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Bodies and laughter are set to pile up as the classic murder comedy Clue makes its Blu-ray debut on August 7th from Paramount Home Media Distribution. The Blu-ray will feature three alternate endings with a random way of playing them.
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The second Water Witch was a modification of the hull of the first. She entered the Philadelphia Navy Yard late in 1845; had her hull lengthened by some 30 feet; and had all her machinery removed and replaced with a new power plant to drive a Loper propeller. However, that configuration, after some months of experimentation, also proved unsatisfactory and; in 1847, she again traded her propulsion plant for an inclined condensing engine driving conventional side-wheels. She probably was not finally commissioned until 21 August 1847, Lt. George M. Totten in command.
In any event, the war with Mexico took her to blockade duty in the Gulf of Mexico where she arrived late in October 1847. At Anton Lizardo, she joined the squadron under Commodore Matthew C. Perry. Late in November and early in December, she cruised to reconnoiter the Mexican ports of Alvarado, Coatzacoolcos, Tabasco, Carmen, and Campeche in company with Mississippi and Scorpion. She served with the blockading forces in the Gulf of Mexico through the end of the Mexican War in February 1848.
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As expected, talented artist Nadia Al-Foudery's arresting photo-embroidery exhibition at Sultan Gallery was indeed a treat for art lovers.
A graduate of the University of Miami, Nadia is a Greek-Kuwaiti artist based in Athens. She developed an interest in art quite early in her life, which was duly encouraged by her parents. Travelling and experimenting with different art forms for the past four years, Nadia travelled to Iran and the bazaar of Yazd, in the winter of 2007 and was heavily influenced by its splendor. She artist acknowledges that this voyage provoked her to develop her own genre and an expressive style of work by creating imagery and narrative simultaneously.
For Nadia, art is a medium through which she expresses herself the best. Bordering on the realms of abstraction, her art work tells a story. In her untitled black and white images taken from the interior and exterior of the bazaar, both from the ground and also from the mud roofs, Nadia has managed to catch the essence of Yazd. Her work is delicate and resonates with the language of mystery. There is a sense of beauty and intimacy in her work.
Exploring boundaries is crucial to Nadia. Her skillful incorporation of material such as net, lace, crochet and beads transcend the mundane and add a soft, feminine touch to the images that are mounted on a canvas. While defining the process, Nadia explains that the photographs are taken with black and white film. These are the starting points of her work. Once printed, she hand embroiders on the papers' surface, and then lights the work from behind to give it an additional dimension.
What emerges through these images is "a living canvas where the earth, the sun, the material and imaginary worlds are fused. Inherently abstract and designed to be seen in both natural light and semi-darkness," remarks Nadia. Her feel for the architecture and her sense of composition is quite imposing. Her works are untitled and only bear numerals. "I want to respect the viewer by allowing him/her the freedom to identify the images however they want, without my influence. Once the work is finished, it no longer belongs to me, and therefore the matter is out of my hands, as in the naming of things," she notes.
Parallel to the exhibition held in Kuwait, Nadia's work is also being shown at Benaki Museum, in Athens from November to January. This unique photo-exhibition is a celebration of the young talent. Nadia may be new to the art world, but she sure is brilliant and an artist to watch out for.
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Camp Woodmont owners Jane and Jim Bennett live 125 miles away, and together with their son Tyran and daughter Alyson Gondek have operated the camp long-distance for more than 20 years. Recently, Tyran has been able to realize a long-time goal of living at the camp year-round with his wife Suzy and their two children.
Woodmont is located about two hours from Atlanta toward Chattanooga and Birmingham and is nestled against Lookout Mountain, with about 170 acres of hardwood forest and 30 acres of pasture.
Tyran and Alyson's parents — Jim and Jane — started the camp in 1981, and Alyson was its first director. Jim and Jane were camp counselors as teenagers and college students and fell in love with camp life, so they bought the property in the '70s, paid it off, and used it as collateral for an SBA loan to build the original camp buildings.
Their perseverance paid off, and they now own the camp outright. They have since retired from teaching and are in the process of turning over more of the day-to-day work of operating the camp to Tyran and Alyson.
Now that Tyran and his family have moved up to camp, Tyran says it has made things not only better for them, but for their guests as well.
"It was a hindrance to us being so far away to run off-season retreats and business, and it was almost impossible from a customer service point of view to run a weekend retreat," Tyran says. "I like it now because I'm able to do maintenance at the camp regularly. Living at the facility will be a big plus for us, so that we can develop more camp programming — like orienteering courses, scavenger hunts and so on."
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Woodmont runs a nine-week traditional overnight program. It used to be four, two-week sessions, but a week-long session has been added at the end of the summer. Though that session falls at the end of the season, the entire camp schedule has been moved up a week at the front end to make room for it, and to deal with progressively earlier school start dates.
Every two weeks the camp closes on Friday afternoon, and doesn't open until Sunday afternoon for the next two-week session. Tyran says Woodmont used to run until Saturday morning, but found that didn't give them enough time to adequately prepare for the next session, nor did it give the counselors a long enough break.
Woodmont is a small private camp that hosts 80-110 children at a time, and 400-500 kids per summer. Most of them come from Atlanta, with the rest from Birmingham, Chattanooga, Nashville and points beyond.
Over the years, Woodmont has steadily built a number of what Tyran calls "marquee" activities, such as a climbing wall and ropes course. Woodmont currently offers traditional camp programs like swimming, boating, fishing, archery, drama, various team and individual sports, dance and nature. Tyran says the camp decided to keep everything inside camp and not venture outside camp grounds for off-site treks.
"We found for a camp our size, planning and executing an off-site trek with our staff size does not work for us. That might be why we get younger campers," Tyran says. "We used to offer field trips where we took them local attractions for part of the day, and we found that really breaks up the routine of summer camp and causes relational problems among the camp. All of the sudden you take them to Rock City for half a day, and they get back into that amusement-park-we're-back-at-the-mall kind of day. Next thing you know you've got five or six couples that are boyfriend-girlfriend because they rode on the bus together. The more you can control what happens the fewer issues you'll have on a boy-girl basis. Kids who are 12 and 13 don't need to get involved with that kind of thing while they're at camp for two weeks anyway."
Woodmont plans to add more activities and programs — like skateboarding, mountain biking and more waterfront activities, like slides and blobs. The camp's philosophy, Tyran says, will be to add incrementally and systematically as adding in small steps has proven to be positive, both financially and programmatically.
Tyran reports that the horseback program has been a big success and a great drawing card for kids. The emphasis here is on certification and excellent instruction as a 1,000-pound animal is much harder to control than a pool area or ropes course.
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Suddenly, maybe after adding a ispconfig 3 slave server to the ispconfig 3 main server, the web folders of the new sites that are inserted haven't been created. In the admin panel everything looks to be normal. Except for maybe that there is the bind-configuration available (server config => dns), even tough I only have mydns-ng. I have made sure to yum remove bind (and no was installed). I also made a php upgrade ispconfig. (version 22.214.171.124)
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13.04.2010-14:45 - DEBUG - Found 237 changes, starting update process.
13.04.2010-14:45 - DEBUG - Call function 'soa_delete' in plugin 'bind_plugin' raised by event 'dns_soa_delete'.
From yet another post I learned to delete the lock-file and I've done so maybe 30-40 times, but the "Found 237 changes" doesn't seem to change.
13.04.2010-14:49 - DEBUG - There is already a lockfile set. Waiting another 10 seconds...
13.04.2010-14:49 - DEBUG - There is already a lockfile set. Waiting another 10 seconds...
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[2]+ Stopped tail -f /var/log/ispconfig/ispconfig.log (wd: ~)
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Like most women my age who grew up playing softball and loving baseball, I have seen the movie A League of Their Own about a million times.
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The Objective Conservative exists to postulate views from the right reflecting conservative, sometime libertarian thought influenced by a belief that the United States of America is a country founded with a Christian/Judeo philosophy. It will express objective views of issues and candidates.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Time to Get Real -- PJM
Having said the above, it is time to get realistic. While I can find many things that truly bother me about John McCain, it is increasingly evident that he will probably be the nominee of our party and should he, in fact, become the nominee, we are going to have a choice to support him, to stay home or to vote for Hillary or Obama. In my mind there will be no choice--even if it means, as McCain's mother says, holding your nose to cast the vote. Now with several of the talk show hosts, religious leaders and others saying that McCain will be the end of the Republican Party as we know it, or saying they would either not vote, or even consider voting for Hillary, we have to be both realistic and pragmatic. Yes, John McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts. Yes, John McCain co-sponsored McCain-Feingold. Yes, McCain, supported what most Republicans believe to be amnesty. Yes, he opposed a marriage amendment to the constitution. Yes, he apparently supports some embryonic stem cell research. And, yes I'm sure I missed several more of his bad points.
But, let's put things into perspective. How would John McCain differ from George W. Bush? George W. Bush stood up against terrorism after 9-11. He ran what appears to have been a less than effective campaign of quelling the enemy after winning the battle of Iraq. Certainly, McCain has been a strong supporter of the fight against Islamic fascism and in fact had recognized long before Bush the need to 'surge' in Iraq. George Bush speaks of the fight against terrorism as one of a generation. McCain seems to recognize that it will be with us much longer than that. George promoted tax cuts. While he didn't support them originally, McCain now supports their continuance. George is pro-life, that is against abortion. McCain has a pro-life record, although he is less than satisfactory on embryonic stem cell research. George and John both supported an immigration bill that smacks of amnesty. McCain says he has learned his lesson. George W. Bush's fiscal irresponsibility in controlling spending is one of the major reasons that the Republicans took a beating in 2006 and will not regain power until they truly reform their ways or until a liberal Democrat once again helps us rediscover our values. John McCain has a solid record of fiscal responsibility and opposition to earmarks, pork, etc.
On the positive side,George Bush appointed two great Supreme Court Justices. McCain would still appoint conservative Supreme Court Justices and it is likely that the next president will appoint at least one if not two in the next four years. I could go on, but frankly, a John McCain presidency would not be any worse than a George H. W. Bush (read my lips/light on pro-life) or George W. Bush presidency. And certainly, Bob Dole would have been no better. NONE OF THESE GUYS ARE OR WOULD HAVE BEEN A RONALD REAGAN. UNFORTUNATELY RONALD REAGAN IS DEAD. If we want another Ronald Reagan, we'd better start finding and promoting him--and there are lots of good Republicans who still fit the mold.
Now for the reality check. What wll Hillary or Obama do? First, they will extract us from Iraq. Our efforts, the lives of 4,000 men and our trustworthiness to our allies will be once again lost. Some say the U.S. has lost respect in the world because of how we handled Iraq. How much more respect will we lose by abandoning it now? Do you remember Viet Nam? Do you remember Jimmy Carter? Do you believe either one of these folks is capable of fighting a war on terrorism? On immigration both of these folks are basically supporters of amnesty, no question about it. On tax cuts, you can bet your last dollar (because they will) that they will go away and your taxes will go up. Let's face it, both Obama and Hillary are Abortion on Demand and embryonic stem cell research without limit. Both WILL appoint liberal (litmus-test-approved) Supreme Court Justices that will reverse the efforts of Reagan and Bush. Both will spend your money on every liberal do-gooder program they can concock. Again, I could go on and on.
The bottom line, my friends, is whomever becomes our nominee--even if it is John McCain--is better for our country and our philosophy of government than Hillary or Obama. To let either be elected because our candidate is not Ronald Reagan incarnate would represent a total lapse of responsibility on our part, an abidication of our values. Staying home on November 4th will be a vote for the unthinkable by the unthinking.
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- February 6, 2008 at 9:58 AM
Great job, Pat. I liked it a lot
- February 6, 2008 at 10:02 AM
...........a vote for the unthinkable by the unthinking.
- February 6, 2008 at 10:12 AM
I agree with you in total. As I've asked for a long time, where are the conservatives that are in a position to run? The challenge will become greater and greater. The probability of ever having another true conservative elected as a President will become less and less as time goes on. With 50% of us paying 96.5% of all taxes, what are the possibilities of ever getting another real conservative elected? Soon we will be paying 100%? Why would the "bottom half" ever want a real conservative back in office then, because we'll just take their gravy away from them?
Am I wrong?
Is there ANY thing at all that can be done to get more people behind Romney? He is our ONLY chance as reasonable leadership.
Where are all of these grass root Conservatives that I thought we had, or are we a dieing breed?
- February 6, 2008 at 12:35 PM
"Excellent analysis" based on what criteria? Cowardice? No offense to you Mr. McPherson, but your daily diatribe is nothing more than a pitiful echo of the same gutless and empty words being thrown around by the moderate left of the Republican Party, only not nearly as profound. It was helpful though, because I now have a better understanding into the mindset of Judas Iscariot in Gethsemane so many years ago. The examples you have outlined in painful detail to somehow prove McCain's conservative credentials are so ridiculous that I'm amazed they were actually typed out by a grown man and not some 12 year old adolescent. From what I understand, you believe yourself to be a true, hardcore Reagan Republican who has come to the unfortunate conclusion that in November you will have to hold your nose and vote for someone whose views are anathema to your own simply for the sake of being a loyal Republican. Do you know what that makes you, sir? A political whore. There is more to politics and the sustainment of a movement than merely pulling a lever for someone who has an "R" after their name. So, to you and the rest of the Republican blue-blood establishment, I truly hope you relish your bag of silver coins that have been promised to you for your willing betrayal of our Party and the principles for which it once so proudly stood. After what John McCain has done to our once great party over the last 8 years he ought to just roll over and have a cigarette. I would rather stand firm to my principles and lose with dignity than emasculate myself for the petty sake of another four years in Washington. This is one conservative who will NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER vote for that fraud of man no matter how many emails cowards (or, "realists" to use your own words) like you try to spoon feed me.
- February 6, 2008 at 12:38 PM
Right on.
- February 6, 2008 at 12:51 PM
As you know Pat I am a supporter of John McCain, having worked on his first US House campaign in 1983 when I lived in Arizona. The two main issues for me are federal fiscal responsibility and the war on Islamic Extremist who are bent on our destruction. I trust McCain on both of those issues. There are, of course, other issues but they pale in comparison for this Republican. The fiscal and military security of our country comes first to my thinking.
But possibly even more important reason for Republicans to not stay home on election day is the votes that would drain away from our other great candidates and issues. If we want the Democrats to sweep the table staying at home is the best way to insure it. If, however, we think our local, state and national candidates and referendum issues deserve our voice we had better get out there and vote.
- February 6, 2008 at 12:54 PM
As you know Pat I am a supporter of John McCain, having worked on his first US House campaign in 1983 when I lived in Arizona. The two main issues for me are federal fiscal responsibility and the war on Islamic Extremist who are bent on our destruction. I trust McCain on both of those issues. There are, of course, other issues but they pale in comparison for this Republican. The fiscal and military security of our country comes first to my thinking.
But possibly even more important reason for Republicans to not stay home on election day is the votes that would drain away from our other great candidates and issues. If we want the Democrats to sweep the table staying at home is the best way to insure it. If, however, we think our local, state and national candidates and referendum issues deserve our voice we had better get out there and vote.
- February 6, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Hey that one guy could use anger management!
Thanks for posting my comments and for your integrity to post those who disagree with you in such strong terms. I respect such intellectual honesty.
- February 6, 2008 at 1:10 PM
Mr. anonymous "NEVER EVER EVER EVER" probably not only needs anger management, but a dose of reality. I too, find it a really sad day in America when the best that the Republicans have to offer is a John McCain. We Conservatives, on the other hand, apparently were unable to present a candidate that the nation finds viable. And although I am sickened at the probability of having to vote for McCain (unless something miraculous happens and Huckabee gets out and stops splitting the Conservative vote), not voting for him is tantamount to voting for the Democratic candidate. I am a principled person, but in this case "realism" dictates that voting for a leftist like McCain is better than voting for any Socialist. Those may be our only options.
So I now ask Mr. NEVER EVER EVER EVER, if your options are McCain or a Socialist, for whom will you vote? . . . .and remember, by not voting, you are actually casting a vote for the Socialist.
A deeply saddened Conservative, The Cue.
- February 6, 2008 at 8:02 PM
Very well said my friend. Very well said.
- February 7, 2008 at 8:05 AM
I read your comments about McCain, and agree wholeheartedly. Was appalled at the one res-ponse, but those things are becoming more pronounced with the anonymity of the web and the chat rooms, blogs, etc. - unfortunately! I considered a response, but it might have needed some editing!! Some conservatives can be just as insane as the libs who spew their venom on Daily Kos, etc. Am still shaking my head over Ann Coulter and a few others, but actually am not surprised at Coulter. She is more of a provocateur who uses the conservative cause as a platform for her celebrity, than a serious defender of conservative causes. Her vow to support Hillary is right in line with her tendency to date leftist activists such as Bill Maher and others!
Was extremely impressed with Romney's speech a short time ago, and it's good to see a candi-date take the "high road" for a change. Will be interested in seeing what McCain's comments will be shortly.
In any case, there is now the opportunity, with a single "anointed" candidate, to get our act to-gether for the fall. Let's hope that both McCain and his people, as well as the conservative brain trust, can follow Romney's lead and take that "high road" to a potential victory!
- February 7, 2008 at 1:07 PM


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I have a "problem" that I've never had before. I have a rosemary plant that I've successfully over-Wintered for two years, and as we begin on the journey of its third Winter in the kitchen, I realize that it's become quite large.
This rosemary lives in a terra cotta pot. It spends its Winters (as brief a time as possible, usually mid-December to mid-March) on the kitchen counter, and in the Summers I sink the pot into the ground in the herb bed. I have been re-potting into a larger pot in the Spring.
At any rate, this lovely plant is now quite large and living in a 12" pot. When I pulled it up from the garden, a reasonably sized root was coming out of the drainage hole (but not as big as the one from the 8" pot last year). This makes me think that it would still be happy to to into a bigger pot in the Spring and just keep going (I really hoped that I'd get 2 years out of this pot!). Looking at the plant and the pot, my gut says the plant could probably be half again as big and still be reasonably happy in this pot, escaping roots notwithstanding.
Nevertheless, I'm starting to wonder whether I should call it quits on the annual pot upgrades, so that I'll still be able to lift it in future years. Until the last couple of years, I had never successfully over-Wintered a rosemary, so I can't claim to have considered how to handle this situation.
So tell me, wise gardeners in northern climes...how big do you allow your over-Wintering rosemary to get? How big of a pot do you keep it in? What kind of pruning do you do, for branches or roots? What does long-term rosemary over-Wintering look like? Etc., etc.
This is additionally complicated for me on an emotional level, because this year I acquired an Arp rosemary that I've planted in the garden, which should be Winter-hardy in my zone. If this succeeds, I do have wonder how much energy I'll be willing to devote to hauling pots in and out every year.
Thanks, all!
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|I would suggest rooting one of the trailers in a seperate pot to start a new "inside" plant. Then plant the older one outdoors in the ground in a more protected location.
Rosemary wants to be a big plant, but by both root- and top-pruning you might be able to keep this one smaller.... sort of like bonsai.
|Westelle, regular rosemary will NOT survive a Winter outdoors in my zone, probably not even in a protected location (which is moot anyway, since my yard offers either "protected" or "sunny" but not both).
There's nothing I'd like more than to just leave it in the ground, but that's not an option where I live. This is why I acquired an "Arp" rosemary, in the hopes that it would survive the Winter here. I'll know in the Spring whether this was successful.
So...given that this particular rosemary plant must come indoors for the Winter months, and therefore it must remain in a pot, I'd like advice about about managing this long-term.
I have made new plants by layering in the past, and I also have a small plant that I'm over-Wintering this year as well. I would prefer not to give up on the large plant, however.
- Posted by fatamorgana Zone 5/6 (My Page) on Mon, Jan 3, 11 at 9:36
|I could not get "arp" for overwinter for me. Some gardeners in my area can do it but I've failed 3 times (my limit). Sometimes it's all about the microclimates you have. Obviously I don't have the right ones. If your "arp" doesn't make it, don't despair. Try another location and see if that works better.
As far as your indoor giant, perhaps you can take a page from the bonsai or topiary books. Manage its size and shape. It is a woody plant and so you should be able to use some bonsai techniques to keep your plant a manageable size for indoors. Obviously you don't want a 6" tall plant but the overall bonsai ideas of how to prune, shape, and keep to a certain size would be applicable.
|leira: I guess you might want to learn to do Bonsai. The basic technique will keep your rosemary in bounds.
|what is an "Arp" rosemary? ;)
- Posted by fatamorgana Zone 5/6 (My Page) on Fri, Feb 25, 11 at 14:38
|A particular variety of rosemary that is the most cold-hardy one commercially available.
|I would try to get Arp and give it a try. I never had luck with rosemary in the house. I started planting Arp and other unnamed varieties in the ground, and they went through the winter fine--even after this last horrible winter with sustained cold and deep snows. And after a winter where the deer ate everything green, they don't touch the aromatic rosemary.--I'll be planting hedges of it in the Spring! Good luck.
|I didn't worry about bonsai techniques, I just kept trimming it and using it to keep it small and fairly open in the middle. For me they have maxed out at about 2 ft.
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Many transmen who use testosterone as part of their transition often document the changes.* The truly brave ones post video clips of their before and after progress. Since Transman hates everything about his "before," he won't be doing that here. Don't even ask.
Physical changes:
Body hair–Transman had been a furry sort before testosterone, but now his legs have enough hair to double as a sub-zero insulating layer under his jeans. The light blond hair on his knuckles has darkened up and there is hair on the backs of his hands. Knuckle-dragging apehood can't be far behind.
Transman's body hair used to be straight, but now he has cowlicks on his forearms.
Transman is still waiting for more hair to sprout on his chest. The dozen pre-T hairs are waiting for friends so they can give the leg and arm hairs a run for their money. The happy trail has leapt north of the belly button border and spread out to east and west, so Transman is holding out hope for his own fur shirt in a couple of years.
Face shape—the other day Transman's son reached over and jabbed two fingers into Transman's face.
"You have a chin now," Transman's son said. "Your father is going to be so proud." (Transman has an Eric Clapton chin—or he did before starting testosterone; Transman's dad always tells him "Stick your chin out!" without acknowledging that one has to have a chin to begin with.)
Transman's jawline is squaring up and his face looks a bit wider. Transman is fascinated by his increasing resemblance to his grandfather. All he needs is plaid pants and a white leather belt that matches his loafers and the look will be complete.
Facial hair—Transman won't be Grizzly Adams anytime soon, but he has enough dark fuzz on his upper lip that he shaves so as not to arouse suspicion at work where he's still in the closet.** While Transman doesn't have 5 o'clock shadow, there is a subtle darkness to his skin where the beard will eventually come in.
Body—Transman's biceps, shoulders, and neck are getting bigger. His suit jackets are getting tight in the arms. Transman can carry heavier loads, too, but don't ask him to come move your piano for you.
Vocal changes—the sound of Transman's voice hasn't changed much. He mostly sounds like he's getting a cold or fighting off allergies, but he gets these weird sensations every couple of weeks and then his voice gets a little huskier. The sensations are hard to describe; they feel like Transman has swallowed something that won't quite go down and like there is a pulling or stretching in his throat. The sensation isn't painful, but it is distracting.
When Transman tries to speak louder in group settings, the voice gets a little raspy and out of control. Transman doesn't exactly squeak, but when he speaks, he imagines everyone in the room is hearing Jeremy Freedman.
Transman's laugh sounds different. Weirdly, the laugh has more resonance than his speaking voice.
Emotional changes:
Self confidence—Transman used to second guess himself and worry about making other people happy. Now, he doesn't care too much about what others think. His confidence isn't obnoxious cockiness; it's more of a comfort with himself and belief in his abilities that wasn't there before the right hormones were in his bloodstream.
No more tears—Transman used to tear up a little at Hallmark commercials and the like, but he's sort of on emotional cruise control now. He still feels bad when his kid pouts about having to go to school and sheds a few tears when separating from his Transdaddy, but Transman no longer finds it as difficult to give the lad a hug and hop back in the car and head off to work. Transman still hasn't put his testosterone-fueled self to the Old Yeller test, so this might all be speculation.
* Some of the changes that transmen go through involve more intimate parts of their bodies and emotions; to read those, you'll have to wait until Transman publishes his memoir because he tries to keep the blog PG-13.
** Transman is out in most places in his life, but is waiting to come out on the job until his position is a little more secure. He dresses in male clothing and carries himself the same as he does everywhere, so he's a source of office speculation—"is X gay?" and often scares people from other departments when he walks out of the bathroom (more on the weirdness of work some other time.)


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Fifty years ago, Oregon's deadliest weather event blew through the Western part of the state. Forty-six people died and it caused major damage. Two witnesses shared their memories with OPB.
Columbus Day 1962 began like any other clear day in Western Oregon. Weather reports predicted a storm, but few people took it seriously. Here's a bit of archival KGW radio tape, courtesy of the station:
Caller: "Um yes, I'm calling to ask if you have any specific reports on this wind that we've heard about in our neighborhood.
KGW: "We have the weather bureau forecast and Jack Capell forecast. It'll be about 60 miles per hour and hit sometime late afternoon.
Caller: "60 miles an hour?"
KGW: "Well, gusts that high"
Caller: "Oh my goodness, that hardly seems possible because it's so calm."
But the day was to go from calm to chaos. Huge gusts roared through the valley. They downed electrical wires and telephone poles. They peeled roofs off houses, and scattered old growth trees.
Many people were unprepared. We talked to two Oregonians who remember weathering the storm in unusual places.
Kenn Gilson was 20 years old. He was en route to pick up his girlfriend Sandy to take her to church. He realized something unusual when the radio stations in his car kept cutting out.
"One after another, they'd just bleep off," recalls Gilson. "I eventually got to her place and by that time the only station I could find I believe it was KGW."
KGW tape: "This signal may not be what you'd expect from KGW but it's the best we can do under the circumstances. You know by now that strong winds have hit the Portland area … we're recordings gusts up to 85 miles per hour."
The storm moved up from Salem. It blew down radio towers left and right. Gilson picked up his girlfriend and they continued to the church.
"We waited for the wind to die down but it didn't. The building was bouncing and jumping so much that we were concerned about the safety of the place. But we heard the organ playing, and we heard people in the basement. So we knew there were people there," said Gilson.
They searched the church for the voices and the organ player.
"There wasn't anybody in the basement," Gilson Said. "There wasn't anybody in that church. But us. And the wind."
It was the wind that made the organ sound.
"And it would go woo-ahhh-wooh," Gilson says. "And then every once in a while it would go "wooh-uh-wah. It was definitely spooky that night.
The couple hunkered down in the basement of the church. On top of the sighing of the organ, they could hear the moaning of the wind.
"Wooo-ooooo-ooh," Gilson, imitating the wind. "But there were multiple sounds like that. You had like half a choir singing all these notes. It was all in all a musical night."
They spent the night in the church in candlelight, listening to the storm.
Jane Nicodemus was outside, fetching laundry when the storm hit. She was nine months pregnant with her first child. A gust of wind picked up the laundry pole and thrust it against the house, taking Nicodemus with it. She was pinned. And she was alone.
"It upended and just kind of pushed me against the wall and held me there," said Nicodemus. "It was not real heavy, but it was cumbersome and I was a little clumsy because I had a pretty good size tummy on me from being pregnant."
"And I thought if I have trouble with my baby, I'll be in a real bad state. If the wind kept pushing me back I wouldn't have been able to get out," Nicodemus remembers.
Fortunately, the wind subsided enough for her to dash inside.
"The house was shaking. And I was thinking, here we worked so hard to get the house ready for the baby, with his own little room," said Nicodemus. " I'm thinking, 'Please don't destroy my pretty little house with my baby things in it!"
She called her dad, who drove her to her parents' home.
"We crept just those four blocks very slowly. A lot of power lines and telephone lines were down. A lot of damage in the trees," said Nicodemus.
She remembers the broken power lines flipping through the air like electrified snakes.
"It was very, very loud, and very bright. The lines were breaking, and snapping around like crazy," Nicodemus remembers.
They finally made it. Nicodemus says she was pretty worked up. Then, she felt something in her abdomen. It was a contraction.
"I kind of held my tummy, and my mom said, 'You're having pains?'' And I said, 'Yeah, it hurts.' And she says, 'You go lay down! You need to get comfortable and quit being so scared.' And I was thinking. I don't want that baby to come yet."
She lay on that sofa for hours. Her contractions gradually let up, but the storm didn't.
"It was just such a shock, and an unreal situation," Nicodemus remembers. "I was just getting through the night."
The storm knocked out power to 98 percent of Portland residents. Some remained without electricity for three weeks. In the aftermath, people lived in canvas tents and cooked outdoors. Neighbors helped each other clear debris, repair fences, and move trees off the roads.
In the scheme of things, Jane Nicodemus fared pretty well. Her home was safe, and two days later she gave birth to a healthy boy.
She says it was a humbling experience.
"The power of nature—is awesome," said Nicodemus. You just have to be out there for a little while and realize that you have no way—when Nature starts putting on a show like the Columbus Day storm, you have no power to stop it. It showed us how powerful nature can be."
Sources for this story came to OPB through our Public Insight Network. You can share your story, and become a source for OPB at opb.org/publicinsight.
Special thanks to the Oregon Historical Society and Portland General Electric for the use of photos, and to KGW for the use of audio. The Oregon Historical Society is currently featuring an exhibit on the Columbus Day Storm at the Portland museum. Learn more about the exhibit.
Read more memories of the storm from sources in our Public Insight Network. You can share your memories of the storm and become part of our Public Insight Network here.


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In a previous post, we talked about ways to detour burglars. In that post, it stated "A loud TV or radio can be a better deterrent than the best alarm system. If you're reluctant to leave your TV on while you're out of town, get a device that looks like the TV is on."
Well, here is a device, called Fake TV, that simulates your TV actually being on while you are away from your new RV or home:
FakeTV is a burglar deterrent that recreates the light of real high-definition television (HDTV). FakeTV uses LED lights to fill a room with light in thousands of possible shades of color, simulating scene changes, fades, swells, and and on-screen motion. From outside the window of your used RV or home, it looks as though someone is home watching TV.
As stated on Great RV Accessories, often burglars will not break in to occupied houses or RVs, so a Fake TV might just be the perfect solution. Even pair it with a alarm system and it can be even more effective.


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Prospering with Large Format
Ben Franklin Press Succeeds
Phoenix seems to be a microcosm of the new digital large format printing world. Here, the large format-equipped printing companies fit the typical model. Most have entered the so-called print world from outside of traditional print.
What is not typical is the large number of firms that have developed a vision based on finishing workflow from design to printer RIP to automatic cutter/router. Worldwide, we have found that roughly one in five large format printers develop this capability within the first year or two of the purchase of their printing equipment. In Phoenix, it looks like perhaps three out of eight have done so.
There are also a number of narrow format digital printers in the greater Phoenix area, none of them, to our knowledge, who have implemented a short run specialty graphics workflow.
The large and recent annual population growth in Phoenix, along with a great number of sports teams, golf courses, other venues, and new housing developments spurred by population growth has created more opportunity. This allows the city's printers to take on new technology without the entrenched competition that resides in more mature markets.
A Phoenix StandoutThe overview of Phoenix's large format printers offers insight to national and international trends in this relatively new technology. We visited with Ron Clark, president, Ben Franklin Press, a traditional offset printer in Phoenix/ Tempe, AZ. We also met Dewey Johnson, marketing manager for the sister large format digital printing plant that they have dubbed Big Ben.
Walking through these two busy facilities in parallel plants, we learned that they are producing print for the same customer base. With sales approaching 7 million dollars, the digital and large format portion of business is now 25 percent of the total and growing.
Virtually every one of their long established customers buys both traditional offset and large format digital products. "It's a lot easier to sell more to the same customers than try to get new ones," says Johnson. "That's the story we wanted to tell."
The interesting thing is how soon Ben Franklin Press and Big Ben began their crossover to large format, and how few of their peers have even begun to think the same way. Although many offset printers now say that getting into large format is important to them, until very recently this meant solely using large format printers to proof large print signatures and perhaps a few posters, but not running a second business.
Two of the large national graphic arts distributors, Enovation Graphic Systems and Pitman Company, have recently decided to develop large format digital printing divisions to go after this marketplace. More interestingly, they want to branch out from their traditional, offset printer base to cover the full market and make this decision pay off. Cascades Resources is a similar print equipment distribution firm in Canada specializing in the flexo marketplace, which has also developed a new large format division within the past year.
Reinventing the BusinessBen Franklin Press was founded in 1956 as a traditional offset printer featuring classic offset printing, and growing by promoting good, honest printing. It's motto is, "Produce High Quality Work, Deliver All Jobs on Time, and Fully Satisfy the Customer."
Over ten years ago, the company saw the emerging need to help their customers on a much grander scale. In 1995, they were the first firm in Phoenix to employ both a large format digital inkjet printer and a RF welding machine. And they haven't stopped yet—continually increasing their equipment complement to achieve all their customer requests. In the digital shop, their current capacity includes six large format units plus a laminator and an 80-foot-long welder. Over 4.5 million dollars in equipment has been added to this facility over the last five years, culminating in a recent purchase of a multi-material cutter/router, which adds another dimension to the products they can offer to customers.
Ben Franklin's customer base has grown from the Phoenix area to worldwide, while still maintaining the qualities of a small, family-owned company. Their broad spectrum of customers includes the Arizona Cardinals, Diamondbacks, and Coyotes; ING Bank; Intel; the Fiesta Bowl; and a number of casinos.
While visiting the plant, we were able to see just how well Ben Franklin has met its customer's changing needs. In the offset area, we saw program game books for the Phoenix Coyotes being printed in the large quantities needed to be sold at home games. In the large format area, they were printing new posters that will hang in the Coyotes' home arena.
The offset plant looks like almost any other that we've ever visited. There is busy prepress/proofing activity and the usual CtP equipment from Agfa and Fuji. There are four presses, printing two- to four- to six-color jobs on a Heidelberg two-color GTO Perfecta, a Komori five-color, a Mitsubishi four-color, and a Ryobi four-color with in line aqueous coater and refrigerated inking system. An integrated bindery handles large runs of magazines with no problem, using a combination of cutters, folders, saddle stitchers, hole punch, and shrink wrapping systems.
Overall, Clark is proud to be able to assist any client with whatever print job they need. Anything in the realm of traditional offset from data sheets, to pamphlets, to magazines, and long run posters is possible through their full-service bindery with finishing equipment galore. Beyond large format signs, they can now also provide high-resolution tradeshow displays, vehicle wraps, billboard campaigns, and arena wraps.
Some of their specific projects include interior and exterior wall murals, aluminum face signage, flexface billboards, arena backlits, sponsorship banners, outfield pad graphics, window displays, semi and fleet wraps, floor graphics, tradeshow displays, carpet, POP, construction fencing, die cut casino signs, foam-board cut outs, easel signs, flags, wallpaper, and photo backdrops.
According to Johnson, Big Ben is proud to promote a whole new dimension for Ben Franklin Press' customers through their major investment in large format printing and finishing. "We have expanded with new machinery now allowing us to print up to 10 x 6 feet on any board stock with bright four-color UV inks. Foam, plastics, acrylics, even plywood, are now possible. Bring us your colorful ideas for our new direct flatbed printing and we'll print directly to the substrate of your choice. Take it another step and go beyond rectangles with our new automatic digital router, capable of complex die-cuts, trimming, and perimeter cuts that match your design. The router's vision capabilities allow us to perform precise trim cuts of almost all substrates from wood, foam, and plastic to cardboard, decal, and paper stock. This adds a different dimension to the advertisement printed on the flatbed."
While looking at some of the new finishing capabilities, Clark and Johnson proudly showed off a marketing piece they've developed—a small corrugated box with handles and the Ben Franklin Press message in register to the box's shape. Inside is a printed cardboard puzzle that is accurately cut with their new digital finishing system.
Understandably, Clark and Johnson are proud of what they've accomplished at Ben Franklin Press and Big Ben. They are proof that offset printers can make a go in the new world of digital large format print. If others follow in their footsteps, they will have the sufficient resources and customer base to give those who have entered the market before them a run for their money.


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I have had the opportunity to spend over 20 years playing or coaching sports from T-ball to college. My focus was always football but I had the opportunity to play baseball, basketball, and track in high school. I spent a short time in college playing football as well. As a player I was able to be surrounded by a great support system which provided the framework to be successful. In the end I had to do the work and I was the one who controlled my level of success.
You are probably wondering what this has to do with preparedness and response. The question for you is, are you waiting or preparing? One day in high school I went to the weight room and was not putting forth much effort. I don't remember the reason why, but what my coach said to me that day has stuck with me ever since. He told me I didn't have to be there and to stop wasting everyone's time. The next part is what I remember the most. He said "Every day you have a choice. You can choose to get better or get worse." He went on to say "No one ever stays the same. If you stay the same and your opponent gets better, you just got worse."
Taking these words to the realm of CERT, preparedness, and response I was thinking. Are we waiting for something to happen or are we preparing? Let me illustrate using a small scale example. It is winter and a person buys a set of chains for their vehicle. They carry them into the mountains but don't take the time to practice putting them on. I see this as someone who is waiting for something to happen. They had the tools but didn't take the time to get better. The other individual buys the chains, opens them and practices putting them on. They are put back in the package and they go on the same trip.
Both indviduals stop at a chain area and begin to put the chains on. It is cold. The person who prepared is able to get them on with cold fingers and bulky clothing. They knew what to do and practiced it. The other individual is in the cold reading the directions trying to make them fit but they don't know if they are doing it right. Their stress level increases, frustration sets in, and they have to take a break to regroup. This person got worse.
We can make this fit any situation in our personal or professional settings. Every day we are faced with opportunities to get better or get worse. In the CERT setting ask yourself if your first aid certification is current? Are you able to communicate without your cell phone? Are your supplies current? What skills do you feel you need to refresh?
I encourage you to find opportunities to expand your knowledge base or increase your level of training. You are welcome to sit in on CERT sessions as a way to refresh skills. Take classes from other sources like the Red Cross. Teach someone else a new skill.
The reality is everyone's situation is different. Everyones' time and resources are different. What I want you to ask yourself is, when you are in a situation where your skills, training, abilities, and knowledge are needed would you rather have gotten better or worse?


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This is absolutely not an attempt to rock the boat. I'm just trying to feel out possibilities (I'm also considering using my own system or alternate licensing of others). It's all hypothetical.
Those of us whose settings have not been accepted in the True20 setting search competition will not be published in the two books, and will not get a free licence to use the True20 logo on supplementary products. However, do we have other options to release the material we've developed for the system? For example, if I wanted to package up my setting as a pdf on RPGNow and just say it was for True20 in the description, would that be possible?
I suppose I'm after two things here. One is what's technically allowable under the OGL and whatever, which I admit I don't understand well (having never needed to work with it up to now). The second is how the folks at Green Ronin would regard this sort of activity. (I for one have no interest in bulldozing through on technicalities and pissing people off along the way.)


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MARSHALL, Texas – Summer is heating up on the campus of East Texas Baptist University football as season tickets are now available. The tickets are hot items for four home games as ETBU heads into a new era of football under Joshua Eargle. When you buy season tickets, you are invited to the meet and greet on Monday, August 26th, to meet coach Eargle and his new staff.
"We want Ornelas Stadium to be the hardest place to play in country," says Eargle. "The more fans we have in Ornelas Stadium will only make it that much louder for our opponents. We are adding more items for fans to do this year in Tiger Alley for tailgating before the game along with adding Neptune Game Time Radio before the game. We will have a product that we hope all fans will want to be a part of. I know my coaches have been working hard to put together a team that will make ETBU proud."
Season tickets are now on sale for $40 for all four games in the reserved chair back section and $32 in the reserved non-chair back section.
On August 26th from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. you can come pick up your season tickets and talk to the football coaches. The meet and greet will take place at the Carlile-Howell Building which is the football field house located on the south end of Ornelas Stadium on Van Zandt.
The football coaching staff has coached and played from NCAA Division I to NCAA Division III from Southern Mississippi, Texas A&M, the University of Memphis, Sul Ross State University, and East Texas Baptist University. Come on out and see the who will be coaching the ETBU Tigers this fall.
Another item ETBU is offering for fans this year is Tiger Alley next to the stadium to tailgate in. If you are interested in tailgating, please email Sharon Hall at email@example.com to be put on the list for tailgating as more information will come closer to the first game.
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Wednesday, August 07, 2013Buy Season Tickets - Go to Meet & Greet of New Coaches
Tuesday, August 06, 2013ETBU Voted to Finish 5th in ASC
Monday, July 22, 2013ETBU First to Sign for Neptune GameTime Radio
Monday, July 22, 2013New "Letterman's Club" Starting for 2013
Friday, July 19, 2013Alford Voted a Preseason All-American
Wednesday, July 17, 2013Wednesday's Word: Summer Work with Jacob Alford
Wednesday, June 12, 2013ETBU to Hold NFL High School Player Development Camp
Thursday, June 06, 2013ETBU HOF Kuykendall Passes Away