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TRENTON—Just as Rev. John Harris of Galilee Baptist Church was about to deliver his sermon Tuesday afternoon about "coming out of dark into light" at the funeral of Cagney Roberts, a 19-year-old fatally shot this month, pandemonium erupted as bullets tore through the church's stained glass windows, he said.
"I had not started the sermon, and when the shooting started, no one knew where the bullets were coming from. Everyone was getting down," Harris said today. "There are six bullet holes in the stained-glass windows."
An exchange of gunfire that broke out at 12:08 p.m. outside the church on the 400 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard wounded three Trenton residents, Police Lt. Mark Kieffer said. The sanctuary, which holds 1,100 people, was "almost at capacity," and several attendees were trampled while fleeing the church in a panic, Harris said.
"We believe it's gang-related," Kieffer said.
A 20-year-old Trenton man was shot in the neck, and a 32-year-old city man was struck in the leg, arm and buttocks, he said. Both remain in stable condition at Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton after undergoing emergency surgery Tuesday, Kieffer said.
A 25-year-old Trenton woman was treated and released yesterday after suffering a graze wound to her right thigh, Kieffer said.
On April 9, Roberts was shot multiple times in the area of Saint Joes and Girard avenues around 9 p.m. and was pronounced dead shortly after being taken to Capital Health Regional. That night, two other men suffered non life-threatening gunshot wounds, one in the back and the other in the calf, police said.
Both shootings remain under investigation.
"The theme of what I was planning to preach was not going to be directed at gangs, not antagonistic, just to cause reason for thought that there was another way and it didn't have to happen," Harris said of Roberts' death.
Police were already stationed outside the church Tuesday "in anticipation of something happening," Harris said, and authorities arrested one man found in possession of a loaded weapon while fleeing the scene in a suspicious vehicle, Kieffer said. Police have not identified the suspect.
Three of five guns were seized from the suspect's car, one was found inside the church and another outside the church in a gravel lot at the corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Pennington Avenue, Police Director Ralph Rivera said Tuesday.
Police believe there were multiple shooters who exchanged gunfire outside the church only, not inside, Kieffer said, but additional arrests have not been made. Suspect descriptions were unavailable.
"There was lots of shooting going on out there," Kieffer said. "We got to get everything put together."
Roberts' relatives were members of Friendship Baptist Church on Perry Street and called Pastor John Taylor to inquire about holding funeral services there, he said. But the church was holding several funerals this week and could not accommodate another, Taylor said.
"We're praying for the family, our city and our community as a whole, not only on this situation but all problems and challenges that we have at this time," Taylor said today. "Hopefully this will help us come together and do some positive things."
When Roberts' family pitched Harris the idea of holding services at his church, the reverend agreed in a gesture to give Roberts a proper funeral, he said.
"Some people will come to that kind of funeral who wouldn't normally come to church," Harris said. "I was trying to reach lost souls, meaning non-believers in God, but I never got to preach at all."
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For example, Michael Vick has played 12-13 games over each of the last three seasons, so it makes sense that his risk is red. However, for those 3-4 games where you don't have him, it's not like your team gets 0 at QB during those weeks. Worst case, you would pick up a QB off the waiver wire. Best case, you drafted a decent backup QB. Either way, you'll get some fantasy points during those non-Vick weeks.
What I'm getting at here is maybe Vick for 12 weeks + replacement QB for 4 weeks is better than say, Matt Ryan (Green risk, assumed to play all 16 games) for all 16 weeks.
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Posted 08 June 2009 - 01:40 PM
it is super appropriate... if it wasnt for them we would have joeVISION (ie see the years in the past when we did have it)
their grace is nothing... they are being tools about it.
Eh, F*ck NBC smacks of being an immature spoiled brat. You are never going to get your way with someone by telling them to eff off.
I understand why they are doing it (disperse people for more viewers/higher ratings) but I don't think it will bring them good PR. At most they will make up on 20-40k in viewership. Going with that approach with get you much further with NBC.
PS, the TV stations have the same type of policy regarding the Super Bowl.
Posted 08 June 2009 - 01:41 PM
i, too, hope their decision is overturned; moreso because it is a great charitable opportunity several times each year. best wishes with this endeavor to make that happen.
it is super appropriate... if it wasnt for them we would have joeVISION (ie see the years in the past when we did have it)
their grace is nothing... they are being tools about it.
Posted 08 June 2009 - 01:45 PM
i, too, hope their decision is overturned; moreso because it is a great charitable opportunity several times each year. best wishes with this endeavor to make that happen.
who said anything about sending F*ck NBC... to them? none of the letters are saying that. its a group on facebook. People can say F*ck NBC all they want, it won't affect their decision at all.
Just one chance is all i ever wanted...just one time i'd like to win the game...from now on i'll take the chance if i can have it...just one just one
Posted 08 June 2009 - 02:03 PM
To whom it may concern,
Today I learned that the Detroit Red Wings and Joe Louis Arena will not be allowed to hold an annual playoff tradition. This tradition is Joe Vision where away Detroit Red Wings playoff games are shown on the big screen over the ice so that thousands of fans can come and enjoy the game with each other. This annual tradition would be held tomorrow night for Game #6 of the Stanley Cup Finals where the Red Wings have a chance to clinch the Stanley Cup. However, NBC has decided to deny Joe Louis Arena and the Detroit Red Wings the viewing rights for the game.
Due to this decision by NBC, Joe Vision will not be held. Not only is NBC destroying a playoff tradition but they are denying funds to a charity. All proceeds of the Joe Vision events benefit the Detroit Red Wings Foundation.
Also, not every fan is able to travel hundreds of miles and purchase tickets to an away game that can cost $700-$1000 to view their team have a chance at becoming Stanley Cup Champions.
It is unfortunate that NBC does not understand hockey fans and their long standing traditions. It seems to me that NBC is more worried about ratings and advertising revenues than the actual viewers who make it possible for NBC to be successful. As I understand, NBC has made a similar decision that will not allow the Pittsburgh Penguins to set up a large outdoor screen for their fans to view the game outside of Mellon Arena. However, the Versus network allowed the Pittsburgh Penguins to show their broadcast on the large outdoor screen for Game #3 and Game #4.
Due to this abysmal decision by NBC, I will be viewing Game #6 of the Stanley Cup Finals and any other game that may occur in the Stanley Cup Finals on CBC. Also, as a result of this decision, I am forced to avoid NBC all together. It is extremely unfortunate that NBC has made the decision to outcast hundreds of thousands of hockey fans that would have otherwise attended events like Joe Vision.
A disgruntled Red Wings fan and former NBC viewer.
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Posted 08 June 2009 - 02:04 PM
That's my plan. I'm either going out or watching CBC for sure. I send an email to all the addresses listed in the other thread, as well.
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Posted 08 June 2009 - 02:08 PM
Because they're not having Joe Vision.
Lemieux cheapshots a player with his walker, drawing the ire of D-Mac, who hobbles over. They draw their canes, salute, and cross them, then proceed to repeatedly whack eachother over the heads while hanging onto the bench with their other hands for balance. D-Mac then hits Lemieux's hip, which gives out, Lemieux feebly falls to the ground, crumpling as D-Mac continues to land barely noticeable Yoda-esque cane strikes. Lemieux's age begins catching up to him, crying "what a world, what a world..!" as he melts into a puddle of goo.
Posted 08 June 2009 - 02:12 PM
Posted 08 June 2009 - 02:17 PM
Strange I've been watching CBC HD all playoffs long.......
Posted 08 June 2009 - 02:18 PM
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Make your voices heard. They are tearing down the TV in front of Mellon and NO JOE VISION!!! Please contact before 5 p.m.!
Stevie might have retired... but he gave his heart to Dan CLEARY!
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Posted 08 June 2009 - 02:27 PM
Yeah, the Jumbotron.
Ceterum autem censeo, Hudler esse delendam.
Posted 08 June 2009 - 02:28 PM
Yeah I just read that after I made the post, that's a huge bummer.
Posted 08 June 2009 - 02:32 PM
At the same time, I'm tired of it doing so at the expense of the quality of product, tradition, and the experience of the fans.
Of course, I could get off my lame rear and do something.
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Posted 08 June 2009 - 02:34 PM
Sounds interesting, how many attend to it?
Guess it's better atmosphere sitting around fellow fans cheering together for your team rather than watching it at home on HDTV... I would be happy with both options though
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Part 10: Final Updates to Navigation and Site Design, Conclusion
The MVC Music Store is a tutorial application that introduces and explains step-by-step how to use ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio for web development.
The MVC Music Store is a lightweight sample store implementation which sells music albums online, and implements basic site administration, user sign-in, and shopping cart functionality.
This tutorial series details all of the steps taken to build the ASP.NET MVC Music Store sample application. Part 10 covers Final Updates to Navigation and Site Design, Conclusion.
We've completed all the major functionality for our site, but we still have some features to add to the site navigation, the home page, and the Store Browse page.
Creating the Shopping Cart Summary Partial View
We want to expose the number of items in the user's shopping cart across the entire site.
We can easily implement this by creating a partial view which is added to our Site.master.
As shown previously, the ShoppingCart controller includes a CartSummary action method which returns a partial view:
// // GET: /ShoppingCart/CartSummary [ChildActionOnly] public ActionResult CartSummary() { var cart = ShoppingCart.GetCart(this.HttpContext); ViewData["CartCount"] = cart.GetCount(); return PartialView("CartSummary"); }
To create the CartSummary partial view, right-click on the Views/ShoppingCart folder and select Add View. Name the view CartSummary and check the "Create a partial view" checkbox as shown below.
The CartSummary partial view is really simple - it's just a link to the ShoppingCart Index view which shows the number of items in the cart. The complete code for CartSummary.cshtml is as follows:
@Html.ActionLink("Cart (" + ViewData["CartCount"] + ")", "Index", "ShoppingCart", new { id = "cart-status" })
We can include a partial view in any page in the site, including the Site master, by using the Html.RenderAction method. RenderAction requires us to specify the Action Name ("CartSummary") and the Controller Name ("ShoppingCart") as below.
@Html.RenderAction("CartSummary", "ShoppingCart")
Before adding this to the site Layout, we will also create the Genre Menu so we can make all of our Site.master updates at one time.
Creating the Genre Menu Partial View
We can make it a lot easier for our users to navigate through the store by adding a Genre Menu which lists all the Genres available in our store.
We will follow the same steps also create a GenreMenu partial view, and then we can add them both to the Site master. First, add the following GenreMenu controller action to the StoreController:
// // GET: /Store/GenreMenu [ChildActionOnly] public ActionResult GenreMenu() { var genres = storeDB.Genres.ToList(); return PartialView(genres); }
This action returns a list of Genres which will be displayed by the partial view, which we will create next.
Note: We have added the [ChildActionOnly] attribute to this controller action, which indicates that we only want this action to be used from a Partial View. This attribute will prevent the controller action from being executed by browsing to /Store/GenreMenu. This isn't required for partial views, but it is a good practice, since we want to make sure our controller actions are used as we intend. We are also returning PartialView rather than View, which lets the view engine know that it shouldn't use the Layout for this view, as it is being included in other views.
Right-click on the GenreMenu controller action and create a partial view named GenreMenu which is strongly typed using the Genre view data class as shown below.
Update the view code for the GenreMenu partial view to display the items using an unordered list as follows.
@model IEnumerable<MvcMusicStore.Models.Genre>
 @foreach (var genre in Model) {
@Html.ActionLink(genre.Name, "Browse", "Store", new { Genre = genre.Name }, null)
 }

Updating Site Layout to display our Partial Views
We can add our partial views to the Site Layout (/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml) by calling Html.RenderAction(). We'll add them both in, as well as some additional markup to display them, as shown below:
<!DOCTYPE html>   <title>@ViewBag.Title</title> <link href="@Url.Content("~/Content/Site.css")" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

ASP.NET MVC MUSIC STORE

  Home

Store

@{Html.RenderAction("CartSummary", "ShoppingCart");}

 Admin

 @{Html.RenderAction("GenreMenu", "Store");}
 @RenderBody()

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Now when we run the application, we will see the Genre in the left navigation area and the Cart Summary at the top.
Update to the Store Browse page
The Store Browse page is functional, but doesn't look very good. We can update the page to show the albums in a better layout by updating the view code (found in /Views/Store/Browse.cshtml) as follows:
@model MvcMusicStore.Models.Genre @{ ViewBag.Title = "Browse Albums"; }

@Model.Name Albums

 @foreach (var album in Model.Albums) {
   @album.Title
 }

Here we are making use of Url.Action rather than Html.ActionLink so that we can apply special formatting to the link to include the album artwork.
Note: We are displaying a generic album cover for these albums. This information is stored in the database and is editable via the Store Manager. You are welcome to add your own artwork.
Now when we browse to a Genre, we will see the albums shown in a grid with the album artwork.
Updating the Home Page to show Top Selling Albums
We want to feature our top selling albums on the home page to increase sales. We'll make some updates to our HomeController to handle that, and add in some additional graphics as well.
First, we'll add a navigation property to our Album class so that EntityFramework knows that they're associated. The last few lines of our Album class should now look like this:
public virtual Genre Genre { get; set; } public virtual Artist Artist { get; set; } public virtual List<OrderDetail>OrderDetails { get; set; } } }
Note: This will require adding a using statement to bring in the System.Collections.Generic namespace.
First, we'll add a storeDB field and the MvcMusicStore.Models using statements, as in our other controllers. Next, we'll add the following method to the HomeController which queries our database to find top selling albums according to OrderDetails.
private List<Album> GetTopSellingAlbums(int count) { // Group the order details by album and return // the albums with the highest count return storeDB.Albums .OrderByDescending(a => a.OrderDetails.Count()) .Take(count) .ToList(); }
This is a private method, since we don't want to make it available as a controller action. We are including it in the HomeController for simplicity, but you are encouraged to move your business logic into separate service classes as appropriate.
With that in place, we can update the Index controller action to query the top 5 selling albums and return them to the view.
public ActionResult Index() { // Get most popular albums var albums = GetTopSellingAlbums(5); return View(albums); }
The complete code for the updated HomeController is as shown below.
using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web.Mvc; using MvcMusicStore.Models; namespace MvcMusicStore.Controllers { public class HomeController : Controller { // // GET: /Home/ MusicStoreEntities storeDB = new MusicStoreEntities(); public ActionResult Index() { // Get most popular albums var albums = GetTopSellingAlbums(5); return View(albums); } private List<Album> GetTopSellingAlbums(int count) { // Group the order details by album and return // the albums with the highest count return storeDB.Albums .OrderByDescending(a => a.OrderDetails.Count()) .Take(count) .ToList(); } } }
Finally, we'll need to update our Home Index view so that it can display a list of albums by updating the Model type and adding the album list to the bottom. We will take this opportunity to also add a heading and a promotion section to the page.
@model List<MvcMusicStore.Models.Album> @{ ViewBag.Title = "ASP.NET MVC Music Store"; }

Fresh off the grill

 @foreach (var album in Model) {
  @album.Title
 }

Now when we run the application, we'll see our updated home page with top selling albums and our promotional message.
We've seen that that ASP.NET MVC makes it easy to create a sophisticated website with database access, membership, AJAX, etc. pretty quickly. Hopefully this tutorial has given you the tools you need to get started building your own ASP.NET MVC applications!
Please use the Discussions at http://mvcmusicstore.codeplex.com for any questions or comments.
This article was originally created on April 21, 2011


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GREENWOOD, WI - A former Greenwood, Wisconsin, teacher has won a settlement from a local teacher union and the school district for refusing to honor her constitutional rights and for failing to follow federal disclosure requirements.
Spanish teacher Amy Anaya taught in the School District of Greenwood for a year. When Anaya was first hired by the district in August 2011, Greenwood Education Association (GEA) union officials illegally told her that she "had to" sign the union's membership form. When GEA union officials demanded Anaya join the union, she told them that she had no desire to become a union member.
Anaya told Foundation Action that her initial reason for not wanting to join the union was its support of causes she opposed. "[The union] also defended teachers that should have been more concerned about improving themselves than moving up the pay scale and getting more benefits," said Anaya.
Beginning on September 9, 2011, union officials began collecting full union dues, or $31.35, from each of Anaya's paychecks anyway. In December 2011, GEA union officials again demanded that Anaya join the union, and she again informed them that she was not interested in joining.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has long recognized that a public sector worker has a First Amendment right to refrain from formal union membership at any time. Moreover, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Foundation's Chicago Teachers Union v. Hudson case that union officials who collect union fees as a condition of employment must first provide nonmember public sector workers with an independently-audited financial breakdown of all forced-dues union expenditures and the opportunity to object and challenge the amount of forced union fees before an impartial decisionmaker.
And with passage of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's Act 10 public sector unionism reform in 2011, which contains a provision that gives most Wisconsin civil servants Right to Work protections, no Wisconsin teacher can be forced to pay any union dues or fees as a condition of employment.
Union officials failed to provide Anaya with her U.S. Supreme Court-mandated constitutional protections and the school district deducted full union dues from her paychecks for the entire school year. Moreover, the union brass negotiated a contract with the school district in an attempt to skirt Act 10's provisions giving Greenwood teachers the Right to Work.
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This has got to be the most brilliant strip ever. Scott you never cease to amaze me.
Sometimes your strip makes me smile because of your wit.
Other times, I laugh. This one made me laugh everytime I reread it.
Shared it with everyone I know.
lol, loved panel 3.
Actually, when I was a developer for a very, very small web dev shop, I can tell you that I shared these thoughts many times. If you only could imagine how often we'd say, "they want WHAT? We're not doing that. We'll fire ourselves first."
How... exactly... does one pronounce BDGAAA?
After about two weeks of reading through all your comics, I must say this to you: Give me a hug!
But seriously. They're all amazing.
Somehow you created Scott the Two-Headed Monster between panels 1 and 2. I like it. Zaphod Beeblescott, we'll call him.
Wait a minute - isn't that almost exactly how Kirk defeats Harry Mudd in "I, Mudd"?
first ^_^
but yeah, well done on this one
logic twisting is fun :D
I genuinely hope you win the war against your throat Scott.
So will we be seeing the super hero reruns?
Love it!
Yay for happy lies!
@ Curious: It's pronounced "BDGAAA!," hopefully you've found this to be helpful.
Note from Scott: Actually, the b, g and d are pronounced almost simultaneously, giving the impression of several exclamations trying to force their way out of your word-hole at once.
@curious - its pronouncec phonetically - Buh, Duh, Gaa, as fast and angrily as you can.
@arkla - ninth, actually
@scott - have you considered a spinoff comic where you only do one panel comics? 1/4 the time, and still hilarious enough to keep everyone coming back! I don't know where you come up with consistently winning comics three times a week without fail, its brilliant!
BGDAAA! Love it!
Yes ... Zaphod Beeblescott; he needs "work-sensitive sunglasses," doncha think?
This was a good one Scott.
I have similar things happen to me when I'm talking to customers that don't realize the cheaper item they see at Sam's Club is NOT the same as the one we sell.
(Sam's/Walmart has a well established record of having electronics made specifically for their store alone, to prevent price-matching. If you look the model number up on the manufacturer's website, you often cannot find it as it's not part of their standard product line. But trying to tell a customer that is a nightmare – one I've had several times already)
Long time reader, first time poster. Just had to compliment you on such a finely crafted strip. One of the best in a while---which is saying something considering the consistent quality. I look forward to MWF mornings now.
I can see this strip being posted in many an internet-forum discussion in the future...
It's awesome how a comic which is funny like this one can update so often. There are others that usually make me just go "meh" that have half the posting schedule. Awesome, I say!
Is BDGAAA a euphemism? :)
If I posted every time you made me laugh, I'd look like a creeper. I have to say, you're a genious! Really great strip!
Something tells me if a robot read this, its brain would explode.
And now, bring the throat roto-rooter! :)
(I'm a doctor so I'm allowed to make jokes of these things)
"hiring us to us go back hurrah, hurrah! da-da-da-da-da da-da, da-da..."
OK, frame 4 should really be a T-shirt all by itself...maybe left as it is, or for us consultants you could add at the end "...and charging you for it"


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Wind and more wind — screaming, screeching, howling, yowling, slamming, bashing and blowing faster than a speeding bullet. Livestock have to be quick to keep up with their flying feed. While good that the nasty zephyrs bare off the hillsides and meadows so the cattle can eat, the constant beating and banging can drive one bonkers.
In town, I must park either downwind or upwind depending on which way the blasts will hit me. Such as stopping at the hardware store for a couple of items. Returning to my truck, I couldn't get the door open. Well, I could open it, but was unable to hold on to my package and brace the door open and climb in.
Thankfully, I live in a small town. Re-entering the store, I implored the clerk to accompany me outside. She did which assistance allowed me to clamber within my vehicle.
Should I meet another individual, head down, pointed into the wind, I recognize the person only by the shoes or boots as I too am plodding along, head bent against the blast. Should the wind suddenly cease, I would fall flat on my face.
Traveling to another town 35 miles away, I had to drive into a head-wind that rocked and buffeted my truck as if it were a mere toy. Driving home, however, the tail-wind pushed me gaily along. I didn't even need gasoline. Just went with the whipping flow.
Many newcomers who have moved "out west" and built or bought their dream dwelling fall into the dismals trying to adapt to the constant flogging, flailing winds. Big picture windows are not the best choice for a house built on a hill top. The rattling panes sound like a heavy-metal band is at work. The blustering currents can slice shingles off roof tops and sometimes the roof as well.
Once a traveler, stopping for gasoline at the town station, complained to the attendant: "How can anybody live here in this awful wind?!
Without missing a beat, the pump jockey said, "What wind? This is just a little local breeze."
The Wind, The Wind, The Wind
The wind, the wind, the dad-blamed
cursed beastly piercing gales
They whistle o'er the mountain tops
with lonesome banshee wails.
No man, no woman, child nor beast
can stand against its force
Those dreadful scalping currents
can blast a cowboy off his horse.
Folks walk half-bent, heads hunched down,
their hands upon their hats
And if the wind should cease a second,
they're apt to fall kersplat!
Cowpokes standing 'round a pickup
just chewing on their snoose
Refrain from spitting into the wind
for fear of freckle juice.
Cats and dogs have their fur
sand-blasted off their hides
And trees and plants have branches
growing only on one side.
Kids get lifted off their feet and
blown to Grandma's digs
And Grandma's bald because
the wind has snatched away her wig.
Well, I for one, have had it with
the raw and chilling wind
It blows me helter-skelter till
I don't know where I've been.
When I retire I do not want
the trade winds kissing me
No drafts, no puffs, no breezes,
please, on my anatomy.
Just give me temperature that's mild
and sun that is superb
Where birds and bees don't lose their
wings in gales of 90 per.
Just let me bask in flowery bower
and wander on green grass
Where the only wind displeasing comes
— from someone passing gas. ❖


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Slide RulesManuals & Documentation
Keuffel & Esser, Pickett, Dietzgen, and other major slide rule companies often included an instruction manual in the purchase of the instrument. Some donors have provided these booklets and other paper items, such as advertising flyers, directions for cleaning slide rules, warranty certificates, and even cash register receipts. The Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago previously owned and displayed one of the Thacher cylindrical slide rules, and it arrived with its exhibit label. To see the instruction manuals alongside the objects they explained, please see the index by makers & retailers page.
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Instructions for Sterling Metric Converter Slide Rule
- Description
- This one-page, two-sided flyer was received with 1990.0689.01. At the top of the front, it is marked with the Sterling Plastics logo and the words: STERLING metric converter (/) BASED ON THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF UNITS (SI). The instructions explain how to read off the sixteen conversions between metric and English units that are found on the Metric Converter slide rule. Tables of metric prefixes and of common equivalents and conversions are also provided. At the bottom of the back, the flyer is marked: STERLING PLASTICS DIVISION OF BORDEN CHEMICAL, BORDEN INC. • SHEFFIELD ST., MOUNTAINSIDE, N.J. 07092 (/) PRINTED IN U.S.A. The Borden logo appears to the right of the mark.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- date made
- 1972
- maker
- Sterling Plastics
- ID Number
- 1990.0689.03
- accession number
- 1990.0689
- catalog number
- 1990.0689.03
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center


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While most travelers head for Italy during the summer to take advantage of the nice weather, there's something to be said for spending Christmas in Italy. Any place is especially fun to visit when it's decked out in its holiday finery, and the added bonus of experiencing Christmas traditions that may be new to you can make your trip even more exciting and memorable. Here are a few of the things to know about planning a trip to Italy during Christmastime.
Christmas Traditions
Christmas, called "Natale" in Italian, looks in Italy quite a bit like you might expect. Christmas trees are a newer addition to the traditional Italian decor, but now you'll see big trees erected in public squares all lit up. The most common Christmas decor in Italy, usually seen starting in early December, are Nativity scenes – called "presepi" in Italian. These are found in public squares, in churches, in shops and restaurants and in private homes. Some cities even have living Nativity scenes enacted daily by locals in costume throughout the season.
Santa Claus goes by the name "Babbo Natale" – which is Father Christmas to us – but he's also a more modern addition. The gift-bearing character is actually La Befana, a witch who rides a broomstick into Italian homes and leaves presents for children the night before the Epiphany (January 6th).
You may be familiar with outdoor Christmas markets in countries like Austria and Germany, and in Italy there are some cities that have similar markets. Most of these are in the north, especially the Germanic Trentino-Alto Adige region. Otherwise look for markets in major public squares, where you'll often find vendors selling roasted chestnuts and (sometimes) hot mulled wine.
Italians have a big family dinner on Christmas Eve, but what's on the table will differ from region to region. Sweets play a prominent role almost regardless of where you go, however, and there are some desserts you'll only see at this time of year: including panettone, a sweet bread from Milan, and struffoli, deep-fried balls of dough from Naples.
Italy is predominantly Catholic, and Midnight Mass is held in churches throughout the country on Christmas Eve. If you're in Rome, you can head to Vatican City to see the Pope's Christmas Eve address in St. Peter's Square.
Visitor's Tips
Although winter is typically part of Italy's low tourist season, there's a small spike around the holidays – Christmas and New Year's – that can mean a jump in the cost of things like airfare and hotels. This is especially true in cities that are well-known for their holiday celebrations, so plan ahead and book flights and accommodation well in advance.
Depending on where you go, many things may be closed (or on shorter hours) over the holidays, too. Check official websites to find out whether museums and other attractions are closed (many are closed on December 24-25); and when you arrive you may need to scout out restaurants that will be open, too. You should be able to get some help in that regard from the concierge at your hotel – and be prepared with a back-up plan of a picnic in your hotel room after a trip to the local food market just in case.
The weather in December varies quite a bit depending on what part of Italy you're in. In the north and in any mountainous areas it can be very cold and snowy. Along the coasts it's more likely to be cold and rainy. Further south, you may get some rain but it's less apt to be cold – the temperatures in the south are much milder in winter (again, except for in the mountains). Check the current weather reports right before you leave so you know how to pack.


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2001-2003 Ford Explorer Sport Puddle Light Mirror Pair Power with1AMRP00019-304990
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Removing the Door Panel (0:55)
- Pry out the door handle bezel
- Remove the two Phillips screws under the door pull.
- Pry out the upper switch.
- Disconnect the harness.
- Using a putty knife pry out the clips around the door panel.
- Lift the door panel up and off.
- Press down the teeth and slide the switch panel through.
Removing the Side Mirror (3:54)
- Remove the speaker.
- Unplug the mirror harness.
- Remove the three 11mm nuts that secure the mirror.
- Pull the mirror out and off.
Replacing the Side Mirror (6:11)
- Feed the harness down though the door.
- Replace the three 11mm bolts.
- Reconnect the harness.
- Replace the speaker.
Replacing the Door Panel (8:33)
- Press the switch panel back into the door panel.
- Put the panel into place and push the clips back into the door.
- Reconnect the upper switch and replace it.
- Replace the two Phillips screws.
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SAPELO ISLAND, GA. — Fran Drayton recalls childhood visits to her grandmother, staying in her bed and sleeping under homemade quilts on this isolated Sea Island.
Sapelo Island —A brief history
2000 B.C. — Indians occupy Sapelo Island.
1600s — A Spanish mission village, San Jose de Zapala is located on the island and is the island's namesake. The village is gone by 1684.
1802 — Thomas Spalding acquires the island and eventually becomes one of Georgia's chief planters of cotton and sugar cane and owns about 400 slaves.
1820 — A lighthouse is built at the island's southern end, marking the entrance to Sapelo Sound and the shipping channel to Darien, Ga.
1865 — Some of the island's slaves choose to remain on Sapelo following the Civil War and coalesce into several communities.
1912 —The island is acquired by Howard Coffin, an automobile pioneer.
1934 — The island is acquired by tobacco magnate Richard J. Reynolds, who converts much of it into a hunting preserve during the next 30 years.
1960 — Reynolds moves the slave descendants from Raccoon Bluff inland to Hog Hammock, the last of the former slave settlements to survive.
1976 — The state of Georgia finishes its purchase of about 18,000 acres from the Reynolds Estate and converts the island to an estuarine research preserve.
2012 — A McIntosh County property revaluation causes many property tax bills on Hog Hammock to spike, stirring concerns about the future viability of its Gullah-Geechee community.
Drayton, 85, says her grandmother's Gullah speech would pronounce covers as "civer." Sometimes it felt as if every quilt she ever made was placed atop the small child, and Drayton then would try to squirm out.
"She'd say, 'Do you have civer, baby?' and she'd cover me all over again."
Today, Drayton and her neighbors in Hog Hammock — the island's only surviving Gullah/Geechee community — say they're being smothered by something else: rising property tax bills that threaten to disrupt their coastal culture just as the federal government and others are attempting to preserve and promote it.
Cornelia Bailey, one of Drayton's neighbors, said she has seen the taxes on property her family owns rise from $256 to almost $2,000 in a year, and the community's plight already has made national news on CNN and in The New York Times.
"People are calling and offering sympathy and saying, 'I wish they couldn't do that to you all,' " Bailey said. "We need legal help. We need money to pay legal help. We need good ideas and suggestions."
"If we don't get these taxes down to a decent level, we don't have a chance in hell to bring back young people to the island."
A trip to Sapelo
Most of this island, about 96 percent, is a government-owned wildlife refuge, reachable only by boat or plane. A ferry makes the 20-minute trip between Sapelo and Meridian about three times a day.
Drayton occasionally leads groups of birdwatchers, photographers and other tourists to the island, where she shows them the lighthouse, the tabby ruins of the old sugar mill, and the R.J. Reynolds mansion, among other sights.
She also shows them her home in Hog Hammock. The neighborhood covers only 434 of the island's 16,000 acres, and dozens of small homes are dotted around its small network of dirt roads. To keep its character intact, homes are limited in square footage and height.
The small homes and large lots give the area a rural feel, and Drayton said many here raise collards, cabbage, corn, peas, beans and watermelon, though commercial farming has long since ceased. Cows, deer and goats roam.
Still, some parcels have changed hands here in recent years, and a few newer homes have been built as rental properties. They stand out against the mobile homes and some dilapidated ones.
"When a new house is built, they don't tear down the old house," Drayton explained.
The community's sign places the population at 70, but Bailey and others said 50 might be a better number. Many live here only part time, and while people always are coming and going, everyone knows one another.
"You don't lock your car. You don't lock your house. Isn't it wonderful?" Drayton said. "They want to take that from us."
The battle is on
McIntosh County revalued or reassessed property on Sapelo last year, and some of the new values jumped tenfold.
County officials have said the increases are a result of both recent land sales in Hog Hammock as well as errors and dubious past policies that have kept property taxes artificially low. Brett Cook, manager of both McIntosh County and the city of Darien, told The New York Times the county supports the island's Geechee culture, in part by helping to sponsor a cultural festival this summer.
"It's a wonderful history and a huge draw for our ecotourism," Cook told the Times.
Tax Assessors Board Chairman James Larkin told CNN that Sapelo residents helped bring the problem on themselves because some sold property to non-islanders who built bigger, upscale vacation homes. Neither Larkin nor Cook returned calls requesting comment for this story.
Reed Colfax, a Washington lawyer, is helping some island residents with their property tax appeals, and he also has filed a discrimination complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
"We believe there is evidence to show there is intention to discriminate, to show this African-American population is being targeted, perhaps because McIntosh County doesn't believe they have a powerful voice and will be able to push back," he said.
It's hard for Sapelo residents to influence county officials because they are few in number and it's a long trip by boat and car to the county seat. Depending on the ferry schedule, they might not be able to go and return home the same day.
"I attended three commission meetings with the same complaint: Why can't you clean the ditches?" Drayton said. "The third time, the chair of the commission said, 'You know you're the only one complaining?' I have not been back. And the ditches still have not been cleaned."
Heritage Corridor help?
Rising property taxes and property sales to developers have eroded Gullah/Geechee communities along the Southeastern coast for decades.
What is different about the Sapelo situation is that it comes shortly after Congress and the National Park Service formed the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission, a group of officials from four states who are trying to raise awareness of the culture, improve the quality of life for Gullah/Geechee people and protect, preserve and restore their communities.
Michael Allen, a Park Service ranger based in Charleston, is the commission's community partnership specialist.
"Unfortunately, what's happening on Sapelo is indicative of what's happening throughout the whole corridor," he said. "I've seen this type of conversation, whether it's Sapelo, whether it's Hilton Head or whether it's Johns Island."
Allen said at issue is whether these traditional communities should be penalized —and altered —because of a modern intrusion of wealth.
"At the very heart of it all is land – land retention, land ownership, and land within those communities and families," he said.
Charles Hall, who spends part of his time on Sapelo and part on Hilton Head Island, serves as the secretary to the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.
"They're still trying to increase the tax, and our belief is it's because the developers want the land and want to tax people off the land, particularly those who don't have the means or the income to even pay the taxes," he said.
The commission sent a letter to Colfax this fall voicing support for McIntosh County Commissioner Charles Jordan's plan to allow residents in Hog Hammock to receive a preferential tax assessment because of their historic district.
"The ordinance would freeze the property tax assessments at the 2011 level and would allow the Hog Hammock community to survive," the letter said, adding, "Sapelo Island, Ga., which is home to Hog Hammock, is the one remaining intact Gullah Geechee community in the USA. The McIntosh County imposition of unprecedented property tax increases on Sapelo Island is in direct opposition to the mission and goals that the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission was established to uphold."
So far, Jordan's proposal has not moved.
A future at stake
Even if residents successfully push back against the rising property taxes, there's a larger issue looming as more people seem interested in moving to this pristine barrier island.
Drayton said some have suggested putting most of Hog Hammock in a land trust, but the idea didn't go anywhere.
Hall said island residents face other challenges, such as pursuing land claims, road upkeep, poor drainage, trash collection, handicapped access at the ferry dock and residents' access to tourism and other jobs on the island.
"Right now, we have to get this tax abatement straightened out," he said. "Then we can deal with a lot of other stuff."
Meanwhile, more property is changing hands and newer homes and rental properties are being built, often by those with no historical ties to the community. Over time, it is possible such properties could erode the culture, whether that's the intention or not.
Those boarding the ferry on the mainland can take shelter in a small room overlooking Sapelo Sound. On a bulletin board there is taped a front-page Oct. 10 editorial in The Darien News.
The editorial recounts Hog Hammock's ongoing saga of rising property taxes and subsequent court battles that continue to this day, but it also suggests the only lasting solution lies in creating a tax district, a new authority or something "bigger, better and more innovative" to protect both the community and the county's taxpayers.
"What is ultimately at stake is the future of Sapelo Island's Hog Hammock Geechee-Gullah culture," it concludes. "Sooner than later, the line has to be drawn as to whether this cultural lifestyle of slaves can continue or not."
Ten of the island's Gullah/Geechee communities already have vanished or been consolidated to the 434 acres in the island's middle. Only one remains.
"When other people look at the Hog Hammock community — that's all we have now — they just see a little community with dirt roads," Drayton said. "But we see people in it."
Reach Robert Behre at 937-5771.
It's not hard to understand why people would value living or vacationing on Sapelo Island, which is mostly a nature preserve with pristine beaches, expansive marshes and a few picturesque historic sights, such as this lighthouse on the island's southern tip.×
Old homes in Hog Hammock aren't torn down but instead simply left to the elements, such as this modest home built by Fran Drayton's father, George Williams.×
This front-page Oct. 10, 2013 editorial in The Darien News is posted in the Meridian, Ga. shelter where those going to Sapelo Island wait for the ferry. Robert Behre/Staff×
Cornelia Bailey, left, talks with Fran Drayton outside Hog Hammock's only store. Both share a deep concern about the future of their community and its Gullah-Geechee culture.×
This new residence in Sapelo Island's Hog Hammock looks larger than most of the traditional homes here, largely because of its large wraparound porch.×
Sapelo Island's historic black cemetery is called "Behavior," after the long-gone slave community that once occupied there. Robert Behre/Staff×
Hog Hammock community is the last of several Sapelo Island communities still largely owned and occupied by descendants of former slaves. Its future is unclear as property taxes rise. Robert Behre/Staff×
Drayton, center, gets off the ferry on Sapelo Island's dock. Her famiily roots are on the island, where she returned to live full time five years ago.×


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But nobody would really buy it.
MDK never really was that popular even if the reviews scored it highly
It was made by the same people as Earthworm Jim
Via thatgamingsite.comThe pooch in question
Classic adventure on the way
MDK2 is a game about a six-legged dog and a mad professor that should guarantee your attention even if you haven't played the game in question. Developed by BioWare and released on Dreamcast, PC and PlayStation 2, the game was highly acclaimed but mostly forgotten, but publisher Interplay is set to revive the title with a WiiWare release.
Although there is no news on any planned improvements or control tweaks, the fact the well-regarded game is on the way to Wii is cause for celebration indeed. Here's the official announcement to prove it's not all a wonderful dream starring a six-legged dog.
Interplay and Beamdog Announce MDK2 on WiiWare and MDK2 HD on PC
June 24th, 2010, 9:00 AM - PRESS RELEASE
(June 24th, 2010) Interplay Entertainment Corp. and Beamdog partner to bring MDK2 to the Nintendo Wii and MDK2 HD to the PC.
It is a great pleasure to announce that we are returning to the adventures of Kurt Hectic, Dr. Hawkins and the 6-legged gun-toting robotic dog Max, said Hervé Caen, CEO of Interplay. MDK2 was a great title to work on and we're happy to have some of the original team working on these new versions, seconded Trent Oster, co-Founder of Beamdog.
MDK2 for Wii is expected to be released during coming Winter and is planned for electronic distribution through Nintendo's WiiWare service. MDK2 HD will follow on the PC through the Beamdog digital distribution platform.
But nobody would really buy it.
MDK never really was that popular even if the reviews scored it highly
It was made by the same people as Earthworm Jim
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Not interested. Looks lame.............yawn.
I went to Wiiso .com this place is lame and noone chats here anymore! Good bye. meet me at wiiso, it's better!