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STAMPS tell Story of Science (Oct, 1934)
STAMPS tell Story of Science
By Charles Irving Corwin
How a Collection Album Illustrates Many Fields of Human Knowledge
AN you describe in detail a common United States postage stamp? If you can, you are exceptional. We may think we know what they look like, but it is difficult to tell offhand, without peeking, just what figures or phrases are used, let alone describe the central picture or border designs. The recent Mother's Day and NRA commemoratives are exceptions, since the criticism and controversy aroused by these miniature steel engravings made us examine them more closely. It is recalled that a vase of flowers was smuggled into the reproduction of Whistler's Mother, and the fact that in the NRA issue business was out of step with labor and agriculture provoked some amusement, but even these two well-known stamps will catch most of us. For instance, is the "three cents" spelled out or indicated by a figure? Moreover, what three-cent stamp issued last year had both "three" and "3" on it?
But the study of stamps can be more than a game. It is instructive. Virtually every science from Archaeology to Zoology can be traced in stamps. A few examples will make this clear.
Take botany, for example. A wealth of familar and exotic plant specimens may be-gathered from among the postage stamps of the world, and these samples may be pressed between the pages of an album much as actual specimens from a field study are preserved. Cuba's palms, China's rice fields, balsams (misnamed balsam Peru) from Salvador; rubber-gathering in the Cameroons, cotton in Egypt, grapes from Liechtenstein (carried on a tray by the famous "grape girl"); the cedars of Lebanon, Ecuador's national pride "cacao" (cocoa to us); and as a final, beautiful instance of the close tie-up between stamps and botany, the Turk's-head cactus after which the Turks Islands were named (see the Turks and Caicos Islands stamp illustrated on this page). The" student of zoology may arrange his specimens in order from A to Z, from the ant-eater of British Guiana to the zebra of Nyassa, Africa. Moreover, he may classify by species and sub-species. Even varieties of the same animal may be studied; for example the small-eared tractable Indian elephant on the Sirmoor Indian state stamp, and the big-eared, mean-disposed, wild elephant of the Belgian Congo. The single-hump Arabian camel (dromedary) and the double-hump, Bactrian camel of the Orient may be compared in issues of the Egyptian Sudan and Tannou Touva (Northern Mongolia, under Soviet influence). Liberia, especially, is a happy hunting ground for the zoologically inclined philatelist, with pygmy and normal-size hippos, zebra-striped antelope, red bush-pigs, Senegalese buffalo and others.
The ornithologist is not forgotten, for there are doves of peace bearing olive branches, belligerent condors from the Bolivian Andes, India's peacocks, New Zealand's swans, and the Chinese "wild goose" special delivery, which is the largest.stamp in the world. The ichthyologist will ignore the sportive whale of the Falkland Islands stamp, as not a true fish but a mammal, but he will find many real "fish" stamps, including a Newfoundland issue showing a close-up of salmon and entitled "King of the River." Anthropology, the study of man, and ethnology, covering his geographic distribution, are made absorbing through stamps. Man's habits and habiliments, customs and costumes can be examined and compared on thousands of stamps. The original Biblical races of Shem, Ham, and J a -pheth; or the more scientific amplification to the quintet of White, Yellow, Black, Red and Brown races, are authentically pictured. The half dozen shown on the opposite page give an idea of the possibilities. Starting with the Gabon warrior in feather headdress, self-lacerated features, poison-tipped spears, and cannibalistic appetite, we can run the gamut to the dainty "Mademoiselle from Luxemburg." The Indian prince in his effeminate-looking turban, and next the white-collared, bespectacled President of Liberia. The oblique-eyed little patriot-martyr, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, "Father of the Chinese Republic," and, last but not least, the real American— Salvador's honored Indian Chief Atlacatl.
In another group of stamps we have man's conquest of the air, graphically and pic-torially traced. Some of these stamps are merely commemorative, others are quite logically issued for air-mail use. Begin with the beautiful Greek air-mail stamp that depicts a mythical figure of Icarus ascending too near the sun with his wings attached by wax. In the next stamp Brazil honors her citizen, Santos-Dumont, who flew that box-kitelike contraption on November 12, 1906. What progress is recorded in a quarter of a century when one compares that crate of Santos-Dumont's with the modern streamlined monoplane that flies across the face of the Indo-China air-mail issues!
Next is a German invention, the Graf Zeppelin, but on a Russian stamp! The Russian stamp commemorated the flight of the "Graf" from Frederichshafen to Moscow, and the receipts from the sale of the stamp went into a special fund to build a similar dirigible for the Soviet.
Bringing the progress of aviation up to date, there is the attractive Belgian stamp recording Prof. Au-guste Piccard's historic ascent into the stratosphere on August 18, 1932. But new records are being made and broken so rapidly, that fifteen months later the U.S.S.R. Balloon "Stratostat" broke Piccard's record by 9,000 feet. Russia quite naturally did not miss the chance to crow over this achievement, and so brought out a beautiful, graceful series depicting their own aeronautical experiments, with the laconic phrase at the top: "19,-000 M." (about thirteen miles to us).
Turning to the field of invention, we find a modern printing press in ancient Mongolia! But that is not strange when we recall that China was the birthplace of printing. Still it is a long step from the crude block printing before the T'ang Dynasty, Seventh Century A.D., to the high-speed rotary press of the twentieth century. Mongolia merely wants the word to know that she is keeping up with the procession. Next! The bearded gentleman from Belgium, Zenobe Gramme, is credited with the practical invention of the dynamo. Belgium wants to advertise the fact; hence the portrait of the inventor and his invention. Incidentally, the specialist who collects only stamps depicting men with beards has a real find in this specimen.
And here is a familar sight—a steam shovel, and in Russia. The Soviet gives notice that she is prosecuting her five-year plan, with a series of stamps picturing blast furnaces, power sites, and tractors.
From the dynamo it is but a step to a hydroelectric plant on the banks of a river famous in song and folklore. Thus does the Irish Free State advertise a prosaic scene on a romantic stream, the River Shannon. There is another amusing fact: this huge power dam was built by a German contractor and many German workers were imported to work shoulder to shoulder with Irish native laborers.
Canada is so proud of her new bridge across the St. Lawrence at Quebec, the longest cantilever bridge in the world, that she pictures it on a 12-cent postage stamp. This bridge has a tragic history for on the first attempt to raise it, it crumpled and dashed eighty-five workmen to death. Now this mighty channel span of 1,800 feet forms a splendid monument to engineering success in spite of temporary failures.
Only two other bridges in North America have been honored on postage stamps—the bridge crossing the Mississippi at St. Louis, and the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge. There are, however, hundreds of other historic structures on stamps of other countries and there is agitation to have our famous Brooklyn Bridge commemorated post-ally in the future.
What's wrong with the St. Kitts-Nevis stamp shown on this page? Columbus was a man ahead of his time in more ways than one, but the designer of this stamp took liberties in permitting him to discover America, in 1492, with the aid of a spyglass. The telescope was not invented until more than a hundred years later. This stamp was issued several times with varying designs from 1903 to 1922, but no one took the trouble to convince the postal authorities of their error.
St. Kitts-Nevis is not the only British possession to make a slip on its stamps. The Dominion of Canada issued a map stamp in "Xmas 1898" that showed British possessions indicated over the pertinent phrase: "We hold vaster Empire than has been." This map accidentally but prophetically claims the Transvaal, which was annexed by proclamation September 1, 1900; and the Orange Free State (Boer), which did not acknowledge British sovereignty until May 31, 1902. Moreover, German Southwest Africa was not transferred to Great Britain until after the world war in 1919.
The old New England "Blue Laws" and the strict observance of the Sabbath by the Pilgrim Fathers are recalled by some of the stamps of Belgium. The one illustrated at the right shows the portrait of the late King Albert. What is odd about this stamp is the small detachable portion at the bottom. If a writer has religious scruples or does not wish to offend some strict observer of the Seventh Day, he leaves the stamp intact, since the perforated tag states Ne Pas Livrer Dimanche and Niet-bestellen Op Zondag—the French and Flemish for "Do not deliver on Sunday."
Some collectors specialize on stamps depicting boats, steam, sail, or hand propelled. The three boat-stamps reproduced at the bottom of the opposite page hail from Russia, Greece, and Costa Rica, and each stamp carries a story. First: When a Greek multi-million-naire died he bequeathed a million and a half dollars for the purchase of a warship. They bought an Italian vessel, and renamed it the "Averoff," in honor of their dead, public-spirited citizen. Second: the stamp at the left shows the effect of uncontrolled inflation, since it sold for 250,000 rubles, of which 200,000 went for postage and balance of 50,000 rubles to charity. The Slavic inscription at the bottom reads with bitter brevity— "for the hungry." The third stamp is canceled with five parallel vertical lines, which indicates that the government wanted to make a lot of money at the expense of collectors and so arbitrarily canceled a stock of stamps that had never seen postal use.
We have purposely placed the lady and gentleman in the lower right-hand corner of this page back to back, since the gentleman for years would not recognize the lady; and in fact snubbed her, by refusing to honor her as a stamp on a letter in his country. It's a long story; but briefly the Falkland Islands which lie 250 miles off the Argentine coast, have been a cause of contention among several nations. England and Spain nearly went to war over this 6,500 square miles of rocky land. Argentina once claimed it and had a dispute with the United States. But in the end the Empire upon which the sun never sets, sat on the islands, and the Falklands are today British territory with British subjects—all 2,000 of them.
The Shanghai local city stamp in the center of the opposite page is curious on several counts. It contains words in three languages, English, Chinese, and Latin. With a good reading glass, the flags of a dozen foreign nations can be recognized. Austria, Great Britain, France, Germany, " Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Italy, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. Moreover, the Union Jack seems to be under the Stars and Stripes. However, England has no cause to object, because Old Glory also seems to be upside down.
The Spanish stamp at the top of this page is one of a series commemorating the "Spanish-American Union." However, in this case the stamp is not especially symbolic of union since the two halves appear in the wrong relation to each other. This error occured when the stamps were perforated incorrectly.
The Serbian stamp to the right of it is one of the "horror" stamps of Europe. When viewed normally it appears to be merely the profile view of the "Tsrni Gyorgye"—Black George, Serbian patriot, and a subsequent monarch, King Peter. But if the stamp is inverted, as illustrated, the death mask of King Peter's immediate predecessor can be discerned. The story is told that King Alexander and his consort were brutally murdered so that King Peter might ascend the throne, and the martyred king's friends secretly arranged to have his death mask hidden in the stamp design to advertise the assassination.
Which of the Jamaican stamps on this page contains an error? The one to the left has a mistake in its left border. The Union Jack should have a wider stripe of white above on one part of the cross than below. This error was later recognized and corrected, as can be plainly seen in the similar stamp to the right. For a while, however, the Union Jack appeared upside down, a sign of distress.
The two stamps from Roumania in the lower left-hand corner of page 36 contain the portraits of a father and son who both ruled the country. But the son, ex-king Michael (Mihai) was king before his father, and if he outlives his dad he will probably be king again. His father, the present king Carol II, temporarily renounced his right to the throne. But the thought of being king finally proved too much of a temptation, so Carol returned to his native country and his son became a little prince again.
In the lower right-hand corner of this page are two unusual stamps: one from Poland, the other from Brazil. The Polish stamp not only honors its two heroes Kosciusko and Pulaski, but also pictures our own George Washington. This stamp was issued as a' friendly gesture by Poland coincident with our observance of the Washington bicentennial. The Brazilian stamp shows the late King Albert of Belgium and the President of Brazil. It was issued to commemorate the visit of the Belgian sovereigns to South America.
At the bottom center of page 36 is an illustration of the two sides of a Russian stamp issued in 1913 as part of the Romanoff Centenary series. This stamp was printed for paper money, but it also could be used for postage. Below it are the front and back of a Latvian stamp. This was printed in 1920, when paper was scarce, so the resourceful Letts used some half-finished money as paper stock. A block of ten Latvian stamps, imperforate, are shown at the top of page 36. These came out in 1918; and old German war maps were pressed into service. The back of this same block is also shown.
There is an American law which prohibits advertising on stamps. But in Italy, the postal administration was permitted to sell advertising space on the bottom of the regular postage stamps. Above are shown two examples; one a liquor ad, and the other a more familar emblem of the Singer Sewing Machine, "Maccione Singer Percucire".
New Zealand also experimented with selling advertising on postage stamps, but in a less blatant form, since the advertisements were on the back of the stamp. The stamps shown above were issued in 1878, and the advertisements were written either vertically or horizontally as the clients desired. The agency even used some of these stamps to announce the fact that such space could be bought.
In the heyday of stamp advertising in New Zealand, letters were decorated with sales messages extolling such commodities as table jelly, cocoa, coal, dandelion coffee for indigestion, men's and boys' clothing, cough remedies, and Irish moss. In the United States, however, the law against this kind of advertising has been enforced so jealously that even on the commemorative issues brought out in connection with national expositions the Postmaster General has to be careful as to the phrases used in the designs.
This advertising is now discontinued, but many governments publicize their important products and resources both in the designs on stamps and on specially worded cancellations.
Thus does the stamp collector's album illustrate the many fields of human knowledge and activity. It is a picture-book of science, in which the pictures are all diminutive works of art, produced by skilful designers. To turn through its pages is an adventure in which strange and interesting facts are confronted on every leaf.


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Dear Mike, My first piece of advice is not to look back or ruminate on things you can't change. You'll be much better off focusing on your finances so you can enjoy your next 50 years.
You've already fixed one of your biggest problems: You've secured a job. Using credit to keep your head above water while you are looking can be a smart strategy provided you keep your minimum payments up to date while you are job hunting. This can protect your cash reserves while keeping your credit report clean during the job application process. It sounds like you ran out of credit before you got your new job. You have the job now, so let's get you fiscally fit again!
Hopefully your new job gives you the financial means to make some progress on your bills. And don't worry about getting credit again. You should be well on your way to improving your situation and becoming creditworthy in about two to three years. Remember, your credit report is a snapshot of your current financial life. Once you begin to improve your credit report, your credit score will follow.
I want you to start with a plan -- a comprehensive, customized, flexible plan. First, determine your fixed living expenses. Next, figure out what you need to pay to save your car from repossession. Then, find out what you need to pay to satisfy your other creditors.
To help you decide the best course of action, I recommend you contact a nonprofit credit counseling agency that's affiliated with either the National Foundation for Credit Counseling or the Association of Independent Consumer Credit Counseling Agencies. Your certified credit counselor will help you review your expenses, income and assets. After you have completed a thorough financial review, your counselor will make recommendations on how to proceed.
As long as you have enough income to pay what you owe, I wouldn't file for bankruptcy. It probably won't make the student loans go away. Settlements may work instead. But if you decide to go this route, do it yourself and be sure to get all settlement agreements in writing before you send your payment(s).
At 50, it is time to begin saving aggressively. My recommendation is to keep just enough money in your checking account to handle your living expenses. Then, use direct deposits to funnel all the rest of your income into savings and investment accounts. Roll your retirement funds into an IRA and begin looking at moderate to conservative investment strategies. Chances are it won't be the great investments you pick that will determine your retirement future, but the losers you avoid!
Good luck!
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Violinist Marianne Martinoli Wins BSO Young Artist Competition
The Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra has announced the 2013 winner of the BSO's 2013 Young Artist Competion - MariAnne Martinoli, violin, age 15 from Monroe. Pianist Benjamin Salman of Seattle was awarded second place for his performance of the first movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, "Emperor." The judges also announced two Honorable Mentions given to pianists Mya King, from Silverdale, for her performance of Albeniz' Concierto Fantastico, mvt 3, Allegro, and to Michael Lee, from Issaquah, for his performance of Liszt's Totentanz.
Ms. Martinoli will perform the Julius Conus Concerto for Violin in E minor in the final concerts of the BSO's 40th Anniversary Season on Friday, May 31 and Sunday, June 2. In addition to Ms. Martinoli's performance the BSO will feature works by Weber, Barber, Kroening, and Hindemith including the latter's dazzling masterpiece, "Symphonic Metamorphosis." Also taking place on the program is the WORLD PREMIERE of a work by Brett Kroening, commissioned on the occasion of the orchestra's 40th Anniversary.
Make plans now for the BSO's double matinee concert weekend - "The Grand and The Pastoral" - on February 23 & 24. The program features works by Smetana, Respighi, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven. Celebrated cellist Elizabeth Lee joins the BSO to perform two works for cello and orchestra. Maestro Wesley Schulz says, "Finding calm and peace are essential in keeping up with the grind of life. And "it's in this spirit," he continues, "that I would like to invite you take off your yoke, set down your bag, and come join the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra."
Tickets for the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra performances are $19 for adults and $16 for seniors, students, military, and teachers; each youth receives free admission when accompanied by a paying adult. Patrons may purchase tickets online atwww.bainbridgeperformingarts.org, by phone at 206.842.8569 or in person at BPA, 200 Madison Avenue North, Bainbridge Island. BPA Box Office hours are 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, and one hour prior to each performance.
Bainbridge Performing Arts extends special thanks the BSO Corporate Sponsor, Kitsap Bank; The BSO is supported, in part, by Bainbridge Island Municipal Park District, Fletcher Bay Foundation, and Kitsap Community Foundation. BPA is supported, in part, by One Call for All.
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Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.), also called the Island, one of the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Curving from North Cape to East Point, "the Island," as Prince Edward Islanders refer to the province, is about 140 miles (225 km) long, ranging from 2 to 40 miles (3 to 65 km) in width. It lies between 46° and 47° N latitude and 62° and 64° W longitude. To the south and west, the Northumberland Strait separates the island from the mainland provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Its location, along with the island's fertile red soil, has given Prince Edward Island two nicknames: the "Garden of the Gulf" (referring to the Gulf of St. Lawrence) and the "Million-Acre Farm." It is also sometimes referred to as "Spud Island" because of its significant potato production.
The aboriginal Mi'kmaq (Micmac) people called the island Abegweit—popularly translated "Cradled on the Waves"—which aptly describes the slender crescent of land nested in the surrounding waters. As part of Acadia during the French regime (1720–58), it was called Île Saint-Jean, but when the British took over they first Anglicized the name to St. John's Island, then attempted to call it New Ireland, and finally, in 1799, named it for Edward Augustus, the duke of Kent and Strathern, commander of the British forces in North America and one of the sons of King George III of Great Britain. The island became a separate colony in 1769 and has remained what some scholars characterize as a "subnational island jurisdiction" ever since. In 1873 Prince Edward Island became the seventh province of Canada.
The smallest and most densely populated of Canada's 10 provinces, the island has three counties: Prince, Queens, and Kings. In 1997 the 8-mile- (12.9-km-) long Confederation Bridge was inaugurated. It is the world's longest bridge over waters that freeze over in winter and connects the island to the neighbouring Canadian province of New Brunswick. The name of the island's capital, Charlottetown, commemorates the wife of King George III. Area 2,185 square miles (5,660 square km). Pop. (2016) 142,907; (2019 est.) 154,750.
Relief and soils
Numerous streams, bays, and tidal estuaries indent the irregular coastline. On the north side the bays are generally blocked by dunes, but on the east and south there are good natural harbours. Along the 1,100 miles (1,800 km) of shoreline, red sandstone cliffs average about 20 feet (6 metres) in height but occasionally exceed 50 feet (15 metres). Most of the island is within 5 miles (8 km) of the sea or a tidal inlet, and no spot is more than 10 miles (16 km) from salt water. Water pollution has not been extensive (mainly because of the paucity of heavy industry and of mass manufacturing), but effluents from food- and fish-processing plants, manure, pesticide, and fertilizer runoff, and soil erosion from intensive potato cultivation, as well as oil leakage and sedimentation, have collectively seriously degraded some water resources. Evidence of this can be found in the episodes of massive fish kills in rivers and estuaries that have been reported at least since 1962 and documented since 1994.
The landscape ranges from rolling hills in central Queens county to level stretches in western Prince county. The highest elevation is 466 feet (142 metres) above sea level in Queens county. The soils, classed as podzols, rest on a sandstone base and are low in plant nutrients and high in acidity. On more than half the island, the red sandy loam is suitable for cultivation.
Climate and plant and animal life
The climate of the province receives a significant impact from the surrounding ocean, with warmth drawn from the waters in the fall and early winter but then cool air for most of spring and summer. With this "oceanic pump" effect, the onset of the seasons is delayed several weeks when compared with continental Canada. The average mean temperature is in the low 40s F (about 6 °C), and the mean annual precipitation is about 40 inches (1,000 mm). Such mean temperatures, however, conceal some the most variable day-to-day weather experienced in the country. Mean maximum temperature in July is the low 20s C (about 74 °F), while mean minimum temperature in February is about −12 °C (about 11 °F). Measurable snowfalls are common over the long winter season from November to April.
Prior to European settlement, the mixed forest consisted mainly of beech, maple, pine, hemlock, oak, and spruce, varying according to topography, elevation, and soil drainage. Fragmented successional forest now covers about half the island. Foreign species now include linden, horse chestnut, black walnut, and European mountain ash. Tall trees line town streets as well as country lanes.
Also prior to European settlement, moose roamed the island, as did black bears up to the early 20th century. Wildcats were exterminated, but foxes and snowshoe hares endured, and the nearly depleted beaver has been reintroduced. Mink, weasels, and muskrats are numerous. The striped skunk and the coyote are unwelcome invaders (the first coyote known to have been snared on the island was caught in 1983). The ruffed grouse is a native bird, but ring-necked pheasants and Hungarian partridges are imports. Canada geese and brant are regular migrants. Cormorants are increasing, while black ducks are diminishing. Island rivers support such fish as trout, perch, and salmon. There is an active wildlife-conservation program.
Mi'kmaq First Nations (Native Americans or Indians) continue to inhabit Prince Edward Island. About 1,700 of them lived on the island at the beginning of the 21st century—more than one-tenth on the reserves of Lennox Island, Scotchfort, Morell, and Rocky Point, with the remainder "off reserve" in their traditional ancestral homelands.
More than three-fourths of current Islanders are descendants of early settlers from the British Isles: Highland Scots, English, and both southern and Ulster Irish. Many original settlement patterns can still be traced in place-names and family names. The most common family name remains MacDonald.
Other ancestral strains include several hundred British loyalists, who settled on the island after the American Revolution, and about 30 Acadian families, recorded in the census of 1765, who were the progenitors of several thousand present-day French-speaking island residents. The Acadians mostly live south of Rustico, near Cape Egmont, and west and north of Cascumpeque Bay. A stream of Syrian and Lebanese immigrants settled on the island in the late 19th century, to whom a number of island premiers traced their lineage. Since 1945 a number of Dutch farming families, looking for fertile but inexpensive land, as well as a sprinkling of other western Europeans, Americans, and Latin Americans, have settled on Prince Edward Island.
Church attendance on Prince Edward Island was the highest by province in Canada at the beginning of the 21st century, with more than half of the population reporting attending service at least once per month. Roman Catholics make up the largest religious denomination on the island, followed by United Church of Christ members, Presbyterians, Anglicans, and Baptists. There are also small Muslim and Jewish communities. English is the predominant language of the island, spoken by more than nine-tenths of residents; relatively few Prince Edward Islanders speak only French. Bilingualism is encouraged, however, by an optional French immersion program in schools, and classroom instruction in French is available.
Settlement patterns
Prince Edward Island maintains a largely rural character, and population growth in the province has been most apparent in and around the capital city of Charlottetown and in the second largest city, Summerside. With fewer than 5,000 residents each, the island's other main towns—Alberton, Georgetown, Kensington, Montague, Souris, and Tignish—have exhibited little change in size. Prince Edward Island's population is relatively evenly divided between rural and urban communities. Family farms are increasing in acreage but decreasing in numbers. Kings county is the province's least-populated area.
Demographic trends
In the first decades of the 21st century, the number of people exiting Prince Edward Island's labour force was expected to overtake the number of new job seekers. In the same period, the birth rate for the province (which was lower than that for the country as a whole) steadily declined; however, the island's population continued to grow gradually mainly because of a net influx of new immigrants. Unlike previous waves of immigration—which, as described above, were dominated by immigrants from Europe, the United States, and Latin America—many newcomers during this period came from China, South Korea, and Taiwan. About two-fifths of these immigrants have remained longtime residents of the island.
A fertile soil and a temperate growing season favour agriculture; the island's location makes it a base for lobster, shellfish, and groundfish (cod, hake, flounder, and redfish) operations; and its sandy beaches, warm waters, and other tourist amenities attract hundreds of thousands of summer visitors. Despite the success of these major industries, the provincial economy has lagged appreciably behind national averages for productivity, employment, and per capita income. Limited human and natural resources, distance from large markets, high transportation costs, and the country's highest electric power rates per capita render industrial enterprise less competitive.
During the late 20th century, federal-provincial agreements enabled the province to institute a series of reforms aimed at assisting the people in creating viable economic enterprises for themselves. These included full exploitation of agriculture, development of tourist facilities, better use of forest assets, improvement of fisheries, expansion of manufacturing, public investment in housing, health, and welfare services, and the extension of programs of education and training. The reforms resulted in upgraded living standards, but with a growing dependence on public funds and a strain on provincial resources.
Agriculture and fishing
Agriculture continues to serve as a significant economic base and as the province's iconic industry. The traditional primary crop is potatoes; turnips, hay, and grains are also grown. Dairy farming is a major industry, and there is some cattle and hog raising. Tobacco is grown in the eastern part of the island, and the raising of furbearing animals is pursued in the western part. Private woodlots yield both hardwood and softwood for lumber, pulpwood, and fuel.
Fishers depend primarily on the lobster catch, but oysters, clams, and scallops are also important. A secondary industry is the harvesting of Irish moss (a seaweed) for its carrageenan, an extract with several commercial uses. A few island fishers participate in the lucrative catches of cod, haddock, tuna, and mackerel in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Onshore plants process and freeze sea products; several aquaculture enterprises have been established, particularly involving the culture of mussels, oysters, and salmonids.
Forests cover almost half the land area of Prince Edward Island; however, only about one-tenth of that forested land is owned by the province. Most of the island's forests are controlled by some 16,000 private woodlot owners. Apart from their ecological value, forests play a strong economic role through sales of wood products and as habitats for commercially marketed game birds, mammals, and fish. Forests also reduce wind erosion and energy consumption; provide recreation sites, campgrounds, and day-use parks; protect heritage resources, such as the Hillsborough River and Trout River watersheds; and contribute to tourism. Nontimber forest products from Prince Edward Island include maple syrup, berry-based jams and jellies, wild edible mushrooms, Christmas wreaths, and ground hemlock.
Resources and power
Lacking a local source of natural gas and oil, Prince Edward Island has been heavily reliant on imported sources of energy. At the beginning of 21st century, imported oil accounted for about three-fourths of the province's total energy supply. Transportation fuels constituted about half of that total, while petroleum-based heating fuels accounted for about three-tenths of it. By the 1970s Prince Edward Island, benefiting from a strong grassroots environmentalist movement, had become a continental leader in terms of experimentation with efficient and renewable energy. The Prince Edward Island Energy Corporation owns and operates large wind-power facilities at North Cape and in eastern Kings county. The island's electric utilities are also supplied by private wind-power facilities. About one-fifth of electricity sold in the province is generated by wind energy. Access has been sought for energy export through the mainland grid to external markets in the United States.
The processing of frozen fried potatoes, green vegetables, and berries is a leading business activity. Food processing has evolved from many small local plants into a few large enterprises. Meanwhile, many companies are engaged in a growing bioscience industry. Other firms provide a wide range of products and services to the worldwide aerospace market.
Services, labour, taxation
Tourism constitutes a large portion of the services sector on Prince Edward Island. Annually about one million visitors, including cruise ship travelers, contribute to the island's economy and social life. For the decades on either side of the turn of the 21st century, unemployment in the province has averaged about 13 percent. Unionization is significant among teachers, nurses, and paramedics, as well as among federal and provincial public employees in general. Prince Edward Island has one of Canada's highest provincial retail sales tax (PST) rates, which are charged on the basis of the total of the selling price plus the federal goods and services tax (GST).
Transportation and telecommunications
Transportation problems have always challenged Islanders. Cars and trucks effectively displaced trains as passenger and freight carriers after the Canadian National Railway Company ceased rail services on the island in 1989. The Confederation Bridge across the Northumberland Strait, completed in 1997, links Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick. Potatoes, pulpwood, and other products that had been shipped from ports on the island's south and east coasts are now trucked overland via the bridge. Before its completion, regular ferry services had been maintained between the island and the mainland provinces. Daily flights connect Charlottetown to Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto, with seasonal services also provided to other destinations in the United States and the Caribbean.
Government and society
Constitutional framework
The provincial government consists of the lieutenant governor and an Executive Council chosen from the 27 members of the Legislative Assembly. The premier heads the ministerial Executive Council, whose responsibilities include intergovernmental affairs; finance and municipal affairs; education and early childhood development; agriculture; fisheries, aquaculture, and rural development; environment, energy, and forestry; tourism and culture; justice and public safety; transportation and infrastructure renewal; innovation and advanced learning; community services, seniors, aboriginal affairs, and labour; and health and wellness.
The province is represented in the federal Parliament by one member from each of four electoral districts: Cardigan, Hillsborough, Malpeque, and Egmont. Four Senate appointments also are allotted to the province. There is, by convention, typically at least one minister in the federal cabinet representing each province, though this has not always been the case for Prince Edward Island, which has gone for extended periods without representation.
Health, welfare, and education
The Health and Social Services Department administers the provincial plan for universal medical care. Provincial agencies govern housing and pollution control.
The Department of Education administers public education from primary grades through senior high school by means of three regional school boards. Most kindergartens are part of the provincial school system. The University of Prince Edward Island, at Charlottetown, was chartered in 1969 as a merger of two institutions that had originated more than a century earlier, Prince of Wales College and St. Dunstan's University. In 1983 the Atlantic Veterinary College was established within the provincial university. Holland College, also established in 1969, is an institute of applied arts and technology that offers courses in a number of communities across the island.
Cultural life
The arts
Charlottetown is the main centre of culture in the province. Despite being fairly small, the capital boasts relatively high numbers of artistic professionals. Many of them are inspired by the island's gentle landscape, and fine arts creations include earthen pottery, glass jewelry, contemporary woodwork, wrought iron works, and colourful paintings. On the music front, the island has been the home of various prominent bands and award-winning fiddlers such as Richard Wood and J.J. Chaisson, as well as celebrated singer-songwriter Lennie Gallant.
Cultural institutions
Both amateur and professional productions are presented at the Confederation Centre of the Arts, a multifunctional arts complex in Charlottetown that contains a large auditorium, an art gallery and museum, a children's theatre, various studios, shops, and a public library. It adjoins historic Province House, which is known as the birthplace of Canadian confederation. Since 1965 the centre has played host to both the Charlottetown Festival, a celebration of theatre, and the popular and long-running main-stage musical Anne of Green Gables—The Musical. That musical is based on a novel by Prince Edward Island native Lucy Maud Montgomery. A wide variety of programs related to the fine arts, history, and science are presented at the Eptek Art and Culture Centre in Summerside.
Charlottetown and other communities benefit from the Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation, with its network of regional facilities and cultural programs. The public library system has community branches and a mobile service. Several art galleries and small theatres operate outside Charlottetown. A multicultural festival is presented annually, and there are regional folk festivals, exhibitions, plowing matches, fiddling contests, and Highland Games. The annual music festival attracts thousands of participants from the schools of the province. The Evangeline district of Summerside has a reconstructed Acadian Village, a cultural centre, and a museum.
Sports and recreation
Facilities and programs for sports and recreation are abundant. Most notable among them is the Prince Edward Island National Park, which extends along the Gulf of St. Lawrence for nearly 25 miles (40 km). Every sizable community has an ice-skating rink; and golf courses, baseball and football (soccer) fields, and basketball courts are scattered throughout the island. All major sports are organized into leagues, and island athletes compete in regional and national meets. Harness races are run year-round and culminate in the Gold Cup and Saucer event as part of Old Home Week in August.
Media and publishing
The main provincial newspaper is The Guardian, which publishes daily. The Journal Pioneer, another daily paper, has a more local focus, as do the weekly Eastern Graphic, West Prince Graphic, and La Voix Acadienne (the last in French). In 1956 Prince Edward Island became the last province to get a dedicated television service from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. CBCT (originally CFCY) remains the only television station originating programming on the island.
Before European colonization, Mi'kmaq Indians from the mainland used the island for fishing, hunting, and some planting in the warmer seasons. Vikings may have visited Prince Edward Island about 1000 ce. Basque fishers landed there in the early 1500s. John Cabot, the English-sponsored Genoese-Venetian explorer, may have seen the island in 1497, but historians credit its discovery to Jacques Cartier, the French navigator, in June 1534. It was claimed for France in 1603 by Samuel de Champlain, the first governor of French Canada (who called it Île Saint-Jean), but it was not colonized until 1720, when 300 settlers from France established Port la Joie at the entrance to the harbour of Charlottetown. In addition, fishers and trappers from the French-speaking mainland colony of Acadia established several other small communities on the island. The French regime lasted only 38 years before the British occupied the island in 1758, dispersing more than 3,500 of the settlers.
The island was formally ceded to Great Britain following the Treaty of Paris in 1763. Six years later the colony was separated from Nova Scotia, and its first British governor, Walter Patterson, was appointed. Under British administration the island was surveyed and divided into three counties, each with a township and royalty, and 67 lots or townships of about 20,000 acres (8,000 hectares) each. In 1767, proprietors, who were expected to promote settlement, were awarded 64 of these lots by ballot, and for the next century absentee-landlord problems beset the colony. Representative government was granted in 1851, and the Land Purchase Act of 1875 ended the controversial land tenure system. By 1900 the population had reached 100,000.
In 1864 a conference called to discuss the Maritime Provinces' union prepared the way for the confederation of all the Canadian provinces. This Charlottetown Conference was the forerunner of the Quebec Conference of 1864, which actually resulted in the founding of the Dominion of Canada. Prince Edward Island has thus been known as the "Cradle of Confederation," even though it did not finally join the union until 1873, when forced to do so by severe financial troubles. James C. Pope became the first provincial premier for Prince Edward Island as a part of the confederation.
Resourceful politicians then persuaded the federal government to make concessions that enabled the province to purchase the lands still held by foreign proprietors and resell them to resident farmers, to assume the debt of the island railway, and to obtain assurance of continuous communication with the mainland. Despite these advantages of confederation, the economy of Prince Edward Island remained dependent on federal assistance through most of the 20th century and into the 21st. An ambitious "top-down" economic development plan, supported by the federal government, was launched in 1969 and was concluded in 1984. This plan provided infrastructure funding for new schools and highways, opened new markets for farm and fish products, attracted some manufacturing companies, and expanded the tourism sector. More recently, the provincial government has encouraged investment in aerospace, bioscience (agriculture and fisheries), information technology, and renewable energy industries.Brendan Anthony O'Grady Godfrey Baldacchino
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** NOTE: The cover reveal and pre-order have been pushed back to tomorrow due to some issues getting the book up on certain websites. Sorry, but I promise it tomorrow!!! In the meantime, it's been a long time since I did an emotional dumping on you so prepare yourselves. ;)
Earlier this week I sat in my doctor's office complaining of a host of ailments. As I fidgeted on the table atop the crinkly paper sheet I ran through all the things that COULD be wrong, but deep down something reminded me that most likely whats wrong is what's always wrong ever single time I feel like I'm dying-
My anxiety.
My people are an anxious tribe. There is certainly something genetic and chemical about my long struggle with an anxiety, as proven by the prescriptions held and nervy nature those I love and that are genetically linked to me. I have been on and off medication for my anxiety my entire adult life, and just now am I coming to grips with it's true affect on my health and life. Late is better than never I suppose.
I honestly don't know what it's like to not be anxious or full of worry. I envy those, like my husband, who do not operate with a daily current of dread running through their system. That relentless tug in my gut that says "what if what if what if what if". EVERY. DAMN. DAY. I worry about being on time. If my dogs are being walked/have run away/ eaten something poisonous. Did I turn the oven/ curling iron/ iron off? What if someone I love gets hurt? What if a client hates something we ordered and I have to pay for it? What if my house explodes? What if my husband gets sick or gets in an accident? What if we don't have enough money? What if my book fails? WHAT IF. I have convinced myself that this kind of behavior prepares me for the worst, so when it happens I'm ready, and when it doesn't I'm relieved. But Andrew sees this is suffering twice instead of once or not at all. Why freak out about something that may not happen? Somehow my DNA can't compute that kind of thinking.
But most often and dramatically my anxiety likes to manifest itself as hypochondria. It's kind of a family joke that I am always dying of something. Like that time I thought I had a neurological disease and after a MRI it turned out to be my new handbag rubbing a nerve in my elbow and cutting off circulation. Or the time I had to go to the emergency room because I was having a panic attack that my hair was all falling out after a bad dye job. Or the year long back pain that turns out, was caused by muscle tension from stress. Or my sometimes severe TMJ (temporarily cured by the best thing ever, "Jawtox", by the way). Or my horrible bout with insomnia after getting married. I would gladly take a full body scan over a Birkin bag any day of the week. But it's always something that turns out to be "nothing". Except anxiety isn't nothing. It's a whole lotta something and it's hell to live with and oh-so-real for those of us who struggle with it.
But back to my doctor's appointment- while I had come in pretty sure I had a brain tumor, the doctor did not seem so worried. In my book, dizziness + sinus pain + full ears + vision weirdness = BRAIN TUMOR. But she knows something you don't. That about three weeks ago I went through something incredibly shitty and painful and anxiety provoking and that's oddly when these symptoms started. And I have a feeling it's all related. Farther back and wider spread than I had imagined.
As you know, we have been trying to get pregnant for a few years with no success and no explanation. We decided it was time for intervention and planned to have our first IUI in the end of January. All was looking positive- I had two great eggs, a "impressive" sample from my husband (he'll be super psyched I put that in writing) and timing working in our favor. We got the green light to come in for the procedure and what happened? I freaked out. Big time. In the garage elevator at the hospital. Were we really ready? Could we really do this? I mean, REALLY? A baby? I was so used to not getting pregnant the the concept of it actually happening hit me like a ton of bricks. I was practically hyperventilating and Andrew was about ready to kill me. After all, this was what we had talked about wanting so badly how could I be second guessing it now after all the drugs, shots and horrible invasive 7 am ultrasounds?! I was shaking while waiting to be called in and could almost fell the adrenaline pumping through my blood when finally I was laying on the table. I thought how negative an effect all this anxiety probably had on this expensive procedure and honestly, after it was all over (a shocking 2 minutes later), I thought to myself " it probably didn't work anyway, I was way too anxious".
Except it did work.
About two and a half weeks later I took a test. The two minutes clicked by like hours and when I ran to look at the test I was defeated to see one stupid blue line. I chucked it in the garbage and got ready to take a shower, and then as I stepped into the shower I looked down in the trash quickly and there it was.
The test facing up with TWO blue lines clearly visible.
My stomach lept into my throat. I had to blink and look a couple times before I walked out of the bathroom and called for Andrew. I was shaking like a leaf as I told him and the joy in his face was indescribable. My reaction however, was horrific. I started crying, and fell to the floor, a bundle of nerves bleating things through my sobs like "but the baby will be due the month my book comes out" and "I'm gonna get so fat" and "I can't drink wine on vacation!" All stupid, stupid concerns but all very visceral in the moment. Andrew really wished we had been recording it because it was an oddly entertaining mixture of pathetic and incredibly hilarious. I finally gathered myself together and we laughed about it for hours later as we settled in with the thought that I was, indeed, pregnant.
With this knowledge I made the decision to taper off my anxiety medication. I had consulted with many doctors who said the risk was very minimal to the fetus to remain on it but I believed I was totally fine without it, as I had been in the past. We were in a good place, I had a lot of good stuff going on and I thought it would be best. I didn't want to spend my whole pregnancy worrying about what my meds were doing to the baby. But I didn't think deeply about what my anxiety could do.
We excitedly went to get a blood test to doubly confirm our news, as we were leaving for a family trip to the Dominican Republic a few days later. That night I sat with a sparking water instead of wine as I searched maternity sites planning for my future wardrobe. The next day I got a call from the fertility doctor's office and the brusque and em pathetically-challenged nurse told me that yes, the test was positive, but it was a "low positive"- which mean one of three things, this it was very early, that this was an ectopic pregnancy or it wasn't going to be viable and fail. She followed that up with "and you aren't going on vacation- we need to monitor this". I didn't quite know what to do with that information. We chose to be hopeful (not normally in my nature) and went back in 24 hours later for another test. My hormone count had risen but not as much as they liked to see. This happened once more two days later when they said they needed to do an ultrasound to see if they could find the location of the pregnancy.
As I laid there in the dark I watched the nurse's face for any sign of a smile. Instead I got a lot of prodding and squinting eyes in front of the monitor after which she finally said "I don't see anything". I walked out of the room and my heart broke and a sobbed into Andrew's chest. The doctor said I had to watch my symptoms carefully as ectopic pregnancies "could be fatal". To a normal person this would sound like a casual warning, something that rarely happens. To me it was like yelling in my face "YOU MIGHT DIE!" I spent the next few days tortured by the unknown, my baffling rising hormone levels and the sheer panic I felt from every slight cramp in my belly. Even through the worry though, I still held out a teeny bit of hope that it would work out somehow.
And then one day, it was over. And I wasn't in danger, I wasn't in pain and it all went as it should naturally. And I felt like a huge failure. I felt (and still feel sometimes) like my level of stress and anxiety caused me to lose the pregnancy. And perhaps it's been my issue all along in our quest to be parents since medically we appear to be the perfect candidates to get pregnant. I know it's good news that I was physically capable of it, but the whole ordeal has left me a bit of a shell of myself right now. The emotional roller-coaster I went on and the health scare that accompanied it set me back ten steps in my life-long quest to quell this horrible affliction called anxiety. Previous to this I had been feeling relatively happy and almost never checked to see if a headache was anything but on WebMD. So I went back on my medication. I have to accept that I need it and that there isn't an evilness about it. There shouldn't be a stigma attached to psychiatric drugs- for some people diet, exercise and meditation may work fine, but for me and many others, it's just not enough. And it's about time I also accept that I need to find a shrink I want to hang out with on a weekly basis so I can make cognitive changes too. I am working hard to regain my health, my peace of mind and hope that as I do, our second try at this whole parenting thing goes as planned.
I know I'm not alone in this struggle. I know there are so many people who live day in and out with worry and paralyzing fear (of different things and with different manifestations). I know that parenthood is way more stressful than most things I've experienced and I need to be in top form to conquer it. I also know that we are all a little broken in parts. We all have our bullshit and our weaknesses. But I also know that talking about them makes it SO much easier to heal, deal and cope. Keeping quiet does no one any good. Writing is my catharsis and a form of therapy, and while this may be the most unflattering portrait I can paint of myself, it's my truth. And I think we all need to be a little more truthful and open so we can judge each other less and empathize more. No one is perfect.


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Correct Kinect sensor placement will get you the best body tracking and speech recognition performance. Here are some tips:
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Last year, Sidhe Interactive introduced one of the most unique driving titles ever seen on a console with their portable racer, Gripshift. The title combined racing, platforming, car combat elements and puzzles together with wildly exaggerated tracks to make one of the strangest car games around. It also managed to have some of the oddest tracks around which challenged even the best drivers with its wacky grasp of physics. But just how does the game translate over to the PS3?
For fans of the original game, you'll take solace in knowing that the initial formula remains essentially intact without any massive differences. Players still choose from one of four initial drivers (which doesn't impact gameplay at all) and four initial cars, each with their own speed, acceleration and handling stats. Even though the game boasts about having tighter vehicle handling, the cars will peel, slide and bounce around the tracks the exact same way, regardless of their stats. Some stats that were in the PSP version of the game have even been removed from the PS3 version because they didn't have an impact on the game itself. While that's a definite problem when it comes to distinguishing between the vehicle's performance, there's a bonus: players will be able to use the lack of weight or mass to their vehicles to maneuver their cars around the wildly designed courses, defying the laws of gravity and physics to cross the finish line. Thanks to the analog sticks of the SIXAXIS, it's definitely much easier to control these cars than it was on the PSP.
It's actually an understatement to say "wild" as a description of the various courses within Gripshift; perhaps a more accurate statement would be Evel Knievel's nightmares from a plane of hell. There are now more than 125 various tracks in the single player challenge mode of Gripshift, scattered across four "worlds," and each one is suspended in mid-air with hazards like rocks, air vents, massive loops, drawbridges and moving platforms. Players are given one of three goals to complete on these levels before time runs out, like completing the course as fast as possible, gathering all of the stars on a stage or collecting Gripshift icons. Successfully crossing the finishing line with one or more of these goals completed earns credits, which are redeemed automatically at set intervals for a number of unlockable items, such as skins and decals for cars, music, vehicles, racers and even mini-games. More often than not, completing all of the goals on a specific level will require multiple playthroughs, especially as you get to the higher levels of difficulty and the puzzle elements start increasing.
How do you launch a car from one small piece of ground to another without having a ramp? Often, this requires simply flinging your car into objects and using the in-air controls to change the pitch of your vehicle to land on a new area. New to the PS3 version of Gripshift is the ability to use the SIXAXIS controller to control the tilt that your car takes in flight. While it's an interesting feature, it's isn't really useful to the game itself -- you can't drive around the track using the sensor functionality of the controller, and simply relying on it for up and down pitch in mid-air isn't as sensitive as the analog stick is. However, apart from the limited functionality of the SIXAXIS Controller is the gnawing sense that many of these levels blend together and feel extremely similar to the handheld version. With the exception of additional stages in each race world, you're really playing the same puzzles over and over again.
The race mode, which pulls tracks direct from the challenge mode, returns as well and still offers single races, time challenges, practice races or a championship series across a number of tracks. Of course, there's a bit of a spin within the race mode: while the Time Challenges pit you against a clock, the single and championship races place you against up to three computerized opponents, with missiles and dynamite that can be used on your fellow racers to ensure that you cross the finishing line first. While you can earn credits to unlock items in the race mode, you can only do so in the single player version of the game; playing multiplayer races will earn you nothing at all, which is somewhat weak.
While the majority of items from the game have made the crossover to the PS3, one feature does appear to have been left on the cutting room floor that would've been an excellent addition to the title. The track editor for the PSP version of the game is nowhere to be found, which would've been perfect for the PlayStation Network and its lack of content. Players could've built new levels and traded them with friends or posted them online. Instead, racers are restricted to the number of coursed included in the game, and although it's much larger than the original title, after a while even the most rabid Gripshift fan will become bored with these stages. You can only fling a car through the air so many times.
Fortunately, the game is visually easy on the eyes. Car models and levels have received a visual enhancement to increase the wild, MC Escher-like stages and cartoon-like driving of the game. While it's definitely sharper than the PSP game, it's not a massive leap in visual technology. It feels like you're playing the handheld on the PS3. The sound department, however, has definitely received a heavy boost in the number of songs included, with a large emphasis on techno beats.
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If you've played the PSP version of Gripshift, you probably won't shake the feeling that while fun, you've played this game before, especially since it's just a ported over game. The more than 125 levels is a marked increase over the handheld, as is the sharper textures and the boosted soundtrack, but many of these courses feel like only minor variations on the same puzzle theme. Plus, not including the track editor eliminates a large reason to replay the game once you've completed most of the goals or have become bored with the repetitive play.


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There are numerous courses within the Master of Divinity Program that have an associated practicum.
In the second year of theology, in conjunction with P 220 Principles of Catechesis, seminarians assist parish RCIA programs and in high school religion classes.
During the third and fourth years of theology, seminarians take courses in parish administration, in preaching, celebrating the Mass, celebrating the sacraments of anointing of the sick and penance. Facility in celebrating the sacraments is achieved through practice scenarios.


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There are indications out of North Korea that the long range rocket they've been planning to send into space is being dismantled due to technical problems, which explains the decision to push back the launch by at least a week. Satellite images appeared to show the three stage rocket being removed from its launch gantry, presumable so that it might be repaired and then re-installed.
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Surrounded by the stunning beauty of the Oregon coast and Yaquina Bay harbor, you'll find some lovely choices for your romantic getaway or family holiday. Well-appointed condos overlook historic Nye Beach and private home rentals take in panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean.
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Flex: 75
Weight: True A6.0 400 grams, True A5.2 425 grams
Blade Pattern: TC2 (similar to Nugent-Hopkins, Backstrom, Hall and/or Kopitar)
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Price: A6.0: $259.99 (On Hockeymonkey.com) A5.2 $199.99 (On Hockeymonkey.com)
More information at: http://www.true-hockey.com/
True Hockey is a relatively new player to the stick market, even though the company behind the sticks has a long pedigree in golf (True Temper). True Hockey supplied us with two sticks to try out -its top of the range A6.0 and A5.2 – and to see how the sticks stack up against some of the more established brands in the market.
The True A6.0 is the top of the range stick within the True range and the True A5.2 stick is a high level stick that is packed with a lot of the features of the A6.0, though it weighs a fraction more than the A6.0. Both of the sticks we are testing are 75flex and come in True's TC2 blade pattern, which is similar to Bauer's Backstrom, CCM's Nugent-Hopkins, Easton's Hall or Warrior's Kopitar blade patterns. The blade is a toe curve, with round toe and open face, with a 6.0 lie.
The A6.0 is the lightest stick in the range, with the senior stick weighing just 400grams and the A5.2 weighing in at 425 grams. Where the sticks are – and feel – incredibly light, the Sher-Wood Rekker EK15 is still the lightest stick on the market. Having said that, the True A6.0 and A5.2 are sticks that are within the industry average when it comes to weight and beat a few top-end manufacturers on the weight front, meaning that the new comers can compete with the big boys.
The True sticks look great. With a black/grey finish to the shaft of the stick, the product name is included on the shaft in electric blue, which makes it stand out. The design is really no-nonsense. It is slick but effective, whilst ensuring that it will standout at the stick racks at a store. The other aspect that might make the True series of sticks standout in the stick rack is that the sticks are longer (out of box or rack) than most of the top marquees in the market.
When we first started to play with the A6.0 and the A5.2, we felt that the sticks had a great feel to them. Even when first holding the sticks in your hands they feel super light and have a feel of a high-end product to them. The grip coating is not too heavy as it can be on some other sticks, where the coating can feel overbearing on the gloves.
When stick handling, both of the sticks give great feedback to your hands, meaning that you know at all times where the puck is. This has been achieved through True's patented manufacturing process (Axenic Technology), where the blade is seamlessly co-molded to the shaft, creating a true one piece stick. This manufacturing process is different to the spear process used by some other manufacturers and we feel that the Axenic Technology is one of the real strengths of the True sticks.
The manufacturing process has allowed True Hockey to create a well balanced stick. In terms of balance, the A6.0 and A5.2 are on par with Sher-Wood's sticks which are some of the best balanced sticks on the market. Both of the sticks are mid flex sticks and are maybe a touch softer at the top of the shaft than other sticks we've tried, but still provide you with incredible responsiveness to shots, particularly wrist shots during game play situations, when you need to get a shot off quickly. If the softer butt end will have you worried, we wouldn't. The tip of the stick provides players with increased stability and accuracy for shooting.
Wristers and snap shots are easy to get away, we felt that with slap shots we got a bit more behind the shot as well. The stick produces great pop and you don't have to do much work to get the stick loaded for the shot. Just as with the wrist shots, the slap shots are quick off the blade and thanks to the structure of the blade, they don't turn into knuckle pucks either.
As you move down the shaft and get to the blade, this is where the real beauty of the True sticks are. Both the True A6.0 and True A5.2 feature True's Active Bond Technology II. This technology ensures that the blade maintains its original stiffness for longer periods of time. It is something that we have noticed that the blade will provide you with great pop on the shots. The blade also features 100% carbon fibre rib structure to provide additional durability of the blade. Much like the Sher-Wood Rekker EK15, the True A6.0 and A5.2 sticks will give you that new stick feel for longer, which will keep your shots crisper and accurate. Throughout using the sticks, every time we've hit the ice with these sticks, it feels like a stick that we have only just taken out of its wrappers and cut down to our liking.
We noticed that the sticks do improve your accuracy somewhat. Usually our shooting can miss a barn door, but with the True sticks we have been able to usually hit the net where we have wanted.
Durability is always something that players look for in sticks. We want to be sure that the money we spend on sticks means that we will get a product that will last a long time and that we are not back at the retailers getting a new one within two months. After using the stick both outside to do shooting practice and in on-ice training and scrimmages, the stick has proved to be durable. In a hack and slash type of environment, the stick has only 'suffered' a few scuff marks on the shaft, which is normal for any hockey stick in active use.
With 75 flex sticks we really want to make sure that the sticks are capable of handling slap shots and one timers as often times, sticks at this flex range (and depending on manufacturing quality) have a tendency of breaking easily and earlier. Both the True A6.0 and A5.2 have held up well and only boast a few scuff marks on the shafts and the flex profiles on both sticks are still in original form, meaning that despite abusing the sticks on the ice they feel like new.
The drawbacks?
Despite trying to pick holes at True's own literature and the stick to try and find something negative about them, we are quite pleased to say that despite being new to the market, True Hockey have created a product that is difficult to fault. There are great features built-in to both of the sticks and both A6.0 and A5.2 provide players with great levels of responsiveness, shooting accuracy and power.
The True A6.0 and A5.2 sticks are both high quality products. If we had to compare them to any of the existing manufacturers out there, we'd say that the True A6.0 is like CCM's Tacks stick in terms of feel and performance. We are huge fans of the rigidity of the blade and the accuracy of the stick, which was something we noted when having a quick play on the Tacks. The A5.2 would be comparable to CCM Tacks 5052. That's not to say that the True sticks are like for like for the Tacks (in our opinion the True sticks are better), it's just a reference as True is a new player to the market.
True Temper has created a truly wonderful set of sticks that have quickly become our favourite sticks to use. We have had other players test the sticks True provided us with and the feedback has been nothing but positive (though some guys prefer a stiffer flex), so we are confident to say that these sticks are going to be a huge hit among players. The one thing that we did wonder was the price tag. True's top of the range sticks (the A6.0 and A5.2) are priced at the levels of some of the top brands on the market. The sticks deserve that price tag due to the performance and build quality, but will that deter people from buying a stick from one of the new guys to the market? We hope it doesn't because these sticks are simply AMAZING!
True hockey is expanding rapidly into the European market as well and any retailer picking up the True range will be making a great investment to their business as these sticks will become popular among players very quickly.
- Lightweight construction
- True one piece stick
- Responsiveness
- Provide great pop for longer
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- Fixed problem with team/squad mapping on BF4 maps (resulting in wrong moves/kicks etc.)
- Added map definitions for Second Assault DLC
- Additional changes to definitions for BF4
- Improved event handling in Procon, allowing for better performance and debugging
- General (crazy) improvements by the almighty phogue (see here)
- Fixed "Move to" menu in player list showing entries multiple times for BF4
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- Fixed vars.teamFactionOverride not being recognised by Procon layers
- Plugin configs are now split into different files, preventing all information from being lost if once configuration fails to load/save
- Fixed crash caused by invalid parsing of decimal numbers
- Fixed crash caused by failing to load localisation properly
- Fixed error causing a connection to get reconnected after pressing "disconnect"
- Added OnPlayerDisconnected messages to chat tab with checkbox to disable them
- Added check for current round count not being able to go above the maximum round count
- Added option to enable compilation of plugins with debug information
- Added plugin API for OnPlayerDisconnected event
- Fixed InGameAdmin (f)move without destination on other games than BFBC2
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- Hotfix for config migration failing due to insufficient file permissions, deleting the old configs before new ones have been saved
- Removed OnPlayerDisconnected checkbox from non-BF4 games
- Added fix for chat tab being able to send empty messages
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• on chat tab if show disconnects is selected no player left is shown to reduce status spam
• removed placeholder whitespace in case a player has no clantag transmitted by the server via RCON
• added plugin wide usable function SecondsToText(UInt32 iSeconds, string[] a_strTimeDescriptions, bool blShowSecondsOver60) to CPRoConMarshalByRefObject.cs which converts seconds to d h m s. In case blShowSecondsOver60 is false seconds are only shown if smaller than 60.
• added Play Time column for all games. Procon monitors the playtime (session time in minutes) since join / procon connect of a player
• added sync of PlayTime for layer clients (procon.player.syncPlayTimes) to have layer clients show the same times the layer host has
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