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So the 2013 Cuben Fiber Roundup ran right past 2013 into 2014 due to us relocating right in the midst of things. Picking up where we left of last fall… in the third part of our series we'll take a look at the Terraform SW 1-person, a single person shaped-tarp made by YAMA Mountain Gear.
The astute reader or anyone who is very familiar with YAMA's product line may be thinking to themself "…wait a Cuben Fiber, single wall Terraform??" – and you'd be right to question this fact. It's not currently listed on YAMA's website because it's a prototype that Gen is working on bringing to market after he analyzes feedback from people, like me, and more importantly the PCT thru-hikers in his "My YAMA Adventure" program. This shelter is sort of a marriage between YAMA's Terraform design, which is a modular shelter consisting of a shaped tarp and a separate inner tent, and their Cirriform single wall shelter which has a pointed beak.
The length of this shelter is what first grabbed my attention. Even with a 6′-6 sleeping bag inside, there's still quite a bit of room at both ends which is nice for a change when you're tall like me and finding that you normally "just" squeeze into a lot of the shelters out there. While at first 89 inches inside length doesn't sound overly roomy, the fact that both ends of the inner stand vertical makes it feel much more so. It doesn't matter how thick of a pad you sleep on, or how big your feet are, neither will impact your effective space. The width at each end is generous as well, making for a spacious footprint. When pitched at a typical height, I had no contact with the shelter while sitting up, or even leaning forward and reaching all the way down to the foot end. This is the first ultralight front-entry shelter that I did not feel claustrophobic in; for that matter some non-ultralight front-entry shelters leave something desired when it comes to living space.
Staking out the Terraform requires 8 stakes for a minimal pitch, 10-11 for a full pitch. The inner consists of a lightweight silnylon bathtub floor which rises to within a few inches of the canopy and then transitions to bug mesh for the last several inches providing full protection from the the elements and bugs. The mesh can be cinched closed by a line that runs along the sides, thus eliminating rain splatter and drafts – an interesting feature. The beak of the tarp has a single zippered entry and can be rolled up partially – or completely by un-staking a couple of guylines up front. The entry on the inner features a zipper that makes a ~ 90º turn across the bottom and up the side. The vestibule offers ample space for a pack, shoes, and gear. The seams of the canopy are bonded and do not need to be seam sealed.
First Impressions
YAMA Mountain Gear utilizes .74 oz Cuben in white for the canopy. This is our preference of Cuben Fiber weight for shelters, not too heavy, not too thin/light. The packed shelter including guylines and line locks weighs in at 20 oz on our scale. The packed size is roughly 12 x 6 inches.
Upon sending me this shelter, Gen made sure to re-iterate to me that it was a prototype and some of the sewing and construction was not up to his typical finish standards due to it being tinkered with and tweaked by him. Despite that, I thought the construction looked pretty damn good! I took it along with me to the GGG West gathering this year, where over 100 ultralight backpackers get together to trade stories, drink adult beverages, and check each others' gear out… and everyone who commented about the Terraform remarked about how great it looked. I don't think Gen or any of his customers have much to worry about in the craftsmanship and quality departments, even this prototype passed muster with a pretty tough crowd.
I did not receive any setup instruction with the shelter. Unlike a more typical pointed-beak that would require 3 or 4 stakes at the head end, the squared off beak of the Terraform has a beautiful, broad sweeping shape, but also requires 5 stakes at the head end. After studying this for few seconds I decided it wouldn't be all that different than setting up a typical beaked shelter, so I proceeded to make my trekking pole lengths about 46 inches and 30 inches, then started by staking the rear corners out, got the rear pole under, staked out the rear ridgeline, then moved to the front and kept going in a similar order working on those two intermediate guylines of the beak last. The rear also has a "mini beak" which depending on the pitch can share the same stake as the rear ridgeline, but sometimes it's easier to get things tighter by just using a separate stake for it. The geometry of the canopy is great and it pitched very taut for me without any struggle.
In the Field
I've done a few trips with the Terraform. Most recently it accompanied me to the GGG West, as I mentioned above. Find space for it was not a problem, however for those who are used to sleeping under a very minimal shelter like a poncho tarp or whatever-thing you measure by how many grams it weighs, the Terraform might feel a bit like luxury. It's not overly large, but does offer a bit of room for the solo hiker. I didn't encounter any problems with this in the areas that I was traveling, and I would happily trade off the convenience of being able to plop down "anywhere" for the comfort allowed by the nicely sized footprint of this shelter. If anything I'm over-exaggerating the size a little, it's not to the extent that it feels like any compromise is being made.
Having just said that, on a prior trip near the coast I did have to make it fit into a space which was surrounded by stinging nettles and blackberry thorns (I kid you not). I really wanted to get away from the blackberries as much as possible as to not put any new holes in this thing (or my air mattress, or buttox!) I opted towards the nettles and my hands and ankles paid for that pitch. Again though, being able to sleep without my feet or head rubbing on either end is awesome. Although this experience did make me question if I have a nettle fetish. Well, I digress…
Sinking stakes was not a problem at any of the locations I took the shelter and the inclusion of line tensioners is always welcome in my eyes. Setup was a breeze.
Speaking of breezes, I've pitched out in the open, on a cool night, in a grassy field and with only the slightest breeze I had minimal condensation inside. The second night of this I closed the bug netting up to the tarp using the cinch line inside, an experienced a noticeable increase in condensation. So, the shelter does seem to vent adequately when not sealed up as one would hope/expect. One note that Gen made to me was the fact that the little vent on the beak was a trial and won't be making an appearance in the production version. I never tried using it, sounds like it was not a necessary feature.
I never managed to get out in any serious wind with this one… we had a whacked out winter that felt mostly like summer. I have spent time out in windy weather with other beaked shelters enough to generalize about the design I think. The shape tends to do very well, like rock solid, when the head is pitched into the wind. It's also easiest to get them pitched this way! When the wind is blowing from the side it makes pitching it that way very tough, which should be a clue that you're doing something wrong 🙂 The long profile becomes like a small sail when perpendicular to the wind, and although I've never had a shelter blowout (yeah… the wind tends to shift sometimes and gets sideways to you), they tend to wobble around and flap enough to lose sleep over it. Again, I can't say that would be the case with the Terraform, but in my experience with a couple other "similar enough" shelters. all of the above held true. Every distinct design has it's pro's and con's, that's just the way things are.
So what's not to like? That's a good question! I'd really like to buy one of these for myself as a totally enclosed 1-piece shelter… I just find myself wondering how attached I am to pyramid designs?? Although I tried to get snowed on, it didn't happen, but I can see this profile doing well in the snow. Anyway, if I had to pick on something, the front-entry design either appeals to you or it doesn't. The front pole can be kicked to one side, making access to the door a little better, but overall these types of shelters are not the easiest to get into and out of. For solo use I'm fine with that. In fact, I used a Spinn Shelter shelter (by Gossamer Gear) for several years which is more minimal and offers far less room so I see the Terraform as an all around upgrade, though to be fair the former is a minimalist tarp. You can't knock a pickup truck for being a truck instead of a sports car, so it's hardly a fault of the Terraform that it's a front-entry shelter. The number of stakes/guylines is sort of at the upper threshold, and there's very little difference between a minimal and full pitch. Lastly, this is really picking nits, but the YAMA logo is very large. I have to admit that I do like it, but at the same time it could be toned down a little – and Gen mentioned to me that he plans to do something more subtle on the production models.
The Bottom Line
I hope this Terraform prototype find its way to the storefront at YAMA Mountain Gear. It's one of the nicest shelters of this design that I've come across. There's something to be said for having complete protection from the elements and bugs in a single piece design and the Terraform delivers. For the protection and ample space offered it's relatively lightweight, though cost remains an unknown. The main hurdle in getting your hands on one will be convincing Gen that this design should be released to the public. So if you're interested, tell him you heard about it here and you must have one! Gen's a great guy, maybe some magic will happen! Hike It. Like It.


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Like it or not, a series of brown, 110-foot poles soon will join trees and rustic farm equipment as part of the view along a rural corridor in Western Oconee County and Eastern Walton County.
After more than a year of opposition from residents and a number of trips back to the drawing board, Georgia Transmission Corp. has settled for good on Snows Mill Road for part of the route for a new high-voltage electric line.
Resident Nick Bath said Thursday that residents along the rural road likely are done fighting.
To carry the heavy-duty 230-kilovolt electric line, Georgia Transmission plans to replace many shorter distribution poles already along the road with the much taller steel poles.
"It's a pretty special route," said Bath, who along with his wife, Jane, led the fight against the proposed route since Georgia Transmission originally suggested it would build on the couple's farm, which is preserved with a conservation easement.
The final route doesn't harm the easement.
But Bath lamented "the damage to the aesthetics and the bucolic rural setting, which Oconee is famous for - and Walton, too."
The power line, which will serve the area's electric membership corporations, will stretch from a new substation in Eastern Walton County, across the Apalachee River, to the Bethabara substation in Oconee County.
It's part of a major upgrade to Northeast Georgia's electric grid that's now expected to be finished in 2014 - three years later than originally thought, because construction of new electricity sources is lagging, officials said.
The placement of the line has been fraught with controversy, and the company has altered its proposal at least three times.
The short, disputed section of the nine-mile line will be built straight down the rural corridor along Snows Mill and Rogers roads, a route Georgia Transmission officials proposed first last year then abandoned after residents resisted.
The Baths, who had sold development rights to their farm, led the fight. The line would have sliced through the edge of their property, which preservation groups felt violates the intention of the easement.
Bowing to the pressure, Georgia Transmission last December reconsidered and proposed a new route across open country just a short distance east.
That proposal, however, provoked residents in Lane Creek Plantation, northwest of North High Shoals. They lobbied the company and county officials to move the line away from an undeveloped portion of their golf course community. County commissioners responded with a resolution asking Georgia Transmission to reconsider its plan.
In April, company officials ditched the cross-country route and went back to Snows Mill.
They moved the proposed line across the road from the Baths' conservation easement, but residents of the rural corridor again rallied to beg the company to at least move the line to the back of their properties, rather than along the road.
Georgia Transmission officials checked out the alternative, but only 20 percent of the landowners gave permission for surveys of their properties, company spokeswoman Jeannine Rispin said.
In the end, the company decided to stay put, building the line in the existing right-of-way along the road.
"Our project team went to great lengths to find a route that was acceptable to all parties," said Jerry Donovan, Georgia Transmission's senior vice president of project services.
But Bath said he thinks the decision had more to do with the company's bottom line.
"The real reason they're not doing it - and I'm sure of this - it's just cheaper and easier to take this roadside route," he said.
Georgia Transmission plans to hold two final public meetings on the line Dec. 8 at Bethabara Baptist Church.
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"We know it's over-the-top expensive, but Thanksgiving comes once a year. If you can splurge for this, you have a lot to be thankful for," said Old Homestead Steakhouse co-owner Marc Sherry.
It features nine-courses including squab stuffed with foie gras soaked in a $5,000 a bottle L'Esprit Cognac, roasted organic turkey stuffed with Japanese Wagyu and gravy made with a $1,750/bottle claret, butternut squash with black truffles, and sweet potatoes topped with three pounds of caviar. For dessert, diners will be served bourbon-soaked pears with pumpkin paste dusted with 24-karat gold.
For the elite, it's like 2008 never happened. Myself and a number of my peers were personally taught some severe financial lessons with that downturn. My lifestyle has never been the same since; I live well within my means now, much to the economists' horror. That's why I was screaming at everybody that a 'bailout' was unnecessary. The 2008 bust was big news because of who was ending up poor. Unlike a high-flying Texas realtor from past boom-bust cycles who had to suck it up and go work at the local hardware store, now it was the personal friends of Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke looking at wage-slavery. So clearly, Something Must Be Done. It was, and it worked beautifully. The Fed just printed up money and handed it out in exchange for assets that should have been liquidated for pennies on the dollar.
As the Mises Institute's Joseph Keckeisen wrote in 2009,
The corpses of the erstwhile automobile empires would have breathed their last, their good assets now transferred to the hands of newer more responsible entrepreneurs. The prior executives would be moving over to Cheapside and brushing off their overalls, perhaps in line to join a new remodeled UAW, in search for some job where they couldn't mess things up any more.So this Thanksgiving 2014, remember 2008 as the bellwether for the US government's descent into banana republic economics: the rich are to be protected from becoming poor. And please stay home on Black Friday.
The bankruptcy courts would be finishing up their exequies for the deceased former titans of the packaged debentures. The tombstones of the new economic cemetery would display the once great names of Fannie and Freddie, of Citi, of AIG, of Merrill Lynch, along with the hapless Lehman Brothers, interred several months before. And so many more financial cadavers would have been laid to rest, their memory duly to be forgotten, as perpetrators of a fake capitalism now buried and forgotten. Perhaps the cemetery could be economically located in an enlarged churchyard at Trinity Church at the head of Wall Street, to occupy the now excess real estate in the area and be a perpetual reminder that treason in the capitalist world will always be avenged.
Washington would finally be silenced, even if the Fed were not yet duly junked in the process, and the Treasury's overbearance would be bridled as the rest of the uneconomic trash was being flushed out of the system.
The Case Shiller indices would have completed their downfall to a level that future homeowners could devote the traditional 30 percent of their money incomes towards purchasing their long-wanted love nests. New families would be rushing in to fill the vacant home sites.


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Lawyer slams the 'racist' police she works for
A LAWYER who specialises in suing the "racist" police has taken a role on a body which decides the guidelines for undercover policing.
Lawyer Sophie Kahn is known for her online rants
Outspoken Sophie Khan has alarmed some offi cers with her Twitter blasts which branded them anti-Muslim and called for the Government's anti-terrorist Prevent strategy to be ditched.
Yet she is now an unpaid volunteer on the national undercover scrutiny panel, alongside high-ranking police officers, representatives from the Crown Prosecution Service and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary.
The panel was established following public disquiet about undercover offi cers having sex with women who belonged to groups they were infiltrating.
The body, chaired by Chief Constable Alex Marshall will publish a report in January which will go to the College of Policing, which approached her to join the panel, where senior offi cers and experts will consider whether the fi ndings should be introduced operationally in forces across England and Wales.
Ms Khan once tweeted: "The most anti-Muslim people I have come across are policemen and women. The police service is still the racist organisation it was in 70s."
The Metropolitan Police Federation at the time hit back, saying: "How will your absurd & obnoxious comments go down with the many Muslim officers serving their communities?"
When Asim Qureshi, of controversial pressure group Cage, claimed last month that Isis killer Jihadi John was radicalised by UK security services, Ms Khan urged her Twitter followers to consider the arguments in his article: "How the Government makes you into a terrorist without ever arresting you." day later, she said: ''Prevent programme is a cloak for racism. A programme designed to racially discriminate against Muslims. Where is the anti-Prevent campaign?"
Former Special Branch detective Chris Hobbs said he was "disgusted" by her allegations of racism and said her views were "completely unfounded". Ms Khan claimed she agreed to sit on the panel to highlight discrimination.
She said: "I am not anti-police. My role is to highlight discriminatory policies and procedures which are harming certain members of the community."
Over her Cage tweets, she said: "I have a right to tweet and suggest people read articles. I do not regard Cage as a mainstream organisation."
She insisted she was fully supported by senior serving offi cers who appreciated her advice.
Ms Khan is a solicitor advocate at the Leicester-based Police Action Centre, a charitable organisation which provides free legal advice to people who want to take action against the police or other state bodies.
Its website states: "Over the years there has been an increased focus on the standard of British policing, especially since the shooting of Mark Duggan, the riots and the advent of police and crime commissioners."
An inquest has ruled that gangster Mr Duggan was lawfully killed by officers. He threw away a gun when stopped by police.


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Important life decision on the horizon? Call your tax advisor
As your career and net worth grow, so do the number of important decisions you must make. Most of us have trusted advisors, mentors, family members or friends who provide guidance at critical points in our personal and professional lives. Even with that support network, it is normal to wonder, "Do I have access to all the different perspectives I need to make the best decisions?"
To help answer that question, we decided to write this three-part series of columns. In the first column, we pointed out that while having a skilled financial advisor is important for high-net-worth individuals, input from other professional resources could help preserve your wealth.
Along with your financial advisor, trusted tax and legal advisors can be an essential part of your team. This is especially evident when considering some of the largest decisions of your life, including whether it is time to buy or sell a business. Tax and legal advisors can help navigate the frequently changing rules and regulations around decisions like that which can have a significant impact on your personal wealth.
If your personal wealth is intertwined with your privately owned business, and especially if you are considering selling your business, you will likely seek guidance from those closest to you — business partners, spouse, friends and colleagues. At Nachman Norwood & Parrott, we often invite tax and legal advisors to be involved with our clients' decisions, and often much earlier in the process than you might think.
In some of these instances, we have enjoyed the privilege of working with Kris Gretzschel, CPA, CFP, who is the first vice president and manager of the tax and financial planning team and life event services at Wells Fargo Advisors. She advises that clients should go to an advisor two years before, rather than when, they are ready to sell. In her experience, Kris has found that "clients are likely to overstate the value of their business, and an advisor can help them determine if they will have to make other changes that could impact that value and sale beforehand."
Another major component of tax planning that should be considered is estate planning and estate taxes. Currently the estate tax exemption limit is $5,450,000 per person, or nearly $11 million per couple. While this threshold does decrease the need for complicated estate tax planning for many, there is more to the issue than meets the eye. There is the potential for the individual and family to take advantage of a step-up in the income tax basis of an individual's assets at death. The law provides that the income tax basis of an asset is determined to be the value of the asset at the time of death, not the price at the time at which the original party purchased the asset. The family of the deceased would get a new basis at the current value.
This may cause an individual to rethink their gift strategy and the time at which they transfer stock. David Merline, an experienced tax attorney here in Greenville, advises further: "If you are no longer subject to estate tax, then there is less impetus for you to make gifts to your family unless they happen to need the cash. In terms of liquid assets, such as equities, we often advise people to hold on to their stock until their death instead of gifting it to their child or grandchild."
Tax attorneys and tax advisors have a wealth of knowledge that can be valuable in crafting a sound financial plan. Their insights are particularly relevant for significant life decisions such as buying or selling a business or estate planning.
In the next and final column in this series, Wes Boyce will review how insurance is often the forgotten factor in investment planning, and how having the right perspective can help you evaluate your evolving insurance needs as your wealth grows.
PART I: Managing wealth takes more than just a financial advisor
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Russia's Yuri Trofimov made a solo break to win the fourth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné on Wednesday as Britain's Chris Froome held the leader's yellow jersey.
The Katusha rider launched his attack 18km from the line on the Col de Manse, pulling ahead of a breakaway group formed on the 21km mark.
"I can't believe it," said Trofimov. "I know this climb since the last Tour de France, I was already in the break-away group.
"I started off gently, to save my legs, and then I literally went for it. Now I want to win a stage on the Tour de France."
Swede Gustav Larsson crossed in second ahead of Dutch rider Pim Ligthart after the 167.5km run from Montelimar to Gap.
For 30-year-old Trofimov it was a second stage win in the Dauphiné six years after that on Morzine.
Defending champion Froome held the lead for the fourth day.
"The breakaway wasn't really dangerous. We mainly wanted to control it and didn't take any risk in the final descent," he explained.
"The team did great work, I had three riders with me until the line."
Froome welcomed the news that Colombian team-mate Sergio Henao, sidelined by Team Sky after questions over his blood values, has been cleared to return to competition in the Tour of Switzerland starting on Saturday.
The 26-year-old climber was born at altitude in Rionegro and still lives and trains in the region.
And 10 weeks of tests carried out by experts gave him the all clear.
"The Tour of Switzerland will be a very good test of his form," said the Tour de France champion Froome.
"He's only been training until now. But I know that he is very motivated."
Thursday's fifth stage covers 189.5km from Sisteron to La Mure, and includes six climbs, the final one near Laffrey, 20km from the line.


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Straight Out of Brooklyn Trailer (1991)
A Special Jury Award winner at the Sundance Film Festival, this drama stars a then-19-year-old Matty Rich (who also wrote and directed it). Rich plays Larry, a troubled teen living in the rough Red Hook section of Brooklyn who decides he wants out and turns to crime to fund his escape. But his plan involves scamming the neighborhood's biggest drug kingpin, a heist that's dangerous at best.
Watch the official Straight Out of Brooklyn 1991 trailer in HD below or find more Straight Out of Brooklyn videos on Vidimovie.


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Once a year the University Park Elementary School Community is invited to a Multi-Cultural Night of Feasting and Fun. The event includes a feast like no other, a Parade of Nations and student art projects. The UPark PTA provides a main course for the event and our parental community is asked to provide side dishes that are favorites of their family's culture. The variety of foods, dress and art is a wonderful representation of the cultural diversity at UPark and is a fun night for all ages.
The 2014 Multi Cultural Night theme is "Giving Thanks All Over the World" and the menu will feature traditional Thanksgiving turkey, chicken and vegan options (provided by the PTA) and UPark families supply the accoutrements! Additional details are below:
Where: 2300 S St Paul (Café, Gym, Auditorium)
When: December 7th, from 5:30-7pm
Please plan to bring a dish to share (12-15 servings). Let us know what your dish is here. We also need help setting up, cleaning up and serving. Sign up to help here.
Thank you very much our English Language Acquisition Team of Rebecca Johnson and Anita Marie Murano-Sweetman for organizing this event.


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An unbeaten century from makeshift opener Usman Khawaja helped Australia to a solid position on day two of the third and Final Test in Adelaide.
Australia ended the day on 307 for 6 with a 48 run lead having been pegged back by a flurry of wickets in the final session.
The hosts resumed on 14 without loss with Khawaja and Matt Renshaw at the wicket but the latter wouldn't last long as a beautiful catch by Dean Elgar gave Kyle Abbott his first wicket and the debutant fell for 10.
David Warner would then come out to bat having been denied the opportunity to bat the day before by Faf du Plessis' cheeky declaration.
Warner (11) didn't last long as he was unable to resist the carrot dangled outside his offstump by Abbott with Elgar doing the honours in the corden.
That brought together Khawaja and Skipper Steve Smith and the pair would put on a stunning third wicket partnership of 137 runs to wrestle the initiative away from the Proteas.
JP Duminy came close to getting the breakthrough as he enticed the edge from Smith when he was on 46 but Hashim Amla's horror tour took another terrible twist as he grassed the chance.
In the end it wouldn't be a Proteas bowler who brought about Smith's (59) demise but a mix-up with Khawaja as the skipper was run out for 59.
Peter Handscomb joined Khawaja and after some early struggles settled in to Test cricket like a natural which will leave many wondering why the Baggy Green persisted with the out of sorts Adam Voges for so long.
Khawaja would become the first Australian to score a century in this series as he notched his fifth career Test hundred.
Handscomb went on to score a fifty on his debut with his mum on hand to witness the special moment for the young man.
Abbott produced a ripper to account for Handscomb (54) and leave Australia 273 for four, with the seam movement making the ball nearly unplayable.
The third of Australia's debutants Nic Maddinson (0) wasn't able to make the impact Handscomb did as he was cleaned up by Kagiso Rabada who gave the batsman a send off that might land the quick in hot water.
Matthew Wade (4) departed cheaply as Vernon Philander got in on the act, producing an excellent ball that Wade could only nick off to.
Mitchell Starc joined Khawaja and looked out of sorts from the start but survived being given out leg before with the review showing the ball pitched millimetres outside leg.
Starc (16 not out) and Khawaja (138 not out) would see out the day though reaching 307/6 and a 48 run lead.
This was the first time Australia have managed to bat through a day in this series with solid contributions from the middle order finally materializing.
Abbott ended the day with stellar figures of 3 for 38 from 25 overs.


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I love my GS30, but have never run Exmark, so can't really compare, I can just tell you that I don't think you can go wrong with a Deere!
I have dealer support from both exmark and Deere , just the Deere is $1000.00 less then the exmark.
I'm whiling to spend the extra money for the exmark but I would love to spend less.
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I have an eXmark belt-drive, fixed deck mower with a 3-foot cut. Cuts like a beast, is a lot of work. When it dies, its successor has a floating deck and hydro drives.
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Cambridgeshire. The earliest record on the name was Sir Lawrence Taylard, who was listed as being buried at Doddington. His birth date was December 25th 1498, he was presumed to have died in 1573. One of the early arms shows that the family was listed as Knights of the Shire, Lords of the Manor of Diddington, in the honour of Huntingdon. However, there seems to be some disagreement on the spelling of the surname as later records show a descendant claiming the name was spelt as Tayler. Today such disagreements of their surname seem whimsical, but one must remember that at this time in history spelling was not an exact, but personal. The Taylards has a close relationship with the Chapell family. Evidence can still be seen today in a brass rubbing in the Church of St Lawrence, Diddington where a "surcoat" from one of the bearers clearly shows the two families united. Both families were heavily involved in the Church.
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All the listed cement firms on the Taiwan Stock Exchange and over-the-counter stock market encountered declines in earnings in the first half of this year, with Lucky Cement Corp. posting the largest decline in earnings at 60% year-on-year in the first half.
Impacted by the demand slump in domestic market, Taiwan Cement Corp. and Asia Cement Corp., Taiwan's two-largest cement producers, posted NT$1.29 billion (US$39.09m at US$1:NT$33) and NT$1.05 billion (US$31.81m) in operating income in the first half of this year, down 12.2% and 11.8% year-on-year, respectively.
Taiwan Cement noted it exported 2.8Mtof cement in the first half of this year, compared to only 2.4Mt for domestic sales. This was the first time for the company to see exports exceed domestic sales.
Nevertheless, Taiwan Cement's president Huang Chien-chiang believed his company would see domestic sales recover to past level in the fourth quarter of this year when was traditionally a peak sales season for domestic cement market.
Universal Cement Corporation noted it posted the same operating losses in the first half of this year as the year earlier. Universal president Lee Kuo-tung said the construction industry in southern Taiwan in the first half of this year did not recover as expected. To cut operating losses, the company has recently resolved to temporarily halt production of its pre-mixed concrete in Linfengying of Tainan County, southern Taiwan. Lee said his company lost an average of NT$1m (US$30,300) monthly since the beginning of this year in the Linfengying plant.
With an annual production capacity reaching 150,000m3 of pre-mixed concrete, the Linfengyin plant saw actual output amount to only 93,000m3 last year. The company sold 28,000m3 of pre-mixed concrete in the first half of this year, compared to the projection of 88,000m3.
Others in this field, including Chia Hsin Cement Corp., Lucky Cement Corp., Southeast Cement Corp. and Hsing Ta Cement Co., also saw declines in operating income in the first half of this year. Of them, Lucky registered NT$74.74 million (US$2.26 million) in operating income in the first half of this year, down 64% year-on-year.
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If you're a network or systems administrator, you're likely familiar with the concept of a load balancer. It's a hardware device or software stack that distributes network application load across all the machines and servers connected to it in order to help mitigate network congestion. Google's software solution, called Seesaw, was created in 2012 in response to a lack of adequate load balancing software for Google's own use. Coded in Google's own Go language, the software boasted a flexible Linux backbone and was used to manage Google's own network needs, which entailed things like automated deployment and ease of use and maintenance.
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By: Press Release | Youth Journalism International
(May 3, 2012) WEST HARTFORD, Conn., U.S.A. – A 19-year-old reporter from Mumbai, India who produced an astonishing array of compelling and important stories is Youth Journalism International's 2012 Student Journalist of the Year.
During the course of 2011, Pushkal Shivam questioned the Dalai Lama, interviewed survivors in the immediate aftermath of a terrorist bomb attack, lived for a week on a handful of rupees a week to see how the poor scrape by and much more, impressing the judges with his drive, initiative and talent.
Though Shivam's portfolio was unusually packed, YJI's annual contest also honored many other talented students who captured awards for everything from news to reviews, with photographers, cartoonists, columnists and others winning awards for an astonishing range of material published last year. There were winners from 18 countries and 11 U.S. states.
Shivam, though, had it all. For one of his stories, for example, Shivam talked his way inside a women's prison and discovered many children locked away there along with their convicted mothers, tiny inmates, totally innocent, living behind bars.
"I do not claim to have exposed anything. That would be sensationalism," Shivam wrote. "On the contrary, it was merely an effort to highlight what the society sometimes takes for granted: an issue like hunger or the loss of childhood. My efforts are simply a speck in the page which records change. The spirit of change will spread like a contagion the day that page is filled with words which make a society truly conscious of its problems. I am happy to have contributed even a speck to that page."
"Pushkal is a young reporter who clearly has ink in his veins. He has all the right instincts and a burning desire to dig into critically important stories that clearly shows in his work," said Steve Collins, YJI's board president.
Shivam said he wants to tell "the stories of the deprived and the disadvantaged" in a country where so many suffer from grinding poverty and a lack of opportunity. Is there anything more a reporter can, or should, do?
For Shivam, comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable is second nature. That's part of what makes him a great young journalist whom we are proud to honor.
The Student Journalist of the Year category had one finalist: Cynthia Mao from Monta Vista High School in Cuppertino, Calif. Mao, who lives in Saratoga, Calif., and writes for the school paper, El Estoque.
In this year's contest, 19 judges, many of them professionals in the field, helped narrow down a wide field of solid entries in dozens of categories. This marks YJI's third annual contest.
The 2012 contest awards crystal trophies in four major categories: the Student Journalist of the Year, the Journalism Educator of the Year, the Frank Keegan "Take No Prisoners" Award for News, and the Jacinta Marie Bunnell Award for Commentary. An additional award for Courage in Journalism was not given this year.
Eighty students on five continents – winners in the many other categories – will receive custom-made certificates.
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The 2012 Journalism Educator of the Year is Mark Ionescu, captured the top honors on a tidal wave of support from his students at The John Carroll School in Bel Air, Md.
Nominating him in secret, 10 student staffers of The Patriot, the school paper, wrote glowing letters attesting to his humor, skill, care and enthusiasm as well as to their paper's lengthy list of achievements. He was a finalist in the category in 2010 and 2011.
For Grace Kim, the paper's online editor, "the grandiose feats Mr. I has helped us accomplish certainly mean a lot, but the smaller things he does mean more sometimes. Like that shoulder pat he's always giving me when I'm at my lowest and I don't deserve it. Or when he bought a new stuffed manatee for The Patriot room because he knew I was upset that the old one got stolen. Let's also not forget how many camera memory cards he's bought to replace the ones staffers have lost. I've seen him forgive us over and over again."
Kim, who organized the student effort, said that Ionescu is always there "in the midst of all the beautiful madness," ready to lend a hand. "The secret ingredient to our success will always be his guidance," she said.
Keegan Award
This year's winner of the Frank Keegan "Take No Prisoners" Award for News goes to Soo Ji Lee, the editor-in-chief of the Riverdale Review at Riverdale Country School in New York. As a member of the paper's staff Lee has "made clear from her first day that she had no interest in maintaining the status quo" in her quest to make the paper better, according to her teacher, Michael Sclafani.
One of the changes that Lee promoted was to "better her own skills" by seeking out conferences and summer workshops to hone her abilities, he said, including one at the Missouri School of Journalism.
While there, the 17-year-old Lee wanted to write a news story about a controversy involving the expansion of a local mosque – a story that echoed the larger national one about a proposed mosque near Ground Zero in New York City. Lee "went against her supervisor" to cover the story, her teacher said, and it was ultimately one of the few from the program published in the Columbia Missourian.
Kate Carlisle, managing editor of The Washington Post News Service, was Lee's mentor and coach during her stint at the Missouri Urban Journalism Workshop last summer. She said Lee suggested a story on the Columbia mosque and wondered if it was facing the same sort of opposition Muslims in New York City were dealing with. The problem, Carlisle said, was the utter lack of evidence that the local mosque planned any expansion. Lee, though, started digging. And in the zoning office at City Hall, Lee found a horde of public documents that showed the mosque did indeed plan an enormous expansion – a story the city's two daily newspapers, three television stations, two popular radio stations or numerous outlets at the journalism school somehow missed. Lee churned it out on deadline because it was too hot to hold, Carlisle said.
Lee's "unwillingness to back down from what she truly believed was a good story idea, her flexibility in approaching it from different angles, and her unflagging ability to see it through all speak so highly of Soo Ji. This smart, tough, savvy young woman is ready for bigger challenges," Carlisle said.
"She grabs an idea and will not let go until the story is written," Sclafani said, even if it means stepping on toes. As a journalist, he said, Lee's tenacity shines. "Her articles have substance; they carry meaning for both her classmates and the greater community."
The Keegan Award category has one finalist: Cresonia Hsieh lives in Delray Beach, Fla., where she attends Spanish River Community High School in Boca Raton. Her story, "9-11 Survivor: I Thought I Was Going to Die" is also the sort of gripping, tough-minded journalism that Keegan, a legendary editor, always sought.
Bunnell Award
Snagging top honors for the Jacinta Marie Bunnell Award for Commentary was Jasmine Wang, a student at her hometown East Brunswick High School in New Jersey. The category, named for a Connecticut woman who died too young, aims to reward students willing to take a stand.
Wang, 16, was chosen from among stiff competition for an essay she wrote for the Windsor-Hights Herald headlined, "Curiosity, Creativity and the Curse of Education" that castigated the lack of creativity in schools. Flabbergasted by a friend who got a C+ on an AP English essay because it was "too creative," Wang assailed the "rote and robotic formula of education" and the "close-minded educators and the pressure to do well, which often overrides all motivation to learn."
Wang called on educators to focus on opening minds, but she also urged students to chart a new course. "Students, raise your hands, and keep your heads up high. For striking out is far better than cowering in fear. Shake the cage, break the mold. You are free, you are creative and curious and confident." There's no doubt that's at least true of Wang herself, who's obviously not afraid to break the mold.
Finalists in the category were Tasman Anderson, a student at the University of Queensland who lives in Brisbane, Australia, and Saachi Sharma, a student at Lady Shri Ram College for Women in New Delhi, India. Anderson wrote a column about virginity for Q Magazine. Sharma wrote about "The Hijab: From the Side That is Covered" for The Saltlist.


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My question is thus:
Why, with all the non-lethal self defense options out there today, do you still believe in the right to own modern (semi-automatic) firearms?
Let's use Air Tasers as an example, they are purported to have a 95% stop ratio, which is I believe better than firearms. They can fire multiple shots (3 or more?), they can be as easily reloaded as a common handgun, and they can also be used as a very effective contact weapon.
I know this example is not perfect (I've seen the youtube videos), but neither are guns, from what I'm reading here. It appears, at least to me, to be a very viable alternative to firearms, poses virtually no risk to bystanders, can't be used effectively for mass murder, and if used, will save you from most of the legal trouble most here seem to be worried about.
I am I totally wrong here?
Yes, you are totally wrong, and I do not mean any disrespect in saying this. First, the "right" to own modern firearms is a right that has nothing to do with self defense or hunting. It is a "check" against a tyrannical government that refuses to adhere to the constitution, ignore the rule of law and oppress its people. Joe Biden's 2-shot shotgun plan simply doesn't cut it. This right is every bit as important as the right to a fair trial, freedom of speech, freedom or religion (or no religion), freedom of assembly and all of the other rights guaranteed to us as citizens of the US. This means that we, the people, must be permitted to own the same kind of firearms as those that are hired by us to police us.
Second, lets address just self-defense. A taser is basically a one-shot (or two-shot at best) device that may or may not work on an attacker. They are easily defeated by certain kinds of clothing. They are useless on multiple attackers. Just ask any police officer in LA or Detroit if they would feel comfortable carrying JUST a taser. If that was a requirement, you would have no cops, because who the heck is going to risk their life with just a taser to defend them?
What about stun guns? Ever see the movie Jackass? That's what stun guns are good for - pranksters. Because, you can train (and gangs do train) to defeat stun guns.
Pepper spray might be effective, or it might not be. It is less likely to be effective against those that have experience with tear gas and/or having been sprayed with pepper spray. In other words, experienced rapists, gang-bangers, and thugs will know how to effectively defeat this stuff too.
Well, that's about it for "less lethal" means of protection in a self defense situation. If you don't believe me, do a little research and see how high violent criminal attacks have become commonplace in the UK where guns and most knives have been completely banned. Of course, criminals still have knives and other weapons, its just the law abiding citizens that can't have them. Is that the kind of society you want to live in? One where you are completely defenseless, except if/when you can find a police officer to protect you?
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