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Troglodytes, orgies and the odd Arab
Trip Start Dec 14, 2007
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It would be the missing chapter from Alice in Wonderland, if reality did not get in the way.
Fairy chimneys do exist outside of fairy tales and Disneyland.
Rearing up from a harsh, dusty, mountainous landscape, elongated mushroomy, pointy rocks jerk eyeballs out of their comfort zone.
The towers and rambling rocks more than insinuate themselves, rather proclaiming loud and proud, we are real, and we are weird.
Just knock on the front door of one, or peer into a third floor window, if you're sceptical of the word 'weird'.
Enter Cappadocia, central Turkey, and be transfixed by sights from the Far Side.
A land populated since 6,000 BC, residents have long used these rock pillars as their homes, boring into the sides and bases, and then upwards, three or four floors hacked up sinuous, spiralled flights of stairs. Windows and balconies stare out from the middle of the long, thin steeples.
For millions of years, flood and wind erosion has scoured the valleys of soft volcanic ash, leaving the hardy cones as refuge.
The residents were true troglodytes of the 'modern' era.
The pointed edifices call up images of termite mounds, 50m termite mounds, with doors, windows and air vents positioned to protect from searing 45 deg C summer heat and freezing winters.
The village of Goreme is centre to this surreal piece of geology, and also Cappadocia's tourist hub.
Arrive on an overnight bus at dawn. Weave down into the valley through fairy chimneys and homes hacked and hewed into fantasy mountainsides, and be distracted by different coloured blobs scattered across the sky.
A squadron of hot air balloons floats gently overhead, the serenity of the soft, slow morning sun only interrupted by the rude roaring bursts of hydrogen thrusting through the burners as the pilots attempt to maintain steady altitude, or gain said.
In a word, it's whacky. Out of fruitcake land.
Yet the village of around 15,000 people has maintained a rare aloofness to the invasion of rubber-necking camera junkies.
It is an old farming community, as is most of Turkey, the so-called breadbasket of Europe and one of few countries that fulfill its own food requirements, and exports.
While guest houses abound since an explosion of visitors since the 1980's, and surely 'evil' capitalism has raised values and prices, in front of most homes is an old trap, with rubber-bound, steel-rimmed wheels.
Donkeys and horses pull them around town, weather-beaten farmers navigating them through a phalanx of scooters, mopeds and desperately out-of-place quad bikes, so beloved of the Turkish tourists who flood in on weekends.
The carts are loaded with pumpkins, watermelons, deliciously juicy apples, mountains of grapes, heading to market or delivering door to door.
In the cooling evening, old women sit in front of mountains of pumpkins, outside their front doors, gouging out the pips, themselves then dried and eaten as a local delicacy.
Notwithstanding the buzz of the motorised beasts that normally head off into the yonder, along with tour buses, in the morning to return late afternoon, Goreme is slow of pace, unhurried, unperturbed by the steady stream that pops in for two days, drops a wad of dollars, and ticks off their 'done' list.
Fires on pavements burn beneath 1m-wide pans. Heavily clad woman slowly stir dozens of apples, or thick tomato pastes for spreading on Turkish style pizzas - foot long, narrow and shallow.
The men, or at least the unemployed or retired, sit at sidewalk tea cafes, male bastions. From first warmth around 10am, little glasses of tea flow, fuelling games of draughts, cards and backgammon.
I play a game, spot the woman. In five days, I did not see one woman in one of these cafes, where I too spent much of my unemployed, semi-retired time.
Where were the female bastion coffee cafes? That was a secret I could not unlock.
The men all look hard, of scuffed leather shoe, tailored trousers, casual jackets, 5-day stubble, large rheumatic hands, steady stern eyes. Perhaps they had paid their dues.
To the casual observer, it seems as if the women take up more than their share of the slack. The cook, child rearer, trap-driver, house cleaner, cotton picker. Even milking cows is strictly in the female realm. No rough male hands on those teats.
The Zapatas burst into town. Men from over the hill. Tight leather leggings laced up above the knees, jeans, lumberjack shirts, Mexican-style waist coats, trim moustaches, Ray-Bans, driving their horses with the aplomb of old Argentinian gauchos.
Horse breeders, I hear the whisper. Foals canter behind, up and down the main street. Perhaps an acclimatisation exercise.
They ride their mounts in the same way as Turks drive their cars. Give somebody more than a 30m stretch, and hear the stirrups clang, or the accelerator pedal hit raw metal. And then hard on the rein or brake.
Getting around: I hire a 100cc automatic Peugeot scooter with my ill-gotten Indonesian motor bike license.
It's timing is so out it sounds like a tin rugby ball bouncing down a flight of stairs, and issues a steady thin stream of white smoke.
"It's a 2-stroke, it's meant to smoke," says shopkeeper Halil.
"Yeah, please give me your phone number," I mutter.
100km on, in yet another 'ancient' village, Mustaphapasa, the smoking stops. Bad news. I can't get it to smoke again, and fear running the battery down.
A friendly copper offers to raise Halil. I explain my problem, and he asks "which one is that, the yellow or black one"? As if he knew they would both break, and knew which problem each would face.
"Ok, I come. Half hour."
I presume he would be taking a short cut.
"Let's see. Maybe change spark plug."
It looks as if the plug is nearly new, with only three or four months light burnt oil on it.
In goes the new one, and Peugeot purrs.
"Chinese plugs. No good. They break inside. No more fire. Same as plug key. Five plugs and head break off."
Halil is not impressed with the high-volume low-grade machinery being slave-shopped out of the world's burgeoning eco-powerhouse.
On the way to Goreme, one has to take the obligatory stop at Aphrodisias, a Roman town named after the Greek Goddess of Love, Aphrodite.
The bewitching goddess had two sides to her, a personality of love and lust, while also capricious and flirtatious - a heady, familiar mixture that has played out many for the fool.
Blocks of granite and marble, a near perfect stadium, your old Hadrian Baths, and you've got the picture of the Roman ruin that used to be home to mass orgies in homage to Her Gloriness before Rome decided to bestow party-pooping Christianity upon itself, whence it abandoned the hedonism of old and instituted a regime many of us are all too familiar with.
I found a graveyard of pillars and columns, that have fallen over 2,000 years of earthquakes, and beautiful carvings of emperors and family in this cliffside of high-quality marble - but it seemed that any remaining sex games were by invite only, in some secret valley.
I seek more Turkish grit, away from the trodden touro-path before the road heads south to Syria, and venture east to the heart of Kurdish country.
Sanliurfa, the 'city of the prophets', 80km east of the Euphrates, inside old Mesopotamia.
Known to locals as Urfa, scriptures have Urf as the birthplace of Abraham (in Islamic Turkey, read Ibrahim, number one prophet). Job is also reputed to have been born here.
A cave at the edge of the city is revered as Ibrahim's birthplace, and is a pilgrimage site.
The only problem is that there is another town in West Iraq also known as Urf!
Local legend has it that at one point of Ibrahim's life, he spent a day laying waste to some pagan idols during the time of Assyrian king Nimrod, who took offence, and stacked Ibrahim on a funeral pyre.
But god interceded, turned the fire into water, and the burning embers into fish. Today there is an old mosque on 'the site' and a series of pools home to thousands of carp. Catch one and lose your sight, say the locals. The carp are fat and happy.
Newtown is a large area of tenament blocks.
Old town is as old as Mesopotamia. It hums and buzzes, without any of the organized out-of-control feeling of Istanbul. And without any of the cultural capital's exhorbitant prices either.
The bazaar is real, where real people buy clothes and shoes and food and kitchenware.
Street fashion patches western Turkish chic into Iraqi, Syrian and Arab garb. Headgear from bedouin to Arafat. From jeans to salvars, mens trousers with crotches below the knees.
Women are mostly fully clad, in unique, local-style silvery or tan ankle length silk/cotton coats buttoned from the neck down, or in full shador, full black cloaks that just reveal the face, or eyes.
There is an strange feeling of individual independence, among a population that has been at the wrong end of the government's stick for 50 years. A kind of live and let live.
Eyebrows might be raised at strangers, but no more contrary interaction.
It is camera fantasy land: piles of spices, all the costume, kebap dealers of all manner, a low slow sun casting exquisite shadow. But point the camera anywhere near a woman, and feel the chill.
You can click, but what's the use of a picture of an unhappy camper shying away from the lens.
I spot two women, across the road, selling huge crocheted wall hangings in a tourist zone.
I surrepticiously fire off one or two. Unconsciously they pick me out.
"Noh ffoto, noh ffoto!" I had crossed a very wide line.
Yet take a walk, and be overcome by personal kindness and hospitality.
A black pinstripe suited man beckons me in a park. With a mental warning, I wander over. Within minutes he has a bottle of water and a cup of tea in my hand. He takes me for an hour's walk through the back streets. We can barely communicate.
He rings a doorbell. Now I am with a stranger in another stranger's house.
In the courtyard sit six men on small wooden chairs.
I am offered a chair, and given tea. One speaks a smattering of English. "Why are you here?"
"To see."
"Are you hungry?"
No, I only want to eat at 7pm. I actually have an arrangement with some fellow travellers.
An almost inappropriate pendulumn clock registers 4pm
He barks out a few words. Ten minutes later a plastic bag is placed next to me.
"For you to eat when it is 7pm."
I thank him and we bid goodbye. Quite 'normal'. I am humbled by others' kindness.
I peek later: 3 flat loaves, tomatoes, zucchinis and green peppers. As biblical as the old mules carrying large, baggy blanket bags and driven through the lanes by hunched old men.
Nearby is Nemrut Dagi (Mt Nemrut), home to a majestic folly of delusional grandeur.
In 80BC, the local king of Anatolia, Mithridates, decided the only way he was going to get himself on the pantheon of the gods was to join them.
He found the kingdom's highest point, sliced away a ledge on each side of the peak, and erected a series of statues, which he referred to as the 'thrones of the gods', including Apollo, Zeus and himself.
Between each ledge he had a 100m high funery mound of stones built. Nobody yet knows if his body, or his family lies below this mound or not.
The statues aligning the side of the cliff, in sitting form, rise around 5m high, though the heads have long since tumbled, and are now arrayed at the base of the 'temples'.
Leave Sanliurfa at midnight, drive five hours, trudge up the mountain in the dark, and watch the sun rise.
Don't choose Saturday morning. It's a Turkish visitation day.
Two busloads of students from a local university arrive, tambourines and all. No silent dawn meditation.
The sun rises.
Let's play pose in front of the statues.
In that perfect golden, orange light, when the sun has not fully reached out, yet has teased up early, soft shadows, a camera's natural bedmate, young students stand in front of the statues, and cast their own shadows over them.
Twenty minutes later they are gone, and so too nearly is the magic moment.
Back on the road home, we stop for a cigarette break under a tree, next to the controversial Ataturk Dam, on the Euphrates.
The river runs into Iraq and Syria, and they fear their water being strangled.
A police car drives past, and flashes to a halt.
Just the driver's and mine. Not the other passengers.
"Am I an Arab? What am I doing looking at the dam?" (Read: are you checking it out for some kind of attack?)
It seems the beard is almost working better than it should.
A Sanliurfa resident says Turkey has the headwaters, the control, and Iraq has the oil. Why don't they trade resources? Good question.
What happens if the dam does choke the water supply? "That's their problem," says the friendly neighbour.
Both the Bible and Koran carry warnings that when the Euphrates stops flowing, an apocalypse will follow. You would reckon that serious men of the Books might take note of all the passages, not just those that suite.
Sanliurfa is an old town, repeatedly re-occupied for over 8,000 years, fought over and bartered since before recorded time.
A good metal detector would find a treasure of coin, Greek, Roman,. Macedonian (of Alexander), Arab, Persian.
The trail lies deep below the shifting sands. One wonders just how much blood has soaked into these shifting sands of time?
Yet there is a stillness, an overall peace. Not one jot of unkindliness, hostility, violence, hazard or hassle.
Conquered, reconquered, overrun, slaughtered, oppressed for millenia, not centuries.
The question bedevils me.
How do I take this resultant calmness home?
I cannot work out whether this is a quest, or an idealist's burden to bear.
Albatross be damned! Without hope there is nothing!

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This letter by Stephen Krashen, professor emeritus of education and linguistics at the University of Southern California, will be posted today on the New York Times website. I just received it:
This letter by Stephen Krashen, professor emeritus of education and linguistics at the University of Southern California, will be posted today on the New York Times website. I just received it:
The high school where I've taught math for 6 years in Seattle, Franklin, is appx. 70% FRL and has appx 1250 to 1350 students. My students need, needed and will need the kinds of support that kids would tend to get from family situations where someone has a family wage job, therefore there are adults around to hopefully provide support to the young.
Out here in Seattle, we're afflicted by an alphabet soup of Astro Turfs funded by Gate$ – LEV, SFC, PFL, CRPE, NCTQ, A+ WA, … and when I go to ed deform events, I see the same social cla$$ I supported in prior careers.
I grew up on welfare in Holyoke MA, and cooked in fine dining (ex. Four Seasons Hotels, Boston) for 5 years during the 80's. After risking my butt on Alaska tugs and fishing boats, I picked up a math b.a. at the U.W. Seattle, and worked as a support serf at Microsoft for appx. 5 years, supporting email servers and database servers. I know what people from fancy neighborhoods, with fancy degrees, with fancy job titles and with fancy paychecks look like – I've supported them for decades.
I know what corp-0-rat CON$ultant speak from this social cla$$ is about, I lived it for decades. Just as this social cla$$ has done little to improve health care access for the country, other than enhancing the current duct tape and coat hanger mess of AHIP-Care, just as this social cla$$ has allowed wall street to turn our retirments into Junk-Care –
this social cla$$ has done NOTHING to help me help my kids.
There are NO ideas which I get on a Monday and which I can use on Tuesday. The supports which do happen are underfunded and random. The touted ideas lack the details to implement the ideas, and the ideas certainly lack the resources to pay for the time needed to implement the details (oops! the details don't exist!).
There are fancy powerpoints, There are slick soundbites. There are nice paychecks and there are nice cars and there are nice houses in nice 'hoods, and there are nice junkets for the social cla$$ –
This is an elite social cla$$ who could come from the pages of Game Of Thrones, who could be the Ringwraiths of Sauron, who could come from the pages of Plutarch, The Guns of August, The Prince, Richard III or 1984.
This social cla$$ is a parasitic elite.
He says, "But students from middle-class homes who attend well-funded schools rank among the best in world on these tests,"
Can he supply some evidence for this?
Read this report on PISA scores, http://www.hks.harvard.edu/pepg/PDF/Papers/PEPG11-03_GloballyChallenged.pdf , especially Figure A.3.
If you look at math proficiency rates for U.S. kids from college-educated families, they're not doing as well as the OVERALL average (not just from college-educated families) in Germany, New Zealand, Belgium, Macao, Netherlands, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Taiwan, Finland, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Shanghai. Clearly, if you restricted the comparison to kids from college-educated families in other countries, there would be even more countries out-performing the U.S.
There are so many ways to respond to this. I can talk about growing up in Jersey City, in the 60's in a poor working family, but getting an education because my family knew it was important and pushed all 5 children.
As a teacher I can talk about the poor students without meals, pencils, paper, etc., but with cell phones, sneakers, etc.
Yes, we are facing many different problems today and the answers need to be just as varied. We are spending so much money on poor cities and schools, but in the wrong way. Schools have to become part of the community and the solution. Schools should have health clinics with them, baby sitting, adult education, technical training, job counseling and placement, and political involment. Companies need to invest in these areas to reach potential workers.
The people attending these schools need to see the need for education. They need to see that they are valuable to the community, city, state, and country.
We are leaving the inner cities and the poor behind. If we don't get them involved I'm afraid oth groups like terrorists will.
Sorry I ranted but had to.
Excellent comment.
Lucky me gets to spend the week at a conference with dr. Krashen. A great defender of quality Ed.
Thank you for naming the crux of the problem.
It is posted now and they are inviting reader responses to be printed Sunday.
Editors' Note: We invite readers to respond to this letter for the Sunday Dialogue. We plan to publish responses and Mr. Krashen's rejoinder in the Sunday Review. E-mail: email@example.com
"If I had an enemy bigger than my apathy I could have won."
-Mumford & Sons
Just about sums it up. More parent involvement. Less of a general sense of entitlement. A greater sense of personal responsibility in the next generation. These are the things that will get our education system back on track. Tests simply monitor the situation, but do little to actually effect it besides divert funding. I worry that we won't know what we should have been fighting for until it is too late.
Dr. Krashen and I had a short back and forth about this, ( http://tucsoncitizen.com/tired-tucson-teacher/2012/05/18/the-common-core-standards-and-unfunded-mandates/ ). He lamented my glorifying the idea of common objective goals across the nation. I explained my issue was that often children move from one state to another and they have been taught according to the curriculum in the state they have come from and it does not align with the state they are going to since those curriculums are set by each individual state. What genius came up with that idea?
While we did not agree on the Common Core, I believe we were both on the same page in saying that testing progress towards those core goals was unnecessary. ( http://tucsoncitizen.com/tired-tucson-teacher/2012/05/19/back-to-the-common-core-wait-wait-dr-krashen-dont-shoot-yet/ ). I still believe that developmentally appropriate objectives, set up sequentially (though not necessarily by age or grade), are a good idea, just as I believe standardized tests are not.
As long as they have adequate materials, sufficient support and a reasonable class size, good teachers delivering a curriculum know whether their kids are getting it. They will assess as needed, that's why they are the teacher.
So why all the tests? How could policy makers possibly have gone in this direction? While I believe the tests have gone too far, there was a need for an impartial, third-party, objective look at how our schools/students/teachers were doing. Prior to the NCLB mandate for state tests our schools presented an ubiquity of social promotions and graduating everyone, especially in too many of our under performing urban schools. Students "graduating" while reading at or below a fourth grade level? Policy makers concluded parents, taxpayers, and school officials had to know how students were performing. Again, the tests have perhaps gone too far, but there was reasonable justification for it, and not so Pearson could realize outrageous profits from such an endeavor. If we're going to discuss an issue why not present both sides of it?
Are you kidding? Kids are being pushed through now. Have you
heard about credit recovery and adminstrators changing our grades?Students cannot have below a 50 even if they do nothing. Students who score basic or below basic still advance to the next grade. Teachers are told to change grades or be written up for insubordination. Flunk a course and just retake it on the computer, an extremely watered down version…..guess, guess again until you get it right. Look into the adminstration and politicians and non-edcuator reformers for all this insanity. And you are defending Pearson?
How is my statement defending Pearson? They're in the business for one reason and one reason only, the sheckles. They're leeches in my book making enormous profits from a system gone wild.
And teachers need to make administrative practices known to the public and the media. Their actions are nothing short of fraudulent when they force teachers to push kids through regardless of effort or performance. Are you state legislators aware of these shenanigans? If they aren't, they should be.
Professor Krashen locates the problem with American children's aggregate educational achievement in the prevalence of poverty, and argues we can alleviate this by taking funds from too much testing and re-direct these funds towards nutrition, health care and more books. If only such a class biased culture of miseducation could be overcome this easily.
However, an unbiased cultural of learning is available. The components of this culture as identified by Hargreaves are "Slow leading" (2006, citing Hargreaves & Fink), "Slow schooling," (2006, citing Honore) and "Slow forms of knowing" (2005, citing Claxton). Admittedly, a well fed healthy child should thrive if provided this kind of learning context:
Slow leading:
• Emphasize learning, then achievement, then testing
• Do not narrow the achievement gap by widening the learning gap
• Resist the karaoke curriculum
• Protect and promote deep learning in the arts, humanities and health education
• Devise ways for children to take tests individually, when they are ready, instead of all at once.
• Provide time for unstructured play and conversation with colleagues as well as children
• Act urgently for improvement; wait patiently for results
• Are evidence-informed
• Understand and communicate that deep change takes time
• Retain depth in staff development
Slow schooling:
• starts formal learning later
• reduces testing
• increases curriculum flexibility
• emphasizes enjoyment
• doesn't hurry the child
• rehabilitates play alongside purpose
Slow forms of knowing
• are tolerant of the faint, fleeting, marginal and ambiguous
• likes to dwell on details that do not fit or immediately make sense
• are relaxed, leisurely and playful
• are willing to explore without knowing what they are looking for
• see ignorance and confusion as the ground from which understanding may spring
• are receptive rather than proactive
• are happy to relinquish the sense of control over the directions the mind spontaneously takes
• treat seriously ideas that come 'out of the blue'
Hargreaves, Andy (2005). Seven Principles of Sustainable Leadership. Retrieved April
04, 2008, from
Hargreaves, Andy (2006, November).
Sustainable Leadership.
Speech presented at Literacy for All | Northeast K-6 Literacy Conference,
Providence, Rhode Island.
Charles H. Settles
255 Massachusetts Avenue, #808
Boston, MA 02115
It is NOT poverty as much as it is "bad" areas = bad behavior!!!! And, the bad behavior goes back 6 generations in some areas!!! I have been able to inspire some of my impoverished students to want to read & learn, and sadly, they do not receive continued support at home. We need to instill the value of learning to the aliterate adults & delinquent older siblings in the HOME!!!!
Behavior is certainly an issue but I spent my last year as a behavior interventionist, dealing with children, and their caregivers. Poverty is an problem, at least as much as family upbringing is. Several of the children that I referred to privately as "frequent fliers" were being raised exclusively by grandparents, the parents having abdicated the responsibility. In the main I found the grandparents to be cooperative and willing to follow through on suggestions for consequences. And yet their own children, the parents were not in the picture. It is very troubling and not easily solved.
Significantly two other young friends of mine, in a professional sense, were students who were in foster care situations. Their openness about the reasons for their placement and the frustration they felt because of this was disheartening to both me and to them. I felt they had entirely too much knowledge about what should have been an adult's problem.
We desperately need to reassess how we are raising children in this hyper-electronic, instant news saturated and ultra-culturally aware environment.
Join our group on FB. You would be such an inspiration and asset to our page. We are fighting common core. Thank you,
Patricia Villella


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I received my new Axiom EP500, and well, it absolutely has surpassed my highest expectations. The new sub handles the reference material without hesitation and delivers bass that is frankly "scary". My home theater is now the shining star I had hoped it would be. Your speakers are nothing short of amazing in all aspects. My cd collection is being re-discovered due to the M60's, and the rest of the system makes Star Wars and other reference DVD's sound better than any movie theater could. More importantly, is the level of service I have received from each of you. From my initial e-mails w/Brent prior to purchase, through the placement of the 500, all three of you have been world class. Both Brent and Alan have provided excellent technical information to asset me as well as very warm and hospitable attitudes. Noreen has been wonderful in her consistent communication during shipments. As someone who works for a company that strives to be "the best" in customer service in the technology industry, your fine company is certainly a "Best Practice" for any company wanting to do it right. Thanks again to each of you for your great product, and OUTSTANDING service. Please forward to anyone who may be interested in this feedback. I will also post this info to the board to confirm what many others already know about your service.
The EP 500 rocks, I am still tweaking but I think I found the sweet spot, but when I was crawling around on the floor with scotch tape the other night my wife told me I needed a hobby, I said, What do you think this is? One of my buddy came over last night that runs dual Sunfire Subs in his system and he was ashamed after sitting on my couch while I was playing a little R&B with some great bass in it for him. Again, Thanks for the time and the great audio equipment. I am really enjoying it.
I cannot believe the difference in both music and movies since getting the EP500. My bass repsonse is so smooth, yet very deep. I was happy with my sub from a "larger" manufactuer but the EP500 is no comparison. I thought at first "great I'll do a 2 sub setup", but why? The EP500 takes care of it all and with the gain at only 1/4 - 1/3 the way up in a very open room.
I have received the EP500 and although I still need to perform some more set up and calibration, I am impressed with it's sound and features (this is the first speaker I have owned with a USB port :-) Overall, I am VERY pleased with the way my system is sounding. It is so clean that I find that I need to occasionally monitor my levels with my SPL meter so as not to damage my hearing from listening too loud. Thanks,
It is installed. Already the music sounds more filling...just the opposite of lite beer. The sitar which doesn't really reach low/loud bass...sounds fuller and the undertones of the drone make it more like reality. With effective power balancing the bass is confirmed and its presence goes without too much emphasis!!!
When I selected the equipment for my new home theatre, I new that it would sound great, even the possibility of sounding exceptional even came to mind. But after listening for a few of days, simply astonishing is a much more formidable description. Thanks Axiom . P.S. The Epicenter 500 Sub scares the $#!% out of my dogs... :)
Everyone who listens to this system is astounded by the absolute clarity and transparency. We all can't get over the amazing performance of the EP500, it's really awesome! Thanks again for everything Amie,
The sub is just what I expected, loud and deep without the booming or hum like my old sub. The surrounds have opened up the effects from my DVD's that I always knew were there but couldn't hear. My new problem is what to do about the center and front speakers. But that's why the M60's and the VP150 are on my Christmas list. Thanks for making high quality products and providing top notch support. I am a satisfied customer.
The sub sounds amazing...I am re-discovering all my CD's!
I have the EP500 all hooked up and let me tell you...I give it a A rating. I blends seamlessly into my existing system and adds the low, low, low end to the entire system.
The 500 came right on time and I'm extremely pleased with its performance. Interestingly, it replaces my 10 yr. old Paradigm PS 1000 which was recommended in the Cdn. publication "Sound and Vision" by Axiom's own Alan Lofft (I think it was Alan who wrote the review!). If the 500 gives me the same trouble-free pleasure that my Paradigm has given me over the years, I will, indeed, be very happy camper! Merry Xmas to yourself and all of the Axiom family,
Just returned from a business trip to find the EP500 waiting for me. I was rather amazed that the *GIANT* 80-pound box made it half way across the country without a scratch on it... but the unit was securely packaged and is working just fine. In fact, it works so well that my wife and I both stood mouths open (not kidding!) as it shook the rafters and window glass in our house. Amazing! Love that palpable, tight bass. More testimony to follow after I've had a chance to get the sub completely dialed in....
Kudos Axiom for continuing to offer absolutely amazing products, at very reasonable prices, and with the best Customer Service available anywhere... bar none!! I became a happy Axiom customer in August 2002 with the purchase of a pair of M60 Ti SE's. My current purchase of an EP500 sub has once again confirmed the excellent sound, build quality, and customer support that your company provides. One word to best describe the EP500...awesome! Looking forward to my next Axiom purchase!
I have been Really Wow'ed with my Axiom EP 500 v.2's brute output power, finesse, articulation and musical accuracy!!! It fills my 5300cf home theater room with cement slab shaking, visceral impact bass that extends well beyond audibility, never seeming strained or peaked, always well controlled and fast, while maintaining superb low bass tonality that is always musical...I'm impressed (so are my neighbors, hehe)!!!
For my dedicated home theatre room, I upgraded from the EP400 to the EP500, which is a fair bit larger and heavier, but has a lot more punch. Of particular note, the upgrade process was easy and seamless, I was provided with a prepaid label to return the EP400 and was permitted to keep it until the EP500 arrived. This bad boy can be adjusted to meet the requirements of any system and user, whether it?s lower volumes while still producing confident bass, or seamless integration for a realistic home theatre feel, to extra or even insane bass (the floor shakes, pictures rattle, it?s great!). I chose to set the sub so it property integrates with the rest of my system (VP150, M22 on-wall, M2 on-wall; 7.1 surround), it accurately and confidently reproduces lower frequencies while not being overbearing (80hz crossover), with no signs/sounds of stress or ?port chuffing?. Much more clean, tight, and accurate bass than other subs I?ve heard. Great customer service, great product!
We've had the EP 500 for over 5 years now. From day one, it has provided the foundation for numerous movies and music tracks and has done so flawlessley!. It's so powerful that sometimes we think the entire house is coming down! Way to go Axiom! Power and precission in one box! Walter B. Mesa, AZ
This subwoofer is well worth the money. You won't regret it!
Always extremely musical with great impact and accurate low bass tonality delineation, the EP500 is a superb sounding sub at all listening levels in both Stereo and HT movie multi-channel applications!
Wow, is all I can say!! A treat for music and movies. You may want to warn your neighbors before you get complaints. It shakes my entire house and deck, which is at the opposite end of the house and the sub is in the basement :-).


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I love Halloween! I love fall weather, the leaves changing and Halloween. I like fun cute Halloween stuff, not scary stuff. I probably have more Halloween decorations than Christmas decorations. I bought some new decorations last year that were on clearance and I can't wait to put them up! I even carve a pumpkin each year. You can click here to see those previous posts where I am showing off my carved pumpkings, Pumpkin, Cats and Seeds..Oh My and It's Pumpkin Carving Time Again. Oh, and right after I started with Taste of Home Cooking Schools, a guy in OH gave me a fresh pumpkin that he had carved our logo into. I took a photo because I thought it was the coolest! I have kept up with this photo for 11 years now.
With my hectic show schedule during October, I am not always home for Halloween. If I happen to be home, it has become a tradition for me to throw some chicken, burgers and hot dogs on the grill, make potato salad, cook some green beans, have friends over and give out candy. Each year that I have been able to do this, my party has grown a little bit more. The more the merrier. Since I have a few kids that come to my party with their parents, I think I am going to start having something that they can make.
In searching through Taste of Home, I found lots of kid friendly snacks and treats! I think I have settled on Halloween Cat Cookies and Halloween Pretzel Treats. That way they can decorate them in their own style so each one will be unique!
Halloween Cat Cookies
- 1 tube (18 ounces) refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough
- 54 pieces candy corn
- 1 can (16 ounces) chocolate frosting
- Red shoestring licorice, cut into 1-3/8-inch pieces
- 9 thin chocolate wafer (2-1/4 inch diameter), quartered
- Bake cookies according to package directions. Cool on a wire racks.
- Cut off yellow tips from 18 pieces of candy corn (discard orange and white portion or save for another use). Frost cookies with chocolate frosting.
- Immediately decorate with two whole candy corns for eyes, a yellow candy corn tip for nose, six licorice pieces for whiskers and two wafer quarters for ears. Yield: 1-1/2 dozen.
Halloween Pretzel Treats
- 8 ounces white baking chocolate, chopped
- 1 package (10 ounces) pretzel rods
- 1 cup orange candy coating disks
- Yellow, orange and brown jimmies
- In a microwave, melt baking chocolate; stir until smooth. Dip each pretzel halfway into chocolate allowing excess to drip off. Place on waxed paper; let stand until set.
- In a microwave, melt candy coating disks; stir until smooth. Dip pretzel tips into coating allowing excess to drip off; sprinkle with jimmies. Let stand until set. Store in an airtight container. Yield: about 2 dozen.
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NFL free agency update: Nnamdi Asomugha, Leon Washington released
|03.12.13 at 3:52 pm ET
With free agency looming, here are a couple of moves of note to pass along:
The Seahawks are set to release running back/return man Leon Washington, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN. The veteran was scheduled to make $1.5 million in base salary in 2013. Washington has been a Pro Bowl return man over the course of his career, but he will turn 31 years old before the start of next season, and while he still averaged 29 yards per kick return in 2012 (one of the best totals in the league), was likely considered expendable after Seattle acquired Percy Harvin. Even though the Patriots have struggled to find consistency in the return game the last few seasons, it would be a surprise if New England was in on a deal for Washington.
The Eagles have cut cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha. The 31-year-old corner, who was part of a heralded group of free agents Philly signed shortly before the start of the 2011 season, has 71 interceptions over the course of his 10-year career. The 6-foot-2, 210-pounder is a three-time Pro Bowler who was scheduled to make $15 million in 2013 with $4 million guaranteed. While his deal needs to be reworked — he could make a nice addition somewhere — it would be a surprise if the Patriots were involved. (One thing New England will take note of is the fact that Asomugha's presence on the open market is another sign that there's a glut of veteran corners available — which could drive down the price of Aqib Talib and allow him to reach an agreement on a team-friendly deal that would keep him in Foxboro.)
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It may take going to court to resolve the salary supplement dispute for members of the juvenile board in Potter County.
Potter County commissioners, meeting in executive session Monday, approved a letter to 320th State District Judge Don Emerson, chairman of the juvenile board, ordering him to rescind a written order to reinstate full salary supplements for juvenile board members.
Commissioners approved cutting the annual supplement from $4,700 to $2,100 as one of the final items in last September's budget.
The proposed cut equals the salary received by juvenile board members in Randall County, and according to commissioners, will save taxpayer money in the long run.
At issue is Emerson's authority to order county officials to pay the supplement when county commissioners cut the supplement from the budget.
Who actually controls the specifics of the county budget - commissioners or judges - will have to be resolved, although commissioners contend "the law is pretty clear" who has that authority.
However, another factor to be considered is the savings to taxpayers.
State district judges are paid an annual state salary of $101,700, in addition to a $6,000 county supplement set by the Legislature and the $4,700 juvenile board supplement.
According to the county auditor's office, state district judges cannot earn within $2,000 of a state Supreme Court Justice - an annual maximum salary of $113,000.
Any salary amount above that has to be refunded to the state.
Commissioners are trying to prevent the possibility of subsidizing the state while reinforcing their authority to administer the county budget.
Commissioners are correct in stating their ultimate authority over the county budget, and the possibility of saving taxpayer money should be a priority for every public official.
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Love Stories
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Vocalist-pianist Frank McComb lets his gospel roots show in an uplifting, intelligent solo debut, Love Stories (Columbia CSK 42753; 72:05). McComb's soaring tenor can sound eerily like Stevie Wonder-conveying sweet optimism and faith without a false note on "His Eye Is on the Sparrow" and "The Wedding Song," and taking on an angular funk character for the soulful "(They're Gonna Be) Looking at You." While his captivating vocals go a long way to redeem even weaker Stories, like the dull-grooved "Gotta Find a Way," his thoughtful piano work proves equally accomplished and evocative. A bittersweet, introspective read of Leonard Bernstein's "Some Other Time" and glorious Earth, Wind & Fire-like grooves of the instrumental "Return to Lake Erie" show that McComb's talents extend well beyond the voice. Credit Branford Marsalis with sharp production choices to highlight McComb's many gifts.


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He may be the bad seed here, but Dave Franco some credit: at least he picked up on the fact that it's preposterous to think Channing Tatum could pass as a high schooler.
Not that it won't be hilarious to see him try.
The first red band trailer for Tatum and Jonah Hill's big screen reboot of the classic undercover cop series "21 Jump Street" has hit the twittersphere -- to quote Ice Cube, who plays a role in the flick. Hill and Tatum star as two former high school classmates, one a nerd and the other a dumb jock, who team up on the city police force in an awkward-at-best union.
A few busts on bikes later, and they join the Jump Street team, which sends them back to high school to take down a drug ring and Rob Riggle, both of which are ridiculous in their own right. Oh, and being a teenager again? That may be the most difficult part of it all.
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What causes deficits?
The reason rising government debt is said to be a threat to economic recovery is that, in theory, government demand for money makes interest rates go sky-high, impeding the flow of credit to businesses. But that's just not the case currently. On the contrary, interest rates hover at record lows, impoverishing people on fixed incomes who rely on interest income, while enriching banks who can borrow practically for free from the government. In fact, all corporations have prospered in this cheap money environment, pushing the cost of investment toward zero. The problem is that they're not using that cheap money to invest in the U.S. or hire U.S. workers.
Worker productivity increased by 2.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010, while real hourly compensation dropped. Unemployment remains at levels normally associated with recessions. Tax income from workers suffers accordingly. Meanwhile corporate profits grew 36.8% in 2010, the biggest gain since 1950—and how much of that goes into taxes? Corporate taxes accounted for 35% of all federal revenues in 1945, but less than 9% in 2010, as corporations wangle better and better deals for themselves from increasingly compliant Congressmen.
Money is also being funneled increasingly to the top one percent of households that now takes home almost one quarter of the national income. That's another hit to tax revenues, as the proportion they contribute to taxes has declined dramatically. The cost of the Bush tax cut for the top two percent of income earners, extended last year, is estimated at $700 billion over 10 years. Having thus looted the treasury for the very rich, deficit hawks are now using the shortfall as an excuse to axe programs that support the middle class and poor.
Meanwhile, Obama and many Democrats have shamefully acceded to the misguided narrative that government spending is responsible for the current economic malaise and that spending cuts are a solution rather than a problem. And the cutting isn't over; the Republicans plan another showdown when the debt ceiling comes up for a vote a few weeks from now.
There's no leadership in Washington, and if things are going to change, the grassroots are going to have to make it happen. We need to tell our representatives to stop cutting the legs out from under the economy. It's time to spend money in a way that will help American Main Street businesses and households regain their vigor—and yes, to raise taxes in a way that will make the big multinational corporations and the wealthy elite shoulder their fair share.


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This series was inspired by the wonderful quirky architecture Heather encountered when she was living in New Bedford, MA, in the early 90's. She began sketching, recording unusual architectural spaces in the houses she lived in and visited. Many of the houses were historic, built in the time before the current building codes. The titles often refer to the address of the original sketch. The staircases, hallways, doorways and loading docks she sketches from her life become the muse for the narrative spaces in her work. They become metaphors for expressing various journeys, transitions, and thresh-holds within her life's journey. Seasonal landscapes, the textures and colors found in the natural world, especially the intense vibrant colors of flowers serve as the inspiration for her colorful palette. Heather's innovative work can take many forms, sometimes the fabrics are pieced into a quilt top or woven into a rag rug "canvas." She enjoys spending time mixing her dyes, this allows her to fine tune the value and relationship of each color in a piece. Sometimes the image is painted with thickened dye and other pieces begin with hand dyed cloth. In both cases she enjoys layering numerous surface design techniques using dyes and textile inks to build up layers of vibrant color and pattern. The construction of the piece can include a combination of hand and machine sewing, collage, embroidery, and hand and machine quilting. The physical layering of the surface design processes and stitching reinforce the visual and tactile sense of architectural space. Her work begins as white or light colored cotton, linen, silk and antique fabrics. She is a collector and a firm believer in recycling, often combining wonderful old antique textile fragments with new fabrics. She draws her inspiration from her life and the environment around her, the rich surfaces and architecture of the historic buildings in Asheville, NC.


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Ancient Maya writing used hieroglyphs, pictorial representations that were carved in stone and other materials, painted on pottery and murals, or written in books. Glyphs were always used for writing, not for decoration. The hieroglyphic code of the Maya was undecipherable to modern scholars until quite recently. Now it is understood that the Maya script was a logo-syllabic system. Individual symbols ("glyphs") could represent either a word or a syllable; indeed, the same glyph could often be used for both.
Maya glyphs appeared on the face of buildings, on carvings, in books and murals. They described the everyday life of the cities and rulers and were also used to record astrological and astronomical events.
Maya scribes played a crucial role in the court as the keepers of information, as the commoners in ancient Maya society were most likely illiterate. It was the scribe's role to preserve the power of the king through writing. Scribes could be men or women, were in the upper class, and lived in luxury, beholden to the king.
There are about 30 vowel and consonant sounds in the Maya language.
A Guatemalan poet Humberto Ak'abal wrote the following poems in the 1950's. While the poems are not written in Yucatec Mayan, you can still practice your use of the Mayan language by reading them aloud referring to the pronunciation guide above. The Spanish and English translations follow.
We kateq'an puwi'jum ri'j k'isis
we katopan pa ri utza'm ri uq'ab
kawilo chi ri uwächulew
man naj tl k'o wi che ri kaj.
Pa chuwitz'ap
katkuwinik kachapo.
Yaj, xyajik
Ri ik' are ri jun nimalaj ja
t'uyul puwi'ri uworachak ri juyub'
Are chi'ru nutat kinnuyajo
Ri we in kin'e pa ri ik'
Chila kinwar wi.
Si te encaramás a un Viejo ciprés
y trepás por sus ramas,
verás que la tierra
no está lejos del cielo.
En Momostenango
podrás tocarlo.
La luna era una casa grande
sentada sobre el espinazo del cerro.
Cuando mi papá me reganaba,
yo me iba para la luna
Y alli dormía.
If you rise to the top of the old cypress
and climb onto its branches
you will see the Earth
It's not so far from the sky.
In Momostenango
you can touch it.
The moon was a big house
sitting on the spine of the hill.
When my father scolded me
I went to the moon
And slept there.
There are more than seven million Maya living today in the Americas and Europe. They do not create glyphs as the ancients did, but their language is still unique.
There are 30 Maya languages spoken in Mesoamerica; 10 linguistic families with about 3 language variants each. People who speak languages from different linguistic families cannot typically understand each other. The ancient hieroglyphic script is most closely related to the following spoken languages today: chorti (near Copan in Honduras), Yucatec (Yucatan peninsula), and Chol (near Palenque in Chiapas).
One of the largest Maya linguistic groups speaks Yucatec Mayan. Some examples of how English phrases would sound in Yucatec Mayan follow.


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I am personally very cautious about headphones from firms that are new to the field. Zalman just doesn't have the rich experience of manufacturers like Sennheiser, Sony, Technics or Pioneer. At the same time, without doubt, the headphones from Zalman will enjoy a warm welcome in the gaming community as the main purpose of this model is in reproduction of sound when you can't enable your speaker system. I'd like to warn you once again, though, that you should be wary of turning the volume to the maximum lest you become deaf.
When I was using the headphones, I often caught myself as if missing something. And yes, the ZM-RS6F would be better if it had a button to switch between Surround and Stereo modes. For example, this switch allows changing the Mono mode to Stereo and back in such specialized stereophonic headphones as the Pioneer SE-DJ5000. So why don't they make a Surround/Stereo switch in a multi-channel model? I hope the engineering team from Zalman will consider my proposal in their future models, which are sure to appear. Among annoying trifles, I would mention the lack of a clip for the jointing cord, which many comfortable headphones models come with. Of course, this clip doesn't affect the sound quality in any way, but it does affect the comfort of use.
- Removable embouchures;
- Long jointing cord.
- No subwoofer channel (the wire is cut);
- The color-coding of the connectors is unusual;
- The folded design is practically useless;
- No volume control on the cord.
Lastly, I would like to quote my friend, a DJ, "…any headphones, especially cheap ones, harm your ears". Just remember that when you choose headphones for a long use.


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Padraig Dennehy - Missoula, MT
Patricio Dibble - Minot, ND
Robert Dickson - Carmel, IN
Randall A. Diez - Tampa, FL
Harold Diamond - Edmonds, WA
Frederick N. Dibbs - Reston, VA
Scott Dickson - Kalispell, MT
Liliana Esther Difabio - Boston, MA
Harold R. Diamond - Seattle, WA
Joseph Dibendetto - Asbury Park, NJ
Stephanie Dickson - Alexandria, VA
Alexander Difilippo - Wooster, OH
Howard S. Diamond - Waldorf, MD
Roger Dibenedetto - Brooklyn, NY
Thomas R. Dickson - Midvale, UT
Daniel Difilippo - East Tawas, MI
Jonathon Diamond - New York, NY
Paul D. Dibley - Shawano, WI
Robert B. Dickter - San Francisco, CA
James Difilippo - Portland, ME
Lawrence Diamond - Williston Park, NY
John Dibling - Englishtown, NJ
Donna Dicrescento - Margate, FL
Jean Diflorio - Liverpool, NY
Leonard Diamond - Kearny, NJ
Robert Craig Dibona - Middletown, NJ
Dean Dicristofaro - Homer City, PA
Geraldine Difranco - Palos Hills, IL
Mark John Diamond - Scarborough, ME
Chi-Chi Dibor - Philadelphia, PA
Robert Dictrow - Huntington Sta, NY
Joseph Difranco - St Clair Shores, MI
Marshall Diamond - Commack, NY
Kenneth Dicarlo - Sarasota, FL
Robert L. Dicus - Scottsdale, AZ
Dennis S. Digamon - Plant City, FL
Martin Diamond - Mamaroneck, NY
Ronald DiCarlo - Pittsburgh, PA
G. Michael Dieck - Waukegan, IL
Jason Digby - Fulton, MS
Martin Diamond - Hot Springs, VA
Gerald Dice - Gary, WV
Jennifer Diederich - Farmington, CT
Cecilia Diggin - Stony Brook, NY
Martin J. Diamond - Hot Springs, VA
Malinda Dice-Shah - College Park, MD
Fred Diedrichsen - Oxford, NE
Joyce T Diggles-Savory - Bellaire, TX
Marvin Diamond - Pottsville, PA
Jessica Dicerbo - Chadds Ford, PA
Fred Diedrichsen - Holdrege, NE
Josie Digiacinto - Tarzana, CA
Michael Diamond - New York, NY
Annamarie Dichiara - Birmingham, AL
Darryl Diefes - Whiteville, NC
Jennifer Digiacomo - Greenwich, CT
Michael Diamond - Roslyn, NY
Pat Diciccio - Fresno, CA
Bertha Dieguez-Marino - Birmingham, AL
Robert Digiorno - Newman, CA
Michael Diamond - Newark, NJ
Brenda Dick - Sioux City, IA
Bertha Dieguez-Marino - Gadsden, AL
John Digiovanni - Laguna Beach, CA
Michael Diamond - Hewlett, NY
Delwyn Dick - Coeur D Alene, ID
David L. Diehl - Davenport, IA
J. Michael Digney - Boynton Beach, FL
Michael K. Diamond - Roslyn Heights, NY
J M Dick - Woodmere, NY
David M Diehl - Fort Wayne, IN
Rolland Digre - Hendricks, MN
Olwyn Diamond - Baltimore, MD
James Dick - Chattanooga, TN
Gordon Diehl - East Setauket, NY
Rolland Digre - Hendricks, MN
Randolph Diamond - New York, NY
Jeffrey P Dick - Hilton, NY
Kenneth Diehl - Durham, NC
John Digregorio - Brooklyn, NY
Stephen Diamond - Farmingville, NY
Mary Dick - Salem, SD
Rosellen Diehl - Castro Valley, CA
Erica Lucy Diguglielmo - South Burlington, VT
Nelson Diamondstein - Brooklyn, NY
Michael Dick - Rutland, VT
Steven Diehl - Steamboat Spgs, CO
Donna Dijinio - Temple, PA
Laarni B Diamse - La Mirada, CA
Wallace Dick - Keizer, OR
Steven W. Diehl - Wheat Ridge, CO
Inna Dijour - Old Bridge, NJ
Kenneth Diana - Brick, NJ
Richard Dickard - Nevada City, CA
N T. Diekman - Mahnomen, MN
Inna Dijour - Old Bridge, NJ
Kourosh Dianat - Redondo Beach, CA
Andrew Dickens - Beckley, WV
Steven Diekman - West Fargo, ND
Yury Dikansky - Brooklyn, NY
Maria Dianco-Sebastian - Livingston, NJ
Bradley Dickens - Bakersfield, CA
John Diekmann - Evansville, IN
Ted L. Dikeman III - Arlington, VA
Matthew Diandreth - Monaca, PA
Mark Dickens - Bellaire, TX
Winston B. Diel - Lafayette, LA
M S Dikengil - West New York, NJ
Rocco Diantonio - Staten Island, NY
David Dickensin - Issaquah, WA
Ruth Dieleman-Levine - New York, NY
Mehmet Dikengil - Elizabeth, NJ
Cecilia B. Dias - Rancho Pls Vrds, CA
Alan Dickerman - Bala Cynwyd, PA
Benjamin Dienstein - San Rafael, CA
Richard Dilaura - Las Vegas, NV
Fred S. Dias - San Francisco, CA
Carl A. Dickerson - Roy, UT
Jeanie Diep - Murrieta, CA
Thomas J. Dilaura - Norfolk, VA
Thomas Dias - East Mc Keesport, PA
Derrick J Dickerson - Mesa, AZ
Paul Diercks - San Mateo, CA
Ronald Dileo - Allentown, PA
Thomas Dias - Mc Keesport, PA
Dudley Dickerson - Macon, MS
Dennis B. Dierenfield - Santa Barbara, CA
Joseph Dilger - Cresco, PA
Corina Diaz - Houston, TX
James Dickerson - Salem, NH
Douglas H. Dierenfield - Kailua Kona, HI
Anthony Dill - Ebensburg, PA
David Diaz - Costa Mesa, CA
John D. Dickerson - Columbus, OH
Donald Dierkes - Orinda, CA
Douglas Dill - Chatsworth, CA
David M. Diaz - Redlands, CA
Nathan Dickerson - Las Cruces, NM
John Dierkes - Roswell, GA
Mark S. Dill - Chattanooga, TN
Eduardo Diaz - San Diego, CA
Scott Elliott Dickerson - Dover, NJ
Eric Dierks - Portland, OR
Michael A Dill - Scotch Plains, NJ
George Diaz - Long Beach, NY
Todd E. Dickerson - Chandler, AZ
Nelson R. Diers - Cincinnati, OH
Steven H. Dill - Casa Grande, AZ
George Diaz - Riverside, CA
Wilson R. Dickerson Jr. - Baltimore, MD
Ross H. Dies - Shreveport, LA
Todd A Dill - Logansport, IN
Jennifer Diaz - Burke, VA
Bradford Dickey - Woodbridge, CA
E J Diestelkamp - Alton, IL
Young K. Dill - Henderson, NV
Jesus Diaz - Hialeah, FL
Bryan D. Dickey - Osceola, NE
E J Diestelkamp - East Alton, IL
Gary Dillabaugh - Denver, CO
Jorge L. Diaz - Miami, FL
Danny Dickey - Tupelo, MS
Marcia Dieterle - Keyser, WV
Lewis Dillahunty - N Little Rock, AR
Jose Diaz - Miami, FL
David Dickey - New Castle, IN
Brett B. Dieterlen - Tulsa, OK
David Dillard - Raleigh, NC
Luis Diaz - Santa Rosa, CA
David Dickey - San Francisco, CA
Bruce Dietman - Harrisburg, PA
Frederick Dillard - Summerville, SC
Luis Diaz - Melbourne, FL
David J. Dickey - Augusta, GA
Carl Dietrich - Wadsworth, OH
Jo Ann Dillard - Duncan, OK
M Luisa Diaz - San Bruno, CA
H Brad Dickey - Rock Hill, SC
Carl P. Dietrich Jr. - Akron, OH
Keith Dillard - Pelham, AL
Marcos Diaz - Weston, FL
James Dickey - Moreno Valley, CA
Charles D. Dietrich - Washington, DC
Kevin K Dillard - Murfreesboro, TN
Mary Anne B Diaz - San Jose, CA
Keith Dickey - East Alton, IL
Daniel Dietrich - Kingsport, TN
Leslie Dillard - Nashville, TN
Mary Anne Diaz - San Jose, CA
Kirk Dickey - Eden Prairie, MN
Dean D. Dietrich - Dolton, IL
Michael Dillard - Snellville, GA
Mercedes Aybar Diaz - Raleigh, NC
Leonel V. Dickey - San Francisco, CA
Donald R Dietrich - York, PA
Robert M Dillard - Fort Morgan, CO
Michael Diaz - San Bernardino, CA
Steven B. Dickey - Thousand Oaks, CA
Fred Dietrich - Camden, AR
Toney Dillard - Spartanburg, SC
Patricia Diaz - Genoa, NV
William P Dickey III - Natchez, MS
John L. Dietrich - Port Charlotte, FL
William L. Dillard - Gridley, CA
Ricardo Diaz - San Antonio, TX
Jon D. Dickie - Chula Vista, CA
Richard L. Dietrich - Portland, OR
Guy Dillaway - Weston, MA
Ricardo Diaz - San Antonio, TX
Stephen Dickins - Laguna Woods, CA
Thomas Dietrich - Alliance, OH
J. Kendall Dillehay - Wichita, KS
Richard Diaz - Knoxville, MD
Stephen Dickins - Palmdale, CA
James Diette - Darien, CT
Bradley Dilling - Fort Myers, FL
Richard Diaz - Charles Town, WV
John Dickinson - Milwaukee, WI
Bruce Dietterick - York, PA
Victoria Dillingham - San Ramon, CA
Rosa Diaz - Clinton Corners, NY
Kevin Dickinson - Savannah, GA
Andrew Dietz - Haddon Heights, NJ
Victoria Dillingham - San Ramon, CA
Rosa Maria Diaz - Boca Raton, FL
Leslie Dickinson - Little Rock, AR
Anthony Dietz - Bloomfield Hills, MI
Ray E. Dillman - Salt Lake City, UT
Ruben Diaz - Corona, NY
Mark Dickinson - Cape Elizabeth, ME
Anthony E. Dietz - Novi, MI
Domenic DiNello - Niles, OH
Stephanie Diaz - Coral Springs, FL
Richard A Dickinson - Saint Albans, VT
Clifton Dietz - Beaver, PA
Domenic DiNello - Youngstown, OH
Walter Diaz - Maben, MS
W Jeffrey Dickinson - Sarasota, FL
Craig E. Dietz - East Liverpool, OH
Charles DiPasquale - Centerville, OH
Walter Diaz - Maben, MS
W. Reed Dickinson - Santa Rosa, CA
James Dietz - Memphis, TN
Dennis Doyle - Carmel, NY
Deborah Diaz-Murphy - San Antonio, TX
David Dickman - Cheektowaga, NY
Rod Dietz - Tampa, FL
John Mason - St Charles, IL
Angel Diaz-Norrman - Miami, FL
Paula Dickmann - Muskogee, OK
Victor Dietz - Framingham, MA
John W Monheim - Orrville, OH
Efrain Diaz-Pastrana - Somers Point, NJ
Charles Dickson Jr. - Chicago, IL
Alvin Dieu - Houston, TX
John Mose - Tulsa, OK
Michael Dibbini - Yonkers, NY
Hilton Dickson - Ocean Drive, SC
Randall A. Diez - Tampa, FL
Yusuke Suzuki - Lodi, CA
David Dibble - Central Lake, MI
Jon H. Dickson - Tahoe City, CA
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Shimoni Vacation Packages
Shimoni is situated approximately 290 miles (467 kilometers) southeast of Nairobi, the national capital.
Kenya is home to many cities, towns and villages, each possessing its own distinct qualities. If you're looking for other places to check out, you'll find Galu Kinondo, 20 miles (32 kilometers) to the southwest, and Shimba Hills National Reserve 25 miles (40 kilometers) to the south.
If the sun isn't shining, don't panic, Kenya is home to a range of craft workshops, that will keep you busy.
Tapping into local knowledge is the perfect way for visitors to get familiar with a new place. So consider singing up for one of the wildlife spotting tours and wildlife safaris.
For many travelers, enjoying a new place is as much about food as it is about sightseeing, so take the time to sample the meals here. Potato and also maize are common ingredients used in cooking here. Ugali (cornmeal) and irio (mashed peas and potato mix) are commonly enjoyed by vacationers and residents alike. Finish off with chilled banana cream, a popular final course. If you are after a typical alcohol-free beverage, try the flavors of Picana (mango juice).
For those who intend on traveling by plane, keep in mind that the nearest major airport is Moi International Airport, 45 miles (72 kilometers) to the north of Shimoni.


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Bring your lunch and
join us on Wednesdays at noon in the third floor auditorium of the
Linn-Henley Research Building. We'll provide beverages. For more
information, call 226-3604.
May 2
Ancestor Searching in Government Documents
Yvonne Crumpler from the Library's Southern History Department will
talk about records of genealogical value such as the Alabama Coal Mine
Inspector Reports, the American State Papers, and the state militia lists.
May 9
Alabama's Mysteries and Legends: Strange But True Tales from
the Heart of Dixie
Alan Brown, professor of literature at the University of West Alabama
in the Department of Languages and Literature, will present this program
on Alabama folktales. From the meteor shower of 1833 to the crying pecan
tree of Butler, Professor Brown recounts and examines legends told across
the state.
May 16
Caribbean Steel Drums Serenade
Join us as Jim Pate, our preeminent reference librarian of many hidden
talents, demonstrates the steel drums that he constructed and learned to
play. A journey to the Caribbean with a free concert at noon, what a great
way to spend a lunch hour.
May 23
Identity Theft: The High-Tec Crime
Paul Daymond, community outreach coordinator for the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, will give suggestions for avoiding identify theft. Come
learn how you can prevent this happening to you.
May 30
Summer Food Hazards
Come hear a representative from the Jefferson County Department of
Public Health present a program on summer food safety. We all love potato
salad, barbeque, cole slaw, and deviled eggs however these wonderful
dishes can make you sick if not prepared properly. Learn how to prepare,
store, and serve your delicious dishes safely.
June 6
What is the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham?
Please join us to hear Kate Nielsen, president of the Community
Foundation of Greater Birmingham, and Jim King, development officer,
explain how the funds of the Community Foundation work. Nielsen and King
will also inform you how these funds can be included in your financial or
estate planning.
June 13
The Houses We Live In
Alabama historian Frances Robb will examine how houses shape the lives
of those who live in them, and how those people shape their houses into
homes. Ms. Robb's slide presentation will illustrate American houses
from log cabins to the modern home
June 20
Blessed Are The Peacemakers
Dr. Jonathan Bass will discuss his book, Blessed are the Peacemakers:
Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders, the Media, and the
Letter from the Birmingham Jail. Featured recently on National Public
Radio, Bass is the first historian to explore the complex history of King's
letter and the impact that it had on the lives of the clergymen being
June 27
Vulcan and his Restoration
Stewart Dansby of the Vulcan Park Foundation will discuss the latest
developments in the effort to restore Birmingham's Vulcan statue and
plans for the future of Vulcan Park. An exhibit accompanying the talk will
feature photographs, artifacts and other items from the Birmingham Public
Library Archives relating to Vulcan.


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Evidence of evolution.
One can only wonder what goes through the minds of boys when they not only do things like this, but also have the forethought to photograph themselves doing it.
This would be my driveway. I admit to purchasing the "sparklers," and also admit that perhaps it wasn't the best idea to go along with the suggestion that we purchase 4 multi-pack boxes of them.


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AT&T's new 3G data plans have led some people to question whether this could mean tethering for iPads. The answer? Still a firm no, although AT&T says it's really an Apple issue.
It seemed logical to me from day one that the iPad would be a device you could carry around with you and access the web at will, but for iPhone users the added value would be the option to tether.
To this day, the only way to tether an iPad to an iPhone is through jailbreaking. Of course, the iPad has only been on sale for 60 days, and iPhone OS 4.0 is coming soon, and the new iPhone 4G is due out on Monday, so nothing is ever certain.
AT&T is right, if they allow tethering but it's not possible to tether two devices, that's most likely an APple issue, unless they've cooked up a deal between the two of them.
But if Apple is withholding the ability to tether an iPad, then it can be for only one reason, to promote a more expensive iPad model.
I'm hoping there's some technical reason for the lack of tethering, rather than some decree from Apple's High Priest, his holy Jobsness, or pure and simple financial motivation.
Source: Ubergizmo


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You draw a Right Triangle. Designate one acure angle as the angle of interest, call is S.
When contemplating sin(arccos(x)), notice that arccos(x) is an ANGLE. Let's call it S
If the cos(S) = x, then you can lable the leg adjacent to S, just "x" and the hypotenuse "1".
The the Pythagorean identity sugests the opposite side is sqrt(1^2 - x^2)
Simply write down sin(S).


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Gary Busey's Young Son Hospitalized
Gary Busey's one-year-old son Luke has been hospitalized for a childhood illness.
The health emergency came hours after Busey showed off a photo of his "beautiful gift from God" during an appearance on Monday night's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" chat show.
The child is Busey's son with his fiancee Steffanie Sampson.
Details of what ails the child have not been released, but TMZ.com reports the tot is expected to be back home by the weekend.
Busey's spokeswoman tells the website, "Gary is very grateful to his fans for their love and support. Steffanie and Gary thank everyone for their get well prayers for Luke."
The scare is a double blow for Busey - the actor was fired from Donald Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice" TV show on Sunday.
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