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Wahoo — I wonder who came up with that name? If fishermen named everything by the reaction it gave us, we'd have names like "frustrateds," "holy cows" and "dagnabbits." They are appropriate names for when a fish bites the line, your reel goes into a high-speed scream and you achieve an instant adrenaline rush.
Cold fronts continue pushing through our area bringing northerly winds that greatly benefit our fishery. Brunswick County beaches are south facing and with a north wind are protected by the land, making for calm seas near the beach. Calm seas close to the beach mean the surf is calm and not stirring up lots of silt.
I have been talking about the thrill of fall fishing for the past 15 years in which I have been writing this column. Our area is not known as a world-class fishing destination, but I have traveled worldwide to experience fishing action and Brunswick County is a world-class fishing destination during the month of October. Whether you are fishing red drum, king mackerel or wahoo, there is a wide variety of high-profile game fish ready to provide angling action. Furthermore, this variety of fishing offers boats of various sizes the opportunity to access the great fishing.
The prevailing winds have changed to the northeast, bringing the cooler temperatures that are expected for this time of year. We will experience only a few more warmer days this year when strong fronts approach and the winds switch out of the south temporarily.
Perfect sea conditions and a calendar page change into October meant one thing to me and many other local fishermen this week: It's time to go fishing. October is the month for fishing the Carolina coast. It happens every year this way, so there are no excuses. Whether you get your kicks catching spots in the waterway, king mackerel nearshore or wahoo offshore, this is as good as it gets.
It's Sunday, Sept. 15, and we're right on schedule. The fishing and weather, or vice versa, are doing exactly what we'd expect this time of year. The first cold fronts are beginning to make their way through the area, bringing cooler mornings and north winds. Seemingly every baitfish in the ocean is gathering just off the beach or in the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway as the annual migrations take shape. The result of all these factors is good fishing and comfortable temperatures, a wonderful time to be a fisherman on the Carolina coast.
The fishing in our area has been a wild roller coaster ride this year. We often see many peaks and valleys in our fishery each year, but I would say many of us have experienced more valleys this year. The roller coaster ride is just about over for this year, but like all good rides one more thriller is ahead of us. Can you hear that? The click, click, click of the cars as they climb slowly the final peak? The anticipation is running high as we all know the climax of our fishery is approaching rapidly. It is time to take every opportunity that you have to get out on the water.
The first day of fall has officially passed, but you don't need a calendar to tell that. As far as I'm concerned, it has been a great start to the season as cool fronts have freshened the air and put the fish into motion. The fishing action along the Brunswick County coast has been good for a variety of species, including offshore fishing for wahoo and blackfin tuna and inshore fishing for red drum and flounder.
The weather has been gorgeous with cold fronts passing our area giving way to light northerly winds and cooler temperatures. We suffered just a slight setback this past Sunday with strong winds and more rain. I don't expect that will change much on the fishing scene. Last week the action was steady from the redfish with a few big ones caught at the Little River, S.C., jetties and the creeks firing off with reds ranging from 12 to 30 inches. There is nothing more thrilling than finding a school of redfish aggressively feeding in shallow water.
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Northern Ireland leaders win joint Peace Prize for Belfast accord
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - John Hume and David Trimble, joint winners of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, have traveled dramatically different roads as brokers of the historic Northern Ireland accord.
For Hume, 61, the single-minded peacemaker who leads the province's major Catholic party, Friday's honor from the Norwegian Nobel Committee caps a remarkable career that culminated in an agreement he envisioned decades ago.
For Trimble, 54, embattled chief of the Protestant party pivotal to the peacemaking efforts, the Nobel was more controversial - particularly considering the omission of his nemesis, Gerry Adams, leader of the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party.
The Oslo Nobel judges previously have used their award to encourage progress in peacemaking - most notably in the Middle East, where Israel's Menachim Begin and Egypt's Anwar Sadat shared honors in 1978, and when Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat joined Israel's Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres in 1994.
It also has gone to Northern Ireland before. In 1976, early in the British province's three decades of strife, it was won by two women who founded a peace group.
Although Hume and Trimble are not friends and their relations are cool, their work culminated in an agreement ratified by voters this spring that sets up a governing structure in which Protestants and Catholics share power.
Friday's citation - accompanied by $963,000, which will be divided equally between the two men - credited them for work toward ending "the national, religious and social conflict in Northern Ireland that has cost over 3,500 people their lives."
Of Trimble, head of the Ulster Unionist Party, the citation said he showed "great political courage when, at a critical stage in the process, he advocated solutions which led to the peace agreement."
That included remaining in negotiations when Sinn Fein gained admission following the Irish Republican Army's 1997 cease-fire, and agreeing to a deal that would free more than 200 IRA prisoners without a cast-iron guarantee that the IRA would start disarming.
Of Hume, leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, the citation said he had "throughout been the clearest and most consistent of Northern Ireland's political leaders in his work for a peaceful solution."
Hume rose to prominence in the 1960s as the leader of nonviolent Catholic protests for equal rights in what was then a Protestant-ruled state. From 1970 on, he did more than anyone else to minimize Catholic support for IRA violence.
Most critically, he weathered huge personal criticism in 1993 by seeking common ground with Adams, a groundbreaking initiative that encouraged the IRA's cease-fires and made Hume - not Adams - Northern Ireland's most likely Nobel laureate.
In Washington, President Clinton saluted Trimble's "rare courage," but emphasized that other figures "deserve credit for their indispensable roles, beginning with Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein leader without whom there would have been no peace."
Clinton also praised former Sen. George Mitchell, the Democrat from Maine who chaired the peace talks.
While the Nobel committee noted that April's peace agreement also was the work of the governments of the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States, it did not include any reference to Mitchell.
Mitchell, speaking in New York, congratulated the winners and wished them continued success.
"Without John Hume there would not have been a peace process," he said. "Without David Trimble there would not have been a peace agreement."
The Nobel recognized Trimble's risky struggle - successful so far - to keep a slim majority of the north's British Protestants supporting a peace process that he himself frequently criticized as offering too many concessions to Sinn Fein and the IRA.
"I hope very much that this award doesn't turn out to be premature," Trimble said in Denver, his latest stop in a week-long push to attract more North American investment to Northern Ireland.
As a young Ulster Unionist, Trimble helped topple the party's leaders when they tried to govern in coalition with Hume's party in 1973. Today, he must overcome that same reluctance among Protestants to share power - not only with Hume but also Sinn Fein, which until recently denied Northern Ireland's very right to exist.
Speaking in Belfast, Hume said Friday's honor represented "very powerful international approval of the peace process in Northern Ireland."
"I think that today's announcement from the Nobel committee strengthens our peace process enormously because it tells all the people what the world wants to see on our streets," he said.
In New York, Adams - embroiled in a dangerous showdown with Trimble over how the peace agreement should proceed - said he was not disappointed about his lack of recognition, and voiced pleasure at Hume's recognition.
"The big prize is the peace settlement, and that's the prize for us all to keep our eye on," Adams said. "The Nobel Peace Prize is only important insofar as it aids the road and the quest for that bigger prize."
Asked if the committee shunned Adams because of the IRA's terrorist history, Francis Sejersted, the Nobel chairman, refused to discuss the deliberations.
"Many people have contributed to this process, not in the least Gerry Adams," he said.
Sejersted said the committee knew that setbacks and renewed violence still are possible in Northern Ireland, but said the peace agreement "indicates that the process is going in on the right track. We wanted to give it a push."
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The shortlisted nominees in each of the NatWest OSCAs 2011 categories have been announced. This year's event will be held in the Nursery Pavilion at Lord's on Monday 17th October.
All the finalists won the respective award at their county OSCAs earlier this year.
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Mary Munley - Suffolk
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Chris Germaine - Gloucestershire
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Andy Littlechild - Kent
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Neil Taylor - Norfolk
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Mick Allen - Northamptonshire
Richard Fowkes - Leicestershire
David Humpage - Cheshire
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Patricia Brown - Nottinghamshire
Karen Shead - Nottinghamshire
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Produces and hosts music programming for the KUTX audience that is recognized as delivering the unique sound of the Austin music experience, as well as attending to the artistic, cultural, and civic life of our community.
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More than a dozen law enforcement units from three sheriff's stations, including the Santa Clarita Valley's, were sent to the Frazier Park fire late Wednesday afternoon to evacuate the area near the Los Angeles-Kern County line as a massive brush fire moved south toward Los Angeles County, a local sheriff's spokesman said.
The fire, which started at 1:30 p.m., had blackened 3,000 acres by 6:45 p.m., Kern County fire officials said. It was 10 percent contained at that time.
The fire had forced evacuation of a high school in Frazier Park and an off-road vehicle park north of Pyramid Lake.
"We're suited up and we're ready," Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station Lt. John Rush said around 6 p.m. Wednesday.
"We have six units up there right now since the fire is a half mile from the trigger point," which is the county line, he said.
"Because of the distance we have to travel to get there, we're there now ready for a shift in the wind," he said.
"We're there to conduct the evacuation if needed."
In all, 14 sheriff's units — including the six local ones — awee on the edge of the fire, having traveled from Santa Clarita, Palmdale and Lancaster, Rush said.
The wind blew the smoke from the fire into the Antelope Valley during the late afternoon, but by evening it began to shift some of the smoke into the Santa Clarita Valley.
Five air tankers and four helicopters were making drops on the blaze, which spread rapidly despite relatively mild winds.
"The Frazier Mountain High School was evacuated," said Scott Miller of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
Also under evacuation orders was Hungry Valley State Vehicular Recreation Area and the Cottonwood Campground.
"This is Kern County's fire and they have requested one of our strike teams to be posted at the school," Miller said.
Interstate 5 remained opened and unaffected by the fire at 6:30 p.m., a California Highway Patrol spokeswoman said.
Forest Service spokesman Corey Wilford said the blaze was burning in thick brush, seasonal grasses and sage.
Firefighters from Kern, Ventura and Los Angeles counties, the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service were battling the blaze. Kern County officials said 600 firefighters were on the line at 6:45 p.m.
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Small birds dart among the flamboyants, geraniums and carnations that riot in pink, blue and white around the veranda of the turn-of-the-century house. "Hullo, hullo?" says an imposing 64-year-old woman, sitting on the porch and speaking into a cordless telephone from her red leather Barcalounger, which is literally the seat of government on the island-nation of Dominica. Just days earlier, millions of TV watchers around the world had seen Prime Minister Mary Eugenia Charles standing side by side with Ronald Reagan. As chairman of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, she had induced the President to make his invasion of Grenada. But today she was back at her veranda "office" in the capital city of Roseau, fielding an inquiry about the new water system from a citizen whose name she does not ask but whose questions she gladly answers. Miss Charles, as she is known to the island's more than 75,000 citizens, is very much the mother of her people. "I think it's just as well," she says, "that I'm as single of mind as I am of marital status."
Indeed, it was this single-minded-ness that made her pay special heed to the rumors of political intrigue on Grenada. "You get little snippets," says Charles, who is plugged into the Eastern Caribbean grapevine. "I can't say we had the whole scenario." What alarmed her were reports from Grenada of Cubans, Libyans, Russians and "North Koreans with no visible means of support driving around in fancy cars," says Charles. "It didn't take a genius to figure out what was going on."
Nor was it difficult to figure out that President Reagan was the man to handle it. And yes, she, not Reagan, insists Charles, was the one to initiate their discussions just after the murder of leftist Grenadian leader Maurice Bishop on Oct. 19. "When I left here," she says, "I intended to press Mr. Reagan. But I didn't have to because of the position he has taken."
If there is scarcely an ounce of reticence in Miss Charles—even when it comes to President Reagan—it may stem from the fact that she was reared in a society dominated by women. The granddaughter of a former slave, Eugenia Charles is one of four children of a mason who rose to prominence as a fruit exporter and land speculator. J.B. Charles died last year at age 107. He was "as bright as a penny up to the last minute," says Eugenia, but his role was secondary at home. Because of the high percentage of illegitimate births and the consequent need for women to be both mothers and fathers, Dominica (pronounced Do-mi-NEE-ka) is basically a matriarchal society. "My mother was the boss," says Charles. "In Dominica we really live women's lib. We don't have to expound it."
Eugenia studied in Toronto and London during the post-WW II years and returned to Dominica with a law degree in 1949 to set up shop as an attorney. Increasingly irked by the autocratic ways of then Premier E.O. LeBlanc, she organized the Dominica Freedom Party in 1968 and gained a reputation as an orator; two years later she was appointed to the legislature. In 1977 she went to Britain with a delegation to sue for independence, which was granted in 1978. Thus Dominica, like Grenada, became a member of the British Commonwealth. Two years later Charles helped throw out the allegedly corrupt regime of Prime Minister Patrick John—who was said to be aligning Dominica, a black nation, with South Africa. She then ran successfully for the top job herself.
A thoroughgoing democrat, Charles finds it difficult "to attach a political 'ism' to myself, because if you want the greatest good for the greatest number, isn't that socialism? But if you want people to be free—to reelect or reject you, to criticize you—that isn't socialism. I think I'm a pragmatist."
She is indeed—and with sufficient cause. Her 298-square-mile island is stunningly beautiful, ribboned by 365 rivers, which are knotted in uncounted waterfalls. Yet the island is without decent roads, reliable electricity, a modern airport or deep-water shipping facility—not to mention a white sand beach. The island, therefore, holds few charms either for industry or tourism. It is, according to one U.S. official, the "basket case of the Eastern Caribbean," with a per-capita income of some $400 a year. So far Charles has discouraged offers from Cuba, Russia and Libya of college scholarships for her young people. "They are told they can study what they want, but they'll be required to study Marxism and military arts," she says. "I can understand learning different 'isms,' but when you offer only one it's not good."
It's no wonder that the Prime Minister is courting President Reagan, who has already promised $11 million to repair the 36-mile road that links the main airport to the capital. The President is also pushing the so-called Caribbean Basin Initiative, with a regional aid package of $350 million. Yet Miss Charles is refreshingly up-front about her designs. "I'm pro-American," she says, in her melodic Caribbean accent. "But if I knew how to do it, I'd go to Libya and say, 'Hi, I hear you're doling out money and I want my share.' "
President Reagan Finds a Fast Friend in Eugenia Charles, Dominica's Plucky P.M.
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Though their candles didn't stay lit because of the wind, members of Amarillo's Burmese community came out Sunday evening to show their support for their fellow countrymen.
For nearly a week, protestors have gathered in Myanmar (also known as Burma) to express their dissatisfaction with the country's military regime. On Sunday, about 20,000 people marched in protest.
Gathering at their Community Center on Amarillo Boulevard, about 75 members of Amarillo's Burmese community marched and silently prayed for three minutes in a show of solidarity.
"I wanted to show I'm with the Burmese people who demonstrate. I want to see democracy and peace in Burma," said Than Naing, head of the Democracy Action Committee of Texas.
"It's my community. For our people who are suffering in our country, let them be free," said James Hlawncu.
Among the community's 400 Burmese, many still have friends and family there.
"People here in Amarillo, we're all in the same boat," said Min Aung.
"We are obligated. We have to do something for our people and our country."
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COLUMBIANA - After saying they would vote on the closing of the Norfolk Southern Railroad crossing on Esterly Drive at Thursday's meeting, Fairfield Township trustees voted unanimously to put it off to a future meeting, Chairman Bob Hum said.
The issue has been discussed for over a year, Trustee Barry Miner said after the meeting that safety issues at the crossing and the intersection, to which traffic will be diverted to access the Buckeye Transfer Realty transloading facility, have been aired repeatedly.
The bottom line is Norfolk Southern will not service the facility, a full-service transloading site serving the oil and gas industry, unless the railroad crossing on Esterly Road is closed.
Hum advised trustees that Norfolk Southern attorney Casey Talbot had some safety issues he wanted to do and suggested the township hold off on voting.
Miner said there had been excellent comments from both sides and pointed out all the scrutiny and review the crossing and intersection have been under.
"The decision is very important to us as a board and for the community," he said, noting discussions began last January.
If trustees vote to close the crossing, they will join Norfolk Southern, which owns the railroad, and the Ohio Rail Development Commission in requesting the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, which has the final word, grant a voluntary closure.
Attorney Mark Hutson, representing Buckeye Transfer, said Thursday the company has done everything it can to address safety issues and they have been working to secure barricades so motorists won't turn around in one company's parking lot.
Sherene Adair said most of the truck traffic that uses the crossing will go to the state Route 344 intersection where the grade "is a lot higher." She called it a "cocktail for a very bad accident."
Mary Ann Ossoff of the Valley Golf Club said, "If we close the crossing it will create a situation that that intersection will not be able to handle." She called for some discussion.
Agnes C. Jones said the crossing was superfluous and the roads were there before.
She said not everyone can be satisfied.
"I don't understand how you say nothing's been done when you have so many studies," she said.
Chuck Beiling, a developer, suggested a separate entrance to the Buckeye facility.
"To me that doesn't sound like anything of a major project," he said, but Terry McCoy, an architect, said space was inadequate for a separate entrance because of the loop for the unitrain.
McCoy said, "You're not going to see an issue until truck traffic is there ... and once it begins you may see there's not an issue at all."
Hum said he spoke to Norfolk Southern's Talbot earlier and he suggested holding off on the vote.
In other business, trustees verbally approved a one-year fire contract with the New Waterford Fire Department for $35,000 and Hum explained the department will prepare an ordinance for the village to sign and forward it to Fairfield Township.


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"You really going to do this?" Jerry Seinfeld asked Jimmy Fallon at a recent charity event.
"What do you mean?" Fallon replied.
NBC had just announced the 39-year-old would succeed Jay Leno, who will leave "The Tonight Show" in February 2014.
"You realize there's no end to this job," Seinfeld explained. "You'll just do this till you die. It's the pope job."
"The pope job." Fallon laughed, but Seinfeld kept going.
"Have you seen the pope?" the veteran comic asked about then-Pope Benedict XVI. "He can't even lift his head up. He's mumbling the prayers. No one even knows if he is saying prayers. That's what this is. This is what you want?"
It is -- which is how Fallon ended up earlier this month on a whirlwind promotional trip to 25 cities.
And he spoke with both boyish wonder and professional ease about his new job -- as just the sixth host of "The Tonight Show."
"Someone was saying that more people have walked on the moon than hosted 'The Tonight Show,'" Fallon said. "Me, I've done both, so that's really good."
It's all just sinking in -- this job that most people think is his dream job but never was.
"There's no way it could be a dream job because I wouldn't even dream," Fallon said. "When I was a kid, you don't think that 'Johnny Carson' is a job you could have."
He didn't even know what a job was when he was a kid. He just wanted to be a baseball player. When he found out what a job was, he wanted to work at IBM -- "because that's what my dad was; he was a technical writer, and he fixed computers."
So Fallon, who was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Saugerties, N.Y., attended The College of Saint Rose in Albany and became a computer-science major. But his grades were bad, so he switched to communications. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles to work as a stand-up comedian.
He joined The Groundlings comedy troupe and got small parts in film and television before joining "Saturday Night Live" in 1998.
There, he and then-writer Tina Fey discovered their chemistry. She wrote for him before becoming head writer and later joined him on camera to co-anchor "Weekend Update."
Fallon left "SNL" in 2004 but on his way out was tapped by producer Lorne Michaels to take over the 12:37 a.m. spot from Conan O'Brien, who had just been chosen to replace Leno five years from then.
"Lorne said, 'Look, I don't know if you're interested in hosting a talk show ...'
"And I said, 'I don't think so. I don't know what I'm going to do.'
"And Tina Fey was in the office and she said, 'You could totally do that. You're Irish, charming, you talk to everybody all the time. It will be good.'"
Fallon wasn't sure. He wanted to do movies.
"Cut to my movie's not working and Lorne calls me up five years later and says, 'Hey, remember, the talk show thing? You still into it?'"
Friends offered him all kinds of advice. Stephen Colbert quoted Johnny Carson to him: "In this job, you'll use everything you ever learned in life."
"And boy, oh boy is that true," Fallon said.
"But I wish Steve Allen were still alive so he could see what we were doing with his baby, with 'The Tonight Show,'" Fallon said. "Because I think he'd be psyched."
Jack Paar made it more of a talk show. Johnny Carson did sketches. Every host, Fallon said, put his mark on it. Soon it will be his turn.


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A man is in critical condition Thursday morning after he flipped his car near Interstate 44 and Hefner Parkway.
Investigators said the driver lost control and then overcorrected his car flipping it. The driver was ejected from the car. Paramedics rushed him to OU Medical Center where he remains in critical condition.
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Courting a new option for the foreclosure process
Published 12:31 pm, Wednesday, March 6, 2013
On Tuesday, March 5, the Senate Banks Committee held a public hearing on a bill that will, if enacted, provide a new option for the foreclosure process -- foreclosure by market sale. This is an important piece of legislation that will modernize foreclosure practices in our state that have been in place for 300 years and bring them into line with what other states have done to deal with distressed properties.
It is designed to solve some very tough problems that have plagued owners of distressed properties for some time. Here are some examples of the problems it can solve.
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Sellers sometimes lose a pending sale because their lender started a foreclosure process or the foreclosure sign went up before the closing took place.
Sellers sometimes have a short sale "blow up" because a second mortgage holder or the IRS wouldn't bargain.
Realtors sometimes decline to take a listing because the seller indicates that they are behind in their mortgage payments and the Realtor is worried what a foreclosure might do even if they did find a buyer.
Sellers sometimes cannot complete a sale because they don't have the money to reopen a foreclosure judgment or take advantage of a judge-ordered extension because that extension was conditioned on the payment of committee fees and costs.
The net effect of these problems is that the property sells for an amount significantly below market value.
Foreclosure by market sale adds a new option to the foreclosure menu.
Under this option, either party could ask for "foreclosure by market sale."
If the court approves the marketing plan, the court must grant foreclosure by market sale. The court would direct that the property be listed with a Realtor for sale at a commission determined by the court. This would permit the listing and marketing of the property by normal means, including putting it on an MLS.
If an offer is generated, that offer would be presented to the court for approval. Offers could include all of the usual contingencies for financing, inspections, and other contingencies requested by the buyer and acceptable to the foreclosed seller. If the court approves the sale, it would set a date within 60 days for the closing. This would allow a buyer the time they need to obtain a mortgage commitment, do inspections, aggregate closing money and be ready for the closing.
This would benefit the seller since they would be able to stay in the home until it is sold and have the opportunity to pick an agent to sell the property.
In reality, this is a process very similar to a Connecticut short sale, but the essential difference is that the house in this case has been declared legally foreclosed. In a short sale, the property has not been foreclosed even though there may have been a lis pendens filed with the town clerk on the home.
Connecticut Realtors have strongly backed this new bill, which will help foreclosed parties to at least get close to market value for their homes.
Smells like a winner
Smells of ethnic cooking and incense coming from an accessory apartment can spell doom for most sellers trying to lure buyers into their nest. Real estate, like most pursuits, however, doesn't always go according to plan.
"It smells good in here" said one buyer when the door to the apartment was opened. Of the same ethnicity, for this buyer these aromas probably brought back pleasant memories of his mother's cooking. What's a negative for most can be a positive for some. Go figure.
"If I can smell it, I can't sell it," says Barb Schwarz, the creator of "home staging." In general, she's right.
Buyers are turned off by smells of spicy cooking, pet odors, mold or mildew odors and obvious cover-up scents. Realtors no longer use drops of vanilla on the stove or bake pies in the oven. Buyers are wary of these obvious lures that were once commonplace during open houses and showings.
What you can do is get rid of the undesirable smells and let some fresh air in before a showing or open house. To rid your home of unpleasant odors home stagers use a product called PureAyre. You can buy it online at PureAyre.com or on Amazon.com.
Of course, if you know there's a buyer with, say, Italian heritage coming to a showing, you might have a saucepan with home-made tomato sauce with a little garlic simmering in the kitchen. Who knows? Mangia bene.
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KENYA, Africa -- People who can't hear face tremendous challenges. That's especially true in education because they need special instruction to learn to read.
Now, a Christian ministry is rising to the challenge with an ambitious translation project by recording key Bible stories in the sign language of every African country.
The first translations have just been published with great celebration in the sub-Saharan nation of Kenya.
The beat of African drums helped drive the message home at a recent celebration in Nairobi, Kenya. Yet aside from the drums, only a select few would understand the message, delivered in Kenyan sign language.
"Go, paint the doorposts of your house and you will be saved," the message said.
This message is in reference to the Passover story from the book of Genesis, translated for the first time for the estimated 340,000 Kenyans who are deaf.
"Deep inside I feel so happy," said Paul Njatha, of the Deaf Opportunity Outreach, also known as DOOR International. "It's hard to express what's in my heart, but my heart is so full."
DOOR trains pastors for Kenya's deaf communities.
"But as we began that training program we realized that how can these pastors and leaders teach in the church without a Bible in their language," asked Jojo Ninan of DOOR.
So they partnered with Wycliffe Bible Translators to translate 32 different Bible stories into Kenyan sign language.
"The deaf people can't read, we can't read, we don't understand the meaning of the words," said Florence Mbuthye of DOOR. "So the deaf people, how they're going to use it is they'll see the Bible in sign language and understand how Jesus relates to them very clearly. They'll use it for fellowships, in churches, in other people's homes."
The stories were signed on video and distributed on DVD. This was the day the Bible stories were finally presented to the public.
"Today I see what has happened and wow, let me tell you, I am just so excited," Mbuthye said. "We've been very busy and energized and passionate about this work."
The Bible stories played out on the stage will now go to the homes of the deaf.
"It will help my family," said Joseph Murighi, a tailor who leads a house church. "It will help other families there. I will use it to help other families there."
The DOOR ministry also plans to distribute copies to all the deaf schools in Kenya.
"We could understand the teaching," one student said. "And people will be blessed in a mighty way, and especially the deaf people in my school."
"And this is very important to be able to give out the DVDs and the signs," said Augustine Njunguna of DOOR. "I mean I'm so inspired, I feel relieved that it's finished."
They may be finished with the Kenyan version, but now the team is taking on an even greater challenge -- to translate Bible stories for every deaf language in Africa.
Translators are also working New Testament accounts. The ministry's goal is to record 110 Bible stories on DVD to create a primary Bible for the deaf community.*Originally aired on March 26, 2010.
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After the massive earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan, the world is looking to help. The Peninsula Hotels Group is proudly supporting "Hope for Japan," a fund-raising drive at each hotel in Asia and the U.S. to support the relief effort with donations going directly to the Japanese Red Cross Society. From Shanghai to Chicago, Peninsula Hotels are contributing a donation for every guest stay. The renowned hotel brand has also launched a new Japanese Afternoon Tea, and for each tea ordered, The Peninsula will donate the entire retail price ($50) to the Red Cross. Before departing the hotel, make a donation and hang an origami crane on "The Tree of 1,000 Cranes" displayed in the Lobby of each Peninsula hotel. In Japanese culture, 1,000 cranes represent hope and healing in challenging times, and so guests are invited to help this worthwhile and meaningful initiative.
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i there I'm new to forums here, I have watched many streams and videos about Demon Hunter specs, I was planning to level a demon hunter as a main class, and I wanted to know how is Vengeance spec doing in leveling ? is it worth leveling in DH's tanking spec ? or would it take too much time compared to Havoc ? I remember devs saying at Legion annoucement that tanking specs and healing specs would have their damage increased to allow them level up faster.
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By Shells
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Gear wise I was running with 2 dps trinkets and a dps cloak as the tanking cloak I have is 705 baleful one while my dps one was 720.
Picked up the Kilrogg tanking trinket last night and have the reapers harvest.
AskMrRobot keeps trying to get me to equip it but I am not sure if its worth the slot or not.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
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Hey there guys, just a quick question. I have 4 trinkets for tanking, and not sure which 2 I should stick with.
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When I told a friend of mine that I was heading to a screening of Baby Mama, he immediately replied: "Oh, the Saturday Night Live movie?" Hmm -- well, sort of. The comedy -- which premiered at Tribeca and goes wide this weekend -- was produced by SNL honcho Lorne Michaels, and stars show veterans Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. On the other hand, it's not based on an SNL sketch, and doesn't feature any characters from the show.
Baby Mama's pre-release reputation as a "Saturday Night Live movie" probably isn't helpful: movies falling into that category don't have the best track record in the minds of people who pay attention. At the same time, the show has contributed a lot to the movies, mostly in its capacity as a breeding ground for comedic talent. This installment of Cinematical Seven collects films with an SNL connection that have actually been good, or in some way significant. I limited the pool to the last ten years; we all know that The Blues Brothers and Wayne's World are classics that started out as SNL sketches, but what has the show done for us lately?
1. Mean Girls
This Lorne Michaels-produced comedy was Tina Fey's feature screenwriting debut (she also had a small role), and the peak of Lindsay Lohan's short career. Fey's sensational sense of humor is on prominent display, and the movie is one of the wittiest teen flicks of the decade. It's full of brilliant comic set pieces, hilarious non sequiturs, and surprising insights, and it introduced the world to the lovely Rachel McAdams (no, The Hot Chick doesn't count).
2. The Simpsons Movie
The Simpsons, of course, has been a treasure trove in its own right over the past twenty years. But I bet you didn't know that many of that show's most prominent scribes cut their teeth on SNL's writing staff. That list includes George Meyer, Ian Maxtone-Graham, John Schwartzwelder and Jon Vitti, all of whom had a hand in last year's terrific big-screen outing. And that's to say nothing of Harry Shearer, an SNL alum whose voice work on The Simpsons (he plays Ned Flanders, Mr. Burns, Principal Skinner and Smithers, among many others) is invaluable.
3. Idiocracy
Long one of the funniest and most reliable SNL regulars, Maya Rudolph kept up an unremarkable big-screen career for a while, popping up in tiny roles in the likes of 50 First Dates and Duplex. But 2006 marked two major milestones: a small part in Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion, and a prominent role in Mike Judge's unjustly dumped Idiocracy. In the latter, Rudolph played a prostitute sent into a massively dumbed-down future along with Luke Wilson's average joe. Her performance was hilarious and heartfelt, giving Judge's high concept some much-needed character. And of course, before Beavis and Butthead made Judge famous, he bided his time writing a little sketch called "Office Space" for -- what else? -- Saturday Night Live.
4. Fever Pitch
Okay, bear with me here. I was never much of a fan of Jimmy Fallon on SNL -- his impressions (except the one of John Mayer) tended to be kind of lame, and his tendency to crack up in the middle of the live broadcast was super-unprofessional. But man, was he ever perfect for the Farrelly Brothers' adorable baseball rom-com -- his second try at forging a film career after leaving the SNL cast in 2004. Puppy-dog likable and fundamentally sane enough to sell the off-kilter premise (obsessive Red Sox fan forced to choose between team and girlfriend) without making us hate the character, he blindsided me with competence and helped make the film a delight. He's since disappeared, and I'm not sure why.
5. Knocked Up
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Mostly I just wanted to remind people of this charming, underrated revisionist Watergate comedy about a pair of high school girls who wander off during a field trip and wind up becoming Nixon's dog walkers. It just happens to be populated by a whole slew of then-current and former SNL cast members, including Ferrell, Shearer, Jim Breuer and Ana Gasteyer. Put it in your Netflix queue; it's pretty funny.
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Recent discussion of the "Buffett Rule" proposal, which would increase taxes on the wealthy, has focused attention on U. S. tax rates. It gives Americans a chance to better understand our tax policies. The plain truth: The more money you make, the more tax you pay.
My intention in this column is not to make a political point. My intention is to dispel a myth that the tax code favors the rich; hence, why try to better yourself? One destructive conclusion stemming from such a belief is to equate the tax code with capitalism, which is comparing apples to lemons.
Mitt Romney, the probable Republican Presidential candidate, came under attack from both Democrats and other Republican primary candidates for his high income and net worth and his low overall tax rate. The arguments are that Romney made his money by the wrong type of capitalism and that he pays too little in federal taxes.
The tax returns Romney has made public show most of his money comes from investment returns on his holdings rather than from wages or a salary. His overall tax rate in 2010 was 13.9% and his estimated rate for 2011 is 15.4%. This caused a predictable outcry that his tax rate is lower than the income tax bracket of many middle class Americans.
President Barack Obama's 2011 tax return shows a tax rate of just over 20%. Former Republican candidate Newt Gingrich paid 31% of his 2010 income in federal taxes.
To the uninformed, these varying tax rates initially look unfair. What many people don't understand is the big difference between "ordinary income" (from wages, a salary, short-term capital gains, and interest) and "passive income" (from stock dividends and long-term capital gains). The federal government taxes ordinary income at up to 35% and passive income at 15%.
Why the different rates?
First, let's look at dividend income and long-term capital gains taxes. Dividends come from corporations that must first pay income taxes on any profits. Long-term capital gains come from shares of a company purchased and held for more than 12 months.
Since the effective corporate rate is 39.2% (the top federal rate and the average state tax rate), the corporation has already paid taxes on all income, including what is paid out to investors as dividends. Prior to the Bush tax cuts in 2001, dividends were taxed at almost 40%. This meant every dollar of dividend income was taxed twice, once at the corporate level and again at the individual level. The result was that 60 cents out of every dollar of profit made by a company was paid to the federal government. The Bush tax cuts continued the practice of double taxation, but lowered the amount paid at the individual level to 15%.
The same double taxation applied to long-term capital gains, except that the tax rate was a flat 28% before the Bush tax cuts reduced it to 15%.
This double tax makes it seem that the wealthy pay less tax than they really do. An individual may pay 15% on passive income of, say, $5 million. Yet corporations have already paid taxes of around 39.2% on that same income, for a total tax rate of 54.2%. Of the $5 million in profit, over $2.5 million goes to Uncle Sam. That would seem to be more than a "fair share."
According to Congressional Budget Office figures from 2011, the top 1% of taxpayers pay an average of 29.5%, those in the income percentiles from 81% to 99% pay 22.8%, those from 21% through 80% pay 15.1%, and the bottom 20% pay 4.7%. Those numbers, of course, don't include the 49.5% of Americans who pay no federal income tax at all.
Even factoring in the different tax rates on ordinary and passive income, it's clear that the more money Americans earn, the more taxes they pay. What could be more fair than that?
Rick Kahler, CFP, is president of Kahler Financial Group in Rapid City, S.D.
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TV Ratings: NBC's Patriots-49ers thriller, CBS' NFL overrun lead Sunday
It's hard to tell how the 'Survivor: Philippines' premiere did
An exciting Sunday Night Football showdown between the San Francisco 49ers and the New England Patriots helped NBC mostly hold off CBS, which was boosted by its own NFL thriller, an overtime game between Pittsburgh and Dallas.
Between the live nature of both football games, as well as delays and preemptions for President Obama's speech at the Newtown Memorial Service, expect at least some shuffling when these numbers become official.
Unfortunately, that means that we can't give anything resembling concrete ratings for CBS' three-hour "Survivor" finale. Sorry about that.
One thing we can say for certain: Virtually nobody cared about Former Bachelorette Ashley's televised wedding.
On to the numbers...
Among adults 18-49, NBC averaged a 6.2 rating for Sunday night, beating CBS' 4.5 rating in the key demographic. FOX averaged a 1.5 key demo rating, topping the 1.1 key demo rating for ABC.
Overall, though, CBS averaged an estimated 16.96 million viewers to go with a 10.1 rating/16 share, edging out NBC's 9.9/15 and 16.69 million viewers for Sunday, though smart money would predict NBC moving ahead in Final figures.
7 p.m. - CBS started primetime in first with 27.8 million viewers and an 8.5 rating among adults 18-49 for an hour of NFL overrun, president preemption and "60 Minutes" on the West Coast. NBC's "Football Night in America" was second with 8.56 million viewers and a 2.9 key demo rating. A repeat of "America's Funniest Home Videos" averaged 6.31 million viewers and a 1.4 key demo rating for third. On FOX, a repeat of "The Cleveland Show" and a new episode of "The Cleveland Show" averaged 3.08 million viewers and a 1.3 key demo rating.
8 p.m. - With "60 Minutes" in some markets and the "Survivor: Philippines" finale in others, CBS won the 8 p.m. hour overall with 17.79 million viewers and finished second with a 4.6 rating among adults 18-49. The delayed start of NBC's football game was a close second with 17.7 million viewers and dominated the hour with a 6.5 key demo rating. ABC's repeat of "Wipeout" was third overall with 3.74 million viewers and fourth with a 1.2 key demo rating. FOX was third in the demo and fourth overall with "The Simpsons" (4.405 million viewers and a 1.9 key demo rating) and "Bob's Burgers" (2.79 million viewers and a 1.2 key demo).
9 p.m. - NBC's football game rose to 21.91 million viewers and an 8.0 rating among adults 18-49 to dominate the 9 p.m. hour. CBS' "Survivor" finale drew 11.73 million viewers and a 3.4 key demo rating in second. FOX's repeats of "Family Guy" and "American Dad" averaged 3.29 million viewers and a 1.6 key demo rating in third, beating the 3.14 million viewers and 1.2 key demo rating for ABC's "The Bachelorette: Ashley and JP's Wedding."
10 p.m. - The Patriots and 49ers finished primetime in first for NBC with 18.58 million viewers and a 7.2 rating among adults 18-49. CBS' "Survivor: Philippines" finale averaged 10.51 million viewers and a 3.0 key demo rating in second. And ABC's "The Bachelorette: Ashley and JP's Wedding" was third with 3.57 million viewers and a 0.9 key demo rating.
All ratings information comes from preliminary Fast National Nielsen data, which includes live and same-day DVR viewing. All numbers are subject to change, particularly in the case of live events.


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a nonliving part of an organizims's habitit. ex...water, sunslight, oxygen
What is a species?
A group of orgnisms that are physically similar and can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also make and reproduce.
What is an ecosystem?
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving surroundings.
What are some of the things that can happen to deer because of the limiting factor?
they can die, eat from crops, and/or live closer to humans.
What happens if humans do nothing with the deer population?
Deer will die of starvation or get diseases.
What is natural selection?
A process by which characteristics that make an individual better suited to its environment become more commom in a species.
What is an adaptation?
A behavior or physical characterists that allows an organism to live successfully in its environment.
What is competition?
The struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same limited resources.
What is a predator? Example
The organism that does the killing in a predation interaction. Ex. tiger shark
What are some adaptations of predators and prey?
Adaptation - cheetahs can run fast; Prey - smell spray of skunk
What is symbiosis?
A close relationship between two species that benefit at least one of the species.
What is a parasite?
.The organism that benefits by living on or in a host in a parasitism interaction.
What is succession?
A series of predicable changes in the community that happen over a period of time.
What is primary succession?
The series of changes that occure in an area where no soil or organisms exist.
What is secondary succession?
The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed, but where soil and organisms still exist.
What is an energy pyramid?
A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web.
How much energy is transferred from one level to another?
10% of energy is transerfered to other levels
What are the steps of the water cycle?
-precipitation...evaporation...transpiratation..condensation...then over again
What are the steps of nitrogen cycle?
Nitrogen moves from the air to soil to living things and back into the air.
Why does nitrogen need to be fixed?
Because most organisms can't use nitrogen gas, so nitrogen needs to be fixed.
Why is nitrogen important?
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PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) - Alex Rodriguez hit a grand slam, but John Rocker had his worst outing of the spring, and the Texas Rangers lost 6-5 Saturday to a Boston Red Sox split squad.
Rocker, making a start as the Rangers tried to get work for some of their relievers, allowed three runs on three hits and his own throwing error in the first inning.
Johnny Damon tripled, Quilvio Veras had an RBI-single, and Trot Nixon doubled along the right-field line to start the Boston first before Tony Clark popped out.
Rocker fielded Shea Hillenbrand's chopper in front of the plate but threw the ball over first baseman Herbert Perry, allowing two runs.
Rocker, acquired from Cleveland in December, got two called third strikes to end the first. But he walked two batters and allowed another hit in the second, when he benefited from a double play.
"I felt like I threw well. My velocity was good," said Rocker, who threw nearly 50 pitches in his two innings. "My fastball and slider were both good. I'm just a poor fielder."
Todd Van Poppel took over in the third and allowed three runs and five hits in two innings, including Veras' two-run triple in the fourth that made it 6-1.
It was the fifth appearance of the spring for Rocker, who in seven innings has allowed five runs and nine hits. He has six walks and four strikeouts.
"I thought Rocker made some good pitches," Rangers manager Jerry Narron said. "The big thing is to see guys make pitches. I know he's working on some things. He'll be fine.
"Van Poppel needs to work on his location and command," Narron said.
Boston starter Frank Castillo struck out four in four innings and walked one. He allowed Perry's homer in the second.
Rodriguez hit his grand slam, his second spring homer, in the fifth inning against Butch Henry.
Damon, Boston's new leadoff hitter after signing as a free agent from Oakland, was 2-for-3 with two runs scored. Veras was 3-for-5.
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) - Roberto Alomar flashed a little of his All-Star talent in the Mets' rout of Houston.
After walking and scoring the opening run, the second baseman ranged far to his left to take away a sure hit from Orlando Merced. The play helped Pedro Astacio, who pitched six innings.
"You throw the ball down and make them hit it on the ground with that defense," Astacio said. "A lot of time Roberto can make the spectacular play at second base and then get the out."
Astacio's first pitch of the game was hit for a double off the left-center-field wall by Brian Hunter, but after that the right-hander faced the minimum number of batters thanks to a double play in the fifth inning that was started by shortstop Rey Ordonez and turned by Alomar.
The only other Houston player to reach base against Astacio was Geoff Blum on an error, but he, too, was erased on a double play.
Astacio threw 70 pitches and then gave way to a bullpen that allowed just one more hit.
"I come into spring training looking for a job," Astacio said. "I come to win a job."
Alomar brings more to the Mets than his 12 All-Star appearances, 10 Gold Gloves and .305 career average. He also brings his knowledge of the game.
"I'll talk to anybody, I enjoy it," Alomar said. "I talk to the young guys, I talk to the older guys and get to know them as people and as players to see what they think."
Astacio, meanwhile, said he felt no ill affects from a torn shoulder muscle he suffered last year.
"I was impressed by his fastball on both sides of the plate, and his curveball was very good and it got him back in the count at times," Mets manager Bobby Valentine said.
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Healthy interest in a device released half a year ago is a welcome surprise. It's also a bit of a shock, given the flimsy value proposition of the iPhone 5 on T-Mobile. T-Mobile's advertised price of $99.99 for an entry-level iPhone 5 -- half of the retail price of the smartphone through larger carriers -- is actually just a down payment. The deal requires zero-interest financing approval, as customers are expected to pay $20 a month for the next two years. That adds up to $579.99 in capital outlays over two years, far more than the $199.99 that iPhone 5 buyers are shelling out on larger carriers. Even customers who can whittle down the initial down payment to zero through a trade-in will pay far more for the iPhone 5 itself.
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So far, I've been pleased with my dealings with Tower and really like my Great Planes PBY Catalina. You're absolutely right, however, that their are a lot of marginal (if not outright junk) products out there. I have a Horizon Hobby E-flite Aeronca Champ, 15e ARF which I like a lot, but it had a number of significant quality problems with it. Once these problems were sorted out, the Champ became one of my favorites.
If you are interested in more economical alternatives to Great Planes gear for the Widgeon, look at Thomas B's Post #68 in this thread. I'm not experienced enough to recommend alternatives, but I've read a lot of Thomas B's threads over the years and would trust his recommendations.
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I just checked Tower's site, and they are listing the Widgeon as "In Stock, Limited Quantities". They are also listing "Free Shipping". I hope to get mine from my LHS sometime next week ... we'll see.
Joe, I'm also pleased with Horizon Hobby products and consider the quality problems with their 15e Champ ARF as just part of the hobby. I don't get too upset when products aren't perfect (I couldn't afford perfect, even if it did exist in reality), I just try to correct the imperfections. I enjoy building, so modifying an ARF just adds fun to the hobby. I don't recall (hell, I'm old and forgetful) that I've yet encountered any R.C. product that's downright shabby and P---Poor ... maybe I've just been lucky.
I for get some times that the new guys missed the bad arf mistakes from when they started hitting the hobby seen . They was one big one that comes to mind (dura plane ) it was ment for new flyers and was made of plastic and metal ,lol They had a video of it hitting a fence and then putting the wing back on to fly again. I was a instructor trying to teach newbes to fly a brick with a heavy motor on it . lol Good luck with the widgen and report back on how it looks out of the box. This is the first i have heard of any problems with their HH champ but i will go to another e-site and see what they have to say. I dont own to many foam planes except for a polaris i scratch built, iam a balsa builder but i will try a foam build soon ,as soon as i draw my own plans for it. joe
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I just checked, my order at Tower is being picked and packed right now! Should have the Widgeon some time next week. Christmas is real early this year, just got the 73'' B-17 from Hobbyking yesterday!
I am impressed that they actually made the "late Sept" arrival date, even if it was on the last day...
I have a Top Flite part for an ARF on order from Tower...it has now had the arrival date pushed back by a month four times, with a total time on backorder of over 4 months.
And don't forget "c"....in the event of a motor out scenario the running motors torque will counteract (in some small degree) the drag of the dead motor.
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First if two motors are spinning in the same direction it will have the same amount of prop wash going over the rudder as one going one way and the other turning to other way. Second i have 4 motors spining in the same direction on my short solent with 2 -3200 lipo packs in series and there is no tork i can tell. My rudder is straight from the time i built it till after i flew it ,no ail trim was needed either. I think it is a pain in the ars to try to find props that match for counter rotating props and a waist of time. If you try it first with reg props then think the plane is spinning in cyrcles ,then find the other prop and switch one wire on the esc you want to turn the other way. They make no prop adpter that threads the other way but the best prop adpters i have found is by tru -turn ,i found this out by stripping great- planes cheap adapters . Good luck with what ever you choose . joe
E-flite Aeronca Champ
Here's a link to the E-flite 15e Aeronca Champ thread on the "Scale Electric Planes" forum. Despite the problems with it, I'd still recommend it. It looks great and flies great.
I competed in patteren and pylon in the ama when i was young and if i lost i did not blame it on my plane because of my short commings i would practice till i got it right. joe
Jeepers, Joe. You're being kinda harsh on us, don't you think?
I was the first guy in the Aeronca thread to bring up the faulty landing gear. I discovered the weak point when I tried to land in windy conditions, and a gust slammed the little Aeronca down hard on the pavement. I've been flying R/C for over forty years now, so don't give me any crap about not knowing how to land a dadgum airplane softly-- I'm as good as any pilot of my experience level. In fact, most of my flying sessions with the Aeronca are non-stop touch-n-goes, most of them soft as a feather. The problem is NOT the pilot here, it's the plane. Sorry, but that's the facts.
Go back and look at my posts on this, and how I fixed the weak spot. The lower longerons are not continuous, but have a butt joint (no kidding, can you believe it?) right where the aft gear mount resides. What dummy decided that would be an acceptable feature, I ask. There is a shear web ply piece at this location, on the side panels, but it is not big enough to take the loads (mine separated when the longeron failed). I reinforced the side panels, and finally glued a transverse compression member between the aft attach points, and I have not had a problem since--even with my occasional and unavoidable hard landings in gusty conditions. I call that a design flaw-- easily corrected in this case.
BTW, I leave my wings on, too. Way too much hassle to take them on and off each time. The Aeronca is a great little airplane, and its too bad it has gotten a bad rap in these forums. (Sorry, guys, for the off-topic post.)
Like i said i dont own the plane and iam not pointing fingers but you did say it was very windy and it got slammed to the ground . From watching hot shots at my club field i see them tearing up the sky .loops rolls you name it. When it comes time to land there is no rudder use ,no flair and some hot shots tear their gear off and blame it on a poor desighn most times when people are watching. I have run out of elevator myself and tore stuff off and It was my fault not the scale plane . Last year a full scale goose came into our local airport and he had some cross wind but used no rudder and came in hot . He lost it mid runway and tore one wheel off and bashed his tip float in on a ground loop. If you say the gear needed beefing up i believe you but it is nothing that cant be fixed and iam sure if you would have sent it in they would have replaced it. The main spar on my 100 inch solent is made from 3/16 balsa ,yes i said balsa with 1/8 by 1/8 bass wood top and bottom and no strips about 10 inches from the end . It looks weak but the desighner has a video of it doing loops and rolls. I will not try looping and rolling with mine but it shows me that sometimes things that look weak are stronger than you think. joe
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I'm with Bart83. Guys can you say Widgeon? Please, let's stay focused on the G-44!
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Here's a report from staff writer Joe Richardson at the scene:
Dallas firefighters battled a blaze this morning at a coin laundry in the 7100 block of Military Parkway.
The three-alarm fire started shortly after 9:30 a.m. at the two-story brick building, which once housed a movie theater at the corner of Urban Avenue and Military.
Smoke poured out of the building, making visibility a problem inside.
"There was so much smoke that it was difficult to see, which is a good part of the reason they decided to pull out" and fight the fire from outside, said Jason Evans, a spokesman for Dallas Fire-Rescue.
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This is a nasty hit. The head is contacted for sure, but not sure it was targeted though. Bort is a big dude.
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Hey, hey, it's Friday! That might mean something in your world, or it may mean nothing at all to you. But one thing it always means is: It's time for the weekly round-up of breaking pregnancy health news! There are some great stories out this week, so let's get to 'em.
Aspirin Does Not Prevent Pregnancy Loss — But It Might Improve Fertility: When I was being treated at my beloved fertility center, I was taking one "baby aspirin" a day (along with 9 bajillion other things). I was told it could help with implantation, and I was desperate to try anything. Apparently, it's been commonly prescribed as a way to prevent pregnancy loss in women who've experienced two or more miscarriages. But according to new research, there's no evidence to suggest it actually does that. What they did found out, though, was that a daily low-dose aspirin might improve fertility by increasing blood flow to the uterus. (SOURCE: Medical Daily)
Amount of Vitamin A in Pregnancy Linked to Immunity of Offspring: New research shows that the amount of Vitamin A a pregnant woman takes directly affects the lifelong immune system in her children. It's been known that a lack of Vitamin A during pregnancy is linked to blindness, reproductive problems, and bone and skin issues. But the new research shows that a deficiency adversely affects the development of lymph nodes — thus making offspring more susceptible to virus later in life. (SOURCE: MedicalXpress)
Stress Can Delay Pregnancy and Double the Risk for Infertility: As if women who are having a hard time getting pregnant (like me!) aren't stressed enough about it, we now have substantiated research for the first time that tells us that stress can make it even harder. It's really a wicked cycle. The good news? Experts behind the study say we should "manage our stress" with activities such as yoga, meditation, and mindfulness. (SOURCE: MedicalXpress)
Weight Gain Soon After Pregnancy Tied to Diabetes Risk: More encouragement to shed that baby weight ASAP, ladies. A new study shows that women who gain weight within a year after pregnancy increase their risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. These women also have increased blood pressure, higher cholesterol, and worsening insulin "profiles." (SOURCE: MedPage Today)
Early Preeclampsia Often Overlooked: An expert in the field is warning that clinicians often wait too long before diagnosing preeclampsia — a move that can be dangerous. Specifically, this expert says, "Medical professionals don't want their patient to have it [preeclampsia], so they downplay, 'Oh, they're just anxious,' 'They have white-coat hypertension.'" He goes on to further state that every blood pressure measurement at every visit is important. (SOURCE: MedPage Today)
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