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A Guide to the Lipscomb-Alyn Collection, 1960-1995
Biographical Note
Mance Lipscomb, guitarist and songster, was born Bowdie Glenn Lipscomb, in the Brazos bottoms near Navasota, Texas, on April 9, 1895. Lipscomb was born into a musical family and began playing at an early age. His mother bought him a guitar when he was eleven, and he was soon accompanying his father, and later entertaining alone, at suppers and Saturday night dances.
Although he had some contact with such early recording artists as fellow Texans Blind Lemon Jefferson and Blind Willie Johnson and early country star Jimmie Rodgers, he did not make recordings until his "discovery" by whites during the folk-song revival of the 1960s. He won wide acclaim and emulation from young white audiences and performers for his virtuosity as a guitarist and the breadth of his repertoire. Admirers enjoyed his lengthy reminiscences and eloquent observations regarding music and life, many of which are contained in taped and written materials in the Lipscomb–Alyn Collection. Lipscomb represented one of the last remnants of the nineteenth-century songster tradition, which predated the development of the blues. Despite his popularity, however, he remained poor. After 1974, declining health confined him to a nursing home and hospitals. He died in Navasota on January 30, 1976. [from The Handbook of Texas}
Glen Alyn is the author of I Say Me for a Parable : The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Songster [Glen Alyn was formerly known as Glenn Myers.]
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Transcripts, notes, correspondence, literary productions, clippings, printed material, maps, photographic materials, video and audio tapes and phonograph records relate to Glen Alyn's production of the biography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas blues musician.
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Collection open for research and photocopying, but copyright is held by the donor's estate. Contact reference staff for further information.
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Lipscomb-Alyn Collection, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
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March 5, 2011
Oh, the house drama.
On February 9, I spent three and a half hours getting my hair done. Finally. Everything had been so busy that I had rescheduled the appointment twice when work meetings got in the way. Finally, I devoted an entire evening, the night before I was doing the final inspections on the house of my dreams and an important faculty meeting.
At the end of our three and a half hour slog through foils, chemical smells, round brushes made of tourmaline or some other space-age hair-altering substance, and endless pondering of the Royal Wedding, I turned to my stylist and said, "The only person who is going to get the full effect of this is my septic inspector, tomorrow morning." I hoped he'd appreciate it.
|The product of our labours
Just after this, my realtor showed up, looking grim. "We've got a problem," he said, "Basically, we're f**ked."
There was a problem with the foundation. A problem that would make the house essentially unsellable, should I ever lose my job, have to leave Canada, and need to unload the house promptly. It was a $40,000 problem that, if solved, would raise the value of the house no more than $4000. It was in addition to prospective problems with the roof, the chimney, the floors, and the septic system. There was no concession that the sellers could make that would make it worthwhile. We withdrew in deep mourning.
Actually, I was pretty strong at the beginning, acknowledging that it was the only possible logical choice. D found it harder, having become attached to the property from afar. But in the weeks that followed, I felt grimmer and grimmer, like I'd been dumped unceremoniously by my very first house-love. "I loved it," I told people, "but the whole time it was hiding a bad foundation from me. How could it? How could I not have known???"
I began scrolling through real estate listings with a dull resentment. "There's nothing," I wrote to D, "I feel like I will never love again."
"I don't know," he replied callously, "That last place was nice. Kinda small."
I sighed. We'll see. We'll see.

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Alex Powers has been a self-employed painter and teacher for 28 years. He exhibits in galleries in five states and among his many national juried exhibition awards is the Gold Medal in the 1997 American Watercolor Society Exhibition. He travels and teaches workshops in this country and abroad. He is the author of Painting People in Watercolor, A Design Approach, published by Watson-Guptill, now in paperback.
Powers' painting style has evolved into personal, content-dominated imagery. Using gouache, charcoal, pastel and sometimes collage on illustration board, his loose realism combines an emphasis on drawing with an awareness of the art of our time. Often the illustration boards are connected for work up to 15 feet in length. "I attempt to deal with issues such as human origins, religion, philosophy, racism, economic, inequality, etc. These overwhelming issues are difficult to deal with, but they are what interest me. And, since I believe in the singularity of life and art, these issues are the content of my current work."
Artist's Statement
"My reasons for painting relate to content more than form. The content that interests me concerns ideas as well as emotions. Ideas questioning our life choices; an acquaintance with philosophers and writers; my selected preference from past and current thinkers.
The form of the image is ever-present. I prefer graphic, surface variation with large empty spaces, muted colors and people subjects, especially faces."


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In Mexico, Some Kids Choose Life on the Street to Escape Abuse
There are an estimated 15,000 children living on the streets of Mexico City.
April 30, 2013 -- From the Day of the Dead to Revolution Day, Mexico is well known for its colorful celebrations, and Children's Day is no exception. Celebrated on April 30th, "Día del Niño" is a day of nationwide festivities established to honor children. The school curriculum is replaced with a day of fun and games. Parks and public squares become a hive of activity, and shopping malls are filled to the brim with piñatas and balloons to celebrate the country's youngest citizens.
It's a big date in the calendar of a professional clown: making people laugh is the order of the day. But for Angel, a clown working at one Mexico City's busiest traffic intersections, it's bittersweet. He is one of an estimated 15,000 children living on the streets of Mexico City. He earns the few pesos he needs to get by performing as a clown amidst the hubbub of the city's unremitting traffic. For hour upon hour, Angel performs tricks at the traffic lights. His repertoire is limited but his spirit is unflappable. As he threatens to pour buckets of confetti onto the windscreens of passing cars, he is invariably sworn at and only very occasionally gets a laugh or a few coins.
Most people stare straight ahead, refusing to be engaged by his routine. But Angel is unfazed, he is accustomed to being ignored. "Everyday I wake up and people look straight through me," he says as he emerges from under the covers of his makeshift bed by the side of a busy road next to the Alameda Park.
There is a deep sadness lurking behind his painted smile. Angel left his family home in the border town of Mexicali when he was 9 years old. He says that he chose to leave because of domestic violence that became so bad that he decided that he'd rather live on the streets than continue to suffer any further.
Children's Day will pass Angel by like any other but he considers himself lucky. He isn't addicted to solvents like most of his friends and makes a living by making people laugh. Living with hunger and filth, his friends sniff cloth soaked in gasoline to escape the reality of their so-called childhoods. For most of Angel's friends, prostitution is their daily bread and butter.
"I have to make a living one way or another. I have sex with men in order to make the money I need to survive," says Carlos as he sniffs on a rag in his hand. He says the men he sleeps with are from all walks of life: taxi drivers, lawyers, men with university degrees.
Carlos' other form of employment is known as 'faquir' or self-flagellation. He is carrying a t-shirt full of broken glass with him. He explains how he lays the shirt out in carefully chosen spots around the city, in an underground carriage or on a busy shopping street, and spreads the pieces of glass with the sharpest ends pointed upwards. He shouts at the top of his lungs to get the public's attention and begins to throw himself, face first, onto the glass. With a little luck, his audience will take pity on him and pay him to stop. The scars on his body are testament to the fact that he has been doing this since he was a very young child. Carlos lives between the city's sewers and abandoned houses. For him, each day is just another day to endure and survive.
In a country known across Latin America for its economic growth and financial integration, inequality remains Mexico's Achilles' heel. UNICEF estimates that more than 20 million children and adolescents live in poverty in Mexico with more than five million living in extreme poverty. Most of the children on the streets point to family disintegration and physical abuse as the drivers for their homelessness, but poverty seems to be at the root of most of their stories.
And yet, despite the horrors of their everyday life, these children are hopeful for the future. Angel confides that, "I dream of living in a house and having a job and a family without having to suffer the humiliation that I endure on the streets."
Carlos, meanwhile, has one message for parents on Children's Day: "I would tell all parents out there to give their children the love and understanding that I never got from mine because there's nothing nice about living on the streets."
If you've been touched by Angel and Carlos' stories, find out how to help here: Casa Alianza works with street children to provide guidance and help them leave the streets and build a future in one of their residential programs.


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Ron Rhoades' announcement late Monday that he is resigning from his chairman-elect position at the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) took many by surprise in the world of fee-based advisors, especially in view of Rhoades' growing public profile as an outspoken proponent of the fiduciary standard.
In a self-punishing mea culpa that he sent to reporters, Rhoades (left) said he was stepping down from the NAPFA chairmanship and board after discerning over the past several weeks that he had committed a violation as president and chief compliance officer of ScholarFi, his Alfred, N.Y., firm. At the time of his firm's formation in September 2011, Rhoades said ScholarFi accepted a total of 11 clients from Florida, which exceeded the threshold of five, and he mistakenly believed he could wait until the first quarter of 2012 to register.
However, Knut Rostad, founder and president of the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard, said that Rhoades' departure is unlikely to have a negative effect on the conversation about fiduciary duty.
"I think he has been very much present in the conversation for many years, and that's not going to change," Rostad said in a phone interview. "Ron's significant contributions over many years preceded his involvement with NAPFA. Ron walked the walk in how he handled this. He didn't have to tell the whole world what happened, but he chose to. It's clear that he took this extremely seriously. He put the interests of NAPFA first, and I think that speaks hugely about Ron."
Rostad said that he encouraged Rhoades to participate when Rostad led the Committee for the Fiduciary Standard in 2009-'10.
Susan John to Remain as NAPFA Chairwoman While Awaiting Special Election
Rhoades was scheduled to replace NAPFA Chairwoman Susan John on Sept. 1. John will now remain in her post into September until the board holds a special election to fill the vacated chairmanship.
"While my mistake was unintentional, the violation of compliance regulations is nevertheless material in nature," Rhoades wrote in his announcement. "The mistake made was mine, and mine alone. I accept full responsibility for my personal mistake, and all consequences that may flow therefrom, including the decision by NAPFA to move on without me serving as chair in the coming year."
This is the second time in 2012 that NAPFA's pristine reputation has been tarnished. In May, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged former NAPFA Chairman Mark Spangler, who served in the late 1990s, with defrauding clients by secretly funneling approximately $47.7 million of their money into two risky startup companies that Spangler co-founded.
Yet prominent advisors interviewed after Rhoades' announcement stood behind him, suggesting that it was his own exacting standards of professionalism that did him the most damage. Russell Wild, a NAPFA-certified financial advisor and author of Exchange-Traded Funds for Dummies and Bond Investing for Dummies, called Rhoades' decision to resign "the right and honorable path" because "it would be unseemly for the incoming chair of NAPFA, an organization that has promoted greater regulation of the profession, to take office under the current circumstances."
However, Wild said in an email, while the timely filing of registration papers qualifies as a violation, it is not a gross violation of the current rules. "Once his paperwork is all in order, should he decide to re-run for the office, I don't believe that many NAPFA members, myself included, would object," Wild wrote.
Busy Schedule
In addition to his role at ScholarFi and as a public speaker in favor of the fiduciary standard, Rhoades juggles a number of other professional duties. He is an attorney of 25 years' experience who now serves as an assistant professor at Alfred State College and chair of the college's financial planning program.
According to Rhoades' LinkedIn page, he teaches a full load of courses, including a personal financial planning capstone, retirement planning, investment planning, employee benefits planning, insurance and risk management and business law.
He also has maintained an active presence on Twitter, using the site as a forum to express his views, although his tweets have gone silent since his announcement. However, a New York Observer article, "Ron Rhoades Tweets How He Really Feels About FINRA," lays out a list of Rhoades' most provocative tweets attacking the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. For example, on July 23 Rhoades tweeted: "List of most ineffective regulators in financial services: #1 FINRA; #2: Finra; #3: this regulator's members are Wall St firms (FINRA)."
When reached for comment, Susan John said she was "very sad" about Rhoades' departure, but that NAPFA understood his reasons for leaving. In a phone interview, John said Rhoades plans to cut back on his public speaking engagements but remains active both at ScholarFi and Alfred State.
"He's one of the most highly principled people I know," John said by phone. "His disclosure of an event that many people would hope to blow over is commendable. I guarantee it was a shocker to him when he discovered this. We've lost the chance to have a really great leader for NAPFA. He came to us, he disclosed the problem that it was in his best interest and that of NAPFA to resign, and the board regretfully accepted his wishes. I think we've lost a really strong advocate for consumer protection."
Read about Rhoades' Alfred State financial planning program at AdvisorOne.


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Jean Moule last wrote for the Flight Training blog about making the best of a change in her flight training plans. She is an emerita faculty member of Oregon State University, and a published writer and artist. Visit her website.—Ed.
In 1970 my art instructor bought a Piper PA-16 Clipper. His art changed from many other media to photographs taken from the airplane. To get a clear view of the ground directly under the airplane, as he wished, he had to turn it pretty much on its side (someone more knowledgeable feel free to tell me a better name for that maneuver and tell us more about that airplane). Earlier, when I had Robert Hartmann as a professor at Berkeley in the mid 1960s, his work was mostly two-dimensional images of airplanes in or under clouds.
In the last year, as you may know from my earlier blogs, I have been taking flying lessons. My flight school closed and my quest for a solo has been on hold. I have not shared here that in the last three years I have reentered a world of art—mostly watercolors, mostly clouds. It was Bob Hartmann who inspired me to change my undergraduate major at Berkeley to art.
Last year I wondered if Bob was still alive and where he was located. A bit of searching, as he does not own a computer, turned up a number. With hesitation I called him. We exchanged a few letters, and this week I was honored and touched to meet with him in his home of 50 years in the Oakland, Calif., hills. It was there that I learned of his flying history and spent time looking at his incredible earthscapes taken from his airplane.
Two days later, I had an extra day in the Bay Area. None of my other connections worked out, no phone messages returned, no beckoning activities. But, wait. There must be a flight school near here. With my recent decision to get up in the air in as many places with as many CFIs as possible before settling down and training for that solo, I decided to fly. I begged my way into a flight lesson for the afternoon. Giddy, I think of the joy of flying over my old campus, seeing the bell tower from the air, and circling Mount Diablo.
An hour before my flight I think. Would Bob, now 87, be available to go up? As we all know you can put another person in that airplane when you take a lesson. [So long as weight and balance work.—Ed.]
I call. He comes. A circle is complete.
It was a pleasure to preflight and go up in a Cessna 172 so similar to the one I flew for a year. Details escaped me and I left the radio work to Joe, the flight instructor. Often I asked him to take the yoke so I could take the photos. I timed our one-hour flight perfectly and learned a few new pieces of information to connect to my knowledge base. Beautiful blue sky, San Francisco in the distance, and Mount Diablo up close. Best of all, we flew over the land that Bob had photographed as art over the years.
As I pay and get a log of the flight, Bob talks with Joe about his years of flying from Buchanan Field in Concord in his Piper Clipper.
After our flight we go to lunch and, at his home, I marvel at more of his images. I spend too much time and miss my commercial flight home, but I don't care. I will treasure his gallery book that he signs and gives me. It is called Solo Flights.—Jean Moule
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Eris is angular, oversized, drapey and dramatic. Created with short row shaping and three colours, this extra wide shawl can be so many different things, depending on her mood.
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Now available in German thanks to Juliane from Jules Wollshop. :)
Note: The sample here shows Colour A being white, Colour B being grey and colour C being black.
Approximately 280 yards Colour A, 310 yards Colour B and 310 yards Colour C, fingering weight yarn.
Size US 6 (4 mm) circular needle (or size needed to obtain gauge)
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Width(At center point)=13"
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M1L=With left needle tip, lift strand between sts from front to back, knit into back of loop
M1R=With left needle tip, lift strand between sts from back to front, knit into front of loop
Kf&b=Knit into the front and back of same stitch
W&T=Wrap and Turn-Bring yarn to the front, slip one stitch from left hand needle to right, bring yarn to the back and slip stitch back to left hand needle. Turn work and bring yarn to the back. (Or W&T method of your preference.)
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The ABC Television Network and the PEANUTS gang will ring in the new year with the animated PEANUTS special, "Happy New Year, Charlie Brown," created by late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, along with "She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown," THURSDAY, DEC. 27 (8:00-9:00 p.m. EST), on The ABC Television Network. (Rebroadcast. OAD: 12/23/09)
In "Happy New Year, Charlie Brown," the PEANUTS gang is ringing in 1986, and Marcie and Peppermint Patty are throwing a big New Year's Eve bash. Charlie Brown plans to celebrate the holiday by curling up with a big book that weighs nearly as much as he does: Tolstoy's "War and Peace." The book's weight doesn't stop him from lugging it to Lucy's pre-party dance class where he cuts a mean rug with a rollicking Patty. With just 1131 pages to go, Charlie Brown takes another break, this time for the party, and summons the courage to invite his true love, the little red-haired girl. She doesn't respond, but hapless Chuck shows up anyway - with Tolstoy in tow. Then he settles down with the book on a porch swing in a snowstorm, and in so doing, misses the evening's big surprise.
The cast includes Chad Allen as Charlie Brown, Melissa Guzzi as Lucy, Jeremy Miller as Linus, Kristi Baker as Peppermint Patty, Elizabeth Lyn Fraser as Sally, Aron Mandelbaum as Schroeder and Jason Mendelson as Marcie.
The special was executive produced by Lee Mendelson and created and written by Charles M. Schulz. Bill Melendez is the producer. It was directed by Bill Melendez and Sam Jaimes. The music is by Desiree Goyette and Ed Bogas.
In "She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown," disaster strikes as Peppermint Patty heads to her first major ice-skating competition with coach Snoopy and faithful companion Marcie by her side. As always, the unassuming Woodstock flies in to save the day. (Rebroadcast. OAD: 12/23/10)
The cast includes Patricia Patts as Peppermint Patty, Casey Carlson as Marcie, Arrin Skelley as Charlie Brown and Bill Melendez as Snoopy. The special was executive produced by Lee Mendelson and written and created by Charles M. Schulz. It was directed by Phil Roman and produced by Bill Melendez. The music is by Ed Bogas and Judy Munson.
About PEANUTS
On Oct. 2, 1950, the PEANUTS comic strip launched in seven American newspapers. Who would have guessed the impact the brand would have around the world for decades to come. Nearly 60 years later, the comic strip appears in over 2,200 newspapers, in 75 countries and 21 languages. PEANUTS animated specials have become a seasonal tradition and thousands of consumer products are available in virtually all retail channels. Charlie Brown kicking the football, Linus and his blanket and Lucy leaning over Schroeder's piano are images to which everyone can relate. Such phrases as "Security Blanket" and "Good Grief" have become a part of the global vernacular. Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez's association with Charles Schulz stretches back to 1965 with "A Charlie Brown Christmas," which debuted on CBS in 1965 with Mendelson as executive producer and Bill Melendez as animator and director. The three men continued their long-term association until Schulz's death, working together on 50 PEANUTS network specials and four feature films. The network specials won five Emmys, two Peabodys and 18 other Emmy nominations.
About Iconix Brand Group
Iconix Brand Group in a joint venture with Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates has formed PEANUTS Worldwide, a new home to the global PEANUTS property. The PEANUTS characters and related intellectual property are owned by Peanuts Worldwide LLC, a joint venture owned 80% by Iconix Brand Group, Inc. and 20% by members of the Charles M. Schulz family. Iconix Brand Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ICON) owns, licenses and markets a growing portfolio of consumer brands including CANDIE'S(R), BONGO(R), BADGLEY MISCHKA(R), JOE BOXER(R), RAMPAGE(R), MUDD(R), LONDON FOG(R), MOSSIMO(R), OCEAN PACIFIC(R), DANSKIN(R), ROCA WEAR(R), CANNON(R), ROYAL VELVET(R), FIELDCREST(R), CHARISMA(R), STARTER(R) and WAVERLY (R). In addition, Iconix owns an interest in the ARTFUL DODGER (R), ED HARDY(R), ECKO(R), MARC ECKO(R), ZOO YORK(R), MATERIAL GIRL(TM) and PEANUTS(R) brands. The Company licenses its brands to a network of leading retailers and manufacturers that touch every major segment of retail distribution from the luxury market to the mass market in both the U.S. and worldwide. Through its in-house business development, merchandising, advertising and public relations departments, Iconix manages its brands to drive greater consumer awareness and equity.
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Sinai Travel Guide
The Sinai peninsula has been the gateway between Africa and Asia since time immemorial, and a battleground for millennia. Prized for its strategic position and mineral wealth, Sinai is also revered by disparate cultures as the site of God's revelation to Moses, the wanderings of Exodus and the flight of the Holy Family. As Burton Bernstein wrote, "It has been touched, in one way or another, by most of Western and Near Eastern history, both actual and mythic," being the supposed route by which the Israelites reached the Promised Land and Islam entered North Africa, then a theatre for Crusader–Muslim and Arab–Israeli conflicts, and finally transformed into an internationally monitored demilitarized zone.
Though mostly wilderness, Sinai is both dramatic and beautiful. The interior of southern Sinai is an arid moonscape of jagged ranges harbouring Mount Sinai and St Catherine's Monastery – pilgrims climb from the site of the Burning Bush to the summit where God delivered the Ten Commandments. Further north, the vast Wilderness of the Wanderings resembles a Jackson Pollock canvas streaked with colour. The Sinai is also home to a remarkably high number of plants and wildlife; over sixty percent of Egypt's plant life thrives in this area, and 33 species are unique to it, including the world's smallest butterfly, the Sinai Baton Blue. Hyenas, ibex and the rabbit-like hyrax also inhabit the region. Venture into this "desert" on a jeep or camel safari and you will also find remote springs and lush oases, providing insights into Bedouin culture.
Above all, the south has the lure of exquisite coral reefs and tropical fish in the Gulf of Aqaba, one of the finest diving and snorkelling grounds in the world. The beach resorts at Sharm el-Sheikh (which includes Na'ama Bay), Dahab and Nuweiba cater to every taste and budget. From Sharm el-Sheikh you can make expeditions to Egypt's deepest reefs and most diverse aquatic life at Ras Mohammed, a mini-peninsula at the southern tip of Sinai, and the Tiran Strait, scattered with the wrecks of ships that have floundered on the reefs of this narrow passageway connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. Northwest of here, the Gulf of Suez pales by comparison with its eastern counterpart, with no reefs and few sites to interest the general visitor – although it's great for windsurfers and kiteboarders.
The differences between Sinai and mainland Egypt can induce culture shock. For those accustomed to the rest of the country, Sinai will seem amazingly uncrowded, laidback and hassle-free – especially for women. Even the customary salutation is different: "kif halak?" ("How is your health/situation?") instead of "izzayak?".
Brief history
Fifty million years ago the Arabian Plate began shearing away from the African landmass, tearing the Sinai peninsula from the mainland while the Red Sea inundated the gap. Bronze Age Semites from Mesopotamia were the first to exploit Sinai's lodes of copper ore and turquoise, foreshadowing the peninsula's colonization by the III Dynasty pharaohs, who enslaved its Semitic population. Pharaonic rule continued until the invasion of the Hyksos "Shepherd Kings", whose occupation of northern Egypt lasted well over a century, till Ahmosis I finally destroyed their last bastion in Gaza. This was subsequently the route by which Tuthmosis III and Ramses II invaded Palestine and Syria.
The Exodus
Enshrined in the Old Testament and by centuries of tradition, the Exodus of the Israelites is a historical conundrum, as no archeological evidence of their journey through Sinai has been found – though excavations at Avaris in the Delta suggest this was the "City of Bondage" from which they fled. Though this is generally agreed to have happened c.1447 BC, scholarly opinion is divided as to the identity of "pharaoh", with most fingering Tuthmosis III or another ruler of the XVIII Dynasty, while David Rohl argues that it was actually the XIII Dynasty king Dudimose (according to his New Chronology).
Scholars have compared Biblical descriptions with physical features and tried to reconcile myths with realities. The "Red Sea" is a mistranslation of the Hebrew yam-suf, or Sea of Reeds, which fits the salt lakes and marshes to the north of Suez, known today as the Bitter Lakes. From there, the Israelites proceeded to Ain Musa and followed Wadi Feiran inland towards Mount Sinai, although an alternative theory has them trekking across northern Sinai and receiving the Ten Commandments at Jebel Halal. Either way, the subsequent forty years in the wilderness are only explicable in terms of a lengthy stay at "Kadesh Barnea", identified as the oasis of Ain Kedirat, where there are extensive ruins.
Christianity and Islam
Over the next millennium or so, Sinai was invaded by Assyrians, Hittites and Babylonians, recaptured by Egypt, and conquered in turn by the Persians, Greeks and Romans. Whether or not the Holy Family had previously crossed Sinai to escape Herod's massacre, the region had begun to attract hermits even before Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity. In 639–40 the Arabs swept into Sinai, fired with the zeal of Islam. Northern Sinai eventually became a pawn in the Crusades, the area between Aqaba and Rafah belonging to the Frankish Kingdom until its collapse at Acre. After the Crusades, the victorious Mamlukes reopened Sinai's trade routes but the peninsula remained Egypt's Achilles heel, as the Ottoman Turks and Mohammed Ali demonstrated with their conquests of 1517 and 1831.
Twentieth-century Sinai
Sinai's strategic importance increased with the completion of the Suez Canal, and in 1892 Britain compelled Turkey to cede it as a buffer zone. Backed by Germany, the Turks retook it in 1914. Anglo-Egyptian forces only dislodged them after a prolonged campaign.
During World War II Sinai saw little fighting, but the creation of Israel brought it back into the front line. In 1948 the Israelis repulsed Arab attacks from all sides and took the Gaza Strip and El-Arish before an armistice was signed, only withdrawing under British pressure. Nasser brought together British and Israeli interests by closing the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping and nationalizing the Suez Canal. Israel's advance into Sinai in October 1956 was the agreed pretext for Anglo-French intervention in the Suez Crisis; the three states, though militarily successful, were compelled to quit by international opposition, and UN peacekeeping forces established a buffer zone in Gaza and guaranteed free passage through the Gulf of Aqaba.
However, when Egypt ordered the UN to leave and resumed its blockade in 1967, Israel launched a pre-emptive strike and captured the entire peninsula, which it retained after the Six Day War. In the October War of 1973, Egypt broke into Sinai but then suffered a devastating counterattack across the Suez Canal.
The Camp David Accords and after
US-sponsored peace negotiations culminated in President Sadat's historic visit to Jerusalem, the Camp David Accords and a peace treaty signed in 1979. Under its terms Israel evacuated all settlements founded during the occupation of Sinai and the territory reverted to Egypt. The phased transition was completed in 1982, except for the disputed enclave of Taba, finally resolved in 1989. The Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) based at Na'ama Bay monitors Sinai's demilitarized zones.
Tourism, introduced to Sinai by the Israelis, initially suffered from the handover, as the Camp David Accords forbade any development for five years. Since 1988, however, its recovery has shifted into overdrive. While the areas of Ras Mohammed, Abu Galum and Nabeq are protected as nature reserves, the entire coastline north of Nuweiba, and from Sharm el-Sheikh to Nabeq, is highly developed, with new resorts springing up all the time and innumerable charter flights from Europe into Sharm el-Sheikh airport.
The mercurial nature of Middle Eastern politics, however, means tourism along the Sinai coast is a fickle business. Unrest in the West Bank and Gaza has greatly slowed tourist traffic from Israel, while the 2004 terrorist attacks in Taba, with more attacks in Sharm el-Sheikh and Dahab in 2005 and 2006 respectively, have worsened the situation further. While tourists have flocked back to Sharm el-Sheikh and Dahab, the coast around Nuweiba and Taba is very quiet. The global recession and the unrest caused by the ongoing Egyptian revolution are unlikely to improve matters.
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HSRP can track interfaces, which is pretty handy if they are tracking the WAN interface to get out the network. There are times when tracking the interface itself is not enough. This is a great example:
Our customer is running HSRP between 2 routers connected to his local LAN. All PC's connected to his switch are using 10.1.1.254 as their default gateway. R1 is the primary HSRP router and R2 is the backup.
HSRP allows you to track an interface and lower the priority if this happens. So let's say R1′s WAN interface goes down, HSRP will notice that, and allow R2 to take over the HSRP group. This allows the customer to continue to get to the cloud. A basic config here:
interface FastEthernet0/1 description LAN ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 standby version 2 standby 1 ip 10.1.1.254 standby 1 priority 110 standby 1 preempt standby 1 track FastEthernet0/0 65
interface FastEthernet0/1 description LAN ip address 10.1.1.2 255.255.255.0 standby version 2 standby 1 ip 10.1.1.254 standby 1 preempt standby 1 track FastEthernet0/0 50
What happens if the interface stays up though? In the above diagram, R1′s WAN interface connects to a switch. Now this could be a local switch or a 3rd party NTE (which often happens on leased lines) – The circuit from the switch to the cloud could be down, but the port between the router and switch are still up.
As far as HSRP is concerned, that interface is up and healthy. All LAN PC's will continue to send traffic to R1, but that traffic gets dropped at the switch. Another case is if you've got some sort of MPLS/VPLS solution with your provider. They could have a problem and all traffic is getting black-holed inside their network. But R1 still thinks the link is healthy and sends it on it's way.
There is a better way of doing this.
IOS allows you to track object. An object could be an IP SLA instance. That IP SLA instance could very easily be an ICMP echo from another device in the cloud. See where I'm going here?
Assume R3 has a rock solid connection. We could assume is a big bad router with multiple power feeds on multiple phases with multiple WAN connections. 192.168.1.1 is the loopback of this device accessible from multiple connections. Basically we assume that 192.168.1.1 is ALWAYS available.
Let's create an IP SLA instance that tests connectivity to 192.168.1.1. We then tell HSRP to track reachability to that instance. If it cannot get to the instance, we can assume that the link to it is dead, regardless of whether R1′s WAN interface is up or not. First up is the IP SLA instance:
ip sla monitor 10 type echo protocol ipIcmpEcho 192.168.1.1 frequency 5 ip sla monitor schedule 10 life forever start-time now
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I create an object labelled 100 that is tracking instance 10 of IP SLA we created above.
We now amend R1′s HSRP config as follows:
interface FastEthernet0/1 description LAN ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 no ip redirects standby version 2 standby 1 ip 10.1.1.254 standby 1 priority 110 standby 1 preempt standby 1 track FastEthernet0/0 65 standby 1 track 100 decrement 65
I've kept the interface tracking there as if it goes down, why wait for IP SLA to timeout?
But does it work? Let's have a look and see. Let's kill S1′s connection into the cloud. Once that's done, let's have a look at R1:
R13#sh standby FastEthernet0/1 - Group 1 (version 2) State is Standby 7 state changes, last state change 00:01:08 Virtual IP address is 10.1.1.254 Active virtual MAC address is 0000.0c9f.f001 Local virtual MAC address is 0000.0c9f.f001 (v2 default) Hello time 3 sec, hold time 10 sec Next hello sent in 0.052 secs Preemption enabled Active router is 10.1.1.2, priority 100 (expires in 9.052 sec) Standby router is local Priority 45 (configured 110) Track interface FastEthernet0/0 state Up decrement 65 Track object 100 state Down decrement 65 IP redundancy name is "hsrp-Fa0/1-1" (default) R1#sh int fa0/0 FastEthernet0/0 is up, line protocol is up
IOS is telling us that although the interface is up, it's passed the HSRP group to R2. Now we don't have to worry about traffic getting black-holed!
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"You see a lot of me finalizing my divorce and figuring out how to put my life back in order. Even though I don't film with my kids, I talk about them also so people will see me try to raise three kids who have a difficult time with the divorce," Tamra reveals. "I also start several new business, which includes a fitness studio and a wine of the month club."
When asked about the stress of embarrassing herself on a reality show, Tamra confessed she turns to alcohol to cope. Oh, dear… "I drink a lot. Haha," she jokes. "I think for me, I just try not to take it too seriously. I know that I say things that piss the girls off and they say things that piss me off, so I'll be mad for an hour and then I'm over it. You have to be that way, or you'd go crazy."
Viewers will also see Vicki Gunvalson going through her divorce from Donn Gunvalson, whom she was married to for close to twenty years! Speaking to the Chicago Sun Times, Vicki talks about her history with Donn and her experiences this season! "I never would have guessed it — that our marriage wouldn't make it — when we started this seven years ago," Vicki confesses.
Vicki and Donn met when they were both working at a hardware store, of all places. "He got a job with Home Depot, and they moved us out here [to California]," she describes. "We had no intentions of being on a TV show. It just sort of happened." Surprisingly, Vicki admits the show contributed to her marital issues, blaming the time commitments and pressure for driving the couple apart. Vicki did not mention Donn's recent cancer diagnosis though she tweeted about it days ago.
Vicki also claims this season has been a positive one for her and she is excited to have people meet her new
deadbeat man Brooks Ayers. "This season, I'm in a much better place," she says. "I'm becoming the person I feel like I was always meant to be."
Regardless of their issues, all the ladies promise the drama is still at a maximum. "No matter where you put cameras, there's going to be drama," Vicki assures us. "It doesn't really matter what state you're in. I think we've proven it with this franchise."
Surprisingly, Jeana Keough and Peggy Tanous will also be back for a couple episodes. "Jeana does come back, we pick up where we left off," Tamra hints.
Vicki also posted a picture of herself with Jerry Springer on Facebook. I wonder if he will be hosting the next reunion! We could only hope…
Real Housewives Of Orange County premieres February 7th at 9/10c on Bravo.


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I used to be an industry expert on MOSFET/IGBT a long time ago [...]I could design one pretty fast but gone are the days of discrete electronics that I used to design the bootstrapped drivers of the top 2 n-channel MOSFETs of the H-bridge.
I searched eBay hoping to get to an IC based full H-Driver but could only get to A3986SLDT and this thing is kind of overpriced. I will appreciate if someone can suggest a cheaper alternative. Thanks!!
I completely agree that many pros use p-channel BJTs for H-bridges because that is a simple and proven solution.
I understand all the advantages of doing that but with p and n channel BJTs efficient utilization of a 6V system can be ruled out.
eBay is not and probably never be the source of parts for pros but whenever I do a generic search on data sheets and application notes for a H-bridge driver, I am stuck with useless crap on websites like datasheetcatalog, alldatasheet, datasheetarchive besides others (5 years ago I remember hitting much better info on Google but it is not that simple any more I believe) so had tried a few searches on eBay that did seem to get me somewhere - I therefore welcome any suggestions in this regard.
This is a relatively inexpensive motor driver that does not use darlington pair transitors. I still do not like it since it uses p-channel MOSFETs not the best of design decisions. I will keep looking and updating improved versions as I am able to find/design them....
IN4001 diodes shown in the design are kind of hillarious to me for they are not fast recovery schottkey ones... these can be dropped since MOSFETs come with a built in free-wheeling diode...
there are design flaws but the idea is very workable.
Other one I noticed is that the zener is 15V but the regulated voltage that they produce is 12V.....!!
About the perception of a transistor, any 3 terminal device that transfers resistance is a transistor but the similarity ends there. MOSFET and IGBT are much more sensitive (especially for static electricity), have a positive temperature coeffecient and international rectifiers made them into Hexagonal structures calling them Hexfets to be able to reduce Rds to the level of milliohms. MOSFETs can pack 10s of watts into a TO-220 pack compared to a few watts by BjTs. BjTs always drop a good fraction of a volt as Vce at saturation for currents ranging a few amperes, this can be anywhere from 0.2-0.5V as discussed above. Transistors are generally slow and Cbe for a BjT is not as significant as the Cgs of a MOSFET (terminologies hold good for n-channel/n-p-n). Additionally while MOSFET is a voltage device (cos Igs = 0, transistor is primarily a current device, and therefore gain is measured in terms of current in the former, it is measured in terms of voltage gain for MOSFETs)So to the untrained eye, a MOSFET in a typical TO-220 pack will look the same as a darlington in the same package.... but for a good designer that similarity ends with PCB layout design. Even the heat sink design in terms of degree kelvin/watt is different for both.So while a hobbist buys the standard products and puts them together, a designer has to look more from the first principles. I realize that there has been a lot of talk and no real work on this thread.... however if someone is keen on making a point, they are more than welcome to comment on alternatives like the thyristors or SCRs, full and half H-bridge, synchronous and asynchronous commutation techniques instead of merely the 'spell checks' and probably also reduce the 'muscle flex'. I do not say that out of rage but because i have seen that individual provide great advice on this and other threads and also get a just a bit emotional which has no place in robotics since a robot with emotions has not been created as yet
I think we discuss only technical here-ambcorp- you should take out the "expert" thing- that is the only fault I see- if you are expert give more help-soren- your comments means no one talk like their mind- they should first think... what will soren think? Oh I am afraid this is not like by soren- soren if you have this problem please stop answering all question. Not only this one here...
I am new but I will talk what my mind think not what other member want me think-