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Glenn Beck Was Always Crazy
The connecting thread in all this is that the money for Fox News and the Republican party doesn't come from people. It comes from corporations. Glenn Beck was always this out of step with the minds of the American people. It's just that Republican demagoguery used to be more effective. It was never about what people wanted to buy; it was always about what Rupert Murdoch wanted to sell.
What Fox News is mostly about isn't actually feeding people bullshit; it's creating the impression that other people believe it. They're not just telling us that various lies are true; they're also about a sneakier message: look, everybody else believes this shit might be true. It's a tactic that works. If people think that other people believe something, they're more likely to believe it themselves. We're also less likely to call bullshit on their more outrageous claims if there's peer pressure telling us their bullshit is somehow legitimate political debate.
Everybody knows this is happening. But the important fact many people are missing: these assholes know what they're doing. They're not all batshit loons. You'd have to be crazy to follow Dick Cheney, but that doesn't mean Dick Cheney doesn't know where he's going.
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I was discussing this with a co-worker a while back. The trick Fox News uses the most is that they always refer to unknown people when spouting their own opinion. You constantly hear "some people say" and "some people think" without knowing who these people are or even any evidence that these people even exist.ReplyDelete
And it's effective.
You can discredit an expert but you can't discredit what you can't attack.
They're full of all kinds of sleazy tricks. They were talking to Michelle Bachmann and they said we're sure you'll get a lot of criticism because you're so bold. Their way of writing off the fact that a large number of people (myself included) think she's completely crazy. If you can shift Michelle Bachmann into the mainstream, you can get away with all kinds of crazy bullshit and it'll still seem reasonable in comparison. It's a paid propaganda system, nothing more. No relation to what people think at all - just to what people with money want people to think.ReplyDelete
"The connecting thread in all this is that the money for Fox News and the Republican party doesn't come from people. It comes from corporations."ReplyDelete
First off, corporations are made up of people, it's a cheap rhetorical trick to pretend that the decisions aren't made by actual people. Second, a lot of those corporations propping up the party are "non-profit" churches looking to trick people into giving them their money, not the sort of corporations that provide non-imaginary goods and services. Third, the money for Fox comes from advertisers looking to sell things to Republicans- notoriously easy marks for certain kinds of pitches. Fourth, you can't pretend the Democrats are somehow innocent in the money game, Chris Dodd and Barney Frank come to mind as prime offenders in the current banking mess.
That said, Glenn Beck is completely weird. What the heck is he so angry about? And more tellingly, why wasn't he angry about it before? I feel the most aggrieved about what the Republicans are up to- they are now tarnishing support of responsible spending with the sheen of their crazy spending legacy. They are all of a sudden pretending to care about cutting spending. Since this is hypocritical from their behavior since 2001, people aren't listening to them. However, cutting spending is a really good idea right now. We've been trying deficit based stimulus for 8 years and all we got was this popped bubble and gum all over our faces. Now that we're even further beyond out of money...we just can't do it any more. We need someone outside of the party structure to come in and do a slash job on the whole mess.


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What a lovely New Year's Eve we had the other night. We were invited back to a celebration hosted by the owners of a local wine shop, who were most gracious to have us over last year for the first time. I was entranced then by one guest arriving with a pyramid of glazed profiteroles, or what I now know is a croquembouche. I was determined to bring a pyramid of my own, though made of something closer to my stomach. Why not Liege waffles, perhaps my favorite treat of all? These are Belgian sugar waffles made with yeast, eggs and chunks of pearl sugar, among the usual waffle ingredients, that make me dream of college days as a student in Europe. This is the ultimate street food for me, and though there's a "window" locally that makes a good version of these waffles, they're a little too American for my tastes.
I spent all afternoon making several batches of waffles, in part to bring to friends kindly looking after our kids for the evening, in part to have enough to make a real pyramid. Wish the picture showed the height of the waffle platter. To me, these irregular waffles look as good as they taste. Sure enough, people audibly remarked when I brought in the plate. Unfortunately, most people didn't touch them until late in the evening, one person remarking that he thought maybe there was a sauce or something to go with them. No. The chunks of sugar melt during cooking, making the waffles essentially glazed from the inside. Toppings really just gild the lily here. If you're at all interested, I recommend this link for a good, authentic recipe. You're welcome.
Of course, there were incredible wines to try at the party. NV Clouet Champagne Grande Reserve, full and rich, especially decadent from a 3L bottle. 1999 Cameron Chardonnay Abbey Ridge from the Dundee Hills of Oregon, showing a little wool and funk around the edges. I preferred the fresher, more clear but rich 2000 Cameron Clos Electrique Blanc, gorgeous Oregon white wine. Stunning really. There were Zind Humbrecht whites from the 1990s that I didn't get to, a magnum of 1999 Sauzet Puligny Montrachet from one premier cru vineyard or another that was typically austere and young for its age.
Then a ton of reds, again many I never got to. Just had fun talking with old friends and new, eating a variety of delicious food and enjoying the fire on a cold Portland night. The 2008 Crowley Pinot Noir Entre Nous was excellent, as are all of Tyson's wines in 2008. He's a friend, but really, you should try these wines if you haven't. He's making some of the best stuff locally that I know of. I'm happy for him and his delightful wife Emily. I brought my two 2009s, the Vincent Eola-Amity Hills and the Zenith Vineyard. People seemed to like them, or at least not visibly look ill upon trying them. A win, no? I tried other things, the 1990 Produttori di Barbaresco Montefico Riserva, still young and not as giving as I would have guessed. The highlight had to be the 1978 Bouchard Musigny, more evolved than I expected and very good but not great. Still, Musigny on New Year's Eve. Hard to complain.
In all, a nearly perfect night, one of those evenings where time slips away and you lose yourself in the moment, enjoying the atmosphere and the company, and just genuinely enjoy yourself. And by the end of the night, the waffle tray was nearly empty, meaning I had one last chance to take another for myself. Yeasty, rich, slightly crunchy from the sugar. Yes, nearly perfect.
January 03, 2011
New Year's Eve and waffles
Posted by Vincent Fritzsche at 8:21 PM
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- Portland Charcuterie Project said...
Hey.. I didn't see these waffles of gold at Casa Hubatch... what gives?
ps.. I like the way you describe peoples reactions to your wine.. I see that all that time when I pour it for friends... that "not ill " look :-)
pps.. I couldn't find the link in there.. care to trade waffles for meat? I'm mixing up a batch of chicken liver bourbon mousse this week.
- Vincent Fritzsche said...
Fixed. Hate when I miss things like that.
Meant to bring some to Casa Hubatch but with a small waffle iron, I just didn't have time to make enough. Figured there would be another time. And there will.
Sounds like you're pouring plenty of my wine. Let me know if you need to reload.
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I still find it incredible that after all this time, we still have all this trouble with writing up licenses that mean what we want.
Google's attempt to purge copyright from header files has put mobile developers at risk of being forced to reveal their own source code, according to legal experts. This time it's not patents or Android's reinterpretation of Java that's causing problems, but the Linux code that compiles down into Android itself. Google …
What do you mean "what we want"? Clearly the reasoning behind GPL'ing the Linux kernel makes sense and is for many the reason people commit code into Linux?
The whole idea of Linux is to keep ALL the derived code open, if companies were planning to do it with Android then though luck, welcome to the GPL ecosystem. Linksys, Tivo and others learnt how it works already.
If Google didn't like GPL they could have used one of the BSDs.
Actually, there isn't a problem writing a licence - the GPL is well understood (by those that don't have an agenda against it).
I find Google's approach *interesting*, and I can't help but think they've mad a whole pile of pain for themselves when they finally lose in court.
But as for the bit about applications developers having to reveal their code. **WHAT** ? Because the kernel and it's headers are under GPL doesn't mean that applications will have to be under GPL. That's one of the oldest bits if FUD thrown at free software and completely bogus. Now if the developer actually links some GPL code into their application then it would apply, but not just by writing an application that runs on that kernel.
"But as for the bit about applications developers having to reveal their code. **WHAT** ? Because the kernel and it's headers are under GPL doesn't mean that applications will have to be under GPL. That's one of the oldest bits if FUD thrown at free software and completely bogus."
Well put. Just because I #include <stdio.h>, doesn't mean that my code now falls under the GCC compiler GPL license. Bullocks! It would be the same as saying my Visual C# project is now copyright by Microsoft because I used their Visual C# lib headers. Utter BS.
The really sad thing? The author doesn't even know enough about the topic to address this in his article. Regurgitated FUD.
Firstly, please stop mixing things up yourself.
GCC is distributed under the GPL. stdio.h is from glibc, which is distributed under the LGPL. The LGPL allows you to link against glibc from proprietary code, GPL does not.
Then please read the original linked article, esp. pages 8 and 9, and address the specifics. In condensed form:
1) Google Bionic is linked against GPL'd kernel headers, therefore it should fall under the GPL.
2) "On Android, all native code must compile against Bionic", therefore all native applications fall under the GPL
Now point a flaw in that argument. Thankyou.
> 1) Google Bionic is linked against GPL'd kernel headers, therefore it should fall under the GPL.
Linus Torvalds disagrees with you. See http://www.itworld.com/open-source/140916/android-sued-microsoft-not-linux (down towards the bottom of that article). There are other quotations as well.
Richard Stallman also disagrees with you. See http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0301.1/0362.html .
> Now point a flaw in that argument.
The flaw is that you assume that use of content from the kernel headers necessarily constitutes a "derivative work" for the purposes of copyright law. This is incorrect; de minimis snippets and essential interoperability copying do not constitute derivation (or else it would be very difficult to use words like "the" and "and", as they are part of copyrighted works).
> Thankyou.
You're very welcome.
I was not making those assertions. The original article was.
*My* point was towards another poster, whose arguments were totally off the mark. I was hoping to get properly reasoned refutations of the original article. You provided those, including citations. So a sincere thank you for that.
Well the artical didn't mention applications. Where this could hit is with the custom OS versions used by some carriers, also the handset makers though i doubt most of them care much, Motorola springs to mind as one that could get somewhat pissed. If the carriers have to open their custom Os's i can see a lot of them droping Android and moving over to WP7. Which would then make Nokie look like geniuses!
> "I can't help but think they've mad a whole pile of pain for themselves when they finally lose in court."
Presuming they ever wind up in court for this. Very likely the copyright holders of the Linux kernel (Linus himself, others) will not care that much about the issue. It's not like they are Microsoft or Apple.
At most I guess the might use this as a lever to twist Google's arm into finally merging the Android kernel properly into the official Linux tree, something the kernel gurus have been complaining about for a long time.
Richard Stallman has long since proved that he's willing to pursue legal action against GPL violators, no matter how high or low profile they are. He probably wouldn't have the resources to win against Google, but he could certainly force concessions if the matter.
So, let me get this straight
You have a piece of copyrighted work, but if you remove something from it, it ceases to be copyright.
Does that mean I can rip music from CDs, pass them through an audio filter to remove something, say the content above 25KHz, thus removing the copyright and allowing me to distribute the work as my own.
And think of all those TV shows I can sell on - I just cut out the credits and flog them off as my own production.
I like it!
(mine's the one Andrew Crossley won't be chasing any time soon)
The header files may not be copyrightable in the first place.
Courts have determined before that you CAN NOT copyright an API. You can copyright the code that implements the API (unless the code to implement the API is to obvious) and you can copyright the comments surrounding the API but you can not copyright the actual API.
Which is all well and good except that courts have determined before that you CAN copyright an API (even if the code to implement the API is to obvious).
In other words the lawyers win and everyone else looses.
If you remove the copyrightable parts, what remains is not copyrightable. It's a tautology, so I'll explain. You take a song and remove from it the melody and lyric, the copyrightable portions (under US law), leaving a title or a chord progression, and the copyright holder has no ownership in what remains.
In code, some things are not copyrightable because, in my lay summary, it is what's necessary to do the job, for instance, a for loop, an if-then-else, or, variable assignment. However all those non-copyrightable elements in the aggregate from an implementation of functionality, and the more complex a function, the less one may say this was the one way to do this in defense of programming by copy and paste.
Comments are not necessary, so the copyright holder does own those.
The script, the music, the fixing of the performances in a tangible media, all those are copyrightable and the holder retains copyright after you strip off the credits. (Are credits copyrightable? A lot of movies start and stop the same way.) Well, back to the drawing board, won't get rich today.
> (mine's the one Andrew Crossley won't be chasing any time soon)
Don't think he'll be chasing anyone, ever...
Bet he's not so worried about his train these days either...
Yes, the remarkably authentic looking German one, ta.
As much as I would like very much for all Android apps to be free and open source, I think everyone should understand with crystal clarity what it is they're gettinginto and who they owe their business sucess to.
The header removal isn't just offensive, it's impetulant. Google, stop it before something bad happens.
In the article you imply that, without explaining how, an Android 3rd party developer may be forced to publish the source code to their application simply because it runs on Android. I call an analysis fail on this claim.
In simplistic terms if this were true, every piece of commercial software currently running on top of a GPL v2 licensed OS would also have to be open sourced. I think somebody would have spotted this issue before now.
Just because application 'A' uses an API in operating system 'B' does not make it a derivative work. Only when application 'A' includes copied/modified source code from operating system 'B' is the developer forced to open source his or her application because it is in part derived from the GPL'd source code.
I fail to see how a possible transgression by Google can cascade down onto application developers that have developed on top of Android, so suggesting that Android developers will be forced to publish source code is highly misleading and FUD to boot.
If Android is contaminated, than anything that uses the Android headers are contaminated ALSO, according to the GPL's pervasive licensing terms (which state in a nutshell, if you use GPL code, your code becomes GPL also, and any code that uses your code becomes GPL because of that). And since you basically need Android headers to build an Android app...
The key paragraph is at the bottom of page 8 and indeed acknowledges the very point I made. Java code destined to run under Android neither links to, nor includes, the Kernel headers at the heart of the dispute. Therefore they cannot be implicated in any violation of GPL v2. It's a shame that Brown Rudnick don't clarify this point but then they probably don't appreciate the subtlety.
The people who are at risk are those who have forked Android such as Cyanogen(mod), and those who are writing native C/C++ code that does link against / include the kernel headers.
But you can still write native code that does not fall foul of the licence. I repeat my assertion that this only affects third parties in a very limited sense. For most of us it's business as usual.
>>"In the article you imply that, without explaining how, an Android 3rd party developer may be forced to publish the source code to their application simply because it runs on Android. I call an analysis fail on this claim."
It's not "simply because it runs on Android," but simply because some of those applications were compiled using the headers which are potentially protected under the GPLv2, making them derivative works by extension.
I agree with you but ONLY in the situation that the application in question has actually incorporated the GPL'd code into its own distribution. I write Java, compile it to Dalvik, and distribute an APK file. I've not so much as even glanced at the Kernel headers so my code is not GLP'd by contamination.
The number of end-user applications that will need to reference the kernel headers is probably so close to zero as makes no difference. You've got to either compile in at least one GPL'd file into your application, or copy and paste code from at least one GPL'd file, to be affected at all. And for people writing in Java for Android it just isn't possible. For people writing in C/C++ for Android it's still highly unlikely to be an issue.
FUD FUD FUD plain and simple. Learn your license terms and understand what you need to be doing with/to open source for them to affect you.
We're not talking about Java applications compiled to Dalvik, but native applications using the Bionic C library. The Bionic library is derived from the Linux kernel header files, and the allegation is that *those* kernel header files were copyrighted and distributed under the GPLv2 license.
Linux includes a cleansed library derived from the kernel header files for user-land applications. This library is free to use, not bound by the GPLv2, and only contains constant, variable, and data structure, and other declarations.
However, Google decided not to use this library, but to go back to the original source, the raw kernel header files. Those contain a rather large amount of in-line functions and macros, and those *are* distributed under the GPLv2. Thus by implication, Bionic should be subject to the GPLv2 as well--or so the argument goes.
If the allegations are correct then, *any* application--including Android itself--that includes Bionic headers when compiling, _is_also_ subject to the GPLv2 license. Take a look at this analysis for an explanation of what is being argued here:
You don't really know what you're talking about, so I would suggest you read up on licences, not just the ones you think apply to you. GPL doesn't apply only when compiling in files, linking to them is enough.
And a great number of applications link with the Google C library which includes the kernel headers. This is not just for applications that call the special kernel functions.
So In this case it's better to have some FUD that be FUcked.
> GPL doesn't apply only when compiling in files, linking to them is enough.
True, but irrelevant to the rest of your post.
> a great number of applications link with the Google C library which includes the kernel headers.
If Google were using the GNU libc, the licence would be LGPL, not GPL. You can link against an LGPL library without your code becoming covered by either GPL or LGPL.
However, Google are not using the GNU libc. They're using a BSD-derived libc. That is not GPL...
> So In this case it's better to have some FUD that be FUcked.
I'm not sure I would agree with you there - but it is certainly better not to have to deal with the FUD at all. That's achieved by reading the licences, rather than just making rash statements about them.
Is that you're wrong.
How is my answer irrelevant when it's correcting a misunderstanding of the OP?
Also Google is not using a BSD derived libc, it's derived from from BSD and GPL, - with GPL being the more infectious - and licensed under Apache.
The FUD here is because even if you read the licences there's always a margin for legal interpretation. But better be safe than sorry, as they say.
But don't let this stop you from making rash statements about what others say.
> How is my answer irrelevant when it's correcting a misunderstanding of the OP?
Because it does no such thing.
The poster to whom you replied was telling you why his code is not covered by the GPL. So your attempt to tell him about why the GPL covers derivative works is irrelevant - because his work is not a derivative of the GPL. That's what he was saying...
> Also Google is not using a BSD derived libc,
Well, it is.
Some guy with links to Microsoft has recently claimed that it contains GPL code - I've yet to see any of the copyright owners making similar claims. If any do, then there might be a case to answer[1]. But until and unless that situation occurs, there is nothing to write about here; it's simply FUD.
> The FUD here is because even if you read the licences there's always
> a margin for legal interpretation.
No there is not. The licences are clear.
The complications arise because ACs on the Internet make sweeping statements about what the licences say without actually reading and understanding them.
> But don't let this stop you from making rash statements about what others say.
Pot, kettle, ..
[1] Even if there is some verbatim copying from the Linux headers, that does not necessarily mean any violation of copyright has occurred; some things are not protectable by copyright. Exactly that argument bit SCO in the arse when they tried to claim that Linux was a derivative of Unix because it used the same values in errno.h.
Google probably didn't care, after all the app store, like apples, is there to encourage people to buy phones, with of course Android as the OS. Basicaly google would prefere that most apps were free and the developers relied on adds to make money and if the App is free, who cares if it is GPL. Ok, the developers may care but their not googles product or customers.
What interesting is that based on how I understand copyright (I am not a lawyer), I could thoroughly review someone's GPL code, figure out how it works, then turn around and use the same concepts to write a piece of software that does the same thing and whose code is nearly identical. If the software were patented, then they could lay claim to the *process*, but copyright protects *content*, not *concept*, so unless I actually copied their code, even though my code accomplishes the exact same thing, using the exact same concepts, it's my code not their code, and copyright wouldn't seem to apply.
But as I said, I am not a lawyer.
You are basically correct - you can write your own piece of software that does essentially the same as another piece and it won't breach their copyright. However doing it in the way you describe is risky since you will likely remembers details of how the other program did it and so include bits of the code. There is the risk that what you end up with has enough similarities to keep the lawyers fed for a while.
That's why outfits wanting to do such things typically employ "clean room" techniques. For example, they may simply not employ any programmer that has ever worked on or been involved in any way with the project they are working on - and documenting all the steps they took to avoid any code contamination. This was certainly reported to have been done in the early days of "IBM PC compatibles" so as to produce a BIOS that IBM couldn't complain about and thus open up the clone market. The only knowledge to go in would be the details of **what** the code was to do (ie implement the published APIs) - what had to be proven to be absent was any input as to **how** anyone else had implemented it.
It's also why, in the Microsoft settlement with the EU, it is expressly recognised in the settlement document that independent coders may arrive at similar code when implementing a specific function - and that such similarities don't amount to code theft or copyright infringement. Without such language, there would be a real of of a free software project (such as Samba) implementing a compatible function and MS killing them with false copyright infringement claims.


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PENFIELD, N.Y. - Police say an 8-year-old boy killed in a fire at a relative's mobile home in suburban Rochester was trying to rescue a disabled family member when he and two adults died.
Cpl. John Helfer of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said nine people were in the single-wide trailer in the town of Penfield when the fire started around 4:45 a.m. Monday.
The dead were identified as 57-year-old Louis Beach, the homeowner; 54-year-old Steven Smith, and 8-year-old Tyler Doohan of East Rochester. Sheriff's deputies say Doohan apparently discovered the fire and roused six people who got out safely.
Helfer said four adults and two children, ages 4 and 6, were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
"My heart dropped, I was just like wow. it was so intense I can't believe it happened. I feel like it was a dream," Eric Berg, a neighbor, told CBS affiliate WROC in Rochester.
There were many animals inside this home as well, WROC reports. At least one dog died and a cat rescue group is hoping to find some of at least 10 cats that were in the home.
The cause of the fire is under investigation, although initial findings indicate it was an accident caused by an electrical problem, reports WROC.
Local Superintendent Richard Stutzman told WROC the little boy's death is having a big impact.
"To go running back in there it's quite something. It's probably not what you teach in fire school, however he did it and that's how we're going to remember him," Stutzman said.


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Janice Phillips
Mrs. Janice Elaine Forrester Phillips of Danielsville, Ga., died Thursday, April 29, 2010 at her home.
Mrs. Phillips was born in Tate, Ga. on Sept. 24, 1964, daughter of the late Ray and Martha Cox Forrester. She was a homemaker and caregiver and member of the Corinth Baptist Church in Marble Hill, Ga.
Survivors include her husband, Duane Kelly Phillips, Danielsville; sons and daughter-in-law, Colby and Tiffany Phillips and Tyler Phillips, all of Danielsville; brother, Jeff Forrester, Canton; sisters, Amy Isley, Canton, and Penny Barnes, Marble Hill.
The funeral service were held at 2 p.m., Sunday, May 2, from Corinth Baptist Church in Marble Hill with the Rev. LeeRoy Kelley officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery. Flowers were accepted but memorials may be made to the Corinth Baptist Church, c/o Jerry Brooks, 239 Sutalee Place
White, Ga. 30184. Pruitt Funeral Home in Royston, Ga. was in charge of local arrangements.
Karl Manzel
Mr. Karl T. Manzel, age 73 of Canton, passed on Thursday, April 29, 2010 at Northside Hospital-Atlanta.
Mr. Manzel was a veteran of the Korean Conflict where he served his country in the US Army. He was a member of True Life Church in Ball Ground and served on the State Committee for the Georgia Republican Party. Mr. Manzel owned and operated New Earth Grading and Excavating.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Ann Manzel, Canton; step-daughter, Adrienne Orr, Canton; and step-son, Ed Orr, Las Vegas. Six step-grandchildren also survive.
The funeral service was held at 3 p.m. Sunday, May 2 from Sosebee Memorial Chapel with Pastor Ryan Smith officiating. Entombment followed at Sunrise Memorial Park in Jasper. Contributions may be made to CARES of Pickens County, 89 Cares Dr., PO Box 1342, Jasper, Ga. 30143.
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John Westerman, III
Mr. John B. Westerman, III, age 79 of the Macedonia Community, passed away Saturday, May 1, 2010 at his residence.
Mr. Westerman graduated from West Fulton High School and was an Army veteran of the Korean Conflict. He retired from Atlanta Gas Light as an inspector with over 40 years of service. He was a member of Macedonia Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Josephine Westerman; daughters, Donna (Jeff) Trotter and Cindy (Wayne) Davis, all of the Macedonia Community; brother, Leslie Westerman, Billings, Mt.; grandchildren, Brittany Haught, Leigh Ann Trotter, Mitchell Trotter and Jonathan Davis; and great-granddaughter, Madison Haught. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service was held at 11 a.m. Monday, May 3 from Sosebee Memorial Chapel with the Revs. Bill Neese and Alan Dixon officiating. Interment followed in Macedonia Memorial Park.
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Clint Rollins
Mr. Clint Rollins, age 23 of Conyers, Ga. and formerly of Jasper, passed at his residence in Conyers Friday evening, April 30, 2010.
Survivors include his parents, Richard and Patsy Rollins, Jasper; grandmother, Margaret Brown, Blue Ridge, sister, Tricia Rollins, Jasper; and girlfriend, Lora Wingo, Conyers.
A memorial service was held Wednesday, May 5 at 11 a.m. from Jasper United Methodist Church with the Rev. Chip Wilson officiating. Memorials may be made to Pickens Animal Rescue, PO Box 45, Jasper, Ga. 30143. Cagle Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Marlan Whitaker
Mr. Marlan Robert Whitaker, age 47 of the Whitepath Community Ellijay, Ga., passed on Saturday, May 1, 2010 in Ocala, Fl.
Mr. Whitaker was born on Jan. 15 in Ellijay. He was a member of the Baptist faith and was self-employed as a carpenter in the construction industry. He was preceded in death by his sister, Patricia Thomas Whitaker; brothers, Bennie Lamar and David Thomas Whitaker; and special friend, Denise Martin.
Marlan is survived by his mother and father, Fannie and Frank Whitaker, Jasper, Ga.; sisters and brother-in-law, Judy W. White, Blairsville, Ga., and Sherri W. and David Terry, Jasper; and brothers and sister-in-law, David and Gloria Whitaker and Paul Everett Whitaker, all of Jasper. Ten nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, May 6 from the Logan Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Emuel Sanford officiating. Music will be performed by Irene Wofford. Interment will follow in the Salem Baptist Church Cemetery. Pallbearers are: Jerry Patterson, Gary Long, Mart Cartright, Christopher Miles, Scott Sneddon, Doug Hall, Bruce Granger, Jeremy, Josh, Terry and Gary Cowart.
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Eunice Pinyan
Eunice Smith Pinyan, age 87 of Maryville, passed away Friday, April 30, 2010 at Blount Memorial Hospital.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Aldon Pinyan; parents, Hazel and Nellie Smith; sister and brother-in-law, Evelyn and Raymond Potter; and brother, Boyd Smith.
Survivors include her daughter, Kay Snodgrass, Tellico Village Community, Loudon; son and daughter-in-law, Randy and Tina Pinyan, Alcoa; sister-in-law, Betty Smith, Maryville; nieces, Pam Gerhart, Columbia, Tn., and Gail Holloway, Maryville; nephew, Ivan Potter, Hurst, Tx.; and great-nieces, Mandy Roe and Lindsay Holloway.
The funeral service and burial was held at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 2 from Cross Roads Baptist Church in Jasper. Pallbearers were: Alex and Max West, Jr., Jason and Jacob Segers, John and Andy Bishop, Leon Semig and John Holbert. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Cross Roads Baptist Church, c/o Charlie Holbert, PO Box 198, Talking Rock, Ga. 30175. Cagle Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Eula Griffith
Mrs. Eula Griffith, age 77 of Marble Hill, passed away May 3, 2010 at her residence.
Survivors include her husband, W.P. Pierce Griffith, Marble Hill; son and daughter-in-law, Carl and Diane Griffith, Marble Hill; daughters and sons-in-law, Linda and Alvin Pool and Brenda and Rick Ray. all of Marble Hill, and Connie and Jimmy Fann, Jasper. Nine grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Wednesday from the Chapel of Cagle Funeral Home with the Rev. Charlie Buchanan officiating. Interment followed at Lake Forest Memorial Park. Pallbearers were: Wesley Reynolds, Trevor Griffith, Grant Taylor, Brian Morris, Joey Edwards and Kenny Justice.
Herman Pettigrew
Herman E. Pettigrew moved on to a better place on Friday, April 30, 2010 at Metropolitan Hospice Serenity Manor.
He was a lifelong citizen of Pickens County. He was preceded in death by a brother, Harley Pettigrew, Jasper; and parents, Dollie and Lawrence Pettigrew, Jasper.
Survivors include his daughter, Kasha Rose, Jasper; grandson, Phoenix Douglas, Jasper; sisters, Fay Edwards, Hinton Community, and Mary Bateman, Warner Robbins area, as well as numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Herman worked many years as head of maintenance at our local hospital and nursing home, as well as a store clerk for many of our local convenience stores. To know Herman was simply to love him.
Following Herman?s request of cremation, his funeral will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday, May 6 at Salem Baptist Church. The eulogy will be delivered by long-time friend, Rev. Von Hinton. Pallbearer will be Mark Shoemaker.
We would like to thank our friends at Cagle Funeral Home for all their help and guidance. Also thanks to all of Herman?s friends and family for support.


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Concentration: Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Fall: August 15
Spring: December 15
Summer: March 15
The admission process is rolling up through the deadline.
Number Required: 2
From Whom: Letters of recommendation should be obtained from employers, professional colleagues, and/or college faculty members.
Applicants must complete undergraduate statistics and health assessment courses.
A baccalaureate degree in Nursing with a GPA of 3.0 OR an R.N. license and a baccalaureate degree in another discipline is needed to apply to the M.S.N. program upon completion of a series of four courses referred to as the "Transition Program" with a GPA of 3.0.
The Statement of Goals should be approximately 500-1,000 words and include the following: the reason for your interest in a graduate degree; why you are interested in Temple's program; and your future career goals.
The GRE/MAT is required. Scores are expected to be at or above the 50th percentile. To qualify for a waiver of the GRE or MAT requirement, the applicant must have either an:
Minimum TOEFL score needed to be accepted: 600 paper-based, 250 computer-based, or 100 internet-based.
Applicants are required to interview with the track coordinator, Ann Linguiti Pron, M.S.N., P.N.P. To schedule an interview, call 215-707-4623.
A resume is required.
Graduate credits from an accredited institution may be transferred into the Department of Nursing, Graduate Studies. The course must be equivalent to the coursework offered at Temple, and the grade must be a "B" or better to transfer. The decision is made by the Director of the Graduate Program in conjunction with the faculty responsible for the course in question. The maximum number of credits a student may transfer is 6.
Copies of the applicant's nursing license and criminal background and child abuse checks are required.
Number of Credits Required Beyond the Baccalaureate: 40
Required Courses:
Core Courses (19 credits):
N5501: Theories for Advanced Practice Nursing of Families and Individuals
N5553: Pathophysiology for Advanced Nursing Practice
N5557: Pharmacology for Advanced Nursing Practice
PH5101: Epidemiology
Required Specialty Courses (15 credits):
N8604: Transition to Practice: Advanced Practice Nurse
Primary Care for Children with Acute, Episodic Health Problems
Primary Care for Children with Chronic Health Problems
N9887: Primary Care of the Adolescent and Client with Reproductive Health Concerns
N9988: Transition to Practice: Advanced Practice Nurse Practicum
An additional 6 credits are taken as electives in the student's area of interest.
Internship: No internship is required.
Language Examination: No language examination is required.
This program has no culminating events.
Dept. of Nursing, Graduate Studies
College of Health Professions
3307 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19140
Program Coordinator:
Ann Linguiti Pron, M.S.N., P.N.P.
Graduate Chairperson:
Dolores M. Zygmont, Ph.D., R.N.
Karen Schaefer, Ph.D., R.N.
At Temple, nursing education strongly reflects the values and goals of the discipline of Nursing and the broad mission of Temple University. Graduate nursing education prepares the professional nurse to function as an expert in a specialized area of Nursing or as a provider of primary care to clients. The curriculum focuses on the health needs of diverse populations with an emphasis on urban communities. Such education fosters the development of independent and collaborative problem solving in providing care in a variety of settings. The advanced practice roles stress the importance of academic excellence, critical thinking, and the use of scientific knowledge in decision making. The environment promotes intellectual dialogue and fosters individual growth and research in advanced nursing science.
Time Limit for Degree Completion: 3 years
Health Sciences
Core courses are offered on the TUCC and HSC campuses. Specialty courses are offered at HSC.
Students are required to complete the degree program through classes offered before and after 4:30 p.m. Students are also able to complete the degree program on a part-time basis (8 credit hours or less per semester).
Dept. of Nursing, Graduate Studies
College of Health Professions
3307 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19140
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The program is nationally ranked among the "Best Graduate Schools 2001" by
U.S. News & World Report.
The Department of Nursing is accredited for 10 years, through 2012, by the Collegiate Commission on Nursing Education.
A master's degree in Nursing and post master's certificate are offered in the following areas of specialization: Adult Nurse Practitioner, Family Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Educator, and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner.
Graduates of the program are employed in a variety of diverse settings, including both inpatient and outpatient settings affiliated with hospitals and clinics.
Nonmatriculated students are able to take a total of 9 graduate credits prior to matriculation. However, students must submit a complete application before registering for their third course. Only core courses N5501, N5553, N5557, and PH5101 may be taken on a nonmatriculated basis.
Funds are available to matriculated students who are in specialty courses and nearing program completion.
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The annual spring tour itineraries of the Hope College Chapel Choir and Hope College Symphonette have been announced.
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Saturday, March 19
Resurrection Reformed Church, 7 p.m.
Flint, Mich.
Sunday, March 20
Church of the Resurrection, 7 p.m.
Solon, Ohio
Monday, March 21
Trinity Reformed Church, 7 p.m.
Rochester, N.Y.
Tuesday, March 22
Westminster Presbyterian Church, 7 p.m.
Albany, N.Y.
Thursday, March 24
Trinitarian Congregational Church, 7 p.m.
Concord, Mass.
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First Presbyterian Church, 4 p.m.
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Thursday, March 17
Centerville Community Church, 7:30 p.m.
Centerville, Ohio
Friday, March 18
Asbury First United Methodist Church, 7:30 p.m.
Rochester, N.Y.
Sunday, March 20
Reformed Church of Bronxville
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Bronxville, N.Y.
Monday, March 21
Trinity Church Wall Street, 1 p.m.
New York, N.Y.
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Hopewell Reformed Church, 7:30 p.m.
Hopewell Junction, N.Y.
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Sullivan West Central High School, 7 p.m.
Lake Huntington, N.Y.
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Luther Memorial Church, 7 p.m.
Erie, Pa.
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Home Concert
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A Rift in the Pattern
During an attempt to harness what is believed to be a better energy source, two scientists bore a hole through the fabric of reality. In a world of peace and prosperity, where war and poverty are things only known through stories of the distant past, how will its people battle the evil released upon the world?
Disclaimer: I do not own any publicly recognizable entities herein. No copyright infringement is intended. The Twilight Saga © Stephenie Meyer. The Wheel of Time © Robert Jordan. Author's Note: I want to thank my pre-readers (CloeMarrie, LorraineBubbleybearJullierat, Sherryola) for their helpful words and encouragement. Warning: I'm a very slow writer and most of my time is taken up editing other fics, both to be published and fan fics. I'm also busy as a fan fic banner and manip maker. I will update as soon as I have a new chapter available, but it will not be on any schedule. If you would prefer to wait until the story is complete before you read, I will not be offended. I do the same thing. :)
1. The Dream
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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Second Age by some, the Age of Legends, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose along the road to Paaran Disen. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.
The wind blew through the gates of the opulent city, considered to be the crown jewel of the world. It blew through the streets, around the towering skyscrapers that glittered like precious jewels in the sky. Onward the wind blew, reaching a grand home near the Hall of Servants. It blew in through an open window there, seeping into the room of a sleeping couple and infiltrating the young woman's dreams.
Isabella Cullen shivered, partially from the cool breeze, but mostly from her dreams. In a world that was a virtual paradise of peace and prosperity, her dreams were usually always pleasant, though sometimes prophetic. Even the "bad" dreams were never truly horrific. These dreams, however, were the epitome of the word nightmare.
In her dreams, she saw the world as she knew it slowly become blanketed in darkness. She saw a hole ripped through the Pattern, from which the darkness seeped through, affecting the rest. Looking in horror upon what she witnessed, she searched her memories for the unfamiliar word that could adequately describe what she saw happening. After a minute her mind dredged up the long forgotten word—war—now known only to scholars and Aes Sedai. She had learned it many years ago as part of her studies in ancient history and never believed it to be something she needed to recall.
But what could only be referred to as war was prevalent in this dark world she dreamed of. She saw an army of nightmarish creatures—illegal constructs that seemed to be part human and part animal—attacking people, killing anyone—men, women, children—who got in their way. She shuddered in horror and closed her mental eyes as she saw the monsters haul some people away for food, or torture—another unfamiliar word she was forced to recall in order to explain the things she saw—for fun, things she could never imagine happening in reality.
The monstrous creatures were led by men and women who appeared to be Aes Sedai, which made no sense to her. The title Aes Sedai literally meant "Servants of All," and they didn't take the title lightly. They did not lead armies—even if armies existed, which they did not, not yet anyway—nor use their powers for evil. They used their abilities to channel the One Power in the service of others—to help, to heal, to advance their society—not cause destruction and chaos. Their ability to channel was a gift from the Creator, and they used this ability to honor the Light and the world that had been created for them.
She tried to focus, embracing the Power to sharpen her vision, to see who these Aes Sedai were. If this dream was a premonition and she could identify these traitors—who undoubtedly also must have created the monstrous constructs—perhaps this future could be prevented. But, alas, the faces of the Aes Sedai were shrouded in darkness, just as the dream world was. She could not make out any identifying features to tell them apart, not even hair color. The only way she could tell they were men or women were by the shape of their bodies. With a sigh, she reluctantly released her grasp on the Power.
The dream shifted and she saw herself in a Circle with several other women and men, including her husband, his family, and many of their friends. She watched as the Circle did something with the Power, something to themselves. She could not tell exactly what the intricate weave—composed of all five elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit—was supposed to do, only able to see half of the total weaves, the female half, but it looked like it was designed to make them stronger, physically—to enhance them somehow. A desperate attempt to battle the armies of constructs, perhaps?
She watched as the weave was completed and everyone in the Circle collapsed, seemingly unconscious. It was difficult to tell exactly what was happening, but there did seem to be some definite physical changes occurring: their muscles seemed to become more defined and their features were enhanced, all visible blemishes and imperfections that she could see becoming indistinct. She idly wondered if this change that had been wrought was temporary or permanent. She watched as the people began to stir and walked over to inspect her dream-self—her future self?—and watched as her dream-self opened her now bright luminescent eyes.
She awoke with a start, shivering even more due to the cool breeze that gusted anew through the open window. She quickly centered her mind, surrendering herself to saidar, the female half of the One Power. Embracing the Power, she used a simple weave of air to shut and lock the window. The sound of the window slamming shut startled her husband, Edward Cullen, awake and he sat up abruptly, enfolding her into his body when he noticed her shivers. She kissed him chastely on the lips before leaning into him, taking strength from his unflagging support.
No longer disturbed by the cool breeze, Isabella pondered the dream she'd just had. At least she hoped it was just a dream, or rather a nightmare. She shivered again, but not from the cold this time. A sense of foreboding told her that her dream was not just a dream, not to mention that she could not fathom how her mind could possibly ever dredge up such horrific images on its own.
While unrelated to her ability to channel the Power, Isabella had a strong inborn talent for Dreaming—having dreams that could foretell the future—and also was a powerful Dreamwalker—the ability to enter the World of Dreams, Tel'aran'rhiod, as well as observe and enter the dreams of others—though she was not yet as skilled in Dreamwalking as Mierin Eronaile and Lilen Moiral, the two most talented Dreamwalkers in the current Age.
At less than a hundred years old, Isabella was still considered nearly a child in comparison with the two talented Aes Sedai, though. Even Lilen was considered quite young at two-hundred years of age. Isabella's talents would only grow with time and maturity.
She had to keep the record of this dream. If it was a foretelling of what was to come... then the world as they knew it would come to end. She didn't know exactly when, but it was definitely within her lifetime—perhaps even within her youth, as her dream-self did not appear too much older than she was now. Aes Sedai did not age much, though, so it could still be a century or more into the future before she would notice significant changes in her outward appearance.
It was so difficult to even contemplate anything remotely like her dream ever coming to pass. Their world was one of abundance and harmony, a virtual paradise where no one was hungry and crimes were virtually unheard of. Violent crimes did occur occasionally, usually crimes of passion, but they were dealt with swiftly, the use of various ter'angreal ensuring there could not be any repeat offences from the perpetrator. She sighed and shook her head of the thoughts. It wouldn't do her, or anyone, any good to dwell excessively on it now.
She disconnected the recording device from her temple. After her talent for Dreamwalking had been discovered when she was a teenager, she had used the device every night to record her dreams. Most dreams were frivolous and discarded immediately, but definitely not this one. As much as she wished she could forget what she saw, she realized the importance of foreknowledge gifted them by the dream if it was truly a foretelling as she believed.
She pulled the memory chip from the recorder and stored it away for safekeeping. She would review it later, hopefully in company. In the intervening years since she had first started using the devices, she had learned how to store her dreams away in her mind for easy recall, but even so, she still preferred to use the recorder. This way she could watch the dream outside her own mind, and easily share it with others for an outside perspective.
Knowing his wife well, Edward waited patiently while she collected her thoughts. By her actions, he concluded she had had a dream. Once she was done storing away the recording of the night's dreams, he placed his hand over hers, pulling her attention to him. "What is troubling you, my heart?"
After a moment's hesitation, she replied, not wanting to keep any secrets from him, no matter how disturbing they were. "I had a bad dream."
His brow furrowed, taking in her expression; this was no ordinary bad dream. He frowned, knowing how atypical true nightmares were for her. "You believe it to be a foretelling?"
"I..." she faltered, "I cannot be certain, but I fear it is. Oh, Edward, it was horrible! If it comes true, it means the end to everything we know. I think I need to show this—" she held up the recording device "—to Alice, see if she's seen anything, too."
Alice was also an Aes Sedai, a childhood friend of Isabella's, and she remained close with the couple. Alice had a strong talent for Foretelling, which, unlike Isabella's talent in Dreaming, was definitely linked to the Power and was exceptionally accurate and usually easier to interpret. Unlike many other Aes Sedai with the talent, Alice could usually always recall hers, though she could not control when they occurred.
Edward nodded in agreement, looking out the window into the darkness of the night. Without the glowbulbs lighting up the streets, it would be too dark to see much of anything still. "I think that would be good idea. It's too early to disturb her now, though. Let's go back to sleep for now. Hopefully the rest of your dreams will be pleasant ones."
"I will in a minute. I just want to check on things, to ease my mind." Isabella's eyes beseeched her husband. With a sigh, he agreed and turned on the view-screen across the room, switching immediately over to the current news around the world.
All seemed calm and peaceful, just as it always did. There was a reminder that, later that week in the Sharom—a hovering white sphere located over the Collam Daan, a university constructed of silver and blue domes located within the great city of V'saine—an Aes Sedai research team led by Mierin and Beidomon, two of the top researchers at the university, were scheduled to tap into a new seemingly unified energy source, separate from the True Source, that Mierin had discovered. Presumably this new energy source would allow men and women to channel the Power equally, without being forced to access saidin and saidar.
Isabella was skeptical, though. If her dream was true, obviously this power source would not work as well as believed, or else she would have been able to the see the other half of the weaves made by the men in that final vision of her dream, where they changed themselves physically.
Well, there was nothing more to be done about it now. Everything in the world seemed well at the moment. Later that day, she would pay a visit to her old friend and see if she had had a vision, and perhaps they could all watch the recording of Isabella's dream and determine if it was just that or if it were something more. Isabella switched off the view-screen and fastened the recording device, with a new chip installed, to her temple, to record any new dreams she could possibly have, before she settled into her husband's arms and put herself into a deep sleep once again.
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"My heart goes out to the group of good workers who were laid off yesterday. Due to the incompetent attitudes and behaviors of the Executive Staff many friends and good people are wondering what they will do next to provide for their families. I know that many who are still employed at EAC are feeling guilty because they were not chosen to be let go this time and in the back of their minds the question is occurring are they next?
I knew after about 6 weeks that Todd Fierro was the wrong man for this job. He was trying to apply DOT policies to a vehicle that works in two dimensions and not learning about the FAA requirements. He was making decisions that were just stupid, he was not consulting his staff of Managers who could have turned the tide around so that there would not have been the massive lay off there was yesterday.
20 Year Mechanic is right about all he has written in the blog. But most of I respect him for his ability to stay the course to make the EAC500 a safe and wonderful craft. I hope for the sake of all involved that they can see farther down the road and project a good future for EAC and for the good of New Mexico, we need to keep the doors open. There needs to be a general house cleaning with the Exec. Staff and not the "worker bees." You cannot lead by pushing, leaders have to lead from the front and the Exec. staff does not.
Mr. Raburn tried to make his craft fly before it could crawl. Again a waste and this attitude has impacted my home and my friends!
I can only hope that at some point that all the unqualified VP's are moved into mere manager positions so that they can face the general population that they angered over their inept and cowardly actions towards their charges, the employees of Eclipse, investors, and the purchasers of the EAC500. No responsibility has been taken by any one of those sons and daughters of snakes, the Executive Staff.
Karma has a way of catching up, if not in this lifetime most certainly in another."
How do we reconcile this? The straight answer is that 'we' can't. EAC have a poor track record with numbers. The state of New Mexico is compromised in any investigation under WARN legislation. It has after all, financial interests in the company, in several ways. I'm pretty sure the truth will out eventually, but right now, the picture remains clouded.
"EAC is returning $40 million in deposits. EAC needs to pay suppliers $60 million and that does not include volume reconcilliation since they did not achive the number of aircraft they forecast so you can add 10% and call it $66 million. They say the USA brand is "dented" so most future sale will be from Russia/Europe etc. The UBS financing guy doesn't even have an investor lined up and this is not a done deal but they feel real confident they will find a real jackass of a company to invest in this mess... OK, my wording. "experts" tell them they can do 2/day... All suppliers said bullshit to that. The ramp down was due to funding....of course. It takes 6000 hrs to build an aircraft and they need to take it down to 4050 hours. They say there are 1000 firm orders and 1100 employees. the bright news was that no one was cocky and they begged to keep suppliers on board. Everyone had a NEW attitude, a NON Vern one....but get this, they won't commit to keeping us on the E-400...that pissed some suppliers off!"
"We did get $$'s on all orders except DayJet (in the latest messaging these orders are gone), and for most of the 900 it is a 100K+ deposit. Bad news is that with almost 300 refund requests those full deposits are due back to the customer....."


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In the Whyte notation, a 4-2-0 is a railroad steam locomotive that consists of a 4-wheel leading truck followed by a single driving axle. This type of locomotive, often called a Jervis type, was common on American railroads from the 1830s through the 1850s.
The equivalent UIC classification is 2'A.
The first 4-2-0 built was the Experiment (later named Brother Jonathan) for the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad in 1832. It was built by the West Point Foundry based on a design by John B. Jervis. Having little else to reference, the manufacturers patterned the boiler and valve gears after locomotives built by Robert Stephenson of England.
A few examples of Stephenson locomotives were already in operation in America, so engineers did not have to travel too far to get their initial ideas.
In America, the design was a modification of the 0-4-0 design then in common use. The 0-4-0 proved to be too rigid for the railroads of the day, often derailing on the tight curves and quick elevation changes of American railroads. For the 4-2-0, Jervis designed a four-wheel leading truck under the locomotive's smoke box that swiveled independently from the main frame of the locomotive. The pistons powered a single driving axle at the rear of the locomotive, just behind the firebox. This design resulted in a much more stable locomotive that was able to guide itself into curves more easily than the 0-4-0.
In England, it had developed from the 2-2-2 design of Stephenson's first Long Boiler locomotive, around 1840, which he had altered to place two pairs wheels at the front with the outside cylinders between them to improve stability.
This design proved so effective on American railroads that many of the early 0-4-0s were rebuilt as 4-2-0s. The 4-2-0 excelled in its ability to stay on the track. But with only one driving axle, the locomotive's weight was spread over a small proportion of the powered wheels, which meant its total power was substantially reduced.
One possible solution, patented in 1835 by Charles and George E. Sellers, caused the locomotive to tip upward while it was ascending a grade. This plan placed more of the locomotive's weight on the driving axle, but by reducing the weight on the leading truck, also made it more prone to derailments.
A more practical solution, first put into production by Norris, moved the driving axle to a location on the frame in front of the locomotive's firebox. Cantilevering the weight of the firebox and the locomotive crew behind the driving axle placed more weight on the driving axle without substantially reducing the weight on the leading truck. However, Norris's design led to a shorter wheelbase, which tended to offset any gains in the tractive force on the driving axle by reducing the locomotive's overall stability.
A number of Norris locos were imported into England for use on the Birmingham and Bristol Railway since, because of the Lickey Incline, British manufacturers declined to supply.
As the 1840s approached, and more American railroads were experimenting with the new 4-4-0 locomotive type, the 4-2-0 fell out of favour as it was not as able to pull a paying load on the railroad as the 4-4-0.
4-2-0s were built into the 1850s, but their use was restricted to light-duty trains as most railroads by this time had found them unsuitable for regular work.
In England, for freight work, four-coupled and six-coupled engines were performing well. However, for passenger work, the aim was greater speed. Because of the fragility of cast-iron connecting rods, "singles" continued to be used, with the largest driving wheels possible.
For some reason, British manufacturers did not take up the idea of mounting the forward wheels on a bogie for some years. Possibly there were fears about their stability, but with a long rigid frame, greater speed was achieved at the cost of a very rough ride and damage to the track.
The culmination of this approach was seen in the Crampton locomotive where, to make the drivers as large as possible, they were mounted behind the firebox.
Once steel became available, greater rotational speeds became possible with multiple, smaller coupled wheels.


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Will you have a hard time living without bread? Ooopsies are a good option. It's a "bread" without carbs and can be eaten in a variety of ways.
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- ½ teaspoon baking powder (optional)
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Whip egg whites together with salt until very stiff. You should be able to turn the bowl over without the egg whites moving.
Mix the egg yolks and the cream cheese well. If you want, add the psyllium seed husk and baking powder (this makes the Oopsie more bread-like).
Gently fold the egg whites into the egg yolk mix – try to keep the air in the egg whites.
Put 6 large or 8 smaller oopsies on a baking tray.
Bake in the middle of the oven at 150° C (300° F) for about 25 minutes – until they turn golden.
You can have an Oopsie as a sandwich or use it as a bun for a hotdog or hamburger. You can also put different kinds of seeds on them before baking them, for instance poppy, sesame or sunflower seeds. One big Oopsie can be used to make a swiss roll: Add a generous layer of whipped cream and some berries. Enjoy.


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Tafelberg, Spout, West Face. 1. Bazooka Rodeo
Bazooka Rodeo (25) ****
Spout, West Face
A varied route with an improbable start, and then consistently good climbing. Start about 15m right of Dogmatix, below a pocketed roof.
- Pitch 1. 25 m (25) Up a short easy wall, and a left leaning break to a wide rail (#3 and #4 Camalot) below the pocketed roof. Use a deep C-shaped pocket to launch to the lip, and do some circus moves to establish on the face above. Climb up and slightly right for about 7m to a semi-hanging stance.
- Pitch 2. 10m (18) Straight up steep face to the ledge, again #3 and #4 Camalot useful.
- Pitch 3. 15m (19) Traverse left along narrow ledge for a few meters, then pull up to some underclings above the slab. Continue traversing left until able to easily pull up to large ledge.
- Pitch 4. 40m (20) Start directly under a narrow roof, at about 10m height, that has two small left pointing flakes. Up to the first break, then to the narrow roof and use the flakes to gain the face above. Tend diagonally right across the face to pass the next larger roof on the right side. Continue tending slightly right and up, just left of the wide arete. Stance in a small right facing corner on the ledge.
- Pitch 5. 30m (19) Climb the corner for about 2m then traverse right and up on rails. On the right edge of the long roof is a thin, left tending finger crack. Pull up into this, and then again tend right across the face to the next ledge. A short wide crack on the right then leads to a blocky ledge. Stance in a right facing corner under a bottomless chimney about 10m up.
- Pitch 6. 15m (20) Climb the short steep cracks to a rectangular roof. Pass this on the right side and then step left into the chimney that leads to the top.
FA: Joe Möhle and Richard Halsey (Nov 2011).
Aqua Spring (22) ***
Start on a large block right behind the water point. Jump for a good rail and then follow the crack system up and through two recesses on the left. At the good rail where the rock above deteriorates in quality, rap from a nut/chock anchor (<30m).
FA: R. Halsey 31/12/11
Ecstacy Wall
A deceptively steep wall just to the right of the route Thumbelina. It is easily visible as you walk from Spout cave toward the water point. Approach by scrambling up The Central Route. There may be potential for a route or two more to the right, but they will be brick hard.
Flaming Woozel (24/25) ****
Start off a large, flat boulder more-or-less in the centre of the wall and climb up easily to a break. Follow a slight right leaning groove to a finger rail (small cams). Traverse 1m right and use two short slanted rails and the golf ball to reach the next good rail. Traverse about 2m left until able to pull up to another good rail, and the ledge above. Move slightly right to a darker brown, steep prow and climb the left side till the top.
Consensus grading required, probably harder if you are short.
FA: R. Halsey 12/11/2011
Solitaire wall - Left Side. 1. The Inventor, 2. The Cynic, 3. Go Go Gadget
The left side of the Solitaire wall is easy accessed by the path leading to the water spot. Good warm up area in cold weather.
The Inventor (21) ***
Start up a featured face (just right of the path leading to the water spot) up to the steep orange rock. Pull through some rails and then easily up to a featured layback. At the small ledge, move about 1.5m left and up to a rail. Use good holds on the face to reach the next ledge and follow the short left facing corner to the top.
FA: R. Halsey 6/11/11
The Cynic (18) ***(*)
Climb easily up to the layback from the right. At the ledge traverse left to the blunt arete and climb this to the top.
FA J. Möhle 6/11/11
Go Go Gadget (23) ****
What a little gem! Pull onto the orange face from the boulder and tend slightly right up the steep wall to the narrow overhang. Pull directly through and up a series of flakes to a hand rail to the left of a small roof. Crank onto, and across the roof on good holds in the grey rock, and then tend slightly left to a small ledge. Straight to top.
FA: R. Halsey 7/11/11


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The whole advantage to free software is that you can take it apart and look at it, right? That is what most free software advocates would have you believe. So what would happen if the GNU Project released a Perfect Decompiler, a decompiler that could perfectly decode any binary into source code understandable by humans? (For the theoretical purposes of this discussion, let us also assume the impossible case that the binary is decompiled into a verbatim copy of the original source code.) Would this help or hurt the Free Software Movement?
The only barriers ensuring that proprietary software remains proprietary would be those of law. In a pure state of anarchy, a perfect decompiler would be indistinguishable from having all software released as free software. It would essentially render the Free Software Movement perfectly successful in anarchist states. Complete access to the source code of any application could be obtained with little effort, and modification would be limited only by the quality of the newfound code. In the world as it exists today, however, this would not be the case. Proprietary software licenses across the board prohibit disassembling in the first place, and copyright laws prohibit the possibility of doing anything interesting with the decompiled code. It would seem that, besides abandonware and oddly-permissive proprietary licenses, a perfect decompiler would be meaningless to the Free Software Movement due to the artificially imposed limits of the government. Is that necessarily so?
One current roadblock to the Free Software Movement is the diamond-water paradox. The diamond-water paradox points out the fact that water is necessary for survival, yet free, whereas diamonds are useless but highly treasured. Like water, free software has an infinite availability. Like diamonds, the supply of proprietary software is limited by cost. It makes no difference which is more important or useful; when monetarily limited, proprietary software will be seen as having more value than free software. No matter what the quality is, only a fool would exchange something of greater value for something of lesser value. Free software users simply value freedom much more than purchase price, making the free software option more valuable. This is where free software advocates stumble: in order to change what software people use, they must change their entire set of ideals and ways of thinking.
The most common arguments for the promotion of free software involve uncertainty as to how one is being treated, privacy, the ability to control one's experience, and the ability to share. With a perfect decompiler, uncertainty and privacy could be addressed very easily. After the release of such a decompiler, a fairly large number of privacy-indifferent companies would have their reputations damaged until they released privacy-respecting software updates. After a package of unapologetic apologies, the effects of distrust would be fairly short-term, and would not in themselves result in a significant drop in sales.
The ability to control one's own experience is, more often than not, seen as a form of individualism. Big companies can never sue every individual that questions their castle on a cloud. Just like the world of software patents today, the actions of independent developers would go unnoticed, for the most part. In other words, only big companies that made modifications to software (and developers who intended to resell modifications) would be hurt by the inability to modify source code, and individuals would be able to make all the changes they wanted. To individuals, this would sound like something that would trip up only large corporations, when in reality, it is from those large corporations that the most useful and important modifications come. Plus, nobody would ever come to depend on a platform that cannot be reliably run in any situation. The mixing of individualism and formal/corporate usage is a difficult concept to understand, and one that many seasoned free software advocates still do not grasp.
Finally, the ability to share is seen by a large percentage of the population as a right that already exists. The sharing and usage of illegal proprietary software is so rampant today that the ability to share decompiled code (modified or vanilla) would not be immediately seen as a problem. While it is debatable whether or not this is the path down which society should be going, many of those savvy enough to legally share software are already doing so.
Keeping these ideas in mind, why would any non-philosophically-inclined individual see the value of free software with the availability of the perfect decompiler? Besides existing free software sympathizers, the grounds for showing the advantage of free software would be so small that even the philosophically inclined would have trouble seeing the value of complete freedom as outweighing the value of practicality.
The relevance of this is fairly straightforward: access to the source code is all that many free software supporters really want. It is hammered into the community members' minds by the most philosophical among them that the term "free" is what is important; however when asked to justify reasoning, it is much more rare to hear reasoning that protects the freedom to redistribute modified or vanilla copies when given access to the source code. It just makes things more difficult for both parties, and is often left out of the explanation of freedom. But does "freedom" really make sense without the holistic picture?
It would not be logical to discuss only the Free Software Movement, however, without giving a nod to its step-sibling movement, the Open Source Movement. The Open Source Movement has made huge contributions to the Free Software Movement, and a significant number of people consider themselves members of both efforts. Open source, however, respects only the interests of businesses trying to maximize profits, without giving a nod to its consumer-protecting step-sibling.
The two most commonly cited reasons that businesses release their software as open source are to gain more users and to develop a community around it. Open source software will not draw a significant number of new users, as we saw above. Consumer ideals are the greatest draws to free software, so open source's added appeal would be very, very small if a perfect decompiler was developed, considering our explanation. (This reasoning ignores the "no cost to the consumer" mentality of such software because, if the source code was easily decompilable, the illegal acquisition of no-cost versions of proprietary software would be significantly more user friendly and commonplace than it is today.)
A much more difficult question is whether or not communities could be created around a company's open source software. Even now, though, communities don't develop overnight. Many times, they don't develop at all. So exactly how could companies make the decision to give up their monopoly forever in order to get a piece of the profit the community has to offer? With "trade secrets" now readily available, it would seem that there would be much less harm in declaring a particular piece of software "free". Does that mean companies would be more likely to make this dive into open source?
Community dynamics in software can generally be simplified by focusing on one target niche at a time. In general, there are a limited number of people in the world interested in contributing to free software projects that fill the niche that scratches their itch. The ideas of game theory and Cournot competition suggest that, if all software in a particular niche is identical, all of that software will eventually be open source. Differences do exist among pieces of software, though, and these differences prevent every company from choosing open source and filling the world with truly free software. Traditionally, open source has been seen as a "last resort." But it has only been a last resort when one company wants to gain an advantage over its competitors. Because every software company would be equally shaken by the same deadly handshake, there would be no additional incentive to gain a relative advantage. One could go as far as to argue that the availability of community members in each niche would decrease, because some of those once interested in programming free software would begin illegal underground work. But again, this would be an industry-wide decrease in resource availability. The relative advantage gained over competitors would just be less.
It can thus be concluded that, even if all source code was made available, it would not increase the number of companies that elect to "make the most of the situation" by choosing open source. Each company in each niche would not turn their eyes to open source because, when enough companies use this route, the advantage to doing so disappears. The number of software developers in the world (and especially the number interested in contributing to free software) is finite, so additional opportunities for contribution only mean more fragmentation and a shrinking community for each company that has already chosen open source. With lowered overall profits from the state of the industry, it would not be economically wise for companies to take advantage of the situation.
It would be naive to suggest, however, that the proprietary software industry would accept such a decompiler without a fight. Both legal and technical means would be used to achieve the end of keeping software restricted in such a way that makes it marketable using the same strategies as physical products. There would no doubt be at least one massive class action lawsuit from the software industry. Depending on the position of the various governments of the world at that particular time, it may or may not be ruled illegal on the spot. (The American government would probably follow the model of the DMCA and rule the usage of the decompiler itself illegal because it gives citizens the power to do illegal things.) Really, though, decompiling software and improperly distributing copyrighted material is already illegal, so it would never stop the effects. How else would the companies fight?
Lawsuits would be their best tool. Yes, they would likely use the same technique the entertainment industry uses today (make a big deal out of it every time a consumer is sued), but there would be much worse cases. The most damaging would be those where the software industry creatively manages to persuade the government that causation is synonymous with correlation. With the right (or wrong) wording, the proprietary software companies could conceivably claim the illegitimacy of accessing any source code to which one doesn't own the copyright. In other words, this would outlaw truly free software. With enough money, who knows how far preposterous claims such as this could make it. These kinds of claims severely damage the freedom of those partaking in legal activities for ethical causes, a very negative yet plausible effect.
There are more fighting techniques beyond lawsuits, though. For example, there would certainly be obfuscater wars, whereby a software company continuously develops a source code obfuscater to bide time before the obfuscation technique is implemented by the authors of the decompiler. There would be company personnel hired exclusively to expose those who use the software illegally. More means would be used, but I won't detail them here. The biggest thing they have in common is their heightened cost. This is already a problem with proprietary software: part of the purchase price includes the costs necessary to restrict the user. This would only make the issue much worse, and create more of a need for true freedom.
Taking every view into consideration, it is surprising to see how an action most would think coincides with the goals of the Free Software Movement would actually hurt it. People would see free software as having much less value, and there would be less ground for encouraging its use. Companies would not release all their source code to make the most of the situation; if anything, they would change by becoming less likely to do so in the future. The corporations would work through both technical and legal channels to prevent users from changing their software, and in the process, they would tread on the rights that keep the Free Software Movement alive and thriving today.
This just goes to show the importance of finding the source cause of a problem. It would seem (and many assume) that the root dilemma of the Free Software Movement is the inability to access the source code of all software. In reality, though, the problem is about the legal inability to deal with such source code. Free software advocates advocate using free software for reasons involving read access to the source code, but rarely touch on the most basic concepts of true freedom. This example is, of course, a fictional extrapolation, but an extrapolation from which an important lesson can be drawn. Like all things in the world, the Free Software Movement cannot continue stably on any path but one founded on the most basic and important ideals. The foundation of a house only works when it supports the entire structure.