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Convict rebellions were a feature of Norfolk Island almost from its foundation but their incidence intensified after 1825. In September 1826, an attempt was made by convicts to escape from the island by boat, having been told that there was an island within a hundred miles where they could safely hide and never be found. While most of the soldiers were chasing two absconders, about thirty prisoners seized and bound their overseers, robbed the Stores for provisions and weapons and put three boats to sea, killing a soldier. The commandant, Captain Vance Young Donaldson and soldiers followed them to the nearby small and uninhabited Phillip Island, where they were captured. The ringleaders were sent to Sydney for trial, where they were sentenced to death. [1]
Lieutenant-Colonel James Thomas Morisset was appointed commandant of Norfolk Island in 1829. [2] During his period in office, the convict population grew from about 200 to over 700 by 1832 and there were several attempts at rebellion that were strenuously suppressed. Governor Darling was supportive of Morisset, regarding him 'a very Zealous Officer' whose duties were of 'a most arduous nature' observing that 'the Conduct of the Prisoners has of late been outrageous in the extreme, having repeatedly avowed...to Murder every one employed at the Settlement, and it is only by the utmost vigilance that they have been prevented accomplishing their object.' [3] There was, however, growing criticism of Morisset's rule within the more radical sections of NSW society. In 1832, Edward Hall, editor of the Sydney Gazette, wrote that the convicts on Norfolk Island had been 'made the prey of hunger and nakedness at the caprice of monsters in human form...and cut to pieces by the scourge...have no redress or the least enquiry made into their suffering'. [4]
By the beginning of 1834, there were widespread rumours of rebellion across the island. [5] According to a convict named Laurence Frayne, Morisset was about to flog confessions out of the convicts, as the Reverend Samuel Marsden had done to Irish convicts thirty years earlier. Morisset was increasingly incapacitated by a head wound he had received during the Peninsular War in 1811 and had already decided to sell his commission. In practice, the running of the island was devolved to his second-in-command, Captain Foster Fyans. [6] Fyans was an experienced officer having served in Portugal and Spain between 1811 and 1814 and in India and Mauritius from 1818 until he arrived in Sydney in 1833. He was firm but fair in his attitude to convicts and later wrote of his experience as commandant of the Moreton Bay penal colony:
Five hundred convicts on this establishment were well and usefully employed; there was none of that lurking feeling in the men, and I may add that the settlement appeared to me not unlike a free overgrown establishment...I was always of opinion that mitigation to the deserving tended to good, and feel not sorry to acknowledge that I was instrumental to mitigating to a great extent seventy convicts, and well pleased often I have been in meeting some of these men doing well in the world as respectable citizens, and only in one solitary instance I failed in my hope. [7]
However, his view of Norfolk Island was emphatic: 'to the latest hour [it] was a disgrace to England...the true discipline of the penal settlement subverted.'
Fyans was right to be concerned as an anonymous note, left in the soldiers' barracks warned them to 'beware of poison'. He had clear memories of a plot hatched by fifteen convicts two years before on the Governor Phillip to poison the ship's company with arsenic in their food on the voyage to Norfolk Island. Fortunately this attempt was prevented by one of his fellow prisoners turning informer. Fyans was especially concerned by John Knatchbull in whose cabin a pound of arsenic was found though neither he nor the other convicts were charged. [8] Knatchbull came from a privileged landed background, the son of Sir Edward Knatchbull and his second wife. Educated at Winchester School, he had volunteered for the navy in 1804 becoming a lieutenant in 1810 and retiring on full-pay after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. [9] The Admiralty stopped his pay in 1818 because of a debt he incurred in the Azores. Convicted of stealing with force and arms in 1824, he was sentenced to transportation for fourteen years and arrived in NSW in April 1825. Initially, he adapted well to the colonial environment and was given his ticket-of-leave in 1829. However, two years later, he was successfully prosecuted for forgery but his death sentence was commuted to transportation for seven years to Norfolk Island where he arrived on the Governor Phillip in late 1832. [10] Knatchbull was central to the rebellion as the only way off the island was by ship and claimed that although he was unable to take part, he had offered to command a ship to South America if one could be captured.
On 1 August 1833, Knatchbull, George Farrell and Dominick McCoy agreed on a complex plan. First, it linked the convicts in the lumberyard and sawpits to those at the lime-burners' kiln and the stone quarry and called for a simultaneous rebellion. At the dawn muster in the convict barracks yard, they would rush Fyans and his soldiers and overpower them. If any of the guard managed to barricade themselves in the guardhouse, the prisoners would set fire to it and flush them out. Meanwhile the gaol gang, made up of prisoners under special punishment, would also rush their own guard as they were being mustered for work in the stone quarry. Secondly, the rebels would seize the apparatus of colonial rule. The two columns of convicts would then advance on Government House and capture Morisset, seize the 18-pound cannon there and turn it on the military barracks. If the soldiers surrendered they would be spared; if not, they would hang with the hated convict constables, overseers and informers. Finally, the convicts would escape from the island. They would force Morisset to hand over his codebook of signals, so that they could flag false messages to the next ship to anchor off the reef. They would get on board by wearing the overseers' blue jackets and seize the vessel that Knatchbull would pilot to America, for 'if he once got there, the Americans would not allow them to be given up again.' In the months between the formulation of the plan and the rebellion, Redmond Moss successfully carried messages between the different gangs.
Shortly after 5 am on Wednesday 15 January 1834, men in the military barracks heard a ragged volley of musket fire. The rebellion had begun. At the dawn muster in the prisoners' barracks thirty-eight men, an unusually large number, had reported sick and were marched off to hospital by John Higgins, a warder. Once inside the hospital lockup, they overpowered Higgins and locked him in a sickroom. The prisoners struck off each other's irons, burst into the wards and armed themselves with weapons ranging from chair legs to scalpels and a poker. Some even found axes. They massed in the entrance of the hospital in silence, ready to fall on the guard when it came by. A hundred yards away this guard was mustering the gaol gang, about thirty convicts under the eye of a corporal and twelve privates of the 4th King's Own Regiment. The guard corporal ordered the prisoners to march, but they would not budge. They stood there, rattling their chains. The signal was given. At that moment, Frayne looked toward the sawpits and cried, 'Are you ready?' Seconds later, forty convicts from the sawpits attacked the guards from behind, while the hospital gang burst from hiding and attacked their front. Taken completely by surprise, the soldiers could not get their weapons to their shoulders. The convicts 'were within the bayonets of the Guard, before they were aware of them' and for a few moments the convicts and guards locked, grappling for their guns. After a brief melee, military discipline prevailed and the guards now began firing as they backed into the gateway of the gaol, frantically loading and firing while their comrades kept the lunging convicts back at sabre-point. Several convicts, including Henry Drummond, one of the ringleaders went down and, as suddenly as it began, the fracas broke up.
Half a mile away in Quality Row, where the barracks and officers' houses stood, Foster Fyans and his reacted quickly to the situation. They double-timed down the road to intercept the mutineers and when they charged again. Fyans gave the order to fire and, when the black-powder smoke cleared fifteen rebels were stretched on the ground while most of the others had plunged into the sugar cane that grew beside the road. Only the remnants of the gaol gang, hampered by their irons stood dumbly in surrender. Soldiers followed the escapees into the vegetable gardens and sugar cane. Fyans then led a detachment up the hill to deal with the convicts at the agricultural station at Longridge. They had lookouts where they could see the Kingston gaol buildings and signal the start of the mutiny. Convicts crowded exultantly around and Walter Bourke, their leader smashed the lock on the main tool chest and started passing out axes and pitchforks to the men. Crying 'Liberty or Death!' about eighty convicts followed him down the road to Flagstaff Hill. They expected to see a victorious crowd of fellow rebels surging to meet them. Instead they saw two men stumbling up the hill, one of them wounded pursued by redcoats. The soldiers fired a few rounds at the rebels, but the range was too great. Soon, they closed in and beat the rebels back to Longridge, taking twenty-eight prisoners on the way. With difficulty, Fyans kept the soldiers from bayoneting them to death on the spot, but felt later that 'perhaps such lenity is ill bestowed'. Within a couple of hours, all the Longridge rebels were subdued and bound together with rope in a line, the soldiers marched them down the hill to Kingston.
By noon, Fyans had the mutineers confined in the main prison barracks, 'nearly one thousand Ruffians', he wrote later. A few were still missing, among them Robert Douglas, who was found later on the other side of the island at Anson's Bay, still carrying a musket with ninety rounds of ammunition wrapped in a palm leaf. A bayonet thrust had destroyed his left eye and infection blinded the other a few days later. Fyans interrogated him daily in the hospital, but Douglas refused to say anything about the rebellion. The final tally of casualties was nine rebels dead and about fifty wounded. No guard was killed until the night of 17 January, when two military search parties met in a cornfield while looking for rebels still at large and, each believing the other to be convicts, opened fire. One fluke shot killed both a civilian constable and Thomas York a young private of the 4th Regiment.
Captain Fyans adopted harsh measures against the rebels. It took blacksmiths nine days to make new irons for the prisoners. Rebels locked in the gaol awaiting trial were kept naked in a yard so crowded that not a third of them could sit at a time. For the next five months, while the reports went back to Sydney and arrangements were being made to send a judge to Norfolk Island, the rebels were kept locked to a chain cable. Mass floggings went on into the evening, until the 'desperate lawless and listless mob' had been scourged into submission. Some convicts, weary of their 'acute and intolerable sufferings' planned to commit group suicide, but never put their plan into action. It took Fyans and his staff five months to interrogate all the witnesses and take their depositions for trial. In this, Fyans was supported from March 1834 by Joseph Anderson, the new commandant of the island. Of those charged with mutiny, half were lifers and another third had sentences of fourteen years. In the course of the rebellion's suppression, Knatchbull turned informer. 162 rebels were charged but the Attorney-General ruled that only 59 should be tried. The trials took place on Norfolk Island in July and twenty-nine rebels were sentenced to death. [11] Thirteen were eventually executed in front of their fellows on 22 and 23 September.
Lithograph on paper, 1844, artist unknown
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
After the trials, Judge Sir William Burton severely reprimanded Fyans:
Most improperly, Sir, did you act as a magistrate, in accepting a confession from Knatchbull; neither should any deposition have been taken from him. Throughout the trials his name has been connected in every case: he was the chief of the mutineers, the man you should have named first in the Calendar. You have saved his life, or prolonged it. He never can do good.
Fyans blamed himself for saving Knatchbull's neck by accepting his depositions and 'for so gross an act, in setting this monster loose on society.' Burton was proved right. Knatchbull returned from Norfolk Island in May 1839 [12] and gained his second ticket-of-leave in July 1842 but was hanged early in 1844 for the murder of Ellen Jamieson, a shopkeeper. [13] There had been little surprise at the outcome of his trial since he had been caught red-handed with £17 taken from the victim and the public called for the rope. Defended by Robert Lowe, later British Home Secretary, the trial was not delayed by Lowe's attempt to get an adjournment to seek medical opinion on Knatchbull's sanity. Since Lowe could not offer a defence questioning what happened, he chose to argue a novel case for moral insanity. [14] This was rejected both by Judge Burton and the jury that found him guilty, a verdict widely supported in the press and by the public. [15] His execution on 13 February 1844 was attended by at least 5,000 people with The Australian putting the figure at double that amount. [16]
[1] HRA, Series I: Vol. 15, pp. 596-597.
[2] Parsons, Vivienne, 'Morisset, James Thomas (1780-1852)', ADB, Vol. 2, pp. 260-261. See, Huskisson to Darling, 19 May 1828, HRA, Series I: Vol. 14, pp. 192-193, and Darling to Sir George Murray, 12 February 1829, HRA, Series I: Vol. 14, pp. 641-642.
[3] Darling to Goderich, 26 August 1831, HRA, Series I: Vol. 16, p. 339
[4] Sydney Gazette, 4 December 1832.
[5] Kercher, Bruce, Outsiders: tales from the Supreme Court of NSW, 1824-1836, (Australian Scholarly Publishing), 2006, pp. 109-124 considers violence on Norfolk Island. R v. Douglas and others, Supreme Court of NSW, July 1834, printed in Sydney Gazette, 13, 20, 27 September, 1834, provides the detail, http://www.law.mq.edu.au/scnsw/Cases1834/html/r_v_douglas_and_others__1834.htm
[6] Brown, P. L., 'Fyans, Foster (1790-1870)', ADB, Vol. 1, pp. 422-424. See also, Memoirs recorded at Geelong, Victoria, Australia by Captain Foster Fyans, 1790-1870: transcribed from his holograph manuscript given by descendants to the State Library, Melbourne 1962, (Geelong Advertiser), 1986.
[7] Cit, ibid, Brown, P. L., 'Fyans, Foster (1790-1870)', p. 424.
[8] Sydney Gazette, 4 December 1832, detailed the 'diabolical conspiracy'.
[9] 'Knatchbull, John (1792?-1844)', ADB, Vol. 2, pp. 65-66, and Knatchbull, John, Life of John Knatchbull. Written by Himself, 23rd January-13th February, 1844, in Darlinghurst Gaol, first pub., Roderick, Colin, (ed.), John Knatchbull from Quarterdeck to Gallows, (Angus and Robertson), 1963.
[10] See, 'Diabolical Conspiracy to murder the crew and guard of the Governor Philip transport on her passage to Norfolk Island', Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 4 December 1832, and the report in Hobart Town Courier, 4 January 1833.
[11] The trial of the rebels, R v. Douglas and others, Supreme Court of NSW, July 1834, printed in Sydney Gazette, 13, 20, 27 September, 1834. The Sydney Herald and Australian gave no formal reports of these trials, although the Australian listed them on 22 August 1834. The Sydney Herald reported the second to seventh trials on 27 September 1834. Bourke to Spring Rice, 15 January 1835, HRA, Series I: Vol. 17, pp. 638-639, provides the only 'official' discussion of the rebellion and trials.
[12] By 1839, fifteen years had elapsed since his initial sentence and Knatchbull assumed that his absolute pardon would follow when he wrote a most eloquent petition informing Governor Gipps after his return from Norfolk Island. His hopes were dashed by the note the Barracks clerk, Thomas Ryan, penned on the back of the document, repeating the unproven claim that Knatchbull had tried to poison the ship's crew on the Governor Phillip. Ryan also drew the governor's attention to the regulation that recommended a colonial conviction should not be served concurrently but be added to the original sentence. Rather than being released, Knatchbull was re-transported to Port Macquarie
[13] See, NSW State Archives, Supreme Court: Police report on John Knatchbull, 1844, 9/6329, No. 135.
[14] Sydney Morning Herald, 25 January 1844. See also, 'Mental Epidemics', The Australian, 1 February 1844, and 'Monomania', Sydney Morning Chronicle, 3 February 1844. The debate over Lowe's novel defence continued after the execution, see Morning Chronicle, 8 June 1844,
[15] On R v. Knatchbull and the defence of 'moral insanity', see Woods, Gregory D., A history of criminal law in New South Wales: the colonial period 1788-1900, (Federation Press), 2002, pp. 159-162.
[16] The execution was reported in Sydney Morning Herald, 14 February 1844, and The Australian, 15 February 1844.


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Chevalier D'Eon
Chevalier has been licensed by ADV Films, therefore we won't be listing fansubs here on AnimeSuki.
Since it is licensed, the following posts are no longer allowed.
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Production I.G and Shochik has announced a new anime series (24 episodes) that may be named "Chevalier D'Eon". I.G. is currently doing Blood+ and this series is not to be confused with the Chevailers in Blood+.
I wonder if any Fansub groups are going to pick this up?
Director: Kazuhiro Furuhashi
Story Writer: To Ubukata
Synopsys of Anime:
18th Century, just before the French revolution, multiple religious cults of the dark side were engaged in secret maneuvers under the name of Revolution.
"Le Chevalier D'Eon" (Knight D'Eon) a diplomat and a special agent working for Louis XIV, is fighting against those cults, and also on a mission to find the killer of his own sister. A mysterious cult organization called "Rose Cross" stands in his way, using vicious powers to create a dark creature, "Gargoyle" to over take Europe....
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Intriguing, the real Chevalier d'Eon (Wikipedia link), who was born a man but spent a large portion of his life as a woman, lead a very eventful life it seems.
But an anime about a cross dressing freemason and super spy in the court of King Louis? I'm really not sure about this one but as it's Production I.G. you've got to give them the benefit of the doubt, especially considering how well they're doing with Blood + at the moment.
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Um, the news said they 'announced it'. Which probably means they haven't even drawn the storyboards yet.
So I don't expect this to appear within a year.
Patience, people :P
edit: I stand corrected. Apparently, just like american anime licensors, they announce something very close to when they actually start releasing it.
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There's now a website for the anime - http://www.chevalier.tv/. I didn't spot an air date though and there's not much on there at the moment. Although the character designs hint at a more 'realistic' look than Blood +...
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Woohoo! The site's up... Certainly, the character designs have a slightly more real feel to them than Blood+, but they're not like Otogizoushi or Blood The Last Vampire, which is okay by me anyway. They're by the person who did the Kurau designs, which I liked very much .
Going by the staff I hope we can get kickass action, Kazuhiro Furuhashi's known for doing action series - the typically longer and somewhat more generic ones, admittedly, but with Production I.G. I'm excited to see what'll happen. He did storyboard that awesome ep of Noein (12)...
But I'm interested for the time being, anyway. The premise sounds interesting and just quickly glancing at the introduction, it looks like they're going to put in effort to make it feel original and convincing. I sure hope they do... I hope Tow Ubukata does a good job, he's got Murdock Scramble to manage at the same time doesn't he? With Gonzo, that is.
I did watch Fafner and the story improved significantly after he hopped on board to do the scripts, but let's just see what happens here...
Althoguh really, Production I.G.'s been really active this past while! A whole slew of shows...
For Blood+ I think they're getting outside people to do a number of the episodes, so they can spare some work from that - as for IGPX, from the look of it I think it has been carefully done much earlier on so I wouldn't be surprised if they had finished the final episode by now already. Or even before now.
But there's that GITS movie, and XXXHolic TV series. Oh well. I can wait for a trailer... though if they've already got character designs and stuff I think it's probably confirmed. It says at the bottom "Begins airing Summer 2006".. They must have done some of the storyboards by now I guess...
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As for new info, there's like a short bit in Japanese on it in this report on TAF day 1. There is a picture of some of the staff (including Tow Ubukata), and one new picture here And a very short bit on this page which just kind of confirms that Ubukata will at least be involved with the scripts in the anime. If he left it all to someone else it would become a bit bad...
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Its based on a manga thats serialized in the seinen(young men's) manga magazine Magazine Z.
For now there's 1 volume released of this manga, and the second volume will be released this month (March 31, 2006), I'll post its cover once its out.
Here are the covers of the seinen manga:
Genre: Seinen, Fantasy
Chevalier is a seinen manga/anime.
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|2006-04-07, 12:54
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Main site was updated with :
around 90 pages from the first vol here : http://www.chevalier-deon.com/tameshi/tameshi.html
It's ZOMGWTF wonderful kakkoi gothic lady style kicks asses and takes names !
And a trailer !
Just beautiful... This anime will rock !
Any new infos about the staff ?
|2006-04-07, 17:55
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Thanks for the update Blablabla.
Well based on that trailer I'm definately looking forward to this now. Production I.G has been doing some amazing work on Blood + so I don't doubt Chevalier D'Eon will look awesome and the trailer seems confirm this.
Also worth mentioning is the music in that clip. It was pretty epic stuff. I wonder if it's Mark Mancina/Hans Zimmer again? Sounds like their kind of work from Blood +...
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November 7th 2007 : Bajo de Salinas
November 8th 2007 : Near Potrillo Oscuro
The Journal of Hispanic Ufology
November 14, 2007
Source: La Arena (www.laarena.com.ar)
Date: 11.14.07
ARGENTINA: UFOs over Doblas and Macachín
Man claims seeing lights; says one object was round, 30 mt. in diameter and generated heat.
There is commotion in Macachin and Doblas over the sighting of UFOs. Ufologist Fabian Romano, member of the Centro de Estudios UFO en La Pampa (CEUFO) furnished details to this newspaper yesterday regarding two cases recorded on Wednesday and Thursday of last week, one in Doblas and another in Potrillo Oscuro.
The first UFO case occurred at approximately 21:00 hours on Wednesday, November 7 in Bajo de Salinas, located between Kms. 51 and 52 on Provincial Route 18, in the vicinity of Doblas. The main protagonist of this story is Juan Bautista Menna, a known chiropractic surgeon from San Nicolas, Province of Buenos Aires, who told his story to several people minutes later after arriving in Macachin. Later, visibly excited, he contacted with CEUFO's local representative, to whom he not only retold his experience, but also asked him to accompany him on a return trip to the sighting location that very evening, around 23:00 hours. Romano showed this newsroom the film of strange lights over the area.
Menna, says the ufologist, stated that as he traveled on Route 18, [his vehicle] apparently experienced a power outage, causing him to pull over to the roadside. When he tried to get out of the car, he noticed a powerful source of light above him. "It was over my head," he declared. The man claims it was round, some 30 meters in diameter and gave off intense heat. Menna stated that it was a starry, moonless night. The object, he added, moved over a lagoon and headed north. Then it decreased its size and luminous intensity and began engage in a "light show" with horizontal and vertical swinging movements.
Subsequently, the object moved with a constant luminosity toward a hill and vanished behind it, although a strong glow indicated that it remained static. At a given moment, the glow vanished. But suddenly two cone-shape objects with bases reappeared, issuing intense, intermittent flashes (lighting up the entire field) to the front and above. These UFOs headed off toward Santa Rosa (northwest) and went away, turning into a glow until vanishing.
Menna started his car again and resumed his journey to Macachin. Shortly after, he noticed a light behind him which he took for another car. He looked at it through the rear view mirror noticing a strange maneuver. He stopped again, made a U-turn, and noticed that the light was intermittent, with a glow that didn't burn. He estimated that this phenomenon lasted some 40 minutes.
At that time, two truckers who worked for the Gutierrez silo factory reached the site, confirming that they too had been witnessing the phenomenon toward the west. Almost immediately, two police officers from the Doblas Rural Patrol arrived, answering calls that reported vehicles on the roadside. After a brief conversation, [the officers] also admitted seeing the luminous phenomenon.
The next day - November 8, at approximately 22:00 hours, a couple from Macachin had a similar experience. They were driving from Santa Rosa to Macachin along Provincial Route 14 in the vicinity of Potrillo Oscuro. They suddenly became aware of an intense light approaching the road from the right, that is to say, from the south, believing it was another vehicle. However, the light rose into the air in front of them, "made two pirouettes" (two circles) and vanished. They were still stunned by this when two minutes later they witnessed a similar sight. Coinciding with the Doblas case, the distance between both routes is the same and the shape of luminous object is also similar: a cone with a rounded base.
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A third losing season in a row should be met with a pink slip. Most in the coaching profession understand that.
A third losing season in a row should be met with a pink slip. Most in the coaching profession understand that.
Guys, it's not just after one game. After two games, we've seen a semi-decent special teams; a really good offense, and a defense that can't stop a cold. Forget about the passing defense. If we can't contain the run, we will lose.
It is not a balanced discussion if the title of a thread leads with a decision proclamation.
I am worried about Hud meddling with the defense, and I say this based on phrases Lucas going into the season -that he didn't use last year- but Hud has used in the past.
That does not mean I am ready to fire.
Hud's team recruited our current backs.
Hud shift his coaching"ability" to the defense this season?
$500 RCAF contribution gets you a million dollar football coach and 2 f'd up parking passes for basketball.
Stick to the basics: cold milk, Meche's Donuts, and basketball. Keep your kool!
No great program exists with passive fans. The president, and AD simply aren't geared to using the pink slips without outside motivation. That's a good system because fans want instant and continual success, while administrators stability.
Gonna bump this to the top. It's time we quit letting the meathead embarrass the program.
1. ACT scandal which resulted in sanctions.
2. Losing season, looks like we are in for another.
3. Trump statements(Video didn't bother me). Insults the fan base.
4. Putting hands on Stevie Artigue.
5. Exodus of players, including starters.
6. Failure to hold himself ACCOUNTABLE!
Putting hands on Artigue in anything except instructional manner is for cause firing. Hard to prove n a civil case.
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It's been quite some time since my last blog update, a few things have changed, so let me fill you in on what i have been doing.
For the last month or so now i have been working as a Graphic Designer for a company called Social Chain, in an office surrounded by a handful of twenty somethings, slides, ball pits, puppies and a fully stocked bar! in essence i have landed that one job you think of when you consider becoming a Graphic Designer.
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Today I will cut the grass,
do some weeding, take a swim in the pool.
Then do some BBQ
in between the lightning we're so 'famous' for in this country.
Hopefully the rain will stop in time to watch some fireworks. We don't shoot off any since it is illegal but that apparently doesn't stop hundreds of others in the neighborhood. We'll just sit back and watch the skies.
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And I don't know why it is being forced upon the world. The fact is that it stemmed from paedophilia and slavery from early times. Why would anyone think it is normal to go against nature? Next beastiality will be legal and people will start marating dogs and horses for their own sick pleasures.
If you want to hate gay people or choose not to accept it then that's fine as long as it's infringing on a person's right or liberties. For example, if you are a boss of a company a shop and you don't like gay people, you have the right to not like gay people but you don't have the right to deny service to a gay person. However don't be surprise or angry when people see you as a bigot or ignorant cause of your opinions.
Sure, a person can be forced against their will to do many things if they see no other alternative. But does that mean they will ever embrace the ideology freely? So the question doesn't really mean much cuz by using the word "forced" the question is answered already. Brings up the idea of American slavery.
Honestly, I don't think you should force anyone to do anything against their will unless they are negatively affecting someone else. Furthermore, I support personal freedoms. So if someone doesn't want to accept anything that's on their own free will and authority. No one should be subject to anything less.


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Happy Hour concerts offer free, 60-minute programs with a guest soloist and commentary from the stage throughout the evening. Doors open at 5:30 pm. Concerts begin at 6:30 pm. Admission is free. Cash bar. Free appetizers. No intermission.
Led by CSO Associate Conductor Peter Stafford Wilson, Dance Rhythms will feature Granville-based, 13-year-old guest pianist Gavin George who will explore the music of another young talent, Felix Mendelssohn, who wrote the G Minor Piano Concerto at barely 20 years of age. The Dance Rhythms Happy Hour program will also include John Adams' surreal portrait of Madame Mao in his haunting foxtrot for orchestra, and Dvorak's earthy series of energized and whimsical melodies in Slavonic Dances.
Peter Stafford Wilson, conductor
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ADAMS: The Chairman Dances: Fox Trot for Orchestra
MENDELSSOHN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor
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Veteran Motley Fool Hidden Gems members know what we love to find in a small company. Honest, competent management. Solid financials. High levels of insider ownership. Strong returns on equity and assets. Little or no Wall Street coverage. And a price that's right for long-term buyers.
What we don't often talk about, though, are the things that can go bump in the night -- the nasty traits of some small businesses that make us fear and loathe them.
10,000 and counting
There are more than 10,000 public companies capitalized at less than $500 million. Sure, there are loads of great winners in that bunch, companies that are poised to rise many times in value. Look back, and you'll find businesses such as Guess?
But let's not kid ourselves. Out of those 10,000 small companies, there are tons of mediocre (and worse) firms. Like Tolkien's terrible dragon, Smaug, they can incinerate your savings in no time. (Hey, we warned you this was scary stuff!) Quite seriously, if you're not doing business research and you don't know what to avoid out there, you could lose your fortune. When even seemingly solid companies such as Whole Foods
Let's start with an example of what to avoid.
Case study: Charter Communications
In our active online community, a Motley Fool Hidden Gems member asked us in 2003 what we thought of Charter Communications, a broadband cable company whose chairman and largest shareholder is Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The business is also substantially owned by Wally Weitz, a Nebraska-based investor greatly admired by Warren Buffett fans, who found great returns in stocks like Apollo Group
Charter stock had fallen from $25 to $4.50, and our member wanted to know whether it was a good time to get in for a turnaround.
We'll start by saying that at Hidden Gems, we absolutely love the broken small cap that's poised for a turnaround. Show us a company whose stock has fallen 90% from its highs, whose chairman is a billionaire, and whose largest institutional owner is a close friend of Warren Buffett, and we'll sign up to do very careful research. That's exactly what we did with Charter Communications at $4.50.
But we did not like what we found. Here's why, in 2003, we warned against investing in this business:
- Massive debt. Net debt (debt minus cash) was more than $18 billion.
- Net debt was 28 times the company's market cap of $640 million.
- Charter was unprofitable under generally accepted accounting principles, with $1.5 billion in yearly interest costs.
- Debt covenants posed a serious threat to the company's survival.
- The SEC had launched an investigation into Charter's accounting practices.
- Heavy spending for cable infrastructure hadn't yielded high enough returns.
Near the end of June 2003, I (Tom) wrote negatively about this stock when it was trading at more than $4. It's tough to go contrary to Paul Allen and Wally Weitz. But there was no turnaround in sight, and the company's balance sheet was cratering. Charter itself cratered, dropping to less than $1 per share. However, 2006 turned out to be a great year for its shareholders, and the stock now sits around $3.70.
What we do and don't fear
Oddly enough, our Hidden Gems team does not fear -- in and of itself -- high debt. Our recommendation Middleby will carry more than $100 million in debt after buying a competitor and repurchasing founder shares. Yet, the stock has risen 580% since the original 2003 recommendation, and we remain very optimistic about its future. The company's operations are plenty strong to repay those obligations.
Nor do we fear companies that have fallen 50% from their all-time highs. Altria
What's more, even a hint of unseemly scandal can create attractive bargains on occasion. One of our current recommendations had a CEO step down after some problems, but the stock is up 60% for us. We believe it could be a multi-bagger in the years to come. Many companies have rebounded nicely from similar setbacks.
Each of these scary factors individually could make for a compelling investment as the stock price drops into the real value range.
So, what was the problem with Charter Communications? The scale of its debt, running north of $18 billion, alongside harsh payment terms and emerging accounting problems. The numbers just didn't add up, and we're still very wary of the stock.
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Good Arab Christians VS Islamized Arab "Christians"Good Arab Christians VS Islamized Arab "Christians"
You hear so much about Arab Christians in the middle east, the tiny minority in the midle east, what's the real truth about them are they all really just "Arab Christians"?
What about those Arab "Christians" that hate America?
Well, you have to differenciate between heroic beautiful Arab Christians like Joseph Farah ( http://wnd.com ), Brigitte Gabriel ( http://americancongress4truth.org ), Nonie Darwish ( http://arabsforisrael.com ), Walid Shoebat ( http://shoebat.com ) on one hand, and the Zogby Arab american "activists" or lobbyists on the other side, worse are the Christian Arabs that have always been anti American and more apologetic to terrorists Islamists.
You have to understand that Arabs as a whole ae much connected to their Islam influence, since that's where it was "born", this sentimental wave of feelings could go even further, up to cover for Islamists' crimes.
Though many heroic Arab Christians do manage to break up from the Islamization chains, that only keep growing, you live with them, or rather INTO them, after all.
Of course 'Palestinian' Arab Christians have nothing to do with Jesus' Christians in an ethnic sense, Jesus and his first followers were Jews, and Arab immigration to the holyland including into Bethlehem & Nazareth were not that long ago.
American Congress for Truth Update
The 0.6 million Arab Christians, including those living within the Jewish state are experiencing one of their most severe choices: Surrender to Islamization ... http://cedarmailer.com/americancongress/pages/archive/messagedetails.asp?ID=182
"The Anti-Millennium: The Islamization of Nazareth" by Raphael Israeli
The process of Islamization of Nazareth has been gradual. ... In June 1996, an Arab-Christian psychology student surveyed high school students in Nazareth ...
Bat Yeor on Dhimmitude on National Review Online
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A plain sponge cake recipe incorporates beaten egg whites for a light texture. For a unique twist on plain sponge cake, prepare the cake, grill slices of it, and serve it with a peach and cherry compote and whipped cream.
To bake the cake, preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. Combine 2/3 cups of sugar, the yolks of 8 large eggs and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, and whisk them until fluffy and light. Add the zest and juice of 1 lemon, and combine all the ingredients.
Sift together 1 cup of cake flour and 1/3 teaspoon of fine salt in a separate bowl. Fold the egg-yolk mixture into the dry ingredients. In another bowl, beat 8 egg whites on high speed until they start to become frothy. Add 1/3 cup of sugar, and beat the mixture to form soft peaks. Fold the egg whites into the other ingredients, and then transfer the batter to an ungreased 10-inch tube pan. Bake the cake for 45 minutes, and allow it to cool in the pan.
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It's been some time since Ivory Tower and Ubisoft released the first big expansion for their racing MMO The Crew. This expansion titled The Crew: Wild Run added a ton of new vehicles – including bicycles and choppers – to the game, as well as a monthly event called The Summit where players can compete for the best cars and upgrades in a variety of different game modes.
Now players are also able to take part in stunt races as part of the monthly Summit competition.
Players will put their skills to the test in offroad races, where they'll have to complete a maximum number of stunts while hitting all the checkpoints as quickly as possible. To score, challengers put their talent on display and show off all their tricks – from 360s to front and backflips. To help them perform the most impressive stunts, several jump ramps are located along the course. Style and timing are both key to mastering Stunt Races.
These stunt races can be started by selecting them from the world map or by going to this month's Summit meeting place and are only available for bikes in either the Raid spec, or the Dirt spec.
Along with the implementation of the Stunt Races, Ivory Tower has also added a few other features to the game as part of the April update for The Crew: Wild Run. Freedrive and Speedtrap challenges now have a Save and Share feature that allows players to create and save up to 10 custom challenges and share them with other players playing the game or via social media using their own unique ID.
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TDOT Update on Rossview Road/Exit 8 Construction
Please see the attached TDOT December newsletter regarding the construction of I-24 at Exit 8/ SR 237/ Rossview Road.
Volunteer Fire Awards Announced
The annual Montgomery County Volunteer Fire Service Awards Dinner was held Thursday, November 13 at the William O. Beach Civic Hall.
Entries Sought for Lighted Christmas Parade
Be a part of a Clarksville tradition by participating in this year's annual Christmas parade, hosted by the City of Clarksville and Montgomery County Government.
Tennessee Urban Steward Class Offered
You are invited to join Montgomery County Extension Agent, Karla Kean and City of Clarksville City Forester, Katy Stevenson for a workshop targeting arborists, tree care professionals and others in
Volunteer Stars Awards Now Accepting Applications
Nominations for the Seventh Annual Governor's Volunteer Stars Awards are now being accepted within Montgomery County.
Volunteer Fire Departments Host Turkey Shoots
The Cunningham Volunteer Fire Service will host a Turkey Shoot on Saturday, October 25 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Southside General Market, 4770 Chapel Hill Road. Event proceeds
Imagination Library Partners with Gateway Medical Center
Imagination Library of Montgomery County has partnered with Gateway Medical Center to give all of its Montgomery County newborns a copy of The Little Engine That Could, the first Imagination Librar
TDOT Public Input Meeting
Montgomery County Government is partnering with the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) to host a public input meeting, called a "Book a Planner" meeting, on Tuesday, October 28 at 5 p.m.
Clarksville Social Security Office Reopens
The Clarksville, Tennessee office, located at 119 Center Pointe Drive, is open. Most of the damage to the parking lot has been repaired and the office is once again open for business.
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Report: GM Puts Pickup Trucks on 'Strict Diet'
July 22, 2013 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Report: GM Puts Pickup Trucks on 'Strict Diet'
General Motors Corp. is preparing to put its full-sized pickup trucks on a severe diet to meet future U.S. fuel economy standards and stay competitive with rival Ford Motor Co., according to several people familiar with its plans.
But, according to a report by Automotive News, GM likely won't be able to implement an extensive weight reduction program until the just-redesigned Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra are overhauled again in 2019, according to supplier sources. That is five years after Ford plans to slash at least 700 pounds from its best-selling F-150 pickup as part of a fall 2014 redesign.
More efficient engines and transmissions will help reduce fuel consumption on the big GM and Ford trucks, but the biggest gains are likely to come from shedding weight. The trucks are prime towing vehicles for the RV industry.
Even though GM's 2014 Silverado and Sierra lost between 250 to 400 pounds as part of a complete makeover this summer, the lightest Silverado still tips the scale at 4,387 pounds.
GM "didn't go far enough in terms of weight reduction and powertrain improvements" when it developed the 2014 Silverado and Sierra, according to an industry consultant who works directly with the U.S. automakers.
Now, he said, the automaker has no choice, but to "send 'em to Jenny Craig" — a reference to the popular consumer diet and weight-loss program.
Prior to the 2019 launch of the next-generation Silverado and Sierra, GM is planning a series of rolling changes over the next few years to the trucks, which just went on sale six weeks ago as redesigned 2014 models.
GM will begin to use more lightweight materials such as aluminum and composites, in place of conventional steel, several suppliers said.
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New Pickups Should Fuel Automakers' Growth
March 21, 2013 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on New Pickups Should Fuel Automakers' Growth
General Motors and Ford Motor Co. should see significant profit growth and gain market share in the next couple years in North America, largely fueled by new large pickups hitting the U.S. market.
The Detroit Free Press reported that GM's new trucks are preparing to roll out this year and the expectation is Ford replaces the F-150 next year. Large pickups represent the primary tow vehicle for the RV industry.
The two domestic automakers are forecast to outperform the industry and pickups will account for the majority of volume gains until 2015, Itay Michaeli of Citi Research said Wednesday during a call with investors.
Citi expects large pickups to grow from 11.3% of the U.S. market in 2012 to 12.8% in 2015 when the total market is expected to hit 16 million sales and pickup sales will account for 2.4 million of them.
While the current average age of cars on the road is about 11 years old, the truck fleet is two years older.
GM has 41% of the trucks on the road and has the highest segment loyalty, all of which adds up to a strong potential pool of buyers for the new trucks preparing to hit the market. For GM, pickups will account for 27% of the mix by 2015 with about 944,000 sold that year. Ford is projected to sell about 920,000 pickups in 2015, representing 32% of their mix.
It's good business. Profit margins on trucks are double that of small cars. Michaeli said GM could see a $1.1 billion earnings bump from pickups and Ford could expect $400 million once its new trucks hit the road. Before that, Ford could see some negative pricing as it improves incentives to compete with GM's new pickups.
To read the entire article click here.
Report: Gas Spurs Rethink on Smaller Pickups
March 12, 2013 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Report: Gas Spurs Rethink on Smaller Pickups
Rising fuel prices have General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC taking a second look at peddling smaller pickup trucks — vehicles that the Detroit Three auto makers abandoned in the U.S. amid weak demand.
The Wall Street Journal reported that GM is planning to revive its Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon in late 2014, and Chrysler is considering a replacement for its Dakota. Both see the vehicles helping them to hit higher fuel-economy targets and to regain market share from Toyota Motor Corp.'s Tacoma, the current top-selling small hauler.
"We believe there will be a growing number of pickup truck buyers in the future that will want fuel economy," GM North America president Mark Reuss said."With our new trucks, we will be saying: Here is something really fuel efficient."
A return represents a risk for Detroit's auto makers, which haven't been successful in convincing buyers to downsize to smaller trucks, and which carry smaller profits.
GM halted production of the Canyon and Colorado last August and had no upgrades ready due to its 2009 bankruptcy filing. Chrysler quit making the Dakota in 2011 after years of unimpressive sales. Ford Motor Co. dropped its Ranger pickup in the U.S. in 2011 and hasn't looked back.
Barclays Capital estimates auto companies earn between $7,000 and $10,000 on each full-size pickup because they command higher prices in dealer showrooms, while midsize trucks bring closer to $3,000 to $4,000 a vehicle.
"The market is small. It is very small. So you have to be careful when you explore the opportunity to get back into it," said Fred Diaz, chief executive for Chrysler's Ram truck brand. "One thing we do know, we want a vehicle that has high miles per gallon to help us with our [corporate average fuel] economy needs."
To read the entire article click here.
Report: Pickup Sales Poised to Gear Up in 2013
February 11, 2013 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Report: Pickup Sales Poised to Gear Up in 2013
Pickup truck sales are expected to outpace the broader U.S. auto market this year helped by a recovering housing market and a slew of new models from the three big U.S. automakers, executives and analysts said on Sunday (Feb. 10).
Reuters reported that revamped models from General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Group LLC will be on view this week at the Detroit auto show.
Ford and GM are fierce competitors in the full-size pickup segment where profit margins are larger compared to cars. Pickup trucks made up about 11% of the U.S. market last year, well below the historical average of 17%.
"The pickup truck sector is poised to outperform the rest of the market this year," said Citi analyst Itay Michaeli at a conference of the Society of Automotive Analysts.
Analysts said gas prices were unlikely to surge this year, which would support truck sales. Micheali said that a mix of pent-up demand and new models will drive pickup sales this year.
GM is counting on a new version of its Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra full-size pickup trucks to show investors and car buyers that the No.1 U.S. automaker is back on track after its $50 billion U.S. taxpayer-funded bailout in 2009.
GM's new trucks are on view Monday, along with a new RAM 1500 pickup from Chrysler. GM's arch rival in the pickup truck market, Ford, will tease a concept version of its upcoming F-150 truck Tuesday. The F-150 will be built for the 2015 model year.
"The majority of pickup vehicles on the road are about to be redesigned," Micheali said. "The product cycle will unleash demand."
Report: Full-size Pickup Trucks Back in Demand
January 25, 2013 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Report: Full-size Pickup Trucks Back in Demand
Low incentives, new products and construction sites filled with aging pickups have set the stage for an especially competitive — and lucrative — battle in the one segment the Detroit 3 still dominate: big pickups.
According to an Automotive News report, that's why the most important new vehicle for General Motors this year is not the Corvette Stingray currently drawing big crowds at the Detroit auto show, but the redesigned Chevrolet Silverado parked nearby.
It's why Ford Motor Co. made sure to steal some of GM's auto show thunder by rolling out an unusually early glimpse of the next F-150, more than a year before it goes on sale.
And it's why Chrysler Group emerged from the show supremely confident after its Ram 1500, re-engineered several months ago, was named North American Truck of the Year.
"It's a gunfight," said Fred Diaz, president of the Ram brand. "It's not a matter of being the newest truck on the market; it's more a matter of being the best truck on the market."
The improved trucks, combined with gains in the economy and housing market, are giving the companies' executives and dealers reason to salivate.
"We've got a lot of opportunity with this truck," said Mark Rowe, general manager of Henna Chevrolet in Austin, Texas, where the Silverado accounts for half of the store's new-vehicle sales. "It'll get a lot of people in the showroom. As the overall business climate improves I think people will have the confidence and the motivation to refresh their fleets or buy the family a new vehicle."
Sales of full-sized pickups this year are expected to outpace overall industry growth for the first time in years, said Alec Gutierrez, senior market analyst with Kelley Blue Book. He said his conservative forecast is for the segment to increase by about 7%, compared with around 5% for overall car and truck sales.
To read the entire article click here.
Detroit Auto Show Spotlights Pickup Truck War
January 15, 2013 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Detroit Auto Show Spotlights Pickup Truck War
Nothing stimulates automakers' enthusiasm more than a mud-splattering pickup truck war.
According to USA Today, anyone cruising the North American International Auto Show floor at Cobo Center here this week will see the evidence: the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, the Ram 3500 heavy duty, and an as-yet-undisclosed surprise from Ford on Tuesday (Jan. 15).
A segment known for intense buyer loyalty, robust profits and bragging over towing capacity has gotten its mojo back.
"We are calling this year the year of the pickup," said Michele Krebs, senior analyst for Edmunds.com.
The segment is fiercely competitive and predominantly domestic, said Rebecca Lindland, director of auto industry research for IHS Automotive.
"It is the one vehicle in the global industry that is uniquely and forever American so bragging rights for pickups has a whole different meaning," Lindland said. "It's not just profits. It's rock 'n roll, apple pie American."
While General Motors gave reporters a peak in December of the all-new 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, today at the show is their first public exposure.
"From hood to hitch, these are the most refined, best engineered pickups ever," said GM North America President Mark Reuss. "GM has been a truck engineering leader for more than a century. I think we engineer our trucks better than the others guys do."
The new Ram 1500 pickup has been on sale since October. The upgraded Ram 2500 and 3500 heavy duties go on sale this spring with more muscular towing capacity.
To view the entire article click here.
Report: 'Detroit Three' Truck Sales Shine for '12
January 4, 2013 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Report: 'Detroit Three' Truck Sales Shine for '12
Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Co., and General Motors – the so-called 'Detroit Three" – all finished 2012 with strong sales number for all of their vehicles, with pickups in particular witnessing heavy demand.
Fleet Owner reported Chrysler said its U.S. sales in December totaled 152,367 units, a 10% increase compared with December 2011, with sales for the year exceeding 1.65 million units – a 21% jump compared to 2011. Chrysler's Ram Truck division reported a sales increase of 16% in December, with sales for the year topping 300,928 units; an increase of 17 % compared to 2011.
The company noted its Ram pickup truck recorded its best annual sales numbers since 2007, with sales of the Heavy Duty Ram up 20% and sales of the Light Duty Ram pickup increasing 14%, while sales of the Ram Cargo Van increased 287% in December versus the same month in 2011.
"We also recorded 33-consecutive months of year-over-year sales growth and our strongest annual sales in five years, while seven of our vehicles recorded their best ever annual sales in 2012," noted Reid Bigland, president and CEO of Chrysler's Dodge division and head of U.S. sales for the company.
According to Fleet Owner, Ford said that its U.S. sales grew across the board in 2012, with cars up 5% and trucks up 2% for the year. Overall, Ford said it ended 2012 with over 2.16 million vehicles sold.The automaker added that its F-Series sales were up 10% for 2012 and that Ford commercial truck sales finished the year up 7% over 2011; marking the best sales year since 2008.
Overall, Ford said it sold 645,316 F-Series units in 2012, with total Ford brand truck sales – including Transit Connect and E-Series – up 2% for the year at 829,477 vehicles sold. Finally, the automaker noted that its December 2012 sales of 214,222 vehicles marks its best December sales month since 2006.
GM noted that sales volume this past December marked its best December month in five years, with deliveries up 5% year over year to 245,733 vehicles.
December was also GM's best retail sales month of 2012, with retail volume up 38% from November – about double the industry's estimated increase.
"All four GM brands increased their sales year over year in December and we were strong across the board in cars, crossovers and pickup trucks," said Kurt McNeil, vp of GM's U.S. sales operations.
He said December 2012 sales of pickups, vans and SUVs were equal to volumes sold in December 2011, but compared to November 2012, December truck sales increased 52%. McNeil added that year-over-year sales of the Chevrolet Silverado pickup increased 6%, while sales of the GMC Sierra pickup were up 13% – the highest level of pickup sales for GM since September 2008.
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Full-Size Truck OEMs Focus on Fuel Economy
August 3, 2012 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Full-Size Truck OEMs Focus on Fuel Economy
Fuel prices may may have dipped, but the long-term trajectory for oil prices is firmly upward. Aside from environmental concerns, the price of fuel has a real effect on consumer spending and economic growth.
According to a report by Truck Trend magazine, when fuel was below $1 a gallon, there was little incentive to dramatically improve fuel economy, especially in vehicle segments where utility and capability were the primary considerations, but with prices sitting firmly above $3 and sometimes $4 a gallon, improved fuel economy has become a major purchase consideration and engineering objective in all vehicle segments — including full-size trucks.
For decades, full-size pickups – a key tow vehicle segment for the RV industry – struggled to hit the 20 mpg highway mark even with lower-power entry-level engines. Manufacturers focused on increasing power and torque, while keeping fuel economy relatively static, something that buyers were perfectly happy with. Things have changed considerably in the past three to four years, however, and manufacturers have started looking at fuel economy as well. That shift in priorities has led to a number of developments in the full-size truck market.
General Motors introduced its line of XFE and hybrid fullsize trucks and SUVs models in 2008. Ford followed first with the SFE model and, more recently, with the EcoBoost turbocharged V-6. Chrysler has announced the availability of an eight-speed transmission with the new Pentastar V-6 in the upcoming 2013 Ram 1500, resulting in a forecast EPA estimate of 17 city and 24 highway. Chrysler also appears to be actively testing prototype turbodiesel Ram 1500s, trucks that could break the 25 highway MPG threshold.
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Sales of High-End Pickups Bodes Well For RVs
February 6, 2012 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Sales of High-End Pickups Bodes Well For RVs
In the search for profits, automakers are finding a lucrative market among would-be urban cowboys: buyers of high-end pickups.
USA Today reported that Chrysler Group will add a second level of deluxe trucks to its Ram light-duty line at the Chicago Auto Show this week, the Laramie Limited, with luxury touches such as loads of stitched leather in the interior and fancy LED interior lighting.
Ford Motor already has five different high-end versions of its F-150 pickup. General Motors' GMC has one high-end model, the Sierra Denali. All of the makers say the high end of the pickup market has been especially strong.
The full-size truck market divides at about $30,000. Below that level, pickups are commonly bought by construction workers and others who need work trucks. Above are well-heeled farmers, business people and retirees who want trucks for their towing capability — and their style. They typically load up their trucks with options and extras.
"Once the brain jumps over $35,000, $40,000 is not that difficult," says Mark Williams, editor of PickupTrucks.com.
In 2010, only 9% of pickups sold cost more than $40,000. By last year, that figure had climbed to 13%, says Fred Diaz, CEO of Ram. Things can only get better: "As the economy continues to rebound, I think this segment is going to continue growing," Diaz says. "I really don't see a top end to this thing."
The new Ram will join the Laramie Longhorn, a cowboy-themed rig introduced in 2010 that costs . The Longhorn, which costs upwards of $43,000 in the decked-out crew-cab version., was so successful from the start that Diaz says "dealers were stampeding us to produce more Despite high gas prices, he says buyers are typically using them in place of family cars.
Ford's five high-end models range from the Lariat, base-priced at $35,010 before delivery charges, to the Harley-Davidson edition at $48,720. Along with fancy paint and badges, the models have urban cowboy comforts such as heated and cooled seats and different colors of ambient lighting.
A Lariat Limited, currently sold out, proved so popular, "we could sell double (the allocation) if we could get them," says Pete Greiner, who runs Pete Greiner Ford in Casper, Wyo.
Together, Ford's luxe trucks accounted for about 30% of F-150 sales last year to individual buyers, a figure that has "definitely gone up," says Doug Scott, Ford's Truck Group marketing manager. That's because buyers of high-end trucks generally are more wealthy and credit-worthy, riding through the recession more easily.
GM Investing $275M in Full-Size Pickup Facility
October 26, 2011 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on GM Investing $275M in Full-Size Pickup Facility
General Motors Corp. will invest approximately $275 million to prepare its plant in Fort Wayne, Ind., to build the next generation of Chevrolet and GMC full-size pickup trucks, creating or retaining 150 jobs.
The plant, which currently has 3,400 employees on three shifts, builds the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra full-size pickups.
The investment announced today is the last announcement of the $2 billion GM announced in May 2011 that will create or retain about 4,000 jobs in 17 facilities in eight states over the next 18 months.
"This investment will allow us to continue building award-winning pickups that offer better fuel efficiency than ever before without sacrificing features and functionality," said Larry Zahner, GM manufacturing manager. "We remain committed to providing customers the utility and capability of our world-class full-size pickups."
September was a very good month for GM's full-size pickup trucks, which are key tow vehicles for the RV market. GMC Sierra sales were up 26 percent and Chevrolet Silverado sales were up 36 percent. Sales of GM full-size pickups have increased month over month since July, contributing to a year-to-date market share gain of about one full point.


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POI Descriptive TitleVictoriatown (Goose Village) / Autostade
POI Historical Details
Victoriatown, also commonly known as Goose Village, was a largely residential neighbourhood in Montreal, Quebec (Canada). The neighbourhood was initially home to primarily Irish immigrants who landed in the vicinity during the 19th century. However, by the mid-20th century the area was largely comprised of Italian Canadians. The neighbourhood was eventually raized in 1964 in preparation for the 1967 International and Universal Exposition (Expo 67), part of which was to be located nearby, and as was eventually decided, upon the site of the former neighbourhood.
Victoriatown was located on a point of land, formerly called Windmill Point, just above the port of Montreal, on the St. Lawrence River. The area received the name Goose Village from its pre-19th century use as a marshy area where natives, and then Montrealers of European descent, would set up temporary camps each fall to hunt the migratory geese that would inevitably visit the marsh. With the construction of the Lachine Canal during the 1830s the marsh was drained and filled in, but the commonly used name of Goose Village was retained by local residents. [1]
Establishment Of Community
During the early-mid 19th century Windmill Point acted as a landing station for ships bringing immigrants from Europe to Canada. Located near the entrance to the Lachine Canal, Windmill Point was the western-most point on the St. Lawrence that ships could reach before encountering shallow water and the Lachine rapids. Disembarking at the point, immigrants who would travel further west would transship onto other vessels which would continue up the Lachine canal. [2] [3](see U. Calgary document, H. of C minutes.; immigration reports)
During the 1840s and 1850s many of the immigrants arriving at Montreal by ship were Irish attempting to flee famine in their home country. During 1847 over 100,000 Irish left Ireland for Canada, with approximately one in five dying of disease (often typhus, commonly referred at the time as "ship fever") either during or following the voyage.[4] Like Grosse Ile at Quebec, Windmill Point functioned as a quarantine station, isolating ill immigrants from the rest of the city, and thus limiting the spread of disease to the city's population. Of the thousands of largely Irish immigrants who landed at Windmill Point in 1847 and 1848, between 3500 and 6000 died and were buried at the site.
Initially, the sick of the quarantined immigrants of the 1840s were housed in three "fever sheds", 150 feet long, and between 40 and 50 feet wide. However, as the number of sick arrivals increased, the number of sheds also increased to 22. Prevented from leaving the quarantine station by police and troops, the largely Catholic sick were cared for by the city's Order of the Sisters of Charity (commonly called the Grey Nuns), as well as members of other Catholic communities. [2]
While more than 400,000 Irish immigrants came to British North America between 1846 and 1854, by the mid-1850s the numbers arriving decreased dramatically. This was partially the result of both better economic conditions in the British Isles, as well as the outbreak of the Crimean War, which offered employment to many young men while also creating manufacturing and trade jobs in Britain.[4] As the epidemic of ship fever subsided with the decrease in the number of immigrants arriving at Montreal the significant quarantine facilities on Windmill Point were torn down. Many of the largely Irish immigrants who had arrived, and were still arriving, at Windmill Point eventually settled on the now vacant land and the surrounding areas, forming Victoriatown, and the nearby, larger neighbourhoods of Pointe Saint-Charles and Griffintown. Many of these immigrants and their descendents would work for the Grand Trunk Railway, whose rail yards were located on Windmill Point, between Victoriatown and Point St-Charles. In addition, many Irish immigrant workers were employed in the construction of the Victoria Jubilee Bridge (commonly called Victoria Bridge), which was constructed between 1854 and 1859 to connect the Grand Trunk's operations on the Island of Montreal to the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. Leaving the island at Windmill Point, the bridge influenced the choice of the name Victoriatown for the newly formed nearby neighbourhood.
With many Irish immigrant workers employed in the building of Victoria Bridge, the workers felt a connection to the location where the bridge touched the Island of Montreal. Indeed, the workers allegedly unearthed the remains of some of the thousands of immigrants buried at the point during the construction of the bridge. In commemoration to those who had died and were buried there, the workers erected a large stone, with the inscription, "To preserve from desecration the remains of 6,000 immigrants who died of ship fever A.D. 1847-1848 this stone is erected by the Workmen of Messrs. Peto, Brassey and Betts, employed in the construction of the Victoria Bridge A.D. 1859". Officially called the Irish Commemorative Stone, the stone has also been commonly referred to as The Black Rock, The Big Black Rock, and the Boulder Stone. The stone is currently located on Bridge Street, near what was the Immigrant Burying Ground and Victoriatown. [5][2]
By the mid-20th century Victoriatown consisted of approximately 20.5 acres, 176 buildings containing 330 dwelling units, and approximately 1500 residents. The neighbourhood was made up of seven blocks, with Forfar, Conway, and Britannia streets running south-west to north-east, intersected by Menai Street, which ran north-west to south-east. None of these streets exist today, but the south-western side of the neighbourhood was framed by Bridge Street (which still exists), while a street called Riverside bound the community almost from where Bridge Street met Victoria Bridge to the neighbourhoods north-eastern most corner. (Parts of Riverside Street still exist today, intersected by supports and ramps for the Bonaventure Expressway.)[6]
Up to the beginning of the 20th century the neighbourhood was overwhelmingly occupied by Irish-Canadians, French-Canadians, and some Italians. However, by the 1960s, and especially following the end of the Second World War, the number of Italian-Canadians living in the area increased significantly, while the proportion of Irish-Canadians decreased. By the 1960s approximately 52% of the residents were Italian-Canadians, 25% "English" Canadians, and 16% "French" Canadians. More than 90% of all of the residents were Catholic, and thus, the one school in the neighbourhood, which was an English primary school, was staffed by "Irish religious." [7] In addition to the school, the neighbourhood also had a fire station, a train station, a park, and several corner grocery stores.
Urban Renewal / Community's Destruction
Consisting largely of Victorian era homes built for, and maintained by, working class families, the area became the focus of urban renewal proposals as early as 1954. That year the city carried out preliminary studies on thirteen areas of the city deemed to be in need of urban renewal. Victoriatown was also included in a 1961 report "General Study of Urban Renewal," prepared for the city by the Economic Research Corporation Limited, which studied 17 "renewal areas" in the city. In addition, in 1962 the city produced a further report on the conditions and prospects for renewal of Victoriatown, "Victoriatown: Urban Redevelopment / Réaménagement urbain." The study does not define "urban renewal" or "redevelopment", but from reading the study, it is clear that an area in need of redevelopment or renewal included neighbourhoods which did not reflect the living conditions or environment typical of middle-class urban or suburban neighbourhoods. Furthermore, it appears that the study was carried out with the end of, not determining whether Victoriatown should be raised, but justifying its destruction.
The report emphasizes that Victoriatown did not, and could not, constitute a real community since it was isolated from much of the city (separated from Pointe Sainte-Charles by railway yards, and from the rest of the city by the Lachine Canal); it lacked any stores other than a few corner "unattractive" corner stores; it only had a single school, which was in a poor state of repair; that many of the buildings in the area were more than 70 years old, "worn-out", and/or in a state of disrepair; and that the relatively poor population of the neighbourhood did not have the means to renovate the buildings to a standard that the authors of the report considered acceptable. Indeed, when discussing whether the buildings of Victoriatown should be conserved in any way, the authors reveal their view that only certain kinds of older neighbourhoods should be preserved so as to portray a particular image of the city's past.
"Considering what has already been said [earlier in the report], it must be concluded that "conservation" is out of the question. Even though from the viewpoint of the City's
evolution [Victoriatown] is an old site, it cannot be said in fact that the area is one typical of "Old Montreal" and that it has any historical value as such. From an
architectual point of view the area is certainly no more interesting, since the existing buildings are merely ordinary labourers houses."[8]
As part of the report, the authors included numerous photographs taken from a Photographic Survey conducted by the City Clerk's Department. Interestingly, only photographs which show negative elements of the neighbourhood are shown (with the sole exception of "A Good House" which is juxtaposed beside "A True Slum Dwelling"). Each of these photographs are also is accompanied by a caption which emphasizes the negative aspects of the photograph, and in some cases to point out negative elements which many readers may not be able to see from the photograph alone. Furthermore, the report stresses what the authors saw as the unhealthy living and environmental conditions of Victoriatown. In addition to claiming that condition of many of the houses posed a health risk, they also note that,
"...slaughter houses, tanneries, junk yards, a large coal yard, and an asphalt plant ring the area, and pollute the air with smoke, dust and foul odors. The situation is [sic] not
improved by an open sewer (at the end of Bridge Street) and a dumping ground where rubbish is burned in the open. In short, this area is absolutely unsuitable for habitation,
and deprives the inhabitants of any comfort or ease."[9]
Interestingly, the authors of the report also note that, while being surrounded by potential environmental health risks, the population of the area was statistically healthy. They also found that, despite not having its own police station and the population being poor, Victoriatown had a relatively low crime rate.[10] However, at no point in the report do the authors suggest that the foul conditions of the open sewers, dumping ground, etc., or the poor state of the neighbourhood's public lands and buildings, should be rectified by the city. Rather, the only proposed solution to dealing with all of the negative elements the authors note about Victoriatown is the neighbourhood's demolition. As the authors clearly state in the report's introduction, despite the best efforts and state of the people living there, the city would not consider the neighbourhood a community.
"But if one can only admire the efforts [the inhabitants of Victoriatown] have made to improve the conditions in which they live, it has to be recognized that the results of their
efforts have not and never will create a community in which they and the City as a whole can take pride. New linolium does not prevent a floor from sagging, new plaster does
not straighten the structure of a house nor fix a crumbling foundation; new windows do not stop coal dust and the smell of tanneries and slaughterhouses from coming into a
dwelling. Housewives have to put up with all the troubles that go with an old, old house, and the cellar vents have to be boarded up against rats."[11]
The 1962 report was eventually used by the City to justify the demolition of Victoriatown in 1964 in time for the construction of Expo 67 and the Bonaventure Expressway. The only remnants of the neighbourhood are the former fire station, the train station platform and access tunnel huts, the Big Black Rock, and the small memorial stone dedicated to the former residents who had died in the Second World War. While the report authors repeatedly insist that the removal of the working class neighbourhood had no connection to the possibility that the exposition could be located nearby, but was simply fueled by the City's desire to provide the best living conditions for its citizens, the site of Victoriatown was indeed used for Expo 67.
In addition to being intersected by the expressway which took visitors to and from the exposition site, the land of the former neighbourhood and the much of the surrounding area were used to build Expo 67's Automotive Stadium (commonly referred to by its French name, "Autostade"). Completed in 1966 and paid for by donations from American Motors, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, and Volvo, the Autostade was a 33,172 seat stadium designed by the architects Victor Prus and Maurice Desnoyers. It was comprised of 19 pre-cast concrete stands, or sections, which were designed to be dismantled and used in different locations after the stadium was no longer needed. The stadium complex also included an administrative building and parking for 11,000 automobiles. Also located on the former site of Victoriatown the Autostade was the Cité du Havre Chartered Bus terminal.
During Expo 67 the Autostade was site of six major events: Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus (May 16-21, 23-28); Canadian Armed Forces Tatoo (June 19-22 and June 25 to July 4); Flying Colors, starring Maurice Chevalier (July 11-30); La Gendarmerie Française (August 21 to 27, August 29 to September 4 and September 6-9); World Horse Spectacular (September 17 to October 1); Great Western Rodeo (October 6 to 15).
In addition to being used for Expo 67, the stadium had originally been intended to be the home of Montreal's new baseball team, the Montreal Expos. However, after the team elected to be based at Jerry Park in the Montreal neighbourhood of Villeray, the Autostade's field was reconfigured to host Canadian Football League teams. It was first used by a football team prior to Expo 67 when the Ottawa Rough Riders based themselves at the stadium in 1966 while Ottawa's Lansdowne Park was being renovated. Following 1967 the Autostade was used by the Montreal Alouettes football team until 1971, and then again from 1973 until the team moved to the City's Olympic Stadium following the 1976 Summer Olympics.
While also used for concerts and other events during the 1970s, the stadium was eventually dismantled in the late 1970s, with several of its reusable stands allegedly being relocated to parks in the cities of Lasalle and Laval.[12] [13][14]
Today, the only remaining part of the Autostade is the administrative building, which houses part of Corby Distilleries Limited's Montreal operations (formerly Meagher's Distillery Limited of Montreal). Also located on the former site of both Vitoriatown and the Autostade complex are Canada Post's Bridge Street mail distribution station, a large parkinglot used by Casino Montréal, and a Hydro Québec transmission station.
- ↑ Montréal - Service d'urbanisme, Victoriatown : urban redevelopment = réaménagement urbain, (Ville de Montréal, Service d'urbanisme, 1962) ii.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 John A. Gallagher, "The Irish Emigration of 1847 and Its Canadian Consequences," Canadian Catholic Historical Association [Report], 3 (1936): 43-57.
- ↑ Province of Canada, Journals of the Legislative Assembly, from the 2nd day of June to the 28th day of July, 1847, 26 July 1847: 197-9.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Valerie Knowles,Strangers at Our Gates: Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540-1997, (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1997) 44-5.
- ↑ Montréal - Service d'urbanisme, Victoriatown : urban redevelopment = réaménagement urbain, (Ville de Montréal, Service d'urbanisme, 1962) 10-1.
- ↑ Montréal - Service d'urbanisme, Victoriatown : urban redevelopment = réaménagement urbain, (Ville de Montréal, Service d'urbanisme, 1962) 3, 16-7.
- ↑ Montréal - Service d'urbanisme, Victoriatown : urban redevelopment = réaménagement urbain, (Ville de Montréal, Service d'urbanisme, 1962) 38.
- ↑ Montréal - Service d'urbanisme, Victoriatown : urban redevelopment = réaménagement urbain, (Ville de Montréal, Service d'urbanisme, 1962) 54.
- ↑ Montréal - Service d'urbanisme, Victoriatown : urban redevelopment = réaménagement urbain, (Ville de Montréal, Service d'urbanisme, 1962) 35.
- ↑ Montréal - Service d'urbanisme, Victoriatown : urban redevelopment = réaménagement urbain, (Ville de Montréal, Service d'urbanisme, 1962) 48, 50.
- ↑ Montréal - Service d'urbanisme, Victoriatown : urban redevelopment = réaménagement urbain, (Ville de Montréal, Service d'urbanisme, 1962) 5.
- ↑ "The Automotive Stadium," Expo Lounge, http://expolounge.blogspot.com/2008/04/automotive-stadium.html
- ↑ "Autostade," Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostade
- ↑ Expo 67, Montreal, Canada 1967 Map, retrieved from:http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.alamedainfo.com/Expo_67_Map_Overview_001.jpg (July 26, 2010)


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• Earlier this month, we used a QR code for a contest where readers could enter to win tickets to a Red Wings game. That generated 76 clicks to the page.
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• A Google map plotting the locations of nine fires at vacant homes in Pontiac also got a QR code, which was published twice in print for stories about the fires — 118 people used it.
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Wouldn't it be cool to rig a Magic 8 Ball so that it answered you however you wanted? Good news: it's easier than you think. Read on to learn how!
1Open the ball. Use a Plexiglass cutter to cut through the glue at the seam of the ball. Pry it open with a screwdriver, but be careful. Inside the ball is a cylinder with blue-dyed water and the 20-sided ball of answers in it. Remove the three screws that hold the cylinder to the ball, then pour out and save the blue water in a small, open container. But be careful because it stains.
2Use a razor to peel off the letters on the answer ball, then you can use sandpaper, but try to make it as smooth as you can so the marker won't bleed too much.
3Write the answers on the ball as precisely and carefully as you can, using an extra-fine permanent marker. You can write 20 answers, whatever you want.
4Put the ball back together. Use a turkey baster with an injector tip to put the blue dye back in. Put the ball back inside once the letters are completely dry. Glue the cap on with super glue.
5With the cork back in place, glue the two halves of the ball back together.
6Let the glue dry before using your Magic 8 Ball.
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