the pizza business. He and his two partners were doing fine with P'cheen International Bistro & Pub and the building of Bone Lick BBQ—both buzzworthy adds to the city's foodscape—when Pizzeria Vesuvius became available. Vesuvius had started strong in Atlanta's Old Fourth Ward, but some personnel changes resulted in subpar pies and soured the faithful fans in a hurry. "You can look at the Yelp reviews by date and actually see when it happened," Friedman told me.
The trio had been wanting to open a restaurant on Edgewood Avenue, to capitalize on a planned streetcar line; here was an established pizzeria with a used-to-be-loyal clientele, a wood-burning Modena oven, and a front door just steps away from one of the line's stops. So they've brought back the killer pizzas (and then some) and added loads of cool factor—including a few deep, dark secrets—to make Pizzeria Vesuvius a must on a tour of the city's primo pie shops.
If Vesuvius looks like a hole in the wall, that's partially the point. It's a perfect fit with the neighborhood: historic and rough around the edges, but packed with character and hipster charm inside, with much of what makes it so special waiting to be discovered. (It's also one of the darkest restaurants I've ever been in, only adding to the mystery.) The white oak-fired oven is right up front, across from a chalkboard menu that hints at the restaurant's split personality.
Friedman kept several of the original Vesuvius' faves, but branched out, too. He wanted to offer delivery, and since Neapolitan crusts don't travel well, a New York style was added and new pies created to suit the thicker, breadier dough. The kitchen does construct two entirely different crusts, depending on the pie, and while Alex won't divulge the recipes, he confided that "filtered water is the key" to both.
The various combinations of toppings have been tested and paired with a crust for maximum flavor, but Friedman ultimately lets his customers mix it up at will: Neapolitan ingredients on a New York style, vice versa, and a "Choose Your Own Adventure" option with a list of five sauces and almost thirty toppings.
For this visit, I selected one pie off each half of the menu. My 16-inch Pepper & Sausage NY style ($17) boasted long strips of red and green peppers, accented with small crumbles of housemade sausage, all on San Marzano sauce and held together with a custom cheese blend.
The undercarriage sported some decent char spots, with a crust that was chewy and dense without ever being thick or doughy. I'm not a green pepper fan, but I loved the Christmas-color combo here, with the freshness of the locally-grown bells clearly evident.
The real star of this show, though, was the expertly-seasoned sausage, some of the best I've ever had. Friedman and his compatriots know meat; Bone Lick BBQ started as a seasonal offering on Mondays at P'cheen. In a recent survey, this pop-up effort was good enough to beat out every other full-time BBQ restaurant in the city... and ranked #4 statewide.
Bone Lick is now its own brick-and-mortar entity in Westside, and the guys take full advantage of the facilities at all three restaurants for their curing: the meats are butchered and salted at Bone Lick before they're sent to P'cheen. After they're hung there to air dry, they're sliced and trucked over to Vesuvius to go on the pizzas.
There's a lot of Bone Lick influence on the Vesuvius menu, including that kitchen's BBQ sauce and pulled pork (and even fried collards) as toppings. But my favorite example of everything coming together is the 14-inch Kilimanjaro ($16). San Marzano sauce is dressed with that same sausage, pepperoni, bacon, Bone Lick's ham, and chopped pepperoncinis. The meats are deftly seasoned and delicately smoked, proportioned so that each one gets its own moment in the spotlight from bite to bite, with no one taste drowning out the others.
It's a phenomenal pie that I'd place among my favorites in town, and one I will absolutely get again... provided I don't go rogue and get the St. Helens or Funghi that I was also eyeballing.
Yes, there's plenty to explore at Pizzeria Vesuvius... which leads me to the thing that's getting the most press since this summer's reopening. In the restaurant's back hallway, you may notice a tall bookcase against the wall. That bookcase is actually a door (pull the one book that's sticking out slightly) which leads to a full-blown speakeasy. (There's also a super-double-secret music room that's even harder to find.) No windows, no doors, no signage. Just a hush-hush candlelight bar steeped in a Roaring Twenties theme, right down to black-and-white films projected on the exposed brick walls and an entire list of custom boilermakers and moonshines.
It's a fun aside that does brisk business, even on a Thursday night, but don't make the mistake of letting the cloak-and-dagger watering hole outshine the simply stellar pizzas you have to walk past to get there... from a guy who—remember—never meant to get into pizzas.
About the Author: Todd Brock lives the glamorous life of a stay-at-home freelance writer in the suburbs of Atlanta. Besides being paid to eat cheeseburgers for AHT and pizzas for Slice, he's written and produced over 1,000 hours of television and penned Building Chicken Coops for Dummies. When he grows up, he wants to be either the starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys or the drummer for Hootie & the Blowfish. Or both.

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Perth crush Adelaide in BBL
Shaun Marsh and his Perth Scorchers went on a record run spree to crush the Adelaide Strikers by 98 runs on Thursday night and earn a Big Bash League home semi-final.
Marsh smacked 79 from 60 balls to become the tournament's top run-scorer as Perth amassed 4-189 a record high score in this summer's Twenty20 series.
The Strikers then crashed to 91 all out in 18.3 overs in a woeful run chase to end their season in front of a sell-out 17,000-strong crowd at Adelaide Oval.
The win enabled Perth to snatch second spot from the Melbourne Stars and book a home semi-final next Wednesday night, while Adelaide's net run rate took such a hit that no result between Brisbane Heat and the Hobart Hurricanes on Saturday night will squeeze them into the semi-finals.
Marsh smashed eight fours and two sixes to top the run-scoring list ahead of Melbourne Renegades skipper Aaron Finch (309 runs), whose team will host a semi-final next Tuesday night.
Marsh and Herschelle Gibbs (54 from 34 balls) built a perfect platform for the Scorchers with a 95-run opening stand from 12.1 overs.
In the process, they took down Adelaide's Test spinner Nathan Lyon, whose only over cost 17 runs and included three consecutive fours to Marsh.
The in-form lefthander was dismissed in the penultimate over as Adam Voges (35 from 18 balls) continued the plundering of Adelaide's bowlers.
The Strikers' run chase was cruelled by early wickets, 2-5 after eight balls with Michael Klinger (0) and Travis Head (4) out.
Tim Ludeman (11), Nathan Reardon (0) and Callum Ferguson (13) soon followed and Adelaide were a hopeless 5-39 in the ninth over, requiring a run rate approaching 13 runs an over to win.
Scorchers paceman Nathan Coulter-Nile dismissed four batsmen yet curiously finished with 3-12.
Coulter-Nile had Kane Richardson, yet to score, out hit wicket but Perth skipper Simon Katich, in unexplained generosity, called the batsman back to the crease.
Richardson finished with 20, the highest score for the Strikers.
Perth Scorchers captain Simon Katich said Marsh and Gibbs' opening stand set up the win for the visitors.
"It was a brilliant performance with the bat and then the boys did exactly what we wanted with the ball," he said.
Katich said he called Richardson back to the crease after the Adelaide batsman was given out hit-wicket because no Scorcher player appealed.
"The ruling was we had to appeal and none of us did so we did the right thing and brought him back," he said.
"We noticed the stumps light up but no one really knew what had happened."
Adelaide Strikers coach Darren Berry described his side's performance as "a shocker".
"In all facets, we got belted," Berry said.
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Insulting the prophet may lead to assault
But who is at fault?
To find such insulting "prohibited speech"
Is a bit of a reach
To claim that both parties are equally blameful
Is utterly shameful.
Insults and offenses may have their uses
As convenient excuses.
I'm busy putting together tests and cabinets today, so not as much time to put together verse or prose. The above was prompted by this story on NPR's All Things Considered. It does a nice job beginning to untangle the gordian knot that is Middle East unrest. One particular passage stood out to me as I listened in the car:
RAZ: Rami Khouri, in reality now, any person in the world – anyone – with access with the Internet can easily set off a conflagration in parts of the Islamic world by simply insulting the Prophet Muhammad. That seems to me to be a very unstable state of affairs.
KHOURI: Well, it's a criminal act if you do that in the eyes of most Muslims. It's very insulting. You know, there's laws in the United States and in France and other places against, for instance, anti-Semitism or denying the Holocaust, which there should be.
RAZ: Well, in the United States, there are no such laws at all. You're free to do that…
KHOURI: Well, there – no, but there are limits to what people can do in terms of attacking other people. The law limits what you can…
RAZ: There are no limits to speech. Speech is protected in the United States. I mean, you can insult any religion or faith as vile as it may be, and that is protected.
One culture's protected speech is another's act of aggression.
Most of the Islamic world seems willing to accept that, whether a particular act of speech is insulting, there is a difference between "taking offense" and "being justified in violent retaliation'. Their reaction is not a conflagration, but a spark, which in most cases would fade harmlessly But when economic and political conditions scatter jet fuel and gunpowder all around, sparks are dangerous.
And it appears there are those who are more than willing to add more explosives to the pile.


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By Annie Reuter
Last month, Tegan and Sara announced that they teamed up with The Lonely Island for the theme song to The LEGO Movie. The video for the lighthearted, club-heavy "Everything Is Awesome" just dropped and, for the LEGO fan, it's pretty awesome.
While the drawings within the video were sketched by six-year-old Markus Jolly, the video itself includes clips from the film which helps bring the song to life. Watch it below.
The track features The Lonely Island comedian/bandmates Akiva Schaffer, Andy Samberg, and Jorma Taccone rapping while Tegan and Sara assert, "Everything is better when we stick together."


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For the second year in a row, the cost of the traditional Thanksgiving dinner has gone up. The annual survey of supermarkets throughout the state by the bureau of ingredients that are included in the holiday meal stated a family of 10 will spend a little more than $39, or nearly $4 per person, to prepare this year's bountiful harvest.
Last year's average was nearly $34. So when you get the rest of the goodies in the next couple of days - or have to run out for those last-second items -you're paying an extra $5 bill more than you did last year.
As we said, no real surprise. But it's nice to know food prices in Arkansas are still more affordable than elsewhere. Prices here have historically been less than the national average by several dollars, according to national statistics.
Last year, families shelled out an average of $38.10 for Thanksgiving dinner. However, it should be more than $40 this year when the American Farm Bureau Federation releases its annual figures - and we start working to get rid of those extra pounds we gained this week and around Christmas.
Higher costs for frozen young tom turkey, whole milk, frozen pie shells, sweet potatoes, carrots, cranberries, whipping cream and miscellaneous items such as coffee, sugar, eggs, flour and butter all contributed to the increase.
The year's survey revealed the average cost of a 16-pound young tom turkey is up 17 percent from 2006 to 89 cents per pound. The cost of a gallon of whole milk increased more than a dollar, or 41 percent, from $2.97 last year to $4.20. Other increases included frozen pie shells, up 32 cents to $1.56; three pounds of sweet potatoes, up 45 cents to $2.73; a pound of carrots, up 25 cents; a package of cranberries, up 34 cents and the average cost of miscellaneous items is $3.29, up 66 cents, or 25 percent higher, than last year.
Then there's the higher costs associated with production and transporting the food products from the farm to processors and retail outlets. According to Travis Justice, chief economist for the Arkansas Farm Bureau, we're fortunate in Arkansas to enjoy lower costs as fuel prices continue to climb.
"It's costing farmers more to feed livestock and grow their crops," he said. "That, along with higher fuel costs for those sectors involved in getting food to consumers, is the primary reason for the higher costs."
Justice said milk and dairy products have risen to record levels as worldwide shortages have led to increased demand. Turkey prices are trending up due to tight supplies. Production costs have risen 30-40 percent due to the higher cost of feed.
And the Easter weekend freeze that struck much of the mid-south is still having an impact on the cost of some fresh vegetables included in our holiday meals - sweet potatoes, carrots and cranberries.
Stanley Reed of Marianna (Lee County), president of Arkansas Farm Bureau, reminded us that it's "remarkable" that we can buy and prepare a Thanksgiving feast for around $4 per person.
"The fact that food in America is so abundant that the vast majority of Americans, including those who are not able to prepare it themselves, will have the opportunity to partake of the meal is indeed a reason to give thanks."
Yep, we've got a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. So get out the list, check the fridge and the cupboards, and get to shopping. You've still got time.
From all of us to all of you, Happy Thanksgiving.


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New feature: Serve localized content with GeoIP
It's now possible to use GeoIP on Simple Hosting instances and on the Web Accelerator.
To do so, just obtain the 'X-Country-Code' from the HTTP header. The value returned will be a country code in the form 'EN', 'FR', 'US', 'GB', and so on, as defined by ISO 3166.
This functionality is useful for multilingual websites, because it allows you to adapt the language the site will be served in based on the country your visitor is located in.
The country code is determined based on a visitor's IP address. Bother IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are supported, and this feature is now available on all Gandi's datacenters.
For more information about using GeoIP on Gandi's Simple Hosting platform, see our support wiki.


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Watch Out for NASA's Giant Rogue Satellite
Pieces of NASA's six ton, out of control Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite will soon smash into the earth, according to a somewhat unconcerned NASA. The space agency in statement said that the risk of people being crushed by falling debris is "extremely small," and the Telegraph spoke with a scientist who said there's a 1-in-3,200 chance that someone will be obliterated by a piece of the satellite. But still, they basically have no clue where it will hit. Part of NASA's statement reads:
As of Sept. 8, 2011, the orbit of UARS was 152 miles by 171 miles (245 km by 275 km) with an inclination of 57 degrees. Because the satellite's orbit is inclined 57 degrees to the equator, any surviving components of UARS will land within a zone between 57 degrees north latitude and 57 degrees south latitude. It is impossible to pinpoint just where in that zone the debris will land, but NASA estimates the debris footprint will be about 500 miles long.
If you find something you think may be a piece of UARS, do not touch it. Contact a local law enforcement official for assistance.
Don't say you weren't warned.
[Image via NASA]


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Recording Academy, Clive Davis Institute Team For Master Class
The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and The Recording Academy have joined together to create the Los Angeles-based master class "The Music Business Now" with the goal of connecting top music business executives with the next generation of artists, managers and marketers of recorded and live entertainment.
The 14-week course begins Jan. 25, 2012, and runs through April 25 and will also include three ancillary classes to be held later in the year focused on marketing, social media and artist and brand development.
The course will be led by Lenny Beer, co-founder and editor-in-chief of industry trade Hits magazine, and Jeff Jampol, GRAMMY-winning film producer and artist manager.
Guest speakers are scheduled to include Neil Portnow, Recording Academy President/CEO; Irving Azoff, chief executive officer, TicketMaster/LiveNation; John Branca, co-executor, Michael Jackson estate; and Tom Sturges, Recording Academy Trustee and vice president for Universal Music Publishing, among many others.
The course will aim to provide perspective on a music world in which the digital age has dramatically changed the entertainment industry. Participants will directly address subjects such as new artist development; branding and marketing; building and maintaining a fan base; new strategies for the Internet and wireless technologies; online and digital marketing; touring and merchandising; retail sales; music publishing; film, television and games; radio and video promotion; and more.
Current Academy members are eligible for a $100 discount on the class' registration fee. A discount code will be provided to members via The Academy's In The Loop newsletter and through its membership social network, GRAMMY365.


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Hello everybody, I'm new here and I'll try to be helpful whenever possible.
Now I'm having a most strange issue, and I don't know what it's related to.
I saw somebody else posting about the same thing, but saw no answer.
Since a few days ago, I'm not being able to connect to Tech Support site (hhtps://support.zonealarm.com) if I try to do it from my home. I get the message "Failed to load session". What session????
BUT ... if I take my laptop to my office (see it's the same system I'm talking about) and connect it to Internet, I have no problem at all when accessing the TS site, as it was some days ago from home too.
As a matter of fact, I wasn't being able to download version 10.0.250 of ZAES; today I downloaded it and installed it with no problem at all, but now, back at home, the connection problem remains. I'm still not able to access the Tech Supp site, getting the same message I said.
Any hints? Does someone have something to share about this?


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It is a mantis, and I think it is Empusa fasciata.
Note the crest on the head - this points to Empusa - one of the conehead mantids.
Probably E. pennata or E. fasciata (almost identical). There could be other species of Emusa in Greece.
The wings show it is an adult (not a nymph, which can look very different)
The feathery antennae show this is a male.
See also this discussion
- http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/message/28438
Do you think pennata is a real option? I'm not an expert so I looked at wikipedia (I know, take a large pinch of salt) but there it is suggested pennata had a range from Portugal to Italy which would make Greece unlikely.
I found the following
where somebody says fasciata is the only Empusa in Greece. But he has not obvious qualifications to say that. Is there an authoritive source available on the net, to your knowledge, which gives the ranges of different species of mantids?
Thanks for that folks, certainly looks like Empusa, but without your help, wouldn't have known where to start guessing..thanks again.
Hi Alan,
I don't have a definitive answer, but E. pennata is listed as one of the four species of mantid in Cyprus, and Cyprus is obviously east of Italy... So Greece has to be at least a reasonable possibility.
There seems to be a general agreement that it is difficult to tell these two apart (pennata and fasciata). The best I could come up with was this website (how's your French?).
The "expert" - Bruno, a moderator - declares the following:
Hanches intermédiaires et postérieures avec un lobe arrondi : E. fasciata
Hanches intermédiaires et postérieures sans un lobe : E. pennata
Now my French is somewhat rusty so it's a good job there's a picture lower down which I hope is illustrating the lobe on the haunches and it seems to point to knobbly bits just before the leg joint. Looking again at the photo in this thread there seem to me to be small knobbly bits. What do you think?
Thanks for digging that up.
"Intermediate and posterior hips with a rounded lobe - E. fasciata
Intermediate and posterior hips without a lobe - E. pennata"
I see the lobes indicated by the two black lines in the photo.
They are also obvious here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Empusa_fasciata.jpg
I see those lobes in my the photo at the start of this topic (and in my photo too).
I have yet to find a photo of an Empusa distinctly without lobes (often the camera angle makes it ambiguous).
Most of the images returned by searches for 'Empusa fasciata' and 'Empusa pennata' show lobes. Obviously we're expecting many to be wrong, but we'd also expect some to be correct...
Aha - I think we're looking at the wrong lobes!
The lobes in question are closer to the body.
The 'lobes' method is cited in several places, and the rough ovals in this photo show where to look for the lobes (http://imageshack.us/a/img6/7872/empusafasciatafemale1.jpg)
There is also a useful comparative diagram (http://www.insecte.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=76&t=102125).
That shows that one has to consider the sex of the animal as well (dashed or solid lines) re E. pennata and E. pennicornis.
Bearing that in mind, the photo at the start of this topic shows no lobes, suggesting Empusa pennata or E. pennicornis.
I don't know which of those species are listed for Greece. But the book 'Mantids of the Euro-Mediterranean Area' should answer that. Some of it is here - http://www.biodiversityassociation.org/sito_spa/pdf/book3.pdf
(it also includes a key)
If we can determine that, I think we're there...
Very good. I was certainly looking in the wrong place and I think you are right that it is pennata.


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The Secret Files of the Inquisition
Lately I've been discussing the Medieval Inquisition because of the PBS documentary, The Secret Files of the Inquisition. I'm drawing some hard lessons about it regarding the gross lack of communication from God as to what Christians should've done with heretics. My claim is that God is partially to blame for what his followers did to heretics because he was not clear in condemning such barbaric acts. A good God should've known better, if he exists at all. [Before you comment read through the three links above].


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At midday Thursday, shares of CP on the New York Stock Exchange were up 4.03% over a five-day period, and up 1.1% on the day. The gains Thursday followed gains the previous two days, including a 1.55% advance Wednesday, as it became increasingly evident that CP President and CEO Fred Green would lose a proxy battle with William Ackman, CEO of New York-based hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management.
Spurred by the belief that a revamped CP board would bolster investor stakes, analysts on numerous websites, including TheStreet.com and MotleyFool.com, were issuing buy recommendations for the Class I railroad.
The vote of fiscal confidence has been spurred by the anticipation of E. Hunter Harrison replacing Green as CP's CEO. "We anticipate that a new CEO will be named within four weeks of the board initiating the search, with Hunter Harrison ultimately selected as the successful candidate," RBC Capital Markets analyst Walter Spracklin said in a note.


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The Georgia General Assembly convened Monday for the first of its 40 days. It's clear that budget issues will dominate the early part of this session, with uncertainty in Washington threatening to delay completion of the budget and to extend the legislature well into the spring.
On the first day of the session, Gov. Nathan Deal moved to limit the amount of budget uncertainty.
He proposed to convert the responsibility of issuing the "hospital bed tax" to the Department of Community Health. This would allow lawmakers to sidestep the pledge most Republicans have made to Americans for Tax Reform not to raise taxes. Instead, lawmakers would be delegating their constitutional authority to unelected bureaucrats.
With such a move, a major current revenue stream of roughly $500 million to the state treasury would be protected. Republicans would get to honor their pledge not to hike taxes, and hospitals would be subject to taxation by a board on which they have no representation.
This is no way to govern.
Legislators are elected to serve the people, not Grover Norquist. But to avoid breaking a pledge to this unelected player, these same legislators are being asked by the governor to surrender their responsibility to board that Deal controls.
Legislators must not abdicate this responsibility.
Republicans who have hard time deciding how to vote must ask this question. If they were in Congress, would they so eagerly vote to give the same powers to President Obama?
That is a question any legislator of either party should ask themselves whenever they're asked to surrender power from the legislative branch to the executive branch: If they're giving it up, would they want it to go to their political enemy?
Our political system is like a pendulum. Alliances change. Parties in power change.
But the powers given to government, almost always passed as "temporary" measures, are never again ceded to the people.
Republicans must begin to distance themselves from the inconsistent pronouncements of Norquist of what does and doesn't constitute a tax (which is often defined by whether or not Norquist was brought in to be part of negotiations or not). They must get back to determining for themselves what constitutes good public policy.
Ducking tough issues and votes by abdicating responsibility entrusted by the people is shameful and a political gimmick Republicans are likely to regret.
To his credit, Norquist has already referred to the governor's power grab as "a step in the wrong direction." On this we agree. But this is also time to take on the random nature of Norquist and American Tax Reform's policies head on.
If Republicans must placate Norquist, then slice a decimal place of the existing bed tax rate. Demand it be called a tax cut. Republicans may be able to sleep well at night if they renew the tax at 1.44 percent of hospital revenue instead of 1.45 percent.
Then they could tell themselves they "cut" taxes. They wouldn't have to admit they are too feckless to do what Georgians send them to Atlanta to do, and that they allowed appointed bureaucrats to do it for them.
Charlie Harper lives in Atlanta and edits the Peach Pundit political blog.


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Sometimes you can believe what you read. Last week, it was reported that Nick Jonas was in the running for a spot on Idol and now the teen dream has confirmed those rumors.
The rumors are true... I am being considered to be a judge on American Idol, and it would be a dream come true if it happens. #nickonidol—
Nick Jonas (@nickjonas) August 04, 2012
The announcement even got the hashtag #NickOnIdol trending on Twitter with fans showing their support for the singer. The youngest Jo Bro is used to the spotlight–he made his Broadway debut at the age of 7 and then rose to fame alongside his brothers, who are currently working on their fifth studio album–so he could definitely give the contestants some real advice.
While Nick might be the perfect fit for the aging reality show some would like to see another artist take a seat next Mariah Carey and Randy Jackson.
In a CBS Local poll last week, Adam Lambert trampled the competition, with 74% of the votes after over a thousand people chose him for the mentoring position. Pharrell Williams from N.E.R.D. and country star Brad Paisley tied with 5% of the vote, while Nick came in slightly behind them with one percent less.
Many fans chose to write-in their own ideas with Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber and Usher all getting their due.
But it seems AI fans would like to see another runner-up come back to the show. Clay Aiken, who most recently came in second on The Apprentice, was the most popular with voting fans.
Though Charlie Sheen might want the job it seems he's no longer winning. The Anger Management star came in last with a mere thirty votes. Sorry Charlie.
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After reading about Joe H's great experiences at Il Ridotto and Il Refolo, I vowed to try them both the next time I was in Venice. Il Refolo will have to wait because I didn't make reservations and they were full.
Il Ridotto: All in all this was my best dining experience in seven trips to Venice. If you care more about the food than when you get the food, you'll be very pleased here. Il Ridotto wasn't without some misses both in terms of food and service. (I am in the camp that thinks it's hard to eat really well in Venice compared to other cities in Italy) However, the cordiality of Gianni Bonaccorsi and the server made up for it as well as the ultimate quality of the meal. I would definitely return having a better idea of the strengths and weakness of the place and I think this would lead to a better overall experience.
My wife and I split an antipasto, we each ordered a primo, split a secondo, and ordered a ½ bottle of wine from the extensive wine list. The total was 107 euro before tip (there is no service charge or coperto here).
The dishes: We were treated to an amuse bouche of cod and cream of zucchini. Basically it was like a really good snack at a bacaro.
The first was a selection of six pesce crudo from the lagoon. On the whole these plates were very fresh and flavorful, not fishy in the least and dressed with just a little olive oil. Chef Bonaccorsi brought this plate to us and explained all the fish. Unfortunately, one of the fish (I forget which one) had more than a few scales interspersed throughout. One or two is not a big deal to me but the preparation was just careless.
For primi, my wife had ravioli with gamberi and I had linguine with volgole. Under each section of the menu there is a dish at the bottom noted as "I classici." I selected this dish from there. The gamberi dish was very distinctive and intense. It wasn't the most pleasant on the first bite but the strong flavor grew on me. The linguine with clams was perfect.
The secondo was the best dish of the evening. It was a whole squid stuffed with vegetables. Very, very delicious. I could have ordered another. It was cooked perfectly and very tender.
As others have noted this is a very small restaurant. On the night I visited three groups dined outside in addition to the tables inside. As far as I could tell, there was one server for the entire restaurant and both he and the chef frequently ran next door to their sister restaurant for an ingredient or bottle of wine. They somehow managed to keep it on track until we were done with the primi. After that dish it took nearly 40 minutes for one stuffed squid to come out. When it did it was masterful but a wait like that is unacceptable. Having worked in food service for some time I am as a forgiving a customer as you'll find but after that wait I was a little sour. The squid made up for it but we decided to leave on a high note and my own experience has taught me deserts are often skipped in Italy. Still, we were offered some homemade biscotti which weren't on the menu and that was a very nice touch. After that we were also offered a watermelon sorbet which was more like the texture of very finely shaved ice and flavored with mint and sambuca. This was probably the second best dish of the evening and a wonderful finish.
During the meal Gianni Bonaccorsi visited our table three times. He really did make an effort to see that everything was okay and you can tell he is very interested in the customer experience even if he might want to spend more time in the kitchen and less time shooting the breeze. Despite some of the little mistakes, the food was excellent. As a whole dining experience, they fell down a little on front and back of the house issues but the kitchen's output was excellent. I'd definitely go back on a weeknight, in winter, when they don't have outdoor seating. Everyone can have a bad night and the plates carried the day in a way that I'll give Il Ridotto the benefit of the doubt.
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Christina Perri has been laying low in the year since she released her Christmas EP and another take of "A Thousand Years" for the final Twilight film, but now she's back with the new ballad "Human."
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By Jeff Kirshman / MLB.com
OAKLAND -- A proposal to expanded the use of instant replay has the support of A's manager Bob Melvin.
"My stance on that has probably changed here in the last year or so," Melvin said on Thursday. "You want to get it right. I was a little bit of a traditionalist before where there's human error involved, but as long as everybody's on the same page with it and the idea is to get it right then, I'm all for that."
Critics of replay have often used the length of games as a rebuttal to those in favor, but with officials making rulings off-site, such a problem would theoretically be avoided.
"If there's someone there watching it, you would think that potentially that could speed it up," Melvin said. "Now where the flags or whatever come into play, I'm not really sure.
"Not only do you want to get it right, you also want to get it right quickly. So if someone's watching it and is on top of it and has the use of replay very quickly, then that certainly doesn't sound like a bad thing to me."
The proposal that will be voted on by owners in November would allow managers to challenge three calls per game, which would be reviewed by officials at league offices in New York and not umpires at the games. Of the three challenges, one would be allowed during the first six innings, with two additional provided in the final three innings.
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Norris returns to lineup after four-game absence
OAKLAND -- Derek Norris caught Sonny Gray's first career start in Oakland on Thursday after the A's signal caller missed four games with back spasms.
Oakland's right-handed hitting catcher was available in "emergency situations" the past two games, but the goal was always for him to start in Thursday's series finale with left-hander Erik Bedard starting for the Astros.
Norris' back spasms made it difficult for him to stand as recently as four days ago, but he's good to go, though he said he doesn't anticipate being 100 percent.
Norris is batting .364 with seven walks and five home runs in 22 games since July 1 after a slump spanning May and June saw him hit .163. He's batting .299 with all eight of his home runs against left-handed pitching this season.
Lowrie starts at DH with sore right knee
OAKLAND -- Jed Lowrie batted second in the A's lineup on Thursday, but as the team's designated hitter rather than as a middle infielder.
Lowrie's right knee remains sore after it was struck by a misfired pickoff attempt in Tuesday night's game. He's expected to play in the field Friday against Cleveland.
Coco Crisp, meanwhile, continues to recover from an ailing left wrist that he injured while diving in center field in Toronto. He received a cortisone shot on Tuesday night, which A's manager Bob Melvin said may allow him to play Friday.
"Whenever you get an injection like that, it's probably a minimum of two days," Melvin said. "Two days might be the timetable for that. Hopefully that's the case, and if we have to give him another day tomorrow, we'll do that."
Jeff Kirshman is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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|July 20, 2012, 01:31 PM
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Good smith to 'maintain' Colt revolvers?
Hey all,
I have two Colt DA revolvers that Colt no longer works on. A Officers Model Match .22 and a Police Positive in .38 S&W Where is a good place to send them to get work done on them? I've just noticed on full lock up they have some slight play on my last range trip so I stopped shooting them.
I really enjoy them and want to keep on shooting them, but I can't until I find somewhere to do the repairs...
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|July 20, 2012, 01:41 PM
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That frequently happens with many Colt DA revovlers. It often results when the tip of the trigger, the sear, is worn down and does not allow the hammer to go back fully.
Try this, make sure the gun is empty, then cock the hammer and note if the cylinder locks up all the way. If it doesn't, hold the hammer cocked, press the trigger fully back as far as it will go. If this causes the cylinder to rotate and lock, the trigger sear is worn.
Replacing the trigger is fairly simple in a Colt, and I'd suggest you look for one from Numrich (Gun Parts Corp.) for your guns.
If you've got some good screwdrivers for use on guns, the replacement is fairly simple, and you'd save yourself some money.
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|July 20, 2012, 08:43 PM
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Sorry, but that's completely wrong.
The reason the cylinder in the older Colt action fails to lock up tight is the hand that rotates the cylinder and forces it into lock up is worn, not the trigger.
Unless the hand is too worn or it's been repaired once before, the correct repair is to stretch the hand.
The hand is a "normal service" item in the Colt when the action wears.
To read HOW to correctly stretch the hand and all other Colt repairs, buy a copy of the Jerry Kuhnhausen shop manual. It was written as a training aid for new gunsmiths and covers all Colt repairs the factory way.
As far as I know, Colt will still work on the Officer's Model Match, since they still work on most revolvers made since the mid-1950's.
I'd recommend calling them and talking to them about it. If you've already called, note that some of the phone people have wrong info.
Finding a good Colt mechanic is getting harder. As far as I know Cylinder & Slide Shop still offer factory level repairs, and I think so does Jack First Gun Parts.
If you can wait until he opens his waiting list ever year or so, Grant Cunningham is well worth waiting for.
|July 20, 2012, 09:00 PM
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Call it all wrong if you wish, but I've repaired three New Service revolvers and one Python in this way. True, one New Service required a new hand.
As I said, if additional pressure on the trigger finishes rotating the cylinder into battery, its the trigger sear.
If the hand is too short, the cylinder will rotate no further.
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|July 20, 2012, 09:12 PM
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Incidentally the sear area is where many shade tree gunsmiths polish trying to smooth up the action and over-shorten the sear. This does not show up when shooting double action or rapidly cocking the hammer in single action, as the momentum of the spinning cylinder will carry it around to lock-up.
Again, slowly cock the hammer (being sure the gun is not loaded.) until it is at full cocked position, then press the trigger while holding the hammer back. If the cylinder rotates into position, its the sear.
If the hand is too short, it won't rotate.
I had one New Service where both sear and hand needed replacing. When firing, I had to finish rotating the cylinder by hand, otherwise I had some little lead "half-moons" fall into my hand when I opened the cylinder.
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|July 20, 2012, 09:38 PM
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IIRC, the hand is attached to the trigger, so if the hammer doesn't drag the trigger back far enough....
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|July 21, 2012, 12:07 AM
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As suggested by Dfariswheel (who is a retired gunsmith), Lengthening the hand by peening was the method to refurbish a worn hand.
If Colt won't work on it (so call thrm first), Try finding Bob Dunlap. He is still around and used to teach how to service Colts when he was the chief instructor at Lassen College school of gunsmithing.
Bob Wright mentioned the sear. One reason why the older Colts had a smooth trigger is because of its sear. A long sear meant longer contact time with the trigger's tail and thus a longer period for the (or more gradual as opposed to abrupt) compression of the V spring.
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|July 21, 2012, 06:25 PM
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Call it all wrong if you wish
Well, I guess Colt Firearms is wrong, and has been for over 100 years.
Master gunsmith Jerry Kuhnhausen, who wrote the Shop Manual on the Colt DA revolvers was wrong.
Roy Dunlap and all the old, great Colt pistolsmiths were wrong all those years.
I did it wrong for 30 years and on some thousands of Colts as a Colt DA revolver specialist.
Strange how all of us totally misunderstood the design for all those years.
|July 21, 2012, 06:33 PM
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I'm sorry if I offended anyone. But the fact remains this is exactly what I observed when I removed the sideplate:
IIRC, the hand is attached to the trigger, so if the hammer doesn't drag the trigger back far enough....
Jim K
The hammer was cocked before the hand had traveled enough to completely rotate the cylinder. I replaced the trigger, and in one case, the hand also, and that solved the problem. With the new triggers in place, the hand was long enough.
Call me liar if you wish, it worked very well for me.
Please understand, I'm not saying what you say is wrong, but neither is what I'm saying "so wrong."
It worked for me, not once, but several times. The old triggers I removed were considerably shorter in the sear area than the new ones I bought.
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|July 22, 2012, 04:34 AM
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|July 22, 2012, 06:00 AM
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Replacing the trigger may have worked, but I'd rather peen the hand to stretch it. That is one of the advantages of older Colts and their steel. You worked on the part rather than buy a new one.
I admit to replacing the hammer on a Python once. I bought it used and the previous owner had bobbed the hammer.
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|July 22, 2012, 01:51 PM
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The fact you all seem to be missing is that when the trigger was the correct length,the hand did not need to be stretched. It was of correct length to begin with.
It was the trigger, not the hand that was at fault.
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|July 22, 2012, 06:39 PM
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I gave this situation some more thought and realized I had partially mis-read the post.
My apologies for failing to read more carefully.
You can have a situation where the trigger is at fault, but it's invariably in a gun in which someone tampered with the trigger, usually thinking that was how to do a "trigger job".
If the trigger has been ruined by stoning you can have a situation where a slowly cocked action can fail to fully lock the cylinder.
However, this is a case of a defective trigger. In a gun with a normal, unaltered trigger, failing to advance the cylinder to lock is almost always a worn hand.
However, in a used Colt revolver, especially an older gun like the New Service, any given problem could be just about anything, so you suspect EVERYTHING and trust NOTHING.
You always have to be alert for signs that Billy Bob has worked his magic.
As always with any Colt or S&W revolver, any signs at all that the hammer or trigger interfaces have been altered is cause for automatic replacement of the parts.
One sign would be a trigger with a short sear shelf. ( Try saying that one three times fast).
|July 22, 2012, 07:08 PM
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guys guys guys
The simple solution here is for Venom1956 to sell me both revolvers. Of course, their prices are negatively effected by these problems.
How much $$$ do you need venom?
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|July 22, 2012, 08:46 PM
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Thank you for understanding my point. As to my guns, there were two Colt M1917s and one New Service, the New Service an ex-Canadian Mounted Police revolver. All were obviously very old by the time they came into my hands, so have no idea of the use/abuse they may have encountered. The third was a Colt Python I bought new and had some action work done on it but a gunsmith in Ohio.
I appreciate your comments.
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|July 26, 2012, 02:34 PM
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Hi Venum1965,
I think you have a problem. I also think your post was stolen by some of our senior members. I hope you find this post helpful!
It can be difficult and expensive to get "old action" Colt DA revolvers repaired. I own three "old action" Colt Officers model DA revolvers. A 22, a 38 Spec. and a 32 S&W long. The 22 & 38 were made in the 1930's and the 32 in the early 1950's. They are very nice revolvers. Maybe 95% + on the NRA scale.
In January, 2009 I was shooting a DA string in my club's monthly PPC match. I was shooting the 32. The hammer held to the rear with the trigger fully depressed.
A few days later I called three gunsmiths in the Tampa, Florida area. Two told me they didn't work on "old action" Colt revolvers. The third asked me to bring him the revolver for examination, which I did. To his credit, he must have spent 5 - 10 minutes evaluating the revolver. He told me, "I think the problem is the hand". "I don't know where I would get a new hand and I don't want to work on your revolver." "You should contact Colt and see if they will repair the revolver, if not, you might try Cylinder and Slide in Nebraska and see if they will work on your revolver".
I called Colt and was informed they did not work on Officers Model revolvers. I sent the revolver to Cylinder & Slide for repair.
The following is from the C&S invoice #592-29382.
Date 1/23/2009.
Colt Officers
Caliber 32
Type revolver
Serial number 642908
Remove Cylinder end shake $80.25
"Slow time, weld hand & recut primary & secondary lift, reset bolt timing" $262.50
Materials $10.00
Test fire $38.00
Shipping $62.87
Total $443.62
Now add in the approximately $75.00 it cost me for Fedex to over night the package to Fremont, Nebraska. The repair cost me $518.62.
I received the repaired revolver on approximately 02/15/2010. More than a year later.
Now in fairness to C&S they did call me in 12/09 and reported, "the revolver has been repaired, but they had noticed a slight amount of end shake, did I want the end shake to be repaired?" " It would cost about $80.00". I told them "to go ahead". I had so much money in the repair, what was an additional $80.00.
Since the revolver was returned, I have fired it about 50 times. It worked perfectly. I think the repair was properly made, but I am afraid something else will break. Squirted a little oil in to lock work, carefully coated the outside with "RIG" and put in safe. Will never shoot it or any of the old Colt's again.
The good news is, while the Colt was being repaired, I started shooting my GP100 in the PPC match. My scores were better with the GP100.
Knowing what I know now, I am uncertain if I would have had the revolver repaird.
I hope you find this post informative.
I also hope Dfariswheel, Bob Wright or 4V50 Gary will explain to me what it means to "weld hand, recut primary and secondary lift and reset bolt timing".
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|July 26, 2012, 04:21 PM
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I want you to understand I'm not a gunsmith by any stretch of the imagination. I will fix my guns when they break down.
As to the work on the hand, others can explain that better than I. But the Colt hand begins to rotate the cylinder with the top part of the hand, then slips back and a "step" on the hand completes rotation. Apparently they built up the hand with weld metal then dressed it back down to conform with specifications.
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|July 30, 2012, 04:17 PM
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Looks like I'm going to need to contact cylinder and slide. I might also try colt again perhaps another rep will be more helpful?
No worries I enjoy our senior members ramblings... Win73 u can't have my stuff!
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|July 30, 2012, 06:50 PM
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I might also try colt again perhaps another rep will be more helpful?
To get the absolute last word, sign up on the Colt forum and IM or email member Bjt72.
Brent is the Colt Custom Shop manager and handles the repair shop too.
He's very good about helping resolve repair issues.
He can tell you definitively whether they will work on your Colt.
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Westmere meets the desktop
2009 has been a mixed blessing for Intel in many ways. Even though from a processor technology stand point the company has dominated the once-competitive AMD Athlon and Phenom brands with the release of the Nehalem architecture back in November of 2008, the business side of the company has seen blow after blow after blow. In May the EU fined Intel for $1.45 billion (with a 'b') for antitrust violations, Intel and AMD settled a civil dispute that resulted in Intel writing a $1.25 billion (also with a 'b') check to AMD and most recently Intel was sued by the US FTC for anti-competitive practices. Yeoch.
Oh, and Larrabee was canceled.
But despite all of that, where the meat and potatoes of the company is focused in terms of processors, Intel continues to be very successful. The Nehalem launch for the high-end desktop market went well though likely saw fewer sales than hoped but the Lynnfield product was even better offering similar levels of performance for a lower price to both consumers and system integrators.
Today Intel is releasing the next iteration of the Nehalem architecture for an even lower price segment that includes some slight technological advancements to boot.
Westmere Architecture
In reality, what we know as Westmere does not differ all that much from Nehalem (both Bloomfield and Lynnfield). Both are built on nearly identical compute architectures with the major changes being in features and core counts and of course a transition from 45nm technology to the latest from Intel's fabs, 32nm High-K.
Along with that new power controller Intel introduced Turbo Mode:
The idea is pretty straight forward: if you have four cores that run at combined power consumption (and heat dissipation) of X, then if you only have two cores loaded (with the other two at idle) then you have additional power headroom to overclock the working cores to a higher frequency.
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The fact that Intel moved the IMC and PCI Express off of the Westmere die leads some on the media to wonder if Intel had issues bringing those segments down to the 32nm transistors that the rest of the Westmere architecture is using. It is also possible that Intel made the decision to benefit the newly integrated graphics since having the memory controller "one step" closer to it would be more beneficial in terms of performance than having it "one step" closer to the processing cores.
Later in the article we will evaluate how this migration of the IMC affects CPU and memory performance but for now, let's take a closer look at the new Intel HD Graphics core.
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Twins place Santana on DL, recall righty Pino
Shortstop bruised a bone in his left knee while running the bases Wednesday
By Grace Raynor / MLB.com
ARLINGTON -- Twins shortstop Danny Santana was placed on the 15-day disabled list Friday after an MRI revealed that he has a bruised bone in his left knee from running the bases Thursday in Anaheim.
The rookie heads to the disabled list hitting .328 with 16 RBIs in 37 games, and leaves the leadoff spot open, where second baseman Brian Dozier will take over Friday against the Rangers.
Yohan Pino was recalled to take Santana's roster spot. Pino is 0-1 with a 6.30 ERA and is expected to get the start Monday, once the Twins go back to Minneapolis. Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said that Santana has been very sore as of late and that it wasn't worth taking a chance on having him continue to play through such pain.
"The speed and his legs, that's a big part of his makeup," Gardenhire said. "We're not going to mess with his legs, so we're just giving him time to heal here."
Dozier was considered for the leadoff spot earlier in the season, and has taken over the duties since Santana has been sidelined.
Gardenhire said he has no concerns about how his second baseman will handle it Friday. Kurt Suzuki will move up to bat second in the order.
"Dozier's going to have his at-bats, he's going to swing. He's one of our better on-base guys and hitting guys, and all those things. I'm not worried about him," Gardenhire said. "Suzuki loves the two-hole. Put some of those guys together that all have good on-base percentages and all seem to handle the bat well, and we'll see what happens."
Grace Raynor is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Fan intervention works in Sox's favor
Vinik grabs foul ball away from Angels catcher in fifth inning
By Alex McPhillips / MLB.com
Danny Vinik, 17, perched in the first row -- just two rows in front of author Stephen King and in field-box seats left of the home dugout -- conjured tales of previous Octobers by plucking a Manny Ramirez foul ball away from Angels catcher Jeff Mathis with only one out.
Four years ago, Bartman batted away a foul ball in left field from Chicago's Moises Alou in the National League Championship Series, a play that stigmatized him in the eyes of many fellow Cubs fans. The Marlins won that game and eventually the World Series.
"It crossed my mind," said Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell, who got a clear look at Vinik's play from the on-deck circle.
Lowell was a member of the 2003 Marlins when Bartman committed his misplay. At the time, Lowell stood in the hole, due to hit two batters after Luis Castillo's pop foul.
"But the difference is," Lowell said, "[Vinik] helped a Boston guy out."
Thus, Vinik, the son of hedge-fund manager and Red Sox limited partner Jeffrey Vinik, actively contributed to a win by his favorite team. By scooping up the foul ball, a play that was ruled clean by home-plate umpire Dan Iassogna, Vinik prevented the second out of the inning. Then Vinik watched Ramirez walk on a 3-2 pitch. Lowell tied the game at 3 on a sacrifice fly, a run that proved critical by giving Boston a chance to win it in the bottom of the ninth.
"I think we got a break there," Lowell said. "I can't say I was upset about that."
Lowell said the broad camera well at Fenway prevented Mathis from extending up and out. Obstructed by the well, the 6-foot-tall Mathis could not handle the ball above the 17-year-old Vinik's reach.
"But if that extra section is not there, I think Mathis gets close to the wall," Lowell said. "He can probably make that play."
"I know I had a chance at it," Mathis said. "I just didn't come up with it. I don't know if he had his hands there or not, but I had a chance at making a play, and it didn't happen."
Lowell said Boston fans typically have the presence of mind to distinguish a play that helps from a play that hurts. Right after Vinik caught the ball, surrounding fans recognized his good work with high-fives. Even best-selling author King showed the 17-year-old his appreciation with a high-five.
"When we hit balls a lot of times," Lowell said, "they don't make that same bid."
Even Mathis had to agree.
"Those guys, they're good fans, and they're always paying attention," Mathis said. "You know, he made a good play, I guess."
"I don't know if he got the ball in his glove -- I didn't see a replay -- or if he got it before it hit his glove," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said, "but when you're reaching in there, all bets are off."
After the play, Vinik delivered an impromptu press conference in the concourse beneath the bleachers. Several reporters had come down from the press area to interview the instant celebrity.
"I still can't believe ... I still can't really remember that well," said Vinik, moments after J.D. Drew grounded out to end the fifth.
Vinik said he'd never heard of Maier, the teenage fan who leaned over the right-field wall to grab the Derek Jeter home run ball in the 1996 playoffs, helping the Yankees beat the Orioles. Short of breath as he received a set of rapid-fire questions, Vinik described what happened.
"I just reached over and tried to catch the ball," Vinik said. "I don't know."
What next?
"More or less, I started getting jumped on," Vinik said, "and applauded and high-fives and everything."
Did Mathis say anything to him?
"Not that I heard," he said. "I was just focusing on other things. I couldn't hear anything."
Did he hear from anyone else?
"A bunch of people," he said. "Like 15 or 20 people called me -- guys who saw me on TV."
Did he realize the magnitude of what had just occurred?
"I don't know," he said. "I'm just glad he scored."
Passing fans offered high-fives and back slaps.
"The new president for Red Sox Nation right here," said one.
"The anti-Bartman," yelled another.
Is he the anti-Bartman?
"Sounds good to me," Vinik said.
Vinik's father stood by as more reporters and gawkers gathered around. Jeffrey Vinik said neither he nor his son had caught a foul ball as season-ticket holders.
"I had one ball [hit] to me once," the elder Vinik said. "And I missed it. [Danny] gave me a hard time for it. He said he wouldn't miss it if he ever got one."
Slowly, the mass of reporters dispersed, and father and son proceeded back out to their field-box seats. As he left, Jeffrey Vinik, father and newly minted press liaison for a famous son, muttered one last statement.
"My wife's going to kill me," he said.
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