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In the beginning, three young men decided to approach the youth by issuing a proclamation urging them to join the halutz movement. They did this in this simple manner. One of them who had a nice handwriting wrote the proclamation in Yiddish and Hebrew, and at night they posted them on the walls all over the city, asking the young people to join this movement and to enrol at Topolowa 12. In the following weeks several dozen young men signed up and one girl. It was hoped that they would immediately be able to leave for Israel. There was talk of a group who had managed to make aliyah in 1918. We undertook to build this first group of pioneers of 14 pioneers without delay. Mordechai Yaffe was the 15th he joined them in Israel. C. Beloch who was the oldest headed the group. All of the members were working-class men who had experienced the war and occupation. They had all endured varying degrees of hell in forced labor for the German army - in forestry, metal work, agriculture and other construction work. They had also been taught carpentry and practical skills from an elderly carpenter who lived in the suburbs of Brest. Because of these skills they could independently work upon arrival in Israel and accept jobs such as building the railway line between Lod to the British Military camp at Sarafen, and the construction of barracks for the British Army there.
The ambition of these members was essentially to work in agriculture. Several members had had agricultural experience in the villages surrounding Brest during the time of the expulsion from Brest in W.W.1 They knew how the cut with scythes, thresh the wheat with poles, plough, bind the bales of hay, planting of vegetables, and milking, etc. Many of the Briskers really became agricultural experts and taught agriculture to classes in the settlements of Israel.
The most vital and important question was how to cover the costs of the journey to Israel.
They established a local emigration fund - (the word aliyah was unknown to us at that time). The sum needed to send the 14 members was realized almost immediately. These were: Gershon Halperin (Drori), Aaron Richwert (Amitai), Noah Minkovitch (Shalmoni), Israel Saptiter (Sapir), David Goldberg (Ophir), Eliezer Shapiro, Joseph Machlis (Ben-Porat), Israel Golubovitch (Agun), Joshua Melnik (Kimchi), Berl Domberg (Gorni), engineer Eliezer Balloch, Nissan Daitchman (Ashkenazi), Guterman, and Mordechai Yaffe.
There was a great celebration and demonstration of joy at the departure of the first group of pioneers. Thousands of people accompanied us to the train. In our hometowns there was still hunger and we believed that Israel was in the same situation so we prepared much food sacks of biscuits, sacks of rice, buckwheat and greens. The carriage was filled with food and a huge crate that the members built themselves containing a great many utensils and work tools. Saws, axes, hammers, screwdrivers and other tools. The crate was reinforced with steel corners and a large lock. We had a great deal of trouble with this crate on our journey. Every transfer from train to train, station to station involved great effort and exhausted us. We dragged it like soldiers four strong young comrades lifted it four of the others would occupy the compartment and would let no one inside until the sacks of food and the crate were brought inside.
After arriving in Israel, we tossed all the food into the sea because on our first day we had received a wonderful meal we tasted white bread for the first time in five years. Before leaving for Israel the central headquarters of the Halutz movement in Warsaw had organized for us to be in Grochow a pioneer farm with green fields, a cowshed and a garden where we got a taste of the atmosphere of Eretz Israel. In Grochow we were joined by a girl who travelled with us until we reached Israel, and then left us.
In Vienna our group was split into two due to a shortage of money. The first group went by boat to Israel whilst the second had to remain in Vienna for several weeks. Arriving at the famous port of Jaffa, we were taken ashore by the Arab porters. These port workers were familiar with heavy items they could lift large containers or heavy passengers. However, they had great difficulty in managing the transfer of our crate to the small boat.
The office of the Young Workers had us registered to go to Betania because we had requested agricultural work. We rested at the hotel Presov for several days and then we travelled. There were no passenger trains at that time from Jaffa to Lod so we travelled in a freight carriage. Yehuda Almog (Kapilevitch) himself dragged our bags and packages we ourselves dragged the crate from place to place until we arrived tired and exhausted at a place that had no trees or buildings.
At Betania there was a group called Dror which was the nucleus of the Kibbutz Artzi and then later the Hashomer Hatzair Party. The atmosphere of our community was not felt there, and the comrades from Brest did not feel welcome there. We did not know any tricks and could not understand the spirit of Betania. The isolation, the tiptoeing around - we were not able to make friends with them, as they did not allow us to make friends or become close to them. We sat there for a whole week nobody was interested in us or told us what to do. We saw that there was no place for us there and heard that next to Tiberias there was a large workers camp. They were building a road to Tzemach the first road built by the members of the third aliyah.
In reality we wanted agricultural work, and had arrived there for that purpose, but we couldn't sit around and not work. We sent out a pair of 'spies' who returned that night with the news that there was work on the Tiberias Tzemach road. Without delay, the next morning we hired a boat from an Arab, piled in all our belongings and were on our way. After several hours sailing we arrived at the port of Tiberias. At the labor office we were well received, our baggage loaded onto donkeys and thus we arrived at the camp called Hamei Tiberias The camp had about 500 workers and was on the shores of the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). In the front were straw huts; behind them was an old building which was the kitchen.
We were allocated two huts and slept on the ground on straw mats. The wind from the mountains blew particles of dust and sand and the huts became full of it. In the morning we arose and washed off all the dust and sand in the Kinneret.
In time our group became renowned in the Tiberias - Tzemach road project. We were considered as outstanding workers - especially excelling was Nissan Daitchman (Ashkenazi). The work was very hard and the pay very little we had to be thrifty we wore sandals made out of old tyres that the shoemakers from Tiberias supplied. In the first days of our road building, we all became ill. The hot hamsims (desert winds) were unbearable; the temperature was over 45 degrees Celsius. We spent several days in a temporary hospital in Tiberias. Then the heat dropped and we returned to the road building. We were becoming experienced 'old-timers'. Before the holydays an emissary visited us from the other part of our original group, who had arrived two weeks after us. They had been sent directly to Jerusalem to level off the site for the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus. They were called the Mount Scopus group. Their emissary came to consult with us on how the two groups could be reunited.
In order to reunite with our comrades, we accepted an offer to transfer to the British military camp at Sarafen to work on the construction of the camp. We rented a house at Be'er Yakov from a farmer and began to work building the barracks at the camp. We knew our craft well and earned good money for this 'lighter' work. We could afford good food and our morale lifted from day to day.
The British proposed to the labor office of Hapoel Hatzair (there was not yet a Solel Boneh) that they build a stretch of railway line between Lod and Sarafen. None of the older workers possessed these skills. Jews had never built railway tracks! But our group had several members who had worked in forced labor gangs on railway lines under the German occupation. Therefore, we succeeded in obtaining the British project.
For this work we had to live close to the railway lines we erected huts in the open fields and lived in them for several months until the Arab riots on the Ist of May 1921. On that day - the workers holiday, the whole group had gone to Tel-Aviv except for two guards. During this unrest, one of our group was murdered and we were transferred to a larger work camp.
We began to knock on the doors of the various institutions demanding that they settle us on agricultural land. They offered us Hulda - to replace some of the locals who had accepted work at Kfar Yehezkel. We accepted this offer with joy, and transferred to Hulda at the end of 1921. However, we couldn't stay there for long, as the Hulda group was not financially viable. Water had to be brought from ancient Arab wells an old blind Arab would supply the water in buckets. One could not reach there in winter, so all the harvested produce rotted in the sheds.
Two years later, our group, which was known for it's skilled and capable workers, was transferred to Kfar Yehezkel. We stayed there for a year until we obtained independent agricultural work in Sharona in the lower Galilee, which belonged to the 'Ahuza' company. Sharona also did not have a stable agricultural economy. Water was scarce. The land was partially occupied by Arab leaseholders that yielded a little grain because of their improper and inconsistent land use. All our fervent efforts and idealism did not succeed in establishing a good economic basis for this land.
A few years later, we looked around for possible colonization sites in the Jordan valley. Once again, we sent out 'spies' to find the land a small hill called Tel Toreh was found in the middle of a rich agricultural district in which we wanted to settle. The members of Nachalal knew of this land, and were opposed to it because the land was too low, and flooded in water in winter. They advised us to settle in Ein Bodeh, near Nachalal a place of light and fertile soil. We discussed it between ourselves at length until we decided to take up their proposal.
It took us a whole year to shift from Sharona to Ein Badeh. A year of troubles, hunger and pain. The land of Israel was experiencing a severe economic crisis. We bought a military hut and erected a small barracks outside Afula that we used as a dining room and sleeping quarters for 20 men. In summer we ate outdoors and in winter we sat on the beds eating our meagre piece of bread. There was little work and the pay was not enough to buy food.
Whilst in Afula, the group was offered paid work in Ganigar to build a hut. Several of the comrades went to Ganigar. During their stay a tragedy occurred there. Joseph Machlis (Ben Porat), a young dedicated comrade became ill and died within three days. Two days after his death, his girlfriend committed suicide an eighteen-year-old girl who burnt herself to death. She died in terrible pain. This double tragedy shattered our group.
Finally, in Tevet 1927, our group transferred to our own land at Ein Bodeh, near the settlement of Nachalal. On a beautiful cool day, we went with our two heavily laden wagons on the sandy unmade tracks from Afula to Nachalal, following the shepherds' tracks through the untrodden thorny fields. The wagons dragged on with our group's few possessions beds, straw mattresses, long benches and the famous Brisker crate. At nightfall our wagons reached a clearing with a fence of prickly pears (sabras) as tall as trees. The rains were late that year and the earth was dry, cracked and thirsty, and a cloud of grey dust followed us the entire journey from Afula to our new home.
We erected several temporary huts, made a fire in the field and cooked our evening meal. Excited but exhausted we threw ourselves onto the straw mattresses and went to sleep knowing that many troubles and great efforts awaited us.
Five years later, the farm had grown and developed the stables were full of cattle, the yard was full of machinery and tractors, but the destiny of the Brest group seemed to be to build and develop for others. The members never involved themselves deeply in the problems of the economy of agriculture and farming, whether it was better to become an agricultural settlement of workers (moshav) or a kibbutz. There was an unspoken peaceful agreement between the members not to touch on issues that could cause a split and divide them. But with the growth of the farm the members became involved in the problems of farming and agriculture, and a shadow fell over the group. It became clear that several members wanted to establish a moshav (workers settlement) and the conflict dragged on for a long period and caused a split in the group. The members, who supported the moshav idea, left the place where they had expended so much youthful energy. However, also the members who supported the kibbutz idea did not stay there either. New members arrived and built up the kibbutz that was called Kibbutz Ayanot.
The long hard road that the Brest comrades had achieved as a group had not been in vain. The comrades all came out as strong, educated, skilled workers, with work and life skills. Many of them are, until today, dedicated social activists. They are convinced that they, the first Brest pioneer group, showed the way for hundreds and thousands of those who arrived in Israel from Brest Briskers who lived and had influence in the nation of Israel.
Standing R-L: D. Kotik, Topok, A. Shalmoni
Sitting R-L: unknown, unknown, S. Swartz,
Chaya (Chantche) Yaffe, Chaya Cohen, unknown
Standing R-L: S. Golubovitch,(Arnon), Y. Melnik (Kimchi), Hari, Z. Resnik (Avivi),
Gorni, B.Preger, I. Saptiter (Sapir), D. Goldberg (Ophir)
Sitting: Daitchman (Ashkenazi), G. Halperin (Drori), Chava Cohen-Gratzer,
Y. Govkin, N. Minkovitch (Shalmoni), Guterman
Bottom row: S. Shwartz, Y. Machlis (Ben-Porat), Chaya Yaffe, D. Domberg,
A. Richtwert (Amitai)
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
illustrators Magazine: Previewing Issue #4
David Ashford is our other consultant editor, and although he may be less familiar to followers of Today's Inspiration, he is nonetheless as passionate about illustration, and is doggedly determined in his researches as David Roach. David Ashford penned the feature on the life and art of UK 'hard-boiled- artist'; Denis McLoughlin, which leads off our first issue.
It is a truly compelling read, and an embodiment of our intent with illustrators, that writers should invest their features with real insight, putting the reader in touch with both the personality of the artist, as well as the quality of their artwork. David's love of illustration brought him into contact with many of the editors and artists whose work he had followed and as a consequence, he is able to bring his subjects to life in a way that trawling through Google can never achieve. This is particularly apparent in David's feature on Denis McLoughlin, who he befriended over many years, and is the subject of his recently published biography; The Art of Denis McLoughlin.
We also have the advantage of access to some truly stunning pieces of original artwork, which are providing us with scans, which reveal every subtle nuance and accent of an artist's brushwork. We have had an enormous amount of enthusiastic assistance from galleries and collectors, who have provided us with some fabulous material which we can now share with an audience, way beyond the privileged few who have hitherto been privy to exclusively seeing these artworks in their raw beauty.
Issue 4 of illustrators, is also starting to shape up very nicely; we have a lead feature by Bryn Havord on the work of Michael Johnson, whose fabulous work epitomised the "Swinging Sixties", and who was featured by Today's Inspiration for a week which started on Monday, June 04, 2012.
We are also taking a look at the work of gentleman illustrator Derek Eyles whose passion for building and sailing model boats was often at variance with his editor's desire to maximise his hours at the drawing board as he brought to life scenes from the Wild West in his artwork for such publications as Kit Carson's Cowboy Annual and Chums magazine.
For future issues of illustrators we have features on Brian Sanders...
... Walter Wyles...
... Mick Brownfield...
... Chris McEwan...
... and illustrators agents such as Bardon Artists and Artist Partners lined up. So there is plenty more in store for our readers and we hope you will join us for the journey—it should prove to be eventful and illuminating.
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The subject matter and the illustrations are excellent. The price point for US and Canada is way out of line. I would love to subscribe but the price is prohibitive. Sorry for the negativity!ReplyDelete
Also wishing not to be negative, I have to concur with Stephen. The magazine looks great with the first four issues containing some of my personal favorites: Badia Camps, Wright, Virgil, Sanders, Johnson. But the US and Canada price appears very high and definitely out of my budget. It's a shame too, I treasure Dan's mag and would likewise this publication.ReplyDelete
To Stephan and Douglas: I agree it's pricey, and the cost will certainly be a deciding factor for many. However, it's the base cost that's high - I'm envisioning something more like a small-print-run art book than a mass magazine - I don't see how the US and Canada prices are out of line if shipping is included. A £15 magazine is likely to cost a few pounds to ship overseas.ReplyDelete
A great effort and first issue! Well worth the price. what did you think it would cost $10.00? A magazine of this quality is essential for all illustration art overs.ReplyDelete
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Well, I was curious.ReplyDelete
Assuming Illustrators is similar in size and quality to Dan Zimmer's Illustration Magazine, I weighed one of heavier Illustration issues along with it's packaging (found still in our recycle box.) Then I went to the royal air mail website, then on to a pounds to grams converter and a sterling to dollars converter, and calculated everything for four issues. What I found was Illustrators price point for US and Canada is right in line. Wow. I really didn't think it would cost that much! ($142.)
Man, I sure wish I could get this.
The cost of shipping is a real concern to all the team at Illustrators. The sad fact is that postage costs have gone through the roof over the last three years and it is hurting both independent publishers and the customers they serve. The only thing I can recommend, as a possible saving in the short term, is for people in the US and Canada to buy or order individual copies from their nearest comic store as we do have some North American distribution occurring at the moment.ReplyDelete
Thank you, Peter. That's good to know. I'll definately check out the comic stores.ReplyDelete
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I'm afraid the high postal charges work both ways across the Atlantic. I buy a lot of books and magazines from the USA, and the postal charges are alarming; usually more than the cost of the book or magazine. In the final analysis, I'm afraid it's a question of if you want the publication, you have to pay the price.ReplyDelete
The first issue of illustrators is 96 pages, plus covers, printed on heavy art paper, and is 1cm thick.
I think it will prove to be highly collectible, so one will have to stomach the postal costs.
Just an update on our US distribution status, we have just had confirmation from Bud Plant that he is going to act as our US distributor. Details will be appearing on both the Book Palace Books site as well as the Bud Plant website shortly.This should prove a significant saving on individual copies of Illustrators.ReplyDelete
Illustrators magazine is also distributed through Diamond distributors in the US and UK so you can order this through practically any comic-book shop.ReplyDelete
I ordered the first issue via online retailer dcbservice.com , which after their discount was $19.99 which offset the shipping cost. It just pays to look around instead of complaining
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The head of the world
"The capitol was the head of the world, where the consuls and senators abode to govern the earth": these are the first words in the twelfth century Mirabilia Romae (The Marvels of Rome), the earliest guidebook to ancient Rome. They are echoed in possibly the most famous, certainly the most gripping, modern guide to Rome, written by Georgina Masson in the mid-1960s.
Masson offers her readers concrete advice about how to begin the journey of discovery in the eternal city:
"So let us begin with the Capitol and let us time our first visit, ideally, to coincide with the hour after sunset, when the sky on a fine night is a translucent shade of green and the monuments imperceptibly lit by a master hand are beginning to glow softly in the gathering darkness"
The legends surrounding this hill, Masson reveals, provide "a link between the ancient world and our own"; the experience of walking up the gentle ramp designed by Michelangelo in the hours after sunset has the effect of a Time Machine:
"to Europeans of the Renaissance its history was part and parcel of their own inheritance, and men like Montaigne could truthfully say that they were more familiar with the temples which once stood there than with the existing palaces of their own kings. It was in 1764 that Gibbon was inspired to write his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and in succeeding centuries it has given its name to the seats of government of the new nations that have come into being."
The Companion Guide to Rome. Georgina Masson. 2006.
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I love animals. I love watching animals, learning about animals, hearing animals, feeding animals, etc. So at some point my vacation should involve animals...swimming with dolphins or riding burros down the Grand Canyon or maybe an African safari?? Maybe some day. But for now, my choice was to take part in the Wild Animal Trek adventure at Disneys Animal Kingdom.
On one nice Sunday afternoon at Walt Disney World, my 8 year old son and I embarked on an awesome adventure through the wilds of Africa. The trek started out meeting our guide, where we learned some regulations, like only shoes with toes covered and straps (no sandals, flip flops or slippers) filled out paperwork (in case we get eaten by crocodiles, I willed my giant cactus to my daughter) and proceeded to the outpost. There, we were weighed and measured for our vests and harnesses. The equipment is only designed to work safely for a range of heights and weights, so they had to make sure. The vests had lots of pockets and straps to connect our essentials, like camera and water bottle. Our other non-essentials, we were not allowed to carry with us. A locker was provided for storing these items.
After suiting up, we were each given a special water bottle to fill. The top had two lids: The big lid unscrewed in order to fill the bottle with water, the second smaller lid had a strap connected to the bottle and this is the lid that you use for drinking out of. They are very conscience of things falling off your person and littering the Serengeti. If you wear glasses or sunglasses, you are also giving a glasses strap. That was good because I dont think my sunglasses would have fit the hippos had they fallen in the river.
Only about 12 other explorers were on the adventure with us and our two guides: one as the leader and one as the follower so no one gets lost. In order to hear what our guides are saying as we walk, we also were wearing radio earphones. The guides had many good stories to tell about all of our surrounding, so I was glad that we could listen while we walked and not just wait until we were at our destination to hear about the trees we just walked by or the ant hill you almost stepped on.
Our trek began by walking through the African outpost in Disneys Animal Kingdom and continuing on into the exit only of the gorilla animal trail until we arrived at the secret trail head into the Florida, I mean, Africa jungle. We didnt have to hike too far through the jungle until we arrived at our first stop: hippos! If you have ridden the safari ride at Disneys Animal Kingdom, you would recognize the hippo pool as the first pool on the right...the one you usually dont see hippos in. This pool only has one male hippo but was taught to come to the side of the bank, so we could get a closer look. They fed the hippo lettuce as an persuasion to stay close to the bank. So that we didnt end up as the snack, we snapped into a sliding rail system with our harnesses. This allowed us to get as close to the bank/cliff as we wanted without the fear of falling off. While here, the guides and one hippo specialists told us all about hippo characteristics, feeding, what they were researching and allowed us to ask questions about the hippo. We even posed for a great photo shoot!
More trekking through the jungle brought us to a rickety rope bridge. Are you afraid of heights? Me too! Especially when the rope bridge has missing planks and crosses the crocodile river!! Ok, it was all very safe as we were harnessed into the cable above, but still scary. I made myself take my time, though, while crossing over the bridge to get a good look around. When else can you watch crocodiles in their natural habitat through the steps of a 30ft high rope bridge? And have the Kilimanjaro Safari trucks passing on the road underneath you?
On the other side of the rope bridge, we all once again, clipped into a safety system so we could stand on the top of a 15 ft. cliff and listen to all that we ever would want to know about crocodiles. The knowledge of the guides is awesome. And they didnt mind silly questions like What would happen if I fell into the pit with all the crocodiles? The guides answer: Well, youd die.. HA!
Since this was the last stop where we needed to be clipped in for safety, we removed our harnesses, filled our water bottles and boarded a truck to leave the jungle and go view the savannah. On the way to the outpost for our lunch, the giraffe spotted our truck and came in for a closer look. I really love watching giraffe, so this was a real treat! The whole family of giraffe surrounded our truck, stood in the middle of the road and stopped the Kilimanjaro traffic for at least 20 minutes. I could have watched them for hours, but alas, when the road was clear we moved on to the outpost.
At the outpost, we had great views of the entire savannah, elephants and flamingos. What a great spot to eat our snacks which consisted of African food such as, smoked meats, curried chicken salad, ginger infused fruit, salmon roulade,tomato hummus and pita rounds, and shrimp all topped with an edible orchid. It was a great relaxing end to an awesome tour! It was a great memory that I have with my son. I am so glad we did this trek.
Some of my final thoughts and tips to those interested in the tour, do it!
-Disney sends you a CD of all the pictures taken during the tour along with some of the best animal shots taken on other tours.
-There is only one potty stop at the end of the tour, during snack time, so dont drink a bunch before hand!
-If you want to bring your camera, make sure it has a strap that can be connected to your vest.
-Must wear closed toe shoes
-The trek isnt all on nice sidewalks. There may be roots, low branches, dirt and bugs. Also if you are extremely afraid of heights, this might be a good place to conquer that fear. You are on a Wild Africa Trek!
-Take an afternoon tour...the animals might think that it is "closing time" and be more restless. i.e. moving around more. That is why the giraffe surrounded our truck. We were by the entrance to their barn where dinner is served. They thought we were there to let them in. The lions and cheetahs were also up and about.
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text: Sebastijan Lechner was one of the youngest artists active during wat is called the Golden Age of Serbian comics, the 1930s. He was born in the Croatian city Osijek. By the age of 17, he had already published three comics in Paja Patak (Donald Duck) magazine; 'Dzarto, junak preistorijskog doba', 'Tajanstveno ostrvo u Tihom okeanu' and 'Zitelji planete Monip'. From 1939, he was present in Mikijevo Carstvo with the series 'Gospodar svijeta', 'Džatro', 'Sigfrid' and 'Princ Bialčo'. The latter remained unfinished due to the outbreak of World War II. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Lechner usually wrote his own scripts. 'Dzarto' was also printed in the French magazine Gavroche under the title 'Sartor'. It is unknown what happened to Sebastijan Lechner during World War II.


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Some thoughts on fully-online history teaching
I haven't posted here in a while, largely because I've been busy boot-camping myself on fully-online teaching. I've been learning a lot! I've taken advantage of the professional-development training I have available, both for online teaching and from our campus teaching-and-learning center. I have staff support from a wonderful instructional designer who helps convert my course designs into clickability on Blackboard. Still, there's always a gap between theory and application. I haven't really known how to write about I'm doing, largely because I'm still up to my ears in figuring it out.
In general, historians have been very skeptical about the idea that we can teach our discipline well without face-to-face, real-time classroom interaction. Well, skepticism or not, I'm doing it.


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Pratt & Whitney's Columbus Engine Center Gives to Community During the Holidays
Charitable giving provides the lifeblood that allows countless organizations to continue to carry out their work, and Pratt & Whitney's Columbus Engine Center in Georgia certainly went above and beyond this past December as they jumped into several projects that made the holidays brighter for a number of people.
Angel Tree Program
For the past eight years, the Columbus Engine Center has been involved in the Angel Tree project, which is a program run through the Salvation Army.
"The Salvation Army gathers information regarding the needy families in our area. 'Angel Tags' are then filled out for each child listing their age, clothing and shoe sizes and also a toy wish list," explained Peggy Murphy, executive assistant at Pratt & Whitney. "We select however many tags that we want to handle. This year, it was 65."
Columbus Engine Center employees select a tag from a Christmas tree within the plant and purchase all, or nearly all, the items on the child's wish list.
"If there are any tags left on the tree, then these [gifts] are purchased from the fund that our general manager, Tom Bode, has set aside. This year, it was seven children," Murphy noted.
The endeavor, which was led by Orlisa Woods, also required the help of a number of Pratt & Whitney volunteers who helped deliver the items to the Salvation Army Distribution Center for sorting and then presented the unwrapped gifts to the parents to give to their children in their own way, said Murphy.
The group effort was a success, with a number of generous individuals ensuring that others in difficult circumstances had a joyous holiday.
Children's Advocacy Center
Another recipient of the Columbus Engine Center's benevolence this past December was the Children's Advocacy Center. Murphy said she, along with other employees from the Women's Forum, became interested in the Children's Advocacy Center after a visit from the United Way during last year's Leadership Giving Drive. Murphy said they were so impressed by Executive Director Lynn Hammock that they asked to take a tour of their center for children.
"While there, Lynn and her staff sat down and discussed what they do at the center and that all their services are free to those who come to the center," said Murphy. "Once we heard what all happens there and how they even go out into the community and the schools to educate, we all knew we wanted to see what we could do to help."
A Children's Christmas with Santa was one of the events the Women's Forum decided to organize beginning in 2012.
"Each child and their siblings were given a gift that had their name on it ... I made stockings for each child, and we filled them with all kinds of goodies - candy, hygiene items and little toy trinkets," said Murphy.
A visit with Santa, photos and refreshments were all part of the festivities.
"Both years, we had at least one child that was so mesmerized by Santa that it warmed our hearts and brought tears to the eyes of all who were there," added Murphy.
The Women's Forum is looking forward to the second event they help arrange for the Children's Advocacy Center - the Daddy Daughter Dance. The dance is the biggest fundraiser for the center, and with Pratt & Whitney as a partner sponsor, Murphy and the group, as well as a number of Pratt & Whitney dads, are looking forward to this year's dance.
Muscogee Manor
The third project of the Columbus Engine Center this past December was Bingo held at Muscogee Manor.
"We have been involved in the project for three years," said Murphy. "It started by our team selecting a nursing home that we could go to, and Muscogee Manor was a great fit."
Led by Victor Morales, eight employees volunteered their time to the project, helping residents with their Bingo cards, and other aspects of the game, and distributing their winnings.
"The prizes this year were healthy snacks and stockings filled with candy and other goodies," said Murphy, noting that diabetic items were also available for those who required them.
The Partners in Education middle school chorus was also on hand that day to sing Christmas songs for the group.
With 430 people working at the Columbus Engine Center, plus hundreds more at Georgia Forging Business and Precision Components International (totaling approximately 1,000), there is no shortage of willing hands to participate in the charitable giving.
"We ask that our employees try to be involved in at least two events each year ... strictly volunteer," said Murphy.
She added, "We normally try to do at least one event a month, but some are small."
From something as simple as doing yard work or home maintenance for a veteran through House of Heroes, to organizing much bigger affairs, such as a two-day airshow and the annual United Way golf outing, the employees of the Columbus Engine Center continue to exemplify the meaning of corporate social responsibility.


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Through on-the-ground study of the leadership challenges facing commanders in the largest battle ever fought in North America, participants learn practical, usable lessons-about team building, morale and courage, dealing with ambiguity, effective communication, and the execution of strategic intent - that will benefit their organizations today. The Gettysburg Leadership Experience is not a study of military strategy, but an excellent opportunity to stimulate new thinking and a new understanding of leadership, teamwork and communication.We begin with dinner at the Antrim House, an ante bellum farm mansion (now a corporate retreat) used as a temporary headquarters by the Union's General Meade on July 1, 1863. After dinner, our historian will put the battle in context with a quick overview of the major participants and what they were trying to accomplish.We will tour the battlefield by foot and in a small bus, stopping at vantage points that overlook the fields and at various locations-such as McPherson's Ridge, Seminary Ridge and Culp's Hill-where important events in the story actually occurred. We eat lunch in a notable Gettysburg restaurant that was a private home in 1863, and then return to the battlefield to visit the Wheat Field, Little Round Top, the Virginia Memorial, the route of Pickett's Charge and the High Water Mark. On the second evening, we reconvene in the Antrim House for a discussion of lessons learned and how we might apply these principles today.
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U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan offered states waivers last year, saying No Child Left Behind forced school districts 'into one-size-fits-all solutions that just don't work.'
California has become apparently only the second state — and by far the largest — to be denied a waiver of requirements of the No Child Left Behind education program, state officials said.
Thirty-four states and the District of Columbia have won waivers from provisions of the 2001 law, one of the signature achievements of the administration of former President George W. Bush, while nine other states and Puerto Rico have received conditional approval or have applications pending, according to the U.S. Education Department.
The agency doesn't publicize which states have been turned down, but Iowa is the only other state to have publicly acknowledged that it has been rejected.
California officials got the news Friday by telephone, The San Jose Mercury News reported, quoting Michael Kirst, president of the state Board of Education.
Kirst told the Mercury News that California's unwillingness to tie teacher evaluations to student test scores was what sank the state's request.
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The denial wasn't a surprise — Kirst and state school Superintendent Tom Torlakson warned local administrators in an open letter Friday (.pdf) that federal officials had indicated that California's request would be turned down.
No Child Left Behind
Thirty-four states and the District of Columbia have won waivers from the 2001 No Child Left Behind law. Nine states (in addition to the Puerto Rico) have received conditional approval or have requests pending:
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- Maine
- New Hampshire
- North Dakota
- Texas
- West Virginia
Two states are known to have been rejected:
- Iowa
Five states haven't requested waivers or have withdrawn their requests:
- Nebraska
- Pennsylvania (plans to request a waiver at a later date)
- Vermont
- Wyoming
Sources: U.S. Education Department; California Education Department; San Jose Mercury News; State of Iowa
"It is disappointing that our state's request — which enjoyed such strong support from parents, teachers, administrators, and education advocates across California — has apparently been rejected," Torlakson said in a separate statement.
Authorization for No Child Left Behind — formal title: the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA — expired in 2007, and Congress hasn't acted to rewrite or refresh it. Last year, the Education Department told the states that they could apply for waivers pending a new law because the current law was "forcing districts into one-size-fits-all solutions that just don't work," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said at the time.
In the meantime, the old law continues to impose student test score standards that keep rising every year, to the point that many states say they're unrealistic in 2012. Critics contend that the law locks states into inflexible standards focused solely on reading and math, neglecting subjects like social studies, the arts, health and physical education.
Majority of states lining up to ditch No Child Left Behind
The old standards require a 100 percent rate of proficiency on standardized reading and math tests by 2014. The penalty for falling short is loss of federal funding for schools serving low-income children.
"On behalf of millions of parents, teachers, administrators and community members who fight for all children every day, we urge you to join us in prioritizing education by coming together to reauthorize and fix No Child Left Behind. We've waited long enough," Betsy Landers, president of the National PTA, wrote in an open letter to President Barack Obama last month.
Torlakson agreed, telling state educators: "The appropriate solution is for Congress to reauthorize the ESEA, replace its inflexible requirements with provisions that accommodate the differences in state policy approaches, and give districts adequate flexibility to improve student achievement."
But that doesn't appear likely to happen any time soon, with Congress transfixed by the looming "fiscal cliff" and immigration reform.
"At the moment, it's unclear if there is a real commitment and consensus in Congress for reauthorizing," Duncan told the Council of Chief State School Officers in a speech last month. "I wish there was a clear commitment and consensus."
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You might remember Lara from this previous Kotaku post, featuring a beautiful rendition of the Skyrim theme. That, dear reader, is only the tip of the music iceberg. And that iceberg is wearing numerous outfits.
The Australian specializes in not only playing game themes (and playing them really well), she also dresses as game characters while playing said game themes really well on both the piano and the violin.
In the above gallery, watch (and listen) as Lara plays through a buffet of game tunes, cosplaying as Lara Croft, Zero Suit Samus, the Mario Bros. and more.
More being Xena Warrior Princess, Sailor Moon and, holy cow, Power Rangers. Check out Lara's YouTube channel below.
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Orioles crush A's to open road trip
Baltimore tops Oakland 10-2 on Thursday
Nate McLouth's patience as the Baltimore Orioles' leadoff hitter is paying off nicely so far.
The rest of the their lineup isn't doing too bad, either.
McLouth reached base four times and scored twice to extend his recent hot streak, Nick Markakis drove in two runs, and Baltimore opened its longest road trip of the season by routing the Oakland Athletics 10-2 on Thursday night.
McLouth singled, doubled, walked and reached on a fielder's choice in six at-bats. The Orioles' leadoff hitter drove in two runs and is batting .444 (8-for-18) over his past six games.
"I'm swinging at good pitches, that's what I'm most happy about," McLouth said. "I'm working the count and swinging at the pitches I want instead of having to swing at what a pitcher wants."
Chris Davis homered and had two RBIs, Adam Jones added three hits, and Jason Hammel pitched six strong innings to help the Orioles win for just the fourth time in their past 20 games at the Coliseum.
Baltimore had a season-high 15 hits, with all nine starters getting at least one. Six players drove in runs.
Hammel, the Orioles' Opening Day starter, settled into an efficient groove after the second, retiring nine of 10 at one point. He also worked out of a two-on, one-out jam in the sixth by getting Brandon Moss to foul out before Chris Young flew out to center.
Troy Patton pitched two innings, and T.J. McFarland worked the ninth to complete the six-hitter.
"[Hammel] made some big pitches with his curveball," Baltimore manager Buck Showalter said. "At this stage in his career, when he gets mad or frustrated, he's able to channel it in the right direction."


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note some important birthdays coming up. Send some flowers or candy.
June is a big birthday month!
June 6 Aram Khachaturian
June 8 Robert Schumann
June 9 Cole Porter, James Newton Howard
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June 15 Edvard Grieg
June 17 Igor Stravinsky
june 18 Richard Rodgers
June 20 Jacques Offenbach
June 21 Lalo Schifrin
June 29 Bernard Hermann
There are days when I absolutely hate Musescore 3. Sure, it is nice that things get automatically spaced in the score so nothing overlaps, so wow gee wiz, uh, isn't that just how it should be? What I hate is that they seem to have gone out of their way to make things more difficult compared with Musescore 2. They seem to have randomly changed things that didn't need changing just to make it frustrating for the use. It used to be easy to change the volume of a single note or chord in a score. But now, once I finally figure out how to do it, Musescore manages to hide it from me so then I have to start all over trying to find out how to do it again. Why!!!? It used to be easy to see the note in inspector and then modify the volume, but now, where the blazing biscuits is it?? And why is it impossible to find in the manual? Ultimately, there is no advantage to Musescore 3 other than the spacing thing. So, I should do everything in Musescore 2 and then when it is ready to be put online, open it with Musescore 3. Just be sure to give it a different name because once you open it in Musescore 3, they won't let you go back to Musescore 2. Oh, no. Why would they make it **&&**& easy?!!!!! And I paid good money for this kind of frustration????????!
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Hello! Mark and I have finalized the brass parts for the ballad of our original show, 2 + 2 = 5. The ballad we've chosen is The Hymn of Acxiom by Vienna Teng, as we believe it fits the theme of the show - George Orwell's "1984" - perfectly.
If you are unfamiliar with the project, here is a quick summary:
Mark and I plan to have as many of you submit recordings of yourselves playing through the show as we can. We will then compile the recordings into one large file, and place it over virtual drill that Mark is writing, to create a virtual drum corps of sorts. If you'd like to record, here's all the info you'll need!
1.) Parts
You can play through as many parts as you'd like. In fact, we would much appreciate it if you did! (For example, if you play the trumpet, it will be better for the end result if you record and submit all three trumpet parts, rather than just doing one) Of course, you don't have to do this! Mark and I will be listening through each recording of the trumpet soloist's part, and picking the one we think would best benefit the overall recording.
2.) Recordings
We would prefer if you submit one large (3-ish minute) recording, but if you find it difficult to play through the part(s) in one sitting, please refer to the recording guide below!
Here is the link to all the parts: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CTplR1RBHZX2YCJZ80M35VF20sjaPI9u?usp=sharing
3.) Recording Guide
Recording One: Beginning to Letter D
Recording Two: Letter D to Letter F (Trumpets, include two measure pick-up)
Recording Three: Letter F to Letter I
Recording Four: Letter I to the end
Again, we'd much prefer your recording be from the beginning to the end, to simplify our own work, but we decided to include this in case some need the breaks in between. Trumpets obviously don't need a recording one/four, as they don't play at these points. Please play the part at the exact tempo that's listed. This can easily be done by playing along with the recording (preferably while wearing a headset!).
4.) Submitting
If you have recorded the entirety of the ballad at once, submit an MP3/MP4 file with this name as the format:
If you used the segmented guide above, use this format:
ex. TheMTCrew_Trombone1_Rec1
Send submissions to firstname.lastname@example.com.
If you have any questions, ask them below! Thanks everyone!
*DISCLAIMER* Absolutely no profit is being made off of this project in ANY way. All rights to the music used go to their respective owners.
I was working on a score on the software when it closed unexpectedly.
because of that I lost my score of more than 100 (!) measures.
I tried but I couldn't find him again.
does sombody know a solution?
Hey, I am currently super busy!! Before I start, I'll lay out what my week tends to be:
Monday: Double/triple up on schoolwork. Once a month is nursing home music night (which I can't miss, considering I'm the pianist)
Tuesday: Currently I'm going to my aunt's. Soon will be Piano & Choir (if I go, which I am leaning more towards not going)
Wednesday: Work in the morning, Omnibus in the afternoon, Skating at 3pm, and will be home only for supper
Thursday: I go to my aunt's all day.
Friday: School (double/triple up as needed), Youth in evening.
Saturday: House cleaning
Sunday: Depending on which Sunday is: play piano for both services, nursing home services (I can't miss, I'm the pianist), go to my grandparents for lunch, have company over.
My problem I'm almost too busy for myself to do school.
How do you guys live with being super busy and having heavy schoolwork to do!?!?!?!?
I need advice!!!!!!!!!!
Please message me or comment what tends to work for you.
P.S. with the nursing home service/music night, that are highlights of my month!!!!!! and I can't quit now, consider i leave without them having any accompainment, 'cept a clarinet.


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Cross a cheese biscuit with angel food cake and you get Parmesan sour cream cupcakes. They're buttery, airy, sticky and sugary on the edges, and they have a tang from Parmesan that works in a cupcake so much better than you would ever expect. If you like the combination of sweet and salty, this is a cupcake for you.
The Parmesan sour cream cake recipe came from Susan at LunaCafe. She was inspired to develop the recipe after trying Parmesan pound cake at Metrovino in Portland, Oregon. Susan had the following to say about her version of the Parmesan cake:
This is one of the most delectable butter cakes in my repertoire. It's unlikely that anyone will detect the parmesan if not told in advance of its presence. It adds an extra something though that is irresistible (umami), and yes, possibly addictive.
After reading her description of the Parmesan cake, I had to turn it into cupcakes and share the recipe with you!
Parmesan Sour Cream Cupcake Recipe
As noted above, the cake recipe came from LunaCafe. I am printing it below with my notes, conversion to cupcakes, and my original raspberry whipped cream recipe.
Parmesan Sour Cream Cupcakes with Raspberry Whipped Cream Frosting
Cake Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups cake flour not self-rising
- 2 ounces very finely grated Parmesan
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter cool room temperature
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 large eggs cool room temperature, beaten lightly
- 1/2 cup sour cream cool room temperature
Raspberry Whipped Cream Ingredients
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- about 16 raspberries
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
Cake Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, Parmesan, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- Using a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on medium speed, cream the butter briefly until smooth. (If you don't have a stand mixer, don't despair. You can still make this recipe - just mix with whatever tool you have. Your cupcakes just might not end up quite as fluffy.)
- Reduce the speed to low and slowly add the powdered sugar. Mix on medium speed for 5 full minutes, until the mixture is light in color and fluffy in texture.
- With the mixer still on medium speed, slowly drizzle in the eggs, tablespoon by tablespoon. If the mixture begins to curdle, stop adding the eggs and increase the speed until batter is again creamy. Then decrease the speed and resume adding the eggs. Continue to cream, scraping the sides of the bowl a few times, until the mixture appears fluffy white, velvety, and increased in volume, about 3 minutes.(Note: "drizzling teaspoon by teaspoon" is how Susan put it. I bake with my toddler, who just dumps the whole egg in. My recipe came out fantastic. Maybe it would be better if I did it her way, but I always like to remind people not to stress too much about baking. Have fun!)
- Stir in 1/4 of the flour mixture.
- Add 1/3 of the sour cream, stirring until blended.
- Repeat the procedure, alternating dry and liquid ingredients, ending with the final addition of flour.
- Divide evenly among the cupcake liners.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out dry.
Raspberry Whipped Cream Directions
- Whip heavy whipping cream until it looks like whipped cream.
- Smash the berries until you have a liquidy raspberry paste.
- Mix in the berries and powdered sugar until just combined.
- Spread or pipe on cooled cupcakes.
Baking With Cheese
If you like the idea of cheese in your cupcakes, I've got many other cheesy cupcakes for you to explore:
- Cranberry and Cheese Danish Cupcakes
- Apple Bacon Cheddar Cupcakes with Mesquite Buttercream
- Sweet Pea and Ricotta Cupcakes
- Quince, Manchego, and Ritz Cheesecake Cupcakes
- Wine and Cheese Cupcakes
- Savory Cupcakes – Fig, Goat Cheese, and Onion
- The Devil and The Monk (made with trappist cheese)
- Peach Pie with Brie
- Beer Cheese Cupcakes with Bacon Cheddar Cream Cheese Frosting
- Black Bottom Cupcakes With Goat Cheese


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Spokesman Todd Schneider said it's too early to say how much customers' bills would go up.
Ohio-based FirstEnergy Corp. says it plans to spend $2.8 billion in the next four years on upgrades at four of its operating companies.
The Akron Beacon Journal reports that the improvements will be paid for after each phase, so customers won't see the increases in their bills until at least 2015.
The $2.8 billion will be spent at Ohio Edison, Cleveland Illuminating Co., Toledo Edison and Penn Power areas of FirstEnergy's territory.
Spokesman Todd Schneider said customers' rates will be proportionally adjusted in the four operating companies.
He said it's too early to say how much customers' bills would go up, but it would be in phases over the four-year time span.


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From OLPC
This is the wiki page for the "GTK+ for OLPC" project, as a "Summer of Code" project. The student is Manu Cornet, mentor is Federico Mena-Quintero. You can find the initial goals of the project on the OLPC Google Summer of Code page. And here is the git tree of this project (with all the code).
If you want to checkout the code for this project, just do:
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GTK theme/engine torturer and crash tester
The application
This "gtk-theme-torturer" is an application to detect performance issues in GTK themes/engines. It does two things:
- For each of the most common widget types (very easy to add some more), it packs an instance of it in a container, and resizes/redraws it many, many times. You can set a "pain level" to determine the number of times widgets will get redrawn while scaling.
- It takes each one of the gtk_paint_* functions (implemented by the engines themselves) and tries all possible parameters configurations, including unusual values to see if the engine crashes.
The program also outputs detailed time measures (thanks to Federico's widget profiler infrastructure, which I tweaked a bit for the torturer). It also supports an non-interactive mode (thanks to Fernando Herrera) on the command-line, and XML output (thanks to Frederic Peters). You can get the code from the project's git repository.
A few observations
I have made a small analysis on a few themes' performance, see the results (spreadsheet) and the original mail mentioning the results.
Simulation Tools
Color swizzling and antialiasing
I made a hack for Xephyr to let it emulate "color swizzling". The laptop's DCON chip basically only selects the red signal for the first pixel, the green signal for the second pixel, etc., following this pattern :
The swizzling mode also performs a very simple antialiasing filter on the image, the matrix of which is :
Due to the fact that the swizzling mode discards 2/3 of the signal, the output is very dark:
In order to 'correct' this and get a luminosity that is relatively faithful to the real OLPC display, a postprocessing step (thanks to David Turner) restores, for each pixel, the two lacking color components. For a red pixel for instance, compute the average of the green pixels on its right and below it, and the average of the blue pixels on its left and above it:
Thanks to this postprocessing, we can get much better visuals (click to enlarge):
The patch is here, or directly inside the project's git tree (simulation subdirectory). Apply it to the hw/kdrive/ephyr directory. It adds a '-swizzle' option to Xephyr to switch between the two modes (since 16 bit colors are closest to what the OLPC display will do, the '-swizzle' option automatically switches the server's depth to 16.
The OLPC screen is very small, and has a resolution twice as high as our usual displays. Based on these observations, a "shrinking" process takes a 1200 x 900 pixels image and creates a 600 x 450 pixels image by reducing each group of four pixels into on as follows. For example, with a group of four pixels like this:
thus averaging the two blue pixels among the four (same process for other cases).
The shrunk version of the above screenshot looks like this (click to enlarge).
Shrunk images are a good preview of what the display would look like at a normal distance. If you measure their width on your screen, you shouldn't find something very far away from 15 cm (probably even a little larger). The unshrunk, swizzled images are a good preview of what you would see if you had a closer look, but of course they don't have the right visual dimensions.
Review of theme elements on OLPC display
This page shows a fairly extensive review of various GTK theme elements / graphic elements (fonts, thin lines, buttons, etc.) and how they would look on the OLPC display, using the simulation tools mentionned earlier.
GTK+ theme engine
One of the initial goals was to write a GTK theme for the OLPC. However, the whole UI being redesigned nearly from scratch, it would have been useless for me to work on the current theme's code (which will be discarded anyway).
However, I investigated a bit on which existing engine could be a good basis for the future theme. It turns out (after chatting with the gnome-art/gnome-engine guys, Federico, etc.) that ThinIce is a pretty good choice, with probably a few elements from ClearLooks.
Earlier in the project, I hacked the current theme (see the artwork module here) by first making it more crash-proof with the torturer: here is a short log about this. Then I made some time measurements (see the torturer section, above) to compare it with ClearLooks/Human/HighContrast.
Minor enhancement: cursor blinking
I began with this (quite simple to do). The purpose is to let the cursor blink for a few seconds, then just stay on and stop blinking (affects GtkEntry and GtkTextView).
This is done by :
- Adding an XSetting called "gtk-cursor-blink-lifetime", which defaults to 5 seconds.
- Adding a timeout with the corresponding lifetime each time the code asks the cursor to begin blinking. When the timeout is over, the cursor stays on.
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Prince and Nicholson lead TSU at Rhodes Invitational
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Fresh off of her OVC Runner of the Week honor Oteia Prince followed the award with TSU's best finish at the Rhodes Invitational.
The sophomore Prince finished the 6k course at Shelby Farms with a time of 24:59 good enough to place 58th in the 162 runner field.
Junior Theodore Nicholson paved the way for the Tigers with a time of 29:57 on the 8k men's course.
Overall Prince and the Tigerbelles finished 21st out of 24 teams at the meet. Senior Breanna Adams (28:11) would be the second TSU runner to cross the line. The next three Tigerbelles would finish close together with Sophomore Michelle Bradley leading that group with a time of 29:09 followed by junior Diera Taylor (29:11) and sophomore Jasmine Ownes (29:12).
The Tigers would finish 22nd out of 27 teams in the invitational. After Nicholson, junior Adrian McDaniel would be the second best TSU finisher with a time of 30:20. Followed by Quamel Prince (31:27), Jaheel Michael (31:54), Jalon McCutcheon (33:55), Jason Griffin (38:25) and Jakeena Gutherie (38:30).
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It was built on the original homestead about 1840, which was located about three miles from the town. People had covered it with a type of siding. It was removed and restored. Later, it was moved on the back of a flatbed truck when it was donated to the local historical society.
Leaning up against one side of it were two tombstones, that of Hezekiah Clemens, who died in 1812. I'm unsure of his relationship to the family.
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ESSEN 12 - Day 1, 2, 3 & 4: plays, impressions, and purchases for The Bunker
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So what I'll do is list games I played, viewed played, read the rules for, purchased, and passed on along with a comment or two on it. If I actually purchase a game at Essen I'll also put it on this list And so it begins (and ends)... My 2012 Game Gains (or the Money Pit part 2), which is also a good place to go and see what games I may have already gotten this year of interest. I'll try to stick with them listed on the days I viewed or got them. I'll add some of my own photos of the games from Essen later.
Again, I only have limited luggage space and am trying to buy ones that will be harder to come by later.
Just starting day 3. Off we go.
Just wrapping up day 3 and I'm beat. I think I've seen everything I want to see and have purchased the games I really wanted, minus a few that I mentioned either wont fit in my suitcase or I'll wait for a US release copy. I've really gotten as creative as I can in packing games into games and into my baggage. I don't think I can fit anything else in to what I have and will still need to carry one game that came in a tube. So with that said, I might even give the fair a miss Sunday. I've met some great people and played some great games. The crowds were bad today, but actually not as bad as I have seen in the past for a Saturday. I suspect that tomorrow will be the most crowded as that's when the final markdowns happen and lots of families go for that.
So maybe I'll sleep in late, get a good lunch, see some of the town, and get ready for the trip back. If you've read this far, thanks for supporting this geeklist. I hope you've had as much fun reading it as I have writing it. I know when I'm not at a fair or Convention, I'm always trying to read up on the latest buzz from it. To everyone going to BGGCon, you're going to have a great time with all the great new games that have come out.
Day 4: like I could stay away with my dauer Carte. My train for my flight leaves at 14:45 so what else am I going to do for 5 hours. Too bad I have no more room in my suitcases. I'll post a few last items encountered today.
Day 5+: Everything is back home safe and sound in the bunker. Had to do a bunch of box seam repair from damages caused by the airlines which is typical and expected when flying games back home in luggage. Added a final photo of my Essen loot haul.
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NFL wide receivers are about to get their tickets punched for an unwelcome trip to Revis Island.
All-Pro cornerback Darrelle Revis agreed to a new four-year deal late Sunday night, ending his 36 day holdout and seven-month stalemate and coming into camp just a week before the regular season starts, ESPN reported.
"It not has only been hard on u guys, but it has for me too," Revis posted on his Twitter page early Monday morning. "I just want to tell yall that I'm sorry for this process and I can't wait to get back on the field."
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Terms of the new contract have yet to be disclosed, but the New York Daily News reported that the deal was for $46 million with $32 million guaranteed. The star racked up $578,305 in fines due to the holdout, but it remains unclear if they will be taken out of the new deal or assessed some other way.
Over the weekend, Jets head coach Rex Ryan flew to South Florida to meet with Revis and his uncle, former NFL defensive lineman Sean Gilbert. Their meeting seems to have addressed some lingering concerns from both parties and contract negotiations started between the team and Revis' agent shortly thereafter.
Revis is expected to join the team on Labor Day.
"This is an intermediate step to what we hope is an entire career of Darrelle as a Jet," general manager Mike Tannenbaum said on a conference call.
Revis made $15 million over his first three seasons in the league after being selected 14th in the 2007 draft. He quickly became one of the premiere defensive players in the league, routinely shutting down the opposing team's best receiver. He was set to make $1 million this year, but wanted to be paid as the highest-paid cornerback in the league. He was asking for $16 million a year.
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"I feel like the hottest prom date here," Beane said Monday, the first day of baseball's winter meetings.
The A's first order of business this winter, however, remains getting a stadium in San Jose, and the team believes the process is gaining momentum, though the Giants hold the territorial rights to San Jose.
"I'm optimistic because this seems to be the most tangible solution we've had since I've been here," Beane said of the potential downtown site near HP Pavilion.
A new stadium can make a major difference in team spending. Look no further than the Marlins. They will open a brand-new building, just signed Jose Reyes and hope to add Albert Pujols.
Miami owner Jeffrey Loria said he knows what the A's face in trying to get a new venue, saying, "It's a lot of hard work, and I wish them nothing but the best."
Loria also told reporters, "I saw years ago if we were to get a new stadium, how spectacular things could be, and we're working toward that now."
Major-league owners can vote to overturn territorial rights, and recent signs point to a potential vote on the issue at the owners' January meetings. The A's will have at least one prominent backer in White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, a longtime friend of A's owner Lew Wolff.
"I'm totally supportive of Lew getting a new ballpark and going to San Jose," Reinsdorf said. "He needs to be there. It has to come to a head soon.
"Certainly, (the Coliseum is) past its time. In my opinion, Oakland's past its time, too. Oakland's had plenty of opportunity to build a stadium and hasn't gotten it done."
Beane is approaching this offseason with an eye toward a possible new stadium, so the club essentially is in rebuilding mode. That's why every team that needs pitching is calling, with numerous clubs linked to starter Gio Gonzalez, who would require a major haul to land, and closer Andrew Bailey, a strong bet to be dealt.
Beane emphasized he is not shopping any players and said some teams he has talked to have walked away wondering if any of Oakland's players is available. Nearly every A's pitcher has drawn interest, and Beane said he would not hesitate to trade within the division. He said that the A's probably would want younger players in return for those they're trading.
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Sathyavathi Muthu is very knowledgeable and involved in research and dissemination of solar cooking. She reports that 2,500 students from the Avinashilingam Institute in Coimbatore spend three hours per week in villages throughout Tamil Nadu testing solar cookers and demonstrating them to women's clubs and self-help groups. The students also promote solar cooking on campus. With funding from the governmental Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources (MNES) they produced recipe books and developed two models of solar box cookers that have been certified by the government.
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An early morning call came in from a passerby who reported seeing a dog attacking sheep near a quiet country road. It was a gorgeous day, and I enjoyed the drive in spite of my anxiety to get there as soon as possible. I pulled up in front of a neat little white farmhouse surrounded by green fields. It was quiet; no one seemed to be home.
The sound of a dog barking and the frantic bleating of sheep broke the stillness. In the distance, I saw a handsome German Shepherd running through the field after a group of terrified sheep. I quickly scaled the fence and snagged my pants on the barbed wire, grimacing as I heard a long rip. The dog appeared to have been at it for a while and was visibly tired but having way too much fun to stop. His tongue hung halfway to his knees as he loped after the exhausted animals.
I hollered at the dog and he stopped in surprise. I tried calling and sweet talk but he warily stood his ground. I walked toward him, tossing cookies, which he ignored. He sank submissively as I approached, and when I reached for him, he rolled over and wet himself. He was just a big pup of maybe a year old.
I slipped a lead on him and scratched his ears. He soon relaxed and followed me as I looked for victims. Sadly, I found a newly dead lamb in the pasture. There wasn't a mark on it. The poor thing appeared to have been run to death. I looked back to the dog. "You're so busted, young man," I said. He wagged in delight and gazed happily into my face.
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As we walked back to my truck, I worried about the dog. He was young, friendly and attractive, but it's a liability for shelters to adopt out livestock killers. Unless he was claimed by an owner willing to take responsibility, or taken by a rescue, he probably would be euthanized. It's a shame because it's normal for dogs to chase livestock and play often escalates into predatory behavior. It's the owner's responsibility to train and manage his dogs to keep them safe and prevent problems.
Adjacent to the sheep pasture was a property with a ramshackle doghouse next to it. A chain, snapped to an empty collar, was lying on the hard-packed dirt nearby. Guessing that the dog lived there, I pulled in the driveway. A sweet-faced young Spanish-speaking woman answered the door. With my very limited Spanish, I was able to confirm that it was her dog, "Oso," and he lived on the chain but had slipped his collar and escaped. The woman wasn't able to adequately confine or care for the dog and signed him over to the shelter.
I was relieved to get the dog away from life on a chain, but fretted about his future all the way back to the shelter. We have wonderful German Shepherd rescue groups that help us but I didn't know if they would take a sheep-killer. As I thought over the possibilities, it occurred to me that Oso might make a good police dog. He was young, athletic and obviously had a lot of drive.
Back at the shelter, I convinced a local police-dog trainer to evaluate Oso. The trainer put him through a variety of exercises to determine his willingness and trainability. Oso passed with flying colors. A vet check and X-rays verified that he didn't have dysplasia or other structural problems that would affect his working ability. After a clean bill of health, he left for training in a career in law enforcement.
Today, Oso spends his days riding around in a patrol car, sniffing out drugs and busting bad guys. Days off are spent at home with the officer's family. He's come a long way from his crummy life on a chain and days of chasing sheep.