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Canada Reaffirms Special Friendship with Israel
April 9, 2013 (JERUSALEM) - Following a warm and constructive meeting today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird reaffirmed the close and special friendship that underpins the bilateral relationship between our two countries. Today, the Jewish People are masters of their own fate, like other nations, in their own sovereign, Jewish state. Like other nations, Israel has the right to defend itself, by itself.
Prime Minister Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Baird held productive discussions on a broad range of regional issues, including Iran's nuclear program and its sponsorship of international terrorism, the crisis in Syria and the value of a constructive Turkey-Israel relationship. The leaders also discussed attempts to revitalize talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority and expressed hope that fruitful negotiations will be forthcoming in the months ahead. Prime Minister Netanyahu welcomed Minister Baird's offer of assistance in advancing these talks.
Prime Ministers Harper and Netanyahu have deepened and expanded Canada-Israel relations, resulting in:
- increased bilateral agreements, such as the Mutual Recognition Agreement in Telecommunications signed in June 2012;
- negotiations towards a modernized free trade agreement;
- more business linkages, including in innovation;
- marked growth in security and intelligence cooperation;
- closer academic ties, e.g. via the May 2012 Memorandum of Understanding between the Royal Society of Canada and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; and
- enhanced government and private-sector partnerships.
Today's discussions also touched on energy, security, international aid and development, innovation, and the promotion of human rights globally—areas where Canadian and Israeli expertise can be leveraged to improve lives around the world. Both countries welcomed the opportunity to work towards establishing a Strategic Partnership Agreement—a work plan which will provide both countries concrete benchmarks to further deepen the bilateral relationship.
Both governments are committed to strengthening cooperation in the energy sector to advance common energy interests and contribute to jobs, growth and economic prosperity. Building on the June 2012 Statement on Cooperation in the Energy Sector between Canada and Israel, the Honourable Joe Oliver, Canadian Minister of Natural Resources, and Dr. Uzi Landau, the former Israeli Minister of Energy and Water Resources, announced last October the creation of the Canada-Israel Energy Science and Technology Fund. The Fund was created to spur the development of innovative energy technologies and processes that enable the responsible development of unconventional oil and gas resources, including commercial applications that address shared environmental challenges. The Fund will also strengthen cooperation in areas of renewable energy and energy efficiency. Leveraging investment from both countries, the Fund is expected to generate $20 to $40 million in collaborative research and development (R & D) over the next three years. Two successful Canadian R & D workshops took place in March 2013 and brought together leading Canadian and Israeli stakeholders to identify potential partnering opportunities. The first call for proposals is expected later in April 2013.
In the field of international development, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Baird have proposed further cooperation between our two countries. As another example of development collaboration, Grand Challenges Canada, supported by Canada's Development Innovation Fund, is working with Israel to create an Israeli Grand Challenges program, modeled after and mentored by Grand Challenges Canada, which is already making substantial contributions to international development.
Since 2006, there has also been a marked growth in security, defence and intelligence cooperation between Canada and Israel. Today, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Baird tasked their officials with developing further initiatives to bolster the bilateral defence and security relationship in the coming months.
Economic, trade and innovation cooperation are key elements of the special relationship that exists between Canada and Israel. Prime Ministers Harper and Netanyahu established, in May 2010, a bilateral innovation agenda that led to the creation of the Canada-Israel Technology Innovation Partnership (CIIP). The CIIP supports joint projects through several funding mechanisms, including a joint call for proposals, announced in July 2012, backed by the Office of the Chief Scientist of Israel's Economics and Trade Ministry and the National Research Council of Canada's Industrial Research Assistance Program. The CIIP marks Canada's first initiative under EUREKA—a collaborative European network to which Israel and Canada belong (the latter became Associate Member during Israel's chairmanship in 2011), which seeks to enhance industrial competitiveness via support to businesses and innovation actors. Both governments are committed to practical initiatives to further scientific research cooperation. The Government of Canada has already earmarked funds for that purpose.
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Any good slope sites in Thousand Oaks, CA area?
Any good slope sites in or around the Thousand Oaks, CA area? Camarillo, Moorpark, Simi, etc. I'm looking at getting a sloper, but want to know if there are any areas that are practical before spending the hard earned $$$. Thanks in advance for the help.
Hahahahahahah.....yes. There's flyable hills all over the place.
The most notable:
Smith Hill (aka Glider Hill). This is near the North East corner of Erbes Road and Hill Creast Road. Sorry, I don't have the exact road you take to get up it, but if you're going East on Hill Crest, you pass Erbes, and then make a left turn into one of the small residential streets just a bit past Erbes. One of those roads leads to a dirt road that goes right up the face of the hill. You'll need a four or front wheel drive car or truck to make it up (or you can walk).
Snake Hill: A good, consistant hill in Calabasas, off of Mullholland highway. I can give directions if that's not too far for you.
We also used to fly at Wildwood Park, which is a ridge on the North side of Thousand Oaks that over looks the Santa Rosa valley. Huge lift when conditions were right, but it wasn't always consistant, and access can be a problem.
As for Camarillo, there's a pretty popular site called "The Cross" in Ventura. I think it's somewhere near California street, but I've never been myself.
I'm pretty sure Simi Moorpark has some good hills, but I don't really know offhand.
There is also a hill overlooking Oak Park High School. You have to hike up it to get there. Get off of the 101 SB at Kanan Road. Turn left over the bridge and head up Kanan for a couple of miles. Eventually on the left you will see Oak Park High. The hill is overlooking the school. Continue up Kanan. Just over the top of the rise there will be a signal, make a U turn and park. There are a set of railroad tie stairs, start climbing. There are 3 popular ridges to fly off of. Kind of a rough climb, but the view is worth it and the lift is pretty good, from what I have seen, having never flown there. DS'ing is also a possibility if the winds are right.
Hey guys, thanks for the response and info. Smash/bjaffee, Either of you fly any of these slopes on a regular basis? I'd love to hook up with some locals and pick their brains. I figured there had to be some good spots with the number of hills around here. Maybe I'll take a drive this weekend and see whats up.
Mark, errr Groundloop. Yeah, move went great. I'm definately enjoying the weather this winter. Although the recent articly in Quiet Flyer on the RAMS indoor fly-in made me miss my old e-flying buddies from the great NW. BEC, Todd, Grant, etc. Haven't been doing as much flying lately what with the new arrival and all. I'll definately look you up if I make it to SD. Do the same if you head up this direction.
Yeah, I actually live near Snake Hill, though I fly most often at the Oak Park hill Smash mentioned (it's near where I used to live). Snake tends to be a major foamie hang out, and I tend to avoid it unless I want to do combat. We fly mostly crunchies at the Oak Park hill.
Reason I didn't mention the Oak Park hil, btw is that it's right in the middle of a neighborhood, and there are lots of hikers constantly walking through the flying area. If you go there, be VERY courteous to any hikers or neighbors you see. We have to be very careful about what the neighbors think of us. Also, make sure you park on Kanan Rd, and NOT in the neighborhood streets.
We once almost lost the hill due to neighbors complaining to the park rangers that what we were doing was dangerous. In reality, they were just upset that we were parking on their block. Once we got access to the hill from Kanan, this wasn't so much of the problem, but I think they still look at us rather suspiciously.
bjaffee, if you find out more about the indoor stuff, I would like to know. I live in NP and would like to find some indoor stuff to check out. I understand what you mean about Oak Park and fully agree with you. I didn't think about it until you mentioned it... (Jedi Mind Trick)(Smash's hand waves) This is not the glider hill you are looking for.
Looks like I need to order that Bluto 56". If either of you find our more about the indoor flying let me know as I'd be interested in that too. Got to have somewhere to fly my GymFlyr. I'll PM you guys my number and home email. Give me a call or email next time you head out. I would love to meet you both.
Smash, I live in NP as well, if by NP you mean Newbury Park. Wherabouts do you live?
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As I recall, my ISP, BE, with whom I am quite happy, do configure their supplied routers such that they can "dial in" and perform "tests". As I recall, there was even a flaw in the software that was exposed on this very site.
I am not bothered because I use my own router. I even went as far as to choose the firmware it runs and in doing so I believe that I have accepted responsibility for any vulnerabilities in it. Well it's only fair.
Of course, a BT customer who is not technically savvy has no way to know what BT is capable of doing through their router and there is certainly a case to be made for ISPs to be open about their policies with regards to remote administration of the supplied routers.
The thought crosses my mind that 62 is a low number not a high one.
If there are only 62 jobs going in your town, how could you possibly expect unemployment not to be a big problem?
Or at least, if it is, then the person who swapped jobs to gain your job will in turn leave a vacancy and eventually a vacancy must trickle down to the jobless. At some point you are forced to give them a step up onto the employment ladder.
You can hardly blame them for not having a job if that ladder is being actively vandalised and mutilated.
that's so damn important to the success of the country?
I bet if we really get down to brass tacks we would find that you and I, for all the time we spend at work, are as inconsequential as anyone else.
As a nice little thought experiment; if you died, would one of those dole scroungers you hold in contempt not take your place? The vacancy won't be filled by someone who already has a job now will it?
I get pretty tired of people who are in employment pretty much by accident of birth and chronology, complaining about the people who don't have a job through accident of birth and chronology. It's not like anybody on this earth grew up aspiring to be indentured.
I don't recall anybody in my primary school ever saying "when I grow up I want to be looked down on as the scum of society".
I'm not saying that the government should give us all cushy jobs on the space station; but people can reasonably expect a roof over their head and some shit to eat. I'd rather pay the money than have these people breaking into my house every day out of sheer desperation.
1. If you already have a subscription licence (as in the case of a licence to play online for a year), any licence you acquire through the VLG* will be prorated so that you only pay for what you need. That way, you are not reliant on someone making a group at the exact time your licence is due for renewal.
2. My idea would be an excellent way to promote and sell a game months before release. It gives people ample time to organise, and assures that they all have licences on release day. It could potentially boost sales.
*Volume Licence Group.
Which means that you must have a way to track said player (reliably, so that they can't assume a new identity and start paying the regular price again).
And if it's possible to track them, it's possible to ban them.
So why not just do that? Evidently these rude players are not worth having as customers if they put other people off.
Is a way for people to get together and buy a cheap volume license for a game or gaming service. A way that does not require any member of the group to expose his or her personal details (e.g. home address of banking) to any other member of the group. The number of people in the group determines the price break.
What should happen is that the game company has a website where you can create a page for your group of volume licence candidates. As the group moderator, you approve or reject each person who attempts to join (based on whatever personal info they decide to make available to you, the moderator, for the purpose of making that decision - e.g. a username in most cases).
Each person who does join sets 2 flags, a price and a date. Essentially signing an agreement that "I agree to pay for the game if the price comes down to £xx.xx or less by xx/xx/xx". As insurance, the game company holds banking details for each member, but only until the date they allow. After that, if no transaction is made, the account details are erased and they are removed from the group.
In order to get the best discounts, people would need to organise on a forum, on Facebook, or anywhere else. All of them agreeing the same (or similar) maximum price and deadline beforehand so that they know they all get the price they want. To facilitate this, the price breaks need to be public knowledge and the moderator can kick people who set unreasonable prices and dates.
If the conditions set by the two flags are true for every user in the group at any time, the transactions all go through, they are all emailed their licences, and the group (plus all personal details) is securely erased.
Sounds like a lot of effort, so the discounts better be good.
that many of the people who purchased iPads did so under the false assumption that they would be able to easily move files around. They can't, and the device is therefore not fit for purpose (the purpose for which they bought it that evidently requires them to move files around). That's a failing on somebodies part, but not mine.
Otherwise known as a tablet.........? Computer?
You don't always have to do everything Apple says.
You wouldn't buy a chocolate teapot, so why would you buy a, quote-unquote, computer, that doesn't have a file system or any USB ports?
How long have we had USB flash drives? Like 10 years? Everyone has them, everyone that is, except for Steve Jobs, who plainly looks as if he spends 14 hours a day sleeping in an Oxygen deprivation tent on the moon.
Actually, his face resembles the moon more closely with each passing day. Grey, dispiriting, probably had people walking on it in the 60s.
Is that who you want to get your computing insight from? Well maybe if you are 92 years old going on 103.
I'll give it a week, maybe two, before it's completely clogged up with dust and therefore useless.
But when it is broken, at least you will have the satisfaction of knowing that it cost you a significant amount of money.
I think what they mean is you're not going to get side-swiped by a Grizzly Bear, so having no doors is perfectly fine. Unless you want to pay extra for doors, in which case you can have them, you sick pervert. You could be hiding all sorts of bombs in a car with doors. Better put your name on some kind of list just in case.
Everything about this car is both visually and mentally repulsive, and for such a high price, a complete fail.
I'd hate to think of the massive, massive, damage you would be doing to the environment by purchasing and driving this thing. Gotta be a few million tons of carbon just to build it, then 5 years later when everyone realizes it's shit, it'll be another couple of million to recycle it. Or just dump it in a hole in the ground, that would be the cleanest option, and trust me, there's plenty of space on earth for landfill. We found space to test the nukes. Hundreds of them.
So in summary, if you buy this, you really are almost, but not quite, as reprehensible as Renault for building it in the first place.
Now we just wait for the BBC News press release about how awesome it is. Because obviously, if it's electric, it must be good. Unlike Oil, we have unlimited electricity.
Did you ever think that maybe people don't want to spend all of their Cancer-free years being reminded of Cancer every day?
Or what if you do have Cancer? Are you going to consider it helpful or appropriate that everything you buy has a big fat Cancer warning on the box?
Since I'm going to die anyway, should I just stay at home all day and not do anything except eat my 5 portions of fruit & veg and cry softly about Cancer? Well sorry, I'll have all day for that shit when I get Cancer. But now, I'd rather not think about it, if that's alright with you, my Lord and Savior.
The trouble is, once you buy your first computer, you never need to visit a computer store again, you can just use your computer to buy a new computer.
To the computer owner, there is no need to go into a shop and "try out" a new computer. Note that "trying out" a computer in PC World means looking at the screen saver or Windows Media Center, perhaps playing Solitaire if you're lucky enough to get 5 minutes away from the salesman. Impressive stuff if it's going to be your first ever computer, but distinctly unimpressive for everyone else.
Clearly then, PC World need to do something to appeal to those of us who have actually seen computers before. Maybe a more techy area with a bunch of antistatic workstations and barebones computers, plus piles of components, where you can go to build your own computer in the store. If you're happy with the result, you can buy it.
Obviously this idea is so good that PC World will never do it.
The least they could do is get a geek in to run free workshops on how to set up home networks and file servers and rip music or movies. If you're going to run a store for noobs, at least give them a reason to keep coming back.
Image this, I want to be a dentist so I go into Dentist World and buy a whole bunch of overpriced dental equipment, then when I ask the guy how to use it he tells me, with a cheeky but reassuring grin, that I can just wave the dental drill around inside my mouth, "or some shit like that", and everything will be fine, as long as I buy the extended warranty. "These dental drills break ALL THE TIME, not to queer the deal or anything, *wink wink*, and the warranty comes with free Carbon Brush replacement for the first 2 months".
What if the boss asks to put spy cameras in your house and watch you taking a shit so that he knows you're eating enough fibre? Fair enough, right? I mean he can't be putting up with unhealthy staff now can he.
"This is increasingly common"
I should hope not. Any boss who asks me to tolerate such a thing would get the response they deserve.
We're told that 90% of jobs are never advertised at all, or some other frighteningly large percentage I can't currently remember.
People are constantly trying to ram home the value of "networking" to find your next job. Well what if you hate networking, what then? You're fucked aren't you.
In my day we called it "brown nosing".
It does show stupidity if you get a really awful tattoo that's spelled wrong, or has the wrong date on it, or generally looks as if you didn't bother telling the guy what you wanted before he started injecting dye in your face. But there are jobs even idiots can do, so in some sense a guy with a tattoo like that is perfect to mix cement all day on your construction site. Give people a fair chance to do something is all I'm saying.
why would they need their tattoos removed?
Maybe employers could be just, I dunno, maybe 5% less fascist and recognise that some people possess skills other than the ability to appear visually pleasing.
How many jobs actually require you to look good? I work in a dark office in a backwards town full of inbreds, why should I not have a tattoo? Incidentally, I don't, nor do I want one, but the point stands.
You could argue "well it shows they have poor judgment blah blah blah" Why does it show poor judgment? Because they should have known that you wouldn't hire them with a tattoo? And why wouldn't you hire them with a tattoo? Because it shows poor judgment? Circular bullshit logic it is for sure, but it's terribly convenient for denying jobs to people you "just don't like".
Fucking hell, can't have a guy or girl with tattoos, they might also have some interesting stories to tell and we can't put up with that kind of shit in a work environment. Everyone should just shut up, dress how I say, and enjoy their minimum wage.
That's freedom.
What a horrifying prospect.
I can see it now:
2016: "Now children, I'm your new History teacher. Today we are going to learn about how horrible life was in 2011. You see most things in 2011 had a kind of solid quality to them, so you could easily poke your eye out with them. Yes that is very dangerous and kids were all very blind in 2011. But thanks to Our Government, solid objects have been deprecated and replaced with the lovely flexible versions you are using now. You see kids, pencils didn't always used to bend and flop around like they do now. They used to be VERY dangerous, you could poke your eye out with a pencil. Yes, all the way out. That happened all the time in 2011. Now kids, your homework is to go to Wikipedia and print off the article named "pencil eye stabbing incidents in 2011". Remember not to change the text at all, you will lose marks if you use your own words."
It provides a more unified experience for my IT staff.
Further, the amount of time they spend in there has been slashed 40%.
wikileaks into the river.
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Why isn't regular Windows 7 like that.
Good grief, would you like an Operating System with your 30GB of bloat sir?
Sony run a secret Ice cream parlor on Mars. They only let certain customers go there for free ice cream which is TOTALLY UNFAIR.
Some of the customers hacked in to the Martian Mother Computer and discovered a new flavour of ice cream based on chocolate. Again this is only a rumor at this point but if the queen is a reptilian shapeshifter then god help us anything is possible.
I spoke to Sony's PR company and they can confirm that I will be on the next shuttle up there for free ice cream and blow jobs. I asked about the possible existence of chocolate ice cream and the line went dead.
Several minutes later a military contractor phoned me back and told me in no uncertain terms that I love Raspberry ice cream not chocolate ice cream. Then a high pitched tone pierced my ears and I realised that this is in fact true, I do love Raspberry ice cream exclusively.
If I were an eccentric billionaire (and last time I consulted the bank manager, -that's what I call my wallet- , I was not), I would buy MySpace and re-brand it slightly.
By putting a big picture of a special bus on the homepage and renaming the site "Day Release Glue Sniffers". A script would comp pictures of random members into the windows of the bus each time you load the page.
Then I would link the "Tom" account to an offensive trolling bot based on the TR31 military trolling protocol that exists in my imagination.
I would walk around the MySpace offices saying things like "This is our loading program, from here we can load any type of trolling we require." I would hire people to make me coffee, and other people to drink it for me. I would be so good at running MySpace.
I think people would really appreciate the new site.
Can anyone spell Ponzi scheme?
since I spend all my time in the basement surfing the internet, I will enjoy this. Let's see:
Question 1, do you have sex?
Oh crap, better make something up quick, "10 times a night". Yeah that ought to stick.
Question 2, do you wear a seat belt?
Well I don't own a car, so no.
Question 3, do you partake in the consumption of alcohol?
I am partaking in it now.
Question 4, how many friends do you have?
I will just put 7, as that is the number of n00bs I have pwned today.
Even if you win, you're still not better than PC.
It seems that a number of forces are closing in on a new vision of the World Wide Web that by it's very nature will know who you are, where you are, and what you get up to.
The steps you can take to protect your privacy from this are simple, yet highly impractical given the sheer number of attack vectors and the pervasive nature of the devices to which they relate.
As conducting your daily business online becomes more convenient, it follows that hiding your tracks will become exponentially more inconvenient. At some point it is simpler to come to the realisation that you really have no privacy, and to change your behaviour accordingly.
The alternative would be to juggle multiple identities with all the skill and efficiency of a paranoid schizophrenic. With the added caveat that you will need to be a computer scientist in order to understand and plan around all of the surveillance systems that might exist now or in the future.
The only solution is to reorder society so that the transparent nature of our activities becomes a benefit rather than a detriment. We want to be reasonably confident that baddies wont take all of our money, and that our government won't abduct us in the night.
We want freedom to discuss controversial ideas without Mr Lead Pipe paying our noggins a visit. Essentially, assurances need to be made that people will act civil. Until technology is invented that can assure basic human decency, we are basically fucked.
Maybe such a technology would be to put psychoactive drugs in the water, not that anyone's doing that; doo doo do doo, doo doo do doo. And I certainly wouldn't advocate it. But something needs to be done about Shouty McSkin Head and his vigilante group the McIdiots. Those are the people that will really benefit from total information awareness.
Everyone already knows Mr Skin Head is a bigot. He has nothing to lose and everything to gain by finding out where YOU live.
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"""Personally, I find most "self-taught" "programmers" dreadful"""
Personally, I find most "self-taught" "managers" dreadful. Shame they do not teach themselves humility.
Because schools aren't letting kids take the GCSEs, opting instead for easier more worthless courses (that of course the schools claim are worth some ridiculous number of GCSEs, such as 10 or 20).
A Back To The Future 1.21 gigawatts icon, caption: "needs moar jiggawatts".
A Homer Simpson Homemade Prozac icon, caption: "needs more icecream".
A "Can it run Crysis?" icon.
A "Can it run Solitaire?" icon.
A Vaseline icon.
or made it better?
a job in your underground dungeon complex?
nail it above the skirting boards with cable clips. Not as clean as having the cable concealed, but certainly an easy and quick solution. Better to do it when you move in than years later when all your shit is in the way.
If you use WiFi or Ethernet.
Though I suppose PLT is okay if you get agreement from every house within 500 meters of yours, that they don't mind having their DAB jammed so you can use your internet. I can't really see anyone agreeing to that, even if they do hate DAB.
Because medicine relies on a DIAGNOSIS from a trained professional, in other words a doctor.
Medicine is not an attempt to have the population hopped on drugs 24/7 "just in case" they catch something. In fact medicine fails when applied in this way, you cannot put everyone on antibiotics because then they will stop working.
You may be thinking about vaccination, in which case the closest computing metaphor for a vaccine would be a software patch, (which I am all in favour of, obviously), and not Antivirus software.
Furthermore, do you know what the medical world lacks? Good antivirals.
I always thought prefetching was a bad idea (or at least, a relatively pointless one). Hopefully in the future software will be designed with these considerations in mind, but you have highlighted our sometimes misplaced trust in the software vendors and their products. Bear in mind of course that placing too much trust in your AV can be as dangerous as placing too much trust in your browser.
It was wrong of me to discount AV completely, or to come across that way. (I LOVE hyperbole).
I just see it as a losing battle, if your AV catches 80% of malware now (just a guess), how much will it catch next month? Next year? In 5 years? At some point the percentage will level off at a relatively useless level, given the exponential growth of malware. I think it would pay to start coming up with alternatives now.
Not really, I regularly check what executables are running on my box and dialing into which IP addresses. I haven't spotted any strange activity yet (at least nothing that couldn't be satisfactorily explained as benign with a bit of careful research). And of course I am generally careful about what I do on the computer in the first place.
I could have a rootkit, but so could anyone, because that is exactly the kind of thing that slips through the Antivirus net, regardless of how much it comforts you to believe that you are protected.
Instead of wasting time and/or money on Antivirus software, buy a nice pot plant and put it somewhere near your monitor. It will enrich your life more than any security software.
(that's after you install that secure OS I was talking about earlier, of course)
PS. Obviously I recognise that if you don't know how to use a computer properly, you should use Antivirus software (I make sure my family do), but think of it only as the training wheels on your bike. If you never want to take them off, fine by me, but don't expect me to feel as though my two-wheeled bike is somehow inadequate.
but I am under no illusion that indiscriminately scanning everything that comes in to my computer against an incomplete blacklist will offer me any level of protection that I couldn't get though equally potent technologies such as prayer, homeopathy, witchcraft etc.
Scanning every website you visit for every possible (known) virus is silly.
If you surf the web with any regularity, you need an OS/browser combination that is hardened against infections, and designed to contain them (relatively) safely if they do take hold.
You don't want some gun-slinging wideboy OS walking around shouting "If you shoot first you better not miss because I won't". When in fact said OS misses every time, and drops the keys to the castle behind him as he runs away crying. Jesus.
There does appear to be a tendency to throw technology at a situation and assume that things will just improve on their own after that.
The problem being that technology does what you ask it to do, not what you want it to do. There needs to be thought about how, specifically, buying a fleet of top of the range computers (and then locking them down to the nth degree) is going to help children.
And yes, plenty of training is a must, but you can't train people until you actually know what you want them to do in the first place, and that, I suspect, is the reason why nobody gets trained.
Do we really need to pay a review team to find that out? Really? To tell us that a building has a longer useful life than a computer?
"It also recommends a separation of decisions about ICT from those about buildings."
How about a separation of decisions about surveillance from those about schooling? No... oh well.
"One example is when schools sometimes choose not to spend money on maintaining buildings in favour of investing in ICT."
... Who cares? If it's got walls, it's good enough. Let's not pretend that kids deserve to live in plush luxury all the time. Because they won't have nice buildings when they go to work. Half of all office blocks still have Asbestos, and if kids want to collect their minimum wage paycheck they will just have to sit there and breath it. It's called reality, and it's FASCINATING.
"It also says that a web-based price-comparison catalogue should be developed to help schools to get the best price for equipment."
Fucking hell, ever heard of the telephone? CALL YOUR SUPPLIER AND NEGOTIATE A DEAL. You would be surprised to learn how many sales reps are desperate to give you discounts. It's called being human, when you use your voice to get what you want, try it sometime, if you can even remember what it's like to have a human soul.
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(it practically writes itself)
Online stores such as Amazon seem rather unscrupulous in this regard.
When I purchased a NAS box from them recently, they did not claim that the price I paid included any kind of discount, but a week later they had put the price UP and added the words "10% discount" to the description. It was such a blatant and complete lie, I was shocked, but not enough to actually do anything about it (yeah, I got shit to do, sorry, I can't be writing bitchy letters to everyone - except on here of course wink wink)
Literally every product on there is claiming some sort of discount. I always double check prices at other retailers and about 75% of the time I find that "the discounted rate" is actually "the going rate".
Don't be taken in by what the retailer claims is a discount. It seems that the laws regarding this are weak and/or weakly enforced.
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The three finalists for AL Rookie of the Year were announced on Wednesday by the Baseball Writers Association of America, and Texas pitcher Yu Darvish was one of three. But this year, the race is for second place.
A look at the candidates, in order of predicted finish by yours truly...
1. Mike Trout, OF, LAA — This is the biggest slam dunk in quite some time. Trout was unreal this year, and is possibly the best rookie in MLB history. He hit .326 with 30 homers and 83 RBIs and had a .399 on-base percentage as the Angels' leadoff hitter. Oh, and he was a great centerfielder and stole 49 bases — all of that despite missing the first month of the season because the Angels had him in the minor leagues in favor of Vernon Wells? Go figure.
2. Yu Darvish, RHP, TEX — Darvish had his ups and downs while adjusting to Major League Baseball after years of dominating Japanese baseball, but once he figured out, boy was he good. Darvish finished the season on a roll and was unquestionably the Rangers' best pitcher down the stretch. He finished with a 16-9 record, a 3.90 ERA and 221 strikeouts. He was plagued by walks for the first half of the season but then figured things out and walked two or fewer batters in his final eight starts, including the AL Wild Card Game, when he was inexplicably pulled after just 91 pitches.
3. Yoenis Cespedes, OF, OAK — Another import, the Cuban outfielder burst on to the scene in 2012 for the surprising Athletics and gave the AL West a tremendous trio of rookies this past season. Cespedes was the heartbeat of the A's and gave them a legitimate bat in the middle of their order that other guys could rally around. He hit .292 with 23 home runs and 82 RBIs and showed the ability to run with 16 steals and five triples.


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I attended a wedding in Central Park recently. When the ceremony was nearly at its end, it began to pour. When it was over, knowing that hailing a cab in the rain is a longshot at best, I walked until I found a subway entrance and descended underground.
When I emerged onto the street in Times Square a few minutes later, five blocks from where I needed to be, the rain was still torrential. I was already pretty wet despite my umbrella, so I ran the gauntlet of drenched Elmos, Batmans, tourists, and sailors in town for Fleet Week and made my way to the reception. With time to kill before it began, I sat at a bar and regaled the bartender with what I called my quintessential New York experience.
This is part of what makes the Greater New York area my home. This you-never-know-what-can-happen feeling. In my younger days, when I was more high-strung and definitely less of a sport, this would have thrown me for a loop. This day, I ordered a Kahlua and coffee and dried myself off with paper towels.
Home feels like such an expansive concept to me. It extends far beyond my apartment a block from the Hudson River in Hoboken, N.J. and reaches into Manhattan.
In the beginning of the year I took an online travel writing course and one of the points it emphasized was the amount of stories that get overlooked because they're so close to us we don't see them. It's only natural that when we live in a place we might skim over what makes it interesting and fail to appreciate its appealing quirkiness or storied landmarks.
One of the things that has heightened my awareness of my sense of place is the Instagram account I opened a few months ago. I had motive – I was applying to be a writer-in-residence and one of the items called for on the application was my Instagram handle. I needed to get one pronto and jumped in.
I didn't land the gig, but I consider the creation of the account a nice consolation prize. What it has inadvertently shown me is how enriching it is when you appreciate your home and all it has to offer. When I look at the shots I've taken on Instagram, I realize that most of them are about paying attention to what's right in front of me.
For example, I use the waterfront like a backyard, so sometimes it's easy to take for granted that not everyone gets to watch an enormous cruise ship sail by while they sit on a bench sipping coffee. Or that when I invite friends to bring their daughter to the park it's going to come with one of the most stunning skyline views around.
But if those same friends come into my home, what they will not find is granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances, two things that seem to spell the end of civilization for many of the people on HGTV's House Hunters. I get it. They're way cool and aesthetically pleasing. And if you spend a lot of time in your kitchen you want it the way you want it.
My sense of home is more about living in proximity to all kinds of stimulation, but also living in a way that almost everything provides stimulation. My Instagram photos range from a bunch of fresh basil in a pitcher on my table to a friend at the Rene Magritte exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art to a chopped salad and glass of wine at Mario Batali's Otto.
A vibrant walk — Conde Nast Traveler magazine in my bag — to a restaurant with great Kona coffee. A bird with interesting white spots on its black breast sitting next to me on a bench. Art Deco-looking Empire State Building lights during the Super Bowl. Yellow tulips in a vase on my side table.
I sure love to travel, but I've become more and more aware of the wonder that surrounds me every single day.
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Interview with Reiny and Christine
Klein (RK) (CK)
Conducted by Dale Davis (DD)
8 October 2004
Transcription by Amanda Swenson
Editing and proofreading by Marcie Franklund
DD: Reiny Klein and his sister Christine, from Wishek, North Dakota. You can ask, if you need a break, just indicate so we can stop. Okay the date is Friday October the 8th, 2004. The time in Wishek, North Dakota is close to 1:40 in the afternoon. And I am interviewing Christine Klein Buller, and her brother Reiny Klein. And we are going to have some conversations about the German-Russian heritage that they grew up in. Something about their parents, and then talk church wise, for a real good family history. [?009]. So if I could have Christine, would you introduce yourself, and would you tell me your full name and your age?
CK: What?
DD: Your name, introduce yourself your name and your age.
CK: I'm Christine Klein [?12] and I am 91 years of age.
RK: I am Lorein Hold Rudolf Klein. I was born in May of 1924, so that makes me an even 80.
DD: And who was your parents.
CK: Jacob and Elizabeth Ottecomer Klein.
DD: Did you help with your mother maiden name, your mother's full name?
RK: Elizabeth Otteman.
DD: And your father's?
RK: Jacob G. Klein.
DD: And they came from? Were they born in the United States or where were they born?
CK: They were born in Russia, and they came when they were little children. My mother was 5, and my dad was 7 when their parents came here. So they went to America schools.
DD: So they gave out some recollections of what it was like in Russia then?
CK: Oh I don't know whether they remembered much about Russia. Anyway, mother remembered the cook stones they had. And she said that they cooked their foods all in the morning for dinner. It was a clay stove and their clay got burnt and they had a hot fire and [?25] raked through ashes for [?25].
DD: Do you remember how many family members there were in your mother's family, and in your father's family?
CK: There were 8 in my mother's family.
DD: And did they all come over to the United States or did some stay?
CK: Mother was the oldest.
DD: Oh, your mother was the oldest?
CK: Yes.
DD: Oh, okay. So most of them were born here in the United States?
CK: Yes.
DD: Okay, how about on your father's side?
CK: He was 7 when his parents came, and they settled in Eureka, and bought horses and a cow, and raised vegetables and potatoes to sell to the hotel. And grandma made father cottage cheese to sell.
DD: How long were they in the Eureka area?
CK: Until dad was 21. He hunts birds in North Dakota.
DD: Where is that at?
CK: That's about what is it 15 miles from Wishek.
RK: About 15 miles northwest.
DD: So would your grandparents, would they be buried in the Eureka area or?
CK: No they all moved to....
DD: They all moved.
CK: To Burnstead. My grandparents are buried in the cemetery here at Wishek. And uh.
DD: Bollsteads? From that area?
CK: My grandparents, my mother's family were buried in the country church. I guess they called it the hottest day of the cemetery.
DD: As that [?40-41]
CK: Yeah, my mother had earrings when she was baptized. At [?42] that was very popular, and her grandpa was so proud of her. And her grandpa brought her earrings to wear before her baptism.
DD: Did the earrings go through her ear or did they have-- were they like clip ons?
CK: What?
DD: The earrings, were they like clip on type or were they?
CK: No they were-- ears were pierced.
DD: Like they do now?
CK: Yeah.
DD: I'll have to tell my daughter that.
CK: They pierced her ears when she was sleeping. She didn't even wake up.
DD: And did she have those earrings?
CK: She had one, but she lost the other one. But she, my niece has it, and with complete boxes. My mother did beautiful little [?50] when she was young and could see. And she was a very good seamstress. So what now, they came here and they sewed everything by hand. When my mother was 18, she ordered a sewing machine from Sears [?054]. And they were so happy, this was one step forward. They lived in a sod house and when they went and they built their frame house, she was 14.
DD: Do you remember, did you ever see that sod house then?
CK: Pardon?
DD: Did you ever see the sod house that they lived in?
CK: No, nah uh. I was still young for they would have been, when my mother was 14 they built the house. And my parents built a sod house when they were first married. But they moved to a farm near Wishek. And that had to lower than a wooden house.
DD: Do you know if there are any sod houses left around here or are they all gone?
CK: There used to be a summer kitchen in one of the places that was the sod house. That's the only sod house I only saw.
DD: Do you know why they call it a summer kitchen?
CK: Well they just used to heat and cook in the summer so the house would stay cool.
DD: What kind of stove would they use then?
CK: Just a what?
DD: The type of stove?
CK: What they used in it?
DD: Yeah.
CK: Well they had a cook stove that was a cast iron stove. Grandma's first stove was oven bake one. Oh the bread she'd bake every day. And we used sour dough. The dough all this dough we used. Well the craziest stages start the new bet.
DD: How long did that start to last?
CK: Well what we kept a new starter each day.
DD: So they would use that to incorporate it into continuously [?075]. So who ended up with that starter, do you know?
CK: Pardon?
DD: Who ended up with the starter?
CK: [?076] to start the starter to put the potato welder in it.
DD: Oh, you put the potato welder in it?
CK: Yeah. And that got that going. The neighbors they had what they called everlasting yeast. And you picked some every time you baked, and saved enough for the next starter.
DD: Where did they put that starter yeast?
CK: You mean the dough that was to starter? That was normally kept in the kitchen cupboards.
DD: Okay, you didn't have to worry about it getting too warm or too cold?
CK: Well, it shouldn't get too cold. You'll want one or two more heat than heaven be held, low temperature. When I made it, when I was 15, I started making it. And we tested the welder on our wrist. You didn't test it on your hand; you tested it on your wrist, because that's more sensitive.
DD: How warm was it supposed to be at? The water?
CK: It was luke warm.
DD: Luke warm. Was there a reason for that for being too warm or too cold?
CK: If it was too cold it wouldn't dry, and if it was too warm, you could spoil it.
DD: How long does it normally take you from when you first started making bread, till the bread was done? How long of a time period did that take?
CK: Pardon?
DD: When you started to make your dough, to when you finished making your bread, how long did that take?
CK: Oh it took a couple days.
DD: A couple days?
CK: And when they thrashed, they had twenty-eight thrashers, behind the place, and we had to have a fire, and the engine there and the separator. And it took twenty-eight people. We callers or whatever else, and that was the amount of work that was hard work for the women too.
DD: When did they start in the morning making breakfast for them?
CK: Well you got up at 3 o'clock, and the thrashers came and ate at 4:00.
DD: What was a typical breakfast meal?
CK: Pardon?
DD: Did you have pretty much the same meal every morning?
CK: Well for breakfast always consisted of Jack and fries, potatoes, and meat, head cheese usually. Or sausage or something like that. And then of course there was the good country sausage that Wishek is still famous for.
DD: How did they make their sausage, just like they did back in the old country?
CK: Yes.
DD: Do we make it that way now, or did they change it?
CK: We still make it that way when we make sausage. Of course most of the town people get their butchering done at the butchering places. The slaughtering places I should say. And they carved up the meat and put them into packages to freeze.
DD: And now getting back to the days when you were helping with the threshing. How many loaves of bread did you make a day for that?
CK: They made 18 loaves. That was three ovens full. And we made I don't know if your acquainted with the [?114] the German food. And that's a very tasty [?115] or coffee cake.
DD: Do you remember the recipe you or your mother made of [?117]?
CK: Yes.
DD: What went into making [?118]?
CK: Yeast and flour and sugar and eggs and cream. Then you made the custard to put on the [?119] with prongs or paddles.
DD: Now did they start that tradition for [?120] here in the United States or?
CK: No, they came, that was came from Russia, the [?121]. That came with the German people.
DD: Right along with the sausage making and all those recipes, so they didn't all the sudden incorporate American stuff?
CK: Yes. It was an old recipe. In my dad's people made sausage they put [?125-126] but my mother's people made it with garlic. Little seeds in garlic water, you didn't put garlic in, just the essence. Just the water and then you strained the garlic out.
DD: I bet that tasted pretty good?
CK: It's very good.
DD: Do you remember other things that you and your mother did in the house?
CK: Oh, we had all kinds of work. We canned, mother made cheeses, she made cottage cheese, and she made cheddar cheese.
DD: How did she do that?
CK: Well you had to put [?132] into the milk, so that would form the curd.
DD: What was that?
CK: That was the milk, the thing that the milk turned into cheese, and you know pieces that you drained out the water from the cheese. Oh and I have to tell you, (laughs) about my grandpa [?137] and how when we first came here, and dad told him we didn't have any milk, much milk and oh the cream. And here the milk and cow and she had a three pail can fill of milk and hardly any cream, it looked loose. So they were jipped.
DD: So it was more important to have that cream, now wasn't it?
CK: What?
DD: It was more important to have the cream?
CK: It was yes. Cream was what we sold. That was our [?143].
DD: Where did you keep the cream, in a refrigerator? Or?
CK: We didn't have refrigeration, we had basements and cellars a hole in the ground up through the [?146]. And then my mother had the misfortune of falling into the basement and breaking her leg.
DD: That wasn't nice.
CK: So she was in bed a long time.
DD: Well did the doctor, did they take her into the doctor?
CK: Oh yes, they had to call the doctor to the house?
DD: So doctors usually come to the house?
CK: Yeah. The bone doctor he had to come from Edgeley.
DD: And what did they do for her?
CK: Well they set the bone, and then the misfortune was that there was a small bone, out of the joint. And they never said that, and she had trouble with her leg all her life.
DD: They didn't put her in a cast or all that though?
CK: Pardon?
DD: They just set the leg, and wrapped it?
CK: I don't know, I don't think they had anything. I think that she just had to grin and bear it.
DD: Do you have any other childhood, well milking, how many brothers and sisters do you have?
CK: Huh?
DD: How many brothers and sisters do you have?
CK: There were eight children. Two older sisters, and then two older brothers and then I came next, I was the fifth child, and then the younger brothers, Reiny was the youngest, and he was born in 1924. And my dad died when he was only five months. So that was a blow to the family. We used to be a very musical family, but the music was taken from our hearts for a few years.
DD: After that happened to your father?
CK: My dad died.
DD: Did you father play a musical instrument?
CK: He played the organ. And we kids went to sleep with organ music every night. That helped to work, when I heard the wind blowing through the eves, I thought everything was fine. Dad was playing the organ and here it was the wind blowing through the eves, I thought I heard the eves, so. And my grandfather, his brother was instrumental in getting the district organized and they went to Bismarck to get their land grant. Grandpa got ¾ and his brother the same way. And they went to the restaurant to eat; they couldn't speak English, but a few words. They said they wanted everything. They wanted the whole meal. And they got everything that they had cooked that day. I guess they were cooked and ate, of course. But they left 0.75 cents for that big meal.
DD: Times have changed. Now did you speak German?
CK: Pardon?
DD: Did you speak all the time?
CK: We spoke German at home, and about the time Reiny came along we did wear a little German. Grandparents have moved to town.
DD: Did your grandparents ever learn English?
CK: Pardon?
DD: Did your grandparents ever learn English?
CK: No they didn't.
DD: They kept the German language.
CK: Uh huh.
DD: How about your parents then?
CK: My parents spoke English, and went to English schools. Mother only went a month, but grandma was sick so they only had two months of school. But she was very handy and she used a dictionary a lot. She used a dictionary for students.
DD: And all of you spoke German most of the time, when you were a child?
CK: Yes.
DD: Until?
CK: Until Reiny came along, he could sing German, he sang. [?193-194].
DD: Can you say that in German?
CK: Yes, we sang it in German, while playing around. We were at Memorial Day service and he came home and we sang "My country listen thee, great land of liberty". And I said well at least I was [?198].
DD: How did you, the more you learn English, out in school and public?
CK: I learned English when I went to school. But before that I don't know if they speak a few words of English. I knew what no and yes meant. And then uh, that picked up very fast in school. I read very well and the teacher bragged about me to another teacher.
DD: Did they allow you to speak German in school?
CK: Not anymore when I started school. That was during WWI. And we had to speak English. So that's where I learned English so much. Easier that German was; at church we had service in German.
DD: How long did they have services in German?
CK: We still have German services once in a while. When I was about 30 years old we still had German services, once and a while. But we had more English services.
DD: Do all of your brothers and sisters, did they know how to speak German real well?
CK: Yes.
DD: And at home?
CK: Yes they were older. We always spoke German at home.
DD: At home?
CK: Uh huh.
DD: Now when you went to town as a family, did your parents talk to you in German, or did they talk to you in English when you were in town, or did it not make much difference?
CK: It didn't matter [?219] we met dad's cousin one day, they had that parents place to take horses to the barn. And we came on the sleigh, and we met a family called Fry. Here it was my dad's cousin, they said, are you Cathleen Klein? And she said yes, how did you know? And he told her and she said "This is my husband here, [?231] and so he insisted on buying us pets. [?232] I was five and Eddie was three. So he told her, he gave us the foam and I drank, mine was delicious it was Strawberry pop. And Eddie didn't drink his, and he whispered to dad, "what a surprise it tasted like to you". And he said, he told me "ask me if I could get drunk off this". And so we had to explain that we lived near the highway and they drove with the new Fords and say silly songs, and Eddie would say "There they go again, the drunks". (Laughs). So Eddie didn't want to get drunk and act like that.
DD: So you think he never had pop before, or soda.
CK: He never had pop before; our treats were liquors and candy. And mother made cookies at home.
DD: What type of cookies?
CK: Oh she baked a [?245] cookies, that was a special treat. And she made peppernuts, they were [?247] flavored.
DD: Do you remember any of those recipes?
CK: Yes.
DD: Which recipes?
CK: I think I have a book; a composition book that mother had started.
DD: Off the top of your head would you be able to.
CK: Huh?
DD: Could you tell me what's in one of those recipes without looking?
CK: I didn't get that.
DD: Would you be able to tell me what's in a cookie recipe without looking? Or would you have to look it up?
CK: Well, one was a Han's cookie. And they had flour, and brown sugar, and white sugar. We had a ginger snapper, we made a lot. We used to carry them to school. School lunch was edibles. And, cookies, and sandwiches.
DD: What type of sandwich did you make?
CK: Oh, some days we had half a cheese sandwich, or a pork sandwich, or sausage sandwiches. The sausage sandwiches were very good.
DD: You said you baked bread, what type of bread did you bake?
CK: White bread.
DD: It was always white bread?
CK: Uh huh. It was a very good bread. And we also made what we call [?265] it was a Russian biscuit, that was made out of bread dough. And we made cinnamon rolls, and we put a lot of brown sugar in the bottom of the pan and butter. So we did a fair amount.
DD: Now did you tell me what a typical day was like at school?
CK: What a typical day was like?
DD: At school, when you were a little girl, when you were going to school?
CK: Oh, I had phonics and I had the letter sounding and I called on Mary Fast, in about a two or three weeks, I spoke more English than German.
DD: Now did you have one teacher in your school?
CK: Yes.
DD: Do you remember about how many students there were?
CK: At one school we had 26 students. It was really crowded. I was sitting behind the stove, the part of the stove, where the jacket was on. And one little boy called me his girlfriend, that was the worst day. I was a very sharp student, but he was a slow poke. He wanted to go out with me. I told him he should turn around. He wouldn't talk to me; I thought he learned his lesson.
DD: Now did you have arithmetic?
CK: Pardon?
DD: Did you have arithmetic?
CK: Did we have a [?286].
DD: Adding and subtracting, math? In school?
CK: We had what?
DD: In school, did you have your fines, word sounding, and did you have penmanship and writing?
CK: Oh yes, we did that. We had penmanship. I never could use my arm that well, but I made pretty ovals that they use sometime.
DD: Did you learn how to do adding and subtracting?
CK: Oh yes, when I was in second grade I did subtracting and I learned subtract table by myself to twelve. But I did that the second year.
DD: How about you learning any history?
CK: Pardon?
DD: Did you learn any history or geography?
CK: Oh yes, history and geography and in 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade. What we had was around the world with the children. One day one of the girls was reading and I don't know, I think she got sick and she dropped her geography book, we kids laughed. Oh I bet we made, we cooked in school. We made rye soup, and potato soup, and I usually had to make the hot chocolate. We baked potatoes in the ash can, and if you've never ate ash can potatoes, you don't know what's good. And we carried butter and salt along to eat with our potatoes.
DD: So you cooked that in the same stove that kept the school house warm?
CK: Huh?
DD: You cooked in the same stove that kept your school house warm?
CK: Yeah, in an ash can. And on top of the stove we cooked the soups.
DD: And that was during the winter time?
CK: That was in the winter, school ended in March.
DD: When did school begin?
CK: In the middle of September, sometimes October. One year we only had 5 months of school. That was the first year I went to school.
DD: But you still had to cover as much material then?
CK: We had to cover the material. And we had to write state exams in our school, because it was a secondary school.
DD: Did you have hard exams every year?
CK: Yes, in 7th and 8th grade.
DD: Do you remember what your teachers name was.
CK: Oh yes, the first was one Ruth Harvey, and Caroline Guttensburg, and Henry Issenger, and Clara Herl, and Sarah Engelbritz, and we had just Hope Bergin. I bet we had, who was it next, Mr. or Ms. John Luges. And that was in 7th and 8th, 8th grade, 7th and 8th grade, one year. I should have taken 7th grade.
DD: What were some of the games you played at school, during the recess?
CK: We played anti-over, we played throw the ball of the school house, and we played fox and goose, and London bridge is falling down. They were games that you played in the snow. The fox and the goose, the fox had to go, and get after the goose, and catch you and the next in line had to be next. And then we had birds, bees, and fish. And you had to answer before you were called three times, and if you didn't you were. The games we played in the snow were fox and goose. And we'd draw the pair.
DD: Now did you speak German at recess? Were all the kids that went to school where you went, were they all German-Russian?
CK: Yes, they were all of German [?356] and most of them were a sort of cousins to us, second cousins.
DD: Did they allow you to speak German during school recess?
CK: No, we weren't allowed.
DD: As long as you were on school grounds, you had to speak English, is that correct?
CK: Yeah, we had to speak English.
DD: What did you think of that, that you had to learn another language?
CK: I didn't think anything of it; I was pleased to learn another language. The road went by our place, and people would come to ask how to get to [?360] we deciding on Napoleon. And I would say I can only tell you how to get to [?360]. There's somebody in [?361] that would tell you had to get the side of Napoleon.
DD: Now remembering some of your times at home. Did you have to help milk the cows, you have two older brothers?
CK: I milked 11 cows. In the evenings I would have milked more if we would have had more cows. Mother and I cooked for the harvesters. They came late at night after making hay you know. And it was hard. We kids went to bed, and were asleep before the grown-ups were in bed.
DD: Can you explain how you milked cows? How you bring them in or did they stay in the barn all the time?
CK: We milked you know, I guess you know how to milk.
DD: You milk them by hand.
CK: Huh?
DD: You milk them by hand.
CK: Yes.
DD: But then what did you do with the milk afterwards?
CK: We separated it and made cream. The cream is what we sold.
DD: Did you have a separate house, or shed?
CK: We separated it in the basement. Years ago when I was a little kid, they had a little milk house.
DD: And that's where they separated it and kept the milk cold?
CK: Yep, uh huh. And then there was given to the calves, the separated milk.
DD: You drank the milk; it was also the separated milk?
CK: Huh?
DD: If children drank the milk, it was also the separated milk?
CK: No, we drank whole.
DD: You drank the whole milk?
CK: Uh huh.
DD: Some families, that's all they did was have separated milk, and that's separate.
CK: No, we used whole milk, for the children.
DD: And did you have pigs too?
CK: Pardon?
DD: Did you have pigs?
CK: I didn't hear that.
DD: Did you dad have pigs?
RK: Hogs!
CK: Huh?
RK: Did dad have pigs?
CK: Oh yes, one year we had 60. And I was getting into feed them, and they knocked me over and I had my face down in the salt/dirt. I'll never forget that. Never went back in that pig pen. I crawled over to the fence, and I dumped in what I had to dump in, and they [?405] that I wasn't going in again.
DD: Did you mix that separated milk with grain?
CK: The hogs got that and the peels.
DD: More stuff about remembering on the harvest.
CK: It was late nights and a lot of work. The thrashing was a lot of work.
DD: How many meals did you feed the thrashers?
CK: Three meals, and two lunches. Five, the lunches were sandwiches, or maybe a big slice of cake, or a piece of Kugel.
DD: And did they come in and eat, or did they have to bring that out?
CK: The lunches we took out, but the rest of the time they came in. We started-- mom and I started --cooking at 3 o'clock and at 4 we served breakfast-- a big breakfast.
DD: And what was a typical dinner or supper?
CK: Oh that usually was, began with soup and hamburger with pudding and bread pudding and rice pudding. I made the rice dish with chicken and rice. Which was very good, it had brown gravy and fixed it and kept on putting more water into the rice, and every time it stuck to the bottom I turned it and then it was brown. So it would rise and it was very good. And we also raised what do you call, [?439]. We made that sauce with lemon and [?441] that was very tasty.
DD: That was a very good....
CK: And the other meals for the thrashers, it was just a big meal with all kinds of food. And a lot of food was tossed, and they had noodle soup, and they had vegetable soup, and they had egg drop soup. Then we four families decided to go down to see my dad's sister. They always came and surprised us, so we all went down on a Sunday. And we got down and my gosh, Elmer cried had an earache, by the time we got down. We drove through fences, one fence to another. My oldest brother kept getting out and opening gates. My dad had bought a new Chevy, a baby grand. So we fit into that. He bought a Ford first, we didn't keep it in the family, was growing and we traded it off for a Chevy.
DD: Did you dad use horses for the field work?
CK: He used horses for working and all. Eddie and I, my brother, I walked the drag for I don't know how many miles; dragging after the drill.
DD: How many horses would you have to pull that drag?
CK: We had four.
DD: Did it go very fast?
CK: No, they just walked and our knees could trot. That one day we called the [?478] the one that sections of the drag. And I had to, Eddie and I, when I was about 10 and Eddie was, well I was about 12, and Eddie was 10. We lived to [?482-483]. That was probably the only route of that whole field. But any way it got under our drag.
DD: What were some of the other chores you did around the farm?
CK: Pardon?
DD: What were some of the other chores you did around the farm? Did you do other field work?
CK: Milking, the boys got dragging, I helped.
DD: So you didn't have to do any of the other field work?
CK: No, I did. But my sister's did. They were, when they had a rain they were out and at the end of a stack and Libby was ditching. Keeping the [?497].
DD: Can you describe that? How they make stacks and stuff?
CK: They didn't drive very fast because they had to keep the header up above the head of box. And you had to have a driver for the header box, and usually it was the little boys who were drivers.
DD: And what did you do with that?
CK: They made stacks, and stacked the grain until thrashing time.
DD: Did they make stacks in several areas, or was it all in one area?
CK: Huh?
DD: Did they make one big stack or several stacks?
CK: No, they made a whole bunch of stacks. They were as small as the header box. It had one stacking and the others pitching, to the others.
DD: So once you had the header box full, that's where you made yourself a stack?
CK: Yeah, whenever you made the rounds you stopped and put up the stack.
DD: What were some of the games your brothers and sisters used to play around the farm? Did you have any different games you played?
CK: [?522] or whatever we called it. And we played hide and go seek in the evening and [?525]. During the day we played anti-over over the school house.
DD: Did you folks play with you?
CK: No, they usually didn't have time. But they always gave us time. We weren't supposed to play cards.
DD: That's good.
CK: And we kids made cards out of tablet paper and played brook.
DD: Was it against their religion to play cards, or they just didn't like you to play cards?
CK: They didn't like us to play cards. They didn't mind us playing brook. They felt that the king and the queen, they weren't supposed to be played with. They had a brother that gambled so much and got into all kinds of trouble gambling on wheat. So....
DD: So that was more of a reason for not learning that stuff at a young age.
[Side A, tape stops at 550].
[Beginning of Side B]
DD: Always a reason.
CK: Yeah, there was.
DD: Now, do you remember some of the songs you daddy played on the organ?
CK: Oh, he played one song which you probably never heard. "God loves me dearly, loves even me". He played in German. And he played "Blessed Assurance, Jesus is mine". And "Now thank will our God". "[?006]". He played all of those songs, I mean, and then some. And later on my favorite song was "In the Garden". That was too beautiful for words.
DD: Did it have words?
CK: Yes. "I come to the garden alone while the dew was on the roses. And the voice I hear a pouring on my ear was the song of God that loves this. And he walks with me and he talks with me and he tells me I am his own. And the joy we share, as we carry there none other has ever known".
DD: Can you sing some of that in German?
CK: We didn't sing that in German, we sang [?014] in German.
DD: Would you sing some of that?
CK: They played so many, and mother's favorite song was "Beautiful Alan Summer". They sang it in the choir when she sang.
DD: Do you remember any of the old German lyrics to any of those songs?
CK: Pardon?
DD: Do you remember the German verses to any of those songs?
CK: Yes, we had German hymn book in church. So I knew all those songs.
DD: Would you be able to repeat a small verse in German of one song?
CK: Pardon?
DD: Would you be able to repeat a small verse in German?
RK: What is the Leery? You know the words to that.
CK: Yeah, [?22-24].
DD: Now did you have a, yours was a Lutheran minister that you went to? Or was it?
CK: Pardon?
DD: From the area that the people came from in Russia, they were either Catholic or Lutheran, or Baptists.
CK: We were Congregationalists. When we were little we went to the Reform Church and then later we went to the Congregational Church.
DD: Was there any big differences between those churches?
CK: Not much.
DD: Now did they have a minister come every Sunday?
CK: When we were in Reform Church, we had a minister every third Sunday. And he had to stay at your house. And I played the harp. I chorded the harp. And he heard my sister play it, and he thought it was so beautiful. So, he wanted to. She said it was so easy to play. My sister plays it; I was the littlest of the three. So I played and oh, he couldn't get over how beautiful that was. I guess he hadn't made pick for the next choir member.
DD: Now when you went to church as a youngster how much different was that, than was like when you said you were at least 30 years old when they would have an occasional German service. But the older you got how much farther away from when you remember as a youngster as the church services go?
CK: Well they were pretty much the same, except we had prayer meetings in the Congregational Church, which we didn't have in the Reform Church. But the choir always sang. My dad sang, and his sister, in the school house church. Everybody raved about her harmony singing, they had never heard harmony singing. So they sang, they got a choir together, and Mr. Priesley was in church and he said well I can teach your children to sing like that, if you'll bring them. So everybody was [?051]. My mother and my dad left and so my grandparents didn't want mother to marry him, because his eyesight was so bad, and he had to wear glasses. All they could give at that time was drug store glasses, magnifying glasses. So anyways, they eloped. That was probably the first elope in history back then.
DD: Before that they had to have permission didn't they?
CK: Yeah, so anyway mother didn't get permission for their folks. Later on they were so sorry, because they liked my dad so well.
DD: Now you said he had poor eyesight. Did that affect him a lot, do you remember that a lot?
CK: Pardon?
DD: His eyesight did that affect him quite a big?
CK: Yes, but later on he got glasses.
DD: Oh he did, he was able to get glasses later?
CK: He went to Bismarck to get glasses. But they didn't have bi-focals; he had to wear two pair on top of each other.
DD: Oh. Now with his poor eyesight, you didn't have electricity when you were younger, you had lamps and stuff?
CK: We had oil lamps. One night I filled the oil lamp. The prettiest one, I asked my mother if I would ever get that lamp. It was rose colored found, and it had a swirled of a light crystal base. And here I filled the kerosene, and the kerosene was so cold from the tank, and it cracked and we had to throw it away.
DD: Oh.
RK: I think you've come to the end.
DD: Yeah, we better leave that alone.
DD: This is tape two, beginning of the tape two with Reverend Klein and his sister.
DD: Okay this is tape two. And we are with Christina [?079] and all the stories of your sister was telling you Reiny. Did that contra up any stories of when you were little when your sisters and your older brothers you can tell on them.
CK: I used to have the boys help me wash dishes, my younger brothers. And um, it was like the thousand and one nights, I didn't want to end the story because I wanted them to listen to the next day. And I'd always start in and tell them they'd have to come to the end tomorrow. So they'd have to help wash dishes. So they got the end of that story, and then a beginning of another one.
RK: So you conned us, is what you did?
CK: Huh?
RK: That's not nice, you conned us.
CK: (Laughs). Well they got the stories you wanted to hear.
RK: Kind of a Tom Sawyer with painting a fence.
CK: (Laughs).
RK: Yes, in the memories there were a few things I differ from my sister and there's no one here to say who's right.
CK: (Laughs).
RK: I always thought my mother said she gone through 3rd grade, the terms were short. The school terms were short.
CK: What was that?
RK: School terms were short.
CK: Yeah.
RK: But one story she didn't tell goes back to the old days. The about 30 miles from Missouri here, my maternal grandfather, he and his brother-in-law had gone with their wagons to get some wood. And then the bottom lands of the river hid cotton wood trees. They got a good distance and my grandfather and his brother-in-law, heard some noise on the other side of the hill. My brother-in-law was leading. My father was Indian so they took off they didn't care about the brother-in-law, so they high-tailed it for home. My brother-in-law kept going and they got home and a day or two later, the brother a day or two, the brother-in-law came with his load of wood. There were no Indians.
DD: What do you think that they were hearing?
RK: Who knows?
CK: Well, maybe it was just somebody else chopping wood.
RK: Whatever it was, along the road they probably heard the steel-rimmed wagons on the other side. So that's the story that stayed in the family and has been so funny. One of the things about school days, were three grades, I had a cousin teacher in a rural school. Very strict disciplinary, some people thought he was too strict, but the up shot was, we probably did learn more under his school age, then any other teacher. He played the violin of all things in a little country school, he gave us classical music. He played his violin and we had to identify the piece and the composer and the lyricist. So that was most unusual, that did not happen very often.
DD: That is very unusual, you were very fortunate to have that man.
RK: He was the son of my mother's siblings, who was younger than she was. So what else, you ask?
DD: Well, when you were raised on the farm, how much different, you didn't have electricity, you didn't have a TV, and you didn't have a radio probably for a little while?
CK: We had a radio from 1927.
DD: What was it like? Nowadays, kids have everything that is convenient as possible. But you didn't have electricity, you didn't have central air, you didn't have central heat, none of that stuff?
CK: We did have a furnace.
DD: What was it like?
RK: I suppose it wasn't entirely adequate, the upstairs rooms, you would have water freeze in the winter time. You kept warm with feather ticks. You would see your breathe as you were breathing. Radio, the first radio was a real squealer, static. And then there was another radio that was quite good. But we used a lot of batteries. In the summertime, we didn't have time for radio, so radio was a wintertime entertainment. And in my day, you made a lot of your own entertainment in the wintertime: sliding down the hill in a sled, or skating, that sort of thing. You got together with neighbors who were partially uncles and cousins, and did things.
DD: So there was a lot of visiting all the time?
RK: Quite a bit, yes. Again, a wintertime activity.
DD: So there was a lot more time in the wintertime to do that stuff than there was in the summer?
RK: That's right.
DD: Now, do you remember some of the early radio programs that you listen to?
CK: Amos and Andy.
DD: What was that like?
CK: They were [?140].
DD: You hear about those, but.
CK: Henry Eldridge what was it, what did they call that? Oh Henry, yeah, they called it, Henry was always in trouble.
RK: Amos and Andy was of course a white people. It was in the [?143] language and it would be not acceptable this day and age. But then everybody thought it was funny. Of course, Little Orphan Annie, and Jack Armstrong were in there in my day.
CK: Your favorite was Orphan Annie.
RK: I even had a Dakota Ring.
CK: Huh?
DD: I remember those when I was a kid. You got the [?148] hats and bubble gum.
RK: (Laughs) Well, you had to drink Ovaltine to get the Dakota Ring in my time.
DD: With you being the youngest and your sister being older.
RK: Midway.
DD: Being older, how much had she have a long [?151] from your dad, you did not get the gig because [?153] but how much did you think that made you being the youngest also, being raised, did that make much more of a difference? Were they all more of a dad to you, your mom and sisters? Or was your mom more of a mom and dad, verses your sisters and mother?
RK: Mother was charged a question about that, who was the determining influence I'm sure. The brothers, Troy, which was the oldest, became a male figure that you had in that day and age. Douglas I was [?159] over, or you can call him spoiled, I think so, and he says, I don't think so. My wife could add something to that.
DD: (Laughs)
CK: I remember when Emma got married we couldn't explain to her why he called her Auntie, why auntie wasn't around. He kept asking about auntie.
DD: What was, you sister when she got married, that's who your talking about, correct?
CK: Yeah.
DD: What was a wedding like back then?
CK: Well she didn't have a wedding. My second sister had a big wedding.
DD: But your family still got together though, didn't they?
CK: Yeah. And then when it was butchering time they came, and I made the cranberry sauce. Everybody liked it.
DD: Now were those cranberries canned or were they fried?
CK: They were fresh in a bag, in a cellophane bag.
DD: Oh they did come fresh then?
CK: Uh huh.
DD: What else did you have, at a family get together or a wedding, or something like that, did you have extra or special food?
CK: My sister's wedding had, had hot dish and macaroni hot dish and ice cream, and strawberries, and angel food cake.
DD: What were some of the other types of cake that you made? You made [?178]?
CK: Oh yes.
DD: You made [?179] and you made angel food cakes.
CK: Uh huh.
DD: What were some of the other things?
CK: And we made the white, plain white cake that we served as a base for the [?180]. On my birthday, oh we stuffed whipped cream cake, or ice cream, depending upon if we had ice.
DD: You didn't have ice cream in the summer time very often did you?
RK: Oh yes. It'd hail sometimes, but no more to the point.
CK: Those one times. On your birthday and we had ice cream.
RK: A brother-in-law worked on the railroad, and he had access to their ice house. So there was ice cream in the summertime.
DD: So you were very fortunate then.
RK: True.
DD: Because there are a lot of them, that is where a lot of them did come from, the railroad.
RK: Although there was a couple of seasons, where we dug a hole and put railroad ties over the top with some ground, and loaded that with ice and straw. So we had ice quite well into the summer.
DD: So that stayed pretty good then?
RK: Yeah.
DD: And I know there's one family I heard that [?191] their cellar was, they had a creek close by, so their cellar was kept pretty cold. So they had a lot colder than normal. I suppose it all depended upon your location and the situation.
RK: Well they, not having refrigerators, most families dug wells. And you would lower the food you wanted to keep cold, in a gallon syrup can, and loaded it just above the water. And I suppose we were sitting in the range of 42 to 45 degrees. And that kept the food cold.
DD: A lot had to do with the creek also.
RK: Yes, in Wishek we had a very high water table. So people would probably dig down about eight or nine feet for their well, try the sand point. So you never saw water. You could lower your food right onto the log, on that well.
DD: And that was always pretty good refrigeration?
RK: Pretty good refrigeration.
DD: You didn't have to worry about anything.
RK: Well [?204].
DD: Good point. Do you remember, when did you get married Christine?
CK: Me? I was married in 1951. The Sunday the 25th, the Sunday [?207]. I was almost 39 years old.
DD: What did you do before?
CK: I worked in a Singer Store. Selling dress forms and sewing lessons.
DD: Now you said your mother was a very good seamstress and sewer?
CK: So I learned.
DD: So you learned from her, and that probably helped you, and did you draw and do sewing along with that? Or not?
CK: Pardon?
DD: Did you do sewing as a part of a job?
CK: Yes, I demonstrated sewing and knitting the
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Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013 | 11:15 a.m.
3 injured in crash
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One adult and two children suffered serious injuries Saturday night in a car crash involving multiple objects in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
Metro Police responded to the crash about 9:05 p.m. at a Wal-Mart in the 7200 block of Arroyo Crossings, near Rainbow Boulevard. A Nissan Pathfinder driven by Getnet Tefera, 29, with 4- and 2-year-old passengers, was traveling north through the Wal-Mart parking lot when it struck a planter box and stop sign, Metro officials said.
The car then ricocheted into a tree, a shopping cart corral and a column in front of Wal-Mart before it came to a rest, Metro said. The driver and two passengers were taken to University Medical Center in serious condition.
Metro is investigating the crash.


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Mariner track and field | Spring sports previews
Coach: Dave McFadden (boys) Mitchell Elias (girls)
Number of athletes: 100 on both teams
Last season: Both the boys and girls teams finished 0-6 during the regular season, but sent several team members to the post season, including the district meet.
Strengths: "Right now we have so many new kids, on the girls side, we actually have some decent young girls who are going to give us some depth," said boys head coach Dave McFadden. On the boys team, he said there are a solid group of returners who he expects to have solid seasons.
Focus: "Figuring out who we have and what they can do," said McFadden. "Our first week we have two relay meets so that becomes really interesting. We stress going out and having fun and doing the best you can."
Leaders: Senior Jose Irizarry, Cassie Sevigny, Joshua Williamson, and juniors Dyonte Law, Greogry Whitaker and Octayvien Sapp
The team leaders this season said they are excited to get going and hope to win some meets this year. They said the boys team especially will be strong and that they want everyone to keep improving all season long.
Games to watch: "Everything for us is built on getting to May as healthy as we can," said the coach. "It's about being healthy in May."
The Marauders start the season with the Seattle Academy Relays on Saturday, March 22 and will compete at Everett on March 27.
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Physical Activity
Grade 5 Action Pass
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|Sedentary Time
The Grade 5 Action Pass gives Durham Region Grade 5 students free:
- public swimming
- public skating
- access to other programs
Use the pass as many times as you want from September 2017 to August 31, 2018.
How can students get their Grade 5 Action Pass?
Grade 5 students with an adult need to:
Take a Grade 5 Action Pass postcard to their local participating municipal recreation centre, Oshawa Mary Street YMCA or Abilities Centre.
- Bring proof of their address and date of birth.
- Students registering in Uxbridge, and in Scugog must also provide any current photo
(1 inch by 1.5 inch).
- Students registering in Pickering, Ajax, Whitby, Oshawa and Clarington will have their photo taken at the recreation centre for their pass.
- Brock students who would like to have a Grade 5 Action Pass will have their picture taken in their classroom. Pictures will be taken and the passes will be created by the Township of Brock Recreation.
Students can obtain their Grade 5 Action Pass at the following locations:
Town of Ajax
- Ajax Community Centre (905-427-8811)
- McLean Community Centre (905-428-7711)
- Audley Recreation Centre (905- 427-2468)
Township of Brock
- At school: Photo taken and passes distributed by the Township of Brock Recreation.
Municipality of Clarington
- Courtice Community Complex (905-404-1525)
- Clarington Fitness Centre (905-623-3392)
- Garnet B. Rickard Recreation Complex (905-623-5728)
- Newcastle & District Recreation Complex (905-987-5667)
- South Courtice Arena (905-435-1061)
City of Pickering
- Pickering Recreation Complex (905-831-1711 or 905-683-6582)
City of Oshawa
- Legends Centre (905-436-5455)
- Oshawa Civic Recreation Centre (905-436-5454)
- South Oshawa Community Centre (905-436-5474)
- Donevan Recreation Complex (905-725-3536)
- Oshawa Mary Street YMCA (905-438-9622)
Township of Scugog
- Scugog Arena (905-985-8698)
Township of Uxbridge
- Uxpool (905-852-7831)
Town of Whitby
- Whitby Civic Recreation Complex (905-666-1991)
- Brooklin Community Centre and Library (905 655-2010)
- The Abilities Centre (905-665-8500)
Where can students use their Grade 5 Action Pass?
- Town of Ajax - public swimming, public skating, and squash
- Township of Brock - public skating
- Municipality of Clarington - public swimming, public skating
- City of Oshawa - public swimming, public skating,
drop-in programs
- City of Pickering - public swimming, public skating
- Township of Scugog - public swimming, public skating
- Township of Uxbridge - public swimming, public skating
- Town of Whitby - public swimming, public skating, drop-in programs
- Oshawa Mary Street YMCA - one year child membership
- Durham College/UOIT Campus Ice Centre - public skating
- Abilities Centre - drop-in classes and programs
Why Grade 5 students?
- In Canada, 93% of children aged 5-11 years are not physically active for 60 minutes each day.
- Children need at least 60 minutes and up to several hours of physical activity each day. Examples include: swimming and skating.
- Being physically active:
- helps children focus
- improves learning
- helps children feel good about themselves
- helps children make new friends
- lowers the risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, obesity, depression and some cancers
- Levels of physical activity tend to drop for both boys and girls as they reach higher grades.
What others have to say about the Pass
"We used the pass numerous times for swimming in both Whitby and Oshawa. During the long, cold, winter months, an escape to the pool was as much a mental health benefit as a physical benefit, for both mom and kids! The kids improved their confidence in the water, and mom very much enjoyed the hot tub and sauna experiences. We went home happy and relaxed."
"I like how I could try different programs with my friends with the Grade 5 Action Pass. I tried wheel chair basketball, badminton, art class and we went swimming several times. Thank you."
"What I liked best about my Grade 5 Action Pass was going to the games room and the drop in soccer at the Civic. It was fun because I invited a few friends and we all played soccer together. My mom liked it because it was free, I liked it because I just love soccer!!!!!"
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PLOT : A teen returns to earth as a cosmic evil spirit (or Wraith) to avenge his own murder
REVIEW: Ok, let's admit it. As movie fans we all have that one movie we love despite the fact it's "cheesy" or dumb. We will watch it over and over again. We will tell our friends about it and endure their strange looks. The Wraith is that movie for me. My affection for this film runs so deep that I once named a dog after the main character "Jake".
Jake is played by a very young Charlie Sheen, long before he was "winning". In Jake's previous life, he was known as "Jamie" and during a moment of passion with his girlfriend (played by Sherilyn Fenn) he is stabbed to death by Packard and his car gang. The universe allows Jamie to come back to earth, this time as a teen who is a futuristic race car driver with a turbo charged car who seeks out Packard and his gang and races them to the death. Confused yet? Don't worry; you won't be with this film. It is easy to follow and truly fun if you don't take it too seriously.
The soundtrack is pretty good including "Where's The Fire" by Tim Feehan and Ozzy Osborne's "Secret Loser". Some of the scenes set to music are reminiscent of old school MTV music videos.
Ron Howard's brother Clint has yet another one of his goofy character roles in the film as Rughead. Ryan Oneal's son has a bit part as Auggie. Randy Quaid plays Sheriff Loomis.
Fun Fact: Nick Cassavetes who plays Packard will go on to direct the movie "The Notebook" with Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. Matthew Barry who plays Billy Hankins will go on to be casting director for "The Notebook".


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Al Burkhalter is a Baldy, a telepath so called because of the complete lack of body hair shared by all of his kind. Some time after the 'Blowup' -- the population's name for the worldwide nuclear war whose radioactive fallout created the Baldies, civilization is slowly rebuilding itself and attempting to come to grips with a radically altered world. Baldies are feared and hated for their abilities. "The Piper's Son" is a story of one man and his wife and son as they try to make the best of their new world... which seems to be a lot like the old one.
Published in Astounding (February 1945). Reprinted in:
Original title: The Piper's Son
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Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Species Evolution→ Psionic Powers
This work is a subwork of the following works : Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories, the (1992) [Anthology] Authors: Arthur C. Clarke
, Ursula K. Le Guin
, David Brin
, Rudyard Kipling
, H. G. Wells
, William Gibson
, George R. R. Martin
, Brian W. Aldiss
, Harry Harrison
, Frederik Pohl
, Cordwainer Smith
, Thomas M. Disch
, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
, Bruce Sterling
, James Blish
, Larry Niven
, A.E. van Vogt
, Clifford D. Simak
, Norman Spinrad
, Paul J. McAuley
, J. G. Ballard
, Gene Wolfe
, Lewis Padgett
, Jack Williamson
, Raccoona Sheldon
, Hilbert Schenck
, John W. Campbell
, Frank L. Pollock
, Stanley G. Weinbaum
, James H. Schmitz


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Palestine, Texas, running back Adrian Peterson, who is the nation's top player is officially down to five teams. After already visiting Arkansas and UCLA, it now officially looks like there is little doubt the top player in Texas is leaving the state and heading elsewhere.
"We're not going anywhere this weekend," said Peterson's family friend and recruiting mentor Steve Eudey. "We talked things over with him and his parents the other night and he's set up his final three visits. He's going to USC on December 5, Oklahoma on December 12 and then Miami on December 19."
With visits to UCLA on October 3 and Arkansas on October 17 already in the books, this means that LSU, Texas and Texas A&M are no longer on the list. Peterson took several unofficial visits to A&M, UT and one to LSU, but told Eudey that he just felt more comfortable with the other schools on his list.
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"He's pleased with his final five," Eudey said. "They're all going to be a great fit for him."
Oklahoma remains the top team on the list, Eudey said, but Peterson told him he's going to give all of the teams a fair shot with in-home visits and long talks with the coaches before he makes a decision.
For those interested in seeing the top back in the nation in action, this week is a perfect opportunity and which could lead to an even bigger opportunity. Peterson and his Palestine teammates will face Halldale at 7:30 p.m. Friday night at Rose Stadium in Tyler, Texas.
If his team wins, it would likely face four-star quarterback and Texas Tech bound Graham Harrell in the second round. If that match-up occurs the game would likely be played at Texas Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys.