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Lake Placid firefighters extinguish grass fire
LAKE PLACID – Firefighters extinguished a small grass fire here Thursday afternoon.
Meanwhile, the National Weather Service warns that dry conditions could fuel brush fires.
The Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department responded to a reported motor vehicle fire in a field off Adirondack Loj Road at 2 p.m. with three trucks and 13 members. Firefighters said they believe a malfunction caused the vehicle to backfire, which in turn caused the grass nearby to catch fire.
Firefighters used about 600 gallons of water to extinguish the blaze, which consumed an approximately 100-foot-by-200-foot section of the field. No injuries were reported.
Firefighters were able to remove the vehicle from the field and it sustained only minor damage, according to the department.
Crews were back in service by 2:50 p.m.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation's website says fire danger across the state is "high" as of today. Additionally, the National Weather Service warned this morning that recent weather patterns have "created unsafe burning conditions" and that brush fire across northern New York can be dangerous.
"A prolonged period without rain has caused the primary fuels for wildland fires … to become dangerously dry," the special weather statement reads.


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Does being fitter also make you tougher? Does improved fitness actually alter pain tolerance? Cycle sport is intricately mythologized with the heroism and agony of suffering. We watch and marvel not just at the speed and power of the pros, but for the thrill (for us) and suffering (for them) inherent in racing over cobbles, high mountains rain, extreme heat, and even snow.
Marketing and advertising has been honed into an incredibly precise science through both trial and error along with psychological studies into what makes us tick. Why not use it to our advantage and adapt marketing ideas to make us better cyclists?
Long ago when dinosaurs still walked the earth (OK, the early 20th Century) and derailleurs were only sketches on paper napkins, cyclists rode fixed gears everywhere including the Alps and Pyrenees. The bikes were all made of steel tubing, aligned on a marble table and silver soldered together entirely by hand. Today, such bikes are considered objects of art, but should we look further at what they might do for us in the 21st Century?
Speed is built on a lot of things. Wheels, aerodynamic frames, nutrition, threshold workouts – you know the list. After all of these have been addressed, what's left? Just the little stuff. Finding that one percent. At the upper echelons of the sport, and to some degree in amateur racing as well, the little stuff is everything. For example have you considered the role and importance of the foot in performance?
Now seems like a good time to come clean. All the cool kids are doing it, so here it goes. I apologize in advance for any embarrassment this may cause my family and sponsors. In my 25-year career, I never took performance-enhancing drugs…
It's RACE DAY. It's 90 minutes to race time and you ate your breakfast 1-2 hours ago (allowing 3-4 hours post breakfast for digestion). You've been following a sound nutrition plan and you have rested and fueled properly in the last 48 hours to assure your glycogen reserves are full. So what to do in the last 90 minutes before go time?
Some of you may have seen a recent commercial on television from an investment company that poses a question like "….what can a hula hoop teach us about investing…". I want to take a page out of their book and ask a similar question, "What can the stock market teach us about training and competition?" One answer, of course, is to make a fortune on Wall Street, quit your job, retire, and train all the time. Unfortunately, although that may be a correct answer, it's not exactly the answer I'm looking for.
If music is the soundtrack of our lives, it is also the lifesaver for indoor training. While everybody grooves to their own drummer, is there an actual ergogenic effect from playing music during intense efforts? And what can studying music and exercise tell us about how we psychologically cope with intense efforts?
We have all been inspired over the years watching John Howard win championships and set records that demonstrated a seeming invincibility. In recent months, John has had a couple of setbacks that many of us face at some point – major injury. Something noticeable to those around John is that he carries the same fire and focus when dealing with an injury as when he trains and races.
Due to falls on the shoulder and relative high speed, a common injury in cycling is clavicle fractures. Although any part of the clavicle can be broken, they most commonly occur in the middle of the clavicle. What's the typical diagnosis and prognosis for return to cycling?
Yes, it is only January, but doubtless your mind has been wandering around to the idea of the race season if not actually engaged in the rigors of structured training yet. This is a great time to adopt some of the traditions of the baseball World via some Spring Training.
I have identified five keys to building confidence in your cycling that will create an upward spiral of positive thinking and belief in your riding abilities. Each key alone can enhance your confidence, but if you use all of them together, you'll find your cycling confidence growing stronger and more quickly.
Part of any good training program is a period of rest, recovery, and regeneration from a hard season of riding. Of course, some of us can take it a bit too far over the holidays, with a bit of gluttony and bad weather conspiring to reduce activity and fitness. What's the physiological process of detraining, and how has it worked out for Miguel Indurain?
With cold and flu season upon us, it's important to keep our immune systems functioning as well as possible. Athletes need a strong immune system; this is key to a consistent season. A few weeks off the bike here and there adds up and can have a lasting impact on your training cycles.
First, let me wish everyone out there who reads our articles a Happy Holidays from AthletiCamps! 2012 has been a great year and we are looking forward to an even better 2013. It's been a while since I wrote a Pro Shop article. I have recently had the pleasure of working with both Alison Tetrick (Exergy TWENTY16) and Robin Farina (NOW/Novartis.)
T.S. Eliot hit the nail on the head when he said, "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." And so it goes with training goals, the planted seeds of accomplishment. Turning dreams into solid athletic achievements takes a well thought out program with training goals to guide you through your course.
The fun of being a sport scientist is to dig deep into the science and minutiae of scientific training. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that of course, just like it's also fun to think through every bike component or upgrade purchase. However, you can also overthink yourself, and sometimes it's best to just go with the basics and trust your judgement.
Confidence is the single most important mental factor in cycling. I define it as how strongly you believe in your ability to achieve your cycling goals. Confidence is so important because you may have the fitness to ride well, but if you don't believe in that fitness, then you won't ride up to your capabilities.
Throughout my racing career I was always looking to add a visual, tangible element to my mental training program. I would listen to The Ultimate Cyclist hypnosis CD and repeat affirmations but I never figured out a method for reinforcing those positive audio suggestions with visual and tactile stimulation.
Cycling is a big business and pro cyclists are rolling billboards for their sponsors. However, to a sport scientist or a discerning coach or athlete, top cyclists are also rolling labs on two wheels. That is, by analyzing their training and racing data, we can gain valuable insight into what contributes to their elite performance.
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Considerations for Use of Acupuncture as Supplemental Therapy for Patients with Allergic Asthma
Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22661215
This study examines the clinical and immunomodulatory effects of acupuncture in the treatment of patients with allergic asthma. The acupuncture points GV14, BL12, and BL13 were selected based on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine in treating asthma. Manual acupuncture was performed once every other day (three times per week) for 5weeks. The needles were twisted approximately 360° evenly at the rate of 60 times/min for 20s, manipulated every 10min and withdrawn after 30min. Concentrations of sIgA and total IgA in secretions were determined by the combination of sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation and RIA. Levels of cortisol in the plasma were measured by RIA. Total IgE in the sera was examined by ELISA. Flow cytometry was used to detect the numbers of CD3+, CD4+, CD8+, and IL-2R + T lymphocytes in the peripheral blood. The absolute and differential numbers of eosinophils in peripheral blood were counted with eosin staining. The total efficacy of the acupuncture treatment in patients with allergic asthma at the end of one course of treatment was 85%. After treatment, the concentrations of sIgA and total IgA in the saliva (P < 0.01, P < 0.02) and nasal secretions (P < 0.02, P < 0.02) were significantly decreased in patients with allergic asthma. The levels of total IgE in sera (P < 0.001), the counts of IL-2R + T lymphocytes (P < 0.001), and the absolute and differential numbers of eosinophils (P < 0.01, P < 0.01) in the peripheral blood were also significantly decreased. The numbers of CD3+, CD4+, and CD8+ T lymphocytes in the peripheral blood were significantly increased in the allergic asthmatics treated by acupuncture (P < 0.001, P < 0.01, and P < 0.001, respectively). The concentration of cortisol in the plasma of asthmatic patients did not change significantly after the acupuncture treatment (P > 0.05). Acupuncture has regulatory effects on mucosal and cellular immunity in patients with allergic asthma and may be an adjunctive therapy for allergic asthma.


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""[Bill Gates] has been historically one of my best supporters…One of my favorite e-mails he ever sent me…I proposed this crazy project. And he sent back this two-line response: 'This has got to be the craziest thing you've ever suggested. Please proceed.'" "
Air Partner's Philip Mathews
Phil Mathews wanted to be a pilot since childhood, but bad eyesight precluded that dream. Instead, after graduating from England's University of Buckingham in 1989, he began a job as a check-in agent at London's Gatwick Airport. He was hired just for summer vacation, but he wound up being promoted to flight dispatcher and manager of general operations and spending four years there. Then, in 1997, he became vice president of U.S. air-charter broker FlightTime, for which he opened a London subsidiary.
In 2002, Mathews moved to London-based Air Partner as senior vice president. The company, which began in 1961 as a school for military pilots converting to civilian flying, changed its focus to aircraft brokering in 1983. It now has $324 million in annual sales and 20 offices worldwide. It neither owns nor operates aircraft; instead, it works with more than 700 charter operators. It is the world's only publicly traded air-charter broker (listed on the London Stock Exchange) and the only firm to hold a royal warrant as supplier of aircraft charter to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Mathews, who has played an important role in the company's growth, became president of its U.S. operation in 2003. We talked with him in New York recently about that operation and about Air Partner's global plans.
You are looking at how Air Partner can apply its skills in markets such as China, India and South America. How do those markets differ from your current ones, and what do you need to do to apply your skills?
They all have different challenges in terms of regulation, bureaucracy and ways of doing business. In China, there's a shortage of aircraft and the airspace is regulated by the military, so that's a very different environment. We need to understand what those differences are and how we can leverage our core competencies to be successful in those markets.
You have said that there's a lot more you can do in the U.S. Can you elaborate?
The United States is the largest market for private jets in the world and we still have–by comparison to the size of the market–a relatively small business. I think there is significant opportunity to grow our footprints in the U.S. We just started a freight business here that is proving highly successful, and there's a huge opportunity for us to grow that part of the business.
How are you investing in your products to keep up with innovation?
We have just launched a freight product called Time Critical. Essentially, it means that you can ship anything–a part as small as a Blackberry–from door to door via air. Somebody will knock on your door, pick it up and it will be delivered on its own aircraft to wherever it needs to go; and you can track the entire process online. Unlike FedEx, this is a highly personalized bespoke service for high-value shipments and is updated manually, not by barcodes. You are sent SMS messages at every step of the way; that has particular application to the automotive industry, for instance, where small parts need to be moved as a matter of urgency. We're continuing to look at how we can improve technology and how we can apply innovation to the services we offer.
What's unique about Air Partner's jet card?
You can use it in any of our service areas–North America, Europe or the Middle East. And it is fully inclusive, so the price you see is the price you will pay. In most if not all of the competitor programs, you receive invoices months after your trip for overnights, landing fees, permits and catering. And our program isn't based upon scale. Competitor programs have thousands of card members. We tailor ours to deliver concierge-level service. An account manager will look after a finite number of card members and will know their needs intimately.
You created Rapid Air Support in 2000 and a year later changed its name to Emergency Planning. What is this service and what does it do?
It's an insurance policy that organizations can have [for] expatriate workers in sensitive parts of the world. They will contract with us and we will draw up a contingency plan should the need arise for them to evacuate their people at short notice. We will have already checked the local airfields and ascertained where the aircraft are. Our clients make one call and in a matter of hours, if not minutes, plans are activated.
You've flown 269 tons of relief aid and rescue equipment to Japan [ater the earthquake and evacuated almost 800 people from the country. What was that experience like?
It wasn't easy. But the fact that we were doing something humanitarian rather than purely commercial made it all the more satisfying. The airport was open but there was great demand. As we were trying to get in, people were trying to get out. You're also up against significant time pressure, and only very limited aircraft were available to conduct the mission with a lot of governments jockeying to control those. We were very fortunate because we had strong relationships in the region so we had the first choice of available aircraft.
Why do you think some business travelers are moving to private jets from first-class airline travel?
I think first class is predominantly something airlines keep for their frequent flyers. A colleague flew to Fort Lauderdale this week and out of 12 first-class seats, 11 were frequent flyers on upgrades. If you want a true first-class experience–arriving at a small FBO, walking straight through, hopping onboard your aircraft and having catering to your specification in comfort–flying privately is the best option.
It looks from your financials as if the downturn in the economy and in the business jet field hit Air Partner pretty hard.
I would dispute that. Prior to the downturn, we bought a management company at Biggin Hill, a small business airfield in London. We had some Lear 45s under management, so we acquired that business in 2007, and when the downturn came, that business was hit relatively hard. Last year, we divested ourselves of the Biggin Hill business. We refocused our efforts on our brokering activities and our results are back on track.
You're saying your financial troubles were all due to Biggin Hill?
Why have you opted to offer everything from business jets to commercial jets to freight aircraft rather than specializing?
Because we see ourselves as an aviation solutions provider, as opposed to a private jet broker. We want to be able to provide an aviation solution, whether it be a helicopter or a 747 freighter. We want to be able to deliver the same quality of service, no matter what the nature of the payload or the passenger, wherever they might be in the world.
It sounds as if you're going after a pretty wide market. How does that jibe with what you said earlier about aiming your jet cards at a select audience?
We want to be able to offer quality aviation solutions to a quality client base, and yes, we want a broad client base, but we are involved in a lot of segments. If you take the private jet segment, for example, no, we aren't particularly interested in six guys who want to get to Vegas as cheaply as they can for a bachelor party weekend, but we would be interested in taking six senior executives to Palm Beach to play golf. So there is quality in all the segments we are representing, be it the government or the high-net-worth or the corporate.
Do you expect pricing to go up or down in the charter market?
A lot of demand went out of the market post-2008 and pricing fell. It has not yet recovered to where it was, but it has increased. Obviously fuel is a significant component, and a lot depends on if fuel has spiked and where fuel goes in the future. I think it will be a long time before the market becomes as heated as it was pre-2008. Customers are looking for value, and they're savvy as to the options available to them and in how to procure charter. So I don't think prices will be able to significantly increase, certainly in the medium term, the way that things were moving pre-crash.
What do you think of the fractional-share business?
I think the true cost of fractional ownership is now becoming apparent and perhaps some of the shortcomings, too. The origin of the guaranteed-availability, guaranteed-pricing model was in a different economic climate from the one that we are in now, one where people were prepared to pay a premium to receive guaranteed access. Demand and supply have adjusted now so that's not so much an issue. However, one constant through all of this is charter, and I think that will continue. Access to information will improve the competitiveness of the market, but I still think charter will remain.
Why should a private jet traveler use a broker rather than go directly to an operator?
If a private jet traveler is flying the same trip from his own local airport consistently, that individual would have less use for a broker. He would be able to develop a relationship with his supplier, leverage his buying power and consistently use that aircraft. However, very few people in my experience fly the same trip from the same airport consistently.
A broker like Air Partner offers you professional, impartial, comprehensive advice. On top of that, a broker should be able to give you some peace of mind. All of our vendors in the U.S. are either Wyvern approved or ARGUS Gold or better.
We work with our customers to ensure that the operators understand their requirements. Very often, we'll be at the airport to make sure the catering is prepared, all the arrangements are in place and everything runs smoothly.
Does Air Partner offer deadhead flights at a discount?
We do, but it's very difficult because a deadhead by definition is going to rely on either an outbound or an inbound trip, and one of the advantages of chartering your own aircraft is flexibility. It's quite likely that a trip would get delayed by an hour or two, and if somebody's then buying the deadhead leg, what happens there? It's more difficult than it sounds.
Resume: Philip Mathews
Position: President, Air Partner, Inc. (U.S. subsidiary of Air Partner, plc) since 2003
Previous Positions: Commercial manager, Aircraft Chartering Services; vice president, FlightTime (U.S. charter broker). Joined Air Partner as senior vice president in 2002.
Education: B.A., Politics, Economics and Law, 1989, University of Buckingham, UK
Personal: Age 43. Married with two children. Lives in Naples, Fla. In his little free time, he plays with his kids, watches cricket and rugby, plays golf and watches American politics on TV.
As a vender Air Partner is a quality broker and brings value for the customer. Air PAtner offers the customer a supermarket of aircraft products.
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David Donajkowski
DONAJKOWSKI, David S., 69, of Alpena died Thursday, March 21, 2013, at Alpena Regional Medical Center.
He is survived by his wife, Maxine; his five children, Charles, Robert (Jan), Sheri (Steve) Allen, Jean (Peewee) Hentokowski and Jacob (Andrea) ; nine grandchildren, Amanda, Jessica, Stephen, Aiden, Allen, Zachary, Joshua, Hannah and Rowin; two great-grandchildren; his siblings, Leonard (Mary), Ray (Michelle) and Louis (Clara), Rita Wetzel and Mary (Butch) Brandenburg; one sister-in-law, Georgiana Donajkowski; and several nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Friends and family will gather at the Karpus-Hunter Funeral Home on Sunday, March 24, 2013, from 2-8 p.m. with a joint of K of C and parish prayer service beginning at 7 p.m. Visitation will continue on Monday, March 25, 2013, at St. Mary Catholic Church, 520 N. Second Ave. from 11:30 until the 1 p.m. funeral mass begins. Rev. Bishop Bernard Hebda will preside with Rev. Charlie Donanakowski and his brother priests.
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Norma,Maybe sometime you can try weighing all of the things that you put on two pizzas, one with the Alfredo sauce and toppings and one with your regular sauce and toppings. The dough ball weights and pizza sizes would be the same. I'd be interested in the weight differences and also any differences in bake times and temperatures.Peter
Maybe because the Alfredo sauce doesn't have the water in it like a traditional tomato sauce Norma.
Norma,If you can, I would also like to see the weights of everything that goes onto the pizzas, individually. I think that information is more useful for this test than the baked weights, although the baked weights might also be instructive since they might indicate that one pizza is losing weight faster than the other.Peter
This has been bugging me, because every time I make a garlic Alfredo pizza they always look better in all ways.Norma
Does the Alfredo look better than the pies you make when you put the tomato sauce on top of the cheese?
Gotcha... You do so many experiments it's hard to keep up with you most of the time girl. But I do follow what you are saying about the market pizza never having been tried with reverse cheese/sauce.I just sit back and enjoy cause I pretty much like all the stuff you do, thanks.


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In the Catbird Seat/Joe Kirkish
In the good-ole-days, you'd go to your mailbox anticipating the delight in getting personal letters some in cursive handwriting, others neatly typed, all rich with their personal touch.
Then came email with a marked decrease in snail mail and a stuffed mail box with not a single personal letter, but on just one day the following:
First, a neatly printed letter from Macular Degeneration Research, with information about testing for cholesterol buildup and advanced AMD risk. You recognize this form letter; you've received many before, none of which stir you to return the envelope with a check. But why not? It's a worthy charity and you are a charitable person, but such pleas arrive with increasing regularity and you begin to wonder about how much of your check will be sidetracked into incidental expenses and not research. And you wonder about the additional cost of the repeated begging letters which you will continue to get whether you've previously honored the program with money or not. So with remiss you toss it, unopened, into the "circular file."
Next, an envelope with a heart-breaking photo of a child with huge, sad eyes and the caption, "Help Me See." Oh, yes, but didn't you just get one last week and the week before, with the same promise: "Make one gift to restore the sight of a blind child or adult, and we'll never ask for another donation again." Perhaps, but didn't you compassionately send a generous check not too long ago? Into the circular file it goes while you wonder if you just wasted money for having believed the premise the first time.
Frequently your name is sold to other charities, so they multiply exponentially, all bearing on what might interest you. But the next letter is a membership drive for the ASPCA and you can't recall having ever shown interest in owning or caring for a pet. The same goes for other seemingly legitimate pleas: Save the Whales, Rebuild a Tornado-destroyed School, etc. Into the file it goes, unopened, with dozens of others like them.
A very large envelope from the Mayo Clinic says, "Be a part of medical history in the treatment of cancer!" Ah, the 2013 drive is on – and if it isn't for treatment of cancer at Mayo's, it's diabetes, lung problems, heart problems, angina, tendonitis, fluid build-up, varicose veins, being overweight, ingrown toenails, loss of memory, halitosis or conjunctivitis. You have already decided which research projects you would like to contribute to, but as the form letters continue to increase in kind and quantity, your enthusiasm (and money) recedes. Circular file.
Ah, but then what luck! You find a letter with a handwritten address. Curious, you open it up and there, staring at you along with a stamped envelope is a plea from the annual National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Forgot about that one, another need for research dough. It follows the others. Like so many of its ilk, a gift is enclosed, from a coin (up to a dime these days) to return address stamps to calendars to note cards to – you-name-it – to urge your conscience. By now the deluge is overwhelming your charity budget.
A large envelope from Planned Parenthood and another from Save the Babies, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, the Libertarians and a whole bundle from various tea parties with anti-this or anti-that, all touting a particular campaign are also scrapped unopened as the list becomes endless.
Oh, a very business-like envelope pops up with the enticing "Survey Enclosed" to intrigue you; it turns out to be a ploy, a rather general survey on some general topic, to be returned and then sent in one felled swoop to a VIP or CEO or member of the government. Oh, and by the way, included is a request to help with money. A variation is the kind that states in large letters on the envelope "Check Enclosed!" Of course, but the check is only good if you return it with more of the same for some good cause.
The above are just one day's junk mail, with more surely to come – all created by very clever, well paid ad men, with hopes that a plea will stir you to pity or fear or guilt – to comply. But you know that will be just the beginning of many more, definitely repeated, cleverly stated missives, until you cave in.
The pity of it is that some of the begging letters are legitimate while others spend as much as 90 percent of the cash on incidentals, with even religious organizations using similar questionable ploys. And who knows what the Wounded Warrior Project or the Save the Sycamores actually is? In fact, there are too many what-ifs about all begging letters, with most of them trying anything to drain your coffers into theirs.
Americans are famous for their generosity to charities. But they want to spread their generosity where it is most needed. Your best bet is to give locally, to organizations familiar to you. Then, if you still wish to help with big name groups like Project Hope, check them out for verity in the web pages.
As for the snail mail that continues to pour in – well, at least it helps the ever struggling postal service, right? And the circular files add up to a generous contribution at the transfer station.
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Skip to comments.Raiders Of The Lost Dimension (quantum mechanics)
Posted on 06/06/2006 9:59:36 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
A team of scientists working at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory's Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos has uncovered an intriguing phenomenon while studying magnetic waves in barium copper silicate, a 2,500-year-old pigment known as Han purple. The researchers discovered that when they exposed newly grown crystals of the pigment to very high magnetic fields at very low temperatures, it entered a rarely observed state of matter. At the threshold of that matter state--called the quantum critical point-the waves actually lose a dimension.
That is, the magnetic waves go from a three-dimensional to a two-dimensional pattern. The discovery is yet another step toward understanding the quantum mechanics of the universe.
Writing about the work in today's issue of the scientific journal Nature, the researchers describe how they discovered that at high magnetic fields (above 23 Tesla) and at temperatures between 1 and 3 degrees Kelvin (or roughly minus 460 degrees Fahrenheit), the magnetic waves in Han purple crystals "exist" in a unique state of matter called a Bose Einstein condensate (BEC).
In the BEC state, magnetic waves propagate simultaneously in all of three directions (up-down, forward-backward and left-right). At the quantum critical point, however, the waves stop propagating in the up-down dimension, causing the magnetic ripples to exist in only two dimensions, much the same way as ripples are confined to the surface of a pond.
"The reduced dimensionality really came as a surprise," said Neil Harrison, an experimental physicist at the Los Alamos Pulsed Field Facility, "just when we thought we had reached an understanding of the quantum nature of its magnetic BEC."
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Look Ma! No HANS!.............
If this can be replicated...
How many times have I said this, I've lost count. That's how tricky the little buggers are.
Jimi Hendrix {cough? }
Lately things just dont seem the same
Actin funny, but I dont know why
scuse me while I kiss the sky
Purple haze all around
Dont know if Im comin up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
What ever it is, that girl put a spell on me
Help me
Help me
Oh, no, no
[faint, spoken lyrics...all questionable]
Talkin bout heart n...s-soul
Im talkin about hard stuff
If everbodys still around, fluff and ease, if
So far out my mind
Somethings happening, somethings happening
Ooo, ahhh
Ooo, {click} ahhh,
Ooo, ahhh
Ooo, ahhh, yeah!
Purple haze all in my eyes, uhh
Dont know if its day or night
You got me blowin, blowin my mind
Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?
Help me
Ahh, yea-yeah, purple haze, yeah
Oh, no, oh
Oh, help me
Purple haze, tell me, baby, tell me
I cant go on like this
Purple haze
Youre makin me blow my mind...mama
Purple haze, n-no, nooo
Purple haze, no, its painful, baby
Interesting.. Could be worth watching, see what comes out of it.
With that capability, who knows what could be developed?
Now how can I go to sleep at night?
And they make awesome speakers too! You hear the music before it gets written. I'm listening to the radio in the year 2032 right now. And no, I won't tell you who won the World Series. I'm saving that information for myself.
It seems to be a loss of dimension as far as dimensions are understood.
I wonder what this does to the power or strength of the wave, does it cease to vary by the distance cubed, and become dependent on distance squared? What are the ramifications....
"I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time."
Steven Wright
Careful, you mess with stuff like this and aliens from another dimension are liable to lay their eggs in your warp core.
The Romulans can tell you all about it.
Here it is: http://stng.36el.com/st-tng/episodes/251.html
Now that is a worthy question. It would seem logical that if the energy of the magnetic field was spread over three dimensions and you changed the propagation to two dimensions the energy from the third dimension would be spread over the remaining two dimensions. For satellite communications, you could gain 1/3 signal strength for no additional cost is antenna size or power levels.
"the magnetic waves go from a three-dimensional to a two-dimensional pattern."
And how, exactly, to they determine this?
So what, DemocRATS have been one dimensional for years!
I remember at the company I used to work, we were testing the computers to see what effect the Y2K rollever of the computer calendars would have on applications.
So we set the mainframe calendars to 2020 and restarted. The thing was, though, there was some error correction we were unaware of in the code which, rather than let us go to 2024, 'corrected' the year to 1924.
I didn't realize what had happened until I came in to work the next day and checked my email. I had messages from Dorothy Parker, Sinclair Lewis, and spam from supporters of the Scopes trial. Damnedest thing you ever saw.
Would this have an effect on my ten percent discount?
Inquiring minds want to know!!
"Raiders of the Lost Dimension"
Are these raiders like shape shifting beings from another world in Dimension SIX? (666 becomes Six Six Six). I heard a rumor that these shape shifting beings now control the entire world. They control politics, wage wars and run economic systems to benefit themselves. America is being run like a huge plantation. We are all just worker bees in the great hive. The U.S. will become The North American Union. Canada will be linked by super highways to Mexico. The illegal drug trade will increase, not decrease. Billions in illegal profits will become trillions. The U.S. dollar will fade away to become "The Amero."
< / sarcasm>
Placemarker for earlier.
"Looked like a natural gravity well to me"
(g_d, I am a geek)
The LACK of knowledge we have of the workings of this universe cannot be adequately measured.
"You hear the music before it gets written"
Most music today sounds like it has not yet been written...
it seems to exist in a confused, undecided state...much like
Schrodinger's Cat.
I prefer my distances julienned - looks much prettier on top of the salad. But I'm still searching for a good quantum dressing.
Two dimensionality? Look up cheniere.org for Deborah Chung's room temperature superconductor. It converts ambient heat into electric current automatically between layers of high pressure laminate. It has reverse resistance, a seeming violation of the 2nd law of TD, but there it is, demonstrated in the lab just as this is. Then, no sooner is it announced than the University shuts it down on orders from DC(controlling vested interests)....Which is the greater addiction? Our dependence(ala big oil)on foreign oil, or the government's fuel taxing LUST? The love of money is the root of all evil....
Doesn't sund difficult. Should be easy to replicate if it's real.
I wonder why they used this particular material?
I heard the year 2525 in 1969.
See JNaudin website(he's in france), he gives materials, details of how to do it. The carbon weave tape requires VERY high lamination pressures. Big oil may smother the idea here in the US but foreigners? That's a different story...
Ping for later pondering.
The most recent research, published in today's issue of the journal Nature, shows that at the lowest temperature point at which the change of state occurs -- called the Quantum Critical Point -- the Han purple pigment actually loses a dimension: it goes from 3D to 2D.
Theoretical physicists have postulated that this kind of dimensional reduction might help explain some mysterious properties of other materials (high temperature superconductors and metallic magnets known as "heavy fermions" for example) near the absolute zero of temperature, but until now, a change in dimension had not been experimentally observed.
We live in three dimensions; up-down, front-back and left-right are the options. A sound wave, for example, "exists" in three dimensions and propagates in all of these directions simultaneously. If we could take a picture it would look like an expanding balloon. A wave in two dimensions looks like ripples on the surface of a pond. Ripples propagate on the surface only; they don't propagate perpendicular to the surface, which is the third dimension.
"As often happens in science, we found something we weren't looking for," said Marcelo Jaime, an experimental physicist at the magnet lab's Pulsed Field Facility in Los Alamos, N.M. "Much to our surprise, we found that when the temperature is low enough, the transition into the new magnetic state occurs in an unexpected way."
The experiment was performed at the magnet lab's DC Field Facility at Florida State University by Neil Harrison from the Pulsed Field Facility and Suchitra Sebastian from Stanford University, in collaboration with a team of scientists from these institutions.
They observed that at high magnetic fields (above 23 tesla) and temperatures between 1 and 3 degrees Kelvin (approximately -460 degrees Fahrenheit), the magnetic waves in three-dimensional crystals of Han purple "exist" in a three-dimensional world as per conventional wisdom. However, below those temperatures, near the quantum limit, one of the dimensions is no longer accessible, with the unexpected consequence that magnetic ripples propagate in only two dimensions. (Kelvin is the temperature scale used by scientists; zero degrees Kelvin is absolute zero, a temperature so low it is experimentally unreachable.)
A more appropriate title would have been "Riders of the Purple Wave" :)
Why this down right, flat out ... purple. I wonder, is this see 'just the 2D shadow' of a 3D thing?
Is that kind of like 'you can't prove a negative'?
It's some kind of crystal effect like a polarizer. This particular substance may have been chosen as one among many substances with metal content; many other substances would also have been tested just to see what happens. 3 K is approximately the background temperature of the universe at microwave frequencies, so this Bose-Einstein condensate is colder.
Could be :)
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NS, do you ever have stretching issues? I find that the window between undermixed and overmixed with AT is very small. If you overmix, there's a propensity for toughness, but if you undermix, you can run into drier and wetter areas of the dough, which can cause tearing during the stretch as well as trouble releasing from the peel. Hitting that perfectly mixed target with AT is extremely difficult. This is why I stopped using it.
Here are the pies from last night,... all 14"in order....90% AT 3%oil100% AT 3%oil90% AT no oil all at 60% Hyd. Good stuff.
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I made my bed, and I burned in it
September 4, 2007
I don't have what you'd call a varied wardrobe. If there's a shirt I find comfortable, I usually buy one in every available color.
Another dress code rule for me is, "No shorts." It all has to do with my attachment to self-esteem, and my hatred of my exposed white skin.
Instead of trying to illustrate how white my legs are, I'll let you do it. Find a white piece of paper. Now take that paper and hold it up against a light source. If you've done this correctly, you have matched the incandescent skin tone of my legs. (If you did it wrong, you used a candle as your light source. Put this article down and extinguish the fire.)
I was a little tired of the light look, and wanted to see how I could darken it up with 30 minutes of free time. I found a tanning bed, and paid my entry fee. When I finished my 10-minute session, I didn't feel more socially acceptable so much as I felt like a carton of fast-food fries put under a heat lamp too long.
Later that night, I no longer had whiteness to worry about. I had pinkness instead, as my entire tanned area looked like the inside of an undercooked steak. I confided in only one coworker my secret, and quickly swore her to secrecy. I trusted other coworkers wouldn't take advantage and slap my burned back at every opportunity, but I figured assumption was much safer than blind trust.
My coworker suggested I buy anything with aloe to soothe the burn, and I did. I looked for shirts made out of aloe, hoping to buy one of every color, but only came away with lotion that bonded my ultra-sensitive skin to my sandpaper-like clothing.
And as much as I like being clean, I thought of skipping showering. When you have a large sunburn, your shower has two temperature settings: Too hot for sunburns, and hypothermia.
Soon, the burn ended ... and gave way to the itching. And the itching. And did I mention the itching?
Through trial and error, I found my best device was to rub my itching chest with ice cubes to numb down and partially moisturize. I had to do this while driving between Clovis and Portales, and I could only hope I didn't get pulled over by a law enforcement officer. You see, you can't start a conversation with, "Yes, officer, you did see me rubbing my chest," without it ending in, "Do you understand your rights as they have been read to you?"
Thankfully, I'm finally on the last stage of a sunburn, when old skin gives way to new skin and the burned portion can be scrubbed or peeled away. The white skin is reappearing, and I've never been happier to see it.
But some still focus on how I can get rid of it. The coworker I confided in also confided in me that she used a tanning bed once, and it took her six months to get a little bit of color in her skin.
Six months of aloe, ice cubes and extreme showers, or wearing pants? Pass me some 34-34 slacks in every color you can imagine.
Kevin Wilson is a columnist for Freedom Newspapers of New Mexico. He can be reached at 763-3431, ext. 313, or by e-mail:


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Experiential Learning
Service Learning, Fieldwork, Collaborative Research
Experiential Learning refers to a broad spectrum of educational experiences, such as study abroad programs, community service, fieldwork, sensitivity training groups, workshops, internships, cooperative education involving work in business or industry, and undergraduate participation in faculty research. Whether such learning is educational depends on the degree to which the learning is transferable to other times and places. Cognitive and motivational theory point to the likely value of discovering and applying principles and concepts.
The goals of experiential learning are both cognitive and motivational: experiences in the field or laboratory will stir up questions in students' minds that will lead to active learning. Student's reports of their experiences give students something to talk about in class discussion. More importantly, actual experience can link learning, thinking and doing: field experiences will not only motivate students to learn current course materials but also increase their intrinsic interest in further learning. Empirical research (Brandell and Hinck 1997) provides evidence of greater ability to apply course concepts to new situations and greater improvement in social responsibility and personal efficacy.
For information about Experiential Learning as an instructional methodology, see:
- Keaton Morris (with associates) (1976). Experiential Learning: Rationale, Characteristics, and Assessment. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. A classic book in this area.
- Svinicki, M. & McKeachie, W. (2014). Experiential Learning: Case-Based, Problem-Based, and Reality-Based, pp. 203-212 in McKeachie's Teaching Tips, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
- Association for Experiential Education
- Experiential Learning in Higher Education: Linking Classroom and Community, by Jeffrey A. Cantor
- Websites on Experiential Learning
- Experiential Learning (C. Rogers)
- David A. Kolb on experiential learning
- Experiential Learning articles and critiques of David Kolb's theory
For information about Service Learning as an instructional methodology, see:
- M. Brandell & S. Hinck (1997). Service Learning: Connecting Citizenship with the Classroom. NASSP Bulletin, 81, 49-56.
- American Association for Higher Education (AAHE). An 18-volume series on service learning in each discipline: Zlotkowski. E. (1997-1998). AAHE's Series on Service Learning in the Disciplines. Washington, DC: AAHE.
- Academic Service Learning: A Pedagogy of Action and Reflection, [Special Issue], New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998, Vol. 73, edited by R. A. Rhoads and J. P. F. Howard.
- National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
- Service Learning links, Colorado
- USC Joint Educational Project


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Newsman and "Rocky III" and "Scarface" actor diesAP , Associated Press
May. 6, 2013 9:31 AM ET
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles television news anchor in the 1960s and 1970s who also appeared in movies such as "Rocky III" has died. Mario Machado was 78.
His daughter, Michelle, tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/13jwSEN ) that Machado died Saturday from complications of pneumonia at a Los Angeles convalescent facility.
KCBS-TV (http://cbsloc.al/10AM106 ) says Machado was of Chinese and Portuguese descent and was LA's first Asian-American newscaster. Over a decades-long career, he was a newsman, producer, TV show host and soccer commentator. He worked at KCBS-TV, its predecessor and at what is now KCAL-TV.
He also played a newsman in TV shows and movies, including the "Robocop" films, "Oh, God!" and "Scarface."
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Preeti Kaur, her mother, her brothers (one wearing a patka) and sister.
In the Sikh faith, the role of the nurturer is one, among many, of the celebrated roles of all Sikhs, regardless of gender. My own father often reminisces to me of how his mother would nurture his growth and curiosity by imparting Sikh teachings to him while he was growing up in Dharamsala, India as a post-Partition refugee family. Everyday when he returned from school, his mother recited the Janam Saakhis, a collection of "birth stories" based on the life and lessons of the first Sikh guru, Nanak Dev Ji. He remembers this nurturing time as his favorite time of the day.
I recently saw a video of Harneel Singh, an extraordinarily eloquent young American man, describing his painful experience growing up as a Sikh boy wearing a patka (a Sikh mini-turban) in school, where he was often taunted and bullied. He speaks very freely that his experience is something familiar to many young people.
The patka is worn by children in preparation for wearing a full turban as a grown Sikh. Many young Sikh boys wear patkas throughout the world, including in America, where Sikhs have lived for over one hundred years. As adults, many Sikh men (and some Sikh women) wear a full turban, or dastaar, as a display of their commitment to accepting their body as it has grown and to distinguish themselves as physically committed to a path of justice. The global political climate of recent years, where turbans are inaccurately portrayed as the garb of global terror, has increased suspicion and violence against turban-wearing Sikhs especially in the form of hate crimes, down to the youngest members of our society in the form of school bullying.
Harneel Singh shares the tender points of his story because he has been nurtured to a point of strength — perhaps through his mother or father, or perhaps through his friends, or the adults in his life, or perhaps even by nurturing his own self, giving birth to a reflective young man.
The following poem, written for the young men who wear turbans in my life, is to honor all steps in the process of nurturing. This includes the process of negative experiences entering our lives — where it is cold, where it is dark — which provide us an opportunity to nurture others and ourselves.
where ever it is dark
after school i tell my mummy
i don't want to go back tomorrow
she asks me why
i tell her today in the playground
kids push me punch me kick me
shout POTATO HEAD! RAG HEAD! ALLADIN! OSAMA BIN LADIN!
everything i am not
i throw fists back call them ugly
things too i imagine the bullies
as yellow toothed neon green eyed gorillas
like the ones in my closet at night
my cheeks burn my heart thumps
i am MAD i didn't start this! i am just one
no one listens when i yell STOP IT! LEAVE ME ALONE!
i want to hide in a tent made of my sky blue bed sheets
i wish for a galactic force field
but no hands shield my head
when the bullies rip my
patka off my head
there is no superman
on this playground not even pretend
not sammy who i swing with
everyday on the monkey-bars
or alberto who swaps strawberry jelly sandwiches
with me in the cafeteria
not jenny who i tell knock-knock jokes with on the bus
not even the adults who patrol the playground
with whistles and detention slips to the principal's office
so everyone might follow the rules
after bloody noses bruises scratches
after we are trees pulled out of the ground
a pile of mud surrounding us
our teacher mrs. jones sits us down
why did you punch back she asks
the teacher pulls me out of the ground some more
inside i am not a tree
inside i am a match
like the ones my daddy warns me not to play with
an orange blue fire on a stick of arms and legs
which grows short in two seconds
burning my insides too fast
i go home and cry and cry
i tell my mummy everything
mummy wraps her arms around my shoulders tells
me she loves me with her eyes
she unwraps my joora lets loosemy long hair runs her fingers through
mummy whispers your hair is the night sky your hair
is the universe she combs
my kes with a kanga
twists my hair firm on top of my head
a galaxy you carry high mummy says
she takes the square patka
angles the cloth like a diamond
sets the patka on my scalp
ties it tight
mummy tells me this patka crowns you
one day you will wear a turban
cloth as long as the seven oceans
the full span of the earth
will rest on your head
be brave young prince
like Sahibzaadas Zorawar Singh Fateh Singh
when bullies big as kings
threaten them for carrying the universe on their heads
when bullies locked them
three nights in the cold in the dark
they raised their chins high no tears
they turned their fists to hearts
practiced the ways of the lion prince
with questions and conversation
mummy kisses
my cheeks i kiss her back
i tell her i will go back
to school tomorrow i will be
a shooting star prince
bright and brave
where ever it is cold
where ever it is dark
This Mother's Day, I celebrate my own mother and I celebrate the nurturing spirit which we can each inculcate by sharing the stories of our lives, our own janam sakhis, our own birth stories.
Preeti Kaur is an American of the Sikh faith living in San Joaquin Valley, California. You can read more of her poetry at The World I Stitch.
We welcome your original reflections, essays, videos, or news items for possible publication on the On Being Blog. Submit your entry through our First Person Outreach page.


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Text-to-Speech in Adobe Captivate 5.5 – Create and Reuse!
There are different ways of adding audio to an eLearning project in Adobe Captivate 5.5 and one of the ways is to convert Text to Audio with the powerful functionality of Text-to-Speech in Adobe Captivate. As I was thinking about it, a thread in LinkedIn drew my attention, that talked about creating Text-to-Speech audio and then reusing that audio in a different project. Leslie Bivens, an Adobe Captivate Expert, has added her comments with a solution and I thought of creating a tutorial based on that… Thank you Leslie 🙂
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The Kentucky State Police will be conducting traffic safety checkpoints in the counties of Oldham, Trimble, Henry, Owen, Carroll and Gallatin during the period of Nov. 12 - 26, 2012.
The intent of a traffic safety checkpoint is to provide for high visibility public safety service, focusing on vehicular equipment deficiencies, confirming appropriate registration of vehicles and the licensing of drivers. Violations of law or other public safety issues that arise shall be addressed in accordance with Kentucky traffic and regulatory laws.
The Kentucky State Police will be conducting traffic safety checkpoints in the counties of Oldham, Trimble, Henry, Owen, Carroll and Gallatin during the period of November 5 - November 19, 2012.
The Kentucky State Police will be conducting traffic safety checkpoints in the counties of Oldham, Trimble, Henry, Owen, Carroll and Gallatin during the period of October 29 - November 12, 2012.
Two boys who made a prank call to Carroll County 911 last week could face a felony charge. The boys reported that a 16-year-old girl had been shot in English, but the call was false.
Carroll County Central Dispatch received a call at 1:59 p.m. that a 16-year-old girl had been shot. The caller was hysterical and the dispatcher was unable to get an address before the caller hung up. However, the dispatch center's technology allowed the dispatcher to determine the call came from Rail Street in English.
Customers having lunch at the Carrollton McDonald's received quite a shock last week after a handgun fell from a woman's purse and discharged inside the restaurant.
FRANKFORT—A transportation fuel testing lab that state Department of Agriculture officials say was losing around $900,000 a year under the department's last administration is on track to save roughly $400,000 this year, according to department officials.
An Owen County woman has been arrested by Kentucky State Police troopers from Post 5 after she attempted to shoot her father. Heather Hammond, 35 years old from Glencoe, was arrested Thursday afternoon by Trooper Dave Roberts, according to Trooper Brad Arterburn, Post 5 Public Information Officer.
Preliminary investigation shows that Heather Hammond, who is the daughter of Owen County Sheriff Zemer Hammond, pointed a loaded weapon at her father while at his home in Corinth, on October 5. When she attempted to shoot, the weapon jammed and did not fire.
LEXINGTON –A ministry with roots deep in the fabric of the commonwealth's history will mark a milestone Nov. 13 as Kentucky Baptists gather at Immanuel Baptist Church for the 175th Annual Meeting of the Kentucky Baptist Convention.
General Butler State Resort Park in Carrollton presents "The Best of Me Elvis Presley Tribute Act" on Saturday, Nov. 10, at 6:30 p.m.
This dinner theater at the park's conference center features Todd Bodenheimer, from LaGrange, Ky., who was crowned Midwest Elvis Tribute 2011.
Individual tickets are $35 a person plus tax. The park is also offering a lodging package for two for $165.95 that includes a lodge room for one night, the dinner theater and breakfast. Tickets are available at the front desk. Call 1-866-462-8853 for information.
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Budget hike
MAYVILLE – County Executive Greg Edwards' tentative $230.8 million 2014 budget reflects a 2.58 percent tax rate increase.
Edwards unveiled his 2014 budget to the Chautauqua County Legislature on Wednes-day. His presentation included highlights and recommendations on ways to cut the budget, should legislators feel it is necessary.
As the budget stands now, taxpayers will pay $9.39 per $1,000 of assessed value of their properties.
"I'm thrilled to be able to present a budget for next year, 2014, where the property tax rate – that all-important rate for people when they look at it – is actually less than it was eight years ago, in 2006, when I first began my work as a county executive, under a budget my predecessor built," Edwards said. "The great news is that the rate in my tentative budget – while it's up slightly – only represents an additional payment by a taxpayer, for example, who has a $100,000 home, of less than $24."
The budget, which Edwards said will maintain essential local services, meet mandated service requirements and fund IGT for the Chautauqua County Home the same amount as the 2013 budget will include an increase of $2,127,337 in the tax levy. The hike is the result of a decrease of $860,000 in jail revenue, an increase of $300,000 to repair county roads and bridges, a $500,000 increase in funding for seniors, a net increase of $224,000 in other areas and the use of $3,222,000 from the county's fund balance. The tax levy increase is offset by $2,979,000 more in state and federal aid than in 2013.
"No one likes a rate increase, but the nice thing about this as well is, with that rate increase comes an additional $300,000 invested in our roads and bridges, something we absolutely have to do to maintain the quality of life we have," Edwards said. "Even more importantly, there's an increase of $500,000 for our seniors, for our Office for the Aging to deliver services right in the homes of our seniors."
Edwards explained that by offering services in the homes of seniors, it reduces the number of seniors in skilled nursing facilities, which saves a projected $10 million in Medicaid costs.
"On the cost side, what I'm particularly proud of, there was a .5 percent – that's one-half of 1 percent – increase in our spending," Edwards said. "Despite all the pressures we're all under in our whole budgets, the fact that the cost of fuel is going to be up significantly … We've managed that. We've designed ways to deal with that, to become more efficient, more effective, delivering three to four times more services to the people of Chautauqua County."
Beginning Monday, legislative committees will begin hearing from department heads regarding the budget, starting with the Human Services Committee.
"(Legislators) have a significant amount of time to get into this budget," Edwards said. "They were handed the line items, a 100-plus-page document tonight, so they have all the numbers. All my department heads stand ready to answer any questions they have. I look forward to the formal process of going through the budget, department by department, as well as with the Audit and Control Committee afterward."
In addition to presenting the budget, Edwards presented what he called the "obvious decisions" legislators could make in finalizing the budget. He said legislators could opt to not fund the IGT for the County Home, opt to not invest $300,000 in roads and bridges or not invest $500,000 in the Office for the Aging, or opt to draw all of the money out of the fund balance.
Legislators have until Nov. 10 to adopt a budget.


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String Bean Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette
Serves 6-8
- 2 lbs string beans
- 3 cloves garlic, chopped fine
- 2 cups cherry tomatoes
- 1 cup roasted pine nuts or walnuts
- 8 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 tbsp raspberry vinegar
- Rosemary, chopped, to taste
- Salt and pepper to taste
Boil the string beans for three minutes. Strain and place in an ice bath.
Sautee garlic until it begins to brown. Strain and dry the beans and place in a large salad bowl. Spoon the garlic over the beans. Place the nuts and tomatoes in the bowl.
Whisk together the oil, vinegar and rosemary with salt and pepper. Pour over bean mixture and toss well.


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How old is your Torch 9800?
Wanting to know the lifetime of the 9800.
So how old is yours? (working!)
Mine's 20 month old, working excellent and no slider or battery problems.
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My 9800 was just retired at 24 months. No issues just replaced by 9810 for the user. Great phones for the slider crowd.
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Re: How old is your Torch 9800?
Mine is 24 months. On my second battery and flex cable faulty but as long as I don't slide it then touch and screen will work but if I slide it I may loose touch and I must lock screen then unlock to bring screen back.
I had the Star Trek tricorder sound on slide open so I would slide it for the sound and heavy phone data use for work plus personal use. I can get at the most two days depending on usage but old bat was fat and would show 80% but then dropped to 10% then device is turning off.
Found someone with a torch with a broken screen so I'm going to rob the flex cable from that
I am happy with this device as it does what I need and does it well plus the latest OS seems to have made it respond better.
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Mine is 23+ months old. I say "+" because I got it as a refurbished 1 cent upgrade sale. So I don't know how old it was when I got it. Couldn't have been more than another month or two though given when it first came out. All still works perfectly as is.
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You will like what in have to say. I got my phone New unlocked from the Stages B4 you could get them in Canada. So that must have been about the end of 2010?? I work on the oil rigs and my Torch 9800 has been dropped down a flight of metal stairs 20 feet high. I've dropped it in a puddle of oil, it's fallen out of my truck right onto the corner of the curb. Only just last week did the screen get a little smashed, and it still works great. I use the slider all the time no problems there. I had it completely full with apps and it got kind of slow and would freeze up so I backed it up and "wiped" it,now it feels like a new phone again, except for the screen. The broken screen doesn't affect the performance. The life of my Torch should get a movie made about it - LOL.
Good luck with yours.
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M daughter's BB Torch 9800 model going on year 2.5 my BB Torch model 9800 is now age 1.5 years.
Very durable and incident free. Had a BB Curve 8900 model for 4 years. Not a fan of have to have it new with every untested new model.
Will also not jump on bandwagon with BB 10 until see comments and issues on Crackberry forum after launch.
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My 9800 is exactly 2 years old today. I have issues with the losing the touch keyboard and screen rotation. I just lay it face down on a leather notebook and firmly push/slide it in the closed position with the heel of my hand once or twice. Everything works fine again as long as I don't open the slider. This phone will definitely get replaced next February when bb10 becomes reality. Cannot wait!
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Mine is 25 months old. Looks the same as when I bought it. Working relatively well. Only issue is the end call button needs a few presses to disconnect a call or to go back to home screen. Other than that, still my favorite phone to date. Hopefully it holds out until I can get a new BB10 phone.
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Re: How old is your Torch 9800?
Mines about 17 months I think and it still looks brand new. My wife has the 9810 and even though its newer the chrome has worn off. Waiting to retire this bad boy when BB10 comes out.
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25 months old - was despatched to me on UK release.
No problems at all, although to be fair, it did have 4 months rest in the middle and I'm no longer on BIS (money issues). Everything is still awesome though - few chips here and there, but no problems. Whatever happens now my next phone is a BB10, but I'm convinced my 9800 will last until I've saved up enough!
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Had mine since release. Loving my Torch. Cannot live without it. All of my appointments, or should I say my 13 year old daughter's social life is in the phone. Without it I am completely lost or would never be on time to pick her up. Changed the original battery about 5 months ago, other then that no real issues.
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I have had mine since it was release in mid 2010.
I get the App 602 Error about 3x a day, nothing fixes it. It freezes when going from landscape to portrait at least 1x day.
Weird battery issues (even replaced it and still does it) - if I use the camera, my battery dies. Pull it and it resets the battery. sometimes. Sometimes my battery lasts all day, sometimes it lasts about 3 hours, even with no use.
My slider is not even anymore, its crooked and raised so when the keyboard is hidden its moves.
My BB key barely works, you have to press it really hard to make it work and 99% of the time it goes the screen that shows what apps are running.
My back button does not work.
The keyboard pad is loose and has delays when typing.
There are more but that seems to be enough..
Oddly enough.. I still love my phone. I could have gotten a new one months ago but I am holding out for the new BB10
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Mine is almost 2 years old now. And it works great. I almost dropped it many times severly once from a running car. But wohoo when I picked it back it was jus ok! Jus leaving a single scratch on the white metallic body. Rest was all ok..!! A single thing what I hate in my 9800 is its battery backup. It hardly gives a day times.
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Mine's about a month away from turning 2 years old. Other than a couple of deep nicks on the chrome , nothing too terrible (and it's still using the same screen protector since its first day). The battery still lasts 2 days without recharge atm.
Funny enough, I went through 5 plastic cases (mostly due to the attachment point failures).
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Littleton Coin Company named a 2013 NH Business of the Year by Business NH Magazine
May 01, 2013 – LITTLETON, NH – Littleton Coin Company, among the nation's premier retailers of coins, paper money and collecting supplies, has been recognized as the 2013 Business of the Year in the retail/wholesale category by Business New Hampshire Magazine. The announcement was made in the May issue of the magazine.
According to the magazine's editor, Matt Mowry, award recipients are "successful businesses that are leaders in their industries and communities." Littleton Coin was selected "for their leadership position in the coin collecting industry and for their outstanding philanthropy."
Mowry says the task of selecting the Business and Business Leader of the Year is not an easy one as Business NH Magazine receives applications from stellar companies and leaders across the state. Judging is conducted in two phases. A screening panel of chamber executives scored the first round of applications, whittling categories down to three semi-finalists. (The awards are presented in conjunction with the NH Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives.) Then the Panel of Excellence, made up of executives from the 2012 winning companies, selects the winners.
Commitment to Customers, Community and Employees – since 1945
Founded in 1945, Littleton Coin has long been dedicated to providing the highest quality product and service to its customers. Over the decades, the company has maintained an exceptional reputation within its industry, respected for their expertise in accurate coin grading and strong business ethics.
In addition to their exceptional business practices, Littleton Coin strives to be a community leader, donating generously to local events and activities. This year, the company donated $10,000 to the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, $10,000 to the local Boys and Girls Club, and thousands more to area initiatives and scholarship programs. The spirit of public service is prevalent throughout the company, and Littleton Coin employees are compensated for up to 8 hours of community service per year.
Littleton Coin President, David Sundman, was thrilled about the award. "For over 65 years we have called New Hampshire home and have strived to conduct our business in a way that was beneficial not just for the company, but for coin collectors, employees and our community. I thank our customers and team for helping us achieve this noteworthy award and commend them for all their efforts."
For more information about Littleton Coin Company, visit www.LittletonCoin.com or contact Jill Kimball at email@example.com.


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Different than what I expected
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I know quinoa is very nutritious but the flavor of the flour is very strong and did not taste as good as I hoped it would in pancakes
Different taste
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I tried this for pancakes & waffles due to wanting a gluten free option. They really didn't turn out bad, but I had to add a lot more stevia to sweeten them up than I normally do. I do like the low calories and low sugar. I will purchase again but may mix it with another flour for my sweet treats.
Still unopened
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The product looks like it'll work just fine, but I haven't had a chance to use it yet. That doesn't mean it won't get used though ^_^
Living Au Naturale
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A purchase for my mom who is sensitive to wheat products, she made some very delicious apple walnut bars. Great product!
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Really good flour.
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Donald Trump becomes 45th President of the United States
Beatrice 'Bea' Bowers
Beatrice "Bea" Bowers, age 81, of Johnstown, passed away on Wednesday, February 13, 2013, at Mountain Valley Hospice House, Gloversville, following a long illness.
She was born in Brooklyn, New York, on April 2, 1931. Demonstrating a sense of adventure, in the late 1950s she journeyed to Japan for work as a U.S. government civil servant and occasional stage actor. Later, Bea worked occasionally as a medical secretary.
Bea then volunteered her time and talents in service to her community. She was a life member of the Johnstown Area Volunteer Ambulance Corps (JAVAC); a member of the Johnstown Lioness Club, including a term as president; and she also provided assistance at several American Red Cross blood drives. Bea was a feisty soul with a well-developed sense of determination. She enjoyed travel with family and friends as long as she was able and was an avid knitter and a formidable cribbage player.
During her time on the Japanese stage, she met her future husband, David Bowers of Johnstown. On December 19, 1959, they were united in marriage until his untimely passing in 1987. His early demise weighed heavily on Bea for her entire life; but her family expects they have now happily renewed their spirited discussions comparing navy blue to black, bargaining over another peach cobbler and planning their next road-trip.
Survivors include her son, Mark (Crystal) Bowers of Virginia Beach, Va.; her daughter, Rebecca Bowers of Johnstown; a sister, Jean Schwartz of Peekskill, New York; and several nieces, nephews, cousins, and all the dear friends throughout her life.
Friends and family may call on Monday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Barter & Donnan Funeral Home, 1 N. Melcher Street, Johnstown.
Funeral services will be conducted on Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the funeral home, with the Dr. Rev. R.W. Williams officiating.
Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery, Fonda.
Memorial contributions in her memory may be made to Mountain Valley Hospice, 108 Steele Ave., Gloversville, New York 12078.
Condolences to the family may be made online by visiting our website at www.barterdonnan.com.


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Our friends at the Foundation for Research on Economics & the Environment (FREE) in Bozeman, Mont., have put together another strong slate of summer programs for clergy, seminary professors and other religious leaders with the aim of deepening their understanding of environmental policy. In its description of the program, FREE notes that many in faith communities "see an inherent conflict between a market economy and environmental stewardship."
Major religious groups assert that pollution, deforestation, endangered species, and climate change demonstrate a failure of stewardship that requires reform. And of course they are correct—what, however, are the incentives and information generated by alternative reform policies? Some policies can have profoundly negative impacts on social well-being.
FREE's goal is to help increase the understanding of religious leaders as they approach environmental policy. These leaders are influential nodes in a network of congregations, providing a conduit to disseminate market-based environmental ideas, potentially to millions of Americans.
FREE will help religious leaders understand the political economy dimensions of environmental policy reform. We will explain how basic economic principles can help achieve green goals with minimum sacrifice to social welfare. Together we will explore how a culture that values America's founding ideals, secure property rights, and responsible prosperity, can also foster a healthy environment and promote social justice.
I've been to a number of these FREE events and have been impressed with the content — and that's from someone who has grown "seminar averse" over the years. At FREE, faith leaders get the economic insights that are necessary for a deeper understanding of environmental stewardship. On the other side, policy analysts — including some of the FREE lecturers — get the faith insights that they do not ordinarily have access to in their own specialized fields. Yes, it is possible to bring together economic and moral thinking.
In a Bozeman Daily Chronicle piece titled "Environmental Stewardship and Social Justice," FREE Chairman John Baden writes: (more…)


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Skip to comments.Marion Barry: Only 'liberal white folks' care about source of turkey giveaway money
Posted on 11/20/2012 8:06:07 PM PST by smokingfrog
Each Thanksgiving, Barry gives away thousands of dollars' worth of turkeys. When the Washington City Paper asked Barry where the money for the giveaway comes from, he refused to answer, adding only a specific group is interested in knowing the source of the funds.
"...only 'liberal white folk'," Barry told the paper.
ABC7 caught up with Barry Monday evening.
"I said something about white liberals are the ones who are who, who raise these questions about who is paying etc," Barry said.
Barry claimed he keeps the source of the money a secret to protect donors from the media. Additionally, he told the Washington City Paper "several would-be donors to his most recently campaign" would not donate; they wanted to keep their names out of his campaign finance reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at wjla.com ...
But then no respectable population would elect him to office.
Barry, you lying piece of shit....whites finance your crack-smokin' ass. You can't possibly admit that.
You are the Poster Boy for black, racist, money-grubbing, poower-grabbing, worthless, soulless, morally-deprived black poliiticians.
You've been bought and sold more than a '63 Vette, boy. Go away and scrub toilets for a living.
I'm surprised they'd be interested in cooking a turkey. That's work!
I bet half the people in that photo work for government in DC (City or Federal)
free jive turkeys!!
free jive turkeys!!
There sure are a lot of really skinny people in that picture, they must be starving.
Does this really need a sarcasm tag?
Hey lighten up on Barry. The only difference between him and Obama is that Obama is only half black.
They're good for barter.
"It ain't cool being no jive turkey so close to Thanksgiving."
It's more likely than not that it's conservative white folks who are donating money to pay for those turkeys. It certainly isn't liberals. They think only government can help poor folks.
Crack Turkeys, mmm mmm mmm.
For What It Is Worth, HE did say ONLY LIBERAL white folk, he didn't mention conservatives, he just blamed Liberals.
When he figures it out a retraction will be made....<:
They ain't jailbirds... they be free jive turkeys!
Deep down the Race baiters hate white liberals, but they serve as useful idiots.
The seething throngs of dissatisfied poor urban blacks, jerked around largely by other blacks, is the big unspoken third rail of politics. That crowd pictured doesn't exactly look open to a little introspection on their own world view.
It looks like the liberal's DREAM of doing away with Thanksgiving this year isn't going to work out for them. Paul McCartney must be freakin' out right about now.
Bitch set me up!
Hey Marion , I didn't know that you could snort a smoked turkey up your nose .. How'd you do that ? OH ,.. no naseal septum,... right !
I'll bet the farts are light , as they include the feathers !
I hear that the bitch set them up.
Only stupid people like Marion Barry would give an answer like that.
Dude in the center with the black cap and dreads can afford the bling but he's got to line up for the turkey. Unfreaking real.
Notice how dreadfully skinny they all are — clearly suffering from malnutrition and starvation. And the threadbare rags...oh, the injustice.
"Only 'liberal white folks' care about source of turkey giveaway money"
Actually, "liberal" white folks would defend him every step of the way - regardless of where he stole the money from.
The Repubs better find a way NOW; to toss this one back; each and every time; with a line(s) that demolishes this degradation; with abject ridicule - and humor. Time to make these people an object of their own humor; and so demolish their narrative MO's; with a 'swift arrow response'. And we must be relentless. . .
Rush doing his Santa thing; certainly has struck a nerve; and they are already counter punching. (Can we learn something here?)Plenty of truth to Santa; but we need more; to take down the 'arrogance-that-passes-for-wisdom. We do not need to attack the 'Constituency'; messengers and message will do.
Speaking of Santa; too bad, there was no SANTA appearance for this 'turkey line-up'. Would have given it some credibility. Or 'street cred' as the case may be. And those images; the pictures shared; would have added another 'thousand words' to the story.
Selling crack?
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Zabar's Spices-Sweet Paprika - 2 oz (Kosher)
Product ID: A110075
When hot paprika is too hot, but you still want the pretty color and complex flavor, sweet paprika is your friend on the spice rack. Many hot and cold dishes from Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Germany and Turkey call for it, and Deviled Eggs just aren't devilish enough without a sprinkling of this bright red powder on top. Made from ground dried peppers. (Kosher) 2 oz


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Mercedes-Benz Fall 2012 Fashion Week NYC: OPI at Lauren Moffatt
OPI has kicked off Fashion Week 2012 with a vibrant punch of bright orange lacquer. Models' short, squoval (square and oval combo) beds were polished with the statement hue, A Good Man-darin Is Hard to Find, at the Lauren Moffatt presentation at The Old School, a Catholic school turned events space, earlier this morning. Expect to see similar brights make a repeat appearance at this week's shows and in the upcoming season. —M.R.


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Jammin' in the Vines IV to feature Sister Hazel
SILVER CREEK – Willow Creek Winery presents "Jammin in the Vines IV," featuring Sister Hazel Saturday along with special guests Big Leg Emma, Smackdab, Gina V. and the Barn Cats and Honey Spine.
Sister Hazel, most famous for their hit "All for You" will be the main act Saturday. Their American road trip, roots-style music has travelled through this band's 15-year career.
Still hitting the road for about 100 shows a year, Sister Hazel is making a stop at Willow Creek this year for Jammin in the Vines IV. Not only hitting the road but the sea, Sister Hazel's The Rock Boat, the world's largest floating music festival, has featured acts like Tonic, Edwin McCain, Collective Soul, and of course, Sister Hazel. The Willow Creek stage is anticipating the high energy Sister Hazel's live act entails.
After the release of their album, "Revival" Big Leg Emma has extended their touring to not only the North East Coast but out to Colorado and New Mexico, and is making their annual stop to Willow Creek Winery. Hailing from Western New York, Big Leg Emma has created a sound based in both traditional music like folk, bluegrass, country, psychedelic and in contemporary rock.
Big Leg Emma in 12 years has performed in many major music festivals, including The Great Blue Heron and Finger Lakes Grassroots Music Festival. With hard-hitting harmonies, and strong musicality, Big Leg Emma has been bringing a new look to American Roots Rock Music.
Big Leg Emma will also be headlining Friday at Willow Creek, with special guests Space Junk and Funktional Flow. Gates open at 5 p.m., and there is a $15 cover charge. Camping is available at $10 per person.
Smackdab, hailing from Jamestown, enjoys the kind of blazing word-of-mouth reputation most bands dream of. Here's the 4/4 intensity of a rock band married to the rhythms of old school R&B, soul, blues, and funk, as well as thick dollops of jazz and pop – made for the sole purpose of getting you onto your feet.
Fredonia's own Gina Vecchio with her band the Barn Cats will be bringing her soulful voice, and powerful lyrics to the Willow Creek stage. Honey Spine will be kicking off the day at 4 p.m.
Gates open at 2 p.m. on Saturday, and tickets are $25 presale and $30 at the door, and include parking. Camping is available for $10 per person, and there will be wine, beer, and wine slushies available for purchase. Desperados Barbecue and Catering will be available for purchase as well.
Again there will also be music Friday, featuring Big Leg Emma. Weekend packages are available including tickets for both shows and camping for $40 a $60 value.
For more information go to www.willowcreekwines.net, or www.facebook.com/willowcreekwinery. The winery is located on 2627 Chapin Road, Silver Creek.
Willow Creek Winery invites you "To come as a stranger, and leave as a friend."


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Solaris Cluster 3.2 1/09: Agents
By Deirdre' Straughan on Jan 27, 2009
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Prasad Dharmavaram on Agents in Solaris Cluster 3.2U2.
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Math and Science Teacher Initiative
What's New
The Khan Academy contains over 2,100 videos and 100 self-paced exercises and assessments, with extensive resources in mathematics and other topics covered including biology, chemistry, physics, and earth/space science. The resources are a valuable tool for helping candidates prepare for CSET tests.
California is projected to need upwards of 33,000 new mathematics and science teachers in the next ten years. The demand for credentialed teachers in these fields is significantly higher than the supply of fully qualified candidates. As a consequence, large numbers of students in California are taught math and science by teachers who are not credentialed in those fields. Access to qualified math and science teachers is associated with improved achievement, and ensuring that all students have fully credentialed teachers is critical to closing the achievement gap in these critical subjects.
The California State University (CSU), the state's largest producer of math and science teachers, has responded to this challenge with a commitment to double its annual production of credentialed teachers in math and science over a five-year period. CSU committed to increasing the number of qualified teachers in these fields from a baseline of 750 to approximately 1,500 by 2010 and has achieved this significant goal, preparing more than 1,500 teachers in both 2010 and 2011. It is especially noteworthy that a rigorous value-added study demonstrates that urban secondary students who are taught mathematics by new teachers who received their credential from a CSU campus learn significantly more math than comparable students taught by math teachers who were not prepared by CSU.
The Math and Science Teacher Initiative (MSTI) includes a systemwide plan of action that consists of six primary strategies:
- The creation of new credential pathways
- Provision of financial support to students
- Recruitment with intent to expand the number and diversity of candidates
- Collaboration between CSU campuses and their local community colleges
- Internet-supported delivery of instruction and resources
- Partnerships with corporate sponsors and federal laboratories
The Governor and the Legislature have given consistent support to CSU's efforts. Beginning in 2005, a special budget allocation was provided, which is currently $2.713 million. Using these resources in strategically planned efforts, CSU campuses have been highly effective in increasing production of math and science teachers.
CSU campuses have also been successful in acquiring federal grants to supplement the Initiative. For example, 22 campuses have now received National Science Foundation (NSF) Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship grants, and total federal support from NSF and the U.S. Department of Education has been over $66 million. Noyce Scholarships and Fellowships now provide more than 300 math and science majors preparing for teaching careers through CSU credential programs with $10,000 stipends annually.
The recruitment of outstanding candidates into MSTI is a central focus of the CSU initiative, ensuring the quality of preparation and advancing successful approaches for retaining new math and science teachers are other key objectives.
The National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges (NASULGC), the National Association of System Heads (NASH), and the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) have recognized the CSU's efforts as among the most significant and comprehensive in the nation.


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David Akers (1975/88): The mintage of the 1876-CC is a bit higher than the mintage of the 1875-CC but the 1876-CC is a slightly rarer date. In uncirculated condition it is much more rare than the 1875-CC but not as rare as the underrated 1874-CC. The 1876-CC is also more rare in Unc. than the 1883-CC, 1884-CC, 1889-CC, 1890-CC, 1892-CC and 1893-CC. As a date, the 1876-CC is relatively available in VF, EF, or AU condition. Average quality uncs are scarce but do appear from time to time. In choice Unc., the 1876-CC is very scarce and in gem condition it is rare, but certainly not unknown.
Minneapolis Gold and Silver - NSI, 5/2002 - Battle Born Collection - Stack's/Bowers 8/2012:11045, $21,850