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Great description of this sort of event - thoroughly enjoyable.
E-mail from friend, usual suspects in the cc. Want to do this? Pedal to the Lewes Wanderers Reliability Ride that starts about 25 miles away, do that, ride home, stop for some cake somewhere in the middle, should be about 80 miles all in all.
Sounds just like a Sunday ride then, but a little bit different, a good day out.
A Reliability Trial is very much like a sportive, but predates them by about a century and doesn't have the direction arrows, or the expense. They're not races, which sportives can turn into if you're too scared to enter an actual race and want to willy-wave your time during the Monday office kitchen coffee-break, but long distance rides that concentrate on fitness, self-reliance and the ability to read a map. A bit like an Audax then, but with less beards, maybe. There are no trade stands at the start selling spares and gels, there's no mechanic to make your bike roadworthy before you set off and no sag wagon to climb in the back of if you get a bit weary or it starts to rain. The clue's in the name, reliability.
Rather than try to get round as fast as possible, to beat some personal best, or bragging rights, at a Reliability Trial a rider chooses what time they reckon they can complete the distance in and it's up to them to maintain the average speed required to do that whilst navigating by following the route card. They can have as many wee and tea stops, getting lost moments and mechanicals as they like, they just have to be back in their chosen time, and can be chastised just as much for finishing too early as late.
The one we're doing today is a mere 45 miles so we opt for the 3 hour option which leaves us an average of 15mph to manage, which should be easily doable what with the usual chatting and faffing that gets done. Sign in, pay some loose change, oh yeah, to enter this event costs a full £3 if you can be bothered to enter beforehand. But that requires the old fashioned notion of sending a cheque to the organiser, and the tangible commitment of actually signing your name to the event and posting your intent that brings with it, rather than the easy anonymous slapdash easy-enter easy-bail one-click on-line entry. Even look-at-the-fair-weather cyclists are only charged a fiver on the day. So we pay our £5, pick up the map and printed directions, even if some of our group have downloaded the route onto their GPS it's good to keep it traditional, help ourselves to a cup of tea and a banana and get shooed out the door so we meet our designated departure time.
We instantly become unreliable when after exactly 472 feet the one rider in our group who doesn't have a map or GPS shoots up the main road perfectly missing the right-hand turn we have to take. Good start. A few minutes are wasted while we retrieve him and point him back on track and it takes us less than a mile to realize that we're not on a sportive as the roads are totally devoid of a seething meandering migration of mamils. Wonderful. We pass and are overtaken by a few wheels along the way but no more or no less than if you were just riding your bike around these lanes on any Sunday.
About halfway round we turn into a checkpoint manned by a couple from the hosting cycle club, their large camper-van and a pair of trestle-tables holding cake. They take our personal orders for teas and coffees while we wonder how much of the home-made cake we can snarf, it's chatty and relaxed, a far cry from the scrum for the left-overs of half-bananas and out-of-date energy bars of most sportives.
We have been dawdling a bit so with eyes on computers and a wind on our backs for the final stretch we try to make up time but still roll into the finish late and get cheerfully told off as our names are ticked off the clipboard, we clearly haven't got the hang of this. Leaning our bikes alongside a reassuring mix of full-on race Cervelos and old Italian steel bikes with racks and down-tube shifters we totter into the warmth of the Village Hall to look for some sustenance to see us over the last leg of our day. We're not to be disappointed, a glut of hand-made cakes and flapjacks, plates of toasted tea-takes and lots of tea are supplied. There's a "Donations Welcome" bowl by the side that riders have filled with enough money to show that their conscience is probably bigger than their bellies.
Suitably filled we head off again, back into the wind that's been bothersome all day and strike for home, some taking the long way to make it a conveniently round number of miles and some of the money saved on not doing a Sportive is spent on some beer as a reward and a toast to a great day out.
Jo Burt has spent the majority of his life riding bikes, drawing bikes and writing about bikes. When he's not scribbling pictures for the whole gamut of cycling media he writes words about them for road.cc and when he's not doing either of those he's pedaling. Then in whatever spare minutes there are in between he's agonizing over getting his socks, cycling cap and bar-tape to coordinate just so. And is quietly disappointed that yours don't He rides and races road bikes a bit, cyclo-cross bikes a lot and mountainbikes a fair bit too. Would rather be up a mountain.
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Lovely, you had me at 'trestle-tables'.
In the running world you can race cross country any weekend in winter for free, or do a fell race for £3 or £4 by turning up at some obscure car park in the countryside. Or you can enter the Great Somethingorother Run for £40 quid and get stampeded by a pantomime dromedary.
Sounds like a good laugh.
The hating on Sportives is a bit rich seeing how much this site pushes them, but then they have got a bit out of hand. Like this site's review of a £4,500 Sportive bike that was done not so long ago.
What's next on the horizon? Perhaps a quick 10 Shilling bet on your Penny Ordinary Vs a Horse over three furlongs?
Cool - it just came across as a wee bit snarky, but like you I appreciate the road less travelled.
I went out for a wander in Hertfordshire on my bike, and about 25 miles in just pointed it in a random direction, allowed myself to get lost and found one of my fave teashops for riding.
Also beards show mechanical authority, everyone knows that. The guy in the group with the beard always has the best chance of fixing a problem.
Reliability rides used to be winter training rides in preparation for a season of racing. Audax, on the other hand tends to be all year round - albeit the longer events are in summer - and more aimed at touring types.
In my view, both are far better value than Sportives. Not saying Sportives don't have a place - just they largely seem to satisfy those who feel the price they pay for both bike and event is reflective of their ability.
Long may all three continue; all of them get people out on their bikes and that's what we want/need to see.
Please correct me if I'm wrong on this, but whereas reliability rides were originally regarded as winter training rides for racers, as Michael 5 says, I think audax events were considered more for tourists. (There was of course some cross-over, and all this is in the UK context - on the continent, audax rides were something else again.)
I was recently leafing through some old 'Cycling' magazines (the forerunner of today's Cycling Weekly) from the 1960s. One contained a report on a reliability ride, with specific mention of the first three riders to reach the finish (presumably they all started at the same time). In the following week's issue, the letters page contained a disgruntled communication from another rider who had finished before all three of them, but not been noticed.
So back in the day, despite them not being races, it seems some reliability rides were pretty competitive, with some riders definitely out to 'win'.
I'm not knocking sportives - I love 'em - but that attitude from 50 years ago does seem rather familiar...
I suppose it's that innate competitive instinct David - some people struggle more than others to suppress it.
I remember Roger St Pierre doing a really good piece on reliability rides of the 50s & 60s and got the distinct impression that for racers of the time like him that although it was a light hearted affair and not a race - getting round pretty sharpish was still high on the list of priorities for the day.
As for sportives - road.cc is definitely not getting snarky about them and I'm sure Jo isn't either (partly cos I know he's got his name down for a few in the coming months) although this is his blog so his views rather than the party line.
MAMILs are great for cycling and while reliability rides and the like are also great you do probably have to have some connection to the local club scene to find out about them - which lots of new cyclists don't have. Good to see them cropping up in our What's on Section - Diss & District Cycling Club are running the One Big Pedal Reliability Trial this weekend if you're tempted.
In a similar vein, I enjoyed the Isle of Wight Randonnee last year - http://www.cycleisland.co.uk/. It's 100km (essentially a lap of the island, clockwise for 2012) on mostly quiet roads. You can start at any of the six checkpoints at any time from 9am which spreads people out nicely. Cheap tea/coffee/homemade cakes at the checkpoints. And no entry fee at all, although they'll accept donations. Tough to beat that for value
oooooooh, no hating at all, just pointing out that there's a cheaper, less crowded alternative to sportives for those that can read a map and mend a puncture
Get some puncture-resistant tyres fitted, then all you need to do is follow some directions. Nowadays quite a few events have downloadable GPX files or online maps you can check beforehand and point the bars where the gizmo tells you.
I think the distinction between an Audax and Reliability is a moot point. They're both cheap and a good reason/excuse to do a long ride.
Obviously 40 miles can't be called an Audax, but I like the idea of reliability rides. Do not like it when Sportives are refered to as 'races', yes your bike has a number & you get a finish time but that is as close as it gets. I did the ToB prostate ride to Sandringham last year (the 125miler) I wanted to complete at an average of 18mph and took 7 hours to finish, so hit my time! does that make it a reliability ride?
...does that make it a reliability ride?
Absolutely! To be honest, as everything settles down the distinction between what is an 'Audax' and a 'Reliability Trial' and a 'Sportive' will blur but the title will obviously offer a useful pointer to what an entrant can expect when they're reading the details . All that matters is riders ultimately feel like they've had value for whatever they paid and their expectations are met.


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We are a new organic fertilizer company, Organic Nutrients (we got our logo from 99 Designs!). We are launching our first product label for "Insect Frass".
Frass is debris or excrement (poop) produced by insects.
Please use the attached LOGO.svg file for the Organic Nutrients logo, THE BOTTOM ONE as referenced in the .PDF to replace the generic green "Organic" place holder at the bottom of the sample Label.PPT file label. The actual PO BOX will be given shortly. We will have 3 different size containers, 2 pound, 5 pound and 40 pound bags. Just remember that we have to give metric and US measurements.
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Frass is what makes the rainforest possible. Herbivore insects eat the leaves and poop out very favorable plant food. Frass has special biological properties (beneficial bacteria, fungi and protazoa) that naturally bonds to the nutrients in the soil, and in turn feeds the roots of the trees, instead of allowing the nutrients to wash away due to soil erosion from so much rainfall. No frass. No rainforests. No existence. We may not be able to educate people to this extent in this label, but that's what makes frass special, and unique to any other organic fertilizer.
First, we are Organic Nutrients, Inc. So, packaging for this product will be in Kraft brown paper bags with tin ties, like a coffee bag, but biodegradable (an image of the exact bag is attached).
Dimensions of the small bags can be found at http://www.packplus.com. Product will be distributed in hydroponic stores and nurseries mostly. We will be a natural fit for those growers already using organic products. Chemical fertilizers and pesticides kill the natuarlly occuring biology of soils, breaking the SoilFoodweb life-cycle of beneficial micro-organisms and instead put harmful substances inside the food we eat. The challenge for us is to get those farmers and growers using inorganic chemical nutrients, to use organics, for the health of the plant, those consuming them and the environment. Chemical fertilization depletes the soil of organic material, which effectively kills the living biology thats supposed to be there for the plant. Using a biologically balanced fertilizer reduces irrigation needs by up to 50%, drastically reduces the amount of nutrients leached out the soil by chemicals and irrigation, and improves water quality and food quality. We want everyone to switch BACK to organics, the way its been for 1000's of years, until industrialization!
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VANCOUVER, BC - Vancouver Whitecaps FC announced on Friday that defender Jenny Jeffers and midfielder/striker Demi Stokes have been added to the club's 2012 United Soccer Leagues (USL) W-League roster – pending Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) and USL approval.
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The Slave Trade in the Colonial Economy
In the eighteenth century, just like today, the ocean was crowded with ships transporting goods from one continent to another. While some carried sugar, rum, guns, and an array of other trade goods, others carried human cargo from Africa. While it is well known that white Americans in the southern colonies (and later, states) enjoyed great economic benefits from slavery, it is less well known that even in the northern colonies where there were far fewer slaves, white Americans still benefited from this inhumane system. Trade goods and slaves were transported on ships made in New England from New England lumber, and crewed and captained by New England men. Financiers and insurance agents often invested in shipping companies and industries using or connected to slavery. And anyone involved in the production of a good that would be brought to Africa to trade for enslaved people made their money from the slave trade. On the consumer level, anyone baking with sugar or putting it in their tea benefited from slavery, since enslaved people worked the sugar plantations in the West Indies. Enslaved people raised and harvested rice, tobacco, and cotton, so users and sellers of those products also profited from slave labor.
In this lesson, students will explore these connections between slavery and products across the colonies. This lesson could be used during the study of colonial trades, the global triangular trade, or slavery in general. It also could work as a stand-alone lesson. It works best with middle school students.
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- Determine the links between slavery and the colonial economy.
- Explain the significance of these links.
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- "The Slave Trade in the Colonial Economy" reading
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- Put students into groups of 4 or 5. Give each group a stack of Commodity Cards and have them put the cards into one of two categories: "Involved Slavery" and "Didn't Involve Slavery."
- Discuss as a class. Tell students that all of the goods, in one way or another, were connected to slavery. Some were grown or made by enslaved people, others were used in ships that transported enslaved people, and still others were traded for enslaved people in Africa or received alongside enslaved people as part of a trade.
- Hand out the "The Slave Trade in the Colonial Economy" reading, and have students read it silently. (Alternatively, select students to take turns reading it aloud.) Then check for understanding by discussing its main points as a class.
- Put students into pairs and give each pair one of six Task Cards. Give students enough time to talk and answer the two questions.
- Have each pair share with another pair that has a different task card. After a few minutes, have each pair share with another pair with yet a different role. Repeat as many times as necessary.
- As an evaluation, have students write a response to the following statement: Explain how slavery impacted the lives of colonists who did not own slaves. You may wish to hand out or project the prompt for students. Specify how long you would like the response to be, based on student abilities.
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- The framers of the Constitution debated ending the slave trade in 1787, but decided to forbid the new government from outlawing it for at least another 20 years. Discuss with students why they may have wanted to delay any decisions about the slave trade. Follow up by telling students that the United States did make the importation of slaves illegal in 1808. However, the domestic slave trade continued, and slavery itself was not ended until the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in 1865.
- Create an interactive Internet-based poster or presentation (for instance, using edu.glogster.com or www.prezi.com) showing the connections between the economies of the colonies and slavery. It might include text, pictures, audio, and video. Alternatively, create a poster using posterboard and colored pencils or markers.
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Last Sunday of the Easter break; cannot wait for the hyenas to head back to school tomorrow (and thus gain some much-needed peace, quiet, and sanity in my house!) I need something to tide me over though – what better than Six Sentence Sunday, eh?
I'm smack-dab in the middle of edits on this one; Before The Morning (Corpus Brides: Book Two) comes out in 2 weeks, and as excited as I am, I'm also quaking in my ALDO boots as to how the story will be received. Par for the course for every author, innit? Doesn't make it any less daunting.
So, last week, we saw our hero, Ash Gilfoy, be the epitome of heroic as he rushed to the aid of a woman who'd just been hit by her lover.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for a San Francisco man charged with operating an online marketplace for illegal drugs are asking a judge to toss out most of the evidence against him, saying the Fourth Amendment protects their client from "indiscriminate rummaging" through his entire online history.
The lawyers, Joshua Dratel and Lindsay Lewis, said in court papers that the government violated the ban on illegal search and seizure when it scoured the computers, servers and websites 30-year-old Ross Ulbricht used.
They said applications for search warrants described an investigation that began in early 2013 with a server hosting the Silk Road website in a foreign country.
"The wholesale collection and study of Mr. Ulbricht's entire digital history without limitation — expressly sought in the warrants and granted — represent the very type of indiscriminate rummaging that caused the American colonists so much consternation," according to the papers filed late Friday in federal court in Manhattan.
Ulbricht has pleaded not guilty to charges of narcotics trafficking, computer hacking, running a continuing criminal enterprise and money laundering. His trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 3.
Prosecutors say Ulbricht went by the online handle the Dread Pirate Roberts, an apparent reference to a character in the movie "The Princess Bride," and turned the underground site into a place where anonymous users could buy or sell contraband and illegal services.
Authorities say Silk Road, which had nearly 1 million registered users by July 2013, generated more than $1 billion in illicit business from January 2011 through September. Federal investigators say Silk Road users anonymously browsed through nearly 13,000 listings under such categories as cannabis, psychedelics and stimulants.
The website used Bitcoin, the tough-to-track digital currency, before it was shut down.
Ulbricht was arrested last year at a public library in San Francisco, where he lived. Authorities said he was chatting online at the time with a cooperating witness. He remains incarcerated without bail.
A prosecutor's spokeswoman declined to comment Monday.
In court papers, the government has accused Ulbricht of developing a website that enabled several thousand drug dealers worldwide to distribute hundreds of kilograms of illegal drugs and other illicit goods and services to more than 100,000 customers.
Ulbricht's lawyers said evidence turned over by the government so far shows that witnesses may be located in various countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Iceland and France.
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Monkfest 2012
Monkfest 2012
The Benedictines of Newark Abbey celebrated the 13th Annual Monkfest on Sunday, Aug. 19. The family festival offered those in attendance plenty of food, music, games and prayer - Fr. Al played his guitar and art teacher Pamela Wye-Hunsinger had her students treat children to free face painting, while Pat Flynn's summer drama class presented its work. The day ended with Vespers in Conlin Auditorium.Read More
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Major League Baseball
Cincinnati Reds: Agreed to terms with LHP Aroldis Chapman on a one-year contract.
Colorado Rockies: Agreed to terms with INF Paul Janish on a minor league contract.Basketball NBA
Phoenix Suns: Signed F Leandro Barbosa for the remainder of the season.Football NFL
Carolina Panthers: Signed coach Ron Rivera to a three-year contract extension through the 2017 season.
Green Bay Packers: Signed FB Ina Liaina.
Pittsburgh Steelers: Signed WR Danny Coale to a reserve/future contract. Named James Saxon running backs coach.Soccer MLS
Chivas USA: Named Paul Caffrey first assistant to technical staff.
Portland Timbers: Terminated the contract of D Mikael Silvestre.College
Bowling Green: Named Nick Monroe secondary coach, Sterlin Gilbert and Matt Mattox co-offensive coordinators, Kim McCloud defensive coordinator, Tom Kaufman special teams coordinator, Mike Lynch, Sean Lewis and Tom Freeman assistant coaches, Sean Edinger director of strength and conditioning and Roy Wittke director of football operations.
Nebraska: Dismissed junior men�s basketball G Deverell Biggs.
Ohio State: Signed athletic director Gene Smith to a contract extension through June 2020 and gave him the additional title of vice president.
Xavier: Suspended men�s freshman basketball F Jalen Reynolds indefinitely.


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Even with my new 2011 1200 RT, I still ride with my old Gold Wing buddies. The number of guy putting car tires on the rear of their Wings is increasing quite a bit, actually a lot. The main reason is the lure of getting 30,000+ miles on a tire that costs around $100 with virtually no loss of handling ability or any safety issues. And we ride a LOT of twisties together.
No value judgement here...Just putting out the idea for general discussion. I can certainly understand the economic incentives of both the riders wanting double the miles at nearly half the price, and tire manufacturers wanting to maintain current price points.
If this phenomenon gains a lot of traction, maybe a motorcycle tire manufacturer might consider designing a high-milage hybrid car/cycle tire to capture a market trend.
Personally, I'm sticking with traditional rear cycle tires for now, but it is an interesting thought. What do you guys think?


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MeadWestvaco shed its Cooper River paper mill five years ago, but it didn't pack its bags and sever its lengthy ties to the Charleston area.
Far from it. The Lowcountry is the corporate home to two of the packaging company's main business lines: chemicals and real estate. Both, it turned out, had an eventful 2013 first quarter, though for completely different reasons.
MeadWestvaco isn't known for making surprise announcements, but it sprung a few unanticipated nuggets on investors Tuesday, when it reported a disappointing $11 million profit. First-quarter earnings tumbled 77 percent from the first three months of 2012, well below projections.
"There were a number of factors that led to lower profits in our businesses, many of them unexpected," said CEO John A. Luke Jr.
Among them: Colder weather negatively affected the beverage and home and garden packaging business. Weak economic conditions in Europe hurt results. Higher expenses for energy, raw materials and transportation chiseled away at profits.
Another big factor was a series of hiccups at the company's regarded MWV Specialty Chemicals unit, which develops wood-based asphalt additives, inks and other products.
Despite solid sales, the North Charleston-based group earned $49 million in the first quarter, or $9 million less than a year ago. Jim Buzzard, president of MeadWestvaco, didn't mince words.
"Our operating performance in Specialty Chemicals unfortunately did not match our commercial performance in the quarter," Buzzard said during a conference call with analysts.
One reason was that the North Charleston chemical refinery "was shut down longer than expected following a planned maintenance outage," the company said. Two other plants the division runs in Louisiana and Virginia also went idle for extended periods during the quarter.
Combined, the shutdowns shaved about $6 million from the bottom line.
MeadWestvaco spokesman Tucker McNeil declined to specify the problems. As to the Virginia Avenue refinery, he would only say it didn't fire up as expected after maintenance work.
"When we flip the switch back on, sometimes they start up and purr." McNeil said Thursday. "Other times, it takes more effort to get them to up to speed. That was the case this time."
The company said it's already borne the brunt of the costs of the three outages, and it doesn't expect additional expenses to bleed over into this quarter.
On the flip side of the ledger, 14 property sales lifted profits at Summerville-based MWV Community Development and Land Management by 14 percent to $16 million.
But the bigger surprise was the announcement that MeadWestvaco has hired investment bankers to line up financial partners to "unlock the value" of that business, which oversees about 650,000 acres of timberland and other property in five Southeastern states.
An outright sale of some or all of the undeveloped acreage is likely. Also in the mix is the possibility of raising capital from outsiders to help fund the large-scale Nexton and East Edisto projects in the Charleston region, with MeadWestvaco maintaining controlling stakes.
"We've done a lot of work over the last several months with our advisers and our internal team, and we're very enthusiastic about the potentials," Luke, the CEO, told analysts last week.
MeadWestvaco always planned to review the "strategic options" for the six-year-old real estate arm "when the timing was appropriate," he said.
Given the other unexpected surprises, Tuesday was as good a time as any.
Contact John McDermott at 937-5572.


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d1mex wrote:ALSO: DOES MAURICE EVANS LOOK LIKE A BALD BRITTANY SPEARS???
More like Brittney looks like Maurice Evans now...
32 wrote:This was purely an off-game; it's not the norm.
Indeed it is. You know, the norm is that we cannot win road games and we cannot win back-to-backs... (seriously, have we won one back-to-back in the whole season?)


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Notre Dame players are focusing on themselves for now, say they'll worry about Alabama later
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly says the top-ranked Fighting Irish are focusing on themselves, not their opponent in the BCS championship game Jan. 7.
Kelly says the Irish (12-0) have been doing conditioning work, weightlifting and school work. Practices begin again on Friday and Saturday. Kelly says the early practices will focus on younger players and fundamentals and will focus more on Alabama (12-1) as the game draws closer.
He also says he expects everyone to be ready for the game, even receiver DaVaris Daniels, who sustained a broken left clavicle against Boston College. Safety Zeke Motta says the Irish are letting their bodies heal, working to get stronger and to make sure they are ready to go at kickoff.


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Tucked in a far corner of a Torrington Walmart, the store's firearms section was buzzing on a recent afternoon. Crowded around a small, half-moon-shaped counter, two men filled out the lengthy applications for first-time firearms purchases.
Tucked in a far corner of a Torrington Walmart, the store's firearms section was buzzing on a recent afternoon. Crowded around a small, half-moon-shaped counter, two men filled out the lengthy applications for first-time firearms purchases.
Nearby, another couple perused glass cases bristling with long guns.
Farmington resident Greg Sieklicki, 26, was there to pick up ammunition for his neighbor, a Christmas gift for the first-time shotgun owner. A gun enthusiast himself, Sieklicki said Walmart is his go-to place for firearms and accoutrements.
"Just like everything else here, it's cheaper," he said.
Despite the recent murders of 20 students and seven adults in Newtown, Connecticut's gun culture seems, on the surface at least, robust and unbowed.
"Guns are a big part of the culture," said New Haven resident Adam Palmer shortly after he visited a shooting range near Ansonia. "Connecticut has a pretty broad base of people who like to shoot."
Figures obtained by Hearst Connecticut Newspapers showed that gun sales surged in the week following Adam Lanza's shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School. On Dec. 20, six days after the shooting, for example, retailers sold 1,220 guns. That's up from 431 on the same date in 2011. Similar increases were seen for almost every day in the week after the shooting, according to the state Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection.
At the Dick's Sporting Goods in the Danbury Fair mall, the run on ammunition was so great management limited the number of rounds customers could buy for all calibers. There were no firearms on the shelves, but that was because they'd been removed in deference to the shooting victims, a store employee said.
New Milford resident Dawn Curry, 39, and her husband were recently at a gun show where a pink .22-caliber rifle caught their 6-year-old daughter's eye.
"She hasn't used it yet," said Curry, who had just visited the Newtown memorials off Church Hill Road in Sandy Hook. "When she does, it will only be with Daddy."
Curry's husband, a hunter, owns six guns. She defended his right to bear arms, citing the classic argument that "guns don't kill people, people do."
The only thing that needs to change, she said, is teaching people to better store their weapons.
"If you came to my house, you wouldn't even know we have guns," she said. "Lock 'em up."
Still, she said, the Sandy Hook tragedy has left her with some "mixed emotions."
Palmer, who is also the founder of the Connecticut branch of the American Preppers Network, an association for people preparing for natural and manmade calamities, said tighter gun laws are symbolic and ineffective solutions to preventing mass shootings.
"The issue shouldn't be over magazine capacity," he said. "What are we doing to assure that our youth is equipped with what they need mentally?"
The Newtown killings seemed to have only modestly changed the nation's attitudes about gun control, according to a Pew Research Center survey analysis.
The survey, conducted Dec. 17-19, found that 49 percent of Americans say it is more important to control gun ownership, while 42 percent say it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns.
Opinion was evenly divided in July, following another mass shooting in Aurora, Colo., that killed 12 and injured 59.
While 67 percent of Americans oppose a handgun ban, more than half of Americans favor banning bullets designed to explode or penetrate bullet-proof vests and high-capacity ammunition clips, the analysis found. Only 44 percent favor banning semiautomatic guns; 49 percent are opposed.
While the NRA said Sunday it would continue to oppose all restrictions on assault weapons and other firearms, Ron Pinciaro vowed in response that his Connecticut Against Gun Violence will step up its efforts.
"It's no surprise what the NRA is saying," said Pinciaro, a Bridgeport resident. "They want to totally flood the market with guns, so many guns that the only way you can protect yourself is by arming yourself."
Pinciaro said his group is supporting Connecticut legislative efforts to ban assault rifles, high-capacity magazines and Internet sales of guns and bullets. The proposal also seeks a 50 percent tax on ammunition sales.
"This will be the most comprehensive gun legislation ever proposed in Connecticut and possibly the nation," he said.
Local gun enthusiasts appear to be keeping a low profile in light of heightened public outrage over the type of high-powered weaponry Lanza's mother, Nancy Lanza, was able to purchase and keep in her Newtown home.
Employees at shooting ranges throughout southwestern Connecticut refused to comment on what this public reaction might mean for gun hobbyists. The Bridgeport Shooting Range provided only a written statement offering condolences to all who were affected by the Newtown shootings, but adding that it is range policy to refrain from releasing any business-related information to the public.
A baker's dozen customers leaving the range refused to speak to a reporter about their hobby. One laughed and said, "I probably shouldn't. I work in aviation and it wouldn't be a good idea."
And a visitor to the white, Colonial-style headquarters of the National Shooting Sports Foundation in Newtown was firmly shooed away by an on-site security guard. A spokesman for the firearms trade association later returned a call to say the group would not be doing interviews "for the next few weeks."
Anger over gun violence spilled from the pulpit at least twice during services for Sandy Hill victims.
Mourners applauded the Rev. Kathleen Adams-Shepherd during Thursday's funeral for Benjamin Wheeler, 6, when she said the murders were carried out by an "enraged, sick young man with access to weapons that should never, ever be in a home."
And during Saturday's funeral for Josephine Gay, 7, Monsignor Robert Weiss, of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Newtown, urged mourners to "get angry" about the mass shooting, wondering aloud whether government should abolish private gun ownership.
"Do we get rid of our guns?" he asked. "Is that the answer? There needs to be change. If these 20 children can't change this world, then no one ever will."
Indeed, the desire to help make the Sandy Hook tragedy a "tipping point" toward such a change is the driving force behind several grass-roots efforts in town.
A group calling itself Newtown United has met several times to vent, console one another, and begin to look to what they hope their shock and anger can achieve.
"Sandy Hook should be the high-water mark for gun violence in this country," said Rob Cox, a local writer and founding member of the group. "After this we want to see the floodwaters begin to recede."
Cox says the group hopes many of the Sandy Hook families will want to get involved once their initial mourning period is over. But for now, he lists a change in America's gun laws, treatment of the mentally ill and support for beleaguered parents as three potential priorities.
The group's Facebook page has more than 17,000 likes, and organizers are working on getting nonprofit status and raising seed money to for their activities.
"Whatever we do, though, it will not represent any sort of threat to responsible gun owners," he said.
On another front, John Neuhoff and his 13-year-old daughter Mia have separately launched a petition on the White House's We The People website calling for the town to pass an ordinance modeled in accordance with "the anticipated Federal Assault Weapons Ban." It can be found at wh.gov/nt6s.
"We know the effort is more symbolic than real," said Neuhoff, a retired radio station owner. "But you have to start somewhere."


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Palermo President Maurizio Zamparini reveals Egidio Arevalo Rios has a "personal reason" behind a potential January exit.
The Uruguayan had impressed in early appearances and scored his debut Serie A goal, but has since dropped down the pecking order.
"The player is struggling to find space and I think he has personal problems, as his girlfriend can't get a permit to stay in Italy," said Zamparini.
"Will he be going to Bologna in January? He'd form a great midfield partnership with Diego Perez."
Meanwhile, Rios is not in the Palermo squad for Sunday's trip to Bologna and a January move is on the cards.
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April 25. 2013 2:04PM
Goffstown prepares for mosquitoes
By Kathy Remillard
Despite last summer's public health threat declaration for mosquitoes and two children in recent years being stricken by Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), not every town is opting to fund mosquito control programs.
Last August's public health threat declaration by Gov. John Lynch prompted some towns to engage in spraying for adult mosquitoes late in the season last year, including Goffstown, where a four-year-old boy contracted EEE in 2005.
The following year, said Town Administrator Sue Desruisseaux, the spraying issue was debated, but ultimately, funding was not allocated.
"A lot of people felt that people should take personal responsibility (in safeguarding against mosquitoes)," Desruisseaux said.
Though there was no funding for last year's spraying, after the public health threat came down from the state, the town shared the cost with other entities in town, Desruisseaux said.
"Goffstown completed its first spraying in September 2012 based on testing results of mosquitoes in the area," Desruisseaux said. "Our special permit included all athletic fields for the Goffstown School District, the Villa Augustina School, Saint Anselm College, Lions Fields, and the Parks andRecreation Fields."
The estimated cost was just under $6,000, Desruisseaux said.
The town did not include any money in its budget for spraying this year, she added.
"We've not budgeted anything for spraying," she said. "We'll spray based on the conditions."
The town of Candia chose to do spraying the year after a 3-year-old girl was diagnosed with EEE in 2009, said Selectman Richard Snow.
"In 2010, we did the larvicide, but no adult spraying," he said. "When the EEE issue came up, we sprayed the school grounds and the parks, but that was it."
The town has not budgeted for spraying and has not sprayed for mosquitoes since that time.
In Salem, mosquito control is well underway, with crews checking vernal pools, swamps, catch basins, ditches and other areas of stagnant water for mosquito larvae and pupae.
"They started the week of April 8, and they'll go until October," said Salem Health Officer Brian Lockard.
At an annual cost of about $48,000, Lockard said the thrust of Salem's mosquito control program is in prevention, though some adult spraying is done.
"We're trying to find them in their young stage, before they become flying adults," he said.
The town has key areas sprayed for adult mosquitoes around the July 4 holiday, Lockard said, which includes town athletic fields, and would do additional adult spraying on an as needed basis.
"If we felt it was necessary, we would consider more adult spraying," he said.
Last year, one mosquito in one batch tested positive for the West Nile Virus, Lockard said, but the decision was made not to do a spraying.
"That was the end of the season," he said. "We were only getting one, two, three a night in the traps, and the mosquito activity had really dropped because it was getting cooler, so we made the decision not to spray."
Summer is also the time when mosquitoes are randomly trapped, sent to the state and tested for disease, Lockard added.
"That tells you what activity there is, and they'll identify the species – some are more high risk for carrying EEE and West Nile," he said.
Lockard said the town feels the mosquito control program is an important community service, especially the testing portion.
"You don't want to find out about it by a person contracting EEE or West Nile," he said.
Bedford provides no mosquito control programs, preferring to encourage its residents to assume personal responsibility for keeping mosquitoes at bay.
"It is, and has been, the position of the Bedford Health Department that personal protection is the most effective and cost effective preventative program," said health officer Wayne Richardson. "We felt if any actions were needed, then the use of insect repellant wipes would be the most effective cost efficient method available to the town."
Richardson said about three or four years ago the town conducted mosquito testing and did not turn up any positive pools.
"Since then the council has not been inclined to provide any funding for this type of activity," he said.
According to Richardson, given the restrictions for spraying near wetlands, the short duration of the effectiveness of ground spraying and the need for landowner permission when spraying near private property, the concept of spraying never made it beyond a cost/benefit analysis.
Hooksett is opting to take a wait-and-see approach, said Public Works Director Leo Lessard.
"We're not taking any steps at this time to do any spraying for this year," he said, but added that the town did spray for adult mosquitoes shortly after the public health threat was announced by the state at a cost of roughly $2,500 to $3,000.
"I'm just going to play it by ear, and if it gets bad and we have to spray, then we'll definitely spray," he said.


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Is the offensive game plan conservative because the coaches fear Sanchez will make too many turnovers or because they don't know how to utilize the limited talent at the skill positions? Either way it's painful to watch the Jets' offense repeatedly self-destruct at crucial junctures of the game.
Sanchez has trouble mounting any kind of rhythm or consistency. Part of it is his fault and part of it is on the coaches. After Sanchez completed a 32-yard pass to tight end Dustin Keller that got the Jets to midfield midway through the fourth quarter, he was pulled and Tebow came in to throw an incomplete pass. Two plays later Sanchez fumbled after getting sacked.
"It's something that we're all just getting used to,'' Sanchez said regarding having to give way to Tebow after a big play. "I'm getting a better feel for it. Just keep rolling. When I'm in there I have to play better and take care of the football.''
Of course if Mark Sanchez was actually a competent player, then the Jets wouldn't need to round out snaps with a home-schooled southpaw and a loopy throwing motion at quarterback. Sanchez was not getting all the snaps because he doesn't deserve them all. All the outcry so far this season has been about giving someone else a shot, on a snap, on a series, on a set of downs to see what they might do since it isn't like Mark Sanchez is singeing the game book with his scorching statistics. No one is substituting Peyton Manning, Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers for Wildcat formations. Doing so would be anathema.
The offensive gameplan is conservative by design, but it's put into super slow-mo by a wholly unimaginative coordinator, an offense devoid of talent and a quarterback who seems to be unable to make progress as a player. If the Jets want to run the ball and play ball-control offense, then that's fine, but they don't even have the bodies to make that happen. It makes a helluva lot more sense why the Jets might have been even apocryphally interested in trading up for Trent Richardson right before the draft -- they knew their backfield was going to be a dud and the team wanted it to be more of a focus this year.
Rex Ryan hated that Brian Scottenheimer would get counter-intuitive on plays for no good reason and that he'd create all these wrinkles in his offense to help mask intentions or whatever. Ryan didn't like that and so he went out and recruited Tony Sparano. Ryan told everyone who would listen this summer during training camp that he felt Sparano was the perfect complement to his defense. Scottenheimer might not have been Rex's guy, but Sparano most assuredly is, just as Mark Sanchez was too. So now that Ryan has two of 'his' guys at two of the most critical spots on any offense ... how's it working out?


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Location: Midwest US
Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 5:15 am
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So, when you are out with your Graphic, or other similar handheld, how do you find that bystanders generally treat you? Based on my experiences I've created a few different classes of passerby's.
"The Novelties"
- These people make up probably about 90% of everyone I encounter. To them, these big funny looking cameras are just something they see in the movies. The Novelty always asks the same three questions. "How old is that?", "Where did you get that?", "You can still get film for that?" In a good number of cases, a fourth question is asked, "Can that shoot color, or only black & white?" I call this group the Novelties because I get a strong vibe from them that they think I am only using such gear for a novelty aspect.
"The 'He must be a pro.'"
- Very similar to The Novelties, they don't know much about the gear, and may ask the same questions, but seem to understand that there is a good reason that you are using it, even if they don't know the reason. One such person in this group that I encounter offered to buy prints from me before I was even done shooting, and he had his own camera with him shooting the same stuff! Think any modern camera use such a testimony in an ad campaign?
"My 4x5 Press camera helped me sell this image before it was even exposed."
"The Technophile"
- Probably the least desirable to come across. These are the folks who think you are backwards or ignorant because your camera isn't digital, and isn't integrated into a cell-phone, and will let you know it. I haven't ever encountered a full-fledged one, but on on instance a guy in is mid-30s just walked by and made a hummed "uh huh" that was intoned like I'd have expected if I had just told him there was a two-inch penguin on his head holding his hair hostage, and he needs to do a cartwheel right now to get rid of it.
"The ex-newsie"
- Probably the best class to encounter as they will show you respect. These are the older men who grew up using thee cameras, and damn well know why they're so good. I've only encountered this person once as well, but I think I made that old man's day. We talked about the gear for a while, and he owned a camera store where he showed me a bunch of the press cameras in his collection. He also showed that he probably wasn't entirely up to speed with the times when he said "All these kids these days are going to that smaller 35mm. . " I'm eagerly awaiting for the day I encounter one of these guys who still has all is gear, and is so happy to see someone still using it that he dusts it off and donates it to the cause.
So who do you meet?
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Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania
Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 10:50 pm
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Depends on the neighborhood. Sometimes it's "Are you the police?" Other times it's "Are you shooting a video[!]?" At the Reading, PA Air Show, mostly WWII stuff, it's "Now that's appropriate for this show!" Sometimes when I have pointed out an especially nice architectural detail on a building I'm shooting, the person will say "You know, I always liked that building; it has really beautiful brickwork/terra cotta/windows", etc.,etc. This was the case when I was doing some work in North Philadelphia in the heart of the ghetto. A K-9 police patrol van pulled up next to my set-up, and the (black) cop jumps out at me. "Omigod," thought I, "now what the heck?" Guy came over, nice as could be, said "I've passed this building every day for years and I always admired the beautiful design," etc., etc.
Moral of story: you can make a lot of friends with a Graphic!
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Location: London,England
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 7:14 am
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Hi,well here in London...the same.Although Im using either the Speed/Crown Graphic 2x3 (either one) or the Quarter plate Speeds.
I get the same reaction-this can be a little 'off putting'when you are concentrating on the subject matter,you really need a P.R.with you to answer all the questions!.
Puts all those 'digital' cameras in the shade and a clear path is made for you seeing this 'Hollywood' camera appear...Want to make friends-get a Graphic.
Great Camera-great fun!
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Location: Detroit, MI
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 3:30 pm
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Not sure what this means, but while in Chicago shooting with a Crown (and a tripod) on the streets nobody said a word to me. Not the cops, not passersby. It was like I was invisible.
I really thought this when I was shooting the entrance to the Wrigley building and a guy on a cell phone waited patiently out side the frame until I was ready to shoot, then stepped inside the shot!
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Location: Washington, DC
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 10:51 pm
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Many people do notice, and all the comments I have received were polite. The most common reaction is when an old Graflexer stops to chat.
And I have noticed that the other people in the photo area seem to defer to the camera, politely staying out of the way while the shot is taken. It's kinda hard not to notice the camera, right? This reaction is not uniqe to Graflexes, however. This past spring I was taking some shots in the rotunda of the Jefferson Memorial here in Washington, with a Pentax 6X7 (also hard not to notice). I was waiting for the crowd to clear and after I took my shot I realized that they were all holding back and watching me to be sure I was done. Now that is courtesy.
I have not had any experience with the techno snottie digital type. The only "digital" comment I got was a straight faced question as to whether the camera (a Mamiya C220) was digital. I managed to not drop it while I laughed.
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Location: Montana, Glacier National Park
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 11:20 pm
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It is funny sometimes the reactions that appear when I take one of my large formats out for a spin, I was at logan pass in Glacier National Park, with a nice old Kodak 2D 8 X 10 last year, and of course got all of the normal questions, and also ended up with many who wanted to take pictures of me, the camera and them holding their digitals, it was really funny, we even ended up being in the local newspaper in the local people section, quite a kick in the pants, there was really some ohs and awes, because I had some transparancies with me that had been taken with the camera and they had come back from the processor that day, talk about a rage, these people just could not believe that there were cameras that took that large of a slide!
Lots of fun.
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Graflex Sid
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Location: London,England
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 7:54 pm
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When you hold a Speed Graphic you are holding a piece of history.No other camera in the World ever held this distinction,not even a Leica.
It has recorded great moments in time,it has seen battlefields across the Pacific,Europe & Asia.Across Oceans,land & sea.Through the battle areas of the naked cities,recording crime & mayhem through decades of time-used in major Hollywood studios during the 30's/40's/50's,taken countless pictures for stills and fan magazines.
All major newspaper photographers from the period had a Graphic on the newsdesk.This camera has immense following-men have lost lives in battle holding this camera-it has the scars of war firmly embedded in its body...
It is truly a camera like no other,a magnificent work of art.People respect the name that lives on in time immemorial.
We shall remember the Speed Graphic with affection.We hold it with pride to this day.
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Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 8:19 pm
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But you gotta admit, Sid, that the MPP cameras are great pieces of work! Wish they had made a 2x3, I'd be first in line for it.
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Graflex Sid
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Location: London,England
Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 9:03 am
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Im not disputing the fact other cameras are 'great' as well...it is the HISTORY of the SPEED GRAPHIC that is so important..it is part of American culture.
Yes,you have many great buildings...but only ONE Empire State or Garbo or Cary Grant.
This camera stands above all others...
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Location: Washington, DC
Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 12:49 pm
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Having mentioned other cameras, I will readily concede that Graphic cameras are in a different category. Many factors drive this; the long period of production and use, the times in which they were used, and the nature of the cameras themselves. As everyone on this site knows, they have a unique personality that is their real charm. They are astonishingly simple, yet flexible and capable beyond many peoples expectatons. Some observers, who do not know any better, view our cameras as quaint throwbacks, when in fact they are very desirable user cameras that fill a niche that for all practical purposes nothing else does.
One of the most amazing things about Graphic cameras is that over thirty years after the last ones were made, they are still very much in demand, and any functional camera that appears in the stores in my area sells quickly. This a testimony to the soundness of the original design, and the quality with which they were built. A Graphic is the way many are introduced to large format photography, and its new owner gets the double benefit of an affordable, very usable camera to learn the ropes on and, as Sid points out, a real piece of history to own.
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Location: London,England
Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 1:43 pm
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Hello D,
Most people are knocked off their perch when you say this camera,our dear Graphics are still working after more than 50-years.
I've just photographed an American choir performing in London's Covent Garden piazza (My Fair Lady)and used (on the 2x3 Crown)interchangeable backs for color & b/w.Worked a treat-never mind exposure meters,guessed the exposure...perfect!So simple to work.
This camera was made for photography-you concentrate on the subject,the camera takes care of itself.
Can you imagine the enemy charging towards you at Bataan,and saying 'hold it folks while I take a reading'...no,this is the perfect quick thinking camera,cock the shutter/set an exposure/set the distance...fire!Move on...
It's a wonder people stare,looking at us working it is an art in itself.
I think a memorial should be erected for this camera say somewhere in N.Y.
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Joined: 18 Oct 2001
Posts: 1467
Location: South of Rochester, NY
Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 2:29 pm
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Sid, and some other here
May be a bit off topic, but sonce you're again talking about Speeds and their unique place in history, I'd appreciate your comments on the thread going on here:
I'm appaled by the attitude of some people towards gutting Speeds! The more voices we can raise to preserve these fine cameras, the better off we all will be, and so will our children!
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Joined: 06 Jul 2001
Posts: 412
Location: Montana, Glacier National Park
Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 3:50 pm
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I have contributed my .02 for what it is worth, I am on it with ya Rich, it is a shame and selfish act to cobble a completey usable camera..
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Joined: 31 Jul 2003
Posts: 76
Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 4:08 pm
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Now I'm fired up after following that link!!!
Perhaps we should all visit that thread and contribute our two cents worth. There's no difference between wrecking a Graphic and turning a 3-cell into a you-know-what.
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Posts: 1467
Location: South of Rochester, NY
Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 4:45 pm
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Gees, I wish I would have thought of the 3-cell... There's a perfect example of "there's thousands of them, what's the big deal" attitude in action!
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Like most Americans, I inadvertently supported the government and its wars — I can look at an old W2 form to see just how much. I didn't want to, but my opposition was only an opinion while my support was in dollars and cents.
Finally I decided that refusing my moral support wasn't enough. I have to put my money where my mouth is.
When the U.S. invaded Iraq in , I stopped paying federal income tax and started working for my values instead of against them. I quit my job and reduced my income so that I no longer owe any federal income tax. I transformed my life, concentrating on what really matters, so that I can live well and securely on a lower income.
I take a practical approach, learning about the tax laws and about how to live well by being sensibly frugal. I can live within my means without paying federal income tax — honestly, peacefully, and legally — and can avoid paying other taxes as well.
I think we have to earn a country we can be proud of — with hard work and practical changes, not with complaints or wishful thinking or voting. We have to start by putting all of our effort on the side of our values, instead of allowing so much of our effort to be stolen by the tax collector and used in ways that shame us.
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Some in the mainstream media are so angry about the existence of faithful Catholics that they can't help themselves in becoming unhinged. I will reference the main points, but suffice to say that I could write a book on the subject. These latest quotes have caused me to scramble to get information to my editor so as to include at least some of this in my upcoming book; The Tide Continues To Turn Toward Catholicism, a follow up to my first book. For starters it seems some in mainstream media are so ignorant of religion that even though 90% of Americans belong to some form of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, which all believe that evil is manifested through a figure known as Satan, the media still finds it in their power to mock anyone who thinks evil exists. Some in the media seemed to take glee in pouncing on Catholic and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. He was called a kook, a nut, deranged, a mullah and an ayatollah, not by nameless posters on leftwing blogs but named writers in serious newspapers.
Leading the charge was that maven of militant secularism and angry people everywhere Maureen Dowd. Here are some of the spoiled nuggets from her dung heap. She calls Santorum a "mullah" who wants to take, "women back to the caves." She goes on to deride anyone who actually believes in the teachings of the Catholicism that she once practiced.
Never one to miss a chance at apostasy and heresy; Chris Matthews entered the fray with both of his tingling legs. Matthews claimed the reason the Catholic Church is growing is because homophobic converts are coming into the Church. It would appear that Mr. Matthews is off his meds. Has anyone ever informed mister leg tingler that groups like Courage; the Apostolate run by those who are same sex attracted, is a rapidly growing organization with men and women from all walks of life? They feel the comfort and assurance of living in God's chaste plan for their lives. The New York Times of all papers did a favorable story on Eve Tushnet, a popular Catholic writer who has ties to the group. She is a successful woman and an Ivy League grad. Are these militant secularists going to claim that she is homophobic?
David Gergen and Donna Brazile (who is Catholic) didn't take any pot shots at Catholics per see but did point out that liberal feminist organizations didn't seem smitten with any of the GOP candidates, because they kept talking about religious liberty instead of the rights of birth control? David Gergen even said it with a straight face, which should really frost Rush Limbaugh who has dubbed the Washington establishmentarian; David Rodham Gergen. As much as they refer to the New York Times, they somehow missed Ross Douthat's op-ed piece on the growth of Natural Family Planning and the number of women who help teach this non birth control view of family planning across the country and world.
The coup de grace of hate came from David Waldman who writes for a number of publications. This little nugget would make the Know Nothing Party of the 1840s smile. I would rather not give him the pleasure of repeating such delusional hatred; if you want to read his screed click here. UPDATE In a Lisa Miller Washington Post article just out; Ms. Miller not only mocks Catholics but calls bishops "zealots" three times in her article.
If the Catholic Church is so irrelevant why would the likes of Dowd, Matthews and Waldman froth at the mouth at her beliefs? The simple answer is the Catholic Church is growing while their favorite liberal religious bodies are not only dying on the vine, but shriveling in a complete statistical freefall. Catholics and Evangelicals continue to increase in numbers which drive these mouthpieces of militant secularism nuts. Continue Reading


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Construction of $80M Woodstock outlet mall moves forward
By: Marcus Howard
Cherokee Tribune
WOODSTOCK — Construction on an outlet mall in Woodstock that is expected to bring thousands of jobs and millions of dollars to the local economy is moving along steadily, according to the city.
The first phase of the $80 million Outlet Shoppes of Atlanta is scheduled to open next August on 58.6 acres at the southwest quadrant of Interstate 575 and Woodstock Parkway. It will be the first retail development in the Ridgewalk area.
Billy Peppers, Woodstock's director of economic services, said he was notified this week that 151,000 square feet, or 41 percent, of the 370,000-square-foot outlet is now under roof with wall framing. In addition, tenants' plans are currently being reviewed for approval, he said.
Construction work on the much anticipated project began last May.
The developer, Michigan-based Horizon Group Properties, anticipates the outlet will bring more than 4 million visitors annually from nearby states.
The company projects the outlet to generate more than $130 million in annual sales. About $3 million of sales and development, and operation of the outlet are expected to generate $34 million in taxes for the city of Woodstock, Cherokee County and county school district over a 10-year period.
Peppers said the outlet will be a huge boost for the local economy.
"That comes in the form of property taxes and sales taxes, job growth and spin-off development," he said.
Already, the city has received phone calls from a wide range of businesses and institutions, inquiring about zoning near the outlet.
"You get everything from restaurants and spin-off retail," he said. "In that area, we've had discussions with churches, some light industrial and residential. It's just across the board."
Once completed, the outlet is expected to provide as many as 1,200 permanent and 1,600 seasonal jobs.
Some of the stores slated for the outlet include Nike, Saks Fifth Avenue OFF 5th, Brooks Brothers, White House | Black Market, Guess, Michael Kors, Under Armour, Puma, Converse, Cole Haan, Vans, Le Creuset, Levis, Naartjie Kids, Talbots and Carters.
Additional retailers will be announced in the near future, according to Horizon. In all, the project is slated to have about 90 tenants.
The outlet is a joint venture of Horizon and Chattanooga-based CBL & Associates Properties. Horizon is responsible for leasing and managing the center.
The co-developers intend for the design of the outlet to be shopper-friendly, with an open-air racetrack configuration, along with covered walkways and landscaped courtyards. It will include a children's play area, fountains and a fireplace, along with eight outparcels for restaurants and other uses, plus additional space to accommodate 30,000-square-feet of outlet shops.
The project calls for shifting Woodstock Parkway to the eastern edge of the property and realigning it with the current road accessing the Meridian at Ridgewalk neighborhood. The present Woodstock Parkway at Ridgewalk Parkway intersection would be used as the main entrance into the outlet. A roundabout at the Woodstock Parkway and Rope Mill Road intersection is designed as a secondary entrance.
Work on the new Interstate 575 interchange construction project is 95 percent complete and should be finished by the end of the year, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation.
The diamond-shaped interchange project involves replacing the existing Rope Mill Road bridge over I-575, realigning Rope Mill Road to intersect with Ridgewalk Parkway, accommodating new ramps and building auxiliary lanes between the new interchange and Towne Lake Parkway.
Peppers said the city will be definitely prepared for the potential onslaught of traffic.
"The city and county are both putting funds individually into Ridgewalk Parkway" to help with traffic coming off of the interstate, he said.
"Right now the traffic that gets off at Towne Lake Parkway, a large number of that is attributed to people that live in the east Cherokee area that have to come through downtown Woodstock or take Woodstock Parkway to bypass downtown. So when this new interchange opens it will be a more direct route for those people trying to get to east Cherokee," Peppers said.
A somewhat sensitive subject arose when it was announced that the outlet's official name would include Atlanta instead of its home city. Some locals didn't take too kindly to that, Peppers acknowledged.
But he said the city had no control over the matter and that in the long run, Woodstock will come out ahead because people tend to reference the city where outlets are located rather than their formal names.
"You can't hold that against them, that's what they want to name the project," he said of the developers.
"We don't name churches or other shopping centers. I don't know if it has as much of an impact on us as I think some people would like to make it seem like it does."
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Dr. Stephen Wilson is an Assistant Professor of Medicine-Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Dr. Wilson is a graduate of The Ohio State University, where he received both his Bachelors of Science in Chemical Engineering (1990) and Doctor of Medicine degree (1998). Dr. Wilson completed his residency in Internal Medicine- Pediatrics at University Hospital and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. In 2004, Dr. Wilson also graduated from the Harvard University School of Public Health with a Master's of Science in Epidemiology. He is currently researching markers of DNA damage in children exposed to environmental tobacco smoke.
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