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This fun Play Seating is the epitomy of the bird & berry range with a ride-on bird and a large berry pouf. Children's imagination is wonderful and they will use the set for more activities than we could ever dream of; rolling, sitting, riding, flying, dancing.
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The KUKUU bird & berry design is refreshingly simple yet unusual with its modern two-tone colouring and atypical lines. The designer's aim with the range is to challenge the traditional look of nursery furniture. Irregular lines are a reminder of nature thus evoking curiosity and imagination in children. KUKUU uses only sustainable timber sources and this furniture is made to last with quality fittings and finishes.
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bird & Berry Cot & toddler bed
The bird & berry cot has 3 configurations. One for an infant where the base is higher, one for a mobile baby with the base at the bottom and one for the toddler where the child has access in and out of the bed. The conversion to toddler bed is done by simply removing the one side and adding two guard panels. Most children will be able to use the toddler bed until approximately 5 years old. The toddler guard panels are included with the cot and so is the mattress. The mattress is made from 100% recycled polyester which is hypo-allergenic with low heat retention and fire risk. click here for mattress details. A set of two fitted sheets in 100% cotton is available.
Bird & Berry change table
This innovative piece is a cross between a change table and a storage unit. It has two drawers, a basket and two shelves at each end, so everything you need can be at your fingertips while changing your baby. A change pad with a removable 100% cotton cover in the bird & berry print is available separately. The cover is coated with a waterproof layer and is machine washable at 30°C in delicate mode.
The design allows you to remove the changing tray once you no longer need a change table, and instead you will have a very attractive and useful storage unit. Drawers for clothes or linen, a basket for toys or washing and shelves for books. Impressive.
bird & Berry Bookcase
The "bird & berry" bookcase adds a final touch to your nursery. The individual compartments are ideal for a child's many small things and the irregular lines appeals to their imagination. Each section will house specific things and the toy basket in the middle included and will no doubt be home to an unknown number of treasures.
Just like the change table, the book case has a lifespan well beyond the baby and toddler stage. The design is contemporary and fresh in neutral colours and a child would happily have it in the bedroom for years.
bird & Berry Play seating set
KUKUU's vision goes beyond furniture and this gorgeous Play Seating is the proof. The set consists of a pouf and a ride-on bird. The pouf can be a table, or a seat with the bird lying down as a back rest. Very cute and clever. Available in a graphite/sand colour combination.
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Set of two 100% cotton, delicate satin fitted sheets in ivory. Machine washable at 60°C.
Change Table Mat
This change mat completes the KUKUU furniture. The foam pad is covered in "Bird & Berry" fabric which has been waterproofed. The cover is machine washable in delicate mode. You can choose between sand or graphite.
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A toy box is included with both the change table and the book case. Choose between sand or graphite as you do for the change mat.
The boxes measure 41x41x41cm and the fabric is removable and machine washable in delicate mode.


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The doctor says he's noticing a disturbing trend — to which the patient responds: "Well, you're the one showing me all the dirty pictures."
The message is that people often see what they want to see. Which brings us to the George Zimmerman trial — this month's trial of the century … and our nation's current inkblot test.
Here, too, many people see only what they want. The only lessons learned are the ones they're convinced they already know.
If you were already convinced the world is full of young black thugs, well, there's a good chance that's what you saw in this case, too.
If you were convinced that minorities are unfairly profiled and unable to get equal justice, well, that's the story you see playing out again.
The perception divide goes well beyond race.
Take guns, for instance.
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Yet gun-control proponents say the case proves that guns lead to unnecessary death and violence: If Zimmerman hadn't been carry a gun and feeling emboldened, no one would have died that night.
The exact same case supposedly proved the need for both more — and fewer — firearms.
It all depends on how you look at the inkblot — and what you are looking for.
USA Today recently compiled a roundup of pundits that was all over the map in lessons we were supposed to have learned. The headline read: "Zimmerman case divides those already decided." In other words: Everyone who already had a strong opinion was able to find something in this case to reinforce his or her beliefs.
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The concept, which Microsoft plans to detail next month, is built on top of the Windows XP operating system but aims to be a new kind of device, rather than a replacement for existing PCs, according to sources familiar with the effort. With a screen bigger than that of a handheld but smaller than a notebook PC screen, Origami devices won't fit in the pocket, but they'll make it into purses and even the smallest of backpacks, sources said.
Microsoft's goal is to create a blueprint for devices that could sell for $600 or less, although the actual prices will depend greatly on what manufacturers decide to include. Origami is capable of supporting features like GPS, Bluetooth, 3G cellular technology and Wi-Fi, though each of these adds to the cost of the device.
Rumors have been swirling about the device over the past week. The Origami Project Web site, which is owned by Microsoft, pledges that more information will come Thursday. However, sources say this is likely to be more buzz, with actual details not expected until later in March, likely at the CeBit show that takes place March 9 to 15 in Hannover, Germany.
In a somewhat uncharacteristic move, Microsoft has remained mum on Origami, while fanning the flames with its Web site.
However, Origami doesn't come out of the blue. Microsoft first showed off an Origami-like prototype at last year's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Seattle. At the time, Chairman Bill Gates flashed something with a 6-inch screen and said Microsoft hoped to have it sell for $800 or less, though the company said it didn't know when that would be commercially feasible.
Gates said at the time that significant hardware and software advances were still needed to make the Ultramobile 2007, as the prototype was dubbed, a reality. However, he said a 1-pound, 6-inch device that combines all the power of a PC, a phone and a camera for about $800 would be possible within a couple of years.
"We do believe this is achievable," Gates told the crowd of hardware makers.
Microsoft also reportedly talked about plans for an Origami-like device at a partner conference earlier this month.
A Microsoft representative on Monday declined to offer further details on Origami. Microsoft has confirmed that a video that's been making the rounds is indeed from the software maker, though a representative said it's nearly a year old and represents only the company's "initial exploration into this form factor."
Earlier this year, a small start-up called Dualcor Technologies did announce a minitablet that seems similar to Origami, although it's aimed at businesses. That device, the cPC, uses a Via Technologies processor, has a 5-inch screen and runs Windows XP, though it also has a Windows Mobile 5 cell phone built-in.
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Industry observers note that Microsoft appears to be breaking considerable pricing ground with Origami, but they note that it's still unclear what the specific use of Origami will be, or which, if any, existing devices it will replace. There is some thought that its initial incarnation might appeal primarily to gadget aficionados, rather than mainstream consumers.
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- I hope
- I hope that I can run SQL on it
http://www.sqlservercode.blogspot.com/
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- Apple distraction
- Funny how Microsoft is always doing some distracting competing
event just coincidentally at the same time Apple announces some
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- Thought I was the only one that sees that
- But the difference is, MS product won't be shipping anytime soon, as always.
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- Thought I was the only one that sees that
- But the difference is, MS product won't be shipping anytime soon, as always.
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- Check back on Thursday...
- ...and see who's getting the most buzz then--Microsoft or Apple.
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- CNet is infested...
- CNet is totally infested with hippie Apple freakboys feverishly scanning the message boards for -any- chance to post "I love Apple! Apple so rulz!". It's getting -really- annoying. Please reserve your Crapple and iPoo comments to threads actually pertaining to them.
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- Apple?
- All I ever read is Apple users bashing everything else so why would I want to be associated with people like that? Also some of us have no need, want or desire to own Apple products so we don't care what they are announcing.
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- What's funny about it?
- MS is Apple's competitor so I don't see anything odd about them trying to steal some of Apple's thunder. Maybe if Apple had been doing the same thing 25 years ago they might have won the desktop OS war.
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- So you'd like them to wait?
- So what are they supposed to do? Wait for Apple to release their new product, and then say "Ok, now that you guys are done, it's our turn, but you can't release anything until we're done with ours. And NO GIVESIES BACKSIES!"
Maybe they're just doing it because it's the essence of competition, and that's what this country and capitalism is based on.
Mac users should be greatful to MS for doing things like this. If they didn't, they wouldn't have anything to complain about, and all they would have to do every day is sit there and click their widgets.
Seriously, Mac have their place, WinPC's have their place. Stop trying to convert everyone in the world - it's not happening, and you're all coming off like some crazed religious cult pushing your screwy beliefs on others.
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- New Apple Product
- In fact, this is the best Apple product yet. No longer will Apple fans dream of one day being united with their Macintosh computers! This new product will enable all Mac users to get acquainted with their computers like never before. What is this new product you say?
The "iPleasure" Firewire powered portable pleasure device that lets you get inside your computer like never before.
Now you can actually make love to your Mac using the iPleasure. No more dreaming. No more hoping. It has finally happened.
iPleasure users will enjoy listening to the soothing voice of Jobs while the device is giving them the Apple lovers ultimate fantasy.
Think Different...
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- Good
- It's finally time for some apple competition. Let's bring these prices down...
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- Lame.
- They should just stop right there.
This type of marketing strategy is not going to work for them.
Why? Because its so obvious they want to be 'cool'. Its even more
obvious that they're trying to be like Apple (while trying not to
look obvious). But clearly its obvious, which I find hilarious. Any
tech critic will see right through this copy cat strategy of theirs.
It won't work because their brand is really not known for being
popular (outside of IT people circles) and if it is well you must be
a 16 year old gamer who uses bit-torrent alot. For god sakes!
people use their software because they are forced to, not
because they want to and Microsoft doesn't see this. They only
see what other companies are doing, if its a money maker they
try to buy them out first, if they can't, they copy and in doing so
throw chairs halfway across the room because they realize they
actually have to work. Thats their strategy in a nutshell.
Apple on they other hand, achieved this dual popularity with the
non tech people of the world through alot of hardwork,
cultivation, ironed out the most subtle of details to achieve the
success they now currently enjoy today with their brand. It was
hard for them given their lack of popularity five years ago but
their just a hard working company and its paying off for them,
they didn't take the easy road by buying other companies they
did this internally, one employee at a time. And all eyes are on
them because of their hardwork and their attention to detail.
Conclusively, this article really is nothing but an advertorial paid
in full by MS secretly to over shadow Apple's next product event.
Its quite pathetic really. But thats MS's strategy alright, very
underhanded. Always trying to steal someone else's limelight
and pass it off as their own. Pathetic.
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- Don't mistake niche for popularity.
- The Mac, in terms of sales, is still way below Windows.
As far as distraction as a marketing strategy, most markets see this same thing. Playstation and Xbox, Pepsi and Coke, Nike and Reebok, Ford and GM, Verizon and Sprint.
Defense wins championships, and great defenses know how to minimize the gains of great offenses.
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- microsoft is copying an old idea
- warning, microsoft is venturing into a old idea redone anew. their idea is what was presented on star trek the next generation. to have a pad to view store and peruse as you see fit. what gets me, is we now have pda's and still microsoft is trying to into the hardware business big time. they best stay software or else more will come to harm them. origami is so lame as they once again try to copy an idea in principle and try to give it life.
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- I want one!
- I want an ultra-portable computer, and I want microsoft to make it what it needs to be - so that everyone else can come into the market with their version and we'll really have some interesting toys. There isn't anything new about this if it is just another ultra portable computing device as there are actually a few really compelling sub-laptop form factor units out there if you dont mind less power and more price. This is the future though, and yes it is a little like star trek; but it's about time if you ask me. Something like this should already be issued at birth.
BTW, Microsoft A) Is having a fantastic time in the hardware market - just look at X-box or all the other home appliance, device OS's, ect.. that they're involved with. B) Microsoft does not even care about Apple. In the future technology is cool, and now that we're a little more into the future and companies are realizing this they're finally starting to capitalize on it. It's a long way from unassuming beige boxes, eh?
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- Microsoft is not having a fantastic time
- "...BTW, Microsoft A) Is having a fantastic time in the hardware market - just look at X-box or all the other home appliance, device OS's, ect.. that they're involved with. B) Microsoft does not even care about Apple."
The X-Box is a huge loss leader for microsoft. That, by any stretch of the imagination is not representitive of a fantastic time in the hardware market. While much of microsoft's hardware serves as a template of what the industry need to do to fuse the hardware to the software, the X-Box is a deviation to that model and has so far been financially disasterous for Microsoft (as the PS3 is likely to be for Sony).
Microsoft does care about Apple. Several of Microsoft's top brass have been recently quoted as acknowledging Apple's elegance at fusing hardware and software technology in such as way that the complexity of the underlying technology is hidden. Microsoft does care because despite their might, they realise that future growth will only come from conqering the consumer market, and as the likes of Sony begin to falter, Apple appears to be hogging the limelight.
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- Microsoft's Unveiling the Newton?!
- Too small to be a laptop, too big to be PDA... didn't Microsoft pay
attention to Apple's hard earned lesson here? It better have
something amazing to make it stand-out.
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- Buzz on the name
- In Japanese, 'Origami' does not mean only a paper art, but also a written guarantee of something, and full mastership in either art or martial arts.
By which meaning did MS name this new gadget?
- An artistic shape?
- A guarantee of good jobs?
- A mastership in the PCdo (like Bushido)?
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- User Interface is the key
- The secret to success will be the User Interface and Usability Design. It sounds like all the features and functions of a PC, Phone, and Camera will be there. The question is will it be intuitive and easy to use. The danger with "converged devices" is that they often end up doing nothing well. They cram all the features into the device, but the User Interface is totally unusable. Cell phones do a pretty good job. Will Origami be significantly better than the Treo 700w? Or, will it be the second coming of the Apple Newton?
I wrote a blog with more details on this subject today. See http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2006/02/origami_user_in.html
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- UI will be Origami's Waterloo
- The problem: the hardware vendors are looking to
Microsoft to push the tablet. Microsoft is
looking to run Windows, desktop Windows pretty
much, on it.
Of course, the issue here is that it's not a
desktop PC, is it? Those that would be
interested have fairly specific ideas on how
they want to use it -- and the normal usage is
likely to be much different. The UI should be
clear and uncluttered with most interaction
being done through touch (finger, not stylus)
gestures. The UI needs to be designed around the
type of interaction one would expect to have
with it.
It's simply not enough to run Windows on a flat
computer and have something that sort of works.
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- I don't see any other companies stepping up to the plate?
- Apple has a mp3 player big deal
where are the other companies besides Microsoft that are pushing for futuristic interfaces?
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- Once bitten, twice shy.
- I don't know that Microsoft is pushing for
futuristic interfaces. Namely, they are pushing
for Windows interfaces. A lot of the UI elements
that they are using they've borrowed from recent
Mac and Linux developments, or simply expanded
slightly on what they already have.
As far as tablet PCs go, they are expensive to
put together and there's plenty of precedent for
really awful sales. Hardware vendors don't want
to get burned again by this stuff. They want to
know there's a market for it and they'll sell.
Mirosoft can push enough cash to at least try
and get it to float, but if MS is the only
player, it's likely to tank.
http://www.freedesktop.org/~davidr/xgl-demo1.xvid.avi
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- freegami.org with 300 people claiming they put Linux on it and made it totally better.
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- A tool for the classroom?
- A few years ago (4 or 5) I met with a representative from the Microsoft Education Solutions Group and discussed the need for an ultra-protable computer for the K-12 education market. Kids walking around with 40 pound backpacks full of books could carry such a device and have all the info they need. That was a long time ago, and at the time the rep said, "we are working on that..." and gave me the "you have been disclosed" look.
I think that Origami could be the device that we could put in the hands of kids to replace text books...but of course Nick Negreponte and his $100 laptop (if it works out) would blow MS's $800 price point out of the water.
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- I want one
- This reminds me of the devices used on Star Trek to control just about everything. If so Im going to buy one on the first day.
Very exciting - Microsoft yet again introduces a new form factor.
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- Do to the Treo what Treo did to my Thinkpad:)
- I say that becuase since getting a Treo I have reduced the amount of traveling with my notebook to almost zero. That said, it is not ideal and to have a middle ground device could be interesting.
Especially on airplanes.
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- Can MS do a modern Newton but better?
- Imagine a device that is a cross between a PDA, a PC and an iPod... touch screen runs all of your favourite web services (since that is where most productivity apps will be in the future) and widgets (OS based utilities), your music, your video, and conects to everything via ethernet or wirelessly. Can mirror it's screen on many devices, and eventually will display a holographic image of it screen (don't laugh they already have this stuff commercially available and new LED technology will make it happen fairly soon). Most people are used to carrying something with them now - a phone, a PDA athey're keys, sunnies and wallet. Most business people carry a laptop or notebook or at least a PDA. It really isn't too far from everyone carrying their own 'terminal' and simply sitting down and using the screens supplied at the company they work for or visit, or Internet kiosk, Starbucks, etc.
And since the adoption of these devices will more likely be driven by services and content than by what OS and what hardware manufacturer it is, the best consumer device/service packages will win out - hence Apple/Nokia/Motorola/Sony with Google in the mix if they bring out a range of linux based desktop and web tools along with they're search , map, calendar, etc.
So let's see what you've got Microsoft. Is it going to be a player or another half-baked attempt? Unlike other industries you don't have the luxury of control, time or market share so it's going to have to actually perform, look good and be reliable, stable, secure. and connected (Nokia and Motorola aren't going to hook it up for you).
I think that another poster who made the comment that Apple will probably beat them to the punch is correct. Even if they don't beat them to the punch they will probably bring out the right combination of hardware, services and content that wins the day for them. I loved the Newton but it was ahead of it's time by 10 years. But Apple has shown with the iPod that they can get it right with consumer devices and they're going touch screen and phone connection next so look out MS.
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- What about Daupin?
- Surely I am not the only one who had one of these, or even remembers them.
Great little computer, smaller than a laptop, was also pen based, ran Windows. About the size of what Bill is talking about.
google dauphin computer
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- It's 03.02.05.....
- ..... and Origami has failed to show up..... unless we need to wait
for Redmond to wake up.
is NS always 3 hours behind the rest of us?
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- Cool, but different?
- There are already some devices out there like this.
Will it be better than the OQO or the cPC?
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A conversation I had Wednesday morning with a friend went like this.
Friend: "Where is that plane?" Me: "I don't know.
Friend: "Well, there's only one reasonable explanation."
Me: "Really, what?"
Friend: "It was abducted by aliens. It has to have been. Planes that big don't just vanish into thin air!"
Isn't it crazy that THIS is the conversation we are having? Since when has "alien abduction" and "reasonable explanation" gone together? Since now.
According to the Wall Street Journal, intelligence officials are not ruling out the possibility that the plane was hijacked and taken by terrorists to use for another purpose.
Sit with that for a minute and your imagination will run wild.
I don't even read mystery novels, and I can come up with some very unpleasant storylines. Hostages? What becomes of them? Where does one land and HIDE a Boeing 777? And what might a terrorist do with one?
The fact that there is so LITTLE information about the whereabouts of this plane and what little we know is coming out so slowly might be the most frustrating part of the whole story.
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Sprint has a card for laptops that lets you use their PCS Vision from anywhere a Sprint cel phone will work. Speed is supposed to be about twice that of a modem. It's not cheap but enables access from pratically anywhere. Personally, I use a Treo Palm/cel phone. I have access to corporate email, web browsing, TN5250, etc. While it doesn't really replace my laptop, it'll due if I'm out of the office for a couple of days. Battery life is the biggest concern. -----Original Message----- From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 10:50 AM To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Subject: RE: COMMON at Gaylord Palm, Orlando Never use the calling cards from your room - they do charge for that. Some hotels even block all 800 numbers registered to calling card companies. I had a gas station pay phone which blocked both 800-call-att and whatever the number was for MCI. Have you heard of a cell phone? However I can see your modem concerns. Rob Berendt -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
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By: The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Eight World War II Navajo Code Talkers from New Mexico are scheduled to participate in the New York City Veterans Day Parade.
Southwest Airlines is flying the veterans Friday to New York so the men can take part in the Sunday parade.
Officials say before leaving Albuquerque the Navajo Code Talkers will interact with customers in a Sunport gate and during the flight to share their history.
The Code Talkers sent thousands of messages without error on Japanese troop movements, battlefield tactics and other communications, in World War II.
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"I wanted to have more power at my fingertips, especially if it's needed for a race," Wilbur says. To that end, he and Lewis selected a Nitrous Express wet-plate system capable of 200 additional horsepower, backed by an MSD digital controller to keep tabs on timing and solenoid activation. Although the unit came with stamped brackets, RevXtreme installed it with custom-fabricated billet-aluminum solenoid brackets to preserve "a quality look" under the hood.
Tuning was performed by RevXtreme's Matt Kesatie. "We started with a base tune file we had already developed for similar builds, so we could have a safe base for initial startup," Lewis says. "From there it was pretty straightforward as we progressed up the rpm range with a conservative tune that would not push the limits. The air/fuel on this car is a flat 12.8:1, and max timing is between 30 and 26 degrees, depending on rpm and engine load. The nitrous controller takes care of the timing automatically when activated, so no second nitrous tune is needed."
To handle the much-improved horsepower, RevXtreme upgraded the Vette's suspension with Pfadt Race Engineering components. "Greg has the Pfadt Aggressor I suspension package, which includes our adjustable coilovers and Competition 'Pfatty' sway bars," says company co-owner Robbin Pfadt. "The Pfadt coilovers are perfect for a car like this because the increase in spring rate makes it more planted in all driving conditions and helps put the horsepower to the pavement. They also offer adjustable damping, so they can be easily tuned with the click of a knob for a variety of conditions.
"The Pfatty sway bars provide more than two times the stiffness of the Z06 units," Pfadt continues. "This makes the car flatter in turns and gives that 'corners like it's on rails' feeling. The reduced body roll also translates into increased responsiveness from the steering wheel. Additionally, the Pfadt bars make the car more neutral in turns, while still allowing excellent traction on corner exit. This is extremely important in real-world situations, like when you want a stable rearend when powering through an off-ramp."
All other mechanical systems on this Vette remain stock, including its T6060 six-speed trans, 3.42 rear gears, and braking system.
Dyno testing followed the project's completion. "Our testing with heads, cam, and tune resulted in 546 rwhp. When we added the nitrous system, the numbers shot up to 750 hp," Lewis says. In comparison, a stock C6 Z06 will typically pull about 450 hp at the rear wheels.
What's it like to drive a 750hp road rocket on the street? "It takes mad discipline to keep this Corvette at the speed limit," Wilbur says. "It always wants to give me more power, no matter what speed I'm traveling at and no matter what gear I'm in. Next time I see that GT, it's going to be crushed."
So here's a friendly warning to VETTE readers: If you find yourself in Clearwater, Florida, and you glance over and see the subtle look of ghost flames reflecting off the front fenders of an '06 Le Mans Blue Z, think twice before you race it. It just might be Greg Wilbur's modified Z, and the only thing it wants to eat is-you guessed it-you!


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The Nairobi Securities Exchange has today launched the Growth Enterprise Market Segment to enable Small and medium sized companies list and even raise capital at the NSE.
SMEs need to among others be registered, have 10 million shillings minimum capital and no profitability record is required.
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BRAIN connections that encourage the formation of false memories have been identified. Such memories appear to be more likely in people with high-quality links between neurons in a particular brain area.
Individuals often recall the same events differently or report memories of things they should have been too young to recall. To find out if a tendency to manufacture false memories is reflected in brain structure, Lluis Fuentemilla at the University of Barcelona in Spain and colleagues induced them in 48 students in the lab.
The participants were asked to read four lists of 14 semantically related words, in which each list had an absent "lure" word. For example, a list including "seat", "sofa", "table" and "stool" had "chair" as its lure.
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Yeah, I thought it would be pretty straight forward myself.
In my (admittedly limited) experience with recovery disks, the process went
something like this:
1) Put bootable CD into CD drive or floppy into fd0
2) Wait for LILO boot:
3) Type 'linux single root=/dev/hda1 initrd=' (the 'initrd=' is to prevent a
ramdisk from being loaded).
4) Watch all the pretty boot messages. When the login: prompt appears, log
in as root.
5) Edit /etc/lilo.conf, make sure the default boot is /dev/hda1, run lilo.
6) Reboot without any disks in the removable drives.
Things that have gotten me before would be forgetting to set the hard drive
to master (not a problem here, since both drives had been master), passing
the wrong partition using root=, and forgetting about initrd= and having an
initial ramdisk load...
I guess, if this process doesn't work, I'm out of ideas... Anyone else
wanna give it a go?
-- Geoffrey
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> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Geoffrey Herteg wrote:
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> /dev/hda6 /mnt/old_box/home
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> /dev/hda5 /mp3
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Palm Top Theater Exhibition
In the context of the IFFR "Palm Top Theater" was launched. For this exhibition, curated by Maki Ueda, more than 25 artworks were realized for this immersive cinema device.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has brought cinema to the large screen. We think that the intimacy of small mobile screens are giving new impulses to the cinematic experience. V2_ will present a series of films and animations small enough to watch in the palm of your hand.
Acquaint yourself with a new 3D film experience on the iPod or iPad at the Palm Top Theater exhibition. V2_ initiated a workshop for students and artists to generate new artworks for this intimate 3D environment. Experiments with space and interaction will form the heart of the exhibition.
Visitors will experience film and animation in a way that is strikingly similar to pre-cinema, when watching a moving image was an intimate and individual experience. At the same time, the Palm Top Theater will offer a glimpse of a cinema of the future in which the developments in mobile communication technology and the changing roles of users and producers will have a profound effect on the future of cinema.
Guest curator:
Maki Ueda
New artworks for the Palm Top Theater exhibition are being developed by artists Joost Rekveld (NL), Geert Mul (NL), Lia (AT), Arno Coenen (NL), and FoAM (BE) together with Performing Pictures (SE).
Thanks very much to our workshop leaders: Kasper van der Horst and Denise Pakes. The participating artists: Emmanuel Flores Elías, John Fanning, Pablo Dias / Luciano Leite Barbosa, Ronald Schelfhout, yy / Tom Laan, Robert Pravda / Peter Max, Bonne Knibbe, Shihui, Ludmila Rodrigues, Amelia Kaczyńska, Klararavat, Andre Cavalheiro, Yolanda Uriz.
Credits: Jitsuro Mase, Tom Nagae (JP) / DIRECTIONS Inc.
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Note: the site can only be viewed on iPhones/iPod Touch devices.
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|Homer Collyer
Homer Collyer, 1939, arguing with police officers
|Homer Lusk Collyer
November 6, 1881
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
|March 21, 1947
(aged 65)
Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Cause of death
|Starvation and heart disease
Resting place
|Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn
|Alma mater
|College of the City of New York
Columbia University
|Langley Collyer
Langley Collyer (right) with attorney, 1946
|Langley Wakeman Collyer
October 3, 1885
Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
|c. March 9, 1947 (aged 61)
Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
Cause of death
Resting place
|Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn
|Alma mater
|Columbia University
|Collyer Brothers Park
|Pocket Park
|2078 Fifth Avenue
|Nearest city
|New York, New York
|1,500 square feet (140 m2)[1]
Homer Lusk Collyer (November 6, 1881 – March 21, 1947) and Langley Wakeman Collyer (October 3, 1885 – c. March 9, 1947), known as the Collyer brothers, were two American brothers who became famous because of their bizarre natures and compulsive hoarding. For decades, the two lived in seclusion in their Harlem brownstone at 2078 Fifth Avenue (at the corner of 128th Street) where they obsessively collected books, furniture, musical instruments, and many other items, with booby traps set up in corridors and doorways to ensnare intruders. In March 1947, both were found dead in their home surrounded by over 140 tons of collected items that they had amassed over several decades.[2]
Since the 1960s, the site of the former Collyer house has been a pocket park, named for the brothers.[3][4]
The Collyer brothers were sons of Herman Livingston Collyer (1857–1923), a Manhattan gynecologist who worked at Bellevue Hospital, and his first cousin,[5] Susie Gage Frost (1856–1929), a former opera singer. The brothers would later claim that their ancestors had traveled to America from England on the Speedwell, the ship that arrived in Massachusetts a week after the Mayflower in 1620.[6] The Collyers' mother was descended from the Livingston family, a New York family with roots going back to the 18th century. Robert Livingston was the first of the Livingston family to emigrate to America in 1672 – fifty-two years after the Mayflower.[7] The couple had a daughter, Susan, in 1880, who died at four months old.[5][8] The following year, on November 6, 1881, they had their first son, Homer Lusk. Their second son Langley Wakeman was born in 1885.[5] At that time, the couple were living in a tenement while Herman Collyer interned at Bellevue. As a child, Homer attended PS (Public School) 69. At the age of fourteen, he was accepted to the College of the City of New York as a "sub-freshman", earning his bachelor's degree six years later.[5]
Both Homer and Langley attended Columbia University, which had just relocated to its present-day Morningside Heights campus. Homer obtained a degree in admiralty law, while Langley studied engineering and chemistry.[7][9] Langley was also an accomplished concert pianist; he played professionally for a time and performed at Carnegie Hall.[10] Langley was also a layman of the Trinity Church where the family had been parishioners since 1697.[11]
In 1909, Dr. Herman Collyer moved the family into a four-story brownstone in Harlem at 2078 Fifth Avenue. Dr. Collyer was known to be eccentric himself, and was said to frequently paddle down the East River in a canoe to the City Hospital on Blackwell's Island, where he occasionally worked, and then to carry the canoe back to his home in Harlem after he came ashore on Manhattan Island.[10] Around 1919, Dr. Collyer and Susie Collyer separated. Dr. Collyer moved to a new home at 153 West 77th Street while Susie Collyer stayed in the Harlem brownstone. Homer and Langley, who had never married or lived on their own, chose to remain with their mother. Dr. Collyer died in 1923 leaving his sons all of his possessions, including items from his medical practice, which they brought to their home in Harlem. Susie Collyer died in 1929 leaving the brothers all her possessions and the Harlem brownstone.[12]
After their parents' deaths, the Collyer brothers continued to live together in the Harlem brownstone they inherited from their mother. They socialized and left their home on a regular basis. Homer continued to practice law while Langley worked as a piano dealer.[13] Both also taught Sunday school at the Trinity Church.[14] In 1933, Homer lost his eyesight due to hemorrhages in the back of his eyes. Langley quit his job to care for his brother and the two began to withdraw from society.[13] As time progressed, the brothers became fearful due to changes in the neighborhood; the largely upper-class area experienced the effects of the Great Depression as poverty and subsequent crime increased. The brothers were also uncomfortable with the shift in racial demographics, as more African Americans moved into the once empty apartment houses that were built near a projected subway route.[15][16] When later asked why the two chose to shut themselves off from the world, Langley Collyer replied, "We don't want to be bothered."[17] As rumors about the brothers' unconventional lifestyle spread throughout Harlem, crowds began to congregate outside their home. The attention caused the brothers' fears to increase along with their eccentricities. After teenagers threw rocks at their windows they boarded them up and wired the doors shut.[13][18] After a number of attempted burglaries due to unfounded rumors that the brothers' home contained valuables and large sums of money, Langley set about using his engineering skills to set up booby traps and tunnels among the collection of items and trash that filled the house.[5][19] The house soon became a maze of boxes, complicated tunnel systems consisting of junk and trash rigged with trip wires. Homer and Langley Collyer lived in "nests" created amongst the debris that was piled to the ceiling.[17]
Langley spent the majority of his time tinkering with various inventions, such as a device to vacuum the insides of pianos and a Model T Ford adapted to generate electricity. He also cared for his brother Homer. Langley later told a reporter that he fed and bathed his brother, read him classic literature as he could no longer see and played piano sonatas for him.[17] He also tended to Homer's health and was determined to cure his brother's physical ailments through "diet and rest".[13] Langley concocted a diet for his brother consisting of one hundred oranges a week, black bread, and peanut butter, claiming that this regimen was curing Homer's blindness.[20][21] After Homer became paralyzed due to inflammatory rheumatism, he refused to seek professional medical treatment because both brothers distrusted doctors. The brothers feared that if Homer sought medical attention, doctors would cut his optic nerve, leaving him permanently blind, and give him drugs that would certainly hasten his death. Langley Collyer later told a reporter, "You must remember that we are the sons of a doctor. We have a medical library of 15,000 books in the house. We decided we would not call in any doctors. You see, we knew too much about medicine."[13]
Langley began venturing out of the house only after midnight and would walk miles all over the city to get food, sometimes going as far as Williamsburg, Brooklyn to buy as little as a loaf of bread. He would also pick food out of the garbage and collect food that was going to be thrown out by grocers and butchers to bring back to his brother Homer.[22] He also collected countless pieces of abandoned items and trash that aroused his interest.
By the early 1930s, the Collyer brothers' brownstone had fallen into disrepair. Their telephone was disconnected in 1917 and never reconnected as the brothers said they had no one to talk to. Because the brothers failed to pay their bills, the electricity, water, and gas were turned off in 1928.[5] The brothers took to warming the large house using only a small kerosene heater. For a time, Langley attempted to generate electricity by means of a car engine. Langley would fetch their water from a pump in nearby parks.[21] Their only link to the outside world was via a crystal radio that Langley made.[13][19]
Neighbors and shopkeepers in the area described Langley Collyer as a generally polite and rational man but added that he was "crazy".[23] A reporter who interviewed Langley in 1942 described him as a "soft spoken old gentleman with a liking for privacy" who spoke in a "low, polite and cultivated voice."[13] His appearance was disheveled; he sported a droopy mustache, wore a 1910 boating cap and his tattered clothes were held together by pins.[23] While Langley Collyer ventured out of the home and occasionally interacted with other people, Homer had not been seen or heard from since he went blind and retreated from the world in 1933. Langley was fiercely protective of Homer and would not allow anyone to see or speak to him. When he caught neighbors attempting to peek into their windows from a neighboring home, Langley bought the property for $7,500 cash. When a small fire broke out in the home in 1941, Langley refused to let firemen who put out the fire see or speak to his brother.[18]
In 1932, shortly before Homer Collyer went blind, he purchased the property across the street from their house at 2077 Fifth Avenue, with the intent of developing it by putting up an apartment building. But after the onset of his blindness, any plans of profit from the real estate venture ended.[24] Since the Collyer brothers never paid any of their bills and stopped paying income taxes in 1931, the property was repossessed by the City of New York in 1943 to pay the $1,900 in back income taxes that the Collyers owed the city.[25] Langley protested the repossession of their property, saying that since they had no income, they should not have to pay income taxes.[26]
While rumors and legends abounded in Harlem about the brothers,[27] they came to wider attention when, in 1938, a story about their refusal to sell their home to a real estate agent for $125,000 appeared in The New York Times.[18] The Times repeated information about the brothers' hoarding and also repeated neighborhood rumors that the brothers lived in some sort of "Orientalist splendor" and were sitting on vast piles of cash, afraid to deposit it in a bank.[28] Neither rumor was true; the brothers were certainly not insolvent, although eventually they would have been, since neither of them had worked for decades.
After The New York Times story ran, Helen Worden, a reporter from New York World-Telegram, became interested in the brothers and interviewed Langley Collyer (Worden would release a book about the brothers in 1954). Langley told Worden that he stopped playing piano professionally after performing at Carnegie Hall because, "Paderewski followed me. He got better notices than I. What was the use of going on?" Langley explained that he dressed in shabby clothing because, "They would rob me if I didn't."[12]
The Collyer brothers made the news again when, in 1939, workers from Consolidated Edison forced their way into the house to remove two gas meters that had been shut off in 1928.[27] The incident reportedly drew a crowd of a thousand curious onlookers.[12] The brothers drew media attention again in August 1942 when the Bowery Savings Bank threatened to evict the Collyers for failing to pay their mortgage for three years.[29] That same year, the New York Herald Tribune interviewed Langley. In response to a query about the bundles of newspapers that were kept in the brothers' home, Langley replied, "I am saving newspapers for Homer, so that when he regains his sight he can catch up on the news."[30]
In November 1942, the Bowery Savings Bank began eviction procedures and sent a cleanup crew to the home. Langley began yelling at the workers prompting the neighbors to summon the police. When the police attempted to force their way into the home by smashing down the front door, they were stymied by a sheer wall of junk piled from floor to ceiling. They found Langley Collyer in a clearing he had made in the middle of the debris.[17] Without comment, Langley made out a check for $6,700 (2015 equivalent of $96,707)[31], paying off the mortgage in full in a single payment.[32] He then ordered everyone off the premises, and withdrew from outside scrutiny once more, emerging only at night when he wanted to file criminal complaints against intruders, get food or collect items that piqued his interest.[17]
On March 21, 1947, an anonymous tipster who identified himself only as "Charles Smith" phoned the 122nd Police Precinct and insisted there was a dead body in the house.[23][33] The caller claimed that the smell of decomposition was emanating from the house.[21] As the police were used to calls from neighbors about the Collyer brothers' home, a patrol officer was dispatched. The responding officer initially had a difficult time getting into the house. There was no doorbell or telephone and the doors were locked; and though the basement windows were broken, they were protected by iron grillwork.[20] An emergency squad of seven men eventually had no choice but to begin pulling out all of the junk that was blocking their way and throwing it out onto the street below. The brownstone's foyer was packed solid by a wall of old newspapers, folding beds and chairs, half a sewing machine, boxes, parts of a wine press, and numerous other pieces of junk. A patrolman finally broke in through a window into a second-story bedroom. Behind this window lay, among other things, more packages and newspaper bundles, empty cardboard boxes lashed together with rope, the frame of a baby carriage, a rake, and old umbrellas tied together. After five hours of digging, Homer Collyer's body was found in an alcove surrounded by filled boxes and newspapers that were piled to the ceiling.[19] Homer was wearing a tattered blue-and-white bathrobe, his matted, grey hair reached his shoulders, and his head was resting on his knees.[34]
The medical examiner confirmed Homer's identity and said that the elder brother had been dead for approximately ten hours.[34] According to the medical examiner, Homer died from starvation and heart disease.[35] Police initially suspected that Langley Collyer was the man who phoned in the anonymous tip regarding his brother's death and theorized that he fled the house before police arrived (it was later discovered that a neighbor called police based on a rumor he heard).[22] A police officer was posted outside the home to wait for Langley but he never arrived.[19] Police began to suspect that Langley was dead when he failed to attend Homer's funeral held on April 1.[22][36]
On March 30, false rumors circulated that Langley had been seen aboard a bus heading for Atlantic City. A manhunt along the New Jersey shore turned up nothing. Reports of Langley sightings led police to a total of nine states.[37] The police continued searching the house two days later, removing 3,000 books, several outdated phone books, a horse's jawbone, a Steinway piano, an early X-ray machine, and more bundles of newspapers.[38] More than nineteen tons of junk was removed from the ground floor of the brownstone. The police continued to clear away the brothers' stockpile for another week, removing another eighty-four tons of rubbish from the house. Although a good deal of the junk came from their father's medical practice, a considerable portion was discarded items collected by Langley over the years. Approximately 2,000 people stood outside the home to watch the clean-up effort.[12]
On April 8, 1947, a workman found the body of Langley Collyer ten feet from where Homer had died.[39] Langley was found in a two-foot (60 cm) wide tunnel lined with rusty bed springs and a chest of drawers. His decomposing body, which was the actual source of the smell reported by the anonymous tipster, had been partially eaten by rats[21][40][41] and was covered by a suitcase, bundles of newspapers and three metal bread boxes.[39] The medical examiner determined that Langley had died around March 9.[35] Police theorized that Langley was crawling through the tunnel to bring food to his paralyzed brother when he inadvertently tripped a booby trap he had created and was crushed by debris.[42] His cause of death was attributed to asphyxiation.[35]
Both brothers were buried next to their parents in unmarked graves at Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn.[43][3]
Police and workmen removed approximately 120 tons of debris and junk from the Collyer brownstone.[39] Items were removed from the house such as baby carriages, a doll carriage, rusted bicycles, old food, potato peelers, a collection of guns, glass chandeliers, bowling balls, camera equipment, the folding top of a horse-drawn carriage, a sawhorse, three dressmaking dummies, painted portraits, photos of pinup girls from the early 1900s, plaster busts, Mrs. Collyer's hope chests, rusty bed springs, the kerosene stove, a child's chair (the brothers were lifelong bachelors and childless), more than 25,000 books (including thousands about medicine and engineering and more than 2,500 on law), human organs pickled in jars,[21] eight live cats, the chassis of the old Model T with which Langley had been tinkering, tapestries, hundreds of yards of unused silks and other fabrics, clocks, fourteen pianos (both grand and upright),[39] a clavichord, two organs, banjos, violins, bugles, accordions, a gramophone and records, and countless bundles of newspapers and magazines, some of them decades old, and thousands of bottles and tin cans and a great deal of garbage.[23][44] Near the spot where Homer had died, police also found 34 bank account passbooks, with a total of $3,007 (about $36,366 as of 2015).[31][45]
Some of the more unusual items found in the home were exhibited at Hubert's Dime Museum, where they were featured alongside Human Marvels and sideshow performers. The centerpiece of this display was the chair in which Homer Collyer had died. The Collyer chair passed into the hands of private collectors upon being removed from public exhibit in 1956.
The house itself, having long gone without maintenance, was decaying: the roof leaked and some walls had caved in, showering bricks and mortar on the rooms below. The house was deemed "unsafe and [a] fire hazard" in July 1947 and was razed later that month.[46][47]
Most of the items found in the Collyer brothers' house were deemed worthless and were disposed of. The salvageable items fetched less than $2,000 at auction;[47] the cumulative estate of the Collyer brothers was valued at $91,000 (about $1,100,541 as of 2015[31]), of which $20,000 worth was personal property (jewelry, cash, securities, and the like).[48] Fifty-six people, mostly first and second cousins, made claims for the estate. A Pittsburgh woman named Ella Davis claimed to be the long lost sister of the Collyers'.[49] Davis' claim was dismissed after she failed to provide a birth certificate to prove her identity (years earlier, Davis claimed she was the widow of Peter Liebach, another wealthy recluse, from Pittsburgh, who was found murdered in 1937).[50] In October 1952, the New York County court decided that twenty-three of the claimants were to split the estate equally.[49]
A Collyer's Mansion (also Collyer Mansion or just Collyer) is a modern firefighting term for a dwelling of hoarders that is so filled with trash and debris it becomes a serious danger to the occupants and emergency responders.[51]
The Spirit story "Hangly Hollyer Mansion" (#369, published 27 June 1947) is loosely based on the Collyer story.[citation needed]
The Collyer brothers' story was first directly fictionalized by Marcia Davenport in her novel, My Brother's Keeper (Scribners, 1954), reprinted as a Popular Library paperback.[52]
The 1995 movie Unstrung Heroes features two uncles whose lifestyle and apartment are a direct homage to the Collyer brothers. The film was based on a 1991 memoir by Franz Lidz, whose 2003 urban historical Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders: An Urban Historical (published by Bloomsbury USA) is the definitive history of the Collyers. Ghosty Men also chronicles the parallel life of Arthur Lidz, the hermit uncle featured in Unstrung Heroes. Uncle Arthur grew up near the Collyer mansion and was inspired by the brothers.[53]
In Season 6, Episode 17 of the sitcom Frasier, Martin likened the cloistered togetherness of Frasier and Niles to that of the Collyer brothers.
In the 1955-56 "Classic 39" season of the Honeymooners, affable neighbor "Ed Norton", chiding "Ralph Kramden" for his thriftiness, quips "Congratulations on that 93 cent gas bill, Ralph . . . You broke the all-time, low gas bill record, set by the Collyer Brothers in 1931!"
In September 2009, Random House published E. L. Doctorow's Homer & Langley, a work of historical fiction that speculates on the brothers' inner lives.[54] Taking considerable historical liberties, the novel extends their lifespans into the late 1970s and switches the brothers' birth order.[55]
In 2003, Australian writer-director David Willing and writer-producer Jessica Birnbaum made a 19-minute short film titled Collyer Brothers Syndrome. It screened twice on the Australian Broadcast Network SBS and at several film festivals.
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I'm getting ready for a lot of company this month. You know what that means, lots of cleaning. I've been going through closets,cleaning the baseboards and reorganizing. As we all know when we do that(especially if it's been a while) we stumble upon unexpected treasures, items we've forgotten about. I came upon this canvas photo that I made 5 years ago. I lived in another city then and in the moved … [Read more...]
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After reading DK Wrestling Savior's blog entitled "The State of Wrestling...Is the End Near?" I began to think about how the 'upcoming' Rock vs. Cena match at Mania. Many people are comparing this to the epic Rock vs. Hogan match from 'Mania 18, however there are some glaring differences that I can see, but for now I am going to concentrate on what I consider to be the greatest. The lack
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Discovering Palmer's Kent
14 Jun 2014 – 23 Aug 2014
Cost of entry
Admission Free
- Maidstone Road
- Paddock Wood
- Paddock Wood, Kent
- United Kingdom
- www.mascallsgallery.org
Samuel Palmer, Graham Sutherland and Paul Drury
AboutWhen a small etching by Samuel Palmer was brought into the art studios at Goldsmiths College of Art in 1924 it sparked a mini revolt in the etching department. The densely worked surface of Palmer's print was in almost direct opposition to the current trends. Two of the students, Graham Sutherland and Paul Drury, were so excited by the print that they set about discovering all that they could about Samuel Palmer. They embarked on a series of outings to the Kent countryside exploring and drawing the landscape that had so inspired Palmer. Drawn to the quality of the Kent light and the rural way of life, they produced a body of exquisite etchings directly influenced by their admiration of Palmer's visionary work. Ninety years on, the three artists' enlightened responses to nature, and their idyllic view of the English countryside still have the power to enthrall. The exhibition will include a previously unknown Sutherland etching and the first showing of sketches, plates and prints of unfinished works by Paul Drury.
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Officials, advocates hope state ban on e-cigs curbs rising use among kids
PHOENIX - With electronic cigarettes increasingly popular among children nationally, officials and advocates hope a new Arizona law banning sales to those under 18 will pay dividends here.
A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said e-cigarette use among high school students rose from 1.5 percent in 2011 to 2.8 percent in 2012.
Dr. Sara Bode, a member of Arizona's chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said the law that took effect in September sends an important message that e-cigarettes still deliver nicotine that impairs memory and can lead to cigarette smoking and other addictions.
"Sometimes even just passing the legislation, regardless of what may come of it, is enough to draw attention to the issue, and that's part of what we need," Bode said.
E-cigarettes look similar to an ink pen and create a vapor by warming a nicotine-liquid with a small battery-powered heating element, creating a vapor that's inhaled.
The Arizona Attorney General's Office's Counter Strike program, which uses youth volunteers to identify stores selling tobacco products to minors, has expanded its efforts to include e-cigarettes, said Erika Mansur, an assistant attorney general.
So far, 12 retailers have been fined for selling e-cigarettes to the minors, while another eight have been fined for selling minors e-hookah, another device that vaporizes nicotine, Mansur said.
While the typical rate for stores selling tobacco products to Counter Strike participants is 15 to 18 percent, so far the rate is about 50 percent for selling e-cigarettes, she said.
"We are concerned that the fail rate is so high, so we want to improve that by continuing to inspect and to also educate the retailers," Mansur said.
Leslie Bloom, chief executive of Arizona's Partnership for a Drug-Free America, said that law or no law parents need to understand the risk of nicotine in e-cigarettes and talk with their kids.
"Having that conversation with your child has been shown to prevent up to 50 percent of kids from using drugs, including nicotine and electronic cigarettes," she said.
In September, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne and 39 other attorneys general sent a letter asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to expand to e-cigarettes the current prohibition on advertising and marketing tobacco products to youth.
Bode, the pediatrician, called addressing marketing to youth a logical next step because teenagers are a vulnerable population when it comes to e-cigarettes.
"E-cigarettes shouldn't be marketed the way they are," Bode said. "They shouldn't be marketed as a safe alternative to smoking."


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What I would do different
- My daughter bumped me as I was typing my first response . I wanted to say what I would do Different - wether it would change anything only god knows . First if the breeder says they have their shots - I honestly would not believe them , the very moment that pup is in hand you get their shots . When it's time for the boosters. - do not cancel or reschedule the appointment - do not put it off . . The moment your pup starts acting depressed or not interested , has vomit something is wrong. Do not wait -every second counts with this virus . take them to the vet the moment you can get in their door . If I could do it over I would leave our beautiful cupcake at the vet. - no matter how detected you are / It seems having them on IV gives them a better chance , I was over confident I could save her and I was so wrong. If I could do it over I would max that card out in a second to hold her again. .
- —Guest Mother to cupcake
Our beautiful
- Our sweet red heeler - corgi mix . Started acting lethargic and vomiting on Thursday . I took her to the vet that Thursday morning and it was confirmed she had parvo . To leave her there would be around $800 ,I would have to max a credit card just to pay the bill . I did research in line and there was so many who saved their pup by being vigilant and giving their pet contestant fluid . I figured I was one of those people - So we came home with antibiotics and anti vomiting meds, plus the shots she got at the vet. - I was so optimistic . I feed her pedi lite every 15 to 30 minutes and gave her the medicine she got from the vet . Our cupcake went down hill very fast -the virus ravaged her body she went from a happy beautiful pup Wednesday to dying in my arms on Friday night . It was heart breaking and very painful death for her .
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9 Month Old Sharpe/German Shep. Mix
- My Sohpi had all of her shots including the Fourth booster when she was little. We went to the nearest dog park, as was our custom on sunny afternoons, and a woman brought a pack of dogs from her rescue. 10 days later Sophi puked up her dinner and was very lethargic. Alarmed, I refused to wait a single night. I took her to the 24 vet and they diagonsed her with Parvo. The vet was very bleak when assessing her chances. The only ray of hope he offered was the fact that she'd had all of her shots and was a little older. We paid $70 for the exam, $55 for the Parvo test, and over $100 for an anti nausea and antibiotic shot. We took her home and fed her 6 10 mm doses of Gatorade every two hours. Even getting up twice in the night to give her liquid. After about 24 hours she perked up almost to her normal self. She still has diarrhea but no vomit since that first night. I am not thinking she is out of the woods yet but I think that catching it AS SOON as she started showing symptoms saved her
- —Guest Sohpi's Mama
In God's Hands
- All I can say is this is a nightmare! My puppy has been fighting for 4 long days... It's been horrible :( but he is a fighter, and I won't give up on him. I'm so worried! :'( I hope he gets better! God help us.
- —Guest YGO
Please pray for Bella
- Our beautiful 9 month old staffy Bella was diagnosed with parvo on Monday I noticed she wasn't eating and Definately wasn't being herself I got her to the vet 6:30pm Monday night they diagnosed her with parvo. She wasn't very sick at that stage by the next day she was getting worse the vomiting and diarrea started by Wednesday the vet called and said she wasn't looking very well at all and said there was a blood transfusion type thing they could try which would cost $330 which we said Definately try anything you can to save our baby girl. By Thursday her temp had come down a bit but still very lethargic and unwell today is Friday she is still fighting! This morning her temp was normal an she was holding her head up by herself but still vomiting and diarrea with little bit of blood. I thought we got her there On time to make a speedy recovery but so far its been 4 heart wrenching days & 5 nights, I can't do anything I'm so distraughtfor my Bella girl. I pray for good news in the morning
- —Guest Feeling broken
Apollo-American Bulldog Pup
- My heart is breaking as I read all of your responses, so I am sending my prayers out to everyone who has lost their pet and hope for all the recovering puppies. We purchased our, Apollo, in MI on Thurs (3/6/14) he is 9 weeks old. During our travel from MI to TX, Apollo refused food/water and began vomitting/diarrhea. We assumed it was from the traveling. He arrived in TX this past Saturday at 6pm. By 9pm, he was hospitalized. The hospitalization for the weekend was $1200. He is still in the hospital, with a low white blood cell count, no vomitting, but still loose, bloody, stool. I pray he gets better soon...it's costing us $450 a day to keep him there. The Vet says he'll probably need another 4days, which we cannot afford. Please keep, Apollo in your prayers and I will do the same for all your Fur Babies.
- —Guest MzWood
Max the rescue pup
- I rescued a 6 month old pup from the shelter. He was already riddled with demodex mange and 4 days after getting out he fell very ill. Stopped eating or drinking and was very listless. Took him to the vet and he tested positive for parvo. He stayed there for 8 days and I've had him home for 3. He is eating but not drinking very much on his own. (I have to mix in his water with his food to get him to take in fluids.) Hopeful the worst will be behind him and he will get stronger ever day. He was already underweight and the virus took a toll on his body. I can now see every bone in his little body. He will have a long road to full recovery as I am trying to support him recovering from Parvo, Demodex, and now being emaciated. I pray he makes it. Please vaccinate your pets. This is a horrible virus and heartbreaking to watch.
- —Holly092
parvo shooooo
- My dog is suffring from parvo virus his name is snitch. I noticed that he vomitting and having a diarrhea contain blood. In the next morning we go to the veterinarian she said that our dog is suffering from parvo and he is dehydrated so the vet said he should be admit in the animal hospital or bring it in ur house as long as he has a dextrose. And now he survived in parvo but im worrying because he is not yet poop when he started taking his antibiotic last2 days. Is your dog have the same that he s not yet poop when he started taking his antibiotic?
- —Guest mae
Sadie my 4 month old white lab
- It all started when I noticed my little girl wasn't being her self and it wasn't but a few minutes later I noticed she wouldn't touch her food so I took her to my local vet right then. My vet wasn't worth the hundred dollars I paid him besides the fact he told me Sadie (my puppy) had parvo. I asked him what I needed to do his advice was to take her home make her a comfortable spot and go to work ( I work night shift) and that's when I realized that this guy had no hope for my little girl. I ran to wal mart bought pedialyte a dozen eggs a turkey baster a few cans of chicken broth and some pepto tablets. We got home I force fed her pedialyte in the baster and we payed on the couch. Every hour I gave her pedialyte every 2 hours chicken broth and every 8 hours a half of the pepto tablet needless to say I lived on my couch for 4 days and Sadie almost passed on me twice but with lots of prayer and encouragement my little puppy is as happy and healthy as ever I even called the vet to brag.
- —Guest Daniel
My champ Gatsby
- I just got Gatsby (a 10 week old borador) for my birthday 5 days ago and yesterday he came down with vomiting and diarrhea so we took him to the vet. They did all the tests even x-rays and pancreas tests and found nothing. They sent us home with anti-nausea meds and I/V fluids. That night he started vomiting and having diarrhea again so we took him to a different vet in the morning. They recommended we leave him there all day. He had a parvo test that came back negative again, but had the same symptoms. So in the evening they took another parvo test and that one was positive. They kept him until 6pm with fluids and anti-nausea meds and antibiotics. Now I have him at home with me again and I am monitoring him and giving him a little pedialyte to keep him hydrated but in the morning we're gonna do it all over again. The great news is he hasn't vomited today since he got home and he is keeping down the pedialyte. He did have some really dark brown (maybe bloody?) diarrhea only once but pe
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Pandoras Box
- We got Pandora when she was 7 weeks old, when she reached 3 months she had gotten sick. The first day i noticed her poop was white, i thought it was weird and kept an eye on her. The next day she looked like she hadnt eaten in weeks and was throwing up and had horrible diarrhea. I took her to an emergency vet clinic to find out she had parvo. She stayed at the vet for 7 days, i visited her as often as i could. I couldnt stand to see her in that state, so small, so skinny, so helpless. But i had all the confidence in the world she would pull through, she had to! This dog was bulletproof! She tumbled down stairs, ran into sharp corners and just keep going! she had no time to slow down and i knew parvo didnt have a chance to take my baby away. And now she's almost 8 months old and incredible. She still throws up on a regular basis at least once a week but she's all good and healthy now
- —Guest Caitlin
There is hope
- I jus bought my puppy he is a english mastiff australin shepard pretty rare but beautiful iv had him almost two weeks but he has parvo and thats how my puppy shamrock passed away in november 2013 after spending 500$ for a home care kit! I am giving my new puppy pedylite and water up his rectum and chicken broth and he is getting so much better he is a fighter but were fighting together hes only 3 months old i kno hes in pain but i will pull him through this he is my baby and i wont let a disease take over our lives!!
- —Guest courtney
Layla Jill
- I have 3 dogs; jack, Jill, & Layla. It is now Friday here. Last Saturday I woke up & Jill was acting weird. She wasn't as spunky as she usually is.. She passed away yesterday morning from parvo. Her daughter Layla is in the hospital, right now she's doing good, but I want her to stay as long as possible! My jack is doing ok, but to be safe, keep an eye on eveeything your dog does. How they act, etc. Jill was my baby girl, she was a great mama. She didn't deserve to die. DO NOT keep your dogs at home while they have parvo.. Please take them to a vet immediately. After you take them to the vet, it's a 50/50 chance, but it's a better chance then taking matter into your own hands. The symptoms of the horrifying disease are; lethargy, vomiting, lose and or bloody stool, no appetite, depression, breathing rapidly, then death. My Jill experienced all of that & I was too blind to take her to the vet. Don't lose hope, just pray & do what's right. The vet will do all that they can!
- —Guest Jill
- Our dog Tucker is fighting this terrible virus right now. We adopted Tucker on Friday night,2/14/14. He was very energetic and playful through Saturday night. Very early on Sunday morning, he vomited but I didn't think too much of it. As the morning continued, he became very lethargic, vomited a couple more times & refused to eat. By noon we were at the emergency room. The vet did a snap test which came up with a weak positive for parvo. We called the shelter & they told us to take him to their partner vet & they would cover the cost. The er vet gave Tucker sub q fluids & an anti nausea shot & we drove the 40 minutes to the shelter's vet. On Monday, the vet said Tucker seemed a little better and by Tuesday felt Tucker could come home. Before we could leave to pick him up, the vet called to say he had thrown up and needed to stay another night. We went to see him on Weds., he was lethargic but happy to see us. This morning, Thurs.,the vet called & he can come home!
- —Guest Sue
- I got a pittbull puppy 2 months ago just about 2 weeks ago she started puking, having diarrhea, she was even going all over herself, I immediately knew something was wrong by the second day of this. I took her to vet, they tested for parvo and she had it, they told me she would most likely die and unfortunately there is no cure for this deadly disease. I had to spend almost 300 dollars for the medicine that might not even work, I knew I couldn't afford the price for a pet hospital, I was devastated and miserable because I could not do anything for my baby girl. The week passed and she was still surviving, my friend also gave me penicillin to give her along with the medicine on Thursday, Saturday morning I woke to a tail wagging, face licking, very hungry lovable dog again! She survived through all the agonizing pain, my baby girl is a fighter, I wish the luck to everyone else it was a miracle.
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Memories of the old 22nd Street South
Andrea Lypka
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The economic and cultural renaissance of the historic 22nd Street South in St. Petersburg takes community and city effort. And changes can already be seen.
New mom-and-pop businesses, schools, a bank, and new neighborhoods rise in Midtown. Will this place thrive again?
Many activists fought and fight for the revitalization of this district: Peggy Peterman, Rosalie Peck and Jon Wilson, council member Wengay Newton, and the list goes on.
Back in 1965, Peggy Peterman often wrote about âblack people's hopes, dreams, triumphs, tragedies, successesâ for the St. Petersburg Times.
The Deuces, a special report published in the Times in 2002 sparked the revitalization effort of this area and inspired Rosalie Peck and Jon Wilsonâs book St. Petersburgâs Historic 22nd Street South in 2006.
Today, the 22nd Street Redevelopment Corp. carries out that vision. A part of the Midtown development is the Oral History Promotion Project initiated in February 2009.
Manager of the 22nd Street Redevelopment Corporation Steve Graves says this area is âthe heart of the African-American community in St. Petersburg that has a rich history from the 1920s. Perhaps the busiest time was in the 1930s and 1940s until the 1960s desegregation,â he says. When people could move freely, many locals left Midtown.
He says that the economic boost and cultural revitalization project would require a community effort because of the cityâs tight budget. Since the start of the project, many people with different ethnic background moved in and started businesses here.
âThe diversity has come to the 22nd Street as opposed to other areas of the city,â but the project may take years Graves says.
The Oral History Project presents locals who make history. The stories of local people are posted on their website.
Lorene Whitehead-Office has lived in Midtown since 1954 and opened the Fish and Crab House, a carry-out and dine-in restaurant on 22nd Street South in Midtown 16 years ago. âI will be 59 in May. Thatâs a long timeâ¦,â she says. Before that she was selling barbecued ribs, chicken, and crabs in neighborhoods from her mobile truck.
Although she has always been famous for her garlic crabs, she canât afford to buy crabmeat at $2.50 a pound because her business is slow. Recently, she closed down the dining area of her restaurant; she does not serve anymore breakfast, and she had to let go her two workers. âIt is just slow for everyone but it canât get worse,â she laughs.
In her store an article about President Barack Obama hangs on the wall with the word âhope.â Whitehead-Office hopes too -- for a better future. âMore businesses on the street will bring more people in and they would try a little bit of everything. I am hoping for that.â
She doesnât know why the streets are empty on that area. âIt could be the economy, the buying of the properties, I really donât know,â she says. A longtime resident in the area, Whitehead has also witnessed many changes in the neighborhood from segregation to desegregation, from a flourishing African-American business center to a place with empty buildings and lots.
âThis area was very popular. When I became a young married woman, my husband, my cousin, and her husband would come here and look at the people. We would sit at Sno Peak and look at the people and listen to the music. That was an enjoyable evening. At that time, Sno Peak was selling chicken gizzards, hamburgers, and shakes,â she says. But the days when they would sit on cars at the Sno Peak and listen to music are gone. Sno Peak got demolished and the city bought the property but they havenât started a business yet.
To make ends meet in her take out, Whitehead pays her bills late. âItâs gonna get better, I feel that,â she says. To reduce her expenses, she simplified the menu and she does not sell garlic crabs. âI have to change the menu because the people change. Right now I have younger customers. I was selling garlic crabs but crabs got expensive. The crab seller from Tampa just catches enough for his business in Tampa. So, I just wait because it will change and then I can go back to selling crabs. Then I will open this [restaurant] side of the business.â The restaurant part of the business has been closed since last year. She is still paying the rent because she opens it when business picks up.
Keith Harris president of the board at 22nd Street Redevelopment Corp., grew up in this area. He remembers the street full of artists and businesses. His mother used to sneak out through the window to listen to the music of Aretha Franklin and Smokey Robinson at the Manhattan Casino. When Harris was in his 20s, the place had a nightclub atmosphere; there were events held âbut it wasnât the same.â
This will change with the new revival projects. âWe can bring it back to the city, to the county,â he says that he got involved in this organization because he recognized it as a liaison between community and city. âOur organization gives the local people a voice and it is also a voice when it comes to preserving their culture,â he says.
The Oral History is important for him because âwe need their voices here for the future generations to grasp on it.â
Graves says 22nd Street South has a lot to offer and can inspire community support. It will become more than just a commercial and entertainment district; it will be a meeting point for the whole community, he says. âThere is value here today, sometimes we are busy and we just drive by it. When I think about what was here, I always think I can do it.âcomments powered by Disqus


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Wedding Hairstyle We Love: Ashley Biden's Bridal Style
Ashley Biden, Vice President Joe Biden's daughter, married Dr. Howard David Krein on Saturday sporting a romantic down 'do (did we mention her stunning Vera Wang dress?). And since the first day of summer is fast approaching, going all natural and keeping your hair down with some waves is the perfect wedding day look. Victoria... read more


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Sleeping Partners in a Doubtful Concern
1 portrait of Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Sleeping Partners in a Doubtful Concern
by John ('HB') Doyle, printed by Alfred Ducôte, published by Thomas McLean
lithograph, published 13 June 1833
11 1/4 in. x 16 3/8 in. (286 mm x 415 mm) overall
acquired Unknown source, 1900
Reference Collection
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- John ('HB') Doyle (1797-1868), 'HB'; caricaturist. Artist associated with 700 portraits, Sitter in 1 portrait.
- Alfred Ducôte (active 1830-1840), Lithographer and lithographic printer. Artist associated with 434 portraits.
- Thomas McLean (1788-1875), Publisher and dealer. Artist associated with 885 portraits.
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- Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), Lord Chancellor. Sitter associated with 234 portraits.
- Charles Grant, Baron Glenelg (1778-1866), Politician and colonial administrator. Sitter associated with 29 portraits.
- Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (1764-1845), Prime Minister. Sitter associated with 166 portraits.
- Henry Richard Fox (later Vassall), 3rd Baron Holland (1773-1840), Whig statesman and patron of art and letters. Sitter associated with 51 portraits.
- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779-1848), Prime Minister. Sitter associated with 141 portraits.
- Charles Gordon-Lennox, 5th Duke of Richmond and Lennox (1791-1860), Soldier and Conservative politician; MP for Chichester. Sitter in 28 portraits.
- John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer (1782-1845), Whig statesman. Sitter in 62 portraits.


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Made and developed for The Path Bike Shop, this Ventana El Ciclon Special Edition is still a 5-inch travel bike, but with some differences in geometry. This special custom geometry is made for those who want an all-mountain bike made to attack the climbs and the descents equally well. Great option for a lightweight Super D race bike.
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The Bachelor
Season 16 Bachelor Ben Flajnik: 5 Things You Need to Know
Ben Flajnik (pronounced Flannick) was the runner-up for Ashley Hebert's affections on Season 7 of The Bachelorette. Now he's the Season 16 Bachelor, whose journey to love will air on ABC beginning Monday, January 2, 2012. Here are a few things to know about the 28-year-old from Sonoma, California:
He's a wino: There's something about The Bachelor and Bachelorette that attracts wine guys. (Perhaps the abundance of wine on-hand during filming?) Season 3 Bachelor Andrew Firestone's family has a winery; Bachelor Pad contestant Jesse Kovacs runs a winery with his brother; and now we have Ben, co-owner of Evolve Winery with his high school friend Michael Benziger. The winery got a huge publicity boost from The Bachelorette and girls apparently swarmed Sonoma hoping for a sign of the future Bachelor.
He's a party boy: Considering the first bit of info we just shared, this may seem obvious. While studying music production at the University of Arizona, Ben started crafting his own wine and beer on the side. He was also a member of the Delta Beta Chapter of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. (Must-see photo: this party pic of him wearing what looks like a black Slash wig, holding a drink and a microphone.) Also, he may have been in a band called Cold Turkey, though that has not been 100 percent confirmed. Still, the music seems to influence his work: His winery's video "Bottling Evolve's 2009 Sauvignon Blanc" is set to KISS's "Lick It Up." According to Starcasm, Ben and a whopping 73 other underage drinkers were busted by police at a University of Arizona house party in 2003. At the time, Ben reportedly told the local news station, "I understand that they're doing their job and trying to keep people safe, but the fact there were 50-some-odd police officers here to break up one little college party is a little ridiculous."
3. His alter ego is "Storm Horse": While promoting Evolve on San Diego 91X, Ben revealed that he's a hardcore San Diego Chargers fan who participates in "Frightening Lightning" tailgate parties (big keg parties in "section F3"!) and other events under the name "Storm Horse." He also has a creepy/awesome music video called "Cream Dreams" which features Storm Horse engaging in some NSFW shenanigans akin to The Lonely Island sketches on Saturday Night Live. Unfortunately, ABC doesn't want fans to know too much about the magic that is Storm Horse, and the video was taken down. But you can check out the shot of Storm Horse (pictured right) during his hometown date with Ashley.
4. He's been in love three times: According to ABC's Bachelor dispatch, he's fallen in love three times, with Ashley being the third, but has only proposed the one (failed) time. Who are the other two girls and are their names going to come out of the woodwork? We're guessing yes. However, it sounds like he has also fallen in love with his dog, a Jack Russell Terrier named Scotch. And then there's always Jennifer Love Hewitt. And Britt Billmaier.
5. He's Sporty Spice: Ben likes weird stuff like crab fishing, but also sailing, golf, skate boarding, surfing, playing piano, and singing in a tribute band. According to ABC he is also quite handy with a hammer and saw, and loves fixing and building things, as well as landscaping. In his Bachelorette bio, Ben said his favorite sports team is the San Francisco Giants, "the only team that matters." He considers himself very athletic and won a state championship in soccer. The best trip he had ever been on, by the time he applied for Season 7, was a 2006 World Cup trip to Germany with nine of his friends.
Source: Starcasm, Evolve Winery
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