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The season is done for us. Were home watching, a rare occurrence I hope pisses off the younger guys. Lots of the roster is at odds. We've officially $12 mil over the cap. It's closer to $20 mil actually, with the restricted and exclusive rights guys. I'll trust the best cap guy in the league, Omar Khan, to make it work. Lots of unexpected cuts, restructures, and very little fa activity.
Keenan Lewis gets a deal done. He's earned it. Wallace is gone. Big snack is gone (time for McClendon to get snaps before his contract year). Harrison is likely gone, unless he takes a 5 mil pay cut.
Ben, Woodley, Timmons,.and ab restructure to give cap flexibility. Keisel is up in years, but played well, thereby negating his minimal cap hit vs the vested vet salary.
The d is solid to make it 5 of 6 being #1 in total d, and 3 years running #1 vs the pass. Lebeau is the Walsh of defense. Best mind in that arena, ever. Taylor, lewis, Allen, and Brown with troy and Clark at safety are an embarrassment of riches. McClendon will immediately make a difference, since he makes splash plays on nearly every play he gets in the game. That pressure in the middle should help fix the sack and turnover totals. That and the turnover machine that is Cortez Allen. He's not a man up corner, but he's a turnover beast.. 20% of the d's turnovers in 2 starts..
Hoping the o line clicks next year. A good line with Ben and that lebeau d is a reason for bright optimism. God forbid we have a legit #1 rb.
I'll agree this is highly glass half full. I know this off-season will involve much cap wrangling, and rely on young guys contributing.
Given what I've seen from the youngsters, what the o was showing early, and our depth I feel good, given we draft well and cut dead weight. This team healthy is 12-4, not 8-8.
It is what it is..
That said these Pittsburgh moron fans screaming for Haleys dismissal, and more importantly tomlins are on drugs.
Tomlin isn't going anywhere. Bandwagon dummies go away. Same idiots who keep insisting that Ben be traded.
Are you kidding? The oc isn't going anywhere either. Scheme was great before Ben got hurt.
You NEVER, EVER let an elite franchise qb get away from your team. Steelers doom and gloom morons be damned.. I'm still floored by the talk of trading Ben and firing tomlin..


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We've sent a mail to Sony on this, but meanwhile, Kotaku has been told by a person familiar with the "goings on at Sony" state it is indeed true.
The rumor first started this today when The Same Coin stated it had heard from an anonymous source that the game had been delayed into spring 2014.
Sony is hosting an event in San Francisco today which includes some of its PS4 launch titles. Originally, DriveClub was part of the lineup, but it was removed due to a scheduling conflict, a Sony representative told Kotaku.
Furthermore, a NeoGAF member has also heard DriveClub was delayed, noting that they trust the source, but since this person is "not working on the game," they "could be wrong [but] I trust that it isn't wrong."
Again, we have contacted Sony ourselves on the matter, and if they get back with us we will let you know; however, when asked by Kotaku, the site was told Sony doesn't comment on rumor or speculation.
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A big thank you to Inflator of Cyberflating.com for allowing us to reproduce his work in SL, and as always to Regan for all his continued help and hard work.
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Please note that you have to be using a Restrained Love compatible Viewer with ❋MESH❋ capabilities to take FULL advantage of the many features of this Living Lovedoll. Please also be aware that to experience the full effect of the Blindfold feature you must be running the latest version of the Restrained Love Viewer. See below for details on how to find the Restrained Love and Mesh Viewers.
- To use your HybridZ Living Lovedoll simply choose from a stocking or nude option and wear it with all the other included parts.
- Included are 6 different options for you to choose from. Some repositioning of the Doll's Collar may be needed if you choose to wear your own shape.
Due to the nature of the MESH parts please make sure you wear one of the included Body Shapes or you will find the various parts will not fit or work correctly.
Please also note that these parts should never be stretched or resized in anyway.
Doing so will break the items.
- The default attachment points are included in each attachment name and are listed below:
Living Lovedoll - SPINE
Living Lovedoll (Right Hand) - RIGHT HAND
Leash Handle - LEFT HAND
- Please note the Doll must be "LOCKED" before any of the following RLV functions become active.
- Please also remember that the "Deny Friend" TP button will always work for you and your Doll, this is more a safety feature, anyone not on the Doll's access will still be blocked from sending a TP.
Living Lovedoll Menu Driven Features:
The following menus can only be accessed once all the attachments are worn. Then simply click on the Collar.
Once the Lock command is selected it will effect all the worn parts making them all undetachable. This removes the need for each part to be locked seperately.
-OWNERS - Ownership Ability allows you to add owners and give them access to the menus. Simply click on the Collar, go to 'OWNERS' and select 'Add OWNER'. Then choose the appropriate button number to add the person you want And your done!
- LOCK - Locks all the Doll's attachments.
- UNLOCK - Unlocks all the Doll's attachments.
- LOCK SKIN - Locks the Doll's Skin and Shape.
- UNLOCK SKIN - Unlocks the Doll's Skin and Shape.
- BLOCK TP - Blocks all forms of Teleport, TP to Landmarks, TP to Map Locations, TP to Friends and TP to Sit on Objects.
- GAG - Prevents the Doll from talking.
- UNGAG - Allows the Doll to talk again.
- BREATHE ON - Turns Breathe sound effects on for use in breath play.
- BREATHE OFF - Turns Breathe sound effects off.
- BLINDFOLD - Turns the Doll's Blindfold on.
- REM BLIND - Turns off the Doll's Blindfold.
- UPDATE - Checks for any upgrades to your product (Note: You must be in range of the Update Server located at the HybridZ Main Store.)
- FREEZE - Freezes the Doll to the spot preventing any kind of movement.
- UNFREEZE - Unfreezes the Doll.
- ISOLATE - Isolates the Doll from interacting in the SecondLife Environment, Inventory access denied edit objects TP etc, IM to locker/OWNER only permitted for safety reasons.
- REM ISO - Turns off Isolation.
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- CLOTHING - Allows removal of individual clothes, also ALLOW ALL/ DENY ALL controls whether your Doll can wear or remove clothing.
- Though this Menu option is still present please be aware that clothing layers cannot be worn on top of a MESH Avatar.
- GIVE - Dispenses a copy of the Leash Handle/Leash Post or Instructional Notecard to the owner. The Leash Handle is worn on the LEFT HAND.
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Looking for Painting Tips and Tricks
I am going to paint the entire interior of my home after the first of the year. I have painted over the years under the direction of my husband who is no longer here. I need some tried and true tips for making the job as easy and long lasting as possible. I have seen a number of products on TV, which look great in theory, particularly that little roller that is used to do trim so you don't have to tape off everything. Since it seems too good to be true I thought I'd ask if anyone has used such items and how they rated.
Painting Tips and Tricks: Paint Trimming Tool a Great Resource
I have painted the interior of our houses several times over the years and the one tool I would not want to be without, besides a basic roller for the walls, is the little pad with wheels to paint next to trim without getting on the trim. They are about 4x6 inches in size and are very easy to use and clean. The pads can be replaced. They cost approximately $3-4.
I first paint the woodwork around the doors, windows and baseboards if it is going to be painted. Then, as I paint the walls, I use the little pad with the wheels for the part next to the trim and fill in the big blank areas of wall with the regular paint roller. The little wheels guarantee you don't get paint on the woodwork. The pad holds enough paint to move it 2-3 feet before needing to lightly re-dip it in the paint.
Painting Tips and Tricks: Professional Painting Tricks and Resources
My husband worked with his father doing professional house painting during the summers. His dad was a schoolteacher, so the painting provided extra income in the off months. What he's taught me about painting is this:
- Buy good quality paint. It will cover with fewer coats and last for more years.
- Never tape to do your edging. It will take you less time to do a careful job with a brush. If you use tape, sometimes it pulls up part of your new paint job when you pull it off.
- Do your roller painting in manageable-sized squares, such as a square yard. Load the roller well with paint, then paint approximately a square yard by rolling side to side, back and forth with medium pressure. Without reloading the roller, then roll over the same square painting up and down, again with medium pressure. Then, again without reloading, roll over the square side to side very evenly with light pressure to give it an eggshell finish. Start your next square (after reloading the roller) overlapping the first slightly, while the paint is still wet. To avoid having seams, don't let the paint dry. Paint so that you're always contacting wet paint. Work out from your original square in this way until you've finished the whole wall.
I saw the same commercial for the edger and asked my husband about it. He said it's not new and it doesn't work very well. Before long, paint gets on the wrong side of the guard, which can mess up your edging job.
Happy painting!
Happy painting!
Painting Tips and Tricks: Not Satisfied with Roller
Save your money and buy an inexpensive pad-type trim tool from a discount store. Even this did not do a great job on the floor molding, however, so you'll probably still need to tape here. We tried one of the "magic" trim rollers advertised on TV, and as the old adage goes, it was too good to be true! The paint leaked profusely out the sides all over the door trim on our first try. We also tried one of the nifty rollers where you pour the paint inside the roller instead of rolling it in the paint tray. Less mess to be sure, but the pressure needed to apply the paint to the wall made me give up after one wall. Also, when you went back over the same area, the roller took the paint off you had just applied. I had never painted before and was slightly afraid of it, so I wanted to make it as easy as possible. My advice would be to invest in some basic good rollers and trim tools. Old fashioned, maybe, but gets the job done right.
Painting Tips and Tricks: The Right = Easy Job
We just finished doing some painting in our home this past weekend. We used one of those "paint sticks" that comes with the special top and fill tube that sucks the paint directly from the can into the paint stick and, in turn, into the roller. It is fantastic! It was easy to use and it sure beat having to fill the roller pan every few minutes and slopping paint everywhere. There was no mess, no drips, no streaks or runs. Clean up was easy, too, and the paint seemed to go a lot farther.
We also used a "window edger" to paint the window frames. It is two pieces of curved plastic, jointed in the middle in a wide V shape. You place it in the corner of the window and along the frame as you go, against the glass, and it allows you to paint the frame without getting any paint on the glass - a very handy little tool.
One more thing we found helpful was a baseboard edger. It is a long (appx. 14" long x 2" wide) piece of flexible plastic that you put on top of your carpet at the bottom of the baseboard. The curved edge goes all the way down to the floor, below the carpet nap, so you can paint all the way down your baseboard to the bottom, to get the most finished look. Protects your carpet from stray brushstrokes also. All these tools, especially the paint roller, made the job so much quicker and easier!
Painting Tips and Tricks: Not a Happy Painter
I recently tried the Pro-Trim paint kit (pretty much the same as the Edgemaster) and was extremely dissatisfied. The guard that is supposed to be like tape was atrocious. It left a groove in my walls around everything. So not only did I have to tape anyway, I had to spackle the grooves the thing left. I do not recommend this product at all.
Painting Tips and Tricks: Hints from the Pros
Professional painters will remove all fixture covers before painting. Also, many painters find that if they use a new angle-edged 2 inch brush (correct for the paint type) and slap the excess paint off the brush against the edge of the paint can they can "trim" the edgework without using masking tape much at all. One technique folks' need to learn is to hold the brush in a fixed position and move the brush along the edgework area by moving your arm at the elbow, rather than the wrist. This steadies the hand much more than you'd think and the line of paint remains very straight. If you don't want a lot of brush marks showing up in your work, always be sure to sand the primer smooth before you apply paint and always paint back "into the wet". That is, finish your brushstroke by heading it into the wet paint you just applied rather than dragging it into an unpainted area.
Painting Tips and Tricks: Book to Check Out
Don Aslett's book, Painting Without Fainting , is very helpful. Check it out of the library and follow his advice. The result should be a professional, efficient, and not a very messy job.


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Guinness World Records
A 32-year-old woman is attempting to become the heaviest woman ever, but her nearest competitor, a woman who holds the record of "World's Fattest Mom," is having a hard time letting go of her heavyweight claim to fame, even as she says she'sgoing on a diet.
Susanne Eman, a 728-pound woman in Casa Grande, Ariz., is attempting to get into Guinness World Records as the "World's Heaviest Woman," and hopes to reach her goal by the time she's 41. The 2012 edition of the book will be released later this month.
The last woman to hold the title, 1,200-pound Rosalie Bradford, died in 2006.
"The category is currently open," a Guinness representative told HuffPost Weird News. "We've got several claims that we're researching, and we may have a new title holder very soon."
Eman has told reporters that she wants to shatter the record by packing on 1,600 pounds. Her ultimate goal: weighing in at one ton.
One of Eman's high profile rivals, Donna Simpson, of Akron, Ohio, holds the Guinness record for heaviest woman ever to bear children. She won the title by weighing a whopping 532 pounds when she gave birth to her daughter, Jacqueline, in February 2007 — an event that required 30 doctors.
Simpson just announced to the world via HuffPost Weird News that she's decided to go on a diet, but she's having a hard time letting go of the "prestige" that goes along with the honor of being America's heaviest woman — and said she views Eman as an upstart trying to usurp her hard-earned
"She's Lady Goo Goo to my Lady Gaga," Simpson laughed, adding that no one in the "feeder" community — a subculture of men who love large women — knows who Eman is.
"If she was a serious gainer, the community would know about her," Simpson said.
Simpson said she suspects that Eman is in cahoots with her ex-manager and is trying to get publicity in order to compete for her fan base. Even worse: She accuses Eman of trying to take away her "World's Fattest Mom" title.
"She says she's surpassed me as the world's fattest mom, but she doesn't understand that Guinness gave me the record because I was 532 pounds when I gave birth," Simpson said. "She wasn't that large when she gave birth to her kids."
Simpson also feels Eman is irresponsible for having her teenage kids feed her, as opposed to the adult "feeder/gainer" relationship she had with her former fiance, Philippe Gouamba, with whom she broke up a few weeks ago.
Eman is chowing down on nearly 22,000 calories daily, including six eggs scrambled in butter, a half-pound of bacon, four potatoes, six pieces of buttered toast and a 32-ounce shake — and that's just for breakfast.
Eman is under an exclusive contract to Barcroft Media, a British-based news agency, and was unavailable to be interviewed. However, a source close to her camp considers Simpson's comments to be "a load of crap" designed to make Simpson money and get her a reality show.
The source added that while there is a push among the media to get the two into a cat fight, Eman prefers to stay focused on her own career, including a potential appearance on "Dr. Oz," where she will prove she's healthy by submitting to a physical.
Related articles
- World's Heaviest Woman (skinnypinkninja.wordpress.com)
- Fattest Women in Heavyweight Title Bout (weeklyworldnews.com)


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117 Timberlane Rd Clarksboro, New Jersey 08020 (map) | Click To View Phone
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Jun 2019 - $69.00
FHU hook ups were kind of spread out, but I didn't need extensions. Cable TV was not usable during this visit. They know and are "trying to get it fixed". Basically, for us, a good spot for overnight rest in southern New Jersey. - moderate camper
May 2019 - $45.00
We had a generous lot and were very happy with the location. The people in the office were friendly and efficient. Strongly suggest you see Longwood Gardens when you're in the area. - Tour49
May 2019 - $60.00
Power and water pressure good. Good interior roads and level sites. Convenient to visiting Philly. Fuel and groceries nearby. Easy exit off I-295 from the south. If coming from the north, GPS may send you through what looks like the entrance to the truck stop. OK, saves a couple of miles. - MissingLinc
1600 S Warfield St Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19145 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 20 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 19 Reviews
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Dec 2018 - $40.00
Planned this as a weather stop over but was surprised we could get anywhere in Philly from here. Be advised they are stopping service at this location end of December 31 2018. Even though it is simply a parking lot and does have water and electric available and a central dump station. It was a great location to base your RV and visit Philly. - Art Goldsmith
Oct 2018 - $36.00
It's hard to rate this one. It's a parking lot in South Philly. Their primary business is as a park and ride for people going to the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, but there are about a dozen spaces with hookups crammed closely together on one side of the lot, and overflow parking for a bunch more. Shuttles run between the lot and the hospital 24/7. It's about a 5 minute ride to the hospital, then there are public transit connections to everywhere else (about 15-20 minutes to the tourist locations in the center of the city). Or it's a $10, 15 minute Lyft ride directly from the park to the center of town. The employees were all super friendly and helpful. Between the razor wire perimeter, bright lights, and the presence of bus drivers and other campers, it seemed safe enough. The lot has all of the basics, restrooms and showers that I never looked at (someone else said they were actually pretty good), dump station, dumpster. There's a small patch of grass by the entrance if your dog needs it. There's also a fair bit of trash around, and it's next to a train yard. Between the trains, buses, and a jerk who appears to be living in the last campsite next to the tracks with some loud motorized bike that he likes to ride around the parking lot in the evenings, it's not quiet. But it's very convenient for visiting Philly, and very cheap when compared to other big city RV parks. If you can pick your site, the ones in the front, farthest from the railroad tracks, are quietest. If I were visiting Philly again, yes, I would stay here again. But a lush state park it ain't. - AnnP
Sep 2018 - $61.00
This park is Urban Camping at it's best. It is super close to all of fun and historical things to do in Philadelphia. Campus Park & Ride is essentially a commuter parking lot next to a warehouse that has electric and water connections at each site. It is a no frills place to safely connect your RV, camp and enjoy one of the best cities on the East Coast. Their staff is SUPER friendly and helpful with directions and recommendations. - ETCTA
1335 Wilmington Pike West Chester, Pennsylvania 19382 (map) | Click To View Phone
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This is not a campground but has full hookup sites for people coming for service, trades and purchases. We traded our Country Coach for a Tiffin Allegro Bus. We stayed in their campground while our coach was getting additional items put on. So if you need good honest service for your coach, this is a good place. - Russell and Stephen
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Sep 2018 - $25.00
We were on a monthly rate. This park is just over the border into NJ, is also close to the Delaware & Maryland borders, 30 mi from Philly & Willington, 2 hrs from DC. It is close to our son in Bear Delaware (35 mi). It is a large park of 400 sites & the only one in area that had room for us for 2 months - Sept & Oct. Sites go all different directions, many in wooded areas of the park. There are a lot of seasonal campers here with many leaving their trailers here year 'round, most are decent. A few trailers look very old & not kept up. Park is well maintained, grass is kept cut clean. Main road to the office is blacktop but rest of park roads are just dirt & gravel so you need to go slow in the park as a few spots need to be filled in with dirt/gravel. There is a nice large pool that was put in in 2017, playground, pavilion, game room, new dog park. Activities on weekend, laundry room machines are old but work well, Did not use the showers but did peak in the ladies & bathroom showers were clean, nicely tiled. I would use them if needed. There is a small store by office, snack shop that serves sandwiches & ice cream. Most are back-in sites. There are some full hook ups and a few pull throughs. There is an area that was just water/electric. There is dump station. Sites near the front of the park are less wooded. We were on site # 48 near front, a nice large site once we got level, there is no gravel pad. It may have been at one time. Many sites you park on grass. Back of site level but front needed lots of boards under tires & jacks which owner brought us some more boards as we didn't have enough. Friendly staff. Small town, farm land in area. There is an ACME chain grocery store, Tractor Supply & few other small stores. We would stay here again. - 2GermanAmericans
Jun 2017 - $40.00
Overall it's not a bad park, with a few upgrades it could be much nicer. Pros: very nice play area, nice pond and beach, good store and restaurant, clean park, roomy sites. Cons: poor pre-arrival communication, no free wi-fi, sites are not level, no cable tv, trash is way out of the way and they don't pick up, no pool, some unprofessional staff members. We probably wouldn't come back here, unless some improvements are made. - Chicopiloto
Jun 2017 - $40.00
Another CG that misrepresents itself on web page. The sites are nothing like depicted. 50 year old CG that recently added some PT sites and new large dog park. Has cafe, nice store, basketball court, playground, rec hall, catch n release pond that is also swimming hole (yuck). overall it was satisfactory. highlight was local Cowtown Rodeo. - Avanti3106
274 Richwood Rd Monroeville, New Jersey 08343 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 100 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 24 Reviews
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Sep 2018 - $33.00
Traveling in a 43ft Class A with 4 slides and tow vehicle. Interior roads are tight for big rigs. The first turn inside the park has you making a 90 degree turn with a tree on each side of the turn and boundary markers along the asphalt making it difficult to thread through. The turns to the office and the exit have concrete posts at the corners making it tough to make those turns. We stayed along the fence line and to get to that area you will encounter an overhead tree branch that you cannot avoid (no damage) and two other trees to thread through. The fence line sites are the best for big rigs. We booked site 47 through Reserve America after a lengthy conversation with the office about the best spot for our size and satellite signal; however, upon arrival we were told that somehow that spot was double booked and we would have to be in site 35 with no other options. They never contacted us prior to arrival to tell us our booked site was not available; however, they said an email "should have" been sent. Site 35 had soft ground toward the front and we had to adjust a couple times to keep our jacks from sinking into the ground. It has a very large tree that blocks satellite, the sewer is all the way at the back and the water is on the passenger side shared with another site so we had to run our hose under the coach. Some may need a sewer and water hose extension. We had multiple conversations with the office about moving to another site and they told us that we could not move for 3 days because they were booked. For those 3 days our original booked site stayed vacant. Eventually we ended up in site 50 which was a little shorter but decent and the sites are wide so we could park the car next to the coach. Heavy rains while we were there and many sites were flooded. The pool was closed for the season, the arcade only open 2 hours a day and the tennis courts were laughable as the surface was rough chip sealed so not usable. - Big Rig Travelers
Sep 2018 - $38.00
This is a rural park with many campers that stay year round. It is mostly for families and has plenty to keep kids busy. The one thing it's missing is a fenced in dog park. It has plenty of room for one though. We had a pull through that was extremely difficult to get in and out. Pictures show poles and trees were a problem. Tight roads thru the park. Signs all over the park telling you "no" for something. Other campers were very friendly. Otherwise a good central location to see Atlantic City and Philadelphia. There was an outside row for big rigs but no shade at all. Might stay here again but only viewing lot first. - S Dowdy
Jul 2018 - $29.00
This place is off the beaten path but a great place to stay. The roads in are good. GPS may not bring up the last road in - Foote Lane - but there is a sign for the campground at the end of the road. Check in was fast and friendly. We were originally in Site 28 but we could not level our RV - there is a slope at the front end of the site. We moved to Site 40 and it was easier to level - still not perfect but better. This is the reason for the 9 star rating, otherwise it would be a 10. Sites are wider than normal. Site 40 is a pull through with full hook ups, no issues with any of them. It was plenty long enough for our 37-foot Class A, tow-dolly and parking the car. The park is well maintained and very quiet. There is a cow pasture next to the camp but there was no smell. They have a play ground, fishing pond and a pool, but there are no chairs or table at the pool. Laundry is an open room so it was pretty dusty but the machines were clean. Some of the dryers don't heat up very well. WiFi was just okay. Verizon signal was good. We stayed June 7 -14, 2018 and paid $29 a night. - BarrettsHappyTrails
429 Icedale Rd Honey Brook, Pennsylvania 19344 (map) | Click To View Phone
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1659 Embreeville Road Coatesville, Pennsylvania 19320 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 104 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 89 Reviews
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Apr 2019 - $59.00
The KOA directory advises to call for directions for big rigs - highlighted bold. I called and the directions I was given took us over a bridge on which we were too long to make the corner. Unfortunately, this issue impacted my feelings about the campground. We were there for 2 weeks and spent a significant amount of time looking for the best way out. The campground itself was on a hill and the roads going in were steep but manageable. But the best routes through the campground were not clear. Our site was long and level. There was shade on our site. This was one of the more peaceful campgrounds in our travels. Note: the "bad" mark for service was because of getting the worst directions possible for getting to the campground. We did not interact with any staff after that. Big rigs who do not know the area need to be very careful. Avoid the bridge that is approx. 1/2 mile west of the campground. - lce3
Oct 2018 - $96.00
A nice peaceful park for a Halloween weekend to end our season. We enjoyed our stay. The park itself and amenities are very nice and clean. The ride to the park from route 1 is stressful. Route 82 has some low branches. The turn onto Embreeville road is tight, and Embreeville road is narrow and winding with lots of blind turns and questionable branches. I am sure glad my rig is only 12'4" tall. The bridge at the mill is doable if oncoming traffic yields properly......or at all. Personally I think the campground should contact the state about trimming the branches over the road to 14' plus. It's not an unreasonable request to help their business in a time when big (expensive) rigs are very common. Once in the campground the roads are steep, windy, narrow and off camber. Less than 8" bedrail clearance on a 5th wheel could easily result in a crunched truckbed here. It was very nice and relaxing once the trailer was dropped. Great view from the patio sites overlooking the office, activity center and pool. We would return for another quick weekend despite the access challenges. I would never recommend trying to get here in the dark though. - ferguson65
Oct 2018 - $50.00
This RV Park would be a 9 if it was sunny out and two hurricanes had not just passed thru the area. It was thriving even though it was very soggy when we were here. There were kids every where dressed up in costume for a planned trick r treat night on Saturday from 6-6:30 pm. It was fun to see so many people out and about talking with each other. The pull thru sites were really long, but not that level, so have plenty of blocks around to help your auto leveling system do its job. The front desk staff were very helpful. - Vipermanden
777 Delaware Park Blvd Wilmington, Delaware 19804 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 10 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 2 Reviews
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May 2016 - $1.00
This is a good place to overnight. There are no utilities. Probably the worst part was we were parked on the north end and a train is right behind the trees there. Next time we will park as far south as we can. We felt very safe as there was security driving around all the time. We visited the casino and was surprised to find it was non-smoking....YEAH!! - jacknpeg
Jun 2009 - $1.00
We were looking for a place near Wilmington but couldn't find one. So, we decided to "boondock" at the race track. It was very convenient and the weather cooperated and was cool. They don't mind if you camp in their parking lot, but want you to use the back parking spaces. There were quite a few truckers who overnighted too. I had to put a price, but there is no charge. - har-fl
235 S DuPont Hwy New Castle, Delaware 19720 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 28 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 5 Reviews
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Sep 2015 - $50.00
We had stayed here about 10 years ago and when we had to visit Delaware again, we again found that this is the ONLY place to park an RV in Northern Delaware. The price is extremely high because there is no other place to go. Very difficult to get into the park as highway 40 and the Dupont Highway split right in front of the building and there are large traffic walls. We had to go North on the highway, do a huge U-turn in driving rain and rush hour traffic before we could reach the entrance. Also, the name on the sign is different. It's supposed to be Delaware Motel and RV Park but the sign says "Delaware Autocourt-motel and trailer park" Also it says "build to suit" indicating to me that the place is for sale as well. I had trouble calling them for reservations but finally got through. We had a large dumpster next to space one, where they put us but told us "it had just been emptied." One of the big surprises was "the siren". I had read about this in reviews of nearby motels. It seems that the fire department is two doors up and whenever they get a call, even at 12:30 a.m, this enormous civil defense siren starts wailing. I thought it was for a nuclear attack the first time I heard it. It is so loud, its beyond belief, and hard to comprehend that they still do this activity in New Castle, Delaware.
The site we were at had reliable 50 amp service, water, and sewer, and I would have to say, even with the abandoned semi trailers scattered about, the people staying there were very nice to us, didn't bother us, and the maintenance fellow checked us in during a huge rainstorm, and waited out by the site to help us hook up, and he was sopping wet, but took it all in stride. It's just too bad somebody doesn't spend the money to whip the place in shape. They have a nice large area for the RV's, but it seems that there are mostly monthly or semi-permanent residents. There is a motel to the East of the RV park which you drive past to get into the spaces. - Mexicanpiloto
Oct 2013 - $50.00
This place was way over priced for what it offered , but it was about the only thing available along our route - there aren't many campgrounds in Delaware. It's along a very noisy road, and the fire department right next door adds to the chaos several times a day. As previously mentioned, this is a place for an overnight stop only. There is a lot of junk sitting around from the hotel, and some rather unsavory-looking folks walked through the park while we were there. Nothing more than a gravel lot behind a motel, but the full hookups worked well with strong 50-amp power and water. We don't plan to return. - LowesTravels
Jul 2013 - $50.00
Good place for and overnight stay. When verifying directions with MapQuest use address 259 S. Dupont. And in the Woodalls book it says 50 Ft. where US 40 and US 13 divide, it is really right at the actually divide. There is a Walmart just down the road on the right, you could walk there. But when leaving if you are headed east and want to get on I295, just go down to the WalMart, pull into the parking lot, go out toward Wilton (the street that runs in front of WalMart) turn left onto Wilton, go to the light, cross over US 40/US30, you'll be turning left on to US 40E this will take you back up to I295. - Travelin Jenkins
49 Bear Rd Elmer, New Jersey 08318 (map) | Click To View Phone
Sites: 262 | Recent Rate: $$$$ | 53 Reviews
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Jun 2019 - $99.00
Park was clean and staff was friendly. Campground roads were decent for large rig. Nice activity for kids. Small bass in the pond. Nice pool and splash park. - Mike Corl
Jun 2018 - $25.00
We were seasonal campers were staying there until we found a house. The campground had bad drainage issues. They had many activities but many of them were not looked over by the camp staff. They had a water day where people were allied to have water fights people would drive by and randomly just squirt you even if you. In one case a large truck with s large water tank on back blocked the road so he could squirt people and did so for 5 minutes. The water park half the time was not in working order. The staff was rude and acted like they were doing you a favor just doing their job. One time I asked to borrow a ladder to get a large branch that had fallen on the camper they said yes I waited for 20 minutes only to be told no they didn't want the liability if I fell. They said there were places to rent them. The quiet times were never enforced. The main entrance road was awful always bumpy and full of potholes. The place is very rural and not much to do around the area. - Camper1a
Aug 2017 - $87.00
Overall we give Jellystone Tall pines a high 4 out of 5 rating. Would have been a 5 except for a few issues listed below. This campground is very nice with mostly shady sites and dirt/sand roads. Some of the sites are tight. The campground has a very nice pool and a small splash park for the kids. The pool does have a slightly cloudy appearance, but is very clean. Not being a pool guy it almost appeared that they kept it that way for some valid reason. Staff was also checking the balance of the pool and adding water very often. They also have 2 inflatable water slides, one being a pretty good sized. They also have a nice store with hot food and ice cream. Overall the entire property was well maintained. There was a large number of scheduled activities for campers which was great. They also have a small fishing pond. Golf cart rentals are available and most golf cart users where courteous, there were a few kids riding around on small electric mini bikes which were a little out of control. The restrooms & showers were very clean. On more then one occasion our dog got biscuits from the cleaning staff, which was a great touch. Why not a 5? 1. The check in staff when we arrived were very cold, no issues checking in they just were not very friendly and welcoming 2. We were assigned a site that was basically in between cabins and does not appear on the site maps. Other than the sewer connection being 12" in the air the site was pretty nice, however we had booked a "premium" site. We did not feel we got what we paid for so I spoke with a different individual at the front desk whom was very nice and was directed to speak with the general manager the next morning. He handled the situation very professionally and to our satisfaction. - Jacdanboy


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This is the stereo 3D version of "A Horse of a Different Color".
The Horsehead Nebula is a dark cloud of dense gas and dust located just below the belt of Orion on the sky. A visible light view shows a strong silhouette resembling the horse's head used for a knight in chess. Infrared light, however, reveals a more complex scene, as shown in Hubble's 2013 image. The warm parts of the clouds glow in infrared light, plus longer infrared wavelengths can penetrate deeper into the clouds. A dark and relatively featureless scene is revealed as a glowing gaseous landscape.
This video presents a scientific visualization of the Horsehead Nebula as seen in infrared light. To fill out the widescreen frame, the central Hubble image has been augmented by ground-based observations from the European Southern Observatory's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA). The three-dimensional interpretation has been sculpted to create a wispy and mountainous environment, with stars distributed in an approximate and statistical manner. The computer graphics model is intended to be scientifically reasonable, but not fully accurate. This imaginative traverse provides an inspiring spaceflight experience that brings the celestial scene to life.
G. Bacon, T. Davis, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (STScI)
Production: April 19, 2013
Publication: February 26, 2014


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Mark the center of the backing on the wrong side at the top, bottom, and side edges. On a smooth, flat surface a little larger than the quilt, place backing right side down. Smooth any wrinkles until the backing is flat; use masking tape to hold it taut and in place. You may also use T-pins to tack backing to floor.
Unfold batting and lay over backing. Smooth wrinkles, keeping the backing wrinkle free.
Position quilt top on backing and batting, keeping all layers wrinkle free. Match centers of quilt top with backing. Use straight pins to keep layers from shifting while basting.
Basting holds the three layers together to prevent shifting while quilting.
For hand quilting, baste using a long needle threaded with as long a length of sewing thread as can be used without tangling. Insert needle through all layers in center of quilt and baste layers together with a long running stitch. For the first line of basting, stitch up and down the vertical center of the quilt. Next, baste across the horizontal center of the quilt. Working toward the edges and creating a grid, continue basting to completely stabilize the layers.
For machine quilting, pin-baste using nickel-plated safety pins, instead of needle and thread. Begin in the center of the quilt and work outward to the edges, placing safety pins approximately every 4″.


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Crafting a canvas pack suitable for canoeing is going to take some skills at sewing and leather working. Both are fairly easy to do but having the proper tools is a requirement. For the perpose of this pattern we will asume it is quite a large pack.
You will need;
- A few yards of canvas suitable to your project
- A piece of 6 to 8 oz leather for cutting straps about 36 inches long and 10 inches wide
- 9 - 3/4 or 5/8 brass roller buckles (brass doesnt rust and is easier on leather)
- A bag of 3/4 inch quick rivets
- A large roll of artificial sinew or waxed linen thread
- Several rolls of heavy (button type) thread
- Straight pins and safety pins
- Good solid sewing machine
- Scissors and thread nippers
- Pattern cutting wheel
- Measuring stick (yard or meter metal is better)
- Chalk or fabric pen
- Several packs of denim and canvas needles (I broke several)
- Leather hole punch
- Over stitch wheel (looks like the rowel on a set of spurs set on a handle, it is for marking stitch holes on leather)
- Leather spring punch (optional for stitching holes, awl, or stitching chisel works too)
- Sharp leather cutting knife
- Strap cutter (optional strap cutting can be done with a sharp knife and straight edge)
- Pack of leather needles
- Needle nose pliers (for pulling needles through tight holes)
- Hammer and anvil type surface for setting rivets (I used the back on my axe stuck into a piece of wood)
I am no sewing expert but I get by. You may want to consult a seamstress or tailor for a better idea of how to do this section.
- Decide on the size of your pack based on what you want to put into it and tape together a pattern from newspaper. Cut out all the pieces of the pattern from the canvas and lay them on the floor. Try to visualize how the canvas will fold together to form the pack. With all of the canvas pieces cut out, hem the edges of the two side panels (fold the edges in a half an inch and sew them down).
- With the two side panels created, establish where the bottom of the pack is going to be on the large piece of canvas that will form most of the pack. Mark the fold lines with a fabric pen and pin the side panels onto the bottom panel of the pack and sew them on, one at a time. For the best results use a double interlocking seam at 6 -8 stitches per inch. This seam will help make the pack tough and water resistant. When folding the fabric in this way you will be running the needle through 5 layers of fabric so go very slow to avoid needle breakage. Going around the corners will require complicated folding like wrapping a Christmas present so take your time here too. At the top of the pack when you are done sewing on the side panels be sure to reverse your stitching a couple of times to strengthen the pack. Double stitching the whole side panel will also make things stronger.
- When both side panels are on it will look like a box with three flaps. Two narrow side flaps and a large back flap. You can add ties on the side panels if you wish to help keep them closed. This back flap will be the main closure on the pack. It should come down almost to the bottom of the pack. Hem the two sides of this back flap with about half inch hems, the bottom of the flap should have a larger hem, an inch or two; this way you can run multiple stitch lines across it and make it tougher.
- When all of this sewing is finished the body of your pack will be done. It can be treated with canvas tent waterproofing, Outback jacket waterproofing, or a mixture of mineral oil and bees wax. Even petrol and paraffin wax works but watch out at the campfire. You can also leave it untreated.
Leather I know a thing or two about. You do not use a machine for this; it is all done by hand. Double stitching achives the best results.
- Get your strap cutter out and set it for about 2 inches. Cut 3 sections of leather strap for your shoulder straps and tump line; they only need to be 12 14 inches long.
- Cut two identical pieces to make the harness rigging about 6 inches by 3 inches and cut it to shape.
- Cut several straps at 3/4 or 5/8 wide to match your buckles. You will need 2-3 for the front of the pack (depending on how large), 2 for the side closures, 2 for the shoulder straps, 2 for the tump strap, and several to cut smaller pieces from to fabricate buckle straps and reinforcement pieces.
- With all of the cutting done start on the 9 buckle straps. The first 7 are straight forward, Cut a piece of strap 6 - 7 inches long, in the center punch 2 large holes an inch apart and cut out the small amount of material between the two holes. There is an oblong punch to do this but I dont own one. Slide the buckle onto a strap and put the tongue through the new hole, fold the strap and flatten the buckle down. Run the overstitch wheel over the leather to mark your stitching holes on both halves then punch the holes with an awl or spring punch. Repeat this process for all buckles. Make small pieces of reinforcing straps that match the pattern and number of stitch holes on the buckle strap to go on the inside of the pack. (For really heavy duty structural reinforcement the pack should have 2 inch leather circles sewn inside and out and the buckle strap should then be sewn to that.)
- The only buckle straps that are different are for the side closure straps. The strap should be slightly longer (about a thumbs width) for an additional rivet. Leave a half inch between the stitching and the back of the buckle for the rivet.
- Next punch holes in all of your strapping large enough for the buckles tongue to go through in one inch increments; also mark and punch the stitching holes in the straps too. Finally cut sections of strap for more reinforcement to sew on the inside of the pack under the strap.
- Fabricating a tumpline is easy it is just a wide piece of leather for a brow band stitched to two smaller straps for adjustment. For thinner leather, run one very long adjustment strap over the length of the brow band and stitch it. (Dont use rivets in the center of the brow band)
- The shoulder straps are fairly simple, mark your stitches, punch the holes and sew the adjustment straps to the shoulder straps. Add two rivets for reinforcement if this is to carry heavy weights. Punch buckle holes at one inch increments and shape the top of the shoulder straps to fit into the harness rigging.
- Next take your earlier fabricated harness rigging, mark and punch the stitching holes around the edges and for the shoulder straps. Sew the shoulder straps onto it proper so that they come out at 45 degree angles. Take the leather piece that goes on the inside of the pack and mark the stitching holes in it as well (use the outside piece as a template if you wish) Punch rivet holes through the two rigging plates and the shoulder straps so they all fit together. Now take your canvas bag and determine where the center is and where the harness rigging should attach. Hand sew the two halves onto the pack, shoulder straps on the outside pointing to the top with the second rigging plate on the inside of the pack. Once the rigging is sewn onto the pack, add the rivets (3 to each shoulder strap). Then take a piece of leather for a keeper strap and rivet on reinforcement across the whole thing with smaller pieces of strap on the inside. Now the shoulder straps are rigged for strength.
- Now sew the shoulder strap buckles on at the bottom of the back of the pack, adding a small piece of strap inside for reinforcement and hook up the shoulder straps for the first time. Do the same for all of the closure buckles and straps on the front flap. Be sure the front closure buckles are close to the bottom of the pack. The closure straps will need their adjustment holes punched if it has not already been done.
- The side closure buckles should go on the front of the pack so the left over adjustment straps get tucked away under the front flap. Sew the buckle straps on with a reinforcement strap on the inside for strength and let that half inch of extra leather sit over the hem you sewed on the pack earlier. Using a small square piece of leather punch a hole and position a rivet right through the hem to strengthen the top of the pack and keep it from ripping when being over stuffed. The side closure strap will be sewn on the back of the pack with inside reinforcement and a hem rivet as well.
- Sew the tumpline buckles onto the back of the pack using the same methods as before. Be sure they are at the proper angle tilted slightly in from center. Larger reinforcement circles (explained above) are not a bad idea here. With this added your pack is done.
If you are not familiar with how to hand stitch leather there are a few websites that can help. Here is one.
Need Tools? found this by accident.
This is an intermediate skill leather project but sewing through 3 layers of thick leather and canvas is very trying. It is best to work at this a little bit at a time and seek advice before getting into something you are unsure of.
Measure twice cut once.
You can sew canvas over all of the leather on the inside when you are done if you wish.


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The NuPIC Plugin Framework
Well, before I let you go home I want to share the history of the plugin framework. It grew out of the NuPIC plugin framework. NuPIC is a platform for intelligent computing and its got a pretty interesting and very clean architecture. I don't mind praising it because it was designed before I came on board, so it's not auto-complimentation (don't confuse with auto-completion).
NuPIC is a platform for distributed computing conceived to run massive HTM (Hierarchical Temporal Memory) networks. The term "node" is usually reserved to a physical machine or a host in cluster nomenclature. In NuPIC the term "node" refers to a node in the HTM network. These nodes can be sensors, compute nodes or effectors. From a software engineering point of view, there are many node processor processes running on many cores (same or different machines), each one of them running multiple HTM nodes, there is a supervisor process that orchestrates all the action and there are tools that communicate with the supervisor via a sophisticated API. The goal is usually to train a HTM network by feeding it some data and then perform inference by showing it novel data and see how similar it is to something the network learned. The runtime engine is the supervisor and all the node processor. The application or tools communicate with the supervisor to load networks files, run computations, and control the live networks at runtime by sending commands and setting parameters. Where do plugins fit into the picture? Actually everywhere. Every node in the HTM network is implemented as a plugin. When a network file is loaded into the runtime engine, it is parsed and the specific nodes are instantiated based on their type just like the monsters in the game. Figure 2 is a high-level illustration of NuPIC's architecture.
I think that looking at another system with a radically different interface helps clarify the boundary between generic plugin framework concerns and the application and its object model.
Listing Seven contains the definition of the INode interface. It is the moral equivalent of the IActor interface in the game. It is how the runtime engine knows its nodes are same as the game know its actors.
struct INode { virtual void init(INodeInfo & nodeInfo) = 0; virtual void compute() = 0; virtual void execute(IReadBufferIterator & args, IWriteBuffer & out) = 0; virtual void getParameter(const Byte * name, IWriteBuffer & value) = 0; virtual void setParameter(const Byte * name, IReadBuffer & value) = 0; virtual void saveState(IWriteBuffer & state) = 0; };
The compute() method is the main one. It is called repeatedly and it is pretty much like the IActor::play() method. The init() method initializes the node and allows persistent nodes with the corresponding saveState() method. The runtime engine can tell the node to save its state. Later it can recreate the same node (e.g., on a different host) based on the state. The get/setParameter() and execute() methods are something new. They allow plugin nodes to arbitrarily extend their interface. Any node can have any number of parameters and execute commands. This effectively sidesteps the limitations of a well-defined interface. The runtime engine can't use these node-specific parameters and commands because it works at the INode interface, but users and applications construct networks that contain specific node types and can interact with them at runtime by getting/setting specific parameters and sending commands. There is nothing new here. The data types used for the generic methods are IReadBuffer and IWriteBuffer, which are glorified opaque buffers. They have some formatting capabilities similar to IO streams via overloaded read() and write() methods, but it is up to the user to know what is the format of each parameter, what arguments each command expects and what are the valid values to pass. This is very fragile and akin to having all your functions accept a void pointer opaque buffer that the caller must pack and the function must unpack or parse.
A partial solution to this problem is the node spec. The node spec is a struct that defines for each parameter its name, type, element count (1 is a scalar, >1 is an array, 0 is variable size), description, constraints, default value, and access (create, get, set, and combinations). This is a lot of metadata and lets the runtime engine and generic tools interact with nodes at a very high level. For example, tools can automatically display the description of every parameter as a tooltip and validation can be performed based on numerical ranges (0.5 ... 1.2), regular expressions (ab.*) or enumerations (red, green, blue). The nice thing about it is that all this metadata is not available only on the runtime engine, but also on the client side (tools). The tools libraries load the plugins too via the PluginManager and they have all this information at their disposal. So, if a user misspells the name of a command the tools can let her know right there and display a list of valid commands. If she then tries to set a parameter that has only a "get" access it will get descriptive error message that includes the access right for this parameter.
Wrap Up
I'm done. Thank you for making it all the way. I'm sure it wasn't easy. I hope that you will use this framework and the patterns and idioms it supports in your own applications and systems.


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Mohammed Abattouy is a professor of history and philosophy of science at the Mohammed Vth University in Rabat, Morocco, and Senior Research Fellow in the Foundation of Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC) in Manchester, UK. As a historian of science, he began his career by investigating the history of science in the 17th century and specialised in Galileo's manuscripts of physics. He was a scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin between 1996 and 2003, where he shifted to the investigation of the history of Islamic sciences. He specialised in the history of Arabic mechanics, in particular the manuscripts of the science of weights ('ilm al-athqal) which he reconstructed in full; currently he prepares this corpus for publication, with an English translation and commentary.
He was the Chief Editor of the academic web portal of FSTC's Muslim Heritage since 2007. After he joined FSTC, he participated in the major projects of the Foundation, including the content preparation for the "1001 Inventions" Exhibition.
Mohammed Abattouy is the author of several books and more than 40 articles of history of science and the history of Islamic sciences. He participated in numerous conferences on history of science and organised several of them himself. At present, he is investigating, together with Professor Salim Al-Hassani, the mechanical corpus of Al-Isfizari (late 11th century), a project sponsored by the Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation based in London.


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A new collaborative firm in China formed by Oak Press Solutions Inc., Sturgis, MI, will manufacture fin-stamping dies and related fin-line components for the heating and air-conditioning industry.
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Wednesday, May 04 2011
Robbins Steps Down as President of the Oak Tree Racing Association
Jack K. Robbins, VMD, has stepped down as President of the Oak Tree Racing Association and has assumed the chairmanship of the Board of Directors. Dr. Robbins is the last remaining founding director of Oak Tree Racing Association and is much revered throughout the racing community.
Dr. Robbins has provided outstanding leadership during the history of Oak Tree including the last eleven years as president, a time of great change for Oak Tree and the industry. He now wants to spend more time with his wife, Maggie, who has been very ill for several years.
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Back in the oily days, oh about 2001 or so, when I first launched up Chic Knits, I used a program called NewsPro to write an online journal. This program ran on the monster fumes of cgi and after a few months of blogging, I'd tweaked it to even allow comments, which before were handled by a funky little (yes, cgi) guestbook on another page.
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Pearl Harbor Survivor Awarded Honorary College Degree
Ivy Tech Community College awarded a 95-year-old World War II veteran with an honorary degree for College and Community Service according to Fox News. William Henry Harvey never served in a combat role due to segregation in the military.
Instead, he was assigned as a cook aboard the U.S.S. Sacramento, which was stationed in Pearl Habor on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the military base.
The school decided to honor Harvey after a professor visited the healthcare facility he is living at on Veteran's Day.
"The original plan was to just present Mr. Harvey with just a small as a token of our appreciation to his service to our country but the leadership at Ivy Tech decided it would be better to give an honorary degree to a man who had given so much to his country."
The school felt that they should honor his sacrifices at a time when the military was segregated.
"Nobody wanted the black man in the Navy," Harvey said.
Segregation in the military did not officially end until 1948 when President Harry S. Truman signed an executive order.
The school presented Harvey the honorary degree during their Black History Month celebration, which was focused on "Blacks in the Time of War."


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Whenever I watch a Karate student or instructor move, whether in a demonstration, tournament, during class, or at a special training, I always try to determine how the person generates power.
In 99 percent of the cases, or so, the person is using ordinary strength and ordinary movement, in the form of the techniques of Karate. Anyone who is willing to learn the form of such techniques could do the same with practice. With practice, a person could get faster and stronger, to a point. Then there would be little if any improvement -- ever.
In 1 percent of the cases, the person moves faster and easier than he should be able to, and generates more power than he should be able to. Something is going on. He is generating power in another way, and using that additional power to fuel his techniques. It is almost Karate "magic!"
That 1 percent makes Karate fascinating!
And you might expect that the well known and highest ranking instructors would all be in this 1 percent. I do not believe that this is true. Some are, some are not. And some of the people who can move like this are neither well know nor high ranking.
So it is important to keep your eyes open. You must not let your expectations cloud your perception.
It may seem strange to say, but I see this more often in Goju-Ryu and related styles than my own Shorin-Ryu. Of course, an exceptional person is not limited by style.
If you see one of these 1 percent people, you have an opportunity to try to "catch" their movement -- to see and feel how they are moving. Even a glimpse will give you a chance to improve your Karate. Honestly, if you can "catch" a single movement, you can apply it to all movement. It is like an infection.
I may have been off with the 99 percent and 1 percent breakdown. The actual numbers may be closer to 99.9 percent and 0.1 percent. Only one in a thousand Karate students or instructors move exceptionally (in my opinion). Even that may be optimistic.
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Power Generation -- 99% and 1%
Whenever I watch a Karate student or instructor move, whether in a demonstration, tournament, during class, or at a special training, I always try to determine how the person generates power.
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Achill Island, Ireland – October 21, 2012: Solid 4 foot surf, sunshine and moderate wind graced day 3 of the Aer Lingus Kite Surf Pro's 10 day holding period. Brazilian riders dominated the action as contest directors finished the first 7 heats of men's round 1.
"This is some of the best that Ireland has to offer", said local contest organizer Eoin O'Connell. "The waves are pumping, the sun is out and we're really happy to be able to share it with the best riders in the world."
Standouts today included Brazilian riders Sebastian Ribeiro, Guilly Brandao and Felippe Ferreira who all scored 14 plus point heat score totals. The on-fire Brandao not only scored the highest single wave, but also the highest heat total of the event so far of 15.9 with his vertical back hand attack in the clean side-offshore wind conditions.
The opening heat of the day saw a highly anticipated rematch of the semi-finals of the second stop of the KSP World Tour in Mauritius between Luke McGillewie (RSA, RRD) and current KSP points leader Patri McLaughlin (HI, North). The young South African took down the tour leader to secure a spot in the 4th round of the event. Mitu Montiero (CPV, F-One) dominated the second heat of the day and yet again established himself as one of the riders to beat on tour this year.
Heat 3 began the Brazilian rampage through the first round that saw the Ribeiro, Brandao, Ferreira as well as Pedro Henrique (BRA, Best) take home a Round 1 victory ensuring a strong presence from Brazil in the later rounds of the event.
Wind speeds were unreliable as heats ran into the afternoon, resulting in delays and heat postponements. Etienne Lhote (FRA, F-One) took home the victory in the final seconds of heat number 7 to end the day.
A riders meeting will be held early tomorrow morning to get the event underway as soon as conditions allow. Tune in to www.kspworldtour.com/live at 10:00am Ireland time.
The Aer Lingus Kite Surf Pro 2012, organized by Freeride Ireland, is sponsored by Aer Lingus, ION Essentials, Pure Magic, Hertz, Achill Tourism, Cully & Sully, IKSA, Leader, NDP, EAFRD, SW Mayo Development, DECLG and as well as The Strand Hotel and the Teach Cruachan B&B.
Heat 8: Airton Cozzolino (ITA, North), Keahi De Aboitiz, (AUS, Cabrinha), Mark Barry (IRL)
Heat 1: Ninja Bichler (GER, North), Suzanne Kuiper (NED, F-One), Celina Guardati (ARG)
Heat 2: Ines Correia (POR, RRD), Melissa Gil (USA, Cabrinha), Jade O'Connor (IRL)
Heat 3: Kirsty Jones (GBR, North), Kristin Boese (GER, Best), Kari Schibevaag (NOR, Ozone)
Heat 4: Milla Ferreira (BRA), Jalou Langeree (NED, Naish), Lilian Malschaert (NED)
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