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Same art and music? Awesome. The original Last Exile was one of the few Gonzo titles I liked. Hopefully the opening and ending songs are at least similar as well, as I loved the feeling of them.
I guess the length of this is still unknown, isn't it. Hm, Fam of the silver wing?
|2011-02-18, 23:32
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|2011-03-01, 10:37
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|2011-03-02, 04:30
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Yup, the official site lists the staff of the upcoming series and Hitomi Kuroishi is indeed listed for the music credit, which is like you said utterly fantastic news. Yeah, her Shangri-La soundtrack was great.
This. I'm already predicting the huge likeliness that I'll be importing yet another set of music CDs since she's involved, heh.
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It had a good story but bad execution. And that horrible rushed ending. I liked Claus and Lavie as a team, so separating them was not a good idea. And I wanted more Dio! The romantic triangle thing they attempted was also completely unnecessary. I liked the characters but they definitely needed more development. There was so much room for improvement. I had such high expectations so I was disappointed. Unless the new one is much worse it won't disappoint me this time I just want to go back in that world! But I am hoping it is one of the rare cases where the (sort of) sequel surpasses the original.
With Xam'd it felt as if the creators had no idea what they were doing. There were so many ideas that went nowhere. Maybe it did need 50 episodes. I find them similar what Gonzo did with Exile and what Bones did with Xam'd. We need more well done fantasy/sci-fi anime. There is Fractrale this season though.
|2011-03-02, 11:59
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Im looking forward to "The silver wing" yet dreading it at the same time. I loved the original its actually one of my all time favorites. I have no doubt character design and mecha designs will be fantastic like the original was. But the story is what really worries me.
|2011-04-08, 16:05
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Squee! Vanships! Similar character designs! The same kinda clunky CGI! Mysterious Girl! Holy crapsit, was that Dio?!? I had heard he lived (from that one artbook scan) but if that's him, man he looks kinda pissed and the last time he wasn't his happy self it was a very baaaaad thing. Gah, summer needs to come sooner!
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Ahhh, I saw Knight Hawk's comment and thought that Dio must be the white haired man with pointy ears at 0:50. I didn't even look at the cast list, katakana is tricky to read so I just let everyone else translate/post it instead.
|2011-04-09, 03:25
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I loved Dio and I was so relieved he survived in the last series. It wasn't even made clear. But now he will be in the new one too! Yay! I always thought Dio was underused.
A lot of new additions to the cast on ANN and many of my favourites. I am so glad to see Aoi Yuki as one of the main characters.
The PV has got me listening to Last Exile's OST and I have to second wandering-dreamer's 'summer needs to come sooner!'
|2011-04-15, 16:32
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Hearing that music again nailed it and seeing the new backgrounds and the ships and the perfectly-realized Murata art come alive (which was my only real disappointment in Shangri-La which I enjoyed) once more in the new section of the trailer, loved it, man I love this franchise's setting/mix of tech/costuming/etc.
And I think I've watched this trailer/teaser trailer too many times lol.
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If we get big money for him AND SPEND IT WISELY to strengthen the club, I will understand wenger not signing him here.
If we get big money for him AND SPEND IT WISELY to strengthen the club, I will understand wenger not signing him here.
Excellent point, Tiger. No man is bigger than the club and no player is absolutely irreplacable. This however is the crux of the issue, How many times since 2005 have we done that with all of the top-flight players we have sold or let leave for free?
What's that saying "One time is luck, twice is coincidence, three times is a pattern..." Well what is a dozen times or more even then?
Quote:The only part of this I do not agree with is that he will sign.Mad Jens
So you'd rather strip his captaincy and then bench him, then let him leave for free next year.
Look, this is Robin's job. We get a lot of pleasure out of watching him play because he's damn good at his job, but he has every right to negotiate his salary on the back of a fantastic season like he's had.
For my money Robin has been one of Arsenal's best captains in many years. The man has fire in his belly, gives his all on the pitch, always makes sure to give the lap of appreciation and let the fans know they're wanted, half the time his first action on scoring is to go over to the guy that gave him the assist. He's immaculate in interviews, leads by example on the field and off it...
I'm not about to blow the man but I'm just well short of it. For people to say he's not done enough or is being disrespectful at present is bollox. Personally I think he'll sign but even if he doesn't, he's given us a fantastic year, we'll get some money out of (let's be honest) a pretty injury prone player, and AFC will march on regardless.
But don't slag the man off.
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Chelsea and Liverpool spent consistently more than us and finished well behind us.
You can talk CL or Tin Cup but let's be honest, Chelsea isn't winning the CL Saturday with half a team and Liverpool's tin cup still got Dalglish sacked.
It's not how much money you spend it's how you spend it. And with the current players ("players" meaning financial powers/teams) in the transfer market you're going to get nothing but debt and disappointment by trying to muscle your way in.
Maybe if you worried more about the strngth of charatcter of the people running the Club we might not be where we are now.
Seriously some of you you show more love respect and adoration to the millionaires who take more money from you than you can afford put less than they can afford into the team you pay that money for all solely so they could make even more money that they just want to have than they already have.
And you really would rather hate the players and manager who are primarily responsible for all the pleasure you have derived from Arsenal and football than question those millionaires character and motives. Borders on twisted really.
Have to agree Hippo
Youn get this argument all the time from the non-spending defenders. Spending money doesn't guarantee winning things. We don't have a divine right to win trophies..."
And all that is accurate though they don't mention how much better your chances to win things are and the likelihood of winning trophies is depending on what you spedn either on transfers or in wages.
And then the same people will say "If we just stay patient and follow the current policy we will be the biggest and best club in England, Europe, and the World especially after the stadium is paid off...."
They are guaranteeing success after they insist it cannot be guaranteed.
Again its bizarre really.
No one said they were in love with the board.
Why not put any blame on the manager?
1.He buys his own players.?
2. He's made a lot of money in player sales.
3. His footballing philosophy in place.
4. We've spend 30mil more than Newcastle in the last 2 seasons. 35mil more than spuds.
5. He's been at the club long enough to build the direction.
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First-Hand:Sidelobe Cancellers and the Like
Contributed By: Dean Chapman, IEEE Senior Life Member
For those of us who worked in the area of Radar Systems, it was not uncommon to jump from designing electronic countermeasures (ECM) equipment designed to defeat radars to Electronic Counter-countermeasures (ECCM) equipment intended to defend against such devices. I first worked on ECM and then moved to the ECCM world.
Working on ECM System
In 1961 after I graduated, I went to work for General Electric's Light Military Electronics Department (LMED) in Utica, NY. One of the first assignments I had there was working on an airborne externally stored RADAR Jammer nicknamed JAMPAC, officially known as QRC160-1. It was later assigned a production number of ALQ-71. This equipment was mounted in a pod and powered by a ram air turbine. It was designed to attach to the wing of an F-100 or other aircraft in the manor of a weapon or fuel tank. It employed a set of General Electric voltage-tunable magnetrons (VTM's) and was designed to output broadband noise-modulated signals that would enter the enemy radar through its antenna sidelobes. These VTM's were developed by General Electric's Power Tube Department in Schenectady and were a major breakthrough in the state of the art at that time.
The physics of the standoff jammer scenario dictates that while the Radar return signal varies as the 4th power of range to the target, the jamming power varies as the 2nd power (one way versus two way ). Thus the jammer has the advantage for a given radar cross section and jammer power until the range to the target decreases to the so-called "burn-thru" range. That this system was effective was brought home one day when one of the development models of this jammer was mounted on an F-100 for a seemingly innocent test somewhere in Northeastern United States. The system was turned on and was supposed to fly against a designated Radar site. Before the test had been completed, the whole Northeast was scrambled as search radar screens all up and down the coast were masked with unexpected clouds of noise.
Moving on to ECCM
In 1968 after working on Electronic Countermeasures for some time, I went to work for Anaren Microwave (more about them later) and then in 1972 for Syracuse University Research Corporation (then called SURC, now SRC). At SURC were two gentlemen who were instrumental in developing a powerful Electronic Counter-Counter Measure (ECCM) technique known as Sidelobe Cancelling. Sidelobe jammers depended upon the fact that typical antennae have sidelobes ranging from 15 to 25 DB below the main lobe peak. Jammers of sufficient strength can stand off the target area and inject noise into the sidelobes of a search or tracking radar at an enemy site. However, if the jammer is located in a sidelobe null of the antenna response pattern, its effect on the Radar can be radically diminished. Through the use of an auxiliary channel, the sidelobe canceller could sample the jammer input signal and feed it into the radar receiver channel out of phase with the jamming signal in the received path, thus "cancelling" the effects of the jamming noise. Spatially, this results in a steerable null which is automatically aimed at the jamming source.
The Inventor of Sidelobe Canceller
The invention of the sidelobe canceller is credited to Paul Howells (US Patent 3 202 990). Later mathematical analysis of the device and its extension to adaptive arrays was credited to Sid Applebaum. Both of these gentlemen originally worked for the Heavy Military Electronics Department of General Electric in Syracuse and then later split off to form the Special Projects Lab of SURC. As an aside, I mentioned Anaren Microwave previously. Two other gentlemen, Hugh Hair and Carl Gerst, also started with GE's HMED, then went to SURC, and in about 1967 split off to form Anaren Microwave, where they specialized in strip line microwave devices. Incidentally, the name Anaren derives from Carl's wife Anna and Hugh's wife Rene. To this day, Anaren is a thriving company located in Syracuse. General Electric's HMED was the spawning ground of several successful spinoffs in the Syracuse area.
The initial design of the sidelobe canceller comprised a single control loop and could steer one null against one jammer. Two jammers spatially separated would render the technique ineffective. Howells and Applebaum then developed a multiple loop design that would handle multiple jammers. Although this technique was to be used in many different Radar applications, the one of most interest to SURC at the time was for Ballistic Missile defense. The problem that the ABM radar had to solve was to reliably pick out the reentering enemy ballistic missile warheads from the chaff, balloon decoys, and other debris in time to launch a missile that would destroy the warhead. The SPRINT missile was typical of this genre of weapons. It featured astronomical acceleration capability. Warhead reentry into the atmosphere would strip away all but the real warheads so that if the anti warhead missile was fast enough, it could still intercept the incoming warhead before impact. This was a very difficult problem and was not unlike trying to hit a moving bullet. Defense designers then became worried about offense payloads that might contain multiple jammers that could be deployed in the vicinity of the armed warheads to attempt to lower the burn through altitude to the point where the anti warhead missile could not be effectively used. SURC proposed a multiple loop sidelobe canceller as a part of ABM radars. They successfully tested it at the HAPDAR (HArd Point Demonstration Array Radar) at White Sands, NM in the 1970's.
Extension to Full Adaptivity
As Sid Applebaum thought more about the multiple loop canceller and the problem as it applied to array antennae, he realized that if each element of the array could be adaptively controlled, the entire radiation pattern of the antenna could be adaptively shaped to reject sidelobe jamming regardless of the number of jammers. This was a major breakthrough and was shown to work through computer simulation. The challenge was to design an adaptive system that could react in real time with sufficient array size to be able to satisfy the other requirements of the radar. Simulations using a simplified model of the antenna yielded very optimistic results. It was then necessary to model the effects of finite bandwidth, channel to channel phase and amplitude mismatch, and element mutual coupling effects to give a more realistic picture of the expected performance. At that time, I did many computer simulations of Adaptive Arrays, experimenting with different configurations and studying the effects of bandwidth, phase mismatch and other effects. My typical day involved making computer runs and plotting results on our trusty "Calcomp" plotter and then sitting in Sid Applebaum's office trying to make sense of the results while Sid proposed yet another test. One of the last tests SURC ran at HAPDAR was a linear fully adaptive array operating at radar bandwidths.
Application to AEW
Naval Research Laboratory became interested in Adaptive Arrays for use in Airborne Early Warning (AEW) applications. It turned out that in addition to the ability to cancel jamming, the Adaptive Array could be used to reduce clutter entering the system through the sidelobes of the AEW array. Sid Applebaum and I were in Washington and driving to a meeting with the NRL staff one day. As we passed the rows of strobe lights at the end of the National Airport runway, Sid's eyes lit up with an idea inspired by the apparent movement of the strobes as they cycled toward the runway threshold. What resulted was a clever way to simulate the AEW problem statically on the ground on an antenna test range. SURC was awarded a contract to provide the hardware and equipment to run this series of tests. Bill Gabriel of NRL was the project engineer. During this period, Bill organized a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation devoted to Adaptive Arrays (September 1976 Vol. AP-24, Number 5). We at SURC contributed four papers to that issue including Sid's classic paper introducing the concept of Adaptive Arrays. Others working on array adaptivity in the areas of Over-the Horizon radar, communications, and in Seismic Arrays also contributed to the issue.
Howells Tackles Another Problem
Paul Howells was a very original thinker and the term "thinking outside of the box" applied liberally to him. One day he was in Washington talking with military planners when someone mentioned that the Russian Strella Missile was a particularly dangerous threat to our aircraft at that time. It was a heat-seeking shoulder-launched missile that was being used against our helicopters and low flying planes. On the way home in the airplane, Paul sketched out the design of a CW Radar (not unlike today's traffic radars) that could be coupled to flare launchers to detect oncoming missiles and decoy them away with flares. His radar cross-section and Doppler analysis calculations were literally scratched on the back of an envelope. When he came in the next day, he handed the envelope over to engineers who immediately started working on a prototype system. It was a relatively simple and economical yet effective answer to a vexing problem. Incidentally, both Paul and Sid worked on early color TV design at General Electric's E-Lab in Syracuse before becoming interested in radar and ECCM.
A Unique Opportunity
It was a unique and thrilling experience for me to be able to work with such original thinkers and pioneers in the field of Radar Systems. Both Sid and Paul have since passed on but their legacy lives on in their contributions to the state of the art in Radar Systems.
As I progressed through the first half of my career, I was able to work on both ECM and ECCM systems as well as having the good fortune to work for and with some very talented people. Ironically, the latter half of my career was spent working in the electric utility business.


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Charles, Miller, Munson Honored at Alumni Chapelby Jim Amidon • October 7, 2006 Share:
Three Wabash College alumni — living in Colorado, North Carolina, and right here in Crawfordsville — were honored at Saturday's Homecoming Alumni Chapel. Bob Charles '59, Eric Munson '65, and Greg Miller '83 received Alumni Awards of Merit, the highest honor the National Association of Wabash Men can bestow on alumni.
Jay Fisher '66, president of the NAWM Board of Directors, served as master of ceremonies for the Chapel. He read the following citations for the College's honored alumni:
Robert F. Charles, Jr. '59 — James Urbaska Civic Service Award
Robert F. "Bob" Charles, we're honored by your presence and pleased that you have returned to your alma mater for this Homecoming weekend. Since your graduation in 1959, you have continued to pursue education and innovation. You have contributed mightily to this College, to your business community, and to your home state of Colorado. In fact, you could be standing here today to receive any of our three Alumni Awards of Merit. You have contributed to Wabash financially and through your service on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Wabash Men. In that capacity, you worked along side alumni director Bob Mitchum to think of new ways to connect Wabash and its alumni.
In the mid-60s, you left your career as an agronomist at a chemical company to return to Illinois, where you began what would become a truly impressive career as a McDonald's restaurant franchisee. McDonald's credits you — the "Burger Baron of Boulder County" — for its Happy Meal and two-lane drive innovations; at one time you owned 11 McDonald's franchises in Colorado.
Today, though, we honor you with the James Urbaska Civic Service Award for all you have meant to the city of Boulder and the state of Colorado, which you have strengthened through your active involvement and philanthropy. In the course of your life, you have served on boards or directed Junior Achievement of Boulder; the Boulder Chamber of Commerce; the Boulder County Red Cross; the Rocky Mountain Advertising Association; the Boulder YMCA; the Boulder Parks and Recreation Board; St. Andrews Presbyterian Church; and the Wasatch Academy, to name only a few.
In addition to your support of Wabash and the University of Arizona, where you received your master's degree, you have been steadfast in your devotion to the University of Colorado, which honored you with the Gold Medal for Outstanding Service to the University, the Leeds School of Business Distinguished Service Award and the Dean's Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence. You served Colorado-Boulder on its Center for Entrepreneurship Advisory Board and your donations to the B&J Enterprise Scholarship provide opportunities for generations of entrepreneurs to come. On the 15th anniversary of the Boulder Community Foundation, you were honored with the Stan Black Award for your efforts in founding the Boulder Memorial Hospital Foundation, the Boulder Economic Council, and the Imagine! Foundation. Bob Charles, Wabash hopes to educate its students to think critically, act responsibly, lead effectively, and live humanely, characteristics you've modeled every day of your life. The National Association of Wabash Men is proud to present you with the James Urbaska Civic Service Award.
Gregory Hoyt Miller '83 — Frank W. Misch Alumni Service Award
On this day when we're proud to welcome back to Wabash our distant alumni, we're especially glad that you, Gregory Hoyt Miller, haven't strayed far from home. For had you gone off to practice law anywhere else, Wabash College and the city of Crawfordsville would be lesser places.
When not bass fishing at Raccoon Lake, you majored in political science and won the Benjamin A. Rogge prize for the best essay in political economics. After earning your law degree from the University of Dayton, you made your home in Montgomery County and began practicing law at Wernle Ristine & Ayers. At a time when community leaders are scarce, your life is at once a model of Wabash's mission statement for our students and a shining example of civic engagement.
You have shown responsible leadership as past-president of the Rotary Club, the Montgomery County Bar Association, and Child Protection Team. If there's an organization in Montgomery County that needs assistance, you have been there to help. You also have served your community as judge of the Crawfordsville City Court and judge pro-tem of the Montgomery County Circuit and Superior Courts. You opened your own private law practice in 2000, specializing in business and corporate law, banking, collections, and civil litigations. Wabash is glad to have you on OUR side! In fact, many Little Giants believe you went into solo practice just so you could give more of your time to Wabash College. You consistently have been a model Class Agent and lead the Society of Class Agents as a member of the Executive Committee, and you were elected to serve two terms on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Wabash Men.
You have been an active leader of the Sugar Creek Association of Wabash Men since its inception. You have served your fraternity, Phi Gamma Delta, as a member of the Board of Chapter Advisors and as President of the Phi Gamma Delta Housing Corporation. It is in that capacity that your leadership in the planning and construction of the new Psi Chapter House has been invaluable. And through all your involvement with Phi Gamma Delta, the Class of 1983, and Montgomery County, you have found time to be wise counsel for the administrative leadership of the College. Today, it is with great pride that the National Association of Wabash Men holds you up — Gregory Hoyt Miller — as an extraordinary recipient of the Frank W. Misch Alumni Service Award.
Eric B. Munson '65 — Clarence Jackson Career Service Award
Eric B. Munson, though you've gone from Little Giant to die-hard Tar Heel, we are pleased to welcome you home to your alma mater. After a successful career at Wabash, where you played baseball and football and sang in the Glee Club, you earned a master's degree in hospital administration from the University of Chicago School of Business. Just as your career as a top-flight hospital administrator was taking off, you shipped off with the Navy during the height of the Vietnam War. Over the course of two years, you spent time as an administrator at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda and the Navy's hospitals at Camp Pendleton and in Agana, Guam.
Upon your return stateside, you began a career that would take you to the top of your professional vocation. Beginning in 1970, you served as assistant director for the University of Chicago Hospitals and chief administrator of Wyler Children's Hospital. You would move on to another major research hospital, the University of Colorado's Colorado General Hospital, in 1973. In just four years you rose to chief operating office of the largest teaching hospital in Colorado, and two years later you were named CEO.
After a short stint as CEO and President of Rex Healthcare — at age 36 — you were named general director, president, and CEO of the University of North Carolina Hospitals. As the CEO, you oversaw the establishment of three additional hospitals within the UNC system, a system comprising 5,000 employees and an annual budget of nearly $600 million. Among your accomplishments are the establishment of the N.C. Jaycee Burn Center, the UNC Ambulatory Care Center, the N.C. Neurosciences Hospital, the N.C. Children's Hospital, and the N.C. Women's Hospital, all of which is now simply UNC Hospitals, for which you serve as President Emeritus.
You think critically: Your professional affiliations are too numerous to mention here, but range from administration to education and from legislation to medical insurance. You act responsibly and lead effectively: Your commitment to your community is evidenced in everything from your kids' school PTA to the Chapel Hill Chamber of Commerce. And you live humanely: You have given extraordinary amounts of your time to causes such as Juvenile Diabetes, the United Way, University Presbyterian Church, and the Chapel Hill Adopt-A-School program. Your long service to UNC was honored in 2004 with the dedication of the Eric B. Munson Concourse at the N.C. Children's Hospital in Chapel Hill, a most fitting tribute. Eric B. Munson, for a lifetime of thoughtful leadership in times of sweeping changes in healthcare administration, the National Association of Wabash Men is proud to present you with the Clarence Jackson Career Service Award.


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Hi Kali
I promised Kali she could pick out any kind of meat and we'd grind it up and barbecue it for her.
She is only interested in range free organically grown endangered species. Mmm. Comb a little deli mustard through this guy.
my grandmother likes endangered species too. Last month she ate an armadillo. Sometimes she yearns for roasted sloth meat (i think she only ate that as a kid).
Happy Birthday! Have a good one.
what does it say on her cake? LEGAL? HAPPY BDAY!
Happy Birthday Kali!!
I didn't know you had such a strong desire to meat the deli llama...
The Legal cake is pretty creepy.
Hahahaha!!!!!!! I would never eat such a cute thing!!!!!!!
"Last month she ate an armadillo. Sometimes she yearns for roasted sloth meat (i think she only ate that as a kid)."
Nooo!!!!!!!! They are our friends!!!!!!
Thank you Johnny, you're so sweet!!!
Happy birthday to my favorite of John K's Angels! (cue the theme music). What's cooler than a girl that's cute as a button and a great cartoonist to boot?
On the subject of free range meats: I drove past some freshly-flattened possum this morning. What's more free range than the open road?
Haha Happy Birthday Kali!
I've seen Kali mentioned here before but never asked... who is she?
Happy Birthday Kali!
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Happy Birffday, Kali!!!!!!
Happy, happy, Kali!
Happy Birthday Kali! And many happy returns!
You can't overlook genuine butter cream cake frosting as one of the seminal joys of life.
where did those awesome fur covered tits come from? where does such a beast come from? what be its name?


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May 24 2012, 02:41PM
Preach it! 5 simple but great thoughts on what its like working from home. Well done Mark.
May 24 2012, 02:48PM
Thanks Shopaholla!!! :-)
May 24 2012, 02:51PM
Great tips! I have found no 2 to be very true with me. I have to be dressed to be focused otherwise I find I get nothing done!
May 24 2012, 03:21PM
While I agree wholeheartedly with 99% of your comments, I do take objection to the "pink bunny slipper" comment. As a purveyor of fine animal slippers we spend most of the day in a pair and happen to be very productive :-)
May 24 2012, 03:36PM
Lori: Glad you like my tips! :-) Thanks for reading!
Nick: Hahaha, okay, I changed the article – check out part 2.
May 24 2012, 03:38PM
These are VERY true! Boundaries are really, really important. It's also crucial to stress inter-personal boundaries to friends and family members outside the home. Many people assume:
"Oh hey! You work from home, and can do whatever you want. I'll swing by at 2 and we can hang out"
…so you have to be really pro-active about protecting your work time and telling people what is – and what isn't – appropriate in terms of dropping in.
May 24 2012, 03:39PM
Thanks Mark, we slipper sellers can get so passionate about the subject!
May 24 2012, 03:59PM
Andrew: Yup I totally agree! I worked at home as a freelance journalist for a few years after university and constantly struggled with that type of thing! Especially in the summer when the sun was out, I'd always have friends dropping by for a beer. Tough to say no.
Thanks for reading!
May 24 2012, 07:59PM
Disagree completely. Those are exactly all of the reasons why one SHOULD want to work from home.
May 24 2012, 08:47PM
I fail. I make 4/5 of these mistakes. 20% on an exam isn't bad, right?
May 24 2012, 11:08PM
If you can't be effective in sweat pants, your outfit is the lest of your problems.
May 24 2012, 11:41PM
it's valuable for business beginner
May 25 2012, 07:27AM
Fernando: I'd argue it's important to maintain balance. Sure it's okay to wear your PJ's every now and then, but on a regular basis? No way.
Jon: Hahaha, we're all guilty sometimes.
Loveties: Thanks!
May 25 2012, 09:33AM
COOL! Those are MY BUNNY SLIPPERS! And yes I work in them. At least on cooler days. I'm a children's illustrator. Keeps things in perspective for me.
May 25 2012, 11:48AM
@Fernando Based on your comment above: Do you work from home? And if so, do you make a full-time living at it?
Working in your PJs while hosting frequent drop-ins is a blast! Well, that is, until you realize you're not getting anything done and going broke….
May 26 2012, 11:55AM
OMG! You hit the nail on the head – every one of these is SO true. :O)
May 28 2012, 04:17PM
Boutique De La Mer: Thanks!! :-)
June 02 2012, 04:41PM
You need to set boundaries both ways. Just because your office is in the other room doesn't mean work should lure you away from dinner with the family or non-work time in the off hours. It's great to be able to get a few hours in at night when you need to get caught up or meet a deadline, but it's easy to find yourself working all the time and burning out as a result.
June 03 2012, 01:39AM
Can't agree more! I work from my room and this where I sleep as well. One month after I started the business I was getting less productive every single day. I was questioning what was wrong I love owning and running a business so what could be cause of getting less productive? Fortunately, I have found that answer. That is my room was more of an office than a home to stay… my room was filled wtih invisible ideas flowing all around and and that psychologically affected my productivity! So since than every weekend I move drive up to one of my favourite place where I get to catch up on all the sleep and relax the way I want it and enjoy myself! This gives me a boost and allow me to sit and think over everything my team has been doing and what should we do next. This is where we plan what our next move will be and do business plan to the coming week! This is where I also plan how my lifestyle will be this coming week and I try to follow as much as I can when I start the week. I love this weekends break. If I could I would have already set up an office in my home but the unfortunate thing is I can't due to personal reasons, but what I can do is doing things that can help me focus and take all the distraction out of me and take huge leap every single week and see the result of my business improve every week!! All entrepreneur should always take break and this will get you refocused and help you move forward and of course you will never procrastinate of your work as you are both giving time to your business and yourself as well! Everything will be balanced! From an entrepreneur whose business has a monthly turnover of $50,000 while started from only $2,000 in cash!!
It all happens because of the state of my mind! Don't compromise it.
July 04 2012, 05:36PM
I find it very important to have a change of scenery to get refreshed!
July 23 2012, 06:14PM
Working from home, as a writer/blogger is the perfect life. But I need to write when the muse strikes, which is pretty irregular. http://www.Offgrid-Living.com
August 24 2012, 05:10AM
Omg… I think I'm guilty of ALL of those at least half the week! lol
October 27 2012, 05:22PM
You brought up some good points however,I think that working from home is fantastic and I have been seeking a work from home jobs but all I have seen so far is nothing but people trying to scam you out of your hard earn money. There are so much scan on the internet that you don't know which one isn't a scam anymore. Thanks for sharing.
December 25 2012, 10:25PM
What room to work from? I just started an eCommerce and I couldn't bare to work from a regular room with little windows and no contact with the outside. OTOH I am messing up my Living Room big time!


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The plan is to require service providers to hand over the details on anyone who a copyright holder has "probable cause" to believe is file sharing. How that probable cause is determined remains something of an important open question. Just seeing the IP address shouldn't be enough, but it's not clear if the courts will agree. What will be more interesting is to see how the Swedish citizenry reacts to the introduction of this bill. While it hasn't caught on much elsewhere, the Pirate Party actually does have a decent following in Sweden, and the political party has already expressed its extreme displeasure over the wording of the bill.


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Aston Villa dented Arsenal`s hopes of a top-four finish with a resolute display at Villa Park in a game which finished 0-0.
The hosts did well throughout, limiting their opponents to half chances with a strong defensive performance whilst working a number of openings of their own. However, Paul Lambert`s men showed no real penetration after seeing a first-half goal chalked off for offside.
The visitors often looked the more likely side to take the lead, but with chances spurned by the likes of Santi Cazorla and Aaron Ramsey, it soon became clear that it wasn't going to be the Gunners' day.
Villains manager Lambert elected to stick with the team that lost to Manchester City last weekend, with the exception of Karim El-Ahmadi, who came into midfield at the expense of Stephen Ireland. For the visitors, Jack Wilshere was rested and Theo Walcott failed to recover from a shoulder injury, whilst starts were handed to young full-backs Kieran Gibbs and Carl Jenkinson.
The first real chance of the match fell to the hosts, as a fantastic corner from Ashley Westwood found the head of the Christian Benteke, who jumped well but was unable to test Wojciech Szczesny in the Gunners' goal.
Arsenal then created a chance of their own, as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain broke in behind the Villa defence before eventually finding Aaron Ramsey. The Welshman did well to work space for a shot from just inside the penalty area, but Brad Guzan managed to get his body behind the strike.
Both sides almost broke the deadlock just before the break. First the Villains had the ball in the back of the net, as a Ciaran Clark strike from a well-worked free-kick was turned in by Andreas Weimann. To the Austrian`s disappointment, however, he was correctly adjudged to have been offside.
Moments later, Lukas Podolski drove a cross into the box and found Laurent Koscielny in acres of space. The Frenchman struggled to adjust his feet and could only manage to smash the ball high into the stands despite being unmarked on the six-yard-box.
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But Lambert`s men continued to push for a goal of their own and were almost gifted one as Weimann managed to find Agbonlahor just yards from the Arsenal goal. The striker was under pressure from the Gunners' defence, however, and struck straight at Szczesny.
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Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The South African Trade Union Solidarity has called on the American government and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to bar telecommunications company Telkom from listing on the NYSE because of the company's alleged racist bias.
The South African government, Telkom's main shareholder, is said to favour blacks regarding the purchase of the company's shares at a discount.
Solidarity, which boasts some 128,000 members, has sent memoranda to the American Embassy in Pretoria and the New York Stock Exchange, on the issue.
In the memo, it accused the South African government of using "discriminatory racial prescriptions" on the offer of Telkom shares.
The US government and the NYSE were requested to urge the South African government to abandon such requirements.
The Pretoria government was quoted as saying that only previously disadvantaged South Africans would qualify for the special share offer in Telkom.
"A historically disadvantaged individual is a South African citizen, who was previously disadvantaged by unfair discrimination on the basis of race and could not vote before the April 1994 elections," the government said in a statement.
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Technically, our curiosity, as Orioles manager Buck Showalter likes to say, was satisfied on Sunday, when uber-phenom Dylan Bundy faced two batters and retired both in his big league debut.
But, for what was left of the announced crowd of 30,205 at Camden Yards on Tuesday, there was plenty of curiosity remaining when Bundy took the mound against the Toronto Blue Jays in the ninth inning for his home debut.
He faced four batters and threw 22 pitches, only 12 for strikes. He went to a three-ball count on three of the four batters he faced and afterward called his fastball command "brutal."
Yet he didn't give up a run, thanks to Colby Rasmus' decision to swing on a 3-0 pitch, hitting it to J.J. Hardy for an inning-ending double play.
"I was a little less nervous [than my first outing] but couldn't command any of my pitches except my changeup," said the 19-year-old Bundy, who also was named the organization's minor league pitcher of the year on Tuesday. "My fastball command was brutal tonight. Luckily I got a popout and a double play ball."
The fans gave him a standing ovation when he was introduced in the ninth, but he said he didn't notice.
"No, I didn't really hear too much. I was focused on going out there and pitching," he said.
He said he was told in the top of the eighth to get ready, that he might pitch in the ninth. And he felt more relaxed when he entered the game with the Orioles trailing 4-0.
"Today wasn't as much as a shock, because my first one I was nervous," Bundy said. "Today was a whole lot better."
He just wasn't happy with how he executed his pitches, and that's a good thing. The major leagues are a huge step up and Bundy isn't acting like he has it all figured out.
His fastball topped out at 95 and was primarily 92 to 95. His changeup was routinely at 85 to 87. He also threw two sliders, both for balls.
The stuff is definitely there. And from what we've seen down below, the command will come.
"It's definitely getting my feet wet, getting used to the whole major league side of it, getting up there and getting used to facing these kind of hitters and learning how to pitch," he said.
Here's what manager Buck Showalter had to say: "I'm glad Colby Rasmus swung at a 3-0 pitch there. He had some life. He didn't just lay it in there. I'll dwell on some of the positives. He had a good look on his face, a good demeanor. His presentation is one of respect, but not overwhelmed. Let's face it, he's been here since 11 o'clock this morning. He should have gotten it all out of the way. It was fine. I wanted at the very least while he was here to let him pitch once on the road in a good venue and pitch once here. We'll see what the future holds. We were down in the bullpen tonight in a non-winning situation, not ahead, and it was the right time for him."
Showalter was asked whether he thought nerves were a factor Tuesday: "For him or me? I put myself in his shoes and you can want something too much. I know our fans have been looking forward to seeing him. It had nothing with to do with the decision to bring him in. Well, maybe a little bit. But I'm proud of him more than he is. I don't know if nervous is the word. Just some anxiety for him knowing what it means to his family and all the people who have come in contact with him. And knowing that whether he pitches well or not doesn't affect how we feel about him."


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Distance: 214.5km
Highest point: 150m
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It's going to be hard for any one team to control the peloton on this long stage that follows the coast for a good distance and also takes in some lumpy terrain. That said, it's one of the best opportunities the sprinters have in this year's race, so they won't want to pass it up. If the wind gets up off the English Channel the peloton could split, so once again all of the teams with a sprinter or overall contender will want to be near the front in case echelons do form. Breakaway specialists will like the look of this stage as well, which could bring riders such as Jérémy Roy, Rubén Pérez and Anthony Roux into the frame.
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Home to a rag-tag collection of buildings and dominated by a dirty parking lot, Village Center's only redeeming feature is the Original Pancake House. OPH exists almost to spite the other anemic tenants.
It obvious that this location is perfect for a mixed-use development. For example, a development that extends over the entire property (including the parking lot) with lower floors of retail, upper floors of apartments, and interior parking would make a great deal of sense.
The Village Center properties have been owned by Antheus Capital for more than two years. It is no secret that Antheus Capital would like develop this plot. Exact details on what might be proposed are difficult to come by (the Herald, in one of its brief moments as a real newspaper, printed a design prototype last year).
This means that Village Center is the only real option for development in Hyde Park (note that Harper Court is many years in the making and probably will be hampered by law suits and community interference).
The economy in general, and the commercial real estate sector in particular, shows signs of slowing down if not a true recession. I worry that all of the fumbling of the ball on Village Center will mean that, by the time something is ready to be built, no funding will be available.
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BIG RED - The WORLDS BADDEST CAMARO and its '69 Z/28 non the less (True Story)
First things first! I want to give credit to all those at Hot Rod Magazine who contributed to this story!
By Rob Kinnan
photographer: Wes Allison
I wanted to share this story with everyone! Im sure most of you know this story, but for those of you who don't...If you don't bleed Camaro Red after reading this...you never will.
Enjoy! Love Noodles
The Porsche and Ferrari wankers never knew what they were getting themselves into. The second running of the Silver State Classic was expected to be much like the first--a group of high rollers bringing together their European exotics and assorted oddball sports cars (with a handful of Corvettes, Panteras, and other domestics thrown in) to let it all hang out on a closed section of highway in the remote desert of Ely, Nevada. Ely is so far out in the middle of nowhere that we were shocked they had electricity, let alone an actual high school with a football field. But there we were, standing on the field surrounded by beautiful people and their beautiful automobiles, being careful not to bump into anyone lest we cause them to dribble their chablis. The Euro supercar owners at best tolerated the Vette guys and were confident that a red Italian car would run the highest speed of the event. It would be a red car, that's for sure, but not one of theirs.
Normally, a crowd would gather around such a spectacle, but not here. Not today. The other competitors kept their distance, and all they could do was stare, mouths agape in sad realization that they would all be racing for Second Place, and even then, nobody would care. For this garish American "godawful hotrod" was sure to not only eat their lunch, but to also spit it back in their face and walk off with their trophy wife.
Sure enough, with HOT ROD's Joe Pettitt doing little more than providing right-side ballast, Big Red destroyed the 94-mile course in 27 minutes, 54 seconds, for an average speed of 197.99 mph and a radar-recorded 222-mph top-end velocity. That was in 1989, and the legend of Big Red had just begun.
In reality, Big Red's legend began a year or two earlier. The original Big Red was a '69 Camaro with not much more than a rollcage and a John Lingenfelter-built 540 big-block that made 800 hp and pushed the car to over 200 mph. The first time the world saw the Gottliebs' '69 Camaro was at the '88 La Carerra Road Race, a flat-out 120-mile road race in Ensenada, Mexico. Foolish officials started Big Red third on the grid, but it quickly passed the two "faster" cars that started in front of it, then chased down a handful of the motorcycles that got even bigger head starts. Near the end of the race, however, with R.J. driving and Chris Kaufmann in the right seat, the car went off the road and crashed. R.J. and Chris walked away but the car was toast. Before they even got home, a new '69 body was located and they wisely decided to drop it on a full stock car-style tube chassis. Bill Osborne of Inland Chassis Design was given the task of building the car.
Osborne built the chassis using the day's state-of-the-art stock car parts designed to handle the high-speed loads that come with open road racing. Larry Mollicone freshened the 540 and they backed it with a Jerico four-speed. An all-steel '69 Camaro body was dropped over it, complete with functioning doors, roll-up windows, and a stock dash. The seats were even leather-covered Recaros, not full-race aluminum jobs. The difference between Big Reds One and Two were immediately obvious, and all involved knew the car was going to be unstoppable.
Big Red Two, now known simply as Big Red, ran La Carerra a few more times until that race turned into a rally, prompting Dan Gottlieb to help start the Silver State Classic open road race. That bonzai run with HOT ROD on board happened at the '89 Silver State, where Big Red really got the world's attention. This and other magazines showcased this glorious car (including a great Road & Track shootout wherein Big Red flat-out embarrassed a lot of ridiculously expensive tuner exotics), and readers immediately recognized it as quite possibly the coolest Camaro of all time.
And they began to try to duplicate it.Within a few years, we started seeing wide wheels and big brakes on all-around performance cars. As Pro Street turned to full race, a new trend caught on spurred by Big Red's stance and attitude, germinating in, most notably, Mark Stielow's One Lap of America '69 Camaro, built and raced in 1993. Stielow, through Chevy High Performance's Jeff Smith, named the trend Pro Touring, and we were off to the (street) races. Popular Hot Rodding loved the idea but refused to acknowledge its competitor's success in naming the trend first, and dubbed these cars "g Machines."
There had been IMSA-styled Monzas and Corvettes since the early '80s along with cars built to handle well, but it never really caught on as a trend until Big Red hit the scene. Call it Pro Touring, g Machine, or whatever, but all these types of cars owe their heritage to a bright red '69 Camaro from Southern California that has yet to lose a fight.
Big Red won Silver State again in 1990, this time with a slower 189.25 mph average (208-mph top speed) due to a bad intake valve. After that, R.J. got more heavily involved in Super Production racing with a variety of cars, and in 1996 Big Red was loaned to Don Laughlin's Auto Museum in Laughlin, Nevada, where it sat for 8 years. After a few years of people asking what had happened to the car, Chris Kaufmann suggested to Dan Gottlieb that they blow the dust off Big Red and take it to a few shows. That turned into a full-blown restoration, and soon the competitive hunger started growing. Dan and R.J. updated the car to feast on some more Italian food--and this time it could have some Pro Touring cars for dessert.
Think you got something for Big Red? Prove it. On May 14th, R.J. Gottlieb and Big Red will be taking on all comers in the Z2Z Big Red Challenge, a contest to determine who can accelerate from a standing start to 200 mph and then bring it back down to a complete stop in the shortest distance. Think of it as an extreme version of the popular 0-100-0 shootouts you've seen in the past. It'll happen where the legend began, in Ely, Nevada, in conjunction with the '05 Silver State Classic Challenge, on a 2-mile-long course. The winner will hold onto the Z2Z Perpetual Trophy for a year and have his or her name engraved on the base. We're not sure how many cars will show up that can actually get to 200 mph in only a mile, and the thought of standing on the brakes at two bills is a little shaky, but they're going to do it.
But that's not all for Big Red. R.J. plans on regular floggings at open-track events and anywhere else the car is challenged. Maybe you'll even see a HOT ROD-organized event where Big Red takes on the world. The icon is officially out of mothballs, and it's looking to kick some exotic tail.
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'69 Camaro
R.J. Gottlieb, Los Angeles, CA
Engine: It's all serious Rat, with a Donovan aluminum block, a 4.250-stroke King crank, Carrillo rods and 4.50-inch JE pistons that make 540 cubes. Airflow Research heads, a Pro Systems Dominator on a Dart intake, and custom headers with Borla mufflers make enough power to push the stock body well over 200.
Power: It makes 874 hp and 655 lb-ft of torque, both at 7,000 rpm.
Transmission: The Jerico four-speed crash box is linked to an RPS Stage IV clutch with a Cyn-R-G segmented flywheel and a carbon-carbon dual-disc setup.
Rearend: A full-floating 9-inch Ford rearend takes all the abuse. The axles are 31-spline, gun-drilled pieces, and the gearing changes depending on the venue. They run 3.25:1 gears while testing on a closed track, 2.79s for an event like the Z2Z Challenge, and a 2.49:1 ring-and-pinion for 220-plus mph speeds at flat-out open road races.
Frame: Bill Osborne's Inland Chassis Design built what is essentially a stock car chassis with 2x3 rectangular-tubing framerails. With the stock '69 Camaro body dropped over it, the stance is unlike that of any other Camaro you've ever seen.
Suspension: The front end is supported by coilovers with Grigg's Racing shocks and Vogtland springs. The steering is a Stiletto rack-and-pinion, and the tubular sway bar is from Speedway Engineering. In back, it's also Grigg's/Vogtland coilovers with a three-link and panhard bar.
Brakes: Baer Racing is one of the car's primary sponsors, so it's no wonder Big Red wears the latest Baer 6S six-piston brakes clamping huge 14-inch rotors on each corner. The car will need those big brakes to come down from 200 mph.
Wheels: The wheels are "high-tech, old-school" 18-inch BBS three-piece units with magnesium centers.
Tires: Bet you've never seen an early Camaro with 335s on the front. Now you have. They're 335/30ZR-18 Goodyear Eagle F1 GS-Fioranos on all four corners.
Body: It's a bone-stock, all-steel '69 Camaro RS body with steel everything except for a fiberglass cowl-induction hood.
Paint: Mike Face Auto Painting applied bright red paint with white Z/28 stripes.
Interior: The stock dash is still covered by a stock pad, and the comfy seats are leather-covered Recaros (circa 1988). Even with a full `cage and aftermarket pedals, the car is shockingly comfortable. It feels like a stock '69 Camaro inside, and we'd have no problem going 200 in it.
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so.....whats the story?
Never race anything you can't afford to light on fire and push off a cliff
A group as a whole tends to be smarter than the smartest person in that group until one jackass convinces everyone otherwise.
Sorry hit create prior to finishing adding all the story!
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Big Red is by far my favorite '69 Camaro, I wondered what happened to it.
I'm at work and I'm unable to view flash websites from this computer...but heres the link.
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott has visited the "tensest border on earth", stepping into North Korean territory and facing off with soldiers from the rogue state.
Mr Abbott on Wednesday took his tough talk on Pyongyang to the next level, inspecting first-hand the demilitarised zone dividing the two Koreas.
The zone feels far from demilitarised, with claymore mines, armed sentry towers and razor-wire fences dotting the no-man's land between the enemy neighbours.
Standing in T2 - a blue building straddling the border of both countries - Mr Abbott had a close encounter with the soldiers defending the isolated regime ruled by Kim Jong-un.
The prime minister crossed briefly onto North Korean soil, as curious troops - some snapping pictures - peered through the windows at the foreign leader.
"It is quite a place, isn't it?" Mr Abbott remarked.
The next stop was "checkpoint 3", a watchtower surrounded by North Korea on three sides.
Mr Abbott, staring out at the no man's land stretching out to the north, reflected on the war that led to the split at the 38th parallel.
He remembered the 17,000 diggers who served in the Korean War - and mourned the 400 who died - before thanking those who continued to defend the border.
"This is probably the tensest border on earth," he said.
"On the South Korean side we have freedom, we have justice, we have democracy.
"On the North Korean side, we have an outlaw state which is a threat to world peace and a deadly danger to the people of South Korea."
The prime minister has ramped up the rhetoric against North Korea during his visit to Seoul, personally assuring President Park Geun-hye that Australia stands by its friend in the region.
The north and south are still officially at war, and Mr Abbott's visit to the disputed border comes at time of heightened military tension on the Korean peninsula.
Both sides fired hundreds of artillery rounds into each other's territorial waters during a marine spat two weeks ago, just a day after Pyongyang provocatively launched a series of missile tests.


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Whether they're for the taking or for the sharing, roses are for company! Or in my case, 'are' my company. It is Day 3 of The Home Show, and every thing there is potential candy for me. Mesh flowers, roses, gardens, flower plots and pots! Oh my…lanta -.- Pocket book's a bit empty, but having these gorgeous roses in my inventory is very much worth it. So their not 'spring', so wah?
I'm always on the look out for curtains/drapes. Either for backgrounds or hiding empty corners. I pretty much failed at Deco 101 and even tonight I cheated, asked my #2 teenager if wrought iron was better than cushy wicker backs. (She rolled her eyes and said, "Duh". Guess I should have seen that one coming.)
Atelier Visconti's Sophie Set, is pure elegance and a joy to photographize.
And the lag divinities granted me one lucky spikey push to nab some other items as well including Torcello's Mediterranean Patio which includes 4 wall/floor textures via HUD. Also I've been seeing more content creators try their hand at 'well' making. So here's my prediction that by the end of this year, some of us would have collected wells, like we collect shoes. Or Birdy pets Oo.
Thanks for stopping by today, and hey, why not stop by the Home Show and get a 'whiff' of Atelier Visconti's gorgeous Roses for yourself? I'll even pay for your taxi fare!
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In my previous post I mentioned John Graves, a mill owner, and one of the earliest settlers of Caswell Co., NC. John Graves was born about 1715, and died 18 Jan. 1792 in Caswell Co., N.C. John Graves married Isabell Lea, the daughter of a big landowner, James Lea. I am descended from this John Graves and Isabell Lea through the following:
1. John Graves, b. abt 1715, d. 18 Jan 1792, md. Isabell Lea
—–Mary Graves, b. 26 Jan. 1754, d. 22 Feb. 1831, md. John Kerr, b. 29 Jan. 1753, d. 22 Feb. 1816
———Isabella Kerr, b. 12 June 1790, d. 1851, md. Christopher Williams Brooks, b. 1781, d. 1840
————-Iverson Lea or Lee Brooks, b. Feb 1829, d. 1876, Monticello, Drew Co., AR
From the research I've done in the past couple of weeks, it looks like I'm descended from at least 3 families who were some of the first settlers to Caswell Co., NC — WILLIAMS, LEA, & GRAVES; My BROOKS line has been more elusive, however.
Source: The Graves Family Association website, The Descendants of Captain Thomas Graves by Ken Graves, http://www.gravesfa.org/gen270.htm.
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Lea Reclin has just given up her divine powers. After Lea decides that because she's given up her lineage she'd also give up the demigod life completely. The Fates, however, have a different plan in mind. Lea must collect the pieces of the Celestial Staff that have been scattered across the country. If she succeeds the Great Stirring will finally end, but if she fails....
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The Shape of Water
Year: 2017
Duration: 123 min
IMDb: 8.2
Actors: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Doug Jones, David Hewlett, Nick Searcy, Stewart Arnott, Nigel Bennett, Lauren Lee Smith, Martin Roach, Allegra Fulton, John Kapelos, Morgan Kelly
From master storyteller Guillermo del Toro comes THE SHAPE OF WATER, an otherworldly fable set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) discover a secret classified experiment. Rounding out the cast are Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Doug Jones.


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The Mankato MoonDogs Baseball Club, a member of the Northwoods League, is excited to announce the commitment of pitcher Julian Esquibel, infielder Ryan Tuntland and outfielder Jonathan Rodriquez for the 2013 MoonDogs season.
The Mankato MoonDogs Baseball Club, a member of the Northwoods League, is excited to announce the commitment of pitcher Julian Esquibel, infielder Ryan Tuntland and outfielder Jonathan Rodriquez for the 2013 MoonDogs season.
Esquibel, a 6-foot-2-inch, 230-pound junior of Faulkner University (Montgomery, Alab.) is 7-1 for the Eagles, posting a 2.12 ERA after 51 innings of work and retiring 46 batters. With seven wins, the right-hander is currently ranked second in the Southern States Athletic Conference.
"Julian is pitching well for the Eagles this spring and we're looking forward to transferring that to the MoonDogs," said Field Manager Mike Orchard. "He has the potential to be a strikeout pitcher for us."
Tuntland, a 6-foot-1-inch, 190-pound junior at West Virginia University transferred from Oakton Community College (Des Plaines, Ill.) where he finished his sophomore season with a .352 batting average, tallying 10 home runs and 48 RBIs. In his first season with the Mountaineers, the right-hander has six doubles, a triple and a home run under his belt this spring. Second on the team with a .375 BA, Tuntland has the highest on-base percentage of .463.
"Ryan is really proving himself to the Mountaineer's offense in his first season with them," said Orchard. "He's a good hitter that can deliver that extra base power for the middle of our lineup this summer."
Rodriguez, a 6-foot, 215-pound sophomore is in his first season at Oklahoma City University after transferring from Yavapai College (Prescott, Ariz.). The Anaheim, Calif. native was expected to be a threat in the middle of the Stars order and has proven to be so. Currently, Rodriguez has started all 33 games and leads the Stars in batting average (.385), runs (30), hits (37) and on-base percentage (.528).
"Jonathon is an offensive force that the MoonDogs will utilize in the middle of our order," said Orchard. "He has the ability to consistently get on base, but he also knows how to take the walks too."
The left-hander has raked up 26 RBIs, six doubles, a triple and leads the team in walks with 21.


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Why Isn't There A Central Database Of E-Voting Problems?
from the seems-like-a-no-brainer dept
The really scary part is that the researchers who wrote the report note that many of the problems are repeats -- a problem happens in one location, but another voting district uses the same machines configured in the same problematic way in another election, totally unaware of the problems it will cause. It's still amazing that after nearly a decade of examples of problems with e-voting, just how little has been done to fix these machines.


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Already announced for festivals around the country, Chugg Entertainment are today thrilled to confirm that this coming March will see two of the planet's biggest rock acts come together in a dynamic double-bill when Santana and Steve Miller Band take the stage.
The two co-headline shows will take place in Christchurch at AMI Stadium on Sunday 17th March and in Auckland on Tuesday 19th March at Vector Arena.
One of the greatest musicians and legendary guitarists of our generation, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Carlos Santana is set to ignite our stages once more. His style defies definition, immediately recognizable yet unlike any other, Santana's fusion of Latin rock, blues, soul and jazz comes in full swing on stage in a way that transcends time and the limits of genre typecasting. Delivered with a level of passion and soul equal to the legendary sonic charge of his guitar, the sound of Carlos Santana is one of the world's best-known musical signatures.
For more than four decades, Carlos Santana has sold more than 90 million records and reached more than 100 million fans at concerts worldwide. To date, Santana has won 10 Grammy Awards, including a record-tying nine for a single project for 1999's Supernatural (including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for 'Smooth'). The Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame proclaim, "Guitarist Carlos Santana is one of rock's true virtuosos and guiding lights." Among many other honors, Carlos Santana has also been cited by Rolling Stone as #15 on their list of the '100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.'
Steve Miller Band
Few musicians can boast the introduction that Miller had to music -- his father who worked as a pathologist was friends with stars like Charles Mingus and Les Paul, whom he brought home as guests; Paul taught the young Miller some guitar chords and let him sit on recording sessions. With a career encompassing distinct stages from one of the top San Francisco blues-rockers during the late 60s and early 70s and then going on to become one of the top selling pop/rock acts of the mid to late 70s and early 80s.
The Steve Miller Band has sold more than 30 million records in a career spanning more than 40 years. His trademark blues-rock sound has made him one of the cornerstone legends of his genre. Award-winning albums like The Joker, Brave New World, Abracadabra and Fly Like An Eagle; and songs like: Gangster Of Love, Rock 'n Me, Fly Like an Eagle, Jet Airliner, Jungle Love, The Joker, Abracadabra, Livin' In The USA, Take the Money and Run, and Swingtown have cemented Steve Miller as one of rock music's all-time greats. His touring schedule to packed out arenas continues without let up.
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CHESTERTOWN, Md. – Host Washington College handed MIT its loss of the season, defeating the visiting Engineers, 3-0, in non-conference field hockey action on Kibler Field at Roy Kirby, Jr. Stadium on Saturday afternoon. MIT entered the game with a 4-0 record this season and won the New England Men's and Women's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championship in 2010. All three of the Shorewomen's goals came in the first half.
Washington got on the scoreboard 1:50 into the game when senior attack Danielle Rosato gathered a ball to the left of the cage and fired it into the opposite corner. The Shorewomen scored again 6:55 later as junior attack Emily Trees sent a ball into the circle from the right side of the field and sophomore attack Hillary Kane drove the ball home from in front of the cage.
The Shorewomen added their third goal with 7:23 left in the first half when junior attack Gussie Reilly finished a long run down the field by beating a defender and rifling a shot into the back of the cage.
The Engineers limited to three shots in the contest, all of them coming in the first half. Washington finished with 26 shots - 15 in the first half and 11 in the second. The Shorewomen also enjoyed a 12-4 advantage in penalty corners.
Junior defender Brittany Palasik and sophomore defender Erin Lewns each had a defensive save in the win for Washington, while senior goalkeeper Shannon Davis recorded her first collegiate shutout. Keri Dixon made 13 saves in the loss for MIT.
The Shorewomen will play their third consecutive home game Tuesday night, hosting Goucher at 7:00 p.m. The Cardinal and Gray returns to action on Wednesday, September 15, traveling to Gordon College for a 6:00 p.m. contest.


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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story gave the incorrect percent of the public that wants tax breaks across all income levels made permanent. Eighteen percent polled support the position taken by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
As President Obama navigates a choppy economy in his reelection bid, he can rely on one comforting fact: Americans continue to strongly embrace his opposition to extending tax breaks for those earning more than $250,000 a year.
A new United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll shows that only 26 percent of the public wants to see all of the tax breaks created during the George W. Bush administration, which are set to expire at year's end, extended for at least another year. And only 18 percent want the tax breaks across all income levels made permanent, the position taken by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
(Related: Which House Freshmen Might Make a Deal?)
That the broader public prefers taxing the rich to taxing themselves is not surprising. But the poll results offer evidence of the political benefits that the president can derive from his opposition to the Bush-era tax breaks for high-income earners. Obama has made this a centerpiece of his campaign. It also shows the difficulties that the GOP faces trying to convince voters that the $250,000 threshold hits small businesses and would hurt the economy, and why that narrative has gained little traction with the public at large.
In the poll, 47 percent of respondents said they wanted to see the tax breaks extended only for those earning less than $250,000. Eighteen percent said they prefer that all the tax breaks simply expire, which would result in higher taxes across the income spectrum.
The question of how to handle the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, of course, will be settled not on the campaign trail but in Congress. No action is expected until after the fall elections, when the lame-duck Congress will have to tackle not only the Bush tax cuts, but automatic cutbacks to defense spending, an expiring payroll-tax break, the rising estate tax, and a potential debt-ceiling increase. Collectively, that looming fiscal fight has become known as "Taxmaggedon."
Republicans have argued that raising taxes amid an economic downturn could plunge the country back into recession. And Democrats have not stayed united in opposition, as former President Clinton made waves this month when he suggested in a televised interview that lawmakers should "avoid anything that would contract the economy now." He later issued a clarifying statement saying he supported Obama's position.
"Even Bill Clinton came out for it, before he was against it," House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said.
The opposition to extending the Bush-era tax breaks for those earning above $250,000 spanned across every ethnic and age group in the poll, with young voters most opposed. Opinion did differ among various income groups. Only 21 percent of those who earn less than $30,000 a year want the tax breaks for all earners extended; 28 percent of those earning between $30,000 and $75,000 want them extended; and 31 percent among those earning at least $75,000 favor the across-the-board extension.
With less than five months until the November elections, the survey shows how both Democrats and Republicans have tried to stake out popular positions on fiscal issues not just among their respective bases, but also among the critical independent swing voters that determine elections.
For Obama, that means talking about the Bush tax cuts. For Republicans, it's pushing small-business tax breaks, rather than more spending on things like highways and infrastructure, to pump up the slumping economy.
It's no accident that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., pushed through legislation this year that promised business-tax breaks to spur hiring. Obama embraced Cantor's Jobs Act, despite angering some in his own party, and the pair made a rare joint appearance for a Rose Garden signing ceremony.
When asked what Congress could do to help the economy and create jobs, the top answer picked by poll respondents (37 percent of them) was "passing tax cuts for small businesses to encourage them to hire more workers."
Republicans particularly embraced that approach (52 percent), but it was also the most popular option selected among both Democratic voters (35 percent) and independents (32 percent).
Business-tax breaks easily outpolled added taxes on imported goods (24 percent), using a transportation bill to promote road-building (20 percent), and added subsidies to promote the use of clean energy (11 percent). Clearly, three years after the stimulus package, the public still appears to doubt the ability of government investments to help the economy.
The strong showing for new taxes on foreign products, meanwhile, was only one example of a protectionist streak coursing through the electorate, according to the survey. A majority, 52 percent, also said that "economic competition from foreign countries selling their goods here" has contributed "a lot" to suppressing U.S. family incomes.
There was no party split on that question: A majority of Democrats, Republicans, and independents agreed that goods produced abroad were depressing incomes here. That was the highest figure of the four choices presented in the poll. The next most popular, checking in at 47 percent, was that government policies "give too many tax breaks to the wealthy," followed by 46 percent who blamed "government spending and regulation."
Finishing a distant fourth, with only 25 percent of respondents saying it had "a lot" of impact on suppressing family incomes, was "the decline in labor-union membership."
The United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, which surveyed 1,002 adults by landline and cell phone on June 14-17. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points. The margin of error is higher for subgroups.


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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — If you were to diagram the increasingly tangled sex scandal involving former CIA Director David Petraeus, nearly all lines would lead back to one person: Jill Kelley, a 37-year-old Tampa socialite who hosted parties for the nation's top military brass.
Kelley's complaint about anonymous, threatening email triggered the FBI investigation that led to Petraeus' downfall. And now she is at the center of an investigation of the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan over alleged "inappropriate communications" between the two.
Kelley is a close friend of the Petraeus family, and photographs circulating in the media show the dark-haired woman at parties with Petraeus, his wife, and Kelley's husband, Scott, a cancer surgeon. She served as a sort of unofficial social ambassador for U.S. Central Command in Tampa, holding gatherings for the general when he was commander there from 2008 to 2010.
She also met Gen. John Allen while he was at Central Command, and now investigators are looking at 20,000-plus pages of documents and emails between Kelley and Allen, some of which have been described as "flirtatious." The general has denied any wrongdoing.
For her part, Kelley has taken a low profile since Petraeus' affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, became public. The Kelleys have retained high-powered Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell, who did not immediately return a call.
On Tuesday, Kelley could be seen through the large windows of her South Tampa home, a stately, two-story brick house with a half-dozen white columns. In the driveway was a silver Mercedes with a license plate marked "Honorary Counsel." Kelley's identical twin sister, Natalie Khawam, also lives there.
In the afternoon, Kelley, wearing dark sunglasses, left through the front door and ignored reporters' questions as she drove off in the Mercedes.
South Tampa is a conservative Southern community of big houses, big bank accounts, garden clubs and wives who pride themselves on volunteer work. A lot of the brass from MacDill Air Force Base, where Central Command is headquartered, lives or socializes in South Tampa, and helping members of the military is a major volunteer activity.
Former Mayor Pam Iorio said that she went to several parties to benefit the military at the Kelleys' home, and they drew MacDill's top brass, including Petraeus. But they were by far not the only parties held around the city for MacDill's officers.
"Our community's relationship with MacDill is just multi-faceted," said Iorio, who later invited the Petraeuses over to her own home for dinner. "It's something that is generational. People sincerely care about the military."
Petraeus aides said Kelley took it to another level, winning the title of "honorary ambassador" for her extensive entertaining. Petraeus even honored Kelley and her husband with an award in a special ceremony at the Pentagon.
Ken Walters, a neighbor, said he went to a party the couple had to celebrate their first son's baptism. The Kelleys have two other children.
"Natalie and her sister, they're certainly not shrinking violets," Walters said. He recalled that when the sisters first entered the South Tampa social scene, they "rubbed people the wrong way. I think they probably stepped on a couple of toes."
Petraeus' affair with Broadwell was discovered after Kelley told an FBI agent friend that she had received email warning her to stay away from Petraeus. The email turned out to be from Broadwell, who apparently regarded Kelley as a rival for Petraeus' affections. Kelley's family and Petraeus aides have said Petraeus and Kelley were just friends.
In another strange footnote to the scandal, long before the case involving Petraeus got under way, the FBI agent sent Kelley shirtless photos of himself, according to a federal law enforcement official.
Kelley's brother, David Khawam, told WPVI-TV in Philadelphia on Monday night that the allegations have spilled out quickly.
"It's a shock. We're trying to figure out where the pieces are falling right now," he said in an interview at his law office in Westmont, N.J.
He said that his family left Lebanon for suburban Philadelphia's Huntingdon Valley in the 1970s to escape the turmoil in their homeland. His parents opened a Middle Eastern restaurant in Voorhees, N.J., called Sahara.
"My family is very patriotic; we came from Lebanon at a young age," he said.
Kelley later married and moved to Florida with her husband, who works at a cancer clinic.
Jill and Scott Kelley have been involved in at least nine legal actions since arriving in Tampa, according to court records. Most involve real estate transactions, including one foreclosure and an $11,000 judgment against the couple in a Pennsylvania case.
In another twist in the scandal, court records indicate that Petraeus and Allen intervened two months ago in a messy custody dispute on behalf of Jill Kelley's sister. Both four-star generals wrote letters supporting Natalie Khawam.
The judge in the case awarded Khawam's ex-husband custody last year of their son. He also called Khawam dishonest and lacking in integrity.
Khawam is a lawyer who works on health care fraud and whistleblower cases, according to her LinkedIn profile, which has been removed from the professional networking site. The sisters also competed in a cook-off filmed for a Food Network show called "Food Fight" in 2003.
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Associated Press writers Kimberly Dozier and Pauline Jelinek in Washington contributed to this report.