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Mi OilGROI BOY
But a Foe of Groat Resource, De
termination, and Sinews of
By ARTHUR W. PEACH.
When .MIha Alice- Homley .-nton-il
the onici' or Iho lic-ml of tho hl miinu
fnnturliiB Hrni, hIio mrl Hoy lllllnnl
for tlio flint time Tlmt miMitlnj;
EorM'il to mtiko Imr ItiteroHloil in lilm
nnil the Intercut grow from friendship
into Honictlilni: Hsu Klin would not
ronfoHH It wih love for hint Imt hIio I
was attracted by IiIh clieery, happy-KO-luck
porponallty his wIIIIiiki.uhh to do
little HiTviren Hint n woman values.
It did not take her long to dlHrovor
that he was of little uho to Mr. 1iko,
tho head of f'i lln , who.io coiifl'li'n
tlal dork ho was mipposed to lin. She
lenrned, too. that lllllnnl had money
In his own right n considerable,
amount fart, but iih It had been the
wish of his father that he enter busi
ness with I-ako ho had done so. He
was lazy, nuver on tlmo, always put
ting off IiIh work. Him roulil seu that
Mr. Lake was exasperated at times,
but mnuiiRed to hold his temper.
Therein, sho discovered, too, that If
lllllnnl were discharged, bis position
would bo hers.
lllllnnl got Into tho habit of seeing
her home; sometimes, she found him
and his car waiting for her Hcforo
long he was coming on Sundays and
soon she was listening for bis slow,
good-natured voice asking tho girl nt
tho door If Miss Homley were In.
Ono starry night, when It Boomed
good to be alive, and good to be Im
side him, ho proposed. She was
startled, yet she had read it In his
eyes days before. Ills first words
thrilled her, tho next angered her, for
ho was proposing as ho did every
thing, carelessly, good-naturedly, ns If
It didn't amount to much anyway.
Marriage Involved giving up tho busi
ness career for which she had fitted
herself, and of which sho had
dreamed. It was not a matter to bo
tnlked of In other than a serloiiH
way. Ills manner angered her.
Sho told him, frankly, that nho
would not marry him, that ho was ntill
on overgrown boy, and hadn't a nerl
ous thought In the world, and that n,
girl liked to have the thuoght of mar
rlago with Iter regarded as tho biggest
thing' In tho world.
HIh open, smllng fnco gre.w serious,
for -nco, ns sho went on, and sho
found sho could not scold when words
of a scolding natiiro bounded off ho
easily. Ileforo they had returned, r'ie
wns smiling herself, but under her
smiling exterior wns her detromlnn
tlon never to marry him. Sho told
him bo flatly.
The next day n small bomb burst
In the office. Illllnrd appeared Into,
and milking no effort to make up for
lost time, ho aroused Lake's long suf
fering wrath, with tho result thnt
tho room fill of stenographers heard
tho Irnto, blttter-tongued mnn turn on
I Illllnrd n stream or condemnation
in which ho ripped H Hard's clmructur
into shreds nnd showed It up before
Millard himself In Its bnro truth. Not
stopping thoro ho went on to dls
chnrgo him, closing with tho words,
"You nron't half a man! Oct out!
Mis- Romloy. you take his work."
Hllnrd stood, whlto to tho lips, .his
fnlr, good-natured rnco stiff undor n
now emotion, then ho turned townrd
tho clonk-room without n word.
Alice Homley hnd ronllzed her nmbl
tlor; sho was tho chosen clarl: of tho
manurncturer, nnd sho labored to
show her vnluo to him. Ho seemed
plensed by hor efforts, nnd sho certain
ly wns by tho bIzo of her pny check
and his words.
or Illllnrd, sho honrd nothing nftcr
his dopnrture. Sho mlBsed him keen
ly, nnd sho began to bollovo It wns nil
right, nfter nil, to have a nnturo that
bccb only tho sunny Bldo of llfo, oven
If such a nnturo never gotB ono any
where No word camo rrom him, and
sho did not write ror qho hnd no Idea
whore ho wns.
Tho llrst Inkling came through n
note from ono of their western man
agers, saying' that tho llrst of a crop
of salesmen wero intruding on his ter
ritory with an articlo similar to
theirs, but bettor made and cheaper,
nnd thnt his men wero getting tho
worst of It right along.
Lnko'a fnco had looked worried aft
er that Sho know they wero making
a largo profit on their goods, and that
ho had been afraid of tho advent of
Tho next report rrom tho west was
still moro discouraging, and beroro
sho know It n roynl battlo was on bo
tween two llrms for oxlstenco, Dazed
a bit by tho wonder of it, sho took
her small part In It. Sho saw that
thoy wore fighting n foo or great ro
sourco and determination, nnd ono
quipped with tho sinews or warfare
wealth and credit.
They could not learn who tho pow
er waB in tho opposing company, but
sho know thoy wero men of ability;
Homo of them had been with Lake's
firm in tho old days.
Then camo tho aftornoon sho know
sho would novor rorgot. Sho sat
in tho room whom tho members of
tho firm sought to find n way out;
Bho saw them desperately plan, and
turn bnck, hold ut bay from ovory
corner. Ono by ono thoy left In
despnlr, and only Lako romalnod.
Tho telegram camo offering no com
promise, but Btntlng that It would give
a reasonablo nmount for their bust
'noBs. llcaten, and beaten badly, Lako
When tho representative of tho oth
icr firm entered, sho heard Iako gasp,
and looking up, sho gasped hnrsolf. It
was Hlllard, but a chanted Hlllard.
Ills race was linn and storn, his cys
had grown steadier, and his manner
was slow but certnln On hla faco
wero thn signs of tho terrific struggle
In which he had taken part
La. o could not believe his eyes,
nor was lit; willing to make terms with
his former clerk, but Hlllard, smll
lug a grim smile, proved that he wns
the one. I.-iko, humbled by tho evi
dence that lllllnnl had been tho po
or behind tho competition, surrender
ed, Tho terms wero discussed and
dinwn up by Miss Homley She won
dered at the masterfulness of Millard,
at his sure grasp of tho Items, anil
his relentless hold on tho vital points
nt stake,
Wlion they were both through, and
Lake's shaking hand was signing the
agreement, Hlllard leaned back, nnd
hla eyes went to hers, but hers drop
ped before the muto power In his,
nnd sho did not took up Ho went
on to tell Lake that Iho words ho
spoke had ripped tho mnsk rrom his
own life, and he hnd seen how useless
It was. Ho offered Lake the posi
tion of eastern manager. Lako gulp
ed a little, and asked for time to think
It over. Hlllard agreed, mid his voice
was kindly
When Like went out, she expected
Hllard to go, too, but sho heard his
steps come hack toward her desk. Sho
was afraid of him now, shu know, nnd
she did not lift her faco; but she inns
tered her fenrs enough to say, "Well,
Mr. Hlllard, I suppose I nm dis
charged, and must needs seek a now
position." She said It as playrully
as she could
Ho did not nnswer, but sho felt his
hnnds come down, and lift her to her
feet. Sho knew then by tho touch
what w h coming. The suddenness or
It mado her tremble a llttlo, and sho
thrust her race against his coat, as
his strong arms drew her closo to
"Yes. you are discharged, Alice, but
I want to glvo you tho highest posi
tion a mnn can offer a girl. I want you
to bo my partner In tho business or
building n homo nnd happiness. Aro
you willing?"
Soothed by the. quiet sonio ot pow
er, tho low thrill or emotion in his
voice, she loowed up Into his eyes.
In thorn, rnr back, was tho gleam or
the old good nnturo.
Her nnswer wns not In words, but
It sealed tho agreement.
(CupyrlKht, 191.1. by tho McCluro Ncwh
I'.ip r Hymllcfilu.)
To an Observing Mind There Would
Appear to Have Been Some Point
to Kitty's Questioning.
A new family had moved Into tho
house next door to tho Smiths, accord
Ing to n story told by Postmaster
Oenernl Hitchcock, and little Kitty
Smith was on t)io back porch of her
own homo cultivating the acquain
tance of tho llttlo girl on the opposlto
"What's your name?" sho nsked.
"Klorenco," replied tho nowcomor.
"Whnt's yourB?"
"Katherlne," wns tho nnswer, "but
thoy always cnll mo Kitty. Tho nnmo
of tho folks thnt used to llvo hero bo-
fore you enmo wnB Jones."
"Our nnmo Is Thompson," said tho
new girl "Wo camo all tho way from
"Our numo Is Smith," letumed Kit
ty "Say, you never met the Joneses,
did you?"
"Oh, no." rejoined 'tho iiuw girl
"Not your Joneses "
"Thoy wiib Just something awful for
borrowing," volunteered Kitty. "Thoy
used to send over to our houso three
or four tlmcB a week to borrow coffeo,
sugar mid things, nnd never paid It
back. Say, you folks don't borrow llku
Hint, do you?"
"Oh, no," wns tho rensBiirlng re
sponse or tho now girl.
"Sho anys they don't, mnmrnn!"
culled out Kitty, turning around and
facing tho half-open door of tho Smith
home. Philadelphia Telegraph.
Grow Trees From Top Down.
A rorelgn railway company has solv
ed tho plan of getting good shado
trees In a short time, thought thoy
may bo Bmall Tho trees are so ar
ranged that nftor two years' tlmo they
will glvo as much Bliiulo an trees In
the ordinary way or sotting out would
glvo that aro IT. or 20 years old. The
company gets a small elm tree, pre
ferably, digging this, roots and all,
from tho ground Tho tree then Is set,
tho top part being set Into tho ground
and the roots nro left In tho air. Thu
tree then grows, forniB roots on what
originally was tho top of tho treo, and
tho orlglnnl roots that now take tho
placo of tho branches begin to leaf out
and form n complete foliage very
quickly Heautlful specimens of such
Invorted trees aro to bo seen by the
fountains in Kensington gardens, Lou
"Oh, Miss Llghtroot." said Jollyci
after their, third danco at tho ball
"you are a most wonderful dancer."
"Really, do you think so?" Bho ro
piled. "Yes, Indeed. Moro wondorful than
tho damsel who danced heforo Tlorod
nnd domanded tho head of John the
"Really. How so, pray?"
"Well, you see, when Bho danced
ono mnn wns decapitated, but when
you danco nil men Jobo their heads."
Happy Family.
Mr. Scrapplngton After all, only a,
vory Bmnll percentage of men squan
dor their money on chorus girls.
Mrs. Scrnpplngton That Is because,
tho porcentngo or chorus girls Is very
Bmnll compared with the number of
mon. Exchange.
Simplicity and Smartness in
Two Up-to-Date Garments
Velveteen Dress.
ELVKTKEN DRESS. -Very almplo
-rf-MMMft. 'iiJVujaw.
dress wo show here; It is in tobacco brown velveteen. Tho skirt la
plain; tho bodlco ia Magyar, with cross-ovur fronts and plain basque;
it fastens In front; tho vest of tucked net belni; fixed at loft sldo by
press Htuds; ti laco collar llnlshes tho bodlco, tho elbow sleeves being edged
with a band of fur." Hat of velvet to match tho dress; It is trimmed with
palo bluo ostrich feathers. A largo Btolo of black fox completes tho costume.
Mntorinls required for tho dresa: Soven yards velveteen twenty-four
Inches wldo, one-half yard tucked not, llvo-elghtha yard fur.
Walking Costume. This costumo is in champagne-colored Venetian
cloth. Tho skirt bus a wrapped seam down the center of front, with tho
lowor edges cut Bharply off, leaving a "V" shaped opening, which la filled in
wKh material on which nro sewn rows and rows of black Batin ribbon; this
nlHo trims tho coat on tho revcrs nnd at tho wrists. Kor tho collar, black,
sntln la used. Hat of black-satin, trimmed with a champagne-colored feather
Materials required: Four and one-half yards cloth forty-eight inches
wide, about eight ynrda ribbon, one-quarter yard satin twenty inches wide,
flvo yards silk or sntln for lining coat
Kvenlug gown of ivory brocade with
draped skirt. The corsage la draped
with black chiffon.
Green as a trimming, especially an
eighteenth century shade of green,
will bo a feature, particularly as coat
Unlugs for velvet and fur. Yellow and
oraugo aro also popular for this pur
pose. Much can bo expressed in n
coat lining. Many of theso linings nro
works of art In themselves, and a lin
ing denotes proper appreciation of de
tails which augurs well for tho csseu
tlal. A fascinating effect noticed In a
tailor mado coat of chestnut brown
tweed was a lining of ollvo green
satin with n piping all round Inside ot
a nattier bluo shot ribbon.
Spring Jacket.
Tho spring Jncket in tho making la
Bald to have a length of -7 Inches,
which in longer In tho back than In
tho front. It will havo long alcoves
and will button high over tho chest
for tho spring senaon, hut It will prob
ably bo lowered n- soon ub tho warm
weather sets In.
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Walking Costume.
yet nt tho enmo tlmo smart Is tho
Old Style Revived, Though In Much
Daintier Fashion Than Those of
a Few Years Ago.
Hall tho old-fashioned wristband!
It's In again. Very much so and
you'ro not strictly up-to-duto if you
don't possess at least ono speclmon.
Theso bands, which tako tho placo of
bracelets, but nro much daintier, con
sist of strips of inch-wldo velvet rib
bon long enough to go once about tho
wrist. On tho upper sldo of tho arm,
tho strip of velvet is secured by a
pnlr of Inch-squnro or Inch-long ob
long clnsps of engraved gold, ham
mered silver or carved Ivory. That is
to say. the simpler sort of wristbands
aro thus clasped. Tho moro expensive
kind nro mndo of platinum or of gold
or silver thickly encrusted with tiny
Jewels or gema or set with a ainglo
largo jewel or gem. surrounded by
others of much smaller slzo. Fre
quently several kinds of Jewels orna
ment a pair of wristband clasps and
again n slnglo diamond or pearl Is im
bedded In thn center of a squaro of
precious metal.
It la possible to have a pair of tho
largo old-fashioned cameo or coral
earrings made over Into wristband
clasps, and, although in former days
a slnglo bracelet band of this typo
was rarely worn, nowadayB It la com
monly been. Many women who havo
inherited a collection of old-fashioned
oninmenta nro having them mndo over
Into bracelet clnsps and usually tho
task Is neither dllllcult nor expensive.
Tall Trimmings on Millinery.
According to tho Dry Goods Econo
mist, tall trimmings continue tho
rngo nnd in somo of tho Imported
models this Idea ia carried nlmost to
tho point of absurdity. Among tho
most effectlvo models now being
shown In which tho tall trimming idea
Ib employed is a black Milan sailor
with tho brim gently rolled nt tho left
Bldo. A tiny fringe of black goura
outlines tho brim nnd from tho edgo
of tho brim nt tho left shoots upward
a tnll black goura nlgretto bent at
tho top In loop form. Tho tnll trim
ming Idea la also strongly emphasized
In this mnrkct. Question murks of
feathers, ribbons, cords, etc., long
pointed Bleoves, flat spcnr-llko orna
ments of velvet nnd of vnrlous fnncy
silks, nlgrettes of small flowers close
ly packed togethor, nnd long splko
Ilko Jot ornnmonts nro all utilized In
this fnBlilon.
Metal Coin .Purse.
An attractive novolty In Jewelry is
tho tiny coin purso of perforated met
al which holds dimes nnd nickels. It
1b strung on a flno neck chnln or worn
nt tho end of a narrow black silk ribbon.
(Ujr V.. O. HIir.t.l'ltH, Director of Kvo
nlng Depart m nl Tim Moody llllilu In
stitute of Clilwiso )
LESSON TT.XT-Gi-n. 13 R-1S.
noLDUN' Tl-:XT-"Me Is fulltlful Hint
piuinlHi-d,"- Mob 10.21.
Until within recent years It was fro
qucntly assorted that Ahram's battlo
as recorded in Gen. 1 1, "had not one
whit of proof," yet the archaeologists
havo not only reconciled the apparent
discrepancies but havo proven beyond
a question tho nccuracy of the rec
ord. Ahram's victory over the four
confederate kings Is a story rich with
typical suggestions.
T. "After These Things." vv. 1-7.
God's word (v. 1) camo to Abram not
only ns a counsel but for assurance
na well. So, too, our nssurnnco la his
word, I John C:13. In tho midst ol
tho uncertainty nnd the strire. for wo
must remember Abram never pos
BCSRcd tho lnnd, God appeared to him
In a vision and said. "Fear not." Seo
Isa. 41:10. Thoro in tho midst of
foes (Jas. 2:23) God promised to be
to Abram a Bhield and an exceeding
great reward A "shield" for there Is
to tho Christian llfo a militant Bldo.
Eph. C:in, 14. I Tim. 0:12. A "re
ward" which was far moro rich than
nny given by man. Seo 14:21, Prov.
Abram Was Human.
Hut Abram was. after all. humnn,
nnd wo rend In verso 2 his question
about descendnnts, ho being aa yet
childless. Even so, however, Abram
was willing to count tho child of his
steward ns fulfilling tho promise of
God. Not so with God for tho prom
ise (12:3) wns to includo Suruh nlso.
God very clearly makes this plain In
verso 4. tho heir wns to bo Abrnm's
Indeed and not tho child of nnother.
Rut not only Is Abram to have an
heir but tho land In which ho was so
journing ns a pilgrim was to bo his
nnd hla seed to bo ns tho stars for
"And he believed." Tho great test
to this faith camo later. Ilcb. 11:19,
but hero In this first distinct scrip
tural history of faith wo find set forth
those principles thnt liavo governed
through all tlmo. (1) The acceptanco
of tho word of God, o g., to hnvo our
trust built upon or supported by the
word of Jehovah, boo Isa. 30:21; (2)
to net upon thnt faith- bo that our
courso In llfo manifests tho belief of
the heart.
God'H covenant, 12:1-4. Is confirmed
In seven ways, 1, Posterity, (a) nat
ural, "earth." (b) spiritual, "heaven,"
(c) nlso through Ishmael, Gen. 17:18
20: 2, messing, both temporal nnd
spiritual; 3, great nnmo; 4, He a bless
ing. Gal. 3:13. 14; 5. "I will bless
them that blesB theo;" 0, "nnd curse
them thnt curso theo; 7, tho families
of tho earth blessed through Abram,
e. g., through Christ, Gal. 3:1 C.
"And ho believed In tho Lord" (v.
C). Abram built upon tho naked word
of God. he simply looked nt thnt and
thnt nlono. Rom. 4:20. R. V. All God
nskn of us Is for us to tako him at his
word. So It Is that ns we tako hla
word nbout Jesus, he reckons that
faith to us ns righteousness; no mat
ter how unrighteous wo may have
been, boo Rom. 4:3-0: Gnl 3:0-7. Tho
ono think thnt God demands is that
wo bellevo him and his word.
II. "Whereby Shall I Know." vv.
8-18. Tho wenkness of humnn faith In
dicated by Ahram's question (v 8) Is
nnswered by God giving to him direc
tions for tho preparation of a sacri
fice. Abram did not renlly doubt
God's word (v. 0), but ho did desire a
confirming sign. Mnny todny aro
looking for ussurlng Blgns from God
when his bare word Bhould bo enough.
Asking for signs is not nlways faro.
T-uko 1:18-20. but as in Ahram's caso
God does give us a pledge a sign of;
our inheritance. 2 Cor. 1:22. Eph. 1:14.
God gavo Abram, after ho had explic
itly followed lili directions, a sym
bolic vision of himself. Someono has
suggested that tho vile birds of prey
(v. 11) aro symbolic of Satnn, nnd
Abram, driving them nwny, n symbol
of ono victory over evil, Jas. 4:7
God Is nlways nearer to man nnd best
rovenls himself when wo nro in tho
midst of Bacrlflco. God tells Abmm
of those days of servitude on tho part
of his descendants whllo they nro to
ho in Egypt, of God's Judgment to m
brought upon thnt lnnd and of tholr
ultimate dollveranco.
Symbols of God.
Every detail of theso predictions
and promises waB fulfilled. In versa
15 there Is presented tho great
thought of tho need of preparation In
youth for tho futuro dayB of "good
old ago" also In this verso a sugges
tion of tho llfo beyond tho grave.
Tho Bmoklng furnace nnd tho flam
ing torch wero symbols of God him
self. Four centuries of opportunity
wero to bo allowed tho powerful Amo
rltes who now possessed tho land bo
foro tho lnnd camo into bona-fldo pos
BCjBlon In accordance with tho prom
leo, for God's Judgment wns condition
ed upon tho "mensuro of tholr Iniquity
being full." In tho midst of this hor
ror of darkness camo God's final ns
Buranco to Abram In tho symbolic,
"flaming torch" which pnsBod be
twoon tho pleceB of tho slain nnlmals
typical of the two parties to the ooj
Procured Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound,
which made His Wife
a Well Woman.
MJildlctown, Fa. "I had hcadnche,
backache nnd ouch awful bearing down
pnins that I could not bo on my feet nt
times ami I had organic inflnmmntion so
badly that I wns not nblo to do my work.
I could not get a good tnenl for my hus
band and ono child. My neighbors said
they thought my BUfFcring was terrible.
" My husband got tired of seeing ma
eufTer and ono night went to tho drug
store nnd got mo a bottlo of Lydia K.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and
told me I must take it I can't tell you
all I suffered and I can't tell you all that
your medicino has done for me. I was
greatly benefited from the first and it
lins mado mo a well woman. I can do
all my housework nnd oven helped soma
of my friends as well. I think it is a
wonderful help to all suffering women.
I have got several to tnko it after see
ing what it has dono for me." Mrs.
Emma Espensiiadl', 219 East Main St.,
Middletown, Pa.
Tho Pinkham record is a proud and hon
orable one. It is a record of constant
victory over tho obstinato ills of woman
t ills that deal out desflair. It is an es
tablished fact that Lydia E. Pinkham's
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If yon Tfant spcclnl advice write to
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Cough, Cold
Sloan's Liniment gives
quiuk relief for cough, cold,
hoarseness, soro throat,
croup, ustinna, hay fever
and bronchitis.
Mn.Ai.iiKiir W.l'niUK.of rreJonla,
Kan., m rites : " W uo Sloan's Litil-tnt-iit
lu tlio family nud fliul It an ox-
cvuuni rune i lorcoius miu uy loier
attacks. It stops cuuutiiug aud anccs
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tlia world. My throat was Tcry sora,
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Mr. W. It. STRANfiK, 372! Elm wood
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tle boy next iloor had croup. I care
the mother Sloan's I.lnlmcut to try.
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Dancing ponies, a brass band and archery will all be on offer at a country fair this weekend.
Worsbrough Mill and Country Park is getting set for the Worsbrough Country Fair on July 20.
Last year saw the re-introduction of the fair after a 19 year absence and the event was a roaring success with an estimated 3,000 people coming along to enjoy the day.
There will sheep dog demonstrations, Spanish style dancing ponies, Worsbrough Brass Band and fun fair stalls, donkey rides, archery and BB shooting range, a farmers' market stalls and Penistone Pony Club all at the shwo.
Coun Roy Miller, Cabinet Spokesperson for Place, said: "Last year's fair was a bit of a taster to see if the event would draw in the crowds. People were still talking about the original country fairs run all those years ago, so as, we expected, it was a great success.
"The event was held around the Mill itself but with the introduction of our new children's play area we needed to move the event to somewhere bigger this year and after discussions with Wigfield farm we have moved the fair to the events field which is to the south of the reservoir."
Richard Moss, assistant manager at Worsbrough Mill said: "We have introduced an entry fee this year to help with the costs incurred in this type and scale of event. We are hoping that at just £1 per person people will appreciate the value for money they will get on the day."


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The Tex Pistols are serious about country music. So serious, in fact, that their show is kind of like walking into a concert hall or arena in 1965, when the great Opry package shows came to town. The only difference between then and now is that the Tex Pistols play the classics with today's sound and energy.
Canada's original Rhinestone Cowboy Band, the Tex Pistols communicate with and entertain their audience, rather than just playing dance music, although they don't mind it a bit when fans get up and dance; after all, country music was meant to dance to...
The Pistols' first album, "Not Suitable for Airplay," was released in July of 1999. The album, distributed in Canada by Royalty Records and in Europe by AAC, has proven extremely popular, both off stage and in stores and was named Album of the Year by the SCMA.
Their second album, "AAIIEE!!" was released in Canada on January 25th, 2004. The album includes favourites requested by fans on their North American and European tours, plus several originals, penned by Brian Sklar and son, Aaron Sklar. In addition to the Tex Pistols, additional players on the album include Grand North American Fiddle Champion Calvin Vollrath, guitar wizard Freddie Pelletier,and Texas steel guitar player of the year Billy Phelps,of Houston, who has toured with theTex Pistols for the past five summers. Of special note is the 15-minute bonus track "Twelve Bucks", a tribute to Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, who were named America's top country band for nine years running in the 60s and 70s.
The Tex Pistols' third album, "Buck U - Class of 60" started out as a tribute to Buck Owens after his passing in 2006. It grew into a tribute to many of the great West Coast Country artists including Merle Haggard, Freddie Hart, Skeets McDonald, and Wynn Stewart. It was released in July of 2006 and has proven to be a hit with real country fans all across North America and Europe.
Brian Sklar and the Tex Pistols' latest album, "Daddy on the Radio" is a collection of country standards and originals, including the title track, written by Brian Sklar back in the 80s, when his group, the Prairie Fire Band, was touring for 11 months each year and his two boys were back home with their mother, growing up without their dad. The album is vintage Brian Sklar...twin fiddles and steel guitar throughout and lots of great shuffles for folks who love to two-step...and who doesn't?
In 2008, the group received the first ever Grammy nomination for a band from Saskatchewan, under the name "Western Senators." The Western Senators have been the alter ego of Brian Sklar's bands since 1976. An expanded version of the Tex Pistols, the Senators perform all of the Pistols' material, plus authentic Cleveland style polkas...a real crowd pleaser at outdoor festivals, conventions, and Oktoberfests.
"Is there a bigger Brian Sklar fan in the world than me? I don't think there is..."
- Joe Bielinski, 92.1 HANK FM, Fort Worth, Texas
"Brian Sklar and the Tex Pistols are simply the best show group Dreams has ever worked with; always a guaranteed sellout"
- Earl Fried, Air Canada, Dreams Take Flight, Calgary
"Brian Sklar and the Tex Pistols love what they do, and it shows; every performance is a genuine first class entertainment experience..."
- Andy Zahnd, President and CEO, AAC International
"A Tex Pistols performance is like a night in Vegas, real showmanship and great music."
- Marvin Wiens, Past President, Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
"To have a great event, you need a great band; nobody does it better
than Brian Sklar and the Tex Pistols."
- Rod Kitter, CJWW Radio, Saskatoon
"When it comes to entertaining at fairs, rodeos, conventions, and casinos, nobody beats
the Tex Pistols. From the Calgary Stampede, to Las Vegas, to appearances with symphony orchestras, to the biggest music festivals in Europe,
the Tex Pistols have built a reputation for great music and showmanship that is second to none in the music industry..."
- Don Young, President Emeritus, Local 446 AFM


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NASHVILLE — Riley LaChance scored five of his 18 in overtime, and Vanderbilt upset No. 17 Florida 72-62 Friday night in the SEC quarterfinals.
The Commodores (19-14) beat the Gators (24-8) for the third time this season and second in seven days. First-year coach Bryce Drew has Vanderbilt in the semifinals for the first time since 2013 with a win that should push his Commodores firmly into the NCAA Tournament for a second straight year.
Florida, which could now be looking at a No. 5 NCAA Tournament seed that might keep it from opening in Orlando, fought back from an eight-point deficit to force overtime thanks to KeVaughn Allen, who made a tying 3 with 1:42 left. The Gators had the ball with the score tied at 58 but missed two shots in the final seconds of regulation. Kasey Hill missed a layup and Kevarrius Hayes had a shot blocked after grabbing the rebound.
"It was a good look," Hill said of his missed layup.
Allen and Hill each scored 16.
The SEC's best 3-point shooters had the advantage from beyond the arc against the second-seeded Gators. The Commodores went 11 of 27 from 3 compared to 6 of 23 by Florida.
In other SEC games, fifth-seeded Alabama made 10 of 12 free throws down the stretch to get past fourth-seeded South Carolina 64-53, and No. 8 Kentucky, the top seed, started both halves quickly and steadily pulled away for a 71-60 win over eighth-seeded Georgia. UK leading scorer Malik Monk scored just two points in 26 minutes.
Stat of the day
Florida coach Mike White dropped to 0-5 in his two seasons against Vanderbilt, the only SEC team the Gators have not beaten in that time. White said he will be racking his brain trying to figure out what could have done differently against Vandy. "We've got to find a way to be more disciplined, and that's on me," he said.
Stay salty, coach
Former Indiana coach Bob Knight said, well, very Bob Knight things on Friday's Dan Patrick Show. When asked if he would ever consider returning to IU's Assembly Hall — he was fired in 2000 and has never gone back — Knight, 76, responded that he will always enjoy the IU fans but has no respect for the administration and "I hope they're all dead." When Patrick said some indeed are, Knight retorted: "I hope the rest of them go."
USF's Thorpe gone
The fallout from one of the worst seasons in USF men's history has begun, with top scorer Geno Thorpe confirming he won't play next season. Thorpe, the only Bull to finish with a double-figure scoring average (15.2), said he is scheduled to graduate in June. "I don't plan on playing another season at USF after my graduation," he said. CBS Sports reported that forward Luis Santos, arguably the Bulls' most improved player, has requested his release and intends to transfer. The mother of redshirt sophomore Troy Holston said her son likely will await the hiring of a new coach before deciding on his future. The departures of Thorpe and Santos leave USF with eight scholarship players.
Duke stuns UNC
Jayson Tatum scored 24 and No. 14 Duke rallied past No. 6 North Carolina with a surge in the second half, taking advantage of foul trouble for Tar Heels point guard Joel Berry for a 93-83 victory in an ACC semifinal in New York. Grayson Allen scored 18 off the bench for the Blue Devils (26-8), who will go for their 20th ACC tournament championship tonight against the winner of the late FSU-Notre Dame game. Fifth-seeded Duke, which outscored top-seeded UNC (27-7) by 15 during a 10-minute span while Berry was on the bench with four fouls, improved to 98-44 in the event overall, breaking a tie with the Tar Heels for the best record in the tournament's 64-year history.
A Villanova scare
During the regular season, Villanova beat Seton Hall by 30 and 22. In a Big East semifinal at Madison Square Garden, Josh Hart made the winning three-point play with 9.6 seconds left, the fifth lead change of the final four minutes, and the No. 2-ranked Wildcats rallied by the Pirates 55-53.
"We're starting to do this weird thing where we play well offensively and defensively.''
Wisconsin forward Nigel Hayes, after a 70-60 win over Indiana in a Big Ten quarterfinal at Washington, D.C.
Celebrity sighting
Bill Murray attended the Xavier-Creighton Big East semifinal, wearing a Musketeers hat and sitting behind the bench. His son Luke is an Xavier assistant coach.
On their way out
. Washington freshman guard Markelle Fultz declared for the NBA draft, where he is expected to be among the top-five picks.
. LSU fired coach Johnny Jones after the Tigers (10-21, 2-16 SEC) completed their worst season in 50 years.
Number of the day
3 Straight wins by Michigan — which as the No. 8 seed upset No. 1 seed and No. 13-ranked Purdue 74-70 in overtime to reach the Big Ten semifinals — versus ranked teams for the first time since the 2013 NCAA Tournament (when the Wolverines made the final), per ESPN Stats & Info.
. Bethune-Cookman (21-9) beat Florida A&M (13-19) 59-42 in the MEAC and faces Hampton today for the title in Norfolk, Va.
. Two teams qualified for the NCAA Tournament: Host Albany beat Maine 66-50 to win a record sixth straight America East tournament title, and Boise State beat Fresno State 66-53 to win the Mountain West title in Las Vegas.
Joey Knight, Times staff writer; Times wires


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Usually, blogs specialize in baiting Twi-hards, but they must have realized that this would be stretching it. I mean, I know the tabloids this week tried to get us to believe that Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson were about to get married, but does anyone think Rob is THAT stupid? Or for that matter, even Kristen?
Yes, they're probably hooking up again – but I think it speaks volume that they're not necessarily 'dating' again. After being together for so many years, they understandably still have feelings for each other and are having a hard time moving on completely. It's not like Rob hasn't tried, considering Riley Keough, Katy Perry, and Dylan Penn. And I'm pretty sure that everyone in his life wants him to stay away from Kristen. Who would want someone they love to go back to the person that cheated on them and publicly humiliated them?
But alas, Hollywood Life's 'sources' would never say all that. Instead, they make it seem as though the reason Rob and Kristen won't get married is because they're not 'ready'. Uh, sure. The source explains, "Rob is leaving the country in less than a month and has back to back projects. [Also], Rob's family is of the utmost importance to him and he wouldn't get married to anyone without their blessing. Rob is not going to put a ring on someone's finger, including Kristen's, unless he wholeheartedly knows the marriage will be a lifelong commitment."
Translation: Rob doesn't trust Kristen and doesn't believe that she won't cheat on him again. Also, Rob is WAY too young to get married. Gee, thanks to these 'sources' for stating so many obvious facts. The idea Rob proposing to Kristen was ludicrous to begin with, no matter how hard the tabloids try to convince us otherwise.
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Roland Martin began anchoring the 8pmET time slot on CNN last week (while Campbell Brown is out on maternity leave), and today The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz writes about the "first [African American] to host a prime-time cable news program since Alan Keyes's brief run on MSNBC seven years ago."
"His divine hope, says Martin…is 'that God uses me as an instrument for his will to provide insight to those who are listening,'" writes Kurtz.
As Martin is "taking over a fourth-place program," he brings a varied political background — voting for President Obama while opposing abortion and supporting the death penalty. "We have to open up our boxes and realize there are actually people out there who refuse to be driven by ideology or party labels," Martin says.
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Martin and Steinberg have previously clashed on the radio. Says Steinberg: "I see him as a man who can't think, can't talk, and here he is doing both on television. I find it mystifying that CNN would take this local laughingstock and inflict him on the rest of the nation."
Writes Kurtz, "Martin, who says he 'smacked him around' on the radio over a controversial column, calls Steinberg 'a media wimp…a know-it-all with a penchant for being snotty.'"


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Eden Prairie, Minn. - A 35-Mbaud isolated RS-485 differential-bus transceiver from NVE Corp. here is said to be more than 100 times faster than other RS-485 interface devices, which typically don't exceed 250 kbaud. The IL485 IsoLoop surface-mount CMOS device is intended for use in noisy industrial applications and large local-area networks.
John Myers, vice president of NVE's Isolator Business Group, described the part as a high-speed, low-cost alternative to optoisolated transceivers. The logic-to-logic device is designed to be integrated with NVE's proprietary giant-magnetoresistive technology to deliver bidirectional data communication on balanced transmission lines.
Its monolithic galvanic-isolation barrier supports a common-mode voltage range of plus/minus 2,500 V, and is said to make the part immune to the ground and signal differentials that could otherwise interrupt data transmissions or destroy nonisolated RS-485 devices.
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An investment partnership headed by State Farm Life Insurance Co. has bought a large office building in Plano's Legacy business park.
The 380,000-square-foot building at 5320 Legacy Drive east of the Dallas North Tollway is leased to energy company Denbury Resources.
The new owners acquired the building last week from a California-based partnership, Collin County deed records show.
The partnership set up by Spear Street Capital of San Francisco and Dallas commercial property firm KDC redeveloped the former Electronic Data Systems building and leased it to Denbury in 2010. Denbury recently expanded its offices in the project.
The property is valued on Collin County tax rolls at more than $53 million.
Terms of the sale were not disclosed in deed records.
State Farm made the purchase in a partnership with Transwestern Investment Management, the latest in a series of recent deals the two firms have done.
The building is about a third of the Campus at Legacy office complex, which KDC has remodeled and leased to several companies over the last few years.
"We're 95 percent-plus leased, and we have some deals circling on the last couple of spots," said KDC senior vice president John Brownlee. "The Legacy market continues to be very active.
"The project has really worked out well."
PepsiCo is a major tenant in other parts of the campus that were not included in the sale.
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Beginning with 3.2.0 a new subscription model is available in Event Store. This model is known as competing consumers and is very similar to subscriptions models you may have dealt with in the past such as AMQP. This document serves as a high level overview of the functionality, what it can provide, and when you may want to use it.
Competing Consumers only exists in version 3.2.0 and above. Please see specific version documentation in order to gain more details on methods names etc.
Competing Consumers is another subscription model that is available, it differs in usage from the Subscribe operation or from a CatchUpSubscription in terms of how it works. SubscribeToStream as example will read the events from this point forward that happen in a stream. A CatchUpSubscription will read all the events in a stream to your client from a given point.
Both a Subscription and a CatchupSubscription use a model where the client holds the state of the subscription much like with a blog client your client remembers the last post that you have read. The server does not hold any state particular to a given client. Competing Consumers operate differently, with Competing Consumers the server remembers the state of the subscription. This allows for many different modes of operations compared to a subscription where the client holds the subscription state.
The first step in using Competing Consumers is to create a new subscription. This can be done either over the http api or through the client api (CreatePersistentSubscription) at this point. This will create the server side subscription group that you will be able to use in the future. There are lots of options that can be passed to a subscription group including things such as ReadBatchSizes, MaxRetryCounts, and how often to CheckPoint the subscription. The creation of the subscription is normally done as part of a deployment or an administrative task.
Subscription groups can be created to map to any stream. As an example you could create a consumer group foo on the stream bar.
You can also create multiple subscription groups on a single stream.
One major difference with client based subscriptions is that a subscription group can then have N clients connect to it. The subscription group as a whole represents the subscription. If you connect three clients to a subscription group only one of the clients will normally receive the message not all three as it would work with three CatchUpSusbcriptions.
It will be discussed later in this document but in the case of retries, connection failures, or server failures, more than one subscriber in a subscriber group can see a given message. Therefore this model is known as At-Least-Once messaging. Clients must be able to handle receiving a message more than one time.
The next step is connecting a client to the subscription group. In the .NET client api there is a method ConnectToPersistentSubscription which takes the stream/group that you want to connect to. It also takes a parameter which is the maximum number of in flight messages. This parameter is key to understanding how the subscription group works.
When a message is dispatched to a client of the subscription group it is considered "In Process" until it is Acknowledged by the client, Not Acknowledged by the client, or timed out. The in flight messages limit refers to how many messages can be "In Process" at a given point in time by a client, each client sets their limit at their time of connection. Once you have reached this limit the server will not push another message to your client until a slot becomes available due to an "In Process" message being marked no longer in process.
As such if you had 7 messages in a subscription and two clients (A/B) (A is allowed 2, B 3) the subscription would push messages 1,2 to client A and 3,4,5 to client B. Message 6 would not be able to be processed until one of the messages 1,2,3,4,5 were moved from the "In Process" by an ack, nak, or timeout from clients A or B.
The most common mechanism for a slot becoming open would be that client A(or B) returns an Acknowledgement that they have processed say message 1. They can also return a Not Acknowledgement of a message with hints to the server as to what to do with the message (skip/retry/park/server decides). A timeout of the message (which is configurable) is another way this can happen.
The tuning of the maximum number of inflight messages and message timeouts are very important when looking at overall subscription performance.
One option that can be returned with a Not Acknowledged is that the message will not be able to be processed on retries and should be parked (this is also known as a dead letter queue). Messages can also be parked due to them being retried more than a certain number of times.
For every subscription group there also exists another stream known as the parked message queue. The parked message queue can be replayed at any point to the subscription group either via the UI or via the restful interface for competing consumers. For more information please see version specific information. It is important in a production environment to monitor the count of parked messages as these represent messages that were not delivered to the subscriber group as there were failures.
As the subscription is being processed, occasionally it will write in a persistent way the place it currently knows that all messages prior have been processed. This is done so in the case of a server restart or a crash the subscription group can continue from this point as opposed to starting from the beginning of the subscription. If running in a clustered version the subscription groups will move to another server in the case of a crash and will be restarted from their last checkpoint. A reload to a checkpoint can cause a subscription to duplicate messages that are ahead of the latest checkpoint but have been acknowledged.
How the server checkpoints is controlled by configuration settings on the subscription group. You can control how often checkpoints are written via three main config points CheckpointInterval, MinToCheckpoint, and MaxToCheckpoint. The interval say 3 seconds will write a checkpoint on the interval providing the number of messages to checkpoint is greater than MinToCheckpoint. When MaxToCheckpoint is reached a checkpoint will always be written. Say you had interval at one second, MinToCheckpoint at 5 and MaxToCheckpoint at 10 (these numbers are normally much bigger for busy subscriptions)
interval hit: messages = 3 //no checkpoint written
on ack: messages = 4 //no checkpoint written
interval hit: messages = 4 //no checkpoint written
on ack: messages = 5 //no checkpoint written
on interval hit: messages = 5 //checkpoint written
on ack messages=10 //checkpoint written
Understanding how checkpointing works and paying careful attention to the behaviour of your stream can help reduce server workload and help prevent receiving too many repeated messages in the case of a server failover. On a stream doing very few messages the above settings are fine. On a stream doing a few hundred or thousand messages per second you obviously would want these values to be significantly higher. A general rule of thumb is maximum should be 1-5 seconds of message throughput.
The checkpoints themselves are stored in streams and are often recycled quickly. For this reason it is generally recommended that you occasionally run a scavenge process on your servers if using competing consumers.
As mentioned throughout this document there are many pros and cons when comparing client based vs server based subscription models. The table below summarizes some of these trade offs.
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Competing Consumers will allow you to connect one or many clients to a given subscription group. This can allow for things like load balancing the work across them or making the clients themselves highly available easily. If you lose a client the workload will just be spread over the other connected clients. With a CatchupSubscription it is very difficult to make a highly available subscriber (its duplicate everything) load balancing is also quite difficult as with a CatchUpSubscription each client will receive every message.
For something like a projection of an event stream into a read model a client will generally prefer to use a CatchUpSubscription as opposed to a competing consumer group. This is because when doing this process receiving the events in order is very important. Any time that ordering becomes a primary concern a CatchUpSubscription is probably the best bet.
Another tradeoff to consider is that since with a server based subscription the state of the subscription is on the server you can centrally monitor the subscriptions from a single point. If they are client based subscriptions this can be done as well providing all your client subscriptions store their state in a particular place but it is left to the user to implement this.
All subscriber state can be monitored within the Event Store. This can either be done through the UI (subscriptions tab) or it can be done via the restful API (currently http://yourserver/subscriptions). All competing consumer subscriptions can be monitored here and there are some nice dashboards to see what is going on.
Generally the most important thing to monitor is the relationship between the lastProcessedMessage, the lastKnownMessage, and the throughput of the subscription. This is basically telling you the last processed message was x the last known message is y and your current throughput is t. X - Y / t gives you a rough estimate of how far behind the subscription group is from live.
Another important thing you can measure is your clients. Every time a message is passed to a client you can enable that it will be timed, clock starting on the push stopping on the ack/nak. If you enable this functionality via the "extrastatistics" configuration option the subscription will track a histogram of the timings of the client(s). From this histogram you can get such statistics as average, standard deviation, quintiles, and %s (90,95,99,99.9,etc) about how your client is behaving in terms of timings.
Event Store docs are hosted on GitHub. The repository is public and it's open to issues and pull requests. Contributions, corrections and feedback are all welcome.


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" Author: Bill Watterson / Format: Other book format / Date of publication: 08 November 2012 / Genre: Humour / Subcategory: Cartoons & Comic Strips / Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing / Title: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes / ISBN 13: 9781449433253 / ISBN 10: 1449433253 / Alternative EAN: 9780740748479 "
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I have been a massive Calvin and Hobbes fan since a friend introduced me to them over 13 years ago. I have read my annuals until they are dog-eared. It is the only comic strip that captures my imagination, and makes me smile from ear to ear.
The underlying story behind the comic is of a young boy called Calvin, and his stuffed tiger, Hobbes. Through Calvin's eyes the reader sees Hobbes as a real tiger, but when anyone else appears in the strip Hobbes turns back into stuffed toy (though not to Calvin - to him Hobbes is always as alive as his parents, or his annoying neighbour Suzie) It is apt that the two main characters are named after a philosopher and a theologian as the comic strips can be very thought provoking (surprisingly so!) Some strips touch on serious issues like the environment, religion, hunting, politics, and the education system - but all in a wonderfully childlike way. Some strips are just plain fun. There are also very poignant and heart wrenching strips, every Calvin and Hobbes fan will remember the strip where Calvin loses Hobbes, or the Christmas where he's upset about forgetting to buy his tiger a present.
This beautiful collection of hardback comics features all of the published strips that Bill Watterson ever wrote, as well as an introduction written by the man himself. In this forward there are early comics and other works by Bill. He also talks about his own relationship Calvin and Hobbes, and why he felt any other merchandising would go against the whole ethos of his work. It really is a fascinating read, from a man who rarely gives interviews.
There are 3 large, heavy books contained in a slipcase. They are a beautiful shade of brown and are obviously high quality. The pages are thick and somewhat glossy. When reading them you feel that they have been made lovingly and with care and attention. The books are over 7lbs each though, so be careful you don't drop them. They could very well make a hole in your floor! Not very suitable for reading outdoors or in the car I'm afraid.
As the books are so heavy and large I would not recommend this as a collection for children. It would however be a lovely item to pass on to any young Calvin and Hobbes fan as they become older, in the meantime the compilation books are great for children, and while they might not understand the meaning behind some of the strips, most of them will still prove funny for children over eight or nine years old. Certainly this is a collection that can be passed on through generations if proper care is taken when reading the books. I have read through the collection twice and like to sprawl in front of my fireplace when reading to allow me plenty of space.
The character of Calvin is an impulsive, funny, energetic, selfish, cynical, intelligent beyond his years, 6 year old boy. Hobbes often seems to balance him out and is more rational and more aware of the consequences of Calvin's schemes - though it is seldom that he really tries to stop Calvin causing mischief. Calvin often blames Hobbes for the situations he finds himself in. Their relationship is easy and carefree, this is juxtaposed with Calvin's awkward relationships with his peers, many of whom don't understand him. It really is a beguiling read. I don't want to give too much away in terms of characters and story lines, so I'll leave it at that. I will say however that upon reading the last strip I was very upset that I'd never read a unique one again - this is how powerful and meaningful the comic became for me.
I am a huge admirer of Watterson and what he has done with this seemingly simple comic strip. After reading these comics I hope you will be just as enchanted and charmed by them as I am. I am even more impressed with Watterson's integrity in not 'selling out' and stopping the comic strips when he felt he could no longer do them justice. There's nothing worse than something being amazing, but dragging on longer than it should, and becoming boring and predictable (Friends, anyone?)
This collection can be bought new from £80. In my eyes this is a fair price, not a bargain but fair.
If I could I would give this gorgeous collection 6 out of 5.
Brings together every Calvin and Hobbes cartoon that has ever appeared in syndication, along with stories and poems from classic collections.


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Following the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the issue of gun control has been on everyone's minds. Tomorrow Vice President Joe Biden will address the gun control issue head-on on YouTube and Google+. Biden will host a "Fireside Hangout"—a modern day take on FDR's famous radio "Fireside Chats," and viewers can tune in live on the White House's Google+ page or YouTube channel.
According to a post on the Google Official Blog, Biden's Fireside Hangout is just one in a series of conversations with top Administration officials about important issues facing the country and its citizens. "The White House will continue to host Hangouts with key members of the President's cabinet on a wide range of second term priorities."
Tomorrow's chat on reducing gun violence will begin streaming live at 1:45 pm ET. Biden will be joined by participants including YouTuber Phil DeFranco and Guy Kawasaki, with PBS NewsHour's Hari Sreenivasan serving as moderator. Ramya Raghavan of Google+ Politics writes, "If you'd like to suggest a question, just follow the participants on Google+, and look for posts about tomorrow's Hangout."
Phil DeFranco and Guy Kawasaki are interesting choices for the participants of this Fireside Hangout – I would have expected to see someone with a clearer tie to the gun control and gun violence issue, so it will be interesting to see what DeFranco and Kawasaki will add to the discussion.
Will you be tuning in to tomorrow's Fireside Hangout? What are you hoping to hear from Biden?
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Body deformities: Part I
*warning* If you are the type of person who gets all squeamish when a blogger talks about things like "cysts" and "polyps" and "cataracts" and "feces-ridden bed sores" now would be a good time to bail, 'cause I'm about to get all kinds of real on you, minus the bed sores thing which, if you're actually interested in, you can find here and here and here.
Let's start discussion on this fun topic with a story.
When I was spewed forth from the (pretty?) loins of my mother, all seemed to be in order. I had the expected number of fingers and toes. I was not retarded.* I had no visible deformities. And, let's face it, I was already incredibly handsome.
However, my parents noticed something wrong about one day in. My eyes had something weird going on. One of them seemed cloudy. They called over the nurse. "Nurse," they said. "It seems like there might be something wrong with his eye."
The nurse looked me over cursorily and said, "Oh, you sweet, young, innocently naive parents. There is nothing wrong with this child. All babies have a strange cloudiness in their left eye. It's called being a newborn."
Though comforted by these kind, dismissive words, my parents wisely continued to bring up the issue. The cloudiness did not recede. Finally, they found a doctor who actually examined me. He looked at my eye more carefully and said, "your son's eye is screwed."
It was really messed up, that eye of mine. Some disease I can't remember, plus a cataract, plus a lack of formation of some of the nerves or some junk. (I'm hazy on the details. I was a day old.)
As it turns out, groundbreaking research had just been conducted (this is research in 1980, by the way, which from today's vantage point looks a little bit like when a child brings you a drawing and says "it's a picture of a house!" and you say "oh, that's great! I can see the... lines you drew haphazardly...") which permitted doctors to operate on my face. At the ripe old age of two weeks, a surgeon cut a big hole in my pupil, removed the lens from my eye, and I was left forever maimed. But, my eye didn't die like it would have had I been born any earlier, and now if some brutal thing happens and I get a javelin through the right side of my face or whatever, I'll have my left eye. That's right, though I'll never be able to read, see a computer screen, drive, or recognize a human face, I'll still be able to see a bunch of blobs of color and walk around without hitting walls. Which in all honesty I'm thankful for.
There's more to this story, but this is getting long. So, this will be a multi-post series about body deformities! Yay!
Stay tuned for a discussion of how my legally blind lazy eye makes me look vaguely like a serial killer.
Update: you can now find said discussion on Part II of the series which can be seen here.
*Lest you think me an insensitive beast, I feel I must mention that contrary to the thrust of popular culture which suggests otherwise, retarded is the technical term. Mentally retarded, to be more exact. (See pp. 41-49 of the DSM-IV)
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Wendel would like to log a complaint. He almost wouldn't let me read this post to him due to the gory details that were sure to follow based on the description which indicated that it could get graphic. However, upon further reading, it was found to be entertaining, witty, and overall awesome without much goriness at all (surprising coming from him, I know). While he appreciates the attempted discretion, don't fake it or you will lose all credibility in the blogging community (or at least with your one and only "blogging listener" who is lucky enough to have his wife read your posts out loud to him while he plays Mario 3).ReplyDelete
PS I can't wait for the series to continue. We hope this series lives long and prospers.
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1. Thanks for being my only blog "listener."
2. Buckle up--every single thing (except bedsores) mentioned in my caveat will be featured in future posts. It's probably not as bad as I made it sound, but I just don't want to catch anyone with a severe polyp aversion unawares.
As a fellow wonky-eyed person, I look forward to the continuation of this series!ReplyDelete
I always take comfort in knowing others who are also wonky-eyed. We should form a support group.ReplyDelete
I think your wonky eyes are what drew us to be friends initially. Just sayin, you wouldn't be Josh Weed without it. Also I found this blog post very entertaining and am now adding it to my blog roll. :)ReplyDelete
I am deformed as well. Only on the inside where people can't see. I have double ureters (the thing that connects your kidneys to your bladder - most people have one on each side, I have two on each side). So, you know, you're not the only freak. I just happen to be freaky in a way that does not make me look vaguely like a serial killer. :PReplyDelete
And I am so looking forward to the rest of this series. Now don't go all ADHD on us - finish it!
Jess--I'm glad my funk-house eye was the gateway to friendship with the Shums. Kinda makes it all worth it.ReplyDelete
J--That's an interesting deformity! Kind of cool. I'ma try not to ADHD myself out here. Working on next installment.... now.
Dont worry Josh, you have more blog readers than just wendel!ReplyDelete
And if you want to hear about things that make you feel sqeamish (sp?) I will refer you to my bedrest blog posts which focused mainly on the deterioration of my cervix.
Anyways, love your blog! Cant wait to hear more on this way interesting topic!
Thanks! And thanks also for the awesome referral. As you could guess, there's nothing I love more than a good deteriorating cervix story.ReplyDelete
Laughing at the comments.ReplyDelete
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They will be joined in the group by New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and two qualifiers.
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Amy said Buffy was found wandering on a college campus. She was brought into a local kill shelter, where a woman named Kat discovered her. Kat was a cat person, who visited the shelter daily to rescue Abyssinians for her breed-specific group. When Kat saw cute, friendly Buffy, she contacted a local English Setter rescue group, and within a few days, Buffy's profile was online. "It's such a coincidence you called today," Amy said. "We literally just posted her."
But I was starting to think there is no such thing as coincidence.
"I have a good feeling about Buffy," I said. "I believe this was meant to be."
"Normally we don't adopt out of state," Amy said.
See? Hulga said in my mind. I was right. "But we may be able to make an exception," Amy added. "I'll just have to consult the board."
Oh, no. The Board. Six months earlier, I'd tried to adopt an English Setter puppy from a strict rescue group in Pennsylvania. Their rejection left me traumatized for weeks. "Buffy's very destructive and high-strung," Amy said. "She's hard to manage. You should think about it for a few days, while I consult my colleagues to see if they'd be willing to relinquish a dog to a strange New Yorker."
So, I thought. I probably thought too much. Hulga had a field day. I asked myself: What am I doing, taking on another "problem dog"? I'd spent six years with a problem dog, and sometimes, quite honestly, it wasn't fun. I'd had to contend with dog fights, dog bites and thousands of dollars worth of damage. Minor stuff, I told myself. In comparison to all that dog joy and dog love I received.
Still, Hulga said. Why not get an easy dog? One who's already trained and well adjusted? Why are you choosing another difficult relationship? I'd just divorced my difficult relationship. Was I only comfortable when life was hard?
But this is a dog we're talking about, not one of those men things. I reminded myself.
A dog you haven't even met, Hulga said. Who sounds dysfunctional.
What if there was more to this dog — more "problems" — that Amy wasn't elaborating upon? What if it turned out that I couldn't manage Buffy's problems alone? I was a single woman, and — at the time — bitter. I planned to remain single for the rest of my life. Would a so-called "easy" dog be easy enough for a singleton in NYC? And what had Amy meant when she called me a strange New Yorker?
The questions were endless. I drove myself crazy. Or rather, Hulga drove me crazy. This is what happens when we think too much — an epic internal battle of mind and heart, logic and intuition (with an unhealthy dose of Hulga thrown in).
Finally, I visited Riverside Park to watch the sun set beyond the Hudson River. The Hudson has always given me perspective; it is the kind of vast, forgiving river that helps one make choices. As I stood there, a woman walked past with a giant Mastiff who loped along with a goofy grace. The dog looked so happy to be outside in the park with his friend. And so did she. In that instant, I knew Buffy was truly meant to be my dog. I decided once and for all to follow my heart.
When I called Amy, I felt fizzy with excitement. Amy said I could have Buffy "whenever I wanted."
"So the board has approved?"
"What? Oh, yes," Amy said distractedly. Something seemed off. But I'll have to save that story for another day. It took four weeks for me to actually get Buffy (another long story involving Buffy actually being adopted — and returned — to five other people in the interim). But soon, I had secured an "arrival date" for Buffy. She would be accompanying a volunteer on a plane to NYC.
I had ten days to prepare.
Rehabilitating Wallace had taught me a lot about dogs. Writing for a dog magazine had too. I now knew what kind of training worked best (clicker, positive reinforcement), what type of diet was healthiest (raw, organic) and which veterinary treatments worked best. I'm not saying I'm an expert on dogs, but at least I wasn't as clueless as I'd been when I adopted Wallace. I felt confident. I was going to work with Buffy's anxieties, restore her confidence, provide her with consistent and loving guidance, and gently alter her behaviors.
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"The German minister Otto Schily had erected the Task Force "Secure Internet" after the DDoS attacks in Februari. This task force has produced a catalog of immediately to be implemented measures. When implemented the security in the Internet will grow better because attacks like DDoS will become more difficult or even impossible.
You can read this in German at http://www.bmi.bund.de/aktuelles/index.html or try Babelfish.
The list of actions are described at http://www.bsi.de/ddos.html, also in German.
The list of 15 measures is grouped for ISP's, server providers, content providers, end users and everybody.
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Taipei, Taiwan VIA Technologies, Inc. has launched its new fanless VIA Eden processor family with the VIA V4 bus. Included is the ultra low voltage VIA Eden ULV processors housed in the compact nanoBGA2 package that measures 21mm x 21mm.
Based on the VIA CoolStream, the 1GHz VIA Eden ULV processor has the low maximum design power (TDP) of just 3.5 watts and its power of just 7.5 watts. The whole VIA Eden processor family boasts the industry's lowest idle power of just half a watt, according to the company.
Specifically targeted at a range of business, industrial and commercial applications such as thin clients, silent desktops, IPCs and set top boxes, the X86-based VIA Eden processor line is available at different speeds to meet the needs of those different vertical market segments. All of the new processors have been designed to operate at very low maximum power (TDP); ranging from 400MHz at just 2.5W up to 1.2GHz at 7W. The ultra low voltage skus, VIA Eden ULV processors, take power-efficiency a quantum step further, with the 1GHz and 1.5GHz parts designed for a maximum of an incredibly low 3.5W and 7.5W respectively.
Operating power is further reduced with VIA PowerSaver technology that enables the VIA Eden processor to transition between maximum processor speed and the lowest speed of 400MHz, depending on application requirements, within a single clock cycle, which also ensures seamless running of real-time operating systems and ensures no latency issues.
The new VIA Eden processor boasts competitive write bandwidth and linear ordering modes, as well as MMX, SSE2 and SSE3 support for enhanced multimedia performance, and 128KB of both L1 and L2 on-die cache. It also integrates the world's most comprehensive set of security tools in the VIA PadLock Security Engine, which can be enabled within applications to provide military-grade protection of business or personal information.
Consuming as little as 500mW (0.5W) idle power and a maximum thermal design power (TDP) of no more than 7.5 watts at 1.5GHz, the VIA Eden processor also features VIA PowerSaver technology to reduce processor power draw. With its low profile nanoBGA2 package measuring just 21mm x 21mm, the VIA Eden processor has no active cooling requirements to enable slimmer, enclosed or silent designs.
Fully compatible with all leading operating systems, the VIA Eden processor family is available at speeds from 400MHz to 1.5GHz and boasts a host of performance features within the VIA StepAhead Technology Suite, including sixteen pipeline stages, support for SSE2 and the advanced SSE3 multimedia 3D instruction sets, a full-speed Floating Point Unit (FPU) and an efficiency-enhanced 128KB full-speed exclusive L2 cache with 32-way associativity for memory optimization.
Coupled with the VIA CN700 digital media IGP chipset, the VIA Eden processor provides smooth playback of digital video and audio, and offers exceptional memory and peripheral support. The unique TwinTurbo dual-PLL implementation with VIA PowerSaver technology acts like an automatic transmission, permitting smooth transition between the maximum and minimum power states within one clock cycle, ensuring always-on service and minimizing latency.
The VIA PadLock Security Engine integrated within the VIA Eden processor, provides on-die hardware acceleration for key cryptographic operations and ensures speeds and efficiency many times that available in software, yet with negligible impact on processor performance. In addition to the quantum-based random number generator (RNG) and AES Encryption Engine provided in the previous processor generation, the VIA Eden processor adds SHA-1 and SHA-256 hashing for secure message digests, and a hardware based Montgomery Multiplier supporting key sizes up to 32K in length to accelerate public key cryptography, such as RSA. The VIA Eden processor also provides execute protection (NX), preventing the proliferation of malicious software such as worms and viruses, and is used in Microsoft Windows XP with SP2.
The new VIA Eden processor line is shipping now. US pricing in 1K units for the 1.5 Ghz Eden ULV is $249. The 1.0 Ghz version is $299.
More details on the 90nm VIA Eden and VIA Eden ULV processors may be found at: datasheets.
VIA Technologies, Inc. (415) 389-1700


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