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Enterprises are expected to significantly increase their adoption of tablets in the coming years, according to recent analyst reports predicting business buyers will represent 18 percent of overall tablet sales by 2017. With its sleek design and intuitive user interface (UI), it's no surprise that Apple's iPad is still paving the way for this trend; particularly among sales, marketing and field service professionals.
For these reasons, customer relationship management (CRM) software vendors have developed many iPad-compatible systems. In this guide, we'll provide an overview of technology in this category, including the most common deployment models and common features of native iPad CRM apps.
CRM iPad apps can be delivered through several deployment models. Each comes with its own benefits and potential drawbacks. These deployment models include:
We mentioned that native CRM iPad apps often limit capabilities to a few core features—this is due in part to developers' desire to streamline the interface for the mobile experience. However, this is also done because the kinds of activities sales, marketing and field services professionals perform in the field are often different from the work they do in the office.
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Sales representatives, for example, likely need more features for delivering presentations in client meetings. Similarly, field service professionals need more tools for completing work orders, accepting payments and planning their route while working out of the office. Here's a summary of a few of the most-common features for native CRM ipad apps.
|Data synchronization
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|Capture signatures
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|Routzy, FieldOne Mobile
|Visit planning
|Connects appointments on your calendar with account information in the CRM database. This way, when users are preparing for a meeting, they simply click from an at-a-glance view of their schedule to a contact profile. Or, some apps display contact history directly in the calendar.
|CRM.pad, Salesforce Touch
Sales and Marketing
|Account locator
|This feature enables users to find leads, contacts and opportunities near their current location. They use the device's GPS-enabled maps to pinpoint accounts in a 10 to 100 mile radius. This allows users to optimize their route based on where they are relative to each account.
|ZOHO, Routzy, Base CRM
|Coaching push notifications
|This refers to push notifications that can be sent to sales representatives in the field based on a status change of a current opportunity in the pipeline. For example, if someone in the office just got off the phone with a potential client who sounded really interested, they could send a push notification to a rep that is near that account to go close the deal in person.
|Base CRM
|Sales orders
|These features allow sales reps to easily create and send sales orders while in the field. Often, these tools can instantly email customers an order confirmation email. Also, users can attach photos to orders and scan SKUs and barcodes.
|Sybase, Handshake Sales Rep Order
|Virtual catalogue
|Instead of carrying hard sales and marketing assets, many apps will provide tools for presenting these virtually. These presentations might allow the user to flip pages, just as they would a brochure. They could also be updated in real-time in cases where people in the office make changes while the marketing or sales rep is in the field.
|Temovo, Fatstax
Field Service
|Work orders
|This feature enables users to easily record work orders regarding services delivered in the field. This includes recording materials used on the job, photo annotations and other documentation. This process is catered to the mobile experience by leveraging drop-down menus, autofill, audio and other tools meant to limit typing.
|iNotes CRM, FieldOne Mobile
|Job order push notifications
|These features allow dispatchers in the office to push notifications to technicians in the field when there is a change to a job order, or a change to their route based on new, higher priority jobs. These notifications will pop-up as an alert, and can be delivered with optimized driving directions.
|FieldOne Mobile
|Invoicing & payment processing
|These features allow field service agents to quickly create invoices for work delivered in the field. These invoices can immediately be emailed to the customer, as well as delivered to administrative staff in the office. Often, users can also use these features to directly process customer payments.
|Intuit Field Service Management
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Local pilots are baffled by recent full-page ads offering the Montauk Airport as a parcel for sale. Collectively it appears they are against it, and some of them are considering pooling their resources to buy it. But not for the $18.5 million that it is listed for, an amount they said just doesn't make sense.
Peter Lowenstein, the president of the Montauk Pilot's Association, which has 25 members, said that he is involved with a group that might be willing to buy the airport so that the hamlet doesn't lose its only airstrip.
"Every single pilot would be extremely unhappy if there is not an airport," he said, adding that it is "reasonably used," especially in summer.
Paul Brennan of Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate, who holds the listing, agrees with Mr. Lowenstein that it would be a shame for the hamlet to lose the airport. He said Monday that he has contacted several government officials to see if a partnership could be arranged between town, county, and state entities to buy it, possibly with community preservation fund money, but to no avail.
"Government doesn't seem to want to be involved. Wilkinson doesn't want another headache," he said, referring to East Hampton Town's supervisor. "What if there is a hurricane and Napeague gets washed out or an evacuation? I don't think people are thinking down the road," he said.
This is not the first time there has been talk of a public purchase of the airstrip. In 1961, negotiations were underway for the sale of the airport and its incorporation into a proposed Suffolk County Airport Authority. The Federal Aviation Administration even made $250,000 available to the county to buy the airport the following year, but neither the sale nor the county airport authority came to pass.
Mr. Brennan said this week that a buyer could subdivide the 37-acre airport into six lots (that would probably be reduced to four as it progressed) and put a housing development on the land.
The airport is owned by eight stockholders who have asked not to be named, Mr. Brennan said. "They really don't want people asking them why they're selling the airport."
One of the shareholders is the Duryea family of Montauk, which has had a hand in the airport since its construction in the late 1950s. In 1957 Montauk Airstrip Incorporated, headed by Perry B. Duryea Jr., bought the airport tract off East Lake Drive from the Montauk Beach Company. Mr. Duryea, a pilot in World War II, was speaker of the New York State Assembly.
The airport first opened for light planes in February 1958 and opened fully that spring. At the time a "portel" was planned that would have included a structure with 15 motel-type apartments, a 30-slip marina, and a Hertz rental car service, none of which panned out.
Mr. Duryea's son, Perry (Chip) Duryea III, did not return a call for comment this week.
Mr. Brennan has held the listing for a month now, and tried to work with government officials before making it public just last week. The airport is surrounded by 1,000 acres of county parkland, including the camping area at Gin Beach.
Suffolk County Legislator Jay Schneiderman, a Montauk resident, said on Tuesday that the Montauk Airport is still limited by the stipulations of a Federal Aviation Association grant that was issued for runway improvements in 1996, which prohibits any changes for another 10 years.
The county's finances right now would not allow for purchase of the airport, but, he said, portions of the surrounding property could be bought with money from the town's preservation fund, and other portions might eventually be purchased through the county's land fund program.
He wondered if East Hampton Town would even want two airports. "It doesn't seem that they like the airport they have," he said. East Hampton Airport, which is owned by the town, has been the subject of ongoing litigation over one thing or another for years.
He, too, said that without an airstrip in the hamlet, future evacuations in case of natural disasters could be jeopardized. "I think it would be a terrible loss for Montauk. We have to consider the options. In Montauk people will fight losing the airport," he said, later adding, "It would be bad. That would be something I'd really not like to see. What if medical supplies had to be delivered to Montauk? Without an airport it would be hard."
State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele concurred, but said that the state would not get involved with a possible purchase. He said he has been approached by a group of users interested in buying the property. "People have expressed an interest. There are those who want to see an airport remain. They're going to have to step up to the plate," he said, crediting Mr. Brennan for working behind the scenes to find an alternative to residential development.
Mr. Brennan hopes the pilots do manage to see the airport remain. "I think it would be a shame for a Hilton to go in there," he said.
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|January 23, 2013, 09:34 PM
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WWII Walther Question
A friend has a Walther PPK (blued, 7.65 cal) brought back from Europe by his uncle, at the end of WWII. It is in good to very good condition, with flap holster and the military form authorizing him to bring it home. There are no Nazi markings, though.
I realize pics or a more thorough description would be useful, but I don't have any ....
I've checked a couple of the online sale & auction sites, but with very limited success. Any ideas as to a ballpark figure, or range,of value for such a piece?
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|January 24, 2013, 12:05 PM
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Only those PPs and PPKs bought by the military, individually or on contract, will have the WaA marking. Some sold to other agencies will have factory or agency makings, but many of those guns were taken from German civilians and have no military marks, just the normal eagle/N commercial proof mark.
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7.65/.32ACP was not a military cartridge in Germany. Most likely a civilian gun confiscated by the occupying US forces.
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|January 25, 2013, 08:29 AM
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Well, actually it was a military cartridge in that they had lots of guns in service in all branches in that chambering and that cartridge was in the system. It was a standard cartridge, although that is not to say it would have been found in, say, an infantry regiment.
On the other hand, the .380, a more powerful cartridge, was not, even though many were used, most of which would have been captured weapons. The .380 or 9mm Browning was the standard pistol cartridge for Italy, Jugoslavia and Hungary. But when those same guns were manufactured for the Germans, they were made, usually, in .32 ACP.
All the other comments apply, however, and such a pistol will be more valuable than any current Walther product, if not necessarily better made.
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While many privately owned or captured guns were carried by German soldiers, official ammunition supply was limited to two calibers, the service pistol caliber of 9mm 1908 (9mm Luger) and the 7.65mm Browning (.32 ACP). Some .22 LfB (LR) was available for target shooting with small bore rifles or conversion kits. Neither the 9mm Kurz (.380 ACP) nor the 6.35mm Browning (.25 ACP) was in the German police/military supply system. When "booty weapons" or obsolete weapons in a non-standard caliber were issued to rear area troops or security forces, ammo was issued with the understanding that there might not be any more available.
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Supposedly the Finnish Army used more captured weapons than they did of their own. However, in their case, they had already standardized on the 7.62x54r, so there was no problem there. But their handgun was (officially, anyway) a .30 cal. Luger. They had no Soviet pistol rounds in their supply system. So although captured weapons were highly prized, especially submachine guns, when the ammo ran out, they passed them back to the rear troops, which they were supposed to do to begin with.
One of the more interesting oddities of captured weapons during WWII concerns the standard handgun of the Norwegian Army. After the end of that campaign, the Germans disarmed the Norwegian Army. The standard Norwegian pistol was a Colt .45 automatic. So some Colt .45 automatics wound up being used, somewhere at least, by the Germans. Then, in an even stranger twist of hisory, at the end of the war the Germans still in Norway were disarmed by the Norwegians. The Germans were equipped handgun-wise with Lugers, the story goes, and those Lugers remained in use until replaced by--wait for it--Glocks. Also, the Norwegians retained the original leather holsters that came with the Lugers but modified them with a U.S. style wire hanger so they could be used with a U.S. style pistol belt.
A footnote to the story is that the Norwegians exprimentally produced an additional batch of .45 autos, probably 30 years ago now, as a cost study and the resulting pistols were sold on the surplus market.
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|January 26, 2013, 10:00 PM
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Actually, the Norwegians didn't use many Colts. In 1915-1917, Norway got the OK from FN to purchase 1000 pistols from Colt. (FN had the European rights to Brownings patents, which is why they had to be involved.)
Norway also purchased manufacturing rights to the Colt Government Model (1911 style) and put it into production in mid-1918 as the Model 1912, Cal. 11.43mm. Later in 1918 the slide stop was altered and the designation was changed to Model 1914, Cal. 11.25mm. Some 22,300 were made prior to the German occupation and about 8224 made during that period. The rest of a total of 32,874 pistols were made after the war.
It is my understanding that the Germans used very few Norwegian rifles or pistols, and that most of those seized by the Germans and re-issued went to the Norwegian Quisling (pro-Nazi) forces.
A man who fought in the Polish underground told me that they once found* a German motorcycle messenger with a Thompson SMG, probably taken from the British. They shot up the ammo the German had, then threw the gun in a lake because it was useless. His favorite SMG was the Russian PPSh, which he considered better than the German MP.38/40.
*The German was missing more than the Thompson; he also lacked a head, having unfortunately encountered some piano wire that happened to be stretched across the road. I was given to understand that when engaged in such wire type activity, one stretches the piano wire at an angle to the road; if stretched straight across, it will reflect the headlight of the motorcycle.
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Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
feuer_faust wrote:Targeting System: +1 AP
This scope or sensor package attached directly to a weapon, or somewhere where it can see where the weapon is aimed. If a minifig or creation remains stationary to aim, it recieves a +2 to skill instead of +1.
stubby wrote:You were inb4beluga.
*CRAZYHORSE* wrote:I don't really like the system for this in the 2005 rules. Mainly because if you wan't something between a weapon with size 1 and a weapon with size 2 you have to make up the stats your self (>.<) and also think there should be a grounds attack rule so that you could still shoot on smaller targets with a big gun. Because if someone is running and you'r in a tank you don't directly aim at the person but at the ground under his feet.
Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
IVhorseman wrote:uh. crazyhorse. why would you want to get more specific than size one and two? it's set up like this for simplicity, since brikwars is by no means an exact science.
as for ground targeting, that's already incorporated into the system. if you miss, the shot lands a certain number of inches away. a size 3 explosive weapon does 3d10 damage, which affects units up to 6" away. your hit ratio suddenly goes up.
stubby wrote:You were inb4beluga.
Gorchek wrote:You can add the full-auto rule for the gattling: by doubling the weapon's cost, you can cause extra damage based on how well you hit, or you can target everyone in a cone.
And if that's still not enough, you could add an extra rule: for each two barrels the weapon has, you add the base cost again, and you get a +1 to the skill roll (representing all the extra lead you can send in the area). Although, on cone fire, you might want to limit the skill bonus to just cancelling the penalities for firing in a cone.
So, the gattling on the front of the Striking Venon would be a size 1 full-auto weapon with 8 barrels, costing (3 + 3 for full-auto + 4*3 for extra barrels) 18 cp, and have a +4 to skill rolls for its attack.
Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
IV wrote:i was also marginally dissapointed with the weapons included in 2005 brikwars, but the system is easily expanded upon.
one thing to note though, is that *most* weapons already fall into one of the different categories already given. the more specialized weapons are what there aren't rules pre-given for.
so far, the only specialized extra siege weapons i have are heavy MGs/miniguns, artillery, and flamethrowers. i only added these weapons because they did not previously fit into the weapon criteria.
generally, you don't want to be creating weapons unless you absolutely cannot fit it into some other category due to game mechanics. for example, the weapon type of "Missile" can be applied to actual missiles, or it can go to anything that would reasonably have similar range, and would make an explosive area-of-effect damage attack. this includes missiles, plasma blasts, pulse waves, large rocks that shatter into pieces and massive glass bottles, along with whatever else would behave similarly.
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Well I haven't posted in a while and so I checked the blog prompts and saw "Those Places Thursday" and Immediately thought of my grand parents home at 1646 Highland Ave. in Windsor, Ontario. My Dads mother Elva (who I have blogged about before) married and settled down with Vic Boismier. They owned the home on Highland and it was where they lived until they each passed away. I never knew them to live anywhere else, all my life.
Grandma Elva Boismier (Nee Dennie) with me John F.W. Goodwin (age 1) Aug 1967.
Above their home was a small apartment. It had two bedrooms (average size), a bathroom, a living room and the smallest of kitchens. You got to the apartment by going up the back stairs and their was an enclosed porch at the top with some storage space, and the door to the apartment.
Me in my parents room 1968.
Me in the old bathroom (notice the cast Iron tub).
Christmas 1968 (living room - with door to my parent bedroom top right corner - which is where the picture above (of me in their room) was taken from).
Me at 2 and a half with my parents William F. Goodwin & Noella A. (nee Lafleur).
Now my parents lived up their to get started when they first married and had me, until I was about 4 or 5 years old. Then my Dads brother (my Uncle Vince) lived their, and my aunt Orleen. each started out or got back on their feet living their. Later in the 80's my grandmother's sister (my great aunt Gladys) moved down from Hamilton with her three kids and lived their for a year or so. For the last year of high school my father moved us out to the Forest Glade area in Windsor, but all my friends where still down in the area near my grandmothers. We had lived in the area and I went to high school a few blocks from the Highland home. So I had a key and if it got to late to take a bus out to home, then I would just go there and crash. She kept it partly furnished and left some bedding up there in case I needed to come by. I learned how to walk in that apartment and one day soon after, at the age of 10 months (my First Memory).... My parents where going out one night and my mother took me out on the back porch to head for the car, when she remembered she had forgotten something (her purse maybe), and went back in the apartment to grab it. My dad was just grabbing his keys and wallet and was still in the apartment, when he saw my mother without me. He asked where I was and as she realized she had left me on the porch without closing the gate to the stairs, they both started for the door just as they heard me go THUMP, THUMP, THUMP...PETTY, THUMP, THUD down the stairs and land on the cement at the bottom. I can still to this day remember standing there looking down from the top and trying to manage the top stair (that was extra height, by the way). Then falling and rolling with the banisters going by, and finally coming to a rest on the cement on my back, looking up the stairs at my parents as they came running down in a panic. I was taken to hospital and kept for observation for a few days. To this day I am afraid of heights, and think this is why. But I was fine. Later I remember my 5th birthday which was downstairs in my grandparents dining room, I had a party with friends and got my first 2 wheeler bike with training wheels. We took pictures and the next day my dad took the training wheels off before he headed to work. My grandfather watched me during the day and I set out back and forth down the side walk out front trying to master the act of balance, pedaling and steering that little beast. When my father got home, I rushed out to show him how well I could ride my bike. He was impressed that I had learned in the day. We had Christmas dinners, thanksgiving dinners, saw my Great Uncle Ordel and his family off (as they passed through Windsor, on there way to move to California), and so many other events I can't even remember them all. When my Mother and Father split to divorce, my mother asked me if I wanted to live with her or my dad and I said my dad, she dropped me at my grandmothers with some clothes and the keys to the house (she moved out that day and left my dad to take care of selling it). He picked me up the next day, but everything seemed to revolve around that house for me until high school was over and then gradually it slipped away. When My grandmother finally passed on, I got to go through the house and take whatever I wanted since I had just started my own family. I took the dinning room set since it reminded me of all those family gatherings and a few other nick knacks that reminded me of my grand parents. Unfortunately at some point my grandmother had gotten rid of the open front high bureau desk that my grand father always kept his important things in. It was damaged, but I would have loved to have had it. It was that item that really spoke to me of him.
My father would be standing in front of the house (so you can't see it) while my mother stood watching me walking around at 1 year of age, 1967.
So when I think of "Those Places Thursday", I almost always "Remember When...." we use to live, play, visit, eat, party, laugh, cry, and talk; at 1646 Highland Ave., in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It goes together with childhood for me.


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Northwave Power 2 Grip Gel Full Finger Gloves 2016
This £16.99 2016 Northwave Power 2 Grip Gel Long Finger Gloves deal has expired. However, you can..
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Founded by Gianni Piva in the 1980s in the Italian town of Montebelluna, Northwave is owned by the Piva family. It wasn't until the 1990s that products on cycling shoes began, having previously been a snowboard equipment manufacturer. 1993 marked their first MTB shoe, and in 1996, Paola Pezzo won the first XC MTB Olympic gold wearing their products. Success on the road followed shortly afterwards, with Ivan Gotti's victory in the 1997 Giro d'Italia, followed by a second Olympic gold for Pezzo in 2000. Subsequent iconic cyclists to have won using the Northwave brand include Cipollini, Gunn-Rita Dahle, Boonen, Gilbert and Cancellara. For more information on their current range of cycling products, please visit http://northwave.com/ or to read about their history here.
About Chain Reaction Cycles
This product is for sale at Chain Reaction Cycles, one of the largest online cycle shops in the world. Opening in 1985, and starting off as a small independent bike shop in Ballynure, it moved to Ballyclare in 1989 and is now based in Doagh (all in Northern Ireland). In addition to regular local service, Chain Reaction Cycles (or CRC as it is often abbreviated to) established itself as a mail order business via advertisements in bicycle magazines; this continued until 1999 where it launched it's now famous website at ChainReactionCycles.com. Their blue themed website stocks around 90,000 products ranging from MTB & Road cycling equipment, to triathlon, BMX and running kit. As per several other leading bike shops, Chain Reaction produce their own product ranges, under brands such as Brand X. To this day CRC sponsor many cycling events, and due to the company's size and efficiency are able to offer very competitive pricing on cycle equipment. In 2016 Wiggle acquired Chain Reaction Cycles, although the two websites continue to operate independently of each other, both with their own distinctive branding and product ranges.


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I hadn't been back to Moon Tower Inn, the outdoor beer-and-hot-dog mecca in the East End, since they went on hiatus to install new shipping-container buildings and an ultra-serious new wall of beer taps. But I spent yesterday afternoon lazing in the backyard and on the covered patio as the temperature hit 90 degrees, and I couldn't have had a better time.
Part of that was due to the company. Part to the very relaxed setting in an area of town for which I have a particular fondness. (Yes, I happen to live in the East End.) Part, of course, can be ascribed to the effect of the excellent Texas beers I drank. They just got better as the temperature mounted; isn't that the way?
But the capper was discovering a burger that I can add to my Houston's greatest hits list — one that I will want to eat over and over again.
*PRICE: $9 for the half-pound burger, variously adorned, including the ineffable Cheech Burger. $1 extra for the optional-but-highly-advisable ancho/Dr.Pepper/onion marmalade jam. Just get it. $4 for a plastic cupful of 8th Wonder Intellectuale, a local witbier/blonde ale amalgam that is excellent burger material.
*ORDERING: Get in line at the marine-blue container that holds the beer-tap wall, consult a laminated menu and place your order. Take your plastic table-number tent to a picnic table in the big backyard or under the patio cover, and wait until your number is called. You fetch your food at the window facing the back yard.
*ARCHITECTURE: No salad stuff , but any vegetables go on top. On a buttery griddle-toasted bun goes a big schmear of the optional onion/ancho marmalade, followed by an inch-thick patty of ground beef. Then come criss-crossed planks of bacon, slabs of roasted poblano, blobs of melty goat cheese and great gouts of pinkish sambal mayonnaise.
*QUALITY: Speaking purely on a sandwich level, the Cheech is a triumph. All the parts mesh beautifully without upstaging each other, from the crisp bacon to the flaps of roasted poblano chile, the sambal-gigged mayo to the tart brisk lift of goat cheese. Factor in the optional hot/sweet onion marmalade, which is simmered with ancho chile and Dr. Pepper, and you have three different kinds of chile heat going on — two reds and a green, all getting along. Yet the beefy quality of the inch-thick patty shines straight through.
About that patty: it's lumpy and obviously hand-formed, not too compacted and with a good sear on the outside. I ordered it without doneness instructions, and it came medium well — more cooked than I generally prefer a patty of this quality, but I loved it nonetheless. Next time I'd feel confident about ordering it medium rare.
The only trouble with the Cheech? I'm so hung up on it I may never get around to trying the Chong.
*OOZE RATING: Fair plus. No real drippage, but plenty of juice left in the patty.
*GRADE: A plus.
*BONUS POINTS: Really good, red-chile-spiked cole slaw on the side, plus a whole wall of interesting microbrews on tap to go with your burger or hot dog. There are plenty of Texas brews among them, and I can vouch for the quality of the 8th Wonder Intellectuale (a blond ale with a witbier twist from the Eatsie Boys' East Downtown brewery) and the Adelbert Tripel B Belgian-style ale out of Austin. Either works with the food or as a session beer, because a session is what you'll slip into rather readily here, as you relax outdoors in the Texas heat, sweating a little and kind of enjoying it.
*MINUS POINTS: pesky flies. Blame Mother Nature, not Moon Tower. Oh yeah, and the legendary Moon Tower wait time for your food. But it's worth it for that burger.
*LOCAL COLOR: This industrial stretch of Canal Street in the near East End has a bleak majesty that's softened by Moon Tower's eccentric features, from the convivial covered patio to the gorgeous oleanders that surf over its southwest corner. The backyard open-air dining room feels like a shambly summer camp, or — as a friend of mine noted — like a Maine crab shack without the ocean.
Moon Tower Inn, 3004 Canal St., 836-266-0105. Hours 2 p.m. — 2 a.m. Monday — Thursday; 2 p.m. — 3 a.m. Friday & Saturday; 2 p.m. — 2 a.m. Sunday.


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Isis Winter League 2016-17
The Isis Winter League (IWL) is a series of head races run throughout Michaelmas and Hilary terms. IWLs are open not only to OURCs affiliated crews, but also to other rowing clubs based on the Isis, so all are encouraged to participate. The course usually runs from Donnington Bridge, through to the Cox Stone opposite Christ Church Meadows.
Table of Events
|Race Secretary
|List of Entries
|Marshal Rota
|4th Week Michaelmas
|William Frost
|Draw (499KB)
|Marshal Rota (609KB)
|Results (68KB)
|30th October 2016
|8th Week Michaelmas
|Harriet Bull
|Draw (140KB)
|Marshal Rota (127KB)
|Results (59KB)
|27th November 2016
|2nd Week Hilary
|William Frost
|Draw (497KB)
|Marshal Rota (439KB)
|Results (231KB)
|22nd January 2017
|4th Week Hilary
|Cameron McGarry
|Draw (217KB)
|Marshal Rota (221KB)
|5th February 2017
|6th Week Hilary
|Matthew Rigby
|Draw (98KB)
|Marshal Rota (105KB)
|Results (76KB)
|19th February 2017
Entry fees
Entry fees for 2016-17 are as follows:
- £16 - 8+
- £14 - 4+, 4-, 4x-
- £12 - 2x, 2-
- £10 - 1x
Marshalling documents
- Marshals will be provided with the relevant page of this guide (205KB) on the day.
- We will be using this guide (153KB) as a basis for our briefing
- We strongly recommend that marshalls read over the above guides a few days before coming down for their shift to allow the knowledge to sink in.
- Please ensure that marshals sent to the river are of a suitable quality of knowledge. We will not explictly ban novice marshals, but we strongly suggest that this early in the term you send experienced rowers. If the quality if marshalling proves to be poor, we will ban novices as marshals for future IWLs.
Shared Event Documentation
- Event Plan (669KB)
- Winter League Event plan appendices:
- Instructions to Competitors (245KB)
League Leaderboard
Can be found here
League points are allocated according to the IWL Scoring Guide
- Entries must be made online through the OURCs entries system. If you require a password please contact the webmaster.
- Entries close at 1800 the Wednesday before each event.
- Scratching closes at 1800 the Thursday before each event. After this time you may scratch crews but you will still have to pay the entry fee & supply marshals according to your original entries.
- Preferred payment method is by bank transfer - details from the OURCs Treasurer. Cheques should be pidged to Harriet Bull at Pembroke College. Bank transfers should be made the day before at the latest. If paying on the day bring a cheque or card to Racedesk (Longbridges) - OURCs does not accept cash. Harriet can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com
- As per A1.8.3a, if your entry fees and other debts are not paid to the satisfaction of the OURCs Treasurer before your first crew is due to race, the Event Committee may withhold times temporarily or permanently.
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Cambridge, England – November 18, 2008 – The reality of cellular network evolution is that infrastructure roll out precedes that of the handset user equipment. But without user equipment (UE), how do you test a base station? Since 1999, the answer for 3GPP networks has been the Aeroflex TM500 Test Mobile. Used by every major infrastructure equipment vendor and femtocell manufacturer for developing WCDMA R99 and HSUPA/HSDPA through to HSPA+, the Aeroflex TM500 has become the market-leading test mobile throughout the development cycle for 3GPP verification, validation and optimization.
Now, the pace of LTE (Long Term Evolution) development is accelerating with specifications maturing and commercial field trials taking place next year. As CDMA technology seeks an LTE migration path, the pressure is on for the infrastructure equipment vendors to deliver quickly to market.
"Judging from the significant sales of our TM500 LTE test mobiles to all of the major vendors throughout Europe, North America and Asia, LTE is clearly going to become the mobile broadband technology of choice for all the established operators," said Evan Gray, Product Line Manager at Aeroflex Test Solutions. "By ensuring that the TM500 LTE roadmap is always in step with the demands of the industry and supports testing of the very latest 3GPP functionality, the Aeroflex TM500 test mobile system is fast becoming the de facto global standard for LTE."
LTE represents a significant radio access technology shift, the deployment of which is a major challenge. The Aeroflex TM500 LTE test mobiles meet this challenge by providing low level UE control and configuration flexibility combined with the detailed measurement data required by infrastructure engineers to rapidly diagnose engineering issues. The TM500 LTE Single-UE, first launched in 2007, provides the ability to test an LTE base station and network against a single mobile both in the lab and over the air. However, testing against a single mobile is only part of the story. Base station and core network designs need to be load tested, stressed and optimized to ensure that robust, flexible and high performance solutions are delivered to network operators. With the TM500 LTE Multi-UE launched last month, complex scheduler, load and capacity testing can also be performed early in the design.
"Structured and incremental test programs are essential for the development integration, verification and optimization of LTE infrastructure," continues Gray. "The Aeroflex TM500 LTE Single and Multi-UE test mobiles address all of these issues through a suite of test components including the physical layer, and protocol development, which support standalone testing of the base station physical layer through to network level load testing."
Infrastructure vendors have been successfully developing, testing and demonstrating LTE equipment using Aeroflex's initial LTE Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) mode test mobiles since 2007. However, with China heading towards a Time Division Duplex version of LTE (TD-LTE), Aeroflex has just launched the TM500 TD-LTE test mobile for delivery in late 2008 to meet the demands of the TD-LTE mode development and roll out.
"There are some extremely demanding timescales for TD-LTE trials in China," concluded Gray. "The TM500 TD-LTE complements our LTE test mobile portfolio and can co-exist in the same unit as the TM500 LTE-FDD protecting investment and maximizing test flexibility for engineers working on both standards. With products such as this, we are demonstrating our determination to provide customers with the right functionality when they need it and believe that this product leadership will ensure that TM500 becomes the global standard for LTE test mobiles."


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Portable Document Format or PDF is the most widely used format for sending and receiving documents these days. Being an open standard for document exchange, PDF support has been incorporated in many Linux distributions by default. Also, the popularity of the format has even convinced Microsoft to include PDF support in the upcoming version of Windows.
Earlier, many people had to rely on the closed-source Adobe PDF reader for accessing PDF documents. However, thanks to the hard work of many software developers, we have plenty of tools to do that.
Here's a list of some of the best PDF readers you can find for Linux:
5. Mupdf
Ranking 5th on the list is a lightweight PDF viewer called mupdf. The application is a no-fuss PDF viewer with blazing fast page rendering. If you want to quickly open a document, mupdf is your best bet as this little application has no menubars, no buttons and no toolbars whatsoever. Upon opening your document with mupdf, all you'd see is your document in a window.
Just press the appropriate arrow keys to browse through the document. To zoom in, simply press Ctrl and +, and to zoom out press Ctrl and -. Certainly not an application for those who use and edit a lot of PDF documents; however, if you are browsing through a bunch of heavy PDFs, mupdf is the perfect tool for the job.
4. Adobe Reader
Adobe Reader is certainly the most popular and the most widely used PDF reader around. Developed by Adobe, this closed-source-but-free PDF reader allows you to read all kinds of PDFs along with high quality rendering of images and text. Apart from good rendering capabilities, Adobe Reader comes with some great collaboration tools and features many business users would find useful.
Despite being one of the most feature-loaded PDF readers around, Adobe Reader is quite bulky when compared to its competitors. That is the only reason why it ranks 4th on our list.
3. Foxit Reader
Foxit Reader is a well-known software application amongst Windows users, often serving as a lightweight alternative to Adobe Reader. Foxit Reader is a multilingual PDF Reader with features like annotation, PDF import/export, and highlighting. The software comes in two versions, free and premium, with the latter loaded with many more features.
The Linux version however, is currently in beta and doesn't have any advanced features yet but it's completely free. That version, according to the company, is under development and will soon be upgraded with many features of its Windows counterpart. Foxit can be downloaded in .rpm, .deb and tarball format from HERE.
2. Evince
If you're an Ubuntu user, you must surely have used Evince. It's the default PDF reader for Ubuntu and many GNOME-based distros. The reason it ranks 2nd on our list is simply because it's lightweight, very stable and easy to use. Though it doesn't include many important features like annotations and highlighting, Evince is still the most perfect PDF reader around.
The lightweight document reader supports many other popular formats like Postscript, Djvu, XPS, CBZ (comic books), dvi and more. Apart from that, Evince also indexes page numbers and thumbnails. Evince has been the default PDF reader for Ubuntu since a long time so there are almost no major stability issues with it. Despite being so widely used, many desktop users don't know the real name of the software; they prefer to call it document viewer instead.
1. Okular
Topping the list comes KDE4's default document viewer, Okular. Based on KPDF, Okular runs across all major desktop platforms including Windows and Macintosh. The reason Okular is so popular is because it's simple and easy to use. Yet, it comes loaded with features that make it stand apart from its competitors.
Besides being able to read PDF files, Okular also includes features like annotations, highlighting, bookmarking and more. Moreover, Okular integrates nicely with the rest of the KDE desktop making it our favorite PDF Reader for Linux. Also, much like Evince, Okular also supports other document formats like djvu, CHM, XPS, ePub and others. In fact, it's one of the very few document readers that are able to open ePub documents, so you don't have to worry anymore about your favorite novel rotting in your documents folder, waiting to be read.


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SK6730 : Kinoulton Road Bridge No 28
taken 5 years ago, near to Kinoulton, Nottinghamshire, Great Britain
The Grantham Canal
The Grantham Canal was built from the River Trent in Nottingham to Grantham, some 33 miles between 1793 and 1797 at a cost of £118,500 and narrow boats and barges transported coal, building materials and groceries through 18 locks to Grantham. On the return journey they transported corn, malt, beans, wool and other agricultural produce. Due to the development and the success of the railways the canal was closed in 1935 and left to its fate. Over the years it fell into disrepair with many of the "fixtures and fittings" being demolished.
The Grantham Canal Restoration Society is an active body which has been working towards the reopening of the canal as a recreational and commercial waterway. Whether this will ever happen is up for debate with many obstacles in the way.
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What wanton destruction! Why?
The Shapleigh Board of Selectmen has been informed that a cemetery in the woods off the Pitts Road has been vandalized. The headstones of folks who had been buried there many years ago have been snapped off at ground level. Also, a monument between four and five feet tall was toppled over.
Needless to say, when this sad news was given to Ron Rivard, Shapleigh's cemetery superintendent, he could only shake his head.
One of the stones belongs to a veteran whose grave is flagged in remembrance and appreciation of his efforts many years ago when he fought for the freedoms we have today.
Tax Collector Joanne Rankin has indicated that 94 percent of the town's total tax commitment for 2012 has been paid by the property owners in Shapleigh.
Thank you all for helping Shapleigh to be able to pay its bills in a timely fashion and to end up the year in the black once again.
Town Hall Office Clerk Carole Collins has prepared loose-leaf budget books for members of the Shapleigh Budget Committee and the Shapleigh Board of Selectmen.
The budget committee will soon be setting up meetings for reviewing the proposed budgets of town department heads and social service agencies. Interviews will be held, questions asked, explanations given, and more will be done before the budget committee makes its final recommendations to the voters on the articles which will appear in the annual town meeting warrant.
Selectmen currently are working on the General Government budget, which will become a part of the deliberation process as well and subject to the same scrutiny by the budget committee as all others.
A new Generac generator was installed recently at the Public Safety Building to replace the former generator, which was labor-intensive as far as having to go to the station repeatedly to add fuel. The new generator is fueled by propane, so it is much more efficient.
The board of selectmen signed a 5-year maintenance contract for the Generac, which includes annual preventive maintenance.
Shapleigh Code Enforcement Officer Steve McDonough has issued permits to the following individuals for the projects.
David L. Massanari, Map 20, Lot 12, of Shapleigh Corner Road, to build a 22-foot by 27-foot single-story garage with attic storage, and wall studs no greater than 10 feet;
Richard Levesque, Map 30, Lot 41, of Hawthorne Road on Square Pond, to replace the existing camp with a new 28-foot by 28-foot one, using all of the allowed 30-percent expansion, with a maximum building height of no more than 35 feet to be built to code;
David K. Bridges, Map 16, Lot 39, of Cattail Loop on the Lower Mousam, to replace an existing camp with a new camp;
William Turgeon, Map 16, Lot 40, of Cattail Lop on the Lower Mousam, to pour a new foundation under the existing camp, with a 30-percent expansion for a 12-foot by 12-foot addition and a 12-foot by 14-foot deck;
Vincent Srebnick, Map 30, Lot 43, of Hemlock Road on Square Pond, to bring in up to 10 yards of earth in the shore land zone, after the fact;
Gerald Richard, Map 32, Lot 8, of Dahlia Road on Square Pond, to cut two trees within 100 feet of the water, with 4 trees to be replanted in the same general area, and the stumps to remain in place;
Daniel Vetesse, Map 42, Lot 28C, of Emily Lane on Pine Springs Lake, to cut 6 trees per plan, with the tree closest to the lake to be replaced with one tree in the same general location, and the stump to remain in place.
William Coye, Map 36, Lot 15, of Indian Village Road on Square Pond, to build a 14-foot by 28-foot addition;
Roger Houle, Map 12, Lot 34-1, of Newfield Road, to place a 4-foot by 8-foot sign that will not obstruct the line of sight of traffic; and
Joseph Lavoie, Map 44, Lot 32, of Silver Lake Road on Silver Lake, to cut one large pine, with the stump to remain in place, and 4 trees to be replanted in same general area.
The declared value of the above improvement projects is $375,000.
Selectmen held a public hearing on Tuesday, Oct. 30, on the revised General Assistance Ordinance.
The public had no comments, and the selectmen unanimously enacted the ordinance as presented.
Modifications were made to housing, food, and others as proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services and recommended by the Maine Municipal Association.
Hurricane Sandy, which ravaged most of the eastern coast, largely spared Shapleigh. The town did experience downed trees, a loss of power, and some road washouts. Many folks were without power for several days.
Our hearts go out to those communities in New Jersey and New York, where the damage sustained equaled that of total destruction in many areas.
The Shapleigh Community Library now has these books to offer:
Fiction: "Hard Country," by M. McGarrity; "Right-Hand Shore'," by B. Tilghman; "Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage," by Lynda Rutledge; "Goodbye for Now," by Laurie Frankel; "Last Summer," by D. Chamberlin; "Summer Breeze." by Nancy Thayer; "Robert B Parker's Fool Me Twice," by Robert Parker; "One Mountain Away," by Emilie Richards; "Columbus Affair," by Steve Berry; "Great Escape," by Susan Phillips; "Scotched," by Kaitlin Dunnett; "Sweet Talk," by Julie Garwood; "Return to Willow Lake," by Susan Wiggs; "Hearse and Buggy," by Laura Bradford; "Her Edge of Forever," by Erin Bates; "Where Azaleas Bloom," by Sherryl Woods; "Wedding Party," by Sherryl Woods; "Just Breathe," by Susan Wiggs; "Maximum Ride Nevermore," by James Patterson; "Virals," by Kathy Reichs; "Survivors 1, The Empty City," by Erin Hunter; "Chomp," by Carl Hiaason; "39 Clues #01, Maze of Bones," by Alan Smith; "Spymasters," by W.E.B. Griffin; "Canada," by Richard Ford; "Judgment Call," by J. A. Jance; "Mission to Paris," by Alan Furst; "Roots of the Olive Tree," by Courtney Santo; "Delusion in Death," by J. Robb; "Lost Boy," by Dave Peltzer; "Bridesmaid," by Beverly Lewis; "Delusion in Death," by J. D. Rubb; "Low Pressure," by Sandra Brown; "Leopard," by Jo Nesbo; "Time Keeper," by Mitch Albom; "Winter of the World," Irene Follett; "You Don't Want to Know," by Lisa Jackson; "Zoo," by James Patterson; "Close Your Eyes," by Iris Johanson; "Frozen Heat," by Richard Castle; "Severe Clear," by Stuart Woods; "Bloodline," by James Rollins; "Dublin Student Doctor," by Patrick Taylor; "Artemis Fowl & Last Guardian," by Eoin Colfer; and "By Starlight," by Dorothy Garlock.
Nonfiction: "Guinness World Records 2013"; "Until Tuesday," by Van Montval; "Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands," by Roger DiSilvester; and "Call of the Midwife MTV," by Jennifer Worth.
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In Ice Storm, Mikey says, "Because of molecules we are connected to the outside world from our bodies. Like when you smell things, because when you smell a smell it's not really a smell, it's a part of the object that has come off of it — molecules. So when you smell something bad, it's like in a way you're eating it. This is why you should not really smell things, in the same way that you don't eat everything in the world around you – because as a smell, it gets inside of you. So the next time you go into the bathroom after someone else has been there, remember what kinds of molecules you are in fact eating."
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT set a school record with 477 yards rushing as the Engineers pulled away from Salve Regina University midway through the second quarter en route to a 40-20 victory at Steinbrenner Stadium in a New England Football Conference Boyd Division game. MIT dominated time of possession, controlling the ball for nearly 42 minutes while DeRon Brown and Robert Utz paced an explosive ground attack as each back topped 100 yards.
MIT (2-5, 2-4) lit the scoreboard on the opening drive of the game, rotating a series of backs for two first downs before Utz ripped off a 31-yard touchdown run just three minutes into the game.
Salve Regina (1-6, 1-5) answered right back behind the arm of Jeff St. Onge. The Seahawks' sophomore quarterback completed 20-of-34 passes with two touchdowns and two picks during Saturday's tilt, including a four-yard TD pass to Matt Shubert. The Seahawks picked up their first points of the afternoon after Brown fumbled the ball on MIT's second possession at the Engineers' 29-yard line.
Salve Regina expanded its lead to 13-6 after stitching together its best drive of the game to open the second quarter. The Seahawks marched down the field on a drive that covered 95 yards and took nearly five minutes off the frame. Running back Matt Wierzbicki received the nod on the final two plays of the drive, including the one-yard score up the middle that provided the seven point lead.
The teams traded touchdowns after Wierzbicki's initial score. Ben Grannan tied the game for the Engineers with a 24-yard run in MIT's first attempt to respond, while the Seahawks countered with a score of their own as St. Onge connected with Wierzbicki for a 35-yard touchdown pass.
The offensive assault continued for both teams as MIT re-tied the score at 20 after freshman quarterback Brian Doyle hooked up with Grannan for a 29-yard score. Before the half was over, the Cardinal and Gray struck again. Brown shouldered most of the work on Tech's last scoring drive of the half, rushing three times for 38 yards including a two-yard go-ahead run.
The Engineers moved in front, 33-20, on their first drive of the second half. Utz sparked the attack with an 83-yard run on a second-and-seven, while Grannan capped the drive with an eight-yard run for his second touchdown of the day.
Each team remained off the board for the rest of the quarter, although MIT opened the final frame with a scoring drive that devoured the clock. The Engineers ran 15 plays on the drive and utilized nearly nine minutes of game time. Doyle finally put an end to the stretch with a three-yard keeper to the left side.
The Engineers ran the ball 71 times on Saturday and broke an Institute record which stood for 12 years. MIT set the previous mark with 428 yards against Western New England on Oct. 14, 1995. Brown led all rushers with 144 yards on 26 carries, while Utz needed only eight attempts to secure 133 yards on the ground. Grannan carried the ball 12 times for 77 yards and two scores, while senior Thomas Scotton finished with 74 yards on 14 attempts. Grannan finished with three touchdowns on the afternoon, but it was really the tremendous effort of the MIT offensive line that allowed the Engineers to pick up the key conference win.


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I'm so excited that resources like Bookshare exist in the world! Research (and common sense?) shows that enhanced reading materials like those on Bookshare improve learning outcomes.
Bookshare is a free digital online library for children with qualifying print disabilities. It provides over 171,311 accessible books, textbooks, novels, children's literature, best sellers, dictionaries, encyclopedias and periodicals for individuals. For free.
The words are highlighted and read aloud for a multi-modal reading experience. Children read the books on computers with reading software, on Apple or Android tablets with reading apps like Read2Go, smart phones, MP3 players, braille devices and other assistive technology. Watch this student demonstrate how it works.
Kathy Stratton, mother of a Bookshare member shares what she found at a New Jersey Reading Disabilities Task Force public hearing, "The theme was clear and consistent – schools are not meeting the needs of students who struggle with reading. Parent after parent spoke with passion about the time, and emotional, educational, and financial toll these struggles have taken on their families. The educators who spoke acknowledged that they and their colleagues are often poorly trained to meet the needs of dyslexic students."
She explains the need for accessible instructional material for struggling readers, "In addition to teaching students to learn to read, it is equally important to provide struggling readers with opportunities to read to learn."
Another mother, Kathy Thompson, tells of her son, Jeffrey's late diagnosis of dyslexia in middle school and how Bookshare helped him. "This accommodation (to hear and see text read aloud) was just what Jeffrey needed. Overnight, he was reading and making sense of the content in the digital book. It didn't take him long to get accustomed to downloading books to his portable devices. We discovered that he needed a different way to retain knowledge by listening to the content. Imagine how many more students who could achieve higher academic success with the right combination of tools and resources and an earlier diagnosis?"
She adds, "Jeffrey received an academic achievement award and won the state wrestling championship. He now displays confidence in himself and takes advanced classes to prepare for high school and college. He no longer feels "different" or can keep up with his reading assignments. His hope is that other students who have reading challenges, like dyslexia, will be encouraged by what he has accomplished thus far and that they will keep moving forward."
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Tomorrow you are turning 9. 9!! Another year has passed and I'm wondering (again) where the time has gone. Just yesterday you were being born and the nurse put you in my arms to hold for the first time. It really doesn't seem possible that 9 years have passed.
Tonight, you asked me if I was going to write you another letter, like I do every year. The answer is yes. But this year, I'm mixing it up a little. I'm going to do a top 9 list in honor of your birthday. These are the top 9 things I LOVE about you. (There are many more, but I'll choose my favorite 9.)
Number 9: I love your creativity. You're so good at making things with your hands. I predict that you will be doing something in your career as an adult that has to do with you using skillful hands. Maybe you'll be a professional musician (violinist, perhaps?), an engineer, an artist? Whatever you set your hands to, I am positive you'll succeed.
Number 8: You're thoughtful...and not just when it comes to people and their feelings. You are a thinker. I can see you process things in your mind, figuring out how a toy is put together, how to draw or create something, how to take something apart. God gave you a great mind and I know that He will bless your willingness to learn and be taught.
Number 7: You care about others. You've worked hard this year on learning "you before me" and I'm seeing the fruit of those efforts. You are learning to put others' needs ahead of your own. It's not always easy. We live in such a selfish world, but I'll bet it feels good to give of yourself. God will always reward you for that.
Number 6: You're a fantastic big brother. This year, you've amazed me, not only at the way you've cared about and looked after Caden, but also the way you've embraced others who've needed time and attention. Thanks for always being so helpful. I rarely hear you complain when I ask you to help. I so appreciate the way you contribute and give of yourself.
Number 5: You're so talented. This goes without saying...anyone who knows you can see that you have innate musical ability, but there are also lots of other things you do well. I can't wait to see what God does with all that talent (that often seems to come out of your ears!!). Always treat that talent kindly...nurture it, be humble, and treasure the gifts you've been given.
Number 4: Your smile and your laugh. Recently, our dear friend said that one of her favorite sounds is your laughter. It's mine too! We ALL love it when you get tickled. :)
Number 3: Your sense of humor. Just like your daddy. That just makes me all kinds of happy.
Number 2: Your loving nature. I love that you curled up in my lap tonight as I relayed the story of your birth to you. Thanks for all the hugs, "I love you's" and all the kindnesses in between.
Number 1: Your forgiving nature. Cody, I fail as a parent more times than I succeed. I know I'm tough to live with sometimes. I know I often say and do things that hurt you. I'm so flawed, so imperfect...and you see it more than anyone else, I think. I am often so undeserving of the love and grace you show me, and yet, you pour it out time and time again. This is my favorite quality that I see in you...it's Christ-likeness. I am so thankful for the ways in which God is transforming you in to a young man that reflects Him. Of all the qualities I love about you, this is the one that I appreciate so much. To God be the glory, sweetheart. Great things He has done.
I can't wait to write my top 10 list next year. You are a joy, buddy. Thanks for being you!
I love you forever and always.


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"Three things are going to happen now," Orser growled over the sound of the pressurization and fire alarms. "First, you're going to surrender control of your helm to me. Second, you're going to put Logan front and centre so I can see she's still alive. And third, you're going to pray to your God that there's somebody out there willing to exchange coin for your sorry hides. Because if that's not the case, you're not going to like the fourth thing that's gonna happen."
YJ raised his hands in a placating gesture. "All right, sounds good." He hit the mute button and turned to Wild Sky. "So, board his ship, start a gunfight, or use Logan as a hostage? Trouble is, if he calls our bluff we're dead."
Wild Sky wiped her blade clean on Cable's pressure suit. "We have no idea what kind of numbers he's got on that ship. So we could go on the offensive and board them or play defensive and fight them on familiar ground."
"Yeah, but if the fight doesn't go their way, they can just detach and fill us full of holes."
"Fair enough." Wild Sky said.
YJ turned back to the screen and tapped a few keys. "All right, Orser, you got a deal." He released control of the helm to the pirate ship, much as he would to an Alliance cruiser or spaceport traffic controller.
"At least you've got some brains," Orser said. "Now, where's Logan?"
"I'll go get her!" YJ said with exaggerated cheerfulness. He keyed off the vid screen.
Wild Sky fixed her helmet to the pressure ring around her suit's neck. "Stall for time and stay alive as long as you can," she said as she headed for the airlock.
YJ felt the familiar thud of Shenmue's main airlock disengaging and heard the main engines begin to spin up. He put his plan into action.
He raced to the medical unit, where Jonah had parked his wheelchair. Grabbing the motorized chair's control unit, he drove it back to the upper foredeck and parked it. Pulling his pistol, he warily opened the hatch to the crew quarters where Logan had unsuccessfully sought refuge. The air in the small cabin was still choked with smoke from the stun grenade, but as he descended the ladder, YJ could see Logan's unconscious body half-hidden by a thin mattress. He got the pirate into a fireman's carry and struggled back up the ladder, wishing that Worth was there to do the heavy lifting.
YJ heaved Logan into the wheelchair and produced a roll of heavy-duty utility tape. He set about wrapping the tape around the chair, securing Logan in place. He taped her limbs to the chair's arm- and footrests and wound the roll of tape several times around her midsection and the chair's back.
Now it was time for the final flourish. YJ rifled through the pockets of the nearest dead pirates – Cable and Vonn – and retrieved a handful of stun grenades, which he then set about taping to Logan's chest.
Logan started to come to as YJ finished tying the grenades' pins to a length of wire he could hold in his hand while the chair was in motion.
"Wh-what's going on?" she mumbled. "What the hell are you doing?"
There was a screeching sound as YJ pulled out more tape from the roll. "Using you as a bargaining chip."
"Great." Logan blinked her eyes rapidly, trying to clear the cobwebs.
"Hey, it's on you for letting yourself get captured, right?" YJ said, applying more tape to Logan's upper works.
"I guess so," Logan said with a grimace. "You guys aren't as dumb as you let on."
"Uh, thanks?" YJ said.
"Considering how easy it was to trap you guys," she continued. "We weren't expecting this kind of resistance."
"Uh, thanks again?" YJ said.
Logan looked down at the row of grenades taped to her chest and her eyes widened. "Whoa, whoa, what's this?"
YJ looked her in the eye. "Here's a question for you, Logan. First off, if this goes bad, Orser says he's going to kill us."
"Yeah, and?"
"But, I've rigged you up," he said, brandishing the wires connected to the grenades' pins, "so that if I die, all the grenades taped to your chest get blown sky high."
"What?" Logan blurted, her voice spiking up an octave as her gaze flicked between the grenades as they rose up and down with every heave of her chest and YJ's face, an expression of disbelief on her face.
YJ chuckled. "I mean there's no way you're walking away from that." He tapped the taped-up grenades for emphasis. "Oddly enough it's in your best interest to see that these negotiations go properly."
"I was wrong, you are as dumb as you let on." Logan muttered, getting control of herself.
"So, what can you tell me about Orser that would help me out?" YJ asked.
Logan squirmed. "Well, he certainly doesn't like watching his crewmembers getting blown up in front of him."
"Well, we're ahead of him on that one." YJ said. "Should I start off real strong, or…?"
"What do you want me to say, he's a pirate. He's not exactly the warm fuzzy type."
"You'd be surprised at how emotional he got when we told him we had you in custody," YJ said. "He gave us a four point plan and you were at least point two on it."
"Really?" Logan asked. "Wow, I'm flattered," she said, shaking her head. "Point two," she muttered. "You wouldn't happen to have a cigarette, do you?"
"You've got a lot of pyro tied to your midsection, I don't think that would be a good idea." YJ said. "Chewing gum?" He pulled a bent piece of foil-wrapped gum from a pocket.
"Thanks, that'll do." Logan said. She attempted to shift her body in the chair. "He's direct."
"Uh-huh. You ever see him back down?"
"Not unless we were facing an Alliance cruiser or other insurmountable odds."
"Inescapable odds," YJ said.
"Are you going to blindfold me or something?" Logan asked, "Because I really don't want to look at you any more." She popped her gum.
"Let's say you use those puppy dog eyes of yours and just open up every soft part of Orser's heart, if he has them." YJ said.
"You're crazy."
"Look, he said we're dead otherwise unless someone's willing to pay for us," YJ said. "And I don't know anyone that will pay for us, so this is really do or die for me. Rather than wait for Orser to put one in my head I figure, strap some bombs to somebody and see what I can do with that."
"Well you're creative, I'll give you that."
"Shall we have that reunion?" YJ said.
Logan tried to toggle the directional switch on the armrest until YJ taped her fingers down. "What am I going to say, no?"
Using the chair's control unit, YJ maneuvered the mobility device up the stairs leading to Shenmue's bridge. The chair's articulated wheels allowed it to mount the catwalk stairs with ease.
Shenmue's engine core thrummed loudly.
"So, where do you think Orser is taking us?" YJ asked.
"I'm not telling you that," Logan said.
"Again, if these negotiations work out for me, they work for you." YJ said. "If they don't, I'm dead, and you're hamburger from here-" he patted Logan's ample upper works "-to here," touching the top of her head. "And probably further down as well."
"You guys," Logan said with a hint of exasperation. "Do you ever think these things through before strapping grenades to people?"
"Honestly? Strapping grenades is Plan A."
"Come on, there's no reason to go through with all this," Logan said as her chair climbed onto Shenmue's bridge. YJ manoeuvred her around Cable's sprawled corpse, which Logan eyed uncomfortably.
YJ positioned her in front of the vid screen and hit the hailing button. He was soon rewarded with Orser's sneering face.
"Orser, we're going to need to meet face-to-face." He said.
Orser wasn't paying attention to YJ. Instead he was focused on Logan, and YJ could tell from his rapidly decaying expression that he did not like what he was seeing.
"What have you done to her?" He growled.
"Just making sure we won't have any more trouble, with the taking of guns away and whatnot," YJ said."
"You harm one more hair on her head and you're all dead," Orser said.
"Yeah, see, there's a problem there and I want to talk to you about it, so why don't you come over there and we'll have a chat about it in our docking bay."
"Here's my counter offer," Orser replied. "How's about you plug up the hole in your ship so you don't asphyxiate my crewmate, and then we'll talk about a meeting." He grinned, which did nothing to improve his expression. "You're leaving quite a vapour trail."
YJ eyed a nearby damage readout. "See you in 30 minutes."
Orser cut the feed before YJ had a chance to do the same.
YJ turned to Logan. "So if your destination is less than 30 minutes away, this plan's not going to work. Again, where is he taking us?"
Logan cursed him out for falling into this trap. "If I have to go, I hope you're standing right next to me when I blow up."
"Okay, fair enough," YJ said, finally taping her mouth shut.
On Shenmue's exterior, Wild Sky watched as the hulk of the Harriston dwindled to a tiny flickering dot in the starfield beyond.
She estimated that the Undercutter was holding position about 50 meters aft of Shenmue, and she could tell from the increased engine rotation that the transport was indeed underway to parts unknown. She could also see thin tendrils of vapour being left in Shenmue's wake, likely emanating from a hole in the transport's hull.
Wild Sky considered her options. 50 meters was quite a jump, even in zero-g conditions. She decided to head back in to see to the damage.
The skiff's laser had lanced an ugly wound through Shenmue's underbelly. They could smell burning insulation and the tang of superheated metal – two smells you never wanted to smell on board a ship. There was an ever-present whine coming from the atmofeed, and the roar of air being blown out into space. Shenmue's fire suppression system was also sputtering globs of white foam in an effort to contain a fire that had spread to one of the passenger dorms.
The breach itself was nasty, but concentrated.
Wild Sky steadied herself against the torrent of rushing atmo. YJ slipped in the foam and began sliding towards the hole, coming to rest against a raised bulkhead.
YJ grabbed the nearest patch kit – there were always patch kits mounted on the hulls on tramp freighters like Shenmue – and tossed it to Wild Sky, who approached the rent in the hull. Working together, they managed to seal the breach in a matter of minutes. It wasn't pretty, but it would hold.
"Time to get Orser over here for our chat," YJ said. "As soon as his ship links to us, it's your turn to go outside."
"All righty," Wild Sky said.
YJ returned to the bridge. Logan glared at him silently.
"All right Orser, we need to talk. Right now."
"So talk." Orser said.
"No, face to face." YJ said. "I'll be in the landing bay, and I'm going to get real squirrelly soon, so I hope for Logan's sake you show up soon." He cut the video feed and started moving Logan towards the cargo bay.
Wild Sky engaged the dorsal airlock and crept back out onto the exterior of the transport. As she watched, the Undercutter began to close the distance between it and Shenmue, dipping out of sight behind the transport's stern. Wild Sky got a good look at the transport's dorsal docking coupling and figured the Undercutter would use Shenmue's bomb bay cargo doors to link up. As the ship slipped by, she also took note of a utility airlock behind the crew cabin.
Wild Sky clipped herself into the safety line and began to creep towards the underside of Shenmue. She had guessed correctly – The Undercutter was doing a dorsal-to-ventral docking configuration, linking up to Shenmue's bomb bay doors.
"They're coming in through the bomb bay," she said to YJ through the comlink.
"You tell me when it's time for a distraction and I'll drop a smoke grenade into the ship right off this catwalk."
"But I might be in the ship." Wild Sky said.
"You've got a sword." YJ said. "Put some smoke in there and maybe they'll get spooked and shoot one of their own guys."
"I'm going to disable that laser cannon," Wild Sky said. "Since we can't outrun them, we definitely don't want to deal with more damage."
"Or you could go in there and kick some ass," YJ said.
"Good point." Wild Sky said. "When I open the hatch on this side, it'll make a noise, so I want to know when they're opening your airlock. I'll open simultaneously."
"Got it." YJ set the chair up on the main catwalk landing overlooking the cargo bay doors and stood next to Logan, holstering the pistol that he figured Orser would tell him to get rid of and concealing a second pistol he could grab if need be.
Wild Sky sidled up to the Undercutter's sleek hull and began to work on the airlock access panel. She rewired the exterior controls and stepped into the narrow utility lock chamber. Sealing the exterior door behind her, she removed her glove and deftly reprogrammed the internal lock control, careful to keep herself out of sight from the airlock viewport.
YJ waited until he heard the pinging sound of the bomb bay airlock's handshake protocol. "Now," he hissed into his multiband.
The hatch in the cargo bay floor began to open. YJ tensed.
Wild Sky hit the airlock control and stepped into the pirate ship's interior. It was a cramped affair – barely wide enough for three people to stand abreast, with angled bulkheads that matched the ship's aerodynamic exterior. Wild Sky drew her sword as she sighted her targets.
There were two of them. The first had his back to Wild Sky, standing on the deck arms raised with a pistol aimed upwards. The second man, who she recognized as Orser, was halfway up a ladder that led to the ship's dorsal airlock. He had just swung the lock's hatch open and was climbing up, a shotgun cradled in his arms. His sudden surprised glance in Wild Sky's direction told her that either she'd mistimed her entry, or his ears were sharper than his companion's. Orser opened his mouth to shout a warning, and Wild Sky swung into action.
She leaped forward, one boot slamming into the side of the bulkhead as she jumped into the air, swinging her sword in a silver arc. Orser had only a split second to duck behind the ladder as best he could – Wild Sky's sword still caught him with a glancing blow across the arm that opened a nasty flesh wound. Orser shouted in pain but kept his hold on the ladder.
As Wild Sky let gravity do its work, she twisted the sword in her hands and put all her weight behind it, connecting with the second man – an Asian fellow with a crop of jet-black hair and a quizzical expression on his face.
He never had a chance. The blade sliced through his midsection, all but ignoring the ballistic mesh vest he was wearing and severing his spine in one fluid movement. Wild Sky's heavy boots hit the deck as she followed through, a geyser of blood spraying up the deck and bulkhead. Her target fell to the deck in two pieces, his face frozen in a query that would now go unanswered.
Orser cursed in blind rage as he swung the shotgun down and fired awkwardly. Wild Sky threw herself into a somersault. The report of the weapon was deafening in the close confines of the cutter's interior, but Wild Sky's helmet protected her from the worst of it. The cloud of buckshot did not find its target.
Wild Sky deftly thrust her sword upwards at the man on the ladder. This time, her blade slipped into Orser's body with only the slightest resistance as she impaled him where he was perched. He let go of both ladder and shotgun as his tirade of curses turned into a howl of agony, and fell further onto her sword, until his weight was too much for her to bear. She let him fall to the deck, pulling her sword out and flicking it clean of blood with a flourish, adding another spray of gore to the bulkhead behind her.
On his back at Wild Sky's feet, Orser squirmed, pressing his hands to the wound in his belly as his heels beat a frantic tattoo against the deck.
Wild Sky looked up as she heard the sound of an explosion from above deck.
At the hissing sound of Shenmue's bomb bay doors cycling open, Logan ripped herself free from her weakened restraints, twisting about in her chair and launching herself at YJ.
YJ recoiled in shock, but had time to realize that he'd left Logan alone just long enough for her to try something stupid like this.
YJ stumbled back as she tried to grapple with him for control of the strings connecting her grenades' pins to YJ's fist. He dodged out of the way of her swinging fist and jumped backwards down the catwalk stairs, coming to rest on the landing below.
Logan stood at the top of the stairs, cracking her knuckles, a triumphant expression on her face.
Until she took note of the fistful of grenade pins YJ held in his hand.
Logan looked down at the grenades taped to her chest, grenades that were now beeping in readiness. "Ta ma deh!" she started to curse as she grabbed for the tape securing them.
YJ shielded his eyes as the flashbangs flashed and went bang.


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