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60 More AJAX- and Javascript Solutions For Professional Coding
- By Sven Lennartz
- April 15th, 2008
- 65 Comments
When it comes to design of modern web-applications, Ajax is considered as a standard approach. Interactive solutions for lightboxes, form validation, navigation, search, tooltips and tables are developed using Ajax libraries and nifty Ajax scripts. Ajax is useful and powerful. However, when using Ajax, one should keep in mind its drawbacks in terms of usability and accessibility. With an extensive use of Ajax, you can easily confuse your visitors offering too much control and too many features.
Nevertheless, it's important to know what's possible, particularly since you can develop new ideas further, improving the quality of your web applications. Since our last article 80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding1 many things have changed — new scripts were introduced, new creative solutions were developed, new robust development kits have been released. They all are supposed to serve a better user experience and provide more comfort for web-developers.
This post presents over 60 new useful Ajax scripts, libraries and solutions which you can use in your future projects. License agreements can change from time to time — please read them carefully before using the script in a commercial web-application.
You might want to consider checking out the following related posts:
- 30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes2 presents scripts of impressive slideshows, lightboxes and galleries you can use for effective presentations of your images,
- 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS3 with handy tooltips scripts for intuitive and well-designed visual clues,
- Data Grids with AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript4 with free solutions for data grids, developed with AJAX, DHTML and/or JavaScript,
- Powerful CSS-techniques For Effective Coding5 which features 50 new CSS-techniques, ideas and ready-to-use solutions for effective CSS-coding.
Please notice: the overview presented below is not just a yet-another-one-collection of Ajax-scripts. It's a collection of really useful ones, the ones you can use in almost every project you'll be working on.
Useful Ajax Scripts Link
Mocha UI6
Mocha is a web applications user interface library built on the Mootools javascript framework. The Mocha GUI components are made with <canvas> tag graphics.
An Accessible Slider8
"Recently we designed and developed an interface that required a slider control, which allows users to choose one or a range of values on a continuum. Values on a slider can represent anything from hours on a clock to the volume on a music player to a complex, proprietary data set. In its simplest form, the slider is displayed as an axis of values with a handle to drag and select a value, or two handles for selecting a range."
Swf meets Ajax. An upload widget that allows queued multiple-file upload including progress bars.
Coda Popup Bubbles12
"When you move the mouse over the popup, this triggers a mouseout on the image used to trigger the popup being shown. I'll explain (carefully) how to make sure the effect doesn't fail in this situation."
Facebook Style Input Box14
The approach to re-create the autocomplete method of adding multiple recipients to messages used on Facebook. "I'd seen it in Facebook before, which has a really decent implementation of this concept (it work well, but it doesn't respect any modern programming principles; basically, it's a big tag soup with lots of inline Javascript)"
Rich Text Editor16
The Rich Text Editor is a UI control that replaces a standard HTML textarea. It allows for the rich formatting of text content, including common structural treatments like lists, formatting treatments like bold and italic text, and drag-and-drop inclusion and sizing of images. The Rich Text Editor's Toolbar is extensible via a plugin architecture so that advanced implementations can achieve a high degree of customization. The tool is based upon Yahoo UI Library17.
iCarousel is an open source (free) javascript tool for creating carousel like widgets.
Ext JS – JavaScript Library21
An extensive JavaScript-Framework with numerous modules and components such as tables, trees, windows, layouts, forms, and tabs. All of them look as if they've been used in standard desktop-applications.
Moo Wheel23
The purpose of this script is to provide a unique and elegant way to visualize data using Javascript and the <canvas>-object. This type of visualization can be used to display connections between many different objects, be them people, places, things, or otherwise. The script is licensed under an MIT-style license.
Product Slider25
This 'product slider' is similar to a straight forward gallery, except that there is a slider to navigate the items, i.e. the bit the user controls to view the items.
Taggify Tooltips27
This post demonstrates how you can use Taggify widget28 to enhance your blog with the functionality to show popup tooltips for parts of your images.
Gettyone Search Options Menu30
Learn how to implement a Gettyone31-like search options menu which display a layer with some search options below the input search field, when an user click on the input field to searching for something.
Moo Canvas33
Relay – Ajax Directory Manager35
Relay is an Ajax-powered file management library. It has a multi-user access restriction, allowing the administrator to control user access to uploaded files. Features: drag-n-drop files and folders, dynamic loading file structure, upload progress bar, thumbnail view, including pdf and multiple users & accounts.
GlassBox is a compact Javascript User Interface (UI) library, which use Prototype and Script.aculo.us for some effects. With GlassBox you can build transparent border, colorful layouts and "Flash-like" effects. Take a look at the site itself: you can use the keyboard navigation: Keys 1-8 (display page), arrows left/right (previous/next page) and arrows up/down (Scroll content).
qGallery is a Prototype-based gallery script which automatically takes care of the image processing, offers multipple viewing modes and comes with a number of transition effects.
GWT-Ext Widget Library43
GWT-Ext is a powerful widget library that provides rich widgets like Grid with sort, paging and filtering, Tree's with Drag & Drop support, highly customizable ComboBoxes, Tab Panels, Menus & Toolbars, Dialogs, Forms and a lot more right out of the box with a powerful and easy to use API. It uses GWT44 and Ext45.
Lightweight but rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using Ajax to load the content.
cforms II49
Masked Input Plugin51
A masked input plugin for the jQuery javascript library. It allows a user to more easily enter fixed width input where you would like them to enter the data in a certain format (dates,phone numbers, etc). It has been tested on Internet Explorer 6/7, Firefox 1.5/2, Safari, and Opera.
Oversized Sliding Tabs53
Sliding Tabs is a mootools 1.11 plugin which adds a pretty neat effect. It's a clone of something seen on Panic Software's Coda site54, which in turn is very heavily inspired by a widget used in the iTunes Music Store. Similar jQuery solution55.
Custom Checkbox with jQuery57
This script provides you with the ability to customize the design of checkboxes in your web forms. You can use the default skin and the Safari skin which are provided with the package.
AJAX Instant Messenger61
Mootools animated sidebar menu63
This tutorial explains how to implement an animated menu using mootools. You can see how it works directly from mootools site.
LiveValidation is a small open source javascript library built for giving users real-time validation information as they fill out forms. Not only that, but it serves as a sophisticated validation library for any validations you need to make elsewhere in your javascript, it is not just limited to form fields.
Creating a table with dynamically highlighted columns67
There is a number of impressive things happening within this small area.
Tablecloth is lightweight, easy to use, unobtrusive way to add style and behaviour to your html table elements. By simply adding 2 lines of code to your html page you will have styled and active tables that your visitors will love :) Try to mouseover or click on a table below.
Unobtrusive Table Actions Script71
An attempt at writing an unobtrusive (and fast) script that adds commonly required "actions" to data tables. Can Zebra stripe the table. And supports row hover, column hover and cell hover effects
FancyForm is a powerful checkbox replacement script used to provide the ultimate flexibility in changing the appearance and function of HTML form elements. It's easy to use and degrades gracefully on all older, non-supporting browsers.
Starbox allows you to easily create all kinds of rating boxes using just one PNG image. The library is build on top of the Prototype javascript framework. For some extra effects you can add Scriptaculous as well. Check the demos below to see what Starbox is all about and read on for more information on how to customize your own Starboxes.
Style Your Website's Search Field with JS/CSS77
Continuing to provide unobtrusive solutions, CSSG is happy to present SearchField. It serves as a way to style your search field and add behavior without any additional JavaScript or modifications in your markup. It features plug & play onfocus and onblur behaviors and auto suggestion like you've never seen before.
The sliding Date-Picker79
Prototype UI. Carousel are great to display a large set of data like images.
minishowcase is a small and simple php/javascript online photo gallery, powered by AJAX that allows you to easily show your images online, without complex databases or coding, allowing to have an up-and-running gallery in a few minutes.
Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information. Below is a live example that you can play with. Pan the timeline by dragging it horizontally.
Displaying source code with Ajax87
The script fires off an Ajax request, gets the document the link points to, replaces the special characters and adds line numbers.
mooSlideBox 389
The mooSlideBox v3 is a small and slim ajax based extension or replacement of the common "lightbox" that can be found on nearly every page. This lightbox clone works in IE 6/7, Opera and Firefox.
Accessible News Slider91
jsProgressBarHandler93 (Dynamic Unobtrusive Javascript Progress/Percentage Bar)
jsProgressBarHandler is a Javascript based Percentage Bar / Progress Bar, inspired upon JS-code by WebAppers and CSS-code by Bare Naked App. Next to a structural rewrite of the WebAppers code, this javascript progress bar can easily be extended and tweaked just by setting a few parameters.
CNN Style Scrolling Ticker with the Marquee Toolkit Control95
Besides scrolling the items from right to left, the liScroll plugin supports two additional features
mooSocialize – ajax based social bookmark widget97
Enough of having to submit interesting articles by hand to your favorite social networks and newsgroups? Then this is for you. Based on ajax, this small widget allows to integrate many many bookmarks for every post on your blog, website etc.
CheckBoxList hover extender99
"We created an AJAX Control Toolkit Extender that asynchronously calls a web service method (or a page method) to obtain the information displayed in the popup control, when the user hovers over an item."
Bullet Proof Corners plugin for jQuery using Canvas/VML
Lightview was built to change the way you overlay content on a website. Works on all modern browsers
Another script you can use to integrate lightboxes and online-galleries in your web-pages. This lightweight script supports 5 different types of Media: Pages, Inline Content, Media (movies, SWF, etc), images (galleries, single), External Websites (via IFrame). Photo: Patrick Cheatham.
DatePicker using Prototype and Scriptaculous
An unobtrusive and flexible date picker widget which uses Prototype and Scriptaculous libraries. 52 More Calendars and Date Picker Designs107.
ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating modern modal dialogs or even wizards (sequences of dialogs) without using conventional pop-ups and page reloads.
Accordion v2.0110
A lightweight accordion that is built with Scriptaculous111, has vertical, horizontal and nested styles and works properly in every browser.
New unobtrusive dynamic flickr badge113
A compact Flickr-Badge for presentation of Flickr-images with a navigation option.
13 Awesome Javascript CSS Menus115
13 "fresh" JavaScript+CSS-based navigation menus in a brief overview. Among other things Slashdot Menu116 and Sexy Sliding Menu117 displayed below.
Further Ajax scripts Link
An AJAX addon for your site, a Mail list. An email address can be submitted without having to reload the whole page.
ClickHeat is an Ajax-powered visual heatmap of clicks on a page, showing hot and cold click zones. You can also use the heatmap generator outside ClickHeat for your own applications, using PHP and GD library.
Prototype UI122
Prototype UI is an open-source configurable Modal Window system. The library allows you to add a window or a dialogue. Windows can have a shadow and be scannable; modal mode is available, and there is a window manager for Web OS behavior.
Protoload makes it easy to show the User what is going on.123
Imagine a complex Rich Internet Application using different hidden requests and processes working side by side. Protoload makes it easy to show the User what is going on.
Step by Step – Show and explain visitors what your page has for them124
You might have encountered interactive demos created with screencasting and screengrabbing software that explain an interface to users in a step-by-step manner. This is exactly what this script does for web sites.
FontSize slider125
Enables visitors to define the font-size of the page.
Facebox is a jQuery-based, Facebook-style lightbox which can display images, divs, or entire remote pages. It's simple to use and easy on the eyes. Download the tarball, view the examples, then start enjoying the curves.
Resources Link
- Ajax Rain127 is a growing collection of Ajax / Javascript / DHTML examples and demos you can download for free. The site currently offers over 1000 examples.
- 14 Cool Mootools Scripts128 lists useful Ajax-scripts for the Mootools library.
- 45 Fresh jQuery Plugins129 offers a growing list of references for jQuery plugins and solutions.
Footnotes Link
- 1 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/06/20/ajax-javascript-solutions-for-professional-coding/
- 2 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/05/18/30-best-solutions-for-image-galleries-slideshows-lightboxes/
- 3 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/06/12/tooltips-scripts-ajax-javascript-css-dhtml/
- 4 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/05/30/tables-and-data-grids-with-ajax-dhtml-javascript/
- 5 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/21/powerful-css-techniques-for-effective-coding/
- 6 http://greghoustondesign.com/demos/mocha/
- 7 http://greghoustondesign.com/demos/mocha/
- 8 http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/developing_an_accessible_slider/
- 9 http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/developing_an_accessible_slider/
- 10 http://digitarald.de/playground/uplooad.html
- 11 http://digitarald.de/playground/uplooad.html
- 12 http://jqueryfordesigners.com/coda-popup-bubbles/
- 13 http://jqueryfordesigners.com/coda-popup-bubbles/
- 14 http://devthought.com/textboxlist-meets-autocompletion/
- 15 http://devthought.com/textboxlist-meets-autocompletion/
- 16 http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/editor/index.html
- 17 http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/
- 18 http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/editor/index.html
- 19 http://zendold.lojcomm.com.br/icarousel/
- 20 http://zendold.lojcomm.com.br/icarousel/
- 21 http://extjs.com/
- 22 http://extjs.com/
- 23 http://www.unwieldy.net/moowheel/
- 24 http://www.unwieldy.net/moowheel/
- 25 http://jqueryfordesigners.com/slider-gallery/
- 26 http://jqueryfordesigners.com/slider-gallery/
- 27 http://www.taggify.net/blog/post/2008/01/How-to-add-advanced-tooltips-for-people-on-your-photo.aspx
- 28 http://www.taggify.net/
- 29 http://www.taggify.net/blog/post/2008/01/How-to-add-advanced-tooltips-for-people-on-your-photo.aspx
- 30 http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/02/gettyone-like-search-options-menu-with.html
- 31 http://www.gettyone.com/
- 32 http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/02/gettyone-like-search-options-menu-with.html
- 33 http://ibolmo.com/projects/moocanvas/
- 34 http://ibolmo.com/projects/moocanvas/
- 35 http://ecosmear.com/relay/
- 36 http://ecosmear.com/relay/
- 37 http://www.glassbox-js.com/
- 38 http://www.glassbox-js.com/
- 39 http://qgallery.quadrifolia.de
- 40 http://qgallery.quadrifolia.de
- 41 http://amberjack.org/
- 42 http://amberjack.org/
- 43 http://gwt-ext.com/
- 44 http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
- 45 http://extjs.com/
- 46 http://gwt-ext.com/
- 47 http://webplicity.net/flexigrid/
- 48 http://webplicity.net/flexigrid/
- 49 http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin/
- 50 http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin/
- 51 http://digitalbush.com/projects/masked-input-plugin
- 52 http://digitalbush.com/projects/masked-input-plugin
- 53 http://creativepony.com/journal/scripts/sliding-tabs/
- 54 http://www.panic.com/coda/
- 55 http://www.ndoherty.com/demos/coda-slider/1.1.1/
- 56 http://creativepony.com/journal/scripts/sliding-tabs/
- 57 http://widowmaker.kiev.ua/checkbox/
- 58 http://widowmaker.kiev.ua/checkbox/
- 59 http://nicedit.com/
- 60 http://nicedit.com/
- 61 http://www.ajaxim.com/
- 62 http://www.ajaxim.com/
- 63 http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/01/mootools-animated-sidebar-menu.html
- 64 http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/01/mootools-animated-sidebar-menu.html
- 65 http://www.livevalidation.com/
- 66 http://www.livevalidation.com
- 67 http://www.askthecssguy.com/2007/08/creating_a_table_with_dynamica.html
- 68 http://www.askthecssguy.com/2007/08/creating_a_table_with_dynamica.html
- 69 http://cssglobe.com/lab/tablecloth/
- 70 http://cssglobe.com/lab/tablecloth/
- 71 http://www.frequency-decoder.com/2007/11/15/unobtrusive-table-actions-script
- 72 http://www.frequency-decoder.com/2007/11/15/unobtrusive-table-actions-script
- 73 http://lipidity.com/fancy-form/
- 74 http://lipidity.com/fancy-form/
- 75 http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/starbox/
- 76 http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/starbox/
- 77 http://cssglobe.com/post/1202/searchfield-unobtrusive-search-field-solution
- 78 http://cssglobe.com/post/1202/searchfield-unobtrusive-search-field-solution
- 79 http://ajaxorized.com/introducing-the-sliding-date-picker/
- 80 http://ajaxorized.com/introducing-the-sliding-date-picker/
- 81 http://www.prototype-ui.com/
- 82 http://www.prototype-ui.com/
- 83 http://minishowcase.frwrd.net/
- 84 http://minishowcase.frwrd.net/
- 85 http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/
- 86 http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/
- 87 http://icant.co.uk/sandbox/ajax-code-display/
- 88 http://icant.co.uk/sandbox/ajax-code-display/
- 89 http://www.artviper.net/test/ajaxslide/
- 90 http://www.artviper.net/test/ajaxslide/
- 91 http://www.reindel.com/accessible_news_slider
- 92 http://www.reindel.com/accessible_news_slider
- 93 http://www.bram.us/projects/js_bramus/jsprogressbarhandler/
- 94 http://www.bram.us/projects/js_bramus/jsprogressbarhandler/
- 95 http://mattberseth.com/blog/2008/01/cnn_style_scrolling_ticker_wit.html
- 96 http://mattberseth.com/blog/2008/01/cnn_style_scrolling_ticker_wit.html
- 97 http://www.artviper.net/moosocialize.php
- 98 http://www.artviper.net/moosocialize.php
- 99 http://blog.lavablast.com/post/2008/01/CheckBoxList-hover-extender.aspx
- 100 http://blog.lavablast.com/post/2008/01/CheckBoxList-hover-extender.aspx
- 101 http://parkerfox.parkerfox.railsplayground.net/cornerz/
- 102 http://parkerfox.parkerfox.railsplayground.net/cornerz/
- 103 http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/lightview/
- 104 http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/lightview/
- 105 http://stickmanlabs.com/lightwindow/
- 106 http://stickmanlabs.com/lightwindow/
- 107 http://www.smileycat.com/design_elements/calendars_date_pickers/
- 108 http://wildbit.com/demos/modalbox/
- 109 http://wildbit.com/demos/modalbox/
- 110 http://www.stickmanlabs.com/accordion/
- 111 http://script.aculo.us/
- 112 http://www.stickmanlabs.com/accordion/
- 113 http://www.wait-till-i.com/index.php?p=484
- 114 http://www.wait-till-i.com/index.php?p=484
- 115 http://www.noupe.com/ajax/13-awesome-java-script-css-menu.html
- 116 http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/slashdot.htm
- 117 http://www.andrewsellick.com/35/sexy-sliding-javascript-side-bar-menu-using-mootools
- 118 http://www.noupe.com/ajax/13-awesome-java-script-css-menu.html
- 119 http://www.noupe.com/ajax/13-awesome-java-script-css-menu.html
- 120 http://www.dayfoxdesigns.co.nr/downloads.php
- 121 http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/index.html
- 122 http://www.prototype-ui.com/
- 123 http://aka-fotos.de/protoload/
- 124 http://icant.co.uk/sandbox/stepbystep/index.html
- 125 http://dev.justinmaier.com/fontSize/
- 126 http://famspam.com/facebox
- 127 http://www.ajaxrain.com/library.php
- 128 http://www.cult-f.net/2008/02/25/14-cool-mootools-scripts/
- 129 http://www.noupe.com/ajax/45-fresh-out-of-the-oven-jquery-plugins.html


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Technological Stagnation
Let's be blunt here, technologically speaking we've stagnated.
We were supposed to have flying cars and hover boards in 2015 and looking at the movie they'd had them for a while before that. So where are they? we don't have anything remotely like anti-gravity.
Where are our moon colonies? Mars colonies?
Are we ever going to get anti-gravity? is it possible such technology does not and never will exist? What does that mean to our development as a species?
If all we will ever have to get off this planet is rockets then we're basically stuck here and that doesn't bode well with an ever increasing population and a planet with limited resources.
We should be mining Mars by now but we're not.
Why are we so far behind? we have all these fast paced industrialised economies, trillions of pounds world combined economy. Why is it so hard for every nation on Earth to throw some money into a planetary project to get off this rock?
Where are the floating sea cities?
All I ever see are people putting forward conceptual ideas and that's both where it begins and where it ends.
We're going nowhere at all. We'll still be in the same place a hundred years from now, probably even two hundred years from now.
We might aswell get used to the idea that as a species we're stagnant and a failure.
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Some of it's down to money.
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If you think our technological progress has stopped then you are simply wrong and not looking at the right areas for it. If all you care about is space travel, I don't know what to tell you. It's not currently cost effective to mine asteroids or set up colonies and we're not likely to do much of that unless and until it is.
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Also, IBM's super computer Watson actually beat a human being at Jeporady, and it fairly effectively mimics an artifical intelligence.
Watson now is involved in predictive Health Care and even now can predict audience reactions to films
I am however a little disappointed that technologies like the driverless car is so slow to market despite the fact we have the technology to implement them.
Also, airtravel hasn't advanced much since the introduction of the jet engine.
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Driverless cars, on the other hand, had been held back by lacking a lot of the technological infrastructure necessary to make them work: cheap and ubiquitous GPS chips, reliable digital maps, cheap and ubiquitous cameras (and other sensors), and good/fast pattern recognition, as well as greater computerization of car functions in general. Basically, driverless cars weren't really possible until a lot of other things were in place. Now that they are, we're seeing very rapid advancement in this area, and estimates are that driverless cars will be a common sight on the roads in the next 10 to 20 years.
I, for one, can't wait. I don't really like driving and I'd love to hand that function over to a computer.
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Also, as I understand it everyone on the road would have to have GPS and many people are concerned about the privacy issues related to that.
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If an accident occurs because a human driver took over, the human is at fault. If an accident occurs because of a hardware or software defect, the manufacturer is at fault. If an accident occurs because the owner hasn't been doing proper maintenance, the owner is at fault. If everything was working correctly and circumstances were such that the accident was simply unavoidable, you've got yourself a no-fault situation.
That said, driverless cars are expected to have much lower accident, injury, and fatality rates than human-driven cars. A computer is simply much better at responding to real-time circumstances extremely quickly, with exacting precision as well as vastly more information than is available to a human.
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The problem with driverless cars is not so much a technological issue rather a human issue. Are we really ready to hand over control to a computer? It's similair to airplanes. In Theory a plane could take-off, fly to it's destinationa nd land by itself. The technology exists but would we want to fly on plane without a pilot?
Sure driverless cars all controlled by computers would drastically increase capciaty, reduce congestion etc....
As for a car accident, there is no such a no-fault accident, you might not be at fault yourself. i.e. stopped at a red light waiting for it to change and be rear ended, but the other driver(s) is at fault.
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Humans really need to get over themselves. Computers can do most things better than we can, and it's absolutely ridiculous that we should endure higher death and injury rates just so we can feel good about being "in control."
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In my experience - these are the same people who speed up to red lights and are also generally speaking the same individuals who act the most reckless on the road.
But he's right - there are many folks unless driverless cars were law to engage - won't give up the wheel.
That said - when a death occurs I believe driverless cars become more legally tricky when it comes to accountability.
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Solutions for this are pretty straightforward.
There is no need to mandate driverless cars, just remove any legal obstacles to having them on public roads.
Second, let insurance companies manage the rates for driverless cars vs. human-operated ones. It will probably turn out very quickly that it's much less risky to insure a driverless car. Many people will switch just to save money on that side of it. If your insurance is going to be $200 a month if you drive the car yourself vs. $20 a month to have it self-drive, who's going to pass up that bargain? Most people won't.
Finally, require by a set date that all new vehicles sold come equipped with a self-driving system, the same way we've mandated airbags and anti-lock brakes.
Your insurance company can determine your discount based on how often you use the self-driving system rather than driving yourself. The more you drive yourself, the higher your rate will be.
Money talks, and a lot of people will decide that their desire to be "in control" is outweighed by saving money.
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Regarding who is at fault upthread - one problem with your suggestion IMO is that in terms of criminal liability when a death occurs when the manufacturer is at fault - as we know it's hard in large corporations to punish individuals.
In otherwords, who goes to jail if a 3 year old is kililed because the computer malfunctioned?
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Driverless cars would perhaps best suited to say motorways initally. Like anything this type of change has to be brought in slowly in order to convince a somewhat skeptical public that it is viable.
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The Difference Between "WHAT" and "WHEN"
As expected the market bounced rather sharply from its recent plunge which took the S&P 500 to 4-standard deviations below the 50-day moving average. We had stated in previous missives and blogs that this would most likely be the case and that this would get the bulls all excited that somehow stocks were now the place to be again for the "long term".
Honestly, this completely baffles me for several reasons. 1) Stocks, as an asset class, have been the worst performing asset class for the last decade. Yet investors still chase them hoping to garner riches; 2) markets never move in one direction, however, the overall "trend" is much more important than daily variations of price; and 3) while valuations based on a trailing, reported earnings are essential to long term value investing - valuation models are horrible timing devices and you can lose a lot of money before being right.
I bring this up for several reasons but primarily because there has been a litany of articles published during the last week touting everything from the yield curve, earnings yields and forward valuations as a reason to jump back into stocks now. Of course, the problem with all of these is that those measures, in a bear market, can wind up costing investors a LOT of money over time.
In recent missives we have dispelled the myths of the Equity Yield vs. Treasury Yields as an indicator of "value" in the markets. Furthermore, low interest rates and a steep yield curve, when artificially manipulated is yet to be seen as being a reason to pay a premium in terms of multiples for stocks.
Let me be VERY clear. At Streettalk Advisors, we are fundamental value investors. Fundamental value, based on trailing, reported, earnings determines "WHAT" we buy. However, the key to successful long term investing, and particularly when navigating highly volatile secular bear markets as the one we are in now and will continue to be in most likely for another decade, is the knowing the "WHEN" to buy.
Therefore, once we have determined the "WHAT" to buy we must employ a set of tools to not only determine the "WHEN" to buy, but also, the "WHEN" to sell and the "WHEN" to just stay away.
For the sake of simplicity we will focus today only the S&P 500, but this same analysis holds true for any position, asset class or market."
Individual investors do most of the damage to themselves by allowing emotions to override logical investing. There have been many articles written about the rules of investing in the financial markets and the basics of them all center around 5 important concepts:
- Sell losing positions quickly
- Let winners continue to win - until they don't any more.
- Never take on more risk than you can afford to lose.
- Always protect your capital investment by minimizing losses.
- Buy low and sell high.
Yet it is exactly these basic rules that investors continue to ignore and violate by buying into ideas like "dollar cost averaging", "buy and hold investing", etc.
There is one major tenant that must always be honored if you are going to survive and prosper in investing over the long term - always protect your principal investment. This does NOT mean you will never lose money when you are investing - you will. If you are not willing to take losses in your portfolio - then you should not be investing to start with. The unwillingness to take losses has led to more money being transferred out of individuals portfolios than at the point of a gun. Losing money is part of the game...limiting how much you lose is what separates winners from losers.
The recent market debacle has NOT given rise to the opportunity to began aggressively investing into the markets. All indications point to weaker markets ahead. Does this mean that the markets will absolutely go lower from here - no. However, the "risk" of loss of investment capital at the current time is outweighed by the potential for return.
We use several different indicators, both long term and short term, to try and better determine the "WHEN" to invest. It doesn't always work. However, here is a little known secret - nothing does. This is also one of the biggest mistakes that individuals make when investing. They buy into one strategy that is working (usually last year's big winners) and then jump from that strategy to the next previously winning strategy when their returns suffer. This is the epitome of what drives investors to "Buy High and Sell Low".
A disciplined investing strategy is one that requires, you guessed it, discipline. That means that sometimes, even when it is not working, you have to stay with it (this is provided it is a sound investment strategy to begin with) as it will perform over the long term.
The chart shows one of our signals over the last decade. As you can see it generated a total of 28 signals over 11 years. This obviously is not a "high turnover" or "high maintenance" tool and even a individual who was prone to "invest and forget" could have followed this simple indicator.
By using a simple tool such as this one, the investor whould have stayed mostly out of trouble during market turmoil and captured, on average, about 80% of the upside movement in the market with only about 20% of the downside losses. In other words, on a year over year basis he would have never beaten the market on the upside. However, over the last decade he would be significantly ahead of the broader markets.
This model is the very one that prompted us to raise cash and fixed income back in April of this year even as the markets were pushing higher. We were chastised by media personalities for being "bearish" at the time. However, our clients have suffered very little with the market downturn and are now in a position to capture the next advance when it occurs OR avoid the potentially recessionary downdraft that the economic numbers are telling us is coming.
At the current time we are still maintaining our hoard of cash and fixed income for the time being and keep equity exposure to a minimum.
Here is the important point. When this signal changes, whenever it changes, regardless of how we "feel" or what we "think" about the economy or markets as a whole (those are emotional biases) we will adjust holdings accordingly. This will be the "WHEN" that we BUY the "WHAT" our fundamental values are telling us to.
Investors CAN do better.with their portfolios. We remain in a "secular bear market" - the same one which we have been writing about now for more than a decade. Unfortunately, secular bear markets are long lasting, generally 15-18 years, so we have more work ahead of us. The difference for most will be who survives this partcular market with capital left to invest at the beginning of the next secular bull market..
Remember, finding the "WHAT" to invest in is easy. Learning to find the "WHEN" to invest in the "WHAT" is what will make all of the differnce in your retirement portfolio.


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Thursday, April 27, 2006
A Quilter's Evening!
Last night (wednesday) was the quilter's gathering at the quilt shop! There are not a lot of machine quilters in the Netherlands. Space comes at a dear price, and not many people have garages or room for a large machine, so quilting by longarm here is quite a novelty!
I had 5 quilts that I have quilted for a lady in Amsterdam, and she let us use the quilts for display for the evening so I could talk a bit about machine quilting, how it is done with a longarm machine, etc.
It was a very special evening for me. Everyone was so nice and welcoming. Food was even provided...Everything was so good! (yes, I was trying EVERYTHING again!)
Lucy lives about 6 kilometers from the shop and rides her bike to and from each way. I have loved riding bikes here so much, I wish things were more like this in america. There are bike lanes on both sides of the street....and just like driving a car, you have your own traffic lights for the bike lanes....bike traffic on either side of the street also goes only in the same direction that the auto traffic is going...You don't ride against traffic, either bike traffic or car traffic!
We left the quiltshop at close to 11pm at night! So this was my first experience in riding home in the dark. The streets are well lit, and the bikes are also equipped with headlights and tail lights, just as if you were driving a car or riding a motorcycle. It was fun to ride at night! It was a bit chilly out, but riding the bike warms you up fast enough, and it was refreshing after spending several hours in the shop with chatty quilters and so much good food :c)
Today we have been to the outdoor market....It was fun to walk through the vendors and see what they were selling. I bought a pound of black licorice in different shapes and varieties. They call it "DROP" here, and I love it. I've always loved black licorice, and it amazes people here that someone from america does! The salty stuff though? That takes a bit of getting used to, so I stick to the sweet!
This afternoon is Lucy's small quilting group, and I'm looking forward to meeting everyone and getting some actual quilting done! I brought my hexagons to work on them...we will see if I will actually sew anything! So far I haven't! *LOL*
Bonnie (who is being called by Lucy to come eat lunch!!)
7 comments:
- Alena said...
All the posts are wonderful! So many things happening, nice to hear you are both having such a great time, enjoy, girls, it is lovely to follow your days, thanks for sharing... I hope you finally managed to do some sewing...
- Barbara said...
Wow, it sounds like you are having a great time. It is making me homesick..I could almost taste the pancakes..
Have fun!
- Patty said...
Every day looks like a fun adventure. With the price of gas here, bike riding is a good alternative. We need to put in good bike lanes and make it safer
- Sandra said...
I wish it wasn't so hilly here - I'd ride everywhere! I love bike riding :-) The quilting evening looked great - there were some stunning quilts hanging around the walls, as well as the ones you bought too. Made me feel "warm and fuzzy" reading about your post today. Keep it up!
- Tonya R said...
Quilters, quilts, fabric, food and black licorice (even the salty stuff)- sounds perfect.
- Tracey said...
Girls!!! Where did ya go?!?! I'm betting that you're having fun without sharing it with us!!! :oP
LOVE the pics. I can't imagine having the oppurtunity to take a trip like this...but it couldn't have happened to nicer people. :o)
- Dawn said...
Oh I love the pictures of the meeting at the quilt shop with Bonnie! I had to check out all the quilts of course! What a fun time that must have been! But I was a bit tired reading about all the bike riding! Wheh - I would have to get in shape before I came!


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The Vauxhall version of Holden's VE HSV Clubsport R8 is so close as to be generating its own gravitational field around the UK (hold on to your cider). It's yet another Australian-born teaser for the Pontiac G8, which will appear in the states sometime during the 385th season of "According to Jim." If we can survive… »


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The pink clothes and accessories that brightened up the green Sunday at The Players Championship was not only in honor of all the mothers out celebrating their day, but also for breast cancer awareness.
The Donna Foundation, a local organization that raises money for woman and men living with breast cancer, has teameed up with TPC for the last few years. This year, a hot pink beach cruiser painted, built and donated by the Bicycle Clinic stole the show.
"I like the wheels which is kind of odd, but I think they're really big and probably easy to ride, said Hallie Wright, who donated $5 in hopes she'll be the one that takes it home. "It looks like a really nice bike."
"This thing is so cool, it's all pink, it's got pink jewels all over it, it's got pink flowers, it is the bomb," said Donna Deegan, founder of the Donna Foundation.
Deegan -- a three-time survivor of breast cancer -- said the main goal of the organization is to raise money for people who can't afford their treatments. She said the partnership with The Players helps the organization in many ways.
"The prestige of The Players is something that is recognized around the world. So, to have our name connected to that, knowing that The Players would support our charity is a very big deal for us," said Deegan.
She said The Players has raised more than $220,000 over the past few years. The bike will be raffled off at 4 p.m. and all raffle proceeds go to the foundation.


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Virginia Gentleman is a rye recipe bought in bulk from Heaven Hill. VG was always a ryed bourbon.
Linn Spencer
Have Shotglass. Will Travel.
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Virginia Gentleman is a rye recipe bought in bulk from Heaven Hill. VG was always a ryed bourbon.
Linn Spencer
Have Shotglass. Will Travel.
Gadzooks Jim! Weller *REEKS*! I can see the subliminal implants have taken a strong hold. You're in massive denial. Weller is such good whiskey that it went out of business some years ago, and still there is plenty of the swillage laying in the rackhouses to this day. Deamon farts smell sweeter.
Linn Spencer
Have Shotglass. Will Travel.
Thanks so much for all of the responses and info. I know that to wheat or not to wheat is an oft debated subject after sifting through the archives of postings, and I should say that while I think my tastes tend to sway in favor of the addition of wheat, I'm by no means sold on the idea. Of those mentioned, I've tried and enjoyed a few, those being the aforementioned Maker's, Rebel Yell (which I found to have a rather good price-to-taste ratio, but which my local liquor store tends to raise and lower the price at least weekly for some unknown reason), and some of the Weller's. I am intrigued with Buffalo Trace and the Rip/Pap Van Winkle lines, which have gotten high marks by most in the forum, but seem to be absent from the shelves of my immediate (southeastern CT coast) area. With time I'm sure I'll be able to track them down or order online.
Any one on the forum up in the New England area that can recommend a good retail spot for a variety of bourbons? My local has a surprisingly good selection (missing the Van Winkles and others of its ilk), comprising most of the Bookers to Blantons to Old Crow varietals, and quite a few Rye whisk(e)ys to boot. I've managed to find quite a number of those praised and appropriately dismissed on this forum. That said, I've recently picked up a bottle of BIB OGD to try as it seems to have illicited some intriguing commentary. I'll let you know what I think.
J. Rocco
CT Shoreline, USA
See? I told you guys he's a freakin maniac.
Thanks for backin me up on that one Linn, I hate making unfounded assertions in public.
BTW, it's bad practice to allow daemons exposure to the open air. Tcpwrappers should be employed such that if they do fart, inetd will contain the fetid by-product and the offense will be recorded for posterity by syslogd.
Jim Butler
Jim, Linn
One issue then remains unclear:
Which is most offensive -- Wheated or Non-wheated farts? Creggor, wanna head the experiment? Better yet, why not make it a forum wide weekend project. We all report Monday. Ladies, you too.
Omar this is so easy there is no need to wait 'til Monday. Non-wheated flatulence is the most foul. Try this: cook up a batch of venison chili and wash it down with the beer of your choice. You'll soon find out that wild meats produce intensely odoriferous emissons. Once while on a hunting trip we made this very mistake. That night while sleeping in a tighly ziped bag, I let one rip blowing a hole in the bag; lifting the tent off the ground, and sending a nearby skunk running for it's very life!
Linn Spencer
Have Shotglass. Will Travel.
Omar, Omar, Omar...whatever were you thinking? You said: "make it a forum wide weekend project. We all report Monday. Ladies, you too."
Now surely you know that ladies don't fart. Nope, we just don't. We don't belch either. It is because of this we are forced to bitch now and then or...we'd just blow clean up [IMG]/wwwthreads/images/wink.gif[/IMG]
Blowin' smoke in Bardstown
Wonderfully stated Scully! Welcome Julius! Wow we go away for 5 days and have 50 messages to go through!
I enjoy both Rye and Wheated. My favorites of the wheated are definatly the Van Winkle products. The 15 year old and the new Pappy 20 are outstanding!!
No more maniacal or freakish than thou my brother!
Linn Spencer
Have Shotglass. Will Travel.
Please overlook my manners. Welcome to this group. Although I've been a Bourbon drinker for years, my understanding ended with how to get the cap off...:o) I have learned much here, one of the things being I too enjoy wheated Bourbons if drinking them neat. Perhaps we can work our way through Pappy's offerings together.
Blowin' smoke in Bardstown


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Progress continues for proposed nature trail from Wauzeka to Boscobel
By Ted Pennekamp
A proposed hiking, biking, and cross country skiing trail from Wauzeka to Woodman to Boscobel continues to make progress. Proponents of the trail met recently with the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway Board and received the board's support for a trail near the railroad connecting the three municipalities.
Within the past couple of years Roddy Dull and Denise Fisher, members of the Wisconsin River Trail Project Group, have also received approval for the trail from the Crawford County Board of Supervisors as well as villages and towns along the route.
"Our goals are established with a 'go big or go home' attitude," said Fisher, who noted that the project is being accomplished in phases.
The first phase is to finish the Sanders Creek walking/biking trail to the boat landing in Boscobel.
The next goal is to create a hiking/biking trail that leads from Boscobel toward Woodman following, in areas, the railroad trails.
"I have spoken to Kim Tollers, our DOT Rails and Trail representative," said Fisher. "She said that you can parallel a railroad as long as you're 51 feet away. This is the way we plan on exiting Boscobel and heading towards Woodman for at least half of the distance. It lessens any need for clearing the way and is a less invasive way of asking someone for easements if it is right beside an already existent railroad."
Fisher said that the trail project has been accepted as a UW-Platteville Engineering Departments "project" for Fall 2014. "They are planning on helping us design the bike trail, especially and including our Wisconsin River Bridge crossing from Woodman to Wauzeka," said Fisher. "That stretch is a four-mile stretch, but it is in need of four to seven bridges. Right now, using the railroad crossing, even this time of year, the water isn't as high as you'd think. Our exciting part of crossing here is that we want to make it ADA accessible so that others in wheelchairs can have the same view as everyone else, and hopefully be able to do a little fishing from a small dock or two."
Fisher said that UW-Platteville will complete a report that details the exact amount of money that is needed.
This four-mile stretch will be the biggest feat and most exciting segment of the trail, said Fisher. Crossing over the Wisconsin River is in an area that boasts country and river scenery that allows for peaceful, one-of-a-kind views of nature that can only be seen until now, by boat.
"Our last phase will be to bring the trail full circle from Wauzeka back to Boscobel following roughly the Highway 60 path which follows the Wisconsin River," said Fisher.
Fisher said that she, Dull, and others working on the trail project are trying to obtain 501(3)(c) status and that they have completed most of the required paperwork. "Roddy Dull, our Woodman liaison, has done lots of work to spearhead this, even before the actual trail exists," said Fisher. Fisher said that Dull has been working to create a "Dinky Trail" that plots the trail on which the Fennimore Dinky train went.
Fisher noted that numerous municipalities, organizations and businesses are supporting the trail project. "We just kicked off our first small fund-raiser, delivering pizzas from the Krachey's gas station, and now are planning an A & W Restaurant family night where 20% of the evening's profits will go towards our trail," she said. "We have a 'Welcome Home' tailgating chicken barbecue at the park in Boscobel on the evening of July 3. Many people arrive home for this event and have nothing to do until the Fourth of July. This way, people can meet at the park the night before and enjoy each other's families and have a wonderful night of fun, complete with a meal and DJ/kid's games and entertainment. We also are planning a Hiking and Biking Unlimited Banquet, like the Duck's Unlimited Banquet, on Nov. 1, which will be our biggest fund-raiser for sure. We need businesses and people to donate, so if anyone wants to donate, please contact one of our board members."
Fisher said that the project's DNR contact has been Matt Seguin, who is the property manager of the Lower Wisconsin Riverway. Seguin has put the project on the DNR Master Plan which is being completed this spring. "He is in full acceptance of this project and has backed us 100%," said Fisher. "Our cities are also in support of this," said Fisher. "Boscobel has had to revamp its recreation plan for the future in order for us to apply for many DNR grants. Woodman and Wauzeka are also in support and have given us the go ahead. There just isn't any funding for any of this, especially after last year's flooding in Boscobel, and it is up to our organization to find the money, and we will!"
"Business people are also in support of this," said Fisher. "Our goal is to not only bring this trail for the enjoyment of our local people, but to also bring in more tourism. We have many canoeists come in on weekends with bikes, only to leave our town early because we don't have the trails that they would like to see. Many city people have bought land in our hills in order to hunt, fish, and enjoy our rural beauty. A bike/hike trail would only improve tourism in our area."
Fisher noted that the project also has the support of the Southwest Wisconsin Technical College in Fennimore. "They are helping us with memorial recognition areas, restroom facilities, and benches, as well as creating brochures and marketing assistance that we may need," she said.
Fisher said that the railroad hasn't been contacted officially yet, but trail proponents will have their "ducks in a row" when they do. "We'll be ready. We know it's not easy, but, in the long run, it will be worth it," she said. "Where else can you find a river crossing that doesn't include a highway/road? I can't even imagine the beauty and solitude of crossing a river on a bike or hike where there's nothing but you and nature."
Fisher said that the time line for the first phase is probably no later than next fall. The second phase will hopefully be completed in two to three years, and the third phase might be five to six years away. She said that the last phase will probably be close to 10 years hence.
"It sounds like a long time but in all reality, it truly isn't," said Fisher. "I look forward to riding a bike on this trail with my (unborn) grandkids, passing strangers with a friendly hello, and knowing in my heart that this trail of happiness exists because a few townspeople banded together to make a dream become our and someone else's reality."
To donate towards the trail project, interested persons can send a check made out to the Wisconsin River Trail Organization to Community First Bank in Boscobel (925 Wisconsin Avenue, 53805), or go on the website, www.wirivertrail.org on the donation page, or contact any of the Wisconsin River Trail Organization Board members. "We have a way to donate a one-time donation, but also a way to donate $5, $10, or $20 per month so it's not so taxing to people with families, yet helps them qualify for the $500+ recognition," said Fisher.


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Twin Buttes too low to continue pumping, city of San Angelo says
Photo gallery "Last Gasps of a Dying Reservoir" - click here http://bit.ly/TwinButtesDry.
An exhausted Twin Buttes Reservoir means Lake Nasworthy will continue to decline without replenishing rainfall.
The city of San Angelo's Water Utilities Department has maintained the level of Lake Nasworthy by pumping available water in Twin Buttes storage pools with portable pumps.
All the water is gone, and the pumping operation has ceased, according to a city news release Tuesday afternoon.
"Nasworthy is kind of on its own right now," said Ricky Dickson, water utilities director.
Pumping in Twin Buttes began in the south pool April 15 and ended July 12. The pumps switched to the north pool Aug. 12 and cut off Nov. 16.
During the remaining fall and winter months, the decline should be minimal as cooler temperatures cause reduced water use and evaporation, the release said.
The city is required to release water from Nasworthy downstream to water-rights holders in accordance with the Concho Water Master Program as stipulated by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
San Angelo relies on O.H. Ivie Reservoir for most of its raw water needs.
O.C. Fisher Reservoir, which had previously been dry, received about 2,500 acre-feet of water from recent rains. One acre-foot equals 325,851 gallons. The city has begun using that to supplement the water from Ivie.
Unfortunately, lake levels are unlikely to increase through the winter months.
San Angelo averages 1.14 inches of rainfall in November, 0.85 inch in December, and 0.93 inch in January, according to the National Weather Service.
Typically, winter rain falls in bursts of 0.1 to 0.25 inches over a two- to three-day period, said Patrick McCullough, senior forecaster with the NWS. Sometimes those rains can offset evaporation but provide little lake relief, he said.
"There's a reason why we are so dry in the winter," McCullough said.
While light rain over the span of a few days is beneficial to farmers and ranchers, little runoff is produced. It takes heavy rain covering a wide area in a short amount of time to aid lakes and reservoirs, McCullough said.
"Maybe we'll be different this year, but most seasons we don't see rain like that," he said.
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A Mere Shadow
by George Grant
The Great Fire of 1666 destroyed more than a third of the city of London including the famed St. Paul's Cathedral overlooking the Thames. The earliest sanctuary on the site had been erected sometime in the first decade of the seventh century. It had been substantially refurbished and expanded at least four times — in 675 following a devastating fire, in 962 following the rampages of the Vikings, in 1087 following the Norman conquest, and in 1561 following storm damage to the nave and cloister. But it was obvious to all that the seventeenth-century fire was so devastating that mere repairs would simply not be sufficient. The cathedral would have to be entirely redesigned and reconstructed. King Charles II appointed his friend Christopher Wren (1632–1723) chief architect of the vast project.
Although he had no formal training as an architect, Wren was renowned as an engineering genius. He had already made significant contributions to sundry practical sciences and built a wide variety of public works. As assistant to an eminent anatomist, Wren developed skills as an experimental, scientific thinker. In 1657, when he was still just twenty-five years old, Wren was appointed the Gresham Professor of Astronomy in London. Four years later he became the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford.
But his greatest contributions would not be made as a mentor of students at the university or as a pioneer in the fledgling new science of astrophysics. Instead, in 1663, he discovered his true calling when his uncle, the Bishop of Ely, asked him to design a new chapel for Pembroke College, Cambridge. This was his first foray into architecture, but it proved to be such a stunning success that it was quickly followed by a flurry of new commissions.
Following the Great Fire, Charles II appointed Wren the Surveyor General of the King's Works. In that capacity, the young visionary presented a utopian scheme to rebuild the entire city. Political intrigue, petty jealousy, and substantial theological disputes caused the royal oversight committee to set the grand plan aside and to focus solely on a handful of special projects — including the cathedral.
Wren's simple and elegant proposals were fiercely contested by the committee which engineered its own plan. Wren, a patient, practical man, reluctantly agreed to the committee's plan with the stipulation that he be allowed to make such modifications as might prove necessary during the actual construction. The finished work was, in fact, almost identical to his own original design. Of course, Wren's wry machinations hardly endeared him to the committee — despite his obvious brilliance, they determined to remove him from consideration for any future royal commissions.
Controversy dogged the architect from beginning to end. The jealous magistrates boycotted even the groundbreaking and cornerstone ceremonies. There was no special service. There was no fanfare. There was no dedicatory speech. There was no citywide ceremony. It was almost as if a warehouse was being constructed, not the city's cathedral.
Nevertheless, Wren's project was imminently successful. Few cathedrals are built in a lifetime — the previous Norman renovations of St. Paul's had taken some two centuries to complete. But Wren was able to complete the project in just 35 years. As in so many of his other projects the preaching of the Gospel was the primary focus of the design. As a result, he designed the interior so that the pulpit would be the center of attention. He paid close attention to lines of sight. The great dome, which weighs some 65,000 tons and rises nearly three-hundred and fifty feet above the cruciform nave, amazingly never distracts — rather, it bestows the entire building with dignity, grace, and gravitas while providing it with a rich acoustic resonance.
For Wren, the Reformational doctrines of grace and an incumbent emphasis on primacy of preaching — which he determinedly and diligently wove into the his practical designs — was apparently the direct result of his understanding of several passages of Scripture inscribed in his notes, journals, and plans (including Heb. 4:12, 10:19–25, 13:7–8, and 13:14–17). It was almost as if like Moses before him, Wren somehow had caught a glimpse of God's eternal purpose and then attempted to make it manifest "on earth as it is in heaven" (Matt. 6:10; Heb. 8:1–5;). As if to underscore that notion, he often was heard to say that at best St. Paul's would serve only as "a mere shadow" of the more glorious "heavenly things."
After his death Sir Christopher Wren was interred in an honored grave beneath the soaring stones of his magnum opus. The inscription on his grave simply reads, "Si monumentum requiris, circumspice." "If you would see his monument, look around." Indeed, the rocks and stones of St. Paul's Cathedral resound with the jubilant "Hosannas" of Wren's Reformed credo.
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Could the SEC take the plunge with a nine-game schedule in 2012? The league says no. But South Carolina president Harris Pastides says yes.
Pastides told the Carolina student newspaper the Daily Gamecock that the SEC had agreed to play a nine-game conference schedule as soon as next season, with each team playing the full six-team divisional round robin (as mandated by NCAA bylaws) and three cross-divisional games.
Since that would require each SEC team to drop a nonconference opponent from their schedule, Pastides said a plan had been put into place for the conference to reimburse schools for the costs of buying out that nonconference game. That same plan was also indepently reported by the Sporting News' Matt Hayes.
But if SEC public relations official, Charles Bloom is to be believed, a nine-game schedule would be news to the conference itself. Not long after the Pastidies interview went public, Bloom tweeted the following:
Not a lot of interpretative wiggle room in that statement, is there?
So: who's telling the truth? Speaking as fans of interesting, traditional cross-divisional games like Auburn-Tennessee or LSU-Georgia -- is anyone not? -- it would be nice if Pastides was; on an eight-game schedule, six divisional games and one protected crossover game means just one slot available for rotating through the other six cross-divisional opponents. Like the past two years' worth of meetings between Alabama and Florida? Sure hope so, because under the eight-game plan you won't see the Tide and Gators play again for 10 years.
But we're expecting that's the plan the SEC is adopting anyway. Nine games means one fewer nonconference game and one fewer revenue-generating home game every other year, and that's assuming you're talking about a team with four home games to start with; with Florida's annual home-and-home rivalry with Florida State and the neutral site game vs. Georgia, it's conceivable the Gators would play just five home games in a year. They won't go for that, and it's doubtful other SEC teams with important nonconference rivalries (Carolina vs. Clemson, Georgia vs. Georgia Tech) would either. Reports were rampant Monday morning that SEC A.D.'s and coaches were unilaterally opposed to a nine-game slate, and that's 100 percent what we would expect.
So until Mike Slive himself confirms that Pastides and the other presidents have strong-armed their schools into the nine-game plan, don't get your hopes up for it. The money says eight is better, and the money usually gets what it wants.
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Gamecock prez, SEC differ on 9-game schedule
Move Alabama and Auburn to the East. They can play Tenn or Florida every year. Then move either Kentucky or Vandy to the West. Play 8 games. Forget the "protected crossover game", and just rotate through the other division. That would suit me as a fan.


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Sinopsis Secret Love Korean Drama
Choi Jin Sil
Name: 최진실 / Choi Jin-shil (Choe/Chae Jin-sil)
Chinese name : 崔眞實
Nickname: Miser
Profession: Actress
Birthdate: 1968-Dec-24
Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea
Height: 163 cm
Weight: 46 kg
Star sign: Capricorn
Blood type: O
Family: Divorced from baseball player Jo Sung Min. 2 children
Hobby: Swimming, Drawing
Education: Sun-Il Girls' High School
Family: Brother/singer/actor Choi Jin Young and two children
Choi Seol Ri
Name: 최설리 / Choi Seol Ri (Choi Sul Li)
Also known as: Sulli
Real name: 최진리 / Choi Jin Ri
Profession: Singer, actress, MC, and model
Birthdate: 1994-Mar-29
Birthplace: Yangsan, South Gyeongsang, South Korea
Height: 167cm
Star sign: Aries
Talent agency: S.M. Entertainment
KPOP group: f(x)
TV Shows
To the Beautiful You (SBS, 2012)
Welcome to the Show (SBS, 2011)
Drama City (KBS2, 2007)
Vacation (SBS, 2006)
Love Needs a Miracle (SBS, 2005) cameo
Ballad Of Suh Dong (SBS, 2005)
Ha Ji Won
Name: 하지원 / Ha Ji Won
Real name: 전해림 / Jeon Hae Rim
Profession: Actress and singer
Birthdate: 1979-Jun-28
Birthplace: Seoul, South Korea
Height: 168cm
Weight: 46kg
Star sign: Cancer
Blood type: A
Family: Younger brother/actor Jun Tae Soo
Talent agency: Wellmade STARM
Education: Dan Gook University
TV Shows
The King 2hearts (MBC, 2012)
Secret Garden (SBS, 2010)
Hwang Jin Yi (KBS2, 2006)
What Happened in Bali (SBS, 2004)
Damo (MBC, 2003)
Days in the Sun (KBS2, 2002)
Life is Beautiful (KBS2, 2001)
Secret (MBC, 2000)
School 2 (KBS1, 1999)
Tears of the Dragon (KBS1, 1996)
Drama "Big" Episode 1 Recap
GONG YOO as Seo Yoon Jae (Y)
LEE MIN JUNG asGil Da Ran (D)
BAEK SUNG HYUN as Gil Choong Sik – D's younger brother. (CS)
SUZY as Jang Ma Ri (M)
SHIN WON HO as Kang Kyung Joon (K)
JANG HEE JIN as Lee Se Young. the female doctor who likes YJ. (S)
Drama "Big" Episode 3 Recap by Softy
Starts from Y finding that key and then going out to meet S who runsover and hugs him. She says I worried so much – if something like thathappened you should have told me first. She tries to kiss him but hepushes her away saying-ya what are you. S says I love you and D callsout Y's name. Y looks at D then at S and calls "YJ" a bad name. S saysto D: you were with him too. D thanks her for bringing Y's stuff. S: Iam his friend. Y: a friend? D tells Y to thank S. S says to Y: if youare grateful, make me a drink. I want to drink what you make. D invitesher in for coffee but S ignores her again and says to Y: instead ofcoffee, let's drink the tea you brought from London that you sharedwith me. D says that tea is good so come in. when D walks aheadwondering where that tea is, S grabs his arm and says: I want the two ofus to be together so cant you tell her to go? S calls out for D andsays there are some cookies that are delicious at the bakery so couldyou go buy some so we can eat with the tea. D says I will hurry and gobuy them. Y motions for her not to go. S mutters that D doesnt have anysense (about what's going on) and tells Y "let's go in." Y pulls awayfrom her and calls out to D. he runs over and puts his arm around hershoulder. Y says to S: the two of us want to be alone so you go. D getsin his face and says your friend came all this way so we should havesome tea with her. Y says to S while trying to move D's head out of hisway: that tea that seo YJ split with you, you drink that all alone. yousure are making a fuss about him splitting it with you. and if you wantto eat cookies. go home and buy it and eat it. no matter how much thattastes good, you eat it all alone-there is no need to divide that inhalf. D and S both call out his name. D: why are you like this to yourfriend. D smiles at S to go up and drink tea while she hurries and buysthe cookies and then go up. Y stops her and says dont go to buy cookies.D: I will just go and buy some cookies. Y: I wont eat it. I said I wonteat it so dont go to buy it. D: if your friend wants to eat somecookies, you should buy it and let them eat it. let go. Since shepersisted in going, Y picks D up and tells S: we wont eat cookies so yougo. arent you going? you sure dont have any tact. I want to be alonewith my fiance – just the two of us. so friend – go. He carries Dinside. D: why are you like this YJ shi?
Drama "Big" Episode 7 Recap by Softy
Starts from M asking – are you KJ? D comes in and calls out his name.M cries and says: are you really KJ? KJ ah. She hugs K. suddenly shefaints so K carries her to his bed. D says she must have gotten hurt andwas shocked. she looks at the wound and says look at the blood. shemust have been scratched by the glass. thank goodness it doesnt lookserious huh? K says I cant look at blood. I will go buy medicine so takecare of M
CS tries to call M but she isnt picking up. maybe I should have gone with her.
IU Confirmed for 'Pretty Boy' with Jang Keun Suk
It's been confirmed that IU will be the heroine of Pretty Boy.
IU has been casted as the female lead, Kim Bo Tong, in KBS' upcoming new drama, Pretty Boy, which will begin after Secret.
Kim Bo Tong is a girl who is botong (normal) in everything, from looks to background. After she is completely smitten by Dokgo Matte (Jang Keun Suk) in middle school, she lives her life just for him.
Although his 4D fashion sense is hard to understand at times, Bo Tong assigns herself as the guardian of pretty boys to protect Matte from other girls, who have become thorns in her sides.
Kdrama The Heirs (Inheritors) Episode 9 Live Recap [Korean Drama 2013]
Kdrama The Heirs (Inheritors) Episode 9 Live Recap
Tan is waiting outside the door of his house for ES. He gives her back her phone, and lightheartedly whines that he got hurt and was scolded by JS, wanting her attention. But ES just looks worried. Still, without saying anything, she tries to go in, but Tan stops her. ES pleads, "Don't hold me and don't block me. Don't wait for me from now on." She tries to go in again, but Tan turns her back. ES pleads again. She doesn't want to be recorded on the security cam. Tan: "That darn CCTV." HAHAHAHA! ES reminds him that he is the one who warned her about the camera. Tan yells, "What I do told you, what I warned you about…Did you ever really listen?"
Kdrama 'Secret Love' Episode 13 Recap
MH thinks back on when YJ tried to explain that the car had only hit that barrel and that she had cleaned that barrel up herself, wanting to move it off the road. MH remembers that and orders GS to find the truck driver and figure out what it was that happened the day. MH looks at JH's picture and then YJ's and sheds a few tears AND THENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
He kisses her once as YJ sheds a few tears. A momentary silence ensues before MH stands up and tries to explain himself, but YJ is adamant and says: "It's okay. Mistakes happen."
Kdrama Secret Love Episode 14 Preview
Trans from Baidu (I can only little little bit Chinese, but google itfree correct me if I'm not mistake
MH to Dad: Just one time Dad, I will not get marry
Curly unni: do you guys really all right?
MH to SY: The result you want it's not that?
SY to MH: I want is you
SY to DH: K president down following the word, then he'll be back
SY to DH: I'll help you
Lawyer: Choi lawyer soon be summoned to the Prosecutor's Office [this part I'm not sure]
Woman: I don't know whether you can do it
MH to DH: Maybe compared with the hit and run, because is it the latest thing, you can find many clues of it
DH: I can't end like this
Kdrama The Heirs (Inheritors) Episode 10 Live Recap
Kdrama The Heirs (Inheritors) Episode 10 Live Recap
Outside, Tan and YD talk. Tan: "I'm sorry I thought of you lightly. I didn't know you'd be this much of a bastard. " YD: "Now that you know, is all that is left you kneeling in front of me?" Tan: "Is that what you wanted? Then this not a good plan." Uh Oh, YD sees ES walking up. YD: "I think I set a good plan." ES also now sees YD and Tan. YD: "ES even comes to your house? I didn't come for this, but…Jackpot."
Kdrama 'Secret Love' Episode 16 Recap (FINAL)
YJ is furious- how dare she says San's name? YJ begins to cry.
DH's mother brings out the pictures of San, alive, healthy, and well. YJ's hands shake as she looks as the pictures, and even DH can't shake that expression off his face.
"There's no way I wouldn't know that San was living," YJ cries, still half in denial. DH's mom says that it was all for YJ and DH, that it would've been impossible for YJ to raise San, that it would've been impossible to do anything for San with that red string (indicating YJ's criminal record) around her ankle. She says San is growing well, but YJ doesn't want to hear her excuses.
"The Heirs' Episode 18 Preview
The summary description for this episode is not out yet. Will be updated if and when it does!
By the way, have you checked out the preview for episode 17?
If so, here's the preview~
Cha Eun Sang: I still like Kim Tan and my feelings haven't changed.
Chairman Kim: Why is this young thing not afraid?
Cha Eun Sang: I'm not meeting him because you said not to meet him.
Kim Won: What the.. You doing this won't change anything here!
Kim Tan: Please save me.
Choi Young Do: Your mother's in front of the school right now. Hurry up and go!
Kim Tan: You can throw mom away now. I'll take care of her.
Chairman Kim: How will you be able to take care of your mom?
Kim Tan: Wanted to end ties with you, father.
Choi Young Do: So long. Let's not see each other anymore.
Choi Young Do: I'm dumping you right now.
Cha Eun Sang: Can I forget the days we had together?
Cha Eun Sang: *Annyeong, Kim Tan.
Basketball: Episode 15
Basketball: Episode 15 RECAP by Drama Beans
After San scores Korea's first one-handed basket, Chi-ho congratulates him. San replies that it wouldn't have been possible without his help, to which Chi-ho smiles and says, "Thanks to you, I was reminded why I play basketball. My calling as a basketball player… I'll never forget it again."
They decide to work together as a team, and we only hear of their win when Daddy Choi does, through the radio. This news, like all other news ever, makes him angry.
Kdrama The Heirs (Inheritors) Episode 20 Recap [Korean Drama 2013]
Korean Drama The Heirs (Inheritors) Episode 20 Recap by joonni
Tan and Young Do stand apart, but together, looking out into the city. YD finally breaks the silence: "It's cold." He's describing the weather, but it is also how he feels. Tan adds, "It's cold…and dark." Silence falls between them again as they each try to fight off the cold and dark feeling hovering over them because of their fathers.
At a cafe, Tan discusses his situation with a woman, who we learn is a lawyer. Tan doesn't trust the lawyers at Jeguk anymore, and he wants this new lawyer's help transferring legal proxy rights to Won from JS for his stocks.
One Warm Word Episode 3 Recap
A secret never stay hidden forever, the truth always prevails. No matter how hard people are trying to hide their secrets, their problems, sooner or later, people will discover them. For Jae Hak and Eun Jin; they know they cannot hide their relationship forever; they're not naive but obviously they don't realize that Mi Kyung has already found out about their "humane relationship". People say the quiet ones usually are the ones who'll attack and cause extensive damages; so they'd better get ready because Mi Kyung will do anything she can to "torture" them.
Go Support Your Favorites for Soompi Awards 2013!
The Soompi Awards 2013 is an event to recognize the top performers in Korean music this year. Formerly the Soompi Gayo Awards, this is already the ninth year running of the awards. Once again, we are proud to partner with MYX TV, who will broadcast the award show in January 2014 (date to be announced).
This year we are very proud to take the Soompi Awards to the next level. We are going forward with many exciting changes to get you the fans more involved. To value your participation, your vote will count 60% towards the final score this year, while the other 40% is coming from our weekly music chart (previously 50/50). We have also added non music chart related categories where your vote will count 100%. Here are the award categories:
5 K-Dramas that are perfect to get your friends addicted to
If you've been struggling to find ways to get your friends into Korean dramas, or just Asian dramas in general, fear no more! These K-Dramas provide everything from romantic comedy to science fiction. I'm sure many of you have already watched at least some of these dramas, but if you haven't, you should consider marathoning them with some of your friends! This will probably end up succeeding in getting them into Korean dramas, at least a little bit. So next time your friends have a sleepover, bring out the junk food and put on a K-Drama for all to enjoy! Here are 5 new shows you can start with:
"You Who Came From the Stars" Episode 3 recap
You who came feom the stars ep3 RECAP by drama beans
After dragging Song-yi out of her beauty salon confrontation with jealous rival Yura, Min-joon demands to know who the girl in Song-yi's photo is. He's already guessed the connection but needs the confirmation: "Who are you?"
A flashback to Joseon takes us to the aftermath of doppelganger Yi-hwa's kidnapping. She asks him a string of questions about his identity, offering that she believes in other life forms (whether grim reapers or folk-tale creatures), and therefore he can be honest about his origins. Through it all, Min-joon just looks at her with an enigmatic smile.
From Appendicitis to Murder, "Man from the Stars" Continues to Impress
Rachel's K-pop and K-drama blog Rara-Pop is full of good information any fan of Korean entertainment will enjoy. You'll find articles like "Korean Celebrity Inspired Wants," "Top 5 Engrish Phrases in K-pop," and a wide range of music video and drama reviews. Warning: T.O.P's cheekbones may be a frequent topic of discussion. Be sure to check out this great blog!
This week brought two more solid "Man from the Stars" episodes. Do Min Joon's past connection to Chun Song Yi is slowly being revealed, creating a rich backdrop to complement his present actions. Song Yi remains a strong, yet struggling character as she deals with a variety of issues ranging from sickness to even a murder case. I love how despite Min Joon's commitment to noninterference, he keeps getting dragged into Song Yi's complicated life. Not even an alien can resist fate!


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Stockholm, Sweden (Sports Network) - Sweden center back Daniel Majstorovic is expected to miss the Euro 2012 finals after tearing knee ligaments in training Tuesday.
The 34-year-old Majstorovic, who also plays for Scottish club Celtic, was hurt in the closing stages of training when Anders Svensson fell on his leg.
"I didn't think it was so serious because Daniel didn't say a word," Sweden coach Erik Hamren said according to UEFA, "but apparently it was."
Tests confirmed torn ligaments and Hamren said, "it's painful for all of us, but most of all for Daniel."
Majstorovic had only recently returned from eight weeks on the sideline with a fractured cheekbone.
Sweden opens the Euro finals June 11 against co-host Ukraine. Sweden will also play England and France in the group stage.
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Most woman, during pregnancy will not want to buy lots of maternity outfits. So when you go shopping for maternity clothes mix and match to that you can make the most of your purchases. Remember after your baby is born you may be wearing your maternity clothes for a couple of weeks. If this is the case make sure your maternity clothes are suitable for breast feeding, tops with a zip or buttons down the front are a good place to start. Consider buying some wider fitting shoes for the third trimester when your feet may start to swell. Buying underwear that compliments your pregnancy is also important. Underwear can become especially tight is you are not measured regularly. Going to a specialist shop for pregnant woman to be measured is a good idea as they have your needs in mind and will be able to assist you that little bit more than a regular department store or underwear shop. It is worth bearing in mind your bust will probably increase dramatically in a short space of time so it is not necessary to buy more than two bras at a time.
There are a lot of online maternity wear web sites. Although you will see more variety online you will not able to try on the garments and no two pregnant ladies are the same. It is not to say shopping online is a bad idea it is just worth bearing in mind that trying clothing on is even more important when your body is changing rapidly.
A service that is now available in some department stores and high end baby boutiques is the facility of a baby store personal shopper. This useful when you think of all the products that are available in stores and online. You do not need everything that will be pouring out of magazines and catalogues and somebody that can break it all down for you useful. A personal shopper will be able to point out the pros and cons of products and they also have the knowledge gained from feedback they get from customers. It is a good way to treat yourself whilst pregnant as well.
Getting feedback about products for baby and yourself can also be found online. There are dozens of forums and blogs about the subject and its all at your finger tips, a very easy way to get some advice.
Shops like Mothercare are designed with new mothers and pregnant women in mind. On recent visit there I noticed there was a feeding room. This is not something you would see in just any shop. I feel they have done well in trying to understand what mothers will need. Health officials and other government agencies will always tell you 'breast is best' and to see the shops making this a more achievable thing for mothers to maintain is a great thing. In a shop such as Mothercare you an buy lots of dofferent baby equipment, maternity wear and larger items such as nursery furniture. It seems to me the thing that comes up again and again when it comes to pregnancy is the want to make things easier. Things being easy appeals to us, so a shop that has all your pregnancy needs under one roof is very appealing. Especially if there are feeding and changing facilities too.
Pregnancy is a special time in every woman's life. It is easy to get sucked into all the material things and worry, it is important to remember it is a time of your life that first and foremost should be treasured. Important decisions need to be made but this should be done with minimal fuss. It is very easy to get excessive about all the things we are told we need. In fact, you do not need that much to get started. It is more important to make sure the things you pick are right for you and your family. If you already have children perhaps letting them help choose some baby equipment with you will be a real positive thing to do as it makes it a family event rather than mummy shopping for baby.
There really is not anything else you will do in your life that is more important than your pregnancy so do it properly. Take care of yourself and listen to your body. Invest in some me time and your body will thank you for it.


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How did TMP get a G rating?
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Certainly something like Trek IV was a family film, and was the highest grossing TOS film, right?
In raw numbers, yes, if you define "TOS" to exclude the Abrams interpretation. But corrected for inflation, TMP was actually the highest-grossing Trek film until the 2009 film broke all previous Trek box-office records. Although TMP came out at a time when movies stayed in theaters far longer, so if you correct for that, TVH might come out ahead. But TMP would still have a stronger showing than most of its successors. Maybe it had more audience appeal than you think.
Again, I think it's important to remember that in 1979, the G rating did not have the "kids' movie" connotation that it has today. It was used for films that were suitable for family viewing -- movies that didn't have anything parents might not want their kids to see, like sex scenes or gore, but were not necessarily aimed at children. That's the case with TMP. It was meant to be a sophisticated science fiction film with adult appeal; it was simply kept free of content that might make adults think they had to leave the kids with a sitter when they went to see it.
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HOPKINS COUNTY, Ky. - Parker Shawn Overfield, infant son of Mason Overfield and Jessica Holland, of Henderson, KY, passed away 12:27 A.M. Sunday, April 14, 2013 at Methodist Hospital Henderson, KY.
He was also preceded in death by great-grandparents, Bobby Overfield; great-great-grandparents, Thurman Clark, Henry Sullivan, and Lambert Overfield.
He is survived by his parents, one sister, Jaelyn Oakley of Henderson; grandparents, Andrea Clark of Madisonville, KY, Becky Fisher of Henderson, Shawn (Stephanie) Overfield, Robert Holland both of Henderson; great-grandparents, Dallas (Judy) Clark of Madisonville, Mary Thompson of Henderson, Arlene Jones of North Dakota, Verna Sigler of Henderson; great-great-grandparents, Lois Clark and Elsie Sullivan, both of Madisonville, and Mary Wright of Henderson; several aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Graveside service will be 2:00 P.M. Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at Oakwood Cemetery, Earlington, KY with Rev. Greg Gaddis officiating. Burial will follow.
Pallbearer will be Jeremy Holland.
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