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Georgia Tech's chamber music ensemble-in-residence, Sonic Generator, features its pianist Tim Whitehead in an eclectic concert of contemporary piano music in an intimate West Midtown gallery space. The program features music by seminal American composers Philip Glass, David Lang, and Elliot Carter, as well as Anton Webern's classic Variations fur Klavier and music by Hywei Davies.
An artist of many facets, American pianist Tim Whitehead is a graduate of The Eastman School of Music and has been both a long and short term resident artist at The Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. He has performed throughout the United States, Canada, and Western Europe, and has been heard on National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's ZedTV, and Radio Suisse Romande. Mr. Whitehead is a laureate of the Academie de Musique de Lausanne, has been presented in recital at The Holland Music Sessions, and has held staff piano positions at Bennington College and The Quartet Program at Bucknell University. Sonic Generator, Georgia Tech's contemporary chamber music ensemble-in-residence, explores the ways in which technology can transform how we create, perform and listen to music. The ensemble, comprised of some of the top classical musicians in Atlanta, works closely with Georgia Tech students and faculty in the School of Music and elsewhere on campus to present concerts that bring cutting-edge technologies to the world of contemporary classical music. Sonic Generator is sponsored by the GVU Center, the Center for Music Technology, the School of Music, and the College of Architecture.
{Poem88} opened in October 2010 in the White Provision District of Atlanta's Westside. Under the curatorial direction of writer and filmmaker Robin Bernat, {Poem88} represents emerging and mid-career artists, and presents thoughtful and innovative explorations in a new artistic frontier.
{Poem88} is located at 1100 Howell Mill Road at 14th Street, in the White Provisions Building.
Complete Program:
Anton Webern: Variations fur Klavier (1936)
Hywei Davies: Piano Pieces (2003)
David Lang: Wed (1992)
Elliot Carter: 90+ (1994)
Philip Glass: Mad Rush (1979)


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|Ferry Street, E14 3DT London, United Kingdom
|Property type
|Private room
|Property ID
|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
The house: this is a three level town house. Ms Yang the host lives in the house.
The room: this guest room can sleep upto 3 people, ideally suited to 2, there is a bunk bed and a single bed. Room is about 20 Sq meters. 3 writing desks with storage. It's on the 1st floor of the house, next to the family bathroom.
The bathroom is modern bright with power shower over bath. Toilet and basin.
There is also a shower/toilet available on the ground floor for guests.
Decor: clean, modern decoration, simple, functional, comfortable, bathrooms and open plan kitchen.
Facilities: fully functioning kitchen, washing machine, fridge/freezer, dishwasher, kettle, cooking pans, plates.
The host Ms Yang has requested that guests do not cook meals in her kitchen. Guests are welcome to making toasts, tea/coffee, refreshments or using the microwave.
Free fast WIFI through out the house.
Car parking: available onsite.
Clean bedding and towels: all provided for guests, you are welcome to bring your own. But please don't expect hotel style towels, as this is a private home and we do our own washing and we don't throw away perfectly functioning towels. If you are fussy about towels, please bring your own to avoid any issues.
The building: this is a very secure and large private luxury complex with CCTV all round, landscaped garden, warden, located next to the river Thames, opposite Greenwich park.
Local attractions: Greenwich park is 15min walk, Canary Wharf is about 20min walk or 5min on the DLR. Olympic Stadium in Stratford is 18min on the subway. The O2 concert stadium is also nearby. There are many green parks and shops, restaurants within easy travel distance. There is a small mini market 3min away or an ASDA/Walmart superstore 15min walk.
GETTING TO THE HOUSE: ISLAND GARDENS Station
from HEATHROW AIRPORT:
About 10 miles East of central London.
by underground (1hr.30min) take Piccadilly Line(dark blue colour on tube map) change at Green Park for Jubilee Line(grey colour) going eastbound towards North Greenwich. Second change at Canary Wharf for Dockland Light Railway, going towards Lewisham.
by Heathrow Express train (15-20mins) to Paddington Rail Station. From Paddington Station by underground take Bakerloo Line (brown colour) change at Waterloo for Jubilee Line (grey colour) going towards Canary Wharf. Final change take DLR train heading for Lewisham and stop at Island Gardens.
from STANSTED AIRPORT:
about 35 miles north-east of central London.
by Standsted Express (45-50mins) to Liverpool Street Rail Station. From Liverpool Street Station by underground, take Central Line(red colour) change at Bank Station for DLR towards Lewisham, get off at Island Gardens.
from GATWICK AIRPORT:
about 30 miles south of central London.
by Gatwick Express or Southern Rail (30-35mins) to Victoria Rail Station.
From Victoria Station by underground take Circle/District Line( green/yellow colour) change at Tower Gateway for DLR towards Lewisham. Get off at Island Gardens.
from LUTON AIRPORT:
by First Capitol Connect rail from Luton Parkway train station (25-30mins) to King's Cross St.Pancras International.
by Bus Green Lines & Easy Bus company (50-55mins) to Baker street station.
From Baker street station take Jubilee Line(grey colour) going eastbound towards Canary Wharf, change for Dockland Light Railway, going towards Lewisham.
The host: Ms Yang is a very generous and helpful host. She is a specialist research nurse and is home late most of the evenings.
House rulesNo pets, no parties, please keep clean and tidy.
|Price for > 2 guests
|$ 20 US per guest/night extra
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We, 3 persons were 3 nights as a guest and are very satisfied! The location is great, very close to the River Thames, the area is 24 hrs. Under camera surveillance and relatively quiet for London. The room was immaculate in order and clean and the hosts very helpful, friendly and accommodating. Our airline lost luggage my two girlfriends, but since we did not want to spend the whole time at the property, but wanted to see London, our host has agreed to take the suitcases in reception. A huge relief! Thank you so much for this and for the stay! We will definitely be back next year! It was a great time! Thank-You
Wir, 3 Personen, waren 3 Nächte lang zu Gast und sind sehr zufrieden! Die Lage ist super, ganz in der Nähe der Themse, die Gegend ist 24 Std. kameraüberwacht und für London relativ ruhig. Das Zimmer war tiptop in Ordnung und sauber und die Gastgeber sehr hilfsbereit, freundlich und zuvorkommend. Unsere Fluggesellschaft hat die Koffer meiner zwei Freundinnen verloren, aber da wir nicht die ganze Zeit in der Unterkunft verbringen wollten, sondern London sehen wollten, hat sich unser Host bereit erklärt, die Koffer in Empfang zu nehmen. Eine sehr große Erleichterung! Vielen, vielen Dank dafür und für den Aufenthalt! Wir kommen nächstes Jahr garantiert wieder! Es war eine tolle Zeit! Dankeschön
Apartment very well and very nice Hui.
Appartement très bien et Hui très sympa.
We had a very enjoyable stay here! 5 good friends on their annual shopping, theatre, dinner and dancing event in the city. Apartment is perfectly located for this.
Have never used Wimdu before but the process was really quite good - any questions were emailed to the host and you got a quick response.
Helen was absolutely brilliant and met us to check us in at the time agreed and was happy to get up and check us out early.
The apartment had everything we needed for our overnight stay. We had lunch, dinner and breakfast out but could easily have used the facilities in the apartment. It was quite noisy at night but you are in the centre of London so this was totally expected. Would definitely stay here again!
Apartment very well located, right in the center, perfect!
Noisy despite the double glazing.
We have not had the pleasure of meeting Helen and so do not have to take his advice, we just got on the phone.
Possibility to leave luggage before our arrival and into the afternoon on the day of our departure, which is very significant.
Apartment very well for 4 people, a small error in the presentation, there is a bathroom.
Very correct, but it would still improve the household.
Appartement très bien situé, plein centre, idéal !
Bruyant malgré le double vitrage.
Nous n'avons pas eu le plaisir de rencontrer Hélène et ainsi n'avons pas profiter de ses conseils, nous l'avons juste eu au téléphone.
Possibilité de laisser les valises plus tôt à notre arrivée et jusque dans l'après-midi le jour de notre départ ; ce qui est très appréciable.
Appartement très bien pour 4 personnes, petite erreur dans la présentation, il n'y a qu'une salle de bains.
Très correct mais il faudrait améliorer encore le ménage.
Nice, helpful hosts. Very central location, but noisy at night rel. Apartment well equipped with everything. Cleanliness could be better.
Nette, hilfsbereite Gastgeber. Sehr zentrale Lage, dafür aber nachts rel laut. Appartment mit allem gut ausgestattet. Sauberkeit könnte besser sein.
Very suitable for short stays, as centrally located in Chinatown all theaters in walking distance. Although the road is noisy, but ok with the windows closed. The owner and also, the responsible person for the guests very friendly and the whole process very professionally .. The two rooms are very different in size. The equipment is complete, all that is needed is available.
Sehr geeignet fuer Kurzaufenthalte, da zentral in Chinatown gelegen alle Theater in walking distance. Zwar ist die Strasse laut, aber bei geschlossenen Fenstern ok. Die Besitzerin und auch die fuer die Gaeste zustaendige Person sehr freundlich und die gesamte Abwicklung sehr professionell.. Die beiden Zimmer sind sehr unterschiedlich in der Groesse. Die Ausstattung ist komplett, alles was noetig ist, ist vorhanden.
Hui is very friendly and efficient. She gave good advice to give for my successful stay. The apartment is very clean, nice, well decorated. Nothing is missing. It is especially ideal. Merchants, many restaurants and nice shops are 2 steps. I had a great time.
Hui est très accueillante et efficace. Elle m'a donner donné de bons conseils pour réussir mon séjour.
L'appartement est très propre, agréable, bien décoré. Rien n'y manque.
Il est surtout idéalement situé. Commerces de bouche, nombreux restaurants et belles boutiques sont à 2 pas.
J'ai passé un excellent séjour.
The location of the apartment is ideally located. Many sites are accessible by foot or by bus. An incredible restaurant for lunch and dinner. Ability to carry and eat in the apartment. Apartment clean and ideal for four.
La localisation de l'appartement est idéalement placé. Beaucoup de site sont accessible a pied ou par bus. Un nombre incroyable de resto pour déjeuner et diner. Possibilité d'emporter et de manger dans l'appartement.
Appartement propre et idéal pour quatre.
Clean and neat flat in a very convenient location. Good value for money. Hosts were amiable and good communicators - they were very good about contacting us to return property we'd left behind.
apartment very nice and mostly located in a central and lively London, close to Soho, department stores, and Chinatown. An ideal place with friends or family
appartement très sympa et surtout situé dans un quartier central et très animé de Londres, tout près de Soho, des grands magasins, et de Chinatown. Un lieu idéal entre amis ou en famille
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On tonight's "Amazing Race: Unfinished Business" dating goths Kent and Vyxsin fell way behind but are not eliminated yet since Phil told all the teams that the leg wasn't over. The episode began with all but one of the teams flying from Tokyo, Japan to Kunming, China. Kent and Vyxsin missed the flight because they got lost on the drive to the airport and ended up going in the complete opposite direction. When the other teams landed in Kunming, they took a train to Lijiang and then drove to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. Once there one team member had to saddle and ride a yak across the Jinsha River. Next up was the Roadblock, where one team member had to search amongst thousands of wooden charms for twelve that depicted the animals of the Chinese zodiac. Once they found all twelve they had to put them in the correct order on a mobile. Zev had trouble completing the task, allowing Kent and Vyxsin to catch up. The teams then traveled to the Old Town where they had to make a wish and put it in a slot on a prayer wheel that corresponded to their zodiac sign. Finally, the teams faced a Detour which was a choice between pounding candy with a hammer until it became the right consistency or carrying a large horn from a square to a palace across town. Margie and Luke were the first team to reach the Pit Stop and were awarded with a trip for two to Aruba. Phil then told them the leg wasn't over and gave them their next clue. The episode ended with Zev and Justin & Kent and Vyxsin battling it out for last place.
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For us our house is place where we can relax, be with our family, meet many friends, and have long dinners and good talk together. We shared our house by house-exchange and couchsurfing and love to meet people from different countries and cultures.
Our house is a big city house with 6 rooms.
The living room is spacious, and there is a convenient kitchen. Behind the house, there is a small, cosy garden with a big tree and enough place to relax if the weather is nice.
Your sleeping room is on the second floor of the house. It is a big room (20m2) and the bed is 1.60 x 2.00 long. Bedding and towels are provided, so no need of taking towels with you! On the first floor is the bathroom, with a shower, bath and toilet. The bathroom is a bit "old-fashioned" and it's our next "project" to renovate.
If you stay longer then 3 nights, we can change your bedding if you want.
Towels can be changed as often as you want!
You have your own wardrobe, where you can put your clothes and where you will find more towels.
On your room there is a water-cooker and a coffe-maker. Tea and coffee are for free. Offcourse you can drink coffee in the living-room, but also your bedroom has a bench, so it's up to you!
You can use the livingroom and our kitchen. We will explain where to find things to cook.
There is free Wifi.
Our house is a non-smoking area. Smokers can use the garden.
Parking your car for free is possible. You can park in an area which is a few streets behind our house. Parking shortly in front of our house (3 hours) is also possible, but after 3 hours, you will have to turn the parking-card to a new time, so that's a bit of a hussle and we advice the other possibility.
- We have a female cat, named "Tarzan"
- The house is on walking distance of the city centre
- In the center you will find musea (Frans Hals), beautiful old dutch houses, the old townhall, the Bavo-church, the famous "hofjes", and many parks
- The national park "Kennemerduinen" is on bicycle distance
- The beach (Bloemendaal at Sea and Zandvoort) is on bicycle distance as well
- Supermarket around the corner
- A "plaza" with trees, is at the corner of the street
- Amsterdam center is 15 minutes by train
- Haarlem is proclaimed to be the best "shopping city" of the Netherlands
We are pleased to give you any information about renting a bicycle, taking the train or the bus to the beach, visiting musea and old area's in Haarlem, Amsterdam etc.
住宿规定We ask you to treat our house and us, the family who lives in it with the same respect as we will treat you.
No parties or drugs in the house, no "extra" guests without consulting us before and no "extreme" noise if you come home (very) late.
But coming home late at night is not a problem, because we will give you your own key of the house.
|Weekly rate for up to 2 guests
|1 月
|Check-in before
We had such a comfortable and pleasant time at Rob and Marion's for 3 nights. We did get a little lost trying to find the house, but the locals in Haarlem are insanely friendly - we were offered help by 6 people in the space of 20 minutes and with the help of these people, found the place. We arrived before check in and were greeted by the very friendly Rob. Just be aware of the stairs, as the room is on the top floor and if you have big suitcases like we did, it may be a struggle. We were left to do our own thing, with access to the kitchen, fridge etc. Rob and Marion were extremely helpful in suggesting places to go and how to get there too. They also called us a taxi to get us to the airport for our flight. The room was a perfect size, as too the bathroom we shared with them.
The area of Haarlem is so quite, peaceful and breathtaking. You will appreciate this soon after you go into the Amsterdam centre. Their house is about a 20 minute scenic walk to the main Haarlem Station (where you can catch the train to Amsterdam, a day pass/return to Amsterdam from Haarlem is €9.20).
We highly recommend doing the Free a walking tour with 360 adventures when you go into Amsterdam, you get a great feel for the city and cover a lot. Another must see is the Corrie Ten Boom house in Haarlem, which is another version of the Anna Frank House (which was sold out for us). The guide was so knowledgeable and funny, definitely a high light our trip.
We were really looking forward to our trip and our expectations were completely fulfilled. Being guests in such a lovely home with an interesting and lovely couple living in it has been a wonderful experience and we enjoyed our stay very much.
When we arrived, Marion greeted us, told and showed us everything we needed to know patiently. After our first night we met Rob and the (sleeping) family cat and had tea and a great conversation about everything you could imagine.
Besides of having a wonderful trip to Haarlem, Amsterdam and Zandvoort, we really had a great time staying in Marions and Robs house and if we ever think about coming back, we definitely think of these two. Until then, don't hesitate booking their place, because it was great and we really recommend it.
Thank you again, Marion and Rob. It was a pleasure :)
We really enjoyed our stay at Marion and Rob's house. They were incredibly helpful and gave us lots of ideas of places to go as well as restaurants, bars etc. The house was very comfortable and secluded which was great after busy days in Amsterdam. We would love to return to their place and spend some more time getting to know them - our fault as we were a bit unsociable - and see more of Haarlem which is a really attractive alternative to Amsterdam.
A very comfortable and relaxing stay with really nice people. Amsterdam is easy to visit from Haarlem with the bus and train. WLAN is available so bringing a Laptop is no problem plus there are shops and places to eat at nearby. The room is cosy and comfortable with double bed. We highly highly recommend these guys.
our first experience with wimdu. We are glad to meet this very friendly family. It starts with a real warm welcome, so what could be better for short vacation. The lodging is located near the beautiful center of Haarlem, pleasant and clean rooms, a friendly cat and a lot of information about the city. Follow the advice from Marion and Rob and you can visit fine places around and in Haarlem, as the Nationalpark etc.
So once again : many to Marion, Rob, Tarzan and the rest of the family
Katja + Ingo
We have just returned from our stay with Marion and Rob in Haarlem. We were made to feel very welcome from the outset, our room was spacious, spotlessly clean and the bed very comfortable and Rob even cooked us a meal one evening. The house was in a very quiet street not far from the centre of town and travel into Amsterdam was easy and quick. We also visited the seaside and Keukenhof - both easily accessible from Haarlem. Haarlem itself is a lovely city in which to spend some time and there are some great places to eat which are very good value. Anyone looking to spend some time in the Netherlands should look no further than Marion and Rob's house in Haarlem!
me and my friend had this trip for 2 days and i would definitely say we had an amazing time...both marion and rob treated us like their family members and helped us for whatever we asked...it made easier for us to plan our 48 hours in amsterdam and also we saw the beauty of haarlem little bit...thanks to both marion and rob for the help and also we will recommend this property as this is cheap and also comfortable and just 15 minutes really by train to amsterdam central
Thanks for the really sweet place to stay!
We felt very welcome and comfortable. The room was large and stylishly decorated. We were able to enjoy breakfast to our room also because everything was important available!
We had to share a kitchen and living room also.
The family is very friendly and open.
It was close to everything, if we needed anything. Food shopping, Shoopingtour, rent bikes and take the train to Amsterdam within 15 minutes, everything was possible!
We felt a lot more comfortable than a hotel or hostel!
Many thanks to Rob & Marion!!
It was a really nice dutch home , very nice peple , we had a chat and an amazing traditional soup , thank you so much :) wish you the best
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World Cup fever has not, exactly, gripped Providence.
But the small clutch of soccer fans who gathered at Ri Ra Irish Pub and Restaurant just off Kennedy Plaza on a recent Friday morning for the opening match between South Af-rica and Mexico flashed the special exuberance of those in on a delicious secret.
Cristina Mota, a recent graduate of the Alpert Medical School at Brown University, was particularly engaged in the contest. Her mother, a Mexican immigrant, had called early from California to make sure she was finding her way to a television set.
"She said, 'Your brother's been up since 5:30, where are you?' " Mota said. "I was like, 'I'm going, I'm going.' "
Much of Mota's family had taken the day off from work. They were cracking beers by 5 am Pacific time, she said. But Mota would not imbibe this morning. She would just watch. Nervously.
Derek Andelloux, finishing up the first year of his residency with Brown's family medicine program, was not so shy about saddling up to the bar. He had just come off a 24-hour shift.
And shortly after arriving, he started talking up a French team that had barely squeezed into the tourney when a blatant hand ball by star player Thierry Henry led to a goal in a decisive qualifying match against Ireland.
Ri Ra manager Paul Pereira quickly reminded Andelloux that he was sitting in an Irish pub — "whatever you do, don't mention France too much," he said quietly — and the doc desisted. He didn't want the Guinness tap to run dry, after all.
But his friend Sheldon Malcolm, a first-year resident sitting one bar stool over, was not feeling quite so reticent — promptly informing the barkeep of Andelloux's Franco-philia.
The ESPN announcers were, at first, skeptical that a South African team known as Bafana Bafana (the Boys, the Boys) could hang with the superior Mexican squad: "The Boys, the Boys have got to do a man's job here."
But the team was playing surprisingly well early. A near-goal in the 31st minute had most of the assembled whooping — and Mota shaking her head.
To her right sat, perhaps, the most knowledgeable fan in the bar. His regular pronouncements on the wisdom of Mexican substitutions were welcome. But, he acknowledged, he probably belonged elsewhere: "I'm supposed to be working across the street," he said.
He did not give his name.
Jen Buckley, another first-year resident, did not have to worry about work responsibilities, having just completed a 30-hour shift. But she admitted to being a little delirious from lack of sleep. "Soccer players," she said at one point, "are the hottest men on earth."
Mota appeared crestfallen in the 55th minute when Siphiwe Tshabalala rocketed a shot into the upper right corner of the net to give the South Africans, hosting the first-ever World Cup on African soil, a 1-0 lead.
But in the 79th minute Mexico's Rafael Marquez evened the score, averting disaster. The Ri Ra crowd offered Mota their congratulations. And the graduate, fielding a call from her mother, seemed relieved.
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This site commemorates the courage of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, the role the Whitmans played in establishing the Oregon Trail, and the challenges encountered when two different cultures meet.
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A geology photo album for this park can be found here.For information on other photo collections featuring National Park geology, please see the Image Sources page.
Currently, we do not have a listing for a park-specific geoscience book. The park's geology may be described in regional or state geology texts.
Please visit the Geology Books and Media webpage for additional sources such as text books, theme books, CD ROMs, and technical reports.
Parks and Plates: The Geology of Our National Parks, Monuments & Seashores.
Lillie, Robert J., 2005.
W.W. Norton and Company.
9" x 10.75", paperback, 550 pages, full color throughout
The spectacular geology in our national parks provides the answers to many questions about the Earth. The answers can be appreciated through plate tectonics, an exciting way to understand the ongoing natural processes that sculpt our landscape. Parks and Plates is a visual and scientific voyage of discovery!
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Chamber president relishes role
Shawn Hansen never thought she'd leave the Iowa town where her family lived and where she was raising a family of her own.
Now a resident of Lake Shore and president of the Nisswa Chamber of Commerce, Shawn said she can't imagine living anywhere else.
Shawn began her work at the chamber part time in the summer and said it was a natural progression to becoming the chamber's only full-time staff member.
Before moving to Minnesota, Shawn and her husband, Terry, lived in northwest Iowa, where Terry was in law enforcement. He was ready for a career change, and the two took a position working for a resort on Gull Lake.
The Hansens interviewed on Halloween of 1998 and arrived on April Fool's Day in 1999. They worked at the resort for two seasons and brought with them their two daughters, Kara and Alanna, then 4 and 6.
"I wanted to raise my kids somewhere with a strong faith community and solid school system," Shawn said.
Shawn is a member of the Nisswa Women's Club, and she is also an active member of Nisswa's Lutheran Church of the Cross. She's on the new member committee and serves regularly at the Sharing Bread Soup Kitchen in Brainerd.
She said her work at the resort was helpful in her work at the chamber, as she became familiar with area resorts.
The Nisswa Chamber of Commerce has more than 315 members. Shawn is responsible for day-to-day operations and for supporting the chamber's mission, which includes promoting businesses, the community and quality of life.
One of the main responsibilities of the chamber is to coordinate annual events. Shawn said this year will be the 54th year of the Welcome Wannigan, which serves coffee and doughnuts to fishermen on fishing opener on Gull Lake. It will also be the 50th year of the summer turtle races.
Shawn's favorite event, though, is the City of Lights celebration held the day after Thanksgiving.
"It's small-town America at its utmost finest," Shawn said. "There's nothing better than fireworks that have trickled down over the snow."
She loves the event planning.
"At the end of the day you see how many people are smiling because of the event," she said.
Shawn loves the fact that Nisswa is a destination city and that people visit to spend a day, a week or, like her, move to the area to live. She feels the founders of Nisswa set up a legacy, and pointed to the fact that people know the Nisswa name across the Midwest.
"It's our obligation to carry that forward," Shawn said.
She wants to keep Nisswa businesses where they are and make Nisswa a place businesses where want to move.
Shawn said the chamber has some businesses that have been members for 30 years or more. The chamber is a not-for-profit business and relies heavily on the hard work from dedicated volunteers. She said the chamber is in a sustainable position and growing every year.
While her position at the chamber doesn't represent a lifelong goal, Shawn said, "Now that I'm here I realize there were all kinds of things leading up to me doing this."
She's in the area to stay.
"We might not be born and raised, but realized (shortly) this would be home," she said.


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Mar 14, 2004
Dems Demand Investigation into Intimidation
NYT: "In a letter to the inspector general, they said: 'Throughout the debate on the Medicare bill, the legislation's cost was a central issue for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. The withholding of cost information may have impeded lawmakers' ability to engage in fair debate on the bill.' "The request was made by Representatives Pete Stark of California, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, all Democrats, and Bernard Sanders of …Read More »
Mar 12, 2004
Federal Government = Bush Campaign HQ
So I got curious when I saw Josh Marshall's post yesterday about the House Committee on Resources using its public web space to bash Kerry (they continue to do so as I write), and I took a look around to see what some other committees were up to. I didn't find anything nearly as blatant, but the Committee on Education and the Workforce certainly straddles the line. Its front page blares the headline: "Public Support Rock-Solid for 'No Child …Read More »
Mar 12, 2004
Salon Delivers on DeLay
Salon promised to deliver on DeLay today, and indeed they did. For readers of this blog, most of it will be old news, but they do have one new unidentified source: "According to sources close to the case there is little doubt that indictments will be handed down. At the center of the investigation is John Colyandro, who showed up at a deposition for the civil suit with his criminal defense lawyer. Colyandro has reportedly been given limited immunity. …Read More »
Mar 11, 2004
DeLay vs. Cockroach Corner
"This whole thing about not kicking someone when they are down is BS—Not only do you kick him—you kick him until he passes out—then beat him over the head with a baseball bat—then roll him up in an old rug—and throw him off a cliff into the pound[ing] surf below!!!!!" - Former DeLay spokesman Mike Scanlon, who has been implicated in the Indian extortion probe along w/ DeLay ally Jack Abramoff, discussing the legal nuances of impeachment in an …Read More »
Mar 11, 2004
Dick Armey vs. Hastert and DeLay
"The Winter of Conservative Discontent" From Today's @Stake: "For all the attention paid to partisanship in this town, the more interesting—and consequential—fights here in this election year will pit Republicans against Republicans." - Wall Street Journal, "Bush Finds Party Faithful in Ugly Mood" There can be no clearer sign of how far off the edge the current GOP Leadership has fallen than the feud in which they are engaged with former Republican leader Dick Armey. Mind you, Dick Armey …Read More »
Mar 11, 2004
Lying, but not Illegal…
GAO Speak, You Listen: "The General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, said on Wednesday that advertisements and brochures prepared by the Bush administration to publicize a new Medicare law, although not illegal, misrepresented the prescription drug benefits that would be offered to millions of elderly and disabled people." What do you say, GOP, good enough for you? By the way, with the recent revamping of the site, we've started a "Must Read" section, and our biggest problem …Read More »
Mar 11, 2004
NRCC Employs Smut to Raise Filthy Lucre
Check out this fundraising appeal from the NRCC. Its not as if there is a lack of actual IMPORTANT things going on… say, the 341,000 people who just applied for unemployment benefits, the fact that the GOP leadership won't even CONSIDER a bipartisan bill to save manufacturing jobs, etc. etc. Yet, with all the important issues that affect people's lives every day, the NRCC thinks that the Jackson-Timberlake Superbowl incident is where they should focus their attention. It says …Read More »
Mar 10, 2004
Kerry at DNHQ Update
Ok. So I am a terrible photographer… all my interior shots came out too dark (donations to send me to photography school may be sent here). He gave a great speech, though. Trust me. Or rather, here are some excerpts: "We're going to keep these guys rocking on their heels." "We're in the best position as a party that we have ever been going into election season. I'm confident, because of the groundwork you've laid out, that we're going …Read More »
Mar 10, 2004
Kerry at the DNHQ
Download here. Democratic Presidential Nominee John Kerry is here speaking to the troops! In case you are wondering, the DNHQ is home to the DCCC and the DNC. More photos soon.Read More »
Mar 10, 2004
Texas Primaries
As many of you know, the Texas redistricting was one of the lowest points in one of the lowest sessions of Congress in memory. Well, the Texas primary results are in, and this is what National Journal's Hotline had to say on it: "The TX primary results are in, and the GOP-drawn map for the most part had the intended effect on the outcomes: freshman Chris Bell (D) was easily defeated by a minority candidate, three Dem incumbents will …Read More »
Mar 10, 2004
We Are in Their Heads!
"The last sign of defeated and intellectually bankrupt party is a hate-filled strategy of caricature assassination," added Grella. That, is DeLay spokesperson Jonathan Grella regarding the newest section of our website, "Cockroach Corner". He was quoted in this morning's The Hill. As a friend (who shall remain nameless) of The Stakeholder pointed out this morning, "sounds like you're in their head!" DCCC Press Secretary Greg Speed points out, "Once you raise his profile and how the right-wing agenda that …Read More »
Mar 09, 2004
Rothenberg Saith
From The Rothenberg Political Report (subscription we're afraid): "Democrats did pick up a seat in Kentucky and seem poised to make other special election gains…..The economy remains the most important issue for House candidates. That is particularly true in areas where significant job losses have created voter dissatisfaction and unrest." Rothenberg concludes that the House layout favors us Dems, since of the 39 seats they list as in play, 23 are on Republican soil and only 14 are on …Read More »
Mar 09, 2004
Bush's Budget Plan a Dud
I think that the Reuters headline says it all. CBO: Bush Budget Plan Barely Helps Economy The Director of the non-partisan CBO (Congressional Budget Office), Douglas Holtz-Eakin, indicates that: "...neither the spending controls nor the tax cuts were large enough to make a difference. " Whoah. UPDATE: I suspect that the above may explain why 57% of people polled by the Washington Post/ABC News want us to move away from the current course pushed by Bush and DeLay. (full …Read More »
Mar 08, 2004
Breaking Plame
From TAP. "President Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove, told the FBI in an interview last October that he circulated and discussed damaging information regarding CIA operative Valerie Plame with others in the White House, outside political consultants, and journalists, according to a government official and an attorney familiar with the ongoing special counsel's investigation of the matter." "But Rove also adamantly insisted to the FBI that he was not the administration official who leaked the information that Plame …Read More »
Mar 08, 2004
SD: Herseth Kicks off Campaign
Stephanie Herseth was officially declared the Democratic nominee at a meeting of the South Dakota Democratic Central Committee in Brookings, SD on Saturday. She was approved unanimously on a voice vote. (more from the Argus Leader) Now that the campaign is officially underway, both Herseth and the NRCC have put ads on the air. In other news, Roll Call (registration required) is reporting that Karl Rove will be appearing at a fundraising event for SD State Sen. Larry Diedrich …Read More »


text: Hey guys, I am new here and I have my first question, of many I am sure. So I recently bought and 04 z66 avalanche and got a killer deal on it because of the odometer not showing the true mileage. Now this shows up on both the Carfax and the title. So my question is, is it possible to have the mileage corrected LEGALLY (I know it can be done illegally from things you can buy on the web). This brings me to my second question, if it is possible to change the mileage and maybe have it certified, will the DMV change the title? I already talked to carfax and they told me that if the DMV will change the mileage on the title, then they will change the carfax to reflect the title. If anyone has any experience with any of this I would greatly appreciate your input, thanks!


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http://i827.photobucket.com/albums/z...psbec89fe9.jpg 50 yards after attempting to sight in for battle ready 0(my marksmanship is nowhere near my mechanical ability)
I have 120 rounds through it with no malfunctions. Everything feels solid and works properly. I cant express how thrilled I am with how it turned out, and that it functions correctly.
Some of you may recognize my username as Ive been creeping and asking questions but more than anything I want to thank everyone on this forum for the amazing knowledge they have contributed to making these projects possible. I especially want to give a big thumbs up to pookie for leaving such a thorough site up for all these years. Despite all the swearing, alcoholic drinks, broken tools and money spent(overall around $600 including the magazines), I really enjoyed building it and I have my radar on for reasonable kits to do another/guide some close friends/family.


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Moorea Island, French Polynesia
Trip Start Sep 23, 2005
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We arrived into Papeete airport in Tahiti early Sept 27th. After navigating the Le Truck system on the Island we ferried over to Moorea Island. Wow - what a sweet place. As we roll into the harbor there's huge mountains surrounded by lush tropical vegetation of every type you can imagine...and then the water - crystal clear beaches for miles. Since there is a reef break, the water is the perfect swimming depth for about a half mile out - sweet, sweet paradise.
On Moorea, we stayed at a hostel right on the beach! Our beach was amazing - amazing coral, fish, and very few people. The island as a whole was also surprisingly mellow with few tourists. After 3 days of rain, finally the clouds broke and we had the opportunity to check the island out. We biked around the perimeter (60K), Kayaked out to a few close islands and inlets & did some hiking up trough the forest to swim in some waterfall pools. Pure paradise is all I can say to describe this Island.
We met 2 girls also staying at our place from Crested Butte - one just happened to be a cook - sweet eats from this point on! We had amazing fresh tuna, salmon creps, etc, etc, etc.... luck. Speaking of food, the fruit here is amazing. We would go hiking and along the trail would be mango, banana, coconut, papaya.... this made it easy to get out of town without having to throw down a bunch of money - I forgot to mention - this place is EXPENSIVE! Anyway - we're having a blast - I'll try to upload some images to this blog to check out the scenes.


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What's this?
Tiramisu is a little something Matt B and me have been working on for nearly 3 years now. Put bluntly, Tiramisu is a roleplay gamemode. If you were to really describe it though, Tiramisu is an open source, actively developed and feature full base for roleplay gamemodes to be derived on. Tiramisu is based on Cakescript G2, although over the years less than 5% of the original code remains.
Tiramisu does not and has never tried to be competition to any RP gamemode out there at all. It's focus and design is unique, and therefore it tries to set itself as a new opportunity for development, a different system with different rules and different design options.
[LIST][*]Advanced PAC like character editor, allowing for extensive customization of your player model[*]Advanced animation system, allowing the usage of NPC models, player models (even ragdolls!) without the need of recompiling them with a new animation set.[*]Extended chat text support, going well over the 255 character limit employed by most RP gamemodes, so you're now truly free to say whatever you want! Chat system supports fonts and colouring.[*]Superb group system, heavily expanding upon the concept of flags. Groups can now be self administrated, as well as user created without any hassle for admins or for the server itself.[*]Tremendously optimized and network efficient. As lightweight as vanilla Cakescript G2![*]Innovative VGUI, using a clever array of 3D displays, custom textures and panels, and post process to provide an aesthetically pleasing RP gamemode without risking functionality.[*]Comes packed in with a HL2RP schema[*]Always, and forever, free[/LIST][/release]
Also available in SVN flavor: http://tiramisu-rp.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
Development builds available at: https://github.com/kamaitama/Tiramisu/
1) Make a folder in garrysmod/gamemodes
2) Extract the .zip on that folder.
3) Copy whatever's inside that folder's "content" folder, and paste it on your base garrysmod folder
4) Run, enjoy.
Bugs and documentation:
Submit all bugs you may find here.
Documentation is available at my GitHub wiki, also available here. The code is generally well documented and readable, so you shouldn't have much trouble editing it.
[LIST][*]LuaBanana/Nori[*]MattB[*]Dr@g0n/Mr. Giggles[*]Steel[*]Nergal[*]Flash[*]Overv[*]Chrisaster[*]Azuisleet[*]Mogey[*]Norah[*]Whoever I'm forgetting.[/LIST][/release]


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Rivers still high; Tumalo flood watch continues
Deschutes peaks at Benham Falls; Little Deschutes still overflowing
TUMALO, Ore. - The fast-running Deschutes River at Benham Falls, south of Bend, apparently peaked Tuesday night as authorities continue to keep watch over high water levels on the Little Deschutes and downstream at Tumalo, where residents were warned to be ready in recent days.
The National Weather Service in Pendleton on Wednesday extended by another 24 ours, to 3:30 p.m Thursday, its urban and small stream flood advisory "for minor flooding of poor drainage areas" in central Deschutes County, including Bend.
Forecasters noted high water with minor flooding continues on the Little Deschutes between La Pine and Sunriver, as well as on the main Deschutes in the Tumalo area.
But Jeremy Giffin, Deschutes Basin watermaster, cited some factors Wednesday that were helping ease the flood threat, as the river's flow dropped from the peak of 1,465 cubic feet per second (cfs) to about 1,325 by late Wednesday morning.
One is the low flow out of Tumalo Creek, under 100 cubic feet per second. Also, he said, the Swalley irrigation canal was turned on Tuesday, taking away some of the flow, and probably will remain open the rest of the week.
The Little Deschutes River "is still doing a very high diurnal (daily) fluctuation," Giffin said, "so we will see high flows on the Little Deschutes downstream to Tumalo over the next few days."
The NWS earlier noted "a concern that more flooding could occur when the water reaches the Tumalo area in the coming days, due to the flatter terrain, which is more prone to flooding."
Giffin said in an e-mail Tuesday afternoon that "even though the stream gauges upstream are still rising, we are not expecting damage to homes in the Tumalo area at this time -- just some minor flooding of yards and landscaping."
He also said it appears "unlikely" that the region's irrigation canals can be opened to help relieve the threat.
"I have talked with the irrigation districts today, and it is unlikely that the canals could be utilized, since they are doing winter maintenance/construction on the canals at this time," Giffin wrote.
Giffin noted that "putting unexpected flows down the canals (several thousand landowners are not expecting the canals to be on) can cause damage to many more homes within the irrigation district than the (relatively) few homes in the Tumalo area."
Giffin said he and Deschutes County sheriff's Sgt. Nathan Garibay, the county emergency services manager, went door to door and talked with Tumalo land owners in the areas that could be flooded.
He said they "will continue to monitor the situation as it unfolds, (as) the flows were increasing during our inspections."
(Check the latest real-time streamflow readings at http://www.usbr.gov/pn-bin/dfcgi.pl?cfg=co_rivers)
"The one bit of good news is that the decrease in temperature has caused Tumalo creek to drop considerably over the last few days," Giffin added.
Here's Garibay's Tuesday afternoon update on the potential flooding, in full:
The Deschutes County Sheriff's Office is continuing to monitor the situation regarding potential flooding along the Deschutes River in the Tumalo area. In coordination with the Deschutes Basin Water Master, we have been assessing the potential risk of flooding that could involve homes in Tumalo. At this time, stream gauges are continuing to rise along the Deschutes River.
Due to the potential risk, we are asking those recreating on the river such as kayakers to use caution and avoid accessing the river below Mirror Pond. Hazardous river conditions could exist. We also ask that people avoid low lying areas such as river trails along the Deschutes River.
The potential for flooding exists in the Tumalo community. Residents that live along the Deschutes River in Tumalo should be prepared for a flood event. The Deschutes County Sheriff's Office and Water Master have been contacting residents in areas of highest risk to offer information.
Preparations include:
- Move valuables to higher ground, or higher floors
- Prepare a disaster kit. For more information see: www.ready.gov
- Prepare for evacuation as necessary
- Avoid walking or driving through high water
Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Emergency Management is coordinating with the Deschutes Basin Water Master and their partners to monitor and respond to this event. Deschutes County Sheriff's Deputies and Search and Rescue Volunteers are preparing to offer assistance in the event it becomes necessary.
Information regarding this developing situation will be provided on the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Emergency Information Line at 541-550-4886.
Periodic updates will be provided.
Monday's story:
Due to the warm weather after the storm that hit 10 days ago, the Little Deschutes River in La Pine is flooding. Experts say that water could head north all the way through Bend to the Tumalo area.
On Sunday, ice chunks were as big as 10 by 20 feet along the Little Deschutes. And with the highest flows the river has seen in some time, the Oregon Water Resources Department is preparing for every possible scenario.
"The last time we experienced flows of this magnitude on the Little Deschutes was January of 1997," Deschutes Basin Watermaster Jeremy Giffin said Monday. "Currently, we're running about 1,400 cubic feet per second."
The usual river flow around this time is 100 to 200 cfs.
Monday night, Nic Reid and his wife moved lawn furniture and several garden boxes away from the riverbank at their Tumalo-area home.
"We were just doing some research and saw that there was a push of water coming down, which is a little concerning," Reid said. "We'll do our best to protect our home."
Reid works as a fly fishing guide, and says he has been getting texts and phone calls from friends wondering if their property had flooded yet, hoping history won't repeat itself.
"As a fly fishing guide, I'm pretty well aware of the fable. You know, the floods of 96, that was more of the Lower Deschutes, but then the '97 kind of backed it (the story) up," Reid said.
Ruth LaMarche of Tumalo who also lives right along the main Deschutes River and remembers the flood of January 1997.
"It was up to my house, and the next year I sandbagged -- and that was the last year" of troubles, LaMarche said.
The big meltdown and rainfall after the snowstorm is causing the high water.
"What we're seeing here is a lot of natural flow from the snow melts in the upper Little Deschutes Basin," Giffin said.
That flow has Tumalo residents concerned as it makes its way toward town.
"Well, I packed my bags, if you want to know, because I was concerned in case I didn't have anyone to help me," LaMarche said. "It's a lot of work."
The height of the flow isn't abnormal, but the timing of it certainly is.
"These are flows we would normally anticipate to see in the mainstem Deschutes in the summer months, when we're delivering water for agricultural reasons," Giffin said.
As of now, it's too early to tell the severity of the floods, but Giffin said they've been working with Deschutes County Emergency Management, just in case. He also has been discussing the situation with irrigation districts, to see if opening some canals would alleviate the threat.
"We will know within the next 12 to 24 hours whether there will be a flooding event in the town of Tumalo," Giffin said.
Some tips to prepare for a potential flood include moving valuables to higher ground and preparing a disaster kit, among other things.
For more information on how to do that, visit http://www.ready.gov/.


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Flame war of the year: Estonian president unloads on Paul Krugman on Twitter
posted at 8:41 pm on June 6, 2012 by Allahpundit
Two words, my friends: Romney/Ilves. In reverse chronological order:
I know what you're thinking — "y'all"? — but Foreign Policy seems convinced that it's a bona fide account. In which case, two more words: Ilves/Romney?
Here's the Krugman post that set him off, which I think you'll find notably mild compared to Krugs's sleazier demagogic excrescences. That post was in turn a Keynesian belch at this widely linked Global Post story describing how Estonia managed to kickstart rapid economic growth while the rest of Europe got sucked into a black hole. Three words: "Austerity, austerity, austerity."
Sixteen months after it joined the struggling currency bloc, Estonia is booming. The economy grew 7.6 percent last year, five times the euro-zone average.
Estonia is the only euro-zone country with a budget surplus. National debt is just 6 percent of GDP, compared to 81 percent in virtuous Germany, or 165 percent in Greece…
Estonia's achievement is all the more remarkable when you consider that it was one of the countries hardest hit by the global financial crisis. In 2008-2009, its economy shrank by 18 percent. That's a bigger contraction than Greece has suffered over the past five years…
While spending cuts have triggered strikes, social unrest and the toppling of governments in countries from Ireland to Greece, Estonians have endured some of the harshest austerity measures with barely a murmur. They even re-elected the politicians that imposed them.
Decades spent under Soviet rule have apparently inured them to the tumult of recessions. If you want to see what real austerity looks like, check out the graphs Cato posted last month comparing spending in the UK, which, to hear Krugman types tell it, is supposedly in the grip of lunatic libertarian budget-slashing, to spending in the Baltic nations. Ilves himself addressed the imbalance in Europe in an essay published by the Hoover Institute in March:
[T]he inability or unwillingness of parts of the EU-17 to submit to agreed-upon rules will be defended by an appeal to the position that "our democracy cannot withstand the kind of austerity demanded of us." The first shoots of this position we have already seen emerge. Yet let us be clear about what this means: Fiscally responsible countries will be asked to support fiscally profligate countries in the name of democracy…
The bankrolling of Southern Europe has already and ever-increasingly threatened the fiscally responsible countries, the ones who have shown solidarity and voted to commit to bailing out those better off than we. Moreover, while much has been made of the change of governments in countries that broke the rules, far too little attention has been paid to what to my mind is a far more significant reverberation: the fall of a responsible, poor, new member state government coalition (in Slovakia) that made the hard choice and voted to support a country richer than it is, all for the sake of European solidarity…
The price of following the rules for a "poor" country like Estonia has been harsh. Yet if we subtract the fake wealth of the "rich," the ones who today cannot pay their debts, who have borrowed their wealth, are they that much richer than we? If part of being European is playing by the rules, that is, following the rule of law, then how can "European Solidarity" ever take precedence over the rules?
Pretty nifty summary of why the eurozone's headed for a crack-up. Looking forward to Krugman's reply about how Estonia's economy would actually be roaring ahead at 20 percent growth now if only they borrowed a few hundred billion from someone and got cracking on infrastructure improvements.
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As a Canadian, I would like to apologize for the stupidity you are about to see in this clip provided by SDAMatt2. It's from Friday's episode of 'The Michael Coren Show', but listening to what one panel member had to say about the Tea Party, you would think you were watching HBO's 'Real Time with Bill Maher'. You have been warned.
Before I start, I would like to mention something about Britt Aharoni. This is a radical who said on an episode earlier this month that former President George W. Bush was a terrorist who should be charged for war crimes. She not only said this, but "Britt the Twit" then went on to discuss how a court could go about doing exactly that. Suffice to say, she is far from the intellectual she pretends to be.
Britt starts this off by dismissing Michael Coren's remarks on the nature of these kind of protest. As an example of this, she cites the behaviour of the protesters at last year's G20 summit in Toronto, stating that it was only a very small group of protesters that were violent. Oh really?
Britt's trying to downplay what actually occurred, pretending that the Black Bloc weren't getting support from the other protesters. The video shows this claim to be downright false as Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) members are actually shielding the more violent protesters from the cameras. Aside from CUPE, members of the Koffler Student Centre and the Graduate Students' Union at the University of Toronto were arrested for assisting these very rioters, giving them shelter and trying to hide their weapons from authorities. It is clear that those responsible for the violence at the G20 summit and those who supported their efforts were far from the minority Britt would like us to believe they were.
After lying about this, Britt then goes on to suggest that this behaviour is somehow comparable to that of the Tea Party. We didn't see Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin or any other conservative figure advocating violence, and yet earlier this week Democrat Congressman Michael Capuano telling union protesters that they are going to need to "get a little bloody when necessary." (hat-tip Michelle Malkin and The Right Scoop at TheRightScoop.com) This isn't about democracy, not when protesters take to the streets denouncing a democratically elected politician, calling this same politician a tyrannical dictator and threaten violence if they don't get their way. As bad as comparing this behaviour to how the vast majority of Tea Partiers have behaved, Britt had only begun her slanderous tirade.
"Britt the Twit" follows this up by stating that not only is the vitriol demonstrated in this video found predominantly in the Tea Party, but that the Tea Party itself is actually a "white power movement." It wasn't a Tea Party member who assaulted a FreedomWorks activist this week. It wasn't a Tea Party member that was caught earlier this week saying "I'll fuck you in the ass, you faggot!" It wasn't a Tea Party member who said "The Tea Party is a bunch of dick-sucking corporate butt-lickers who want to crush the working people of this country." As for racism, Michelle Malkin's most recent column highlights not only the racism, but also the sexism and homophobia in these rallies, pointing to the more outrageous incidents we have seen this week, as well as a post by El Marco at LookingattheLeft.com displaying the signs carried by the protesters. As much as Britt would like to deny it, this vitriol came from union protesters. If the Tea Party had been caught doing the same, we wouldn't hear the end of it.
I could go on to discuss Sid Ryan's defense of Britt's comments, but it would be redundant. It isn't as if anyone expected Sid to denounce what she said, let alone point out what's actually happening in Wisconsin, especially considering that he will not waiver in his support for the labour movement. I could go on to discuss Michael Coren and Claire Hoy's response to Britt's and Sid's comments, but that too would be redundant as much of what they said I have also said refuting Britt's claims. There is a reason why I spent so much time focusing on the remarks of one panel member instead commenting on what everyone had to say.
What really upsets me about all this is that Britt is portrayed as an intellectual, someone who has a unique perspective on these events and who's opinion should be respected. Nothing could be further from the truth. This radical displays all the signs of an indoctrinated drone. Listening to her talk about how awful the Tea Party is, claiming that she gets her information from the media (mostly likely MSNBC), shows just how empty headed this moron is. It doesn't matter to her that, as Seton Motley pointed out, that the vast majority of this Obama-Hitler nonsense, including the Obama-with-Mustache poster, comes from Lyndon LaRouche and LaRouchePAC. Britt will not waiver from this narrative no matter what the facts are. Years of programming by misinformed and misguided authority figures will not allow her to come to any other conclusion.
This isn't someone who deserves any attention, let alone a panel seat on 'The Michael Coren Show'. It would be nice if Britt Aharoni just kept her mouth shut, especially since it is quiet clear that she hasn't anything intelligent, let alone honest, to say. Pathetic…


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Two years after the Helghast assault on Vekta, the ISA is bringing the fight to the enemys home world of Helghan. Taking the role of Sev, the battle-hardened veteran of the special forces unit known as the Legion, players will embark upon a mission to the planet Helghan to capture the Helghast leader, Emperor Visari, and bring the enemys war machine to a halt. For Sev and his squad, the invasion of Helghan is just the beginning. Tasked with securing Pyrrhus, the Capital City, the team quickly discovers that the Helghast are a formidable enemy on their home planet. Not only have they adjusted to the planets hostile conditions, they have also harnessed a source of power from the environment that can be used against the ISA. Sev and his team soon discover the fight is greater than simply addressing the enemy forces; the Legion must also learn how to handle the effects of the fierce enemy planet.
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Tonight, Sony Computer Entertainment finally pulled the curtains back from its highly-anticipated first-person shooter, Killzone 2. The console giant has been entirely mum on the game since its debut at E3 2005, and though it started with tremendous hype, gamers have grown more and more weary over its status as time has gone on. The issue up until now has been that as impressive as the trailer was, it was all pre-rendered, and being that no one has really heard about the game in nearly two years now (aside from an SDK demo at this year's GDC which was in no-way indicative of the actual title), gamers everywhere have simply had to speculate as to whether or not it would live up to the extremely impressive trailer. And perhaps more so, whether or not said pre-rendered footage would doom the game to become a disappointment.
Tonight's demo opened very similarly to what we saw two years ago. Clouds canvassed the screen until a soldier's head crept into view. He and others on his "cargo" vessel converse in short and abrupt sentences about how they're on their way to certain death. The scene is extremely similar to the lead-up to the invasion on Normandy Beach - certain hell is ahead, and the soldiers can't help but hold on to their helmets and hope to make it to the war zone intact and actually have a fighting chance.
A couple more vessels come into view, engines kicking below their flat surface while soldiers can only crouch and hold on to the thin railing. There's no protection here, nor even seats. Just as the clouds begin to part, one of the vessels is hit by incoming fire and begins plummeting to the very expansive city below. After falling for what seems like an eternity, it finally lands in a ball of flame as soldiers on the other vessels talk about how they're certain to die. Their commander tells everyone to lock and load...
The opening was once again fantastic, but we couldn't help but sit there and think, "When are we finally going to see some in-game footage?" The only thing was that we had been looking at in-game footage. As soon as our soldier hits the ground and his gun comes into view, very much like what we saw with the opening to Resistance, we couldn't help but think, "Holy hell, all of that was in-game?"................................................................
............................................Though the demo was so action-packed that it was hard to pick up on a number of details, we did notice a few more subtleties. For one, the health system works like what you'll find in a number of shooters these days - that is, there is no finite health meter, but rather if you take enough fire over a short period of time you'll perish, while taking cover and waiting it out for a bit will bring you back up to speed. Also, at one point during the demo we noticed that you're able to sprint. It's unclear how far or often you can, though your weapon is lowered and moved to your side, so we're assuming that the inability to fire is your reason for not sprinting constantly.
The demo we lasted was the extent of an entire level and lasted over 15 minutes in length by our count, but remember that it was played by a Guerilla rep and that it'll take a newcomer a good bit longer to get through. Though there were a few pauses for loading at certain spots, Guerilla says that it'll have its streaming tech implemented by ship time and that you won't see any loads mid-level. When you see just how much stuff is here, you'll understand why this may not be an easy task.
If you would like a number to go with that, try 2GB. That's how big the single level was on disc, to which the Guerilla rep noted that the game's level of detail would not have been possible without Blu-ray.
As for multiplayer, the only details that we saw were part of a short PowerPoint presentation at the end, but Guerilla promises an "extensive multiplayer component", one that will make use of Home in some fashion. Sounds good to us.
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The importance of spectrum as a communications enabler cannot be overstated. Television and radio broadcasting have a strong influence in shaping public perceptions on any issue, and have been used overtly for political propaganda. It has been said, for example, that Kennedy's election as president of the U.S. was due mainly to his television campaign. During the cold war, The Voice of America, Moscow Radio and Radio Havana Cuba were very effective ways to sway a global audience.
More recent examples include the influence of CNN and Al Jazeera in shaping public interpretation of current events.
At a national level, the role of radio and television in steering public opinion is often quite overt. Berlusconi's ascent to power in Italy was made possible by his control of commercial television. It is therefore not surprising that governments everywhere exert a strong control of spectrum access and have shut down broadcasting stations that aired "inconvenient" viewpoints on allegedly technical or legal grounds.
Spectrum used for two-way communication, including mobile and internet technologies, has also been subject to government interventions, especially in cases of political unrest.
Economic interests also play a vital role in broadcasting. Concentration of broadcast media ownership has had demonstrable negative impact on freedom of expression and unbiased reporting whether that concentration was in government or private sector ownership. The increasing economic value of communication spectrum whether in broadcast or telecommunications increases the likelihood of influence.
We can conclude that the electromagnetic spectrum is a natural resource whose usefulness is heavily conditioned by technological, economic and political factors.


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The race isn't always to the swift, nor the fight to the strong, but that's the way to bet
understood mike and i appreciate your response. this rationale has been posited before here on the forum.
the counter to it is that by virtue of you placing these wild creatures in an artificial home and manipulating them to your 'ends' you are already interfering with nature in a serious way.
where one draws the line is rather arbitrary isn't it?
if you value allowing nature to work itself out above and beyond all else then the logical approach would be to not keep bees at all.
however, since you are choosing to exploit the bees you have already compromised that principle. you and i are more in agreement than not. the difference is i have chosen to accept that we are already departing from nature, and my management choices are an attempt to achieve a balanced and thoughtful compromise.
my choices to euthanize colonies destined to die and to prevent the spread of pests and pathogens to my other colonies, my neighbor's colonies, and nearby feral colonies my may indeed hinder the natural progression of resistance to some degree, probably small. i'm really not so sure that what you and i are doing has a great impact on the species in the end.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Mike,, "Show me the Money" show me evidence of TF guys who are not manipulating brood and make honey, and can sell that genetic stock. You may have some there.... I hear lots of stories.... I am on board......
I do breed my best hives. trying for something. Just so far without brood breaks, nothing is moving past 18 months. second year the hives are struggling so hard with mites, honey cannot be had. Last year was tough, total honey number were way down, but all the 2nd year hives that WERE boomers, made 0.......
I'm not even getting 8 months right now TF, and that's on hives started from nuc's just this past spring. Many already dead and still collapsing as I speak. We did have a terrible spring and summer with temps way too cold and excessive rains which translated into the worse honey production in this area in 25+ years. I'm fairly certain colony nutrition suffered as well causing stress and no doubt put the bees in a less than optimal state to deal with the mites.
The Kent and Zayed paper found drone-associated gene regions did not have high recombination rates. This can be explained by drones as "flying gametes" -- they are haploid and have single alleles. Poor recombinations are negatively selected since they can't fly -- and indeed the whole impulse to recombine is negatively selected. This points out the fundamental role of haploid drones in pushing adaptation in bee breeding systems.
"Relaxed Selection" is the general term for allele effects that were responsive to a previous evolutionary condition (the development of social colonies) that has now become irrelevant or deleterious.
Remember the fundamental characteristic of honeybee is genotype conservatism. Honeybees are not evolving so much as accumulating an enormous portmanteau of variation. The higher the colony variation, the higher the fitness. Rather than diverse worker castes, they have phenotypically identical workers with internal genotype differences within a colony -- leading to complex behaviors. The higher the population variation, the lower likelihood of a single dominant genotype founding a new race/species/lineage. Bee's resist evolutionary drift at every turn.
Clement Kent and Amro Zayed (the authors of the cited paper on recombination rate) have done very interesting work on the role lethal diploid drones (due to honey bee's complementary sex determination) on extinction of local populations. I find this relevant to the amateur armchair experts pronouncements/discussion on this thread -- Zayed has found that small local inbreeding populations are at extreme risk of going extinct due to sex incompatibility. Backyard breeding advocates should take note of Zayed's other work-- little colonies of inbred lines are likely doomed.
Zayed has a great paper on evidence for positive selection in honeybees, including finding that South American AHB have differentiated from their putative A. mellifera scutellata.
Contact me if you don't have University library access.
A Genome-Wide Signature of Positive Selection in Ancient and Recent Invasive Expansions of
the Honey Bee Apis mellifera Author(s): Amro Zayed and Charles W. WhitfieldSource: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,Vol. 105, No. 9 (Mar. 4, 2008), pp. 3421-3426Published by: National Academy of SciencesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25461250 .
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correct my if I am mis-interpeting, but we have two schools of thought, one is line breeding for a certain trait, the other says large scale diversity is the key and that line breeding will fail? Trying to simplify the conversation a bit.
Evolution is always a process of dynamic compromise. Line breeding can emphasize traits (but in doing it throws away the steamer trunk of other adaptations). Large-scale diversity incorporates the kitchen sink (but reduces the number of specialists -- as seen in VSH behavior in subsequent generations).
The Dadant Starline came up in this thread -- its my understanding that the enormous effort to maintain this 4 line double crossed-hybrid was dropped when tracheal mites invaded the US in the 90's -- the inbred lines were (unsurprisingly) tracheal-susceptible.
Putting bees in a box is no different to putting out a box and inviting them in - its a perfectly good home, mirroring in all of the important ways natural cavities. The 'manipulations' are guided by what would happen naturally. If, in order to achieve that, you have to offer a little artificial help, then you do so no more than necessary, and in ways that aim to disturb the natural processes as little as possible. If you want self-sustaining bees.
There is nothing difficult going on here.
Try to grasp: following nature's rules is not something that must be carried to extremes. Rather its recognition that Nature has automatic health and repair mechanisms, and interfering with those carries a cost. Treating bees is a first-class example. As Ruttner says, it is Nature that shows us how to do husbandry: she is the original, and we copy her.
Mike (UK)
The race isn't always to the swift, nor the fight to the strong, but that's the way to bet
What do you do drone side?
Mike (UK)
The race isn't always to the swift, nor the fight to the strong, but that's the way to bet
The race isn't always to the swift, nor the fight to the strong, but that's the way to bet
As recently observed, removal of the weakest (as well as not-too-concentrated selection of the best) maintains genetic diversity while achieving the promotion of desirable traits.
We're not talking high-end breeders breeding; we're talking traditional low-tech husbandry breeding.
Mike (UK)
The race isn't always to the swift, nor the fight to the strong, but that's the way to bet
Any fertilized egg can become a queen. The whole basis of queen grafting. The exception being the famous diploid lethal drones based which are homozyogous at a single gene locus. Workers and queens are genetically undifferentiated -- nutrition (including contributed hormones) are responsible for the caste difference.
Every single bee is non-identical to any other nest-mate. This is because "crossing-over" occurs early in the process meiosis (ie gamete-egg-sperm production). Recombination during meiosis is important to recognize -- workers and drones both are each and everyone a distinct individual genotype.
In fact, I'm indoors engaging with the "armchair experts" cause just can't face the depressing work of cutting all that comb into the melter.
I am going to try brood breaks this year for the first time. Been doing lots of research on this, many claim to have good results, many say otherwise. Honestly, if I could keep the mites at bay for 18 months before hive collapse I would be thrilled at this point. If timed properly, brood breaks do seem that they would hand the mites a setback, but is total mite numbers the only factor, what about the disease they spread? Are those diseases spread from bee to bee or does the bee only get them from the phoretic mite?
I counter that "blown" bees are likely an extremely effective way of creating a full brood break onto new and sterilized comb. The practice resets the disease clock completely -- not just varroa, but all the other comb based diseases. It is a really effective "chemical-free" process.
If you (or Radar) could find that thread, I would be interested to see if there are any I haven't looked at. Again. all I have tested or investigated, are useing something besides genetics or traits to keep hives alive past that 18 month mark.
As for my own. I am looking at hives that have Low mite counts in the fall, good clusters, and good honey builds. So far I have had several hives with nice low counts in fall, but next season is still a bust. I think that some hives do seem to outbreed the mites for a good while. but when winter comes the scales tip. so far no 2nd year hive has maintained that low count/ good production.
As for drones, not much to say, With queens not showing me anything (FYI that also includes a lot of Ferals) I havent spent a lot of effort on drones. add that to a large number of feral hives and there is not much point in drone control. I do only use the strongest hives near the queen yard.
we beekeepers are actually given a lot of latitude when it comes to where we drawn the line in terms of husbandry and this highly arbitrary and variable expression of the privilege to do so defines beekeeping.
it appears that you and i have a different point of view, and both of them are 'arbitrary', are they not?
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The idea that man is only providing a box for the all natural bee is like believing man can raise the all natural maize by throwing corn into a field.


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On the field, Ray Lewis is arguably the greatest LB of this generation. Likewise, LT IS the greatest of his generation, maybe of all time. However, they do play different positions. Lewis is also going for his second Superpbowl, possibly tying LT. On the field, who is/was more important to their team? Is LT's play too much for Lewis to overcome or does Lewis's leadership prove him to be more valuable on a possibly let talented team?
Off the field, Lewis has changed his image into a humble and spiritual leader for his community. However, it is not in the distant past he was up for murder charges, paying off families of victims, and lets not forget (thank you Mrs. Welker) his 5 kids and 4 wives. That is hardly the resume of a role model.
Off the field, LT is linked heavily to drugs, prison, and more recently, sex with a minor and prostitution. While he has not shown to have too many redeeming qualities or even attempted to rehabilitate his image like Lewis has, it is hard to look past the fact that drugs and prostitution is nowhere near as heinous as murder.
So, what is everyone's opinions of Lewis vs. LT on and off the field?


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Wittenberg University and Springfield Promise Neighborhood Host Community Thanksgiving Dinner
For the second year, the Wittenberg University Sigma Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) invites Clark County residents to the Springfield Community Thanksgiving Dinner, 4:30-7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 21, at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house, 20 West Ferncliff Place.
Community members can enjoy a full Thanksgiving meal for $5 per person, and current Lincoln Elementary students eat for free. Tickets can be purchased before the event or at the door.
In an effort to build strong community ties and raise awareness for the Promise Neighborhood initiatives, programming will include the recognition of community leaders and performances by the Project Jericho Family Choir and Wittenberg's Just Eve.
Event director and education major Ben Imlay, class of 2014 from Westerville, Ohio, has high expectations for this year's dinner, hoping to serve and celebrate Thanksgiving with more than 1,000 community members.
All proceeds from the event will go toward the Springfield Promise Neighborhood's efforts to alleviate poverty and improve education within the community. The Springfield Promise Neighborhood, a collaborative, neighborhood-based effort to ensure the academic and social success of Springfield and Clark County students, was inspired by New York-based social activist and educator Geoffrey Canada, who created the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ) in New York City.
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