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DENVER Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is insisting that the state has regulatory authority over natural-gas and oil drilling.
The Denver Post reported Wednesday that Hickenlooper called Boulder County commissioners to his office to try to resolve conflicts over how drilling companies are regulated.
With drilling booming along Colorados Front Range, Boulder County is drafting tough new regulations for drilling there and has refused to process natural-gas and oil drilling applications since February. County officials told Hickenlooper at a Tuesday meeting they must respect their constituents concerns about drilling.
The state has challenged Longmonts authority to ban drilling, and Hickenlooper wants to avoid a mish-mash of local drilling rules.
How are we going to keep these sorts of operations from disrupting our communities? Boulder Commissioner Will Toor asked.
Weve been through this with a number of different counties, Hickenlooper said. We can still get there without having to go to court.
The Boulder County regulations would cover truck damage to roads, air and water monitoring, and setbacks from homes. Planning manager Kim Sanchez said the county was consulting with business and the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
Commission director Matt Lepore said a county requirement for no significant degradation by drilling companies seems a little vague.
Thats a general area of concern, Lepore said.
The state commission is studying whether to require groundwater testing by companies before drilling and larger buffer zones between wells and homes, schools and hospitals.


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Zombies: The Year of Infection Calendar
From the field notes of Dr. Robert Twombly
- 2014 12-month calendar
- Displayed like excerpts from Dr. Robert Twombly's field journals
- Fun for fans of the undead
Follow Dr. Robert Twombly's yearlong journey as he heads north, where—he hopes—the undead will be slowed by the colder climate. Encountering scores of the infected along the way, Twombly chronicles his experience through graphic drawings and detailed descriptions of zombies, along with terrifying tales of survival. Includes illustrations and text featuring the very best of zombie (after)life, including death, reanimation, deterioration, and, of course, bites! Frightenintgly funny, Zombies 2014: A Year of Infection will keep fans running for their lives all year long.
Product Specifications
- Author: Dr. Robert Twombly
- Publisher: Universe Publishing
- Pages: 24
- Cover: Wall Calendar
- Year: 2014
- Genre: Calendar
- Product Dimensions: 12" x 11.8" x 0.2"

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Hello everyone, the world of PC BOTS is getting very exciting now as several people have recieved their bots or are due to get them shortly.
Check out a brief review of the bot from the first pioneers in this thread.
There is now a new image gallery over at 914pcbots.com. So far one person has posted pics of unpacking their bot and some others are on the way.
Feel free to come over to the community if you have any interest in robots based around PCs...


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I've now turned my attention to preparation for beta1. Already talk has resumed on the mailing list of a tentative schedule; there still remains too much to do to expect it before the new year, but with the list of blockers now reduced effectively to two (one relating to installing source packages on the actual release image, which I intend to look into solving soon; the other is about clashing mime supertype declaration and may prove trickier to solve), the actual "release branch" is hopefully not more than a month away.
I've already begun drafting release notes and making build system cleanups as part of preparation. There is finally light at the end of the tunnel - don't give up hope yet. :)
I'm just putting it out there that if all goes according to plan, I'll be spending lots of time in a nice Haiku virtual machine over the coming weeks to get a really good look at the state of the continuation of the best operating system ever made.
It's time.
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Individually, the concrete steps President Obama announced Friday toward reforming the National Security Agency's surveillance programs were modest. Taken together, though, they signal the end of an era of unfettered escalation in U.S. intelligence-gathering.
Since its establishment in 1952, the NSA's history has been one of almost nonstop expansion. But for most of that time, the agency still faced limits on what kind of information it could gather and in the legal strictures that governed its programs.
That changed after the terrorist attacks of 2001, which prompted then-President George W. Bush to demand an all-out effort to collect every scrap of information available.
His order came at a time when the Internet, email, instant messaging and low-cost voice communications were pouring an unprecedented amount of private information into a global electronic network, available for sophisticated eavesdroppers to tap.
Bush brushed aside legal constraints and ordered the NSA to collect domestic telephone and email communications without court warrants. Later, Congress and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court legalized much of that program retroactively, including the NSA's collection of domestic telephone call records, known as metadata. The principle driving intelligence-gathering had become collect first, ask questions later.
Obama's proposals are step back from that rule.
The president didn't cancel any existing surveillance programs; indeed, he reaffirmed the government's argument that telephone metadata should still be collected — though with new safeguards.
To many civil liberties advocates, his cautious moves were disappointing. But while Obama's practical steps were small, the conceptual steps were large. Instead of accepting the doctrine that a global war against terrorists justifies almost any expansion of information-gathering, he said the entire U.S. intelligence enterprise should be subject to more public scrutiny and more stringent cost-benefit tests.
"The power of new technologies means that there are fewer and fewer technical constraints on what we can do," Obama said. "That places a special obligation on us to ask tough questions about what we should do."
The immediate practical effects of asking those questions will be few. The telephone metadata will still be there — and still, for the time being, held in one big database at the NSA. But analysts who want to check U.S. telephone records of anyone suspicious will now need permission in each case from the federal surveillance court.
A second Obama innovation — the idea that the NSA should treat foreigners the same way it treats Americans when it comes to privacy — is a revolutionary idea within the intelligence community, which is used to drawing a clear line between us and them. But it won't shield foreigners from being subjects of U.S. surveillance, unless they are on the short list of a few dozen allied leaders whose phones won't be tapped.
The larger impact, over the long term, may come from a less obvious part of Obama's reforms: his directives that intelligence agencies, including the NSA, face more stringent oversight, and that the FISA court make public its decisions affecting privacy rights.
Finally, Obama's new positions may help change the debate in Congress over the NSA's powers.
The president said that although the government should collect telephone metadata, in the long run, it shouldn't be the one to hold it. That almost certainly means a vigorous debate in Congress as surveillance programs come up for reauthorization during the next two years. Some advocates for NSA reform in Congress, including Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), praised Obama's speech for reinvigorating that debate, even though it fell short of their wish list in other respects.
A year ago, before NSA renegade Edward Snowden revealed dozens of once-secret programs, these issues were almost entirely unknown, even to members of Congress. Even a month ago, momentum toward NSA reform appeared to have stalled. But with Obama's speech Friday, it seems certain the issues will have a full airing, and the president has made clear where he stands.
The era in which a president could order the NSA to expand surveillance programs with little oversight from Congress and no scrutiny from the public is over. That's a big change, and a good one.
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Morris Etc.
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- Price range: $$-$$$
- Website: morrisetc.com
Store History
- Founded by: Amy & Brett Morris
- Headquarters: Ft. Greene, Brooklyn, New York
Bright colors, stripes, bold geometric patterns, all exemplify the gorgeous, one-of-a-kind pillows and rugs created and designed by husband and wife team Amy & Brett Morris of Ft. Greene, Brooklyn. These charming and unique accents add a touch of personality and eclecticism to a home of any style.
The couple aims to "help you fill your home with rooms that your can savor. Places where you feel inspired – and want to spend endless amounts of time. The foundation for a very good life…"
Amy explains:
I've always been a collector of vintage fabrics. Throughout our years of travel, I've searched out original pieces to be utilized upon our return to NYC. Some people collect furniture or statues – with me, it's fabric. I love the colors and designs and how they vary from country to country.
For these pillows, I chose vintage pieces from Peru and Brooklyn. They're all one-of-a-kind design accents to add color and personality to a bed or sofa. When you go with a Morris Etc. design you aren't about to run into it again at a friend's home. It's original, it's yours.
For the full selection, visit the Morris Etc. website.
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Linked by David Adams on Thu 15th Oct 2009 18:00 UTC
In the past, OSNews' interview volume was quite a bit higher than it has been lately. I had the pleasure of having lunch with Eugenia and her husband last week, and she mentioned that we haven't done as many interviews, and that in the past they were always very popular. So I decided that I'm going to make it a personal priority to publish more interviews. I'd like to crowdsource the idea, and ask the OSNews community who they'd like to see us interview. Please let us know in the comments of this story who you'd like us to talk to, and what specific questions you'd like us to ask. Shoot for the moon. It's not as hard to get an email-based interview as you might think. Obviously OS-world luminaries will always be a priority, but feel free to recommend people from the larger tech community, or even geek-oriented popular culture.
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RE[4]: Theo De Raadt! (OpenBSD, OpenSSH)
by Moulinneuf on Fri 16th Oct 2009 04:58 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Theo De Raadt! (OpenBSD, OpenSSH)"
What is happening to you "molino nuevo"?
No it's still Moulinneuf ... My name is a no name coward magnet it seem.
saw you in other thread attacking *BSD in general
Yes, me wanting more BSD computer in store and that it be more distributed is an attack on BSD ...
and sbergman27 in particular...
Who ? particular is for real people with real name.
did he take your girlfriend?
It dates woman ? It is asecual robot/device ?
did he owe you money?
Don't know , who it is, you seem to know , does he ?
are you in love of him and do you want him to pay attention on you?
That's a him ? He is capable of loving himself ?
why don't you let him in peace
Poor victim ...
and all of us (in general)?
Your the one insulting my name and I am the one attacking you here ...
do you know to do something different to bash everything and troll it?
Yes ... That's why I am still here, for now.
RE[5]: Theo De Raadt! (OpenBSD, OpenSSH)
by Bill Shooter of Bul on Fri 16th Oct 2009 17:26 in reply to "RE[4]: Theo De Raadt! (OpenBSD, OpenSSH)"


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|2011-03-20, 15:57
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Why should we give a damn? No, really. Why should we? Most of us hate Ange, who was supposed to be the vehicle for understanding "Ryuukishi's true point". Doesn't that indicate to you just how much Ryuukishi failed to deliver his own message? I've personally experienced a lot of loss in my life, I've had my share of tragedies, and they impacted my life rather negatively, and I know I'm not the only one who's read this story that has had such an experience.
I look on Ange with contempt, because I see her for what she is: A badly written sob story that's clearly designed to provoke feelings of remorse/sadness/bullcrap/craving for McDonald's(a la Pizza Hut). Ryuukishi spent four years trying to set up his readers to "learn how to let things go"...No shit.
That's his message. Something that shallow. Something so obvious, that he had to shoehorn in a completely unsympathetic character into an otherwise good story in order to preach his moral truth as if it were some amazing revelation.
Well it's not. Those that don't it already will get it wrong, and those that do need it already know it, so it doesn't help them. And besides, Anno did it better back in the Nineties. Honestly, no matter what you hold Umineko up for, the fact is that someone else did it better already. You can say that's not fair to Ryuukishi, well...That's too damn bad. He lead people on a wild goose chase, so his work deserves it's time under the microscope. He doesn't get a free pass.
Brevity is king. And Ryuukishi spent four years saying nothing of any real worth in his story. That would be all fine and good if this were just a fantasy story, but Ryuukishi is using it as a soapbox, and frankly his message is deeply underwhelming.
The author is dead is apt in this case, as we readers assign more worth in the characters and world Ryuukishi built than the man himself put into it.
|2011-03-20, 16:08
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If there were a way to prevent what happened on Rokkenjima? Then simply moving on would be a terrible thing. Since there is nothing which can change what has already happened, and everyone involved is already long gone? Moving on (and forgiving) is the best thing to do.
You say "Evil won", I say "It was a tragic situation where good intentions went wrong."
|2011-03-20, 16:12
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And again: Ange is not the only person who exists. She's being selfish if she only cares about the impact the disaster had on her, and if you only care about her, then Ryukishi failed to properly morally educate you in the context of his own work.
I sincerely hope you do not actually hold the moral beliefs your statements appear to support. You have a depressingly cavalier attitude toward malfeasance and evil.
|2011-03-20, 16:21
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If you want to get into armchair philosophizing and sophistry, you're about to enter an arena where you simply can not win. If you're going to argue moral ambiguity you will see the error of your ways put in front of you. It's all well and good that you're confident that you're right but you're not. We'll show you, Renall with an air of stating the obvious, and myself with a sadistic air of superiority. If you'd like to avoid the obvious conclusion and just step away from this absurd argument, then you'll save us all a lot of time.
When Evil goes unpunished, it has won. Because that is what it means for Evil to win, to commit evil without consequence, to reap only the reward, and receive no punishment for the harm it has done to the innocent, for it would not be evil if there were no innocents harmed. Say what you like, but Maria was innocent. No matter who committed what on Rokkenjimma, killing someone as innocent as Maria was an act of evil, by definition.
|2011-03-20, 16:24
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On the contrary, it's your desire to condemn long dead people, that did something bad in the past, is the evilest thing in the world, that causes mutual hatred and eternal wars.
Please reconsider your own moral stance.
|2011-03-20, 16:26
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What wars have been fought in order to defend their honor?
Bahahahaha. Really.
There's nothing reprehensible for refusing to forgive long dead people for their unforgivable crimes. If they received no blame, no punishment for their crimes, then there is really no reason to forgive them, as there was no justice in it. Their victims simply became victims, tragic victims, and their murderers? They got away with it.
It doesn't matter how many innocent lives you took. Be it the one murderer taking 15 lives on Rokkenjimma, or someone ordering a genocide. All lives are equally precious. Taking innocent lives is equally reprehensible, no matter how few or how many you extinguish.
|2011-03-20, 16:27
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The goal is not to perpetuate hate, but to affect truth and in so doing assure justice. That you are incapable of even distinguishing the two is troubling, but I've noticed this seems to be a very popular stance among the internet.
It's intensely selfish to think the sole purpose of blaming the culprit is to somehow make them feel bad.
|2011-03-20, 16:28
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Whom do you respect more: the man who forgives the person who killed his wife? Or the man who hunts the killer down and blows his brains out with a shotgun?
I respect the former far more.
Evil had already won, evil wins at the beginning of every mystery novel. The purpose of the mystery is to deliver some justice to the culprits to prevent some future tragedy from occurring again at the hands of those same culprits, not to prevent evil from "winning". In Umineko, there are no culprits left, and hence, no reason to know the truth.
Please explain to me: what good would knowing the truth do for anyone living? Protecting the reputations of the dead is not something I am concerned about; they are dead and do not care.
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|2011-03-20, 16:38
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I don't mean to pick on you, Renall; you're just the last person to post.
But ultimately, the devil himself can argue for good and a saint can argue for evil. It's irrelevant who makes the argument; only the argument itself.
As for whether this is truly evil itself, I'd like to understand how the written Umineko episodes in Rokkenjima prime, not being solvable, represents evil. Perhaps you mean to say that the evil is in Battler and Ange not being forthcoming with what they know (if it is a murder) in Rokkenjima Prime itself?
But couldn't it just have been an accident instead? Despite all of Beatrice's written machinations, could Rokkenjima Prime have just been 'oops, Gouda set off the bomb?' I can believe Ange would be destroyed for holding her hate in this year only in the end to find out no one really did anything... Rokkenjima Prime, that is. And I can believe that Beatrice played up the incident as a crime when it really wasn't. (Especially since the police declared that it was just an 'incident.')
|2011-03-20, 16:38
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The dead do not care if their murderer is brought to justice?
But what of their loved ones? Those that mourn their passing? The living who want answers to a terrible tragedy that has befallen them as well? And that's not even taking into account the possibility of an afterlife.
Do you know why Lady Justice's eyes are blindfolded and she holds scales? Justice is not about "good and evil", it is about "Balance", a punishment to fit the crime that has been committed. Justice is not about forgiveness, Justice is an eye for an eye. A life for a life. Some people believe that death is the best way of balancing the scales in some cases, and others think that reforming and making the murderer live a hollow life with the guilt and shame causing them to suffer the rest of their lives balances the scales.
But justice is about punishment. Penalization. Not forgiveness. Justice demands the scales be balanced, the criminal be punished, that is the entire point. Knowing the truth allows the scales to be balanced, it allows the murderer to be punished, if in life, and in death, by bringing resolution to who exactly was responsible.
You're wrong about mystery novels by the way, and belie your own ignorance: In a mystery novel, evil never wins. Evil manifests when the murder is committed, but Evil is defeated the moment the detective outs them, and they receive their just punishment. Murder on the Orient express, and Then There Were None are exceptions, as they are stories of how evil is punished.
Oh, as for the living? Catharsis is a wonderful thing.
|2011-03-20, 16:40
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That makes him an apologist for evil, just as I said. I am not attacking his argument solely on the basis of his moral character; I am concluding that his argument demonstrates that he lacks moral character. And I stand by it, as I find his opinion to be incredibly offensive, but nobody sheds a tear for me over that.
|2011-03-20, 16:43
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Hypothetical: A man has just murdered the leader of a prominent gang, and died in the attempt. However, the gang members never discovered his identity. If they do, they will murder his wife and children.
Should the truth be revealed?
|2011-03-20, 16:46
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I'd have to partially agree here, but to clarify it as not doing anything to stand up to evil is evil in of itself...
Incidently, I think this is what Beatrice may consider her sin to be; that she knew everything that was going on but couldn't stop it? In this case, she is not the true culprit as defined in usual detective fiction but bears some culpability...
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|2011-03-20, 17:01
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You need better arguments. You havn't even answered mine, and frankly I think my points are much easier to rebut that Renall's common sense ones.
As for why a villain's memory should be reviled after their death? Because it provides closure to the still living victims of the villains crime. Sometimes they need it in order to move on.
Ange did read Eva's diary before deciding to move on with her life, after all. You're arguing against even that much, which is much worse than even what Ryuukishi put forth. That's funny, in a way.
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|2008-04-01, 02:00
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Nagi -04 as well.
Maria -05
Nagisa -04
Tomoyo -01
Kotomi -07
Fuko -01
Nayuki -05
Shiori -04
Nanoha -04
Fate -08
Vita -04
Sakura K. -02 pretty in pink is win
Kiri -04 WINNNNNN
And my final slew of Louise is DONE, I shall edit Nagi 04, Fuko 01 and a few Louise's before posting though...
|2008-04-01, 02:00
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Nagi - 6
Maria - 1
Nagisa - 7 (Because there are nothing that suits her more?)
Tomoyo - 1
Kotomi - 9
Fuko - 3
Nayuki - 1 (...)
Shiori - 4 (......)
Nanoha - 2 (Loli power!!!)
Fate - 5
Vita - 3 (I don't get the rest)
Sakura K. - 1
Kiri - 6 (3 & 4 reminds me of Jigoku Shoujo & D.Gray Man)
Edit : Someone go and touch up Tamao's pic or put up a new one already. That one won't do.
|2008-04-01, 02:04
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And about Tamao, this is the best I could do:
The picture was originally bad, so we might really have to find a better one.
And qtipsex, stop hating. You know we're compatible like Nanoha and Fate.
EDIT: Gah, I'm done. I'm sick of going through 5000 pages of Strawberry Panic! and browse through people's yuri obsessions.
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|2008-04-01, 02:05
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We almost had four posts in a row (damn KholdSecks) that were votes.
I'm so happy I could eat some bagel bites.
I also propose that we flip the Nagi so she faces left.
Left = win.
Nevermind, it's ugly.
EDIT: Speaking of which, they should be done.
Mmmm... Bagel Bites.
|2008-04-01, 02:08
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|2008-04-01, 02:12
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Nagi 03 - dere is Nagi's only good side for me...
Maria 05 - close-up = win
Nagisa 01- aww, so cute
Tomoyo 02 - I prefer meganekkos myself
Kotomi 07 - wow, nice.
Fuko 05 - only one with her trademark starfish
Nayuki 02 - Nayuki in my mind never was that bubbly in the other pics
Shiori 03 - isn't that her pose when she does her trademark line?
Nanoha 02 - the better of the hairdown Nanoha's
Fate 04 - battle costume looks best on Fate
Vita 01 - aww, sleepy head
Sakura K. 06 - Sakura in battle costume never really did it for me, so casual wear is good
Kiri 03 - fits my image of her the best
|2008-04-01, 02:22
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And just so qtip doesn't hate me, if you haven't voted yet,
Go to this site and vote for the following characters:
Sakura K.
|2008-04-01, 02:26
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And even though I'd like to have a picture of her in her school uniform, the Tamao-chan is too win to refuse.
I (and someone else) would advise against using pictures of characters with their eyes closed, though. Especially for characters whose eyes express a lot (KyoAni.)
|2008-04-01, 02:32
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I was using the second person plural pronoun, you, nub.
And Fynal_Fyre, your first two pictures of Louise really shocked me, in a bad way. Was it that orange-y in the anime? I think the third one might work though.
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|2008-04-01, 02:36
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It's just me or the official site not working right now?
And it seems the 1st match is up? The 'Vote' button is already there.
|2008-04-01, 02:37
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Location: Oakland, CA
Age: 66
The votes are in!
Toughest choce this time was Shinku V Matsuri; just got to know and love Matsuri (LOTS) but Shinku has always been too much to resist: size, outfit, little cane, arrogant "shield" for sensitivity, backstory, history, roses, tea
Rika v Sakura: Sakura = first anime crush, but Rika out-moes her
Fuko v Saber: Saber I grew to love over the course of the series, but Fuko... c'mon
Nagisa v Hanyuu -struggled here, but Nagisa is just too sweet (and human) (and horn-less)
Some unfamiliar others I picked based on the pic alone, so pics DO matter
ARENA 1 Shana v Hinagiku Katsura -Shana-love; need S2 ep 24 still!
ARENA 2 Suigintou v Yuki Nagato -Sui's Ouverture FTW
ARENA 3 Nanoha Takamachi v Tamaki Kousaka -pic vote
ARENA 4 Kyou Fujibayashi v Tsukasa Hiiragi -Tsukasa = moe edge
ARENA 5 Mikuru Asahina v Nagi Sanzenin -Mikuru beams Nagi
ARENA 6 Louise Francoise v Rin Tosaka - bit GAR but moe too, dunno L yet
ARENA 7 Horo v Tomoyo Sakagami -Tomoyo kicks Horo's tail
ARENA 8 Nayuki Minase v Konata Izumi -N neko moe > K otaku-moe
ARENA 9 Chikaru Minamoto v Souseiseki -pic-vote; flower hair > hat-head
ARENA 10 Konoka Konoe v Fate Testarossa -pic vote
ARENA 11 Maria v Aruruu -contagious Irie maid-fetish vote
ARENA 12 Evangeline McDowell v Kotomi Ichinose -K = moe supreme
ARENA 13 Rika Furude v Sakura Matou -ARGH! Love S but Rika-chan FTW
ARENA 14 Nagisa Furukawa v Hanyuu Furude -GRR... must-pick-Nagisa...
ARENA 15 Alice Carroll v Mion Sonozaki -GACK... A > mo' moe than M
ARENA 16 Fuko Ibuki v Saber -WHINE! Fuko moeness > Saber GARness
ARENA 17 Touka v Kagami Hiiragi -just look at her!!!
ARENA 18 Sakura Kinomoto v Ayu Tsukimiya -Yui guarantees #1 ~uguu~
ARENA 19 Yuno v Haruhi Suzumiya -uh, no; not pissing HER off (yet)
ARENA 20 Shinku v Matsuri Shihou -SHRIEK!!! Toughest, but senti-RM vote
ARENA 21 ABSTAINED Eri Sawachika v Ayumu Nishizawa
ARENA 22 Setsuna Sakurazaki v Mai Kawasumi -my Mai, bunny ears easy
ARENA 23 Tamao Suzumi v Konomi Yuzuhara -pic vote
ARENA 24 Eruruu v Shiori Misaka -fountain scene no-brainer
ARENA 25 ABSTAINED Vita v Teletha Testarossa
ARENA 26 Yue Ayase v Tsuruya -fang/receding hairline vote
ARENA 27 ABSTAINED Nodoka Miyazaki v Yurie Hitotsubashi
ARENA 28 Suiseiseki v Sakura-hime -dolls can too be moe, n'desu
ARENA 29 Tamaki Kawazoe v Ryou Fujibayashi -short hair/braid FTW
ARENA 30 Rena Ryuguu v Kyon's Sister -Rena bags moe-bag & takes home
ARENA 31 Sayuri Kurata v Chiaki Minami -ah-ha-ha!
ARENA 32 ABSTAINED C.C. v Kiri Komori
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But still, Louise IS asleep OR crying for the bulk of Episode 12, but the Church scene, battleship scene and reunion scene more than make up for it.
Edit: It's not a sepia touch-up, it's....err....levels, I think. But IMO that scene has too little of the Tristian evening light in it...
Edit2: Kholdstare, you wanted the original?
IMO too gray, JC staff has always wonderfully animated ZnT's evening lights, IDK why this one is so....gray.
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ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE SERVICE DIRECTOR TO COMPLETE THE NECESSARY REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL PROCESS AND ENTER INTO CONTRACT FOR THE PURCHASE OF SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE FOR A DISPATCHING AND SCHEDULING PRODUCT TO BE USED BY THE MARION AREA TRANSIT (MAT) SYSTEM, ADVANCING THE NECESSARY FUNDS AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY, as amended
WHEREAS, The Marion Area Transit System (MAT) is in need of dispatching and scheduling software and hardware ("applications") which are critical to the daily operations of the MAT system; and
WHEREAS, the City of Marion was awarded the ARRA grant to purchase the applications for public transit operations and infrastructures for MAT; and
WHEREAS, The City of Marion will pay for this project with the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) reimbursing the City at 100% through a contract amendment; and
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Marion, Marion County, Ohio:
Section1. Council has been advised by the Administration of the ARRA project related to the Transit Department's needs and ability to improve their operation via the purchase of dispatching, scheduling software and hardware applications for the daily operation of services throughout the City. Council hereby finds it to be in the best interest of the citizens of the City of Marion, Ohio to authorize the Service Director to conduct an R.F.P. process under the direction of ODOT and thereafter to enter into contract with the most responsive and best provider.
Section 2. Further, Council hereby authorizes (Contingent upon written confirmation received from ODOT for full reimbursement from ODOT/ARRA funding confirmed by ODOT) the Service Director to complete all necessary acts in order to purchase the dispatching, scheduling software and hardware applications for a total amount up to $125,000.00. Council has been advised by the Service Director the R.F.P. process has been completed, with ODOT over-sight, a local committee met, graded and chose the primary company of "Mobilitat" to furnish this software and with hardware coming from selected other vendors for MAT for a total amount up to $125,000.00.
Section 3. The above contract shall be paid for from funds advanced from the General Fund up to $125,000, which shall be reimbursed upon receipt of the aforementioned reimbursement from State and Federal funds 100%.
Section 4. This ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, welfare and safety of the City of Marion and the inhabitants thereof, and due to immediate need to provide MAT updated equipment that is needed to enhance the performance of MAT as promoted by ODOT for transit system across the state, shall take effect and be in force immediately upon its passage and approval by the Service Director, provided it receives the affirmative vote of two-thirds of all members elected to Council; otherwise it shall become effective from and after the earliest period allowed by law.
Approved: ____________________________
Dave Edwards
President of Council
Mayor Scott Schertzer
Clerk of Council


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OSNews has been working on an ongoing series about home automation and new home computing technology, and we've been collaborating on a home being built in Park City, UT to recommend and spec out various home technology options. One thing that we recommended is lots and lots of cable. Every area where we've determined that a computer or home entertainment device is likely to be located, we've run 2-3 strands of RG6 coaxial cable and 2-3 strands of cat5e ethernet cable. We've also included conduit to major A/V and computer areas to facilitate running fiber or any other future physical transmission medium. We've also run speaker cable through the walls in many rooms to enable surround sound, and special structured cable in many areas that's specially-built for wired surveillance cameras.
To save time, we used structured wiring that comes as a bundle of two coaxial and two cat5 ethernet cables. All this cable terminates at a patch panel where it can be purposed for phone, data, or AV. We also ran extra strands of cat5 and RG6 cable to areas where we thought we'd need them. We always erred on the side of too much cable. "Wasting" some by never using it, we believed, was better than needing it later and not having it.
That being said, we have also run cable to central areas specifically to accommodate Wi-Fi hotspots, and we've recommended a two-line wireless expandable phone system. It's not that we're against wireless. We love it. I was a very early adopter of wireless networking; I purchased the first affordable Wi-Fi products: the Apple AirPort base station and the Lucent WaveLan cards when they first came on the market, and I've never looked back. I'd sooner give up running water than Wi-Fi. I've taken bucket showers. It's not so bad.
First of all, let's talk about wireless' clear superiority in some instances. Obviously, it's wireless, so any time you need to network a device that you need to be able to carry around, wireless is a no-brainer. I remember my beloved Newton Messagepad 2000. In some ways, it was better than any handheld computing device I've ever owned, up to and including my iPhone. However, it had two networking options: modem connected to a wired phoneline and wired ethernet. There was no Wi-Fi back then. There was an early municipal wireless system called Ricochet, but not in my town. So the Newton was missing its killer app.
Wireless is also welcome and indispensable when you need to locate a networked device in an area where running cable is not practical: Old homes, rented apartments, the corner by your bed where you want your Wi-Fi alarm clock to go, etc. This actually applies to most homes and apartments today. Unless you built your own house, you don't have enough cable in the walls. An ordinary builder just won't include enough wiring to serve the needs of even the most typical home technology consumer. Consumer electronics vendors realize this. All of the major game console makers, for example, support wireless networking. The Wii has Wi-Fi by default, and ethernet support requires the purchase of an add-on dongle. Nintendo, rightly, realized that more Wii buyers would have Wi-Fi than an available Ethernet jack near their TV.
So we've established that wireless is awesome and indispensable. What are the wireless disadvantages?
Wireless has an inherent bandwidth limitation. The latest 802.11n MIMO (Multiple in, multiple out) Wi-Fi routers offer bandwidth of just over 100 Mbps if you're right next to the router, fairly evenly dropping down to 80 Mbps or slower as you move farther away. So that looks pretty good. Fast Ethernet is also 100 Mbps. But in real-world use, Fast Ethernet delivers about 50% faster performance than 802.11n. Gigabit ethernet's real-world speed boost is about 4-5 times that of 802.11n. New wireless standards will surely improve bandwidth and transmission quality, but new wired standards already exist to blow them away. Let's not even mention fiber.
To be fair, this is all academic if your bandwidth needs are modest. 802.11n actually gives you enough bandwidth to safely stream HDTV content, though if you're also transferring other files on the same network, you'll probably get hiccups. Bottlenecks are also important to acknowledge. You can have gigabit ethernet in your home, but if you're connecting to the internet via a 1.5 Mbps DSL line, all the gigabit in the world isn't going to make your web sites load any faster. The bottom line is, aside from streaming HDTV, most consumers are going to have a hard time hitting up against the upper limit of wireless networks.
Wireless networks suffer from (and cause) interference. Wi-Fi exists because in 1985 the US Federal Communications Commission freed three bands of the wireless spectrum to be used without a license. As explained in a June 10, 2004 Economist article: "the FCC, prompted by a visionary engineer on its staff, Michael Marcus, took three chunks of spectrum from the industrial, scientific and medical bands and opened them up to communications entrepreneurs. These so-called "garbage bands," at 900MHz, 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz, were already allocated to equipment that used radio-frequency energy for purposes other than communications: microwave ovens, for example, which use radio waves to heat food. The FCC made them available for communications purposes as well, on the condition that any devices using these bands would have to steer around interference from other equipment."
This then-obscure decision unleashed a torrent of innovation in the consumer technology arena, because it enabled regular people to use sophisticated wireless communication without getting a license from the government, which used to be required for just about every type of wireless device, including CB radios. The problem is, since all of these devices are crammed into the same part of the spectrum, and have to share it with microwave ovens and other "garbage," it can cause performance to suffer, and other problems. The most common example of this is the inability for otherwise-wonderful 2.4 GHz cordless phones to play nice with Wi-Fi networks.
Manufacturers have been pretty good at devising ways to heed the FCC's mandate to "steer around" interference issues, but the hard truth is that if you have too much traffic sharing the same band of spectrum, there's going to be trouble. So, the more wireless devices you use, not only do you fill up the precious bandwidth supply, but interference can downgrade the performance of every device sharing that slice of spectrum.
Wireless eats batteries. Though there are wireless technologies that have been specifically designed to conserve energy, such as Bluetooth, Wibree, and Ultra Wideband, even they need to expend extra energy to broadcast a wireless signal; far above what little electricity is required to send a signal over copper wires. Wi-Fi in particular is an energy hog when it comes to battery-powered devices. The problem is, almost by definition, if something needs batteries, it probably needs wireless too. Nevertheless, on occasion I have my laptop at a conference table, with no power supply. It's nice to have a couple of stray ethernet cables sticking up through a hole in the table, to help me save my battery while I'm playing Peggle or updating my Facebook page in the conference room instead of working at my desk. Try it sometime. It makes you look like you're working harder, when you're actually slacking off.
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- Premier League
Pellegrini welcomes striker selection headache
Manuel Pellegrini insists he does not have a selection headache as he considers which of his three prolific strikers to omit after Sergio Aguero made a goalscoring comeback.
The Argentina international, who had missed eight games with a calf injury, scored his 20th goal of the season 49 seconds into his return as Manchester City beat Blackburn Rovers 5-0 in their FA Cup replay.
Alvaro Negredo and Edin Dzeko took their tallies for the season to 21 and 15 respectively by both scoring twice as City booked a fourth-round date against Watford.
Summer signing Negredo has scored six times in his last three games and Bosnia international Dzeko has struck five times in the same period, giving Pellegrini a dilemma as he considers which is his strongest strike force in his preferred 4-4-2 formation.
But the City manager said: "For me, that is not a problem. It is a problem when you don't have players to choose. I think that Alvaro and Edin are in a very good moment. It is very important for the team that Sergio came back and scored."
City scored at least five goals for the seventh time at home already this season and have struck 99 times in all competitions this season. And Pellegrini added: "I think it is an important amount of goals. I repeat when I arrived here it was very important to win a trophy but in a way that we play. It is important for the fans to come here to know we are going to try to play a very good game and score the highest amount of goals that we can."
Pellegrini rested captain Vincent Kompany and said midfielders Yaya Toure and David Silva, who sat out the Rovers game with minor knocks, should be available for Saturday's league game against Cardiff.
He added: "Vincent Kompany doesn't have any problem and I will see [on Thursday] to be 100 percent sure but I suppose both Silva and Yaya will be fit."
City, who are second in the Premier League and have a 6-0 advantage after the first leg of their League Cup semi-final against West Ham, will take on Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League.
They are the only English club who are still in four competitions and Blackburn manager Gary Bowyer believes they could achieve an unprecedented quadruple. He said: "People are talking about them winning all four and you can see that happening with the quality they have."


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NEWS : MON, NOV 25, 2013 at 3:22 AM
A Special Double-Release Monday from Sub Pop!
Thanks to the short holiday week, the typical North American record release day, Tuesday, November 26th was officially moved up to Monday, November 25th (that's today!), and bringing with it two Sub Pop releases! Today marks the release of Shearwater's Fellow Travelers and the long-overdue re-release of Soundgarden's Screaming Life/Fopp.
Listen to Soundgarden's classic "Nothing to Say" and Shearwater's cover of The Baptist Generals' "Fucked Up Life" with the embedded players, both of those tracks are available on their respective Monday, November 25th, 2013 releases.
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You may not have had high blood pressure Sunday, but you may have it today. Even if your blood pressure hasn't changed a smidge. What's up?
The rules shifted Monday. It used to be that we encouraged people to adopt healthy behavior to keep their blood pressure down but didn't label someone as having hypertension until systolic blood pressure (the top number) exceeded 140 millimeters of mercury and/or the diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) exceeded 90 mm Hg. Lots of people watch those numbers closely.
Now the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association have updated blood pressure guidelines that move the goal post for many people.
If you have heart disease, chronic kidney disease or diabetes, then your target now for systolic blood pressure has moved down to 130 and for diastolic blood pressure to 80. Same goes if your 10-year risk of having a heart attack or stroke is greater than 10 percent (determined by a calculator found here).
The focus on people who have a high likelihood of heart disease and stroke is an effort to maximize the health gains from risk reduction.
To decide whether the blood pressure targets should change, the ACC and AHA assembled 21 experts who reviewed all the relevant studies, including a landmark study by the National Institutes of Health that supported lower target levels. In the end, they were unanimous in endorsing a lower standard, believing it would reduce risk and be worth the extra medications for people at high risk. Importantly, they did not change the standard for low-risk individuals.
The big change is that we will end up labeling many more people with hypertension and recommending drug treatment for many more people, too. The hope is that more aggressive treatment will reduce life-threatening heart attacks and strokes.
My colleagues and I conducted an analysis to estimate how many people would be affected. We determined that among those ages 45 to 75, an additional 15 million more people are now considered to have hypertension. Overall, a majority of people — 63 percent — in this age group would now be said to have hypertension.
Among all Americans, another analysis suggests that more than 100 million have it.
The new guidelines would mean 8 million more people would be recommended to start blood pressure drugs and an additional 14 million would be advised to have their current therapy increased.
So what should people actually do?
This guideline should guide discussions between clinicians and patients about how people feel about taking drugs, how they tolerate drugs, and which strategies fit them best.
The days are pretty much over when doctors could walk into the office and tell people what to do, write a prescription and expect them to comply. Decisions about care shouldn't be edicts. When that happens patients tend to tune out and leave prescriptions unfilled.
Clinicians and patients need to work collaboratively to set goals, aware of guidelines and the particular situation of each person.
People vary in their preferences. Some people don't like to take pills or don't tolerate them well. Some people think that when 30 people need to take a pill for years for one person to benefit, it's a good deal; others disagree.
There are many choices for blood pressure medications, and they are inexpensive; most are generics. The right choice for each individual may vary — and it may require trying a few different approaches.
Particularly for people with a systolic blood pressure between 130 and 140 who are being advised to ratchet up treatment, there should be a discussion about what the reduction in risk, if achieved, would mean for them and what it would take to get there. We will need tools that help people make informed choices and customize the information to each person. It's high time to move away from suggesting that one type of medical advice should fit all — even among people with high risk, there are many individual differences.
Amid the fanfare associated with the new guidelines, there are also a few things that haven't changed. In America, far too many people don't know that their blood pressure is high — and too few have had the opportunity for effective treatment even with the old standards.
We need to make sure that all Americans know their blood pressure and understand their options. Moreover, there are many effective strategies to reduce blood pressure that don't involve drugs, but they are too infrequently pursued.
The so-called DASH diet, even moderate physical activity, avoiding obesity and reducing stress can all be effective. They may sound mundane, but they can help people avoid having to pop pills. We need to help people appreciate the power of these approaches and make it easy for them to pursue these lifestyle strategies.
Overnight, many people discovered that they are now considered to have high blood pressure. With so many people now being considered hypertensive, maybe we should start thinking of it as less of a clinical condition and more as an opportunity for many people to work on ways to promote better health.
Harlan Krumholz is a cardiologist and the Harold H. Hines Jr. professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine. He directs the Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation that developed the readmission measures for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Here is a set of numbers to get used to - 130 over 80. That is the new, more strict threshold for high blood pressure. The previous numbers were 140 over 90. The American Heart Association and 10 other groups revised the guidelines yesterday after reviewing years of studies.
And with us to talk about this is Dr. Harlan Krumholz. He's a cardiologist with the Yale School of Medicine. Welcome to the show.
HARLAN KRUMHOLZ: Hi.
MCEVERS: So just remind us why blood pressure is such an important measure of health.
KRUMHOLZ: So blood pressure, which is really the force of blood as it's expelled from the heart, turns out to be a critically important factor in the risk of heart disease and stroke, eye disease, kidney disease. The higher your blood pressure, the higher your risk. And we've known for a long time that if we bring that blood pressure down, then we can bring people's risk down.
MCEVERS: So then what led to this shift from 140 over 90 to 130 over 80 as the new measure for what is considered to be high blood pressure?
KRUMHOLZ: So a big question's always been, what's the right blood pressure? Believe it or not, it was only in the 1970s that studies began to be done that helped us understand this. There are stories of people like FDR whose blood pressure was routinely in the 200s. And of course, he died in disease that was related to his hypertension. And it turns out that some recent studies have pushed us in the direction of thinking that lower is actually better and that the numbers that we had settled on before, this 140 over 90, for some people may be still too high.
Those studies, particularly an NIH study, a National Institutes of Health study that recently came out, really demonstrated to us the possibility that we could help people more by getting their blood pressure lower. Again, for the highest-risk people, that's what the guidelines are recommending.
MCEVERS: So does this mean, though, that people who are listening who thought they were fine should now actually be worried if they are in that higher number?
KRUMHOLZ: So first of all, nobody should be worried. I mean, the way you are today is no different than you were yesterday. This new target, the 130 over 80, is really within the guidelines being recommended for high-risk individuals, people whose risk based on their other risk factors is elevated. Second, I think it represents an opportunity for people. That is, it opens a discussion about whether they want to set a goal for themselves with their clinicians that is a little lower than it was before, that this is essentially giving permission to say, we can think about strategies that can bring people down lower. And it may provide a benefit for those people.
MCEVERS: This change in the measure for high blood pressure does mean that a lot more people, especially people under 45, are now considered hypertensive, and that there's no more pre-hypertension. Will this change how they are treated?
KRUMHOLZ: Yeah, well, you know, my goodness, there's so many more people that will be labeled now with high blood pressure. I worry a little bit that people start thinking they have a disease and instead of recognizing that they have an opportunity perhaps to lower their risk even more. I will say that there remains some controversy, especially about treating very much older people and their degree of tolerance of getting their blood pressure very low. But the guidelines are recommending broadly that tens of millions more people might consider intensifying their treatment - that is, increasing doses or increasing meds, or even starting treatment when they wouldn't have started it before.
I think our hope is that as a result there will be a drop in the number of strokes and heart attacks and that people will do better. But this needs to be a discussion with doctors and patients. One thing worth highlighting for which there's widespread agreement is that we could be doing a better job in this country in helping people lower their blood pressure without using drugs.
Diet and exercise and helping people achieve closer to their ideal weights can have dramatic effects on blood pressure. In fact, people taking blood pressure medicines now even with the new guidelines might not even have to take pills at all if they could modify their diets slightly - more fruits and vegetables, lower amounts of salt - and more physical activity, lower stress or stress reduction strategies. And so there's widespread agreement now that we really need to be pushing in this direction to make it easier for people to achieve these kind of lifestyle changes and not just default to drugs all the time.
MCEVERS: Cardiologist Harlan Krumholz with the Yale School of Medicine, thank you very much.
KRUMHOLZ: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Friday, May 4, 2012
The Girl of the LimberLost
For years, seriously years, I had memories of a movie I used to watch as a kid at my grandparents' house. I knew there were butterflies in the movie. I remembered an owl. And most of all I remembered a girl with a braid, lace-up boots, and a lunch pale. I had some other vague memories of the movie but I couldn't for the life of me come up with the name of the movie, or anything else about it really.
I grew up with 4 brothers and lots of cousins close by, so I was sure they too had seen this movie at The Farm. I couldn't have been the only one who ever saw that movie, the odds just weren't right. So on several occasions I would describe my memories of the movie to my brothers, and they'd laugh, in true brother form, because 1. I was weird for caring and 2. they didn't remember it.
So I resorted to Google. It was sure I was talking about Anne of Green Gables, but I wasn't. I searched online movie forums, IMDb, and still, nothing.
Finally I decided I'd ask my brothers, and my cousins on Facebook if they remembered the movie. Here was our conversation:
Ashlee Smith
March 12
Michael, Matt, Sherrod, Bryan, Katie, Rylee, Markee: Do any of you (or anybody else for that matter) remember a movie we used to watch at The Farm about a girl in a long dress with a long braid and tall lace-ups and a tin lunch pale? She maybe ran away from home or something like that and came across some sort of animal shelter where there was an injured owl and a whole room of dead butterflies in pretty display cases. Perhaps her aunt ran the animal shelter at a school or something? It's all pretty vague but I've been trying for ages to figure it out. Any help?
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Sherrod You win. Weirdest post ever.
March 12 at 10:47pm · Like
Ashlee Smith Dude, whatever! I'm serious. Do you remember that movie?
March 12 at 10:48pm · Like
Markee haha I got nothin! So sorry!!
March 12 at 10:49pm · Like
Sherrod No idea what you are even talking about.
March 12 at 10:49pm · Like
Rylee just thinking about this movie today!!!!!!! No joke!!! Girl of the limber lost!!!!
March 12 at 10:49pm · Like
Markee oh ok now that I hear the name I can kind of remember! haha you guys are funny!!
March 12 at 10:50pm · Like
Bryan I remember watching William the Sparrow and grandma watching Violin Player in the Roof.
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Sherrod Lol at brew!
March 12 at 10:52pm · Like
Bryan I actually do remember that movie though. For reals.
March 12 at 10:52pm · Like
Ashlee Smith Okay this is killing me!! I would have never in a million years come up with the name of that movie Ryles, but I just Youtubed it and almost started crying!! It's the one I've been trying to think of FOREVER!! THANK YOU! And who could forget Willy the Sparrow. All I remember Grandma watching was Days of Our Lives. lol
March 12 at 10:52pm · Like · 1
Bryan I mean on the roof.
March 12 at 10:52pm · Like
Markee willy the sparrow, wow!! Have not thought about that show forever, just watched some of that on you tube and memories came flooding back!!
March 12 at 10:56pm · Like
Connor Race http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri4V5cebc30
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Connor Race anybody remember that? ^
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Markee yes!!!
March 12 at 11:01pm · Like
Markee used to scare the crap outa me
March 12 at 11:01pm · Like
Ashlee Smith Can quote every line! Sorry I didn't include you and ChantZ on this earlier!
March 12 at 11:02pm · Like
Bryan Cincinnati
March 12 at 11:02pm · Like
Ashlee Smith The best town in
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March 12 at 11:03pm · Like
Rylee I'm laughing so hard im crying!!!
March 12 at 11:13pm · Like
Ashlee Smith Haha
March 12 at 11:14pm · Like
Bryan Trolls, monsters, marching toy soldiers, a fat curly haired guy... everything I love in a movie.
March 12 at 11:15pm · Like
Ashlee Smith There were no trolls! Except the ones with neon colored hair Markee used to play with. Anyone?
March 12 at 11:18pm · Like
Katie Seriously you people. The girl of the limber lost only rylee can remember things like that.
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Chantz I am too too young.
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Michael No idea Ash...sorry.
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So about half way through the Facebook conversation my parents started reading it, and were as hysterical as I was. And can you blame us? My brothers and cousins are pretty stinking funny. Anyway, fast forward to last week.
I called my mom with a HUGE dilemma. I couldn't find a dish rag at the store that I liked, and the ones I ended up with were useless. She laughed because we both like the same dish rag, and she said before my grandma died, Grandma had stocked up on said dish rags. Apparently she, and the aunts and the cousins all like them too! So my mom said she'd go out to The Farm and get some rags, and send them to me ASAP.
To tie this long story all together, when the package of dish rags came in the mail, it was accompanied by The Girl of The LimberLost VHS. I called my mom and she said she found it at a yard sale for $1 but she would have paid $10 for it after our Facebook conversation. We had a good laugh and hung up.
Then I burst into tears!
1. COOLEST MOM EVER!! To pay attention to something I said, and then to send me a sweet package and gift made me realize (for the 1,000,000th time) how amazing my mom is.
2. I had the best upbringing. Obviously if we watched movies like this, my childhood rocked! But that aside, I had grandparents attend every event I participated in. I had cousins to play with any time I wanted. I had brothers who would tease me relentlessly, but would have done anything for me in a minute. I had parents who loved me no matter what.
3. I sometimes miss being a little kid in Eagar, AZ. I miss the 2 stop-light little town. I miss waving to every car that drove by. I miss only having to give the last 4 #'s of my phone number at Safeway because the town was small enough that everybody had the same pre-fix. I miss watching the seasons change. I hope I get to live in Eagar again some day, but if I never do, the thousands and thousands of good memories I have of my childhood will have to carry me through.
Who would have known that The Girl of The LimberLost could teach me so much?!
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The date is Nov. 27, 1928.
It is apparent that several events will mark this significant milestone.
One is a reception at City Hall at 3:30 p.m. for residents to tour and inspect the new building.
A second event is a "wake up" meeting and banquet planned for 7 p.m. at the First Methodist Church. The event is sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. Both city and county administrations, in addition to civic and business clubs, are to be represented. Reports indicate that all 200 seats have been sold.
Today, I am searching microfilm of Times-News, the year 1928, to find reports on a dedicatory reception held at the Hendersonville City Hall.
What are the thoughts of our civic leaders 84 years ago when the City Hall building was dedicated?
The "wake up" event hopes to crystallize a growing optimism in the city with reference to the future of the community. John T. Wilkins, as mayor, will discuss the town's improvements. H.H. Ewbank will speak on the new Skyland Hotel. The Hendersonville Male Quartet (A.F. Barber, Roy C. Bennett, Wilkins, and Earle T. Brown) will provide music.
A "pop off" segment gives rise to speculation. Speakers will have their opportunity "to say their mind." Pessimistic or optimistic — comments should inject pep into the situation.
The keynote speaker for the "wake up" is Dr. Joseph R. Sevier, president of the Fassifern School. Dr. Sevier's speech focuses on two "golden keys" that he says will unlock the new day. They are "faith" and "good works."
According to Dr. Sevier, Hendersonville, in 1928, has made progress in newly paved streets, a new hotel and a new city hall. The Skyland Hotel will be dedicated during the summer of 1929.
Dr. Sevier asks, "What next? Cities are like streams. They must keep moving to keep clean and pure. To stop is to stagnate."
We must learn to read the experiences enacted in events and respond.
The Depression years were planting seeds of doubt. But in the year 1928, here in Hendersonville, there appears to have been optimism, spurred on by progressive thinking and bold actions.
I watch for headlines to speak to me from times past. But what is happening today? What defining moments of this generation will be shared with the next?
Our City Council and mayor are moving forward with Phase 3 of Main Street improvements to begin in January. A recent discussion deals with restoring the fa�ade of the historic Skyland Hotel. There is decision-making about public artworks. Artist Berry Bate's design of copper and granite portrays the mountains and the rivers and streams that flow down the valleys. The mountains are recognizable — Bearwallow, Sugarloaf, Pinnacle and Pisgah. The working fountain will be at the corner of Sixth and Main in the First Citizens Bank plaza.
Above the main entrance doors to the Hendersonville City Hall are these words: "Dedicated to the People — Dedicated to the perpetuation of civic progress, liberty, and the security of public honor."
Few among us take time to look up and read these words and to ponder their meaning.
I asked the mayor and two of the council members to interpret the inscription.
Councilman Jeff Collis had this to say: "I carried with me a copy of the inscribed words during my first run for Council in 2003 to remind folks of what seems to be a timeless ideal important enough to be set in stone."
Steve Caraker, after five years of service, still gets excited every time he drives by or enters City Hall to do business. "I am reminded of the larger reason why I chose to be involved in city government. While I may differ with my colleagues on individual issues, at the end of my time, the result must be positive for all of Hendersonville."
Mayor Barbara Volk responds by saying, "We continue to strive for civic progress. This is obvious in our efforts to improve the infrastructure and appearance of Main Street."
Hendersonville is just what you and I make it.
"Cities are like streams …." What next?
Unlocking a new day
The date is Nov. 27, 1928.


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Source: National Bureau of Economic Research
Release: NBER Macrohistory Database
Source: Simon Kuznets, National Income And Its Composition, 1919-1938, Volume Ii, 1941, Worksheets For Table C2, P.641.
This NBER data series a08190 appears on the NBER website in Chapter 8 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter08.html.
NBER Indicator: a08190
National Bureau of Economic Research, Salaries in Construction for United States [A08190USA144NNBR], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A08190USA144NNBR, December 11, 2018.


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MVC Basketball Teams Split Conference Opener
MARSHALL, MO -- The Missouri Valley College men's and women's basketball teams welcomed Culver-Stockton College to the Burns Athletic Complex Thursday evening for both teams' Heart of America Athletic Conference opener. The women's team came from behind for a win 57-54, while the men's team was beaten in a shootout 101-93.
The Lady Vikings were able to jump out to an early 8-0 lead against the Lady Wildcats. MVC would lead throughout most of the first half, hitting an eight-point advantage multiple times, before Culver-Stockton pulled back into the game. The Lady Wildcats eventually took a two-points lead with just under a minute remaining, but Sophmore Center Samantha Kixmiller hit a bucket just before halftime to tie the score at 28-28 as the teams went into the locker rooms.
The Lady Vikings started the second half strong scoring the half's first four points. Culver-Stockton then took control of things going on a 12-2 run over a three minute stretch to take 40-34 lead with just over 12-minutes remaining in the game. From there Culver held on to a lead until just under two minutes left in the game when Senior Guard Sami Jackson hit a three-point shot to tie the game at 53-53. Jackson gave MVC a 55-53 lead just 30 seconds later, and she would hit three of four free throws down the stretch, giving her seven points in the game, to give MVC the 57-54 win.
Leading the way for MVC was Senior Forward Gabi Morales who had 15 points and seven rebounds. Also in double-figures for the Lady Vikings was Senior Center Cara Clark with 12 points and six rebounds. The Lady Vikings dominated on the glass with a 47-33 rebounding advantage.
The win improves the Lady Vikings to 3-5 on the season and 1-0 in HAAC play. Culver-Stockton drops to 4-3 overall and 0-1 in conference play.
The MVC men's team played in a fast-paced, back and forth contest with Culver-Stockton, eventually falling to the Wildcats by eight points. Culver built up an early lead against MVC, leading by as many as 12 point early in the first half. The Vikings were able to chip away at the Culver lead, eventually getting to within four points with about nine minutes left in the first half. However, that was as close as the Vikings would get as Culver used a 13-5 run to end the first half up 54-37.
The Vikings tried to turn things around in the second half, shooting over 67-percent from the field and hitting 78-percent of their three-point attempts. Culver though had enough answers, knocking down 50-percent of their shots in the second half, and never let MVC back to a single-digit deficit until late in the ball game. The hot shooting allowed MVC to put up 56 points in the second half, but it wasn't enough in the 101-93 loss.
Leading the way for MVC was Freshman Jordan Epps who had a career-high and game-high 30 points to go along with six assists and three steals. Also in double-figures was Junior Jim Thomas (St. Louis, Mo.) with 25 points, while Freshman Christian Williams chipped in with 11 points and six rebounds, both players coming off the bench to contribute. The Vikings were able to force Culver to turn the ball over 14 times and also shot a better percentage from the field than the Wildcats, 56 percent to 52 percent.
The loss drops MVC to 3-8 overall and 0-1 in HAAC play. Culver improves to 6-2 overall and 1-0 in conference action.
The MVC men's and women's teams will be on the road Saturday afternoon to Baldwin City, Kansas to take on Baker University. Women's game tips off at 2 p.m., men's game is scheduled to start at 4 p.m.


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If accurate, the prices would be lower than expected and would put the consoles in fighting range of the Wii U, which sells for $300 as a base model and $350 for a deluxe model. The original PS3 retailed for $600 when it was released in 2006.
Most likely, at $400, Microsoft and Sony would have to endure losses on the hardware, which both have done in the past to take share.
"Given the fragile state of the console game market, we expect the E3 trade show in June will take on added significance, most likely providing the industry with the first public opportunity to examine next-generation hardware," Sebastian added.
"Our checks suggest that next-generation console hardware will be largely built from 'off the shelf' high-end PC components, along with hybrid physical/digital distribution models, enhanced voice controls and motion sensing (Kinect integration with every Xbox), and broad multi-media capabilities."
"Moreover, a PC-based architecture (Intel chips in the case of Xbox) should have a number of advantages over custom-developed silicon: for one, the learning curve for software developers will be shorter than completely new technology. Second, the cost of production and retail price points should be lower than prior console launches. Third, it will be easier to build online services around PC chip architecture, including flexible business models (free-to-play, subscriptions) and multi-media (over the top) content offerings. For Microsoft, this design will also allow for more integration with Windows 8 and Windows Mobile devices," Sebastian concluded.


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10 Meals Straight from the Farmers Market
Without a doubt, visiting the local farmers market is one of our favorite ways to get a feel for a new city we're visiting. Not only do you get to check out what fruits and vegetables are grown nearby, but you get to people-watch! And of course, at the end of the day, you get to make dinner with all your farmers market finds. Let these ten recipes inspire your next farmers market visit — and the next meal you make.
Potato, Squash, and Goat Cheese Gratin
You're always sure to find plenty of fruits and vegetables at the farmers market, but these days, we can often find milk, yogurt, eggs, local beef and pork, cheese, bread, and even fish. This lets us branch out into dishes like pork shank braised with fennel and tomatoes, kale and goat cheese frittata cups made with farm-fresh eggs, and easy baked fish in foil packets.
Cooking entirely from the farmers market is also a lesson in being flexible. Maybe the recipe calls for green peppers, but those aren't quite in season yet. Can you leave them out? Could you substitute zucchini instead? If the bread vendor is sold out, maybe your sandwich recipe could become a salad. If the dairy truck isn't there today, maybe your creamy soup becomes a broth. Use recipes like those below as a template and adapt your meal to what you find at the market.
The idea is to use what you find at the market as the inspiration for your next meal — start there and you'll be guaranteed a tasty, seasonal meal to top all others.
Do you have a favorite meal that you make from the farmers market?
- 1 Andean Potato and Cheese Soup (Locro de Papa)
- 2 Eggplant Caponata Sandwiches with Mozzarella & Basil
- 3 Chilled Gazpacho Andaluz
- 4 Braised Summer Pork Shank
- 5 Potato, Squash, and Goat Cheese Gratin
- 6 Herbed Sweet Corn and Tomato Salad
- 7 Baked Fish, Spinach, and Tomatoes in Foil Packets
- 8 Easy French Ratatouille
- 9 Kale and Goat Cheese Frittata Cups
- 10 Watermelon Salad with Feta & Mint
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Shooting a compound bow might be the most exhilarating feeling in sports. Whether you're on a hunt or taking aim at targets, releasing an arrow provides an adrenaline rush that's nearly unmatchable. Of course, you'll need to find the right fit for your needs.
The right compound bow for you is dependent on your body type, shooting style, and setting. Sportsman's Warehouse offers the top selection of brands, including Bear Bows and Diamond Bows, for any occasion. But, before you take aim at these top brands, you'll need to understand what you're looking for. So where do you start? That's easy. Just like anything else, begin with the basics.
- Ocular Dominance: Just like selecting a golf club or hockey stick, you'll want to pick the correct compound bow for your dominant hand, or in this case, eye. The trick to determining eye dominance is by holding out your arms and placing your hands together via your thumbs and forefingers. Through the created gap, focus on one object. Now close one eye at a time while looking at the object. Your dominant eye is the one where the object does not appear to move.
- Draw Length: Think of your draw length as your wingspan divided by 2.5. Measuring the correct draw length is imperative for selecting the correct compound bow — as this directly affects accuracy. Your draw is the space from the grip to the fully drawn bowstring. If you have too much draw, your shot will be off-target, and the string may slap against your arm, leaving a bad bruise.
- Axel Length: This applies to the type of shooting that you'll be doing. At each end of your compound bow is an axel that feeds the string for your draw. If the axels are far apart, the bow is better for shooting while standing or in open spaces. These compound bows are also more forgiving and better for long-range shots. Shorter bows are better for target shooting and tighter spaces.
- Draw Weight: Comfortably drawing back your bow is an important step in shooting. This is in reference to a shooting position, as lifting the bow over your head can cost you the perfect shot. The average weight for compound bows is anywhere from 50 to 70 pounds.
Finding a comfortable fit is the difference between coming home with a new trophy and coming home disappointed. As you gain more experience, you'll learn your weight and length preferences. Tweaking these variables can help you become a more accurate and successful shooter.
Why You Should Try a Compound Bow
Aside from the fact that shooting compound bows is a load of fun, picking up the sport offers a bevy of benefits. Signing yourself — or your children — up for bow competitions is a great way to build camaraderie and hone your resolve in pressure situations.
There is a greater challenge in pursuing your prey without the modern technology of high-powered ammunition. And, trying out compound bow hunting doesn't mean that you have to give up gun hunting. You can even expand your hunting year by participating in bow season that focuses on White-Tailed Deer.
There are other bonuses as well. Traveling far is often not a prerequisite for bow hunting because of the quiet and safe nature of the sport. Why travel miles just to shoot your gun when you can hunt in your back yard with a compound bow? Also, it is typically easier to acquire archery tags.
Getting Started
Now that you know how to select your compound bow, it's time to pick up the sport. Measure your draw length and head to Sportsman's Warehouse to get started. Choose from the best selection of compound bows as you prepare to bring down your next big prize.
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Thermal Microsystems for On-Chip Thermal Engineering
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Electro-thermal co-design at the micro- and nano-scales is critical for achieving desired performance and reliability in microelectronic circuits. Emerging thermal microsystems technologies for this application area are discussed, with specific examples including a novel micromechanical electro-hydrodynamic micropump, electrowetting for fluidic actuation and site-specific thermal control, ion-driven airflow, and miniature piezoelectrically actuated cantilevers for cooling and sensing. Fundamental research into enabling technologies for such microsystems, conducted by the speaker's group under the framework of the National Science Foundation Compact, High-Performance Cooling Technologies Research Center, is presented.
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Suresh Garimella is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989. He is Director of the NSF Cooling Technologies Research Center, the Electronics Cooling Laboratory and the Solidification Heat Transfer Laboratory. His research interests include thermal microsystems, high-performance compact cooling technologies, electro-thermal co- design and electronics packaging, micro- and nano-scale thermal phenomena, and materials processing. Dr. Garimella has worked with 21 PhD and 28 MS students and 13 visiting scholars and post-docs, and has co-authored over 200 refereed journal and conference publications, besides editing or contributing to a number of books. He serves on the Editorial Boards of ASME Journal of Heat Transfer and Experimental Heat Transfer, and has served as Editor of Heat Transfer-Recent Contents and on the Editorial Board of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science. He is a Fellow of the ASME. His efforts in research and engineering education have been recognized with the 2004 ASME Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award; Graduate School/UWM Foundation Research Award in recognition of Outstanding Research and Creative Activity, 1995; UWM Distinguished Teaching Award in recognition of Demonstrated Dedication to Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction, 1997; and Society of Automotive Engineers' Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, 1992.
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ALBANY, N.Y. — From California to New York, teacher and public-worker retirement funds are reconsidering their investments in gun makers and confronting an uncomfortable fact: Their pensions have supported the manufacture of deadly weapons, in some cases the same type of gun used in the Connecticut school shooting.
For years, the gun industry has been a reliable investment, attracting tens of millions of dollars from some of the nation's largest retirement funds. The firearms business has been strong, driven by relaxed laws for carrying concealed handguns and by buyers who feared that tighter gun restrictions were more likely under President Obama.
But after the bloodbath in Connecticut, the practice is under review in at least four states, including two of the most populous, California and New York.
Although the amount of money involved is relatively small compared with the size of the pension funds, it has raised questions about the social responsibilities of huge retirement systems that invest on behalf of millions of American workers.
"It's a bad investment to put money behind companies that put military-grade weapons on our streets and refuse to take responsibility for the outcome," said New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio. "We should not be giving capital to an industry that is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans each year … it's our moral responsibility."
New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who has sometimes wielded the state's $150.1 billion pension fund as a tool for change, is reviewing nearly $12 million invested in firearms companies, which have seen their stocks plummet since the attack.
If they decide to dump the investments, the process is more complicated than merely liquidating stocks. Fund managers are required by law to invest in profitable companies, often without specific power to consider social or ethical concerns.
The California State Teachers' Retirement System announced Tuesday that it would review investments in the national and international firearms business.
That system had invested $600 million in the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, which that day put up for sale the gun maker known as Freedom Group International, manufacturer of the Bushmaster AR-15 military-style rifle. That was the weapon Adam Lanza used to kill 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
The California retirement fund also owns shares of Sturm, Ruger & Co. and Smith & Wesson Holding Corp., two publicly traded gun manufacturers.
The New York State Teachers' Retirement System holds nearly $3.4 million in Sturm Ruger & Co. and nearly $3 million in Olin Corp, which manufactures Winchester arms. That's out of total assets worth $38.1 billion. A spokesman for the teachers' fund said the investment is "passive" and included in an index of funds.
In Pennsylvania, the teachers' pension fund reacted quickly, contacting Cerberus about the Freedom Group even before the equity firm announced it was selling the gun maker.
The Pennsylvania fund has less than $2 million invested in Cerberus, and those holdings will soon be liquidated, an official said. Although the fund has no social investment policy, its board members became concerned after the Connecticut attack.
Some public fund investors said the tragedy is forcing them to rethink where they put their money.
Matthew Sweeney, spokesman for New York City Comptroller John Liu, said the city is reviewing its holdings and "aggressively exploring all options," including dumping the investments.


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My e-mail box was full Wednesday morning with many of you commenting on the post I put up regarding Miami's total payroll in 2009. (It's below this one in case you missed it.)
Let's make a deal: If you have comments, leave them here please. I read most of the comments posted here the same day. I can also answer here. I do not always get around to reading your e-mails the same day and on days like yesterday cannot respond to everyone.
So say your peace on this forum as many of the e-mails were quite interesting and gave me ideas for future posts. This is one of those.
Many of you requested I post the salary cap numbers for the Dolphins if I had them. You're darn tootin' I have them. The salary cap numbers are important because there is a cap limit of $127,997,000 in 2009.
Obviously the Dolphins were under the limit this year, at approximately $113 million in actual cap cost plus another $8-9 million in dead money, or players no longer with the team that are still on the books -- players such as Ernest Wilford, Vonnie Holliday, Matt Roth ($1,087,000) and others.
Remember, the player's cap value is not necessarily what he is making in the season. Cap is figured by adding the player's base salary, plus pro-rated signing bonus, plus other bonuses. The pro-rated signing bonus means that if Vernon Carey received $12 million to sign his new contract, he got that money this year and it went on the total payroll.
But for cap purposes only $2 million of that $12 million counts on a pro-rated basis for 2009 because Carey signed a six-year deal and $12 million divided by six years equals $2 million per year against the cap.
What follows are the 2009 salary cap values of the players on the Dolphins roster. These figures were obtained by The Miami Herald from sources far and wide.
Player Cap value
Jason Allen $2,280,000
Will Allen $5,631,240
Charlie Anderson $2,583,333
Akin Ayodele $2,756,240
Yeremiah Bell $4,450,000
Joe Berger $789,573
Davone Bess $394,740
Ronnie Brown $6,056,933
Greg Camarillo $1,750,000
Vernon Carey $5,400,000
Dan Carpenter $394,990
Chris Clemons $350,625
Pat Cobbs $755,000
Channing Crowder $4,016,000
Tyrone Culver $1,047,906
Vontae Davis $1,225,000
John Denney $725,500
Lionel Dotson $401,310
Anthony Fasano $541,240
Jason Ferguson $4,006,240
Brandon Fields $479,758
Ikaika Alama-Francis $460,000
Andrew Gardner $337,443
Nate Garner $391,240
Ted Ginn Jr. $2,694,323
Jake Grove $4,600,000
Brian Hartline $436,243
Joey Haynos $391,240
Chad Henne $607,740
Lex Hilliard $316,240
Nate Jones $755,000
Kendall Langford $672,305
Jake Long $9,606,240
Brennan Marion $215,000
David Martin $1,270,000
Tony McDaniel $1,025,000
Phillip Merling $2,149,615
Quentin Moses $466,240
Lydon Murtha $200,588
Chad Pennington $5,750,000
Lousaka Polite $1,006,240
Joey Porter $7,400,000
Kory Sheets $218,000
Justin Smiley $3,800,000
Sean Smith $546,250
Paul Soliai $583,740
Randy Starks $3,640,000
Jason Taylor $1,102,860
Tyler Thigpen $378,824
Donald Thomas $338,657
Reggie Torbor $3,600,000
Patrick Turner $488,575
Cameron Wake $635,000
Erik Walden $391,240
Pat White $726,175
Ricky Williams $4,250,000
Gibril Wilson $4,000,000


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Thanks to the efforts of Linda Wilbur my cousin in Michigan a correction can be made to the family of Alexander A. Weatherwax and wife Ruth Sterns. Located on page 222 of my book.
Listed as #1247 is Catherine or Cates Weatherwax b: 26 May 1821. This is an error she did not exist.
What should be included is the following.
Coles G. Weatherwax or Witherwax b: 26 May 1821
Source of correction are photo copies of actual Alexander A. Weatherwax Bible pages (pg 679). It is not confirmed if he was born in NY or MI. His mother Ruth Sterns died when he was 9 months old in 1822 in MI.
Coles would marry a Margaret L. Cheyeman (Cheeseman) c1842. They had five known children.
1. James A. Witherwax 1843-1843
2. Josiah S. Witherwax 1844-1859
3. Margaret M. Witherwax 1847-1870
4. Ephraim B. Witherwax 1850-????; marr:Luella M. Fitch
5. Mary Elizabeth Witherwax 1856-1858
Most of this family are buried in Wurtemburg Cemetery Rhinebeck,Dutchess co NY. Also known as St. Pauls Lutheran Church Cemetery. Note that most of the family died between1858-1859.
The two children Margaret and Ephraim lived longer.
Coles is found living with his inlaws,in the household of Cole Cheyeman in USC1850 in the village of Clinton,Dutchess co NY. I have not been able to locate him in any other USC. By 1877 his son Ephraim has moved on to the SD and IA area where his son James W. Weatherwax was b: 7 Dec 1877.
I have located two extracts of letters of Administration that name Coles one dated 1856 and the other dated 1859. I will have to look up these documents to see what is contained in them.
I had previously found Coles and his family but could not confirm his parentage until Linda Wilbur
indicated that we both had miss read the Bible pages in our research. So in the next edition of The Weatherwax Genealogy this correction and any additional information will appear.
Anyone with additional information please let us know so we can update our Databases.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
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