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22 pointsYou're a 19 year old kid. You are critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam . It's November 14, 1965. LZ (landing zone) X-ray. Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the MedEvac helicopters to stop coming in. You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out. Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day. Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter. You look up to see a Huey coming in. But.. It doesn't seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it. Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you. He's not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his lightly armored UH-1 Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway. Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway. And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!! Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm. He took 30 seriously wounded soldiers out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey. Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Army Retired, died Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at the age of 70, in Boise, Idaho. May God Bless and Rest His Soul. I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, We've heard plenty about murders, Health Care, Border security etc. BUT NOTHING ABOUT THE PASSING OF Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman. Shame on the media!!!
17 pointsGot the lettering done. I got a "sponsor".....advertising for them, art work for me. It's a win for both of us.
16 pointsI wanted to share my latest addition . It started life as an R795 . But the owner ( that has passed now ) liked detroit motors. So they put an 8V92 in it. I don't know a lot about the truck. I believe it has 44 k rears, 12 k front . I do know it is a 1977 , 475 hp and it has a 13 speed . I am now the 3rd owner of the truck. My plan is to use it a little to move equipment and take to the occasional show. As strange as it seems …….. my attraction to this truck is the motor. It just sounds so cool ! I plan on doing some video of it . I will post when i get something uploaded .
16 pointsThought I'd share a couple pics of my R model that was delivered this weekend. I purchased the truck from the wife of the original owner who passed away last year. He had ordered it new in 1979 and was the only one to drive it. The truck has 118k miles and was used to pull a lowboy. It's completly original except the blue paint which was done at the Mack dealer when truck was new.
15 pointsCouple pics from my son's wedding Sat.
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14 pointsVermont man takes revenge on town board with a 700-pound statue of a middle finger By Rex Santus Dec 11, 2018 A Vermont man was so incensed by his town's zoning regulations that he erected a 700-pound statue giving officials the middle finger — and lit it with floodlights so they would always be reminded of his feelings toward them. Ted Pelkey's decade-long feud with local officials reached spiteful new heights Nov. 30, when he installed the statue on a high pole in his front yard, along Route 128, after his request to relocate his monofilament cleaning and truck repair business from a nearby town to his own property was denied. Pelkey said officials won't let him build the garage simply because they don't like him, and he thought a middle finger was just the right response. "We wanted to show our appreciation," Pelkey told VICE News. The Westford Selectboard and Development Review Board had denied Pelkey's requests for the large garage, asserting that his applications did not meet the town's standards for a variety of reasons. Among them, Pelkey's application lacked necessary information about lighting that will "likely be needed for security purposes," and did not effectively describe the purpose of the building, officials said. But while Pelkey couldn't legally build a garage, he does have the legal right to flip off town officials for all eternity. Though billboards are banned in Vermont, Pelkey's middle finger is protected because it isn't advertising a business or service. Furthermore, the middle finger is a gesture that is generally protected by the First Amendment, so Pelkey's $4,000 statue seems to fall under the category of "public art." "He apparently can do what he's done," Allison Hope, chair of the Westford Selectboard, told the Burlington Free Press. As it turns out, even though billboards are banned advertisements in Vermont, the middle finger has gotten more attention for Pelkey's business than any roadside sign ever would have. Twitter users have expressed a growing admiration for his pettiness, and there's even a Facebook fan page for Pelkey's wooden finger statue. Pelkey's attorney appealed the board's decision several weeks ago and is awaiting a decision, according to the Burlington Free Press. Images courtesy of Ted Pelkey
14 pointsThis truck hasn't seen many miles in a lot of years. A friend who started driving in Virginia in an H model wants to drive it up to the Brooks, OR show in a few weeks so I decided to get it serviced and make a run. It performed well other than the sticks are awful stiff. It will be a hot 270 mile run but a lot of fun and memories. Note the smoke in our valley................plain awful for 2 weeks now.
14 pointsWe had our local tractor show this past weekend. Friday was nice but Saturday was almost a complete wash out. I built a pulling hitch for the mack and they left me pull friday after the diesel pickups. Truck worked real good and had a lot of fun doing it. I have most of the bugs worked out of our johndeere B and got to put it on a pto dyno Saturday. It had 33 horsepower at 540rpm and maxed out at 38hp. Not bad for a 28 horse tractor.
14 pointsI flew to L.I. this afternoon to do the Barbecue for the Long Island Veterans Home and to put flags and pennies on the grave markers at Calverton National Cemetery. Wasn't going to do the feed for the Vets this year, but felt guilty about letting my fellow vets down. So tomorrow and Sunday my son and grandson will be cooking our butts off. Remember Memorial Day is for the Hero's who made the Supreme Gift to us. . .their lives for our freedom. Take a moment to remember them during the weekend. A coin left on a headstone lets the deceased soldier's family know that somebody stopped by to pay their respect. Leaving a penny means you visited. A nickel means that you and the deceased soldier trained at boot camp together. If you served with the soldier, you leave a dime. A quarter is very significant because it means that you were there when that soldier died." While this isn't officially recognized or endorsed by the military, these tiny pieces of metal say a lot about those who bravely defended our freedom. The coins are gathered up by the cemetery and go into a fund for flags markers.
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13 pointsThe weekend of Sept 7/8/9 I went to the wedding of a very close friend (in fact it was Ross Gabrick, the son of Robert Gabrick, many of you know to have written multiple books about transportation and trucks of various makes....) up in Duluth, Minnesota. I flew into Minneapolis and rented a car and drove up to Duluth. I was never in that part of the country before, let alone ever having seen any of the Great Lakes. My favorite part of the drive was northbound on I35 and going up that hill just south of Duluth, then when you crest the hill you look down into Duluth and the lake is all you see on the horizon. Beautiful. The wedding was something else, too. The headquarters for the wedding was at Larsmont, a resort right on the north shore of the lake in Two Harbors. Because Ross is a huge Bus nut, we took antique buses from the resort to the church on the other side of the famous lift bridge in Duluth. Then the buses from the church over to the reception at Deluth Union Depot, the old train station. It has been fixed up into it's heydey of train travel. Dinner was in the main lobby/waiting area. Then we had free roam of the train museum downstairs on the track level. The best part of all however was the private chartered train ride from Duluth to Two Harbors and back. Originally we were supposed to be pulled by tea kettle, however it suffered a fractured drive tire and had to be sidelined. So, F7 power it was. Yes, overgrown Detroit power. Oh well. One of the two buses, this one is the 1948 GMC, its entire life was Greyhound. The other bus was a 1960 GMC/Greyhound. I don't know why I didn't get a pic of it. I saw a freighter out on the Lake. This was taken from the harbor entrance, so I was told it was probably swinging on the hook until Monday morning when it would steam into Duluth or Superior, Mi. to unload. On Sunday I went to the Great Lakes Maritime Visitors Center, which is in the US Army Corps of Engineers building right there at the lift bridge. It is an excellent little museum (and free.) If you are into this kind of stuff, and are ever up that way, I highly recommend it. This is a model of how the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald looks. I saw a girl in a train car. I saw a 1938 Kahlenberg Diesel engine. I saw a two cylinder steam engine from a tugboat. I saw a world-famous lift bridge. They say it raises 5000+ times in a year. I believe it because in the three hours I spent in the area, it went up 4 or 5 times. I even took a video with a vessel and the bridge saluting one another with one long and two short air horn blasts. This is a tradition. I'd like to have the bridge air horn on my pickup truck. I saw a Pterodactyl. I saw another lake freighter, this was at the resort. At the time I pulled it up on shipfinder, but I don't remember the name, but it is one of the "Thousand Footers." I saw a pair of F-7's pulling the private wedding train I saw Duluth Missabe and Iron Range #229, a Baldwin "Yellowstone" 4-8-8-4, a smaller version of the UP Big Boy. This one is at the train station in Two Harbors. There is another one in the museum in Duluth where I got to go inside the cab. I saw the William A. Irvin, a retired Lake Freighter which is now a museum. I was pissed because I could not go aboard, they had the pier closed for renovations.
13 pointsI took the red headed woman that I love back to the airport in Roanoke today. I usually take rt. 43 from Altavista to Bedford, then 460 to Roanoke. When I was coming back today I happened to notice a big orange rock truck parked in a field over here at Leesville- you know, where that tri-axle Ford tractor with the lowboy is usually parked. I thought "hmmmm...that looks like a big Mack rock truck!" And of all the times to not have a camera- I always have my camera!..except today. Fortunately, you can take fairly decent pictures with a phone nowadays. So I stopped and pulled in the driveway and asked the guys that were standing around that Ford if I could take some pictures of the Mack. The man said "absolutely, start it up, drive it around the field!" And I thought he was joking, but one of his guys went over and cranked it up- started right up too. He told me that the state bought it in the 70's, used it on one job up on rt. 130, then he bought it and he's had it ever since, and still uses it doing site work from time to time. He said it only had 2,000 hrs. on it. I posted a little video of it running on Facebook.
13 pointsNice looking black B, got the cab and hood for mine out of Texas as well, look like what is on the plate. There are more than a few B-755's still around. There was a number of differences from a B-75, mostly to do with raising the cab to fit the engine. Most do not have the original 864 in them anymore. OEM B-755 had the NA 864/255hp. It was Mack's first attempt at bigger HP but the engine was plagued with problems. Then came the twin turbo 864/305hp in 1967 in the R Model. The injection pump was a nightmare! I had a running 864/255 for my B-755 but choose to go with a 866/375hp when it was restored. Most of the bad problems were worked out in the 866 except for constantly cracking cylinder heads.
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13 pointsSo...... I have always loved to cook (my mom started teaching me when I was 9 or 10) and always did the cooking in the firehouse and to this day cook big and/or extravagant meals on holidays. You guys may recall last year, I was in the market for a smoker. I was asking some of the guys on here about them, and Otherdog talked me into buying a pit barrel smoker (www.pitbarrelcooker.com) So I asked the wife to get me one fathers day if she was going to get anything. (For fathers day she usually gets me something Macungie-related like a pop-up awning, or a small charcoal grill, or chairs, portable tables, stuff like that.....) So Macungie came, and so did Otherdog who surprised us all for the first time. He kept asking me "Well did she get it for you?" And I had to tell him "No, looks like we cannot afford one right now. I'll have to wait, maybe I will work some overtime and save up." So the Tuesday after Macungie, I get home from work and walk into the mudroom and damn near fall over a big ass box and damn near break my neck. Seems that the UPS man delivered a Pit Barrel Smoker. The wife was asleep (she was due into work that night) so when I get home from work on her work nights, I wake her up so she can shower, eat and get out the door for 7pm. So I run upstairs and wake her up and kissed her twenty times exclaiming "You got it for me!!! You got it for me!!!" Well imagine my confusion when she says over and over again "What the hell are you talking about? What smoker? I didn't get the smoker for you!" So I checked my Amazon Prime account thinking maybe I bought it by accident when I was looking at it (yes I have done that...........) but nope....Nothing on the account. So I called Amazon and spoke to an account rep.....She traces it back to a (insert real name here...........) "Otherdog with a Gladys, Virginia mailing address." So I called Otherdog. The conversation went something like this. Me: "Hey I just got home and damn near broke my neck on a box inside my mud porch." OD: "huh, what was that?" Me: "A Pit Barrel Smoker." OD: "Huh so she got it for you!" Me: "Uh, no." OD: "Well where did it come from?" Me: "The Gladys Fairy delivered it." OD: "Huh. That Gladys Fairy sure is nice!" So after going back and forth for a few minutes I let him in on that I called Amazon and found out. And then I said "Look, while this is a tremendous gift and I sincerely appreciate your kindness and friendship, I want to say that I cannot accept this, however, I also know you well enough to know that if I tell you I can't take it that you will tell me to shove it up my ass, so I thank you from the bottom of my heart and you are a beautiful man." Then he told me that I was one of the big driving forces that made him take off from work for a few days to drive to Macungie for the show, and he had such a good time he wanted to do something nice for me and my family. So, since I don't live far from Macungie....I threw together a little pick-a-nick thing for some folks and woke my ass up at 0530 on Saturday, and was out there and at precisely 6:30am I hung three beef round roasts and one bone-in pork shoulder into the very smoker that he gave me as gift almost exactly one year later. And around 2:15pm I got to watch Otherdog munching down. We had a great time and I don't get mushy on here often but it was cool to make some grub for him and watch him enjoying hisself. So thanks again Otherdog and happy fathers day to you and all the other fathers on here!!! The smoker all loaded up at 6:30am The smoked bone-in pork shoulder, being prepped for shredding. Then we mixed in an Eastern North Carolina vinegar-based barbeque sauce that my wife made. Picture of me starting to slice the three roast beefs. Photo by Otherdog's ladyfriend, Zina.
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13 pointsBy some reason I had ocassion to fly over a part of North Norway. The weather was found fine so I made a bit of picture work from the window. Those tight clouds on the last two shots covered the area above Athlantic ocean.
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12 pointsyesterday today that was just after imron base coat before clear, i forgot to take a picture after i shot the clear it was getting pretty late when i finished up. ill post up a picture tomorrow of it all un wrapped with the clear coat on it. i recorded some video on the whole process so that will be in the works as well. but my old peeling fading pant on the mack has been replaced with nice shiny new paint. its had some clear coat issues as long as iv owned it but it has really started showing its age up close over the last couple years, the whole drivers side was starting to peel bad and the passenger side was starting to peel and there was absolutely no clear coat left on the roof, not to mention the hood had been re painted previously by someone else and the color didn't exactly match they painted over stickers and it was separating in spots. as the original paint was failing underneath the repaint on the hood.
12 pointsFinally found a way to fix all my emission system headaches with the new trucks. Just got this 1986 IH 9670 Eagle. It's been many years now since I have been as happy as I am now when I drive this truck. Just have to do some cosmetic stuff. Got a grab handle missing, some dents and extra mirror brackets and stuff to remove. And put the stack on straight. But the headliner and sleeper are still wrapped in plastic. Never been opened up. It's a little light spec'd compared to what I normally have, but many years ago I was in the bush with 38,000 rears and only broke one axle shaft once, so I'll be okay pulling a dump trailer with this. It's got an NTC Big Cam IV 400, 13 speed overdrive and 40,000 International (made by Rockwell) rears with 4.44 ratio. Kinda odd a light spec highway truck is geared that low, but it pulls pretty strong. And I will just be using it in town and on highway construction anyway. Man, I had forgot how glorious it is to drive an old truck with a mechanically governed engine and un-muffled straight pipe. I'm never going to want to drive the 4900 Star now. I missed out on a 350 Superliner, but I'm an International guy too, so this will work!
12 pointsMy grandfathers brother had an Auto repair/ gas station and Pontiac dealer in Centerport Long Island from the mid teens until his death in 1967. During the 20's and 30's most of his customers were from Eatons Neck and Centerport. The likes of the Vanderbilts, Morgans, Pratt and Manvilles so his wrecker wrecker fit his image for his clients. Biggest memory was climbing all over his 1928 Packard tow truck. when he died I was 14 and couldn't convince my dad to take it for his garage. so it was sold. The unit just came up for sale after sitting in the buyers garage since 1969. I contacted the seller and sent him a wire transfer deposit to buy it. Only 3 photos and needs most likely a ton of mechanical and the body was changed quite a bit. But 52 years later I'm going to own it. 1933 photo Center Shore Drive Centerport N.Y. Hosted on Fotki December 2018. Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki Hosted on Fotki
12 pointsPicked up the cab, fenders, and all exterior cab pieces on Thursday. I love the color, it's a Spectramaster green that took a lot of research to find. When I got home there was a small stone chip on the front, dang it! The trailer fenders are off for loading, I put them back on for the trip.
12 pointsGee it was in all the papers. Today, we mourn the passing of an old friend by the name of Common Sense. Common Sense lived a long life, but died from heart failure early on election day 2016.. No one really knows how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He selflessly devoted his life to service in schools; hospitals, homes, factories and offices, helping folks get jobs done without fanfare and foolishness. For decades, petty rules, silly laws and frivolous lawsuits held no power over Common Sense. He was credited with cultivating such valued lessons as to know when to come in from rain, the early bird gets the worm and life isn't always fair. Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you earn), reliable parenting strategies (the adults are in charge, not the kids), and it's okay to come in second. A veteran of the Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression, and the Technological Revolution, Common Sense survived cultural and educational trends including feminism, body piercing, whole language and new math. But his health declined when he became infected with the "if-it-only-helps-one-person-it's-worth-it" virus. In recent decades, his waning strength proved no match for the ravages of overbearing federal legislation. He watched in pain as good people became ruled by self-seeking lawyers and enlightened auditors. His health rapidly deteriorated when schools endlessly implemented zero tolerance policies; when reports were heard of six year old boys charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; when a teen was suspended for taking a swig of mouthwash after lunch; when a teacher was fired for reprimanding an unruly student. It declined even further when schools had to get parental consent to administer aspirin to a student but couldn't inform the parent when a female student is pregnant or wants an abortion. Finally, Common Sense lost his will to live as the Ten Commandments became contraband, churches became businesses, criminals received better treatment than victims, and federal judges stuck their noses in everything from Boy Scouts to professional sports. As the end neared, Common Sense drifted in and out of logic but was kept informed of developments, regarding questionable regulations for asbestos, low-flow toilets, smart guns, the nurturing of Prohibition Laws and mandatory air bags. Finally, when told that the homeowners association restricted flags to those who supported non patriotic views, he breathed his last. Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents Truth and Trust; his wife, Discretion; his daughter, Responsibility; and his son Reason. His three stepbrothers survive him: Rights, Tolerance and Whiner. Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
12 pointsDon't know how much has been changed besides the engine and trans. Looks pretty good getting down to business!
12 pointsI'm thinking they glow in the dark!
12 pointsRespectfully Sir, I disagree with you. I know we all appreciate Barry and Watts Truck Center for hosting this site. That said, he has chosen the Forums for the site. And the Odds and Ends Forum is the 2nd most popular of all of the Forums with over 91,000 posts. This particular post was placed where it belongs, in Odds and Ends. And the title contains the words "president and "Trump" so if one does not wish to read about politics then just don't click on it. I imagine that is why there are the different Forums, so you don't have to spend time in those which don't interest you.
12 pointsFinally finished my 1:24 scale Rubber Duck RS700L. It's loosely based on one of the early 70's second unit trucks: metal dash cab, Cummins power and cosmetic damage. With 1:25 scale brother for comparison.
11 pointsSharing the road with B model Macks.
11 pointsA little I've a month ago I moved into this 2016 Pinnacle . I love it ! Next best thing to my Superliner . It came up for grabs the beginning of last month at work when the guy that drove it and abused it for the last year wanted out of it because he wanted the 2006 International instead ? Go figure The guy ain't right . So I went in the office and asked the boss if I could have it surprisingly he said yes ! I'm getting it cleaned up a little more all the time . I love the truck I pull s great not as good as my E9 I have at home but I'm still very pleased with its performance as I'm grossed out T between 115, to 132,000 lbs all the time . It does an excellent job .
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11 pointsMalvern Fire Company in Malvern PA has Mack B75F0001, the first of the B75 Fire trucks delivered in July 1954, Radnor Fire Company (a neighboring company) must have liked the truck, so they ordered a twin B75F Pumper in July 1954. Radnor B75F0011 was delivered in December 1954. They responded to many fire calls together over the years. The Radnor Mack was in active service for 48 years until 2002. Both trucks are now in semi-retired status working at parades, shows and other events throughout the year. Big Mack Website members may have seen the Radnor Mack at Macungie or Lititiz this year. This past Saturday, October 13, 2018, both B75F pumpers they were together again at the Main Line Fire Prevention Expo in Devon Pa, providing fire truck rides to over 550 participants. It is very cool to see a matched pair of Mack Firetrucks still working together after 64 years.
11 pointsBuilt OEM with a Mack 864 Thermodyne V8 under the hood.
11 pointsI made her an offer on it, we'll see. Chrysler Straight 8 welder and chassis ran and drove 5 years ago. Be a nice mate to my other Weld Mobile.
11 pointsI saw a tree- there's a B-61 Mack up in there somewhere. There it is... Some cats at the dumpster in Gladys... I thought it was my lucky day when I spotted all this great furniture there, but the mattresses blew off the roof of the car on the way home, and by the time I got back with the truck all my furniture was gone too... Some trees- Some trucks... A scraper... ...and last but certainly not least- how about this?!! The beautiful redheaded correspondent from the Florida department of Winfall Wimmens sent this in-
11 pointsFew Marmon COE's still around. In the background, Yardo is making plans for the smoker.
11 pointsThank you , prayer does work however o struggle with my faith . Can't quite understand why at the tender young age of 49 the good lord has decided to put yet one more mountain in front of me to climb. Just to update. Chemo is Monday Wednesday and Friday. Tuesday and Thursday I've secured work for Allen Distribution in Carlisle pa as a casual driver those evenings . Yes my assigned tractor will be a Mack,yay me. Once in up over this current mountain I will be full time. Had orientation this afternoon then tried helping momma spread some mulch when she got home. But over all I'm in decent shape for the shape I'm in. Cheers 🍻
11 pointsI bought this old roadway truck back in '03 and made it into a twin screw, it was a great truck, the last to get stuck in the field. I sold it 3 years ago to a guy who's '66 r model had died on him, and he sent me a picture of it today.
11 pointsTell them to go straight to Hell.I don't care what you do,just DO NOT give in,they want you to be scared and give up without a fight. I fought with zoning for 5 years,met every demand they placed on me,license,fence,etc.,they still wanted me gone,took me to court and I beat them,still here 14 years later. Just think where we'd be today if our leaders and troops just gave in without putting up a fight. Quote the Constitution to them,they hate that too.
10 pointsNever plan on being a stoner, don't smoke, seldom drink and it fascinates me...…………….Stoner dude sits at home smoking state-approved weed & eat'in Cheetos, Democratic politicians boast whimsically about how many drugs they did in college, the companies CEO has a chrome box for his nose candy and Mr.BlueCollar is told "stay sober, clean, and your going to piss in a cup if you wanna get paid (or score a job)".
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10 pointsYou never know . I was going to Iowa with a truck and trailer when I had a radiator leak . Found a parts place in Morton IL. that also had a radiator shop . The shop would repair the radiator if I took it out . While getting it out a man pulled in with a truck with a bad power steering pump . He asked if I would remove it and install a new one that the parts place had . I told him that I did not work here but would do it when I got the radiator out . Got the new pump installed he offered to pay me. I refused and told him I was just killing time while waiting on my radiator. Then a women with a car pulled in and asked if I would would change the wires and plugs on he car . Told he sorry but my radiator was done and had to get going as it started to rain . The shop would not charge me for the work on the radiator . This was on Friday afternoon . Everyone in the parts place and man in the shop was starting to drink a beer getting a start on the week end . I went to a store close by and bought a 12 pack for everyone . Was on my way was about 4:30 that afternoon .
10 pointsA buddy sent me photos of his apple picking crew. The next day he sent other photos of the new crew.
10 pointsFine looking rig! Born at the Oakville plant with a CAT 3406 under the hood.
10 pointsFrom all of the members of the Yocum creek and upper cloverfork vol fire departments we would like to say thank you to Don Holden aka Vals327 on here. he and 2 other men drove 800 miles one way to deliver us 2 1983 mack mc fire trucks. (pictures soon to come) this is the second truck that he has donated to Yocum creek and the first to upper cloverfork. words can not say how much we appreciate him and all who has helped us over the last few years. it takes a special kind of human being to drive 2 of the hottest trucks I have ever been in that distance over 2 days with out air conditioning and mid to upper 90s stay for a hour and begin there 800 mile journey back home. all I know to say is thank you
10 pointsA buddy of mine went to a local county fair to watch some pulls and sent me a picture of our famous back in black.
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10 pointsI just got off the phone with him. He asked that I let everyone on here know about what is happening. FIRST AND FOREMOST- HE ASKS THAT THIS STAYS OFF FACEBOOK. He does not mind you guys knowing what is going on but he wants to keep it off facebook as he does not want certain people knowing his business. Many of you are aware that he was treated about 3 or 4 years ago for Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, a form of cancer. He was able to beat it, however it is a persistent form of cancer and often comes back, which it has. He begins some aggressive chemo treatment on Monday 4/30. He was kind of worried that he might have had to go to Pittsburgh for that but is able to do it locally. He will take it one day at a time. He is naturally upset, but keeping his head up. He approached his bosses late last week about the problem and explained that he would need time for treatment and to convalesce. He explained that he wanted to stay on part time for a while, as soon as he could go back to work, and then come back full time when he was able. His bosses fired him on Monday at a breakfast meeting. Mike has already seen an attorney who explained that as the Company is in New Jersey, they law is on their side, however he believes he may have a case and they will be filing a wrongful termination suit. This is what really has him upset right now. So for obvious reasons, Mike may or may not make Macungie depending on how hard the chemo kicks his arse. Please keep him in your thoughts and remember no mention of any of this publically on Facebook.


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Five Great Ferns to Hang Up
From the front porch to the back door, we'll tell you which ones are right for you.
An upward-arching form makes 'Kimberley Queen' a natural choice for displaying near doors or entries. More tolerant of low light and low humidity than Boston fern, 'Dallas' fern is easy to grow. Place 'Tiger' fern where the leaves can be admired. Its flashy foliage is bound to be noticed. One leaflet on a frond of 'Macho' fern can be the length of a ballpoint pen.
1. Best for Hanging Around Boston fern (Nephrolepis exaltata 'Bostoniensis')
I have to agree with Cathy Phelps of Greenville, South Carolina; she can't imagine her porch without this classic fern. Cathy (pictured above at left) loves hanging her Boston ferns, but displaying them atop plant stands works too.
- What it needs: Place it in bright, indirect light and well-drained soil. Feed once a month with a water-soluble fertilizer such as 20-20-20.
- Key to success: Cathy says to keep the fern in the plastic pot it came in so you won't have to water as much. She tried coco-fiber lined baskets but found herself watering all the time because the fiber doesn't hold moisture for very long. Remember that hanging baskets dry out faster than other types of containers, so check them often by sticking your finger in the soil. It should be just damp to the touch but not wet.
2. Keeper of the Door 'Kimberley Queen' fern (N. obliterata 'Kimberley Queen')
Hailing from Australia, where only the tough can survive, this handsome fern displays upward-arching, dark green fronds that hold their shape in wind and rain. Use by the door, to flank a pathway, or as a backdrop for other plants.
- What it needs: If given regular water, this fern does well in sun. Average soil is okay too. Hate to water? Use this plant in light shade, and you can almost forget about it. Fertilizer is not really needed, but if fronds become dull green, boost color with an application of Ironite or a water-soluble fertilizer such as 20-20-20.
- Key to success: Keep this vigorous grower in a container, especially if you live in the Coastal or Tropical South. Highly adaptable, this too-good-to-be-true fern can become an unwelcome guest if allowed to roam wild in sandy soil.
3. Tops for Tables 'Dallas' fern (N. exaltata 'Dallas')
This neat and compact plant sports short fronds that have a ruffled appearance. I like the fact that if you decide to move a 'Dallas' fern indoors, it is less likely to drop leaves than other types such as Boston fern. Perfect for side tables, windowsills, or small baskets, this is the one to choose when space is tight.
- What it needs: Like a Boston fern, it prefers bright, indirect light and well-drained soil. The difference is that it can get by with less moisture and light. Feed once a month using a water-soluble fertilizer such as 20-20-20.
- Key to success: Do not overwater this plant. 'Dallas' fern is an excellent choice for beginners, especially those who occasionally forget to give their thirsty houseplants a drink.
4. Most Intriguing Accent 'Tiger' fern (N. exaltata 'Tiger')
If you really love color, here's a fern worthy of a hearty roar. Bright green leaflets striped with gold make this plant quite the conversation starter. A fast grower, 'Tiger' fern works very well alone or as a companion plant in both baskets and containers.
- What it needs: Place it in bright, indirect light or partial shade and well-drained soil. Feed once a month with a water-soluble fertilizer such as 20-20-20.
- Key to success: Display 'Tiger' fern in a location where it won't get too hot, such as in the cool shade of a deep porch. Good drainage is critical as well. Don't overwater or let this plant sit in a water-filled saucer for long.
5. When Bigger Is Better 'Macho' fern (N. biserrata 'Macho')
"Delicate" and "petite" are not the words you would use to describe 'Macho' fern. In the right conditions, this behemoth can grow 4 feet tall and 5 to 6 feet wide. Display it outside, because interior light is normally not bright enough. I suggest trying this fern in large containers and oversize hanging baskets for a truly dramatic show.
- What it needs: Give this plant bright light with filtered afternoon sun, and provide it with well-drained soil. When new fronds appear, feed with a one-fourth to one-half-strength, water-soluble fertilizer such as 20-20-20.
- Key to success: It loves heat and humidity and can tolerate sun as long as it's not too hot. To keep fronds from burning, place it where it will be protected from direct afternoon sun.
More ferns die from overwatering than underwatering. Water only when soil is just dry to the touch.
- If leaves turn yellow and soil is wet 1 to 2 inches beneath the surface, you are watering too much.
- Ferns love humidity and appreciate an occasional misting. Just don't do so in direct sun, which could burn the fronds.
- Never fertilize a fern―or any plant―that is too dry; it can burn the roots. First, water well, and then feed.
- If water runs straight through the pot each time you water, it is either time for a good soak or time to repot.
- To soak, dunk your basket in a tub of water for several minutes, and let it sit there until rehydrated.
- If your plant is several years old, perhaps it's time to repot. The new container should be about 1 1?2 times the size of the existing pot.
- These ferns bite the dust when exposed to prolonged freezing temperatures. To overwinter them, cut back the side fronds next to the rim of the pot, and trim the top fronds to 10 inches. Bring the plant indoors where it will receive bright light from a window. Water regularly, and by next year at this time, you can take it back outside.
"Five Great Ferns" is from the April 2006 issue of Southern Living.


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In the wake of the "more rain and more intense rain" story, Doug Keenan sends this graph of England & Wales rainfall records for 1766-2012 (click for larger; data here).
Let's just say the trend towards more rainfall is not obvious. (As indeed is any trend towards less rainfall, which is said to be more likely by the UK Climate Impacts Programme).
[Updated to show England and Wales, rather than UK]
Doug writes:
The plot shows the total precipitation for England and Wales in 2012 as 1070 mm. That was the amount in the file for seasonal precipitation that the Met Office had on its web site when I downloaded the file on January 4th (at 20:31). The amount, however, is incorrect. The Met Office has since changed the file to specify the amount as 1245 mm. The other data points in the plot seem to be correct. An amended plot is included in the e-mail that I sent to Julia Slingo on January 7th. As shown and discussed there, the obvious problems remain.


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text: http://books.slashdot.org/books/05/09/08/1653245.shtml [ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0387201092/c4iorg - WK] Author: Matt Curtin Pages: 291 Publisher: Copernicus Books Rating: 9 Reviewer: Isaac Jones ISBN: 0387201092 Summary: Volunteers working collaboratively over the internet manage to crack the Data Encryption Standard. Although I wasn't involved with the DES cracking challenge, I am friends with the author of this book. I took a Lisp course from Matt at Ohio State University and I'll be forever grateful that Matt introduced me to functional programming with a great deal of humor and enthusiasm. I don't think I've ever seen Matt stay so serious for so long, but his enthusiasm comes through clearly in this book. Brute Force can be enjoyed by both nerds and non-nerds interested in cryptography or codes. Those who have been a part of this or subsequent DES challenges may be particularly interested in this book. Curtin covers some technical details of DES and the brute force attack that the DESCHALL team used to discover a DES key. He also discusses the political and historical significance of this event. This is a fairly technical book, but it goes out of its way to explain non-obvious technical topics, so one doesn't need a lot of technical background to understand it. Curtin briefly explains a lot of stuff: the C programming language, firewalls, UDP, one-time pads, protected memory, etc., in order to make this book readable for novices. Although I generally did not need such explanations, I did not find them annoying or distracting, as they were fairly brief. In fact, it's fun to read concise explanations of such topics. Occasionally, Curtin does go into just a little too much detail. The chapter on Architecture gives an explanation of some of the many pieces of software that were involved in this effort. This chapter sometimes gets a bit bogged down with explanations of useful scripts that folks wrote to analyze data or forward packets through firewalls. Brute Force is a very readable and enjoyable book. It is well organized as a narrative, though it is not chronological; Curtin presents the background and substance to each aspect of the story together, rather than chronologically. This can be slightly confusing sometimes, but I think it improves the over-all flow of the story. In a way, Curtin gives away the ending to the book at the beginning (and in the title), but this isn't ancient history, and most readers will probably already know that DES was defeated by this effort. He still manages to maintain a good sense of suspense throughout the book. He presents tables and analysis of the effort, along with predictions about completion dates that volunteers had made at the time. Unfortunately, he doesn't tell us whether those tables turned out to be correct. What percentage of the keyspace was searched by Macintoshes? How many different kinds of client machines were there in the end? Did Ohio State University try more keys than Oregon State University? Which one is the real OSU? One of the main themes running throughout the book was that of community. The DESCHALL project was made up of thousands of volunteers from all over the US. Anyone with some spare CPU cycles could get involved by downloading the client software. This may remind you of other distributed computing projects like SETI at home. The community was further broken down into sub-groups like schools who would compete for bragging rights. The organization of the DESCHALL project was much like an open source project, though the key-cracking tools were not open source. Spreading the Word is a chapter about how people started to hear about DESCHALL and what the earliest adopters were like. Some of the tables in a later chapter list the operating system and hardware that the clients were running, which was a pretty cool snapshot of the Internet from 1997. It included lots of OS/2 clients, labs full of SGI machines, and plenty of computers which were only connected to the Internet via dial-up modems. Special scripts were developed for such machines so they could phone home when they needed a new block of keys. Though the key cracking clients were not open source, they were free as in beer, at least for Americans. Since such cryptography-related software could not be exported at the time, this was a US-only effort. There was a European team, however, with their own software, called SolNet, and Curtin keeps us updated on their progress. In fact the DESCHALL project had an impact on the political debate of this time with regard to the export and control of cryptographic technologies. Curtin gives us interesting periodic updates on the political debate as the DES cracking story moves forward. Cryptography control was defeated at that time, but the use of cryptography is a right that will need continued protection. The political story of DESCHALL was one aspect of the historical impact of the project. Another impact was the explosion of volunteer distributed computing networks after the DESCHALL project, with SETI at home being one of the most obvious examples. DESCHALL clearly demonstrated the viability of this kind of computation. Curtin touches briefly on this here and there, but does not go into detail. I would like him to more clearly spell out the trends in Internet distributed computing. I would like to hear that DESCHALL was derived from project A and that it inspired projects B, C, and D. Was it was the original Internet distributed computing network? Was it a fad that has abated in the last few years? Curtin touches on this a bit, but says, "Some other distributed computing projects like DESCHALL were around," (pg 200.) He says which ones, but doesn't make any claims that DESCHALL inspired SETI at home, for instance. Perhaps such things are never quite clear in the free exchange of ideas on the Internet. The political and community aspects of the story wrap up very nicely. Curtin outlines DESCHALL's impact on driving the AES standard, and its (perhaps much smaller) impact on the debates on key escrow and encryption exports. Brute Force is a very enjoyable read about an important event, and I can happily recommend my friend Matt's book to the Slashdot crowd. My only criticisms can really be summed up by saying, "I want to hear more."


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In a wood-paneled office here in the dusty fringes of Kabul, Hajji Shirin Dil feverishly works the phones. He shouts orders into one receiver as he dials another phone, while aides wait patiently to speak to him.
He could be Wall Street day trader, if not for the sleepy gunmen by his side. Instead, Mr. Dil owns a profitable logistics company and is cutting deals with various warlords, whose private security companies protect his trucks carrying vital provisions to the foreign troops.
But a recent pledge by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to ban security companies threatens to grind this business to a halt, and in the process calls attention to the foreign forces' reliance on a complex network of private companies and local strongmen to protect their supply lines.
"I can't move anything without protection," says Dil. "The Taliban can stop my trucks and the foreigners won't get supplies."
The move highlights the paradoxical position of foreign forces here. Meant to be building democratic institutions, they nevertheless pay millions to strongmen and private security companies that undermine those institutions. Why? It's the way they protect their supply lines and their ability to fight against the Taliban.
But the arrangements sometimes benefit the insurgents. Some private security companies pay protection money to the Taliban, while the heavy-handed tactics of others generates public anger and fresh recruits for the group. Afghan officials say this is why Karzai ordered a ban on private security companies. Even some trucking companies back the move, hoping that the Afghan government will provide regular, reliable security.
The proposed ban has prompted a flurry of meetings in the United Nations, foreign embassies and military circles. "We are utterly reliant on local contractors to make this war work," says a Western military official involved in logistics. "We simply do not have the ability to do it all ourselves, nor do the Afghan forces."
President Karzai announced the ban in August, citing the companies' poor human rights records and the need to clamp down on warlordism. He decreed that by 2011 all such companies – which include 52 licensed foreign and Afghan companies and scores of unlicensed ones that employ more than 40,000 people – must cease operations.
Under international pressure, Karzai has agreed to limit the ban to security companies not working for foreign embassies or organizations, but the precise nature of the exceptions -- or even if he'll follow through with the ban in other areas -- is not clear.
Convoy kings
The history of Watan Risk Management demonstrates how NATO's reliance on private security contractors has spawned a new class of Afghan warlords who are well-entrenched new and unlikely to fade away quietly.
Ruhullah, until recently the company's chief commander, is considered one of the most powerful men along the perilous stretch of highway between Kabul and Kandahar, a vital artery for the US miiltary and international aid agencies alike.
He was a fruit wholesaler before the fall of the Taliban, then he got his start by providing security to CNN and CBS reporters. He recruited men from his home village in Dand, Kandahar, and was soon able to amass a force of hundreds ready to provide protection. He branched out into providing security for NGOs and NATO supply convoys. Today Ruhullah charges $1,000 per a truck and his force accompanies up to 500 trucks a week between Kabul and Kandahar.
"Nothing would happen without our help," says Ruhullah in an interview. "We help the foreign forces and therefore help stability."
While Ruhullah enjoys a near monopoly from Kabul to Kandahar, when trucking companies want to go further west – to supply troops in Helmand, for instance – they pay whichever local warlord or government official happens to be in the area to protect their convoy.
"We sometimes just wait around and when some trucks come we charge them to protect them," explains a police officer in Helmand's Lashkar Gah. Truckers themselves often negotiate a price on the spot, sometimes paying thousands of dollars to move from one town to the next. Some companies have cultivated relationships with Afghan Army and police commanders and pay them regularly for protection. In Helmand, for instance, associates of Governor Gulab Mangal are involved in the business.
The business of protection
Some are concerned that the ban will make it even harder to regulate and hold Afghanistan's private army's accountable for their actions. In the days after Karzai's announcement, Commander Ruhullah resigned from his company, calling the job a "bloody business." But within a week he and his men had restarted convoy escorts, this time directly charging trucking companies instead of working through the licensed company Watan, according to logistics company executives.
That may have put convoys that used licensed groups in greater danger.,
A US House investigation found earlier this summer that Ruhullah and other commanders paid the Taliban not to attack their convoys. After Ruhullah left Watan, company associates say that the number of attacks against the company skyrocketed. "They are now losing 30 to 50 guys a month," says a Western security consultant who has worked with convoy protection companies. "If you don't pay, you are going to get hit. It's that simple."
The companies protect a long supply chain, stretching from ports in Pakistan to small military outposts in Afghanistan. NATO forces, for instance, pay two multinational logistics conglomerates – APL and Maersk Line – to arrange delivery of almost all materiel for their troops.
The goods arrive daily in port in Karachi, Pakistan, and are then shipped through the restive tribal areas of Pakistan to the Afghan border town of Torkham. There the transport is subcontracted to four Afghan trucking companies, who are responsible for bringing the materiel safely to military outposts.
"Usually a truck will wait in Torkham until we find someone who is willing to accompany it," explains Dil, who owns one of the four subcontracted companies. This includes local warlords or police and army officers, who charge $100 per truck for the relatively safe journey to Kabul.
But the far more dangerous trip from Kabul to bases further south, such as Kandahar or Helmand, runs right through Taliban territory, that's where men like Commander Ruhullah come in.
Violation of human rights?
Detractors insist that Ruhullah and other commanders regularly violate human rights. One of the most notorious is Zhed Gulalai, a convoy commander connected to strongman Governor Gul Agha Sherzai of Nangarhar province. A number of locals and government officials in Kandahar accuse Mr. Gulalai of false imprisonment, torture, extortion and stealing land.
"He and his men would target rival tribes, throw people in jail and in general cause them to join the Taliban," says Hajji Ehsan, a member of the Kandahar provincial council. Gulalai received hundreds of thousands of dollars to protect foreign bases and occasionally protects convoys as well, according to Afghan officials and western contractors.
In Helmand, the police chief of Musa Qala district, known simply as Koka, regularly deploys his police force to protect convoys in return for money. He is accused by current and former government officials of summary executions, land grabbing, and more.
"His cruelty is as clear as the sun for the people here," says a tribal elder from Musa Qala, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "Last year he accused one of the residents here of having connections to the Taliban and forced him to pay 700,000 Pakistani Rupees for his freedom." That is about $8,000, a huge sum for most Afghans.
Some of these strongmen and companies are officially registered, but others are not. According to the Interior Ministry, there are 59 unlicensed companies, and scores of independent commanders, operating throughout the country. For instance, Commander Tor Jan runs an illegal private company that is contracted to protect the NATO Provincial Reconstruction Team base in Kandahar.
Complicating matters
To complicate matters, Karzai's close associates themselves are involved in the business – two cousins of the president run Watan, and another cousin runs the Asia Security Group company. A number of other high-ranking officials – including the vice president and defense minister – are tied to security companies.
Some analysts and Western officials speculate that the announced ban could be a move to consolidate the interests of Karzai-linked commanders at the expense of rivals, something palace officials deny.
It is unclear what would replace the companies. Some officials have said that Afghan forces would fill the void, but many do not believe they are ready. Insiders at the Interior Ministry suggested the various commanders could be rolled into a nascent program meant to use militias and local defense forces to protect infrastructure.
But officials from all sides agree that it will take time before plans are finalized. "There is going to be some dealing and some compromises that are made," says the Western security consultant. "What the final entity will look like is anybody's guess."
In the meantime, trucking company owner Hajji Shirin Dil is hedging his bets. "I'll keep paying warlords or whoever agrees to protect my trucks," he says, "otherwise, this war would not run."


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The Bungalow was originally a childrens home for girls it consists of 7 acres of land with 4 main houses We brought it in 2012 with the idea of having a holiday home away from the cold winters of Denmark where...
Senani Hotel - Kandy
Senani hotel is conveniently situated in the central part of kandy (1/2 Km from kandy city) and with easy access to historical and top class shopping complexes.
Cafe Aromainn - Kandy
The Kandy Samadhicentre - Kandy
Fifty minutes northeast of Kandy the fertile landscape becomes a mass of lush vegetation reverberating with unfamiliar birdsong. The human populace too seem a different breed, profligate with smiles
Earl's Regency - Kandy
The crown jewel of the Kandyan Kingdom.The grandeur of an ancient Citadel adorned with contemporary 5-star luxury.
Hill Top Hotel - Kandy
Sublime relaxation in the tranquil setting of an ancient city Set against the backdrop of scenic mountainous countryside, overlooking the ancient hill capital, Kandy, and its famous Temple of the Tooth, Hill...
Hotel Thilanka-Kandy
Kandy is the capital of Sri Lanka\'s hill country, which a rich cultural heritage, and where the tropical heat of the coast is exchanged for the verdant cool of lush mountain slopes.
Manor House - A Luxury Mansion in Kandy
Step into the luxury of a stunning 15,000 sq. ft. Manor built in 1884. A magnificent restoration has added luster to the legend, where royalties and celebrities were served.
The Kandy House
The Kandy House is a unique, arched Sri Lankan manor house, providing seclusion and serenity in a tropical garden setting close to Kandy.
Alfred Colonial Bungalow - Kandy
Welcome to Alfred Colonial Bungalow, Situated in Muruthalawa Kobbakaduwa in Kandy district 12 km from Kandy and 110 km from Colombo. Luxury five bedroom colonial bungalow with one normal room.
Ellerton - Kandy
Ellerton is close to the geographic centre of Sri Lanka. Colombo and the international airport is 3 hours away and the World Heritage city of Kandy with its renowned botanical gardens and other tourist...
The ALBATROSS-Kandy
We take pride in announcing the establishment of THE ALBATROSS Golfing and Holiday Resort with concept designed not only for the discerning golfers and their respective families, but also for the overseas and...
Located in a very quiet residential neighborhood in Pallekelle, Kandy, Sandalwood is a great place for those who want to explore Kandy in depth.
Nature Walk Guest House-Kandy
A Small Boutique resort between the Temple of the Tooth and the Forbidden forest of the kings of kandy.
Club Lespri - Kandy
Situated 16Km from Kandy Botanical Gardens on Galaha Road in a picturesque setting at the edge of a pine forest inhabited by Eagles and rare birds, this unique resort is surrounded by a range of misty hills...
Mahaweli Reach Hotel
Surrounded by the mystique ancient kingdom of Kandy, Sri Lanka\'s longest river & the wondrous mountain ranges, stands the palatial Mahaweli Reach Hotel. Mysteriously hidden behind the lush green tropical...
Blue Haven Guest House - Kandy
Emerald Hill-Kandy
Emerald Hill Hotel is a small luxury Hotel in Aniwatte, Kandy. Situated on top of a hill the site is ideally suited for a Hotel with a panoramic view .....
Thotupola Residence - Kandy
We warmly welcome you all to our little home Thotupola Residence situated about five kilometers away from Kandy town. Thotupola residence is a boutique type homestay
Stone House Kandy
Stone House Lodgeis a luxurious, Colonial style boutique hotel, on a secluded plateau in the hills of Kandy, with magnificent views over lush green hills and valleys to the central mountains, ranging blue and...
Kandyan Arts Residency
Kandyan Arts Residency is the most conveniently situated Hotel in Kandy, which lies like a gem in the midst of a full view of the green hills of Hanthana…
Heritage - Pussellawa
A quiet little resort en route to Nuwara Eliya, the Heritage - Pussellawa has the advantage of a balmy climate all year around
Hotel Suisse - Kandy
This colonial Hotel, rising amidst three acres of landscaped splendor, is ideally located right beside the historic 'Kandy Lake' and cradled between two well-weeded Mountain ranges.
Queens Hotel - Kandy
The Queen's Hotel is considered today as a historic building to be conserved and held for all time as a part of the history of Sri Lanka's Central Province.
Randholee - Kandy
Walk on water, swim in the clouds, dine at the top of the world. Enter the mystery and pageantry of hundreds of years of Kandyan culture and history in this magnificent hill country hotel.
Hotel Tropicana-Kandy
Hotel Tropicana was established in 1983 and since the beginning it was popular among foreigners, government institutes & business firms.
Windloft Retreat-Delthota-Kandy
The Windloft, a mountain retreat set high up in Taylor's valley in Delthota, forming vistas of breath taking beauty and the ever whispering breeze.
Hotel Country Garden-Kandy
Settled in the historical Panabokke walauwa of 1885.The restaurant is in the original rooms of the walauwa.
Amaara Sky Hotel-kandy
A luxurious 12 roomed hotel virtually in the Kandyan Skies. We are small enough to ensure that you get a personalised service , but our team at Amaara is experienced enough to cater to your every need.
The Spring Villas-Kandy
The Spring Villas is located only 08 Km from Kandy City in the cooler climes of Sri Lanka. and 116Km from the Capital Colombo and in the close proximity of the famous tourist attraction – The Botanical...
Galavilla Boutique Hotel & Spa-Kandy
Driving through Sri Lanka in 2008 we were searching for a venue to make our dreams come true. We found just such a spot in mountainous terrain under the royal city of Kandy.
Kahambe Estate Villa-Kandy
Licensed Holiday Bungalow by Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority. Nestled in Pilimathalawa,12 kms away from Kandy town. 90 kms to Air Port and 100 kms to Colombo.
Elephant Stables-Kandy
The Elephant Stables is a beautiful Colonial period bungalow on a hill overlooking Kandy. It was the home of Adigar Sir Cuda Ratwatte (1880-1950) who was a Ceylonese nobleman, and the first person from Kandy...
Kandy Greenview Boutique Hotel
Built in 2000, Kandy Greenview Boutique hotel is a distinct addition to the city's skyline. The city center is merely 1.0 Km away and the airport can be reached within 180 minutes. For sightseeing options and...
Hanthana House-Kandy
Hanthana House is a boutique type accommodation which offers a comfortable stay in an attractive surroundings with added benefit of tasty and Srilankan Cooking which you can learn to prepare yourself!....
River Grove-Kandy
River Grove, set on a hillock in tropical gardens, is a homestay experience that provides an insight into Sri Lankan living and traditional cuisine. Owners, Raja and Shirani are very hospitable and will ensure...
Polwaththa Eco Lodges-Kandy
Polwaththa is a unique and authentic experience that offers you the best of traditional Sri Lankan village culture. Polwaththa means "coconut estate" which indicates that you will be surrounded by coconut palm...
Ceycrest - Kandy
Three Rooms with a panoramic view of Kandy and Gampola. Comprises of Three Double Bedrooms and Drivers Quarters. Maximum number of pax is 09 adults.
Clove Villa-Kandy
Clove Villa is a vibrant, stylish and luxurious boutique villa located only ten minutes away from the historical city of Kandy.
Sedevo Chalets - Kandy
Sedevo Chalets is located in the foot hills of the Kandy mountain range, approximately 15 mins drive from Kandy town, in Kundasale almost bordering the fertile Kundasale farm land in a village named Maha-Watte...
The Richmond House-Kandy
The Richmond House Kandy is located on the beautiful and picturesque hill country, Kandy, Sri Lanka.
Serene Grand-Kandy
Located in salubrious surroundings where the cool mountain air induces a welcome refreshing on one hand while nature exhibits her splendor on the other, Serene Grand sits proudly on an impressively landscaped...
Mountbatten Bungalow
Once the alleged Kandy Residence of Lord Mountbatten, this century old bungalow, has been renovated and refurbished into an up-market boutique theme bungalow.
Primrose Inn - Kandy
Breakfast is a mere 10 min. drive from Kandy city and is hosted by well traveled educated professional retirees.Begin the day with
Danielsen Rest
"Danielsen Rest" is always ready to let you spend your leisure time on your own freedom with your family. Danielsen Rest is situated in a balance environment where you are witnessing a panoramic view of...
Srivi Villa
This modern and well-maintained villa is situated in a residential area close to the beautiful city of Kandy, which is the hill Capital of Sri Lanka. It is spacious and can accommodate up to 10 people. The...
Hantane Range View
The home is located ,within easy access to the city centre and other places of interest. The sitting and dining room lead to a common balcony from which you see a 180 degree vista of the Hantana range . There...
Kandy Highland
Wake up to the breathtaking uppermost overview of Kandy a peak city above the Indian Ocean. To bathe in the hot sun during the daylight plus shower in the fresh nonstop soothing winds that will dance with you...
Sky Pavilion-Kandy
Loved the ambiance of the place, the feeling of timelessness, freedom and peace and most of all the divine views from anywhere in the villa. The changing moods of the sky, clouds, mountains, river, birds, and...
The Secret kandy
LUXURY GOVERNORS RESORT Embedded with style and sophistication, The Secret Kandy lies amongst shady trees in the royal capital of Kandy. Once the home of renowned philosopher Siddi Lebbe, the hotel affords...
Gadadessa Resort - Kandy
Whether you are a nature lover wishing to experience the wilderness and all its surprising fauna and flora, or simply looking to relax and rejuvenate, Gadadessa offers something for everyone. Hiking, bird...
Mapakada Village - Mahiyangana
Welcome to Hotel Mapakada Village one of the fascinating hotels in Mahiyanganaya. Close your eye lids, lie back and dream of passing through green paddy fields, sleepy villages and down the winding road
Hotel Travellers Nest - Kandy
Hotel Travellers Nest is a brand new classic hotel with 20 modern interior designed rooms with state of the art fittings. It is only 8 minutes\' walk from hotel to the Kandy Lake, Buddha\'s temple, city Centre...
Kandyan Crown - Kandy
Step inside the world of Kandyan Crown to skim the waters of royalty and witness the hospitality of unique Kandyan style with personalized service, gracious interiors and undisturbed peacefulness.
Earl's Regent - Kandy
Nestled within the lush green surroundings of the ancient kingdom of Kandy, Earl's Regent is the ideal Kandy hotel that showcases the very essence of our authentic Kandyan heritage. Experience the warmest...
Taylors Hill - Kandy
ONE OF THE MOST STYLISH TEA ESTATE HOTELS IN KANDY SRI LANKA Joining its boutique hotels in Kandy, Manor House Concepts presents Taylors Hill where stylish and modernised comfort blend effortlessly with the...
Greenview Holiday Resort - Kandy
GREEN VIEW HOLIDAY RESORT Ideal Place for Relaxing, Nature Walks, Trekking, Hill Climbing, Site Seeing and, River Bathing
Kandy City Hotel - Kandy
Nestled in the hill capital of Sri Lanka, the city of Kandy, Kandy City Hotel offers the utmost central location at the heart of the city with very convenience access to famous attractions such as the Sacred...
Jungle Tide - Kandy
This Bungalow is 11km from the centre of Kandy and the journey takes about 40 minutes. You will probably need to hire a vehicle and driver. Driver accommodation is provided within the price.
Vino Villa - Kandy
Just 1.4 km from the Temple of Tooth Relic in Kandy, Vino Villa offers modern rooms with free Wi-Fi and a balcony offering mountain views. Free private parking is provided.
Suyaama Holiday Home
The residence, the entire ground floor of the main house, is fully equipped with three bedrooms and two bathrooms
Melheim Kandy
Entering into the serene and fantasy ambiance, suspended in the natural dreamscape offering a breathtaking retreat in the charming hill tops of the tradition Kandyan palace.
Hotel See Kandy
Hotel See Kandy is a boutique hotel which is full of luxuries with the colonial appearance.
River Side Homestay in Kandy
River side homestay Kandy, offer all types of travellers an alternative and affordable place to stay. When you stay in a River side homestay you experience something that you won't in other forms of...
kandyan view holiday villa
Kandyan View Villa is a self-catering accommodation located just 900 metres from the famous Ceylon Tea Museum and 1.4 km from the popular Bogambara Stadium.
Sri Kandyan
located in a Mountain View place in world famous place, Kandy, Sri Lanka. An outdoor pool offers guests cool relief from the heat at Sri Kandyan, a peaceful property surrounded by lush greenery.
Panorama Resort Kandy
We Sri Lankans warmly welcome with a smile the inbound tourists from all path of the world. It is a pleasure to have you here in the Paradise of the Indian Ocean. Our vision is to make you comfortable.
The Hermitage
Set amidst 6 acres of natural forest, The Hermitage is a property which is difficult to Match.
The Grand kandyan hotel
The Grand Kandyan is tucked away in Kandy only 1.2 km from Sri Dalada Maligawa. It welcomes guests with a spacious outdoor pool and complimentary WiFi access. Rooms feature large windows and fully carpeted...
Kings Pavilion Kandy
Kings Pavilion Kandy is an exclusive escape that will offer you an extraordinary perspective on the majesty of the hill capital of Sri Lanka. Surrounded by misty mountains and verdant greenery
The Heaven Seven - Kandy
Featuring free WiFi, Heaven Seven Kandy offers accommodation located within just 300 m from Kandy Museum and Sri Dalada Maligawa. Guests can enjoy the on-site restaurant.
Villa Rosa - Kandy
Villa Rosa Kandy offers a slightly different hotel experience in Kandy, Sri Lanka.Less than ten minutes by tuk-tuk from the town, you are in a different world away from the hustle and bustle of traffic and...
Villa 49 - Kandy
Villa 49 is a private and luxurious home away from home situated centrally beside the lake in the heart of Kandy city.
Fox Resorts - Kandy
FOX Resorts Kandy offers picturesque views of the verdant hills and mountains that blanket the horizon.
Romance Hills Hotel
Featuring free WiFi throughout the property, Romance Hills Hotel offers accommodation in Kandy.
Sanatha Suwaya Lodge
Offering a sun terrace and views of the mountain, Sanatha Suwaya is set in Kandy in the Kandy District Region.
Santani Wellness Resort and Spa
Named for the Sanskrit word meaning "in harmony with," Santani realises the sincere belief that sustainable wellness begins by bringing oneself into balance with nature and by allowing ourselves to receive
Kandy Home Stay
Kandy Home Stay is a cosy tree house situated on a hillside in the beautiful village of Kobbekaduwa in Kandy. This homestay is an entirely independent structure built on top of a large Ficus tree.
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I'm a mental health professional who's also had some training in web design/development. The current project is for an online billing practice management application for mental health therapists that I'm developing. So far, I've done all the graphics myself (plus some free icons) but I'm not happy with my "client". If I find a designer's work that I fall in love with, I might be persuaded to change out more (or all) of the rest of the icons on the site - as well as the logo. But right now, I'm just getting my feet wet with this first contest for a set of "client" icons to see how it goes.
Mental health professionals, i.e., psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, life coaches, pastoral counselors, social workers, etc. The feel I'm going for is open, approachable (i.e., not stuffy or overly formal), appealing.
What I need is a genderless, raceless, ageless icon to represent a client that can be used in a variety of different "poses". Main icons on the site are 32x32 and will have a transparent background. I also need 30x22 size on a black background for forms. I'll attach the left nav and also some icons from forms, showing what I'm using now. A winning entry might be similar to what I have or very different. I just know that what I have now isn't very professional looking and needs spiffing up.
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GODORT Conference Schedule Annual 2012
The following committees have elected not to meet at Annual: Development.
PDF listing of GODORT meetings
Friday, June 22, 2012
Steering Committee Meeting I: 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Agenda
Hyatt Regency Orange County - Grand Ballroom C
Kirsten Clark, Chair
Bylaws and Organization Committee: 4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Agenda
Hyatt Regency Orange County - Terrace A
Kathy Bayer, Chair
Legislation Committee Meeting I: 4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Agenda
Hyatt Regency Orange County - Barcelona
Dan Barkley, Chair
Nominating Committee Meeting I: 4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. Agenda
Hyatt Regency Orange County - Commodore Boardroom
Sarah Erekson, Chair
GODORT Happy Hour: 5:30-7:00pm (or however long you would like to linger with your GODORT colleagues and buddies)
Degrees Wine and Patio Bar, inside the Anaheim Marriott (#2 on the ALA hotel map)
Saturday, June 23, 2012
State & Local Documents Task Force: 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Agenda
Sheraton Park Hotel - Park BC
Marie Concannon, Coordinator
Program Committee: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Agenda
Sheraton Park Hotel - Plaza C
Barbara Miller, Chair
International Documents Task Force: 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Agenda
Sheraton Park Hotel - Park BC
Chelsea Dinsmore, Coordinator
Federal Documents Task Force: 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Agenda
Sheraton Park Hotel - Palm West
Antoinette Satterfield, Coordinator
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Awards Committee Meeting: 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Agenda
Sheraton Garden Grove - Platinum Exec. Boardroom
Andrea Sevetson, Chair
Legislation Committee Meeting III: CANCELLED
Publications Committee Meeting: 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Agenda
Sheraton Garden Grove - Burgundy Room
Helen Sheehy, Chair
Cataloging Committee: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Agenda
Sheraton Garden Grove - Burgundy Room
Richard Guajardo, Chair
Rare and Endangered Government Publications (REGP) Committee Meeting: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Agenda
Sheraton Garden Grove - Platinum Exec. Boardroom
Andrew Laas, Chair
Education Committee: 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Agenda
Sheraton Garden Grove - Platinum Exec. Boardroom
Jesse Silva, Chair
Government Information Technology Committee (GITCO): CANCELLED
MAGIRT Program (Co-sponsored by GODORT): The Nuts and Bolts of Map Scanning: Building Your Map Scanning Toolbox: 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Anaheim Convention Center Room 204C
Scanning maps and making them available online presents many challenged for libraries and librarians. A panel of experts will discuss the details unique to scanning maps, including project planning and costs, tools and equipment, scanning and metadata standards, access strategies, copyright issues and more. Come gather the tips and tools you need to build your own map scanning toolbox!
RUSA_HS Program (Co-sponsored by GODORT): Mining Gold from the 1940 U.S. Census: 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Anaheim Convention Center Room 204B
Census records are invaluable for many kinds of research--especially family history. The 72 year privacy embargo expired in April, 2012 for the 1940 U.S. Census. Librarians and researchers are eager to know what these records contain and what indexes and other finding aids will help mine this vast treasure trove of information. Sunday, June 24, 1:30-3:30 pm, Anaheim Convention Center Room 204B
Web Managers Committee: CANCELLED
GODORT Awards Reception: 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Fullerton Public Library, 353 W. Commonwealth Avenue, Fullerton, CA.
By rail from the Anaheim Metro Station at Angel Stadium (215-E. Katella Ave., Anaheim, CA 92806) go to the next stop - Fullerton Transportation Center (122 E. Commonwealth Ave., Fullerton, CA 92832) (about 10 minutes). Walk approximately 2 blocks west to the library. By bus use http://www.octa.net/ to locate the nearest bus stop. The Fullerton Transportation Center is also a bus stop.
2012 GODORT Reception and Awards Invitation
Monday, June 25, 2012
GODORT Program: RDA and Government Publications
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Anaheim Convention Center-201A
Whether or not the U.S. national libraries implement RDA, records created according to this new code will be present in shared databases. This program focuses on those changes in RDA that affect government publications, including new rules for headings and authority records. Learn about decisions that will need to be made before a library implements RDA. Learn about GPO's approach to RDA and which national libraries around the world have decided to implement this new code. Important information for technical services unites implementing RDA and for public service librarians who have to interpret new catalog and database records.
General Membership Meeting: 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Agenda
Anaheim Convention Center - 206A
Kirsten Clark, Chair
Steering Committee Meeting II: 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Agenda
Anaheim Convention Center-211A
Kirsten Clark, Chair


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Camping World Inc. announced that it has secured a new substantial increase of its multi-year floorplan credit facility.
According to a press release, Bank of America, N.A., which serves as the administrative agent, led the transaction. JP Morgan, which has partnered with the company since 2003, acted as co-agent.
The facility also includes seven of the nation's premier lenders: US Bank, SunTrust, Key Bank, M & T Bank, Bank of the West, Ally Bank and Flagstar.
Marcus A. Lemonis, chairman and CEO, stated, "Our company's explosive same store sales plus additional acquisitions and openings, coupled with another year of an unprecedented level of profitability has earned us a multi-year facility. Our top line outlook for 2013 remains positive and our tight inventory controls and right sized SGA has us well positioned for another solid financial performance."
Floorplan financing is a line of credit that allows dealers to borrow against their inventory, and then repay that debt as they sell their inventory or borrow against the line of credit again to add new inventory.


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Editor's Note: Derrick A. Crandall, president of the American Recreation Coalition, shared these comments on a story posted Monday on the RVBUSINESS.COM website quoting Gina Martin Adams' forecast of consumer attitudes Nov. 10 at the National Marine Bankers Association Annual Conference in Hilton Head, S.C. The Wells Fargo Securities economist said today's American consumers are changing. "You will lose those consumers in 2010 and 2011 if you think they are the same consumers that you sold to from 2003 to 2007," she said.
I think that Gina Martin Adams' forecast about consumer attitudes for the next several years is likely to prove correct. There is a new realism about stability of assets, in homes and in the stock market and a real aversion to being too debt-laden. And this has important – and positive – implications for the RV business. Unlike high-end leisure purchases of overseas trips, cruises and luxurious resorts, money spent buying an RV isn't lost. The RV is available for additional uses – weekend getaways, accommodations while visiting family that beat sleeping on couches and staying in hotels, tailgating and next year's grand adventures.
But the real lure for RV sales is what an RV unlocks. For just $10, any American over the age of 62 can purchase a lifetime of free entry into our national parks and hundreds of other great places, including national wildlife refuges and national forests. These federal lands cover one-third of the nation and offer hiking, fishing, picnicking, swimming and other water sports, wildlife viewing and more. They are connected by more than 150 national scenic byways – great places for RV travelers. And the $10 fee is for all of the passengers in the RV, whether they are 62 or not – so bring the grandkids. And camping in national parks is a bargain, too.
If an RV prospect is not 62 –no problem. The same unlimited access for all of the passengers in an RV or other vehicle is just $80 annually – the America the Beautiful Pass.
Bottom line is that the RV industry can capitalize on consumer sentiments and the focus on value. Our message is remarkably like that used successfully by Wal-Mart for the past 18 months: Save money. Live better.
Good slogan for the RV business any time, but especially now.


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LONDON - A leading British medical journal is asking the drug maker Roche to release all its data on the flu drug Tamiflu, claiming there is insufficient information on its safety.
The drug has been stockpiled by dozens of governments worldwide in case of a global flu outbreak and was widely used during the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
On Monday, one of the researchers linked to the BMJ called for European governments to sue Roche.
"I suggest we boycott Roche's products until they publish missing Tamiflu data," wrote Peter Gotzsche, leader of the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen.
In a statement, Roche said it had complied with all legal requirements on publishing data and provided Gotzsche and his colleagues with 3,200 pages of information to answer their questions.


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FARGO SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 (Student)
Fargo STARTALK Chinese Retreat for Students
Grade Level(s)
3-5, 6-8
- July 22, 2019 – August 9, 2019: (Face-to-face)
- NDSU Memorial Union, Fargo, ND
- Trollwood Performing Arts School, Moorhead, MN
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This three-week Chinese immersion program will allow 48 participants grades, 3-5 and 6-8 to attain a novice-mid proficiency level in Chinese. During the six hour days, students will engage in dynamic task-based language learning, practicing martial arts, calligraphy, cooking, and Chinese ink painting. The theme Exploring China will explore different regions of China: North, South, East, and West. New students will learn about the geography, fauna, climate, clothes, monuments, and foods in thematic units; returning students will delve into math and scientific concepts to build kites, create timelines and a model of the Great Wall, study the tropical climate of the island of Taiwan, study the life cycle of silk worms and the life span of pandas, and grow bean sprouts to make tofu. A field trip to Concordia Language Villages Chinese Village, Sen Lin Hu, will provide a rich exchange of activities and an additional opportunity for interpersonal communication.
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The session will be run by an experienced and qualified Breastfeeding Counsellor and is for pregnant women and their partner / birth supporter. It will provide you with an opportunity to discuss breastfeeding and the early days with your baby, find out where to get support, and meet other parents to be.
If you would like your partner or a friend to attend with you, please register them as a separate individual or order two tickets.