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Wyatt's Towing - Impound Cars and Trucks
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Ends: Wed, Jun 19 at
Payments can be made in CASH or Credit Card (with valid matching ID). There will be a 10% Buyer's Premium ADDED to the purchase price of each vehicle. Buyers must pay immediately for their purchases. You will NOT be given time to leave and obtain funds. NO CHECKS.
Most vehicles will be sold on a bill of sale. However, some vehicles will be sold WITH TITLE. Vehicles with TITLE will be subject to sales tax, to be paid at time of the auction.
Removal will be by 4:00 pm off the lot. Due to space constraints, only a few tow trucks will be permitted in the lot at any given time.
1. Wyatt's Towing vehicle AUCTION is held every other Wednesday—rain, shine or blizzard—at: 5126 Brighton Blvd., Denver, CO 80216. (Between Race and York St., north of I-70). The preview begins at 9 AM, and the auction starts promptly at 9:30 AM. There is an average of 75 vehicles offered for sale every other week. On-street parking is available, but be mindful of "no parking" signs. There is NO parking in the sales yard.
2. All vehicles, are sold "As Is, Where Is" with no warranty or guarantee expressed or implied. Bidders are expected to visually inspect each vehicle before bidding.
3. The $100.00 cash deposit is a "good faith" (refundable) deposit assuring that you will pay for all of the vehicles that you purchased in the bid process. Though payment in full is due at the end of the sale, you may be ordered to pay for your purchase or purchases at any time in the course of the sale. If you fail to pay for the vehicle or vehicles you purchased in the bid process, that is a breach of contract and you will forfeit your $100.00 cash deposit. Hang on to your bid number. If you do not buy a vehicle and you wish to leave, you must turn in your bid number to the auctioneer's clerks in order to collect your cash deposit. When you turn in your bid number, the clerks will request your ID, and it must be the same ID as the person who registered. If you forget your deposit, a check will have to be requested and may take up to 6 weeks to process. So please remember to retrieve your deposit.
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I should have been in Vegas the past few weeks.
I don't know if it's something I ate or what has gone on lately but for some fluky reason, I've been keying in on the fate of the Seahawks with accidental accuracy.
I look to this weekend to be no different. The Seahawks face a bewildering Bills team. Loaded with potential and some players very capable of handing the Hawks a very bad day. Yet, the game will be played on neutral ground, with an apathetic crowd in attendance, and a 1pm Pacific Northwest kickoff time to boot. None of this matters normally. But lately, there's nothing normal about this football team that's trending so high right now that you are hard pressed to find an NFL national media show that isn't finding time to squeeze in a little talk about the Seahawks in a warm and fuzzy light.
Unless you're Michael Irvin of course. But the windbag's disdain for the Seahawks should be insurance, not a hindrence, in our continued collective belief that the 2012 Seattle Seahawks are creating something very, very special right before our eyes.
Normally, this game is a loss for the Seahawks. Normally this pick is as decisive as it is with regret.
However, there is nothing normal currently going on with Mr. Wilson and the 2012 Seattle Super Seahawks.
With bravado, I proudly say, the Seahawks winning streak continues.
Aros' Fearless Prediction: Seahawks 27 - Bills 17
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Duppy Cocktail
Pour 4 1/2 glasses of Whisky (2 oz Asyla Scotch) into a large glass and soak in this a few cloves (for an hour or two). Add 5 or 6 drops of Orange Bitters (Healthy Dash Regan's, Healthy Dash Fee's), and lastly put in 1 1/2 glasses of Curacao (3/4 oz Brizard Curacao). Place the lot in the shaker; shake (stir, strain) and serve.
This is a cocktail that got a lot more interesting as it warmed. Chilled, it just tasted pretty much like cold Scotch. As it warmed, the clove and other spices of the orange bitters expressed themselves more fully.
Duppy, from what I can tell, in Jamaican folklore refers to, "restless spirits of the dead that are believed to haunt the living."
Not sure what Jamaican ghosts have to do with Scotch, cloves, bitters, and curacao. I noticed no otherworldly effects resulting from consuming the cocktail. Perhaps it helps to get rid of them?
However, here's an odd thing!
Over last years' holiday I found a 1934 edition of Patrick Gavin Duffy's "Official Mixer's Manual". In this book he gives the "Duppy Cocktail (6 People)" as:
Soak in 4 1/2 Glasses Whiskey; Few Leaves of Clover; 5 or 6 Dashes Orange Bitters; 1 1/4 Glasses Curacao; Shake well in ice, strain and serve.
Given that Mr. Duffy is often far more accurate with recipe transcription than Mr. Craddock, this does give me a bit of pause. From what I remember I didn't think clover leaves have a great deal of flavor. The flowers, though, appear to sometimes be used to Flavor Syrups and other such things. Puzzling. Well, it appears to be fairly commonly available as an herbal remedy, so I will have to give the Duppy another try!
Red clover also contains the blood-thinning substance coumarin. Coumarin is not unique to red clover; it is found in many other plants, including common grass. In fact, the pleasant sweet smell of freshly cut grass is due to the coumarin compounds. People on anticoagulant drugs such as Coumadin should be cautious of using red clover, as the blood may become too thin.
But, maybe not as crazy sounding as it seems. I mean, Buffalo Grass Vodka has some of these same substances.
So, I soaked a few red clover flowers and a couple leaves…
…in a half cup of wild turkey rye for 12 hours.
2 oz Clover infused Rye
1 oz Luxardo Triplum
generous dash fee's orange bitters
generous dash regan's orange bitters
Stir with cracked ice, strain into cocktail glass.
Unfortunately, that was the last of my Wild Turkey Rye, so no side by side comparison of clover vs. non-clover drinks was possible. But, it definitely changed the character of the Rye. More sweet herbal and vanilla-ish notes, I think.
All in all, I think I liked the Scotch/Clove Duppy a bit more. But, I dunno, there was something compelling about the flavors of the clover infused rye…
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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Nicholls State University's geomatics program has signed a deal with Lafourche Parish to help update and maintain the parish's detailed mapping systems.
Nicholls State University's geomatics program has signed a deal with Lafourche Parish to help update and maintain the parish's detailed mapping systems.
Parish officials said the deal will help make government more efficient, while school officials said it will give students valuable experience.
Under the new agreement, the parish will pay Nicholls $100,000 a year to help with its Geographic Information System, a catalog of detailed maps used to plan drainage, streets, construction, emergency response and other projects.
Nicholls will serve as a backup site for the parish's GIS data in case parish computers are damaged in a storm. Nicholls will also help refine the system, standardize it so it works with other parishes and help train employees in the latest and best techniques and software.
"What we're trying to do is bring our system up to date," said Parish Administrator Archie Chaisson. "We're very happy that we have a university right here in Lafourche with this expertise that we can partner with."
Chaisson said the project would create one map that would hold a host of information, including everything from Federal Emergency Management Agency flood maps to building permits to street centerlines.
"Instead of having to dig through records, we'll be able to click on a house and pull up all the information about it. We'll have all the information in one place," Chaisson said. "This will make government much more efficient."
For example, Chaisson said the parish's water mains could be mapped out so firefighters know where the fire hydrants are and what water pressure they'll have in advance of a fire. Individual homeowners would be able to find their house and figure out what flood zone they live in.
Chaisson said the parish eventually hopes to have the maps on its website for public use.
"We're going to use it internally at first so that we know everything works and the kinks are worked out," Chaisson said. "But our goal is to get it to where the public can use it."
Balaji Ramachandran, a geomatics professor and department head of applied sciences, said the money will pay geomatics students to update and refine the maps using information from flyovers and GPS.
"This is great for our students because it gives them practical experience," Ramachandran said. "There is no better preparation for the workforce than actually doing it."
Ramachandran said his department already works with Terrebonne Parish's Geographic Information System. He's negotiating with other parishes, such as St. John, St. James and Assumption, to create a standard regional system.
"What we want to see is one cohesive regional map," Ramachandran said.
That would allow parishes to more clearly define their boundaries, potentially resolving land disputes. It would also allow a more "zoomed out" regional look at drainage, erosion and other issues.
Eventually, Ramachandran envisions Nicholls, the only state university with a geomatics program, serving as a hub for a statewide mapping system.
"With the technology we have available, there's no reason this can't be a statewide program," he said. "The issue is coming up with the money."
Staff Writer Matthew Albright can be reached at 448-7635 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A federal judge on Tuesday denied a request from a Utah death-row inmate to postpone his Friday execution by firing squad while he pursues a civil rights lawsuit.
Ronnie Lee Gardner filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court last week, challenging the commutation process of the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole. He contends the process is tainted and fraught with conflicts of interest, and asked for a stay to investigate it further.
But U.S. District Court Chief Judge Tena Campbell rejected the request, saying it seemed unlikely the lawsuit could succeed.
"I simply cannot grant, on the evidence before me, the motion for a stay," Campbell said.
Gardner attorney Andrew Parnes said he will appeal her decision to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver.
"We will keep raising the issues to make sure he has a fair and full adjudication," Parnes said after the hearing. "That's been the problem all along."
Gardner is scrambling to block his execution after losing an appeal at the Utah Supreme Court and failing to persuade the state parole board to grant him clemency. Both rulings were issued Monday.
Parnes appealed the Utah Supreme Court's decision to the U.S. Supreme Court and is also seeking a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court.
Campbell did not dismiss Gardner's federal lawsuit.
"Obviously there are problems with that if a stay is not issued and Mr. Gardner is executed," Parnes said.
The suit contends the clemency hearing was "hopelessly biased" because lawyers who represent the board and the state prison all work for the Utah attorney general's office — the same entity that sought Gardner's death warrant and argued against a commuted sentence.
The attorney general's office disputes the conflict and said it is charged with representing all state agencies.
Assistant Attorney General David Wolf said the office established internal electronic firewalls in May to prevent any conflicts between attorneys working on different aspects of Gardner's case. He said no "substantive" issues had been discussed by those attorneys.
"There is no conflict because what the AG's office did was entirely permissible," Wolf said.
Gardner, 49, was sentenced to death for a 1985 capital murder conviction stemming from the fatal courthouse shooting of attorney Michael Burdell during an escape attempt. Gardner was at the court because he faced a murder charge in the shooting death of bartender Melvyn Otterstrom.
Burdell's family does not support the death penalty and asked the board to spare Gardner's life. Otterstrom's family — and that of a court bailiff wounded during the courthouse shooting — lobbied for the death sentence to be carried out.
In the appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, Parnes is arguing that Gardner's constitutional rights will have been violated if he is executed before a state court hears mitigating evidence that could have swayed jurors toward a sentence of life in prison.
Utah Assistant Attorney General Thomas Brunker said the state will oppose any further delays of the execution.
All things considered, Gardner is holding up pretty well, Parnes said Tuesday.
"He is handling this as well as can be expected. ... He's in good spirits given the situation," Parnes said.


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The essay is available only in Armenian.
The essay is available only in Armenian.
The essay is available only in Armenian.
Violence against women is one of the worst forms of violation of human rights prevalent all over the world. Women face gender-based violence (GBV) in workplaces, educational institutions, rural and urban communities. They are exposed to GBV irrespective of their ethnic or religious background, social status, economic standing, age, or other condition. The violence is particularly rampant when it occurs at home, a place where women are supposed to be provided with safe family environment.more >>
The current policy brief aimed at analyzing the monitored online print media outlets in cases when they covered the topic of sex selection and articles that were broadly linked to the value of girls and women. The content of web-based media outlets have been scrutinized to identify any statements or reporting that could have had distorted, untruthful or prejudicial elements against women or men. All these aspects were separately analyzed quantified and also handpicked, allowing analyzing the level of stereotypical reporting either as a media intention or as an absence of intention, leading to unobstructed penetration of prejudicial statements widely circulated in the society and back by reinstating the current state of the affairs.more >>
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About censored-bloggah
Record companies rarely do this in 2011. Having said that, when they do send out such a disc they are silently watermarked to identify the source of which disk the music was leaked from. Any blogger with any knowledge or connection to the music industry such as the one in this case is fully aware of this and not that stupid.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/ice-admits-months-long-seizure-of-music-blog-was-a-m istake.ars
Ice was asked about the seizure and commented on returning it, but when asked about the events discussed here he had no comment. He didn't deny it either..
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Alex Anthopoulos is a keener
AA spoke to MLB.com's Jordan Bastian this week, and noted that he's made about 30 phone calls to players and staff since getting elevated to the GM post. You know, just a little chinwag...sussin' stuff out, seeing how people are doin'.
Call us crazy or naive or blindly hopeful, but the idea that Alex is talking one-on-one to everyone in the organization and quietly, privately addressing what was happening with the team and assessing where the players' heads are at makes us think that maybe this team might be taking some steps in the right direction.
We know that the details have been slow to come out, and after a full season of stasis in the front office, we're all a little stir crazy and anxious for the team to start making significant moves. But at the very least, it sounds like the groundwork is being laid for the long winter ahead.
And as much as people have us pegged as a J.P. apologist, we'd like nothing more than to see AA succeed wildly.
Viner speaks, says little
This is ground that was covered well by the Drunks yesterday, but suffice to say that Rogers Media CEO Tony Viner's interview with the Bobcat was something less than enlightening.
That shouldn't be a surprise. It's not like Viner could come out at this point and make any promises about the direction of the team, or promise vast amounts of cash for payroll.
(Although the longer that Rogers types obfuscate and throw out the notion that it could be $50 million, or $100 million or $150 million, the more that we start to think that it will be the middle number and not much more.)
Mostly, is scares us the Paul Beeston is still (allegedly begrudgingly) involved in the decision-making process. Because we've lost a lot of faith in his magical powers.
22 comments:
- October 22, 2009 at 10:49 AM
- eyebleaf said...
McCartney was quick on it today.
Paul Beeston has long, long overstayed his welcome as interim President.
- October 22, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- The Ack said...
I hope folks aren't getting the impression that I'm not pulling for AA to be wildly successful. In many ways, he's probably exactly what the franchise needs: a fresh face, energetic, committed to building a winner, grew up in the organization, etc.
I just fear he'll be doomed to fail if he's not allowed to make his own decisions, like, oh, pick his own manager.
If he isn't given free reign to run the club as he sees fit, then fuck all will change.
I'm also not entirely giving up on Beeston....yet. It just seems funny to me that the job he set out to do a year ago has yet to be completed. We've had nothing but doubletalk and PR spin from day one, and I'm fucking tired of it. Do something, goddamnit.
- October 22, 2009 at 11:07 AM
- eyebleaf said...
I've given up on Beeston. And if he's the reason why Cito stays, I might have to head up to the Level of Excellence and graffiticize his name.
- October 22, 2009 at 11:22 AM
- Peter D said...
I agree with everything said about Beeston, I don't see how he could have done a worse job over his interim tenure. He still hasn't hired his replacement, has given the fans no direction or hope, put the team in a holding pattern, hired a 32 year old GM with no experience, didn't ensure the trade Halladay at the peak of his value, etc.
As for AA, I hope he is everything they say he is, because this team sure need it. However, I seem to recall JP calling every player when he first got the job, are they trying to suggest that this is some sort of trendsetting move for a young GM to do??? I'm still not wowed.
- October 22, 2009 at 12:00 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
I don't think it is fair to call AA "inexperienced". Maybe as a GM, but he's filled a number of different roles over the years in MTL and T.O..
Not sure that anyone is saying that this is absolutely revolutionary, but I like it because AA is doing this even though he has been in the organization for years. He still feels the need to re-introduce himself, which demonstrates a certain level of...I don't know. Fastidiousness?
- October 22, 2009 at 12:21 PM
- Ty said...
It's also important that his calls weren't just of the "Hey, I'm the new GM, look forward to workin' with ya" variety. He said the shortest call he made was half an hour -- this guy is actually doing something, and that's nice to see coming from a front office that's been in limbo for way too friggin' long.
- October 22, 2009 at 12:48 PM
- Torgen said...
$100M Canadian or American (they're about the same right now) would give us an awful lot of money to spend on free agents.
- October 22, 2009 at 1:13 PM
- October 22, 2009 at 1:17 PM
From Keith Law chat:
Ken (Scottsdale, AZ)
Any of the Padre's prospects show you anything?
Klaw (1:30 PM)
Not really. They rivaled Toronto for "worst set of AFL prospects."
- October 22, 2009 at 1:32 PM
- SP said...
I'll say one thing: if Brad "the Healer" Arnsberg and Brian "Not So" Butterfield aren't back because they decided to appease Cito instead, then I quit. Fuck everything.
- October 22, 2009 at 1:35 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
JP apology forthcoming...DUCK!
I think the deal is that they didn't send some of their more relevant pitching prospects, plus Jeroloman and Arencibia were hurt.
Bobby Ray's using it as rehab.
FINE! JAYS IN THE AFL SUCK! IT'S ALL JP's FAULT!
- October 22, 2009 at 1:38 PM
Shite, did you guys see the Doberman that Phillips was throwing it to???
- October 22, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Keith Law also pointed out that JP turned down David Wright (he was 19 then though) in a trade for Jose Cruz Jr.
- October 22, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Tao, I do enjoy taking the piss with you now and again but you probably have the best Jays blog going. Keep up the regular posting and I wouldn't be surprised to see you usurp the Drunks.
Still don't understand why The Score hasn't snatched you up...but that's a good thing. Don't sellout.
- October 22, 2009 at 2:06 PM
- Peter D said...
I agree 100% that this is the best blog there is. Drunk is okay, but the comments are killing the blog.
As for JP, I think his biggest failure as a GM was not dealing players like Cruz Jr, Wells, Delgado, Escobar and now Halladay, prior to them leaving as a free agent, or staying and signing a ridiculous contract.
- October 22, 2009 at 3:04 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Thanks, Smegma Boy. It's nice to know that the people who give me shit still have some sort of respect for my blathering.
And by the way, and for those who have asked before: The Score did approach me, and I politely declined.
Nothing against them, or any of the Jays bloggers that they have there. I appreciate their offer.
So hopefully, people can stop giving Joanna a hard time out of some sense of injustice. (Also, because Joanna's a hoot, and one of my favorite bloggers.)
- October 22, 2009 at 3:04 PM
- eyebleaf said...
I've assumed for the longest time that The Score came to you with an offer, and that you turned it down. I just figured everyone knew that. But I'm with the COCK CHEESE, and Peter; it's all about The Tao of Stieb. You and Ghostrunner hold this mother fucker down. The shitty seasons of Blue Jays baseball are that much more enjoyable thanks to what I read here and at GoF.
AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CAN WE PLEASE LET J.P. RICCIARDI REST IN PEACE ALREADY? Fuck.
- October 22, 2009 at 3:21 PM
I think one of the strange things about appreciating the brand new car smell of a new GM is the process of getting underway seems so novel. I'm sure that a new GM would pretty much do most of the things that AA is doing, though to varying degrees of 'keenocity' of course. Not that I'm complaining about AA, it's just that I'll believe in the revolution when I see it.
And to echo the cheese and others, keep on keepin on. Enjoy the blog.
- October 22, 2009 at 4:20 PM
- October 22, 2009 at 4:20 PM
- SP said...
To add to the love-in, Tao of Stieb is also the best blog name I've ever seen. I'd like to think it inspired RZA's book called "Tao of Wu".
- October 22, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Why the hell does it take 10 days to play a 7 game series? The only off days should be travel days, period. It makes it too easy for teams to ride their top two pitchers. It's complete bullshit that they have that edge in the playoffs that they don't have in the regular season.
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So we did it! We made it through another Swedish Christmas. The first one where Little Swede could actually appreciate and enjoy some of the activities (after being talked down from his previous –No Christmas, no presents- position).
Here is a simple checklist of Christmas milestones we met or failed to meet this year:
Baking – Check! – This year we baked a lot more than last year, when I pretty much skipped the whole thing. The Lussekats were a win, but the gingerbread cookies were meh. When I asked other people what they do for gingerbread, it turned out everyone bought the damn dough from the grocery store – no one made it themselves. Must make note of this for next year.
Gingerbread house – Fail! – This is where my baking line gets drawn. Not going to happen trying to glue with hot melted sugar and a toddler and my crappy designing skills. Just no. If the Swede decides to give it a go in future years, I will gladly cheer from the sidelines. And maybe laugh a little, too. Besides these things always taste gross.
Found the almond in the rice pudding – Check!- This tradition was one I loved as a kid. We used to hide the almond and the person who found it had to keep it hidden until the meal was over and then return it for a prize. It seems not every Swedish family plays this game the same way. I found the almond this year. And man, it was not easy to keep the damn thing hidden while eating a bowl full of rice pudding. And then, well it turned out I didn't have to. And all I got was a friggin wish.
Welcomed Santa Claus to the door – Check!
Santa Claus wearing a really scary mask that creeps me out – Fail –
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: In the dreams of beautiful women
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what harm could one shot of amaterasu do? i mean it is the power to melt your face off by looking at you but hey, i'll try and slice you with my good old katana instead. even fire off a shot at his big god statue ffs im starting to get abit tired of the biju-dama/generic sword/kunai slash fight choreography lately...can someone atleast pull out a water dragon or something else that looks cool plis
|2013-04-04, 16:19
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Join Date: Dec 2011
^^^ Im pretty sure they had both reached their limits. I think their fight ended how it should have for all the chakra they expended.
Madara: I've been fighting for god knows how long, all the while controlling the kyuubi wrapped in a susanoo while throwing every jutsu I have at the strongest ninja who ever lived. I got a idea, let me end this fight with a ms jutsu that drains a considerable amount of chakra so the end of this fight looks cool....yeah that sounds like a good idea, even tho i don't have enough chakra left to even activate my base sharingan.
Seriously solidguy?
Im glad the flashback is over, i enjoyed it...but im ready to take that story just told to get the current plot rolling again. Another flashback now would make Hashirama's flashback completely irrelevant to sasukes decision and progressing the story.
|2013-04-04, 16:37
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I see nothing wrong. It's not like Hashima attacked him from a shadow while Madara was sleeping.
It was an honest fight. Madara's fault for not seeing that it was a clone. And if we really have to be fair, whole Uchiha clan if full of cowards since they use hypnoses instead of fighting head on.
Just because you kick someone square in the face, does not make you brave and great.
Besides if our dear Hokage was not so kind, Madara would be dead long time ago.
|2013-04-04, 16:39
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Ninja fight with deception (or are supposed to anyway)
Using a wood clone to trick Madara who didn't have the chakra to use his sharingan to differentiate between the real hashi and a wood clone seems like the the ideal way to get madara to drop his guard and leave himself wide open to attack imo.
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I don't think its cowardly at all. Using deception to catch opponents by surprise, and conversely, being prepared for the unexpected seems like it goes back to the most fundamental basic principles of shinobi combat. In fact, I'd have a hard time believing that Madara didn't also try his fair share of sneak attacks throughout the course of that extremely long final battle of theirs.
I'd honestly give the same type of credit to Hashirama for this victory as Naruto got when he used a clone to sneak an uppercut into Neji's jaw for the win. It was Madara's fault for getting a little ahead of himself and letting his guard down.
|2013-04-04, 17:45
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|2013-04-04, 17:47
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To be honest that case with Naruto and Neji was different altogether. Neji severely underestimated Naruto.
Hashirama and Madara seem to know each other's capability pretty well. But it's not just deception, it's literally a straight up backstab.
|2013-04-04, 17:52
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It's not so much deception, I would've felt differently if Hashirama revealed his bunshin and then came in charging... I guess it's just a symbolic thing, it feels unsatisfactory. After such a battle, to be stabbed in the back...
|2013-04-04, 18:02
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Location: Hidden Village of Sake
Anyway saying that Hashirama behaved cowardly is nonsense when the story says that they had a lot of battles and Hashirama always won, which means he always spared Madara's life. He is shown to be a very special guy, because let's admit it we would have never spared Madara's life in such situations. Maybe the 1st time yes, but not the 2nd time.
|2013-04-04, 19:22
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|2013-04-04, 19:41
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Last chapter Hashirama was prepared to kill himself to make peace with the Uchiha. He also couldn't answer Madara's question about who he would kill to preserve the peace of the village. This chapter however he said he would be prepared to sacrifice anyone, even family, if it meant keeping the village safe. Why the sudden 180? What happened during the time that Madara left and their last fight, for him to change his views?
|2013-04-04, 19:48
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It's not even about being shinobi or samourai, it's that using a Bunshin as a distraction to flank the enemy is what all the characters using clones have been doing since chapter one. Hell Madara did just that a few chapters ago to Tsunade.
|2013-04-04, 20:56
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|2013-04-04, 22:02
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Konoha's ANBU
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Age: 33
Does the Senju have (body) special blood to counter the (eyes) Uchiha? The direct descendants of the Rikkodou Senin?
Also didn't Madara mentioned that Hashirama could use techniques without handseals and even heal his own body while fighting? Ofcourse that technique means a certain overkill.
Sasuke has asked so far all of them except the 4th. I wonder what question Sasuke will ask him... were the Uchiha involved with the attack of the Kyuubi?
Info about the Uzumaki Clan? Can i kill your son?
I cant think of beyond this war. I really doubt the villages will fight eachother again after saving the world. So either all villages gets destroyed (which would seem logical) and they all will have to rebuild things. Or... the world will be almost destroyed and Naruto gets somehow a special training in another timespace world with all 4 previous Hokages.
Ending up with invunerability against genjutsu, wood ninja style (to rebuild the village) and sealing/timespace techniques. Just... to end Madara/Obito's reign.
Freeing the world of the fantasy "eye of the moon".
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In this 1930 census image for Great Bend, Barton County, Kansas, you see the Hamilton ("Ham") Jones family living at 1400 8th Street. His daughters Marjorie and Dorothy are ages 4 and 2. His brother Henry J. (Henry James "Jim") Jones is listed at the bottom of the image photo with his family residing at 1501 8th St. That's just one block away. Phyllis J., daughter of Jim and Helen Jones is my step-mother, married to my dad Ernest Margheim from 1951 until her death in 1997. In 1930 Phyllis was 6 years old, having been born in 1924. It was in her personality to greatly dislike (and I'm being kind) my birth mother, Ruby Flanders, to whom my dad was married 1943-1949.
Look at the above image and notice the Milo Flanders family living at 1416 8th St. Their daughter Ruby N. was 5 years old at this time, having been born in 1925. As I just mentioned, Ruby was my birth mother. What story does this census image tell? It tells me that my step-mom Phyllis Jones was 6 years old at the time her cousins, who lived a block away, were ages 4 and 2. And the neighbor of her cousins was Ruby Flanders. In 1930 children played outside, they played with their relatives who lived nearby. I believe this image tells me that my step-mom Phyllis Jones played in her young childhood with my birth mother Ruby Flanders! I can't express to you how this discovery blows me away, still today. Is anyone else inclined to draw the same conclusion? Let me know your thoughts.
I was raised by my step-mom and dad and allowed by the courts to occasionally visit my birth mom Ruby. But I was not allowed to mention her name in our house, nor refer to her in any way, no phone calls, letters, incidental visits etc. NEVER did she let my twin brother and me know that she had been a childhood playmate of Ruby. That is so significant to me, even though others may find nothing startling about this discovery. As we research our family's history, we expect to make discoveries, but it's a bonus when we learn things about those people who were close to us that they never revealed when they were living!


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Looking for WHITE of Cork, Ireland
ELIZABETH ROSALIE WHITE did a "reverse migration" of sorts - moving FROM Boston, Massachusetts, USA, to Cork, Ireland.She was b. in 1868 presumably in USA, state unknown, then moved to Cork from Boston. There, in Cork City, on Dec. 26, 1890, she m. THOMAS LOVE. They had four children: Mary (Molly), 1892; Robert George (Bob), 1894; John (Jack), 1895, and Elizabeth Agnes, February 1897. Elizabeth Rosalie died of childbed fever two weeks after her daughter's birth. Her husband died four years later. The children were raised by aunts and uncles. Was Elizabeth Rosalie White born IN Boston? - or elsewhere in the U.S.? We have her father's name, GEORGE WHITE, but no name of mother. Thanks for whatever help you can give.
BRADY of Dublin, Ireland and Holyoke, Massachusetts
Irish natives JAMES AND MARGARET MCTAGGART BRADY arrived in the U.S. in 1869. James was from Dublin (parents CHARLES BRADY AND ELLEN KEARNS) AND Margaret (parents WILLIAM AND CATHERINE (Catherine's surname unknown) MCTAGGART. James was born about 1843 in Dublin; Margaret about 1847 in Virginia, County Cavan. One of their sons was JOHN THOMAS BRADY, my grandfather, born in Holyoke, Mass., Jan. 6, 1874. John moved to Yonkers, New York, where he m. my grandmother ALICIA REGINA HEAFY in 1906. Alicia was the dau. of THOMAS AND ALICE MORRISSEY HEAFY of County Waterford, Ireland. One of John and Alicia's children was my father, FRANCIS (FRANK) JOSEPH XAVIER BRADY, Oct. 26, 1908. Frank m. my mother, ANNA DOLORES CHINNERY, in 1934 in Yonkers. I am looking for the "maiden name" of Margaret McTaggart Brady's mother, Catherine McTaggart. I also have reams of Brady info to share.
Great Famine Irish Ancestors
Some 70 million people worldwide - including about 40 million Americans - claim Irish ancestry. When you consider the North Atlantic island that spawned such an exodus measures only about 200 by 300 miles, the mind begins to boggle. Toss in stumbling blocks such as common surnames among descendants(Brady and Murphy, to name two of "mine") along with the paucity of records, and would-be ancestry tracers are apt to throw up their hands and say "Forget it. I don't need this!" Let us mention too that hundreds of thousands of our "ould ones" left Ireland during the late 1840s. That was the period known as the Great Famine, the years of the near-total failure of the potato crop on which so many of the Irish depended. During the Great Famine the Island of Saints and Scholars lost nearly 2 million of her 9 million people to starvation, disease and emigration. Most were Catholic and poor. The emigrants fled to England, the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries. In Grosse Isle near Quebec lies the largest Famine cemetery outside of Ireland, where 6,000 disease-ridden Irish from the "Famine ships" lay buried, along with the health care workers and clergy who tried to save them.
But the great percentage of those "getting out of Dodge" flooded the East Coast ports of America. By 1852, New York City alone was more than a quarter Irish. And Ellis Island with its excellent records was still almost half a century in the future. At home in Ireland, the British government then governing the island did not begin civil record-keeping of the "Popish people" until 1864.
That is the situation facing the prospective amateur genealogist of "Irish extraction." Is tracing your Irish ancestors an impossible task? Not really. I am living proof that it can be done. I am 100 percent Irish (as I know now), three and four generations down in America. All four of my father's grandparents and all eight of my mother's great-grandparents were born in Ireland. In America today, their descendants live in New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, Utah, Colorado, California, Oregon and Washington State. There are more to find out about; as we know, genealogy detective work is never done. But most of the work is done! Next: How did I manage to do it?
Seeking DONEGAN from Ireland to New York
My g-g-grandfather JOHN DONEGAN was b. in County Westmeath, Ireland, circa the 1830s. He emigrated to New York State, where he married MARY FARRELL, also of Westmeath, about 1850, probably in Haverstraw in Rockland County. By the 1860 census, John had died and his widow had married JOHN BANNON. All are most likely buried in St. Peter RC Cemetery in Haverstraw, but I can't find them in the cemetery records. Does anyone know any more about JOHN DONEGAN?
McTaggart from Virginia, County Cavan, Ireland
Of all my great-grands, I probably know the least about MARGARET MCTAGGART BRADY, one of those nearly-anonymous Irish immigrants during the post-Famine years of the 1860s. Info I've gleaned: she was b. about 1848 to Wm. & Catherine (maiden name unknown) McTaggart in Virginia, County Cavan. She m. JAMES BRADY (parents Charles and Ellen Kearns Brady) of Co. Dublin (unknown date & place), entering the Port of NY 1869 with him and their two young children b. while they were in Liverpool. The Bradys moved to Holyoke, Mass., where my grandfather John Thomas Brady was b. in 1874. James Brady worked on construction of the Holyoke City Hall. Margaret d. Jan. 20, 1887, of typhoid malaria, the scourge of the ghetto, acc. to a newspaper writer in Holyoke. Her children included (besides my grandfather) Mary Anne, b. 1864; Hugh Dwight, b. 1865; William, 1869, and James, 1878. James later remarried (a widow named Sarah Lyons O'Connor) and had two more children. My grandfather moved to Yonkers, NY, and married Alicia Heafy, b. in NY in 1879 to Irish-born parents. Any more info on Margaret McTaggart Brady who d. at the tender age of 39 would be appreciated. She was undoubtedly Roman Catholic; all the rest of my dozen Irish-born forebears were RC.
Looking for LEHAN of Cork, Ireland, and Yonkers, New York, USA
Julia LEHAN was my g-g-grandmother. She was born in County Cork (parents' names unknown) circa 1825. On Sept. 15, 1849, she married John CHINNERY, also of Co. Cork, b. circa 1825. Marriage site is unknown, presumably in Co. Cork and presumably Catholic. The couple moved to Wales, where their four children were born between 1850 and 1859: James, John, Catherine and Michael. John CHINNERY supposedly died in Wales; subsequently, JULIA LEHAN CHINNERY emigrated to NYC with her children (about 1860). She moved to Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, where I found her in the 1870 census with the four children. I did not find her in the 1880 census, and Yonkers civil records of deaths only started in 1876, so I'm presuming Julia died between 1870 and 1876. In 1879 her son MICHAEL CHINNERY married MARY GREELEY (GRALY)in St. Joseph RC Church in Yonkers. I have information on that generation of Chinnerys. I would like to know more about Julia (death date, burial location and names of parents, and siblings if any, plus village or town of birth in County Cork).
Heafys in County Waterford, Ireland
Thomas Heafy was born in 1839 in Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland, to Thomas and Mary Meehan Heafy. He had a number of siblings, some of whom emigrated to the U.S. Tom came to New York in 1860 and later married Alice Morrissey (born 1847), a native of Lismore, County Waterford. The couple later moved to Yonkers, a NYC suburb in Westchester County. They had 10 children, starting with young Tom (who became a priest) and including my grandmother, Alicia Heafy, b. 1879 in Yonkers. All the children were educated. Ed was a pharmacist; Frank became a politician and was known in NY State GOP circles. My grandmother had two sisters, Teresa (Tessie) and Mary (Minnie). I have tracked the descendants of some of her brothers. But recently, looking at some family photos from my cousin Ken Krauer, I found a picture of a Lt. George Heafy, A World War II paratrooper who was killed in action in Belgium Jan. 9, 1945. He is buried in Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery in Belgium. Cousin Ken did not know how George was related. I had never heard of him, nor of the Joseph Heafy who - according to a WWII website - was the informant to the website and was George's brother. Neither Ken nor I had ever heard of Joseph Heafy, either. We are assuming both George and Joseph were chldren of one of our grandmother's brothers. They would have been the right age to enter the military during WW II. Does anyone know? Anyone related to these Heafys?
Looking for Chinnery from Ireland
In my 100 percent Irish ancestry, John Chinnery is the most difficult to trace. Born in County Cork about 1825, he shares his surname with some minor-aristocracy English men and women who settled in Ireland starting in the 1600s. Not all Chinnerys were wealthy or distinguished, of course. "My" John may have been a farmer, for all I know after years of research. I do know that he married Julia Lehan, also of County Cork, on Sept. 15, 1849 - name of church, town or village unknown. Julia was Catholic; John may have been Catholic or Church of Ireland (Anglican), I don't know. Nor do I know the parents' names for John or Julia. I sure have corresponded with many many Chinnerys over the years, but none were "mine." There was a George Chinnery a famous painter, but I have been unable to trace my line to him, either.
Family story says John and Julia went to Wales after their marriage. There their four children were born between 1850 and 1859: James, John, Katherine and Michael (my g-grandfather). John apparently died in Wales about 1850, following which Julia brought her children to NYC, moving to the nearby city of Yonkers. I have traced the descendants of her children (mostly, that is; two of them had 10 kids apiece). Julia raised her children Catholic.
I even hired a researcher several years ago to no avail. I have dug into all the Chinnery records I could find. There are still Chinnerys in England (none of whom that I corresponded with knew anything about the Irish Chinnerys) ... but none left in Ireland that I know of. At least, there are none in the Irish telephone directories. Anyone know anything?
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It seems my blog was abandoned for longer than I care to admit. It's been a crazy-busy summer so far, and I can't type straight when there are so many things knocking around in my head. We've still got plenty on the calendar, but I'm getting more organized. Stop giggling.
My parents were here from Ohio for a visit, so I'll leave you with a photo of my Mom and I at First Monday Trade Days in Canton. It was only 102 that day, so we barely broke a sweat. Got a few treasures in spite of allowing 4 males to go along. Miss you already Mom!


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Common Ground: Solutions for reducing the human, economic and conservation costs of human wildlife conflict
Description: This report deals with the conflicts between wildlife and human development. Three cases studies are included, in Namibia, Nepal and Indonesia, respectively. Each location has different problems and contexts, but in all three countries, human lives and economic livelihoods are at stake, as well as the loss of habitat of threatened species. The authors advocate a species conservation approach based on land use planning integrated with human needs in order continue sustainable development.
Date: May 2008
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A new cd.Linda Ronstadt and Ann Savoy "Adieu False Heart".
Geez,i am not sure what kind of music this is. Blues , country , something in between ? It is good music though !
Good but not great ! It is Linda okay but if you don't purchase it,you won't lose anything
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A new cd.Linda Ronstadt and Ann Savoy "Adieu False Heart".
Yeah, but does she look good on the cover?
Edit: All Ronstadt threads should contain at least one image.
Linda and Diana (Krall) allways have the best pics on their album's covers,i have to admit that.My appologies for the ommision.
Behave yourselves, boys! We're supposed to be listeners here, remember? I just posted a strong recommendation for a Hilary Hahn recording, but it wasn't because she's so damned cute.
Clay,that was insulting (Jaaaazzzzzfan,let the girls out) do
you honestly believe we could do this ? (Jazzfan,wait,they forgot their p....ies)Appologise right now !
There is always going to be some kind of discussion about female performers looks versus their talent and it is always going to be rather silly. Linda Ronstadt has always been a very talented singer and a very attractive woman, one has nothing to do with the other. k.d.lang is a one of the greatest singers, male or female, alive today and I don't find her all that attractive but I don't care, she got such a great voice. Celine Dion, whom everyone seems to love, I not only can't stand her singing, I find her unattractive to boot. Diana Krall I can take or leave depending on my mood.
But more to the point, I don't base my opinion of a musician's talent on their physical attractiveness, but rather on their musical skills. Sarah Vaughn may have been as big as a house in her last years but that didn't stop her from singing with those beautiful pipes of hers.
Anyway all of this still doesn't get Yiangos for the hook for not including a picture of the always beautiful goddess LINDA in his initial post!!!
Hi jazzfan
I agree with what you said about Celine Dion and Diana krall
Also,in the same position (no comments Clay) with Diana Krall i'd place Patricia barber. Now,as to who is good,other
than Linda Ronstadt,is Eva Cassidy but i'd say she is rather a folk singer than Jazz.For me,the best traditional jazz singer alive is Diane Schurr.If you haven't heard any of her records,unlikely though,do try a few.Her voice is something else not to mention her interpretetion of most songs.Okay,i will end this since we are talking about jazz in the rock forum lol
Speaking of jazz singers, I used to really like Cassandra Wilson but lately she has become less and less of a pure jazz singer and more of a blues/folk singer. She's still doing good work but it's not quite jazz anymore.
Diane Schurr I've always felt to be the white man's answer to Dianne Reeves, anyway I much prefer Dee Dee Bridgewater to either of those two.
OK gentlemen, you've drawn me into this stupid discussion again, but not to apoligize for my previous suggestions. Have to agree on Celine Dion - not worth seeing or hearing, to be avoided at all costs.
Now, to address the cardinal examples of beautiful women's voices coming from bodies that could never have been called beautiful, I submit Ella and Mama Cass.
The old joke that ended, "...wake up and sing, damn it!!" wasn't without some basis in reality.
OK gentlemen, you've drawn me into this stupid discussion again, but not to apoligize for my previous suggestions. Have to agree on Celine Dion - not worth seeing or hearing, to be avoided at all costs.
Now, to address the cardinal examples of beautiful women's voices coming from bodies that could never have been called beautiful, I submit Ella and Mama Cass.
The old joke that ended, "...wake up and sing, damn it!!" wasn't without some basis in reality.
Hi Clay,
Another example of a beautiful voice from a less than optimal vessel would the wonderful Phoebe Snow.
Now I must confess that I haven't clue about that old joke and I know my fair share of old jokes, be they about frogs ("At my age I'd rather have a talking frog"), pigs ("And now I'm taking him to the beach!!"), sheep ("They'll do that, you know") or ducks ("Got any grapes!!!")
And finally, why oh why you keep on forgetting to add a Ronstadt picture to your post?!?!?!?
Edit: I figured that since the picture has Linda holding what appears to be a bottle of wine, perhaps Buddha and Clifton will now join the discussion.
Heck, I'm stumped trying to come up with any great living female jazz vocalists.
Someone just recommended Brisa Roche to me, and I'm waiting for my Amazon order to arrive and see what the deal is.
I think the problem is so bad, that's it's one of the reasons for high end Hi Fi to be not as successful as it "should" be.
There's no great, current vocalist to drive demand.
What we seem to have out there right now are about three types of female jazz vocalists:
1) Totally derivitive. Like Madelenne Peyroux, who provide a ripped off sound that suffers by comparison to its inspiration.
2) A group of "Wynton Marsalis" singers, like Diana Krall, who are interested in the classic jazz canon, but in a more "re-creative" way than in an original way. These girls are technically proficient, but rarely start fires.
3) Small singers, who like to coo out teeny tiny little jazz tunes, but never rise to the level of jazz as having more energy than a Mazzy Star show.
I can't recall the last time I heard a chick who "owned" the mic and the tune, to tell ya the truth.
Linda's Nelson Riddle discs kick the crap out of 99% of the female jazz vocals happening right now - and I don't really mean that as being all that complimentary.
Linda pic...
It's been a long time since I've heard any tracks, but, my friend Neil felt Tahna Running was a real enough deal to release some CDs (I only worked on the 1st one and I never got the final release.) I'm not sure I heard what he heard.
Absolutely killer requisite Linda picture. I knew there was a reason that you were chosen to be our candidate for President.
I basically agree with your assessment of the sad state of (living) female jazz vocalists but I do think that are a few worth watching, like Cassandra and Dee Dee. I'm also somewhat turned off to jazz vocals in general because of the tendency of one the local jazz stations here in the NYC area to over play jazz vocals. This station plays any new vocal release no matter how bad it is. If you know someone who's a jazz singer with a CD out, send it to WBGO-FM in Newark NJ and they will play it. Most likely with no questions asked. And the more it sounds like Bill Murray's airport lounge singer from Saturday Night Live, the better.
I do not have this one but i do have the double cd "Round Midnight" and it is excellent.Strange thing though,cd 1 is mastered differently than cd 2 or to make it simpler,the two
cds,soundwise,are different.
Oops,no pic again.
I do not have this one but i do have the double cd "Round Midnight" and it is excellent.Strange thing though,cd 1 is mastered differently than cd 2 or to make it simpler,the two
cds,soundwise,are different.
Oops,no pic again.
Hi Yiangos,
Next time you forget the all important Linda pic may I suggest that you use the edit feature and do a web search to find an appropriate photo and add it to your post. All will be forgiven, I promise.
I do own all (I think) of the NR/LR standards lps. I still like Jane Monheit, Janis Seigel (Manhattan Transder fame), adding Christy Baron from Chesky, some Tierney Sutton, and Diana Krall due to her excellent piano skills and an excellent voice. Her beauty seems to bother some people and how she uses it in marketing. I am not sure what makes a less arttractive singer a better vocalist?
The audio quality on these lps is excellent. Love Jeff's VPI photo. I do have TT envy.


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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association the association is hosting History Week beginning on Sunday, July 29.
The African American Heritage Trail of Martha's Vineyard will dedicate its 27th site on Friday Nov. 24.
The news of the Smithsonian Institute including Oak Bluffs in an exhibit in the National Museum of African American History and Culture is spreading and creating much excitement. People are proud that our small town will be nationally acknowledged for its contributions to black history, appropriately enough with this announcement in February.
Oak Bluffs selectman Walter Vail called it a perfect Vineyard day. Kites hung in the clear blue sky over Ocean Park and a light breeze blew in off Nantucket Sound on Saturday. A crowd had gathered beneath a peaked tent to celebrate the memory of Della Hardman, a leader in the Island African American community and in the Island community as a whole.
The ninth annual African American Cultural Festival will offer the exhibit Freedom: The Story of Us, along with plenty of children's activities, vendors, dancing, mini-lectures and more. The festival is from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Hartford Park in Oak Bluffs on July 25 and 26. It is sponsored by The Cottagers of Martha's Vineyard.
Jim Thomas and his Spirituals Choir will perform on Saturday, June 29, at 7:30 p.m. at the Katharine Cornell Theatre on Spring street in Vineyard Haven. The choir is in its ninth year and is the offspring of the Martha's Vineyard NAACP. The performance is titled, Songs From the Field: The Underground Railroad.
The choir performs at many venues around the Island and is made up of summer residents and year-rounders. They perform sitting down as the slaves did, and only with percussion accompaniment.
On Friday, The Cottagers Inc. of Martha's Vineyard
sponsor the eighth annual African American Cultural Festival, an event
packed with free educational programs and culture. The festival takes
place in Hartford Park off Massassoit avenue and at Cottagers Corner on
Pequot avenue.
The oral history exhibit African American and Civil Rights Voices in the Gangway Gallery at the Martha's Vineyard Museum is continually adding new voices. The exhibit, which opened in March of 2007, features photographic portraits and excerpts from interviews conducted by oral historian Linsey Lee with members of the Vineyard's African American community and individuals involved in the civil rights movement. Three new voices have been recently added. Currently 14 individuals and their stories are included in the exhibit and more will be added in the coming months.
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Just In Time For The Holiday Season, Apple Loses iPhone Trademark In Mexico
from the live-by-IP,-die-by-IP deptWhen it comes to trademark bullies, Apple is one of the more prolific muscle-flexers in the arena. For some time now, they've been known to be extremely aggressive over their trademarks. From the idea of having an apple in a company's logo, to the name of one's store for mobile applications, all the way to how you offer their products in your own company's contests, Apple defends their marks the way a jealous puppy defends a rawhide.
That's why, while we may agree that aggressive trademark enforcement is at times overblown and unnecessary, it's really rather fun to watch Apple have the trademark stick wrestled from their grips and get beaten over the head with it, such as when Mexico invalidates their use of the "iPhone" mark in commerce within their country. And just in time for Christmas, too! The following is a wonderful story about how a Mexican telecom company already had a mark for iFone, but even more interesting is the long history Apple has of arrogantly bullying everyone else over their attempt to validate the iPhone mark.
The Mexican company registered the trademark iFone way back in 2003, full four years before Apple filed to trademark the name iPhone (which was already owned by Linksys in US, more about that later). Apple, despite fully aware of the fact that the Mexican company owned the trademark since 2004, sued them in 2009 to invalidate the iFone trademark. So Apple wanted iFone brand to be invalidated, which was filed in 2004, because it was similar to iPhone name which was filed in 2007.Apparently, Apple's argument for invalidating the pre-existing iFone mark in Mexico went something along the lines of, "Hey, we're Apple." This, as the article goes on to note, is something Apple did that adds to their longstanding history of not giving a damn about anyone else's trademarks. You may recall that the iPhone mark was originally owned in the US by Cisco, who settled with Apple on use of the mark. But back to iFone.
It turns out that the Mexican courts were understandably unimpressed with Apple's possibly trademarked "Hey, we're Apple" legal argument. They upheld the iFone mark and now Apple can't use the iPhone term inside of Mexico.
It means a lot of trouble for "sue first talk later" Apple which is engaged in dozens of lawsuits around the world. This decision will have a huge impact on Apple's market in Mexico and they now won't be able to use the name iPhone in the country - this decision coming before the holiday season is nothing short of A Nightmare At The Mexico City for Apple.Which is the problem with lawsuit-happy companies like Apple. They escalate the war to the point where their own extremism is met with opposite extremism to combat it. Is this whole trademark nonsense necessary? Probably not. I can't claim to be an expert on how the average Mexican citizen associates something that says iFone with Apple, but I'm guessing they're smart and in-tune with technology enough that they know the two aren't related. I could be wrong about that, but there's one thing I'm not wrong about.
Apple needs to hold its horses back. It needs to stop its "sue everyone else" drive as it has started to come back and bite them.
It's immensely entertaining to see aggressive IP folks get bit in the ass by their own tactics.


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McMahon and Bahr Receive NSCAA Honors
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - A total of 23 head coaches and four assistant coaches have been honored by their peers for their accomplishments this past season.
The National Soccer Coaches Association of America announced tonight the 2012 NSCAA/Field Turf Coaches of the Year, as well as the 2012 Assistant Coaches of the Year.
The NSCAA recognizes national and regional coaches of the year at each level of collegiate play, and high school and youth play. The honorees received their award Friday evening at the annual Awards Banquet at the NSCAA Convention in Indianapolis.
Senior College National Coaches of the Year - NAIA Award Winners
NAIA - Brian McMahon, Belhaven University (Miss.)
In his first season as head coach at Belhaven, McMahon led the Blazers to the 2012 NAIA National Championship title, a 19-4-1 overall record and a 7-3-1 record in the Southern States Athletic Conference.
The team's national title was the program's second and the school's third in any sport. Prior to joining Belhaven, McMahon spent 11 seasons at Greenville College (Ill.) and led that program to three conference tournament appearances and multiple trips into the national tournament.
NAIA - Bill Bahr, Olivet Nazarene University (Ill.)Bahr led the Olivet Nazarene women's team through a memorable run in his 13th season as head coach which concluded with an appearance in the 2012 NAIA National Championship game. The Tigers finished the season 19-4-1 overall, undefeated at 11-0 in the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference and became just the fourth team in school history to advance to the semifinal round of an NAIA National Tournament.
For complete list of 2012 NSCAA National Coaches of the Year, click here.


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TRENTON, N.J. -- Former Johnson & Johnson CEO James E. Burke, who steered the health care giant through the Tylenol poisonings in the 1980s that resulted in the first tamper-resistant product packaging, has died.
The company said Burke died late Friday at the age of 87, after a long, unspecified illness.
Burke, who ran the New Brunswick, N.J., company for 13 of his 37 years there, also had a big impact in his second career, as chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America for 16 years.
He persuaded TV stations, newspapers and other media outlets to run free ads, produced for free by advertising agencies, warning of the dangers of illicit drugs. In one of the most memorable ads, an announcer intoned, "This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs," as an egg was cracked and then sizzled away in a hot frying pan.
Burke helped make drug abuse a high-profile national concern when the issue was just starting to gain traction after First Lady Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign. At the peak, about $1 million a day worth of free ads against drug abuse were running, said Steve Dnistrian, who worked with Burke for 14 years at the partnership.
"As a corporate leader, Jim Burke put the welfare of his customers ahead of his company. As a citizen, he put the welfare of his country ahead of himself. It's a pity we have so few Jim Burkes," said Allen Rosenshine, vice chairman of the group, now called The Partnership at DrugFree.org.
In a rare honor for a CEO, Burke was awarded the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civilian award, in 2000 by President Bill Clinton, for both his corporate and civic leadership.
The Vermont native grew up in Slingerlands, a small town in upstate New York. Serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he commanded a landing craft tank in the Pacific. Burke then resumed his education, graduating from College of the Holy Cross in 1947 and Harvard Business School in 1949.
He started at J&J in 1953 as a product director and became president in 1973. He served as chief executive and chairman from 1976 through 1989.
Over that time, Johnson & Johnson's annual sales more than tripled to $9 billion, net income increased nearly fivefold and the company expanded its operations from 37 to 54 countries, turning it into a true global health care conglomerate.
The most memorable part of his tenure, though, came when someone laced capsules of pain reliever Tylenol with cyanide in 1982. Seven people in Chicago and its suburbs died over three days beginning Sept. 29, 1982. The perpetrator still has not been found.
Dnistrian, now vice president for communications at Johnson & Johnson, recalled "pandemonium," with police in Chicago riding around with bullhorns warning people not to take Tylenol.
"Burke in a pretty dramatic press conference said the company had decided to seize all Tylenol capsules," Dnistrian told The Associated Press. "He pulled 32 million bottles of Tylenol off the shelves (nationwide), resulting in a cost to the company in excess of $100 million."
"There was just no other way to guarantee public safety," he recalled Burke as saying.
The incident led to the introduction of packaging with plastic or foil seals to prevent people from tampering with medical products and even food, as well as the replacement of Tylenol capsules, which could easily be pulled apart and altered, with the caplets common today.
"To be as transparent as the company was throughout that crisis was just extraordinary," Dnistrian said. He noted that initially there was speculation the capsules had been poisoned inside a Johnson & Johnson manufacturing plant, rather than after they were distributed.
Tylenol was one of Johnson & Johnson's top-selling products back then, in an era before today's blockbuster medicines with sales of well over $1 billion year.
"Everybody thought the product was finished, and then it was reintroduced," Dnistrian said.
Sales soon recovered. However, there was a single copycat Tylenol poisoning in 1986, also still unsolved, that resulted in the death of one person in West Chester County, N.Y.
Johnson & Johnson's handling of the original Tylenol scare was so perfect that it became a textbook case in Harvard business school classes.
After retiring from Johnson & Johnson, Burke became chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. He served there until 2005 but remain involved with the group after that.
Burke used his many contacts in the media industry, including his brother Daniel Burke, who helped build Capital Cities/ABC Inc. into a huge company, to generate support for the partnership.
Burke and his wife, Didi, who survives him, were longtime residents of Princeton, N.J. He is also survived by a sister, son, daughter and four grandchildren.
A private family funeral is planned in the Princeton area and public memorials likely will be held in New Brunswick and New York, according to Dnistrian.
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pig spleen forecast
been trying to remember how my dad used to read it . now that we do our own on the far it is good to see how it is read . thank you .
Have you ever heard of a pig spleen being able to predict the weather?
You can call it folklore—but what do you call it when it works?
Gus, a man of Swedish descent who lived in this prairie province all of his life, was a weather forecaster. He predicted weather conditions six months in advance, yet his technology required no fancy equipment, no high-tech razzle-dazzle. All Gus needed was a barn and a farmhand or two standing by…because he predicted the weather by looking at a pig spleen.
Every 6 months or so, Gus slaughtered a pig, and in the frugal way of farm families, he found a way to use everything but the squeal, as they say. Gus closely scrutinized the spleen, using a method he learned from his father and Harold Pearson, a neighbor.
Gus divided the spleen into six areas, each representing 1 month. The top of the spleen (closest to the pig's head) shows the current month. The bottom indicates the end of the upcoming six-month period. Where the spleen thickens, a change in the weather is indicated, usually pointing to a cold spell. Where there's a pronounced bulge, expect even more inclement weather. Gus could even read wind and rain into the variations in the spleen.
Joe also learned pig-spleen weather predicting from his father. But Joe is adamant that the pig must be slaughtered in the fall or early winter; a spring spleen, says Joe, is not nearly as accurate. His method predicts only temperature, not precipitation. In the fall of 1997, Joe slaughtered his pig and pulled out a spleen that was even all the way through. This, he says, was one of the first indications that Saskatchewan would experience an even-tempered winter. Never mind that meteorologists were hysterical about the phenomenon called El Niño; or that onion skins and corn husks were thick. Joe predicted a mild winter with just a few cold days, and his temperature predictions were right on the money.
I checked with a few animal scientists, whose reactions were of disbelief. After all, said the experts, a spleen is a vascular, ductless organ that stores blood, destroys worn-out red blood cells, forms lymphocytes, and so on. "A spleen," I was reminded, "is a useful organ that has bodily functions. It has nothing to do with predicting the weather."
I found myself defending this form of weather prophesying, even though I know it's folklore. I too have farming in my blood, so I went to the one person I knew would have the answer—my father. "I recall," Dad said, going back to his upbringing on a farm near Goodeve, Saskatchewan, "that our Polish neighbors also looked at the spleen of a pig to forecast the weather. And I know it's something the Ukrainian families did as well."
Aha, I thought to myself. It's not just Gus and Joe—it's in many cultures, probably more than I'll ever know. Those who believe in pig spleen weather prognosticating have seen it work, and that's just the way it is.


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Mike wrote:16 users online this hour. Lets see some more names! I know you are all reading this. And thinking, hmmmm 180 Go!, not baaaaad.....
Actually, I do like it. It's got a certain something.
But I also like LOLKites.
"im in ur sky, tanglin ur strings"
(I know I'm probably the only one getting this, but I assure you, it's cracking me up.)


text: At the end of last week, I received a new PRS P22 Artist Package, with 53/10 pickups, piezo system, mahogany back, quilted maple cap with a "faded blue jean" finish, East Indian Rosewood neck and ebony headstock overlay and Mexican ebony fingerboard. This is a special NGD because I've always wanted a PRS with these specs. I'd even gotten a price quote for a Private Stock build (although obviously without the piezo system, which wasn't available on solid body PRSi until this year) but just couldn't afford it. Also, I've always been a fan of the piezo system. After lowering the neck pickup and raising the pole pieces, I'm pleased to report that the neck pickup is balanced with a little P-90-esque punch and warm-ish, without being muddy or muffled sounding. I had to raise the bridge pick-up, because it sounded a little overwhelmed in comparison to the neck humbucker. The bridge pickup has a tight low end, an expanded, shimmery top end and a good upper midrange bite, without being honky. My favorite aspect of these pickups is probably the clarity and string-to-string definition. The piezo sounds great, very authentic, just like the piezo on my HBII. The ebony fingerboard and rosewood make the guitar a real pleasure to play, and while I might just be hearing things, I think the rosewood neck opens-up the guitar and expands its tonal range a little. The only negatives, for me at least, is that positions 2 and 4 of the 5-position blade, while useable, don't really replicate good single coil sounds. For what I do, I would've preferred position 2 to be the outer coils of each pickup to hopefully simulate the middle position of a Tele and for position 4 to be the tapped neck humbucker. Secondly, as with all PRSi, I have trouble accessing the upper frets, not because of the heal which everyone makes a big deal about, but because my hand hits the body. Any tips on how to get a better tone in positions 2 and 4 of the five position blade or how to better access the upper frets? Anyway, enough talk. Here are the pics . . .


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SOS grantee Simon Mahood reports from the field as he works to protect some of Cambodia's most threatened bird species. In a recent update Simon explained "We're half way through the Giant Ibis (Thaumatibis gigantea) 2013 breeding season in the northern plains of Cambodia and this season the total number of Giant Ibis nests protected since 2003 reached 250!
Considering that the global population of this species is estimated at only 230 mature individuals this is extremely significant. Over ten years we have protected the equivalent of the entire breeding population of the species. By the end of this season the total number of Giant Ibis chicks fledged from nests protected by community nest guardians will surpass 400.
Largely restricted to northern Cambodia, the Giant Ibis has been embraced by the Cambodian people and declared their national bird. However, Giant Ibis is highly sensitive to human disturbance and has been rapidly declining as a result of hunting and deforestation. In response the project team created the Birds' Nest Protection Programme, in which former poachers are employed as guardians to protect threatened nesting birds.
Working for ten years with Ministry of Environment and the Forestry Administration this process is now well-established explains Simon who works for IUCN Member Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in Cambodia. Guardians camp a reasonable distance from nest trees and carry out patrols twice daily. People encountered in the surrounding area are asked to move away, with any illegal activity reported to the law enforcement team. If the chicks fledge successfully the nest guardians receive double their daily payment as a bonus.
The Birds' Nest Protection Programme is partially supported by donations from visiting birdwatchers. For example at Tmatboey village, the ecotourism committee appreciates the importance of having a healthy Giant Ibis population in order to attract tourists, so they use a portion of the tourism revenue to pay for bird nest protection.
Humans are not the only hunting threat to Giant Ibis, however. Small carnivores such as Common Palm Civet predate chicks and eggs. Consequently nest guardians attach baffles - wide sheets of plastic wrapped around tree trunks - to prevent small carnivores from climbing up to the nest. This simple technology has the desired effect, Giant Ibis nests with baffles and nest guardians have an 87% success rate!
Commenting on the significance of the success, Simon reports that the species which benefit from the Birds' Nest Protection Programme are some of the rarest bird species in the world. Essentially, the project has shown that nest protection increases populations of threatened species, and makes a tangible contribution to the incomes of villagers involved. "Protecting 250 Giant Ibis nests is a nice milestone to reach, but we won't stop there!"
Indeed, this project works to protect 10 species of Cambodian birds and the team has plenty of work and challenges ahead, so these recent successes are invaluable motivators that conservation work can pay off. Next up, the Masked Finfoot (Heliopais personatus).