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So we're all familiar with the debate that constantly floats around the web about who has the best radar detector and what factors determine which radar detector is considered your(the consumer's) book. With all the different types of radar detectors out there and with all the options it has, talking, and signal strength meters on them and the different mounting options as well as the looks of the detector. What really makes a radar detector the reason you use it in your vehicle and is that the reason that you always recommend it to other potential radar purchasers? The reason I ask is because lately I've been getting all kinds of questions about my radar detector because of where it's mounted and the fact that no one really notices it until it makes a noise due to a actual alert and not some false door alarm crap. I am currently a proud owner of a Valentine 1 and it literally determines just how fast I drive on interstates and open highways in my truck. The downside to owning a V1 is that there aren't any vendors or retailers around that you can take the radar to in order to get it serviced or warrantied, which makes it difficult to get things done in a timely manner. Also, these guys pretty much own all the important accessories which allows them to name the price on all of the accessories you might want for the radar, but at least you know it'll be quality equipment and it will work with the V1. Another downside is that they don't make their own rear mirror mount, so you have to try and shop around for a mount that is specifically made for your mirror. The one I have is made for a mirror with the auto dimming feature, which has a thicker stock to hold the mirror. I had to break off the dimming flip switch that the mirrors have in order for this mount to work. The reason I have this mount is because my last truck had the auto dimming sensor on it. On the upside, this thing has GREAT range and maybe even too sensitive because I can be a mile away from a LEO in my small town and it's already reading a strong signal, but I'm sure that's only because the officer could get my speed from that distance. I also really love the appearance of the radar, I like it's thin and wide look and it's very simplistic face. It only displays what you need to see and nothing more. No unnecessary buttons that could have be fused with one type of button that handles it all. Also probably the best feature is the fact that it tells you what direction the LEO is approaching from; front, rear, or the sides. So, what radar detector do you like? For what reasons and where do you have yours mounted? Here are a few pictures of my V1.
When I started driving a local bobtail as part of my job I gave up on radar detectors and started driving the legal speed limit, less hassles, less chance of loosing my job over a traffic ticket. I dont care how good your radar detector is theres always that one officer thats gonna get you by some fluke, seen it happen and while in the Military I was that officer a time or two. Plan your trip and if your running late anyone waiting for you will just have to wait, driving the speed limit is just much safer for you and everyone else on the road.
Keep this on topic please, it's a radar vs other radar debate...not a safety debate. This also wasn't a thread created to know how to avoid a ticket, it's about which radar detector is the best one. I understand that they are instruments created to avoid tickets, but they are also used to know if you're coming up on a LEO. Even if I'm not speeding, I like knowing if there is a LEO ahead of me.
Excuse me if your using a radar to avoid tickets then it becomes a safety debate, you share the road with others that dont feel like being run over by illegal speeding drivers!!
No sir, YOU are sharing the road with people that want to get to places more quickly than the douche going under the speed limit. So, EXCUSE ME for trying to avoid the police that are out pulling people over that speed to get around the moron that doesn't feel it's necessary to pull to the side to let someone going a little faster get around.
Radar detectors are illegal in Virginia and I'm in Virginia at least every other weekend and often every weekend. For that reason I don't bother with a radar detector, anymore, as it'd be a hassle to emplace and remove as I went into and out of Virginia. That said, even if they weren't illegal I'd not bother with one. Why? Because over the years I've owned various Cobras, Escorts, Passports, and even an in-dash Valentine One with external sensors and laser diffusers... and I've had a ticket or two with all of them. How is that possible? Pulse radar. Instant-on radar used around a curve or just over a hill. Instant-on laser used in the same way. And even good, old-fashioned eyeballing my speed and writing the ticket for 'exceeding a safe speed' rather than for a specific amount over the speed limit.... Oh, and I got a ticket in Virginia with my supposedly-invisible V1. As it turns out, the cop was running VG-4 and the V1 was only VG-2-invisible. I don't know if they've rectified that with updates, but I sold the POS right after that. Thankfully running a radar detector in Virginia is a non-moving violation, so no insurance concerns because I wasn't speeding at the time ... but it was still a $96.00 hassle.
Ouch, that sucks that they're illegal. I'm glad that they aren't illegal here in Texas, I don't see a reason for them to be illegal...just because someone has a radar detector doesn't mean they're going to go 100+ MPH down the interstate. I have noticed the instant on radars and it came as a surprise, but if I would have even been speeding in the area where that happened...I wouldn't be here today. I really only like to go over the limit and at max..80 MPH down the long highways that Texas has. I'm very happy that we no longer have the slower speeds at night, and I'm very excited that we're starting to see 75 MPH signs around as well.
Excuse me Ridyn but here is a little math lesson for your driving over the speed limit really gets you there "more quickly"! Let's say that driving right at the speed limit, you can average 50mph on a 15 mile commute in to work. If you're in a rush, you go 10 over the limit. Hey, you get to work sooner, right? Well, do some simple math. At the speed limit, it'll take 18 minutes... at 10 over, it'll save you a whopping 3 minutes. That's right, you get to your desk a whole 180 seconds sooner. You'll burn much more fuel, though. Let's not even go with what happens when you hit traffic... the danger you're causing by whipping around everyone, and the FOOL you look like.
So every time you pass a vehicle its because their going under the speed limit, not because your just speeding to get somewhere a little faster?


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Chemistry - A European Journal
Copyright © 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
Editor: Neville Compton, Deputy Editors: Anne Deveson, Elisabeth Roedern
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Online ISSN: 1521-3765
Associated Title(s): Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Chemistry – An Asian Journal, ChemistryOpen, ChemBioChem, ChemCatChem, ChemElectroChem, ChemMedChem, ChemPhysChem, ChemPlusChem, ChemSusChem, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, European Journal of Organic Chemistry
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Chemistry - A European Journal , 16, 10300–10303
doi: 10.1002/chem.201001429
Nr. 04/2010
September 16, 2010
An Ideal Candidate for Sustainable Catalysis
Convenient phenol oxidation with iron and hydrogen peroxide
Contact: Matthias Beller, Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse/Universität Rostock (Germany)
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Selective Iron-Catalyzed Oxidation of Phenols and Arenes with Hydrogen Peroxide: Synthesis of Vitamin E Intermediates and Vitamin K3
The development of environmentally friendly and efficient catalysts is a major challenge in the field of chemical research, with the focus now being placed on the search for inexpensive metal catalysts. At the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT) in Rostock, Matthias Beller, the first recipient of the newly launched European Sustainable Chemistry Award, and his group investigate many aspects of applied homogeneous catalysis and some of his latest results on iron catalysis are highlighted on the cover of a recent issue of Chemistry—A European Journal.
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In Matthias Beller's own words "catalysis is the science that tries to explain how chemical reactions can be accelerated and controlled. It is one of the key technologies for creating a sustainable chemistry." Already today catalysis enables the manufacture of a wide range of products; in fact more than 80% of all chemical products produced in industry, be it in the field of pharmaceuticals, agrochemistry or polymer chemistry (to name but a few), involve catalysts at some stage in the process of their manufacture.
Quinones are industrially relevant compounds, as they are used as antioxidants in food, medical treatments, and cosmetics. Up to now one of the main industrial processes for the production of this class of compounds involves the use of stoichiometric amounts of copper. This results in large amounts of copper waste and product contamination. Iron, on the other hand, is an ideal candidate for catalysis, because of its abundant availability and its relative non-toxicity compared to precious metals.
Beller and his co-workers have developed an iron-catalyzed oxidation of phenols and arenes to give 1,4-quinones. This novel selective oxidation reaction takes place under mild conditions (room temperature, alcoholic solvents) with hydrogen peroxide as benign terminal oxidant. It should be noted, that next to air, H2O2 is the most "green", and waste-avoiding oxidant. Applying the inexpensive and practical catalyst system consisting of iron trichloride hexahydrate, pyridine-2,6-dicarboxylic acid, and benzylamine co-ligands, the industrially important oxidation reactions of 2,3,6-trimethylphenol and 2-methylnaphthalene took place in 79% and 55% yield, respectively. The work represents just one of many steps that Beller's group are taking "en route" towards more sustainable industrial chemical processes.
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Thursday, August 21 2014
Southbound: An Illustrated History of Southern Rock
Southbound profiles the musicians, producers, record labels, and movers and shakers that defined Southern rock, including the Allmans, Skynyrd, the Marshall Tucker Band and here, the Charlie Daniels Band.
Thursday, September 4 2014
The Great Tragic History of Southern Rock Is Revealed in 'Southbound'
Some say it's impossible to call one volume the definitive history on a topic, but it is possible to announce one as the seminal work. This book is both.


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Pumpkins are great to explore in the fall when they are plentiful. They offer messy hands-on learning. Kids love the oohey-gooey fun that comes from cracking one open and scooping out the insides. It's truly integrated learning at its best. Just check out all the different things you can do with pumpkins...
Language & Literacy
Songs, Poems, & Fingerplays:
Five Little Pumpkins
Five Little Pumpkins,
Sitting on the gate.
The first one said,
"Oh my it's getting late."
The second one said,
"There are witches in the air."
The third one said,
"But we don't care."
The fourth one said,
"Let's run and run!"
The fifth one said,
"I'm ready for some fun."
Oooooo went the wind
And out went the light.
And the five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.
(you can substitute stars for witches)
Literacy: Print the lines of this song on sentence strips leaving off the last word of each line. Print the last word of each line on separate pieces of sentence strip paper. Have the kids take turns placing the correct rhyming word at the end of each sentence in a pocket chart.
Read: Pumpkin Faces
Literacy: Make a Pumpkin Faces Book Supplies: Use a half sheet of paper to make pumpkin pages. Draw a pumpkin shape on each page and label them with feelings words such as happy, sad, scared, etc. Directions: Have kids draw corresponding faces on the pumpkin shapes. Staple pages together and read through it with the kids until they can read it on their own.
Read: It's Pumpkin Time
Literacy: Make a List Draw a big pumpkin shape on a piece of tag board or chart paper. Have the children list all kinds of descriptive words about pumpkin. Write them on the pumpkin shape.
Literacy: Make a List
Draw a big pumpkin shape on a piece of tag board or chart paper. Have the children list all kinds of descriptive words about pumpkin. Write them on the pumpkin shape.
Math & Number Concepts
Read: How Many Seeds In a Pumpkin
Literacy: After reading the story have the children guess how many seeds are in a pumpkin. I like to group the kids with about three kids to a pumpkin. We write down their predictions and as a group predict which pumpkin we thing will have the MOST seeds and the LEAST seeds. Then they work in their groups to clean them out and count the seeds, just like in the book! Extend the learning with this Seed Counting Activity. Invite children to draw the correct number of seeds in each pumpkin.
Literacy: After reading the story have the children guess how many seeds are in a pumpkin. I like to group the kids with about three kids to a pumpkin. We write down their predictions and as a group predict which pumpkin we thing will have the MOST seeds and the LEAST seeds. Then they work in their groups to clean them out and count the seeds, just like in the book!
Extend the learning with this Seed Counting Activity. Invite children to draw the correct number of seeds in each pumpkin.
Pumpkin Face Matching Cards: Create a set of pumpkin face matching cards. Program pumpkin shapes with different expressions such as happy, sad, angry. Make two sets for the children to use as matching cards. Talk about feelings with the children and ask them to recall things that have made them feel different emotions.
Pumpkin Seed Counting Cards: Create a set of pumpkin cards to program with numbers and pumpkin seeds. Program one set with the numbers 0-12, and on another set glue corresponding numbers of real pumpkin seeds to the cards. Kids can use them to count and match numbers with sets.
Pumpkin Seed Counting Game: On a file folder create a pumpkin seed counting game. Trace/draw ten pumpkin shapes on the inside of the file folder. Write the numbers one through ten in them (one number in each pumpkin). Collect 55 pumpkin seeds, wash and dry them. Let the children place the correct number of seeds in each pumpkin shape.
Use our Pumpkin Seed Count Mats (Found in the Teacher's Files) Visit the Teacher's Files for more printable activities!
Pumpkin Faces: Supplies: Orange finger paint, large pumpkin shape drawn on white finger paint paper, black squirt bottle paint, glue, scissors. Directions: Have kids paint orange finger paint all over in the pumpkin shape (opt. Have them paint with the squirt bottle paint eyes, nose and mouth for a jack-o-lantern).
Literacy: Have kids tell you a story about their pumpkin, write it out for them and attach it to their pumpkin and display the pumpkin stories on a bulletin board.
Pumpkin Paper Plates:
Supplies: Large paper plates, long orange tissue paper scraps. Green construction paper to tear a leaf shapes and a brown construction to tear a stem.
Directions: Let children glue tissue paper scraps to the paper plate, demonstrate to them how the tissue paper can be glued on overlapping each other to create the illusion of the ridges in the pumpkins. Glue on a stem and leaf to finish it off.
Pumpkin Painting:
Pumpkin Sponge Art: Pumpkin shaped sponges and orange paint are great for a pumpkin patch picture.
Dramatic Play
A Farm Market: In your dramatic play area add farmer clothes like denim over all and shirts, work gloves, straw hats, and what ever else you can find. Set out wooden crates and child sized wheel barrels. Have a variety of play (or maybe real) fruits and vegetables, a scale, aprons, and what ever else will make this a realistic dramatic play experience.
Literacy: Hang posters of fruits and vegetables or invite children to create their own with "price lists" for their market. Be sure they have a cash register, play money, and paper and pencils for taking orders and making lists.
See Fruit & Vegetable Theme for more great dramatic play ideas!
Music & Movement
Pumpkin Pumpkin Who's Got the Pumpkin: Hide the pumpkin in the room some where and let the kids try to find it... give them "color" clues like it's next to something green, etc. Give out pumpkin stickers as a reward for finding it.
Cooperative Pumpkin Music March: Set out a number of large pumpkin shapes on your floor around your circle area. Have the children march around the room in a circle playing music. (You could also use really pumpkins and have the kids just touch it with their hands.) When the music stops have them all try to put their foot or part of their foot on a pumpkin shape they are close to. Start the music again, and take away one pumpkin every time so the children have to work together to try to get everyone to fit in to reach the pumpkin.
Science & Discovery
Carving Pumpkins: Supplies: A pumpkin, carving tools, spoons, a black crayon. Directions: Let the kids scoop out as much of the pumpkins as they can, take a look at the seeds (save them and bake them for a tasty treat) (Opt. Let them mark on their pumpkins what you should cut with the carving tools for the face of the pumpkin with the black crayon, then you can cut the face out for them.)
Pumpkin Weights & Measures:
Supplies: Food scales, balances, and a variety of mini pumpkins or gourds. Directions: Let the children make predictions about the weights of the pumpkin. Encourage them to compare the pumpkins and predict which will be heavier and lighter. Include other fall items to add to the comparisons.
Literacy:*Make a chart to record the predictions, observations and findings! Cut out a pumpkin shaped chart!
Pumpkin Guts: Place the extra pumpkin insides in the discovery table for the children to mush and gush for a while.
Pumpkin Colored Play Dough: Have pumpkin shaped cookie cutters and mini pie tins, for kids to pretend to make pumpkin cookies and pretend pies.
Blocks & Building
Pumpkin Blocks: Fill the block area with orange colored blocks... cover you wooden blocks with orange colored paper.
Farm Fun: Fill the block area with farm related materials like tractors, wagons, and fences. Provide the children with a bunch of miniature plastic pumpkins, (You can find these very cheap at Wal-Mart or Oriental Trader.)
Puzzles, Games & Manipulatives
Carve A Pumpkin: on-line game
Halloween Pumpkin Catch: on-line game
Pumpkin Seeds: Use the seeds from the pumpkins you carve, sprinkle them with salt and bake them in the oven on about 300 until they look browned.
Individual Pumpkin Pies: Make some vanilla pudding and add a little pumpkin pie spice to it. Fill small plastic cups with a layer of crushed graham crackers, the pudding mixture, and top with some whipped cream.
Bulletin Boards
"Stories from the Pumpkin Patch"
Cover a bulletin board with brow paper and add some grass accents with green paper. Hang the kid's stories about their pumpkin they have created with finger or puffy paint. Tack up the sentence "Stories from the Pumpkin Patch" and use a fence border print to finish it off. You may want to include a little scarecrow picture or an actually little novelty scarecrow next to each story with the child's name printed on it to identify each story. Wal-Mart sells very small scarecrows on a stick that would be so cute for this.
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US Farms, Inc. Updates on Recent Aloe Vera Findings Relating to Cleaner and Healthier Teeth
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South Dakota offers wonders both natural and historic
CRAZY HORSE MONUMENT, SOUTH DAKOTA -- Korczak Ziolkowski was a certifiable crazy old coot.
And in the best tradition of crazy old coots, he set himself a monumental task: He decided to carve a mountain, all 185 metres of it.
And if that weren't crazy enough, he made his way into town and got a beautiful young girl to marry him and have 10 children with him. Ziolkowski died in 1982, but most of his family now works at carving his mountain into a likeness of Crazy Horse, the Lakota chief who refused to surrender his people's land to the U.S. government in the late 1800s.
Ziolkowski worked as an assistant to sculptor Gutzon Borglum in the 1930s on the carving of Mount Rushmore, just down the road, a mere baby of a mountain at 142 metres. It made sense that Lakota leaders should ask Ziolkowski when they were looking for an artist to carve a mountain to let "the white man to know the red man has great heroes also," as Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear put it.
(A hint at the scope of the Crazy Horse sculpture: It took 50 years to complete the figure's face with its 27-foot 6-inch nose. Completion is a long, long way off. Staff at the monument won't even hazard a guess as to how long it will take. We suggest five generations hence, and some of the staff nod.)
Ziolkowski's dream went beyond a massive monument. He envisioned the mountain carving -- the largest sculptural undertaking in the world at 172 metres high and 196 metres long -- as the focal point of a project that would include the Indian Museum of North America and a university and medical school for native people.
You can see a glimpse of Ziolkowski's vision in the cluster of buildings at the foot of Crazy Horse. There's a visitors' centre and gift shop, restaurant, the Ziolkowski family home and a hall for native artists to sell their work. Be sure to catch the outstanding display of arrowheads in the basement of the native artists' hall.
And do not miss the Black Hills Gold Nature Gate Ziolkowski created. Each panel of the gate contains golden silhouettes of creatures indigenous to the Black Hills, from prairie dog to dinosaur, bighorn sheep to bird of prey, coyote to crane.
The Laughing Water restaurant's menu boasts Kuchen, the official dessert of South Dakota -- although our waitress confides she never heard of it before starting to work here. For something different, try the Indian taco dessert. Sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar, it is a wonderful take on an old standard.
It costs $125 to go up the mountain, and they say it's well worth it as the view is breathtaking. We made the mistake of going in the afternoon -- twice, we were so keen -- but the threat of lightning kept us on the ground. Go early in the day when lightning warnings are scarce.
Dramatic weather makes the Black Hills even more beautiful and if a storm keeps you off the Crazy Horse monument, head to the scenic drives of Custer State Park. The Needles Highway, named for the needle and eye rock formation at the top -- and originally called the Needless Highway by many locals who thought it was a waste of tax dollars -- is best known for its views of the Black Hills.
But it's the Iron Mountain Highway that offers the best view of Mt. Rushmore. Round a curve, and suddenly there they are: Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln, in all their six-storey-high glory. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began carving with dynamite in 1927, unheard of at the time, and the monument was declared completed in 1941, although the original plan was for the figures to be depicted from the waist up.
The project's aim was to draw tourists to the Black Hills, but the steady work it created for hundreds of workers put meals on many tables here during the Dirty 30s.
Two million people a year gaze up at the faces on the mountain the Lakota people once called the Six Grandfathers. The memorial park around the base of the mountain, which covers a whopping 520 hectares, boasts interpretive centres, the Avenue of Flags and an amphitheatre for special performances and daily activities. You won't get a better view of the presidents than from Iron Mountain Highway, miles away, but the memorial park is worth a visit.
Custer State Park is just up the road. In fact, it's central to just about everything worth seeing in the region. There's camping there, but for the less hardy there are four lodges dotted throughout the park, the State Game Lodge the Bluebell Lodge, the Sylvan Lake Lodge and the Legion Lake Lodge. All hit a note between rustic and luxurious, with stone fireplaces, loads of wood and animal trophies on the walls.
We stayed at State Game Lodge, President Calvin Coolidge's summer White House in 1927 when he discovered the wonders of the region.
The place is a bit president-mad. The sign on the lodge's gorgeous verandah declaring it Coolidge's summer White House also lists President Dwight D. Eisenhower as a visitor in 1953. And the bar at the Sylvan Lake Lodge has cocktails named for presidents. (Enjoy the Honest Abe: vodka, a splash of Triple Sec, grapefruit and cranberry juices over ice. And be grateful to Frank Lloyd Wright for advising the lodge be rebuilt at its current location in a forest of pine and spruce after a fire destroyed the original in 1935.)
We found the verandah at the State Game Lodge a marvellous place to sit with a coffee and watch the swallows dart in and out of their nests along the verandah's ceiling. First Lady Grace Coolidge used to sit and knit on the porch, her pet raccoon Rebecca nearby. There's a picture of them, cuddling up, in the lodge's presidential dining room. Now, there's wireless access on the verandah so Grace could have emailed her human friends.
They still tell a funny story here about the president's visit to the Black Hills which started as a three-week vacation to escape all that irritated him in Washington. Coolidge took up trout fishing. Although he'd never fished before, he was spectacularly successful. That was more than beginner's luck as the locals had stocked the creek with big fish from a hatchery. Coolidge extended their visit to three months from three weeks.
Expect to see quite a bit of the wildlife the Coolidges so enjoyed. The Wildlife Loop winds through a massive game reserve with buffalo, pronghorn antelope, prairie dogs and wild burros -- descendants of the burros of gold prospectors from the rush of 1874. The park's mountain goats pop up here and there. The day we went looking for the wildlife loop, two quite happily blocked traffic on a fairly busy stretch of the park road.
Notice how the buffalo you see on the loop seem different from the buffalo you may have seen in a zoo. The park's buffalo graze and mill about and wallow -- roll over and over in a dusty patch. Then it hit us: They lack that catatonic quality even the best-kept zoo animals can get. They are busy going about the business of being buffalo and don't even notice you.
The burros are a whole other story. They are very people-friendly, poking their heads into car windows. Do not feed them even if the people in that car ahead of you are feeding them cheese doodles at an alarming rate.
When you need a break from the wildlife, visit Rapid City, about 50 kilometres north of Custer State Park. Rapid City is also mad about presidents. On many of the downtown street corners, there are bronze statues of presidents.
Here is Harry Truman holding up the famously wrong headline that he had lost to Thomas Dewey; there is Nixon sitting in an ornate chair, little Chinese dogs carved into the arms, representing his history-making trip to China -- the artist's kindness to the disgraced president. Over there is John F. Kennedy showing John John a toy airplane.
As you work your way around downtown, street corner by street corner, president by president, check out the shops. Who's Hobby House, 715 Main Street, is a great place for presents to take home for kids of all ages. Have coffee and snacks at Alternative Fuel, 620 Main, and check out pictures of the staff with Ed Harris and Jon Voigt visiting while shooting National Treasure 2.
But the jewel of the downtown retail is the Prairie Edge Trading Co. and Galleries, the corner of Sixth and Main, which boasts the finest collection of Native American art, crafts, books, music and cultural artifact reproductions. Watch for posters around town announcing special guests at the shop. On the day we were there, three Navajo code talkers, veterans of the Second World War, were visiting. (About 420 Navajo served in the U.S. Marines as code talkers, their native language proving an effective code the enemy could not break.)
The historic Alex Johnson Hotel, listed with the National Register of Historic Landmarks, has hosted six presidents, Coolidge, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nixon, Gerald Ford and Reagan. When we visited, a staff member listed John McCain. "Well, almost a president," he explained.
Alex Carlton Johnson, vice-president of the Chicago-Northwestern Railroad, built the grand hotel, "the Showplace of the West," as a living tribute to the natives of the Black Hills. Johnson's fascination with native culture shows up in the building's décor and architecture. Be sure to pop into the lobby to see some of the aboriginal points of interest, such as the chiefs' heads carved into the tops of the lobby pillars and the chandeliers made from spears and torches. Book a room after the $8-million renovation is completed in spring 2010.
Plan your visit for a summer-time Thursday and watch Summer Nights make Rapid City's downtown streets come alive with special events. The festivities happen on 6th and 7th streets and -- in theory -- end at 8:30 p.m.
But later on, Arts Alley -- a back alley graffiti artists have turned into a place of wild colours and images -- becomes a concert hall. On the evening we were there, late into the night, another, more impromptu, summer night happened. Musicians gathered in the alley to jam, the music -- a happy zydeco sort of sound -- filling the night air, drifting up to hotel windows where people propped themselves on window sills to enjoy.
It's the kind of happy surprise you come to expect in the Black Hills on your travels. You just have to keep your eyes and ears open.
Other things to see in the Black Hills
Mammoth site
The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, about an hour south of Custer State Park, is a paleontological site that takes you to the edges of a Pleistocene era sinkhole where scientists have excavated the remains of 55 mammoths. About 26,000 years ago, a cavern at the site collapsed into an underground spring, leaving a steep-sided hole which trapped the mammoths, Columbian and woolly. Kids and the scientifically inclined will be fascinated. The gift shop is full of items made of petrified elephant poop. These include lip balm and notepads; "Made by Elephants," the tags boast. Again, kids and the scientifically inclined will be fascinated.
Pop over the state line and see the Devil's Tower National Monument in the distance. The 30 kilometres you'll drive along Highway 24 will teach you the true meaning of wide open spaces. Stop in Aladdin, population a mere 15, famous for the Aladdin General Store. Established as the Wyoming Mercantile in 1896, the store is on the National Register of Historic Places, a well-preserved example of late 19th century vernacular mercantile architecture. It carries everything from clothing to antiques to antler art. There's a small hole-in-the-wall bar on one side and a cold beer goes down nicely as you sit on the front steps and watch the world go by. A warning: The store has no running water so the "facilities" are a couple of nicely kept two-hole outhouses out back.
Wild Horse Sanctuary
The long drive onto the plains south of Hot Springs to the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary is well worth it to see herd of American Mustangs roaming free. The ranch has been described as one of the most primitive and wild places left in North America. The sanctuary offers two-hour guided tours or three-hour private tours year-round to see the 400 or so mustangs.
Chuckwagon suppers
"This is the real west," the locals keep saying throughout South Dakota, but at no other time will it feel quite so "real west" than when the baked beans hit your tin plate at a chuckwagon supper. At the Fort Hays Chuck Wagon Supper and Cowboy Music Variety Show, just outside Rapid City, you can tour buildings used in the movie Dances With Wolves until the supper bell rings. Then all the wannabe cowboys and cowgirls line up for an authentic chuck wagon supper: a tin plate of beef or chicken, potatoes, baked beans, biscuits and coffee in a tin cup. Cowpoke fare is not fine dining, but all is forgiven when the music starts and you feel like you're part of a Prairie Home Companion show.
Deadwood is known for gambling, movie gear and the graves of Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok who was gunned down here (and here and here and here if you pay attention to many signs in town.) This national historic landmark is a fun town you should not miss -- even if you do feel a bit cheesy having your picture taken (as I did) beside many of Kevin Costner's movie costumes at his Diamond Lil's restaurant, a good place for lunch. The Celebrity Hotel is a great, central place to stay on the main strip. Its lobby is full of movie paraphernalia and cars from the movies, including one of James Bond's Aston Martins and a tuxedo or two. The kids will love the gunfights held several times a day inside #10 Saloon and outside on Main Street.
German tourists
The German people have a love affair with the Wild West. It's been explored in an exhibit at the National Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where experts opined the Germans' fascination dates back to the 1820s when James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales was published.
You'll see that fascination full-blown throughout the Black Hills, with German tourists living the dream in their cowboy hats and boots, asking tour guides and locals what was it really like when the buffalo roamed and the deer and the antelope played, a childlike delight on their faces. It's contagious. Their enthusiasm will lift you and maybe even inspire you to try on a 10-gallon hat or two in the gift shops.
-- Julie Carl
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Trying to build app with command line tools raises exception
When I try to build my app with the Sencha SDK Commandline Tools I constantly get a "not a directory" exception. I opened a posting on Stack Overflow that also has a screenshot of the error.
Any help would be appreciated
I figured out it has something to do with the fact that I want my buildPath to be outside of the app directory. My section in the app.json looks like this:
Code:"buildPaths": { "production": "../deploy/frontenddemo/production", "testing": "../deploy/frontenddemo/testing", "package": "../deploy/frontenddemo/package", "native": "../deploy/frontenddemo/native" },
If I change it to:
Code:"buildPaths": { "production": "build/production", ... },
Everything works as expected. I don't know why. It should be possible to have the builds outside the app directory I guess.
15 Sep 2012 11:35 AM #2
Ok, after a lot of try and error. I found the root cause of this issue.
My app.json looked like this:
Code:"archivePath": "../deploy/frontenddemo/archive/", "buildPaths": { "testing": "../deploy/frontenddemo/testing", "production": "../deploy/frontenddemo/production", "package": "../deploy/frontenddemo/package", "native": "../deploy/frontenddemo/native" },
The fix was easy. I just changed the paths to this:
Code:"archivePath": "../deploy/frontenddemo/archive/", "buildPaths": { "testing": "../deploy/frontenddemo/builds/testing", "production": "../deploy/frontenddemo/builds/production", "package": "../deploy/frontenddemo/builds/package", "native": "../deploy/frontenddemo/builds/native" },
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Would be great to have someone confirm what I figured out and maybe point out if its documented.


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(version 3, March 1997)
copyright (1993) The Ohio State University Research Foundation
Mary E. Beckman & Gayle Ayers Elam
Ohio State University
0. Preface
0.1. What are the "Guidelines for ToBI Labelling"?
ToBI (for Tones and Break Indices) is a system for transcribing the
intonation patterns and other aspects of the prosody of English utterances.
It was devised by a group of speech scientists from various different disciplines
(electrical engineering, psychology, linguistics, etc.) who wanted a common
standard for transcribing an agreed-upon set of prosodic elements, in order
to be able to share prosodically transcribed databases across research
sites in the pursuit of diverse research purposes and varied technological
goals. Silverman et al. (1992) and Pitrelli et al. (1994) describe the
motivation for and development of the ToBI system. If you ask for this
handbook in hard copy, those papers will be appended as Appendix B. Appendix
A (which is included both in the hard copy and in the ASCII file version
of this labelling guide) is "The ToBI Annotation Conventions", the definitive
summary statement of the symbols and marks used in ToBI transcriptions,
and of the conventions that we have agreed upon for their use. The rest
of this labelling guide is a more detailed description of the system, with
reference to accompanying utterances of two types: example utterances to
illustrate points made in the text and exercise utterances to give labellers
practice on the points made in the text. These utterances are set off in
the text of the labelling guide using the following typographic conventions.
EXAMPLE << Each example utterance is also referred to in the text by its basename
within pairs of angle brackets -- e.g., the first example utterance is
<< The utterances that accompany this labelling guide can be obtained in
two formats: as digitized computer files with electronic record of the
f0 contour from the Ohio State University web and ftp distribution site
(see section 0.2) or as an audio tape with paper record of the f0 contour
(see section 0.3).
0.1.1. Notice of copyright and restrictions on use
The "Guidelines for ToBI Labelling" document and associated material
are copyrighted. The text cannot be copied or distributed in any format
unless this paragraph is included. The utterances accompanying the guide
are available to any interested user, but only for non-commercial use.
The National Science Foundation and the Ohio State University make no warranty
and accept no liability associated with the use of these materials. These
materials may be obtained only as described in Sections 0.2 and 0.3, and
are not to be redistributed by other user sites. Users may not redistribute
these materials from their own sites, but should instead tell interested
people how to obtain their own copy from the distribution site.
0.1.2. Acknowledgements
The "Guidelines for ToBI Labelling" and the accompanying utterances
were developed in the Ohio State University Linguistics Laboratory with
partial support from the National Science Foundation, and the Ohio State
University continues to support the labelling guide by providing a distribution
site for the electronic records (described in Section 0.2). Colin Wightman
generously provided the distribution site for the electronic records for
version 2.0 of the labelling guide in his lab at the New Mexico Institute
of Mining and Technology. Jennifer Venditti provided LaTeXing and various
other editing expertise for this earlier version, which we have relied
on in producing this new one. Kim Silverman and John Pitrelli developed
the original transcriber script, on which we based the primary shell scripts
for viewing the examples and doing the exercises. David Talkin helped in
innumerable ways, such as by developing the scripts for the cardinal examples.
Harald Singer developed an alternative electronic format for version 2.0,
and Stefanie Jannedy set up the web page for it and for the ftp site.
0.2. Getting and using the digitized utterances and f0 tracks
If you have waves(tm) (an Entropic Research Laboratory product) or a
similar computer display system, obtain the speech files, electronic record
of the f0 contour, and label files by ftp from the Ohio State University
distribution site. Section 0.2.1 describes that version.
There is also an Emu version that Steve Cassidy helped us to create.
You can get that version from the Emu home page at Macquarie University.
If you are reading this page over the WWW,
click here to go to the "Emu and ToBI" page.
And the labels have been converted to praat TextGrid files.
If you are reading this page over the WWW,
click here to go to the English ToBI home and download these files.
0.2.1. Getting the digitized utterances and f0 tracks
There are two options for obtaining the ToBI materials depending upon
how much disk space users have available. For those with sufficient disk
space there is a single large tarfile for convenience. This option requires
having about 40 MB available during the installation process; the full
materials occupy about 20 MB once the installation is completed and the
tarfile is removed. If you do not have enough space to have both the complete
tarfile and all the installed files at the same time, use the second option.
There are three smaller tarfiles which together contain all the materials
contained in the single large tarfile. That is, they contain the speech
files, f0 records, and label files divided into three parts by order of
occurrence in the Guidelines. In addition to the single large or three
smaller tarfiles, you will need to get the "essentials" tarfile, which
is about 2.5 MB and contains an ASCII version of "The Guidelines for ToBI
Labelling", and the scripts and tools for displaying the f0 tracks and
If you are reading this page over the WWW,
here to access the tarfiles. Download the README-file first for descriptions
of the tar files and of the directory structure that they will set up on
your home system.
0.2.2. A less interactive electronic version
Version 2.0 of the labelling guide has been converted to a series of
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Decorate your Christmas tree with these beautiful tree trimmers. A vintage look your tree will love and so will you.
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- 3-1/2" ball
- 3-13/16" x 2-13/16" egg
- Gold lamé fabric, 4" circles, four
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- Rubber stamps with bold, deep-cut images, approx. 1-1/2" diameter, two motifs (Note: Stamps with fine lines and details aren't recommended for embossing on velvet)
- Cord: 2mm gold, 2/3 yd.; 4mm red/gold, 4mm purple/gold, 1/2 yd. each
- Tassels: red/gold, purple/gold, one each
- 5/8" metallic gold wire-edge ribbon, 1-1/2 yd.
- Sharp pencil
- Ruler
- Scissors
- 1/2" x 11" strips of white paper, two
- Straight pins
- Fine-line black marking pen
- Spray bottle filled with water
- Iron
- Ironing board
- Serrated knife with pointed tip
- Awl or ice pick
- Cloth-covered floral wire
- Wire cutters
- Compass (optional)
- Thick, white craft glue
- Wrap a 1/2" x 11" strip of paper around circumference of ball; trim ends to fit. Fold strip in half, forming 1/2" x 5-1/2" strip; mark 1-5/8" from fold. Pin foldline over center top of ball. Carefully rotate strip around ball, using marking pen to create a dotted line around ball using the 1-5/8" measurement as your guide. Remove paper strip and connect dots. Repeat at opposite end, pinning strip at center bottom to begin. Use a sharp pencil to score foam on marked lines, creating a top, center, and bottom section on each shape. Repeat for egg.
- Emboss each velvet strip by placing a rubber stamp, image side up, on ironing board or firm work surface. Place velvet, wrong side up, over stamp. Mist velvet with water. Avoiding steam vents, press a dry, hot iron firmly to velvet on top of stamp and hold in place for 20-30 seconds. Lift iron straight up to remove. Note: Adjust heat setting on iron if velvet sticks. If velvet isn't completely dry, press again without shifting fabric on stamp. Continue to add embossed images as desired, moving velvet over stamp after each one is complete.
- Center embossed red velvet over center section marked on foam egg. Use tip of serrated knife to tuck long edges into scored lines, folding under one short end and overlapping it onto opposite end. Center bottom section of egg on a gold lamé circle and again, tuck edges of fabric into scored line with serrated knife. Repeat to cover top half of foam with gold lamé.
- Follow Step 3 to cover ball with purple velvet and gold lamé.
- Wrap matching 4mm cord around scored lines at top and bottom of velvet band on each ornament and cut to fit. To prevent raveling, squeeze glue on ends of cords and twist fibers together. Allow to dry. Glue cord to scored lines, aligning ends with velvet seam.
- Use awl or ice pick to carefully form a tiny hole in center top of each ornament. Cut a 12" length of 2mm gold cord and knot ends together. Glue knotted end into hole, forming hanger. Repeat for remaining ornament. Allow to dry.
- Cut two 24" lengths of wire-edge ribbon. Form each length into a 4-loop bow and secure the center with a 4" wire. Trim wire ends to 3/4" from ribbon. Use awl or ice pick to form a tiny hole in each ornament in front of cord hanger. Attach a bow to each ornament, gluing wire ends into hole.
- Use awl or ice pick to form a hole in center bottom of each ornament. Center a 2" length of wire through top of each tassel, bend ends upward, and then twist together to secure. Attach a matching tassel to bottom of each ornament, gluing wire ends into hole.
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Major third
Inverse | Minor sixth |
Name | |
Other names | - |
Abbreviation | M3 |
Size | |
Semitones | 4 |
Interval class | 4 |
Just interval | 5:4 |
Cents | |
Equal temperament | 400 |
Just intonation | 386 |
In classical music from Western culture, a third is a musical interval encompassing three staff positions (see Interval number for more details), and the major third ( Play (help·info)) is a third spanning four semitones. Along with the minor third, the major third is one of two commonly occurring thirds. It is qualified as major because it is the larger of the two: the major third spans four semitones, the minor third three. For example, the interval from C to E is a major third, as the note E lies four semitones above C, and there are three staff positions from C to E. Diminished and augmented thirds span the same number of staff positions, but consist of a different number of semitones (two and five).
The major third may be derived from the harmonic series as the interval between the fourth and fifth harmonics. The major scale is so named because of the presence of this interval between its tonic and mediant (1st and 3rd) scale degrees. The major chord also takes its name from the presence of this interval built on the chord's root (provided that the interval of a perfect fifth from the root is also present or implied).
A major third in just intonation corresponds to a pitch ratio of 5:4 ( play (help·info)) (fifth harmonic in relation to the fourth) or 386.31 cents; in equal temperament, a major third is equal to four semitones, a ratio of 21/3:1 (about 1.2599) or 400 cents, 13.69 cents wider than the 5:4 ratio. The older concept of a ditone (two 9:8 major seconds) made a dissonantly wide major third with the ratio 81:64 ( play (help·info)). The septimal major third is 9:7, the undecimal major third is 14:11, and the tridecimal major third is 13:10.
A helpful way to recognize a major third is to hum the first two notes of "Kumbaya" or of "When the Saints Go Marching In". A descending major third is heard at the starts of "Goodnight, Ladies" and "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot".[citation needed]
In equal temperament three major thirds in a row are equal to an octave (for example, A♭ to C, C to E, and E to G♯; G♯ and A♭ represent the same note). This is sometimes called the "circle of thirds". In just intonation, however, three 5:4 major thirds are less than an octave. For example, three 5:4 major thirds from C is B♯ (C to E to G♯ to B♯). The difference between this just-tuned B♯ and C, like that between G♯ and A♭, is called a diesis, about 41 cents.
The major third is classed as an imperfect consonance and is considered one of the most consonant intervals after the unison, octave, perfect fifth, and perfect fourth. In the common practice period, thirds were considered interesting and dynamic consonances along with their inverses the sixths, but in medieval times they were considered dissonances unusable in a stable final sonority.
A diminished fourth is enharmonically equivalent to a major third (that is, it spans the same number of semitones). For example, B–D♯ is a major third; but if the same pitches are spelled B and E♭, the interval is instead a diminished fourth. B–E♭ occurs in the C harmonic minor scale.
The major third is used in guitar tunings. For the standard tuning, only the interval between the 3rd and 2nd strings (G to B, respectively) is a major third; each of the intervals between the other pairs of consecutive strings is a perfect fourth. In an alternative tuning, the major-thirds tuning, each of the intervals are major thirds.
The file plays middle C, followed by E (a tone 400 cents sharper than C), followed by both tones together.
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See also[edit]
- Decade (log scale), compound just major third
- Ear training
- List of meantone intervals
- Musical tuning


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Docket Number:   | AB_1068_0_X | ||
Case Title:   | MISSOURI CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY-ABANDONMENT AND DISCONTINUANCE OF SERVICE EXEMPTION-IN CASS COUNTY, MO. | ||
Decision Type:   | Notice Of Exemption | ||
Deciding Body:   | Director Of Proceedings | ||
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Decision Notes:   | PROVIDED NOTICE THAT MISSOURI CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY AND CENTRAL MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY (CMR) HAVE FILED A JOINT NOTICE OF EXEMPTION TO ABANDON AND DISCONTINUE, AND FOR CMR TO DISCONTINUE, SERVICE OVER 5.6 MILES OF RAIL LINE IN CASS COUNTY, MO. | ||
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NOVEMBER 26, 2010 DO FR-4915-01-P DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Surface Transportation Board [Docket No. AB 1068X] Missouri Central Railroad Company—Abandonment
and Discontinuance of Service Exemption—in [Docket No. AB 1070X] Central Midland Railway Company—Discontinuance
of Service and Operating Rights Exemption—in Missouri
Central Railroad Company (MCRR) and Central Midland Railway Company (CMR)
(collectively, applicants) have jointly filed a verified notice of exemption
under 49 C.F.R. pt. 1152 subpart F—Exempt Abandonments and Discontinuances
of Service for MCRR to abandon and discontinue, and for CMR to discontinue,
service over approximately 5.6 miles of rail line extending between milepost 257.283
(near Wingate) and milepost 262.906 (near Pleasant Hill) in Cass County,
Mo. Specifically, MCRR proposes to: (1) abandon the line extending between
milepost 257.283 and milepost 262.906; and (2) discontinue service over a
portion of the line extending between milepost 262.8 and milepost 262.906, the
portion not covered by CMR leased operating rights. CMR proposes to discontinue service and
operating rights on the portion of the line extending between milepost 257.283
and milepost 262.8.[1] The line traverses United States Postal
Service Zip Code 64080. Applicants
have certified that: (1) no local
traffic has moved over the line for at least 2 years; (2) no overhead
traffic has moved over the line for at least 2 years and overhead traffic, if
there were any, could be rerouted over other lines; (3) no formal complaint
filed by a user of rail service on the line (or by a state or local government
entity acting on behalf of such user) regarding cessation of service over the
line either is pending with the Surface Transportation Board (Board) or with
any U.S. District Court or has been decided in favor of complainant within the
2-year period; and (4) the requirements at 49 C.F.R. § 1105.7(c) (environmental
report), 49 C.F.R. § 1105.11 (transmittal letter), 49 C.F.R. § 1105.12
(newspaper publication), and 49 C.F.R. § 1152.50(d)(1) (notice to
governmental agencies) have been met. As a
condition to these exemptions, any employee adversely affected by the
abandonment or discontinuance shall be protected under Oregon Short Line–Abandonment
Portion Goshen Branch Between Firth & Ammon, in
Bingham & Bonneville Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C. 91 (1979). To address whether this condition adequately
protects affected employees, a petition for partial revocation under 49 U.S.C.
§ 10502(d) must be filed. Provided no
formal expression of intent to file an offer of financial assistance (OFA) has
been received, these exemptions will be effective on December 28, 2010, unless
stayed pending reconsideration.
Petitions to stay that do not involve environmental issues,[2]
formal expressions of intent to file an OFA under 49 C.F.R. § 1152.27(c)(2),[3]
and trail use/rail banking requests under 49 C.F.R.§ 1152.29 must be filed by December
6, 2010. Petitions to reopen or requests
for public use conditions under 49 C.F.R. § 1152.28 must be filed by December
16, 2010, with the Surface Transportation Board, 395 E Street, S.W.,
Washington, DC 20423-0001. A copy of
any petition filed with the Board should be sent to applicants' representatives: For MCRR, Sandra L. Brown, Thompson Hine LLP,
1920 N Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington, DC
20036; for CMR, Lon Van Gemert, Chief
Executive Officer, Central Midland Railway, c/o Progressive Rail Incorporated,
21778 Highview Avenue, Lakeville, MN 55044. If the verified
notice contains false or misleading information, the exemptions are void ab
initio. Applicants
have filed a combined environmental and historic report that addresses the
effects, if any, of the abandonment and discontinuances on the environment and
historic resources. OEA will issue an
environmental assessment (EA) by December 3, 2010. Interested persons may obtain a copy of the
EA by writing to OEA (Room 1100, Surface Transportation Board, Environmental,
historic preservation, public use, or trail use/rail banking conditions will be
imposed, where appropriate, in a subsequent decision. Pursuant to
the provisions of 49 C.F.R. § 1152.29(e)(2), MCRR
shall file a notice of consummation with the Board to signify that it has
exercised the authority granted and fully abandoned the line. If consummation has not been effected by MCRR's
filing of a notice of consummation by November 26, 2011, and there are no legal
or regulatory barriers to consummation, the authority to abandon will
automatically expire. Board
decisions and notices are available on our website at "WWW.STB.DOT.GOV." Decided: November 19, 2010. By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, Director,
Office of Proceedings. [1] In 2004, CMR received an exemption to lease
and operate a 243.8-mile line of railroad that includes this portion of
line. See Cent. Midland Ry.—Lease and Operation Exemption— [2] The Board will grant a stay if an informed decision on environmental issues (whether raised by a party or by the Board's Office of Environmental Analysis (OEA) in its independent investigation) cannot be made before the exemption's effective date. See Exemption of Out-of-Serv. Rail Lines, 5 I.C.C.2d 377 (1989). Any request for a stay should be filed as soon as possible so that the Board may take appropriate action before the exemption's effective date. [3] Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing fee, which is currently set at $1,500. See 49 C.F.R. § 1002.2 (f)(25). |