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For any Dandy Owners considering a restoration I thought I would post these incredible pictures sent to me by a German Dandy enthusiast. It really shows just what is possible with a little imagination and ingenuity!
From the owner:
I bought my Dandy in Autumn 2006 for 100 Euro in the Netherlands just for fun and to do some handywork. Seeing a picture of the erected Dandy was not love at first sight but it looked so peculiar that it caught my interest – and it was British 😉 . When I eventually started work early in 2007, the project soon became a challence for inventiveness on a low budget.
The original side panels were old, scratched and bumpy PVC boards, not aluminium.. New PVC was available but expensive, so I took bonded resin-coated plywood of 5mm thickness, framed with aluminium angle section from our local do-it-yourself store. The brown colour came factory-provided with the plywood, no painting was required at all. All planking is sealed with polyurethane adhesive and fixed with rivets on the steel frame that had been coated with a seawater resistant primer.
The underbody section around all steel tubes is additionally protected by a special wax-grease mixture, used also for the restoration of vintage cars and bikes, thus this Dandy is now made for the caravan-eternity, I think.
An electric power input socket is fixed to the front and connected to the awning power supply. I placed a 5Kg gas bottle in the front box with new gas pipes and a quick coupling inside the caravan to connect the original gas stove. The external gas outlet is installed to avoid the unloved gas tank dragging and saves some room inside the awning.
Next job is to replace the original hinge pin at the lower door section by a removable one to get access to the main loading space without erecting the tent.
Enjoy the pics. Hope they provide someone, somewhere with the motivation to rescue one of these old classic Dandy's !


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Call it the revenge of the 1 percent.
President Obama bested Mitt Romney by portraying his Republican opponent as a rich businessman who used offshore tax havens and ran enterprises into the ground without regard for working people.
On Thursday, senators held a confirmation hearing for President Obama's nominee to be secretary of commerce: a billionaire who benefits from offshore tax havens, whose family owned a failed savings and loan, and who is accused by unions of mistreating workers.
Turns out the wealthy didn't lose the 2012 election; rather, the Republican rich lost to the Democratic rich.
This is not to question the qualifications of Penny Pritzker, the Hyatt hotels heiress and Democratic mega-donor Obama nominated. I suspect she'll be a fine commerce secretary when she is confirmed, as she surely will be.
But her confirmation hearing was a reminder of how wealth is power in Washington. A multimillionaire president nominated a billionaire who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for his campaigns, and he sent her to be confirmed by the millionaires' club that is the U.S. Senate.
"You will certainly have my vote," Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (average estimated net worth: $103 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics) assured the nominee (net worth $1.85 billion, according to Forbes).
"My hope," said Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner ($228 million), is "this committee will recommend you."
Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill ($22 million) told Pritzker, "I find it very refreshing to find someone who is stepping up like you are in this position."
Another committee member, Sen. Richard Blumenthal ($100 million), didn't speak at the hearing but issued a statement calling the heiress "a longtime friend with a lifetime of business experience and acumen that will serve her well."
There wasn't a mention during the two-hour hearing that the nominee had recently informed the committee that because of a "clerical error," she omitted more than $80 million in income from the financial disclosures she filed.
The hearing was in its closing minutes before anybody mentioned the tax havens. The ranking Republican, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, did so almost apologetically, saying he was "going to channel Sen. (Chuck) Grassley," a Republican who is not on the committee who had said it would be "hypocritical" not to press Pritzker on "the kind of tax avoidance activity that the president dismisses as fat-cat shenanigans for others."
"I am the beneficiary of offshore family trusts that were set up when I was a little girl," the nominee replied. "I didn't create them. I don't direct them."
Neither Thune nor anybody else followed up on her 70-word answer, and the family's stake in the failed S&L got similar treatment from Thune.
The audience was packed with Hyatt workers in red shirts and baseball caps representing "Unite Here," a hotel workers union that opposes Pritzker's confirmation on grounds that Hyatt has "a broad pattern of labor abuses, including aggressive outsourcing, low wages and the mistreatment of housekeepers."
But the only senator to mention the union complaint was Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., who appeared content with Pritzker's assurance that she has a "good relationship" with labor before they moved on to discuss what the nominee called "the importance of salmon."
Republicans likely went easy on Pritzker because they saw her as the most pro-business appointee they're likely to get from a Democrat. And Democrats weren't about to give an ally a hard time.
Pritzker and her husband have donated nearly $1 million to federal candidates since 1990, almost all to Democrats, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign finance. She raised at least $500,000 for Obama's 2012 campaign and was his campaign finance chairman in 2008. She contributed $250,000 to Obama's second inaugural and about $120,000 to Democratic committees in the last two election cycles.
This doesn't mean the lawmakers were bought. But it does add to the impression that the nominee and her interrogators are all part of the same club of the wealthy and the powerful.
About half the members of Congress have a net worth of more than $1 million, CRP found -- about 15 times the worth of the typical American household. And it's a bipartisan club, from Republican committee chairmen Darrell Issa ($480 million) and Michael McCaul ($500 million) to Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi ($94 million). The Senate's wealthiest was John Kerry ($236 million), but he left to join an even more exclusive club.
How exclusive? Well, it's about to land a billionaire.
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NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance), founded in 2002, is a not-for-profit art fair that showcases international galleries in New York, Miami Beach, and Cologne. NADA's exhibitors are a breath of fresh air; the young vibe, the weirdness, and progressiveness of this exposition is hard to dismiss.
Here, I gather the most interesting works at the expo:
Estonian artist Kris Lemsalu sculpts and stages grotesque figures. In this particular set, it seems, are two very strange looking dogs(?), wrapped around sleeping bags. I'm not sure what is artist is going for here, but it seems to me that he is trying to set a scene, and a specific one at that. Both 'dogs' are covering their eyes, they are wrapped tightly, and they hovering amongst themselves; might it be that these are scared 'dogs' at an estranged camp of sorts?
Jonathan Torres, a Puerto Rican artist, creates half-animal, half-human sculptures, that are brightly colored and full of feathers. They are on the floor, nor are the hanging from the upright walls, instead they appear in odd places, throughout the tiny booth of the http://crenaz.byethost22.com/.


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I was shocked to see how different it looks. This makes me wonder--were the blue shutters and the wraparound porches just special effects? What do you think?
Lisa, who sent me the photo, tells me that the house has been condemned because it is practically falling into the water now. People have been breaking into the house and stealing things because it was in the movie and they want a piece of it. How sad.
You can see more photos of the house in the post I wrote here, or check out a list of all of the movie houses I've featured on my Houses Onscreen page.


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I liked this book because Justin is the same age as I am, and the book is very funny. It was funny because Justin describes things from a cool point of view. This story reminds me of my life because Justin and I both have little sisters that go nuts sometimes. I like the illustrations because they are small but detailed at the same time.
I recommend this book to people who love action, realistic fiction, gummy candy, summer and books like Diary of a Wimpy Kid. If you like this book then make sure to read Justin Case: School, Drool, and Other Daily Disasters.


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Home sweet home, a dream comes true
Wick's World
My wife exclaimed, "Wick, I think I found our house!"
"When did it go missing?" I queried.
My wife was propped up in bed with a computer on her lap; a rather common Saturday morning occurrence. I was sitting in my recliner with a book in hand, periodically glancing at the lake that had finally given up its frozen cover. With a few exceptions, we come home to Moose Lake every weekend, and have for the past four years. Although we bought a second home in the Cities shortly after my wife took on her dream job as a big shot at a small publishing company, we still consider Moose Lake our real home. The fact that our renter commutes on the exact opposite days and direction as we do makes for an ideal setup to live the dual life of yuppies in the Cities and weekenders up at the lake. It really is the best of both worlds.
Our original plan was to buy a nice lake home in the Cities to replace our wonderful home on Sand Lake that was no longer home to our children. There is something about the San Diego and Phoenix weather that seems to keep them permanently away. Not that our children have any distaste for Minnesota. They are still huge Vikings and Twins fans, and they always speak proudly of growing up and going to school in Moose Lake. But they generally make it back home only once or twice a year. Conversely, we love making several trips out west every year.
After four years of a weekly 250-mile round trip, a Cities home that better met our weekday needs was becoming more attractive than ever. The only problem was finding the perfect home.Finding just the right lake that wasn't too crowded became a real problem. Prices were great, but to try to replicate the idyllic home we had on Sand Lake with something similar seemed almost impossible.
Then Don Quixote appeared in the impossible dream on my wife's computer screen when she exclaimed. "Wick, I think I found our house!"
The house was listed at 9 a.m. Saturday morning. Before the day was over, someone had put in an offer. On Memorial Day Monday, our realtor gave us the tour.
As we checked out this beautiful lake home, another offer came in. It appeared that a bidding war had begun. We went home, crossed our fingers, and put in what we felt was a very reasonable offer — one that at least gave us a chance of getting this perfect house. Then our realtor suggested something I had never heard before. She advised us to sit down and write a letter to the sellers. We gave them our most eloquent, heartfelt plea.
"We should hear by six o'clock," our realtor advised. By midnight, we went to bed. It looked like the dream we wanted to dream that night was not to be.
At six o'clock the following evening, the call came through.
"They accepted your offer."
"Could you say that again?" my wife asked. By then, I had picked up the other telephone to hear the repeat message, "They accepted your offer." My wife let out a yell loud enough to pierce the realtor's eardrum. She will spend her hard-earned commission having ear surgery.
Seriously, I think the realtor was just as happy as we were about the purchase of the house. She not only got the commission for this sale, she will also be selling our other home in Eagan. Whatever amount she gets, she will have certainly earned it. Over a four year period, she showed us over 120 homes. I had felt so guilty about her spending so many hours with us that I jokingly told her I had added her to my will just to repay her for all that unprofitable time.
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HOLLAND -- Awards as the outstanding senior athletes among Hope College graduates in the class of 2007 were presented to four students during the college's Honors Convocation on Thursday (April 26).
HOLLAND -- Awards as the outstanding senior athletes among Hope College graduates in the class of 2007 were presented to four students during the college's Honors Convocation on Thursday (April 26).
Both awards have co-recipients. Lisa Smith of Dearborn (Dearborn HS) and Jennifer VanderMeer of Holland (Holland HS) have been presented the John Schouten award while Ryan Ter Louw of Pella, Iowa (Pella HS) and Michael VanderVelde of Grandville (Grandville HS) received the Otto van der Velde All-Campus Award. All of the honorees were captains of their respective teams this year.
The van der Velde award is presented to a senior man for outstanding contribution to the college in athletics, scholarship and participation in student activities. The award, presented annually since 1932, is named in memory of Dr. Otto van der Velde, a 1915 HopeCollege graduate who lettered in four sports and was later the college's team physician for more than 40 years.
The Schouten award is given to a senior woman who, in addition to excelling in athletics, possesses other strong character traits and leadership abilities. The award is named in memory of John "Jack" Schouten who was a long-time physical educator and coach at Hope, in addition to serving as the college's first director of athletics.
A psychology major, Smith was a four-year letterwinner in swimming. She achieved NCAA All-America honors several times during her career. She is the daughter of David and Janice Smith of Dearborn. VanderMeer lettered four years in track. Later this spring she will be bidding for NCAA All-America honors in the pole vault for a fourth consecutive year. She is the daughter of Jim and Cathy VanderMeer of Holland.
A chemistry major, TerLouw lettered in cross country and track all four years. He earned all-conference honors in both sports and is a three-time NCAA All-American in the 1,500-meter run. He is the son of Steve and Kathy Terlouw of Pella, Iowa. A social studies major, VanderVelde lettered four years in baseball. He is the son of Mike and Kerry VanderVelde of Grandville.


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Top-ranked Arundel won a backyard brawl Thursday night by defeating a scrappy Eleanor Roosevelt volleyball team, 25-20, 25-15, 25-18, in the state Class 4A volleyball semifinals at Ritchie Coliseum. Now the Wildcats (19-0) will see whether they can knock out the neighborhood bully for the state championship.
The bully comes in the form of Sherwood. The Warriors are winners of 56 straight matches and have ended Arundel's season the past two years — in the state semifinals in 2010 and the state championship last year. That match will be played at 8 p.m. Monday night at Ritchie Coliseum.
On Thursday, Shannon Kelly and Allison Orr led Arundel with 10 kills each, and Brittany Orr contributed 34 assists. Meya Ngumdam paced Eleanor Roosevelt (17-1) with nine kills.
"We're excited about the chance to play Sherwood again," Arundel coach Ashley Yuscavage said. "This group has been ready to take on this challenge for a long time."
Arundel played pensively early in the first set, falling behind 10-7. The Wildcats then went on a 13-point run to take a 20-10 lead. The Raiders mounted a charge of their own, but the Wildcats held off the rally and took the set 25-20. Arundel asserted its dominance in the last two sets, winning 25-15 and 25-18.
"We started a little slow in the beginning and we fought to keep our game up," Arundel junior Brittany Orr said. "We had a little bit of anxiety coming out, but then we started talking and communicating.
This version of the Wildcats is a slimmed-down, less power-oriented team than in the past two seasons. They win with teamwork and communication, and they will need every bit of that and more to beat Sherwood.
Yuscavage said that while people try to compare this year's team to the others before it, the current group is distinct. She hopes that will give it an edge in Monday's championship.
"Other people are concerned about who has left. These girls are not," she said. "They are a good group, and I know they'll be ready to go [in the final]."
Added Allison Orr, Britney's twin sister: "This has always been a goal ours to play Sherwood again. I know that we are excited for the chance to meet them again."
In Thursday's first game, Sherwood (18-0) defeated Walter Johnson, 25-13, 25-21, 18-25, 25-12.
Sherwood, as it has been the past two years, was led by Alex Holston (37 kills). Holston, who will play volleyball next season at Florida, tied the state single-match record for kills set by Elisa Davidson of Glenelg in 1995. Brigid Morris led Walter Johnson (16-3) with 14 kills.
Though the Warriors controlled the match, Walter Johnson played them tough. Sherwood had some trouble at the net with Wildcats defenders Stephanie Paul and Kristen Larrick.
Walter Johnson was one of only two teams to take a set against Sherwood this season.


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If someone on the Internet told you they had experience jumping off bridges and surviving, would you believe that person? If someone on the Internet told you they had experience cooking and eating humans, would you believe that person?
Most people would have enough common sense not to believe that person. Gilberto Valle — the NYPD cop who is on trial for allegedly planning to cook and eat a woman — does not have that common sense. Dale Bolinger is a British nurse who Valle met online, on a creepy sex fetish website called "darkfetishnet," and coached him with tips for kidnapping, raping and cooking women. Bolinger was arrested last week in his home for telling Valle about successfully killed and ate at least two women, and a 5-year-old boy, during their online conversations. Bollinger went by names like "Moody Blues" and "MeatMarketMan" online, where he was supposedly Valle's mentor. Bolinger told Valle he had a "Haggis" recipe that worked well with human flesh, and advised eating women while they were still alive. Maybe it adds more flavor? Who knows.
Bolinger doesn't know, that's for sure. (If you believe him.) After he was released from police custody, the nurse told the New York Post the things he claimed online were all a lie. He never ate women or a young boy. There is no recipe for human haggis. "None of this is real. It is all fantasy," Bolinger told the Post. The website advertises on its front page that everything is purely fantasy. Bolinger knew that; Valle didn't. Police searched Bollinger's lawn for human remains and came up with nothing. It seems Bollinger won't be charged with anything, so his role in this story is mostly over. He can now start repairing his personal and private life. His son was also arrested when police raided his home, just for living there, and now they aren't speaking. Oh, and his neighbors all know he goes on the Internet and talks about raping and eating women now. That might be tough to explain while waiting in line at the grocery store.
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Sports Birthdays for October 15 — Jim Palmer and More
Here are some of the people in the sports world celebrating birthdays on October 15:
Jim Palmer
Age: 67
Profession: Retired MLB Player / Broadcaster
Best Known For: A six-time All-Star pitcher, Jim Palmer played for the Baltimore Orioles from 1965 to 1984. Palmer won three American League Cy Young Awards and four Gold Gloves. He was a member of the Orioles' teams that won the World Series in 1966, 1970 and 1983. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1990. In the late 1970s, Palmer served as a model and spokesman for Jockey briefs.
Jorge Campos
Age: 46
Profession: Retired Soccer Player
Best Known For: A smallish goalkeeper at 5'8", Jorge Campos was a member of the Mexican national soccer team from 1991 to 2004.
Elena Dementieva
Age: 31
Profession: Retired Tennis Player
Best Known For: Winner of 16 WTA singles titles, Elena Dementieva played on the WTA tour from 1998 to 2010. She won the gold medal in women's singles at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Arron Afflalo
Age: 27
Profession: NBA Player
Best Known For: Arron Afflalo is a shooting guard for the Orlando Magic. He has played in the NBA since the Detroit Pistons selected him in the first round of the 2007 NBA Draft. Afflalo also played with the Denver Nuggets before signing with Orlando in 2012. He played college basketball at UCLA, where he was both the Pac-10 Player of the Year and an All-American in 2007.
Blaine Gabbert
Age: 23
Profession: NFL Player
Best Known For: Blaine Gabbert is the starting quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars, who selected him in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft. He played college football at Missouri.


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Seidensticker Halle
Since 1993, the Seidensticker Halle has been a lively venue for a range of large-scale events near the centre of Bielefeld.
This very adaptable large sports arena is the ideal showground for Bielefeld´s school and club sports talent. A total of 3,700m² are available for a multitude of event and concert uses - for a maximum of 7,250 concert goers without seating.
Their zour itineraries often bring international stars and artists to the Seidensticker Halle. Shows are also integral parts of the events agenda.
The Seidensticker Halle traditionally hosts the annual Bielefeld "Oktoberfest", the largest event of its find in East Westphalia Lippe.


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A new super hot super spooky poster for the upcoming Ryan Reynolds flick "Buried" has been released. Most of the quotes are cut off in the poster but I assume somewhere in there is "Please bring back Two guys, a girl and a Pizza Place"
The screenwriters behind "Ed Wood" have signed on to write the upcoming Tim Burton stop motion animated "The Adams Family" film. I was pretty excited about this and then I saw they also wrote "Problem Child 2" and "Agent Cody Banks". After that I got super excited!
"Hellraiser: Revelations" is confirmed to start filming next month and will in fact not be a remake of the original classic, which is apparently still on the table. This one will be a small budget continuation of the Hellraiser franchise and will most likely go direct to video. Small budget meaning they can only afford four nails for Pinhead's face. Hey, time are tough for everyone.
Emily Montague from "Melrose Place" has been added to the cast of the upcoming "Fright Night" remake. Don't get too excited though, she'll apparently play a victim of our head vamp so I'm guessing her screen time will total about 5 minutes. I have no idea why you would have been excited anyway... you watch "Melrose Place"?
A bull went batshit insane recently at a bullfight in Spain and leaped into the crowd. The best part? There's a freakin video of it! Of course now that I think about it, maybe leaping into the crowd at an event where the entire focus is on you being stabbed to death isn't that nuts.
1998 - Retaliating for deadly embassy bombings in East Africa, the United States launched cruise missile strikes against al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan and what was described as a chemical plant in Sudan.


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Tools:Data Recovery
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Data Recovery
- BringBack
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- BringBack(tm) offers easy to use, inexpensive, and highly successful data recovery for Windows(tm) & Linux (ext2) operating systems and digital images stored on memory cards, etc.
- ByteBack Data Recovery Investigative Suite v4.0
- http://www.toolsthatwork.com
- Now with UDMA, ATA & SATA support, memory management and greater ease and control of Partition and MBR manipulations, ByteBack continues to uphold it's viability as the computer forensics and recovery application of professionals.
- RAID Reconstructor
- Runtime Software's RAID Reconstructor will reconstruct RAID Level 0 (Striping) and RAID Level 5 drives. People who have used it, love it.
- Salvation Data
- http://www.salvationdata.com
- Claims to have a program that can read the "bad blocks" of Maxtor drives with proprietary commands.
Partition Recovery
- parted
- The Linux partition management tool.
See Also
| Using Norton Disk Edit to Backup Your Master Boot Record
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I don't know why, but I had to do him next, Sea Hawk is a pretty important character in POP and a also a very cool loking pirate!
The MOTUC figure would be pretty inexpensive, especially if he can reuse Snout Spout's boots.
The laser sword could be achived by molding two version: one active and one deactivated, or the saber could be a separate piece molded in translucent plastic that plug into the handle.
But the handle can also fit in the holster.
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We face a quandary in building broad-coverage grammars. As we encounter new constructs and extend the grammar by adding new productions, we find that these productions also provide alternative, unwanted parses for 'ordinary' sentences. We can try to address this problem by adding feature-based constraints, but the resulting grammar becomes very hard to maintain.
One solution we already have considered is to perform only partial parsing -- to recognize a limited set of constituents, and not to insist on getting a complete syntactic analysis of every sentence.
An alternative solution is to employ probabilistic context-free grammars (PCFGs). We associate a probability with each production in the grammar, with the requirement that the sum of the probabilities of the productions expanding a given symbol sum to 1. We can then view the grammar as a probabilistic sentence generator, just as we did Markov Models and HMMs. We start with the sentence symbol, and at each step expand the leftmost non-terminal, choosing a production based on its probability. In contrast to HMMs, the PCFG allows us to easily capture more global constraints ... for example, that each sentence has a subject and object.
When we parse with a PCFG, we seek the most probable analysis of a sentence (just as we sought the most probable state sequence for an HMM). The probility of a parse is the product of the probabilities of all the productions which are used to expand symbols in the tree.
Why does a PCFG help us in managing large grammars? The probabilities provide a way of choosing between parses, preferring the more probable ones. If we add an additional production to handle some very rare phenomenon we had not previously encountered, we will assign a very low probability to that production, so (roughly speaking) we will generate an analysis using that production only if an analysis using 'ordinary' (more probable) productions is not available.
Of course, if we had to assign such probabilities by hand, judging which productions are more likely, the task of grammar preparation would be almost impossible. However, if we have a 'tree bank' -- a large set of sentences with manually-assigned parses -- we can build a PCFG in a very straightforward fashion by counting the number of times each production appears in the tree bank. The probability of a production r(n) expanding a symbol n is
P(r(n)) = count (r(n)) / count(n)An early tree bank for this purpose was developed by the speech group at IBM Research (Yorktown Heights); the most influential and widely-used tree bank was developed at the University of Pennsylvania by Mitch Marcus and his colleagues (the Penn TreeBank). It has led to the development of tree banks for several dozen other languages, including Japanese, German, Czech, Chinese, and Arabic.
If we are factoring the parse tree, combining all partial analyses of the same word sequence as the same symbol, then we need to retain only the most probable analysis.
The efficiency of probabilisitic parsing can be improved by doing a best-first search (extending the most probable hypothesis) or a heuristic search.
In addition, PCFGs do not take the lexical items into account, even though we recognize that some lexical items are much more likely in some environments. There are dependencies between words and constructions, which we are familiar with as subcategorization. For example, in the context "I ___ that Fred has two dogs.", it is much more likely that the blank is filled by the word "know" or "believe", and not by "am" or "sold". In addition, there are dependencies between the words of a sentence. For example, in the context "I bought a ____ about computational linguistics.", it is much more likely that the blank is filled with "book" than "dog".
To handle such dependencies, we need to make productions dependent on the lexical items in the sentence. But which lexical items? We don't have enough data to estimate probabilities for all combinations of words. To limit the lexical items used to condition the probabilities, we use the notion of head introduced as part of constituent structure and employed in feature grammars. For each production, we designate one element of the right-hand side as the head of the construct; for example, the verb in a verb phrase production. We pass up the tree the word associated with the head element, so that there is a head word h(n) associated with each node n in the tree. If we have a production A --> B C D, and C is the head element of the production, then h(A) = h(C) is the head of the phrase, and we say that h(B) and h(D) are dependents of the head of the phrase.
We then compute the probability of the tree as the product, over all nodes n, of
p(r(n) | n, h(n)) * P(h(n) | n, h(parent(n)))where r(n) is the production used to expand node n. The quality of a parser is measured in terms of how many of the constituents were correctly identified. A simple PCFG, trained on the Penn Tree Bank (1 million words) may get in the 70's; the best lexicalized PCFGs get almost 90% correct when tested on the same type of text.


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Posted: Wed 26 Jun 2013, 15:40
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Was I hacked?
Subject description: Malicious email?
1. I use "SaveMyModem" [smm] to check all my incoming emails whilst they are still on the Blueyonder POP3 server.
2. Saw an email that pretended to be [or WAS?] from "Love Film" with whom I have an account.
It looked legitimate, so I downloaded it using Thunderbird.
Thunderbird blocks links to stuff out on the web.
Cant remember if I allowed those links.
3. The email was saying that I needed to change my login details for Love Film, so as to use my Amazon login details.
I was suspicous of this and decided to do nothing, but didn't delete the email.
4. Next Time I booted the Puppy [Precise-5.6.1 frugal install on a partition on an internal HDD] and ran Thunderbird [its files are held at /mnt/home and can be used by all copies of TB on various Puppies], it fetched an email [using my existing/unchanged username & password], and reported that the server was unable to use the provided username & password [obviously false, since smm and Thunderbird were both successfully accessing the POP3 server and downloading stuff].
I deleted the LoveFilm email!
5. I booted my Slacko [frugal install] held on a Flash Drive and ran Thunderbird.
This TB doesn't use the TB files held at /mnt/home, but instead uses its own files held within the pupsave file.
It reported no problem accessing the POP3 server, even though using the same username & password as all other Thunderbird copies.
I deduced that either the TB program files had been messed with, or else the email files [default & profiles].
6. I used Slacko to delete the precisesave file and replace it with a HotBackup copy made about 2wks ago.
Having booted back into Precise, and ran Thunderbird, there was no longer any report of a problem.
A good email fetched OK, both in smm and Thunderbird.
Does anyone understand what happened?
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Posted: Wed 26 Jun 2013, 18:16
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phishing love film
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Posted: Wed 26 Jun 2013, 21:30
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Jasper wrote:
phishing love film
If I ever again get such an email, I hope to remember this, go again to the webpage found, and apply the advice given by LoveFilm.
At least I didn't get badly bitten this time around.
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Posted: Thu 27 Jun 2013, 13:07
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Subject description: phishing
phishing protection is desired:
(1) google the demo site - internetbadguys
(2) google - sc0ttman internet security helper
(that's scZero)
(3) download and install the pet from the 1st post (or read the entire thread if more than phishing protection is sought).
(4) Click Setup DNS, use the arrow and choose OpenDNS - then OK out.
(5) now repeat item (1) and the site should now be blocked (as per screen shot).
417 Time(s)
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Posted: Thu 27 Jun 2013, 15:02
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1. All above steps completed successfully, and the site was blocked.
2. I installed:
Linked at THIS thread
[all buttons available]
[only 2 were not grayed]
3. How does this prevent me being subject to phishing scams?
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Posted: Thu 27 Jun 2013, 15:33
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PM Nooby - doubtless he could make one of his wild guesses along the lines of - those that can not get near the fire cannot have a finger burnt nor have their life destroyed by financial fraud.
It's "some" protection from our human frailty, but not total protection all the time.
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Posted: Thu 27 Jun 2013, 17:51
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After reboot, nothing I tried could connect to the internet...
So I deleted the precisesave file and replaced it with my most recent backup copy.
So I can now once again connect to the web.
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Posted: Thu 27 Jun 2013, 19:18
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Sylvander wrote:
After reboot, nothing I tried could connect to the internet...
So I deleted the precisesave file and replaced it with my most recent backup copy.
So I can now once again connect to the web.
I'm still a little puzzled (and concerned)...
It would seem that merely downloading this email was sufficient to break Thunderbird, and/or the internet connection...
That reminds me, it's probably time to make another copy of my save file...
Add swapfile
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Posted: Thu 27 Jun 2013, 20:50
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Hi Sylvander,
sc0ttman wrote about the pet you installed:
"...... but here's one that might
work in your pup! "
which is why I wrote:
"...... (or read the entire thread if more than phishing protection is sought)."
Please, for the sake of others, try the smaller pet that you linked to and just try the OpenDNS option again - and please report in sc0ttman's thread if your problem is repeated.
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Posted: Fri 28 Jun 2013, 00:50
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1. Used smm to look at emails on the POP3 server.
All was well, only one email = notification of your post above.
2. Used Thunderbird to fetch the email.
3. The "Alert" has returned, which says:
"Sending of username did not succeed. Mail server pop3.blueyonder.co.uk responded: Protocol error."
When I close the Alert, the following window tries to get me to specify [reset to] another password.
Didn't do that.
Emails are being fetched OK.
4. Last night...
For the 1st time ever...
When working within Slacko-126.96.36.199 frugal install running from a Flash Drive [I try to keep this strictly for banking]...
This is capable of not saving session changes...
When I copied and pasted the usual webpage address for my banking website account login page...
From within my encrypted "Acerose Password Vault"...
I got "page not found".
Phoned my bank's help desk...
She told me the address for the bank's home webpage...
Then to click the login button to be taken to the login page.
The address was [slightly] different to the address saved inside my "Acerose Password Vault", that I've use successfully for years, [to prevent me being sent to a false/spoofed webpage].
She wouldn't [couldn't] either confirm or deny that the new login page address was correct.
Or whether the change of address was/is legitimate.
I had little alternative but to login there.
Did so, and all looked/seemed OK.
I'm worried that something malicious may be happening!
5. I'll intall "netsecurity-0.1-noarch.pet" once again, but I think SetupDNS will be one of the grayed buttons.
All's well, it is there.
I've once again enabled OpenDNS, and internetbadguys.com is being blocked.
Should this block the "Alert" mentioned in 3 above?
Or else, what to do about it?
Is it genuine or malicious?
I'll click "Save..." on the desktop to manually save the changes [installed program].
6. I need a good screen capture utility [to show you the "Alert"] that can capture a chosen region of screen.
I've used one in the past that I liked, but cannot remember it's name.
Not keen on those I have now = Pupsnap, Screeny, mtPaint.
7. Having rebooted...
Used smm to check for new emails, and there were none.
Ran Thunderbird.
All seemed OK...
No emails fetched...
No "Alert" displayed; does that have any significance?
Able to connect OK to the internet using the usual programs [smm, Nightly].
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Posted: Fri 28 Jun 2013, 04:59
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Please let us know if you get any new email or banking peculiarities.
Hopefully others can analyse your experience and proffer advice.
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Posted: Sun 30 Jun 2013, 02:58
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I notice there is only an "Alert" when I fetch emails during the session that follows a reboot from a session during which a "session save" was completed.
If no save...then no alert.
Normally I never save, so there is normally no alert.
Last time I tried a fetch and got the "Alert", the mails didn't fetch.
But they did then fetch when I did it manually using the menu entry.
I think the malicious email must have made change[s] to the Thunderbird files [default and profiles] held in /mnt/home [sda5].
The only copy I have of those files were when I made a backup [using Xfe] of the sda5 folder/file partition contents [to backup the emails+] way back in January.
I'd like to avoid losing recent emails.
Might it be possible to copy the up-to-date emails over to a restored copy of the old backup?
I can make unmetered calls 24/7 to any landline phone in the UK, so...
If you were happy for us to speak by landline phone, and gave my your number by PM....
I could call you.
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(This was to have posted a few weeks back… I entered it, posted it, but it seems to have disappeared. Here it is in its entirety! Apologies to Peter Avvento and to all of you.)
This was one of the most bitterly debated documents of the council. The original plan had called for one document on the church – "De Ecclesia"- but this changed largely due through the efforts of Leo Cardinal Suenens (Belgium) and his fellow bishops from Germany and the Netherlands. The pivotal point was the need to make a distinction between the church ad intra (the basic nature and structure of the Church) and the church ad extra (the church understood from the perspective of its mission to the world). Thus Vatican II produced two documents – "Lumen Gentium" (on the nature of the church) and "Gaudium et Spes" (on the mission of the church). One of the key speeches was that given by Dom Helder Camara of Brazil that bears repeating and should be emphasized to church leadership today, "Are we to spend our whole time discussing internal church problems while two-thirds of humankind is dying of hunger?"
Part I of "Gaudium et Spes" establishes the theological framework for the church's engagement in the world. It creates a theological anthropology that is grounded in the biblical notion of the human person as the "image of God". Part II deals with the practical questions of moral application and addresses such topics as marriage and family, economic and social life and the fostering of peace.
Throughout the document there is an over-riding spirit of respectful dialogue with the world. On one hand, the church admits that it has much to learn from the world. On the other hand, the church offers to the world the "Good News" of Jesus Christ. The Church maintains that it is the guardian of the deposit of God's Word and it draws religious and moral principles from it but it does not always have a ready answer to every question. While this may be frustrating to some it is part and parcel of the fact that life is filled with more "gray" than "black and white", especially in moral matters.
One of the basic themes is an understanding of the Church ("all Christian faithful" as being called to a mission in the world. The Church believes that through each of us and all of us as a whole, we can make the human family even more human. Your actions and my actions have a social and a political impact. The metaphor of "leaven" (yeast) is most appropriate because it suggests that we are sent into the world to transform it from within. As a result, this document repudiates any attempt to define the church as being over and against the world as if it were so sort of autonomous entity ("a perfect society") unaffected by the issues and concerns for humanity. The Church is NOT of ultimate importance – the Kingdom of God is. The Church exists as a UNIVERSAL SACRAMENT of SALVATION. As Christians we must be willing to "get our hands dirty" for the sake of the Kingdom.


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Pictures: 'Mad Men'-inspired dining
The gin-soaked, skinny-tied debauchery of the hit TV series "Mad Men" returns after a year-and-a-half hiatus. Since debuting in 2007, the show, set in the '60s, has sparked new interest in retro food and fashion. To help you celebrate the season five premiere, we've put together a dinner party menu using signature recipes of famous vintage Baltimore restaurants like the Harvey House and the Prime Rib. Don Draper, the show's main character, even dined at one of them — Haussner's — on a business trip to Baltimore in the first episode of season three. As with most recipes of the time, this food is not for the meek. Beef, butter and bacon make appearances — but not in proportions that will knock you out before the show begins. Since no proper "Mad Men" dinner party would be complete without plenty of liquid courage, each course has an accompanying cocktail. It's probably not the best idea to make them all — unless you're Roger Sterling, that is.--By John Houser III
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SPRINT to Independence
We all know someone who has suffered a stroke, broken bone, joint replacement, spinal cord injury, multiple trauma or brain injury. Medically necessary inpatient rehabilitation probably was part of the recovery process after your relative, friend or neighbor was stabilized at an acute-care hospital.
Simply stated, medical rehabilitation is the physical, occupational and speech therapy that helps patients improve functional skills and regain independence. This specialized inpatient rehabiliation is ideally overseen daily by physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians and specially certified rehabilitation nurses.
So how do you choose the inpatient facility that provides the best medical rehabilitation that will result in best recovery?
First, you must know that you do have a choice; you can request to be moved to a specialized inpatient rehabilitation facility. There are proven and life-improving advantages to selecting Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital over a nursing home or hospital-based unit. Overall, Good Shepherd's patients go home faster than those cared for at similar facilities in the region and nation – and most of our patients truly go home, not to a nursing home. Plus, most of Good Shepherd's patients – 96 percent -- are happy with their care and are likely to recommend the hospital to others.
What sets Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital apart is that we specialize in rehabilitation. The advantages to our care can be summed up by the phrase "SPRINT to Independence":
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In a field like social media, expanding, extending and exploding in so many different directions and pieces, it's hard to make rock-solid predictions as 2012 prepares to become mayor of the calendar. In lieu of trying to be Nostradamus or a Mayan prophet, let's instead look at where we've been and ask 5 questions about social media for the year to come.
1. Will geosocial converge or diverge? We saw plenty of shakeups in location-based or geosocial media in 2011. Facebook Places fizzled, but Zuck and Co. subsequently bought Gowalla. Promising platform Whrrl was purchased by Groupon, who celebrated by shutting it down. Foursquare made some tweaks, but mostly I still see people just checking into their workplaces. SCVNGR's Jeffrey Kirchick and I tend to believe that what's next in geosocial media goes beyond merely checking in and into the realm of checking out: By which I mean geosocial-driven purchases, more reviews-based activities (like Yelp) and location-based dating apps. Yes, dating. Whether new platforms and communities will drive these innovations or existing players will lead into these more practical areas is a big question.
2. Will Google+ meet the hype? Is G+ the best thing since sliced bread or is it already stale? Depends whom you ask. My opinion is that their invitation-only beta release unnecessarily segregated users; I was in early but by the time many friends joined, my interest had waned. Similar rollouts didn't exactly put over Google Buzz or Wave (RIP). Now my streams grow ever quieter while most people adding me are scary-looking strangers with unpronounceable last names. Despite all that, Google+ presents a user-friendly product with great connectivity and avenues for quality content. So it may yet make a big move this year and live up to the hype many have (baselessly, if we're being honest) heaped upon it.
3. Will Facebook innovate or atrophy? Facebook may be expanding and ubiquitous, but did it really accomplish much in 2011? It gave us a ticker many folks hated, a timeline no one really asked for, the ability to flood friends' streams with new promotional partners and an took Places to purgatory. User reactions to the developments tended to range from upset to annoyed to nonplussed. I didn't hear anyone (outside of their flacks and claques) rave about what Facebook accomplished this year. Does this leave them vulnerable to user erosion or will they provide reasons to retain primacy?
4. Will social entertainment platforms go mainstream? People posted what they were watching via GetGlue, wannabe DJs jumped on the Turntable.fm bandwagon and Facebook friends' musical selections bombarded us through Spotify. Nice starts by all, but none moved that far beyond technophiles and fans. The immense untapped potential of iTunes Ping remains an unknown. (Have you ever heard people actually discuss Ping? Me neither.) But users love/crave entertainment, share musical tips with friends and tweet while watching Glee, Modern Family and awards shows, so huge demand for social entertainment platforms exist in the market for a company, or competitors, to plug into.
5. What don't we see coming? Since at least the time of H.G. Wells, society has held a fascination with fantasizing over future technology. I'm currently enjoying the fascinating and entertaining Max Headroom complete series DVD set. While the dystopian 1987 cyberpunk series shows a future where megacorporations and media companies control the government (sounds familiar), a striking gap between the rich and poor (check) and the potential for surveillance everywhere (ditto), it omits two key developments — the emergence of smartphones (everyone calls old-fashioned phones or uses video chats at terminals) and the rise of social media. And even as we gaze forward from the precipice of 2012, all the experts, gurus and ninjas of the world will miss at least one big, viral and influential development that will impact social media. What will it be? Stay tuned.
So that's my take. What questions and trends do you think will drive social media developments in 2012?


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112th Monon Bell Classic - Wabash Game Notesby Brent Harris • November 10, 2005 Share:
Download the Wabash football game notes for the 112th Monon Bell Classic between the Little Giants and DePauw University.
Kickoff for the 112th meeting between the two schools is set for 1:07 p.m. at Blackstock Stadium in Greencastle, Indiana. The game is sold out, but can be viewed national on DirecTV Channel 321 (WHT) beginning at 1 p.m. (EST).
Game notes are in an Adobe PDF file.
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Mitt Romney is down South, trying to win votes in the Alabama and Mississippi Republican primaries. So, I will respond as a Southerner to Romney's announcement that he won't be enrolling in Medicare, because he's worth $150-to-$200 million and doesn't need it: Well, bless his heart.
Once again, I reminded of Will Allen Dromgoole's poem, "The Bridge Builder," in which an old man crosses a river only to start building a bridge across it. (A "bridge over troubled water," if you will.) Asked by a traveler why he's building a bridge over a river he's already crossed, the old man speaks of one who will pass that way after him. "I am building this bridge for him," he explains.
As I said of Romney's billionaire backer Ken Griffin, Romney sound like the kind of guy who would cross that bridge, and then either blow it up or build a toll booth on it.
Romney's ideological evolution towards becoming the Republican nominee includes a move to embrace Paul Ryan's Medicare plan. Just to review, Ryan's original plan would have fundamentally changed the nature of Medicare, from a guaranteed public benefit to a subsidized private benefit.
Ryan's original plan replaced guaranteed coverage with "premium support." seniors would turned out into the private health insurance market with a "fixed amount" of "premium support," that would increase with inflation — not the cost of health care, which increases at a much faster rate. The effect is to (a) into the private health insurance market and (b) shift growing health care costs so seniors. According to the CBO, by 2030 a 65-year-old cold be liable for up to 68% of her health care costs. The plan also raised age at which seniors would become eligible for Medicare.
Romney's current Medicare plan, differs from Ryan's original plan in that it include a private plan but makes it optional, and preserves traditional Medicare "for those who want it." This is akin to the difference between a bullet to the brain and "death by a thousand cuts." It sounds much better, but end result is the same. Health insurers would simple cherry pick healthier seniors, just like they already cherry pick the youngest, healthiest and richest. Traditional Medicare would sicker seniors who are more expensive to cover. The costs would undermine traditional Medicare. Conservatives could then use this engineered failure to take what's left of Medicare as we know it out behind the barn, to finish the job.
Slightly different means lead to pretty much the same end for Medicare. The program would have the same name, but would be otherwise unrecognizable. Ultimately, the shift to a subsidized, privatized program called Medicare wouldn't even lower health care costs. Medicare as we know it may not be perfect, but it saves a ton compared to private health insurance. Sure, Medicare spending increased 400% from 1969 10 2009, but private insurance premiums increase more than 700% in the same period. Data from Medicare Advantage, which lets recipients get care through the private sector, costs taxpayers 13% more than Medicare as we know it.
The saving grace for conservatives is that their changes to Medicare would make it much harder to track how much more seniors end up paying for their health care. Success, here, resembles the catastrophic success of "welfare reform." Success means reducing the number of people getting help, rather than reducing the number of people needing help.
This is another case of the candidate of the 1 percent trying to relate to the other 99 percent (in the south, this apparently means dropping his g's, as well as dropping gratuitous references to grits into his speeches) and failing miserably. Romney's wealth places him among the richest 0.001 percent of Americans, so it's no surprise that he doesn't need Medicare.
Romney's decision not to enroll Medicare can be seen "walking his talk," but it sets him apart from most seniors. Nearly all seniors are automatically enrolled in Medicare Part A, which covers hospital care, but they can choose not to use it. But 95% choose to enroll in Medicare Part B, which covers physician services, once they're eligible. Romney's plans for Medicare are also out of step with the majority of Americans who are opposed to cuts to Medicare.
Romney certainly doesn't need Medicare. He can use his wealth to buy top-of-the-line health insurance and health care. But had he chosen to enroll anyway, it might have demonstrated, to seniors and Americans who opposed Medicare cuts a commitment to Medicare as we know it.
Instead, Romney's message that he just doesn't need Medicare, combined with an agenda that alters it beyond recognition, is really that he's just "not that concerned" with people who do need Medicare.


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Bob Mould
It's the day after Bob Mould released "Silver Age," his best album in years, and, no less significantly, played the "Letterman" show for the first time ever. He's fielding interviews in his hotel room, semicompulsively checking the album's online sales figures and just generally "basking in the glow" of a career that has regained traction after a decade of uneven releases that included forays into vocoder-heavy electronica and dance-pop. Mould, 51, kick-started his comeback last year with the release of his memoir, "See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody." It detailed his years leading the legendary Minnesota punk-rock band Husker Du and the only slightly less legendary Sugar, as well as his decision to come out of the closet. 8 p.m. Friday at Metro, 3730 N. Clark St.; $24; 773-549-4140 or etix.com Read the entire Bob Mould interview
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CARLISLE, PA – The York College golf squad opened the 2011 portion of their schedule on Monday with a second place finish at the Dickinson College Spring Invitational. The host Red Devils won the event with a team score of 295. The Spartans finished six strokes back with a team score of 301.
The 301 is the Spartans' best score of the season, besting their previous score of 323 at the Bent Creek Invitational in Lancaster, PA on October 11.
The Spartans were led by freshman Kevin Long as he carded a three-over-par 73, finishing three strokes back of individual medalist Arthur Worthington from Dickinson.
Freshman Tyler Skovron made his Spartan debut a successful one as he shot 75 to finish fifth while teammate Andrew Schmehl was one stroke back at 76. Junior Adam Dupler rounded out the Spartan scorers as he shot a 77, which tied him for seventh in the event.
The Spartans return to the course on Monday when they host the annual York Invitational at the Outdoor Country Club in York, PA. The shotgun start is slated for 1:00 pm.


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The supple yet durable Chablis calf leather is finished almost entirely by hand, from the initial daubing with aniline and wax, through to the final polishing with a soft cloth. The penultimate polishing phase happens in a tumbler, into which bags are inserted one at a time along with shearling skins to protect the leather.
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The inside of the bag is suede, which is the underside of the hide (the leather is the topside). In this bag, a separate piece of suede has been attached as the lining for a luxurious finish.
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A single, expert craftsman works on each bag from start to finish. All Gucci leather goods are handmade in Italy - most still in Tuscany, near where the brand was founded 90 years ago - and leatherworking skills are passed down through families in the region.
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Since the leather is stained entirely by hand, giving a lightly-worn vintage look, the finish of each bag is slightly unique, adding character and ensuring that no two bags are exactly alike. After the colouring process, the lining and metal elements are attached by hand.
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The basket weave handles and the woven detail around the bottom of the bag not only add style, but also ensure greater durability and strength. The hand weaving of the leather is characteristic of Gucci's immaculate attention to detail.
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The bag fastens with a hook closure, and contains three pockets. The iconic double G Gucci logo is in metal, attached near the top of the bag, along with a leather luggage tag. Small feet are placed on the bottom of the bag to help preserve the leather.
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Founded in Florence, Italy, in 1921, Gucci has gone on to become a fashion powerhouse, internationally renowned for its clothes, shoes, accessories and, above all, its bags. Today, the brand is larger and better known than its founder, Mr Guccio Gucci, could possibly have imagined when he opened his small luggage atelier 90 years ago. Little has changed since then, thanks to the impeccable quality and 'made in Italy' craftsmanship which has made Gucci the brand of choice from the outset for the Florentine aristocracy and the international jet-set. Here we look behind the brand to see what makes a Gucci bag such a good investment.


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(Shh!... Don't tell the knitting police, but I don't yet have a pair. At least this time I shaved my legs and the mosquito bites are almost healed.)
Writing the pattern was, um, interesting. It ended up being nine pages long! While the sock is an easy, intuitive knit, its Cedar architecture is so different from the ordinary that it takes a bit of explanation. (Try explaining intuition. Gah.) The first draft was considerably terser.
My two main sources were a Japanese stitch dictionary, Knitting Patterns Book 250, and New Pathways for Sock Knitters by Cat Bordhi, who encourages use of her ideas. I like New Pathways so much, I've joined the knit-along.
I also spent some time looking at the Mon Tricot Knitting Encyclopedia, Knitting Without Tears by Elizabeth Zimmerman, Barbara Walker's A Treasury of Knitting 1 and 2, Mary Thomas's Knitting Book, Confessions of a Knitting Heretic by Annie Modesitt, and the mighty Principles of Knitting by June Hemmons Hiatt, which made me feel a little better about waxing prolix. Some things just take a lot of words.
The pattern includes charts, suggested variations, photographs, and even a little botanic Latin (I just had to sneak some in!). Alas, it does not offer multiple sizes. I wrote the pattern for a cast on of 64 stitches and started resizing it for a cast on of 48, 54, 72, and 80 stitches to accomodate different sizes of feet and different weights of yarn, but there wasn't sufficient time before the deadline to finish – only the 64-stitch sock is given. If there's sufficient interest, I'll add more sizes to ver. 2.0. Hm... that will make the pattern even longer. Must think of a way to save trees!
That's all for the future – for the moment the pattern is in the capable hands of the contest judges. It turns out that the SOS Design Contest needs at least four more entries to run and the submission deadline has been extended to September 8. Aiya! SOSers, get your patterns written up and submitted!
ETA: Gentle reader, I won! My thanks to the judges, Jessica, Wendy, and Lisa. Happyhappyhappy dance!
ETA October 2010: Meadowlands Socks is now available on Ravelry.


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A federal judge delayed the retrial in Alabama's gambling corruption case one week because one of the defendants died before jury selection was supposed to start Monday.
MONTGOMERY — A federal judge delayed the retrial in Alabama's gambling corruption case one week because one of the defendants died before jury selection was supposed to start Monday.
Former legislative employee Ray Crosby, 63, was found dead shortly after 4 p.m. Sunday at his Montgomery home. Former state Sen. Danny Corbett, who found Crosby, said he was on his bed in his night clothes with a paperback book by his side.
"Nothing was in disarray," Corbett said.
Montgomery police opened a death investigation and on Monday sent Crosby's body to the state Department of Forensic Sciences for an autopsy. Police Sgt. Regina Duckett late Monday afternoon said autopsy had been performed, but the results were not yet available.
Crosby and six other defendants were due in federal court Monday morning for jury selection. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson met instead with attorneys and postponed the proceedings one week. Attorneys also agreed the new jury would be informed of Crosby's death.
The judge prohibited attorneys from saying much about the death, other than expressing sympathy for Crosby's family.
Mark Montiel, a former judge on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, said the death should not affect jury selection because it occurred before potential panelists saw Crosby in the courtroom as one of the defendants. He said Crosby's death means new evidence could be presented in the retrial that wasn't in the first one. That's because prosecutors can try to introduce statements Crosby made to investigators before he was indicted, but defense attorneys will fight that, Montiel said.
Prosecutors from the U.S. Justice Department made no public comments during the first trial, but some of the defense attorneys made statements daily. For the retrial, prosecutors have asked Thompson to restrict defense attorneys' public comments, but the judge has not yet ruled.
The remaining six defendants are VictoryLand casino owner Milton McGregor, state Sen. Harri Anne Smith, former Sens. Larry Means and Jim Preuitt, VictoryLand lobbyist Tom Coker and former Country Crossing casino spokesman Jay Walker.
They face bribery and conspiracy charges accusing them of promising millions in campaign contributions in return for legislators' votes on pro-gambling legislation.
The first trial ended in August with two defendants acquitted, no convictions and the jury unable to resolve all the charges against seven defendants.
Unlike the other defendants facing retrial, Crosby faced a single bribery charge accusing him of taking $3,000 monthly payments from McGregor while writing gambling measures for legislators. Prosecutors said the payments totaled $72,000. Crosby did not report the payments on his annual financial disclosure forms that state employees have to file, but he amended the papers after the gambling investigation began, prosecutors said.
After being indicted in October 2010, Crosby retired from his legislative job, went through a divorce, lost weight and put his house on the market.
Corbett, a longtime friend, said Crosby was a well-respected lawyer at the Legislature for many years. He said Crosby had been in good spirits and was upbeat about the upcoming trial when he saw him Friday night. He said he went to the house Sunday because Crosby's daughter was in Washington and had been unable to reach her father.
Corbett said he didn't realize anything was wrong at first. "Ray was on the bed. He looked like he was asleep," he said. Paramedics estimated Crosby died about 12 hours earlier, he said.
Crosby's cell phone was plugged in to charge, his keys and wallet were laid out for the next morning and five pills for his morning medication were on the nightstand by his bed, along with a glass of water, Corbett said.
"There was no sign of any problems whatsoever," he said.
A former state representative who sponsored legislation to expand the gambling at McGregor's VictoryLand, Johnny Ford of Tuskegee, said Crosby wrote bills for legislators supporting gambling and for those opposing gambling with the same amount of devotion and skill. "He was very decent person," Ford said.