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Accident Victims Can Now Expect Calls Immediately.Posted on June 30th, 2014 No comments
Injured Accident Victims can now be contacted immediately after an accident under a new ruling by a Kentucky Federal Court. The Courier Journal has a nice synopsis of the ruling by Federal District Court Judge Charles Simpson, here. Judge Simpson ruled that the law, which prevents "anyone" from soliciting an accident victim within 30 days of an accident, was unconstitutional because it violated commercial free speech rights and also the equal protection clause, because the law exempted insurance companies.
The intention of the law was to prevent injured accident victims from being preyed upon by unscrupulous people who would try to immediately sign up the injured victim to pursue a personal injury claim or medical treatment under Kentucky's No Fault Law. Often, these people would use "runners" who would show up at the accident scene with information from a health care clinic specializing in car accident injuries. These health care clinics would then steer these patients to lawyers who would handle their bodily injury claim.
On it's face the law would seem to be an unobtrusive means to provide accident victims some time to review their options and determine if they even need to pursue medical treatment or hire a lawyer. However, because the law did not prevent insurance companies from contacting the injured victim immediately after the accident, it provided an unfair advantage to the insurance company. This thirty day head start gave the insurance company every incentive to resolve an injured party's claim as fast and as cheaply as possible, before they sought medical care or hired a lawyer. This ruling seeks to limit that advantage.
Of course, one unintended consequence of the ruling is that unscrupulous people are now free to contact injured accident victims immediately, even at the scene of the accident. These unscrupulous people now have the same incentive that the insurance company previously had to pressure the injured victim to make decisions without proper information or understanding.
Perhaps even more interesting is Judge Simpson's ruling that his decision does not apply to professionals such as lawyers or doctors, who are still prevented from contacting injured accident victims for thirty days. Given his reasoning for finding the law unconstitutional, there is no basis for treating lawyers or doctors any different from anyone else. What Judge Simpson has done is create another equal protection clause nightmare where the law is applied unequally to everyone, benefiting some while harming others. This position is untenable. The law either applies to everyone or it does not.
There is no doubt that the Judge's recent ruling has the potential for abuse by both sides. However, it is important that injured accident victims understand that they are not required to make any decisions without proper understanding and information. You are not required to seek medical treatment from a certain provider or retain a lawyer from a certain firm. If you feel like you've been pressured to do either, understand that you retain the power to change providers or lawyers if you choose. The best way to avoid being a victim of unscrupulous people or companies is to educate yourself about your rights and options. If you need advice you should contact an injury accident lawyer of your own choosing who can advise you on your options under Kentucky accident law.
It's Been Awhile Since We Posted Kentucky Accident InformationPosted on February 4th, 2013 No comments
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Winter Weather Advisory Issued for SaturdayPosted on January 14th, 2012 No comments
Another Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for the Louisville area Saturday. Chance for another inch of snow this afternoon. Travel advisory issued. Periods of low visibility and hazardous road conditions possible. Use caution.
Vote on Whether You Favor a Total Ban on Cell Phone Use While Driving?Posted on January 13th, 2012 No commentsLoading ...
Winter Weather Advisory in EffectPosted on January 12th, 2012 No comments
A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for the Louisville and Jefferson County area until 9:00 a.m. Friday. While accumulations are expected to be small, periods of heavy snow are expected. Temperatures are expected to drop and icy roads are likely. Wind is also expected to create blowing snow and white out conditions. Travel may be hazardous.
NTSB Recommends States Ban All Cell Phone Use While Driving.Posted on January 11th, 2012 No comments
A new report from the National Transportation and Safety Board recommends that all states ban the use of cell phones while driving. This includes hands-free use of cell phones, through blue tooth devices.
"According to NHTSA [National Highway Traffic Safety Administration], more than 3,000 people lost their lives last year in distraction-related accidents," NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman said in a statement. "It is time for all of us to stand up for safety by turning off electronic devices when driving. No call, no text, no update, is worth a human life."
While the agency does not have the power to enforce such a ban, it's recommendations carry a huge amount of weight. Whether states are willing to enforce such a ban in today's "anti-regulation climate" remains to be seen.
Other experts question whether the governments own studies support the claims the agency makes. Only recently, we reported on a study that called into question those statistics, believing they had been "overstated." You can read about that report, here.
Furthermore, while an overwhelming amount of people tend to support such bans as "texting and driving", the recommendation includes all cell phone use, including the use of hands free devices. Questions remain whether such a broad prohibition is as popular or even effective.
Would the ban of cell phone use while driving have the desired effect of preventing such distractions? It's doubtful. Even though an overwhelming percent of Americans are in favor of "texting and driving" bans, almost half of adults and more than half of teenagers admit to reading or sending a text while driving. Making the behavior a violation of the law is no more likely to have an effect.
There is no doubt that "texting and driving" is a dangerous distraction that can lead to accidents. However, that doesn't mean that the use of a cell phone, especially with a hands-free device, in all situations is an equally dangerous distraction. There simply is not a lot of information on just how distracting cell phone use is when compared to other distractions that are considered acceptable risks in operating a motor vehicle.
In fact, at least one study has concluded that its not the use of cell phones that cause accidents, but distracted drivers in general. CNet reported on a study back in 2010 that found distractions, not cell phones per se, were the cause of most car crashes. Experts noted that while cell phone use had exploded over the past several years, there has been no increase in the number of accidents. You can read the entire article, here.
Hazardous Weather Likely TodayPosted on November 14th, 2011 No comments
The Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Louisville this afternoon. Heavy rain and lightening with winds as high as 32 mph likely. If you do not have to be on the roads, stay home.
More Recalls for ToyotaPosted on November 9th, 2011 No comments
Problems continue for Toyota. Toyota recently announced the recall of 550,000 cars for steering defects. While no injuries have been associated with the defect, Toyota has received reports as far back as 2007. The defect makes it harder to steer.
Read the full article regarding the defect recall here
Do Siri and Other Voice to Text Messaging Apps Promote Safer Driving?Posted on November 7th, 2011 1 comment
The recent release of Apple's long awaited iPhone 4s brought with it an exciting new feature called Siri, a natural voice interface that uses artificial intelligence to interpret user commands and answer questions. Ask Siri to text a contact and the commands are completed without any physical input by the user. Elly over at Appchat has a short Youtube video demonstrating this Siri function, here.
While Siri is only available on the new iPhone 4s, there are other 3rd party voice to text apps available for other phones in both iTunes and the Android App Store. These apps allow a user to record a message and turn it into text. The user can then choose whether to email or text the message or send it as an update to Twitter or Facebook. Other 3rd party apps read text and emails aloud, allowing you to respond with voice commands. While these apps do turn voice into text and can initiate simple commands, they typically require a much larger amount of user input to function.
So, with this understanding can we say that functions like Siri and 3rd party iPhone and Android voice to text apps promote safer driving?
It's clear that the a decrease in user input reduces the amount of time a user is distracted by his mobile phone. Voice to text apps that eliminate the need to type or read text are clearly a better alternative than actually typing or reading the text itself. However, that does not mean that these apps eliminate distractions themselves.
The US Dept. of Transportation maintains a website at distraction.gov that discusses the facts of distracted driving and the statistics on distraction's role in car wrecks. According to distraction.gov there are actually three main types of distractions:
- Visual-taking your eyes off the road
- Manual-taking your hands off the wheel,
- Cognitive-taking your mind off what you're doing
According to distraction.gov among other statistics:
- Texting is the most alarming distraction, because it involves all three types of distraction
- 20% of injury crashes in 2009 involved reports of distracted driving
- The under 20 age group had the greatest proportion of distracted drivers
- Drivers who use a handheld device were four times likely to be involved in crashes serious enough to injure themselves.
Anything that takes your eyes, hands or mind off the task of driving is considered a distraction. The higher the level of distraction, like text messaging, the better the likelihood that the distraction will play a role in a serious injury causing crash.
Any app or function that reduces or eliminates distractions clearly promotes safer driving. Among all the voice to text apps and functions, Siri would appear to hold the most promise. However, while Siri and other 3rd party voice to text apps may reduce the amount of visual and manual distraction involved in sending a text message, they do not entirely eliminate all the distractions that can contribute to a car wreck. The more a user is required to look at his device or physically input information into his device, the more visual, manual, and cognitive distraction that occurs. The more distractions, the bigger the risk of an injury causing wreck.
Remember the safest way to drive is to avoid all distractions, including using your cell phone, whether or not you use Siri or other third party apps. Do not under any circumstances manually text message someone while driving since this act is the most distracting, most dangerous and likely illegal.
Women More Likely to Get Hurt in Car Wrecks Even When Wearing Seatbelts.Posted on November 2nd, 2011 No comments
US News just reported on findings by the American Journal of Public Health that revealed that women who wore seatbelts were more likely then men who wore seatbelts to be injured in car wrecks. The report only looked at cars from 1998 to 2008, so newer cars may not provide the same results.
According to the report women were 47% m0re likely to be injured then men. However, men were still more likely to die in a crash. The reason? Experts believe that women's smaller size makes them more vulnerable due to their seating position and interaction with the safety restraints.
While newer safety technology may or may not reduce these findings, the fact remains that both men and women will continue to be injured in car wrecks. The fact that cars are safer, doesn't eliminate all injuries. That's because the dynamics of car wrecks still involve an intolerable amount of stress to the human body. The human body simply is not designed to undergo impacts such as those in car wrecks.
Cars are a relatively recent industrial phenomenon. The fact that cars have drastically improved in both design and safety does not remove the fact that a collision causes significant stress and force to the human body. While seatbelts, headrests, and airbags have reduced the chance of the human body impacting hard stationary object in cars, they have not reduced the force at which the human body travels before it hits the restraint.
Safety features are a good thing and they continue to reduce the likelihood that someone in a car wreck will be seriously injured or killed. However, that does not necessarily mean that they prevent all injuries. Don't be surprised if studies continue to show that injuries and deaths continue to occur in car wrecks no matter what safety features are involved. Unfortunately, for women who are generally smaller then men, their size and muscle build may make them more likely to be injured in a car wreck, even while wearing a seatbelt.


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One of the striking scenes from this week has been the sight of police in Ferguson, Missouri using very sophisticated military gear to assist in crowd control. Images of heavily armored officers driving vehicles that seem better suited for a military operation in Iraq have sparked surprise from Americans who are unaware of the large amount of military surplus equipment that has flooded into local police departments in the past five years.
Much of the gear - ranging from battlefield-grade rifles to armored personnel vehicles - has been passed along to local police departments across the country through the Department of Defense Excess Property Program. That program transfers excess military property to local law enforcement agencies, often at little or no cost.
In Minnesota, the program is administered by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety's Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEM) office. According to its web site, Minnesota's Law Enforcement Support Office (LISO) has provided more than $25 million worth of equipment since the program began in 1993. Minnesota law enforcement agencies (LEOs) receiving equipment have included the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), the Department of Natural Resources' (DNR) Enforcement Division, along with 85 county sheriff's offices and approximately 325 local police agencies.
The video included in this story comes from LISO and it awkwardly describes the type of equipment available through the program. While some of the equipment is mundane, agencies can also apply for Humvees, personnel carriers shielded to resist bombs, various types of boats as well as drones and helicopters. Weapons such as M-14 and M-16 rifles are available at a discount.
It's not clear how much of this equipment has been ordered in the past few years. The video quotes an HSEM official as stating in June 2012 that $1,000,000 worth of equipment had been delivered in the previous six months, with another $500,000 having been ordered but not yet delivered.
Local law enforcement agencies are also able to buy equipment directly using grants provided through federal block grants. Not surprisingly, when a police department has the ability to acquire sophisticated high-tech equipment for little or no cost, they're going to take advantage of the opportunity. In 2011, the Center For Investigative Reporting estimated that more than $34 billion worth of federal block grants had been provided since 2001.
It's difficult to estimate exactly how much equipment has been provided to Minnesota LEOs through either program. I contacted more than a dozen agencies on Wednesday and none was willing to discuss program specifics. The tracking is especially challenging with the block grant program, which even the federal government admits has only loose record keeping.
But it doesn't take long to search local Minnesota media outlets before you find plenty of examples of law enforcement agencies touting their latest acquisition to the press. In November 2011, Washington County Sheriff Bill Hutton proudly showed off a new 9-ton, $237,000 bullet-resistant Bearcat armored vehicle that was bought with a grant from the federal government. The Star-Tribune article noted that the agency was also receiving a $226,000 mobile command post and a $70,000 robot.
The BearCat is manufactured by Lenco Armored Vehicles, which suggests the vehicle "may be used as a S.W.A.T. or Military Counter Attack and Rescue Vehicle and is often used in hostile Urban Environments or as a Patrol/Reaction Vehicle on a Military Base."
There are at least seven BearCats in use in Minnesota, although it's unlikely any of the areas could be described as a potential "hostile urban environment." In July, 2013, the Minnesota Valley Regional Tactical Response Team acquired its Bearcat, Dakota County acquired one in 2008 and the Roseville Police Department got its Bearcat in 2012.
Law enforcement officials and the equipment manufacturers defend the increase of military-grade equipment at the local level, citing an increase in societal violence and the possibility of a terrorist attack. Defense manufacturer Oshkosh Defense sells a "tactical protector vehicle" to law enforcement agencies, which can be purchased with a federal block grant. On its web site, Oshkosh suggests the vehicle helps police address a more dangerous world:
"As criminal organizations are increasingly armed with military-style weapons, law enforcement operations require the same level of field-tested and combat-proven protection used by soldiers and Marines in Iraq, Afghanistan and other high-risk locations."
But critics of the militarization of local law enforcement cite is as a factor in building additional walls between police and the people they are hired to protect. They note that local agencies don't have the training to use sophisticated equipment properly. They also argue that the more military-style equipment an agency owns, the more likely it is to be used, often inappropriately.
Norm Stamper was the police chief of Seattle in 1999 and he supervised an infamous crackdown on protesters during a World Trade Organization meeting. He told The Nation that he now regrets the military-like response from his department:
"My support for a militaristic solution caused all hell to break loose. Rocks, bottles and newspaper racks went flying. Windows were smashed, stores were looted, fires lighted; and more gas filled the streets, with some cops clearly overreacting, escalating and prolonging the conflict. The "Battle in Seattle," as the WTO protests and their aftermath came to be known, was a huge setback—for the protesters, my cops, the community."

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Peak District Cycling Tours
Cycling Holidays In The Peak District, Derbyshire, England
Cycling is a fantastic way to see an area. Not only are you keeping fit in an environmentally friendly manner but you are able to cover a good distance & really get a feel for the places you visit.
The Peak District offers some fabulous & diverse scenery and travelling by bike allows you to cover much more ground than walking alone. How difficult or easy a tour is depends very much on individual opinion however all tours are graded to give you an idea of what to expect from a tour.
You can choose to travel light & have your luggage transported for you between overnight stops or alternatively, carry your luggage with you in the panniers provided, which are mounted on a rear rack.
All tours are self led which allows you to travel at your own pace & stop when you wish. You are provided with bikes & equipment (panniers, bar bags, helmets etc), maps, local information & history, detailed route notes & an emergency back-up number in the unlikely event that you require assistance.
All prices are per person based on two people sharing either a twin or double room. If you would like to book a single supplement please state this on the booking form & we will contact you to discuss prices & availability.
There are 8 tours to choose from or you can call us on 01457 851462 or 07961 052 590 if you would like an alternative tour arranging.
Historic Villages & Alpine Trails
Lying on the edge of the Dark & White Peak areas of the Peak District Hathersage is perfectly placed to explore the best of the National Park. This tour comprises two contrasting rides which take you around the banks of the Upper Derwent reservoirs to the north which has a much more rugged feel. Your journey south takes you through numerous limestone villages with the chance to sample some great food at the many country pubs on offer.
Heart of the Peak
This unique tour combines some of the Peak District's best known attractions with numerous hidden gems best discovered by bike. From the attractive spa town of Buxton to the more rugged crags around Stanage this tour takes you from the more gentle limestone hills of the White Peak through picturesque villages such as Youlgreave, Tideswell & Eyam to the glamorous surroundings of Chatsworth. The spectacular ridges around Castleton offer a different perspective as you venture further to the alpine slopes of the High Peak.
The Limestone Peak
Discover the fantastic Victorian resort of Matlock & Matlock Bath where you can take the cable car to the 'Heights of Abraham'. Pass through Cromford to join the High Peak Trail up to Middleton Top to join the Pennine Bridleway. This fantastic ride takes you to Hartington where you will stay in the magnificent 17th century manor house. You will continue through the attractive village of Youlgrave before arriving at Bakewell, with a chance to sample the delicious locally made pudding. Fantastic views & pretty limestone villages characterise the route through Tideswell to Eyam. Your final day takes you through the Chatsworth Estate where you will have the choice of two contrasting routes back to Matlock.
Rivers and Gorges of the White Peak
This gentle tour is based in the lovely village of Hartington. Set amongst the rolling green fields of Derbyshire's White Peak you will cycle along numerous traffic free bridleways & quiet country lanes to discover a number of unspoilt Peak District villages. Each days route has a number of alternatives if you wish to extend your ride & navigation is easy. This tour is suitable for anyone with limited cycling experience or anyone that would like a leisurely tour in some of the Peak Districts most scenic country.
Peak Family Tour
This tour is suitable for families because the majority of the route is along traffic free bridleways and the mileage each day is low. However this tour is suitable for anyone with limited cycling experience. Your first day takes you along the High Peak Trail to the ancient market town of Winster. Your second day in the saddle is mostly along quiet country lanes to the charming town of Ashbourne. Day 3 is almost entirely on bridleways back to your starting point.
White Peak Way
Departing from Buxton along the Pennine Bridleway provides a leisurely start to this tour as you cycle southwards to one of Derbyshire's finest old towns Ashbourne. Out of Ashbourne you will pass through the ancient village of Winster with its interesting market house and fine Georgian architecture. Passing through pretty Elton & Youlgreave you will continue to Bakewell with a chance to sample the locally made pudding. Venturing north through Castleton & back to Buxton provides a comprehensive tour of some of the White Peak's best known attractions.
The Ultimate Peak District Tour
This amazing tour starts in the historic High Peak village of Hathersage, nestling beneath a series of spectacular ridges and tors. A leisurely cycle to Castleton takes you around the alpine banks of the Upper Derwent Reservoirs, which blend in perfectly to the surrounding landscape. From Castleton you will continue through the historic village of Eyam before arriving at England's highest market town at Buxton, known for its rejuvenating Spa water. A fantastic trail south takes you through numerous historic limestone villages and through Derbyshire's best known dale, Dovedale, to Ashbourne. Your final day's ride to Matlock provides a fantastic end to this comprehensive tour.


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Things to see and do - Bucklers Hard
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Bucklers Hard Travel guide
Bucklers Hard : Michelin's recommendations
The charming hamlet comprises a single, very wide street, lined with 18C cottages running down to the River Beaulieu. Around 1740 the village became a shipbuilding centre for the Portsmouth Royal Dockyard. It declined when iron replaced wood in the shipbuilding industry. In the 20C, Buckler's Hard attracted numerous yachtsmen, notably Francis Chichester (1901-1972), whose circumnavigation of the world began and ended in this little port.


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According to Comic Book Movie on April 10, three new stills from James Gunn's "Guardians of the Galaxy" have made their way online. Gunn, who is helming the project, talked a bit more about Thanos, Peter Quill, and his new found friends.
According to the comic book related Star-Lord story, Peter Quill had taken on the aforementioned name due to his encounter with an alien while he and his astronaut cohorts were living on a space station. Apparently, he was a candidate for the alien race to become some kind of "space police" where he was rejected in favor of a colleague.
Fortune favored the bold as he threw a fit of rage as a result. NASA fired him and his astronaut status revoked, however he was able to commandeer a scout ship to return to the space station to take his colleagues place as the galactic magistrate. He had acquired his own sentient space vessel called "Ship" and finally took on the "Star-Lord" role. Gunn, on the other hand, had a different story for the character as Star-Lord started his ventures into space at quite a young age.
"He was abducted from Earth (Missouri) at age 8 and raised in a group of thieves and smugglers called the Ravagers. He's good with the ladies and a little bit of a d**k and very lucky".
Thanos' nature was also revealed in a spoiler about his nature. Some fans may have seen a glimpse of him and his evil smile at the end of "The Avengers" movie as he stood proudly knowing he would be "courting death".
"Thanos slaughtered [Gamora's] family and Nebula's, then raised them together as siblings. They were bio engineered to become living weapons, so he's really good at killing people".
Karen Gillan, the former "Doctor Who" star and will portray Nebula in the Marvel Studios film, revealed some amazing spoilers in regards to the film. She expressed that there will be some hand-to-hand combat entailing two females getting into the most impressive cat fight to end all feline fights. Apparently there's a huge amount of bitterness between the two lady characters and Gillan had to train for two months to prepare for the fight sequences.
"Nebula is the female villain and Lee Pace plays the male villain," she told E! Online's Marc Malkin while promoting her new horror film, Oculus, at SXSW. "We torment people. We're really mean to people."
"There's a big girlie fight sequence, but it's not that girlie," the actress told MTV during the same event. "They made sure there weren't any nice pirouettes or anything like that".
James Gunn's "Guardians of the Galaxy" opens in theaters Aug. 1.
Suggested Links
- David S. Goyer thinks it's too early for a DC Cinematic Universe
- 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' featurette with Bryan Singer talking about the cast
- Nathan Fillion suggests a cameo appearance in 'Guardians of the Galaxy'
- Star-Lord shows off his evasive maneuvers in 'Guardians of the Galaxy'
- 'Captain America 2' internet meme goes viral by the use of guerrilla marketing


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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Contributed by: Zaady
Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: "I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all!. . . The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us."
Vivien Leigh (1913 - 1967)
Source: As Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind, 1939 — based on Margaret Mitchell's novel
Your worth is not established by teaching or learning. Your worth is established by God. Nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth
Foundation for Inner Peace
Source: A Course in Miracles
Her husband wishes she were his mother, so he could run away from home.
If we could know Which of us, beloved, would be first to go, Who would be first to break the swelling tide, And step alone upon the other side- If we could know! If it were you, Should I walk softly, keeping death in view? Should I my love to you more oft express? Or should I grieve you, beloved, any less- If it were you! If it were I, Should I improve the moments slipping by! Should I more closely follow God's great plan, Be filled with sweeter charity to man- If it were I! If we could know! We cannot, beloved, end 'tis better so. I should forget, just as I do today, And walk along the same old stumbling way lf I could know. I would not know Which of us, beloved, will be the first to go, I only wish the space may not be long Between the parting and the greeting song; But when, or where, or how we're called to go - I would not know.
Shamrock of foliage, Shamrock of entwining, Shamrock of the prayer, Shamrock of my love. Shamrock of my sorrow, Plant of Patrick of the virtues, Shamrock of the Son of Mary, Journey's end of the peoples. Shamrock of grace, Of joy, of the tombs, It were my wish in death You should grow on my grave.
Source: Translated by Alexander Charmichael
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become?
Life wounds all of us. At best there is sorrow enough to go round. Yet because the deepest wounds are those of the soul and hidden to mortal sight, we keep hurting each other day by day, inflicting wounds that time mercifully scars over. But the scars remain, ready at a touch to throb angrily and ache again with the old gnawing wild pain. You remember that day in school when the teacher laughed? You were only a little fellow, shy and silent, sitting in the shadow of the big boys, wistfully looking toward the day when you would shine as they did. That day you were sure your chance had come. You were sure that you had just what the teacher wanted on the tip of your tongue, and you jumped up and shouted it out loudly and eagerly, triumphantly - and you were very, very wrong. There followed a flash of astonishment, an instant of dreadful silence, and then the room rang with mirth. You heard only the teacher's laughter, and it drowned your heart. Many years have gone over head since that day, but the sight of a little lad trudging along to school brings it back, and the old pain stirs and beats against the scar. You cover it over, hush it to quiet once more with a smile. "I must have been funny. She couldn't help it." But you wish she had. And there was that time when your best friend failed you. When the loose-tongued gossips started the damaging story and he was pressed for a single word in your defense, he said, "Oh, he's all right. Of course, he's all right, but I don't want to get mixed up in this thing. Can't afford it. Have to think of my own name and my own family, you understand. Good fellow, but I have to keep out of this." You felt forsaken. For weeks and weeks you carried the pain in your heart. The story was bad enough but would right itself. The idea that he should fail you, that he had not, rushed to your side at the first hint of trouble was bad enough, was unbearable. He came back again after it was all over, but the sight of him renewed the ache in your breast and the throb of pain in your throat. The scar was thin, and the hurt beneath it quivered. We all bear scars. Life is a struggle, and hurts must come. But why the unnecessary ones? Why hurt the souls of little children? Why say things to them that they must remember with pain all their lives? Why say the smart, tart thing that goes straight to the heart of someone we love because we would relieve ourselves of the day's tension and throw off a grain of the soul's bitterness? Who are we to inflict wounds and suffering and scars on those about us? Staggering, blind mortals, groping our way from somewhere "here" to somewhere "there" conscious of little but the effort to stay "here" a little longer! It behooves us to travel softly, regardful of one another's happiness, particularly where our path crosses that of those dependent upon us for comfort or enters into the heart of little children.
Dear Lord, the gods have been good to me. As an offering, I present these milk and cookies. If you wish me to eat them instead, please give me no sign whatsoever. . . . Thy will be done. (munch, munch, munch)
If none were sick and none were sad, What service could we render? I think if we were always glad, We scarcely could be tender. Did our beloved never need Our patient ministration, Earth would grow cold and miss indeed Its sweet consolation. If sorrow never claimed our heart, And every wish were granted, Patience would die, and hope depart. Life would be disenchanted.
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Shanghai Village
Something weird happened at the RMIT Business Library this afternoon.
It was dead quiet.
Yep, no one was cranking their iPods full-blast. No fobs were "shishishsi errerrerrerrr"-ing. And no one was watching Korean dramas (WITHOUT headphones) on their laptops.
What on earth was going on?!
Okay, now that I got that out of the way… let's get on to my main post:
Some of my readers may recall a post I wrote a few months ago called "The Melbourne Dumpling Conspiracy." In short, it's a theory developed by yours truly whereby one's initial visit to any one dumpling restaurant is met with smiles and promises to come back again only to be disappointed when subsequent visits are of a less than positive experience. So anyway, Adam had an hour for lunch at the weird time of 11am today. Because the CBD is still asleep at this hour, it was a bit hard to find a place that was open AND that wasn't a fast food outlet or Dumplings Plus. A walk up Lt Bourke St led us to Shanghai Village, a non-descript dumpling restaurant that we visited earlier this year but never got around to reviewing. Yes, shocking even for me but hey, you can't blame for me having a life and not updating as much as I can (oh shut up, the lot of you who are laughing behind my back).
If I recall correctly, our experience at Shanghai Village did not suck. We ordered an obligatory plate of fried pork dumplings as well as a plate of Shanghai noodles and could not fault anything with the meal. Also, Sam previously mentioned a decent dumpling restaurant near Flower Drum/Hu Tong/Shoya and I think this was the one she was referring to so that makes two of us who gave props to this restaurant.
Decor-wise, it's not that great. Okay, so a vast improvement on Camy's et al but on close inspection of the bright pink walls, you can see a layer of grime and dirt that's probably been there for decades. Not a very pleasant thing to look at while you're eating but then again, we're not at the 'Drum. Anyway, the place opens pretty early (10:30am, seven days a week) which is a +1 for us early eaters and the service, while not chirpy like most mainland restaurants, is efficient. Although most of the utensils and drinks (water and hot tea) are located on a table to be fetched yourself, the young waiter was kind enough to grab everything we needed including a small bowl of chilli oil (the one without chilli flakes and seeds, which I would have preferred).
Fried pork dumplings (15 for $6.80). They were really good the first time but for some reason, they were a little "tired" this time around. Like they were still nursing a hangover from last night. They seemed flatter and greasier too. In fact, there was so much grease that I probably undid my hour's worth of Body Combat and 20 minutes of Body Attack from last night . Nevertheless, they are still notches ahead of Camy's and hey, $6.80 for 15 is nothing to scowl over!
Fried sliced rice cakes with pork and cabbage ($7). Adam doesn't really like this dish (I only found out after I placed the order) so we didn't finish it all off. It was okay but not any better than ones found at other restaurants. If we had more time for lunch, I probably would have slowly finished it off myself but Adam had to go back to work so we ended up bagging half of it to give to his parents, haha.
Finally, steamed chicken and prawn dumplings (8 for $6.50). Sadly, they didn't do it for me. The chicken tasted a bit… off and the prawns were nothing more than dried shrimp. The ones at Bob's Kitchen in Glen Waverley are miles better, even if they are laced with a month's intake of MSG.
In spite of my less than favourable assessment of my second visit to Shanghai Village, I would actually come back here again. The food was a bit sloppy this time around but I'm willing to forgive it on the basis that it WAS very early on a Saturday morning and heck, the entire lunch only cost us $20.30. Given all of this, I think Shanghai Village just scrapes past the realm of the conspiracy.
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RMIT library was all quiet, because yesterday was the last class presumably for semester 1 😛 so everyone would have been out celebrating.. or perhaps cramming for their upcoming exam.I've been to shanghai village.. I dont really like that place, because.. it's awfully dark!Reply
LOL you know just tonight my mate had this birthday at the French Brasserie on Finders Lane and I'm not too sure how good of a place it is but I told myself "geez I wonder if Libby thinks this place is good enough" hahahaThe menu was a bit small. I think I had a wider choice flying on Singapore AirlinesReply
I went there a few years back, wasn't majorly impressed…I really want to go back to HuTong but I'm scared of not receiving my meal again. It's such a shocker in terms of service, but the food is so good…. if you get it 😛Reply
Shanghai Village can stick their service up their ass.They gave us the wrong meals, when we ordered different things!*Shakes fist*Reply
"our experience at Shanghai Village did not suck" Where would that rate as a recommendation from any food critic?At Hans Cafe (not the same kind of upmarket places you sometimes frequent I know but) we'd order just a drink or some small amount of food and almost each time we sat there we'd be offered dish after dish of what other people ordered as they couldn't remember who ordered what. It was quite tempting to take some of it but with my taste buds being so picky, I'd probably throw it back up.Reply
I actually didn't mind that place. Although I haven't been there for a while. From what I remember the steamed dumplings was decent enough.Reply
im always here… lol… we duck in for quick quiet semi-consistent dumplings… i like the veg steamed ones…Reply


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Nice DSP simulation of a chiptune machine, for when you want chiptunes without the quirks. We'll need a new category, VC for virtual chiptune. Of course, just as with VA never being a complete replacement for analog, VC will never entirely replace real 8-bit chips.
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Think you're missing some fundamentals here, gridsleep. All the sounds off any of the chips you're referring to are digitally created and powered by software/code. The Atmegatron uses the Atmega chip much in the same way that a C64 uses a SID chip. The advantage here is that you have a traditional synth interface and don't have to mess around with impenetrable software front ends like you did in the "glory" days of 8/12 bit synthesis.
Virtual chiptune/digital would be an analogue synth imitating a soundchip, not like here which is a digital synth being a digital synth.
Virtual chiptune/digital would be an analogue synth imitating a soundchip, not like here which is a digital synth being a digital synth.
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The University of Miami introduces Jim Larranaga as its new men's basketball coach
CORAL GABLES – So just how did the Hurricanes end up with Jim Larranaga as their new men's basketball coach?
The story involves a pair of brothers/businessmen who are University of Miami grads.
Larranaga became friends with Jorge and Jose Mas, of Mas Tech Corp., a few years ago while working at Michael Jordan's Senior Flight School in Las Vegas — a $17,500 three-day summer camp for individuals ages 35 and older.
When Frank Haith resigned on April 4 to become Missouri's coach, Larranaga asked the Mas brothers about the opening.
"I inquired as coaches do, 'What's going on? Who's going to get the job?" Larranaga recounted Friday at his introductory news conference. "They shared a name with me. It wasn't me.
"When the job opened up, I inquired as coaches do, what's going on, who's going to get job? They shared a name with me. It wasn't me."
About a week later, as speculation grew, the brothers called him. Would you be interested, they asked?
Larranaga contacted UM to let them know he was in fact interested.
A series of phone calls between himself, his agent and Parker Executive Search, the consulting firm hired by UM, ensued, Larranaga said.
Wednesday night, Larranaga and newly hired UM athletic director Shawn Eichorst talked on the phone – their first contact.
"Things quickly progressed from there," Eichorst said. "We believe the same things and the conversation was very easy. I could clearly hear the passion in his voice and I think he could clearly hear the passion in my voice."
Larranaga did much of the talking, expressing why he wanted the job. Eichorst, who said he spoke to four or five candidates about the job, decided on the 61-year-old from George Mason.
"Once I felt like I knew where we needed to go, we went hard," he said. "I was just at a point in the process where a face resonated relative to those principles I was looking for and it was Jim Larranaga."


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Florida Panthers: Green suspended for hit on Frolik
Capitals defenseman Mike Green's elbow to the head of Panthers' winger Michael Frolik 4:24 into Friday's game earned the Capitals defenseman a three-game suspension without pay from the NHL today.
The elbow came after Cory Stillman's big hit on Green earlier that shift, but Green told reporters after the game it wasn't intentional, adding he thought he had caught Frolik with his shoulder.
"He was suspended so it was probably a little bit of a dirty hit, but it's my fault, I have to see that," said Frolik, adding that Green's visor hit his nose, but he's fine.
Panthers' coach Pete DeBoer said Green's blow is the type of head shot the NHL is trying to eliminate.
"I don't know what was going through Green's head, but that type of play…Mike Green wouldn't want anyone to take liberties like that on him," DeBoer said. "He shouldn't expect to be able to get away with that on other players."
Green left the game in the second period with a knee contusion after an incidental knee-on-knee hit from Panthers' defenseman Dmitry Kulikov.
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ODI 12c - Spark SQL and Hive?
By David Allan-Oracle on Nov 12, 2014
In this post I'll cover some new capabilities in the Apache Spark 1.1 release and show what they mean to ODI today. There's a nice slide shown below from the Databricks training for Spark SQL that pitches some of the Spark SQL capabilities now available. As well as programmatic access via Python, Scala, Java, the Hive QL compatibility within Spark SQL is particularly interesting for ODI...... today. The Spark 1.1 release supports a subset of the Hive QL features which in turn is a subset of ANSI SQL, there is already a lot there and it is only going to grow. The Hive engine today uses map-reduce which is not fast today, the Spark engine is fast, in-memory - you can read much more on that elsewhere.
Figure taken from from the Databricks training for Spark SQL, July 2014.
In the examples below I used the Oracle Big Data Lite VM, I downloaded the Spark 1.1 release and built using Maven (I was on CDH 5.2). To use Spark SQL in ODI, we need to create a Hive data server - the Hive data server masquerades as many things, it can can be used for Hive, for HCatalog or for Spark SQL. Below you can see my data server, note the Hive port is 10001, by default 10000 is the Hive server port - we aren't using Hive server to execute the query, here we are using the Spark SQL server. I will show later how I started the Spark SQL server on this port (Apache Spark doc for this is here).
I started the server using the Spark standalone cluster that I configured using the following command from my Spark 1.1 installation;
./sbin/start-thriftserver.sh --hiveconf hive.server2.thrift.bind.host bigdatalite --hiveconf hive.server2.thrift.port 10001 --master spark://192.168.122.1:7077
You can also specify local (for test), Yarn or other cluster information for the master. I could have just as easily started the server using Yarn by specify the master URI as something like --master yarn://192.168.122.1:8032 where 8032 is my Yarn resource manager port. I ran using the 10001 port so that I can run both Spark SQL and Hive engines in parallel whilst I do various tests. To reverse engineer I actually used the Hive engine to reverse engineer the table definitions in ODI (I hit some problems using the Spark SQL reversing, so worked around it) and then changed the model to use my newly created Spark SQL data server above.
Then I built my mappings just like normal - and used the KMs in ODI for Hive just like normal. For example the mapping below aggregates movie ratings and then joins with movie reference data to load movie rating data - the mapping uses the datastores from a model obtained from the Hive metastore;
If you look at the physical design the Hive KMs are assigned but we will execute this through the Spark SQL engine rather than through Hive. The switch from engine to engine was handled in the URL within our our Hive dataserver.
When the mapping is executed you can use the Spark monitoring API to check the status of the running application and Spark master/workers.
You can also monitor from the regular ODI operator and ODI console. Spark SQL support uses the Hive metastore for all the table definitions be they internally or externally managed data.
There are other blogs from tools showing how to access and use Spark SQL, such as the one here from Antoine Amend using SQL Developer. Antoine has also another very cool blog worth checking out Processing GDELT Data Using Hadoop. In this post he shows a custom InputFormat class that produces records/columns. This is a very useful post for anyone wanting to see the Spark newAPIHadoopFile api in action. It has a pretty funky name, but is a key piece (along with its related methods) of the framework.
- // Read file from HDFS - Use GdeltInputFormat
- val input = sc.newAPIHadoopFile(
- "hdfs://path/to/gdelt",
- classOf[GdeltInputFormat],
- classOf[Text],
- classOf[Text]
- )
Antoine also provides the source code to GdeltInputFormat so you can see the mechanics of his record reader, although the input data is delimited data (so could have been achieved in different ways) it's a useful resource to be aware of.
If you are looking at Spark SQL, this post was all about using Spark SQL via the JDBC route - there is another whole topic on transformations using the Spark framework alongside Spark SQL that is for future discussion. You should be aware of and check out the Hive QL compatibility documentation here, check what you can do can't do within Spark SQL today. Download the BDA Lite VM and give it a try.


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Queen + Paul Rodgers Recorded Free Single for Mandela's 46664
Paul Rogers-fronted Queen have assisted Nelson Mandela's 46664 campaign by contributing their single in line with World AIDS day that occurs on December 1. The song which is called 'Say It's Not True', will be available for free download on the band's official website.
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Electric Franklin Guestbook Archives: August-December 2008
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rosa [12-29-2008] »»»
hey lamy i want to tell you that you are a nice person.
kesly francois, may 1995 [12-18-2008] »»»
valeria [12-18-2008]
Destiny [12-18-2008] »»»<
i am glad you invinted lights
samantha, 10 indiana [12-18-2008] »»»
tranly [12-18-2008] »»»
Benjamin Franklin was a great man who would do anything to show his pride.He invented many intresting objects;which are now modern tools.Now for us nothing is useful;but for Benjamin Franklin they needed it the most.
well i have never heard of mr franklin but he would most def be in GRIFFENDOR!
Harry Potter [12-16-2008] »»»
i have always wanted to meet ben but i know now that it is to late i wish i could maybe see were he lives and meet other people that know so much about him.
cassie, 12 [12-16-2008]
i <3 ben
sarah weaver, im hotttt! [12-15-2008] »»»
i think u made a good web but more on electricity
savannah hiers [12-15-2008] »»»
Evan [12-15-2008] »»»
carrissa Ledoux [12-15-2008] »»»
i love Ben Franklin because he has a lot of interesting facts about his life. I am doing a report on him!
kayla, eye color brown [12-11-2008] »»»
travis, 12 pocola [12-11-2008] »»»
i love ben franklin because he made the kite
chelsea, 23 tallahsse [12-11-2008] »»»
what he iv
jj, ga [12-10-2008] »»»
he is a great person and i am very interrested in Ben Franklin.he has so many facts that gives me many imporantantto me because i am doing a reporton him.
ladaisha, 10,ellia [12-10-2008] »»»
im doing a project on Ben Franklin for computers
Jason Herrmann, im 14 i live in sparta MI [12-10-2008] »»»
I think Benjamin Franklin is a man to look up to. He did great things. Two main things he did was sign the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Alexis [12-10-2008]
hey baybay
kayla mcmichael, patrill tilll da day die [12-10-2008] »»»
dam rite
Yee [12-10-2008]
i think you should have a better verity of pictures.I do like the information you have though.
mircales [12-09-2008] »»»
i love all the facts and things on this website. I think you should keep everything the same. Have a nice day!
hanna, 12 [12-06-2008] »»»
m mer [12-05-2008]
I love ben franklin!
Lexi, n/a [12-05-2008] »»»
not going to Happen
Baily, Na [12-05-2008] »»»
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anonymous [12-04-2008]
i did this site dor typing class
kayla mcmichael, 13 [12-04-2008] »»»
i think franklin was lucky to be popular but it must have been hard for him as he was 1 of the 17 children!
Davina [12-03-2008] »»»
ben franklin rocks!
Shannon Vuillemot, 14, honolulu, HI [12-03-2008] »»»
I love Franklin! Especially when I have a stack of them in my wallet.
James G, Chattanooga, TN [12-03-2008] »»»
I think without Ben Franklin America might not be what it is today so I say Thank You Ben Franklin.
Ciara Ward, 13 Marion,Ohio from NJ [12-03-2008]
thaiquondra, i love ben franklin [12-03-2008]
Ben franklin is my idol!
precious, 12 /pensacola/32526 [12-03-2008] »»»
I dont like Benjamin Franklin because i have to research him and he is very annoying.
Erin Rosenbauer, 25 [12-02-2008] »»»
hez cool i got to do a prjct on him im in * grade :(
zeno [12-02-2008] »»»
thanks.I am doing a report & this website helped me A TON! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
Elizabeth, 11, apex nc [12-02-2008] »»»
I think wat Benjimin Franklin s a good person when he macks that stuff.
baylee, I am 9 and i live in AJ. [12-02-2008] »»»
i like to LEARN ABOUT HIM MORE AND MORE AGAIN
austin mcgowan, im 7 [12-02-2008] »»»
Who are Ben Franklin's relatives(descendants)today? Are any of them doing great things like he did?
Regina M Davis, Chicago, IL [12-01-2008] »»»
Have always admired Ben Franklin and as a avid early grade school reader...was entralled with his views as related by him and others...of Philadelphia, his romance, spats with brothers(?), printing business, and how he amassed a small fortune by his mid twenties. Amazing, many-faced politico, nationally and internationally
M.C. Maglione, 61, Henderson, Nevada [11-30-2008] »»»
My daughter asked who invented electricity, so we came here as a starting point. We want to learn more about this amazing man.
Jaqui, Victoria, BC [11-30-2008] »»»
Rachael Hickert, 17 [11-30-2008]
i have 2 brothers and 1 sister i like coming on here but you have no games.
nilanda, im 10 [11-30-2008] »»»
hes a legend
billy [11-30-2008]
It was great!
Tiffany, age: 11, city: New York [11-27-2008] »»»
Ben Franklin's quotes are just as timely today as when he wrote them. His common sense, wit, and genius are all part of his heritage.
Craig Weaver, 56 years old Charlotte NC [11-25-2008]
he was a grate man
zeke [11-25-2008]
this website was very helpful for our group project. Thank you for sharing this information. I love you
Kyle Snyder, Casey Sonaty, Jeremy Jones, and Wyatt Vyhnanek, 14 years old [11-25-2008]
the guy that does the Ben Franklin videos is hillarious!
anonymous [11-25-2008] »»»
Benjamin Franklin did lots of good things
Tamara McGee, Cincinnati,Oh Age:13 [11-24-2008] »»»
i was named after my father, who was named after the REAL Ben Franklin AHHHH GO ME!
Benjamin Franklin Jr [11-21-2008] »»»
i have this feeling that ben franklin is still ALIVE! ahhh hahahahaha i miss him! AHHH hahah um ok so heyyy young people whats crackin??
Richard Gregory Scott, 77, va [11-21-2008]
robel [11-21-2008]
sam --[p-09 [11-21-2008]
i don't know
emily, 8 [11-21-2008] »»»
just add more
quester [11-20-2008]
I did a paper on him once and i gots me an A. WOO! and i wouldnt mind meeting him. and i agree with that Nick kid, BRING HIM BACK!
Mary, 27, Albany, NY [11-20-2008] »»»
if he were around now, he would be my VP
Barack Obama, il [11-20-2008]
You have a cool website
Meaj [11-20-2008] »»»
What were Benjamin Franklin's Passions?
Devin Canfield [11-20-2008] »»»
ben franklin is my great great great great grandfather. i love him. hes on the $100 bill! AHH i love my great great great great grandfather!
Harry, 12, ny [11-19-2008]
I love Ben Franklin. He was one of America's most famous patriots
Daniel, Fukuib city,Japan [11-19-2008] »»»
i think it is a good web site to go on it gives a lot of infrmaion about ben franklin
Kevin Leonard, Iam 15 years old [11-19-2008] »»»
Im writing a paper on physics misconceptions and always had the preconcieved notion that the lightning hit the kite, I never thought it could be false even though we all know being hit be lightning can kill you!
Tara Mc Donnell Ireland [11-19-2008]
kaylie [11-18-2008]
send me any thing on Silence Dogood!
jason [11-18-2008] »»»
Analysa, Your Mommy [11-18-2008] »»»
B Frank (as i call him) is the stinkin MAN! i love him BRING HIM BACK! BRING HIM BACK!
Nick Dolan, 16, nh [11-17-2008]
hu vhuohyuoehfuo huh uoew ow8uor from tayla
Many times heroes have to die for the world to hear the request of help against all the badly committed against the humanity. Marco Tulio Pettinato Pereira
Marco Tulio Pettinato Pereira [11-17-2008]
i like Ben franklins potatoes!
kris, I like potatoes! [11-14-2008]
At post office yesterday and sorry to say you were closed. Vet day ( I am a Vet so thanks ) We wanted to mail postcards home with your postmark SO I slid them under the door with stamps on hoping you would see them and mail them. Please do. Means a lot to us - kids and a thankful Vet take care Carl Pettinato
Carl Pettinato, Shillington PA 19607 [11-12-2008] »»»
You guys have good information about the dude benjamin.you all have great ideas about his page and, helpful informatin.i did my report in him using this information and, i got a 100% on it. thank you for having this web page that, tells you all about the famus people.
amanda [11-12-2008] »»»
i think, this is good information about benjamin and, that it gives detail about every importand thing that happend in his life while growing up.
marie, 11 dallas tx [11-12-2008] »»»
I came across your page looking for Hardie St. I found it very interesting. Mary Hughes
mary hughes [11-12-2008] »»»
what the heck? hes my hero
lauren, evansville,in [11-12-2008] »»»
I really like the mini biography but it could be longer
Natalie [11-08-2008] »»»
he is are brilliant
haleigh, 10age central,la [11-08-2008]
get a better movie that goes on but this is great
nandi MONTEITH [11-06-2008] »»»
Well sure hes has a mind of a moron..............but he is a smart moron...my claasmate/friend (alanina)....think the same... im at Tropic Isles Middle School...and doing a report on him....if any invetion he made for me would be a answer key every thought in the world
Maasai cage, 9,Cape cooral,Fl,Lee county,single [11-06-2008] »»»
My Name Is Kearsten And I Am 12 Years Old. I go to CBJ Juinor High. I am in 6th Grade. BYE!:ME
Kearsten Dunham, Age;12 city;Baytown, TX [11-06-2008]
love ben!
ALICE!!!!!!!!, florida [11-06-2008] »»»
Ben Franklin seems like he would have been a major liberal.
Anonymous, Rochester, Minnesota [11-06-2008] »»»
very thurough timeline
alex [11-06-2008] »»»
Benjamin Franklin sounds like a boring guy with good quotes and I think now he is dead eveything won't be so boreing anymore!
brittany McDaniel, fsdkjfhskudfyfasjdh [11-06-2008] »»»
i think the u r a good person
shalyida clay [11-06-2008] »»»
There's a website about me?!
Ben Franklin [11-06-2008] »»»
omg he is soooooo hot!
sierra [11-04-2008] »»»
mwhahahhaahah ben farnklin RoxZ
brianna, lollllllllllllllll [11-04-2008]
I would love meet ben franklin......Maybe he will come to life...haha....just kiddin,
maasai, 9,Cape Coral,Fl, [11-04-2008] »»»
i love benjamin and his inventions! i really would like for him to be here to make more inventions than anybody else did!
aliana, 9 lee county [11-04-2008] »»»
I am doing an experiment with the lemon but i couldn't find out how to do it. Thanks for all the help
Bellatrix Lestrange, I love this site! [11-04-2008] »»»
Terrific! I'm re-energized, especially at this time of year with our nation's election around the corner. VOTE!
Dan Albanese, Park Ridge, NJ [11-04-2008] »»»
Thank's For the info, i got a lot of it.
Patrick Koehr, Age-13, Live-Warrenton,VA [11-04-2008] »»»
chloe [11-04-2008] »»»
I LOVE HIM. He was so awesome.
Belle [11-03-2008]
As a retired orthopedist, native of Phila, I'm happy to interpret BF for el. school kids in eastern IA. I think his character of all others has the most to offer for the middling sort of kids I meet. Thanks for the help this site brings. Dr P.
William Pontarelli, 59 yo Iowa City IA [11-02-2008] »»»
please check out this website http://www.bostonsg.info
Michael Rodriguez [11-02-2008] »»»
I like quotes too!
Brooke [10-31-2008] »»»
hes a stupid person i hate him and he doents have anyhting to do with the revolution
george [10-30-2008]
seems like a pretty hardcore dude.
Graham Owen [10-28-2008] »»»
It PROVIDES LOTS OF FACTS
Ciera Mathias, I love ushistory.com [10-27-2008]
Ben Franklin was a very interesting guy
Jason Kim [10-27-2008] »»»
I like the quotes!
Kirsten Den Hartog [10-27-2008] »»»
Tis niether the solitary warrior or thinker, but he combination that forms a great leader who is the true vindication of a nation.
Publius [10-27-2008] »»»
cool site gives a lot of informatioin that you wouldn't know...but ben isn't that good at checkers
Erik [10-27-2008] »»»
This is a pretty cool site. Bravo. Question: are you near sighted or far sighted?
Josie Peterson [10-27-2008] »»»
Very good selection of information, but the site is a compilation of way to many writers that are often repeating the same information.
Joe [10-27-2008] »»»
Can't Talk. Tired now. Busy studying AMERICA.
anonymous, Sam [10-27-2008] »»»
I really like Franklin's quotes. This site really offers a lot of information about him.
Jess [10-27-2008]
I love learning about history! I learned a lot from this site and some cool information I did not know about Ben Franklin!
Adrienne [10-27-2008] »»»
Cool website. I like Ben Franklin's quotes.
Hannah [10-24-2008] »»»
How lovely the hidden ironic statements and puns.
Brenna Glaeser [10-24-2008] »»»
It was interesting to learn about all of the various things Ben Franklin participated in during his lifetime. I think its entertaining that he became a vegetarian in order to save money and thus be able to buy more books!
Leah Campbell [10-24-2008] »»»
Audrey Kvam [10-24-2008] »»»
ben franklin obviously lived a very full and exciting life, that included helping form our great nation while heading organizations and invent many useful items
daniel rivas [10-24-2008] »»»
needs to explain the Courant better.
Kevin, mn [10-24-2008] »»»
The website has a lot of useful information.
Sarah Lagerlund [10-24-2008] »»»
educational and informative
Emily Holman [10-24-2008] »»»
Ben Franklin is really good at checkers.
Nicki, Rochester, MN [10-24-2008] »»»
pretty good sight, very interesting time line, the ai on the checkers needs to be made harder
Robert Real [10-24-2008] »»»
this is a great site, it tells a lot about ben franklin and shows how great his achievements were.
cody kour [10-24-2008] »»»
I really love the quote part of this website
Katie [10-24-2008] »»»
This site is pretty cool, I love all the qoutes. Ben Franklin is much better than me at checkers though, sadly.
Sarah [10-24-2008] »»»
Thanks Mrs. Wells and Mrs. Borgen! This was fun. I beat Ben! =P
Rob, nope [10-24-2008] »»»
I beat BEN FRANKLIN at checkers.
Jason, 15, Minnesota [10-24-2008] »»»
its a nice site
eddie-na [10-24-2008] »»»
very very interesting
Sean, 15 Rochester [10-24-2008] »»»
its a shame america no longer stands for what franklin and everyone else back then meant for it to. We only protect our personal rights and are controlled by corrupt politicians. we do not care for other countrys needs or wants. Thus making us just like britain was 200 years ago.
mike [10-24-2008] »»»
This site has too many sections that say the same thing. It needs to be narrowed down a little bit; make it more readable.
Tori Jacobsen [10-24-2008] »»»
hey hows it going
Sarah Morton [10-24-2008] »»»
Your web site is a very nice and informative one because the glory of god and the perfection of humanity are fundamentals values. Ethical Junction Making Ethical Choices Easy, Paul Chehade:.,www.paulchehade.com
Ben Franklin would have been proud of this website
Stefan [10-24-2008] »»»
I found it funny that he would "hang out at coffee houses"...
Benjamin [10-24-2008] »»»
It was a fun site, and I learned a lot! Thank you!
molly barlow [10-24-2008] »»»
Great site with lots of information
Ben Bosch, 15,rochester,MN [10-24-2008] »»»
allie, oceanside [10-24-2008] »»»
Cool site! I beat Ben Franklin at checkers :)
Becca Grove, Rochester, MN [10-24-2008] »»»
Ben Franklin, thanks for creating the one thing that this world can't live without: swim fins for your hands!
taylor [10-24-2008] »»»
8) i love you!
Gabie:D. [10-24-2008] »»»
fun stuff. this website is a beast!
Hannah, roch minnesota [10-24-2008] »»»
ben franklin is a great man
your mom [10-24-2008] »»»
I love the little animated picture thing on "The Kite" link :)
Jill Haugen [10-24-2008] »»»
playing checkers was a rip off!
Sarah [10-24-2008] »»»
Interesting site.
Alison [10-24-2008] »»»
tanner firl [10-24-2008] »»»
this is a very nice wesite with very useful information that helped me with a project.
Dina, 12 yrs old [10-24-2008] »»»
it was interesting! learned a lot of stuff that i didn't know!
Gina D, rochester [10-24-2008] »»»
"Ben Franklin" is my favorite episode of The Office. This site was awesome also!
Ellen Currier [10-24-2008] »»»
The website is wonderfully set up! I had fun thanks.
Kira [10-24-2008] »»»
That checkers game sure is hard. Go McCain!
Joe, Century High School [10-24-2008] »»»
This was a really fun website, the kite movie was really funny.
Katie [10-24-2008] »»»
Also try:e mv2 2,e mv2 hilbert,e mv2 450400,einstein e mv2,More...
Mark Hilbert, Any local block? [10-24-2008] »»»
I would love to thank my great english teacher mrs. borgen for directing me to this insightful site. I have much more respect for Ben Franklin.
Evan [10-24-2008] »»»
I LOVE The Kite experiment. I think Ben was A great Man! And he helped me ace my Amstuds test!
CLAIRE, Nope [10-24-2008] »»»
i love ben
moman, yea [10-24-2008] »»»
Very Cool
Tom Crutcher, - [10-24-2008] »»»
This was interesting and very elightening. I learned quite a bit. Thanks for the website.
Mason Schweyen [10-24-2008] »»»
I dont like ben franklin
Andrew Grosbach, dhvfvfxhsophbfkxd [10-24-2008] »»»
This website is a really fun way to learn about Benjamin Franklin! i love all of his quotes
Nicole Harrison [10-24-2008] »»»
I like fried chicken a lot. Oh and ben franklin checkers is fun because I beat him!
Luke, 16 rochester [10-24-2008] »»»
amazing introduction!
shannon [10-24-2008] »»»
This is a very interesting site. It's both extensively informative and wildly hilarious. Bravo!
Nancy, Rochester, MN [10-24-2008] »»»
The website was very informative. I had to come to it for a history worksheet.
Torrey, Rochester, MN [10-24-2008] »»»
love yah lots mr. franklin
dr. j [10-24-2008] »»»
we had to do history fair and when we looked up ben we found this great website and tanks for everting
ASHLEYY && KOREYY, houstonn [10-23-2008]
amanda, 2003381618 [10-23-2008] »»»
I'm doing a history fair project about you and I find this website wierd and interesting.
andrew, 10 [10-23-2008]
i can't stand to be talked about
DEJA JONES, i am unique in my own ways [10-23-2008]
this is a great website
Calla [10-20-2008] »»»
thanks you so much for your great projects
katie, 13 years old [10-15-2008] »»»
tought were that it was a good video
Jamal, harrisburg [10-15-2008]
joan [10-14-2008]
nice website but put more details on it
Sequoyha Stephens, Brunswick,Ga 31520 13 [10-14-2008]
benjamin franklin is a very smart man. he is fun to learn about and is very interesting!
Kearsten Dunham, Age:12 City: Baytown, TX [10-14-2008]
Heather, 13, student, CA [10-13-2008] »»»
A shining example of a life well lived, and my inspiration. A blessing to mankind. Thank you for living.
KIRK BAILEY, Largo FL [10-13-2008] »»»
lashiyapatterson [10-13-2008] »»»
love it
salihah, x [10-10-2008] »»»
I feel as Mr. Franklin was a very intelligent man. Without some of his inventions, thoughts, and curiousity, we wouldn't have made it this far in the world.
Tiombea George, 16, good student and very curious! [10-10-2008]
yo fro u want a hamburger
Elfaramon B. Elfam, Chuk,46 [10-10-2008]
I always admired Ben Franklin; now I heard today that he had some flaws, but, it seems all great men have flaws. I think it is interesting that he loved France and had illegitmate children. That was something I didn't know about him.
Arlene B. Heed, age 56, mother of 2, Long Island, NY [10-09-2008]
Great site. very useful and interesting.
Jerry Shelton, Clute, Texas [10-09-2008] »»»
hes cool
Libia [10-08-2008]
I am the great grand daughter of Benjamin franklin. He is my Great Granfather 6 times remove. And its awsome I have a famous grandfather! And we share the same Birthday too!
Tracy Mule, Jacksonville, FL [10-02-2008] »»»
ookNU [10-02-2008] »»»
i wish there was 1 reliable site you could go to to get everything you need.
robbie, 15 years old doing a science report [10-01-2008]
i love this website it really helped me!
kadeja [10-01-2008] »»»
I think he is so awsome!
destiny, 11yrs old dallas, tx [10-01-2008] »»»
Thank you for having supplied me with lots of resource information for my science project.
Ryan, Quebec, Canada [10-01-2008] »»»
this page needs to show how his inventions and when he invented them.
polly lor, 19 years old,stpl,mn [10-01-2008] »»»
it was exellent
Harsh Girish Bothra [09-28-2008] »»»
I think that you should have told about what Ben Franklin said to Parlament about the Sugar Act
Hannah Wallenkamp [09-28-2008] »»»
I think Benjamin Franklin is cool and that this website is a great sorce of information. I used this website to helpcme with my homework. Only maybe a little more informatiom on the biography would help. Anyway those are my thoughts right now and i have to go. Bye! -Mackenzie B]
Mackenzie [09-28-2008]
Hunter Sisstrun [09-26-2008] »»»
briana [09-26-2008]
i think benjamin franklin ROCKS YOUR SOCKS OFF!
sammy and carli [09-26-2008] »»»
bob [09-25-2008]
great website for me to examine the life of one of America's great leaders.
Dave Pattridge, non-traditional college student [09-24-2008] »»»
OMG LIKE I TOOOOOTALLYY LUVV BENNY FRANKLIN..MMM HE IS MY IDOL...WHAT A SMEXXY! HAHA..but yea this site helps with my crazzzzy project.Hee Hee..Luv you all!<33
Tommy<33, im a clepto and this website is mine! XD [09-24-2008]
helped a lot with homework
john, im gay [09-23-2008] »»»
its a very great website and i learned a lot on it i will share this website with my soc.st teacher.
jennifer, 11,Mooonachie [09-23-2008]
i love ben franklin. i wish he were still alive so i could meet him. ='( ...thank you...that is all...
Bill, 69,amsterdam, [09-23-2008]
i love you
devin [09-23-2008] »»»
thank you for this site! it's sooo helpful! i love this site!
chiyo, 16 [09-23-2008] »»»
Kenneth Newton [09-20-2008] »»»
DUDE! This website was PRETTY DANG AWESOME! It helped me a lot on my homework! sweett!
PoopMasta [09-18-2008] »»»
I read the book Autobiography of Benjermin Franklin and bin hooked on him as an amazing guy ever since. Realy injoy this site for easy access of info for a lecture i must give in my electronics engineering class. Thanks for the site and to Mr. Franklin.
Eric D. Babb, 32yo Quakertown, Pa [09-18-2008] »»»
i love this material
anonymous [09-17-2008] »»»
My personal opinions overweight the factual info given by this website (and others) about Franklin. In my opinion, despite the myths of a hoax played by Franklin of the invention of electricity, he was a very intelligent engineer. He invented a great deal of desired tools to create a better future for many Americans. He was a great American originating in Boston, moving to Philedalphea, involved in politics, science, and leadership for the better of Major North America. All in all Benjamin Franklin of Boston, Massachussettes was a genuine American hero.
Taylor Morrison, 13 [09-16-2008] »»»
hi ppl he weird
ethan corley [09-16-2008] »»»
mohsen, i am from Tehran Iran [09-12-2008] »»»
good website to carry out extra credito! woo hoo!
arielle, 16 [09-12-2008]
hes a stupied head
erin, 34 [09-12-2008]
works good if i need more ill ask this site if u n
Kyra, 14 maui hawaii [09-10-2008] »»»
I am a teacher. You have a great site.
Teresa Parker, Texas [09-10-2008] »»»
t, t [09-08-2008]
tell me about it.
Madison, eight [09-06-2008] »»»
this sites the bomb like tick tick and it helped me a lot with my report!
JORDAN!!!!, bowling green ky [09-05-2008] »»»
somebody [09-05-2008] »»»
he who lyes down with the dogs will rise up with fleas
Jules [09-04-2008] »»»
god helps who help themselfs
samsara [09-04-2008] »»»
jordan [09-04-2008] »»»
anonymous [09-04-2008]
this was a edu.on my biology class thank you
philliscoe, 11age,ensign rapid river [09-02-2008] »»»
what is franklin mannerism
candice, mandaluyong city [09-01-2008]
i have a very old book on the ben franklin bridge dated 1927 the book is around 1 foot by 2 foot wide the front of it says the bridge over the delaware river conecting philadelphia pa and camden nj. final report of the board of engineers of the delaware river bridge joint commission of the states of pa and nj. it has every math equation down to every single strand of wire that was used and how they did it it has hundreds of photos in it from the engineering people who built it. i would like to know if anyone knows the significance of the book and if it has any value to anyone. i would appreciate it if i could get any feed back on this .. thank you mike
mike hoff [09-01-2008] »»»
amberly, hazel green [08-31-2008] »»»
My name is Sarah and I really enjoy this artical about Ben Franklin which inspired me a lot about electricity.
Sarah Bannon, 10 years old [08-29-2008] »»»
why doesn't it work to blow into the bottle?
karen roney [08-28-2008] »»»
Thank you for offering this wonderful site to us.
Joanne Beaudry, Worcester, MA. 01609 [08-28-2008] »»»
Well my thoughts are: when I get out of collage I will make my plans and follow the rest of my goals and be successful in life but I'll try my best every day and belive in what I can be in life a: lawyer
Laporche J. Gould, yes, Mr.Benjamin Franklin have you ever been brave or felt like embrasse before? [08-27-2008] »»»
I liked your site.
Pat Williams, 831 Beacon Street #273 [08-25-2008]
What a wonderful site! I found many interesting details of Franklin's life here; most of which you can't find in the autobiography books. Thanks for sharing!
Broni, San Diego [08-21-2008] »»»
Scotty T baby [08-20-2008] »»»
Thanks for this opportunity to see this material.
Lisa [08-18-2008] »»»
Great site! Franklin is one of my personal heroes,
Lula Mae Martin, I am a 10 grade English Honors teacher in Huntsville, Alabama. [08-11-2008] »»»
i am a humongous history buff, and come here often when i need some ben info. great job! muy bien!
hil [08-08-2008] »»»
i need help i cant get how to do eletricidy with just a battery a wire and a bulb help me plz
mackenzie, 11 [08-08-2008]
Benjamin Franklin is a fascinating person in American history. I would love to have met him in person over a cup of tea.
Deborah de Oliveira, New York [08-08-2008] »»»
Ben Franklin has been a mentor of mine for many years. Although I can't quote this or that type of studying Ben, I have studied his share in our working society, and am sending you just a small excerpt from my new novel called "The 50 Rules of Law" by Jared Masters... *enter lighten----> *The 2nd Rule of Law is "Integrity". It is the exact thing that if you don't adhere to moral and ethical principles sound of moral character & honesty, the state of your whole being entirely undiminished will have you kicking your own ass because you forgot to preserve the integrity of your own empire, "Royally". As for Founding delegate royalty, re after redrafted articles of the new Constitution were debated thru cooperative statesmanship in the art of compromise today we call bi-partisanship. From May until adoption in September of 1787, seventy-four delegates were appointed to the convention whereas 55 actually attended sessions and only 39 actually signed The Constitution. Including new signatures of the 1st President, we are returned to mid-summer pre-dusk times and the mid number 55 delegates only attending. While guards stood at the entrances to ensure that the curious were kept at a distance in mannerisms of the day, "the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within" it wasn't quite the angst it was during "When in the Course of human events it became necessary", but they were devising a supreme power as the supreme law of the States with agenda no longer hidden. Self evident truths of the Jeffersonian philosophy with a capital "I" for integrity had been implemented, and another capital "I" for independence takes us to the "space of time" that was crossed out on the Rough Draft and replaced with "time after such dissolutions". If Jefferson did make a fair copy incorporating changes of a "secret document" made by Franklin... exit ing----> Jared Masters email@example.com
Jared, L-i-g-h-t-e-n-i-n-g-a-r-e-t-h-e-a-x-i-o-m-a-t-i-c-a-l-e-x-i-s-t-a-n-c-e-o- f-y-o-u-r-i-n-n-e-r-b-e-i-n-g is a phrase I created from knowing Ben's work that I reveal in "T! [08-07-2008] »»»
Very interesting, wide range of opinions on Franklin, must have had an undying curiosity
Stanford Beebe, Maryland, age 75 [08-04-2008]
i think thqt it is so colies and i like that he has a guess book
sarah hadlow, i a,m 15 and i love benni [08-04-2008] »»»
James Van Hopper.., Im 29 years old and i fantasise about benjamin franky [08-04-2008] »»»
this` s a great web page, articles cut to the chase,no exesses. awesome job!. ted
theodore dusablon [08-04-2008] »»»
andrea morales [08-04-2008] »»»
I have used this Benjamin Franklin website with my class. I am very grateful for the help it has been to me.
Martin F. Collins, SchoolTeacher in Brooklyn,New York [08-04-2008]
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Last night I decided to do a little experimenting in making one of my favorite appetizers….Fried Green Beans! I love the idea of eating green beans as a snack, but I feel a little guilty because they are fried. It leaves me a little conflicted. Does it count as a vegetable if it is dripping in grease? My baked version still has the bread-like coating, but they are so much crunchier than their fried counter parts. Serve them with a little pizza sauce and it's a sure way to sneak a serving of vegetables in for the day!
"Fried" Green Beans
- 24 green beans, washed and trimmed
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/2 cup Bisquick baking mix
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 2 cups Italian Seasoned Panko Bread Crumbs
- 1/2 cup pizza sauce
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. In a small bowl, combine egg, milk, Bisquick, and garlic powder. Whisk with a fork until smooth. Pour bread crumbs into a shallow bowl. Dip each bean into the Bisquick mixture, let the excess drip off and then roll in the bread crumbs. Lay beans onto a sprayed baking sheet and bake for 15 minute or until golden brown. Serve with pizza sauce.


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The lads want this win, Chandler especially. Wallace is doing a good job of guarding Melo so far.
Lopez is a basketball abomination.
The lads want this win, Chandler especially. Wallace is doing a good job of guarding Melo so far.
Lopez is a basketball abomination.
Both teams playing not to lose at the moment. Guys like Felton and Melo need to attack and make it happen.
Lol the nets, im sorry but they just arent anything above a average team. They would get raped in the playoffs by a team with a superstar and a good bench. They are the most overrated team since the 2010 miami heat. We have at least 3 key players out right now and we still are fighting hard. We could if we meet at full strength in the playoffs we could win 4-2 easily.
Chandler!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chandler with the nasty slam
JR wanted to put that down their throats
Lopez just killed JR, if that was us they would of called flagrant
I really wish Rasheed wouldn't take as many threes. He has the size to get easy buckets down low and I don't know why we don't take advantage of that.
Looks like the refs have the Nets back in this game. Nothing new. Nets are a joke of a franchise.