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Walton, Kentucky 8.61 miles NW
Union, Kentucky 13.84 miles NW
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Alexandria, Kentucky 14.96 miles NE
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Sep 2015 - $38.00
We were disappointed in this park to say the least. Every "green area" is in serious need of trimming. I don't know what has happened as some of the other reviews were pleasant but my family did not experience that on our stay. The layout of the park is bizarre as we couldn't figure out how to navigate it and for some reason the campground office person seemed frightening. We were unfortunate enough to notice him nearly drive his cart into a vehicle that seemed as if it were trying to turn-around in the campground and start yelling at them. Is this hospitality? They have warning and trespassing signs posted everywhere. It certainly gave a sense of concern as we feared what would happen to us in the park. Was there a serious crime problem in the area? The interstate noise is non-stop and loud. Everything seems worn out and in need of repair. We would not stay here again and I hope they do something about the horrible bush and tree limb over-growth problems. - EasyE RV
Aug 2015 - $34.00
Nice small park. Nice layout and in the woods. Well maintained.
The sad part is the noise. It is about halfway between I75 and a very busy railroad. Our site was about 300 ft. from the interstate. Makes it hard to sit outdoors and enjoy a pretty little park. - B&S
Jul 2015 - $38.00
We stayed here on our trip to North Carolina and on our way back home during our summer vacation. I have used this campground in the past as it is very close to I-75 and a reasonable driving distance from my home. This is an older campground that used to have very well kept grounds with lots of flower beds/plantings and very nice landscaping. When I arrived this time most of the flower beds and plantings have been badly neglected. In general, the whole campground is in need of some care and attention (painting of buildings, removal of weeds from flower beds, etc.). On the positive side, the owners are very friendly and the sites are long enough to accommodate a 40 ft fifth wheel and truck without unhooking. While I would not want to spend a week here, it is a perfectly adequate campground for an overnight stay while en-route to a destination. - Greg and Kim


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They call her the "Flying Squirrel" — Gabby Douglas, the pint-sized fire-cracker who won two gold medals (and the hearts of millions) at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Gabby can flip, tumble, vault, balance, swing, totally stick the landing, throw out the first ball at a Dodgers game, charm Jay Leno and Howard Stern (try that, Michael Phelps!), and high-five the First Lady — all the while exuding confidence, good humor and the greatest of ease through her cajillion-watt smile.
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Gabby is working on her first book — a memoir titled Grace, Gold, and Glory: My Leap of Faith — which is expected to be published at the end of the year, according to an announcement made today by the Christian publishing house, Zondervan.


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Works like a charm.
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Does the job!
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So far it has done the job for opening stubborn lids. Haven't had it that long.
Best tool ever
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Answer to my grip problem
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I have some arthritis in my wrists and not as much upper body strength as I would like, so I ask my husband to open jars all the time. Now I can do it myself!
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Was a good idea though!!!
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Both my husband and my dad loved these when I put them in their Christmas stockings. Daddy uses it at meetings and during volunteer activities to discreetly do for himself. My husband uses it in his shop. I put one in our work kitchen. It was used almost immediately.
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Not for arthritic hands. If you can't open a water bottle with your hands, this device is no easier because you still need strength to close it. It has no teeth, so doesn't really grip.
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My husband and I both have arthritis ans this product is awesome. I had one for years and it finally broke for years of use so when I found them again, I ordered 2 of them. this is a must have bottle/jar opener.
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1. Technical Field
The present invention relates generally to the field of communication electronics and, in particular, to methods for extending the sensitivity of a digital receiver using analog correlation.
2. Description of the Related Art
Spread spectrum is a communication technique that has found widespread use for both military and commercial applications. In a spread spectrum communication system, the transmitted modulation is spread (i.e., increased) in bandwidth prior to transmission over the channel and then despread (i.e., decreased) in bandwidth by the same amount at the receiver.
One of the target applications for spread spectrum is to facilitate wireless or radio communications between separated electronic devices. For example, a wireless local area network (WLAN) is a flexible data communication system that uses radio technology to transmit and receive data over the air, thereby reducing or minimizing the need for wired connections. In a typical WLAN, an access point is provided by a transceiver that connects a wired network from a fixed location. End users connect to the WLAN through transceivers that are typically implemented as PC cards in a laptop computer, or ISA or PCI cards for desktop computers. The transceiver may also be integrated with any device, such as a handheld computer, personal digital assistant, or the like.
The majority of the WLAN products available in the marketplace today are proprietary spread spectrum solutions targeting vertical applications operating in the 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz ISM frequency bands. These products include, as mentioned above, wireless adapters and access points in PCMCIA, ISA and custom PC board platforms. A typical spread spectrum transceiver comprises a conventional IF radio circuit, coupled to a baseband processor, which provides the desired modulation of the signal to be transmitted and the desired demodulation of a signal received at the transceiver. Thus, for example, the baseband processor may perform a given spread spectrum modulation technique such as direct sequence (DS) modulation, frequency hopping (FH) modulation, time hopping (TH) modulation, or hybrid modulations that blend together one or more of the various schemes.
In known spread spectrum transceivers that are designed to comply with the IEEE 802.11 WLAN Standard, the baseband processor typically includes on-board, dual parallel (or "flash") analog-to-digital (A/D) converters for processing the received I (in-phase) and Q (quadrature) signals from the quadrature IF demodulator in the radio section. Flash A/D converters perform the analog-to-digital conversion in one step, as opposed to a successive approximation. In particular, a flash A/D converter simultaneously compares the input analog voltage to 2n−1 threshold voltages to produce an n-bit digital code representing the analog voltage. Typically, the baseband processor also includes another flash A/D converter for converting the analog signal provided from a receive signal strength indicator (RSSI) in the radio section.
The RSSI, which gives an indication of the signal power, however, does not work efficiently for a low probability of false detection when the signal is at or near noise level (e.g., −95 dBm in an IEEE 802.11b receiver). In a typical inexpensive receiver (e.g., such as in an ISM 2.4 GHz system for IEEE 802.11b), the RSSI usually operates over the entire range of the input signal as illustrated in FIG. 1. In a mid-range operation, it can be determined from the RSSI output signal that a received signal is coming up. In a noise-only situation, however, with VRSSI at V min, the signal coming up cannot be detected unless it is about 10 dB greater than the noise power so that the probability of false detection is low. This is also illustrated in FIG. 1. Thus, the only way to determine with a low probability of false detection if the signal is at or near the noise level (i.e., when the RSSI is unreliable) is to do a separate correlation. This, in turn, requires that the flash A/D converters be maintained in an ON condition, even though those converters could be turned OFF following message transmission. Flash A/D converters draw large amounts of current and, as a result, exhibit large power consumption.
It would be desirable to increase the sensitivity of the receiver portion of a spread spectrum transceiver when the signal is coming up at or near noise level without having to first turn ON the flash A/D converters to "sniff" for the received signal. The present invention addresses this need.
Analog correlation techniques are used in a digital receiver portion of a spread spectrum transceiver to determine when to turn ON given digital receiver components when the received signal is coming up. According to a particular embodiment, an analog correlator receives the analog I and Q outputs from the radio section and attempts to lock a local pseudorandom number (PN) sequence to a similar sequence in the received signal. When the analog correlator aligns the PN sequences, and if the corresponding correlation peak is sufficiently large, flash A/D converters in the digital receiver portion are turned ON. In effect, the analog correlator "sniffs" for the received signal because the radio signal strength indicator (RSSI) cannot detect received signal onset with a low probability of false alarm when the signal is at or near the noise floor.
In an illustrative embodiment, the analog correlator comprises, for each of the I and Q channels, an analog multiplier, an integrator and dump circuit, a sample-and-hold circuit, and an analog squarer. A pseudorandom (PN) sequence generator supplies a given PN sequence to each of the channels following the application of a selected delay. The PN sequence generator is the generator used to spread each data bit at a predetermined chip rate to supply the spread spectrum modulation. In a representative embodiment, the PN sequence is a Barker PN sequence. In operation, when the signal is at or near the noise level, following PN sequence lock, the correlator output is at a given relative correlation peak at the selected delay. When the given relative correlation peak exceeds a threshold, a control signal is output from the analog correlator to turn ON the flash A/D converters in the digital receiver. As a result, the large power-consuming flash A/D converters are only activated when the received signal is coming up and the relative correlation peak is above a given threshold. They need not be activated to sniff for the received signal, as in the prior art.
The foregoing has outlined some of the more pertinent objects and features of the present invention. These objects and features should be construed to be merely illustrative of some of the more prominent features and applications of the invention. Many other beneficial results can be attained by applying the disclosed invention in a different manner or modifying the invention as will be described. Accordingly, other objects and a fuller understanding of the invention may be had by referring to the following Detailed Description.
For a more complete understanding of the present invention and the advantages thereof, reference should be made to the following Detailed Description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 illustrates the relationship between the received signal strength indicator voltage and the signal strength in a conventional spread spectrum receiver;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the architecture of a representative spread spectrum transceiver of the prior art;
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the components of the baseband processor of the spread spectrum transceiver of FIG. 2;
FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an analog correlator illustrating the basic operating principle of the present invention; and
FIG. 5 is a more detailed block diagram illustrating how an analog correlator is used to control the digital receiver circuitry when the signal strength is at or near the noise level according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 illustrates a known wireless transceiver 200 in which the present invention may be implemented. The transceiver may be used for WLAN applications in the 2.4 GHz ISM band in accordance with the proposed IEEE 802.11 standard, although this is not a limitation of the present invention. The transceiver comprises selectable antennas 202 coupled to a RF power amplifier and transmit/receive switch 204. A low noise amplifier 206 is also operatively coupled to the antennas. The transceiver also includes an up/down converter 208 connected to both the low noise amplifier 206 and the RF power amplifier and transmit/receive switch 204. The up/down converter 208 is connected to a dual frequency synthesizer 210 and a quadrature IF modulator/demodulator 212. IF modulator/demodulator 212 includes a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) function for providing an RSSI monitoring or "sniffing" function, as is well-known. One or more filters 214 and voltage controlled oscillators (VCOs) 216 may also be provided. The above components comprise a conventional radio portion of the spread spectrum transceiver. Familiarity with the operation of such components is presumed.
A spread spectrum baseband processor 218 is coupled to the radio portion and contains all of the functions necessary to facilitate full or half duplex packet-based spread spectrum communications as is also well-known in the art. In particular, the processor has on-board dual, flash A/D converters 220 and 222 for receiving in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) signals from the IF modulator 212. The baseband processor also includes another A/D converter 224 for processing the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) voltage from the IF modulator 212. A clear channel assessment (CCA) circuit 226 provides a clear channel assessment function to avoid data collisions and to optimize network throughput. The flash A/D converter outputs are supplied to the demodulator 228, which despreads the received signal. The modulator 230 performs the spreading function, as is well understood. An interface circuit 232 is connected to the both the demodulator 228 and the modulator 230 to interface the data to/from the baseband processor. Again, all of the above components are well-known to one of ordinary skill in the art.
One type of spread spectrum technique is direct sequence modulation. For illustration purposes, the present invention will be described in the context of a direct sequence baseband processor, although this is not a limitation of the invention as will be seen. A direct sequence modulation is formed by linearly modulating an output sequence of a pseudorandom number (PN) generator onto a train of pulses, each having a duration called the chip time. An 11 bit Barker sequence (i.e., +++−−−+−−+−) may be used for this purpose. The use of an 11 bit Barker sequence, of course, is merely exemplary. A Barker sequence is a binary {−1,+1} sequence {s(t)} of length n having a periodic autocorrelation values |ρs(τ)|<1 for all τ, −(n−1)<τ<n−1. Typically, this type of modulation is used with binary phase-shift-keyed (BPSK) information signals. A direct sequence BPSK signal is generated by multiplying the BPSK signal by the direct sequence modulation. To demodulate a received BPSK signal, a local PN random generator (which generates the PN waveform at the receiver used for despreading) must be synchronized to within one chip of the PN waveform of the received BPSK signal. This function is done by a search routine that steps the local PN waveform sequentially in time by a fraction of a chip and, at each position, searches for a high degree of correlation between the received and local PN reference waveforms. The search ends when the correlation exceeds a given threshold, which is an indication that a coarse alignment has been achieved. After bringing the two PN waveforms into coarse alignment, a delay-locked or tau-dither tracking loop is used to maintain a fine alignment. Further details of this process are described, for example, in The Communications Handbook, 16.4 (1997), CRC Press, which is incorporated herein by reference.
FIG. 3 illustrates the baseband processor 300 and its associated flash A/D converters 302 and 304. Theoretically, flash converters 302 and 304 could be turned OFF following the end of message (EOM) transmission (unless an acknowledgment is expected). In the prior art, however, this has not been practical. In particular, given the high probability of false alarm at the output when the signal is less than 10 dB above the noise of the RSSI, it is not possible for the RSSI output to be used effectively to determine when the received signal strength is less than about 10 dB above the noise floor (about −95 dBm). Thus, in the prior art, the flash A/D converters must remain ON to "sniff" for the received signal onset near the noise floor (between about −95 and −85 dBm). The flash A/D converters, which are required for that correlation, draw a large amount of current. To overcome this problem, and to reduce the overall power consumption of the digital receiver, the present invention extends the digital receiver sensitivity by sniffing for the received signal with a low power analog correlator. When the analog correlator detects a correlation peak indicating the presence of the received signal, the flash A/D converters in the main baseband processor are turned ON. The components of the analog correlator are low power devices and, as a result of limiting the use of the flash A/D converters, the overall power consumption of the transceiver is significantly reduced as compared to the prior art.
FIG. 4 illustrates the basic operation of the analog correlator 400. Generally, the analog correlator is used to synchronize a local PN sequence (e.g., an 11 bit Barker) to a similar PN sequence in the sampled down-converted in-phase and quad-phase signals VI and VQ. When the analog correlator aligns the PN sequence, and if the relative correlation peak is larger than a threshold, the flash A/D converters in the digital portion of the receiver section are turned ON. These converts are normally OFF following EOM transmission.
In this figure, only the in-phase (I) signal from the IF demodulator is shown as being processed. Of course, the correlator 400 includes a similar loop for processing the quadrature phase (Q) signal. As illustrated, the VI signal from the IF demodulator stage is mixed in analog multiplier 402 with a Barker sequence generated by the 11 bit shift register 404 after that sequence is delayed, by delay circuit 406, by an amount τ. The 11 bit shift register operates at a given frequency, e.g., 11 MHz. The output of the analog mixer 402 is summed by sum circuit 408 and then sampled by sample circuit 410. The sample rate in this example is every 11 chips. The sampled output is then squared in squaring circuit 412 and added to the similarly-derived output for the Q signal, with the result supplied to a control circuit 414. In operation, the shift register output is synchronized to within one chip of the Barker waveform in the received VI signal and the received VQ signal. The control circuit then generates a signal to adjust the delay τ provided by the delay circuit 406 to maintain the Barker sequences in alignment. When the sequences are aligned the correlator has a given processing gain of, in the illustrated example, approximately 11. When the processing gain indicates a correlation peak above a given threshold, the received signal onset has occurred and the flash A/D converters are activated.
FIG. 5 illustrates a preferred embodiment of the analog correlator 500 of the present invention for use in detecting the presence of the received signal when the signal is coming up at or near the noise floor. The correlator comprises an I channel branch including analog multiplier 502, integrator and dump circuit 504, sample and hold circuit 506 and analog squaring circuit 508. The Q channel branch comprises analog multiplier 510, integrator and dump circuit 512, sample and hold circuit 514 and analog squaring circuit 516. Each branch is supplied with its respective VI and VQ signal together with the Barker (or other PN) sequence supplied from the PN generator 518. As in FIG. 4, the PN sequence is delayed by a given amount τ by the delay circuit 520. The control circuit 525 generates a control signal that is converted to digital form by slow A/D converter 522 and used to control the delay circuit 520. A/D converter 522 and delay circuit 520 comprise a conventional tau-dither tracking loop. In operation, a peak correlation occurs when the PN sequences (from the PN generator and each respective I and Q signal) are within one chip. At this point, the control circuit 525 generates an output signal that is used by the tracking loop to set the delay τ so that the correlation remains at the peak value. When the correlation peak is above a given threshold, the control circuit 525 generates an output that activates the flash A/D converters 524 and 526 to an ON condition. As noted above, the converters 524 and 526 are normally OFF following an EDM transmission.
The control circuit may be implemented in any convenient manner, e.g. a software-driven processor, a microcontroller, a finite state machine, in handwired logic, an application-specific integrated (ASIC), a field programmable gave array (FPGA), a digital signal processor (DSP), or the like. Once the delay is determined, the control circuit may provide this value to the digital receiver to facilitate correlation by the digital components.
The analog correlator operates to detect when the received signal is coming up at or near the noise level (when the RSSI is otherwise ineffective). When a correlation peak occurs, the flash A/D converters are turned ON. This intelligent control of the flash A/D converters provides improved power management in the baseband processor and thus improved overall performance of the spread spectrum transceiver.
One of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that the analog correlation is of a relatively low quality from a signal detection point of view; on the contrary, the corresponding Barker correlation (performed in the digital receiver circuitry) provides a high quality signal detection. Thus, by way of generalization, the inventive technique utilizes an analog-correlator for low quality signal detection and the normal digital correlator for high quality signal detection.
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'Dis-Africanisation' of Africa and its culture has international dimensions that should be considered. This is particularly relevant to Africa's relationship with the African diaspora. If African culture is destroyed, and if values associated with the continent are hard to find in existence, then Africa denies its descendants overseas a source of cultural inspiration.
This chapter has argued that decolonization is a phenomenon of multiple dimensions. Although it is convenient to look at political independence as the most visible and dramatic form of decolonization, it would be a mistake to equate it with decolonization. This is a process which encompasses economic independence, cultural renewal, identity, integrity and a drive towards an independent existence not unduly interfered with from overseas. Political independence provides the first and most crucial forum from which to pursue these interrelated goals as a bid is made for development and for political empowerment of the local population.
There is a point at which political leadership can in fact, through its policy decisions, subvert national efforts towards decolonization. In Nigeria, Chinua Achebe has in forthright terms stated that the leadership is the problem. 'The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership.' 66 Leadership does not merely govern and administer but also co-ordinates a national thought process towards an uplifting national vision of where the society should proceed after attaining political independence. This can be the case even if some of these goals were stated on party platforms before uhuru.
It has been repeatedly pointed out in this chapter that adherence to the colonial model of administration leads to authoritarian rule impatient with opposition or restraints on its power. Maintenance of inherited economic institutions tends to reinforce exploitation of the country by foreign (or even local) companies and does not provide a viable model for national economic development. These institutions reinforce neo- colonialism. But, as Amilcar Cabral observed, 'so long as imperialism is in existence, an independent African state must be a liberation movement in power, or it will not be independent'. 67 A successful liberation


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Published: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 3:09 p.m.
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A Lake City man stole rare coins and peddled them around to shops in North Central Florida, according to Lake City police.
Damien Torel Morgan, 20, of 770 SW Symphony Loop, No. 103, was arrested and charged with burglary, larceny, dealing in stolen property and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon on Monday afternoon.
An LCPD release said Morgan stole the coins out of Manu Yogendra's car at Windsong Apartments sometime before Sept. 5.
On Sept. 7, LCPD Investigator Tammy Cox made contact with local coin dealers and reviewed recent invoices.
The owner North Florida Rare Coins and Bullion, Mr. Wayne Miller, alerted Cox to Morgan as a potential suspect and positively identified coins that belonged to Yogendra.
The release said Morgan made several trips to Jacksonville and Gainesville, as well, and returned with large sums of money. In Lake City, police said Morgan used the false name of "Doricko Simmons."
Morgan was being held in lieu of a $50,000 bond, the release said.
LCPD asks gold, silver or rare coin dealers to contact Cox at 386-758-5471 if they've had any contact with Morgan.
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It's tricky to decide how closely to follow Grand Theft Auto V news stories when a possible PC version is, just that, "possible." People would clearly like a PC release of the latest in Rockstar's famous open world series, but the developer is remaining fairly ambiguous on the issue.
Today, Rockstar announced that the game will be released on 17 September this year. That represents a delay from the previously announced summer release, and is, as far as we know, only relevant to console gamers at the present time.
Clues persist, however. Rockstar's Dan Houser told IGN that a PC version was "up for consideration," and a LinkedIn profile belonging to Rockstar animator Ryan Schacter listed "GTA V – Xbox 360, PS3, PC – Cutscene animation."
Nothing concrete, but a PC version may emerge. Probably in 2014, let's be honest.
any developer that makes open world games knows that the PC version has the highest amount of customers, just look at skyrim and you see why ppl want the PC version rather then the annoyingly restricted console version.
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Skip to comments.(Walter) Mondale's boyhood home is on eBay
Posted on 02/16/2007 8:58:22 AM PST by MplsSteve
How much will someone pay for a humble, small-town home that sheltered a future senator, vice president and presidential candidate?
Lorrie Krosch is hoping to find out.
She is selling the boyhood home of Walter Mondale in Elmore, Minn., on eBay. Starting bid: $50,000.
"When I bought it, it was so run-down it could have been knocked down," said Krosch, who bought the house at 208 E. Mondale St. in 2003 for $15,000. She spent more than three years refurbishing it, doing most of the work herself.
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If you were looking for a nice home in a rural area of Minnesota, would you be interested?
Yes? No?
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Man, I would buy that and just turn it into a plush out house.
Oh, the things I would do to desecrate that place on a daily basis is just mind boggling ;)
No thanks. I'm saving up to buy Mike Dukakis' boyhood home! //~sarc
I guess it's historical, in a macabre kind of way. "Own the home of the biggest electoral loser in history." Some selling point, that.
Nope. I'm waiting to buy the clintoonians plush digs and turn it into Vast Right Wing Conspiracy HQ.
That would be sweet!
Maybe turn it into a whore house.
Someone should buy it and turn it into the local headquarters for the Republican Party.
She should have hired a decorator. It sux.
Yes if I liked the house I don't care who owned it before me.
That is awesome!!!
Why would someone want to harm the potential sales value that way by mentioning that someone like Mondale once lived there?
(I'd rather buy a house where a mass murder took place.)
Don't know how much you know about Boston area real estate but Brookline,the Tank Commander's home town,is one of the richest towns in the state and it's very,*very* easy to spend $500K on a 700 sq ft,one bedroom,one bath condo there (I know because I recently looked to buy there).
So my guess is that the land upon which his boyhood sits is worth $500K...even if the structure itself is falling down.
better yet, make it HQ for the Taxpayers League of MN.
ROFL! Mondale lost 49 states to Reagan, he lost MN when he lost to Coleman, and now he's going to lose his house!
Number 1.....I despise wallpaper. lol And all that lacy stuff and pink stuff would have to go. Looks like the mauves of 15 or so years ago.
Guess she is stuck in time.
It looks like a cute house. What do houses go for around there?
In the rural areas, I'm not sure.
.Most of today's 'pubs in DC outta feel right at home.
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I didn't realize how close he was to being from Iowa...DANGIT!
That house kinda reminds me of the house of grandma and grandpa owned in rural Wisconsin.
Even though I grew up in the suburbs and now live in the city, I spent a lot of summers in that small town in Wisconsin.
I've always thought that if I had the chance, I wouldn't mind returning to live in a small town.
Same here. I did a Mapquest.com check.
Elmore is as close as you get to Iowa w/o actually stepping foot in that state.
would not live there. I just looked it up on my mapping progam and that is a samll, small, small town in the middle of nowhere.
Be sure to have it fumigated.
I'd pay 50,000 for it.
Very nice. I would buy it. I love old houses. Besides, as insignificant as Walter Mondull is, the house was probably glad when he moved out.
Same here. If I bought it, I would petition the town council to change the name of the street.
I'd submit the petition, wait to see the new street sign go up, and then bid on the house. I suggest Reagan Court as a suitable replacement for the underwhelming Mondale Street.
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Now THAT would be funny!
That would be more fitting for Clinton's boyhood home.
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Karel Van Wolferen, a writer from the Netherlands, said it is unrealistic to suppose that self-censorship can be eliminated altogether.
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"Japanese self-censorship is more efficient than official censorship could be and it protects those who hold the most power," he added.
"Another famous example is the self-censorship on the subject of Burakumin, a euphemism for the descendents of a former outcast group, physically indistinguishable from other Japanese, but still discriminated against. Editors and publishers have long learned that any mention of the subject may get them into deep trouble," he said. They automatically deleted passages referring to Burakumin from articles and books and some foreign books have never appeared in Japanese editions for that reason.
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Charlie liked his fishing near as much
As quaffing beer and swapping yarns and such
And telling tales of fish that got away
And fish that he will catch some other day.
vain he'd tried to catch the king of schnapper,
The biggest and the best, a true blue scrapper;
Presenting hypothetic angled catch
To mates - if thought and deed could match.
little boat of blue, his pride and joy
In Mordi Creek quite near the hoi polloi
Has roomy prow for storing booze and food;
Against the stern rests outboard motor rude.
spring, one morning early, mist lies thick
In sombre oily seas all grey and slick,
Our Charlie clutches beer and fishing tackle
Against his ample paunch, while seagulls cackle.
steers in silence from creek to ocean,
The motor mutters muffled commotion,
There's naught to see excepting hull and gull,
Flat water, grey mist, blue boat and sea dull.
vessel sails over Port Phillip Bay
'til Captain Charlie stops the motor's neigh
And drops the anchor, he will settle down
To fish for reputation's high renown.
microcosm: Charlie, boat and gull
All set in leaden seas, a peaceful lull;
The fog's closed in and deadens sight and sound,
The empty beer cans hardly move around.
sea's a mirror netting cold reflections
Revealing disaffected imperfections
Of angler, albatross and aging vessel,
Whilst bird and empty cans in waters nestle.
sound, a closet noise, a gulping slurp,
A ripple where the gull had sat - a burp.
Surprised, he cracks a can, a penny spent,
The milky sea and Chas do not lament.
something bumps the hull, the changing tide?
Mysterious shadows move along the side,
His bladder weakens, now his tummy rumbles:
A swallowed gull results in mindless fumbles.
His rod convulses, bucking through the rail,
He sweats from cheek and brow both plump and pale,
With trembling hands he seeks another beer,
He disbelieves his eyes, its very queer.
sees a contemplating fish capacious,
Tired tackle, torn, adorns its jaws voracious;
It fancies Chas, he looks into it eyes,
Cold-blooded and soulless, ancient and wise.
orbs apart by three foot six and tiny,
They stare, dead still, from out the briny
Unwinking, unthinking - Chas feels transfixed,
He wets his pants and prays, his feelings mixed.
being present the cranium suggested
An inherent right to Chas ingested,
A malignant yet emotionless look -
And dangling from its mouth is Charlie's hook.
head is massive, pewter-smooth and flat,
A barnacle bedecked aristocrat
And Charles, incontinent, batting eyelid,
Now faced primordial matter, grog forbid.
sign of Chas only his wooden boat,
No fishing rod, no fish, no bait afloat,
A dead seagull, white and bloody, drifts abaft,
Empty cans of beer encircle Charlie's craft,
Chas will never catch that schnapper now,
It must have been a heart attack, and how,
Perhaps brought on by all the beer he drank
While fishing in the early morning dank.
beached the boat without our mate's consent,
And turned it upside down, no ill intent,
Inspecting it, two rows of deep scratching
Were found, like jaws, four feet wide and matching.
Charlie liked his fishing near as much
As quaffing beer and swapping yarns and such
And telling tales of fish that got away
And fish that he will catch some other day.
He never told his final fishing tale:
Of fish that fancied fishermen in ale.
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Castleman, Barry, Lemen, Richard, Multinational Monitor
International scientific organizations have long been important sources of reports about toxic substances. With the globalization of trade and information, organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) find themselves with new authority and influence - and the subject of intensified industry lobbying campaigns. With the emergence of the World Trade Organization as a forum where governments can challenge other nations' occupational and environmental health regulations for not being based on "sound science," the pronouncements of these groups has taken on added significance. Their publications, long important for providing information especially to countries with scant public health resources, may now also be used to both misinform developing countries and to overturn worker and environmental protection measures in the industrialized world.
Industry has exerted especially strong influence at the International Program on Chemical Safety (IPCS), a program located at the World Health Organization in Geneva and jointly sponsored by WHO, ILO and the United Nations Environment Program. Professor Andrew Watterson reported in the British medical journal The Lancet in 1993 that chemical manufacturers ICI, Hoechst and DuPont wrote the first drafts of IPCS reports on chlorofluorocarbon refrigerants and the fungicide benomyl. He raised concerns over undisclosed conflicts of interest by corporate consultants on expert task groups assigned to write IPCS documents and reported that industry "observers" usually present at IPCS task group meetings were rarely offset by representatives of non-industrial, non-governmental organizations.
The same year, U.S. government scientists found that the IPCS environmental health criteria document on methylene chloride was based on material drafted by officials from ICI and other manufacturers of the chemical. Scientists from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) criticized the IPCS's failure to modify statements in the report to reflect opposing views within its expert panel. NIOSH decided to cease all participation in IPCS activities until IPCS established an objective process to develop criteria documents.
Also in 1993, Collegium Ramazzini, a respected international group of occupational health scientists, refused to review drafts of a IPCS criteria document on chrysotile asbestos which was prepared by "scientists with close ties to the asbestos industry." By refusing to become involved at a late stage in the process, the Collegium said in a letter that it intended to avoid associating itself with an IPSC report that was compromised by industry influence. The effort to issue a chrysotile report remained mired in controversy for years, and publication is finally expected this year.
In 1996, at the invitation of the German government, IPCS held a workshop in Berlin on Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS), a condition which leaves victims subject to serious and disabling reactions to a wide range of chemicals. Led by corporate consultants and chemical industry "observers," the panel decided, by an unrecorded vote, to rename Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) "idiopathic environmental intolerances." Panel Chair Dr. Howard Kipen and Dr. Claudia Miller, both from the United States, .were among those who objected to the name change. After the conference, corporate consultants began representing the workshop's anonymous and unreferenced conclusions and recommendations as WHO policy at medical meetings, in court documents and in media announcements. The industry-funded Environmental Sensitivities Research Institute then paid for the publication of the recommendations in a supplement to the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, without the knowledge of IPCS, which still has not published the workshop report. Chemical industry consultants drafted a position statement for the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, using the new chemical-free name of MCS and referring to the workshop as a WHO symposium. …


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Bob Stoops dropped a golden nugget on us early in the week. In his first full-time coaching gig, at Kent State in 1988, one of Stoops' fellow staff members was Doug Klein, whose son you might have heard of. Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein.
It's a small world.
Doug Klein now is a financial consultant in Colorado. His son is one of college football's best players, a throwback quarterback who can hurt you with the pass and hurt you with the run. Twenty-four years ago, Doug Klein and Stoops were together on Dick Crum's first Kent State staff. Kent State went 5-6 that year, then Stoops got a job offer from Bill Snyder, who was leaving Iowa as offensive coordinator to take over at Kansas State. The same Bill Snyder who still coaches the 'Cats and has turned Collin Klein into one of America's most productive quarterbacks.
"Been a long time ago," Doug Klein said this week. "Bob has always been very gracious in staying in touch."
What does Klein remember about Stoops, who in 1988 was a 28-year-old defensive backfield coach who had spent the previous 10 years playing or helping coach at Iowa.
"I just remember him being a total class act," Klein said. "Someone you knew was going to go on to do great things. He had a great mind for the game, had an excellent eye for players. Just a great guy. He and Carol are wonderful people."
What does Stoops remember about Klein? "I was just at a Toby Keith concert with him in Manhattan this summer for a night," Stoops said. "He's a great guy. Detailed coach. Good coach. He was smart, unlike the rest of us, got out, made good money in business. Now he's got better hours."
Klein stayed on Crum's staff the next two years. Crum was fired after the 1990 season, and Klein left coaching. Returned to Colorado, went into business and raised a family that includes Collin Klein.
Stoops said OU did not recruit Collin Klein. Klein is not an OU-style quarterback. Stoops rarely recruits a quarterback who can run a lick. Blake Bell is sort of the accidental running QB. But Klein has flourished at K-State.
"They just showed a lot of interest in him," Doug Klein said. "He loved the campus and the excitement there in Manhattan. Football and basketball, that school is very important to that area. And they certainly show it in their support. I know he liked the energy, the campus, the academics. He knew he could accomplish some of his goals in what he wanted to do. That's where he chose. Honestly, the Lord has him right where he wants him."
The way lives intersect is interesting. Doug Klein grew up in Boulder, Colo., where he went to Fairview High School with the sons of then-Colorado coach Bill Mallory (but not Doug Mallory, Bill's younger son who later coached for Les Miles at OSU). Doug Klein played high school football but did not play in college. He graduated from Colorado State and eventually was hired as a graduate assistant at Indiana, under Mallory, who had been fired at Colorado.
Klein spent two years at Indiana, then was offensive coordinator at Ferris State in 1987. When North Carolina fired Dick Crum after 10 mostly-successful seasons, Crum was hired as head coach at Kent State. Crum and Mallory go back a long way. Crum was on Mallory's staff during a great four-year run at Miami-Ohio in the early 1970s. When Mallory left for the Colorado job, Crum took over at Miami and eventually moved on to Carolina.
When Crum got the Kent State job, he hired not only Klein, but Bill Mallory's son, Mike. And a young guy from Iowa named Stoops.
Crum had extensive Ohio ties. He went to college at two Ohio schools, Muskingum and Mount Union, then began coaching in Ohio high schools, including a stop at Boardman, in Youngstown, where Ron Stoops Jr. later coached, too.


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