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All four tennis courts had their surfaces cleaned and repainted in 2016. Tennis tokens may be bought in advance and can be used as required. The tokens, which last for 30 minutes, cost £3 for adults and £1.50 for juniors.
Courts are booked via the booking sheets; usually these are posted on Saturday mornings. There is also a list of forthcoming tournament fixture dates alongside the sheets which can affect availability, especially during the summer.
Social Tennis Night takes place on Tuesdays from 6:00pm. All members of any level are very welcome to attend. Social tennis also takes place on Sunday mornings from 9.30 am.
Competitions - the club holds annual knock-out competitions and internal leagues which can be viewed next to the booking sheets.
Teams - Several Men's, Ladies' and mixed teams compete at various levels in the Derbyshire and Burton Leagues; please see the notice board for further details. New team members are always welcome.
Coaching is available for any age or ability with two full time coaches.
Sessions Available
- 3-5yrs Munchkins
- 6-8/9 Mini Red
- 8/9-11 Mini Orange
- 10-12 Mini Green
- 11 - 18 Challenger
- 11 - 18 Performance/Elite
- Fitness Sessions for all levels
- Adults' Sessions
Each Junior player is given a Club Hoody and group tennis shirt on joining the coaching structure. Reports are issued once a year with termly updates of progress.
For More info follow the link to the coaching facebook page www.facebook.com/burtontennisclubcoaching
To see pictures from the varies tennis events that happen at the club follow the link.
For more information on the coaching contact Alison Smith on 07970403079 or [email protected]


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We have been reading and preparing for the feast of St. Francis of Assisi all week. This is dh's feast day, as his middle name is Francis, and my mother celebrates this day as she is a Secular Franciscan. I'm partial to this saint for a myriad of reasons, one being as a graduate of Franciscan University of Steubenville, I can't help but fall in love with Il Poverello.
We celebrated simply today, with Mass, breakfast with extended family, a trip to the library and a little Italian cooking for dinner.
While the ladies at 4Real Forums have made all sorts of suggestions for this day, particularly for books this year and last year, I have made my own list applicable to a younger child. By no means is this comprehensive — St. Francis is one of the most popular saints, and the amount of reading material and picture books on this saint alone is mind boggling. There were many other books that my library didn't have, or weren't available to check out. What is really amazing is that most of the books don't overlap…each is unique in the storyline, artwork and message.
Saint Francis by Brian Wildsmith. We're no stranger to Wildsmith's works, but this one is now topping the list. The text is written in first person, as if St. Francis is relating his story. It opens "I was born–thank you, God–over eight-hundred years ago…." The book recalls his life and is well-done. The pictures are marvelous, wonderful for a young child. On every page is St. Francis and an angel, I presume to be his guardian angel. But the angel is in different places, which was fun for my son to find it. Plus almost every page depicts birds of different kinds, but repeats some for many pages, like an owl. There's also a dog that makes many pages. So there's a little hunting to keep a child's eyes occupied while listening to the story.
The Song Of Francis And The Animals by Pat Mora, woodcuts by David Frampton. This book has the wonderful and colorful woodcuts that accompany the verses that celebrate the relationship between Saint Francis and the Animals. When I first read it, I didn't understand that each page was a separate "scene" of St. Francis. After I understood that concept I really enjoyed it. It is bereft of the mention of God…with the focus on nature, animals, etc.
St. Francis of Assisi by Nina Bawden, pictures by Pascale Allamand. (Out-of-print) The images in this book are delightful and the text is easy to read (also in larger print, so easier on the eyes). What makes this book unique are some of the stories it presents about St. Francis. I hadn't heard them presented in such a way…which will lead to a rabbit trail of my own to see if I can find them told elsewhere. One is about an evil innkeeper who served chicken to Clare and Francis on Friday, even though he knew it would be a sin for them to eat meat. Francis blessed the chicken and it became a plump fish. Another story was when Francis went to visit the Pope, he wasn't too clean and the Pope was disgusted and told him to go roll with the pigs. Francis did so and came back to the Pope, who held his nose, but did bless Francis. Anyone else hear that tale? There are a few more inside this book!
Francis the Poor Man of Assisi by Tomie de Paola. No feast of St. Francis could go by without reading this book. Tomie de Paola did an excellent job researching, relating and illustrating Francis and Clare's story. This is a great book for both feast days. It is very wordy, though, so it's a book to read in sections, or, to do a synopsis while looking at the pictures for my young son. He loves Tomie De Paola, and has fun searching for his signature with a heart in all his works.
A newer delightful title that gives the spirit of the Gospel and St. Francis through his followers is Brother Juniper by Diane Gibfried. There are several stories of Brother Juniper creating exasperating situations in the life of St. Francis and his brothers, but most of his actions were due to his simplistic but total love for God. St. Francis is included in the story, and it is a delightful addition to Franciscan reading.
St. Francis and the Proud Crow by Bernadette Watts. (Out-of-print) A wonderful story of a proud crow who was envious of canary's golden cage. St. Francis gives him a cage, but crow learns a lesson on the gift of freedom.
Brother Wolf of Gubbio: A Legend of Saint Francis by Colony Elliott Santangelo. Here's another book that captures the imagination of my son (but not fear). The illustrations are rich, done in inks and colored pencils on bass wood panels and the story line flows well. Delightfully done, and a wonderful addition to our home library.
Another book the retells this legend is The Wolf of Gubbio by Michael Bedard and Murray Kimber, but another out-of-print title. It's told through the eyes of a young boy, who lived in the town of Gubbio. The illustrations are more modern, and the wolf is definitely larger than life and more intimidating than the other title, but both very enjoyable.
The Good Man of Assisi by Mary Joslin and Alison Wisenfeld. This is the book recommended by Cay Gibson in her Catholic Mosaic. It's a wonderful book, and one of the first St. Francis picture books I had found. For my three-year-old the text and illustrations do not capture his interest as much as some of the other books do. But it truly embraces St. Francis and his love of Christ and His Church.
The Story of Brother Francis by Lene Mayer-Skumanz, art by Alicia Sancha, translated from the German by Hildegard Bomer. (Out-of-print) I chanced upon this book at a used book sale. It's full of rich water colors and wonderfully picturesque text.
A Gift from Saint Francis: The First Crèche by Joanna Cole, illustrated by Michele Lemieux. (Out of Print) Another beautifully illustrated book rich with the medieval flavor of Assisi. Some of the illustrations are reminiscent of illuminated manuscripts and cathedral windows. The book tells the life of St. Francis for the first half and then relates the story of the first crèche. A wonderful book for the feast of St. Francis, and also for Christmas reading.
Another title that can do double duty is Saint Francis and the Christmas Donkey by Robert Byrd. This book retells the legend of the donkey, and his important role at the birth of Christ.
The Circle of Days by Reeve Lindbergh, illustrated by Cathie Felstead (Out-of-print) Text of Saint Francis' Canticle of the Sun beautifully illustrated with watercolor, gouache and collage. It's just a feast for the eyes, but also ears. My son gets so still listening to the lyrical phrases of the Canticle of the Sun (and other psalms and canticles). Never underestimate how much a child can appreciate these traditional prayers.
And I have saved my favorite for last. Song of the Sun: Canticle of the Sun by St. Francis, illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones is an older (1952) but absolutely exquisite book. If you have enjoyed with Jones' artwork in Prayer for a Child, you will love this one. Again, it's the beautiful text from the Canticle of the Sun. It's an older title, so it is harder to find, but such a treasure! Every page is full of wonderful drawings of nature. And her illustrations are based on her wonderful backyard shrine to St. Francis, but that also doubles as a bird and animal feeder. In her introduction she writes:
Many people have little statues of Saint Francis in their gardens, where birds come and flowers grow. I have one, too–in a little shelter which is nailed to a tree. The little shelter is brown, but the part behind Saint Francis is painted blue because, I think, the sky behind the town of Assisi, in Italy, is always very blue. On the floor of the little shelter, around Saint Francis' feet, I put seeds and crumbs and things birds like to eat, especially in winter. And birds come. Squirrels come, too. They seem to feel that they are welcome. They seem to know this little man, this great man, who talked to them and tamed them, and hoped that no one would catch them or kill them or do them any harm….
Song of the Sun we call it–or The Song of Brother Sun. Sometimes it is called The Canticle of the Sun, and sometimes The Canticle of the Creatures. Canticle means song: not just an ordinary song, but a song of praise. And that is just what his song is: praise to God for all things, by all creatures.
Listen–not only with your ears but with your whole self. Let the song become part of you. Let the love and the joy Saint Francis felt be your love and joy, too.
I am so inspired by this wonderful little backyard shrine and hope one to replicate something similar in my backyard.

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World Rally Proxy 2014Entries for the 2014 running of the World rally slot car proxy are currently being taken, you have until the 18th of January to put your name down to enter the event. The WRP was run last year to great success and saw prepared slot cars from more than 40 entrants sent to some amazing destinations (Australia, Isle of Mann, Italy, England, Scotland and Greece) to compete in a 12 round competition.
Call for expression of interest
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What I find particularly appealing about the proxy is that the rules are straight forward and simple enough to understand. You don't have to be a slot car tuning genius to setup a car and have some fun. All cars run the same tyres, (MJKs provided by the event organisers) and all entries have to be SCX WRC rally cars produced through the years 1999 to 2010. As a result, the series has a level playing field which hopefully results in a good degree of competition for the entries.
You can read the complete WRP 2014 series rules HERE
You might be thinking that the WRP is an official racing series organised by SCX slot cars but it's not. The series is a private non-profit initiative organised by slot car enthusiasts for slot car enthusiasts around the World.
The series consist of only one class, you can see the eligible slot car in detail on Auslot HERE (plenty of choices I'm sure you'll agree)
Entry fee is $AU38 (which can be paid via PayPal) which need to be paid by 1 February 2014. Your entry fee covers the cost of; sending each entrant a set of control tyres, sending you car between international rally tracks, the return of you car after the series has ended and the distribution of prizes. Any remaining funds are added to prize pool.
If you're interested, you can enter the proxy by putting your name down on the Auslot forum HERE but you only have till the 18th of January so get in quick.
Who knows, it might be your name on a trophy this year!
Below are photos from some of the stages run during the 2013 WRP.
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Statutory rape is considered a crime since it's a sexual act performed with a minor under the age of 17. Whether the sexual act was consensual or not, the law presumes minors can be influenced and don't have the mature judgment to refuse (or consent to) the sexual act. Individuals aged 16 or younger in Texas are not legally able to consent to sexual activity, and such activity may result in prosecution for statutory rape. The act, therefore, becomes rape with severe penalties and consequences. If you have been charged with statutory rape, contacting a Brazos County sex crimes attorney should be your first step in establishing a strong defense.
Texas has five statutory sexual abuse charges on the books which are used to prosecute age of consent and child abuse related crimes within the state. One or more of these charges may be used to prosecute violations of the Texas Age of Consent, as statutory rape or the Texas equivalent of that charge. The severity of the criminal charge (felony, misdemeanor, etc) depends on the specifics of the acts committed and the relative ages of the perpetrator and victim. Our criminal defense firm has a thorough understanding of statutory rape laws and can provide a level of defense needed to fight these allegations. Acting quickly to begin your defense is of the utmost importance.
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Having an industrialized way to deploy OpenStack for our customers, independant of the OpenStack/Linux distributions our customers may chose to use, is a key element to ensure maintainability and upgradability, and therefore customer satisfaction. As our experience grows, our set of tools is getting better everyday, and while we have often described some of these tools individually, providing a complete overview of the tooling was on our todo list until now… Of course, some of this tooling will continue to evolve over time, and as the TripleO project matures, we plan to replace some of the components we currently use, but here is a snapshot of what we use today.
At eNovance, we build OpenStack Clouds using Continuous Integration and optionally Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) for our customers. To make it easy, we use some automation tools to do all the job:
- Puppet modules from Stackforge (for OpenStack services)
- Puppet modules from the Puppet forge
- Our puppet module which is a flexible implementation capable of configuring a scalable OpenStack Cloud
- Jenkins which is in charge of building eDeploy roles and validate installation & upgrade flows.
In this post, I'm going to introduce the way we take to deploy OpenStack in production.
- At least 4 servers. They can be physical or virtual. But you need to take care of disks for Ceph and also you will need a second NIC on one of the OpenStack nodes.
- Having an eDeploy server with install-server and openstack-full roles already built. If you don't know anything about eDeploy and roles, you can have a look at this previous blog post by Frederic Lepied.
Our reference architecture is based on 6 components:
- installation: manages lifecycle (installation + upgrades) of all machines
- load-balancers: are in charge of load-balancing OpenStack API and database access
- controllers: are in charge of manage OpenStack management services (API, schedulers, Messaging, caching, dashboard)
- databases: are in charge of providing highly available MySQL and MongoDB databases
- compute: host virtual machines running KVM hypervisor
- storage: store virtual machines and block volumes using Ceph and RBD driver
Prepare your nodes
You will have to build your roles and deploy them by using eDeploy:
- one install-server role (Puppet, Ansible, Serverspec, eDeploy and PXEmngr).
- three openstack-full roles (OpenStack and Ceph).
Generate the configuration
To prepare the Cloud configuration, we are going to use some tools that generate all configuration files that we will need later.
First of all, you need to describe your configuration in one YAML file. There is one example here. This file will be consumed by the configuration generation tool. I would suggest you to move this file in your own git repository and keep it secret, since it contains passwords and IP addresses.
In our short term roadmap, we are going to secure this file by hiding confidential informations.
Now, you have to create a 3nodes-fullha.yml file which will help the configuration generator tool to find the informations about the setup that you want to install, containing:
module: firstname.lastname@example.com:enovance/puppet-openstack-cloud.git serverspec: firstname.lastname@example.com:enovance/openstack-serverspec.git environment: repository: email@example.com:enovance/openstack-yaml-infra-3nodes-fullha.git name: example.yml infrastructure: email@example.com:enovance/openstack-yaml-infra-3nodes-fullha.git
Please change the environment section to use your own YAML file.
You just completed the most difficult task. Now, we can provision the installation server:
git clone firstname.lastname@example.com:enovance/config-tools.git cd config-tools ./provision.sh H.1.3.0 3nodes-fullha.yml
provision.sh extracts the components described in the 3nodes-fullha.yml file, an place them at the H.1.3.0 git tag or using the master branch if the tag doesn't exist. Then provision.sh transfers the files to the right location on your install server.
If you connect by SSH on the install server, you should see:
- Configuration files in /etc/config-tools
- Serverspec configuration in /etc/serverspec
- Puppet configuration in /etc/puppet
Configure OpenStack
Now, it's time to configure our Cloud !
Just run this command and wait:
ssh root@install-server configure.sh
An installation is done in 5 steps:
- MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Memcached, Ceph Key generation and Ceph Monitor
- Keepalived, HAproxy, Ceph OSD, Horizon
- Keystone, Ceph storage pools
- OpenStack controller + compute services
- OpenStack network services
Each step is validated by technical tests (using serverspec), and Puppet agent runs as many times as needed to have the steps working (there is a maximum though) on each node. This process is designed to ease debugging. Each step must be validated for the next to work, so stopping when a step doesn't work makes full sense and allows to only see the problems without being flooded by other messages of services that depend on the non-working element.
For example, at step 4/5 we test if Nova API is running and if it returns the flavors lists:
describe port(8774) do it { should be_listening.with('tcp') } end describe command("nova --os-username #{property[:ks_user_name]} --os-password #{property[:ks_user_password]} --os-tenant-name #{property[:ks_tenant_name]} --os-auth-url http://#{property[:vip_public]}:5000/v2.0 flavor-list") do it { should return_exit_status 0 } end
When a step fails, make the changes to fix what is needed, and then invoke configure.sh again. It will resume the process from were it was interrupted previously.
What happens after deployment?
After each deployment of OpenStack, we need to test the whole infrastructure using Tempest.
- Upstream, Tempest is ran a first time when we get the packages from Debian / Ubuntu / Red Hat. We install an all-in-one server in a VM with all the OpenStack services inside. We are able to know what features are not functional have after tempest report. If tempest passes without new failures, packages are copied to our repository. You could compare this process to installing devstack, but using packages instead of source code directly.
- Downstream, Tempest is ran after each OpenStack deployment to ensure we have the same result as upstream. It may happens when you fail to configure some services or when our architecture introduces some bugs (of course this never happens!).
Thanks to tempest-report which is a tool to test remote installations and summarize found services and extensions, we can generate some useful reports and manage the test level that we want to run against our Cloud infrastructure.
Feedback, please!
We are very interested in getting some feedback from people using our tools. Have a look at eDeploy roles, Puppet modules and serverspec tests suite and install your own OpenStack production-ready! We are always open to hear from you about suggestions, issues and new ideas by reporting bugs or asking features in Github:
- eDeploy: Linux system provisioning tool
- eDeploy-roles: script to build eDeploy roles
- puppet-openstack-cloud: flexible Puppet implementation capable of configuring a scalable OpenStack Cloud
- Serverspec: serverspec tests for the puppet-openstack-cloud modules
- config-tool: set of tools to use puppet to configure a set of nodes with complex configuration using a step by step approach
- Tempest Report: tool for OpenStack Tempest to test remote installations and summarize found services and extensions.
Contributions are also very welcome…


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Starting as an indie? Tips and advice
Robert Madsen discusses the good the bad and the ugly when looking to start out as an Indie developer.
Welcome to part one of a new series on starting an indie game studio. I get a lot of questions about what it takes to start a game studio. I also hear a lot of people, espeically students, expressing a desire to go it on their own. I'll try to be fair but realistic, and share my own journey along the way.
My Journey
I have been programming all of my life. I started when I was 18 in 1980. Yep! Dark ages stuff. Around the turn of the century (that's old folk talk for "Man I've been alive for a long time!") I decided that I wanted to change things up. Game programming was something I had always wanted to do but didn't have a chance to pursue. So, I started learning more and more about the specifics of game programming and in 2008 got my first job at a game studio as a game programmer. I worked for MumboJumbo in Dallas, TX for about a year, then Other Ocean Interactive in Prince Edward Island, PEI for another year.
After Other Ocean, I decided that I wanted to start my own studio. There were several reasons that this made sense:
I had a family and I didn't want to have to move all around the country to be able to work.
My family lived in Colorado which consists entirely of small, indie studios
I was tired of working for a year and being laid off!
So, what gave me the audacity to think that, after only two years in the indusry, I could succeed at founding my own game studio?
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its pretty tough out there. i've been in the games industry for 15yrs and our game did nothing. but follow your heart, there is a lot of luck to make it anywhere these days even if you have something good.
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Personally I think its about 3 things.
Hype, graphics and Competitiveness.
1. Somehow fake hype for your game to get the downloads ("fake it till you make it") until it reaches higher in the charts. There are ALWAYS people looking at games that have come out recently and have no downloads. Make your game look like it's going to be something huge. Do something like Have a countdown on a website till it's launched. Say beta testing is limited to 1000 people, and theres now only 20 spots left. Make people crave to play the game. (i'm assuming it's not a 10 second game that you play once and never play again)
2. Having good graphics. The Icon of your game determines the outcome of your game in the beginning. If it looks like ass and has your logo covering up half the game, no one's even going to click it. The pictures you choose in the preview are so important as well. It really comes down to the icon and preview pictures, and the hype you make up in your description.
3. Competitiveness in your game is a must. Why do you think people play games on their iphone when they have a computer? Because they want to spend as much time on the game and get ahead of everyone else. Why was flappy bird popular? because you wanted to beat your friends score. Impossible to beat game (2048) and your friend beats it? You play the game till you get tile 2048 and gloat to your other friends. And lets not forget clash of clans. It has hype, graphics and its solely based around competitiveness.
That's my 2 cents. I'm going to apply these 3 things to my game, and if i'm successful I guess you'll hear about it.
BigDave Member Posts: 2,239
start off with money for a year.
Expect to make no money, hope and aim for the best.


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Borde Family History
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Borde Name Meaning
Southern French: topographic name for someone who lived in a plank-built cottage, from Frankish bord 'plank'. Later, this word came to designate a farm. German: see Bordes 3. Indian (Maharashtra); pronounced as bor-day: Hindu (Maratha) name of unknown meaning.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
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Promoting Hand Strength, Fine Motor and Numeracy Skills
This fun activity was created to promote hand strength by pressing in the cheeks of the tennis ball monsters to open their mouths. The children are then encouraged to take turns to roll a dice, count the number of dots and feed the monster that of yummy monster food (Counters or pom poms are a good choice) The winner is the monster with the highest amount of monster food in its mouth after all of the food has been eaten.
Benefits of the Activity
Promotes strength in little fingers
Included in the pack:
4 Munching Monsters (Monsters may vary)
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From the mouths of babes… June 25, 2010Posted by Natasha in Rants.
Tags: girls, school, sexualisation of children, society, teenagers, underage, violence
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What is happening to our girls.
This week, I have heard some truly disturbing, horrifying things, that our teenage girls are up to.
Some of the sexual behaviours that they are partaking in, I don't even want to record here, for fear of the google traffic that I might pick up. But I can assure you that they are some of the most demeaning things I have ever heard. It's probably enough to say that they regularly take place in a school toilet, there are cameras involved, and while even that sounds unsavoury, it is SO MUCH worse than you could ever imagine.
These kids are 13, 14, 15…
At the risk of sounding like an old codger, what is wrong with these kids? I left school less than ten years ago. I went to your average, rough, outer suburban public school. There was certainly a lot of stuff happening that shouldnt have been. But the girls that were sleeping around, weren't looked upon favourably, they were the topic of hushed conversation. Now, the MAJORITY of kids are sexually active, by year 9. I really feel for those poor kids who do decide to wait – when I was at school it was unusual not to have kissed a boy by 15 – now you're a freak if you haven't slept with them by this age!
I overheard a conversation today in which one young lady, year nine, was relating the story of how she had told a boy that their baby would have been born this coming Monday. This was said at the top of her voice, in front of a whole class and myself, and rather than being received with shock, the other girls were laughing along with her. One of the other girls has a young baby. How did abortion become a suitable topic for banter?
These girls are regularly involved in full on fist fights – I've had to break up a few this year myself. They think nothing of smashing someone who has offended them in any way. Their fights are incredibly violent, and often result in significant injuries. I have seen whiplash, after a fist-full of hair was ripped out at the roots.
I doubt that these behaviours are limited to the young people that I work with, I am sure they are happening everywhere.
How can we make a difference?
Strange June 21, 2010Posted by Natasha in Uncategorized.
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Infertility and loss, and the grief that go along with them, are strange. I have been so good – ok – fine, even… For months now.
Today, I don't know what's wrong with me. Realisations… Planning work for the period I should have been going on leave… Stupid comments, directed at other people, yet still awful… Suspicions… I think a friend is waiting for the right time to tell me about number two… Dread… My life has been free of pregnant-people-I-see-regularly for around 3 weeks, for the first time in at least 3 years… Waiting for the axe to fall.
Those events that were 'will I be able to do that while heavily pregnant' are on the horizon.
Which means that so is August 16.
Make the World Safe Again June 6, 2010Posted by Natasha in Life.
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I think that's finally sorted.
It should be safe again here now.
I am truly sorry to those who I may have force fed anything difficult.


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Start the hike in Hammersbach (750m) and head for the Höllentaleingangs lodge, then through the Höllental gorge (truly breathtaking) to the Höllentalanger lodge (1.379m, great place to stay over night). From here continue towards the Zugspitze. The cache, RubberMaid type box, is covered with rocks at an altitude of 1.910m. You should plan around 3,5 hours to reach the stash (excluding any beer breaks).
From here you can continue to the Zugspitz summit or return. Keep in mind climbing down is considered to be somewhat more difficult. Carrying on to the summit you'll need at least another 3,5 to 4,5 hours of steep glacier and rock climbing. If you can't stand heights then this is not for you. The entire route is manageable and steel ropes can be found in most places.
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Many of us send postcards to our students to welcome them to our class. This is a great way to make a connection with your students before they ever enter your classroom. And who doesn't love getting mail?
I made these postcards to send out to them. Click on the image to get them.
These postcards coordinate perfectly with my other Celebrate Mexico items in my store. Check them out!
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I just visited my third Indiana State Fair. When I lived in northern Indiana, the fair was always a big deal, but I never went — it was too far for someone who wasn't involved in the state ag scene (I sold poultry supplies and equipment overseas, but not to anyone in the state). It wasn't until I moved down here that I ever went to the state fair. I could never figure what all the fuss was about, until I went.
Indiana is still an agricultural state, and it's something we take pride in. Our fair is huge compared to other states, which are still considered heavy ag states. We take our food seriously (which you can see in both the booths and some of the fair goers). Everything we do is focused on food. Whether it's the giant cheese sculpture, the animal judging, or the new and novel things we can bread and deep fry (this year, it's deep fried butter), the fair celebrates our agricultural and food heritage.
It was in the Ball State Ag/Hort building that my son and I visited our favorite exhibit in the fair, the giant displays made with cans of food, all in support for Gleaner's Food Bank. I never really thought about how important a display like this is actually helping Gleaner's, until this past Saturday. The cans are not only being used to remind people about the importance of a food bank, and how we can help our fellow Hoosiers — something we're very good at in this state — but the cans of food will be used afterward to directly help the people who need it the most.
I was struck by the synchronicity of it all as we studied the different displays, scenes, and creations made with the caring of strangers with basic cans of food — a lot of which was probably grown in our own state. Circle of life, baby. Circle of life.
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HP takes $8.8 billion hit over Autonomy irregularities
Investigation uncovered accounting problems at Autonomy that "wilfully" misrepresented value
HP has announced that its software unit will take a charge of $8.8 billion for the fourth quarter, after uncovering serious accounting irregularities in its Autonomy business.
The company said in a statement that "the majority of this impairment charge, more than $5 billion, is linked to serious accounting improprieties, misrepresentation and disclosure failures" at enterprise software specialist Autonomy, before its acquisition by HP.
The irregularities came to light after an Autonomy employee tipped off HP following the departure of Autonomy founder Mike Lynch in May this year. HP said it had no awareness of the problems prior to the acquisition, and that the irregularities "appear to have been a willful effort to mislead investors and potential buyers, and severely impacted HP management's ability to fairly value Autonomy at the time of the deal". HP paid $10.2 billion for Autonomy in August 2011.
An internal investigation found misrepresentation of misrepresented revenue, core growth rate and gross margins, and the misrepresentation of business mix at Autonomy, specifically related to mischaracterization of revenue from negative-margin, low-end hardware sales with little or no associated software content as 'IDOL' product, which represented 10-15% of Autonomy's revenue, and pushing product into channel partners to claim revenue, even when end customers did not exist.
HP said the matter has now been referred to the US Securities and Exchange Commission's Enforcement Division and the UK's Serious Fraud Office.


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University professor, writer, tattoo artist, pornographer Samuel M.
Steward spent the final years of his life in the East Bay and donated an
extraordinary collection of Stein/Toklas memorabilia to The Bancroft
Library. Born in Ohio in 1909 and educated at Ohio State University,
Steward taught at Washington State University, Loyola University of
Chicago and DePaul University before abandoning his academic career to
pursue his passions of writing and tattooing. In the course of his life
he became acquainted with Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Lord
Alfred Douglas, André Gide, Thomas Mann, Thornton Wilder and Alfred
Kinsey. While he published extensively under his given name, he is best
remembered for the extraordinarily literate short stories and novels
published under his nom de porn, Phil Andros. Some of his
pornographic works are set on or around the Berkeley campus.
The fresh Pacific winds blow almost unceasingly across the wide basin
of San Francisco Bay; they sweep over the water and cleanse the air of
smoke and smog. By nine in the morning the fog has usually burned away
in Berkeley, and the light is everywhere — the hard, severe, eternal
sunlight of northern California, scorching the eyeballs, closing pupils
to pinpoints, and encouraging most people to don sunglasses.
One fine morning I was near the entrance to the University's Sproul
Plaza, lounging against a concrete post and letting the sun warm my back
through my leather jacket. I gazed idly at the passing throngs of
students and compared them in my memory with their counterparts I knew
as an undergraduate at Ohio State. A mere ten year ago they were
short-haired, clean-cut, and sleekly dressed, the boys in tight slacks
and the girls in tight sweaters and knee-length skirts. And now there
had been a startling change. The boys' hair was long, and jeans were
patched decoratively in many places, American flags on their butts,
peace symbols on chains or sewed on their shirts and blouses. Beards
were the sign of maleness, braless breasts of femaleness. These were
the eternal adolescents searching in the flea market of fads for
therapies of all kinds — polysexual, mystical, vegetarian, holistic,
homeopathic, transcendental. They were the true inhabitants of the land
that time seemed almost to have forgotten....
The raggletaggle bobtail crew of students seemed hardly to know what to
make of me. As they came across the street to the campus, I noticed
that the stream divided like the Red Sea, part to the right, part to the
left, leaving me on a small island alone. My "costume" puzzled them.
My black curly hair was shorter than theirs, my beige chinos cleaner and
tighter — and why should I be wearing motorcycle boots on a hot day
instead of being barefoot as so many of them were? Moreover, I wore a
short-billed cap pushed to the back of my head, and most of them were
uncovered. In their eyes I hardly looked like a member of the
Establishment, nor was I scarcely one of the over-thirty group with whom
they could not communicate. But I could not help seeing that as many of
them passed, one would whisper something to his companion and then both
would look in my direction. I kept my expression as stony as I could,
frowning a little, pretending to be unapproachable.
Berkeley by the 1970s had cooled off considerably after the riotous
tumults of the 1960s. I adjusted rather rapidly to the loss of my
"authority" which I had enjoyed in the tattoo shop — where I was
absolute boss; if I didn't want to work on a person who was drunk or
obnoxious or offensive I would tell him to get the hell out, using the
"tone of authority" which the classroom years had developed.
Nonetheless, I could understand why so many executives of corporations,
or those in authority, crumpled and declined and even died when their
power was diminished.
The drug culture in Berkeley had begun to settle down to the relatively
harmless use of pot — which only insidiously and slowly weakened the
will and the urge-to-work of its heaviest users. Heroin had been
discouraged among the university students. And the fashion of LSD had
passed — the great drug of hope, the mind-expanding magic that would
turn everyone into Einstein, Mozart or Leonardo, that would make
Everyman a genius. Nothing had turned out the way it had been
predicted. The hallucinogens helped its takers to produce rock noise,
psychedelic posters in fluorescent inks, artsy-craftsy belt buckles,
puka-shell necklaces, copper bracelets, zodiac pendants, elaborate
roach-holders and joint clips — all the eternal and enduring kitsch of
the half-talented and ignorant who (knowing nothing of the past) had to
reinvent for themselves even such symbols as yin and yang. In Berkeley
there were spawned and flourished the rock groups with weird names and
mayfly lives, playing at tiny clubs to ears no longer functional; here
too were the little presses, publishing the arcane incomprehensible
nonsense of young "poets" talking to themselves in public. The
sidewalks of Telegraph Avenue were lined with street merchants
displaying their crudely fashioned wares on blankets. And the long
straggly hair, the full beards and mustaches, persisted in many pockets
and communes long after it had become old-fashioned everywhere else.
Unwashed clones still quoted Chairman Mao long after he had fallen into
disfavor and been abandoned even in China. If you wanted to see the
scruffy barrel-bottom scrapings of the 1960s, you should come to the
Land That Time Forgot — Berkeley.


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The praying mom is back. For context, here's the earlier story.
Of course, some local Christians
Want the praying mom to stay
So they found a Christian lawyer
And they argued she could pray
Since the school administration
Didn't want a Christian riot,
They decided she could pray each day
As long as she stayed quiet.
A mother who was told she can no longer pray on the steps of her children's high school in New Hampshire has returned, but is praying in silence.
Chris Rath, district superintendent, said staff will monitor Urena's actions on a daily basis to see if they are in line with campus visitor and religious policies.
''We continue to work with her on a regular basis about how she can come and go from the high school in ways that respect both her ideas and our ideas,'' Rath said.


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3. Hershey Gardens
4. AACA Museum
5. The Hershey Story, Hershey, Pennsylvania
6. ZooAmerica North American Wildlife Park
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9.Founders Hall at the Milton Hershey School
10. Cullari Vineyards and Winery, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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12.Troegs Brewing Company
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14.Adventure Sports in Hershey
15.Hershey Symphony Orchestra
16. Hershey Derry Township Historical Society
17.Hershey Theatre, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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19.The Pennsylvania State Police Museum
20.Things to Do in Hershey, PA: Hershey Area Playhouse
21.Emerald Springs Spa, Hershey, Pennsylvania
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T8800 running 18.104.22.16876 cannot make calls to Land or Mobile lines. It can call other SFB (Skype for Business)
Using same SFB account (SFB E5) on computer and it can call land and mobile lines.
Tried everything reload firmware, reset to default and reconfigure still no go.
Please please help, this is my 5th attempt to get Polycom to assist, they keep sending me to Scan Source who are not willing to assist.
Hello ABS,
welcome back to the Polycom Community.
Do you have any correspondence with ScanSource on this as if they are your reseller or have sold this Trio they must support you can can open a Ticket with Polycom support for you.
Could you kindly please forward any emails or communication via the Community Mail?
The community's Skype for Business FAQ contains this post here:
Jan 17, 2017 Question:How can I troubleshoot simple Skype for Bussines, LYNC or Office365 issues?
Resolution: Have a look => here <=
The above should give you an idea on what logging levels you can set to troubleshoot this.
Mainly try:
Settings > Logging > Global Log Level Limit > Debug
Settings > Logging > Log File Size (Kbytes) > 512
Settings > Logging > Module Log Level Limits > SIP > Debug
Please ensure to provide some feedback if this reply has helped you so other users can profit from your experience.
Best Regards
Steffen Baier
Polycom Global Services
Polycom is directing me to ScanSource. I called, the suport person at Scansource tells me that the problem is with SFB (Skype for Business), SFB tells me it's Polycom, see below for case comments from Polycom. If I can do all the SFB features from my computer and not the Polycom device then the issue gotta be with the Polycom device.
"We show this unit under contract with one of Polycom's Certified Service Providers, with the support being provided through ScanSource Communications.
Most customers receive additional benefits working through our certified partners.
Please contact ScanSource Communications at 1877-847-7000 for further support
Thank you,
Polycom Global Services."


text: Assembly Programming Assembly > Code Examples Control-Break handler for Lattice C programs Control-Break handler for Lattice C programs title Control-Break handler for Lattice C programs name break include dos.mac ; Control-Break Interrupt Handler for Lattice C programs ; running on IBM PCs (and ROM BIOS compatibles) ; ; This module allows C programs running on the IBM PC ; to retain control when the user enters a Control-Break ; or Control-C. This is accomplished by taking over the ; Int 23H (MS-DOS Control-Break) and Int 1BH (IBM PC ; ROM BIOS Keyboard Driver Control-Break) interrupt ; vectors. The interrupt handler sets an internal ; flag (which must be declared STATIC INT) to TRUE within ; the C program; the C program can poll or ignore this ; flag as it wishes. ; ; The module follows the Lattice C parameter passing ; conventions, and also relies on the Lattice file DOS.MAC ; for the definition of certain constants and macros. ; ; The Int 23H Control-Break handler is a function of MS-DOS ; and is present on all MS-DOS machines, however, the Int 1BH ; handler is a function of the IBM PC ROM BIOS and will not ; necessarily be present on other machines. ; if lprog args equ 6 ;offset of arguments, Large models else args equ 4 ;offset of arguments, Small models endif cr equ 0dh ;ASCII carriage return lf equ 0ah ;ASCII line feed pseg public capture,release ;function names for C ; ; The function CAPTURE is called by the C program to ; take over the MS-DOS and keyboard driver Control- ; Break interrupts (1BH and 23H). It is passed the ; address of a flag within the C program which is set ; to TRUE whenever a Control-Break or Control-C ; is detected. The function is used in the form: ; ; static int flag; ; capture(&flag) ; capture proc near ;take over Control-Break push bp ;interrupt vectors mov bp,sp push ds mov ax,word ptr [bp+args] mov cs:flag,ax ;save address of integer mov cs:flag+2,ds ;flag variable in C program ;pick up original vector contents mov ax,3523h ;for interrupt 23H (MS-DOS int 21h ;Control-Break handler) mov cs:int23,bx mov cs:int23+2,es mov ax,351bh ;and interrupt 1BH int 21h ;(IBM PC ROM BIOS keyboard driver mov cs:int1b,bx ;Control-Break interrupt handler) mov cs:int1b+2,es push cs ;set address of new handler pop ds mov dx,offset ctrlbrk mov ax,02523H ;for interrupt 23H int 21h mov ax,0251bH ;and interrupt 1BH int 21h pop ds ;restore registers and pop bp ;return to C program ret capture endp ; ; The function RELEASE is called by the C program to ; return the MS-DOS and keyboard driver Control-Break ; interrupt vectors to their original state. Int 23h is ; also automatically restored by MS-DOS upon the termination ; of a process, however, calling RELEASE allows the C ; program to restore the default action of a Control-C ; without terminating. The function is used in the form: ; ; release() ; release proc near ;restore Control-Break interrupt ;vectors to their original state push bp mov bp,sp push ds mov dx,cs:int1b ;set interrupt 1BH mov ds,cs:int1b+2 ;(MS-DOS Control-Break mov ax,251bh ;interrupt handler) int 21h mov dx,cs:int23 ;set interrupt 23H mov ds,cs:int23+2 ;(IBM PC ROM BIOS keyboard driver mov ax,2523h ;Control-Break interrupt handler) int 21h pop ds ;restore registers and pop bp ;return to C program ret release endp ; ; This is the actual interrupt handler which is called by ; the ROM BIOS keyboard driver or by MS-DOS when a Control-C ; or Control-Break is detected. Since the interrupt handler ; may be called asynchronously by the keyboard driver, it ; is severely restricted in what it may do without crashing ; the system (e.g. no calls on DOS allowed). In this ; version, it simply sets a flag within the C program to ; TRUE to indicate that a Control-C or Control-Break has ; been detected; the address of this flag was passed ; by the C program during the call to the CAPTURE function. ; ctrlbrk proc far ;Control-Break interrupt handler push bx ;save affected registers push ds mov bx,cs:flag ;set flag within C program mov ds,cs:flag+2 ;to "True" mov word ptr ds:[bx],-1 pop ds ;restore registers and exit pop bx iret ctrlbrk endp flag dw 0,0 ;long address of C program's ;Control-Break detected flag int23 dw 0,0 ;original contents of MS-DOS ;Control-Break Interrupt 23H ;vector int1b dw 0,0 ;original contents of ROM BIOS ;keyboard driver Control-Break ;Interrupt 1BH vector endps end


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These movies will alter your senses and throw you off reality's track...
Forget about happy endings, ambiguous ones are taking over the film industry. Ever watched a movie with a solid plot, original characters' personalities, an unexpected climax, and then all of the sudden ... boom! They hit you with a weird chain of events that leaves you thinking "WTF?" This confusing sensation your brain perceives whenever something "out of the ordinary" happens, is the psychological game directors want you to experience. Here I've compiled a list of movies that will take your brain to unexpected places.
Frailty (2001)
In this movie, you forget who the bad guys are. The story follows a two brothers and their extremely religious dad. The dad believes he is the messenger of God and that he has been commanded to fight demons. While this is happening, an FBI agent is also looking for a serial killer known as "God's hand." You can start to see how this will end right? But you'll be shocked to find out who the real killer is.
Get Out (2017)
This is a horror film in which Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), am African American photographer, is convinced by his white girlfriend to visit her parents house in the woods. Chris quickly noticed something is not right with the few black folks living in that town, they seem to be possessed.
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
If you don't mind reading a few subtitles, you will love this Korean film that honestly has more twists than any other movie seen before. Every time you think things will go by normal, something crazy and unexpectedly twisted happens. The story revolves around the life of two sisters with a family full of secrets and mysteries.
Split (2017)
Three teenagers are captured by a man with multiple personalities. He can be gentle, friendly, and even polite during short periods of time. But then he can turn violent, aggressive, and psychotic without reason. Kevin, the kidnapper, has 23 personalities and his victims must find a way out before the predominant killer side of him takes over and murders them all. Unfortunately for them, they are being kept hostage inside an underground facility.
Asylum Seekers (2009)
Whenever you feel like you don't stand out, commit yourself into an asylum. At least that is the logic surrounding this film that starts creatively insane and ends unexpectedly. The movie tells the story about six social outcasts that have gotten bored or rejected by modern society an wish to be admitted into the asylum in order to spice up their lives. Inside the asylum, they find a world full of odd individuals, who they seem to adore. They are determine to move into the institution but there is only one problem, they only have room for one of them.
Shutter Island (2010)
In this film the viewer must make a decision: who is the crazy one? The main character is sent to investigate the activities of an mental illness facility located inside an island. Turns out that evidence points out at DiCaprio being the insane one and he has had imagined this "detective" scenario in his head the whole time … or has he?
The Skin I Live In (2011)
A Spanish psychological thriller about weirdness, science, odd outfits, and guns popping out of nowhere – literally even under the bed. A plastic surgeon is working on a new form of synthetic skin to help victims with severe burns. But his methods are kind of illegal. He captures servants, whom he uses as his rat labs, until one of them (a girl named Vera) has had enough.
Ex Machina (2015)
Programmer Caleb Smith's dream comes true when he wins a trip to meet his idol Nathan Bateman. Bateman shows Smith the newest revolution in technology: artificial intelligence and robots that look very, very, human. But Smith falls in love with one of the robots, Ava. After finding out Bateman's abusive techniques, he attempts to save the machines.
Other films worth mentioning in this category are: The Illusionist (2006), Vanilla Sky (2001), Mother (2017), Matrix (1999), and of course there are many others from which we can enjoy a chilling twist in reality.
Also, check these articles for more movie tips:
4 Famous Moments In Movies That Made You Say WTF Explained
5 Movies That Will Inspire You To Renew Yourself This Year


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Saturday 19th March 2016 – 622.83 miles
Set the alarm for 7am this morning but unfortunately I forgot to cancel the one for our usual time of 5.30! Ah well!
Sadly Ivan and Sarah had to dash off at 7.30 so after teas and coffees we reluctantly said our goodbyes. Happily Ivan and Sarah hope to walk with us for the day sometime soon. Thanks for the meal last night Ivan and Sarah – so good to meet up after all this time and look forward to seeing you both very soon.
Debbie kindly put our clothes through the washing machine and tumble dried them for us. Meanwhile Duncan made us each a bacon sandwich and after more cups of coffee it was time to get packed and on the road again. Debbie came with us for a while as she needed to take the dogs for a walk. Thank you Duncan and Debbie for welcoming us into your home.
We walked out of Longton through the village and bought some supplies from the local Spar shop. Dave got chatting to and gave a flyer to Jon outside the shop. He wished us good luck – thanks Jon. As we were leaving Longton John Mac stopped his van and asked us about our walk. He walks and cycles for charity and wished us success – thanks John.
We turned left onto a quiet lane which became a track further on.
A walk along the edge of a field then onto a lovely path which wound it's way among trees along the top of a bank.
It wasn't long before we reached the River Ribble and joined The Ribble Way towards Preston.
Across the river we could see and hear a motorcycle scrambling event. To us it sounded like a swarm of demented wasps but to them, no doubt, it was great fun. On our side we had pylons and sheep!
We stopped to take a photograph from underneath a pylon and all the sheep came to investigate.
After they realised that there was no food to be had, they turned and slowly wandered off.
David, out walking with Bonnie the dog, stopped to talk about our walk. We gave him a flyer – good to meet you David.
The path changed from open grassland to a rough gravel track and then to tarmac.
It was a park created after an old coal-fired power station had been demolished. We got talking to Andy out walking his dogs Max and Missy. He was a mine of information about Preston – thanks for the info Andy.
We didn't linger in Preston but made our way out of town towards the Lancaster Canal. Terry came by and got off his cycle to talk to us. He has travelled extensively in the US and is planning a trip to Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly later this year. He lives near the canal so came with us to show us the way – thanks Terry.
Back onto the canal towpath once more we made good progress. The canal goes west as it leaves Preston and curves round in a big loop following the contours of the land. We decided to cut across country to save a few miles and rejoin the canal further on. Time was getting on and we stopped at the Saddle Inn, Lea Preston for a short rest.
Dave got chatting to the manager Dawn who was sitting outside taking a break.
To cut a long story short we are now camped in the garden behind the pub and enjoying a beer in the bar before an early night. Thanks Dawn.


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Wilson Shannon, the second governor of Kansas, presented himself as a neutral man. New to the territory, he had no particular commitment to the proslavery or free state party. But he had yet to set foot on Kansan soil before declaring himself in favor of the legislature's slave codes. Whatever defects they might possess, the legal legislature had passed them and acting governor Daniel Woodson, who replaced Andrew Reeder in the interim, had signed them into law. Irrespective of their content, the forms of law gave them a kind of legitimacy. Shannon's scrupulously proslavery neutrality further drew him into the Leavenworth Law and Order Convention, where he would preside.
Leverett Spring generously calls this "unwise" and characterizes Shannon's affiliation with the proslavery party as an error which he would later try to correct. I hoped to have proceedings from the convention today, but the Library of Congress historical newspapers database appears only intermittently accessible. In lieu of them, I have Spring's account from Kansas: Prelude to the War for the Union and William Phillips' from The Conquest of Kansas. Phillips informs us that though the Law and Order men issued their call all around Kansas and had the governor, Surveyor-General John Calhoun other territorial officials attend.
The John C. Calhoun of South Carolina died back in 1850. According to Nichole Etcheson's Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era, John Calhoun of Kansas had lived in Illinois where he taught Abraham Lincoln to survey and befriended Stephen Douglas. I remember reading that this Calhoun had some relation to the famous one, but haven't had luck turning up the reference.
Multiple Calhouns aside, Phillips reports that
Outside of the citizens of Leavenworth there were not more than eighty persons present, and by far the larger portion of these were from Missouri. The leading men on the Missouri border were there. The Stringfellows were officers of the convention, and several of the vice-presidents and secretaries were residents of Missouri.
The charge that Missourians dominated the proslavery movement in Kansas has some truth to it, even aside the obvious cases where Missourians intervened in numbers to decide Kansas issues. To my knowledge, Benjamin Stringfellow did not care to remove to Kansas. His brother John, however, had a medical practice in Atchison. Whether his personal habits left him more usually in Missouri or not, I can't say. As a free state man writing while the struggle took place, Phillips had a strong interest in emphasizing the Missourian connections. However, Charles Clark's listing of participants who held seats in the legislature at the time, thanks to Missouri votes, suggests Phillips at least correctly spotted a Missouri-minded majority in the convention's leadership.
Phillips considered it "singular"
that Gov. Shannon should take an active part in an assemblage where the violent Missouri borderers had the sway, and where its character as a simple pro-slavery convention was so apparent. The governor, in doing this, conclusively showed that he was the tool of the Missouri borderers, and blindly obedient in their scheme of subduing Kansas to slavery.
However, Shannon wanted people to consider himself the tool of Douglas County, home of Lawrence. He claimed to sit as a delegate from the county. This seems improbable. Spring does not repeat the accusation and I lack the documents to check it at the moment. However, claiming that he sat as a delegate from somewhere unlikely to have sent one would let Shannon appear somewhat more disinterested and fit with the pose of neutrality that the Law and Order movement preferred. If he really made the claim, then he probably got a few appreciative laughs.


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Tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets of Tehran again Wednesday to protest the results of last week's controversial election. Iranian authorities have banned such gatherings, but analysts in Britain, say they expect the crisis to continue.
Protests in Iran surrounding the controversial re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continue as defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi called on his supporters to stage peaceful demonstrations.
The protests are widely seen as a direct challenge to the government, which has banned the gatherings.
Amateur videos and earlier television reports from Tehran showing masses of protesters, who in some cases were beaten and killed, have sparked a debate over just how serious the challenge to the government is and how long it can last.
Professor Ali Ansari is director of the Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Speaking Wednesday in London, Ansari said the scale of the protests is unprecedented and, he said they will likely continue.
"I think we are in for a long hot summer. I don't think it's going to end quickly. I think the hardliners will fight trench by trench and it will depend on the other side really maintaining the momentum," he said.
Iranian authorities have already cracked down on media coverage of the protests. On Wednesday the Revolutionary Guard warned Iranian Web sites against publishing materials that create tension. Journalists from foreign news organizations are also banned from venturing out to cover the unrest.
But Professor Ansari said he believes the crackdown is counter productive.
"One of the questions about the demonstration on Monday, for example, is how large was this crowd? I have never known how you count a crowd. But the point is, it is what people believe. And what people believe is this was extraordinary large and the largest crowd on the streets since 1978. This is what I mean by the crisis of authority, the government can say any number of truths now and nobody will believe them," he said.
Challengers have accused Mr. Ahmadinejad of election fraud, and Iran's Guardian Council has said it will recount some of the ballots from Friday's vote.
But Professor Ansari said a recount will not be seen as credible.
"The argument is doing a recount, a selective one, or even a complete one, would be something people would have issues with particularly because they are claiming many of their potential voters weren't even allowed to cast their vote," he added.
Ansari describes any recount as a delaying tactic by the authorities who are hoping things will calm down.
The ongoing unrest in Iran is being closely watched around the world and thus far western leaders have reacted with guarded criticism.
In Washington, President Barack Obama has expressed "deep concern about the election" but was careful to point out that the U.S. must not be seen as "meddling."
Former British Ambassador to Iran, Sir Richard Dalton agreed.
"The United States interest is to avoid putting itself in the middle of this Iranian domestic dispute," said Dalton.
President Obama said he will continue to pursue a direct dialogue with Iran, and Dalton said after the dust settles, it is in Iran's best interest to explore negotiations with the United States.
Analysts Expect Crisis in Iran to Continue
Tens of thousands of Iranians took to the streets of Tehran again Wednesday to protest the results of last week's controversial election. Iranian authorities have banned such gatherings, but analysts in Britain, say they expect the crisis to continue.


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I have a powersteamer and it does not spray water when I squeeze the trigger. The clean water tank is full, the cleaning solution is full and this is the same problem I had with my last Bissell steam cleaner, which I assumed was just that I had it for a few years, but this cleaner is only over a year old.
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I have a powersteamer and it does not spray water when I squeeze the trigger. The clean water tank is full, the cleaning solution is full and this is the same problem I had with my last Bissell steam cleaner, which I assumed was just that I had it for a few years, but this cleaner is only over a year old.
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The Republican presidential primary contest appears to be in great flux. The field is large, with ten candidates competing for the nomination.
Almost since the beginning, the rank order of the announced candidates has remained the same, defined by three distinct tiers. The top tier includes former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Arizona Senator John McCain and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. The next tier includes former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, and former Wisconsin governor and Bush cabinet member Tommy Thompson. Also running are three Republican members of Congress: California's Duncan Hunter, Colorado's Tom Tancredo, and Ron Paul of Texas, and former Virginian Governor Jim Gilmore.
Early on, personality appeared to driving the poll numbers of the top three candidates: Giuliani was seen as the tough mayor who secured his role as a national figure for the confidence he inspired in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks; McCain retained his highly regarded reputation as the maverick Republican who, while strong on national security and traditional conservative issues, was willing to break ranks with his party on issues like campaigns finance reform, torture and immigration reform; and Romney, a moderate Republican governor, twice elected in liberal Massachusetts, was seen as filling the role of the "electable one."
More recently, however, issues have come into play; and their impact may alter the landscape.
The Republican coalition, as defined recently by the leader of a prominent conservative group has, since Reagan's time, stood on three legs: fiscal conservatism, national security, and defense of family values. Holding the three together has long been central to ensuring Republican victories. The defeats of George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole in 1992 and 1996, respectively, were attributed to their failures to sustain this coalition. And while John McCain appeared set to win the Republican party's nod in 2000, it was his alienation of religious conservatives which both helped define him as a maverick independent and ultimately cost him the votes he needed to win the Republican nomination.
It is not surprising, therefore, that this year McCain would make overtures to religious conservatives in an effort shore up his candidacy, even though in doing so it took the luster off of his claim to be an independent. In the same vein, it was not surprising to see Romney, whose support for abortion rights and gay rights helped to define his moderate governorship, would similarly move towards religious conservatives by professing conversion on both issues.
Alone among the top tier candidates, Giuliani has consistently stood his ground in defense of abortion rights. While winning the praise of some, this may ultimately cost him the support of the religious right. This week, for example, the heads of two major organizations announced that they could not support Giuliani's candidacy because of his position on abortion. They speculate that, while Giuliani remains in the lead in national polling, it is because most Republicans don't know of his unorthodox positions – and when they do, his numbers will drop.
And so it is, with McCain looking less independent and Romney's late term conversion being questioned, and Giuliani under attack from the religious right, the possibility now exists for second tier candidates with more solidly conservative records on social issues to emerge as competitors.
As the field currently stands, with Giuliani in the lead followed by McCain and Romney and the others trailing far behind, the questions to be asked are: will Republicans, hungry for victory, support Giuliani despite his personal "indiscretions" (among them his three marriages) and his position on abortion? Does McCain continue to inspire more independent-minded Republicans, or has he lost them with his courting of the religious right? And will religious conservatives support Romney despite their questions about his commitment to their issues, and his Mormon faith (which many fundamentalists view with suspicion).
Even if second-tier candidates do not emerge as competitors, looming on the horizon are four strong Republican figures who may, by entering the race, significantly alter its dynamic. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, for example, continues to signal that he may enter the contest in the fall. Gingrich is a nationally recognized figure and, despite his troubled personal life, is clearly one of the most articulate conveyors of the Reagan vision. Former Senator Fred Thompson, who broke onto the national stage as lead Republican attorney during the Watergate crisis, and is now nationally known as a television and movie actor, is also considering entering the contest. A draft Thompson effort underway among southern Republicans, is gaining ground. Thompson may enter as early as next month
If this were not enough, two other Republicans, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, appear to be flirting with a joint independent run for the White House. A Bloomberg-Hagel/Hagel Bloomberg ticket has been the subject of press speculation following a recent luncheon between the two men. Hagel is a long-time critic of Bush's foreign policy, and Bloomberg, a multi-billionaire, is known to be a man of great ambition with the finances to back them up. An independent candidacy of the two men would create enormous havoc not only for Republicans, but in the national contest as well.
Despite the hyperactivity that characterizes the contest thus far, all signs point to the fact that it is far too early for a clear picture to emerge of how the contest will play out.


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