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FOREST Green boss Ady Pennock has snapped up Newport County captain and former Wales international David Pipe on a two-year deal.
The 30-year-old Welshman arrives at the New Lawn on a free following his release from the League Two outfit this week.
Despite his versatility, Pipe has played the majority of his career at right-back and is seen as a ready made replacement for Jared Hodgkiss, who left the New Lawn a fortnight ago.
Previously at Bristol Rovers, the tough-tackling defender joined Newport in September 2011 after being given the chance to resurrect his career after serving 15 months in prison after hitting a man over the head with a wine bottle outside a Bristol nightclub fracturing his skull in the process.
He made over a century of appearances with Justin Edingburgh's County, and captained the Exiles to Wembley appearances in successive seasons.
This culminated in lifting the Football Conference Play-Off trophy last May and saw the Rodney Parade outfit return to the Football League.
He was also named in the 'Conference' Team of the Year for 2012/13.
. Caerphilly-born Pipe previously played for Coventry City and, Notts County.
Pipe made one substitute appearance for Wales' full side against the United States in 2003.
On the pitch with Rovers, Pipe enjoyed some good times and played with some notable players.
One of those in fact was Rickie Lambert, the current England and Southampton striker.
Pipe said even back then Lambert was an impressive player.
Pipe said: "I did not think about Rickie playing for England, but every day he did spectacular things on the training pitch.
"He is switched on so much today and he had all the talent in the world."
Video with David Pipe to follow.


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5 Best Places To Rent A Home In Delhi
Renting is a great option to earn an additional income. Metropolitan cities, including Delhi, assure good rental returns when compared to smaller cities. In the national capital, the annual rental yield saw an increase of around 3.39 percent. The Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) and the Amritsar-Delhi-Kolkata Industrial Corridor (ADKIC) will further have a positive impact on the rental sector in the city. Let's look at the five promising localities that witnessed an increase in rental values over the last few months.

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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga.—The Birmingham-Southern men's golf team finished 13th at the Royal Lakes Fall Invitational, hosted by top-ranked defending national champion Oglethorpe at Royal Lakes Golf Club in Flowery Branch, Ga.
BSC had a team score of 631, 10 strokes behind No. 24 Rhodes. Oglethorpe won the tournament with a score of 582, followed by No. 2 Methodist with 585 and No. 19 Christopher Newport with 597.
Oglethorpe's Anthony Maccaglia won the individual crown with a score of 139 (69-70), followed by Christopher Newport's Scott Davidson and Methodist's Mike Wesko tied for second with 142.
Junior Michael Wallace was the Panthers' top finisher with a two-round total of 154 (79-75), followed by junior Daniel Morris with 155 (80-75), freshman Tyler Shope with 159 (79-80), junior Phillip Brol with 164 (81-83), and freshman David Stewart with 165 (83-82).
The tournament field consisted of nine teams ranked in the top 25 in the August 29 version of the Golf Coaches Association of America poll.
BSC wraps up its fall slate in two weeks at the Millsaps Collegiate in Madison, Miss., Oct. 22-23.


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Woodland Caribou
Basic Facts About Woodland Caribou
Caribou are a member of the deer family and are adapted to cope with harsh winter conditions. Their large, concave hooves allow them to travel in deep snow conditions. Today, the woodland caribou is one of the most critically endangered mammals in the U.S., with only a few woodland caribou found south of the Canada border each year.
© Jon Nickles / USFWS
They primarily eat ground and tree lichens. It takes 80 to 150 years for a forest to grow enough lichens for caribou.
There are seven subspecies of caribou, totaling approximately 5 million individuals. Two subspecies have already been driven to extinction. Today caribou can be found in parts of North America, Russia and Scandinavia. In the United States, two subspecies can be found. Rangifer tarandus granti or barren ground caribou, more well-known due to their long-distance migrations, total 950,000 and occur throughout Alaska and northern Canada.
There are two ecotypes within the Rangifer tarandus caribou, or woodland caribou, subspecies: mountain woodland caribou and northern woodland caribou. This distinction is based largely on habitat use and behavior. Woodland caribou have been reduced to one tiny population in the U.S., in far northern Idaho and northeastern Washington. This population, known as the International Selkirk population, is extremely rare, with only about 27 individuals left. These last caribou in the continental U.S. are a type of woodland caribou known as mountain caribou because they migrate to high alpine peaks in the winter. The worldwide population of mountain caribou has plummeted recently to fewer than 2000, in small, isolated populations at severe risk of elimination.
Did You Know?
Caribou are the only deer species in which both sexes grow antlers. Every year they shed their antlers and the next year they grow new ones!
Historically, woodland caribou inhabited the forests of the Northern United States from Maine to Washington State, but have been reduced to one small herd in the Selkirk Mountains of northern Idaho, eastern Washington and southern British Columbia. This last U.S. herd is reduced to approximately 40 members that tend to stay mostly in the Canadian part of its range.
Worldwide, mountain caribou are found only in northern Washington and Idaho and British Columbia. The northern ecotype of woodland caribou have a broader distribution in Canada.
Caribou are well-known for their ability to use tree growing (arboreal) lichens as a major food source. As a result they are most often associated with mature coniferous forests that provide substantial quantities of tree lichens.
Mating Season: Early to mid-October
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The National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) is a collaborative program of the government of Canada, the provincial/territorial governments, national and provincial sport federations and the Coaching Association of Canada (CAC).
This partnership, in place since 1974, is largely responsible for building an internationally recognized coach education program for coaching development in over 65 different sports in French and English.
The NCCP is designed to meet the needs of all types of coaches, from the first-time coach to the head coach of a national team. The NCCP is the recognized national standard for coach training and certification in Canada. As part of the program, all coaches are trained in ethical decision-making and sport safety.
Since 1997, the emphasis of the NCCP has been on developing competent coaches – an exciting step towards helping them to become more effective and have a more meaningful impact on an athlete's experience. This most recent NCCP model is made up of three streams and a total of eight contexts, each with its own coaching requirements. Each sport is responsible for identifying how many of the eight contexts are relevant to their sport.


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Barclaycard and Smyths toy are staving off the January blues with the opening of the Big Kids Aisle at the retailer's London Staples Corner store.
Tapping into the kidult population and in response to research from Barclaycard that discovered 72 per cent of adults described themselves as a big kid, the Big Kids Aisle will be filled with retro classics such as Tamagotchis, Teddy Ruxpin and LEGO.
Specially for the aisle, life-sized board games and adult versions of kids' toys ...
Wilton Bradley is to host a world record attempt with professional YoYoer, Hans YoHans Van Dan Elzen at their stand at this years London Toy Fair, the firm has announced.
YoHans was a driving force behind the massive yo-yo craze twenty years ago with numerous TV appearances and live tours. In 2003, Hans launched YoYoFactory (distributed by Wilton Bradley), a yo-yo brand with a focus on creating unique patented technology that would make playing with a yo-yo a more enjoyable experie...
Smart Toys and Games' popular range of IQ travel games have entered a number of World Duty Free stores across the UK's largest airports.
The collection of brain teaser travel games, which include IQ Fit, IQ Link, IQ Puzzler Pro, IQ Twist and IQ XOXO can now be found in the World Duty Free stores across 16 UK airports including London Heathrow, London Gatwick and Birmingham.
They will also be available at Eurotunnel stores as the new deal takes the Smart Toys and Games brand ...
Youngsters can now enjoy a daily dose of fun and adventures with their favourite tank engine as Thomas & Friends is to begin airing seven days a week on Channel 5s Milkshake.
The show will be viewable on weekdays at 6:50am and weekends at 7:00am.
Series 21, the latest series which launched last year, sees Thomas and his fellow engines embark on a new series of exciting journeys. In 2017, Thomas & Friends reached a total of 4.8 million viewers including 1...
Sesame Workshop has partnered with leader in design and home furnishings for families, The Land of Nod, for a range of Sesame Street decor, playroom furniture, bedding, apparel, backpacks, and toys.
The co-designed products bring to life Sesame Street's beloved Muppet characters through the vintage and artisanal design elements that The Land of Nod is known for. Each piece embodies the furry fun of Sesame Street—capturing the energetic spirit of kids...
Bush Baby World is heading stateside thanks to the efforts of Moose Toys and the licensing agency Brandgenuity.
The brand has already achieved great success in the UK through its toy line with golden Bear and YouTube series, making the US move – where it will marketed as Fur Babies World – an exciting development for the brand's owners.
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In 2010 we made great strides as a company, we added many new services and improved our network infrastructure all in an effort to provide the best service to our clients.
Our spam filtration service is helping keep the inbox clean of many companies in the area, to date we have blocked 16,467,452 emails. Our systems on average receives just under 30,000 emails a day, with only 500-600 or so being legitimate. $10.99 a month covers your whole company, so if you are not protecting your company with our system we encourage you to with a 60 day risk free trial.
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We provide complete website design and hosting services on our state of the art network for prices a small business can actually afford.
Have you been to a Janesville Jets game this season? Many of you have noticed the free WiFi access at the rink, one of many large scale wireless projects we have been involved in. We have installed a large wireless network at Road Ranger Stadium in Rockford home of the RiverHawks, providing wireless access throughout the entire stadium for both fans and staff. We also provided temporary free WiFi internet for the Rock Regional Business Expo covering the e ntire 50,000 sq foot facility with internet for vendors and patrons alike. (All in one day, with no harm to the facility) Our Downtown Janesville WiFi Project currently has an average of 10-20 people on it per day. We will be expanding coverage come spring as we now have contracts with both Charter and TDS.
We could go on and on with all the great things that have happened in 2010 but we just want to wish you and your families a very safe and happy holiday season and we look forward to helping your business grow in 2011.
"As with many small businesses today our computer system was crucial to the working of our business, however, like so many other businesses we were constantly trying to find ways to keep our bottom line down and maintenance of our computer systems was low on the priority list.
When we decided to get professional help, someone mentioned Small Business Technology Solutions. I can't believe the difference. Their rates are reasonable, the service is great, I call and they are at the office within a couple of hours. They are diligent, if there is a problem that takes some time or is not easy to fix they will stay on it until complete.
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"Having reliable access to the internet is a must for anyone who works in the press box at Road Ranger Stadium – me, other broadcasters, our local media and press-box staff. The internet in the press box had long been prone to slowdowns and sometimes a complete collapse. Our broadcast relies heavily on new media, so when I can't access scores or listener email, my job becomes immeasurably more difficult.
I met Robert and Mike at a Forward Janesville event and was impressed by not merely their knowledge and enthusiasm, but by the fact that they can translate the tech jargon into English for the layman without dumbing it down. They clearly articulated what they proposed, in terms of equipment, operation, bandwidth capability and results.
Small Business Technology Solutions proposed not just a significant upgrade in the quality of our press box wireless access, but full wireless access throughout the stadium – for media, players and fans – something that our ownership had billed as a feature of the new stadium prior to its construction, but something we had yet to deliver on.
Robert and Mike toured the entire stadium to lay out the logistics of the task. Professional athletes are notoriously prone to complain about the slightest thing. Our players, who to a man bring laptops or iPods to the clubhouse, were happy about the ability to check scores, surf the web or download music at their lockers. Our tech-savvy fans had a new element to take advantage of when in the stadium.
From my perspective, our partnership with Mike and Robert has been an unqualified success."
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First Socorro Community Clean-Up To Be Held
by George Zamora
SOCORRO – New Mexico Tech, the City of Socorro, and the Socorro County Chamber of Commerce are teaming up to give the town a good spring cleaning.
"The First Socorro Community Clean-Up," co-sponsored by the three local organizations, will be held on Saturday, March 24, from 8 until 11 a.m. at various locations throughout Socorro.
The citywide clean-up effort, which will consist of groups and individuals working to remove litter and accumulated trash from parks, alleyways and other public areas, will begin on Saturday morning with a free pancake breakfast at 8 a.m. at the Epiphany Episcopal Church at 908 Leroy Place.
Free commemorative T-shirts also will be handed out to first 200 participants.
"In addition, a $100 cash prize will be awarded to the group with the largest number of people helping out with the cleanup," says Brandon Samter, one of the organizers of the First Socorro Community Clean-Up.
"There's a lot of work to be done, so we certainly welcome the support of anyone and everyone who's available to help that morning in order to ensure that Socorro gets a good spring cleaning," Samter adds.
For more information, contact Samter at 835.5022, or Greg Freidline at 835.2410.


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Beekeeper numbers increasing across Illinois
SPRINGFIELD, IL (AP) – The number of beekeepers in Illinois has been increasing for more than a decade.
The Illinois Department of Agriculture's yearly report says there were 700 new beekeepers in 2013. The (Springfield) State Journal-Register reports the statewide total is more than 2,500 beekeepers operating more than 24,000 colonies. The number of registered beekeepers has increased every year since 2002.
Steve Chard is with the agriculture department. He says colony collapse disorder has helped increase awareness of the importance of honey bees and contributed to the increase. Beekeepers started reporting the disorder about a decade ago. Chard says it's too soon to determine if the increase has made up for losses due to the disorder.
Union County in southern Illinois has more than 2,000 colonies _ the most in the state.
Information from: The State Journal-Register, http://www.sj-r.com


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After the 2012 season ends, the Browns could be hiring a new G.M. and a new head coach and plenty of other new employees.
For now, they're hiring a new team president.
The titles get murky in matters of this nature. After all, the Browns already have installed Joe Banner as CEO. He'll have directly under his control, presumably on the non-football side of the operation, former Cowboys senior V.P. and general counsel Alec Scheiner.
Arguably the highest-ranking member of the Cowboys not related to owner Jerry Jones, Scheiner was instrumental in the construction of Cowboys Stadium.
And if he had any role in the failure of the organization to secure the "cowboys.com" domain name, the good news is that his new employer already owns Browns.com.


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It is thoroughly stunning that a Jane Austen cottage industry flourishes 200 years after her death. Modern authors have thrust her characters into the 21st century, thrown people from the present into her novels, added supernatural elements to her oeuvre and written continuations of and prequels to her works. Following are a few titles that Jane Austen fans might want to check out.
Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star by Heather Lynn Riguad
Fitzwilliam Darcy is the founder and lead guitarist of the rock band Slurry. His bandmates think that Long Bourne Suffering, a trio made up of Jane and Elizabeth Bennet and Charlotte Lucas, would be the perfect opening act for their upcoming tour. Darcy, on the other hand, worries that touring with desirable women will create unwanted problems.
Also for your consideration:
Vanity and Vexation: a novel of Pride and Prejudice by Kate Fenton
The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine
The Dashwood Sisters Tell All: a Modern-Day Novel of Jane Austen by Beth Pattillo
Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict and
Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
L.A. denizen Courtney Stone finds herself in Jane Austen's England, living the life of a 19th century gentlewoman named Jane. In the sequel, Jane finds herself hurled into Courtney's body in the 21st century.
Also for your consideration:
Prada and Prejudice by Amanda Hubbard
The Confession of Fitzwilliam Darcy by Mary Street
Fans of Pride and Prejudice will enjoy this retelling from Fitzwilliam Darcy's point of view. As Austen did not reveal much of Darcy's thoughts in the original, P&P enthusiasts will delight in the new insights into his character.
Also for your consideration:
Captain Wentworth's Diary (Persuasion) and
Colonel Brandon's Diary (Sense and Sensibility) and
Mr. Knightley's Diary (Emma) by Amanda Grange
Dearest Cousin Jane: a Jane Austen novel by Jill Pitkeathley
Murder at Mansfield Park by Lynn Shepherd
An Assembly Such as this: a novel of Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman by Pamela Aidan
Murder on the Bride's Side and
Murder at Longbourn by Tracy Kiely
Drawing from the classic Sense and Sensibility, Tracy Kiely recounts the adventures of Elizabeth Parker, the likable Austen-quoting sleuth, in this witty and charming series.
Also for your consideration:
Jane and the Canterbury Tale and many others by Stephanie Barron
The Intrigue at Highbury: or, Emma's Match and many others by Carrie Bebris
Jane Bites Back and
Jane Vows Vengeance by Michael Thomas Ford
Elizabeth Jane Fairfax (aka Jane Austen) owns a bookstore. Oh, she's also a vampire. Tired of best-selling Pride and Prejudice knockoffs, as well as the 116 rejections of her last manuscript, Jane attempts to find an in-road into the modern publishing world.
Also for your consideration:
Jane and the Damned by Janet Mullany
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Seth Grahame-Smith
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls: A Prequel by Steve Hockensmith
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters
Mr. Darcy, Vampyre by Amanda Grange
These stories pick up where Austen left off, adding more details to the lives of her beloved characters.
Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife: Pride and Prejudice Continues and
Darcy and Elizabeth: Nights and Days at Pemberley: Pride and Prejudice continues by Linda Berdoll
Mr. Darcy's Daughters and many others by Elizabeth Aston
Jane Austen might be dead, but if she were a vampire and owned copyright to her works and characters, she would be rolling in royalty checks.


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I recently removed NAV 2005 and installed avast - the free edition. One persistent problem I keep encountering is an inability to send attached messages - both pdf's and word documents. When I disable avast I can send attached messages. Any suggestions? Thanks, Dean
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Hell yea let it be my EXODUS! (EXODUS Album Review)
EXO, now composed of ten members, came back with a stunningly made album "EXODUS", showcasing each of the members' improved skills in singing and rapping. It only goes to show that their group is totally moving forward to what happened in their last comeback. We welcome the new and improved faces of the group.
Stronger and Sexier. These are the two things that I saw in this album. More hip thrusts, flirtatious lines that will surely make the fangirls faint. From school boys who transformed into wolves, to sexy men in a cool sports car, let's see and dig deeper to what has improved on each of the tracks on this album.
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Fish Strained the Scales
When he ventured forth with a bag of live eels on Saturday night, John Bruno led the Montauk SurfMasters surfcasting tournament in the wetsuit division. The fish that had put him at the top of the heap a few weeks earlier weighed 49.30.
The fish he weighed in at Paulie's Tackle shop early Sunday morning caused the scale to groan out the number 50.82. It was Bruno's first striped bass over 50 pounds.
Fred Kalkstein, a tournament organizer and competitor in the wetsuit division, shared some of the excitement his type of fishing generates. The basic idea is to form a symbiotic relationship with a given rock over a number of years so that you can find it even if high tide hides it from view.
On Sunday night, Kalkstein found his still-submerged rock about a half-hour past the top of the tide. "The water was up to my chest. There was not much of a swell on, so I just floated up and back down on the rock for a while. When the water went out a little, I had a good stand. It was between 7 and 8 and I got a few bumps. About 8:15 I got a whack and set the hook."
"The fish was 40 feet from me. It went to the right, then back to the left, back and forth 8 to 10 times. I couldn't budge it. 'Did I snag it?' I thought. I finally got it to the rock, a nice fish."
But, was the bass over 50 pounds, was it big enough to beat the fish John Bruno caught the night before? Kalkstein half swam and half walked to shore dragging the big fish.
"It measured 47 to 48 inches according to the marks on my rod, but it didn't look like a 50-pound fish. The 48.35 I'd caught was really wide. This one didn't look that wide, but if you've never seen this before, a really large bass, when he came in, the top of his head and back — that submarine gray, a beautiful specimen. I leaned toward letting him go, a beauty. I put him back in the water and he took off. For the next 40 minutes I swam around but couldn't find my rock."
There is no doubt that lunker bass are in our midst. A few hours before Bruno caught his big bass, Eric Linsner, on his boat Semele, caught a striper that the West Lake Marina's scales put at 581/2 pounds. Linsner's fish was also lured by a live eel.
Alan Ballesteros landed a 45.3-pound bass while fishing on the Viking Star on Saturday.
Bigger bass were being caught by surfcasters at night in the Montauk Moorland coves. In addition to John Bruno besting himself in the wetsuit division of the SurfMasters tourney, Gary Krist caught a 32.24-pound bass to knock Richie Michelsen out of third place in the wader division. Klever Oleas held on to first and second places in that division with bass weighing 37.74 and 32.96 pounds.
Mary Ellen Kane holds first and second place in the women's division, with Joan Naso-Federman in third. Phil Schnell has the biggest bass in the youth division, with Dylan Lackner in second place. The leading "kid" remains James Kim Jr.
On the beaches farther to the west, smaller bass have been schooling close to shore here and there between Amagansett and Main Beach, East Hampton. Despite the chillier nights of late, false albacore continue to entertain fly fishermen outside the Montauk Lighthouse and off Shagwong Point.
Harvey Bennett of the Tackle Shop in Amagansett took his boat Moonpie to the west side of Gardiner's Island on Monday. It was a cast-and-blast trip during which he limited out on scoters and caught a false albacore to round things out. Scoters were rafting off Goff Point east to Waterfence, Bennett said.
He sang the praises of Salty's hand-crafted and hand-painted wooden surface lures — "the colors are amazing" — for catching striped bass in the early morning and evening hours. Otherwise, Hopkins lures or Kastmaster's were working with a fast retrieve on Amagansett's ocean beaches, where fishing was "a peaceful experience — everyone's in Montauk," Bennett said.
Ken Rafferty, who guides fly fishermen out of Three Mile Harbor, said the west side of Gardiner's Island had been offering good bass fishing, "but you have to dredge for them," he said, meaning fly fishermen need to let their sink lines sink toward the bottom and retrieve the fly slowly.
The Viking Fleet of party boats in Montauk reports jumbo porgy action off Block Island, and although wind-muddied water slowed the action, the blackfish and sea bass bite continued through the week.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
To The Frozen Throne!
The penultimate challenge of Wrath of the Lich King!
I'm so excited, I need to be careful of my nicely pressed work duds!
While it looks like we may not get to wield the legendary Frostmourne, we will get to face Arthas and defeat him, finally. Advance impressions of the instance are very favorable, and I certainly hope it lives up to its billing as did the Black Temple for the Burning Crusade. Blizzard has been working on this one for a long time, folks, and their reputation is at stake here. I'm hoping and expecting that we'll get to see some truly exciting encounters, amazing artwork, and proceed through some very interesting lore as we face the ultimate baddy of this expansion. Blizzard did a smart thing in letting us encounter various incarnations of Arthas starting with our first moments in the Howling Fjord, but this is the moment we've been waiting for!
The gunship battle has the potential to be pretty cool, and I look forward to wiping the smile of the smug faces of those silly San'layn princes especially.
I can wait for them to do it right.
I can work my way through heroic TOC.
For now.
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Yep, it looks like this expansion is coming to its climax!ReplyDelete
I'm quite enjoying the new step up of challenge that the ToTC Heroic instances have provided, but it'll be fun to hear the guildmates go on about the lore associated with the Icecrown Citadel when we start into it.
Until then, I happily throw myself against Heroic and Hard Mode encounters with hopes for achievements, camaraderie and maybe the occasional bits of loot.
Thanks for your comments on my new WoW blog design! It took many hours to modify from its original form so I'm very glad it's out and not broken!
Be sure to let me know if you run across something unexpected, or something you think I certainly couldn't have meant to have do what it does ;) It was a pretty major upgrade.
Also, I hope you noticed that I've added you to my Links page! That page is pretty basic in terms of design and formatting, I'll be improving it in the future for sure, but I wanted to get my new set of links out.
Take care! I shall visit again soon!
My WoW Blog
Thanks Val!ReplyDelete
Looking forward to the future of Icecrown and beyond! :)


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Message from the Director, Morten Schlütter
Welcome to the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS) at the University of Iowa. The mission of CAPS is to promote teaching, research, and outreach related to East and Southeast Asia, as well as the Pacific area. The Center was established in 1986 with a generous endowment gift from E & M Charities and the Stanley family of Muscatine, Iowa. CAPS has also received major gifts from the Hua Hsia Foundation, Taipei, and the Korea Foundation, Seoul, in support of endowed professorships in Chinese and Korean studies. In January 2002, CAPS was awarded a four-year grant from the Freeman Foundation of Stowe, Vermont, to expand hiring of faculty and staff in East Asian studies, fund outreach and study abroad programs, and promote undergraduate education on Asia. The Freeman Foundation grant was renewed in 2008 for an additional three years to promote teaching and research on East and Southeast Asia on campus and beyond. In addition, a National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) grant, also funded by the Freeman Foundation, was renewed for the 9th and 10th years to conduct workshops for secondary school teachers who teach world geography, world history, and world literature in Iowa and surrounding states.
Over the years, CAPS has been led by a series of strong and forward-looking directors who have secured a solid foundation for its work. As the current director, I build on their achievements as well as seek to explore new ways to further enhance CAPS' contribution to teaching and research on East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific on the UI campus. To this end I will also seek to involve our graduate students and undergraduates to a greater degree in CAPS activities.
I hope to see CAPS play a key role in promoting intellectual awareness about East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific, contributing to diversity on the UI campus, and helping facilitate scholarly exchanges between UI faculty and scholars in our core areas so that the University of Iowa can be a nexus of global connection in the twenty-first century.
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Fernhill House celebrates National Pet Month
The opening of Fernhill House this April coincides with another important date in the calendar - National Pet Month! The therapeutic benefits animals can bring to people are well documented.
Home manager Peta Mandleberg will regularly be bringing in her two friendly labradoodles, Lucy and Ruby, to be stroked by any residents who appreciate the comfort obtained from contact with a warm furry pooch!
Indeed, at Fernhill House, every month is pet month! Throughout the year, as well as regular visits from Lucy and Ruby, a variety of other four legged beasts may make an appearance at Fernhill House. There are already plans for regular petting animals and reindeer at Christmas!
One of the wrenches for many people moving into a home is the loss of a beloved pet - but at Fernhill House, for those able to take care of their day to day needs, pets will be positively encouraged to remain with their owners – although Peta does draw a line at snakes!
Research shows that living with pets helps lower blood pressure, lessen anxiety and boost immunity. Cuddling a pet can elevate levels of 'happy chemicals' serotin and dopamine and release oxytocin which has a calming soothing effect.
According to one psychologist: "A pet is better than Prozac. Animals have a completely different agenda to humans, and bring things back to basics. They want comfort, feeding and love. In return, they give huge affection."


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Wes Anderson sweats the details. All of them, all the time, to an extent that can be maddening. But not in "The Grand Budapest Hotel," where the writer-director's familiar style blends with a group of unexpected factors to create a magnificently cockeyed entertainment.
With credits including "Moonrise Kingdom," "The Darjeeling Limited" and the stop-motion animation "Fantastic Mr. Fox," Anderson works so assiduously to create obsessively detailed on-screen worlds that the effect has sometimes been hermetic, even stifling. "The Grand Budapest," however, is anything but.
Delighting in all manner of old movie tropes, from elaborate chases to hairs-breadth escapes to Victorian plot devices like "the second copy of the second will," this playful yet poignant film, anchored by a knockout performance by Ralph Fiennes, tells the Boys' Own Adventure yarn of how a celebrated hotel concierge and a lowly lobby boy team up to have the adventure of a lifetime.
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It's not that Anderson, working with his usual team, including cinematographer Robert Yeoman, production designer Adam Stockhausen and costume designer Milena Canonero, has let up on the specifics here. Quite the contrary.
Even the smallest concrete yet imaginary element of "Grand Budapest's" main setting — the celebrated spa hotel in the fictional European republic of Zubrowka — was fanatically created by Anderson and company, down to its newspaper of record, the Trans-Alpine Yodel, and its pastry of choice, the mouthwatering Courtesan au chocolat, always packaged in the unmistakable pink boxes from Mendl's Patisserie.
Initially setting this fiercely eccentric world — Anderson's own Magic Kingdom if you will, apart from the director's previous universes — are aspects that combine to give it unexpected substance and more than a trace of sorrow.
For one thing, "Grand Budapest" is set in the past, not the present day, and, moreover, in a past that the film understands is overshadowed by darkness. It's a Central European world that's doomed to be destroyed twice over, first by storm trooper fascism and then by communism, and many of its people are not fated to survive the transitions.
Also elevating "Grand Budapest" is the transformative work of Fiennes as the film's protagonist, Gustave H, the concierge's concierge. Anderson has worked with fine actors before, but he's frankly never had someone so capable of giving his will-o'-the-wisp world heft and reality while still being faithful to the singular spirit that underlies it.
Fiennes, last seen as the ebullient Charles Dickens in "The Invisible Woman," throws himself into the Gustave H role with unbounded but carefully calibrated zeal. Imperious, subservient and resplendent in an outlandish purple morning coat, he is the Grand Budapest's irreplaceable man, simultaneously in total charge and at your service.
Because of the way he's written by Anderson (who shares story credit with Hugo Guinness) and played by Fiennes, Gustave H is also a man of convincing feelings. That means his relationship with earnest lobby boy Zero Moustafa (a fine Tony Revolori), which starts as a master-protégé bond and becomes a real friendship, has an emotional genuineness that is rare in Anderson's films.
Before we meet Zero, or even Gustave H, the ever-indirect Anderson leads us, in classic oddball fashion, through a series of flashbacks that cover and protect the main story like a group of Russian nesting dolls.
We start briefly in the present day, in a cemetery in Zubrowka's capital city of Lutz, with a tribute being paid to the country's most celebrated writer, the beloved author of a novel called "The Grand Budapest Hotel."
Then we go back to 1985, and listen as that author (Tom Wilkinson) gives a radio talk about how he came to write the book. Then we go back yet again to 1968, with the still-unnamed author (now played by Jude Law) taking his ease in the Sovietized Grand Budapest, an almost-derelict hotel with a palpable air of sadness about it.
It is here that the author meets the adult Zero Moustafa (F. Murray Abraham), now the richest man in Zubrowka and the owner of the Grand Budapest. How, the author wonders, did he come to buy it? Over an elaborate dinner, the film flashes back to 1932 and settles down to tell its main tale.
Gustave H, it turns out, is not only the concierge of the Grand Budapest but also the main reason many visitors come in the first place. This is especially true of a group of elderly female guests of substantial income who rely on this most accommodating of men for the romantic/sexual services he is always willing to provide.
First among equals is the fabulously wealthy 84-year-old dowager countess Madame Celine Villeneuve Desgoffe und Taxis, familiarly known as Madame D. (Yes, that's Tilda Swinton under five hours of daily makeup and a Bride of Frankenstein wig).
The most unimportant person at the Grand Budapest is Zero, provisionally hired as a junior lobby boy in training. Belying his name, Zero sees everything and becomes the last living witness to an era where service and politeness were everything and rudeness was considered to be no more than "the expression of fear."
When Madame D unexpectedly dies, "Grand Budapest's" plot kicks into high gear, involving Gustave and Zero in all manner of convoluted nonsense that's taken completely seriously. That includes everything from a priceless purloined painting to a prison break (Anderson confesses to be a fan of Jacques Becker's classic "Le Trou") to the Society of the Crossed Keys, a super-secret concierge collective whose members are played by the likes of Bill Murray, Bob Balaban and Fisher Stevens.
Though visuals are Anderson's sine qua non, having actors who are on his wavelength has always been critical for him, and "Grand Budapest" is brought to life by a wide variety of performers, often in small roles. Starting with Saoirse Ronan as Agatha, an apprentice at Mendl's, the list includes Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jeff Goldblum, Mathieu Amalric, Harvey Keitel, Jason Schwartzman, Lea Seydoux and Anderson mainstay Owen Wilson as an unlikely concierge called M. Chuck.
Though the Grand Budapest building looks as if it couldn't be more real, its facade is an elaborate miniature and the establishment itself was constructed in an abandoned department store in the restored town of Gorlitz on the German-Polish border.
Similarly, though Anderson's style couldn't be more his own, he acknowledges the inspiration of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. "Grand Budapest" also owes a debt to the movie world of faux European aristocracy on display in films like "The Prisoner of Zenda" and such Ernst Lubitsch gems as "The Merry Widow" and "The Smiling Lieutenant."
The sensibility of Lubitsch, the charming filmmaker with a complex understanding of the human comedy, seems closest to this film's. When Lubitsch felt, according to Peter Bogdanovich, that "the Nazi's most damning sin was their bad manners," he would have found a kindred spirit in Gustave H. "His world had vanished before he entered it," says Zero Moustafa, and "The Grand Budapest Hotel" makes us especially sad that it is gone.
'The Grand Budapest Hotel'
MPAA rating: R for language, some sexual content, and violence
Running time: 1 hour, 40 minutes
Playing: At Arclight, Hollywood: Landmark, West Los Angeles


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You may know Simon Sammons as Global Offering Lead – Business Process Services, but he's also serving as Finance and Accounting (F&A) Offering Lead, so we thought we'd try to get to the heart of the F&A business process services business. So here goes:
Simon, where's F&A really headed in the next five years and why should the world believe Accenture has a handle on it?
Let me start with the second part because that's a bit easier: We created F&A BPO in 1991 with our first contract for BP, and we've been the tip of the spear for every subsequent generation. Think about the brainpower of the more than 30,000 very driven people we've got working on it. Combine that with the power of our technology and the work we are delivering to our more than 180 clients. Consider the experience we've gained through those deployments—we apply that experience to improve our offering and innovate. We never stop innovating to help our clients meet their challenges, and we never will.
What about the future?
Well, with the kind of momentum we discussed in the preceding question, how can one be anything but optimistic? But to be more specific, we at Accenture are using robotic process automation, artificial intelligence and predictive and prescriptive analytics to help clients achieve the innovation, revenue growth and cost reduction they are after. We have a culture of innovation that's enabled by intelligent technology. This means we can provide a continuous stream of fresh ideas that range from small tweaks to big, bold, disruptive ideas that can pivot an industry.
But what have you done lately?
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Author Notes: There are things in life that just ought to be simple, and to my taste buds, French toast is one of them. Mine has only three ingredients, depending on the quality of the bread to carry the dish, and the quality of the accompanying butter and syrup to finish the dish to perfection. It is critically important to use good quality challah for French toast. I had no idea how important until I tried it the first time. I'll never go back. Fresh fruit is an acceptable add-on, but preserve me from cinnamon, confectioners sugar, and the like. - Kayb —Kayb
Food52 Review: There's nothing to making this French toast. But there is one thing that makes it exceptional: cream. KayB cuts to the chase, forgoing spices and extracts, and focussing instead on eggs, cream and challah. You whip together the eggs and cream, which form a custardy mixture, then dip the eggy bread into this custard -- make sure to gently squeeze the bread with your fingertips to draw the eggs and cream to the center—and fry them in butter. Outside is a crisp crepe-like shell. Inside, pudding. What are you waiting for? - A&M —The Editors
Serves: 4
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loaf challah bread
cup heavy cream
swoop of butter, for grilling and serving
splash Good maple syrup, for serving
- Slice challah into 3/4 to 1-inch thick slices.
- Whisk together eggs and cream.
- Heat a griddle or flat grill pan over medium high heat, and add 1 tbsp butter for every two pieces of French toast it will accommodate; swirl butter around to cover surface.
- Dip slice of bread in egg and cream; flip and repeat. Add to griddle, and grill until golden (approximately 90 seconds) on one side; flip and repeat.
- Serve with additional butter, if desired, and good quality maple syrup. The experience is enhanced with the addition of good quality smoked bacon.
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What is your experience with MSU Law?
MSU College of Law has a strong sense of community among the students, faculty, and staff. Even though the law school is located on a Big Ten Campus, the size of the campus is not overwhelming. The faculty is also a strong part of MSU College of Law because you can tell they truly love teaching and care about student success.
Describe your relationship with fellow classmates and faculty.
Generally, the students here at MSU College of Law support each other. If one of my friends happens to miss class, she knows that I will send her my notes and vice versa. This goes to show that students are not out to get each other at MSU College of Law. Everyone is working together towards a common goal—getting their JD and starting an amazing law career!
Tell us about your involvement in the Student Bar Association (SBA) and Moot Court. How have these organizations contributed to your education or employment?
My involvement with the SBA has allowed me to interact with students and faculty in a setting outside of the classroom, which has helped me to expand my network. The SBA has also allowed me to give back to the students of the Law College, whether by helping to run events that let students blow off steam, or by simply being available to answer questions from incoming students and 1Ls.
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Thousands of Millionaires Collect Unemployment Benefits — Dollars and Sense
According to a study by the Congressional Research Service, roughly 2,360 millionaires collected unemployment insurance benefits in 2009. The study, titled "Receipt of Unemployment Insurance by Higher-Income Unemployed Workers," determined that 2 percent of unemployment insurance claims received in 2009 were to millionaires, adding up to nearly $21 million in benefits.
"It sounds scandalous when you hear that millionaires are going to collect unemployment insurance," said Bill Frenzel, guest scholar at the Brookings Institute and former Republican member of Congress. "On the other hand, millionaires get unemployed too and have made payments into the unemployment insurance."
However, while some empathize with millionaires receiving unemployment benefits, others disagree with it completely. "Sending millionaires unemployment checks is a case study in out-of-control spending," said Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma. "Providing welfare to the wealthy undermines the program for those who need it most while burdening future generations with senseless debt."
Reports from Sen. Coburn's office indicate that between 2005 and 2009, $74 million was paid to millionaires in the form of unemployment insurance benefits.
Senator Coburn recently introduced a bill titled "Ending Unemployment to Jobless Millionaires," which seeks to disallow unemployment benefit disbursement for those reporting $1 million or more for the previous year.
The bill was introduced in 2011 and is currently in limbo within the House of Representatives.
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September 2006 Archives
This summer UMBC students teamed with residents of Charlestown Retirement Community to create a series of digital stories. Drawn from the life experiences of the residents, the stories combined narration, animation, photos and music in short movies to be shared with others. Residents worked closely with student partners, acting as author and creative director of their individual story. Each student brought their own style and talents to the project, helping to create some unique examples of intergenerational storytelling.
The project was organized by the New Media Studio with funding from Retirement Living TV. You may view the videos below (requires Quicktime 7).
|A Traveler at Heart
|Barbara Walker and An Nguyen-Gia
|Mary's Waltz
|Jean Singleton and Jorge Rios
|My Two Grandsons
|Mary Hein and Paul Iwancio
|Barn Story
|Joan McMann and Cathryna Brown
|The Music Box
|Marie Brinsfield and Samantha Duvall
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I've been doing HP assessments for 12 years, but find myself a little limited in my knowledge of this issue.
Here's the scenario: I do an initial assessment where I find a 7-year old NG water heater with 1500 ppm undiluted CO. The homeowner brings in his plumber to "fix" it. The plumber, who doesn't own a CO monitor, cleans the burner and air intake grill, and proclaims it good. After work is done on the home, I re-test and find the CO to be even higher this time, and the draft weak.
What typically can be done to a fairly new water heater to fix the CO problem? The gas/air ratio must be out of wack, I'm thinking. Is it usually corrected by replacing the gas control valve?
The homeowner is left hanging, the plumber is without a clue and me telling him it needs to be corrected. I would recommend a different plumber, but I want to find out what a knowledgeable individual would typically do to correct this, short of replacing it. One thing I know is I need to align with a knowledgeable person to address this in the future.
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I'll let a pro (which I am not) jump in on the correct adjustment, but you said:
"One thing I know is I need to align with a knowledgeable person to address this in the future."
That is a mouth full and one of the major steps needed to be a successful energy auditor. There are many things we run into that we are not certified to fully advise on, nor should we be. But that list of who to call to give you and the home owner the advice you can trust is a must.
You say the draft is weak, do you see a reason?
Bud, the weak draft was likely due to sharing a clay lined flue with a furnace. It was at an acceptable level.
Wrong orifice for gas type? Bumped the burner knocking it out of alignment?
Poor draft due to it cant pull as well due to air-sealing, etc... was a fresh air intake pipe added?
Sorry but the only true & correct answer / fix which should have been given to the homeowner up front is that the unit has no business being in the house & should be replaced with a direct vent system
9 ways to get high CO. High presser low presser impingement ( rust on burner- mis alined burner) to high flue presser lack of flue, low temp very high temp. Flue to small or to cold I find most plumber do not tune up hot water heaters or can test flue gas. I had a 350 lb dud pick me up my neck spiting on me about lack of venting I did not pass.
Surprise, John! The homeowner is the expert! Assuming your CO meter is properly calibrated, the flue vent is not blocked, and the gas control valve is a-ok, it is strictly up to the homeowner to read the equipment manual, and go in and adjust the air shutter for a true "blue flame" without yellow tips, in the case of NG. The homeowner must check for proper flame size, and check to see that not too much black soot from lack of combustion is forming on the bottom of the tank. It is the responsibility of the homeowner to have new CO detectors on each floor, in case of spillover from the flue. Even though 1500ppm CO is much greater than the BPI limit of 35ppm CO, the effect on combustion is minimal, and not unsafe unless the flue is blocked.
help on regulators: http://inspectapedia.com/plumbing/Gas_Regulators.htm
help on black soot: http://www.waterheaterrescue.com/pages/WHRpages/English/Troubleshoo...
As declared above the home owner has the complete legal and practical responsibility to correct the condition, or must replace the equipment. There is no expert in this field, not even at the water heater company. I am not an expert on your problem.
The problem with a high CO in the flue is that if conditions such as floor movement, new fans installed in the house, insulation/air sealing issues may allow a system that already has high CO escape. High CO will multiply when in a confined space at a high rate and create unsafe conditions..
Hello: If it's an FVIR heater, there can be restriction in the air intake caused by nearly invisible dust. Washing off (or blowing off, or vacuuming) the intake screen and flame arrestor might not be a bad thing to do. I'd also check the flue design (according to the National Fuel Gas Code) to see if it is likely to provide good draft.
Yours, Larry Weingarten
when we do cleaning for air conditioning or furnace work we also clean the air filter on the FVIR hot water heater. look at my web sight under "peak" HVAC www.ericsenergy.com I have seen 100's of full hot water heater screens then will not get the air to run. When do a flue gas test the O2 JUST GOES DOWN to under 2% and then CO go up - I have seen 1560PPM CO off the hot water heater
Eric & Larry are both right , recorded here: http://waterheatertimer.org/How-to-troubleshoot-gas-water-heater.html this site is super great!
A common cause that I have seen is undersized gas supply piping, especially when a combustion appliance is added to the line. Undersized gas supply pipe = lower gas pressure => high CO
Thanks to everyone for the great replies. I contacted the manufacturer, and the reply I was given by way of their technical department was that 2000 ppm CO is not a problem as long as it is venting properly out of the home. Testing for CO in the first place is not part of the installation or servicing of their water heaters!
Tom Delconte said: "As declared above the home owner has the complete legal and practical responsibility to correct the condition, or must replace the equipment. There is no expert in this field, not even at the water heater company."
How right you are! Not even at the company.
I found a local installer, who at least took the time to speak to me on the phone, but could seemingly only wrap his brain around CO readings in the house, not in the vent. When I told him what I meant, he told me to test in the vent connector, after any elbows, and with the dillution air the reading would surely drop to below 100 ppm! Oh Brother................
2000 ppm CO is not a problem? Really? In what universe?
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SAN DIEGO — Homeland Security buses carrying migrant children and families have been rerouted to a customs and border facility in San Diego after American flag-waving protesters blocked the group from reaching a suburban processing center.
The buses were followed Tuesday by half a dozen news crews to the San Diego facility that's within view of the Mexico border.
The busses made the trek to the site after protesters prevented them from entering a border patrol center in suburban Murrieta, about an hour north of San Diego.
The migrants had been flown to Southern California for processing to help alleviate a crunch on the border in Texas after thousands of Central American children and families fled violence in those nations.
Murrieta Mayor Alan Long urged residents in his city to protest the arrival of the migrants, who were not expected to be released in the city.
A flight carrying migrants from overcrowded facilities on the Texas border with Mexico arrived Tuesday in Southern California but protesters blocked immigration authorities from taking the group to a suburban Border Patrol facility for processing.
Several dozen protesters, some waving U.S. flags and signs denouncing illegal immigration, converged outside the site in Murrieta. The buses finally backed away from the facility. Their next destination was not immediately known.
Earlier in the day, the chartered plane landed in San Diego with 136 migrants on board, a Department of Homeland Security official who was not authorized to be named when speaking on the issue told The Associated Press. Murrieta is about an hour north of San Diego.
A day earlier, Murrieta Mayor Alan Long urged residents in the suburb of 107,000 people to call their elected officials and voice opposition to the plan. He said police in the city were ready for any security issues, though he acknowledged migrants were not to be released locally and do not have criminal records.
The flight was part of a federal government effort to deal with a flood of Central American children and families fleeing to the United States to escape violence and extortion from gangs in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Last week, U.S. authorities announced the plan to fly migrants from the Rio Grande Valley to Texas cities and Southern California.
More than 52,000 unaccompanied children have been detained after crossing the Texas-Mexico border since October in what President Barack Obama has called a humanitarian crisis. Many of the migrants are under the impression that they will receive leniency from U.S. authorities.
The facility in Murrieta has no showers or beds and is designed only for temporary holds, said Gabe Pacheco, a spokesman for the San Diego chapter of the border patrol agents' union.
Another flight was expected to take 140 migrants to a facility in El Centro, California, on Wednesday, said Lombardo Amaya, president of the El Centro chapter of the Border Patrol union. The Border Patrol would not confirm that arrival date.
The federal government is also flying migrants to the Texas border cities of Laredo and El Paso and to Arizona for processing.
Associated Press writer Julie Watson in San Diego and Amy Taxin in Santa Ana contributed to this report.


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Mildred Fairbanks Youngs Dickinson died on Saturday at Southampton Hospital, less than a year shy of her 100th birthday.
She was born in Sag Harbor on Aug. 25, 1912, to Harry Morris and Nellie Douglas Ryan Youngs. She grew up in Sag Harbor, graduated from Pierson High School in 1929, and then received a degree in ancient history at Cortland College in Cortland, N.Y.
She married Halsey Cook Dickinson in the mid-1930s at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor. Mr. Dickinson, who was from Water Mill, brought his bride back to Deerfield Road to a 90-acre potato farm. The couple had no children.
After Mr. Dickinson's death in about 1967, she moved back to her original house in Sag Harbor. In the following years in Sag Harbor, she dedicated her time to different community concerns and organizations. This included membership in the Old Whalers Church, working at the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Thrift Shop when it was in Water Mill, and volunteering at Southampton Hospital.
She was also an active and proud member of the Southampton Colony chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution since 1947 and served as its registrar for several years. In addition, she volunteered at the Southampton Historical Museum and the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum.
In her free time, she was a doting aunt to her nieces and nephews and enjoyed traveling. According to her family, she traveled both the United States and the world and saw everything she wanted to see, but she was always happy to come home.
Ms. Dickinson was predeceased by her sisters Eleanor Jones, Marian Christian, and Norma Youngs. Her nieces and nephews survive her.
Visiting hours will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in Sag Harbor.
A service will be held at the Old Whalers Church on Saturday at 11 a.m., with burial at Oakland Cemetery in Sag Harbor. Memorial donations have been suggested to the Old Whalers Church, 44 Union Street, Sag Harbor 11963.


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It can analyze a billion proton collisions per second: http://www.news.wisc.edu/12105.html
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
That is pretty cool. Ah, technology. It would also be cool if they used the processor in the Regional Calorimeter Trigger for the next generation of gaming consoles.
I would imagine that processor is highly optimized for handling images and nothing else. But don't worry, processors will be getting faster very soon. Right now, manufactures are decreasing the size, power input, and heat release, while maintaining the performance, so the next step is to increase performance by increasing the size.
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
Imagine when they can "layer" the circuits on top of each other (possibly millions of layers) in a little cube. There could be Terabytes of memory inside (so ne external memory needed). Natural language, speech and vision recognition built in, too. Wow.
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
I always thought that I was born about a century too soon. Think about all of the things that our grandchildren might have!
I am not a computer guy at all and I know that some of you are a lot more into them. Aren't the limitations of silicon starting to peak over the horizon? I always believed that we would eventually be able to go to something with better transfer(?) rates like a fluid medium or something. Am I completely crazy thinking like that?
a century to soon ?
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
~ Anton Chekhov
Cheer up, emo kid.
Quantum computing might maybe have working prototypes in 20-30 years. Maybe.
Optical computing might also have potential as a silicon replacement, if they can succeed in trapping light on a small scale (yes, they've succeeded in trapping and storing a laser pulse for a time).
El que pega primero pega dos veces.
Or maybe a combination of electronic and optical. Each one doing what it is best at.
With optical you can apply massive transformations of data, affecting many frequencies at once. It is parallel computing on steroids! It is going to be very interesting to see what develops in this field.
Moore's Law still has life left in it!
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
Yes Tigeree, a century too soon. I believe that the technology one hundred years from now will allow humans to live a life of mental and spiritual pursuit rather than how we now spend the vast majority of our lives working for the Rothschilds of the world so that we can have room and board. I personally believe that we are still very primitive in the way that our societies are structured to operate. Right now, we are really not much more than colony ants. It is a very mundane existence. Ah, it is what it is.
Anyway, I just think that that far in the future, given the accelerating curve of advances in technology, that by then we will have enough "hardware" to take care of most of the trivial aspects of existence. Thereby leaving us free to pursue more worthy tasks. Pipe-dream I guess.
The Greeks had it right, by using a slave workforce, but that is no longer acceptable. I doubt if many will feel bad for machines though. (You will of course have some left-wing kooks who will try to save the poor machines.)
You might want to rethink that irspow. Right now we are over populating the earth, releasing CO2 into the atmosphere, over hunting, over farming, using up much of our natural resources (and not just oil). Energy is going to be a huge problem in the next 30 years. If the standard of living in countries such as China increase as it has been, the demand (and thus, price) of manufactured goods are going to skyrocket. And so on...
But then again, if we can develop new technologies, then none of these problems will exist. We'll just have to wait to see.
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
El que pega primero pega dos veces.
I'm still waiting for a bacteria based or liquid solution medium before I buy my next computer. Just kidding. Very interesting ryos.
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I am a self confessed gadget junkie. I love electronic gadgets and gizmos of every size and variety. Honestly, I could ramble on for pages on the various computers, tablets, pmp's smart TVs, remotes, etc that litter my house. But I'll just start with my favorite:
MythTV is to Tivo as Tivo is to a VCR. It is the ultimate DVR. It's an open source program that runs on linux, the fact that it's open source and you build the device yourself gives you incredible flexibility. It's not for everyone, it does require some expertise and upkeep, but that's half the fun for me (actually more like 68.7% of the fun). You add the tuners that you want - cable, satellite or antenna. I have 4 tuners that can record 11 shows at a time. I don't think I've ever recorded more than 5 at a time, the computer would probably melt if I tried 11. 2 HDHomeruns (dual tuner, each tuner can record 2 shows if they're on the same multiplex, a dual tuner analog card for SD cable and an HD-DVR for satellite. HDHomerun is a stand alone digital tuner that plugs into the network rather than the pc itself. I have a 3rd HDHR, an HDHR Prime that takes a cablecard, but it doesn't work with MythTV (I'll get to that one later).
The coolest thing about MythTV to me (other than no monthly DVR bill) is it will do query based recording. You can set up rules and it will record anything that fits that rule. I have rules set up to record every prime time show, every night on NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox and WB (I'm pretty sure i've never watched a WB show, but I have them all anyway). It also records the today show, all of the late night shows, some syndicated shows (simpsons, big bang, seinfeld, etc) and a handful of random programs (such as How it's made). I usually record about 20-30 shows a day. I have 5 terrabytes dedicated just to recording shows, so I have about 6 weeks worth of recordings at all times. Of course I only watch a fraction of the recorded shows, but it's nice not having to choose beforehand what I'm going to want to watch.
It has a built in DLNA server. For those not familiar with DLNA, get familiar, it's incredibly cool. It's essentially a whole home DVR. I can watch any show recorded on my MythTV box on any TV in my house that has DLNA built-in or an attached blu-ray player.
MythTV records shows as MPG2, which is huge, but it has what are called User Jobs available for post-recording. I have user jobs set up to knock the show down to mp4 (with handbrake, takes a 2GB show down to 150-200mb) and rename the file by show, season, episode number and episode name (with a program called filebot). So no more starting shows in the middle, just start recording and start watching once I have a full season or series, on TV, computer, tablet or phone.
As I said, MythTV isn't for everyone, but if you are a technically proficient TV junkie like myself, it's a must.
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California Department of Transportation
Date: August 11, 2011
District: 06
Contact: Jose Camarena
Phone: Office (559) 488-4067
$2.2 Billion in New Funding Allocated to Transportation Projects to help drive State's Economic Growth
FRESNO – Continuing the push to rebuild California's infrastructure and spur job growth, the California Transportation Commission (CTC) has allocated $2.2 billion in new funding to 146 highway, transit, and rail projects statewide.
The funding included $863 million from Proposition 1B, a 2006 voter-approved transportation bond. To date, the state has allocated more than $9 billion in Proposition 1B funds.
"We are putting transportation dollars to work creating jobs and making
transportation improvements that will benefit Californians now and for decades
to come," said Acting Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty.
Highlights of the funding allocations include:
- An allocation of $16, 280,000 for a widening project in Tulare County on Road 80 from Avenue 342 to Avenue 384. This project will increase capacity and safety by widening the existing facility to four (4) lanes, two in each direction, with a median divider.
- An allocation of $22,296,000 for the Plaza Drive Interchange/Auxiliary Lanes Project in Visalia. This project, on State Route (SR)198 from SR99 to Plaza Drive, and on Plaza Drive from Airport Drive to Goshen Avenue will construct auxiliary lanes on SR198 and widen the roadway along Plaza Drive.
- An allocation of $88,178,000 for the rehabilitation of 62 lane-miles of State Route 99 near Bakersfield, between Beardsley Canal Bridge and State Route 46. The renewed Portland Cement Concrete (PCC) pavement will improve safety and ride quality.
For information about all projects that received allocations please see: http://www.dot.ca.gov/docs/ctcprojectallocationsaugust2011.pdf
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Cee Lo Gets Ice Cream Sundae'd at 2012 Kids' Choice Awards
At tonight's (March 31) Kids' Choice Awards, host Will Smith was dogged by a creepy, computerized celebrity voice trying to trip him up and throw him off his master of ceremonies game, preventing him from becoming the best KCA host… ever.
Near the end of the broadcast, voice recognition software determined that the celeb behind the creepy voice was none other than Cee Lo Green. Cee Lo was the creepy voice — make that 'The (Creepy) Voice.'
Cee Lo said that he adopted the voice with a singular purpose: to get slimed. Dressed in a red tracksuit and white shades, Cee Lo begged to be doused with the green liquid, but his wish was not granted. Smith said he would get the next best thing. He was ice cream sundae'd, smeared with vanilla ice cream and a big cherry was placed atop his head.
The 'Forget You' singer and 'The Voice' coach was a good sport, even though his diabolical plan to be slimed was thwarted. He declared, "Next year, I will be slimed."
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The meaning of Podesta's hire
Democratic insiders greeted word of John Podesta's hiring as a counselor to President Barack Obama with the same basic sentiment: It's about time.
The addition of the quintessential Washington wise man to the West Wing staff is seen as a long overdue move that should help Obama install the kind of management and oversight infrastructure that was absent in the rollout of the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges this fall.
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It also signals a more aggressive focus by the White House on using executive authority to circumvent Congress in the final three years of the administration.
( PHOTOS: Obama's second term)
In tapping Podesta for a one-year tour, Obama is layering in a well-respected former White House chief of staff while keeping the incumbent, Denis McDonough. At the same time, Phil Schiliro, who served as Obama's top lobbyist on Capitol Hill in the first two years of the administration, is coming back for what is supposed to be a short stint at the White House, serving as the point person on coordinating the implementation of Obamacare.
The personnel moves were announced separately in recent days, but, taken together, they represent a significant change less than a year into Obama's second term, and an acknowledgment by the president that his team needs reinforcements, more seasoning and better reach into a wider set of Democratic circles. Obama has long been criticized within his own party for relying on such a tight inner circle.
"John brings a lot to the table — experience, stature and networking ability," said former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. "He also enjoys great chemistry with all senior White House staff."
( PHOTOS: Obama's second-term Cabinet)
David Axelrod, a former Obama senior adviser, said the additions of Podesta and Schiliro are a concession that the White House needs some fresh eyes.
"It would be foolish to suggest that this hasn't been a rough year, and it is also true that many of the people who are there — all splendid people — but they have been there for a very long time," Axelrod said Tuesday on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports." "I think you constantly need to refresh your team in order to move forward in the presidency and this is certainly a recognition of that."
Podesta, who turns 65 next month, is a second-term bailout specialist.
He served as President Bill Clinton's chief of staff from 1998 to 2001, presiding over a series of crises, including his impeachment trial. He also served as head of Obama's 2008 transition team. Between those roles, he has given as much thought to the form and function of the White House staff as anyone in the Democratic Party. Probably more.
( Also on POLITICO: McConnell: Podesta won't 'solve' W.H. troubles)
As the architect of the Center for American Progress, the liberal think tank that provides both intellectual ballast to Democratic policies and a home for the party's top thinkers when they're not working in government, Podesta can draw on a deep reservoir of credibility within Democratic circles. Most important, say some Democrats, he has both Obama's trust and his own standing and contacts outside the insular Obama world.
And Podesta has been urging Obama for three years to use the full extent of his authority as president to go around Congress. He co-authored a 2010 CAP report on executive powers, saying they present "a real opportunity for the Obama administration to turn its focus away from a divided Congress and the unappetizing process of making legislative sausage."
Podesta will focus in particular on leveraging the president's executive powers, according to a source familiar with the move.
( PHOTOS: Obama, the puppet master)
Within the West Wing, Podesta will assume the senior counselor position being vacated within weeks by Pete Rouse, an adviser to Obama since his days in the Senate, the source said. Rouse has a wide portfolio, including personnel, and some of it will be handed off to other White House staff.
Podesta's main policy tasks will be working with McDonough on the president's biggest initiatives, including climate change and Obamacare. Like other senior staff, Podesta will report to McDonough, the source said.
McDonough, who approached Podesta about joining the White House, has been carrying a heavy load over the past year, particularly in recent months as he took control of the HealthCare.gov rollout. And the White House at large has struggled to manage what has seemed within the West Wing as an endless loop of legislative and international crises — from the Edward Snowden leaks to the proposed military intervention in Syria to the government shutdown and the troubled start of the health care website.
Podesta is "someone who the president has been comfortable seeking out for advice and counsel" at various time, including after the 2010 midterm elections, said a former Obama adviser. Indeed, there has been interest on both sides for Podesta to work in the White House at different points in the past five years , but the stars hadn't aligned until now. "The time is right for both entities," the former adviser said.


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04.06.09 Explosives ingredient in 15 brands, small study says
A chemical used in explosives, fireworks and rocket fuel has been found in powdered baby formula and could exceed the level that's considered safe for adults if mixed with water also contaminated with the powder, the Associated Press reports. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tested the infant formula for traces of perchlorate because of concern that the chemical can damage thyroid function, which may interfere with fetal and infant brain development.
The CDC's findings, published last month in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology and re-reported by the nonprofit Environmental Working Group, discovered that 15 brands of baby milk contained perchlorate, an oxidizer in solid fuels. Cow's milk formula with lactose had the highest perchlorate levels compared to formulas that were soy-based or lactose-free. The CDC did not name the tested brands.
Perchlorate also has been found in the drinking water of at least 35 states and the District of Columbia.
The CDC noted that the scope of the study was limited: Samples were taken from only one city, which means the results might not apply nationwide. According to the EWG, the CDC researchers found that the two most tainted brands had nearly 90 percent share of the U.S. powdered baby milk market in 2000.
This isn't the first time that U.S. health officials have faced this problem. Crib Notes previously reported on the Food and Drug Administration adjusting the safe level of another chemical allowed in baby formula.
For 15 years, Fit Pregnancy has been touting "Breast is still best!" But for some women, we understand that formula is the answer, so here's some tips on how to keep it safe.


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Sunday, August 22, 2010
Renovations are Progressing
As the library completes its renovations downtown and gets ready to move back, be sure to continue to visit us at our temporary 4053 S Webster Street location. We are still open and eager for your business. We will let you know when we will be closing down for the move. During the move back, be sure to take advantage of our extensive online resources at www.KHCPL.org/glhs. View pictures of the building renovation at www.KHCPL.org.
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Illegal immigrant in-state tuition begins in Conn.
HARTFORD -- This will be the first year that illegal immigrant Maria Praeli can consider going to college full-time.
While that once seemed impossible to afford, the 18-year-old high school student can qualify for in-state tuition at Connecticut's public universities under a new law.
The measure reduces tuition costs by as much as $17,000 annually for undocumented students such as Praeli, a rising senior at New Milford High School.
Connecticut is now among twelve states including New York and Illinois that grant in-state tuition to illegal immigrants who are working toward legal status.
Advocates say as many as 250 illegal immigrants in the state could take advantage of the law change within the next year.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a Democrat, was holding a ceremonial bill signing for the measure on Thursday.


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My first large castle set, greatly loved and played with.
in my mind the best forestmen set.
That it can be opened for play rather than just being hollow in the back is great, and the that you can enter (or escape) it from the river by boat or by swimming is exellent, makes for great play, this Lion Knight is bount to have great adventures.


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NMT Selected for FEMA Training Partnership, Oct. 1, 2007
by Hannah Vanderbush, (202) 224-7073
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Pete Domenici announced today that New Mexico Tech has been selected by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for a $20.8 million partnership to provide emergency first responder training as part of the FY2007 Homeland Security National Training Program (HSNTP).
New Mexico Tech will support the HSNTP by providing training in effective response to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) with a focus on explosives through its Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) program. New Mexico Tech offers three courses: Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings; Prevention and Response to Suicide Bombings; and Understanding and Planning for School Bomb Incidents.
"Making sure our emergency personnel are prepared to handle national emergency issues is a large part of maintaining national safety and security," said Domenici. "This partnership demonstrates New Mexico Tech's innovative and effective approach to educating emergency response forces."
New Mexico Tech's CBRNE program has been in operation since 1998 and has trained over 200,000 law enforcement, fire and emergency medical personnel.
As a member of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, Domenici supported $145 million in the Senate-passed FY2008 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill to continue first responder training through the National Preparedness Consortium, of which he is a long-time supporter. As a member of the consortium, New Mexico Tech would receive $22 million. The program is headquartered at Fort McClellan, Ala. and includes New Mexico Tech, Texas A&M, the Nevada Test Site, and Louisiana State University.
The HSNTP program supports the National Preparedness Goal through specialized training to help emergency responders deal with terrorist incidents involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive weapons of mass destruction.
Domenici is a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. He is also a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which helps determine fiscal year spending plans for federal agencies and programs.


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Every day, thousands of citizens of all 50 states add their names to the petitions posted on the White House's "We, the People" website calling for secession from the union.
The "We, the People" program includes a "create a petition" tab on the White House website. The explanation of the site claims that "if a petition gets enough support" — more than 25,000 signatures within 30 days — the "White House staff will review it, ensure it's sent to the appropriate policy experts, and issue an official response."
Not everyone thinks these people are simply exercising their right of expression, however. There are many — even some conservatives — who consider the act of calling for secession an act of treason.
"We here at RedState are American citizens. We have no plans to secede from the union," wrote RedState founder Erick Erickson. "If you do, good luck with that, but this is not the place for you."
In response to previous articles written by this reporter, readers have argued that to call for secession is an act of treason and should any elected official propose such a measure, he should be tried for treason and summarily removed from office.
Additionally, a few thousand (as this is being written, on Friday) Americans have signed a competing "We, the People" petition demanding that citizenship be stripped from anyone who has signed one of the secession petitions.
"Mr. President, please sign an executive order such that each American citizen who signed a petition from any state to secede from the USA shall have their citizenship stripped and be peacefully deported," the full petition reads.
The title of the petition is, "WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO: Strip the Citizenship from Everyone who Signed a Petition to Secede and Exile Them."
As of this writing, 14,328 people have virtually signed the petition; 10,672 short of the number of signatures required before the issue is eligible to be addressed by the White House.
While this may seem to be an extreme and arguably unconstitutional reaction to the expression of another's right to redress and the ultimate right of self-government, the concept that secession has been abolished is supported by constitutional scholars who insist that the issue of the right to secede from the union was revoked by the Union's victory in the Civil War and the adoption of the 14th Amendment.
"The 14th creates a national model of citizenship and how it is enforced, and it's not been seriously questioned since [the Civil War]. The notion of citizenship is state-driven, but the 14th, in law and in constitutional thought, and the Civil War in action, really settled the question," says James Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas in Austin, as quoted in Christian Science Monitor.
The Christian Science Monitor article supports this thesis, stating, "Of course, no state would launch a plan to secede on the whim of signatories to an online petition. Besides, the 14th Amendment, crafted after the Civil War, forbids states from declaring independence from the Union. A state cannot "abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States," it states."
Indeed, it is nearly unimaginable that the state legislature of any state would initiate a secession procedure prompted solely on the popularity of an online petition. That said, the argument that the 14th Amendment revoked the right to leave the union is tautologous.
In the act of seceding, a state separates itself from the union, reclaiming the grant of authority given to the federal government in 1787. Inherent in that decision is the renouncing of the Constitution, as the historical and legal verities of the creation of the United States of America preclude a state from treating the Constitution as a buffet, accepting some articles while rejecting others.
Therefore, if a state were to secede, the 14th Amendment would be of no more legal force than any other amendment or article of the Constitution.
As for the claim that the Civil War "settled" the issue of the right of separation from the union, that is a modern recasting of an historical event that is not supportable when the event is viewed through the lens of constitutional law.
That is to say, when the federal army defeated the army of the Confederacy, there was no legal settling of the issue. The issue was settled by force of arms, not force of law.
As Ryan McMaken wrote on LewRockwell.com:
The Civil War did not "settle" the issue. Well, it settled the issue in the way that I settled the matter of ownership of that Steve Garvey baseball card when I beat up that other kid and took it. (OK, that never happened, but you get my point.) Secession was never settled beyond the federal government's assertion that it has the right to kill people who try to exercise their rights protected by the Tenth Amendment.
Might does not make right.
Next, to argue against the right of secession is to argue against the formation of the very union that those opposing this movement are so fond of defending. It is an inarguable historic fact that the Declaration of Independence was a declaration of secession from the British Empire.
In fact, so many of the conservatives who are mocking those decrying the "long train of abuses" committed by the federal government, on other occasions call for the annual reading of the Declaration of Independence. In that there seems to be a disconnect between word and deed.
Finally, while we at The New American accept secession as a right of all sovereign states, we prefer that states fed up with federal consolidation of power and intrusion into every corner of personal liberty and state sovereignty choose to exercise the "rightful remedy" of nullification.
Simply stated, nullification is a concept of legal statutory construction that endows each state with the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal measure that a state deems unconstitutional. Nullification is founded on the assertion that the sovereign states formed the union, and as creators of the compact, they hold ultimate authority as to the limits of the power of the central government to enact laws that are applicable to the states and the citizens thereof.
If the people will not allow deviance from the terms of the compact, then legislators at last will be disabused of their commonly perceived illusion that the people can be easily lulled into a lethargic stupor rendering them unwilling and eventually unable to withstand the steady herding of our nation into the corrals of despotism.
As opposed to secession (which, remember, once resulted in a civil war), nullification is not necessarily confrontational. There can be an understanding that there will be no talk of secession or revolution. Nullification will (must) be used in a surgical, sparing way to remove malignant tumors of tyranny, not as a chainsaw indiscriminately and brutally butchering healthy and diseased tissue.
Simply, states need not secede to rid themselves of this repugnant federal overreach; they may simply nullify all acts of the central government that exceed its constitutional authority.
Regardless of the response of states to the despotism of the federal government, it is good that the filing of these petitions is sparking conversation regarding the appropriate way to resist the centripetal consolidation of power toward Washington, D.C. and the associated eradication of state borders and sovereignty, as protected by the Tenth Amendment.


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The Eclipse Corliss Engine Group Classic Engineering
The Site of the Great Exhibition
Melbourne Exhibition Building - held in 1880
Below - A photo from 1900 - just 20 years on.
The venue for this ~ Grand Exhibition ~ is still in existence in Melbourne today
built in 1879 for this large event, being built in classic Victorian Architectural Style.
It is located in Carlton - and in walking distance from the inner City of Melbourne.
Due to its Age and Magnificent condition - it has a place on the UNESCO World Heritage Building list.
The Exhibition Building today is used at regular intervals for many exhibitions
including Art & Trade Shows and the Royal Agricultural Show.
The Home Show and Car Show have been a regular event within this building for many years.
The dome above, plus internal roof features are of special interest to visitors from all over the world,
and the Great Exhibition Hall is a rare sight to behold with architectural value second to none.
An aerial photo would be the only way to do justice to the enormity of this particular building.
The building has beneath an immense basement used for its own building services and also storage.


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