text: Devils toy box CTTCM posted:5/11/2013 10:55:46 PM Has anyone had any experiences with this? I just heard about it, and am not sure what to think.CTTCM posted:5/11/2013 10:57:55 PM I am scheduled to be on the radio, talking to people about paranormal investigating, and would like other peoples opinions. I personally strongly advise people to not experiment with the unknown just for run, as it can lead to very bad consequences.bobprin posted:5/12/2013 6:06:47 AM You're not going to show this film on the radio are you?bobprin posted:5/12/2013 7:22:31 AM Ok, I was curious. Google devils toy box and there is the article for this thread. I read it and I guess you need six mirrors all the same size. Put them together in a cube form (mirrored sides in), and then do nothing. There were several comments from over 2 years ago. I guess to make it fun you place a black cat inside and then seal it. It was not recommended for a sex toy, but it will take up space in your room.LincolnGenghis posted:5/12/2013 8:15:43 AM Well the whole premiss on the devils toy box is suppose to be the mystical property of the mirrors. With the mirrors all facing each other they are suppose to be able to trap and amplify ahh things... spirits and such. There is allot of lore and stories on mirrors probably going all the way back to their inception. The devils toy box is pretty much suppose to follow along those lines except it is suppose to have a more supercharged effect then a regular mirror. Your best angle on researching things like the devils toybox if you can't find allot of information on one would be to look up the history of mirrors in the occult and the paranormal. I personally don't quite buy the premiss of the devils toybox exactly because if you think about it .. Once it is sealed up, the inside is in total darkness and therefore in complete absence light which would result in the mirrors not really being mirrors anymore. Without light what would they reflect? I would be curious though if somebody was able seal up a real small real sensitive light meter inside the box and run the connection for it out one of the corners of the box to a meter. (of course sealing up around the cord at the box edge to preserve the integrity of the total darkness of the box.) If you wind up with some readings that would be intersting indeed. If I saw some data like that it would force me to have a beer or two. (Or holy water as I call it) :) bobprin posted:5/13/2013 8:35:10 AM Yes, mirrors can be spooky. Every time I look in one there is a monster in there that apes what I do.gary107 posted:5/13/2013 11:14:32 AM some gray haired old guy has gotten into mine.gary107 posted:5/13/2013 11:49:32 AM I remember as a freshman in college a particular Physics lecture about a cat in a box and a probability question, the likelihood that dropping a poison gas capsule in an acid bath what would be the % chance of the cat still being alive after x times duration? Germans and their poison gas, I hope the lab assistant told "S" to check on his own cat for himself. Or he checked and the cat did not like the smell of the acid and jumped out of the box and ran away. Put "S" in the box and try again.Wereparadox posted:5/13/2013 5:18:58 PM In Reply To:bobprin posted:5/13/2013 8:35:10 AM Yes, mirrors can be spooky. Every time I look in one there is a monster in there that apes what I do.You guys will never ever believe me. But your right Bob mirrors are not you. Science will try to tell you your reflection in just light rays bouncing bla bla bla. But there's more to them they have always been conciderd as door ways and they are. Not always but is it funny how you concider that immage to be yourself. Like your finger or foot. Its not. These man made portals can be decieving. If the immage in the mirror looks a bit older than you just except it. That's you right? Nope. It looks like you but it is not you. I'm not saying that if you never looked into a mirror that you wouldn't get older but just when you see that wrinkle or blemish don't give that immage to much credit. Belief is power. Not all powerfull but still very strong. I'l tell you a story from my younger days that you won't take for face value but that's what happend. I was playing with the mirror. Doing the old bloody mary thing. Did you guys ever try staring into a mirror without moving your eyes or blinking how your immage tends to distort and get creepy. If you haven't you should try it alone and at night. Doesn't matter how much lighting. But anyway so I got bored and stopped . I turned around to take a wizz. When I turned back around and was looking at the back of my head. At first I was like yup that's how my head looks. Then I realized "wait that's not how it works." And just then my immage turned and faced towards me. It took all of 5 seconds but. Ever since then I don't trust mirrors too much. I use them as they are usefull. But whatever that thing is I always know it is not me. So what I'm saying is don't trust your immage at face value. Yes that is a pun. Your not as wretched or old as it looks. Remeber belief alone is strong enough to curse you or help you. Its all in how you wield it. One of my first motto's "Every curse has a benefit and every benefit a curse." -Wereparadoxbobprin posted:5/13/2013 6:26:09 PM I'm an idiot, I'll try it!! Do I have to take a wizz too? Well I will if I have to. I'll let you know if anything happens.Jaxerback posted:5/13/2013 9:09:03 PM And I thought Gary was nuts.... gary107 posted:5/14/2013 2:26:16 AM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/eternal-flame-chestnut-ridge-park_n_3266918.html?ncid=webmail10Wereparadox posted:5/15/2013 1:28:10 PM So did anyone actually try stareing into a mirror and not blinking or movong your eyes at night maybe with a low light source? Just looking at your image? Or are you too scared. Almost nothing I say is truly "nuts". I actually have a very scientific mind. I test thing multiple times and useually for years before I even bother mension it to anyone. If something is new to me then I'll tell someone just so. Maybe its just my warped brain but the longer I stare without blinking or moveing my eyes at my image the wierder it gets. That back of the head thing only happend once but that's what I saw like it or lump it.Wereparadox posted:5/15/2013 1:38:08 PM P.s. creating an eternal flame was the first test/step for an apprentice alchemist. I can do it in theory. Forgot most of it. But I still remember the basic parts. Man if I only had the memory C.S. Lewis. I would beable to prove the nature of the universe or at least make up an awsome dissertation. I've spent a lot of my life seeing if the immposible is true. Please log in or become a member to add a post.


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Vermont Press Bureau | March 19,2014MONTPELIER Realignment of the states school districts could cost more than $11 million in salary adjustments and administrative expenses.
The House Education Committee took testimony Tuesday from William Talbott, chief financial officer for the Agency of Education, who offered some very preliminary estimates for expenses surrounding a proposal in the committee to create a series of large school districts across the state.
The proposal calls for the elimination of supervisory unions and the creation of multischool districts, each with a single governing board and a single budget.
While offering a caveat that the figures are very much back of the envelope meaning not at all final Talbott estimated the change could cost the districts upward of $11.4 million.
During a meeting last week, Talbott met financial managers from supervisory unions across the state and asked them to estimate how much district realignment would cost. At the high end, the average estimate came in at $50,000 for each supervisory union.
Across 40 supervisory unions, that cost comes to $2 million.
These expected expenses include the legal expenses of a merger, costs surrounding the blending of information technology, and final audits as the supervisory unions close their books forever.
That $2 million pales in comparison to potential costs as employees from different school districts all come to work for a single employer with a single salary schedule.
Not all salary schedules are the same, Talbott said, noting that salaries can vary from one region to another and between contiguous school districts. Its not a huge spread, but its something to take into account.
Talbott estimated salary alignment could result in pay increases for about 4,700 school staff, which can include everyone from teachers to custodians. For an annual salary increase of $1,000 per person, the resulting cost would be approximately $4.7 million. At $2,000 a person, the cost would be more than $9.4 million. The estimates do not take into account the fact that, under the governance proposal, there is an expectation that there will be fewer administrators, meaning fewer salaries to pay.
We anticipate that, sooner or later, there will be savings, but we dont know what that will be yet, Talbott said.
Also unknown is how much the proposal might cost for the Agency of Education, which, under the draft bill, would be charged with the task of offering guidance to districts as they look to consolidate. Committee members asked Talbott to return with estimates of how the draft bill would affect the agency.
While some might be looking to the draft bill as a response to rising education costs especially in light of the defeat of 35 school budgets at town meetings earlier this month the expressed intent of the bill is not to reduce costs but to increase the access students have to education opportunities, regardless of the size of the school.
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As he continues to stretch out the timetable on a decision about whether to escalate the U.S. commitment to the war in Afghanistan, President Obama has asked for a province-by-province assessment of the tribal and other local leaders in that mountainous country.
The ostensible reason is to try to figure out which local regions have leaders inclined to cooperate with the U.S. and able to provide a modicum of stability, meaning there would be little need for a lot of U.S. troops.
To many people, however, this looks like almost obsessive micromanagement from Washington of a country about which even most reputed experts in this country know little.
In some ways one can understand President Obama taking his time and immersing himself in detail. Recent polls show a plurality of Americans oppose sending more troops to Afghanistan, and a growing number of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don't think the war is worth fighting at all. In addition, events of recent days hardly bode well for the war becoming more popular at home.
First came the resignation from the State Department of Matthew Hoh, a former Marine who saw combat in Iraq and had been put in charge of U.S. operations in rural Zabul province.
"The dead return only in bodily form to be received by families who must be reassured their dead have sacrificed for a purpose worthy of futures lost, love vanished, and promised dreams unkept," Hoh wrote in his letter. "I have lost confidence that such assurances can anymore be made."
Then came the news that Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of current Afghan president Hamid Karzai, the de facto leader of Afghanistan in much of the south around Kandahar, has likely been on the CIA payroll in various ways for the better part of eight years. Almost every knowledgeable observer believes Ahmed Karzai is deeply implicated in the opium trade and in the corruption that seems to flourish in the Afghan government.
A number of U.S. officials have openly urged President Hamid Karzai to give his brother the boot to help restore at least an appearance of a semblance of integrity. Yet meanwhile the CIA has been funding him for years? Does the right hand of the government know what the left hand is doing? Are different agencies of the government working at cross-purposes? Or is the U.S. government simply stumbling along, making more enemies and increasingly being seen as foreign occupiers in a country it ill understands?
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Williamstown digs out from overnight stormBy Stefan Hard
Stefan Hard / Staff Photo Town, state and federal officials look over the remains of Flint Road in Williamstown on Tuesday after overnight flash flooding wiped out a portion of the road.
WILLIAMSTOWN What happened overnight into Tuesday in Williamstown was the definition of localized flash flooding.
Anyone south of town might not have even noticed that it rained overnight. A mile north of the village at the time of the flood, the stars were out overhead. But the center of Williamstown saw something very different.
Specifically, if you were within a swath that ran down Flint Road to Construction Hill Road and Brush Hill Road to the intersection of routes 64 and 14 and then through the neighborhoods just below, you saw heavy rains and flooding.
Sometime around 10 p.m. Monday, rain began to fall over Williamstown in a storm that apparently stalled over the ridge between Northfield and Williamstown. By 1 a.m., all hell had broken loose as the Stevens Branch raged and topped its banks, severing roads and dumping water, mud and debris in very inconvenient places.
Town Manager Jackie Higgins got a call from Town Clerk Barbara Graham shortly after 1 a.m. and went to see what the trouble was.
The water was over the top of the bridge at the intersection of Route 64 and Route 14, said Higgins on Tuesday. The water was going straight down through peoples properties. I later walked through 6 inches of silt to cross Route 14 to get a look.
Some homeowners just below the bridge and intersection in the center of town had more than 3 feet of water in their basements, and some mobile homes had water coming up to their main floor.
It rained heavy for a couple of hours, said Higgins. A mass of water went down into the village. Firefighters were up to their waists down by the ballfield.
About 20 families were told to evacuate around 1 a.m. Tuesday as town officials, firefighters and the Red Cross worked to keep residents away from danger. The Red Cross set up a temporary shelter at Williamstown Middle/High School to house those fleeing their homes.
One young family in a mobile home on Meadow Street, next to the Little League field, was the only family unable to return home or stay with friends and family and would be put up in a hotel, Red Cross official Steve Pernicka said Tuesday.
The Red Cross also provided about 200 snacks and 100 meals to anyone who needed food, Pernicka said, either by mobile delivery trucks or at the fire station. The Red Cross also distributed cleanup tools and supplies.
Tuesday morning, Vermont Agency of Transportation District 6 workers used shovels, bucket loaders and a scrubber to remove thick silt and tree debris from the roadway, raising a cloud of fine dust as the muck began to dry out.
The Stevens Branch had carried tree limbs and at least one entire tree downstream to the bridge at the routes 14 and 64 intersection, constricting the opening and sending some of the brooks contents into the Randolph National Bank at the corner, flooding the building. The bank was closed Tuesday, and crews began to clean up.
Richard Bottiggi, who owns the building containing apartments and Behind the Scenes Café and Pub on Route 14 and Beckett Street, said he scrambled to save items in his basement.
By 1:30 (a.m.) I had a pickup truck backed up to the door and we were loading things in, he said Tuesday. He managed to save many items, but the basement still had water and mud on the floor Tuesday morning.
Williamstown firefighters William Graham and Dennis Mercier pumped water Tuesday out of the basement of Linda Riddells home on Route 14.
Just a short way away at the Suburban Apartments property, building superintendent Jaime DeForge showed Gov. Peter Shumlin, who was touring the damage, where 3½ feet of water rushed into the basement. A stones throw from there, the Seaver Little League Field sat underwater, its dugouts, benches and fence trashed by the floodwaters.
Hebert Excavation Corp. owner Larry Hebert said he was able to utilize heavy equipment to take emergency measures very early Tuesday morning both at the ballfield and on Flint Road. In a stroke of good fortune, Hebert happened to have heavy excavators at the site of the new public safety building under construction downtown close to the ballfield, and on Flint Road doing landscaping for a homeowner. He used one excavator to dig a trench to divert some water away from the ballfield and used the other machine to temporarily restore a portion of Flint Road over one culvert that washed out.
Rickey Winters spent part of Tuesday morning trying to revive his old Oldsmobile that he was able to pull away from the floodwaters off Beckett Street. But he wasnt able to save his sister Shelley Winters Dodge Stratus parked in front of her home, where it sat sunk in a channel of water created by the flood. That ones got insurance, at least, Rickey Winters said of her newer car.
This is the worst Ive seen in Williamstown, said Higgins. We had some minor damage during Irene and some other storms, but nothing this bad.
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'Stressed Out' premiered on April 27th and has hit over 35 million views! This video takes a look back at the 'good ol' days' of Tyler and Josh as they ride through the neighborhood.
The handshake from this twenty one pilots video lead to on-stage competitions during the band's Blurryface Tour and the production of the Stressed Out Backpack, which has now sold out twice in the twenty one pilots Webstore.
twenty one pilots performed 'Stressed Out' on TV for the first time on Late Night with Seth Meyers - watch the performance HERE!
|December 14, 2015
Oh Honey premiered their video for 'Sugar, You' in April of this year. This song is featured on the band's Wish You Were Here EP. This video was filmed in several locations in the New York City area. You can watch the behind-the-scenes video HERE.
Oh Honey also released a video for 'Get It Right' which was featured in Gren Wells' award-winning The Road Within - you can watch the official music video now on YouTube!
Against The Current will join All Time Low and Good Charlotte in the UK in February - visit atcofficial.com for dates & tickets!
|December 13, 2015
Tonight's featured track is "Stressed Out" from twenty one pilots which also happens to be the #1 track on Topsify's US Alternative Top 40 playlist - check it out now and don't forget to pick up Blurryface on Google Play for on 99¢ and set your DVRs for the band's performance on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon Wednesday night!
I wish I found some better sounds no one's ever heard,
I wish I had a better voice that sang some better words,
I wish I found some chords in an order that is new,
I wish I didn't have to rhyme every time I sang,
|December 13, 2015
'Tear In My Heart' was the second song unveiled from twenty one pilots' new album Blurryface prior its release. This video was filmed in Los Angeles and has over 21 million views!
twenty one pilots performed 'Tear In My Heart' on the outdoor stage at Jimmy Kimmel Live! during album release week back in May!
Fun Fact: the countdown in the beginning means 'hello' in Korean.
|December 12, 2015
Having watched the twenty one pilots clique grow since the band's signing back in 2012, we were excited to finally release 'Fairly Local,' the first song from their new album Blurryface. The premiere of this video was just the beginning of what would become a big year for twenty one pilots.
Fun Fact: the snow in the 'Fairly Local' video is made of foam, real snow, plastic and cotton. (The tiny plastic pieces are still being digested in Josh's stomach today.)
|December 11, 2015
We're starting off our 2015 video recap with our first video of the year: 'Nothing Without Love' by Nate Ruess. This music video premiered on February 23 as Nate's first single from his debut solo record, Grand Romantic.
Nate performed 'Nothing Without Love' for the first time on TV at the iHeartRadio Music Awards back in March - check out the performance HERE!
You can also watch the making of this video on YouTube!
|December 09, 2015
Pick up The Front Bottoms' latest album Back On Top for just $7.99 for a limited time on Google Play!
|December 08, 2015
We want to wish Dan Gow from Against The Current a very happy birthday today! Send him your own birthday message on Twitter - @DanielGow


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Gov. touts progress of state health siteBy Neal P. Goswami
VERMONT PRESS BUREAU | December 13,2013MONTPELIER Gov. Peter Shumlin said the state has so far managed to enroll about two-thirds of Vermonters eligible for coverage on the states online health-insurance exchange, despite months of technological glitches with the website.
Speaking at a State House press conference Thursday, and flanked by his top health-care reform aides and large charts touting the states success, Shumlin said about 45,000 of the 65,000 eligible Vermonters are now enrolled.
He said nearly all of the remaining 20,000 people not yet enrolled will have insurance coverage Jan. 1 through additional options.
Were making great progress and we have more progress to make, Shumlin said. As governor, my job is to ensure that we deliver on the opportunity that is afforded Vermonters in the Affordable Care Act. While its taking a little longer than we wished, were going to get it done and Im proud of the progress were making. Im encouraged by the folks who are signing up on a daily basis right now.
A deadline of Dec. 23 is looming for individuals and families seeking health insurance with federal subsidies starting Jan. 1. Those who miss the deadline can still apply for and obtain coverage, but they will not be able to receive any available federal subsidies until the following month.
The message today is pretty simple: This is your chance, Shumlin said. If youre an individual or a family and you havent moved yet, move, because if you move by Dec. 23 its likely that you may well qualify for a subsidy.
According to the administration, more than 29,000 people are receiving coverage on the exchange through an employer and have been directly enrolled by the states two insurance carriers: Blue Cross Blue Shield and MVP Health Care. Those Vermonters are bypassing the exchange website, however.
Another 18,000 Vermonters currently enrolled in Catamount Health or Vermont Health Access Plan are eligible for coverage on the exchange. Shumlin said some have signed up and those that dont by Dec. 23 will have their current coverage extended up to three months.
As of Thursday, about 15,000 people had enrolled directly through Vermont Health Connect, the states version of the online health-care exchange sites required under federal health-care reform, according to Shumlin. He said about 5,000 of those people enrolled this week alone.
Weve signed up in the last four or five days as many people as signed up in the first five to six weeks of Vermont Health Connect, Shumlin said, noting significant improvements to the website in the past month.
Vermont, as did other states and the federal government, experienced a host of initial problems with its exchange site. Enrollees experienced slow load times on the site or were unable to register altogether.
Because of the technical issues, the state allowed paper applications to be submitted. Shumlin said more than 2,000 of the 15,000 people enrolled through the exchange did so with a paper application.
The Department for Children and Families, which is handling the applications, hired 80 temporary workers to process the forms. Shumlin said it is too early to tell what the cost of those workers will be.
Its going to cost money, but the bottom line is, weve got to get it done, he said.
Robin Lunge, the administrations director of health care reform, said federal funds will cover most of the cost of the temporary workers.
Administration officials said Thursday they do not yet know how many of those who signed up for coverage did not previously have insurance. That information will be available in the future.
Shumlin said the state wants to provide health insurance to those who are currently without coverage, but the bigger goal is make sure coverage is affordable.
Getting more uninsured (people) insured is certainly one of the goals, but not the only goal, the governor said.
For states that have very high uninsured rates, its certainly one of the primary goals, he said. Vermont already has one of the highest insured rates in America. Our challenge is affordability. We estimate that were going to draw down between $200 (million) and $400 million worth of federal help to pay for insurance.
The state laid out plans last month to extend current coverage for Vermonters who will receive health insurance on the exchange as an employee of a small business. The majority of the 20,000 eligible for exchange plans but not yet enrolled will see their current plans extended because of ongoing problems with the site specifically related to small businesses.
A lapse in coverage is unlikely for nearly all Vermonters because the administration is allowing current plans to be extended into the new year, officials said.
The number is very few because for those who are getting their insurance through work, theyre being directly insured in plans to start Jan. 1 or theyre extending their coverage into 2014, said Mark Larson, commissioner of the Department of Vermont Health Access.
The state continues to work with its main exchange site contractor, CGI Systems and Technologies, to fix lingering issues, Shumlin said.
Small business applications still cant be processed through the website, and individuals and families cannot yet pay online for their plans.
Shumlin said Thursday he has lost confidence in the contractors that promised to have us a perfectly humming website on Oct. 1. He said the site will be fixed, but he will no longer offer a completion date because of previous missed deadlines.
Im bound and determined to get the website working the way it should have worked on Oct. 1 and we are asking the contractors to work 24/7, whatever it takes, holidays and the rest, to get the job done, he said.
Were continuing to beat on them, harass them, to get that job done, the governor said. Ive got to say, were making progress. But we cannot predict an exact day because theyve missed so many dates so many times that were just not going to go there.
Peter Sterling, executive director of the Vermont Campaign for Health Care Security, a group serving as a navigator for the state, said he has seen significant improvements in the websites functionality for individuals and families.
Its gotten to the point where I can enroll someone in about 20 or 25 minutes from start to finish, Sterling said. Back in late October or early November, it probably would be closer to 45 minutes to an hour to get somebody through the process.
And lawmakers, including House Speaker Shap Smith, said they, too, are hearing positive reviews from constituents.
Im actually heartened by the conversations that Im having with individual constituents and what Im hearing from other people in general that the website is improving, Smith said at Thursdays press conference.
Ive heard a lot of good stories from people about them thinking it was going to be not a very pleasant experience and it was going to cost more and they have been surprised.
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Nvidia Corp. will finally start selling its highly-anticipated GeForce GTX 400-series graphics cards as well as other products based on the code-named Fermi architecture and GF100 (NV60, G300, GT300) graphics processing unit (GPU) in the first quarter of fiscal 2011, it looks like mass availability of appropriate products is only expected in Q2 of FY 2011.
"Q2 [of FY 2011] is going to be the quarter when Fermi is hitting the full stride. It will not just be one Fermi product, there will be a couple of Fermi products to span many different price ranges, but also the Fermi products will span GeForce Quadro and Tesla. So, we are going to be ramping now on Fermi architecture products through Q2 and we are building a lot of it. I am really excited about the upcoming launch of Fermi and I think it will more than offset the seasonality that we usually see in Q2," said Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia, during the most recent conference call with financial analysts.
Earlier the head of Nvidia said that the company would ramp up production of Fermi-based chips in Q1 FY2011. Nvidia's first quarter of fiscal year 2011 began on the 31st of January, 2010, and will likely end on the 30th of April, 2010; the Q2 of FY 2011 will last from May till late July, 2010. At present many observers suggest that Nvidia will launch the GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 graphics cards in March or April, but it looks like the products will not be available in truly mass quantities right after the launch.
Nvidia's chief executive officer did not provide any concrete timeframes for the transition of the whole lineup to the new Fermi architecture, but said that since the owners of mainstream and entry-level graphics cards hardly demand new functionality, it is not crucial for Nvidia to update currently available "fabulous" graphics chips. In addition, the speed of the transition depends on the supply of 40nm chips by TSMC.
"All of that just depends on 40 nm supply and we are trying to finesse it the best we possibly can. For the entry-level products, the truth is that the new architectures […] are probably not extremely well appreciated anyhow. People, who buy the new architectures, tend to be early adopters and they tend to be the game enthusiasts, workstation designers or creative artists or – there are very specific reasons why it really enhances their experience. Our current-generation GPUs are fabulous and all the things that mainstream consumers would use their computer for. […] I think the mainstream GPUs are really fabulous and has been enhanced recently with some really great features and so my sense is that they are going to continue to do quite nicely in the marketplace. Then we will just transition as fast as we can," said Mr. Huang.
In the fourth quarter of FY 2010 Nvidia posted revenue of $982.5 million. Sales of GPUs accounted for 58.3% of sales, or $572.9 million.


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The Humane Society of the United States is planning to take 100 feral Big Island Donkeys on a chartered plane to Los Angeles next month.
The donkeys will then be taken to two separate animal sanctuaries. ?Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue in Tehachapi is going to receive the bulk of them, maybe 75 to 80. And Eagle Eye, which is in Northern California will get maybe a dozen or so.? said Hawaii spokeswoman Inga Gibson.
This latest twist on curbing the populations of wild donkeys, is part of a massive effort that?s been underway since last year. Drought conditions forced the donkeys from the highlands down into Waikoloa Village in search of water. But the reports of donkeys appearing down by the highway and near Waikoloa School began to worry the community. The Humane Society of the U.S. teamed up with veterinarian Brady Bergin. The hungry animals were easy to trap with water and feed and Bergin began mass castrations of the males and administering a female contraceptive to the mares. Bergin has sterilized 200 of the original herd of about 600. At the end of the month, he will have help from about four to five mainland vets who will set up a castration clinic at Waikii ranch where about a hundred donkeys have been captured. They will be preparing the donkeys for the flight. There are health certificate requirements. We will be sterilizing the jacks. We don't want to spread the population.
Gibson said the donkeys will fly Pacific Airlift which routinely does equine transport. It?s not cheap. A chartered flight will run in the thousands of dollars.
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By Glenda Price
Cowboys are romantic, they say. Uh-huh. Every one I know can get downright eloquent when discussing a new baby calf, his favorite using horse or his best cow dog. We females find that quite attractive.
But what about us? My theory is they like human female companionship, but they just don't know how to say things like, "You look great" or "Mmm, you smell good."
They're more likely to say, "You tailed up that calf like a pro," or "You handled that young horse muy bueno."
There is another problem that gets in the way of romance. Cowboys have "pardners." When a cowboy gets married, the new wife usually has her husband's "pard" as a permanent house guest for the first six months or until she finally sends him on his way.
Here's an example of the romance problem. You spend hours getting the dirt and manure out from under your fingernails and the hat crease out of your hair. You ask, "How do I look?" His eyes glaze over and he mumbles, "Fine. You ready to go?"
When I was a new bride I thought, one day, he'd figured out this romance deal. With me. It was a cold, windy spring day and, as usual, it had not rained and we were still feeding. He came to the house, brought me my coat, turned on that nifty little smile and said, "I've got the feed loaded. Wanta come with me?"
I figured he really didn't need any help because the feed pickup was rigged where one person could handle it alone. A cotton rope ran from the driver's window to the feed box door so you could drive along in grandma gear and hold the door open so the range cubes could pour out.
The cattle were used to coming to the pickup when it honked, so you could get a count and check on everybody's health while you were at it.
So he just wanted my scintillating company, right?
I shoved the wire pliers, screw driver and empty gunny sack onto the floorboard and sat next to him. Between pastures I fiddled with the radio and found a fairly decent station.
Most of the pasture gates were the kind where the cedar post fits into a wire loop near the ground and you've gotta hug the top of the post and shove it toward the post on the fence so you can lift the wire off the top of the post. After you've gone through the gate, the hug-the-post procedure is repeated to close the thing.
I'm kind of a weakling so I had trouble with some of them, but I didn't complain. My "romantic" husband fiddled with the radio while I struggled except for once when I yelled out, "I can't get it." He grinned indulgently while he made it look easy.
When we got back to the barn he looked at his watch and said, "Look at that. We got finished in record time. I knew it'd go faster with you along to open the gates."
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New Jersey Bank Fails, 2013 Tally at 17
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Friday closed Fort Lee Federal Savings Bank of Fort Lee, N.J., bringing this year's total number of bail failures to 17.
The failed thrift was previously included in TheStreet's fourth-quarter Bank Watch List of undercapitalized institutions, based on regulatory data provided by HighlineFI.
Fort Lee Federal Savings Bank had roughly $51.9 million in total assets and $50.7 million in deposits when it failed.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was appointed receiver and sold the failed institution's deposits for a 1.85% premium to Alma Bank of Astoria, N.Y. In addition to the deposits, Alma Bank took on 15.7 million of the failed thrift's deposits, with the FDIC retaining the rest for later disposition.
Fort Lee Federal Savings Bank's office was set to reopen Saturday as a branch of Alma Bank.
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Sorry, I've about had it with this group and how they've decided to operate themselves. Feel free to flame, but Tony fans better get used to more negativity.
We've been plenty used to it for a long time. Ryan's fans better get used to the fact that this is what happens when better drivers are available.
your so full of crap, if you didnt like ryan so much how comes you never let it be known until he got his release? your what they call chicken poop, your a jinx, every driver you like, which seems to be many ( i guess you need to keep your bases covered, or maybe tony isnt what you build him up to be so u have to bandwagon on other drivers.) any dreams of drivers lately?


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Advice on a Raku glaze
Posted 01 May 2013 - 02:25 PM
Egyptian Blue
Soda Ash 30.5
Lithium Carbonate 8.5
Flint 38.5
Black Copper Oxide (added) 2.5
Bentonite 1.0
There have been a couple instances where this glaze yielded a lovely mix of vibrant blue-greens, with every shade of red and orange on the sides. Here's an example.
More often, though, I get either an algal green, or a brick red (or copper). For an example of the former, see below.
I'd like to get the first result more consistently. Yes- I know Raku is a chaotic process...
My theory is that the first result stemmed from several factors...
1) Less maturity at the tail end of the firing process (and thus a 'sandstone-like' texture)
2) Thick glaze application
3) Fast transfer of the piece to the reduction chamber
4) Intense but brief reduction, with the piece pulled early and rapidly cooled
These were the conditions for the firing for the piece at the head of the page. However, when I tried to duplicate these conditions recently, here's what I got...
Not bad... but not exactly what I'm going for.
Any suggestions appreciated!
Posted 01 May 2013 - 02:50 PM
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As you said, Raku results will vary based on firing temp, glaze thickness, degree of reduction, cooling speed, etc. You need to experiment with many pots, only changing one variable at a time to see what gives you the best results. It different for every kiln, every firing situation.
Totally agree.
Mostly, I was curious as to whether anyone had used a glaze with similar chemistry/characteristics, and had suggestions on ways to narrow in. There are a lot of variables to tweak otherwise!
Posted 02 May 2013 - 06:06 AM
So, you just have to be consistent in how you apply the glaze and when you pull them out and how fast you get them into the reduction.
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Working out is not just an adrenaline-pumping thrill for motivated athletes and individuals anymore.
Contrary to popular belief, getting in shape can be a fun activity without dripping sweat, resulting in the feeling of sore muscles and accomplishment afterward. In fact, there are many types of exercises people can participate in without even feeling as if they are exercising in the first place.
Everyday functions and activities such as driving and talking can even burn calories. For example, laughing for 15 minutes can burn between 10 and 40 calories, and the average adult burns around 500 calories when sleeping for eight hours.
Needless to say, barbells, sweat towels and cringing outbursts of anger are not a requirement for a good workout, just a good attitude, determination and a bit of fun-loving energy.
No. 5: Dancing
Bopping to favorite tunes and shaking your hips when out on the town is one of the most energetic methods of exercising, and it can lead to great weight-reducing results if practiced frequently.
For example, an individual weighing 150 pounds can burn 109 calories every 10 minutes while dancing.
Zumba is a fairly new, Latin dance class incorporating intervals of fast and slow dancing with resistance training to produce sculpted bodies in no time. Sessions are one hour long, and the program has become so popular that 7.5 billion people around the world participate every week.
Another popular, more scandalous dance workout (strictly for women) was created by actress and filmmaker Sheila Kelly. Known as The S Factor, participants follow pole dancing routines combining ballet, yoga and striptease techniques to ultimately strengthen the upper body while simultaneously engendering confidence.
However, as our next selection will show, more mundane activities have just as much body-benefiting potential, even though they may lack excitement ...
No. 4: Everyday chores
Everyday chores around the house may not necessarily be voluntary activities, but after a day's work, the completed tasks bring about a sense of accomplishment and the need to relax.
For instance, walking the dog is a necessity for owners as a way to give their pets exercise. However, a 2006 study proved that dog owners received as much as twice the amount of exercise as those without dogs because of additional walking time each week.
Pulling weeds and tilling ground involve twisting and reaching movements and occasionally mighty doses of heavy lifting. Therefore, gardening has also been shown to improve health, such as decreasing the risk of diabetes and high blood pressure. Other calorie-burning chores include mowing the lawn, carrying groceries and rearranging furniture.
Mindless forms of entertainment are a welcome change after finishing the day's chores, but nowadays entertainment systems can make you work for your success too, as you will soon see ...
No. 3: Playing video games
Playing video games is not just for coach potatoes any longer. Some video games come with physical extensions besides controllers, and select consoles were designed with mobility in mind.
The popular Dance Dance Revolution game uses a floor mat for players to step on when music-prompted arrows appear on the screen. The game has been incorporated into physical education curriculums and has also been shown to increase hand-eye coordination. Besides assisting with weight loss, Dance Dance Revolution can teach a few dance steps along the way.
Nintendo's motion-sensor Wii system practically requires physical movement by its participants to play games, and Wii Fit and EA Active are fitness-driven programs with aerobic features and personal trainers. Otherwise, simple Wii games like tennis and boxing can break a sweat. Sony's PlayStationMove and the Xbox Kinect system also require you get up off the couch to play your video game.
After mastering a virtual sport, playing athletics in real time is a piece of cake (although consuming a slice is not recommended for maintaining a healthy lifestyle) ...
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Decorate your steering wheel with yule tide and knitting. With this free knitting pattern you can make yourself a wonderfully looking wreath steering wheel cover. This makes for a great holiday gift.
- 2 skeins Caron Fling in Aloe
- Size 13 knitting needles
- Tapestry Needle
Finished Size
- Depends on steering wheel size.
- CO = Cast on
- K = Knit
- BO = Bind off
- First measure the circumference of your steering wheel. That is how long you'll knit your cover. Mine was 46" around, so I knit my piece until it was 46" long. The width of mine was about 4½" wide with a CO of 8 stitches. I would suggest making a 2 – 3" swatch to check that the 8 stitch width is enough to wrap around your steering wheel. The width really stretches so as long as you don't knit extremely tight, 8 stitches should be plenty.
- CO 8 stitches (add or decrease CO stitches as needed)
- Knit all rows until your piece is the length of your steering wheel.
- BO very loosely.
- Finished piece is not sewn on, but merely attached to the steering wheel with a length of yarn and using it to wrap the finished piece around your steering wheel. Cut a length of your Caron Fling about 2-3 yards in length and wind it into a little ball so it will be easier to wind around your steering wheel. Wind a second ball for the second wrap.
- Now just lay your finished piece onto the steering wheel with both ends at the bottom and the middle will be lying loosely at the top of your wheel. Starting at one end begin wrapping the width of the piece around the wheel and at the same time use your length of yarn to attach/wrap the piece to the wheel all around. Leave a long tail so that once you go all the way around you can tie these 2 end yarn pieces together.
- TIP: You may find it easier to temporarly attach your piece to the steering wheel first with short loops of a contrasting bulky yarn that you can cut away as you reach them.
- Keep wrapping the piece to your wheel in this manner until you reach the other end of your piece. Overlap one end of your piece over the beginning end and tie the 2 yarn ends together tightly.
- That was your first wrap and the piece should now be nicely attached to your steering wheel. Now using the second long length of Caron Fling wrap your steering wheel again paying close attention to wrapping in between the other wrap and closing up any areas that aren't wrapped around the wheel. Again tie the 2 yarn ends together tightly. Cut any yarn tails. Because you have used the Caron Fling to wrap the piece and attach it to the steering wheel the wrap doesn't show. Cover should be very snuggly attached to the steering wheel.
- All you do now is just attach your bow, also tying it onto the wheel with the Caron Fling. I took 2 lengths of the Caron Fling and put each through the loops of my bow and tied the bow to the steering wheel at the back. You can find the FREE bow pattern I used for mine at this link… http://www.enfys.me.uk/freebow.htm If you prefer just tie a satin ribbon in the same manner to the top of your steering wheel.
- When the Christmas season is over and you want to remove your cover, just run your fingers over the wheel and you should easily be able to feel where it's wrapped with the yarn strand. Cut that strand and unwrap your wheel. Remember there will be 2 strands wrapped around that you'll have to remove.
- This way you can save it to use again next year!
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From original Instructions (quote) FREE bow pattern I used for mine at this link httpwww.enfys.me.ukfreebow.htm If you prefer just tie a satin ribbon in the same manner to the top of your steering wheel.
Jan 09, 2010
This is cute but I want the bow pattern too!
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Nov 30, 2009
Neat I did a similar thing crocheting with a small needle Also works for keeping your wheel cool in Hot Hot weather an you can use any color yarn
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- State election officials say five candidates looking to run in this spring's recall elections failed to turn in enough valid signatures to get on the ballot.
Democrats have forced Republican Gov. Scott Walker, Republican Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and four GOP state senators into recalls Elections are scheduled for May 8 and June 5.
Candidates for governor and lieutenant governor need at least 2,000 valid signatures. Candidates for state Senate need at least 400. The deadline for submitting signatures to the Government Accountability Board was Tuesday.
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The Karnes Countywide submitted an open records request for a copy of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 Karnes County budget, and also a a copy of the preceding year's budget, for comparison.
In terms of revenue, the future is remarkably bright for Karnes County government accounts.
Revenue is expected to increase $7.88 million over what was projected in last year's budget, largely due to increased tax revenue. Karnes County's projected revenues were $9.12 million in FY 2012 and have increased to $17 million for the FY 2013 budget.
Projected spending, however, is also expected to increase.
County officials have budgeted $11.78 million in spending for FY 2013, which is an increase of $3.34 million beyond the figure in the preceding year's budget.
County officials have identified a number of areas in which to spend more money.
As far as the "big ticket" items go, county officials plan to double the amount spent in the road and bridge department, increasing spending from $1.61 million up to $3.48 million – an increase of 115 percent.
The sheriff's office is also seeing a large increase in spending, rising from $1.33 million up to $1.74 million – an increase of 30 percent.
County officials plan a very large increase in spending on capital outlay projects, rising from $391,829 up to $1.38 million – an increase of 252 percent. Among the amounts listed for such projects are $500,000 for an EMS facility, $500,000 for a Road and Bridge department facility, $165,000 for a parking lot adjacent to the county building at 210 W. Calvert, $85,000 for weigh station, and $65,000 for elevator and renovations to the county building at 200 E. Calvert.
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I'm not really sure who perpetrated this, but bear with me, this may be a wee bit complicated.
The various folks at scienceblogs.org and pandasthumb.org have recently had great fun debunking a character at the Discovery Institute named Michael Egnor. (From Pharyngula: Example 1, Example 2.) Egnor claims to be both a neurosurgeon and an evolution skeptic, and he holds some truly laughable creationists views.
Today, both Panda's Thumb and Pharyngula are reporting that the Discovery Institute revealed, through their evolutionnews.org site, that Michael Egnor is an elaborate hoax. Egnor is not real, they say, he is a construct to see how "gullible" these "Darwinists" are and bait them into silly ad hominems. And boy, did it ever work!
Only one problem. I noticed, and apparently so did several other commenters, that the link above actually goes to evolutionnews.NET, not evolutionnews.org. And furthermore if you try to get to the main page of evolutionnews.org, as I did, you can't — there's a 404 error.
Cleverly, though, all the links on the .net page redirect to the appropriate areas of evolutionnews.org, so to the careless reader, it appears that they are all part of the same site. Also cleverly, the header was stolen from the .org site and so were the stylesheets, so it looks nearly identical.
The thing that tipped me off was that I went to the main site to look at what else was posted before and after the alleged "April Fool's" post, and found that the post itself was not there. There was, however, a NEW post by Michael Egnor, which begins: "I am a devout Catholic…" I thought: "Hmmm, that's odd that they would try to keep up the pretense after they just revealed that it was a joke…"
So, dear readers, the joke's on YOU. As crazy as Michael Egnor sounds, he's the genuine article. Assuming that PZ himself is in on it, sorry for ruining your joke, but I figure people will read your site before ours.


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I was at the Tom Petty Show at the Fonda on June 8th. First let me say that I have been a huge fan since seeing him at the Paradise in Boston many years ago. I flew in from Boston to see the show with my daughter who lives in L.A. We did not have early entry to the theater and waited in line to be admitted. Several questionable events happened. The women who banded for alcohol consumption inside the theater came around twice asking the crowd if anyone needed tickets.The people standing behind us waited for 2 people to arrive and sold them their ticket passes to the venue.I purchased my tickets in March, and looked forward to seeing one my favorite bands in the type of venue where I first heard them live. I thought the band sounded amazing and played some 'deep cuts' that are my favorites. From the start the crowd was a problem, being more interested in drinking,and talking loudly even during his more quiet and beautiful songs.The crowd on the floor increased throughout the performance. At 10:30 Petty anounced that they were over capacity by 100 people and he would have to cut his show short.At first the crowd thought he was kidding but it became apparent that this was no joke.The crowd became disrespectful yelling 'You Suck' It is a shame that this show was cut short and true fans were denied the opportunity to have a full show. I go to concerts because I love the music and that is what I pay money to hear. For me seeing Petty in such a small venue was amazing. I was there to hear him and his band play.They fulfilled every expectation for as long as they played.His openig comment of "Welcome to Hollywood' made me laugh in its sarcasm.There were a lot of people that were much more interested in saying that they saw Petty, than they were interested in hearing an amazing band perform. I dont know who was responsible for the overcrowding and the show being cut short,I am disappointed that some of the crowd was disrespectful and that overselling cut the show
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Tracing Erlang functions for debugging purposes is probably simpler than you could even imagine. Let say you have the following module and you want trace one of its functions.
-export([sum/2, diff/2]).
sum(A, B) -> A + B.
diff(A, B) -> A - B.
Just start the tracer:
> dbg:tracer()
Say the tracer that you are interested in all calls for all processes:
> dbg:p(all, c)
Finally, say it that you want to trace the function sum from the module math:
> dbg:tpl(math, sum, [])
Now, try to call the function, as usual. The tracer is active!
> math:sum(2, 3).
To stop the trace:
> dbg:stop().
To trace all the functions within the module math:
> dbg:tpl(math, [])
To trace the return value for a given function:
> dbg:tpl(math, sum, dbg:fun2ms(fun(_) -> return_trace() end)).
For more information, refer to the official documentation of the Erlang dbg module.


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Fourth of July is pretty much a bourbon holiday, right? Sip on this delicious Manhattan this weekend and be a good American.
Happy Independence Day, Columbus! Hope y'all already have plans for an action-packed weekend. If ya don't, let this little guide to this three-day break be your, uh, guide. As always, here are my top picks for what I'd do this weekend if I could be everywhere all the time.
Doo Dah Day Parade in the Short North
My favorite Fourth of July tradition. This is a madness I'm all too eager to experience.
El Manantial Latino food truck in North Campus
July 4th After-Party at Rumba Cafe
4th and 4th Fest at Seventh Son Co.
It's a tough call Saturday between this and the Mr. Fahrenheit & the Loverboys fest at 400 West Rich (and, like, a dozen other music options Saturday; for instance: Blueprint and Bret Michaels! Thankfully not together, though that might be its own kind of awesome). I'm giving the slight nod here to 4th and 4th because 1.) Seventh Son beer, and 2.) Dan Boeckner (of Wolf Parade, Divine Fits, Operators, general badassery).
Mr. Fahrenheit & the Loverboys 7-year anniversary festival at 400 West Rich
Bret Michaels at Scioto Downs Racino
Get Right with DJ Giovanny at Skully's Music-Diner
"A Hard Day's Night" screening at the Wexner Center for the Arts
Blueprint, Count Bass D, Zero Star & Stone Craft at Brothers Drake Meadery & Bar
Oliver's Burgers, Steaks & Bourbon in downtown
The place looks amazing, and that bourbon list, oh my. My biggest pleasant surprise, however, are the range of meatless options that actually sound creative and enticing. Oliver's is going to be dangerous on my wallet and liver.
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Bee County remains under a burn ban; underground water tables are dropping; and even a few live oak trees are dying from years of drought.
It's not just here. In our other papers this week, the City of Goliad has issued a voluntary water conservation alert to residents, and lawn watering in Kenedy is limited to once per week under stage 2 mandatory water conservation measures.
On the home front, Beeville remains under mandatory stage 3 water rationing as the area lake levels fall.
That means the use of water is severely restricted, City Hall officials remind citizens. This is the first time restrictions that serious have been in effect here in years.
Residential customers can only water their lawns and gardens on the days that the Republic Services garbage trucks are in town to empty the trash toters.
Also, yard watering is not allowed at all between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., when the summer heat increases the evaporation rate.
No person may allow water to run off one's property into the street or storm drains, and no customer may allow water to flow constantly through a hydrant or valve.
For commercial customers, yard and garden watering is allowed only on Tuesdays for properties east of Washington Street and on Thursdays for properties west of Washington Street.
Car washing is limited to the days that yard watering is allowed unless the person washing the vehicle takes it to a commercial car wash. Also, car washing at home must be done with a hand-held hose with a shutoff nozzle.
Hand-held irrigation is allowed at any time and on any day of the week, and drip irrigation systems may be used if the system is equipped with a shutoff nozzle.
So, unless you hire someone to water your flower beds and lawn with a hose using a wand or spray nozzle, you had better abide by the rules... or risk being visited by police officers.
Violators could face fines. Regardless, conservation is an important lesson we all must learn – even if property owners temporarily appear to be practicing "zero-scaping."


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It is night. The first rain band has enough wind gusts to knock out power lines and Internet links.
Bee County Emergency Management Coordinator Mike Willow and more than a dozen personnel are plunged into darkness.
The building's generator kicks in but, with no phones and no Internet, the group of men tasked with handling an emergency for the county's 32,500 residents might as well still be in the dark. All the computers, the software and all the programs and dependent upon an Internet connection, as is the phone system.
Cellphones? Not likely. When a hurricane strikes, the cellphones usually are the first to go.
Fortunately, there is another method of communication: amateur radio. The command center is equipped with amateur radio transceivers — obtained by a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Thanks to the efforts of a few — they say too few — license amateur radio operators, Willow and his team can communicate by voice, email or fax to Corpus Christi or, if necessary, internationally.
"An amateur radio is one of the most basic pieces of equipment that we have and most time overlooked," Willow says. "If we lose the Internet, we are almost cut off from the world."
The communication problem has been evident for the last four weeks when the county's new phone system, which sends calls over the Internet, all but shut down — without the help of a hurricane. Communications countywide were affected, prompting commissioners to meet in a special, two-day, multi-session to address the issue (See BEE-PICAYUNE Aug. 6).
To help bring the command center's amateur, or "ham," radio operation up to speed, Willow agreed to host a class for those interested in obtaining their FCC amateur-radio license.
The classes were taught over three Saturdays in July. Two from Beeville passed the tests.
Willow also took the class. His new call sign, which later will be displayed in stained glass in his office, is KG5DKE.
Beeville volunteer fireman and certified instructor Joe Rugar taught the class — his first. His father, Fred, handled promotion. Both are Beeville amateur operators.
In an emergency, Willow can count on four operators to man the EOC's amateur radio station.
"Trouble is," Willow says, "to handle 24-hour shifts in a protracted situation, I need more like 30 operators.
"Fred Rugar has been a pain in my side since I got here," Willow says, who assumed responsibility for the office in late February.
"Mike saw the need for the station, helped us get the antenna mounted and allowed us to use the command center for the classes," Fred says.
There should have been more, he says, citing the dozen or more amateur radio operators in the county listed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). "I sent a letter to every one of them. But, no response. So, we're starting from scratch."
One member of the class who passed his test is 72-year-old Ray Martin, now known as KG5DKD.
He brings 39 years of experience in law enforcement, firefighting and as an emergency medical technician.
"I had a high school buddy who was a ham, but I never got around to it until now," Martin says. "Between a paper route to the Civil Air Patrol to teaching dancing in the military, I couldn't work it into my schedule."
He pauses for a second.
"Then there were the girls, too."
Fred views the recent class as just a start.
"I want to put amateur stations at the sheriff's office, at the police department, another at the fire house, one at the ambulance service and one at the hospital."
He also says the EOC's antenna is not that secure, citing the need for more guy wires to reinforce it during high winds.
"But if the antenna goes down, all we need is 135 feet of wire and we can put another one up in about 10 minutes."
Although Fred started Joe working with electronics before he was 10, Joe tries to counter the fear in some that to obtain a license requires an extensive electronic background.
When solid-state integrated circuitry in transmitters and receivers replaced tubes, the role of the ham as repairman diminished.
Joe taught a 90-year-old from Refugio in the recent class and has seen a 6-year-old get his license.
"Having three out of five people pass the test is a good percentage," Joe says.
Joe and Fred are planning additional classes, including one with Boy Scouts.
We're not going to give up until we have a good group."
Bill Clough, who has repeatedly tried to obtain his ham license since he was in junior high, is a reporter at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 122, or at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Tebow gets my vote, too. 🙂 We were there yesterday. Tried to see you, but as we were in a suite, we didn't have a view all the way up there. Anyway, fun 4th quarter, even though they didn't quite pull it out. Not giving up yet!
Good to see that your back on the blog wagon. My thoughts on Orton are that he should have been the starting QB at the beginning of the season because he knows the offense best. If the Broncos started losing games, then it would be time to give Tebow a try to see what the man can do. If the Broncos still don't see an improvement with Tebow then they can draft Andrew Luck from Stanford.
It seems that Orton doesn't care whether the Broncos win or lose, the guy is not an emotional leader. Now Timmy on the other hand is brings this team to life. He brings a fire the gets the whole team burning, and he makes the Broncos exciting to watch even if they lose.
Fox needs to make the change and give Tebow two weeks to practice with the starters. It was never a fair competition during preseason as Tebow never got a chance to practice or play with the starters. Let's see what #15 can do!
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The ski diving and jets never get old at Dodger Stadium for Opening days! I love it! You took some great photos there! What kind of camera do you have?
Hey anytime you come to Dodger Stadium, let me know and I'll give you that tour.


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