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Posted 02 May 2010 - 05:33 PM
I was totally blown away, I could do spins, forward, backward flight, I have got to get me one of these (Just wish I had the $$$$) O well save,save,save
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Just wait until you try a B. <grin>
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Posted 03 May 2010 - 04:09 AM
As john said, hook line and sinker now.
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It certainly is a huge difference. Like JB said, the difference between the 1.5 and the B is huge. Then, the next step, jumping from the B to the B Pro is that much sweeter, yet!
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Posted 04 May 2010 - 06:44 AM
Now if this trade comes through. What will this make your collection come to? Also you have to move back closer to the beach. Missed you guys on the days when it was nice enough to get to the beach to fly this winter. See you guys in November if everything works ouit this fall.
Posted 04 May 2010 - 07:23 AM
hey m bro i would be willing to trade a 1.5 for the backtracker let me know
Hi Steve, I'd be more than willing to trade, that would be AWESOME. Call me and we'll talk 208-378-1482 preferably in the mornings.
Thanks mbro
Posted 04 May 2010 - 05:19 PM
i will caqll in morningHi Steve, I'd be more than willing to trade, that would be AWESOME. Call me and we'll talk 208-378-1482 preferably in the mornings.
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Statistically speaking, Franklin County should be straighter than John Wayne eating Chick-fil-A. The middle-of-nowhere rectangle in southwest Mississippi -- known for its pine forests, hog hunting and an infamous hate crime -- is home to exactly zero same-sex couples, according to an analysis of census data.
In other words: It's a place where gays don't exist.
At least not on paper.
Before I visited Franklin County, I figured there must be gay people living in Straight County USA. But I didn't expect anyone to be open about it -- and with good reason. As part of this op-ed project, I recently ranked the Hospitality State as one of the least hospitable for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, based on its lack of legal protections. In addition to allowing gays and lesbians to be fired because of who they are, Mississippi is also gracious enough to let landlords evict gay residents.
Those are great incentives for a gay person to become invisible. And being invisible, of course, could mean avoiding census workers.
I drove to this place of rolling hills and misty valleys with a few questions on my mind: Can there really be such a thing as an all-straight county? If so, what is it like to be someone who never has met a gay person? Do you just watch "Glee" and figure it out?
If there are gay people in Franklin County, what keeps them hidden?
I spent a few days searching for answers before I realized I was making the wrong assumptions: It's not that gay people here (or anywhere really) want to be in the closet, necessarily. It's the rest of the world that pushes them in and shuts the door.
'Limits exist only in your mind'
My first mission in Franklin: looking for any superficial signs of gayness.
There's a gas station named ABBA and a purple hair salon called Sassy Fraz. In the window of the Bude Thrift Store, there's a piece of fabric with the words "LIMITS EXIST ONLY IN YOUR MIND" stitched on top of a rainbow. The Homochitto National Forest (insert middle-school laugh here) occupies about half of the county's land.
Other than that, Franklin County is pretty much the straightest-seeming place you could imagine. Its 8,000 residents (population density: 45 acres per person) are concentrated primarily in three towns: Bude, Meadville and Roxie.
Roxie's downtown is home to an empty swing set and about five rusted and abandoned buildings. One resident described it as a ghost town in the making and told me I could take a nap in the dirt road and would be safe all day because no cars would be coming through. It looks like the set of a post-apocalyptic movie. A zombie wouldn't seem out of place. Bude has a train depot and a hardware store with a sign in the window warning of alligator attacks ("... alligators should not be fed or molested in any way. Dogs can be a food source for alligators.") Camo print is everywhere. Meadville, the county seat, boasts a restaurant called The Feed Mill, which specializes in feeding bread pudding to people, not animals. A convenience store between towns keeps pickled pig lips next to the cash register.
It's a far cry from Chelsea or the Castro.
Racially, the county mirrors the rest of Mississippi: 64% white and 35% black. Residents are proud of the fact that there's only one school in the area, which means the kids all are educated together, as opposed to in segregated private schools. Housing is not as integrated. Cross over the railroad tracks by the sawmill in Bude and you find yourself in "The Quarters," as in "slave quarters." That's the primarily black area of town. Tell white residents you plan to go and they'll ask why you're not taking a gun.
Jim Crow doesn't seem so far gone in Franklin County.
In 2007, national news crews descended on the area after a local man, James Ford Seale, a reported Ku Klux Klan member, was convicted on federal charges of kidnapping and conspiracy in connection with the 1964 deaths of two black men. The two 19-year-olds, according to prosecutors, were abducted near Meadville; they were beaten in the national forest before being drowned in the Mississippi River, with an engine block, iron weights and railroad ties pulling them into the depths. Seale died in prison in 2011.
"These allegations are a painful reminder of a terrible time in our country, a time when some people viewed their fellow Americans as inferior and as a threat based only on the color of their skin," then-U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said in 2007.
Ask pretty much anyone in Franklin County about race relations, meanwhile, and they'll tell you things are just fine.
Hours pass before anyone mentions the killings.
'Everybody knows everybody'
The same sort of knowing denial applies to gay people.
A few Franklin County residents were happy to more or less confirm what I had read from the Williams Institute at UCLA: no gays here.
Some of them were nice about it.
Dorothy Creech, a 74-year-old woman who lives in a big white house with two rocking chairs on the porch, said she never has encountered a gay person in the flesh, but she wouldn't be bothered by it if she did, partly because she loves "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." "I don't agree with her lifestyle, but I wouldn't hold it against her," Creech said of the dance-happy, lesbian talk-show host. Gay people would have a fine time of it if they did live here, she said, since folks are so friendly to people of all types.


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I played the game and looks very beautiful, you were right Indy, by the way the game looks....
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Mika wrote:Love the new game as Aunt Iggy say it rocks he he. But I don't see Hp and Sp products in the items list after I pick them up and I am down to just about nothing on health. I remember it said you could go back to the hall with the old man. I think and charge up on a pink crystal? Help! should have run the tutorial. Mika
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One step, 128,100 feet, and millions of amazed gasps.
In a moment that seems likely to live forever in the annals of derring-do, Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner on Sunday rode a balloon to the edge of space, saluted and stepped off a platform 24 miles high with as much ease as any of us mere mortals might step off a curb.
The former soldier hurtled through the sky at up to more than 830 mph, breaking the sound barrier in a tumbling, gut-churning four-minute free fall before popping his parachute and making a running landing in the New Mexico desert.
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"My dad told me of Maradona and Neil Armstrong, I will tell my children of Ronaldo and Felix Baumgartner," another user wrote, referring to Latin American soccer stars and the first man to walk on the moon.
YouTube carried the jump live. At least 8 million people watched live, YouTube said.
While the jump was spectacle enough on its own, it also could have important implications for spaceflight.
The 100-pound pressurized flight suit and helmet Baumgartner wore to survive the lethally thin atmosphere and intense cold of near-space could also help save the lives of astronauts forced to bail out of a malfunctioning rocket on its way to space.
"It's hard to realize what happened because there's still so many emotions," Baumgartner said shortly after landing. "I had tears in my eyes when I was coming back a couple of times because you're sitting there and you thought about that moment so many times, you know, how it would feel and how it would look like."
"And this is way bigger than I had anticipated," he said.
Dubbed "Fearless Felix," the helicopter pilot and former soldier had parachuted from such landmarks as the Petronas Towers in Malaysia and the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.
Baumgartner and his team spent five years preparing for Sunday's jump, which had been postponed twice before because of weather.
By most accounts, all the hard work paid off. According to preliminary findings cited by Brian Utley, an official observer monitoring the mission, the 43-year-old Baumgartner flew higher than anyone ever in a helium balloon and broke the record for the highest jump.
Still, even Baumgartner seemed taken aback when Utley detailed how fast he had fallen at one point -- 833.9 mph, or Mach 1.24, smashing his goal to break the sound barrier.
"I was fighting all the way down to regain control because I wanted to break the speed of sound," said Baumgartner. "And then I hit it."
After a weather delay of several hours, he set off at 9:30 a.m. (11:30 a.m. ET) Sunday from Roswell, New Mexico, in breezy, clear conditions, strapped into a pressurized capsule that hung from a giant helium balloon. It took two hours to reach his target altitude.
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"Guardian angels will take care of you," said Mission Control just before he jumped.
"The whole world is watching now," Baumgartner responded.
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He experienced a few hitches. About three minutes in, he reported, "My visor is fogging up." Then he began to veer into a "flat spin" that threatened to send blood rushing to his head and leave him out of control.
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Oakland CA, January 16, 2013 - The Gateways East Bay STEM Network announced Jan. 11 that Alexander Zwissler, executive director and CEO of Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland, has been named the new co-chair of the network. He joins Dr. Leroy M. Morishita, president of California State University, East Bay in leading the collaborative efforts of the leadership hub for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.
The network's mission is to improve educational outcomes in STEM for students across Alameda and Contra Costa counties. It is part of the Gateways Cradle to Career Workforce Development Partnership, founded in 2009 to promote academic and economic development with the region.
"I am honored to take on this exciting role. I look forward to working with Dr. Morishita to continue the impactful work of Gateways' leading efforts to expand the reach of STEM learning opportunities for students in our communities," said Zwissler.
Morishita added, "We are very fortunate to have the opportunity to work with Alex Zwissler, who has a wealth of experience with the kind of hands-on learning and technological advances that are so critical to teaching STEM for the 21st century."
Zwissler has held his position at Chabot since 2007, leading expansion and development of new programs in the fields of STEM education, professional development and climate change education. He was executive director of the Fort Mason Foundation in San Francisco from 1999 to 2006 and previously worked as an executive in the cable television and telecommunications industry in both the US and the UK.
He currently serves in the leadership of both local and national non-profits, and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Association of Science and Technology Centers, Techbridge and the San Francisco Market Street Railway. In 2012, he was appointed to the statewide Education and Technology Task Force by California's superintendent of education.
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A frank and entertaining memoir, from the daughter of Edward Said, about growing up second-generation Arab American and struggling with that identity. The daughter of a prominent Palestinian father and a sophisticated Lebanese mother, Najla Said grew up in New York City, confused and conflicted about her cultural background and identity. Said knew that her parents identified deeply with their homelands, but growing up in a Manhattan world that was defined largely by class and conformity, she felt unsure about who she was supposed to be, and was often in denial of the differences she sensed between her family and those around her. The fact that her father was the famous intellectual and outspoken Palestinian advocate Edward Said only made things more complicated. She may have been born a Palestinian Lebanese American, but in Said's mind she grew up first as a WASP, having been baptized Episcopalian in Boston and attending the wealthy Upper East Side girls' school Chapin, then as a teenage Jew, essentially denying her true roots, even to herself—until, ultimately, the psychological toll of all this self-hatred began to threaten her health. As she grew older, making increased visits to Palestine and Beirut, Said's worldview shifted. The attacks on the World Trade Center, and some of the ways in which Americans responded, finally made it impossible for Said to continue to pick and choose her identity, forcing her to see herself and her passions more clearly. Today, she has become an important voice for second-generation Arab Americans nationwide. Praise for Palestine, Najla Said's one-woman show "Said has something crucial to communicate. . . . [she] is an alluring spokeswoman."—The Village Voice "Humor is both her weapon and shield in a world that she can't control and sometimes doesn't understand. . . . In Palestine Ms. Said gives a loose tour of her family history and life, which has been an interesting one, even when she didn't want it to be. . . .To a topic that generates fury and recrimination, she brings a lightness and steadfast refusal to hate."—The New York Times |
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Posted: Mon Oct 31st, 2011 03:11 am |
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BobInFla Member
Did McClellan's dismal failure to support Pope during the Second Bull Run campaign border on treason? |
Posted: Mon Oct 31st, 2011 07:30 am |
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Hellcat Root Beer Lover
I don't know if there was a failure. From what I'm looking at it looks more like an out right attempt to destroy Pope. James McPherson in Battle Cry of Freedom apparently quotes a letter he wrote to his wife prior to 2nd Bull Run (2nd Manassas) in which he calls Pope a villian and expect's Lee to get rid of him. |
Posted: Mon Oct 31st, 2011 04:08 pm |
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BobInFla Member
Correct. By McClellan's "failure" I meant his deplorable lack of any effort to aid Pope. It's been a while since I've read about the Second Bull Run Campaign, but my understanding is that Pope did - and had every reason to - expect support from McClellan. But the egotistical McClellan, miffed by Pope's appointment to command the newly formed Army of Virginia after McClellan dismal peformance in the Peninsula Campaign, just sat wherever he was, made no effort to engage or divert any enemy in his vicinity nor made any move in Pope's direction. Inexcuseable conduct imho! |
Posted: Tue Dec 18th, 2012 04:01 am |
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I agree with you Bob. McClellan was incompetent bordering on cowardice in my opinion. In "Battle Cry of Freedom" and in "Recollections and Letters of Robert E. Lee", the general consensus is that McClellan was never supported enough to risk his life and his troops lives but when it came to Pope, he would not do the same thing he accused his superiors of doing - aiding the ally. Running opposite Lincoln in 1864, the man who gave him a generalship and defended him was the last straw in my opinion. |
Posted: Tue Dec 18th, 2012 09:53 am |
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Hellcat Root Beer Lover
I don't know about incompetent, but he certainly did some things that I would say made him more ineffective towards winning the war. You have to give him credit for organizing the Army of the Potomac following First Bull Run (Manassass). But once it was ready for the field he then wanted to sit and wait and wait and wait. Even in the field how often did he have to be prodded to move. And how often did he overestimate the forces he was facing and refuse to immediately move on them until he had more forces brought up. Or overestimates caused him to pull back. Now there was one time I've read about in the Seven Days that would be incompetence on McClellan's part that could have allowed him to march on Richmond. Things might have been different if he'd tried, but he didn't. |
Posted: Thu Dec 20th, 2012 11:47 am |
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When asked Grant described McClellan as one of the great mysteries of the war. He had success written all over him. Showed heroism in the Mexican War....was a military observer in the Crimean War....wrote army manuals and designed the saddle the cavalry rode on. He rebuilt the AoP into an incredible fighting machine. A very admirable undertaking that showed immediate results. But yet he was very indecisive as a general when it came to actual combat. He was very gullible in believing anything the Pinkerton's told him intelligence wise. The Peninsula Campaign....Grant would have ended the war right then. Treason though.....its hard to prove but a case sure can be made for it, IMO. His letters to his wife are pretty damning on his lack of help to Pope. I think it was the Civil War Times that had a long article on his slow movements towards Pope. He seemed to view Pope as the enemy rather than Jackson. He seemed to take great pleasure in seeing Pope destroyed at 2nd Manassas. When Lee marched north into Maryland Lincoln had no choice but retain McClellan in command. At Antietam he would once again show incredible slowness and total lack of killer instinct. He could have easily destroyed Lee right then and there with one more push. I think he wanted the country exactly as it was in 1860. So he wasn't motivated to deliver a crushing war ending blow to where the north could then dictate terms to the south. He was one of those who believed in the south coming back on peaceful terms....which in reality would never have happened. Last edited on Thu Dec 20th, 2012 11:51 am by BHR62 |
Posted: Thu Dec 20th, 2012 02:55 pm |
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Hellcat Root Beer Lover
Something I just thought about. There could have been a reason he was slow, a political reason. Perhaps he was setting himself up for the 1864 election all along. The general who organized the Army of the Potomac following the defeat at First Bull Run (Manassas), and under whose leadership the army saw few, if any casualties in addition to insuring the army was never defeated in battle. |
Posted: Fri Dec 21st, 2012 11:15 am |
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That is one way to look at it. He did have aspirations obviously. In one of his letters to his wife he talked about how he could easily make himself dictator if he so choose. Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't his plan if elected to reinstate the Union as it was in 1860? I thought he made a comment that he wouldn't accept two nations. Due to the Union soldiers sacrifices they had made to that point. Which went against his own party's platform. I think Grant's way to the presidency was better though. Just destroy Lee's ability to fight and then head for the White House. Last edited on Fri Dec 21st, 2012 11:15 am by BHR62 |
Posted: Fri Dec 21st, 2012 01:20 pm |
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Hellcat Root Beer Lover
I'll have to look it up but I thought McClellan's intention was to just end the war and make peace with the South, not whether or not to restore things to where they were in 1860. |
Posted: Fri Dec 21st, 2012 03:03 pm |
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This is from his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention: "The Union was originally formed by the exercise of a spirit of conciliation and compromise. To restore and preserve it, the same spirit must prevail in our councils and in the hearts of the people. The reestablishment of the Union, in all its integrity, is and must continue to be the indispensable condition in any settlement. So soon as it is clear, or even probable, that our present adversaries are ready for peace upon the basis of the Union, we should exhaust all the resources of statesmanship practiced by civilized nations, and taught by the traditions of the American people, consistent with the honor and interests of the country, to secure such peace, reestablish the Union, and guarantee for the future the constitutional rights of every State. The Union is the one condition of peace. We ask no more. Let me add what I doubt not was, although unexpressed, the sentiment of the convention, as it is of the people they represent, that when any one State is willing to return to the Union it should be received at once with a full guarantee of all its constitutional rights. If a frank, earnest, and persistent effort to obtain these objects should fail, the responsibility for ulterior consequences will fall upon those who remain in arms against the Union, but the Union must be preserved at all hazards. I could not look in the face my gallant comrades of the army and navy who have survived so many bloody battles, and tell them that their labors, and the sacrifices of so many of our slain and wounded brethren, had been in vain, that we had abandoned that Union for which we have so often perilled our lives. A vast majority of our people, whether in the army and navy or at home, would, as I would, hail with unbounded joy the permanent restoration of peace on the basis of the Union under the Constitution, without the effusion of another drop of blood, but no peace can be permanent without Union." So he basically says lets go back to 1860. Although after 3 bloody hard fought years I doubt the Confederates would have just said ok. Too much blood had been spilled on both sides, imo, to not see through to total victory. So I'm not sure how realistic McClellan's view was. Last edited on Fri Dec 21st, 2012 03:07 pm by BHR62 |
Posted: Fri Dec 21st, 2012 04:19 pm |
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BHR62- Like you, I have grave doubts that the peaceful reunification of the states could ever have taken place after 1864. My view of the presidential campaign of the Democrats in that year is that they were trying to have things both ways. (General Mclellan certainly was). The Peace Democrats managed to get into the party platform a plank calling for the end of the war. (This was attacked by the Republicans as being: "Traitorous.") General McClellan declined to endorse this part of his party's platform. He promised that he could conduct the war: "More skillfully" than Mr. Lincoln could. The Peace Democrats also managed to secure the vice presidential nomination for George H. Pendleton, whose views on the continuation of the war differed from General McClellan's. George H. Pendleton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mr. Pendleton at least deserves credit for helping to reform the civil service system. I believe that the Republicans were successful in portraying the Peace Democrats as being disloyal.They also suggested that the Democrats' plan for ending the war would leave the institution of slavery in place, which by 1864 Mr. Lincoln was no longer willing to do. In the end, though, I think that the Lincoln presidency was saved by Union military successes in the months leading up to the election. Most notable of these, of course, was General Sherman's taking of Atlanta and the beginning of the March to the Sea. These events showed that the CSA was becoming a hollow shell that could no longer defend its territory. They served to buoy up the spirits of the northern populace which had been at a low ebb earlier in 1864. As a result, the majority of northerners chose to keep Mr. Lincoln and thereby pay whatever the price would be required to carry on the war to complete military victory. For those with the time and the inclination to read it, here is a detailed explanation of the political events and maneuverings involved in the election campaign of 1864: Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1864 - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom Last edited on Fri Dec 21st, 2012 04:31 pm by Texas Defender |
Posted: Fri Dec 21st, 2012 08:15 pm |
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Hellcat Root Beer Lover
You're right about Lincoln's campaign being saved by Federal victories in 1864. I know I've read the fall of Atlanta and the capture of Mobile Bay helped secure Lincoln's re-election. Northern papers heavily trumpeted these victories. I'm not sure how much more skillful McClellan would have really been. Yeah he had the military training Lincoln did. He certainly put that to good use organizing the army. But his conduct in the field commanding the Army of the Potomac (vs. prior to his command of this army) have me questioning how skillful he would have been as commander-in-chief in place of Lincoln. |
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