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The sun is a wonderful (and free) source of energy just waiting to be harnessed. You can build a simple solar hot dog cooker for use on a sunny day.
This hot dog cooker uses a reflective parabola. A parabola is a symmetric curve that resembles the letter "U." The focus of a parabola is a point that lies along the axis of symmetry and acts as the special point around which a parabola (or any other geometric shape) is constructed.
Let's practice finding the focus of the parabola. A parabola graphed using the equation y=ax2 must first be converted into standard form. Standard form for parabolas is as follows:
4p(y - k) = (x - h)2
Where h is the horizontal distance of the parabola origin (the curve) of the parabola from the point (0,0) and k is the vertical distance of the parabola origin from the point (0,0). 4p is equal to (1/a). This is just a mathematics convention.
We plug our numbers in to solve for p, which is the vertical distance of the focus from the parabola's vertex, or lowest point.
So why would we need to use a parabola as our mirror, anyway? Here's what's so cool about parabolic mirrors: the focus is the point where all of the reflected light passes through. This makes a parabola a perfect mirror shape for cooking a hot dog.
Build a solar power hot dog cooker.
- Oversized shoe box
- Aluminum foil
- Poster board
- Scissors
- Craft knife or box cutter
- Tape
- Glue
- Pencil
- Ruler
- Skewer
- Single hole punch
- Sheet of graphing paper
- Hot dogs, buns, and your favorite hot dog condiments!
- Using the graphing paper and a pencil, graph the parabola y = 0.035x2. (Because this parabola is facing up, you can put the vertex of the parabola very close to the bottom of the page. Be sure to scale the parabola appropriately to the graph paper; for example, if the squares on the paper are ¼ inch, make 4 boxes equal 1 inch, and mark your axes accordingly. Follow the same steps if you're using centimeters.)
- Cut the along the parabola line so you have a template of the curve.
- On a separate sheet of paper, calculate the focus of the parabola. Remember—why is this important?
- Remove the lid to the shoebox. Trace the parabola curve on each long side of the shoe box.
- Have an adult help you cut out the shape of the parabola on the box.
- Use the scissors to cut out a piece of poster board that fits perfectly into the curve of the parabola in the box.
- Glue aluminum foil to the poster board, shiny side up. Try to keep the foil as smooth as possible.
- Carefully insert the foil-covered poster board into the shoebox and tape it in place. Be sure the shiny side of the foil faces you.
- Use two long scraps of cardboard to build supports for the skewer. They must be tall enough to hold the skewer above the focus.
- Use the single hole punch to make holes at the focal point, which will be at the same height as the focus is from the vertex of your parabola. If you aren't sure where it is, take your cooker outside, tilt it towards the sun, and look at where the sun shines brightest on the inside of your cardboard supports.
- Attach a hot dog to a long skewer and set the skewer in the support holes to keep the hot dog suspended above the parabola. Direct the parabola towards the sun by propping one side up slightly.
- Turn the hot dog every so often to cook it evenly. Enjoy!
The focus of the parabola is located at the coordinates (0, 7.14), which is 7.14 units (inches or centimeters, depending on the measurement you've chosen to use) above the vertex (bottom) of the parabola's curve.
Placing the hot dog at the focus in the sun will result in a cooked (and ready to eat!) hot dog.
The parabola is shaped so that it collects the sun rays and focuses them at one point, the focus, in the center of the parabola. This is where the hot dog is placed, and the energy from the sun is used to cook the hot dog.
Because the sun is so far away from the earth, the light rays hitting us are essentially parallel. Parallel incident rays of light which strike a parabolic mirror all pass through the same point after they are reflected.
Light is reflected off of nearly everything, but we used foil because it's highly reflective and much of the heat and energy from the incoming sun rays is redirected to the hot dog. This would not work with a material that was not reflective.


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A rosary with mass to follow for Frederico "Lico" Lujan, 68, of Roswell, NM will be Tuesday, February 11, 2014 at 9:00 AM at St. John's Catholic Church (Ave Maria Center) with Deacon Ernesto Martinez officiating. Military Honors will be provided by the Roswell Veterans Honor Guard. Lico passed away Friday, February 7, 2014 in Albuquerque, NM. Lico will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
Frederico "Lico" Lujan was born September 16, 1945 in Roswell, NM to George Lujan and Bengina Carrillo. Lico served as a Staff Sargent; CO. E, 14th Battalion-47th Infantry-9th Division; Lico was a U.S. Army Veteran and earned the Bronze Star, Purple [auth] Heart, National Defense Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Service, Military Merit, and Army Commendation Medal.
Lico is survived by his sisters, Hope and husband Bob Gann of Kokomo, IN; Emma and husband, Bob Rietsch of Castle Rock, CO; Bennie Lujan of Levelland, TX; Mary Lujan of Roswell, NM; brother, Ignacio and wife Amparo Lujan of Roswell, NM; daughters, Stephanie Lujan Vasquez of Bowling Green, KY; Loretta Lujan and husband Leo Rodriguez of Tucson AZ; Catrina Chavez of Albuquerque, NM; Sivilia Lujan of Roswell, NM; grandchildren, Whitley Mills of Bowling Green, KY; Johnny Mills of Florissant, CO; Andrew Nunez of Coral Springs, FL; Michael Barth of Bowling Green, KY; Jacob Nunez of Bozeman, MT; Sarah Barth of Hendersonville, TN and Eric Rodriguez of Tucson, AZ.
Lico was preceded in death by his parents, George and Bengina Lujan; sister, Sivilia Lujan; brother, George "Choche" Lujan II; sister, Rosie Meeks; sister, Elvira Lujan; sister Ira Correa; brother, Chris "Chencho" Lujan; his sons, Fred "Lico" Lujan Jr. and Francisco "Kiko" Lujan; numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins.
Frederico "Lico" Lujan
On this day, February 7, 2014, Frederico Lujan has gone to be with our Lord Jesus Christ. We now can rest knowing that he suffers no more on this earth. The Lord has his name written in the book of life. Lico was a kind man with a heart full of love for his family and friends. He was always there to lend a hand. Tio Lico lived to help others. A son, a brother, a father, a grandfather, an uncle, a soldier, a builder, a counselor, and a friend to all he knew he left his smile. We will all miss you. Till we meet again, forever in our hearts. Love, Tere.
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i cant seem to find anything for this engine for performance enhancment...can anyone help? with any performance parts
i cant seem to find anything for this engine for performance enhancment...can anyone help? with any performance parts
start with the usual mate - induction kit and exhaust system there have got to be some knocking about for it?!
K&N IND? Maybe Supersprint Exhaust?!
got induction and exhaust....looking more engine parts mate
My mate has an e34 520i here's a list of mods he has done
530 throttle body
K & N Panel filter
Catback stainless stell exhaust
Stainless manifold
He's car feels alot quicker now after doing this. Hope this helps.
anything like cams/stroker kits/turbos anyone heard of being done to these engines?
you can buy performance cams for any car really. i heard cat cams are good for the money
I bet I could find a cam for it
CAT-CAMS they offer some - really nice cams too!
Wouldn't bother too much about the stroker if you are thinking about forced induction...
ERM.......... CCR Racing do a supercharger kit and I would recommend Jabba Sport for tuning
There is some cams available, you can use US M3 3.0 ones, as both engines had a similar head.
Finding them will be the main problem though, Euro M3 cams won't do.
There was some stroker kits possible, but I'm not sure how well they would work on a 320 without checking first. The 325 M50 could be stroked to 3.0, using an M54 330 Crank, and I think the rods to match, but again, don't rush out and buy anything just yet!
A small but cheap parts bin mod is to get the exhaust manifolds from a 323 or 328 which have better flow characteristics, and are a direct swap, but fitting can be awkward with rusty manifold studs.
I can of course supply you with a chip which will give about 14bhp, and will improve the feel of the car, but remember that a 325 engine will fit giving an extra 42bhp for 300-ish quid plus fitting.
The majority of those mods can be swapped directly between the engines, so tuning a 320 isn't dead money if you are thinking about a 325 swap in the future.
you guys are such a help today ....i've posted on here n ppl have just said replace the engine...dont really wanna go to that extreme just yet as i'm liking this engine...but it just doesnt have enough power...i may go along that line once i get to a dead end with tuning this one...gives me sommat to do on a day off lol
[QUOTE=Mr OBD;498139]I bet I could find a cam for it
CAT-CAMS they offer some - really nice cams too!
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any idea which of those cams would be better for fast road/maybe track day use
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As expected, the result of this year's presidential election in the United States has not been as close as most pre-poll surveys had projected. President Barack Obama has won a decisive number of the electoral votes and, contrary to pre-poll projections, managed to win the popular vote. He is only the third president in the post-war era, after Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan, to be re-elected with more than 51% of the popular vote.
Except for North Carolina, President Obama defeated Republican challenger Mitt Romney in all of the swing states, including Massachusetts, Michigan, and Wisconsin, the home states of Governor Romney's, his father's, and his running mate Rep. Paul Ryan's, respectively. Prof. W. Scott Thompson, who had been the first to predict in 2007 that the then relatively obscure junior senator from Illinois would defeat Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries, actually predicted an Obama landslide a couple of months ago. Perhaps that could have been the case had the President not misperformed in the first presidential debate.
Having framed the election as a choice between two distinct social and economic visions, perhaps President Obama would claim a strong mandate for his policy prescriptions. However, the American people has elected to maintain a divided Congress, with the Republicans keeping their majority in the House of Representatives. There would certainly be gridlocks in the debate on how to move the American economy forward. Particularly interesting would be the debate on the question of whether or not to extend the Bush-era tax cuts, which would be expiring before the year ends. Prof. Jack Balkin argues that the President should hold his ground on this issue, as it would likely define his place in American presidential history.
In two interesting essays published on The Atlantic, Professor Balikin draws on the works of another renowned political scientist, Prof. Stephen Kowronek, whose book on American presidential history is a must-read for all students of American politics. Professor Kowronek classified American presidents into four kinds: the reconstructive presidents, the affiliated presidents, the pre-emptive presidents, and the disjunctive presidents.
Reconstructive presidents create dominant regimes in American politics, where their ideologies influence the political reality, and their party has a stronger support base that has the ability to steer the general direction in Washington. Professor Kowronek classifies William Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan as reconstructive presidents. Their legacies are the most enduring in American presidential history.
Now, those who follow these reconstructive presidents would either support or oppose the political orders they create. Presidents who support the dominant regime become affiliated presidents, whose political legitimacy usually hinges on their ability to defend the said regime. Affiliated presidents whose terms are marked by either the decline or the collapse of the political order they support are classified as disjunctive presidents.
On the other hand, presidents who oppose the dominant political order of their time are classified into two. Those who had the misfortune of being at the White House at the wrong time are the pre-emptive presidents. While they do not subscribe to the dominant regime, they are forced to be more pragmatic than dogmatic in order to successfully navigate the political currents. If they happen to be at the White House at the right time– that is, at the time when the dominant regime is falling apart– they become reconstructive presidents, creating a new political order that would affect a generation, or more.
In the last one hundred years, for example, the United States has seen two dominant regimes created by two reconstructive presidents. The Great Depression enabled President Roosevelt to create the Democratic regime on the basis of his New Deal ideology. Affiliated presidents in this era included Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson, who tried to reinforce the Roosevelt regime with his Great Society policies. The pre-emptive presidents, on the other hand, were Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. The disjunctive president, Jimmy Carter, presided over the collapse of this Democratic regime that enabled President Reagan to create a new, conservative order. In the Reagan era, George H.W. Bush was obviously an affiliated president, while Bill Clinton was a pre-emptive one.
If we see American politics through this prism, then the Republican victory in congressional elections, the filibusterism of Speaker Newt Gingrinch, and the raging rise of the Tea Party in the middle of the terms of popular Democratic leaders Clinton and Obama would not be surprising. The Republicans have the dominant base, which is why a Democrat has a higher glass ceiling than a Republican: An unimpressive Republican, like George W. Bush, can win the White House; while Democrats would have to be specially charismatic and highly adept, like Clinton and Obama, to win the presidency. President Clinton had the acumen to survive politically, but he had to be pragmatic enough to negotiate a "third way" with the Republicans, instead of dogmatically pushing his own ideals. This pragmatism also characterized President Obama's first term, where he had to contend with a Republican Congress whose obstructionism, according to historian David Kaiser, resembles the Viet Cong's dau tranh policy. The President's moderation has cost him the support of many of his progressive constituents.
Now that President Obama has won a second term, does he have a shot at being a reconstructive president, or would he, like Clinton, go down as a pre-emptive one? Professor Balikin argues that the odds are stacked against the President's favor, although he sees the upcoming showdown on the expiration of the Bush tax cuts as an opportunity to dismantle the current conservative regime. "First, he should let the United States go over the fiscal cliff," the professor says. "Then he should push filibuster reform."
But there are some encouraging signs for the President. Firstly, in terms of social policy, the legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado, and of same-sex marriage in Maryland and Maine, for example, seem to indicate a growing momentum for progressive social ideology, to which President Obama subscribe. The cultural divide between the religious, all-American right and the liberal left remains wide; but it appears that the dominant intellectual discourse favors progressive social ideas, like secularism, gender rights, and immigration reform, among others. The President, therefore, knew what he was doing when he expressed support for same-sex marriage prior to the election.
Secondly, the outdated Republican ideas on foreign policy, which views the world through a binary of us-versus-them mentality, is also losing some currency. For much of his first term, President Obama, resembling a classic pre-emptive president, merely adopted a moderate version of these conservative ideas. He has, for instance, sent drones to Pakistan, maintained the Guantanamo prison, and left the Patriot Act untouched. But the President's success in pursuing consensus-based multilateralism in Libya, his audacity to stand up to Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, his pivot to East Asia, and his nuanced approach in engaging China all show a reconstructive streak that is generally winning for the United States some respect in the international community. In his second term, President Obama would have more flexibility in terms of pursuing his own brand of foreign policy.
Finally, the Republican Party remains fractured, and its increasing dogmatism is alienating many of its moderate constituents. Its social ideology, driven by the religious right, is not in sync with the times, and its ridiculous suggestions that President Obama is neither American nor Christian puts its credibility in serious danger.
It would take a historian, which I'm not, to know for certain if these are symptoms of the unraveling of the current Reaganite political order. Regardless, the Republican Party would likely continue their dau tranh obstructionism, and a single scandal in the administration could enable the Republicans to play the impeachment card. President Obama has two years to cement his legacy, as he runs the risk of turning into a lame duck in the last two years of his term. During this period, he must successfully navigate the political waters; know when, how, and when not to compromise with the Republicans; and directly appeal to the American people when he has to.


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My nephews went nuts when they opened these. They were smaller than I thought with many small pieces, but easy to assemble and they had a blast playing with them. Pieces can pop off sometimes, since they are like legos, so not great for smaller children. Otherwise, it was a great buy.
My son loves these K'NEX Super Mario sets. They feature his favorite characters from the familiar Nintendo games and are fairly easy for him to build. There were a couple of parts where he needed my assistance, to get the wheels on and moving properly, but other than that he tackled it well on his own. He loves racing them around the house. He enjoys these characters much more than the little yellow faced people in other building sets. At near or under $10, it is worth the money.
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Tolkien's Orcs and Neanderthals
For some reason, i'm really struck by the similarities between JRR Tolkien's Orcs of the LOTR books and his other tales, and the Neanderthals as reconstructed by Danny Vendramini, in his book 'Them + Us' and in the Video posted by 'Cimmerian' in the 'Science, Technology, and Race' section of Stormfront.
Definately check it out, 'Middle-Earth' fans, and you'll see what I mean.
Was Tolkien on to something about our past as a Race and the history of the Planet Earth?
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I suspect that the Lord of the Rings is a lot closer to the history of our race then many people suspect.
I don't have time to formulate a full response right now as I have to
leave for work, but I'll try to get my thoughts in order.
I think your idea is certainly on the right path though
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And now we know that there were all kinds of 'human' populations we modern types shared the planet with for thousands of years, including the 'Homo Floriensis', or 'hobbit'....My goodness, Tolkien would be amused and suprised....Or would he?
One thing though. Tolkien was a devout and sincere Roman Catholic, his oldest son becoming a Catholic priest. Considering the discrepancies between the fictional histories and the biblical account (but also taking into consideration that the 'Silmarilion' and other tales of his are 'Elvish Mythology'), perhaps he found ways to reconcile the accounts, as with his 'Valian Year' being 9.5 Solar years...
Maybe too, the Annunaki of Gardner and Sitchin really are the Elves of Tolkien, and there's another side to the story-Tolkien telling and running with the 'Elvish Version', if you will....A romanticized and softened version of one side of a long conflict, with the winners as usual writting what records that remain-myths, legends, and vague historical accounts, and dreams steming from long-lost racial memories. If Tolkien had some kind of real-life "Red Book of Westermark' to work from, it would've been all too easy to pick the side of the ancient narrator, especially if the other side was uncomfortably close to Danny Vendramini's Neanderthal 'Apex Predator'.
I mentioned Tolkien's fictional but very bizzare story; the 'Notion Club Papers', but as some may not know what i'm talking about, here is the Wikipedia article on it;
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The Notion Club Papers is the title of an abandoned novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, written during 1945 and published posthumously in Sauron Defeated, the 9th volume of The History of Middle-earth. It is a space/time/dream travel story, written at the same time as The Lord of the Rings was being developed. The story itself revolves around the meetings of an Oxford arts discussion group called the Notion Club, a fictionalization of (and a play on words on the name of) Tolkien's own such club, The Inklings.
During these meetings, Alwin Arundel Lowdham discusses his lucid dreams about Númenor; through these dreams, he "discovers" much about the Númenor story and the languages of Middle-earth (notably Quenya, Sindarin, and Adûnaic — the last very interesting since it is the sole source of most of the material on Adûnaic). While not finished, at the end of the given story it becomes clear Lowdham himself is a reincarnation of sorts of Elendil. (Alwin is a modernization of the name Ælfwine, Old English for Elf-friend, or Elendil in Quenya.) Other members of the Club also mention their vivid dreams of other times and places.
Tolkien not only created fictional meetings for these papers but also created a fictional history for the manuscript of the papers. According to the papers, the meetings occurred in the 1980s; they even mention events that occurred in the 1970s and 1980s. About one-quarter of the papers were found among sacks of waste paper in 2002 at Oxford by a Mr. Green. Mr. Green published a first edition containing excerpts from these papers, indicating that they were written during the 1980s by one of the participants. Two scholars read the first edition, asked to examine the manuscripts, and then submitted a full report. The "Notes to the Second Edition" mentions the contradictory evidence in dating the manuscripts, and an alternative date is presented: they may have been written in the 1940s.
These papers, which make a number of comments on Lewis' Space Trilogy, remind one of C. S. Lewis' commentary to Tolkien's poem The Lay of Leithian, in which Lewis created a fictional history of scholarship of the poem and even referred to other manuscript tradition to recommend changes to the poem.
The Notion Club Papers may be seen as an attempt to re-write The Lost Road, published and discussed in The Lost Road and Other Writings, as being another attempt to tie the Númenórean legend in with a more modern tale. There is, however, no direct connection between the modern settings of the two stories within the fictional frame.
Jane Stanford links 'The Notion Club Papers' to 'The Johnson Club Papers' in her biography of John O'Connor Power, 'That Irishman'. The two books have a similar title page. The Johnson Club was a 'Public House School' and met in taverns like the Inklings. The purpose was 'Fellowship and free Exchange of Mind.' The two clubs presented papers 'which were read before the members and discussed'. Samuel Johnson, like Tolkien, had a strong connection with Pembroke College, Oxford. Stanley Unwin, Tolkien's publisher, was a nephew of Fisher Unwin, the founding member of The Johnson Club.[1]
According to Christopher Tolkien, had his father continued The Notion Club Papers, he would have linked the real world of Alwin Lowdham with his eponymous ancestor Ælfwine of England (who compiled the Lost Tales) and with Atlantis. One of the members of the Notion Club, one Michael George Ramer, combines lucid dreams with time-travel and experiences the tsunami that sank Númenor. He can't tell if its history, or fantasy, or something in between.
The Notion Club Papers mentions a great storm occurring during 1987 in England, on 12 June. This can be seen as an odd coincidence, since the actual Great Storm of 1987 occurred in October of that year.
[edit] References1.^ Stanford, Jane, 'That Irishman The Life and Times of John O'Connor Power', Part Three, pp. 115, 117-118. ISBN 978-1-84588- -698-1
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The Druedain are a Mannish race in the Tolkien Middle Earth stories, that are clearly modeled on the Neanderthal, and also may have had a common origin with the Orcs-the Orcs then would be a kind of Man, not Corrupted Elf, at least some of them. Here is a gentleman's article about the Druedain and the Orcs and the Watchers;
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Not long ago, I was rereading _Unfinished Tales_ and was amazed to
find the following passage in the chapter on the Druedain (right
before the story "The Faithful Stone"), after a discussion of that
people's uncanny ability to remain absolutely motionless for days at a
But they could also use this stillness when on guard; and then they
would sit or stand, hidden in shadow, and though their eyes might
seem closed or staring with a blank gaze nothing passed or came
near that was not marked and remembered. So intense was their
unseen vigilance that it could be felt as a hostile menace by
intruders, who retreated in fear before any warning was given; but
if any evil thing passed on, then they would utter as a signal a
shrill whistle, painful to endure close at hand and heard far off.
The service of the Druedain as guards was much esteemed by the Folk
of Haleth in times of peril; and if such guards were not to be had
they would have figures carved in their likeness to set near their
houses, believing that (being made by the Druedain themselves for
the purpose) they would hold some of the menace of the living men.
This made me realize two things. First, that my habit of writing
sentences that are excessively long and involved must have its root in
Tolkien. More importantly, however, this passage invoked another
reference in my mind:
But just as he was about to pass under its great arch he felt a
shock: as if he had run into some web like Shelob's, only
invisible. He could see no obstacle, but something too strong for
his will to overcome barred the way. He looked about, and then
within the shadow of the gate he saw the Two Watchers.
[Snip description, which seems very un-Dru^glike.] They seemed
to be carved out of huge blocks of stone, immovable, and yet they
were aware: some dreadful spirit of evil vigilance abode in them.
They knew an enemy. Visible or invisible none could pass
unheeded. They would forbid his entry, or his escape.
[Snip Sam's use of the phial of Galadriel.] He sprang past them;
but even as he did so, thrusting the phial back into his bosom, he
was aware, as plainly as if a bar of steel had snapped to behind
him, that their vigilance was renewed. And from those evil heads
there came a high shrill cry that echoed in the towering walls
before him.
A long quote, but the two descriptions seem remarkably similar to me.
(Why I didn't notice this until my third or fourth time through that
chapter of UT I don't know.) Now, it seems clear that no Druadan
would have made a "watchstone" in such an evil form, or one that hated
good and gave warning when it passed. However, the connection is so
strong to me that I propose that one of the following almost has to be
0) The Two Watchers were Maiar. Actually, I think this is ridiculous,
but it seems to be the standard catch-all for things people don't
understand about Middle-earth, so I thought I'd include it for
1) The Two Watchers were originally Dru^g-work, which were later
perverted by Sauron or one of his servants to be evil. (It is even
possible, though unlikely, that the Dunedain who built the tower
employed some Druedain to build sleepless doorwards for the
fortress.) Presumably, the statues of the Druedain could be
recarved to have the observed evil appearance, but the corruption
of the "Druedain spirits" that animated them strikes me as far more
2) The Two Watchers were created by evil things using a very
Dru^g-like process, either learned or stolen or inherited from that
This second option (ignoring the 0th one, for good reason) raises some
interesting questions. Tolkien himself commented that the Druedain
ability to transfer "part of their `powers' to their artefacts remind
one in miniature of Sauron's transference of power to the foundations
of Barad-dur and to the Ruling Ring", so we can't assume that _only_
they could ever create such watch-stones. However, the great
similarity in form and function suggests a connection.
We know that the Druedain were among the least prone of the Atani to
evil (and with the most intense hatred of Orcs), so the thought that
they taught their arts to the Enemy seems absurd. On the other hand,
I find it unlikely in the extreme that a spy peering from behind a
bush could observe enough of the `magic' involved in the guardian
stones' creation to make the techniques available to the forces of
This leaves only one possibility to my mind: that some Druedain were
early on captured by Morgoth and bred into the race of Orcs, perhaps
giving rise to an elite class which retained at least some of the
Druedain lore and skills. A footnote in UT says the following:
[In response to claims that the Orcs were bred from Druedain, the
Elves answered:] "Doubtless Morgoth, since he can make no living
thing, bred Orcs from various kinds of Men, but the Druedain must
have escaped his Shadow; for their laughter and the laughter of
Orcs are as different as is the light of Aman from the darkness of
Angband." But some thought, nonetheless, that there had been a
remote kinship, which accounted for their special enmity. Orcs and
Dru^gs each regarded the other as renegades.
I have come to the conclusion that this interpretation of (2) is the
best explanation of the Two Watchers, and I find its implications for
the history of the Orcish race quite interesting. (Who knows how
mingled the Orcs' blood was, and if the Druedain ancestry was
universal or rare...)
At any rate, now that I've created one of my longest and most
quote-heavy original posts ever, I thought I'd open this up for
comments. Is there evidence against (2) that I'm not considering?
Evidence in favor of (1)? (Or, for that matter, in favor of (0), Eru
help us.) Has anyone else made this connection? Am I insane? (Then
again, don't answer that last one.)
Steuard Jensen
And also this;
Drúedain Edit History
Dominions ■Númenor
■Drúadan Forest
■Drúwaith Iaur
Average height Short
Skin color Dark
Hair color Dark
Lifespan Short-lived for Men
Members Ghân-buri-Ghân, Aghan
The Drúedain, also known as Drûgs, Drughu, Rógin, Woses, Wild Men of the Woods and Púkel-men, were a strange race of Men that lived in the Drúadan Forest by the Third Age. They were counted amongst the Edain.
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1 History2 Physical characteristics3 Other names4 Behind the Scenes5 References6 External links
History EditThe Drúedain developed a close relationship between the Folk of Haleth, the Edain that inhabited that forest region. The Drúedain lived among the Second House of Men, the Haladin, in the First Age in the forest of Brethil. There were also a number of the Drúedain present in Númenor, though they had left or died out before the Akallabêth, as had the Púkel-men of Dunharrow. At the end of the Third Age, the Drûg still lived in the Drúadan Forest of the White Mountains (Ered Nimrais), and on the long cape of Andrast west of Gondor. The region north of Andrast was still known as Drúwaith Iaur, or "Old Drûg land".
The Woses of Ghân-buri-Ghân held off Orcs with poisoned arrows and were vital in securing the aid of the Rohirrim in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. After the War of the Ring, King Aragorn II Elessar granted the Drúadan Forest "forever" to them in the Fourth Age, promising that no man would enter their forests without the leave of the Drúedain.
Physical characteristics EditThey were an alien folk to the other Men: a bit like Dwarves in stature and endurance, stumpy, clumsy-limbed (with short, thick legs, and fat, "gnarled" arms), had broad chests, fat bellies, and heavy buttocks. According to the Elves and other Men, they had "unlovely faces": wide, flat, and expressionless with deep-set black eyes that glowed red when angered. They had "horny" brows, flat noses, wide mouths, and sparse, lanky hair. They had no hair lower than the eyebrows, except for a few men who had a tail of black hair on the chin. They were short lived and had a deep hatred of orcs. Their characteristics may have originated in the First Age. People who didn't know them very well may have thought that Morgoth may have captured some men as they did with the elves and bred orcs from their stock leading to the conclusion that the Drúedain could have possibly been Men that escaped, but were more deformed but not very orc-like. Evidence for this is that both they and Orcs consider each other renegades. They were known to have certain magical powers and to be still in meditation for long periods of time.
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Orcs on the other hand were created by Morgoth. Broken, twisted, tortured elves, "A ruined race" as a mockery of Illuvitar's elves. And of course as an endless supply of battle fodder.
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Some of the forensic reconstructions of Neanderthals look very "missing-linkish" if you know what I mean. Much more like apes. But some, like these, look quite human, albeit a bit rougher and more "rustic."
I wonder how, umm... lonesome a caveman would have to be to mate with some of the other examples of Neanderthal - If there was any miscegenation, they probably looked more like these. Easy to view them just a diferent people.
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Hobbits- 'Homo Floriensis'
Elves-hard to say
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Not so sure if Bilbo or Frodo would appreciate the analogy...
Homo Floresiensis wasn't exactly Human, but quite ape-like. They seemed fairly intelligent and did make and use tools, they hunted and gathered, but would not exactly qualify to be "ring bearers." Ultimately I feel they were more ape than human.
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Or maybe Smeagol/Gollum really didn't change all that much. and is more representative of the 'Rat-Land of the Shire' as the 'Mouth of Sauron' called it, lol......
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By Davide Castelvecchi, 14:34 PM September 24, 2008
Physicists have made the first "movie" of a microwave pulse transitioning from the quantum-physics world to the classical-physics world.
Reporting in the Sept. 25 Nature, the researchers say that their method may help in understanding at what point in nature quantum physics ends and classical physics begins. It could also shed light on how to keep information inside future computers that would take advantage of quantum physics.
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Chapter 14
Having turned Dunbar and his protective league over to Hutchinson, the general
manager, Clayton had put him out of his mind. But during the week after
Christmas he reached the office early one morning to find that keen and rather
shabby gentleman already there, waiting.
Not precisely waiting, for he was standing by one of the windows, well back from
it, and inspecting the mill yard with sharp, darting glances.
"Hello, Dunbar," said Clayton, and proceeded to shed his fur-lined coat. Dunbar
turned and surveyed him with the grudging admiration of the undersized man for
the tall one.
"Cold morning," he said, coming forward. "Not that I suppose you know it." He
glanced at the coat.
"I thought Hutchinson said that you'd gone away."
"Been to Washington. I brought something back that will interest you."
>From inside his coat he produced a small leather case, and took from it a
number of photographs.
"I rather gathered, Mr. Spencer," he said dryly, "when I was here last that you
thought me an alarmist. I don't know that I blame you. We always think the other
fellow may get it, but that we are safe. You might glance at those photographs."
He spread them out on the desk. Beyond the windows the mill roared on; men
shouted, the locomotive whistled, a long file of laborers with wheelbarrows went
by. And from a new building going up came the hammering of the riveting-
machines, so like the rapid explosions of machine guns.
"Interesting, aren't they?" queried Dunbar. "This is a clock-bomb with a strap for
carrying it under a coat. That's a lump of coal - only it isn't. It's got enough
explosive inside to blow up a battleship. It's meant for that, primarily. That's fire-
confetti - damnable stuff - understand it's what burned up most of Belgium. And
that's a fountain-pen. What do you think of that? Use one yourself, don't you?
Don't leave it lying around. That's all"
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admiration in his voice. "Here's a cut of the mechanism. You sit down, dip your
pen, and commence to write. There's the striking pin, or whatever they call it. It
hits here, and - good night!"
"Do you mean to say they're using things like that here?"
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see that go into your furnaces, or under your boilers, or wherever you use it, and
wouldn't worry, would you?"
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Mark Robertson - Founder
Mark moved to North Northumberland in 1973 to experience a quality of life and all the joys that come with being a farmer. In fact it was a lot of hard work! He began making ewe's milk cheese as a farm diversification and to satisfy his fundamental belief that we should create wealth from the primary resources around us. The move to the Blagdon estate reflects Mark's ambition to reach more customers and be part of the fine food scene that was developing in Newcastle. He now enjoys the culture and buzz of living in Newcastle and is a keen participant of both types of yoga; Hatha and Iyengar.
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My favourite cheese at this time of year is Reiver with its robust aroma of autumn leaves. Reiver is a mould-ripened hard cow's cheese with a complexity of flavours that develop and last on your palate.
Jackie Riley - Managing Director
Jackie joined Northumberland Cheese in 2003 having previously worked for the Real Soup Company. She was quickly thrown in at the deep end and shown how to make cheese by Mark himself. As our new Managing Director as of January 2014, Jackie has ambitious plans for the future of Northumberland Cheese Company, so watch this space!
Her busy schedule managing the company does not faze Jackie, who strives for excellence and tackles any challenge head on. At the weekends, Jackie can be found out and about exploring the countryside with her little monster, Joe and her big monster, Peter.
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My favourite cheese is Brinkburn. It is mellow and nutty with flavours of Brazil nuts and coconut, delicious!
Martin - Production Manager
Martin joined us in 2004 after 24 years as a chef for the Royal Navy. His passion for making cheese has stemed from his belief in going back to basics and producing local food by hand. You can find Martin tending to the cheese vats; molding, monitoring and testing the cheese in the production stage to ensure that each batch is as perfect as the last. He is also our chief experimentor and enjoys testing recipes for new and innovative cheeses e.g. Blagdon Blue which he developed in 2010. After his early mornings in the dairy it is surprising that Martin has enough energy to spend time with his dog Forrest and his 3 favourite girls; Trisha, Sophie and Amy.
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Charlie - Sales & Marketing Manager
Charlie joined Northumberland Cheese Company in February 2015, and busies herself with sales and marketing. An absolute chatterbox in the office, it's amazing that she gets any work done, but she prides herself on account management and is the voice behind the quirky quips on Twitter. Just keep out of the way of her if you see her behind the wheel of the van: she's already crashed it once.
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Ann - Cheese Loft Café
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Northumberlandia… It's something a bit different!
Carole - Cheese Loft Café
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Basketball has always played a big role in the life of television producer Jenny Tosi. A mother of three, and married to an amateur basketball coach, Tosi has spent hours sitting on the sidelines observing her family at play.
While the games proved interesting enough, over the years she has become an increasingly keen observer of the dynamics between those involved. Her impressions have provided a rich mine of material for a 26-part television series she and fellow producer and friend Ann Darrouzet have created around the idea of a basketball team of youthful outsiders and misfits.
Intended for the after-school market of children aged up to about 10 years, Holly's Heroes, takes its viewers to a small coastal town in which the sole basketball team, the Rams, features the most popular and powerful kids in town.
Aggressively coached by the school deputy headmaster Alan Peterson (David Roberts), the team is as socially dominant as it is unattainable.
New kid in town Holly McKenzie (Dominique Crawford) is an outsider in every sense of the word. Of Maori heritage, her family has moved to the area and in doing so interrupted her promising basketball future in New Zealand. Rejected by the Rams, she rallies the town misfits into a team and so creates a rival social group.
Basketball is central but Tosi was careful to focus the storylines on relationships. "A lot of the time in children's television it is action and plot-driven, we wanted to create something that was relationship based - about friendships and about getting along with people. Basketball seemed to be a perfect opportunity to be able to do that," she says.
Children and parents have many different reasons for getting involved in a team sport. Some parents want their children to have a good time and get some exercise; others are more focused on winning. The latter is represented in the series in coach Peterson.
Beautifully played by David Roberts, he is the dark force standing between Holly and success. Forever attempting to thwart her team, he represents the generation gap, the single-minded coach and the pushy parent. His son is the Rams' best player - a truth that leads to tension in the father-son relationship.
"It was a conscious decision to make a representation that there are people whose focus is very much about winning and about being the best. It's not to say that that's a bad thing but to point out there are other ways of doing things," Tosi says.
As the relationship implodes, sympathies are very much with the son. Tosi says this is designed to show that young people can stand up for themselves against an adult. "It's a nice story to be able to show kids that things don't always have to be the way that they seem; they have a choice and they can have the opportunity to think about things."
An Australia-New Zealand co-production, the Kiwi element manifests in the central character, Holly. It was always intended the lead be played by a New Zealander but the fact Dominique Crawford was of Maori heritage came as a happy bonus. As the best actor in the auditions, Crawford was an obvious choice, says Tosi. Her ethnicity enabled additional culturally based storylines to be written into the show.
While much of the action is filmed on location at Phillip Island, at one point Holly's team travels to New Zealand to play in the Pan Pacific championships. There she introduces them to Maori customs and traditions. "It was a lovely opportunity to weave the wider world into the episodic storyline," Tosi says.
Legendary NBA basketballer Michael Jordan is frequently mentioned throughout the show - he is the idol of one of the male characters, who wears Jordan's No. 23 in homage - and Tosi says hoops needed to be jumped through in order to get permission. Eventually the right person was found and the star's permission granted.
It proved almost as difficult for local star Andrew Gaze to find time in his pre-Olympics schedule to drop in for a cameo appearance. Tosi is full of praise for the athlete, saying that, while incredibly busy, he was determined to fit in the production and a delight to work with on the day. He bobs up in episode seven, which is due to screen this month.
Featuring basketball, as opposed to a more local sport such as football, was perhaps a savvy marketing technique - giving the show a hook that will make it attractive to both the large number of Australians who play the sport as well as the wider world.
Tosi says that, while she has hopes for the European market, it is incredibly difficult to sell Australian programs into the US and Canada. Talking about the power of these markets, she touches on why she believes it is vital Australians continue to be financially assisted in translating our own stories onto film and television.
"It's just so important for Australian children to grow up with a sense of their own identity. Who wants their kids to be growing up speaking and behaving like they do on some of those overseas shows? It's not who we are and what we're about. Keeping people's identity is what makes the world an interesting place."
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We're always on the lookout for unusual economic indicators. So Jeane Nelson of Monticello got me thinking when she wrote in to tell us that she and her husband were planning to get rid of their trash pickup, in part, to save money in this economy.
Made sense to me. My in-laws, bless them, are in their late 70s/early 80s. With frugal natures born in the Great Depression, they produce so little garbage they can easily pass a bag to a visiting child to throw in their pail.
But could it be a trend in this economy? Do we dispose of less garbage in a recession?
Nelson, who's part of our Public Insight Network, wrote that she and husband are down to a trash bag a week, a quarter of what they'd been throwing out. Part of the drop was because they're empty-nesters again. Nelson, 53, added:
We've decided we can save $30 monthly by canceling our garbage service. We noticed we can recycle almost everything we have been putting in the garbage, and can throw one bag of garbage a week away at my husband's place of employment. Sorry, garbage man.
I haven't taken notice of any other people's recycling habits. But I believe people in my age group are keenly aware of what we are doing to the environment and are very happy it is getting the presidents attention.
We should compost, but don't. Yet! We talked about maybe starting a neighborhood compost pile, but would need to educate ourselves better on that…Our garbage now is mostly things that go "bad" in the fridge, or things like egg shells, veggie scraps, also wrappings, like bread bags.
Composting is a great idea. MPR News Reporter Stephanie Hemphill did a terrific story in February on food composting efforts in Minnesota.
I'm trying to scrounge up some household waste data in Minnesota to see if there are any trends here tied to the recession. I'll definitely post on it once I get data.
But, coincidentally, National Public Radio did a piece a couple weeks ago with facts and perspective showing, yes, the amount of stuff we throw out drops dramatically in bad economic times.
Some of it has to do with us buying a lot less stuff because it's a recession and we don't have the money to buy stuff. Some of it has to do with making due with the stuff we have. Overall, we are throwing away a lot less stuff than in the go-go economy days.
Never thought I'd write this but: I'd love to hear from folks about their garbage use!
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TORONTO - CANADA could lose more than 580,000 jobs within five years if Detroit's Big Three automakers go out of business, according to a Ontario government commissioned report.
The review, prepared for Ontario's Ministry of Economic Development and released on Tuesday, warns that the collapse of General Motors Corp, Ford Motor Co and Chrysler LLC would send lasting shock waves through the economy.
If auto output by US-based manufacturers in Canada were cut in half, at least 157,400 jobs would be lost right away, 141,000 of them in Ontario.
By 2014, job losses would rise to 296,000 nationally, including 269,000 in Ontario.
If production were to cease completely, 323,000 jobs would be lost immediately in Canada, including 281,800 in this province, rising to 582,000 nationally and 517,000 in Ontario by 2014.
The Ontario Manufacturing Council, a provincial government panel, commissioned the 11-page report, which was prepared by the Center for Spatial Economics.
The report paints a gloomy picture if the provincial government and Ottawa and Washington do not bail out the US automakers.
Ontario Economic Development Minister Michael Bryant said on Tuesday a proposed $3.4 billion Canadian (S$4.09 billion) rescue package is needed to avoid a 'catastrophic' chain of events.
Mr Bryant said Canada 'is better off providing life support to GM and Chrysler, because the demise of auto in Canada is the economic equivalent of a nuclear freeze with catastrophic effects that would knock us into a deep recession'.
Canadian Federal Industry Minister Tony Clement said last week that Ottawa and Ontario will provide the equivalent of 20 per cent of whatever emergency aid the Bush administration gives to the companies - a figure proportional to the number of vehicles produced in Canada. -- AP


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2010: Moved from wide receiver to running back during preseason camp ... played in all 13 games but made only seven starts with all but three coming in as the second running back in two-back sets ... despite the late move to the position and reserve status, earned second-team all-Southern Conference recognition at RB from the league's coaches and media ... led all ASU running backs with 115 carries for 671 yards, a 5.8-yards-per-rush average and six touchdowns, all of which ranked second on the team behind only All-America quarterback DeAndre Presley ... also ranked fifth on the team with 19 receptions for 218 yards and a score ... returned 32 kickoffs for 733 yards (22.9 avg. - good for third in the SoCon) and 12 punts for 72 yards (6.0 avg.) ... ranked second in the conference and 29th nationally with 1,694 all-purpose yards (130.3 per game) ... campaign got off to rocky start when he fumbled on his first carry of the season, which set up a Chattanooga touchdown ... wound up rushing just three times for three yards and catching one pass for eight yards in the Mountaineers' 42-41 come-from-behind season-opening win at UTC ... after a somewhat pedestrian 73-yard effort in the home opener versus Jacksonville, exploded for 149 yards on just eight carries (18.6 ypr), including a 52-yard touchown run in a rout over North Carolina Central ... amassed 214 all-purpose yards, including 59 on eight rushes and 79 on three receptions, in win over The Citadel ... took a short pass from Presley and galloped 73 yards for Presley's school-record-tying fifth touchdown pass of the game in the rout over The Citadel ... despite battling an abdominal injury throughout, torched Western Carolina for 80 yards and a score on nine carries ... was a workhorse the following week against Furman, rushing an ASU season-high 24 times for 108 yards and a career-best three touchdowns in a 37-26 victory ... also caught two passes for 17 yards, returned three kickoffs for 93 yards and two punts for nine yards to total a career-best 227 all-purpose yards in the win over FU ... returned seven kickoffs for 120 yards in regular-season finale at Florida ... rushed 12 times for 80 yards, including a 46-yard touchdown on the third play of the game, and caught two passes for 11 yards in season-ending loss to Villanova.
2009: Saw action in all 14 games, primarily as a backup quarterback, wide receiver and punt returner ... was slated to be ASU's third quarterback going into the season but was the backup behind DeAndre Presley for the opener at East Carolina due to an injury suffered by starter Armanti Edwards during the offseason ... after ASU fell into a 29-7 hole, Cadet made his debut with 5:28 remaining in the third quarter and engineered three-consecutive scoring drives to cut the deficit to 29-24 ... trailing by five points with 1:28 to play, he drove the Mountaineers to midfield but the comeback bid ended when CoCo Hillary couldn't haul in his fourth-down pass with 16 seconds to go ... in just over a quarter of work, he rushed 15 times for 35 yards and a touchdown and completed 7-of-9 passes for 55 yards while nearly pulling off the come-from-behind upset at ECU ... following the season opener, he slid into the No. 2 quarterback spot and backed up Edwards for the rest of the season ... he also retained his role as ASU's primary punt returner (24 ret., 134 yds., 5.6 avg. for the season) and was in for a handful of snaps each week at wide receiver (four rec., 21 yds. for the season) ... despite the limited action, he finished the year as ASU's third-leading rusher (366 yards and three touchdowns on 70 carries - 5.2 avg.) ... came off the bench to rush eight times for 68 yards and a touchdown in win over North Carolina Central ... rushed 11 times for a career-high 131 yards and a touchdown and completed 4-of-7 passes for 64 yards in just a little more than a quarter at quarterback in 52-16 rout over Georgia Southern ... when Edwards was injured late in the first half of SoCon-clinching win at Elon, Cadet ran seven times for 47 yards (also caught an eight-yard pass from Edwards during 27-10 win) ... made his first-career start at QB a week later in regular-season finale versus Western Carolina, running 17 times for 58 yards and completing 8-of-16 passes for a career-best 101 yards ... also had a would-be 75-yard punt-return touchdown called back due to a penalty prior to ASU's first series versus WCU ... saw limited action in three FCS playoff games with no offensive stats ... jump-started ASU's potential game-tying drive with a 24-yard kickoff return late in the national semifinal loss at Montana.
Previous Colleges: Attended the University of Toledo in 2007, where he redshirted as a freshman wide receiver ... transferred to Pearl River C.C. (Poplarville, Miss.) and played in two games at wide receiver before suffering an ankle injury that caused him to miss the rest of the season ... caught two passes for 21 yards in his only action at Pearl River ... coached by Tim Hatten.
High School: Rated as a three-star recruit and the nation's No. 19 dual-threat quarterback by Rivals.com coming out of Miami Central H.S. in 2007 ... threw for 1,391 yards and 13 touchdowns and ran for more than 450 yards and two scores as a senior at Miami Central ... also served as team's punter and place kicker as a prep ... named first-team all-Dade County by the Miami Herald following senior campaign ... helped lead squad to an 11-2 record and third round of Florida's 6-A state playoffs as a senior in 2006, with only two losses coming at the hands of eventual state champion Miami Northwestern ... coach by Manny Wright.
Personal: Full name is Travaris Terrell Cadet ... born Feb. 1, 1989 (22 years old) ... son of Alicia Davis ... majoring in criminal justice.
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Original post made by Diana, another community, on Mar 6, 2007
Maybe I've been lucky in terms of the people I hang around with, but as a person who has chosen not to have kids, I've not encountered any of the negative reactions to my decision that some people interviewed for the story have had. One woman without kids was quoted in the article as saying there's "a public-policy and religious and cultural stigma" in choosing not to procreate. Anybody out there have relevant opinions about this issue? Or experiences? Am I just oblivious to a real societal disdain for my choice, or were the people in the article paranoid?
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a resident of Menlo Park: The Willows
on Mar 6, 2007 at 5:12 pm
I am a mom of three and I strongly believe anyone's choice should be respected. There is nothing wrong in deciding to live a more adult life,a life that doesn't involve the word MOM (believe me, I myself think of the days I had no kids with VERY fond memories!!) .
Having kids is a big, big choice and a life time commitment to a different style of living. I applaude the maturity of those who decide it is not for them.
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Mar 7, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Being a mother is a privilege and a joy and a terrifyingly enormous responsibility. I wouldn't trade it, but I'm not so insecure that I feel threatened by people who choose not to reproduce.
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on Apr 8, 2007 at 10:18 am
I have two teenagers and wonder every day what , "What was I thinking?"
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Nick that sucks. Sorry to hear about your bad week. I, like you, would be like this guy -->
What was the intial pull over for by the a**hole cop?
Thanks Ryan
The intial pull-over was because 4 cars failed to stop for a pedestrian standing next to a crosswalk!! The cop was 2 cars behind me and there was 1 car in front of me, for a total of 4 of us. As soon as the 4th car went through, he proceeded to go around all of us and stop in front of the 1st car and told us all to pull over. There is a sign next to each crosswalk that says "State Law - Must yield to pedestrains in crosswalk". But does that mean if they are just standing on the side?!? I mean if they were in the middle, of course I'm gonna stop! grrr
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Join us for the PLAY Public Opening on Saturday, May 30 from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. This family friendly event is FREE and open to the public. The day will include special performances by artists Stacey Barelos, Steve Tamayo, and Jason Webb. To register click on the "Register Now" button above.
KANEKO Members are invited to a MEMBER FIRST LOOK event, May 29 from 6 – 9 p.m. This is an opportunity for KANEKO Members to experience the PLAY exhibitions before the general public. Register HERE, or click HERE to learn more about KANEKO Memberships.
"Play is how we are made, how we develop and adjust to change. It can foster innovation and… allows us to express our joy and connect most deeply with the best in ourselves, and in others."
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Research proves that play is vital in providing the mental, social, and physical foundations necessary for success and happiness. In early childhood, play is how relationships are formed, coordination is learned, and creativity is tapped. Play is just as important throughout life, as it is at the heart of problem solving, social interactions, and creativity.
This summer, KANEKO will explore the power of play in our everyday world. The series will examine how, whether at home or at work, alone or with others, play has a role in shaping a happier, more fulfilling life. KANEKO will be transformed into a veritable PLAYground, offering insight into the science and philosophy of play, while providing ample opportunities for visitors to engage in meaningful play themselves.
PLAY will use Dr. Stuart Brown's philosophy and research as a foundation for the dialogue on the importance of play and how it manifests in a variety of forms. KANEKO seeks to further that conversation with hands-on examples of how play can be nurtured, infused, and enhanced in everyday life – in the home, classroom, office, and community.
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The PM should tell David Flint how to behave correctly. But of course he won't do that, writes Lindsay Tanner.
Decent civil governance in Australia depends on the independence, integrity and impartiality of our courts, public service and regulators. Under the Howard Government we have witnessed the steady decline of these values in our public institutions, to the detriment of good government. The person who best personifies this decline is Professor David Flint, chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Authority.
On Media Watch this week it was revealed that Flint had written a letter on ABA letterhead to the prominent broadcaster Alan Jones praising him for his views and contribution to the national debate. Flint's ABA would later judge Jones in two cash-for-comment inquiries.
Just recently, Flint cleared Jones of breaching cash-for-comment rules in regard to Telstra's $1.2 million promotional arrangement with Jones's Macquarie radio network. While this ruling may well have been correct, its validity is now called into question by Flint's completely inappropriate correspondence with Jones.
It has also been revealed that Flint intervened to overrule a more critical ABA draft report into this very matter.
According to Flint, his contact with Jones is "not at all unusual".
Flint is no stranger to political controversy. In 1999 he allowed himself to be interviewed by John Laws at the very time he was investigating Laws. More recently, Flint published a book titled Twilight of the Elites in which he was supportive of the Howard Government and the war in Iraq.
In August last year in The Canberra Times, Flint suggested that the ABC no longer had the confidence of all Australians. After the publication of these views Flint made the unusual move of involving himself personally in the ABA's investigation into former communications minister Richard Alston's complaints of bias against the ABC's coverage of the war in Iraq.
Given Flint's support for the Government and the Iraq war, and his criticism of the ABC, no one will take the findings of this report seriously while he remains at the ABA.
In another outrageous incident, Flint late last year weighed in on the side of the advertisers and commercial networks, and against some nutritionists, in regard to the debate surrounding the advertising of junk food during children's television programming.
Delivering an address in November to the national advertiser's annual forum, Flint said that "it is not the role of legislators to forbid everything that people do legally but which may not be good for them".
Yet again Flint crossed the line between the role of the political activist and public servant. It is not for Flint to ponder on whether restrictions on children's food advertising are appropriate; it is for Flint to enforce any action the Parliament may deem necessary in that area.
Worse still, Flint put these views in an ABA press release titled "The importance of defending freedom of commercial speech". In the release Flint said, "obesity is primarily a matter for the individuals concerned and in the case of children for them and above all their parents".
The most extraordinary thing about Flint's escapades is the Howard Government's refusal to censure him.
John Howard could easily ring his former fellow law school student and call on him to cease being a partisan political player and get on with the job of being an independent regulator. But as can be seen from the Howard Government's disregard for its own Ministerial Code of Conduct, basic standards of governance mean nothing to this Prime Minister.
Allegations that Alan Jones did a deal with Howard in 2000 to ensure Flint's reappointment to the ABA simply underline the case for Flint to go. It is vital that these claims, which go to the very heart of the integrity of our system of government, are subject to a genuinely independent inquiry. In the face of the evasive reaction from the Prime Minister, it is crucial that these claims are examined and resolved.
Flint cannot be the independent umpire of our broadcasting sector while being a partisan political player. He cannot have it both ways.
Under Flint, the ABA has become a widely discredited institution dogged by allegations of political bias. Individuals subject to ABA investigations can no longer have complete confidence that they will be treated fairly by an impartial adjudicator.
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|started reading battle vixens and Ryomou Shimei is such a cool character! cosplay plan!
....i dont know where to start ive got an idea how the apron is made but i havent a clue what the dress would be like? does anyone know where i could find a similar pattern?
this costume is on hold cos of time and money issues :D
wow cant wait to see this, im a big fan, its a shame hardly no one does kanu unchou as shes my fav character
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Sheer grit saved the All Blacks. A dash of aura, a Sydney shower-box and the Wallabies' inability to clinch the deal helped as well.
Stalemates deliver all sorts of unsatisfied emotions when rising anticipation is met by erratic production.
It's a rugby equation the All Blacks have felt 19 times in their history with Saturday's impasse the seventh occasion they have finished in a deadlock with the Wallabies.
That standoff continued the All Blacks' unbeaten sequence and while they dodged defeat in Sydney this was a lost opportunity to reinstate their case and remind the Wallabies about the world order of rugby.
Five of the pack returned with a get-square attitude which had been simmering for a fortnight after they tripped in the Super Rugby final. This was the stage for that group to apply an experienced blowtorch to their rookie rivals and when the rain came, it was more of an invitation.
The All Blacks had a set-piece edge but could not persuade referee Jaco Peyper to punish the Wallaby scrum. With that escape complete, the Wallabies dominated the break-downs and bent and broke the All Blacks' defensive line.
How they failed to convert that pressure in a second half onslaught said everything about their lack of precision in the conditions and the All Blacks' scramble defence and belligerence.
They gutted it out. They lasted for 20 minutes with Wyatt Crockett then Beauden Barrett in the sinbin and held on through sheer bloody mindedness.
They were out of sorts spluttering like a dodgy four-stroke lawn mower but doggedly struggling to get the job done.
Replacement Ryan Crotty and Julian Savea double-teamed Pat McCabe out at the corner, Dane Coles danced out of trouble, Savea stayed on his feet to stem another raid and Richie McCaw reeled in Israel Folau close to the line as the saves kept coming.
Two years ago the All Blacks were lacklustre in an 18-all Bledisloe Cup draw in Brisbane and were condemned by coach Steve Hansen for not preparing well enough.
This time they gave much more. However, they were up against a Wallaby side able to bring more power to their game to raise the side's influence and force mistakes.
Crockett and Barrett infringed and were marched - several other colleagues were marginal.
Once the All Blacks were stunted up front, the pace of the Wallaby defensive line and conditions squeezed the width out of their attack.
When do you remember No8 Kieran Read being so anonymous on attack? His menace was eliminated because the ball rarely got to him past the midfield logjams. You wondered whether the game would have changed if he and others had tried to crack some space closer to the rucks but 35 per cent possession was not a great deal for the All Blacks to work with.
What-ifs don't matter now. The winning sequence has been halted and the glare of anticipation will rise even more ahead of Eden Park.
The ground has been a shrine to winning All Black rugby for two decades. It will draw a full congregation on Saturday with increasing numbers this time asking questions instead of blindly following the faith.


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