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Late, and over a year in development, the GNU General Public License version three (GPLv3) is finally here. The GPL is important as it's the most widely used Free Software license, with around seventy percent of Free Software released under its terms. It is unofficially regarded as the constitution for the Free Software movement. Already criticisms are being aimed at the new work, mainly from people and companies who didn't take part in the drafting of it. The amazing thing is how many large corporations actually did take part in the drafting process for the GPLv3.
Back in 1991 when Richard Stallman (the author of the GPL and creator of the Free Software Foundation) released the second version of the GPL, no one much cared. Only a few "Free Software" enthusiasts like myself paid attention and bothered to read and understand it. Sixteen years later the release of version three has drawn comments directly from Microsoft and IBM lawyers enthusiastically participated in the drafting of it. How times have changed.
One thing that hasn't really changed though is Richard Stallman himself. Yes he's older, and carpel tunnel syndrome has put paid to the legendary hacking feats he was once famous for, but his views on freedom haven't changed one bit. If you want to understand the GPL, you need to understand Richard Stallman. Bearded like some old testament prophet, Richard has a moral compass you could use for an absolute direction that is superior to a GPS tracking system. It always points true north towards freedom.
Richard has always had a very clear idea of what he'd like the software world to look like, and crafted the GPL in order to achieve that goal. If you don't share his views, and work in the propriety software industry, then this might be a very scary thing. In essence, he wants to make proprietary software an immoral choice, even to the point of legislating against it. Personally I go along with Richard only so far, but not to the point of legislating against the choices of others. I'm too scared of people finding my choices immoral, and legislating against them. But for the rest of his views, which is to create a massive ecosystem of GPL software able to be freely shared amongst users and programmers, I'm fully signed up.
The thing to realize about the GPL using and creating Free Software community, is that the word "community" is the most important part. It's like a club, where membership only depends on you accepting the spirit of the license used by all the members, the GPL. Note that I say the spirit, and not just the letter of the license. The reason for this is that the code created by the Free Software community is incredibly valuable. One estimate put the price tag on creating the Linux kernel at over $600 million. In the early days of the project I work on, Samba, a commercial competitor who shall remain nameless offered around $40 million for the rights. They were refused. With values that high for code seen as "freely available for the taking" it is very tempting for people who lust after it to try and find ways to break the spirit of the license, whilst sailing close to (or even transgressing) the letter of the license, in order to give themselves a proprietary advantage.
The GPL version two is old. Sixteen years is a long time in software and the law. Companies trying to take advantage of the license have found technical hardware circumventions and what they believe to be a hole in the patent protections guaranteed by the GPLv2 in order to subvert the idea of everyone having the same rights to the code as everyone else. I'm talking about Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) locked hardware and the Microsoft patent covenant agreements here.
The GPL version three is designed to address these issues, and keep the "everyone gets the same rights" quality of the license intact against these threats. The change that gets the most criticism is the anti-DRM clause, section six of the new license. The Linux kernel developers object to this clause so much they are currently staying with the GPLv2, which of course is their right. But the central point of the matter seems lost in the noise. The fact is that the GPLv3 doesn't prohibit or outlaw DRM. It only means that you can't use or link to GPLv3 code to create such a system. As ever, companies are completely free to write their own proprietary DRM code and attempt to make digital information harder to copy (good luck!) using their own work. They just don't get to piggyback on existing GPLv3 code to do it. This seems completely fair to me. I don't want any of my code to be used inside a DRM system but wouldn't restrict anyone else from trying to create that impossible dream.
My views on patent covenant agreements are probably well known by now. In short, I'm against them. They attempt to carve out a privileged class of users, "blessed" and safe from lawsuits by the fact that they paid a certain set of vendors for their code distribution. This isn't freedom, this is an indentured servant having a choice of masters. The whole point of the GPL community of developers and users is that there is no privileged position. No one gets an advantage over another, it's a true commons of the mind. These patent covenant agreements are a divide and conquer attempt to force people to pay vendors who had no part in creating the code in question. These are vendors who deliberately isolate themselves from the rest of the community and yet still want us all to pay them a toll. For me this is the most important GPLv3 change. If it changed nothing else but this provision, I'd still release all my software under GPLv3 in order to maintain the level playing field needed to foster a thriving community of users and developers.
For all these changes the GPLv3 is a modest and evolutionary step forward. It shows that Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) can be trusted to do the job they set themselves up to do, which is to maintain the freedom of GPL software for developers and users. In ten or so years time, when the GPL version four becomes necessary due to threats as yet unknown, I expect to be reading the same criticisms of the process and the new license, probably from the same people. "The draft of version four is too extreme," they'll say. "Not like the reasonable and well understand GPL version three we're all using today".
Ignore the hysteria. These critics were wrong about the GPLv3, and I expect a large amount of software to become available under the new license. Richard's dream of a large ecosystem of GPL Free Software we can all use to benefit our employers and our communities is possible, we just need to keep focused on the prize. If you appreciate the work of the Free Software Foundation, please give them a donation. Even if it's just $1.05, every little helps.
In the hilarious words of the movie "Team America: World Police"
"Freedom isn't free
No, there's a hefty in' fee.
And if you don't throw in your buck 'o five
Who will?"
Jeremy Allison
Samba Team
San Jose, California
5th August 2007
Thank You.
Thank You for setting an moral example for others to emulate.
Keep up the good work.
Great explanation, Jeremy
It has now been a year and a half since you wrote this. However, it's one of the best explanations of why the GPL v3 is necessary that I've read. I'm not a developer, but rather a systems engineer, so I steer people toward Free Software whenever possible. One of my especial joys is to replace the Craptive Directory or NT 4.0-style domain with a Samba/LDAP implementation, and I've gotten to do that a few times.
Like you, I don't believe that RMS's notion of legislating against the existence of proprietary software is proper. It's people's right, after all, to noose themselves if they wish. But likewise, we have the right to choose to compute in freedom, and for that, also like you, I'm totally signed up.
Thanks to you and the rest of the Samba team for what you do not just with the Samba code, but for technological freedom generally.


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Registered Nurse Ashley O'Connell presents a gift basket full of baby clothes and toys to Alejandra Lopez-Perez, 20, of Bridgeton and her newborn baby girl, Alexia Cruz-Lopez, the first baby born in Cumberland County in 2013. / Staff photo/Cody Glenn
Alejandra Lopez-Perez, 20, of Bridgeton holds her newborn baby girl, Alexia Cruz-Lopez, the first baby born in Cumberland County in 2013, pictured Wednesday at South Jersey Healthcare Regional Medical Center in Vineland. / Staff photo/Cody Glen
Alexia Cruz-Lopez of Bridgeton was the first baby born in Cumberland County in 2013. / Staff photo/Cody Glenn
VINELAND — The areas first birth of 2013 arrived several days later than planned, but baby Alexia Cruz-Lopez is everything her parents wanted.
Dr. G. Lanre Babalola and nurse Sherry Cooper delivered Alexia at 2:45 p.m. Tuesday at South Jersey Healthcare Regional Medical Center. The infant tipped the scale at 7 pounds and 10 ounces and was 19.5 inches long, including a shock of black hair.
The baby is the second child and first girl for Alejandra Lopez-Perez, 20, and her husband, Ariel Cruz-Perez, 23. Cruz-Perez was in the delivery room, as he was for his sons birth.
I want her to study and be successful in life, Lopez-Perez said Wednesday of her daughter. Alexia was picked as her name because its close to her mothers name.
The Bridgeton couple, who take Alexia home today, were hoping for a girl to join their son Edwin, now 21 months old. The babys gender was confirmed for them several months ago.
One is no different from the other, her mother said about boys and girls. We love them the same and as long as theyre healthy.
Nurse Gladys Colon interpreted for Lopez-Perez, a native of Oaxaca in Mexico. The couple are both from Oaxaca, but didnt meet until after coming to the United States about five years ago.
Lopez-Perez, who is the oldest of three children, said her baby had been expected on Dec. 28, 2012. Shed actually had counted on that and made plans for how to spend New Years Eve.
During her pregnancy, Lopez-Perez said shed introduced her son to the concept of having a little sister by showing him her belly. Heres the baby. Kiss the baby, she would say to him.
Maternity wing nurse Charlene Hancock said the hospital had 2,016 births in 2012 or just more than five a day on average.
For much of Tuesday, it looked as if this New Years Day would pass without a baby. But two other infants, a girl and then a boy, were born to other families after Alexia.
Hancock said the tally might have been six, but three others didnt arrive until after midnight.

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Would the security api be a useful base to implement a licence server on?
Im thinking along the lines of using it to allow/prevent access to certain modules/packages/indiviuduals/groups/sites etc and timeframe bound it via key expiry.
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Though, personally, I think client side "license servers" are a horrible idea and tremendous annoyance to the users.


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Defamation, Free Speech, Law Schools
Earlier this month, we reported that somebody was looking to Craigslist for potential plaintiffs to sue Thomas M. Cooley Law School over the school's published post-graduate employment statistics. As many of you know, Thomas Jefferson School of Law has already been hit with such a lawsuit.
Well, apparently Cooley isn't going to sit around and wait for somebody to sue them. Instead, the school is going to sue first.
A message from Cooley president Don LeDuc informed students that Cooley is suing a New York law firm and four anonymous "John Doe" commentators on the internet. We haven't seen the lawsuit, so we don't know exactly who the school is suing. According to LeDuc, Cooley is not trying to "police the internet." Instead he says the school is trying to defend its reputation and the value of a Cooley Law degree.
You can read his full letter to students below….
To: Students
From: President LeDuc
Re: Litigation
Date: July 14, 2011
Cooley filed two lawsuits in Ingham County today.
The first lawsuit is against a small New York law firm. Our suit contends that the firm has defamed us and tortiously interfered with our student relationships, and that the firm and two of its lawyers have been unethically soliciting former and present Cooley students to join in a class action lawsuit against us. At our insistence, the firm previously retracted blatantly false online statements about Cooley, but only days later the firm moved their focus to Craigslist and Facebook, where they began circulating a draft complaint filled with more false and damaging statements about Cooley.
The second lawsuit is against four John Doe defendants. As with the law firm defendants, we contend the Doe defendants are defaming Cooley online and tortiously interfering with our student relationships through a series of false, damaging, and often vulgar statements in Internet blogs and comments to those blogs and other sites.
Two main falsities run through the defendants' online statements.
First, the bloggers state that Cooley is engaged in student loan fraud and stealing tuition money. They say we are secretly employed as bankers, not professors, who are engaged in the fraudulent sale of student loans. We are called criminals and said to be under investigation by two federal agencies.
Second, the law firm defendants falsely state that we are fraudulently hiding a preposterous 41% student loan default rate and fraudulently reporting and misrepresenting our post-graduation employment and salary numbers, misleading students into attending law school.
The actual facts are as follows.
Default rates — Student loan default rates are calculated by the U.S. Department of Education's Default Prevention and Management Office. We are not involved in their calculation. Cooley's most recent default rate was 2.2%. While the rate is slightly higher than in the previous four years, it is the same as it was in 2001, and is lower than our default rate in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the last recession. The most recent national average default rate was 7.0%.
The past five years Cooley had overall default rates of 1.5%, 0.8%, 0.8%, 0.7%, and 2.2%. The rates for Cooley graduates during the same years were 0.6%, 0.1%, 0.1%, 0.1%, and 0.6%. As you can see from above, even at the most recent 2.2%, Cooley's default rate is very low compared to the national default rate.
The defaulters are predominantly students who did not graduate. In the past five years, only 16 graduates entered into default. The other 55 defaulters in that time did not graduate, and are likely to have lower student loan debt totals in default. Not all of our students have loans, but of the current graduates who do, the average indebtedness is approximately $105,000.
The defendants' statements about manipulation of students to obtain loans, selling loans, or having employees who are really bankers are just bizarre. We have never been investigated regarding irregularities in our loan program by any governmental agency.
Employment data — We have reported our employment data exactly as required by the American Bar Association and the National Association for Law Placement.
The reported figure we use publicly is the number that the ABA publishes in its Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools. We are required to submit this information in a specific format that includes the number and percentage of graduates employed among those whose status is known. In the 2011 Official Guide, Cooley's reported employment rate was 78.8%.
We have never manipulated the data or attempted to mislead anyone. No school I know of, Cooley included, makes any promise or commitment about jobs for graduates, other than to say it provides placement counseling and assistance to graduates seeking to get jobs. And, of course, all who pass the bar are equipped with the necessary skills to begin a solo practice, in which they may work as lawyers if they are willing to make the effort required to be successful. In that sense, law students graduate with the means to begin working for themselves almost immediately — something that cannot be said for most other professions.
The entire conversation about employment in the law and legal occupations is almost entirely wrong:
1. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the unemployment rate among lawyers in 2010 was 1.5%, for those in all legal occupations it was 2.7%, and for all occupations it was 9.6%, which drops to 8.9% when those who have never been in the labor market or are returning from military service are excluded.
2. The 2.7% unemployment rate for legal occupations, including lawyers, was better than the rate for all other occupations in the BLS category of management, professional, and related occupations except for health care practitioners and technician occupations (2.5%). This data shows that becoming a lawyer is a better choice for those considering a career, not a worse choice.
3. According to the National Association of Law Placement (NALP), the preliminary unemployment rate for the 2010 graduates of the 192 ABA-approved law schools that reported data to NALP was 6.2%, about the same as it was in 2002.
4. Cooley's unemployment rate for 2010 was 17.05%, slightly higher than it was in 2002. Like the national rate, Cooley's rate fell during the decade until the recession, when it bumped up. This reflects unemployment among the graduating class in 2010 and includes those who did not pass the bar on the first try and those who did not attempt a bar examination.
While it would not be appropriate for me to publicly discuss our entire legal strategy, rest assured that we have given much consideration to these actions, and our Board has agreed that legal action is necessary to protect and defend the school's reputation and the value of your degree. We could have done nothing, but then we risk being sued by the defendant law firm, and the media would then report only the false and defamatory hyperbole stated in the draft complaint that the firm has been circulating on Facebook and advertising on Craigslist.
We are not suing anyone for expressing a negative opinion about Cooley online, and we are not attempting to police the Internet. We believe these particular defendants have crossed the line both legally and ethically, calling us criminals who deceive our students and steal their tuition money, and ascribing to us fraudulent student loan activities and default rates that, if true, would cause either the Department of Education or Department of Justice to shut us down immediately.
In short, we've determined that we need to protect Cooley's reputation and stand up for our students and more than 15,000 graduates. And we continue to look at ways to counter the negative comments with positive comments about us, including online.
From time to time, we will post updates about the litigation on the Portal. Thanks for your support.
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About 3 weeks after I got my Mongoose DH I was doing jumps and screwed the derailleur into my spokes, I talked about here in a rant thread I started. Anyway Today, after having my bike serviced last week, I took iy on the trails for the first time properly. Well coming down a FIREROAD I start to here a click, then bang, about 5m after a rocky sectio my rear locks up. My drailleu was through the spokes and torn to shreds.
Well I took it into the bikeshop, they are going to fix it all up for free and take the whole bike apart and look at everything to find out why my bike is destroying derailleur hangers. Apparently at another store some guy was having the exact same problem as me. They fixed this by putting a short cage road derailleur on it. So I'm getting a Tiagra road derailleur pu on it (equivelent to deore). The strange thing is I know people who put their Goose DH through hell and not have a single problem. Does anyone know what sort of difference a road derailleur will have conmpared to my not so old but rooted deore?


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Polygamous properties spared from auction after tax debt paid
A flood of recent tax payments has spared more than three dozen polygamist-controlled properties in southern Utah from an auction later this month.
According to Washington County Treasurer David Whitehead, payments totally more than $1.1 million were completed Wednesday. The money went toward five years of unpaid property taxes on 38 parcels in Washington County. The parcels are part of the United Effort Plan, a now state-run polygamous trust created by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
The money was due May 23. Failure to pay the delinquent taxes would have sent the properties to a county auction.
Whitehead added that the list of delinquent properties typically shrinks significantly as the auction nears and people finally pay up.
"I would say it's pretty typical of properties that are up for tax sale," Whitehead said.
In late April, about half of the tax debt had been paid. At that time, Whitehead said an atypical number of payments had been made in cash. He added Thursday that cash payments continued to come in through May, though he didn't know what percentage of the total those payments comprised.
Whitehead also did not have information about the people who paid the debt, saying it could have been anyone with or without an interest in the properties. Tax records show that people paid the money incrementally in amounts ranging from a few dollars to a few thousand dollars.
Washington County clerk and auditor Kim Hafen said getting the debt paid is a good thing for the community and the county. When some people don't pay their property taxes, Hafen explained, the tax rates must increase to make up the difference.
"If everybody paid 100 percent everybody's rate would go down a little bit," Hafen said.
He added that other factors also figure into tax rates, which authorities determine via mathematical formula. Hafen also said authorities are anxious to collect property taxes but do not like selling people's land.
While the UEP properties made up only a small portion of the overall delinquent list, they posed a unique challenge because many included multiple houses on the same parcel. That meant that even if occupants of one home paid some of the taxes everyone using the parcel could still ultimately be evicted if the entire amount wasn't paid. Hafen said county authorities are prepared to subdivide the land so each home has its own parcel and property taxes but that process has been stalled by court proceedings.
However, during a hearing in April authorities involved in the UEP case said they also looked forward to finally subdividing the land.
Properties in neighboring Colorado City, Ariz., also are delinquent but won't be eligible for auction until next year. However, different tax policies in Arizona also offer alternatives to selling the properties.
Salt Lake City accountant Bruce Wisan, who was appointed to oversee the UEP, said he was "very pleased" that the taxes were paid in Washington County and said his focus will now shift.
"We still have serious problems in Mohave County but those will not occur until 2014," Wisan wrote in an email. "Hopefully we will use that time to correct the deficiency in Mohave County."
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Updating My Toy Shelf in the Living Room
Posted by admin on 19 May 2010 at 06:36 pm | Tagged as: Adventures, Cool Stuff, NASCAR, Random
I bought a ton of new toys for my shelf recently and had to rearrange everything yesterday. With that being said I decided to document/blog about the upgrades to my living room shelf. I am going to add a new shelf soon to expand the collection. Soon, I am going to pick up all my old toy cars from when I was a little kid to add onto the shelf as well.
I bought a Assembly Line Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR from Maisto which was a blast to build. This is my favorite Mercedes made in history so it was great to add to the shelf with gold wheels.
Here is my Kyle Busch cup garage collection. My three large die cast cars are his #18 M&M car, Snickers Car (First Toyota to win NASCAR cup race), and the Vote M&M car. I am working on getting some more #18 car stuff for this section.
This is my other Kyle Busch garage for non cup die cast cars. The Doosan #20 Nationwide car won the Corona, Mexico event back in April 2008 with Kyle Busch behind the wheel. The #51 Electric Sunglasses car is Kyle Busch's Prelude of a Dream car. The #30 NOS Energy Drink car in the middle is actually Stanton Barrett's old Nationwide car from 2008 signed by him on the roof.
Here is my Falken Tire Pit that I mocked up with some products I have collected over the years. I just got this sweet Falken Tire rig thanks to my friends over at Falken Tire recently! You can actually buy the Calvin Wan Infiniti G35 or Vaughn Gittin Jr. Ford Mustang die cast in our store.
Here are some small Hot Wheels cars I have including a Nissan GT-R, Flat Black Lamborghini Gallardo, Tesla Roadster, a Hummer H2 that Toyo Tires gave us at MPMC, and Sam Hubinette's Dodge Charger you can score in our Wrecked Magazine store as well.
The 1991 Le Mans winner was the Mazda 787B seen here that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans back in 1991. This was the last Japanese car to win the 24 Hour Le Mans race to this date in history. Bob Hernandez actually gave me this car at my Photo Gallery back in March and I jut love it.
Here are some of my car magazines including some Super Street issues back from 2002. A full collection of C-16 Magazine, and a bunch of random Japanese magazines like StyleWagon and VIP Style.
Here is the first shelf all together and complete for now. I am going to get a second shelf going soon and I need some more magazines! Let me know what you think.
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I have some Turbo and Sport Compact Car mags from the early 90′s that I don't know what to do with…want em?
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As seen in Jo-Ann© FASHIONfusion Magazine
Use a standard sewing machine to embroider a modern tribal design using on this easy, chic clutch purse.
Loading the bobbins with embroidery floss is easy with time-saving tools:
- Simplicity® Deluxe SideWinder 881715 – winds bobbins quickly and smoothly, without having to un-thread and re-thread your sewing machine
- Simplicity® Deluxe SideWinder Mini Swift 881466001 – ensures that hanks of embroidery floss don't tangle as they are wound onto bobbins, saving time and effort.
Materials Needed:
- Embroidery floss in desired colors
- Sewing machine
- Fabric marking pencil
- 1/4 yard of 45" to 60" wide lightweight fabric, such as linen, cotton or silk dupioni
- 1/4 yard of 44" wide lining fabric
- 1/4 yard of 22" to 25" wide medium weight fusible interfacing
- Scissors
- Straight pins
- One 9" zipper
- Matching thread
- Zipper foot
- 1 yard of Single Strand Sequin trim – we used Silver 1832124070
- Craft glue
- Assorted beads
- Hand sewing needle
- Load a few bobbins with embroidery thread, using the Simplicity® Deluxe SideWinder and Mini Swift.
- Cut two pieces each of fabric, interfacing and lining – each piece should measure 12" x 15"
- Following manufacturer's directions, fuse interfacing to WRONG side of fabric.
- On WRONG side of fabric, draw desired decorative design directly onto interfaced pieces with fabric marking pencil. Design shown here covered the bottom half of each piece of fabric.
- Insert a bobbin loaded with embroidery thread into the sewing machine. Thread the sewing machine with matching color of standard sewing thread.
- Set the desired stitch pattern, length and width – we recommend testing on a scrap of fabric until you get the look you want.
- With WRONG side of fabric facing you, machine stitch along marked lines; change bobbins, stitch patterns and colors as desired.
Assembling the Clutch:
- Lay one piece of outer fabric, RIGHT side up, with embroidery at bottom.
- Lay closed zipper face down, with pull at the left, centering on fabric and lining up the top edges.
- Lay lining piece with WRONG side up over zipper and outer fabric, forming a "sandwich". Line up top of lining with tops of zipper and outer fabric. Pin together.
- Using a zipper foot, stitch through all layers, stitching as close as possible to zipper teeth and removing pins as you sew.
- Flip WRONG sides together and press.
- Lay remaining outer fabric piece with RIGHT side facing up and embroidery at top.
- Center zipper on outer piece face down, with pull at left.
- Lay remaining lining piece with WRONG side up over zipper and outer fabric, forming a "sandwich". Line up all top edges. Pin together.
- Using a zipper foot, stitch through all layers, stitching as close as possible to zipper teeth and removing pins as you sew.
- Switch back to regular presser foot. Top stitch on either side of the zipper, through all layers.
- Separate fabric and lining layers so that RIGHT sides of fabric and RIGHT sides of lining are facing each other. Move zipper pull to center of the zipper.
- Starting at each end of the zipper, stitch outwards to the edge, closing any gap that exists between zipper and edge.
- Matching cut edges, pin lining pieces together and fabric pieces together. Stitch in a 1/2" seam, removing pins as you sew. Leave a 3" opening in the lining for turning.
- Clip corners. Pull clutch through the opening left in the lining RIGHT side out and gently push out all corners.
- Turn seam allowance at opening to the inside and pin closed. Stitch opening closed, stitching 1/8" from the edge.
- Fold the clutch so zipper faces the bottom at desired size; use photo as a guide.
- Embellish clutch with seed beads and sequin trim as desired.


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This was my first "real" woodworking project that I can call my own. It is a television stand for my – then – newly purchased home. The entire stand is made from solid red oak (except the plywood back) and was not stained to preserve that natural color. Some notable features are the raised panel doors and the adjustable interior shelves. The face frame is held together with biscuits, but everything else is joined with rabbets and dadoes. I have to thank my father for the guidance and help in pulling it off. Thanks for looking.
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#1 posted 09-02-2013 12:40 AM
Great job on your first "real project." You've done very well and incorporated some nice elements to expand your woodworking skills. Congratulations and keep it coming.
-- John C. -- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." George Washington
#2 posted 09-02-2013 12:40 AM
That's a very nice piece. I like to finish oak without stain as well.
-- Bill M. I love my job as a firefighter, but nothing gives me the satisfaction of running my hand over a project that I have built and just finished sanding.
#3 posted 09-02-2013 09:11 AM
Great job! Your first project involved a lot of set up and planning to accomplish what you did.
-- John, Illinois, http://OakHillWoodCreations.com
#4 posted 09-03-2013 03:23 AM
Really good design & build. Well done.
-- dnick, North Hollywood, Ca.
#5 posted 09-03-2013 03:35 AM
I like it, nice job.
#6 posted 09-05-2013 04:37 PM
It looks great. Like the raised panel doors. The wood is beautiful and the finish as well. You should be proud of yourself.
#7 posted 09-05-2013 04:50 PM
Fantastic work, looks great… Nice antler collection as well… Thanks for sharing, and welcome to LJs…
-- Dan
#8 posted 09-05-2013 06:46 PM
Thanks everyone. This is such a great site and its rewarding to share the photos with people who can appreciate it. Sanding2day, thanks, my father and I have been tough on the western PA whitetail over the years.
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State seeks input on environmental rule change
December 6, 2012
By Staff
The state Department of Ecology is collecting public input on a proposed rule to give local governments, including Issaquah and King County, more flexibility for small construction projects.
The draft rule change to the State Environmental Policy Act aims to allow local governments more leeway to exempt minor construction projects from review under the law, such as small-scale residential housing developments, as well as certain agricultural, commercial office and school buildings.
The proposal also aims to simplify the checklist required under the law.
Residents can email comments to email@example.com. Or, mail comments to Department of Ecology, P.O. Box 47703, Olympia, WA 98504-7600. Contact Fran Sant at email@example.com or 360-407-6932 with specific questions about the draft rule change.
The public comment period is open through Dec. 11.
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Allison Donlon, 23, and her dad Mark, 55, both of Sheboygan, have both appeared on "The Price is Right." Mark was on in 2009 and Allison went to a taping May 23. (Gary C. Klein/Gannett Wisconsin Media)
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For the Donlon family of Sheboygan, the price is right - twice.
Nearly two years after Mark Donlon won a $20,000 Showcase prize package on the popular CBS game show, "The Price is Right," his daughter, Allison, will appear as a contestant during an episode set to air at 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 8, on Channel 58 in Milwaukee.
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September 24-Arrived the ship Royal Admiral, 414 tons, 4 guns, Fell, from London 7th May, with rum and 202 female prisoners-passengers, Mrs. Street and three children, Mrs. Farrington and six children, Dr. Roberts, R.N., Surgeon Superintendent.
24-Arrived the bark Appoline, 513 tons, 2 guns, Thomas, from London 21st May, and Plymouth 2nd June, with merchandise and 222 emigrants-passen- gers, J. King, Esq., W. Tarleton, Esq., C. J. Irvine, Esq., B. Kenny, Esq., M.D., Superintendent.
28-Arrived the schooner Isabella, 61 tons, Boyd, from Port Phillip 22nd instant, with sheep-passen- gers, Mr. and Mrs. Benson and child, Mr. Eastern, Mr. Shepherd, William Harris.
29-Arrived the brig Caroline, 113 tons, Coombs, 'from Sydney 18th instant, with sundries.
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September 21-Arrived the schooner Dusty Miller, '30 tons, Sanders, from Port Phillip, J. Guillan, agent, with sundries-passengers, Messrs. Tetley, Jacobs, Lawton, Mrs. Sanders, Mrs. Patterson, Mrs. Sogden, John M'Swceney, James Dugan.
v 24- Anived the brig Vesper, 212 tons, Lauttet,from Port Phillip, J. Raven, agent, with bran.
27-Arrived the brig Henry, 107 tons, Tregurtha, from Fort Phillip, Tregurtha, agent, with sundries passenger, Ann Tierney.
27-Arrived the schooner Sir John Franklin, 52 tons. Campbell, from Port Phillip, J. H. Campbell, agent-passengers, Miss Davis, Mis. Davis and child, J. Brown, Edward Dryden, Robert M'Kechney, M. Hipwood.
September 24-Sailed the brig William, 149 tons, Le Grand, for Sydney, J. Griffiths, agent-passengers, Mr. Moss, Lieutenant Martin, Mrs. Doddery, Mrs. Mason, Mrs. Francis, Mrs. Wilkinson, Mr. Lewis, Thomas Maungah, Henry Gall, John Jenkins, John Burgess, James Foster, Albert Spencer.
24-Sailed the schooner Lowestoft, 114 tons, Irvine, for Sydney, J. Griffiths, agent, with sundries.
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No way we get Kemba Walker. He's CHA franchise player believe it or not. I'd love him, but not going to happen. I would love Lowry. What about taking a stab at some younger unproven Rooks. Maybe Bell for the Sun's Marshall?
No way we get Kemba Walker. He's CHA franchise player believe it or not. I'd love him, but not going to happen. I would love Lowry. What about taking a stab at some younger unproven Rooks. Maybe Bell for the Sun's Marshall?
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Kendall Marshall can't even play. I knew this before the draft even when I was convincing everybody that lillard would've been a better choice. Marshalls lack of offense scares me.
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He can pass though, and moving Bell for him doesnt exactly hurt us at all. And its not like the suns wouldnt want Bell back? Just a project that could become a goodie.
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Pau looked pretty good last night. He still has something left in the tank.
Kyle Lowry is a good player. We should be more than happy to land a young point guard that talented.
depends, the situation has to be right. i don't feel it's remotely close to being right at this point.
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Rondo with a torn ACL. Still want to trade for him? He's going to be out for a long time.
If we can get him cheaper due to his ACL being torn, I'd say go for it. Heck of a lot better than losing Al and/or Millsap for nothing. Still not likely to happen, but I would more than welcome the idea of Rondo coming here, whether he sits for a year or not.
But then again, I might just have a Rondo boner.
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I am not as sold on the Rondo thing at the moment. That's a serious injury and there is no way to tell what kind of player he will be when he returns. With today's medicine it's very possible he's back in 8 months or maybe less but it just scares the crap out of me. Also, I really don't see us going the way of the Warriors last year trading away healthy, capable players for suits. It seems to have worked out for them but I'm just not a fan of doing that and with the way the teams been playing I doubt the FO is either.
Rippin' lips son!!
Big Al for Paul Pierce works. Boston gets a big they need and a player 7 years younger. Jazz lineup of Mo, Hayward, Pierce, Millsap, and Favors is sweet. Pierce picks up Al's scoring, we are a better defensive team, we can play in transition more. Jazz may have to throw in a pick or Burks to make it work. Boston would have no trouble re-signing Al. I don't know that Boston would do it?
I think that is a pretty solid trade. Its not the first time I've seen it either. Espn talked about it at the first of the season and i wouldn't mind seeing it go down. I think a straight across trade would be good enough for boston.
I think Paul Pierce makes us a better team, but I just think some guys need to stay in the same place for their entire career. Big Al isn't going to make Boston and contender, and I think Boston realizes that. Boston also probably realizes that trading Rondo low is dumb because he's still their only young elite player.
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Science City, Kolkata illuminates perfectly an eager learner in quest for scientific knowledge.
The developed city of Kolkata is no way lagging behind, when it comes to prove their in-depth knowledge in science and the application of scientific laws and truth to practical utility. The city has reached the acme of perfection in the field of scientific and technological advancement. And the Science City is the concrete manifestation of this inviolable fact.
The Science City, Kolkata brings into the limelight the awesome wonders that science can bring about and the thrilling experience it can gift the viewers and visitors who experience them. This amusement as well as educational park, delivers instruction under the sugar-coating of entertainment in the most innovative manner. And a positive attribute is definitely the natural setting in which it is located.
This amazing settlement is situated on the confluence point of the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass and the Park Circus connector. This Science Park is a splendid extension of the National Council of Science Museum .
The Convention Center Complex is one of the conspicuous aspects of the Science City, Kolkata. The Convention Centre Complex houses a spacious huge auditorium , possessing an accommodation-strength of 2215 persons , in addition to smaller auditorium , capable of containing only 400 persons. Besides, the Complex is constituted by eight seminar halls of varying spaces . They are invested with co-existing translation arrangement and audiovisual systems. Impressive catering-facilities, ensuring the provisions for food, are present in the lounge-area . Telephone, fax and secretarial advantages can be availed of in the Convention Center Complex.
It is said that the oriental brains are masters of competitive disciplines, like, maths and related science disciplines. The Dynamotion making possible hands-on activities with display items related to mathematics, physics, chemistry, geography, mechanics and environment can turn the thirsty and intelligent pursuers into extraordinary scholars, say, mathematics-wizard .
The Energy Ball is the perfect means of attesting the principle of conversion of energy , as is demonstrated by balls, descending in rolling movement, down loops and bends. Space Theatre is one of the most awesome contrivances of generating the superb sensation of voyaging into the outer space, with an aim of discovering the extra-planetary life in the fathomless universe, beyond exploration. The slanting dome-shaped theatre, having a holding range of 360 people , can throw one into the over briming thrill of enjoying the exclusive Astrovision, together with the mind-blowing Universum. At the Space Theatre, the adventurous visitor can undergo, a fearsome expedition in the wild interiors of the make-believe Serengeti Reserve Forest . This unique Space Theatre is the single example in India . The first of this type is there in Japan.
In science fictions we have read about the astounding adrenalin-raising Time Machine which causes one to believe in a reversal of one's situation, back in time. Here it allows the visitor to experience an enchanting feigned journey through space or going back by crossing the gates of time.
This arrangement certainly transports one into a synthetic but an enigmatic journey to Egypt, the land of the pyramids and the Nile . One can even luxuriate in make-believe adventures in cyberspace and so on. Again there is a man-made Jurassic Park , wherein, life-like Dinosaurs strode and roar to the sheer surprise of the awestruck visitors.
Equally fascinating is the enormous repertory of birds and insects. Thus the natural world receives one of its best , seemingly true representations in the Science City. Even one is bound to gaze in amazement at the reality-like showcasing of the inside of a volcano. There are also simultaneous exhibitions of natural mishap-inviting catastrophes such as tornadoes, earthquakes or death-traps, like quicksand.
Our olfactory modality, encounters an intriguing test of its sharpness, in Garden of Smells, releasing multiple kinds of fragrances. People can differentiate the smells by pressing individual buttons.
One segment of the Science City, Kolkata, keeps on display insects and reptiles. In this extremely educative section, resides magnificent aquariums containing gold fish, Alvino Shark and many other aquatic organisms. The radiant corals and the resplendent flora and fauna exerts a charming sensation on the minds of the spectators .
Furthermore, natural developments and the laws of motion get well-explained to the general people through mechanical gismos or machines .
There are also musical fountain, demarcated area for picnic and other facilities etc. Indeed, Calcutta of the new millennium is totally incomplete without Science City. It is open everyday including Sundays and all public holidays from 9 am. to 9 pm. Within the premises, the Science City is crowded with trees and lawns , which provide ample scope for identifying and knowing new things .
Science City, fills one with thrill and excitement to the utmost level. An obvious instance is the rope-way ride, giving one the chance to visualize the panorama of the entire Science City, from above .
There are the musical fountain and marked space allotted for picnic. This assuredly augments the sense of pleasure overwhelming the visitors, enjoying at the Science City, Kolkata.
Science City , Kolkata, delivers vital scientific and natural facts and knowledge , in the most delight-wooing manner. Acquisition of knowledge there, leaves the mind not only enlightened, but also the spirit, refreshed.
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|Overview of the Philippines - Belgium Bilateral Relations
The Republic of the Philippines and the Kingdom of Belgium established formal diplomatic relations on 4 July 1946.
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President Benigno S. Aquino III, in his visit to Belgium from 15-16 September 2014 highlighted the importance of Belgium's contributions to the strengthening of Philippine - Belgium Relations during his audience with His Majesty, King Philippe and with Belgian Federal Government Officials in the areas of trade and investment, humanitarian assistance, greater people-to-people contact and networking and in international relations where the Philippines and Belgium share and uphold common values towards the promotion of democracy and the rule of law.
He conveyed the Philippines' deepest appreciation to the assistance provided by the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium in the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda on 8 November 2013. The Belgian Government sent a contingent of 40 doctors and nurses from the Belgium First Aid and Support Team (B-Fast), medical relief goods, a field hospital and mobile water treatment which arrived on 12 November 2013. Total official Belgian assistance has reached €2.53 million while donations from private entities/NGOs have reached €10.5 million.
On 10 July 2013, Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Albert F. Del Rosario and his Belgian counterpart, Foreign Minister Didier Reynders signed the Philippine - Belgium Joint Plan of Action (JPA). The JPA is an opportunity and a platform for the two countries to work and cooperate closely in addressing practical challenges and various concerns and boost overall aspects of bilateral relations.
In the area of trade, Belgium remains a significant trading partner of the Philippines with exports amounting to US$ 302 Million and imports amounting to US$ 288 million in 2012. Belgium ranked as the 20th market for Philippine exports in 2012.
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CAMBRIDGE – A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of "market confidence."
It may have been fear of communism that agitated governments when Karl Marx penned the opening line of his famous manifesto in 1848, but today it is the dread that market sentiment will turn against them and drive up the spreads on their bonds. Governments all over are being forced into premature fiscal retrenchment, even though unemployment remains very high and private demand shows few signs of life. Many are driven to undertake structural reforms that they don't really believe in – just because it would look bad to markets to do otherwise.
The terror spawned by market sentiment was once the bane of poor nations alone. During the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980's or the Asian financial crisis of 1997, for example, heavily indebted developing countries believed they had few options but to swallow bitter medicine – or face a stampede of capital outflows. Apparently, now it's the turn of Spain, France, Britain, Germany, and, many analysts argue, even the United States.
If you want to keep borrowing money, you need to convince your lender that you can repay. That much is clear. But in times of crisis, market confidence takes on a life of its own. It becomes an ethereal concept devoid of much real economic content. It turns into what philosophers call a "social construction" – something that is real only because we believe it to be.
For, if economic logic were clear-cut, governments wouldn't have to justify what they do on the basis of market confidence. It would be evident which policies work and which do not, and pursuing the "right" policies would be the surest way to restore confidence. The pursuit of market confidence would be superfluous.
So, if market confidence has a meaning, it must be something that is not pinned down simply by economic fundamentals. But what is it?
In his Communist Manifesto, Marx went on to say that it is "high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the specter of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself." Similarly, it would be nice if markets would clarify what they mean by "confidence" so that we would all know what we are really dealing with.
Of course, "markets" are unlikely to do any such thing. This is not just because markets comprise a multitude of investors and speculators who are unlikely ever to get together to publish a "party program," but more fundamentally because markets have little clue themselves.
A government's capacity and willingness to service its debt depend on an almost infinite number of present and future contingencies. They depend not just on its tax and spending plans but also on the state of the economy, the external conjuncture, and the political context. All of these are highly uncertain, and require many assumptions to reach some form of judgment about creditworthiness.
Today, markets seem to think that large fiscal deficits are the greatest threat to government solvency. Tomorrow they may think the real problem is low growth, and rue the tight fiscal policies that helped produce it.
Today, they worry about spineless governments unable to take the tough actions needed to deal with the crisis. Perhaps tomorrow they will lose sleep over the mass demonstrations and social conflicts that tough economic policies have spawned.
Few can predict which way market sentiment will move, least of all market participants themselves. Even with hindsight, it is sometimes not clear why markets go one way and not the other. Similar policies will produce different market reactions depending on the prevailing story, or fad of the moment. That is why steering the economy by the dictates of market confidence is a fool's errand.
The silver lining in all this is that, unlike economists and politicians, markets have no ideology. As long as they make money they do not care if they have to eat their words. They simply want whatever "works"—whatever will produce a stable, healthy economic environment conducive to debt repayment. When circumstances become dire enough, they will even condone debt restructuring—if the alternative is chaos and the prospect of a greater loss.
This opens up some room for governments to maneuver. It permits self-confident political leaders to take charge of their own future. It allows them to shape the narrative that underpins market confidence, rather than play catch-up.
But to make good use of this maneuvering room, policymakers need to articulate a coherent, consistent, and credible account of what they are doing, based on both good economics and good politics. They have to say: "we are doing this not because the markets demand it, but because it is good for us and here is why."
Their storyline needs to convince their electorates as well as the markets. If they succeed, they can pursue their own priorities and maintain market confidence at the same time.
This is where European governments (along with their economist advisors) have kept missing the boat. Rather than face up to the challenge, leaders first procrastinated and then buckled under pressure. They ended by fetishizing the pronouncements of market analysts. In doing so, they have denied themselves economically desirable policies that have greater chance of garnering popular support.
If the present crisis gets worse, it will be political leaders that bear primary responsibility – not because they ignored markets, but because they took them too seriously.


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The St. Landry Parish School Board will vote on whether to accept a contract with Southwest Louisiana Primary Health Care for school-based health care at its Feb. 7 regular meeting.
The school board executive committee voted to move it to the full council at its meeting Monday after it agreed that it was in the best interest of the system to move forward with the agreement as soon as possible. Interim Superintendent Joe Cassimere said board attorney Gerard Caswell had begun examining the school-based health care contracts in neighboring parishes to compare them to the proposed one here.


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Can an Open Cloud Compete?
A new foundation will promote free software as an alternative to proprietary cloud-computing technologies.
A new foundation, announced today, will attempt to promote a free, "open source" alternative for cloud computing.
The OpenStack Foundation, announced at the OpenStack conference in Boston, will maintain a suite of free software tools for building and managing a cloud-computing platform. The OpenStack software suite includes software for computation, storage, networking, and system management.
Many companies have flocked to cloud computing. It removes the need for expensive up-front investments in information technology departments, since computer power and storage can simply be leased. However, most cloud services are proprietary, and the technology used to run them is kept secret. Once a company signs up for one cloud service, it can be difficult to move to another provider.
In an address to the conference, Chris Kemp, who cofounded the OpenStack project last year, said he was leery of a cloud-computing world dominated by major players like Amazon. "By having just one major company provide infrastructure as a service, they've made decisions about how good is good enough, how secure is secure enough, how reliable is reliable enough, how cheap is cheap enough," Kemp said.
The OpenStack project has had the backing of Web hosting company RackSpace, a competitor of Amazon's. The first version of its software has been downloaded 50,000 times since it was released in October 2010. A number of successful free and open-source software projects, including the Linux operating system and the Apache Web server, are supported by similar foundations.
"OpenStack matters because it's very hard to set up a cloud, very hard to manage a cloud, and every option out there is incompatible with each other," says James Staten, an analyst at Forrester Research.
Among the 115 organizations already supporting OpenStack are Dell Computer, Cisco, and HP, which has built its cloud service using the technology. At least six different companies have been distributing the software.


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Good Sunday morning — a few reads for the middle of your 3 day weekend:
• Alan Blinder: Financial Collapse: A 10-Step Recovery Plan (NYT)
• Google says Wall Street estimates need adjusting (Reuters) see also Have Mutual Fund Rating Agencies Lost Their Mojo? (Fiduciary News)
• Channeling Marshall McLuhan Markets to Washington: You know nothing of our work (Washington Post)
• How to Cut Megabanks Down to Size (NYT) see also Big Banks' Biggest Foe Says It's Time to Break Up (Fiscal Times)
• Fed Concerned About Overheated Markets Amid Record Bond Buys (Bloomberg)
• How to Owe Capital-Gains Taxes Without Even Trying (WSJ) see also Prepare for zero growth, no recovery, resource wars (Marketwatch)
• The End of Labor: How to Protect Workers From the Rise of Robots (The Atlantic)
• Regionals Outplay Big Banks (WSJ) see also JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Offers Illusion of Transparency (Bloomberg)
• Americans Similarly Dissatisfied With Corporations, Gov't (Gallup)
• The 150 Things the World's Smartest People Are Afraid Of (Motherboard)
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Navigating the Dividend Storm
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Category: Financial Press
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Mrs. F. J. Adams
Back garden
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Web site: http://www.astonhouse.net
Guest rooms overlooking garden - with Emma & Rhea
We welcome guests, and children 10 years and over, to our home set in a lovely garden in the beautiful, quiet village of Broadwell with its village green and ford, just 1.5 miles from Stow-on-the-Wold and 3 miles from Moreton-in-Marsh. The secluded front garden is available for guests' use. The Fox Inn is within walking distance (but do bring a torch for the return journey!) and many hotels and restaurants are within 3 miles for evening meals.
We are a No Smoking house.
We are centrally situated for visiting all the Cotswold
villages: Bourton-on-the-Water with Birdland, Model Village,
Museum and the Perfumery, Stow-on-the-Wold with its Square and numerous
Antique shops, Guiting Power and the Cotswold Farm Park (farmed by Adam Henson, presenter on BBC Countryfile), Burford
Cotswold Wildlife Park, Chedworth and the Roman Villa, Winchcombe,
Sudeley Castle, Lower Slaughter, Broadway, Chipping Campden and Hidcote
Manor Gardens, Snowshill Manor and the Snowshill Lavender Farm, Bibury,
Moreton-in-Marsh with Batsford
Arboretum and Falconry Centre and Dalesford Organic Farm Shop (as found in Harvey Nicholls & Selfridges in London) - while Blenheim
Warwick Castle, Stratford-upon-Avon, Oxford, Cheltenham, Cirencester, Gloucester and the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway at Toddington are all within 30 miles. We are 3 miles from the Longborough Festival Opera held annually during June
and July.
|Type of Accommodation: Tariff - see below.
Bed & Breakfast
OPEN March to October
Entrance Hall - Rhea and Emma welcome you
If you do not have a car we are not suitable accommodation for you, as there is very little public transport; you need to stay in Moreton-in-Marsh or Stow-on-the-Wold.
ACCOMMODATION comprises:
on the first floor a Twin-bedded room and a double room (the Long Room), both
en-suite (with walk-in shower). The Long Room can be used as a second twin room, but only when the twin-bedded room is already booked. Both rooms are comfortably furnished
and centrally heated.
Twin-bedded en suite room - sitting area
Both rooms have tea / coffee making facilities and biscuits, radio / clock alarms, hairdryer, two armchairs and, to add to your
comfort, electric blankets for those colder nights and fans for the
summer days. There is Freeview TV in both rooms. Bed time drinks - ovaltine, horlicks, drinking chocolate - and biscuits
are provided (free).
Bed-time drinks and biscuits
Full English breakfast of fruit juice (orange or apple) / grapefruit / prunes / choice of cereals / yogurt / cheese / bacon / egg / sausage (local butcher) / tomato / fried bread, or smoked haddock or kippers or scrambled egg with smoked salmon / brown or white toast / choice of marmalade, jams, honey, marmite, butter or Flora.
Tea or coffee - decaffeinated tea and coffee available.
Special diets can be provided if requested at the time of booking.
Breakfast is served from 8.30 am to 9 am.
TARIFF - 2014 - no increase from 2013 - SPRING and AUTUMN DISCOUNTS (March to Easter & October)
1 -
3 nights
GBP �80 - �85 per room per night �75 per room per night
4 - 6 nights GBP �78 - �83 per room per night �70 per room per night
1 week - (7 nights) GBP �530 - 567 per room per night �480 per room per night
Exceptions - Bank Holidays & Cheltenham Festival. No single night bookings for Bank Holidays, or weekends Wedding guest bookings by telephone arrangement only
CHECK-IN is from 4:30 pm (or earlier by arrangement only). However, it would be appreciated if you could give an estimated time of arrival.
When overnight bookings are made by telephone for which no deposit has been received, rooms must be claimed by 6pm.
CHECK OUT should be by 10:30 am.
The deposit is non returnable. You are responsible for the cost of cancelled accommodation that cannot be relet, and are strongly advised to take out insurance to cover the cost of your holiday.
We reserve the right to terminate the booking, without liability for any refund or compensation, should guests arrive requiring wheelchair access or with pets, or smoke in the house.
From Stow-on-the-Wold:
From Chipping Norton:
Aston House is 1.5 miles from Stow-on-the-Wold and 3 miles from Moreton-in-Marsh.
A car is essential. If you do not have a car we are not suitable accommodation for you, as there is very little public transport; you need to stay in Moreton-in-Marsh or Stow-on-the-Wold.
For full details of accommodation please see our web site www.astonhouse.net
You can contact us via phone, e-mail or snail mail (details below)
Mrs F J Adams, Aston House, Broadwell, Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos. GL56 0TJ
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Tel: 01451 830475 Mobile phone reception in the area is poor, and is intermittent in the house.
There are 3 marked parking bays in the secluded front garden. The surface is tarmac, level and flat.
There are three 2 inch high x 2 foot wide steps from the parking area to the front door. These steps have white painted edging.
There is a 5 inch high ledge to step over at the front door entrance.
The outer front door and porch is unlocked, but the inner front door is always locked. There is a door bell.
The ground floor is carpeted throughout and is level.
There is a light in the entrance hall which is kept on 24 hours; there is an emergency light in the hall, on the landing and in each bedroom should there be a power failure.
Breakfast is served in the downstairs dining room. There are no steps and it is carpeted.
The chairs do not have arms and are 18 inches high; the tables are 29 inches high.
There are two rooms on the first floor, which can be reached by stair lift.
There are three stairs 7 & three quarters inches height and 9 & half inches depth to a small landing 33 & half inches square to get to the stair lift.
There are a further 11 stairs of the same size to the first floor landing.
The first floor is on the level, and carpeted, as are the two bedrooms and bathrooms. There is an emergency light should there be a power failure.
The Long room has a 4 foot 6 inch double bed (25 inches high) and a 3 foot single bed (23 inches high), so can be used as a second twin room (but only when the twin room is already booked). Both beds have firm, comfortable pocket sprung mattresses.
The shower in the Long room has a 5 inch step/ledge into it, and a maximum opening of 21 inches. The washbasin is 30 inches high and the toilet 16 inches. The taps are lever operated.
The Twin room has two 3 foot beds (25 inches high) with firm, comfortable pocket sprung mattresses.
The shower in the twin room has a 5 inch step/ledge into it, and a maximum opening of 16 & half inches. The washbasin is 31 inches high and the toilet 16 inches. The taps are lever operated.
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The North Carolina Pottery Center showcases the remarkable history and ongoing tradition of pottery making in North Carolina. Located in Seagrove, one of the state's key historical and contemporary pottery producing regions, the Center is your first stop in exploring North Carolina's rich clay heritage. The state's pottery communities range from the mountains to the sea, and it is that wide-ranging diversity of styles, techniques, and history that the Center preserves and protects. Our permanent exhibit of more than eight hundred pieces of pottery, artifacts, and photographs traces North Carolina's pottery history from prehistoric Native Americans to the present. The display interprets the impact of social, technological, and economic change on the state's most unique cultural resource. Changing exhibitions of historical and contemporary work are also on display.
The North Carolina Pottery Center will be closing at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, November 25th, and will be closed on Thursday and Friday, the 26th and 27th, for Thanksgiving. The center will reopen at 10:00 am on Saturday, the 28th.


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It Came from Beneath the Sink!
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The illustration shows the Grool looking out from underneath the sink.
Katrina (aka Kat) and her brother, Daniel, have been allowed to skip a day of school to help their parents move into their new huge yellow house. While their parents busy themselves with unloading boxes, Daniel is put to work feeding the family dog, Killer, and Kat is told to wipe down the cabinets. While Kat is cleaning the inside of the cabinet below the sink, she hears a noise from the far, dark corner of the cabinet. She ignores the noise and continues cleaning. Suddenly a hairy claw pokes out from the darkness and grabs her arm. Kat screams and then realizes it is not a horrible monster, but just her brother in his rat costume.
For some reason, the dog comes trotting into the kitchen. Daniel convinces her that he too is a giant rat and she falls for it. He calls her "Scaredy-Kat" and she responds by tickling him. While tickling her brother, Killer the dog starts barking ferociously at the empty cabinet beneath the sink. The item to inspire Killer's wrath is revealed to be a sponge. When Kat goes to retrieve the contentious sponge, she discovers that the sponge appears to be breathing. Her brother at first is skeptical, but he still readily tries to claim the breathing sponge as his own, diving under the sink and hitting his head hard. He blames Kat, saying she pushed him, and the two try to justify their actions to their mother, who berates them for arguing over a "stupid sponge."
Kat, armed with breathing sponge, goes to show the item to her father, who is on top of a ladder in their living room. Her father has nails in his mouth and he cheerfully agrees to examine Kat's sponge, which by this point has sprouted two beady eyes. As he reaches down to grab the sponge, the ladder tips over and her father lands on the ground, grabbing his ankle. He angrily asks her, why she tipped over the ladder. Kat insists she did not touch the ladder, as the sponge in her hand pulsates wildly. Kat decides this is all too weird and disposes of the sponge in one of those big metal trash cans outside the garage.
A few days after moving in, Kat is in the process of making a list of who to invite to her birthday party. She hears a racket upstairs and investigates. Kat sees Daniel showing his friend Carlo the sponge she had thrown away. Kat pleads with Daniel to re-throw away the creature. Carlo wants to spook his babysitter with the creature, and upon placing the "sponge" in a gerbil carrier, his hand appears to be bitten off.
After Carlo and Daniel have a good laugh about his prank, Carlo manage to get hurt. He does this, by stepping on a nail sticking out of a floorboard in Daniel's bedroom. Carlo lays on the floor in agony, as his sock soaks up the blood and the sponge in the gerbil cage pulsates wildly. Kat's mother goes over the details for her birthday party. Kat is worried about topping last year's "Make your own pizza" party, which she claims was talked about for weeks after the fact. Kat decides she is too old for themes. Her mother has promised to take her and her friends to WonderPark. Kat has only invited her friends and considers inviting her brother, until he raises a big stink about her sponge, which she has now claimed full ownership of, and in fact is about to take to school to show her science teacher. She stores the sponge in a used potato salad container and heads off to school.
On the way to school a tree branch falls and nearly kills Kat. Luckily Daniel pushes her out of the way just in time, spilling her bag out onto the ground. The sponge falls out the container and starts pulsating wildly.
At school, Kat shows the sponge to her teacher. It just sits there like an ordinary kitchen sponge and the teacher tosses it back to Kat like it was garbage. Then the teacher slams her fingers in her desk drawer, breaking both her hands.
Kat walks back to class from the nurse's office, where she helped her teacher. Kat knows she has got to find some kind of peace of mind, and she might have been searching everywhere were it not for Daniel running up to her in the hall. It seems he has found the sponge creature in a very convenient book called Encyclopedia of the Weird. It is called a Grool and is a mythic creature that causes and feeds off bad luck. According to the book, the only way a Grool can be passed on is if its owner dies. If the Grool's current owner tries to give it away, they will die within a single day. Daniel also shows Kat a picture of a potato-like creature with teeth called a Lanx, which is the Grool's more dangerous cousin. A Lanx will attach to a person and drain them of all their energy.
Walking home, Kat starts wondering if maybe the book could possibly have been right. Once home, Kat's mother informs her and her brother that Killer has run away. Not to worry though, as Kat's mother has called the police and they are out searching for the dog. Daniel and Carlo go out to look for the dog themselves. Kat gets frustrated and blames the throbbing sponge. Furious, she throws the sponge across the room. As she looks down at her hand, she sees blood everywhere. She had slammed her hand down on an open pair of scissors which were resting on a desk. Clutching her bleeding palm, she walks over to the Grool, which has changed color from a dusty brown to a tomato-red color, and now appears to be laughing.
The morning of Kat's birthday, she gets dressed for her fun day at the WonderPark waterpark, except it is raining outside. Kat naturally blames the Grool and pouts over her breakfast waffles, when her mother tells her that she cancelled her birthday celebrations. Kat sulks upstairs and makes plans for taking care of the Grool that are so intricate that she gets out a notebook and puts pen to paper. The plan? To bury the Grool in the backyard when the rain lets out.
Kat somehow manages to master this plan and after burying the Grool deep in the backyard, she can't find Daniel anywhere. Eventually she spots him cowering in the garage, afraid that something was going to happen to her for burying the Grool in the ground. Well, nothing happens to Kat but the backyard does not fare as well. The next day, all of the grass and flowers her father worked so hard to cultivate in the backyard have shriveled up and died, the entire lawn brown and dead. Kat concludes that the Grool is mocking and punishing her for burying it, and so she digs it up while she thinks of another plan.
The following day, Kat's favorite aunt comes to visit. Kat thinks she will know a lot about sponges. Kat takes her aunt by the hand immediately upon her arrival and goes to show her the Grool, which has again reverted back to looking like a regular sponge. Her aunt throws the old dried up thing on the floor and leaves Kat's room, laughing. After she is gone, the Grool immediately reverts back to its moist pulsating self. Kat gets frustrated and smashes the Grool into a million pieces with her textbook. But all of the pieces of the Grool pool together and reform as one entity.
Granted a reprieve from school when a teacher's conference is scheduled, Kat relaxes at home, gradually completing an essay on why her family is important to her. She sneaks down to the kitchen for some milk and cookies and upon returning to her room she sees the Grool has disappeared! Frantically she tears up her room looking for the sponge. She finds Daniel and he tells her that Carlo just left and he must have stolen the creature. Fearful for her life, Kat and Daniel put on their jackets and race out into the street, heading for the park where Carlo has likely gone to show off the sponge.
They do not get far before they spot Carlo splayed out in the street, where he has hurt his knee from falling from his bike. He limps home by himself as the two siblings scavenge the road for the Grool, which flew from Carlo's bike basket when he fell. Daniel thinks the creature landed in the sewer and so Kat lifts a grate and sinks down into the sewer to investigate. After spotting a cadre of real rats swarming towards her, Kat wisely decides to exit the sewer.
Carlo excitedly prances on his one good leg down to the siblings, cheerfully telling them that he has found the Grool. Kat gives him a hug as Carlo presents her with a wet crumpled brown paper sack, which he thought was the Grool.
Carlo apologizes and tells Kat that he broke his leg racing bikes with some older boys, and maybe they stole the Grool once it fell onto the ground. Kat and Daniel ride their bikes over to the park, where sure enough, a circle of high school boys are leaning over the dried up sponge. Kat tells the boys that it's her favorite sponge and asks to have it returned. The boys make fun of her and their ringleader, a tall blonde, tells her that it is their sponge now. Kat, knowing how bad luck finds those in possession of the Grool, slowly walks away and waits for something bad to happen. It does not take long, as some children playing baseball lob a baseball right into the tall blonde's head. The boy drops to the ground and Kat grabs for the sponge, while his friends rush to his aid.
Kat hops on her bike and narrowly avoids getting hit by a large truck, which swerves at the last minute. Then not a few minutes later, her entire front tire shreds, sending her spilling into the street. She walks her wrecked bike home, listening to the croaking laughs of the Grool all the way. Steaming with anger, she starts pummeling the Grool, slamming it against the concrete with rage. Every horrible thing she spouts at the creature only makes it pulsate with pleasure, every hateful pummel feeding its joy. Daniel rushes over to her, pleading with her to stop, that it is just what the creature wants, for her to get mad at it, for her to feed it anger.
Kat will not listen to Daniel and she runs a few houses down to their house. With Daniel and Carlo not far behind, Kat enters the kitchen, shoves the Grool into the drain, and turns on the garbage disposal. The disposal makes a lurching sound and the Grool is propelled out of the drain, safely, and lands on the counter, laughing maniacally. Daniel again pleads with her to quit trying to kill it, that the Encyclopedia of the Weird specifically says that the Grool can't be killed by any means of force. That is when Kat gets an idea.
She picks up the Grool and instead of inflicting pain on it, pets it. She then begins to coo sweet nothings into the Grool's ear, and softly rocks the creature with love. The Grool begins to lose its coloring and shrivels up. Kat tells the Grool that she loves it and gives it a big kiss. The Grool shrinks to a small shrieking ball and then explodes into a million little particles. Kat explains for her brother that since the book said the creature couldn't be killed by means of force, she figured that it could be killed by means of love.
Except there's suddenly a scratching sound on the back door! It's Killer, the dog. Rushing outside to greet the dog, Kat sees the dead grass and flowers reverting back to their previous state, filling with color as they come back to life. Killer starts barking at the kitchen counter again and Kat finds a creature that looks like a potato, only it has razor-sharp teeth matching the Lanx's description.
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- This is mentioned in The Curse of the Creeping Coffin
- The title of both the book and television episode is a spoof of the classic film, It Came from Beneath the Sea.
- The title is mentioned in an episode of Happy Days titled "Tell-Tale Tart," which predates the book.
- Original tagline: It's warm! It's breathing! And it doesn't do dishes!
- As is standard with each first edition release of a Goosebumps book, the first edition would reveal the title of the forthcoming installment in the Goosebumps series, "Coming soon from R.L. Stine", on its back cover before its print the next month. The previous book, Monster Blood III, revealed the title of this (then unpublished) book to be "It Came from Under the Sink!" The final published title changes the word "Under" to "Beneath".
Television Episode Trivia
- This television episode was released on the Goosebumps DVD of the same name along with Strained Peas.
- A series reference is made in this episode, as the media that Carlos and Daniel are watching on the television is Welcome to Camp Nightmare.
- The music that is played through the Grool's headphones is the Goosebumps theme song.
- The theme tune for this television episode and Say Cheese and Die! are played in a higher key and have a different atmosphere to it than the regular theme.
- Killer is a German Shepard in the television show, instead of a Cocker Spaniel in the book.