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Review Group #368 - Guardians of the Galaxy #0.1
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by GLX » Wed Feb 27, 2013 2:16 pm
Bendis! McNiven! Review Group!
Guardians of the Galaxy #0.1
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Ze rules:
Review as often or as little as you like. Once you've posted 5 reviews, you will be awarded 1 pick. You can post 5 reviews, right? That's a totally achievable goal and with day and date digital releases becoming the standard, it shouldn't matter if your shop ordered enough copies of this weeks comic or not.
When multiple Review Groupers have posted 5 (or more) qualifying reviews, they will be awarded their pick in the order that they qualified. What constitutes a qualifying review? Any review posted (with a score on a scale from 0-10, that's right 0!) within 1 calendar month of the thread going live. Reviews are to be at least 5 sentences long. It shows that a) you have at least read this week's pick and b) you have some unique insight into the comic.
Reviews posted while waiting in line for your pick will be applied to your next pick.
I'll be keeping track of everyone's progress with the newly christened Spreadsheet of Fantastic (RIP, Spreadsheet of Doom) and reporting the results in the Current Members list in the weekly OP. When it's your turn to make a pick, I will PM you. If you do not respond to me by Midnight EST the following Sunday, you will lose your pick and I will start a poll to determine that week's selection.
Any week in which we do not have a Review Grouper with 5 qualifying picks, we will determine the week's comic via poll.
If it's your week to pick, remember to keep it under $3.99.
Naturally, this new system is new and it may be necessary to make changes as we go.
Since no one has 5 reviews under their belt, a poll will be put up to determine next week's pick.
Suggestions welcome.
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by The Beast » Wed Feb 27, 2013 3:23 pm
I reviewed both DD and JLA, does that count for 2?
by Zero » Wed Feb 27, 2013 3:25 pmUGH. Bendis my pull list is swollen enough thanks to your enjoyable X Comics, stop writing so well. This was a good issue dammit.
by GLX » Wed Feb 27, 2013 4:46 pm
You get the week after next.
http://www.previewsworld.com/Home/1/1/7 ... eID=131959
by Eli Katz » Fri Mar 01, 2013 7:46 amThis issue contains a series of science fiction cliches, and moves from one predictable plot point to the next. And this issue also contains some awkward spaceman dialogue that reinforces everything that I find contemptible about cosmic comics. Yet, all that being said, I still enjoyed this comic. It moves at a solid pace; it has a few touching character moments; and the one violent scene, the attack on Starlord's childhood home, is powerful.
This intro issue suggests that Bendis' GoG will be entertaining, but hardly mind blowing: a book for Bendis. McKniven, and Guardians fans, but hardly an essential read. I will not be reading this series, that's for sure.
by PhoenixEquinox » Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:06 pmOk I was a big fan of the DnA cosmic stuff, so with the marvel NOW! cosmic "reboot" I had my trepidations about both this and Nova. But Bendis is a great writer and Mcaniven is fantastic so I had hope. And overall the story was really good. Emotional and fun. Bendis is really back on his A-game. He's toned back the jokey attitude and lengthy conversations that were the trademark of his Avengers stuff and has replaced it with strong character development. mcNiven's art is solid like always. He seems to have a good handle on the Guardians for the two pages they were on. But there are a few problems...
By the end of this issue it seems my fear is realized and that the "reboot" is actually a reboot with no even brief mention of the DnA stuff.the Guardians are an established cosmic team and Star-Lord hadn't just escaped the crack in soace where DnA left him. This isn't new for Bendis since his last couple years with the Avengers it appears he doesn't read any comics but his own not acknowledging things other creators have done with characters. His Guardians of the Galaxy doesn't seem to be any different. Also McNiven's art was great, but the middle was reprinted pages from the Point One from a few months back so I don't know if he'll be consitant on the book.
In light of those issues it's still solid sci-fi, solid Bendis, and still the Guardians so I'm on board.
7/10 (also there's a funny type-o in the end when they say issue 1 came out the same day as this issue.)
by GLX » Sun Mar 03, 2013 11:36 pmThis week's pick is.....
Age of Ultron #1
by GHERU » Mon Mar 04, 2013 10:06 amI really liked this issue, one of the better ".1"s out there
Bendis did a very good job of making this a special book giving a nice back story without making it NEEDED for #1. Besides the recent GotG books I am very unfamiliar with Starlord and am very grateful for the history lesson (and I don't even care if its a retcon).
All that being said, without McNiven's art I do not think the book would have had the emotional impact it had - I almost called my mom after reading it.
great book
by The Beast » Mon Mar 04, 2013 2:02 pmSo these are the Guardians of the Galaxy. I vaguely remember these guys from Claremont's X-men days when Cyclops' Dad was the leader of the group and he was fucking that cat-lady.
Oh, wait a minute, those were the Starjammers.
Nevermind then. These are the Guardians of the Galaxy, my mistake. So what are these guys all about? There's a movie coming out soon so they matter again. On first scan through just looking at the pictures it's all pretty straight forward with the standard cliches. Starman meets woman, they grow to love each other until his craft is finished then he bails, conveniently before the first tri-mester. This scenario always makes me laugh. Every time I have climaxed inside a woman, I've been extremely keen on whether or not the next menses showed up but not Super-heroes. Oh no; find 'em, feel 'em, fuck 'em and forget 'em.
"Sorry Lois, It's not you it's me, there's a mission in Space."
So I decide to just start reading because cliched shit like this doesn't deserve that much of my attention. Ten years later, the kid's keen on comic books! META!!! When he goes to school, the little space Aristocrat is also keen on anti-bullying. He's no Hugo Danner when it comes to beating up school yard bullies but he tries. He's a good kid cause his Dad's royalty and we all know how fucking awesome Monarchies are. Then Mom gets found out by Badoon! I guess Dad is dead, or just never bothered to ensure his Earth Strange/Baby Momma is safe. The kid is upstairs when he gets Wayne'd and the Badoon are coming for him. Fortunately, his mother was a gun owner who didn't store her weapon securely (Suck it Twigg!) so the kid blasts the bad guys. While this is all settling in, Dad's space gun is found just before the rest of the house is destroyed by remaining Badoon aboard their spaceship.
Fortunately, Charlie don't surf and Badoon don't scan, so the boy escapes into the woods and they fly away. Poor kid. All alone in the hospital and his Mother is dead but that's ok cause he's got a second chance at life and a new toy space gun. He's a Star Lord made of sterner stuff. He overcomes all obstacles because Aristocrats always rise to the top. From bouncing around orphanages to NASA to...commanding a crew of aliens and Iron Man aboard a space cruiser that would make Kirk hard, inside of four panels and a handful of captions? WTF? Is this sequential art or segue art? Oh well, good news for us but the cliches don't end there...oh no.
Now that everyone is, FOR THE RECORD, all in, Star Lord is going to show those Big ol Bad Badoon how it's done! Here comes the GAME CHANGING TIPPING POINT!!!
Fuck me. This kind of shit makes me ashamed of comic books. Makes me ashamed to admit I'm a fan of the genre let alone the medium. The meat of the story is a techno dance remix of all your favorite cliched story elements BUT then the most interesting part of the story; how a boy grows to manhood and gets through NASA and somehow starts the Guardians of the Galaxies, is completely glossed over. So not only is this issue criminally derivative, it's fucking boring too.
2/10 still feels generous. I want my money back and this entire fucking franchise is now dead to me.
BTW, here's the real story behind the Arisotcrats. Enjoy!!!
by GLX » Mon Mar 04, 2013 2:13 pm
I'm going to count this at least 5 sentences....I think.
by GHERU » Mon Mar 04, 2013 2:17 pm
thank you
by Stephen Day » Mon Mar 04, 2013 6:18 pmAs first issue go this was pretty good, it was nicely self-contained, did a good job of introducing to anyone just what this series is going to be about, and made me interested to read where things go from here. So, it accomplished what you want a first issue to accomplish.
This issue was essentially an origin issue for Star-Lord and that's not a bad thing as I really like him as a character. I can't say that I like some of the changes that Bendis had made to Peter Quill's history. Having said that, I still enjoyed what I read, so the changes didn't bother me all that much.
In the end I don't think I'd call this one of the most amazing things I've ever read, or even ever read from Bendis. It is good though, and a good read.
I'll give this a 7 out of 10.
by GLX » Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:03 pmTuesday night bump.
by habitual » Wed Mar 06, 2013 1:20 amFYI I'm with Ru on this, I've been waiting for Bendis to write a cosmic book for awhile and this didn't disappoint.
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Lessons From Detroit's Bankruptcy for You
The city of Detroit is about $20 billion in debt to over 100,000 creditors. The Detroit bankruptcy serves as a warning beacon for everyone expecting a pension and other retirement benefits. Chuck Jaffe explains on MoneyBeat. Photo: AP.
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... ay ay mm mm ... city of Detroit is about twenty built in and get over one hundred thousand creditors ... Detroit bankruptcy serves the warning beacon for everyone expecting a pension and other retirement benefits when they retire someday ... and it shows why the dangers to entrust your financial future the others ... MarketWatch's Chuck Jaffe joins us now from Boston ... but since a three-year track this story started out with you in Detroit ... thirty years ago ... yet when I got out of college I went to the University of Michigan I went to work for the Detroit free Press ... and we would sit around ... in the newsroom and we'd be talking about things ... and it was heaven and back then ... that Detroit was headed for trouble in we would actually have discussions about who would go bankrupt first ... basically under the weight of ... the pension obligations and things that the unions were going for would be giving three ... or would it be the city of Detroit ... and the answer was a lot of folks advantages in Umno either they're both so big ... that the figure out why I hope that with an economics degree and I sit ... there on the go bankrupt is just a matter of time ... now it took ... about thirty years ... but the answer is ... the GM bankruptcy which everybody assumed the bigger story ... was actually pretty easy story right Detroit bankruptcy which is proper people to get their heads around ... that he's the big story for everybody who's got a pension that will and that's the real issue here I mean ... how this thing gets resolved really what could have a big effect ... on what happens in people's pensions ... got and you got a lot of other places are you watching this move to rein in from Chicago one of the scale to lots of small municipalities ... that are so was in Michigan ... bit Jimmy unions an advantage it may make it that we don't see too much precedent set here ... but the fact is ... that you're not going to be able to solve the problems of Detroit in bankruptcy court than last year one of cutting benefits and the minute ... you get to a spot where benefits are caught ... you can have everybody else when will the Detroit solution work for me ... and if you will ... see a lot more places in a lot more communities ... and then ultimately also a lot more unions ... and companies because the numbers are massive if you look at the Essen P five hundred ... something over three hundred of those companies ... have underfunded pension ... so ... everything year is gonna be on a big stake for an evening talk about ... companies states municipalities on the number that you had in your ... story about ... the total underfunding of pension what is more than a trillion dollars right ... yet the numbers are are massive and the truth is ... that ... it makes it very difficult for ... anybody who's out there I mean ... when I was living in Michigan and working at the free press ... use all these people that can basically assume the company was gonna take care of them and there's plenty of folks who believe ... the state for the town with a work in a municipality is gonna take care of ... and the answer is ... that out of the municipality where the company can only do it if they have taken care of their finances ... taking care of their finances ... then someday someway the news it's gonna stop and if you happen to be the ones relying on it ... you may be the ones as ... well when it might pension check just got caught by twenty thirty forty percent ... that ... high Chuck Jaffe ... good stuff as always will disturbing but that stuff as always thanks alot ... you bet

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Walk up to an ATM, and you're on camera. Walk into a convenience store, and you're on camera. Walk onto an NBA court during game time, and you're not only on camera but every movement you make – or don't make – will be tracked, sifted, analyzed.
"There's no way to hide anything," Grizzlies swingman Quincy Pondexter said.
At its core, that's what the advanced statistics movement is about – seeing and learning everything possible. Finding out to what degree each player is doing his job and if a team is getting proper on-court return for its financial investment.
At its core, the advanced statistics movement is about seeing and learning everything possible about a player. It helps a team find out to what degree each player is doing his job and if a team is getting proper on-court return for its financial investment in that player.
"We're movable assets," said Toronto forward Austin Daye, who was part of the Grizzlies' three-team trade in January that also sent Rudy Gay and his bloated contract to the Raptors.
Last season, about half the league's teams – the Grizzlies were not one of them – had cameras installed in the rafters of their arenas for player tracking. This season, the NBA entered into a multiyear agreement with STATS' SportVU player tracking technology that uses six cameras and STATS' proprietary software in every NBA arena to "calibrate and measure the movements of all players and the ball on the court," according to the NBA.
Steve Hellmuth, NBA executive vice president of operations and technology, says the data coming from the cameras is "just another layer of information." But the layers are going ever-deeper. Between relatively new – advanced – statistics being used to measure players' performance alongside traditional stats such as points, rebounds and assists per game, teams also tap into Synergy Sports, a technology company that combines statistical data with video to offer helpful information on shots taken, pick-and-rolls, etc.
John Hollinger, Grizzlies vice president of basketball operations, says the player tracking is delivering a "torrent of information."
Hellmuth offers Los Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul as an example of how that information might be used. Paul, arguably, the league's best point guard, became the only player other than Magic Johnson to record 10-plus points and 10-plus assists through the first 11 games in a season.
Player tracking more precisely shows how crucial Paul is to the Clippers' offense. In the category of "passes per game" Paul led with 79.9. In "points created by assist per game," he was first with 28.6. His "touches per game" averaged a league-leading 103.9; Grizzlies point guard Mike Conley was tied for fifth at 87.2.
However, there also was this surprise: Paul's 5.0 drives to the basket per game ranked 39th. Denver's Ty Lawson led with 11.6; Conley was tied for 20th at 6.7.
Another player tracking category, speed/distance, measures the distance covered, per 48 minutes, and the speed of all movements: sprinting, jogging, walking, standing – forward and backward. It's difficult to know what to make of this stat because through games of Nov. 17, three players covered 3.9 miles per 48 minutes and they all played for the San Antonio Spurs: little-used players Nando De Colo and Cory Joseph, and rotation player Patty Mills.
"I do think it's cool when they tell you how much you done ran and all like that," said Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan. "But you can't let cameras or whatever depict what kind of player you are or what you can do on a given night."
The Memphis Grizzlies are part of a growing trend of professional sports franchises that are using advanced statistics to measure a player's worth.
Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson played point guard in the NBA for 17 years. There was no "player tracking" then and the stats, like the players themselves, were more old-school. Successful coaches, Jackson says, "always used data to tell a story. But the way we're building it up today almost makes it seem like the coaches of yesterday, or the coaches of last year, didn't use this information.
"You pick and choose," Jackson said. "Some of it actually is very useful. But some of it makes no sense."
One of the more intriguing categories tracks the number of times a player is within 3.5 feet of a rebound and what percentage of the time the player makes good on the rebound opportunity. A subset category is "contested rebounds per game." Through 11 games, Clippers big man DeAndre Jordan led at 6.0 and Memphis power forward Zach Randolph was tied for 13th at 4.3.
Conley says he has learned from some advanced stats – "I didn't know I shot a low percentage in a certain area" – but he also trusts his own ability to "scout" in the moment.
"At the end of the day, this is a read-and-react game," Conley said. "You can know all you want about a guy – he goes right on you 100 percent of the time, and then he'll go left on you that one time."
Said the Grizzlies' Mike Miller: "The longer (the advanced stats) are around, the more you'll probably trust it. It's what they always say, numbers don't lie, right?"
The new Grizzlies ownership and management team – controlling owner Robert J. Pera and team CEO Jason Levien – brought in Hollinger and are dedicated to using advanced stats for the greater good. First-year head coach Dave Joerger clearly embraces the new metrics more than his predecessor Lionel Hollins did and favors the stats that track player combinations.
"To me, that's very interesting – who plays well together," Joerger said.
What the Grizzlies, or other teams, are gleaning from all this new information is difficult to quantify to any certainty.
"Teams are very close-lipped and proprietary with what they're doing with statistics," the NBA's Hellmuth said.
Hollinger has researched the aging curve for players by position: "It was a little different than I thought. I don't want to give away the answers to the test, but it surprised me a little bit."
Hellmuth is excited about what player tracking will reveal, but at this point he's not willing to say it will be full of surprises.
"It's too early to say if it's a myth-buster," he said. "But I'd be happy to have that conversation with you at the All-Star break."


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ROCK FALLS – Jodi L. Lattimer-Bales, 45, of Rock Falls, died Monday, April 22, 2013, at her home.
Jodi was born June 17, 1967, in Sterling, the daughter of Raymond and Donna (Wallace) Lattimer. She was employed as an administrator of a nursing home. She was proud of her kids and loved animals (Isabel). Jodi was a member of Rock Falls American Legion Post 902, where she volunteered. She enjoyed reading, and currently was enrolled at Sauk Valley Community College.
Survivors include two daughters, Allyson (Travis Tomman) Bales of Dixon and Addyson Bales of Rock Falls; two sons, Daniel Baltz of Plainfield and Adryan Bales of Rock Falls; one sister, Laura Hunsberger of Rock Falls; two brothers; several nieces and nephews, Travis Hunsberger, Tristan Hunsberger, Trina Hunsberger and Tressa Hunsberger, all of Rock Falls, Bree Slusser of Sterling, Douglas Lattimer of Rock Falls, and Sarah DeFrang of Sterling; her mother-in-law and father-in-law, Jacklin and Dale Bales of Rock Falls; her sister-in-law, Crystal (Ron) Anger of Rock Falls; her brother-in-law, Jason Bales of Clinton, Iowa; and special mention, Robert Bales and Jay King, both of Rock Falls.
She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother, Todd Lattimer; and one brother-in-law, Dale Michael Bales.
Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. Friday at McDonald Funeral Home in Rock Falls. Graveside service will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Coloma Township Cemetery in Rock Falls.
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Gingerbread People
Makes 45 to 50 cookies
1 cup (250 mL) light molasses
2 large eggs
5 1/2 to 6 cups (1.375 L to 1.5 L) all-purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons (12 mL) ground ginger
2 1/2 teaspoons (12 mL) ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon (2 mL) cloves
3/4 teaspoon (4 mL) baking soda
1/4 teaspoon (1 mL) baking powder
1 cup (250 mL) unsalted butter, slightly softened
1 cup (250 mL) light or dark brown sugar
Finely grated zest of 1 lemon
Finely grated zest of 1 orange
Place molasses in a small saucepan and heat almost to a simmer. Remove from heat and beat in eggs one at a time. Set mixture aside until tepid.
Sift together 5 1/2 cups (1,375 mL) flour, spices, baking soda and powder and set aside. Place butter in a large mixing bowl and beat until light and fluffy. Beat in the brown sugar, lemon and orange zest, followed by the cooled molasses mixture. When the mixture is well blended, add in the flour/spice mixture. If it seems too sticky to form a dough, add the remaining 1/2 cup (125 mL) flour (but keep in mind that it will firm up when chilled). Divide dough into thirds and wrap each piece individually. Refrigerate the dough at least 1 1/2 hours, up to 24 hours (the dough also freezes well).
Preheat your oven to 350 F (180 C) and prepare several parchment-lined baking sheets.
Working with one piece at a time, roll the dough on a lightly floured surface until you reach a 1/4-inch thickness (about 4 mm). Cut out cookies using a gingerbread-person cookie cutter and, with a spatula, transfer to a baking sheet, spacing them about 2 inches (5 cm) apart.
Place in the centre of the oven and bake for 11 to 13 minutes, or until the edges are just tinged brown. Remove from oven and let stand for about three minutes, then transfer to a rack to cool completely before decorating.
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The murder of three people -- a man and woman in New Milford, Conn., and an infant in North Carolina -- and the suicide of their suspected killer Thursday in Dutchess County are all linked to a twisted case of incest that was the subject of a Daily Voice story published in February.
The story behind the murders began two years ago when then 18-year-old Katie Fusco Pladl of Dover went on a search to find her biological parents.
She found Steven Pladl, her mother and her siblings near Richmond, Va., and eventually moved in with them in 2016.
But the happy family reunion didn't last long when Fusco, who graduated from Dover High School, and her biological father fell in love and she became pregnant with his child.
The couple married in Maryland and moved to North Carolina.
In July of last year, Fusco posted a photo on her Instagram account, showing the two together with the hashtags #justmarried and #simplewedding.
After authorities were alerted to the situation by Pladl's ex-wife and Katie's biological mother, they were arrested in January and charged with incest. The two were scheduled to appear in Virginia for a hearing on April 23.
According to authorities, Fusco moved back in with her adoptive parents in Dover, after the courts prohibited her from having contact with Steven Pladl. On Wednesday, police said Katie told Pladl that she planned to leave him.
By Thursday morning, they were all dead, including Katie's adoptive father, 56-year-old Anthony Fusco of Dover.
According to North Carolina police, Pladl killed the baby in North Carolina, drove north and found Katie and her adoptive father in New Milford, Conn., where he shot and killed them as they drove in a pickup truck.
New Milford Police Department then put out a call to area agencies to be on the look-out for a light blue mini-van with North Carolina tags.
The vehicle was initially observed by an officer from the Dutchess County Probation Department on Dog Tail Corners Road, east of Berkshire Road in the town of Dover.
Police from the Dutchess County Sherriff's Office, New York State Police, New Milford Police Department and Connecticut State Police converged on the vehicle found parked with the engine running on the shoulder of the roadway next to the Ten Mile River.
Police emergency service units were called to the scene and found Pladl dead in the vehicle.
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Where were you in the summer of '73?
Like a lot of Americans, you might have been in a theater or drive-in movie basking in the nostalgic glow of "American Graffiti."
George Lucas' enduring and endearing coming-of-age-story set during the course of one night in a small California town in 1962 features several stars — and Oscar winners — in the making, including Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Harrison Ford, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Suzanne Somers, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Mackenzie Phillips and Bo Hopkins. Not to mention vintage cars, a landmark rock soundtrack and maverick rock disc jockey Wolfman Jack.
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tamiro wrote:What is the total mass/weight of the camera body and lens? --- 2.5 KG
What sort of panoramic scene(s) do you wish to photograph? Distant landscape from a high vantage point? --- yap. a distant landscape
Do you shoot as a hobby or are you a pro photographer? cant say.. you can see here http://www.360vr.tamiror.com
What is your max. budget for a robotic pano head? 1000 EURO
Artisan S. wrote:A Gigapan pro bot should do the trick quite nicely....especially if Gpixel pano's of the non spherical variety are your piece of cake...spherical and the Gigapan is sort of a no no, since it can't reduce the number of shot in the nadir/zenith region.
I would check whether I could use my 300 F4 in the portrait position though (physical I mean, since shooting portrait is advisable in order to minimize stretching).
tamiro wrote:if the panogear can work with the D300s+ a 300 mm lens
that good for me
(i wood like to calibrate the equipment to the NNP)
HansKeesom wrote:Tamiro,
How much RAM do you have in the computer you want to proces the pnorama on?
Artisan S. wrote:(physical I mean, since shooting portrait is advisable in order to minimize stretching).
mediavets wrote:I've no idea what the NPP for a 300mm lens on a D300S would be.
mediavets wrote:Whether you couild do so on any of the robotic pano heads we've mentioned I don't know.
mediavets wrote:Unless you have some subjects in a (distant landscape) scene closer than about 100m then it's generally not considered important to mount the camera lens at the NPP because parallax will not be an issue.
It's said to be more important to mount the camera/lens close to the centre of mass to ease the load on the tilt/pitch motor and gears.
tamiro wrote:HansKeesom wrote:Tamiro,
How much RAM do you have in the computer you want to proces the pnorama on?
im going to by a new computer
with win 7 64 bit
and 16 GIGA of RAM
but that not the issue here
klausesser wrote:But you also need perfect matching the NPP if you shoot close-ups of paintings.
Here´s one shot using a 85mm: www.360impressions.de/MKPBild1 (test-version - the frame´s shadow needs to be softened).
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For spring '14, Lizzie Fortunato has taken our fondest memories of strolling through a local Japanese garden on a perfect spring day and turned it into pure gold. Specifically, chunky gold necklaces, detailed with feathers, crystals, and gemstones. In fact, the entire lineup of new Lizzie Fortunato designs pulls influence from the country of Japan and its natural (and man-made) beauty.
The Shibuya pieces reflect the neon lights of fashion capital Tokyo, while the Naoshima pieces, with their wooden and painted-porcelain beads, honor their namesake old fishing town. But, perhaps some of the most obvious nods to the small country's culture and style are new clutches covered with beautiful Japanese flowers and — a personal favorite — embroidered pieces of sushi and sashimi. Salmon roe has never looked so lovely.


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As I assume most of you have the four pets this week (or soon will). I was wondering how many of you will be continuing on with the tourney. The remaining rewards of one Flawless stone every 3 weeks, or one 50% exp buff/hour just seem kinda weak. It seems to me that they should be more like one stone a week or three pieces of food/week if they wanted to keep us doing that content.
I may do them anyways just for the Valor, but the rewards otherwise don't seem worth the effort.


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The size of the "strategic investment" was not disclosed, but Klout CEO Joe Fernandez wrote in a blog post that it was accompanied by "a multi-year agreement where Bing will become one of Klout's most significant partners."
Klout is a social media reputation service that integrates with multiple social networks, allows users to rate each other, and assigns individuals an overall score for their social media influence. Those scores will now be included in the social sidebar that the Bing search engine displays, provided that the user has enabled a connection to Facebook.
For example, when I tried one of the searches recommended on the Bing Search Blog, one for movies, I got back a listing of Facebook friends who have liked or commented on movies, followed by a "People Who Know" with profiles of movie experts including Chicago Sun-Times reviewer Roger Ebert. Clicking on his name brought up a capsule profile with his Klout score (92) and some recent tweets.
Microsoft said another significance of the integration partnership is that Bing search data will also become an input to the Klout algorithm for determining influence. In other words, the frequency with which people click through to Roger Ebert's blog will be another indicator of how influential he is for determining his Klout score.
"Search data has long been one of the missing signals in our effort to fully recognize a person's influence," Fernandez wrote. "Just as Wikipedia articles can reflect a person's real world influence, search results for a person signal accomplishments achieved beyond social networks and serve to influence others."
Microsoft has a history of investing in social networking services and recognizing the importance of social influence in search results. Microsoft made $240 million investment in Facebook back in 2007 and began integrating Facebook friend data in search results in October 2010. Bing's social search continues to be enhanced in competition with the social results Google now derives from its own social network, Google+.
Bing's "People Who Know" shows people with Klout.
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Ultimate Fighting Championship Vol. 54: Boiling Point DVD
June 4, 2005 Before a sold-out crowd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell makes his first title defense against the man who handed him his first ever defeat Jeremy Horn. The undercard features the return of Randy "The Natural" Couture, the UFC debut of The Ultimate Fighter winner Diego Sanchez, and a highly anticipated welterweight match-up between Georges St. Pierre and Frank Trigg. A total of 8 fights.
- James Irvin vs. Terry Martin
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Pakistan Humanitarian Forum and National Humanitarian Network Joint Press Release
More than 440,000 people in dire need of emergency humanitarian assistance after being displaced from Khyber Agency in northwest Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (April 26 2012): A recent influx of 63,000 displaced families – almost half a million people – into the Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has sparked grave concerns among international and national NGOs in Pakistan. Assessments by members of the Pakistan Humanitarian Forum (PHF) and the National Humanitarian Network (NHN) show considerable emergency needs and significant protection concerns with families living in overcrowded conditions with little food or water, limited sanitation facilities or healthcare supplies, and limited to no opportunities to earn an income. The Pakistan Humanitarian Forum (PHF) and the National Humanitarian Network are calling for financial support from the government and donor agencies to ensure the urgent needs of those displaced from their homes are met.
After traveling on foot for up to two days, just 10% of these displaced families have settled in Jalozai Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camp, where the registered displaced have access to basic necessities such as food, shelter and essential healthcare services. Due to cultural constraints, as well as issues with registration for assistance, the remaining 90% of those displaced have opted to live with host communities and rent spaces or move in to accommodation already occupied by families, resulting in overcrowding and extra burden on host community services and markets that are already poor. Critically, many of the displaced fled with limited possessions or assets. This coupled with limited to no employment opportunities to enable the displaced to contribute to or improve their living conditions will result in many families, both those that are displaced and the host communities accommodating them, entering into debt to try and meet their basic needs. PHF and NHN are calling for the start of registration and distribution of aid outside of Jalozai IDP camp, where the vast majority of IDPs have settled and for targeted support for host communities.
"The displaced residing in host communities are stretching limited resources further, there is an urgent need to commence registration and distribution of emergency supplies and services to IDPs that have settled off camp and to deliver support to host communities to cater for the additional demands levied on these communities as a result of the displacement" said Samina khan, Coordinator of the National Humanitarian Network.
Since January 2012, security operations against non-state armed groups in Khyber Agency have prompted this mass displacement. The situation is particularly critical as the government states it could last up to six months while the humanitarian community expects that families will not be able to return until early 2013. There are also fears that 20,000 more families will be displaced as the conflict spreads to other parts of Khyber Agency.
Aine Fay, the Chair of the PHF, said, "Assessments conducted off camp in the Districts of Peshawar, Nowshera and Kohat, where the internally displaced persons (IDP) concentration is high, has revealed alarming information. Nearly half of families displaced are unregistered, excluding them from receiving any aid. Over 40% of families struggle to find shelter. About 80 % of families assessed said they have little or no access to healthcare or medicines and are dependent on the minimal income earned by men securing work as daily wage labourers."
Ensuring support for the most vulnerable, including children, women, the disabled and the elderly is a specific need for both the 10% of IDPs registered in Jalozai camp and for 90% of IDPs that are off camp. "Given their cultural constraints, displaced women and girls are especially vulnerable wherever they find themselves, addressing their privacy and security issues must be prioritized urgently. said Arif Jabbar, Country Director for Oxfam in Pakistan
Children account for half of the displacement figures. Assessments revealed that 12% of the displaced are under the age of 2 while 16% are less than 5 years old. The present situation raises serious concerns for the security, health and wellbeing of these children. 13% of children are already said to be suffering from psychological distress. Many IDPs said education is a primary need of their children, yet three in five families say they cannot afford even basic school expenses such as stationery items for their children. David Wright, Country Director of Save the Children, and member of PHF, noted "With more than half of all displaced children out of school, the fear of them being forced to work is increasing day after day. Previous experience shows that many will engage in hazardous occupations such as helping hands at workshops and teahouses or worst still as beggars and garbage pickers. Putting these children back in school is the best hope for their future." NHN and PHF call for the local Government to issue notification to District Education Officers to admit children to the schools available in host communities to the full capacity possible putting aside usual requirements for certificates or an ID cards.
The Pakistan Humanitarian Forum and the National Humanitarian Network are calling for a strong show of solidarity and support from the Pakistani government and international donor agencies to ensure the urgent needs of those displaced from their homes are immediately met.
Notes to Editors:
The Pakistan-Humanitarian Forum was formed to coordinate and strengthen the efforts of International NGOs working in disaster management. The forum collectively represents INGOs to the Government of Pakistan, United Nations, and the larger humanitarian and civil community, including the National Humanitarian Network of Pakistani NGOs and Community-Based Organizations. PHF has seats on the Humanitarian Country Team, the Policy and Strategy Meetings in Peshawar, the Emergency Relief Fund Advisory and Review Boards, and the Pakistan Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Country Team, a coordination mechanism constituted by UN agencies, the Red Cross Movement, and international NGOs. There are 47 member organizations of the PHF and 9 organizations with PHF observer status.
The National Humanitarian Network is the forum for National NGOs working in Pakistan. It comprises of 112 organizations based at District, Provincial and/or National level.
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- Inspiration for my palette:
- I rent and this Pink was already on the walls when I got here, but it was paired with a salmon/coral color on the wall that is now deep, rich brown. I liked the pink but paired with that salmon-y color, it was very 80's Palm Beach. I was going to paint over the pale pink too, but when I put the dark chocolate color up, I really liked the pink with it. It's a really big room, so to thread everything together, I kept the upholstered pieces light, mixed lots of patterns and made the whole thing more playful by adding shots of bright color around the room.
- Colors used in my room:
- A very pale, warm pink and dark, rich mahogany brown on the walls, white and grey upholstery, silver accessories, and hits of cobalt blue, acid green and ultra-violet in the accent pieces.
- Tips for using color successfully:
- Go one shade lighter than the color you think you want, unless it's black or a very dark color ;-) and look at a very "greyed down" version of the color you want...you would be surprised how saturated a color looks when it's up on the walls. A color that looks absolutely grey on a color swatch suddenly becomes the perfect shade of lilac or blue or green or yellow...you get the picture. Look to mother nature for great color combos...there are about 20 different shades of green on a tree, and they all work beautifully together!
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Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change
Research Highlights
November 2006
PNNL Wins Contract to Manage DOE Aerial Vehicles Program
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has won a three-year, $6.4 million contract from the Department of Energy's Office of Science to manage aircraft resources for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility. The ARM Aerial Vehicles Program (AVP) obtains airborne, or in situ, atmospheric measurements in support of cloud and climate research.
Through its Atmospheric Science and Global Change Division, the Laboratory will manage AVP structure, processes and operations. Jimmy Voyles, technical director for the ARM Climate Research Facility, will also lead the AVP team in operating a "virtual hangar" that brings together the right aircraft and instruments for data collection activities associated with Facility scientific field campaigns. "The aircraft, instruments, and scientists we work with will originate from federal agencies, other national laboratories, universities and commercial providers, as well as PNNL," Voyles noted in explaining the scope of the program.
DOE's science requirements and the availability of research aircraft will dictate what planes fly and which instruments are used. Campaigns may collect data from focused, short-term field experiments or long-term, routine flights. The AVP team also will evaluate and recommend alternative platforms, such as unmanned aerial vehicles or balloons, that best support each DOE-approved campaign.
In situ measurements enhance ground-based measurements, especially as scientists look at the effects of clouds and aerosol particulates on climate and ultimately climate change models. "In situ measurements of the atmosphere are required to improve our fundamental understanding of the physical state of the atmosphere. This information is used to improve the spatial representation, physical retrievals, and model performance of ground and remotely sensed measurements," said Voyles. "Our goal is to manage the ARM AVP to meet the science objectives of DOE. We also will advance the science of aerial measurements and instrumentation and provide timely, quality assured scientific data sets in a safe, cost-effective manner using an agile planning framework."
The AVP work is funded by the DOE Office of Science, Office Biological and Environmental Research's Climate Change Research Division.


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Back to basics 'yeast breads'
Baking bread is an art and science. Learn helpful ideas on baking bread at 10 a.m. today at the Shelby County Extension office, 1117 Frankfort Road. Chris Duncan, Oldham County Extension Agent, is teaching this free class. For more information, call 633-4593.
Pasture management and renovation
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Frugal living course
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Dealership donating to veterans
O'Brien Ford in Shelbyville is sponsoring a car and truck sale through today. They will donate $100 per vehicle sold to the Veteran of Foreign Wars Shelbyville Post 1179. A donation box will be in the O'Brien Ford lobby for those who would like to contribute to these worthy organizations without purchasing a vehicle.
Shelby Shape-Ups
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MOPS meeting
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Homemakers book club
The Homemakers book club, meets at noon today at the Shelby County Extension office, 1117 Frankfort Road. Participants can bring their lunches and favorite books they have read to tell other club members about them and then take home a new book to read. To register for the book club or for more information, call 633-4593.
MAPP meeting
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Learning Disabilities
Parents of Children with Learning Differences and Attention Difficulties meets at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Learning Disabilities Association of Kentucky, 2210 Goldsmith Lane, No. 118, Louisville. For additional information call the LDA office at 502-473-1256.
Cropper Ruritan
Cropper Ruritan Club meets at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Guardian Angels Junior Circle
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Knitting assistance
Would you like to learn to knit? Do you need assistance with a current knitting project? A master knitter will help with knitting projects from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday at the Shelby County Extension office, 1117 Frankfort Road. For more information, call 633-4593.
Sit and sew
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Rocket service day
The Shelby County High School Rockets will have service days for students. Senior service day will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today to receive parking permits, and get senior portraits, gap and gown information for graduation from Balfour. Junior service day will be 9 a.m. to noon on July 30 to get parking permits and lockers.
Publisher computer class at JCTC
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Lego day at the library
Lego Day at the Shelby County Public Library, 309 8th St., will be today. The movie is from 10 to 11:45 a.m. and then an hour of making cool things with Legos after that. For more information, contact 633-3803 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The S-View Flip Cover has missed event support, which allows you to preview missed text messages and phone calls, and also allows you to make return calls. You can also save favorite contacts for easy dialing. To customize your cover, you can upload an image to the cover's display and change the background to match the color of your cover, or let your device automatically choose its background color to match the cover. Auto wake/sleep function is also built-in, allowing your smartphone's screen to automatically wake when opening the cover, and sleep upon closing. This cover fully replaces your smartphone's back plate, enabling full functionality while minimizing bulk.
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Friday charged former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden with espionage and theft of government property in the NSA surveillance case.
Snowden, believed to be holed up in Hong Kong, has admitted providing information to the news media about two highly classified NSA surveillance programs.
A one-page criminal complaint unsealed in federal court in Alexandria, Va., says Snowden engaged in unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications intelligence information. Both are charges under the Espionage Act. Snowden also is charged with theft of government property. All three crimes carry a maximum 10-year prison penalty.
The complaint is dated June 14, five days after Snowden's name first surfaced as the leaker of information about the two programs.
Congressional reaction was swift.
"I've always thought this was a treasonous act. Apparently so does the U.S. Department of Justice," said Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla. a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who has been outspoken on the Snowden case. "I hope Hong Kong's government will take him into custody and extradite him to the U.S."
Disclosure of the criminal complaint came as President Barack Obama held his first meeting with a privacy and civil liberties board as his intelligence chief sought ways to help Americans understand more about sweeping government surveillance efforts exposed by Snowden.
The five members of the obscure Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board huddled with Obama for an hour in the White House Situation Room, questioning the president on two NSA programs that have stoked controversy.


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Process assembly
Ecofit CPA640
Universal assembly mainly for water and wastewater
The Ecofit CPA640 is a universal process assembly for fixed installation of any kind of 120 mm sensor (Pg 13.5) in water and process applications (utilities). Its threaded connections and various seal materials enable you to perfectly adapt it to all kinds of processes. Ecofit is the simple, but flexible solution wherever cost-saving is mandatory.
Suitable for all standard sensors with Pg 13.5 and 120 mm (4.72") length
Quick installation and removal thanks to threaded connection
Various seal materials for perfect adaptation to all kinds of processes
Cost-efficient possibility of installing analog or Memosens sensors
Campo de aplicação
Ecofit CPA640 is intended for installation in pipes in:
Wastewater treatment
Water treatment
Condensate treatment
Cooling water circuits
It is suitable to be used with pressures of up to 10 bar.
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Event Calendar
Palm Springs Genealogical Society: "From a Box in the Closet to a Treasured Family Heirloom: Organizing and Digitizing Your Family Photos"
- Date: 10/07/2017 10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
- Location: Palm Springs Public Library - The Learning Center
300 S. Sunrise Way
Palm Springs, California 92262
From a Box in the Closet to a Treasured Family Heirloom: Organizing and Digitizing Your Family Photos
Join us on Saturday, October 7th for From a Box in the Closet to a Treasured Family Heirloom: Organizing and Digitizing Your Family Photos. This special presentation by the Palm Springs Genealogical Society will feature guest speaker Sara Cochran and will be followed by round-table sharing. This FREE program will be from 10:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in The Learning Center (TLC).
Sara Cochran lives in Moreno Valley with her husband and cats. She is working on several photo organization projects. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Library Science/Liberal Arts and a Certificate of Genealogical Research from Boston University. She is current co-chair of programs and former President of the Genealogical Society of Riverside. She made the transition to professional genealogist after spending over 11 years working for a pre-employment background check company.
As a teenager attending a family reunion, Sara was awed by her Grandmother's collection of photos that documented the early years of her family. Inspired to know more about the people in the photos and bitten by the genealogy bug after exploring just some of the information her Grandmother had gathered over the years, Sara began her own explorations into the family tree. Her family has roots in Britain, Ireland, Italy, and Austria, as well as most of the United States.
In the course of over 20 years of research, she has found both black sheep and heroes in her trees and their stories have been a source of inspiration and personal growth. And while there are a few brick walls left to demolish, she has not given up on them yet.


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The heavy-duty epicyclic knife drive gearbox provides an enhanced knife-drive system that increases drive capacity with less vibration and improved reliability.
John Deere's single-point header latching system provides combine operators a fast and easy method for connecting all front-end equipment. One easy motion of the lever connects the electrical and hydraulic circuits along with header retaining pins.
Feature benefit:
The enhanced single-point latching system, starting in model year 2016, will include a valve assembly mounted to all platform and corn head back sheets. These assemblies will include an orifice valve unique to the header type as well as a pressure override valve. Together, these ensure optimum performance and reliability of header hydraulic functions.
Compatibility for prior headers or combines to model year 2016 equipment is provided by attachments specific to the header and combine being used.
The HydraFlex system hydraulically controls the float of the cutterbar by a simple turn of a knob in the cab. This provides exceptional cutterbar flexibility throughout the entire working pressure range. Higher ground speeds can be accomplished with HydraFlex, compared to the conventional float systems.
In automatic mode, the operator sets a desired cutterbar ground pressure, and the system will maintain this setting. If a different set point is desired, the operator adjusts the encoder on the armrest board, and an updated cutterbar float pressure reading will be shown on the cornerpost display. For increased ground following in uneven terrain, decrease cutterbar pressure to make the cutterbar heavy to the ground. If soil pushing occurs, increase the cutterbar pressure to make the cutterbar lighter to the ground.
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The reel relief valve protects the reel from damage when cutting short, heavy, wet crops that are down and tangled.
The valve allows the reel hydraulic motor to go into relief-pressure mode to stall the reel and reduce potential damage.
Auger flight extensions along with the rear auger stripper help bring crop to the center of the feederhouse opening for improved feeding performance.
This field-installed header height sensing attachment for 620F, 622F, 625F, 630F, and 635F HydraFlex™ Platforms adapts ground-contacting sensors for use when the flex cutterbar is locked into the rigid position:
The attachment is for use with 50, 60, 70, and S-Series Combines only. The combines must be equipped with header height sensing. The sensors are compatible with combines equipped with the lateral tilt feederhouse.
NOTE: Combines prior to PIN 715101 require a dealer-installed software upgrade (Service ADVISOR™ diagnostics system).
For combines with a Contour-Master feederhouse that want ground contacting header height sensors to be able to follow the ground at preset settings.
In certain field conditions, when harvesting with 600 Series cutting platforms attached to pre-60 Series combines equipped with tall drive tires (for example, 35.5x32-in. or 42-in. dual wheels), it may not be possible to obtain the desired or optimum cutting bar angle. This is due to the extreme height of the drive tires, especially if used in conjunction with the tall 18.4x30 or 28Lx26 high-flotation rear steering tires.
The wedge kit allows the lower frame of the platform to be tilted upward to any one of three different degrees when attached to the combine so the desired cutter bar angle adjustment can be obtained.
The following chart and illustration below can be used to help determine if the wedge kit is required on the platform for the combine being used.
Position machine on flat level ground with platform removed.
Position feederhouse so face is perpendicular to the ground. To check this, a bubble level can be placed on the face of the feederhouse.
Measure distance (A) between the center of feederhouse drive shaft and the ground.
Compare dimension to table and determine amount of wedge angle required.
Three programmable reel position settings will optimize platform performance while minimizing header losses. The operator can preselect three different reel positions for specific field conditions and can access these while harvesting, simply by touching the activation buttons on the multifunction hydro handle.
Adjust the reel height and fore-aft position to an optimal position then press the 1, 2, or 3 button on the multifunction control lever until arrows on each side of the symbol indicates that the system is active. This will save that reel position for that button which can be done for each number on the handle.
The stainless-steel feed plates on the 600F Series Platforms have a flat profile. This along with the stainless-steel material, results in smoother feeding into the platform auger. The 600F offers an optional tall stone dam at the cutterbar to help prevent rocks from entering the platform.
The flat feed plates also allow a consistent clearance between the reel and cutterbar improving crop flow from the cutterbar to the auger.
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Gaza Militants Reportedly Fire Rockets at Southern Israel
JERUSALEM – Palestinian militants fired rocket barrages that wounded an Israeli baby Wednesday, and Israel retaliated with airstrikes that killed two Gaza fighters.
The new round of violence began last Thursday when gunmen, apparently from Gaza, crossed the border from Egypt and ambushed cars and buses in southern Israel, killing eight people. That was followed by massive Palestinian rocket attacks and retaliatory Israeli airstrikes.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Adham Abu Salmia said a member of the Islamic Jihad group was killed Wednesday evening in Israeli airstrikes. The Israeli military said "aircraft targeted a terrorist squad that fired rockets into Israel."
Israeli aircraft killed another Islamic Jihad fighter before dawn on Wednesday, Hamas security officials said. The Israeli military said the dead man had smuggled weapons into Gaza and was involved in militant activity in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, near Israel's southern border.
Palestinians fired more than a dozen rockets into Israel Wednesday, sending residents in Ashkelon and elsewhere in the south running for cover. A baby was injured by shrapnel from one of the Palestinian rockets, Israel's rescue service said.
Israeli media reported that security forces sent reinforcements to the area. A music festival that was to be held in the southern city of Ashkelon was canceled, conforming with military recommendations against large gatherings in tense security times, the military said.
Also Wednesday, Israeli defense officials said Israel gave Egypt the results of an initial military probe into the deaths of Egyptian police officers during fights between Israeli soldiers and militants Thursday.
Egypt threatened to recall its ambassador while in Cairo, and protesters surrounded the Israeli Embassy Saturday and tore down the Israeli flag replacing it with an Egyptian one.
The officials said video filmed from a helicopter during the fighting shows soldiers didn't shoot toward locations near the Egyptian positions even after they came under attack from missile attacks and sniper fire from militants there.
The head of Israel's southern command is heard in military radio transmissions ordering soldiers not to shoot in the Egyptian's direction, the officials said.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not allowed to speak with the media, did not explain how the preliminary report addresses how the police officers died.
Three militants killed were Egyptian, including one that had escaped from an Egyptian jail during the chaos surrounding the recent ouster of longtime Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak, they said.


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The Public Oyster Seed Ground Vessel Permit Appeals Board will meet on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. The meeting will convene at 9:30 a.m. in Suite 200 of the University of New Orleans' Advanced Technology Center located at 2021 Lakeshore Drive in New Orleans.
Agenda items for the meeting of the Public Oyster Seed Ground Vessel Permit Appeals Board are as follows:
- Approval of Minutes from December 4, 2012 Meeting
Hearing of Deferred Appeals
- Mark Tayamen
Hearing of New Permit Appeals
- Brett Johnson
- Marty Melerine
- Vlaho Mjehovich
- Raymond Nehlig
- Set next meeting date
- Receive Public Comments
- Adjournment
This Board was established by Act 922 of the 2008 Regular Legislative Session for the purpose of hearing appeals of vessel permit denials by LDWF. Act 922 requires that anyone commercially harvesting oysters on the public oyster seed grounds and reservations, except those in Calcasieu Lake and Sabine Lake, must do so from a vessel holding a public oyster seed ground vessel permit issued by LDWF.
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The Bronx Celebrates:
Cathleen Lewis
by Susan Hoeltzel
Navigating Momentary Lapses
Man passes through the present with his eyes blind-folded. He is permitted
merely to sense and guess at what he is actually experiencing. Only later
when the cloth is untied can he glance at the past and find out what he
has experienced and what meaning it has had.
Thoroughly within the moment, Lewis' work on one hand invites the obvious
comparisons with other women artists such as (Women's Work: she braids
and sews) Lee Bontecou, Senga Nengudi, and perhaps most notably Eva Hesse.
On the other hand, there are the less obvious comparisons with Ellen Gallagher,
who also provokes a sensation of blackness out of the webs she weaves,
albeit on canvas. The sources are there but what are we to make of sources?
Until the gallerist, curator, or critic comes along, the source is irrelevant.
And as much as these comparative claims are valid, their virtue lies in
the fact that they all rely on materials at once suffused with content.
Though they all do different things with varied materials that is somehow
kinetically abstract. Lewis' installations and sculptures are first and
foremost signatory poems. So attentive to formalist concerns, yet always
wanting to make her point and make it clearly, which leads to sometimes
heavy-handed titling. But, as the consummate formalist that she is, Cathleen
wants the work to look good regardless of content. And like Mona Hatoum
or early Rachel Lachowicz, she casts a spell on the formalist ethics of
purity and universalityit is what it is. By conceptually reworking
the aesthetics of minimalism and abstraction, she is concerned with personalizing
an artistic concept that originated greatly on the premise of mathematical
science, the use of machinery, and depersonalization.
The complementary piece in this exhibition is Binary Oppositions.
In fact, it is a straight up response/study on the supposed structural
silence of the minimalist grid (see Donald Judd or Rosalind Krauss). "The
grid announces modern art's will to silence,''1
Krauss said almost twenty years ago. Lewis' grid is comprised of one hundred
and forty four stainless steel rectangles arranged directly on the wall
with one word in black or white with a word that has been read as
either "black" or "white." From twenty yards the piece is to the human
eye an undescriptive tract reiterating the formalism of the 60's and 70's,
yet closer inspection lends a sociological lesson in linguistics, hardly
the subject of High Minimalism. Here the silent majority of minimalism
has become one big argument filled with dissenting voices. Her words are
monogamous like Ruscha's but by engaging language so plentifully upon
the grid she has inherently given it a voicea voice at once suppressed
by modernist longing and secondarily oppressed from the stance of its
history in onerous stereotypicality.
It's easy to look on the history of art as a succession of monuments visualizing whatever it is the critics said it was. Yet, conversely modern art is a living growing organism that, like Hip Hop, is born to recycle, reclaim, and make it "new." Art has come upon the end of the millennium with a multiplicity of meanings: some pointed and some pointless. Yet, some critics have finally caught wind of a "trend" in recent work by artists of color (firstly, women artists of all colors) reinvigorating the tenets of "big bad and universal" minimalism. Did someone say "palatable" and content-less? Actually, not. It's been going on ever since...you know what I mean. Artists of color have been imbibing strict formalism with content for years, such as Jacob Lawrence and Social Realism or Norman Lewis and Abstract Expressionism. In this radically apolitical moment when no one seems to have a clue as to political and economic reality, the art world mirrors "the real world." All this is to say, it's not necessarily a trend of contemporary visual art practice. People photograph, draw, sculpt, paint, scatter, and most absurdly cook and feed viewers, calling it art. Please. Cathleen does something of the first four, seducing on various levels through means subtle, mysterious, and subliminal.
1. Rosalind Krauss, "Grids," October 9, Summer 1979, P. 51.
Students reflect upon Good Presence, 1996
Moss, 1994-95
Binary Oppositions, 1995
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Student or Learner
Is "private" an adjective?
While innate processing, instinctive behavior, internally orchestrated motivation and drive, and innately guided learning are all essential and important elements of an animals cognitive repertoire, they are not likely to be part of that more esoteric realm of mental activity that we associate with thinking, judgment, and decision-making. But what is thought, and how are we to recognize its operation in other creatures within that most private of organs, the brain? What behavioral criteria can permit us to distinguish between the true thought that we are wont to believe goes into our aesthetic, moral, and practical decision-making on one hand, and the intricate programming that can create the illusion of thought in at least certain other animals? Or could it be, as advocates of artificial intelligence suspect, that all thought, including ours, is just the consequence of clever programming?
This is my private journal.
This room is private.
Is this conversation private?
I think that the only time it can be a noun is in reference to the lowest military rank - a private - and, perhaps, in reference to those other "most private of organs" - your privates! ;)
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Rocky Mountain Raceways Returns to NHRA for 2013
We want to announce that we will be an NHRA sanctioned drag strip starting next year. Final details in regards to 2013 classes etc are still being finalized.
West Valley City, Utah-September 20, 2012. After a three year affiliation with the International Hot Rod Association (IHRA,) Rocky Mountain Raceways will be returning to the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) as part of Pacific Division Seven for 2013 and beyond.
"We appreciate our relationship with IHRA, and we hope we did a good job for them as a member track. We feel at this time that switching back to the NHRA sanction will help increase our car count across all of our classes," says Mike Eames, Rocky Mountain Raceways General Manager and Ron Craft, Rocky Mountain Raceways Drag Strip Manager.
Headquartered in Glendora, California, NHRA is the largest sanctioning body in the world. Wally Parks founded the NHRA in 1951; he worked to get racing off the city streets and highways and into safer, organized venues. He wanted NHRA to provide guidance to timing clubs and tracks. Soon, NHRA was hosting national events, as tuning cars became a hobby rather than just a necessity.
By moving to the NHRA, Rocky Mountain Raceways and the State of Utah once again have the opportunity to host a Lucas Oil Divisional race that will draw racers and fans from across the Western United States. The race is tentatively scheduled toward the end of Rocky Mountain Raceways' 2013 racing season.
"Having a Lucas Oil Divisional event so late in the season makes it very appealing with several of the 2013 national and divisional NHRA championships being swayed here," says Eames.
"The move to NHRA makes it easier for RMR racers and out-of-state racers, because they will not have to carry two separate licenses, chassis certifications, etc just to run a few events at RMR. It should strengthen the competition with the Boise, Grand Junction, and Las Vegas cars that run at Rocky Mountain Raceways," says Eames.
Utah racers will benefit from the NHRA transition because they will have greater opportunity to participate at other NHRA Drag Strips and events. "It is a good opportunity for our junior dragster team to participate at the Western Conference Finals in Denver, and our RMR Summit Racing Series team to run the Summit ET Bracket Finals," says Eames.
"I am excited for the potential growth in participation, and look forward to building a renewed relationship with NHRA," says Craft.
"We are thrilled to have Rocky Mountain Raceways returning to the NHRA Member Track fold as part of the Pacific Division. Salt Lake City has a long and storied history in drag racing and we look forward to bringing the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series back to such a strong market," says Mike Rice, NHRA Division Seven Director.
A driver's meeting will be held at the end of the 2012 racing season to discuss the transition. Please direct specific questions to Ron Craft, Rocky Mountain Raceways Drag Strip Manager.
Driver / Tech Inquiries: Ron Craft, email@example.com, (801) 252-9557 ext 106
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The 36-year-old recently joined Stuart Pearce's England Under-21 coaching staff for this summer's European Championships in Israel, but insists he has not decided whether to end his playing career just yet.
"It's been an honor to play for and captain Everton. I've thoroughly enjoyed my time on Merseyside and will leave with immense pride," Neville told the club's official website.
"I would like to thank the manager, chairman, all of the staff and the players at Everton for their continued support during my time at the club. I'd also like to pay a special thanks to the fans, who have been amazing over the past eight years and Everton will always have a place in my heart."
Neville joined Everton as a 28-year-old in 2005 and this season became one of only seven players to play more than 500 Premier League games. Though the right back is leaving the Toffees, he admitted that he is considering remaining in top level football.
"I want to continue to play at the top level as long as I physically can, and will be weighing up my options before making a decision on my next move. I'll now be doing everything I can to help Everton finish as high up the league table as possible," Neville said.
The former England international scored eight goals in 303 appearances for the Toffees during his eight years at Goodison Park.


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Provincetown, Cape Cod Travel Guide
Provincetown Summary
- Thriving cultural center with historic achievements in the arts
- An epicenter of gay culture; very LGBT-friendly
- Friendly locals
- Perfect summer weather for beach-goers: cool mornings and warm, sunny afternoons
- Seasonal ferries from Boston can help avoid Cape traffic
- Former residents include Norman Mailer, Tennessee Williams, John Waters and Kurt Vonnegut
- History as an artists' colony
- Winter brings harsh storms
- Cape traffic can be horrific
What It's Like
It's surprising that one of the liveliest towns on the Cape is located at the very end of the long peninsula. As the planned landfall site of the Mayflower, Provincetown almost became the birthplace of Thanksgiving: Unfortunately, inhospitable land conditions and a very "tense" relationship with the locals led the pilgrims to sail a little farther across the Bay to Plymouth.
Today, Provincetown (or "P-Town" for short) offers bountiful beaches, shops, restaurants, and the best nightlife on the Cape. It has a history as an artists' colony, and is known internationally for its literary and artistic achievements: It has counted Norman Mailer, Tennessee Williams, John Waters, and Kurt Vonnegut as residents, to name a few. Major events such as the annual Provincetown Film Festival draw in crowds of A-List celebrities and spectators. Because of the thriving creative community, Provincetown is one of the few destinations on the Cape that offer a decent number of activities during the winter as well as the summer.
The city is also known worldwide an epicenter of gay culture. The numerous LGBT festivals, events, and thriving community play a prominent role here. This makes P-Town the arguably most popular gay and lesbian vacation destination in the Northeast.
Where To Stay
Commercial St., P-Town's main drag, is a very lively hub of activity, bustling with shops, restaurants, bars, and inns. Bunking up near this street (or Bradford St, which runs parallel) will keep you close to the action and to the water.


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NWSB Editor and Writer Chris Anderson gives you his reasons why you should love Marcus Mariota. Two games into the season, Mariota has looked the part of the next great Ducks quarterback. Just a redshirt freshman, Mariota has a skill set that mirrors players later on in their football development.
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1. Re: Dreamweaver sc4 creating breadcrumbs for websitehans-g. Apr 14, 2012 7:11 AM (in response to lucik20)
Hello Lucik,
please send a screenshot to clarify what is meant by "creating breadcrumbs for website".
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I am currently working on a site with breadcrumbs, but I'm not using either JavaScript or server-side code to create them, I just put them in as they are.
Here is how I'm doing it:
I have a slash that is an image file for the breadcrumbs and it is placed between all items in an area defined in the header. Here's how I define things:
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Someone clicking on any of the links above will go to the page specified.
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I can't seem to get kaoswever breadcrumbs to work properly, they are displaying some random page and not in order too (even though the files were in a seperate folder) and it was displaying the page and the Titile of the page as well.


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Monday, August 04, 2008
Veering into Bordeaux
I've made a radical decision. Yes: I am going to drink Bordeaux.
Thursday, a bunch of friends are coming over, and we're going to open some bottles, share some cheese and other victuals. But the theme, if any, has yet to be defined. We met up two weeks ago at Lavinia and sounded a couple of Champagnes off each other (tasty NV Ulysse Collin Extra-Brut and 2000 Pierre Gimonnet Oenophile Extra-Brut), follwed by two red Burgundies.
These friends are wine-curious but fairly new to the game of grape varieties or blends, regions, appellations, and crus. "I know Bordeaux, in general," Sara said.
And, well, that's about all I can say for myself, other than a few catch-phrases. Paulliac pencil lead! Cedar, cigar box, tobacco, who knows what else? My hands-on (palate-on) knowledge is slim. So, I have to strike forth. Let's see what's really going on here.
Because, after all, it's summertime. Life can loosen its collar. It's warm, not hot. Why not head up the Gironde? Sip some Left Bank on the Left Bank?
And that way, I won't be the only person who's had more Pinot d'Aunis than Cabernet Sauvignon in the past year.
P.S. Suggestions welcome...
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- Eric said...
Domaine de Jaugaret, Saint-Julien, I highly recommend it! Saw it on the list at Le Severo in the 14th when I was in Paris
- August 4, 2008 at 9:05 PM
- Scott Reiner said...
second jaugaret. its fantastic! haut segottes from st em is beautiful. moulin de tricot from margaux and haut medoc. moulin-pey labrie and ch moulin, both made by the wonderful gregoire hubau.
these are all traditionally styled bordeaux. no ****erized cali wannabes.
- August 4, 2008 at 9:48 PM
- Bill said...
no suggestions, but would love to crash the party (sans enfants, as we have a sitter!) or otherwise see you! our family of 4 is in paris 'til sunday. if thursday is out perhaps saturday would be a possibility, en famille? we'd love to get together!
i tried to email you via nyu, to no avail.
you could call on my temporary portable 06.16.06.93.61 bisous! cathy
- August 5, 2008 at 7:49 PM
- Sharon said...
As it turns out, this evening's intended Bordeaux tasting has been shelved - in favor of a trip to Chinon (at least that's a Cabernet... of a certain stripe...).
Eric, interesting you should suggest this - it is one of the few Bordeaux I've had lately - had a glass at Le Comptoir and found it very enjoyable.
Scott, I'll also check out the other suggestions.
Cathy, hello! It looks like I will unfortunately miss you in Paris. I'll give you a call.
- August 7, 2008 at 10:53 AM
- mary said...
Lynch-Bages (Pauillac) - any vintage. This is a 5th estate that drinks like a second or even a first. Used to be fairly cheap but has gotten more expensive - but still worth it.
Smith-Haute-Lafitte (Pessac-Léognan) - any vintage. Wonderful balance between fruit and tannins.
Chateau Talbot (St. Julien) - any vintage. Really nice quality wine for the price...and a producer whose prices have remained relatively low over the years. A nice way to break into Bordeaux without breaking into the bank.
I just discovered your blog (I love it) and have been happily reading it backwards. I realize this is a year old post...but I could not resist adding my own Bordeaux recommendations. I have suggested mid level priced wines that were not cheap plonk nor extremely expensive.
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While Israeli film critic Hannah Brown doesn't foresee an Academy Award in Israel's near future, she's convinced that Ajami's nomination is prize enough.
Given that Israel's film Ajami is facing competition from much more well-established film industries in France, Spain and China, even just receiving a nomination for an Academy Award feels like a win, says Israeli-American film critic Hannah Brown, who pens a weekly column at The Jerusalem Post.
Since the film's release in the fall, journalists and critics have been lining up for the chance of a word with Ajami's co-directors – Israeli Christian Arab Scandar Copti and his Israeli Jewish partner Yaron Shani. Practically impossible to reach since achieving the celebrity status that comes with being nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film, theirs is the third Israeli entry in as many years to be been nominated for an Oscar.
Last year the Israeli animated feature Waltz With Bashir, about the first Israel-Lebanon war, was nominated in the same category but didn't win. The previous year the film Beaufort, about an Israel Defense Forces unit stationed at the Beaufort outpost in south Lebanon, was also nominated and didn't win.
"I don't think in terms of movies deserving an award, especially with the Oscars, because it's accepted that often the best movies don't win," Brown tells ISRAEL21c. "Ajami did deserve to get nominated and it wasn't a surprise to me, but nothing is ever a sure thing about that category.
"It's a difficult category because they'll be competing against the established industries and it may be the most competitive category… I do think that Ajami is a very good film and it's very ambitious and that's important," she says.
Israel's film industry comes of age
Screened at film festivals across America, "Ajami is trying to tell a huge story about all these different groups who are forced together in this one neighborhood in Jaffa: There are Jews and Arabs, Christians and Muslims, West Bank Palestinians and Bedouins. It's an intricate story and they worked on the script for years. You can see it wasn't just put together,' says Brown who sees Israeli film coming of age in recent years, mainly due to an expanding TV industry, and a government-funded initiative that supports the local film industry.
While the themes of the last three films are centered in war, conflict and the complex political reality in which Israel exists, Brown doesn't believe that this is a case of Israeli directors simply providing American audiences with the image of Israel that they have come to expect, as a result of growing up with CNN news reports about Israel and violent action films.
The Israeli film industry is young, she says, and most of its young directors have made only one feature film, or at the most, two. In the case of Waltz With Bashir, for example, its director Ari Folman experienced the Lebanon War. And like his contemporaries in literature or art, Folman was processing an experience that may have had the most profound impact on his life up to that time.
"A lot of the Israeli film directors are young and most have done military service. It's been a dramatic experience in their lives and it's on their minds. Now in their 20s and 40s they are realizing this impact on film and in drama," says Brown, noting that in recent years Israeli scriptwriting has improved: "The characters are compelling and the films are well made."
While some suggest that the American nominations of Israeli films are a gesture of goodwill to a strategic ally, Brown thinks there is real merit there for the choosing and that Ajami is worthy of its status as one of the five nominees for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
The nomination will give them "everything they need"
The makers of Ajami didn't set out to win prizes, but to depict the multiple challenges faced by minorities within and on the fringes of Israeli society, especially in the generally poorly understood Arab community.
The scene was set for Ajami when the co-directors met seven years ago at an international student film festival in Tel Aviv. From the time of that meeting the two worked hard to scrape together the funds to create their first feature film set in the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa, a mixed Jewish-Arab city adjacent to Tel Aviv. They chose to work with non-actors, in the style of Italian neo-realism, "and they hit the mark," says Brown. "It's a fascinating film."
This is the ninth time in the history of the awards that Israel has received a nomination, but the country has never had a win. No matter, says Brown, adding that especially after prominent figures attempted to boycott Israeli films at last year's Toronto Film Festival, she views the Oscar nomination itself and not the possibility of the win, as the victory.
Does she think that Ajami deserves to win? "Getting the nomination is winning. These directors will get to go to Hollywood, to meet with Hollywood agents and will get everything they need out of being nominated. It would be nice if it would be the first Israeli film to win an Oscar. But I don't think it will be," she replies.
Whether you're rooting for Israel or your favorite Hollywood film, for some of the best drama and suspense in the movie industry tune in to the awards in Los Angeles on March 7. That's when the Academy Award hopefuls will don suit and gown and dream of taking home the coveted prize.


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Planes of Fame Air Museum was founded by Edward T. Maloney in Claremont, California. The doors first opened on January 12, 1957. At that time, it was simply called "The Air Museum". There was no need to be more specific, because no other air museums existed in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River!
The original collection consisted of just 10 airplanes. From those humble beginnings, the Museum has grown to over 150 aircraft, more than 50 of which are flyable. But to understand the significance of this achievement, we have to look back to the days following WWII.
Although the Allies produced over 300,000 military aircraft during World War II, most were destroyed within just a few years of the war ending in 1945. The new jet aircraft being introduced had captured the imagination of the country, making the best propeller planes of the war seem obsolete almost overnight.
As the country retooled for a peacetime economy and GI's returned home to start families, it was far more important to begin producing badly needed consumer products, than save the reminders of a war everyone was anxious to put behind them. With materials still in short supply, the aircraft that defeated the Axis powers and saved the Free World could now be bought by the pound for little more than the scrap value of their aluminum. A few were purchased by foreign air forces or collectors, like Ed Maloney, and survived. But most quickly fell victim to the smelter and met an inglorious end on the shelves of department stores as pots, pans or other products.
As a result, before most people even noticed or cared, many aircraft types disappeared entirely. In fact, a number of the aircraft on display at Planes of Fame Air Museum today are the sole surviving examples of their type. They exist only because a young Ed Maloney remembered the words of General "Hap" Arnold who instructed the Air Force to save at least one example of as many different aircraft as possible to create a national museum. This inspired Mr. Maloney to commit himself to the same goal, and many of the aircraft Museum visitors now enjoy, exist only because of his personal determination over more than half a century.
But Ed Maloney didn't think it was enough to just display static aircraft in a museum, he wanted to create a flying museum, an idea that he pioneered.
Undeterred by the enormity of the task, a small group of volunteers, including future Museum president, Steve Hinton, set out to make the aircraft that had barely been saved from the smelters, flyable. Over 50 years later, the Museum's commitment to that objective has enabled generations of Museum visitors to experience the sights and sounds of aircraft that otherwise would have been lost to history, but instead, grace the skies again with their beauty and speed.
As the Museum's collection of aircraft and memorabilia continued to grow, it became necessary to find a new home with enough space to house more aircraft. In 1963, it relocated to nearby Ontario Airport in Ontario, California.
A few years later, in 1970, the non-flyable aircraft became part of the "Movie World: Cars of the Stars and Planes of Fame Museum" in Buena Park, California, located near Knott's Berry Farm. Concurrently, the flyable aircraft relocated to Chino Airport. When Movie World closed, the name "Planes of Fame" stayed, since it perfectly described Ed Maloney's museum.
Planes of Fame consolidated in 1973, this time to facilities at historic Chino Airport in Chino, California. This was fitting as the airport was formerly the home of Cal Aero Academy, which was an Army Air Corp flight training facility. The academy trained over 10,000 pilots prior to the end of WWII, making it a perfect location in which to restore and give new life to the aircraft these men had flown into combat just two decades earlier.
As more and more aircraft were restored and the collection grew, an additional display facility was opened in Valle, Arizona in 1995. Located halfway between Williams, Arizona and the south rim of the Grand Canyon, it houses over 40 of the Museum's aircraft, many of which are also flyable.
Growth continued at Chino, too. In 2002, the Enterprise Hangar was opened. Designed to resemble the hangar deck of a WWII Navy aircraft carrier, it contains a number of items from the U.S.S. Enterprise CV-6, donated by members of her crew and flight squadrons. It also houses many aircraft typical of those that served on the Enterprise during the war.
The Chino Facility underwent further expansion in 2004-2008, with the construction of two new hangars, new offices, a gift shop, library and Aviation Discovery Center youth education center. Display areas for jets and other aircraft of the Korean War, Cold War, and Viet Nam war were also added. A larger library was added in 2014.
And finally, in October of 2009, another new hangar was dedicated. It was built by the famous 475th Fighter Group to store their memorabilia, as well as house the Museum's rare Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
While the journey from 10 original aircraft to over 150 has been a long one, the mission has never changed. It is the Mission of Planes of Fame Air Museum to preserve aviation history, inspire interest in aviation, educate the public, and honor aviation pioneers and veterans. And although the Museum spans the history of manned flight from the Chanute Hang Glider of 1896 to the Space Age of Apollo, many more chapters remain to be written and many more stories told before the vision of a young Ed Maloney is finally fulfilled.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Summit Properties has named Steve LeBlanc president and CEO. He succeeds Bill Paulsen, who will remain in his current position for a transition period ending July 1. Paulsen will then serve as co-chairman of the company's board of directors.
LeBlanc previously served as president and chief operating officer. Michael Shwarz, currently executive vice president and chief financial officer, will assume LeBlanc's responsibilities for property operations.
Prior to joining Summit in 1998, LeBlanc served as president of Urban Growth Trust in Atlanta. He previously worked for Security Capital Pacific and Security Capital Atlantic. He is a graduate of The University of Texas.
Summit Properties, an apartment community REIT, owns or holds interest in 64 communities with 18,700 apartment homes.


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Bulls fans and their cool team memorabilia
Bulls fans can be passionate about their team, and with six NBA titles and one of the greatest players ever to wear the uniform, there is no shortage of unique memorabilia out there. Here is some from RedEye readers. Tweet yours to @brithewebguy.
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