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Inspired by a recent visit by Browns running back and "Madden" cover boy Peyton Hillis, here is a look at some of the most bruising running backs in NFL history.
Tank Younger (Reader's Choice)
Thank you to Farjad Carmona, who sent this one to me via Twitter. Younger is such an obvious choice because his name is Tank and he played in the Bull Elephant backfield with the Los Angeles Rams. Younger started his career as a tackle, but was quickly made into a defensive back by his college coach - Grambling's Eddie Robinson. Younger is the sixth leading rusher in Los Angeles Rams history.
The Fridge (Dameshek's Choice)
William Perry became a national sensation when Mike Ditka inserted him into the Bears' backfield during the 1980s. People loved seeing the big man plowing through the defensive line. Well, everybody except for my dad, who continues to curse the name of Ditka for getting Perry a touchdown in Super Bowl XX and not giving the ball to Walter Payton - the man who carried the Bears during their lean years.
Jerome Bettis
With a nickname like the "Bus," how could Bettis not be on this list. Bettis, an admitted bowling enthusiast, became an instant favorite of Los Angeles Rams fans in 1993 thanks to a running style that resembled that of a bowling ball rolling down the field. Known as the "Battering Ram" back then, Bettis rushed for 1,429 yards and earned Offensive Rookie of the Year honors. Bettis also topped 1,000 rushing yards the next season. Funny, I am not sure what happened to him after that.
Natrone Means
Means was a key member on the Chargers' AFC title run in 1994, when he rushed for 1,350 yards and 12 touchdowns. Means also was a key cog in the Jaguars' improbable playoff run to the AFC Championship Game in 1996. But like many of these bruising backs, his career faded out quickly.
Eddie George
Hillis compared his running style to that of George, who was a long-time Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans running back. What made George so incredibly tough to bring down was his sheer size, standing 6-foot-3 and weighing 240 pounds. George was outstanding in Super Bowl XXXIV, rushing for 95 yards and a pair of touchdowns and figured to be the game's MVP if the Titans had won.
Eric Dickerson
There is a tale that is told around the terrace level of Angel Stadium (where the Rams played from 1980-1994) that Dickerson was racing for a score against the 49ers and was in the clear, but took a detour to run over safety Ronnie Lott on his way to the end zone. And it's a great story, except for the fact that Dickerson never had a rushing touchdown against the 49ers at Anaheim Stadium. Still doesn't keep me from telling the story, though.
William Andrews
Andrews actually did have a much-publicized run-in with Lott, to which the Hall of Fame safety later said it was the hardest hit he had ever received during his NFL career. Andrews hit Lott so hard, part of his finger flew off. Alright, that is a tall tale. But it is no exaggeration to say that Williams remains one of the more underrated players in NFL history. He was a guy I always looked forward to see during those great NFC West battles with the Rams.
Christian Okoye
The Nigerian Nightmare burst into the NFL in the late 1980s and became an NFL phenomena because of his punishing running style and futile attempts to tackle him. And that was just his "Super Tecmo Bowl" profile, too. The amazing thing about Okoye was as hard as it was to tackle him on the NFL level, how did they ever bring him down on the NAIA level when he played at Azusa Pacific? If you made me wager, I would say he was tackled four times, tops, during his college days.
John Riggins
Everything you need to know about Riggins was his 43-yard touchdown run against the Dolphins to seal the Redskins' win in Super Bowl XVII. Riggins rushed for 166 yards and was selected as the game's most valuable player. More importantly, the selection meant that Joe Theismann was not the MVP, which, to me, makes him somewhat of an American hero.
Larry Csonka
The Dolphins running back was so punishing that his last name - Csonka - turned into a verb for running people over. An amazing story about Csonka is that he played defensive end at Stow High School in Ohio, before getting a chance to return a kickoff as a sophomore. That gave Csonka a taste of running the ball, and he eventually lobbied his coaches to let him carry the ball. And the rest - they say - is history as he went on to a Hall-of-Fame career.
Bo Jackson
On a recent visit to the NFL.com studios, Titans QB Jake Locker was raving about Jackson running over Brian Bosworth. Admittedly, it was weird because Locker didn't seem old enough to have seen that game. But like a whole new generation of fans, they have been watching Jackson's punishing runs on YouTube and falling in love with his running style. That was the case for many of us who grew up in the 1980s watching Jackson and playing "Super Tecmo Bowl."
Marion Motley
Before there was any of those famed Browns running backs, there was Motley, who started his playing career with Paul Brown on the US Navy's team emanating from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station Team. Motley was not only a punishing runner, he played linebacker for those great Browns teams of the AAFC and the 1950s NFL. Sports Illustrated's Paul Zimmerman called Motley the greatest player of all-time. Who is to argue?
Walter Payton
Don't let the nickname "Sweetness" fool you, Payton was one of the most punishing runners in NFL history. His running style was nothing short of aggressive. Payton also rarely ran out of bounds, instead choosing to get a lick on a defender. As he once said, "My coach at Jackson State, Bob Hill, always said that if you are going to die, you should die hard, never die easy." Hillis told the story on Tuesday that he suspects that he was named after Payton, despite the different spelling. But shouldn't that be something Peyton has asked about by now?
Earl Campbell
Campbell was once described as a one-man demolition team because his of running style. Steelers defensive end Joe Greene, speaking for seemingly everybody, called Campbell the most devastating running back he played against, saying nobody could inflict more damage. The most amazing thing was the size of Campbell's legs, which were often compared to the trunks of redwood trees. Campbell is one of only three running backs to win the Heisman Trophy, be selected first overall, and be inducted into the Pro and College Football Hall of Fames.
Jim Brown
Brown had a style that had his opponents fearing his every move - and that was just in lacrosse. Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to allow Brown to run around with a stick? His knees were more of a lethal weapon than any stick with a net on it could have been (and sorry lacrosse fans if your equipment has some other name). Brown finished his career on top, being selected as the NFL MVP and leading the league in rushing. He retired as the NFL's all-time leading rusher, but you wonder how unobtainable his record could have been had he hung on for some extra years.


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As the London Fashion Week progresses, the conservative tone of most collections presented so far is becoming more and more apparent. If feminine vibes unquestionably dominated the New York Fashion Week, the slightly masculine look is starting to regain some power for the spring summer 2012 season. The myriad of neutral tones throughout the collection suggests a high emphasis on versatile pieces that can be easily mixed and matched for a classy flawless outfit. Prints are kept at a minimum and the preference for highly structural, geometric ... Read More


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|CSS map
|Creating a Counterstrike Source map of the hackerspace and surroundings
|TomD, Kefcom, Spin
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To get started
information about 3D moddeling packages and using it in the map creation workflow:
- hammer: the map editor for the half life engine. Can be installed through Steam -> Source SDK
- sketchup: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SketchUp_Source_Tools
- blender: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Is_Blender_3D_Good_for_Source/How_to_Start
Guidelines for moddeling
- All polygon quad faces or triangles
- No concave faces (ie quad faces must be flat, triangles are always flat)
Guidelines for exporting to Hammer
Guidelines for setting up an internet server
css console can tell you a lot of the good stuff steam > (Right mouse Button) on Counter Strike Source > Propterties > (button) SET LAUNCH OPTIONS... > add the following, without the quotes: "-console"
port forwarding port 27015 for the server, but make sure you also allow an outgoing port for the clients: 27005
if you want to run your server over the internet, add at the counterstrike console:
- sv_lan 0
- heartbeat
- ip "fill in your internet ip"
- "reload" might also be a useful command after you made some settings ;-)
Work in Progress
world TODO list:
- josto (pooltable is ready)
- josto backrooms
- office + storage
- fire stairs + sniper room
- outside
- streets
finished rooms:
- den bunker: (lounge, gang, 2 backrooms, DOKA)
- toilets
- hall (main entrance)
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URL is cs-s.friedkiwi.be .
247-126-178-46:~ yvan$ ping cs-s.friedkiwi.be
PING cs-s.friedkiwi.be (188.8.131.52): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 126.96.36.199: icmp_seq=0 ttl=111 time=71.689 ms
64 bytes from 22.214.171.124: icmp_seq=1 ttl=111 time=81.586 ms
64 bytes from 188.8.131.52: icmp_seq=2 ttl=111 time=90.466 ms
--- cs-s.friedkiwi.be ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 71.689/81.247/90.466/7.669 m
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Brandeis was led by juniors Youri Dascy (Fall River, Mass./St. Andrews School, R.I.) and Gabriel Moton (St. Petersburg, Fla./St. Petersburg). Dascy, a forward, registered his seventh career double-double - his first of 2012-13 - with a team-high 17 points and game-high 11 rebounds. Moton, a transfer guard from Boston College, notched 13 points and 10 boards, tying his career-best. It was his second double-double of the season and of his career. Dascy's front-court partner, junior Alex Stoyle (Goffstown, N.H./Tilton School), tied his season- and career-high with 14 points, while classmate Ben Bartoldus (Hillsborough, N.H./Proctor Acad.) rounded out the double-digit scorers with 12 points. Moton and Stoyle tied for game-high honors with four assists.
Brandeis outrebounded Clark, 40-34, and held the visitors to just 33.3% shooting from the floor (20-60), including 24.2% in the second half (8-33). The Judges also held their foes to just 1-of-15 shooting from downtown, 0-for-8 after the break.
Clark had a stellar performance from graduate student Brian Vayda (Sturbridge, Mass./Tantasqua Regional), who led all scorers with 24 points and topped the Cougars with seven rebounds. Vayda hit 7-of-12 from the field, including 1-of-3 from downtown, and all nine of his free-throw attempts. He also had a game-high four steals and tied with two teammates with two assists. Only one other Cougar player had more than two field goals on the night, grad student D.J. Bailey (Palmer, Mass./Palmer), who had seven points.
In the first half, the lead changed hands three times and had two ties. The largest lead was eight by the Judges after two Bartoldus free throws at the 9:48 mark made it 16-8. Clark chipped away, going on a 14-5 run over the next five minutes to reclaim a 22-21 lead on a John Karas (So. Glastonbury, Conn./Glastonbury) jumper with 4:37 left in the stanza. Stoyle responded with a trifecta and the Judges scored eight of the next 10 points to take the lead for good. Brandeis owned a 31-28 lead at the break as Bartoldus had 10 points and Stoyle had nine to pace the Judges, while Dascy had five points and eight boards. Vayda kept the Cougars in the game in the first 20 minutes with 11 points.
Dascy opened the second half by scoring the first three buckets to put the Judges up by 12, 40-28, just 1:50 in. The lead grew to 14 on a dunk by Stoyle on a pretty feed by Moton at the 16:15 mark, but Clark would not go away. The Cougars scored eight unanswered points, including two traditional three-point plays by Vayda and Bailey to get back within six, 44-38. Clark got within four points twice in the final eight minutes, and an aggressive full-court press kept Brandeis from pulling away, but the Cougars could never get closer than two possessions the rest of the way.
Brandeis returns to action on Saturday, Dec. 1, at Becker College at 3:00 p.m. Clark plays its home opener Thursday at 6:00 p.m. against Worcester State University.
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BOSTON, Mass. – Led by Ryan Martin's 23 points and Anthony Mariano's 22 points the Owls of Keene State College defeated men's basketball by the final of 91-82 Saturday afternoon at the Clark Athletic Center Gym in a Little East Conference match-up.
With Saturday's loss the Beacons fell to 9-10 overall, 3-6 in the Little East Conference. The Owls improved to 11-7, 6-3 in the conference with Saturday's win.
Martin led the Owl's starting five with his 6-for-11 shooting from the field and impressive 9-for-10 showing at the line. Mariano came off the bench to finish 5-for-11 from the floor and 10-for-12 from the charity strip. Both players dropped in two 3-pointers each to cap off the Owls 42.1% showing from behind the arc.
UMass was once again led by sophomore guard Vinny DeLucia (Miami, Fla.) as the shooter closed out the afternoon with a game-high 26 points to cap off a solid week. From the field, he was 9-for-18, which included a pair of three points, while at the line the Florida native who is shooting well over 90% finished a perfect 6-for-6.
Freshman Jerard Mayes (Boston, Mass.) and senior Mike Mitchell, Jr. (Boston, Mass.) combined for 24 points respectively, while Jahleel Moise (Brockton, Mass.) came off the bench to finish with 13 points on 4-of-8 shooting and a 5-for-5 performance at the free throw line. Moise also collected seven boards to match Mayes, while junior Rahshjeem Benson (Boston, Mass.) recorded a game-best 12 boards, while also blocking two shots.
As a squad UMB recovered from a tough first half to shoot over 54% in the second, to finally close out the afternoon shooting 43.8% (28-for-64). However the Owls were consistent throughout Saturday's contest as they shot over 44% in both halves, to close out the day with a 45.5 field goal percentage (30-for-66). They also shot 8-for-19 from distance and 23-for-30 at the line. UMB struggled from behind the arc as they finished 3-for-20, while at the line they went 23-for-33.
On the glass, the aggressive Beacons out-rebounded their conference rivals 45-36, with 14 of those boards coming on the offensive side of the court.
From the opening jump the Owls never once trailed in the final regular season meeting between them and UMB. The game remained close in the opening minutes, but a huge run by Keene State made it a 12-point game by the 10:50 mark. Mariano dropped in a 3-pointer to give his squad the largest lead of the game at the time. UMass would manage to cut the deficit to six, but Keene would once again use another quick offensive outburst to push their lead back to double-figures and ended the first 20 minutes of play leading by 14 (45-31).
After the intermission Keene State continued to hit their shots and made the contest a one-sided affair by the midway point. Despite trailing by as much as 23 points, the Beacons did not back down. Their no quit attitude allowed them to cut the Owls lead down to 11 with 5:28 left in the contest.
Helping to fuel the major turnaround was a 19-6 run which made it 76-65 in favor of the visitors. However Keene State managed to hold off the driving Beacons with help from their solid shooting at the line.
Men's Basketball returns to action next Saturday when they host Rhode Island College at 3 p.m.


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As you enter, behind the front passenger seat, you will notice how much space there is once the large roadside slide is fully extended. There is a 42" x 72" booth dinette including two sets of seat belts, plus a Murphy bed/sofa for seating and sleeping. This provides you a living area by day, and a bedroom space at night. The pedestal table, in front of the sofa, can be moved to just behind the front swivel driver and passenger seats creating a great spot to enjoy your coffee or a snack during a short break from driving.
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Messi magic makes the difference
Lionel Messi scored a goal that is destined to go down in World Cup folklore as Argentina triumphed over tournament newcomers Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The 26-year-old's brilliant run and finish lit up the contest after Argentina had struggled to impose themselves in the first half despite taking an early lead through Sead Kolasinac's own goal.
Messi's goal in the 65th minute, which helped secure a 2-1 victory in their Group F opener, was just sublime. Bosnia rallied late on with substitute Vedad Ibisevic scoring his country's first-ever World Cup goal.
'God is Maradona, the Pope is Francisco, Messi is the King' said one banner in the Maracana. It is fitting that the return of the World Cup to this famous stadium after a 64-year absence will be remembered by a goal worthy of any of that holy trinity from Argentina's captain.
Picking up the ball with Bosnia players blocking his path, Messi played a one-two with substitute Gonzalo Higuain and then embarked on one of those trademark runs across the area, leaving defenders flailing in his wake before slotting a low shot in off the post.
The goal will live long in the memory, especially after the first half had been a disappointment, enlivened only by the own goal. The shot was a single flash of genius from Messi amidst a positive, forceful if unspectacular display from Bosnia.
Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant got caught up in the Messi moment and tweeted his thoughts in Spanish: "LEO Genius".
LEO Genio— Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) June 15, 2014
For the Bosnians, playing in their first major tournament as an independent nation, there could not have been a much crueller start to their World Cup debut.
Messi could at least claim the assist, his free-kick from the left flicked off a head and bounced off Schalke defender Kolasinac's shin and in.
The stadium clock had just passed two minutes, and the goal was the cue for Argentina fans to embark on joyous, deafening celebrations that lasted much of the fairly uneventful first half that followed.
"Maradona is better than Pele," they sang, taunting the Bosnian-supporting Brazilians who sprinkled the stadium.
They were not singing about Messi at half-time because that free-kick and one trademark swivelling, snake-hipped run aside, Barcelona's gentle genius had a pretty dreadful first half, conceding possession too often and appearing lethargic off the ball.
Bosnia, by contrast, picked themselves up from that early knock-down and were terrific, unlucky not to equalise through Lazio striker Senad Lulic's superb header which was well saved by Monaco goalkeeper Sergio Romero. Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko also clipped a shot over from a promising position in the defence.
A 'rabona' by Angel di Maria lifted Argentinian spirits -- it was cleared to Javier Mascherano, who unleashed a shot from 25 yards and Begovic was lucky that it was straight at him.
It was perhaps a sign of how well Bosnia had played that Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella made a double substitution at half-time, changing to a more positive 4-3-3 formation.
The impact was apparent and what had been a dull, defensive game opened up.
Bosnia were not prepared to settle for a negative part in that script however, and Izet Hajrovic's free-kick was on target but easily saved. The Galatasaray player curled in another effort that was also too easy for Romero.
Messi appeared to relish the extra support, setting up Sergio Aguero only for the Manchester City striker to slice it embarrassingly high and wide.
More quick feet after a loose Hajrovic pass saw Messi set up Aguero again: this time he was on target but Begovic was up to the test.
Then came the moment much of the world has been waiting for: a classic Messi goal, and one that will be replayed again and again.
Bosnia were pole-axed, Aguero came close to piling on the agony as Messi revelled in the extra space, and himself hit the side-netting.
Ibisevic made it interesting with six minutes left, a well-timed, angled run allowed him to clip the ball past Romero. But this was destined to be Messi's night, and so it proved.
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poll(Canvass), noun capitation, catalogue of persons, census, census report, census return, count, enumeration, evaluation, inquiry, numbering, numeration, public opinion, questionary, questionnaire, register, registration, return, statistic, survey, tabulation, tally
poll(Casting of votes), noun ballot, casting of ballots, choice, consensus, decision, determination, election, eleccive privilege, expression of will, formal expression of choice, plebiscite, popular decision, preference, selection, voice, vote
Associated concepts: electioneering at poll, polling place
pollverb ballot, call the roll, canvass, collect the vote, compute, conduct research on, count, enumerate, keep count of, keep score, list, make a survey, record the vote, register, run checks on, sample, score, survey, tabulate, take a census, take a roll call, tally, total
See also: canvass, cast, census, election, inquiry, plebiscite, primary, referendum, register, vote
POLL. A head. Hence poll tax is the name of a tax imposed upon the people at so much a head. 2. To poll a jury is to require that each juror shall himself declare what is his verdict. This may be done at the instance of either party, at any time before the verdict is recorded. 3 Cowen, R. 23. See 18 John. R. 188. See Deed Poll.


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At the moment of making a decision, use 'will'. Once you have made the decision, talk about it using 'going to'.


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Haruna (ハルナ, Haruna) is the daimyō of the Land of Vegetables, who replaced her father after he was assassinated.
She had been kept as a hostage for much of her childhood, isolated and under constant surveillance. Her father had done this in order to secure the welfare of the Land of Vegetables, but later came to regret sacrificing Haruna for this purpose. As a result of her isolation and sense of betrayal, Haruna came to see sacrifice as inevitable, and believed that even if many of her subjects were sacrificed, her safety was all that mattered for her country.
At a young age, Haruna trusted no one after being taken as a hostage. She finds the need to use other people in order to revive her country. This is shown when she tried to use the children and the elderly as a decoy for the Janin who were chasing after her. She can be cold-hearted and cruel since she cares for no one but herself and in order to stay alive like when she knocks Hinata out. Though underneath the tough and mean exterior, she was really sad, hurt and confused. She can be quite smart as she thought of a plan to use the peddlers as decoys.
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Peddlers Escort Mission
At that time, three ninja staged a coup in the Land of Vegetables, forcing Haruna to flee the country, and she hoped to gain international sympathy in an attempt to reclaim her throne. She travelled with Kikunojō and Yurinojō, posing as part of a caravan to avoid being targeted, and changed her appearance to take the role of her bodyguards' sickly male cousin Shun in order to keep people from questioning her identity. Naruto Uzumaki, Hinata Hyūga, and Chōji Akimichi were hired under the pretences of helping the pedlars move their wares in a D-ranked mission, but they learned of the true purpose of the mission after Kikunojō's death in his battle with Ruiga.
Despite their anger over being misinformed, Naruto's group agreed to protect the princess, sending the pedlars away to safety and defeating the first of the ninja. Haruna refused to rely on them, even going so far as to knock Hinata unconscious to escape alone, despite Hinata's attempts to convince her that Naruto also suffered from loneliness. Haruna fell down the hill while fleeing and ended up unconscious. Naruto eventually caught up with Haruna and told her that Hinata was badly injured while fighting Jiga. When Renga attacked after capturing the princess' other protectors, Haruna learned that her father had regretted giving Haruna as a hostage, and begged the conspirators to treat the people well. Haruna's ideals changed, and she even used herself as a shield to try to protect Naruto from Renga's attacks.
Haruna is later seen at the Land of Vegetables, apologising at Kikunojō's grave. It appeared that she had, by that time, developed feelings for Naruto, since she asked him to stay and help her rebuild the country, but Naruto politely declined, due to his promise to bring Sasuke Uchiha back.
- "Haruna" (春菜) name means "springtime vegetables".
- Her character is very similar to Koyuki Kazahana and Toki. All three of them are daimyō, were in disguise, their fathers were assassinated, and endured a tragedy which made them act cold towards other people until meeting Naruto. All three seemed to grow fond of him as well.


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5: FAMILY IS EVERYTHING | "You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them." - Desmond Tutu
7: "Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family." -Anthony Brandt
9: "The family is one of nature's masterpieces." -George Santayana
10: "Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future." -Gail Lumet Buckley
12: "Families are the compass that guides us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter." -Brad Henry
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(CBS News) LONDON - A scandal that has rocked Vatican City threatened to expand Monday. So far, the only person under arrest is Pope Benedict XVI's butler. But few believe that he is the sole source of the leaks that have exposed corruption and double-dealing inside the leadership of the Catholic Church.
At the center of the holy whodunit is Paolo Gabriele, the pope's personal butler. Since he was arrested last week on suspicion of stealing confidential documents, rumors have swirled that he must have had some high-ranking help -- perhaps as high as the so-called 'princes of the Church,' the cardinals.
Marco Tosatti covers the Vatican for one of Italy's biggest newspapers. "If Paolo Gabriele acted as he did," he said, "well, probably there was somebody very important who convinced him to do it."
On Monday, the Vatican denied that any cardinal was under investigation.
Video: Pope's personal butler in Vatican custody
But the scandal shows no sign of slowing. The butler pledged that he'd cooperate fully with investigators, raising the specter that he would name others.
Gabriele -- a father of three -- has worked for the Pope since 2006, and is one of the few layman to have access to the Pope's private apartment.
He's accused of leaking letters and memos to Italian journalists that allegedly show corruption in the Church's financial dealings with Italian businesses, including money laundering and kickbacks.
The revelations are part of a number of embarrassing leaks that show the Church and its inner workings in disarray.
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Session Kitchen in Denver's Platt Park ready to open
We have all seen them, the sprawling restaurants propped-up by big pots of money that, you know within five minutes of stepping inside, will flop. Sometimes, money turns things Pottery Barn bland, no matter how hard it tries to give things DIY edge.
And then there are places like Session Kitchen, the new restaurant (yes, sprawling) that is set to open in the old Izakaya Den space at 1518 South Pearl Street in Denver.
I don't think I have encountered a more arresting restaurant space in years. And the concept is clever. I don't know whether it's going to flop or win Denver's heart (if I had those powers, I would buy a house in Aspen), but my Spidey sense sure didn't tingle in a bad way as I walked the space.


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People born in the month of January are very fortunate to have such a wonderfully diverse gemstone designated for their birth month. Garnets are deeply saturated in history and lore. It has been worn by kings and queens, knights, high priests, and regular folks too. This beautiful gemstone has adorned some very famous jewelry pieces and also used as an abrasive to smooth rough edges.
The word garnet is derived from the Latin word "granum" meaning "grain". The most common color is a deep rich red color and the "grain" that it most closely resembles is the pomegranate seed. Garents are a very durable gemstone, suitable for everyday wear. They come in as a 7-7.5 on the Moh's scale of hardness.
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- "Yes! I feel the power once again. Come my warriors! Drink from the dark waters and you will be reborn!"
- - Grom Hellscream
This article or section contains lore taken from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the manuals, and official bonus maps.
Chaos orcs (a.k.a. fel orcs[1]) are orcs that drank from Mannoroth's Chaos Well in Ashenvale Forest and became corrupted.[1][2] They were orcs of the Warsong clan that followed Grom Hellscream's decision to drink from the well to gain power in order to defeat Cenarius and his forces (Shadowleaves, Moonhunters, and Nightblades). By drinking from the well, they were further corrupted with more of Mannoroth's blood, turning red and growing larger.[2]
Chaos orcs were capable of causing special damage known as chaos damage. Chaos orcs were units seen in the Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos orc campaign.
Chaos orcs also fought under the banner of the Burning Blade during the First War. Some of the orcs who passed through the Dark Portal were driven mad, becoming chaos orcs and joining the Burning Blade.[3]
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Though the Monster Guide calls these orcs 'fel orcs', there seems to be some level of distinction between them. Grom's chaos orcs did not show the level of mutation of the fel orcs in Outland. They had not yet grown spines or bony structures from their backs and arms like those fel orcs. They also lacked the six long and skinny fangs of further mutated fel orcs. Other than being red, chaos orcs looked like regular orcs and could revert to regular orcs, for example with Grom, it was the help of a special ritual. It can be assumed that with continued exposure to the corruption from Mannoroth's blood they may have mutated into the more physically demonic fel orcs (and the process would likely be irreversible). However, both are created from Pit Lord blood, and some fel orc mobs in Hellfire Peninsula just use the normal orc model colored red instead of the true fel orc model. If this is not just a mechanic (for wearing helms, shirts, and such), it shows that there may be 'intermediate' fel orc stages that chaos orcs may be a part of. There is also a chance that the difference is related to the possibility that "fel orcs" as we know them were not conceived by Blizzard until Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.
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Please participate, for a friend of mine,.
It's not really a survey. It's a feeler for potential customers.
One is required to give an email address to submit the survey. A true survey is anonymous, although one can opt to receive information on certain products or subjects.
It also assumes that the survey respondant wants to purchase organic coffee through the mail. Not everyone cares about whether a coffee is organic or not. Lots of people shop by price, not growing method or even quality.
The survey assumes what people know about organically grown coffee, and how it can be better than non-organic coffee. At least there could be a link to sites on this.
I'd love to fill out the form, but I don't want to give out my email address, because I don't have any intention of buying coffee through the mail. I can buy organic coffee at most of the local stores, and I only keep it around for guests. I drink tea.
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Set deep in a Florida swamp, The Arsonists is a father-daughter tale of grief, loss, hope and redemption. Inspired by the Greek tragedy Electra, this play with music is a contemporary American myth that explores the relationship between parent and child in that small space between life and death, the last breath before the awakening. The third play in Goldfinger's Southern Gothic trilogy, which began with the terrible girls and Skin & Bone, The Arsonists is currently a finalist for the Leah Ryan Prize.
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I've been tracking the Design By Humans 10K contest since it was first announced and I am excited that they released the final four designs that are up for voting! As some of you might know, I chose 5 designs that I thought could win the 10K contest and now just one of those has survived the final round. Twilight Rain by collisiontheory is the lone design left amongst the ones I had predicted to win. Also still left in the competition is Mecha-Labaw by csj89 whom we ran a special post about (written by Blake from YouDesignIt.com) discussing how he had taken a different approach to promote his DBH 10K entry.
So, here are the final four contestants. Be sure to get your vote in before August 23rd. Who do you think will win?


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Even when I'm on social media such as Facebook, cross stitch is never far away from my thoughts. There is a game there called Cross Stitch World-and it's infectious! When I'm not in my own cross stitch world in reality, I'm in the cyber one-and it is almost as much fun! And I find I'm into multiple patterns there, just as I am in real life! Ah, habits never die!


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Garden Pasta Salad with Beets and Goat Cheese
Although beets' red color tends to run, the beets add a wonderful sweetness to this pasta salad — so what if your pasta salad is a little red? You can use whatever kind of pasta you prefer, but this recipe recommends penne.
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Yield: 4 servings
1/2 cup Greek olives
6 cups cooked penne, or similar pasta
2 medium tomatoes
1 can beets
2 tablespoons fresh oregano, or thyme, or a combination
4 ounces (1 cup) crumbled goat cheese
1/4 cup olive oil
1 to 2 tablespoons lemon juice
Pepper to taste
Chop the olives.
Core and chop the tomatoes.
Dice the beets.
Chop the herbs
Combine the olives, pasta, tomatoes, 2 cups beets, and oregano in a large bowl.
Add the cheese.
In a cup, stir together the oil, lemon juice, and pepper.
Stir the liquid mixture into salad mixture.
Toss gently but well.
Per serving: Calories 594 (From fat 253); Fat 28g (Saturated 8g); Cholesterol 22mg; Sodium 581mg; Carbohydrate 68g (Dietary fiber 5g); Protein 17g.


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For the fifth straight year, we have the amazing Tommy Lawlor with us to talk about the Philadelphia Eagles Draft prospects. Tommy is with Iggles Blitz, Scouts Notebook, Eagles Blog, Helmet 2 Helmet Show, and of course the Eagles' Fan-Demonium. We talk the 2013 Philadelphia Eagles Draft, how things differ under new head coach Chip Kelly, what we may expect from the Eagles' picks both this year and next, and many other expectations. The new era for our Eagles takes its next big step.
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Only 536 people have ever been into space.
And unless you have US$250,000 (RM818,625) to drop on a Virgin Galactic flight, you're not going to be joining them any time soon.
While you might not be able to strap yourself to a rocket, you'll soon be able to experience space travel for yourself – with the help of an Oculus Rift.
That's the plan behind Virtual Ride to Space, a project created by researchers from the University of Surrey. The plan is simple: launch a high-altitude balloon to 20km with a payload of 24 GoPro video cameras, recording a 360-degree panorama of its flight to the edge of space.
You'll then be able to don an Oculus Rift headset and relive the journey, looking around you as you ascend to the heavens. Because of the overlap between the 24 cameras, it'll even be rendered in 3D, though the effect will be more pronounced at lower altitudes.
Of course, if you don't have an Oculus Rift, you'll be able to view the trip on a computer or smartphone – but that's not really the same, is it?
Virtual Ride to Space is currently raising funds on Kickstarter, with a £30,000 (RM164,522) goal and 26 days still on the clock. To infinity and beyond!
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Money Lessons from Real Families
Get out of debt, deal with job loss, and become a better money manager with our expert help, based on lessons from three families who turned economic troubles into fiscal freedom.
Reinvent Yourself
Wendi Nelson, 36
Pasadena, California
Wendi had just taken a Web-management job when her husband, Bill, 43, was laid off from his analyst position with an Internet company. "The pressure on me to succeed was tremendous," she says. One of their biggest concerns was health insurance. The couple and their four kids, now 22, 16, 5, and 3, had been covered by Bill's company. Wendi's new place offered the benefit, but the fee was, she says, "ridiculously high." COBRA, too, was cost-prohibitive. Finally, they found coverage through eHealthInsurance.com, though they had to take a high-deductible policy.
Bill immediately started sending out resumes. When nobody responded, he tried applying for more junior spots. But then, thinking about the future, he realized he wouldn't be content forever with a position less challenging and lucrative than his former one, so he decided to go back to school. He's now studying full time for a B.S. in computer information systems. "Some of his tuition is covered by a government program," says Wendi, "and he bought books and supplies with tax refunds." Bill purposely set up his class schedule for late afternoons and evenings so he can take care of the children during Wendi's work hours. The older kids and a family friend fill in some of the gaps, and Wendi arranged to work from home three days a week.
To make ends meet the couple cashed in some of their retirement savings and cut back on extras. "We do homemade gifts," Wendi says, "or I shop when there are huge discounts. We reduced the grocery bill by eating simpler fare like mac and cheese and building the menu around what's on sale."
There are times when the role of sole breadwinner, along with the day-to-day balancing act, can feel like a slog to Wendi. But overall she's optimistic. "Bill's outlook is so much happier now that he's going to school," she says. "He still sends out resumes in between classes. He says his car is his office. But he's not as upset about rejections because he knows he'll have an upgraded skill set in another year that will make him more marketable. We went from feeling like victims to being proactive about our situation."
Tackling problems together has an upside for the whole family. "We've found that having fewer luxuries isn't a deprivation," Wendi says. "It actually means more time together. I'm so grateful for the closeness and strength we've gained. We're banking memories. No one can take that away from us."
Turn Around a Job Loss
- Be patient. It can be frustrating to see your spouse dragging through the post-layoff period. Avoid saying, "You have to get a grip and start figuring out what you're going to do if you don't land a job in your old field." Instead, suggests Jacob Needleman, author of Money and the Meaning of Life, initiate brainstorming talks by saying something like, "I love you, and we need to work on how to approach this." The goal is to plan for specifics like rewriting a resume or networking with others. If you suspect depression or substance abuse—which often flare up at times of intense stress—seek out professional help.
- Search smart. Further education is great if you can swing it, says Deborah Price, founder and CEO of the Money Coaching Institute in Petaluma, California, but before you set off in a new direction, make sure you've gone all out marketing your old job skills. "Hand-deliver your resume to make it stand out from the pile on the employer's desk," she says. "Research a company and write a love letter about what you could contribute." Take temp or consulting spots—one could turn permanent as the economy improves. "And you can't think straight if you're super-stressed," says Price, "so exercise, meditate, or make a daily gratitude list to stay relaxed and sharp."
- Maintain perspective. Remind yourself and the kids that spending cuts are temporary, says Price, and that you're not the only family going through a transition like this. In the meantime find ways to have fun for less: Netflix instead of cable; potluck with neighbors in place of dinners out; cooking together rather than ordering in; swapping video games with friends as a substitute for buying new. "It's about getting creative and being really flexible," says Price. "Who knows? You might want to continue the economies when your earnings go back up. It's a terrific way to boost saving." You can never go wrong putting money away for the unexpected and for the future.
Face Your Finances
Jaci Blinzler, 49
Parkville, Missouri
Insecure about her money-handling skills, Jaci didn't resist when her husband demanded that he do it all. "I was clueless," she says. "I just let him take care of everything." But when he left the marriage—and withdrew all support—she got a crash how-to course. "It was painful," she says. "The phone and utility bills were in his name, and I had trouble getting the accounts switched." In addition, the couple had joint bank accounts, so for the first time in 22 years Jaci had to open her own.
Hungry for guidance, she entered a financial makeover contest at her credit union. "I met with a coach periodically for almost a year," says Jaci, who has a 15-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter. "The kids attended every session and learned right along with me." It quickly became evident that the family was overspending and not saving at all. "At first I didn't see how we could possibly sock anything away, considering what I make," says Jaci, who's an office manager for a medical coding company. "But our mentor suggested asking my son and daughter to come up with some ideas." The two decided they could babysit and pet-sit to pay for some of their sports fees, and offered to drop some activities to save money. They each chose a favorite one and withdrew from the others.
During the early months on the new budget, Jaci's daughter kept asking, "When will this be over?" Finally she admitted she just wanted to buy some inexpensive jewelry and hair bows. "I told her we'd find a way," says Jaci. "Being careful is for life, so it's important to set aside a small amount of money for fun. Otherwise you start to feel deprived and discouraged."
The Blinzler family won the $10,000 grand prize in the credit union contest—they saved the most and paid down the biggest debt. The extra cash was a big deal, Jaci says, but not as important as the knowledge she and the children gained. "I went from being a scared suddenly single mother to being in full control," she says. "Plus, the kids don't see finances as frightening and mysterious. They understand that they can be in charge. And now so do I."
Be the Boss of Your Money
- Dare to be aware. People who keep their head in the sand give away all their power, says Price. "This is not healthy for your relationship," she adds. "The in-control partner ends up becoming like a parent." Besides, she says, "Money management is not rocket science. Eventually a life event will mean you have to step up and make bigger decisions. If you can read and do basic math, you'll be fine."
- School yourself. Find strategies for your situation by visiting the National Endowment for Financial Education site at nefe.org. You don't have to go for a CPA. Just spend a few minutes a couple times a week with the free tutorials, brushing up your skills and boosting your confidence.
- Include the kids. You don't want to dump your adult worries on your children, of course. "But you can explain that nobody has enough money to do or have absolutely everything she might want," says Liz Pulliam Weston, author of Your Credit Score. "We all have to make choices." Your kids may have cost-saving or income-generating ideas you hadn't thought of. Ask them.
Own Your Life
Travise Smith, 38
Rock Hill, South Carolina
The Smiths were living beyond their means. "In 2002 we had a beautiful home, nice furniture, stylish clothes, lots of toys for our sons, a riding lawn mower, and two late-model SUVs," says Travise. "We looked great to the neighbors. The problem was, nothing was paid for and we had racked up $172,000 in debt."
Travise was a stay-at-home mom to their two boys, now 11 and 9. Her husband, Adrian, 38, earned a decent income with a regional telephone company, but his salary wasn't enough to maintain their lifestyle. "We'd skip the phone bill one month, electricity the next, the car payments the one after that," Travise says. "We were endlessly juggling money, taking from Peter to pay Paul. The stress was terrible."
One Sunday, she says, their pastor gave a sermon based on a Bible verse, "Owe nothing to anyone except mutual love." Around the same time Adrian heard a radio show about living debt-free and told Travise. "This was our big 'aha' moment," she says. "We decided to give it a try." Their first move was to unload one SUV, along with its large payment, and replace it with a used car that cost a flat $600 and was more fuel-efficient.
Next, they chipped away at what they owed on store and credit cards. To raise cash, she says, "I gathered up everything that wasn't nailed down and sold it at flea markets." She also became an ardent couponer, and Adrian took a second job cleaning offices at night. Finally, they sold their pricey home and rented a two-bedroom cottage from her parents for $400 a month. "The place had no heat and no air-conditioning," says Travise. "It was difficult. We told the kids on a regular basis it was for the best, and we wouldn't be there any longer than necessary." Within weeks of the change, Travise landed a position as a loan officer at a nearby bank.
In just 29 months they had paid off every penny of their debt. They had also saved enough to make the required 20 percent down payment on a new custom-built place, taking only a mortgage they could handle on one income, if necessary. "That was a smart strategy," says Travise. "I lost my job two months after we moved in."
Adrian has a better job now with the power company, and he has quit the cleaning job. "We simply stick to our budget and never charge anything," Travise says. She's proudest, though, of what her sons have gained. "They have their own bank accounts, and if they get $10 as a birthday present, they know to put part of it in the bank and give a portion to a good cause. Then if they want something, they either have to pay for it themselves or ask 'Is it in the budget?' And they know the difference between wants and needs."
Travise now works full time for herself, conducting workshops about couponing and responsible money management. "I want to keep other people from getting into the mess we were in," she says. "If you can't pay for something outright, you can't afford it! When I think back to when we were saddled with all that debt, I thank God we were able to turn our lives around."
Dig Out of Debt
- Go out long. Your spending habits should reflect your big-picture plans, meaning you might choose to skip or scale back on restaurant meals and pricey vacations, for example, in favor of reducing credit card balances and saving for retirement. "If impulse spending is a problem," says Weston, "carry a little notebook or use your smartphone to write down a description and the price of an item you're tempted to buy, then wait three days. Most things lose their appeal after a cooling-off period."
- Ditch mom guilt. Today's parents are overly concerned about giving their kids everything, says Price. "Believe me," she adds, "they care far more about having time with you." Encourage your children to earn their own cash for the gotta-have-its. If you can and want to, offer a matching fund: You'll pay a certain amount if they can raise part on their own.
- Leave ego out of it. Your intrinsic value shouldn't be connected with your job title, income, or possessions, says Needleman. "Money is a tool," he says. "Don't let your mind exaggerate its role in your life. You want to have it, not be had by it."
Originally published in the May 2011 issue of Family Circle magazine.


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Twas the Night Before Christmas - Clement C. Moore & HappyReads.net
"A Visit from St. Nicholas", also known as "The Night Before Christmas" and "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously in 1823 and generally attributed to Clement Clarke Moore, although the claim has also been made that it was written by Henry Livingston, Jr.
The poem, which has been called "arguably the best-known verses ever written by an American", is largely responsible for some of the conceptions of Santa Claus from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Prior to the poem, American ideas about St. Nicholas and other Christmastide visitors varied considerably.
This e-book version includes a "Read To Me" page and some interactive games like "Coloring Page", "Picture Puzzle", "Free Drawing" and "Draw Stars".


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Reading 2: The Janes Who Built the Planes
If enough fighters and torpedo bombers are to reach our boys in the Pacific and European fronts, their wives and mothers, sisters and sweethearts, are going to have to help build them.¹
-- Port Jefferson Times, May 28, 1943
One of the aircraft production plants situated close to Naval Air Station New York (Floyd Bennett Field) was Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation Plant No. 1 located on Long Island in Bethpage, New York. Founded in 1930, Grumman produced around 40 planes annually until 1940. As the United States began its conversion to the "Arsenal of Democracy," Grumman's production rose to 40 planes a month. However, with the U.S. entry into World War II late in 1941, millions of men joined the United States armed forces and Grumman, like all companies, faced labor shortages. Beginning in March 1942, Grumman hired women to work in aircraft production. In less than two years, the number of female employees of Grumman's War Productions Corps would rise from the initial six women aircrafters to 8,000, just under a third of Grumman's wartime work force. During the course of the war, Grumman workers assembled 17,000 airplanes for the U.S. Navy (including a record 664 in the month of March 1945), while military personnel from Floyd Bennett Field processed finished Grumman aircraft – Avengers, Hellcats, and Wildcats – into service. This achievement would not have been possible without the contributions of the civilian women workers of the home front who were immortalized in popular songs of the era including "We're the Janes Who Make the Planes," "The Lady from Lockheed," and the most famous, "Rosie the Riveter."
Because women had been considered unsuited for aviation production work prior to World War II, they lacked basic skills necessary to aircraft construction. Grumman instituted 10 week aviation construction training courses that introduced newly hired women to reading blue-prints, riveting and assembly skills. Once they were on the job, Grumman learned that the women's typical smaller size and dexterity had advantages. In a 1943 edition of Grumman's in-house employee newspaper, Plane News, the head of the Electrical Department, John Porter, helped to explain why 52 of his 54 employees were women, stating that "the girls learn quickly and in many instances are much more capable than men in assembling delicate parts."
Grumman employed women in other capacities besides the assembly line. It was the first company to hire women test pilots. Elizabeth Hooker, Barbara Jayne, and "Teddy" Kenyon tested military aircraft for reliability and safety, although they were barred from testing experimental aircraft or planes suspected of having serious defects. College graduates could work as apprentice engineers, following intense preparation in calculus, drafting, aerodynamics and mechanics. They assisted male engineers in designing aircraft.
Grumman attracted women workers ranging from recent high school graduates to women in their sixties. The average age of women working at Grumman was 36; for the first time many women workers were married with children. (Also, for the first time, Grumman hired African-American men and women, approximately 800.) Women were attracted to Grumman out of patriotic duty and also because unskilled women workers earned only .25 cents an hour while Grumman's semi-skilled workers earned $1.00 an hour. Grumman gave preference to hiring workers who lived locally, so women did not have to relocate in an already tight, price-controlled housing market to work at the company. Working in their home community of Bethpage also helped women to live within their gasoline rations and allowed them to turn to relatives and neighbors for child care and other support. Grumman management instituted a number of innovations to fight absenteeism and turnover of its women employees including job counselors, cafeterias, exercise breaks, recreational sports and social programs, an annual Christmas turkey and sponsorship of three "war-time nurseries" for children between the ages of two and five.
By the end of 1945, peace arrived and signaled the end of the "glory days" of the woman aircraft workers, Floyd Bennett Field, and ultimately Grumman itself. The day after V-J (Victory in Japan) Day in 1945, facing the loss of its government contracts, Grumman laid off all of its employees. It rehired on the basis of seniority and proficiency; in 1947 only three women of the thousands who had worked on Grumman's production line during the war remained. Naval Air Station New York continued to play an important military role after the war. It served 30 Navy and Marine squadrons and became one of the nation's largest air reserve training bases through the Cold War and conflicts in Korea and Vietnam. However, ferry command was transferred to Norfolk, Virginia, in 1946. In 1971, the base was deactivated, and Floyd Bennett Field was incorporated into the National Park Service's Gateway National Recreation Area the following year. Grumman's Navy contracts, notably for the F-14, and work on the Apollo Lunar module sustained the company through the Cold War. In 1994, due to the fall of the Soviet Union and cutbacks in defense spending, Northrop Corporation of Los Angeles, California acquired Grumman and significantly reduced operations on Long Island.
The events that occurred at Naval Air Station New York and Bethpage from 1941 to 1945 contributed significantly to Allied victory in World War II. Joshua Stoff, the first curator at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York, summed up the importance of aircraft production saying, "One of the greatest industrial feats of all time was the massive production of aircraft by American industrial manufacturers during World War II. In many ways, the Allied victory hinged on this huge American industrial contribution. This achievement also resulted in several new developments in American industry: (1) The true mass production of military aircraft, a phenomenon never seen before or since. (2) The unprecedented introduction of women and minorities into the skilled workforce. (3) The greatest period of camaraderie and high morale among workers ever." ²
Questions for Reading 2
1. Why did Grumman begin to hire women aircraft workers in 1942? What types of jobs did they perform for the company?
2.What characteristics helped change the perception that females were unsuited for aviation production work?
3.What benefits did Grumman offer to attract women workers?
4. How did peace impact Naval Air Station New York (Floyd Bennett Field), the women workers of Grumman and Grumman Corporation itself?
5. How did American industry help facilitate the Allied victory in WWII? What new developments in American industry resulted from its participation in the war effort?
Reading 2 was compiled from the National Park Service's brochure Floyd Bennett Field: WWII 1941-1945; Christine Kleinegger, The Janes Who Made the Planes: Grumman in World War II. The Long Island Historical Journal (Fall 1999, Vol. 12:1); Frank N. Schubert, Mobilization (U.S. Army Center for Military History, 1995, CMH Pub 72-32); Joshua Stoff, Picture History of World War II American Aircraft Production (New York: Dover Publications, 1993); and materials in the collection of the Floyd Bennett Field Task Force.
¹Grumman Plant is Seeking Workers. Port Jefferson Times. May 28, 1943.


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fbenario 4 Mar 4 2010, 01:15 AM wrote: Fred, I don't believe we have any credible evidence at all that anyone's organs began falling off.
..the Chernobyl Disaster!?
I'm not sure what to think of your buddy at CERN. Maybe he's not good at explaining things? Does he actually think the project he's working on is a hoax?
fred 4 Mar 4 2010, 02:46 PM wrote:
The idea that the US would try to convince Japan (and the world) that it had a secret weapon that it did not actually possess is not crazy. I suppose that with enough inside help and planted evidence it would be possible to get the Japanese commanders to buy a phony story about a secret doomsday weapon.
"And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter."
Revelation 8:10-11
The book of Revelation describes cataclysmic events that are to happen in the endtime. Part of these events are signaled by the blowing of seven trumpets by seven angels. At the sounding of the third trumpet in chapter 8, a great star called Wormwood was cast into the earth.
The world's worst ever nuclear meltdown occurred in 1986 at Chernobyl in Ukraine, at that time one of the states of the Soviet Union. Incredibly, Chernobyl is the Russian word for wormwood! It appears that the Chernobyl catastrophe was the fulfillment of the sounding of the third trumpet of Revelation 8!
The prophecy of the third trumpet emphasizes that the star called Wormwood made the waters bitter. As the nuclear cloud produced by Chernobyl drifted over the Soviet Union and over Europe, and Extraordinary amount of rain fell. The rain brought the radiation from the nuclear cloud onto the soil, the animals, the crops, the trees, and into the rivers. The greater the rainfall, the greater was the amount of radioactivity. These heavy rains greatly increased the magnitude of this horrible disaster. Much of Europe was affected. When the prophecy said that many men died because of the waters, it explicitly described the effect of Chernobyl.
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/ha ... rmwood.htm
fbenario 4 Mar 5 2010, 02:28 AM wrote:Japan offered to surrender in early 1945. The US refused, enjoying their easy triumphs in the Pacific too much to stop the war. Truman then decided to bomb/attack Hiroshima (with some form of weapon) in order to scare the Soviets into stopping their potential advance into Japan/Korea/Northern China. Since life under Stalin was known to be horrendous, and life in America fairly benign, it isn't hard for me to think Japan decided voluntarily to go along with the fake-nuke attack in order to ensure they were occupied by America, not the Soviets. Given their economic success since WWII, compared to Russia's, it looks as if they made a rational decision.
I certainly would choose to lie about an attack on me if it meant I wouldn't have to deal with the privations of totalitarianism.
The Bomb Chroniclers
As for the atomic cameramen, there aren't that many left. "Quite a few have died from cancer," George Yoshitake, 82, one of the survivors, said of his peers in an interview. "No doubt it was related to the testing."
The cinematographers focused on nuclear test explosions in the Pacific and Nevada.
Electrified wire ringed their headquarters in the Hollywood Hills. The inconspicuous building, on Wonderland Avenue in Laurel Canyon, had a sound stage, screening rooms, processing labs, animation gear, film vaults and a staff of more than 250 producers, directors and cameramen -- all with top-secret clearances.
When originally made, the films served as vital sources of information for scientists investigating the nature of nuclear arms and their destructiveness. Some movies also served as tutorials for federal and Congressional leaders.
The secret film unit, established in 1947 by the military, was known as the Lookout Mountain Laboratory. Surrounded by the lush greenery of Laurel Canyon, just minutes from the Sunset Strip, the lab drew on Hollywood talent and technology to pursue its clandestine ends.
"The neighbors were suspicious because the lights were on all night long," Mr. Yoshitake recalled.
Film historians say the unit tested many technologies that Hollywood later embraced, including advanced lenses and cameras, films and projection techniques.
Hollywood stars appeared in some of the films. Reed Hadley, star of the 1950s television show "Racket Squad," portrayed a pipe-smoking military observer who, in 1952, witnessed the world's first hydrogen blast.
"You had to have the cameras running before the detonation," Douglas Wood, 75, a cinematographer, told a reporter at the gathering. If not, he said, the blinding flash "would burn the film and jam the film gate."
Mr. Kuran continues to work on the old movies, using high-tech methodologies to improve their clarity and restore faded images to their original glory.
"He fixes things pixel by pixel," said Mr. Sugg of the World Security Institute. "He's this fanatical quality guy."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/scien ... r=1&ref=us
Anyway ? two ambitious projects in the 1940s brought significant changes to Laurel Canyon. First, Laurel Canyon Boulevard was extended into the San Fernando Valley, providing access to the canyon from both the north and the south. The widened boulevard was now a winding thoroughfare, providing direct access to the Westside from the Valley. Traffic, needless to say, increased considerably, which probably worked out well for the planners of the other project, because it meant that the increased traffic brought about by that other project probably wasn't noticed at all. And that's good, you see, because the other project was a secret one, so if I tell you about it, you have to promise not to tell anyone else.
What would become known as Lookout Mountain Laboratory was originally envisioned as an air defense center. Built in 1941 and nestled in two-and-a-half secluded acres off what is now Wonderland Park Avenue, the installation was hidden from view and surrounded by an electrified fence. By 1947, the facility featured a fully operational movie studio. In fact, it is claimed that it was perhaps the world's only completely self-contained movie studio. With 100,000 square feet of floor space, the covert studio included sound stages, screening rooms, film processing labs, editing facilities, an animation department, and seventeen climate-controlled film vaults. It also had underground parking, a helicopter pad and a bomb shelter.
Over its lifetime, the studio produced some 19,000 classified motion pictures ? more than all the Hollywood studios combined (which I guess makes Laurel Canyon the real 'motion picture capital of the world'). Officially, the facility was run by the U.S. Air Force and did nothing more nefarious than process AEC footage of atomic and nuclear bomb tests. The studio, however, was clearly equipped to do far more than just process film. There are indications that Lookout Mountain Laboratory had an advanced research and development department that was on the cutting edge of new film technologies. Such technological advances as 3-D effects were apparently first developed at the Laurel Canyon site. And Hollywood luminaries like John Ford, Jimmy Stewart, Howard Hawks, Ronald Reagan, Bing Crosby, Walt Disney and Marilyn Monroe were given clearance to work at the facility on undisclosed projects. There is no indication that any of them ever spoke of their work at the clandestine studio.
The facility retained as many as 250 producers, directors, technicians, editors, animators, etc., both civilian and military, all with top security clearances ? and all reporting to work in a secluded corner of Laurel Canyon. Accounts vary as to when the facility ceased operations. Some claim it was in 1969, while others say the installation remained in operation longer. In any event, by all accounts the secret bunker had been up and running for more than twenty years before Laurel Canyon's rebellious teen years, and it remained operational for the most turbulent of those years.
The existence of the facility remained unknown to the general public until the early 1990s, though it had long been rumored that the CIA operated a secret movie studio somewhere in or near Hollywood. Filmmaker Peter Kuran was the first to learn of its existence, through classified documents he obtained while researching his 1995 documentary, "Trinity and Beyond." And yet even today, some 15 years after its public disclosure, one would have trouble finding even a single mention of this secret military/intelligence facility anywhere in the 'conspiracy' literature.
Mr. Yoshitake recalled documenting what a fiery explosion did to pigs -- whose skin resembles that of humans. "Some were still squealing," he said. "You could smell the meat burning. It made you sick. I thought, 'Oh, how terrible. If they were humans they would have suffered terribly.' "
The declassifications stopped in 2001. The arrival of the Bush administration, and an outbreak of atomic jitters after the terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon, combined to bring about the program's demise.
"The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine."
Scientists of the time were well aware that the slow natural radioactive decay of elements like radium continues for thousands of years, and that while the rate of energy release is negligible, the total amount released is huge. Wells used this as the basis for his story. In his fiction [Wells wrote:]
The problem which was already being mooted by such scientific men as Ramsay, Rutherford, and Soddy, in the very beginning of the twentieth century, the problem of inducing radio-activity in the heavier elements and so tapping the internal energy of atoms, was solved by a wonderful combination of induction, intuition, and luck by [fictionalized name] Holsten so soon as the year 1933.
The physicist Leó Szilárd read the book during 1932, conceived the idea of nuclear chain reaction during 1933, and filed for patents for it during 1934. Soddy's book Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt praises The World Set Free.
Wells further wrote:
Certainly it seems now that nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the earlier twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands[...] All through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the amount of energy that men were able to command was continually increasing. Applied to warfare that meant that the power to inflict a blow, the power to destroy, was continually increasing[...]There was no increase whatever in the ability to escape[...]Destruction was becoming so facile that any little body of malcontents could use it[...]Before the last war began it was a matter of common knowledge that a man could carry about in a handbag an amount of latent energy sufficient to wreck half a city.
Wells viewed war as the inevitable result of the Modern State; the introduction of atomic energy in a world divided resulted in the collapse of society. The only possibilities remaining were "either the relapse of mankind to agricultural barbarism from which it had emerged so painfully or the acceptance of achieved science as the basis of a new social order." Wells's theme of world government is presented as a solution to the threat of nuclear weapons. It is possible that several years of nuclear terrorism could frighten world leaders so much that they are willing to consider a one world government, seeking "peace and safety", for example.
From the first they had to see the round globe as one problem; it was impossible any longer to deal with it piece by piece. They had to secure it universally from any fresh outbreak of atomic destruction, and they had to ensure a permanent and universal pacification.
"Debts are subject to the laws of mathematics rather than physics. Unlike wealth, which is subject to the laws of thermodynamics, debts do not rot with old age and are not consumed in the process of living. On the contrary, they grow at so much per cent per annum, by the well-known mathematical laws of simple and compound interest ... It is this underlying confusion between wealth and debt which has made such a tragedy of the scientific era."
Ramsay was one of the first scientists to appreciate the possibility of radiotherapy, studying with his medical colleagues the "curative action of radioactive substances in malignant disease"; indeed, Travers goes so far as to say that in this "he stood alone" (209). Ironically, and possibly as a result of his exposure to radioactive substances, he himself died of nasal cancer at the age of 63, not long after his retirement to Hazlemere in Buckinghamshire. A school there has since been named after him. Amongst other memorials to him, there is a wall-plaque in Westminster Abbey, a Ramsay Memorial Fellowship at University College, and a plaque to commemorate his work at the site of his laboratory, now occupied by the Slade School of Art.
In later life, it seems, Ramsay may have become a little harder to work with. Travers knew him a good deal more intimately than Tilden, and he includes a criticism of "the Chief" by another of his collaborators, Frederich Soddy, to the effect that that he was rather too quick "to let go sheet anchors" and trust his own findings (qtd. in Travers 292). However, without such leaps of faith Ramsay might never have made the discoveries that he did make. There was also a problem because of the war, when Ramsay created a stir by turning violently against the German scientific community, with which he had for so long had a very close and fruitful relationship. No doubt, as George Kaufmann generously suggests, this is best seen in the context of the time, and of his own painful illness.
Soddy published The Interpretation of Radium (1909) and Atomic Transmutation (1953). In 1914 he was appointed to a chair at the University of Aberdeen, where he worked on research related to World War I. In 1919 he moved to Oxford University as Dr Lee's Professor of Chemistry, where, in the period up till 1936, he reorganized the laboratories and the syllabus in chemistry. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research in radioactive decay and particularly for his formulation of the theory of isotopes.
In four books written from 1921 to 1934, Soddy carried on a "quixotic campaign for a radical restructuring of global monetary relationships", offering a perspective on economics rooted in physics--the laws of thermodynamics, in particular--and was "roundly dismissed as a crank". While most of his proposals - "to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics (including a consumer price index) in order to facilitate this effort" - are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional-reserve banking still "remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom".
radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements. He received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1921, and has a crater named for him on the far side of the Moon.
In August 1939, Szilárd approached his old friend and collaborator Albert Einstein and convinced him to sign the Einstein-Szilárd letter, lending the weight of Einstein's fame to the proposal. The letter led directly to the establishment of research into nuclear fission by the U.S. government and ultimately to the creation of the Manhattan Project. Szilárd, with Enrico Fermi, patented the nuclear reactor) [... and the invention of ...] thermonuclear fusion and the theory of the hydrogen bomb (Edward Teller)
During 1938 Szilárd accepted an offer to conduct research at Columbia University in Manhattan, and moved to New York, and was soon joined by Fermi. After learning about the successful nuclear fission experiment conducted during 1939 in Germany by Otto Hahn, Fritz Strassmann, Lise Meitner, and Otto Robert Frisch, Szilárd and Fermi concluded that uranium would be the element capable of sustaining a chain reaction. Szilárd and Fermi conducted a simple experiment at Columbia and discovered significant neutron multiplication in uranium, proving that the chain reaction was possible and enabling nuclear weapons. Szilárd later described the event: "We turned the switch and saw the flashes. We watched them for a little while and then we switched everything off and went home." He understood the implications and consequences of this discovery, though. "That night, there was very little doubt in my mind that the world was headed for grief."
idschmyd @ Oct 22 2010, 11:10 AM wrote: A still from Thunderbirds? Loved that military minded puppetry.
The link is cool, Nonho.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/201 ... _atom.html
The images are from 'How to photograph an atomic bomb' but sadly there's no explanation of how they captured images of the school bus (emotive choice of vehicle) going through alleged stages of nuclear blast damage without sending the camera through the same stages.
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Real Salt Lake 1, Portland Timbers 0 | MLS Match Recap
SANDY, Utah — It was hardly the goalfest typical of the series, but the result of Saturday's Real Salt Lake-Portland Timbers showdown was familiar to anyone who's paid attention to the two teams' budding rivalry – Real claimed points for the 10th consecutive time against their Western Conference rivals with a 1-0 victory.
As it was beginning to look like Saturday evening's match at Rio Tinto Stadium would produce the fifth tie of the season for both teams, veteran midfielder Ned Grabavoy provided the necessary moment of magic. The 30-year-old took a pass from Sebastián Velásquez and drove past Darlington Nagbe into the area before finishing left-footed past Donovan Ricketts in the 78th minute.
The Timbers weren't about to lay down, however. In the 85th minute, Portland substitute Gastón Fernández found Alvas Powell with an inspired through ball to give him a clear shot at the goal, only to see RSL goalkeeper Nick Rimando make a tough kick save to preserve the lead.
Rimando – back on the field after missing RSL's last two games because of knee injury – had the sell-out crowd back on their feet just three minutes later when, after a giveaway by RSL captain Kyle Beckerman, Fernández curled in a beautiful shot on target only to see Rimando leap up and knock it around the post.
Even Rimando, however, needed a bit of luck throughout the game. He was beaten in the 58th minute on a rocket by Portland's Maximiliano Urruti that came back off the woodwork and breathed another sigh of relief just two minutes later when Urruti shanked a breakaway chance wide right.
Portland also got some help from the post in the 73rd minute, when a great run by RSL left back Chris Wingert set up Javier Morales, whose placed finish beat Ricketts only to find the frame.
Much of the away side's best play in the first half came from the feet of Nagbe. The youngster had his best moment in the 18th minute when he burst past three RSL players and had defender Nat Borchers in retreat, only to see Rimando react superbly as he tried to go top shelf, getting a big paw on the close-range effort and turning it behind.
In addition to securing three points, the timely saves throughout the match proved vital in Rimando earning his 111th career shutout, leaving him just one short of tying the all-time MLS record of 112 held by Kevin Hartman.
The win leaves Real Salt Lake (3-0-4) as the only unbeaten team in MLS, while Portland (0-3-4) remain winless. The result also saw RSL run their record against the defending Western Conference regular season champions since the start of 2012 to 8-0-2 in all competitions.
Real remain home next week, hosting the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday. The Timbers remain on the road, but have an extra day to prepare for a Sunday match at Houston on April 27.
MLSsoccer.com Men of the Match
|What We Saw
|Nick Rimando
|Wasn't prolific, but came up with three huge saves to preserve the shutout, including two highlight-reel stops in the dying minutes of the encounter
|Ned Grabavoy
|Rounded out a good two-way performance on the left side of RSL's diamond midfield with an excellent run and finish for the winner
|Javier Morales
|Managed a fine game despite the close (and often times disruptive) attentions of Diego Chara, making RSL's attack tick


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