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I recently picked up a WW2 nazi marked Hi-Power that has been re-blued and now has most of the markings polished off and also all the sharp edges are now smooth and rounded. I love this gun and use it or my carry gun. I hate the military sights and want to know if you guys know if it could be changed over to something more visible like Tru-Glo or some other Hi-Viz sights. Thanks
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I assume your Browning has the small (like 1/4") dovetail rear sight and the little 1/8" or less bump front sight. You have several options. Most any gunsmith or machinist or you can open the dovetail up to standard 3/8". Then you have many choices for rear sights. But it would have to be very low if you use the original front sight. You or a gunsmith/machinist could drill shallow holes in your current rear sight and use that glow paint that advertises on this web site. Or drill small thru holes and install fiber optic material in your rear sight. But none of these options will help much unless you change the front sight and thats a gunsmith (or very handy handyman) job. That means a higher front sight that could snag on a carry gun. Or just remember that a carry gun is made to be used at 10 yards or less where you basically don't even need sights.
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Thank you. This is the kind of info that I need to know. I'm going to be mulling this over today and see what develops. I also have another Hi-Power that is 100% untouched nazi marked that will stay that way of course.
I personally would keep it the way it is, but if you do decide to change sights, the rear dovetail can be opened up by your gunsmith for most current aftermarket sights. The front sight will however have to be replaced with a staked sight blade, as there is not enough meat on the slide for a dovetail. The barrel bushing is also a screw-in bushing and even a very shallow dovetail would cut into and through the bushing. I have repaired a few Hi-Power slides in the past where someone has tried to dovetail the front of the slide for new sights. Repairs are not cheap and neither is a new slide at over $400. Jim...............
Thanks for that info. I think I'll try some white epoxy paint on the present sights for a while and see if that helps make them more visible.


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I have an overhead light with a fan. The light and fan are wired separately and the light is on a 3 way switch. We've had no problem for months (this is a new house) and today, all of a sudden, the light just shuts off. I flip the switch twice and it comes back on, only to shut off again after a few minutes. This is not happening with the fan or anything plugged into the outlets in the room. We checked the connections to the switches and they seem fine. I don't have any 3 way switches on hand to swap them out but could it be a bad switch? I'm hoping it's not in the wiring itself. Gale |
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Have you changed the lamp (light bulb)? |
There might be a thermal cutoff in the fixture. Do you have an over-wattage bulb or insulation too close to the fixture in the attic/ceiling? |
"Have you changed the lamp (light bulb)?" no. I didn't figure it was the light bulbs (there are three) since it comes back on when I flip the switch off and then back on. "There might be a thermal cutoff in the fixture. Do you have an over-wattage bulb or insulation too close to the fixture in the attic/ceiling?" |
Also, it is a ceiling fan and light so the bulbs are well below ceiling level. Could it still be a heat issue? I didn't have the fan running at the time. |
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Not sure exactly what you mean by a three way switch, you mean it dims it? Is it a dim-able bulb? The new bulbs are having trouble dimming. Try a regular incandescent bulb and see if that helps. |
It has two different wall switches that power the light. That's what I meant by a 3 way switch. We checked both switches. The light holds 3 incandescent candelabra based 60 watt bulbs. |
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Does this fan have some sort of logic that allows you to do clever things to switch the fan/light separately even with a single switch? That may be failing... |
No, the fan is on its own separate wall switch. The light has two switches (3 way switch). The fan seems to be working fine (I don't use it much this time of year so I just tried it out for a little while yesterday and it stayed on). |
Oh, when you said "overlight with a fan" in your original post, I was thinking "bathroom light/fan in a damp environment". Reading the instructions from your fan, under the "lights do not work" section, I found: WARNING: Over lamping the fan will result in the fan lights shutting down until the proper wattage of bulbs are installed. So there is some sort of overwattage sensor. It is malfunctioned? Try removing ONE of the bulbs to reduce the wattage and see if they stay lit. If so, then you have the answer. |
I swear I read that whole book when we installed them and don't remember that. I'll try that today sometime. I'm very paranoid about using the switch too much. I don't know much about electricity and don't know what is or is not going to create a risky situation. thank you. :) |
I found it twice in the installation instructions. In the troubleshooting section and on the "step" where it said to install the bulbs. |
We took out one bulb and it still shuts off. So we took out another bulb, leaving only one. Still shut off. Took of the globe (which is open on top) and it shut off. Replaced the last 60 watt bulb with a 25 watt and it shut off. We left the switch on to see if it would come back on (after a cool-off period) and so far, about 40 min later, it has not come back on. I don't think it's the thermal sensor. I guess the next step is to replace the 3 way switches and see if that helps. If not, it's time to call an electrician. Thanks for all the help. |
Cal Monte Carlo customer service and have them send a new light kit. We had this same thing happen on a customer's fan/light and we got a new light kit, problem solved |
Thanks. I will give them a call on Monday. :) |
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*In town to hype an enhanced-CD version of Faust, Randy Newman sat for an interview with a windy sycophant whose numbing questions largely prevented Newman from doing what he's best at: playing and singing. After an hour, scores of fans found themselves doing the unthinkable--walking out on one of the planet's greatest living songwriters.
*Newman wasn't the only famous person at the confab. There were scores of them--and as a result, most attendees chose to let little-known acts twist in the wind. Among the groups at the end of their rope on Thursday was Denver's Jux County, who put on a bracing display for around thirty people, half of them from Colorado. The next night, Jux's Andy Monley was still depressed: "I'm going to have to rethink my life," he muttered. The members of Boulder's Acoustic Junction, a late add to the lineup, had better luck; they offered up their rambling, loping musical marathons (note that I avoided using the "neo-H" word) before a sympathetic throng at White Rabbit, a joint whose decor is dominated by tie-dye and paisley. Go ask Alice--when she's ten feet tall.
(Denver's 16 Horsepower, once part of the SXSW roster, didn't play at all. Fest spokesperson Leah Wilkes says representatives from A&M, the trio's label, told her that a 16 Horsepower appearance was a top priority at the company. However, a week after the act made the cut, A&M big wigs changed their minds. Horsepower bassist Keven Soll didn't know anything about this bizarre turn of events until he was informed of it by Westword.)
*Bands plowing the post-Nirvana field were everywhere at SXSW. Of the 96 groups I sampled over the course of the fest, 31 fell into this category. A handful of these were pretty good, but far too many made the Stone Temple Pilots seem like striking originals by comparison. The next most overstuffed bracket was roots rock. And the roomiest? Performers who couldn't be pigeonholed at all.
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Older faces. Geraldine Fibbers was a lot better live than on LP. Iggy Pop, his long hair bleached blond, looked like a flat-chested version of Baywatch's Pamela Lee. Wayne Hancock's throwback country was absolutely gorgeous. The Nields and Skiploader bit the big colostomy bag. And Fred Schneider, looking disturbingly like Ray Walston circa My Favorite Martian, presented an intentional/unintentional satire of the genre we call modern rock. It sounded ultra-lousy, which may have been just what Schneider wanted.
Newer faces. Birdy, from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, specialized in sweet pop played loud. Dallas's Caulk sucked same. The New Orleans Klezmer All Stars gave Eastern European folk a delicious Cajun tang. Austin's dreamy Billy White, a star in the making, did such a convincing Hendrix shtick that it left witnesses gasping. Fierro, led by two Emilio lookalikes schooled in Garth Brooks moves, made some of the most theatrical Tejano you'll ever hear. And Ambrosia Parsley, a fine, bluesy singer-songwriter, emoted like crazy for ten people at the State Theatre. Hope it was worth the trip from L.A., Ambrosia.
*Panelist Mark Shumate, owner of Denver-based Bohemia Beat Records, provided an answer to the question posed by the Friday symposium "How Can You Get Retail's Attention?": Spread some money around. Shumate revealed how he's paid stores for putting his discs in listening centers and touted a contest in which he gave $50 to any clerk who was playing a certain Bohemia Beat CD when he called. That's indie promotion, Nineties style.
*Later, at "Is AAA Still Relevant?" Boulder-based radio consultant Dennis Constantine revealed how Adult Album Alternative stations see their audience. He said that those over thirty are generally "passive" listeners who like "background" music; hence, programmers must "spoon-feed" them new artists who sound enough like past favorites to make them "comfortable." I'll bet those of you into the Peak, the Mix, Alice, KBCO and other AAA derivatives feel right on the cutting edge now.
*The most entertaining seminar of the weekend was "Were the Grateful Dead Really Any Good?" For more than an hour, people with diametrically opposed opinions talked past each other in an acid-tinged variation on the Jerry Springer show. Attempts to contact Jerry Garcia via Ouija board were unsuccessful.
*Among the bands on the bill for an outside-the-festival barbecue at the Electric Lounge was Wesley Willis' Fiasco. Upon my arrival that afternoon, Willis, a self-described schizophrenic, came at me with hand out, babbling energetically. "You like my music?" he barked. "You like my music? You going to buy my CDs? I have CDs over there. I just signed with American Recordings fourteen months ago. Ha, ha, I'm only joking. I signed with them fourteen minutes ago. I'm going to be a big rock star. Big rock star." Then: "Say raar. No, say raaaar. Raaaaaar. RAAAAAAAAAAR!" Tabitha Soren, MTV "journalist," arrived to cover Willis soon thereafter. Diggie Diamond of Denver's Foreskin 500 (which put on a swell spectacle at Emo's that night) tried to express his affection for her between cups of baked beans and had to be forcibly restrained. Afterward, a still-miffed Soren stomped on my wife Deb's foot. Deb tried to get an apology out of her, but she was too busy yelling at her cameraman to bother. Is that any way for someone named after a Bewitched character to act?


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Great insight into how habits are formed. And a somewhat disturbing view into how corporate America can suck us in to habitually buying their productcs (burgers & fries, shampoo, gambling, etc.).
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I have listened to over about 100 books, so that is a tough one. I will say that I absolutely enjoyed this book because it offered a point of view backed by science and I was not expecting the book to be more of a learning experience. I was expecting a bit of self help. I was pleasantly surprised. Loved it!
I learned to take moments and observe why I do what I do. This is very useful!
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I got this book because, after years of having unusually high levels of self-discipline, I seemed to lose it (the discipline) after three major surgeries that resulted in a years' long recovery period. What happened, I thought? It wasn't that I didn't want to accomplish more goals; in fact, I have alot I wanted, needed, to do. So I began to read about HABITs. This book, The Power of Habits, is worth the read. And yes, there is a solution.
Researchers used to believe that the ability to be 'self-regulating' , e.g., not eating that tempting cookie, was merely a skill. Then after a decade or so more of studies, researchers found that habits are not only triggered by something in our lives, but that once we become aware of our personal 'triggers' that we can 'swap' the bad habit with a healthy one. Trigger-Response-Result. Of course, the goal is to create healthier, more productive habits. So how do we do that. And that's what you'll learn from this book. Everything from seeing how the brain works, how that understanding helps our process of changing habits, how to use this info if we're a parent, coach, CEO, there are case studies for Everyone. And they're really quite fascinating. About the obstacles Michael Phelps had to overcome, the positive habits his coach had him focus on to help him to relax, since all Olympian athletes have perfectly formed bodied (for their sport, at that level, so it was all about calming the mind, pretty much). And that case study was compelling to read. Also one about a well-known CEO of Alcoa, who used this info to change the entire process involved at Alcoa, in a most clever way (while getting everyone to hop on his bandwagon, which we know is virtually impossible at the corporate, heck, the family level!) Those are just two of the many references to specific situations that could be applied to your own personal/professional lives.
The point being, creating a new habit, or swapping a unhealthy habit with a healthy one (i.e., people who start exercising may reduce smoking); or people who start keeping a food journal one day per week, lost twice as much weight as the people who didn't (keep the journal); these are just of few of the studies which are fascinating. The beginning of the book spends maybe a bit too long on the guy who lost his memory and what they did to help him (it's related to the brain and referring to past habits), yet once you slog through that, you'll see how important it was and the rest of the book goes much faster.
Change one habit in your life and, as this book shows, it'll have a ripple effect, a positive affect on creating more and more positive habits throughout your life.
Support, by the way, is also important factor for anyone wanting to create new habits; so make your life easier by finding just one person who's interested & committed to meeting for a half-hour a week, 15 minutes for each to discuss solutions, what are your challenges and how to surmount them. It'd also make an interesting blog, for anyone who wants to change something in their life while discussing the ideas in this book and how you're applying them (to your situation). Help others while helping yourself. Or as the saying goes, "When you help another to get her canoe across the river, you also end up being across the river too." Or something like that, ha.
Back to The Power of Habit. Yes, we all have triggers in our life because the feelings that cause 'triggers' to overeat or smoke or drink, etc., are universal. We all feel these feelings. It's when we isolate, which many do, that our triggers may result in these unhealthy Responses and Results. (The book called Toughness talks about building up 'toughness', as if that's a muscle too. It's not as good a book as this, is mostly sports oriented, but well worth it for anyone realizing how important 'mental toughness' is.) The book, The Power of Habit, is also about building up a form of 'mental toughness', teaching us that, yes, we can use this information to respond to the difficult things/feelings in life IF we learn the skill and practice so as to strengthen the muscle.
Feelings that are hard to feel, such as loneliness, anxiety, stress, etc., that, in large part, is what this book is dancing around, without focusing directly on 'feelings'. Learning how to respond to our life in a way that's healthy, instead of destructive.This book explains how the brain works, illustrates with well-known people and case studies, and offers practical solutions for a wide variety of situations. Yes, it's definitely worth getting, and learning, again and again, until we 'get it'. As long as that takes.
The material is arranged in an easy-to-follow order and the narrator is pitch perfect, as well.
Want to change your life? It's about taking self-responsibility. And this book shows that it's not only possible, but feasible. Support is good, maybe necessary. And the more you/we all bring our best Self to the table, the more we'll all be able to contribute. It's about living life with meaning, not at the mercy of our parents' bad habits or our own. Yes, we can have more control over our lives. And isn't that alot of what happiness is. To make a difference, to be the person we're most capable of being? To connect with others and have something like this to share, because we were able to achieve it ourselves?!
If you're drawn to this subject, it's definitely worth your time.
"You will learn something about yourself"
What a marvelous book! My husband and I listened to it over about 7 days and each night we would discuss what we had heard the night before at length. We learned to observe our own habits and think about which ones we wanted to change. The story is engaging; at times funny and other times tragic but the effect keeps the listener interested.
The author builds each chapter and the listener is satisfied at the end. I recommend this book to anyone who is curious about why we do the things that we do. Also, if you are a reader of Drs. Dan Arielly and Daniel Gilbert you will appreciate this book.
I always judge the value of something by what I have learned from it and I have learned a lot about my own habits after listening to and thinking critically about the points made in this book.
"Get in the Habit"
Charles Duhigg is a reporter for the New York Times and author of The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. I picked this volume up out of sheer curiosity and was well rewarded for my reading time. This is an entertaining and informative book. The book falls into three major sections. In the first, Duhigg brings readers up to speed on current research about individual habits. Wait! Don't let that discourage you from turning some pages in this book. It is really helpful material. In the next section, Duhigg applies what we are coming to understand about the development of habits to organizations. The most helpful chapter in this section concerns how Starbucks has institutionalized habits of success. In the final section, Habits of Societies, Duhigg describes how the Montgomery Bus Boycott came to be and how the pastor of Saddleback Church came to use habit to build his congregation. Both chapters are well worth the price of the book. Readers hoping to know how to break bad habits will not find direct advice. However, the book outlines how habits are formed and much can be gleaned from that perspective. I hope that Duhigg will follow this volume with others. His writing style is very good and his preparation is evident. The reading of Mike Chamberlain is excellent.
Yes, if they wanted to change something in their life, or if they wanted to understand the power of habits.
This book does open your mind to the power of habits and their effect on our everyday lives. It offers some interesting ways to change habits that you have. Once you change one small habit in your life it becomes easier to start making big changes, and you would be surprised with how many things you do in life are driven by habit. Changing habits can help you to stop bitting your nails, and ultimately to change your view and outlook on everyday life and change your whole life for the better. Stories like how Paul O'Neil changed Alcoa do provide some evidence of how executives are using these techniques in business. Other stories are not as interesting or strong. Good length, good narrator.
"Interesting, not what I was looking for though."
I expected more self help and less stories. Although the stories are supposed to be examples, the didn't actually cover the lesson on how to change habbits which I was looking for.
"Informative & Practical"
I consider this book to be the third part of an unofficial trilogy of related books: The Tipping Point, Made to Stick, and The Power of Habit. All three look into trends or habits, but each from a different angle. Tipping Point examines the WHY behind trends. Made to Stick, the WHAT behind trends & habits. But this book is the HOW to shape habits.
There is a significant research overlap between Made to Stick & The Power of Habit, so if you've read the former, you'll recognize a couple of stories in the latter. But get it anyway, because this is the best of the bunch.
"Life Changing, World Changing"
I can't stop talking about the ideas in this book. They are profound, based on sound research and told in an entertaining manner.
"Please get to the point, already"
By cutting out 80% of the "human interest" stories and sticking to the promised "Why we do what we do...". Illustrating by example is all well and good but I found myself deeply frustrated with the amount of time spent tangentially setting up the same points. Imagine a book on the civil engineering discipline of bridge building spending 20 minutes talking about how aunt Margie needed to drive to the market to get sugar for her pound cake .... blah blah blah. I'm half way through and I regularly have to breathe deeply and count to ten in frustration at the ridiculous lengths this author went to to bloat his couple of very interesting nuggets into a full length book.
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Roger Waldron believes mandatory-use policies for strategic sourcing would be a step backward. (Photo: Coalition for Government Procurement)
A new strategic sourcing memo from the Office of Management and Budget has reignited industry worries over policies mandating the use of the procurement approach. The memo creates a Strategic Sourcing Leadership Council (SSLC) to consider policies to enforce mandatory use of strategic sourcing contracts.
"The word 'mandatory' is what caught my attention," said Michael Del Colle, an independent contracting consultant.
Released Dec. 5, the memo says OMB also wants the council to identify at least five products or services that could be sold on new governmentwide contracts and be made mandatory for agencies to use. It is part of the administration's concerted strategic sourcing effort.
Joe Jordan, administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy and chairman of the SSLC, said the mandatory aspect come from the President's Management Advisory Board, which is comprised of business leaders from outside of government.
The mandates "are something that came through loud and clear from the recommendations," he said Dec. 6. "We need all of the agencies to collectively commit their spend through these strategically sourced vehicles."
He said officials need to set up contracts that benefit all the agencies and their unique needs, leading them to commit to buying products and services through those contracts.
The government, however, would be going backward by instituting such a structure that requires agencies to use certain contracts that attempt to get the best deal by bulk buying, said Roger Waldron, a 20-year General Services Administration official who is now president of the Coalition for Government Procurement.
"Mandatory-use policies ignore the marketplace," he said.
Mandates can also limit the business decisions for agencies' purchases, as acquisition officers balance fair and reasonable prices with best value, Del Colle said.
"There are intangible metrics beyond price that we use to make decisions on [which vendor] we choose," he said. The issues still center on value for the government.
Del Colle and Waldron said mandates raise questions about the constant refreshments in technology—a key issue for officials to work out.
"How does the government expect to get anything new in the market?" Del Colle said.
In contrast to mandatory contracts, Waldron said indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts offer more flexibility and less chance for a breach-of-contract lawsuit against the government. For instance, the government and the supplier agree on a guaranteed minimum number of sales. Once that is met, the agencies have the option of going elsewhere for their needs. Under a mandatory use policy, an agency breaches a contract if it buys from anywhere else at any point.
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It's too bad it has to come to mandates. But at least part of the problem is that agencies and offices often refuse to combine requirements and take advantage of economies of scale unless forced to do so. We all want our own special, separate contract.
yep - these folks got tossed 'fore the gate went down. I think we do need some strategic sources (plural) so we can kee a few jobs on continent, and maybe - just maybe - reduce some of the intellectual property and cyber risks we bought into by focusin' on cheap.
If I read this correctly and it applies to things like GSA, the system is broke and getting broker. Recently we had a situation where all the UPS's on our PC's were failing due to end of life on the batteries. We looked at the official source and a local small business and had the following offers from each:1. The official source was twice the cost of the small business. 2. The official source would ship to the base in several months, the local source would deliver to the front door in 2 days and if they were allowed in the building they would have delivered to our room. 3. The official source required us to pay to dispose of the old batteries, the local source would come back when we called and collect the old batteries.We were ordered to use the official source or to get rid of the UPS's. Due to the cost of replacing the batteries being about the same as a new UPS (on the open market), we now have our computers lose all work-in-progress when the power glitches. A wonderful use of a rare resource - the taxpayer dollar. Applause for the wonderful use of our funds that the administration is doing in making this the normal legal mode for purchases.
OMB is an outdated Office and needs to be eliminated. It is scary that a room full of GS-12's can actually wield such power over other government agencies. Mandtaes almost always have exceptions. But, non-management GS-12's don't seem to understand that.
Mr. Waldron's comment regarding the legal consequence of a mandatory use policy is not correct. The contractual relationship with a supplier need not change from an IDIQ to a requirements contract in order to impose an internal, administrative discipline on federal agencies to use a designated supply source. Nonetheless, it is ironic that the government would return to a policy that it spent so much time bashing 20 years ago. But then again, that is the government.


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9 and Ya'akov replied, "The time of my stay on earth has been 130 years; they have been few and difficult, fewer than the years my ancestors lived." | 9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers." |
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Im looking at the remington 700 sps varmint in the .204 or the .17 fireball. which one is better? is there any other acurate gun for under $700. I live in cali right now but I plan on moving to South Dakota in a year or so and want to get a varmint gun before i go out there. whats good? and the scope as well whats a good scope? i like to shoot long ranges shot a mule deer at 463 yards with a 300 weatherby mark v delux, with the weatherby 3-9 scope. please help me out.
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I would look harder at Savage. That SPS stock is pure junk. I have one now that is my beater stock for hunting. As far as the 204 or the 17 I would go with the 204 myself. Both of them are going to take special cleaning rods and other stuff as well as well as reloading. If you do not reload then go for the 204. As far as optics go you are going to want no less that 14x at the top end all the way up to 32x. I have a 4-16x40mm Leupold VX-II on my rem VLS and a Bushnell Elite 4200 6-24x40mm on my 308. My 30-06 wears the old Weaver KT-15 that was on my VLS. Nikon, Leupold, Burris, Bushnell Elite 4200 and 3200, Weaver Classic V series or the Grand slam 6.5-20 are all good scopes. With leupold I would not go less than the VX-II series.
I would look at the remington 22-250 with a 6.5-20 X 50 mm scope
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England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 includes 2,054,974 Gloucestershire baptisms. England Marriages, 1538-1973 includes 1,108,519 Gloucestershire entries. England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 includes 523,006 Gloucestershire burials. Formerly known as the International Genealogical Index. These databases are free on FamilySearch. Coverage.
189,039 Gloucestershire entries are included in England & Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906 at Ancestry (£). Formerly known as British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Coverage.[1]
Gloucestershire Marriage Index 1800-1837 is available online at Family History Societies Online (£).
222 Gloucestershire parishes are indexed in Boyd's Marriage Index (£). Coverage. Bristol was a popular place to marry.[2]
147 Gloucestershire parishes are indexed in Joiner's Marriage Index (£). Coverage.[3]
93,780 Gloucestershire entries are included in England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1940 at Ancestry (£). Formerly known as British Isles Vital Records Index - 2nd Ed. Coverage.[4]
Burials from 310 Gloucestershire places (167,500 entries) are included in the National Burial Index (£). Coverage.[5]
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- 1637-1837 - Gloucestershire Marriage Licence Allegations 1637-1837 at Forest of Dean Family History Trust website - free. 44,000+ entries.
- 1637-1680 - Gloucestershire Marriage Allegations 1637-1680. Digitised by FamilySearch Books Online - free.
- 1636-1777 - Boyd's Marriage Index (£) includes 30,312 entries from Bristol Diocese marriage licences (1637-1777). There are also 2756 entries from Gloucester Diocese marriage licences (1636-1742).[2]
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A very helpful resource for parishes in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire is an online database of indexed parish registers found at www.forest-of-dean.net. It includes index baptism, marriage, and burial records from the following parishes.
- ↑ 'Genoot Library - British Isles Vital Record Index Breakdown,' Genoot, accessed 1 September 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 'Boyd's Marriage Index - Parish details by county,' British Origins, (Wayback Machine) accessed 31 August 2013.
- ↑ 'Coverage of the Joiner Marriage Index', The Joiner Marriage Index, accessed 1 September 2013.
- ↑ 'Genoot Library - British Isles Vital Record Index Breakdown,' Genoot, accessed 1 September 2013.
- ↑ 'Parish Records - National Burial Index Records 1538 - 2005 Coverage', Find My Past, accessed 1 September 2013.
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text: A Rabbi's ErrorPatrick Henry Reardon on Jonathan Sacks's Mistake About Christians In his more than twenty scholarly books, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has certainly demonstrated his credentials as a bright light in contemporary Judaism. I value him especially as a sensible and irenic spokesman for Jewish self-understanding. In this respect, his most recent work, Future Tense: Jews, Judaism, and Israel in the Twenty-First Century, does not disappoint. (This is an intriguing title, by the way. In the expression "future tense," which word is the noun and which the adjective? The book's content indicates it can be understood either way!) In order to speculate usefully on Judaism's future, Sacks believes it is important to begin with its past, especially the extraordinary phenomenon of its survival over the past twenty centuries. The key to this history, Sacks believes, lies in the concept of berith, "covenant." The Jews, he explains, "were a society before they were a state. They had laws before they had a land. They had a social covenant before they had a social contract. So, even if the contract failed, the covenant remained" (emphasis his). Whatever the value of Social Contract theory, he contends, it does not apply to the Jews. The Blessing of Jewish Uniqueness What is the difference between a covenant and a contract? According to Sacks, "the logic of the covenant, unlike the social contract of the state, has nothing to do with rights, power, and self-interest." He explains: "A contract is a transaction. A covenant is a relationship. A contract is about interests. A covenant is about identity." I am persuaded that Sacks is correct in this assessment. Whether or not anyone else regards the Jews as the Chosen People, they are convinced on the point, and this conviction not only explains Jewish survival down through history; it is also a fact that renders the Jews manifestly unique as a people. This uniqueness does not mean, however, that redemption is for the Jews only. On the contrary, Sacks argues, it has been the vocation of the Jews to teach the world, not through a canon of correct propositions, but through Halakha, a particular law and way of life. All of humanity may share in the blessing of Abraham; it is to everyone's benefit that the Jews be the Jews. Nor do the Jews feel any compulsion to convert others to Judaism, inasmuch as "Israel has no monopoly on virtue or wisdom or grace." Jewish particularity, as Sacks sees it, extends through history the goodness of particular things in Creation itself—what he calls "the dignity of difference." This is how he understands the universal hope conveyed in the awesome story of this particular people. Not for a moment am I disposed to challenge these claims. Indeed, I regard them as deep insights into the history and identity of the Jews. On the other hand, Sacks would scarcely be shocked to learn that a Christian—myself, for instance—finds his explanation of Jewish uniqueness insufficient. For the Christian conscience, an adequate appreciation of Judaism should make some reference to a particular Galilean carpenter of our acquaintance. Out of Plato's Cave While I think Sacks's assessment of Judaism is ultimately inadequate, his comments about us Christians are downright distressing—in particular his claim that we adhere to Plato by finding truth only in universal forms. Oh, dear. Unless second-century Gnostics are to be the spokesmen for Christianity, Sacks's claim is mind-bogglingly bogus. The first article of the Christian Creed is not "I believe in the unity of the Demiurge," but "I believe in one God, almighty Father and Creator of all things." Christians do not look at the world through the eyes of Plato, but through the eyes of Moses. And Christians take Moses seriously for one reason only: Jesus took Moses seriously. Christians see a connection between the particularity of the Jews and the particularity of Jesus. We believe in the uniqueness of the Jews because we adhere to certain dogmatic positions with respect to Jesus. It was he who proclaimed, "Salvation is of the Jews" (John 4:22). It is Jesus who makes precious to us "the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises" (Rom. 9:4). Yes, it is true that Jews taught the world about the goodness of particular things, but it is also a fact that the Jews who did this were a particular group: the "apostles." I am not sure how the irenic Rabbi Sacks missed this elementary fact: Jewish wisdom mainly influenced mankind—including mankind's cosmology—through the Christian gospel. Sacks cannot simply dismiss us as Platonists. If millions of people today believe in the "non-Platonic miracle of creation," it is because they believe in the Resurrection of Jesus. When he came forth from the grave, we believe, Jesus conducted all of us out of Plato's Cave. Truly, Rabbi, we decline to go back. Patrick Henry Reardon is pastor of All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church in Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of Christ in the Psalms, Christ in His Saints, and The Trial of Job (all from Conciliar Press). He is a senior editor of Touchstone. Letters Welcome: One of the reasons Touchstone exists is to encourage conversation among Christians, so we welcome letters responding to articles or raising matters of interest to our readers. However, because the space is limited, please keep your letters under 400 words. All letters may be edited for space and clarity when necessary. email@example.com Subscribe to Touchstone today! "A Rabbi's Error" first appeared in the May/June 2012 issue of Touchstone. 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Hi - I'm new to caring for African violets. I have two that were doing fine, but when I was away on vacation, they were set out in the sun for a good two weeks or so. The blooms and a lot of leaves have gone. I repotted the remaining leaves/roots in plastic containers with a mix of potting soil and peat moss and watered them. This was two days ago. Would anyone be able to recommend anything that would help? Thanks! |
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- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Wed, Jul 30, 14 at 1:20
Your plants are burned but those leaves should grow out. Your pots are much too big especially the first one. Re-pot in a pot that is one-third the size of your violets. Your pots will be tiny-a solo cup is ideal. Then just give care as you normally would. You will have to wait for the damaged foliage to grow out but you should care for the plants as you normally do. If you like, you can place the newly re-potted violets in a baggie that is closed tightly. Water well and let drain first. Do not open the baggie unless it gets drippy. After you begin to see new growth, gradually open the bag and after a week or so, remove the plant and put in its normal spot. I would wait until I see fresh growth before I fertilized. Linda |
- Posted by kjthomas29 none (My Page) on Wed, Jul 30, 14 at 21:44
Thank you for your help! I will repot in a smaller container and try the plastic bags. I will update if something (hopefully) happens. |
- Posted by whitelacey 6 (My Page) on Thu, Jul 31, 14 at 0:57
I think your plants will be fine. Just care for them as you normally would. Let us know! Linda |
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Five-star guard Montaque Gill-Caesar plays in some of the nation's premier events against some of the nation's elite talent. Yet the Huntington (W.Va.) Prep junior, who recently scored 56 points and grabbed nine rebounds in a win, says he's especially excited about playing in the Marshall County Hoop Fest this weekend.
"Just the atmosphere is crazy," Gill-Caesar said. "It's one of the most fun tournaments and games we play in. I am definitely looking forward to it. The crowd really gets into it."
That was certainly true last year when the pro-Kentucky crowd watched UK target Andrew Wiggins playing for Huntington Prep. Gill-Caesar remembers that well and now he could be the fan favorite since he's a potential UK target in the 2015 class, or 2014 if he does reclassify as expected.
"It will be fun if that happen with the fans, but I can't let that distract me, and it won't," Gill-Caesar said. "I will just focus on the game and do what it takes for us to get a win."
UK assistant coach Orlando Antigua watched Gill-Caesar play in Hazard last month, and the 6-6 forward took an unofficial visit to see a Kentucky game in November. Huntington Prep will play Atlanta Sports Academy at 6:30 EST Friday and then take on UK-signee Trey Lyles and Indianapolis Arsenal Tech Saturday at 7:30 p.m. EST.
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Is the Sun Getting Brighter and Hotter?
The sun, these days seems so bright, you can't look at it even for a second without your eyes getting watery. Yes, I'm getting older and my eyes aren't what they used to be. I've asked friends what they think. Many agreed.
When I was younger, in the 1970s, the sun appeared to be yellowish orange. Now it looks bright white. When my arm's out the window of my car, it can feel the heat much more than ever before.
Is this because we've had a reduction of ozone that naturally blocked the sunlight. Or is it because the sun has changed? There was an experiment that involved a 5th grade class. Here's what was found:
"In 1999, a class of 5th graders were asked to color the sun. Everyone made it yellow... Well, another teacher asked the same question of her 5th grade class (as an experiment) in 2008, and almost all of the students colored a white sun. "
I did some Googling and found others that agree.
"Not sure about the "larger" part, but the "color" of the sun seems to have changed; to me anyhow.
It used to be more warm, more golden, or yellow..
Now it is more white, and it hurts the eyes to come even close to looking at it..
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Funny, cuz a "report" recently said the sun was less bright... and to me it is opposite .. MORE bright. "
If this is the case, could it be the reason why we have melting icecaps and glaciers? A warmer climate leads to much more precipitation. Here in the Northern NY area, it's rained so much as elsewhere so far this Spring..It's beginning to look like the Summer of 1990.
I'm familiar with the solar cycles..Can't be dismissed to that.
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1. Persepolis, Ancient Persia (512 BC): The most famous of Iran's archeological sites, Persepolis does not disappoint. You'll be amazed by the detail, including 2,500 year-old reliefs of Persian and Median guards marching in step.
2. Tchongha Zanbil Ziggurat (1250 BC): If you think Persepolis is old, the ancient Mesopotamian Ziggurat of Tchongha Zanbil from the Elamite Empire goes back 1,000 years more. Only three of the five stories remain of this UNESCO site structure, but it stands as a testament to the engineering feats of ancient times.
3. Persian interiors that will blow you away. Again and again: If you can't help but stare at this photo, imagine what it's like when you are actually there. Across Iran, you'll find mosques that amaze and dazzle with their geometric designs. Persian Islamic architecture will keep your head turning everywhere in Iran, but especially so in Esfahan, Shiraz and Yazd.
Inside the north Prayer Room at the Pink Mosque (Masjed-e Nasir-ol-Molk) in Shiraz.
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5. Imam Square, Esfahan (Isfahan):The second-largest square in the world (Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China is the largest) is the Royal Square – or Imam Square — in Esfahan. The layout of the square is intended to demonstrate the inter-relatedness of government, religion, education and commerce. Even after a full day exploring the mosques, market areas, and palaces within the square, we felt like we'd only just begun.
Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque on Imam Square in Esfahan
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Shopping at the Shiraz covered market (bazaar).
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No, not because I'm going to become one of those weird normal people who don't spend too mcuh time on the internet but because I'll have little to no access to it for awhile. Well hopefully I'll be back sooner than later but this is goodbye for now *starts sobbing*
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Yesterday, I found out that gametap.com will have its entire library ofold schoolgames be accessible to everyone for free until they get their new system or whatever up. Today and yesterday I tried to beat Streets Of Rage for the first time and failed miserably. So, I decided that I might as well go onto trying to beat Sonic 3&Knuckles for the first time. I played a little bit of Sonic & Knuckles before and I got to Sonic 3's Carnival Zone and gave up (I HATE that spinning cylinder!) so I'm going to use GameTap currently free thing to try to beat the combined version of the games later today. 'm going to need it since today is this year's 2nd Friday The 13th in a row.
Also, please recommend me some cla$sic games to play because so far I have mostly Sega games and just 1 non-Sega title downloaded so far (Sonic3 & Knuckles, Streets Of Rage, Streets Of Rage 2 (I wanted to beat the first then go to this sequel that everyone says is great), Vectorman, Phantasy Star (this is already my favorite turn-based RPG but I still need to beat it.), Shadow Dancer: Shinobi, Shinobi III and a Capcom giant robot beat em up I heard about, Armored Warriors)
gametap doesn't have any Mario, Metroid and I think Zelda games there so they are out of the question.
Plus, feel free to talk about the games you'll play there here.