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There have been a lot of complaints from fans about the new Yankee Stadium. Two of them have been the lack of access to players before games for autographs and the ill-conceived decision to place Monument Park in a cave beneath a sports bar. That's not a particularly appealing place to visit, no matter how many great players are honored, but the Yankees came up with a good solution to both their problems.
Alex Rodriguez spent 15 minutes greeting fans, posing for pictures and signing autographs in Monument Park before Tuesday's game. While that made the Yankees look good, it also earned some goodwill for A-Rod. Things have been unusually quiet around Rodriguez since his return from hip surgery/steroid admission, but there's been some audible grumbling from the masses as his batting slump lingers this month.
You can't make everyone happy, but many generations of politicians will tell you that shaking a few hands and kissing a few babies never hurts matters. Especially when you're as blessed as A-Rod.
After meeting A-Rod, one fan told Newsday: "He has soft hands."
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It wouldn't be surprising to see the Yankees doing more of these grip n' grins in the future. It's a quick, easy crowd pleaser for a team that's earned just about every one of the slings and arrows shot in their direction this season. Is that cynical? Maybe, but it probably isn't to the people who get to meet their heroes.
After meeting A-Rod, one fan said: "He has soft hands."
Josh Alper is a writer living in New York City and is a contributor to FanHouse.com and ProFootballTalk.com in addition to his duties for NBCNewYork.com.


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Tech Scientists Study Massive Spring In Rio Grande
SOCORRO, N.M. November 17, 2009 – New Mexico Tech scientists think they've found the largest spring yet in the upper Rio Grande, a few miles south of the Colorado border near Ute Mountain.
Peggy Johnson (right), associate director of the Bureau of Geology, watches as staff scientists Stacy Timmons and Louis Gillard collect samples of spring water along the upper reaches of the Rio Grande. Photos by Paul Bauer
Dr. Paul Bauer and Peggy Johnson have dubbed it the Lava Tube Spring and say the spring's crater is 12 feet deep and erupts 6,000 gallons of water a minute, or 13 cubic-feet-per-second into the Rio Grande. Lava Tube is the largest of the 140 springs and seeps the scientists have documented so far in the 80-mile river reach from the Colorado border to the Embudo stream-measuring gage. They estimate that this one spring contributes 10 percent of the total flow of springs and seeps in the stretch.
Surprisingly, the spring is located under the river, rather than on the canyon walls, and generates a continuously dancing plume of gravel in the river. The spring water may flow through an old lava tube in the basalts that cover the Taos Plateau.
Melting snow feeds the Rio Grande and its tributaries in Colorado and New Mexico. Based on calculated water flows at a series of stream gages on the Rio Grande and its tributaries, hydrologists have calculated that springs contribute 130 cubic-feet-per-second of water to the river. That's enough water to float a kayaker down the rocky river.
"We're trying to figure out where that 130 cfs is coming from and what the geologic conditions are that control the spring locations," said Bauer, associate director and principal geologist with the Bureau of Geology at New Mexico Tech. "It's been known for a long time that there's accretion – additions to the river from springs and seeps – but no one had tried to figure out where and why."
Thanks to funding from the Interstate Stream Commission, Taos County and the Healy Foundation, Bauer, Johnson and their colleagues from the Interstate Stream Commission set out three years ago to survey the river looking for springs and studying the source of the additional water.
The Lava Tube Spring has created a 12-foot deep crater and erupts 6,000 gallons per minute.
Student researcher Kristoph Kinzli was given the task of retrieving water samples from the Lava Tube Spring. Above, he attaches a bucket to the top of a 14-foot-long pipe. The force of the spring propelled water four feet above the river level.
Bauer had been working on geologic maps of Taos County since the 1980s, while Johnson has been studying the hydrology of the area since about 2000.
"We combined her hydrology skills and my geology skills to begin looking at Taos County," Bauer said. "Principally, we've been trying to understand and assess the interaction between groundwater and the river in the region."
Bauer, Johnson and other scientists started exploring the Rio Grande Gorge three years ago and documenting the springs and local geology.
"We felt like we were discovering something new and unique," she said. "This was a special project and we felt privileged to do it. It was a kind of a career highlight for Paul and me."
Their team first floated over the large Lava Tube Spring in late 2008, but the river was too high to evaluate the spring. They hiked in the next fall at very low water to measure the flow and collect samples.
When they returned, the science team inserted a 14-foot, 1.5-inch-diameter pipe into the spring's crater to exploit its high pressure. The force of the spring induced artesian flow four feet above the river, so they then could collect water samples from a five-gallon bucket attached to the top of the pipe without risk of contamination from the river water.
"These springs are notable because of the large volume of groundwater feeding the river," he said. "The springs are important culturally to both native Americans and the people who live in Taos County, but also to anglers, boaters, kayakers, biologists and other river users."
Until Johnson and Bauer began examining the river, no one had conducted a systematic survey of the upper Rio Grande gorge to find all the springs.
"We went into the project thinking, 'Oh well, there are 25 springs listed in the literature, maybe we'll find a few more'," Bauer said. "Little did we know that we'd find this many more springs in such a diversity of geologic settings."
The majority of the springs are small and typically seep into the river or trickle down from the banks. However, the seven springs that flow at over 1000 gallons per minute contribute more than half of the total spring accretion. Most of the high-flow springs are located in the least accessible, deepest section of the gorge.
"If you're kayaking, you look for water moving into the river," Bauer said. "One of the problems is that the sides of the river and canyon bottom are mantled by these large basalt boulders. Often times, you can't see water that's entering the river."
Some springs trickle out the sides of the canyon walls – in which case the scientists could often hear the spring before they saw it.
The Lava Tube Spring was an anomaly. During periods of low flow, the spring produces a disturbance on the surface of the river, but at higher river levels the spring disappears from view. The spring produces enough water to fill a tanker truck in 90 seconds.
The survey team located more than 140 springs along 80 miles of river. Many were like this one above, seeping slowly into the river along the bank.
Johnson, senior hydrogeologist and associate director at the Bureau, is conducting a basic suite of chemical analyses of the water samples, including ion chemistry, trace element and age dating. The data are starting to come back from the laboratories, but she has not analyzed and interpreted all of it.
We're trying to track down the source of the spring water," Johnson said. "We don't know if it's coming from Colorado – which the state would be interested in knowing – or if it's recharging from the distant eastern or western mountain ranges or perhaps from right there on the nearby Taos Plateau."
They've found springs on both sides of the river, but they believe that most of the water is coming from the mountainous watershed to the west.
Another question the Tech scientists aim to answer relates to the age of the water. Johnson is using several different dating methods, including carbon-14, CFC and tritium dating. So far, she's discovered that some of the water is only 30 to 40 years old, whereas other spring water is many thousands of years old.
They've also found areas where old and young groundwater are mixing. "What we're seeing in the Taos area is quite interesting," she said. "The age of the water yields valuable clues concerning the hydrologic setting of the plateau."
|It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it. Above, hydrologist Peggy Johnson kayaks down the Rio Grande during the spring 2009 survey. Below, the view from atop the gorge. The survey team made numerous descents and ascents with their survey equipment. Photos by Paul Bauer
One of those mixed-water springs is Felsenmeere Spring, which is a series of prolific discharges high on the western side of the gorge. Johnson said Felsenmeere Spring emits young and old water that apparently mixes along a fault zone that dissects the Taos Plateau.
Floating down the Rio Grande might seem like more of a vacation than work, but Johnson and Bauer said these trips tested their endurance and strength. Some stretches of the canyon were too challenging for them to kayak, and other sections were impossible to traverse on foot, but they did ultimately cover nearly all of the 80 miles of the study area.
"I had not done anything like that before," Johnson said. "Twenty years ago, I would have been able to do this at the drop of a hat, but I had to train for this. It was physically arduous."
The Rio Grande Gorge is one of the most rugged parts of New Mexico. To collect samples from various springs, Johnson and Bauer made three extended research expeditions with support staff from the Bureau of Geology, and numerous shorter visits. Each time, they made multiple ascents, descents and transects of the gorge.
"The wildlife was incredible; the birds were incredible," Johnson said. "This area has not been seen by many people – mostly by local residents, anglers, and people who paddle their kayaks through the wild river sections."
Johnson and Bauer will finish a preliminary report on the springs for the Interstate Stream Commission this winter, but they have enough data to spend another year or two doing in-depth data analysis.
By Thomas Guengerich/New Mexico Tech

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C# is a fantastic programming language that combines the best parts of C++, Java, and Visual Basic all into one language. In our first lesson, you'll get an idea of where we've come from by taking a look at a brief history of programming languages. We'll then explore the .NET framework and get a better feeling for what makes C# so special.
Armed with some background, you'll now proceed to installing the C# compiler, and then we'll write, compile, and run our first C# program. Although we'll start with a small program, you'll see that even small C# programs can be a bit tricky. Today's lesson gives you a great opportunity to practice working with the compiler, something that you'll be using for the remainder of the course.
Now that you're comfortable with compiling and running simple programs, we can take a look at math. Don't worry, we won't be running calculations for launching the Space Shuttle. But you will be learning about the basic math operators that C# provides. And because we'll need some place to save the results of our calculations, we'll also talk about variables and their data types.
Today's lesson is our first step into modular programming with methods. Methods are a helpful tool because they allow us to break up big programs into smaller, more manageable parts. We'll start by looking at a few built-in methods that are available to us to use in our programs. But then you'll learn how to write your own methods and call them in your program. Hopefully you'll agree that this way of programming makes it easier to tackle large problems.
In today's lesson, we'll continue building on the concept of methods by discussing methods that don't return any value. While these methods may not seem as important, they still help in making your program more modular. We'll also talk about method overloading, which can help improve the readability of your programs by reusing method names within the same code file.
By this point in the course, you'll be comfortable doing the basics of C#: working with variables, math, and methods. So now we'll turn our attention to the first programming structure: decisions. In this lesson, you'll learn about the if statement and how you can use it to let the computer choose which set of statements to execute based on some condition.
We'll continue our investigation of the decision structure in today's lesson by taking a look at more complex if statements. You'll also learn how to use the switch statement to make decisions in your programs as well. This ability to have multiple programming structures is sort of like having another tool in your tool belt. Sometimes a job is far easier to do if you just use the right tool. You may not always need to use every tool, but it's good to know what tools are there and how to use them. You'll find the same is true in programming.
Keeping with the theme of programming structures, we'll now take a look at the repetition structure. Just as there were different ways to implement the decision structure, there are a couple of ways to work with loops. Specifically in this lesson, we'll talk about the while loop, the for loop, and the do loop. Each structure works the same in that they allow you to repeat statements, but each one is a little different. Here you'll learn their differences and add to the tools in your tool belt.
One of the most useful applications of loops is arrays, so it makes sense for us to build on your knowledge of loops and explore array variables in this lesson. You'll learn how to create and access array variables. We'll also see how to work with arrays and methods.
Object-oriented programming is a big topic, and C# is an object-oriented language. We'll spend some time in this lesson going over exactly what an object is and how it relates to a class. Then you'll write a class that will store the data necessary to keep track of the time. Since you're writing this class, you'll have the ability to take this code and add it to any program that needs to store information about the time, such as appointment books and scheduling programs.
Obviously, computer programs are big time savers and really help us to automate things. But in order for a program to be really useful, it needs to be able to save data for use later. That's why we'll go over data files in this lesson. Today, you'll learn how to read from and write to external data files so you can store your user data forever.
For our final lesson, we'll look at programs with a Graphical User Interface (GUI). While C# has an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that gives you the ability to easily create GUI applications, the code that's generated is buried deep in the file structure. So to show you that there's no magic going on, today I'll show you how to build your own GUI without an IDE. By doing this, you'll be far better prepared for working with IDEs in the future because you'll know exactly what's going on behind the scenes.
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When Sophie Tucker, called "The Last of the Red-Hot Mamas" died in 1966, the Hartford Courant wrote: "Miss Tucker was more than a Red-Hot Mama; she had a mama's love for people, and her memorial to her hard-working parents was always to remember other people in need." Throughout her five-decade career, Sophie Tucker was not only a star of stage and screen, but also a dedicated philanthropist, leaving behind a rich legacy of music, television, and film along with one of care, concern and community support.
Sophie Kalish was born on January 13, 1886 in Tulchyn, Ukraine. The Kalish family immigrated to Hartford, Conn., when Sophie was just three months old and changed its name to Abuza. Once settled in Hartford, her parents opened a kosher restaurant on Front Street and started building a life for their daughter. They intended her to marry, have children and succeed in domestic matters. When the young Sophie showed a penchant for show business, her parents did not approve but allowed her to perform at the family's restaurant for tips from patrons. In 1903, 17-year-old Sophie Abuza married Louis Tuck. The marriage was short-lived but the Tucks produced a son, Bert. Discontent with her husband's lack of ambition, Sophie Tuck ended the relationship and left her family to pursue a career in show business in New York City. In an attempt to create a new stage persona for herself, she adapted her married name and became Sophie Tucker.
In New York, Tucker began singing in small cafes. When she first took to the vaudeville stage in 1907, she was forced to perform wearing blackface, a common practice in amateur shows at the time. Whether it was because she was considered overweight or because she was Jewish, her managers did not believe that Tucker could win over her audience by appearing on stage as herself. However, one night after her make-up was stolen, she turned skeptics into believers, charming her audience and transforming herself into a true star. She soon became a headliner in vaudeville and burlesque shows. As her popularity grew, Tucker shared top billing with many of the 20th century's most famous stars including Will Rogers, Jack Benny and Fanny Brice. She was invited to perform in London, Paris and other European cities.
In 1911, Tucker recorded "Some of These Days," the song that would become her trademark. She was soon touring with her own band and, in 1921 hired pianist Ted Shapiro as her long-term musical director. Shapiro wrote a series of hits for her including "The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else" and "Red-Hot Mama." In 1925, Tucker sang "My Yiddishe Mama" for the first time. The song later became a Jewish anthem in Europe after it was banned by Adolf Hitler. In 1929, Tucker made her movie debut in Honky Talk. In 1934, she made her first Royal Command Performance and was the only American performer to appear before three generations of British monarchs. She later received critical acclaim for her performances in Thoroughbreds Don't Cry (1937) and Broadway Melody (1938), performing alongside Judy Garland in both features. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, in addition to performing, Tucker was instrumental in unionizing professional actors. She was elected president of the American Federation of Actors in 1938. In 1945, Tucker published her autobiography, Some Of These Days. She continued to work in clubs and on television throughout the 1950s and 1960s, including several stints on the Ed Sullivan Show.
During her lengthy career, Tucker became increasingly known for her philanthropy, as well as her independent personality. Her philanthropic interests varied widely, from youth centers and a high school wing in Israel to a theater arts program at Brandeis University, a maternity clinic at Denver's General Rose Memorial Hospital, and Hartford's Emmanuel Synagogue. Tucker was married three times: first to Louis Tuck; then to Frank Westphal, one of her pianists; and finally to Al Lackey, her business manager. She remained close to her family, returning to Hartford each year to celebrate the High Holidays. In 1955, Tucker raised almost $1 million in a benefit performance on behalf of the Hebrew Old People's Home.
Sophie Tucker died in 1966 from lung and kidney disease. She is buried in Emmanuel Synagogue Cemetery in Wethersfield, Conn. Among those who consider Tucker's comic style a major influence include Mae West, Joan Rivers, Rosanne Barr and Bette Midler.
During This Time
1921 - 1945: Prosperity, Depression, & War
Industrial growth, economic expansion, and plenty of consumer goods gave women more purchasing power and pleasure in the 1920s. Women gained political office, but after achieving the right to vote the Women's Movement fractured over the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The percentage of married women in the workforce doubled, though in menial jobs, while women of color had few opportunities. The media's message about the home was ambivalent. For daughters, the young flapper was glamorized in movies starring Clara Bow who had It (sex appeal). But the modern mother, equipped with widely-advertised appliances, was expected to keep house and raise children with new efficiency.
The prosperity of the twenties contrasted with the hardships of the 1930s following the 1929 stock market crash. Farm families in the Dust Bowl, suffering from drought and crop failures, fled to California where they worked as migratory laborers. As impoverished families across America struggled, desertion rose (but not divorce, which was expensive), and family size grew smaller. Women's jobs were largely confined to low-paying domestic labor, garment factories, and food-processing plants, all further segregated by race and ethnicity.
In the midst of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt, helped by wife Eleanor, brought strong leadership toward recovery with the New Deal. Professional women were included in federal projects, and work relief programs gave help to poor women. The Social Security Act of 1935 owed much to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in the Cabinet. African-American Mary McLeod Bethune, using her executive position in the National Youth Administration, pressured the administration to provide equal pay for blacks in all programs.
World War II deeply influenced women's lives. Sex-segregated labor diminished, as symbolized in the poster of "Rosie the Riveter." Women were accepted into the military, though the public was concerned about the loss of femininity. Defense industries were reluctant to admit women, but as men were drafted, the resistance eroded. Older, married women provided the largest number of new workers. Black, Mexican, and Chinese women had new opportunities, but Japanese women suffered internment in camps. With demobilization, women were laid off, but many were soon back on the job. Their role still was defined in the home, but the war had increased women's activities in the workplace.
Special thanks to Barbara E. Lacey, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of History, St. Joseph's College (Hartford, CT) for preparing these historical summaries.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 11 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
An online store selling handmade babies knitwear and handcrafts, keep it simple, super simple-obvious navigation and shopping cart options.
None as of yet
I'm creating an online store for my Mum to sell her babies knitwear, teddy bears and other such craft goods.
It's primarily based on Wordpress with the "WP e-Commerce" plugin.
I want an example page showing a list of products, for an idea of what other people have done with this combination of software see these sites:
Well, they used to have a list of people who used their software.. but now they don't and that's the only one I remember.
Oh, here's two more:
Check out the WP e-Commerce site and you'll probably get some more ideas of what it can do and what you can include in your layout and design.
As for color schemes and fonts just go with whatever you think says "Fun, Clean, Friendly, Easy to Use, Easy to Buy"
You don't have to make a logo, or fancy graphics for the name of the store, just so long as it's obvious. It will probably change, but at the moment we'll use:
"Nana's Gifts"
I'm reasonably good at playing around with the code to make it produce anything you can throw at me, so be adventurous with your designs
- Think of the age group using this site (40+ mostly)
- Simple "friendly" colors
- Photoshop files (with layers) of finished layout
- Links and prices to any stock photography I need to purchase for the actual template
I don't want the opposite of what I said I do want...
So... don't make it grungy like a teenage metal bands website, don't hide the navigation and don't make it hard to use.


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Anaheim Duck's goaltender Viktor Fasth is off to an impressive start, nabbing his first shutout after just three games in the NHL. Fasth stopped 31 shots allowing the Ducks to win over the Avalanche with a 3-0 game. Fasth was signed as a free agent in the close of the season, making an effortless transition from the Swedish Elite League to the NHL. Now with a 5-0 record, Viktor Fasth is the first goalie in eight years to win his first five starts, two of the wins coming from overtime shootouts.
Let's take a closer look at what gear makes our Goalie of the Day so impressively Fasth and accurate!
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Vidic injury blow for United
Manchester United have been dealt another injury hammer blow after skipper Nemanja Vidic was ruled out for eight weeks following knee surgery.
Vidic, who missed the final five months of last season after rupturing his cruciate in the Champions League defeat to Basle, missed Sunday's Premier League win at Liverpool after complaining of tightness in his right knee. However, a subsequent examination revealed a greater problem, prompting Vidic to be sent for an operation, which has now been completed.
"Nemanja Vidic has had a meniscus operation on his right knee and will be out for around eight weeks," said a club spokesman.
"(Manager) Sir Alex (Ferguson), as a precautionary measure, rested Vidic at the weekend, after he complained of tightness in his knee, however, further medical investigation revealed the underlying problem.
"The central defender was operated on this week and will be sidelined for about eight weeks."
As the new injury is the same knee as Vidic ruptured his cruciate, it is bound to spark fears of another major problem for the 31-year-old.
Even on the timescale United have highlighted it would rule the Serbian out of the Red Devils' next three Champions League matches in addition to seven Premier League games, including key meetings with Chelsea and Arsenal.
However, the worry must be that Vidic will be out for even longer, robbing Ferguson of a major component of his entire squad.
Short-term, it provides the United boss with a major headache. As Phil Jones has been ruled out for a similar period of time with the same problem and Chris Smalling is yet to resume training after a broken metatarsal, it leaves Ferguson with only two fit central defenders, and Jonny Evans picked up a knock at Anfield.


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At a time when Redskins owner Daniel Snyder may be thinking about the next high-profile coach he'll overpay to underachieve, Nick Saban would like to remind Snyder and the rest of us that Saban is still coaching.
Gil Brandt of NFL.com tweets that he's been told by a source that Saban currently is in negotiations with Alabama regarding a contract extension that would pay him in the range of $7 million per year.
Coincidentally (or not), current Redskins coach Mike Shanahan currently earns $7 million per year.
The more likely explanation for this latest development is that word of the potential extension was leaked by Saban or someone close to Saban to a member of the media with close ties to the University of Texas as a message to the Longhorns, who are believed to be interested in hiring Saban. But Brandt also has close ties to the NFL, which makes us wonder whether Snyder is one of the intended recipients of Saban's message.
Why wouldn't Snyder be interested in Saban? Sure, he burned out after two years in Miami because a little thing called the salary cap prevented him from over-recruiting the most talented players in the nation and then lining them up and letting them win championships. (Besides, NFL kickers are way better at making 57-yard field goals.) No numbers of crystal footballs will soothe Saban's lingering torment over the perception that he couldn't get it done at the highest level of the sport.
The key for Saban would be negotiating a contract that gives him as much power in the NFL as he enjoys in a town he runs called Tuscaloosa, with enough extra money to make up for the fact that he'd to deal with a far more zealous and independent press corps in D.C. So if $7 million per year keeps him in Alabama, what would lure him back to the NFL?
$8 million plus total control of the football operations and a promise from Snyder to stay out of the building?
$10 million plus full control?
Surely, there's a number and a set of terms that will get Saban's attention. But first, Saban has to get Snyder's attention.
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Trawling the depths of forgotten fiction, films, and beyond, with yer pal, Joe Kenney
Monday, April 9, 2012
The Penetrator #14: Mankill Sport
The Penetrator #14: Mankill Sport, by Lionel Derrick
May, 1976 Pinnacle Books
As if realizing his version of the Penetrator was becoming more sadistic than the villains he fought, author Chet Cunningham in this installment tones down his approach, with hero Mark Hardin coming off more like a "regular" men's adventure hero and less like the ruthless psycho of previous Cunningham books. Or who knows, maybe Pinnacle Books requested the change.
At any rate, when we meet Hardin in the opening pages of Mankill Sport, he's on vacation with his on-again, off-again girlfriend Joanna Tabler, a Federal agent who has worked with (and gone to bed with) Hardin in previous volumes -- supiciously enough, only those volumes written by Cunningham. The couple is spending time in the beachfront home of Joanna's married friends, and here we not only get scenes of Hardin playing with the kids -- complete with him giving them horsey rides on his back!! -- but also "emotional moments" where Hardin and Joanna share a heart-to-heart and Joanna cries because she wants to marry Hardin and have his kids, but they both know it could never happen. Without question, the Mark Hardin here presented is a far cry from the torture-loving sociopath of #12: Bloody Boston.
Even more unbelievably, Cunningham continues to reign in Hardin's bloodlust for the duration of the novel, only allowing him to cut loose toward the very end. But even then, he shows little of the sadism displayed in previous Cunningham offerings. However Cunningham does make his villains pretty sadistic; this time out the target is Johnny Utah, a mob gangster from Detroit who is involved in the "narco trade" and has also been behind a lot of murders. When we meet Utah he's about to waste a cop, and here Cunningham comes off like a proto-David Alexander, detailing in endless detail the gory death of a minor character:
The slug caught Sergeant Manning on the chin and drove half the bone straight back into his mouth, pushed it past more tissue, then ripped and tore through the policeman's neck bone and heavy muscles, decapitating him. Manning's head, carried backward by the tremendous force of the magnum slug, flopped against his back as his body, which had not yet received the nearly instantaneous nerve responses, remained erect for a fraction of a second. Then his knees buckled and dropped him to a sitting position before his torso fell backward, completely covering his severed head which remained attached to the body only by a few strained muscles and stretched tendons.
Did I mention that Manning only appeared on the previous page, and didn't even have a single line of dialog? Anyway, Utah is as mentioned involved in all sorts of illicit stuff, but his latest plan is to hunt man -- "the most dangerous game," of course. Utah has bought a huge patch of land in the Canadian wilderness; here Utah assembles fellow gangsters and villains, among them a German sharpshooter, with the intent of setting loose one captive at a time into the wilderness, and then hunting after them.
Utah and his men snatch various runaways and transients from local Canadian towns and imprison them in cages on the property, leaving them there until their moment arrives. In a hasty and unelaborated subplot, one of the captives is a young hooker who runs afoul of one of Utah's colleagues; due to her big mouth she too finds herself in a cage, waiting to be hunted. And, of course, all of the prisoners are nude.
Hardin spends the majority of the book in research mode, only getting in one quick firefight when sneaking into Utah's mansion in Detroit. Here he figures out something is going on in Canada, and so for a long portion of the narrative Hardin snoops around a small town, trying to figure out the connection between Utah and the disappearance of so many locals. Gradually he deduces what's going on, and so poses as a bum in the hopes that Utah's men will capture him. Sure enough they do, and Hardin finds himself naked and caged with the rest of the captives, just where he wants to be.
I guess it's part of the charm of men's adventure novels that the hero, despite being nude, caged, and unarmed, knows that he is more than a match for the armed villains who have caught him, and can't wait for them to set him into the wilderness and start hunting after them, certain that he will make quick work of his pursuers. I mean, all tension and suspense is lost, because we readers also know that Hardin will have no difficulty turning the tables.
But while he is caged we get the brain-scarring scene of Hardin actually throwing his own excrement at Utah. You read that right. Utah of course has no idea who Hardin is, but after Hardin berates the guy, screams and rages, and throws shit at him (literally), Utah finally has had enough and sets Hardin free into the wilds. But Utah's so pissed that Hardin won't have the obligatory hour before his pursuers come after him.
Again, little matter. Mark Hardin, as we'll recall, has been trained in all of the esoteric arts of the Cheyenne warrior. The men who come after him provide little challenge, and soon enough Hardin has armed himself with an appropriated M-16. Very quickly he frees the captives and captures Utah. Here again, in the strangest moment of all, Cunningham still presents a "kinder, gentler" Mark Hardin. You'd figure Hardin would basically butcher Utah, but instead Hardin just takes him out of action with a shot and then ties the man up, allowing the captives their chance to vent their rage on the bastard -- but only to a point.
When the captives start to get sadistic, especially the hooker, Hardin blows away Utah with a mercy shot, stating that even such scum deserved more respect. I mean, who the hell is this guy?? We're talking here about a character who basically crippled an unarmed teenager in #14: Hijacking Manhattan, for absolutely no reason. I think it's safe to say there was some behind-the-scenes tinkering going on with this series. But who knows, maybe this was a momentary lapse in the sadism of Cunningham's version of Hardin. I guess I'll find out as I continue to read the series.
It does look, though, like the authors tried to goof with each other: Cunningham ends the novel with Hardin actually planning to take the hooker back with him to the Stronghold -- you know, the top-secret base of operations for Hardin and his two partners -- and wondering what the Professor and David Red Eagle will have to say about it. As if Cunningham was baiting writing partner Mark Roberts -- checking the next volume, however, proves that the hooker goes unmentioned. I guess she didn't like living with three guys. Plus it would be hard to turn tricks in the middle of the desert.
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- Jack Badelaire said...
If you haven't read it, Blood & Tacos #1 has a pretty good review of this book. I think its inevitable that any long-running adventure series does a "man-hunting" story. I'm almost surprised Penetrator got it out of the way so early in its lifespan.
- April 9, 2012 at 8:47 AM
- Brian Busby said...
Ah, yes, why wouldn't the Penetrator want to bring a sadistic young hooker back to the Stronghold.
I must admit I've been looking forward to your take on Hardin's first Canadian adventure... but not as much as the next.
A question: Do we know where in Canada this "mankill sport" takes place?
- April 9, 2012 at 5:00 PM
- Joe Kenney said...
Thanks guys, for the comments.
Brian, I just looked up the info in the book. It's vague on an exact location, but Johnny Utah's mankill sport land is designated as being in British Columbia, in "the area over Vancouver." Hardin follows the Fraser river north until he gets to two minor logging towns, then he heads west, where Utah's area is located among the vast stretch of woods.
I'm looking forward to the next Penetrator novel, too. That one sounds like it will be a lot of fun.
- April 11, 2012 at 10:50 AM
- Brian Busby said...
Thanks, Joe. Amusing to think that in writing "the area over Vancouver" Cunningham leaves out only the twenty or so miles along the American border. That said, from your description, Hardin would've been heading into some very remote territory.
- April 12, 2012 at 12:58 PM


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No way! It's completely dead, just like that?? That's quite a sudden news-flash!
Isn't there going to be any option for someone to take over development of ZDoom?
ZDoom was pretty much the first Doom source-port I ever got in touch with. Man, this saddens me!
Still though: I think Randy deserves a lot of respect for putting a lot of work into the engine. I hope the legacy of ZDoom will continue on through GZDoom and QZDoom.
Good luck to Graf, dpJudas and the other developers who are continuing to put out amazing work! (G)ZDoom is pretty much the reason I'm an aspiring game developer today.


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The Rio Grande Rift: A Continent "Stretched Like Taffy", Feb. 23, 2005
Right: Conceptual view of the magma body beneath Socorro.
by Karl Hill, NMSU
NMSU CONTACTS: Karl Hill, University Communications, (505) 646-1885, firstname.lastname@example.com; Dr. James Ni, Physics, (505) 646-1920, firstname.lastname@example.com
NM TECH CONTACTS: George Zamora, Public Information Office, (505) 835-5617, firstname.lastname@example.com; Dr. Richard Aster, Earth and Environmental Science, (505) 835-5924, email@example.com
SOCORRO, N.M., Feb. 23, 2005 – Using a vast array of seismic instruments reaching nearly 600 miles across the desert Southwest, scientists from New Mexico, Texas and Arizona have produced the most detailed images yet of the geology up to hundreds of miles beneath the Rio Grande Rift.
The story the pictures tell, in the words of one of the collaborators, is that of a continent being slowly "stretched like taffy" over the past 30 million years.
"There has been a very symmetrical thinning of the earth's crust" along the Rio Grande Rift, said Richard Aster, professor of geophysics at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.
This extension is about four times wider in the lower crust – about 20 miles down – than it is at the surface of the rift, where the Rio Grande flows southward from southern Colorado through New Mexico, said James Ni, professor of physics at New Mexico State University.
A rift is a narrow opening of the earth's crust caused by lateral stretching.
Much as medical doctors can make pictures of their patients' internal organs using Computed Tomography (CT) scans and ultrasound technology, the scientists were able to produce high-resolution images of the crust and upper mantle of the Rio Grande Rift using seismic instruments placed across the surface of the rift. Their findings are described in an article in the Feb. 24 issue of the journal Nature.
The linear array of seismic instruments – 54 of them – was placed along a 600-mile line from near Pecos, Texas, to near Lake Powell in the Four Corners area of Utah. The line dissected New Mexico diagonally, from southeast to northwest, crossing the Rio Grande just south of Belen near the center of the state.
The instruments were put into place between July and November 1999 and the last station was removed in May 2001. For more than a year and a half, any earthquake in the world above about magnitude 5.6 sent detectable waves through the lithospheric structures beneath the instruments. Seismic waves change in speed and character as they pass through structures of different compositions, so the readings allowed the scientists to put together what Ni called "the best, most detailed two-dimensional images to date, all the way down to the upper mantle about 670 kilometers or 400 miles down."
The deep-imaging seismic experiment, which stretched from the edge of the Great Plains region in west Texas to the Colorado Plateau, is known as the Colorado Plateau/Rio Grande Rift Seismic Transect Experiment, or La RISTRA.
"The Rio Grande Rift is the defining topographic feature of our region," Aster said. "There are only a few clear places on the planet where narrow rifts are being pulled apart by tectonic forces, and this is one of the classic examples."
The scientists wanted to learn how the rift formed and what the underlying mantle and crust look like today. They found a uniform, symmetrical stretching of the crust, unlike the asymmetrical rift other scientists had theorized.
Because of the thinning of the crust, the partial-melt zone of the upper mantle is closer to the surface than normal, which has stimulated recent volcanic activity in the region. Ni noted that relatively recent lava flows exist at the edges of the Rio Grande Rift, on the east near Carrizozo and on the west near Grants.
But the Rio Grande Rift shows a history of less volcanic activity than other rifts in the world. It's likely that temperatures or water content in the mantle beneath other rifts are higher than those below the Rio Grande Rift, Ni said.
Ni said RISTRA data, which the scientists have been analyzing for four years, suggest that the thinning of the crust along the Rio Grande Rift followed the subduction, or sinking, of an oceanic plate known as the Farallon Plate, which started about 36 million years ago. As the Farallon Plate disappeared beneath the North American continental plate, he said, convection forces caused the rift to stretch and thin.
At the same time, the entire region, which had been a high plateau, gradually dropped in elevation. The Rio Grande Valley in southern New Mexico, which today is about 4,000 feet above sea level, may once have been about 10,000 feet, Ni said.
Aster said a characteristic feature of the Rio Grande Rift is the large amount of sediment. The mountains that rise up on each side of the rift, such as the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, "are up to their necks in alluvium left by erosion," he said. "If you didn't have so much sediment, you would have an enormously deep, Death Valley-like feature going through the middle of New Mexico."
The deep deposits of alluvium in the rift were crucial to the formation of aquifers that provide much of the state's water supply, he noted.
This research was supported by National Science Foundation grants, the Los Alamos National Laboratory Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, the NMSU Arts and Sciences Research Center, and the New Mexico Tech Geophysical Research Center.
The seismic recorders used in RISTRA were drawn from a large pool of NSF instruments managed by the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology through its instrument center at New Mexico Tech.
Aster noted that the RISTRA team and its temporary seismic stations were welcomed across a huge swath of the Southwest by a diverse group of landowners and managers interested in promoting science, including the Navajo Nation, Laguna and Isleta Pueblos, the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the N.M. State Land Office, the U.S. Forest Service and many private landowners.
The lead author of the Nature paper, David Wilson, recently received his Ph.D. at New Mexico Tech and now is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Austin. Other scientists collaborating on the research are Steve Grand, Wei Gao and Paresh Patel of the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin; W. Scott Baldridge of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory; Steve Semken of the Department of Geological Sciences at Arizona State University; and Michael West, who worked with Ni as a postdoctoral researcher at NMSU and now is an assistant professor at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.


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The body needs adequate amounts of red and white blood cells to keep tissues oxygenated, fight infection, and maintain health. Enzymes are proteins that help regulate biochemical reactions and metabolism in the body and cells. In the case of red blood cells, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) is a very important enzyme. It keeps red blood cells healthy so they can function properly and live a normal life span of approximately 120 days.
G6PD deficiency is a genetic abnormality that results in an inadequate amount of this necessary enzyme. Without enough of it, red blood cells can be destroyed, leading to anemia. This can happen especially after consuming fava beans, some legumes, and certain medications such as:
The destruction of red blood cells is called hemolysis (breakdown of red blood cells) and the resulting anemia is called a hemolytic anemia. Infections and high levels of stress can also trigger the destruction of red blood cells in individuals with this condition.
The condition is most commonly seen in Africa, where it can affect up to 20 percent of individuals, according to the G6PD Deficiency Foundation. (G6PD Deficiency Foundation, 2012) There are hundreds of variations of the deficiency; once an individual finds out they are G6PD deficient, then variant testing can be performed to further classify the condition.
The deficiency is seen more in men than in women and the defect is carried on the X chromosome. Therefore, a mother can pass the condition to a son who will be affected by the condition. If the genetic defect is passed to a daughter, she will be a carrier and will not be clinically affected by the condition.
Risk factors are characteristics that can make it more likely for you to develop a condition. Having one or more does not necessarily mean you will get the condition. Talk with your doctor about your risk factors for G6PD deficiency. Some risk factors of the condition include:
Symptoms of the condition can include:
A simple blood test can be done to check your level of the G6PD enzyme. Other tests that may be done include a complete blood count, hemoglobin, checking your bilirubin level, and a reticulocyte count, which measures immature red blood cells.
Tell your doctor about your diet and any medications you are taking. These details can help your doctor with the diagnosis.
If there is an infection present that triggered the condition, the underlying infection is treated accordingly. Any medications you are on that may be destroying red blood cells are discontinued. There is no cure for the condition, but in severe cases, a blood transfusion may be necessary. Individuals can recover from the hemolysis caused by G6PD deficiency on their own, but severe hemolytic events do occur. Close monitoring of these episodes is critical.
Managing G6PD deficiency involves avoiding foods and medications that can trigger the condition. Reducing stress levels can also help in controlling the disease. Ask your doctor for a printed list of medications and foods that you should avoid.
If a severe hemolytic event occurs and is not treated, kidney failure or death can occur. This is very rare. Talk with your doctor about when to call the doctor and how you can stay healthy with this condition.


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Miracle of Sound: Age of the Dragon (Dragon Age 2 Song)
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Yeah, the only thing I heard resembling that is Through the Fire and Flames by Dragonforce at the end of Guitar Hero III.
Not familiar with the genre pretty much at all.
Where the hell do they have all the cool CGI from?
Great music man! Good song with very complex harmonies. We want MOAR!
Fantastic! I'm really excited about this and I hope it becomes a regular update. Hopefully it won't end up being the exact same song with different lyrics every week like Rebecca Mayes Muse ended up being.
Not bad.
Don't press start on the title menu and it plays!
Glad you dig it and that you noticed the harmonies. I like when people notice the effort that goes into the little details like that :)
Her Christmas song was her last. Well last here at least. Not too sure why she left though.
I just wish that they had more CGI for you to work with. Re-using the same scenes seemed pretty silly to me. But again, its not like you had much to work with...
Yeah there is only one scene in the whole game, and it's not even in the actual game. Prob won't be an issue for other vids!
This is just an awesome song. I find myself listening to it over and over. I'm going to buy it just so I can listen to it in places where I don't have the internet. I'll get "Commander Shepard" too while I'm at it. I look forward hearing to more epic songs from you.
Awesome! It's great you've got a slot on the Escapist now! The've been needing some new great shows for a while now :P
After checking out the rest of your work on YouTube, I can say that this beats the other Escapist music show anyday. And that "Muses" show was not realy bad. It's just this is plain amazing music.
Almost perfect timing accompanied by quite excellent blending of different instrumental numbers...
Although if I would have one complaint is that your vocal range seems slightly limited, is this so or will you perhaps shock us in the future videos?
Anyway, another great catch for you Escapist. And yet another bi-weekly segment I'm going to be addicted to.
Dude u got ur own show? Thats awesome! I remember back when yall did Gordon Freeman Saved my life. Good stuff dude keep it up!
This is awesome! It reminds me of the theme tunes you used to get on saturday morning cartoons XD
Yeah, I really dislike Dragon Age II, but this is just brilliant.
Purchased the song on your Bandcamp site today. Keep up the good work! :D
Loved your Commander Shepard song, love this one just as much. Not only rockin songs, but brilliant lyrics lol. Keep up the awesome work.
[quote= Glad you dig it and that you noticed the harmonies. I like when people notice the effort that goes into the little details like that :)[/quote]
It helps when you go to music school:) Like the bitonality in the instrumental bridge section. e minor and G sharp minor at the same time = a rocking good time.
"Fight for you values and fight for your friends!" is a really silly refrain, but I'm still coming back to this song because it has a catchiness that simply will not relent.
I love your music! I'll be listening to this one for quite some time.
Where can I download this? I would pay legitimate money for this.
This song almost scrubbed away the memories of how goddamn lacklustre the game is, that takes some doing- Im gonna be following these fervently.
Decent song, but you need more respect for the bass guitar. That is what will give the whole thing some fullness. Not just a mirror of the Guitar but its own bas line to cary the main groove. Good work though.
It's available on iTunes, FYI :)
I haven't eaven played dragon age but I can't stop singing this song. Good job!
A hero named Cock.
Since I'm a lyrics guy and not musically inclined, I also felt something similar just with the lyrics. They are actually really corny, and there is little substance in them. If I wanted epic lyrics there are variety of Scandinavian metal bands that do much better bard-like songs.
However, by the end of the song I found myself singing the chorus. I must say that while musically they aren't great, they really did manage to capture the feeling of DA2, both directly (as in the thing is written like a story from a bard) and indirectly (the actual themes of the game). Similarly with their Minecraft video. The music is not that great, the lyrics are uninspired, but even then it tags at your heart and LITERALLY got me to play Minecraft.
That was spectacular.
Nice anthemic rock, excellent lyrics - keep up the good work and I hope to see (and listen to) more of these soon! :)
Balls out!
so epic!
Oh jeez that was so epic, gave me chills. I just wanna go and start up DA2 right this instant. But I have to finish Awakening first. Chronological order and all that jazz. :C
Where can I get a mp3 of this, I want it as my ringtone.
On Bandcamp.com or Itunes :)
Good artwork, really well done.
But "fight for your values and fight for your friends"? My friends sure, I played nice with them and no one betrayed me no matter what. But my values? Heck I played a mage and the ending sucked so much that I feel betrayed to the core. The final fight I was thinking "For what the heck I am fighting for? Almost everyone is **** and all was a ***." The only reason I keep fighting was because my friends followed me and I was responsible for get them out alive, but all the way I was thinking: "Man I want to die, I was so wrong."
I discovered Miracle of Sound about an hour ago.
Instant fan. I've already purchased this song and the Shepard one.
slightly off topic: anyone else think my face resembles the default Hawke too much.
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Today is the 84th anniversary of Don Heck's birth. One of the more skilled Milton Caniff acolytes of comics' Golden Age, history has been unkind to Heck due to his less than stellar super-hero work toward the end of the artist's stellar career.
(Gary Groth and Harlan Ellison once cruelly dismissed the artist as the "worst … in the field," apparently ignorant of the fact that Heck suffered from diminished vision in his later years and still turned in work on time.)
A good summation of Heck's career, and importance to the early years of what would later be labeled the "Marvel Age of Comics," can be found here. In the meantime, here's a tale from Heck's earlier days featuring two-fisted wildcat oil men.
From Danger #1 (Comic Media, January 1953), here's "Black Gold."


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Thursday, April 18, 2013
The Joe Pyne Show with guest Paul Krassner (1967)
Posted by Kliph Nesteroff at 9:22 AM
Labels: 1967, counterculture, hippies, paul krassner, The Joe Pyne Show, yippies
2 comments:
- Sam Henderson said...
I've heard that it was either him or Al Capp who said to a guest "You have long hair. You must be a girl" to which they responded, "You have a wooden leg. You must be a table". Nobody's ever been able to prove this or who exactly the parties were if this exchange happened. If anybody knows of such a clip I'd be grateful.
- April 18, 2013 at 9:21 PM
- greg6363 said...
That conversation was between Pyne and Frank Zappa.
- April 19, 2013 at 6:22 AM
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94 N. Main Street, Jasper, GA - (706) 253-2457
Maude Brackett
Mrs. Maude Samples Brackett, age 85 of Canton, passed away Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010 at Northside-Cherokee Hospital.
Mrs. Brackett was a member of North Canton Baptist Church. After retiring from Canton Textile Mills, she worked at Floyd Togs.
She was preceded in death by her first husband, Jesse (Freet) Samples, Jr.; and her second husband, Robert Brackett. Survivors include her children, Larry Eugene Samples and Deborah (Phillip) Morris, all of Canton; sister, Esther Pettigrew Woodring, Canton; grandchildren, Angela Gilbert and Eric Samples; great-granddaughter, Taylor Gilbert; and beloved caregiver, Brenda Brooks Poole.
The funeral service was held at noon on Thursday, Sept. 9 from Sosebee Memorial Chapel with the Revs. Kent Samples and Johnny Padgett officiating. Interment followed in Cherokee Memorial Park.
www.sosebeefuneralhome. com
Robert Holbert
Robert W. (Hallett) Holbert, age 50 of Parsons, Ks., died unexpectedly Wednesday morning, Sept. 8. 2010.
He was born May 19, 1960 in Portsmouth, Va. to Vernon and Martha (Johnston) Holbert. He grew up in Parsons and was raised by his mother and step-father, Duane Hallett. Mr. Holbert lived in Jasper for two years where he completed his high school education. For many years he worked as an auto body repairman in Parsons.
Survivors include his sons, Jason Holbert, Jasper, and Jake and Cody Holbert, both of Parsons; daughter, Michelle Holbert, Parsons; four grandchildren; mother and step-father, Martha and Duane Hallett, St. Paul; father and step-mother, Vernon and Sylvia Holbert, Jasper; brothers, Mark and Eric Holbert, both of Jasper; and sisters, Jean Thompson. Carl Junction, Mo., Sue Figura and Teresa Schulze, both of St. Paul, Vicki Galloway, McCune, and Donna Hancock, Jasper.
A graveside service was held Saturday from West Bethany Cemetery.
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Willie Bennett
Mrs. Willie Faye Bennett, age 91 of Jasper, Ga., died Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010, at the Brian Center in Canton, Ga. following a period of declining health.
Born July 4, 1919 in Pickens County, Ga., she was the daughter of the late Stacy and Cordelia Holt Moss. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Clinton Walter Bennett. Mrs. Bennett was a homemaker and was a member of the Jerusalem Baptist Church.
Survivors include her daughter and son-in-law, Marcell and Billy Duckett, Jasper; grandchildren, Randy and Debbie Duckett and Tammy Hollingshed, all of Jasper; and great-grandchildren, Alan and Marie Hollingshed. Other relatives also survive.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11, from Roper Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Buddy Roper officiating. Interment followed in Jerusalem Baptist Church Cemetery.
Eddie Jones
Mr. Eddie Jones, age 66 of Jasper, passed away Sept. 10, 2010 at his home.
Mr. Jones retired from the Pasco County and Pickens County Sheriff?s office. He was preceded in death by his father, Mr. Ed Jones, Sr.
Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Clara Jones, Jasper; brother and sister-in-law, Robert and Diane Jones, Jasper; sister, Judy Jones Schwarz, Florida; niece, Sonya Gossett; and nephews, Fred and Edward Schwarz and Chad Jones. One great-niece and five great-nephews also survive.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Monday from the Chapel of Roper Funeral with the Revs. Harold Cantrell, Jerrold Young and Jeremy Mullinax officiating. Interment followed in Cool Springs Baptist Church Cemetery.
Hoyt Chastain
Mr. Hoyt ?Pud? Chastain, age 81 of the Hinton Community, passed away at Wellstar-Kennestone Hospital.
He was preceded in death by a daughter, Cynthia Chastain; brothers, Emory and Ulysses Chastain; and sister, Mildred Evans.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Suelane Chastain, Hinton, Ga.; sons, Keith, Jeff and Kris Chastain, all of Hinton; and brother, Horace Tom Chastain, Ludville, Ga. Eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild also survives.
The funeral service was held at 4 p.m. Monday from the Chapel of Roper Funeral Home with the Revs. Buck Parker, Moss Fountain and Calvin Ball officiating. Interment followed in Hinton Cemetery.
Big John Garner
Mr. Big John Garner, age 79 of Talking Rock, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010 at Atlanta Medical Center.
Survivors include his wife, Mildred Garner, Talking Rock; sons and daughters-in-law, Gary and Wanda Garner and Bobby and Decca Garner, all of Jasper; daughter and son-in-law, Terresa and Russell Bunch, Jasper; and sister, Daisy Blankenship, Clenton, Al. Eight grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10 from Mt. Zion Baptist Church with the Revs. Ben Mock and Tony Ramirez officiating. Interment followed in Sunrise Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers were: Allen Evans, Brent Jordan, Jerry Hicks, Wayne Fann, Jim Stone, Brian McNamara and John Jenkins. Cagle Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Sibyl Poole
Mrs. Sibyl Bryant Poole, age 89 of Jasper, passed away Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010 at North Fulton Hospital Hospice.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Claude Poole; and son, C.J. Poole.
Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, W.R. and Anita Poole, Jasper; daughters and sons-in-law, Brenda Joyce and Jim Wheeler, Talking Rock, and Bridget and Stanley Goss, Jasper; daughter-in-law, Dianna Poole, Jasper; sister- and brother-in-law, Faye and Reeford Bruce, Jasper; and grandchildren, Robin Poole, Tanya Langston, Shawn and Brandon Poole, Rachel Nichols, Sam Wheeler, Rhoda Gunnigle, Michael Poole and Robert and Sarah Goss. Fourteen great-grandchildren, two nieces and cousins also survive.
The funeral service was held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 12 from Jerusalem Baptist Church with the Revs. Joey DuBois, Gene Childers, Grant Wade and Bobby Segers officiating. Interment followed in Sunrise Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers were: Shawn and Michael Poole, Sam and David Lee Wheeler, Tim Nichols and Robert Cross. Cagle Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Olar Ray
Mrs. Olar Maggie Ray, age 95 of Tate, passed away Thursday, Sept. 9. 2010 at Marietta Health & Rehab Center.
Mrs. Ray was preceded in death by husband, Luke Ray, sons, Billy and Jerry Ray; and granddaughter, Carla Vaughn Bruce.
Survivors include daughters and son-in-law, Ethel Jean Ray, Tate, Eva and Joe Henderson, Marietta, and Oleta Kimball, Covington; sisters-in-law, Edith Brendle, Blairsville, and Marie Ray, Jasper. Eleven grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren, 11 great-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 11 from the Chapel of Cagle Funeral Home with the Revs. Willard Hamrick, Larry Holden and Tim Pearson officiating. Interment followed in Sunrise Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers were: Ronnie Morris, Jessie Stargell, Ricky Ray, Scotty and Tod Kimball and Danny Ryder. Honorary pallbearer was Joe Henderson.


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How The iPhone Stacks UpBy Debra D'Agostino | Posted 2007-06-19 Print
A look at how Apple's much-anticipated device matches up against other multifunction, handheld tools.
The iPhone is coming—and CIOs should start getting ready.
Apple's new iPhone, to be available June 29, is one of the most anticipated communications devices to come on the market in some time. Already, 19 million Americans are said to be interested in the multifunction handheld device, according to M:Metrics, a mobile market research company. And a lot of those people are sure to start using the device—which is a combination phone, Internet access device, and iPod—during business and, perhaps, for business.
And, as has happened so many times in the past when executives and other prized professionals (such as star salespeople) start doing work with devices originally designed for consumers, it's not long before IT departments get the call to distribute—and then support—them.
Yet analysts such as Gartner's Ken Dulaney and Forrester Research's Charles Golvin say companies thinking about deploying iPhones to their staffs should think twice. "It's not designed to be an enterprise tool," Golvin says. (Apple, which wouldn't comment for this article, has kept its marketing to date focused solely on the iPhone's consumer applications.)
There are several factors that limit the iPhone for business use. First, Apple has no real third-party development plans for the phone. Unlike other mobile devices that allow users to download applications right to the device, the iPhone will rely solely on web-based programs users will access over the Internet. And as anyone who's tried to surf the web from their mobile phone knows, web-based applications can be clunky, slow and difficult to use.
In addition, the phone has no removable battery, no keypad and no tactile keypad buttons, which means that using the iPhone will require a user's complete attention when using it. And, though Apple has put in a request to Microsoft for direct access to Exchange servers, for now the iPhone will not support business messaging tools—users will have to connect to corporate mail systems over the Internet.
Of course, that doesn't mean scores of business users—particularly C-level professionals—won't buy it. "There will be many executives who will want this device," Golvin says. "People will come bearing gifts to encourage IT to help them make the iPhone work for them."
And that means CIOs should probably get to know the iPhone.
For starters, here's a slideshow of how the iPhone stacks up against other multifunction, handheld tools, on the market now or expected to be released shortly.
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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate, opposite, or whorled, generally simple and toothed (to pinnately compound); stipules 0 or generally deciduous
Inflorescence: spike, raceme, panicle, or flowers solitary in axils; bracted
Flower generally bisexual, generally radial, opening at dawn or dusk; hypanthium sometimes prolonged beyond ovary (measured from ovary tip to sepal base); sepals generally 4(27); petals generally 4 (or as many as sepals, rarely 0), often "fading" darker; stamens generally 4 or 8(2), anthers 2-chambered, opening lengthwise, pollen generally interconnected by threads; ovary inferior, chambers generally 4 (sometimes becoming 1), placentas axile or parietal, ovules 1many per chamber, style 1, stigma 4-lobed (or lobes as many as sepals), club-shaped, or hemispheric
Fruit: capsule, loculicidal (sometimes berry or indehiscent and nut-like)
Seeds sometimes winged or hair-tufted
Genera in family: 15 genera, ± 650 species: worldwide, especially w North America; many cultivated (Clarkia, Epilobium, Fuchsia, Gaura, Oenothera )
Reference: [Munz 1965 North America Fl II 5:1278]
Annual, perennial herb, from taproot or lateral roots
Leaves basal, cauline, or both, alternate, simple to 2-pinnate
Inflorescence bracted; spike, raceme, or flowers solitary in axils
Flower radial, generally opening at dawn (rarely at dusk); sepals 4, reflexed (sometimes 23 remaining adherent); petals 4, yellow, white, lavender, often with darker basal spots, generally fading purplish or reddish; stamens (4)8, longer ones opposite sepals, anthers generally attached at middle (or base), pollen grains 3-angled except in polyploid taxa (visible with hand lens); ovary chambers 4, stigma ± head-like or hemispheric, generally > anthers and cross-pollinated (or ± = anthers and self-pollinated)
Fruit straight to coiled, generally sessile
Seeds in 12 rows per chamber
Species in genus: 62 species: w North America (especially CA-FP), 1 South America
Etymology: (L.A. von Chamisso, French-born German botanist, 17811838)
Reference: [Raven 1969 Contr US Natl Herb 37:161396]
Polyploidy and self-pollination have predominated in evolution of genus. Previously included in Oenothera (" O." in synonyms).
Annual, slender; rosette generally ± 0; hairs glandular, generally also spreading
Stem erect, 222 cm
Leaf 1030 mm, linear, minutely serrate
Inflorescence nodding
Flower: hypanthium 0.81.6 mm; sepals 1.22 mm, free; petals 1.83.1 mm, yellow fading reddish, bases with 2 red dots
Fruit 1832 mm, 0.60.9 mm wide, cylindric, ± swollen by seeds, straight or wavy; pedicel 02 mm
Seeds in 1 row per chamber, 0.70.8 mm, shiny, minutely pitted
Chromosomes: 2n=14
Ecology: Sandy soils, generally sagebrush scrub
Elevation: 7603000 m.
Bioregional distribution: n slope San Bernardino Mountains (Cactus Flats), Great Basin Floristic Province, Mojave Desert (scattered)
Distribution outside California: to Washington, Idaho, Utah
Synonyms: O. contorta Douglas var. flexuosa (Nelson) Munz misapplied
Self-pollinated. Related to C. kernensis, C. parvula, C. pubens.


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"A similar mislocalization of Ase1 was observed in conditional lethal esp1-1 cells."
Can anyone tell me what is the meaning of esp1-1? Actually, I wonder what does the "-1" mean.
In addition, what does the "conditional letahal" mean? Does it mean that knocking down of esp1 from the cultured cell will arise the cell death?
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"The only fish in Shunda Lake are Rainbow's and suckers. This site names various types of fish for Shunda lake...." Shunda Lake
"you have to get a boat to fish here or else you wont catch anything. we tried every type of bait pretty much from shore, we then went out on our canoe and tried a worm..." Waterfowl Lakes


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On to a great shop later in the week known for its creative decor. I couldn't pass up a beautiful runner for my sideboard. I have made my own previously and know this was a deal if only for the trim.
I can never pass up little birds, good luck you know, to put on my table by my living room staircase.
Continuing on yesterday to another local nursery which grows all of their own poinsettias. This is preferred to those that are shipped in from other locations because they are set to bud later, last longer and will enhance your home throughout most of the winter season.


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Paul Krugman tries to define the terms of debate on tax reform:
With taxes on the wealthy on the political radar, we're going to drowning in a vast wave of double-talk and smothered by vast amounts of fuzzy math. Still, one has to try. So, a couple of notes.
One is that you have to beware of the old trick of saying "taxes", then slipping into "income taxes". Most Americans pay more payroll than income taxes, but the reverse is true at high incomes. So focusing only on income taxes makes it seem as if the rich pay much more of the burden than they really do.
Well, the question of how to think about Social Security and Medicare is vexatious. In other venues, and for decades, advocates of Social Security have promoted it as an "earned benefit". Here, for example, is Bernie Sanders writing last week in favor of higher Social Security taxes:
It is the one earned benefit program upon which they [older Americans] can depend. They know that they have paid into Social Security and they have earned the benefits due them by our government.
Well, fine. If it is an earned benefit then we can mimic the activity of the Social Security actuaries and track a person's dollars in with the eventual dollars taken out. And the upshot? Social Security tends to be somewhat re-distributive, favoring lower lifetime earners over hgher ones. Krugman himself made this point when it helped him bash Bush:
...the formula determining Social Security benefits is progressive: it provides more benefits, as a percentage of earnings, to low-income workers than to high-income workers.
And Medicare is clearly tilted towards lower earners, since everyone gets the same benefit regardless of their contribution.
So - in assessing the tax burden faced by Americans one might reasonably ignore both Social Security taxes and benefits, figuring that on net, the program favors lower earners.
But that would be tricksie! Becasue when the burden of taxes is the topic, Krugman et al prefer to pretend that Social Security is just one more "pay as you go" government program. In this formulation Social Security's current costs and eventual benefits have no more link than the connection between a person's income taxes paid and their benefit from the national defense budget.
Hmm. As a political calculation, the marketing appeal of the "earned benefit" approach is obvious. Still, I am not sure why progressives think we should be taxing working class laborers so that well-off retirees can cavort in Miami. Just why are Social Security benefits higher for formerly high-earning retirees with ample retirement savings? Surely Social Security and Medicare should be means-tested if they are just "pay-go" transfer schemes intended to lift the elderly out of poverty? I don't notice Warren Buffett clamoring to have his Social Security benefit knocked down to zero and his Medicare beneift suspended, but that would be a logical policy for him to advocate if he wanted to save Social Security. (Soc Sec benefits are taxable, but that puts the receipts in the general fund; means-testing the beneift would keep the money in the Soc Sec Administration budget.)
If Democrats want to step forward in favor of means-testing the Social Security benefit then I will take them seriously that it is a pay-go scheme. If they want to hide behind the "earned benefit" marketing pitch, then they should man up and drop it from their tax burden calculations.
SOMEBODY CALL 9-9-9: Since you asked, I would be fine with scrapping the (regressive) payroll tax and replacing it with a (regressive) national sales tax, or VAT, or some such tax on consumption rather than work. But Roosevelt's acolytes on the left will never agree.


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The New Bern Bears won two �must win� Mideastern Conference games over Laney and Rose last week.
The New Bern Bears won two �must win� Mideastern Conference games over Laney and Rose last week.
That trend will continue, as every game from here out truly is a must win.
The opening round of the 4-A state baseball playoffs brings the Knightdale Knights (10-11, 7-7) of the Greater Neuse River Conference to Boykin Field for a 7 p.m. start.
The Bears are led offensively by sophomore Colin Schmid�s .362 batting average, senior Josh Taylor�s .317 and junior Austin King at .316.
Whitman Barnes leads the Bears� pitching staff with a 0.95 ERA and 4-1 record.
Should the Bears advance past the Knights, a likely matchup with traditional power Garner (21-2) awaits.
Hurricanes hosting in round one
Hoping to bounce back from a 3-2 loss to East Carteret Tuesday that cost them the Coastal Plains Conference championship, the Pamlico Hurricanes are good enough and motivated enough to make a deep playoff run.
Friday, the Hurricanes host the Heide Trask Titans (11-8, 9-5) of the Tri-County Conference in the opener of the 1-A state baseball playoffs.
The Hurricanes are led by a trio of underclassmen in junior Trent Prescott and sophomores Cole Bennett and Jacob Willis, all of which are hitting over .300.
Shane Hardison has been the �Canes� best on the mound with a sub-1.50 ERA.
For the Titans, Patrick Bowden leads the way with a 4-1 record and 2.44 ERA.
Trask also has three batters over .300, in freshman Tynaffit Davis at .324, sophomore Dylan Kraft�s .327 and Dakota McFadden with a team-best .333.
Davis and Kraft have 14 RBIs, while McFadden has 12.
The game is slated for a 7 p.m. start.
Eagles travel to No.1 seed Hunt
West Craven�s playoffs start much the same way it did a season ago, with a trip to a No.1 seed.
They are just hoping for a different result.
West Craven (11-13, 6-8) was bounced 3-2 by Eastern Wayne last year and take on the Hunt Warriors (14-8, 8-2) of the Big East Conference in Wilson Friday at 7 p.m.
Michael Coombs is the team�s top pitcher, while the offense is paced by seniors Logan Nobles and Tyler Williams.
Hunt is fueled on the mound by Colton Griffin, who boasts a 1.66 ERA and 3-2 record, and Jacob Williamson�s 4-2 mark and 2.12 ERA.
Hunt also sends a trio to the plate that hits over a .350 clip.
Cody Pittman leads the way with a .385 average, 18 runs and 16 RBIs.
Isaiah White bats .375 and leads the team with 11 stolen bases, and Dewanye Williams-Sutton is hitting .367.
Trojans set to take on North Duplin
Jones Senior (6-11, 4-6) travels to No.1 seed North Duplin Rebels (15-6, 8-2) Friday for the opening round of the 1-A state baseball playoffs.
North Duplin is out of the Carolina Conference.
Jones is led by seniors Will Price and Brad Baugus.
The game is scheduled to start with first pitch at 7 p.m.
Epiphany battles Greenfield for third time
The Epiphany Falcons will take on the Greenfield Knights for a third time this season Friday at 4 p.m. at Creekside Park.
The Falcons are led by Adam Nelson, Jared Hill and Robbie LaGuardia at the plate.
Greenfield bested Epiphany 7-6 in Wilson on April 11, before the Falcons returned the favor with an 8-5 win in New Bern April 30.


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A recent rash of noise complaints from private citizens against lake front businesses has escalated in recent weeks. These complaints have drawn attention to Camden County's Planning and Zoning Commission. The complaints are challenging zoning classifications and use permits of both Paradise, a restaurant and bar located in Sunrise Beach and Lazy Gators, part of an entertainment complex on Horseshoe Bend. In both cases, private home owners are lodging complaints against these facilities. The complaints are similar in nature and have centered around noise levels, citing that homeowners' rights are being violated in what is being termed 'commercial creep'.
These complaints and various legal proceedings have begun to make an argument for the need for Article 600, currently tabled by the County Commission in lieu of public opposition. Article 600, according to an argument made by Kris Franken in March, was necessary to provide enforcement for Planning and Zoning violations. He explained that after a 90-day violation is issued, the county has no other recourse than the courts.
"This is where our current code exhausts enforcement," Franken said in quote from lakeexpo.com. "At that point all we can do is file suit in civil court which is very expensive."
The Commission should know. They have been caught in legal proceedings they began with Lazy Gators in recent years. Lazy Gators, which sits on a lot that was formerly the site to an abandoned house, is zoned as residential. Instead of rezoning to accommodate the commercial use of the point, the county remained steadfast on keeping the lot zoned residential. This was done under the leadership of a county commission that included two residents of Horseshoe Bend, current Commissioner Bev Thomas and former Presiding Commissioner Carolyn Lorraine.
Attorney and husband of former Presiding Commissioner Lorraine, Thomas Lorraine, representing Mr. and Mrs. Richard Danowsky, filed a petition in Camden County Circuit Court against the Paradise Bar and Grill in Sunrise Beach. The petition states his clients land rights and values were being adversely affected by the noise levels coming from neighboring Paradise. " They won't enforce their own codes." Lorraine said of the county.
Across the Lake, residents of the Village of the Four Seasons have lodged similar complaints against Lazy Gators. They cite entertainment cabanas, outdoor music and traffic congestion as being in violation of Camden County zoning regulations. Anonymous citizens were quoted, hitting an interesting array of talking points in a recent article by Dan Field in the Lake Sun. In it, Field describes at length, concerns of unidentified citizens. Additionally, he takes great pains to avoid mentioning the approximate number of those citizens standing against the operation of Lazy Gators.
From Field's Lake Sun article:
The group attending the Village meeting says it will continue to visit with residents and work to gather momentum in halting the noise and other concerns.
"One of the issues is that the Camden County Planning and Zoning has little recourse when somebody breaks the rules other than the courts," a resident said. "We're not against development, none of us is, as long as the development doesn't infringe on the residents.
Our voices are going to be the most important thing in getting this resolved," a resident said.
Village Clerk Tom Laird encouraged residents to attend Planning and Zoning meetings and Camden County Commissioner meetings.
Article 600, from sales pitches issued from county commissioners in recent months, is the solution. Residents of the Village of the Four Seasons would clearly like to see Article 600 passed and applied to developer of Lazy Gators, Gary Prewitt. In order to satisfy citizens in the Village of Four Seasons, the county filed suit against Prewitt, claiming him to be in violation of zoning restrictions. The county has also denied all attempts to rezone the lot to commercial. This failure to rezone and decision to pursue a court judgement would not seem to be in the best interest of Camden County. It would however, appear to benefit a few residents of Horseshoe Bend. These residents of Four Seasons, who would remain anonymous, would like to see unwarranted inspections and heavy fines imposed on residents in Camden County. The Commission's office seems all too eager to assist in these flimsy 'justifications' to pass Article 600. The County Commission, through the use of a manufactured crisis by way of the lawsuit filed against Lazy Gators, is seeking political cover regarding the controversial Planning and Zoning Article. They would seek to give themselves protection against public resentment, should they pass it.
The next meeting of the County Commission will be at 10am on May 16th. As the justifications mount in favor of Article 600, so too does the resolve of those who stand in opposition to such gross government overreach. The citizens of Camden County, whose voices were loud in defiance of the ambiguous Article 600, now have both their eyes and ears wide open, looking for the next move in this shell game.


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OAKLAND–A San Lorenzo woman was sentenced Thursday to two and a half years in prison for stealing more than $300,000 from people who believed she was acting as an attorney for them, the Department of Justice said.
Ana Lissa Reyes, 42, pleaded guilty in April to engaging clients from the Bay Area law firm where she was a paralegal, settling their claims and then keeping the settlement proceeds, prosecutors said Thursday. Reyes also admitted to stealing clients' retainer fee payments and underreporting her income from 2006 until 2011, during which she carried out the fraud.
Reyes has been convicted of five counts of mail fraud and six counts of tax evasion, and ordered to repay $328,000 in restitution to victims. She must also pay $67,000 to the Internal Revenue Service.
Reyes will begin serving her sentence on August 11.
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Rush Offense: 11.0% (25th)
O-Line Adjusted Line Yards: 3.66 Yards (29th)
O-Line Adj. Sack Rate: 5.7% (12th)
Analysis: Having lost their last three games, the Titans are struggling. With a young QB in Jake Locker, a banged up offensive line and a year in which Kenny Britt hasn't been his usual self, the Titans have had a tough time finding their identity offensively. Chris Johnson has turned around his slow start, but he's still hamstrung by the team around him. The Titans receivers have shown promise, but it's hard to know whether it's fool's gold as the team has had to resort to throwing so much this season. For the Jets, they will need to prioritize how to scheme against this team. Chris Johnson presents a bad mismatch for the Jets, especially as a receiver. Other than that, the Jets should move Cromartie around but make his main charge Nate Washington as he's had the most effective and efficient season this year. While Kendall Wright and Kenny Britt are concerns, they are less so this year in comparison. Look to see if the Jets don't use more of a Big Nickel package repeatedly. Anything that allows them more of a Tampa-2 style look.
Pass Defense: 18.2% (25th)
Rush Defense: 0.4% (22nd)
Defensive Adjusted Line Yards: 4.35 Yards (22nd)
Defensive Adj. Sack Rate: 6.2% (19th)
Analysis: Running the football on this team should not be a problem. It might not be as easy as it was last week for the Jets, but they would be wise to keep this as a key part of their offense as it puts Sanchez in a situation to hurt them less if he's handing the ball off. The Jets line should be able to eventually overpower the Titans d-line and get some large holes for their ballcarriers. Look for Greene and Powell to keep splitting carries, but expect that the Jets will mix in Joe McKnight more should he be healthy enough this week. When the Jets do have to pass, watch out for Kamerion Wimbley and Akeem Ayers. As they are the Titans' two top sackmasters, with five and four respectively. With the way that Brick and Howard have been playing, it would make sense that they should be able to do enough to keep Ayers and Wimbley busy -- especially when you consider that Jason Smith will be used to help Howard during the course of the game on pass and run blocking.
When Mark Sanchez does put the ball in the air, they'd be wise to look pay attention to who's playing well at the corner spot, and go the other way. While McCourty and Verner have had times in which they've had good games on the season, they've been up and down during the course of the year and the Jets should be mindful of their inconsistent level of play over the course of the season and beware. Also, while no one wants to hear it, the Titans do struggle in taking on running backs in the passing game, so look for Mark to be targeting Greene or McKnight when possible.
Special Teams: -1.4% (23rd)
Analysis: This unit is one of the worst in the league at covering kickoffs. Look for Westhoff to try and scheme up a way to get McKnight or whoever is returning kicks a way to run one back for a score.


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HP job cuts hit Scotland
Jobs Czech out
Ink giant HP is sacking 850 people at its plant in Erskine, Renfrewshire because production of servers and storage devices is moving to the Czech Republic.
Some 1,300 people are employed at the plant. Staff are expected to be told the news later today; a spokeswoman for HP confirmed to the BBC that a meeting was being held this afternoon.
A source told the Daily Record: "Manufacturing of storage devices and servers at the Erskine site will be wound down between February and October next year. This will mean the loss of 70 permanent HP staff and 773 people employed at the site by Manpower.
"The move has come about because their production is to be relocated to the Czech Republic."
HP warned a week ago that more job cuts were coming when it announced second quarter results. The company made profits of $1.72bn on sales of $27.4bn in the three months ended April.
The plant was originally opened by Compaq in the 80s before being taken over by HP after the acquisition.
Three years ago HP shifted 250 jobs from Scotland to Pardubice in the Czech Republic. ®


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|The Amelia single sink vanity is not just any ordinary bathroom accessory. It is a magnificent and beautiful vanity that has very charming patterns throughout the surface. The woodwork, the carvings on the pilaster and the base, and the metallic handles and knobs complete the antique look of the vanity. This single sink vanity can undoubtedly produce an atmosphere of old world elegance in your bathroom. Classic single sink vanity. Stunning single sink vanity with nine utility drawers and two-door storage space. 2-door storage with shelves. 3 pre-drilled faucet holes. 9 functional drawers. Hand painted cherry red finish with interesting patches of light brown polish. Large cutout at back for plumbing installation. Under mount ceramic sink. Faucet sold separately. Ivory white undermount sink.
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