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Seth Kushner and Carlos Molina have put together a documentary on the webcomics site ACT-I-VATE, which will debut at the Baltimore Comic-Con in October. According to Kushner's blog, the film will include interviews with many of the site's creators, making movie stars out of Thomas Baehr, Nick Bertozzi, Pedro Carmago, Mike Cavallaro, Kevin Colden, Nikki Cooke, Molly Crabapple, Mike Dawson, Jim Dougan, Ulises Farinas, Michel Fiffe, Simon Fraser, Maurice Fontenot, Dan Goldman, Tim Hamilton, Dean Haspiel, Jennifer Hayden, Joe Infurnari, Jason Little, Josh Neufeld, Leland Purvis, Kat Roberts, Ryan Roman, Nathan Schreiber & Jeff Newelt.
The film will also be shown at KingCon in Brooklyn this November.
Every month since late 2007, Zuda Comics hosts a competition between webcomics, with the winner becoming a regular strip on the site. In Zudist Colony, I interview the contestants via email, asking each of them the same five questions, which hopefully gives you a little more insight into the strips and the creators themselves.
This time around I asked them to share their favorite of the eight pages they submitted to Zuda, which is the artwork you'll see with their answers. Also, I only heard back from nine of the 10 contestants this time around.
So let's get to it …
Welcome to the second edition of Zudist Colony, which we kicked off last month.
Every month since late 2007, Zuda Comics hosts a competition between webcomics, with the winner becoming a regular strip on the site. In Zudist Colony, I interview the contestants via email, which hopefully gives you a little more insight into the strips and the creators themselves. For instance, this time around I asked them all to name their favorite strip besides their own, and the variety in their answers was pretty interesting.
So without further ado, let's see what they said …
ACT-I-VATE and IDW have now officially announced the ACT-I-VATE Primer I mentioned back in May, and have even posted a 17-page preview that features a page from each of the stories.
The ACT-I-VATE Primer is an anthology of stories by creators from the webcomics site, including Joe Infurnari, Roger Langridge, Mike Dawson, Nick Bertozzi, Tim Hamilton, Dean Haspiel, Simon Fraser, Molly Crabapple and John Leavitt, Mike Cavallaro, Pedro Camargo, Jim Dougan and Hyeondo Park, Ulises Farinas, Michel Fiffe, Maurice Fontenot, Jennifer Hayden and Leland Purvis.. The collection is due in October and will include a foreword by Warren Ellis.
Chris A. Bolton is relatively new on the comics scene, but the Portland-based writer is in the process of finishing the first run of his successful super-powered humor series, the online comic Smash (http://smashcomic.com/), drawn by his brother Kyle Bolton. Chris is also a filmmaker and a prose writer, and the fact that both he and I contributed a story to the pulpy literary anthology Portland Noir (Akashic Books, 2009) seemed like a good enough excuse for us to sit and chat. Especially since we're two guys who cross back and forth between media–in fact, his story in Portland Noir, "The Red Room," is prose, as is to be expected in the Akashic Noir series, while the story Joëlle Jones and I contributed, "Gone Doggy Gone," is comics, a rarity for the venue. Of course, these are topics we cover in the conversation, so without further ado….
JAMIE S. RICH: So, Chris, I suppose the best way to start is how you and I met. We both have stories in Portland Noir, the Kevin Sampsell-edited anthology that features crime stories set in the town where we both live. You and I started talking at an event for the anthology that was at Powell's Books, where you were reading and I was just hanging out. How did you end up in Portland Noir?
CHRIS A. BOLTON: First off, Jamie, thanks for inviting me to chat. In my day job, I work for Powells.com, sometimes doing data entry for book pages. A few years back, in 2005 or so, I was beefing up the pages for Akashic's Noir series when it occurred to me that there should be a Portland Noir. I emailed Akashic to inquire about it and they said they were planning to do one at some point in the future.
And we're up! I had some technical difficulties with the wireless in the Eisners very lovely new venue at the new Hilton Bayfront Hotel, but it seems to be working for now.
In any event, here's who has won so far … these first two were presented by comedian Patton Oswalt:
Best Publication for Kids: Tiny Titans, by Art Baltazar and Franco (DC)
Best Publication for Teens/Tweens: Coraline, by Neil Gaiman, adapted by P. Craig Russell (HarperCollins Children's Books)
While Eisner winner Neil Gaiman presented these three …
Today we kick off a bit of an experiment that hopefully will end up becoming a regular monthly feature. It's called Zudist Colony (thanks to Jeff Mccomsey for the name), and the idea is to interview all the contestants in Zuda's monthly competition.
Zuda, of course, is DC's webcomics site, where every month ten comic strips go head-to-head, and the one that gets the most votes goes on to be a regular strip on the site. The site started hosting these competitions in late 2007. Every so often we'll receive a request from one of the competitors, asking us to interview them, run some artwork, etc. to help them promote their entry — which I certainly don't begrudge anyone for doing, as getting the word out about your strip is a big piece of the puzzle when it comes to the competition. And it may sound cheesy, but I've always felt that it wasn't fair to showcase one strip over another, that if I interviewed one of the competitors, I really needed to interview all of them. So I turned down the requests.
But I started thinking about it — why can't I interview all of them? So I dropped a couple of emails, and soon had the email addresses for all the competitors. I should note that I sent the same five questions to all the contestants, and told them that their entire team — writer, artist, etc. — could answer them.
Anyway, that might be a little too "insider baseball" for everyone, so if you'd like to get on with reading their responses, just click on the "Continue Reading" link and have at it …
Black Cherry Bombshells writers Johnny Zito and Tony Trov are taking the long way to San Diego this year — the pair is driving all the way from Pennsylvania to California for the con, stopping along the way to take in America.
Between making mix tapes and mapping out their route, the duo answered a few questions about their trip and what they have planned for the con. This is the second of hopefully four interviews I'm doing to see what folks have planned for the con; check out my interview with Neil Kleid from earlier this week.
JK: So, a cross-country road trip from Philadelphia to San Diego. How long is it going to take you to get there?
Johnny: We're taking five days; a leisurely drive across this great nation to investigate the American Dream. We'll video blog each day of the journey at BlackCherryBombshells.blogspot.com July 18-29. It's going to be like Lewis and Clarke meets Fear and Loathing.
Tony: The video segments will feature giant balls of yarn, engine-grilled hot dogs and NSFW truck stop shenanigans. Everyone can follow our bold adventure via Twitter (Zito & Trov), MySpace and Facebook.
JK: Where do you plan to stop along the way? Do you have any roadside attractions mapped out, or will you be playing it by ear?
Tony: We have planned stops in Chicago, Vegas, L.A. and Graceland. This is Zito's first trip across the lower 48, but I've done it a few times. There are a few blank spots in my state spoon collection that I aims to fill in along the way.
Johnny: If there's time we're talking about hitting the moon crater and the Creationist Museum.
There's nothing in the world that's scarier than a pink bunny. Especially when he stands six feet tall, he's from Detroit and he carries a hammer.
An international team of comics creators came together to create The Hammer, which won Zuda's February competition. As their reward, Sam Little, Gabe Ostley, Rob Berry and Steve Steiner have launched the ongoing comic at the site this month. I caught up with Sam about the comic, which is being updated daily right now on Zuda.
JK Parkin: You guys won the February 2009 contest. So what happened between then and now, in between winning the Zuda contest and getting the strip up on the site as a regular feature?
Sam Little: Well, we've been steadily working on grinding out Hammer pages since before the contest even started. We decided when we first got together to do this thing that we would make a commitment to each other and complete the story regardless of whether or not we actually won the contest. It would've driven me crazy to just do eight pages and then let the rest of the story remain untold. Since we won, we've just kept at it, chipping away steadily and laying plans for the future. Besides that, all four of us have got our own solo projects and collaborations (not to mention day jobs) that have kept us mightily busy.
The 2009 San Diego Comic-Con is less than a month away, with preview night kicking things off on Wednesday, July 22. If you are a publisher, creator, retailer or any other kind of exhibitor who would like to let folks know about any special plans you have for the show (panels, signing schedules, exclusives, debuts, etc.) drop me an email and I'll run it here.
Exclusives | Artist Daniel m. Davis, who does a webcomic called Monster Commute, will have an exclusive print at the show.
"Limited to an edition of 150 pieces, this print depicts the heroes and villains of this steampunk comic," Davis said over email. "Available only at the Steam Crow booth #4207, it measures 12 x 18 inches, and is printed on satin matte paper. A similar exclusive print sold out in about an hour at the 2009 Emerald City Comicon."
Signed and numbered by the artist, the print will sell for $20.
My father loved Archie comics and Mad Magazine. He read them unashamedly in public and made frequent references to them in conversation—references that often only his kids understood.
Dad could pull that off. For one thing, he was a theoretical physicist, so it's not like he came off as dumb—just eclectic. And he was well known for his goofy sense of humor anyway. (Even when he had advanced Alzheimer's, he still would come out with the odd bit of Three Stooges schtick.)
For most of us, it's not so easy. My teenage daughters react with shock and embarrassment if I bring a comic along to read while running errands. Of course, everything I do evokes shock and embarrassment from them, so I ignore that, but a lot of adults do feel self-conscious about reading comics, particularly kids' comics, in public.
On the internet, however, no one knows you're a grownup. Which is just as well. Some of the best comics on the web are aimed at kids, but many of them, like Pixar movies, operate on two levels, speaking to both kids and adults.
Earlier this month ABC News ran a special report called Earth 2100, which imagined a possible "worst case scenario" if the "perfect storm" of population growth, resource depletion and climate change converge, causing catastrophic effects to the planet. The report featured graphic novel-style sequences by Josh Neufeld, Sari Wilson, Joe Infurnari, George O'Connor, Tim Hamilton and Leland Purvis.
It wasn't the first time that comic book creators have taken a look at a possible future where everything has gone to hell, both scaring and depressing you with its bleak look at what might be in store for us. So in honor of the show, here are six of my favorite apocalyptic doomsday scenarios, as presented by comics past and present …
1. Death by robots — Geekanerd recently did a post on possible robot apocalypse scenarios and how to avoid them, using Battlestar Galactica, Terminator and The Matrix as examples. Another story that falls into that category is the classic Uncanny X-Men story "Days of Future Past." First introduced in issues #141 and 142, the storyline focused on a possible future where mutants have been hunted almost to extinction by the Sentinels, with the survivors being kept in internment camps. Giant robots = bad, bad things.
I remember reading these issues as a kid and being genuinely freaked out about the fate of the X-Men. It was bad enough finding out that Cyclops, Nightcrawler and many of the others were already dead, but to see Storm, Colossus and Wolverine meet their fates … I took it as canon, actually, that one day the X-Men comic would end with a similar scene, once it caught up to the future those issues portrayed. Of course, I thought Jean Grey was really dead, too, so …
Earlier this week Marvel released a Dark Reign tie-in on their Digital Comics Unlimited service that features the comedic adventures of M.O.D.O.K. The four-part online series will be collected into a one-shot in September.
To chronicle the triumphant return of everybody's favorite big-headed super villain to his brand new hometown (wha?), Marvel enlisted creator Ryan Dunlavey, co-creator of the Action Philosophers and Comic Book Comics series.
My thanks to Ryan for agreeing to this interview on all things M.O.D.O.K.
JK: How did you get the gig at Marvel?
Ryan: Ask any publisher who their dream creators are and the answer is always the same handful: Moore, Ditko, Steranko… and DUNLAVEY. It's been well documented that Marvel has been after me for years — everyone knows that Bendis chump was Marvel's second choice for Ultimate Spider-Man after I turned them down. I finally got annoyed with them constantly pestering me so I took some time out of my busy schedule drawing low-selling non-fiction humor comics and restocking cans of beans at the local bodega to write and draw M.O.D.O.K. for them.
But really, I just begged Fred Van Lente to get me a job there. Every day. FOR YEARS. He was originally going to script the M.O.D.O.K. story, but when it got green-lit he got too busy writing Spider-Man and Halo and all that, so I made the leap from mere co-plotter to full-on writer, in addition to being the penciller, inker, colorist and letterer because I'm greedy. And poor.
As Kevin mentioned yesterday, ABC News will present an environmental special called Earth 2100, which is hosted by Bob Woodruff and will feature a graphic novel-style sequences by Josh Neufeld, Sari Wilson, Joe Infurnari, George O'Connor, Tim Hamilton and Leland Purvis. The special runs tonight on ABC at 9 p.m. Eastern.
From Kamandi and Scout to "Old Man Logan," comics have had a long history of detailing life after everything falls apart, and it's pretty cool to see that ABC noticed.
"When ABC News's Documentary Group approached me last fall to collaborate on a motion comic for an upcoming primetime show about climate change called Earth 2100, I was excited," said Neufeld on his LiveJournal. "Through an imagined future scenario — intermixed with interviews with scientists, a global summit simulation, and user-generated videos — the two-hour special explores the effects of catastrophic climate change, and educates viewers on possible solutions."
Neufeld and his wife, Sari Wilson, did the work under the banner of their writing and art studio, Dojo Graphics, where you can find additional artwork.
"For fledgling Dojo Graphics, Earth 2100 has been a dream project: creating an original science fiction script, connecting with a prime-time TV audience, the chance to explore new storytelling techniques and to weigh in on one of our era's most critical issues," said Wilson. "The show that will air to ABC's millions of viewers next Tuesday night is the first (that we know of) integration of motion comics, traditional documentary, and user-generated content. We're thrilled to have been part of this experiment, and, like you, are eagerly awaiting Tuesday night to see the final result."
For four years, before I started writing about comics, I was a reporter for a local newspaper.
I didn't have much journalistic training, and at first, every time I filed a story, I would get an exasperated call from my editor demanding, "What is this story supposed to be about?"
After a few months, I learned a simple lesson: Orient your readers to the story right away. It's a lesson that webcomics creators should take to heart as well.
I call this the Zuda Test, because I formulated it while reviewing the comics at Zuda.com, DC's webcomics competition site. Each month, I and my Digital Strips colleagues Steve Shinney and Jason Sigler read all ten of the comics at Zuda and discuss the pros and cons of each one.
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Shobha from the film Moodu Pani(1980)[1]
|Mahalakshmi Menon
23 September 1962
|1 May 1980[2]
(aged 17)
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
|Other names
|Shoba Mahendra, Urvashi Shoba,[2] Baby Mahalakshmi, Baby Shoba
|Years active
|1966–1971, 1977–1980
|Balu Mahendra (1978–1980) her death
|K. P. Menon (Father)
Prema (Mother)
Shobha (23 September 1962 – 1 May 1980) was a South Indian film actress. She started her career as a child artist in the Tamil film Thattungal Thirakkappadum. Her first film as a heroine was Utrada Raatri. Shobha's real name was Mahalakshmi. She won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her role in the Tamil film Pasi at the age of 17.
Shoba was born to K. P. Menon and Prema Menon.[citation needed] Her mother was one of the leading actresses in Malayalam cinema in the 1950s.[citation needed]
In 1966, Shoba made her screen debut in Tamil Thriller film Thattungal Thirakkappadum directed by actor J. P. Chandrababu. In the film she was credited as Baby Mahalakshmi where she played the role of Lakshmi opposite actress Savitri, K. R. Vijaya, R. S. Manohar and Chandrababu himself.[3] Though the film was highly acclaimed but it did not fare well at box office.[4] The following year she made her debut in Malayalam cinema through Udhyogastha by P. Venu where she was named as Baby Shoba. Touted as the first "multi-starrer", with five top actors, in Malayalam cinema, the film had Sathyan, Prem Nazir, K. P. Ummer, Padmini, Sharada, Sheela and Rajasree in the lead along with Shobha.[5] The film was a big hit and gained Shoba recognition as a child actor in South Indian cinema.[6]
Shobha committed suicide at the age of 17.[7][8][9] She was married to Balu Mahendra. In an interview to Anu Haasan in Koffee with Anu, Balu Mahendra has said that the tragedy of how Shoba was suddenly snatched away from his life by destiny, as quickly as she came, formed the plot for his next movie Moondram Pirai. The 1983 Malayalam film Lekhayude Maranam Oru Flashback directed by K. G. George is loosely based on her life and death.[citation needed]

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Island Equine Rescue unethical horse rescue, fraud, slander Vancouver Island British Columbia
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This is not a registered non-profit, and no accounting of donations or finances is ever released. The rescue used to run off of a rented property. Horses at this property did not appear to recieve adequate feed, vet or farrier care. The excuse was they were rescues and came in that way,or that money was tight. The problem was, too many didnt appear to improve under her care after many months. Yes, there was the odd success story, but almost all of these occured in foster care or under the care of the adopter. Most were adopted underweight, with lice, worms and a lack of any previous farrier or veterinary care. Stallions were not gelded, and impregnated the mares, some as young as 2, increasing the severity of the situation. Its alleged the rent at this location was not paid and the rescue was evicted.
The actual rescue now seems to have no fixed address and mainly operates as an online entity. They do not seem to have their own facilities for horses. They seem to foster them out in private homes and then not compensate or assist the individuals. There have been allegations of horse theft, misrepresentation of horses, fraud, and slander against this woman. She is very good at attracting supporters by spinning a very sad story of how she is the victim of rumors and bad publicity and certain individuals out to get her and its too bad because its the horses who suffer. Dont believe her, please.
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What do you think about this video?
Cuda FX: that motor wobbles off center! that's inacceptable to begin with
Mr Drone: Sound like bell touch....check bearings and shaf.
Dave George: test the bearings otherwise.
Ismael Kafeltz: What exactly were these motors? I would like to read the specification! Thx!
Diodo Paul: too bad... no trial befor balancing to hear difference noise!
Elba Drone Video Production: Many thanks friend!!
Dynex Hobby: Hmmm, static balancing like this may not always work. You definietly need to dynamically balance the motor bell. There can be other issues to consider such as coupled unbalanced where an unbalance at one end creates vibration on the opposite end.
SkyLabs: where can we buy the threaded tube to attach to the motors?
Flyingwigs: not the best way to balance a motor as you can see in the video that the rotor is not spinning true with that tube screwed on. much easier to do this by running the motor with some tape in different spots, each time finding where its better or worse.
minhmeoquay: dang, ur too good.
Ozzy3333333: did you check the shaft was balanced w/o the motor?
Les Limback: Very helpful if I get into professional video. The less the vibrate, the less the edit. Did you ever the notorious fly away?
Павел Л: you should show buzz on table before balancing to compare
YourTechGuide: any improvement in flying?
Damian Thomas: thanks man. so much to learn to get your DJI right
peterev: Hmm, this won't method work with the LH V1.1.1 motors as the shafts are threaded left and right but good video..
Arin Artounian: Great Vid, thanks for posting. Going to have to wait for someone to make a batch of rods with CW and CCW female threads. The Reverse of what i just purchased off this member.
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Zbip57: It's possible. Check your props are balanced. That makes the biggest difference. Then check the motors for balance. I only discovered much later that one of the three blades of the stock camera mount had cracked right through. I still had noticeable jello whenever giving full power. It's gone completely now that I have the Zenmuse H3-2D gimbal with its rubber isolation mounts.
nzhuntahr: Would the motor shaft bend from a 50ft fall.Seem to have jello now after power failure.Landed hard ,took off without checking nuts,nut came off landed hard again.Check out my after failure vid.Accidently deleted actual failure :-(
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The same menu when configured manually in the appearence > menu section loads under a second and pages show up immediately. The site itself is hosted on a dedicated server with sufficient resources, no shared hosting.
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Spanish-Language Compliance Assistance Resources
This page includes OSHA's compliance assistance resources for Hispanic employers and workers and is intended primarily for English-speaking and bilingual users. For OSHA's Spanish-language site, please visit OSHA en español.
- Contact Us (Contáctenos). OSHA provides Spanish-speaking operators on its 800 number, a Spanish-language option for its e-correspondence system (to contact OSHA online with general safety and health questions), and Spanish-language information on how to file a complaint.
- Cooperative Programs
- Dictionaries. English-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-English dictionaries of OSHA terms, general industry terms, and construction terms.
- Diverse Workforce/Limited English Proficiency Coordinators
- Publications in Spanish
- Safety and Health Information Bulletins (SHIBs)
- Standards in Spanish
- Success Stories: Hispanic Outreach
- Training Resources
- Videos
- Web Pages. OSHA's Web pages, including eTools and Safety and Health Topics Pages, that have been translated into Spanish.
*Accessibility Assistance: Contact OSHA's Directorate of Cooperative and State Programs at (202) 693-2200 for assistance accessing PDF materials.
All other documents, that are not PDF materials or formatted for the web, are available as Microsoft Office® formats and videos and are noted accordingly. If additional assistance is needed with reading, reviewing or accessing these documents or any figures and illustrations, please also contact OSHA's Directorate of Cooperative and State Programs at (202) 693-2200.
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The San Francisco 49ers re-signed wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr. to a one-year contract after the free-agent receiver/return man visited the Vikings earlier this week.
"We are glad that Ted has decided to return to the 49ers in 2012," 49ers general manager Trent Baalke said in the team's release. "He is a versatile player and an excellent teammate that will continue to play an important role for us on both offense and special teams."
Ginn's main value comes as a return man, but the 49ers already had signed receivers Randy Moss and Mario Manningham before Ginn re-signed.
Last year, Ginn returned 29 kicks for 800 yards (27.6-yard average) and one touchdown. In 2010, he returned 47 kicks for 992 yards (21.1 average). That continued a trend of kick-return success in Miami, where eclipsed 1,000-yard seasons in 2009 (1,296 yards on 52 returns) and his rookie season of 2007 (1,433 yards on 63 returns). For his career, he has averaged 23.2 yards per return and has three touchdowns.
Last year, the Vikings averaged 26.9 yards on 53 kickoff returns, but Lorenzo Booker, who led the team with 19 returns, hasn't been re-signed and is a restricted free agent. Percy Harvin (32.5-yard average) and Marcus Sherel (27.8) returned 16 kickoffs each.
The 49ers also used Ginn extensively as a punt returner the last two seasons. In 2011, he returned a career-high 38 punts for 466 yards (12.3) and a touchdown. In 2010, it was 24 punt returns for 321 yards (13.4 average) and a touchdown. He has three touchdowns and an 11.2-yard average on punt returns over his five-year career.
He also has seven fumbles as a punt returner, but only one in the last two seasons over a combined 62 returns.
Last year, Marcus Sherels averaged 8.4 yards on 33 returns for the Vikings.
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One of the main reasons my father, a naturally bookish man who hated the prospect of a TV wrecking conversation in our house, allowed his family to buy a TV set in the early1950s was so my mother and I, in the baseball season, could watch Uncle Branch Rickey's Dodgers play in Ebbets Field.
True, the televised games were pretty primitive stuff. The only picture you got was from the single camera set up behind and above home plate.
So, when he was up, you could study the backside of first baseman Gil Hodges twitching his derriere, and adjusting his blue cap, with its capital B, as he stood at home plate, judging the ball being thrown to him by the indomitable Whitey Ford. But that was about all. None of the multiple, intricate camera shots you get today. But that was enough for me. It sure beat listening to the game while I was hunched over the little purple portable radio on the kitchen counter.
So, here we were, three rows back, over the Dodger dugout, and the 1955 Brooklyn team, their physiques and faces, as they individually emerged from the dugout to take their place at the plate, looked more familiar to me than those of my next door neighbors. How well I knew their faces from their color photographs on Topps baseball cards, which I collected; and from their physical movement --or at least the movement of their back sides -- as they appeared on our small black-and-white Dumont TV. There was Duke Snider, power hitter and center fielder; Elwin Roe, nicknamed "Preacher," who hid a wicked spit ball and won most of the games he pitched in relief; and Billy Cox, a nimble third baseman.
In the stands that first day of the 1955 series, I'd noticed a lot more Brooklyn pennants than Yankee pennants, and that, I later learned, was because the novelty of a black player in the major leagues hadn't yet worn off, even after eight years. In Ken Burns's nine-part TV history of the national game (one part for each inning), Burns made the integration of baseball, in the seventh part, the moral core of his whole epic. At the game my mother and I were attending, there were a few black players -- Don Newcome, Roy Campanella., and Joe Black.
But for the blacks in the Ebbets field stands, there was really only one. The one they'd all come to see and cheer for -- Jack Roosevelt Robinson -- was not only a great hitter and fielder; he was, in his prime, a lightning base runner. And, as Uncle Branch had taught him, he was also a top-notch diplomat, practiced in defusing any incipient ruckus that might have broken out when Jackie slid into second base or, less frequently but more dramatically, into home plate, or when he himself tagged a base runner out. The roar that went up from the crowd when Jackie performed some nifty feat made our wood seats vibrate. In his early days with Brooklyn, his wife Rachel later told writers, opposing hitters sliding into second with cleats held high to take out her husband, tested her husband's promise to Rickey to keep his temper under strict control. He kept his promise, but in doing so he probably ruined his health.
Robinson had broken into major league baseball as a Dodger in 1947. He was the first black, but, while Rickey could control the words and behavior of his own Brooklyn Dodgers, he couldn't control the words and behavior of the other national league teams. Or of the fans in the seats of the other national league stadiums. In the Sept. 26 Nevada paper, Kelly Bradham, shown wearing what looks to be a Brooklyn Dodger cap, writes very memorably of "one of [his] favorite people," Rocky Colavito, "he of the howitzer arm." Each of my friends also had a particular player he identified with. Neddy Bellamy, for example, worshipped Eddie Matthews of the Milwaukee Braves. Kevin Hunt, a lukewarm Yankee fan, followed Phil Rizzuto, their crackerjack shortstop. There was no rhyme nor reason behind these loyalties, but kids need heroes. So, for some reason, I chose to root for Carl Furillo, the Dodger right fielder. Only after I read the World Series booklet that my mother bought me for 50 cents did I learn that Furillo was brought up in Reading, Pa. As a Dodger, he had learned to play Brooklyn's intricate, not to say cockeyed, right field wall and send the ball, like a veritable howitzer, whistling back into the infield, thereby becoming known as the "Reading Rifle." (I insisted on pronouncing this "Reeding Rifle," until my mother corrected my pronunciation. To me, it made no sense; how could a rifle be taught to read, anyway? Isn't it funny what silly mistakes you make as a 9-year-old child , then remember for the rest of your life?) Harold ("Pee Wee") Reese, the Dodgers� great shortstop, was the Brooklyn captain at the time Robinson came up, and therefore it was up to him, whose upbringing was very firmly southern, to smooth things out between the black man and his all-white team, and between the black man and the Dodger fans, who weren't accustomed at the time to seeing black professional baseball players. By the 1955 World Series, the acrimony against Jackie had pretty well died away, but the stories of the man's staunch behavior, his refusal to buckle under the repeated verbal assaults, his promise to Rickey to "turn the other cheek," thrilled me and repeatedly brought tears to my young but already firmly liberal eyes.
When, thanks in part to the ultimate acceptance of Jackie Robinson and the coming up of other black players, not only on the Dodgers, but on other major league teams as well (there was a black guy named Mays, if I'm not mistaken), baseball finally became "the national game," I felt as if the whole racial episode had taught me something about racism and about the ultimate fairness of my country.
My mother, who didn't ordinarily talk with me about moral issues, and who had been brought up in the modestly racist atmosphere of southern Ohio, made an exception for Jackie Robinson. Maybe that was because Uncle Branch, a devout Methodist. (There's now a Branch Rickey athletic center on the campus of Ohio Wesleyan University, which both Branch and both my parents attended) and almost a member of our family, had made a firm stand on the issue of race, and that was good enough for her.
When the complete history of 20th-century American baseball is written, I'm sure the Brooklyn Dodgers will be ranked first -- not because they won the most individual games, national league pennants, or World Series. They did none of these. No, it had nothing to do with statistics. It will be because, in the late 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, they played baseball as the exciting and glorious game dreamers had visualized it, and in the process changed for the better the way Americans saw their country.


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Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has global ambitions.
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Xiaomi is known for making low-cost handsets, and the Redmi is its cheapest: It'll cost just S$169 (or around $133 USD) in Singapore. But it has some impressive specs despite the price tag, with a quad-core processor, a 4.2-inch 720p display, an 8-megapixel rear camera, and a swappable 2,000mAh battery.
Xiaomi has grown rapidly since its launch three years ago. It sold 18.7 million phones last year, more than double its 2012 sales.
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To add insult to injury, they withold credit for my checks until they are a month late or more,then they deposit them all at once; assessing a $15.00 late fee. This happens every month like clockwork. I no longer believe this to be an error.I think its deliberate to line their pockets. I believe ive paid over$200.00 in late fees this last year and this year altogether.
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I also went to one of those I'll give you a free laptop sites. And as others, applied for the FREE introducory trial of Java Trim Life. I never recieved my INTRODUCTORY offer and I called them. They of course gave me the run around and told me it was non-refundable due to the fact that I hadn't paid some unreal 70 or so dollars. 70 BUCKS!!!!! FOR COFFEE? I don't think so.
I am in the process of reporting them as fraudulent to my credit card. In their offer they state that they will send you the offer. So at least I have the option to report them as a fraudulent offer.
I feel horrible for the people who had to pay them more than I did. Normally I wouldn't care about five bucks. But know knowing who they are and the reality of what they are about I will!!!!!!
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Who's responsible for taking care of couches, washing machines, mattresses and other garbage discarded in the alleys here in Medford? Is that the homeowner's responsibility?
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Large items like that are the responsibility of the homeowner to get hauled away, and there is a cost associated with it.
Rogue Disposal & Recycling is the trash collection service here in Medford, and one of the services they provide is hauling away large items such as couches.
We talked to Gary Penning, director of marketing for Rogue Disposal, and he told us the cost is determined by the load.
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The construction of new homes in Canada appears to be settling back to its regular "cruising speed" after a burst of acceleration last year.
At least that's what data on January housing starts from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. suggests. The agency said Monday that housing starts fell 3.7% month-over-month to an annual rate of 180,248 units, below the 185,000 rate forecast by analysts polled by The Wall Street Journal.
That wasn't necessarily a bad thing.
Debate still swirls around Canada's housing market. There's a broad consensus that prices have gone too high, but little agreement over whether they'll suffer a crash landing or a controlled descent.
Any sign the market is slowing to more sustainable price levels and price gains is, arguably, a welcome development, even if it means housing construction won't add as much as previously to all-around growth in the economy.
Economists believe roughly 180,000 household–give or take a few thousand– are created every year as young adults strike out on their own and immigrants move to the country.
Therefore, housing starts of around 180,000 a year—January's pace –are about right, in the sense that the pace more-or-less matches demand rather than creating potentially destabilizing new supply.
Several economists remarked on that fact Monday.
"The decline in starts is an indication of housing supply falling into alignment with demand in most major markets (Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Québec City)," said a report from TD Bank.
"Overall, the recent cooling of housing starts supports our view for a soft landing of the Canadian housing market in 2014 and 2015," TD said.
There is some downside to slowing housing starts.
"A slower pace of construction activity to start the year is consistent with the wider theme of domestic fatigue that will inevitably put more pressure on net exports to drive the next stage of Canada's economic recovery," TD's report said. So far, though, exports haven't been performing to the level policy makers would like.
Nor is it clear that the pullback in January will be sustained. CMHC didn't single out any issues stemming from the cold weather in key housing markets in January, but it's hard to believe the frigid temperatures in Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada didn't have some impact.
BMO Capital Markets said in a report that data for the coming months should be watched for any "snap back" as the cold weather passes.
It noted that January marked three straight monthly declines in seasonally-adjusted housing starts after they topped the 200,000 mark in October.


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Powerhouse gym uncooperative ripoff abused & mistreated Kokomo Indiana
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I went to this gym in the next town hoping to get into better shape as i am on disability. I go in and everything looks on the up and up so I sign up for a years plan. I have 3 days to change my mind. I come in on the next day and they assign me a trainer. He puts me thru some exercises and im feeling fine till he slaps to much weight on a machine and i told him i couldn't hold it. I felt a pop in my arm and thought nothing of it as it wasn't to painful. So i left feeling good.
The next Morning i wake up and i can't move my arm. So i go to the emergency room and they tell me i have a torn bicep. And im put in a sling and an appointment is made with a specialist. I call the gym that night as there open 24/7 and express my wishes to cancel my membership. The tell me the manager has to authorize that and she will call me the next day or by my count day 3 of my 3 day period. She never calls so i call and again am told the mamager is not in she will call me tommorow. I express concern as this is my last day to cancel. They assure me that since i tried to call on the second day I would be allowed to cancel as soon as i talk to the manager.
I wait and I wait and finally a week later i recieve a call which in no uncertain terms tells me i cannot cancel my membership and i would be required to pay the entire 300 some dollars via my checking account which i gave them. So i called the bank and immediatly had a no electronic withdraws stamp put on my account. My bank was polite and told me that was my best option. Now i keep getting papers from them demanding payment to which i vehmatley(SIC) refuse. and they turned me over to a collection agency. And im still refusing to pay them. So let this serve as a warning that Powerhouse gym may look like a nice place but if you have a problem they will do there best to make sure you are treated unfairly.
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GAO-13-250R: Published: Mar 22, 2013. Publicly Released: Apr 22, 2013.
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We compared FEMA's training of reservists with the training provided to reservists at the SBA, the Forest Service, and the Coast Guard--agencies with a disaster mission--and found similarities and differences; and, moreover, FEMA had not examined other agencies' training programs to identify useful practices. All four training programs shared some similar attributes with regard to training requirements, funding sources, training delivery, and training evaluation. For example, FEMA and two of the comparison agencies have a credentialing program used to document reservist qualifications. Differences included the timing of when training is delivered and the use of job aids to reinforce reservists' understanding of material covered in training courses. Regarding timing, SBA, the Forest Service, and the Coast Guard each train their reservists in advance of deploying these individuals to a disaster. However, factors such as the way in which FEMA funds its disaster program have limited the agency's ability to train its reservists in advance of deployments to disasters. FEMA plans to begin allowing up to 2 weeks of reservist training outside of deployments under the new reservist program during fiscal year 2013. Differences we identified in training practices indicate that an examination of other agencies' reserve training programs could be beneficial. For example, FEMA may benefit from examining the Coast Guard's use of job aids, which reinforce reservist training course material after course work is completed. As part of our work identifying key attributes of successful training programs, we have previously identified developing partnerships and learning from others as a core characteristic of a strategic training process. FEMA officials stated that while they had not looked to other agencies' training programs, training practices at other agencies that we highlighted in this report provide useful information for FEMA as it works to improve its reservist training efforts.
Why GAO Did This Study
Hurricane Sandy made landfall on October 29, 2012, in New Jersey, leaving extensive flooding, loss of life, and property damage across the eastern United States in its wake. Within 3 days of the hurricane's landfall, more than 2,300 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) personnel were working to support response operations, including search and rescue, power restoration, communications, and logistical support in states affected by the storm. Hurricane Sandy was one of 46 federal major disaster declarations in fiscal year 2012. From fiscal year 2007 through fiscal year 2012, there have been 422 federal major disaster declarations in which FEMA has obligated $39 billion in major disaster assistance payments.
Within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FEMA is tasked with leading the nation in mitigating, responding to, and recovering from major disasters, both natural and man-made. To carry out its mission, FEMA relies heavily upon its Reservist Program, an on-call reserve workforce that is deployed when needed to assist disaster survivors. As of February 2013, there were 6,795 reservists, who constituted 36 percent of FEMA's disaster workforce. In April 2012, FEMA announced that it was transforming its reservist workforce, formerly known as Disaster Assistance Employees. Among other things, the transformation to the Reservist Program transitioned reservist assignments from a regionally based structure to a nationally managed program.
We have identified several challenges related to FEMA's reservist training practices. Specifically, in May 2012, we reported that FEMA's reservist training was not consistent with key attributes of effective training and development programs that could help to ensure that its training and development investments were targeted strategically. We recommended that FEMA establish a plan to ensure all reservists have opportunities to participate in training and are qualified and that FEMA develop a systematic process to track training costs. FEMA officials agreed with the recommendations. In October 2012 the agency launched the FEMA Qualification System (FQS) and the Incident Qualification Certification System (IQCS) to track reservist training and qualifications. According to the officials, they anticipate that IQCS will enable FEMA to better track training costs. In April 2012, we also reported that FEMA's training information system did not provide a comprehensive or accurate account of all training activities of FEMA employees, including reservists, and we recommended that FEMA develop systematic processes to collect and analyze training data. FEMA agreed with the recommendation and is increasing its capacity for analyzing training data through the development of a human capital data warehouse.
Congress asked GAO to assess FEMA's reservist workforce training. Our objective was to examine how FEMA's reservist workforce training compares with training of other similar agencies, and to what extent FEMA has examined these agencies' training programs to identify useful practices.
What GAO Recommends
To enhance its training of reservists, we are recommending that FEMA examine the training practices of other agencies with disaster reservist workforces to identify potentially useful practices. DHS concurred with our recommendation and described plans to address it. DHS, SBA, and the Forest Service provided technical comments, which we incorporated as appropriate.
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Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In April 2015, FEMA officials provide a memorandum that described the agency's establishment of an Executive Level Task Force that met with representatives from the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the U.S. Department of Transportation. According to the memo, the task force selected these organizations because they maintain similar reservists or deployable forces. Based on discussions about the tools and systems they used to manage their respective work forces, the task force identified best practices and FEMA used these practices to inform their development of an incident workforce cadre management directive (FEMA Directive FD 010-9, issued June 9, 2014) and a cadre management guide. These documents describe formal roles and responsibilities for the reservist workforce, including oversight and management, staffing, equipping, training and education, qualifying, and performance management. These actions should enhance FEMA's training of reservists and help the agency better meet its goal of having qualified reservists.
Recommendation: To enhance its training of reservists and meet its goal of having qualified reservists, the FEMA Administrator should examine the training practices of other agencies with disaster reservist workforces to identify potentially useful practices.
Agency Affected: Department of Homeland Security: Directorate of Emergency Preparedness and Response: Federal Emergency Management Agency
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This is a desperate situation the company findsitself in. Also I agree that to a certain extent TomBeasley & Doc find themselves in this boat with us. It isobvious to me that the company needs a large cashinfusion not just to grow but to continue operationswithout Chapter 11 protection. The company has beenhemoraging cash for the last year. An since they haveproposed a highly dilutive deal which gives away a quarterof the company's equity to new investors that saysthe situation will not change in the shortterm.But what continues to baffle me is why they did notgo back to the common shareholders with some type ofequity offering. It also troubles me that they would notdisclose more in the conference call about why whatmanagement has proposed is the right course of action forthe shareholders of the company. I can not believethat with this lack of disclosure this management teamhas my interest at heart.


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ARMA Marine Services S.A./Turkey, established in 2000, is a General Ship Supply, Ship Repair and Trading company, supplying at ALL Turkish Ports/Straits/Shipyards...
Category: Pumps/Fuel Oil Pumps
Turbo Solutions Pte Ltd Hong Kong, Hong Kong
We cover South East Asia from our base in Singapore. Our state of art service station is equipped with machines and tools to service & repair ALL makes, models, and...
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Bosphorus Ship Supply Co. Inc. Istanbul, Tuzla, Turkey
Bosphorus Shipping Inc. is an experienced Company in Marine Valves, Marine Ropes, Technical Ship store supply and Ship Repair Business. Our company head Office and...
Category: Pumps/Fuel Oil Pumps
1st Seabird Marine Egypt Port Said, Egypt
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Sealand Support Ltd. Douala, Litoral, Cameroon
SEALAND SUPPORT is a private organization with head quarters in Douala Cameroon serving the shipping and offshore industries operating in the Gulf of Guinea...
Category: Pumps/Fuel Oil Pumps
Behrens Pumpenfabrik GmbH & Co. Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Design, manufacturing and sales of marine pumps. Pump types: VRF, VRW, VNF, VDF, SFN, STN, KF, KV, SK
Category: Pumps/Fuel Oil Pumps
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