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I would like to hear what some of your babies weigh and how tall they are. :) I took my son to his 18 month checkup today. And the DR told me basically my son was obese. He is 33 inches tall and 37 pounds. I understand 37 pounds i pretty chuncky but he has always been over the charts. I just don't understand how he is obese. I know he is bigger than most children his age but he has been that way since birth!
He also said that he should know about 25-50 words by now. Which honestly I don't count his words... BUT I do know he says A LOT and knows a lot of words from momma, dada, papa, nana, night night, tool, cal, dog, cow, horse, etc. And he understand what you tell him. So basically I told him he says many words. Well, my son started pointing at the doctor "tools" and saying "toooolll" (in his little voice, not 100% understandable for everyone) he said and he needs to say it where I can understand it not just mommy...? So, my kid should be a fluent speaker at 1 1/2?? I am pregnant and veryyy upset with this. Don't get me wrong I know my kid is chunky but he isn't obese he doesn't even eat that much he nibbles at everything and doesn't eat hardly anything... He said. "he has to eat a lot he wouldn't gain weight if he didn't". Honestly, he doesn't eat that much! I was so Pi#&!! He only gained 3 pounds from 1 yr old. And his old doctor was NEVER concerned with anything.
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Bob Olson was a scientific assistant in the MCS Division from 1988 to 1989. After receiving his B.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1989, he worked for two years as a research assistant at the University of Illinois and one year as a consultant for NeXT Computers at the UofI. He rejoined Argonne in 1991. His early work focused on projects such as the Many Worlds Shared Virtual Reality System, a prototype compiler and runtime system for Fortran M, and development of the Access Grid. More recently, he has become a key member of the MCS Division bioinformatics team, where he has been deeply involved in the engineering of the SEED annotation environment for comparative analysis of genomes.
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Student senate is hosting focus groups to aid decision-making
Student senate has a lot of different ideas that come through their meetings, so to help evaluate all of them, they are hosting focus groups consisting of different students. Connor Schmidt, the vice president of representation for student senate, is leading these focus groups.
"There are only 15 of us, so this idea of making focus groups was a way of getting more opinions in and also making some projects that we are working on known to the public," said Schmidt.
These focus groups act as a sounding board and allow for student senate to hear ideas from other students as well. There are five focus groups. Three groups have eight students and two groups have two students. Each focus group is led by a different cabinet leader and two senators helped out by recording and typing up the responses and ideas that were conveyed during these meetings.
Student senate went to different departments asking for recommendations for students to participate in the focus groups and then emailed the students asking if they were interested in participating. They had hoped to have about six to eight people in a group, but it didn't quite work that way this time around.
"We didn't want it to be a real big commitment because college students are busy. At least for this year, and hopefully next year, they are meeting for an hour twice a semester. It's a super minimal commitment, but it's just a way of checking in," said Schmidt about the meetings.
Each group was given a different idea to discuss due to the short meetings. Some of the ideas that were discussed were the possibility of a 24/7-study area, how career services are used, core curriculum and academic evaluations.
Schmidt had this to say about the academic evaluations: "We wanted to know if they could be better utilized and better written; what are some misconceptions students might have with them, what are some concerns students might have about them."
They also discussed the possibility of having a larger place for learning in big groups or maybe a student union. This would be a place where students could go to hang out and play games in one central place.
There was also talk of having a few days dedicated to socio-economic stereotypes, similar to UnLearn week, but called a socio-economic campaign week.
Schmidt also hopes that other departments will take advantage of these focus groups to get a variety of student opinions from all over campus. He sees it as a great advantage and a fantastic way to get student input.
Schmidt would love to have more students participate in these focus groups and hopes that anyone who is willing to take part will contact him or stop by the student senate office.


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My name is Lisa Budd, and I am researching my Heim relatives.My gg-grandpa was John (or Johann) Heim.He emigrated to the United States from Prussia.He married Mary Phister.They had a daughter Dora Anna Heim.John was born about 1846 and came to theU.S. about 1865, where he lived in the Brazil area of Indiana, and then moved to Kansas.I found he and his family in the town of Clay City, Clay County, Indiana in the 1880 Census.
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TNR: The NRA's Emperor Has No Clothes
Alec MacGillis
December 21, 2012
For two decades now, the legend of the National Rifle Association has grown in Washington. They were the most feared lobby of all, as influential and professionally run as the AARP or AIPAC but with the literal firepower behind them to enhance the aura of intimidation. They could get just about everything they wanted. Republican candidates came to their conventions to pay annual tribute: "This fine organization is sometimes called a single-issue group. Thats high praise when the single issue is freedom," said Mitt Romney in his speech to the group in April. Meanwhile, even liberal Democrats tip-toed around the group as if it was the big troll hiding under the bridge. In 2010, House Democrats added an explicit NRA carve-out to their failed legislation requiring disclosure of donors to outside groups buying campaign ads.
But this cloak of power was stripped away today at NRA honcho Wayne LaPierre's press conference on the Newtown shootings, revealing the NRA as a lobby with no clothes, or at least nothing but a holster strapped to the ankle (would that count as open carry?). LaPierre's rambling statement on the shootings wasn't really any more more far-out than anything else he's been saying the past few years. ("All of what we know is good and right about America, all of it could be lost if Barack Obama is reelected," he said earlier this year.) But this was the first time many in Washington and across the country had actually focused squarely on him and his organization in a long time, and this newfound focus, combined with the post-Newtown context in which LaPierre was speaking, was enough to make the NRA seem utterly, surreally amateurish and out of touch. You could all but hear the question rising around Washington: We've been letting ourselves be led around by these guys?
It was hard to say what was most tone-deaf about the statement, the first such one that the NRA has ever given after a mass shooting. The call to install armed guards in every American schoolhouse? "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." The call to develop a national database of the mentally ill (while continuing to resist efforts to register and track guns, of course)? The shifting of blame to an entertainment industry that, irresponsible as it may be in its glorification of violence, has hardly less of a hold in countries with vastly lower levels of gun homicides? "Isnt fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?" LaPierre asked. And isn't the gun industry profiting hugely from people who can act on those fantasies to stock up on their own private arsenalsand in fact marketing their products on specifically those grounds, as magical testosterone-enhancers?
Above all, of course, there was the utter absence of any gesture toward the sort of new regulation that could mitigate if not prevent future Newtowns, and that many, many gun owners would be glad to support, whether it's limits on military-style rifles, expanded magazine clips, or closing of the gunshow loophole and other blatant gaps in existing requirements for background checks to make sure guns don't end up in the wrong hands. This was profoundly startling to those of us who have become used to lobbies and special interests adept at playing the game of public relations and tactical compromiseheck, even Wall Street was willing to accept some new restraints on its behavior postfinancial crash.
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2. uhhhh, it's the MIC that doesn't have any clothes
it's more than a bit astonishing the completely hysterical, knee-jerk reaction here against LaPierre's speech today-- when in fact he is totally correct about at least one thing:
we do spend BILLIONS per year on "aid" to arsehole nations like Pakistan... and let's throw in the $2 Trillion congress has thus far wasted on bush's two wars of choice.
Given the Billions of dollars wasted in just the last 11-12 years, I'm supposed to be dumb enough to believe "we can't afford" $80K per year for armed security guards in our schools and universities??
uhhh, no, I'm not that stupid or gullible.


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New York governor seeks buyout of coastline homesPosted on
Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to spend up to $400 million to buy and demolish homes wrecked by Hurricane Sandy and permanently preserve the flood zone land as undeveloped New York coastline.
The idea received generally positive reviews Monday from New Yorkers in some of the storms hardest-hit communities.
Cuomo administration spokesman Rich Azzopardi told the Associated Press that the proposal calls for the state to use a portion of the $51 billion disaster relief package approved by Congress last week for the buyouts. The plan, first reported Monday by The New York Times, was presented to federal officials Friday, the spokesman said.
Judith Rodin is president of The Rockefeller Foundation, and she is one of four people who were appointed to the New York State 2100 Commission to come up with answers about how to protect the state from future storms.
We havent done a lot of the flood plain mapping around the country, Rodin told NPR. Think about it this way: The insurance companies will keep raising the rates and public policy will have to guarantee residents if people cant afford them.
Rodin told the network that communities that opted for smaller sand dunes so as not to obscure their ocean views were dramatically more damaged than those that had opted for larger ones, sacrificing some of the view, but also bringing natural protection from high storm surges.
If approved, the buyout program would offer pre-Sandy full market value for homes in the 100-year flood plain that the storm and related flooding substantially damaged, the AP reported.
State officials have estimated that 1,000 to 1,500 homeowners might apply. Cuomo earlier raised the buyout proposal and other new measures to protect New York Citys underground infrastructure from flooding, which he said has been occurring far more often than once a century.
A spokeswoman for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said buyouts are just one of the options being considered. Others include moving electric and other critical systems to higher ground and increasing protection for coastlines, Lauren Passalacqua said.
U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, a Staten Island Republican who has been supportive in early talks with residents about buyouts, said he supported Cuomos proposal and will back funding for other mitigation programs, such as elevating homes.
Certain neighborhoods, such as Staten Islands Oakwood Beach, are prime candidates for this type of program, the AP reported him saying in a statement.
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Click here for the report by the New York State 2100 Commission.
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The primary cause of deaths on our local streets and highways continues to be drunk driving and the Avoid the 13 DUI Task Force will keep up with their DUI enforcement in Marin County. DUI enforcement campaigns will continue as a result of a recent $170,000 grant awarded by the California Office of Traffic Safety to the San Rafael Police Department. San Rafael Police Department will administer the one year grant for the entire county.
"The Avoid the 13 DUI Campaign is named to send the message that if you don't drink and drive, you will avoid getting arrested by any of the 13 participating law enforcement agencies in our county" said San Rafael's Police Chief Jeff Franzini. "Marin's Avoid DUI Task Force is beginning its eleventh year and San Rafael PD is proud to continue to serve as the lead agency for this important program." San Rafael has spearheaded the effort since it's inception in 2001.
The grant activities will specifically target those who drink too much and get behind the wheel. Officers will be staffing DUI/Driver License Checkpoints, multi-agency DUI Task Force deployments, and local DUI saturation patrols for each partnering. Additionally, funding will target 'worst of the worst' repeat DUI offenders with Warrant/Probation Sweeps and Court Sting Enforcement Operations focusing on DUI offenders leaving court and driving away on suspended licenses after being ordered not to drive by a judge.
"The Avoid DUI Task Forces have been an essential part of the phenomenal reduction in DUI deaths on our roadways in the last five years in California," said Christopher J. Murphy, Director of the Office of Traffic Safety. "Tragically, DUI deaths remain the largest sector, at over 30 percent of traffic fatalities. This grant will help combat that, making San Rafael and Marin a safer place to live and work."
DUI/Driver's License Checkpoints are a key component of the grant, being highly visible, highly publicized events meant to deter impaired driving, not to increase arrests. Research shows that crashes involving alcohol drop by an average of 20 percent when well-publicized checkpoints are conducted often enough. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), checkpoints have provided the most effective documented results of any of the DUI enforcement strategies, while yielding considerable cost savings of $6 for every $1 spent.
Motorist can expect to see special DUI campaigns during the Winter and Summer holiday periods as well as on Halloween, Super Bowl Sunday, St. Patrick's Day, Cinco de Mayo and during local special events with identified DUI Problems. Funding for the grant comes from the California Office of Traffic Safety through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Agencies participating in the Avoid the 13 task force include:
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A State Government department paid $2 million to the financially troubled speed camera operator Poltech after another Government department tried to wind up the company for not paying its taxes, the State Opposition has claimed.
The Department of Justice had paid the money to Poltech International between April and August last year, after the State Revenue Commissioner took court action to have the company declared insolvent.
Court documents produced by shadow attorney-general Andrew McIntosh show that in April 2003 Poltech owed $148,868 in unpaid payroll taxes and the Government applied to have the company wound up.
But over the following months the Department of Justice paid the company $2 million for supplying and installing fixed digital speed cameras on the Geelong Road.
"This is the left hand not telling the right hand what is happening," Mr McIntosh said.
"Any sensible manager would be carrying out due diligence of these sorts of companies. If Treasury is trying to wind up the company for not paying tax, there should be red lights going off everywhere."
The Bracks Government last night denied there had been any communication breakdown. A spokesman said payments to Poltech were suspended after the Department of Justice became aware of the court action.
The payments were resumed, he said, after Poltech had repaid its tax debt and the court action had been dropped.
The claims were revealed yesterday after former auditor-general Ches Baragwanath tabled a scathing report on Government supervision of speed camera contracts.
Mr Baragwanath found the Government had created a "bureaucratic labyrinth" where procedures were not followed.
He said supervision of the contracts was abysmal and even though Victoria Police were aware of the company's financial troubles VicRoads was not informed of the problems before contracts were signed.
The State Government this year revoked 110,590 fines and repaid $12.2 million to motorists after 19 Poltech speed cameras operating on the Western Ring Road were found to be faulty.
Police Minister Andre Haermeyer told State Parliament yesterday that the proper checks had been carried out.
"I'm advised that all the contracts entered into by the Department of Justice with Poltech have been subjected to appropriate probity checks," he said.
But a Government spokesman said another Government department, VicRoads, had not followed the appropriate procedures for managing speed camera contracts and the Government had taken steps to fix the problem.
Two VicRoads employees had been demoted and speed camera contracts were now supervised by a new unit in the Department of Justice, he said.
Opposition transport spokesman Terry Mulder said the demoted VicRoads employees were scapegoats and were not responsible for the fiasco.


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At the IMAGINE fundraiser on Saturday, Feb. 16, our community came out in full force to support three local nonprofits dedicated to children's health, well-being and safety: River Bridge Regional Center, Early Childhood Network, and Cooking Matters.
Local celebrity chef Susie Jimenez provided the delicious menu, The Starletts got everyone dancing, wine and beer were enjoyed, and great deals were grabbed up on the silent auction tables. Numerous caring donors, sponsors, and volunteers contributed to create a fantastic evening for over 300 guests.
IMAGINE raised over $20,000; funds which will go towards supporting healthy, safe, and well-cared-for children.
We wish to sincerely thank our many wonderful volunteers who made this success possible, as well as the following generous individuals and businesses: Land Rover Roaring Fork, Sopris Liquor & Wine, ANB Bank, Bishop Plumbing Heating and Air Conditioning, Costco, El Jebeverage, Epicurious Fine Foods, The Floral Boutique, Rifle Brewing Company, Roaring Fork Liquors, Shamrock Foods, White River Bar & Grill, and of course Susie Jimenez with her catering company Spice It Up.
Within a warm, child-friendly environment, River Bridge provides hope and healing to neglected and abused children and their families through counseling, advocacy and investigation services. Early Childhood Network promotes the availability of quality, affordable early childhood education, and provides childcare information and resources. Cooking Matters connects children in need with nutritious food, and teaches families how to cook healthy and affordable meals.
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AMHERST, MA - Senior Amherst College third baseman Ryan Whitmarsh (Dalton, MA), who led the Jeffs in hitting with a .435 batting average this spring, has been named Second-Team All-New England by the American Baseball Coaches Association.
A First-Team All-NESCAC selection and Amherst's Most Valuable Player Award recipient, Whitmarsh was the NESCAC's second leading hitter on the strength of a school record 28-game hitting streak. He finished the season hitting safely in 33 of the Jeff's 34 games and led Amherst in nearly every offensive statistical category including hits (54), home runs (6), RBIs (27), doubles (14), total bases (88), slugging percentage (.710) and on-base percentage (.493), and was second on the team with 27 runs scored.
Whitmarsh posted 16 multiple hits games, including a four-for-five performance in the Jeffs' playoff clinching win over visiting NESCAC West Division rival Middlebury College on May 5 - the game after the Panthers ended his school-record hitting streak at 28.
Amherst won its last four league games to finish 20-14 overall and 8-4 in conference play, placing second in the NESCAC West Division standings and qualifying for the conference's four-team postseason championship tournament. The Jeffs will lose just four players to graduation and return 23 players when spring practice starts next season.


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Re: Ironman release
I'm still wondering why any exec would want to do battle with GTA 4. Anyone releasing stuff in the same audience category as GTA 4 ought to put their ear to the tracks a bit more. Then again, the extreme dearth of good movies in the last four months, Ironman may score well (people tend to eat when they're starving), but I think there is some disconnect in H-town. Maybe the strikes are rattling the brain stems too much.
While I like some of the comic book movies being end, the trend is a little too strong for my tastes. I would love to see some 70's movies storylines and getting back to the meat. ATTENTION HOLLYWOOD EXECS: where is the meat? (and it's not between your legs)
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'Glee' Babe Naya Rivera Caught Smoking (PHOTOS)
The actress has been showing her naughty side this week — she flashed her tone body in short shorts and a midriff barring top while strolling the street — but we're sort of into it. Still, the dark-haired beauty should probably reconsider her unhealthy habit for the sake of her voice. Girlfriend has to keep those pipes in good shape!
Naya is just the latest Glee star to be seen out and about in NYC as the cast is busy filming their Nationals episode.


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In the hunt for hedge funds profiting from the Greek crisis and the contagion spreading into Spain, Portugal, Greece, Ireland and the euro, the obvious candidate has been ignored.
Mark Hart, based in Fort Worth, Texas, was the first to set up a dedicated fund to bet on problems within the eurozone, at the end of 2007.
His European Divergence Fund, run in partnership with GaveKal, the Hong Kong-based analysts who have a separate joint venture with London's Marshall Wace, has done fabulously well from the crisis thanks to its early bet that the eurozone was unstable.
"The thesis was that European credits should not all be trading as if they were one, because they have divergent economies," says one investor. "On top of that the conditions [for entry] were fudged."
This is what GaveKal said, back in 2007 (pdf), with rather good foresight.
Our biggest problem with the Euro has always been: what will the ECB do when the economies start to diverge? Today, all of the leading indicators of the PIGS countries are going down (and real estate there is really starting to tank), while the leading indicators of Rhineland are still OK (though not great). Interest rates are probably fine for Holland, Belgium, Austria, Finland…, but already far too high for Italy, France and probably Spain…. So what should the ECB do?
The contradictions behind the creation have been papered over in recent years by the fact that liquidity was plentiful, global growth was booming, and governments could increase their spending at will with little price to pay in the market. However, now that this situation is reversing, could we start to see some of the cracks in the European edifice appearing in broad daylight?
Corriente used CDS to bet that the bonds of weaker countries would move away from Germany's, positioning the fund to make big money when the market finally realised that different countries carried different risks – as Greece is demonstrating in spectacular fashion.
As a result, Corriente has made double-digit returns for each of the past three months, and remains up this month even after hopes of a bail-out led Greek bonds to recover some ground, according to my sources. If Greece ends up defaulting, or if a rescue can be counted as a default under the terms of the CDS, the fund will rake in monster profits.
My efforts to get hold of Hart or his colleagues this week were unsuccessful, as he was out travelling and his number two's answerphone was full (maybe rivals wanted tips).
But last time I spoke to him he was keeping his head down, trying to avoid attracting publicity for what will inevitably be a politically-charged decision to try to profit from a crisis in the euro. European politicians are already highly sensitive, with Spanish ministers blaming an international financial and media conspiracy – rather than the state of its economy – for the troubles of its own sovereign debt. I can see why Hart wants to stay out of this debate. At least one other large hedge fund has already decided discretion is the better part of valour and closed out all its bets on eurozone problems to avoid a political backlash.
However, politicians should be listening more carefully to what the speculators say. Hart, together with Kyle Bass at Dallas-based Hayman Capital Partners, spotted the subprime crisis looming and set up a dedicated fund to profit from that, too – raking in very large returns (it made 69% in a month when the subprime crisis first hit, and had a bumper year, making more than 500%). Politicians and regulators should stop attacking the hedge funds, and treat their trades as flashing red danger signs.


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Darlington residents concerned about drainage problems
Several residents from County Road 157, located off Darlington Road, attended the Ligonier Township Municipal Authority meeting to voice concerns about a water drainage issue caused by the sewer lines that were installed in May.
Jim Roskosh, who said he came in support of his neighbors, spoke of how the lack of proper drainage is causing rain to form a "small lake" across the road.
"We haven't had any rain out there at all in a week, maybe more, and there is still water in that lake," he said. "It's not draining into the ground at all, and I think that's from the machines running over it. I believe what you have now is hard-packed dirt, and the only way that water is disappearing is through evaporation. That needs to be regraded, and that problem needs to be addressed."
The water is attracting mosquitoes, Roskosh added.
One resident presented before and after photographs of the road to show the drainage problem.
Glen Kalp said the board has been aware of the problem.
"It's going to be taken care of," Kalp said.
Ina Seibert, whose family owns a cottage on the road, does not want a pipe placed in her yard to drain the water, as she does not believe it will fix the problem.
"The ground is what has to be fixed," she said. "The field has to be fixed."
Engineer Bruce Smith said he is exploring options for amending the problem.
"It's going to take a couple weeks to get it resolved," Smith said.
According to Smith, the grass hasn't grown in the area surrounding the road, and without vegetation, the water cannot be drained into the ground.
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• The board approved the installation of a wireless alarm system at the Oakwood Hills water tank and the reservoir water tank. Ligonier Township Water Department Manager Paul Knupp said the system, which will cost $3,960, will notify him when the water level at either site is abnormal.
The Oakwood Hills water tank has drained twice in the past month and a half, Kalp said.
• The board also approved the installation of four no trespassing signs at the reservoir and treatment plant, as Knupp said he has had some trouble with people driving quads on the property, causing damage. The price for the four signs, which will discourage ATVs, swimming and fishing, will be $275.80.
The next meeting will be held Sept. 4.
Nicole Chynoweth is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 724-850-2862 or email@example.com.


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Back in the 1970s, in the wake of Star Wars came a horde of cheaper, grittier outer space adventures from the low-budget likes of Roger Corman (Battle Beyond The Stars) or the BBC (Blake's 7). What they didn't have in perfect opticals or marketing savvy they tried to make up for with wise-ass attitude and the occasional loopy stroke of integrity. With the re-release starting the whole cycle again, Stuart Gordon - of Re-Animator fame - has done an acceptable job of retooling the Star Wars knock-off for the 90s, spinning out an old, old story with a fair amount of wit.
Johnny Canyon (Hopper) is a feisty independent space trucker, adopting all the attitudes and tastes of the Kris Kristofferson character from Convoy but carrying them to the outer planets and back as he hauls a freightload of square pigs for corporate creep George Wendt. When Wendt gets sucked arse-first out of a window on the space station, Canyon - along with sidekick Mike (Dorff) and waitress Cindy (Mazar), who fancies Mike but has agreed to marry Johnny - has to take a top secret, illegal load to Earth. Of course, the crew get jumped by space pirates, led by mutilated Macanudo (Charles Dance), and the cargo turns out not to be sex toys after all but an invasion force of genetically engineered killing machines.
Though this is at best a shaky production, it benefits from some excellent (if repetitive) special effects - the darkly twinkling pirate ship emerging from a shower of black meteors is a stunner - and a cast who beef up the sometimes weak material with their own characters. There isn't quite enough plot to carry it through the 78 minute B-movie barrier into featured attraction status, but Space Truckers has enough of a sense of genre history to cast Shane Rimmer, the voice of John Tracy, as the big villain, and gets mileage out of the Marvel Comics-style outer space truck stop.


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Me Vrvrt: IfcepelB this Uii-
TVjo-iae r- never t3fer, iaex-
Mx::okontoo eastward, io the
..t. oar hfcliwtvB Hare been
.- - pa; into wrr sapariw order.
- Kcfana roafc. as tleebttess
- -b&eaauBadBS to this sort
. irioriD I1 oor days. The
Z ssnrt barely indited to 3lr.
. jod. tbe mdcfattcable head of
- - w. " -jbbhus.-30. as well as to his
imitsiooers, ibr their new
- - : enjos MxA their services
-s ..-"X peceatarr remuneration.
uertacaferhr. as the executive
Scant mls been caueu to ce-
rvr this pebtk- servite, affording
stkkvibe evidence that the
Tested away from among us.
. . aer -iiitrirti are as highly fav-
rosuer x roads as we are,
s . oe casseior seaersl jubilation ;
blinds trfO jBStly be entitled to
ri : oi sbSttiatMl civilization as
? its sayenor lukways.
- li -iwl. tor Hawaiian- A. Keply
t Mr- Knud.cn.
:I I:.:t.: In voar isee of the tii
.. - .-w-rs a camaaaaiesUkm srooi Mr.
, - entitled, " WhHberis the Ha
. . .a:hftaiiK?''kiieaeses,
. - -e . naos die attention of every
- niAJi or woaosa. whether or not
-1 ;a -docatknl work. The ar
tusion is creditable to Mr.
, js una and as an intetlint
- Hawaii, akhowsh I beg leave
: 5 - !rai hba in some of his pre
- cuadnHQiai.
' very lie-in in g, be iotrodnees
.ogc between ibis reentry and
: . uhaek is, aafcrrumiteiy, not
The Uugnap j of Germany is
r:;.r Her oaaeaieree, iadstrj-, taw,
. j r. : versitie are all coodocted in
'i.nuar. tongae. Moreover, Ger
a Laaeaaae, sot only perfected
- -.uxie of a,bat in which is found
:' iiteratare a poo all question:
r .rc man, not excelled, nay hardly
' "t any other nation, either an
- raodeni-
one knows better than Mr.
- : that the business of this conn-
Trjt. pedbap?. taro raising and
r. dnvin?, is carried on in English.
- .s neither bnsice&s aor literature
I submit, then, that the
-: -risus is inapplicable,
v- Ksadsen says : -'A native Hawaii
. i cooes for the first time to school.
. has already gifted it -srithwonder-
faireaea?- It has taught the
. i inaae bv -which it can easilv
. rvUead what it is toM." This is
. - -jbie. It is about as probable
- :urr rifled " the Hawaiian child
iS2ase, as it is that the same
r iii At it bow to make poi, or the
: -liad child to make pumjikin
- lri Hawaiian child learns its lan-j-
the first place, like every other
i :rjm its parents and associates. I
to be a natural method and one
-::er. ignored bv aniateUigent teach
- ::. tearhiar "Enclish to Hawaiian
I.us same eibod,eoBscieBtiously and
'.iseatry carried on; frtxa the sixth to
fifteenth year of the child's school
jrift " it with jost as good eom
. : y. tiie Enrlith loooe, and then it
- a "highway" as much superior
i r.itive one, foe intellectual ambling,
i "V - Jin jt is waoMiae- tet a. Hiln
: -c It, thete is some truth in the
... :.t that the Hawaiian child loses
. : in the change from its native
. . t Fjiefifh. Mr. Kandsen is a
-nii of far too great intelligence
T&oc-h experience in the world
j.-vn that in all change, be it phy--:.
-rail, or iatePjecteal, there is Ws.
-..1 and I fully believe it that
the best trails of the old Ha"
. .ave seSered a decadence in
- --ff.-ft to cfaaage to a higher plane
St.'-: civilization ; yet w1k would
- li-Lt the gain has been greater than
- j. changes for the better all
pt ievelopiaeat there is what the
-rsts voul call " retrograde meta
r ; jsis " "We must exoect that in so
, nange oa.ue cuosuiuiian 01 one
rf for aaetber, some of this
j-ituLg 'Jtf would carry something
i w;tt mud; that is bad."
be possessed of a wrong language
likened to a disease, it is a terri--e
and aothing short of heroic
."js.rct will be of any avaiL lending
j.r to a native school for the
-tf -jriowr years of their school
-i i ti.ee caaajias them to English
is. I believe, responsible for
tite shot-coBiiag of which Mr.
-! oomriaics. It is a waste of
-r.l a. .Hawaiian diild into an
: school, after having spent three
e ars in a native school. This
ier.. oaiortnnately. too senerally
s- luthertn. The Board of Educa
z kmbt, has its short -comings ;
- attempt it seeais to be now mak
all Hawadaa children into the
: s.. schools at the early ase of six
!-rtainly not one of thetn. If
- e Hawaiian diiW beginning
t tLe are of stxanu pursuing it
. a ilay for etsht years, is un
" iuuv saficient English for all
-j.. parpjses, then it is high time
satioe language "die out any--x
i the race with it.
M. M. Scott.
Delightful iVstlval of Jaiannf Suntlay
Schoul at Quern Kmma Hall.
A beautifnl Christmas entertainment
was given the Japanese Sunday School
in Queen Emma hall on Tuesday night.
The room was trimmed and decorated
with the most delicate ferns and
greenery. Outside, the front of the
building was adorned with evergreens
dotted with Chinese oranges, making a
rare composition of esthetic loveliness.
Some of the interior decorations were
artistic to a degree, such as a cross of
roses above the pulpit, a crown and
other flora! emblems of these people's
new profession. Everything was in
such thorough good taste as to sug
gest elegance and refinement. This
was the" first occasion upon which
the Japanese Christians here cele
brated Christmas, and peoples who hue
been nurtured in the observance of the
day might learn a great deal from the
manner in which "this young flock ac
quitted themselves.
Mr. Taro Ando, Japanese Consui-Gen-eral,
as Superintendent of the School,
presided. He delivered a brief address,
as did Kev. Dr. Hyde, who also offered
the opening prayer. Short speeches
were made in English, Hawaiian and
Japanese. For the rest the exer
cises were chiefly singing, part of the
"Immanuel" cantata being the main
performance. This portion being over,
a real Japanese Santa Claus, excel
lently made up, walked in followed by a
harlequin, gay in paint and tinsel. The
latter character distributed the gitts as
they were allotted by numbers which
liad previously been passed round on a
tray to everyone. There were all sorts
of desirable presents, useful as well as
for play or ornament. When all had
thus been made happy and mem-, they
were invited into an adjoining room,
where tables were spread with inviting
refreshments. There was a large audi
enue present, mostly composed of the
Japanese parents and friends.
D?xivnin tlie St. Lawrence.
A very Interesting and important com
mercial" event was the celebration last
week of the successful completion of the
great work of deepening the channel of
the St. Lawrence river from Montreal to
Quebec. This work was first agitated
over sixty years ago and was begun in
1S44, and the result is that where there
was formerly only eleven feet of water
there is now twenty-seven and a half feet,
and lanre ocean steamers can at present
sail triumphantly into their docks at
Montreal, KK) miles from the mouth of the
St. Lawrence, without let or hindrance.
There are now no less titan twenty-two
lines of ocean steamers tliat sail to and
from Montreal, and the deepening of the
river will be a great thing for the com
merce of that port. Engineers sav that
the commerce of a port increases accord
i ing to the cube of the increase in the
depth of the channel, and statistics show
this law of increase has been fulfilled at
Montreal as the channel has been grad
uallv deepened, and there is no reason
to doubt that the completion of the deep-
ening will still inrther increase tue com
merce of the port.
Some Idea of the magnitude of the
work which lias been done can be
gained from the fact that in Lake St.
Peter no less than S,000,000 cubic yards
of clay were removed, an amount of ex
cavating equal to what was done in
building S00 miles of the Canadian Paci
fic Railway. In some places solid rock
has been " scooped out" to a ilepth ot
several feet, and altogether it was quite
fitting that the engineers in charge, and
the Montreal, Provincial, and Dominion
Governments siiould rejoice together
over what lias been accomplished. En
gineers evervwhere have followed the
progress of the wholesale channel dredg
ing with mucn interest, ami Ulemens
Herschel of Holyoke, the well-known
engineer of the Holyoke Water Power
Company, was present at the celebration
as the guest cf the engineers who have
had charge of the work. Montreal now
has a population of 250,000, and with a
deepwater outlet ou the one side, and
tlie Canadian Pacific Railway on the
other, she looks hopefully and compla
cently out into the future, and pictures
for herself many times her present popu
lation and commerce. (Springfield,
(Mass.) Union.
The -Sumlav Movement In the states:
The First National Sabbath School
Convention, under the auspices of the
American Sabbath Union recently organ
ized, was held in Washington, Dec. 11th.
Colonel Elliott F. Shephard of the 2ew
York Mail and Express presided. Peti
tions to Congress from every- part of the
country were presented, urging the pas
sage of the bill which was introduced
last session and known as the ' Sunday
Rest" bill. Tliev contained "approxi
mately 6,000,000 " names. Mrs. J. C.
Baleham of Painesville, Ohio, reviewed
the history of the movement in the
society. Six million Protestants, 7,000,
000 Catholics and nearly a quarter of a
million members of labor organizations,
she said, liad united in an earnest ap
peal to Congress for the enforcement of
the Sabbath laws that Sabbath desecra
tion might be checked.
General A. S. Dived of Elmira, 2T. Y.,
took the position that Sunday railroad
trains were not justified fiom any point
of view.
Rev. W. F. Crafts of New York read
extracts from letters from Chief Arthur
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers indorsing the movement.
,t- -
Cliin.--.- Chrl:ina J-tivxl.
iV-!osdar -vair the Chinese Sun-
Idjx S-ii-W enodttcted by Kev. H. H.
is' r t. Andrew's Cathedral held
.V Ij.staias festival in the school -room.
TL s tj-jlar mustered in full force, and
rere many interested spectators.
Csop Willis took part in the religious
excretes, delivering a brief address.
Sicking hymn in Chinese and a magic
antem exhibition of scriptural scenes
were parts of the programme. There
was a lare Christmas tree brilliantly 11
iamieited, from which a choice lot of
I eft was distributed among the children.
I Everybody was happy, the givers as well
las the receivers f the entertainment.
Planters' Monthly.
tenU of Ihe number for December;
2otu asd Comments.
Close of Volume SeTen.
WitmnTille Beet Sojjmr Enterprise.
Progress of the So-ar Industry in the Bitnl
ixn Islands.
Touch's Superheater Apparatus.
Darkened Sugars.
Beport of Committee on Fertilizers.
Coffee Cultivation A Proposition from a
Coffee Plaster.
Steam Boiler.
DeliTeryof Sosar Case by Carts and by Cars.
Fecundation of Plants.
Susar House Chemistry.
Z3T Subscriptions receiTed by the HAWAHAX
GAZETTE CO. and ths Sews Agents . Price J2-K1
year; foreign subscribers J 1-00.
Aad se that each Jar bears Baroa Liebig's Sigoatore
ia Blue Ink acrois tie Label
To b hai ot all Storekeepers aad Dialers throagaoat India.
Cookery Books Post Free on. Application to the
JilEBIG'S, EXTRACT OF MEAT Co., Limltedj Feadmrtu Afenne, London, Enjlinj
STOCK FOfl SOUPS.
Invaluable for India aa
an Efficient Tonic in all
cases of Weakness.
.Keeps good in tho hottest
Climates, and for any
length of time. .
THE SPRMELD lADSffl BICYCLE!
Moderate Prices, Good Quality, Hill Climbing, Safety, Speed,
are features of merit which are sure to lead.
L. a: v.
meet at Baltimore,
tfd., three victories. "Woodstock,
Canada, professional track record, May 24. Binghampton, N. Y., ono
mile safety, and one mile team race. Toronto, Canada, three mile road
wheel, and one mile safety race. Rochester, 5s". Y. one mile, opeu to
all, track record, 2.444: three mile handicap; five mile, open to all, last
quarter in 530 seconds best on record; half mile dash, open to all, 1.15
best competition half mile on record; also, two mile, G.45 class.
J. R. Weld, of Medina, writes:
"In a club of twenty IS ride SpringGeld Roadsters, and still we
want more."
Eagle Rock, New Jersey, 12 times without a dismount. Corey Hill,
Boston, 10 times without a dismount. Stickney IliU, Lynn, Mass., one
time and return.
SHURfrlAH AT IT AGAIN.
The members of the Lynn Cscle Clr.b took, a trip down to Portland. The part
prised J. H. Young, .J. H. ijhurnini:, A. II. Carsley, E. G. Bcrnholtz, J. F.'Aller, J. F.
;irtv com-
Dow, J.
H.Littlefield, A. W. Lewis acd A. Wiswell. On their arrived iu Portland, and nfteragcod
breakfast at tbe l'reble lloase, the Portland Wheel Clnb took the visitors in hand for a
ran to Fronts Xeck, a distance of some fourteen miles. On tbo way out tho party passed
Spurwick Hilt, an eminence that has never been climbed by a cyclist. To tbe scrprisa of
the Down Eifcters, Shurmau auuocneed that he wonU-ride up tbe hill if anyone of the
Portland men would ride down. This V7as very promptly agreed to, as tbe local men
thought tbe hill unr:dea)le. Some of the men rode down tLe hill, as also did Shurman,
and then on nrrivir at tha bottom Sherman turned round and jode to the top,
to th? amazement of those who had never seen Sherman ride. This was on Sunday.
r.nd the achievement of the Lynn man made the locals anxious to see what the visitor
could do with the Park Street Hill, a terror to Portland wheelmen, and one that has
never Ceen ciunbeu more than twice iu succession, fco on ilonaay tue party repaired to
the hill, and after Carsler. Allen and Littlefield had climbed it once and cried enoueh.
Sbufman went at it and went up and down six times without a dismount. To say that
the Portland men were dumfounded is puttiug it mildly. Sharman rode his Springfield
Koadster. Will some Portland reader kindly give ns tho grades of the Spurwick and
f arK street runs, ana ouiiger tD. uictcle obld.j
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our prices are moderate, our goods warranted against defective material
and workmanship for one year; absolutely safe against headers, speedy
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SOLE AGENTS 01? HAWAIIAN" ISLANDS 1247-lni d-lm
It having come to our notice, that an inferior
quality of Gin, purporting to be J. J. JIelciikrs'
" Elephaxt " Bhaxd, is heing offered for sale in
this market, we have to
OaTjitiori th.e 3?Tj.blic
That we are the Sole Agents in the Hawaiian Isl
ands, for the said Brand, and that every genuine
bottle bears our " Sole Agexct " label.
0. PEACOCK & Co,
. " . Sole' Agents for J. J. Melchera' .
Z i--- . " Schiedam, "W. Z.
91 123o-6m
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The Only (Jenuine California' Buhach is For Sale at
"Who are the SOLE AGENTS and ASSIGNEES of the
"DTTTT A n LT DDlimnTTa rmfPAW or stocktos.
Purchasers are CAUTIONED a-rainat an INFERIOR POWDER put
up in similar style and labeled California Buhach.
gjT 'CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION OF TRADE JLARK from the
Interior Department, and Assignment of Sale and EXCLUSIVE RIGHT to use
the name and trade mark Eohach in tbe Hawaiian Islands, from the Bahach
Producing and ilanafacturing Co., of Stockton, California, to Benson, Smith &
Co., may be seen on application. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
Jirc'un Sttiwrtisfiticnts.
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77 n:U 7S HroHil Street, Spw orfc.
AVmM-rCastlc t Cooke, and J. T. Water
house. jam ly
TlltO. II. DAVIKS.
Commission Merchants,
12 & 13 The Alb an v.
LIVERPOOL. nwij
Only "Pebble" Establishment.
Muiler's Optical Depot,
IM Montgomery St., near Bosh, S. P., Cat.
Specialty 35 Years."Tn
The most complicated cares of defective
vIIon tborouithly diagnosed FREE OF
CHARGE. Orders by mall or eiprcss promptly
attended to. .
G-Componnd Astigmatic Lenses Mounted to
order at two hours' notice. 1190 lv
THE ORIGINAL and ONLY GENUINE.
Advice to Invalids. If you wish to obtain
quiet refreshlug sleep, free from headache, rh
lief from pain and anguish, to calm and assussro
the weary achiugs ot protracted disease, in
vigorate the nervous media, and lognlate the
circulating systems of the body, you will pro
vide yourself with that marvellous remedy dis
covered by Dr. J. Collis Browne (late Army
Medical btaff). to which he gave the name of
CIILORODYNE, cud which is admitted bv the
profcsblor. to be the most wonderful and valu
able remedy ever discovered.
CIILORODYNE is the best remedy known fot
Coughs, Consumption, Bronchitis, Asthma.
CIILORODYNE acts like a charm in Dlarr
ha. and is the only specific in Cholera and
CIILORODYNE effectually cuts short all at
tacks of Epilcpty, Hysteria, 1'alpitatlon, -and
CIILORODYNE is thu only palliative In Nen
ralgia Rheumatism, Gout. Cancer, Toothache
Meningitis, Ac.
From bymes & Co., Pharmaceutical Cheiu
ists. Medical Hall. Simla, January -3, 1SS0. To
J. T. Davenport, Esq., SI, Great Itnsscll Street.
Hloomsbury, London. Dear Sir, We embrace
this opportunity of congratulating you upon the
wide-spread reputation this justly esteemed
medicine, Dr. J. Collis Browne's Chlorodjuc
has earned for itself, not only in Ilindostan!
but all over the East. Asa remedy for "eneral
utility, we mnst question whether a belter Is
imported into the country, and we shall be glad
tc hear of its finding a place In every Anlo
Indiau home. The other brands, we arc orry
tosay.arenow relegated to the native bazaars
and, judging from their sale, we fancy their
sojourn there will be but evanescent. We
could multiply instances ad Infinitum of the ex
traordinary efficacy of Dr. Collis Browne's Chlo
rodyne In Diarrhoea and Dysentery, Spam
Cramps, Neuralgia, theVomitlng of Pregnancy,
and as a general sedative, that have occnied
nnocr our personal observation during many
years. In Choleraic Diarrhcea, and even in the
more terrible forms of Cholera itseir, we have
witnessed its snrprisinely controlling power.
We have never used any other fotm of this
medicine than Collis Browne's from a firm
Conviction that it Is decide!ythebcst,anda!o
from a sense of duty we ove to the profession
and the public, as we are oi opinion that the
substitution of any other than Collis Browne's
Is a deliberate Breach oppaitu on tub part
alike. We are, Sir, faithfully yours, Symes it
Co.. Members of tho Pharm. Society of Great
Brltian. His Excellency the Viceroy's Chem
ists. CAUTION". Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Pace
Wood stated that Dr. J. Collis Browne wa,
undoubtedly, the Inventor of Chlorddyne; that
the story of the defendant Freeman was de
liberately nntrue, which, he regretted to say,
had been sworn to. See"Tho Times,' Jnly 13,
Sold in bottles at Is. l!Jd., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d.,
and lis. each. None is genuine without the
words "Dr. J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne" on
the Government stamp. Overwhelming medi
cat testimony accompanies each bottle.
Caution. Beware of Piracy and Imitations.
Sole Manufacture J. T. DAVENFORT. 33
Great Rnssoll Street. Bloomsbury. London.
una bm
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Importer pi Dealer in
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Ladies', Misses', Gents'
Has removed to the above centrally located
premises. lately occnnled bv Mrs. Wilkinson
where he has just received an invoice of New
Goods In his line. cxS.S. MARIPOSA. making
his Stock one of the most complete and varied
to be fonnd in Honolulu.
These Fine Goods uill be sold at prices to
snit thJ times. All those -desiring first class
and serviceable articles in the Boot and Shoe
line will do well to give him a call.
Vff No trouble to show Goods. 1138 3m
Contractor and Builder
Honolulu Steam Planing Mills
Esplanade, Honolulu, H. I.
Manufactures all kinds of
Mouldings, Brackets,
Window Frames,
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Sitting on her chair eating a pear, Nomi wants something else. She thinks about and decides that now is a good time to play with her hairy pussy! slowly she strips and plays with her pussy!
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While the Obama administration trades horses and twists arms to get a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia through the Senate before the November elections, no one seems to have noticed that Washington is making all the concessions and Moscow none.
Under mounting pressure from the White House, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) has been pushing to vote the treaty out of his committee. That vote was expected last week but now has been postponed until after the August congressional recess. As former Richard Nixon advisor Dimitri Simes wrote in an article last month with Dov Zakheim, "Senator Kerry's undue hurry — which appears at least in part motivated by the politics he himself decries, including a hope to win, for himself and the administration, a public success — is unneeded and inappropriate. The world's greatest deliberative body deserves a little more time."
There are three key reasons why the full Senate should slow down ratification of the New START treaty.


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Lovely Asian model Risa is a lingerie model. She freelances around the city and makes a good bit of money and is fairly well known too. She also has an service that she runs but doesn't take part in. She just sees to the scheduling of events. She is trying her hand at amateur porn photos and seems to be doing well there too. Her pictures are all over the town in halls of fame everywhere. She is also a dancer, so lots of her is seen on a regular basis by the guys here. She will date several guys just to keep life interesting , and the guys will tell you that things are indeed interesting in her life!
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Brian Austin Green is a huge fan of Reese Witherspoon. While it's not quite clear if he's a chick-flick movie watcher, the actor definitely thinks the actress has impeccable timing.
"We got really lucky," Brian Austin Green told Ryan Seacrest during a radio interview Tuesday about keeping the news of his and Megan Fox's son's arrival private.
"And I've been wanting to send Reese Witherspoon flowers for, like, a month and a half. 'Cause she actually gave birth, I think the day before us in Santa Monica," the 39-year-old went on to explain.
"We were lucky enough to go in at 2:30 in the morning to the hospital and nobody knew. We were there for two days . . . and we heard Reese was at her place and had a baby, and we got out of the hospital and nobody knew [about us]."
For nearly two full weeks Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green kept their son Noah a secret while the world cooed over Reese Witherspoon and news of Tennessee Toth's birth.
Her pregnancy and maternity style was kind of fabulous! Here's a look back at Reese and other gorgeous stars at the 65th Annual Cannes Film Festival in May:
"We got home and thought, 'This is unbelievable,'" Brian Austin Green continued of their private time. "Because we weren't expecting to get away with it. So we just figured we would go with it as long as we could."
Although the press did eventually find out about Noah's birth, prompting Megan Fox to make a personal announcement, the actor still feels he owes his celebrity friend a little thank-you gift. "Reese, your ice cream cake is on the way," Brian Austin Green added with a laugh.
Normally, talk of stealing someone else's pregnancy 'thunder' isn't so light-hearted!
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There's been an exodus from Newsvine.
Newsvine is like cerebral collective, but also like MSNBC and a forum, and a chat room, and facebook all wrapped into one. It was pretty cool. It looked ugly but it worked. And now here's why it doesn't.
The founder sold the private venture to MSNBC.
The website became ad-powered, and started to pay small sums to people to bring in the most users – which lead to degradation of discussion and editorial quality.
Half the site became about politics, a quarter about fuck all, and a quarter about what he said (or was it what she said)?
Oh, and in that fuck-all section are book reviews. Why a news site needs book reviews boggles the mind.
Any time you step back and look at what changed in the site, it makes you want to reenact that funny face people make when they get hit in the head by a big ball. Sort of scrunched up, not quite in pain yet, but bracing for it and at the same time, absolutely horrified. In slow motion, their face ripples. In real life, the ping of a big ball against the squishy skin makes a truly hilarious sound.
But if you blink, you miss it.
So what do you do with a broken readership/quality?
You leave it alone and try to fix what isn't broken.
And even though millions of people agree that it is a little ugly, they all know how to play that site like a basoon. Except any manner of skill on Newsvine must be categorized, grouped, tagged, praised, discounted, and argued over until nobody remembers what the argument was about and the conversation devolves into line by line one-liners and tiny quotes where one person is obviously an idiot and according to the other person, the other person is obviously an idiot. If Newsviners were honest about their feelings, the entire site would be made up of idiots (except it's not, and this is a scary realization).
And so if everybody is an idiot, then what are the idiots without their blindness, and what are the blind without being lead by the blind? There are two main shepherds of the blind (who are blind).
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|Personal Information
|November 10, 1951
|Heart Attack
|Co-Owner, Lanford Custom Cycles
Freelance Contractor
|A funny, caring, sweet, loving, and easygoing family man who works as a drywall contractor. Husband of Roseanne Connor and father of 3 children.
|Roseanne Conner
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Audrey Conner (mother)
Becky Conner (oldest daughter)
Darlene Conner (younger daughter)
D.J. Conner (son)
Jerry Garcia Conner (younger son)
Jackie Harris (sister-in-law)
Beverly Harris (mother-in-law)
Nana Mary (grandmother-in-law)
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First appearance: Life and Stuff" (Season 1)
Last appearance: Into That Good Night, Part 2 (Season 9)
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Daniel "Dan" Conner is the husband of Roseanne Conner and the father of Becky, Darlene, D.J., and Jerry Conner. The part of Dan is played by actor John Goodman.
About Dan ConnerEdit
In the episode "Heart and Soul" in Season 8, Roseanne said that she had been with Dan since she was sixteen years old.According to the episode "PMS, I Love You", from Season 3 his birthday falls on the same day as the Illinois vs. Michigan game. In the same episode it makes it clear that Dan is turning 39.Given that season three takes place in 1990,Dan's birthday is November 10th,1951.He is also the son of Audrey and Ed Conner, and the grandfather to Harris Conner Healy, Darlene and her husband David's daughter. He is a funny, nice, and easygoing family man, and is shown in some episodes having a small temper. But overall, Crystal, in one episode, describes him as a huge teddy bear. He is a failed drywall worker, and a freelance contractor.
In season 3, his longtime friend Ziggy suggested that they begin a bike business.Unfortunately the bike shop,after about a year and a half,financially failed and was sold.Dan was crushed by this and he suffered another blow almost immediately afterwards.At the beginning of Season 5 Becky,convinced that she was losing everything that mattered to her because of her parents' financial carelessness,ran away and eloped with Mark at age 17. Dan refused to even communicate with Becky for most of Season 5 and became increasingly restrictive and paranoid of Darlene as she and David drew closer; however, he was much more open to the idea of her going to art school in Chicago than Roseanne was.
At Darlene's wedding to David in season 8, he had a heart attack, which showed his terrible health, which had been declining over the seasons. He is the father-in-law to Mark and Kevin "David" Healy. At first he did not really care for Mark, but over the seasons, they bonded.
David and Dan had a rough patch when David lied about living with Darlene- which resulted in Dan manhandling him and kicking him out of the house- but Dan came to forgive him overtime when Roseanne pointed out that Dan was placing the blame entirely on David and ignoring that Darlene had been equally responsible. Although Dan increasingly became exhasperated with David's seeming over-sensitivity after he broke up with Darlene and often teased him about his less masculine and artistic interests, he was pleased with David's contributions to the household and congratulated him sincerely on graduating high school. They had another brief spat late in Season 8 when Dan learned Darlene was pregnant and planning to marry David, but Dan quickly reconciled with his newest son-in-law.
It was revealed at the end of the last episode of the show that Dan had in fact passed away from the heart attack that happened at Darlene and David's wedding.


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I have a Fine Arts Degree, and I am working as a Technical and Artistic Drawing teacher in high school centres. I would like so much to expand this little universe of works... But time isn´t enough for me.
Current Residence: Jaén, Andalucía, Spain, Europe, Earth, Solar System, Milky Way
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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (
This work addresses the development and assessment of a fiber optical viscometer using a simple and low-cost long-period fiber grating (LPFG) level sensor and a capillary tube mechanism. Previous studies of optical viscosity sensors were conducted by using different optical sensing methods. The proposed optical viscometer consists of an LPFG sensor, a temperature-controlled chamber, and a cone-shaped reservoir where gravitational force could cause fluid to flow through the capillary tube. We focused on the use of LPFGs as level sensors and the wavelength shifts were not used to quantify the viscosity values of asphalt binders. When the LPFG sensor was immersed in the constant volume (100 mL) AC-20 asphalt binder, a wavelength shift was observed and acquired using LabVIEW software and GPIB controller. The time spent between empty and 100 mL was calculated to determine the discharge time. We simultaneously measured the LPFG-induced discharge time and the transmission spectra both in hot air and AC-20 asphalt binder at five different temperatures, 60, 80, 100, 135, and 170 Celsius. An electromechanical rotational viscometer was also used to measure the viscosities, 0.15–213.80 Pa·s, of the same asphalt binder at the above five temperatures. A non-linear regression analysis was performed to convert LPFG-induced discharge time into viscosities. Comparative analysis shows that the LPFG-induced discharge time agreed well with the viscosities obtained from the rotational viscometer.
The advantages of fiber optic sensors include light weight, small size, immunity to electromagnetic interference (EMI), large bandwidth, environmental ruggedness, and electrical-optical multiplexing. Thus, fiber optic sensors are ideal sensors for the applications of potential smart structures and materials. The fiber optic sensor technology has been applied to the health monitoring of infrastructures [
In addition, a single optical tweezer can be used as a quantitative tool to perform absolute viscosity of pure water samples on a micrometer-size scale [
In this work, we have developed a fiber optical viscometer using an LPFG technique with a capillary tube mechanism. LPFG is extremely sensitive to the refractive index (RI) of the material surrounding the cladding surface, thus allowing it to be used as ambient RI, chemical solution sensors, or chemical concentration indicators. The advantages of LPFGs include their low insertion losses, low back-reflection, polarization independence, and relatively simple fabrication. The other strengths of LPFGs are their simple construction, ease of use, potential capability for on-site,
In general, an LPFG usually is a photo-induced periodic modulation of refractive index along the core of a single-mode fiber, with a typical perturbation of Δn ∼ 10−4, periods between 100 μm–1 mm and length of 2–4 cm. The LPFG couples light from a guided fundamental core mode (LP
The cladding modes are very sensitive to change in the refractive index of the ambient (surrounding) environment, particularly when the ambient refractive index higher than that of the cladding index is referred to as a leaky cladding mode [
The materials used in most previous studies are not high viscous fluids, such as AC-20 asphalt, and are normally tested at room temperature, which are different from the five test temperatures we used,
The fabrication and techniques of LPFGs have been reported elsewhere [
In this study, each transmission spectrum was referenced to the background spectrum of a bare fiber in air. The 3 dB bandwidth was determined by finding the peak of the ASE spectrum, and rising by 3 dB on each side. The spectral width of the ASE spectrum was determined by the separation of these two points because each has a power spectral density equal to one half the peak power spectral densities. The resonance wavelength was calculated as the average of two wavelengths determined in the 3 dB bandwidth measurements.
The test material, the sensing mechanism of an LPFG-based viscometer, and the use of non-linear regression model are described in this section.
Since asphalt is one of the most popular paving materials, an AC-20 asphalt binder was used as an example of a viscous material. The viscosity range of an AC-20 asphalt binder should be 200 ± 40 Pa·s. The AC-20 asphalt is refined from crude oil and it is thus not a polymer-modified asphalt but rather a petroleum asphalt cement. Since asphalt binders are viscoelastic and temperature-dependent materials and their properties, such as viscosity and refractive index, depend on several factors including the crude oil source, petroleum refining techniques, using additives or not, test temperature, and age effect. Thus, our material, an unmodified asphalt binder refined from crude oil, meeting the requirement of 200 ± 40 Pa·s at 60 Celsius is classified as AC-20 asphalt. The refractive index of the AC-20 asphalt was rarely reported from the current available journals, books, or internet resources. As reported in [
Furthermore, AC-20 asphalts possess a viscosity of 200 ± 40 Pa·s at 60 Celsius; it is hard to purge the asphalt out of the LPFG after testing. Thus, we used several LPFGs with different resonant wavelengths as disposal sensing components for the optical viscometer. The LPFGs were bonded, with high-temperature-resistance adhesive tape, at both ends on a small straight steel sheet, which was glued to the wall of a beaker to minimize the bending of the fiber. Therefore, we controlled to minimize the variations of test results, not influenced by temperature, strain or bending effects, as much as possible. Such an optical LPFG-based viscometer was capable of measuring simultaneously the discharge time and transmission spectra of a fluid at different temperatures. We measured the discharge time and transmission spectra for the AC-20 asphalt binder using this LPFG-based viscometer at 60, 80, 100, 135, and 170 Celsius. The viscosity of this asphalt was also tested at 60, 80, 100, 135, and 170 Celsius using an electromechanical type of Brookfield rotational viscometer (RV, HB DV-II+ Pro) based on the method of AASHTO T316 [
The relationship between the discharge time,
This model has five adjustable parameters,
The LPFG-based viscometry for asphalt binders was conducted with three samples. The average discharge time (see
This viscometer combines an LPFG level sensor and a capillary tube mechanism. The 100 mL discharge time is the key mersurand. The LPFGs were used as a level sensor with an OSA since we could acquire and analyze transmission spectra data such as light intensity and wavelength shift. However, the wavelength shifts of LPFGs varied probably due to the fabrication parameter factors and without quality-control process. The transmission spectra and average resonance wavelength shifts of the LPFG sensors in hot air and asphalt at several temperatures are plotted in
Thus, our experimental results presented here reveal that the refractive index of AC-20 asphalt could be more than 1.64 when it was tested more than 60 Celsius of temperature and this value was temperature-dependent. Furthermore,
The average viscosity values at 60, 80, 100, 135, and 170 Celsius were 213.800, 21.127, 5.350, 0.567, and 0.153 Pa·s, respectively. The quantitative comparison of discharge time from LPFG-based viscometer and viscosities from RV was based on the analysis of root mean square (RMS). The range of RMS values for LPFG-based and rotational viscometers were 0.29–27.33 s and 0.05–53.96 Pa·s, respectively. The coefficient of variation, normalization in statistics, indicates the variation of data from the discharge time of the LPFG-based viscometer and viscosities from RV were 0.05–2.72% and 0.19–3.77%, respectively. Thus, the proposed method—LPFG-based viscometer possessed the potential to measure the viscosity of a fluid.
Based on the results from the optical and electromechanical viscometers, the log-log-scale relationship between the viscosity (
Studies presented in this paper successfully illustrate the feasibility of fabricating a class of fiber optical viscometer based on the LPFG sensor written by CO2 laser pulses. The realization of the sensor is through the measurement of discharge time for 100 mL AC-20 asphalt binder to flow through the capillary tube whereas the asphalt reached the LPFG sensor and induced a wavelength shift. Data were collected and analyzed at five different temperatures (60, 80, 100, 135, and 170 Celsius). For the first time we report the data of viscosity of AC-20 asphalt binder at five different temperature and present the explicit formula between the viscosity and discharge time for this sample. Experimentally, the LPFG-induced discharge time was converted into viscosities using the Carreau-Yasuda-like model and results were compared with those measured from RV at the same temperatures. Theoretically, the two-stage non-linear regression analysis was applied to compare the LPFG-RV-measured viscosities with the predicted ones. Our results show that the computational predictions agreed well with the experimental data. Although in this paper the LPFG was used just as a level sensor, it can be turned to a simple way of measuring the discharge time that finally has a link to the viscosity of the test liquid. Thus, in this study we have successfully demonstrated a novel LPFG capillary tube viscometer and its feasibility of measuring the viscosity of AC-20 asphalt binder at five different temperatures which has yet to be reported.
The proposed LPFG-based viscometer could potentially perform two simultaneous physical measurands, the viscosity and refractive index, of a fluid. To our knowledge, this is the first time an LPFG sensor associated with a capillary tube mechanism has successfully shown a comparable viscosity sensing performance. Such a highly sensitive fiber-optic viscosity sensor is suitable for use in various fields of applications, such as civil, food, chemical and biological, mechanical, petroleum, and aerospace engineering. The advantage of this type of sensor is relatively simple of construction, compact, low cost, and ease of use. Moreover, the sensor has the potential capability for on-site,
The author thanks Jia-Jie Chin for his laboratory assistance. The partial support of the National Science Council (NSC) of Taiwan under Contract Nos. NSC 95-2122-M-194-013, NSC 95-3114-P-194-001-MY3, NSC 96-2112-M-194-004-MY3, NSC 97-2111-E-224-050, NSC 98-2111-E-224-060, and NSC 99-2221-E-224-055-MY2 is gratefully acknowledged.
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Viscosities of asphalt samples from a Brookfield rotational viscometer at 60, 80, 100, 135, and 170 Celsius.
Comparative plot of LPFG-RV-measured viscosity and predicted viscosity.
Experimental data of LPFG-based and rotational viscometers.
|100 mL Discharge time, s
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RMS = root mean square.
CV = coefficient of variation.
Pa·s = 10 poises = 1,000 centipoises


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There isn't very much gold in Oklahoma, and the two areas offering the best chance of success are the Wichita Mountains in the southwest, and near to the Arkansas border in the Ouachita Mountains, where there have been some very small discoveries by panning. The gold found here is glacial gold, very fine flakes and dust, and you shouldn't be expecting to find nuggets and specimens.
Although there was a very short gold rush in the Wichita Mountains in the late 1800s, it was out of speculation and not actual gold discovery. Still, there is a little gold in southwestern Oklahoma. Possibly worth checking out is Jackson County, where Otter Creek and the North Fork of the Red River as produced a little gold. Pan carefully, because the gold is so fine, and it will be hard won, so you don't want to lose any!
If you give up on the gold here, and want to try a little rockhounding, you can find barite roses and selenite crystals here, as well as some beautiful agates, jaspers and petrified wood. You may also run across some fossils.


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1626 ON THE DEATH OF A FAIR INFANT DYING OF A COUGH by John Milton On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough. Anno aetatis 17 I O FAIREST flower no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken Primrose fading timelesslie, Summers chief honour if thou hadst out-lasted Bleak winters force that made thy blossome drie; For he being amorous on that lovely die That did thy cheek envermeil, thought to kiss But kill'd alas, and then bewayl'd his fatal bliss. II For since grim Aquilo his charioter By boistrous rape th' Athenian damsel got, He thought it toucht his Deitie full neer, If likewise he some fair one wedded not, Thereby to wipe away th' infamous blot, Of long-uncoupled bed, and childless eld, Which 'mongst the wanton gods a foul reproach was held. III So mounting up in ycie-pearled carr, Through middle empire of the freezing aire He wanderd long, till thee he spy'd from farr, There ended was his quest, there ceast his care. Down he descended from his Snow-soft chaire, But all unwares with his cold-kind embrace Unhous'd thy Virgin Soul from her fair biding place. IV Yet art thou not inglorious in thy fate; For so Apollo, with unweeting hand Whilome did slay his dearly-loved mate Young Hyacinth born on Eurotas' strand, Young Hyacinth the pride of Spartan land; But then transform'd him to a purple flower Alack that so to change thee winter had no power. V Yet can I not perswade me thou art dead Or that thy coarse corrupts in earths dark wombe, Or that thy beauties lie in wormie bed, Hid from the world in a low delved tombe; Could Heavn for pittie thee so strictly doom? Oh no! for something in thy face did shine Above mortalitie that shew'd thou wast divine. VI Resolve me then oh Soul most surely blest (If so it be that thou these plaints dost hear) Tell me bright Spirit where e're thou hoverest Whether above that high first-moving Spheare Or in the Elisian fields (if such there were.) Oh say me true if thou wert mortal wight And why from us so quickly thou didst take thy flight. VII Wert thou some Starr which from the ruin'd roofe Of shak't Olympus by mischance didst fall; Which carefull Jove in natures true behoofe Took up, and in fit place did reinstall? Or did of late earths Sonnes besiege the wall Of sheenie Heav'n, and thou some goddess fled Amongst us here below to hide thy nectar'd head. VIII Or wert thou that just Maid who once before Forsook the hated earth, O tell me sooth And cam'st again to visit us once more? Or wert thou that sweet smiling Youth! Or that c[r]own'd Matron sage white-robed Truth? Or any other of that heav'nly brood Let down in clowdie throne to do the world some good. IX Or wert thou of the golden-winged hoast, Who having clad thy self in humane weed, To earth from thy praefixed seat didst poast, And after short abode flie back with speed, As if to shew what creatures Heav'n doth breed, Thereby to set the hearts of men on fire To scorn the sordid world, and unto Heav'n aspire. X But oh why didst thou not stay here below To bless us with thy heav'n-lov'd innocence, To slake his wrath whom sin hath made our foe To turn Swift-rushing black perdition hence, Or drive away the slaughtering pestilence, To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart But thou canst best perform that office where thou art. XI Then thou the mother of so sweet a child Her false imagin'd loss cease to lament, And wisely learn to curb thy sorrows wild; Think what a present thou to God hast sent, And render him with patience what he lent; This if thou do he will an off-spring give, That till the worlds last-end shall make thy name to live. -THE END- .


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Pirates to Play Curve In Altoona in 2013
Major League Club to Return to the Home of its Double-A Affiliate for the First Time Since 2000
By Altoona Curve | April 5, 2012 4:08 PM ET
The 2013 exhibition will mark the second time the Pirates have played in Altoona and the first since 2000. The Major League club played the Curve at Blair County Ballpark on May 15, 2000 before 7,346 fans. Pittsburgh's Double-A farm club since their inception in 1999, the Curve are the longest-running, current affiliate of the Pirates (14 seasons).
"We enjoy an outstanding affiliation with the Curve," said Coonelly. "Our team gets terrific support from the franchise and its fans and the facility is one of the finest in minor league baseball. We're pleased to bring our Major League club to Altoona next spring for an exhibition game that Pirates and Curve fans will remember for a long time to come."
An official date for the game is not yet scheduled, but it will take place before the regular season for both the Pirates and Curve. Once the opening days of the 2013 Major League and Eastern League schedules are determined later this summer, the Pirates and Curve will finalize the date and time of their exhibition.
"This will be the perfect beginning to our 15th year of Curve Baseball," said Curve Owner Bob Lozinak. "We're thrilled to be able to welcome the Pirates back to Altoona for what's sure to be a great event for baseball fans throughout our region. It's even better that so many of our former players will be back as members of the Major League club for this game."
In the franchise's first 13 years, the Curve have had 90 players reach the Major Leagues after playing in Altoona - 68 of them with the Pirates. Pittsburgh's 2012 opening day roster contains ten (10) former Curve players - including the entire starting outfield of Andrew McCutchen, Jose Tabata, and Alex Presley, second baseman Neil Walker, third baseman Pedro Alvarez, relief pitchers Tony Watson and Jared Hughes, infielders Josh Harrison and Matt Hague, and outfielder Nate McLouth.
In addition to the announcement of the exhibition game, the Curve provided a special benefit for all fans in attendance at tonight's season-opener against Erie. All current, full-season ticket holders were informed they would be offered their seats free of charge for the Pirates-Curve exhibition game as part of their 2013 season ticket packages. In addition, all other fans at the game (including mini-plan holders) were given the chance to sign up for a special pre-sale opportunity for tickets to the exhibition game when they go on sale later this year.
"Our full-season ticket holders are among the most loyal in baseball with many of them having been here since our inaugural year," said Curve General Manager Rob Egan. "They are entitled to enjoy the exhibition game free of charge as part of their 2013 full-season ticket packages. We're also pleased to extend a pre-sale opportunity to everybody in attendance tonight."
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