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Wolf Creek State Park
Eight miles northwest of Windsor, Wolf Creek State Park encompass 11,100 acres of water, 250 miles of shoreline and large tracts of carefully maintained indigenous woodlands ideal for camping, horseback riding, snowmobiling, boat fishing, water skiing, pontoon boating, windsurfing or just plain bobbing and drifting on the glittering expanse of the lake itself. In addition to visiting the small, friendly wooded campgrounds or taking part in the action on the lake, swimming is available from the beach. You can also take a leisurely stroll through nearby forests. An abundance of deer, pheasant, rabbits, wild turkey and songbirds are almost always visible.
CITY: Windsor
Thelma Keller Convention Center
Central Illinois' premier meeting destination, the Thelma Keller Convention Center, offers today's meeting/event/wedding planners a relaxed atmosphere, quality service and tempting cuisine designed to make every event impressive and productive. No matter what size event you are planning, they have room for your needs. Deluxe conference facilities. Impeccable service. Dedicated staff. On-site technical and meeting planning resources. The Convention Center offers over 20,000 square feet of space with a grand ballroom measuring 10,500 square feet. Perfect for your next meeting or a beautiful wedding here.
CITY: Effingham
Lexington Inn & Suites - Effingham
Offers meeting rooms, non-smoking & smoking rooms/suites, pet friendly, free breakfast, pool & spa, and free internet.
CITY: Effingham
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Holly Jolly Christmas
Singer Burl Ives (a.k.a. Sam the Snowman in Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer) recorded Holly Jolly Christmas, which has inspired his hometown to plan this event every year. Puppet shows, carriage and wagon rides, carolers in period dress and Santa Claus are just a few of the activities. On Fridays, leading up to Christmas.
CITY: Newton
Village Wine & Gifts
Village Wine & Gifts is a great setting to enjoy some wine with friends or family. They offer wine tastings, samples of cheese and people may buy bottles of wine for a great price.
CITY: Effingham
Best Western - Effingham
Best Western offers free breakfast, pool & spa, non-smoking and smoking rooms, and is pet friendly. If you want to go out diner you don't have to travel to far, because the Raintree Restaurant is located next door and it is owned by the same family.
CITY: Effingham
The Thomas Shoppe
The Thomas Shoppe has homecoming dresses, prom dresses, an everyday causal outfit or dress and more to pick from for any occasion.
CITY: Effingham
The Irish Comedy Tour
The Irish Comedy Tour- For one night, the EPC becomes an Irish pub, its party atmosphere defined by a boisterous, belly-laugh band of hooligans who will have you "Dublin" over in laughter. They're Irish, they're American and they're not holding back! Be sure to catch them from 7:30-10 p.m.
CITY: Effingham
Bangkok Thai Restaurant
Bangkok Thai restaurant is the premier Thai taste in Central Illinois. They offer signature Thai dishes such as Pad Thai, along with authentic Thai drinks. You won't want to miss this authentic experience into Bangkok Thai.
CITY: Effingham
Teutopolis Monastery Museum
See displays of early life in this German Catholic community, founded in 1838. The first Franciscans arrived in October 1858, and the three priests and six brothers quickly set about building a parish and friary.
CITY: Teutopolis
Uphill Grind Cycle & Fitness
Uphill Grind Cycle and Fitness has everything you are looking for in a bicycle shop and more. When you visit the store you will find a large selection of bikes for commuting, your avid road, mountain and BMX cyclist, bikes for casually cruising around town or country and all the accessories you could possibly need to enjoy your bicycle experience. We carry 7 brands of bicycles so that you get the best fit for your money. Let our knowledgeable staff help you find the right bicycle for you. We believe a bicycle should be a joy to ride, not a chore to ride. We also are the only dealer in the area for The North Face and we feature performance wear for our runners. Come visit us!
CITY: Effingham
Millennium Accessories
Offers a little bit of everything. Clothes, jewelry, shoes, hand bags and more.
CITY: Effingham
Rodeway Inn - Effingham
Rodeway offers standard amenities, along with microwaves, refrigerators, coffee makers, and cable television. Whirlpool bathtubs, sofa sleepers and spacious work desks are available in some rooms. A continental breakfast is also provided.
CITY: Effingham
Witt's Smokehouse
Witt's is a full service restaurant. They are famous for their BBQ, but also offer pizza and other food choices. Witt's also offers delivery and catering.
CITY: Effingham
Anderson's Jewelry
Anderson's Jewelry offers diamond jewelry, bridal and wedding rings, bracelets, bangles, earrings, men's jewelry and much more.
CITY: Effingham
La Petite Boutique & Fine Decor
Specializes in petite items with affordable rates. They have shoes, apparel, jewelry, antiques and more.
CITY: Effingham
The Last Straw
Offers a lot of different craft items, already made crafts, house décor and more.
CITY: Effingham
Bill Engvall
Everyman comic, Bill Engvall, is back with his singular brand of down-home humor and blue collar comedy. His album, "Here's Your Sign," is a comedy classic. Don't miss this evening of silliness and fun. He will be performing two different sets. The first will be from 6:30-8:30 p.m. and the second one will be 9:30-11:30 p.m.
CITY: Effingham
KB Learning Center
KB Learning Center provides therapy and educational toys at competitive prices.Teaching supplies are also available.
CITY: Effingham
Five Little Monkeys
Going shopping…baking cakes…sitting in trees…jumping on beds! Through wonderful costumes and acting, each of the frisky siblings displays their own unique style of mischief while driving Mama monkey crazy. Five Little Monkeys is a zany 60 minute performance, perfect for youngsters and youngsters-at-heart. From Adventure Theatre MTC and based on the books by Eileen Christelow. Be sure to catch them from 11 a.m. until noon.
CITY: Effingham
Puerto Vallarta
Puerto Vallarta serves authentic Mexican food at affordable prices within a friendly atmosphere.
CITY: Effingham
Noah's Ark Pet Shoppe
Noah's Ark Pet Shoppe has everything for small animals. Bird cages, lizard cages, snake tanks, fish bowls and much more. They also have birds, fish, lizards, rabbits, snakes and more small animals.
CITY: Effingham
The Oak Ridge Boys
40 years of four-part harmonies – one of the most distinctive and recognizable sounds in the music industry. They are back at the EPC to delight and excite, don't miss out! Be there from 8-10 p.m.
CITY: Effingham
Jimmy Johns
Subs so fast you will freak! Jimmy Johns offers carry out, delivery or eat there at the restaurant.
CITY: Effingham
Hampton Inn - Effingham
Meeting facilities, handicap access, free breakfast, cable/movies. indoor pool, bus parking, free pass to local health club, AAA rated.
CITY: Effingham
Holiday Inn Express - Effingham
Features an a pool & spa, free internet, free parking, suites, meeting rooms and regular bedrooms.
CITY: Effingham
Gabby Goat
The Gabby Goat American Pub & Grill is the premier restaurant and sports bar in Effingham, IL for your next night out, event, gathering, party, breakfast, lunch, or dinner! The Gabby Goat is all about a culmination of creativity, desire, passion, and just plain old hard work. We are an American Pub and Grill. The driving force throughout our development has been and will always be to provide you, our guests, with the "Greatest Of All Times."
CITY: Effingham
Jefferson Street Flowers & Gifts
Offers floral arrangements, vases, unique décor and more.
CITY: Effingham
Gaither Vocal Band
With a legacy of award-winning excellence that has raised the bar for male harmony, The Gaither Vocal Band has produced some of the best-loved voices and music with a messages of grace and hope. Performance will be from 8-10:30 p.m.
CITY: Effingham
Jack Hanna's Into the Wild LIVE
America's favorite zookeeper, "Jungle" Jack returns to Effingham with "Into the Wild LIVE," an unscripted and action-packed safari sure to leave you with renewed appreciation for all creatures, great and small. Be sure to bring the kids out for a great time from 7:30-9:30 p.m.
CITY: Effingham
Joe Sippers Cafe
Need a nice place to relax? Come out to Joe Sippers Café for breakfast, lunch, dinner or just to enjoy a cup of coffee.
CITY: Effingham
Bike and Hike
The Bike and Hike staff is crazy about their bikes! They know plenty about what bike is right for you and with a wide variety of bikes in stock. The staff speaks several different cycling languages; mountain biking, road cycling, BMX and commuting.
CITY: Effingham
The Ash Brothers: A Tribute to Alabama
Rock in the New Year with the music of country supergroup Alabama. The Ash Brothers produce unbelievable harmonies, reminding us of the family harmonies of the band from Ft. Payne. Rock out with this family from 8-10 p.m.
CITY: Effingham
Budget Host
Clean Rooms! Free Coffee, Free HBO, Free Local Calls, Microwave & Refrigerator Available, Weekly & Monthly Rates Available, Food Nearby.
CITY: Greenup
REO Speedwagon
David Lee, writing for fromthepit.net says, "REO Speedwagon is still REO Speedwagon and thank goodness for that." By popular demand, REO rolls back into Effingham for a hit-filled night. Be sure to roll with from 8-10:30 p.m.
CITY: Effingham
Niebrugge Furniture
Offers furniture for everybody's home. Couches, recliners, tables & chairs and more. They deliver and can order furniture for you.
CITY: Effingham
Draves Archery
Offers a wide variety of inventory, including hunting apparel, targets, scents, lures and much more. They also have a repair shop in the store.
CITY: Effingham
Frye Pottery
Frye Pottery is located in a beautiful country setting. The Frye's have been professional potters for nearly thirty years. They have made award winning ceramic art as well as functional stoneware pottery designed for everyday use. Frye Pottery also has a sculpture garden for visitors to enjoy.
CITY: Effingham
Main Street Antiques & Collectibles
Main Street Antiques & Collectibles offers a wide variety of antiques and unique collectible items from the past and present.
CITY: Altamont
Fairfield Inn & Suites - Effingham
Fairfield Inn & Suites offers comfortable guest rooms for both business and leisure travelers. Free continental breakfast, including fresh-brewed coffee, cereal and fresh fruit, is available each morning. Free HSIA access. All rooms include microwaves and mini-refrigerators. Fairfield Inn & Suites also has a 1,890-square foot conference area, which is perfect for meetings and events with up to 85 people. Features include one large room, which can be divided, 68 hotel rooms on location.
CITY: Effingham
Heart Theatre
The Heart Theatre is located across the street from the Effingham County Courthouse. The theatre is one of the two examples in Effingham of the Art Deco style that was popular from 1920 to 1940.
CITY: Effingham
Raintree Restaurant
Full service, credit cards accepted, non-smoking area, handicap accessible. Take-out available. Located next to the Best Western Inn. Open seven days.
CITY: Effingham
Days Inn - Effingham
Days Inn features family and executive jacuzzi suites, in-room safes, and expanded cable television. Other amenities include free high speed wireless internet, guest computer in lobby, microwave and refrigerator in all rooms. Free deluxe continental breakfast is also available.
CITY: Effingham
River Park Motel
Located on the banks of the Embarras River, Riverpark offers weekly rates with boat hookups.
CITY: Newton
Country Pride - Effingham
Country Pride is a full service restaurant with home-style food. There is a non-smoking section and it is handicap accessible. It is located in a 24 hour truckstop.
CITY: Effingham
Country Inn & Suites - Effingham
At Country Inn & Suites, guests can enjoy cozy, comfortable rooms equipped with modern amenities, such as free high speed internet access, cable television with premium channels, an in-room coffee maker, and iron/ironing board. other features include a fitness center, swimming pool, lending library, and a free breakfast.
CITY: Effingham
Got 2B Scrappin'
They have everything necessary for scrapbooking or for arts and crafts. The ladies who work there teach classes and do private lessons.
CITY: Effingham
Off Route 32 Cafe
Hand-Pattied Burgers, Daily Plate Specials, Pizza, Salad Bar, Kid's Menu. Hometown, friendly atmosphere.
CITY: Stewardson
Solid Grounds Coffee Shop
We are not your ordinary coffee house, you'll never know what's brewin! In this fast paced world we live in, sometimes we forget how to just have some joy and how to smile. It's not a vacation retreat, but it's a great place to feel pampered, listen to the fountains and light instrumental music, sit on the patio and drink some created coffees, teas, or smoothies. You can read some of our books, play games, use a headset and listen to music, or even make and appointment for a hair cut! We might even break out into song from time to time! We serve Q's (wonder what they are?), salad wraps, great cinnamon rolls, cheesecake and Big cookies. We only cook up so much, so don't miss out on what we may create!
CITY: Newton
Bail's Timberline Lake Camp Ground
140 sites, electricity, water, dump station, showers, reservations.
CITY: St. Elmo
Holiday Inn Express - City of Effingham
Suites available, meeting facilities, handicap access, small pets allowed, FREE breakfast, cable, bus parking, FREE access to out door pool and fitness center, adjacent to restaurants.
CITY: Effingham
Effingham Motel
In a 50's style motor lodge, The Effingham Motel is available to all guests, but geared toward long-term occupancy.
CITY: Effingham
Home for the Holidays--American Big Band
All time Christmas favorites from Bing to Buble'. Featuring eight glorious, colorful singers and dancers, lush stage settings and a 12-piece big band, this fully-staged, beautifully choreographed holiday spectacular brings Christmas to life. Get in the holiday mood a little early and watch the performance from 7:30-10p.m.
CITY: Effingham
Located in Newton's bowling alley. Unexpected breakfast, lunch and dinner menu items. Specials offered. Cheeseburgers; classic mom'n'pop fare.
CITY: Newton
Econo Lodge - Effingham
EconoLodge features standard amenities. In addition to standard amenities, all rooms include refrigerators, microwaves, coffee makers, and cable television. Free continental breakfast, high speed internet, and coffee are also available.
CITY: Effingham
Yesterday's Pub
A wide variety of menu choices in a "pub-like" atmosphere. Selections are akin to steakhouse food.
CITY: Newton
Illinois Wildlife Connections
Located in rural Jasper County, northeast of Newton, Illinois Wildlife features a lodge for hunters during deer seasons and in the off-seasons hosting meetings, receptions and off-season lodging.
CITY: Newton
A Mighty Fortress is Our Basement - The Church Basement Ladies
Your prayers are answered; the ladies are back in the basement. With "bright and frothy" songs and side-splitting humor, audiences love this new and "mighty" musical. It's a recipe for fun. They will be performing two different sets. The first set will be from 2-4 p.m. and the second set 7:30-9:30 p.m.
CITY: Effingham
Prairie Ridge State Natural Area
Located southwest of Newton, Prairie Ridge is a wonderful site for observing rare species of grassland wildlife. Over 2500 acres, visitors will enjoy bird watching, nature study, photography and much more.
CITY: Newton
W. S. Broom & Co.
W. S. Broom & Co. has the furniture and flooring to fit in any house and budget!
CITY: Effingham
Red Skeleton--The Legend Continues
From Freddy the Freeloader to Clem Kadiddlehopper, Tom Mullica pays tribute to his friend. His is a living, breathing, giggling portrayal of "America's Favorite Clown." Get ready to have gut busting time from 7:30-9:30 p.m.
CITY: Effingham
Greenup Antique Mall
15,000 square feet, one level, approximately 100 vendors. Old West Cafe on site.
CITY: Toledo
The Marina at Lake Sara
If you want to spend a day on Lake Sara but don't have a boat, don't worry The Marina at Lake Sara offers boat rentals, tackle, gas, food and drinks.
CITY: Effingham
Budget Host
29 units with smoking and non-smoking. Two queen beds are in a standard room.
CITY: Greenup
Yen Ching Chinese Restaurant
Family owned and operated restaurant. Dine In, carryout, or enjoy the buffet.
CITY: Shelbyville
Quality Inn - Effingham
Indoor pool, sauna, whirlpool, exercise room, free continental breakfast, pet friendly, smoking and non smoking rooms, free internet.
CITY: Effingham
Village Square Mall
Indoor shopping mall with several stores such as Bath & Body Works, Bon Worth, Christopher & Banks, CJ Banks, Claire's, JC Penny, Maurices and many more.
CITY: Effingham
Legends Draft House
Newly opened restaurant-bar located in completely remodeled, renovated downtown building. Serving everything from appetizers to dinners, salads, burgers, kids menu, pizza, hotdogs, soft drinks, and alcohol. Lots of TVs to watch your favorite sport teams.
CITY: Shelbyville
Paradise Inn - Effingham
Paradise Inn is a clean, well-maintained hotel. The hotel allows small pets, has cable and bus parking, and is adjacent to restaurants.
CITY: Effingham
Abigails on the Lake
Abigail's is a full-service marina with a restaurant located right on Lake Sara and has a boat ramp, gas, and boat rental slips. They offer hot dogs, BBQ and other great American traditional food.
CITY: Effingham
Effingham Park District
Effingham has four community parks. All offer baseball diamonds, play grounds, basketball courts and great areas for family picnics.
CITY: Effingham
Olde Picket Fence
Olde Picket Fence offers a custom line of primitive farmhouse furniture. Each item is handcrafted, one at a time, and every item is unique.
CITY: Farina
Firefly Grill & Restaurant
Ranked the second most eco-friendly restaurant in the nation by Bon Appétit, Firefly's striking building is constructed from reclaimed barn wood, and its menu of American dishes incorporates ingredients from Firefly's own gardens and local producers.
CITY: Effingham
DJ's Custom Framing
Custom framing and matting services. Can also help to restore old photographs.
CITY: Shelbyville
A baker's delight, this small cafe offers different flavors every day of the week. With unique cupcakes such as banana split, orange dreamsicle, margarita, along with everyday flavors. There are also unique cookie bars, cookies, cakes, and more along with coffees and teas. They will design unique creations for your party or get together or they can host your party right there in the shop.
CITY: Shelbyville
The Stage at Lake Sara
After being on the lake all day, why not check out an outdoor concert from local and regional bands. Also be sure to remember that the stage is available to rent.
CITY: Effingham
Lake Sara Pavilions
Two different locations on Lake Sara. The pavilions offer a chance to host a meeting on the lake. The two outdoor facilities are perfect for receptions and parties with plenty of outdoor space. It also features a large open room, kitchen area, boat dock and outdoor decks.
CITY: Effingham
Outdoor Sportsman's Lodge
Offers hunting, fishing, golf and meeting packages, as well as getaway weekend packages. Gas fireplaces, central heating and air, satellite TV, and gourmet meals delivered directly to your table. Outdoor Sportsman's Lodge is conveniently located just off Newton lake with 2 cabins so you can enjoy your hunt. Some of the nations best Bass Fishing can be found as well as a hunters paradise for all game. Guided and non-guided fishing and hunting packages are available by calling. In the off-season this facility is a Bed & Breakfast. Described as a "Sportsman's paradise" by World Champion Angler Denny Brauer.
CITY: Newton
Legacy Harley Davidson
Legacy Harley-Davidson is not only a great place to stock up on the latest Harley-Davidson gear, but it is an attraction that brings thousands of visitors to the area. The Harley Barn houses new and pre-owned motorcycles, along with clothing, merchandise, parts, and much more. The folks at the Harley Barn also invite travelers to visit their one-of-a-kind events that they hold throughout the year at the barn.
CITY: Effingham
The Shelbyville Connection
Name-brand clothing for less! Clothing and accessories for missy, petite and juniors.
CITY: Shelbyville
Chautauqua Auditorium
Built in 1903, the auditorium is the largest building of its kind anywhere in the world, and is included on the National Register of Historic Places. Above the stage are Grecian statues designed by Robert Root.
CITY: Shelbyville
Cumberland Road Collectibles
General line of antiques and collectibles, old books and depression glass.
CITY: Greenup
Effingham County Antique Mall
Offers a wide variety of old school clothes, furniture, house décor items, pictures, jewelry and more. They also offer items in todays time.
CITY: Altamont
Ambraw River Trading Company
With a large red barn and "Mary's Wash House" full of early country and primitive furniture and accessories.
CITY: Hidalgo


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Can there be more suicides in KAIST?
KAIST students have experienced few of the events which are key issues in the actual ongoing debates at KAIST. Students come and graduate but usually the same professors stay for long time. Hence, the actual students at KAIST are less informed than professors about what really takes place.
Consequently, we sometimes just keep ourselves quiet when we are asked to participate in different surveys, or else we consider the information as it is given to us. Recently, a survey was conducted on students' thoughts about the resignation of President Suh Nam-pyo. When you look at the highlights in the media, they mention that he should resign because his academic policies are the main cause of the suicide cases in KAIST. However, if the KAIST policies, especially the English-only lectures, were the problem, international students would in fact be the first at risk. The admission criteria concerning English are similar and only few if any of the international students have English as their first language and they are facing even more challenges as they are living in a foreign country. The GPA limit for the tuition fees exemption is also usually mentioned as a main cause. But as far as I know, most of students admitted by KAIST are among the 20 percent of top students in high school. It is less likely that they expect such a university, to be the one with the easiest academic life. They already know that they are joining "the delivery school for Noble prize winners," where they will be competing with other smart students. It is of course hard to accept a failure once one has been always successful. But, if even we don't learn from KAIST that in life we are not always successful, we will learn it in real life and it will be much harder. Yes, KAIST has to find better policies to provide a happier life for students but it necessary to look at the suicide issues not as a KAIST problem but that of the whole Korean society. According to official reports, the rate of suicide has recently doubled in Korea. The reason of that may be the same reason why a Korean KAIST student kills him or herself but not a foreign student. Overall, I fail to see any president's fault about that so that his resignation should be the solution. There may be some reasonable arguments for his resignation that are out of many students' experience at KAIST. But, when they start adding unreasonable reasons, even those ones we didn't experience become questionable. Niyikiza Aimable
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-- your election headquarters in less than five weeks into the big day we're taking a close look at a key battleground state in the race for the White House today were taken a look at Virginia that's our Romney -- that's where the president -- today.
The president took the state in 2008.
I've Republicans carried Virginia intense -- elections Evans that points and that was I key election let's look at the state of Virginia you can see thirteen out at 207 electoral votes.
As we always mention every time every vote counts.
Bob McDonald the governor there the Republican was once thought it potentially is a vice presidential candidate.
He course he did not get that position but he is campaigning actively for Mitt Romney could take a look at the economy -- -- and -- and these these days to everybody.
The unemployment rate well below the national national rate which we know today's ten point 8% at five point 9%.
I also want to see the number of this is -- president since April has been there are ten times Romney nine but if you take a look at the total this is by the president since he was.
Elected president he's been to the state of Virginia 44.
44 times now he's close right Washington DC is closer that's probably easier to get to Virginia that some of these other swing states.
-- when we look at the polls you can see how close to me they -- virtually tied.
In Virginia and that's why we wanted to talk and so on the ground there Julian walker is a writer for the Virginian pilot.
He joins us from the state capital Richmond -- Julian do you think anything that happened in this debate this week changed the pole and anyway because the numbers we just showed.
Were taken before.
The debate and we have some real numbers to compare -- Well it's difficult to say because we haven't seen a lot of polling post debate.
The only poll that I've seen so far post debate as -- -- -- poll out today which actually has governor Romney up by one point.
Which is within the margin of error.
The race is tight in Virginia as you point out according to polling the vast majority of polls taken this year have shown President Obama ahead.
And many of them within the margin of error.
In mid to late September several poles including one commissioned by fox and other by the Washington Post and won by NBC.
Showed President Obama ahead and and seeming to widened his margin -- little bit outside the margin of error.
However as I noted there is that rest decent poll out today and that one has shown as a robo -- hope but that one -- -- governor Romney ahead by one point -- Rasmussen has been slightly divergent.
From some of the at a polling that's been done.
You really know your numbers -- and I mean these numbers tell us only so much as you mentioned and and being on the ground -- -- your thoughts on this with the appearances.
By both governor Romney the president deep into the seat often image the president 44 times as president.
I did these appearances but it really matter do you think they're really having an impact on the ground there.
Well it as you said earlier and they and they they excite the base.
Those people who are eager who are partisans on the Republican side of the democratic side.
Those the people that turn up to campaign appearances you noted the number of visits by both presidential nominees.
It is also important to note.
Governor Romney chose Norfolk in August to roll out and introduce Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate in addition when it the president.
Formally kicked off his reelection campaign in May he chose Virginia and Ohio to do his is -- introductory campaign rallies as well.
So that those two visits in and of themselves show the the priority that both men are placing on on this critical battleground state.
-- prison got that major foreign policy address in Virginia that in Iran is going to be giving.
On Monday -- taking a look at some live pictures there just really -- Julian what about turnout voter turnout it.
I read it Democrats turned out more than Republicans in presidential elections in Virginia that we take a look at -- the mid terms Republicans were pretty strong.
Which is voter turnout look like.
Well -- turnout is going to be key it will probably be decisive in this race.
In 2008 when when Barack Obama carried Virginia breaking a forty plus year streak of Republican wins.
On the presidential level.
He did so by getting very high -- there is about 75%.
Voter turnout in Virginia in 2008.
And in many of the kind of key.
Bellwether areas within Virginia in the so called urban crescent that spans from Northern Virginia through the Richmond region and down Hampton roads along the Atlantic coast.
Barack Obama did did well in a number of those key areas which have trended Republican and other elections.
And in the subsequent years you noted in 2009.
Governor Bob McDonnell.
Popular governor here in Virginia and one who has been -- key surrogate for for governor Romney.
Us led a Republican -- -- sweep but the offices and turnout in that year the year after the presidential election was down to about 40% and so turn out and and both parties getting their bases and their supporters to the polls.
That will probably be the decisive factor in Virginia -- -- on with your expertise Julian who really knows the state thank you so much for joining us look for to have -- back.
Thanks for having me.
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In the Friday, June 8, issue of The Willits News it is stated "Mike Chapman is going to recommend eliminating the full-time fire prevention officer position to the Brooktrails board of directors should the new fire tax fail to pass.
In addition to being the fire prevention officer, Battalion Chief Jon Noyer is the first-responder to medical and fire emergencies; this year alone he has responded to more than 100 medical emergency calls in Brooktrails. Because Jon is a full-time battalion chief, he is able to respond to about 75 percent of the emergency calls made here in Brooktrails.
That being said, my question is, in view of the fact Mr. Chapman is leaving the position of general manager of Brooktrails in September, why should we allow him to make any recommendations to the board regarding our health and safety. The members of this community should make recommendations and decisions regarding the level of service we require as residents and property owners.
Think about it: what benefits will we have or won't we have with Mr. Chapman's recommendations? We need to have an open community meeting to discuss our options, to make decisions that will benefit all of the community, to make us all feel safe and finally to work toward bringing Brooktrails forward.
I implore the Brooktrails Community Service District Board of Directors to call a public meeting for a fact-finding session to see what our fire department will look like after the cuts, and what services we will actually have available to us.
In addition, we need to know what the general fund actually supports and what higher-value services the general fund should be used for instead of helping to support our fire department.
In all fairness, Mr. Chapman should not make recommendations to the board without community input as his interests may not be in our best interest. Isn't it about time that the board listens to the property owners whom they are dedicated to serve?
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Physicalization, the momentum-gathering trend of small, one-instance servers, is gaining momentum, and Intel itself is pushing ahead with its microserver format. Ars explores why even a victory for Intel in this space represents a loss for Santa Clara, and promises more to come.
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I must live in an IT shoebox, because I've never heard about physicalization outside of these short articles on ars.
The word physicalization implies transitioning from a VM to a PM, but when you do that, you lose all of great things running in a VM provides like snapshots and vmotion. The only place I can see this being popular is in web hosting, so you can cheaply scale your infrastructure linearly as you add more clients. |
For web-hosting (or any other type of hosting), it is mainly used as an advertising mechanic. You can advertise that you are giving your customer a "dedicated server".
For webhosting, I'd still want a capex outlay at the beginning that I would plan to fill out over time, rather than buying new servers reactively. The whole physicalization thing seems weird to me, but my current job has me with a pair of HPC glasses welded to my face, and anything I can't stuff with 16 xeon cores or better just skids out of view. That, and server density questions that both virtualization and physicalization address were answered with Unix chroots back when I was on training wheels. (Ok, I'll grant VMotion is cool, but I can still solve the same problems for free on Linux) |
OOOOOHHH! Tricksy! |
As Aelix mentions, with the implementation physicalization "you lose all of great things running in a VM provides like snapshots and vmotion."
Additionally, and equally important to larger corporations is the ability to handle change management and portable development environments. PM's do not handle these scenarios seamlessly. The direct hardware cost saving of moving to PM's should be at the bottom of the list when considering the transition from VM's to PM's. Change management and development efficiency often outweigh the underlying hardware investment. |
Why have more than one core per chip? Because of the way Windows is licensed, or because you want to save money on soldering pins to the board.
So if people don't have those issues, it doesn't make sense to purchase a chip which has lower yield, because the transistors from multiple processors are on the same chip, when you're not going to be able to have all the processors in your server farm being able to share the L2 cache and sit on the same die anyways. What would be better than Atom - and better than an ARM chip - would be for Intel to make a relatively high-performance processor whose only yield-increasing compromise is that there is only one processor per die. Since we're talking about systems where multiple processors still share the workload, though, a power-saving design is still appropriate; but the goal would be to find the sweet spot of the most performance per watt, not the lowest power consumption that still leaves you with a usable processor, which is what makes sense for netbooks. |
Physicalization really only comes into play when you are doing stuff in a "cloud", like Google, Bing or Yahoo. Those situation where you have thousands of identical servers all running the same software and dynamically shifting the load around. For this kind of stuff virtualization just adds another layer that just reduces raw performance. In the vast majority of IT situations for a company that is not in the internet service business it is not even a consideration.
It's really hard to have enough current to fill a cabinet with 2U 8 core servers and 15k SAS drives. I can imagine getting a lot of virtualization benefits by using these atom servers with a powerful SAN back end. You'd still get snapshots and other advantages of virtualization from the SAN. Booting a new piece of hardware off any given LUN might be reasonably easy to set up. You wouldn't get live migration, but you could have very fast migration. Just longer than shut down and boot time. That way you aren't paying for a lot of expensive storage on each server.
Is the server fast enough for what you need to do, and could you get better density and utilization of your rack space by using them. |
As a data center facility designer, 10 years of telling the IT crowd that densification of the data center is far more trouble than it is worth they finally have come to the same conclusion on their own.
1. Real Estate is cheaper than high tech power and cooling distribution solutions. 2. Air is a lousy fluid for moving large amounts of heat from a small area. 3. Data center productivity is based on how much data is moved, not how much power is used. Think processes, transactions, or profits made per watt expended in the data center. 4. Extreme densification harms reliability by introducing complexity and shrinking the radius of things that can go wrong (anybody calcluate the impact when a single maxed out liquid-cooled cabinet door pops open for no reason). I remember an IBM commercial back at the dawn of the blade servers: A tech was freaking out becauase all the servers were gone and the data center was populated by a single ominous black obelisk. The ad neglected to mentione that the black obelisk used the same amount of power (and produced the same amount of heat) as the room full servers did previously, and nothing else could be put in that room. -Shlep |
I swear-first virtualzation-which I can see some benefit in terms of if it works best for you to keep more or less separate "servers" that aren't hitting the hardware hard, but can also just plain be more expensive and give worse performance...
And now we've got ARM and Atom based servers? Geez, doesn't anyone just have nice Core i7 or their Xeon equivalents as nice, normal servers anymore? :-O |
Wait, how do you know that the "black obelisk" used the same amount of power? I do remember that commercial and I assumed it was a next gen part (as in smaller process sizes), using less power than all those computers overall to do the same task. Sure, that obelisk may have been running hotter, but would have likely had a better or unique cooling system. Anyway, the main idea of that commercial I think was to encourage people to upgrade from old and clunky systems that were still in use at that time. After all, that's what IBM does, sell a bunch of overpriced enterprise solutions. Just save money and build your own, and if you really want to throw the concept of ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS out the window, use double ended screws, glue or tape to put everything on one of those boards with a grid of holes (name escapes me ATM). |
I am a non-IT worker at a very large company, but do a fair amount of coding work to support the tasks that need to get done. Many of my past projects have been personal/desktop tools that got my own work done faster and more accurately than the manual methods most everyone else uses, but I now have several formal projects to create simple collaborative tools within a fairly small workgroup.
Unfortunately, this is made nearly impossible by the current datacenter architectures and IT policies to support them. These policies are in place as many computing resources are mission-critical. Yes, there are systems where even a small outage would cost many millions of dollars. However, my applications are not in that category. The data I am working with is not mission-critical, and there are only a few dozen users. Failure of my application would be a lost opportunity for process improvement, not a full-stop scenario, or lost business. But IT treats it the same as if it were a five-nines application with tens of thousands of users, so I need to prove to them my code meets their requirements before implementing it for "production" use. They honestly have a hard time understanding how *small* my requests are. "How many users to you expect?" "50" "Our standard offerings only support up to 10,000 users. You will need to initiate a Request-to-Design process for an architecture to support 50,000 users." "No, not 50,000 users. 50 users." "Uh, yeah. Here's a link to the RTD forms." (The cost of an RTD alone is about 5 times my entire project budget, as near as I can tell.) Additionally, since servers are shared, they aren't willing to take the risk of my changes affecting the overall server stability. So, if I have a small bug fix or other tweak, I need to submit a change request, and wait for IT (at great cost) to schedule a maintenance slot with ALL other application owners on the same machine. This usually takes weeks (or even months), for something that might take minutes of work. This IT environment is designed to cater to multi-million-dollar projects, and is extremely hostile to the small tool developer. It seems it would be far cheaper for me and for IT to simply obtain a physicalized server for the group, let IT worry about the general computing security and maintenance, and have fewer restrictions on when/how I can make changes to the deployed applications. If I overload or crash the server, it's *my* problem, not shared with who-know-what other applications. A Mac Mini Server would fit easily on the back of my desk... |
I've never been fond of virtualization, but only because I think you really need a supercomputer to be the host to get decent performance out of the virtual machines. However, my 'decent' is apparently not the 'decent' of an industry making big bucks off virtualization, so I try to hold down my distain while they count their money and laugh.
Physicalization is just the way things used to be, implemented with smaller servers than before. Has there been a evolutionary leap in hardware development where the tiny servers are at the same performance level as older, larger "dedicated servers"? If not, it just seems like a cruel joke while we wait for some distant day when they can build a Cray on the head of a pin and price them like pins... |
So the Cobalt RaQ was doing this in 1998, on Mips, and was a bit longer (12.5" deep), but you could still put two in a standard 1U of rack space (one hung on the front, one hung on the back).
A lot of applications scale really well with one or two drives per processor socket, so if it's cheaper to buy four 1/2 U servers with one drive and one processor than one 2U server with four drives and four processor sockets, it's easy to see what wins. Plus if you've got it as four systems, you have more availability options. |
OK I don't KNOW that the black obelisk really used the exact same amount of power of the rest of the data center. That is an approximation of the trends I have seen in the IT deployments in the 10 million some square feet of DC I have been part of design and management of over the past 10 years, transitioning from 25 W/sqft to 50 to 100 to 150 and up W/sqft designs for data centers. Consumption of W/FPO has been going down, and means that in truth the Black Obelisk probably ran somewhat cooler in total than the entire data center. But that metric has not been dropping as nearly fast as the densification factors have been climbing. It is not as sexy in DC design as W/sqft in providing a design criteria to the architect and engineers that will be designing your cooling plant. The focus on density which has little to do with what your DC is actually supposed to do is what really gets me. I have been preaching the comments from the article:
As fas as a "better or unique cooling system" there has been almost no movement in that realm since the x86 processor was rolled out. There are no significant changes in wide use in Critical Data Center Cooling. The server cores still use fans to force air through the chassis and cool the units. Central cooling plants recycle that air and extract the heat to reject outside, densification is largely limited by how fast you can move that air around. There are some interesting developments (immersion, spray cooling) with great promise, but none are really poised to get widespread support. Plant efficiency (PUE) has been improving over the years as well, but is in the realm of single percentages at an overall cost to facility development. Again it is not moving nearly as quickly as the industry drive towards densification is rolling. -Shlep' |
Shlep, it sounds like you're hoping for the big server companies to stop just redesigning the individual servers, but to design the cooling system into the rack itself. Provided the customer was willing to lock themselves into a single-source design (like many seem to do inherently), I could imagine a full rack system being designed to use water cooling. If the design used a heat exchange with the water line that was routed to the water heaters, the building could save more money since it would now be heating warm water instead of "cold".
Not at all, my responisbilities end at the chilled water/air distribution and receptacle demarc. I agree completely with your point about the customer having to lock themselves into particular technologies to take advantage of the recent developments in cooling technology. That is exactly why I said those options are not poised to be adopted. I have little faith that they will be anytime soon, I might well have given up my post to retire on a farm in Oregon by then. In the end though I have faith that a liquid cooling standard will eventually be adopted. On the cooling side, thermodynamically, air is a lousy fluid for moving large amounts of concentrated heat around. It has its advantages which is why direct liquid cooling was abandoned after the old mainframe days, and air cooling is and will remain the standard for the forseeable future. To meet energy saving standards and PUE requirements (which are becoming regulatory requirements, not just best design practice). It makes sense that direct liquid cooling will be the end result of those efforts but not until a customer can adopt it without being locked into a particular vendor for perpetuity. My main point has always been that concentrating servers into the smallest footprint possible (densification) is a false economy and dangerous to the operation of the data center. I have not seen any savings realized in constrution or operations based on densification, and have seen an increase in risk (server failures and decreases in data center uptime) based on the practice. My second point is that the focus of IT departments needs to shift from how much power they can (or might) consume with a given server deployment as a performance metric and shift to how they can best deliver the processor cycles to their clients for the least amount of power. -Shlep' PS capturing the heat from a DC is a good idea, but there has been little success with it. The delta T avilable from a cooling system makes it difficult to extract enough energy to make the investment worthwhile. New technologies also show some promise here, but are probably 10-20 years before becoming mainstream. |
Anyone remember the Pentium Pro with it's 4-way SMP support? Later the Pentium II limited it to 2-way SMP, farming out the 4-way SMP market to a separate Pentium II Xeon line. Then the P4 limited it further to one processor only, again farming out the 2-way SMP line to another Xeon line, increasing margins in the process. Anyone remember the ABIT BP6 motherboard that could SMP two Celerons? |


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February 2, 2011
The Rediscovery of Gordo the Barosaurus
Stretching 90 feet long in life, Barosaurus was one of the largest of all dinosaurs. Despite its size, however, this sauropod was able to hide in the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum for over four decades.
Barosaurus were rare dinosaurs. One of the few skeletons ever found was uncovered by paleontologist Earl Douglass during his excavations of Utah's Dinosaur National Monument in the early 20th century. As with many specimens from this site, the bones were sent to Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History, but in 1962 they were traded to the ROM in Toronto, Canada.
The skeleton was thought at the time to be a Dipolodocus—which it does resemble, albeit with a proportionally longer neck and shorter tail. The ROM intended to include it in a revamped dinosaur exhibit set to debut in 1970, but the skeleton was left in storage due to a lack of floorspace. The sauropod expert Jack McIntosh later recognized the bones as belonging to Barosaurus, but after this point the skeleton simply sat in museum storage, effectively forgotten.
The bones were finally dusted off in 2007. With the ROM planning to open a new dinosaur hall, the museum assigned paleontologist David Evans, their new Associate Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology, to find a sauropod skeleton for the exhibit. Evans investigated numerous options, from using a cast to finding a new specimen, and while searching for dinosaurs in Wyoming he came across McIntosh's reference to a Barosaurus at the ROM. Evans immediately flew back to Toronto, and after a bit of searching he discovered the dinosaur's lost skeleton. While not entirely complete, the dinosaur was represented by both femurs, both upper-arm bones, four neck vertebrae, the complete set of back vertebrae, fourteen tail vertebrae and other assorted parts.
Finding the skeleton was only the first challenge. The second was putting it all together in time for the opening of the new dinosaur hall. Evans had only eight weeks to do so, and this included creating casts of all the missing parts. The team of paleontologists and reconstruction experts was able to pull it off, though, and today the Barosaurus—nicknamed "Gordo"—looms over the ROM's dinosaur hall. It was recently featured on the miniseries Museum Secrets, and the show's web site includes several video clips about the behind-the-scenes work put into Gordo's assembly.
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Curious…to a generation of junior Dinosaur buffs this was possibly the most familiar sauropod, due to a Dorling Kindersley picture book by William Lindsay (1993), titled 'Barosaurus'. Numerous (rather unfortunate) reconstructions were included, with references to life-style, diet etc., and as I recall, an extended photo-feature on the erection of a mounted skeleton…? Curious that in only eighteen years it should have disappeared so completely, and have to be 'rediscovered'. J
It's the rediscovery of Gordo, not Barosaurus as a dinosaur.
"Gordo" is named for Gordon Edmund, former curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum.
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A creative writing assignment for an english class called for short stories, this is what I typed. It is a fantasy, and with only two characters in it. The beginning has relatively nice pacing and dialogue, middle is alright, towards the end is both rather forced/rushed, ends abruptly.
"You didn't even let me—"
"Please…listen. Please. Hear me out."
Kate quickly hung the phone up on the receiver. She ran her hands through her hair in a panicked state, 'when will he ever stop calling?' she turned back to stirring her now tepid cup of coffee. She didn't need the drink anymore, she was wide awake now, but the stirring help her calm herself. This was the fifth time he'd called her since she woke up, he always seemed to know exactly when she'd wake up in the morning…well, of course he would, they'd been dating for months until about a week ago…till the Sunday she'd never forget, the Sunday she wanted to forget. Now…'now…forget what you've seen, how many sugars had you added into the coffee?' Kate shivered, and added another teaspoonful of sugar into her black coffee, just in case—
*Ring* *Ring*
She wanted to throw the phone at the wall, to her the cheap plastic snap and break, to end this game of cat and mouse. But, somehow, she just couldn't do it. Instead she hesitantly answered the phone, "…Alan…I…"
Once again she hung up the phone and, after a moment of consideration, added another spoonful of sugar into her cup of coffee. As the phone began to ring once more she turned away and brought the cup of coffee to her lips; it was cold and sweet.
She couldn't believe that, there he was, sitting there across from her…she couldn't believe that she was there sitting across from him! That he'd talked her into meeting at the café they used to go for a bite. She averted her gaze in favour of looking at the potted plant beside her, pretending like she wasn't actually there with him. He just sat across from her with his usual stupid 'glad-to-be-here' content smile on his face. His hands folded neatly together…like she hadn't seen...that Sunday, what she'd seen him doing. Like she was going to forgive him, like she wasn't supposed to be afraid of him.
Kate snapped to full attention as she faced him. He was talking to her, she realized that it had been a mistake to meet him here; it was so easy to refuse him on the phone…he was at her mercy…but once she gave him the time of day, meeting him face to face in person. She was a fish in a barrel and he had a cocked and loaded gun. It scared her to think he held so much influence over her, just by being himself, being all that he was. She'd never been so scared before. Not when a dog chased her through the neighbourhood as a child, or when that drunken party goer got up in her face. Not even when that mugger broke her leg when she was a teen. She had been brave and stared those situations down with smart choices, not losing any of her pride in the process. Only when she had become his 'fool' had she become scared of what she'd seen, and what she possibly still didn't know.
"What, Dougal, what?"
"…You've never addressed me by my last name before, please, just keep calling me Alan."
Kate had suppressed most of her initial fear, only to be unable to contain her annoyance at the triviality of where the conversation seemed to go, "What? You wanted to meet me here to discuss how I address people, is that it? Can I go now?"
"You know I called you here for a different reason."
"That seems to be the only thing I know about you."
"…How about some polite conversation before we get down to business, how has your week been?"
"Poli—Polite conversation? Polite conversation! We are passed polite conversation! Polite conversation is for little old ladies, not your pissed off Ex!"
"Kate…please—" He begged, begged with both the tone of his voice and the look in his eyes.
"Yeah, and you know what? This conversation is bullshit! This isn't going anywhere, don't you know it? Because, heavens, don't I know it!"
She shot up from her chair to leave, but he grabbed her hand to stop her. She hesitantly looked back at his face; he looked desperate, pitiful even. And yet she was scared of him. His hand, strangely smooth for a man his occupation, had many faint stretch marks marring the flesh of his hand, among other places.
'Christ, help me.' Kate shook off his hand and fell back into the chair and composed herself. If she finally calmed herself down and if she played her cards right she might be able to have a civilized conversation and end all this trifling, as good friends. At the very least he'd finally leave her alone…she hoped, but she knew this wouldn't be the case, mostly due to the fact she couldn't control her frustration.
"What do you want? To beg for forgiveness? You've lied to me, you've lied to me…You think I care about you anymore? To hell with your wants! You think I really fucking care? After what you did? After what you put me through?" She knew she wasn't usually like this, but her anger and confusion made her bitter, and her bitterness made her cruel.
He nodded his head at this raw display of anger of hers, not as an answer, but to himself like he actually understood what she had been through. This made her angrier. "Look, it's not that. This week I've been attempting to reconcile with you over our—my differences. It hasn't worked out so far…with any hope, it might…but I'm not here to talk to you about repairing our relationship. At the moment you are one of the only persons I can go to for help. One of the only persons qualified. Kate, you must be curious."
"I…just…" she breathed in to calm herself, finally calm herself, and then whispered, "What are you? Please, just what are you?"
She knew and feared what she'd have to hear next.
"I'm still the man you fell in love with."
She shook her head, "That's not what I meant…though, the man I fell in love with should never have lied to me like he did."
"I never lied to you; the right moment to tell you just never presented itself."
"That's pretty flimsy; besides, the man I loved would have shared all his secrets without a second thought."
"Maybe you don't truly know that man…yet."
"And now maybe I'll never want to."
With that, that side of the conversation was over; Kate still refused to meet Alan's eyes.
"Well…" Alan cleared his throat before beginning, "…do you remember what happened that Sunday?"
It was an early morning that Sunday; Kate hadn't even had her fix of coffee yet, nut she thought that she should probably return Alan's cell phone before he leaves to go visit his relatives'. And now here she was on the lawn of his house. His car wasn't in the driveway where he usually parked it, so she figured he probably left already. His garage's light was still on, indicating that he had activated the automated door less than an hour ago. Logic told her to leave, but curiosity reeled her further, and she found herself looking through its window, his car was still in there! She steered herself to the front door to knock a couple of times, no answer. Ring the door bell, no answer. Maybe…she'd been mistaken? Maybe Alan really had left already. Kate was about to leave when she heard a faint 'thud' sound from inside the house. She knocked again, no answer. Impatience turned to worry.
'Maybe he'd fallen and couldn't get up' she joked to herself. He had closed the curtains of his front window, so she'd have to sneak to the back of the house to further investigate. As she did so she saw that the there was a small window probably for the basement, that it was painted black from the inside as if something needed to be hidden away. Whatever, she'd ask him about that later. She continued to the back of the house and saw that the windows were closed as well. A new 'thud' sound drove her curiosity ravenous, awaiting satisfaction that lay inside this house. The fact that she'd never been to his house before drove a strange urge to burst through the back door and investigate. She was about to use her good leg to kick down the door when she realized that the door knob was rather old. Hell, back when she was a kid her grandfather had the same sort of door knob for his tool shed. One twist it didn't open, two twists and it still wouldn't yield, three twists: nah dah. But rattle it around, back and forth for a minute and it would unlock itself. Doing just that, the door swung open for her to enter.
Inside the house was neat, homely. A comfortable living area and kitchen, yesterday's newspaper on his coffee table and an empty soda can. A place her Alan was living in. None of the lights were on, and the curtains made his house seem especially dark, Kate almost forgot that it was still morning. It was like a whole other world, no, it was just dark. She wasn't going to turn on the lights, she was only here for a peek, and she didn't want to arouse the suspicions of the neighbours. She went up a floor and found his bedroom empty, 'nothing suspicious' and she found herself asking 'why am I even here'. Was she worried or just too damned curious? It wasn't too late to leave; she'd tell him tomorrow that she'd broken into his house when he went to work. He'd be somewhat angry, then concerned for her mental health, then they'd have a laugh about it a week from now over bottles of beer or glasses of wine...'make that tall, really tall glasses of wine'. Then a 'thud' sound came from the basement, and Kate quickly made her way down two flights of stairs, passed the darkness of the living room to the direction of the sound. She opened the door and was met with dim lighting, the ragged sounds of hoarse gasping. And there it was a horrific sight. Something she would remember for the rest of her life.
Before her lay Alan, thrashing around on the basement floor like a madman in pain, making tormented breathing sounds. She scream was caught in her chest and her legs were locked into place. She wouldn't have recognized him, but somehow she knew it was him, yet it wasn't the same Alan from just yesterday. Her Alan was a tall handsome twenty-something guy, with black hair and deep blue eyes. Not something bloated and naked. Bloated like a days old dead corpse, eyes bloodshot and rolled to the back of its head. It was nothing more than some twisted corpse like thing, and it omitted a rancid scent, like rotting meat forgotten in a box with a smell accumulated and finally unleashed. It twisted and thrashed its strangely discoloured limbs quite animatedly. The sight of this thing that couldn't be, shouldn't be Alan caused Kate to collapse onto her behind. She'd have thrown up if she'd eaten something in the morning. She stared and it soon stopped moving. She was paralyzed in a state of starring and barely remembering to breathe when the corpse-dead thing jerked upwards, causing her to further fall back onto her hands.
Its midsection jerked a couple more times; Kate clearly remembered the hard cracking sound of bones breaking as a small, strange glowing creature burst forth from the corpse, like monstrous jack-in-the-box covered in gore. It was a translucent humanoid, luminously glowing gold. It was human shaped for sure, but its body was much like a jellyfish in a way, as its flesh and skin were translucent yellow. Four oddly shaped flaps stretched out from its back, and Kate realised they were some form of wings, like a dragonfly's. She could see its organs, it had no eyelids but she saw its eyes and brains from inside its head. Thin fragile looking bones and its long sharp teeth like that of a fish. She finally found a voice to scream with, but it was over shadowed by the creature's own shrieks as it saw her.
As she trembled in fear but unable to look away, it instead turned away from her and began to eat the corpse from which it burst forth from. Then, right in front of her, it began to change. The sounds of bones crunching and of flesh being torn from the corpse and chewed quite hastily filled the room. The thing was growing rapidly as it fed. Its bones expanded in its translucent flesh. Its flesh and muscles grew, and begun to become an opaque of reds and pinks under the translucent skin. Its translucent skin losing its supernatural golden glow and becoming an opaque peachy skin tone. Its ears and a nose defined themselves, and quite rapidly it sprouted atop its head a full head of black hair. Its wings shrivelled and fell off. As its body grew to full size its skin tore from its own rapid growth, only to heal itself up just as quickly as it grew. Two tears in its head formed eye lids. Finally, in front of her was a bleeding, gore covered Alan, still omitting a faint glow from his body.
He turned to her and said, covered only by bits of decaying flesh and blood, quite simply, "Kate, this is what I am."
The rest was a blur. Kate vaguely recalled throwing his cell phone at him to buy herself some time to get up, that he put his hand on her shoulder and said something to which she replied with a scream and some terror induced incoherent babbling. She then kicked him square on the chest with her good leg, getting out of there as fast as her legs were able. The week that followed involved Kate avoiding him at every turn, even taking sick days off work. He'd call; she'd ignore, or hang up quickly. He'd send her gifts that she had once thought of as sweet, now little commemorative objects of what she had seen. As far as she was concerned, they were over.
Alan had visibly paled at Kate's recollection of what she had seen, from his own experiences the 'rebirth ritual' was quite normal for a half immortal such as himself, but coming from her mouth it did seem quite frightening. He composed himself a bit.
"I am what some would call a ritual immortal. I've come to terms with my condition and identity, and was hoping that you'd understand. I'm sure you'll understand one day, because for me…you're still the one I've been searching for. The ritual must be held at least once a week. It involves me gorging myself obese, dying, being reborn from my corpse as what you could call a 'nymph' or 'fairy', and then feast on my own dead corpse. I need to do this to give myself strength to transform to my old mortal form. The whole process is much like a hermit crab shedding its old exoskeleton. I could regenerate lost limbs, as well as renew my youth, and potentially live forever."
"That explains the stretch marks." Kate mumbled to herself, she looked down at the table in front of them, she felt sick. She felt numb. She didn't know he felt just as numb just from seeing her reaction, "Why did you ask me to meet you here, if not to try and repair this fucked up relationship?"
"It was never…not till…forget it," he sighed in frustration, "I need to do the 'ritual' again. Last Sunday I sped up the process too much because of your …unexpected 'visit', so I could show you what I was. Now, I am in need of your protection this time."
"What? Protection? Why?"
"You heard me. You are a Taekwondo expert and the only one I can entrust with my secret…well, you found out on your own…but it really can't be helped now."
"What do you mean 'it can't be helped now'? Don't beat around the bush."
"I'm not the only supernatural creature out there. I am vulnerable during the 'ritual', I've been lucky…too lucky, avoiding them up until this point. There are other immortals that aren't as…'self-sufficient' as I am. There are some who will need to feast on a vulnerable ritual immortal like myself, in order to maintain their own immortality, and now they know I'm here. I need you to protect me from the beings that will be coming for me soon. As simple as that."
'He just finished explaining his big secret after keeping it from me for months, asked me for a huge favour like we're still together, and now he drops an even bigger bombshell like its no big deal?' Kate nearly fainted at this. She remembered the pain from getting her leg broke by the heavy crowbar. She remembered the pain of betrayal from finding out that the man she loved wasn't quite what he seemed.
"What. The. FUCK?!"


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ALGER COUNTY -- A sunny summer is pretty high on most Yoopers' wish lists. But for farmers, the sunshine needs to come with some rain, and that hasn't happened.
"The hay crop is not as bad as the full season crops," said Jim Isleib of the MSU Extension in Alger County. "Corn, especially, has been affected by drought. Other crops, like dry beans and potatoes, have been affected also."
At the Marquette National Weather Service, it's been the fourth driest year ever so far and could be one of the driest summers ever. July and August typically see over six inches of rain; we saw less than two. Much of it boils down to plain and simple bad luck.
"It's just who are the lucky ones and who are the unlucky ones. Here at the office, we're on the unlucky side," explained NWS Meteorologist, Todd Kluber. "But looking at most of the U.P., it is at 50 percent of its normal precipitation for the last two months. And during the summer when it's hot and you're not getting rain, that's not a good combination." Farmers have also noted the hit-or-miss nature of these summer storms.
"It is troubling to hear about showers that hit 20 miles away, but missed us. Again. And to watch crops really not performing like they would normally," Isleib added. Isleib also says most U.P. farmers will weather a dry ending to the growing season, and that's good news, especially with the drought likely to continue through the end of the year.


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Outlaw Hunters
The Pinkerton Detective Agency chased down some of America's most notorious criminals
- By Amy Crawford
- Smithsonian.com, September 01, 2007, Subscribe
Allan Pinkerton was furious when he got the news. Joseph Whicher, a trusted agent of Pinkerton's National Detective agency, had been discovered in the Missouri woods, bound, tortured and shot dead—yet another victim of Jesse James, the outlaw whose gang Whicher had been assigned to track down. Not only outraged but humiliated by the failure, Pinkerton vowed to get James, declaring, "When we meet it must be the death of one or both of us."
Pinkerton dedicated his life to fighting criminals like Jesse James, and at one point was called the "greatest detective of the age" by the Chicago Tribune. For almost four decades, he and his agents captured bank robbers and foiled embezzlers. But Pinkerton had not set out to become America's original private eye; the humbly-born Scottish immigrant stumbled into crime-fighting.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1819, Allan Pinkerton had grown up poor, helping to support his family as a laborer after his father, a policeman, died in the line of duty. As a young man Pinkerton spoke out for democratic reform in Great Britain and was persecuted for his radicalism. In 1842, politics forced Pinkerton and his wife, Joan, to immigrate to America. The couple wound up in the small town of Dundee, 40 miles outside Chicago, where Pinkerton set up a cooperage, or barrel business.
One day in 1847, Pinkerton ran out of barrel staves and went to look for more wood on an uninhabited island in a nearby river. There he discovered the remains of a campsite. It struck him as suspicious, so he returned at night to find a group of counterfeiters manufacturing coins. Not one to tolerate criminal behavior, Pinkerton fetched the sheriff, and the gang was arrested. At a time when rampant counterfeiting endangered businesses, local merchants lauded Pinkerton as a hero and began asking him to investigate other incidents.
"I suddenly found myself called upon, from every quarter, to undertake matters requiring the detective skill," Pinkerton wrote in an 1880 memoir. He became so good at running sting operations to catch counterfeiters that the sheriff of Kane County, Illinois, made him a deputy. In 1849, Pinkerton was appointed Chicago's first full-time detective, and he gave up the barrel business for good. He founded Pinkerton's Detective Agency in 1850, setting up his first office in downtown Chicago. By 1866, the agency had branches in New York and Philadelphia.
In the mid-19th century, police forces were small, often corrupt and unwilling to follow suspected criminals outside their own jurisdictions. People did not feel that the police were watching out for them, and Pinkerton took advantage of this deficiency, creating Pinkerton's Protective Police Patrol, a corps of uniformed night watchmen who protected businesses. Soon these "Pinkerton men," as they were called—though a few undercover agents were women—were as important to law enforcement as official police. As the railroads sped west, a new task arose: hunting down outlaws.
The outlaws of the 19th century have been much-romanticized in popular culture, but they were actually dangerous, ruthless and often brutal. Criminals like Jesse James and his brother Frank murdered anyone who got in their way; the 1874 killing of Joseph Whicher was characteristic behavior. An active bank and train robber since 1866, James was also an unreformed Southern secessionist. Pinkerton, who had worked for the Underground Railroad and once guarded Abraham Lincoln's train, was especially eager to bring Jesse James to justice.
The Pinkerton agency usually succeeded when it came to capturing criminals. Toward the end of his life, Pinkerton authored a popular book series based on his agency's most famous cases—prototypical true-crime stories that inspired later detective writers. In Bank-Robbers and the Detectives, Pinkerton explained his accomplishments by citing "well-directed and untiring energy" and "a determination not to yield until success was assured."
In the late 1860s, the Pinkerton agency captured the Reno brothers' gang, the first organized train robbers in the United States—Pinkerton himself chased Frank Reno all the way to Windsor, Ontario. During that same period, Pinkerton detectives nabbed several more high-profile bank and train robbers, in some cases recovering thousands of stolen dollars. In one instance, Pinkerton men followed another group of bandits from New York to Canada, where they arrested them and recovered nearly $300,000 in cash. The agency gained a reputation for tenacity, and citizens, terrorized by outlaws, looked to the Pinkertons as heroes.
After Whicher's murder, Pinkerton sent more agents after the James gang. In January 1875, a group of Pinkerton men and a local posse, responding to a tip, rushed to James' mother's Missouri farm. The mother, Zerelda Samuel, was mean, ugly and strong-willed, as well as a dedicated slaveholder and secessionist. Still angry about the way the war had turned out, Samuel saw Jesse and Frank, the sons by her first marriage, as freedom fighters for the downtrodden southern states, rather than mere bandits and murderers. When the Pinkerton-led raiders appeared on her farm late one night, she refused to surrender.
A standoff ensued, and someone threw a lantern into the darkened house, purportedly to aid visibility. There was an explosion, and the posse ran in to find Zerelda Samuel's right arm blown off. Reuben Samuel, her third husband, and their three young children had also been inside. To the detectives' horror, 8-year-old Archie, Jesse James' half brother, lay fatally wounded on the floor.
The death of Archie Samuel was a public relations nightmare for Pinkerton's Detective Agency. Not only had the Pinkerton agency again failed to capture Jesse and Frank James (the brothers had been tipped off and weren't at the house that night), but a little boy had been blown up and Zerelda Samuel was calling for blood. Public opinion, which until then had mostly supported the Pinkertons, shifted. One sensational biography of James, published a few years after his death, ruled that the explosion was "a dastardly piece of business … a cowardly act, thoroughly inexcusable." Though Pinkerton insisted it was one of locals, not one of his men, who threw the bomb, the tragedy did much to build Jesse James' legend and stain the Pinkerton agency's reputation.
For the first time, the man who once said he did "not know the meaning of the word 'fail' " had been defeated. It would be seven more years before James met his end, at the hands of a fellow criminal seeking a $10,000 bounty.
Despite the lowered public approval, Pinkerton's Detective Agency continued to operate after the Archie Samuel incident. Pinkerton men captured more criminals; broke up the Molly McGuire gang of Irish terrorists; and pursued Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to Bolivia, where the bandits were killed by local law enforcement. Toward the end of the 19th century, the agency became more involved in labor disputes, always on the side of management. This sort of operation did little to help the agency's reputation, especially when Pinkerton men inadvertently incited a deadly 1892 riot at a steel mill in Homestead, Pennsylvania. The name "Pinkerton" soon became a dirty word among the working class.
Pinkerton died on July 1, 1884, and his obituary in the Chicago Tribune described him as "a bitter foe to the rogues." By that time, his son William had taken over the agency's Chicago headquarters, and his son Robert had taken over operations in New York. In the 20th century, the agency gradually shifted its focus from detective work to private security, and it remained a family-run company until Robert Pinkerton II, Allan's great grandson, died in 1967. He left a corporation with 18,000 employees and 63 branches across the United States and Canada.
Today, as a subsidiary of an international company called Securitas Group, the Pinkerton agency provides private security for businesses and governments around the world. Pinkerton Consulting and Investigative Services protects shipping containers from terrorists, conducts background checks and guards executives for many Fortune 500 companies, says Pinkerton General Counsel John Moriarty. "We're proud to be able to claim direct descent back to 1850," he says. "There are no other companies providing this kind of service that can trace their origins back to the beginning." In a way, he says, "even the FBI and the Secret Service are descendants of the Pinkerton Agency."
Though Pinkertons no longer hunt down outlaws, the agency kept a vast archive of historic criminal files and mug shots until 2000, when it donated the materials to the Library of Congress. The collection included a full drawer on Jesse James.
Former Smithsonian editorial assistant Amy Crawford attends the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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Am I glad I discovered this sight. I will deffinately be checking these records out at the Archives in DC. My Great Grandfather Leonard Burdette Parish was Commander of the New York State Vigilantes 1900 - 1917 and had worked many times with the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
Posted by Roy Clement Jr on September 25,2013 | 12:48 PM
I am writing a story about a Pinkerton agent in San Francisco in the 1890's. Is there any information available about the activities of that agency in San Francisco at that time? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Posted by George L. Gurney on November 16,2012 | 09:11 PM
i am wondering if the missouri bank robbery money has ever been found ? because on my great grand fathers land in salem ark. we have found a rock wall with a boat anchor ingraved on it. we have not dug for anything cause grand father no longer lives an the land belonges to someone else. at the time an for many years we knew nothing about this boat anchor till we say a show on jessy james on the history channel.
Posted by james ross jr on May 26,2012 | 11:35 AM
I could email you the picture.
Posted by Barbara McGuire on April 19,2012 | 09:15 PM
I have an old photo of my Grandfather, GA Jackson with a group of men, some are in suits, one is a midget, and there is a small girl in a white dress in this picture. They could be pinkerton agents.
Posted by Barbara McGuire on April 19,2012 | 09:13 PM
I have an immense passion for 1800´s carte de visite mug shots and enjoy avid collecting. Do you have any 1800´s/victorian/turn of the century CDV mug shots from your collection to be offered for sale? I would also love to get in contact with any collector that might have what I'm looking for. Thanks!
Kind regards, //Tomas.
Posted by Tomas on March 7,2012 | 07:11 AM
Does anyone know if the archives of the Pinkerton records have been digetized and indexed since being given to the Smithsonian. I would like to do a search on these records.
Posted by Bruce on August 4,2011 | 03:21 PM
My great grandfather, Thomas McDonald, a Sergeant-Major in the Quartermaster Dept of the 90 Ill Volunteer Infantry, met Allan Pinkerton during the Civil War. After the war, Thomas worked for Allan Pinkerton, mostly in major East Coast cities including New York and Philadelphia, from 1865-1867. Does anyone know if there is archived information on early employees of Pinkerton Detective Agency and any photos of agents of that time period? Any help would be appreciated.
Posted by Pat Hubbell on April 26,2011 | 11:45 PM
I am looking for my grandfather on my mothers side I do not know much about him I do know that his mane was Earl Calehoun and he was killed working for the pinkerton 's on the railroad this would have been about 1908 or 9 my mother was only 2 or3 when he died she has been gone for a long time but I sure would like to find my grandfather or any thing you can help me with thank you so much terrie
Posted by Theresa (Smith) Grippin on January 28,2011 | 12:16 AM
My great-great-great grandfather was a Pinkerton Detective, according to the stories I heard while growing up. Where could I find out for sure?
Posted by Connie Mills on May 5,2010 | 03:05 PM
RE: A MOTHER-SON DETECTIVE TEAM, OUT OF CHICAGO IN THE 1880'S THROUGH 1908: I am writing a true-crime novel about my great-grandmother's sister, the seriail killer, BELLE GUNNESS, whose farm burned down in April of 1908, and on the farm were discovered numerous bodies of innocent people (mostly men) that she had killed. Apparently there was a detective team out of Chicago that had been hired by the family of her first husband, Mads Sorensen, and they were hot on her trail. One name in a small published article said the detective mother's name was Daisy Mae Hargrave. But when I research that name, all I get is that this was a theater star. Of course she could have been a multi-tasker. I also heard that one of the two (maybe the son) had been with Pinkerton. But all searches through them have yielded nothing.
Perhaps, James Hyndman, there might be something about Belle in your photo album, since something you mentioned was from Chicago.
I would appreciate any information anyone can offer on this subject. Thank you so much!
Posted by Suzanne McKay on January 24,2010 | 01:39 PM
The Reno Brothers were the worlds biggest outlaws having over 100 of the worlds best safe crackers counterfiters and murders . Coming to Seymour Indiana in that time was very risky.
Jesse james was a sissy compared to the Renos
Posted by Jon Z on December 28,2009 | 10:47 AM
My grandpa Clyde White was a detective at the Canfield Station, Detroit, MI, in the early 1900s. I have his collection of mugshots with hand-written notes that he used to carry around on his beats to id criminals. A collection of newspaper articles are also saved with his picture when he arrested Ma Barker and other famous criminals. What is the best thing to do with these mugshot photos? Do museums pay for them, or a company like Pinkerton - do they have a museum that would make a good home for them? Does anyone know the worth of a cache like this? Thanks, Colleen
Posted by Colleen on December 7,2009 | 02:29 PM
Dear Sir or Madame,
I have recently purchased an old ambrotype and was told by the original owner that it was a Confederate soldier. If you pull the photo out of the case there is writing with a date Sept. 1861. One of my friends pointed out that he thought the individiual in the abrotype had a strong resemblance to Jesse James.
I googled the web and found several photos of Jesse James (during his early years) and sure enough they do resemble. I have since found out that this particular ambrotype came out of an estate in North Carolina, I have also discovered that Jesse and Frank James had relatives in NC and also visited NC several times prior to, during and after the Civil war.
If interested I would be pleased to email you photos of the ambrotype in hopes that you may give me your opinion if this may in fact be the famous outlaw Jesse James, if you provide me an email address.
I realise this has nothing to do the Pinkertons but still thought someone may be interested.
Thank you
Allan Coyle
Posted by Allan Coyle on October 7,2009 | 05:10 PM


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Barcelona orders investigation after admitting $4 million spent on 'espionage'
Spanish giants Barcelona has confirmed around four million dollars were spent on espionage between 2008-2010, and the Catalan club would also internally investigate claims that the club had commissioned detective agencies to spy on a number of their star players.
The money went to the now defunct Metodo 3 agency and another company called the Intelligence Bureau and Cyber Experience, CNN.com reports.
Barcelona said that legal action would be taken to preserve the image of the club, the privacy of its employees and the legacy of the institution.
Spokesman Toni Freixa added Barcelona wants to know who was spied on and why
The alleged activities took place under the presidency of Joan Laporta, who was at the helm from 2003-2010, one of the most successful spells for the famous Spanish club, the paper said.
Reports on a Spanish website El Confidencial, claimed Metodo 3 trailed defender Gerard Pique and his pop star wife Shakira in 2010 following them to a concert to log their activities, the paper added.
Former stars Samuel Eto'o and Brazil's Ronaldinho were also believed to have been monitored in the past, the paper reported. (ANI)
Top Headlines
- Barcelona spied on Pique during affair with Shakira
- Man City CEO caught in middle of 'spying' allegations by Barcelona
- Guardiola 'spied' on Barcelona players to ensure good performances on pitch
- Qatar Airways becomes Barcelona's shirt sponsors instead of Qatar Foundation
- Manchester United rival Barcelona for Valencia star Jordi Alba


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So Excited, who else is watching all of the games?!
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Trevor Ariza with the first 3 points of the nba season!
Think we should pick up Andrew Goudelock he just got waived by Lakers
I'm excited about both Mia and Bos and LA vs LA. Going to be good games.
Yeah I'm streaming the Cle/Was game right now.
OMG!! Did Stern just say Hurricane Katrina??!!
HAHA David Stern said our thoughts go out to everyone suffering from hurricane Katrina and it's aftermath.. think he meant Sandy.
Ariza was lookin' good for those first couple plays.
Let's go!!!!!
"I'm not going to allow my putative owner to answer that question, this is an NBA related press conference. Paul Tagliabue and Roger Goodell have collectively sung their praises of Tom and if uh ESPN has a problem with that tell Mr. Skipper to call me at my office."
Lee is playing Wade very well so far.I'm impressed so far.
Man I wanted Lee on the Hornets for so many years. He would have been a perfect fit next to CP3.
Only watching Hornets games -- not a huge fan of the league itself.
"Hornets means nothing." - Tom Benson
Damn, the Celtics have barbosa as well?
Jeff Green throwing bricks.
Allen has played well. 13 points on 5 shots (in only 14 minutes).
Scary to admit, but the Heat actually look like a team.
Havent seen 1 flop so far.
Man if LeBron can consistently hit those long jumpers......he'll literally be unstoppable.
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Cab Driver's Amazing Michael Jackson Impression [Video]
When I post on lite987.com I enjoy sharing things you can see and hear, like this new Internet sensation.
Who's hot on the internet today? This guy. Jean Walker drives a cab in Minas Gerias, Brazil — but he was born to sing like Michael Jackson. And not like your Uncle Mike who does a bad moonwalk at the annual family picnic … this guy nails it.
Here he is killing "Billie Jean" and doing some fine beat-boxing while he's at it.
Is it a good/bad Michael Jackson impression? You be the judge.