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A letter published in the Aug. 7, 2012, Tomahawk Leader
In the July 24 Reader Opinion section of the Tomahawk Leader it was suggested that the city was being hypocritical by awarding a contract for the reroofing of the city garage to a contractor from outside the community. It is important to understand that the size and complexity of the garage roof, including asbestos removal, limited the number of city contractors that could do the job. The city had taken the time to solicit proposals from three contractors, one of which was from the city. From those three contractors we received four proposals. The proposal that was selected was 20%, or $12,000 below the local contractor proposal.
The process that was used to solicit costs was the proposal process, which allows some leeway in choosing a contractor versus a bid, which requires you to take the low bidder. If the proposals are close you have the ability to weigh other factors such as timeliness of the work or product quality. In this case it was felt that the quality of the work and product were similar and a 20% increase in cost was not warranted.
The letter also goes on to suggest that we should have "asked the local company to go a bit lower" once we knew the other companies proposal cost. In all government contract situations this would be unethical and in most cases would be illegal. Simply put, government is held to a different standard than private individuals or businesses. Most business will not "shop" numbers around for fear that after a while contractors will no longer give them a bid.
The city does the vast amount of their purchasing with local businesses. However, there are situations such as the garage roof that it is in the best interest of the taxpayer that we purchase from outside the community.
Mike Tolvstad
Tomahawk Director of Public Works
Taxpayers' best interest
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NEW BEDFORD — Myron Marder was a scalloper before shellfish was the city's biggest industry.
NEW BEDFORD — Myron Marder was a scalloper before shellfish was the city's biggest industry.
Friends of Marder, who died Dec. 24 at the age of 91, remember how the accountant turned fleet owner helped jump-start the industry in the 1960s.
"He was really one of the founders of the scalloping industry in New Bedford," Robert Mitchell, of R.A. Mitchell, said Thursday. Mitchell said both he and his father have been friends with Marder since the 1950s.
Marder got his start in the fishing industry when he opened an accounting office on the New Bedford waterfront in 1946 after serving in the Army during World War II.
From there, he built a fleet of up to six wooden-hulled scallop vessels which led the city's scalloping industry.
"Myron would always have the best captains on his boats because he got to know them when he was doing the books for their boats," Mitchell said.
Mitchell, who owns an engine and generator business, said he always appreciated Marder's business sense.
"He always drove a hard bargain when I was learning the ropes but he never quibbled after the job was done," he said. "He believed that an honest day's work deserves an honest day's pay."
"The fishing industry has its share of scallywags here and there but he was a true gentleman and a true businessman," he added.
Marder's family could not be reached for comment Thursday, but friend Paul Swain recalled that Marder, who was often spotted on the pier in a suit jacket and bow tie, named his ships after different satellites.
Three of the six ships in the fleet were paid for with federal grants from the Saltonstall-Kennedy Act. Swain, who said he worked for the federal government cataloging fishing hauls in the 1970s and '80s, said Marder used his background as an accountant to help other fishermen obtain similar grants.
"He was a well-respected gentleman on the New Bedford waterfront," he said.
Throughout his career, Marder, who retired in 1990, saw the changing tides of the scalloping industry. A man who started in the business before scalloping was popular, he was later chided by ship captains for building wooden-hulled vessels during the 1980s, when steel was becoming more popular.
"That last boat he built, people were saying 'Why are you building a wooden boat?' and he said to them 'Wooden boats made me a millionaire. Why would I change?" Mitchell recalled.
Mitchell said he believes part of Marder's insistence on wooden-hulled boats was to keep wooden craftsmen from going out of business.
"He stood out because he understood the fishermen and knew how to work with them and deal with them properly," Mitchell said. "He would treat them right. He made them money and they made him money. It worked."
Marder is survived by his wife, Ruth, his children, Brian and Daniel Jay Marder, and his grandchildren, Ross, Eric and Brad.

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Asteroid disintegrates while spinning too fast
D. Jewitt/UCLA, HST/NASA, ESA
Guest post by Christopher Crockett
Asteroid P/2013 R3 is shattering into a cloud of debris in these images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Unlike comets, which crumble as pressure builds from sublimating ice, this asteroid appears to be spinning itself to death. Subtle pressure from a million years of sunlight gradually spun up the space rock until it was rotating too fast to hold itself together.
The observations are presented March 6 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.


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Cleveland County�s overall SAT score improved last school year, but it still trailed the state and national averages.
Cleveland County�s overall SAT score improved last school year, but it still trailed the state and national averages.
The county�s composite score improved by three points in 2011-12 testing as the statewide and national averages both dropped several points.
Average SAT scores dropped at Burns, Kings Mountain and Crest high schools. Shelby�s score improved 29 points.
Cleveland Early College High School posted a composite school score for the first time � the highest in the county at 1515.
�The Early College score was a big positive for us this year,� said Cleveland County Schools Superintendent Dr. Bruce Boyles. �We had some real bright spots. Shelby High School increased across the board, and I�m pleased that as a district we�re moving in a direction of increase while the state and nation are declining.�
The highest possible score on the SAT is 2400, with math, critical reasoning and writing comprising 800 points apiece.
More than 550 Cleveland County Schools students took the test last school year.
The district posted a composite math score of 500, with Kings Mountain posting the highest average score of 528.
Cleveland Early College led the county with the highest critical reasoning and writing scores. A 527 reading score topped the district average of 478, while the school�s 487 writing score topped the county average of 446.
Cleveland County Schools� individual average critical reasoning, writing and math scores each trailed state and national averages.
High marks
Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy, a public charter school that enrolls students from Cleveland, Rutherford and surrounding counties, posted a 1679 average SAT score for the 2011-12 year, a big jump from a 1577 the previous year.
The school's SAT score ranked among the best in the state.
"Our school's high SAT scores are a testimony to the work ethic of our students, the dedication of our parents, the talent and can-do attitude of our faculty and the excellence of our classical curriculum," academic dean Jeff Ziegler said in a press release from the academy.
Testing changes
Beginning with last school year, Cleveland County Schools administered the ACT to its high school juniors.
�The state is really moving away from the SAT and toward the ACT,� Boyles said. �I would expect to continue to see some students who were taking the SAT now taking the ACT.�
The SAT tests students in critical reasoning, math and writing. The ACT includes up to five components � English, math, reading, science and a writing test option available for students applying to colleges that require a writing component.
Boyles said the state pays for a student to take the ACT, while a student is responsible for paying to take the SAT.
�This, too, will allow more students to take the test and apply for college,� Boyles said. �I firmly believe if we continue to teach young people good basic skills in reading and in math, we don�t worry about just the test itself. We worry about teaching those strong skills in the curriculum.�
Reach Matthew Tessnear at 704-669-3331, at firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter @MatthewTessnear.
Average SAT scores
Here is how each high school�s score changed from the 2010-11 school year to the 2011-12 school year and how Cleveland County Schools performed compared to the state and the nation.
2011-12 2010-11 Change
United States 1498 1500 -2
North Carolina 1469 1475 -6
Cleveland Co. 1424 1421 +3
Burns HS 1367 1398 -31
Early College HS 1515 No score -
Shelby HS 1394 1365 +29
Crest HS 1434 1440 -6
Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy 1679 1577 +102


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Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear – Washington D.C.
by admin on Nov.01, 2010, under Good Music, Video
Yeah. So I went. A LOT of people did.
It was kind of silly, very innocent and ultimately quite prolific. There were a ton of musical artists involved. Let's see if I can remember them all. The Roots, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), Ozzy Osbourne, Jeff Tweedy, Mavis Staples, Sheryl Crow, uh…Kid Rock, The O'Jays. Even Colbert and Stewart did a little musical number with Jeff Tweedy. Sam Waterson, R2D2, a seven year old girl, and a giant, armed, Stephen Colbert monster also made appearances. There were a few others which are hazy to me and I don't feel like looking it up.
Anyway, here's some really decent amateur footage of some of the amusing shit they did with some of these guests:
So yeah. "Peace Train" ended up a decently dressed cliche. Other music / performance art / comedy type of goodness ebbed and flowed over the three hours. I'm not going to say it was all totally awesome musically, but it was definitely well rounded and well paced. That's all I really have to say about it from a strictly entertainment point of view. It was lovely, for sure.
I'm hoping Comedy Central reruns the broadcast. However, see it or not, at least take with you Stewart's closing statements:


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WASHINGTON — Former President Jimmy Carter joined fellow Nobel laureates Wednesday in opposing Keystone XL, insisting that approving the pipeline would trigger "more climate upheaval" around the globe.
In an open letter to President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, Carter and the nine other Nobel Peace Prize winners bluntly warned the leaders: "Your decision on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline will define your climate legacy."
The missive, published as an advertisement in Politico, represents the first time Carter has taken a position on the $5.4 billion project and makes him the first former president to come out against the pipeline.
Photos: Keystone foes make drastic last-ditch effort
Other former presidents have been more circumspect. Former President George W. Bush described TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL pipeline as a "no brainer" for the U.S. economy two years ago.
And while Bush and former president Bill Clinton both are featured in an American Petroleum Institute advertisement as having endorsed the pipeline, Clinton's sole public remarks on the project were far more qualified. Clinton's relative silence on the issue may be in part attributed to his wife Hillary Clinton's possible presidential aspirations — and her own role overseeing some of the Keystone XL reviews as the previous secretary of state.
Split opinion
Other prominent political leaders, including former members of the Obama administration, have been divided over the issue. Notable supporters include former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the previous director of the U.S. Geological Survey, Marcia McNutt. Obama's former energy adviser and a previous Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Carol Browner, opposes the project.
Browner: Obama will reject Keystone XL pipeline, former adviser says
Most of the Nobel laureates urging Keystone XL's rejection Wednesday have made similar entreaties twice before. The group also includes American political activist Jody Williams, Iranian human rights leader Shirin Ebadi and women's peace movement leader Leymah Gbowee from Liberia.
The Nobel prize winners cast Keystone XL as the "linchpin" to unlocking development of Canada's oil sands, by linking the energy development in Alberta with the crude hub in Cushing, Okla., and ultimately giving the product a new route to the Gulf Coast market. That bucks the conclusion of a State Department study of the project released in January.
Because the oil sands development generally relies on strip mining or techniques involving steam, the resulting bitumen extracted from Alberta is often criticized as having a higher carbon footprint than alternative crudes when evaluated over its entire life cycle, from production to combustion.
'Dangerous commitment'
"As you deliberate the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, you are poised to make a decision that will signal either a dangerous commitment to the status quo or bold leadership that will inspire millions counting on you to do the right thing for our shared climate," the Nobel laureates tell Obama and Kerry. "The rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline would have meaningful and significant impacts in reducing carbon pollution."
New review: Keystone critics seek health study on pipeline
Energy industry representatives who support the pipeline insist that the bitumen extracted from Canada's oil sands has roughly the same carbon emissions as other heavy crudes it would likely displace in Gulf Coast refineries.
And they point to findings in the State Department's environmental study suggesting other forms of transporting Canada's oil sands crude — including sending it by rail to the Gulf Coast — would have a bigger carbon footprint.
The State Department is currently weighing whether Keystone XL is in the national interest — a determination required under a 2004 executive order that wraps in international, economic and security concerns as well as environmental considerations.
Several federal agencies have until mid May to weigh in on the question, but there is no timeline for a final decision after that.
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Christmas Light Shortage Sweeps The Nation
Maybe there is no such thing as Christmas retreat. Maybe there's just a light shortage. News outlets across the country have reported on a shortage of strings of lights. Somewhere, Clark Griswold weeps.
Consumerist readers everywhere, from Los Angeles to Chicago to Pittsburgh, have written in about their own searches for lights. The shortage hasn't escaped the notice of national chains like Home Depot.
"It seems people want to get out there and be festive and decorate for the holidays," said Home Depot spokeswoman Jen King. The popularity of the LED lights also have prompted additional interest in holiday decorating.
Are retailers over-cautious with their inventory in a recession, or have stores simply sold out of the lights that they put out on shelves back in September?
Stores Selling Out Of Lights This Holiday Season [KDKA] (Thanks, Karla!)
Christmas lights in short supply on suburban shelves [Daily Herald]
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The Peach Belt Conference Champion and NCAA Southeast Region
Tournament Champion No. 4 Bobcats (39-15) take to the USA Baseball
National Training Complex for the NCAA Division II National
Championship Tournament beginning Saturday, May 22 by taking on No.
1 UC-San Diego (51-7) at 5 p.m. The Bobcats make the school's
second appearance in the NCAA Tournament, including the national
runner-up finish in 1995.
As always postseason action for Bobcat baseball will be broadcast on the HomeTeam Stations, Country 102.3FM WKZR and ESPN Radio 1450AM WMVG. Scott MacLeod and Al Weston will bring you play-by-play action on the 1450AM Saturday. Live streaming video production will be available at www.NCAA.com. Turn down the volume and pick up the hometown broadcast at www.Country102FM.com.
The Bobcats and Tritons have never squared off on the
D-FENSE, D-FENSE: The Bobcats played well in the field during the 2010 NCAA Southeast Region Tournament, committing just three errors over the course of 36 innings. The defense shone the brightest in the 5-3 win over No. 4 Columbus State University Saturday, when centerfielder Sean Harrell pulled back a two-run home run and a diving stop by Chandler Snell at short started both a key and picturesque 6-4-3 double play. Georgia College posted a .982 fielding percentage for the tournament and turned seven double plays.
CARTY'S CAMPAIGN: Head coach Tom Carty hit a pair of milestones this season. The third-year head coach won his 100th game with an 8-4 victory over No. 14 Valdosta State University April 21. The 5-3 win over No. 4 Columbus State in the NCAA Southeast Regional May 15 also served as the team's 38th victory, marking the most in the three seasons under the watch of coach Carty. Carty was named the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) and NCBWA Southeast Region Coach of the Year.
RUNS FOR ERIC: The Bobcat baseball team loves to score runs when junior righthander Eric Pettepher gets the start. In Pettpher's nine starts, Georgia College averages 10.4 runs per game.
FROM FINISH TO START: Bobcat ace Martin Dewald, a 2009 NCBWA Honorable Mention All-American as a closer has been put in a starter's role this season, to the tune of even more success.
The senior is used to finishing games after serving as a Georgia College closer and posting a single-season school record with 14 saves. Prior to his time at Georgia College, he served as the closer for Gordon College for two seasons, and even worked as the German National Team closer.
Dewald is still finishing games, but now he's starting them too. The senior has completed half of his starts with a whopping seven complete games, including three shutouts. Dewald shut out the No. 6-ranked and No. 1-seed Francis Marion University squad for the Region Title May 16 9-0.
CHICKS DIG THE LONG BALL: The Bobcats have set a school record in round-trippers this season, swatting 77, eclipsing an old mark of 75 set in 1985. Catcher Richard Pirkle got the Bobcats past the record with a pair of home runs in the win over Francis Marion Sunday, blasting both a grand slam and a solo shot in the win. The 538 runs this season is also an NCAA-era record for the program, passing the 506 scored in the 2006 season. This season ranks fourth overall in school history.
The Bobcats also have an NCAA-era record in doubles this season, as the 139 is 12 more than the old mark of 127, set in 1995 and tied again in 2000. The 2010 season mark is second overall, behind 147 set in 1985.
The 493 RBI is tops in NCAA-era baseball at Georgia College, better than the 453 in 2006. The current tally ranks fourth, just six behind the 1984 season and third place.
Sean Harrell 77R (t6th), 96H (9th), 153TB (6th)
Shawn Ward 16HR (t8th), 82RBI (5th), 152 (7th)
Richard Pirkle 16HR (t8th)
Matt Pitts 81RBI (6th), 510PO (2nd)
Martin Dewald W (t5th), 108K (5th)


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US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke and the latest economic data provided the right mix for investors - further stimulus to underpin an accelerating recovery.
Reports on US consumer confidence and the housing market were better than anticipated. The Conference Board's consumer sentiment index rose to 69.6 this month, from a downwardly revised 58.4 in January, while new home sales jumped 15.6 percent to a 437,000 annual pace.
"Housing is now kicking into higher gear," Ryan Sweet, a senior economist at Moody's Analytics in West Chester, Pennsylvania, told Bloomberg News. "The next few months are still going to be a struggle for households as fuel prices are elevated, but the improvement in confidence reduces the risk of the worst-case scenario."
Both Home Depot and Macy's provided evidence of strength in their latest earnings and outlook. Shares of Home Depot were last up 5.7 percent, while those of Macy's were last 3.4 percent stronger.
Bernanke's testimony to the Senate Banking Committee in Washington today allayed concern raised last week by the release of the latest Fed meeting minutes that central bank officials might ease or end their record stimulus measures sooner than previously thought.
"We do not see the potential costs of the increased risk-taking in some financial markets as outweighing the benefits of promoting a stronger economic recovery and more rapid job creation," Bernanke said today.
In afternoon trading in New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.83 percent, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index gained 0.29 percent, while the Nasdaq Composite Index added 0.16 percent.
"What Bernanke is saying, bottom line, indicates that there will not be a reversal anytime soon in the stimulus program," Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Rockwell Global Capital in New York, told Reuters.
The Fed chief also reminded lawmakers that the federal spending cuts set to kick in on March 1 if Congress does not reach agreement to avoid them will hamper the economic recovery.
The good news in the US eased concern about the euro zone as Italy is trying to deal with elections that resulted in a split parliament, which risks hampering progress towards solving its national debt crisis and may reignite Europe's sovereign debt crisis too.
Italy's stocks and bonds dropped. The MIB Index tumbled 4.9 percent. The yield on Italy's 10-year benchmark bond surged 40 basis points.
Europe's Stoxx 600 Index finished the day with a decline of 1.3 percent from the previous close.
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Industry members, introduce yourselves...
Posted 21 September 2005 - 10:56 AM
Torben Bohn here,
Manila, Philippines based.
I'm the importer of Subal for the Philippines.
PADI MSDT, CMAS ** Instructor
CMAS Freediving Instructor (not diving for free....)
Rebreather and Nitrox Instructor etc.
Organize trips and logistic locally and inbound for foreign travel agents, groups and productions.
Accasionally I'm able to sell some of my pictures direct and via agencies.
Sell and service compressors, dive gear, build nitrox membrane systems, customize gas systems for yachts and dive shops in the Philippines and in Micronesia...
Cheers from Manila
Subal D70, 2x Inon D2000Wn, the usual lenses... Waiting for D200...
Posted 01 October 2005 - 11:37 PM
I currently run the Photo/Video department at the Manta Ray Bay Hotel in Yap, Micronesia after more than 5 years as the Photo Pro on Aggressor Liveaboards in Palau 99-02, Fiji briefly in 02, and the first crew in Tahiti from 02-04.
I work with different magazines in the way of writing and photography in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. More would be nice...
Join us for an Underwater Photography Workshop in the Lembeh Strait at NAD Lembeh with Doug Sloss in 2018
Blog and Photo Archive/Portfolio Site www.mikeveitchblog.com
Learn underwater photography in the ultimate classroom, Bali! or join us on a trip www.underwatertribe.com and www.baliuwphoto.com
Join us for a trip in Indonesia in Komodo or Raja Ampat
Posted 16 October 2005 - 12:39 PM
I'm a marine biologist working at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research in St. George's, Bermuda and am the moderator for Scientific Photography here at Wetpixel. My research focus is cephalopods (octopuses, squid, cuttlefish and nautilus). In addition to my normal classes, I teach a summer course on Scientific Photography which has both a strong underwater and strong digital bias. I've been dabbling in Stock photography and writing for marine related magazines since 89 and would like to expand and organize this as it gets me away form my desk and back into the water.
Associate Director of the Waikiki Aquarium
The Cephalopod Page
Posted 21 November 2005 - 10:19 AM
I, on the other hand, am a scurrilous hack. I got to be this way after making enough money as an advertising-film director and photographer, so that I never needed to worry about losing the job as a scurrilous hack. I call it the FO Fund. (If you have enough in it, you can tell people to FO.) Alas, the diving industry has now got used to me. This was the first DEMA when no-one shouted abuse at me nor threatened to sue me. (Life is getting boring!) I relished the days when people shouted "You told the TRUTH and we're not used to that!"
Digital photography? I know everything that Paul Kay has told me. I have never been afraid to ask. Computers? Thank goodness my son is a technical engineer in R&D for Yamaha Music and uses a Mac.
PS I am also Technical Editor and full-time diving-holidaymaker for Diver Magazine in the UK. (Now the tacky ad - see:www.divernet.com)
I buy my own photographic kit. Diving equipment manufacturers and diving services suppliers get even-handed treatment from me whether they choose to advertise in the publications I write for or not. All the equipment I get on loan is returned as soon as it is finished with. Did you know you can now get Diver Mag as an iPad/Android app?
Posted 13 December 2005 - 08:19 AM
I am a compleet newcomer in the sceen I began diveing in 1990 and fist take pics with my oly C3000 in a PC housing ..... caus I am an RC model freak I build my own tray and strobe arms and get in contakt to Matthias Heinrichs in 2001 by adding a stobe to my oly cam ..... I noticed there is no special equipment for the new low kost pc housings comeing from Olympus, Sony and Canon so I changed my profession from a carpenter ( done for about 20 years ) to a manufacturer of special digital uw equipment. Here in Germany I am a well known brand for the Olympus UW photographers . my intention is : nothing is imposible. I am always interested in news and try to get one of the first to test and add new housings fitting to my system . I am a wet and dry diver and I try to optimice my pic quality
to show the coustomers what is posible with the ( my ) equipment.
Cause of o lot of work to earn money there is less time to dive and my Homelocation is nearly the middle of Germany If you may have a lock at :
( use google earth : 49 42,1398 N / 8 15,2031 E ) I noticed that sometimes a little difference is in placing you have to control the real dates in the GPS dates
an nice tool ( toy ) to see all around the world.
I am planing a english version of my page next year....... a lot of work for one guy
Michael Finger ( alias mikedive )
Posted 18 December 2005 - 01:31 PM
I am freelance photojournalist who brings his camera into the water every now and then. I have also started something called Felix Features, an agency that specialize in photo documentaries and features (as the name implies), selling to Norwegian media. London based photo agency Panso Pictures represent me elswhere in the world, and Felix Features in turn represent them in Norway.
For the moment there isn't very much in English at our site, but you are welcome to have a look at this introduction: http://www.felixfeat...glish/home.html
Fredrik Naumann
Norwegian snapper who prefers warm waters.
Posted 24 December 2005 - 01:27 PM
I have been in the diving industry for over 35 years, most of them as the owner of diving operations (land based and live aboards) in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean.
The past 4 years have dedicated myself to my main passion of underwater photography which I have been doing as long as I can remember.
Thanks to Eric and James for this great platform.
Posted 14 January 2006 - 01:45 PM
Jack and Sue Drafahl
Posted 14 May 2006 - 05:14 AM
Sorry to find this thread so late.......
Christopher East & Kaesaraporn Samsen (Gak - is easier to say!)
We own WaterWorks Productions Co., Ltd.
Thailand's (and probably SE Asia's) only Dedicated Adventure Video Specialists.
Pros. Yep...... Our officially registered Adventure Video Production House is proof of that.....
Gak is Thailand's first proffessional underwater camerawoman.
Promo video production and original soundtrack production for names which you know and love........
Ocean Rover Jan. 2005
Minahasa Lagoon June 2005
Wakatobi July 2005
Ocean Rover you can view online. Same with Wakatobi - it's the first video on the page.
There you go!
Look forward to meeting you at some show, sometime, somewhere..... Antibes maybe?
Christopher East
www.creasedpixels.com | freelance director of photography, cameraman, post production, motion graphics and VFX compositing, Thailand
www.waterworksproductions.biz | turnkey production services, cameraman, producer, director of photography, Thailand
Posted 15 May 2006 - 09:58 AM
Light & Motion
Posted 19 May 2006 - 10:26 AM
My name is Fred Bavendam. I have been a full-time underwater photographer for over twenty years. Just take pictures, do not sell gear, lead trips, etc. All I do is travel, dive, and shoot. My main interest is the behavior of underwater animals - biology. My favorite subjects in the ocean are the cephalopods and especially octopuses. My photos are represented by several leading photo agencies and I sell my work directly, particularly full story topics, to magazines. My customers are primarily non-diving magazines have included National Geographic (5 stories - Manatees, Giant Octopus, Giant Cuttlefish, Crinoids, and Frogfish), German and French GEO's, Terre Suavage. Quite recently I've started working with Germany's Unterwasser Magazine on a regular basis.
I am still one of those dinosaurs who shoot primarily film, especially underwater. I own three complete SeaCam housings for the Nikon F5 and feel they are the best camera ever for underwater photography. I use Hartenberger TTL flashes on TTL for all my shooting, with every lens I use from 16mm fisheye up to 200 Micro-nikkor. Usually get 10-20 technically excellent shots, meaning OK for any magazine I sell to, per roll. Weed those twenty out on basis of focus, composition, subject positioning and emotional content.
I tried a Fuji S2 for a while but just didn't take to it. Felt the S2 was the Stephen Hawking of cameras - a brilliant mind (the digital capability) in an almost non-functioning body (built on Nikon's N-80). Bought a D2X about nine months ago and still haven't had the time to do more than shoot a couple hundred topside frames with it. Prefer to be in the water shooting instead of implanted in front of a computer screen.
Will probably be much more interested in digital for underwater shooting when we finally get some reliable professional quality i-ttl strobes. And when Nikon finally announces their full-frame digital camera so all the lenses I use now can be used and covedr the same image area in digital as film and megapixel content is up at about 24 Mp uninterpolated.
I believe Nikon does have a full frame camera in the works and coming soon. Their most recent professional lenses like the new 105mm and the year-old 200-400 f4 make absolutely no economic sense for a camera company that has only the F6 for film. Why do these and other recent lenses still cover the full frame size when there is very little buying of any camera gear for just film use. Logically, for the APC digital chip size the new 105mm should have been 70mm. And why not a pro wide-angle zoom equivalent to 17-35 f2.8 which 12-24 just isn't?
But the D2X will be a fun toy until the serious Nikon digital camera appears.
Posted 20 May 2006 - 08:49 PM
A wannabe UW photographer/videographer but spend most of my time tinkering and fixing other peoples UW equipment….I service Seacam, Gates and Amphibico housings to name a few.
My other job as an Architect and designer naturally leads me to design and make things........my shop is a serious hobby and hope to keep it that way. I enjoy helping divers customize and do last minute fixes on their rigs…. I was very encouraged to see Wetpixellers deliberately look us up in Singapore…..I better stop this self promotion now…. Hope to meet some of you at this side of the pond……
Proprietor of Scubacam, Singapore. Commercial videocameraman. Also shoot digital stills. I modify and built stuff. I love technology. Camera: Red Epic/ Scarlet and soon Dragon
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Posted 10 July 2006 - 11:01 PM
Just found this thread so here goes,
Baja CA dive operator, diving cert 1986.
http://www.gonetobaja.com (Northern Sea of Cortez Dive guide)
http://www.sea-wolves.com (diving team expedition specialist)
specialize in diving with Humboldt Squid.
Make my money on dive trips and videos.
I post up trip reports when I can.
Posted 20 September 2006 - 05:25 AM
Please allow me to introduce my self, my name is Kay Wilson, and I would assume Industry Status as I own and operate a dive shop in St. Vincent. (Does this count?!).
I'm not a professional photographer, but taking UW photos helps me to better understand the needs of my clientele.
St. Vincent is such a beautiful island both above and below the water, and I feel very lucky to be able to live and dive here. As a former 'dry' photographer I have found the challenges of UW photography to be very frustrating at times, but thats what makes it interesting!
I will be at DEMA this year, and I look forward to meeting those of you that will be there!
Posted 20 September 2006 - 06:41 AM
Posted 21 September 2006 - 08:23 PM
<standing up>...I'm Marc, and I'm an A......oh wait, wrong forum?!
Alright, so much for the ice breaker...I'm Marc Ellis. I've been in diving industry for about 20 years now. Originally from So. Cal., then Washing St. and now Florida. I've been fortunate enought to have been published...or at least seen in Skin Diver twice, owned an operated a ambient pressure submerible manufacturing company (or it owned me...never quite figured that one out!), and now I reside myself to promoting education and awareness for the marine world. My latest endevor has been trying and assist the 3 local aquariums...Tampa, Clearwater and Mote Marine. But unless you know someone on the inside, they are hard nuts to break....but I'll keep at it!
About the sub, if anyone was at DEMA in Orlando back in 98 and you talked to the guy standing in front of the submarine at the Dive Rite booth...yup, it was me!
Edited by h2opictures, 24 September 2006 - 11:38 AM.
Posted 19 October 2006 - 07:30 AM
I am Abby, the head-honcho if you like of Divervision, a Taiwan based supplier of UW photographic equiment. We have been active in Taiwan for some five years now and mostly deal with Asian brands (INON, Anthis, Epoque, Patima) although we have recently started spreading into other markets through internet sales. We love diving, love photography and are keen to make any likeminded people's experience as effective, pleasurable and economical as possible.
Nice to meet you all, and thanks to Wetpixel for producing such a great resource for everybody with an interest in UW photography.
Posted 25 October 2006 - 10:49 AM
Our area has seen a rapid increase in the pace of development: paved roads, phones, and now we all have satellite internet service. The down side of all this is that construction is on the rise.
Underwater digital photography has given me a chance to reatart my underwater hobby (couldn't process the film before).
I don't sell many photos but may start doing so as a small part of our business.
If anyone is in Hopkins, Sittee River Village or Dangriga Town drop by for a beer, just ask for me someone will be able direct you where I am, it's a small and funky place to live but I'll never go back!
Posted 25 January 2007 - 08:30 AM
Nick Lucey here from Scuba Diving Magazine, where I'm Editor at Large and also site manager of ScubaDiving.com. Feel free to drop me a line at email@example.com if you have suggestions or comments for the magazine or web site.
LiquidAssets.tv, producers of the new dive travel television show, "Into the Drink"
Posted 25 January 2007 - 08:46 AM
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EP490: Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
read by Dave Thompson
- The story has been previously published in Fantasy and Science Fiction, Copyright 1959 by Mercury Press
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about the author…
from Wikipedia: Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960. The novel was published in 1966 and was joint winner of that year's Nebula Award for Best Novel (with Babel-17).
Keyes was born in New York City, New York.[2] He attended New York University briefly before joining the United States Maritime Service at 17, working as a ship's purser on oil tankers.[2] Afterward he returned to New York and in 1950 received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brooklyn College.[2]
A month after graduation, Keyes joined publisher Martin Goodman's magazine company, Magazine Management.[2] He eventually became editor of their pulp magazine Marvel Science Stories (cover-dated Nov. 1950 – May 1952) after editor Robert O. Erisman,[3] and began writing for the company's comic-book lines Atlas Comics, the 1950s precursors of Marvel Comics. After Goodman ceased publishing pulps in favor of paperback books and men's adventure magazines, Keyes became an associate editor of Atlas[1] under editor-in-chief and art director Stan Lee. Circa 1952, Keyes was one of several staff writers, officially titled editors, who wrote for such horror and science fiction comics as Journey into Unknown Worlds, for which Keyes wrote two stories with artist Basil Wolverton.[4]
As Keyes recalled, Goodman offered him a job under Lee after Marvel Science Stories ceased publication:
Since my $17.25-a-month rent was almost due, I accepted what I considered a detour on my journey toward a literary career. Stan Lee … let his editors deal with the scriptwriters, cartoonists, and lettering crew. Writers turned in plot synopses, Stan read them, and as a matter of course, would accept one or two from each of the regulars he referred to as his "stable." As one of his front men, I would pass along comments and criticism. … Because of my experience editing Marvel and because I'd sold a few science fiction stories by then, Stan allowed me to specialize in the horror, fantasy, suspense, and science fiction comic books. Naturally, I began submitting story ideas, getting freelance assignment, and supplementing my salary by writing scripts on my own time.[5]
One story idea Keyes wrote but did not submit to Lee was called "Brainstorm", the paragraph-long synopsis that would evolve into Flowers for Algernon. It begins: "The first guy in the test to raise the I.Q. from a low normal 90 to genius level … He goes through the experience and then is thrown back to what was." Keyes recalled, "[S]omething told me it should be more than a comic book script."[5]
From 1955 to 1956, Keyes wrote for EC Comics, including its titles Shock Illustrated and Confessions Illustrated, under both his own name and the pseudonyms Kris Daniels and A.D. Locke.
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Dave Thompson is the California King and the Easter Werewolf, and is the host and co-editor of PodCastle. He has narrated audiobooks (by Tim Pratt, Greg van Eekhout, and James Maxey), written short stories (published in or forthcoming from Apex, Drabblecast, Pseudopod, and Escape Pod), and lost NaNoWriMo twice. He lives outside Los Angeles with his wife and three children.


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Applications for the Funded Legal Education Program (FLEP) and Excess Leave Program (ELP) are being accepted from Jan. 1 through March 1. Interested officers are encouraged to compete. The number of FLEP and ELP applicants selected in any academic year is determined based on the needs of the Air Force.
�Our Air Force missions are constantly changing, and commanders deserve to have access to legal advisors with a broad background of military experiences,� said Lt. Col. Rebecca Vernon, Staff Judge Advocate, 1st Special Operations Wing Office of the Staff Judge Advocate. �The FLEP and ELP will ensure that we can continue to maintain a Corps of officers whose military experience complements their legal training providing commanders with the highest caliber of legal support.�
According to Vernon, Air Force JAGs do more than just provide legal assistance. In addition to prosecuting and defending clients brought before courts-martial, JAG officers routinely participate in nearly every facet of the Air Force mission including developing and acquiring weapons systems, ensuring availability of airspace and ranges where those systems are tested and operated, consulting with commanders about how those systems are employed in armed conflict, and assisting commanders in the day-to-day running of military installations around the world.
The FLEP is a paid legal studies program for active-duty Air Force commissioned officers and is an assignment action. Participants receive full pay, allowances, and tuition. FLEP applicants must have between two and six years active duty service (enlisted or commissioned) and must be in the pay grade O-3 or below as of the day they begin law school. The FLEP is subject to tuition limitations and positions may be limited due to overall funding availability. The Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) establishes the tuition limit and in Academic Year 2012 was set at approximately $16,000 per year. While in 2012, due to unfortunate budgetary constraints, the Air Force was unable to offer any FLEP seats, the Air Force has secured a handful of seats in 2013 and encourages all eligible officers interested in becoming a member of the Air Force JAG Corps to apply.
The ELP is an unpaid legal studies program for Air Force officers. ELP participants do not receive pay and allowances but remain on active duty for retirement eligibility and benefits purposes. ELP applicants must have between two and ten years active duty service and must be in the pay grade O-3 or below as of the first day of law school.
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The cyberscum who seek to pilfer your personal information have many ways to lure victims into their traps, and a favorite is the phishing scam – bogus emails that link to a rogue site into which the hapless type private data.
The creators of these emails try their best to make them look authentic, and they'll often theme them around news events. For example, shortly after last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, scammers began flooding inboxes with fake charity emails. Anyone who typed credit card information into the site linked from those phishing attempts donated only to the criminals' coffers.
Fortunately, most phishing scams are badly done, and anything more than a cursory glance will make it obvious that they're, well, phishy.
Now it's U.S. tax time, and you're starting to see email scams invoking the Internal Revenue Service. One of these recently landed in some inboxes here at the Mighty Houston Chronicle, and I thought it might be useful to deconstruct it to highlight the telltale signs of a phishing attempt.
The email appears to come from Intuit, makers of Quicken and TurboTax software. It tries to get the recipient to go to a website to correct conflicting details in an account. It's clearly a fake, and here's why.
1. The email purports to be from Intuit, but the "From:" field has a Bank of America address. This may be an attempt to get through spam filters, since many people make sure their online banking notifications are whitelisted. In almost all cases, the "From:" address on a phishing email will be forged or spoofed.
2. This email solicits sensitive financial information from the recipient, but it's been sent to multiple people at the same company. I've blurred the "To:" list to protect those who received this, but this one email went to 10 people at the Chronicle. Although Intuit likely would never send an email like this one, if the company did, it would be directed to a single individual.
3. Note the appeal to urgency and a 30-day time limit which, by the way, isn't mentioned in the body of the message. Also note the use of capitalized first letters in the first three words, but lower-cased first letters in the rest of the subject line. Bad grammar, spelling and word usage are often telltale signs of a phishing attempt.
4. To make this seem authentic, the scammers have grabbed an image from Intuit's website to use as a masthead. In this case, it's the only branding on the email, which is not characteristic of official emails. Many phishing scams are better than this, with logos, copyright marks and even information links back to the real site. This one is actually fairly unsophisticated.
5. Again, note the poor use of punctuation, odd word spacing and clunky grammar. For example:
In our continuing effort to ensure that accurate data is being kept up on our systems, and to provide you better quality of service; INTUIT INC. has taken part in the Internal Revenue Service [IRS] Name and TIN Matching Program.
The use of "being kept up on" is poor grammar and the semi-colon after "service" is incorrect. This is actually a little better, though, than many phishing emails, which can sometimes mangle English to the point of hilarity.
6. Wow. What IS that link? It's clearly malformed, and clicking on it takes you nowhere. It's possible that this was altered by security software that checks incoming mail for dangerous links, but I suspect instead that it's an automated-link generation gone awry.
The one thing to watch for in phishing emails are links that say they're going to one place, but actually take you somewhere else. For example, a link in this email might have read http://www.intuit.com/account/update, but when you clicked on it, it would have sent you to http://www.malwarecentral.ru/youarenowinfected/sucker. A tip: In most email software and web-based email services, you can hover your mouse cursor over a link and it will show where it's actually pointing.
7. Note the generic sign-off – INTUIT INC. – and a simple mailing address. There is no easy way to contact the company from this email – no phone number, contact Web page or additional email addresses – because the scammer doesn't want you to do that.
Hopefully, no one would fall for a phishing scam this bad. But apparently many do, because these things keep coming. Be careful out there, folks.


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Required testing and evaluation for all certified helmets. The Foundation acquires helmet test samples directly from stocks of helmets that are meant for sale or distribution to the general public, or specific groups of users, usually from retail or distribution sources. The number of samples we will buy is based on the quantity of Snell certified helmets the manufacturer has produced. Snell technicians in Snell laboratories inspect and test each sample to check that the helmets used by the public continue to meet the Snell Foundation's high standards.
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Once a helmet model is certified, the manufacturer cannot make any design change. Any structural modification automatically invalidates existing certification, because it could affect the performance quality of the helmet. Snell keeps a helmet archive of every certified helmet model for future inspection and verification.
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The saddle tree and saddle are two distinct pieces. Without a saddle tree, a saddle is not functional.
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From there, the manufacturing begins. But, it's really more like art. From start to finish, the process takes as much as 12 days to create one saddle tree. Each saddle tree produced by Quality Manufacturing is handmade by the best workers in the US, because a saddle tree has to be exact.
For 30 years, Helen and Sonny have been perfecting the art of custom made saddle trees for people from all walks of life around the country and the world. One of their most famous clients is Tom Selleck. And Quality Manufacturing has invented a saddle tree for use by adults and children who are paralyzed from the waist down.
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Kings & Peas & no one cares about Diddy
Victoria's Secret last night in New York. Rockers love models. So of course there was a Followill presence last night at the show as Jared and Caleb showed up on the carpet before taking their front row seats and then headed over to the New Moon afterparty. Jared's face is killing me in front of that dancing woman. Note Ashley Greene is beside him in one of those shots trying to get his attention.
The Black Eyed Peas performed at VS and later on Fergie too hit up the New Moon event.
But the best, the absolute best is that Diddy threw this big ass bash last night to celebrate his 40th and even though New York is teeming with celebrities right now, the only people he could get to come were some Kardashians, Barbara Walters, and Martha Stewart.
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Thirty years ago, bike-riding children thrilled to feel the wind blowing through their hair as they hurtled down hills and went over jumps, heads unencumbered– and at risk. These days, kids don helmets even when riding on the hill-less and car-less stretch of the Rivanna Trail because they have to– it's law in the city for children 14 and under. But helmets may cause a problem of their own, according to some recent research that suggests they can increase the risk of neck injury by "digging in" when a rider falls, causing the rider's head to snap back. That's the argument made by Richmond-based cyclist, engineer and father J. Tyler Ballance, who says helmets for road riding and high speed racing make sense, but may actually add risk when kids wear them while riding in cul-de-sacs or on paved paths. No matter what, when you or your child are wearing a bike helmet, make sure it's strapped properly to ensure it works in case of a fall. According to the National Highway Transportation Administration, that means the strap should be secured snugly under the chin (no more than two fingers should fit between strap and skin), and the helmet should be on the head squarely to ensure the forehead and the back of the head are adequately protected.
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Among the most popular hikes in the area is the steep climb to Crabtree Falls in the George Washington National Forest in Nelson County, but it's also the most deadly. Twenty-seven people have fallen to their deaths there, most– including the most recent in 2010– after ignoring posted warnings to stay off the moss-covered rocks. Indeed, any time you have rocks and water near steep drop-offs, the conditions are right for a potentially lethal slip.
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In 2007, an Earlysville mom paid the ultimate price for her distraction when she forgot her nine-month-old son was in the car as she worked all day at the Judge Advocate General school. The baby died of hyperthermia, and his mother, who endured a criminal trial, is far from the only parent to make such a tragic mistake. In warmer months, cars become hotboxes that, in mere minutes, can soar to upwards of 100 degrees. Small children and animals, unable to escape on their own, should never be left unattended– even for a quick jaunt into the grocery store. If you happen upon an unattended vehicle with a child or pet inside, don't hesitate to call 911. A life may depend on it.
Heat stroke
Hot humid days can be deadly, particularly for babies, the elderly, and athletes. Such was the case on a 97-degree day in 2005 with talented Albemarle High School runner Kelly Watt, who collapsed and died after a run along Ridge Road. Nausea, vomiting, fatigue and confusion are symptoms, and if untreated, heat stroke can be fatal. Staying hydrated is key, and avoiding extreme exertion when the temperature soars is another important preventative measure.Read more on: bike helmetsdangerheat strokeLyme Disease
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This is a warning from city residents. We've lived here for decades and in past years we got a couple tick bites a year- not this year - almost everyday we're finding the small ones and the large ones crawling, burrowing and attached to our bodies, and we aren't even in the woods, just our back yard.
Be thankful you don't live in the county. Last week I got 9 embedded ticks off me in a 36 hour period. What was I doing? Mowing the grass. A regular lawn. On a riding mower. And, this isn't even the record. Last spring I got 16 off me in a 48 hour period. They seem to drop from hanging limbs, bushes, etc. Showering when you come in doesn't seem to affect them. And they are extremely tiny. I've lived here all my life and until the last couple years I had one or two tick bites a year. Maybe a winter with some extended cold weather might decrease the tick population. And, maybe someone else can do it, but I'll take my chances with the ticks rather than the long sleeves and long pants in the hot summer. I can't last even 20 minutes outside dressed that way.
Hope this helps -
"Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tick
with the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few
seconds (15-20); the tick will come out on its own and be
stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away.
This technique has worked every time I've used it
(and that was frequently), and it's much less traumatic
for the patient and easier for me.."
Thank you city resident. It happens to be lawn mowing day today and it's my husband's turn. We'll be trying out your technique.
Excellent program everything you ever wanted to know about tick borne illnesses.
One thing I learned is that almost everyone gets a rash but sometimes doesn't see it .
I'm having good luck with permethrin treated pants
and shirt--very light weight too.
Do whatever you can to avoid getting bitten. We use Tick Tubes, which a neighbor recommended last year, and think they're great. you just put the cardboard tubes out in your property in the spring and mice do the work, bringing the pesticide-treated cotton contained in the tubes back to their nests. If you can control the tick population while it is still on its earliest host (mice), you are way ahead of the game, before they start feeding on big mammals like us.


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Temp stayed in range today so although I didn't go to work I did go to rehab. Was on stepper and worked up a good sweat for 30 minutes although they were easy on me because of the virus over the weekend. The additional 3 pounds lost was proof enough for them.
Anyway, my BP recovery was the best it's ever been. Went down to 106/68 right after workout. When I got home HR went down to 80s/hi 70s and that usually doesn't happen until 2 hours after the workout.
Wonder if it was all the extra C I was taking over the last 3 days?


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Have you ever let your kids plan a vacation?
We spent 3 nights in Branson over spring break. We always do a short trip for spring break…St. Louis, Dallas…last year we dug for diamonds in Murfreesboro...somewhere within a few hours drive.
This is the first time in 4 years that we do NOT have season passes to Silver Dollar City. So we decided to head to Branson and try some new things that we haven't gotten to do because we usually spend most of our time at SDC.
However, this trip was different than any other trip we have ever taken…because 4 kids planned the itinerary!
I sold a bunch of old baby gear and kids clothes in the Rhea Lana's consignment sale, and made a whopping $564.30! So this little chunk of change became our vacation money…and I handed it over to the kids!
When they saw that stack of cash, you would have thought they had won the lottery! Abbott asked if it was enough to buy a car. Uh…no. Our new van cost 80 times this amount. You can see why we need the economics lesson! Still, when you're 9, $500 is a fortune. And that fortune should buy you any thing you want, right?
The hotel and gas were paid for, but all food and fun had to come out of "their money". There were only three rules. 1. They had to buy lunch and dinner each day (the hotel had a free breakfast) 2. All decisions were majority rule. 3. Whatever money was leftover at the end of the trip, they got to split 4 ways and keep.
For Family Home Evening we brainstormed all of the wonderful things we would like to do in Branson. Everyone wanted to do the Dixie Stampede. We went there a few years ago and loved it! Everybody tossed out suggestions, and then mom put a price tag next to each activity of what it would cost for our family of 6. Dixie Stampede: $276. Hiking: free. You get the idea.
This was exactly the wake-up call we were hoping for. "Dixie Stampede would cost HALF of our money!" say the kids. "Yes, it would" says mom and dad. "Well, there is no way we're doing THAT" say the kids. "It's your choice" say mom and dad.
So the Dixie Stampede was crossed off the list in favor of more economical options.
They looked over all of the activities and prices and decided which things were "must-do", and which things they could do with out. Can I just say how AMAZING it was to see their little frugal minds when they knew they could keep some of this glorious cash if they budgeted wisely? Yeah…it was great.
And I am pleased to announce, upon completion of the vacation, that they all compromised, negotiated, and got along great! They would try to talk one another out of unwise purchases, and put their heads together to make choices. For example, Aiden wanted to go to McDonald's for breakfast, and the crew talked him into sticking with the free breakfast at the hotel.
So I thought I would post our kid-planned vacation itinerary so you could see how they chose to spend those precious pennies.
Dinner- McDonald's $19
Breakfast- Free
Swim at the hotel- Free
Watch movie in hotel room- Free
Lunch @ Cracker Barrel (with tip...there's a good lesson!)- $42
Fish Hatchery- $3.50 for fish food
Hike along the lake- Free
|Anna was tired of walking so her sweet bro offered a piggy back
Sonic Drinks- $5.50
The Track (Go Karts, Bumper Boats, Arcade Games)- $85
Dinner @ Fudruckers (with milkshakes!) $41
Toys @ Walmart (Everybody got a $10 limit)- $37
Breakfast- Free
Swim at the hotel- Free
Lunch @ Taco Bell $25
Play with new toys in the room/hang out- Free
Dinner @ Sonic- $20
Hamner Barber Magic/Comedy/Ventrriloquism Show- $88 (after coupon- another good lesson!)
|Hamner and Barber
Cotton Candy and Popcorn at Hamner Barber- $10
Souvenier googly eyes at Hamner Barber X 4- $12
Krispy Kreme donuts (for the morning)- $9
Breakfast- Free
Shopping- Mom Paid :)
Lunch @ Pizza Buffet- $40 with tip
Machines at pizza place- $1 in quarters
The Track (again)- $20 (half price credits this time- yay!)
Drinks on the way home- $3
I am beyond thrilled with how successful our little experiment was. We did not hear "pleeeease", or "why can't we?", or "I want this" at all the entire trip. However, we did dish it out a bit. At Cracker Barrel, Aaron asked them to buy him an electronic spider and I begged for a ceramic Easter bunny. They were a little disgusted with us :) The look of "seriously?" on Abbott's face was priceless! We didn't leave with the spider or the bunny, but I'm pretty sure we made our point.
On the way home I informed them that they had $103.84 left over to split. Then I asked them if they wanted to stop for ice cream. Ever hear four kids shout "NO!" to ice cream at the same time?
I think frugality is one of the most important life lessons we can teach our children, and this vacation definitely went a long way toward teaching them the whole "money doesn't grow on trees" thing. We will definitely be doing this again, and I think next time I will make them pay for gas. The fact that gas costs a fortune is a good life lesson as well, and I think it would be good to have them budget enough to get home. When they're older we may even let them plan the whole trip, destination and everything. However, mom will always have veto power.
|Divvying up the cash!


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ALAMEDA — The Raiders signed punter Daniel Zychlinski on Friday in a move designed to give incumbent Marquette King a break during offseason workouts and the Raiders insurance in case King gets injured.
King replaced Shane Lechler last season and showed that he has the ability to be a fixture for years to come.
Zychlinski, who played at Stanford from 2008-12, gets an opportunity to learn from King and perhaps get his work on videotape for other teams to see in case they need a punter at some point before or during the season.
Zychinski averaged 42.2 yards during his collegiate career. His 43.1 average his final season was the fifth-best total in Stanford history.


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Top 10 Lake Vacations
Grab your swimsuit! Here are the most irresistibly enjoyable, summer-fun-filled lakes in the West
All your life, you've longed for your own personal lakeside retreat. But you haven't inherited money, you haven't issued an IPO. What to do? You rent your lakeside paradise for a week or two. Christina Lake, British Columbia, is seemingly created for people who want to rent their own lakeside cottage/cabin/luxury home. Resorts are nonexistent (although there is a scattering of nice, small B&Bs). But what Christina has is a broad range of properties for rent, from quirky but comfortable cabins to a few seven-figure estates.
Christina's charms extend beyond real estate, though. The lake is serenely lovely, set in the Monashee Mountains, near the Canadian Rockies. August lake and weather temps belie the north-of-the-border location: 71° (or, as they have it up here, 22° C); daytime averages around 82°. If you're looking for a lake with sweeping, sandy beaches where you can get so warm that you have to make regular plunges into the water, this is it.
One potential drawback—the lake's somewhat remote location, more than two hours north of Spokane—is in some ways a plus. Things aren't crowded here. True, in summer the population soars from its year-round 1,500 to 6,000, but that won't faze anybody familiar with, say, Lake Tahoe. And with the north half of the lake embraced by Gladstone Provincial Park, it's easy to find quiet moments, when you can fantasize about living here permanently.
Stay: For rental cabins and homes, which cluster along the lake's eastern shore, a reliable agency is Christina Lake Vacation Rentals (). If you want someone to coddle you, the Sunflower Inn Bed & Breakfast (from $111 U.S.; ) has three great suites with good lake views, a private beach, and a dock.
The ideal romantic lake outing requires three things. 1. Natural beauty, because soaring hearts demand scenery to match. 2. Not too many people, because romance shuns crowds. 3. Some luxury, because love likes it a little cushy. Suttle Lake, in central Oregon, earns top marks in all three categories. The glacier-formed lake is undeniably a stunner. But oddly, even at the height of summer, Suttle never feels mobbed—despite being one of Oregon's more accessible mountain lakes (U.S. 20 skirts its northern shore).
But luxury is where Suttle really scores. The is a modern take on Mt. Hood's Timberline Lodge, big on rough-hewn beams and wrought-iron chandeliers. The Boathouse Restaurant serves hearty comfort food like potato-chip crusted trout, thick burgers, and chowder. There's a long list of activities you can participate in, including kayaking, canoeing, fly-fishing, and hiking. But if you just want to sit on the lodge lawn gazing off at the lake and thinking only about each other, that's fine too.
Stay: The most desirable of the 11 lodge suites features a sitting room with a stone fireplace and a sleeping loft overlooking the lake. The older lodge cabins are pretty simple, but four contemporary versions fronting Cinder Beach feature all the modern luxuries of the lodge rooms. Lodge suites from $275, waterfront cabins from $100; 2-night min.; .
In Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, Jenny Lake reflects the Teton peaks better than any mirror. And Jenny Lake Lodge reflects rustic elegance. The restored historic cabins have handmade quilts. Breakfast, five-course dinner, and use of bikes and horses are included. From $500; .
Lakes don't get much more old school than Crescent, in Washington's Olympic National Park. Lake Crescent Lodge is one of the great national-park hotels, with a wood-paneled dining room—President Franklin Roosevelt ate here—and a sunroom where parents and young children play games of Uno and Jenga.
As for the lake itself, it's a gem: second-deepest in Washington and, locals claim, clearer than Western rivals Crater and Tahoe. There are biological reasons for this—such as an almost complete absence of water-clouding nitrogen—but what will count more is all the fun you can have on and around Crescent. The lodge rents canoes, kayaks, and paddleboards; you can fish for two species of trout found nowhere but here. (You do, however, have to put the trout back.)
Stay: Best (and only) choice is 1916-vintage Lake Crescent Lodge. Singles and couples cocoon in the upstairs lodge rooms (all have views); families go for the four Roosevelt Cottages, each with a working fireplace and situated steps from the water. If they're booked—and they often are—the Singer Tavern Cottages lack fireplaces but have Dutch doors that open to let in lake breezes. Lodge rooms from $77, Roosevelt Cottages from $262, Singer from $232;
With its green pines and blue water, Big Bear Lake feels like a step into California vacations past. But you can get in good mountain biking at Snow Summit and stand-up paddleboarding on the lake. And Windy Point Inn is sleekly contemporary.
Simple pleasures really can be the best. They're what Northern California's Lakes Basin area has to offer. About an hour and a half northwest of Lake Tahoe, the basin holds more than 50 alpine lakes—Gold, Packer, and Lower Sardine are the most popular—accessible by car or hiking boots.
The region has its plush side—just sample the Citron cocktail at sunset at Sardine Lake Resort—but its true heart is easygoing, low-key, and thrifty. There are more than 10 public campgrounds, including Sardine Campground, where every site has a view of the jagged Sierra Buttes. You can rent boats at Sardine Lake Resort. Or hit the area's dozens of trails: Families can wander the easy 0.5-mile path to Frazier Falls; intrepid hikers can climb about 2.5 miles to the top of Mt. Elwell or conquer the mighty pinnacle topped by the Sierra Buttes Fire Lookout, a 7-mile round-trip.
Stay: Spots at Sardine Campground can be reserved ($24; ). Gold Lake Campground is first come, first served ($10), as are some sites at Lakes Basin Campground; others can be reserved (from $22; ).
Clear, blue, and still a classic: Summer at Lake Tahoe is the same as it ever was. Go for a sunset sail, take a shot at paddleboarding, or find a slice of beach and take in the to-die-for beauty.
More: Lake Tahoe summer
Discover the sophisticated side of Washington's summer playground, Lake Chelan--where sandcastles and jet skis are making way for (really good) wine.
More: Lake Chelan summer escape
Oregon's turquoise jewel, Crater Lake is a must-visit spot. Rather than tailgate from viewing spot to viewing spot, park your car in the Rim Village lot and hike the moderate 6-mile (one-way) West Rim Trail, which fortunately isn't packed in the summer.
Stretching northeast for some 10 miles from near the west entrance to Montana's Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald has a beauty that seems easy, almost lazy, with dense forest sloping down to the glass-smooth water. Lake McDonald is the largest (10 miles long) and deepest (464 feet) body of water in the park.
More: Guide to Glacier National Park


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I have written, as have many others, about the extraordinary shortage of ammunition that the United States is now suffering. The most common calibers, .22LR and 9 mm., are virtually unobtainable, in part because federal agencies have purchased well over a billion rounds of civilian ammunition. This situation has, naturally, given rise to rumors and speculation. Is the government trying to achieve de facto gun control by buying up the entire supply of civilian ammunition? Is DHS expecting some kind of invasion that explains its hoarding hundreds of millions of small arms rounds in depots around the United States?
I don't know the answers to these questions, but I assume that what is mainly going on is a classic panic-driven shortage. If you are a gun owner, you likely have been stocking up on ammunition. When a whole lot of people stock up at once, as a result of draconian anti-firearms legislation that has been introduced at both the federal and the state levels, a shortage results. The shortage lasts until it becomes evident that manufacturers, working overtime to meet demand, have enough products to go around. Then there may be a glut.
For the moment, though, ammo is in short supply. And yet…for those who had foresight, or who, like me, had friends with foresight, there are still cartridges to be had. So today I depleted my stash to the extent of 200 rounds fired at my favorite range. I shot reasonably well; this group was at 7 yards:
As was this one:
I was mostly shooting my Armalite AR-24. My friend who owns a gun shop where I bought the AR-24 describes it as the best handgun that no one knows about. I will second that: I test-fired it against a P226 and a couple of others, and wound up buying the AR-24. It is a beautiful gun with extraordinary feel and balance. Its barrel, frame and slide are made from forged steel. It feels great in the hand and shoots with remarkable accuracy, right out of the box.
Really, though, this has been a digression. What I meant to say is this: the world seems to think that we conservatives are out of ammo, too. But we are not. Everywhere, conservatives are checking their weapons–i.e., their ideas–and husbanding their ammunition. We are organizing for a comeback. Our principles are as strong as ever. While we have suffered setbacks over the last year or two, we are not licking our wounds, let alone giving up, but are focused on how to recover the power and responsibility that rightfully belong to those who understand and treasure our nation's constitutional heritage. Today, we may be taking target practice, debating among ourselves and refining our ideas, but tomorrow, we will be back before the American people, making the case for freedom more forcefully and, we hope, more effectively than ever.


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Flowerland's First Release in Fifteen Years Reviewed
Reviewed by Veronica Cinti – Toonari Post
The first Flowerland release in 15 years comes on October 16 and is bringing back the old school energy of the 90s. Flowerland formed in New Haven, CT, in 1991, and is presenting the original line up composed of vocalist Roger Guimond, guitarist Steven Christofor, drummer Jon Lichatz, and bassist Jef St. George. The band has now returned to the scene with The Caffeine Disk EP, containing six Flowerland classics remixed by John Agnello, producer of Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and Kurt Vile just to name a few.
Core part of the East Coast independent music scene in the 90s, Flowerland stays faithful to the counterculture releasing the EP via the independent record label 'Gypsygarden records.'
Opening with the roaring 'Crazy Horse,' the EP instantly feeds the listener with raw and outflowing energy. The record goes on with 'Glass i,' which maintains the magnetism already expressed in 'Crazy Horse' adding a darker feeling to it, with vocalist Roger Guimond delivering an admirable performance.
'(Jim Brown's) Military Country' starts off on the same page as the previous tracks, and then develops a sweeter touch, which cuddles your more instinctive feelings from the first two tracks. The highly adrenalinic vibes are taken back by the agitated 'Low'.
'Kill Alice (slowly)' might be the best track of the EP. Angry, violent, but with sparkles of a fragile attitude, it brings the listener into a hypnotic atmosphere. The bass awakes the deepest thought of the listeners, Christofor's guitar is magnificent and Lichatz's drums exceptional, almost delirious.
Finally, the track 'Flow' becomes the perfect closing to the EP as it wraps up all the agitation and bass of its predecessors and releases the build-up although keeping the power.
Clearly influenced by the Grunge movement of the 90s, Flowerland mostly takes from it the punk instinct and its raw and natural inspiration which translates into passionate creation. The band then mixes this with a more classic-oriented rock approach, creating a delightful result.
The EP is easy to listen to, almost half an hour of genuine hard rock. It goes on smoothly and does not get old; it seems to acquire quality after each listening instead. It is a tornado of emotions, surely not a record to play as a background activity. It wants and deserves attention, and easily gets it. The biggest merit is probably to be able to show how relevant those sonorities still are.
Rating: EXCELLENT 4/5


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IBM sold the first IBM PCs in configurations with 16 or 64 kB of RAM preinstalled using either nine or thirty-six 16-kilobit DRAM chips. ... After the IBM XT shipped, the IBM PC motherboard was configured more like the XTs motherboard with 8 narrower slots, as well as the same RAM configuration as the IBM XT. ( 64 kB in one bank, expandable to 256kB by populating the other 3 banks ).
I am planning on a project that I think will end up taking quite a bit of code. Primarily I am looking to create a way to remotely control and monitor my commercial espresso machine and was hoping to make it stand alone. I don't want to have a computer running for it to serve up all of the information about the machine. Is there a way to store my large (presumably) code base on a flash device? I am not talking strings and such, but large amounts of logic/code itself that would bring my code base past 256K. I have been looking for samples and howtos, but either there are none out there or i am using the wrong search terms. Any guidance would be much appreciated.
If I had to take a guess, I would say the OP probably is thinking of storing stuff like the webpages, etc.. in the main flash. Actual code, I couldn't imagine many projects that would need more than 256K. So, if it data (audio, graphics, HTML, etc...) that will be filling up your memory, move that stuff to some external memory.
I am not talking strings and such, but large amounts of logic/code itself that would bring my code base past 256
Better let the OP respond. Haven't heard a word since the original post.
Since we are pressing on without the pleasure of the company of the OP, I was reading yesterday about how one of the first gaming consoles (or devices anyway) only had 128 bytes of RAM, because it was so expensive. It might have been Pong. So each frame refresh, the entire playing field had to be generated from scratch, because it couldn't be stored in RAM.
Sure, Atmel makes ATtinys with only 64 bytes of RAM...


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Pan masala refers to a balanced mixture of betel leaf with lime, areca nut, clove, cardamom, mint, tobacco and many other ingredients. It is prepared with precise measurements so as to maintain a balance of all ingredients while keeping in mind its taste and human health.
Pan masala acts as a mouth freshener and unlike other Western synthetic pan masala which are made with chemical and petroleum ingredients, the Indian pan masala is considered safer. It is available in hygienic and attractive foil packets (sachets) and tins which are easy to store and carry.
According to a new report by Expert Market Research, the Indian pan masala market reached a value of INR 36,523 Crores in 2016 and is further expected to reach nearly INR 81,992 Crores by 2022. The strong growth of the market can be attributed to a number of factors. As pan masala has been traditionally popular in India, it is consumed by all age groups and social classes in the region. Large population along with rising disposable incomes also provide a huge consumer base for pan masala products. Moreover, convenient packaging, easy availability, competitive marketing by manufacturers as well as the shift from tobacco to tobacco-free products have further fuelled the demand for pan masala globally. Although it has gained prominence in urban households of India, especially among adolescents, it's demand is growing faster in rural households.
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- Various types of pan masala available in the Indian market include pan masala containing tobacco, plain pan masala, flavoured pan masala and others. Pan masala containing tobacco dominate the market with a share of more than a half of the total market in 2016. It was followed by plain pan masala, flavoured pan masala and others.
- The majority of the Indian pan masala market is highly unorganised and is surrounded by a few players, namely, Rajnigandha (DS Group), RMD (Manikchand), Pan Vilas (Kothari Products), Pan Parag (Godfrey Phillips) and others.
- Among these players, Rajnigandha represented the largest manufacturer of pan masala accounting for the majority of the market share. It was followed by RMD, Pan Vilas, Pan Parag and others.
- These players are coming up with improvements in distribution across both the urban and rural areas.
Expert Market Research has analysed the Indian pan masala market according to type and top players:
Market breakup by Type
- Pan Masala Containing Tobacco
- Plain Pan Masala
- Flavoured Pan Masala
Top players
- Rajnigandha (DS Group)
- RMD (Manikchand)
- Pan Vilas (Kothari Products)
- Pan Parag (Godfrey Phillips)
- Others
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