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Changes to Facebook Pages
Today Facebook will change brands pages once again, this change is designed to allow Facebook pages to look more like normal profile pages and to increase the use of these pages.
Changes include the following –
* Pages look like normal profiles
* New admin controls
* Ability to interact on Facebook with your page more.
* Changes to make the fan experience better for fans.
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text: Photo, Crystal Morton [ Time For The 2011 El Paso Motorcycle Coalition Toy Run! By Dubba G November 4, 2011 Roaring into Cohen Stadium Sunday! Read More Category: Public Service / Charity Tags: cohen stadium, el paso, el paso diablos, elpaso motorcycle coalition, glenn garza, john cook, klaq, motorcycle parade, the bird dogs, the border city band, toy drive Send to a friend! Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Pin it! Reddit This! Share on Tumblr!


text: Can we all just stop for a second and think back really hard, to what our lives were like before Greek yogurt? Kind of like before cell phones. Or laptops. Or Google. We never knew what we were missing, but try to live without it now… Oh, lord, I can't even imaging going back. OK maybe Greek yogurt doesn't belong in the same class as Google, but ever since Chobani and Fage became household words, I've personally been hooked, and I know that a few other people out there are too. Continue Reading..


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SECRETARY CLINTON: Oh my goodness. Well, that's quite a claim. And I won't go that far, but I will thank Ann, Assistant Secretary Ann Stock, for her commitment to this program and so many like it that really tell a story about our values and what we think is important. And I'm delighted to welcome all of you here to the State Department.
I had planned and been looking forward to being at this dinner, because you had been so well organized, you planned it far in advance, and then we worked out a date for the prime minister of Japan to come to Washington and when the White House said, "Well, why don't you have a dinner for him at the State Department?" I said, "Well, we've already got this other dinner at the State Department, and I'm not about to ask them to move." So I have to leave here to go over to the National Geographic building to host a dinner for Prime Minister Noda.
But I wanted to come by and thank all of you. I wanted to thank Fortune. I wanted to thank Pattie Sellers. I want to thank all of you for what you have done to really put the issue of women and women's opportunities and successes at the forefront. And I know, Pattie, you're not only editor-in-chief of Fortune, you also --
MS. SELLERS: I'm not editor-in-chief. (Laughter.)
SECRETARY CLINTON: Oh, well, editor-at-large. Editor-at-large, yes, editor-at-large, sorry. But editor-at-large plus co-chairing the Most Powerful Women Summit. And I'm grateful that Fortune and the State Department have worked together for several years now on the Global Women's Mentoring Partnership. So far we have connected 174 emerging women leaders from over 42 countries -- (applause) -- the West Bank, and Gaza with mentors from Fortune's Most Powerful Women Leaders.
And I would like to ask, first, all of the mentors to raise your hand who are here tonight. Thank you, thank you, thank you. (Applause.) And then I want to ask all the mentees to raise your hand. (Applause and cheers.)
Well, I'm excited because we have both mentors and mentees who are really stepping up to lead in the midst of historic political, social, and economic change. We have many relationships that are being created between you to spread information and inspiration at the same time. I really believe in this kind of mentoring and networking, because all too often it's lonely out there, it's hard out there, and you need support and guidance along the way. And for me, that's not only important on a personal level, but I've seen the difference that women leaders, women activists, women citizens can make from one end of the world to the other.
Now, we are trying very hard to make sure that women are at the heart of American foreign policy and national security, not just because we think it's a nice thing to do, but because we're convinced by the evidence that it makes a real difference. So this is a celebration, and it's a thank you for everybody who has participated in this program, but it's also yet one more step on the way toward trying to ensure that women and girls are given the chance to live up to their own God-given potential.
So I thank you all. I'm sorry I won't be here this evening to get to know you a little better and have some personal conversations, but for me, this is one of these events that I think has a lot of potential, because I don't know who all is going to be in what position going forward.
Now, there's somebody special that I want to introduce. I was looking for her. Sometimes she's hard to find in a crowd. But I want her to come here. I want Senator Barbara Mikulski to come up here -- (laughter and applause) -- because I want you to know Senator Mikulski -- (applause and cheering) -- is the longest serving woman in history in the United States Congress. (Applause and cheering.) And when I was in the Senate we called her "the Dean" because she was the dean of all the women. Now she has surpassed the longevity of all the women.
And I want you, as I have to depart -- I know you weren't expecting this Barbara, but nobody expresses herself than Barbara Mikulski. I want her to give you just a little bit of an idea, because life is funny and unpredictable. Barbara was a social worker in Baltimore. And then something motivated her to be an advocate and to speak out and then to decide to run for public office. Now, earlier today, I know there was a panel that I heard about that I think Ann Stock and Assistant Secretary Roberta Jacobson and Under Secretary Tara Sonenshine were on, Barbara. And in the discussions with some of you, a number of you said well, your fathers, your brothers, your husbands are urging you to run for office, but you're not sure you're willing to do it because you'll get so discouraged from the other women in your lives, that your girlfriends, your women relatives, they're afraid for you, they're worried about you, they don't whether it's a good idea.
And so I want Barbara to give you just a little favor -- (laughter) -- of -- yeah, you've got to encourage all these young women from all over the world, Barbara. So please join me in welcoming Senator Barbara Mikulski. (Applause.)
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Yellow Split Pea Stew with Smoked Turkey
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- Servings: 4
- 2 quarts water
- 2 cups yellow split peas
- 1 pound smoked-turkey pieces
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 3 scallions—white and pale green parts cut into 1/2 inch pieces, green tops thinly sliced
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- Hot sauce, for serving
How to make this recipe
In a large saucepan, combine the water, split peas, turkey and bay leaf and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the peas have dissolved and the stew has thickened, about 1 hour. Discard the bay leaf. Transfer the turkey to a large plate and when cool enough to handle, remove all of the meat and cut it into bite-size pieces. Discard the bones and skin. Add the turkey meat back to the stew.
In a medium skillet, heat the oil. Add the scallion pieces, garlic and cumin and cook over moderate heat until fragrant, about 2 minutes. Scrape the mixture into the stew and season with salt and pepper. Garnish each serving with sliced scallion tops and serve with hot sauce.
Make Ahead
The stew can be refrigerated for up to 3 days. Reheat gently.
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Private Scott Kennedy, 20, from Dunfermline, and Private James Kerr from Cowdenbeath, both from the Black Watch, were killed along with Corporal Paul Joszko, 28, from Mountain Ash of the Royal Welsh, by an improvised explosive device as they were protecting a convoy delivering supplies to the Basra palace, a large complex built by Saddam Hussein.
Gordon Brown said he was "deeply saddened" by the deaths. Pte Kerr was from his parliamentary constituency.
Defence sources last night echoed recent remarks by the defence minister Des Browne that Britain was "on course" to hand the Basra palace base over to Iraqi control next month.
The date of move will not be announced until after the event to reduce the risk of attacks by insurgents. But it is expected within the next few weeks when Britain's military presence is due to be cut by at least a further 500 troops, leaving a total of 5,000. British troops in Iraq will then be confined to a single base at Basra airport.
The three soldiers were killed after they dismounted from their Warrior armoured vehicle at about 1am in the Antahiya district in south-east Basra.
Major David Gell, the MoD's spokesman in Basra, said: "It wasn't a foot patrol, they had been in their Warrior armoured vehicle. There are times during patrols that soldiers are required to dismount to conduct routine checks and this is what happened."
A senior defence official said dismounting was "part of the techniques, practices and procedures of investigating an area" as it allowed the soldiers a much better look at the situation.
Locals from Cpl Joszko's home village in south Wales said they were devastated at the news of the death of the soldier, who had a one-year-old son and was expecting a second this year. "There is crying in the street," said one resident, Alwyn Gunter.
The injured soldier was receiving treatment at the military field hospital in Basra, the MoD added. Seven British soldiers have been killed in southern Iraq this month and 156 have died in the country since the hostilities began. Maj Gell said there had been a recent increase in attacks against coalition troops.
"We believe this to be in part because of our success against rogue militia who are trying to destabilise the situation," he said, adding: "We are having significant success against them in search operations, finding significant amounts of arms, ammunition and roadside bomb-making equipment. In arrest operations we are also targeting a number of insurgents."
Last month Mr Browne said "well over 80%" of attacks in Basra were now aimed at British forces.
He described Iranian influence in southern Iraq as "very important" as it was supplying money and equipment to militia and insurgents attacking British troops. British commanders, who want to reduce the troops in southern Iraq quickly, say the Iraqi army in the south is slowly becoming competent though the police force is infiltrated by Shia militia.
Elsewhere in Iraq, 20 beheaded bodies were discovered yesterday on the banks of the Tigris river southeast of Baghdad. The bodies - all men aged 20 to 40 years - had their hands and legs bound, and some of the heads were found next to the bodies.


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Layton • Lori Kalt stood atop a flatbed Saturday morning looking out over a swarm of people displaying protest signs as a blizzard swirled around them.
Bundled up against the snow and wind, they ignored the foul weather and focused on Kalt, leader of Save Farmington, a citizens campaign to kill plans to extend the Legacy Parkway north.
"We don't want Utah to build a road through Farmington Bay," Kalt said to the crowd of more than 100, citing the harm to wildlife, the increase in pollution, the cost and the community disruption. "This affects all of us."
Hundreds of people demonstrated against plans for the West Davis Corridor, a 24-mile, $600 million highway proposed by the Utah Department of Transportation. Although an in-depth environmental study and the selection of a preferred route are due in the spring, they didn't wait to denounce the proposal's impact on the community.
Carl Ingwell, founder of the online Utah Birder group, noted how new highways typically mean new development and more pollution. It's a contradiction that state leaders like Gov. Gary Herbert are prodding Utahns to drive less while building highways intended to get them to drive more, said Ingwell, who recently organized a protest and sit-in at the state capitol called Gov. Herbert, We Cannot Breathe.
"This is not smart growth," Ingwell told the Saturday crowd. "This is stupid growth."
UDOT spokesman John Gleason said in a telephone interview that the main question, given the state's projected population boom, is what route the highway will take. A route along Interstate 15 and another across more open lands along Farmington Bay are under consideration.
"Everything's subject to change until the final [alignment] decision in 2014," Gleason said.
Still, critics are bent on derailing the proposal entirely.
Utah does not need another highway," declared Marty Price of Fowl Minded, a group focused on conserving waterfowl and upland game habitat.
Jeffre Hicks of the Utah Airboat Association reminded the crowd there's no way to restore wetlands once they're gone. And the habitat is a critical part of the Pacific Flyway, a food and rest stop of international importance for migrating birds.
"There's just no way," he said, "to get that back."
Demonstrators lined Glovers Lane bobbing placards and waving at passers by. About a dozen air boats took part in a kind of parade along the narrow lane.
The protesters represented joggers, bikers, birders, hunters and locals devoted to the vast, though sometimes lake-stinky expanse along the Great Salt Lake just north of the Farmington Bay Wildlife Management Area.
Kalt said the outpouring was not entirely unexpected, since everyone she talks to about the highway seems to agree it's a bad idea.
"I was glad," she said, "so many other people and organizations felt the same as we did, had the same concerns."
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Recepta Continues Upswing in Noble Damsel
Recepta secured her second straight stakes win and first career graded stakes victory Sept. 19 in the Noble Damsel Stakes (gr. IIIT) on the Belmont turf.
Recepta secured her second straight stakes win and first career graded stakes victory Sept. 19 in the Noble Damsel Stakes (gr. IIIT) on the Belmont turf.
Sagamore Farn and Mel Paikoff's Happy My Way, a grade III-winning gelding by Wilko, was put down following a slab fracture that could not be repaired. The 5-year-old ran fifth Aug. 1 in a stakes race at Mountaineer.
Sandbar, claimed last fall by Ken and Sarah Ramsey, and jockey Joel Rosario wore down pacesetter Happy My Way for a game victory in the Maryland Sprint Handicap (gr. III) at Pimlico May 16.
Fox Hill Farms' Coup de Grace appears the one to beat in the $150,000 Maryland Sprint Handicap (gr. III) at Pimlico Race Course May 16.
Daddy Justice became the first reported winner for sire Lantana Mob when he dominated a maiden special weight field by 3 1/4 lengths Aug. 1 at Indiana Grand Race Course.
Sagamore Farm and Mel Paikoff's Happy My Way streaked wire to wire in the $150,000 Maryland Sprint Handicap presented by Jagermeister (gr. III) May 17 at Pimlico Race Course, securing his first graded stakes score.
Lemon Drop Dream and Action Andy are co-highweights at 115 pounds for the Maryland Sprint Handicap, with Lemon Drop Dream entering the race off a victory in the Count Fleet Sprint H. (gr. III) at Oaklawn Park.
Former Central Kentucky stallion Mutakddim, sire of six champions and more than 100 stakes winners, has died at Haras La Quebrada in Argentina.
Veterinarian Tom Bowman has joined his son, Brooke Bowman, D.V.M., and veteran Maryland horseman Louis Merryman as a partner in the newly formed Heritage Stallions.
Veterinarian Brooke Bowman and Louis Merryman announced the formation of Heritage Stallions, a new Thoroughbred stallion facility to be operated near Chesapeake City, Md.
Running for the first time in 2013, Michael Dubb's Sage Valley earned his fourth straight victory when he took the $150,000 Maryland Sprint Handicap (gr. III) at Pimlico Race Course May 18.
Robert Abbo Racing Stable's Immortal Eyes, a top Mid-Atlantic region sprinter with 13 victories and 12 seconds in 41 starts, will attempt to get his first victory at Pimlico Race Course in the May 18 Maryland Sprint Handicap.
Trainers comment on the offspring of Speightstown they have raced. Read the full feature in the Jan. 12, 2013, issue of The Blood-Horse. view slideshow
Hamazing Destiny and jockey Corey Nakatani took advantage of a duel between the early leaders before taking the lead at the top of the stretch to win the Maryland Sprint Handicap (gr. III).
Robert Abbo Racing Stable's Immortal Eyes, who just missed winning last year's Maryland Sprint Handicap (gr. III) after rating a bit early, will try again when the six-furlong event is held May 19 at Pimlico Race Course.
Millionaire gelding wins a tight one over Immortal Eyes and Ben's Cat.
Returned to the stakes calendar at Laurel Park after a one-year hiatus, the $150,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash drew a field of 10, led by two-time grade III winner Ravalo.
Third in the Remington Sprint Cup in 2009, Ravalo made his return to Oklahoma City a winning one when he prevailed by a half-length over favored Captain Cherokee in the $200,000 event at Remington Park Aug. 20.
Ventana returned to his winning ways, as the 5-year-old finally did May 21 at Pimlico Race Course when he outdueled longshot Immortal Eyes to score the $100,000 Maryland Sprint Handicap (gr. III).
Ventana, the only previous graded stakes winner entered in the Maryland Sprint (gr. III), is seeking his first score outside California. The race, which attracted a field of nine, will be contested at six furlongs May 21.
Beyond the Blinkers captured Kentucky Oaks favorite Joyful Victory as she entered the track May 4. Read Blog
A full field of 14, led by the coupled entry of Driven by Success and Driven by Solar, was drawn for the $150,000 General George Handicap (gr. II) Feb. 21 at Laurel Park.
Two months after his BC Sprint (gr. I) win, Big Drama opened his 5-year-old season with a brilliant four-length score in the Mr. Prospector (gr. III) while setting a new track record at Gulfstream Park.
Big Drama, winner of the Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. I) and a finalist for champion sprinter at the Jan. 17 Eclipse Awards, will begin his 5-year-old campaign against a short field in the Mr. Prospector (gr. III).
Stalking Ravalo took advantage of a hot pace to register a head victory over Signature Red at odds of 7-1 in the $150,783 Kennedy Road Stakes (Can-III) Nov. 20 at Woodbine.
|Breeder / Owner
|Celtic Innis
|Timothy L. Keefe
|Despite the Odds
|Michael J. Trombetta
|Half Metal Jacket
|Rudy R. Rodriguez
|Lantana Mob
|Steven M. Asmussen
|Malibu Kid
|Rodney Jenkins
|Not for Silver
|Michael J. Trombetta
|David Jacobson
|Roaring Lion
|Todd A. Pletcher
|Silver Edition
|D. Wayne Lukas
|Joe Woodard
|Kiaran P. McLaughlin
|TaWee S.
|Osunitas S.
|Schuylerville S. (G3)
|Lake George S. (G3T)
|Albuquerque Distaff H.


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ENG-MERSEYSIDE-L ArchivesArchiver > ENG-MERSEYSIDE > 2007-11 > 1196343697
From: GEORGE HIGHTON <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] William Huyton/ Highton Born Prescot
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:41:37 +0000 (GMT)
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Yes Gordon
hold my hands up you'r right once again (my memory is not what it was ) it was before I had got back that far
Nellie Highton Married William John Jones St Pauls Tranmere 27-3-1930
Her Father William Highton Master Mariner 1 Lever Terrace Tranmere
is this one of yours
( Given to me by a volunteer Transcriber in Birkenhead)
Regards George
Gordon Evans <> wrote:
Hi George
>You never mentioned you had Hightons in your Tree what else are
>you hiding in there
I'm pretty certain I would have mentioned my HIGHTONs to you before, since
I've known for quite a while that my 2nd cousin 4 times removed Elizabeth
SHERLOCK (b1796 Caldy) married a Henry HIGHTON around 1823 in Liverpool and
had at least 5 HIGHTON children born there.
This Henry was quite likely born 1796 in Melling, Lancashire, but I doubt
I'll ever be able to prove it since he didn't make it to the 1841 Census.
Lots of HIGHTONs (+ variations) around, of course - far more thank you'd
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Cheers George
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Cross 150th Anniversary Limited Edition 1996
by Jim Mamoulides, March 26, 2004
Cross 150th Anniversary Limited Edition 1996 shown with the included crystal inkwell
Revival of a rarity
When the A. T. Cross Pen Company decided to launch its first limited edition pen in 1996 the company followed the growing trend among pen makers in reviving vintage company designs. Parker and Sheaffer had both recently introduced updated vintage designs into their lines, drawing on their extensive catalog of famous pen lines. Entering this market, Cross had something of a dilemma. Though the oldest USA manufacturer of writing instruments, Cross did not have the extensive history in fountain pens as its competitors.
Cross introduced its first stylographic pen and propel-repel pencil in 1879, well before most current pen companies were even formed. The company's own history doesn't list a nibbed fountain pen until 1930 and then not again until 1982. What is recognized today as the classic Cross "look" can be seen in the Century pencil, introduced in 1946, and the Century ballpoint, introduced in 1953, a successful design that is still in production today. Drawing on the company's historical pens would limit the choices.
Cross 150th Anniversary Limited Edition 1996
Cross chose the the classic, and quite rare 1930 triple banded pen and pencil. This is a very art-deco design with three inlaid enamel bands on the cap and barrel and a "flamestitch" machine engraved pattern the length of both. The original pen was a sleeve filler, operated by sliding the barrel back from the section to reveal a cutout for a press bar over an ink sac. Pressing the bar collapsed the sac, much like a lever filler would work, or a modern squeeze converter does. The original design was very simple to make and eliminated many of the complex mechanics from the filling process. Some sources date this pen from 1930-1941, but the actual production dates are quite murky.
Cross 150th Anniversary Limited Edition 1996
As with modern Cross pens, many examples have logos mounted on them. One that is seen often is the Packard shield, attached on the cap above the clip, a sales award for Packard automobile salesmen. Cross to this day aims a lot of its business at the awards and premiums market, as well as the gift pen market. Certainly many of us can remember seeing a gold-filled or sterling silver Cross ballpoint and pencil set being given as a gift.
Cross 150th Anniversary Limited Edition 1996
An Elaborate Package
This first Cross limited edition celebrates the 150th anniversary of the founding of the company by Alonzo T. Cross in 1846. His first work, according to the brochure included with the pen, was in making "hand-tooled filigree casings for wooden pencils" in Providence, Rhode Island, an important jewelry and silverware manufacturing center in the late 1800s.
Cross 150th Anniversary Limited Edition 1996, showing packaging
The edition comes in a huge solid American Cherry wood case with a hinged top. Inside the case is, of course up to the three pieces of each edition, a wooden pen tray that will hold all of the pens, and the included cut crystal inkwell, an engraveable plaque, and a bottle of ink. This set is designed to sit on the desk, where the pieces can stay protected until used.
Detail from Cross 150th Anniversary Limited Edition brochure showing early trademark
Cross chose the 1930s design as a representation of the height of its pen making craft. The design also shows the heritage of the Cross "look" in today's Cross pens. The edition comes in two versions, 12 karat gold filled or solid sterling silver. The nib is elaborately engraved 18 karat gold with rhodium plated highlights, featuring a lion's head, which was an early Cross company trademark.
Detail from Cross 150th Anniversary Limited Edition brochure showing Sterling Silver Edition
The fountain pen uses a standard Cross converter for bottle filling, or can use Cross cartridges. The ballpoint and pencil use standard Cross mechanisms. All of the instruments in the edition should be very familiar to Cross collectors.
The 150th Anniversary Commemorative Limited Edition was a release of 10,000 total writing instruments in three writing modes, in individual units and packaged sets:
- Fountain Pen - US $1,000.00
- Twist Action Ballpoint Pen - US $500.00
- 0.9mm Twist Action Pencil - US $500.00
The warranty for the edition is very interesting. The mechanism for the ballpoint and pencil and the feed for the pen are "unquestionably guaranteed against mechanical failure regardless of age (emphasis as in the brochure)." However, Cross must have recognized that stocking replacement parts or repairing defects on the limited number of instruments produced would be a challenge, so they limit the warranty on them. The "caps, barrels, points, clips, nibs, conical tops, and decorative bands" are all limited to Cross' availability of repair parts and could be returned unrepaired if Cross were to run out. In any case, abuse is not covered.
Identification guide and features:
- Edition limited to 10,000 total writing instruments, 2,750 individually numbered fountain pens, 2,450 ballpoint pens, and 600 pencils each edition, in gold filled and sterling silver
- Edition number marked near the cap top
- 12 karat gold filled or solid sterling silver cap, barrel and clip
- Three black enamel bands each on the cap and barrel
- Cap and barrel engraved with engine-turned flamestich pattern
- Ball end clip
- Engraved 18 karat gold nib with rhodium plated highlights, featuring a lion's head, an early Cross company trademark
- Screw on cap
- About 5 1/4 inches long capped, and is about 4 7/8 inches uncapped, the pen does not post well
- Weighs 1.2 ounces
- Cartridge / converter filling system
- Offered as fountain pen, $1,000, twist-action ballpoint pen, $500, and twist-action 0.9 mm pencil, $500, or $2,000 for a set of all three instruments
- Set of three instruments presented in a solid American Cherry wood case with a cut crystal inkwell, an engraveable plaque, and a bottle of ink
Cross 150th Anniversary Limited Edition 1996
The Cross 150th Anniversary pen is mid-size, smaller than the huge and heavy Townsend line, and a definite move away from the trend toward increasingly huge and ornate limited edition pens of the time and following. It's less bulky than the Townsend, with thinner walled cap and barrel, giving the all metal pen surprising lightness, more like a 1920s metal Wahl pen, though it's still heavier than most plastic pens. The basic design is all Cross, with the classic taper at both ends, capped in black plastic, with a crisp edge. The cap and barrel are machine engraved in a striking zigzag pattern and finished in a very bright 12 karat gold fill or solid sterling silver. The inlaid triple enamel bands on the cap and barrel work very well against this busy design and give the pen a strong visual pattern at a distance that becomes more detailed close up. This is a bold statement pen.
Cross 150th Anniversary Limited Edition cap and nib detail
This is a very high quality pen. The fit and finish are first rate. I'm generally leery of pens with metal cap and barrel threads, but this one threads very smoothly, implying hopefully long service without excessive wear. If I have gripe about the externals of the pen, it would be a wish for the engraving to be a little deeper. It should stand out a little more. Even the limited edition markings on the cap top are on the light side, making them hard to see unless turned, just so.
Capped, the pen is about 5 1/4 inches long, and is about 4 7/8 inches uncapped. The pen does not post securely at all, and unless you want to force the cap on and risk marring the finish, I don't recommend it. If posting pen caps is a buying decision, don't include this one on your wish list. Given this, the uncapped length may be a little short for some, but the pen fits the hand nicely and feels great because of all those textures.
Cross 150th Anniversary Limited Edition 1996
Although this is a cartridge / converter pen, the included piston filler converter works so well and the included ink bottle and crystal inkwell are so inviting, I only tested it from the bottle. Cross ink is obviously Pelikan ink, down to the bottle shape, but I used my trusty Waterman Florida Blue for testing, as it flushes cleaner.
The nib is the focal point on this pen, and is one of the most ornate I've ever seen. Lot's of details make one want to watch it as it smoothly and quietly does its work, laying down a nice evenly wet line. The rhodium plating is subdued, given the busy engraving. I did spot the one defect on this pen. There's a little dab of rhodium on the lion's face. It doesn't detract, but it's there. No other quality issues appear on this pen, but something even this minor should not be expected on a US $1,000.00 product. The section plastic choice could have been a softer feeling plastic. I find the hard plastic chosen feels beneath this pen.
The 1930s ball clip has just enough spring for thin material, but not for flannel. This pen needs to ride in a starched shirt, anyway.
Detail of Cross 150th Anniversary Limited Edition nib
The Cross 150th Anniversary Limited Edition is more of a recreation of the vintage design using modern tooling and filling systems than an updated homage to the original. It would have been interesting to play with the 1930 pen side by side with this new version, but they are quite rare and fetch princely prices. Considering that many modern converters use a press bar design, it would have been interesting if Cross had decided to mimic the original pen's sleeve filler design with a removable sleeve type converter.
I found the pen extremely appealing and a pleasure to test. I did not put it to hard daily use, but I can look to other contemporary examples of Cross gold filled pens and feel confident that this one will hold up. Does it hold up to its retail price? No. It's not difficult to see these turn up now and then at 1/3 to 1/2 the list price. The value probably is hurt by Cross mostly selling in the low to middle fine pen market, and the name can't carry a US $1,000 pen.
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Writing History: 150 Years of the A. T. Cross Company, Barbara Lambert, Copyright © 1996, A. T. Cross Company, Lincoln, RI, USA
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rash of films concerning memory loss (and the popularity of these films) strikes me as a quixotic curiosity. What is it about the idea of losing one's memory that fascinates so many of us? Reaching far beyond standard soap-opera amnesia, the concept of forgetting has poked its chubby little finger into every cinematic type of pie. From the fluffy meringue of romantic comedy in Fifty First Dates to the continental Bavarian cream of action-packed thrillers like The Bourne Identity, an epidemic fixation on recall is undeniable. So why has the concept of forgetting become such a muse for contemporary screenwriters and a favorite of modern audiences?
A friend of mine predictably pointed to 9/11 as the source for our new-found addiction to memory loss, pondering a subliminal rebellion against a culture bent on remembering painful events in an effort to meaning-make in the face of a refreshed existentialist crisis. Another offered the Baby Boomers' forthcoming golden years as an explanation: perhaps the fear of senility or Alzheimer's of such a large portion of the population is reflected in the anxiety of these films.
But that begs the question, are we anxious about memory loss? Or do these movies show us enjoying an infantile freedom from recollection?
Certainly Memento is an illustration of the sense of panic accompanying perpetual amnesia. How much of a person's identity is caught in the web of memory has been a philosophical and neurological debate for decades. Human curiosity is part of what theologians, philosophers, and humanists have argued distinguishes us from our thumbless and furry companions, and our need/want to know has always been the central theme in creation myths. But from Prometheus to Eve, knowledge reveals itself to be a burdensome and inexplicable gift, riddled with adult responsibility and the human lack of ability to handle that responsibility. Our desire to know defeats us because of the lingering debt to history, and the action implied therein, that comes as the price of enlightenment. So our relationship with knowledge, and by extension memory, is ambiguous.
If the issue is a shirking of adult duty, then the even-more ambiguous Freud is the predictable authority. In Freudian terms, we could see the obsession with memory loss (and the resulting anxiety it seems to provoke in these films' characters) as representative of our fear of vulnerability or a return to the helplessness of childhood, despite our unconscious desire for second infancy. In movies from Total Recall (which, admittedly, is not the best example of a recent film) to Memento, there is a real sense that memory serves as a defense mechanism against those who (still retaining their memories) would take advantage of us. And that without our precious recollections, we would be more toyed with than Job. The truism is again resurrected: knowledge equals power. If we lose our ability to remember, we lose a big chunk of our humanity and self-identity.
But does that really pan out? Thinking about the most recent of these cinematic oubliettes, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, we see the erasure of experience in action. The process is depicted as an adventure, half-nightmare, half-fantasy. And in true Kaufman fashion, the mind is the most colorful landscape available. In this film we see anxiety provoked by the relinquishing of control. The people left in charge when you lose your memory are shown always abusing that power. (In Eternal Sunshine, Kirsten Dunst and Mark Ruffalo get high and dance naked on Jim Carrey, practically using him for an ashtray in the process, while his and Winslet's personal moments are scrubbed away; Elijah Wood's character attempts to use Winslet's abandoned affections to get a little; and the good doctor behind it all takes advantage of his lovestruck receptionist's fuzzy recollections of their affair.)
It could be, however, that the popularity of forgetfulness in films is just symptomatic of our larger interest (however deep) in the world of the psychological interior. Movies like What Dreams May Come, Fight Club, and A Beautiful Mind could be added to the genre sketched above if that were the case. But is that the entirety of it? We've been a culture fixated on the mind for a long time, and there's something unwieldy, disorderly, and a bit unnerving about memory in particular that defies our attempts to dub others either "normal" or "insane." Lurking in these other mind-oriented films is the safeness of "the other." The dead in What Dreams May Come are teetering on the precipice of insanity from the beginning, but more importantly they're not us because they're dead. A Beautiful Mind's mathematician is a schizophrenic genius, so he's "other" for two reasons: he's schizophrenic and he's a genius (assuming I'm not the only non-genius who's a part of the theatre-going public). But the characters from the recent amnesia films are flawed, affable, and reflect the average Joe. Their fears and desires are thus closer to our own and not so easy to put aside.
The Hollywood storyline that surfaces in all of these movies is that the freedom from memory is the freedom to be happy and still maintain self-identity. While the characters' curiosity seems to paradoxically increase in direct proportion to how little they remember, they remain wholly themselves despite their fragmented vision of the past. Drew Barrymore's amnesiac, daily wooed anew, lives out in many ways the best fantasy of all the characters in this genre, falling in love and never losing that sense of newness that inevitably fades from relationships that last longer than a day. Mary still falls for the father-figure psychiatrist (Wilkinson), and Clementine is still instantly attracted to Joel in Eternal Sunshine. Matt Damon's character even retains his kung-fu mastery and assassin's knowledge of handguns in The Bourne Identity (so does the Governator in Total Recall, to dip back once again into the possibly irrelevant). Memento's Leonard Shelby gets the privilege of creating his own reality everyday, becoming a questing hero in his own mind, though possibly a villain in reality. But what does he care? He won't remember.
The same could be said for following this line of reasoning: suspend disbelief almost to the point of absurdity to pretend that these popular films are extremely intertextual and are truly emblematic of a social-psychological phenomenon. Really what difference could it possibly make? You could just forget that you ever considered it.
That's really the point though, isn't it? We don't have the luxury of forgetting, which is I think what we'd all really like to do, hence these films' insurgence in the theatres. Perhaps we have embraced the amnesiac thriller because we've witnessed the failure of the psychiatric thriller (Analyze That!) and we still have memories with which we cannot or will not come to terms.
The anxieties and fears these films deal with are the result of imagining the consequences and confusions of a memory-free existence. They consider what's to be lost—but considering the downfalls of amnesia wouldn't be worth it if we weren't interested in the possibility of escapism and carefree happiness that a spotless mind offers.


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In 2010, amongst 250 young adults between 15 and 45, there will be a survivor of cancer during childhood or adolescents. Source 1 and Source 2
The comprehensive treatment programmes, which are available to doctors, are a great burden. Initially, the primary goal was to secure the patients' survival. However, today one is increasingly concerned with the treatment-associated long-term effects and the quality of survival. The goal of research today is to not only increase the healing rates but to also reduce long term complications. The methods of treatment must not only become more effective but also more gentle.
Cancer does not end with the completion of the medical intensive treatment. Young patients should be able to lead an unimpaired life, preferably without lasting damage, integrated within their social surroundings, with the same chances, rights and possibilities as their contemporaries.
After the lonesome and straining treatment, the children and adolescents with the diagnosis "cancer cured", desire a quick return to school, apprenticeship and job. They want to actively shape their lives again, integrated and accepted by society.
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WASHINGTON– House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (OR-04) and Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Subcommittee Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) today introduced the Advancing Conservation and Education Act [H.R. 4901]. This landmark legislation will increase public education funding in western states while completing conservation areas that currently include state school trust lands.
"As a former Utah public school teacher I can attest to the very real funding challenges facing public schools in western states. Among the unintended consequences of previous federal conservation designations are the limitations placed on school trust lands trapped within those areas. Right now it is difficult, if not impossible, to utilize millions of acres intended to support public schools. As a result, public schools are shortchanged out of much-needed revenue. We have an opportunity to fix these issues by exchanging trapped school trust parcels for lands with viable revenue opportunities. In turn we will complete the conservation areas. It's a commonsense solution that most importantly delivers a win for school kids in the West," said Congressman Rob Bishop.
"Conservation designations are critical, but designations trapped in a checkerboard pattern do not provide environmental benefits and they tie the hands of cash-strapped Western states. This bipartisan legislation is a win for those in the conservation community that want to protect our lands, and it's a win for Western states, the federal government, and taxpayers because it consolidates a fractured land base," said Congressman Peter DeFazio.
In the West, many state-owned school trust lands are scattered throughout the state in a "checkerboard" pattern. Congress granted most of these lands to the western states at the time of their statehood with the intent they be held in trust and managed to support public education. Today, the Western States Land Commissioners Association estimates there are more than two million acres of these school parcels located in federal areas managed for conservation, such as National Parks, Wildlife Refuges, and Wilderness areas. As a result, it is difficult, and often impossible, to generate revenue on these school trust parcels because of their inaccessibility and proximity to federally protected places.
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Satellite player SpeedCast says it has opened a new maritime facility in Singapore as part of its global expansion.
The new facility is to focus on the delivery of services and support for the maritime market and will augment the company's extensive network in the region, said SpeedCast in a statement.
SpeedCast provides a variety of services to maritime customers, including a VSAT service branded SeaCast that will support broadband connections on ships and also facilitate the use of remote M2M sensing.
The company described the opening of the Singapore facility as a next step in the strategic investments it is making to address the needs of maritime customers.
The facility includes warehousing, staging and testing capabilities, and will employ additional staff in Singapore.
Its opening comes shortly after SpeedCast unveiled a new facility in Perth, Australia.
"Because Singapore is a major shipping hub and headquarters for numerous shipping and fleet management companies, it was natural for us to increase our presence here," said Andre Eerland, SpeedCast's vice president for maritime sales. "This complements our large Hong Kong and Rotterdam bases, and our smaller sales and support centers around the world, and enhances our ability to serve customers throughout the region."
Pierre-Jean Beylier, SpeedCast's chief executive, added that the opening of the Singapore facility demonstrated the company's dedication to serving the maritime industry.
SpeedCast claims to be the only Asia-based service provider to operate its own global network, and says it serves hundreds of vessels in the region.
The company cited ship management company China LNG Shipping as an example of a customer using its SeaCast service.
SeaCast is being used on board each of CLSICO's six LNG carriers for network access, ship management, crew communications and remote IT support.
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Beautiful beach home 100 feet of shallow sandy beach with 35 foot dock, Interior has stone fireplace & chimney with gas log insert, HDTV, satellite with 250 channels, DVD, VCR and surround sound. Kitchen features modern appliances including dishwasher and gas range. Washer & Dryer in first floor bathroom. Located within 25 minutes of 3 golf courses, major shopping outlets including LL Bean and the Christmas Tree shop, and 45 minutes to the scenic White Mountains.
This Ossipee lakefront home was an outstanding property for our family and grandkids. We spent a week with 10 adults, 3 grandchildren ( 2yr old, 9 &4 months), and two boats at the dock (20 ft Outdrive 16 footy inboard). The sandy beach is right off the deck and the water was clean, clear and warm. The sand extended out at more than 30 yards into the water which is wonderful for both adults and children.
The home has everything you need to enjoy a relaxing family vacation. It is well equipped with bedding, cooking
utensils, two dishwashers, huge BBQ and a outdoor gas lobster pot. The home had more than enough room for all and everyone enjoyed the sunroom and deck for meals.
The owners were very helpful, responded quickly to email request for information and made our extended family vacation memorable. We looking forward to another stay at this lake home next year.
Thank you for sharing you home with our family.
Mike and Jan
This home is undoubtable a gem on the lake. It was exactly as pictured but as you get inside it is even better. I was suprised to find the whole first floor was tiled. Since my husband and I brought our dogs, this was an added plus. Getting up each morning and walking onto the deck was another joy. The house was easy to keep straight as we spent most of the day outside, on the deck or boating, fishing or swimming. The house is so close to the lake, you walk down the deck stairs and 2 more stone stairs and you are on the beach.
We started the week with a birthday party and the grill is huge. It easily accomodated us and we did not worry about running out of gas. There was nothing that we did not like about this house. There was pots, pans, dishes, silverware, everything you could need for cooking and eating.
There are not alot of restaurants nearby, you really have to travel about 20 miles to get your pick of a lot of restaurants. We did however go locally to Pizza Barn for subs and they were great.
I would highly recommend using this property for your next vacation. Your every need has been anticipated. It is clean and comfortable and a pleasure accomodate that is well worth the price.
We had the pleasure of renting this outstanding home. We had a steady flow of guests through the week and all commented on what a great house and location. Completely updated with all the amenities, including a great wet bar. Great beachfront with shallow warm water, 2 fire pits, large deck (including one off the master suite), canoe and paddle boat. Views of the lake surrounded by the mountains are superb. Highly recommend renting this beautiful home.
Thank you for sharing your home with our family of 6 over the Columbus Day weekend! Your home is absolutely beautiful. We felt so lucky to be able to rent a house right on a lake -- and Lake Ossipee is gorgeous .
We used the canoe (a first for us) and the peddle boat, as well as rented 4 kayaks from Canoe King up the road. They delivered the boats for very little cost and we used them all weekend. We were all surprised at how very shallow the lake is, and it was great to be able to kayak and see what's underneath you so clearly! We saw loons and eagles galore, which really was a great treat. We were also surprised (and felt lucky) that the lake activity was minimal to none... it was just beautiful. Some of us even woke up early to view the sunrise. The hot tub was amazing for stargazing, as was the fire pit on the beach. It was truly a relaxing weekend, and even with the White Mountains and Lake Winnipesaukee beckoning us to visit, it was hard to leave the house! We did, of course, but we were always more than happy to return.
Everything about the home was a plus -- each couple having their own bathroom; sitting in those over sized comfortable chairs in the living room and looking out at the lake; family dinners together and having breakfast and lunch in the dining room while looking out at the water... everyone should enjoy their coffee that way!
Our family is comprised of 3 couples, and never did we feel on top of each other, it was the perfect amount of space. Our kitty Lucy enjoyed the house as well, as she loved chasing her stuffed mice across the warm tiled floor! She thanks you for allowing her to come along, she really hates staying home when we leave.
The only thing we would suggest to make this fabulous house even better would be somewhere to put clothes in the bedrooms. Other than the master bedroom (which was beautiful), there was not really a convenient place to unpack clothes. The directions to the home were also incorrect, which sent some of us to the wrong place and gave a bit of a scare in the dark. Mapquest seemed to have gotten it wrong, so you may want to re-write them with a first-hand account of the roads.
Other than that, we had such a fantastic time that we are very much interested in renting your home again in the near future. Thanks again for sharing your home with us!!
Best house on the lake. Very large, modern and well kept. Plenty of room for our group of six people and could accommodate more. Situated on nice private beach with great views. Enjoyed the boats, dock, terrace and deck with top-of-the line barbecue. Also enjoyed luxury top-line kitchen appliances. Very quiet and relaxing. Owners very nice and responsive. Great value. Highly recommended.
We are an extended family of 10. Plenty of room for togetherness moments of quiet. Nice beach, green lawn, great location, gorgeous views of lake and mountains. Landlord attentive but not intrusive. Sunroom seats 8 and was perfect for dining, games and view of lake. House has everything. Well equiped kitchen (staples and utensils), large frig, gas grill whicn we used every day, 2 firepits, sandy shallow beach, WIFI worked perfectly, own dock, plenty of parking, plenty of room in loft bed (perfect for older child). Our crew included 4yr old twin boys, 2 12 yr olds, and 4 generations at times. All rooms air conditioned (we had 90 degree weather every day). Nice living room and game closet.
We had a fabulous time, perhaps best vacation as a group. Location and setting can't be beat. Perfect for all ages. Porch/sunroom was the perfect place to watch the fun, eat lunch and enjoy family game night. We kayaked, boated, jet skied, enjoyed s'mores at both firepit, jumped off the dock "5000 times", fished, played cards, and ate and ate and ate. Would highly recommend this rental. May be time for a grill upgrade.
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´King Bibi´ graces cover of TIME Magazine (JERUSALEM POST) By HERB KEINON 05/18/12)
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu graced the cover of TIME Magazine that hit newsstands Thursday, a week after the magazine made headlines with a provocative cover of a woman breast feeding her three-year old son.
"King Bibi," read the headline on the cover featuring a black-and- white close-up photo of an intense, unsmiling Netanyahu staring straight into the camera. "He´s conquered Israel. But will Netanyahu now make peace or war?"
The matter-of-fact, straightforward article, written by TIME´s managing editor Richard Stengel, marks the 37th occasion Israel has been on TIME´s cover in the magazine´s 89-year history.
This piece, which describes the Prime Minister´s world view, and how he looks at Iran and the diplomatic process with the Palestinians, will likely generate much less criticism among pro-Israel readers than the magazine´s two previous cover stories on Israel: The September 13, 2010, cover entitled "Why Israel doesn´t Care About Peace," and the January, 19, 2009 cover, "Why Israel can´t win."
Netanyahu, the magazine wrote when talking about the political "thunderstoke" that brought Kadima into the coalition, "is poised to become the longest-serving Israeli Prime Minister since David Ben-Gurion, the founding father of Israel."
"At a moment when incumbents around the world are being shunted aside, he is triumphant," the piece read.
Now, according to the story, the world will find out if Netanyahu "is a statesman or a pol, a builder or a general, the Israeli leader who can finally make peace with the Palestinians or the one who launches a potentially disastrous unilateral attack on Iran."
While there will be those taking issues with the way Stengel sets up the choices, and others will dispute his narrative of the diplomatic process with the Palestinians, no one can argue with how he accurately describes Netanyahu´s physical surroundings.
Referring to the Prime Minister´s official residence in Jerusalem, Stengel wrote, "The White House this isnt. Its an unmemorable modern building in a busy part of the city. Inside, one walks along paths that have not been swept, past unfinished construction and gardens that look untended. We sit in the courtyard outside his study, which has a naked concrete floor, some rickety chairs and an old couch. When Bibi signals that hes hot, a worker silently rolls out a creaky shoulder-height rotating fan that she places right behind his head. It is the opposite of formal."
Netanyahu discussed his relationship with the presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, disputing the impression left by a recent New York Times piece that described the two as having a "warm friendship little known to outsiders" that stretched back decades and was "nurtured over meals in Boston, New York and Jerusalem."
"It was at Boston Consulting that he met Mitt Romney," Stengel wrote. ´We did not know each other that well,´ Bibi says. ´He was the whiz kid. I was just in the back of the room.´ Bibi says he has seen Romney only a handful of times over the years and only once this year. They spoke for 10 minutes during his visit to Washington in March, mainly about Iran.
This was the second time Netanyahu had the weekly news magazine´s cover all to himself, the first time being on June 10, 1996, after he was elected prime minister for the first time. Then the headline was, "Can he make peace?"
Last month a small portrait of him appeared on TIME´s cover as part of a collage of the magazine´s 100 most influential people in the world. (© 1995-2011, The Jerusalem Post 05/18/12)
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FOOD scavenging in the vicinity of the Howegate has been reported again after the Baguette Express bin was emptied overnight.
A month ago the Hawick News revealed that people had been spotted raking for food in bins in the area, and this week staff at the Sandbed shop discovered that all the foodstuff which they hadn't used on Tuesday, had been taken from the waste overnight.
One staff member, who did not want to be named, said: "Someone has rummaged through our bin in the vennel and taken all the food waste, and left the plastic and paper. They've taken baguette ends, tubs of stovies, and pies and sausage rolls. I was quite shocked when I discovered the bin had been broken into and binbags everywhere."
She added: "I feel bad for the people that have to resort to doing something like that, but I don't want the mess as it could cause us problems."


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January 8, 2005
AMHERST, MA - The Amherst College women's hockey team rebounded from Friday night's 4-1 home conference loss to sixth-ranked Bowdoin with a 2-2 tie against visiting NESCAC rival Colby College on Saturday afternoon. Sophomores Tes Siarnacki (Gardner, MA) and Rachel Simon (West Orange, NJ) each scored for the Jeffs, who moved to 2-4-3 overall and 2-4-2 in conference play. Colby now stands at 3-3-1 (2-2-1 NESCAC).
Amherst drew first blood just 55 seconds into the game when sophomore Emily Cronin (Arlington, MA) and rookie Katharine Kelly (Milwaukee, WI) found Siarnacki for her fourth goal of the season. Colby rebounded with a goal in the second period and another in the third, as first-year Lauren Goethals (Needham, MA) and senior tri-captain Heather DeVito (Arlington, MA) each found the back of the net. Amherst's Simon then notched her fourth goal of the season with 6:23 left in regulation, tying her with Siarnacki and junior Renee Sisti (Coventry, CT) for the team lead and sending the game into overtime. Amherst rookie forward Elizabeth Ditmore (Excelsior, MN) assisted on the game-tying tally.
Amherst dominated play in the extra session when they outshot the Mules 6-0, but Colby first-year netminder Genevieve Triganne (Pointe-Claire, Quebec) was stellar between the pipes, finishing with 28 saves on the afternoon. Amherst rookie goalie Stacey Johnston (Kingston, Ontario) went untested in overtime but matched Triganne with 28 saves.
Amherst returns to action Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. against visiting NESCAC foe Connecticut College.
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Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
Charles Babbage announces his invention of a small mechanical difference engine able to carry out complex operations at a rate of about twelve calculations a minute mechanically in a paper entitled, "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables," which he reads to the Royal Astronomical Society in London, England. In 1823, he will begin constructing an industrial strength calculator, which he will be abandon in 1834 due to a series technical and bureaucratic problems.
The first US patent for a practical underwater diving suit is issued to Leonard Norcross of Dixfield, Maine. Calling it a "Diving Armor," he designed the airtight leather outfit with a brass helmet connected via a rubber hose to an air bellows pump on a boat. To reduce buoyancy, the feet of the suit are weighted with lead shot. In May 1834, one month earlier, he tested the diving suit in the Webb River. Norcross will later name his son Submarinus in honor of the achievement. The first truly effective diving suit with a pump is attributed to Englishman Augustus Siebe, in 1829.
Six patents are issued to Thomas Edison for electrical inventions, including two concerning an "Incandescent Electric Lamp," an "Incandescent Electric Lamp," a "Magneto or Dynamo Electric Machine," about "Electric Lighting," "Manufacturing Carbons for Electric Lamps," and an "Electric Meter." (US Nos. 242,896 to 242,901)
New York becomes the first state in the US to enact legislation requiring the utility wires to be buried. The legislation requires that in any incorporated city with a population over 500,000, "all telegraph, telephonic and electric light wires and cables … be placed under the surface of the streets, lanes and avenues." Furthermore, the act requires that telegraph poles are to be removed prior to November 1, 1885.
A number of patents are issued to Thomas Edison for a variety of inventions, including a "Pyromagnetic Generator," an "Expansible Pulley," a "Trolley for Electric Railways," a "Means for "Propelling Electric Cars," an "Electric Locomotive," a "Lightning-Arrester," a "Conductor for Electric Railways," an "Electric Meter," a "Method of and Apparatus for Separating Ores," an "Incandescent Electric Lamp," and an "Electric-Arc Lamp." (US Nos. 476,983 to 476,993)
Three patents are issued Thomas Edison, which are for a "Drying Apparatus," a "Phonograph," and a "Mixer." (US No. 605,475, 605,667, and 605,668)
US President Warren G Harding gives a speech at the dedication of the Francis Scott Key Memorial in Baltimore that is broadcast by local radio station WEAR. It's the first time a US president has been broadcast live.
Charles Francis Jenkins gives the first true demonstration of television, or "Motion Pictures by Wireless", using NOF. NOF, the call letters for radiophone broadcasts from Anacostia Naval Air Station, D.C., United States.
Charles Francis Jenkins makes his first experimental wireless television transmissions with a mechanical system called "Radiovision" from the Navy radio station in Anacostia to his Jenkins Laboratories office in Washington DC. It is the earliest transmission of moving silhouette images.
Action Comics issues the first Superman comic.
John Mauchly arrived in Iowa City for a meeting with John Atanasoff to see his computer. The two computer pioneers will later dispute who will be named the legal inventor of the electronic digital computer in court. Atanasoff will emerge from the long and tangled legal battle as the victor after Honeywell Inc. charged Sperry Rand Corp. with enforcement of a fraudulent patent. During the course of the trial, Atanasoff's work emerged and a judge will determine that his work had preceded and contributed to the development of the ENIAC.
Greyhound proposes using helicopter buses for large-scale public travel in an application filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB). Industrial designer Raymond Loewy and inventor Igor Sikorsky conceived the concept for a streamlined fourteen seat air bus. A scale model is shown at a hearings before the CAB, but none will ever be built. The company's plan is to provide landing ports by adapting Greyhound bus terminals. The venture will be publicized in a New York Times article on September 9, 1945.
The TeleVision Guide program listings journal is launched in New York by publisher Lee Wagner. The publication will eventually evolve into the TV Guide, which, for many years, will be the top-selling and most read publication in the US. Another listings guide, TV Digest is launched in Philadelphia by the Barowski brothers publishing company at nearly the same time.
The UNIVAC I, the first commercial, general-use computer, is unveiled in Washington, DC. and dedicated five years after the ENIAC, the first electronic computer in the US was completed. The Univac was designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert and manufactured for the US Census Bureau by the Remington Rand Corp. The massive computer is eight feet high, seven and a half feet wide, and 1fourteen and a half feet long. It can retain a maximum of one thousand numbers and is able to add, subtract, multiply, divide, sort, collate, and take square and cube roots. Its transfer rate to and from magnetic tape is ten thousand characters per second.
The keel is laid for the first American atomic submarine, the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), in a ceremony attended by President Harry S. Truman. It was built by the Electric Boat Company, a division of General Dynamics Corp., under the supervision of Captain Hyman George Rickover. Its liquid-cooled atomic reactor provides power for steam turbines. The submarine will be launched in early 1954, tested under nuclear power on January 17, 1955, and completed April 22, 1955.
The DuMont television network, the world's first commercial television network, opens its Tele-Centre, a five-studio production facility built in the former Central Opera House at 205 East 67 Street, New York at a cost of US$5 million. Designed for live productions, with the five control rooms stacked above each other, it also features DuMont Labs' transciption kinescope recording system. One studio is equipped for color film and slide output. The facility has a capacity for producing over one hundred sixty programs a week.
The European Space Research Organisation, which will one day become the European Space Agency, is established in Paris, France.
Inward Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS) service is introduced on a trial basis in the state of Alabama by AT&T in an attempt to reduce the time spent by operators processing toll calls for business clients. The service, which would eventually come to be known as a "flat-rate plan," will allow customers to receive unlimited long distance calls at a fixed price. The first inward WATS area code issued is 800.
NASA launches the Mariner 5 space probe on a mission to Venus from Cape Canaveral.
On Saturday, June 13 and Sunday, June 14, David Jannise, age 19, plays a top scoring game of Asteroids that lasts for thirty-six hours and twenty-nine minutes at the Rainbow Roller Rink in Beaumont, Texas.
Apple Computer announces 1,200 layoffs, which amounts to approximately one fifth of its employees.
Paramount Pictures releases the science fiction film D.A.R.Y.L., directed by Simon Wincer and starring Barret Oliver, Mary Beth Hurt, Michael McKean, and Danny Corkill, to 1,100 US theaters. The film centers around a robot built in the form of a boy who is so lifelike that he is mistaken for a real boy, and, when liberated from a government laboratory, he is adopted by a couple who are consternated by the boy's amazing abilities. The title of the film is the main character's name, which is an acronym for "Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform." The film will gross US$2,649,832 domestically in its opening weekend. IMDB listing (MPAA Rating: PG) Running Time: 1 hrs 40 min
Nintendo releases the puzzle game Tetris for the Game Boy in Japan.
The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Timescape" first airs. (No. 625) In it, Picard, Troi, La Forge, and Data return from a conference to discover that the Enterprise has been trapped in temporal stasis on the very brink of destruction at the hands of the Romulans. Memory Alpha entry
Time Warner, one of the world's largest media companies, announces a partnership with Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI), a world leader in high-performance computing graphics technology, to create the Full Service Network (FSN), an interactive television test deployment to 4,000 homes in Orlando, Florida, despite having acknowledged the superiority of Sun technology and having publicly made assurances in mid-April that Sun had won the deal.
Nintendo releases Donkey Kong for the Game Boy in Japan. The game is loosely based on the 1981 arcade game of the same name and its sequel Donkey Kong Jr.
Columbia Pictures releases the comedy film The Cable Guy, directed by Ben Stiller and starring Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann, and Jack Black, to 2,657 US theaters. The film is notable for being star Jim Carrey's first US$20 million paycheck, which is the highest amount ever paid to a comedic actor. Produced on a budget of US$47 million, the film will gross US$19,806,226 domestically in its opening weekend. IMDB listing (MPAA Rating: PG-13) Running Time: 1 hr 36 mins
Tamapittchi, a cellular phone with a Tamagotchi built into it, is released in Japan. Tamagotchi has been popular as a keychain virtual pet which grows and survives by means of simple interaction by it's "master." Price: 45,000 Yen
In the case of Robot Wars vs. BattleBots, US courts decide that Robot Wars has no right to prevent BattleBots from holding tournaments.
Intel releases the 400MHz Mobile Pentium II processor for use in mobile computers. The Mobile Pentium II processors, along with Celeron processors, are Intel's first line of processors to be manufactured are the first made with 0.18 micron manufacturing process.
United States District Judge George O'Toole sentences Robert Simons, age 62, to serve a seventy month prison sentence and to pay US$908,000 to Microsoft and US$440,000 to the federal government for conspiring with his son to sell over twenty million dollars worth of stolen Microsoft software through their software store, Crazy Bob's, in Wakefield, Massachusetts. His son is sentenced to twenty-two months in prison and to pay one hundred thousand dollars to Microsoft. The pair had acquired the software from two ex-KAO employees who plead guilty to selling stolen property.
Version 4.61 Netscape Communicator, the Internet suite produced by Netscape Communications Corporation, is released. The suite includes the Netscape Navigator web browser, the Netscape Messenger e-mail client and news client, the Netscape Address Book address book, the Netscape Composer HTML editor, the Netscape Calendar enterprise calendar client.
News begins to circulate that Ericsson, a leading provider of communications networks, plans to reduce their staff from 105,000 down to 90,000 and may even have to to continue their reductions down to 70,000. Just six months ago, Ericsson's job ads boasted that the company had "more than 100,000 employees in over 150 countries."
The research firm Ipsos-Reid releases a report indicating that literally billions of people within thirty countries of the world have no interest, need, money, or equipment to surf the Internet. Conversely, about four hundred million people use the Web on a daily basis. The survey indicates that ninety-eight percent of respondents own at least one television, that forty-eight percent own a personal computer, and that thirty-six percent have access the Internet.
A study conducted by Edison Media Research is reveals that 5.5 percent of Americans ages sixteen to forty have actively downloaded music from the Internet while not having purchased a music compact disc or cassette in the past year. The study surveyed 748 adults throughout the US.
Version 5.0 of the Java Ascii Versatile Editor (JavE), a freeware GUI tool written in Java for drawing ASCII art. Visit the official JavE website.
The bulk of the Solaris operating system is released on the Opening Day launch of the Sun Microsystems OpenSolaris project. Visit the official OpenSolaris website.
Yahoo! acquires DialPad Communications, a pioneer in the field of VoIP services. The software will be used as a core component of Yahoo's voice communications products across its portal network, as well as in its instant messaging application.
Google officially launches Google Maps for Enterprise as a commercial service, featuring intranet and advertisement-free implementations.
The Swedish newspaper SvD reports that The Pirate Bay had relocated its servers back to Sweden because of "pressure from the Department of Justice [in the Netherlands]." Upon reopening on June 3, 2006, its number of visitors doubled due to media exposure. That in turn increased the advertising revenues of founders Gottfrid Svartholm and Fredrik Neij. Directly after they raid, the site's advertisements generated about US$75,000 per month according to speculations by the Swedish newspaper.
Windows developer Philip Su posts a blog entry in which he decries the development process of Windows Vista, stating that "the code is way too complicated, and that the pace of coding has been tremendously slowed down by overbearing process." In the post he also describes Windows Vista as having approximately fifty million lines of code, with about two thousand developers working on the product.


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BHP Billiton's decision to wave a fond $US430 million farewell to Western Australia's Yeelirrie uranium deposit is good news for just about every stake holder except those that would have the radio-active stuff stay where it is.
The arrangement allows
At the same time it delivers the buyer, Canada's Cameco, an asset substantial enough to make it a cornerstone of a thriving Western Australian uranium business. As well, it might deflect any political pressure on the Canadians over their decision to slow progress on the Kintyre uranium project.
The third big winner is Premier Colin "No Boom" Barnett. He is a use-it-or-lose-it kind of guy and reinforced his resistance to project parking earlier this year when he made public his suggestion to BHP that it sell Yeelirrie if it had no intention of making a mine of it.
Generations of Labor governments have kept Western Australia resolutely out of the nuclear cycle. But in 2008, Barnett overturned that foolishness, with the immediate result that BHP took Yeelirrie off a dusty shelf and announced an intention to investigate development.
In the wake of the Olympic Dam re-think, there might be some who will want to receive this sale as part of BHP's commitment to live within its suddenly reduced means.
That is but the latest chapter in a far longer story of reflection. The fact is that Yeelirrie was consigned to BHP's investment purgatory a good 12 months before the company's well-flagged, but now suddenly broadly appreciated, embrace of capital prudence.
This is a decision based on a matrix of differently weighted inputs, with the starting point being that Yeelirrie is big but not big enough to warrant the investment of capital and corporate credibility in a post-Fukushima world.
In 2008, when uranium prices were running in anticipation of the scarcity that would be generated by carbon consciousness, there seemed a chance uranium might become a stand-alone commodity in BHP's balance portfolio.
But in his post-result commentary, BHP boss Marius Kloppers has made it clear that, under his watch, uranium will remain a credits business for the Global Australian. That is, BHP will not operate an exclusively uranium mine here or anywhere else. Rather BHP's contribution to the nuclear cycle will be limited to selling uranium that is the by-product of mining other material, as it does at Olympic Dam.
Anyone who has attended a BHP annual general meeting recently would be aware of the antipathy Yeelirrie inspired among some of those who claim traditional connection to the land and the anti-uranium lobby that supports and amplifies those concerns.
Whatever the rights and wrongs, transforming Yeelirrie from investment proposition to mining project was going to be a challenge, likely made more difficult by the fact of BHP's place as its proponent.
Now Cameco has paid $US430 million for this public affairs contest, an indication surely of a serious intent to make a mine and of an underlying confidence that WA is global uranium's undeveloped gem.
With Premier Barnett's use-it-or-lose-it mantra in mind, we approached the Port Hedland Port Authority yesterday to clear up whether there are sunset clauses attached to any or all of the small fleet of new berth allocations confirmed by the government on Friday. The background here is that BHP has delayed its plan to build the outer harbour in an effort to leap-frog the constraints of Port Hedland's inner harbour.
The problem at the existing port is not the number of berths available but the volume of ships that can safely use them. As a result, current modelling puts capacity at 495mtpa which has been slightly more than fully allocated, with BHP holding 240mtpa of it, Fortescue 155mtpa, Hancock 55mtpa and the Atlas Iron-led North West Infrastructure 50mtpa.
To that end, the PHPA yesterday confirmed that "use it or lose it" clauses are the norm in capacity allocations, as those unable to use a capacity allocation cannot be allowed to lock up capacity for some unknown future time.
Friday's confirmation of the disintegration of Nathan Tinkler's $5.2 billion bid to privatise
Ten days before the Whitehaven deal succumbed to the weight of debt Tinkler required for its completion, the big fella failed to meet his own deadline to complete a $28.4 million investment in a vigorous, cash-hungry coal junior called
Back in May, a Tinkler vehicle called Mullsanne Resources agreed to pay 30¢ for each of 94.6 million shares in Blackwood under an arrangement that would see him take a 34 per cent stake.
In the weeks before Mulsanne's arrival on the scene, Blackwood had been trading around 20¢.
In return for the price premium, Mulsanne was granted rights to market future production and to supply some of the equipment that might generate that production.
Critically, the arrangement was conditional only on approval of Blackwood shareholders and, should it be necessary, of the Foreign Investment Review Board.
The placement documentation lodged in June indicated Mulsanne intended to complete the issue within five days of shareholder approval. Blackwood shareholders signed off on the deal on July 12. But Mulsanne did not complete and by July's end, Tinkler's people requested an extension on settlement until August 13.
That deadline too came and went. Blackwood said it would not agree to any further extension on settlement, that it "reserved its legal rights" and that it would pursue the completion of the deal.
Blackwood boss Todd Harrington said then that discussions with Mulsanne remained on a cordial footing and that he and his board remained confident in the reassurances received from Tinkler's people.
But now September looms. As a result, we understand that resolve has set firmer over the past week and the Blackwood board is seriously considering courtroom pursuit of Mulsanne.
Whether Blackwood seeks and then receives the comfort of the courts here, it seems to me that this matter contains seeds enough to earn the interest of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in its role as the enforcer of ASX market integrity.
There was comparatively heavy buying in Blackwood shares over the three weeks that followed news Mulsanne would join Noble Group as its most senior shareholder, done in a range patently set by the ambitious pricing of the Mulsanne deal, with prices ranging between 27.5¢ in the immediate wake of the announcement to 25¢ by May's end.
More recently, with scepticism running rich that Tinkler's apparently compounding cash-flow issues mean that he might not be able to complete, Blackwood shares have changed hands at lows of 12.5¢ while they closed at 14¢ yesterday.
Which all looms as something of an embarrassment, potentially at least, for the Noble Group.
First, the Hong Kong trading house seems to have introduced its 50 per cent-owned junior to the increasingly doubtful Tinkler solution. Then, with Tinkler's cash injection delayed, Noble stumped up a $5 million unsecured drawn down facility giving Blackwood cash enough to sustain another six months of its aggressive exploration and appraisal campaign.
That the Blackwood loan is repayable by year's end suggested clearly that Noble fully expected the Mulsanne deal to complete.
But the latest indications that avenues other than further negotiation with Mulsanne are being actively pursued would suggest Noble's confidence in unprompted completion is not what it was.
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After a week in the hospital with my 5 year old, I am excited to get back to our regular routine. We have eaten more processed food the last couple of weeks than I am willing to admit.
Here's what we are planning for dinner:
Monday - Coconut, Curry, Chicken and Rice Soup Recipe
Tuesday - Jamaican-style Black Bean and Coconut Cornbread Bake
Wednesday - Rotisserie Chicken in the CrockPot
Thursday - Pancakes, Bacon and Fruit
Friday - Coconut Chicken with Apricot Sauce
Saturday - Spaghetti
Sunday - Leftover Buffet
What's on your menu this week?
This post is part of Menu Plan Monday.


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Sunday, Salon briefly reviewed a book by Debbie Nathan which claims to debunk the case of Sybil. Sybil, actually a young Minnesota girl named Shirley Mason, was one of the first cases of multiple personality disorder to catch the public attention. The book about the case sold 6 million copies and inspired a movie starring Sally Field.The Salon article by Laura Miller gives enough detail to hook my inner skeptic. According to Nathan, most of the details reported in the book were fabricated, … [Read more...]
Bieber Study Co-Author, Cornelia Wilbur, Accused of Fabricating Case of Sybil
CNN reproduces an Oprah article on sexual fluidity that is of interest.Here is the money:Over the past several decades, scientists have struggled in fits and starts to get a handle on sexual orientation. Born or bred? Can it change during one's lifetime?A handful of studies in the 1990s, most of them focused on men, suggested that homosexuality is hardwired. In one study, researchers linked DNA markers in the Xq28 region of the X chromosome to gay males. But a subsequent larger … [Read more...]
Top ten posts by number of comments and page views – 2008
Time to wrap up 2008 with a review of the stories told and topics covered. I also will give the top ten posts based on page views.By far the election was the broad topic which generated the most page views. Aside from the Berg vs. Obama thread, readers prefer to comment on the sexual identity related posts. As in past years, I will pick out my top ten themes in a later post.Top ten by number of comments (fluctuation should be minimal since most of these threads are quiet now)1. Berg … [Read more...]
Now Obama is a bigot?
We are most likely at an impasse of sorts in the culture. The Rick Warren prayer is the kind of event which brings into bold relief the issues which divide. We have discussed on this blog before whether or not the gay-evangelical divide is a zero-sum situation -- for one side to prevail, the other side must be defeated. John Cloud at Time magazine gives me evidence to think the divide continues to be wide. About Barack Obama, he writes:Obama has proved himself repeatedly to be a very … [Read more...]
International Healing Foundation releases infomercial; ready to heal the world
Richard Cohen's International Healing Foundation has released an infomercial describing their services and claims. Roll the tape...In the video, he features his three part program designed to help people go straight, help their kids go straight, and help their clients go straight. He thinks pretty highly of these resources as is apparent in his Fall, 2008 newsletter:WE HAVE THE ANSWERSI am proud to announce that I have completed 21 years in public service and … [Read more...]
NARTH fact sheet: Female homosexual development, Part 2 – Child sexual abuse
In the first part of my review of the NARTH fact sheet on female homosexuality, I critiqued the empirical foundation of the NARTH theories about causation of female same-sex attraction.In this post, I examine the statements regarding sexual abuse and causation. It may be surprising to some observers to read this:Although sexual abuse does not directly cause same sex attraction, studies report male sexual abuse of lesbians as generally being twice as high as of heterosexual women, that … [Read more...]
Narth recently released a fact sheet that is relevant to some information I posted regarding reparative therapy research.The paper has some bright spots but overall reverts to the same reparative drive theoretical formulation for which NARTH is known. On the NARTH website, Dean Byrd praises the APA for taking a more nuanced perspective toward causation and same-sex attraction, but in this paper, NARTH does not follow the APA's lead.The paper begins by attempting to make a case for sexual … [Read more...]


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Miley Cyrus' allergic reaction from sinus infection medicine
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(TMZ) - Miley Cyrus' hospitalization was triggered by a sinus infection gone horribly wrong, TMZ has learned.
Reps for Miley tell TMZ, the singer got an Rx for an antibiotic called cephalexin (brand name Keflex) to treat a sinus infection after getting diagnosed last week in North Carolina.
According to TMZ, within days Miley's throat swelled to the point she could barely talk. She was rushed to the hospital Tuesday night and, according to her rep, doctors determined she had an extreme allergic reaction to the drug.
TMZ reports Miley never got a cephalexin script before so she had no idea she was allergic.
She'll remain hospitalized until her condition improves. Her doctor says an allergic reaction of this kind can last 27 days.
Get well soon Miley!
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