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If you live outside of New York City and want to support our efforts to fund mindfulness and meditation education for teens in Brooklyn, you can still participate by sitting meditation at home! Nothing changes about participation except your location. Just go to our First Giving site here and set up your profile. Then contact your friends and family to ask them to sponsor you in a day of silent, sitting meditation in support of the Awake Youth Project.
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Here is my new toy, thanks to Nokia Developer Champion: Nokia N9 16 Gb blue
Here is my new toy, thanks to Nokia Developer Champion: Nokia N9 16 Gb blue
Via mynokiablog.com, looks like there are some news for the Nokia N9, firmware update coming soon with thousands of improvements.
Also check out some features about the Nokia N9 you might not know.
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Via Nokia Conversation, looks like Symbian Anna OS update is on the way to customers first and than in August as an update for current users.
"Upgrading to a 'new look' phone is free and easy. You can update your device with your PC or over-the-air from the software updater in the phone. The [...]
There some leaked pictures and information about 3 new devices from Nokia, Nokia N5, N6-01 and N6-02.
Looks like these phones are all Symbian^3 sporting the latest Symbian OS. Looking forward! Also it loos like they are all Flash Lite 4.0 enabled devices.
Via Slashgear.com, it's known that there is project, Alien Dalvik, to run Android apps on MeeGo and Playbook, it might be a way to get AIR Mobile/Flash to run on the Nokia MeeGo devices like the Nokia N9.
"Alien Dalvik allows app stores and developers to simply repackage the Android .apk installation files and then [...]
Here is a great video showcasing the Nokia N9
Here is a cool application available in OVI Store: QUI
"QUI allows you to share via SMS your location to a friend. Use your GPS to get your location and share it by sending an SMS."
Here some stats from the OVI Store:
Ovi Store attracts more than 4 million downloads a day.
About 80% of Ovi Store traffic converts to downloads.
Of Ovi Store's signed-in users, 85% are repeat visitors.
Each active user averages 8.5 downloads per month.
Active users represent more than 190 countries.
There are more than 35,000 apps available.
Games are No. 1 among [...]
Came back from Barcelona yesterday while I was attending the Mobile World Congress 2011, here some pictures:
It was a great event with more than 60000 attendees. I went to several developers related events from Nokia, RIM, Windows Mobile, Intel and HP. Got couple of gifts, Nokia E7 and an Intel MeeGo tablet ! Will post [...]
Bill published Nokia OVI Store stats from end of January.
Downloads of content 4 million a day
Symbian^3 devices (N8, C7, and C6) now account for around 15% of total store downloads in the past 10 weeks
Touch devices account for 6 of Ovi Store's top 10 downloading device models
Here are all the collected data from various riders from the Nokia Push Snowboarding – Burton project.
There are several sets of data from different riders but also the code snippet to get the data from the sensors to the mobile phone. Also some cool sketches of the sensors logic.
It really rocks! Can't wait until it [...]
Via AllAboutSymbian, the AAS Insight #146 podcast available
YouTube on Symbian^3
Skype on Symbian^3
Real Golf 2011 HD roll out
Nokia Messaging and Mail for Exchange updates for 5800, 5530 and X6
Update on the Symbian Foundation website closure
Kindle for Symbian, leads to discussion of Nokia and Amazon
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A while ago, I was perusing the Memorandum Books, which Marie Kimball very eloquently (but somewhat over-optimistically) described as "candid tattlers of Jefferson's every move," when I spotted something curious. 1776 Aug. 8. Pd. Dowig for mourning ring 45/ thimble 4/6.
A question from a patron prompted me to take another look at the quotation, "dissent is the highest form of patriotism." This is probably one of the most frequent quotation questions for us, but I haven't taken a fresh look at it for several years. Google Books has revolutionized the way I search for TJ quotations (which usually turn out to be non-TJ quotations, more often than not), and in this case it helped us pinpoint earlier origins for this quotation. The general gist is that we can now trace this quotation back to at least the Vietnam era, when it seems to have been
Picking up a recent Economist magazine, an article discusses how desalination of the oceans for usable water is becoming less expensive these days. San Diego has built a large plant, as have a few Australian cities. What does this have to do with Jefferson? It is science related, thus there's a good chance there is a connection. Jefferson worked on Jacob Isaac's patent on a desalination process back in the early 1790s. Take a look at the entry in our Jefferson Encyclopedia for
It was announced this week that the Homestead Resort in Bath County intends to restore the historic bathhouses that surround their famed mineral pools (now called the Jefferson Pools). Thomas Jefferson is just one of the thousands of Virginians, aristocratic and ordinary, who have sought the comforts of the waters over the course of two and a half centuries. In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson wrote of the "Warm spring" that was to become the resort:
A patron asked us about a very unusual quotation the other day: apparently someone, sometime said that Thomas Jefferson was "...a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father..."; this was supposedly a comment made by Jefferson's political opponents in the election of 1800. But who actually said this? One of my neighbors in grad school once gushed that librarians were "like wolverines, man! I mean, you ask them a question and they just WON'T LET GO until they answer it!" He wasn't kidding.
Part of my work for the Jefferson Encyclopedia is to canvass the Information Files here at the library. I look for research reports and documentary references that Monticello researchers have done over the years. Many people never knew that there was information out there on a particular topic. What is marvelous is that the information finally gets uncovered and, in many cases, for the first time in years. Take for example a recent entry on Denmark. Not a popular topic to be sure, but the
Reading a recent New York Times article on the future of reading and video games was interesting. Many people are struggling with the questions of how video games affect reading and how games are trying to help non-readers read more in their lives. Jefferson, of course, did not have to face the choices that modern young people do today, but his message of reading and education came to mind as I read the article. He said to John Adams that he has "...a canine appetite for reading." He certa
Well, "It's the economy, stupid" is back in this election year in a big way! So, I have to bring up Jefferson's debt in the course of making us feel a little better. He loved to spend the money and he made some unwise decisions, and his family paid a big price for it.
Sometimes it seems an uphill battle, disabusing people of the notion that Jefferson is the source of every smart, catchy thing ever said. I was reassured this week to find out that I'm not alone in my efforts. An intrepid blogger became suspicious of a supposed Jefferson quote that has risen to the surface during the recent financial upheaval, and decided to do some hard-core investigation. By sheer chance, I had recently run this particular non-quotation down
In the October 27th issue of Newsweek, you can read an article entitled "It's Not Easy Bein' Blue" and Jefferson is mentioned. The author argues that for the most part we are a center-right country and it has been like that for a lot longer than we may think. Jefferson is part of the "staple tenets of the central faith in American political ideologies" like private property, individual choice over government mandate, and individual opportunity.
Sometimes it's a little scary how persistent apocryphal stories about Jefferson are. Case in point: the perennial (for us) question, "Did Thomas Jefferson shoot someone on the White House lawn?" There's no evidence that he did, and strangely enough, the source of this particularly bizarre story seems to be the movie Swordfish.
Our new project at the Jefferson Encyclopedia centers around heirloom seeds and plants from the Center for Historic Plants. With the kind help of Peggy (CHP director), we are putting in her information on hundreds of plants, many related to Jefferson. It is a great way to learn more about Jefferson's botanical interests. When we can, we add a link to the Museum Shop in case readers want to order seeds, and at the very least, we link to CHP, so people can
I know: again with the quotations! We are experiencing a strange swell in quotation questions, however, so it's pretty much all I have to talk about these days. There's one in particular that is bugging me, so I thought I'd throw it out to our 6 loyal readers in case there's a chance others can help crack this one.
Well, A Summary View is away for Christmas, but in our absence, we invite you to have a gander (ha ha!) at our Christmas article in the Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia. We wish everyone a lovely and peaceful "season of mince pies!"
I've just laboriously sussed out the farthest points north, south, east and west Jefferson ever traveled and put it up on the Encyclopedia here. I find this handy when people ask us if, say, TJ ever visited Las Vegas, to be able to say, "nope, sorry, the farthest west he ever got was..." (Okay, no one has ever asked us if he visited Vegas, but it could happen.)
Well, I've missed our President's actual inauguration by several days, but I'd like to belatedly commemorate the occasion by offering an intriguing historical tidbit about - yes! - Jefferson's first inauguration.
I'm eagerly delving into a book that arrived just today: Antonio Molina, Patriarch of the Anthony Mullins Family: An American History, compiled by Marjorie O'Brien Casteel. Who is Antonio Molina, AKA Anthony Mullins (or "little Anthony," as Jefferson called him)? Mullins was one of the men brought to Virginia in 1773 by Philip Mazzei, friend and neighbor of Jefferson and collaborator in hi
Well, it took me all day but I plowed through all of the Google Alerts I've gotten in the past week (even the weekend ones, that's how dedicated I am), just as I said I would, and came up with the following numbers: A total of 22 websites quoted TJ in some form or fashion. (Mind you, the Alert catches only new material cropping up on the Web, not material that's already there.) The total quotes used came to 85, 35 of which were spurious. So if you choose to take my sampling
Most quotations we're asked about sound nothing like Thomas Jefferson, but since I can't pin down their true source, they sort of hang frustratingly out there in Quotation Limbo. So it gives me great satisfaction to be able to actually run one to ground once in a while. I just laid this one to rest: "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
I've been curiously watching the flutterings about this in the news for the past week or so - the Seattle Atheists are running a bus ad campaign featuring quotations by Jefferson and some other people. (You can see images of all three ads here.) Before anybody asks, that is in fact a genuine Jefferson quote - it's from a letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787.
Increasingly I'm coming to believe that I'm totally wasting my time in assiduously searching all sorts of websites, databases and books to figure out whether or not Thomas Jefferson is the source of a given quote. Really (I tell myself), if it quacks like a duck, it's most likely a duck. Or, in my case, if it sounds like a Hallmark card or a self-help book, it's probably not from the pen of Thomas Jefferson. Just to entertain you, here are some of my favorite silly quotes that people have attributed to Jefferson:
A new intriguing book on the shelves: Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi, by Chandra Mukerji (Princeton, 2009). This dovetails nicely with one of our new TJ Encyclopedia articles, which features (among other useful pieces of information), an itinerary of Jefferson's travels through southern France and Italy - during which, yes, he visited the Canal du Midi. He rather liked it:
Several years ago, a visitor to Monticello emailed me and asked about something they'd seen in the Jefferson family graveyard, just a short walk down from Mulberry Row: Thomas Jefferson's gravestone seemed to be covered with coins. What's that about?
If you've been following this blog, or even talking to me on a regular basis, you know that we went through an extraordinarily obnoxious patch a year or so ago in which we were getting fake Jefferson quotation questions about every 4 minutes or so. This seemed to be largely due to some sort of chain-email thing that was making the rounds, although we've always done quite a brisk business in quotation debunking. Some day I will compile some actual statistics on this, but off the top of my head I would venture to say that at least half of the questions we answer are to do with quo
This blog entry came up in my Google Alert a few days ago - its main focus is actually a cathedral in Saigon, but it incidentally mentions a fascinating little episode in Jefferson's life of which I was heretofore unaware.
We get a lot of questions from the public asking us to verify quotations as Jeffersonian or not, but these almost always concern only a single quotation. The other week I got a query from an inquiring person that contained not one, but 10 quotations. The source of the query was a sort of chain-email calling Jefferson a "prophet" - an appellation I suspect he would not in fact like very much - and listing 10 purported Jefferson quotations.
Everybody loves countdowns, right? Right. So, I've come up with my own list of things people get wrong about Jefferson, based on my extensive observation of the stuff people put on the Internet or ask us about. Here goes:
Much as I love debunking Jefferson quotations that were probably made up by college students last week on Facebook, it's somewhat more intellectually stimulating to revisit some venerable old spurious quotes. There's a whole slew of these that are routinely attributed to Jefferson and various others, and you'll see most of them dealt with in all the standard quotation references. Whatever the apparent vintage of the spurious quote, however, I find that it behooves me to keep searching for them at regular intervals. Those heroic scanne


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The Immigration Policy Center provides a range of resources that explain the major components of reform and provide context for what is in the different sections of immigration legislation moving through Congress.
General Principles:
- Overhauling Immigration Law: A Brief History and Basic Principles of Reform [1]
- What's on the Menu? Immigration Bills Pending in the House of Representatives in 2014 [2]
- A Guide to S.744: Understanding the 2013 Senate Immigration Bill [3]
- A Guide to H.R. 15: The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act [4]
- Tackling the Toughest Questions on Immigration Reform: Short Answers to the Most Common Questions [5]
- Cracking the SAFE Act: Understanding the Impact and Context of H.R. 2278, the "Strengthen And Fortify Through Enforcement" Act [6]
Future Flow & Legalization:
- Built to Last: How Immigration Reform Can Deter Unauthorized Immigration [7] (IPC Fact Check, May 2013)
- Read more on our Legalization Resource Page. [8]
- Read more on our Future Flow Resource Page. [9]
Related Articles and Blog Posts:
- Rebuilding Local Economies: Innovation, Skilled Immigration, and H-1B Visas in U.S. Metropolitan Areas [10] (IPC Fact Check, May 2013)
- Fueling the Recovery: How High-Skilled Immigrants Create Jobs and Help Build the U.S. Economy [11] (IPC Fact Check, May 2013)
- Read more on our Entrepreneurship and Job Growth Resource Page [12]
Border Enforcement:
- An Unlikely Couple: The Similar Approaches to Border Enforcement in H.R. 1417 and S. 744 [13] (IPC Fact Check, July 2013)
- The Fallacy of "Enforcement First" [14] (IPC Fact Check, May 2013)
- Lost in the Shadow of the Fence [15] (IPC Fact Check, May 2013)
- Read more on our Border Resource Page [16]
The Costs of Immigration Reform:
- Adding It Up: Accurately Gauging the Economic Impact of Immigration Reform [17] (IPC Fact Check, May 2013)
- The Cost of Doing Nothing: Dollars, Lives, and Opportunities Lost in the Wait for Immigration Reform [18] (IPC Fact Check, September 2013)
- Read more on our Economics of Immigration Resource Page [19]
Blog Posts:
- You can read our many posts on the 2013 effort for Comprehensive Immigration Reform here. [20]
- Including Our Day-by-Day Review of the Amendments that Passed the Senate Judiciary Committee. [21]
AIC Statements on the Senate Reform Bill:
- Read our Statement on the Title I of the Senate Reform Bill - The Border [22]
- Read our Statement on Title II of the Senate Reform Bill - The Legalization Program [23]
- Read our Statement on Title III of the Senate Reform Bill - Due Process, Detention, and E-Verify [24]
- Read our Statement on Title IV of the Senate Reform Bill - The Future Flow of Immigrants [25]
- Read our Statement on the Passage of the Bill to the Floor [26]
To review an archive IPC Staff tweets during to the Senate's Mark-up of S. 744 see these day-by-day Storify posts by Amanda Beadle.
You can read all of our resources on previous National Legislation here. [32]
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Today is a sad day for me. Today I finished the last of my Fat Tire clone, I call it Big Rubber. It is very bittersweet, it was great tasting so everyone wanted it and I get to brew more...the kicker is im going off to the academy for 16 weeks and will not be able to brew. Guess I will finish off my pumpkin ale and hope my cider finishes soon. I guess in 16 weeks it will be brewtastic around here. I have a buddy getting married and he has comissioned me for some beer also. I will do 2 cornys of a wheat. May and June are gonna be super busy for me.
Better to have loved and lost than to have never have loved at all! 16 weeks isn't that long, there are plenty of recipes that call for a much longer ferment than that. You could have a celebration batch ready for when you get back. Just a thought.
Rest assured that when one Fat Tire clone dies...another is born. I just gelatin-ed it earlier this week so it's not quite ready yet. It's a malt bomb; that's for sure!


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i got samsung galxay S2 with my christmas money and money i saved up i wanted to get iphone 4s but it was to much for my price range so i got galxay S2 for straight talk i like it it has about the same spec's as a iphone 4S and i wanted a phone with wireless hotspot because work does not have wiireless and i can use it with my ipod touch and if my wireless go's out at home i can use it with my laptop too i wanted to know if anyone know's of any good wireless hotspot app's for android playstore. thank you for help everyone. asked Dec 31 '12 at 12:47 gamerprime2000 |
If you don't mind rooting your phone there is Wireless Tether for Root Users. If you don't want to root I really like FoxFi. answered Jan 01 '13 at 12:52 Liam Quade STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP STOP! Straight Talk does not allow hotspots on their network. If you have to do this, you would have to do it reeally quickly. Otherwise, this is against the TOS and your account can be terminated because of it. Quoting from the Straight Talk TOS:
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John M. Potter boat landed in Charleston, South Carolina. I don't know if John met Sallie Tidwell in Charleston or came over on the boat with John.John got a land grant in Washington County, N.C.John and Salli's will and land grant was found in the basement of the courthouse in Jonesboro, TN. I have information on John and Salli's Great,Great granddaughter Nancy Jane Potter and her husband Elijah Hollyfield/Hollifield Carter county,TN willing to share information Daniel Staut and his family immigrating from Germany to the United States. Settling in the following places. Pennsylvania, Shenandoah County,Va. Carter and Johnson Counties, TN Also information on the voltz families tracing back to Germany Searching Avery,Watauga,Haywood and McDowell counties in North Carolina for the following surnames: GUY,KEYS,BROWN,PRESNELL,PHILLIPS,GRAYSON,HOLLYFIELD,MESSER,BALL,JOHNSON Searching in Carter,Johnson and Cocke Counties TN for the following surnames: MESSER,BROWN,PHILLIPS,BALL, |
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Twitter vote opens for Four4 comedy short film competition
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Posted / 26th January 2012
Last month submissions to our comedy short film competition Four4 closed. And after carefully selecting the top 10 funniest films we've now opened a public vote via Twitter so anyone can simply tweet for the film which cracks them up the most.
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"I'm getting sick of this. I bet if we did a poll right now, nobody else would be doing what you're doing. You're not acting like a normal person. It's as if you've given up".
I sat on my bed, laptop balanced on my legs, and wondered if my mother would really put money on my abnormality. She's not the betting kind – she's free of any vices unless you can count chocolate – so I'd guess not, but it still struck me as somewhat insensitive. I never act like a normal person; surely she's used to it by now? I tried to concentrate on the screen as she carried on, determined to ignore anything negative.
"If you carry on like this, I'm calling the psychiatric unit".
Last week, she threw this old gem at me – a claim she's been making since my teens – because I was shouting. Admittedly, I've been shouting a lot recently, and there's no doubt it's making me look entirely crazy; especially when I'm slamming doors like an angsty teenager and bursting into tears for no reason. My emotions have been running all over the place for a couple of weeks now, and having my mother remind me that I'm not part of "normal" society really doesn't help.
This was always going to be the risk I took by starting on Lyrica. The side-effects read like a list of psychiatric disorders, and my GP warned me that I was likely to experience more anxiety and depression if I took them. What can you do though when faced with both physical and mental illness? You take those risks because otherwise you'd never get anywhere; unfortunately most medications seem to end in a cycle of side-effects and more pills to calm those down. Some may say that scrapping the meds would be the ideal answer. If only life were that black and white.
Lyrica works. It works better than I ever imagined, and being able to do simple things like lifting my arms above my head has done a lot to improve things for me emotionally. I can stand up for more than a couple of minutes now; a few months ago, I had to sit down almost permanently. However, that freedom has come at a huge price, and I'm starting to worry a little.
I should be writing about S's bithday celebrations – he turned thirty on Thursday – but instead I'm panicking over nothing, and putting off completing this post because I know it'll all sound ridiculous. I feel selfish; I'm here complaining about my problems and haven't made any effort to reply to comments or read other blogs. I mean, I have made the effort, but couldn't write anything. Or even take anything in.
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Herotica by Susie Bright
Publisher: Passion Press; abridged edition edition (March 1995) | ISBN: 1886238022 | Language English | Audio CD in MP3/64Kbps | 92 mb
Susie Bright's ground-breaking anthology of women's erotic fiction is a steamy 3 hour audio banquet of non-stop sexual delights.
Susie Bright's groundbreaking anthology of women's erotic fiction "reflects up our skirts (and jeans) like a patent leather shoe, and it squeaks and pinches, drawing out mysteries and unexpected sights of pleasure. Some women want the stars, some the sleaze. Some desire the nostalgia of the ordinary, some want the punch of the kinkyand some want it all!" Witty, thoughtful, and incisive, the 10 stories in this multi-voice recording offer a banquet of non-stop sexual delight. Stories include: "Pickup" by Cheryl Cline; "Night Travelers" by Angela Fairweather; "The Art Gallery" by Jane Longaway; "Just a Bad Day" by Lisa Wright; "Among My Souvenirs" by Marcy Sheiner; "Sex Education" by Jesse Linnell; "Visit to the Mighoren" by Emily Alward; "Jane's Train" by Lisa LaBia; "Shades of Grey" by Jennifer Pruden; and "Police Protection" by Moxie Light.
'This recording also features an afterward by editor Susie Bright.
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10 Holiday Gifts That Give Back
Written on December 10, 2012 at 5:30 am, by thelittlehenhouse
I've been busy working away and writing a series of gift guides for Mint.com. Hey Santa? If you're reading, I'm gonna need those PUNJAMMIES, kay? Thanks.
Here are 10 Holiday Gifts That Give Back:
I recently covered 10 Holiday Gifts for $10 or Less, but since the season of giving is upon and and 'tis better to give than to receive, why not consider giving a gift that gives back, too?… Read More
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Here is my most recent post for Mint.com. It's pretty practical and you know how much I love fake shopping online, so I thought I'd share it here, too.
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Happy Mother's Day to Me
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Since I'm not exactly what the protocol is for celebrating Mother's Day when you have two small children and are going through a divorce, I thought I would just go ahead and buy myself something, give myself a big pat on the back, and call it a day.
You know, now that I think of it, that's probably not too far off from how most of us celebrate Mother's Day.… Read More
Valentine's Day Gifts for Your Manly Man
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You all know how much I love fake shopping online. All week I've been poking around the World Wide Internets for Valentine's Day gifts for a manly man. In this case, it's Ryan Gosling. If I'm going to go fake shopping, then it might as well be for my fake boyfriend, right?… Read More
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Notes for Elizabeth R. McClester: Elizabeth McClester died very young (age 27) of TB. We have two letters she wrote; one to her husband who she called "My dear Charley", and one to her brother, Henry. The one to her husband is dated April 25, 1853, only months before she died. In the letter she describes their son Henry as teething and asks Charley about the progress on his "machine" (probably the dredge he invented). She also speaks of years of loneliness and abuse before she met her husband (implying that she may have been orphaned at a young age): " for 14 long years I was at the mercy of strangers, first here then there, getting blows and cuffs, cross words and sour looks, with no one to care for me, no one to love me.." Her brother Henry "acted nobly kindly to me and was the first that ever loved or cared for your Lizzie." She then described her love for husband: "And then I met with you and before I had an idea that you thought of me, I loved you, my Charley, as Woman never loves but once. Then came the thought that you would never love one like me. Then I was wretched, but when I found that my love was returned, I cannot describe my feelings....Oh, how happy I am with you and I feel there is years of happiness in store for us yet. You brought sunshine into my heart for I know you will always love your Lizzie." In the same letter to Charley, Lizzie also sends her love to Camilla and Mary. After Lizzie's death, Charles Fonde married a Camilla Welch, who may be the same one mentioned in the letter. Lizzie Fonde's death is recorded in C.H. Fonde's Bible: "Died on the 12th day of November, 1853, Elizabeth R. McClester, wife of Chas. H. Fonde, aged 27 years, [born] Village of Mittenague, Mass." It is interesting that the Village of Mittenague, MA, where Lizzie was born, is very near Springfield, MA, the site of C.H. Fonde's marriage to Camilla Welch in 1855. Why were they in Springfield, Massachusetts, when he lived in Mobile and she was "of New Orleans"? Was he in New Orleans when Lizzie wrote the quoted letter? Was he up north to demonstrate his dredge? |
2 | i. | Henry Fonde, born Apr 28, 1852 in Mobile, AL; died Nov 28, 1914 in Knoxville, TN; married (1) Lula Redwood Oct 21, 1879 in Mobile, AL; married (2) Alice Broun Nov 13, 1888 in Mobile, AL. |
Notes for Sarah Reynolds: Sarah Reynolds was known throughout her life as Sally. After her husband's death Sarah Reynolds Broun operated a purchasing agency in Mobile for ladies' apparel and dry goods. |
i. | Caroline Somers Broun, born Mar 6, 1857 in Montevallo, AL; died Feb 9, 1933 in Mobile, AL, not married. | |||
ii. | Olney Harleston Broun, born Nov 5, 1858 in Selma, AL; died Dec 21, 1945; married (1) Emma Cade Prince May 23, 1881; born Mar 3, 1860; died Jun 30, 1889; married (2) Lula Roland Abt. 1890. | |||
iii. | Mary Minter Broun, born Jul 17, 1860 in Shelby Springs, AL; died Mar 30, 1951 in Mobile, AL; married John Alston Kimbrough Jan 28, 1886 in Mobile, AL; born Aug 13, 1856; died Jun 26, 1896. | |||
iv. | Ella Broun, born Jul 29, 1862 in Clarke Co., Miss.; died Mar 1, 1931 in Mobile, AL, Never married. | |||
3 | v. | Alice Broun, born Nov 6, 1864 in Clark Co., Miss.; died Nov 4, 1950 in Knoxville, TN; married Henry Fonde Nov 13, 1888 in Mobile, AL. | ||
vi. | Elizabeth Reynolds Broun, born Nov 5, 1866 in Butler Co., Alabama; died Oct 8, 1873. | |||
vii. | Florence Broun, born Sep 26, 1868 in Butler Co., AL; died Jan 17, 1887 in Mobile, AL. Not married. | |||
viii. | Nancy Reynolds Broun, born Feb 12, 1871 in Clarke Co., Miss.; died Aug 22, 1922 in Washington, D.C. Not married. | |||
ix. | Rosa Deas Broun, born Feb 22, 1876 in Mobile Co., AL; died Nov 13, 1961 in Brooksville, Miss; married Frederick Hugh Hairston Apr 24, 1902; born Jan 21, 1876; died Jun 28, 1968 in Columbus, Miss. (Buried). | |||
x. | Eugenie Deas Broun, born Jun 30, 1877 in Mobile, AL; died Nov 2, 1932 in Mobile, AL; married Stephen Mallory LeBaron; died Unknown. | |||
xi. | James Harleston Broun, born Mar 23, 1879; died Nov 18, 1967; married (1) Bertha Eleanor Dudley Jun 25, 1902; married (2) Joanna Aurelia McCaughan Sep 4, 1924. | |||
xii. | Seaman Deas Broun, Jr., born Jan 31, 1882; died Jul 21, 1967; married Edna Virginia DuPont Jan 7, 1907. |
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Optimal Threshold Policies for Admission Control in Communication Networks via Discrete Parameter Stochastic Approximation
- Shalabh Bhatnagar,
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The problem of admission control of packets in communication networks is studied in the continuous time queueing framework under different classes of service and delayed information feedback. We develop and use a variant of a simulation based two timescale simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) algorithm for finding an optimal feedback policy within the class of threshold type policies. Even though SPSA has originally been designed for continuous parameter optimization, its variant for the discrete parameter case is seen to work well. We give a proof of the hypothesis needed to show convergence of the algorithm on our setting along with a sketch of the convergence analysis. Extensive numerical experiments with the algorithm are illustrated for different parameter specifications. In particular, we study the effect of feedback delays on the system performance.
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- Title
- Optimal Threshold Policies for Admission Control in Communication Networks via Discrete Parameter Stochastic Approximation
- Journal
Telecommunication Systems
Volume 29, Issue 1 , pp 9-31
- Cover Date
- 2005-05-01
- 10.1007/s11235-005-6629-5
- Print ISSN
- 1018-4864
- Online ISSN
- 1572-9451
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
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- Topics
- Keywords
- admission control
- communication networks
- regularized semi-Markov modulated Poisson process
- two timescale stochastic approximation
- simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation
- threshold type policies
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560 012, India


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Q: So the grownup teenage girls still send you fan mail?
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Quincy Notre Dame senior Shannon Foley left an impression Friday night on Richmond-Burton's soccer team, as well as the IHSA record book.
The Maryville University-bound forward set a Class 1A state tournament finals record with four goals, and the unbeaten Raiders cruised to a berth in Saturday's 7 p.m. championship match by beating Richmond-Burton 6-0 in the semifinals at North Central College in Naperville.
"It's the first time I've done it in my career," said Foley about scoring four goals. "So it's kind of exciting."
Foley teamed up with her sister, sophomore forward Cassidy, to provide a 4-0 halftime cushion. Shannon had a first-half hat trick after her sister opened the scoring 6:24 into the match with a goal off a quick throw-in by Shannon.
"We work on quick throw-ins and the other team wasn't prepared for it, and Cassidy was wide open," Shannon Foley said.
Then Shannon Foley unleashed her barrage, starting from 12 yards out off an assist from her sister. Cassidy Foley also assisted on her sister's final goal of the half, a shot from 10 yards out that caromed off Rockets goalie Hannah Koening and across the goal mouth into the net.
Shannon Foley's fourth goal came 1:05 into the second half off a corner kick from her sister, and it not only established a 1A mark but tied the most goals ever scored in a state finals tournament match at any level. It was the 100th goal of Foley's career.
"There's maybe four or five girls on our team who have experience with playing on a bigger field with more fans and it's definitely a different atmosphere," Shannon Foley said. "It made a difference tonight."
Jordan Frericks added an unassisted goal to complete the scoring.
"They're quite a tandem," Notre Dame coach Mark Longo said of the Foley sisters. "And then you throw Jordan in there and when she gets loose we call it our three-headed monster. And we kind of like it."
The Raiders (27-0), who won the state title in 2010, came into the state semifinals with a 126-10 goal differential on the season and will play Manteno for the title. Notre Dame beat Manteno in the 2010 title match and Shannon Foley scored one of the Raiders' two goals in a shutout victory.
Richmond-Burton finished 22-3-2.
"This is really the first time we've been punched in the mouth that hard as a team and didn't really react to it great," Richmond-Burton coach Chris Wagner said. "Every little mistake we made they jumped on and finished."
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i. | JACOB LUTHER4 BACHTELL, b. October 26, 1841, Grandfather Hammacher's Farm Shanks Washington County MD; d. November 23, 1916, Smithsburg Washington County Maryland; m. CATHERINE REBECCA SNYDER, January 10, 1865. | ||
ii. | PETER CORNELIUS BACHTELL, b. July 14, 1843, Beard'sFarm Chewsville Washington County Maryland; d. July 16, 1865. | ||
iii. | LEWIS BACHTELL, b. March 22, 1845, Peter Krouse Farm Cavetown Washington County Maryland. | ||
iv. | MARY ELIZABETH BACHTELL, b. February 22, 1847, Beaver Creek Washington County Maryland; m. MILTON WITMER. |
More About MARY ELIZABETH BACHTELL: Fact 2: Mary and Milton had no children. |
43. | v. | STEWART BACHTELL, b. March 10, 1847, Pondsville Washington County Maryland; d. August 1898, Pondsville Washington County Maryland. | |
vi. | BENJAMIN H. BACHTELL, b. March 12, 1851, Washington County Maryland; d. March 12, 1851. | ||
vii. | MARGARET ANN BACHTELL, b. February 12, 1852, Washington County Maryland; m. DANIEL STEPHY, July 25, 1895. |
More About MARGARET ANN BACHTELL: Fact 2: Margaret and Daniel had no children. |
viii. | HENRY ALFRED BACHTELL, b. April 30, 1854, Washington County Maryland; m. IRENE HUGHES HAMILL, June 25, 1879, Clear Spring Washington County Maryland. |
Notes for HENRY ALFRED BACHTELL: Henry Alfred Bachtell was the translator of the Bechtel Family Bible Record from German to English on January 8, 1899, while he was living at 118 Prospect Street in Hagerstown. He did this when the Bible was in the possession of Moses A. Bachtel of Canton. There are several pages of notes from Henry's journal on file. They are very hard to read. I am recording the following here as it tells us that Henry A. and Moses A. did correspond and that they knew each other. We can understand why Henry A. translated the family record from German although he never owned it. Of course, it was him who put up the stone for Hans Jacob and Catherine along with several of his family members in the cemetery of the Cavetown Lutheran Church in Maryland although they were buried in Canton. Even though he was a college professor we must apologize for the grammar, sentence structure and punctuation in this record! From 'Journal of Henry Alfred Bachtell: December 29th 1896 Wife and I left for Canton Ohio arrived there Wedy, 1 P.M. stopped at Herrford left Irene there whilst I took car to 304 Blainie Ave and found M.A. Bachtal in his shirt sleeves and when I approached him I remarked that we would talk awhile as we had written long enough. He seemed non-plussed for a while, but soon asked for my woman. We went to the hotel where he and Irene talked while I went to purchase gum shoes. We returned to 304 Blanie Ave and spent a delightful day or so. Found him to be 76 yrs of age and wife 10 less. He is a good Christian man and has family worship daily. A consistent Methodist. Wife, I, Orlando and M.A. called to see Pres. Wlm McKinley and was greeted cordially in his house for several minutes. Note: Sentence structure and punctuation follow original as closely as possible.) This confirms that Henry A. Bachtel of Hagerstown and Moses A. Bachtel of Canton did indeed correspond concerning the Bachtel family in the late 1800s and eventually met and talked family history. Moses was mentioned in the translation as having the Bible that Henry translated from on January 8, 1899, while he lived at 118 Prospect Street in Hagerstown, Maryland. This copy was sent to me by Betty Morris of Birmingham, Michigan, a descendant of Hanas Jacob Bachtel, in December, 1990. |
More About HENRY ALFRED BACHTELL: Fact 2: Henry and Irene Bachtell had no children. Fact 3: Bible Family Record of Henry on file. Fact1: They lived at 210 Potomac Avenue, Hagerstown |
ix. | EMMA SOPHIA BACHTELL, b. December 17, 1858, Pondsville Washington County Maryland; m. ALLEN H. OSWALD, December 18, 1885. |
More About EMMA SOPHIA BACHTELL: Fact 2: Emma and Allen had no children. |
x. | ELLEN SOPHIA BACHTELL, b. February 12, 1862, Cavehill Washington County Maryland; d. March 16, 1863, Washington County Maryland. |
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44. | i. | HENRY4 BEGHTEL, b. August 30, 1838, Stark County Ohio; d. November 15, 1909, Huntington County Indiana. | |
45. | ii. | FRANKLIN BEGHTEL, b. October 27, 1840, Stark County Ohio; d. July 26, 1872, Huntington County Indiana. | |
46. | iii. | CATHERINE BEGHTEL, b. May 01, 1842, Stark County Ohio. | |
47. | iv. | ISAIAH BEGHTEL, b. May 31, 1844, Stark County Ohio; d. January 04, 1918, Goblesville Huntington County Indiana. | |
48. | v. | JOSEPH BEGHTEL, b. April 02, 1847, Clear Creek Twp Huntington County Indiana; d. Huntington County Indiana. | |
vi. | LYDIA ANN BEGHTEL, b. December 03, 1848, Clear Creek Twp Huntington County Indiana; m. JAMES LEHMAN. |
More About LYDIA ANN BEGHTEL: Fact 2: July 31, 1896, Lived in Columbia City Whitley County Indiana. |
More About JAMES LEHMAN: Fact1: Lived in Columbia City Whitley County Indiana. |
49. | vii. | WILLIAM BEGHTEL, b. March 12, 1851, Clear Creek Twp Huntington County Indiana; d. August 02, 1928, Huntington County Indiana. | |
50. | viii. | ELI BEGHTEL, b. March 01, 1853, Clear Creek Twp Huntington County Indiana; d. November 17, 1934, Huntington County Indiana. | |
ix. | SARAH JANE BEGHTEL, b. December 21, 1855, Clear Creek Twp Huntington County Indiana; d. November 16, 1857, Huntington County Indiana. | ||
x. | GEORGE WASHINGTON BEGHTEL, b. May 01, 1858, Clear Creek Twp Huntington County Indiana; d. January 19, 1859, Huntington County Indiana. |
More About GEORGE WASHINGTON BEGHTEL: Fact 2: Abt. January 19, 1859, Buried Clear Creek Cemetery Huntington Co IN. |
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Galaxion Book 2: First Contact
- Posted by Johanna on October 10, 2011 at 9:30 pm
- Category: Digital and Webcomics
- CREDITS: by Tara Tallan
- PUBLISHER: Helikon Comics; $11.99 US
The first Galaxion book, The Jump, contains the first three chapters of the story, where a spaceship engages in a hyperspace jump experiement and winds up somewhere unknown. This next volume, First Contact, continues the story with the next three chapters.
When I got my copy of the new book, I was eager for the excuse to re-read the first volume, because I love Tara Tallan's characters, and I welcomed a reason to spend more time with them. They're such distinctive, realistic personalities, and having a whole ship's crew allows for a lot of diversity of attitudes. (I also like how many of them are women. This is my favorite view of future exploration in all popular sci-fi, since women have plenty of roles and command positions.) They're also cute, drawn with comfortably thick lines that gives them a solidity and plausible expression.
To allow, though, for other types of readers, this book begins with a four-page summation of the previous volume. Even having re-read The Jump, it was still a handy reference to be sure I caught all the high points of the story so far. What you need to know is, the Galaxion thinks they may have found the long-lost Hiawatha, the first ship to try the jump. General Nelson is leading the away party (although as the highest-ranking officer, she should have stayed in safety on the ship) because her husband was one of the Hiawatha crew.
Tallan is playing with suspense, making the reader wait to find out what happened, just as the crew has to. They're trying to do things the right way, carefully approaching the wreckage, when what they really want to do is rush in and find out what happened. That's how I felt about reading the book. I was so eager to find out more — it's a great thing that Tallan's work is so easy to read, because I could zoom through without getting lost or confused. And then, of course, come back and enjoy it all at a more leisurely pace. (I find the best books reward immediate re-reads.)
Tallan hits the high points of the story by filling in with flashbacks to show us how the characters came to be where they are. There's also some philosophical debate, over how to handle first contact and what to do when the rules no longer apply. It's exquisitely frustrating that we're left with a cliffhanger — but there's another chapter and a half at the comic website.
You can also buy the book there. (Each print copy comes with a free downloadable digital copy, too! The digital versions are also for sale separately.) Or there's a discounted bundle of the first two volumes together.
The extras at the back of the book include Tallan's first short story from 2006, drawn after her hiatus from making comics. It introduces Vessa, a marvelously competent survey team member, and provides a welcome scene with Captain Fusella, who isn't seen in the main story. There are also process pages showing how a scene goes from script to art and some pinups and additional art. (The creator provided a review copy.)
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Ferrari longed to start at the front of the grid for their home race in Italy, but the Red Bulls of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber proved unstoppable in qualifying at Monza on Saturday. And just to rub salt in the wound for the Scuderia, championship-contender Fernando Alonso wont even start third on the grid
Vettel headed Q1 with 1m 24.319s from the Mercedes duo of Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, on 1m 24.527s and 1m 24.589s respectively, while Esteban Gutierrez proved the first faller in 17th when he couldnt better 1m 25.226s in his Sauber. Behind him, Valtteri Bottas last effort didnt make it either, 1m 25.291s leaving him ahead of the Caterhams and the Marussias.
Giedo van der Garde again outqualified Caterham team mate Charles Pic, 1m 26.406s to 1m 26.563s, while Jules Bianchi stayed ahead of Marussia team mate Max Chilton, 1m 27.085s to 1m 27.480s.
Q2 brought unwelcome drama for Hamilton and Mercedes; the 2008 champion ran wide at Parabolica on his first run, and was only 16th with two minutes left. His next run was looking much better until he reached Parabolica again. This time he didnt go off, but he appeared to be impeded by Force Indias Adrian Sutil and could only manage a 1m 24.803s for 10th place. Hamilton made it across the line for one final effort, but was again delayed by Sutil in the first chicane.
The stewards are now examining the footage to see whether the German should be penalised for impeding, but Hamilton acknowledged his own shortcomings in the session, saying: I drove like an idiot. The Briton was subsequently bumped down to 12th place by the McLaren pair of Jenson Button and Sergio Perez who both improved their times.
Thus, as Vettel was again fastest in 1m 23.977s from Alonso on 1m 24.227s and Webber on 1m 24.263s, Kimi Raikkonen was another shock faller in Q2, finishing in 11th for Lotus on 1m 24.610s ahead of Hamilton, then came Romain Grosjean in the other Lotus on 1m 24.848s, Sutil on 1m 24.932s, Pastor Maldonados Williams on 1m 25.011s and the other Force India of Paul di Resta on 1m 25.077s.
Q3 went Red Bulls way as Vettel trimmed his time down to 1m 23.755s to keep firmly ahead of Webber, whose best was 1m 23.968s, but it was a disaster for Ferrari. They had hoped for third at worst, perhaps even second, but Alonsos attempts to slipstream Massa came to nothing.
Worse still for the Spaniards championship hopes, the Brazilian was the faster of the two, with 1m 24.132s to Alonsos 1m 24.142s. But ahead of them both was Nico Hulkenberg who superbly jumped his Ferrari-engined Sauber up to third with a 1m 24.065s.
Behind them, Rosberg managed only sixth on 1m 24.192s, ahead of Daniel Ricciardos Toro Rosso on 1m 24.209s, the McLarens of Perez and Button on 1m 24.502s and 1m 24.515s, and Jean-Eric Vergnes Toro Rosso on 1m 28.050s. The Frenchman went off exiting Parabolica, which accounted for his deficit.
So the Red Bulls are looking very good for Sundays race, but with a strong chance of rain at some point tomorrow and Ferrari determined to give the tifosi a good show, it will be another fascinating race.
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Through their losses, the Pella Christian boys' basketball team has been making strides forward.
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The Pella Christian girls' basketball team fought through a slow start in the first half and finished strong with a 46 – 33 victory over Oskaloosa last night.
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Following a pair of losses, one of them a heartbreaker, to Newton on Tuesday, Pella Christian's ball clubs can hopefully shake them off with a visit from Oskaloosa this evening.
The Pella Christian boys and girls basketball teams lost a pair of tough games on the road at Newton Tuesday.
The 6 – 9 Pella Christian ball clubs will try to win their first games in a couple weeks with a visit to Newton High this evening.
It's not so much "March Madness" when it comes to high school basketball as it is "February Frenzy," or whatever you want to call it, but the postseason is quickly approaching for our area squads.
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Dallas Center-Grimes' first ever trip to Pella Christian for Little Hawkeye Conference play was forgettable for the home Eagles, as both the boys and girls were unable to keep up for a full 32 minutes.
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With both teams sitting at 6 – 8, the Pella Christian basketball teams have a chance to gain a big chunk of momentum for the rest of the season with a win over visiting Dallas Center-Grimes tonight.
Despite having last night off from actual competition, the Pella Christian boys' basketball team's routine didn't change much from their normal week.
Faltering a bit in their last two games, Pella Christian is still showing improvement little-by-little with each game they play.
Good defense by Des Moines Christian helped them leave their home gym with a sweep of Pella Christian in Saturday basketball action.
The Pella Christian boys and girls suffered disappointing losses Friday night as Grinnell came to Marion County and left with a sweep.
It came down to the final game of their conference schedules last year to determine the Little Hawkeye Conference champions, and tonight, both Pella Christian and Grinnell face-off for the first time this season to conclude their first trips through the conference.
Looking to put Tuesday's loss to Knoxville out of their minds, the Pella Christian boys' basketball team will try to regroup and prepare for a difficult back-to-back part of their schedule with Grinnell tomorrow night and Des Moines Christian on Saturday.
Despite getting out-rebounded 46 – 34, the Pella Christian girls' basketball team prevailed over Knoxville, 55 – 43 on Tuesday.
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The first of two final meet-ups between these two teams as conference foes, Knoxville hosts Pella Christian this evening in a basketball doubleheader.
Unable to beat them last year, the Pella Christian boys' basketball team was able to gain a measure of revenge against North Polk on Saturday, winning 72 – 60.
The Pella Christian girls' basketball team walked away with a nine point victory Friday night over visiting Norwalk, 46 – 37.
The Pella Christian basketball teams will try for their first win of 2014 with a home doubleheader against Norwalk tonight.
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The play of Pella Christian boys' basketball freshman, Levi Jungling in their four-point win over Unity Christian in the Eagles' last game before the Christmas break earned him a spot in the starting line-up against Pella on Tuesday.
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what are some low odor strains but potent too from nirvana i was thinking about either ice or jock herber and i dont want any NL casue i been growing it too much
i dont want no odor i just want low odor
what are some low odor strains but potent too from nirvana i was thinking about either ice or jock herber and i dont want any NL casue i been growing it too much
i dont want no odor i just want low odor
i was think about gettin NL X BB but i heard it lacks in potency even thought it has very good yeild
any feedbacK????
ice is similar to white widow, and thats a smelly plat, jack horror or however its called in the different stores, its smelly, i havnt grown any but a friend of mine does and its smelly.
im growing some citral right now, and its smelly so i dont know, but the ones you recomend are high odor plants, for what i know...
the only plant i grew that didnt even had an odor, was a mexican sativa, wich was a weak strain and not that powerfull... so Good luck
what about NL X big bud?
did anybody grow this strain yet??
im growing 2 nl x big bud at the mo quite a gd strain i havent got into flowering yet but i've heard its very low odor an with the nl crossed with the big bud it should be rather potent if you need more info check out this link lots of reports on that strain http://www.overgrow.com/strainguide/...x_Big_Bud/121/
whoever has tried NL x BB can u tell me how potent it is compare to other strains and like how many hits does it take an average smoker to get high?
my friend grew female seeds nlXbb and it was a good smoke 2-3 boals will get you fried, no two hit wonder, but above average.
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i've grown nlXbb many time's it just get's better every time i grow it,very nice high,easy to grow,pretty mold resistant an a good yeild,she smell's a bit but not as bad as some!!hope this help's..love an respect..spliffbuilder.
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thanks for ur reponse but i seen another low odor strain named chrystal
ww X NL
anybody ever try it?????
man to get rid of the odor i put a huge candle close to my plants, those candles that come inside a glass, (religious type) you can get them with coconut smell, and those kill the odor of the weed, you can also get some candles that are inside of glasses and big sized for cigar smells, those kill odors as well, the problem is that youll have to buy a few... but you wont get any odor!! =)
you can also get like a bathroom deodorant, thatll help... if i were you i would go whatever, and try to kill the odor somehow or reduce it the best way as possible, otherwise you are gonna might get some low odor weed, but with a lack of potency... and what a waste of time...