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Alvin's Draft/Matic fine-line mechanical pencils are designed to provide the maximum professional convenience. This cushion pointed pencil has metal diamond-cut finger grips at top and bottom.
A push button cap provides continuous feed of up to 12 leads and also conceals a built-in eraser. A rotating window indicates the degree of hardness of the lead being used. A 4 mm guide tube supports the lead and assures accuracy with even the thickest straightedges.
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Draftmatic .07 mechanical pencil
By Brad
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Comments about Alvin Draft/Matic Pencil:
I use this pencil daily. It's bery sturdy and has an excellent knurled grip design. Greatproduct at a great value. Thanks guys!
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Excellent mechanical pencil
By MSR
from OK
This is probably the best mechanical pencil for the price. It is a great, traditional style well built pencil.
best mechanical pencil ever!
By architect
from WI
I have been using my .5mm daily for the past 18 years and needed a few .7 mm. This is the only pencil I use. They perform beautifully!
Love my Alvin Draft/Matic!
By BaileyBPortraits
from Bakersfield, CA
I am an artist and illustrator and I like to use a variety of media and this is my favorite graphite tool. I prefer the 0.3mm pencil since it is awesome for very detailed work! it is a must have in my artist stockpile.
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By Mike @ MyTFineLeather
from Orange, Texas
Use them in my leather crafting for drawing and tracing patterns. They are outstanding.
High Quality Pencil
By Ivan
from Lancaster PA
Thanks for a high quality pencil.
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My new Favorite Pencil
By Jay
from Texas
I ordered the .7, and now Ive ordered the rest of them. I absolutely LOVE these mechanical pencils. Replaced my old Sakura127. They're balanced and just the right weight for my hands. The eraser ran out quickly for me but the end is big enough to wear i could stick a cap eraser on it and keep on sketching. Im looking forward to getting the other point sizes!!
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By Ramon
from Charlotte, NC
Good Product for a cheap price, Thanks
draft/matic alvin lead pencils are amazing! (:
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what can I say these pencils are simply amazing from the touch and feel to the weight and size i will never go back to any other lead pencil.i personally purchased all four and i must add well worth the price.If your serious about drawing and drafting these pencils are definitely the way to go.Theyll put a smile on your face no joke.
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The best pencil ever!
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I did a lot of research when looking to buy a mechanical pencil and read a lot of reviews. I am very pleased with this pencil and look to purchase a .5 in the future. It weight of it feels just right in my hand, not to flimsy and cheap. I had a very difficult time trying to find a decent pencil, let alone one with a 0.3mm lead in Canada and purchased this one sight unseen. It's wonderful and I use it all of the time!
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This week on the two hour season premiere of America's Got Talent on NBC we saw some of the best talent yet complete with electricity charged juggling. The talent was so massive that the show got off to a great start in the ratings, and if you missed any of it, rest assured we have video highlights below for you! Keep reading for all the details!
America's Got Talent got off to a great start on Tuesday night as the show improved 17 percent in the adults 18-48 demographic with a 4.2 rating, and saw a 21 percent boost in total viewers, averaging 15 million viewers. The second hour of the show was actually the most watched hour (16.6 million) on Tuesday night overall. The two hour season premiere along with the one hour showing of The Voice were enough to put NBC in the number spot on Tuesday evening in terms of total viewers, but it placed second in the demographics after ABC, which broadcast the NBA Finals.
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Eating Disorder Treatment Centers in Mississippi
Eating Disorder Hope has put together a list of Mississippi eating disorders treatment centers to help you or your loved one find the best eating disorder program for your situation.
Choosing a treatment center for an eating disorder can be one of the most important decisions you will ever make. A well-planned treatment program supported by a dedicated treatment team and on-site medical supervision can make the difference between continued struggles from anorexia, bulimia, or binge eating disorder, or the start of recovery.
Our treatment center directory provides detailed information about each of these MS eating disorder centers and will quickly tell you:
- Name, Location & Contact Information of the treatment center
- Treatment Level- The levels of care provided by the listed eating disorder clinic:
- Residential Treatment
- Hospital / Inpatient Treatment
- Non-residential treatment for eating disorders
- Commonly referred to as Partial Hospitalization Programs (PHP) or Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP), they may be located at a residential eating disorder treatment center or an inpatient hospital
- Types of Patients Served-
- Adolescents and / or Adults,
- Men and / or Women
- Therapies available- The core eating disorder therapies the facility uses; CBT, Medical Nutrition Therapy, DBT, etc.
- Treatment for Co-Occurring Disorders- Does the eating disorder center treat co-occurring disorders like depression, substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety disorders or bipolar disorder?
- Payment Options- Whether insurance is accepted, and if Medicare / Medicaid are allowed
While most information in the eating disorders treatment center directory is provided by the facility, Eating Disorder Hope staff may augment the listings with additional detail when we deem it beneficial. Responsibility for the accuracy of the listing remains with the treatment provider.
Sponsoring Eating Disorder Centers
|Patient Types Served
Timberline Knolls Residential Treatment Center
40 Timberline Drive
Lemont, IL 60439
Phone: 877-217-7456
Email: email@example.com
Website: Timberline Knolls
|Adults / Adolescents / Children
Female Only
|Couples Therapy, Family Therapy, Group Therapy, DBT, CBT, Art therapy, Nutritional Counseling, Prescription Medication, Support Groups, Individual Therapy, Medical Care
|Accepted, in-network with multiple providers
Medicare/Medicaid Accepted: No
Rosewood Centers for Eating Disorders
36075 S. Rincon Rd.
Wickenburg, AZ 85390
Phone: 844-846-3705
Website: Rosewood Centers for Eating Disorders
|Inpatient, RTC, PHP, IOP, Transitional Living, Detox, Acute Care
|Adults / Adolescents Male & Female
|Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Nutrition Services: Meal / Nutrition Planning, Mindful Eating Group, Psychodrama
|Aetna, Cigna, United Health Care, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Value Options, First Health Network and other providers
Rosewood Santa Monica
2121 Cloverfield Boulevard, Suite 131
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Phone: 844-799-4904
Website: Rosewood Santa Monica
|Adolescent Programs, Extended Day Treatment,
Partial Day Treatment, IOP, Three Levels of Transitional Living Homes
|Adults / Adolescents
Male & Female
Body Image Groups, Addiction & Psycho-Education, Meal Planning/Nutritional Education, Relapse Prevention, Gentle & Mindful Eating Groups,
Multi-Family Therapy Groups, Collaborative Environment
|Most major insurance policies accepted, Full and partial private pay options available
McCallum Place
231 W. Lockwood Ave. Ste 201
St.Louis, MO 63119
Phone: 314-968-1900
Fax: 314-968-1901
Website: McCallum Place
|Residential, Transional Living, PHP, IOP, Aftercare, Outpatient
|Adults / Adolescents
Male & Female
|CBT, DBT, Experiential,
Expressive, Art, Pet assisted,
|Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna, Mercy, Anthem Blue
Medicare/Medicaid Accepted: No
Sierra Tucson
39580 S Lago Del Oro Pkwy
Tucson, AZ 85739
Website: Sierra Tucson
|Residential, Transional Living, PHP, IOP, Aftercare, Outpatient
Male & Female
|CBT, Medical Nutrition Therapy, DBT, etc.: Yes, Evidence Based Therapies as well as Integrative Therapies
|Insurance accepted.
No Medicare/Medicaid
River Centre Clinic
5465 Main Street
Sylvania, OH 43560
Phone: 1-800-957-4802
Fax: 419-885-8600
Email: email@example.com
Website: River Centre Clinic
|Residential, PHP
|Adults / Adolescents / Children
Male & Female
|Couples Therapy, Family Therapy, Group Therapy
Nutritional Counseling, Prescription Medication, Maudsley Therapy, DBT, CBT, Support Groups, Individual Therapy, Medical Care
|Accepted, in-network with multiple providers
Medicare/Medicaid Accepted: No
Canopy Cove Eating Disorder Treatment Center
13305 Mahan Drive, Tallahassee, Florida 32309
Phone: 800-236-7524
Email: email@example.com
Website: Canopy Cove
|Residential, Partial Hospitalization, Intensive Outpatient
|Adults / Adolescents
Male & Female
|CBT, Individual, Group, Equine-Assisted Therapy, Art, Music, Expressive Therapies, Family Education, Family Therapy, Spirituality, Nutrition
|Accepted, in-network with multiple providers
Remuda Ranch
1245 Jack Burden Road
Wickenburg, AZ 85390
Phone: 866-390-5100
Email: email@example.com
Website: Remuda Ranch
|Acute, Residential, Transitional
|Adults / Adolescents / Children Female Only
|Family, Group, Individual, Nutrition, Experiential, Equine, Primary Care, Art, Body Movement, Culinary, DBT, CBT, ACT, ERP
|Accepted, in-network with multiple providers
Medicare/Medicaid Accepted: No
Rebecca's House
23792 Rockfield Blvd Ste 100
Lake Forest, CA 92630
Phone: 800-711-2062
Website: Rebecca's House
|Extended Care Treatment, Partial Day Treatment, PHP, IOP, Recovery Living
|Adults / Adolescents
Male & Female
|EMDR, DBT, CBT, Individual, Couples, Family, Group, Art, Equine Therapies, Prescription Medication, Support Groups, Spirituality, Nutrition and Expressive Therapies
|Accepted, in-network with multiple providers
Eating Disorder Centers in MS
|Name / Info
|Treatment Level
|Patient Types Served
|Therapies Available
|A Bridge To Recovery
361 Towne Center Blvd
Suite 1300
Ridgeland, MS 39157
Website: A Bridge To Recovery
|IOP, Outpatient
|Adults / Adolescents
Male and Female
|Individual Therapy, Family Therapy, Group Therapy
|COPAC, Inc.
3949 Highway 43 North
Brandon, MS 39047
Website: COPAC Inc.
|IOP, Residential
|Adults / Adolescents
Male and Female
|Individual Therapy, Family Therapy, Group Therapy, Equine Therapy, Adventure Based Therapy
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Page last updated: October 31, 2012
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Morgan Neville's Sundance entry "Twenty Feet From Stardom" and Josh Fox's "Gasland Part II" will kick off the SummerDocs Series at the Hamptons International Film Festival. Beginning June 15th in East Hampton, the four-part SummerDocs series will feature a guest appearance from Darlene Love as well as series presenter Alec Baldwin.
Love, a pop music singer from the 1960s who's featured in "Twenty Feet From Stardom," is set to perform after the film's screening at Guild Hall. Neville's film also features Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, Sheryl Crow, Bette Midler, Lou Adler as well as the musicians the film focuses on -- the backups. "Twenty Feet From Stardom" was the opening night film at Sundance where it was met with a rapturous response. RADiUS-TWC, who acquired the North American rights to the film, recently released a trailer and poster for the film, which is set for a June 14th release.
The original "Gasland" premiered at Sundance in 2010 and went on to earn an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary, thus making its sequel a rather hot ticket. While still focusing on the dangers of fracking, "Gasland II" broadens its view on the the damaging impact of natural gas drilling to a much larger scale. The sequel earned solid reviews after its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, but has yet to be given an air date by HBO. Baldwin will return as host for the July 5th screening in East Hampton.
"From Morgan Neville's moving portrait of the singers that provide the backbone for much of our beloved music, to Josh Fox's searing exploration of a topic so important to our planet's future, we continue to highlight the breadth of subject and style in contemporary documentary film," said David Nugent, Artistic Director of The Hamptons International Film Festival.
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On Aug. 20, 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization drive of Alexander Dubcek's regime.
In 1833, Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio.
In 1866, President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over, months after the fighting had stopped.
In 1914, German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War I.
In 1918, Britain opened its offensive on the Western front during World War I.
In 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force, saying, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
In 1955, hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria.
In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure.
In 1977, the U.S. launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature.
Today's Birthdays: Writer-producer-director Walter Bernstein is 82. Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, is 68. Singer-musician Isaac Hayes is 59. Broadcast journalist Connie Chung is 55. Musician Jimmy Pankow (Chicago) is 54.
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Scranton a pit stop for bicyclists raising money against cancer
More than 300 bicyclists passed through Northeast Pennsylvania this week on their way to upstate New York as part of a 180-mile trek to battle cancer in children.
The Hilton Scranton and Conference Center was an overnight pit stop, said Elazar Kaufman, of the Lakewood, New Jersey,-based charity, Chai Lifeline.
"We do this for kids with cancer," Mr. Kaufman said outside the downtown Scranton hotel Thursday morning.
Since its inception five years ago, Bike4Chai, an offshoot of the charity, has raised more than $4 million. The effort grew from one bicyclist, Dovid Egert, who raised $10,000 for Chai Lifeline in 2009, by making the trip from Lakewood.
The annual trip grew to 50 bicyclists the following year and continued to pick up steam each year after that, Mr. Kaufman said.
The trip ends at Camp Simcha in Glen Spey, New York, where ill children have fun playing sports, swimming, boating and enjoying other summertime activities.
Bicyclists began the trip Wednesday and biked to Scranton mainly on back roads that cut a swath through the Poconos. They stayed overnight in Scranton and left early Thursday to start the journey to New York state.
Organizing the trip is a logistical challenge, Mr. Kaufman said. They notify dozens of police departments of their route and take care to keep the riders safe.
"It's was not easy to pull off, but we pulled it off," Mr. Kaufman said.
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I'm planning on building a cyclocross bike and have a budget of about £1k (I think about $1.8k, if stuff is only avaliable in the U.S. I'll be able to get it shipped over). I'll probably base it around a kinesis 4t because I hear it's a good quality entry level frame (although I have been considering getting a really nice frame and doing a single speed).
I really don't know what to build on to it though. I hear that tiagra stuff is good for cyclocorss because of mud shedding abilitys (and also it's pretty cheap). Is this true or are there better alternatives.
I'm probably going to have just one ring at the front because previously when I've ridden double bikes I never use the very top gears (I find it easier to just spin faster) or the very bottom gears (I find it easier to just power through), so I figure having the extra 2 rings is just adding pointless weight. Should I put bashguards either side and if so how would I go about constructing this. Do I start off with a triple and just replace the top and bottom rings with bash guards? If I'm doing this would it be better to try and get the crank arms and everything serperate so I don't waste money on chain rings I don't need?
Seat post is defiantly going to be carbon. Handlebars and stuff I can probably sort out for myself but if anyone has any recommendations they are very welcome.
Also what wheels would you recommend that would keep my bike inside that budget?
I'd like to save as much weight as possible whilst still keeping within my budget with this bike. I'd consider buying some of the stuff of ebay (nothing carbon, or the wheels, frame or saddle, just because I'd rather have those new so I'm certain of condition).
Any tips would be extremly useful if anyone else has built up their own cross bike (I know quite a few of you out there have).
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Investor Conference Call and Webcast on Friday, March 28, 2008 at 10:00 AM ET
Montreal, March 27, 2008 — TransForce Income Fund (TSX: TIF.UN) ("TransForce" or the
"Fund"), the leader in the Canadian transportation and logistics industry, today announced its
intention to convert from an income fund to a growth-oriented corporation (the "Reorganization").
The decision follows a review of financing alternatives by the Board of Trustees of TransForce, as
announced on February 28.
"TransForce remains fully committed to pursuing its growth strategy and continuing to lead the
consolidation of our industry. The flexibility of the corporate structure is better suited to achieving
our goals, given developments in the income fund sector," said TransForce Chairman, President and
CEO Alain Bédard. "We will be asking unitholders to approve the Reorganization at our annual
meeting in May"
The Fund investigated a number of restructuring alternatives subsequent to the announcement by
the federal Minister of Finance on October 31, 2006 regarding specified investment flow-through
trusts ("SIFTs") and the clarification updates that were provided on December 15, 2006, as well as
December 21, 2006 draft legislation. The government's announcements resulted in management
and the Board of TransForce conducting a review of the long-term strategic direction of the Fund.
They have determined that, as a trust, it would be increasingly difficult for TransForce to meet its
strategic objectives given: the higher cost of capital as a result of the new SIFT rules; a decline in
investor interest for trusts, which increasingly limits access to equity capital as 2011 approaches;
and limited financial flexibility due to TransForce's commitment as an income trust to distribute a
large portion of its cash flow to unitholders. Additionally, the Board and management of TransForce
believe that the value of TransForce's distribution payments is not being properly reflected in the
price of its trust units in comparison to other Canadian income funds.
Following the Reorganization, TransForce plans to reinvest a significant portion of its cash flow in
order to continue its disciplined consolidation of the transportation industry, as it has done for more
than 10 years. The Canadian transportation industry remains highly fragmented, with more than
70% of industry revenues of $55-billion generated by carriers with less than $25 million in annual
revenues, according to Statistics Canada. Additionally, the current operating environment provides
numerous attractive acquisition opportunities which TransForce believes can create significant value
for its securityholders. In addition to reinvesting its cash flow in growth opportunities, TransForce
may also use its excess free cash flow to reduce leverage over time and return capital to
shareholders through dividends and share repurchases under a normal course issuer bid.
"TransForce significantly benefited from its conversion from a corporation to an income trust in
2002. Since then, we have almost quadrupled our revenue to more than $2 billion (pro forma) and
we have successfully diversified our operations both geographically and across complementary
operating segments. This was achieved in large part through our successful acquisition strategy, as
we completed more than 75 acquisitions totaling revenue in excess of $1.0 billion over the period.
Additionally, we have created value for our unitholders by distributing approximately $8.00 per
unit, and have raised distributions 10 times", said Mr. Bédard.
"While we believe we must continue our successful consolidation strategy, our cost of capital and
access to equity capital markets have deteriorated following the Minister of Finance's announcement
on SIFTs, making the funding of our growth as a trust more difficult. Because we remain committed
to growth and see numerous attractive opportunities in the current market, we strongly believe that
the most suitable way to pursue our acquisition strategy and create value for our securityholders is
to retain a greater portion of our significant free cash flows, to better support and fund our
disciplined acquisition program and other growth opportunities in the new tax environment," added
Mr. Bédard. "The transportation market remains highly fragmented and we are in advanced
discussions regarding a number of highly strategic and complementary acquisition opportunities
totaling more than $100 million, in a number of our operating segments. These acquisitions could
be realized in the short term."
It is contemplated that the Reorganization will be completed pursuant to a plan of arrangement.
Holders of trust units of the Fund will exchange their trust units for common shares of a new
corporation, to be called "TransForce Inc.", on a one-for-one basis. Holders of "tracking shares" of
TFI Holdings Inc., an affiliated corporation, will exchange their shares for common shares of the
new corporation on the same one-for-one basis. This will result in approximately 86.8 million
common shares of TransForce Inc. being issued and outstanding after giving effect to the
Reorganization. TransForce Inc. will apply to the Toronto Stock Exchange for the listing of its
common shares and the Fund will seek the delisting of its units from the TSX upon completion of
the Reorganization.
The Reorganization is subject to receipt of all required court and regulatory approvals and approval
by at least 66 2/3% of the votes cast by securityholders of the Fund (unitholders and holders of
special voting units voting together as a single class) and by at least 66 2/3% of the votes cast by
shareholders of TFI Holdings Inc.
TransForce expects that an annual and special meeting of the Fund and a special meeting of TFI
Holdings Inc. at which the Reorganization will be considered will be held on May 12, 2008, and that
a management proxy circular statement will be mailed to unitholders of the Fund and shareholders
of TFI Holdings Inc. in early April.
Alain Bédard, Jolina Capital Inc. and trustees of TransForce, holding in the aggregate more than
20% of TransForce's outstanding units, have indicated that they will sign support agreements with
TransForce under which they will agree to vote in favour of the Reorganization.
The Board of Directors has unanimously concluded that the Reorganization is in the best interests of
TransForce and its securityholders, and has unanimously resolved to recommend that TransForce
securityholders vote their trust units and special voting units in favour of the Reorganization.
National Bank Financial Inc. and RBC Capital Markets are acting as financial advisors to TransForce
with respect to the Reorganization. They have provided opinions to the Board of Trustees that, as at
the date hereof, the consideration to be received by TransForce securityholders in connection with
the Reorganization is fair from a financial point of view.
The current economic and operating environment remains challenging as Canadian and U.S.
markets adjust to the significant changes in currency values and a slowdown in manufacturing
activity. While management see the marketplace remaining challenging for the balance of 2008,
TransForce benefits from its leadership position and diversification across geographic and operating segments.
In 2007, pro forma EBITDA and EPS as a corporation (adjusted to include the full contribution of
already-announced acquisitions) would have been approximately $280 million and $0.83,
respectively. Based on current business conditions, management expects EBITDA in 2008 to be in
line with 2007 pro forma EBITDA.
Furthermore, TransForce is considering various alternatives and is currently in discussions regarding
increased financial flexibility and availability of credit facilities, all of which is consistent with the
continuation of TransForce's acquisition strategy following the Reorganization.
Following completion of the Reorganization, TransForce intends to establish a dividend policy under
which it will declare annual dividends of $0.40 per share, to be paid quarterly. The first dividend is
expected to be announced on September 30, 2008.
The Fund also announces that the cash distribution for the month of April will be $0.1325 per unit,
to be paid on May 15, 2008 to all unitholders of record as of April 30, 2008. Additionally, if the
Reorganization is approved, the Fund expects to pay a final cash distribution of $0.06625 per unit
for the period from May 1 to May 15, 2008, to be paid on June 13, 2008 to all unitholders of record
as of May 15, 2008.
TransForce will hold a presentation webcast and conference call on Friday, March 28, 2008 at
10:00 AM ET. The webcast can be accessed by visiting http://www.transforcecompany.com/ or
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National Pencil Company was one of a cluster of manufacturers based in Shelbyville, Tennessee, "The Pencil City" (after starting in Atlanta).
Colored brands:
National Copying varieties:
Here are pairs of pencils that are the same or nearly so, but with one painted and the other having clear varnish:
Eagle Automatic
These are some very old Eagle mechanical pencils (or leadholders):
They are called Eagle Automatic, or they appear to be that brand. (The last three have no visible name but have Eagle patent dates imprinted on metal parts.) The model numbers of the first and third appear to be 802 and 865.
Here is a box label:
I find it interesting that there seem to be differently labeled pencils for different leads, even though the pencils holding the leads may be otherwise identical. Maybe the clutch is slightly different for different leads, or maybe it is simply (if somewhat extravagantly) to help the user identify the lead. Experts?
American Centennial
In honor of the recent 238th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence in 1776, I present to you a very special pencil produced for the 100th anniversary in 1876.
Appropriately, it is Centennial, from the American Lead Pencil Company.
The pencil is triangular, with red, white, and blue sides:
It shows a patent date of 1873:
I also have this Centennial 1876 made somewhat later by Dixon. But in my opinion, it's not quite as nice:
Wallace Pencil Company, Missouri, USA (acquired by Dixon in 1982) —
Graphite and copying brands:
Sussner Nopitsch Glocken Bell
From Georg Büttner's site about German pencil companies in the Nuremberg area, here's what I gather (imperfectly — I don't speak German) about the relationship between these companies:
G.W. Sussner founded a pencil company in 1846. Moritz Nopitsch founded a company in 1861, which was passed on to his son Gebrüder Nopitsch. Nopitsch and Sussner were joined in 1900. In 1925, the company was named Glocken (in English, Bell); the name was acquired from another company named Glocken. (Was that whole company acquired?)
M. Nopitsch:
M. Nopitsch and Sussner:
Gebrüder Nopitsch:
Some of the older hexagonal pencils have what appears to be factory sharpening in the form of six facets —
Staedtler USA
J.S. Staedtler is another (see Swan) German pencil company that had a manufacturing subsidiary in the United States. Hackensack and Monteville, New Jersey, are locations mentioned on the pencils.
Some of the brands have German counterparts, while many (Competitive, Deadline, Pinstripe, and others) are only American, as far as I know.
Round Mirado
A round Eagle Mirado, paired with the hexagonal version:
While it's fairly common for a particular brand of pencil to be made in different forms, usually the models are given different product numbers (Mongol 480 and 482, for example). Here, both are 174.
From time to time I'll be exhibiting pencils with errors or odd features, grouped into categories, of course. This post will feature problems with pencil tips.
But does "tip" refer to the end of the pencil that may have an eraser (its usual meaning), or to the sharpened end (which seems better described)? The ambiguity of this term has always bugged me. I will mean the former, usually.
Missing ferrule:
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Posted By Miranda Marquit On 03/12/2012 @ 12:32 pm In Taxes | 1 Comment
Wherever there is money involved, chances are a scam isn't that far behind. The more money there is available, the bigger and grander the scams. So it should come as no surprised that at a time, tax time, when people are focused on money and the complicated nature of our taxes, scams make their biggest splash. These tax scams range from implying that you won't receive your tax refund, to unscrupulous tax preparers charing you a fee to help you "hide" your money (otherwise known as "tax evasion").
The IRS, in order to warn you about tax scams, provides an annual "Dirty Dozen" list [3] of the most popular scams. For 2012, here are the top 12 tax scams to be on the watch for:
These are just the top twelve, there are probably ten times as many smaller scams behind them so you need to be on your toes!
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Why Ad Agencies aren't adjusting to a real-time social media world
May 5th
Usually when I hear a sentiment three times in week it is a signal for a blog post. Here are the signals coming at me in the last few days:
- "Our advertising agency is staggeringly out of touch with the demands of a digital world. I caught them giving us the same cookie-cutter plan they tried to lay on me when I was with another company three years ago! " — Brand Manager, Fortune 500 company
- "We are losing a lot of digital business to smaller agencies. We have too much bureaucracy, too many contracts, too many approvals to go through to be responsive and real-time." — Creative Lead, Large New York Agency
- "Our ad agency set up a separate division for social but they still try to manage it like it is purely advertising. I'm not happy with that. I don't think they know the difference." — CMO, Hospitality Industry
So what's going on here? Social media is a relatively mature channel by now. Why the ad agency angst?
I think I know the reason.
The dynamics of social versus advertising
I am about to make some generalizations. These statements are not universal but I do believe they paint a broad view of the problem.
Here is how Advertising typically works: A client gets money approved for an ad campaign. The Ad Agency pitches a concept for the campaign and if they win, they plan, create and execute. As the money is spent, awareness for your product goes up. When the money goes away, the awareness goes away.
There are MANY uses for social media but GENERALLY, it is a channel to deliver a drip of useful/interesting/vital content that leads to awareness, trust, and eventually loyalty. It rarely results in a short-term bump in sales like an ad campaign (although it can). It is more of a long-term play to reach new and existing audiences where and when they need you.
Although this is an evolution in how we may think about marketing, it's not really rocket science. Why are agencies having trouble adjusting to the digital world?
It's all about money
For decades, ad agencies have been organized and funded by this campaign model. Bid. Win. Execute. Repeat.
But succeeding in social media marketing and social influence marketing requires an organization and budgetary process geared toward the long-term. Agencies are not built to handle that. Every internal process is optimized for "campaigns," not "relationships."
I believe the main reason agencies seems to be flailing around is not for a lack of wisdom or ability, it is a matter of organizational design, company culture, and internal accounting processes.
The fact is, most company marketing departments are built this way too. Their budgets are constructed based on some percentage increase or decrease of what was done with the agency last year. Making a budget overhaul more aligned with today's realities is going to take some time.
So in a way, these outdated agency models are reinforced by their customers who take lazy approaches to budgeting based on past performance and some quarterly sales goal.
The challenge
In summary, ad agencies are slow to shift due to:
1) An accounting/organizational model built on campaigns.
2) Customer budgets historically aimed at quarterly spends and results (that reinforces this agency model)
3) Unrealistic expectations for social. When a customer approves a budget for social, it typically has the same quarterly budget and performance requirements, which may not be realistic, contributing to a cycle of unfulfilled expectations.
Some critics may add here that if social can't be held up to the same economic standard as advertising, why do it? An example:
I was consulting with a large company that is spending $70,000 a month on full-page newspaper advertising. They called me in for advice because they felt their ads were not working as well as they used to. Well duh … newspaper circulation in this city was down by 30% in five years.
Why were they still spending that amount each month on a sinking ship? Because that is what they had always spent, so it was easy to create that budget and get it approved.
Meanwhile, I was able to show them how competitors were building a vital, useful social media presence integrated with both TV advertising and digital ads. I tried to convince them to take a percentage of their traditional ad budget and build a social media presence.
This was two years ago. They still haven't done anything on the social media scene (other than a token Facebook page and Twitter account) because they can't move their organization and budget process away from the quarterly advertising metrics and budgeting cycle.
I want to emphasize once more that this is a generalization, not a gospel. Certainly there are exceptions and the best-managed companies are moving forward. What has your experience been? Is the ad industry stuck or is it moving ahead?
Where does social media fit in the marketing mix?
Feb 25th
A number of news items coalesced recently and made me wonder … what is the true role of social media in the marketing mix today?
How has it changed? Is it really about connection? Is it still a way to engage with customers? Or, has it been so overrun by agencies and programmed content that it is little more than advertising?
Maybe you have been wondering the same thing?
This is such a vital topic that Tom Webster and I decided to tackle this on the latest edition of The Marketing Companion. Have you listened to our podcast yet? If not, please give it a try. We always aim to deliver entertaining and thought ideas to help you through the latest marketing trends and you might have some fun along the way, too.
In this edition, we explore:
- The time element — social media versus advertising
- Estimating the sales power of social media
- Weak links versus strong links and how this converts to sales
- The correlation between share of conversation and market share
- Social media at the top of the sales cycle and at the end of it
- Is social media more like advertising or marketing?
- A case study illustrating the impression power of social media
- How will social media platforms re-invent themselves to ignite a "wow factor?"
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FC Barcelona will be represented in four different sports: handball, basketball, football and track and field
Navarro equals Epi
It's worth mentioning that this will be Juan Carlos Navarro's fourth Olympic showing after the featuring for Spain in Sidney, Athens and Beijing. The Barça Regal captain will equal the record set by another emblematic Azulgrana, Juan Antonio San Epifanio 'Epi' - who participated in the 1980 Moscow Games, the Los Angeles Games in 1984, the Seoul Games in 1988 and the Barcelona Games in 1992.
FC Barcelona will be represented by 21 athletes in the upcoming London Olympic Games. The Barça athletes will vie for medals in basketball, handball, football and track and field. In the previous edition of the Games, the Club was represented by 22 athletes.
The Azulgrana contingent in London
Up to 10 Barça handball players will feature for their respective countries in London. Valero Rivera's team has six Azulgranas (Tomás Rocas, Aguirrezabalaga, Morros, R. Entrerríos and Sarmiento). Sweden has two Barça players on its roster (Sjöstrand and Jernemyr) and, France has named FC Barcelona's Sorhaindo to its team.
Barça have four representatives in three different national teams. Juan Carlos Navarro and Víctor Sada will play for Spain, Joe Ingles for Australia and Marcelinho Huertas will play for Brazil.
Three Azulgranas will play for Spain's national football team: Barça's newest signing and recent Euro champion, Jordi Alba, newly promoted first-team player Martín Montoya and Barça B's Cristian Tello.
Track and Field
Barça will be represented by four athletes in the mother of all Olympic sports, track and field: Sprinters Ángel David Rodríguez (100 4x100) and Jackson Quiñónez (110m hurdles and 4x100), long distance runner Abdelaziz Merzougui (3.000m steeplechase) and the 36-year-old marathon runner Nacho Cáceres.
Football's early schedule
FC Barcelona's football Olympians will be the first to open their medal bid. Spain will take to the pitch on July 26 against Japan at 15.45.
Fans will have to wait three days to see Barça's other Olympians in action, with the exception of the track and field athletes - whose trials start on August 3. Both handball and basketball are scheduled to start on July 29. Barça's Swedish players will take to the court against Tunisia at 15.30. Spain, with six Azulgranas, will make its debut on the same day at 17.15 against Serbia. France, with Sorhaindo, will face the UK at 20.30 and finally, Laszlo Nagy's Hungary will take to the court at 22.15 to face Denmark.
Barça Regal's four players will also make their Olympic debuts on July 29. Brazil will face Australia, which will pit Marcelinho Huertas against his Club teammate Joe Ingle, at 12.15. Spain will take to the court at 17.45 to face China.


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Sure, the special effects in "Gravity" are incredible, but not exactly feasible for an indie filmmaker to adopt. That's where Joey Shanks comes in. The self-taught filmmaker, who produces a weekly series for PBS Digital Series about DIY special effects for low-budget productions, highlights the illusion of space flight in his latest video. Shanks writes, "To create a spaceship flying through the space, the effects wizards of yesteryear used simple techniques of keeping the model spaceship still, and having the camera move in towards the objects. This would give the illusion that the ship was moving....Watch as I try these techniques with the spaceships I have in my collection!!"
It's amazing to see how low-tech the effects were in some of the classic sci-fi films which Shanks references, including "Star Wars," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Back to the Future." Grab some fluorescent paint and a UV flashlight and make your "space ship" light up.
Check out Shanks' "Illusion of Space Flight" video below and check out more at Shanks' YouTube page:


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Ferguson Police Chief Says Cops Have Been Shot At Every Night
Video from Hannity, hat tip to the great and indefatigable Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit:
Police Chief Thomas Jackson: We haven't had a single protester injured. The only injuries have been to police officers. One had his ankle broken by a brick… I think this was the first time we had a firebomb thrown at us but we have taken gunfire pretty much every night…
Hannity: You've taken gunfire. Meaning shots have been fired at officers?
Chief Jackson: Yes. Myself included.
There's only one problem: protesters have been hurt.
I've mainly seen injuries resulting from rubber bullets, but they are injuries.
Not as bad as a broken ankle, but still…
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Louise Cornelius - February 14, 2014
Louise Cornelius was born on Nov. 3, 1922 at Grant, Neb. She was the second of seven children born to John and Goldie (John) Price.
Lou grew up in Grant and graduated from Perkins County High School in 1940. After graduation she attended college in Hastings where she received her teaching certificate. She returned to Perkins County and taught country school south of Grant for one year.
Lou was married to Ford Cornelius on June 10, 1945 in Grant. They lived on the Cornelius farmstead southeast of Madrid, Neb. until 1951 when they moved to their farm home south of Madrid which Ford had built. They farmed in the summer and later wintered at Mesa, Ariz.
Ford died in 2005 and Lou continued to live on the farm until 2009 when she moved to Westview Retirement in Grant. She spent the winter of 2013 in Mesa. She had been in failing health and moved to Golden Ours Convalescent Home last September where she died on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. She had reached the age of 91.
Lou always enjoyed clowns and with the help of Ford, they operated the Clown n' Country Bed and Breakfast for several years. She had a large collection of clown dolls and even participated in a clown ministry and entertainment. She was a gourmet cook and wrote her own cookbook. Her favorite TV channel was the Food Channel.
Lou excelled in creative writing and poetry and her poems were used on many different occasions. Lou was an avid card player and enjoyed her different bridge groups. She had been an active member of the United Methodist Church and the U.M.W.
In addition to her parents and husband, Lou was preceded in death by one brother, Carlos Price and two sisters- Iola Cosner and Edna Walz; a daughter-in-law, Marlene.
She is survived by her four sons, Dennis of Freeport, Ill., Mike and wife Misty of Bellbrook, Ohio, Randy of Sidney, Neb., and Sidney and wife Joan of Woodbury, Minn.; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; two brothers, Erv Price of California and Bob and wife Nancy Slocum of Kearney, Neb. and a sister, Vicky Hayden of California; other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held Friday, Feb. 14, 2014 at the Madrid United Methodist Church with Pastor Linda Battello officiating.
Burial was in the Madrid Cemetery.
A memorial has been established to the Perkins County Food Pantry.
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Culture Notes
Now, after Ellen, a bisexual cop
NBC's critically acclaimed police drama Homicide is doing Ellen one better. A storyline has been introduced in which Detective Tim Bayliss (Kyle Secor) finds himself attracted by a man and, despite his earlier heterosexual escapades, starts dating him. "This isn't about sex," said Mr. Secor, who has played the character since 1993, "but about someone addressing the bisexual spirit within and seeing what that adds to the character." Homicide is at the end of its two-year renewal. "So since we don't know if this will be our last year or not," Mr. Secor said, "here's a way to strike by exploring the notion that there's a little bit of feminine in all of us and how this all affects Bayliss's relations with his fellow cops." Ellen similarly found "a way to strike" a blow for homosexuality when it was facing cancellation. With the much-hyped "coming out" of the character and actress Ellen Degeneres, the ratings did shoot up, but only temporarily. As the show has become more and more "gay-oriented," its ratings have fallen from the top 20 to the lower 40s. But the self-congratulatory spirit remains in Hollywood, so we can expect more omni-sexuality from desperate or self-righteous shows.
AOL's and the army's war on porn
America Online is responding to the online annoyance of "spam"-unsolicited e-mail advertisements, often of pornographic sites-by cracking down on those who send them. But an organization of Internet businesses, the National Organization of Internet Commerce, is threatening to post the names and addresses of 5 million AOL subscribers-half the total- if the company continues to stand in the way of unwanted advertising. AOL is suing to prevent this further violation of their customers' privacy, calling the threat by spammers and pornographers "cyberterrorism." When Congress banned the sale of pornographic magazines on military bases in 1996, the bill was predictably declared "unconstitutional." But a federal appeals court ruled in November that the law is constitutional after all. As the legal battle continues, the Recording Industry of America and the International Periodical Distributors Association have joined Penthouse magazine in an effort to put the X back in PX.
TV will fry your brain
The cartoon show that sent over 700 Japanese children into epileptic-like convulsions may be coming to a television screen near you. In December, an episode of Pokemon, or "Pocket Monsters," featured an animated explosion, with flashing red and blue lights. Just as pulsing lights have long been known to set off epileptic seizures, the cartoon special effect triggered seizures and lesser symptoms of trembling and nausea in viewers across the country. More than 700 viewers were hospitalized, with many more affected, as children throughout Japan compared symptoms the next day. The program, a favorite among Japanese kindergartners and elementary-aged children, is based upon Nintendo's Pocket Monsters video game. Now, with the notoriety of the program, a company is planning to syndicate the cartoon in the United States. A company called 4 Kids Entertainment will make Pokemon available to local television companies. It will, however, be edited to eliminate scenes that might cause seizures. "We're confident it won't be a problem," said Al Kahn, CEO of 4 Kids Entertainment. "We've taken the problem seriously and fixed it."


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In Memory of
Mr. Robert Eugene Comignaghi
April 23, 1935 - March 30, 2013
Mr. Robert Comignaghi 77 of Bloomingdale, GA went to be with the Lord March 30, 2013. He was born April 23, 1935 in Wainwright, OH to the late Marco and Lena Comignaghi. He was a Korean War Veteran serving in the United States Army, a retiree of Gulfstream Aerospace and a member of Bloomingdale Fellowship Church.
He is survived by wife Vionia, daughters Debbie (Barry) Breucker of The Colony, TX, Penny Holland of Pooler, GA and Anne (Bill) Brannen of Camden, SC. Grandchildren Kristina (Steve) Novak Esq of Dallas, Jessica (Ryon) Elliott of Irving and Kendra (Jarrett) Roberts of Frisco, TX, Bobby (Cristy) Brannen of Camden, and Michael (Kelli) of Florence, SC. Great grandchildren Conner Smith and Austin Brannen of Camden. Sisters Lena (Dick) Stellarini of Canton, Helan (Dan) Gyspt of Port Washington, Stella Comignaghi of Dover, brothers Jack Bonzi of Tuscarawas and Butch (Judy) of New Philadelphia, OH.
He is preceded in death by his parents, sisters Gina Karl and Anna Decker and brother Louie of Canton, OH.
Visitation: 6:00 - 8:00 PM Monday, April 1, 2013 at Fairhaven Funeral Home & Crematory
Funeral Service: 11:00 AM Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at Bloomingdale Fellowship Church of God of Prophecy
Interment: Westside Memorial Gardens
The family would like to thank Hospice of Savannah and special friends David and Lucy Johnson, Cory and Sara Harper, Gabby Turner and Rev. Mark and Trina Minter.
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Where to find the GH2 in Canada?
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Re: Where to find the GH2 in Canada?
In the same boat, Mostly Digital website (London) saying they have some available for order. I called and the lady told me they put in the order as early as last december still haven't had them. So, you could try add your order in, and tell them call you when they actually have the camera, before they charge your credit card.
I end up getting a G2, it's for vacation and should do the job. 720p is enough for me for now. You can get it for around $550 in canada (Black's photo has one sale).
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Returning again to the bottomless well of Funny or Die, here's Ray Liotta, Martin Starr, Human Giants Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel, Jon Favreau, and goddamn Michael Bay discussing the future of CGI. That future? Motion-capture inanimate objects:
Of course, in reality, the future won't be CGI lamp Ray Liotta. It will be hologram Ray Liotta.


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I have a frame pump, currently. I like it, but it scratched the paint off of my frame. I'm building up a new bike, come spring, and I want to save it's paint from my current pump.
So, I'm looking for a mini-pump that has small enough to fit in my jersey pocket, is fairly lightweight, is easy to use, and has minimal inflation time. I just need a presta-compatible pump.
Any suggestions for the best one for the money? Links to your suggestions would be appreciated.


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The Labors of Hercules by Agatha Christie
Book Description
A unique collection of stories featuring Hercule Poirot and linked by mythological figures and classical legend and lore. It's everything "Christie's admirers have come to expect" (New Yorker), including her fans' favorite detective in a dozen of his most unusual cases.
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Destroying modern monsters, March 16, 2002 Reviewer: M. L. Worley from Kingdom of the Mouse, United States If you're interested in an unabridged audio version, the Raymond Massey recording is excellent, although it omits both the prologue and the last paragraph or so of the final adventure. In the prologue, Poirot plans, as an artistic finale to his career, to take 12 last cases - no more - in imitation of the Labours of Hercules, before retiring to grow vegetable marrows. (He even followed through - see _The Murder of Roger Ackroyd_ for Poirot in retirement.) "The Nemean Lion" - Poirot dreamed of a really grand case for his first labour - but the excellent Miss Lemon has recommended a man who wants Poirot to investigate the disappearance of his wife's Pekinese dog. Alas, it has one unusual feature that makes Poirot curious...This case is mentioned occasionally in later years (e.g. in _Hickory Dickory Dock_), though not by name. "The Lernean Hydra" - The many-headed monster, in this case, is the rumour that Dr. Oldfield poisoned his wife to be free to marry his assistant. Poirot begins by asking Miss Moncrieffe to introduce him to the biggest gossip in the village. Stripped of its trimmings, this case has the same core situation as the Marple story _The Blue Geranium_. "The Arcadian Deer" - When Poirot's hired car breaks down in the snow, Ted Williamson (a young mechanic with the face of a Greek god), approaches him, and asks him to find Nita, a pretty girl met by chance and never seen again. As lady's maid to a Russian dancer then staying with Sir George, she might be in a jam, considering the crowd that Sir George runs with... "The Erymanthian Boar" - His last case having brought him to Switzerland, Poirot receives a note from an old friend who's trying to capture alive the killer Marrascaud - a man with a wild pig's soul. "The Augean Stables" - The Prime Minister, Edward Ferrier, and his party forced Ferrier's father-in-law to retire when they uncovered his fiduciary misconduct - now they're asking Poirot for a miracle: to clean up the mess and avert a scandal that would destroy the party, now that _The X-Ray News_ has ferreted out the story. "The Stymphalean Birds" - Harold Waring, a rising young politician on holiday, feels uneasy about the two harpy-like spinsters at his hotel. But who are the real monsters who feed on human misery? (Poirot enters rather late in the story to sort things out.) "The Cretan Bull" - Hugh Chandler broke his engagement to Diana Maberly's engagement, fearing that he's inherited the streak of insanity that runs in his father's family. He left the Navy, but now he seems unsafe even for life in the country. So Poirot goes to see this young bull, once dedicated to Poseidon, when Diana insists that he can't be crazy. "The Horses of Diomedes" - The wild horses that eat human flesh - in this case, a ring of cocaine smugglers. Young doctor Stoddart puts him onto some of the recipients, having been called in to tend the wreckage from a particularly wild party. "The Girdle of Hyppolita" - In this case, a stolen work of that name by Rubens introduces Poirot to the case of a missing schoolgirl, which interests him very much indeed. (A tribe of modern Amazons, indeed.) She disappeared off the school train to France, just before arriving for her first term, leaving no trace. (If you want to see how Christie's mastery of her art, especially character development, improved over time, compare this with the much earlier "Case of the Kidnapped Prime Minister". Here she makes us *care* about what happened to the victim.) "The Flock of Geryon" - Miss Amy Carnaby (former companion to Lady Hoggin in the first labour) has come to Poirot, seeking help for Mrs. Clegg, a widowed friend who has joined a cult - the Flock of the Shepherd. Several wealthy women have died after leaving all their money to the Cause... "The Apples of the Hesperides" - Emery Power, a great financial force and a collector of historical works of art, believed for 10 years that Sir Reuben Rosenthal engineered the theft of his newly-purchased Cellini goblet (a gold cup, decorated with a serpent-and-apple tree motif, which once belonged to the Borgias). But Sir Reuben, now a business ally, didn't do it - so Power hires Poirot to recover the cup. ("If the affair were easy, it would not have been necessary to send for you.") "The Capture of Cerberus" - Poirot sees Countess Rossakoff in a crowd on the Underground, and calls out, asking where he can find her. "In Hell!" And upon asking Miss Lemon what she would do if a friend said that, Miss Lemon replies, "I should ring up for a table." (!) So we meet the Countess in London's most fashionable nightclub, and of course, adventure follows in her wake.


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Tallahassee FL- Higher Education students are getting some help when it comes to loan interest rates. A bill lowering them is now on its way to President Obama.
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June 21, 2012 10:00 AM by Lisa Princ
Last week we learned Jennifer Williams was one of the ladies getting fired from Basketball Wives, and now the former star is facing financial woes. What's going on with Jennifer Williams now? Read on to find out!
Last week we found out that Jennifer Williams was getting axed from Basketball Wives because the show feels: "Jennifer is too much of a liability after the whole Nia Crooks lawsuit." Now, TMZ is reporting that Jennifer Williams is facing serious financial woes – and her expensive Bentley is about to repossessed! According to the site, Toyota Motor Credit Corporation has filed a lawsuit against Williams to repossess the vehicle, claiming that Jennifer stopped making payments back in 2009.
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Re: Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 vs Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L II IS USM?
I was in the exact same situation. I went with the Canon f/4 IS which produced amazing pictures.
But now, after having it for a while i wish I had gone with the Canon 2.8 ii. School starts soon (inside sport, events..), winter is coming and I am afraid I will need the extra speed soon
I did consider the Sigma in the very beginning but went away from it after extensive (months) reading. I never tried it, but knowing there is something better out there would bug me all the time.
Beside, the Sigma will be harder to sell as the Canon - I learned that the hard way with my Tamron.
So, I'd say go with 2.8ii from Canon if you have the cash. If not, take the f/4 IS used and save another year, sell the f/4 and get the 2.8 ii.
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Mariners third baseman Kyle Seager is hitting .217 this season, but eight of his 13 hits have been doubles, including one Thursday in the Mariners' victory over Detroit.
Kyle Seager is still trying to find his stroke this season, and his critical go-ahead double as a pinch-hitter on Thursday lifted his average to a mere .217.
But Seager is hitting two-baggers at a breakneck pace. Of his 13 hits, eight have gone for two bases, giving him the major-league lead. At his current pace, he would hit 76 doubles for the season.
That's not going to happen, of course, considering that Earl Webb's major-league record of 67 doubles has stood since 1931. But Seager, who has hit in seven straight games with a .308 average (8 for 26, including five doubles), likes the doubles trend.
"That's a good thing, that's exciting," he said. "I've always tried to be that type of hitter, not necessarily hitting home runs, but keeping the ball lower, a gap-to-gap hitter. That's definitely a positive for me going forward."
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First win for Capps
Mariners reliever Carter Capps, who was called up to the majors for the first time in August, worked two scoreless innings to earn his first major-league win in his 26th outing. That, in turn, earned him the traditional beer shower bestowed for such major-league milestones.
"I was really excited," he said. "At the same time, you come in here and see the cart (a laundry cart used to wheel him into the shower room), so you know you've got to go get in the shower. It was great. I really enjoyed it."
Capps is also enjoying his new late-inning role in the wake of Stephen Pryor's lat injury that landed him on the disabled list.
"I love it," Capps said. "Obviously, those are innings I'd like to pitch. I'll take any inning, but it's great to pitch those. Now they have more confidence in me, and it builds more confidence in myself."
Mariners starter Hisashi Iwakuma had a low enough pitch count (70) after six innings to keep going. But he continues to be bothered by a blister on the middle finger of his pitching hand. It's not enough to keep him from making his starts, but it hampers him increasingly as the game goes on.
"We feel like if we sent him back out there one more inning, it would affect his next start, so we're hoping we can continue to manage it," Mariners manager Eric Wedge said.
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With the Mariners needing fresh bullpen arms after their 14-inning game Wednesday, right-hander Hector Noesi was recalled from Tacoma, and lefty Bobby LaFromboise was optioned to Class AAA Tacoma before Thursday's game.
It's been a whirlwind week for Noesi, who was named the Southern League pitcher of the week on Monday, and promoted from Class AA Jackson to Tacoma the same day. He was 1-0 with a 0.00 earned-run average in two starts with Jackson, allowing just five hits in 11 innings with 12 strikeouts and three walks.
Noesi never got in a game for Tacoma, and was awakened Thursday morning at about 1:45 to be informed he was coming up to the majors. He went back to sleep, then drove to the ballpark in the morning.
Noesi will be working out of the bullpen, a role he had with the Yankees in 2011. Noesi appeared in 30 games with the Yankees in '11, all but two in relief, and had a 4.01 ERA pitching in relief. But last year, as a starter for the Mariners after coming over with Jesus Montero in a trade, he was 2-12, 5.82 in 22 games (18 starts), and 2-6, 5.74 in 11 starts with Tacoma. He also was hit around in spring training this year, but believes he has found himself in the minors.
"I'm trying to put everything together to come here again," he said.
Of his success in Jackson, Noesi said, "I think I know that league already. I was getting comfortable in my stuff, and trusting my stuff. That's it."
Noesi added that "last year, I was thinking too much," and said of relieving, "that role doesn't bother me. When I was with the Yankees, I was relieving the whole year."
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Most third-year students heading to medical school can't volunteer on a full-time basis, but Adil Yousuf, Adrienne Roth and Brian Templet can because they are part of the Tulane Accelerated Physician Training Program. The program allows these students to participate in a year of service that is aiding the New Orleans community.
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Vasque brought together the trail-proof construction of its hiking shoes with the lightweight breathability of a running shoe to create the Velocity 2.0 GTX Trail Running Shoe. This rugged runner benefits from the addition of a Gore-Tex waterproof breathable membrane to make it weather-proof as well.
|Vasque Velocity 2.0 Trail Running Shoe
|$59.98 - $84.47
|Vasque Velocity 2.0 Gore-Tex Trail Running Shoes
|Vasque Velocity 2.0
|$76.99 - $95.97
I love this shoe for when it's cold and wet. The tread has held up well and compliments the conditions it will be used in....wet. After using these for a while I bought the non GTX version for when it was hot and dry and love both shoes. Fit matches up with most of my running shoes. No issues to date and can't wait to wear them out! I test and provide feedback to gore as a MountainTech..
Theses shoes are made really well and fit great right out of the box.
I was looking for a lighter weight trail runner similar to the Salomons I once had. These shoes are not it. The are far stiffer and pretty heavy for a trail runner shoe. They would make a great hiker or everyday shoe, but that wasn't what I was looking for.
I am new to trail running but this shoe is rad! Tons of support on loose and rocky terrain, heel cup is grippy and rendered me blister free even on my first few runs...and I am pretty sure I experience less muscle fatigue overall due to the structure and support it offers. Worth the $ for certain!