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What is Freeside?
We are a hacker space collective in Atlanta, Georgia.
Hack A Day:
"Freeside Hackerspace is a 5,500 square foot facility that feels like it just goes on and on...If you have a project in mind, they've got the space and tools to make it happen."
"...it's a place where people passionate about science, technology, and digital projects can meet, collaborate and hang out. It can be an open community lab, a machine shop, a work shop, a studio or a combination of these where people can share resources and knowledge to build neat stuff."
Creative Loafing:
"'You don't just have to hack computers,'" says interim President James Sheheane. "'You can hack metal, you can hack wood.'" "'That speaks to what we're all about,' Storey says. 'Making cool stuff out of nothing.'"
(Still want to know more about what a "hacker space" is ? Look here, here, and here.)
Upcoming Meetup Events
TODO: Implement widget for upcoming events
Who we are
- We have approximately 35 members.
- We are coders, makers, and information security researchers.
- We are a Georgia nonprofit corporation, organized for public benefit.
Our Mission
Freeside Technology Spaces, Inc., a non-profit organization, strives to provide a space that inspires collaboration, creativity, teaching, and open projects for the Atlanta community
The Space
We have 5,500 square feet of versatile space in the Metropolitan Warehouses.
Get in contact
- Come to our weekly public meeting, Tuesdays at 7:30pm
- Come to a meeting! Calendar is to the right ->
- Check out our blog.
- Join our mailing list.
- Chat in IRC: #freesideatl on Freenode. ( Click here to chat from your browser! )
- Follow our Twitter account.
- Join our Facebook group.
- Come to one of our Meetups.
How to join
- We give our members 24/7 access and lots of privileges, so we're a bit picky.
- ...but we're friendly and open to having new people join. Read about the joining process.
How we're funded
- Basic expenses are covered by member dues.
- 10% of our membership is reserved for "starving hackers": full time students or recently laid off people.
- We seek grants, teach seminars, and hold fund-raisers to offset monthly costs and equipment purchases.
- We also accept donations!


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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
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Genres : Single Movies-Fantasy
The first installment of the two-film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows follows Harry, Ron, and Hermione as they search for the pieces of Voldemort's soul that he extracted from his being and hid in obscure locations both far and wide. If the trio is unable to locate and destroy them all, Voldemort will remain immortal. Despite their long friendship, a combination of dark forces, romantic tensions, and long-held secrets threaten to sabotage the mission.

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BLM OR Cadastral PLSS Metadata Glance Polygon
Frequently-asked questions:
- What does this data set describe?
- How should this data set be cited?
- What geographic area does the data set cover?
- What does it look like?
- Does the data set describe conditions during a particular time period?
- What is the general form of this data set?
- How does the data set represent geographic features?
- How does the data set describe geographic features?
- Who produced the data set?
- Why was the data set created?
- How was the data set created?
- How reliable are the data; what problems remain in the data set?
- How can someone get a copy of the data set?
- Are there legal restrictions on access or use of the data?
- Who distributes the data?
- What's the catalog number I need to order this data set?
- What legal disclaimers am I supposed to read?
- How can I download or order the data?
- Is there some other way to get the data?
- What hardware or software do I need in order to use the data set?
- Who wrote the metadata?
What does this data set describe?
BLM OR Cadastral PLSS Metadata Glance Polygon
MetadataGlance: MetadataGlance provides PLSS data steward content for individual PLSS units.This dataset represents the GIS Version of the Public Land Survey System including both rectangular and non-rectangular surveys. The primary source for the data is cadastral survey records housed by the BLM supplemented with local records and geographic control coordinates from states, counties as well as other federal agencies such as the USGS and USFS. The data has been converted from source documents to digital form and transferred into a GIS format that is compliant with FGDC Cadastral Data Content Standards and Guidelines for publication. This data is optimized for data publication and sharing rather than for specific "production" or operation and maintenance. This data set includes the following: PLSS Fully Intersected (all of the PLSS feature at the atomic or smallest polygon level), PLSS Townships, First Divisions and Second Divisions (the hierarchical break down of the PLSS Rectangular surveys) PLSS Special surveys (non rectangular components of the PLSS) Meandered Water, Corners and Conflicted Areas (known areas of gaps or overlaps between Townships or state boundaries). The Entity-Attribute section of this metadata describes these components in greater detail.
Supplemental information:
A published revision of the Department Manual's Part 305: Departmental Science Effects, Chapter 3: Integrity of Scientific and Scholarly Activities (305 DM 3), effective December 16, 2014, is available online at http://elips.doi.gov/ELIPS/DocView.aspx?id=4056. Scholarly information considered in Departmental decision making must be robust, of the highest quality, and the result of as rigorous scientific and scholarly processes as can be achieved. Most importantly, it must be trustworthy. This policy helps us to achieve that standard (http://www.doi.gov/scientificintegrity/index.cfm)
- How should this data set be cited?U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 20180110, BLM OR Cadastral PLSS Metadata Glance Polygon.
- What geographic area does the data set cover?Bounding coordinates:West: -124.785528East: -116.463713North: 49.002430South: 41.978511
- What does it look like?
- Does the data set describe conditions during a particular time period?Calendar date: 20180110Currentness reference:
publication date
- What is the general form of this data set?Geospatial data presentation form: vector digital data
- How does the data set represent geographic features?
- How are geographic features stored in the data set?This is a Vector data set. It contains the following vector data types (SDTS terminology):
- GT-polygon composed of chains (5036)
- What coordinate system is used to represent geographic features?Horizontal positions are specified in geographic coordinates, that is, latitude and longitude. Latitudes are given to the nearest 8.9831529999999996e-007. Longitudes are given to the nearest 8.9831529999999996e-007. Latitude and longitude values are specified in Decimal Degrees.The horizontal datum used is D North American 1983.The ellipsoid used is GRS 1980.The semi-major axis of the ellipsoid used is 6378137.0.The flattening of the ellipsoid used is 1/298.257222101.
- How are geographic features stored in the data set?
- How does the data set describe geographic features?MetadataGlance
For western states the identification of the data stewards at the township level is a general indication of the agency that will be responsible for updates within the township. In other implementations this may have been termed the alternative source, meaning alternative to the BLM. But in the shared environment of the NSDI the steward for an area is the primary coordinator or agency responsible for making updates or causing updates to be made. Over time it is expected that the data stewards may be more finely described than at the Township level. (Source: BLM)OBJECTID
Internal feature number. (Source: ESRI)Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.SHAPE
Feature geometry. (Source: ESRI)Coordinates defining the features.PLSSID
Concatenation of the principal meridian, township, range, and duplication code that form a unique id. (Source: BLM)STATEABBR
The two letter postal abbreviation for the state (Source: BLM)REVISEDDATE
The last date of any revision in the data steward defined polygon. (Source: BLM)STEWARD
Data steward for the cadastral reference data. The data steward is responsible for the authoritative data. (Source: BLM)TWNSHPLAB
Township label that is used for cartographic output or web display. (Source: BLM)GLOBALID
GLOBALID (Source: BLM)SHAPE_Length
Length of feature in internal units. (Source: Esri)Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.SHAPE_Area
Area of feature in internal units squared. (Source: Esri)Positive real numbers that are automatically generated.Entity and attribute overview:
Attributes are provided that give basic information about source, type, and accuracy of the line data. More information may be found in the data standard if available: https://www.blm.gov/or/gis/data.php
Who produced the data set?
- Who are the originators of the data set? (may include formal authors, digital compilers, and editors)
- U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
- Who also contributed to the data set?
Oregon BLM
- To whom should users address questions about the data?Travis ThomasBureau of Land ManagementLand Surveyor
P.O Box 2965Portland, OR97208US503 808-6177 (voice)email@example.com
Why was the data set created?
The CadNSDI or the Cadastral Publication Data Standard is the cadastral data component of the NSDI. This is the publication guideline for cadastral data that is intended to provide a common format and structure and content for cadastral information that can be made available across jurisdictional boundaries, providing a consistent and uniform cadastral data to meet business need that includes connections to the source information from the data stewards. The data stewards determine which data are published and should be contacted for any questions on data content or for additional information. The cadastral publication data is data provided by cadastral data producers in a standard form on a regular basis. Cadastral publication data has two primary components, land parcel data and cadastral reference data. It is important to recognize that the publication data are not the same as the operation and maintenance or production data. The production data is structured to optimize maintenance processes, is integrated with internal agency operations and contains much more detail than the publication data. The publication data is a subset of the more complete production data and is reformatted to meet a national standard so data can be integrated across jurisdictional boundaries and be presented in a consistent and standard form nationally.
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How was the data set created?
- Where did the data come from?Various (source 1 of 1)BLM, unknown, Various.Type of source media: onLineSource contribution:
BLM District Offices
- What changes have been made?Date: 19940411 (change 1 of 8)
Executive Order 12906 calls for the establishment of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure defined as the technologies, policies, and people necessary to promote sharing of geospatial data throughout all levels of government, the private and non-profit sectors, and the academic community.Person responsible for change:Tim KeckBLM, Oregon State OfficeGCDB Manager
P.O Box 2965Portland, OR97208US503 808-6164 (voice)503-808-6190 (FAX)firstname.lastname@example.com: 20030101 (change 2 of 8)
In 2003 the Cadastral Subcommittee met in Portland Oregon, hosted by the Forest Service, and defined the polices and needs for establishing a robust Cadastral Publication Data Standard for the NSDI.Person responsible for change:Tim KeckBLM, Oregon State OfficeGCDB Manager
P.O Box 2965Portland, OR97208US503 808-6164 (voice)503-808-6190 (FAX)email@example.com: 20070101 (change 3 of 8)
In 2007 after a series of workshops and meetings with key business functions a set of core data was documented. This document was published on the Subcommittee's outreach web site (http://www.nationalcad.org) and it described the data and organizational relationships for the maintenance of the data that is the Cadastral NSDI. This document served as a standard for the Cadastral NSDI content.Person responsible for change:Tim KeckBLM, Oregon State OfficeGCDB Manager
P.O Box 2965Portland, OR97208US503 808-6164 (voice)503-808-6190 (FAX)firstname.lastname@example.com: 20080101 (change 4 of 8)
FGDC Cadastral Subcommittee developed the Cadastral Data Content Standard and submitted it for approval to the FGDC. This was completed in 1998. The most recent version of the FGDC Cadastral Data Content Standard is version 1.4. Federal Geographic Data Committee, 2008, Cadastral Data Content Standard for the National Spatial Data Infrastructure, Version 1.4, Subcommittee on Cadastral Data, Reston, Virginia.Person responsible for change:Tim KeckBLM, Oregon State OfficeGCDB Manager
P.O Box 2965Portland, OR97208US503 808-6164 (voice)503-808-6190 (FAX)firstname.lastname@example.com: 20090101 (change 5 of 8)
In 2008 the first draft of the Cadastral Publication Guidelines was published as GIS schema. This document has been revised through the testing efforts from Wildland fire and the western US PLSS data set developed. The final version of the publication guidelines was completed in the Fall of 2009.Person responsible for change:Tim KeckBLM, Oregon State OfficeGCDB Manager
P.O Box 2965Portland, OR97208US503 808-6164 (voice)503-808-6190 (FAX)email@example.com: 20100601 (change 6 of 8)
The Oregon GCDB Office will need to be contacted for complete data processing detailsPerson responsible for change:Tim KeckBLM, Oregon State OfficeGCDB Manager
P.O Box 2965Portland, OR97208US503 808-6164 (voice)503-808-6190 (FAX)firstname.lastname@example.com: 20130610 (change 7 of 8)
BLM Oregon GCDB Manager reviewed the spatial and attribute data and found that the data continues to meet the needs of the Bureau of Land Management.Person responsible for change:Tim KeckBureau of Land ManagementGCDB Manager
P.O Box 2965Portland, OR97208US503 808-6164 (voice)503-808-6190 (FAX)email@example.com: 20130710 (change 8 of 8)
Alias Names and attribute definitions Revision.Person responsible for change:Tim KeckBLM, Oregon State OfficeGCDB Manager
P.O Box 2965Portland, OR97208US503 808-6164 (voice)503-808-6190 (FAX)
How reliable are the data; what problems remain in the data set?
- How well have the observations been checked?
- How accurate are the geographic locations?
- How accurate are the heights or depths?
- Where are the gaps in the data? What is missing?
The Subcommittee recognizes that not all data is available in all places, but the data that is available should be provided for publication in the format provided in this guideleines. Exceptions to complete data should be noted by the data steward. The Oregon Data Set contains all of the available GCDB PLSS data.
- How consistent are the relationships among the observations, including topology?
Data conforming to the Publication Guideline should follow for the format and structure of the standard for published data. This means that the topological relationships of the PLSS and parcels should be followed. Level 1 conformance to the guideline means that the data follows and conforms to the structure and an active data steward is identified and engaged in data creation and maintenance. Level 2 conformance all attributes that are necessary for essential query, extraction, labeling and use are present. Level 3 conformance all attributes as applicable are populated. The Oregon Data Set is at Level 3 of 3 Conformance and fully complies with the national standard
How can someone get a copy of the data set?
Are there legal restrictions on access or use of the data?
Access constraints: PUBLIC DATA: None, these data are considered public domain.
Use constraints:
These data are provided by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) "as is" and may contain errors or omissions. Users assumes the entire risk associated with its use of these data and bears all responsibility in determining whether these data are fit for intended use. The information contained in these data is dynamic and may change over time. The data are not better than the original sources from which they were derived, and both scale and accuracy may vary across the data set. These data may not have the accuracy, resolution, completeness, timeliness, or other characteristics appropriate for applications that potential users of the data may contemplate. Users are encouraged to carefully consider the content of the metadata file associated with these data. These data are neither legal documents nor land surveys, and must not be used as such. Official records may be referenced at most BLM offices. Please report any errors in the data to the BLM office from which it was obtained. The BLM should be cited as the data source in any products derived from these data. Users wishing to modify the data should describe the types of modifications they have performed. Users should not misrepresent the data, nor imply that changes made were approved or endorsed by BLM. This data may be updated by the BLM without notification. It is strongly recommended that these data be acquired directly from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and not indirectly through some other source which may have changed the data. It is strongly recommended that careful attention be paid to the content of the metadata file associated with these data. Users are cautioned that digital enlargement of these data to scales larger than that at which they where originally mapped can cause misinterpretation. Users are further cautioned that these data and interpretations derived from them do not eliminate the need for onsite survey and evaluation of specific sites for intensive uses. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management should be cited as the data source in any products derived from these data. DATA STEWARD APPROVAL: Travis Thomas, state data steward for METADATAGLANCE, approved the use of this dataset on May 18, 2017.
Distributor 1 of 1
- Who distributes the data set?Eric HiebenthalBureau of Land ManagementGIS Data Management Specialist
P.O Box 2965Portland, OR97208US503-808-6340 (voice)503-808-6419 (FAX)email@example.com Instructions:
contact instructions
- What's the catalog number I need to order this data set?
- What legal disclaimers am I supposed to read?
The BLM assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions. No warranty is made by the BLM as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these data for individual use or aggregate use with other data; nor shall the act of distribution to contractors, partners, or beyond, constitute any such warranty for individual or aggregate data use with other data. Although these data have been processed successfully on computers of BLM, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made by BLM regarding the use of these data on any other system, or for general or scientific purposes, nor does the fact of distribution constitute or imply any such warranty. In no event shall the BLM have any liability whatsoever for payment of any consequential, incidental, indirect, special, or tort damages of any kind, including, but not limited to, any loss of profits arising out of the use or reliance on the geographic data or arising out of the delivery, installation, operation, or support by BLM.
- How can I download or order the data?
- Availability in digital form:
- Cost to order the data: Contact distributor.
- Special instructions:
Data are only available through the Oregon/Washington State office of the Bureau of Land Management.
Data format:in format Arc GIS (version Feature Class) Winzip
- Is there some other way to get the data?
- What hardware or software do I need in order to use the data set?Arc GIS, Winzip
Who wrote the metadata?
Last modified: 20120501
Last reviewed: 20170320
Metadata author:
Roger Mills
Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office
GIS Specialist
P.O. Box 2965
Portland, OR97208
(503) 808-6340 (voice)
Hours of Service: 8:00-4:00
Contact Instructions:
Metadata standard:
FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata(FGDC-STD-001-1998)
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text: EXO3 Warrior 100 Review & Home of "The Warriors" OK, I just got a demo of the new Prince Warrior 100. Plan on hitting with it tomorrow if it stays dry enough!!! I never liked the Prince Black but this new offering is intriguing. Nice mid stiffness level of 64 with perfect "players-tweener" specs of 11oz, 320 sw and 24 beam. The specs are almost identical to my regular racquet...the Becker DC Pro, so I should feel right at home with it almost immediately. I weighed my racquet and it was 328 grams with dampener and overgrip. Came in at 4 1/2 pts headlite. It swings quicker through the air than my Becker...probably due to the O-ports. I will try it stock first, but I am thinking it may need a little lead to keep it from feeling too "whippy". My demo is strung with full Prince Lightning XX and I think I am the first to get this demo...it looks unused. The paintjob is OK....mostly black with some white and silver. Not a flashy look, but not ugly either. I wonder if u can get this racquet with the regular string holes on the sides, as opposed to the port holes? I just hate stringing racquets with the port holes! Stay tuned! More to come! If anyone else has hit with this racquet already, please let me know what your thought were.


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Authorities Still Investigating Oregon Wild Horse Shootings
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Oregon law enforcement authorities are still investigating the shootings of six central Oregon wild horses that occurred last year.
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Oregon law enforcement authorities are still investigating the shootings of six central Oregon wild horses that occurred last year.
Capt. Dan Smith, of the U.S. Forest Service Law Enforcement and Investigations, said officers responded to a call about two injured horses discovered in the Ochoco National Forest near Pineville, Ore., last October. Once on the scene, officers found a third injured horse, Smith said. The horses—two adults and one juvenile—had been shot, he said.
Just days later, another three horses were discovered by federal officers, all of which had been shot to death, Smith said.
The six horses belonged to the Big Summit wild horse herd and are protected by the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971, Smith said. The Bureau of Land Management is also involved in the investigation, he said.
Shortly after the shootings, the Humane Society of the United States and the Central Oregon Wild Horse Coalition, a nonprofit group established to protect and preserve central Oregon's wild horses, announced their offer of a $7,000 cash reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever was responsible. Despite the reward, leads in the case have been scant, Smith said.
"We got some calls shortly after the shootings happened, but we really don't have any solid leads," he said.
Smith encouraged anyone with any information about the case to call him about the case: "Sometimes even a rumor can be helpful. I promise we will follow up on it."
Anyone with information about the wild horse shootings, should call 541/383-5798.
About the Author
Pat Raia
Pat Raia is a veteran journalist who enjoys covering equine welfare, industry, and news. In her spare time, she enjoys riding her Tennessee Walking Horse, Sonny.
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HIPAA to Healthcare Professionals: Get On the Cloud
As the healthcare industry goes digital, the mountains of paper documents are becoming weightless records stored in the cloud. This change is beneficial to both doctors and patients alike, helping to save time and money, and making processes much simpler. While many healthcare providers have embraced the digital changeover, some are still lagging behind. Now Congress is making sure they get on board.
Driving the migration of records to the cloud are two laws, HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) omnibus and ARRA (the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act). According to Scott Good of Forbes, "by 2015, all medical professionals with access to patient records must utilize electronic medical and health records (EMR and EHR), or face penalties."
Moving medical records to the cloud isn't just about compliance. It's also opening up new opportunities to care for patients.
Matthew Toohey is a pediatrician for a private practice in Pennsylvania and the co-founder of the website PediatricianNextDoor.com, which provides information on medicine and parenting. Toohey began his career with a practice that did not use digital records and has now moved on to one that does.
"This is a whole new frontier. It's all new to the industry and it's evolving so fast," Toohey said of electronic medical records (EMR) and cloud-based services. "It can change the whole makeup of how people practice medicine. You can have all of your patient records on an iPad and access if from anywhere. Cloud-based services can eliminate a lot of headaches."
Toohey said another benefit of healthcare going digital is that it's much easier for doctors to fill prescriptions because they can do it with the click of a button rather than having to call it in. Also, several practices are now able to provide "patient portals" which allow patients to access their records from their home computers.
As far as why some healthcare providers have been reluctant to switch to EMR and cloud computing, Toohey believes it could be due to security concerns or simply a lack of knowledge about the benefits.
HIPAA is taking security concerns into account, however, by creating a 10-point checklist to determine if a cloud provider is is up to its standards. Some of the requirements include specific security procedures, encryption of data, regular monitoring, disaster recovery, and more.
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Houston Rockets' Stadium Wins LEED Certification
The Houston Toyota Center, home of the NBA's Houston Rockets, recently earned certification through the US Green Building Council's LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance Program. The Center becomes the first such venue in Texas to be certified, and joins the Portland Rose Garden, Miami's American Airlines Arena, and Atlanta's Philips Arena as the only LEED certified NBA facilities.
The Center received Silver level certification, ranking only below the Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon, which received Gold earlier this year.
Tad Brown, CEO of the Rockets and Clutch City Sports and Entertainment, had this to say in an article on the Rockets' web site:
"This certification serves as validation that our aggressive approach to energy management, recycling and waste reduction programs have made a difference here at Toyota Center and in our community. Toyota Center has a unique opportunity to serve as an industry leader in the future of sustainability. We are operating in a more environmentally conscious manner and educating the millions of patrons that attend Toyota Center events each year regarding ways they can help."
Brown also said, "In keeping with Leslie Alexander's vision of environmental responsibility, we have dedicated many resources over the past few years to gain certification...with regards to sustainability and operational efficiency."
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"Chouinard Falls" Lee Vining Canyon Climber's Log
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|Great practice area
Date Climbed: Jan 4, 2007
|Watch out for falling ice!
|Posted Oct 12, 2007 2:23 pm
|Fred Bagni
|Many Times - Good Times
|Climbed there many times... Easy access... Nice people... Share your rope please...
The main wall never really came in this year... Strange... Everything else was fat...
|Posted Mar 22, 2007 2:53 pm
|Virgin De-Flowered!
Date Climbed: Mar 3, 2007
|Holy cow! I can't thank the "team" enough for getting me on the ice for the first time! Miguel, Andrew, Dave, Fred and Tina were a blast to climb with and totally patient with my new ass. From what I recall, I climbed a few WI3 routes on the Main Wall...according to Miguel's book. Loved it!
|Posted Mar 8, 2007 1:59 am
|LVC Winter 2006-2007
|Chouinard Falls / Right Side - 2 days
Bard-Harrington - 6 times (Tricouni Nails, White Lightning, etc)
Led first pitch of the BH three times to WI3, Piolet (WI3) on Chouinard Falls, and a short easy mixed line on the Right Side.
LVC Winter 2005-2006
Chouinard Falls / Right Side - 3 days (WI2-3+)
Main wall - 3 days (WI3+ to 4, 1 to 1.5 pitches)
Bard-Harrington - 4 times (WI3+ to 4-, 5.8, 2.5 to 3.5 pitches)
Led short pitches twice on Right Side (WI2), one pitch of the Bard-Harrington (WI3), also followed thin / mixed line on Hobnail Boots (WI4- / 5.8, 3 pitches) with guide.
LVC Winter 2004-2005
Bard-Harrington Wall: three times, WI3+ to 4-, 2.5 pitches
Main Wall: twice, WI4, 1-1.5 pitches
Chouinard Falls: five days' worth, WI3-3+, toproping
Right Side: WI2 mock lead
|Posted Mar 6, 2007 10:03 pm
|That was February? Yup.
Date Climbed: Feb 2, 2007
|We went to Bard-Harrington on Saturday and it was downright tropical and the ice was plastic, a good place for me to learn. Sunday, well that was a different story. It wasn't super cold, but it was snowing and Chouinard was crowded.
|Posted Feb 20, 2007 5:54 am
|Excellent Weekend at LVC
Date Climbed: Feb 3, 2007
|Hobnail Boots - WI4+ - 5 pitches
Chouinard Falls - Tree route
Superbowl Sunday the place is empty. Had a great two days climbing. Wonderful weather. great Ice. Really enjoyed the thinner stuff on Hobnail Boots (Far left of Bard-Harrington).
|Posted Feb 10, 2007 8:41 am


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 12 (UPI) -- Depressed women have a greater risk of stroke than non-depressed women and those who take antidepressants face an even higher risk, U.S. researchers say.
A Harvard University study found women with a history of depression have a 29 percent greater risk of having a stroke and those taking antidepressants, especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as Prozac or Zoloft, face a 39 percent higher risk, USA Today reported Friday.
The study did not link increased risk directly to the medication but rather to the level of depression the use of such medications can indicate.
"Although we found women who took antidepressants were at higher risk, I don't have anything to indicate it's because of the medications," said senior study author Kathryn Rexrode, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Rather, use of antidepressants most likely indicates more severe depression, the researchers said, and depression has been linked to stroke risk factors such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, smoking and physical inactivity.
The study results show "modest elevations in risk," Rexrode says, and should not lead women to consider stopping their medications.


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Not even counting the motorcycling, there are a thousand excellent reasons to move to Germany for a couple of years.
As far as I know, the Germans, in general, are very law abiding and inflexible to a large extent when it comes to rules, laws, and the order of things. Some friends were there a couple years ago for an international BSA Rally, and came back laughing about this particular aspect of German culture- having met some of this face to face regarding the Rally itinerary, etc.
I think you'll find Germany to be very....
well.... GERMAN. I think Germany is one place which has always had a Nationalist tendency, and has really held onto its sense of self as such.
Don't laugh. The TV and Internet culture has broadened American influences and trends, in ways and in places you'd never imagine. American fast "food" is one example of something you'll find everywhere- as was mentioned, maybe in Germany you can buy beer at McD's... I know, in Italy, you can get an espresso with your Big Mac. I feel like most of the EU countries have held onto at least some aspects of their individuality- a plus in my book.
I know here in America, much of the individuality of places has gone extinct- Texas for one example USED to be very Texan... I moved there in the 70s and it was unlike anyplace I'd ever been. Now, not only Texas, but the entire country looks like -IS- the same strip mall. Blindfold yourself, get on a plane and fly to an unknown destination within our borders, get off the plane, and take off the blindfold- aside from the flora or perhaps the accents or weather- you'd be hard pressed to tell exactly where you are. Every single town and city has the same limited number of [obvious] choices for food, shopping, etc. Recently, I was in Marion, VA, looking for a local mom-n-pop place to eat. Well, there IS one. ONE. And it took us a while to find it. I, for one, LIKE individuality in towns, cities, and countries. It's what makes them THEM.
My point is, I hope you go to Germany and find its German-ness. (rant over)
As a traveler or tourist, I personally would never consider going to another country and stick to the known or familiar- I prefer to hang out with the locals and this goes especially for the food. There are definite aspects of our own culture you'd want to keep up on, however, as a resident abroad. This should be quite easy, in most places outside the U.S.- especially in a place such as Germany, with a high American Military presence.
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Might as well move to Cleveland, Omaha, or Peoria. What, then, would be the point of being in Germany?
(See above post/rant)
It seems so obvious to go there and not break ties with the American enclaves, but at least, to some extent, immerse oneself in the local culture, flavor, & color.
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Jeff, I'll add one more comment, in encouragement. I mean, I'm excited for you. This means you can post ride reports from EU! (Selfish of me, I know ) let US live and ride vicariously thru you, my man.
Seriously, tho.
I was raised as a military kid. To this day, I feel it was really beneficial to move around the country (don't get me wrong- it probably had its downsides as well)... The one regret was never having gotten to live abroad.
In 1969, my dad was doing time as a War College student at the Naval War College in Newport RI. Afterwards, he put in for overseas transfer. He was granted the position, and pretty much had his choice of duty stations. He wanted to move us to Germany. My mom, a southern girl, who was always freezing at temps below about 78 degrees F, wanted to move us to Hawaii. They had a REALLY big fight- and we moved to Virginia- for the THIRD time! Ironically, many years later, my parents fulfilled her dream, and took a Hawaiian holiday. My Mom? Hated it. Froze the entire time.
GO. Just do it, man. For you, for your wife, for your children, and FOR US! learn some German, and live among the people outside the American base or enclave. If you all regret it, everyone can blame me.
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Now we're talking! I have been away for the weekend and came home and saw all the replies - thanks everyone! It's funny, because I am at the point now where I basically have convinced myself the move will happen, even though I don't have the job yet! We went up to Ponca State Park in NE Nebraska and I rode while the wife took the kids in the minivan (yes, I said minivan - I'm secure in my manhood). I knew it would be cool and the potential exists for rain, but when I got to Sioux City it started raining hard! So I was cold and wet with another 30 miles to go, and I just thought to myself "this is sort of fun, and I better get used to it, cause it's cold and rainy in Germany". Just so everyone knows, I have lived in Germany as a young man and in Belgium with my first wife -but my current (and last) wife and our kids have never been overseas.
I really do appreciate all the thoughts and advice. I want to do it, the wife wants to do it, and 3 of my 4 kids want to (middle 7 year old daughter not digging the idea). I'll be sure to let everyone know if I get one of the jobs. And you can rest assured I'll be posting some ride reports. One of the hidden reasons I want to do this is that I know my wife and kids will come back to the US every summer for a few weeks - and that means I get to stay in Europe. What's a man to do with no wife and kids around for a few weeks? Hmmm....I don' know, maybe pack up the 1150 and head to the Bavarian Alps, Stelvio Pass, Switzerland, Austria, or anywhere I damn well please! Finally, another reason I want to go is to buy a new BMW in Germany and have it shipped back to the States.
Most certainly because of our past and the history of the Nazi regime. Any other country can do certain things to protect and nourish their national pride but only the Germans are being accused of being "nationalists".
The French uphold their language to an extend that it makes it impossible for a foreigner to even try to speak it. And how about that country where the spectators sing the national anthem before the start of any sports event?
Jump on the chance to live there. Just do it. I was over there in 1974 and would love to go back.I am sure it has changed a lot since then. FWIW, my cousin married a gal from Germany and I ask her if she longs to be back in Europe. No, not at all, was her response. She has been very happy here in North America. Only wants to go back to visit. To each their own.
Current Ride: 1995 K75 Standard
Past: 1978 Yamaha XS 750, 1976 BMW R60/6
That is, the real economy is too expensive for those working for USA government paychecks.
For one thing, I'm not so certain the average GI's car would be allowed on the road if it were subject to German inspection requirements. When I traveled there in a Military Liaison capacity for my company, we were issued the "coupons" so we could fuel our rental cars at closer to USA-like prices.
And the Huffington Post looks like a Rush Limbaugh supporter compared to Der Spiegel. Some cultural "necessity," too.
And, if you want to buy a new car in Germany, you'll have to do it through a USA dealer. There are some programs in Germany for US Military personnel, but you still have to buy a USA-spec car.
Kent Christensen
I, in no way, meant to cause ill will or offense. If you did take offense to my statement, I sincerely offer my apologies.
Any way, Jeff- good luck in your efforts to get an assignment over there! If I could go live in Germany, I would- in a heart beat.
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Ok I need to jump in here as a military spouse, wife of AKBeemer...for some people there is a definite culture shock. And for some that translates into a type of fear...language being the chief barrier. Kids usually have no problems with this and pick up the language quickly. Adults just need to relax and be willing to laugh at themselves when they screw up. Everyone understands a smile and an apology, and it does not matter the language it is delivered in if genuine.
If given the chance I would go back in a heartbeat. The different opportunities for travel, the museums, the food, the people ....all fantastic! What an education. I hope you and your family take full advantage of this opportunity!
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I may have an opportunity to go to Germany myself- tho perhaps briefly.
A friend of mine, whom I know from BritBike.com forum, emailed to ask If I want to fly into Hamburg, and go with him into Sweden for a big old style hot rod meet (A-Bombers Rally) then continue on to Norway for the International BSA rally, 8/3-8/10!
We would truck bikes along, him with his BSA and me on his 79 Yamaha XT 500. Also we'd plan a stop in Gothenburg to see another mutual buddy.
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text: Maurkice Pouncey of Pittsburgh Steelers sorry for Free Hernandez hat - ESPN Not sure how I feel about this. Obviously Hernandez appears to be guilty. I, personally think he's guilty as heck. That said, these guys were teammates of his, probably know him well, and want to support their friend who is still technically innocent. If they believe that he didn't do it, why shouldn't they be able to support their friend? I have a hard time believing that the league could do much to stop them if they wanted to force the issue. It's not like the Steelers/Dolphins would ever cut either one over something like this. I doubt the team/league could fine them either.


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Traffic Impacts at 8th Street at Arcturus Drive and Ramona Avenue 9/25-9/26
Monday, September 24, 2012
There will be multiple lane closures and traffic delays at the intersection of 8th Street and Arcturus Drive/Ramona Avenue on Tuesday September 25th and Wednesday September 26th from 7 am to 7 pm. The lane closures will be in place to allow for milling and paving of the roadway as part of the "8th Street and Arcturus Drive/Ramona Avenue Intersection Realignment Project". Motorists should expect moderate to significant delays and are asked to use alternate routes. The project is scheduled to be complete by October 15th.
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It was July 18, 2007 when Powell River's Gary Lupul died of a heart attack at just 48 years old. I was shocked. He was a close friend of mine, and he seemed in good shape. It was a horrible time for many people, because Gary was loved by many.
There were those who didn't love him quite as much as the rest of us though. Gary's NHL career was cut short, mostly because he had a love for the good life, and there were some in town who felt he didn't behave himself properly and blew a promising career. Gary heard these things, he felt bad that some felt that way, but que sera sera. He was simply an outgoing and fun-loving guy who was funny, great with kids, had no ego, and the ladies loved him, although some women in Powell River steered clear of him because of rumours of his struggles. That and I guess because he was often broke. It was their loss. He was an excellent fellow who looked like a stronger version of Hollywood actor Rob Lowe.
Below, Gary with the Canucks, fighting for the puck with Gordie Howe, and taking a faceoff against Marcel Dionne.


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RHS junior nets 22 points as RHS earns split with Springdale
By Sean Ingram
Russellville High School's Lady Cyclones trailed 1-0 after Tuesday's nonconference basketball game with the Springdale Lady Bulldogs tipped off at Cyclone Gym. They never trailed again, though, as junior Natalie Shockey led everyone with 22 points en route to a 63-36 victory, the fourth straight (4-0) for the Lady Cyclones this season.
Shockey netted Russellville's first points, then Kaylee Wiedower and Shockey hit back-to-back 3-pointers for a 12-3 advantage. It would only get worse for Springdale (1-1), as Wiedower hit another trey before the Lady Bulldogs closed the first period with a short run and cut their gap to 16-10.
Jasmine Gilyard, who led Sprindale with 13 points, hit a 3-pointer to pull the Lady Bulldogs as close as 20-13 in the second period. But Russellville eventually built a 26-15 advantage before Springdale closed the quarter with another scoring spurt. The Lady Cyclones led 26-22 at halftime, but opened the third period with a 13-point run before ending the quarter on top 43-32.
Mary Carol Davis hit a 3-pointer to give RHS a 48-32 lead and eventually built a 20-point cushion, 56-36, on a free throw from senior Jaimie Long.
Wiedower finished with 15 points. Lindsey Glover netted nine, and Davis finished with eight, both scoring all their points in the second half.
Russellville's senior girls - which won the Mount Saint Mary's Academy Heavenly Hoops tournament last weekend in Little Rock - will host the Lady Cyclone Challenge on Dec. 3-4. RHS will play Fort Smith Southside at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 3, and Greenwood at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 4.
Springdale 63, Cyclones 60 (OT)
Eric Turner's coast-to-coast layup with five seconds remaining in the fourth period sent Tuesday night's game with the Springdale Bulldogs into overtime.
Unfortunately for the Cyclones (1-1), Springdale had Alex Scharlau, who netted 13 points and was pivotal in the final four minutes to give the Bulldogs a 63-60 victory.
"We just couldn't overcome Scharlau in overtime," Cyclones coach Joe Sitkowski said. "We had some breakdowns, and they (Bulldogs) were able to take us out of our game some. We've improved, but we've got to get better and have some things to work on. Our kids played really hard tonight."
Both teams went toe to toe in the first period until Chris Washington's 3-pointer and a Turner layup gave RHS a 15-12 lead as the Cyclones ended the opening frame on a 7-0 run. Washington, who led everyone with 26 points, hit a reverse layup that gave Russellville its first five-point margin, then the Cyclones later made it 27-20 before ending the first half with a 27-22 advantage.
Jordan Barrett came off the bench in the third quarter to help RHS lead by as many as eight points. But the Cyclones went cold in the quarter, and Springdale took a 35-34 lead to begin the fourth quarter, its first lead since the first period.
The Bulldogs led 42-37 until Russellville took a time out and regrouped. Eric Turner responded with a 3-pointer, a steal and a free throw before his layup in the waning seconds knotted the score at 50-50.
Springdale tied the score 53-53 and 58-58, but Curtis Evans, who led the Bulldogs with 20 points, hit his free throws in the final minute of overtime.
Branden Turner finished with nine for the Cyclones, while Barrett added six. Russellville will open the Little Rock Mills tournament at 5:15 p.m. next Tuesday.


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Pass our laws or we shoot the Internet, suggests AT&T lawyer
Why is an AT&T lawyer peddling scare stories about the Internet running out of capacity by 2010? To frighten lawmakers. Jim Cicconi, AT&T's vice president of legislative affairs, surely doesn't believe that "in three years' time, 20 typical households will generate more traffic than the entire Internet today," as he told Westminster eForum attendees in London. It's just a line that sounds good.
AT&T can save the Internet from certain doom, if it's just left alone to build new fiber-optic lines for its exclusive use. If AT&T doesn't get its way in making sure laws aren't passed that mandate "network neutrality" and limit AT&T's control over Internet traffic on its network, it will pick up its cables and go home, Cicconi is more or less implying. Why don't we hear Google's top lawyer, David Drummond, going around threatening to take away our Web searches if he doesn't get his way in Washington? Because Drummond's not as good as his job.


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R&B wonderboy Frank Ocean doesn't haven't to do much to win over fans in his live shows. Between his effortlessly smooth vocals and frank stage banter, Ocean won over fans who opted against the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Avicii last night (August 4) at Lollapalooza. With a full band backing him up, Ocean's distinct take on R&B-meets-hip-hop is even more powerful than recorded.
While some artists' sets were cut and condensed due to the weather-inspired evacuation of Lolla earlier in the day, Ocean got his full hour, performing until nearly 11 p.m. thanks to an extended closing time. He started with a cover of Sade's "By Your Side," his signature opening song on his tour supporting debut full-length, Channel Orange.
Instead of charging right into Channel Orange tracks, Ocean leaned on cuts off his 2011 mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra. He seemed almost nostalgic about his first release, chatting about wanting to "stay in that mode" for a little while longer. Fans were happy to oblige, as Ocean ran through Nostalgia, Ultra's biggest hit, "Novacane," then "Swim Good" and "Strawberry Swing." He segued nicely into the intro for "Made in America," the hook he sang on the Jay-Z/Kanye West song off Watch the Throne, to a roar of applause.
Ocean then took a moment to discuss the oddity of boxed water, which is what Lollapalooza sells and provides to artists. "This boxed water thing is different, but I like it," he joked. "That isn't product placement – but it should be."
Throughout his Channel Orange tour, Ocean has found a way to work around the legal hot water he landed in after heavily sampling the Eagles' "Hotel California" in his Nostalgia, Ultra song "American Wedding." For legal reasons, Ocean is not allowed to perform the track with anything even resembling the "Hotel California" melody, so his guitar player performs a nondescript riff instead while Ocean performs. It sounds less-than-thrilling, but fans went crazy over it at Lolla, both because they know the legal drama behind the song and because it actually worked.
Finally, Frank worked his way into what fans were looking for: Channel Orange. His selection of tracks off the high-selling album weren't what one would expect, with a song like "Monks" making the cut while the infectious "Sweet Life" did not. Ending his set with "Bad Religion" and 10-minute dance track "Pyramids," Ocean took a moment to acknowledge his coming out read 'round the world. "This is important because of some of the things I've said in the last month," Ocean said as an introduction to "Bad Religion," alluding to his openness about his bisexuality. And with that, Ocean dug right into the emotional track, fans watching his every move. It was a sincere moment that showed, once more, why Frank Ocean is different from the pack.
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IN 1945, a few months after VE Day, the Australian war correspondent Alan Moorehead was in London sweating on the reviews of his new book, Eclipse, about the collapse of Nazi Germany. He confessed to his diary: ''How anyone can bear to read a book about the war at this moment is entirely beyond me.'' Indeed, some couldn't. His American publishers initially passed on the book, citing market saturation of reporters' books about the war.
No such concerns about a grisly surfeit of war stories exist today. Seventy years on, the flow of books about World War II shows no sign of letting up. Along with countless new accounts of particular campaigns, the last couple of years have seen three gigantic new global histories of what one hails as ''the cruellest and most destructive conflict the world has ever known''.
Instead of slowly receding since 1945, as you might expect, World War II has established itself as the unique historical catastrophe that never goes away. It seems to exist in its own parallel universe, replaying itself on permanent loop and constantly popping up in various cultural forms, from Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, to The English Patient or Casablanca-style nostalgia for wartime romance, to the untiring commitment of SBS programmers to Hitler and his works. And, of course, in all those history books rolling off the presses like T-34s off the Soviet production lines at Tankograd.
Who reads them all? That's the question - or it would be, if I couldn't count at least 20 volumes devoted to World War II sitting on my own shelves. This is not something I'm necessarily proud of, given that enthusiasm for war generally grows in direct proportion to one's distance from its reality. As World War I veteran and journalist C. E. Montague famously wrote, ''War hath no fury like a non-combatant''. Of course, there's nothing wrong with informing yourself about the past. ''What happened?'' is always a good question, and ''how could it have happened?'' is, in the context of this war especially, an even better one. But I suspect that many World War II buffs are interested in something else. I suspect the question bugging many rusted-on readers of the war is less elevated, if perfectly reasonable: ''What was it like?''
I can't help wondering whether obsessive re-reading of war history is a sign of not having fully emerged from an essentially adolescent, and largely male, fascination with war. Female historians including Hannah Arendt, Inga Clendinnen and Gitta Sereny have made leading contributions to the study of Nazi psychology and the Holocaust, but it's mostly men who write the books of battles and strategy. Amassing a Mastermind-level general knowledge about the war seems to be a peculiarly male pastime, too, one that feels just a short step from building Airfix models of Tiger tanks, or spending your weekends blasting your way onto Omaha beach on Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.
If war wasn't so fascinating to men, of course, there wouldn't be so much of it to read about. Musing on Homer's The Iliad, classicist Bernard Knox wrote: ''It is just as sentimental to pretend that war does not have its monstrous ugliness as it is to deny that it has its own strange and fatal beauty.'' Knox was a World War II combat veteran who had seen plenty of the ugliness. So had Moorehead, who by 1945 was utterly sick of the filth and misery of war, the ruins ''piled on ruins'' he was seeing during the Allied advance across Germany. He nonetheless passed the evenings in his billet playing a table-top war game called l'Attaque. As if he just couldn't get enough.
I keep telling myself I've had enough, but there was never any question of my not reading the latest blockbuster overviews, Max Hastings' All Hell Let Loose, and then Antony Beevor's The Second World War. So I cracked them open and immediately wondered, as I have before, how exactly one should read about something so reliably terrible. With an attitude of interested but grave dismay? In an uncomfortable chair? It seems wrong to enjoy yourself too much, though not according to the cover of Len Deighton's 1993 history of the war, Blood, Tears and Folly, with its reviewer's quote in bold: ''What wonderful stuff it is!'' We'd recoil from any book about, say, the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields, that advertised itself in this way. Yet I find myself agreeing with the reviewer.
I may never know what the Second World War was like, but by now I sure know what it's like to read about. There's the feeling of acceleration from the war's stuttering beginnings, the evacuations and muddled rearmament, then the Phoney War (the Sitzkrieg, the Germans called it) then the Blitzkrieg, then the Blitz, and on to exponentially greater extravagances of violence and terror.
Familiar themes are canvassed. US and Soviet industrial production was or wasn't the single biggest factor in the outcome; the Allied bombing campaign of Germany was an opportunist war crime or a strategically vital ''second front'' that left an over-stretched Luftwaffe unable to support German armies in the vast offensives of 1944-45. North Africa was a mere distraction for Hitler, or a vital strategic hinge in the fight for the Suez Canal, and Persian and Caucasian oil. Hitler really only wanted peace with Britain so that he could fight a race-war for lebensraum in the east, or his main purpose in knocking the Soviet Union out of the war in 1941 was to force Britain to the negotiating table.
The trouble with revisiting the same fundamental sequence of events over and over is that you tend to gulp it all down too fast. This is a particular problem with the war's statistics, which tend to be so staggeringly large they're hard to properly register. Hastings informs us, to pick one such figure at random, that in January 1945 alone, 450,000 Germans were killed in bombing raids or battle - a number, like so many others, that seems to demand its own minute of silence.
But there's no time. Like an addict, you find yourself scanning ahead for new details capable of delivering a real hit of revelation, or a fresh shock of horror. And there's always a corner of catastrophe you'd not properly noticed before - the siege of Budapest, for example, or the terrifying conditions for Allied merchant seamen enduring the Arctic run.
Occasionally a startling new fact appears that alters the entire picture. It might be, as Richard Overy informs us in Why the Allies Won, that for every American soldier in the Pacific, there were four tons of supplies but only two pounds for every Japanese soldier. Or that more Frenchmen fought against than with the Allies. Or, as Beevor notes, that the senior officers of Hitler's murderous Einsatzgruppen represented the intellectual elite of the SS: more than half had doctorates.
All this is the vital work of historiography, of course: clarifying, chipping away at old myths, replacing faulty premises with ones based on stronger proofs. This used to be my war-buff's meat and drink. But my interest in this stuff is fading. I don't read now in the hope of a fresh insight into the questions of whether Hitler's failure to send the panzers into Dunkirk cost him the war, or whether Montgomery was a tactical whiz or fatuous egoist. The battles and fateful decisions increasingly pass in a fantastical blur, with XVII Corps or whoever forever trying to break through on the right flank, Hitler seemingly always sacking another general in a splenetic rage.
What I find myself noticing now are the individual faces glimpsed inside the gross statistics, the families eking out a subsistence in ruins, the conscripts maimed in forgotten sideshows. People such as the ''utterly worn out and desperate'' Leningrad woman, one of 12 arrested for cannibalism in February 1942, who admitted that ''when her husband fainted through exhaustion and lack of food, she hacked off part of his leg to feed herself and her children''.
Perhaps I'm just seeing more of these people because the historians are showing them to us more. That Leningrad woman is from Hastings, but the haunting flash of individual testimony is a signature of Beevor's best-selling war books, and is probably the key to his success in returning a genre for retired brigadiers and army surplus nuts to a mainstream audience.
It makes sense that readers might come closest to grasping the war's enormities by contemplating real faces picked out from the starving cities and the boggling mass of the battlefields. But encountering so many and so variously doomed individuals can be just as befuddling as the stats. Attempts to fix clear meaning to the war, or to draw lessons from it, can be lost in a symphonic impression of suffering and near infinite sorrow. Where Eagles Dare it ain't.
In other respects, too, the Second World War is not quite the war it once was. In English-language histories the war's centre of gravity has slowly shifted to eastern Europe and China; at the same time, some of the ''Good War'' certitudes have faltered, leaving a much more complicated set of ruins to mull over.
Anyone who picks up a contemporary global history of the war thinking of Churchill's bulldog spirit or hoping for a gung-ho refresher on dambusters, Spitfires and D-Day glory won't be disappointed. The excitement at the novelty and unrepeatable scale of the war still can't be denied: Hastings gives us the Australian coast-watcher who ''watched exultantly from his jungle hideout as the Americans came ashore [at Japanese-held Guadalcanal], writing in his diary, 'Wizard!!! - Caloo, Callay, Oh! What a day!'''
But we also get an unflinching view of the British failure to defend its subject peoples in Burma, Malaya and Singapore; of the death by starvation and disease of 3 million people during the Bengal famine (''There is no reason why all parts of the British Empire should not feel the pinch,'' Churchill rather carelessly remarked). They'll find that an estimated 300,000 Red Army soldiers were executed by their own side, that systematic rape was common in almost all theatres, and that Allied bombing killed nearly 70,000 French civilians during the war.
Even if the ''Good War'' now seems more like the ''Mostly Good War, mostly won by the Red Army and American industry'', the moral justification doesn't seem to have made it any more delightful to participate in, or easier to understand.
Up close, the war was, American veteran Paul Fussell wrote, ''a savage, insensate affair, barely conceivable to the well-conducted imagination (the main reason there's so little good writing about it)''. A literary critic, Fussell made it his life's mission to denounce the propaganda and censorship that gave people at home a helplessly euphemistic idea of what war was like.
Fussell died earlier this year, but not before seeing some of what he wanted. The history of his war grows ever more plain-spoken about its costs both in and beyond the great battles. The atrocities stage-managed by Hitler and Stalin in eastern Europe, for instance, have long been on the record. But on the very first page of his Bloodlands, a recent book devoted to these facts, Timothy Snyder depicts some individuals' experience of them with such appalling clarity it's almost unbearable to read.
Describing what he'd seen in Treblinka, the Red Army reporter Vasily Grossman wrote: ''It is the writer's duty to tell this terrible truth, and it is the civilian duty of the reader to learn it.'' To learn it, yes, and perhaps to bring it within the scope of comprehensible by trying to imagine our way across the bewildering cultural gap of 70 years. But for how long? At what point does honouring others' experience by contemplating it become merely morbid or prurient? There are, after all, enough horrors to contemplate in our own time, as Susan Sontag notes in her essay Regarding the Pain of Others. But she adds: ''Still, it seems a good in itself to acknowledge, to have enlarged, one's sense of how much suffering caused by human wickedness there is in the world we share with others … Remembering is an ethical act.''
I think that's true. Even if so much happened to so many people between 1937 and 1945, it feels as though we can never quite acknowledge it all, will never quite get to the end of what it all meant. But my interest in World War II doesn't feel like an act of remembrance. It feels more like a haunting, as if it's the inexhaustible mystery of the war that won't let go: the simple fact that such things could be real, and within living memory, and still so strangely nearby.


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Cute clip from MTV! Here is an excerpt, but watch the clip:
Nikki Reed
Q: What is the craziest thing you were dared to do, and then actually did?
Reid: A year and a half ago, right before we shot "Twilight," a friend of mine said, "You don't know the value of money." And I was like, "OK, well, I grew up really poor, and in fact, I definitely know the value of money." Their argument was that I had never worked a minimum-wage job and I could in no way relate to a huge portion of the country. So I moved out of my house about a year and a half ago. I put everything I had up on Craigslist for free, and I moved to this little [Hawaiian] island called Kauai and worked in a clothing store. I didn't answer the phone to any of my agents and made 9 dollars an hour.
MTV: Wow! Did any of the customers recognize you?
Reid: In fact, someone came in one day and was like, "You look like that girl from 'Lords of Dogtown,' except she's a lot prettier than you." And I was like, "That's me! I had hair and makeup [people] then. Sorry!" People would drop their drinks, [and I'd do the] mopping. I was carrying and lifting boxes, calling my mom, like, "I can't do this!" And she was like, "Well, the rest of us have done it!" I was like, "OK, then I can do it — but I just wanna go home!" But I did it. And then I went and shot "Twilight."


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Community, Care and Creativity: Horticultural Therapy and Greystone Park
The long and fascinating history of Greystone Park includes rich horticultural and agricultural traditions. This program explores the thought process behind the raising of grand "Kirkbride" style asylums for the mentally ill, and the recognized therapeutic benefits of gardening.
Presented by the all volunteer non-profit group Preserve Greystone, it features lectures by two outstanding speakers. Dr. Carla Yanni teaches Art History at Rutgers University, specializing in 19th and 20th century architecture. She is the author of "The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States" and "Nature's Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display." Her work focuses on architectural history as a way of understanding a society's values, in particular the relationship between architecture and the fields of science and medicine. Dr. Joel Flagler teaches Plant Science, also at Rutgers University, specializing in plant-people relationships. He holds a certificate in Horticultural Therapy from the NY Botanical Garden, and serves as Bergen County's Agricultural Extension Agent. A nationally recognized expert on horticultural therapy, he was Associate Editor for "The Role of Horticulture in Human Well-Being & Social Development."
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In Toronto, concrete pillars become trees in a topsy-turvy photo-install job.
By Angela Prues
To Toronto commuters approaching the city's contentious Gardiner Expressway this spring, it must have seemed as if the world had first taken a bizarre twist-and then notched it up one more bizarro step and literally turned itself upside down.
The concrete columns holding up the expressway at Spadina and Lakeshore Blvd. had seemingly been turned into trees. But that wasn't all. Those trees were defying gravity and growing in reverse, their trunks reaching toward the sky. In all likelihood, it was enough to make many drivers turn around and call in sick for the day.
Had they bothered to look more closely, however, the commuters would have found that the inverted trees were actually "pillar-wrapped" photographic images courtesy of photographer Rodney Graham, with more than a little help from print provider Beyond Digital Imaging, installer Genstar Signs & Installation, a new media, and others-all in support of the Contact Toronto Photography Festival.
'Outside of the traditional museum context'
For 12 years, the Contact Toronto Photography Festival (www.contactphoto.com) has earned accolades by attracting the best and the brightest. The breadth of exhibitors, exhibitions, and audience has grown the month-long extravaganza into the largest photography event worldwide.
This year, the festival comprised the work of nearly 700 artists and spanned 220 installation venues across Toronto. In addition to traditional spaces at museums, coffee shops, and galleries, the festival's photography appeared at unique venues such as a community center for the intellectually disabled, a center for African children with HIV/AIDS, the Archives of Ontario office, a French-language school, a LensCrafters, and even an adult-only retail store.
"The locations for the public installations are thought out throughout the year," says Emily McInnes, director of creative development for Contact, "usually by happenstance, or when I find myself in a space that I think would be a good way to look at artwork outside of the traditional museum context."


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I don't know how you did it but you designed the most perfect weather out here that one could hope for. A storm at night...sorry about the tent fly blowing away to those who lost one, but the days have been incredibly nice. Sunny, breezy, and in the '80s.
Hot damn!
Oh wait, cowboy country...Yippee!
Oh wait again...it's a great rally too. We think well organized and well attended. Super facility.
Viki and Jack


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He was born Feb. 27, 1951, in Abilene, Texas, to John and Josephine Gonzilas Gilbreath.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his ex-wife, Carolyn Thomas Gilbreath; a son, Eddy Ray Sutterfield; and two brothers, Kenneth Ray Gilbreath and Dan Gilbreath.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Calvin Gilbreath Jr. and Susan of Oklahoma; two daughters and sons-in-law, Victoria and Alfred Whithed of Oklahoma, and Tina and Jerry Davis of Oklahoma; one brother and sister-in-law, John and Jane Gilbreath Kansas; two sisters and one brother-in-law, Mary and Dan Couts of Texas and JoAnn Lewis of Texas; 14 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and other family and friends.
Visitation will be held from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 13, 2013, at Broussard Funeral Home of Russellville.
Online obituary and guestbook is available at broussardfuneral.com.


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Sham marriages clampdown pledged
Nick Clegg is to promise a clampdown on sham marriages to tackle an "industry" which he said was resulting in a reported 2,000 fake weddings a year to get round immigration rules.
The Deputy Prime Minister will say that the Government is also to spend more than £1 million on tougher inspections to target exploitative employers using migrants as cheap labour on less than the minimum wage, with a particular focus on care homes, recruitment agencies and hotels.
Provisions in the coalition Government's Immigration Act, passed earlier this year, extend the notice period for weddings and civil partnerships from 15 to 28 days in order to allow more time for investigation to check that they are genuine.
Ministers have made clear they expect registrars to report suspicions to the Home Office, which has new powers to delay nuptials for a further 70 days while inquiries take place.
In a speech later this week, Liberal Democrat leader Mr Clegg is expected to say: "We are clamping down on sham marriages.
"It's an industry - and a growing one, with around 2,000 reported every year. When people want to remain in the UK, they'll do everything they can to stay.
"As we close more loopholes, more and more people who don't have permission to live in Britain are paying to marry someone who does."
Mr Clegg will warn that criminal gangs are using vulnerable women from eastern Europe - who are allowed to enter the UK as European Union citizens - as "anchor brides", charging illegal immigrants from outside Europe thousands of pounds to marry them.
The Deputy Prime Minister will say that the Government is enlisting Britain's registrars in the fight to make it harder to stage sham weddings.
"It is an insult to their profession and the institution of marriage when they have to conduct a ceremony and the groom doesn't even know his future wife's maiden name," he will say.
"There are many registrars who, up until now, have been unsure of what is required from them, so we have written into the Immigration Act that we expect registrars to tell the Home Office of any suspicion they have that a couple is bogus or an individual is here illegally.
"We've also issued advice directly to all registrars so they know exactly what to do.
"On top of that, from next year we are also going to extend the notice period for all couples seeking to marry or enter into a civil partnership from 15 to 28 days, and when someone rings the alarm we'll be able to pause proceedings for 70 days while the Home Office investigates.
"Currently a marriage application can be refused if we can prove it's fake - but that can be extremely difficult when the Home Office has such little time to react. This way we build in a break on sham marriages speeding through registry offices."
On breaches of minimum wage legislation, Mr Clegg will say: "The Government is upping the number of inspectors tasked specifically with identifying businesses using migrants as cheap labour - paying below the minimum wage.
"We're investing over a million pounds in a beefed-up, bespoke team.
"Rather than just respond to tip-offs, they will pro-actively go after the worst offending employers, including those who run care homes, recruitment agencies and top-class hotels."
But Labour home affairs spokeswoman Baroness Smith said: "Unfortunately for Nick Clegg, the real gaps in our immigration system have opened up under his Government.
"There has been an explosion in sham marriages being used to get around the rules and there have been only three prosecutions for breaches of the national minimum wage since 2010.
"Despite being warned repeatedly about these gaps in the system, the Home Office and the Lib Dems have ignored us.
"Indeed, when they had the chance to vote for measures to tackle sham marriages and minimum wage exploitation that we brought forward as part of the immigration bill passage, they voted against them.
"You can't trust a word Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems say."


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text: I'm unsure where the best forum to post this in since it covers a few series, but I figured I'd take a stab here. In the Voyager episode, "Deathwish", Quinn (formally Q) tells Tuvok that the Q have weaknesses and only appear to be omnipotent because they possess technology that greatly surpasses the technology of the Federation in the 24th century. It got me wondering: What is the true face of the Q? What makes them so powerful. I got to thinking that if Qs are so potentially weak, it got me wondering if maybe perhaps their true form was something similar to the species we encountered in the TOS episode "Return to Tomorrow". To me it would make sense if the Q have either become disembodied or choose to keep their real bodies in such a place (known to us perhaps as the Q continuum) while tapping into a source that allows them to navigate the world exclusively as the essence of their mind and that most of their tricks are some sort of super advanced version of holograms. I find myself wondering if this explanation might explain a lot. I don't think anything in this potential explanation is invalidated by any material. If anything, I think "Q&A" still seems to support it. Thoughts?


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Abreu, Galvis thinking of family in Venezuela
By Paul Hagen / MLB.com
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The ripple effect of violent political unrest in Venezuela is being felt in the Phillies' clubhouse at Bright House Field. The Phils have several Venezuelan natives in camp and, naturally, they are thinking about their family and friends back home.
"I know they're going through a tough situation. You don't want to see that. Sometimes you hear the news and you don't know if it's one of your friends or your family [who was involved]," said outfielder Bobby Abreu. "It's tough sometimes to talk about what's happening right now. It's a tough situation there right now. I don't want to talk too much about it."
Utility man Freddy Galvis tweeted some thoughts on the situation and then his father was confronted when he went to the store.
"Everything is happening. People are killing each other," he said. "My hometown was always quiet. We don't see that kind of stuff. But right now people are fighting and that kind of stuff. So I'm a little bit concerned.
"A few days ago, my father went downtown to go shopping and some people almost got in a fight with him because I said something on Twitter. It's crazy, man. People fighting each other. I just hope everything can get back like old times."
Galvis said he can avoid being distracted while he's at work.
"I come into the clubhouse, I put my mind on the game and that's it," he said. "But when I go home and I watch it on TV, yeah, then I'm thinking of my family. But when I come to the stadium, my mind's on baseball."
Amaro: Phillies' reputation is very good
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- After the NCAA ruled that Oregon State left-hander Ben Wetzler would be suspended 11 games for using an agent, the Phillies issued a statement on their involvement in bringing the infraction to the attention of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
It read: "The Phillies did participate in the NCAA investigation and a ruling has been issued. We believe it is inappropriate to comment further on either the negotiation with the player or the action taken by the NCAA."
The Phillies selected Wetzler in the fifth round and Washington State outfielder Jason Monda in the sixth round of the 2013 First-Year Player Draft. Both decided to remain in school. Baseball America reported that it was the Phillies who reported both players for using an agent to help them negotiate. Monda was recently reinstated. College players have long used advisors to guide them after the Draft, but the NCAA's penalty was based on the conclusion that in these cases the agents had overstepped the acceptable boundary.
General manager Ruben Amaro Jr., who first referred all questions to assistant general manager Marti Wolever when the story broke on Thursday, spoke briefly to reporters on Saturday.
Amaro acknowledged that he was "aware" when the issue was raised with the NCAA last November and that Wolever remains in charge of the scouting department. He added that he doesn't believe the Phillies' reputation has been harmed or that the incident will hamper the team in future Drafts.
"I think people know we do things professionally and the way we go about our business," Amaro said. "So I think our reputation is very good."
Henderson will not manage Class A Clearwater
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- The Phillies announced Saturday that Ramon Henderson, whose return to the organization in 2013 was an inspirational tale of redemption, will not manage Class A Advanced Clearwater this season as previously announced for personal reasons.
Henderson, once a fast-rising coach in the system, left the team in 2008 after 10 years as big league bullpen coach for what he later admitted was a drinking problem. Given a second chance, he was let go again, also for alcohol-related reasons. He subsequently spent 14 months in jail after he ended up in a fender-bender accident.
He came back as a coach for the Gulf Coast (Rookie) League Phillies last year and seemed to have his life back on track. He was thrilled in January with the announcement that he was being promoted to Threshers manager. It was not immediately apparent whether alcohol abuse contributed to Henderson not managing Clearwater this year.
Nelson Prada will step in to manage Clearwater, and Shawn Williams will take over the short season Class A Williamsport Crosscutters.
Worth noting
• Right-hander Jonathan Pettibone made 40 throws from 60 feet Saturday at Bright House Field, the first time he had thrown since undergoing a cortisone injection in his shoulder five days early. Pettibone pitched in 18 games as a rookie in 2013 before being shut down with right shoulder inflammation.
"Everything was fine," he said, noting that a better test will be when he throws from the mound.
That should be within a week. If he doesn't fall too far behind, Pettibone could be a candidate to make the rotation to open the season.
"I've already been off a mound. I've already built arm strength. So just missing five days shouldn't put me too far behind," he said. "We'll have to see once I get on the mound and how many times I have to be on the mound before I see hitters."
Paul Hagen is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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DETROIT - Mike Duggan has moved one step closer to running for mayor of Detroit.
The CEO of the Detroit Medical Center has filed papers to form an exploratory committee to spend the next 90 days to measure public interest in in his possible candidacy.
Duggan said he realizes the city has massive challenges, including the consent agreement with the state of Michigan to get its finances in order.
WATCH: Mildred Gaddis responds to Duggan's possible mayoral run
"The consent agreement doesn't bother me. It's a board that says you have to operate within your budget and I'm confident if we get in there, put in a strong team, we will operate under a budget just like we've done at DMC," Duggan said.
Detroit Lions general manager Tom Lewand believes Duggan could get the job done as mayor, based on the work Duggan did when he served as deputy Wayne County Executive in helping get both Ford Field and Comerica Park built.
"Mike was the guy that kept things in perspective and I also think very important, innovated. He thought of a lot of different idea, listened to a lot of people and was very, very creative to finding solutions.
Political consultant Adolph Mongo questions those who see Duggan as a front-runner in the race for mayor.
"It's going to be a knock out, bang bang fight because Duggan, people say he's gonna win, and I don't think so," Mongo said.
Adolph Mongo points out that Duggan's past ties with the late former Wayne County Executive Ed McNamara could pose problems.
"He's a clone from McNamara and everyone he's going to bring to the table, they are the McNamara folks, so we got McNamara Junior. That's what's coming," Mongo said.
Duggan said if he does run for mayor and wins, he will work to pull political leadership from Detroit, Michigan and Washington together to work to get Detroit back on its feet.
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1995 GMC Sierra - Tangerine Dream
Ten Years In The Making
Time and time again we feature classic builds that begin with owners hunting for a particular year, make, and model of truck that they had when they were younger. For John Oates, this '95 GMC Sierra is that truck, but he never let it slip away. John got the truck in stock condition from his older brother when he was 16. In the ten years that he's had it, it's slowly been transformed into the simple, clean custom you see here.
John tackled the chassis in his own garage in Natchitoches, Louisiana, as the frame was stripped and boxed with 3/16-inch steel in preparation for the new suspension. A wishbone three-link and Slam Specialties RE-8 'bags nestle the '96 Impala rear axle into its notch in the frame, while identical 'bags were used in the front along with Belltech drop spindles. Monroe shocks were used all around, along with the necessary 1/2-inch air lines and 1/2-inch SMC valves that can alter the ride height in a hurry. John's wheel of choice is a 22x9-inch set of C5s from Coy's Wheel that lend a classic look to the GMC.
By now you've probably guessed that there's more to the GMC's super-low stance than just a simple 'bag job, and you'd be right. Since John had the body off the frame to give it a nice coat of black paint, it only made sense to body drop it while he was at it. After channeling the floorboard 2 1/2 inches over the frame, John set his sights on all of the subtle changes that would set his Sierra apart. All of the usual suspects were rounded up and eliminated: stake pockets, door handles, tailgate handle, antenna, and fuel door. In their place, John welded in his own tailgate skin and taillight fillers along with a roll pan. In the front, a '00 Escalade clip was bolted on and some intricate metalwork was done to blend the body line into the grille. The GMC bumper was sectioned three inches and filled to eliminate trim-mounting slots before it was prepped with the same care as the body before everything was sprayed with PPG Tangerine pearl. The coppery-orange hue is in its element at shows, gleaming in the sun with the depth and shine that only comes from tireless prep and careful attention to detail.
The inside of the truck doesn't get as much sunshine as the exterior, but the tangerine paint still radiates custom appeal from a dash, center console, and a massive flowing subwoofer enclosure, all done by John himself. A-1 upholstery in Logansport, Louisiana, took care of the shortened factory bucket seats, wrapping them in two-tone vinyl that is a perfect accent to the gold carpet as well as the drivers on the four 12-inch Alpine Type-R subs. The subs are powered by dual Power Acoustik 1,920-watt amps and John controls it all with an Alpine CDA-9855 head unit in the factory location.
John wanted to give special thanks to everyone that helped with his build: Luke, Chad, Eric, Trey, Thomas, Russel, and especially Renee for keeping him motivated to finish the truck. Hopefully John will keep the truck in the family, because we have a feeling that this one would surely be missed.