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The Greek Orthodox Church of the Hamptons will celebrate the completion of the Johnides Family Cultural Center on Sunday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and blessing by Bishop Andonios Paropoulos, chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
The cultural center, funded by a gift from Coula Johnides, who ran the Old Stove Pub in Sagaponack for many years with her siblings, is one of three new buildings that the congregation has finished or is in the process of completing to house church programs and serve the broader community. Also under construction are the Dormition of the Virgin Mary Sanctuary and the Nicholas S. Zoullas Hellenic Center.
Ms. Johnides committed $1 million to the center and also established the Johnides Family Foundation to fund educational programs, provide scholarships, develop cultural and religious programs, and "advance Hellenism and Orthodoxy on the East End," as well as to aid in the upkeep and maintenance of the cultural center named for her family.
"With the Johnides Family Cultural Center, we will be able to improve these ministries and we will be able to offer exciting new ministries for the enrichment of our members and for the enrichment of the broader East End community," the Rev. Alex Karloutsos said in a release. "Coula, along with all of our supporters, has opened up a new horizon of possibility for us."
The center has seven classrooms, a recreation room for youth, a conference room, administrative offices, a library, and a kitchen. With the additional space, the church plans to expand its language and cultural institute to offer instruction in Russian and Romanian in addition to Greek, and to offer a summer Bible camp as well as additional adult programming.
The ribbon-cutting on Sunday will follow 10 a.m. services at about 11:30 and is open to the public. The church is on St. Andrew's Road in Southampton.


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You and Your Family
What is a POISON?
A poison is something that can be harmful if swallowed, spilled on the skin, splashed in the eyes, or inhaled. Every day we use medications, chemicals and "natural" products in and around our homes. Often these products can cause unexpected poison events.
Did You Know?
- Last year the Oregon Poison Center received over 60,000 calls about poisons.
- 73 percent of these calls were about unintentional poisonings at home.
- Over 44 percent of all poisonings happen to children under the age of 5 years.
- Older adults are more likely than others to die from poisonings.
- Our goal is to provide poison prevention information that you can use to help you and your family stay poison safe.
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Seasonal Hazards
Each season brings certain poisons that can cause us to be less safe. Here are a few helpful hints to keep your family and friends healthy and safe.
Plant Safety Tips
Plants beautify our homes. They add color and accent to our lawns and gardens. They feed us. Yet, if not handled properly, they can become deadly poisons.
Animal Poison Safety
Our pets are quick and curious. They can quickly gain access to unsuspecting poisons that we use around the house everyday. Here a few clues concerning some poisons that could hurt your family pet.
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Sean Penn has officially completed his 36 hours of anger management classes -- after blowing up on a photographer in L.A. back in 2009 ... and even trying to kick him.
Sean was sentenced to the classes in addition to 3 years probation back in 2010, when he pled "no contest" to vandalism in the criminal battery case. The battery charges were dismissed as part of the plea deal.
Penn's lawyer appeared in court today, claiming the actor is now all caught up in the anger department -- although he'll remain on probation until May 2013.
TMZ shot footage of Sean's 2009 confrontation -- check it out.


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Artist Matthew Craven primarily works in collage. His work, however, diverges from a lot of typical collage styles. Craven doesn't juxtapose found imagery to create an effect from the contrast. Rather, he sources imagery of what seems to be ancient archaeological artifacts. The black and white images resemble the photographs of old issues of National Geographic. Further, the way Craven assembles the images doesn't seem an attempt to draw disparities. Instead, he almost appears to categorizing objects, setting up classifications without labeling. Still, his work is fine art and not an exercise in archaeology. Craven doesn't offer easy conclusions – there is no simple reading of history to be gotten in his work. Rather, Craven looks back at history with his collaged images as art does. It underscores the difficulty in reducing human history to one accurate narrative. The gallery statement of his current solo exhibit at DCKT Contemporary further explains:
"Archaeological remains and ruins act as backdrops for forming crypto-historical collages and drawings. Images from lost cultures, relics and landscapes both well-known and extremely ambiguous create the patterns within the works. The results are compositions that highlight a new connection to our past in an aesthetic that is intended to be both cinematic in scope and visionary in perspective. Understanding that our view of history is deeply flawed and inherently biased, we are left with a puzzle of strange pieces. Oblivious Path combines these puzzle pieces into a new framework. Some of these pieces appear to fit together despite thousands of years and tens of thousands miles separating these ancient civilizations. Using source materials from historical texts, Oblivious Path scrambles our current notions of space and time. The powerful images we are left with cannot be reinterpreted, translated or disregarded. What is left was carved in stone. It is permanent. They are our sacred truths." ( via the jealous curator)


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Sports Birthdays for June 17 — Venus Williams and More
Here are some of the people in the sports world celebrating birthdays on June 17:
Mike Milbury
Age: 60
Profession: Retired NHL Player / Hockey Broadcaster
Best Known For: Mike Milbury appeared in the post season 11 times during his 12-year NHL career as a defenseman for the Boston Bruins from 1974 to 1987. His most notable moment may have been charging into the Madison Square Garden stands in 1979 as his Bruins' teammates Terry O'Reilly and Peter McNab fought with the crowd. Milbury removed a shoe from one of the fans and struck him with it, earning Milbury a six-game suspension and a $500 fine. Milbury later coached the Bruins, leading the team to the Presidents' Trophy and the Stanley Cup Finals in 1990. He later served as head coach and then general manager for the New York Islanders from 1995 to 2006. Milbury currently is a hockey analyst for the New England Sports Network (NESN), Hockey Night in Canada and the NHL on NBC.
Keith Sims
Age: 45
Profession: Retired NFL Player
Best Known For: A three-time Pro Bowl selection, Keith Sims had an 11-year NFL playing career as an offensive lineman with the Miami Dolphins and the Washington Redskins from 1990 to 2000. Sims was a second round pick of the Miami Dolphins in the 1990 NFL Draft. He played football at Iowa State University in college.
Ron "Popeye" Jones
Age: 42
Profession: Retired NBA Player
Best Known For: A two-time Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year at Murray State, Ron 'Popeye' Jones went on to play in the NBA from 1993 to 2004 with the Dallas Mavericks, Toronto Raptors, Boston Celtics, Denver Nuggets, Washington Wizards and Golden State Warriors. His best season was in 1995-96 with the Dallas Mavericks when he averaged 11.3 points and 10.8 rebounds per game. Jones is currently an assistant coach for the Brooklyn Nets.
Venus Williams
Age: 32
Profession: WTA Player
Best Known For: Venus Williams is a former world No. 1-ranked tennis player who has won 21 total Grand Slam titles, including five Wimbledon singles championships. She was the first black woman in the Open era to be ranked No. 1. Her 43 career singles titles are the most of any active player on the WTA Tour. Williams has also won three Olympic gold medals, one in singles and two in women's doubles while partnering with her younger sister Serena. Venus is currently battling the effects of Sjögren's syndrome, an auto-immune disorder she was diagnosed with in 2011. She is still playing on the WTA Tour.
Kyle Boller
Age: 31
Profession: NFL Quarterback
Best Known For: A first-round pick of the Baltimore Ravens in the 2003 NFL Draft, Kyle Boller never became the franchise quarterback the AFC team had hoped he would be. His record as a starter with Baltimore was 21-19 from 2003 to 2008. Currently a free agent, Boller has also played with the St. Louis Rams and Oakland Raiders. His career passer rating is 69.5. Boller is married to former Miss USA contestant Carrie Prejean.


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I just installed the Mac OSX Alpha and wanted to get started trying to write a plugin but i'm getting this error in my console whenever I save anything after importing sublimeplugin"ImportError: No module named sublimeplugin"
Here are the contents of my file I'm doing just to test things out:
import sublime, sublimeplugin
print "plugin loaded"
class Test1Command(sublimeplugin.TextCommand):
def run(self, view, args):
print "command run"
Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong or missing?
I Sublime 2, the new name's "sublime_plugin". That should work.
that works perfectly now, thanks!
one more question, did
change? that's the way the API docs specify to run it but i'm getting an AttributeError.
The api docs cover good old Sublime 1.x... Sublime 2 introduces a few changes to how the api works and looks... Most prominently, Sublime 2 api conforms to PEP8, which means camelCase becomes camel_case. However, your best bet is to dir() whatever object you're interested in in the python console (CTRL + ~) and try to find the new names. The old docs are still valid to a great extent, but new ones are badly needed.
Ah, I see now. Well last question I promise =)
Is there a list around somewhere of good plugins that can be run on Sublime 2 that I could use as an example to look at?
Thanks again for all the help. Much appreciated.
Sublime Text 2 has only recently been released, and the API is still a little incomplete, so there aren't a lot of plugins for it yet.If you check out sublimetext.info/, you can see a bunch of plugins for ST1, though, and most of the calls are identical in the way that Guillermo summarized.Feel free to keep asking questions here if you have them, though.
For example Sublime Text 2 plugins, you can have a look at the ones that ship with the editor, in the Packages/Default directory (accessible via Preferences/Browse Packages)
exactly what i needed. thanks!
Almost three years later now, and the old (Sublime 1) documents are still prominently featured on sublimetext.com/docs/plugin-examples.
I'm fairly new to Sublime, though I've been programming for decades. I have ended up wasting a couple days worth of my time, trying to figure out why I could not make any extensions work, even these simplest examples.
There is better Sublime 2 plugin documentation at net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/pytho ... -2-plugin/
Is there --any-- way that we could get the http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/plugin-examples page to mention http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/python-tutorials/how-to-create-a-sublime-text-2-plugin/ or mention this present thread or mention that those examples are applicable only to Sublime 1 or -- something -- to give the poor saps who get lost trying to follow those plugin-examples a bit of a clue?
(I realize that you are almost certainly not the one to ask this question of ... but I don't know who is ... perhaps I'll get lucky and someone will offer a clue as to who might be.)
Here are the two fixes I found were needed in http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/plugin-examples.
Wrong sublimeplugin.TextCommandRight sublime_plugin.TextCommand
Wrong view.runCommand('hello')Right view.run_command('hello')
With these two fixes, the HelloCommand runs as 'hello' in both sublime 2 and 3, using the command:
in the console (accessible via Ctrl+~).
Someone must have edit access to that http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/plugin-examples page
The API documentation at sublimetext.com/docs/3/api_reference.html.
A naive user (well, at least this naive user) might think that sublimetext.com/docs/api-reference (based both on what the URL and the page state) is the (one and only) API for Sublime.
I would suggest that instead sublimetext.com/docs/api-reference, a short page, with essentially just three links, to
Once again, however, I have no clue to whom to properly address these comments.
It is aggravating that the examples are not even close to working with ST v3. Here is the working version of the "Events" example. Hopefully this will save someone from experiencing my two hours of frustration:
import sublime, sublime_plugin
class EventDump(sublime_plugin.EventListener):
def on_load(self, view):
print (view.file_name(), "just got loaded")
def on_pre_save(self, view):
print (view.file_name(), "is about to be saved")
def on_post_save(self, view):
print (view.file_name(), "just got saved")
def on_new(self, view):
print ("new file")
def on_modified(self, view):
print (view.file_name(), "modified")
def on_activated(self, view):
print (view.file_name(), "is now the active view")
def on_close(self, view):
print (view.file_name(), "is no more")
def on_clone(self, view):
print (view.file_name(), "just got cloned")


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Thursday, March 22, 2012
Like a rainbow...
Guess who has the day off today? Me! And guess who has most of her to-do list already done? That would also be me. Yeah! So I'm hoping to get a coloring video done... keep my fingers crossed, LOL! :)
I made my card for this week's open Flutter By challenge and I couldn't resist inking up little Shimmer Bean for it. I recently picked up this cool cloud print paper that made for a fun sky backdrop and then I just pulled random scraps out of one of my scrap bags. I went against my usual instincts to line everything up perfectly and instead just stapled the paper strips all together and left them kind of wonky. The bright colors in the striped paper gave me the rest of my direction for finishing the whole thing off, what with the rainbow reference in the sentiment and even coloring up Shimmer to look like a bright ray of sunshine after the storm. It all turned out a little quirky and crazy, and other than wanting to straighten those paper strips, I'm happy with it. ;)
Alrighty, time for me to see about that video. Have a good one my friends!
Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and COpic X-Press It
paper- GCD Studio (Oh Happy Day), American Crafts (quail), Frances Meyer (stripe)
stamps- The Greeting Farm (Shimmer Bean), Papertrey Ink (sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black, rich cocoa and Colorbox creamy brown
Tim Holtz tiny attacher
Kaiser Craft gems
Copic Spica glitter pen
Copic markers:
skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R2o
hair- Y11, Y13, Y15, Y17, Y38
clothes- B000, B00, B02
wings- B0000
flower- RV32, RV34, RV21, RV17
12 comments:
- Alyce said...
Amy she is a cutie! Love your colouring and the bright papers. Those clouds are fantastic too! :)
- March 22, 2012 at 5:17 AM
- Janine said...
ooo so sweet
- March 22, 2012 at 5:55 AM
- Annette said...
so adorable...love this new image from TGF...your cards are always so cute..
- March 22, 2012 at 6:13 AM
- Vera W. Yates (Ling) said...
Aw, Amy this is just so sweet & cute!
- March 22, 2012 at 6:45 AM
- Rhonda Miller said...
She is adorable. Your card is so cute.
- March 22, 2012 at 9:00 AM
- Maria Therese said...
Beautiful card ♥
- March 22, 2012 at 12:38 PM
- Suzanne Bier said...
Such a sweet card...love that little Shimmer Bean...and the colors you chose for her and your card are gorgeous! Thanks for joining us at Flutter By Wednesday! :)
- March 22, 2012 at 8:43 PM
- Arabella said...
Gorgeous Amy! Yay you for leaving those strips of paper crooked!
I hope you get to make your video... I have been watching lots of yours lately.
- March 23, 2012 at 3:13 AM
- Leanne said...
Super, super cute Amy!! I wish I had my Glimmer Bean stamp, hopefully she will be there when I get home today. Love the blues and the clouds, yes she does bring lots of sunshine to the card. Love her!
Thanks for playing with us at FBW this week!!
- March 23, 2012 at 1:42 PM
- gobeagirl said...
Amy this turned out so cute and I love her hair color. Very bright and sunny looking. I love your papers the way you have used them, but I so know what you mean about wanting to make them all even. lol... Your so funny. I like your tiny staples to add that little extra touch as well. Too cute! Hugs, Lisa
- March 23, 2012 at 3:44 PM
- ♥Rach♥ said...
What an adorable layout! Love the circle and sentiment, very bright and pretty.
- March 26, 2012 at 7:57 AM
- RiNNE said...
Awww, I finally got my bean stamps too! Your card is just perfect for Spring! I'm glad you got everything done on your list...me, not so much. So so busy, but I'm just glad I'm getting to catch up on your blog and amazing cards!
- March 31, 2012 at 11:36 PM


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I am sick of hearing the excuses from the mayor's office when it comes to the inappropriate use of taxpayer money, taxpayer-owned sports boxes and tickets — graft — that come from places like First Mariner Arena ("Mayor's use of tickets examined," Aug. 15).
Stephanie Rawlings-Blakemade herself out as a highly ethical politician who would never be what Sheila Dixon had become during her term as mayor. But the reality is, Ms. Rawlings-Blake is about to spend $2,000 of the taxpayers' money for police protection in California while she and her family are on vacation.
She and her family have inappropriately used skybox tickets at Ravens and Orioles games, and now we find out that they have also been using tickets to high-value, sold-out shows at first Mariner. Her defense every time is that "my predecessors always did it."
Just because her predecessors did it doesn't make it right. It smells of corruption and influence buying, and if her predecessors did it they are just as guilty as she is.
It is time this mayor cleans up her act and gives these "gifts" back to the taxpayers. As far as the police security detail is concerned, while she is on vacation she should refuse to use it. In a city where taxes and fees are constantly being raised because of budgetary shortages, every dollar wasted could be used to benefit taxpayers.
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COMMERCE – LoriAnn W. Heaps, 37, died Sunday, December 30, 2012.
She was born in Wisconsin, the daughter of Bary and Cindy Lerdahl Wedlund of Wisconsin.
Survivors in addition to her parents include her husband, Bryan Heaps, Commerce; two sons, Calvin and Casey Heaps, both of Commerce; and a brother, Adam Wedlund.
Memorial services will be held Wednesday, January 9, at 4 p.m., from the Maysville United Methodist Church. The family will receive friends at that time.
Ivie Funeral Home, Commerce, is in charge of arrangements.
LoriAnn Heaps (12-30-12)
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'The Magnificent Ambersons,' 1942
Based on Booth Tarkington's 1918 novel about a wealthy Midwestern family that deteriorates with the coming of the automobile, Orson Welles' under-appreciated 1942 classic goes from intimate nostalgia to wrenching pathos. Orson Welles connected profoundly with the source material. In "This Is Orson Welles," the director tells Peter Bogdanovich that his father was a friend of Tarkington's, and that "there's really a lot of my father" in the character of Eugene Morgan, "an early automobile fellow with a deep suspicion of what the automobile would do." As played by Joseph Cotten, Morgan sums up everything Welles admired about a certain kind of progressive American: a sleek yet homespun attractiveness; and rambunctious drive and spontaneity, modulated by respect for old-fashioned beauty. Morgan's success deflates the grandeur of the Ambersons (who are sublimely embodied by Dolores Costello, Tim Holt, Ray Collins, Richard Bennett, and the great Agnes Moorehead). But Morgan is generous and elegant, and Cotten's performance builds as gracefully as the Emile Waldteufel waltz that Bernard Herrmann used in the score -- "Toujours ou Jamais" ("Always or Never").
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Hello. I've some good news – I managed to sell a short story to famed magazine Interzone. I think I first submitted a story to them back in 1993 or so, and have tried five or six times since, so this is a big deal for me. I've had a few shorts published before, by Hub Magazine, and in the Dark Spires anthology, and you know, seeing as I've got three books out and another four on the way, I think I can just about get away with calling myself a writer. But getting a short into Interzone means I'll hold my head that little higher. Being published by them brings a kind of legitimacy to an author that's hard to gain elsewhere. They carry stories by all manner of very talented writers after all, and have helped launch the careers of many big name authors. I feel like I have a foot in the door of the big boys' club now.
The story, "iRobot", will be out soon-ish – I'll let you know when as soon as I know myself.
I've another short out sooner – "The Rite of Holos", the first piece of Black Library work I've written to get published. Concerning Space Marines of the Blood Drinkers chapter, it's a kind of sneaky prequel to something I can't really talk about yet. You can read "The Rite of Holos" in September's issue of Hammer and Bolter, which is on sale very soon.
If you fancy it, there's some of my unpublished and previously published short stories available for free at the top of this page on the drop down menu under "Fiction -> Short Stories", and a couple of Richards & Klein shorts under "Fiction -> Richards & Klein". More can be bought as ebooks ("ereads" maybe? They're too short to be "ebooks") at the Robot Trading Company for a modest sum.
To celebrate the acceptance of "iRobot", here's a piece I wrote for Death Ray's "Deep Thought" section way back in 2008 on short stories (I've actually being saving it for just such an eventuality as this). Originally published in DR 16, where we started publishing a short story every issue ourselves, in it I talk about short stories, why they're important, and why they're not as popular as they might be, plus there are comments from many writers/anthologists/short story publishers on the same topic. Some of it's a little out of date, some details regarding publication etc have changed (I deleted a segment on Jim Baen's Universe, as that closed in 2010, and Hub, as far as I can tell, hasn't had a new issue since last year), but it's mostly still relevant.
Incidentally, the short stories were quite popular in Death Ray, but the comment I most often heard was, "I don't read them, but I'm glad that they're there." A telling attitude in light of the discussion below.
The long and the short of it
Short stories used to be the whole of the genre, but all that changed. Guy Haley wonders why big is so good in our current age…
We live in an era of bloated books. A non-fan that wanders into the SF section of a book shop could be forgiven for thinking that the genre is sold by the kilo. As brilliant as some of these tomes are, others exhibit the worst excesses of airport potboilers, their size a response to the demand for more words per currency unit.
But it was not always so. "Short stories in magazines used to be very nearly the whole of the SF genre," says professional fan Dave Langford. "One important early critical book, James Blish's The Issue At Hand, is mainly about shorts and novellas. Now there's an odd market gap between ever-longer novels in the bookshops and ever-shorter flash fiction for dwindling attention spans on the web."
Anthologies, too, used to be a mainstay of the book industry, but not any more. Why shorts do not to sell is puzzling. Fantastical writing has always been used by writers to present outlandish or controversial concepts, and the rabbit-punch delivery of shorts adds a wallop of extra power. Many writers excel at short fiction. Author and ex-New Worlds editor Michael Moorcock tells us: "It does seem to me that some writers, especially those exploring something other than character, do best in the form but write at novel length often because it's harder to make a living from short fiction. I can think of a number of SF writers who did their most impressive work in short stories, including Theodore Sturgeon, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, J.G. Ballard and M. John Harrison."
It's not just SF. "Ghost stories are notoriously difficult to sustain over novel length. After a short while the reader naturally thinks, 'Hang on, we've had page after page of suspense, when are we gonna see this ghost/monster/alien then?'," says author John Whitbourn. "And, once you've 'seen' it, how many more times can you bear seeing it before familiarity breeds contempt?"
Fantasy once thrived on shorts too; that genre's name might conjure up the image of the 12-book cycle now, but think on Fritz Leiber, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith. Where would Conan be without short stories?
Shorts allow writers to explore new ideas. They inspire other writers. Shorts are the sparks of the genre that set off big fires. A writer can make you think several times with a book of shorts, and some ideas simply don't have enough juice in them for a novel. Can you imagine Ellison's "I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream", or Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" supporting 350 pages? Indeed, look at Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall", much undermined by its novel length incarnation. The short is the home of the clever concept, the killer twist.
Writing shorts is also vital to a writer's development, their length instilling discipline. "Short stories are where many of us learned our basic skills: plot, character, a beginning and an end," says Robin Hobb.
Michael Moorcock again: "I learned to write by doing 1,500 word shorts for the likes of Tarzan Adventures, then 3,000 worders for New Worlds, then 12,000 and 15,000 novellas for Science Fantasy and the like… My first published novel Stormbringer was put together in four, 15,000 word parts, which could not have been published in anything but a fantasy/SF magazine."
Not for nothing does Peter Crowther, editor at PS publishing and Postscripts magazine, call short stories "the lifeblood of the fantastical genre." He goes further. "I still hear from people who begin their writing career with a full-length book, which is like saying you're going to learn to be a carpenter, but instead of kicking off with a wooden teapot-stand for your mum you build a 20-room, three-storey clapboard house with turrets and pillared front porches. Ridiculous!"
They make good TV and movies, says Hobb, and Whitbourn might have a point when he says, "Short stories are ideally fitted to our time-poor era. Yet paradoxically, the trend is to tendon-threatening 500+ page books."
With all this going for them, what in the name of the Cthulhu happened? You can blame the war.
Short fiction once supported a burgeoning industry. In the 19th century, rising literacy fuelled the growth of Penny Dreadful crime magazines in the UK and Dime Novels in the US, which were mainly concerned with the still wild Wild West. These were supplanted by pulp magazines in the early 20th century. Pulps were mass entertainment, and they covered everything. Printed cheaply on low-grade "pulp" paper (hence the name), hundreds of titles came out every month – they were so plentiful, unsold stock was used as ballast in ships. But paper shortages in the '40s forced many pulps to close, never to reopen, although a few hung on until the 1960s. The end of the war also saw fierce competition from TV, later gaming, then the 'net. Ironically, the final decline of printed short stories coincides with the rise of "geek culture" brought about by electronic media.
Author Stephen Hunt, editor of SFCrowsnest.co.uk, is not optimistic about the form's future. "[Shorts] are about as relevant to the current state of SF as a flying tentacled robot abducting a screaming bikini model from a lawn party (ah, that was real cover art). Our kids are the future, and they're more interested in Twittering and playing EverQuest than the next silly asses' attempt to resurrect Amazing Stories – however much old gits like me would have it otherwise. They'll always be the small press of course, but they're the last thudding breaths of a triceratops choking on asteroid dust, and deep down we all know it."
I don't entirely agree with him, and contrary to what Whitbourn says, lack of time is likely to make people want bigger books, rather than shorter tales. In frantic lives, people like predictable escapism, a continuum of comfort. Series of novels give you cliffhangers, the possibility to find out what happens next; shorts don't.
I suspect the majority of the reading public are unaware of the glories of the short. We're herd-like creatures. People read chocking great paperbacks because it is what everyone else is doing. And people used to read short stories in pulp mags, to an extent, because that's what everyone else used to do. We are far more ruled by custom than we think, and custom is only fashion with longevity.
Of course, custom is created by innumerable small choices, and a good part of the pulp mags' demise, and thus the short form, can be planted at the feet of people who like to read short stories. It goes like this: In any one special interest group, there is a vocal minority. Over time, this elite sets what is "right" in the group, and this begins to restrict the subject's appeal to the elite that defines it. If you have a declining market anyway, companies – and let us not forget, all these things are supposed to make money – tend to concentrate on this elite, as they appear to be a sure-fire revenue stream. This can be deadly as the elite naturally dwindles and is not easily replenished. It happened to comics in the early 1990s, although they recovered. It happened to roleplaying games in the late '80s. I think it happened to short SF too. Modern SF shorts can be challenging, full of experimental imagery, weird cross-genre fusions and political point-making. The reasons for their lack of popularity are the same as why Eastenders has a bigger audience than one-off dramas screened on BBC3 and 4. Caught up by the artistic aspirations of the New Wave, the "SF elite", I think, focused this corner of the genre on telling stories that attempted to be "significant", so much so sometimes it feels as if adventure and entertainment have been left behind. SF has its snobs, as much as anything else. Much of what I read seems self-consciously worthy, or self-consciously weird to the point of pretension. Not that's there's anything wrong with this, and such a focus does produce great stories, but they do have limited appeal.
Anyway, that's by the by. There are numerous other factors in play that mean pulp magazines are not part of our cultural outlook any more. But, and this is a big but, contrary to what some might say, short fiction is still being published, some writers still make money from it (though it is debatable if publishers do), and happily short fiction looks to be undergoing a digital renaissance. A handful of print mags still exist, but on the web podcasts, blogs, and ezines can be found that serve up a pleasing mix of story, albeit often in a wild, unimproved form. However, there are a number of professional e-publications – Jim Baen's Universe and Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show among them. Mass media might have fragmented popular culture by presenting so much choice, but there are still markets in some of those fragments, and the ultimate mass medium, the internet, allows short story writers to reach out to these markets.
"I think electronic publication is the future and the salvation of the short story," writer and editor Mike Resnick says, "I can't tell you which e-publications will live and which won't, but I can tell you that some of the highest-paying short fiction markets today are all e-zines, and that as quickly as one folds you can look for three or four to take its place."
The story of the short is a long one, and it isn't over yet.
Good Places to Read Short Fiction
Regular sites, books and zines where the short lives on in carefully protected environments. Click on the headers for links.
The UK's best known short story magazine, Interzone has been running for 26 years and has helped start the careers of many British SF writers. It is bi-monthly. TTA, Interzone's publishers, also put out Black Static and Crimewave, horror and crime magazines respectively.
The Mammoth Book of…
Death Ray worships at the short-story altar of Constable & Robinson publishing, who publish several massive tomes of SF, horror and fantasy every year. Editor Gardner Dozois does a particularly fine job of scouring the world for good tales in one of the SF variant. Each has 30 of the best stories in its particular genre, more or less, and is a bargain at £9.99.
Asimov's Science Fiction
One of a number of fiction magazines that used celebrity names as a marketing hook, Asimov's has been running since 1977 and is one of the most well-respected SF magazines in the world. This US mag is currently published by Dell magazines. Asimov's publishes 10 issues a year.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
The longest running SF magazine in the world, the US Analog began life as a pulp way back in 1930 under the name Astounding Stories. It flourished under the editorship of John W. Campbell, who discovered many important writers and moulded many more. It is he who is credited with making pulp SF think about the actual future, how its science might work, rather than simply using it as a backdrop for adventure tales. Several name changes on, Analog, which carries articles on popular science too, continues to flourish. It is now also owned by Dell publishing.
Escape Pod
The best SF short story podcast on the web, Escape Pod presents mostly pre-published stories by well-known authors. It has two sister sites, Pseudopod and Pod Castle that deal with horror and fantasy. All three podcasts are weekly and free, though a discretionary donation is politely requested. Escape Pod includes wide-ranging discursive introductions, and even the occasional piece of SF themed music.
Free UK-based e-zine that publishes reviews and one short story every week, delivered to your inbox in a handy PDF. Hub showcases work from new writers. Like Escape Pod, Hub asks for donations.
Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
Established by the writer of Ender's Game, this e-zine features a new story set in the Ender universe each issue. It comes out roughly quarterly.


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Large documents offer a few navigating challenges, especially when you need to jump back and forth between two areas. You could split the document, but that splits the screen and that might not be the right solution for you. Or, you could use any of the normal navigation tools and shortcuts, but it's easy to get lost that way. Using VBA, you can insert a bookmark that acts as a placeholder. Then, when you're ready to return, a single quick click is all that's required.
This technique requires two quick macros, which follow:
Public Sub InsertBookmark()
'Insert bookmark for ssh.
Call Bookmarks.Add("ssh", Selection.Range)
End Sub
Public Sub ReturnToBookmark()
'Return to previously inserted bookmark.
End Sub
I used my initials to identify the bookmark, but you can use any string you like.
To add the macros, press [Alt]+[F11] to launch the Visual Basic Editor (VBE). In the Project Explorer, find ThisDocument for the current document. Then, enter the two sub procedures shown above.
Next, return to the document and add the macros to the Quick Access Toolbar (QAT), as follows:
- From the QAT dropdown, choose More Commands.
- From the Choose Commands From dropdown, choose Macros.
- In the list on the left, find InsertBookmark.
- Click Add to add the macro to the list of commands on the right.
- With the macro still selected, click Modify.
- In the resulting dialog, enter Mark in the Display Name control, and click OK. You could also change the macro's display icon.
- Repeat steps 3 through 6 to add ReturnToBookmark to the list on the right and add the display name, Return.
- Click OK.
In Word 2003, drag the macros to the toolbar as follows:
- Launch the Customize dialog box by double-clicking a toolbar or menu or by choosing Customize from the Tools menu.
- Click the Commands tab.
- Choose Macros from the Categories list.
- Find InsertBookmark in the Commands list and drag it to the toolbar.
- Find ReturnToBookmark and drag it to the toolbar.
- Click Close.
Using the macros is simple. When you want to mark an area, just click the Mark macro on the QAT. Then, go wherever you want. When you're ready to return to the marked spot, click Return.
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THE ESSENTIAL WORLD HISTORY, Enhanced Third Edition, shows you how to use the maps, images, and documents in the book to give you an edge in your study of history. A brief introduction to the text -- "Studying from Primary Source Materials" -- reveals some of the tricks to uncovering the past that your instructor wants you to know. "Discovery" sections, at the end of every chapter, assist you in practicing these skills, which will help you connect the text's seven themes of world history and excel in your course. This bestselling text presents a balanced, highly readable overview of world history that explores common challenges and experiences uniting the human past and informing key global patterns over time. Thorough coverage of political, economic, social, religious, intellectual, cultural, and military history has been integrated into a chronologically ordered synthesis to help you gain an appreciation and understanding of the distinctive character and development of individual cultures. The text takes a global approach to world history, helping you link events together in a broad comparative framework and place the contemporary world in a more meaningful historical context.Spielvogel, Jackson J. is the author of 'Essential World History-Discovery Edition', published 2008 under ISBN 9780495565970 and ISBN 0495565970.[read more]
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Look, it's just an adaptor, like those weird round-pin things that let you use American electronics in Europe, or the hat washer you run on your cranks. (If you want to talk about stupid, how about the fact that no one can come up with one universal sprocket drilling?) Let's say you bought a Pivotal setup, gave your railed seat/post to the kid down the street, but have had quite enough of Gonzo-dicking every available Pivotal seat. Rather than taking your old seat and post back from little Timmy (mean!) this way you can just pick up an adaptor and a new seat and keep your Pivotal post. I don't see how this is a bad thing. Having to take your seat out to adjust angle is somewhat inconvenient, but once you have it set how much do you change it anyway?
(It's worth noting that Pivotal Gonzo-dicking could be minimized one of two ways—either make the noses of seats stiffer, or shrink/eliminate the "teeth" on the seat/post interface, which would—in some cases, at least—allow the seat to slip before bending. Knurling works for bar/stem, right?)
Fit posted what looks to be a cameraphone spy photo of Edwin Delarosa's new FITED LT. Should have seen this coming, I suppose. Although Edwin never seemed to have a problem boosting on his old frame, so I'm not sure exactly why they needed to make a change.* I suppose we'll have to wait for the final numbers. Just at a glance, the toptube looks lower and the downtube looks skinnier. If the 21" rear end is shorter than 14", I'm gonna be pissed.
More on this later as info becomes available.
(In semi-related news, S&M has apparently both squashed and lightened the 21" Stricker frame, as well as changed the best laser-cut brace in BMX history:
"We just finished making the new 'under 5 lb' Stricker frame with smaller seat-stay bridge with a small anchor graphic cut out of the tube. They also have a lower stand-over height than previous versions."
Oh well, nothing gold can stay.)
Just in time for the Beijing Olympics, an Australian company I've never heard of released a pair of bars with a slotted crossbar for easier number plate attachment. Redline tried something similar years ago with their Forklifter bars, but this is a much cleaner look.
Wait, that's not what this is for? I give up then.
If you ever wondered what it would look like if an Animal Sprocky Balboa and an Odyssey Vermont were allowed to reproduce, wonder no longer. Thank you, Oden Bikes.
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"He is a physical running back," Jones said on KRLD-FM, via The Star-Telegram. "You want to be very comfortable for him to make his cut. All of that has to be right before he goes out there because we got to look down the road here.
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June 9, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - This summer, 10 current MIT baseball players will participate in summer leagues around the country. Most impressively MIT junior infielder Stewart Park and freshman pitchers Torre Swanson and Chris Vaughan have been invited to play in the New York Collegiate Baseball League (NYCBL). All three have officially signed contracts to play for the Albany Dutchmen, based out of Albany, N.Y.
"This is obviously a huge honor for these three student-athletes and its great recognition for the program," said head coach Andy Barlow. "I know that each one of them will take advantage of this tremendous opportunity."
Park, who hails from Brooklyn, New York and Xaverian High School, has started nearly every game of his three-year career with MIT and is the Engineers' catalyst on offense. In 2008 he earned NEWMAC First Team All-Conference honors and ranked fourth in the nation in stolen bases per game (.94). Park concluded the 2009 season with a batting average of .314 and led the team in doubles (12) as well as stolen bases (14). A tremendously gifted defensive player, Park made the switch to second base this season after serving two years as MIT's starting shortstop. Park is majoring in mechanical engineering and management.
Swanson, who compiled a 5-1 record with an impressive 3.02 ERA and .235 batting average against, quickly established himself as one of the brightest young arms in the New England region. In addition to ranking highly in the NEWMAC in numerous pitching categories, Swanson was named a runner-up for conference Rookie of the Year honors and was also a one-time NEWMAC Pitcher of the Week selection (3/30-4/5). Hailing from Redding, California and Redding High School, this hard-throwing right-hander enjoyed a tremendous high school campaign prior to coming to MIT. In addition to Honorable Mention All-State and First Team All-League honors his senior year, he also earned the distinction of Record Searchlight Most Valuable Player of the Section. Swanson is planning to major in economics.
Vaughan, a 6'6" right-handed pitcher from Fort Worth, Texas, served as one of MIT's weekend starters. Compiling a 4-4 record and a 4.29 ERA in a team-leading 56.2 innings of work, Vaughan took the ball against all of MIT's opponents' best pitchers in many of the season's biggest games. The most impressive highlight of the season came during the NEWMAC playoffs where he was victorious while firing a complete game, 10-strikeout effort versus nationally ranked Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Vaughan came to MIT after earning District 7-4A Most Valuable Player honors as well as First Team All-District honors both his junior and senior years at Arlington Heights High School. Vaughan is planning to major in brain and cognitive sciences.
The NYCBL, founded in 1978, is a summer wood bat developmental league for professional baseball. Major League Baseball funds a small portion of the leagues annual budget. The league affords college players the opportunity to develop their skills at a higher level of play, gain experience with wood bats, and be evaluated by scouts. The NYCBL is located in scenic Upstate New York.
The NYCBL, like the Cape Cod League and the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL), has seen many of its players go on to play professional baseball. Currently 11 NYCBL alumni are on active Major League Baseball rosters including Hunter Pence of the Houston Astros, Brad Lidge of the Philadelphia Phillies, and Tim Hudson of the Atlanta Braves.
Each of the NYCBL's 14 teams play a 44 game regular season schedule with games beginning in June and ending in the last week in July. All games are nine innings, with most doubleheaders scheduled on the weekends. The All-Star game is played in early July, and the League Championship Series concludes in the first week of August.
MIT, which has enjoyed a rich 60-year history of intercollegiate baseball, has seen many of its players participate in competitive summer leagues. The most notable invitation was Jason Szuminski '00 who spent the summer of 1999 with the Newport Gulls of the NECBL. Szuminski, a right-handed pitcher, went on to be drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 2000 and cracked the San Diego Padres roster in 2004 becoming the first MIT Engineer to make it to the big-leagues.
Over the past few seasons, MIT Baseball has experienced unprecedented team success. In 2006 the Engineers advanced to their first-ever conference championship game where they were defeated by No. 2 nationally-ranked Wheaton College, which was the runner-up in the NCAA Division III World Series. During the course of the regular season MIT defeated defending national champion Wisconsin-Whitewater, nationally-ranked Southern Maine, as well as perennial powerhouse Williams College en route to a 21-14 season and an at-large bid to the ECAC New England Region Championship.
In 2009 the MIT ballclub continued to make history by establishing program records for wins (25) and once again advancing to the finals of their conference tournament. The NEWMAC finals appearance allowed the Engineers to fall just two games short of qualifying for the NCAA New England Regional Tournament. In addition to impressive non-conference victories over regionally-ranked Williams and Worcester State, MIT defeated two NCAA tournament teams (WPI and Babson) during its record-breaking season.
The Engineers also earned respect across the New England baseball scene by producing the NEWMAC Player of the Year, the NEWMAC Coach of the Year, one CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine Academic All American, one NEIBA All-New England Selection, and two CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District selections. MIT also had four of its players represented on the NEWMAC All-Conference Team and placed five on NEWMAC All-Academic team.
For more information on the New York Collegiate Baseball League and the Albany Dutchmen, visit www.nycbl.com and http://www.dutchmenbaseball.com/.
Albany Dutchmen News Clip and Article from WNYT News Channel 13 (NBC Affiliate in Albany, New York): www.wnyt.com/article/stories/S803471.shtml?cat=300.
Cameron Brown -
Rocky Mountain Collegiate League (Colorado)
A.J. Hansborough -
Boston Park League (Massachusetts)
Chris Hendrix -
Dallas Amateur Baseball Association (Texas)
Dan Hyatt -
National Amateur Baseball Federation - Orlando (Florida)
Kenneth Lin -
Headfirst Gamers (California)
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The preferred Twitter hashtag for "Breaking Bad" on Sunday night was "#goodbyebreakingbad." In case anyone hadn't already heard, the show -- which in six years progressed from cult favorite to beloved pillar of the pop cultural firmament -- was airing its final episode. Fans, of course, tweeted their goodbyes in droves.
The final act of high school chemistry teacher Walter White's transformation from good guy dad to dreaded drug kingpin was tense but cathartic episode, ending with -- spoiler alert -- White (played by Bryan Cranston) lying dead on the floor of a meth lab as the cops swarmed his body. All while Badfinger's "Baby Blue" played on the soundtrack. Perfect ending? A lot of fans thought so.
Cranston's acting colleague Rich Sommer, who plays Harry Crane on the AMC series "Mad Men," which is also about to end its run, wrote, "Sigh. That was a good time."
Colin Hanks, who once appeared on "Mad Men" as a priest, wrote, "Watched the Breaking Bad finale twice last night. Got closure, while at the same time felt sad for the path of destruction left behind."
Yvette Nicole Brown, star of the considerably less violent "Communty" on NBC, took note of one of the show's unanswered questions: What happened to Walter's meth drug fortune? Jack, the white supremecist drug dealer who took over Walter's empire when he went into hiding, offered to tell him in exchange for his life, but Walter shot him anyway. As Brown wrote, "One thing is abundantly clear...he could care less where the money is. Hilarious!"
Conservative author Ann Coulter found a way to always stay on message with her politics when she wrote, "#BreakingBad shows the importance of having a gun in the home." (In reference to Walter's invasion of the home of his former colleagues Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz.) Nonetheless, she went on to praise the finale, writing, "FANTASTIC #BreakingBadFinale! Thank you, Vince Gilligan! Much better than anyone imagined."
Coulter's political opposite, Rosie O'Donnell wished that the cast could feel the joy that stage actors felt, writing, "u know when u see a great movie and the crowd claps - or on b way when u stand up - i wish the #BreakingBad cast n crew could feel that now."
Blink-182 bassist Mark Hoppus was inspired by Walter White's small-businessman work ethic, writing, "If you're sad Breaking Bad is over I will hold you close while you cry and stroke your hair and whisper "Shh, it'll be okay." 5£/$7.50 per."
Prolific author Joyce Carol Oates write this headscratcher of a reaction, "Ellipses in final episode of 'Breaking Bad'--contemporary filmmaking that takes for granted considerable visual memory in viewer."
"Bridesmaids" director Paul Feig wrote, "Aaaaaaaaaand ... here come the waves of depression as I realize there will never be another new episode of Breaking Bad."
And "Black Swan" director Darren Aronofsky said farewell, writing, "almost like losing a good friend. congrats to @BreakingBad_AMC a historic run."
Even billionaire investor Warren Buffett got in on the "Breaking Bad" finale hooplah, tweeting this picture of himself auditioning as a "Walt successor."
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Hummingbirds are migrating to Dempsey's Place. Come to fall open house on Oct. 24, 25 and 26 and you will see why.
Hummingbirds are migrating to Dempsey's Place. Come to fall open house on Oct. 24, 25 and 26 and you will see why.
Congratulations to Poppi and Dearie on the arrival of their fourth grandchild, Grant Alexander Brookshire. That makes four boys now for Dempsey and Shelley.
Garden club thanks all fair participants
The Village Home and Garden Club of Davidson County would like to thank all the flower show participants who submitted entries at the Davidson County Agricultural Fair. If you are interested in learning more gardening tips, please plan to attend the next club meeting on Oct. 15. Lois Sowers will be presenting a program about watering container plants. For more details send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Seniors Country Store plans fall festival
A fall festival will be held at the Seniors Country Store on Oct. 19. There will be refreshments and door prizes.
Boy Scouts hit the trail in Virginia
Troop 238 Boy Scouts Andrew Coppley, Brett Dorwart, Chase Wagner, Colin Seymour, Dalton Byrd, Eric McCrary, Garret Richardson, Garrett Spencer, Jack Knox, Jamie Ward, Joey White, Mason Hamilton, Matthew Richardson, Noah Carter, Owen Macias, Samuel Wooten, Ty Holcomb and Will Walser rode the Creeper Trail in Damascus, Va.
Andrew Coppley, Eric McCrary, Garret Richardson, Joey White, Mason Hamilton, Matthew Richardson, and Ty Holcomb completed their adopt-a-highway clean up in Welcome on Sept. 28.
At the last pack meeting, Cub Scouts earned many awards. Most notable were Braydon Hawley earning his Bobcat badge and Karl Suszynsky earning his Webelos Badge. Pack 238 will be volunteering at the Stoner-Thomas School Fun Run/Roll/Walk on Oct. 11.
If you would like to buy Scout popcorn, please see a member of Pack 238 in Welcome. Thanks to all who supported the third annual golf tournament held at Lexington Municipal. Cub Scout Pack 238 meets at 7 p.m. Tuesdays at Center United Methodist Church.
October is Book Month
October is National Book Month. Fall into a good book at the North Davidson Public Library. Teen Read Week is Oct. 14-19. Teens are invited to enter a contest to win a goody bag and pick up a special bookmark when they visit.
Special story times for Halloween week are planned. School age patrons should wear their costume to story times at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and for preschool patrons on at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday and Thursday.
The next book club meeting is set for 1 p.m. Nov. 1 and will focus on "Turning Angel" by Greg Iles.
Bethesda UMC to sell chicken pies Oct. 16
Bethesda United Methodist Church, located at 2922 Bethesda Road, will have a chicken pie supper in the family life center from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 16. The cost of the meal will be $7 for adults and $4 for children. The menu includes chicken pie, dumplings, green beans, slaw, rolls, dessert and tea or coffee.
Zumba offered at Center UMC weekly
Center UMC is offering a Zumba class from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on the first, second and fourth Mondays of each month in the Christian Fellowship Center.
The centered worship service meets at 8:30 a.m. Sunday for refreshments, followed by the worship service at 8:45 a.m. Come as you are.
The celebration worship service for the burning of the mortgage note will be held at 10:45 a.m. Oct. 20. The congregation is excited the Rev. Clay Morgan attend the service.
The center peace banquet for a ladies night will be held at 6 p.m. Nov. 16. Contact Linda Leonard at 242-7910 if you would like to host a table or attend. Total Praise will be performing. Tickets are $10 for the meal and concert.
Trunk or treat set at First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church will have trunk and treat in the church parking lot from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Oct. 31. Food items and monetary donations will be collected in support of Greater Things Outreach Center in Welcome.
The church will have a movie on the field at 6 p.m. Nov. 3. "Defining Moments, from My Hope America," with Billy Graham will be shown. It is a 40 minute film that revolves around testimonies of three young people — an NFL football player, a magician and a musician. It tells what God did to rescue them. There will be hot dogs, hamburgers and other refreshments. Please bring chairs and blankets.
Youths will serve
The Pilgrim Reformed Church members are proud of the youth group which will be participating in the Big Day of Serving in the Lexington area on Saturday.
The youth group will also sponsor trunk or treat from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 27. in the church parking lot.
The Quilting Sisters will be raffling one of their handmade quilts to be given away at the annual chicken pie event on Nov. 9. The quilt is called "Wheel of Fortune" and was pieced by Colleen Stafford. It is in memory of Kaye Everhart, Bo Stafford, Clara Belle Yarbrough and Edith Truitt. You will receive one ticket for each $1 donation. Tickets may be purchased form church members until 6 p.m. Nov. 9.
Congratulations should go to Gene Poindexter on being inducted into The Davidson County Sports Hall of Fame.
The Pilgrim congregation would like to extend sympathy to the families of folks who have recently passed away: Dorothy Ree Hege Leonard, Bessie Elizabeth East Warren, Billie Gray Ridge Sledge, and Linda Sizemore Hege.


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The life blood of our region - the basis for a culture, economy and community. The Copper River and Prince William Sound are spectacular watersheds that host a rich, plentiful, unique and roadless pristine ecosystem that supports one of the most sought after wild salmon runs in the world, known as the Copper River wild salmon. One of the last truly wild places on earth.
The most sought after and famous wild salmon on the planet return annually to the pristine and nutrient rich waters and forests of the Copper River watershed. Yet, there are no preservation or protection policies in place anywhere on the Copper River or in the Delta. EPC is working on several conservation initiatives to protect, in perpetuity, the Copper River and its wild salmon.
Indigenous culture, and the preservation of traditional values and intrinsic connections to the land and waters, is the cornerstone principle of our work. The words subsistence, spirituality, and sovereignty may have obscure meanings for many Americans, but to Native people, these three words are guiding concepts that carry great importance for our every day lives.
EPC seeks to promote and catalyze renewable economic avenues that incorporate appropriate technologies for sustainable communities. We promote education and awareness regarding sustainable practices, subsistence, and the wild-salmon-way-of-life in our region. EPC hosts people and events to bolster these actives in our local community of Cordova, Alaska.
Our mission: to honor Eyak Hertiage and to conserve wild salmon culture and habitat through education, awareness and the promotion of sustainable lifeways for all peoples.
EPC's work ensures that the salmon will continue to return to their birthplace and nurture the ecosystems of which they are a fundamentally important species. It also ensures that the community of local subsistence and commercial fishers in the region will continue to flourish. Essential to local economic sustainability is bioregional conservation, and our little corner of the world is a microcosm baseline model for the planet. This is one of the last wild places on planet earth where we still have a chance to get it right, by leaving it alone - wild and thriving. Please use this site to investigate and propagate our message. Learn more
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Microsoft says its anticipating a PlayStation 3 price drop in the "springtime," but what about the video game industry's best-known analysts? One has pegged Sony for a PS3 price cut as early as April.
Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has consulted the spirit world (and probably a spreadsheet or two, to be fair) bringing back word that he expects a US$299 PlayStation 3 to appear at retail in just three months. Again, not his job to officially date price cuts, but to make with the predictions.
And, given Microsoft's foreknowledge of said price drop, Mr. Pachter is supposing that Microsoft will undercut Sony once more, shedding US$50 from the Xbox 360 "Pro" model soon after Sony moves.
With Sony reported to show its first annual loss in 14 years, a price drop at this point might seem unlikely. But if the PS3 wants to step out of third place in this console generation, cuts are going to have to come.


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Here's the happy groom and his groomsmen. My dad is in the middle toasting with his brother and best man, Robert Levy. I know the names of the others but I'm not sure who is who. Those in the picture are: Keith Miller, Sheldon Lewis, John Hammell, Horace Chandler, Joseph Connolly, Herb Harband, and Bud Richter. If I had to guess I'd say Joseph Connolly is third from the left and Keith Miller is second from the right. I'll have to go through old yearbooks to see if I can identify these fellows.
And here's the bridal party.
Left to right: Sandra Dick, Jody Renner, Geraldine Martin Levy, Dona Jean Adams, Patricia O'Farrell. I was able to find Dona Jean in the Stanford annual pretty quickly but didn't find Patricia – I'm not sure if O'Farrell was her maiden or married name. I do know that Jody Renner was married so I'll need to figure out what her maiden name was.
And I love seeing the receiving line, which is something that doesn't seem quite as popular these days.
I love how my parents are looking into each other's eyes – they were so in love!
Left to right: Sandra Dick, Dona Jean Adams, Patricia O'Farrell, Jody Renner, Geraldine (Martin) Levy, Gordon Levy, Sigmund Levy, Loraine (Gunzendorfer) Levy, Clara (Fitzgerald) Hunter.
A few things come to mind as I look at this group. I always knew my grandfather, Sig Levy, was short but geez, he really was! My dad was only about 5-9" and my grandmother was only about 5-4" and he is dwarfed by both of them. I'm guessing he was only about 5'1" which is proof that he is the cause of the "Levy curse". I remember reading a letter that Loraine wrote to him as he was training to be a Flying Cadet and she made a comment about him sitting on a pillow while he flew :-)
Although my mother's step-father, Sheldon Hunter, walked her down the aisle, neither he nor her biological father, Earle Martin, participated in the receiving line. And where was Robert Levy, my dad's brother?
Here's the next pages of the Bride's Book.
Wow, her father, Earle Martin, isn't even mentioned. If I didn't know better I'd think he wasn't living at the time.
My mom wrote "Taken on our honeymoon – in front of Montery [sic] Harbor on September 4, 1950.
I've always known they spent their honeymoon in Monterey and Carmel but it wasn't until today that it hit me – they spent their honeymoon in the city where my grandmother grew up.


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Winches And Accessories - How To Stay Un-StuckPosted in How To on June 1, 2010
Almost nothing ruins a day faster than getting stuck. The situation compounds itself if you're traveling solo (you should've known better) or if nasty weather is hastily approaching or if there's a dearth of munchies and everyone's hungry. Make no mistake, there are several tactics you can use to avoid getting stuck in the first place, but sooner or later every off-roader will find him- or herself immobile on the trail. The only sure way to never get stuck is to stay home - not an option.
We've assembled a collection of winches and winch-related accessories for your consideration, but first, we'd like to talk about the care and feeding of the recovery gear shown hereafter.
Care and Feeding of Winches
"Clean" and "dry" are the conditions in which your winch will live the longest and be the happiest, but the conditions in which a winch is called upon to rescue you are often dirty and wet. What to do? Some post-ride maintenance, that's what. Many winches feature sealed internal mechanisms, but still have external parts that are prone to weather and dirt damage. If you've got mud in your winch or winch cable, scrub or hose it off to prevent the corrosion created by caked-on mud. If your electrical connections got wet, prevent corrosion with a shot of WD-40. If your cable wound itself lopsided back onto the drum, un-spool the line and reel it back in straight ahead and under light tension.
Care and Feeding of Winch Line
There are two flavors of winch line these days: steel and synthetic. Steel lines are more abrasion-resistant but are prone to getting kinked. Synthetic lines can be crumpled into all sorts of funky shapes and suffer no ill effects. On the flip side, synthetic lines are prone to abrasion damage so most are equipped with a protective sheath over the load-bearing portion of the line. The best thing to do with either type of winch line is periodically inspect its entire length. Kinked steel lines should be replaced, and the same goes for abraded synthetic lines. The saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link counts for the weakest strand of a winch line. You'll never find the weakness if you don't look.
Care and Feeding of Recovery Straps
This is a lot like caring and feeding a winch line. Inspect your recovery strap for abrasion and general condition and replace it if it's damaged. Most of the time a recovery strap gets randomly stuffed back into the rig. When you're home from your adventure and neatly winding up your recovery strap for storage, take a look and see whether the strap is still good.
A note about recovery straps: they aren't the same as a typical nylon cinch strap. Recovery straps are designed to stretch out and then "spring" back. This characteristic makes them ideal for pulling vehicles out of sticky situations.
What about tried-and-true steel chains? Steel chains cannot stretch and are very, very heavy. Today's nylon recovery straps are the way to go.
Care and Feeding of Snatch Blocks
Snatch blocks are simple creatures, but perform a vital role by making it possible to winch around a corner or by doubling the pulling capacity of your winch depending on how they're hooked up to the vehicle and the winch line. Check for general pulley wear, the condition of the pulley bearings, and the condition of the side plates or the housing. Just as with winch lines, it's best to replace a damaged pulley.
Care and Feeding of Batteries
This could be a whole story in itself. First, make sure your battery is securely fastened down. One time, my ground cable kept popping off of the negative battery terminal. The battery hold-down was in place and everything looked OK. I put my hand on the hold-down and was grateful that the cable had popped off of the terminal instead of breaking the post off of the battery. The hold-down looked fine but was actually loose enough for the battery to shift around on the tray. Check the hold-down with your eyes and with a wrench. Next, keep the terminals clean and free of corrosion. Make sure there's enough water in the battery if you've got a conventional lead-acid battery. Finally, it's better to replace an aging or questionable battery sooner rather than later. Your battery warranty won't help you in the backcountry.
Care and Feeding of Fairleads
Don't use steel cable with an aluminum Hawse fairlead because the steel cable will chew its way through the aluminum. If your aluminum Hawse fairlead gets nicked or gouged, you can smooth it out with fine-grit sandpaper or a Scotchbrite pad. It's important to keep the sliding surfaces of Hawse-type fairleads smooth because the winch line slides directly on them and can get gouged or nicked by a chunked fairlead. Steel Hawse fairleads are used with steel winch cable and can be smoothed out with sandpaper. Roller fairleads should be inspected to make sure the rollers are in good condition and to make sure the rollers turn freely. Replace as needed.
Warn Industries
Warn Industries is synonymous with premium winches as well as premium lockout hubs. No surprise then that Warn would come up with an innovative solution to the overheating problems that often shorten the duty cycles of electric winches. Warn's Endurance 12.0 uses a remote-mounted fan that automatically turns on when the winch motor reaches a certain temperature. The fan blows the air through a hose, which is routed into the electric motor. The Endurance 12.0 has 12,000 pounds of pulling capacity combined with the longest duty cycle of any electric winch available today. If you've ever had to wait for your electric winch to cool down in the middle of a long pull, the Endurance 12.0 is calling your name.
Warn Industries
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Black Mountain Winches by Collins Bros. Jeep
Collins Bros. Jeep offers two models in its Black Mountain winch line. Rated at 8,000 and 10,000 pounds respectively, Black Mountain winches come with cables, hooks, and controllers right out of the box. These winches are value priced and well within the budgets of most 'wheelers.
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Quadratec is one of the best sources for all things Warn, from the 9.5ti seen here on the front of Steve Hallin's TJ Unlimited to the multi-tasking PowerPlant Dual Force, to utility winches that are often used to limit axle droop during steep climbs and descents. Steve's hood latches just fine, by the way. We'd just lowered it, and I snapped this photo before it was latched.
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If your winch doesn't have enough battery power to run, it's just a bumper ornament. Optima's Yellow Top batteries do dual duty with up to 830 cold cranking amps as well as deep cycle capability to stay functional after extended winching sessions. There are six models to choose from in the Yellow Top series. Optima's spiral cells are maintenance free, incredibly vibration-resistant, and completely spill-proof. Optima Yellow Top batteries can be mounted in any position.
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Odyssey batteries use AGM (advanced glass mat) technology as part of their dry cell system. Gasses are recycled internally, so no external vents are required or used. As long as it's securely mounted it's safe to mount inside the passenger compartment. This Odyssey PC-1500 battery offers 880 cold cranking amps as well as deep cycle capability. Typical service life is six to eight years.
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Master-Pull is synonymous with staying un-stuck. The Superline XD synthetic winch line features a high breaking strength wrapped in a heavy-duty protective cover. Master-Pull's Super-Yanker recovery rope uses the power of kinetic energy to yank stuck vehicles to solid ground.
(877) 797-0202
Recon offers two winches: the 10,500-pound Pro Performance Waterproof Series and the 17,500-pound Brute Force model. Both feature fast line speeds, three-stage planetary gear trains, and automatic in-the-drum clutches. The Pro Performance model comes with synthetic line, while the Brute Force is equipped with traditional wire rope.
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Mile Marker's V-10 winch has some slick, innovative features. Solid state controls mean no mechanical solenoids to potentially fail, and users can enjoy the luxury of variable-speed line control. It's sealed against the elements and is further readied against trail abuse with stainless steel hardware and a dual-compound black polyurethane coating. The V-10 has a 10,000-pound rating and if you need more, Mile Markers V-12 is rated at 12,000 pounds.
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ARB's offerings go well beyond its popular Air Lockers. ARB's recovery straps are available with different weight ratings so you can match the strap to the size of the stuck vehicle. ARB's recovery straps are now color-coded so it's easy to pick the right strap out of a crowded gear bag. All ARB straps feature a red internal safety flag that shows through when the strap has worn down far enough. Seeing red? Replace the strap. ARB has a line of snatch blocks, of which the snatch block 9000 is the heaviest hitter. Constructed with 6mm-thick cold-rolled steel side plates and a pulley made from a special self-lubricating polymer, the snatch block 9000 has a whopping 38,500-pound breaking strength.
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Tiger Hitch offers its billet recovery hitches CNC machined out of either 6061-T6 aluminum or alloy steel. The recovery hitches come with 5/8-inch shackles and can be equipped with an optional tow hook. There is also a combo pack available which includes a 20-foot heavy duty recovery strap.
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Smittybilt has some new offerings for the winch world in their XRC 8, 10, and 12-series winches. The XRC 10 HD boasts a high-quality air compressor and comes with a 2.5-gallon air tank for filling tires fast or running air tools on the trail. Three-stage planetary gear systems bring fast line speeds and durability on board the XRC series winches.
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We're Daystar fans for a couple of reasons. First, they make many of their products in-house in Phoenix, Arizona. Second, Daystar's stuff is innovative, affordable, and solves problems. Daystar's polyurethane Rope Rollers take the place of steel rollers in a conventional roller fairlead, making it compatible with synthetic winch line. Steel rollers can abrade synthetic lines, so aluminum Hawse fairleads are usually recommended. If your bumper isn't compatible with a Hawse fairlead or you're looking for a more economical alternative, Daystar's Rope Rollers are the answer. Daystar's D-ring isolators snap in place on standard 3/4-inch D-rings and eliminate annoying knocking noises. They also protect the bumper's finish from steel-on-steel contact. Daystar's winch isolators provide a cushioned home for the winch hook when it's stowed. Winch hooks and cables should be stored with a slight amount of tension to prevent rattling and snagging on trees, brush, etc. The Daystar winch isolator is easy to install and provides the perfect home for your winch hook. Available in several colors or in camouflage.
(800) 595-7659
Rugged Ridge offers a complete line of winches and accessories. The 10.5 and 8.5 winches are rated at 10,500 and 8,500 pounds respectively. The 8.5 winch comes with synthetic rope and an aluminum Hawse fairlead, while the 10.5 winch comes with wire rope and a roller fairlead that's compatible with up to two lights for after-dark extraction. Both winches offer multiple mounting positions for the solenoid, making them easy to configure for your trail rig. Rugged Ridge also carries a handy winch accessory bag filled with a snatch block, a recovery strap, gloves, a cable weight, D-rings, and a tree trunk strap.
(770) 614-6101
Viking Offroad has a range of products to help you out of the mire. The 350 series aluminum Hawse fairlead has more surface area and a gentler radius to place less stress on synthetic winch lines. The Rockline tree strap is made not to stretch like a recovery strap and provides a solid anchor point to winch to. It does not twist under use. The recovery rope is designed to stretch and spring back, and is available with strength ratings from 7,400 pounds all the way to 74,000 pounds, which is stout enough for a semi truck!
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Two post-doctoral fellows are sought to conduct research under the direction of Drs. Amy Criss and Michael Kalish in the Department of Psychology at Syracuse University. The broad goals of the research program are to develop and evaluate models of human learning and memory using behavioral experiments, advanced statistical techniques (including hierarchical Bayesian analysis) and mathematical cognitive modeling. Dr. Criss's primary work is in episodic memory, while Dr. Kalish's focus is on category learning processes. We are looking for a candidate in each of these areas, and are especially interested in scholars who can bridge the two.
Successful candidates will have a PhD in cognitive psychology, cognitive science or related fields (computer science, applied maths, neuroscience) and will have relevant research experience. The funding is for one year with subsequent years possible based on positive evaluation and availability of funds. Salary will be commensurate with experience. Apply online at:
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We meet weekly from 6.30am for open networking, for a sit down time of 7am.
The meeting will close at 8.30am, at which point there will be more time for catching up and making new business connections.
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22a O'Sullivan Road, Bellevue Hill, NSW 2023, Australia
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