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On the heels of the successful SW-612 series, the Horseman SW-617 Camera incorporates many of the winning elements of its predecessors. The SW-612 Pro's lens movement feature and compact size have remained, while the size of the body has not been dramatically increased. The SW-617 gives users the option to create panoramic photographs with an interchangeable 6x17cm or 6x12cm film back. This camera is the first 6x17 panoramic camera to feature a removable back.
The SW-617 has six interchangeable Schneider and Rodenstock lenses to build an optical library from; these lenses span the range from 72mm to 250mm. Horseman sets these lenses in their own precisely-engineered helical focusing mounts, that in turn, are attached to a lens cone appropriate for the lens. Focusing a lens on the SW-617 is aided by an accurate distance and depth-of-field scale on the helicoid, otherwise scale-focusing can be bypassed by substituting the film back with an optional ground glass back (#21466) for the most accurate focus and composition.
As stated earlier, the SW-617 is bestowed with rise/fall movements. This is possible with the use of carefully selected lenses with generous image circles. Any of the six Horseman SW lens units are capable of 17mm of rise and 17mm of fall. Rise/fall movements are extremely useful with work that requires perspective correction like architecture and landscape photography.
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Obituaries, August 23, 2014
Frances Stewart Carrigan
DURHAM — Frances Stewart Carrigan, 80, passed away Thursday, August 21, 2014 at her home. She was born in Durham County to the late Hubert Stewart and the late Vivian Womack Stewart. She is also preceded in death by a sister, Lillian Stewart. She was a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church.
Mrs. Carrigan is survived by her husband, Edward "Bo" Carrigan; daughters, Pat Aiken, Paula Morris (Dale), Kelly Holmes (Mike), all of Durham; sister, Virginia Midgette of Durham; grandchildren, Brian McCormick, Brooke McCormick, Brent Morris, Blair Morris, Jordan Holmes, Grant Holmes, Stephen Holmes, Brad Holmes; great-grandchildren, Charlotte Morris, Peyton Morris and Harper McCormick.
The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, August 24, at Clements Funeral Chapel in Durham with Rev Earl Echols officiating. Burial will follow at Maplewood Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. prior to the service at Clements Funeral Home.
The family is being assisted by Clements Funeral Service, Inc., in Durham, N.C. Online condolences may be made at www.clementsfuneralservice.com.
Evelyn Jean Smith Edwards
DURHAM — Ms. Evelyn Jean Smith Edwards, daughter of the late Lula Mae Smith Cotton and Coy Isler, was born on April 22, 1936 in Durham, North Carolina and at age 78 departed this life Sunday, August 17, 2014 at the Brian Center of Durham. She is preceded in death by her parents and a brother.
Ms. Edwards' early years were spent in the Alston Avenue section of the city of Durham. She traveled to California, Florida, Maryland, Rhode Island and Hawaii as the spouse of a military man. She has many family, friends and colleagues who mourn her passing. She worked as a Medical Secretary at Duke Medical Center for 20 years and and the Durham Housing Authority for more than 10 years before her well-deserved retirement.
Her death came with peace and without pain.
Memorial services will be held Sunday, August 24, at Fisher Funeral Parlor at 3137 Fayetteville Street, Durham, NC 27707. Visitation with family begins at 1:30pm and the service starts at 2:00pm.
"I miss you, Mommy."
Delma Lou Gentry Holsonback
DURHAM — Mrs. Delma Lou Gentry Holsonback, 88, a former resident of Durham, died on Thursday, August 21, 2014.
Funeral services will be held on Monday at 11 a.m. at Hudson Funeral Chapel. Mr. Ira McCarson will officiate. Burial will be in Woodlawn Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends on Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Hudson Funeral Home and other times at the home, 156 Crystal View Drive in Timberlake. Flowers are acceptable. Online condolences can be made at www.hudsonfuneralhome.com.
Carlos Ramon Kelly
DURHAM — Mr. Carlos Ramon Kelly, 53, died Monday, August 18, 2014 at Duke Medical Center. His service will be held at 12pm on Monday, August 25, 2014 at Antioch Baptist Church, 1415 Holloway St. Interment will follow in Beechwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Monday at the church from 11am-12pm one hour prior to the service. There is a public viewing at Burthey Funeral Chapel, 1510 Fayetteville St on Sunday from 1:30-7pm.
Laura Tilley Lassiter
DURHAM — Mrs. Laura Tilley Lassiter, 78, of Durham, died on Thursday, August 21, 2014.
Mrs. Lassiter was a native and lifelong resident of Durham, the daughter of the late John H. Tilley and Bessie Davis Tilley. She retired after 22 years from the Durham Public Schools. She was of the Baptist faith and loved to sing and take food to and visit shut-ins.
She is survived by her two sons, Rev. Jack Lassiter and wife, Alane, and Tim J. Lassiter, all of Greenville; several nieces and nephews and her grand-puppy, Princess.
Funeral services will be held on Monday at 2 p.m. at Living Waters Church, officiated by Rev. Ron Watts and Rev. Joshua Mickle. Burial will be at Woodlawn Memorial Park.
The family will receive friends on Monday from 1 to 2 p.m., before the service at Living Waters Church and other times at the home of Martha and Jim Winders, 3905 Cash Road. Flowers are appreciated or donations may be made to the Durham Rescue Mission at www.durhamrescuemission.org or the Duke HomeCare and Hospice, 4321 Medical Park Drive, Suite 101, Durham, NC 27703. Online condolences can be made at www.hudsonfuneralhome.com.
Almeade Gentry Garrett
ROXBORO — Almeade Gentry Garrett, age 90, of 1899 Virgilina Road died Friday, August 22, 2014, at Roxboro Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center. She was the daughter of the late Melville D. Gentry & Mable Claire Whitt Gentry. Mrs. Garrett is also preceded in death by her husband, William Elwood Garrett, and grandson, Matthew Garrett. She was retired from Steinthal. Mrs. Garrett was a member of Providence Baptist Church.
Surviving are her two sons, Dr. William E. "Bill" Garrett, Jr. and wife Janice of Bahama; Dr. Stephen D. Garrett and wife Carla of Roxboro; one daughter, Bonnie G. Perkins and husband Richard of Roxboro; eleven grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren.
She was a small woman with a large character and great heart. She was the guiding influence on her family and instilled her values of hard work, devotion to family, good humor, and acceptance of responsibility. She was fortunate enough to lead a long, healthy life and exerted a strong influence on her many grandchildren just as she did with her children. She leaves strong and happy lasting memories to fill the void she will leave.
The family will receive friends 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM Saturday, August 23, 2014 at Brooks & White Funeral Home, Inc. and other times at the home.
Funeral Services will be held 2:00 PM, Sunday, August 24, 2014 at Providence Baptist Church with the Rev. Dennis McDonald and Rev. Herbert Brown officiating. Burial will follow in the Burchwood Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be her grandsons: David Garrett, Michael Garrett, Jonathan Garrett, Copeland Garrett, Caleb Garrett, John Perkins, Chris Perkins, and Richard Perkins.
Memorials may be made to Providence Baptist Church, 1319 Virgilina Road, Roxboro, NC 27573.
Condolences may be sent to www.brooksandwhite.com.

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March 12, 2003
The first-ever good look at the upper atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system has turned up what a University of Arizona scientist has dubbed a "cometary planet, " a hot Jupiter-like planet quickly evaporating as it revolves close to its sun-like, yellow star.
"This planet looks more like a comet than a planet in the ultraviolet," said Gilda Ballester, a research scientist at the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.
The planet orbits only 4 million miles from its star. Because it is so close to its star, it is seared by the heat of the star, and the upper layers of its atmosphere are very hot and inflated. Atomic hydrogen, the lightest and most abundant element, extends the farthest, to about 3 times the size of the planet. Some of this hydrogen escapes the gravitational pull of the planet and forms an extensive, comet-like tail - a hydrogen tail long enough to circle Earth five times.
"The hydrogen will just keep evaporating away during the lifetime of the star," Ballester said.
Discovered in 1999, the planet is unique among exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) because it is the only one with an orbit that crosses the face of its star that is near and bright enough to be observed. The planet has only 70 percent of the mass of Jupiter. But its disk is inflated to 30 percent bigger than Jupiter in size.
"Two things have come together for this discovery," Ballester said. "One is that the Hubble Space Telescope now carries a sensitive instrument for observing in the ultraviolet. And two is the discovery of this planet that transits in front of a star."
That discovery "was like opening up a lab" for researchers who study the composition and structure of planetary atmospheres, she added. One of their most powerful techniques is to observe how atmospheres absorb starlight at ultraviolet wavelengths. Such observations can only be made from space because Earth's ozone layer filters out UV light.
Ballester worked with her colleagues in Paris on their study of HD 209458b in 2001. Throughout 2002, the French scientists analyzed the complex data one way, while Ballester did a completely different kind of analysis in Tucson.
"It took a long time, but we independently confirmed that what we were seeing was real," she said.
The planet revolves around its sun in 3 and 1/2 days. The team observed the planet during three transits. Each transit - the time during which they could observe it in front of the star - lasts 3 hours.
"We observed that the planet and its upper atmosphere covered 15 percent of the area of that star. The disk of the planet itself covers just one percent of the star. That means the planet has a huge hydrogen atmosphere controlled by stellar forces," Ballester said.
"The other big result is that as the hydrogen is extracted from the planet, it is then pushed by starlight, forming a tail that makes the planet look more like a comet."
Team member Alain Lecavelier des Etangs has made a simulation of the hydrogen escape and the formation of the tail structure. The modeled planet's comet-like tail, 124,000 miles long, would stretch almost 5 times around the Earth.
"We knew from the 'blue-shifted' absorption of the starlight that the tail points toward us, away from the star," Ballester said. (Astronomers observe blue-shifted light, or light at shorter wavelengths, from approaching objects, just as they observe "red-shifted" light, or light at longer wavelengths, from receding objects.)
"And I have to chuckle about this because a colleague of mine has been searching for comets around other stars. It's funny, because now we know a 'comet' has always been there!"
The next steps in this project will be to make new UV observations and to model the upper planetary atmosphere in more detail. In particular, "We need to better understand the effects of the strong UV input and heating from the star, as well as how the atmosphere interacts with the stellar wind," Ballester said.
"Solar wind, the phenomenon that causes our aurorae on Earth, is one of the major elements that define the properties of planets' upper atmospheres. When you think this planet, it seems to have elements of everything we study. It is really very complicated, but this is like another type of planet," she said.
Members of the discovery team are Alfred Vidal-Madjar (team leader), Alain Lecavelier des Etangs, and Jean-Michel Desert (Institut d' Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS, France); Gilda E. Ballester (University of Arizona), Roger Ferlet and Guillaume Hebrard (Institut d' Astrophysique de Paris) and Michel Mayor (Geneve Observatory, Switzerland).
Ballester, a native of Puerto Rico who has a physics doctorate from Johns Hopkins University, is expert in ultraviolet studies of planetary atmospheres. Her work has been based on observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and early on with the International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE). She was a member of the HST WFPC 2 camera team, and also has expertise with Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), the instrument used on this project.
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By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 25, 2009 Air Force Gen. Douglas M. Fraser assumed the top post at U.S. Southern Command today, promising to build on the strong partnerships fostered by the outgoing commander, Navy Adm. James Stavridis. Video
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates paid tribute to Fraser and Stavridis as he acknowledged the crucial role Southcom's people play in promoting security and stability in Central and South America and the Caribbean.
"The important work you do here every day is making a difference to the prosperity, security and freedom of your countrymen and to the people of the region," Gates said during today's change-of-command ceremonies at Southcom's Miami headquarters.
Marine Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, echoed that sentiment, praising a dedicated staff he said is making a difference in the region. "You have done incredible work, and it has not gone unnoticed," at the Southcom headquarters, in the region or in Washington, he said.
As Fraser accepted the command's colors -- and in a light moment during the ceremony, Stavridis' "command BlackBerry" -- he said he brings a recognition of the opportunities and challenges at Southcom, and the importance of applying international, interagency and public-private capabilities to meet them.
"I will work vigorously every day to enhance the security across the region and to improve U.S. military relations with our partners in the region," he said. "The transnational and transregional challenges we face to security, stability and prosperity in the Americas can only be met through strong and enduring partnerships."
The vital relationships forged within the Americas by Stavridis and his predecessors at Southcom "have improved our collective security, but many challenges remain," Fraser said. "Our nations and our citizens are counting on us to strengthen our interagency, our international and our public-private partnerships to effectively counter these strategic challenges."
Gates praised Stavridis, who leaves Southcom to command U.S. European Command and serve as NATO's supreme allied commander for Europe, for the leadership he demonstrated in applying this full range of power to the Southcom mission.
"From the start of his tenure at Southcom, Admiral Stavridis has fostered a spirit of interagency and international cooperation that reflects the post-Cold War realities of the 21st century," Gates said. "He has made Southcom the embodiment of what is now called 'smart power,' drawing on the full strength of our nation and our partners to enhance the security, freedom and prosperity in this part of the world."
Stavridis recognized as he took the Southcom helm that the region's challenges, which range from narcotics to corruption and gangs to kidnapping, don't lend themselves to traditional military solutions, Gates said. So Stavridis redrew the command's organizational charts and "fundamentally reformed its institutional culture and ways of doing business," he said.
Meanwhile, Stavridis reached out to regional nations in concrete ways to build bonds of trust and friendship, Gates said. He also used the latest tools and technologies to communicate Southcom's activities and goals and instituted cultural and language training with his command so his staff would better understand and connect with the people of the Americas.
Gates noted some of the highlights of Stavridis' time at Southcom:
-- The Colombian military's freeing of three American hostages after five years of captivity;
-- Expansion of the annual Panamax exercises to include 20 countries, and 20 other military-to-military exercises last year alone;
-- Interdiction of nearly 700 metric tons of cocaine; and
-- Institutionalization of the way the command delivers humanitarian assistance and disaster relief when needed.
Cartwright shared Gates' assessment of Stavridis' capabilities. "Jim has brought so much to this command, and his ability to be a strategic thinker, and to connect the dots in widely diverse issues and understand that all of them are interrelated," he said.
These qualities, along with Stavridis' way of treating people "like family in everything and every endeavor has really moved this command along with the challenges that have been presented over the past few years," Cartwright said.
Gates noted the important message sent by the postings --– Fraser as the first Air Force officer to command Southcom and Stavridis to become the first Navy officer in the top Eucom and NATO posts.
"The trajectory of these officers' careers, and the billets they are now taking, is but one more indication of how joint our military leadership has become, and how much America's global security arrangements have evolved since the end of the Cold War," he said.
In bidding farewell to his command, Stavridis said he's excited about the new opportunities ahead but sad to say goodbye to Southcom.
"I will miss this world. It will always be a part of me," he told the group, which include representatives of regional countries. "My heart will always be in the Americas."
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|Seven nominated for March of Dimes Excellence in Nursing Award
Grand Island, Neb. —Seven nurses from Saint Francis Medical Center were nominated for March of Dimes Excellence in Nursing Award. They included Amy Djernes , Pam Glaser , Mary Micek (retired from Saint Francis), Alice Quick, Linda Ulmer, Maxine Vieth and Sue Whitman. Quick and Vieth were among 25 recipients of an award given for clinical excellence.
Saint Francis vice president of Patient Care Servicers/CNO Francine Sparby congratulated these seven nurses on their accomplishment.
"The nursing profession draws dedicated and caring people with a variety of skills, interests and backgrounds together, working in a number of different settings, from emergency rooms and pediatric units to doctors' offices, schools and homeless shelters," Sparby said. "Nursing requires a special calling. It's the kind of profession that requires dedication, sacrifice and a concern for humanity unlike any other. Many times, it may seem that your actions, your special attentiveness, and selflessness go unnoticed, so it is a pleasure when a nurse is recognized for outstanding service and compassion. It is an honor and a privilege for us to say you are part of the Nursing team at Saint Francis Medical Center."
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Saint Francis Medical Center is a nonprofit faith-based hospital serving Central Nebraska with state-of-the-art healthcare services. A new patient tower was completed in 2007 with 159 acute-care patient rooms, including the Family Birthing Center, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Intensive Care Unit and a 10-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit. Saint Francis also operates a Cancer Treatment Center in Grand Island and Hastings, a Skilled Care Unit and an alcohol and drug treatment center.
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A special bra and dressings may be worn over the breast biopsy site after the procedure. These may be removed approximately two days after the biopsy. Small tapes, or possibly stitches, will remain over the incision site; do not remove these yourself. They will be removed at a follow-up appointment, or fall off by themselves.
You may be asked to apply medicine or ice to the biopsy area or change the bandages at home. Your doctor will advise you about showering, bathing, and wound care.
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Sonderkommando 4a in collaboration with Einsatzgruppe HQ and two Kommandos of police regiment South, executed 33,771 Jews in Kiev on September 29 and 30, 1941.
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After years out of print, a new edition of this hotly sought-after classic is available again! Mark Lewisohn's definitive guide covers every recording session done by the Beatles at EMI's famed Abbey Road recording studio. It includes the number of takes for each song; who contributed what; previously unpublished studio documents and interviews with many of the key recording personnel; and facsimile reproductions of Abbey Road recording sheets, tape boxes, album sleeve roughs, memos, contracts, press releases and more. Lavishly illustrated with over 350 photographs (rare images by Linda McCartney among them), this must-have volume also features an exclusive introductory interview with Paul McCartney.
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Hasn't been much movement up to this point on the key players but two moves were made:
Tigers avoided arbitration by signing Tim Byrdak to a one-year $712,500 dollar contract. He'll be used as a LOOGY out of the bullpen again this year and I hope they keep his extended outings to a minimum. While the ZiPS projection isn't hot on him, as last year was significantly better than any of his previous years, his ability to get lefties out is much needed this year.
Right-handed starter Chad Durbin was not tendered a contract and is now a free-agent. This surprised me. Durbin really stepped it up last year when the Tigers were in a jam. This leaves them a little exposed if an injury were to happen, which is quite possible with both Rogers and Bonderman.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811593327276272802.post9156753323261860287..comments2015-07-28T21:36:10.855-07:00Comments on Activist Post: Belgian Environmental Study Corroborates Existence and Effects of Weather email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811593327276272802.post-51033773340172977682013-01-03T15:23:37.672-08:002013-01-03T15:23:37.672-08:00Morgellons caused by chemtrails is one of those co...Morgellons caused by chemtrails is one of those conditions not talked about in the mainstream media. Further information can be found at the links below:

http://rense.com/Datapages/morgdat1.htm\
http://rense.com/general95/vitDalert.html
firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811593327276272802.post-5840989634238863812013-01-03T09:53:56.917-08:002013-01-03T09:53:56.917-08:00Excellent. Keep posting articles on aerosol geoen...Excellent. Keep posting articles on aerosol geoengineering. It's a planetary scourge much worse than revealed with the naked eye.... The Belfort Group is one of the most effective and credible activist Groups around. Their CASE ORANGE REPORT is filled with compelling evidence. Aerospace Engineer, Prof. Coen Vermeeren presents the 336 page report in an hour long presentation.
http://chemtrailsplanet.net/geoengineering-for-profit/Hsaivehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811593327276272802.post-22510503624294668712013-01-02T22:07:33.216-08:002013-01-02T22:07:33.216-08:00Yeah, my rosemary plant(the ONLY outdoor plant I h...Yeah, my rosemary plant(the ONLY outdoor plant I have!) died a few weeks ago due to all the spraying in my city. This thing was five years old and very healthy. Rosemary is pretty hard to kill. I tried moving it inside and it got better. Put it back outside and then it died a horrible death. firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811593327276272802.post-73294814295403153932013-01-02T21:53:09.121-08:002013-01-02T21:53:09.121-08:00I don't understand how they could still name t...I don't understand how they could still name the study "Contrail Science..." when it's CHEMtrails that they were studying! PC motherfuckers.

www.weathermodification.com
There ya go. Spells it all out in black and white. These idiots advertize!!!!!!! LOL

It's an interesting site.

And yes, rain is valuable. This is why Florida has been under a deluge of rain this past summer and fall(strawberries and citrus) while the southwest has been suffering painfully from lack of water. Somebody in Florida $$$$paid for rain and they got it.
firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811593327276272802.post-68916840946660918392013-01-02T20:34:00.998-08:002013-01-02T20:34:00.998-08:00David Gordon (commenter above), Do you remember th...David Gordon (commenter above), Do you remember the reports a while back saying that food of the future would be grown hydroponically indoors in cities? It seems that in order to keep our food safe from toxic chem-rain, it needs to be sheltered by a greenhouse or grown indoors. The chem-rain is killing the trees and agriculture in states where there isn't drought. High (aluminum?) levels that change the pH of the soil are killing the microbes necessary to sustain agricultural growth as well as forests. I think that Michael Murphy interviews a few people in Mt. Shasta, California (What in the World are They Spraying?) - including a forestry retiree - who have documented soil changes due to chemtrails. Apparently this causes trees and plants to not be able to absorb moisture from the ground normally; the trees become "dehydrated" and die, even in high rainfall areas, because the soil is basically rendered lifeless. Trees across the U.S. are weakened, and as a result, high winds will more easily knock them or their brittle limbs down with all these ever increasing wind storms, tornadoes, hurricanes. The droughts in the summers of 2010, 2011, and 2012 were obviously weather modification... the planes were flying around spraying all day long, from dawn until dusk, even at night I saw chemtrails by moonlight! It must be a 24 hour operation. It has to somehow be funded through (at minimum) Monsanto, NOAA and NASA - all very secretive. firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811593327276272802.post-38370358456341304862013-01-02T19:49:33.309-08:002013-01-02T19:49:33.309-08:00Bravo, Mr. Turbeville! Keep the information coming...Bravo, Mr. Turbeville! Keep the information coming. Thank you for the firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811593327276272802.post-52206962626776980182013-01-02T16:40:42.212-08:002013-01-02T16:40:42.212-08:00Also as an added note the works of Dr. Gerald Poll...Also as an added note the works of Dr. Gerald Pollack are always of interest when it comes to weather patterns, weather manipulation and precipitation especially.

It is he and his team that recently (re)discovered* that water has a negative charge and when water meets a hydrophilic surface(water-loving - water spreads evenly over it rather than beading up) an electric double-layer is formed(charge separation).

The liquid-crystalline "structured water" that Pollack and his team have found and the fact water behaves very similarly to plasma(ionized gas aka "electromagnetic gas"; see - They Might Be Giants: Why Does the Sun Really Shine[the sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLkGSV9WDMA ) are very important to understanding how water behaves in our atmosphere in regards to weather/climate patterns.

Some video lectures from Dr. Pollack:

Water, Energy and Life: Fresh Views From The Waters Edge (32nd Annual Faculty Lecture for University of Washington) -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVBEwn6iWOo

Batteries Made from Water (NPA conference presentation) -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS4PkR_BkRo

Also keep an eye out for his forthcoming book "The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid and Vapor".

* - they discovered for themselves in lab experiments and then later rediscovered similar research findings from the 1940's and 50's and earlier that had been "lost" to academia for decades.

Weather and weather modification can not be completely understood without understanding the complexities of many things that we have been taught to view very simplistically, or taught to ignore completely.

Even something as basic as water that everyone thinks we know everything there is to know about it keeps yielding new surprises and unveiling new mysteries to the scientific community decades after the science behind water was officially "settled".

Peace,
firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811593327276272802.post-1653187947213141442013-01-02T15:49:55.325-08:002013-01-02T15:49:55.325-08:00"Unbelievable that one cloud could move towar..."Unbelievable that one cloud could move towards another, rather than float along on the same wind currents, but I swear on the credibility of my life's work that this indeed happened."

Though still uncommon it's not so unbelievable when electrical and magnetic properties are taken into account.

Many laypeople seem to have the misconception that the Earth's Electromagnetic fields are a "shell" around the Earth in the form of the upper-atmospheric layers of the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere.

In reality the Ionosphere is simply the boundary of the Earth's electric field, the Magnetosphere is simply the boundary of Earth's magnetic field.

The field itself consists of everything within that boundary, the majority of the energy in the system is to be found between the boundaries, not in the boundaries themselves.

The boundaries appear most active due to their interactions with the "outside" electrical environment aka "space weather" and such, they are constantly taking in and discharging energy and thus expanding and contracting(see NASA's article a few years ago about the million+ volt electric space tornadoes that power the auroras - ignoring any mentions of the junk science concept of "magnetic reconnection" please).

Where exactly do people think all the millions of natural electrical lightning discharges come from every day?

Conventional science once tried to claim "friction" produced all that electricity but when Red Sprites, Blue Jets and St Elmo's Fire(upper-atmospheric electric discharges outwards into space usually 100's+ x more powerful than cloud to Earth discharges) are accounted for there is just way too much energy there to be produced by friction of gas molecules in our atmosphere.

Now I think they are on to charge differential and that is far closer to reality, but still not quite seeing the big picture.

In a charged environment 'wind currents", low and high pressure zones, precipitation patterns and severe weather all take on new meanings that go beyond what conventional meteorology today is allowed to acknowledge.

If an artificial cloud were created with a differential/opposite charge to a natural cloud to a sufficient extent an electrical/magnetic attraction would be expected, as would one(or both) of the clouds being dissipated as charge is exchanged and equalization is achieved.

I'm not saying that is the case in what you witnessed, but it's possible.

For the sake of being aware and prepared if you want a full spectrum view of Earth's environment I recommend the Almost Real Time Imaging/Information System(ARTIS) at SolarImg -

http://solarimg.org/artis/

Peace,
email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7811593327276272802.post-77209253875108053722013-01-02T14:31:21.147-08:002013-01-02T14:31:21.147-08:00I hate to introduce another variable, but there ar...I hate to introduce another variable, but there are likely two kinds of chemtrails if not more - rainmaking and a rain-killing. I have directly witnessed a brownish, oily-looking chem-cloud approach and evaporate a puffy white natural one. The rest of the chem-clouds (individualized, not a band) flowed into the natural cloud bank and eliminated every trace of the precipitation naturally forming over the mountain range.

Unbelievable that one cloud could move towards another, rather than float along on the same wind currents, but I swear on the credibility of my life's work that this indeed happened. Both appalled and in disbelief and not wanting to miss a moment, I failed to go get my video camera. Seriously, the chem-cloud wrapped itself around the puffy one, sprouting tentacles (swear to God) and there were two weird, dark grey cylindrical updraft columns shooting upward as the intermix continued. The macabre scene continued then abruptly both were gone. Now you understand why I couldn't take my eyes away. It was like an animation, like the evil cloud was alive almost.

Perhaps the oily chem-cloud had a different charge or temperature or something. But here in New Mexico, on the west side of the plains and in a frequent stepping off point of jet-stream directed weather patterns carrying moisture to the mid-west, I (and others) have seen these desiccant chem-clouds eliminate an entire front of our missing natural moisture. If you wonder why there is a drought - well, there's your answer.

Bear in mind, plenty of money is made on crop failures by bastards who bet on futures markets with insider information. Further, this process further bankrupts the smaller, organic farmers - feeding them into corporate take-over.

Additionally, the coming food shortage will be all the more severe and we will be at the mercy of the self-appointed overlords that plot our subjugation if not elimination.

I know this all sounds beyond fantastic, but there is not a single person on this earth who knows me, who would say I have anything less than impeccable integrity and honesty.

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"Supergirl" Casts its Lucy Lane
Welcome to the three hundredth and thirty-sixth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, marvel at the great Spider-Man/Chameleon Boy feud of 1966! Plus, legends involving Jack Kirby and Alan Davis!
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COMIC LEGEND: A comment by Stan Lee in a Bullpen Bulletins led to a response in a Legion of Super-Heroes story that then led to a response in an issue of Amazing Spider-Man!
STATUS: True
All this month, we're featuring "Meta-Messages," instances where comic book creators use characters in their stories to comment on the work of other comic book creators. Click here for an archive of all the meta-messages we have featured so far.
Reader Keith Alan Morgan wrote in with a suggestion that I found went way past just a typical meta-message, as it involved three separate examples of inter-company commentary!
It began with Stan Lee's Bullpen Bulletin for March 1966. It opened with a direct shot at Marvel's rivals, including presumably mainly DC Comics…
Then came Adventure Comics #350, which came out roughly the summer of 1966 (I featured Adventure Comics #350 in a previous Comic Book Legends Revealed on an unrelated topic). The issue was written by Legion assistant editor E. Nelson Bridwell (with Legion editor Mort Weisinger having heavy input in the issue, as well, mostly for the reasons I detailed in the aforementioned previous Comic Book Legends Revealed).
Well, at one point in the issue, Chameleon Boy faces off against a bad guy and takes on the form of a spider, leading to an interesting bit of breaking the fourth wall…
Fascinatingly enough, though, Lee then responds BACK!
In Amazing Spider-Man #47 (which came out roughly at the end of 1966), an issue which is perhaps best known now as the issue of Spider-Man that Deadpool later time-traveled into (as featured in a Year of Cool Comics post here)…
reader Gerard Addonizio of Medford, Massachusetts writes in to discuss the Chameleon Boy comment…
While thumbing thru a Brand Echh comic, I came across something that infuriated me. Some orange-faced character belonging to an (ugh) group of super-boobs had just finished tying up a monster with his web after turning into a spider! He then said, "In case a certain web-headed character thinks I'm stealing his thunder, I'd like to remind him that I was changing to all sorts of weird shapes long before he walked up his first wall." As you know, he was referring to our own Spidey! You fellas usually make your Brand Echh references in a good-natured half-kidding way; and you've never actually pin-pointed any competitive mag or character. But they're getting nasty. I think you should really let them have it. I've never written before, but when I saw that statement, I just had to. Your comics are the greatest!
Lee then replies:
Quite a few indignant Marvelites have commented upon that same reference to Spidey in a mag which we shall charitably not identity. We deeply appreciate the concern of all you True Believers – but don't worry about it, gang. Any knock is a boost… and our ill-advised competitors have been unintentionally boosting us all over the place!
Stan is inspired by Gerard's letter in another way, though, wondering why it was that it:
took a mention in another mag to get you to write to us? Why have you chosen to remain aloof so long? Why haven't you cared enough till now? What have we done wrong – where have we failed? Must we contact our competitors and beg them to mention us in order to hear from you again?
That was the last of this mini-feud, but now doesn't it make you want a Spider-Man/Chameleon Boy crossover issue where they hash out their problems with each other once and for all?
Thanks to Keith for the suggestion! And thanks to my pal Michael at the Legion Omnicom for finding the reference on the always awesome Spiderfan.org to the Spider-Man letter!
COMIC LEGEND: The plot of Fantastic Four #176 was changed after the editor of the comic received Jack Kirby's cover for the issue.
STATUS: True
It almost seems impossible (pun not intended) to imagine, but after first appearing in Fantastic Four #11
the Impossible Man did not pop up again (okay, the pun was intended that time) until over 150 issues later, in Fantastic Four #175!
What's particularly fascinating about this story is that the issue ended up having the story altered by Jack Kirby, who just did the cover of the book.
You see, Kirby had just recently begun working for Marvel Comics again and when FF writer Roy Thomas decided to include the Impossible Man as a surprise at the end of Fantastic Four #175, he decided that it only made sense to then have Jack Kirby, co-creator of the Impossible Man, do the cover for #176, spotlighting the Impossible Man.
So Thomas then called Kirby in California to describe what he wanted the cover to look like. Basically he wanted it to show Impossible Man hosing down the Human Torch and hammering the Thing.
Kirby, though, thought it would be interesting if the Impossible Man used his powers to imitate Iron Man and Thor (and suggested that he do so with other Marvel characters, as well), and that is what he penciled in the delivered cover…
Thus, Thomas was inspired to then tell FF penciler George Perez (who was about halfway through the issue) to incorporate Kirby's ideas into the second half of the comic! So Impossible Man imitates Thor, Black Bolt and the Wasp!
It is very impressive how quickly Thomas and Perez were able to adapt the story to fit Kirby's ideas! Talk about creating an issue on the fly!
By the way, while I don't think anything in that issue necessarily fits the definition of a "Meta-Message," it IS fun to see the real-life Marvel employees depicted in the issue…
Thanks to Roy Thomas for sharing the behind-the-scenes story of FF #176 in a column that appeared in the issue.
COMIC LEGEND: Alan Davis requested that Marvel run only filler issues on Excalibur until he could take over the title.
STATUS: False
Continuing the Meta-Messages theme this week, in a previous installment of Meta-Messages earlier this month, I discussed Alan Davis' way of dealing with an Excalibur story that had come out before Davis (who had created the title with Chris Claremont) took over the book as the writer/penciler.
In the comments, someone noted that it seemed unfair of Davis to have a concern with a one-off special that came out before he took over the book as Davis supposedly asked Marvel specifically to run filler issues following Chris Claremont's final issue of Excalibur (#34) until Davis was able to take over the title.
CBR's own Greg McElhatton (of Read About Comics fame), however, had the full scoop on what actually happened….
Having actually interviewed Alan Davis when he took over the writing and art of Excalibur, that's not the case at all, and I have no idea where that rumor got started.
Originally he and Paul Neary were slated to take over the book with #35 as co-authors; in other words, immediately after Chris Claremont's final issue (#34).
They got slightly delayed, so it was pushed to #37 and two fill-ins from Scott Lobdell were commissioned. (If you take a look at those two issues, they are quite different from what was about to come.)
Then the exchange rate between the dollar and pound shifted dramatically, to the point that Davis and Neary felt it was no longer economical for them to co-write the book. Neary dropped out of the project, and Davis had to start over in his plotting of the comic since the plots he'd developed with Neary needed to be thrown out.
As a result, his arrival was delayed to #42, but Davis specifically asked that those additional five issues (#37-41) wrap up some long-standing dangling plot lines that he'd planned on tackling himself, but with the additional delay felt it was best to just be taken care of in those issues. So, Lobdell was hired to write #37-41, and sure enough, the Soulsword is written out,
Nightcrawler's teleportation issues are fixed, and Excalibur discovers that the X-Men are still alive.
(Based on how Davis and everyone else handled the character starting with #42, I think the dialogue in #37 is also supposed to state that Shadowcat is completely healed and her phasing is back to normal, but it's not crystal clear. But regardless, that dangling plot line is certainly gone as of #42.)
Great stuff, Greg, thanks a bunch!
Be sure to check out Greg's site (linked above) and read his CBR reviews (you can see them all here)!
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Brian, Thanks for addressing the Alan Davis rumor so quickly.
Always loved that FF issue. I'm surprised you didn't note that Roy actually included ttold the story about the creation of FF 176 in that issue's letter column (if I recall correctly).
Slipped my mind! I added it into the piece now. Thanks!
Hi Brian! I remember that particular issue off FF well – but it's just occurred to me (30+ years later) – that doesn't it look as if Roy T is trying to stop the Impossible Man's shield from knocking a certain well-known (and satirised in many, many comics) wig off?
Subtle I know, but….
"But they're getting nasty."
Clearly, this letter pre-dates the internet. =)
The first Impossible Man story I read was an 80s X-Men annual, where he also visits in the Marvel Comics building, and we get to see real-life Marvel employees (including Chris Claremont, who claims he's not responsible for all this). I wonder if this was a running gag with Impossible Man, or was it just these two issues?
Great column, as always , Brian!
The Impossible Man story reminds me of an early issue of Byrne's run on Superman with Mxyplytk's first (I think) post-Crisis appearance, where he basically indicated that Mxy is also the Impossible Man. The panel fearured the legs only of the FF and Impy. I thought that was pretty cool.
Awesome, I love Marvel references in DC comics! My favorite would have to be the X-Men reference in The Flash v2 #135. The Flash is fighting Dr. Polaris, a villain with super magnetism powers, when he says, "Don't you guys ever learn a new tune? You forgot to mention how you and your brotherhood of evil mutants would rule the universe for a thousand years!"
Thomas, Perez, and Kirby in one? If that doesn't spell out "Legendary Issue," I don't know what does!
Holy gosh! I have that FF issue, but I had no idea Impy hadn't been seen in so long!
I believe the page you're thinking of was actually drawn by Byrne as part of "Superman #50," the final chapter of "Krisis of the Krimson Kryptonite" in 1990. But Byrne was no longer working as a scripter on the Superman titles at that point; hadn't been for a couple of years. (He may have contributed ideas for the dialogue on that page, however.)
I bought that story as it was coming out. I remember getting a bit of a thrill when Mxy pops back from DC's "New Earth" (Post-COIE) to some other Earth (implicitly the mainstream setting of the Marvel U), arrives there with his normal Mxy look, and then says something like, "Oops! Sometimes I forget what I look like from world to world!"
So he quickly transforms himself into a color-switched version of the Impossible Man. An elongated humanoid figure with green clothes over purple skin, instead of the other way around. That way they avoided copyright infringement, but I (and many other fans, I'm sure) still got the point right away! Even before seeing the bright blue boots and lower legs (in blue tights) of Reed and Sue, the fiery trail in the sky left by the Torch, and some gooey mess that was muttering "All I ask is one good clobber . . ." (Thing).
Excaliburs first run has always been one of my favorite of all time, it's very underated. I remember when they shifted to those fill in issues…. the writing was alright but the parade of fill in artists was aweful. Some of the worst are I had ever seen. It made me almost stop reading what was my favorite comic at the time.
Why is Kraven wearing womens shoes?
Savage Dragon would be ripe for some meta-references. Especially the Johnny Redbeard character, a non-too-sublte jab at John Byrne.
IIRC, the "gooey mess" that was clearly supposed to be the Thing was seen earlier, before Mxyzptlk jumps back to the DCU (it's been a long time since I read it, so I don't recall the reasons–I think he's toying with the never-named four heroes, but has to keep jumping back to the DCU to deal with Superman overcoming the effects of red kryptonite). Mxy is covering a very large, muscular humanoid with some sort of goop, and the victim is shouting one of Thing's catchphrases: "What a revoltin' development!"
You're quite right! Byrne did two nonconsecutive pages in that issue. On the first one, someone big has just been covered with a gooey mess and Mxy is in the form of a walking, talking, purple-and-green fire hydrant, as I recall. Then he has to leave in a hurry to go check up on Lex having just broken the "Red Kryptonite" spell, thereby restoring Superman's usual power-set.
I just didn't bother to mention that page in my previous response since it wasn't so clearly an FF/Impossible Man homage as the follow-up page was when Mxy came back to the MU, wanting to pick up where he'd left off several minutes earlier!
Kraven would be so much cooler if he wore an actual decapitated lion's head as a costume. For once, it's time for a gritty reboot! Keep the women's shoes, though. Kraven has enough panache to pull them off.
The theme of this installment reminded me of an arc in The Shadow Strikes which had the Shadow and Larry Vincent encountering various characters from comic strips, including Popey, Terry and the Pirates and Daddy Warbucks. Could be a subject for another article.
I would very much like to see the Mxyzptlk/Impossible Man pages for myself. Brian, possible future entry?
Always loved the FF issues that showed the Marvel Bullpen.
Hey, Marvel and DC can take jabs at each other for how they got rid of their big character's marriage.
I think DC would win that one hands down, unfortunantly. Loved the first couple issues of Action Comics, btw.
@ Lorendiac and @ Ritchard — that sounds like what I was talking about. I just thought it happened a lot ealier in the run. Now I need to go back and look at my late 80s Superman back issues. Darn!
Thanks guys!
That cover to Excalibur #39 has to be one of the all time worst.
Thanks for the info on Excalibur. I was a big fan of the series, and I did wonder why there were so many fill-in issues around that period. It was great when Alan Davis did finally return to the book. That said, I did enjoy the block of issues written by Scott Lobdell. Considering he was then something of a newcomer to the comic book biz, I think he did an admirable job bridging the Claremont and Davis issues.
I know he did it in a "tongue in cheek" manner, but Stan Lee's Bullpen from 1966 just makes him sound like a complete wanker. All these back and forths are just so immature.
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I bought that issue of FF brand new as a kid. I thought it was so much fun…off to the basement and search thru the longboxes!
I loved that issue of the FF.
The annoying thing is that as soon as Claremont started writing Kitty again (in Wolverine 125) he acted like she was still having trouble controlling her phasing, even though Kitty had no problems controlling her phasing for over 8 years.
I remember Tony Isabella did a Comic Buyer's Guide column after Secret Wars where Mxyzptlk reveals he's also the Beyonder ("Superman knows how to get rid of me—I've found a universe full of suckers I can play with to my heart's content!" or something like that).
I for one am not telling Kraven what to wear. He's scary! And hot. But scary.
Never seen that Impossible Man take, fun stuff!
Jamie – agree about the tone of the text piece. Considering I rarely read a Marvel exec interview that doesn't bash DC it seems nothing changes…
Hey Michael, Kitty is Claremont's character, he can do whatever the Hell he wants with her as far as i'm concerned.
mrclam, do you mean something like this…
Wow! Had no idea that little quirky comment I remembered was just one part of a bigger situation.
Now, if only we could tie it into Charles Addams Skier cartoon…
I was always irritated by the self indulgence of comic book writers including themselves or other pros in the pages of their comics – sometimes even including their wives and girlfiends. Not only blatantly self congratulatory, but also awkward to read as they keep having to reference each other by name in every damn panel.
Hey Michael, Kitty is Claremont's character, he can do whatever the Hell he wants with her as far as i'm concerned
I understand the sentiment, but honestly, Kitty Pryde is Marvel's character. And heck, her name and design were provided by John Byrne, not Claremont; does that mean Claremont should have to run whatever he does with her past Byrne?
Wow! Had no idea that little quirky comment I remembered was just one part of a bigger situation.
Now, if only we could tie it into Charles Addams Skier cartoon…
One day, Keith! One day!!
DC (or at least DC writers) must have felt really threatened by Spiderman and Marvel's popularity at the time. Just like the Batman example from the Brave And The Bold #74 this one seems designed to point out the fact they were at this longer. They don't seem "nasty" just desperate.
I think putting yourself in a comic is self-indulgent. It's like comic strips about golfing.
But I love the Impossible Man. I'd buy the HECK out of an Impossible Man comic.
I have to call shenanigans on Cham's claim: He didn't start changing into all sorts of weird shapes until nearly a thousand years after Spider-Man walked up his first wall.
Well, technically, thanks to Universo, Chameleon Boy spent some time in the year 1300, where he disguised himself as a sun god and turned into a giant lens. So, I think the year 1300 was before Spidey was doing much of anything.
Hmm, Spider-Man hasn't done as much time-traveling as some heroes (though I remember him fighting Cotton Mather in colonial Salem), but he did go back to pre-sunken Atlantis to meet King Kull. That's definitely wayyyy farther back than 1300. But I think he was in his "astral form" courtesy of Dr. Strange, so I dunno how much wall-walking he could have actually been doing.
Oh wait, Spidey and Wolverine spent some time (no pun intended) together 65 million years ago in a recent miniseries. So I can go back to pooh-poohing Cham's claim.
@Reno- LOL. Yeah, that's it!
…Brian, two points:
1) This wasn't the only time George Perez drew himself into an issue of Fantastic Four. Not long after this, Ben goes to a party where Impy tags along. However, in order to get Ben to let him accompany him, Impy has to change into a Top Hat to go with Ben's tux-n-tails. For the first few panels, Impy keeps changing his hat shape, startling everyone at the party until Ben gets wise that it's not his rocky appearance that's freaking people out – remember, this is the period that John Byrne claimed "they made Ben into Fozzy Bear!" George makes his cameo with a sketchpad, and when asked why he was bringing his work to a party, George pops a classic response:
"Hey, how often do you get a chance to see The Thing arguing with his hat?"
Classic. They just don't let Ben have that kind of fun anymore…:(
2) As someone who lived through that era and bought the Legion's tales in Adventure off the spinner racks for 12c a copy – about what comics are worth these days even though they cost a whole lot more – and there's a side to that "back-and-forth" you missed. While ICSTR whether Jim Shooter confirmed this, but a lot of long-time Legion fans have held the opinion for over 40 years now that the Persuader and the Emerald Empress were – what would Rich Johnston call it? Oh, yes…"swipes" – of the Executioner and the Enchantress.
…While others have argued over the years that Mano was a – yeah, I'll use the word – "swipe" of Cyclops and/or Spider-Man, Validus of the Hulk, and Tharok of Iron Man with a mix of Reed Richards thrown in, others have argued that was stretching things a bit. But the Persuader/Executioner and Emerald Empress/Enchantress "swipes" are pretty obvious, right down to the fact that their color schemes matched!
…You know, I probably should hit Jim up on this one over on his blog.
As someone who lived through that era and bought the Legion's tales in Adventure off the spinner racks for 12c a copy – about what comics are worth these days even though they cost a whole lot more – and there's a side to that "back-and-forth" you missed. While ICSTR whether Jim Shooter confirmed this, but a lot of long-time Legion fans have held the opinion for over 40 years now that the Persuader and the Emerald Empress were – what would Rich Johnston call it? Oh, yes…"swipes" – of the Executioner and the Enchantress.
…While others have argued over the years that Mano was a – yeah, I'll use the word – "swipe" of Cyclops and/or Spider-Man, Validus of the Hulk, and Tharok of Iron Man with a mix of Reed Richards thrown in, others have argued that was stretching things a bit. But the Persuader/Executioner and Emerald Empress/Enchantress "swipes" are pretty obvious, right down to the fact that their color schemes matched!
…You know, I probably should hit Jim up on this one over on his blog.
I actually featured that one in an old installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed. Shooter said no.
Here is the piece: http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/01/31/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-140/
Other than him having an ax and her being green, I don't really see it. In terms of personality and power sets they're very different. But the Cyclops/Spidey and Iron Man connections don't make any sense whatsoever. They may as well have drawn random comics characters out of a hat.
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After watching his side cement their place in second place in division one west following Saturday's 5-1 win over Bude Town, Sticker player-manager Andrew Avery is challenging his players to build some momentum and keep the pressure on runaway leaders Mousehole.
Avery's men provided the perfect response after their Cornwall Charity Cup exit at the hands of Dobwalls seven days earlier as they ran out comfortable 5-1 winners at Burngullow Park - the only game out of the premier division and division one west to survive the latest spell of bad weather at the weekend.
Sticker now enjoy a six-point cushion above third-placed Dobwalls. Saturday's win also cut Mousehole's lead to five points, though the Seagulls also have five games in hand and remain firm favourites to win the league.
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Bosque Farms Village Council meetings don't usually draw a big crowd, but more than 60 residents and village employees were on hand last week to bid a fond farewell to out-going Mayor Wayne Ake.
Ake, who decided not to seek a third term as mayor, may be stepping down from the helm, but he isn't going far. He will once again assume a seat on the village council next month after the municipal elections.
Ake has served as mayor for the last eight years, and before that, spend four years on the village council.
During Thursday night's meeting, the mayor was lauded by village employees and residents for his work for the village. Fire Chief Spencer Wood, who, on behalf of the entire fire department, presented Ake with a plaque thanking him for his leadership.
"We know you're not going far," Wood said, "and we look forward to working with you as a councilor. Again, thank you for all you do. We appreciate it."
Bosque Farms Police Chief Greg Jones also commended Ake for his work as mayor, and thanked him for his commitment to the police department.
"I can't say mayor without thinking of Ake," Jones said. "You've been here eight years as mayor … and everything that we enjoy here has a great deal to do with your dedication to this community, even as far as donating your salary to the police department."
Cliff Hibdon, the director of the village's utility department, also stood up to thank Ake for his work as mayor.
"From all of us in the utility department, we just want thank you for being mayor for the last eight years and we've enjoyed working for you," Hibdon said.
After asking all the village employees stand, Gayle Jones, the village clerk/administrator said, "On behalf of the staff, we just want to thank you. It's been a great eight years and we look forward to working with you on the council."
Not only did village employees express their gratitude to Ake, but so did member of the village council.
Councilor Dolly Wallace said while she and Ake butted heads a few times, "we appreciate all the work you've done for the village for the past eight years."
Councilor Bill Kennedy echoed those sentiments, and said, "It's been a pleasure working with you. I was one of the ones in the group who worked to get you elected."
Councilor Bob Knowlton, who is running unopposed for mayor, thanked Ake for "showing him the ropes." He said when Ake first became mayor, the village was "in shambles."
He commended Ake for his work on making the police and fire station into a reality, finishing to bike path project and others.
"I don't know how you did it, but we've even managed to dodge the bullet on the arsenic," Knowlton said. "…The village is a part of Wayne's heart and soul."
Ake told the audience that when he was first elected mayor, the village had no treasurer, no planning and zoning officer and no clerk administrator.
"On the first day I was mayor, I got a phone call from the contractor who worked on our bike path," he said. "He told me that if he didn't have a check in his office by the end of the day, he was going to sue me. Needless to say, we figured out how to get him paid.
"(Former) Mayor (Louis) Huning, who served almost 30 years as mayor, was my mentor, and he used to tell everybody that his staff 'was the stuff, I'm just the fluff.' And that's how I feel about our staff," Ake said. "They'll do anything I ask.
"I know God's glad that I'm going to the council and not mayor anymore because he's probably tired of me begging and whining.
"I've said a lot of prayers on many issues, such as the police and fire department."
Ake thanked the village staff for all their hard work and help, saying what they do on a daily basis made his job easy.
He also thanked his wife, Lodi, saying, "Behind every successful man is a good woman, and I've certainly had the best."
As for his successor, Ake jokingly told Knowlton, "You mess up, I'll run against you in four years. So don't mess up."
At the end of the meeting, village resident presented Ake with a photo of himself, which he hung on the wall with other former Bosque Farms' mayors.
"You have taught me so much, and I was one of those who worked not to get him elected," McNabb said. "We've come so far in the last eight years. Boy did you ever make a difference for me. I want to thank him from the bottom of my heart. He's one of the gentlest gentlemen I have ever met."
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I have odd results in Crysis benchmarks
I was running some bench marks with Crysis with the benchmark Tester and it did'nt make sence to me .I an running my Q6600 at 3.3gigs and my cards are clocked at 621/1458/900 and I am useing Windows XP and all setting are at high with some very high tweaks,such as r_UsePOM=1,r_sunshafts=1,
Running the GPU benchmark at
1600x1200 min-16.80 Max-54.54 Avg-44.58
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Running the CPU benchmarks I do not get this odd result .I have tried different drivers but it is still the same ,all settings are the same ,but in my
1600x1200 min I get 16.80 and at 1920x1200 my min is 23.51.It looks to me my min at 1600x1200 should be higher then my min at 1920x1200.Running just one card I do not get these weird results at 1600x1200 running one card
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1920x1200 Min-17.40 Max-25.76 Avg-22.50
But with these benchmarks I can tell SLI helps alot.
I actually get a lower min running SLI at 1600x1200 then I do with just one card.It not a big deal because when playing the game I never see it drop even close to the min that I get in the benchmarks,but it still made me go whats up with that.
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Steroids not why I don't like Bonds
I guess I'm the only sports columnist in the United States who hasn't weighed in on Barry Bonds yet.
OK, here goes…
The reason I don't like Barry Bonds — and haven't liked him for 13 years — has nothing to do with steroids. Sure, I have no doubt Bonds has used them. I mean, adult human heads don't continue to grow, or at least they shouldn't.
And certainly his home run record will always be tainted, just as Mark McGwire's single season homer mark (which, of course, was eclipsed by Bonds) is tainted. There again you have a situation that defies genetics because McGwire's forearms resembled Popeye's.
No amount of spinach can do that, gang.
No, any respect I ever had for Bonds was lost during the strike year of 1994. That's when Bonds had signed a six-year, $43.75 million contract with the Giants, yet decided his child support payments needed to be reduced due to the financial hardship caused by the work stoppage.
The judge in the case agreed, and in one of the most unprofessional moves ever made by a person wearing a robe, he asked — and received — an autograph from Bonds.
(He's one of the few people who got Barry's John Hancock and didn't have to pay through the nose to get it.)
As it turned out the judge — under heavy public pressure — reversed his decision and dissociated himself from the case.
Through his attorney, Bonds said he would make another attempt to have payments cut if the strike continued.
That, in a nutshell, is why I have no use for Barry Bonds. When a multi-millionaire wants to cut payments to his children, well, to use a good old-fashioned Southern phrase that means that person is "downright sorry."
As for steroids, let's be honest — you might as well put an asterisk by everything in baseball that has occurred since the drug came on the scene.
Bud Selig and his cronies knew steroid abuse was a problem — they just didn't want to face it or accept it, hoping it would magically go away or correct itself.
Of course, it didn't, so now any time a player starts to hit for power, the first guess is that he's juicing up.
And that's a fair guess.
All this reminds me of the exchange between James Earl Jones and Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams:
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again."
Unfortunately these days baseball — the big league kind — simply reminds us of everything that's wrong with sports.
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