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This value-priced paper trimmer has a sturdy metal base with non-skid rubber feet. It features a spring-action metal blade with an automatic paper clamp.
Measure materials in inches or with a metric scale. The bed contains a pre-printed grid for easy sizing of paper.
12" Cut
30 cm
15" Cut
38 cm
18" Cut
46 cm
12" Cut
30 cm
15" Cut
38 cm
18" Cut
46 cm
14¾" × 10¾"
37 cm × 27 cm
17¾" × 12½"
45 cm × 32 cm
21" × 15¾
53 cm × 40 cm
14¾" × 10¾"
37 cm × 27 cm
17¾" × 12½"
45 cm × 32 cm
21" × 15¾
53 cm × 40 cm
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Shale paper cutter
By Linda
from NYC
Comments about Dahle Vantage Paper Trimmer:
Bought it for a friend who is a beginner crafter. The perfect size and simple to use.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Great studio tool
By Zomo
from LIC, NY
As a prop person, I create a lot of the ephemera for Broadway shows, which requires custom cutting thousands of documents. I love the rubber clamp that secures the paper as you lower the blade on this model! It's also very easy to line up the paper on the grid. I now own two of these cutters in two different sizes.
(5 of 5 customers found this review helpful)
good trimmer
By CB
from kansas
It does what I need it to do. The hold down does not work as well as advertised by the manufacturer, but it cuts a straight clean line as long as you hold the media in place. Compared to other brands in this size/class it was a good value for the price. I would recommend this trimmer.
(0 of 2 customers found this review helpful)
Stuck or something...
By Nancy
from Florida
I am not able to operate. THe instructions say how to "unlock" the handle/blade to cut, but I am unable to do so. I've tried about 5 times, and each time in all directions. I am not happy at this point.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Merchant response: We are sorry to hear that you have encountered some difficulty operating your trimmer. Our Product Experts would be happy to help. Please give us a call at 1-800-933-2542 for assistance.
(3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)
Too much whiz on this product
By Harry
from Chicago
I brought this product under the impression of 12" cutbut the exact cut panel 9" X 11 1/2" not even. Anyway I kept it just for little things also this not a precise cutter because the plastic measurement isn't always align with the panel lines. So I had many of my greeting cards end up printed tilted. I'm really disappointed. Blick, is a great company I'm very loyal customer. This product is wasted
(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)
Excellent for the Money
By Book Artist
from Media, PA
I use the trimmer to prepare text blocks for handmade books. I will also use it to cut light-weight covers for these books and for making boxes. I really needed a trimmer that's easy on the pocket book and this one is. It's safe to use and has a lock that small kids would find difficult to override. The bar that holds the measurement for the width of paper holds fine but the screw one uses to set the measurement is a bit wobbly. Be sure to have a stable surface for the trimmer with enough space for your cut paper to fall onto.
Nice paper cutter
By Susan
from New London, TX
This isn't particularly fancy, but it is very solid and dependable. I bought this when I first started teaching six years ago, and though it gets regular use (and sometimes from students who cut things they shouldn't in it) it still cuts very well and sharply. When my cutter finally gives out on me I'm repurchasing this style without question.
(11 of 11 customers found this review helpful)
Excellant value for an economical tool
By Lily
from Pittsburgh, PA
Paper guide holds a measurement well and the automatic clamp is a tremendous help when you are cutting lots of paper for signatures of a book. You need consistency and the ability to cut multiple pages for handmade books, especially when you have lots of signatures for lots of students. The 15 inch base provides me with the ability to cut larger sheets with just a small footprint on the work table.
(13 of 13 customers found this review helpful)
Couldn't Be Happier
By Tripleguess
from San Francisco Bay Area
This was the second cutter I've bought from Blick. My previous was an X-Actor Heavy-Duty Wood Trimmer (12"), also from Blick.Compared to my previous cutter, I like my 18" Dahle Vantage Paper Trimmer much better. The much larger cutting length and extra surface area, the rubber "foot" that holds paper down so it won't slide during a cut, and its ability to cleanly slice through cardboard all made me very happy. I cut a lot of paper down into origami sized pieces and the Dahle cutter is useful for this, but since it could handle cardboard so easily I've been using it to slice flattened food boxes into crisp, perfectly sized wrappers for mailing books and movies.I've also used it to cut shoeboxes, cereal boxes, and similar weight chipboard down into 4.25"x5.5" rectangles to make pretty notepads. Put some quartered 20lb printer paper on top and a piece of a nice magazine or floral catalog paper on top of that, tape and 2-hole punch the top edge, tie it off with complementary ribbon and voila. Perfect for little kids who like to draw.And, to my complete surprise, it cuts denim! I was making a baby quilt one day out of torn up blue jeans, a recycling hobby of mine that takes a lot of time and precision cutting. I hauled out my denim, ironed it, and thought reluctantly about how much work it was going to be to drag out my mat and rotary ruler. Then my eyes fell on my nice new Dahle cutter...Well, it worked! It cut the denim like a dream. The only thing it had trouble with was the seams, and the rotary ruler couldn't cut those either so I don't hold that against it. It's much easier on my hands than using the usual quilting tools.In comparison to the last cutter I had, this cutter was only a few dollars more (for a larger model, too) and so much better for the price. I really couldn't be happier with it.
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(4 of 4 customers found this review helpful)
great cutter, better price!
By pinprick
from Burlington, WA
I was hesitant to buy a paper cutter when I saw the variety of prices, and bought this one thinking if I really hated it, or it didn't work, I wouldn't be out too much money. I was honestly surprised at what a great deal it is. It sits solidly on the table, holds well, cuts great, and is very solidly constructed. I've been using it to cut paper for my wedding invitations, and think it was a great investment. I especially like the safety features, and the handy ruler/grid feature.
This value-priced paper trimmer has a sturdy metal base with non-skid rubber feet. It features a spring-action metal blade with an automatic paper clamp. Measure materials in inches or with a metric scale. The bed contains a pre-printed grid for easy sizing of paper.
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S100 Motorcycle Engine Brightener is the best engine detailer you can buy! It restores the color to black surfaces, like the painted engine casing and black plastic and rubber hoses, gaskets, plastic-wrapped cables, valve covers and more.
S100 Motorcycle Engine Brightener is packaged in an aerosol can and includes an extension tube to direct Engine Brightener where it's needed.
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S100 Engine Brightener
June 15, 2013
The entire group of S100 products are good. The engine brightener works especially well on the black anodized portions of engines.
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Cataumet Massachusetts
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S100 Motorcycle Engine Brightener
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I used the product on the black wrinkle finish on my 2003 H-D Road King's engine & trans cases.Product works as advertised. It restored the luster to like new condition.
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Greg Monroe had 16 points for Detroit and Rodney Stuckey chipped in with 16 points. Greg Monroe had 5 assists for the Pistons, while Andre Drummond was the team's top rebounder, grabbing 18 boards.
The Heat got a 23-point performance from LeBron James, who was supported by 23 points from Michael Beasley. LeBron James had 6 assists in a losing cause for Miami, while Chris Bosh grabbed 6 rebounds.
First-half bettors who backed Detroit were victorious, as the score was 54-43 at the break.
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That's it on the content for now, since this might be one of the better written events in years as long as the ending is convincing. Moving on to the character choices, this event does not disappoint in teaming up heroes from different teams, with Ant Man and Black Panther with Emma Frost, and also Doctor Strange alongside Punisher, in addition to the return of original Nick Fury! And of course, the old boring rule that Captain America, Wolverine, Thor and Iron Man has to appear everytime.... boo
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Call to Order / Stories From the Next Session
Under the fallout from the storm of the Winograd report, the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee last week began debating the controversial Tal Law.
The summer session of the Knesset, which starts today, stands in the shadow of a collapsing coalition. Between Winograd A and Winograd B, and between Lindenstrauss C and Lindenstrauss D, some of the Knesset members will also try to do some parliamentary work. If there's enough time, that is (the session is a mere 12 weeks, one of which is a short week because of Shavuot) and if it is possible to get a majority vote in the House.
Under the fallout from the storm of the Winograd report, the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee last week began debating the controversial Tal Law. One of the disadvantages of discussing a law in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee is that the committee's discussions are held away from the public and media's eye. In the case of the Tal Law, the presence of the media seems imperative.
When the law was first passed five years ago, a special Knesset committee was set up for it, headed by former Labor MK Yossi Katz. The chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Tzachi Hanegbi, is planning to hold a series of discussions about the law in the next few weeks and says he is considering opening one of them to the media.
The Tal Law is a temporary law. It legislates the arrangement to defer military service for yeshiva students and gives them a year outside the yeshiva without being drafted. The question the committee must deliberate is the length of the extension. Four months ago, the government decided to give it the maximum possible extension of five years. That is also the position Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh took in the discussion held in the committee last Monday. It's doubtful whether this is what will happen in the end. For the High Court of Justice to approve an extension, it is reasonable to assume that it will be necessary to make do with a shorter period, perhaps three years.
Hanegbi decided that there would not be a vote immediately but that a series of experts would be heard first - a decision that bothers MK Avraham Ravitz of United Torah Judaism. The law expires at the end of July. Ravitz would have liked the vote to have taken place now, while there is still a coalition that can achieve a majority. In another two months' time, it's possible there will not be anyone to talk to and that the ultra-Orthodox will remain without a legal basis for the arrangement deferring military service.
Minimizing the committees
Reforms in the system of government and, in particular, in the relationship between the Knesset and the government took center stage in the parliamentary debate of the previous session, but nothing was approved. The chances that the Tal Law will pass during the present session are relatively high because it has an end date. But will it be possible to pass reforms?
One of the reforms that has been derailed is the proposal by Likud faction chair Gideon Sa'ar and MK Uri Ariel to cut down the number of members in committees to 11 (in a regular committee) and 13 (in a senior committee). This would be instead of 15 and 17, respectively, today. The proposal, which has wide support in the Knesset, had passed in a preliminary reading. However, in the last week of the winter session it was voted down in its first reading 37-38, missing it by one vote. Some of the supporters were unable to get to the vote in time. Sa'ar and Ariel hastened to present their draft once again, this time in cooperation with the former coalition chair, Avigdor Yitzhaki. The new proposal is more moderate. Three levels were fixed for the number of MKs per committee: 13, 11 and 15. This was done to quell the fears of the small parties, who are scared they will not receive representation in the important committees.
Why minimize the number of committee members? It is no secret that the really important work of the Knesset, both the preaparation of laws and the supervision of the government, is done in the committees. However, there are some MKs who are members of five committees or more. Since the committees meet at the same hours, the MKs can't manage to fulfill their duties, and committees meetings, like the plenum, go unattended for long periods. The new draft law is supposed to make the MKs be members of only two or three committees and capable of concentrating on their work.
Avraham's reforms
To the extent that it is dependent on Ruhama Avraham, the chair of the Knesset House Committee, Sa'ar's draft law, which she considers important and fitting, will pass once again. Avraham herself would like to advance two important corrections during this session. One of these is the introduction of a chapter to the Knesset rules that would oblige ministers to come to the Knesset once every few weeks to answer questions the MKs may have about their ministerial affairs. The objective, she says, is to strengthen the Knesset's supervision of the executive branch of government. The hearing is meant to restore the institution of taking questions from the floor - an institution that's being emptied of all content. The ministers give a delayed response to questions (when interest has already waned) and often refrain from passing on information that is not to their liking. The hearing will make it possible for the MKs to get immediate reponses from the minister or his aides.
In 2006, Avraham chalked up a victory on the subject of limiting the Economic Arrangements Law. The law is effectively a package of economic (and sometimes also non-economic) reforms, many of which would otherwise have had great difficulty passing in the regular legislative process. That is why the treasury adds them to the budget in a move that bypasses the regular legislative procedure. Now Avraham wants the limitations on the Economic Arrangements Law to be codified in the Knesset rules. She would also like to obligate the Finance Ministry to submit the bill to the Knesset several months before the end of the year and to divide up the law among as many committees as possible.
The forbidden freebie
The Knesset Ethics Committee, headed by Haim Oron, will no doubt be busy with an exchange of curses between MKs from the right and the Arab parties following the Bishara affair. Between discussions on discipline, it will try to find a solution to the question of whether MKs are allowed to attend theater premieres. Five years ago, on February 12, 2002, the Ethics Committee decided that MKs are forbidden to accept freebies. Inter alia, it was forbidden to accept "invitations, subscription tickets or tickets to events or facilities where entrance has to be paid for." The significance is that an MK must pay for the sports or entertainment events he attends, including theater performances, concerts and movies.
The trouble with premieres is that even if the MK wants to pay, there is no possibility of doing so because tickets are not sold to them. Oron says that as a result, MKs from the south have stopped showing up at premieres at the Be'er Sheva theater. The theater is pressuring them to come because there aren't many well-known national figures in the area and the absence of MKs Oron and Shai Hermesh affects the prestige of the event. The committee will have to find a creative solution.
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Professor Ning Qin
BSc, MEng, PhD, AFAIAA, FRAeS
Professor of Aerodynamics
Head of Thermofluids Group
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Department of Mechanical Engineering
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With a PhD degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Glasgow, Ning Qin started his Aerodynamics/CFD research career working as a Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow at Glasgow. He conducted research in the area of predicting hypersonic heating (in the HOTOL spaceplane programme), investigating Navier-Stokes methods for high speed flows, developing Newton-like implicit methods for CFD and parallel computing on the Daresbury's i860 Hypercube, an early national parallel computing system.
He moved to Cranfield University College of Aeronautics in 1994 and was appointed to the Chair of Computational Aerodynamics in 1999. At Cranfield, he established the Center for Computational Aerodynamics, with a wide range of funded research activities.
In 2003, he was appointed to a Chair of Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics at the University of Sheffield, heading the Aerodynamics and Thermo-Fluids Group.
Professor Qin is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was awarded the RAeS Hafner Prize on VTOL Technology in 2000. He is an Associate Editor or on the editorial boards of a number of professional journals.
He is involved in a wide range of research and consultancy activities for Aerodynamic/CFD research and applications. He has published over 160 journal and conference papers in the area of Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics. His recent research interests include: flow control, aerodynamic and multi-disciplinary optimization; micro-fluidic simulations; helicopter unsteady aerodynamics; supersonic and hypersonic vortical flows and interactions; transonic flutter boundary prediction, and algorithm development for turbulence simulation. He obtained research funding from research councils and industries including EPSRC, Leverhulme Trust, EU, DERA(QinetiQ), BAE Systems, Westland Helicopters Ltd, Airbus, Rolls Royce and Aircraft Research Associates.
Areas of Research
The Aerodynamics Research Group's interest is in the development and application of computational aerodynamic tools to a wide range of industrial problems in aerospace, automotive, and environmental industries. These advanced tools provide in-depth analyses and design optimisation for engineering products, such as aircraft wing drag reduction, racing car down force enhancement, and wind turbine blade efficiency improvement.
The aerodynamic analysis and design tools vary from very fast panel methods to popular commercial CFD packages, from the most advanced adjoint method for optimisation (adj-MERLIN) to the detached eddy simulation software (DGDES) for massively separated turbulent flows, developed within the group.
Current projects include: wake vortex aircraft interactions for aviation safety, shock control for drag reduction, control bump optimisation for transonic wing performance, dynamic grid DES for synthetic jets flow control, and adaptive meshing techniques.
The Aerodynamics Research Group is equipped with a number of CFD pre- and post-processing packages for grid generation and flow visualisation, two Linux parallel computing clusters, and two low speed wind tunnels for experimental aerodynamic research and CFD validation.
- MEC316 Solar and Wind Energy
- MEC380 Aircraft Design
- MEC404 Computational Fluid Dynamics
- MEC424 Aerodynamic Design
Selected Journal articles
- Zhu F & Qin N (2014) Intuitive class/shape function parameterization for airfoils. AIAA Journal, 52(1), 17-25.
- Chen ZJ, Qin N & Nowakowski AF (2013) Three-dimensional laminar-separation bubble on a cambered thin wing at low reynolds numbers. Journal of Aircraft, 50(1), 152-163.
- Naranjo AG, Cowling I, Green JA & Qin N (2013) Aerodynamic performance benefits of utilising camber morphing wings for unmanned air vehicles. AERONAUTICAL JOURNAL, 117(1189), 315-327.
- Chen ZJ & Qin N (2013) Planform Effects for Low-Reynolds-Number Thin Wings with Positive and Reflex Cambers. JOURNAL OF AIRCRAFT, 50(3), 952-964.
- Wang Y, Qin N, Carnie G & Shahpar S (2013) Zipper layer method for linking two dissimilar structured meshes. Journal of Computational Physics, 255(0), 130-148.
- McIntosh SC & Qin N (2013) The influence of transition onset location on the performance of shock control bumps. AERONAUTICAL JOURNAL, 117(1196), 1037-1051.
- Qin N, Carnie G, Wang Y & Shahpar S (2013) Design optimization of casing grooves using zipper layer meshing. Journal of Turbomachinery, 136(3).
- Danao L, Qin N & Howell RJ (2012) A numerical study of blade thickness and camber effects on vertical axis wind turbines. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A, Journal of Power and Energy.
- Ahmed MYM & Qin N (2012) Surrogate-based multi-objective aerothermodynamic design optimization of hypersonic spiked bodies. AIAA Journal, 50(4), 797-810.
- Wang H, Qin N, Sun M & Wang Z (2012) A dynamic pressure-sink method for improving large eddy simulation and hybrid Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes/large eddy simulation of wall-bounded flows. PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PART G-JOURNAL OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING, 226(G9), 1107-1120.
- Durrani N & Qin N (2012) Comparison of hybrid RANS-LES methods for massively separated flows. Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design, 117, 257-266.
- Wang W & Qin N (2012) Balancing destruction and production in S-A Model-based hybrid RANS-LES for flow around an aerofoil with mild separation. Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design, 117, 379-388.
- Wang H, Sun M, Wu H, Wang Z & Qin N (2012) Characteristics of Oscillations in Supersonic Open Cavity Flows. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 1-22.
- Durrani N & Qin N (2011) Behavior of detached-eddy simulations for mild airfoil trailing-edge separation. Journal of Aircraft, 48(1), 193-202.
- Lee DS, Periaux J, Onate E, Gonzalez LF & Qin N (2011) Active Transonic Aerofoil Design Optimization Using Robust Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms. JOURNAL OF AIRCRAFT, 48(3), 1084-1094.
- Ahmed MYM & Qin N (2011) Numerical investigation of aeroheating characteristics of spiked blunt bodies at Mach six flight conditions. AERONAUT J, 115(1168), 377-386.
- Zheng HW, Shu C, Chew YT & Qin N (2011) A solution adaptive simulation of compressible multi-fluid flows with general equation of state. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 67(5), 616-637.
- Ahmed MYM & Qin N (2011) Recent advances in the aerothermodynamics of spiked hypersonic vehicles. Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 47(6), 425-449.
- Qin N, Howell R, Durrani N, Hamada K & Smith T (2011) Unsteady flow simulation and dynamic stall behaviour of vertical axis wind turbine blades. Wind Engineering, 35(4), 511-527.
- Zheng HW, Qin N, Nicolleau FCGA & Shu C (2011) Quadrilateral cell-based anisotropic adaptive solution for the euler equations. Communications in Computational Physics, 9(1), 68-88.
- Lee DS, Periaux J, Onate E, Srinivas K, Gonzalez LF & Qin N (2011) Shock control bump design optimization on natural laminar aerofoil. Computational Fluid Dynamics 2010 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ICCFD 2010, 253-259.
- De Feo D, Qin N & Birch TJ (2010) Vortex Capturing Using PNS-WENO Schemes in Uniform and Non Uniform Mesh Formulations. ADV APPL MATH MECH, 2(4), 399-429.
- Howell R, Qin N, Edwards J & Durrani N (2010) Wind tunnel and numerical study of a small vertical axis wind turbine. RENEW ENERG, 35(2), 412-422. View this article in White Rose Research Online
- Pang XP, Qin N, Dwyer-Joyce RS, Chen J & Wang JX (2010) A General Profile Parameterization of Hydrodynamic Journal Bearings for Efficient Shape Optimization. TRIBOL T, 53(1), 117-126.
- Ahmed MYM & Qin N (2010) Drag Reduction Using Aerodisks for Hypersonic Hemispherical Bodies. J SPACECRAFT ROCKETS, 47(1), 62-80.
- Ahmed MYM & Qin N (2010) Metamodels for aerothermodynamic design optimization of hypersonic spiked blunt bodies. AEROSP SCI TECHNOL, 14(5), 364-376.
- Elarbi EM & Qin N (2010) Effects of pitching rotation on aerodynamics of tandem flapping wing sections of a hovering dragonfly. AERONAUT J, 114(1161), 699-710.
- Shan YY, Shu C & Qin N (2009) Multiquadric Finite Difference (MQ-FD) Method and its Application. ADV APPL MATH MECH, 1(5), 615-638.
- Qin N, Wong WS & Le Moigne A (2008) Three-dimensional contour bumps for transonic wing drag reduction. P I MECH ENG G-J AER, 222(G5), 619-629.
- Wong WS, Qin N, Sellars N, Holden H & Babinsky H (2008) A combined experimental and numerical study of flow structures over three-dimensional shock control bumps.AEROSP SCI TECHNOL, 12(6), 436-447.
- Qin N & Xia H (2008) Detached eddy simulation of a synthetic jet for flow control. P I MECH ENG I-J SYS, 222(I5), 373-380.
- Siouris S & Qin N (2007) Study of the effects of wing sweep on the aerodynamic performance of a blended wing body aircraft. P I MECH ENG G-J AER, 221(G1), 47-55.
- Vavalle A & Qin N (2007) Iterative response surface based optimization scheme for transonic airfoil design. J AIRCRAFT, 44(2), 365-376.
- Spence GT, Le Moigne A, Allerton DJ & Qin N (2007) Wake vortex model for real-time flight simulation based on large eddy simulation. J AIRCRAFT, 44(2), 467-475.
- Wong WS, Le Moigne A & Qin N (2007) Parallel adjoint-based optimisation of a blended wing body aircraft with shock control bumps. AERONAUT J, 111(1117), 165-174.
- Qin N & Harris M (2013) Using the Medial Axis to Represent Complex Flow Structures for Flow Feature-Aligned Mesh Generation. AIAA Paper 2013-0150. Grapevine, Texas, USA, 7 January 2013 - 13 January 2013.
- Chen ZJ & Qin N (2012) Propeller Effects on Low Reynolds Number Aerodynamics. RAeS Applied Aerodynamic Conference: Modelling and Simulation in the Aerodynamic Design Process, 17 July 2012 - 19 July 2012.
- Ahmed M & Qin N (2012) Investigation of the flow asymmetry around axi-symmetric spiked blunt bodies at hypersonic speeds. RAeS Applied Aerodynamic Conference: Modelling and Simulation in the Aerodynamic Design Process, 17 July 2012 - 19 July 2012.
- Zhu F & Qin N (2012) Development of CST Geometric Parameterisation Method for an Entire Transport Aircraft. RAeS Applied Aerodynamic Conference: Modelling and Simulation in the Aerodynamic Design Process, 17 July 2012 - 19 July 2012.
- Lu Q, Chen J, Cheng J, Qin N & Danao LAM (2011) Study of CFD simulation of a 3-D wind turbine. ICMREE2011 - Proceedings 2011 International Conference on Materials for Renewable Energy and Environment, Vol. 1 (pp 596-600)
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Addiction to drugs, cocaine in particular, may one day be easily treated just like patching up a cut with a Band-Aid. A study currently being conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have found that laser stimulation of the prelimbic region of the prefrontal cortex in rats wiped away the compulsive urge to take cocaine.
The laser treatment in the lab rats work through both mechanical as well as biological pathways. First, researchers inject into the neuron of the rats genetically engineered rhodopsins—light-sensitive protein. Then, using a technique called optogenetics, the researchers aim a laser at the rhodopsins to induce non-compulsive behaviors by turning on the rhodopsin.
Essentially, the rhodopsin is the light bulb, and the laser is the switch mechanism. Turning on the rhodopsin by pointing a laser at it will wipe out compulsive behaviors and when the protein is turned off, it's back to being in the dark for the poor rat.
Currently, a similar prelimbic treatment for depression in human is being done through a process known as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and researchers believe that there is a strong link between the rat's laser addiction treatment and the current human-approved depression treatment. Antontello Bonci, MD and one of the scientists of the study at NIH, is planning to run a few clinical tests on humans using the laser-rhodopsin method.
An in-depth coverage of this study is found here.


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Jacksonville (Fla.) First Coast outside linebacker Joseph Jackson ended his seven month courtship with West Virginia on Wednesday evening.
"I decommitted from West Virginia," Jackson said.
The 6-foot-1, 210-pound defender recently took an official visit to North Carolina, and that played a part in his decision. Also, the recent news of West Virginia departing the Big East also played a role.
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"Really, my official visit to North Carolina gave me a lot to think about and was a big part of it," Jackson said. "Also I just don't think West Virginia is the right place for me right now. The move to the Big 12, it provides great competition but it won't provide many opportunities for my parents and family to see me like they would have in the Big East. That was just tough for me. There are a lot of colleges closer to home."
For the three-star prospect, the toughest part of his change of heart was telling his primary recruiter with the Mountaineers.
"Telling Coach (Robert) Gillespie was probably the hardest part," Jackson said. "It crushed me to have to tell him. He has devoted so much time and effort. We have become so close during this process. He is a great person and he treated me so well. I know he cared about me and that was the hardest part having to tell him I wasn't going there."
Jackson hasn't completely shut the door on West Virginia, but definitely makes it seem unlikely he signs with them come February.
"I won't ever say a school is out of it 100%, but I don't think that is going to be the place for me," Jackson said.
At this point, the leader in the clubhouse is the North Carolina Tar Heels.
"I would say North Carolina is the number one contender for me right now," Jackson said. "Other schools such as Auburn, Ole Miss, South Carolina and others are also in the picture. I haven't really scheduled any other visits yet though."
Jackson talked about his growing affinity for the ACC program that is in the lead for his services.
"There were factors outside of the visit to UNC visit that led to my decommitment, but the UNC visit was really good and definitely had an impact on it too," Jackson said. "I liked the academics, the football team, the great facilities at UNC. I like that they would provide an opportunity for my family to see me more often in games."
At this time, Jackson doesn't have a specific timeline for when he may reach his finial decision.
"Like I said UNC is my number one contender, and I feel strongly about them," Jackson said. "I couldn't give a definite time for when I may make a decision, but don't be surprised if it is UNC at the end."


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I'm torn.
I love me a good purse—and if the purses I gravitate toward usually end up being designer?
It's not my fault.
It's the price tags I'm not so keen on.
I'm guilty of a splurge here and there, but never without feeling a terrible pang of guilt, with the full realization I could hock my bag and feed an entire Third World nation with the proceeds.
So that's where the problem of the fake-bag thing comes in. As much as I love high-end accessories (Chlo has yet to make a $1,000-plus purse I wouldn't trade my firstborn for—I'm not much for kids anyway, and even if I did have one, I'd probably name her Chlo), and as much as I think of some classic designs as staple pieces that can be carried by anyone from ages 18 through 80, it doesn't really matter to me how well-off you are—a Herms Birkin that can cost anywhere from $7,400 to the five- or six-digit range? (The most expensive Birkin and most expensive handbag ever as of 2006? The Birkin in croc porosus lisse at $148,000—nine carats set in white gold!) A $6,040 embroidered Fendi Spy Bag? A $42,000 Louis Vuitton Tribute Patchwork handbag?
Too much, guys.
When your handbags start costing as much as the down payment for normal people's houses or cars or, like, an entire undergraduate collegiate career, that's where you draw the line.
But that doesn't really mean you should resort to fakes, either.
Yes, there's the whole artistic integrity-oath-of-allegiance shit that we owe to its designers, but sadly, yeah, those dudes sitting pretty over in Paris and Manhattan are giving you a run for your money. How much profit are they gaining off that mass-produced item you just picked up at South Coast Plaza for a month's pay?
The real problem, most of the time, is that it's painfully obvious—like this one here I caught in Brea (she wouldn't let me shoot her face, though . . . funny)—and unless you do your share of research, you're probably going to end up with a discolored pleather piece of crap that has a mysterious sheen to it. Louis Vuitton is by far one of the most counterfeited items, with just a little more than 1 percent of items bearing its iconic "LV" monogram actually being authentic.
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I don't even like Louis Vuitton (why would you want the same bag that every other girl you run into has?), let alone monogram-print anything, but even I know that Louis Vuitton monogram purses aren't made of leather (not the actual printed part, at least) but rather a coated canvas; they're not supposed to shine like, well, plastic. Nor are any of the little monograms supposed to be cut off. And the leather trim and handles are supposed to be a light buttery color—at least at first; they'll darken over time with use and sun exposure.
This clutch, a style I don't even think is an authentic Louis Vuitton design, loses at every turn: design, quality, the outfit paired with the shiny plastic $10 accessory acquired in the Fashion District of Downtown Los Angeles.
Sorry, Brea girl. Even a canvas tote bag would have made a stronger statement of individuality.
—Vickie Chang


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The Beckham Boys Are Brotherly and Well-Mannered
As the Beckham boys learn the ins and outs of being famous, they are also learning proper etiquette. Mama Victoria recently proudly spoke to The Times about her sons' good manners. She said:
"My mum and dad were real sticklers for good manners and so are me and David. People are always remarking on how well-behaved the boys are. They've all got their own headed notepaper for thank-you letters."
Good manners are a lesson for life and if you teach them to your kids early on, they become automatic. Saying "please" and "thank you" and writing notes goes a long way.
We've all got our own parenting styles, but are you a stickler for manners?


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Death notices for April 23, 2008
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Larry W. Oberley, 62, Iowa, formerly of Janesville, died Monday at his home. Services will be 10 a.m. Friday at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, Iowa City, Iowa. Visitation will be Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m. at Lensing�s Oak Hill, Coralville, Iowa. Lensing Funeral Home, Iowa, is assisting the family.
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Battle for the Rag
|First meeting
|November 25, 1893
Tulane 34, LSU 0
|Latest meeting
|October 31, 2009
LSU 42, Tulane 0
|Tiger Rag/Victory Flag
|Meetings total
|All-time series
|LSU leads, 69–22–7 (.740)
|Largest victory
|Longest win streak
|LSU, 18 (1983–present)
|Current win streak
|LSU, 18 (1983–present)
The Battle for the Rag is an American college football rivalry game played by the LSU Tigers football team of Louisiana State University and the Tulane Green Wave football team of Tulane University. The game was played nearly every year since its inception in 1893, with the last of ninety-eight games being played in 2009. Tulane and LSU spent much of their athletic histories as members of the same conference: the SIAA from 1899 to 1920, the Southern Conference from 1922 to 1932, and as charter members of the SEC from 1932 to 1966.
The "Rag"[edit]
The winner is awarded a satin trophy flag known as the Tiger Rag at LSU and the Victory Flag at Tulane. The flag is divided diagonally, with the logos of each school placed on opposite sides and the Seal of Louisiana in the center. LSU's name for the flag comes from the popular tune Tiger Rag, one of LSU's many fight songs.
The original flag was created in 1940 to foster good sportsmanship, most likely in response to growing tension between fans of the two teams that eventually escalated into a riot after Tulane's victory in 1938. It is believed that this flag was destroyed in a 1982 fire at Tulane's University Center.[1] In 2001, LSU and Tulane worked together to create a reconstruction of the rag based upon archived photographs.
2006 series renewal[edit]
In 2006 the rivalry was officially renewed, returning to yearly play for the first time since 1994. The teams began play that year and continued until 2009, when it was announced that LSU would pay Tulane $700,000 to void the final six years of the home-and-home series. LSU held that it would benefit if the remaining games were all played in Baton Rouge. Not wanting to give up its home games, Tulane agreed to end the series early, though the teams did agree to play one future game in New Orleans.[2][3]
Game results[edit]
|LSU victories
|Tulane victories
|Tie games
Source: College Football Data Warehouse[4]
† LSU was declared the winner by forfeit in the 1896 and 1901 games. The score for each game prior to a forfeit declaration was: 1896-Tulane 2, LSU 0, and 1901-Tulane 22, LSU 0. Official scores subsequent to the forfeitures are listed in the table.
# Rankings are from the AP Poll released prior to each game.
See also[edit]
- ^ "Tiger Rag: Rekindling a Rivalry and Returning a Tradition". lsu.edu. Archived from the original on 2007-03-12. Retrieved 2008-06-29.
- ^ "LSU pays Tulane to end series early". espn.com. 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-18.
- ^ "LSU, Tulane in discussions to play each other in football in 2013". nola.com. Retrieved 2012-09-06.
- ^ "Tulane vs Louisiana St". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Battle for the Rag.


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As Wajdi Mouawad's Sophocles-a-thon Des Femmes begins, the casts for all three tragedies to come assemble in the centre of the stage, and it begins to rain.
While a four-piece band plays a rock 'n' roll dithyramb to the sun, the actors shelter themselves from the downpour, passing a giant tarp from hand to hand until it covers all their heads.
Here are queens and kings, wives and mistresses, executioners and the condemned, killers and victims all working together for a moment before all hell breaks loose.
Mouawad painted a similar stage picture at the end of his own production of his great play, Incendies, which most recently appeared under its English title Scorched in San Francisco starring Oscar-nominated actor David Strathairn.
It's an image that sums up the Quebec playwright and director's humanist message as an artist, which is, roughly, something like the line by Roman playwright Terence that Montaigne loved so much he inscribed it on the ceiling of his library: "I am a man: I consider nothing that is human alien to me."
No one usually objects to such a sentiment in the safety of the theatre, but when Mouawad cast Bertrand Cantat, a French rock singer who killed his girlfriend in what was deemed an "involuntary homicide", in Des Femmes, his philosophy of understanding even evil caused a furor that made temporary bedfellows in outrage of left-wing feminists and law-and-order conservatives.
There's no point in revisiting that controversy. Cantat may have served what the powers that be deemed an appropriate amount of time in jail in France, but he's still not legally allowed in Canada.
That's what's not on stage; here's what is: Six hours of ancient, female-centred plays that leave the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde covered in dirt and water. While the visual mess is enjoyable at times, Mouawad's overall concept is too muddy to sustain interest.
Ask the next scholar of classics you run into at the grocery store and she'll likely rank these plays by Sophocles – Antigone, Electra and Women of Trachis – in that order, from strongest to weakest. Mouawad's production does not shake up that perception.
Women of Trachis, which comes first, is the low point. Sylvie Drapeau plays Deianeira, whose excitement as she awaits the return of her husband Heracles from battle turns to anxiety and jealousy when she discovers that he recently ransacked a city to gain a lover. She sends a robe covered in the blood of a centaur to her husband believing it will restore his heart to her; instead it fatally injures him. Drapeau also plays the returning, ailing Heracles – "reduced to the state of a woman" in French poet Robert Davreu's straight-forward translation.
Sophocles denies us the opportunity to see Deianeira and Heracles confront one another, and Mouawad's double casting provides a clever reason why. But Drapeau's performance is altogether too elegant and, interspersed rock songs aside, Women of Trachis conforms to the stereotype that Greek tragedy involves a lot of waiting around for something dramatic to happen elsewhere.
Antigone is up next and Mouawad is much more in his comfort zone with a young, rebellious protagonist, like those that populate his plays Littoral, Scorched and Forests.
Charlotte Farcet's punky Antigone lights up the stage with her old-school fury as she fights for her right to bury. Bury her brother, that is, whose interment has been expressly outlawed by Antigone's uncle Creon. As that stubborn ruler of Thebes, Patrick Le Mauff puts an enjoyable Sopranos spin on the character, and his descent into madness at the end is inspiringly staged complete with hallucinated wedding of Antigone and his son Hemon. This is acting that feels real, rather than recited.
Next, Mouawad gets an appealingly boisterous performance from Sara Llorca as Electra. If Antigone is Beasties Boys, this Sophocles tragedy is more Blur: Girls who get boys to kill moms who kill dads who kill girls and so on.
A demure Ismene in Antigone, Llorca here pouts like a teenager in her dirty room – it's actually filled with dirt. This Electra is sullen, but also highly sexed; wearing a long black cloak and only briefs beneath, she keeps flashing her breasts like a girl going wild. Once reunited with Orestes (Samuel Côte), the brother she thought dead, and a revenge plot for matricide and step-patricide is hatched, she goes full Mardi Gras in a shirtless, semi-incestuous celebration that involves plenty of jumping in and out of a rain barrel..
As the marathon performance of Des Femmes I saw that began on Friday stretched into Saturday, such titillation did not go unappreciated. But overall, the ratio of stand-and-deliver oration to naked mud wrestling is a disappointment. I kept almost nodding off, to be entirely honest.
In the end, despite not being there in body, Cantat really livens the proceedings up. Standing in for the traditional Greek chorus, his songs – composed with Bernard Falaise, Pascal Humbert and Alexander MacSween – are plangently beautiful, in the style of his old band, Noir Désir. They aren't always well integrated into the narrative, however – only in Antigone, do they really work as part of the drama.
Substitute singer Igor Quezada has a virtuosic voice, but he's not always clear about communicating the meaning of the lyrics. I would have preferred to hear Cantat doing his signature, poetic, portentous sing-speaking, but he probably would have overwhelmed the stage. And the people of our modern-day Thebes have spoken: The murderers must be exiled. They can be heard, but not seen; only fictional ones on stage, please.
Des Femmes runs in Montreal (in French) until June 6.
Des Femmes
- Written by Sophocles
- Translated by Robert Davreu
- Directed by Wajdi Mouwad
- At the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in Montreal
- 2 stars


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text: http://www.lex18.com/news/man-admits-shooting-neighbors-puppy-with-357-magnum/ State Police are investigating after an Anderson County man admittedly shot a neighbor's dog for trespassing in his yard. The incident happened Sunday at a home on the banks of Beaver Lake. The Kincaid family says they were getting ready for July 4th festivities when they found their 7-month-old puppy, Ryder, lying in their yard, shot in the chest. For the past day, seven-year-old Lance Kincaid has served as a bedside nurse to his dog. Judy Kincaid says the pup had been out of the house for less than five minutes when he walked over to neighbor Johnny Murphy's house. Witnesses saw Murphy go inside and return with a loaded .357 Magnum that he then admittedly used to shoot the dog in the chest. Lance found the dog minutes later. "A hole and lots of blood on the ground. I felt horrible." Judy Kincaid says Murphy had never complained about the dog before. But Murphy had a different story when LEX 18 asked him to explain. "He threatened me three days in a row. I called the police and they didn't do anything about it," he said, "I need to talk to a lawyer, especially with (LEX 18) here. It's going to be a lot more. When asked if he shot the dog in self-defense, Murphy said, "Yes. I called the police myself." The Kincaids say they plan to press charges against Murphy. They say their goal is to try to prevent something like this from happening to another family. Ryder's veterinarian says he expects the dog to make a full recovery. State police say charges against Murphy are pending.


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by Staff Writers
University Park PA (SPX) Feb 10, 2016
A geologic event known as diking can cause strong earthquakes - with a magnitude between 6 and 7, according to an international research team. Diking can occur all over the world but most often occurs in areas where the Earth's tectonic plates are moving apart, such as Iceland, Hawaii and parts of Africa in the East African Rift System. As plates spread apart, magma from beneath the Earth's surface rises into the space, forming vertical magma intrusions, known as dikes. The dike pushes on the surrounding rocks, creating strain.
"Diking is a known phenomenon, but it has not been observed by geophysical techniques often," said Christelle Wauthier, assistant professor of geosciences, Penn State who led the study. "We know it's linked with rift opening and it has implications on plate tectonics. Here, we see that it also could pose hazards to nearby communities."
The team investigated ties between two natural disasters from 2002 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Rift System. On Jan. 17, the Nyiragongo volcano erupted, killing more than 100 people and leaving more than 100,000 people homeless. Eight months later a magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck the town of Kalehe, which is 12 miles from the Nyiragongo volcano. Several people died during the Oct. 24 earthquake, and Kalehe was inundated with water from nearby Lake Kivu.
"The Kalehe earthquake was the largest recorded in the Lake Kivu area, and we wanted to find out whether it was coincidence that, eight months before the earthquake, Nyiragongo erupted," said Wauthier.
The researchers used a remote sensing technique, Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar, to measure changes to the Earth's surface before and after both natural disasters.
"This technique produces ground surface deformation maps. Then, you can invert those deformation maps to find a source that could explain the observed deformation. For the deformation observed in January 2002, we found that the most likely explanation, or best-fitting model, was a 12-mile diking intrusion in between Nyiragongo and Kalehe," said Wauthier.
The researchers used the same technique for the October 2002 magnitude 6.2 earthquake, analyzing seismicity in addition to ground-deformation changes. They found that there was a fault on the border of the East African Rift System that slipped, triggering the earthquake.
"We were able to identify the type of fault that slipped, and we also had the best-fitting model for the dike intrusion," said Wauthier. "Knowing both of those, we performed a Coulomb stress-change analysis and found that the January 2002 dike could have induced the October 2002 earthquake."
Coulomb stress-change analysis is a modeling technique that calculates the stress changes induced by a deformation source at potential receiver faults throughout a region. If the Coulomb stress changes are positive, it means that the source is bringing the receiver fault closer to failure - closer to slipping and generating an earthquake. This type of analysis is regularly applied to assess whether an earthquake in one region could trigger a secondary earthquake nearby.
The researchers hypothesized that the dike opening pushed outward against the adjacent rocks. These rocks became strained and passed stress to rocks adjacent to them, accumulating stress on rocks on a fault in the Kalehe area. The dike brought this fault closer to failure and, eight months later, a small stress perturbation could have triggered the start of the magnitude 6.2 earthquake.
"We've known that every time magma flows through the Earth's crust, you create stress and generate seismicity," said Wauthier. "But these are normally very low magnitude earthquakes. This study suggests that a diking event has the potential to lead to a large earthquake," said Wauthier.
The researchers report their findings in the current issue of Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.
Collaborators include Benoit Smets, European Center for Geodynamics and Seismology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Royal Museum for Central Africa; and Derek Keir, University of Southampton.
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Genealogical Ties To The Ocona Lufta Valley
February 20, 2013
Ever since I stepped foot in the Historic Lufty Baptist Church I wanted to know more about the people who called the area home before it was part of the Smoky Mountain National Park.
Florence Cope Bush's book-Ocona Lufta Baptist Pioneer Church of the Smokies 1836-1939 told me about William Henry Conner. I learned more about William and his son Dock Conner by discovering a reprint of a newspaper article that was published in the Knoxville Journal in 1976, The Saga Of The Dock Conner Family written by Vic Beale. Most interesting was a recorded interview with William Henry Conner which can be heard on the Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English website.
Don Casada shared the story of Robert and Elizabeth Beck Collins in his guestpost Robert and Elizabeth Beck Collins - Pioneers of the Pioneer Church of the Smokies.
I enjoyed learning about the folks above so much, that I kept researching to see if I could find any other firsthand accounts from folks who lived in the Oconaluftee area during the years Lufty Baptist Church was still open.
I searched Ancestory.com; I searched every NC genealogical site I could find; I Googled every imaginable phrase I could think up about people who called Ocona Lufta Valley home and came up with zilch in every instance.
But one day I finally hit pay dirt! I haven't a clue how I found the website full of fascinating stories-I was jumping from one site to another thinking I'd never find anything interesting when bingo I landed on a genealogical treasure trove of Western North Carolina managed by Dwight Childers.
I'll use Dwight's own words to introduce the scope of his website to you:
"The purpose of this project is to discover and remember our ancestors in western North Carolina, and beyond. The name "www.Childers-Shepherd.org" has been chosen simply because it describes our immediate patch on the vast quilt of family connections surrounding us. These two families provide a starting point for our discovery but do not intend to exclude any of our many cousins or any part of our extended families of different names. The limitations are time and energy rather than any rigid notion of what constitutes a meaningful connection."
After stumbling onto the website, I contacted Dwight and he graciously and generously allowed me to share some of his research work here on the Blind Pig & the Acorn. (Dwight will of course retain all copyright)
Today I'd like to share the story of Dwight's ancestors: Thomas Clingman Childers, Jr. (1871-1957) and his wife, Bertha Elizabeth Lambert (1878-1942) both were members of Lufty Baptist Church. Thomas and Bertha were married in Swain County in 1893. They had 12 children, and also raised their grandson, Edward Roberson after his mother, who was their oldest daughter, died. (to see the list of their children go to this page of Dwight's website)
The follow history appears on this page of the site: www.Childers-Sheperd.org.
Several of the children were born at the home Thomas and Bertha established on Couches Creek, near Smokemont, a few miles up Highway 441 from Cherokee. (This is the next creek north of the Mingus Creek Mill, which is now a museum.) They purchased the land of about one hundred fifteen acres from Thomas's half-sister, Sarah Ward Smith. This land later became part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Some descendants have enjoyed hiking up the creek to the old homeplace over the years. The buildings were removed long ago, but signs of habitation, including stones from the old chimney, now fallen, remain.
By late January of 1920 (when the census was taken), they were in the Upper Hominy section of Buncombe County. Children remaining at home were Naomi, Roy, Ruth, Bonnie, Edmund, and grandson Edward Roberson. On 7 May 1930, the census of Beaverdam township, Haywood Co NC, found the family thus: Thomas, 56, farm laborer; Bertha, 52; Bonnie, 16; Henry, 14; Edmund, 12; and grandson Edward Roberson, 12. The value of their house and land was $750.
By 1935, according to the 1940 census (taken on 9 April), the family had moved to the place on what was Wiggins Road in Upper Hominy township, Buncombe County. In 1940, daughter Bonnie, son Edmund, and grandson Edward "Ted" Roberson were still at home. Bonnie was listed with the occupation of "reeler" in a rayon plant; Edmund was a farm laborer; Ted was unemployed. Soon, both Edmund and Ted would be abroad in active service in different theaters of World War II. (Ted enlisted 18 Jan 1941 at Fort Bragg, NC; Edmund enlisted 22 May 1942 at Fort Jackson, Columbia SC.) According to a family story, Thomas stopped shaving when the boys left home and pledged to resume only when both boys had safely returned from the war.
I hope you enjoyed the first taste of information from the www.Childers-Shepherd.org genealogy website. Come back tomorrow when we'll hear from Thomas and Bertha's oldest son Francis David Childers (1893-1983).
*Source: www.Childers-Sheperd.org. Dwight Childers retains sole copyright of material.
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What a detective Tipper is! It must be like fitting the pieces of a puzzle together, only to find more pieces at the bottom of the box to continue to flesh out the puzzle picture.
God bless.
Dolores-I wondered the same thing about his beard!! I read another page on Dwights great site that said he did indeed shave because both boys came home safe-and that everyone was glad he got rid of the beard LOL : )
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Thanks for the history. Of course, I am wondering and hoping that Thomas was able to shave once the boys returned.
Tipper, I've just finished a book of early settlers in WNC. It's fascinating to read of the day to day life of these people. They had a hard life. Those early settlers must had been made of some tough stuff to first get here from Scotland then to survive eking out a loving from the ground.
The stories are amazing. Thanks for focusing on this.
Oooh, this is great stuff! Thanks for your diligent research in finding Dwight Childers sight which is fascinating in itself, but I still have not found my own elusive Haywood connection, other than census, etc.
Adam Corn was called into the ministry in Henderson Co.,N.C. in 1812. He preached to Indians and organized churches for Indians and pioneers. He and Humphrey Posey organized the Locust Field Church in Canton,N.C., 1st church west of French Broad River. He helped organize several churches in N.C. before becoming the 1st. moderator at the founding of the Tuckasegee Baptist Ass. in the Cullowhee Baptist Church in 1829. Also in 1829, Adam and Humphrey founded Mount Zion Church, 1st church in the Tenn. River Baptist Ass. Adam had a part in the founding of the Lufty Baptist Church on June 6,1836. Much of this info came from Tommy Flanagan, Families of Towns Co.,Ga. Adam Corn is my gr,gr,gr,gr. Grandfather.
I love this -- and I also like rambling through cemeteries reading headstones, looking at old pictures even if I don't know them. Thanks for sharing (and doing all the hard work of researching).
Tipper: You have opened a vast door of knowledge. It will be a great pleasure to read more about this Childers/Shepherd Family. It is amazing that the mother, Bertha was able to survive so many 'deliveries' of babies - probably right there in the home! AMAZING!
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The history of ordinary people is fascinating to me. I look forward to more.
So interesting, and what a great find the site was. Local history is fascinating and a graveyard is a wonderful place to start.
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Monday, February 11, 2013
A government that aims gun barrels at Amish dairy farmers is capable of the unimaginable.
A U.S. Department of Education SWAT force burst into Kenneth Wright's Stockton, Calif., home in June 2011. "I look out of my window, and I see 15 police officers," Wright told KXTV. Wright said one officer forced him by the neck onto the front lawn. "He had his knee on my back, and I had no idea why they were there." While officers searched his house, Wright said, "They put me in handcuffs in a hot patrol car for six hours, traumatizing my kids," then ages 3, 7, and 11.The feds sought Wright's estranged wife, apparently for suspected financial-aid fraud. However, she had moved away a year earlier. Regardless, such a mobilization seems unnecessary to probe someone for possibly swindling scholarship money.
I have always been supportive of the police, knowing that they had dangerous jobs and dealt with a host of unsavory characters. But there comes a time when the generic support of law enforcement in the face of contrary evidence makes me pause.
Perhaps it's the new media which brings these injustices to an unwary public, or perhaps it's because there is really a different attitude on the part of some police forces. But the stand-by assumption that the police are there to protect us needs re-evaluation.
Why does the National Park Service; the Postal Inspection Service; the Departments of Health and Human Services, Agriculture, Labor, and Veterans Affairs; the Bureaus of Land Management and Indian Affairs; the Environmental Protection Agency; the Fish and Wildlife Service; the Small Business Administration and Railroad Retirement Board need armed agents?
Which brings me to the current drive on the part of the government to disarm the civilian population. Just maybe they would prefer there to be no resistance when the Small Business Administration kicks down your door in the middle of the night and hogties you at the point of their assault weapons. Is crime so rampant that we need 160 SWAT Team raids per day? Or is the sense of power from the use of military weapons irresistible to the police?
Other than geography, what is the difference between the secret police of any fascist or communist dictatorship run for the benefit of the ruling class and the examples – the very recent examples –of crimes against civilians that were recounted in the article in National Review. Isn't it telling that one of the leading Conservative publications should question whether citizens of this country should be wary of the police and their government?
Glenn Reynolds wrote a column for USA Today Americans are losing trust in government. There are more and more reasons for that, and not because the government does so many things badly. It's also because people that work for the government, the people that we once called "public servants" now have the attitude expressed in the following vignette.
When financial questions arose regarding the Mountain Pure Water Company, Washington did not send a few staffers to inspect documents. Instead, last spring, some 50 armed Treasury agents breached Mountain Pure's headquarters in Little Rock, Ark. They seized 82 boxes of records, herded employees into the cafeteria, snatched their cell phones, and refused to let them consult attorneys."We're the federal government," Mountain Pure's comptroller, Jerry Miller, says one pistol-packing fed told him. "We can do what we want, when we want, and there's nothing you can do about it."
The Diplomad 2.0 (who has a wonderful way with words) gives the back of his hand to the Gang of Blue
Lots about this crazed ex-LAPD cop Dorner who has been on a killing spree and has disappeared. The wonderfully trained and always dedicated public servants in Southern California's police forces have responded to the presence of a deranged colleague by taking a page from their colleagues in the NYPD: they have been shooting up innocent people and showing, once again, that increasingly cops in America are out of control. They are poorly trained, brutish, cowardly, and overpaid bureaucratic bullies to whom we have ceded extraordinary power and give exaggerated deference. I am not saying that all cops are this way, but most, yes, most are or will become that way after a couple of years of service in the Gang of Blue.
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NEW YORK — Shabazz Napier owed UConn.
He could have transferred when academic sanctions barred the Huskies from the NCAA tournament his junior season. But the guard wanted to pay back the school for the joy of a national title his freshman year, for his struggles as a sophomore.
Napier did that Sunday, carrying Connecticut to the Final Four in front of thousands of roaring Huskies fans at Madison Square Garden. He scored 17 of his 25 points in the second half in a 60-54 upset of fourth-seeded Michigan State in the East Regional final.
UConn (30-8) will face top seed Florida (36-2) on Saturday. The Huskies are the last team to beat the Gators, 65-64 on Dec. 2.
Napier repeatedly hit clutch shots and made three huge free throws with 30.6 seconds left as UConn rallied from a nine-point second-half deficit to become the first No. 7 seed to reach the Final Four since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985.
"When Coach looks at me a certain way, I just know I got to be more aggressive," Napier said.
"His will to win — you could just see it," said Gary Harris, who led Michigan State with 22 points. "He wasn't going to let his team lose."
The Spartans' seniors become the first four-year players recruited by Tom Izzo to fail to make a Final Four.
"As the game got closer and closer to ending, it was on my mind a lot, every huddle," said senior big man Adreian Payne, who had 13 points and nine rebounds but was repeatedly pushed to the perimeter by UConn's defenders.
The undersized Huskies matched Michigan State's physical play box-out for box-out, holding the Spartans (29-9) to just six offensive rebounds and six points in the paint.
"We're physical, too," said second-year coach Kevin Ollie, who is now 4-0 in the NCAA tournament after replacing mentor Jim Calhoun. "Don't get it mixed up. We are predators out there."
UConn dared Michigan State to shoot 3-pointers, and the Spartans nearly made enough, going 11 for 29 from behind the arc. Harris was 4 for 9 on 3s, but his teammates were a combined 10 for 32 from the floor.
"We got what we deserved today," Izzo said. "I tried to tell these guys that, when you get to the tournament, you got to bring it every second. And today Connecticut did, and we just kind of weren't as good as we have been."


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Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous words — "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream…" — have been displayed on a wall in the student union at the University of Oregon since 1986.
But with the Erb Memorial Union under construction and the quotation down, a spirited debate arose on the student union board regarding whether MLK's famous quote should stay.
"What words are is important," Laurie Woodward, director of the Student Union, told the school's newspaper the Daily Emerald, "but what's more important is that people think about what the words should be."
Woodward told the Emerald that she asked the student union if the quote should remain or be replaced — and one student replied, "Does the MLK quote represent us today?"
"Diversity is so much more than race," sophomore architecture major Mia Ashley added, the Emerald said. "Obviously race still plays a big role. But there are people who identify differently in gender and all sorts of things like that."
Ultimately, the student union decided the MLK quote would go back up — though it didn't happen in time for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the paper said.
As you might expect reactions to the debate were rather pointed:
Just a matter of time before the progress through language modification movement eats its own tail. https://t.co/ZSgcXmSBrf
— Brett Friedman (@BA_Friedman) January 28, 2016
No words. https://t.co/Gcf0sSCrUM
— Ray Winbush (@rwinbush) January 28, 2016
So proud I'm sending my son @mikkelhendison to a school with such smart kids. https://t.co/0LC8QjLnvB
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THERE haven't been too many constants over the decades as far as Newcastle United have been concerned.
But one, certainly, was John Alder. And his black suit.
He never missed a game. Ever.
The club was his life. It was in his blood.
Wherever Newcastle were in the world, so was John, nicknamed 'The Undertaker' for the black suit he always wore to games.
The jacket rarely came off, however hot it got.
About the only place I saw him without it was beneath the Eiffel Tower on a baking August afternoon in Paris many, many years ago.
Of course, we were in France to watch United.
A familiar face to those who follow the club up and down the country and overseas, John was a quiet and unassuming man.
He never courted publicity as a super-fan. He was just doing what he loved, which was watching HIS team.
But he was a super fan, as was Liam Sweeney, who also tragically lost his life on the Malaysia Airlines flight which was downed in Ukraine on Thursday.
I've lost count of the number of times I bumped into John at football stadiums, train stations, airports, bars and restaurants at home and abroad in the 14 or so years I've been covering United.
It was difficult not to bump into him before or after games. He was always there. Always.
He and Liam were at Boundary Park for Tuesday night's game at Oldham Athletic.
And they boarded flight MH17 at Amsterdam's Schipol Airport looking forward to the next leg of the club's pre-season campaign in New Zealand.
Tragically, they and 296 other poor souls never made it to their destination.
Their friends at nufc.com put it best.
Watching Newcastle, indeed, will never be the same again.