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The 2014 call for entries will open December 2, 2013.
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Final Destination 5 details
Formats: | 15 DVD, Blu-ray |
Starring: | P.J. Byrne, Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell, David Koechner, Tony Todd, Courtney B. Vance |
Director: | Steven Quale |
Genres: | Horror, Thriller |
Studio: | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
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Final Destination 5 |
15 Feature |
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Rental release: | 23 Jan 2012 |
Main languages: | English |
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Gleefully gruesome with surprising wit and style
By BlaiseT (13 reviews) from Nottingham , 26 Aug 2011[Highly rated reviewer]
[Highly rated reviewer]
Like Saw, Final Destination is a series that started with an interesting premise and ended up relying on gruesome death scenes to keep audiences coming back sequel after sequel. However, unlike Saw, Final Destination makes a surprising last minute comeback with a film that just might be the best of the series.
Of course, this is all very relative- while it is technically correct to say that is a far better movie than Final Destination 4, it's also technically correct to say that being punched in the face is far better than being glassed in the face and then also rolled in a pit of razor blades and set on fire. The premise remains exactly the same- an attractive twenty-something experiences a premonition of a horrible accident on a plane/a rollercoaster/at a race track/in a petting zoo, and while they're running around in circles gibbering about how they're all going to die, they are escorted from the plane/rollercoaster/race track/petting zoo along with their attractive twenty-something friends and some cannon fodder (say, a Ditzy Blonde, a Stupid Jock, a Forever Doomed Black Guy, some kind of comic relief and a couple of oldies), thereby avoiding the accident. Feeling cheated, Death then comes for the survivors one by one.
Okay, so there's a reason why people come back for the gruesome death scenes. Death has a real sense of humour in the Final Destination films. 'Alright, sunshine, you think you're clever, do you? You think you're gonna cheat Death? Well, let me show you what we think of smartasses around these here parts'. Cue hilariously prolonged and gleefully gruesome death scenes that are especially well executed in the fifth installment. 3D is well utilised without being jarring, and there are some truly horrible uses of acupuncture needles and laser eye surgery that deliver the right mixture of shrieks and giggles.
All in all, it's a surprisingly good effort with a macabre sense of humour. Final Destination 5 never takes itself too seriously and manages to keep the same tired formula surprisingly punchy even as we know exactly what will happen. The ending delivers a neat little twist that finishes up the series very nicely- now let's hope this is the Finalest Final Destination of them all, and the series will be allowed to go out in style (and showers of 3D blood and rupturing eyeballs).- Was this review helpful to you?
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(116)hmmmm samey
By Dunnichenko (12 reviews) from West Mids , 23 Nov 2013quite amusing in its own way, sadly its just how can we kill by accident that we havent done before....- Was this review helpful to you?
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Really time to call it a day with with these films
By PKing1 (9 reviews) , 11 Aug 2013Really feel like this film should have been called a day after the third film where they added the comedy element which would have been a good way to go out. Saw the fourth film which I thought was terrible but thought i'd give this the benefit of the doubt.... Absolutely awful!!! 3D or not, It was a waste of my time- Was this review helpful to you?
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the final final destination
By nurseboy (66 reviews) from oxford , 03 Aug 2013so a very rare thing, a set of multiple films without a truly bad example to let them down ( all assuming of course they dont bring out another one). yes the plot is the same, (but the disaster is cool) yes the formula is highly evident ( but it works) and yes it has a good if not twist then a really good ah-hah moment at the end. yes its not big, its not clever (except in detailing the deaths sequences) but it is fun.- Was this review helpful to you?
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golden bridge
By eggy72 (5 reviews) , 31 May 2013Good horror film you can not cheat death i like 1 2 3 4 5 are you make another film how many- Was this review helpful to you?
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yet more gruesome deaths
By vickig0306 (429 reviews) from Halifax , 19 May 2013its the same as every other final destination but still keeps you watching to see how gruesome the deaths will be in the latest sequel. if you loved the others then youll still love this one- Was this review helpful to you?
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Wanna find your inner bombshell? Look no further. Stop right here.
Holiday tips for girls flying solo!
- , 12/20/2012Contrary to popular thought, the holidays aren't nearly as cozy a time for couples as we're led to believe: a recent study showed a spike in Facebook users changing their status to "single" in December more than any other time of year. So, what's a girl to do if you find yourself solo this time of year? Here are three easy ways to celebrate on your own terms:
Party smart.
Choose your celebrations wisely. It's perfectly okay to stay away from parties full of couples that just make you feel like crap. There's nothing wrong with saying no when you know it will save your sanity. If you're seriously in the hostess zone, consider throwing a holiday party of your own and only invite singles – no couples allowed… or invite couples, but tell them you'll only let them in if they bring a single friend. It's all about watering down the sea of "we's."
Give the ultimate gift.
Sure, your sadness is understandable if you've just gone through a breakup. No matter how much despair you might be in, though, somebody out there has it worse than you. Someone in the world could benefit from your empathy rather than your apathy. So, splurge on some toys and donate them to charity. Even better: donate your time to a non-profit organization (Meals on Wheels, Salvation Army) that needs extra hands this December. No plans on Christmas Day? Volunteer at a soup kitchen. And don't just sayyou'll do it… actually do it. The rewards are in the act itself, the perspective you'll gain from it, and the smile you'll put on someone else's face.
Create your own traditions.
How's this for a fresh perspective: you don't need a mate to be happy this season. While everyone is focused on family traditions, why not create some of your own? Instead of foraging for a plus one because of societal pressures, why not dive into the relationship you already have that matter the most to you? Look at your friendships & relationships with family members and figure out how to be better at each one. How about taking new years resolutions to the next level? Use the holidays as a time to reflect on exactly where you are in your life, where you want to be & how you're going to get there. Or, start living your passions. Dive headfirst into that novel you've been wanting to write, that trip you've wanted to take or whatever else you've been putting off, but are longing to do.
Do it now, as a holiday present to yourself.
Comment by Lisa — January 16, 2013 @ 1:20 pm
Great post! My sisters and I always have so much fun together doing those romantic holiday things your ex never ...
who are your PK girls?
- , 12/13/2012The Beatles got it right when they created a whole song about getting by with a little help from friends.
Sometimes, even if we don't want to admit it, we need to have people in place to lean on when we can't quite stand up. Going through a breakup is definitely one of those times. A breakup is a major turning point, and the heartbreak that goes along with it can be intensely disorienting. That's where your friends come in.
Here's my two cents:
Go on, create your very own team of PK girls. You'll be amazed at how often people are waiting and wanting to help, they just might not know what you need. Be good to these ladies, make them pillars of your plan to forget your ex and find your inner bombshell. It'll be a lot of work for you and for them, so don't forget to appreciate these awesome friends for being by your side.
Happy Thanksgiving Bombshells! Be Thankful!
- , 11/22/2012It's easy during the holidays to get wrapped up in everything we don't have. There's a lot of pressure to have the perfect partner, to make enough money to give the perfect gifts, to have perfect relationships with every single one of our family members. Guess what? No one is perfect and we all have ways we can grow. Still, the heart of the holidays should be about recognizing what you do have and continuing to find ways to appreciate that more.
So, this Thanksgiving, I'm taking a little different stance on what I want you to be thankful for and how I want you to show it.
Here's my two cents:
To top it off, there's an incredible effect when you make others feel loved and appreciated. You feel the same, if not more, in return. Give it a try. At some point this weekend pick up a pen and start writing. Then, come tell me all about it.
break it off on facebook too, bombshells!
- , 11/8/2012It's the question every girl asks after a split: do you defriend the ex on facebook or not? The answer is simple.
If you and what's-his-face broke up in real life, it's time to breakup with him on the internet, too.
When I went through my last break-up, I tried to be a big girl and keep him as a friend. I had taken his number out of my phone- no more texting, no more calls. I had deleted old emails and erased voicemails. But, for some reason, I couldn't bring myself to defriend the boy on Facebook. It seemed harsh, unnecessary, mean. And, secretly, I couldn't let go of having one tiny way to find out what he was up to and see if he was moving on better & faster than I was.
Not even two weeks after the split, I saw his status update on my phone. It was something about how he had an awesome night out on the town. It killed me. Sure, he could have been putting on a brave front. He could have been trying to distract himself. He could have had a really great time with his guy friends… but I imagined it differently. I imagined him surrounded by girls… or on a date. I imagined him totally over me and not at all upset about the break-up. To make things even more awesome, I had spent the night sitting at home in my PJ's watching re-runs of Sex and the City.
I decided it was too painful to stay connected in any way. I broke it off with him on Facebook. Guess what? After the first two days of withdrawal, I felt like I was finally starting to let go. So… from a girl who's been right where you are now, here's my two cents:
If you've admitted it's over and you're moving on as a bombshell, you don't need to be focused on what he's doing. Instead, focus on the incredible little life you're going to create all on your own.
PKRX: Take back your free time!
- , 10/30/2012Oh, time. You're such a silly thing. Right after a breakup, you know exactly how to stand still and drive a girl crazy. Here are some of our best secrets on how to take back all that free time (and reclaim your life while you're at it).
It's Music Monday and You Gotta TRY
- , 10/29/2012Sometimes Pink just nails it. Go on, bombshell. PREACH!
It's Music Monday, f*ck you very very much!
- , 10/21/2012We kind of can't stop listening to this lovely little jingle by Lily Allen. It's, well, awesome. And hilarious. And weird. Check it out:
It's Music Monday and You've Got Gangnam Style
- , 10/15/2012Sometimes it just feels good to be a little ridiculous. Sometimes it just feels good to shake your booty and have a little fun. We give you permission to do both this Monday, gangnam style.
Go on, hit the play button one more time. You know you want to…
there's no such thing as "good-enough"
- , 10/11/2012Mediocrity is not better than nothing at all.
During a radio interview, one of the hosts asked me how to know when it's time to call it quits on a relationship. I told him I actually think it's pretty simple.
There's one question you have to ask yourself: When you're with your guy, is more of your time spent smiling & having fun or being frustrated & crying?
If the answer is that you're usually frustrated & crying, then the relationship's got issues. You need to think about whether or not that's how you want to spend your life and consider that ending the relationship could make you happier in the long run. It's not fun figuring out the person you love isn't right for you (and vice versa). Knowing that you're not in the right relationship and staying there anyway, though, is like a form of self-torture. Most likely, it's better for both of you to throw in the towel and start fresh… so don't think you're doing HIM any favors by prolonging the inevitable.
I've seen countless girlfriends who wind up in situations that aren't so obvious, too. Maybe he's a really nice guy & you don't fight much, but he keeps himself at arm's length. Maybe he's really great when you're together, but then forgets to call when he says he will & misses dates because he's "busy." Maybe he says all the right things, but his actions just don't add up. These are all examples of mediocrity at its finest. Ladies, don't settle!
Being with a guy because no one better has come along is not cool. Being with a guy because he's great in bed and fun to party with but won't call you his "girlfriend" is not cool. Being with a guy who makes you cry even though he says he doesn't want to hurt you is not cool. Settling for anything less than what you deserve is not cool.
Know what is cool? Having enough courage and self-respect to walk away from "good-enough." Knowing that you can and will be better off on your own. Saying good-bye with your dignity in tact… because 99% of the time, mediocrity will not get better. And it's not better than nothing at all.
Music Monday: King of Anything
- , 10/1/2012"all my life/ i've tried/ to make everybody happy while I/ just hurt and hide/ waiting for someone to tell me/ it's my turn to decide…"
know what? your time is NOW. be fearless & take the world by storm. no excuses.


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Canary Shrub Mallows and Mediterranean Shrub Mallows are excellent pot plants for any well drained, slightly humus rich to inorganic, rocky soil in a sunny spot. Reduce watering to a minimum in winter, keep at a minimum of some 10°C. Both Canary species are highly ornamental, robust and easy going plants, yet slow growing species.
Sow seeds flat at some 15°C to 20°C throughout the year in any well drained, yet humus rich soil. Keep pots in full sun and soil always slightly moist. Seed from most Lavatera species will germinate within 2 to 6 weeks at room temperature, Lavatera phoenica germinates irregularly over several (up to six) months. Keep seedlings in full sun, especially in winter.
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iRobot Looj® 330
Gutter Cleaning Robot
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The iRobot Looj 330 Gutter Cleaning Robot blasts away leaves, dirt and clogs while brushing gutters clean. Featuring a high-velocity, four-stage auger and CLEAN mode, Looj travels down your gutter on its own, sensing and adapting to debris in order to provide the most effective cleaning.
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Cleans Leaves, Dirt And Debris Out Of Your Gutter
The iRobot Looj 330 Gutter Cleaning Robot blasts away leaves, dirt and clogs while brushing gutters clean. Spinning at 500 RPM, the high-velocity, four-stage auger breaks apart clogs, then lifts and throws them away from your roof as sweepers and a scraper clear the remaining debris.
- Two Operational Modes: Simple One-Button CLEAN Mode and Manual Mode: Use Looj 330 in either manual mode or automatic CLEAN mode. Manual mode allows you to control the robot. In CLEAN mode, just push the CLEAN button and Looj travels down your gutter on its own, sensing and adapting to debris to provide the most effective cleaning.
- Four-Stage Auger With Suite Of Auger Parts: The included four-stage auger is made up of the breaker, ejectors, breaker bars and sturdy polypropylene sweepers. Another set of smaller, more compact ejectors is also included.
- Lithium Ion Battery: This battery technology equips Looj with a strong power source.
Reaches Far Into Your Gutters So You Don't Have To
Looj 330 performs a difficult and uncomfortable job for you, cleaning up to a 30-foot section of gutter in 5 minutes and up to 200 linear feet per charge. The remote control lets you drive the robot further along the gutter than previous generations.
- Increased Range With Remote Control Handle: The detachable handle is also the remote control, giving you complete forward and reverse control of the robot as well as automatic CLEAN mode selection. You can also control the spin direction of the auger. This wireless controller has an improved communication range of up to 50'.
- Low Profile Design: More compact than previous Looj models, now at just under 2" high and 3" wide, Looj is able to fit in more gutters, including most K-style aluminum, copper, metal or vinyl gutters.
- Waterproof Design*: Wet leaves are often the biggest culprit in clogged gutters. Looj was designed to operate in the wet environment of gutters. This also makes for a quick clean-up - simply spray Looj with a hose when done.
Takes A Dangerous Job And Does It For You
Home owners often put off cleaning gutters due to repeated trips up and down the ladder and overreaching from dangerous heights. Looj reduces the risk of injury from repetitive climbing and extended time on ladders and also helps to prevent overreaching.
- Slip-Resistant Rubber Handle: Keep both hands on the ladder. Slip-resistant rubber handle allows for safer robot handling.
- Belt Clip: Looj comes with a belt clip to provide hands-free carrying. The belt clip keeps Looj away from hands and legs, making ladder climbing safer.
Robot Dimensions: 15.63"L x 2.93"W x 1.99"H
Robot Weight: 2.77 lbs.
What's In The Box:
- Looj 330 Robot With Detachable Handle/Remote Control, 4-Stage Auger And Scraper
- 2600mAh Lithium Ion Battery
- Extra Ejectors
- Battery Charger
- Belt Clip
- 1-Year Manufacturer's Limited Warranty On Robot, 6-Month Manufacturer's Limited Warranty On Battery
*Looj 330 is waterproof in up to 8" of water with the battery door properly sealed.
Looj 300 Series Gutter Cleaning Robot is intended for consumer use only. This is not a commercial product and is not intended for commercial application. Commercial use of this product will void the manufacturer's warranty. The iRobot limited warranty shall not apply to failures or problems which are caused by products or equipment not authorized by iRobot Corporation.
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Bought the Looj for my husband for Father's day. We have many trees around our house, and our gutters often get clogged. Recently before a big rain storm he used the Looj and proclaimed it was the best present ever! We are both highly recommending this product to all our friends and neighbors.
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I love this job now, and run the Looj multiple times a year to keep gutters clean. I absolutely hated it before, avoided it at the expense of my roof. I no longer have to say my gutters are actually planters with weeds growing out of them.
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This product continuously went into 'red mode' - luckily it could be retrieved.
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Who would have thought cleaning the gutters could be fun! Easy to use and does an excellent job.
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Even if the robot works perfectly... where do all the pine needles and leaves go?
On the roof (to come right back with the next gust of wind!) or on the lawn/bar-b-q/outside furniture (whatever is underneath! Another cleanup to do. And let me tell you that wet leaves aren't easy to cleanup...
- cleans quite well
- Fits Nicely In The Gutter
- Love the remote control
- Reversible Motion
- Very portable
- Gets stuck sometimes
- Wish It Has A Camera
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- Seasonal Gutter Cleaning
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Have finally tried this product,after buying it last year. The reason for the delay, our house is a 2-storey one, so we need a good, stable, and long enough ladder to reach the gutter. As good as it can get, without a ladder long enough, and if you do not fear heights, it is a good investment. It worked quite well removing the 5-year debris stuck in our gutter, going back and forth, though we realized we have to take it slowly, sometimes debris just thick enough, so it can get stuck there, or turn turtle, then you have a problem at hand trying to reach it. But we quickly learned and after that it is a breeze to use. Our neighbors were greatly impressed with this gadget. We all commented that it would be nice to have a nice little camera on board, so if we are waiting for it to finish the job, at least we can see what is going on as it plugs away through the debris. It would have been good as well to have the bristles/brush on both ends of the machine so if it goes back and forth it will do double work.
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Just had my gutters professionally cleaned 2 months ago. Tried the robot today but it went only 3 ft before the long leaf pine needles wrapped around the flipper and stalled it. I had to move my ladder every 4 ft. Took me over an hour do clean 42 ft of gutters with less than an inch of pine needles in them. Could have cleaned it in far less time by hand with many fewer ladder moves. If you live in the southeast where pine trees abound, you are wasting your money.
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In fairness to the Looj, my gutters were full to the brim with wet leaves and I couldn't be bothered to go back and forth with the remote to let the Looj try to tackle the job. So we tossed over the bulk of the wet mess and sent the Looj in to do backup duty, which it did a great job on.
I am eager to try sending the Looj up again to see how it will do with a reasonable amount of leaves. Overall I was impressed with the battery life and speed with which it flew through the gutters (the pre-cleaned gutters). It still threw over water, leaves and pine needles.
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This product was a snap to use. The reverse gear makes one trip up the ladder for each gutter possible.I purchased it for my husband. He thinks it is a terrific time saver.
- A real time saver
- Great Results
- No more sore knees
- No Siren
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Best gift in a long time. I have 188 feet of gutter and the first use took about 1 hour. My gutters were packed to the top with tree leaves, maple, tiny locust, five inch long pine needles, muck and water. They were a mess. It was a job but the LOOJ worked at it and did just fine. Because of the heavy load we had a few attempts at turning over but the remote control helped preventing that from happening. One thing I did notice is that it traveled faster in reverse than forward. So a couple of weeks later when I convinced myself that I needed to use this toy(I mean tool) again, my gutters were not nearly as bad so I ran it upside down and in reverse(which became forward). I did my 188 feet in 15 minutes. All this was accomplished on one charge of the battery. Not bad! Not bad!
Oh, and I would like to have a remote controlled siren so I would have something to do while the LOOJ is working away!!
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if any of you are looking for some folding card check out my thread http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=112393 I'm sorry i am going to be having next to no output for awhile as I'm not going to set the rigs backup after taking them down for pics. all the parts are sitting nicely in there boxes @theonedub what board is that?I'm looking to go i7 860 so looking for a decent board
EVGA P55 SLI Newegg:http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188055 A lot of members run the FTW version that has a few more power phases, and more OC options. This one has 100% solid caps and nearly identical specs, got it local from Frys for 169.99 AR. My new build is black and gray only
I may get even ANOTHER gtx 260 for shits and gigles, but ATM i only got 60 bucks in my paypal, and trying to sell some things. I dont know if its worth it going to grab another 100 dollar motherboard, and a new PSU to power 3 260's then at the same time not being able to run high FSB because of shit nvidia boards EDIT**** I COULD HAVE TRIP SLI ON another motherboard, thats good
I have this following hardware to sell to fellow TPU folders. e5200 LGA 775 pent 4 530 3.0Ghz+ Wireless network card 530watt Semi modular Raidmax PSU,(power my 260 and a 8800gt once.) 2x 40gb IDE hardrives CD drive 3800+ 939 venice core 2x256mb of DDR memory TX3 heatsink, with only am2/am2+/am3 brackets. 120/80mm fans Old Xigmatek s1283 darknight in somewhat bad condition(missparts and lapped a little wrong but can still cool) With only lga 775/lga 1366 brackets, for like 15 bucks. If you want to help the TPU team get the better of closest team, you guys can really get some rigs going for cheap, PM me if you need any of this stuff, im going to USPS to ship a windows 7 to someone tomarwow *EDIT* Im selling this stuff pretty cheap, for its performance, not its rareity. The most expensive thing in this list is probable the e5200 tha can bench at 4.5Ghz for 40-35 dollars + shipping.
Im now folding 16,7-16,9 PPD with 2 GTX 260s tuned to the highest stable clocks with 353 packets. Ive already hit 21,000 pionts, from 10,000 yesterday. I love nvidia cards.
im up 12k points in 2 days with 6 hrs downtime due to errors eitherway its time we do some recruiting everyone on TPU needs to fold just 1 unit a day seriously TPU gets thousands of hits theres lots of ppl on here if i can even with only $8 left to my name force 2 5850s which are seriously shitty in terms of PPD / watts to fold 24/7 for 5 days and off and on after i think other ppl can help contribute as well. its not that hard even using the tray client and letting it run at just 20% would contribute to the team and you would never know come on ppl its time to start buckling down we have PS3s and family computers mothers fathers grand parents and sibling they got computers make them chip in just 20% of the cpus power they can keep on doing what they do and help cure cancer its time we NUT UP and put up a better fight the CANUCKS are out stripping us but 400k ppd every 24hours its time we wake up TPU and fight back
OK guy's, I will have a -bigadv rig up and running within 2 weeks. I'm gonna have alot of questions for Bogmali and El Fiendo. Fold on boy's
Yeah these -bigadv units seem to be very tempting Just a small question to those already running them, what kind of hardware you using for them ? Whats the best bet X58 and i7 920, or P55 i7 860.
I'm going with a high-end 1156 mobo(3x pci-e) and the 860. The 8gb of ram I will need is going to kill me.
I've already downloaded the software that bogmali pointed to HERE. I've read the guide and it seems pretty straight forward. The only question I currently have is whether to run 7 or 8 cores. I'm running a GTX 260 now and would want to keep it. The creator of the guide says he is now running 7 cores. The guide does point out that the minimum memory to run the VM is 6GB and anything less will cause headaches for you or problems.
I intend to re-organise my folding/crunching rigs over the next couple of months and may throw one of these i7 rigs together. Just bought a second K9A2 board for my GPU's yesterday, so going to retire my old SKT939 rigs. Trying to keep it as cheap as possible, was wondering would this board give a good OC with a 920, a Gigabyte EX58-UD3R (I know it is bottom end)
I have one of those motherboards with a 920 C0 that is air cooled. I was considering making that my second -bigadv rig. My first attempt however will be with an Asus P6T Deluxe, Core i7 965, Corsair Dominator 6GB DDR3 2000MHz 7-8-7-20 Triple Channel Kit and water cooled. Hopefully this will be running by the end of the week.
The UD3R is the best budget board out there in my opinion. I have 2 of them both crunching at 4ghz. I have never been able to get above 215-217 bclk with them though, so if you want higher you'll have to get a higher end board.
If you're going to run the VM package to co-exist with GPU's folding in the same rig it is best to do the 7 core one. This way you can dedicate the last CPU core to your GPU's and your system doesn't get bogged down. 1156's are fine (hyperthread versioned ones) as long as you have 6GB of RAM minimum and I wouldn't recommend your OC below 3.5Ghz. The guide that I posted says 3.8 but I've ran mine @ 3.5 and it still gets it done and collect the bonus. Remember the key here is your OC.....It has to be stable (I cannot stress this enough).....
I was reading in another forum on TPU that you can get higher stable overclocks with an i920. The common wisdom says maximum stable overclock on an I860 is 3.8 GHZ, while an I920 can more easily run at 4. Also, there've been problems overclocking the 1156 boards with more than 2 sticks of RAM. This limits your choice of RAM with the 1156, and makes it more expensive. My wallet says, get a the cheapest x58 board that offers stable overclocks, and carefully choose from the plethora of 6 GB DR3 RAM kits available. My inner Tim Gunn says get the ASUS Sabertooth (love the color scheme) with the I860 (same price as an I920 at Microcenter) and get 2X4 GB from Gskill or Mushkin. Luckily, I have you guys to light the way for me, because it will be sometime next month before I corral the $$$ to jump on the --bigadv bandwagon. I'm hoping one of you has good luck with a I860. I'll be watching your progress eagerly while I roll up my nickels.
Yeah if I can get this rig together cheaply, I would be more than happy with a stable 4GHz. It is very tempting as most other boards are ~£60 dearer, and that would get me a water block as I have a triple RAD sitting doing nothing. Will have to think about this....
Can you guys recommend anyparts, for a i7-i5 setup to replace my q9550 p45 ddr2 setup. Im going to be selling many items, Already sold windows 7, a corsair 120mm fan, and some ddr memory, and hopefully my e5200 pentium. Im going to hopefully have 95-100 dollars already, and i might post even more hardware to sell and such. I dont think i can get this setup with 200 bucks even if i was lucky haahahaha. But it would be nice to see how much money i can get for all this.
I've had good luck with the UD3R boards in the past. My P-35 was stable as a rock and support overclocks as high as the P-35 chipset could go. The P-45 version was also easy to overclock and very stable.
There was this going on........ http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=112392 i5 750 right now is the best bang for the buck, only drawback is the lack of hyperthreading.
I'm running 3.6 on a 920 and getting approx 38.00 TPF so thats no problem. I am running two GTX 285s with the -smp 8 too and have had no issues. I looked into a 1156 based bigadv rig, and figured that the 8GB of ram needed on that platform made it too expensive. At the time I priced it out, and the 920 and ram was cheaper for the X58 platform. The mobo was more expensive on the X58 though, but not by much. I went with a mature X58 system instead and have not looked back since. Running 6GB of ram on it, and an OC to 4.0GHZ on water. TPF is 31:00-32:00. I would go with an X58 rig.
Hmmnn, 3.6 on -smp 8 and you're only getting 38.00 TPF I'm running mine @ 3.5 Chris and I get between 35.00-36.00 TPF and my other rig is at 3.8 and I get 34.00 TPF. I'm running the 7 core ones. This is the "optimal" setting if you can achieve this clock and keep it stable (which for a 920 D0 stepping is very doable).
That is my main rig. At any given time, the rig is also folding two GTX 285s, running various apps, recording television, etc.


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November 28, 2012
St. Olaf College is included in the recently published version of Colleges That Change Lives, a guidebook written by New York Times education editor Loren Pope and revised by Hilary Masell Oswald that promises an in-depth look at 40 colleges that "prepare you for life and all the things life comprises."
The revised edition praises the college's popular study-abroad programs, renowned Music Department, and robust science and math programs. The authors also note that St. Olaf ranks 11th among four-year colleges in the number of graduates who go on to earn doctoral degrees and boasts a medical school acceptance rate of about 80 percent.
Pope and Oswald discuss St. Olaf's unique and rigorous curriculum, highlighting its four Conversations programs. The authors call the Conversations "a hallmark of a St. Olaf education — and a shining beacon of what liberal learning ought to be," and note that the programs "give an added layer of life to an already vivacious campus."
The book is equally enthusiastic about St. Olaf students themselves, saying that "they're self-assured but not pretentious or cocky. They'd probably cringe at the word 'wholesome,' but it's apt: Students display a genuineness that teeters on the edge of wholesomeness."


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Why Lewis and Clark Matter
Amid all the hoopla, it's easy to lose sight of the expedition's true significance
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As the Lewis and Clark bicentennial approaches—the Corps of Discovery set out from CampDubois at the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers on May 14, 1804—all the signs of a great cultural-historical wallow are in place. Hundreds of Lewis and Clark books are flooding the market—everything from The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition to Gary Moulton's magnificent 13-volume edition of the expedition's journals, to cookbooks, coloring books and trail guides. A gift catalog from Thomas Jefferson's Monticello offers stuffed versions of a prairie dog, a bison and a Newfoundland dog made to look like Seaman, the animal that accompanied Lewis on the trip. You can even order dolls of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Sacagawea and York "with detailed removable clothing."
There are Corps of Discovery television documentaries, an IMAX movie and dozens upon dozens of Internet Web sites. There are Lewis and Clark conferences, museum exhibitions and trail rides. Last summer Harley-Davidson motorcycle riders drove parts of the trail. When Harley hogs discover Lewis and Clark, you know something big is going on!
Now I would be the last person to dump mashed potatoes on all of this; after all, I've written four books about the expedition. Much of this bicentennial celebration is good, clean family fun that's both informative and entertaining. But in all this hoopla I fear that we may miss the underlying significance of the Lewis and Clark story and the chance to connect these early explorers to the larger and richer stories of our past. On the road with Thomas Jefferson's Corps of Discovery, or even standing alongside the trail as they pass by, we meet ourselves, and more important, we meet people who are not ourselves.
Lewis and Clark were not the first white men to cross the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific north of Mexico. (Scottish fur trader Alexander Mackenzie crossed Canada a decade earlier.) Nor did they visit places not already seen and mapped by generations of native people. You could even say that Lewis and Clark began the American invasion of the West, which aimed at making it safe for cows, corn and capital at the expense of bison, prairie grasses and cultures not fitting the expansionist agenda. If we want to be hard edged, we could even make a case that the Lewis and Clark story is a mainstay of the same shelf-worn narrative that glorifies and justifies the American conquest and dispossession of the North America natives. (Textbook history often portrays Lewis and Clark as the vanguard of America's triumphant westward expansion, a movement that brought civilization and progress to a savage wilderness.) But it does seem to me that there are several reasons why Lewis and Clark do matter—and why we are so drawn to them.
First, what happened to the Corps is a great story, brimming with energy and full of forward motion. In extraordinary settings, a remarkable cast of characters encountered adversity of epic proportions and struggled through one adventure after another.
American novelist Willa Cather once noted that there are only two or three great human stories—and that we are destined to keep repeating them over and over again. One of these is the journey. Some of the oldest Indian stories are about journeys. There are the journeys of Africans and Europeans coming to North America, settlers pushing west by way of the Oregon Trail and the transcontinental railroad, and Chinese women and men traveling from places such as Shanghai and Guangdong Province to California, Idaho and Wyoming. Journeys took—and continue to take—Spanish-speaking men and women to El Norte. In the 20th century, the journeys of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban, industrial North re-made the racial, cultural and political map of the United States.
We are a people in motion, whether on the Trail of Tears, Route 66 or the Interstate System. From Jack Kerouac to Willie Nelson, the lure of the road and the promise of the journey still hold us. And it was Lewis and Clark who gave us our first great national road story.
Second, the Lewis and Clark expedition resonates because it's not just a white man's army, but rather a group of people from many different racial, ethnic, cultural and social backgrounds—a human community as diverse as any in America today. Consider York, William Clark's slave and fellow adventurer, or Pierre Cruzatte, the one-eyed fiddle player, who was part French and part Omaha Indian. There was German-born Pvt. John Potts, a miller by trade and a soldier most likely by necessity. Here is Sacagawea, a Shoshone woman who spent formative years with the Hidatsa Indians, and Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, a child of mixed Shoshone-French ancestry. Imagine the sounds around the campfire: William Clark's Virginia-Kentucky drawl, Sgt. John Ordway's New Hampshire inflections, George Drouillard's Shawnee-flavored French, and the cries and first words of Jean Baptiste, the baby born to Sacagawea on the trip. This is the crazy quilt that was and is America.
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We discussed the breaking news on godaddy.com.
Outages hacker from -- not -- -- upset.
-- is hacking groups get a life people but.
Anonymous is the group -- it is claiming responsibility so how do you protect yourself and your business your credit card numbers and your Social Security numbers often attached to all of this.
My next guest helps large companies safely store and transport your information.
Joining us now -- a Fox Business exclusive from Stanford California proof points CEO.
Gary Steele.
-- but I know what's breaking news and and I don't mean to get any real detail from you on this but he had the picture at 30000 feet -- announced that it had been hacked.
That information had been compromised about its customers.
What does this look like -- this anonymous group are these the newest threat that's out there.
You know I think -- that one thing that we see in a threat landscape today as it's much more malicious is much more targeted.
And it's really affect city organizations around the world.
I think there's sag -- at example -- a perfect example of what we see what we're talking to clients about the threats that are committed to their environs.
It's what happens when this happens to GoDaddy or in the past say for example Sony or any other company that's been compromised as people say I'm out.
I'm pulling my information I don't want you people to have that you couldn't protect -- so that really -- the bottom line doesn't it.
You know I think that it it definitely draws a level of skepticism about storing your data outside.
Your company walls.
But in reality.
The challenge that a company has is they've got a match that kind of security that these these organizations are putting forth.
And it's not just these visible ones where.
Individual -- -- in the cloud it's also companies have to think about this internally with their own operation how -- they protect their -- What what is the most common mistake that companies and people make when it comes to cyber security.
I think frankly the most common mistake is people don't think about where they store their -- they don't have a level of scrutiny your review of of where they put their data and therefore.
They are at risk and they do have exposure.
Well okay so every Tom I'd buy something on no website -- don't -- -- gap stores whatever they say do you want us to save your password and and usually I was look for the Verisign stamp -- because.
That the past has made me feel pretty good about this but it is that enough or should I not say don't hold my password.
You know I think that in general I think if you're buying from.
Reputable retailers.
You're in good shape if you gave -- at some level scrutiny on the side I think if you're buying from people you never worked with before you have no experience with that.
I think you should be more cautious.
And the number one thing we tell people is really know where data is going and do you trust.
That organization with this sensitive with a sensitive data.
One of the things you're known for is that you very much leverage cloud computing protection.
And it seems that everybody's going into the cloud how do you do what you do over proof point and why should companies migrate to you vs one of your competitors out there.
Whether its day in -- McAfee which is now -- by Intel.
-- a great question so what we focus on as we leverage cloud computing to be able to very -- really identify and pinpoint threats coming into.
Our customers environment and there's a lot of things that we can do because -- in the cloud to process billions of points of data to look for anomalies and then be able to.
Very effectively.
Block threats that could -- coming dad and what is differentiated proof point in -- driven many of our.
I'll large customers to organization is the fact that we continue it continue to innovate at a -- very rapid rate.
We're way ahead what -- traditionally seen in the -- threat landscape and what were focused on is helping our customers.
Protect the most -- able data and protect them from these very targeted very malicious attacks that are coming in these -- We've got to go but -- in the past it was worms and viruses today tomorrow what are we need to worry about.
That number one thing to worry about today and tomorrow is focused attacks on organizations where the hackers know exactly who they're going out there.
It's directed at the organization -- -- Obama sensitive data.
Watch out everybody in plug those holes quickly proof point helps to do it Gary Steele -- the CEO thank you so much Gary good to see you.
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Snow in the desert. And today Kerry made global warming his top objective as Sec. of State. LOL.
Golf season doesn´t start until The Masters.
Where is global warming when you need it? It was absent last weekend in DC also.
So much for my NO MO SNO license plates. But I´ve gotta admit it´s bee yoo tee flu on the golf courses and saguaro cactus
It´s awesome!https://twitter.com/ErisaNakano/status/304368685039112192/photo/1Salt River Fields where the Diamondbacks hold spring training. About ten miles north of my house. Next weekend it will probably be 85 and sunny. Climate change is brutal.
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For: My Best for the Kingdom: John Lowe Butler, A Mormon Frontiersman
My Best for the Kingdom, William G. Hartley's recent biography of Mormon convert John Lowe Butler (1808-1860), has all the trappings of historical treatise: forty-nine pages of notes, an index, and over five hundred items of bibliography. But it differs from the historical norm in its text: with verve and dash, Hartley bodies forth one of Mormonism's ordinary men living an extraordinary life. His lively, almost colloquial style, matching the never-quiet life of an unexceptional pioneer, makes us participants in the everyday pioneer Mormon experience. For this he deserves a prize in life writing.
Writing a life is an impossibility comprised half of documentary evidence, half of intuition, and half of devil-may-care daring with words. Quoting generously from a ninety-nine page handwritten autobiography, Hartley brings his subject into our world, lets us know him, his fears, hopes, disappointments, failings, and faith. When near the end of his short life Butler proclaims "I have done my best to help roll forth the Kingdom of God," we understand what that meant, and mourn his untimely death. Hartley has made him our neighbor, friend, brother. We applaud his achievement.


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Article abstract: The beginning of the women's rights movement and the fight for woman suffrage.
Summary of Event
The Women's Rights Convention assembled in Seneca Falls, New York, July 19-20, 1848, is widely held to be the beginning of the women's rights movement in the United States. Organized and led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Coffin Mott, its attendees approved the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions written by Stanton. The ninth of its twelve resolutions, and the only seriously challenged resolution, called for woman suffrage.
The Seneca Falls Convention had its origins in 1840, when Mott and Stanton met in London, England, during the World Anti-Slavery Convention. Mott and her husband, James, active Quakers and supporters of abolition, were delegates to the convention, as was Henry Brewster Stanton, Elizabeth's husband. The convention, perhaps fortuitously for the women's rights movement, determined to exclude women from the floor of delegates. Although Stanton and Mott were upset by this action, their exclusion from the conference provided Stanton with the opportunity for extended conversations with Mott, who was twenty-two years her senior and an experienced and dedicated reformer. They determined that, upon their return to the United States, they would call a convention to consider the status of women.
Eight years passed before their London decision became a...
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Seneca Falls Convention (West's Encyclopedia of American Law)
The Seneca Falls Convention, which took place in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, was the first national women's rights convention and a pivotal event in the continuing story of U.S. and women's rights.
The idea for the convention occurred in London in 1840 when ELIZABETH CADY STANTON and Lucretia Mott, who were attending a meeting of the World Anti-Slavery Society, were denied the opportunity to speak from the floor or to be seated as delegates. Mott and Stanton left the hall where the meeting was taking place and began to discuss the fact that while they were trying to secure rights for enslaved African Americans, American women found themselves treated unequally in numerous ways. They concluded that what was needed was a national convention in which women could take steps to secure equal rights with men. Although they agreed that the need for such a convention was a pressing one, they were not to take action on their plan for several years.
Both Stanton and Mott were progressive leaders who had been active in reform movements. Mott, a former teacher who had grown up in Boston, had become interested in women's rights when she discovered that because she was female, she was earning a salary that was exactly half that of male teachers. In 1811 she married fellow teacher James Mott and moved to Philadelphia. She became a member of the Society of Friends (also known as...
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Seneca Falls Convention (American History Through Literature)
A touchstone moment and fulcrum point of both literal and symbolic significance, the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 is considered to have begun the organized first wave of the feminist movement in America. The nineteenth-century women's rights movement focused women's discontent about their social and legal situations and introduced the imperative of political change.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815902), the most important philosopher among the women's rights advocates in the nineteenth-century United States, was born into a conservative family. She married an abolitionist lecturer, Henry Brewster Stanton (1805887), in 1840, and together they attended the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London during their honeymoon. The movement for gaining women's right to vote can be dated back to that event, for the refusal to allow women delegates to participate challenged the activist women "to confront their own oppression," according to the historian Judith Wellman (p. 63). And it was in London that Elizabeth Stanton met the Quaker minister Lucretia Mott (1793880), who was to become one of Stanton's most important mentors.
After Elizabeth Stanton moved to the village of Seneca Falls, New York, in 1847, she and Lucretia Mott determined to hold a local convention to discuss women's rights. The necessary cultural conditions had been arising during public discussion about the implications of changing the laws against women's ownership of property. New York passed its first Married Women's Property Act in April 1848, allowing married women to control and acquire property legally. The stage was also set by events in June 1848, including the creation of a new group called the Congregational Friends, started by adherents of the Quaker faith in nearby Waterloo, New York, and by the formation of the Free-Soil Party, which sought to eliminate slavery in the United States western territories.
As the lives of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Henry Stanton demonstrate, the women's rights movement is linked significantly with the abolition cause. But it is not merely that women compared their oppression with that of slaves and used the metaphor of "slavery," because women also learned through participation in the antislavery movement how to turn their perceptions of injustice into a widespread political movement. As Ellen Du Bois explains, abolitionism provided women "with a way to escape clerical authority, an egalitarian ideology, and a theory of social change" (p. 32). When abolitionism grew beyond its evangelical origins and began challenging institutional Protestant religion, William Lloyd Garrison (1805879), editor of The Liberator, emphasized whites' and blacks' common, shared humanity. Abolitionist feminists applied this concept to women, and the philosophy that "women were essentially human and only incidentally female liberated them from the necessity of justifying their own actions in terms of what was appropriate to women's sphere" (Du Bois, p. 36). Furthermore, the Seneca Falls Convention shows that the emphasis on overcoming public apathy by raising and agitating sentiment about one's cause was a prominent method among advocates of both abolition and women's rights.
Although the first announcement appeared only eight days before the meeting, approximately three hundred people attended the Seneca Falls Convention, held at the Wesleyan Chapel of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, an abolitionist denomination, on 20 and 21 July 1848. The object of the meeting, as stated in their public call, was to discuss "the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women." Women and men gave speeches, read aloud and discussed the content of the Declaration of Sentiments, made some revisions, and approved the document. The Declaration of Sentiments was a rewriting of the Preamble of the U.S. Declaration of Independence to declare men and women equal and to criticize the specific "injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman."
Signing continued on both days of the convention, but the reasons that only one-third of the persons present signed the document remain unknown. For
Many other conventions, regional and national, followed this first convention, and national women's rights organizations were also formed. It is valuable to remember that these early women's rights activists had to teach themselves how to be instigators of a rebellion because their lives of domesticity had not trained them for such civic participation. Female friendships were thus an essential resource of the movement. Among the more supportive and enduring activist friendships was the relationship begun in 1851 between Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (1820906), who is considered to have been the most effective recruiter and organizer of the women's rights advocates.
With the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1920, giving women the right to vote, some people heralded the completed success of the goals motivating the Seneca Falls Convention. But more leaders believed that the work of feminism's "second wave" was just beginning and that there was much more work to do for achieving women's equality. There is no consensus on whether full parity has been achieved by the early twenty-first century.
Without dramatizing the event itself, creative literature throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century regularly addressed the concerns expressed at the Seneca Falls Convention. Exploring what women's "rights" should be provided the conflicts
James Fenimore Cooper (1789851), author of the Leatherstocking series of books, including The Last of the Mohicans (1826), reacted against the tide of support for women's rights. Cooper's The Ways of the Hour (1850) expresses his disagreement with New York's Married Women's Property Act, which he feared would bring chaos and destroy families. Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte (E. D. E. N.) Southworth (1819899) much more favorably addressed property laws and women's rights in The Discarded Daughter; or, The Children of the Isle, serialized during 1851 and 1852. Yet Southworth is best known for establishing a new type of heroine: the adventurous young woman who defies gender restrictions, struggles for the people and causes she loves, and outwits villainy, often while disguised as male. Southworth's most famous character is "Capitola the Madcap" from The Hidden Hand, a serialized tale that became a best-selling novel in 1888. Capitola performs typically masculine feats, such as rescuing a woman from a forced marriage, fighting a duel, and capturing a criminal and determining his just retribution. Another popular Southworth adventure novel, serialized under the title Britomarte, the Man-Hater (1865866), includes a heroine who is an outspoken women's rights activist. The literary critic Karen Tracey explains how Southworth used the "double-proposal plot" structure with a renegotiation of marriage customs to show that "the political and the personal are intertwined" (p. 133) and that women deserved the additional responsibilities they proved they could manage during the Civil War. The novel was republished as two books with milder titles, Fair Play; or, the Test of the Lone Isle (1868) and How He Won Her: A Sequel to "Fair Play" (1869), emphasizing the romantic endings.
Laura Curtis Bullard (1831912), a novelist and journalist, publicly promoted universal suffrage and reforms to improve women's lives, but her experimental novels reached comparatively few popular readers. In Christine; or, Woman's Trials and Triumphs (1856), the heroine initially rejects marriage and devotes herself to women's rights but ultimately combines marriage with her career in lecturing, writing about feminist issues, and training professional women workers. In 1870 Bullard took over the editorship of the Revolution, a feminist periodical begun by Anthony and Stanton to publish fiction and nonfiction on behalf of women's rights.
Henry James's novel The Bostonians (1886) features characters advocating women's rights, including a charismatic young public speaker romantically pursued by a southern man who believes women belong only in the private sphere of the home; he ultimately removes her from the activist community, keeping her from the lecture stage. Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's (1804864) The Scarlet Letter (1850) may be the quintessential American heroine, a character bringing unity to the fragmented women's roles in antebellum America and dreaming of a revolution in religious interpretation and relations between men and women. Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance (1852) severely critiques feminists and reformers, but his creation of memorable and complex female characters contributes to his stature as one of America's most important authors.
Humorists were also inspired by the beginnings of feminism. In 1855 George Pickering Burnham's History of the Hen Fever: A Humorous Record in part parodied the women's rights movement. Newspapers also responded immediately with ridicule of the Seneca Falls Convention, which, added to family pressures, caused many signers of the original Declaration of Sentiments to withdraw their names if not their agreement. Softening her social commentary with comedy, Sara Payson Willis Parton (1811872), known as Fanny Fern, used her novel Ruth Hall (1855) and a weekly newspaper column from 1853 to 1872 to satirize social problems, lampoon male tyranny, and demand economic independence for women. From the 1870s to the early twentieth century, the satirist Marietta Holley (1836926) used the persona of Samantha, "Josiah Allen's wife," to endorse the causes of feminism and women's suffrage.
See also Abolitionist Writing; Declaration of Sentiments; Female Authorship; Feminism; Friendship; History; Marriage; Quakers; Reform; Suffrage
Primary Works
Bullard, Laura Curtis. Christine; or, Woman's Trials and Triumphs. New York: DeWitt and Davenport, 1856.
Burnham, George Pickering. The History of the Hen Fever: A Humorous Record. Boston: James French, 1855.
Fern, Fanny [Sara Payson Willis Parton]. Ruth Hall, a Domestic Tale of the Present Time. 1855. Introduction and notes by Susan Belasco Smith. New York: Penguin, 1997.
Southworth, E. D. E. N. Fair Play; or, The Test of the Lone Isle. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, 1868.
Southworth, E. D. E. N. How He Won Her: A Sequel to "Fair Play." Philadelpha: T. B. Peterson, 1869.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815897. 1898. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.
Secondary Works
Bardes, Barbara, and Suzanne Gossett. Declarations of Independence: Women and Political Power in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1990.
Du Bois, Ellen Carol. Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848869. 1978. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999.
Reynolds, David S. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. New York: Knopf, 1988.
Tracey, Karen. Plots and Proposals: American Women's Fiction, 18500. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
Wellman, Judith. The Road to Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Women's Rights Convention. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.
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Source: American History Through Literature, ©2006 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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Source: West's Encyclopedia of American Law, ©2005 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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Helen's Cottage
Maine summerhouses never really get new owners.
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In the 1970s my parents bought a Maine summer cottage from a tiny bird of a woman named Helen. She was the type of maverick that the coast of Maine is still lucky to attract, a stalwart who loved the land and lived alone, deep in the woods, without running water or electricity every summer of her life until she died there.
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The year was 1900 when the camp opened for business and the city boys who Helen's father taught in New York began making the pilgrimage north. Helen inherited the camp and began to rename things. The dorm became the Waldorf. The house Helen lived in all those summers as a director's daughter became known as the Castle.
I can tell you all this because I got to meet Helen in a series of Sundays back in 1978 while she decided if my parents and my brother and sister and I were up to snuff. That is to say, were we the right flavor of Mainers to sell her camp to?
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"Long-stemmed American Rose" was the full name she gave my mother. Sometimes she just called my Mom, "Rose," for short. Helen explained she couldn't sell the place to a mother named Thorne. "Too prickly," she said. "Too hard."
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November 4, 2011
Dear Campus Community,
With budget cuts come rumors, and one in particular has caught our attention. The question has apparently been raised about closing one or more of the State's regional, formally known as "branch", campuses; i.e., UW Bothell and WSU Tri-Cities.
The upcoming special Legislative session, which will begin the end of this month, will focus on an additional $2 billion cut to State agencies. The Governor's proposal includes an additional reduction to higher education in the range of 15 to 18 percent.
Let me reassure you that this is brainstorming comment and not unusual at this stage of budget development and in this kind of severe budget situation . President Floyd has been adamant that he will not entertain the possibility of closing WSU Tri-Cities, WSU Vancouver, or WSU Spokane.
Please remember that there are many reasons WSU Tri-Cities exists:
We are the only public four-year university serving south central Washington, with an important role in economic development.
We are the most diverse campus in the WSU system, serving a student population that would not otherwise have access to higher education.
We have strong partnerships with our community — from TRIDEC to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory — and we have strong advocates in leadership positions throughout the state.
$5.7 million
* of our $15.2 million operating budget comes from the state. Closing our campus might sound penny-wise to a few, but it definitely would be pound-foolish for the entire state.
You can learn more about the budget situation from the following:
President Floyd's response to the governor's proposed budget (Oct. 27)
KING 5 News: "Branch campus cuts won't fix budget crisis, universities say." (Nov. 1)
WSU Budget Office for financial details
WSU Government Relations, for Legislative updates
Potential budget cuts are unsettling and distracting. I want to personally thank each of you for your dedication to your jobs and to our campus in these uncertain economic times. I know you will continue to work hard to serve the needs of our community, and most importantly, the needs of our students here at WSU Tri-Cities.
This number was updated November 4 at 5 p.m.
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