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So this will be my second day with NC with my ex of 1 year and a half. he broke up with me because "he fell out of love with me" and that our personality have changed. I understand somewhat of the reasons why he broke up with me.
i have tried NC with him many times before but I have failed, but through limited contact, since we work in the same place, go to same school, and have mutual friends. Whenever he and i have a conversation, it was simple and sweet, no drama nor did i beg him back or look desperate.
He seems to moved on but right now i'm in the shifted gear from being a sad ex girlfriend and trying to work on my issues, which have been pointed out and currently being fixed. I have been keeping myself busy and being confident everyday. I don't know if he has notice, but i'm willing to try this no contact with him for sure. I know it won't be easy, but that is part of life when its upside down right now.
To me, he is the third long term boyfriend to me, so i understand the past mistakes i made that didn't get the ex boyfriend back, but to him I was his first long term girlfriend that people around have said i was the best that he had thus far, (not to sound egotistical here :p)
During the 2 months, i have keeping my distance and occasionally talked to him because of mutual friends. I have once deleted him from facebook because of my previous experience with my last ex and i sent him a letter, known as seed letter, to let him know that i understand the breakup and said sorry for making things uncomfortable for him when we encounter each other, like being over friendly, and told him that i have things going on right now that are looking up to me and that he can talk to me if he feels ready to do so and also facebook friends with him again. I have been going back to hobbies and new ones to keep him off my mind and worked on myself. I learned from variety of ebook about how to get the ex back. I really hope i came to the right place for support and advice of how to get my ex back.
So its day three for me. I felt a little pain and was a little out of control, because there is this party/ ball that my school is hosting and i found out from my source that my ex was bringing a girl with him to the party. I don't know if they were going as friends, like my friends said, or he is trying to pursue her. I know I can't control him and his decisions but it still hurts, knowing that it's been only 2 months and he is already going to a party with another girl, as friends or not. I tried to calm myself down with my friends and came to the realization that even if my ex did "move on" and try to date other girls in the time span of 2 months, then i feel that i should think that he didn't respect or cared about our 1 year and a half relationship. I want to start over with him with a new relationship. I have been working on myself and normally if I was in the same situation with my old personality i would have gone crazy with depression and sadness and anger, but now i feel that i'm more like "you know what, if they were dating, it's either a rebound thing or he didn't really value of what we had together and i'm not going to keeping longing for him like i used to, even though i want to have a fresh new relationship with him. Until he realizes that we were great and if he wants to get back together, you bet your dollar that i'm going to make him work for it and not lose myself again that i grown accustom after the break up".
I would consider this day a bad one for me, because i became frantic about the situation for a while but i got myself under control and did not contact him to desperately try to get him back. I am still going to the party/ball and going to look hot in my outfit, and going to have a great time with or without him at the dance floor. Do you guys think I handle that situation well? and what should i do when i see him at the dance floor with the other girl? please help me
The question is do you think YOU can handle the situation well? I have a feeling in your current frame of mind, you will be more concerned about your ex than having a good time. I know this is hard but you are going to have to face facts. It's been difficult for you to start to let go. I completely understand and validate you on doing what you think is right. What concerns me is that you are more concerned over what he thinks than what YOU think. If you choose to go to the dance, then go because you WANT to, not because you feel it will make a difference in your current situation. I would hate for you to go and feel worse when you left. I understand what it is like to want to be near someone but I also know NOW there is a HUGE difference between wanting to be with someone for the RIGHT reasons and the WRONG reasons.
Think about it.
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Saturday aug 25th at this time i was still "friends with my ex" I made the mistake of always checking her facebook and instagram and I saw a picture of a puppy. She tagged this girl who i had a feeling she had recently started talking to after we broke up and quoted "our future baby" My jealousy got the better of me and i texted her demanding to know if she was with her or talking to her. She just said no and i told her I couldnt be friends with her. I deleted her off facebook and instagram, i took down all photos and cards and stuffed bears and what not that shes gotten me and put them all away in a box so that I couldnt see them.
Tuesday aug 28 after thinking about what recently happened I felt like i had no right to be jealous, we arent together, and that I should have said things better. I sent her a message on facebook, apologizing how i acted and explaining why I couldnt be friends with her. I told her i didnt agree we should have broken up so fast, we had no dramatic problem that should have turned it into that, but that now i see its a good thing for both of us. That i can only work on my flaws and become a better person myself by being alone. That if i tried to stay around her now I would only try and get back with her. I told her that if she needs something she can always call me, and that in the future i would like us to be friends. That i wanted her to be happy, with or without me and wished her nothing but the best. I told her she didnt have to reply to my message, and she didnt, but it didnt bother me.
Aug 29 the first real day of NC. I had already gone through my depressing state the week prior before i decided to do this. I started getting back into drugs and drinking, funny thing is it had an opposite affect. I felt so great under the influence of different things and i thought to myself, I should feel like this everyday without the need of and substance, all i need is myself. Two things I did that helped me feel better about myself. I spent a couple of hours at a book store. I picked up different books like money management for dummies, a cook book, how to overcome overthinking and a few others, i read a few things and learned a few things. Knowledge is power and it made me feel great. Another thing i did that day was watch the secret. I'm not gonna say you should believe in it but after watching it i decided i wanted to be happy. I put only positive thoughts in my head, set new goals for myself for what i want and ive been feeling pretty good.
Aug 30 i woke up and the first thing i saw was my ex had friend requested me back on fb. I admit i got a little giddy, but i have not responded. How can i make myself a better person by leaping to whatever she wants now? I decided to do it when im ready to be friends with her again. I can now look at pictures of us together and just smile. I dont get depressed, i miss her of course but now all i remember are the good times that i had with her, and i want to keep these memories. With each day that passes by i feel it being easier to not wonder what shes doing, and i dont have the need to keep myself busy so that my thoughts dont start wandering. The what ifs are starting to disappear themselves
Do what you can not to settle for scraps of attention. So many of us have found that tiny bit of hope only to be slammed back to reality. Be very cautious when it comes to your ex.
Take care,
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." -Aristotle
Thanks dave ill keep that in mind.
Aug 31, I made plans to go see a movie tonight with another girl. Nothing serious i have no intention of turning this into a rebound, just wanted to enjoy someone else's company for a few hours. Some people are telling me I should make it obvious that I'm going with her to make my ex jealous. I don't think tha'ts appropriate though. If things were switched i wouldn't want her bragging about going out with someone else, it would kill me. I love this girl i want her to be happy, not hurt her. What do you guys think?
If your intentions are to be social and enjoy someone's company, then I don't see anything wrong with that. If your intentions actually ARE to make your ex jealous, then you're just using this other person for a childish reason, which isn't very fair to her.
There's a common misconception that making your ex jealous will bring them back to you. Nine times out of ten, this is untrue - it will simply make your ex act childishly back until it becomes one huge cycle of trying to outdo one another. Nothing can make your ex come back except for your ex.
I see ads all the time guaranteeing to have found a way to win your ex back, when the sad reality is that we have no control over that - we have no control over what they think, how they feel, or what they do. It's difficult to swallow, but it's important to remember that they, too, are autonomous human beings with free will and the capacity to make their own choices in life, you know?
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Yea i see your point thanks.
Sept 1st one of my ex's friend that she works with started messaging me on fb asking how i was doing and telling me she wanted to stop by my job to say hi. I never really talked to her and only hung out with her once when i was with my ex and it was a group of her friends together. Dont know if it means anything. Through out my whole "date" last night all i seemed to think about was my ex.
Sept 2nd I feel like an addict going through withdrawals. I thought i was doing good, i was getting excited of the future and this time i have to take care of myself. I feel like im relapsing and starting to stare at my phone again waiting for her call. I feel like a big part of me is missing. I miss her :/
I know it's rough. It does feel like an addiction and it practically is. Best way to break it is to stick to your guns and not listen to that temptation. I agree with not dating someone just to make your ex jealous. It is childish and yes, it may make them do the same thing or it may be the opposite and make them even more unlikely to reconcile if that were to happen.
I am glad from your other post that you are realizing things that you could work on during this time too about clingyness or being too jealous. It's good to know those things about yourself so that you can change things that you don't like and ultimately use this time to really grow within yourself. It'll help in your future. It may not feel like it at the moment but you are doing a great job so far with NC and hope you continue to keep it up! We're all rooting for ya.
I wish i would have kept stronger. Sept 3 i gave into accepting her friend request. My ex's friend (the one i posted about before) kept insisting to hang out and i finally told her that its too uncomfortable for me right now since we never talked before the break up. A couple hours later my ex called, my heart was beating so fast i let it go to voice mail. But after finally calming down i called her back, no response. I texted her, only to be shot down hours later with a "i dailed you by mistake sry" text. I'm feeling more crushed than ever. Being able to see her profile now theres so many signs that shes either with or talking to this other girl. What kills me is she deny's it. What is the purpose of that? I forgot to mention that I can't have fully n/c with her. We share the same phone bill and i co signed for her car. I have to see her tomorrow to pick up her share of the money. I feel like im being tortured :/
I started no contact on saturday September 8. Joined this forum today onthe 12 but glas to accept the challenge. Hos birthday is coming up next week a birthday i has anticpated spending with him so much. But he pushed me out of his life to be with someone else so i guess he didn't want me around for that.. After a year and a half of dating. Im avoiding all of the places i might see him and he wont hear a peep out of me. So we shall see what happens after 30 days we never went that long without talking before. Hope it doea something. So today September 12 is day 5 of no contact.
I'm going to start doing a motified version of NC I think. I have a LOT of anger and resentment towards my ex that I need to let go of. The only reason it is motified NC and not FULL NC is because we have a daughter together so I can't just completely drop off the face of the earth especially since she is only 18 months and he has no visitation established. We usually work out random times where one of us goes to visit and usually I am present at all times because I feel more comfortable being there with her. I'm going to start limiting contact to being about our daughter only. Today I'm having a really rough time and have been all week really. I've made the mistake of texting and saying a lot of angry things towards my ex about how hurt I am about him chosing his brother over his family and such. I have also felt strung along even though I'm the one that chose the break up he kept acting like he wanted to get back together and I had very mixed emotions and I deserve better but I still have feelings for him and who I dream him to be. UGH! Hate that. I feel kind of lonely at the moment. I only have a few close friends but I never really feel up to hanging out because I'm usually exhausted from watching my daughter all the time and working with kids all day at daycare. I love kids but I do feel drained some days. I want to make new friends and go out and have fun and just not have to worry in the back of my mind about how my daughter is doing and how I am feeling and work the next day or whatever it is. Bleh... I want to get out of this funk.
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Install the required package:
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Make sure you have installed DKMS on your guest before adding the VBoxGuestAdditon otherwise you have to recreate the guest kernel modules again when the guest kernel is updated.
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Download the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso ISO for your Virtualbox Version at http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/ and add it as a virtual CD-ROM drive in your virtualbox guest.
Start the guest system, mount the CD and change to the directory of the CD. Now you can execute the folloing line as root or sudo to compile the virtualbox addition modules.
# sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
Autostart the VBoxGuestAdditions
If you want to start the clipboard always when the virtual guest starts add the following to the guest /etc/rc.conf to the deamons.
# DEAMONS=(... dkms_autoinstaller ...)
Last but not least you should reboot you VirtualBox guest to have copy and paste working in both directions.
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In the first such drop on record, condom and contraceptive sales in Poland fell by 10 percent and 3.2 percent, respectively, during one year as of October 2011, new data show. Additional analyses of the figures compiled by Nielsen and IMS Health are expected to show the cause of the decline, but some experts already are weighing in. "Youngsters choose condoms more often, and there are fewer and fewer of these youngsters, so [condom] producers are feeling it," said Professor Zbigniew Izdebski. He added that the government has not launched any high-profile HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns in recent years, and this could contribute to falling condom sales. "Poles are choosing other forms of sex more and more often, and perhaps this is the reason behind the decline of its traditional form," said fellow sexologist Professor Zbigniew Lew-Starowicz. Professor Aleksandra Jodlko, however, blamed declining sales on depression and stress linked to the tough economy. Although Poland is a devoutly Roman Catholic nation, the sexologists did not cite the church's prohibition on contraception as being a factor.
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Local leaders lauded USDA efforts to protect the Northern Everglades and reiterated their commitment to the continued restoration and economic opportunities made possible by the Wetlands Reserve Program from USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS):
Bill Nelson, United States Senator
"This is a win-win that helps restore the Northern Everglades while allowing Florida ranching traditions to continue."
John Hoblick, president, Florida Farm Bureau
"Conservation programs provided by NRCS are invaluable and production agriculture stands ready to do its part to maintain green space, wildlife habitat and freshwater recharge areas. The farmer's and rancher's role has never been more important."
Alcee L. Hastings, United States Representative (FL- 23)
"I would like to thank Secretary Vilsack and the USDA for providing the state with much-needed funds for the Wetlands Reserve Program. Since the Everglades are the source of a majority of our fresh drinking water, preserving and restoring this national treasure is vital both for the wildlife calling the River of Grass home and also for our own good.
"This latest drought we've experienced demonstrates how crucial a reliable supply of clean drinking water is for Florida. Unless we address our water infrastructure problems soon, water shortages will become a larger crisis for the State. With this funding, it is my sincere hope that we can better address the water infrastructure problems to ensure Florida has a stable supply of clean water."
Keith Fountain, Florida protection director, The Nature Conservancy
"Protecting and restoring the vast natural landscapes in the Northern Everglades will pay huge benefits in the future for all of us.
WRP benefits very broad
"The benefits from the Wetland Reserve Program are perhaps the broadest of any USDA conservation program — permanent conservation of habitat, continued private ownership and economic benefit from cattle ranching, and wetland restoration that revives lost habitats and retains and cleans water for the people of central and south Florida."
Melissa L. Meeker, executive director, South Florida Water Management District
"The District appreciates the opportunity to work with public and private partners for the common goal of protecting and restoring the vast natural landscapes of the Northern Everglades."
"The Wetland Reserve Program offers significant benefits to south Florida and the Northern Everglades such as improvements in water quality, expanded wetlands and connected natural areas that support a diverse array of wildlife."
Eva Webb, Board of Supervisors, Palm Beach Soil and Water Conservation District
"Conservation Districts have been and are working with NRCS on various projects throughout the state. NRCS has worked in partnership and cooperatively with this state's soil and water conservation districts on many meaningful projects, too numerous to name.
"They have offered much needed and valuable conservation programs, technical support, and information to Soil and Water Conservation Districts and local communities.
"NRCS programs such as EQIP and WRP are vitally important to Everglades restoration projects. These programs have helped farmers in the Everglades Agricultural Area implement important conservation practices as a part of their Best Management Practices Plans.
"Conservation practices are designed to help reduce nutrient runoff from our farms into the Everglades. To date, farmers have spent millions to comply with water quality standards and conservation practices.
"Without WRP and EQIP cost-share dollars, farmers might not otherwise be able to afford to implement some of these costly conservation practices. NRCS EQIP and WRP programs are vital to Everglades restoration."


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Budweiser Does It Again with Tissue-Worthy Puppy, Horse 'Best Buds' Commercial
The ad execs for Budweiser have done it again. They've come up with another great concept commercial that is going to have people talking, sharing, and maybe wiping a tear from their eye.
The geniuses who have given us so many memorable commercials for Budweiser from the Christmas ads, to the horses bowing in memory of 9/11 to them playing football and kicking an extra point when they 'normally go for two', they've done it again for their latest big game ad featuring the famous horses and an adorable puppy.
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Looking for a few tennis partners. Just moved to Camarillo, but I'm willing to travel as far as Ventura.
Free almost anytime (one of the perks of being self employed). I'm a decent player and can maintain rallies, but I'm getting back into tennis after about 3 years off court so a lil rusty.
Hope to hear from you soon.
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Jean-Pierre, I work in Port Hueneme and usually play here at Peninsula Park. If you would like to hit or play today around 4:00 pm let me know. Thanks, Dean 805-228-7729
Hi Dean,
I'm busy tonight but how about tomorrow or Thur evening same time?
Why don't you give me a call so we can make some firm arrangements.
Jean-Pierre, I'm in Camarillo if you are interested in hitting weeknights. I took a year off from hitting and have finally been back on the courts. I was playing 4.0 tournaments before my break, so I'm going to be a lil "rusty" as well.
Hi Bill,
Give me a call to coordinate. I'm free tonight if you want to play.
Hi Bill... hadn't heard from you. Still interested in playing. It's convenient that we're both in Camarillo. Give me a call sometime.
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Good on DH for releasing supplementary materials like this. I wonder why they never did the same for the Illustrations Guide? I guess it helps that the printing format of the guidebook is the same as the manga, whereas artbooks are a different beast entirely... Either way, this means we'll get an official translation of the huge Miura interview, which is awesome. Having the rest of the guidebook translated, well, it's kind of hard to get excited for it, since I already own the Japanese one.
Indeed, I have been wondering why they never bothered to make an English version of the artbook(s) (can't renenber if their is more then one for I have only one in french). Maybe they don't have the rights to make them?
One question though, are the romanized names in the book considered the real spelling for the characters? I know it has been discussed in the guide book thread at some point but not sure at 100% about it.
Yes, some of us had problems with a few of the name spellings (Mozguz / Burkilaka / Gurunberd, to name a few). As always, even spellings from official sources have to be questioned, because there's a language barrier. For what it's worth, the spellings in the character guide section of volumes has been on point for years. Then the guidebook came and raised more questions.
Neat to be able to read the interview at my leisure, I own the Japanese one as well so as Walter said, rest is pretty meh. By the way, what is this illustrations guide you guys are talking about? Don't think I've ever heard about it.
It's an artbook (the only real one for Berserk) released in 1997, featuring a long in-depth interview with Miura. The translation for it is here, thanks to Puella and our Patreon backers.
Yeah, this guidebook will be really helpful for that. I'm working on a Berserk project now, and it's really confusing to look up obscure information on the Wiki and find it's different from the DH translation (Magnifico vs. Magnifico, Iith vs. Ys, etc.)
I also wonder if they'll include pronunciation. I know there's a bit of a split over whether Isidro is Ee-See-Dro or Izzy-doro. Hopefully this clears it up a bit.
I'm working on a Berserk project now, and it's really confusing to look up obscure information on the Wiki and find it's different from the DH translation (Magnifico vs. Magnifico, Iith vs. Ys, etc.)
Maybe you should look it up in a place where people actually know what they're talking about. (I mean here on this forum)It's Magnifico and Ys.
It's "Ee-see-dro". Like in Spanish. There is actually no split at all on any of the issues you've mentioned. That is, again, if you ask people who know what they're talking about.
You should really stop using that wiki.
looks like the release date has been moved to June 5th in Canada and May 23rd in the US
Release date is shown as Sept 19 now, which constitutes the fourth delay.
We'll get this sometime hopefully before the end of the year, the Grunbeld novel a few months after, then Volume 40 a few months after that?


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My first (posted) battle. Pics below text because I forget which one people like. Also, check http://brikwars.wikispaces.com/Warhead under "Why is Warhead in all forum battles?" for why I have Warhead here. Oh, and the in-game reason for blurry pics is that there's a sandstorm nearby.
Deep in the noob system, a powerful spacecraft is veering out of control. It is heading directly towards the small planet Kight. There is very little chance of it surviving the trip. Miraculously, the shuttle crashes in the middle of the desert. Clearly, it is meant to land there.
A few days later, a team of soldiers were sent out to locate the disturbance.
Suddenly, a crazed skeleton jumps out of the cockpit.
He lands with a thud. When the dust settles, the soldiers get there first good look at their opponent.
He rushes towards Huntsley, but misses his attack.
Will swings his sword and hits! Unfortunately, it has no effect on this strange being.
Huntsley jumps on top of one of the cars.
Yellow opens the trunk of the second car, and Ron hops into the driver's seat.
Realizing that he cannot hit Huntsley, the stranger turns his attention to the sword-wielding fool.
Unfortunately for the skeleton, Yellow grabs a machete out of the car.
Ron makes a U-turn, heading right for the creature.
The murderous beast jumps onto Ron's hood with Yellow and Will following close behind.
The creature stabs Ron, earning the first kill of the fight.
Will and Yellow attack Warhead, but hit each other's swords.
The flame-headed monster breaks Yellow's ribcage with the back of his weapon.
Then, in the middle of the day, with the sun in the sky, Huntsley turns into a werewolf.
Unfortunately (for Huntsley) Will's windpipe has been severed by the killer's weapon.
Huntsley jumps on to the car and the skeleton hits him with Will's body. It's uneffective.
So, Huntsley chooses to degrade his dead teammate more, by whacking the creature with Will's body. Again, pointless.
The skeleton warrior turns toward Huntsley.
"Suck it Wolfie."
The victor climbs to the top of the car in glory.
Winner: Warhead shard, obviously.
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HOUSTON -- The Astros will have to wait at least another day to capture the Silver Boot, awarded annually to the winner of the Lone Star Series between Houston and Texas.
Houston starter Brett Oberholtzer struggled throughout, and the Rangers took advantage, pounding the Astros 13-6 on Friday night at Minute Maid Park, before a crowd of 18,931.View Full Game Coverage
HOUSTON -- The Astros will have to wait at least another day to capture the Silver Boot, awarded annually to the winner of the Lone Star Series between Houston and Texas.
Houston starter Brett Oberholtzer struggled throughout, and the Rangers took advantage, pounding the Astros 13-6 on Friday night at Minute Maid Park, before a crowd of 18,931.View Full Game Coverage
Down by as many as 12 runs through 6 1/2 innings, the Astros scored the final five runs in falling to 57-79 on the season, but they're still three games ahead of the Rangers in the AL West.
"I love the way these guys battled," said Astros manager Bo Porter. "It's been our motto all year. Every at-bat counts. To put up those runs in the last few frames, those guys showed tremendous effort in the last three innings."
Jason Castro hit his 14th home run, and in consecutive games for the first time all season. But his seventh-inning homer just cut the Rangers' lead to 13-2.
Batting leadoff for the injured Robbie Grossman, Marwin Gonzalez had three of Houston's 13 hits. Jose Altuve, the league leader in hits, added two to give him 184 on the season. Dexter Fowler, who left the game for a pinch hitter in the seventh inning because of a nose injury incurred in the field, added two hits, as did Jake Marisnick, who made two outstanding defensive plays in the first inning.
Castro's homer chased Texas starter Scott Baker, who was impressive in his 6 1/3 innings.
Oberholtzer (4-10) wasn't nearly as effective as Baker (3-3), who allowed only two runs and six hits. Oberholtzer allowed seven runs and nine hits, two to No. 9 hitter Michael Choice, whose three-run home run in the fourth inning gave the Rangers a 6-1 lead. Choice, who came into the game batting .168, had hits in his first three at-bats. Choice was recalled from Triple-A Round Rock on Monday.
"I'm just going to forget about it," said Oberholtzer. "Put that start behind me. I wasn't hitting my spots, but they were putting pretty good swings on the ball.
"I walked the first batter of the game and it was downhill from there."
Daniel Robertson walked to open the game and the center fielder reached base three times. The Rangers totaled 16 hits, with Houston reliever Jake Buchanan allowing six runs (five earned) and six hits in 2 2/3 innings.
Rangers shortstop Adam Rosales had three hits and two RBIs. Choice and Rougned Odor had three RBIs each.
"You look at it as a night where we didn't pitch too well and they jumped out to a big lead," said Porter. "Put it behind you and come back tomorrow and go get them."
In addition to Choice's ninth home run, Oberholtzer gave up four doubles, including two-baggers to his final two batters. Adrian Beltre's ground-rule double that scored Alex Rios from second gave the Rangers a 7-1 lead, and chased Oberholtzer from the game with one out in the fifth inning.
"It was a night Obie didn't have it early and they jumped on him," said Porter. "You're hoping he can find it. It was just one of those nights. A bump in the road."
Oberholtzer was roughed up pretty good. The second inning was the only inning he retired the side in order. The left-hander struck out two and walked one. In four career starts against Texas, Oberholtzer is still looking for his first win against them. He came into Friday 0-2 lifetime versus the Rangers.
The Astros tied the game at 1 on Fowler's two-out single up the middle that scored Gonzalez, who led off the first inning with a single.
But it was all Texas, which had all nine starters record a hit. First baseman Ryan Rua, making his Major League debut, had his first Major League hit in a five-run seventh inning that included a three-run homer by Odor. Rua singled off Buchanan.
The Astros entered Friday with a 9-4 season series lead over the Rangers, having won eight of the previous nine games between the teams. The Astros won the first game of the four-game series, 4-2 on Thursday.
Trailing 2-1 in the fourth, Gonzalez was caught attempting to steal third base for the second out with the league's leading hitter Altuve at the plate. Gonzalez had reached second on a one-out double.
In right field, Marisnick made two gems in the first inning. One on a throw, the second on a catch to end the inning after a long run. Marisnick doubled up Elvis Andrus on a two-hop, throw on the money to third baseman Gregorio Petit, who applied the tag.
One batter later, Marisnick tracked down a ball hit by Beltre to right-center. In making the catch, Marisnick made contact on the bridge of Fowler's nose, right in front of the Houston bullpen. Jesus Guzman pinch hit for Fowler leading off the seventh.
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Product Reviews Section....
As it hasn't really taken off, I'm considering the removal of the Product Reviews section. Maybe it's a hassle to use or people don't really need it.
I use (and like) the product reviews on mtbr.com and think it's just a matter of time (and web traffic) before it will be useful here. However, when I asked for the instructions and read them, I just sort of glazed over and didn't do anything more. I recall on mtbr.com they are far easier to use, yes?
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Let me take a look at mtbr.com and see how they do it. It's entirely possible I explained it in a complicated way and lost you....
Part of the problem is adding products to compile a complete list of kiteboarding gear and accessories. Mtbr.com certainly has a staff, whom are constantly adding new products to the database, making it so all one has to do to post a review is, just that, type in a review... They generate income and can afford to pay their staff to add the products and all sorts of other things too.
So, the long and short of it is that if we had a complete database of products, it would be very easy for visitors to post reviews. Whether or not I'll have the time to do that is the question......
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Ollie how do you add a board to do a review on it. I want to review the slingshot 119 misfit.
You can choose "Upload Products" from the top right and it will prompt you to enter some info. Don't worry about the photo, I'll add it unless you want to find a pic of it on the net and upload it while you add the product.
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Argentina, is not only home to the first ever PKRA World Champion Martin Vari, it will also host the 8th stop of the 2010 PKRA World Tour season.
The famous Patagonian town of Bariloche will hold an outstanding event not to mention the first and only competition being held on a lake this season.
Freestyle and Course Racing will be the two official disciplines, and we expect to have many new riders from numerous parts of the South American countries such as; Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil as well as a large representation of local Argentinians who will join the usual world cup veteran riders in delivering an amazing show to the Argentinan crowd. With only 3 events left in the 2010 season, it will be a tight race for the world championship title.
In the men's division, Andy Yates, Alex Pastor and Youri Zoon are only a few points apart and this event could make all the difference as to who will be crowned the 2010 World Champion. In the women's division, 2009 World Champion Bruna Kajiya will be competing at her very best in hopes of breaking down the lead that current tour leader Gisela Pulido has.
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Further note on "Cognitive Robotics"
In the discussion, no mention was made of what sort of implementation the cognitive architecture should use - that is, the definition does specify symbolic rule-based systems or artificial neural networks, or some hybrid. My interpretation of this is that it is the functionality of the system which is important, and not the computational substrate. The current state of affairs seems to indicate that it is the neural network-like architectures which hold the most promise, but that does not necessarily mean (in my opinion) that other approaches are without merit (see this for an alternative point of view, and this for some follow up discussion).
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- Dave said...
I took an introduction to cognitive science course a year ago and it was mainly concerned with that difference between symbolist and connectionist accounts of intelligence and the histories of each. I definitely agree with you that cognitive science is (or should be) about exploring and understanding the function of intelligence, at all its levels, independent of implementation.
- Fri Jan 19, 04:36:00 am 2007
- Paul said...
I agree. The point is though that there is debate as to whether a particular implementation (e.g. symbolic, neural, hybrid) is necessary for cognitive functions - or whether it is sufficient to look at only the functionality of the system, and not worry so much about how you get there.
Thanks for your comment!
- Fri Jan 19, 08:44:00 am 2007
- Deep said...
I have to disagree a littel bit... My point of view is that funtional description is not enougth to understand how a human brain works so it necesary to undestand how these functional behaviour EMERGES from well-known single neuron behavior.
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I may have squee'd when the request to write for Companion Piece, the latest in the Chicks… range, arrived. Could I possibly write an essay on Barbara Wright?
Could I? I snapped it up, then squee'd even more when one of the editors, Liz Myles, asked if I could actually cover Barbara and Ian Chesterton. Only my favourite ever companions, the ones I love more and more each year. The ones I admire for all kinds of reasons.
The essay I turned in may be one of the most personal I've written. It's about being a fan who came to the show in the pre-video era. It's about how fans experienced Hartnell before you could download Marco Polo off iTunes. And it's about how the fan narratives developed between 1989 and 2005 have broken down the walls of canon/non-canon.
Companion Piece: Women Celebrate the Humans, Aliens and Tin Dogs of Doctor Who is edited by LM Myles and Liz Barr, and published by Mad Norwegian Press on 7 April.
You can read the full table of contents over on the publisher's site.
You can also pre-order through the usual channels: print amazon | kindle | kobo.
Feel free to go off and order it now, as I'm about to get all political, in a post first drafted in late 2013 and therefore not mentioning a hate campaign targeting geek women that blew up in 2014…
My essay in Companion Piece is also about being a female fan when we were invisible. When a male fan could denigrate me in a convention bar as "not a real fan" because I didn't care precisely how many episodes were in a Pertwee story. When I could literally name every fem fan in UK fandom (and most of the Australian ones). When I buried my romantic textual reading of Who because it made me too fem for fandom.
I'd love to say all that has changed. But there is still a culture in fandom that would prefer female fans to either not be fans, or not be fem in their fannishness. This manifested in 2013 with an element of fandom saying "good riddance to fangirls" when a subset of female fans said they'd stop watching as Capaldi was not a hot young man. As I pointed out at the time, if fem fans treated the response of a minority of male fandom as representative of all male fans, they'd rightly complain of stereotyping. Yet using "fangirl" as a derogatory term is still seen by some male fans as acceptable.
There's a more subtle form of gender bias at work too. Paul Cornell has experienced this when he began his campaign for panel parity. There is a pretence that women as capable of discussing comics/books/films as men don't exist. That if only there were more women to chose from then of course editors and con programmers would pick women. And you still get articles that think Jenny Colgan is the first woman to write a Who novel, over 20 years after Kate Orman became the first original novelist to be female.
There's a risk that fem fans self-ghetto-ise. We did it in the late 1990s and early 2000s. I still laugh at my wikipedia entry and its claim about the Who fangrrl movement. Which was me, a Tav'zine and a yahoo group. There remains an understandable urge to create a space where we feel comfortable to respond to Who with our whole self, including the more fem elements we used to hide. A virtual room of one's own where fanfic and going "Paul McGann! It's Paul McGann! Squee!" to Night of the Doctor doesn't attract sneers.
But that room of our own risks creating an echo chamber. It's the problem of "women in [x]" panels at conventions, where the presumption is our gender alone is a worthwhile topic. This risk, that we end up being sidelined, would mean we fail to challenge the old patriarchal fandom culture. Our room of our own would keep up hidden, invisible and safely out of the way of "real" fandom. We mustn't end up in a room with no doors. This was one of my concerns when first asked to write for the Chicks… series of books.
Like many fandoms that unite people who felt "other", our fan culture has degrees of otherness. Go to some comic conventions and you see the same: women, cosplay or – the horror – cosplaying women are not as "real" as Grayson Perry's (white, straight, middle class) default man. It's this cultural problem that leads a convention like the World Fantasy Con 2013 to treat victims of sexual harassment as the problem, rather than the harassers.
I'm not prepared to accept those fan cultures. Comics conventions like Thought Bubble are inclusive. They don't reinforce the old hierarchies. They understand that fan cultures can evolve to embrace all the fans, not just those in traditional positions of authority. And it's important that those of us who want to have those more inclusive fan cultures support it.
In the end, I decided the Chicks… range is not a room with no doors. We don't get endlessly poured over by fans on Gallifrey Base like some non-fiction books but no – no – non-fiction editor or con programme organiser can ever claim there are no women experts any more. There's three books with dozens of fem fans writing about Who to chose from. We're here, and we're not going to be invisible.
When people began to complain there were disproportionately few female subject matter experts on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the initial defence was that there weren't any female experts willing to appear. In response, The Women's Room, a database of female subject matter experts was set up. In the last two years, as a listener, I've noticed a shift towards proportionality. Over breakfast I'm now as likely to be muttering "nonsense" about a woman as a man. The Today programme is, in effect, moving towards current affairs panel parity.
Consider the Chicks… books to be the Who version.
We are fangrrl: hear us roar.
Since I first wrote that in late 2013, things have improved. Women fans are more visible, and not confined to talking about traditionally fem interests like the emotional intelligence (or otherwise) of the Doctor. But we mustn't stop creating rooms where everyone is welcome, irrespective of gender, colour, age or sexuality.


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Smooth, sweet, cold and just the ticket for contracting a case of brain freeze on a sweltering summer day. Theres a reason milkshakes are a staple of American childhood.
But why should the kids have all the fun?
Sure, strawberry, chocolate and vanilla make fine beverages for summer. But for an after-dinner twist just for the grownups, how about stirring in a little black raspberry liqueur or a dash of bourbon? Bartenders around the country are doing just that as they shake up the seasonal staple.
At Hill Country Barbecue Market in Washington, the maple bourbon milkshake pays homage to the retro diners and soda fountains of the 1950s. Served in the classic style with two straws in one large glass, this shake made for sharing combines a rich blend of bourbon with vanilla ice cream and maple syrup infused with vanilla beans. The whole thing is topped with maraschino cherries in the classic tradition.
In Seattle, chef Walter Pisano of Tulio Ristorante has a desserts for grown-ups menu that includes a prosecco float made of honey gelato, honey-infused whipped cream and prosecco.
And how about revisiting that old favorite, the root beer float? At Harry Dentons Starlight Room in San Francisco, bar manager Joel Teitelbaum serves a hard root beer float that includes Zaya aged rum with vanilla notes and Averna, an Italian bitter that adds a chocolate note.
Also in San Francisco, pastry chef Francis Ang at Fifth Floor restaurant has a wild take on the shake.
He serves a foie gras milkshake featuring foie gras ice cream and walnut liquor. (This treat wont last much longer than ice cream left out in the sun because California is banning force-feeding water fowl to create foie gras effective July.) The ice cream is mixed with milk, sugar, a little salt and the walnut liquor, then poured over ice and topped with root beer.
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BABSON PARK, MASS. - Babson College scored three goals in the first half as the Beavers (5-4, 1-0 NEWMAC) defeated visiting MIT, 4-0, in the NEWMAC opener for both squads on Saturday.
Babson snapped a scoreless tie in the 14th minute as Laura Ham scored her first collegiate goal on a tip-in from in front of the cage. The Beavers then made it 2-0 when Gina Giardina redirected a shot from Katie Janson. Elise Conley added another goal when she dribbled through three defenders with 8:10 remaining in the half.
Babson's offense continued to dominate in the second stanza, with Katie Connon extending the Beavers' lead to four. The Engineers (3-4, 0-1 NEWMAC) eventually came alive on the offensive end, tallying eight shots in the closing minutes.
Alexa Herman and Megan Roberts each finished with three saves while splitting time in net for Tech. Amanda Smith also added a defensive save for the Engineers.
The next game for MIT will be on Thursday, Sept. 30 when it travels to UMass-Dartmouth.
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Georgia Southwestern catcher Paschel Poston and pitcher Corey Hawes are representing the Hurricanes in prestigious collegiate wood bat leagues this summer. Poston will be facing some of the top collegiate players from across the country as a member of the Covington (Va.) Lumberjacks in the Valley Baseball League. Hawes is playing for the Vermont Mountaineers of the New England Collegiate Baseball League.
Poston started 41 games behind the plate this spring for GSW as a sophomore. He finished with a .287 batting average, two home runs and 20 runs batted in. The Jupiter, Fla. native drew 31 walks (ranked second on the team) and posted a .428 on-base percentage.
Valley Baseball League rosters are peppered with NCAA Division I players. Joining Poston on the Lumberjacks roster are players from Florida State, Seton Hall, Virginia Tech and South Florida.
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The VBL is funded in part by a grant from Major League Baseball and is a member of the National Alliance of College Summer Baseball, a national affiliation of summer leagues. The league has produced well over 1,000 professional baseball players, including a record 79 former players drafted in the 2008 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.
The Lumberjacks open their season on Friday (June 4) and play a 44-game schedule with the regular season ending August 2.
Follow Poston and the Lumberjacks this summer at www.valleyleaguebaseball.com/teams/covington/index.
Hawes posted a team-low 2.32 ERA for GSW this spring as a junior. He finished with a 2-2 record and two saves in 24 appearances out of the bullpen. The Eatontown, N.J. native struck out 31 batters in 42.2 innings and held opponents to a team-low .252 batting average.
Hawes is joined by Division I players from Rutgers, Penn State, Rice, Texas Christian and Indiana on the Mountaineers roster.
As stated on the New England Collegiate Baseball League website,
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television producer/director Joseph Consentino. Play started in
1994 and today the NECBL has become a strong twelve team league
that plays in all six New England states and recruits players
attending U.S colleges from New England, the other forty-four
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The Mountaineers open their season on Friday (June 4) and play an eight-week, 42-game schedule with the regular season ending July 31.
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Visit the Are We There Yet? home The previous chapters on living, working and moving do not, of course, sum up all the things Americans need in order to thrive. We also need exercise and clean air, safe neighborhoods, good schools and quality childcare, healthy and affordable food, parks, shops, arts and culture — and a "built environment" in which all of this is available to people regardless of age or income or whether they can drive. but if indeed the "quality of human capital" is a key indicator of whether regions and the U.S. as a whole will be able to compete in the global economy — as discussed in the economist Intelligence Unit report at the beginning of the Working chapter — then we also need to invest in human development, an essential element of thriving. This point was persuasively made by the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF), a national community development finance institution that serves as…
Are We There Yet? Getting Out Of Gear
December 18, 2012
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Visit the Are We There Yet? home Trends underway in the housing and jobs market portend a need for more transportation choices to help people get where they need to go as well as to enhance this country's economic competitiveness. Market trends confirm the shift in demand away from single-use, single-family neighborhoods, corporate campuses and shopping centers connected by highways, and toward compact mixed-use neighborhoods where streets are not the sole province of fast-moving cars but are shared with pedestrians, bicyclists and transit users. Providing more transportation choices is critical to supporting this 21st century lifestyle and it seems to be what both younger and older generations want. For the younger generation, traffic congestion, $5 a gallon gas prices, and the popularity of smartphones and social media have made driving far less appealing than it was to their parents. According to the U.S. department…
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Ex-Pearl Jam Exec Rickey Charles Goodrich Charged With Stealing $380K From Band
The very man to whom Pearl Jam entrusted their financial affairs is now being accused of stealing staggering amounts of money from the band. Rickey Charles Goodrich, the former CFO of Pearl Jam's management company, was recently charged for having stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from the band over the last several years, according to the Associated Press.
Goodrich allegedly wielded his position at Pearl Jam's management company, Curtis Inc., in order to steal a total of $380,000 between 2006 and 2010. It is believed that the 54-year-old ex-CFO used the company's money for personal reasons such as hotel stays, expensive dinners and family vacations -- as well as to pay off his debts.
The former CFO is being faced with 33 charges of theft and has yet to comment on the accusations. Goodrich is scheduled to appear before Seattle's King County Super Court on June 28 to deliver his initial plea.
Pearl Jam manager Kelly Curtis (who hired Goodrich years ago) remarked in a recent statement that he is "deeply saddened by this situation" and is "looking forward to a resolution."
Meanwhile, the band is busy working on their tenth studio album and getting ready to launch their upcoming summer tour through Europe.


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Taylor Swift Performs 'I Knew You Were Trouble' Acoustic for Fifi and Jules
It was 'Trouble' Down Under for Taylor Swift.
The 'Begin Again' hitmaker performed a stripped-down, intimate, acoustic version of her new pop single 'I Knew You Were Trouble' for Fifi and Jules, a popular drive time radio show in Australia. Thanks to the wonders of the internet, you can enjoy it like you were there, front and center as Swift cradled her guitar and spun her latest tale of heartbreak.
Looking summery in a spaghetti strap flowered sundress, Swift performed the song seated on a stool, strumming her trusty guitar while surrounded by two other guitarists. Even though it was a bare bones version, she gave off a full sound with three instruments and her voice.
We'll give it to Swift. She sounded flawless in this execution, which really let the songwriting shine. The studio version, which can be found on her Oct. 2012 album 'Red,' has some effects on her vocals, but here, all of that falls away and she is able to belt out the words, which detail how she should have known better for getting involved with a bad boy -- something she has admitted to struggling with.
Notice that when she sings the "trouble, trouble, trouble" part in the chorus, she grits her teeth to create a similar effect to that of the album version. It's an interesting way to recreate a sound.
This performance only serves to get fans excited for when she brings her 2013 Red Tour to the U.S.


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DANA POINT – In time, No. 21 Dana Hills will proudly hang the school's first Sea View League Champions banner from the rafters of its gymnasium.
But that banner – one that has been 38 years in the making – might be the only one the Dolphins get a chance to raise before next season.
Despite defeating visiting San Juan Hills, 28-14, on Friday night to claim a share of the Sea View League title (along with Laguna Hills and Capistrano Valley), Dana Hills, by virtue of a series of coin flips, finished as the league's No. 3 representative.
Since the five-team Sea View League allots just two guaranteed playoffs spots, the Dolphins (4-6, 3-1) will have to be chosen as one of the two at-large teams in the Southwest Division to continue their season.
"It's a great accomplishment for the players, especially the senior class," Dana Hills coach Todd Rusinkovich said of the school's first league title. "This championship will be their lasting legacy as we continue to develop a Dolphins dynasty."
Halfback Marcus Hughes, who missed much of the second half of the season because of an injury, finished with 105 yards on 16 carries.
"Marcus Hughes came back from his injury with a big neckbrace on, looking like a beast out there, and he ran like it," Rusinkovich said. "He allowed us to control the football and grind down the clock in the fourth quarter.
"He's a senior leader, a senior captain, and played a heck of a game. It was outstanding to watch."
After falling behind by a score early, Dana Hills turned an interception by Matthew Slade into seven points on Hughes' 5-yard TD run.
On the Dolphins' subsequent possession, Logan Warren hauled in a 21-yard TD pass to give the hosts a second-quarter lead they wouldn't relinquish.
"Our kids played outstanding," Rusinkovich said. "They came out a little too fired up, jumping offsides a couple times on the first drive, but after that, our defense was great and our offense got rolling after the first quarter."
Dana Hills' defense held the Stallions (7-3, 1-3) to minus-13 yards rushing, a number that includes five sacks and a number of rushes for negative yardage.
San Juan Hills backup quarterback Jack Gillen threw for 99 yards and completed a 70-yard TD pass to Scott Hoover.
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by Lou Mancinelli
For nearly six weeks in November 1777, during the Battle of Germantown, a garrison of about 400 sick, starving men fought the British, whose fleet was trying to enter Philadelphia by way of the Delaware River, near where the airport now stands. If the they succeeded, it would have served to replenish diminishing British supplies and might have decimated Washington's Army that winter.
But the patriots sunk a ship and prevailed at Fort Mifflin. The tale is part of "Disasters on the Delaware," a current exhibit at the Independence Seaport Museum at Penn's Landing.
Two longtime locals, John Brady, of Wyndmoor, the museum's executive director, and Bill McLaughlin, of Chestnut Hill, chairman of its board of directors, are spearheading museum efforts to rebrand itself and increase public awareness through increased programming, renovations and new partnerships. They want to make the museum a destination for tourists and locals alike.
"We decided about a year ago the museum needs to chart a new course," McLaughlin said .
Their vision is for the museum to tell the story of Philadelphia's civic and maritime history through the river, represented as the "river of freedom."
It was along the Delaware River in Penn Treaty Park in modern Fishtown that William Penn first made a treaty with Lenni Lenape Indians under the Shackamaxon tree, a sprawling elm that provided shade for hundreds of residents.
Later, towards the end of the 19th century, Philadelphia existed as the shipbuilding capital of the world, where companies like Cramp and Sons operated. The U.S. Navy was born in Philadelphia, where the first ships were built for the War of 1812.
While plans, designed by Alan Metcalfe Design, have yet to be officially shared with the city, according to Brady, the museum is focused on making the site more attractive to visitors, and overcoming a sense of being disconnected from the city by I-95. Ideas include wrapping the entire building in glass, creating an artistic scene using digitized river information about tides and traffic, and creating a sculpture that reacts with the wind. A plan could be revealed next year, with work beginning soon after.
"It's a way to be in touch with nature that I don't think you can match any other way," said Brady, 60, a military child who moved around and settled in Toms River, N.J., at 12, where he developed his affinity for the water and sailing. That's also when Brady started working on boats as a carpenter, which ultimately became his career.
The museum is a place rich with the story of the evolution of technology as well as the growth of American liberty. Its exhibits, which are the brainchild's of Brady's year-and-a-half tenure as executive director, include old restored wooden boats – two of which Brady worked on – and artifacts collected along I-95 that are 2,500 years old.
The exhibits are one way, in addition to updated educational offerings for students and adults, the museum is working to develop a renewed relationship with its public. City officials could review plans within the next few weeks, according to Brady, who said they are at the beginning of the process of transformation.
Stepping onto the USS Olympia, the flagship of Commodore George Dewey during the 1898 Battle of Manila Bay and now operated by the museum, is like walking into a floating time capsule. One enters first into the officers' quarters constructed with deep, polished wood drawers and a desk. Sailors slept on hammocks hanging from ceilings over metal floors. Beneath the water, engine rooms illustrate the story of modern progress.
"We want to make sure the direction we are going is the direction people are appreciative of," said Hope Koseff Corse, director of marketing.
Part of that direction includes participating in the SeaPerch program, a contest between hundreds of students to create an underwater robot. In the future, it could mean getting students out on the water. It means reminding a public of this maritime resource. In its archives and library, are more than 15,000 volumes of reference books ranging from Philadelphia history to marine ecology, more than 400 rare maritime books, and thousands of ship plans and passenger lists.
The museum also features a boat-building workshop where students from schools like the Charter High School for Architecture and Design work on projects. When the Local visited the museum, a 28-foot whaling boat used by harpooners to attack whales was being restored.
This fall the museum hosted the Old City Seaport Festival, which brought five tall ships that had sailed into the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River to its harbor. Brady plans to increase the number of ships in time.
"There's something unique about being on a traditional craft that's handmade," said McLaughlin, 50, an Archbishop Ryan High School and St. Joseph's University graduate who has made a career as an investor. McLaughlin's two children attend Springside Chestnut Hill Academy.
Founded in 1960 as the Philadelphia Maritime Museum, the institution was incorporated a year later functioning as a library and repository of archival data. In 1974, the museum moved into Independence Center quarters, before a $15 million expansion project moved the museum to its current site south of Market Street on the waterfront. The projected new building could cost up to $35 million, while renovations would cost about half that, according to Brady. McLaughlin will help to navigate the financial waters.
For Brady, his role as executive director, provides him with the opportunity to share the history that has been his life.
"Whenever I could get a boat job I did it," he said.
A graduate of Rutgers University, Brady, after working at the seaport in New York City, moved to Philadelphia in the early 80s to work as a carpenter on a ship called the Gazela Primera. He was later hired by the Maritime Museum as a boat builder, and, after working on a schooner in Nova Scotia, returned to Philadelphia where he served as superintendent of the Philadelphia Ship Preservation Guild before joining the museum again in the mid-90s.
Last spring the museum hosted "Home of the Brave: The War of 1812 in Art, Story and Song." Its current exhibition, "Digging the City: Archaeological Discoveries from the Philadelphia Waterfront," concludes Feb. 3.
For more information visit www.phillyseaport.org.


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