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One Volunteer, One Family, One Farm: What it meant to be a North Carolina Volunteer in 1861.
Occasionally the historian is given access to unique documents which illustrate some aspect of the past in a new way. Some time back such a series of letters written between an early volunteer in the NC 30th Infantry, Lewis H. MacLeod, and his wife, Eliza Walker, turned up in a private collection. The letters are rich in description of life in military camps of 1861 and 1862 and detail about the life of one North Carolina rural family—without husband—and how it survived on the farm. The letters are very special in that both sides of the correspondence have been preserved with only a few gaps. The wife kept all of her husband's letters and he kept hers. Lewis wrote his first letter on September 19, 1861 and Eliza wrote her first letter around September 20, 1861. When MacLeod returned home in the summer of 1862, after being gravely wounded in the battle of Malvern Hill most of her letters to him returned home with him and have been preserved. In addition McLeod, kept some letters from his brother-in-law, who had volunteered for the NC cavalry and from other friends. These were augmented with letters from McLeod written to a friend in a second private family collection.
Who were the people and how typical were they? The family lived in central NC in what is now Lee County but was then northern Moore County. South and east of the area had been settled in the late 18th century largely by Scots. North and west settlers were largely English and German. The family represented this division in that the husband, Lewis H. MacLeod was a Scot and his wife, Eliza Walker was mostly English. MacLeod fell somewhere in the middle of free society, one of those often called "sturdy yeoman farmer." His father had maintained a school and was fairly well to do. Therefore, MacLeod was highly literate and owned real property valued at $3000 and personal property valued at $5000 in the 1860 census. He was decidedly, however, not a part of the aristocracy. Having fallen out with his father he had been deliberately excluded from his father's estate and on several occasions from 1860-62 was forced to appeal to his wealthier brother to help his wife.
Moore County North Carolina had few slaves and no truly large slave plantations. It was strongly opposed to secession. The county voted 135 yes and 1257 no in the early 1861 question of calling a convention to consider secession. In the state as a whole the measure failed but by a smaller margin. When North Carolina did secede under threat of invasion and war the area quickly formed a company of volunteers, which became Company H of the 30th NC Infantry, to "defend their homes." The enlistment was for one year. The Regiment was sent to Richmond in May 1862 and would remain part of the Army of Northern Virginia until Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
The MacLeod family in 1860 was composed of seven. Lewis MacLeod was 32 years old, his wife Eliza was 30. They had four children, Angelette, 11, Thomas Bragg 6, Delilah 5 and Ann Elizabeth 3. Eliza was a widow when she married MacLeod and living with them was an adult woman, Emily Franklin, who was probably Eliza's sister-in-law from her first marriage. In early 1862 one final child would be born, Francis Moore Parker. Conceived just as MacLeod left for military service the boy was named both for the closest friend MacLeod formed in the army, Francis Moore and for his revered Colonel Parker. One slave family was present on the farm. The 1860 slave schedule showed one male aged 58, one female 40 and one male 10. The three, Henry, Nelsie and Arry are referred to frequently in the correspondence.
One of the most striking images from these letters is just how much North Carolina, and I suspect much of the rest of the rural United States, existed on barter. Very little money was in circulation. The family worked a nearly subsistence farm and life could be very difficult when there was a need for real money. When Lewis left home to report to camp he had with him $3.25, and put his "paper money" in a small purse which he then lost or had stolen. He had only $2.85 at camp and as a non-commissioned officer (He was elected corporal and then Lieutenant when the company was reorganized in the spring of 1862.) he had to pay for his food. Eliza sent Lewis $5.00 noting that she had only $5 left and she needed that for a bushel of salt to cure pork. She then discovered to her dismay that prices were rapidly rising and salt in Fayetteville was rumored to be $11 a bushel. In the end she was able to sell 15 bushels of oats, for 62 and half cents per bushel and two bushels of flour for $6.50. From that she got a bushel of salt-- a bargain at $3.50-- four pounds of coffee for $2.00 and some sugar for 18 cents. She could afford no whisky. For over three months MacLeod and the other volunteers waited to be paid their bonuses and wages. Even after they paid there was never any spare money.
In March of 1862 the Confederacy made a huge plea to get volunteers to extend their enlistment to three years or for the duration of the war. Even though there was great resistance to the idea, in the end almost all complied. The telling argument was that you would get rewarded with a 30 day furlough (many never got it as the unit shipped out for Richmond before all could go home) and above all $100 dollars of bounty in addition to the $50 paid at enlistment, Out of the $100, $10 was withheld for expenses but even so $90 was, as Lewis put in in a letter to Eliza "… more than a heap of them could make in one or too [sic] years." Lewis sent $60 of his bounty home to Eliza. As sorry as she was that he had extended she welcomed the money. Sugar was now $.25 the pound and she thought she should pay Lewis' debts which amounted to $40 to Dr. MacIver and William Huse. This way Lewis would be free of debt if and when he returned home. Besides she had $20 of money herself having sold the mule for $90.
The family plantation was truly a working farm. Everything, save salt, whisky and sugar seems to have been produced there and with her husband gone all responsibilities fell onto Eliza. In November 1861 Eliza mentioned that the crib was now full of corn and they had dug about 75 bushels of potatoes. One month later in December she reported that the fodder was up and even though people kept trying to buy some of it from her she would not sell. She needed it all to carry their livestock over the winter. She had also finished sowing 15 bushels of wheat and 20 bushels of oats; the small cotton crop was in and hogs killed and salted. She had also dismissed the hired hand who had been helping. They could do without him she felt and save that expense. Lewis worried that she had not sown enough wheat and oats and warned that she needed to cut more wood to burn. Now that the harvest was finished he said to put Henry to work cutting ditches in the "little swamp," probably for drainage and a spring new ground.
In the spring Eliza's worry turned to the problem of cutting wheat. Apparently the crop was good but with only a few old men around she was unsure how they would get it cut. The bad news was that she could not get a good stand of corn. The spring had been very wet and what germinated stayed small and was eaten by worms almost as fast as it appeared. The good news was livestock. By the end of February, 1862 Eliza reported 9 new lambs and she expected the 'old bell weather' to give birth to one more. In addition she had four calves born and now had cream and butter. While the exact number of head of livestock cannot be determined the farm clearly had many. Ewes, cows, pigs, chickens—the MacLeod daughters were setting several hens—horses and at least one jackass. When she sold the mule in May of 1862, fearing that she couldn't winter all the animals and needing money, she said she was going to put "Big" to the Jack and try and raise another mule.
Other crops mentioned in the letters are peaches and apples and hunted meat especially possum. One surprise, comparing the farm with North Carolina agriculture in the early and mid-twentieth century, is that no tobacco was being grown or consumed. The nature of the 1860's NC farm was very different in other ways from family farms a century later. By the 20th century there were no sheep to be found. No doubt they had been primarily for wool in the nineteenth century. No mention was made in any letters at eating lamb or mutton. While this is hardly conclusive if the animals had been used widely for food they hardly would have disappeared so quickly from the agricultural landscape.
Home life was difficult for a woman without husband present even if she could rely on two slaves for work. Eliza expressed her fatigue and worry in every letter. She worried about money, sickness—her newborn suffered from infected eyes for many weeks and her son was incapacitated with a broken leg—the terror of being "conquered" if Great Britain and France did not assist the Confederacy and how she could survive if Lewis were to be killed. Her letters from 1861 are filled with desperate pleas for Lewis to come home. She often mentions how afraid she is and how much she cried. By 1862 while she continues to express her fear for Lewis' life, she seemed more resigned to his absence. She had no doubts about the need to resist northern invasion less they "be a conquered people," but felt Lewis had already put in his time while others had not. Eliza wanted him home. However, it is very clear that despite her fatigue and worry Eliza MacLeod did, with the help of her older children and Henry, Nelsie and Arry, keep the farm productive and the family survived.
In May of 1862 Eliza reported that the children were once again working with the school master. Lewis wrote to them about how pleased he was and stressed very strongly to the girls the importance of learning proper spelling. I found this rather poignant given that Eliza's command of spelling was so weak that her letters are often difficult to decipher. Not the actual penmanship. Her writing was quite well formed and lovely but it is extremely phonetic and lacks all sense of proper spelling. In her letter of 24 November, 1861 Eliza made the following plea: "Louis times is mity hard up her I hav livd harder sinc you went of the I ever did in my life we hav to liv on white cofey and dos goo mity hard with me" [Louis times ares mighty hard up here. I have lived harder since you went off then I ever did in my life. We have to live on wheat coffee and it does go mighty hard with me.] She was at the same time very grateful that she and her husband could read and write. She mentioned what a comfort it was to her to read a letter that he himself had written.
Very little in the way of amusement and non-work was ever mentioned in the letters. The one exception was in the fall of 1861 when Eliza, Emily and the children spent several days at a large camp meeting. Camp meetings provided an opportunity to see friends, talk about things and, above all, for the young men and women to flirt and court a bit.
One topic that was much on their minds in nearly all the early letters was whiskey. Whiskey was not seen as an amusement or a luxury but to the MacLeod family it seemed to have been more of a necessity. On October 30, 1861 Lewis asked Eliza to send some food as they had eaten all they had but above all try and send some whiskey. "We can't live without a little whiskey to mix with water." Iit was so expensive near Wilmington, where the company was training, that the soldiers could not afford to buy any. When he had arrived whiskey was $.50 the quart and now not less than $.75. Two weeks later Eliza wrote that she had sent a box with a half-gallon. By December McLeod's brother in law, John Walker wrote him that he had no money at all, no one had been paid , not even the bounty and whiskey was now $.50 to $1.00 a quart. He had stopped drinking whiskey at all. In late November Eliza wrote that life was "mity hard," with not a drop of whiskey in the house since MacLeod had left. But she was going to town in a week and try and buy some whiskey and coffee even if it was $.50 a pound.
One final surprise and interesting thing about these written conversations is that they reflect a society without much of the "Victorian" prudery and hiding of sex and the human body. Not, of course, that they were public about private matters. Eliza asked Lewis to write personal things on small slips of paper with the letters since so many people wanted to read his letters. Unfortunately none of those slips survived. But in many ways they were surprisingly blunt about life. Very early Lewis added a long note to Emily Franklin, the young adult woman who lived with them, about his health. "I have two terrible biles. One next to my asshole and one between my cod and my asshole. I can not bare to sit down." In March of 1862 when North Carolina and the Confederacy instituted a draft Eliza wrote Lewis that in Harnett County several men had pounded their penises, which she calls "it" between two rocks causing terrible swelling and thereby making them unfit for the draft. Doubtless an apocryphal story but it made a good tale. Just before Christmas, 1861 when Eliza knew that Lewis would be getting a few days home—he came home to recruit and escort four more men to the company—she was worried about her increasing size with her surprise pregnancy. Knowing that Lewis would be very eager for sex she wrote that she was concerned that she might not be able to join him. She then wrote what seems a fairly astonishing comment. "If I can't do nothing for you I hope some of the gals will have pity on you and let you have some." Not Gone With the Wind but the words of a woman devoted to her husband and worried about his well-being and happiness.
The last letter from Eliza is dated May 11, 1862. Lewis had been so ill in the spring of 1862 that he and twenty-one men of Company H stayed in Wilmington when the regiment left for Richmond on June 14, 1862. The symptoms and severity sound as if it could have been an outbreak of typhoid fever. By June 22, the date of his last letter, he had recovered enough to join the company at Richmond with six of the sick men. The others had been so debilitated that he furloughed them home. MacLeod wrote that he was still so weak that he was excused from most duty even though the company was doing picket duty and had been involved in some skirmishes with the Union Army. On July 1, 1862, he was with his company as they charged up Malvern Hill and was gravely wounded. After the battle Eliza and Henry came to Richmond and brought him home. The seriousness of his illness seems to have weakened his heart and his wounds from battle may have exacerbated his condition. Lewis MacLeod died on March 27, 1863 of dropsy. Dropsy was a term used to describe a condition of edema resulting from heart failure. Eliza Walker MacLeod died 28 May, 1907.


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The theme of the next concert of the Polish Cello Quartet will be the legend of the Polish cabaret scene, Jerzy Wasowski. This gentleman is known to the wider audience above all from the Cabaret of Elderly Gentlemen – the perfect duo he created with Jeremi Przybora.
Wasowski was undoubtedly an artist of many talents – he was a successful journalist, radio host, composer and satirist. It is hard to believe that if not for a few events in his life, he could have been an engineer (he graduated from the Warsaw Polytechnic at the electronics department). After graduation, however, he went to the Polish Radio, ad it was a sudden turn on his professional path. In the radio station he met his long-time collaborator, Jeremi Przybora, with whom he initially founded the radio theatre 'Eterek'. In music, Wasowski was in his element composing songs. He created timeless hits belonging to the core repertoire of the Cabaret of Elderly Gentlemen, such as Happy Life, Cheap Bastards or Kaziu, Fall in Love. Composing work quickly became one of the most important activities of Wasowski. As he recalled, it was meant to be 'the most pleasant way to maintain a family'. At the same time, he devoted himself to a rather original hobby: mathematics (group theory) and musical acoustics.
During the evening, Wasowski's songs written to the excellent texts of Jeremi Przybora will sound in a unique arrangement. Two guest artists will perform with the challenge-oriented Polish Cello Quartet. The cello quartet invited Izabela Połońska – a vocalist feeling at home in a variety of musical styles (from classical to jazz). Song occupies an important place in her activities, which results from her collaboration with pianist and composer Piotr Hertl. Połońska is also an artist of the Logos Theatre in Łódź. Leszek Kołodziejski is one of the most characteristic Polish accordionists of the young generation. He is an artist active in various fields - as a soloist, chamber musician, session musician, composer and arranger cooperating with many theatres in Lódź. At the same time, he works as a lecturer at the G. and K. Bacewicz Academy of Music in Łódź, his Alma Mater.


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One of the joys of gardening, is sharing it with others.
My two oldest daughters, don't have any special interest in gardening – although I did try my best.
One of the joys of gardening, is sharing it with others.
I have shared it with my kids and am now starting with my first grandchild, Lily.
Last week, we made a Valentine's Day present for her mom and dad.
We started with a trip to the nursery…
We bought two types of flowers for a fragrant container – Stock and Alyssum.
I already had the pot, the potting soil and slow-release fertilizer – so we were good to go.
When I had planned to do this with Lily – I had counted on my husband being there to take pictures of us. But, he had to leave at the last minute to take the dog to the vet (abscessed tooth – he's okay now).
So, I had to take the photos myself, while making sure that Lily didn't fall off the bench – hence the picture, above, of her sitting in my lap.
She seemed pretty steady on the picnic bench, so I let her sit by herself for a few seconds for this picture…
She did just great, but I did have to teach her not to pull the flowers off – I think that is first lesson that I have had to teach each of my kids.
When my daughter came over to pick her up later that day – Lily had a pretty container of flowers to give to her mom.
Lily is 15-months old and at a great age to start letting her accompanying me in the garden.
Next week, I think we will pull some carrots from the vegetable garden for her to take home.
My two oldest daughters, don't have any special interest in gardening – although I did try my best.
My 15-year old daughter, Ruthie, loves the vegetable garden. I hope that she will continue to enjoy gardening as she grows up.
How about you? Do you like to garden with your kids or grandkids?
Noelle Johnson, aka, 'AZ Plant Lady' is a horticulturist, certified arborist, and landscape consultant who helps people learn how to create, grow, and maintain beautiful desert gardens that thrive in a hot, dry climate. She does this through her consulting services, her online class Desert Gardening 101, and her monthly membership club, Through the Garden Gate. As she likes to tell desert-dwellers, "Gardening in the desert isn't hard, but it is different."


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Napoli president vows to be 'reasonable' with Sarri suitors
Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis has vowed to be "reasonable" with any clubs seeking talks with Maurizio Sarri, with the Chelsea target currently left in coaching limbo.
Despite leaving a post with the Serie A club at the end of the 2017-18 season and seeing Carlo Ancelotti appointed as his successor, Sarri remains tied to a contract in Naples.
That deal still has two years left to run and includes an €8 million (£7m/$9m) release clause.
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Goal revealed recently that Chelsea were prepared to trigger that deal, but no agreement has been reached as Napoli play hardball and the Blues turn their attention elsewhere.
De Laurentiis is the man with the power to free Sarri and he claims that he will listen to offers, telling Corriere dello Sport: "If anyone comes to negotiate for him, I will be very reasonable.
"I am not a vindictive person and, I repeat, Sarri will always have my thanks."
Sarri has, however, irked those in power at Napoli with his decision to walk away from a long-term deal.
Despite leading the club agonisingly close to the Serie A title in his final season at the helm, the 59-year-old refused to commit his future to the club and expressed concerns as to the direction in which things were heading.
De Laurentiis admits that he ultimately lost patience with a highly-rated coach, saying: "I have always been very polite to him, I have always supported him.
"But at a certain point, if you have a contract with me for another two years but you start publically expressing doubts - saying things like 'I don't know if I'm staying,' 'I don't know whether the club will be able to keep their best players,' 'in life sometimes it's best to end stories while they are good,' - it sends clear messages of impatience and a lack of confidence.
"Maurizio never answered me [about whether he was staying]. If you close the door in my face, I will politely stay away so as to not disturb your work, but only up to a certain point.
"After that I have the right and the duty to protect the interests of the club and start to look elsewhere."


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PETALING JAYA: Plan your journeys, make bookings earlier and ride during off-peak hours – this is the advice given to passengers by e-hailing operators with new rules to be enforced today.
The operators expect fewer e-hailing drivers on the road from today, and said passengers have been given "notice" in order not to be caught unprepared.
Grab Malaysia has despatched announcements to their passengers warning them of longer waiting times, especially during peak hours and rainy days.
The company, the biggest e-hailing operator in the country, said its driver-partners served a million ride bookings daily.
It said the average waiting time for a passenger to get a ride was within six minutes.
"Unfortunately, this may change after July 12 as we anticipate a reduction of driver-partners active on the roads.
"We advise passengers to pre-plan their travel by making earlier bookings, especially if they have a flight to catch or need to attend an important event," said a Grab spokesperson.
Under changes enforced by the Transport Ministry, e-hailing service vehicles must have a public service vehicle (PSV) licence, passenger insurance, e-hailing sticker and e-hailing vehicle permit (EVP) from the Land Public Transport Agency (APAD).
There was much hoo-ha after the PSV application process began in April, with drivers, mainly part-timers, complaining that it was a costly and cumbersome exercise.
It was reported that a reduced number of drivers will be on the road when the deadline arrived as many part-time drivers preferred to opt out. There are also many others who are yet to be PSV-ready.
Grab, which claimed it has about 200,000 drivers, revealed on Tuesday that only 10% of their active drivers had obtained the PSV licence.
"We hope that this imbalance in supply and demand will be transient," said the spokesperson.
MyCar founder and director Mohd Noah Maideen said the company had been blasting mass notifications to their app users since yesterday, alerting them of longer waits and possibly steeper fares.
Citing the low number of drivers who were PSV-compliant, he said the firm had no choice but to temporarily suspend other drivers from operating until they completed the due diligence.
"From our pool of 30,000 active drivers, about 10,000 are full-timers and roughly 7,000 of them drive exclusively for MyCar.
"From this number, only 400 have got their PSV licence, and this is worrying. We have to abide by the law and I have no choice but to block those who are not ready from getting on the road," he added.
MyCar is the second largest e-hailing operator, holding about 15% of industry market share.
Mohd Noah urged the authorities to be lenient on enforcement, saying that many drivers were still going through the process to be PSV ready.
"Getting the PSV licence is one thing. The drivers will still not be allowed on the road until APAD issues them with the EVP document, which takes time.
"Should they get stopped during checks, I hope the authorities will give them a warning instead of booking them," he said, adding that the grace period should be extended till the end of the year.
Mohd Noah said the firm was continuing to get cabbies to join its platform in anticipation of a driver shortage.
He said passengers should be ready to see taxis picking them up instead of private cars.
Malaysian E-hailing Drivers Association (MeHDA) president Daryl Chong said according to feedback, it took too long for the PSV results to be released and for EVP permits to be issued.
"But until everything is in place, they still have to adhere to the law," he said, adding that e-hailing companies had been instructed to ban their non-compliant drivers.
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~~September 22, 2014~~
That's all that we can hope for.
We have many, multiple interactions with many people who cross our paths. Some are in our lives for a brief moment, others for a short time and some for a lifetime. The certainty is that someday we won't be around.
During our interactions, we leave behind a bit of us … be it experience, laughter, anger, happiness, sadness, joy, frustration and so much more. That's the way of life.
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Fashion Film: On Brand and On Budget
Fashion brands often fall into the trap of "digitizing" static print material for the web. The result always leaves the audience wanting for a deeper level of interaction. Video production within the fashion space is no different.
If digital has created a new world with it's own language and code of communication, then video is our equivalent to song. It is the most potent tool available to strike a connection and evoke emotion in this new language. However, the problem is that rather than treat online video as its own entity, brands instead do one of two things: 1. Treat it like a Hollywood film for consideration at Sundance, or 2. As a cheap, quick office task handed to the only intern with a Flip cam. Rarely do we see brands understand that fashion film should be conceptualized, directed, and edited differently for online, regardless of the budget.
Just recently we wrote how users infer an opinion within the first seven seconds that they are on a website. This opinion directly informs their actions; if they will stay on site and interact, purchase, register and share, or leave and abandon the experience entirely.
Fashion, in particular, is an industry that is rooted in the story. Its customers are specifically interested not just in the product, but in the heritage of the brand that has produced it, the creative mind behind it, the people who wear it and those who critique it. We want information that spans the spectrum, and we want a taste of it within seven seconds, or we're gone.
So how can fashion brands make better use of video? Answering that question at last week's FashionForward event, was Harriet Mays-Powell, founder of The Look Now, a trend forecasting site applauded for on-trend perspective and high quality, original video content. On The Look Now, mini movies replace the traditional fashion shoot by showcasing not just the product, but also the underlying narrative in a format that is clearly more expressive, energetic and engaging. Harriet happens to be one of the few who understands the nuances of fashion film in the digital era.
For Harriet, regardless of the budget, it's all about the creative direction; having the eye to understand what best showcases a brand or an item in a way that compels, engages and tells a story, even if that story is just a few seconds long.
An interesting point brought up was how fashion brands often install a videographer at a photo shoot, someone who's often on the heels of the celebrity photographer capturing b-roll footage. Often this is seen as a play in efficiency and resourcefulness; the photo-shoot is already taking place so why not capitalize on the backstage appeal? Mays would contend, though, that in this case you're not treating video as a separate entity with it's own set of possibilities. Rather, you are recording an experience that's primary intention is to be static.
But many brands shy away from treating video separately for fear that it requires "separate" resources, i.e. money.
As a solution, Mays brings a new level of efficiency in a way that breathes life into video shoots. On her site are "trendettes", mini videos that are conceived, directed, styled and edited by her and her team (as shown below). They shoot 3 of these mini-movies in just one day.
As if naturally evolving in the digital space and understanding the growing need retailers have to deliver enticing, product-centric content in a quick, manageable format, Mays has started filming video content at traditional as well as ecommerce product shoots. This video content is roughly five seconds long and designed to feature product. Rather than showing a smudge of red lipstick, or a flat product picture on a site, think of a five second video where you watch a model apply it. That sounds like more fun already.
This can potentially revolutionize the visual merchandising approach online, as well as the marketing approach, because it offers a new and surprisingly cost effective way of both showcasing product and telling a story. The product isn't just a moving image; the product is desire, and a stirring of emotion.
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The Monarch 'Climb' features a beautiful frame in aerospace grade Titanium, inlaid with hand-forged 'Ladder' damascus by Mike Norris. The blade is hand-forged 'Boomerang' damascus by Chad Nichols; the one-hand button lock and the thumb stud are set with spinel gemstones.
The Monarch is a simple design that is easy on the eye and effortless in the hand; the elegant shape of the handle on this design is also an ideal canvas to showcase our exotic materials. The 'Blue Hills' is the beautiful balance between elegance, function, modern and exotic materials.
Features & Specs
- One-hand button lock system
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- Shipped in an elegant wood presentation box
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Blade 2.63" (66.8mm)
Handle 3.58" (90.9mm)
Overall open 6.00" (152.4mm)
Hand-forged damascus
Damascus steel was a term used by several Western cultures from the Medieval period onward to describe a type of steel created in India and used from about 300 BC to 1700 AD. These blades were characterized by distinctive patterns of banding and mottling reminiscent of flowing water. They were reputed to be not only tough and resistant to shattering, but capable of being honed to a sharp and resilient edge. William Henry's damascus is made from several types of steel welded together to form a billet.
The patterns vary depending on how the damascus artist works the billet. The billet is drawn out and folded until the desired number of layers are formed. William Henry damascus billets are forged with a minimum of 300 layers. William Henry works with a handful of the very best damascus artists/forgers in the U.S.
Titanium is a low density, strong, lustrous, corrosion-resistant (including sea water, aqua regia and chlorine) metal with a silver color.
It was discovered in Great Britain by William Gregor in 1791, and named by Martin Heinrich Klaproth for the Titans of Greek mythology
William Henry uses only aerospace-grade titanium alloy for our frames, clips, and micro-fasteners. Called 6Al/4V, it is titanium with a little aluminum and vanadium added in for additional toughness and tensile strength.
Natural spinel is a gemstone that has become a great favorite with gem dealers and gem collectors; one might even say that spinel is for gemstone connoisseurs only.
It is a hard glassy mineral occurring as octahedral crystals of variable color and consisting chiefly of magnesium and aluminum oxides. Some spinels are among the most famous gemstones in the world: among them are the Black Prince's Ruby and the "Timur ruby" in the British Crown Jewels, and the "Côte de Bretagne", formerly from the French Crown jewels.


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Ryan is a former Jamaican goalkeeper who played for Shamrock Rovers in the Europa League in 2011.
Ryan started his career with Jamaican club Harbour View where he played between 2003 and 2006. In 2006 he was awarded a sports scholarship to the University of Tampa in Florida. When he graduated he signed for Portland Phoenix in Maine where he played in 2010.
In February 2011 Ryan signed for Michael O'Neill at Shamrock Rovers and made his competitive debut for the Hoops in a Setanta Cup tie away to Lisburn Distillery on 14 March. He made 7 league appearances as Rovers claimed the League title and added 14 more cup appearances, playing in 8 of Rovers Champions League and Europa League games.
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The Brazilian defender decided to leave Stamford Bridge after a "man to man" chat with a new manager and is delighted to be at Emirates Stadium
David Luiz says he bought into the "potential" at Arsenal after experiencing a difference of opinion with Frank Lampard during a "man to man" chat with the Chelsea boss.
The Brazilian defender crossed London during the summer transfer window, trading life in the west of the English capital for that in the north.
He arrived at Emirates Stadium after three years back at Stamford Bridge during a second spell with the Blues.


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Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by mox, Jul 20, 2009.
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The easiest ways are with andyp's autotools for AWARD & AMI.
You can find them in the Vista section.
Generally the mods for SLIC 2.1 are the same as for SLIC 2.0
so if you modded a bios for 2.0 by yourself then doing it the same way with SLIC 2.1 will work too (if the bios version is the same one, cause some never bioses can have changes in free space within a module or so on).
Please be sure to use a 'clean' unmodded bios for modding process.
Phoenix one the other hand is something more difficult and there are not many people that can do it.
If you have such bios then the best way would be to request a mod in the Vista section, and some more advanced modders will do it.
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What about it ?
If the pubkey didn't changed compared from SLIC 2.0 to 2.1 then it could remain the same.
Just use the Andyp-tool and you shouldn't have problems with it. Method 0+2 is working as far as I remember for gigabyte boards.
I would try awardtool110
I am not the original author, but I took the liberty of transplanting Dell[DELL-PE_SC3-DELL]2.1.BIN into ISA-GA_SP1.BIN. Then I took a clean BIOS for my board GA-P35-DS3L and executed
(If you receive "ISA-GA_SP1.BIN added" and no error messages, you should be fine to flash).
Activated Vista SP2, Server 2008 Enterprise and Small Business Server 2008 just fine (Dell cert and keys). No problems with losing activation after S3 yet.
Since no Certs and Keys for W7/2008R2 are available yet, I had no opportunity to test whether SLIC 2.1 really works. Good luck!
good news! keys be soon...
used awardtool113...
windows 7 activated...no sleep problem...
can someone teach me how to mod my bios to slic 2.1? the easiest and safest method?
i just simple use util on default settings and insert slic to original bios... just press button and ready ... after do flash and use key and cert
what method did you use with AWARD-Tool??
/ISA or SSV3
and what motherboard do you have?
perhaps : GA-P35-DS4 like me?
and what bios version did you modify?
perhaps : Motherboard_BIOS_GA-P35-DS4_F12.exe like me?
Thank you
SSV3( default) on GA-P35-DS3P F.12
which slic did you insert? can i just insert any or what?
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Carol Marie Salomonson, known as "Carol Sharks" professionally, married Kevin Guthrie Santacroce on March 9 in a ceremony officiated by Stake President Barrett L. Richards of The Church of Latter-Day Saints at the Breakwater Yacht Club on Bay Street in Sag Harbor. The bride, wearing a white Victoria Beckham design knee-length dress purchased at the LVIS in East Hampton, was attended by Adam Aleksander of Manhattan, Harriet Stubbs of Manhattan, London and Los Angeles and Jessica Pilot of Manhattan and Los Angeles. The groom was attended by Jason Payne of Sagaponack and Michael Mazzaraco, of Amagansett.
The ceremony was followed by a reception at the yacht club featuring wine, champagne and crudité. A second reception was celebrated at The Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett, with pizza from Sam's Restaurant on Newtown Lane in East Hampton, a chocolate fountain with strawberries, fruits, peppers and marshmallows, enjoyed while the band Little Head Thinks performed along with DJ Prince Terrance from Manhattan. Dried flowers were tossed in the air as the bride and groom made their exit that evening, reuniting with family for brunch in the Map Room at Baron's Cove in Sag Harbor the next morning. The couple will depart for Japan later this month to take in cherry blossoms as they visit Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka.
The wedding date and bride and groom's choice for the reception were made naturally — the couple met when Ms. Salomonson, a Sag Harbor resident originally from Maryland, was DJing at the Talkhouse where Mr. Santacroce has worked as a sound engineer for the past 13 years. The couple would reconnect two years later while Ms. Sharks was on a sabbatical in Montauk. Their first date was on March 9, 2016 at Hither Hills Overlook where the couple enjoyed a brisk walk, a tradition they would keep each March 9 until their wedding day this year.
Ms. Salomonson, a licensed real estate salesperson at The Corcoran Group in Sag Harbor and avid musician and DJ, is the daughter of the late Peggy Lucille Salomonson and Vince Victor Salomonson, a senior scientist (emeritus) of the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and a research professor at the University of Utah.
Mr. Santacroce, a native of East Hampton and the owner and mix engineer at Shark Studio in Sag Harbor, is the son of Donna Cosgrove, a longtime preschool teacher at the Rocking Horse Nursery School and The Rainbow Preschool in Sag Harbor. His fathers are Peter Santacroce, a Hampton Bays resident and a retired psychotherapist at Long Island University's Southampton campus, and Kennith Cosgrove, a landscaper at JCP Landscaping in Sag Harbor. Mr. and Mrs. Cosgrove are East Hampton residents.


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How do I get my fingerprints taken?
The Crime Scene Unit provides this service for Stamford residents. However, if you are currently employed or seeking employment in Stamford, you are also eligible to be fingerprinted. Fingerprints will be canceled without notice if a crime scene needs to be processed. No appointments are taken or required. Fingerprints are performed:
- Tuesday and Thursday 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
- Saturday 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
The phone number for the Crime Scene Unit is (203) 977- 4408.


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Crispin Blunt on the Death of Mohamed Morsi
Clip: 06/18/2019 | 2m 45s Video has closed captioning.
Egypt's first freely elected President, Mohamed Morsi, died during his own trial. UK lawmaker Crispin Blunt, who led a government panel on Morsi's treatment, joins the program to discuss how this will affect Egypt, a bellwether nation in the region.
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The design team at ONE Condoms is full of clever people. Just look at the site! You could store your ONE Condoms in a Pringle-esque type container!
The fun is the actual packaging of the condoms. Okay, I lied. Ideally, the fun is the sex that I'd be having using said condoms, but meanwhile, while condom shopping, it's totally fun to look at all these cool designs.
I'm not endorsing ONE Condoms, I'm just saying "look at the pretty packaging!" For the record, the right condom for one person may not be right for another. I could do a huge post about this, but I don't like doing double-work. Violet Blue (site Not Safe For Work) has some succinct, general info about condoms about halfway down this page and for a wide selection (pun intended), check out Condomania.
Why am I posting about condoms? Is it because I'm a sex educator and I'm trying to be subversive on my blog which is mainly about nonsense? Heavens no! This was all just set up for this picture:
When I lived in Oakland, my amazing roommate went out and bought me this condom. With a dog on it. And left it sitting outside my bedroom door. Because she's a goddamned comedian.


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Zee aka Zamani Ngidi, is a rapper and music producer from South Africa. Zee started his journey as a rapper in his early childhood years and continued to do so while learning to discover music producing in high school.
During his high school period Zee was affiliated with various rap entities until deciding to pursue a solo career from 2008. In the period of 2009 and 2011, he worked on his music and collaborated with local and United States artists with placing on various mixtapes in the US.
Following this period of what he would label as "A development phase in my musical journey which I deemed necessary, I made over 200 songs during that period and it's all just putting in my 10,000 hours I guess, but I'm still pushing to be better."
A sense of mission and grandiose visions are what captivate audiences all over the world to listen and eagerly follow Zee's musical journey, in his words, "The music I make is art, it's the narration of the world through my eyes, I feel like I resonate with people for the fact that the experiences I go through and theirs are similar, I just make songs about it; Also I think what makes me Zee, especially my identity as a musician is because music is art, the perception of who I am and the culmination of all the intangibles of what makes a musician will always be interpreted differently, especially by various individuals, ultimately I just want people to be entertained, that's my mission, I want to entertain the world, and make people feel great, not only about themselves but in general"


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There Are 315 New Cases Of Covid-19 Reported Today Which Brings The States Total Since The Outbreak Started To Over 51,000The state has 315 new cases reported and currently 184 people are hospitalized.
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Aurora Police Searching For Driver Who Hit And Killed Pedestrian On Parker RoadAurora police are searching for the driver of a large white pickup truck that hit a man crossing Parker Road Tuesday night. It happened near South Peoria Street at about 10:30 p.m. Katie Johnston reports.
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Working in the I.T. industry it is inevitable that I would be using my phone, computer and even tablet at work, but that is not what you probably want to know. What you may be thinking is why I am even undertaking this exercise, this life without technology: Am I coping well? Will it help or hinder me?
Right this second, I still don't know.
I mentioned in my last blog that cutting technology would be unsettling. That was most definitely an understatement as the first two days were an absolute disaster. I couldn't find it in myself to let it go! I would be watching TV and be on my phone, scrolling through the usual mainstream drivel and playing video games on my tablet. Flatmates would try and talk to me and eventually ask if I was even listening. It wasn't until that moment that I recognised the importance of this experiment.
The next night I had my flatmate hide everything and let it be. I felt extremely anxious, thinking that I needed to check up on emails, look at what's happening on Facebook and make sure that I felt included in what was actually happening in the digital world! I decided to distract myself, spend some time with my flatmates at the Botanical Gardens and after about 20 minutes I had completely forgotten about that need for screen time. It was like I had traveled back to my high school days of waiting for the landline (do houses still even have those?)
I was able to give 100% of my attention to the moment I was in, embrace the time I was spending with flatmates and actually relax: the distraction was bliss!
I read somewhere that screen time can also increase the risk of insomnia and I can now see that as, when it came to turning in for the night, I felt I had nothing to do except sleep. I wasn't exactly tired so thought I'd give reading a go. 10-15 minutes later I fell asleep with my book on my chest, most likely with loud snoring to supplement and I woke 9 hours later instead of the usual 6.
Week one didn't turn out to be as bad as I thought, so I am excited to see how week two goes. Watch this space.
Being without a phone can be an incapacitating feeling, possibly worse than leaving a wallet at home. Many adults can remember an analog era of living without a mobile phone. But for young digital natives, taking a break from the phone, where they live and socialize, can induce all kinds of emotions.


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Rohit Sharma scored a brilliant hundred and pacer Japrit Bumrah delivered under pressure to help India beat New Zealand by six runs in a nail-biter in Kanpur on Sunday.The day started with New Zealand captain Kane Williamson winning the toss and opting to bowl first.
His decision proved a disastrous one as the hosts posted mammoth 337 for the loss of six wickets in their allotted 50 overs, courtesy brilliant 230-run second wicket partnership between Sharma and captain Virat Kohli. Sharma finished the innings with the top score of 147 off 138 with the help of 18 fours and two sixes, whereas Kohli smashed his 32nd ODI century and scored 113 off 106 with the help of nine fours and one six.
For New Zealand, pacers Tim Southee, Adam Milne and left-arm spinner Mitchell Santner claimed two wickets each.Chasing 338 to once again to win the series, Black Caps lost Martin Guptil early, but skipper Williamson and Collin Munro put visitors in commanding position with 111-run second wicket partnership. However, neither Williamson nor Munro managed to get a big one and got out in quick succession, which gave hosts a way back into the contest.
New Zealand remained in hunt, thanks to brilliant batting performance from wicketkeeper-batsman Tom Latham, but his heroics could not take the side home as the Black Caps ended up seven runs short of the target.
Pacer Bumrah was the standout performer for the hosts, as he claimed three wickets and just gave away 47 runs in his 10 overs. He was well supported by leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, who claimed two wickets.For New Zealand, Munro finished the innings with the top score of 75 off 62 with the help of eight fours and three sixes. For his outstanding batting performance, Sharma was awarded man of the match.


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In these times of accelerating change, it's no longer enough to be an exceptional leader. You must be an exponential leader. Such leaders use the skills and behaviors of futurists, innovators, and technologists to improve the lives of the people they touch, and society as a whole. They also act as impact drivers to think beyond the needs of their own organizations.
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3rd place sweeps for #classensas @OKCPS at Edmond North Debate, Alex & Rachel took 2nd Novice#fb #TwitPictPtwitpic.com/6tnh9xPiZJ
#classensas @OKCPS Alex & Rachel won in semis for CX Novice debate & now are in #fbals! #fb
@mguhlin I hope the alternatives get better then :-)
#classensas @OKCPS closed out LD finals 1st & 2nd, now 1 more student is debating for 3rd or 4th
The fact Rachel & Alex's CX debate team designation#classensasnsas WF makes it easy for me to #TwitPictPtwitpic.com/6tk29qsWbx
2 of our #classensas @OKCPS Novice CX teams dropped in quarters. 1 advanced to semis (Rachel/Alex) - 3 of our LD debators are in semis
@Whittttt is that an after school grant program or something else?
Congrats Asher PS! RT @Whittttt: Listening to @JanetBarresi opening remarks for the $12 million 21st C Grant of which Asher is a recipient
Alex & Rachel won in novice CX octos,quarters start at@OKCPSKCPS - 1 ot#classensasnsas won by default (no show)
All 4 @OKCPS #classensas Novice CX teams broke to octafinals! 5 of our LD teams broke 2! #edmondnorth #TwitPict twitpic.com/6tedpb
Time for CX debate out rounds (@ Edmond North High School) 4sq.com/nOVSjB
Rdg: Moods on Twitter Follow Biological Rhythms, Study Finds: nyti.ms/pKZXnC via @xanpearson #fb
@ThalesDream I spoke to another parent in our community a few weeks ago who had nightmares as a young elementary student after watching it
@ThalesDream I remember my parents wouldn't let me watch "The Day After" in 1983 concerned about its traumatic content
ThalesDream Used parts of The Day After (1983) to discuss ethical scenarios around nuclear conflict and consequences with students. Powerful. #sschat


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December 29, 2019
Looking for a Day Camp Co-Director for Vista Star's Summer Day Camp, Camp Trefoil
For over 20 years, Vista Star has held a week-long day camp in the local area to provide our service unit members with a fun, safe, and reasonably-priced camp experience with Girl Scout fl...
December 29, 2019
The 2020 Cookie Program begins February 15th and runs through March 29, 2020.
It is recommended that each troop has a Troop Cookie Manager (TCM) to facilitate the Cookie Program within your troop so girls have a fun and successful selling season.
TCM Rookies (1 year or l...
July 14, 2019
It takes a village to run the Vista Star Service Unit! Please reach out to email@example.com if you can help us have the most amazing recruitment ever!
We will need volunteers to be at each school open house and for flyer distribution...
July 14, 2019
June Newsletter has been published and sent!
IMPORTANT:To fulfill the Girl Scout requirement for a level 1 First Aider a leader must have both First Aid and CPR certification.
Red Cross blended learning training meets the Girl Scout guidelines for first aid programs and combines interactive online training featuri...
June Newsletter has been published and sent!
Cookie sales are done for the year, School is wrapping up (or has already wrapped up!)
Make sure you check out our private Facebook Group: https://w...
April 3, 2019
April Newsletter has been published and sent !
April 3, 2019
May 5th, 1-4:30pm Mother Daughter Day
It may not seem like Spring with Mother's Day on the horizon, but it will be here before we know it.
Join us May 5th, 1-4:30pm, at the Ridgedale Library for Mother Daughter Sundae Craft Fun Day. Make homemade ice cream, pai...
November 3, 2018
We have many ways to stay connected!
Volunteer Meetings and other events are on the SU Google Calendar.
The Facebook Vista Star Private Group is a great resource to learn about other events, ask questions and more!
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Germany has announced it will put about $1 billion towards electric vehicles in a new push to increase clean transportation. Car buyers will see a 4,000-euro discount (U.S. $4,530) on electric vehicles and a 3,000-euro discount ($3,398) on hybrids. In addition, the country will spend 300,000 euros to install more vehicle charging stations.
The government and car makers will share the cost of the rebates, which are only available on cars costing less than 60,000 euros (about $67,960), Reuters reported Wednesday.
"With this, I believe we will be able to give a boost to quickly move the number of vehicles (sales) to a considerable level," Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said.
Germany has a goal of a million electric vehicles on the road by 2020, but it is well short of that goal. Currently, there have been only about 50,000 electric vehicles sold.
The United States has also tried to increase the number of electric vehicles on its roads — and has also fallen short. In January, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz pushed back the date for a million electric cars to 2020 from the administration's earlier goal of 2015. As of January about 400,000 of the United States' 250 million cars and trucks were electric. The lack of uptake has been blamed on low gas prices — which have halved over the course of Obama's presidency. Generally speaking, low gas prices disincentivize consumers from buying electric vehicles.
Read more at Germany Just Announced a Major Push to Increase Electric Car Sales


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Joseph Massino, the restaurant's operator, is an important part of the family. The Family. The Mafia; the Mob; La Cosa Nostra. The FBI says and his defense lawyer does not contest that Massino is head of the Bonanno clan, one of the Five Families of crime incorporated by Lucky Luciano in 1931. It was Massino who revived the Bonannos after the humiliation of the Donnie Brasco caper, in which FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone infiltrated the gang and spent five years posing as a hoodlum named Brasco and, with his court testimony, helped send 200 Mob men to prison. Already reeling from the Pizza Connection prosecutions (after a bust that exposed a giant heroin distribution racket run from pizza parlors), the Bonannos were thrown off the Five Families commission and left for dead. With brains and muscle, Massino restored the clan to its old strength. And "Big Joey" (his weight was once nearly 400 lbs.) did it on the street, not in the stir, where the other four bosses languish. In fact, Massino is the only New York Mafia boss who isn't doing hard time or awaiting sentencing for a conviction. That makes him the Last Don.
Massino, 61, has other legitimate businesses (Cafe Via Vento, in Maspeth) and properties (in Queens and Palm Coast, Fla.), but his favorite is the CasaBlanca. From that neighborhood ristorante, he has allegedly run an operation that, the feds assert, includes extortion, loan sharking, illegal gambling, narcotics and murder in a vast criminal empire whose tentacles stretch up into Canada and back to the Sicilian motherland. Investigators say he certified his power in 2000, when he convened a meeting of four of the Five Families, at where else?--the CasaBlanca.
Soon it won't be just agents who get to peek inside Massino's world. His life is about to become a media circus. He was even discussed on a recent episode of The Sopranos, when one character compared the legal troubles of the fictional Tony Soprano to the legal woes of the all-too-real Massino. On April 19, Massino will be sweltering in the spotlight in a Brooklyn federal courtroom as a jury is selected for United States of America v. Joseph Massino et al. Defendants. "He's big-time," says retired FBI agent Bruce Mouw, who nailed John Gotti and ran the bureau's Bonanno squad in the 1980s. Says Pat Colgan, a retired FBI supervisor who tailed Massino for more than a decade: "Joey didn't get the reputation he had on the street because he was Mr. Nice Guy. Everybody knew. We knew, the bad guys knew, Joey's in charge." George Hanna Jr., current head of the FBI's Bonanno squad, describes Big Joey as "extremely smart, very cautious. A treacherous guy."
And probably someone you've never heard of, a big-time mobster with a small p.r. budget.
For the past 20 years, other Big Apple bosses have courted celebrity. Gambino-family boss John (the Dapper Don) Gotti would saunter in his $2,000 suits, bantering with TV reporters; Genovese family boss Vincent (Chin) Gigante, feigning dementia, would wander through Greenwich Village in his bathrobe and slippers. The American public, fed on spicy tales of colorful men who rose from poverty to power and used violence to defend their honor, demanded star quality in its bad guys. Gotti and Gigante provided it. The suspicion is that both men bought dangerously into the Mafia movie myth. They wanted to be the wiseguys with lethal charm, the types who get immortalized onscreen by the "O Team"--Brando, De Niro, Pacino. And maybe become their own O team: Soprano. The FBI loves this, because a mobster's ego is the most fragile weapon in his arsenal. Set it off in public, and it can explode. Indeed, the mythologizing of the Mob by Hollywood and HBO could almost be a giant sting operation.
In this carnival atmosphere, Massino is an anomaly, an anachronism the Masto-Don. He does not frequent posh nightclubs, Vegas high-roller rooms, designer-clothing stores or the front page of the New York Post. He does not care to give interviews (though he seemed amused when asked for one, and told a TIME reporter, "Have a nice day"). His couture is less dapper than schlepper: jeans and T shirts (he doesn't like wearing a tie), without the usual mobster adornments of a siliconed blond on each arm. He has never been accused of swagger. About as close as he got to being a public figure was in '87, when he was tried and acquitted for the slaying of three rival captains. (The charge was only conspiracy, so he can now be tried for the actual murders.) One day in the courtroom he joked with Pistone, who was about to publish a best seller about his exploits. As Pistone recalls it, "So he asks me, 'Hey, Donnie, who's gonna play me in the movie?' I say, 'Joey, we're having a problem. We can't find an actor as fat as you.' He just started laughing."


text: Despite a global slowdown in the high-tech sector, Israeli startups began June at a blistering pace in terms of financing rounds raising $237 million in the first week alone. In the second week, the pace slackened somewhat but an impressive $119 million was raised, bringing the tally in the first half of the month to $356 million. The highlights of the first week were the $50 million raised by website guide developer WalkMe and the $40 million raised by image retail recognition company Trax. Other big financing rounds were $32 million raised by data storage company Weka.IO, $30 million by smart video company SundaySky and $25 million each by mobile cyber security developer Zimperium and patient monitoring device company EarlySense raised $25 million. RELATED ARTICLES Israeli startups raise $237m in first week of June In the second week, the financing rounds were smaller but still substantial for some companies. Content recommendation company Yotpo raised $22 million and video marketing company Eyeview raised $21.5 million. Flash storage company Elastifile raised $15 million from Cisco, augmented reality company Lumus raised $15 million from Chinese investors and online therapy company Talkspace also raised $15 million. Smaller financing rounds in the second week included $10.5 million raised by car dashboard camera company Nexar and $6.6 million raised by baby sleep monitoring company Nanit. Dark Internet security company Sixgill raised $5 million and messaging security company Nuro Secure Messaging raised $2.6 million. Screen enhancement company FORTVISION raised $2.5 million while cyber security company Armeron and industrial IoT company DeepSense each raised $2 million. Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on June 16, 2016 � Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd. 2016


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The week in numbers: w/e 8/4/12
April 9, 2012
2,000,000 – Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene scored the two millionth run in Test history en route to his 31st Test century on day one of the second Test against England in Colombo.
1 – Having lost all four previous Tests on their winter tours of Pakistan and Sri Lanka, England finally won in Colombo, as Kevin Pietersen hit 151 and 42 not out to lead England to an eight-wicket victory.
6 – In a race which had to be restarted halfway because of the intervention of a swimmer in the river, Cambridge won the 158th Boat Race to maintain their perfect record of having won on all six occasions when the event has been held on April 7th – although victory came courtesy of Oxford suffering a broken oar in a clash shortly after the restart.
1 – American Bubba Watson claimed his first major title at the Masters with a play-off victory over South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen, winning at the second extra hole.
40 – Finishing position of Tiger Woods, his worst placing as a professional. He had never previously finished lower than 22nd since turning pro.
0 – Number of players to break par on the 18th hole throughout the tournament.
4 – Tom Boonen won his fourth race of the spring Classics season as he claimed a record-tying fourth victory at Paris-Roubaix yesterday. Boonen attacked on his own and rode the final 53km solo to win by more than 1½ minutes.
43 – Celtic claimed their 43rd Scottish Premier League title with an emphatic 6-0 win at Kilmarnock.
2 – World titles won by cyclist Laura Trott at the Track World Championships in Melbourne. She added gold in the omnium to the one she won as part of Britain's victorious team pursuit squad. The 19-year old has already won six titles at senior World or European championships – all gold.
6 – Victoria Pendleton claimed her sixth individual sprint world title in eight years, defeating her nemesis, Australia's Anna Meares, in the semi-final despite a heavy fall.
13 – Medals won by the Great Britain team at the Track World Championships – six gold, four silver and three bronze. They finished second in the overall medal table, just behind hosts Australia, who won six gold, six silver and three bronze.
33 – Number of shots attempted by Real Madrid in their 0-0 draw against Valencia at the Bernabeu, the third-most by any team in La Liga in a single match this season.
10 – Chelsea advanced to the Champions League semi-finals after a 2-1 win over Benfica (3-1 on aggregate). They have opened the scoring in each of their ten games in the competition this season.
20 – Number of wickets to fall on the opening day of the County Championship match between Nottinghamshire and Worcestershire at Trent Bridge. Only Nottinghamshire's Paul Franks scored more than 30. Notts went on to win by 92 runs.
12 – Robbie Joseph took six wickets in each innings and finished with match figures of 12/111 as Leicestershire beat Glamorgan at Grace Road by 52 runs.
The Premier League in numbers
826 – Manchester United's 2-0 win at Blackburn last Monday extended their run without conceding a goal in games played on a Monday to 826 minutes – more than nine games.
15 – Clint Dempsey scored twice in a 3-0 win at Bolton to become Fulham's all-time Premier League single-season goalscorer, with 15. Louis Saha set the previous record of 13 in 2003/04.
9 – Papiss Cisse scored his eighth and ninth goals in only his eighth Premier League appearance, as Newcastle beat Swansea 2-0. Only one player has needed fewer games to reach nine goals: Coventry's Micky Quinn, who reached this milestone in just six appearances in 1992.
13 – Grant Holt scored his 13th league goal of the season as Norwich drew 2-2 with Everton. Wayne Rooney (22) is the only Englishman to have scored more than Holt this season.
8 – Manchester United's 2-0 win over QPR was their eighth successive league win, the most by any club since United won 11 in a row in 2009.
46 – Manchester United have now scored in 46 consecutive home league games, equalling the Premier League record set by Arsenal from 2001-03.
5 – Arsenal's defeat of Manchester City was their fifth 1-0 win this season, highest in the Premier League.
(Some statistics courtesy of Opta Sports, The Times, StatManJon and Infostrada.)


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Event Calendar
Kaku Imamura, Attorney at Law
(The speech and Q & A will be in Japanese with English interpretation)
"Legal Professionals Call for an End to Japan's 'Hostage Justice"
A member of Junpo Law Office in Tokyo, Kaku Imamura has built a reputation for successfully defending clients. He has so far secured 15 acquittals, an unusually high number in Japan.
Imamura will come to the club to call on the international community to join efforts in Japan to change Japan's criminal justice system amid criticism of the prolonged detention of former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn.
The 56-year-old attorney has written several books on the criminal law, including "Enzai Bengoshi" (Junposha, 2008) and "Enzai to Saiban" (Kodansha, 2012). He was recently featured in an NHK documentary "Enzai Bengoshi".
Doors open for TV crew at 12:45, For all others at 13:00, still cameras included.
Please reserve in advance, 3211-3161 or on the website (still & TV cameras inclusive). Reservations and cancellations are not complete without confirmation.
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How to win 4d easily
Posted on : 31-05-2018 | By : 4D Master | In : Singapore Malaysia 4D Articles
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Mohit did not believe in the old adage Never give up. Primarily because he never had to apply it to his own fairytale life—a life sans struggle and hardships. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Mohit just had to ask, if he ever wanted anything over and above all he was endowed with, and his parents ensured he had it. Being their only child, his parents raised him like a prince. Unfortunately, he grew up to be an arrogant, entitled one, who considered himself above everyone in his life.
As time went by, Mohit only grew more arrogant, with little interest in academics. Needless to say, he failed in high school, but that didn't bother him at all. All his father said was "never give up, son," and continued to indulge Mohit.
Mohit continued to take things for granted as he knew there was no fault in his stars; his parents were there to solve all his problems if there ever was any.
With great difficulty, he just about managed to complete high school. For his parents, it was a dream come true. They were so proud and overjoyed that they bought their son a sports car.
In college, Mohit became infamous for his spoilt behaviour. He flaunted his wealth and entitlements to his friends and professors alike. All he acquired in college was people's utter contempt for him, including that of the girl he loved.
Two days after they had left, a drunk and disoriented Mohit received a call from an unknown number.


text: A reader from the US informed me today that she spotted this solid (non static) Tango Red Cool Racerback Tank in her product alert. I'm not a huge fan of the static Tango Red so I may pick up this CRB when it comes to my store. I'm not in need of more CRB tanks but a nice true red is a staple I think so if this doesn't come in a Modern Racer Tank then I may snag this in the CRB. Although I do like the idea of wearing a red top for running so the technical tank may be the way to go. If you believe in color therapy then red is an energizing and powerful color. I wish this was out in time for my marathon but I'm already starting to narrow down my outfit. The red is a good choice for letting my family find me in the massive crowd for photo ops come race day. Oh well 🙁