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Soybean harvest is near and fall fertilizer applications probably won't be far behind. Some growers choose to use anhydrous ammonia (AA) as their source for nitrogen primarily because of cost and timeliness of application for their operation.
There are application considerations when using AA. Anhydrous is a liquid when stored and turns to a gas (ammonia) when applied to the soil. Some equipment maintains AA as a liquid through the application process and it isn't until it reaches the soil that it turns to a gas, this is called cold flow injection.
With older applicators, the AA turns to a gas within the manifold and is solely gas when it leaves the applicator shank. Due to the properties of gasses, the possibility of ammonia loss can occur. The AA needs to come in contact with soil water to be converted to ammonium (NH4+).
The ammonium ion which is positively charged can be held on the soil cation exchange capacity (CEC) and will not leach with moving water. If the soil is above 50 degrees Fahrenheit, microbial activity is increased which can convert the ammonium ions to nitrate (NO3), which is leachable in water moving through the soil.
If the soil is dry, during AA application, there is more air filled pore space for AA gas to 'leak out' to the atmosphere. There is also less water for conversion to (NH4+), but unless the soil is extremely dry (wilting point or below) there is usually enough moisture for this conversion to take place. Dry soils also don't seal well, therefore deeper application depths may be necessary to avoid gas loss. Gaseous AA loss can also occur when the soil is extremely wet, because the sides of the shank wall smear and don't seal together.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis. – HCS Medical Staffing, Inc. violated federal law by discriminating against a pregnant employee and then firing her while she was on maternity leave, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed here today.
According to the EEOC's suit, (EEOC v. HCS Medical Staffing, Inc., Case No. 2:11-cv-00402), filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Charles Sisson, owner of the Milwaukee medical staffing company, engaged in escalating negative comments about the upcoming maternity leave of HCS bookkeeper Roxy Leger. Sisson's statements allegedly included insisting that Leger's pregnancy was a joke, describing her maternity leave as "vacation," and insisting that maternity leave should be no longer than two days. The EEOC contends that Sisson then terminated Leger, who had no prior negative comments on her work performance, seven days after she gave birth as she recovered from the delivery of her baby by Caesarean section.
Pregnancy discrimination violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its statutory conciliation process. The agency seeks compensatory and punitive damages for Leger, an order barring future discrimination and other relief.
"Some employers appear to have gotten the news later than others: taking adverse actions against employees on account of pregnancy has been a violation of federal law for years," said John Hendrickson, EEOC regional attorney for the Chicago District, which includes Wisconsin. "It won't wash -- you just can't do it. The EEOC is in this case to vindicate that principle, to change the way business is conducted at HCS and obtain relief for Roxy Leger."
Attorneys in the EEOC's Milwaukee Area Office, including trial attorney Camille Monahan, will lead the agency's litigation effort. The EEOC's Chicago District Office is responsible for processing charges of discrimination, administrative enforcement, and the conduct of agency litigation in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, North and South Dakota with Area Offices in Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
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i believe there were no planes, ok.
just saying the folks at loose change & infowars etc find it hard to believe.
But they are all coming around, just recently infowars posted the affidavit by John Lear who also believes there were no planes.
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Has any of you studied the research by dr Judy Wood?


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Nineteen-year-old Michael Harp remembers enjoying the circus as a little kid. But recently the Inez mechanic saw a train pulling circus elephants in caged box cars through Bloomington and felt bad for them.
"I didn't think they would have them like that," he said about the small traveling space. "It's kind of awkward."
Wild animals should not be a part of the circus, Lisa Weisberg, legal consultant for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said.
The association, along with The Fund for Animals and the Animal Protection Institute, will battle Ringling Bros. in federal court in October, citing violations of the Endangered Species Act.
"They don't want the public to know what really goes on behind the scenes," Weisberg said, adding the plaintiffs have "incredible evidence."
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The first war crimes trial to be held by the United States since World War II began on Monday, when Yemeni national Selim Ahmed Hamdan appeared before a military court in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The case proceeds despite continuing debate in Washington over detainees' legal rights in the wake of last month's Supreme Court ruling that allowed those in custody to challenge their detention in civilian courts.
Military prosecutors in Guantánamo accuse Mr. Hamdan of being the personal driver of Osama Bin Laden and having extensive inside knowledge of Al Qaeda. But his defense attorneys deny that charge and say that his interrogation in Afghanistan and at Guantánamo was conducted under duress, according to the BBC.
Prosecutors say he belonged to Osama Bin Laden's inner circle, and was heading for a battle zone when he was arrested, allegedly with two surface-to-air missiles inside his car.
Mr Hamdan has acknowledged working for Bin Laden in Afghanistan from 1997 to 2001 for $200 (£99) a month, but denies being part of al-Qaeda or taking part in any attacks.
Mr Hamdan's defence lawyers have argued that the statements were tainted by what have been called "coercive techniques," and he was not advised of his right against self-incrimination.
His lawyers have tried to halt the trial on grounds of legality.
After one day of trial proceedings, the defense was handed an important victory when the judge refused to allow the prosecution to enter evidence that was obtained under duress in Afghanistan. While military commission Judge Keith Allred allowed evidence obtained during interrogations in Guantánamo, the move could still have important implications for future Al Qaeda war crimes trials, writes The Washington Post.
But the judge declined to suppress admissions made by Hamdan after he arrived at the U.S. military prison here, ruling that the Fifth Amendment did not apply to Hamdan and that "no coercive techniques influenced" what he said. Allred ruled, however, that to use the admissions, prosecutors must produce Hamdan's interrogators to explain the conditions under which the questioning took place.
Allred's willingness to throw out evidence in a proceeding against an accused al-Qaeda member could bode badly for cases the government expects to bring against planners of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, some of whom were subjected to far more coercive conditions. Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of those attacks, and other accused Sept. 11 conspirators are scheduled to be tried after Hamdan. Mohammed is one of three detainees the government has said was subjected to "waterboarding," a form of simulated drowning.
The military court system within which Hamdan is being tried has been controversial since it was established under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 because it allows for the use of hearsay evidence and some forms of coerced evidence, both of which are forbidden in US civilian courts. Trials are also held before a jury of between five and 13 uniformed military officers, who are free to question witnesses, as are the judge and attorneys.
The jurors in the Hamdan case have been drawn from US military posts around the world. For some of the jurors called to serve, years of fighting the 'war on terror' have made it a challenge to appear unbiased, reports Reuters.
The final jury includes two Army lieutenant colonels, an Army colonel, a Navy captain, an Air Force colonel and a Marine lieutenant colonel. Allred ordered their identities kept secret.
During questioning of the prospective jurors, the judge asked if they would have any bias against Hamdan because he was Arab, Muslim or Yemeni. All said no.
One prospective juror who was eliminated, a Navy captain and former policeman, said he knew the commander of the USS Cole, which was struck by a suicide bombing in 2000 in a Yemeni port, killing 17 American sailors. "No one wants to see shipmates hurt and killed. It angered me," he said.
Another was excused because he knew a prosecution witness....
Another was an Army officer who said he believed the war on terrorism had started in the 1990s, not after the September 11 attacks.
He said he worked in operations analysis and had seen classified reports on radical Islam. "Radical Islam exists and I believe we are at war with it," he said.
In June, the Supreme Court issued a ruling challenging a provision of the Military Commissions Act, called habeas corpus, that strips detainees of the right to challenge the legality of their detention. The court ruled that detainees could challenge their detention in the US civil court system, although the procedures for doing that have still not been clarified.
On the same day that the Hamdan trial began, US Attorney General Michael Mukasey urged Congress to act quickly to clarify this appeals process in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute, reports the Associated Press.
A Supreme Court ruling last month "stopped well short" of detailing how foreign suspects will be allowed to challenge their detention, Mukasey said in draft excerpts of a speech he was to deliver Monday morning.
"In other words, the Supreme Court left many significant questions open," Mukasey said in the excerpts that were obtained by The Associated Press.
He called it "well within the historic role and competence of Congress and the executive branch to attempt to resolve them." Mukasey was speaking at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think-tank.
The New York Times reports that, under the Mukasey plan, Congress would draft strict rules for the handling of Guantánamo appeals, which would all be funneled through the US district court in Washington, D.C.
He said all the appeals should be consolidated in a single court, probably the district court in Washington. Prisoners should not be allowed to physically attend the appeal hearings in the United States, he said, but they could view the proceedings from a secure video link from Guantánamo — a comment that appeared to signal that the administration plans to keep the base open for the time being.
The courts should also not be allowed to release a prisoner into the United States if he is cleared, he said. And the proceedings should not be allowed to delay the military commission trials at Guantánamo Bay, with some 20 prisoners now awaiting trial for war crimes and others expected to be tried later. Only after those trials are completed should prisoners be able to appeal their detentions to the civilian courts, the attorney general said.
But The Washington Post points out that Congress has only five weeks left to draft and pass legislation before going on a long summer break.
Speaking to The New York Times, several democratic leaders said they were in no rush to pass laws clarifying the appeals process for the more than 275 Guantánamo detainees covered by the Supreme Court decision.
Democratic leaders made clear Monday that they would not let the administration set a timetable for rushing through legislation that Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, chairman of the judiciary committee, called "ill-concieved."
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, in response to Mr. Mukasey's speech, said that "the courts are well equipped to handle this situation, and there is no danger that any detainee will be released in the meantime."


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Other than SLB, what's your favorite Sacha Baron Cohen character?
Do you like Guacamole?
Why are you drunk at 6:20 on a Thursday?
Quote from: InTylerWeTrust on August 30, 2012, 08:45:41 PMDo you like Guacamole?I never used to, but I'm gradually acclimating myself to it. I'm at the point now where if something comes with guacamole, I don't ask to not have it, but I still don't really see the appeal. Related question: why do you capitalize the word guacamole?
FYI the words "God" and "Guacamole" should always have the G capitalized.... The more you know...
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Polkas, Waltzes, and Champagne Music Gift of the Lawrence Welk Collection to NDSU
Don't be too surprised if, when you visit Reineke Fine Arts Center at North Dakota State University or watch a Bison football game in the new Fargodome, you hear the familiar strains of the Champagne Music of Lawrence Welk.
In July of 1992 North Dakota State University became the repository for the Lawrence Welk Collection, an anthology of some 15,000 musical arrangements of the famous bandleader, whose celebrated career spanned more than half a century. Much of the music was used on the "Lawrence Welk Show," and we now have the privilege of housing this fine collection here in Welk's beloved home state.
|University archivist John Bye (l) and author Mike Miller (r) explore the treasures of the Lawrence Welk collection at NDSU.
I remember watching the first broadcast of the "Lawrence Welk Show" back in 1955 in Strasburg, North Dakota, where I began my life-long friendship with the Welk family. I remember visiting Mr. Welk's sisters, Anna Mary and Agatha, who were my neighbors. When a letter would arrive from their famous brother, I would read it to them, since their first language was German and they were unable to read much English. I also recall the many times when Lawrence Welk would come home and just be one of us in this close-knit German Russian community.
Perhaps this bond with the Welk family was an important factor in their deciding to bring the collection to North Dakota State University. Shirley Welk Fredricks, Executive Director of the Lawrence Welk Foundation and Welk's oldest daughter, was concerned that her father's materials be preserved and available to musicians and scholars. With this goal in mind, our initial discussion in January of 1991 about bringing the Lawrence Welk Collection to NDSU led to its becoming a reality two short years later.
|(Left) A young Mr. Welk beams with an early, personalized accordion and one of his first records on the Gennett label. (Right) A 1941 publicity photo shows the young maestro with "champagne lady" Jayne Walton and pianist-comic Tommy Sheridan.
Speaking on behalf of the family and the Welk Group, Inc., Mrs. Fredricks entrusted her late father's memorabilia to NDSU for "safe-keeping and preservation."
"There simply is no better place for this collection than in this state and at this institution, which, like our father, has roots so deeply planted in its culture and heritage. We wanted a permanent site for it and NDSU recognizes the significance of his contributions to the state and the music world."
Don Stowell, Director of Fine Arts at NDSU states, "The Welk music is a national resource and music that should be preserved, played, and made available to scholars and musicians in perpetuity." NDSU Director of Libraries John Beecher said the collection represents valuable resources for the state, region, and nation.
The Grand Forks Herald, in a July 9, 1992 editorial entitled "Welk Collection is `Wunnerful, Wunnerful,'" stated, "The collection adds depth to our higher education holdings. By donating the collection to the NDSU library the Welk family ensures for future generations processing, preservation, and public access. All North Dakotans should feel honored that one of their own has come home, not just in spirit but in words and deeds. In this case, in music and more music."
Delivering the eulogy at her father's funeral on May 20, 1992, Mrs. Fredricks said, in part, "The hardships of his boyhood with deprivations of every kind provided a major strength when he struck out on his own as a self-taught musician. No matter that he had to sleep in cornfields or in cars. A life of music, which had found its express in his accordion, seems like a miracle. Into that music he poured his immense sense of wonder, joy, and zest of life. And people listened, and are still listening."
Arrival of the collection
When the Lawrence Welk collection arrived on campus in February, 1993 we were pleased to discover one of Mr. Welk's accordions. The collection also contains scores of scrapbooks. The pages are filled with news clippings and advertisements from newspapers from North Dakota to Peoria and Chicago, to New York and Dallas that date back to the late 1920s when he started to perform.
Those scrapbooks and the musical arrangements provide a unique historical record of the life and career of one of the most famous people from North Dakota. Lawrence Welk died on May 17, 1992, at the age of 89.
NDSU officials hope that the collection someday will become the centerpiece of a North Dakota cultural archives. Speaking at the arrival of the Welk collection, Tom Isern, Director of the North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, said the collection will attract scholars from around the nation and the world. "It's a thing that feels right," he said. "Lawrence Welk was America's music maker....He was America's product. He was America's pride."
"Through the preservation of his collection we will keep the spirit alive for generations to come," stated president of NDSU Jim Ozbun, "Scholars will study his history, musicians will play his songs, and people will dance."
University archivist John Bye states, "This collection of musical scores will provide a unique challenge to the archival staff. The collection offers a different type of historical record more easily accessible to a type of researcher not usually associated with archival records. It will also heighten our awareness regarding copyright implications, preservation concerns, specialized finding aids which meet the needs of musicians, and reply to user requests from across the country."
Additional materials for the collection
It is anticipated that videotapes of the 1,700 television programs and thousands of color slides and photographs will be added to the collection. The Lawrence Welk Show appeared on national television for 27 years. Beginning in 1951 on a local Los Angeles station, ABC carried the program for 17 years. The show continued in national syndication until 1982. Since 1987 the show has aired every week on 272 public television stations. Today it continues to be the number one program on PBS based on the number of viewers. According to Margaret Heron, Executive Producer of Lawrence Welk Syndication, the March, 1993 television special was one of the top money raisers for PBS.
History of television broadcasting includes the audience, the show reached, the advertising featured, and the culture it brought to America's homes, important in popular music study. The collection offers opportunities to study the legend of a man who became a household name in American music.
Lawrence Welk's heritage and musical career
Having reviewed the significance and the plans for the Lawrence Welk Collection, I would like to reflect briefly on his life and his youth on the Dakota prairies.
Lawrence Welk was a son of German Russian pioneers who immigrated from Catholic Black Sea German villages of the Ukraine in 1893 and homesteaded in south-central North Dakota. His great-grandparents, Moritz and Magdalena Welk, immigrated in 1808 from a village in Alsace, France to the Ukraine. Lawrence's parents were Ludwig and Christina (Schwahn) Welk. Besides being a farmer, Ludwig Welk became a blacksmith like his father in the Ukraine. Eight children were born in the sodhouse which is still standing on the homestead. Still living today is Lawrence's youngest sister, Eva, who has generously contributed some of her cherished memorabilia from her brother to the Lawrence Welk Collection at NDSU.
The poor farm boy, whose love of music motivated him to leave home and follow his dream, built both his orchestra and the "Musical Family" which attracted and held the largest and most loyal audience in television history.
By the age of 17 he knew he wanted to make music his life's work. He talked his father into buying him a $400 accordion in return for a promise to stay on the farm for the next four years and turn over all the money he made playing at barn dances. In 1924, on his 21st birthday, Lawrence Welk was ready to leave home. He had little money and couldn't speak English, having been raised in the German-speaking community of Strasburg. Talent, an overwhelming desire to succeed and the values instilled in him by his strict German-Catholic upbringing were more than enough.
His first break came when George T. Kelly tapped him for "The Peerless Entertainers", a touring company of musicians and actors. From there, Lawrence went on to play on WNAX radio in Yankton, South Dakota in the 1930's. Welk's "Novelty Orchestra" became the "Honolulu Fruit Gum Orchestra", and then, in its final incarnation, became the now legendary "The Champagne Music of Lawrence Welk."
As one of the big bands of the 1940's the orchestra played for ten years at the Trianon Ballroom in Chicago. In 1951 the band appeared on television station KTLA in Los Angeles after a late-night movie. The response was tremendous! For the next four years, the band amassed a huge following in southern California.
In 1955 the Lawrence Welk Show began its run on ABC television, where it remained for sixteen years, until 1971. The show was then syndicated to more stations. Audiences all over America recognized what local audiences had know for years. The Welk band played the kind of music many Americans loved.
And the country loved Lawrence! His shyness, his smile, his delight in his performance, and his sometimes quaint English endeared him to viewers. "Wunnerful, wunnerful" and "Ah-one and ah-two" became part of America's vocabulary.
In October, 1987 The Lawrence Welk Show debuted on PBS and has since received the highest ratings of any PBS program. In March of 1993 PBS presented, "From the Heart: A Tribute to Lawrence Welk and the American Dream".
Reflections from his children
Shirley Welk Fredricks stated in her father's eulogy, "His was one of the first shows to display the talents of performers of all races, to play the music of many religions, and to show the joyous contributions they were making to America's culture. He was the first entertainer to institute a profit-sharing policy in his corporation and with his orchestra, a policy that continues in place today."
Lawrence Welk always spoke fondly of his birthplace and his home state. Son Larry Welk, speaking at the June 1992 at the dedication of the Welk homestead near Strasburg, said "All his life, the mention of the word Strasburg would put a light in his eyes and fill his memory with the people and scenes from his childhood. My dad was the son of immigrants, the first generation in this country who had to struggle with the tensions between an old-world culture from rules and tradition and a new-world culture of curiosity, independence, and diverse values. His life reflected the competing forces of these two worlds. Few men or women of his generation integrated these two worlds so successfully into their lives and work."
Lawrence Welk birthplace
Today the homestead where Lawrence Welk was born has been carefully restored to its 1920 condition. Both the heritage of the Welks as a German-Russian family and their pioneer life play an integral role in the development of the homestead as a National Historic Site. The restoration of this homestead is of interest and value to Americans of every ethnic extraction whose forefathers pioneered and settled the great plains of our country. The view it gives into the past cannot fail to engender an understanding and appreciation of those courageous, hard-working people who laid the groundwork for our present-day quality of life.
The culture of the Germans from Russia is an important aspect in the study of heritage of the Welk family. The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection at North Dakota State University is one of the major resources in North America. Future plans include exhibiting materials from the Lawrence Welk Collection at the Welk homestead as well as interpretative displays on the life of the Germans from Russia on the northern plains.
Building the Lawrence Welk Collection
North Dakota State University will actively seek to acquire additional Welk-related materials such as photographs, artifacts, oral interviews, personal papers, and other items. Persons who have Welk materials are encouraged to consider donating them to the permanent collection.
The Lawrence Welk Collection Committee was established at the University in 1992. John W. Beecher, Director of Libraries, serves as committee chair. Other members include Dean Thomas Isern, Director, North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies; John E. Bye, University Archivist; Dr. Donald Stowell, Director, Division of Fine Arts; Rik Ekstrom Department of Architecture; David Wahlberg, University Relations; and Michael M. Miller, Germans from Russia Bibliographer.
Dr. Robert W. Groves, Professor of Music at NDSU, received a grant from the North Dakota Humanities Council to complete oral interview with members of the Lawrence Welk Musical Family. In visiting with members of the show,including JoAnn Castle and Johnny Klein, a native of Strasburg, North Dakota, Dr. Groves found that working for Lawrence Welk was highly respected and he surrounded himself with some of the finest musicians. "Lawrence Welk was a genius at communicating with his audience and his musical family, states Dr. Groves, "He was best when he could perform live." Welk performed not what he thought would be good but what he thought his audience preferred".
There are plans to re-publish Welk's autobiography, Wunnerful, Wunnerful. William K. Schwienher's dissertation, A Descriptive Analysis of the Lawrence Welk Show as a Unique Sociological Phenomenon, has been published as a book, one of the best of its kind, entitled Lawrence Welk: An American Institution.
Champagne Music Coming to Branson, Missouri
Beginning in May, 1994, the wonderful sound of Lawrence Welk and his Musical Family will once again delight people of all ages. Welk Group, Inc. has announced the development of the $20 million Lawrence Welk Theatre and Resort in Branson, Missouri, America's newest entertainment mecca. Plans call for the project to include a 2,300-seat theater, a deluxe 160-room hotel and a 500-seat restaurant.
At the groundbreaking ceremony, Larry Welk stated, "Nothing thrilled my dad more than the times when he could come back to the midwest and entertain his many loyal fans. In those moments, he felt that he was truly home among the people whom he cherished and whose values he shared and celebrated. Dad always believed in listening to his fans to understand what kind of music and what kind of entertainment they enjoyed the most and then doing his utmost to give them the finest quality that he could. In a very real sense, his fans, and the midwest culture of which they were a part, shaped his show and the long popularity that he and his band enjoyed. While his show was born and nutured in the cradle of the midwest, it grew beyond those borders and was embraced by the whole nation."
Lawrence Welk's contributions to American music will be enhanced with the new theatre in Branson, the Lawrence Welk Resort near Escondido, California, and the show on public television. This will be important while North Dakota State University continues to build the Lawrence Welk Collection.
With such a large and growing collection, many challenges lie ahead. Lawrence Welk loved and believed in his home state, and it is a tremendous honor to know that his family feels the same way. Bringing the Lawrence Welk Collection home to North Dakota is truly a dream-come-true, and NDSU will strive to preserve this fine collection with the same respect and dedication Mr. Welk applied to every facet of his long and fulfilling life.
To donate materials, contact the Lawrence Welk Collection, North Dakota State University Libraries, P.O. Box 5599, Fargo, ND 58105-5599 (Tel: 701-237-8914).
Significant Dates in the Life of Lawrence Welk
- March 11. 1924: Started Career - 21st Birthday.
- 1925 - 1927: With George T. Kelly and the Peerless Entertainers.
- 1927 - mid-1930s: Band performed regularly over WNAX, South Dakota.
- April 18, 1931: Married Fern Renner - three children: Shirley, Donna and Larry. Ten grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
- December 31, 1938: Debut at William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Adopted name of "Champagne Music of Lawrence Welk."
- 1940 - 1950: Played the Trianon Ballroom in Chicago.
- 1951 - 1955: KTLA - local television station in Los Angeles broadcasted "The Lawrence Welk Show" from the Aragon Ballroom.
- 1955 - 1984: National television - 16 years on ABC, 13 years in syndication.
- October/November, 1984: National television: a Lawrence Welk Special "On Tour with Lawrence Welk," part 1 and 2.
- December, 1984: Christmas Special on national television.
- December, 1985: "Musical Family" Christmas Reunion Special on national television.
- October, 1987: "The Lawrence Welk Show" debuts on public television.
- July, 1992: On behalf of Lawrence Welk family, Shirley Welk Fredricks announces gift of The Lawrence Welk Collection to North Dakota State University, Fargo.
- February, 1993: The Lawrence Welk Collection arrives at North Dakota State University.
- March, 1993: Public television special premieres, "From the Heart: Lawrence Welk and the American Dream."
- May, 1994: Lawrence Welk Theatre and Resort opens in Branson, Missouri.
Books about Lawrence Welk and his Musical Family
Christenson, Boyd. Boyd Christenson Interviews. Bismarck, N.D.: Prairie House, 1983.
Coakley, Mary Lewis. Mister Music Maker, Lawrence Welk. With a foreword by Lawrence Welk. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1958.
Floren, Myron and Randee Floren. With a foreword by Lawrence Welk. Accordion Man. Brattleboro, Vt.: S. Greene Press, 1981.
Govoni, Albert. The Lawrence Welk Story. New York.: Pocket Books, 1966.
Katz, Susan. The Lawrence Welk Scrapbook. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978.
Lennon, Diane, Peggy, Kathy and Janet. Same Song - Separate Voices: The Collective Memories of the Lennon Sisters. Santa Monica, CA.: Roundtable Publ. Inc., 1985.
Miller, Michael Martin, ed. Moments to Remember. Strasburg, N.D.: Strasburg Schools Alumni Association, 1976.
Parr, Adolph Henry. The Lennon Sisters: Sweethearts of Song. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1960.
Sanders, Coyne Steven and Ginny Weissman. Champagne Music: The Lawrence Welk Show. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985.
Schwienher, William K. Lawrence Welk: An American Institution. Chicago: Nelson- Hall, 1980.
Redman, Cindy Goold and Jo Berry. Recipes For Remembrance: A Cookbook Featuring Stars of the Lawrence Welk Show. North Hollywood, CA: Harmony House, 1985.
Welk, Lawrence. Ah-One, Ah-Two: Life With My Musical Family. With Bernice McGeehan. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1974.
Welk, Lawrence. Lawrence Welk's Musical Family Album. With Bernice McGeehan. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1977.
Welk, Lawrence. My America, Your America. With Bernice McGeehan. Engelwood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976.
Welk, Lawrence. This I Believe. With Bernice McGeehan. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979.
Welk, Lawrence. Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk. With Bernice McGeehan. Engelwood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971.
Welk, Lawrence. You're Never Too Young. With Bernice McGeehan. Engelwood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1981.
Zehnpfennig, Gladys. Lawrence Welk, Champagne Music Man. Minneapolis, Mn.: T.S. Dennison, 1968.
Zimmer, Norma. Norma. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1976. Prentice-Hall, 1979.
Welk, Lawrence. Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk. With Bernice McGeehan. Engelwood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971.
Welk, Lawrence. You're Never Too Young. With Bernice McGeehan. Engelwood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1981.
Zehnpfennig, Gladys. Lawrence Welk, Champagne Music Man. Minneapolis, Mn.: T.S. Dennison, 1968.
Zimmer, Norma. Norma. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 1976.
(Most books are out-of-print. Consult your local library.)
Michael M. Miller
A native of Strasburg, North Dakota, Michael M. Miller grew up in the German Russian community when it most famous native son, Lawrence Welk, was playing champagne music to America's audiences. Miller's German Russian grandparents immigrated to south central North Dakota in the 1890's from Bessarabia and Black Sea, Ukraine. He has been at NDSU since 1967 as Assistant Professor and Germans from Russia Bibliographer at NDSU. Miller has worked closely in the development of the Ludwig and Christina (Schwahn) Welk homestead near Strasburg.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A federal judge in Jacksonville heard arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit over Florida cutting early voting from 14 to eight days, then promises to rule quickly.
U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., as well as a civil rights group and the Duval County Democratic Party, are asking a judge to block a law that reduces early voting days.
Brown and the others contend the law passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature that cut the number of days from 14 to eight discriminates against blacks because they vote early in large percentages.
"I don't know exactly what the ruling is going to be, but I'm really, very disappointed that the Republican Party is continuing to try to suppress the African-American vote," Brown said.
Lawyers for Secretary of State Ken Detzner contend that no one has proven that the change will harm minorities, especially since the law still provides for the same total number of hours available for early voting. They have also criticized filing the lawsuit on the eve of the election when the law was passed more than a year ago.
The new law not only cut back on the number of days available for early voting, but it also eliminated early voting on the Sunday prior to Election Day, which is when many black churches would organize "souls to the polls" events to take parishioners to early voting locations.
"There was no reason for the Legislature to go back and do what they did, taking the dates, cutting down," she said. "I mean, it was a whole list of things they've done to disenfranchise and suppress the African-American vote."
Lawyers representing the state say the changes affect everyone equally, and thus can't be discriminatory. But Brown's attorney Neil Henrichsen says statistics show the new voting schedule disproportionately affects minorities, who are more inclined to take advantage of early voting.
"We feel that we got a really fair hearing from the court, and the court was very thorough in it's preparation, and we appreciate that," Henrichsen said.
The federal judge handling the case, Judge Timothy Corrigan, ordered the state to provide information about early voting. He did not make a decision Wednesday, but that is expected sometime soon.
Under the new law, it's up to each county to decide how many hours will be spent on early voting, between 48 and 96. The information gathered by state election officials show that 32 counties -- including Brevard on Florida's east coast and Osceola in Central Florida -- will not hold the full amount of hours available under the new law. Brevard County only plans to offer early voting for 68 hours, while Osceola County will have 91 hours of voting.
But the state's bigger counties -- including Duval County -- do plan to hold 12 hours a day of early voting for all eight days.
The administration of President Barack Obama has already signed off on a proposal that calls for 96 hours of early voting in five Florida counties covered by the federal Voting Rights Act including Hillsborough County in the Tampa Bay area.
A federal court in Washington refused initially to approve the state's move to cut back on early voting days in those counties, saying it could discourage minority voting, especially among black voters. The court said that evidence presented in the case clearly showed that black voters utilized early voting much more than white voters, especially in the 2008 election, when Obama carried Florida.
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These engines have one power stroke for every revolution of the engine versus every other stroke on 4-cycles
All 4-cycle engines require four piston strokes or cycles to complete one power cycle. The flywheel on one end serves several functions, the first of which are engine cooling and inertia. The other functions are holding the external magnets for ignition and internal magnets for charging if equipped.
The rate of increase in velocity with respect to time; equal to net torque divided by inertia.
A device used to eliminate dust and dirt from the air supply. Filtered air is necessary to ensure that abrasive particles are removed before entering the combustion chamber. Dirt allowed into the engine will quickly wear the internal components and shorten the life of the engine.
The temperature of the surroundings.
Rotating member of a brushed DC motor.
To reduce to minute particles or to a fine spray.
A component designed to break the force or flow of air on the engine.
Shrouding covering internal engine components to prevent damage.
Conductor between the commutator and the external circuit of a brushed DC motor.
Government regulated department which determines standards for emissions by-products.
Lobes push the lifters at the proper time to allow air and fuel in and exhaust out of the cylinder. Teeth on the camshaft gear time the camshaft movement to the crankshaft movement.
An engine component that mixes fuel and air for combustion. A precursor to fuel injection, carburetors are found now only on small engines. They are less efficient than fuel injection.
Restricts airflow during cold starting for a richer air-to-fuel ratio.
By combining full choke and a primer, engines will starter more easily, especially in cold conditions.
This system has a manual choke level on the carburetor or the choke is in the control and operated remotely by a speed control cable.
Describes a system where a measured output value is compared to a desired input value and corrected accordingly (e.g., a servomotor system).
Mechanical device in a brushed DC motor that passes current from the brushes to the windings.
Provides the end user with the least possible pulling effort during starting. The system operates by momentarily opening one of the valves just prior to Top Dead Center (TDC) on the compression stroke. The system most commonly used on 4-cycles is mechanical. This type disengages after the engine is started. When disengaged, the engine creates full power.
The link between the piston (piston pin) and the crankshaft.
Device used for connecting cables; usually come in pairs of female and male.
This is a one way check valve that allows air out and prevents air from coming in. It allows the engine to develop a vacuum in the crankcase during operation to reduce oil consumption.
Converts the up and down piston movement to the rotational force (torque) through an offset crankpin or rod journal.
The cylindrical shape of the chambers where air and fuel are mixed and burned inside an internal combustion engine. Each chamber is counted as one cylinder. In general, the greater the number of cylinders an engine has, the greater the power and fuel consumption. To conserve fuel, some modern 8-cylinder engines have been designed to shut down cylinders when they are not needed (highway cruising, for example).
Houses the piston, crankshaft, and along with the cylinder cover, all the internal components. The block is a one piece diecast aluminum alloy cylinder casting which may have a cast iron liner.
Provides the bearing surface for the power take off (PTO) end of the crankshaft and camshaft. This bearing may be a bushing, a ball bearing or the cover material itself.
A one piece aluminum alloy casting that is bolted to the top of the cylinder block. The overhead design contains all of the valve train except for the camshaft, lifters and push rods.
A measure of the size of the engine, usually in cubic inches or cubic centimeters, more specifically is the volume the piston displaces.
Electronic Control Unit.
Electronic Fuel Injection.
Amount of axial displacement resulting from the application of a load equal to the stated maximum axial load.
Environmental Protection Agency, government body that sets federal emissions regulations.
The process through which engine waste is drawn out of the engine.
Allow the burned gases to pass out of the combustion chamber.
A plastic component consisting of a series of vanes radiating from a central hub, which is rotated by the crankshaft and cools the engine.
Provides inertia to keep the engine running smoothly between power strokes. By attaching a fan to the flywheel air flow is created and directed over the cooling fins. Hence the term Air Cooled Engine.
A material (usually rubber) or a part (O-ring) used to seal a joint so it won't leak.
A screen, usually plastic or metal, placed over the fan so large debris is not ingested into the engine.
Engine component that determines engine speed from ignition pulses.
A measurement of power, usually mechanical.
A device that maintains zero valve clearance eliminating the need for valve adjustments.
Electronic CDI (Capacitor Discharge Ignition). This system eliminated ignition points and their need for regular service. The benefit to the operator is low speed firing of the spark plug. This system requires approximately 1/3 the pulling speed of competitive inductive ignition systems. Which translates to 1/3 less effort for the end user.
A measurement of an object's ability to resist a change in velocity, this property is dependent upon the mass and shape of the object.
An opening on the engine through which fluid or air is drawn in.
2-cycle engines are lubricated by a gas oil mix. The correct mix ratio of oil and gas combines with air and the venturi and enters the crankcase. During engine operation, the oil clings to all the internal moving parts for lubrication.
Original Equipment Manufacturer.
Vertical shaft only. Consists of a steel plunger and a nylon or aluminum housing that rides an offset on the camshaft. The rotary pump consists of a lobed gear in a rotating ring that is driven by the camshaft. Both of these systems pump oil under pressure to all critical areas.
Describes a system that operates without feedback.
The valve is located on the cylinder head. This increases combustion efficiency and increases horsepower by 20% over the same displacement L-head engine, and a 20% overall fuel efficiency.
Paper type air filter elements can only be serviced by replacement. Do not attempt to clean a paper filter element.
The maximum torque that can be delivered for even a short period of time.
Transmits the force of the burning and expanding gases through the connecting rod to the crankshaft.
These provide the seal between the cylinder wall and the piston. The rings keep the combustion pressures from entering the crankcase and also wipe the oil off the cylinder wall and return it to the pump.
Openings in the cylinder that allow gases to pass into and out of the combustion chamber. The ports are opened or closed by the upward and downward movement of the piston.
The rate at which work is done; equivalent to torque times rotational speed, voltage times current, etc
Also known as manual fuel injection. A primer button that pushes a metered amount of fuel out of the main nozzle. This requires 3-5 complete pushes of the button, waiting 3 seconds between each prime. After the engine is warmed up, no priming is needed for restart. These carburetors are used on rotary mower engines and some small horsepower engines.
Torque-producing capacity at a specified speed.
A reed valve is activated by crankcase pressure or vacuum. A decrease in crankcase pressure opens the reed, allowing the fuel air and oil mixture to enter the crankcase. Increased crankcase pressure closes the valve, preventing the escape of the fuel-air and oil mixture back through the carburetor.
The stationary member of a motor.
A force that rotates a body.
A volume of space that has little or no pressure due to the absence of air or any other gasses; there are differing degrees of vacuum, which is why Empire Magnetics offers three different grades of vacuum rated motors and related products.
Allow air-fuel mixture to enter the cylinder and exhaust gases to exit. The valves provide a positive seal when closed.
Maintain contact on the camshaft, move the push rods to pivot the rocker arms and move the valves.
Return the valves to the closed position and must be strong enough to maintain valve lifter and cam lobe contact. The valve retainers lock the spring to the valve stem.


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Farm people in Russia, with farm animals
Laundry on top of a white clothes dryer
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The Cycling Saga: Episode 1
Pushing pedal over pedal, I trudged ahead on my bike through pouring sheets of frigid rain. My cold, drenched clothes weighed me down, but I forged on through last Saturday's doom and gloom to photograph Mount Abe's graduation.
With our trusty photographer Trent Campbell covering the Middlebury's graduation, it was my duty to the community to ride through torrential downpour to capture moment-by-moment the Mount Abe seniors as they waved farewell and grabbed their diplomas.
"Did you have to ride your bike?" one might ask.
Well, no. But living the vehiculesslife, I felt an inner calling. My neighbor was attending the graduation, so I could have jumped in her car. But a force much larger than conviction penetrated the mind of your favorite (and only) five-town reporter — fun.
Fortunately, last Saturday wasn't as wet as March around Lake Champlain.
Photo by Brian King
That's right. Fun. Riding a bike is joyful, and although Zeus decided to dump buckets on that day of all days, I decided to boost my endorphins after a weary week in front of a computer screen. Few acts of life are more enjoyable for me than biking through Addison County's rolling landscape covered by June's lush green veil. A bit of rain wasn't about to spoil this guy's plans.
Besides, I told Addison County zen cycling master Brian King — who does Houdini-like magic in the Indy's production room — that I would stop by his Bristol abode before the ceremonies began. Whether it rains, shines or drops two feet of snow, you can rest assured that the zen master will ride his bike from Bristol to Middlebury (where our offices are located) and back every day of the year. There was no way that I could disappoint my friend and sensei by copping out and driving with my neighbor.
Speeding along the gleaming wet streets I made my way to Bristol via River Road. The New Haven River was up and rushing down towards Otter Creek. A deer sprang out from beneath a thicket of large ferns, and a bird of prey, resembling a northern goshawk, took refuge under the shelter of a towering tree's overhanging branch.
Rolling into Bristol, I turned down the zen master's hill and arrived at his house. Squish-squashing as I walked to the front door, my sensei appeared from behind a floating pool of mist.
"How the heck are ya?" he asked. "Let me get you some tea."
So we drank tea and talked for a bit before I changed into some dressy-casual clothes for the ceremony. Leaving my bike at his house, I walked over to graduation — umbrella in hand — and documented ANeSU's young talent belt out an assortment of heart-felt tunes.
Jim Ross made his final speech in eloquent fashion and the seniors were awarded their diplomas. After just avoiding a near-death trampling by a stampede of proud and gushing parents, I made my way back to Brian's house.
It was there that I learned a simple yet brilliant trick or two from the zen master.
My cycling shoes were filled with newspaper and when I removed the paper they were completely dry. "A miracle," I thought.
Brian then handed me two plastic bags. "You'll need these," he said.
We ate lunch and I prepared to head back out into the cold droves of rain.
With the aid of two rubber bands, he showed me how to secure the plastic bags over my cycling shoes.
"You may look like a dork, but those bags will keep your feet warm," said Brian.
With that I biked back into the tempest — plastic bags crinkling in the wind and rain as my feet said a silent thank you in warm, protected paradise.


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A story of how Kristen and Rob's relationship progresses while filming Twilight.
What started out as just another movie for them turns into something much more as Kristen and Rob's undeniable chemistry propels them from 'co-stars' to 'friends' and possibly…. 'lovers'?
Things are never so simple in Hollywood and the two stars have to face some harsh questions. Is Kristen willing to leave her first love and longtime boyfriend, Michael? Does Rob want that? Where do they go from here?
My own little interpritation on the behind the scenes shennanigans between teh famous "Robsten".
Edward Masen and Bella Swan, high school sweethearts who married young, have their lives turned upside down when Edward is "discovered". Celebrity, tragedy, alcohol and excess dissolve what seems to be indestructible… or does it? Can love rise above fame and indulgence? Or does Hollywood truly alter what is good in a man?
Romance, angst, humor, lemons.
NC-17 for language, lemons, rape, and various abuses.
"My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?"
Many have tried to finish Stephenie Meyer's "Midnight Sun" (Twilight from Edward's point of view) and from what I've seen, none of them truly finished what she started. This ending to "Midnight Sun" starting at Chapter 13 is not only picking up where she left off, but uncovering the Edward that she created, and blending the perspectives of many to hear the rest of his story. This first book is a unique turning point in the arc of his character.
Since her parents were killed in a car crash, 11-year-old Bella is forced to endure an abusive adoptive family. It's up to Edward to save her before it's too late.
Samantha knew she's a vampire. But she knew little of what being one meant. As she escaped her past in search for a better future, she met Seth Clearwater. Instant disgust quickly turned into adoration and fondness. Seth, together with the Cullens, helped Samantha discover herself. She quickly found more than she bargained for. Could she possibly handle the truth about what she was and what she was capable of? Or would she choose easy death by the one government acknowledged in the vampire world?
Jasper's the new mechanic across the street from Bella's diner. She knows nothing about his broken soul and lost childhood; all she knows is that he needs a friend. But when you've spent so long running from your past, do you still have the humanity to turn to face your future?
After a girls' night in, and drunken truth or dare, Bella goes on three blind dates. She unwinds after each one at her favorite piano bar, where she pours her heart out to bartender, Eddie. He listens and decides she needs dating lessons. Embarrassment, hilarity, and UST all combine in this Countdown to Combustion!
Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly in the path of the best things that will ever happen to us. ExB AH
Our skin is ice cold and hard like diamonds, but we are flawed. Fine lines where we should complete each other are empty. We are like cracked marble, but can we put ourselves back together after all this time? For almost a century, Edward and Bella have lived a life that neither imagined. Can an unexpected reunion in Forks repair it all? ExB/AU/OCs/M - for vampire violence
While out hunting, a mysterious fog somehow sends half of the Cullen family back to the year 1687. In their attempts to return to their own time, they learn of a plot that might ultimately endanger the very future of all mythical creatures.
School teacher Bella sends a care package and letter to Army sergeant Edward, who is stationed in Afghanistan. They begin a relationship through letters, phone calls, and video chats. There's love, there's language, and there's adult situations, plus a strong, independent Bella and the Edward we all know and love.
Bella Swan is a down on her luck, single mom whose son suffers from an extreme medical condition. Edward Cullen is a medical student who is assigned to help Bella and her son find affordable medical care as an ethics project. Needless to say, he's not too happy about the assignment as he would prefer to focus on what he feels is important, and Bella is not thrilled with a snobby medical student butting into her life. Will they be able to get along so Edward can get his project done and Bella's son the medical attention he needs, or will they end up hating each other on the way?
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Cause: Edward gives Bella exactly what she wants for her birthday.
Effect: He must leave her behind for good.
Effect: Bella disappears.
How will Edward survive without her? What other effects will there be for Edward and the rest of the Cullens?
Beginning with New Moon and taking a drastically different direction, this story is Edward's side of my first published story Consequences.
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Edward struggles to come to grips with his new life in Forks and a father he's just met for the first time. He's unfamiliar with the easy going lifestyle he's been thrust into with the sudden death of his mom and step-father. Gone are the strict rules filled with harsh discipline and constant demands for perfection on the piano.
He finds a reason to fight his past demons when he meets a dark haired beauty that captures his heart. But then, his whole world is in jeopardy when a stalker threatens Bella and tries to destroy everything Edward now holds dear. LEMONS
"Our being is subject to all the chances of life." Katherine Anne Porter
Edward had been her BMF (Best Male Friend) almost since she started as an Assistant Professor at Selva University, although they weren't in the same department. What would it take for him to see her as more than a friend and faculty member? AH
What do you do when the one you thought would love you forever up and leaves you? You move to Vegas of course!
It's 3 years after Edward left Bella. She's discovered a new life, and made new friends, but has never really gotten over Edward's abandonment.
When a chance encounter with Alice at a local Vegas night club brings the Cullens back full force into Bella's life, how will she react? Is there any hope for them to rekindle their friendships? More importantly, is there any chance that she and Edward can work through her distrust and his shame and guilt to get back their undying love, or does attention from a new love interest have Bella distracted?
Come on in to the world of Crooked Halo's and Ink Junkies, and find out!
For some, sanity's a little bit harder to come by. Bella's in a mental hospital in Seattle and gets diagnosed with a serious illness. The doctors aren't all that they seem. But of all things, the rain keeps her going. REPOST*
This story is my AU intro to Cullen discipline. Edward returned home from his rebellious period. They cannot go back to how they were, as Carlisle cannot leave himself and Esme exposed to another Edward tantrum and the pain it caused them. The three vampires must define their new roles in the coven. Warning: Discipline fiction, spanking - Corporal Punishment
SEQUEL TO A Different Kind of Moon. Fifteen years have passed since the fateful day that Angela Cullen (formerly Weber) was turned. Follow her story as she recounts her adjustments to her new life as a vampire as well as becoming the newest member of the Cullen clan. How does she really feel about her new life? Her family? What does she want to do with the eternity that now lays before her? Did Edward and Bella find their happily ever after? Will Angela find love? All this and more will be answered in Careful What You Wish For!
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Bella needed to start fresh and get away from the memories that had haunted her for a year. What were the chances, in second chances?
In canon through most of Eclipse, then I take over. Two weeks before her wedding, Bella is called home to Phoenix because her mother is in a horrible car accident. After several months of caring for Renee, Bella is heart broken when her mother dies. Grief-stricken, she flees Phoenix and moves to New York for college. Seven years later, she is called back to Forks to bury her father after vampires murder him and Billy Black.
Nessie is a girl taken from her home to be a slave of Volterra. She is purchased by Edward Cullen and his wife, Bella. They find her a delight and make her a useful member of their life, even gifting her to Edward's captain of the guard, Jacob.
Jacob accepts Nessie as his personal slave, but as each day passes he realizes that his affection for her is growing. She loves him, and he her. However, her status as a slave means that he can not truly honor her by sharing his life with her as he wishes.
He knows to have her as his life partner he must free her, but he fears losing her if she is free to choose.
But before he can move to free her she catches the eye of Caius, the nephew of Volterra's ruler. Caius is a cruel and sadistic man who has never failed to get what he wants and he wants Nessie.
Edward is seventeen and has been attending school for four years away from his family. Now that he's home, what will happen when he meets the stranger who he believes has stolen his family from him? This isn't your typical Bella/Edward fall in love at first sight story. Follow along as the fireworks fly and love is born out of a journey of hurt feelings, misunderstandings, and finally joy.
Shy Isabella and dirty, playboy Edward find themselves fighting against fate when they become neighbors after a one night stand. Edward's got problems, and Isabella can't stop thinking about him. How long can they deny what is surely meant to be? AU/AH
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Cheese and mushroom casserole with chicken
This casserole is simple and delicious, and makes a perfect snack during a picnic (bento anyone?)—you should use it as a basic idea for a casserole, since the pasta sauce is the stable and the most important piece of the meal. It's also a very tweak-able recipe! :-)
Simple chicken teriyaki bento
This recipe is very easy and fast to cook, because it requires ready-made teriyaki sauce. Still, it's a really tasty alternative to sausages and pork, and chicken made in teriyaki style is juicy, tender and full of aroma! It also takes just few minutes, because the meat is first fried quickly, and then glazed with sauce. Fast food like a boss ;-)
Fancy tamagoyaki bento
Oh my, this one is both a looker and tastes amazingly! :-) This bento idea is based on the basic tamagoyaki recipe, so feel free to use your favorite ingredients: champignons or chanterelle mushroom, herbs, different kinds of onion, bacon bits, ham shavings etc. Go crazy! :-) It's also a very good side dish!
Teriyaki salmon bento
I think life is too short to keep the frozen salmon in the fridge! :-) So I made a teriyaki salmon bento, which was so fast to cook, that I had too much idle time in the morning... Just be careful not to overcook the teriyaki sauce, because it may have a burnt taste. Also, optional lotus root slices will keep the fish tender and juicy for the time when you can finally devour every last bit of it ;-)
Teriyaki pork strips with shallots bento
This simple recipe requires only 3 ingredients: sliced pork loin (already mentioned minute steaks or easy steaks), shallots and teriyaki sauce. It's also one of the lazy recipes — part of it you can prepare evening before, and finish it quickly before serving or packing your bento box. Plus, marinating for a long time allows increased flavors to transfer easily across the meat!


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Chamberlain joined PNC in 2011 and has served as the mortgage division's president and chief operating officer. Before that, he occupied executive positions in Regions Financial and insurance giant American International Group.
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While still working on an update to the configurator (mostly internal changes to make it easier to install for non-standard games, and to make it easier to use external presets), I'd like to tell you about another sweetfx project I've started, the SweetFX Settings Database. The goal of that site is mainly to collect SweetFX presets (and screenshots) for games, and list various special considerations for getting SweetFX to work on those games.
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This is an overview of available tools for forensic investigators. Please click on the name of any tool for more details.
- 1 Disk Imaging Tools
- 2 Data Recovery Tools
- 3 Disk Analysis Tools
- 4 Forensics Live CDs
- 5 Metadata Extraction Tools
- 6 File Analysis Tools
- 7 Network Forensics Tools
- 8 Anti-forensics Tools
- 9 Personal Digital Device Tools
- 10 Other Tools
Disk Imaging Tools
Note: We're trying to use the same tool template for all devices. Please use this if possible.
Hardware imagers
Imaging Memory
At CanSec West 05, Michael Becher, Maximillian Dornseif, and Christian N. Klein discussed an exploit which uses DMA to read arbitrary memory locations of a firewire-enabled system. The paper lists more details. The exploit is run on an iPod running Linux. This can be used to grab screen contents.
In theory, this could be used with the ... to send through an exploit code that would cause the system to dump the contents of its hard drive back to the iPod.
Unix-based imagers
- aimage
- Part of the AFF system, aimage can create either a raw file or an AFF file. It can optionally compress and calculate MD5 or SHA-1 hash residues while the data is being copied.
- dcfldd
- A version of dd created by the Digital Computer Forensics Laboratory. dcfldd is an enhanced version of GNU dd with features useful for forensics and security, such as calculating MD5 or SHA-1 hashes on the fly and faster disk wiping.
- dd
- A program that converts and copies files, is one of the oldest Unix programs. I can copy data from any Unix "file" (including a raw partition) to any other Unix "file" (including a disk file or a raw partition). This is one of the oldest of the imaging tools, and produces raw image files. Extended into dcfldd.
- dd_rescue
- http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
- A tool similar to dd, but unlike dd it will continue reading the next sector, if it stumbles over bad sectors it cannot read.
- iLook IXimager
- The primary imaging tool for iLook. It is Linux based and produces compressed authenticatable image files that may only be read in the iLook analysis tool.
- MacQuisition Boot CD
- Provides software to safely image Macintosh drives.
Windows-based imagers
- AccessData
- Their ultimate tool lets you "READ, ACQUIRE, DECRYPT, ANALYZE and REPORT (R.A.D.A.R.)."
- Can image and convert many file formats. Also builds mobile toolkit.
- EnCase
- Can image with out dongle plugged in. Only images to E0* file.
- FTK Imager by AccessData
- Can image and convert many image formats. Including E0* and dd. Also a free tool.
- Ghost
- FTK can read forensic, uncompressed Ghost images.
- ProDiscovery
- Images and searches FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and all NTFS files.
- Wetstone
- Gargoyle investigator scans for illicit data and steganographic images.
- X-Ways Forensics
- Has some limited imaging capabilities. The output is raw format.
- X-Ways Replica
- Performs hard disk cloning and imaging. The output is raw format.
Data Recovery Tools
- BringBack
- http://www.toolsthatwork.com/
- BringBack(tm) offers easy to use, inexpensive, and highly successful data recovery for Windows(tm) & Linux (ext2) operating systems and digital images stored on memory cards, etc.
- ByteBack Data Recovery Investigative Suite v4.0
- http://www.toolsthatwork.com
- Now with UDMA, ATA & SATA support, memory management and greater ease and control of Partition and MBR manipulations, ByteBack continues to uphold it's viability as the computer forensics and recovery application of professionals.
- RAID Reconstructor
- Runtime Software's RAID Reconstructor will reconstruct RAID Level 0 (Striping) and RAID Level 5 drives. People who have used it, love it.
- Salvation Data
- http://www.salvationdata.com
- Claims to have a program that can read the "bad blocks" of Maxtor drives with proprietary commands.
Disk Analysis Tools
Linux-based Tools
Macintosh-based Tools
- Macintosh Forensic Software, by BlackBag Technologies, Inc.
- http://www.blackbagtech.com/software_mfs.html
Windows-based Tools
- ILook Investigator, by Elliot Spencer and U.S. Dept of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS)
- http://www.ilook-forensics.org/
Open Source Tools
- A library for working with disk images. Currently AFFLIB supports raw, AFF, AFD, and EnCase file formats. Work to support segmented raw, iLook, and other formats is ongoing.
- FTimes
- http://ftimes.sourceforge.net/FTimes/index.shtml
- FTimes is a system baselining and evidence collection tool.
- gpart
- http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/user/76201/gpart/
- Tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type hard disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is damaged, incorrect or deleted.
- Zeitline
- http://projects.cerias.purdue.edu/forensics/timeline.php
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/zeitline/
NDA and scoped distribution tools
Forensics Live CDs
- FCCU Gnu/Linux Boot CD
- Also a Live CD built on top of Knoppix with a lot of tools with forensic purpose.
- It leaves the target devices unaltered (it does not use the swap partitions found on the devices) nor does it automount partitions.
- Helix
- A Live CD built on top of Knoppix with special tools for incident response and electronic discovey.
- Its a hybrid CD which also contains a Cygwin environment for use on a running Windows system (w/o rebooting) including the sysinternal tools.
- Knoppix STD
- A Live CD built on top of Knoppix.
- http://s-t-d.org/
- MacQuisition Boot CD
- A forensic Live CD built for imaging Macintosh systems.
Metadata Extraction Tools
- jhead
- http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/
- Displays or modifies Exif data in JPEG files.
- vinetto
- http://vinetto.sourceforge.net/
- Examines Thumbs.db files.
- wvWare
- http://wvware.sourceforge.net/
- Extracts metadata from various Microsoft Word files (doc). Can also convert doc files to other formats such as HTML or plain text.
- xpdf
- http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
- pdfinfo (part of the xpdf package) displays some metadata of PDF files.
File Analysis Tools
Open Source Tools
- file
- The file command determines the file type of a given file, depending on its contents and not on e.g. its extension or filename. In order to do that, it uses a magic configuration file that identifies filetypes.
- ldd
- ...
- ltrace
- ...
- strace
- ...
- strings
- Strings will print the strings of printable characters in files. It allows choosing different charactersets (ASCII, UNICODE). It is a quick way to browse through files/partitions/... in order to look for words, filenames, keywords etc.
NDA and scoped distribution tools
Network Forensics Tools
- chkrootkit
- ...
- cryptcat
- ...
- netcat
- ...
- netflow/flowtools
- http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/732/Tech/nmp/netflow/index.shtml
- http://www.splintered.net/sw/flow-tools/
- rkhunter
- ...
Anti-forensics Tools
- Slacker
- A tool to hide files within the slack space of the NTFS file system.
- http://www.metasploit.com/projects/antiforensics/slacker.exe
- Timestomp
- A tool that allows one to modify all four NTFS timestamp (MACE) values.
- http://www.metasploit.com/projects/antiforensics/timestomp.exe
Securely deleting data
- BCWipe
- Secure data deletion tools for Windows and Unix-like operating systems.
- CyberScrub cyberCide
- This program securely erases all data from drives or partitions.
- http://www.cyberscrub.com/products/cybercide/index.php
- CyberScrub Privacy Suite
- This program securely erases selected data, wipes free space, powerful scheduling capabilities.
- http://www.cyberscrub.com/products/privacysuite/index.php
- Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN)
- This is a bootable disk that securely wipes any hard disk it can detect.
- http://dban.sourceforge.net/
- Eraser
- Offers several patterns for wiping data including Peter Gutmann's and the US DoD 5200.28-STD standard.
- http://www.heidi.ie/eraser
- shred
- Part of GNU coreutils.
See also
Personal Digital Device Tools
PDA Forensics
Cell Phone Forensics
- BitPIM
- DataPilot Secure View
- ForensicMobile
- LogiCube CellDEK
- MOBILedit!
- Oxygen PM II
- Paraben Cell Seizure
- Paraben Cell Seizure Toolbox
SIM Card Forensics
Preservation Tools
Other Tools
- VMware Player
- http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
- A free player for VMware virtual machines that will allow them to "play" on either Windows or Linux-based systems.
- VMware Server
- http://www.vmware.com/products/server/
- The free server product, for setting up/configuring/running VMware virtual machine.Important difference being that it can run 'headless', i.e. everything in background.
Hex Editors
- hexdump
- ...
- Hex Workshop
- A hex editor from BreakPoint Software, Inc.
- http://www.bpsoft.com
- WinHex
- Computer forensics software, data recovery software, hex editor, and disk editor from X-Ways.
- http://www.x-ways.net/winhex
- xxd
- ...


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June 2018
Recent Releases
Tangled Planet
Kate Blair
What it is:
a suspenseful science fiction murder mystery set on a far-off planet.
What happens
: Seventeen-year-old Ursa and the other human colonists of the starship
have only just arrived on Beta Earth when one of their own is found dead. No one believes Ursa's claims of sighting a sharp-toothed monster in the woods, even as the killer claims more victims and the colony is thrown into jeopardy.
For fans of:
Beth Revis' Across the Universe trilogy.
Girl Made of Stars
Ashley Herring Blake
What it's about:
Besides being her twin brother, Owen is also Mara's most trusted confidante. Yet when her friend Hannah accuses Owen of rape, Mara believes her, even though doing so fractures her family and forces Mara to confront her own long-buried pain.
Who it's for:
readers who won't shy away from an intense, honest look at trauma and recovery.
Try this next:
Jenny Downham's
You Against Me
, for a different perspective on siblings whose relationship is shattered by sexual assault.
Picture Us in the Light
Kelly Loy Gilbert
high school senior and second-generation immigrant Danny Cheng, whose excitement about his art-school scholarship dims as his parents begin acting strange and his tight-knit friend group implodes.
Why you might like it:
If you enjoy character-driven reads, you'll be drawn to snarky, sympathetic Danny and his attempts to deal with grief, guilt, identity, family secrets, and love (romantic and otherwise).
Isle of Blood and Stone
Makiia Lucier
What it's about:
Eighteen years ago, the crown princes and royal navigator of St. John del Mar were kidnapped and murdered...or so it seemed. Now, newly discovered maps indicate that all three might still be alive, and it's up to Elias (the navigator's son), Ulises (the princes' brother) and Mercedes (a royal cousin) to find them.
Why you might like it:
With sea-serpents, sweeping intrigue, and simmering romance, what's not to like?
Look for:
the sequel -- this is the 1st book in a duology.
Julie Murphy
optimistic Millie Michalchuk, who's decided to ditch fat camp for a journalism program; and popular Callie Reyes, who's planning a revenge prank with her dance team frenemies.
What happens:
When the aftermath of the prank brings the two Texas teens together, they discover that they inspire each other in unexpected ways.
Series alert:
You don't need to have read
to appreciate this feisty follow-up, but fans will be excited to revisit familiar characters.
Focus on: Soccer
These soccer-themed reads should keep you busy in b
etween FIFA World Cup matches.
Heidi Ayarbe
What it's about:
The magic keeps Jake safe, and the numbers make the magic work. So Jake follows meticulous routines based around counting and prime numbers, hoping that he can keep the magic going long enough to win the school soccer tournament, earn a scholarship, and repair his messed-up family.
Why you might like it:
This "gripping, claustrophobic read" (
) offers an insider's view of life with OCD.
For fans of:
John Green's
Turtles All the Way Down
Breakaway: Beyond the Goal
Alex Morgan
What it is:
a memoir by soccer star Alex Morgan, who's played in both the World Cup and the Olympics, where her team won the gold in 2012.
What's inside:
In a casual, candid style, Morgan describes life as a professional athlete, and dishes out advice on coping with injuries, balancing school and sports, and building strong relationships.
Who it's for:
will appeal most to soccer fans, Morgan's dedication and down-to-earth attitude will inspire all kinds of readers.
Walter Dean Myers and Ross Workman
What it is:
Celebrated author Walter Dean Myers joined forces with one of his fans, Ross Workman, to write this story of a soccer-playing New Jersey kid who gets into serious trouble.
What happens:
Arrested for crashing his friend Christy's dad's car, 13-year-old Kevin Johnson has to decide whether he can trust Sergeant Brown, a police officer who
like he genuinely wants to help.
Why you might like it:
Besides a captivating mystery and exciting soccer action,
also offers memorable, well-developed characters.
Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town
Warren St. John
What it's about:
how the boys in Clarkston, Georgia's refugee resettlement center learned a common language besides English: soccer. Led by their determined coach, the boys formed teams known as the Fugees, and despite their lack of equipment or support, their unusual team spirit began to attract attention.
Who it's for:
Pairing play-by-play action with the all-too-real struggles of adjusting to life in a new country,
Outcasts United
is a winner for sports fans and nonfiction readers alike.
Now Is the Time for Running
Michael Williams
What it's about:
how 14-year-old Deo goes from fleeing his ravaged village in Zimababwe to playing in the Street Soccer World Cup in South Africa.
Read it for:
a heart-wrenching story of brutality and survival, lightened by on-the-field excitement and the loyal, loving bond between Deo and his brother, Innocent.
Did you know?
South African author Michael Williams based this novel on interviews with young Zimbabwean refugees.
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Maharashtra's agricultural hinterland – especially Marathwada and Vidarbha – have been facing severe water crisis year after year. Issues of debts, crop failure, bad monsoon etc, have historically wreaked havoc on the farmers' livelihoods and driven them to suicide. This year, the state which is in the middle of what is being called the worst drought since 1972, is further under pressure.
However, despite this perpetual water crisis, the government has allowed water intensive industries to mushroom in these regions, and has also sold off the farmers' rightful water to them. 65 percent of these industries are thermal power plants running on coal, and require large quantities of water.
Maharashtra has also seen a massive scam in building dams where it has been reported that more than Rs.70,000 Crore was spent over ten years to only to have a marginal increase in irrigated area because of the cost of dams were escalated continuously and this has exposed the politicians-industries nexus in Maharashtra.
But the state's grabbing and selling (allocating) of waters from dams- some of them yet to be commissioned seems to be a larger scandal hiding in the closet. The farmers are being deprived of their right to livelihood.
Last year our studies in Vidarbha's Wardha and Wainganga rivers, done by IIT Delhi, showed that a cluster of 71 Thermal Power Plants and about 55000 MW coming up in Vidarbha will take away 40% water from Wardha and 17% water from Wainganga. This is water meant for agriculture. Across the state more than 80,000 MW is being proposed.
Without any doubt, the government is doing its best to provide relief measures to this disaster. But the real question is it learning to prevent a man-made drought of the future?
The government must realize that building more coal plants is not the solution to water scarcity or to the gap in electricity production. It should first conduct an assessment of water availability in the rivers and all allocations should be suspended till this is complete. It should actively promote renewable energy technologies which also have a potential to save water for irrigation and other needs, otherwise wasted by thermal power plants.
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-Company's Momentum Accelerated - Details to Follow During October 1st Webcast-
STERLING, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- IceWEB, Inc.™ - (OTC:IWEB) a leading provider of Unified Data Storage appliances for cloud and virtual environments, will be hosting a live webcast today, October 1st at 2pm, where Chief Executive Officer, Rob Howe will discuss new and significant events that will greatly impact the Company's future. He will also address shareholder inquiries sent to email@example.com.
The webcast can be accessed through: http://events.tvworldwide.com/events/iceweb/121001iceweb.aspx or through the Company's website – www.iceweb.com.
IceWEB manufactures award-winning, high performance unified data storage appliances with enterprise storage management capabilities at a fraction of the price of traditional providers, while reducing space, power and cooling requirements and simplifying storage management for land-based, virtual and cloud environments. For more information please call 800-465-4637 or visit www.IceWEB.com. To become part of the Company's e-mail list for industry updates and press releases, please send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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