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The Sh!tbox Derby: Trasborg's Fire TruckPosted in Project Vehicles on November 1, 2010
When we last left my budget-built '91 MJ I had swapped everything but the kitchen sink to replace the shot, worn, and just flat hammered front end parts. While I was replacing bushings, ball joints, and tie-rods, I lifted the front end. I hadn't shown you what I'd done out back-the radiator sprang a leak, it was overheating, and it was still two-wheel-drive.
The rear axle that came in the truck was the craptastic Dana 35, and like the rest of my MJ, it needed help. The goofy rubber plug was leaking, the brakes were gone, and I just couldn't stand the thought of putting time or money into it. In the spirit of the Derby, I was set on rebuilding it until I ran across an MJ Dana 44 in a junkyard-literally just sitting on the ground. It was missing the brakes, so I scrounged until I found a full set of beat brake parts-or so I thought. Once I got into it, I found the drums were too far out to turn again, the wheel cylinders that were on my axle were shot, and the hardware was in bad shape. I turned to Rock Auto for low, low prices and replaced all the bad brake parts for under $200.
I knew coming into this that I was going to do a spring-over conversion in the rear. This time I decided that I wasn't going to half-ass it though. I want this axle to live under this truck for not only whatever kookiness Hazel has cooked up, but going forward. So I tapped TnT customs for a U-bolt Eliminator kit to hang the axle and a truss so I will hopefully not kill another Dana 44.
I tried soldering the radiator back up with no luck, but I refused to put more stop leak in the engine. I knew I wanted an all-metal radiator and found a decent price at DPG Off-road. Before installing the radiator, I flushed the system several times in hopes of getting rid of whatever stop leak was still in there. While I was installing the radiator, I decided to pop the water pump off for a look and found it completely crudded-up with what looked to be a small leak starting at the shaft. I replaced it as well, but not before wire brushing everywhere I could. I probably should have also pulled the freeze plugs-but, well, it is the Sh!%box Derby.
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vodean wrote:its that time again folks. Vodean's 1v1 Feudal Tournament 1 is wrapping up, and its time to start over. but better. and bigger. again. You think that you've got what it takes? id say you have no better than a 1/64 chance... but what do i know? prove me wrong. sign up in this thread.
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Two sets of dividers are all you need to achieve well-proportioned drawers.
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For centuries artists honed their craft by copying the works of the masters. The goal was not to become a copyist; instead the intense focus of exploring a masterpiece was a proven way to unlock the mysteries hidden within. Often it's the subtle details – proportion, light, shadow, color and texture – that set apart great work. Much can be learned studying great furniture, and it's not limited just to those interested in period reproductions. Good design is timeless.
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Princess Kate is carrying a baby, in case you haven't heard, or read, or seen the news.
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No "fetus" references here. People and the press were not talking of "viability." They were discussing the future king, or queen, of the United Kingdom, and there were no questions about whether or when it might "become" a person.
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Based on the novel written by Ian McEwan, Enduring Love
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traumatic event that leads to the stalking of one character by
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Directed by Roger Michell in 2004 and starring
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people in the vicinity, along with Joe, join in a rescue attempt,
and all witness the dramatic events that follow. Of all of those
present that day, it is Joe and another man named Jed, who find
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watch Joe's struggle to process the horrific events of the balloon
accident. The film demonstrates some of the post-traumatic
experiences that an individual may have. In particular, we hear Joe
struggle with survivor guilt and watch him experience numerous
visual triggers that remind him of balloons as he tries to go about
his everyday life. It is perhaps this mental state which renders
him more vulnerable to the unwanted attention of Jed, whose initial
contact after the accident seems so plausible. However, Jed's
repeated contact with Joe gradually builds in intensity until
Claire suggests that Joe might need help to deal with Jed's
unwanted attentions.
Joe believes that he can manage the situation
himself, but he and Claire start to suffer from the stress of being
stalked and this threatens their relationship. The tone of the film
darkens when Jed starts to involve Claire in his stalking, and we
discover that he believes she is an obstacle him and Joe being
together. Joe's mental health deteriorates further as we see his,
initially well meaning, attempts to reason with Jed fail and we
witness his descent into irrational, angry behaviour and
Towards the end of the film, both Joe and Jed
are consumed by violent behaviour, reminding us of the significant
danger that can befall any victim of stalking, in extreme
Enduring Love offers the opportunity to understand
empathically how it feels to suffer the protracted harassment
experienced by a victim of stalking. It depicts the sense of
intrusion, violation and isolation, experienced by the victim,
which slowly escalates, producing intolerable stress that may cause
them to become mentally ill. The film also demonstrates the fact
that there is always a potential risk of violence to the victim and
that this should be kept in mind when making an assessment.
As we watch Enduring Love, we see Joe
break all of the fundamental rules recommended for dealing with
stalkers. Perhaps it is because Joe has shared a traumatic event
with Jed, and is struggling to process the experience, that
initially he believes he is dealing with a reasonable person who
was similarly affected by the accident. Indeed, Joe says that he
feels sorry for Jed. The film brilliantly records Joe's gradual
realisation that Jed is not behaving reasonably at all. A victim of
stalking is never advised to meet with, contact or attempt to
reason with their stalker, as this usually just fuels the stalker's
abnormal behaviour. The film demonstrates this escalation
From a psychiatric viewpoint, a review article
in March 2000 entitled Stalking – a
contemporary challenge for forensic and clinical
psychiatry; J.H.Kamphuis and P.M.G. Emmelkamp (British
Journal of Psychiatry (2000), 176, 206-209) provides an
excellent introduction to the topic, with particular focus on the
underlying mental health problems found in those that stalk. In
essence, stalkers fall into two distinct categories: those that
have had some form of relationship with the victim and those that
have had no real relationship at all and, the authors state, they
usually suffer from either a psychotic disorder or a personality
disorder. The article reminds us that stalking is an abnormal
behaviour, not a diagnosis, and that it is important to determine
the underlying pathology before any treatment can be recommended.
In Enduring Love, Jed is seen to suffer from a delusional
disorder, erotomania (also known as de Clerambault's
syndrome), believing that there is some special love
relationship between himself and Joe. This is evidenced by various
signs he has misinterpreted from Joe, such as the gentle touch that
Joe makes on Jed's shoulder when they both discover the body at the
start of the film or Joe's opening and closing of his curtains.
Those working in the health professions are at
particular risk of being stalked (20% risk over the course of a
career), with a higher risk in forensic and general adult
psychiatry than in other subspecialties.
With an increasing number of cases reported in
the UK
media, there has been a move to improve the support
given to victims of stalking and harassment, especially by the
police. New guidelines published in August 2009 by the Association
of Chief Police Officers have given advice on how such cases should
be investigated. With this increasing general public awareness, the
Home Office, supported by several charitable organizations, has
financed a National Stalking Helpline (0300 636
0300) for victims needing confidential
support and guidance.
The website Protection
against Stalking has an excellent page of facts on the
subject, including some Do's and Don'ts for managing any unwanted
attention from another person. This page also provides a link to
the downloadable Stalking and Harassment Risk Identification
Checklist (S-DASH 2009), which gives some indication of whether
there may be an increased risk of violence in each individual
Enduring Love could act as an
excellent springboard for education and discussion about the
various types of psychopathology that are associated with stalking
and the strategies for the treatment of both stalkers and their
victims. As a portrayal of a delusional disorder, the film gives
some incredibly accurate examples of the kind of things that
someone with erotomania might say about, or to, their victim. I
would highly recommend this film to anyone thinking of working in
the forensic mental health field.
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Kouchibouguac National Park, Canada
Created in 1969, Kouchibouguac National Park protects a representative sample of Canada's Maritime Plain Natural Region and the Atlantic Gulf of St. Lawrence Marine Region. Sloping gently to the coast, the land is generally flat, relieved by some small knolls separating river basins and short, steep river banks in some areas. The name Kouchibouguac (KOOSH-e-boo-gwack) is of Mi'kmaq origin, and translates to "river of long tides".
Kouchibouguac National Park is managed by Parks Canada, the Canadian federal government agency responsible for protecting and presenting nationally significant examples of Canada's natural and cultural heritage and fostering public enjoyment of these places in ways that ensure their ecological and commemorative integrity for present and future generations. Founded in 1911, Parks Canada is the world's first national parks service and is a global leader in conservation.
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Size and location
Kouchibouguac National Park is situated on the central eastern shore of the Canadian province of New Brunswick, and is part of the physiographic region classified as the Maritime Plain. It is approximately one hour's drive north of the city of Moncton and covers an area of 239 km2.
Flora and Fauna
The vast majority of the Kouchibouguac National Park is part of the Acadian Forest habitat, providing ideal growth conditions for twenty-four species of trees. Thirty-seven distinct forest types have been identified throughout the park, most of which are coniferous (70%), with smaller amounts of hardwood (23%) and mixed wood forests (7%). Peat bogs dominate nearly 5000 hectares of this park.
Wet depressions saturated by peat accumulation cause a rise in water level around bogs, drowning nearby trees and allowing the peat areas to grow further, eventually becoming ombrotrophic, a bog where all the water is cloud fed. The depth of peat in some areas has been measured at up to six metres, and the bogs themselves are estimated to be approximately 5000 years old.
The park also contains significant areas of salt marshes, estuarine systems, freshwater habitats such as rivers and brooks, and a dynamic coastal system formed by the nearby Barrier Islands. Such a range in habitat within the park allows for a large diversity of animals found throughout. In Kouchibouguac, visitors can witness a variety of wildlife, including the black bear (Ursus americanus), fisher (Martes pennanti), lynx (Lynx lynx), moose (Alces alces) and river otters (Lontra canadensis) on land, with two large mammal species in the waters around the park, including grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) and harbour seal (Phoca vitulina). Seven species of reptile, ten species of amphibians, and over 200 species of birds can be found throughout the year within the park.
Kouchibouguac also provides habitat for the largest single species tern colony in Canada, with a population of approximately 25 000 common terns (Sterna hirundo), including around 7 000 nesting pairs yearly, located on Tern Island in the park. The dynamic ecosystem containing around 25 km of shifting sand dunes provides habitat for the endangered piping plover (Charadrius melodus melodus).
A variety of rare plants exist within the park as well, including the dock-leaved knotweed (Polygonum lapathifolium), rayless aster (Aster laurentianus) and the subulate mud weed (Limosella australis) and the endangered Southern Twayblade (Listera australis).
Prior to the establishment of Kouchibouguac National Park, many people used the waters around the park as fishing grounds. After park establishment, some commercial fisheries were temporarily maintained for gaspereau (Aloso pseudoharengus), smelt (Osmerus mordax), eel (Anguilla rostrata) and soft-shell clams (Mya arenaria).
The piping plover (Charadrius melodus melodus), which is found in Kouchibouguac National Park, is a species at risk in Canada. The piping plover is a starling-size shorebird whose plaintive whistle cry can be heard along certain stretches of the Park's sandy beaches. Swimmers and beachcombers have been known to disturb piping plovers inadvertently, even damaging nest and eggs and frightening feeding plover chicks.
Other species at risk in Canada found in Kouchibouguac National Park include the wood turtle (Glyptemys insculpta), seven bird species and two plant species, including the Beach pinweed ( Lechea maritima), of which 55% of the world's population is found within the park, and the St-Lawrence aster (Symphyotrichum laurentianum).
Dealing with the threats
In an effort to increase the health of the estuary within the park, and restore stocks of commercial fish species, Parks Canada Agency has started a voluntary payment program for fishers wishing to relinquish eligibility to fish commercially in the area. In the first year of the program, over 80% of all soft-shell clam fishers chose to relinquish this eligibility. The second year focused on smelt, eel and gaspereau, and saw similar success. Park staff is monitoring the populations of these species and forecast that within only a few years, the stocks will be significantly higher.
To prevent disturbance to piping plovers and to allow them to successfully hatch and raise their young, important breeding, nesting, rearing and staging areas are temporarily closed to the public at critical periods during the spring and summer.
Park workers have recently concluded a 3-year study of the wood turtle population in the park and the greater ecosystem around it, where over 40 turtles were tagged and monitored. In doing this research, workers discovered the first recorded instance of wood turtles living in salt-water estuaries, where approximately 5 turtles were witnessed living for in excess of a month. Park researchers also witnessed the longest recorded overland distance traversed by a wood turtle (approximately 4 km).
Opportunities for Enjoyment
Parks Canada is committed to make every national park a treasured place and a living legacy for all Canadians, connecting hearts and minds to a stronger, deeper understanding of the very essence of Canada. Visitors can experience the wonders of Kouchibouguac National Park through a host of exciting family activities. Kouchibouguac offers 60 km of cycling paths, popular with both cyclists and hikers. Other activities offered throughout the year include bird watching, swimming, camping, canoeing and kayaking. Winter activities include cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and tobogganing.
Visitors to this park are encouraged to explore the salt-water lagoon and experience the plant and animal life throughout. Sea snails, sand shrimps, sticklebacks and several other species thrive in the lagoon. Exploring, catching creatures in a dip net, examining them and the releasing them back into the wild will provide entertainment for all ages when participating in interpretation programs.


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Another Chance To Get It Right: Eric Flint's The Rivers of War
a guest review by Nick Mamatas
Despite decades of reading, I was fooled by one of the oldest tricks in, or rather on, the book. The Rivers of War by Eric Flint (Ballantine, $25.95) bamboozled me with misleading cover copy; specifically, regarding during the War of 1812:
What if--at this critical moment--bonds were forged between men of different races and tribes? What if the Cherokee clans were able to muster an integrated front, and the U.S. government faced a united Indian nation bolstered by escaping slaves, freed men of color, and even influential white allies?What if, indeed? Unfortunately, The Rivers of War is not a book that explores these questions. Eric Flint was a breath of fresh air in his earlier books, like 1632, which actually did feature ordinary people as agents of alternative history, but this book is simply rehashed "Great Man" theorizing, and features virtually nothing described above. Instead, the book is the story of the War of 1812. Flint says he makes one minor change to history, and this "want of a nail" (or want of a horrible groin injury) allows Sam Houston to play a much larger part in the conflict. A Cherokee sympathizer, he works with Indian fighter and well-known racist Andrew Jackson to move the Cherokee over the Mississippi river, but in order to build their own nation-state that would actually have some level of independent sovereignty. But first, three hundred pages of battle scenes! Indeed, we never actually see anything of the nation building or even any of the planning; instead Flint offers up a quasi-historical military novel of the sort likely to be enjoyed by fans of David McCullough and people who don't normally read novels.
Flint writes in a very "accessible" style, which is to say that anyone who is a careful or highly interested reader will be annoyed -- the one-book-a-year crowd who generally fuel the bestseller lists will eat it up. The first few pages are inauspicious. There's a duel between Charles Dickinson and "the principal", or "the other party." We all know what's coming: the "other party" wins the duel and is then revealed to be ... Andrew Jackson! Such trickery is tedious when done well, but Flint goes for the ham fist and simply refuses to tell us who "the other party" is until he's ready to draw the silk handkerchief from the top hat and show off his rabbit. It's actually fairly insulting to the reader's intelligence.
The Rivers of War also appeals to the reader of bestsellers by punting: labeled as a novel of the frontier, most of the book takes place in Washington, DC and New Orleans, with stops in Fort Erie and other places relevant to the War of 1812. He greatly limits Andrew Jackson's racism, and has characters apologize for it. For example, one Patrick Driscol, who reads like Flint's alter ego (a "workingman" soldier, Irish, propogates a pre-Marxist class analysis, anti-slavery, even predicts a civil war) considers Jackson thusly:
The same Jackson who thought nothing of referring to black freedmen as "niggers" had also championed their right to bear arms, overriding the vehement protests of the slave owners. He'd furthermore insisted that the men of the black battalions would receive the same pay as white soldiers.Given that nearly all the rest of Driscol's thoughts on the nature of class, race, and politics is limits-of-the-possible early 19th century radical (Driscol is a fan of Paine's Common Sense) he's rather too forgiving here. Jackson clearly isn't seeing "the men beneath their skins", not anymore than most of the white slaveowners who produced offspring with their female slaves were universally in romantic love with their property. Jackson's simply being practical. He needs guns against the British, and would rather not have a race riot behind his own lines at the same time. And this isn't Driscol going soft on Jackson either; Flint the author needed Jackson to support Houston's never-explicated plan to build a Cherokee nation across the Mississippi, so Jackson is designed as something other than the moonshine-mad, wild-eyed lunatic who graces our sawbucks.
A bully, a bigot -- sometimes a brute -- but still one who could suspend all that at times because he could see the men beneath their skins.
Leaving politics aside, this sort of exposition, wherein one character considers another, fills dozens of pages to poor effect. It's a simply pedagogical tactic as well; there is no disagreement about any character by all observers. Everyone thinks Jackson is a calculated bully with a soft interior, everyone sees Driscol as a man with a spine of iron and radical but compelling ideas, Sam Houston is clearly a golden boy and a genius destined for greatness. There's not one instance of any principals in Flint's world thinking poorly of someone while others think well, and nobody is ever wrong either. Jackson is a bully who never holds a grudge, Driscol is a man's man and a "troll" (nobody thinks of him as an "ogre" even when he's being ogreish – the characters live in a one-metaphor universe). John Ross is useless in battle but very clever, etc. Rather than using the expository observations to teach us about both the observer and the observed, Flint simply cheats: the technique is a way of using omniscient narration and infodumping to continually remind the non-reading reader who is who and what they're all about. The characters also grin (literally, they almost never smile or smirk, it's all grin grin grin grin grin) whenever they predict what someone else is thinking or about to say, as if they're all in on the cosmic joke that they're just paper dolls being pushed around by a novelist.
Like many books designed to appeal to the non-reader reader, The Rivers of War is also full of missteps that, in the old days, a competent copyeditor would have queried. Nearly everyone in the early battles is shot in the head, and Flint repeats the phrase "blood and brains" too many times. On the one occasion where a victim's brains do not leave his head, the closest observer nonetheless notes that the fatal bullet certainly has "jellied the man's brains" to go along with all the blood. On page 35, John Ross is in a battle so noisy that he can't even hear the pistol go off in his own hand. On page 36, in the midst of the same battle and only seconds later, he's introducing himself to another character, one who responds "The John Ross, from Ross Landing? The same one who made a fortune swapping stuff with the Americans down on the river by Chatanuga?" Suddenly the battle is quiet enough for our warrior pals to catch up like two old grandmas over a game of canasta! These days, an action-adventure hardcover almost has to be written so poorly; to write well in a novel of this sort of seen as putting on airs and turning off the bulk of one's potential audience.
And it goes on. Jackson sees Houston blush, and internally comes up with the metaphor "He looked like one of the brightly painted Christmas ornaments that German immigrants were starting to turn into a popular custom." Is this really the first comparison that would come to Jackson's mind, or is this Flint nudging his reader about Christmas trees? The latter, it seems to me. At one point, a character is hit with some splintering wood and "pawed at his eyes." Two pages later, another tells him "Stop pawing at your eyes!" One of the pleasures of historical fiction is seeing historical figures and everyday people come to life; in The Rivers of War, we read a one-man show where Eric Flint wears a series of poorly fitting wigs.
All that said, Flint does his major battle scenes well. The defense of the Capitol building, led by Sam Houston, Patrick Driscoll, and manned by a ragtag group of soldiers they managed to rally, is great fun, and the chess game that leads up to Flint's version of the Battle of New Orleans is quite suspenseful. These two battles stand out in the book because they're not designed to show how stalwart Driscol is or how brutal Jackson is, but because they offer a full panorama of fear, bloodlust, planning, and the dozens of exogenous and minor variables that too often spell the death of good soldiers.
Even here, though, I wince. The battle of the Capitol is observed by Francis Scott Key, who rewrites his famous anthem to depict it rather than Baltimore Harbor. Flint again fakes the funk: Key fumes that the soldiers aren't putting up a star-spangled banner, and then puts the high C at the end of what is the first stanza. Too bad the national anthem actually has four stanzas, even though only the first is sung (with its high C a modern innovation) at ball games and in grade schools. I'm sure Flint knows all four stanzas (do you?) but he also knows that most of his audience doesn't, so he plays to common knowledge, not accuracy. And of course, nobody can resist the voodoo curse that requires writers to shoehorn Marie Laveau into any book that depicts New Orleans.
Flint says in his afterword that The Rivers of War is the result of a request to write a strict alternative history where The Trail of Tears never occurred. He rightly points out that by the early 19th century, given the political economy of America, such an alternative was simply not in the cards. However, Flint clearly also wanted to write a war novel. He could have gone back to the 18th or 17th century, for example, and created an event that made the New World unpleasant for immigrants. He could have changed the course of American Indian history, and used them as historical subjects rather than mere objects, and designed a different history of the continent by altering its indigenous "pre-history." But these novels would have been novels of ideas, and novels of ideas don't sell in hardcover. Battles, famous white people acting a great deal kinder than they did in life, wisecracks, and the opportunity to "learn something" that can be repeated at a cocktail party or family reunion, those sell books. Would that the recent history of publishing and reading were different, but unfortunately, poor books forged in potential greatness inevitably fill our shelves these days.


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Being that dance is a style that blacks perform so well has drawn the attention of others, even as great as praise and worshipping.
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Colby Hicken, 21 - February 07, 2007
Colby Leigh Hicken, 21, of Gothenburg, died Friday, Feb. 2, 2007, in a vehicle accident enroute to Axtell from Minden on Highway 6.
Services will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at the American Lutheran Church of Gothenburg with the Rev. Matthew Groenke officiating. Burial will take place at the Gothenburg Cemetery.
Hicken was born Dec. 9, 1985, at Gothenburg, to Robert and Barbara (Mak) Hicken. He graduated with the Class of 2004 from Gothenburg High School and attended the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
He worked as a med-aide at Home Sharon for Mosaic-Bethphage Village in Axtell. He enjoyed working with the special people who lived there and touched many of their lives, according to family members.
Hicken was an avid sports fan and especially enjoyed the sport of baseball and playing for the Melon's baseball team, said family members. He was also a great fan of the Chicago Cubs and the Minnesota Vikings.
?Another one of his passions was bowling with his family, especially in league with his biggest fan, his dad. Although Colby was known for his sports he was best known for his sense of humor and wonderful smile, the family said.
?He was preceded in death by: his aunt, Lynn Lohrman; grandparents, Frank and Dorothy Hicken.
Survivors include: his parents, Robert and Barbara Hicken of Gothenburg; a sister, Ashleigh (TJ) Hicken-Brown of Lincoln; girlfriend Steph Kreis and daughter, Keyenna of Minden; grandparents, Louis and Helen Mak of Gothenburg; step-brothers—Todd Scott of Omaha and Scott Cutler of South Dakota; aunts, uncles, many cousins and special friends.
Memorials are suggested to the family of Colby Hicken, 817 18th St., Gothenburg, NE 69138.
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All three Iowa Supreme Court justices up for retention election have been ousted from the bench.
Around 54 percent of Iowans voted not to retain each of the three judges: Supreme Court Chief Justice Marsha Ternus and associate justices Michael J. Streit and David L. Baker. The campaign for the judges ouster was based on the court's unanimous 2009 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage in Iowa.
There were 74 judges, including three Supreme Court justices, on the ballot Tuesday. Only the Supreme Court justices, however, came anywhere close to being removed from the bench.
The highly charged campaign featured more than $1 million in spending against the judges from national anti-gay organizations like the Mississippi-based American Family Association, Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council, Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund, Georgia-based Faith & Freedom Coalition and New Jersey-based National Organization for Marriage. The campaign culminated in a 20-city bus tour across Iowa.
The groups pushing for ouster promised that this was simply the first battle in a nationwide war against gay marriage and gay rights.
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Anastasia Dedik returned Sept. 17 to the Spring Lake Village Classical Music Series in a recital that featured three familiar virtuoso works in potent interpretations. Chopin's G Minor Ballade hasn't been heard in Sonoma County public concerts since a long-ago Earl Wild performance, and Beethoven's...
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Before a full house at the Occidental Performing Arts Center Sept. 9 the cello-piano Duo West, playing from score throughout, presented a recital that on paper looked stimulating and thoughtful. Beginning with MacDowell's To A Wild Rose (from Woodland Sketches, Op. 51), the transcription by an unan...
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Two thirds of the way through a stimulating 22-concert season the Spring Lake Village Classical Music Series Sept. 5 presented two splendid cello sonatas before 110 people in the Village's Montgomery auditorium. A duo for more than a decade, East Bay musicians cellist Monica Scott and pianist Hadle...
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The glasshouses
Glasshouse microclimates | The display glasshouse
Many Australian plants are not amenable to Canberra's hot, dry summers and cold, frosty winters and require specific climatic conditions to thrive. The Gardens have four glasshouses and a shadehouse divided up into seven distinct microclimates to accommodate the needs of all its plants.
The glasshouses and shadehouse contain over 5000 individual plants, with the vast majority being orchids. Scientists from the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research use these orchids and specimens from the Australian National Herbarium to research the highly complex classification system of orchids.
The glasshouses contain both epiphytic and terrestrial orchids. Epiphytic orchids attach themselves to rocks, logs or trees and form the bulk of the collection. In addition, a small number of terrestrial (ground-dwelling) orchids are housed in a propagation polytunnel at the nursery. Terrestrial orchids occur naturally in spring and summer in the Gardens and the surrounding Black Mountain Nature Reserve. No epiphytic orchids grow naturally in Canberra as the climate is too cold and dry, but they do occur in the nearby coastal ranges.
When the orchids are flowering in springtime, the Shadehouse is opened to the public. Check the What's on pages for more details, as this event does not happen every year.
Glasshouse microclimates
Display Glasshouse - public access
This glasshouse contains a variety of interesting tropical plants that cannot grow outdoors, plus orchids that are surplus to requirements for scientific study. More information on the Display glasshouse.
Understory of rainforest plants
Cool temperate species. Approximately 25°C day / 15°C night. In winter the temperatures drop 5 - 10 °C. Moderate humidity.
Monsoon woodlands and grasslands (some from Kakadu National Park)
Tropical climates. Approximately 33°C day / 22°C night. In winter the temperatures drop 5 - 10 °C. Moderate humidity.
Glasshouse (Lowlands / Mountain Mist) - no public access
Tropical lowlands environment
Wet tropics. Approximately 30°C day / drops by 5°C at night. High humidity.
Mountain mist environment
Cloud forests found in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. Includes many orchids from Papua New Guinea. Also large tassel ferns and pitcher plants. 25°C day / 10°C night.
Glasshouse (Monsoon) - no public access
Monsoon / dry tropics
Hot, low 30°C's and very humid for Summer / Wet season. Dry and cooler in Winter / Dry season.
Glasshouse (Montane) - no public access
Intermediate / montane house
Replicates the intermediate area between the cloud forests and lowlands of Papua New Guinea. Many tassel ferns. Cool to warm 25 - 30°C day / 15°C night. Low humidity.
Shadehouse (Cool Temperate) - occasional public access
The corridor almost exclusively grows orchids, many from the coastal ranges of the east coast of Australia.
The plants in the shadehouse are protected from the elements with varying layers of waterproofing or shade cloth added to the meshed exterior walls throughout the year. The changes in covering coincide roughly with the seasons.


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Mary Anne Godleski-Tissot remembers the exact moment her pro-life activism began. It was Jan. 23, 1973, and her mother was reading the paper. She told her daughter, then a senior in high school, about the Supreme Court's
Roe v. Wade
decision of the day before, and how it legalized the murder of children in the womb.
"I remember thinking, 'they can't do that,' but they did," said Mrs. Tissot, the newest professed member of the Missionaries of the Gospel of Life (or MEV, from the Latin). "The next day in school, I was walking around with a clipboard."
Mrs. Tissot once dreamed of becoming an ecologist and saving the environment. Instead, she has devoted her life to saving babies.
"I eat and sleep pro-life," said the resident of Moravia, N.Y., who has lived – and been involved in pro-life work – in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Nebraska.
A mother of three, Mrs. Tissot has learned some hard lessons in her life about love and loss, hardship and miracles.
"When I was in ninth grade, my Mom got pregnant. I learned a lot about life that way," she said. After getting married in 1984, she and her husband lost twins at 16 weeks in 1988, and because the state of New Jersey did not recognize the unborn as people, "we couldn't take them home to bury them. There was no death certificate."
The couple has three daughters, Jennifer, Rebecca and Rachael, and a grandson, 5-year-old Nathan. Twenty-eight-year-old Jennifer was born at 25 weeks, weighing just 1.5 pounds. She survived and thrived but would go blind at age 9. "She was my miracle baby, and she's taught me since then that we can do anything as long as we're given the opportunity."
Mrs. Tissot first learned about the MEV program from seeing Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, on EWTN several years ago.
"He was so full of zeal," she recalled. "The energy that comes from him is tremendous." She went to the MEV website (Priestsforlife.org/missionary), but didn't begin the program immediately. It was three or four years later while involved with the 40 Days for Life campaign in Ithaca, N.Y., that she came in contact with Nancy Belzile, a professed MEV, through an email asking leaders in New York for prayer and support.
" I noticed the initials MEV after her name, and I said, 'uh oh, is that the Holy Spirit talking to me?' I was challenged to get moving."
Get moving she did, and on November 10, Father Richard Shatzel accepted her promises during Mass at St. Patrick's Church in Moravia. She's the first MEV in her church community.
"The ceremony was so moving, and I thought, maybe it will touch someone else," she said. "I want to do it as a witness, more than anything. We have to tell the world that abortion is not just one of many issues. It is THE issue."
Mrs. Tissot has always been able to see the big picture, and one thing she's noticed is that often pro-life groups will work side-by-side, but not really together. Her newest project is an effort to change that. For the first time, a bus headed for the March for Life will leave from Ithaca. A Facebook page, Facebook.com/IthacaIsGoingtoDC has been set up to generate support.
"One day the Lord told me I had to shake the dust off my feet. I went to the March from Syracuse last year, but I kept saying that we had to get something out of Ithaca." The central New York city is home to Cornell University and Ithaca College, and a Planned Parenthood facility currently operating out of a Victorian house, but with plans to expand to a much larger facility.
"Twenty or 25 of us will be praying outside, and the escorts will come out on the porch," she said. "They see us as a threat, because they know we have the answer. When you learn the Gospel of Life, you know there's hope. That's where we come in as MEVs. We have to tell the world."
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Another Volatile Day Leaves Nikkei Off 3.2%
Japanese stocks tumbled on Monday as a strengthening yen led to another day of volatile trading in Tokyo.
The dollar slipped below ¥101 to fetch ¥100.92 at the close of equity trading in Tokyo, from ¥101.67 at the same time Friday. Later in the global day, the greenback was at ¥101.12, down from ¥101.31 late Friday in New York.
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Mueller to Moscow; bombing probe discussed
May. 07, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI director Robert Mueller discussed the Boston Marathon bombings investigation with his Russian counterparts during a trip to Moscow and engaged in talks on security cooperation between the two countries.
FBI spokesman Michael Kortan said Tuesday's visit was productive and that Mueller is now on his way to other overseas destinations. Kortan declined to elaborate on conversations in Moscow about the Boston bombing probe.
The U.S. and Russia have been collaborating on the criminal investigation into the two suspects in the Boston case.
Russian agents placed the elder Boston bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, under surveillance during a six-month visit to southern Russia last year, then scrambled to find him when he suddenly disappeared after police killed a Canadian jihadist, a Russian security official has told The Associated Press.
U.S. law enforcement offic6ials have been trying to determine whether Tamerlan Tsarnaev was indoctrinated or trained by militants during his visit to Dagestan, a Caspian Sea province that has become the center of a simmering Islamic insurgency.
The Russian security official with the Anti-Extremism Center, a federal agency under Russia's Interior Ministry, told the AP that Russian agents were watching Tsarnaev, and that they searched for him when he disappeared two days after the July 2012 death of the Canadian man, William Plotnikov, who had joined the Islamic insurgency in the region. The Russian official spoke only on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media.
Associated Press writers Arsen Mollyev and Lynn Berry in Moscow contributed to this report.


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- Basic Attack Missile Speed: 2500
- Frost Shots does not apply spell effects.
- 20px Spell shields will block Template:Ais slow, but not the bonus damage.
Additional Information:
- Frosted targets are distinct from Slowed targets - only Ashe's Frost Shot can trigger the bonus damage. Other slows can't trigger it.
- Ashe's empowered attacks (even with no bonus crit chance or damage) are classified as critical strikes for gameplay purposes and will trigger effects such as Template:Mi4 and Template:Mi4. [2]
- Template:Pending for test: As such, it is also not applied by Runaan's Hurricane.
- Here are examples on the behaviour of Frost Shot's bonus damage:[3] Simply add the following to the base 110% AD for the total damage.
- Infinity Edge will add 30% AD bonus damage - 20 × (1Template:Plus0.5).
- Adding a Phantom Dancer increases the aforementioned to 82.5% AD bonus damage - 55 × (1Template:Plus0.5).
- With 100% critical strike chance and Template:Iis bonus critical damage, you will deal 150% AD bonus damage 100 × (1Template:Plus0.5).
- Probable Bug: Critical strike damage from runes is stacking multiplicatively with Template:Iis bonus critical strike damage, rather than additively, for a maximum of 228.265% bonus damage (10Template:Plus (100 × (1Template:Plus0.5) × (1Template:Plus 0.4551)) instead of 205.51% (10Template:Plus (100 × (1Template:Plus0.9551).
- Statikk Shiv will 110 + (CritChance × (1 + CritDamage)) bonus magic damage if triggered against a frosted target, but can only ever deal 100 if triggered on a non-frosted target. Be sure to apply Frost with Volley or Enchanted Crystal Arrow before engaging if you plan on using this item.
Additional Information:
- The multi-attack effect is similar to Lightslinger and Double Strike, except that on-hit effects aren't applied by the extra attacks.
- Triggering On Attack Effects (namely Runaan's Hurricane and Ci is for official champions only.) five times is intentional behavior. [4] Note that Pix's cannot attack more than twice per second.
- Template:Pending for test On-hit effects are disabled on the latter four attacks and will not be triggered even by Runaan's minor bolts. As such, the item's 10 on-hit damage is only applied by the first attack.
- Template:Pending for test Runaan's splash damage is affected by the damage modifier - dealing 「 10 (+57.5 / 60 / 62.5 / 65/ 67.5 AD) damage per flurry 」「 11.5 / 12 / 12.5 / 13 / 13.5% AD damage per arrow (+10 on the first) 」 to secondary targets.
- As with Headshot, attacks against structures will refresh the timer on Focus but will not generate new stacks.
- The flurry will damage structures.
- Projectile Speed: 2000
- Applies spell effects as an area of effect ability.
- 20px Spell vamp is reduced to one-third effectiveness.
- Rylai's Crystal Scepter will apply a 15% slow.
- 20px Spell shields will block the ability.
- This ability is considered to be a projectile for Unbreakable and Wind Wall.
- This ability is considered to be a projectile for Unbreakable and Wind Wall.
Additional Information:
- Hawkshot grants standard sight, which does not reveal stealthed units.
- Projectile Speed: 1600.
- Applies spell effects as an area of effect ability.
- 20px Spell vamp is reduced to one-third effectiveness.
- Rylai's Crystal Scepter will apply a 15% slow.
- Magic damage will be mitigated by magic shields.
- 20px Spell shields can block both the impact and the explosion. Blocking the stun will not prevent the explosion from happening.
- This ability is considered to be a projectile for Unbreakable and Wind Wall.
Additional Information:
- Enchanted Crystal Arrow provides sight around the arrow and briefly after detonation.
- Basic Attack Missile Speed: 2500


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John W. McCauley, USDA Farm Service Agency State Executive Director announced that calendar year 2012 brings several changes to the way FSA reports a producer's farm program payments to the producer and to IRS.
In past years, IRS Forms 1099-G would be issued to show all program payments received from the Farm Service Agency, regardless of the amount.
"Starting with calendar year 2012, producers whose total reportable payments from FSA are less than $600 will not receive IRS Form 1099-G (Report of Payments to Producers)," said McCauley.
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New baseboard enables symmetric multiprocessing software development at near real time
CAMBRIDGE, UK – Nov. 21, 2007 – ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)] today announced the RealView® Platform Baseboard for the ARM11™ MPCore™ multiprocessor, the recommended platform for ARM® technology-based symmetric multiprocessing applications development.
The usage of multiprocessor-based SoCs is rapidly growing to meet today's processing requirement. With ever decreasing time-to-market windows, OEMs need to develop software at near real time before the final silicon is available. The hardware platform architecture and performance requirements, including access to the specific processor architecture, increase the pressure on silicon providers to deliver to their customers out-of-box ready hardware platforms suitable for early software development.
The Platform Baseboard for the ARM11 MPCore multiprocessor is especially designed for symmetric multiprocessing applications development at near real time speed. It consists of a test chip ASIC containing four ARM11 MPCore multiprocessors and Level2 cache running at 200 Megahertz, and a memory system on a structured ASIC containing all the speed critical peripherals commonly seen in embedded systems running at 100 Megahertz.
By attaching PCI cards, PCI Express cards or FPGA-based RealView Logic Tiles to the Platform Baseboard customers can emulate a complete multiprocessor-based SoC. The interface between the Platform Baseboard and RealView Logic Tiles uses AMBA®3 AXI™ technology, so that accesses to peripherals synthesized on the Logic Tiles are consistent with those happening in the final silicon.
About RealView Hardware Platforms
The ARM RealView family of feature-rich development boards provides an excellent environment for prototyping system-on-chip designs. Through a range of plug-in options, developers can create and debug hardware and software applications. These high-performance boards enhance the end-user experience for benchmarking and simplify concurrent hardware and software development, all of which shortens time-to-market.
The Platform Baseboard for the ARM11 MPCore multiprocessor (PB11MPCore) will be generally available mid-November 2007. PB11MPCore can be ordered by quoting part number PBMPC-BD-0238A. Please contact your local ARM office or authorized RealView Development Tools Distributors in your region.
For further information on this product, please go to: http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/PB11MPCore.html
About ARM
ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, data engines, graphics processors, digital libraries, embedded memories, peripherals, software and development tools, as well as analog functions and high-speed connectivity products. Combined with the company's broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.
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Franklin PierceMay 23. 2013 4:14PM
Franklin Pierce (1804-1869)
Old North Cemetery
Concord, NH
Marker Number: 80
Name and date established: Concord 1971
Description: Fourteenth President of the United States (1853 to 1857). Lies buried in nearby Minot enclosure. Native son of New Hampshire, graduate of Bowdoin College, lawyer, effective political leader, Congressman and U.S. Senator, Mexican War veteran, courageous advocate of State's Rights, he was popularly know as "Young Hickory of the Granite Hills." This marker was erected in cooperation with the city of Concord.
Location: Located in front of the Old North Cemetery, near the intersection of North State Street and Keane Avenue, in the northern end of downtown Concord.