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Acoustiguide Ltd is part of an international company which specialises in providing audio guides, multimedia content, mobile applications and operational services to tourist attractions and museums. As a market leader, our clients include some of the highest profile attractions in the country, such as the Tower of London, the Roman Baths, Stonehenge and the Churchill War Rooms.
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Acoustiguide China, A JV daughter company of Acoustiguide worldwide head quartered in Israel, is seeking to recruit a head of office to be based in Hangzhou. Reports to Acoustiguide China CEO.
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Senior in the Spotlight: Leah Franklin
April 5, 2012 How many family members do you have and what are their names? 3 My dad-Shane, Mom- Angie and brother Noah. more »»
Cancer isn't unbeatable, says Traer student
April 5, 2012 Shane Lawton, a graduating senior at North Tama High School, was not so sure of that when he was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia as a preschoole. more »»
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June 30, 2011 Registration to pay school fees for all grades will be held on Thursday, July 28 and Monday, August . more »»
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Gladbrook-Reinbeck School Board
June 21, 2011 By Marcy Knaack Correspondent Thursday evening the Gladbrook-Reinbeck School Board approved the elementary and high school handbooks. more »»
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May 19, 2011 Thursday, May 19 Seniors Last Day 9:30 a.m. - Boys District Golf at La Porte Grades 4 - 6 Responsibility party 7 p.m. more »»
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May 19, 2011 Monday, May 23, 2011 - - 7:00 pm in the ICN Room "Opening Doors to Life-Long Learning" 1. Call to Order, Roll Call and Determine Quorum 2. more »»
North Tama Mixed Chorus
May 19, 2011 The North Tama Mixed Chorus received a Division I rating at State Large Group Contest on May 6 in Earlham. more »»
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Larsons welcome home son
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Last weekend I drove to Siler City, North Carolina to attend a lecture on The Regulator Movement of Chatham County, North Carolina, given by Mr. John H. Emerson. The lecture was sponsored by the Chatham County Historical Society and took place at the Rives Chapel Church in Siler City, North Carolina. Tours of the church and the nearby Old Tick Creek cemetery, where the Regulator James Emerson was buried, were given prior to the lecture. I did not make it to the church in time for the cemetery tour, however I made it inside the hall in time to get a good seat. I think attendance was higher than they expected because the organizers had to set up more chairs. The lecture itself ran for just about an hour. The Chatham County Historical Society had some books and pamphlets on a table at the back of the room that we could visit after the lecture. Another gentleman also had some weapons on display for us to look at.
The Regulator Movement is said to be the precursor and possibly even the first battle of the American Revolutionary War. What started out as a peaceful movement enacted to change the policies governing land and property taxation and to rid the colony of corrupt politicans, ended in a gun fight at the Battle of Alamance Creek.
I decided to attend this lecture for a couple of reasons: My ancestor, Henry Williams, was living in nearby Caswell County, NC during this time (1766-1771) and was believed to have been in the Caswell County Militia. I think he may have had some involvement in the Regulator Movement. There's been some confusion about his involvement in the Revolutionary War (see previous post here) and I was hoping to clear it up by learning about his possible role in the Regulator Movement.
I also wanted to have any excuse to drive out that way. Siler City is on the outskirts of Randolph County, North Carolina. My Godwin family settled in Randolph County in 1800 in the small community of Seagrove. Seagrove is about a 20 minute drive West of Siler City. A few weeks ago I took my first trip out to Randolph County to visit the Genealogy room in the Randolph County public library located in downtown Asheboro. You can read about my visit on my other blog here. I hope to make more trips out there to take in more of the scenery.
I did not learn any new information about my ancestor, Henry Williams, believed to have been an officer in the Revolutionary War. There was a copy of William Powell's book, The Regulators in North Carolina: A documentary history, 1759-1766 on one of the tables. I did not find any mention of my ancestory, Henry Williams, in it. This was not surprising as I had already read much of the book in 2006 when I wrote a paper on the Regulator Movement for my North Carolina History Class.
A Mr. Brooks Gilbert opened up his family home, originally owned and occupied by Isaac Brooks, also a Regulator, to the lecture attendees. His home is located at 1958 Ike Brooks Rd, which was just a quick turn off of the Rives Chapel Church Road in Siler City. Isaac Brooks was a descendant of John and Susan Brooks, whose descendants meet every August in Siler City for a huge family reunion. I have yet to find a connection between this Brooks family and my own of Caswell County, North Carolina, however I believe both families came from the same part of Virginia prior to their migration to North Carolina. This Brooks family even has a highway named after them! More to come about my visit to Isaac Brooks' House.
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Bradley Manning may be one of the most fascinating and controversial characters in contemporary American history, and Hollywood is taking notice.
Manning, who is in the sentencing phase of a trial at Ft. Meade, Md., for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks, is already an important figure in two movies out this year and at the center of another in development.
On Tuesday, a military judge acquitted Manning of the most serious charge of "aiding the enemy" but found him guilty of multiple other charges, for which he could face up to 136 years in prison.
Manning's personal story unfolds in Alex Gibney's documentary "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," which opened in theaters in May. Though much of the narrative surrounds charismatic WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, it is Manning who emerges as the film's martyred hero. In transcripts of confessional online chats that the lonely 25-year-old Army private had with computer hacker Adrian Lamo, Manning reveals that he's grappling with his gender identity and is disturbed by information he's learning about the Afghan and Iraqi wars from his remote Army post east of Baghdad.
Manning is more of a background figure in "The Fifth Estate," a WikiLeaks drama from "Twilight" and "Dreamgirls" director Bill Condon that is due to open the Toronto Film Festival in September. Though he appears only in news reports, Manning's leaks to Assange (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) are the catalyst for the online media organization's explosive growth in influence -- and subsequent targeting by U.S. government authorities.
Gibney and his producer, Marc Shmuger, have yet another Manning film in the works, a drama adapted from a book they optioned last year, Denver Nicks' "Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History."
That movie has not yet been cast, but filling the role of Manning will be a challenge. The right actor will have Manning's small size (he's 5 foot 2) and be able to portray both his sensitive, introverted manner and the simmering anger that led him to assault an officer while in Iraq -- and carry out the biggest leak in U.S. history.
Here are a few ideas for how to cast Manning. Who do you think would be the best actor to take the role? Vote and let us know what you think.
Daniel Radcliffe: The 24-year-old "Harry Potter" alumnus has a proven track record as an unlikely hero and, at 5 foot 5, he's the right physical type. Even more promising: He's getting strong reviews for playing another complex real-life figure in his latest film, Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in "Kill Your Darlings."
Shia LaBeouf: The "Transformers" and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" star has mostly traded on his boyish charm -- even as a tough young bootlegger in last year's independent drama, "Lawless." But it could be time for LaBeouf, 27, to show a softer side as the vulnerable Army private.
Paul Dano: In "Little Miss Sunshine" and "There Will Be Blood," Dano established himself as an actor capable of surprising intensity and, as a young Brian Wilson in the upcoming Beach Boys biopic "Love & Mercy," he'll presumably further test his range. But at 5 foot 11, he's quite a bit taller than Manning.
Aaron Paul: At 33, Paul is at the top end of the age spectrum of actors who could conceivably play Manning, but the tension he conveys as "Breaking Bad's" conflicted meth addict Jesse Pinkman reflects an actor who could handle the gray areas in the Army private's story.
Emile Hirsch: As adventurer Christopher McCandless in 2007's "Into the Wild," the 28-year-old actor portrayed a self-destructive dreamer with remarkable fidelity -- right down to losing 40 pounds for the role. His swoon-worthy good looks may be an impediment, however, as Manning's awkwardness is a key part of his story.


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Chemistry Timeline
In this interactive, you will learn more about key chemistry-related people and events from prehistoric times to the present. The timeline targets major breakthroughs in the development of chemical science, including the discovery of key elements, as well as the birth and death dates of important contributors chemistry history. As you scroll forward and backward in time, or use a navigation bar to quickly jump to different points of chemical history, you will see the connection between chemical discoveries and other key events in human history. Clicking on a person or date will bring up more information about the selection and provide links to relevant material in the Units. Targeted for all Units 1-13.
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You will learn about the economics of operating a chemical factory as you try to optimize the process of a simulated Haber-Bosch process ammonia fertilizer plant. Key concepts include: equilibrium reactions, catalysts, reaction energies, thermo-chemistry, and kinetics. You are challenged to maximize profitability by fine-tuning the reaction: adjusting temperature and pressure in the reaction chamber, switching the type of catalyst, and adjusting the rate that the product (ammonia) and impurities are removed. Every input has a cost associated with it, so you will have to apply what you know about chemical reactions to be successful. This lab is most closely linked to concepts in Units 6, 7 9, and 12. Lesson Plan | Student Worksheet


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I believe the reproduction tanks (such as those made by Spectra) have a gal finish, but not sure of the process used;
Spectra tanks are Ni Terne coated.
Quote from: Sauron327 on February 23, 2014, 11:48:07 AMSpectra tanks are Ni Terne coated.What's the process for that Scott? I take it that it involves at least a Nickel coating.
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HOUSTON - A former Houston radio show host, who offered financial advice to his listeners, has been charged with a felony, Local 2 Investigates has learned.
Kingwood resident, Brett Bogus, 54, has been charged with Misapplication of Fiduciary Property.
In court paperwork, Bogus is accused of shorting a client approximately $75,000 in a gold transaction.
"They say his name is perfect for him. He's got the best name in the world, Brett Bogus," complainant, John Menna said.
For years, Bogus touted the benefits of trading paper money for gold on his weekday radio show, "The Meltdown," which mostly recently aired on KTEK 1110. Bogus paid for the air time and was not an employee of the station, according to a station executive.
The show has since been cancelled.
"If I had read the internet before I came across him, I would never have done business with him," Menna, said.
Menna, a retiree, is not confident he will recover his money.
"There are several people who are owed a lot of money," Bogus told Local 2 Investigates at his retail store, "The Gold Exchange" located at 113 First St. in Humble.
Bogus would not talk about previous legal trouble in North Carolina and California, but did tell Local 2 he has "full intention of making restitution."
Bogus told Local 2 Investigator Joel Eisenbaum to contact his lawyer. By phone, that attorney told Local 2 he was not yet acquainted with specifics of the case and could not comment.
On Wednesday, Bogus remained free on $150,000 bond, and his retail location remains open for business.
Humble police said they are investigating the possibility of adding criminal charges related to other victims.
"Some of my victims are retired and unable to work anymore," Humble Police Detective Tony Taylor said.
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The Buccaneers have moved on from Josh Freeman.
And lest you think he's going to play along and be nice, he wants to make sure you know he's ready to move on too.
After not talking to reporters in the Buccaneers' locker room Thursday, the former starting quarterback told ESPN's Josina Anderson he's ready to go elsewhere rather than sit idly by as a backup.
"No question," Freeman replied when asked if it was best for him to move on. "Like I said it's uncomfortable to say. It might not sit well. It might not feel good, but the bottom line is for me as player I can't worry about everyone else. I can't worry about what everybody is doing. I just have to focus on the best situation for me.
"Obviously the head coach has come out and said that this isn't the place for me to be a starting quarterback. He doesn't think that I give this team the best chance to win. I don't agree but at the same time I'm the player and he's the coach. Whatever happens next I'm moving on. I'm going to be excited to go out and make the most of any situation."
Asked if he wanted to be traded, he eventually admitted he did.
"It all gets back to this," Freeman said. "You know I don't for a number of reasons. But bottom line is, if you want things to change, something has got to change. At the end of the day, yes. I think that moving forward that might be, that is going to be probably the best option."
Of course, that depends on the Bucs finding someone willing to take on his salary, and giving them something of value for him. They could have gotten something this offseason, but played their cards wrong, and are now faced with a pennies-on-the-dollar return.


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An airliner crosses the moon's path, Monday, April 14, 2014, above Whittier, Calif., approximately one hour before a total lunar eclipse. Then, on April 29, the Southern Hemisphere will be treated to a rare type of solar eclipse. In all, four eclipses will occur this year, two lunar and two solar. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)


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"Postmodernizing" Archaeology at Barnard By Candace de Russy May 4, 2007 Editor with a Hatchet: Larry Cohler-Esses By Paula Stern October 29, 2007 Nadia Abu El Haj in Her Own Words By Paula Stern October 22, 2007The New Yorker Hearts Nadia By Ralph Harrington April 23, 2008 Are Columbia's Palestinians... Palestinian? By Martin Kramer April 22, 2008 Greatest Victory, Even in Defeat By Paula Stern November 15, 2007 Academic Freedom Still an Issue By Tom Faure November 15, 2007 After Battle, Barnard Professor Given Tenure By Annie Karni November 2, 2007 Academic Thesis Gone Wrong By Paula Sterns November 1, 2007 El Haj and the "Pure Political Fabrication" By Paula Stern October 22, 2007 Archeology and the Propaganda War Against Israel By Richard L. Cravatts October 15, 2007 Alums Question BC Prof's Legitimacy By Hayley Negrin September 10, 2007 A Columbia/Barnard 'Dirty Deal'? By Candace de Russy August 1, 2007 Barnard's Shame and Columbia's Dirty Deal [on Nadia Abu El-Haj] By Paula R. Stern July 27, 2007 Joseph Massad and Nadia Abu El Haj at Columbia/Barnard By Emmet Trueman July 27, 2007 Judith Shapiro Claims Nadia Abu El Haj Has Received a Death Threat; Will She Produce Evidence? By Winfield Myers May 30, 2007 Denial of Heritage By Sondra M. Rubenstein May 8, 2007 Dead White Men By Emmet Trueman May 3, 2007 Uncovering the Truth about Nadia Abu El-Haj of Barnard College By Candace de Russy March 30, 2007
Nadia Abu El-Haj, an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College, is listed among the members of the MEALAC (Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures) faculty at Columbia University. A graduate student at Duke University, she turned her doctoral thesis into a book: "Facts on the Ground: Archeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society." One admiring reviewer (from the University of Chicago) said the book offers "an anthropology of colonialism and nationalism, which follows Foucault and [Edward] Said" in which "she points to the convergence of archeology's project with that of colonialism." Others have not been so kind. For this book is not really about archeology at all. Rather, it is a relentless attack on how and why Israelis, Jews really, have done archaeology in the land they have the audacity to call Israel. For in El-Haj's view, the past, like the present, is merely a cruel and daring fiction foisted on the world at the expense of Palestinians, a social construction, as the orotund phrase has it. As El-Haj sees it, Jewish archaeologists, ignoring or destroying whatever got in their way, have been relentless in their pursuit of the Jewish past to claim the land and its history for modern Israel, and to dispossess Palestinians and their "claim" to the past. But El-Haj, it seems, is not really an archeologist. There is not the slightest evidence that she has ever seen the work of Israeli archeologists, ever visited a dig, ever studied the history of the development of Israeli archeology, ever inquired as to how Israeli archeologists choose the sites they do choose for digs. She appears not to have any record of the kinds of artifacts the Israeli archeologists, often working with Western, non-Israeli and non-Jewish colleagues, have discovered, catalogued, and meticulously studied. Shabby or pseudo or nonexistent scholarship disguises a naked political assault. In El-Haj's estimation, Israel is guilty. Its crime: daring to dig, under the soil of Israel, on land where Jews lived from perhaps 1000 BCE until this very day. And built temples, and wrote on pottery and left scrolls on parchment, and fashioned menorahs, and cups for drinking, and dishes for eating – in short, a rich variety of artifacts for uses sacred and profane. But El-Haj and her ideological kin believe that to demonstrate a connection between Jews past and Jews present is unacceptable, an abuse of archaeology, serving the cause of a "construct," a Western imperial falsehood. That is, a Jewish state. Entirely left out of El-Haj's account is the fact that Israeli archaeologists have studied artifacts from every period, and not only those of the Jewish past. They have, often with foreign colleagues, discovered Roman coins and mosaic floors and temples, have uncovered Byzantine artifacts, and those of the Islamic conquest, both of the Arab period and of the period of Ottoman rule. Many of the Islamic artifacts have, in fact, been meticulously and scrupulously catalogued, studied, and preserved – all serious students know about the Islamic Museum in Jerusalem and its exceptional collection. Does Nadia El-Haj? El-Haj seems to think that the study of the Jewish past by Israeli archeologists, observing the highest professional standards, known for the meticulousness, is an outrageous political act, an act of "Jewish settler-colonial nation state-building." El-Haj's political fulminations may attempt to hide behind the rhetoric of "scholarship." Is there a single example of attempts by Israeli archeologists to either hide the past, or destroy the past, or to create a false past? If so, she has failed to mention it in her book – which relies entirely on quite recent, English-language publications, as critical reviewers have noted. And since she is a Palestinian nationalist, how does her charge sheet compare with the treatment toward ancient sites by the Palestinian Arabs and by the Arabs more generally? As is well known, in Islam there has been an almost total indifference to the non-Islamic or pre-Islamic world. Many of the artifacts of that world have been destroyed over 1350 years of Muslim conquest and subjugation of Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Hindus, Buddhists. In India, the Muslim conquerors destroyed as much of the Buddhist and Hindu heritage as they could, sometimes in order to quarry the stone, sometimes to destroy statuary. The Indian historian K.S. Lal has provided a meticulous list of tens of thousands of identified Hindu temples destroyed by the Muslim invaders, for example. The recent destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas was not an aberration; those Buddhas were virtually the last remnants of the Greco-Buddhist civilization that Afghanistan had once possessed. The systematic assault by the Palestinian Arabs on all sorts of significant sites, some of them regarded as holy, was on display again in 2002, when the complete destruction of Joseph's Tomb in Nablus (that destruction can be seen on-line) took place. This was no aberration. But El-Haj justified it as the uncharacteristic but understandable reaction of desperate people, brought to the end of their collective tether by the diabolical behavior of the Israelis. In Egypt, members of the Muslim Brotherhood even muttered about destroying the Pyramids, but cooler heads prevailed. It was not out of Egyptian nationalism, save among the Copts and a small sliver of the Egyptian elite, nor out of any respect for the pre-Islamic past, but rather the fact that too many Egyptians depend for their livelihood on tourist dollars, that managed to prevent attacks. Similarly, the tourist attraction of Petra seems safe, precisely because it is a money-maker, not out of some deep conviction that these Roman-era ruins are otherwise of note. In Iraq, the old Sunni elites, trained by Gertrude Bell and others, did acquire a certain taste for preserving the pre-Islamic artifacts, and that seems to be the one exception – and an exception only among a very small sliver of Iraqi society – to the general indifference to any artifacts except those representing the time of Islam, not that of the pre-Islamic Jahiliyya. Indeed, many Muslims oppose even Muslim sites which would distract from worship of Allah. When the Wahhabi under Abdul Aziz ibn Saud conquered Mecca, they razed to the ground virtually every old building then standing. An old Ottoman fort was one of the few buildings spared. In 2002, overnight, that Ottoman fort was also destroyed. Like her distant mentor, the presiding genius domus over so much of Middle East matters today, Edward Said, El-Haj seems incapable of understanding that other societies, the representatives of other civilizations, are capable of studying the past as something other than a political project, and in Israel, as something other than working hand-in-glove with "Jewish settler-colonial nation state-building."
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IF you want to know the trends that will come to the fore in spring/summer 2012 then look no further than Hollywood and its most fashion-forward stars.
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Michelle Williams, Emma Stone, Freida Pinto and Kirsten Dunst - to name merely a few - have all been looking to next season for fresh-off-the-catwalk looks (Christian Dior, Giorgio Armani, Calvin Klein Collection and Derek Lam, respectively), while Natalia Vodianova plucked a Givenchy gown straight from the show rails to attend the fashion house's after-party during Paris Fashion Week.
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For David and Kim de la Parte, it was an easy decision to support the newly formed College of Behavioral and Community Sciences at the University of South Florida. David's father, Louis de la Parte, played an instrumental role in the creation of the College's forbearer, the Florida Mental Health Institute. Louis' role in shaping public policy in the field of mental health made him a legend as a Florida legislator.
Now, his son and daughter-in-law are building on this legacy with a gift creating the de la Parte Endowed Law and Policy Fund. The fund supports continuing research related to mental health policy and law.
"As a child and young adult, I grew up in a house where there was a lot of discussion about law and policy – questions about how to care for the most vulnerable were often discussed," said David. "I don't think I could separate our gift and commitment from the influences of my upbringing – these issues are a big part of our lives to this day."
One of the beneficiaries of the de la Parte's gift is Blake Barrett, who earned a Master's in Public Health and is now working on his doctoral degree.
"The focus of my research has been on the effectiveness of treatment or therapeutic courts, also known as drug courts, and how they work with those who have mental health or substance abuse problems," said Barrett. "Our research shows that they are effective, and we're looking into ways to make people in our criminal justice system that have these issues return to society outside of traditional incarceration methods."
For Kim de la Parte, the work being done by the de la Parte Law and Policy Fund is a fitting remembrance for her father-in-law's life's work.
"What pleases me is the way in which, through this gift, we've been able to continue his legacy for championing the causes of those who can't help themselves," said Kim. "In doing so, we're giving people like Blake the opportunity to get into the field and improve the lives of our neighbors."


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A beautiful, time-lapse video recorded by the International Space Station. Makes all our violence and unrest on earth seem so insignificant and petty.
From Durham Kelly (Youtube uploader):
We begin over the Pacific Ocean and fly over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. Visible cities, countries and landmarks include (in order) Vancouver Island, Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Fransisco, Los Angeles. Phoenix. Multiple cities in Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Mexico City, the Gulf of Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Lightning in the Pacific Ocean, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, and the Amazon.
The white flashes are thunder storms!
Also visible is the earths ionosphere (thin yellow line) and the stars of our galaxy.
(Hat Tip: IHateTheMedia)
(Cross-posted at The Jawa Report)


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GET INTO GOLF: Frost or frozen?
Golf Columnist
Editor's note: This 'Get Into Golf' first published in December of 2012 and remains relevant today.
There's a difference between frost and frozen. In these almost winter days (we've got a few weeks before it becomes official) when mornings are cold, it's a good idea to call the pro shop before you head to the golf course on a clear day.
These brisk early morning temperatures will likely bring on a condition known as 'frost.' We've all heard of it, but we're not sure how it relates to the golf course. Then, when we arrive at the course, we're disappointed to find out that our tee time is an hour later than we planned.
Here is the situation. As opposed to frozen, when the ground and turf are continually below freezing temperatures, frost (ice) forms at a specific low temperature point. So, it doesn't require consistent low temperatures, it just needs some moisture and a freezing point.
This window might not last more than minutes, but that's all it takes. Even with warmer daytime temperatures in the 60s, early mornings can have just the right conditions for frost to form.
Ironically, when the ground and the plant are frozen, it doesn't cause the same damage. Frost, however, is freezing only the plant. When stepped on, the grass may break at the root and the plant could die. This is not good. Of course, we don't see the damage right away, but in a few days the evidence is seen in brown footprints.
As they should be, golf course superintendents are very sensitive to frost damage and will delay play until the ice has melted and the golf course is ready for play. It is important to note that the superintendent does not know exactly what the temperature will be in an hour and as a result cannot determine precisely when the frost delay will be 'lifted.'
The superintendent will, based on experience, project a time to allow the pro shop staff to communicate with players and make adjustments to the day's starting times. Depending on the location and type of golf course, the start after a delay will manifest itself in different ways.
A private club might gather all of the folks who had tee times and start them all at once, in a 'shotgun' format. A daily fee (public) course will generally handle the change in one of two ways. First, the course could start everyone later based on their original starting time. In the event of a one hour frost delay, a group that planned to start at 9 a.m. could start at 10 a.m.
Yet, here is an interesting point. A group that planned a late starting time, say noon, in order to avoid frost, might feel penalized in being pushed back to 1 p.m. In certain times of the year, this group may not even be able to finish 18-holes.
So, some golf courses wipe out all of the starting times before the frost delay was lifted and begin where they would have been on the tee sheet. Frost delay is lifted at 10 a.m.? OK, the 10 a.m. group is on the tee. Reservations before 10 a.m. are placed on a waiting list and get on the course when space is available. This could be 10 minutes or an hour and a half. Who knows?
The best thing to do on a clear, cold morning is call the pro shop before you head to the course. The personable guys and gals behind the counter will give you the scoop and save you a little frustration.
There is no perfect system. Someone is bound to feel disappointed. But, be not dismayed, we're not talking about our health or world peace. Enjoy your time at the course. You will likely have some time to take care of some important things…like that Christmas list.
John Renslow is a PGA Professional, VP of Yugi Golf Management, and provides Golf Instruction at local courses.
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- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter plus more, room temperature, for ramekins
- 4 tablespoons finely grated Parmesan, divided
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 cup cold whole milk
- 1 cup grated Gruyère, divided
- Pinch of freshly grated nutmeg
- Kosher salt, freshly ground pepper
- 4 large eggs, yolks and whites separated
- 1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum (optional)
Recipe Preparation
Preheat oven to 400°. Brush ramekins with butter and place on a foil-lined baking sheet; sprinkle ramekins with 2 Tbsp. Parmesan (total). Chill for 20 minutes or, covered, up to 1 day.
Melt 3 Tbsp. butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add flour; whisk constantly for 30 seconds. Gradually whisk in milk; increase heat and bring to a boil, whisking constantly. Add remaining 2 Tbsp. Parmesan and 1/2 cup Gruyère; stir until melted. Add nutmeg and season with salt and pepper. Transfer béchamel to a medium bowl and cover with plastic wrap; set aside.
Place egg whites in a large bowl. Stir in a pinch of salt and xanthan gum, if using. Using an electric mixer, beat egg whites until firm but not stiff, 3–4 minutes.
Stir egg yolks into béchamel. Gently stir in 1/4 of beaten egg whites to loosen béchamel base, then gently fold in remaining egg whites just to combine, taking care not to deflate.
Divide mixture among ramekins; sprinkle with 1/2 cup Gruyère;. Run your finger around inside lip of ramekins, cleaning edges. Bake until soufflés rise, centers are set, and cheese is golden brown, 18–22 minutes. Serve immediately.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 248 diseños de 73 diseñadores freelance.
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Havoc and Prodigy's 2003 leap to Jive was supposed to be their transition from disgruntled employees to H.N.I.C. status. But just as quickly as their first (and only) Infamous Records release, Amerikaz Nightmare, fell off the radar, so did Mobb Deep. Now the Queensbridge soldiers find themselves taking orders again as the latest additions to the G-Unit roster. Hoping to earn employees of the month props, the infamous duo let 50 Cent leave his platinum-coated fingerprints all over their seventh LP, Blood Money.
If Fiddy isn't supplying his chart-topping vocals to a hook (i.e. the groupie-lovin' "Backstage Pass" and the Dr. Dre–produced "Nightmares"), his patented singsongy flow is lazily mimicked. On the title track, Prodigy sprinkles a bit of harmonization into the chorus before spittin' that dunn language. Then there's the cheesy club anthem "Give It to Me" featuring Young Buck, where newcomer Profile produces a belly dancer groove that's a blatant nod to "Candy Shop."
Before naysayers start assuming that the G-Unit brand is overshadowing Mobb's infamous blueprint, Hav and P deliver heavy doses of murda muzik courtesy of crushing cuts like "Put Em in Their Place," produced by Sha Money XL, and the Cali-dreamin' stunner "Capital P." However, the stand-out track is "Pearly Gates" featuring 50. The Queens trio searches for the keys to heaven over producer Exile's joyful choir and rollicking organs until P kicks off a sacrilegious verse, "Tell that nigga Jesus I'ma see him when I see him/And beat him like that movie/For leavin' us in poverty and not watchin' over me."
Unlike 2001's Infamy, which included the R&B dud "Hey Luv (Anything)," Blood Money more carefully balances its commercial content with street anthems. Packing their latest LP with gems like the Chad Beat–produced "Daydreamin'" and "In Love With the Moula," where money is personified as their favorite chick, Hav and P get the job dunn.—GREGORY JOHNSON


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3.5 stars (out of 4)
Neneh Cherry was a rising star in 1989 with a debut album, "Raw Like Sushi," that mashed up hip-hop, punk, jazz and dance and yielded an international hit, "Buffalo Stance." Since then, the Swedish vocalist has recorded sporadically, never duplicating her commercial success but consistently involved in intriguing musical projects, including collaborations with Massive Attack, Groove Armada and Gorillaz.
Now she's teamed up with the Norwegian/Swedish free-jazz trio The Thing, led by the adventurous saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, on "The Cherry Thing" (Smalltown Supersound). It includes eight genre-busting tracks, funneling everything from hip-hop (a cover of MF Doom's "Accordion") to punk (the Stooges' "Dirt") through a jazz filter. Cherry knows this territory well as the stepdaughter of the late, great jazz trumpeter Don Cherry.
The tracks pivot on the propulsive and nuanced upright-bass playing of Ingebrigt Haker Flaten. He sets the tone on the opening "Cashback," his bold strut underpinning Cherry's defiant sneer: "Do I look like I'm for sale?"
Cherry turns the feverish Suicide track "Dream Baby Dream" into a nightmare lullabye, her lulling tones pressing against Gustafsson's increasingly agitated sax. The trip-hop gem "Too Tough to Die" unwinds from a moan into a driving funk groove, inspiring Cherry's Yoko Ono-like ululations.
Doom's brilliantly concise "Accordion" is reimagined as a sly, slow-building inferno of rap and scat, hip-hop colliding with be-bop. "Keep your gold, glory and glitter," Cherry intones over a steadily unruly backdrop of percussion clatter and sax skronk.
The album peaks on the savage "Dirt," with Gustafsson's sax hammering the bass line until it shatters. It's followed by Ornette Coleman's "What Reason," in which the panic of "Dirt" dissipates into flitting rumbles and moans, and the warm inquisitiveness of Flaten's upright bass.
It's spontaneous music, full of first-take twists, turns and surprises that somehow coheres as a transcendent album. Cherry is not only back, she sounds like a more versatile and commanding vocalist who can rise to any challenge.


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FAMILIES Minister Jenny Macklin has angered welfare groups by claiming she could live on the $35-a-day Newstart allowance.
On a day when more than 80,000 single parents were shifted from the parenting payment to the lower Newstart allowance, leaving some up to $110 a week worse off, Ms Macklin also urged single parents to return to work, saying it would be ''better for the family'', and their children would have better role models if they were employed.
Visiting a Melbourne hospital to promote the government's Dad and Partner pay scheme, which also began on Tuesday, Ms Macklin was asked whether she could survive on the $246-a-week payment. She responded ''I could'', but the question and her answer were described as ''inaudible'' in a transcript of the press conference later issued by her office.
A spokeswoman for Ms Macklin said the exchange had not been deliberately omitted, but the transcript had been produced from an iPhone recording of an outdoor press conference.
As a cabinet minister, Ms Macklin earns $6321 a week, 25 times the rate of Newstart.
The cost of renting alone in her suburb of Ivanhoe is greater than the Newstart allowance, with the median rent for a one-bedroom flat in her suburb at $270 a week.
Australian Council of Social Service chief executive Cassandra Goldie said evidence to three parliamentary inquiries had shown the allowance had not increased in real terms in two decades, and as a result some recipients were forced to live in ''extreme poverty''.
''The minister should look at the evidence of people who are actually trying to do that,'' she said. ''The government talks about evidence-based policy, so we are urging her to look at the evidence.''
Kate Beaumont, the vice-president of the National Welfare Rights Network, said Ms Macklin's comments were surprising.
''As a key minister involved in securing the historic 2009 pension increase of $32 per week, she understands the needs of people doing it tough,'' she said.
Ms Beaumont said Ms Macklin's comments seemed at odds with those of Labor senators who in a committee report in November called for the allowance to be increased.
The calls by welfare groups for Newstart to be lifted have been echoed by others, including the Business Council of Australia, which has warned that the lack of an increase might be entrenching poverty.
In 2010, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said the payment was so low it might not be enough to enable a person to look for a job.
The government has also faced heavy criticism for the changes that shift thousands of single parents from the parenting payment to the Newstart allowance when their youngest child turns eight.
While parents who started receiving the payment after July 2006 already face these conditions, until now those who were receiving the parenting payment before July 2006 were able to keep it until their youngest child turned 16. Ms Macklin said the changes were designed to ensure all parenting payment recipients were treated in the same way.
''What's important for people who are unemployed is that we do everything possible … to help people get into work, and that's what we'll be doing with these single parents as well,'' she said.
''The more people going back to work the better. It's better for the family, it's great to see mum and/or dad going … to work. Unfortunately we have far too many children growing up in families where nobody is working.''
But Dr Goldie said recipients of the parenting payment were already required to seek work, and about half of them were already doing some paid work.
''The only thing that's going to change for them is a significant cut in their income support, and we oppose putting any other parent on to a payment which everybody acknowledges is already far too low,'' she said.
''We're talking about households with children in them. Why would we do that?''
The change will have the greatest impact on parents who work part time, because parenting payment recipients are allowed to earn more than Newstart recipients before their payments are affected.
As a result of the change, a single parent who gets no income from work will be $115 worse off a fortnight, while those who earn $400 a week from work will see their income drop by $223 a fortnight.
In August, Employment Minister Bill Shorten said he took the adequacy of the Newstart allowance ''very, very seriously'' and said it would be ''very, very tough'' to survive on the payment, but he did not commit to raising the allowance.


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Let's define the term "value" as "a fair equivalent in money for something sold."
Let's define "devalue" as "to lessen the worth off something sold."
So does a $1.99 price point for ebooks constitute their value? Or does that price devalue the work?
In a capitalist economy, under the rules of supply and demand, things cost money to produce, and their price is dictated by how many things are produced and how many people want to buy them.
An item usually costs a determined amount to create (which tends to go down as more items are produced), and then wholesalers and retailers sell this item for what the market will bear, trying to make a profit.
A few years ago, when the Nintendo Wii was a hot item and hard to find, people who were able to get Wiis sold them on eBay for more than double the $199 list price. The Wii's value was higher, because demand was higher.
Now you can buy used Wii's for less than $100. There is a big enough supply for everyone, so the price comes down.
So how do ebooks fit into this?
For the moment, let's ignore the hard work the author has put into writing the book.
To bring an ebook to market, a book needs to be edited, proofread, put into a proper layout and format, and given cover art and a product description.
These costs can fluctuate. But they are one-time costs.
Once an ebook is created, it can be reproduced indefinitely for free. There are no printing costs or shipping costs. Distributing ebooks to readers costs about 5 cents per download.
The retailer selling the ebook (Amazon, Sony, B&N, Apple) takes a percentage of the cost of an ebook. It looks like all of the retailers are adopting the agency model, which means they no longer can set the price of the books they sell, and they keep 30% of whatever that price is.
That leaves 70% of an ebook's price to be split between the publisher and the author. This split depends on what the contract says, but currently the going rate is 25% of the wholesale price to the author, 75% to the publisher.
Publishers seem pretty sure that the value of an ebook is $9.99 or above. It makes no difference that they no longer have to pay for shipping or printing or warehousing, or that their huge advertising and marketing departments won't be needed nearly as much for ebooks, and the sales department won't be needed at all. They want ebooks to be priced comparable to trade paperbacks, at least during their initial release.
One of the things I've heard several publishers mention is that they want to be able to establish the value of their ebooks. And that low-priced ebooks are devaluing their true worth.
When I hear this, my bullshit meter peaks.
Aside from some minimal set-up costs, ebooks cost next to nothing to produce or distribute. They have no inherent value, except in the entertainment value of the words.
In the past, publishers have determined the value of those words at around $25 for a hardcover new release. They determined this because of all the people who needed to get paid in order to bring the book to the consumer. Besides the printer and the shipper, the distributor got a cut, the bookstore got a cut, the author got a cut, and there were other costs like corrugation, advertising, and marketing to go along with the cover art, layout, and editing. So the author made $3.00 on a hardcover, and everyone else got a piece of the pie, and customers who wanted the book had to pay that $25.
But a lot of these costs get eliminated with ebooks. Yet publishers continue to insist that consumers are willing to pay print prices for intangible objects loaded with DRM and linked to a proprietary format.
Well, yeah, because publishers need to meet the same overhead that they're currently struggling to meet with print. They look at what they need to survive, and they have determined they can't sell ebooks for less than $9.99, even though common sense says they could downsize, reorganize, and probably do so.
What publishers aren't taking into account here are the consumers.
Naturally, people would rather pay less for something than more. And in a digital world, like we're rapidly becoming, consumers have shown consistently in other forms of media that they place less value on downloads than on physical products.
When companies price digital content too high, consumers respond by pirating that content. That's the ultimate in "devaluing."
So what is truly the value of ebooks? Is it free? Or is it the publisher's price, which seems inflated, and which in the agency model gives them 52.5% of the list price of an ebook for doing nothing more than providing a cover, editing, and putting it up on Amazon?
If an ebook is free, the author gets screwed.
If an ebook is priced high, it won't sell a lot of copies, and the author gets screwed.
If an ebook sells for a small amount of money, the author makes 17.5% of the list price. That also seems like the author is getting screwed.
Publishers are currently talking about going 50/50 with authors, so an author will make 35% of the list price. But it's still the price the publisher sets, which is inflated, which will lead to piracy.
By setting the price, the publisher is pricing ebooks so they won't sell well, and then taking 35% of what little money will come in.
I can write a novel pretty fast. But I'm betting I spend more time writing the book than my publisher spends making cover art, editing it, and uploading it. This is a fair 50/50 split?
In the past, authors needed publishers in order to get their books to readers. Authors needed the publisher's connections with bookstores and distributors. They needed the publisher to print and ship the books. They needed the publisher's marketing and advertising departments to make sure those books sold.
In an ebook future, authors don't need all of that. They need editors, cover artists, and someone to upload the book. And they shouldn't have to give up half of their money for those simple services.
But let's get back to value, and what ebooks are truly worth.
Supply and demand doesn't apply in a system where the supply is infinite. But consumers still vote with their dollars. And they prefer to spend less rather than more.
How does this work out for the author?
As of right now, my ebook The List has sold 10970 copies on Amazon at $1.99 each. I currently make 70 cents per download. That means this book has earned me $7679.
Compare that to my ebook Fuzzy Navel, controlled by my publisher, Hyperion. This book currently sells for $7.19 on Amazon (they're losing money on each book sold) and I earn $2.25 per book. As of my last royalty statement, Fuzzy Navel has sold 273 copies, earning me $613.
According to publishers, the $7.19 is still devaluing the ebook, which should be higher. $1.99 is certainly devaluing the book, and publishers believe they'll go out of business selling for so low.
And yet, I made $7000 more, and sold 40 times as many copies, selling for the lower price.
So what is the true value of ebooks?
Recently, publishers have forced Amazon to adopt the agency model. That means the above numbers will change dramatically once this new model kicks in.
How dramatically?
I'll be forced to change the price on The List, going from $1.99 to $2.99, to get the 70% royalty rate. I don't know if it will sell as well at the higher price, but let's say it does. That means 10970 ebooks sold will earn me $21,172.
Since publishers are now controlling the price, let's say Hyperion raises the price of Fuzzy Navel to $9.99. I don't know if it will sell as well at the higher price, but let's say it does. That means 273 ebooks sold will earn me $477.75.
Hey! Wait a second! The price went up, and I'm earning less?
It gets worse. I fear that if they raise the price to $9.99, fewer people will buy it. $2.99 is still an impulse purchase. $9.99 is a lot of money for a download.
But maybe Hyperion will get smart, and actually drop the price to something reasonable. Say $2.99.
Let's say at $2.99 I sell 40 times the copies I'm currently selling, as with The List. That means I'd make $5740.
That seems better. Not as much as the $21k I'd make if I self-published it using the agency model, but a helluva jump up from the $613 I made selling for $7.19.
So I ask you. What is the true value of ebooks? Is it $9.99 and up? Or is it $2.99 and down?
Seems obvious to me. But I'm not in charge of a large publishing company trying to sell paper, which is apparently more important to them than embracing the future by figuring out what I already have:
The value of an ebook is determined by the overall amount of money it earns, not the list price.
Let's see if publishers can figure that out.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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So here's the thing, ever since I was little I've watched a lot of ghost movies and shows, even after I became an atheist. I would read books about ghosts as a kid, and I thought I could communicate with spirits through a magic 8 ball. I'm not by nature very skeptical, I make an honest effort to ask questions and keep my mind open, not jumping to conclusions. I was raised by my single mother, and as you may have guessed she loves reading about ghosts, and watching things about ghosts on TV and we would see scary movies. Honestly I was exposed more to things of that nature than I was to religion. I've gotten to a point that I can't watch scary movies with anything supernatural in them because I get scared that any minute things will start moving on their own, or something will appear in a mirror or in front of me, it really freaks me out. I know that it's stupid for me to feel/think that way, but I just can't help it, and I'm really ashamed. I'll be 18 in less than a month and I'm still sometimes afraid of the dark.
I was wondering what everyone's opinion here is on the topic of ghosts? Do you think they exist or not, is there any evidence for/against them, and is there anything that science has to say? Do you have any tips on being a good skeptic?
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Last week this guy from work was showing these pictures he took with his camera during a visit to the Stanley Hotel in Colorado...where Stephen King was inspired to write the book which became the movie "The Shining". Lo and behold, there are these little globules of light in the pictures that he is convinced was a small child in a long hallway. He zoomed in so I could "defiinitely" see the facial features. It sort of reminded me of the face on Mars, but less so.
How about it was perhaps a smudge on the lens, a reflection from the flash, or some other reasonable explanation. When you look for strange things, expecting to find them, suddenly the natural becomes supernatural. I've been on this planet for 41 years and have yet to experience a thing that would convince me there are spirits among us. Superstition and hogwash.
You have had plenty of exposure to TV and movies (and perhaps parenting) that want you to believe in these things. I would spend some time, as others have suggested, in watching or reading skeptical materials. I think you will find your fear to be irrational, and it may help turn that fear into a reasonable appreciation for trickery.
As for being afraid of the dark, I think that is a fairly common problem. Thus the invention of night lights. I would recommend this They Might Be Giants inspired blue canary: http://bluecanarynightlight.com/order.php
You said it yourself: "I know that it's stupid..." Well, if you recognize this fact, why would you continue to believe in such preposterous nonsense? There are two very good reasons not to believe in things that are supernatural, including ghosts (and gods). One is that they make no sense, since they are completely antithetical to any of the well-established principles of biological or physical science. In other words, if ghosts exist, then science is all a big lie and you shouldn't get that flu shot. Second, there has never been a single bit of empirical evidence produced for the existence of any supernatural entities, including ghosts (and gods). Be advised: what people SAY has happened to them is not evidence that it DID happen to them. Anecdotal evidence is the WORST kind of evidence. There are three possible explanations for such a claim. One is that the person is hallucinating; a second is that he/she is making it up like they do on TLC (The Lunatic Channel); and the third is that it really happened. One of those three alternatives is highly doubtful; the others are highly likely. You choose which is which (and don't be "stupid").
Think about it. Those people (deluded or disingenuous) who report ghostly encounters describe things that are ridiculous on their face. They often report that the ghost simply flows, oozes - whatever - through walls. If they are that insubstantial, how is it then that these same people report the ghosts actually manipulating objects, such as in a typical seance? Ghosts can't have it both ways: they can't be so evanescent and still be solid enough to pick up an object; yet, they do. Ask yourself why ghosts are described sometimes as floating through the air, and other times walking on a solid surface? If a ghost walks on a floor (dragging a chain, perhaps?), then it must be affected by gravity. Conversely, if it floats, then gravity doesn't affect it; which is it? This assumes you believe in gravity. Does it seem logical to you that ghosts are always clothed? That means, of course, that not only are their bodies ghosts, but so are their clothes. Why do they nearly always speak in deep, ominous tones? Why is it ghosts seem only to appear in their "houses"? I've never heard of any strolling down the street. Why not? If ANY ghosts exist, then it follows that there are likely billions of them; so why don't we ALL experience them, often and everywhere? Is it because they only make their presence known to "stupid" people in scary places?
Aside from the evidence that ghosts don't exist, why should you be afraid of one if it does? Have you ever known or heard of anyone injured or killed by a ghost? Has a ghost ever appeared on "America's Most Wanted"? Does SWAT roll out to capture a felonious ghost? If ghosts do exist, they must either be very benevolent or totally incapable of hurting anyone. Rest assured, Lewis, you have nothing to fear from ghosts or anything else supernatural (like Hell). Stop worrying. If you happen to run into a ghost, take my advice: laugh at it.
It amuses me that many of these ghosts are colonial or American ghosts (ethnically, culturally) haunting western structures. If you think about it, there have been many more generations of Native Americans who died in America than any other ethnicity. Perhaps because very few of their structures remain and their history is marginalized it seems the average person of superstition has "forgotten" to be haunted by the Native American ghost. Ghosts are a cultural phenomenon, otherwise the majority of ghosts would be Native Americans encountered "outside."
Well I had a "paranormal" experience once. I bet it has some scientific explanation, even when I think about it I say "nah! It's all in my mind". I'm not so sure about it being 100% real. I have witnesses and they swear it was real.
Telling you that ghosts don't exist is not going to be very helpful. However the very act of you posting the question and being honest about the way you perceive it moves you from the irrational to the rational side of the line. You have confronted the fear by making an effort to challenge your belief. That takes courage in itself because many people become secure in their fears and would rather try to defend them than challenge them.
So maybe without yet even realising it, you have removed the fear or broken the spell. That will allow you step through your though process on the subject. Write down your beliefs and why you hold them. Read them again in a week or two.
If you get attacked by a grizzly bear, and close your eyes, the grizzly bear doesn't disappear. You have to punch the grizzly bear in its fat grizzly face. What I'm saying here is, what would be there in the dark that wouldn't be there when you turn a light on. In this life, you need to fiercely tackle every obstacle, literally. What can a ghost do? Scare you by making spooky moaning sounds? You need to holler and snarl at that fucking ghost like you're going to eat its face off. If it comes at you, go for the tackle. If it passes through you, turn around and call it a coward, then tell it that it has no honor and demand that it commit seppuku. Short of that, you'd need a particle accelerator, as it's the only known thing to affect a ghost's molecular structure.
Lastly, don't feel weird. I always check my shower when the curtain's closed, because there could be a serial killer in there. I do the same for the back seat of my car. Danger is everywhere, or at least it could be, so you have to be prepared.
I saw the ghost of my father standing in my room when I was 14 but he just stood there and didnt say anything and then he was gone and once I felt like a friend of mine who committed suicide was following me around for about a week. But for some reason, these things didnt scare me. I dont really believe in the scary kind of ghosts they show in all those movies...if you can learn to look at those movies in a different light you will realize they are actually comedies. Ghosts, or memories, whatever they may be do exist somehow and I cant deny it since I know I saw my dad and he died when I was 4. I dont know why I would make it up and I dont know why I never saw him again after that.
So when you saw the ghost of your father, what was he wearing?
Thanks everyone, I just finished reading through everything, I was surprised to find so many replies. I found them helpful and comforting. I suppose people's stories about ghosts are rather like some people's religious encounters, the speaking in tongues, possessions, seeing jesus or hearing god speak to them, etc. As Richard Dawkins once put it "The human mind is extremely susceptible to hallucination." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRVEXgBXdmE Just a few weeks ago there was a shadow on my ceiling, one that I didn't recognize at 1st, after investigating it, I found that it was caused by me moving my computer table a little bit that day, the light on my printer caused the shadow of the corner of my table to appear on the ceiling, and I suppose it makes more sense that people are turning things like this into supernatural experiences. I was talking to a friend of mine a few days ago and he was saying about supernatural experiences he had, it was 3am and he saw a man's face reflected in a window as if someone was standing behind him, he turned around and no one was there. I tried asking him about other possible explanations but he seemed to want to believe that it was a ghost. He also talked about recorded knocking sounds that he didn't hear when the tape was being recorded. So yeah, I guess what everyone is saying makes sense.
also, don't forget hypnagogic and hypnopompic hallucinations. they're to blame for most "supernatural" occurrences. such as your friend's at 3 am. typical.
I didn't realize that people could actually hallucinate just from going in and out of sleep. I mean I though of it but there's words for it and everything. o.o That's an interesting thing to know.


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Those scrappy Canadians hung in for a long while, keeping the match scoreless into injury time despite being clearly outmatched by soccer giants Martinique. But Les Matinino finally broke through in the 93rd minute, with this rip-roaring goal from Fabrice Reuperne in the opening match of the Gold Cup.
A bit of revenge for Reuperne, who played a major role in the last edition of the legendary Canada-Martinique rivalry. In the 2003 Gold Cup, Reuperne missed the only penalty kick in Canada's win.
To move to the next round, Canada will now have to steal a win from either Mexico or Panama, and gain a point from the other. So, it's not happening. Which is why we get truly depressing quotes like this one:
''I don't want to take anything away from Martinique,'' coach Colin Miller said. ''They did very well.
''We're going through a rough transition period. What happened today is a culmination of a lot of different things through the years."
It should be noted that Miller is only the interim manager, and has been since January as Canada Soccer searches for the right man to lead the Canucks back to respectability. On Friday, they finally found him: Benito Floro, most recently of the Moroccan league.


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Residents poised to explore the village in bicycle rickshaw
Fernhill House residents are looking forward to getting out and about in an unusual way - on a bicycle rickshaw!
The home is running a series of fun fundraising activities to buy the £6,500 vehicle – also known as a trishaw – starting with a sweepstake to predict the winner of this season's Strictly Come Dancing competition.
Home manager Peta Mandleberg, whose colleagues came up with the idea, explained: "We're all about having fun here and living our lives to the full. We often run days out – to the beach, the races, to stately homes – and have drinks, barbecues and musical events.
"We've recently acquired an old fashioned ice cream bicycle and that gave us the idea that it would be fun for the residents to sit in the side car and be cycled around the grounds and the village – rather like Wallace and Gromit but with slightly less Wensleydale."
The idea of enabling residents to take to the nearby highways and byways under pedal power was mooted after staff read about a similar scheme launched in progressive Denmark – whose fun and independent approach to retirement living has been a model for Fernhill House.
That project, Cycling without Age, has now spread to more than 30 other countries where some 1,500 trishaws are in use, some of which have elderly friendly features such as lifts, safety belts and specially designed blankets.
All money raised will be matched by the home's owners Majesticare.
* Fernhill House's ice cream bicycle which inspired the trishaw idea


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And we now know what ultimately happened to Susanna. Sorta. Well, we know the result, just not the details.
And we know all sorts of things about Benjamin's father's life at church, specifically St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
And we have a hunch that Benjamin and Susanna had had a 4th child. {Definitely need more evidence about that, though.}
To be perfectly clear about the church records that I consulted {Read: Pored over with intense delight.}, I did look at and record much more than what I mentioned in my post yesterday. I condensed it down in to a more readable story-like format.
But I also wanted to explain a little more about the Parish Register and how it was organized because I think that it contributes to the story. Now, this Parish Register was a pre-printed book that came with pre-printed instructions on how to fill-out and use the book for the parish. This is integral for understanding how to read the book now in 2013. It has marks in columns throughout the book and the key for those is in the front with the instructions. So please don't think I skippity-do-dahed my way through the microfilm in search of surnames and dates. I did not. I read it and understood exactly what all the marks meant. It also helps that other than the first 3 years of my life when I was Catholic, I've been an Episcopalian. Can't say I'm a "lifer" but I'm close. And being so, made reading the church history compiled and written at the beginning of the Parish Register all the more interesting because it didn't gloss over the difficulties and politics of the Parish.
After the instructions and the history in the Parish Register, are some smaller lists like founders, pewholders, tithers, and the like. Then the larger listing of records begins with sections titled Families, Baptisms, Confirmations, Marriages, and Burials. The book then ends with an index.
The Vaughan family, as a whole or so I thought, shows up on page 20 indicating when the family was received into the church and also indicating whether each had been received, baptized, confirmed, died, and whether or not they were a communicant in good standing. {All important but especially that last one for being a member on the vestry. I know because my Dad was always on the Vestry, and even my husband has been on one in an Episcopalian Church.} Presumably and usually all the family members would be listed here with their family.
However, as I mentioned yesterday, I still looked for an Index for all these sections, which seemed like a good idea to do before flipping through all the pages in each section looking for Vaughan family members {and allied family members}. To my surprise, I found Susanna, Prudence, Daniel, Alice, and Rachel all listed in the index. Then when I looked them up under burials and baptisms and saw the dates for the events, that's when I quickly timelined the events and concluded that this kind of indicates a "rush job" of sorts. They weren't ever listed in the front under the family. If Benjamin and Susanna had worshiped there, they would have had a Family Entry either with his father {doubtful} or as a separate family {more likely because he was an adult then}.
And IF Benjamin and Susanna worshiped elsewhere {Which Susanna's burial entry, if correct, indicates she had been baptized, confirmed, and a communicant in good standing but, obviously, I'm doubting it was at St. Luke's.}, then that would explain why they aren't here but she has had the appropriate events marked on her burial entry. But? If they had worshiped elsewhere, why weren't their children already baptized? Why did their grandparents need to get that done? And if they worshiped elsewhere, it wasn't Episcopalian because this is the only Episcopal church around for a ways. And the fact that the 3 older kiddos were baptized in a private ceremony as opposed to physically at St. Luke's is remarkable as well. However, the baby, Rachel, is physically baptized at St. Luke's 3 days before her burial.
Also, page 20 where the Family is listed {or, at least, it all should be listed} is microfilmed twice. Why? Because there was a note in the book. SO the fantabulous microfilmers decided to INCLUDE the note. And the note pertains to the Vaughan family. {I obviously have pleased the genealogy gods and goddesses.}
And that's when I realized that Rachel DOES appear in the family listing. It's just under the name Roselia Vaughan and a birth month and birth year with the birth year being wrong, or so I think -- April 1850. However, on the note it indicates Rachel Roselia was born April 1851, which matches her age at death recorded in her burial entry. {And why didn't anyone know her DAY of birth?} Plus? Alice was born in March of 1850 so I think {and I could be wrong} that when they were copying the information from the note to the book, they had an oopsy.
Now, Prudence, Daniel, and Alice are listed on here as well with their birthdates {Daniel's off by a year, I think. Or maybe everything else I have is wrong.} as well as the whole Vaughan family's info. SO this tells me this "note" was written on in at least 2 different time periods -- 1840 when John T. Vaughan and his family is received into the church as well as in 1851-1852 when the 4 kiddos are baptized and when Susanna and Rachel are buried. Even John T's marriage date to his 2nd wife Hester up in Canada is written here and NOWHERE ELSE in this book. {Jealous, much?}
And why for goodness' sakes is this the ONLY note microfilmed? {Notice I didn't say it's the only one in the book because I don't know that, now do I?} I dunno. But? I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth. Duh.
And while Benjamin is listed on this note with all his siblings and his mother, Prudence (Brown) Vaughan {John T.'s first wife who died up in Canada} and he appears in the Family section with them as well, he's nowhere else in this book. I know because I looked at and read all these handwritten records.
Dude is just missing as far as St. Luke's Church is concerned. {Really would love to read the Vestry Meeting Minutes for these time periods. Perhaps a special circumstance would have needed to have been voted and/or decided upon by the vestry.} Further, Benjamin and Susanna are in with their 3 oldest children in Ypsilanti in the 1850 census. Benjamin doesn't have an occupation listed but he does, supposedly, own $300 worth of real estate. And then in 1860, Daniel is living with Susanna's mother {Margaret Barbara Rook} and Susanna's 2 sisters and a brother; Prudence is living with a family across the border in Ohio about 18 miles from her father's brother and his family; and Alice is nowhere to be found in Michigan and Ohio. But, interestingly, Alice is NOT living with her grandparents, John T. and Hester Vaughan there in Ypsilanti. Nor is she living with Susanna's older brother Daniel Rook and his family there in Ypsilanti. Alice is later found married and with children, but her early life and upbringing are a mystery to me.
So my thoughts on Benjamin is that something had happened to him. He's the last of the "them" that needs to be found. I kinda was thinking he, perhaps, had died.
Until some cousins of mine {1st cousins} found me on Facebook and said they thought their dad {my Uncle} had had some pics of Daniel in his Civil War uniform. SO they found the flash drive with the scanned old pics and? Not only did they have Daniel in his Civil War uniform, but they had pics of Alice {Daniel's younger sister} and some other folks. And? Alice had written on the backs of these photos which had been scanned as well.
And one of those "other" folks? Benjamin. That's right. Benjamin Brown Vaughan. SURPRISE!
|Benjamin Brown Vaughan
|Daniel Rook Vaughan
|Alice Barbara (Vaughan) Parsons
So, there you go. Benjamin is finally revealed. Just not the details I was looking for. But? Again, with a gift horse, it's best not to look in the mouth, eh?
The best part is that Alice wrote on the back of these photos and left me more research clues about herself, her aunt, and even one about her father, Benjamin. But? I'll explain all that in the next blog post. {I'm evil like that.}
Note: Sources available upon request because if you think we're related, then contact me at cmpointer [@] gmail [dot] com and we'll figure it out together.


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My children are already older and I don't have to worry about them fitting in between the balcony railings. However, every time I inspect a property with guardrails that a small child can simply walk through or climb up, I get goose bumps.
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A trio of new studies is shattering the myths about the relationship between the price of corn, ethanol production and food prices. The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) sees the studies as proof that agriculture can continue to meet the nation's growing demand for both food and fuel.
Taken together, the reports – from the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University, the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and Houston Biofuels Consultants LLC – show that higher corn prices have little effect on either food or fuel prices.
NCGA did not participate in or provide funding for any of the studies.
"The CARD report repeats the conclusions it had reached in its study earlier this year," said NCGA Vice President of Public Policy Jon Doggett. "However, some people misinterpreted that study's findings, because it included a 'worst-case scenario.' This report is very clear – a 30% increase in corn prices would increase consumer food prices by only about 1.1%."
The CFA study includes a stinging criticism of the oil industry for failing to use ethanol as a way to increase supplies of refined gasoline. The study notes increased use of ethanol could actually help reduce food price increases. "High energy prices cause higher food prices," says CFA director of research Marc Cooper. "(T)he historic corn-crude price relationship will cushion the impact that ethanol production has on food prices."
The report also said, "Based on the historical relationship between crude [oil] prices and corn prices, current prices for corn are lower than one would predict."
Houston Biofuels Consultants comes to much the same conclusion. "Historically, ethanol prices haven't tracked corn prices," it notes in the July issue of Ethanol Producer Magazine.