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preparing raw majolica glaze for surface decoration.
Started by Babs, Jan 25 2013 07:52 PM
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Posted 25 January 2013 - 07:52 PM
Hi I am looking for a way to make my raw majolica glaze "harder" so that I can ddo more painterly desings on my ware. Mybrush tends to clog up with the glaze powder and so the lines are interrupted.
Hope somepone can help. I think I readd somewhere that you can spray something onto the glaze.Does any one have any hints.
Hope somepone can help. I think I readd somewhere that you can spray something onto the glaze.Does any one have any hints.
Posted 25 January 2013 - 10:31 PM
Here is a link to a handout from Linda Arbuckle on majolica, including hardening the base glaze . . . http://lindaarbuckle...handout2007.pdf
Posted 25 January 2013 - 11:13 PM
I have added molasses to majolica to harden it, and it smells nice too, but molds after a while.
Posted 26 January 2013 - 08:56 AM
I use spray starch on mine and paint like you are using watercolors.
Posted 26 January 2013 - 09:55 AM
You can fire your ware to cone 018 after you glaze and sand the peice. This cinters the glaze paricles making it a bit more sturdy.
Derek VonDrehle
Raku, Pit fired, Majolica, and Stoneware ceramic artisit
Raku, Pit fired, Majolica, and Stoneware ceramic artisit
Posted 26 January 2013 - 08:01 PM
Thanks everyone for your practical suggestions as I was dreading having to rejig my glaze recipe for this order, someone wanting handwritten text on some posts..
Posted 27 January 2013 - 09:27 AM
It helps to have the right type of brushes, too. Those thin very long haired liner brushes are great for text. Good luck!
Posted 28 January 2013 - 12:19 PM
As previously mentioned you can spray it with spray starch or cheap hair spray. You can also add a little liquid starch into the glaze batch.
I think it is mentioned in Arbuckle's information.
I think it is mentioned in Arbuckle's information.
Marcia Selsor, Professor Emerita,Montana State University-Billings
Posted 07 February 2013 - 12:52 PM
add CMC to your base glaze. commercial glazes contain a good amount of this in their recipe. it forms sort of a "candy coating" and stiffens up the unfired glaze, which will be more resistant to your detail brush. start with around 1% or keep a thick solution of it in a jug to add to your glazes, underglazes, and stains/washes.
Posted 07 February 2013 - 09:06 PM
Thanks everyone, about to bisque the 'thing' and then pending survival, will glaze and decorate using your suggestions.
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
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Looking Back: ATI's Catalyst Drivers Exposedby Ryan Smith on 12/11/2005 3:22 PM EST
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ksherman - Friday, December 16, 2005 - linkAny chance for a nVidia comparison? Ive ehear that some older drivers were better... Reply
semiconductorslave - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - linkGreat, I'll tell the person that bought my videocard three cards ago! Maybe next we could see an article about how adding 3 extra 16k memory cards to the Atari 800 improves games. Reply
HWAddict77 - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - link[lecture]
Guess what? There is real value in the fact that the people writing these articles actually interact with us to find out what we think. In publishing, web-based or otherwise, that's rare and valuable, and it puts us in a pretty cool position if you ask me. So I think being a smartass is particularly lame. It's not like there are only 20 people reading the articles. Hell, it's not like there are only 1000 people reading them.
My .02: I would also like to see a similar article with an Nvidia card. Reply
semiconductorslave - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - linkSo your saying we can't use sarcasim to voice our opinions? I totally appreciate this site and all of the reviews, and hope the editors can handle a little bit of facetiousness every now and then. It is my attempt at humor and way of saying that I think this article, being more of a research piece into the history of driver support on an older card, is more academic and not very pragmatic. I'm not saying the author made the following assumtion, but it would be a logical fallacy for a person to assume the future will happen like the past. ATI could have better driver releases in the future, put more resources into it, hire more talented programers, also the hardware is always changing, like dual core CPUs and ring bus memory architectures on graphics cards. So I personaly don't think how the drivers perform on the old 9700pro make much difference to anyone but a person running the old 9700pro. This in turn will limit what games they can run since the newer games take a bit more power, especially with AA enabled, AS filtering, and HDR, so now--once again in my opinion--the article is most helpful to the person running old games on an old card.
Still I read it. Reply
jeffrey - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkRyan Smith,
Thank you for publishing this article! The whole idea of the article itself is what makes me so happy. It was not another "product release -> generate review" type article. This article stepped-out of that mold and required thinking of an idea and then testing to find the result. Kudos!
What made the article an A+ was that the results were not there. To clarify, I should say expected results. ATI has been promising increase after increase, but after several generations, there just was not a whole lot there.
ATI has impressed with monthly driver releases, but performance gains are limited. I am NOT disapointed with the results. ATI's claims for driver improvements are rarely across the board. More often than not, the claim of a gain is focused on a particular generation, segment, or resolution.
One important fact that was left out of the review was compatibility. A central focus of each Catalyst release is fixing bugs to make the drivers more stable. The commitment from the Catalyst crew to providing incremental optimizations has mainly been secondary this year to resolving driver issues. The graphs might show an image that looks like not a whole lot has been done. However, if you included a total of bug fixes from Catalyst 3.0 to 5.12 the image of that graph would be impressive indeed.
ATI's monthly Catalyst updates have been invaluable to their reputation as a provider of graphics solutions. How many companies have checked-in and checked-out within a couple of years due to drivers never "maturing". ATI has a positive image today in regards to drivers and that alone is a barrier to entry for new competition.
I could go on and on, but if by chance you get down to my post please feel free to pat yourself on the back and share this with Anand.
Thanks again,
Jeffrey Reply
timmiser - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - linkI agree. This article was definitely outside the mold and nothing like this had been done before. (To see driver improvements over years instead of months.)
Nighteye2 - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkNice article. Now I want to see the same test for Nvidia drivers :)
MrJim - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkMr Ryan Smith>It would be nice to see a flightsim or a racing sim! Maybe a newer one with impressive graphics like Lock-On/Lo-Mac(Flightsim) for example. Interesting article! Reply
ShadowVlican - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linknow to anyone that still says ATi has bad drivers... i will refer them to this review (6) Reply
bldckstark - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkI don't see where this proves they have GOOD drivers either. They had on average some minor improvements in FPS and fixed some IQ issues. Yes there were some nuggets of enlightenment, but overall the greatest increase was in eventually eliminating a huge IQ flaw in soft lighting. Reply
timmiser - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - linkThat is why they are so good. It shows that the early drivers are already well opitimized and that there is not much improvement over the months/years from driver release to driver release.
Nvidia on the other hand, will have a driver release (typically around the launch of a competing ATI card) that all of a sudden shows a 25% gain or some ungodly number like that. This shows us that either A) Nvidia didn't do a very good job with opitimizing their drivers prior to that big speed increase, or B) held the card back some via the driver so that they could raise the speed upon any threat (new release) by ATI.
Either way, it reflects poorly on Nvidia.
DerekWilson - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linklots of people have requested more modern games.
our goal at the outset was to go back as far as possible with the drivers and select a reasonable set of games to test. most modern games don't run on older drivers, so we didn't consider them.
for future articles of this nature, we will be including a couple modern games (at the very least, half-life 2 and doom 3). we will handle the driver compatibility issue by starting with the oldest driver that supports the game.
very new games like FEAR won't be useful because they've only got a driver revision or two under their belt. Battlefield 2 is only about 6 months old and isn't really a suitable candidate either as we can't get a very good look at anything. My opinion is that we need to look at least a year back for our game selection.
thanks for the feedback. we're listening, and the next article in the series will definitely incorporate some of the suggestions you guys are making. Reply
Cygni - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - linkI cant belive people missed this point. I thought it was pretty obvious in the text of the article. Throwing teh gaem of teh futar at a videocard running drivers from 1997 is going to have obvious consequences. That doesnt give you anyway to measure driver performance increases over time, whatsoever. Reply
nserra - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkI agree.
But I think the best candidate would be the R200 (8500) for testing,
since everyone said it was a good card (hardware) with bad drivers (software).
So a good retro test is how the R200 would standup with recent drivers VS nvidia geforce 3/4 with the older games.
The all idea is to see if 8500 could keep up with geforce 3/4 if it had good drivers.
2002/2003 games | radeon8500 card | 2002/2003 driver
2002/2003 games | geforce3/4 card | 2002/2003 driver
2002/2003 games | radeon8500 card | 2005 driver
2002/2003 games | geforce3/4 card | 2005 driver
2004/2005 games | radeon8500 card | 2005 driver
2004/2005 games | geforce3/4 card | 2005 driver Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkThe problem is that the R200 is no longer acceptable for even moderate gaming. If you have a 9700 Pro, you can still get reasonable performance on almost any modern game. Yes, you'll need to drop to medium and sometimes even low quality settings, but a 9700 Pro is still three or four times (or more) as fast as the best current IGP.
I'm not working on these articles, but personally I have little to no interest in cards that are more than 3 generations old. It might be intersting to study from an academic perspective, but for real-world use there's not much point. If enough people disagree with this, though, I'm sure Ryan could write such an article. :) Reply
Hardtarget - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkNeat article idea but I would deffinitely of thrown in one more game, a modern one. Probably Half Life 2, see how it does on teh older hardware in general, and see what sort of driver revisions do for it. Would of been pretty interesting. Reply
Avalon - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkI think Far Cry, HL2, and Doom 3 ought to be tested. I remember running those games on my 9700 pro. Far Cry and D3 ran just fine at 10x7, and HL2 ran great at 12x9. I'm pretty sure quite a few people were using these cards before upgrading, in these games. Reply
WileCoyote - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkMy conclusion after seeing the numbers: ATI prefers directing money/man-power/time/resources towards synthetic benchmarks rather than improving game performance. I consider THAT cheating. Reply
Questar - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkExplain the image quality increases then.
Or do you consider nvidia lowering image quality from generation to generation an improvment? Reply
Jedi2155 - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkExplain the Halo benchmark then? Reply
WileCoyote - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkEasy, ATI was a Halo for PC launch partner. This was before the "Best Played with ATI" or "Insist on NVidia" days but ATI was the graphics card sponsor for the game. So they had a committment to Bungie/Microsoft.... not really to the customer. I'm not complaining because they're businesses and they want to make money. I just consider it cheating. Halo benchmark explained. Next? Reply
GameManK - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkwell done, but it did feel like a bit of a waste of time reading
something like farcry or half life 2 i think would be a more useful test Reply
Googer - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkNice article, it must have taken a lot of time and effort to do this. Ryan how long did it take you to do all of these driver installs (then reboot) and benchmark them 72 Time?
Thanks for the effort!
Googer - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkCould you also test 3rd party drivers like Omega and others I have forgotten about? Then could you compaire them to Stock ATI drivers? Reply
nullpointerus - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkAren't the Omega drivers just a mix of different official ATI driver files? Reply
Humble Magii - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkSeriously another craptastic article on drivers? Guys please sit down and think before you post an article and give it actual thought maybe ask some people around you god forbid.
This site is sucking huge.
If you are going to do an article such as this use both competitors and go through each revision or at least a major revision to the drivers on each core and card.
Again stop posting worthless articles someone at Anandtech please take control and scrutinize what your people write and do before posting. Don't they have a set process there?
Cygni - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - link"If you're disappointed with the free entertainment on this site, fine, write about it on your shitty Angelfire Dragonball Z site or send AIM messages to the other Korn fanclub members." Reply
Cygni - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - linkOk, so what ive learned is you are reading a site that you think is "sucking huge", pretty making you a retard.
Please sit down and think before you write such a fucking pointless post. God forbid there are people out there who are actually interested in video card driver performance.
Do you have any idea how long it takes to run through these tests? "Oh, just do both companys! And do all their cards! And do every CPU/motherboard/memory/timings setting too!... oh, and give it to me for free!"
What a joke dude. Go find your cave asshole, or go to some other hardware website. Reply
VIAN - Sunday, December 11, 2005 - linkIs this article that important? I didn't think there was enough content in the article to make it worth reading. Plus, the way you built it up in the introduction seemed to give less meaning to the article when we found that there wasn't that much of an increase in half the games you tested. It also seemed like most of the big performance boosting optimizations took place within the first few drivers for the R300. To prove your point, it might have been better to make a shorter article covering various games, but use only 2 drivers, the current and the earliest.
And where's that long lost image quality article we were promised about a year ago? Reply
Jedi2155 - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkBut then, it wouldn't show the slight improvements of the driversets like the 3.00 tothe 3.04. Reply
Ryan Smith - Sunday, December 11, 2005 - linkWith this article series, we're especially looking for feedback guys. We can't test every last game under the sun because of how long it would take, but if there's something you guys would like to see and a good reason for it, we'd like to hear about it for possible inclusion in a future regression. Reply
Questar - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkFeedback?
Learn to proofread. Reply
Cygni - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - linkFeedback?
Dont be an asshole. Reply
Scrogneugneu - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkI would like to see that kind of test on another, more recent card.
Why? Simply to test what the first driver revisions do in term of performance. The article already shows that later in the driver's life, there is little improvement made on performance... but that on early drivers, there is usually a good jump. Could it be possible to test with a newer card, with the drivers available at launch and up from there?
That way we could have a better idea of what to expect when we hear ATI or NVidia saying "we will optimise the drivers after the launch". Does every optimisation happens in the first release, the second, the five first... what release usually brings the best improvements, both on IQ and FPS?
Could be nice to see such an article :) Reply
timmiser - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - linkI don't think that would work because the older drivers (ie-Cat 3.0, Cat 4.0) won't support the newer card. Reply
Scrogneugneu - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - linkWell, if you use the drivers available at the launch of the card up to the current release, I'm pretty sure they will all be compatible with the card, won't they? ;)
The goal is not to see what improvements were made with Catalyst 3.0 to 5.12, but to see what improvements were made from the first driver available for the card to the latest. More importantly, to see WHEN were they made. Reply
timmiser - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - linkWell yes, you could do that, but then you have just a typical article about driver improvements over the last 5 or 6 months which every hardware site has done over and over again. What makes this article unique is they take an older video card and review older drivers so that we can see the driver improvement effect over the span of years instead of months. Reply
Scrogneugneu - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - linkBy more recent card, I didn't mean a ATI X1x00 card or a NVidia 7x00.
I was more talking about something like the Xx00 series. These cards have seen a great number of driver release, and are still pretty recent.
Besides, this article showed us that the only improvements seen were generally at the early stage of the development of the drivers, or at that least later in the works, there's not much difference. So, we can assume that a year of different driver revisions would be enough to show us what kind of improvements are made. Reply
timmiser - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - linkExactly, which is all information we didn't know until this article showed that. Reply
oopyseohs - Sunday, December 11, 2005 - linkThe Athlon64 you used was socket 754, not 757. =] Reply
Ryan Smith - Sunday, December 11, 2005 - linkYou should see the cooler attached, it sure sounds like a 757.
Anyhow, good catch, thanks. Reply
ss284 - Sunday, December 11, 2005 - linkI think this article might have been a bit more meaningful if some newer generation games were tested, like half life 2 and far cry.
ElJefe - Sunday, December 11, 2005 - linklol yes I thought the same.
I was like eh? bf2 and half-life2 and doom3. Or quake 4 maybe. ( even though most gamers are not on that bandwagon yet, bf2 for first person is kinda king still)
Cygni - Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - linkOlder drivers are going to have issues with newer games. Thats whats talked about in the article. If you are running Cat 1.0's with FEAR, its going to go ape shit... FEAR wasnt even around when those drivers came out. By using older games, they can limit this factor and make it a pure perforamnce comparison. Reply
ksherman - Sunday, December 11, 2005 - link:( Reply
vshah - Sunday, December 11, 2005 - linkMouseover makes the first image dissapear for me in firefox and ie.
Will there be an nvidia version of this? Reply
kerynitian - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkI would definitely be interested in seeing how nvidida and their driver improvements in the nv40 line related to the marks put up by ati in this article... Reply
coldpower27 - Sunday, December 11, 2005 - linkYes it might be interesting to do one with a 6800 GT/Ultra, to see if there have been improvements of extracting performance out of NV40 technology over the past now 18 months of life.
I think we were in the early 61.xx when NV40 came out? Reply
nts - Monday, December 12, 2005 - linkWith this article testing on the R300 they would probably test NVIDIA NV30 (FX) cards.
coldpower27 - Sunday, December 11, 2005 - linkActually I beleive that is ~ 20 months instead of 18. Reply
n7 - Sunday, December 11, 2005 - linkYeah the mouseover is borked.
Interesting review. Reply
JayHu - Sunday, December 11, 2005 - linkIn the article you refer to driver revisions 3.4 and 3.6, but the labelling on your axis reads 3.04, 3.06. Took me a couple glances to figure out what you meant. Reply
Ryan Smith - Sunday, December 11, 2005 - linkFixed, we had to improvise on the graphing engine(which has to sort by something) so the 0's were thrown in without thinking to change the article. Thanks. Reply
microAmp - Sunday, December 11, 2005 - linkMouseover ain't workin' with IE & FF.
:( Reply
Howard - Sunday, December 11, 2005 - linkDoesn't work with Opera, either. Reply
BigLan - Sunday, December 11, 2005 - linkBroken here as well w/ IE Reply
Ryan Smith - Sunday, December 11, 2005 - linkIt should be working now guys, our managing editor was puting it up earlier and it somehow went live a bit early. Reply
reactor - Sunday, December 11, 2005 - linksame thing going on here, picture disappears when i try to mouseover. interesting article though, good stuff :) Reply


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Well here we go again…It is time to celebrate the birth of "our" nation. This is a day when Canadians on mass practice revisionist history blissfully over as many beers as they can keep down. While in the process of celebration very few stop to think about the fact that this nation would not exist without the murders of millions of aboriginal peoples. In fact to this day they are greatly marginalized in "our" society. They are over represented in our prison population, and many still live today in abject poverty. So essentially what we are celebrating is nearly destroying aboriginal peoples in the quest for land and conquest.
Canada day is further made problematic in that it is a reminder that this is a world of divisions. Borders are a social construction that are divisive to mankind. Countries function in such a way that they exclude others for the purposes of exploitation. In the interest of "Canadian" people the government engages in unfair trading practices, exploiting others simply because they inhabit a different region of the globe. In the interest of the "Canadian" people industry continues to pollute the earth in order to keep the "Canadian" economy afloat. In the interest of the "Canadian" people soldiers are engaged in a neo-imperialistic war in Afghanistan.
When you celebrate Canada day, take a moments pause and think to yourself what it would mean to celebrate a globe day. A day when all of the peoples of the earth could unite in equality and freedom. Think about the land that you are standing on, and who it really belongs to, and what the actual cost was to humankind for you to be standing where you are. Celebrate humanity, and not a country built on exploitation, near genocide of a people, and false ideology.


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A HOSPITAL support worker died after she took a toxic combination of cocaine and the legal high 'bubble' at a house party, an inquest heard.
Kelly Moore, 25, who worked at Burnley General Hospital, collapsed on a bed after a party in Russell Terrace, Padiham, on February 25 last year.
Witnesses told a two-day sitting of Burnley Coroner's Court, at Burnley Town Hall, that Miss Moore, of Pendle Street, was a regular weekend user of bubble.
They said she had been drinking through the night at a house party, in Stockbridge Road, before leaving with a group of friends in the early hours of the morning to go to Russell Terrace.
One witness, Andre Lennox, who had not been drinking, said he noticed Miss Moore having what appeared to be a fit at around 10.45am, but his concerns were ignored.
At around 11.15am he returned to the house after visiting a sandwich shop and noticed Miss Moore was turning blue and had stopped breathing.
He moved her from the bed to the floor, placed her in the recovery position and performed CPR, while a friend called an ambulance.
She was found dead at the home at 11.50am.
Toxicology reports showed traces of cocaine and cathinones, an amphetamine used as an ingredient in bubble, in her blood.
Friends who left tributes on Facebook, described her as 'one in a million' and 'absolutely brilliant'.
At the time, six men and one woman were arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of Class A drugs, but nobody was charged. Recording a verdict of accidental death, East Lancashire coroner Richard Taylor said he hoped that Miss Moore's death would send a message to other users of legal highs.
Mr Taylor said: "It might be naive of me to believe the reporting of this inquest could change people's behaviour, but even if those users of drugs give a second thought to the possibly tragic outcome of cocktails of alcohol and drugs, then all we have heard may not be totally in vain. Kelly was a hard-working, fun, life-loving young girl who enjoyed the weekend and parties.
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♦ The FT looks at how Taiwan needs sweeping reform to preserve its status as one of Asia's great successes.
♦ A recording of a private meeting between Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the US Senate, and his campaign aides shows how they considered using Ashley Judd's mental health and religion against her as political ammunition. Mother Jones, who published it, is also looking at the ethical questions it raises about McConnell's staff.
♦ Sri Srinivasan, the Obama administration's principal deputy solicitor general, is a candidate for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit. According to Jeffrey Toobin, "if Srinivasan passes this test and wins confirmation, he'll be on the Supreme Court before President Obama's term ends."
♦ Jon Lee Anderson at the New Yorker looks back at the relationship between Margaret Thatcher and Augusto Pinochet. On the basis of that he argues that, "In a country where, for decades, history was buried, it is fitting for Chileans to dig up [Pablo] Neruda to find out the truth of what happened to him." Comedian Russell Brand recalls a chance encounter with Margaret Thatcher and the less coincidental legacy she left: "She is an icon of individualism, not of feminism."
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Successful spring!
The cycling springtime of 2017 was again very successful for Ridley. We had 3 men and 2 women teams who frequently acted on the highest level. In 'La Flèche Wallonne' and 'Liège–Bastogne–Liège' all 5 of them participated, something unique!
Our Leading Lady of Lotto Soudal, Lotte Kopecky, made a spectacular performance during the women's Madison in Hongkong and won the gold medal!
Veranclassic and Aqua Blue were present the entire springtime. Their riders tirelessly kept attacking. Leader Adam Blythe came very close to victory several times, but lacked that bit of luck.
Veranclassic almost won a Legendary GP Le Samyn edition. Rain, cobbles and a lot of mud made the perfect #BeTOUGH race.
Another beautiful #BeTOUGH race was the Strade Bianche, which Tim Wellens ensured of. Early this year he already won 3 times, but the icing on the cake never happened.
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Pronunciation: lay-bêr • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun, mass
Meaning: 1. Work for wages. 2. Difficult or exhausting work. 3. The process of childbirth. 4. The liberal political party in Britain and certain other countries (capitalized).
Notes: Keep in mind that today's is one of those words, like color-colour, favor-favour, spelled with a [u] outside the US (labour). The adjective is laborious everywhere. Liberals in some countries are referred to as the Labor Party or just Labor, since Liberals have historically worked for the rights of workers.
In Play: The first Monday in September was designated Labor Day by Congress in 1894 to divert the attention of the US labor movement away from the May Day demonstrations in Europe. These demonstrations were organized by socialist parties in support of the 8-hour workday. They began in Paris on May 1, 1890, and that day eventually became International Labor Day, celebrated throughout the rest of the industrialized world. The 8-hour workday became law under Roosevelt's New Deal in 1938 after most major manufacturers had adopted it. Today we continue to celebrate the most productive labor force on Earth on Labor Day.
Word History: English labor is a perfect tracing of Latin labor "work", a word that remained labor "work, activity" in Spanish, and went on to become French labour "ploughing" and Italian lavoro "work". The Latin noun underlies the verb laborare, visible in laboratorium "workplace", the source of laboratory. Elaborate comes from Latin elaborare "to work out" that was originally ex "out" + laborare "work".
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Toddlers are at a fun age where they are constantly learning and communicating their curiosity to parents and caregivers in a more direct way.
Toddlers are at a fun age where they are constantly learning and communicating their curiosity to parents and caregivers in a more direct way.
Take advantage of this new found curiosity and teach them the traditions of Thanksgiving with some toddler Thanksgiving crafts as a fun way for them to learn about the holiday.
Since toddlers are still too young to handle scissors, you'll want to find Thanksgiving crafts that require minimal work on your part in preparing for the craft projects as well as ones that won't pose any danger to your youngster. We rounded up some cute ideas from the web that you can easily get your little one to make with just a little bit of guidance on your part.
Felt Food Placement
If your toddler is like most little kids, they are picky eaters. Encourage them to be more adventurous with food by helping them make this felt food Thanksgiving placemat.
This Thanksgiving toddler craft will show them all of the foods that make up the traditional Thanksgiving meal and may even get them to try their sweet potatoes at your big Thanksgiving feast!
Toilet Paper Tube Turkey
This cute idea from Alanna George won't just educate your child on the big Thanksgiving bird, it will also get the kids to learn a little about recycling!
Coloring in the turkey's feathers will channel some creativity, but the assembly of the turkey is where your toddler's coordination skills will come into play.
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Combine the beautiful colors of autumn with your Thanksgiving celebrations in this craft idea that's cute as a button!
Gather any and all fall colored buttons and help the kids create their own Thanksgiving trees as featured on While He Was Napping. They can hang them up in their room or on the fridge for a cute DIY thanksgiving décor item. Make sure you clean up afterwards as you don't want them finding fallen buttons outside of craft time!
Turkey Family Craft
Celebrate Thanksgiving and family with this cute idea from My Montessori Moments.
Kids love finger painting and getting a little messy. Encourage a little playful paint fun by creating this handprint turkey poster. Get all the members of the family to give their hand stamp of approval for a nice display of turkeys made by all of your loved ones.
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Here's an easy Thanksgiving craft that toddlers can make and enjoy wearing as well.
You'll need to help them cut out the pieces to make the hat that uses brown paper bags, but then after that, they can assemble on their own.
Now that we've shared some inspiring ideas, get crafting! Make some of these fun Thanksgiving crafts for toddlers to encourage them to unleash their inner artist while learning about and celebrating Thanksgiving.
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Former Knoch football star found dead in Washington County
WASHINGTON, Pa. — Those who knew former Knoch High School football star Tim McNerney were stunned to learn of his slaying early Thursday during a street robbery as he walked back to his dormitory at Washington & Jefferson College.
A moment of silence was observed at the Knoch football game Thursday night and McNerney's No. 5 was painted along the Knights' sideline.
Hundreds of students, his family and friends held an outdoor vigil at W&J. The college will make grief counseling available to students.
McNerney, 21, of Penn Township, Butler County, was W&J's featured running back. Police say he was killed when he and a teammate were attacked by perhaps a half-dozen men.
McNerney and Zach DeCiccio, 22, of Jefferson Hills, were walking home from a downtown tavern in Washington, Pa., about 2:30 a.m. when they were confronted "by as many as six guys," said city police Lt. Dan Stanek.
They were on the sidewalk at the side of an automobile repair shop at the corner of South College Avenue and East Maiden Street.
McNerney, who was found about 90 minutes later, was pronounced dead in The Washington Hospital.
DeCiccio, who suffered a broken nose and bruises, told police that he fought with three men who tried to steal his cell phone, Stanek said.
The senior defensive back said he managed to break free and ran back to his dormitory where he told friends what happened and called campus police, who called city police at 2:54 a.m.
Washington police searched the area and couldn't find McNerney. His friends began looking for him and found him in the repair shop's front parking lot shortly before 4 a.m.
They and campus police began CPR before paramedics arrived.
An autopsy showed that McNerney had "trauma to the back of his head," possibly by being "punched or shoved (and) falling back and hitting his head," Stanek said.
The police department's lead detective, Stanek said it's not clear if McNerney, perhaps stunned by his head injury, wandered away from the repair shop or was hiding from his assailants when police initially searched the area.
Stanek said DeCiccio said that he did not recognize any of his assailants and that the attack appears to have been a random street robbery.
McNerney's wallet and cell phone were not found Thursday.
Stanek acknowledged that there have been several street robberies in the city in recent months but that the campus and surrounding areas have generally been safe.
"There is no evidence they are targeting students," police Chief Robert Lemons said.
"The campus community is heartbroken, and our deepest prayers are with Tim's family and friends," said Karen Oosterhous, director of communications of Washington & Jefferson College in a press release.
"The safety of our students, both on and off campus, remains our highest priority," she said.
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"Those cowards took Tim's life," Presidents football coach Mike Sirianni told hundreds of students, family members and friends of McNerney during a campus candlelight vigil on the Burnett Lawn on Thursday night. "They cannot take away the spirit of Tim's family, this football team and this community, the W&J community."
Sirianni told those at the vigil: "I knew every day I went to practice (with McNerney), I knew I would yell and I knew I would laugh more than once. ... As a coach, you're going to have favorite players, kids you bond with. Tim will always be one of those players."
The coach, stopping often to compose himself, said McNerney's mother told him that her son once "made the comment that he was 'always in the wrong place at the wrong time.' I know (it's) the wrong time, but he's in the right place. He's with us here, telling me to shut up again."
Damian Bosiacki, 21, a W&J senior, remembered McNerney as "a great rapper and a great playwright."
"When you lose someone...you lose part of yourself," Bosiacki said. He told McNerney's family at the vigil: "We are here for you. We are here to help you through your loss."
A former team captain, McNerney was W&J's leading rusher through five games this season, with 483 yards and four touchdowns on 89 carries.
A big-play back known by some Presidents' fans as "The Cut-back Kid," McNerney was nearing fifth place on the school's career rushing list. He had 2,339 yards in two-plus seasons as a starter.
"We got a text from coach and a call from (team) captains at 6:30 (a.m.) saying we had a meeting at 7," said W&J senior linebacker Brendan Lucchino, a Highlands graduate. "We knew it had to be something serious. When we were told Timmy was no longer with us, it hit me like a train.
"I don't feel like this is real. It's like a bad dream. We are all so sad and angry."
McNerney holds Knoch's rushing record of 2,842 yards, which he accomplished in less than three seasons. He was named Class AAA first-team all-state selection by The Associated Press.
"I'll remember how big Timmy's heart was," Knoch football coach Mike King said before Thursday night's game.
"Active in school activities and athletics, Tim was a positive influence on friends, classmates and fellow teammates," the South Butler County School District said in a press release.
"He was a great student and athlete and he was well-liked by both the students and football players — a very popular kid," said Frank Gigler, 23,of Manassas, Va., who graduated from W&J this year.
A Lower Burrell native, Gigler was captain of W&J's football team and played with McNerney.
Tragedy struck before
This is the second straight season a tragedy has loomed over Knoch.
Last fall, cheerleader Alexis Summers was killed in a car accident just before the start of the WPIAL football playoffs.
"We are all just devastated right now," King said. "We had the same feeling last November."
The community pulled together and Knoch honored Summers by granting her "last wish," and advancing to the WPIAL championship game at Heinz Field.
King said he had stayed in touch with McNerney, and had planned to attend an upcoming W&J game.
"I always wished him luck and he did the same for us," King said. "He was about what Knoch football should be. He was super tough. He was everything you'd want in a football player."
Former Knoch running back Curtis Howard was shot and killed in July 2009.
Staff writer Liz Hayes contributed. Mary Ann Thomas is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 724-226-4691 or email@example.com.


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Guys don't criticize Saurik for this. If he does it he does it. If you have nothing positive and helpful about it then I see no point to clutter up the comments with pointless negative comments.
Check out nissan.com, there is a similar lawsuit going on there.
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A commenter mentioned on pg 1 or 2 that the cydia.com domain has been registered to its current owner since 2002. I wish Saurik would comment on that. We can discuss trademark laws all day but if the commenter is correct, I'd say that makes trademark laws inconsequential in this case. Saurik, why do you feel entitled to the name if they've indeed owned it since before you ever heard of an iPhone? I don't think the jaylenoshow.com story applies here, since jay leno is a person's name while cydia is a word that's older than dirt. I grant you that people might be going to cydia.com by mistake, hoping to learn about your software, but isn't that ultimately because you decided to use the name cydia even though it was already trademarked and in use? You might not be happy about it, but even if they were 'parking' the site to sell it, domain name auctioning is a legitimate business. No less so than, say, hacking a phone and affecting the business of its manufacturer. You want to make free software, for the people, for the noble cause of eliminating apple's restrictions (thanks a lot for the great software, by the way), but that doesn't mean you have the right to just waltz in and bypass someone's legitimate claim to property.
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In this specific case, Cydia is a software distribution system for Apple platforms (such as the iPhone). cydia.com, which was originally a random "nothing" ad landing page, has slowly decided to become first a body of advertisements of software for Apple platforms, and then a forum for the discussion of software for Apple platforms.
In practice, this forum was even further confusing, as /all/ of the people using it were users who believed they had found an official Cydia website, and were going to get useful support: I actually got users asking if they could be moderators on this site I don't own, I got reporters asking what I was doing with this site I don't own, and I got complaints from people who got bad advice from this site I don't work.
Seriously, when I first started Cydia, I didn't care that I didn't have cydia.com: few people were going to be confused that the random website that was there was mine. When I contacted them later about getting the domain name, though, they started using it against me, seemingly in an attempt to extort me into some larger amount (not that they've given me any actual money-valued quotes I can respond to yet).
The thing you have to realize here is that the general understanding of trademark laws that random Internet commenters have is simply false: somehow, the idea got out there that trademarking a term means you "own it", and "no one else can use it". This is simply not the case.
In fact, multiple people can have a trademark on the same term: yes, multiple trademark registrations for the same word in the same database at the USPTO. The idea is that you cannot use the same name if it will cause confusion.
That is the real goal of the trademark system: it is designed to keep people or companies from deceiving users or customers (whether on purpose, as I believe is the case here, but even if it is on accident).
Therefore, if the people who owned this domain name had decided to use it to run a laundromat, they could totally do that, and there wouldn't even be any confusion: no one would expect users of Cydia who went to cydia.com and saw a website for a laundromat to seriously expect they had found the site they were looking for.
However, in this case, this company simply registers domain names with no intended purpose for them (you claim "already in use": it was not; therefore, they certainly have no trademark, registered or unregistered), and then modified the website /in response to my complaints/ to be /more/ confusing over time.
At first this was an attempt to monetize the site at my expense, and later it was a (failed) attempt to separate themselves from their previous infringement (as they realized that if I had filed a UDRP while they were running those advertisements I would have gotten immediate judgement).
This company seriously just registers names, many of which are typo-squats of existing known brands, like wokia.com. According to domaintools.com, these people own over 37,000 domain names: I am serious here, *thirty-seven THOUSAND domain names*.
These are simply not people who have some legit operation with a name they've been using for a while that I am trying to "take": these are people who just spam the domain name system attempting to prey on people who may later accidentally fall into their minefield.
As much as you guys may WANT to disagree with saurik, he is 100% correct. The law is the law. This is what I specifically do for a living. I spend my entire day finding such infringements for companies. If you own a business, which many of us do not, you HAVE to do everything in your power to make that business successful. Otherwise you end up like the rust of us, working for the man
I recall a lawsuit from Apple records (the Beatles label) suing Apple (the computer company) when they got into music/itunes. Apple records defending their trademark because now there would be possible confusion between Apple records and Apple music/itunes. Anybody know what happened with that?? Similar type of case!
posted in the wrong thread (the article's front-age thread)
so moot point.
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Still stand by my original comment. Sue them to stop confusion, change the web site focus. You have no right to sue them to take something that they own.
Except that he does and you thinking he doesn't just reinforces that you don't know the law you are commenting about. After working 10+ years in a law office I still get laughs from people who don't "feel" something should be the way it is. Can't help them or you, know the law whether you agree or not, then comment on it.
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These people do this for a living, registering domains by the thousands (37,057 to be exact), and there are many out there like them. If you use the internet for more then 5 min you will no doubt run into at least 1. They serve no purpose, they are simply a lottery ticket for the d-bags who do this. If you want to waste A LOT more time getting relevent results when you use google, by all means, support Cykon Technology Limited. As for the rest of us who understand the problem, we hope Jay wins this suit. Its not a David vs. Goliath type of thing. Domain squatters add nothing of value to the internet, only clutter, confusion, and brand dilution.
I Thought if they bought the domain name they own it, isn't it that simple, so in turn if someone wants it they should have to pay for it regardless of the price they put on it(Not trying to be a smart azz just wondering isn't that how it goes).....
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Telephone Follow-Up on Outcome After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
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|Brain Concussion
|Behavioral: Scheduled telephone follow-up
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|The Effect of Telephone Follow-Up on Outcome After Mild TBI
- Measure: two composite measures - post-traumatic symptoms that develop or worsen after the injury - general health status [ Time Frame: Six months ]
- 1. Improvement of functional level, emotional status, community activities, and perceived quality of life (SF-12 Health Survey, Patient Health Questionnaire - Depression and Anxiety Scales, Community Integration Scale, Perceived Quality of Life) [ Time Frame: Six months ]
- Assess the effectiveness of this intervention in subgroups defined by gender or race. [ Time Frame: Six months ]
|Study Start Date:
|October 2003
|Study Completion Date:
|August 2006
|Assigned Interventions
No Intervention: 2
Control group were recruited in the emergency department after concussion and received standard care as directed by the ED physician and PCP.
Experimental: 1
Persons with concussion recruited in the emergency department received 5-6 scheduled telephone counseling calls focused on symptom management and self-management.
Behavioral: Scheduled telephone follow-up
Persons in the experimental group (group 1) received scheduled telephone counseling calls focused on symptom management and self-management skills.
Detailed Description:
This study examines the effect of scheduled telephone calls on the outcome after mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) or concussion. These calls offer subjects information, focused counseling, and referrals. MTBI is extremely common in the United States, numbering well over a million cases per year. Although recovery for most is quite good, 10-20% of persons have persisting symptoms that affect employment, quality of life, and health care expenses. We are examining one means to decrease persisting symptoms by offering early, consistent intervention before symptoms become persistent.
The subjects are enrolled in the emergency departments (ED) of the hospital and receive the baseline assessment while still in the ED. Subjects are randomly assigned to two groups: Group 1 standard care and Group 2 standard care, toll-free telephone number, and scheduled telephone calls for follow-up at 1-2 days, 2, 4, 8, and 12 weeks after injury. All subjects are contacted again at 6 months for an outcome assessment that is done over the telephone.
On the telephone, subjects are asked about current problems, and are given both information about recovery from MTBI and some counseling on dealing with symptoms or other complaints. They are also given community resources to obtain assistance if needed. Telephone call are reviewed by supervisors (physician and psychologist) for adherence to protocol and for training purposes.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|16 Years to 80 Years (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis consistent with mild traumatic brain injury
- Glasgow Coma Scale score 13-15
- Loss of consciousness less than or = to 30 minutes
- Any period of alteration of consciousness or post-traumatic amnesia
- age between 16 and 80
- permanent address
- ability to communicate in English
Exclusion Criteria:
- hospitalization within previous year for traumatic brain injury
- prior or current diagnosis of central nervous system or major psychiatric disorder
- Intoxication sufficient enough to cloud the diagnosis of mild TBI
- current alcohol dependence
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00483444
|United States, Washington
|University of Washington
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98195
|Principal Investigator:
|Kathleen R Bell, M.D.
|University of Washington
|Responsible Party:
|Kathleen Bell, Professor, Rehabilitative Medicine, University of Washington
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00483444 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|June 5, 2007
|Last Updated:
|February 2, 2017
Keywords provided by Kathleen Bell, University of Washington:
Brain injuries
Directive counseling
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Brain Injuries
Brain Concussion
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Craniocerebral Trauma
Trauma, Nervous System
Wounds and Injuries
Head Injuries, Closed
Wounds, Nonpenetrating
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 22, 2017


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Rangers stun Angels with ninth-inning rally
Tepesch, bullpen set stage for Rosales' walk-off hit
ARLINGTON -- By the bottom of the ninth inning Sunday, the Rangers appeared to be on the verge of wasting another fine outing by starter Nick Tepesch and another strong showing by their bullpen.
After all, offense has not been the Rangers' strong suit in a month in which they had scored more than four runs just twice in 15 games, and the Angels were three outs away from a three-game sweep with closer Huston Street on the mound looking for his third save in as many days.
This time something clicked for the Rangers. With no outs, Alex Rios, Adrian Beltre and Mike Carp each singled, the last base hit tying the game. Adam Rosales followed with a walk-off single to give the Rangers' a 3-2 victory and snap a four-game losing streak.
"Today we were able to cash it in," manager Ron Washington said. "We were able to get the big hit at the right time."
Rougned Odor drove in a run off Angels starter Hector Santiago in the fifth, but that was all the Rangers could muster until the climactic finish.
Washington was quick to point out that the big hit would never have been possible without Tepesch, who allowed two earned runs in seven-plus innings, and relievers Shawn Tolleson, Neal Cotts and Neftali Feliz, who combined for two scoreless innings.
The Angels had the bases loaded twice -- in the second inning against Tepesch and the eighth against Tolleson and Cotts -- but the Rangers' pitchers stood fast and the offense came through at the end to avoid a third-consecutive one-run loss.
"It all started with the pitching," Washington said. "We'd be up in here 'coming close' again if Tolleson and Cotts and Neffy and Tepesch wouldn't have done what they did today."
Washington talked about "the new Nick Tepesch," noting that the second-year starter is beginning to take greater control of games as far as pitch selection and execution.
"Of our young pitchers, he's got the most experience out there," Washington said. "It's starting to come together for him."
Tepesch has allowed only four runs over 14 innings in his past two starts, lowering his season ERA from 4.84 to 4.15. He has allowed three or fewer runs in four consecutive starts, good for a 2.45 ERA during that stretch.
"I've got a better plan, what I want to do before I even step on the mound versus waiting to see the suggestion from the catcher," Tepesch said.
In the second inning, Tepesch allowed four consecutive singles to Erick Aybar, David Freese, Efren Navarro and Collin Cowgill. Two runs scored in that frame -- the latter on Kole Calhoun's RBI groundout -- but that was all Tepesch gave Los Angeles. The Angels managed six hits off him.
"That second inning there, they had the bases loaded with nobody out and I'd already given up a run," Tepesch said. "It was just a matter of minimizing the damage and trying to do what I can do to control myself and not let the situation control me."
Tepesch settled into a groove after the second inning. He retired eight of the last nine batters he faced and left after walking Mike Trout to start the eighth. That's when it got dicey again for Texas.
Tolleson relieved Tepesch and immediately gave up a double to Albert Pujols, putting men on second and third. The Rangers decided to walk Howie Kendrick to load the bases, and then Tolleson got both Aybar and Freese to strike out swinging.
"With the way the games have been so close lately with the Angels, I was thinking [I had to] stop damage more than limit it," Tolleson said.
With Navarro up, Washington elected to bring in Cotts for the lefty-lefty matchup. Cotts got Navarro swinging.
Feliz threw a perfect ninth, giving Rangers' relievers a low 0.40 ERA over their past six games. The Texas bullpen has allowed just one run in the past 22 2/3 innings.
In the bottom of the ninth, Rios and Beltre quickly reached base with singles and Carp, who had pinch-hit for J.P. Arencibia in the seventh, golfed a blooper to center on a pitch that was close to his shoes.
Then, with the outfield in, Rosales drove a ball to left over Cowgill's head for the game-winner. Those were the first runs Street has given up since the Angels traded for him on July 19.
"It's always a strange feeling when you don't get your job done," Street said. "It's not really strange so much as it's frustrating, but it happens, it's the game, that's why we play them. I didn't make very good pitches out there. That's the bottom line."
The Rangers were more than ready to celebrate being on the right side of a one-run margin.
"You think, eventually we're going to pull one of these out," Rosales said. "Today was that day and it was fun. It was much-needed."
Dave Sessions is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Bonus review …
More thoughts:
1) That elimination goal really shouldn't have happened. Just so many breakdowns by so many people, starting with the Brad Richards turnover at center ice — the cardinal sin vs. the Devils — then complicated by the right defenseman (Dan Girardi) over-pursuing to the left boards and getting trapped there, then choosing behind-the-net as his path back. Then Ryan McDonagh going down to the ice, Marian Gaborik kicking the puck twice but not getting it out of trouble, then Carl Hagelin and Brad Richards both ignoring Adam Henrique in the crease behind Henrik Lundqvist … when a little shove, or any sort of stick or physical challenge probably prevents Henrique from that tap-in. Looked like previous years' Rangers defense. This year they stayed on their feet more, and took the man more … and they stopped doing that on the final play of the year.
2) Gotta tell you a story. With the mass of media at the Rock, and at the mercy of two unpredictable elevators to get from the pressbox to the lockerrooms, I (and others) decided to go down before the OT began, figuring I could watch the end on TV (in HD). write the top to my story, and be sure I could get to the lockerrooms quickly once it ended. Except NBC had this seven-second delay going on. So I'm watching the OT, and play was at center ice, and I heard the place erupt and the horn going off, and had to wait, wait, wait … and wait … to see the goal. But long before I saw the goal, I knew the Devils won. Very weird.
3) It's going to be much harder just to get back to the playoffs, never mind as a top seed, then to win a round, then two … then three. Much harder. That was kind of my column today. I'll post it later on.
4) Let's not forget, though it appears to have been shelved for the coming (lockout) season, the NHL board of governoes wants to do its ridiculous realignment in which there will be fewer regular-season games with playoff implications, followed by playoffs that will pit the Patrick Division teams against one another in Rounds 1 and 2. That will make it even more difficult to ever get to the third round. Only four division teams will make the playoffs (for some reason, they're going to call them four conferences, not divisions) and they will play off. What a lousy, backward plan.
5) I got to thinking, too, about how when the Rangers were at their best this season, Brian Boyle's line played major minutes, often against top opponents. That was usually Boyle and Brandon Prust, with Ruslan Fedotenko among others. And I got to thinking that that line didn't get, probably didn't deserve, the major minutes in the postseason, though they were still good killing penalties. And when the Rangers were at their best, early, it was the GAS line (Gaborik, Artem Anisimov and Derek Stepan), then Richards and Ryan Callahan (and either Brandon Dubinsky or Hagelin or somebody else), and the Rangers seemed more balanced back then. But that's when all three lines were productive offensively. Then came the Hagelin-Richards-Gaborik line, which was on fire for a while, and completely doused in the ECF.
6) Too bad the Rangers couldn't go out at home, and get to do the stick salute.
7) I'm pleasantly surprised at how many of you reacted the way you should — hurt beyond words, but mostly positive about the year the team just gave you.
8) These stories about Mats Zuccarello agreeing to a KHL contract, I don't blame him. He reportedly wants an NHL contract, but I don't know if that's coming. I mean, if he stays here, there can't be any guarantee he will be an NHL player, or prove to be an NHL player. And I'm sure he doesn't want to go back and forth to the AHL again. I don't know about him as a legit NHLer, because I like his skill and his compete, but is he a top-six? And if not, can he and his team make it work on a third or fourth line? I think it probably can … the Devils probably would make it work. We'll see.
9) Yesterday I thanked Josh, 26, for his help, and thanked all of youse guys. I also wanted to thank Sean Mayer, our sports editor (and dieheard) without whom I don't get to go to all the games I did this season, and I definitely don't go on the road in the playoffs. I haven't spoken to him since Friday night. Hope he's off the ledge.
10) Don't forget, Josh, 26, and I will have all sorts of audio from Breakup Day Monday. Then later in the week we'll do a Live Chat.
11) I'm guessing we'll find out how bad Ryan Callahan's hand/wrist were, and Brandon Dubinsky's foot/ankle, and other things, on Monday.


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Many thanks to Chris Paton http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.nz/ for letting the genealogy world know that Ancestry have released some more books and publications that first appeared on CD's from the now closed Archive CD Books company. These datasets aren't indexed, but will be well worth the time browsing if you find something from one of your ancestral areas.
To access these publications simply go to www.Ancestry.co.uk click on the front page link for Ancestry Card Catalogue and then copy and paste from the list below the title in which you are interested. I'm off to look at Parochial Antiquities in the Counties of Oxford & Buckinghamshire. Read and enjoy!!
Old England – A Pictorial Museum – Charles Knight. 2 Vols (abt. 1870)
Old Lincolnshire Magazine 1883-1885
Old Nottingham – Its Streets and People
Parochial Antiquities in the Counties of Oxford & Buckinghamshire (2 vols)
Parochial History of the County of Cornwall – 4 Volumes
Photographs of the Norfolk Broads – 1891 Jennings
Picturesque England. Its Landmarks and Historic Haunts (1891)
Recollections of Old Liverpool by a Nonegenarian
Reid's Handbook to Newcastle on Tyne 1863
Remarkable Antiquities of the City of Exeter
Reminiscences of Manchester from the year 1840
Report on Ecclesiastical Revenues of England & Wales 1835
Robinson's The History and Antiquities of Edmonton
Robinson's The History and Antiquities of Enfield- 1 & 2 vols
Robinson's The History and Antiquities of Hackney – Volumes 1 & 2
Robinson's The History and Antiquities of Stoke Newington
Robinson's The History and Antiquities of Tottenham High Cross
Round About Bradford
Royal Charters of the Borough of Nottingham 1155-1712
Some account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the City of London
Some Old Devon Churches -Volumes 1 – 3
Somerset – Victoria County History Vol. 1
South Devon
South London
Steinman's History of Croydon 1833
Stemmata Alstoniana
Studies in Church Dedications of England's Patron Saints
Swindon 50 Years Ago. Reminiscences, Notes and Relics of ye Old Wiltshire Town
The Annals of Yorkshire
The Blizzard in the West -1891
The Breviary of Suffolk
The Cathedral Church of Southwell.
The Churches of Derbyshire – 4 Vols. Cox 1875
The Coins of England
The Complete English Lawyer or Every Man his Own Lawyer
The Constitution of England – De Lolme 1822
The Herts Genealogist and Antiquary Volume 2
The History & Antiquites of Scarborough
The History & Antiquities of the County of Somerset – 3 Volumes
The History & Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham -2 Vols
The History & Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham – 3 Vols
The History and Antiquities of the Town of Buckingham (1755)
The History of Friar Lane Baptist Church – Nottingham
The History of Lancashire
The History of London From its Foundation to the Present Time
The History of Nottingham
The History of Scarborough
The History of the Belvoir Hunt
The History of the City of Exeter
The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641 (6 Vols.)
The History of Wakefield
The Journal & Diary of John Savidge (Nottingham)
The Liverpool Guide, 1801
The Naval History of England
The Old Engravers of England 1540-1800
The Old Town Wall of Nottingham
The Peak District of Derbyshire – Baddley's Guide (1913)
The Religious Census of London
The Religious Institutions of Old Nottingham (3 Vols)
Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches (1846)
Our Own Country
Owen's Book of Fairs (1824)
Owen's New Book of Roads (1822)
Paterson's Book of Roads 1808
Paterson's Roads (1829)
Photography in a Nutshell
Popular Errors Explained & Illustrated
Recollections of Johannes Brahms – 1899
Recollections of Old Country Life
Rob Rat – A Story of Barge Life
The Coinage of the British Empire
The History of British India
The History of Freemasonry – 3 volumes
The History of the Tweedie or Tweedy Family
The Life of Colonel Hutchinson (1808)
The Life of Florence Nightingale
The Life of Josiah Wedgwood (2 vols)


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A MOTHER who was born with a cleft lip and palate is aiming to raise awareness of the charity which supported her family after her youngest daughter was found to have the same condition.
Kate Towse, 35, who lives in Norton, was diagnosed with a bilateral cleft lip and palate - the most severe form which affected both sides of her mouth - following her birth.
"It was a complete shock for my parents as they were unaware anything was wrong," Kate said.
"There was also very little information about the condition or support for them at that time."
Kate underwent her first operation when she was six months at St James' Hospital in Leeds, with treatment and surgery to monitor her hearing, facial growth and general development continuing until she was 20.
"It was difficult at times as people do make comments and it does hurt but there are worst things to have and you just deal with it and get on with life," she said.
After marrying Steve, a builder, the couple went on to have twins Charlie and Freya, who are nearly five, followed by Pippa who is three in June.
"Everything as fine with the twins but when we went for a 20 week with Pippa we were told that she had the condition which was a total shock," Kate said.
"I hadn't wanted to know the sex of the baby but as soon as I got the news I needed to know - girls seem to cope better and they tend to talk about things more rather than bottling it up."
Kate said that within 24 hours of Pippa's diagnosis, the family was contacted by the charity CLAPA (Cleft Lip and Palate Association).
"They are just amazing - someone comes round to see you at home and offers you all the support and advice you need, " she added.
"It is something that wasn't there when I was born and it is a fantastic support for parents and families."
Kate said Pippa has already undergone a number of operations and will face a bone graft from her hip when she is nine.
"It is far worse seeing your own child go through this than it was facing it myself," she added.
"But again the support CLAPA had given us and continued to give, along with that of the the medical staff is fantastic."
To support the charity , Kate has set herself a fundraising challenge, and as well as taking part in the Kirkbymoorside 10k at the weekend, has signed up for the Great North Run in the autumn.
"Having never done any serious running before I am now involved in a training programme which is going really well and I have set myself a challenge of raising £1,000," she added.
"I was born the same year CLAPA was set up, so we are both celebrating our 35th birthdays this year, and I felt it was an apt time to do something to support the charity which is very close to my family's heart and has done so much to support us" she added
Anyone who would like to sponsor Kate can do so by visiting justgiving.com/KateTowse


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CONCERNS "a child will be killed" has sparked a campaign to stop irresponsible drivers using a Cradley estate as a rat run between Stourbridge and Halesowen.
Staff at Caslon Primary School, the police, residents on the fatherless barn estate and Belle Vale councillor Donella Russell have teamed up to demand action.
Cllr Donella Russell said: "There is a lot of anger on this estate about the roads being used as a cut through from Stourbridge to Halesowen.
"This is causing a danger to the residents that live there as drivers have been witnessed speeding in excess of 60mph down the roads, even near Caslon Primary School.
She added: "People on this estate feel they have been let down by the council as no road safety has been looked at and at the school there is concern a child or parent will end up being killed."
She added: "The school has no crossing or crossing patrol. The residents on this estate struggle to park outside of their own homes and are worried that an accident is waiting to happen either to themselves and their property."
A petition has been organised and is being handed to councillors and council officers at Belle Vale and Hayley Green Community Forum.
Cllr Russell added: "I am going to ask the council to put these roads on teh 20mph routes to school, to slow down the traffic. I also want to see what other speed restrictions that can be done such as speed humps and finally aim ti get a crossing and crossing patrol, to keep the pupils safe.
"These residents feel like they have been forgotten and let down, they really believe that they are not cared about, this attitude needs to be changed."