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Some days it just doesn't pay to be a soldier.
Captain Rick Galloway and his men had been talked into volunteering for a dangerous mission, only to be ruthlessly abandoned when faceless CIA higher-ups pulled the plug on the operation. They were cut off in hostile territory, with local troops and their Cuban "advisors" rapidly closing in—and then the alien spaceship landed.
Rescued from certain death, they now must fight another world's war.
©1979 Jerry Pournelle (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Joseph's favorite quote: "Say something about yourself!"
"Superb book now with superb presentation."
Thanks much to Jerry and his Janissaries series. It has been a favorite of mine for decades. I was stunned to see it available on Audible, as Jerry was normally a 'non ebook' hold out. Very few of his works went to ebook format and abook format. So I snapped it up immediately when I saw it available on Audible. Keith Szarabajka's could NOT be topped. He rules in his presentation and reading. Not just a reader, he emotes (I mean that in a good way!) the characters in the book with great skill. I hope Keith will be able to keep on this series, along with the mysterious 4th sequel Mamelukes (Janissaries IV: Mamelukes (work in progress for fifteen years as of 2012).
Reluctant Captain Rick Galloway reminds me of our founding father George Washington. Recognizing the truth in developing a society with a know world shattering threat building at the border.
"Pournelle is Pournelle ... OK"
Jerry Pournelle struck me when I first encountered his SF writings in the 70s as an author with ideas who didn't quite know how to flesh them out. Jannissaries is a good example of this. I had hoped the listening, rather than reading, would give the narrative some extra quality that the printed word couldn't … but it didn't.
As well as being a bit lite, the story doesn't compare well with others in weathering the tides of time; "A Canticle for Leibowitz" (also read by Tom Weiner) for example. I realize there are many Pournelle acolytes, but I always thought more is read into his works than is there.
For me Pournelle's writing has always seemed a bit padded and this story is no exception. It's a shame as the premise has potential and could have been fleshed out to be a much more entertaining, and interesting SF outing. This book is actually the first of the Janissaries series … and I think it shows. Its good point is that it is complete in itself … the bad point, "who cares?"
Not withstanding all the above … if you wish a lite listen where nothing intellectually demanding is required, this will pass the time sufficiently well
"Still just as good as ever"
The story is a bit dated but still holds up well, good strong characters in a good story line are hard to beat
This work stands alone
Well read with good inflection and voice change
This book makes you think, is it possible? could this have happened?
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"Not bad, just not me"
I found the storyline in Janissaries to be a bit confusing. The janissary of the title is not the main character (a janissary is a child raised by a conqueror to be a soldier against his own people) and is not really a janissary anyway since he's not a soldier. I think Pournelle probably just thought it was a cool word. Anyway, while the plotline holds together it was just a little to convoluted unrealistic for my taste. It was roughly the same plot as H. Beam Piper's Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen (guy with knowledge of history of firearms and warfare dumped into medieval, pre-firearm culture). Piper did a better job. Maybe future books in series will be more engaging. I'll take a look.
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I bought this for my daughter's room. I was sticking to shades of purple and silver and this set is a perfect fit. The colours are a little darker than I expected but I am quite happy with my purchase.
When this item arrived, and we placed it on the bed, we were very happy. The actual material and colors are much more luxurious than the picture portrays.
Beware - the picture of this set is beautiful. The actual colors are MUCH different than shown. The pictures - both on the website AND the one that comes in the actual set show purples with an ivory or silver color. The purples depict the right shade. There is no ivory or silver - it is a DARK gray instead. It looks NOTHING like shown. I wonder if maybe these are "irregulars" and they had a problem with the dye lot and thus sent them to OS.com. I would think it was my computer, but you know how often a picture of the comforter is included in the packaging? It is the beautiful ivory silver color - not the ugly dark gray. I was VERY disappointed, but it is for my daughter's room and she thought that it was okay - so we kept it. If it weren't for the color - I would have been happy. The quality and feel of the fabric was very nice and it included 3 accent pillows which was nice. But - overall, sadly, it's just not the same as the picture looks
I fell in love with this set when I saw it online, but some of the reviews made me nervous. I am very happy with the purchase! I think the colors are very pretty together and the silver was not a dark grey like some people mentioned before me. It is VERY thick and heavy, perfect for winter. I was not aware the rouching was so thick so it feels a little awkward but I got used to it pretty quickly. It did have a slight smell out of the bag so I went ahead and washed it, probably not wise, I have a queen and there was a warning on the label to use a commercial washer/dryer, I have an oversized washer/dryer and it barely fit. I fluffed the pillows with a dryer sheet in the dryer to get rid of the smell. I love the bed skirt, I have cats and a dog and the cotton one I had would hold their fur and look dirty all the time, this one is poly and the fur doesn't stick when they brush up against it. If you're looking for a luxury purple ensemble I think this is it!
I bought for my daughter's room. It shows water spots easliy, so I wouldn't recommend for a kids room.
I bought this comforter set for my guest bedroom. The color of the bedroom is a light purple and this set looks beautiful! I had a guest visit and they were so impressed and comfortable. I haven't washed it yet so I don't know how it feel afterwards, but I think it'll be alright if I follow the washing instructions to the letter.
This comforter arrived defected with different color threads sewn in, The colors are much darker then shown in the picture.
I love this set. It pulls my room all together! I am so pleased with it. The quality is top notch and the color is even more beautiful in person!
color is very pretty as are the pillows and shams bed skirt is a bit cheap but great value for this set
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Directory of Online Arts and Crafts Marketplaces
Considering selling your arts and crafts in an online marketplace? This articles gives you a heads-up on the most popular from Etsy to ArtFire to Artful Home and more! Get concise info to the policies and costs of each and come back frequently for updated information!
Start Selling on Redbubble
Redbubble is an online marketplace geared towards graphic artists and crafters. Find out how to set up an account to sell your arts and crafts through Redbubble.
More Online Arts and Crafts Marketplaces
Considering selling your arts and crafts in an online marketplace? The first page of this list covered Etsy, ArtFire, Artful Home and more! This article continues with more arts and crafts online marketplaces, find out about Folksies and Chictopia, DaWanda and Coriandr.
Artful Home Arts and Craft Marketplace
Another online marketplace for artists and crafters to sell their products online is Artful Home. Unlike Etsy and ArtFire there is a jury process costing $35. However, at Artful Home you have the possibility to not only sell your arts and crafts online but also through their catalog, which is widely distributed.
Review of Wix Website Builder
Wix.com is a website builder offering an array of attractive templates. Find out basic facts about Wix.com including how much it costs.
Supermarket Online Craft Marketplace
Many artists and crafters sell either wholly or partially online. Those that don't care about or don't have the time to maintain their own website sell through online craft marketplaces such as Etsy or ArtFire. I recently discovered another online craft marketplace called Supermarket. While not a new kid in the online craft marketplace town, it's new to me. I took a look through the Supermarket website and here's what I found out.
Letting Your Online Customers Know How You Do Business
If you sell your arts and crafts online, having a good policy page increases sales, enhances customer satisfaction and saves you time by reducing unnecessary customer emails. Here's a list of issues you should address from payment processing to who pays for shipping - you or the customer.
Handmade Artists' Shop
Many artists and crafters sell either wholly or partially online. Those that don't care about or don't have the time to maintain their own website sell through online craft marketplaces such as Etsy or ArtFire. I recently discovered another online craft marketplace called the Handmade Artists' Shop (HAF shops). This is a relatively new online...
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If you have a fashion craft arts and crafts business, it makes an impact on sales to show celebrities wearing the same sort of item you're selling. However, what about using celebrity images on your Ecommerce site? Is it possible to use celebrity images without violating any copyrights? Find out more about celebrity image copyrights.
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Cornell Profile
Cornell College is a nationally acclaimed private liberal arts college in scenic Mount Vernon, Iowa. Founded in 1853, the college operates on a distinctive One Course At A Time curriculum that allows students to devote themselves to just one academic discipline during each of eight blocks per year.
National Recognition
- Cornell is one of only 40 schools profiled in Loren Pope's book "Colleges That Change Lives."
- U.S. News and World Report ranks Cornell in the top tier of national liberal arts colleges.
Cornell is one of the 25 colleges with the best professors
- Cornell has consistently been one of 20 private colleges recognized as a "Best Buy" in the "Fiske Guide to Colleges" (2010, 2011, 2012, 2014)
- Cornell is one of 100 liberal arts colleges on Kiplinger's list of the best values in private colleges for 2014
The college is located on a wooded, 129-acre hilltop in Mount Vernon, Iowa, a charming town whose mix of historic buildings and creative flair earned it accolades as one of "America's Coolest Small Towns" by Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel magazine. Cornell's was the first college campus to be listed entirely on the National Register of Historic Places. The campus is less than 20 minutes from Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, and four hours from Chicago.
Academic Structure
Under the unique One Course At A Time system, Cornell students immerse themselves in just one academic discipline per three-and-a-half-week course term. Eight terms are offered each year. Each term, students choose from about 60 course offerings, ranging from on-campus classes to off-site internships and international study trips.
Programs of Study
The college offers more than 40 academic majors and pre-professional programs. Students also may design their own major.
Commitment to the Liberal Arts
Cornell has always maintained a firm commitment to the relevance and value of liberal education. Learn more about Cornell's perspective on the liberal arts in a 2012 feature story in the Cornell Report, written by Joe Dieker, vice president of academic affairs and dean of the college.
Admission to Cornell is very selective and based on academic ability and preparedness, personal character, and meaningful extracurricular involvement. The 2013 incoming class had middle 50% scores of 3.28-3.97 GPA; 23-29 ACT; and 1050-1317 SAT.
Costs & Financial Aid
Tuition for 2014-2015 is $37,275, and the total for all fees, including room and board, is $46,000. Cornell is committed to helping students afford a great education, and a majority of our students receive need-based financial assistance in the form of grants, loans, and jobs. Scholarships are awarded, regardless of need, to students with high academic ability or special talents in music, theatre or art. Cornell has been ranked highly for its overall value by a number of national ratings organizations:
Cornell professors are accomplished researchers, scholars, and above all, mentors. Ninety-seven percent of the college's tenure-track faculty hold the highest degree in their respective fields. The student-faculty ratio is 12:1, and many students work closely with faculty members on research or other projects.
Cornell's student body includes 1,100 men and women from 47 states and 17 foreign countries. The college actively cultivates diversity among its student population, and the incoming class of 2013 included 31 percent domestic students of color from 37 states and six percent international students from 11 countries. Of those students who graduate from Cornell, 93 percent do so in four years or less, and almost two-thirds have a double major or a major and a minor.
Class Size
The average class has 16 students, though many upper-level courses are significantly smaller. Most classes are capped at 25 students.
While the entire campus is listed on the National Historic Register, Cornell's facilities range from conveniently functional to cutting edge. Science facilities include a cadaver lab, a geographic information systems lab, and a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer. A new theater boasts the most current production technology. And the campus is fully wired, with Internet access from every residence hall room and dozens of "smart" classrooms.
- Member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM).
- One of 280 colleges with a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most selective U.S. honorary society. Learn more about the relevance of Phi Beta Kappa in the article: "Choosing a College: Why Phi Beta Kappa Matters."
- Cornell is affiliated with the United Methodist Church, but the college welcomes people from all religious traditions and from all non-religious perspectives. Cornell values spiritual diversity as an integral component of preparing students for global citizenship
- Member of the Midwest Conference of the NCAA Division III.
Campus Life
Life at Cornell is active and diverse. Students participate in more than 100 clubs, organizations, and special-interest groups ranging from the Film Club to the Mountaineering Club. About one-third of students join non-national Greek groups. About 75% of our students participate in student organizations, leadership programs, and/or volunteer service. Ninety percent of students live on campus. Housing options include first-year theme floors, Living & Learning Communities, and suite-style halls.
In 2012, Cornell rejoined the Midwest Conference of NCAA Division III, competing in 19 sports against 10 liberal arts schools in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. In 2014, the college will add men's and women's lacrosse. Cornell ranks among the top 15 Division III schools for the number of Postgraduate Scholars, a scholarship for academic and athletic achievement. Students also participate in nearly 40 intramural sports.
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Abjure hats are magic items created by hat magic that can be used by anyone, including non-casters, to send small items, like messages and gems. Conjure hats can be used to receive them. Some hats are dual use, able to both send and receive. To send something, the user must wave the wand associated with the hat and say "Hoffa". To receive, the other person must wave their wand and say "Livingstone".
It is possible for these hats to give an armor bonus.
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"Hoffa" is a reference to a Teamster leader who famously disappeared. "Livingston" is a reference to an explorer who was famously found.


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LAKE NORMAN, N.C. -- Davidson College archivists are seeking the public's help in documenting the structures and history of the land that was covered up by Lake Norman nearly 50 years ago.
Using a technique known as crowdsourcing – tapping the knowledge of the community – archivist Jan Blodgett, library manager Craig Milberg and archives assistant Ben Farnham hope residents will share any images, stories and information they have on the historical sites and structures that were covered by water.
So far, the archivists have already populated the map with about 10 sites, including several historic plantation houses and the old N.C. 150 bridge.
Farnham said that historians even believe the site of the Battle of Cowan's Ford was actually located exactly where the Cowans Ford dam is today.
During that battle, Revolutionary War Gen. William Lee Davidson was killed fighting British troops. The town and college are named for him.
Davidson College library employees thought of the project when they were trying to figure out a way to use GIS mapping effectively.
Milberg said he was also inspired to study the lake during an outing with his children.
"The lake is very low this year. We see stuff coming up from the lake, and they're seeing materials from old docks and they wanted to know 'Why?' "
Milberg added that many people don't realize that the lake is man-made, much less fairly new. So he wanted to share that information with residents.
Through their study of old media clippings and personal stories, Davidson College Library employees have begun to paint a picture of what life was like in Davidson immediately before the lake was created.
Blodgett said the community was largely rural through the 1980s. In the 1960s, the town's population was around 2,500.
During the late 1800s, the company that became Duke Energy began looking to the future and purchasing farmland around the Catawba River.
Still, the company allowed residents to live on their sold properties for several more years.
Then, around 1959, Duke Energy began building the Cowans Ford Dam and began moving people off the properties.
Many of those properties were razed because "Lake Norman was never going to be too deep, and Duke Power was concerned that taller structures were going to be a danger to boats," Blodgett said.
But some properties and roads remained. For instance, a portion of the old U.S. 21 – which connected Charlotte and Statesville – is still under the water.
Farnham said they are also looking into whether some cemeteries were covered by water.
Duke Energy began filling the area with water in 1962. But since the Catawba River's flow was not very strong and the dam was not completely finished – it took more than a year to fill the lake, which now covers more than 32,000 acres.
During that time, the community even constructed observation decks to watch the new lake being created.
"It was sort of a curiosity more than, say, a concern, at the time," Blodgett said. "They did a great job of estimating how far the water was going to go."
Even after the lake was completed in 1963, the northern Mecklenburg County area continued to be largely overlooked, keeping land prices low.
In fact, Blodgett said, most waterfront property cost about $1,000 per acre initially. Now, lots sell for many times that figure.
"The lake initially was not a huge deal," Blodgett said. "It really took until the mid-80s before the lake became what we think of as the lake with its big homes."
Blodgett said she's happy the Under Lake Norman project is under way on the eve of the lake's 50th anniversary.
She added that the project's timely completion is especially important because many of the residents who saw the lake's creation firsthand are getting older.
"The people who lived on the land and who used to drive across (U.S. 21) – we're going to be losing that generation," Blodgett said. "We want to get those personal stories so we can share with future generations."


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PORT HENRY — The Sherman Free Library, 20 Church St., will have a book sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 6.
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Spring Book Sale planned at library
PLATTSBURGH — The Friends of the Plattsburgh Public Library Spring Book Sale is approaching.
The sale, to be held upstairs at the library's 19 Oak St. location, runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 19, and 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 20.
Except for some specially priced books, the cost is 50 cents for hardcover books and 25 cents for paperbacks.
A preview sale for current Friends of the Plattsburgh Public Library members will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18. New memberships will be available at the door for $10.
On Saturday, April 20, a bag sale will run from 2 to 4 p.m., with a bag of books costing $1.
Cooper, Sendak in NY Writers Hall of Fame
ALBANY (AP) — The man who's considered America's first novelist and the author of "Where the Wild Things Are" will be inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
The Empire State Center for the Book says James Fenimore Cooper and Maurice Sendak are among the eight members of the 2013 class who will be inducted on June 4 at the Princeton Club of New York. The other inductees are Marilyn Hacker, Alice McDermott, Walter Mosley, Calvin Trillin, Countee Cullen and Miguel Pinero.
Cooper wrote such 19th-century classics as "The Last of the Mohicans." He died in 1851 at his home in Cooperstown, the upstate village founded by his father in the late 18th century.
Sendak, who died last year, was a writer and illustrator best known for "Where the Wild Things Are."


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---- — SALEM — An entire city was locked down, and police from all over the area, including Salem, were busy conducting a house-to-house manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second Boston Marathon bombing suspect, on Friday.
Albin Antonio Tejeda decided that it would be a good time to rob a bank, according to police.
And not only did Tejeda walk into the Eastern Bank branch on Pickering Wharf in Salem demanding money, police said, he allegedly handed the teller a note claiming, "I am strapped with a bomb."
"While law enforcement manpower was stretched to its thinnest ... this gentleman decides to rob a bank," Salem police Lt. Conrad Prosniewski told a Salem District Court judge yesterday during Tejeda's arraignment on an armed robbery charge.
His claim that he had a bomb had employees terrified that they might even be dealing with an accomplice of the Tsarnaev brothers, the police prosecutor said.
"I cannot even comprehend the fear that must have been in those tellers' minds," Prosniewski said as he asked for bail of $100,000.
Tejeda, 23, of Everett, was caught because he took a taxi to and from the holdup, police said. The phone number of the cab company was clearly visible on surveillance video from Pickering Wharf.
Judge Robert Brennan granted the bail request after hearing details from Salem police Detective Daniel Tucker's report.
It was just before 2 p.m. when the robber walked in with the note, which threatened that he would detonate the "bomb" if he didn't get money, Prosniewski told the judge.
An employee quickly filled an envelope with cash, more than $11,000, including some "bait" money (money that is marked so that it can be identified later if used).
Surveillance images from the bank and from the nearby Pickering Wharf Marina quickly led police to the city of Everett.
The marina video included images of a man fitting the description of the robber getting into a white taxicab with a phone number and the name "Lucky 7." Police called the cab company and learned that the owner had, in fact, just made a round trip to Salem.
But the cabbie had no idea that his passenger had just robbed a bank. His passenger, he said, had paid $28 of the fare, then told him he had to go into the bank. When he returned, he pulled $50 from a bag and handed it to the driver.
Salem and Everett police went to the area where the driver said he had picked up and dropped off the fare.
As officers were canvassing the neighborhood, they spotted a man fitting the robber's description crossing Ferry Street, where Tejeda lives. The officers followed him.
Confronted as he stood in the living room of the apartment he'd just entered, Tejeda asked if police were looking for Tsarnaev, Prosniewski told the judge.
An officer asked him his cellphone number. It turned out to be the same one used to call the cab company earlier in the day.
Then officers showed him the surveillance photos from the bank. Prosniewski, citing Tucker's report, said Tejeda started shaking, then denied recognizing the man in the photos.
Police initially arrested Tejeda on warrants in an unrelated Lynn case. After a search of his apartment turned up $9,500 in cash, an Eastern Bank envelope and a deposit slip showing that Tejeda had just made a $1,000 cash deposit to a Century Bank account that afternoon, after the holdup, he was charged in the Salem robbery.
Defense lawyer William O'Hare said his client denies being the robber and suggested that the identification of his client was weak, citing discrepancies between the description initially given to police and Tejeda's appearance.
O'Hare also suggested that there are others in the multifamily apartment house where Tejeda lives who could have been responsible for the holdup.
And, O'Hare asked, "Why did they hand him a picture of himself?"
But after looking at the surveillance photos and at Tejeda, Brennan, the judge, said he's "99.999 percent certain" that they are the same person.
The judge set bail at $1 million surety or $100,000 cash, which Tejeda, who yesterday qualified for a court-appointed lawyer, is unlikely to make.
A probable cause hearing is scheduled for May 16.
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Commissioner Bob Ott and School Board member Scott Sweeney held a joint town hall meeting at Sope Creek Elementary School last Tuesday. Commissioner Ott explained the new bridge over Sope Creek (http://eastcobb.patch.com/articles/sope-creek-bridge-plans-unveiled.) Mr. Sweeney explained the history of the Education SPLOST and the newest one (SPLOST4) that is up for renewal on March 19.
For instance, Mr. Sweeney said that before the first Education SPLOST, the normal way to fund capital improvements to the school system was through bond issues. In 1995, $221 million was raised in a bond issue for schools. The interest was $92 million. Education SPLOST4 is a 5 year 1% sales tax. It is not a new tax or an increased tax. It is a continuation of the Education SPLOST tax that has been in existence since 1995. Also, about 30% of the tax is paid by non-Cobb residents who live outside the county but work or shop in Cobb.
Both presentations were clear and informative. Both speakers answered questions from the audience. The only folks who weren't informed or clear going into the meeting or leaving it were the small group of Tea Partiers who show up at most public meetings. They passed out an article from the East Cobber magazine where they had vented their misrepresentations and ignorance.
The Tea people complained that the election cost of about $300,000 was excessive. The audience understood that the Education SPLOST was going to save tens of millions of dollars, if not hundreds of millions of dollars to Cobb tax payers. The Tea people wanted to save a little now and spend a lot later (penny wise pound foolish). The process of selecting projects was also criticized as flawed with no specifics given or alternative method suggested.
Since the first Education SPLOST, 22 new schools have been built, 551 portable classrooms have been eliminated, bond debt of $184 million was paid off in 2007. Now, Cobb County is one of the few school districts in Georgia as well as the United States that is free of long-term bond debt.
The Cobb school board has a good web site about our county schools with an informative link about the facts of the Education-SPLOST, like what projects are planned in your area. http://www.cobbk12.org/
How to register and vote? The Cobb Elections board has a VERY user friendly web site.
Work on election day? Most people do, Vote by Mail, aka Absentee Ballot. http://elections.cobbcountyga.gov/pdf/2013/AbsenteeApplication2013_Special.pdf
Can I make copies of absentee ballot request forms and take to work or church? YES.
Do I need an excuse to Vote by mail – out of town, sick, etc.? NO excuse needed.
I requested a ballot 2 weeks ago. It took a minute to fill-out. You can fax, scan and e-mail, or put your request in the mail. A ballot should arrive in my mail box in a week or 2.
What will be on the ballot? http://elections.cobbcountyga.gov/pdf/SampleBallot/2013/2013MarSampleBallot.pdf
The Tea people lost the debate at Sope Creek because moms and dads asked good questions and got good answers about financing quality public education in Cobb County. The Tea people always vote. Most mom's and dad's don't even know that there is an election March 19 about funding Cobb Schools in the most fair and efficient way possible.
Without an Education SPLOST, Cobb will have to go back to the old ways of financing capital projects, bonds that will have to be paid back through increased property taxes.


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ANDERSON, S.C. — Former Conneaut resident, Peggy L. Dye, age 74, of Anderson, S.C., passed away at AnMed Health Center in Anderson, S.C., Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013.
Born Jan. 25, 1939, in Cowen, W.Va., she was a daughter of John H. and Lenore (Wilson) Chipps. As a girl, she moved with her family to Ohio, where she graduated from Rowe High School in 1957.
Shortly after graduation, she moved to Washington, D.C., and worked as a secretary for the F.B.I. until her marriage. Peggy married the love of her life, Argel Dye on March 17, 1962, in Painesville, Ohio. They resided in Chardon where Peggy was employed as a para-legal secretary for Judge Inderlied until her retirement at age 53 in 1992.
She and Argel loved to travel in their camper to many states and historical sites. She took great joy in her dogs "Traveler and Fang", her cat "Frippy" and her horse. Her other hobbies were crossword puzzles, reading and working on genealogy. She also was an avid supporter of the Shriners Hospital.
Survivors include her brother, John (Behula) Chipps of Anderson, S.C.; her sisters, Susy (Pat) Watson of Anderson, S.C., and Martha Ross of Conneaut, Ohio; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Argel.
Committal Services will be at 11:30 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 21st, in the Mausoleum at Greenlawn Memory Gardens, North Kingsville, Ohio. The Rev. Terry Kern, of East Conneaut Baptist Chapel, will officiate.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Shriners Hospitals for Children, Office of Development, 2900 Rocky Point Drive, Tampa, Fla. 33607, or to the Ashtabula County Humane Society, P.O. Box 422, Jefferson, Ohio 44047. Envelopes will be available at the Committal Service or at THE MARCY FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATION SERVICE, 208 Liberty St., Conneaut, Ohio, which has charge of arrangements.
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Oracle Has Ported and Extended Yast
Database manufactuer Oracle has released various software projects under the GPL, including ports of Yast and the Btrfs filesystem.
Oracle's Open Source website has downloads of Yast both for Oracle's own Linux distribution, Oracle Enterprise Linux, and for Red Hat
SLES9 users will receive an additional, scriptable Yast extension, dubbed Yast-EM, for remote access. The RPM includes a colleciton of scripts for various Yast modules that give administrators the ability to configure DNS, host, network, NFS, routing and other services.
The developer version of the Btrfs filesystem which has also been published, is available for benchmarks and testing. It supports a variety of functions, such as automatic online repair, checksums, integrated (writeable) snapshots and compression.
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Firefox Steps into 3D
New initiative will bring futuristic virtual reality effects to the web surfing experience.
New Trojan Targets Online Banking
Dyreza malware launches a man-in-the-middle attack that compromises SSL.
HP Rolls Out Massive Cloud Network
New cloud combines worldwide access with local attention to data security.
New Attack Targets Wireless Logins
A first cousin of the recent Heartbleed attack affects EAP-based wireless and peer-to-peer authentication.
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Webcam Hijackers Busted
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Every time a man died, or a woman died, or a child died, she would be on hand with her "tribute" before he was cold. She called them tributes. The neighbors said it was the doctor first, then Emmeline, then the undertaker—the undertaker never got in ahead of Emmeline but once, and then she hung fire on a rhyme for the dead person's name, which was Whistler. She warn't ever the same, after that; she never complained, but she kind of pined away and did not live long.hat was bugging Mark Twain in 1876, to make him think up the benighted village of Deer Lick? He was already perhaps the nation's most famous writer. He was ensconced—happily, for a time—in a mansion resembling a steamboat in Hartford, Connecticut, with his well-born, wealthy wife and his first two daughters. Thanks to the influential Howells, Twain had also won critical recognition as far more than a wild western humorist.
Here is the "Blindfold Novelettes." You will see that I have altered it as we contemplated. The most prominent features in the story being the Murder & the Marriage, the one name will aptly fit all the versions. Then the thing will read thus in the headings:Presumably, what Twain sent then was the skeleton outline, because on May 4 he wrote again that he was coming to Boston and "I'll bring my Blindfold Novelette, but shan't exhibit it unless you exhibit yours. You would simply go to work & write a novelette that would make mine sick. Because you would know all about where my weak points lay. No, Sir, I'm one of these wary old birds!"
"A Murder & a Marriage. Story No. 1 ..."
You could add to this screed of mine an editorial bracket to this effect—
"Messrs. Howells, [John T.] Trowbridge, etc., have agreed to furnish versions of this story, but it is also desirable that any who please shall furnish versions of it also, whether the writers be of literary fame or not. The MSS offered will be judged upon their merits & accepted or declined accordingly. The stories should be only 8 or 10 Atlantic pages long.—Ed. Atlantic."
Something of that sort, you know, to keep people from imagining that because my name is attached to the proposition, the thing is merely intended for a joke.
I see where the trouble lies. The various authors dislike trotting in procession behind me. I vaguely thought of that in the beginning, but did not give it its just importance. We must have a new deal. The Blindfold Novelettes must be suggested anonymously. [Charles Dudley] Warner says, let this anonymous person say his uncle has died & left him all his property this property consisting of nothing in the world but the skeleton of a novel; he does not like to waste it, yet cannot utilize it himself because he can't write novels ... in which way he hopes to get 6 or 8 novels in place of one, & thus become wealthy.Nearly three years later, in April of 1879, Twain was still writing to Howells, "Can't you get up a plot for a 'skeleton novelette' & find two or three fellows to join us in writing the stories? Five of us would do. I can't seem to give up that idea." Five years after that he was pushing the idea, unsuccessfully, on Century magazine and George Washington Cable. What was the fascination?
Now I would suggest that Aldrich devise the skeleton-plan, for it needs an ingenious head to contrive a plot which shall be prettily complicated & yet well fitted for lucid & interesting development in the brief compass of 10 Atlantic pages. My plot was awkward & overloaded with tough requirements.
Warner will fill up the skeleton—for one. No doubt Harte will; will ask him. Won't Mr. Holmes? Won't Henry James? Won't Mr. Lowell, & some more of the big literary fish?
If we could ring in one or two towering names beside your own, we wouldn't have to beg the lesser fry very hard. Holmes, Howells, Harte, James, Aldrich, Warner, Trobridge [sic], Twain—now there's a good & godly gang—team, I mean everything's a team, now.
A man was making a little speech. He begged the multitude to be patient ... The balloon was distended with gas, & struggling to get away. An idea flashed like lightning through my brain. I tore loose from the guard, snatched the hatchet from his hand, threw my tools into the car, jumped in & cut the anchoring rope with a single stroke!There the entry ends. Later Twain added a note: "While this was being written, Jules Verne's 'Five Weeks in a Balloon' came out, & consequently this sketch wasn't finished."
Whiz! I was a thousand feet in the air in an instant.
A little touch [of this confusion] would be imported into The Ambassadors in the character of the dyspeptic Waymarsh. This hypothesis gains some credence when we discover, in James's original plan for the novel, that the character was first named Waymark. The "sacred rage" of Waymark-Waymarsh has in it perhaps a touch of the sacred rage of Mark Twain.Lambert Strether, the central character of The Ambassadors (1903), is much like James himself: detached from life but tremulously sensitive to the faintest social vibration, like the boy in school who never quite gets the whole guy thing and therefore notices everything. Sam Clemens was a sickly and bookish child and a nervous, delicately built man. Howells took note of his "taper fingers and pink nails, like a girl's," and of his "sensitively quivering in moments of emotion." Twain's lifelong bent for mischief and adventure may have been a semi-conscious effort not to be such a fellow as Strether.
"She never done it; jis' stood dah, kiner smilin' up at me. It make me mad; en I says agin, mighty loud, I says:The wind slammed the door shut but the child didn't blink, and Jim realized that scarlet fever had left her "deef en dumb—en I'd been a-treat'n her so!"
"'Doan' you hear me?—shet de do'!'
"She jis' stood de same way, kiner smilin' up. I was abilin'! I says:
"'I lay I make you mine!'
"En wid dat I fetch' her a slap side de head dat sont her a-sprawlin'. Den I went into de yuther room, en 'uz gone 'bout ten minutes; en when I come back, dah was dat do' a-stannin' open yit, en dat chile stannin' mos' right in it, a-lookin' down and mournin', en de tears runnin' down. My, but I wuz mad, I was agwyne for de chile, but jis' den—
hurried down to Panama with a cargo of wines & liquors, & at the end of 3 days had everybody drunk, a riot under way, the seeds of a promising revolution planted, & the Pres in prison. Result, the renewal of the lease to the Amer Co for 99 years, for $1,000,000. There is nothing like knowing your men.After the sketch, and a joke involving Indians and mustard, comes this with regard to domestic politics:
... all it is necessary to do is to cry Viva Revolucion! at head of street, & instantly is commotion. Doors slammed to, 50 soldiers march forth & cripple half dozen niggers in their shirt tails, a new Presi. is elevated, & then for 6 mos (till next Rev) the proud & happy survivors inquire eagerly of new comers what was said about it in Amer & Europe.
Political parties who accuse the one in power of gobbling the spoils &c, are like the wolf who looked in at the door & saw the shepherds eating mutton & said—At that time the national political parties were the economy-minded Democrats and the more ideological Republicans. The Democrats were dominated by southerners, big-city political machines, and the Irish and other northerners who had been unenthusiastic about the war effort (the Irish because they couldn't afford to avoid the draft) and had no desire to press Reconstruction. The radical Republicans controlled Congress, which had impeached and nearly deposed Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, because he didn't want to punish the South or grant full citizenship to former slaves. The Republicans elected Ulysses S. Grant, the former commander of the Union Army, to succeed Johnson in 1868. Twain the wild westerner had no dog in that fight.
"Oh certainly—it's all right as long as it's you—but there'd be hell to pay if I was to do that!"
Our present civil system, born of General Jackson and the democratic party, is so idiotic, so contemptible, so grotesque, that it would make the very savages of Dahomey jeer and the very god of solemnity laugh ... We even require a plumber to know something [Laughter, and a pause by the speaker] about his business [More laughter], that he shall at least know which side of a pipe is the inside ... [Yet] we put the vast business of a custom house in the hands of a flathead who does not know a bill of lading from a transit of Venus [laughter and a pause]—never having heard of either of them before, [and entrusted the Treasury Department to] an ignorant villager who never before could wrestle with a two-weeks' wash-bill without getting thrown.The diplomatic corps, he said, spoke only English, and that by way of "flourishing the scalps of mutilated parts of speech." There was even an ambassador "whose moral ceiling has a perceptible shady tint to it."
To see grown men, apparently in their right mind, seriously arguing against a bachelor's fitness for President because he has had private intercourse with a consenting widow! Those grown men know what the bachelor's other alternative was [prostitutes, presumably]—& tacitly they seem to prefer that to the widow. Isn't human nature the most consummate sham & lie that was ever invented?Be that as it might, Twain (though generally, in public, blue nosed about sex) forsook his party to vote for Cleveland, whom he chose to see as the candidate of reform. In so doing he joined a good and godly gang indeed. It included President Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard, and Charles Francis Adams, of the Boston Adamses. Derided in the press as "little Mugwumps," mugquomp being an Algonquin Indian word for "chief," they began to call themselves Mugwumps with pride. The label suited Twain right down to the ground: it had a funny sound to it, and it connoted innocence. "We, the mugwumps, a little company made up of the unenslaved of both parties," he recalled in his Autobiography, "had no axes to grind."
It was one which I had heard attributed to every humorous person who had ever stood on American soil, from Columbus down to Artemus Ward. It was about a humorous lecturer who flooded an ignorant audience with the killingest jokes for an hour and never got a laugh; and then when he was leaving, some grey simpleton wrung him gratefully by the hand and said it had been the funniest thing they had ever heard and "it was all they could do to keep from laughin' right out in meetin'." That anecdote never saw the day that it was worth the telling; and yet I had sat under the telling of it hundreds and thousands and millions and billions of times, and cried and cursed all the way through.Morgan has the knight hanged.
Without explaining what was wrong [he] gave the native a brisk cuff on the jaw and then told him where the defect was ... The native took it with meekness ... not showing in his face or manner any resentment. I had not seen the like of this for fifty years. It carried me back to my boyhood, and flashed upon me the forgotten fact that this was the usual way of explaining one's desires to a slave. I was able to remember that the method seemed right and natural to me in those days ... but I was also able to remember that those unresented cuffings made me sorry for the victim and ashamed for the punisher ... When I was ten years old I saw a man fling a lump of iron-ore at a slave-man in anger, for merely doing something awkwardly ... It bounded from the man's skull, and the man fell and never spoke again. He was dead in an hour. I knew the man had a right to kill his slave if he wanted to, and yet it seemed ... somehow wrong ... Nobody in the village approved of that murder, but of course no one said much about it ...Murder, mystery, and—between North and South, black and white, First World and Third—a marriage of sorts. After the Civil War, Twain moved, through his connection with The Atlantic, to purge himself of the stigma of Southernness—not his fault—that tainted him in the eyes of respectable literary society. Then he found that America, from Boston on out, wanted to forget the shame of slavery. Deftly though he maneuvered to fix himself thereafter in the national mind, in his mind the shame rose more and more to the surface. "The skin of every human being," he wrote, "contains a slave." He could at least make America flinch before it laughed. He kept trying to reconstruct and deconstruct the smiting of innocence, and the shuddering silence that follows it.
For just one second, all that goes to make the me in me was in a Missourian village, on the other side of the globe ... and the next second I was back in Bombay, and that kneeling native's smitten cheek was not done tingling yet!


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Recently, I was told the story of a chief audit executive (CAE) with a problem. Unfortunately, the story is not uncommon, and I am not aware of an easy solution to the CAE's situation.
The CAE returned from an overseas trip involving the investigation of a potential fraud reported through the hotline. Even before he had a chance to open his e-mail, the chief executive officer (CEO) called him into his office for a briefing on the results. The CAE of course obeyed and told the CEO that there had indeed been a fraud involving the loss of a few million dollars. The fraud involved some of the local management team, and a breakdown in the financial controls had prevented discovery.
After the CAE left, the CEO had an angry conversation with the chief financial officer (CFO), blaming him for the poor controls and the loss. The CAE found out when the CFO called him into his office for a yelling session. The CFO told him he should not have said anything to the CEO without talking to the CFO first. More upsetting, the CFO said he thought the CAE had exaggerated the situation.


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The Los Angeles company said Thursday it also plans to buy back shares, a sign that management believes the stock is undervalued. It's a much-needed boost for a company that's been mired in a battle with an investor who says the company is on its way downhill.


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The kids filed back into class Monday morning. They were very excited.
Their weekend assignment was to sell something, then give a
talk on productive salesmanship.
Little Sally led off: "I sold girl scout cookies and I made $30," she
said proudly, "My sales approach was to appeal to the customer's civil
spirit and I credit that approach for my obvious success."
"Very good," said the teacher.
Little Jenny was next: "I sold magazines," she said, "I made $45 and I
explained to everyone that magazines would keep them up on current
"Very good, Jenny," said the teacher..
Eventually, it was Little Johnny's turn. The teacher held her breath
... Little Johnny walked to the front of the classroom and dumped a box
full of cash on the teacher's desk.
"$2,467," he said.
"$2,467!" cried the teacher, "What in the world were you selling"
"Toothbrushes," said Little Johnny.
"Toothbrushes," echoed the teacher, "How could you possibly sell enough
tooth brushes to make that much money?"
"I found the busiest corner in town," said Little Johnny, "I set up a
Dip & Chip stand, I gave everybody who walked by a free sample."
They all said the same thing, "Hey, this tastes like dog crap!"
Then I would say, "It is dog crap. Wanna buy a toothbrush? I used the
President Obama method of giving you something crappy, but looks good,
for free, and then making you pay to get the bad taste out of your
"A strong man stands up for himself. A stronger man stands up for others."
The old sheriff was attending an awards dinner when a lady commented
on his wearing his sidearm. "Sheriff, I see you have your pistol. Are you
expecting trouble?" "No Ma'am. If I were expecting trouble, I would have
brought my rifle."
(just stole this one hope you don't mind)
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant,
it is just that they know so much that isn't so.
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Gloucester Daily Times
---- — To the editor:
OK, let me get this straight — no pun intended.
In his "Midweek Musings" column (the Times, Wednesday, July 3), Rev. Patrick Slyman claimed Mayor Carolyn Kirk not only "... shook her fist in the face of God "and presumed "... God's grace will always be upon this town ...," she also probably doomed Fishtown to God's fiery wrath because she dared to fly the rainbow flag at Grant Circle.
Now, I mean no disrespect or to be flippant, but I am betting Gloucester stands a better chance of being incinerated by some old lady named O'Leary's cow kicking over a lantern in a barn out in Lanesville, ala Chicago, than it does because the Almighty is mad at Mayor Kirk.
Interestingly, the minute I saw the name of the congregation Rev. Slyman leads, along with the title of his tirade, I knew exactly what the essay's content was going to be. That's because 20 years ago, at the height of the city's AIDS prevention efforts, a congregant of Pigeon Cove Chapel wrote many letters to the Daily Times about the godly wrath the city would face because of those efforts and its advancing of the so-called "gay agenda."
According to that writer, the AIDS epidemic was the Almighty's retribution against gays for their sinful and abominable behavior. The letter writer obviously never did any research about the epidemic because, if he had, he would have realized that, by the 1990s, it was already clear the global AIDS pandemic was being driven primarily by heterosexual intercourse. There never was anything exclusively homosexual about it.
As I read and reread Rev. Slyman's essay, I couldn't help but think if the good Lord was really going to unleash his fiery wrath on Gloucester, he probably would have done so long before Mayor Kirk raised the rainbow flag at Grant Circle.
After all, much of Gloucester's history and economy are all about getting people to sin by engaging in behavior that the same book of the Bible that condemns homosexuality as an "abomination" claims is another "abomination" as well — namely the eating of those delicious delicacies we call steamers, fried clams, lobster, and shrimp cocktail.
Not for nothin' but, by the Rev. Slyman's reasoning, places like Woodman's, Farnham's, and most every other restaurant on Cape Ann, have been shaking theirs fists "in the face of God" for generations, but Gloucester and Cape Ann have yet to be consumed by the Almighty's fiery wrath.
I'm betting the Almighty thinks the whole brouhaha over the flying of the rainbow flag is more indicative of bigotry than it is about sin and wickedness.
But hey, what do I know? I'm just an "abomination" myself.


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A difficult documentary to summarize, Nostalgia for the Light is one of the best nonfiction films I've seen in a while. The film is not about one thing in particular but rather synthesizes relatively tangential subjects into a beautiful lament for innocence lost and memories of lost ones. Beautifully crafted, NFTL ties the scientific quest for understanding the origins of our planet with the somber task of mourning and emotional closure for victims of the Chilean military coup in 1973. Highly recommended.
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The sultry strains of a violin waft through the night air and you can almost feel the warmth of a campfire. A dark haired beauty sways to the rhythm. The light from the glow of the fire catches a glint of silver; in her ears are these spectacular drop earrings. Rarely constructed in silver, cannetille work or fine threads of metal are coiled and spiraled in open work hoops of lace studded with graduated half discs. Day night, the circular top may be worn as a simpler statement or the entire cascading drop for impact. Each part is articulated as it catches and emphasizes each movement.
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Modern-day popular literary characters appear to be this year's biggest sellers when it comes to Halloween costumes, say the owners the House of Humor costume superstore.
Jack Greenbaum, who has been running House of Humor at 747 El Camino Real for roughly 28 years now - his son Mark just joined the family business about six years ago - says sexy characters from the controversial 50 Shades of Grey book series, as well as the iconic heroine Katniss from the Hunger Games series, are proving to be two of this year's most sought-after costumes by Halloween lovers on the Peninsula.
"Our '50 Shades of Grey' kit that Jack designed has been pretty popular," Mark told Patch this week. "The kit was his idea."
Lingerie in general has been a popular choice this year, said Jack. House of Humor has a small room dedicated to lingerie and other sexy costume accessories within the store.
As for Hunger Games costumes, Jack said House of Humor's large crossbow is a great choice, and he said the store was expecting a shipment of Katniss wigs - featuring her trademark long, dark braid - at any minute.
Naturally, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama masks are also a popular seller. House of Humor has an entire wall of political masks to choose from, including good-old Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and others.
So, what do the kids all want to be this year?
For the boys, Jack and Mark say zombies, pirates and superheroes are all popular choices this year. House of Humor has an entire small room within the store stocked with pirate costumes and accessories like eye patches, swords and beards for those looking to be a sea-dwelling captain this year.
And, the store has plenty in the way of the living dead as well.
Candice, a mother from Menlo Park, was shopping Wednesday with her two boys, ages 10 and 6, who want to be something scary like a zombie or skeleton this year. With House of Humor's large selection of scary costumes, they were sure they would be able to find something.
Another family from Portola Valley also came to House of Humor especially to check out the selection of scary costumes Wednesday. Ella, 12, wants to be a zombie bride, and her two younger brothers - Luke, 6, and Theo, 9 - want to be a zombie and an alien, respectively.
For girls, Katy Perry with her vibrantly-colored wigs, tall platform shoes and cupcake-adorned dresses is starting to trend for the first time this year. House of Humor has an entire wall filled with every kind of wig one can imagine, and plenty in the way of Katy Perry-esque dresses, shoes and accessories as well.
For the younger girls, rest assured that House of Humor has nearly an entire wall in its kids' room devoted to Disney princess costumes - always a popular choice.
PATCH WANTS TO KNOW - What are you looking to be for Halloween this year? Parents, what's at the top of your kids' costume wish-list? Tell us in the comments below, and feel free to add/upload photos to this article!


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On May 11, the Crossville Post Office will hold its annual food drive to help "Stamp Out Hunger" in America. The United States Postal Service and the National Association of Letter Carriers' (NALC) have partnered together for 21 years to create one of the most successful food drives in the nation.
Last year, carriers collected over 70 million pound of food. This was the ninth consecutive drive surpassing 70 million pounds. Total donations received since the drive began in 1993 amount to 1.2 billion pounds of food.
Food banks receive the bulk of their donations during the winter holiday season. By May, their stores are nearly depleted – this drive helps restock the food banks as the summer months approach.
Last year, in Cumberland County, about 13 tons of non-perishable food was collected and distributed to 10 local food pantries.
What to do:
On May 11, the second Saturday of May, place non-perishable food items at your mailbox for food pantry volunteers or mail carriers to collect. Or you can take food donations to the lobby of the Crossville Post Office.
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A closer look at the Arizona Wildcats' offense before Saturday's game in Tucson.
News and notes from the world of UCLA Football
Coach Mora met with the media after practice and talked about facing Ka'Deem Carey, Scott Quessenberry's role on the line, and the offensive tempo in recent games.
Who is ready to exorcise some demons? Arizona game is a must-win and a should-win for the Bruins
Jayon Brown is the Pac-12 Special Teams Player of the week, and those Jay-Z rumors...
Can Jim Mora's UCLA football program break the Tucson curse where the Bruins have imploded numerous times against less talented Wildcat program during the last decade.
The Arizona Wildcats avoided a letdown with two late interceptions and used another big day behind B.J. Denker and Ka'Deem Carey to hold off the California Golden Bears.
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Cellar/Tasting Notes "... the Montee de Tonnerre is all understatement and class. Still, it is impossible to miss the wine's textural finesse and exceptional overall harmony. Everything is simply in the right place in this majestic, compelling Chablis. A gentle hint of spice frames the finish."
Cellar/Tasting Notes A subtle but not invisible application of wood frames fresh, cool, pure and remarkably complex aromas of various red berries, underbrush, game and plenty of earth. There is excellent richness to the full-bodied and overtly powerful big-bodied flavors that brim with palate coating dry extract that..
Cellar/Tasting Notes An appealingly floral nose features notes of violets along with cool and pure earthy plum and red berry fruit aromas that are liberally laced with wet stone nuances. The taut and muscular broad-scaled and concentrated flavors are precise, intense and explosively long on the focused, dusty and..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "There is enough wood to notice though it doesn't fight with the mostly red berry fruit, spice and pungent earth aromas. There is ample size, weight, power, muscle and concentration to the big-bodied flavors that brim with dry extract that does a fine job of buffering the very firm but not hard..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "There is also enough oak influence to notice though not enough to materially detract from the high-toned and overtly spicy red currant, cherry and plum suffused nose. There is a lovely minerality to the supple, forward and refined middle weight plus flavors that possess a wonderfully refined mouth..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "The 2010 Corton Clos du Roi graces the palate with exquisite depth and sheer purity. Layers of seamless fruit emerge from this sublime, totally refined wine. De Montille used two-thirds whole clusters and 50% new oak barrels, but none of that stands out. It is the superb depth and purity of the..
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Inventive options around the metro shake up the bacon-and-egg breakfast. Sure, there is a time and place for the old favorites, but why not have some fun, too? Bacon and sausage may think they hold a monopoly on breakfast, but they take a backseat to turkey, chicken and even lobster on these menus. Some places even substitute tofu and soy for meat, and odds are you'll never miss the pork.


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Traverse City Record-Eagle
---- — It's downright miraculous. Or maybe just great good luck. Or maybe none of the above.
According to a company hired to monitor a cyanide-tainted groundwater plume beneath the city's Warehouse District and adjacent to Grandview Parkway the plume has not migrated into West Bay.
"It's close," said Doug Kilmer, a senior geologist with AKT Peerless, which performed the tests. "We are not detecting (cyanide) in the bay."
A map of the plume release by Grand Traverse County officials shows the cyanide coming right to the very edge of the bay. The same map shows that to the south, the plume actually curls around a bend of the Boardman River but apparently hasn't gotten into the water there, either. Amazing.
And where the plume ends up matters. A lot.
When high levels of cyanide were found in groundwater at the Hotel Indigo construction site this summer, the discovery prompted an extensive scientific probe into whether cyanide is leaching into the bay.
Measurements of cyanide in the groundwater at the Indigo site measured as high as 1,200 parts per billion this summer, well above levels that would allow the water to be discharged to the city wastewater treatment plant.
The findings raised concerns about future development in the Warehouse District, as well as questions about the bay's long-term health. The Grand Traverse County Brownfield Authority commissioned a scientific study on the groundwater, and hired AKT Peerless.
The company worked with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to draw new water samples and review historical water tests in the area; the company revealed its findings last week.
"It hasn't migrated or spread that far," AKT's Kilmer said. "We are just not seeing it. The plume is probably actually diminishing in size over time."
"Probably" can't be the last word.
Environmental consultant Chris Grobbel said the fact that cyanide is found in water samples so close to the bay still presents a significant threat.
"This is typically what happens when a groundwater plume enters into a large body of water like the bay," Grobbel said.
And it can't be fogotten that in 2005, AKT Peerless claimed in a report regarding the site of the now-defunct Petoskey Pointe project that some soil borings taken at the site showed high concentrations of tetrachloroethylene, commonly known as PCE and up to 10,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil would have to be removed from the site.
That report helped Petoskey Pointe developers land $4.5 million in state brownfield tax credits. But it turned out that AKT's findings — which had been challenged by the DEQ — were wrong. In a letter to the DEQ, Peerless "indicated that PCE concentrations detected in the soil were from laboratory contamination or another source of container contamination and did not accurately reflect PCE concentrations in the soil on the subject property," the DEQ said.
Despite that discovery, the claim of high PCE contamination continued to appear in Petoskey Pointe paperwork. A little more than six weeks after Peerless confirmed the mistake, the erroneous information was used in an application to the MEDC. And even though the estimates of soil to be removed from the site dropped from the initial 10,000 cubic yards to just a few hundred, developers still got $4.5 million in tax credits.
The Petoskey Pointe site is now just a hole in the ground.
In 2005, essentially everyone involved in the Petoskey Pointe project, from the developers to the Michigan Economic Development Corp. to Emmet County officials, wanted Petoskey Pointe to be a go; $4.5 million in tax credits would be a big help.
In Traverse City, pretty much everyone involved in tracking the cyanide plume, from Hotel Indigo developers to the Grand Traverse County Brownfield Authority to Warehouse District boosters to the DEQ, want to ease public concerns about the cyanide plume.
AKT made a mistake in 2005 that, it can be argued, cost state taxpayers $4.5 million in unnecessary tax credits. Now, the company has issued scientific findings in another public/private development that seem too good to be true.
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WVU athletic department took proactive steps to safeguard the university against any allegation of impropriety during Rich Rodriguez's tenure.
The Patented Rich Rodriguez Meltdown Has Begun
At 11:30 AM this morning, ESPN will cover live the Rich Rodriguez press conference responding to (confirmed) allegations of NCAA violations. Of course, while the Detroit Free Press and ESPN's Joe Schad have deemed these allegations accurate, Rodriguez and Michigan's compliance officer have denied them. Will that stand continue? From his time here, we know how awesome this could get.
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If the Hayabusa is Suzuki's hands-down speed champion, then the 2009 Suzuki GSX-R bikes are the handling champions. Suzuki offers several different models in the GSX-R line. The Suzuki GSX-R600 appeals to those who are looking for performance on a budget, while the GSX-R750 clearly stands out among 750-800cc bikes. However, it is the GSX-R1000 that serves as Suzuki's flagship sport bike, and embodies everything that Suzuki seeks to achieve. The flagship Suzuki GSX-R1000 was completely re-designed from the ground up in 2009, re-invigorating Suzuki's popular sport bike line.
Styling on the Suzuki GSX-R models is what you would expect from one of the leading manufacturers of sport bikes. Sleek lines emphasize the bike's focus on performance. The fairing is clean and smooth, contributing to the bike's aerodynamics, and wind protection. Lightweight cast aluminum wheels emphasize the bikes performance character, and complement the fairing. A crafted exhaust pipe completes the aggressive look of the bike.
The Suzuki GSX-R line now uses three engines, but they are all of the inline, four-cylinder type. A 599cc motor powers the GSX-R600, which is the smallest of the GSX-R bikes, though it still generates a healthy 100.6 horsepower. This is more than enough for most riders, and gives the GSX-R600 good acceleration. The Suzuki GSX-R750 uses a potent, efficient, and clean 750cc inline four. Producing 134 horsepower, this could be the most powerful 750cc engine ever mass-produced on a motorcycle. An advanced engine management system using Suzuki's Drive Mode Selector (S-DMS), and high efficiency fuel injection, which incorporates Suzuki Dual Throttle Valve (SDTV), allows adjustable engine settings that can be made while riding.
The true star of the Suzuki GSX-R line, though, is the flagship model's completely re-designed engine. The new 999cc inline four incorporates all of the advanced technology of the other GSX-R models, and adds features like titanium exhaust cans to further upgrade its performance. The engine generates around 170 horsepower, giving the GSX-R1000 more than enough thrust to satisfy even the most daring superbike rider. Several innovations on the exhaust were implemented as well. Suzuki's Advanced Exhaust System (SAES) uses light titanium parts to achieve a compact yet stylish design. The Suzuki Exhaust Tuning (SET) helps to maximize the torque output, especially at the low-range of rpm.
The 2009 Suzuki GSX-R1000 uses an all-new chassis design, which maximizes its handling ability. A more compact twin spar aluminum frame reduces the wheelbase. A new aluminum alloy swingarm lightens the bike's curb weight, but it's also 33mm longer, to improve the bike's handling. A new Showa Big Piston Front (BPF) fork provides more efficient suspension design, as it eliminates the cartridge assembly on previous bikes. The BPF design also has the advantage of being lighter. Even the fairing is modified to provide for smoother airflow through the body of the bike. All of these updates means that a bike that was a great-handling bike before, is now even better at everything from side-to-side cornering, to avoiding wanton semi-trucks on the highway. With great response to rider input and excellent stability, the Suzuki GSX-R1000 truly deserves the title of Suzuki's handling champion. The GSX-R1000 won the World Superbike Championships, which gives it credentials to go with its spec sheet.
For stopping power, floating 310mm discs are used on the Suzuki GSX-R1000, with radial mounted, racing derived monobloc aluminum alloy brake calipers on the front. On the rear, a single piston disc caliper proves more than sufficient. These are fully adjustable, and capable of excellent stopping power. This braking configuration is also lighter.
When looking at these upgrades, a theme emerges for the Suzuki GSX-R1000. Lighter, more compact, and improved power. All of this adds up to a superbike that is deserving of the title World Champion. If you are looking for a true superbike, the GSX-R is waiting for you.