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Today Esteban and I went to a lecture by German painter Charlene Von Heyl who was speaking at the USC Grad Art Department. Charlene was witty, humorous, and an artist who inspired me to get in the studio and just MAKE.
Having just returned from three months of making work on a prairie Charlene joked, yet sincerely told her audience that SHE WAS NOT HERE TO TALK ABOUT PAINTING.
Her large-scale works are spontaneous but not. abstract but not. subjects but not. Basically, a great big contradiction of sorts that woo the viewer with it's compelling mysteries.
I fancied her drawings and collages the most.
After the 2-hr lecture, 4 of us met up with my best friend, dancer, Kupono Aweau, who has been on tour with the hit t.v. show So You Think You Can Dance. After a few months on the road, the dance force has returned to where they started, here in L.A. I squeezed a quick gelato moment in before Kupono leaves for San Diego tomorrow to continue the dance tour.
We enjoyed the funkiest of flavors at Scoops, a one-of-a-kind gelateria on heliotrope and a place girls make their boyfriends treat them to after a bad fight
Est and I had the olive oil+salty white chocolate, Kupono had his mango+zinfandel+lychee combo, former Miss Hawaii sisters, Jonelle and Ashley Layfield also had their choice of flavors. Jonelle mixed cofee, coconut, rum, and brown bread, while Ashley went with the chocolate mollasses which when eaten tasted exactly like a ranch or as she put it "saddle". The tastes were right-on, and we enjoyed our individual amalgamations very much so.
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Moycullen HC, Galway, IRE, WPH Press, 12/16/18- GAA handball hosted its second ranking event of the season at the Moycullen Club, with 24 of Ireland's top stars in action. Moycullen host and reigning GAA All Ireland 40×20 champion Martin Mulkerrins headlined the field, alongside his fierce Irish rivals Diamaid Nash, Robbie McCarthy, Colin Crehan, Gavin Buggy, Michael Gregan and many more.
The pride of Moycullen and Irish #1 Martin Mulkerrins proudly declared before the start of the event, "This is the first ever ranking event to take place in the county and the club is really looking forward to hosting the country's best players in their new facility, which has taken 10 years of tireless work and fundraising to complete the €350000 project. We've got a great entry and we're looking forward to a class event."
Round of 32
Daniel Relihan dft Colin Corbett 13-15, 15-1, 11-5
Ger Coonan dft Joe McCann 9-15, 15-6, 11-9
Darragh Daly dft Seamus Conneely 15-6, 11-15, 11-10
Michael Hedigan dft Diurmuid Mulkerrins 15-10, 15-3
Sean Kerr dft Peter Donohue 15-9, 14-15, 11-1
Shane O'Neill dft Pat Conway 15-8, 15-13
Conor McElduff dft Cian O'Conghaile 15-5, 15-3
"Great first evening of hanndball," exclaimed tournament host Martin Mulkerrins. "Over 200 people attended the official opening and there were a number of very tight games with 4 of the 7 games going to tie breakers. Two of those tie breakers went down to the wire with Darragh Daly defeating Seamus Conneely 11-10 and Ger Coonan defeating Joe McCann 11-9."
Mulkerrins demonstrated why he's the Irish #1 en route to the final, blitzing Ger Coonan and Sean Kerr en route to the semifinals. "The Buzzsaw" awaited Mulkerrins in the semifinals, as McCarthy was eager to reenter the top of the sport. Mulkerrins overwhelmed the Buzzsaw with steady power and consistency, racing to the final with an emphatic win.
Diarmaid Nash continued the outstanding play that saw him clinch the GAA's first ranking event at the Golden Gloves earlier this fall, cruising past Brian Carroll, Darragh Daly, and Michael Gregan to meet Mulkerrins in the final.
Mulkerrins entered the Moycullen Open final aiming to defend his home court and take the first Moycullen title, while aiming to erase the memory of a two-game thumping at the hands of his Moycullen finals opponent Diarmaid Nash at the 2018 Golden Gloves. Mulkerrins started quickly in the final, taking game one with controlled aggression. Very little separated the top two ranked stars in Irish handball in the next two games, as both scored 24 combined points. Nash forced a tiebreaker with a two-point second game win and stood two points from the title after rallying from 5-10 to serve at 9-10 in the third game. Nash earned a left-hand fly kill opportunity to tie the decider at 10 but floored the opportunity off the bottom of his hand. Mulkerrins capitalized on the Nash error, ending the match with a right-handed back wall kill on the next rally."I was happy with how I played all weekend," stated a thrilled Mulkerrins. "I trained well in the lead up to it since the Golden Gloves and wanted to play well, especially considering it was in my home court where I started playing handball."
Round of 16
Diarmaid Nash dft Brian Carroll 15-6, 15-6
Michael Gregan dft Shane O'Neill 13-15, 15-4, 11-1
Darragh Daly dft Rikki O'Gara 15-11, 15-12
Daniel Relihan dft Paul Moran 15-9, 15-10
Robbie McCarthy dft Michael Hedigan 15-4, 15-6
Sean Kerr dft Gavin Buggy 15-6, 15-10
Conor McElduff def Colin Crehan 15-12, 15-9
Martin Mulkerrins dft Ger Coonan 15-0, 15-2
Martin Mulkerrins dft Sean Kerr 15-5, 15-6
Robbie McCarthy dft Daniel Relihan 15-4, 15-3
Michael Gregan dft Conor McElduff 15-10, 15-13
Diarmaid Nash dft Darragh Daly 15-0, 15-10
Mulkerrins def McCarthy 15-11, 15-5
Nash def Gregan 15-5, 15-6
Final: Mulkerrins def Nash 15-10, 13-15, 11-9
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GoldenEye 007 – Review
Nintendo 64
Review by TFTRC Narte
Reviewed: 04/29/04
One of the best FPS's ever made
The Nintendo 64 had a slow start with only two launch games and not much variety in its early months. Luckily, Rareware came along and brought a kick-butt action title based on a popular movie license, which is most definitely rare. Goldeneye was a pioneer for console first-person shooters and helped win over a few Playstation and PC fans to the N64 as well.
Few movie-to-game translations turn out to be games that are actually good, and so not much hype was built around this game. The game turned out to be a real surprise and stood out as one of the best first-person shooters ever. For those who have no knowledge of the movie, and do not plan to acquire any, the story revolves around her Majesty's top spy, James Bond, who has to stop an evil syndicate called Janus stop from firing a detonation of the Goldeneye satellite that looms in the earth's orbit.
While a bit blurry, the N64 has rarely seen graphics this realistic. The way the game looks as it moves along is exceptional. There are so many animations to the characters you face, from ducking, rolling, and the huge array of various death animations that the game features. There are also a variety of textures to the stages and the objects in them. Crates, barrels, computers, vehicles and more litter the stages and make the levels look really great, especially when looking at the blander levels of other first-person shooters like Doom or Hexen. There are a bunch of different enemy models and faces for each level, so each time you play your not seeing exactly the same guys you see all the time. The weapons look fantastic as the bullet casings fly out realistically and muzzle flashes look very realistic and are different for each gun. Simply put, the levels look great. Not one is similar to the other, and each one looks straight out of the movie. An interesting feature that this game also has is that the actors' faces from the movie are digitized to their game counterparts, so you not only feel like your Pierce Brosnan, but you look like him too. The frame rate is average, running smoothly overall, but chopping up a bit when things get hectic, especially in multiplayer when the pace really starts to pick up, but thankfully, it never slows down to the point of being unplayable.
The music in this game is arguable the best on the N64, with great remixes of the classic bond theme, and some very original pieces that fit the mood of the game and the levels that they are played in. The sound effects are great as well. The weapons all sound realistic and powerful. Little touches are peppered throughout the game, like the sound of the bullets hitting the enemy or even you can be heard, and this is but a small example of the great ways that this game utilizes its unique sounds effects.
Solid, innovative gameplay is the real kick in this game. Instead of the usual shoot-and-kill-anything-that-moves gameplay of many FPS, Goldeneye actually gives you varied mission objectives, and if you play the game again on a higher difficulty, there will be additional, or even completely different objectives that add a lot of replay value. The game throws you in situations that require stealth, and not just blasting in a room, guns blazing (which is completely alright as well, though certain ways are easier using one method than another.) You even have to watch for mission failures for killing civilians, so you'll always be on the edge of your seat until the end of the level, making sure you don't make a dumb mistake. These things make the game extremely enjoyable, and because the levels are short enough that you wont have to worry about save points or anything, you will experience much less frustration if you screw up. A small but cool bonus is that even when you fail a mission objective, the game still lets you go on playing anyway, so if you want to kill all the civilians and make it to the end of the level, you can by all means do that, but will not be able to progress to the next level. This game has some of the best gunplay ever seen in a game. The auto-aim is great and not too forgiving, requiring you to still aim despite the added accuracy it gives you, and a nice little touch is that you actually can see your gun move to auto aim in a certain direction, so then you can make quick decisions at what to shoot at and not waste bullets. The weapon variety is incredible, with pistols, rifles, and the like, and also some varied explosives, some remotely detonated, some proximity activated, and of course, rockets and grenades. And let's not forget the ol' Q gadgets that Bond gets to use, like the watch laser and door decoder, just to name a few.
The control is great as well, with accurate manual aiming by holding the R button, and smooth analog movement. Using the C-buttons for strafing movement is a must to dodge the gunfire of the harder enemies and your friends in multiplayer. Opening doors is a cinch, and can be done while running fast so you can make a quick entry and bust a few heads of some surprised guards. Reloading is a cinch, without any long animations that leave you open to hits. Also, being able to hold two guns makes the shooting even more fun, and the damage done even gives even Lara Croft with her dual pistol gameplay a run for her money. There is no jump feature, which may irritate more twitch gamers but it overall makes you feel stealthier. After all, Bond doesn't go hopping around in the movies when he's trying to infiltrate an enemy compound.
Perhaps the greatest aspect of the game is in its multiplayer modes. Up to four players can take arms and blast their buddies in the standard FPS modes like CTF and Deathmatch, but the modes are cleverly named after Bond movies. Special modes like 'The Man with the Golden Gun' features 4 players battling each other and the man with the golden gun can kill in one hit, so it's a scramble to see who can find and keep the golden gun longer. Or you could make the golden gun obsolete by playing 'License to Kill', where all the guns can kill in one shot. The actions chops up a bit when explosions and other effects get a bit heavy but the auto-aim really makes up for it so it is still playable. The multiplayer levels are varied and each provides a different atmosphere for, well, killing your friends. One great and often overlooked feature is the fact that the respawn points are throughout the level and the game makes sure your at a somewhat safe distance from an enemy when you respawn, and if it's not safe, it goes to the next spawn point and you start there, eliminating a lot of cheap kills where you don't even get to put up a fight.
Another great aspect to this game is its boatload of unlockable features and codes. Each level, in one of its difficulties, has a secret to be unlocked, and which can only be unlocked if you complete the levels in a time limit. These can be challenging but are definitely worth it, and add TONS of replay value to the game. There are also two unlockable stages, which are just as fun as the main levels of the game, and they provide a lot of fun for James Bond buffs.
Overall this is one of the top N64 games ever made and a total must-own title. Do not let your worry of licensed games sucking keep you away from Goldeneye, because this game will leave you truly shaken, not stirred.
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I am so stupidly excited to share today's blog post with you. I've been working on something for a long, long while now, and it seems impossible that I finally get to tell you what it is: a Preptober workbook to help you kick butt with your prewriting and show NaNoWriMo who's boss!
I've been doing this writing thing for a while now, and after years of trial and error, reading all the best books on the writing craft, and buying other creators' products, I know what works for me and what definitely does not.
One thing that I've found is when an outline template or prewriting method is too stringent and structured, I'll eventually throw my hands in the air and abandon the entire thing. (Shoutout to my minimalist outline for helping me embrace my inner Planner!)
With that in mind, I've developed a 31-day prep plan that focuses on three main aspects of storytelling — character, plot, and setting — but gives you the freedom to determine how you go about your planning. Since I'm all about helping others succeed and want to create a little Preptober community, I'm giving the entire workbook away for free! All you have to do is click the button below, tell me where to send the workbook (I promise not to make you regret it with any spammy emails), and you'll get a downloadable PDF straight to your email inbox.
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Privacy advocates and some lawmakers hailed Edward Snowden as a whistle-blower when he revealed details about classified surveillance programs but it is becoming increasingly unlikely that he'll avoid trial for espionage if returned to the United States.
Federal officials have expressed interest in a possible deal to bring Snowden back to the U.S. from Russia, where he has received temporary asylum.
But on Sunday, senior lawmakers from both parties suggested Snowden had waived his whistle-blower defense by fleeing instead of staying in the country to defend his actions, as Daniel Ellsberg did more than 40 years ago when he leaked the Pentagon Papers.
"I think we have existing whistle-blower capabilities here in the United States. On a regular basis, whistle-blowers come forward, give information to Congress, and we attempt to address those issues," said Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on ABC's "This Week."
"Going to China and going to Russia was not the solution to the problem. It compounds our difficulties in the United States with respect to al Qaeda," he added.
Snowden's leverage to negotiate a favorable deal with the Justice Department is undermined by the expectation that his asylum will likely last only one year. And security experts believe whatever national intelligence secrets he possesses are now likely in Russian hands.
Lon Snowden, Edward Snowden's father, on Sunday urged his son not to cut any deal with U.S. authorities that would spare him from a trial on espionage and theft charges.
"What I would like is for this to be vetted in open court for the American people to have all of the facts," Lon Snowden told ABC's "This Week" in an interview. "What I have seen is much political theater.
"The only deal will be true justice. You know, justice should be the goal of our government and is also the goal of a civil society," he said.
Lon Snowden plans to travel to Russia "very soon" in hopes of meeting with his son and has already obtained a visa, according to his attorney Bruce Fein.
Snowden has his defenders on Capitol Hill, such as Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (Calif.), a senior Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but they are in the minority.
In a C-SPAN interview Friday, Rohrabacher said Snowden's critics were wrong. He even tried to paint Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to grant him asylum as verging on benevolent.
"Snowden was just alerting us to our government getting out of hand. Russia accepting him for asylum. I think was not as hostile an act as was being portrayed," Rohrabacher told C-SPAN's "Newsmakers" program.
Most lawmakers in recent days, however, have been sharply critical of Snowden.
Royce pointedly disagreed with Rohrabacher on Sunday.
"We have to keep in mind here that the conundrum we're in is one in which al Qaeda is first trying to learn how we track them," he said.
Sen. Robert MenendezRobert (Bob) MenendezSenators ask for removal of tariffs on EU food, wine, spirits: report VOA visa decision could hobble Venezuela coverage Bottom line MORE (D-N.J.), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Snowden did not have to go public with classified information and hurt U.S. national security as a result of his actions.
"The reality is, I don't think he needed to undermine America's national security to pursue whatever he thought his conscience led him to do," he said. "And I do believe there's a process by which he could have ultimately pursued his interest in a way that doesn't undermine the national security of the United States."
Menendez said Snowden revealed intelligence sources and methods to the nation's enemies.
There is more concern in Congress over how Snowden, a relatively low-level federal contractor working for Booz Allen Hamilton, had access to sensitive secrets than over the scope of the spying programs he made public.
Rep. James Clyburn (S.C.), a member of the House Democratic leadership, expressed confidence in President Obama's management of domestic surveillance and raised greater concern over what he called "bad actors" such as Snowden.
"The president can do a lot of things, issuing orders to make sure that these contractors, for instance, are going through a process that would allow us to know what kind of people they're hiring and to weed out these bad actors because that's what happened in this particular case," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Sen. John McCainJohn Sidney McCainBill Maher delivers mock eulogy for Trump Hillary Clinton roasts NYT's Maureen Dowd over column CNN's Ana Navarro to host Biden roundtable on making 'Trump a one-term president' MORE (Ariz.), a senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said: "We need to ask questions, like, why did Mr. Snowden have access to the information he had? It couldn't have been part of his job."
McCain, who appeared on "Fox News Sunday," said he didn't disagree with any of the proposals Obama made Friday for greater transparency and oversight of the domestic spying programs.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, faulted Obama for not adequately explaining and defending the surveillance programs to the American public. And he dismissed Obama's proposed reforms as "window dressing."
But McCaul also rejected a proposal by privacy advocates that public defenders should be allowed access to proceedings of courts set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to object to surveillance requests.
He said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that it "would slow down the efficacy and efficiency of our counterterrorism investigation."
There is little that President Obama and House Speaker John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerWary GOP eyes Meadows shift from brick-thrower to dealmaker Bottom line Cheney battle raises questions about House GOP's future MORE (R-Ohio) agree on, but they share the conviction that Snowden undermined national security without justification.
"No, I don't think Mr. Snowden was a patriot," Obama told reporters Friday.
BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerWary GOP eyes Meadows shift from brick-thrower to dealmaker Bottom line Cheney battle raises questions about House GOP's future MORE called Snowden a "traitor" in June, shortly after the former government contractor leaked classified information to the British newspaper The Guardian.


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HEMPSTEAD, New York - President Barack Obama's camp promised that the American public would see a more energized candidate on Tuesday night as Obama tries to keep Republican challenger Mitt Romney at bay in a high-stakes debate three weeks before Election Day.
Romney's campaign got a much-needed shot in the arm two weeks ago when the Republican came out swinging in the first matchup between the two candidates, while Obama was passive.
The strong debate performance helped Romney reverse his slide in the polls, and recent surveys put the race for the White House at a virtual dead heat just three weeks ahead of the November 6 election.
Obama seems to have stemmed the bleeding, though. In a Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll on Tuesday, he gained a bit more ground on Romney for the third straight day, leading 46 percent to 43 percent.
But a Gallup/USA Today poll also published on Tuesday showed Romney ahead of Obama by 4 percentage points among likely voters in the 12 battleground states.
Obama aides predicted a stronger showing in the second debate for the president, who has been in intense debate preparation for days, even cramming in an hour of homework as late as Tuesday afternoon.
"I think you'll see somebody who will be strong, who will be passionate, who will be energetic, who will talk about ... not just the last four years but what the agenda is for the future and how we continue to move ... our economy forward," Obama's senior campaign adviser, Robert Gibbs, said on MSNBC.
The 90-minute debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York begins at 9 p.m. (0100 GMT Wednesday).
Obama and Romney will have to deal with the more intimate town-hall format of this debate, which often inhibits political attacks as the candidates focus on connecting with the voters asking the questions.
Obama supporters panned their candidate for being too timid in the last encounter, but Romney aide Kevin Madden said it wasn't the Democrat's manner that was the issue.
"I think the problem didn't have anything to do with politeness. The problem is he doesn't have a record to run on," Madden told CNN.
Tuesday night carries an element of uncertainty as the candidates cannot predict the questions the audience of undecided voters might pose, which could range from tax policy to job creation to foreign policy.
"Almost all of the pressure will be on Obama this time, given how poorly he performed in the first debate and how much that seemed to help Romney and change the race," said political scientist Andrew Taylor of North Carolina State University.
The town-hall format lets the candidates "talk directly to people and look them in the eye and try to connect, which has not been a strength for either of them," Taylor said. "But you can still make strong points with a velvet glove."
The Reuters/Ipsos poll that gave Obama an edge showed the number of undecided voters had increased, indicating a drop of support for Romney among the coveted voting bloc.
During the first debate, Obama was widely criticized for not challenging Romney on exactly how he plans to give Americans a big tax cut without adding to the deficit, and for not calling attention to the switch to more moderate views Romney appeared to present during the matchup.
For Obama, the challenge will be to confront Romney on the issues without seeming nasty or too personal.
Romney, a wealthy former private equity executive often accused of failing to connect with ordinary people, would be happy with a steady performance to keep up his momentum.
The economy is expected to be a dominant topic. Obama is able to tout the latest jobs report, which showed that the unemployment rate dropped unexpectedly to 7.8 percent in September and reached its lowest level since Obama took office in January 2009.
Romney has countered that the labor market is not healing fast enough.
Glenn Hubbard, one of Romney's top economic advisers, told Reuters the Republican candidate was prepared to question Obama's record on the economy.
"His objective is to continue the conversation with voters about what the right economic policies are for the country," Hubbard said at an economic conference in New York. "He did that really well last time and I'd be stunned if he doesn't do it well tonight."
Romney will likely stay on the offensive over the administration's handling of diplomatic security in Libya before September 11 attacks there that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. The debate comes a day after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton assumed responsibility for a lack of security that failed to protect against the deadly attack.
Romney may also focus on the Obama administration's subsidies for green energy, after another company - lithium-ion battery maker A123 Systems - filed for bankruptcy protection on Tuesday.
"A123's bankruptcy is yet another failure for the president's disastrous strategy of gambling away billions of taxpayer dollars on a strategy of government-led growth that simply does not work," Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said.
For their part, Democrats, hoping to shore up support with women voters, have hit Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, for their opposition to abortion rights.
The Gallup poll highlighted the importance of female voters, who traditionally prefer Obama. The poll showed Romney had pulled within 1 point among likely women voters.
The third and final debate will be next Monday in Boca Raton, Florida, and will focus on foreign policy issues. - Reuters
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If you stayed up to watch the conclusion of the College Football Playoff Championship between Alabama and Clemson, you were treated to some of the very best in athletic competition.
By now you probably know that Clemson is coached by Dabo Swinney, and Clemson defeated the favored Alabama Crimson Tide. I do not know much about the coach, but he appears to be a man of character, humility, passion and commitment to his players.
In his postgame comments on national television, he said, "I told my team tonight that the difference in the game would be the love they have for one another."
Most coaches talk about winning and losing coming down to turnovers, or execution, or winning all three phases of the game, or third-down efficiency, or field position, or some other metric.
But love for one another as the ultimate difference in a football game?
The Bible makes the case for love from Genesis to Revelation. Remember the two greatest commands, "Love the Lord your God," and "Love your neighbor as yourself."
They are stated, re-stated, and illustrated throughout the Bible. According to God, they are the two greatest, and they both involve love.
Researching Coach Swinney, we find that love was his theme all year with the team. Swinney borrowed from the Bible and Jesus and it all came together Monday night for the Clemson Tigers.
But consider a word of caution: Love can make a difference in a sporting event, but love does not guarantee a championship or even a win.
Remember, love ultimately cost Jesus his own life. "But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8 NIV).
We love one another because God is love and He commands us to love. It is the primary mark of those who follow Jesus.
So congratulations to Coach Swinney and the Clemson Tigers. They pursued the noble attribute of loving one another, and this time they got a result worth remembering.


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Further thoughts on the cultural labor of poetry and art. Not merely "is it good?," but "what has it accomplished?"...reviews of recent poetry collections; selected poems and art dealing with war/peace/social change; reviews of poetry readings; links to political commentary (particularly on conflicts in the Middle East); youtubed performances of music, demos, and other audio-video nuggets dealing with peaceful change, dissent and resistance.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Wilfred Owen, from Voices in Wartime
On Wilfred Owen, poetry, shell shock (P.T.S.D.), and the implications of war. This is for you, pops, in your new research to help the soldiers coming home.
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The Bug peeked over my shoulder last night as I was working and asked "who the old guy" was that kept showing up in my news feed. Of course, if you were on social media last night, your news feed was probably filling with pictures of Robin Williams, too.
One of those pivotal parenting moments where you have a split second to make a decision. I had a momentary wave of relief that she hadn't spotted an article about Gaza or ISIS; not that suicide is a topic I want to discuss with my five-year-old, but those murky waters seemed easier to navigate at that moment.
So, I was honest as I could be while still shielding (protecting) her from the harsh realities of the adult world.
"You know, Bug, he's not someone I knew personally. He was an actor, a really talented actor. He made a lot of people laugh. He played Peter Pan, in Hook? Remember that? Well, he died today and a lot of people are very sad about that."
Next came the inevitable…
"How did he die?"
Silence. Deep breath.
"You know, they are still trying to figure that out." Which, at the time, was still sort of true.
"I think I know," she said quietly.
"You do?" Cocked my head to the side. Puzzled look. And braced myself for whatever was going to come next. Trying to remember if we had the news on the background or not tonight… What did she hear? How are we going to work through this one?
"I think his heart gave out."
Just like that. The conversation was over. Very matter of fact.
While the rest of us are stunned by influx of unfathomable sadness, hurt and anger that seems to be filling our news feeds lately — and trying to sort through it and make sense of it– the simplistic wisdom of a five-year-old may be where we need to start.
Start with the heart.
Zelda Williams, Williams' daughter, posted this excerpt from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince on her social media accounts last night as a tribute to her father:
"You – you alone will have the stars as no one else has them…In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night…You – only you – will have stars that can laugh."Image courtesy of FanPop.


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INSET Day – Monday 3rd December
Year 11 Pre-Public Exam (mocks) results and Parents Evening
Today your child will receive their PPE results which will give them an indication of how hard they worked and the amount of effort they have put into their GCSEs so far.
We are incredibly pleased with some of the students' outcomes and, with 6 months to go, now is the time to ensure that your child is putting maximum effort into achieving their personal best. With GCSEs being much harder, having greater content and pupils having to retain more information, it is vitally important that you spend time looking at how your child did and supporting them over the next few months.
The results have also highlighted a minority of pupils who have simply performed as both they and we would have expected. Experience tells us that if your child comes home this evening (Friday) and is not happy, it will be because they have not put in the effort required or expected. Sometimes that is a very difficult message to hear, but it must be said. No one else can sit your child's exams in summer, everyone here at Gateacre wants your child to excel and be proud of their achievements but for that to happen they have to put effort into their studies and work hard.
Year 11 Parents Evening is on Thursday 6th December, starting at 15.45. I sincerely hope that every child and every parent in Year 11 can attend that evening as it is an opportunity to discuss performance over the past few weeks and look at what is required going forward.
Tonight, at home you will either have a child who is fairly happy with their results or you will have a child who is quite upset. You have to ask, how much effort did they put in? Did they really take these mock exams seriously? Have they arrived on time, every day for their most important school year? Looking below at the Year group attendance tracker I would argue that there are a number of Year 11 pupils who need to put more effort in.
There is still time, these are only mock results, we are here to help, but your child and you (as their parent/carer) have got to help.
Attendance Matters
Attendance across Y7-11 has been quite mixed again this week. Some individual year groups have had what can only be described as outstanding attendance and demonstrates such a clear difference to attitudes from pupils and parents than when I very first started at Gateacre. Remember, as I said last week, we are asking for 190 days out of 365. There are 175 days left for everything else.
- Green highlighted squares are above national average, amber are cause for concern and anything red is alarming.
- Good attendance is anything above 97% and that is what we are striving for but we need your help with that.
Comparing week beginning 19th November with this week (26th November) there are some clear improvements for some Year groups, but Year 11s who are sitting GCSE exams in the summer are simply not attending enough. I cannot stress enough to parents of Year 11 pupils who read this, not only how important every single day is between now and the exams but also arriving on time at 08:40 ready to start learning at 08:45.
It is really quite frustrating to look at Year 11 attendance because this year is so important, I cannot stress this enough. If your child is not in, they are not learning.
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So if something has changed; name, address, mobile or land line number, email address let us know as soon as you can so we can keep our records up to date.
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Cross Challenge Success
On Saturday Max Webster in Y7 ran the "Cross Challenge" for the Harriers. Max ran 3k in 11 minutes and 15 seconds and finished an impressive 22nd out of 182 participants. Well done Max and keep on running!
Drama Update
A company called Impropriety have been working with some Y9 and Y13 students for the past 3 weeks, developing characterisation and improvisation skills.
The Drama Department also have an exciting Comedy Showcase coming up on 12th December with details below. Tickets are available to buy from reception.
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Year 8 have been exploring the topic of Homelessness and as part of the course they have been asked to donate one item for the homeless charity 'The Basement' who's mission is to challenge homelessness and addiction by promoting recovery and empowering people to transform their own lives. The basement are coming in on Tuesday 4th December to speak to students about the topic of Homelessness and to dispel any misunderstandings students may have regarding the subject.
As you can see students and guardians have been incredibly generous for donating to the charity just in time for Christmas and on behalf of the Drama Department we want to thank all of the students and guardians for their donations and for engaging with the curriculum in such a fantastic way. If you would like to donate further students can bring in donations Tuesday 6th December and onwards and I will make sure they reach The Basement to help with the busy Christmas period.
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HAWKINS, CHARLES EDWARD (?–1837). Charles Edward Hawkins, naval officer, served as a midshipman in the United States Navy until 1826, when he followed David Porter in submitting his resignation and accepting a commission in the Mexican navy. As captain of the Hermón he saw action in the Gulf against the Spanish fleet attempting to suppress the Mexican bid for independence. In 1828 he resigned from Mexican service and for a time worked as a river captain on the Chattahoochee. He subsequently was involved with Col. José Antonio Mexía as a filibuster on the abortive Tampico expedition. In 1836 he visited Texas governor Henry Smith, seeking a commission in the new Texas Navy. Smith was impressed with his credentials and sent him to New Orleans, where he was given command of the newly acquired Independence, formerly the United States revenue cutter Ingham. He had returned to Texas with the ship by January 10, 1836. From that time until March 1 Hawkins cruised the coast between Galveston and Tampico, destroying "a considerable number of small craft, with all material on board that could be used to the injury of Texas." By March 12 he had taken the Independence to New Orleans for refitting. He then returned to Matagorda and was promoted to the rank of commodore and command of the entire Texas Navy. With the Runaway Scrape and the retreat of Sam Houston's army after the twin disasters of the Alamo and Goliad, Hawkins was forced to move his home port up the Texas coast from Matagorda to Galveston. After the Texas victory at San Jacinto (see SAN JACINTO, BATTLE OF) he ordered his fleet to blockade Matamoros, but soon the need for repairs sent the Invincible and the Brutus to port and reduced his numbers to a single ship, his own. Even the Independence required refitting at New Orleans in mid-September. There, in February 1837, Hawkins died of smallpox at the home of a Mrs. Hale (he was buried on February 12). Upon his death he was replaced as captain of the Independence by George W. Wheelwright. See also TEXAS REVOLUTION.
Alex Dienst, "The Navy of the Republic of Texas," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 12–13 (January-October 1909; rpt., Fort Collins, Colorado: Old Army Press, 1987). C. L. Douglas, Thunder on the Gulf: The Story of the Texas Navy (Dallas: Turner, 1936; rpt., Fort Collins, Colorado: Old Army Press, 1973). Jim Dan Hill, The Texas Navy in Forgotten Battles and Shirtsleeve Diplomacy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937; rpt., Austin: State House, 1987). Tom Henderson Wells, Commodore Moore and the Texas Navy (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1960).
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My Jewish People, Israel - I am your proud son!
I'm made of tortured flesh of yours and of your ancient blood.
Since Torah given was to us under the Sinai's sun,
Your enemies tried burying us into historic mud.
Egyptian pharaohs kept my kin in slavery by chains.
The straws turn slow into bricks by Jewish sweat and pain.
Just longer look at giant plates of mighty pyramids,
You'll see that Jewish blood and tears - through their seams they bleed.
My people's cry and songs of pray - they to the Lord have gone,
Being far away from our Land - in bonds of Babylon.
And kindly G_d has heard our plea and granted our return
To our country, our temples, to our ways we yearn.
But spared by Alexander the Great, not long we lived in State of our religion.
Our love for Freedom, our brave revolts caused angry hate of Rome.
Enraged by courage of the Jews, it sent its iron legions.
They plowed our sacred Temple, the streets, where we were born.
The Romans scattered Jews across their vast empire land,
In hope that in by doing so the tale of Jews will end.
For thousands years after that the Jews didn't have their Home.
Ukraine's Cossacks killed my kin in savageous Pogrom.
In Spain our haters burned the Jews in Inquisition flames.
The Germans tried to wipe us all, as an entire race,
By gassing millions to death in concentration camps,
Where for five years Jews were brought packed into cattle trains.
Gas chambers witnessed Jewish deaths in scare and despair.
The Nazis made the pretty bags from skin, and wigs from Jewish hair.
Five years chimneys fumed with Jewish ash into the shameless air.
And World in silence watched all that with no help to dare.
Yet we survived it all in all, the people of the G_d.
Oh Israel - you're back with us, protected by the Lord!
And sacred Wailing Wall in freed Jerusalem
Will always be with us, forever and for good, Shma Israel! Amen!


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Raheem OA, Mirheydar HS, Miller DL, Palazzi KL, Chang DC, Sur RL.
Department of Urology, University of California San Diego Health Care System , San Diego, California.
PURPOSE: To describe the utilization of shockwave lithotripsy (SWL) and ureteroscopy (URS) in ambulatory surgery centers, as well as to identify patient-specific factors predictive of one procedure over the other.
PATIENTS AND METHODS: We evaluated the current trends in the use of SWL and URS in the ambulatory settings over a 5-year period in the state of California using the State of California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) database.
RESULTS: We identified 113,447 ambulatory kidney stone surgical procedures including 64,632 SWL (57%) and 48,815 URS (43%) treatments in the OSHPD database between 2005 and 2010. The total annual ambulatory stone surgeries increased from 17,831 cases in 2005 to 18,933 cases in 2010 (P<0.001). Between 2005 and 2010, the use of URS increased significantly from 6978 (39%) cases in 2005 to 9259 (49%) cases in 2010 (P<0.0012), whereas the use of SWL decreased from 10,853 (61%) cases in 2005 to 9674 (51%) cases in 2010 (P=0.0012). In multivariate analysis, age≥75 years (P<0.001), hypertension (P=0.025), and obesity (P<0.001) all increased odds of undergoing URS. In addition, men (P=0.013) and non-Medicaid patients (P<0.001) were more likely to undergo URS.
CONCLUSIONS: The use of URS increased significantly in the state of California among patients undergoing urinary stone surgical procedures in the ambulatory setting, while the use of SWL decreased between 2005 and 2010. Possible explanations for these trends include improved URS stone-free rates, improved cost-effectiveness of URS, and enhanced technology leading to increased use of URS over SWL.
J Endourol. 2015 May 19. [Epub ahead of print]
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Date: Fri Jul 19, 1996 5:00:12 PM
À ma coquine jeune vixen Je...Je...Je..Jennifer,
The following is a note I just sent to my German penpal, Ben Voos. I have never met him personally, nor even seen a picture but our correspondence has been quite interesting over the past six months. We actually first became acquainted after I emailed him pontificating contrarily to something rather cynically rah rah he had to say about information and the Internet he'd published on a Geocities page. Actually it was a very short interrogatory he had posed. Not that I disagreed with him at face value. I merely suggested that the Internet, and more specifically the Web was NOT so much about the dissemination of information since so much of which passes for information is bogus anyway, but about the opportunity for the many to finally have a canvas upon which to dynamically create a presence herefor unavailable by force of numbers and positions and glory reserved for the Hollywood & New York sensationalist top-and-bottomfeeder types. Of course I was speaking specifically from my own perspective, although at the time, I had barely had my Internet account a few weeksif I recall, my surfboard barely broken in. Since then, it has become painfully obvious that the corporate giants have rushed in and helped dwarf the "garage" artist once again, but I still maintain my original vision, where the idealistic individual is granted a greater control over artistic presentation via the web despite its flaws than ever before, and that's all the plumbing I need to appeal to me.
I have been busy as God-on-uppers. I am currently writing what is turning into quite a long treatise on censorship and artistic integrity. As I said in my last note I am NOT a minimalist, although I often long for that rest, perhaps minimalism would bring to my increasingly stormy mind. I feel I have tumors, my head hurts in exactly the same spots as a few bumps I have sustained over the rough and tumble years on the back of my skull. Maybe I am simply inventing my illnesses, and just need more exercise, but I fear the worst nevertheless.
Speaking of God-on-uppers, I am not, not have I ever been a druggie by any means, occasionally diving into a month or so's worth of marijuana, a eight months to a year go by, and I smoke nothing until the next small amount of weed falls into my lap, but that's about it. Guzzle booze heavily one night a week or so, then nothing until the next one night stand seven to ten days down the road, although that ratio used to be every three days when I worked outdoors as a land surveyor in the war against the elements and caliber of crew when what I really wanted to do was create pages, mapping my thoughts, my crimes against self, and the renegotiating the penalties for making those choices and reducing those I never were even offered. What I once thought was a ball of twine I later lamented was instead a bowl of spaghetti. Never smoked cigarettes. Compulsive bad food addict and too much beer keeps me in gut and hell for nerves, but I never understood the angle in hard drugs.
Saw this 1979 Russian film with English subtitles the other day on cable called The Stalker. Have you seen it? I didn't see the very beginning but it was a most intriguing flick. I'll save any descriptions other than it centered around a mythical, mystical place called the Zone and three men including the guide, or stalker, who stumble around in this strange place seeking bestowal of its powers.
One of these days I suppose I will have enough of my WWW stuff in place to insist you to take a major browse, but I am still light years it seems from the body of work my own sensibilities require of me. Interesting how Geocities is coming along isn't it? Although my pages are still relatively primitive. Quite primitive. I have yet to compose my first image map.
Here's a ethical challenge you may find worth your while, or you may find it morally repugnant, politically exploitive, simply gross, but I would be interested in your opinions. I am considering hiring a prostitute in the near future for experimental video and clothing fetish purposes. And perhaps some light bondage. She will more than likely be a poor drug-infested African whore. I will pay here more in one session than she has probably seen from a single client in some time, according to my informer. I still have to formulate my full ideas, and am depending on this acquaintance of mine who is well-entrenched in this sort of streetwalker liaison to ease my initial mistrust in this sort of arrangement. I am doing this strictly from the video and photography perspective. This rather risky (in his own right) acquaintance wants the sex. I am not inclined. So, Ben, how do you interpret my motives? I may already have accomplished this transaction (but maybe not) by the time you are able to respond, but I am certainly interested in what you may have to say about this rather apprehensive affair.
Perhaps I write like a boy. Not a man. Is that so wrong when I live in an eight minute song, when my topographies grant no sea level, when I stand alone against the skyline and the mountain range with nary a falsifying woman to tell me who I am, what to do, and why I should do it, when I face the darkness with the unquenchable thirst for life, more life, and none comes but the same old pastures of many colors I left to those who promised they would tend them, so that they may prosper, yet I saw them not, but when I was a boy I had all these things, and among them was a sense of beauty for its own sake, investigation for its own sake, a unified field theory single file motive without fear or courage for marching to the cafeteria for the greater good, for getting along with everyone, not cheating anyone, exchanging whimsical tongues for logical ones, swapping those later for dangerous ones for the greater good...
Feminization? Militarism? Do you know the difference? Chauvinism? Barbarism? Do you take offense? Just bring me my meals, and take strong care of my feet. The rest will follow.


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I have always loved the earthy colours of terracotta, so when the chance came to squeeze in a visit to the university town of Salamanca I took it. Here I found every tone on the spectrum. Arriving on a blue sky September afternoon you could see why the historic centre of this ancient city was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988. Like many old towns in Europe the narrow streets are pedestrianized or reserved for local traffic only.
First stop was The Clerecía Church, for a panoramic view of terracotta roof tops and the Spanish plains beyond. A steep & narrow ancient wooden staircase that groaned and creaked led us to the top. Interior details of the The Clerecía Church, beware there are 199 steps to the top 🙂
Below and directly across the street is the Casa de las Conchas, the House of Shells built in the 15thC, a mere five hundred years old. The facade has been decorated with 300 hundred sculpted shells and inside (free entry) there is a stunning two story internal courtyard and stone staircase. This beautiful building now houses the public library and comes under the hybrid style of architecture known as Isabelline, it reminded me of some of the ornate building elements I had seen in India.
Walking further into the historic quarter, street after little street is filled with students and artsy cafes – and every wall seems to have another hue of dusty pink and faded ochres along with layers of hand written fonts. Patina perfection.
Established in 13thC the University of Salamanca is the third oldest in the world, there is a lot to see here but you do need to book a tour to visit the grounds…
The heat was coming off the day and a chilled glass of Sangria was on every other table. Taking a seat at one of the many side walk cafe's we were just in time to enjoy the weekend ritual of la passeggiata . A constant stream of families, children and couples, both young and old strolled past us on their gentle evening walk, all dressed in their Sunday best. This is my favourite time of day to be out and about when we are travelling – watching the locals socialize and seeing the streets come alive with laughter and chatter. A fabulous tradition, I wish we did this at home, its so great for people watching !
We were staying a stone's throw from the famous Plaza Mayor, and I think most of the people walking past us were heading there, to one of most beautiful squares in Europe. Originally used for bull fights and ceremonial occasions, today it is filled with cafes and restaurants…by night fall the square was standing room only.
The next morning we are up early to capture the morning light, both at Plaza Mayor and the beautiful Plaza de Anaya and surrounding gardens. Here you will find the New Cathedral (15th-17thC ), which happens to be joined to the Old Cathedral (around 12thC) – read more about those churches here.
It was a fleeting visit to what is known as 'the golden city' and I can see why. We loved every minute, we found local tapas bars & plenty of cured meat, we enjoyed a spectacular Spanish free-poured gin & tonic in the Plaza Mayor… But most of all we loved seeing the changing colours of the sandstone and terracotta that makes this ancient place glow.
On a local note – if you are inspired by the colours of terracotta Jatana Interiors...has a beautiful collection to choose from, I am trying to find somewhere to use them !


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Arthur M. Standish
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Office: Charleston, The Woodlands
J.D. West Virginia University
B.A. California State University
B.A. California State University
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Art Standish's practice focuses primarily in the areas of bankruptcy, real estate, commercial transactions, and commercial litigation. His experience includes virtually every facet of bankruptcy law, with extensive experience in commercial and transactional work. Mr. Standish also leads the firm's Creditor's Rights Team.
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1990 Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
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Mr. Standish has participated as a speaker at numerous West Virginia CLE and private seminars concerning bankruptcy and commercial matters.
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Brings nationwide experience in creditor workouts representing creditors ranging in size from local banks and lending institutions to regional and national corporations and has represented creditors in West Virginia, Texas, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky
Obtained a thorough understanding of secured transactions involving both real and personal property through 28 years of legal experience in commercial transactions, which includes working as a title agent with four national title agencies
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- Stir whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, yeast, salt, sugar, olive oil, and warm water with a spatula until formed into a sticky ball of dough that pulls away from sides of a large bowl, about 3-4 minutes.
- Cover the bowl with a light cloth or plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place (80 to 95 degrees F (27 to 35 degrees C)) for 18 hours, until doubled in size.
- Preheat the oven to 550 degrees F (280 degrees C). Sprinkle a baking sheet with cornmeal.
- Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface and sprinkle with more flour. Form the dough into a rectangle, and cut it into four equal parts. Shape each piece into a ball, stretching and tucking the dough to create a smooth surface, adding more flour if needed. Cover the dough balls with a towel and let rest for 15 minutes.
- To shape the dough, sprinkle the surface with flour and lightly pat flat. Use a rolling pin to form a thin disk about 9 inches in diameter.
- Transfer the formed crust to the prepared baking sheet and top as desired. Bake on the bottom rack for 4 minutes, move to the middle rack and bake for 5-6 minutes more minutes, until the bottom is crispy and the top is lightly browned. Move to cooling rack to cool slightly before serving.
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- Additional all-purpose flour may be needed if the dough is too sticky and wet.
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okay, I just watched the video of chef john making this but I swear he just used 16oz of flour to make 4 pizzas. This calls for 4 cups or 32 oz of flour and says it makes 4 pizzas so I'm confus...
Didn't work out very well for me but it was my first time making pizza dough
okay, I just watched the video of chef john making this but I swear he just used 16oz of flour to make 4 pizzas. This calls for 4 cups or 32 oz of flour and says it makes 4 pizzas so I'm confus...
This dough is pretty good but it really needs more like 3 1/2 cups flour. If you watch the video Chef John weighs the flour - 16 oz - which equates to closer to 3 1/2 cups rather than 3 cups. ...
This recipe reminds me of the artisan bread in five minutes a day recipe I found on the NY Times website. The bread recipe is made in an ice cream bucket and does not have olive oil, otherwise ...
I use all the same ingredients, but I make it much less complicated.I just mix the wet and dry ingredients separately, then mix.I roll it out and add a little flour as needed to roll it then bak...
I think you pretty much "nailed-it " on this thin crust pizza recipe.I've subsequently tried six other thin crust recipes from this website,and this beats them all. I have two suggestions though...
I was a little leery about leaving this out all nite. Whipped up a batch of this dough last nite & made a pizza this morning. Turned out Jawsome. the only thing I did differently was to poke hol...
Great pizza crust. I cut this in half and only made 1 pizza that we cooked on the grill. I only let mine rise for 3 hours as it was almost doubled from the heat in the garage. Other than outside...
This is a 6 star
I made this recipe using the amounts as stated cup-wise. It needed what seemed like quite a bit more flour added later to make it manageable for me. I'm not a pro at the pizza dough or anythin...


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Introduction: Weedwacker Repair- 'String' Doesn't Spin, Gear Problem?
In this Instructable I'm going to show how I repaired an old 'Weed Eater' string trimmer. New parts seem to be still available but I really didn't want to spend $50.00+ for a machine that only cost $80.00 (around 10 yrs ago) It had a pretty serious vibration problem for a few years,I assumed the engine was worn out but when drive stopped working motor still ran fine
With nothing to loose I decided to take it apart and find out how much damage had been done
I'm making a few assumptions that anyone reading Instructables will already have majority of tools needed, Dremel is now a generic name for mini grinders most of the other tools required are relatively cheap (except for Dremel, you could probably get everything needed for less tan $30.00) I've had my Dremel for at least 10 yrs, it's old and tatty but works fine (just like me :o) )
Tools Required
Bench vice (makes life easier but any sort of holding device can work)
Torx bits
Metric Allen keys
Caliper ((around $15.00, Harbor Freight, et.al.)
Thin steel (I found a bottle cap) and had one shim washer
Power drill or drill press
'Step' drill bit
'Flat' Screwdriver or small pry-bar
Dremel (or similar)
Diamond burr's 1/8" shank for Dremel
You only need the pointy 'tree' burr but full set from China is cheaper than getting single burr locally
Step 1: The Offending Part
Gear head on old Weedeater is 'engineering plastic' held together with multiple Torx head screws plus 3 Allen head screws/bolts clamping head to shaft (two clamp, one to prevent head rotating on shaft)..There is also a wing nut holding guard in place which needs to be removed to access the 'hidden' screw holding two halves of gear case together. Unfortunately I got carried away (never intended to make an Instructable out of repair) so there are no pictures of case disassembly.
The large 'nut' screwed onto shaft is also a labyrinth 'seal' being a close fit on the extended spigot of gear case.This was the only difficult thing to remove. I gripped 'nut' it in bench vice, removed screw holding string holder head retaining spring then unscrewed the 'cutter' head
Except for previously mentioned screw hidden under 'string' guard all the others are fully visible (after cleaning years of grass dust from the recesses ;o) )
Step 2: The Damaged Bevel Gears
Took out all the screws (after finding the one hidden under blade cover) Forgot to take pictures - sorry
The two case halves were very tight,'snapped' together maybe? I couldn't find any assembly clips though? Then tapped things with hammer from various directions but ended up using a flat screwdriver as a pry-bar to separate halves (I thought I had pictures but something must have gone wrong as I can't find them?)
I started re-shaping the driven gear (in vice) then decided to take some more pictures.
First picture, top 2:00 position has already been roughed out with burrs removed
Two pictures of drive gear from slightly different angle trying to show the burrs on teeth.You can see the depth of tooth remaining, adding shims between bearing and gear will 'lift' it into deeper engagement. It's an odd size though so I had to make a shim. I didn't take any measurements just 'eye-balled' the gears assembled in half of gear head and used what I found lying about. The bearing below gear had to be removed to add a shim underneath
Step 3: Making a Shim
Used a bottle cap as it was steel instead of aluminium soft drink can (I think it's off a 'Bud'?) I know aluminium will 'squash down' over time so didn't use it
Tried holding cap in drill vice, too flimsy and didn't work. Used bench vice to press cap 'teeth' into a piece of scrap pine.
When cap flattened off it was overhanging sides of wood so I had to find some bars to grip wood without touching cap edge.
Measured step drill to find something close to 0.470" diameter. Very surprised when the '4th step' was correct size
Picture of gear shaft in the hole, checked before removing from drill press - 'just in case'
Used a tin-snip's to cut shim roughly to size. After de-burring shim it fitted shaft pretty good. I re-fitted bearing after cleaning all the old grease then re-greasing with synthetic grease (I use it on motorcycle wheel bearings and any grease points - usually swing arm bearings)
Update. 31st Aug 2017
I did a bit of research on bevel gear set up (setting up cfrown wheel and pinion on rear wheel drive vehicles)
The 0.011" shim is too thin, I know I really should have checked gear mesh. I'm making a new shim 0.025" thick to increase depth of tooth engagement. Managed to get front yard 'mowed' though so all good
Step 4: Dremel and Diamong Cutter (burr)
I didn't know how hard the gear teeth were (probably tough rather than hardened, they would snap rather than 'bend' if real hard?) I had a set of burrs from a different project, most of the parallel ones were too big to fit between gear teeth but the 'tree' was unused and fitted a bit tight due to the gear teeth being rounded over. I roughly removed all the bent bits then checked teeth using a x10 loupe (I'm 60, can't see as well as I used to 40+ yrs ago- lol)
Used x2 loupe and cleaned all the gear teeth very close to original shape.(got pretty close to a tool spinning at 15~2-,000rpm) After both gears were cleaned up I tried 'running' one against the other. Seemed OK but obviously gears needed meshing tighter together.Using 0.020" and 0.011" shims under the gears seemed to give a 'snug' fit when assembled in gear case half.Packed half of gear case with extra grease plus added some motorcycle chain lube as it is a 'thin' grease capable of withstanding very high localised loads. Assembling the case halves was a slight problem, it was very tight coming apart. I used the screws to carefully pull the halves into position. The 'hidden' screw is visible just above my finger in the last picture
Step 5: Proof of the Pudding........... (video to Come Shortly)
Here's the vid.
Re-fitted gear head to shaft, the drive rod was easier to insert into drive gear than I expected.
I should have set the 'string' a bit longer but wanted to do a test run.
Video of it running coming soon, have to upload to You Tube before it can be 'embedded' here
It worked better than expected although the 'lock-nut'/seal moved 0.020" closer to plastic spigot so was rubbing a bit. .I sprayed some more chain lube in gap which seems to have cured the problem. After running I rechecked all the screws, as expected everything had aligned properly so screws needed ~1/3 turn to re-tighten. Took me just about 4~5 hrs to fix it, spent $9.99 on a replacement part that didn't fit but still saved $40.00+ and have gears that could last another 10 yrs (motor will probably wear out before that?) I also have a pair of reduction bevel gears 'spare' for some future project (always keep 'useful material' LOL)
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