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Q The narrow shoulder for the carpool lane on Highway 101 south between Palo Alto and Mountain View is causing frequent hubcap losses. No surprise there.
But at one spot between the Rengstorff and Shoreline exits that seems fairly straight, there must be 20 or so hubcaps huddling together on the shoulder. The mystery is why so many at that one spot? Maybe one of your readers can solve the mystery!
Eve Carlson
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A Maybe, but for a stumper like this I turn to Ray-the-Tow-Truck-Guy, who says:
"I change a lot of tires there. One time I changed 13 tires and towed four cars with multiple flats at the 85 exit in a two-hour period. It was during one of the most severe downpours I have ever been subject to.
"Due to the amount of accidents on the onramp, it is no surprise to me that there are a lot of hubcaps out there. Maybe it is due to the horrendous bump at the Rengstorff onramp."
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Q I don't think I have seen this reported yet, so here goes. On two recent weekends we have taken more trips than usual on Highway 85 and 101 in Mountain View for my son's soccer championship (they took second place, by the way!). As we approached the junction with 101 in a heavy rain, I was in the No. 2 lane and was distracted by a car crashing through a huge puddle on the right, so I didn't see a large pothole on the left of my lane until it shook our Ford Explorer violently.
Then I noticed something bouncing alongside us and realized it jarred the hubcap off the car. A week later I was frustrated to still see it lying on the center divide shoulder in plain site, but unreachable.
The worst and most dangerous section appears to be just south of Rengstorff, where the fault line is several feet long. I think this is the worst, judging by the center divide shoulder just past that point, where there are at least a dozen hubcaps for a few hundred yards. This one looks big enough to easily take down a motorcycle, and I am surprised it hasn't already. Can you alert Caltrans?
Ross Heitkamp
A And …
Q Highway 101 north is deteriorating from the Moffett Boulevard offramp to Shoreline Boulevard. This area is the worst to drive through. Please help. The recent rains have made a big impact to the poor conditions in this area.
Johnny Donoho
A Your pleas have been delivered to Caltrans — again. Hang in there, and I hope your hubcaps stay on. This entire stretch will be repaved when construction ends next summer.
Q Westbound Murphy Avenue and eastbound Brokaw Road before I-880 used to be a smooth ride. But now it will be bumper to bumper from Lundy all the way to I-880 in the morning commute every day, and there is no accident at all, no backup from I-880. Something wrong with the synchronization of the traffic lights?
Alex Li
A It should be a tad better. There were problems with the signal synchronization here — caused by vandalism in one area — but temporary improvements were just completed. However, the city signals are not yet synchronized with Caltrans' signals at 880, and conditions will likely not vastly improve until they are.
Q Why did they cut bumps into Highway 1 on both sides of the overpass at Exit 404 in Sand City? This was done about two months ago, and no other work has taken place since. Why would they do this? It's a pretty harsh bump on both sides and in both directions. I'm also wondering how long it will be until this is fixed? There are no signs to warn drivers, so no one slows down. This has got to be bad for our cars.
The only thing I can think of is the contractor has a buddy or family member that owns a tire store nearby. Help please!
John Rowe
A Caltrans dug out the old asphalt to prepare to overlay the highway, but it's been too cold at night to finish the job. The state will put up some advance warning signs for the upcoming bump in the meantime. Otherwise, hang tough until the weather warms.
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The newly released Apple iPhone 4 appears to have a significant design flaw that means the device loses network signal when you hold it in your hand.
Reports are flying across the internet that highlight the problem, and TechRadar has discovered that its own handset is badly affected by the same problem.
UPDATE: Apple has commented on the problem, insisting that all phones suffer from the flaw to a degree.
We found that holding the handset quickly brought the handset down from five bars of 3G coverage within our offices to limited edge or even no data network coverage at all.
But you don't have to take our word for it – here's our video footage of the incident.
You will notice that as the video draws to a close, the phone actually loses all network coverage.
It's a major problem for the latest iPhone – which saw plastic bands placed around the metal rim to prevent aerial problems.
This flaw was first flagged up in the MacRumors' forum, but we had to do our own video to see if this was an actual problem in the UK.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan – July 9, 2013 – SEMICON Taiwan, the region's premier microelectronics event, is set to open in September amidst an improving global and regional outlook for 2013 and 2014 that sees Taiwan remaining the largest and strongest market for semiconductor manufacturing. SEMICON Taiwan 2013, to be held September 4-6 at the Taipei World Trade Center Nankang Exhibition Hall, will spotlight the latest developments in processes, equipment, materials, and emerging market opportunities in microelectronics manufacturing from more than 650 exhibiting companies and more than 110 speakers from the world's leading technology companies and research organizations.
Bucking the global trend of contraction in semiconductor spending, Taiwan has continued to build its position as the leading market for semiconductor equipment through the first half of 2013. According to the Worldwide Semiconductor Market Statistics report published by SEMI and the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ), spending on semiconductor equipment in Taiwan in the first quarter of 2013 rose to US$ 2.8 billion, 31 percent above Q4 2012 and 60 percent higher than the first quarter of 2012. The latest SEMI Consensus Forecast projects the Taiwan equipment market will rise more than 9 percent in 2013 and another two percent in 2014 to reach $10.6 billion, maintaining Taiwan's status as the world's largest equipment market.
"While the global market is looking towards recovery in 2014, Taiwan is building its strength and growing now," said Terry Tsao, president of SEMI Taiwan. "New electronic products and technologies, including mobile devices and 3D printing, are creating entirely new opportunities for microelectronics and driving the need to push the limits of Moore's Law to enable the next generation of innovations. The technologies, companies, and people that will get us there are the highlight of SEMICON Taiwan."
In addition to the company exhibits and product displays, SEMICON Taiwan 2013 will feature more than 50 hours of technical and business forums, including presentations from global and regional industry leaders ASE, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, IBM, Micron, STMicroelectronics, TSMC, and Qualcomm among others. Scheduled sessions include the SEMICON Taiwan Executive Summit, the IC Design Summit, Market Trends, Memory Executive Summit, CMP Forum, Lithography/Mask Symposium, Advanced Packaging Symposium, Green Manufacturing, and sessions on MEMS and LED manufacturing.
Complementing the technical and business programs at SEMICON Taiwan, the third SiP Global Summit, Taiwan's leading conference focused on advanced packaging and test, will feature speakers and participation from leading companies including Amkor, SPIL, SPTS, Nanya, PCB, Unimicron, Teradyne, Qualcomm, Yole Développement, SUSS MicroTec, and Senju sharing their insights and solutions for accelerating volume 3D IC production. In addition to support from the SEMI Taiwan Packaging and Test Committee, the SiP Global Summit is also coordinated in conjunction with the Fraunhofer Institute, I-Shou University, and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).
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The APS Historic Sites Committee has selected three sites this year pivotal to the development of physics to be honored for their roles. The sites are the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington Division of Terrestrial Magnetism. A plaque will be placed at each of these sites to commemorate their place in physics history.
Headquarters for IBM's Research Division, the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York has been the home of numerous physicists and physics advances. Notable physicists working there have included Rolf Landauer, Charles H. Bennett and 1973 Nobel laureate Leo Esaki who received the prize for electron tunneling in solids. Breakthroughs at the Watson Research Center have included superlattice crystals, dynamic random access memory (DRAM), field effect transistor (FET) scaling laws, amorphous magnetic films for optical storage and thin-film magnetic recording heads.
Los Alamos National Laboratory began as a top-secret military site, established by the US Army in 1942 as the home of the Manhattan Project on the grounds of a boys school in the mountains of northern New Mexico. A teacher's house, made of logs and stone, was converted for use as the home of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, scientific leader of the project. "Oppie," as he was affectionately known, lived at the home between 1943 and 1945, along with his wife Kitty, son Peter and daughter Katherine (born in December 1944) as he led the program to design, build and test the first atomic bomb.
Today, the Oppenheimer house is one of nine buildings intact from that era, on a block preserved as part of the Los Alamos historic district. South of his house was the home of Nobel Laureate Hans Bethe, head of the laboratory's Theoretical Division during the war. Other wellknown physicists who resided on that block during the wartime era included James Chadwick, Richard Feynman and Enrico Fermi. The Los Alamos National Laboratory is currently the home of numerous research projects, for civilian as well as military purposes.
The Carnegie Institute of Washington Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) was founded in 1904 in Washington, DC. While its primary initial goal was to map the Earth's magnetic field, that aim was accomplished in 1929. Thereafter, the DTM's mission has expanded and researcher have focused on numerous other terrestrial and astronomical projects, including the search for exoplanets. Starting in the late 1960s, and throughout the 1970s, astrophysicist Vera Rubin, along with Kent Ford and other colleagiues, began a study of the speeds of stars in spiral galaxies. Through these studies Rubin showed how the visible mass of spiral galaxies was not enough to account for the stellar motions, particularly of peripheral stars. This missing mass became known as dark matter. Today, the nature of dark matter is one of the greatest mysteries in physics.
The APS Historic Sites Initiative was established in 2004 to help make the public more aware of physics and to increase awareness among physicists themselves of the discipline's history. Each honoree receives a plaque during a special ceremony, often by a member of the APS presidential line. More information about the APS Historic Sites Initiative and a list of past honorees can be found at the Historic Sites Initiative web page.
Paul Halpern is a Professor of Physics and Fellow in the Humanities at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.


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If your ancestors attended a college or university, you may find information about their lives in a source seldom mentioned in genealogy books: class notes.
Almost every colleage and university publishes brief notes about the lives and careers of their graduates, submitted by the graduates themselves. Topics typically include engagements, weddings, births of children, new jobs and promotions, moves to new locations, awards and, finally, obituaries.
These notes are printed in college and university magazines or newsletters. Some have indexed their older classnotes. Some remarkably have put these older records online. One of the finest resources is the University of Wisconsin Library's digital collection online, including its historic yearbooks and alumni newsletters.
The usefulness of this resource can be seen in several examples.
— In May 1911, the Wisconsin Alumni magazine ran an engagement announcement for Marie Grace Miller and Frank Joseph Petura, both 1904 graduates. Her father's name, the careers pursued by Marie and Frank, and the month of the wedding are included. What a genealogical gem!
— In 1904, both Frank of Racine and Marie of Madison were included among the seniors with their individuals photographs, field of study, clubs and a quotation. What a remarkable way to see ancestors when they were young!
Many more class notes were published about them and Marie over the years, allowing family to understand more about their lives.
Another ancestor I am researching is William Henry Luehr, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1889. He is in the Badger yearbook several times including when he was censor and historian of the Bildungsverein club and when he was elected in May 1888 to be a general editor of the Aegis, the student newspaper. He had many mentions in the Wisconsin Alumni magazine, such as when he was the principal at Manitowoc high school.
While not all universities and colleges have such a fine resource as that provided by the University of Wisconsin, they may have an index and may be willing to send copies of relevant class notes, if you send a stamped, addressed envelope. It is worth a try!
This is one in a series of genealogy and family history research ideas to help you find your family and ancestors for modest or no cost.


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- Chop enough fennel fronds, if using, to measure 2 tablespoons. Quarter fennel bulbs lengthwise, then cut lengthwise into 1/4-inch-thick slices.
- Cook fennel bulbs, sliced onion, and anchovy paste in 1 1/2 teaspoons oil in a 12-inch heavy nonstick skillet over moderate heat, stirring, until coated, about 1 minute. Season with salt and pepper, then add broth and braise, covered, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are tender, about 20 minutes.
- Remove lid and boil, stirring occasionally, until liquid is evaporated, about 10 minutes. Transfer fennel mixture to a 1 1/2-quart shallow gratin or other shallow 9-inch ceramic or glass baking dish.
- Preheat oven to 450°F.
- While fennel mixture is braising, cook chopped onion, red pepper flakes, and salt to taste in remaining teaspoon oil in an 8-inch nonstick skillet over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until onion is softened, 3 to 4 minutes. Add tomatoes with juice and simmer, breaking up tomatoes with a spoon and stirring occasionally, until very thick, 15 to 20 minutes.
- Arrange fish fillets on top of fennel mixture and season with salt. Spoon tomato sauce over fish. Cover with a sheet of parchment paper or wax paper, then cover baking dish tightly with foil and bake in middle of oven until fish is just cooked through, 20 to 25 minutes. Sprinkle with fennel fronds.
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DUBOIS – One dozen Penn State DuBois students spent this Martin Luther King Jr. Day serving community organizations that needed a few helping hands.
They joined fellow Penn Staters from five other campuses for the MLK Day of Service. Each year, the community of one of the campuses is chosen for the MLK Day of Service, and students volunteer at various organizations in that community in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., and his dedication to serving others.
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Each August I ready my classroom and proceed to meet my new students and their parents at our annual open house. I try to stress to parents how different fourth grade will be from third. For example, social studies curriculum hovers around 12-15 objectives in third grade while the fourth grade objectives balloon to 56. Certain objectives expand even further by listing up to 20 different elements. I have examples of my unit tests out for parents to view as well as released copies of the state test so that they can see what their child is in for. The textbooks are out for examination and all of my Native American trade books are on display ready for students to delve into on the first day of school. Most parents are generally excited that their child will be learning American History and always want to share with me which events were their most favorite in school.
I can always predict that at least one parent, sometimes Caucasian while other times African American, will lean over and will conspiratorially whisper, "Do you teach the right version or the wrong version of the Civil War?" I always respond that I teach all of the causes of the Civil War…..the issue of slavery, the economic differences between the North and South, and state's rights. This generally satisfies the parents. I relay the above example not to incite more emails from Anonymous (you can read the full text here), but to illustrate that all of us have bias where history is concerned.
One of my contributors, Allen Drury, had some advice that fits nicely here. He commented that when we study history we must put it in the context of the times. We need to see history from the viewpoint of those that lived it. I believe that is what a good history teacher does. I attempt to do it everyday. I also believe in a quote that the Portable Princess provided, "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
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I used to wonder how slavery could go on for almost 400 years and not one person in the history books is blamed for it!!! Not to mention who were the people who stole all the land from the Indians and Mexicans.
I'm assuming Anonymous is referring to slavery in North America, but in all actuality slavery in North America goes back even further. The Aztecs used slaves as victims in their sacrificial rites. Native Americans had wars with neighboring tribes. The victor took property including slaves.
Every history book I've reviewed over the last few years clearly states that the Spanish, faced with a labor shortage, began to bring enslaved Africans to the New World. Houghton Mifflin's text for fourth graders states, "The Spanish brought enslaved Africans to replace the thousands of American Indians who had died" on page 112. It's fairly clear to me who originally brought African slaves here. Slavery is first mentioned in my newly adopted text on page 93 where Portuguese exploration into West Africa is discussed. The text clearly and truthfully states, "Slavery had existed before the Portuguese arrived, but the Portuguese increased the number of enslaved people brought to Europe." My students are intrigued to find out that African slavery began due to tribal warfare and existed on the African continent before the arrival of the Portuguese.
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I guess the people who did these things were the ones who wrote the history books, no doubt!!
Yes, Anonymous. Of course the Spanish and Portuguese wrote their version of history. Every culture involved in historical events has their point of view and they catalogue it. I agree with the Plant Man that bias will always exist in texts and it's the job as the historian to examine as many sources as possible to obtain a true objective picture. There are many forms of bias. Some texts are biased culturally while some have gender bias. Others devote too many pages to some events while others are barely mentioned. Some texts simply replace one form of bias for another.
As we have discussed the American Revolution my students have looked at events from both points of view. We discussed the Boston Tea Party. We talked about why King George was so upset that he encouraged Parliament to pass the Intolerable Acts. Students identified the fact that the chests of tea were symbols to be smashed by the Sons of Liberty while the British were incensed that the tea was private property and tax dollars had been lost. John Hancock was certainly brave as he strode to the front of the room and placed his "John Hancock" on the Declaration of Independence, but the British viewed this as an act of treason. Students begin to grasp that point of view is extremely important and that it is ok to not agree with the actions of a historical figure.
Anonymous continues:
The history books have no input from the slaves or Indians at all. If they did then maybe there would be some truth to them.
Huh? Read a book lately? Pages 58-59 of the Houghton Mifflin book extends our lesson regarding Southwest Indian tribes and introduces students to Victor Masayesva, Fred Begay, and Leslie Marmon Silko who are all Native Americans and hold very important jobs in American society today-----a filmmaker, a nuclear physicist, and a writer respectively. During our exploration of slavery my students have at their disposal the words of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth----need I go on?
These devils actually convinced us that they are angels and heroes! They did not even like poor whites...they were an elitist class....I cannot think of anyone in history as we know it more selfish, greedy and evil than the founding fathers.
Kevin wrote that he's concerned with an increase in Founding Father bashing and I tend to agree with him. dcp advises students of history need to keep events and actions in perspective. However, you can't fool a nine year old. They challenge me all of the time. "How could Thomas Jefferson write about freedom when he owned slaves?" I agree. The Founding Fathers are a quandary to many people. I'm honest with my students. I tell them it is ok to not agree totally with someone and still admire some of their actions. George Washington played a pivotal role in many of the founding events of our nation. We should forget those contributions because he held slaves? Do we forget his contributions because he participated in something that was legal at the time for him to do? I say no. I say teach the good and the bad. Help students understand the context of the time.
Anonymous continues:
Isn't it funny how Charlton Heston plays a slave in 'The Ten Commandments'and fights the evil Egyptian slaveowners but in real life he supports the exactly same kind of evil men by quoting the founding fathers in the 'Bowling For Columbine' movie. He might be a racist but he is definetly stupid.
I don't quite get this part and agree with Al. It would seem that Anonymous exists in some type of disjointed universe. I'm simply not going there.
Anonymous, we need to remember that textbooks are not the be all and end all of history instruction. My textbook is just one tool I use to help children discovery history. As Polski3 commented texts are meant to be survey only----a more specialized telling would result in a book with 20,000 pages. Not only that--- Janet weighed in that texts cannot be totally complete because it would be extremely time consuming.
I teach history from various points of view and attempt to place students in positions where they make connections and discover interesting tidbits about humanity. I teach to develop students who know how to use various resources to reach an opinion. I want them to continue the skills they learn in my classroom for the remainder of their lives. My main goal is to produce able-bodied citizens who can think for themselves after reviewing the facts. I don't teach history to indoctrinate students concerning who I think was right and who was wrong.
Anonymous, my contributors have given you some homework. You might want to read some works by John Hope Franklin, Carter Woodson, or Kant. You might want to check out a book called Lies My Teacher Told Me for some perspective.
And….what makes me feel great as I finally end this post is I'm certain that my nine year old students are in a much better position than Anonymous because they know how to look up information on their own and how to evaluate a source.
I will sleep well.
2 comments:
- Janine Wonnacott said...
Just a quick defense of one of the founding fathers who owned slaves:
Jefferson made no secret of the fact that he didn't like slavery. Yet he owned slaves.
He also had a great deal of debt (both were inherited, I believe - the slaves and the debt).
Slaves were property in the colonies and then in the US. If he had freed them, his creditors would have arrested him and seized the slaves anyway. Imagine being up to your eyeballs in debt and then deciding you want to give away your $2 million house. You couldn't, legally - the house is collateral against the debt.
So were Jefferson's slaves.
He tried to free them legally, in the Constitution, but the other colonies wouldn't stand for it.
Jefferson, at least, had no real choice. I can't speak for the others.
- Pamela said...
I am a pre-service teacher and I really enjoyed reading through your blogs. I wrote about a few of your points over on my blog, http://prthom7.blogspot.com/. I just enjoyed your practical advice that I hope to use in my classroom one day. If you get a chance, please read my post and any more advice that could be given, I will gladly take it.


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The Great Lakes Shipwreck File:
Total Losses of Great Lakes Ships 1679 - 1999
For the latest version visit greatlakeshistory.homestead.com/home.html
For MORE old-time shipping information, see my
Great Lakes History web page at: greatlakeshistory.homestead.com/home.html
This document is the most complete and accurate list of losses of Great Lakes commercial vessels in existence, but it may be considered to be a work in progress, since my research continues. It includes commercial vessels which were total losses or were declared total losses and later recovered, plus a few wrecks which were significant for other reasons (e.g. loss of life), but were later recovered. I am happy to share this with any and all interested parties, but as of Apr, 2000, it represents about 13 years of steady work, so if you use any of the material herein, PLEASE CREDIT to David D. Swayze, Lake Isabella, MI.
Iwelcome your contributions to this web page. Any information submitted and used will be attributed to your collection. Items should include reliable documentation. Newspaper articles by themselves are not necessarily reliable without supporting documentation. In my research I have found over 2500 vessels which were reported as total losses in the newspapers, yet lived to sail another day. However, if you have a good article which may report a total loss, send it along for comparison to my files. I have information on nearly 500 reported total losses which are not yet, in my estimation, well proved enough to go into this database (click here to see the list). Please note that this database is limited to vessels lost above the head of the St. Lawrence River (see note below), and, with a few exceptions, does not include yachts or abandoned vessels. Many wrecks which you may know about - especially those located in rivers or bays - were abandoned and are not in that spot because of a wreck.
EXPLANATORY NOTES to this shipwreck database
Except in the "OTHER NAMES" line, information which is speculative is enclosed in parentheses "( )." Information enclosed in brackets "[ ]" is for clarification. An asterisk "*" may be used to divert the reader to a continuation on a lower line or a footnote in the same entry.
Entries are set up in the following format:
Other names :
Official no. :
Type at loss :
Build info :
Specs :
Date of loss :
Place of loss :
Lake :
Type of loss :
Loss of life :
Carrying :
Detail :
NAME: The "official" or, if not available, the most commonly accepted name of the vessel at the time of loss. Official names come from Merchant Vessels of the U.S., U.S. Custom House Registries and National Archives of Canada. It should be noted that, although MVUS is generally accurate, it does have occasional errors. [Note on the alphabetization scheme: Vessels with single-word or "standard" multi-word names are listed alphabetically. Vessels with compound names (i.e. named after people) are alphabetized by the last name of the person (this is done because many of these vessels are referred to in the press and elsewhere by their "last" name). Some names appear to be 1st/last names, but arent (i.e. LAURA BELLE, JOHN MARK). Vessels named after people with formal or informal titles are alphabetical by the title (i.e. COMMODORE JACK BERRY in the Cs, DON QUIXOTE in the Ds, LADY ELGIN in the Ls ). Vessels given "CITY" or "STATE" names (i.e. CITY OF DETROIT, STATE OF MICHIGAN) are in the Cs or Ss, respectively. An attempt has been made to cross-reference all names which might cause confusion.]
OTHER NAMES: Other official names used either before or after the accident. Date of name change may follow in parentheses. Also shown are nicknames and common erroneous spellings, so that the reader may recognize them. "None" means there was no other name for the vessel. "?" means that there may have been another name, but it is unknown.
OFFICIAL NO.: The official registration number of the vessel. Numbers with no prefix are U.S. official numbers. Numbers with "C" prefix are Canadian registered, BR for British, etc. "?" means registration number is unknown, but vessel is probably American. "C?" means number is unknown, but vessel is probably Canadian. "None" means vessel was unregistered or was lost in the era before official numbers were assigned to all vessels (1868 for U.S. vessels).
TYPE AT LOSS: Type of vessel, material of construction, type of cargo normally carried and number of masts (sail vessels only) at time of loss. "Propeller" means the method of propulsion, not the class of passenger and freight vessels known as propellers. This line may also contain a specific term for the vessel type, such as "rabbit" or "steambarge."
BUILD INFO: Year, builder and city of construction of the vessel. May be followed by US or Canadian official number, if the vessel had changed national registration.
SPECS: Dimensions and tonnages of the vessel at time of loss. Figures are rounded to the nearest unit. Measurements are in feet and take the following form: length of keel x beam x molded depth. "(oa)" stands for overall measurement. Tonnages have the following abbreviations: g for gross tonnage, n for net tonnage, gc for gross tonnage (Canadian measure), nc for net tonnage (Canadian measure), t for unspecified tonnage, bbl for barrel capacity, om for "old measure," the earlier U.S tonnage measure used before about 1868.
DATE OF LOSS: The date of the accident which led to the loss of the vessel.
PLACE OF LOSS: Specific location of the accident, as far as can be determined, referenced to some prominent geographic point. In general, geographic names in use at the time of the loss are shown. Loran or GPS numbers are not provided. Divers or others wishing the exact locations of known wrecks should consult local sources.
LAKE: Great Lake where the loss occurred. Accidents in rivers or connecting waters are referenced to the lake with which they connect. The Detroit and St. Clair Rivers and Lake St. Clair are treated as separate bodies. For purposes of this list, the Great Lakes' downbound end is approximately on a line between Clayton, NY and Kingston, Ontario, at the head of the St. Lawrence River.
TYPE OF LOSS: The major cause of the accident. A few entries have multiple major causes (e.g. storm/fire).
LOSS OF LIFE: Number of lives known to be lost by most reliable source. Includes lives of lifesaving crewmen or bystanders, if they were lost at the same time as the accident.
CARRYING: Cargo, passengers or other lading carried at time of loss. "Light" and "in ballast" mean without cargo.
DETAIL: Contains such important detail on the accident as is known as well as additional detail and historical information on the vessel itself. All known detail is not included for reasons of space.
SOURCES - Sources and contributors used for wreck information or to identify the vessel. The order in which sources appear has no significance. In some cases, sources in which the vessel would be expected to be found, but is not found, are shown as "not in ..." [e.g. Canadian bark EMPIRE, a large vessel owned out of Chatham, Ont., should be in mmgl, but is not, hence the notation "not in mmgl."] Abbreviations for sources:
PUBLISHED sources:
(op = out of print; doc = document from private collection)
a&f - Ahoy & Farewell - J. A. Jackman, ed., The Marine Historical Society of Detroit, Detroit, 1970.
adv - The str ADVENTURE and Kelleys Isl..., Labadie, C. Patrick & Charles E. Herdendorf. Ohio Lake Erie Commission, Toledo, OH, 1998.
ae - Amhersburg Echo
atl - Around The Lakes - Detroit Dry Dock Co., Detroit, 1894. doc
anfs - American Naval Fighting Ships, U.S. Navy; Naval Historical Center, USGPO, Washington, 1975 .
asn - The History of the American Sailing Navy - Chappelle, Howard I., W.W. Norton, Bonanza Books, NY, 1949.
bbas - Blue Book of American Shipping - 1897 - Web page of Walter Lewis: http://www.hhpl.on.ca/GreatLakes/
bc - Buffalo Commercial Wrecklist of 1851, published Jan 9, 1852 in Milwaukee Sentinel - Robert Jaeck Collection
bcw - Buffalo Commercial Advocate Wrecklist of 1849, published Jan 2, 1850 - Robert Jaeck Collection
clu - Selected Canadian Lake Underwriters lists & Lloyd's lists doc
csqw -Canvas and Steam on Quinte Waters - Metcalfe, Willis. South Marysburgh Marine Society, South Bay, Ont., 1979.
csv - Canadian Coastal and Inland Steam Vessels, 1809-1930 - Mills, John M., Steamship Historical Society of America,
Providence RI, 1979 (plus three supplements). On-line at: http://126.96.36.199/marmus/mills.htm
ctw - Chicago Tribune wrecklist for 1856, pub in Milwaukee Sentinel of Nov 17, 1856 - Robert Jaeck Collection
dm - Dive Michigan! - Harrington, Steve. Maritime Press, Mason, MI, 1990.
do - Dive Ontario - Kohl, Cris. Self-published. Chatham, Ont., 1995
do2 - Dive Ontario 2 - Kohl, Cris. Self-published. Chatham, Ont., 1994.
eas - Encyclopaedia of American Shipwrecks - Berman, Bruce D., Mariner's Press, Boston, 1972.
eb - The Wreck of the Erie Belle - Stein, C. E., Ship 'N Shore Publishing, Wheatley, Ont., 1970.
eh - Early American Steamers - Heyl, Eric (4 volumes)
eluc - Early Life in Upper Canada - Guillet, Edwin C., U. of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1963
es - Echo Soundings (Amherstburg Echo) Vol. 1 Nos. 1-4, Vol. 2, No. 1-3 - Marsh Collection Society, Amherstburg, Ont., 1998-99.
fk - "Fool Killer": The Great Lakes' First Submarine - Harris, Partricia A. G. , Michigan City Historical Society, Michigan City, Ind, 1982.
g8s - Guardians of the 8th Sea - O'Brien, T. M. , USCG Public Relations, Washington, 1976.
glc - The Great Lakes Car Ferries - Hilton, George W., Howell-North, Berkeley, CA, 1962 - op
gld - Green's Marine Directory of the Great Lakes, 1916 - Green, Fred L. (from Walter Lewis' Webpage: http://www.hhpl.on.ca/GreatLakes/ )
globe - List of 1866 casualties from Jan 25, 1867 Toronto Globe doc
glp - Great Lakes Pilot - U.S. Lake Survey, Corps of Engineers, U. S Army, Detroit, 1970.
glss - Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Survivals - Ratigan, William - Eerdmann's Publishing, Grand Rapids, MI, 1960 (still in print: Freshwater Press, Cleveland)
gs - Great Stories of the Great Lakes - Boyer, Dwight. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1966
gsg - Ghost Ships, Gales and Forgotten Tales - Olesczewski, Wes. Avery Color Studios, Marquette, MI, 1995.
gsgl - Ghost Stories of the Great Lakes - Boyer, Dwight. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1968
gwgl - Great Wrecks of the Great Lake - Stonehouse, Frederick. Harboridge Press, Marquette, 1973.
h - Directory of Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes - Heden, Karl E. Boston, Bruce Humphries Publications, 1966.
hcgl - Historical Collections of the Great Lakes - Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Robert Graham, curator Link
hdm - History of Detroit and Michigan - Farmer, Silas, S. Farmer & Co., Detroit, 1884. op
hgl - History of the Great Lakes - Mansfield, John Brant, J. H. Beers, Chicago, 1899 op
hmc - Short History of Marine City - McElroy, Frank (ed. by Gareth McNab) Marine City Rotary Club, Marine City (Michigan), 1980.
irs - Isle Royale Shipwrecks - Stonehouse, Frederick. Avery Color Studios, AuTrain, MI, 1977.
is - Inland Seas (vol. & number may follow), The Great Lakes Historical Society, Cleveland/Vermilion, OH, 1945 - pres.
iwm - Ice Water Museum - Oleszewski, Wes. Avery Color Studios, Marquette, MI, 1993.
ks- Keweenaw Shipwrecks - Stonehouse, Frederick. Avery Color Studios, AuTrain, MI, 1988.
le - Lake Erie - Hatcher, Harlan. American Lakes Series, Bobbs-Merrill, 1944. op
ledc - Lake Erie Dive Chart - Ackerman, Paul W., ed. Midwest Explorer's League, 1985
lh - Lake Huron - Quaife, Milo M. American Lakes Series, Bobbs-Merrill, New York, 1944. op
lhdc - Lake Huron Dive Chart - Ackerman, Paul W., ed. Midwest Explorer's League, 1986
lhl - Merchant Steam Vessels of the U.S. - the "Lytle & Holdcamper List" w/supplements. Steamship Historical Society of America, Inc., Staten Isl. NY, 1975.
lm - Lake Huron - Landon, Fred American Lakes Series, Bobbs-Merrill, New York, 1944. op
lmdc - Lake Michigan Dive Chart - Ackerman, Paul W., ed. Midwest Explorer's League, 1987
lo- Lake Ontario - Found, Arthur. American Lakes Series, Bobbs-Merrill, New York, 1944. op
lol - Lore of the Lakes - Bowen, Dana, self-published, Daytona Beach, FL, 1940 (still in print: Freshwater Press, Cleveland)
ls - Lake Superior - Nute, Grace Lee. American Lakes Series, Bobbs-Merrill, New York, 1944. op
lsdc - Lake Superior Dive Chart - Ackerman, Paul W., ed. Midwest Explorer's League, 1988
lsp - Long Ships Passing - Havighurst, Walter. New York, McMillan & Co. 1942
lss - Lake Superior Shipwrecks - Wolff, Julius.
lssc - Lake Superior's Shipwreck Coast - Stonehouse, Frederick. Avery Color Studios, AuTrain, MI, 1986.
mdwl - Marine Disasters on the Western Lakes during 1869 - Capt. J. W. Hall (from Walter Lewis webpage: http://www.hhpl.on.ca/GreatLakes/)
mh - Michigan History Magazine - Bureau of History, Mich Dept. of State, Lansing.
m&h - Mysteries & Histories - Oleszewski, Wes, Avery Color Studios, Marquette, MI, 1997
mjs - Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (newspaper)
mmgl - Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Registry List - Web page at: http://188.8.131.52/marmus/regist.htm
modoc - MODOC WHISTLE - Journal of the Saginaw River Marine Hist. Soc., Bay City, MI - 1991-Present
mol - Memories of the Lakes - Bowen, Dana T. Self-published, Daytona Bch, Fla., 1946. (still in print, Freshwater Press)
mpl - Milwaukee Public Library Great Lakes Marine Collection (including Runge file summaries) ttp://www.mpl.org/files/central/greatlakes/glakes.htm
mqs - Marquette Shipwrecks - Stonehouse, Frederick. Harboridge Press, Marquette, 1974.
ms - Munising Shipwrecks - Stonehouse, Frederick. Avery Color Studios, AuTrain, MI 1980
mv,mvus - Merchant Vessels of the U.S.- U. S. Dept. of Treasury, Steamboat Inspection Service, etc. -doc - (most op)
NAC - National Archives of Canada - Web page at: http://www.archives.ca/index.html
net - various internet sources - hard copies are in my clipping file
ns1 thru ns5 - Namesakes series, Greenwood, John O. (ascending from 1900-09 volume) Freshwater Press, Cleveland,1975-87
nsp - my newspaper clipping file [clippings mostly from Detroit Free Press]
osdo - Old Shipping Days in Oswego - Finn, Leo. Oswego, NY op
phr - notes from Port Huron Custom House Registrations by Richard Wright - Ralph Roberts Collection doc
polk - Polk's Great Lakes Marine Directory - 1883 - R.L. Polk & Co., Chicago, 1884. op
ppm - Past and Present of Macomb County - Eldredge, R. F., Clark & Co, Chicago, 1905 op
pss- By Paddlewheel, Sail & Steam - Fisher, M. C. self-published, 1991.
rep - Writings of R.E. Prescott - Alcona County Herald, Lincoln, MI, 1934.
rsh - Red Stacks Over the Horizon - Elliott, J. L., Eerdmanns, Grand Rapids, MI, 1967.
rsl - Register of Ships of the Lakes and River St. Lawrence, 1864 - http://www.hhpl.on.ca/GreatLakes/
s - The Salvager - Doner, Mary F. Ross & Haines, Minneapolis, 1958.
sagl - Strange Adventures of the Great Lakes - Boyer, Dwight. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1974
sb - Wreck list of SEABOARD magazine of Jun 16, 1892, showing wrecks of 1886-91
sgr - Story of Grand Rapids - Lydens, Z. Z., ed. Kregel Pub., Grand Rapids, 1966.
sgl - Ships of the Great Lakes - Barry, J. T., Howell-North, Berkely, CA, 1976
sii - Steamboats in Ice - Donahue, James. Anchor Publications, Cass City, MI, 1995.
sip - Schooners in Peril - Donahue, James. Anchor Publications, Cass City, MI. 1995.
ski - Profiles of Shipwrecks in the Vicinity of Kelley's Island, Lake Erie, Herdendorf, E. and L. Pansing, GLHS, unpublished ms.
slh - Shipwrecks of Lake Huron - Parker, Jack. Avery Color Studios, AuTrain, MI, 1986.
sls - Shipwrecks of Lake Superior - Wolff, Julius. Lake Superior Marine Museum Assoc., Duluth, MN, 1979. (older version of lss (see above))
smgl - Ships and Men of the Great Lakes - Boyer, Dwight. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1977 (still in print: Freshwater Press)
sol - Shipwrecks of the Lakes - Bowen, Dana. Self-published, Daytona Beach, Fla, 1952. (still in print: Freshwater Press)
sound - Sounds of Disaster - Oleszewski, Wes. Avery Color Studios, Marquette, MI, 1993.
soundings - Soundings: Jour. of the Wisc. Marine Hist. Soc.: http://www.mpl.org/files/central/greatlakes/soundings.htm
ssa - Shipwrecks of the Saugatuck Areas - Lane, Kit. Saugatuck Commecial Record, Saugatuck, MI, 1974.
ssb - Shipwrecks of the Sleeping Bear - Harold, Steve. Pioneer Study Center, Traverse City, MI, 1984.
ssnr - A Century of Steam and Sail on the Niagara River, Cumberland, Barlow. Musson Book Co. , Toronto, 1913 op
st - Shipwreck Tales - Kohl, Cris. Self-published. Chatham, Ont., 1987.
stb - Shipwrecks of Thunder Bay - Stonehouse, Frederick. B & J Watery World, Alpena, MI, 1986.
ttgl - True Tales of the Great Lakes - Boyer, Dwight, Freshwater Press, Cleveland, 1971.
vbs - Vessels Built on the Saginaw - Dave Swayze, Ralph Roberts & Don Comtois, Saginaw River Marine Historical Society, Bay City MI, 1994.
umr - Board of Marine Undrwriters Marine Register - 1861. Jack Messmer Collection.
usls - United States Lifesaving Service annual reports - doc (mostly supplied to me by Wes Oleszewski)
ussn - American Sailing Navy - Chapelle, Howard I. Bonanza Books, NY, 1949.
wb - U.S. Weather Bureau Reports doc
wbm - U.S. Weather Bureau annotated maps doc
win - Shipping Casualties on the Great Lakes - Winkelmann, A.
wl - Walter Lewis Collection and web page, Kingston, Ont.: http://www.hhpl.on.ca/GreatLakes/
wm - Went Missing - Stonehouse, Frederick. Avery Color Studios, AuTrain, MI, 1977.
wssa - The Wreck of the S. S. Alexandria, Canadian Archeological Divers Assn, Toronto, 1967
www - In the Wake of the Walk in the Water - Wendt, Gordon. Self-published, Sandusky, OH, 1984.
CONTRIBUTORS and Private Collections:
bb - Brendon Baillod Collection and database, Lake Michigan
brb - Brent Bamford, London, Ont.
bcha - Berrien County Historical Association (Robert C. Myers)
cc - Chris Campbell
cr - Clive Reddin, Toronto
dao - Dave Oney, North Fairfield, OH
dc - Don Comtois Collection, Bay City, MI
dcr - Doyle C. Rogers, crewman aboard str J. H. REED
df - Dan Fountain Collection
dg - David Galbraith, Hamilton, Ont. http://www.hwcn.org/~ae621/favourites/index.html
dh - David Hamilton, Amherstburg, Ont.
dmt - David M. Teepell list, Eastern Lake Ontario wrecks - 1868-1922
dp -Dale Pohto, Mentor, Ohio
r - Dave Reed, Port Perry, Ont.
els - Elmer L. Shafer, Pepper Pike, Oh (radio operator on CG cutter OSSIPEE - 1942)
emt - Esther M. Thompson, (descendant of a victim of the loss of the tug GRACE)
ff- Francis Farrell, St. Paul, MN (crewman on HENRY STEINBRENNER)
gcs - Gordon C Shaw, Thornhill, Ont.
ge - Gail Elliott, Roseville, MI
gl - Godon Lawson, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.
gmw - Georgann and Mike Wachter, Avon Lake, OH
go - Gerry Oderkirk
hh - Harvey Hadland, Bayfield, WI
hm - Hugh McNichol, Lansing, Mich (g-grandson of a J. Reid salvage supervisor)
ja - Joe Amberik, Cleveland, OH (crewman on Black Marlin)
jb - Joe Barr, Eastpointe, MI
jby - Jim Byrne
jd - John Dillon, Bay View, WI
jk - Koch Collection, Lake Erie
jm - Jack Messmer Collection
jos - John M. O'Shea, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Michigan
jtd - John T. Davidson, Marion, IL (son of the deckman on the salvage tug SALVOR)
jw - John Weichel, Southampton, Ont.
kvd - Derek Van Dahm, Westmont, IL
mar - Martin A. Riepma, Wellington, Fla.
mh - Mary Howard (no hometown given)
mu - Meredith Ulstad
ns - Neil Schultheiss Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping web site ["Boatnerd"] - http://www.boatnerd.com/
nsc - Natalie (Nordstrand) Scheller, Lowell, MI (daughter of crewman on tug LEON J.)
pc - Patricia Codney, Willoughby, OH
pac - Paul Carroll, Goderich, Ont.
pdw - Peter D. A. Warwick, Hamilton, Ont.
pf - Peter Ferris (Forest Park, IL)
rb - Ron Beaupre
rf - Rob Farrow, Thunder Bay, Ont.
rl - Ryan LeBlanc, Thunder Bay, Ont. (President, S.O.S Lake Superior)
rj - Robert Jaeck, Racine, WI
rnc - Rick Neilson Collection, Kingston, Ont.
rp - Richard Palmer Collection
rkr - Ralph K. Roberts Collection
rrc - Ralph R. Christiansen
sm - Skip Meier, Detroit Marine Hist. Soc.
se - Stephen B. Ellingson Collection, Andover, KS
sf - Suzanne Frantz, St. Clair, MI
svi - Seaview Imaging (Dan & Joyce Lindsay) Brantford, Ont.
ts - Ted Swayze, Hanover Park, Il
waw - William A. Warnick, Hamilton, Ont.
wes - Wes Oleszewski Collection
wl - Walter Lewis Collection and web page, Kingston, Ont.
wmn - William McNeil Collection
ws - William Stephan, jr., Darien, Il
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For this this recipe I used pork ribs rack which should be available in most large supermarket. For our dish today I bought it from my favourite supermarket, the South Supermarket in Filinvest Alabang, yes I am in Manila for my Holiday Vacation. For the Pinoy style marinade, to make it simple I used Mama Sita's barbeque marinade plus some soy sauce, banana ketchup, kalamansi and chopped garlic.
Here is the recipe of my Baby Back Ribs, Pinoy Style.
1 pc. about 1.5 kilo pork rib rack, cut in half
1 small bottle Mama Sita's barbeque marinade
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4-1/3 cup kalamansi juice
1/2 head garlic, chopped
1/2 cup banana ketchup
1/4 cup cooking oil
Cooking procedure:
To marinate, place the pork ribs in a rectangular container with lid. Add in the garlic, kalamasi, Mama Sita's barbeque marinade and 1/3 cup of banana ketchup. Using your hand mix thoroughly the marinade and ensure that the pork ribs are evenly coated with the marinade mixture. Replace the lid, place inside the refrigerator and let marinate for at least overnight.
To make the basting mixture mix banana ketchup and cooking oil in a small bowl.
To bake arrange the marinated pork ribs in a rectangular baking dish, cover with 2 sheets of aluminium foil. Place the baking dish in an oven pre-heated to 125°C to 150°C, bake for 1.5 hours. Then remove the aluminium and discard the oil that have accumulated on the baking dish.
To broil, baste with a thick coat, about half of the basting ketchup. Return to the oven and broil for 5 to 8 minutes. Carefully turn over the pork ribs and baste with the remaining basting ketchup, broil for 5 to 8 minutes. Serve hot with your favorite grilled side dish.


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Video: Machine Man Book Reading
A long video of a Machine Man book reading at Embiggen Books in Melbourne, Australia (October 2011).
A long video of a Machine Man book reading at Embiggen Books in Melbourne, Australia (October 2011).
Now there's this app, Subtext, that lets you read books and share your comments about them in real-time with other people reading the same book. Little speech bubbles in the margins pop up: you tap them, you get to read what other people are saying about a particular plot twist, or character death, or whatever.
In some cases, the author has gone through and made a bunch of those comments him or herself, and these read a little like a DVD commentary track.
I mention this because I'm one of those authors: Machine Man is one of their launch titles. So, if, you know, you feel I've been too secretive about the creative process behind Machine Man so far, now is your chance for some insight.
At first I thought you would have to turn those comments off when reading a Subtext book, at least the first time through, because otherwise that would be really distracting. But I have found that this is impossible. You know the comments are lurking there, and it's too much to resist turning them back on when you're wondering, "Does anyone else think this story just completely went off the rails?"
So that's pretty cool. Not from an author's perspective. From an author's perspective, it's horrible. I want you to sit there and read what I've damn well written for you. But as another example of users seizing control over their own entertainment experiences, it seems significant.
Movie news! I just changed the subject. That's what happened there. Mark Heyman, the scriptwriter of Black Swan, who's been busy working on what I have to say is a freaking fantastic Machine Man script, I know I'm not allowed to tell anyone, Mandalay, BUT IT IS AWESOME, has sold his "Facebook thriller" script XOXO, with Darren Aronofsky producing. So it's all going pretty nicely in Heyman-land. Syrup is deep in post-production and I still haven't seen it, not that I'm thinking about it every ten minutes or anything. And the leads are busy: Amber Heard is doing interviews for The Rum Diary, and Shiloh Fernandez is becoming an eco-terrorist.
I'm a little nervous about this, but here is the nerdiest thing I have ever done. You realize that bar is already pretty high. I have programmed web games. I have considered domain name availability before naming my offspring. But this is the first time I have publicly released a version control system history of a book.
I just lost you. I realize that. Unless you are some kind of freako super-geek, in which case, welcome to the tiny minority of the human race that may appreciate this. The rest of you: a revision control system is usually used for writing software, and tracking the changes you make. I used one of these for the Machine Man serial, since I was uploading a page per day, and it needed to be processed for sending out to people's email inboxes and cell phones, and I lost you again, didn't I? Okay.
The point is I have the entire edit history of Machine Man all the way back from notes. And you can browse to any particular page and see how it evolved from something to nothing.
Here is an example, using Version 1 of Page 18:
It's just a note to myself about what this page might be about. By clicking the "→V2", you move ahead to Version 2 of that page:
New words are green, deleted words are red. This page is hard to read because the software is making bad guesses about how the different versions fit together. In actuality, I simply deleted my note and wrote a first version.
Then I corrected a spelling mistake:
And continued tweaking in versions 4 through 9.
The final version is here. And if you have the book, you can follow along at home to the version that wound up in the novel:
I'm not sure what use this is to anybody, other than for exposing my writerly fumblings in an even more humiliating manner than I've already done. But it was POSSIBLE, so I have DONE IT.
To access the Source version of a page in the Machine Man serial, click the tiny, near-invisible nut on the top-right of any serial page. Or append "&v=1" to the URL, if you're that nerdy. Which, if you've read this far, you surely are.
I'd kind of forgotten what it was like to have a new book out. It's like this:
Basically, a strange time. And that's even without a US book tour, which is usually a whole added level of surrealism for me. But I replaced it with the Skype tour, so I guess it balanced out. Actually, the Skype tour was far more successful than I expected. Or, more specifically, it contained far less crazy than I feared. I'm not saying you people are crazy. Not all of you. It was just that I was pretty sure that at some point I would find myself talking to a person who wanted me to join his underground resistance movement, and read his manuscript. But that didn't happen. So thank you to everyone for being so nice and sane. The best part of book tours is getting to chat to readers—well, that and the hotel room service—so it was like taking just that part and condensing it down.
Tomorrow I'm off to the Brisbane Writers Festival, but next week, guess what? A clean calendar! I'm really excited about that. That means I can write.
P.S. I just realized I should probably link to some of the promotion I've been doing. To, you know, promote. I've been uploading YouTube videos, how about that? Here's one:
Machine Man is out today. As celebration/punishment, I offer you this promotional book trailer.
Also: win an original manuscript. I wasn't sure which to go with as the blog title. Which do you think is more alluring? It's the manuscript, isn't it? Well, it's too late for that now. Stop going on about it.
So two new promotions today. PROMOTION #1: WIN A MACHINE MAN MANUSCRIPT! This is a mid-2010 working draft of the novel that I scribbled notes over. It's 413 pages. I don't know how I'm supposed to mail that. The postage will ruin me. Anyway, you can win that, and magnets and books, if you enter before August 9 and live in the US or Canada. Yes, this one is a North American promotion. Don't look at me like that. I don't control the global publishing industry.
PROMOTION #2: SKYPE WITH MAX! Since I'm not doing a book tour, I decided to Skype myself around. That sounds kind of dirty. But the idea is you get the joy of my virtual presence with none of the body odor. It's win-win. Basically I'll call you and you have ten minutes to ask questions or show me your cats or whatever you like. Well. Not whatever. Keep your clothes on. But you get the idea.
To qualify for this, you buy three books. I had to pick a number that was low enough to be reasonable, yet high enough to prevent me spending the rest of my life delivering this promotion. So I chose three.
For this you can live anywhere in the world. You see, when it's up to me, I remember my friends in far-off corners of the world, like England. I remember you.
P.S. I haven't received my magnets yet, but when I do I'll give some of those away to people outside of North America, too.


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And if I made a fool, if I made a fool, if I made a fool
On the road, there's always this
And if I'm sewn into submission
I can still come home to this
Man. The world is weird. And sometimes, it can surprise you.
I've been hired by SI.com as a contributing blogger.
This post has been, oddly, very difficult to write. I've started, stopped, and Ctrl-A + Deleted at least 10 times over the past week. A very big part of me didn't even want to write it. I feel...uncomfortable. But I obviously owe it all to you guys because you've been along on this journey for as long as I have.
You've put up with my narcissistic rants, my incessant tweeting that has effectively spammed your timelines, and my Facebook linking that doesn't even work for most of you. You've let me sleep on your couches, driven me back to my hotels/hostels, bought me meals and drinks, comped me tickets, credentialed me, all out of simple kindness. And of course, you've spent your time reading the things that I wrote, no matter how juvenile and self-indulgent (seriously, how many of you ever thought you'd read *that* many posts about Sam Stosur), and you told other people about things that I wrote, and they told other people, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
All of this has given me the freedom and the drive to do what I've done for the past three years. Most of you were around when I quit my job. That was pretty darn scary and traumatic. But you guys gave me the confidence to take the plunge, knowing (hoping?) that things would work out. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Y'all saved a very weary soul with your extraordinarily kind words.
And so the journey continues. SI.com will be relaunching/rebranding their tennis blog (currently called Open Source), with an eye towards bringing tennis to both mainstream and hardcore fans. I'll be the woman behind the bloggin' wheel with the goal of bringing my own take on this little crazy yellow ball sport to a wider audience, while staying true to my convictions as both a tennis fan, a writer, and, in some ways, an entertainer. I'm not gonna lie, I am very very excited for the opportunity and very thankful to SI.com for taking a chance on me. Lord knows I'll bust my butt to try and justify the risk. I'll let you know when the blog launches. Hopefully you'll still be keen to read my ramblings there.
To put any "sellout" fears to rest, please know that I thought long and hard about this move and I wouldn't have taken the job if I didn't get assurances that I would have the freedom that I need to cover the sport the way I'd like to. Sure, I'll be giving up some things, but they are things that I am willing to let go in exchange for an opportunity to get more people excited about tennis.
So the most common question I hear when I've broken the news to family and friends is "BUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO FORTY DEUCE?????" It's a great question. It's a question I ask myself. Here's what I know.
- Forty Deuce will remain open for business. I'm not shutting it down.
- I will continue to write for Forty Deuce.
- I'll continue tweeting from @FortyDeuceTwits
- I'll continue updating the Forty Deuce Facebook Page.
Past that, I have no clue until everything starts rolling. I could still post here five times a day or I could post here once a week. Balancing both projects will be a work in progress. Who knows, I could drop an F-bomb the first day and get fired (JUST KIDDING BOSSES WHO ARE READING THIS), in which case I'd be back at FD crackin' blue jokes until the cows come home. Or I could find that I can get all my thoughts and opinions out at SI and thus find no reason to post on FD. Bear with me and I'll figure out a way to make this work.
But all that is beside the point. I guess all I really wanted to say in this post, and I've admittedly done a really clumsy job of doing it, is thank you. Really and truly. You have all been so good to me (am I tearing up right now? NO.) and no media outlet, let alone SI.com, would have given me a shot if it wasn't for all of you reading what I wrote. It's truly humbling.
Oh, and also? If you love the sport and you want to somehow get involved in it, do it. Start a blog, start a tumblr, dust off that camera and learn how to use Flickr, open a Twitter account, go get degrees that can serve as an entry point into getting into sports. Follow your passion, be good at what you do, and you just never know. Success is never guaranteed, but you work hard, show your commitment, and have the skills to back it up, who knows.
All I know is that I started this rinky dink blog three years ago and have since become really great friends with one of the first ever commentors on this site. Three years later, I've somehow landed a writing gig and she's a Director of Important Things (unofficial title) at a premier WTA tournament. Heck, Uncle Jamie won a writing contest to get his Tennis Channel gig and now he's writing books with Monica Seles. And our good boy Brodie was a loyal FD commenter and now he's on Getty Images getting papped taking notes next to Maria Sharapova. All I'm saying is, things can happen. The world is weird.
Alright. Group hug time. I love you guys. I hope you'll still be my friends.
I'm sure you have lots of questions. Feel free to let them rip in the comments and to the extent I can, I'll answer them.


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Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk arrives in Vienna to take part in Intereligious Conference on the problems of family
On 5 December 2011, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations (DECR), arrived in Vienna with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to take part in the Intereligious Conference on the Family in Crisis. His Eminence leads a Moscow Patriarchate's delegation, consisting of archpriest Sergiy Zvonarev, DECR secretary for far abroad countries; archpriest Vladimir Tyschuk, rector of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Vienna; hieromonk Dimitry (Pershin), chairman of the Commission on Bioethics of the Synodal Department for Youth Affairs; deacon Dimitry Safonov, a DECR staff member; A. Komov, a representative of the World Congress of Families in Russia; Gleb Slobin, deputy director of the "Family Welfare" psychological service; and I. Protaschuk, a teacher of the highest qualification category.
Upon arrival in the capital of Austria, Metropolitan Hilarion visited the Cathedral of St. Nicholas of the Vienna and Austria diocese, which he led from 2003 to 2009.
That same day in the evening, Metropolitan Hilarion attended a reception given by the President of Austria Heinz Fischer in honour of the participants in the Conference.
Attending the reception were delegations of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Conference of European Rabbis, and the "Appeal of Conscience" Foundation with headquarters in New York, USA. In his address, President Fischer acknowledged the importance and timeliness of the Conference.
Metropolitan Hilarion warmly greeted the President and all those present and underscored the urgency of preserving traditional family in the contemporary world. He pointed out a danger of denying the traditional concept of family for the benefit of liberal standards. The DECR chairman believes that common protection of traditional family for the sake of the future is an urgent problem for the Conference to solve.
Speaking at the reception were also Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Christof Schönborn; President of the "Appeal of Conscience" Foundation Rabbi Arthur Schneier; and President of Conference of European Rabbis, Chief Rabbi of Moscow Pinchas Goldschmidt.
During the reception, the DECR chairman had talks with the President of Austria Heinz Fischer, Rabbi Arthur Schneier, and Cardinal Cristof Schönborn.
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Perennial to trees, from membranous bulb, fibrous corm, scaly rhizome, or erect caudex
Stem generally underground
Leaves generally basal, often withering early, alternate, generally ± linear
Inflorescence various, generally bracted
Flower generally bisexual, generally radial; perianth often showy, segments generally 6 in two petal-like whorls (outer sometimes sepal-like), free or fused at base; stamens 6 (or 3 + generally 3 ± petal-like staminodes), filaments sometimes attached to perianth or fused into a tube or crown; ovary superior or inferior, chambers 3, placentas generally axile, style generally 1, stigmas generally 3
Fruit: generally capsule, loculicidal or septicidal (berry or nut)
Genera in family: ± 300 genera, 4600 species: especially ± dry temp and subtropical; many cultivated for ornamental or food;
some TOXIC. Here includes genera sometimes treated in Agavaceae, Amaryllidaceae, and other families.
Perennial from elongate bulb of 1 fleshy scale, generally with small, bead-like segments of persistent rhizome
Leaves 2 (1 in non-flower plant), basal, 635 cm, lanceolate to ovate (solitary basal leaf wider), narrowed to petiole, glabrous; margin entire to wavy
Inflorescence: raceme; flowers 110; bracts 0
Flower showy, nodding; perianth segments 6, similar, free, ± lanceolate, ± strongly recurved; stamens 6; style 1, stigma entire to 3-lobed
Fruit ovoid to oblong
Seed ± ovoid, ± angular, brown
Chromosomes: n=12
Species in genus: ± 25 species: especially temp North America
Etymology: (Greek: red, from flowers of some)
Reference: [Applegate 1935 Madroño 3:58113; Shevock et al. 1990 Madroño 37:261273]
Attractive in woodland gardens. Pressed specimens fade, so leaf and flower markings should be recorded fresh.
Bulb 4055 mm, slenderSee the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Leaf 1025 cm, oblong to ovate, entire to ± wavy-margined, mottled with brown or white
Inflorescence: stalk 1230 cm, ± reddish; flowers 14
Flower: perianth segments 1835 mm, widely lanceolate, violet to pink (darker toward tip) with dark purple zone at base, inner with small sac-like folds at base; stamens 1014 mm, filaments slender, purple, anthers pale brown to purple; style 68 mm, violet, stigma entire or with lobes < 1 mm
Ecology: UNCOMMON. Dry woodlands, openings
Elevation: 3001600 m.
Bioregional distribution: Klamath Ranges
Distribution outside California: sw Oregon
Horticultural information: SHD, DRN, IRR: 5, 6, 7, 15, 16, 17; DFCLT.


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[edit] Our RFID System Software Summary
We are using the open-access-control software v1.3.2 on the Arduino. This handles storing and editing user info in the EEPROM and handling scanned cards and letting people in and out and logging sensors (like motion sensors) and such. This pretty much covers our needs for controlling the board and is nice and stable when the server dies, or somebody reboots it, or whatever. It's a nice interface for both humans and machines and here mostly I'm talking about software we've set up on the server side.
Any code referred to from here on can be found at the Bloominglabs github.
[edit] History
At first we followed the setup outlined by the shop23b guys on their site for logging. There's a script for logging, and for sending email notification. This is great and it worked for us but as a Python hacker I wanted something in Python instead of in shell scripts, and the business with dealing with the USB connection via minicom and detached screen sessions you can attach to as needed seemed a bit awkward and it seemed there had to be a more straightforward way to handle the communication and allow other processes to communicate with the system (about which, more later). But mostly, as hackers we can't just leave things alone.
[edit] Version 1
For this version I set up everything as per the previous link and wrote an IRC bot that handled the basics of saying 'hi steve' when for example steve badged in. This script got the news about steve badging in by looking at the tail of the log sent to the server via the USB port. This was a bit hacky.
Over time this grew and I (steve) developed a Django site w/ a database backend to manage user and badge info. This was of limited utility because again, info was coming from the RFID system via the tail of the log, and sending info back to the RFID board seemed really daunting what with the business of connecting to the screen session and then release it - easy for humans, for Python scripts (written by me) not so much.
So at this point communication was unidirectional but there was still a lot we could do with it. We had the IRC bot, so the irc bot wrote info to the database so it could be queried about recent activity and provide that info. We discovered a cool site called pushingbox and set up notifications there, which could then be attached (via the Django site) to access and sensor events. So for example I would get an iPhone notification via Prowl when somebody checked in.
[edit] Version 2
To address the business of 2-way communication I looked into changing the serial port interface to a network service. The obvious tool to use for this (given my preference for Python) was the Twisted library. It took a bit of time to 'get' the Twisted library given the asynchronous heavily callback-oriented nature of Twisted but eventually I came up w/ the daemon network service in the rfid_network_server/rfid_proxy.tac file. When it is running it's a proper UNIX daemon and a user (or process) can connect on port 6666 (not Satanic because of the last 6). A program (like doorbot) can communicate via sockets or a network library (like Twisted) instead of dealing with minicom and screen and so on. This version was installed 7/15/2012 and appears to work fine but as with everything it will be enhanced and improved over time. It really opens up the possibilities for the web interface as well.


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United Technologies Corporation (UTC) has granted $17,000 multi-year scholarships to three Connecticut high schools participating in the FIRST National Robotics Competition.
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is a high school robotics tournament where teams of students work with teachers and engineering mentors to complete a major technical design challenge. Teams compete for trophies, honors, and awards in a spirited, sport-like competition.
Nonnewaug High School in Woodbury, Westhill High School in Stamford, and Kent School in Kent, each received the UTC grants in support of their competition activities, beginning at the 2009 FIRST Connecticut Regional competition. The scholarships will defray equipment, travel, and other competition-related expenses.
Earlier this year, UTC announced it will provide a scholarship for an "all girls" team to compete in FIRST in 2010, in partnership with the Connecticut Technology Council.
UTC has contributed nearly $3 million to FIRST since 1995. In 1999, UTC's lead sponsorship established the Connecticut Regional FIRST Robotics Competition. This year, from March 26 to 28, some 60 to 80 high school teams from New England, New York, and Florida will compete at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, one of 40 regional events leading to the 2009 FIRST Championship at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta in April. This year, the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship Event will also be held in conjunction with the FIRST Robotics Competition Championship Event and the FIRST LEGO League World Festival. The event will bring together teams from all over the United States, Canada, and Mexico.


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With Monsoon Melody on view at WIELS, Brussels, her largest solo exhibition to date, Thao Nguyen Phan discusses her transition to film to explore colonial legacies and ecological destruction in Vietnam.
Los Angeles' art scene has a lot to offer during Frieze Los Angeles, with galleries, non-profits, and museums gearing up for the fair's second edition between 14 and 17 February 2020. In this Ocula Lowdown, Tessa Moldan lists a selection of the city's must-see shows.
Ack Ro' , Jaki Irvine's reflection on the fragility of life at Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, is an 'ambitious, holistic installation' staged like a 'wild disarray of interconnected yet fragmented pieces'.
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