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Stink Bugs and Sesshin
September 08, 2010 by Yugen
We are now in sesshin. I don't feel so much like writing as there is not a lot to report. As anyone who has sat a sesshin will know, although there may be a bunch of internal goings on, there is very little to put on a postcard for the folks back home.
However, I did want to share this cool photo I took this morning. This black widow lives just outside the front door of the practice house, where some of the residents live. It is the first one that I have seen that was clearly a black widow - check the red hour glass on the abdomen. Strangely, I then overturned a large rock whilst working this morning and found another female black widow with two egg sacs. It's always funny when you notice something once and then keep seeing it again and again. Not quite so funny when that thing is a poisonous spider, though. This poor bug (pictured), known to most as a 'stink' bug due to its tendency to raise its butt in the air if you go anywhere near it - I for one have never stuck around to experience the stink - seems to have become part of the spiders menu for the next few weeks. The spider wrapped the bug up and proceeded to hoist it about 4ft up to its lair in the rafters. Ironically, just opposite the black widow's lair is a humming bird feeder with all these beautiful, bright colored birds sipping what is essentially liquid sunshine (or at least it should be - I think they are actually drinking watered down sugar from Walmart). I'm sure there is some insightful Buddhist-sounding comment to be made about this contrast between these two corners of nature. I will, however, leave that to you.
10 Sep 2010 23:13:50
Walmart has no Buddha nature. Please adjust your purchasing accordingly. Thank you.
11 Sep 2010 15:31:17
Bob – I take it you are kidding? If not, then you will have to take that one up with the man behind the humming bird frenzy at Yokoji and patron of Walmart, Jim Prall. It is from his pocket that the humming birds are sustained.
16 Sep 2010 21:46:02
Sorry. I'm not kidding at all.
There's a film that explains it all. It's called WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price. http://www.walmartmovie.com/
The decisions we make about where we source our needs has a direct effect on the world around us. A detrimental effect when we shop at Wal-Mart.
16 Sep 2010 22:09:54
Bob – I take your point. Interconnectedness is indisputable but it certainly isn't limited to Walmart. Not one of us can really step forward as not being guilty of contributing to the suffering of others in some way. Personally, I am a vegan as I hate to think of the suffering involved in farming, but most of the people around me don't see it that way and are happy to eat whatever and that is true for them. And what can you do but follow your own truth? I can live with the occasional trip to Walmart. I don't think they are force for the good, but are they really that much worse than Target, Stater Bros. or the other shopping options we have around us? Big business is always ugly.
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17 Sep 2010 03:29:13
Nicely written. Maybe nothing for a postcard, but for a homesick old resident, it's enough.


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Homobiles: When catching a ride can be such a drag
Homobiles gives diverse clientele a safe lift with a text or a call
Her ample body sheathed in white satin, drag queen Mutha Chucka hurried out of a San Francisco house, plopped into a Prius' shotgun seat and immediately reclined it so her foot-high platinum beehive wig wouldn't get squashed by the roof.
"Hey, babe, you're looking good," said the driver, Lynn Breedlove. "What number are you doing at the Stud tonight?"
"It's Oscar night," Mutha Chucka said. "I'm lip-syncing to Meryl Streep in 'Mamma Mia' singing 'Winner Takes It All.' "
The car was part of a ride-sharing service called Homobiles that Breedlove started for people who face discrimination for their sexual orientation.
"Homobiles is a safe ride service for gender and sexual outlaws, which includes anyone from a woman in a miniskirt to a drag queen to a fag to an effeminate straight man," said Breedlove, 55. A transgender man, he's done jobs that include fronting for the punk rock group Tribe 8 and running an all-female bike messenger service called Lickety Split.
"Homobiles is for people who feel at risk because they don't conform to sexual or gender norms and are therefore a target of rudeness, shame or violence."
Like the new generation of smartphone app-enabled services such as UberX, Lyft and Sidecar, Homobiles uses independent drivers who pilot their own cars. That's earned it the sobriquet "Uber for drag queens."
But the similarities end there. With a mission that's social, not financial, Homobiles operates on donations, with no one turned away for lack of funds. It's seeking nonprofit status. It's also much more low tech, with riders texting or calling in requests to a couple of dispatchers. Its website, at www.homobiles.org, is informational, not interactive (although it does allow users to text ride requests).
Breedlove, who maintains a constant friendly patter with the "babes" and "pals" in his car, started the service almost by chance a couple of years ago, after giving rides to "girls" at an Oakland conference for people who identify as queer femmes.
"They were so happy and relieved to have safe transportation," he said. "They kept asking me to come back. I thought, maybe I should do this all the time."
Breedlove printed up flyers and started handing them out at gay bars like the Stud and Holy Cow.
"Famous drag queens started getting in the car," he said, rattling off their names and creds: Heklina (founder of Trannyshack, a drag show at DNA), Juanita More (BeatPig at the Powerhouse), David Glamamore (host of Some Thin at the Stud).
"The drag queens of San Francisco were our greatest advertising. They'd tell their audiences, 'Everyone pull out your phones right now; put this number in your phone.' Pretty soon every gay guy in town was calling Homobiles for a ride. All kinds of butches and femmes and transmen and transwomen - every letter in the alphabet soup."
Now Homobiles averages about 150 rides a day and has 10 drivers. Breedlove would like to find more drivers but said it's hard to beat the big bucks dangled by UberX, Lyft or Sidecar.
The state Public Utilities Commission gave a shout-out to Homobiles in its September decision regulating the new ride services, even while noting that it's of a different ilk.
"We applaud the founders of Homobiles for establishing a non-profit 501(c)(3) volunteer organization that caters to the underserved communities of San Francisco," it wrote.
On a drizzly Friday night, fares included an engineer on her way home from the Lesbians Who Tech Summit at the Castro Theatre, assorted drag queens and supporters headed to gay bars, and a couple of women going home after dinner.
The looks featured colossal wigs, glitter galore and tarantula-size fake eyelashes. The vibe was like a gaggle of friends en route to the prom, touching up hair and makeup, and gossiping about who would be there.
"I was a wreck getting ready," said Coca Kahlo, sliding into the back seat, her wig a-tilt. "I don't even have my face on yet."
Jogging up to Breedlove's car, Tanya Wischerath called out, "Hold on, Homobiles, I'll be there in a hot second."
Wischerath, who works as a tattoo artist, settled in the back seat with a friend and explained why she's a huge fan.
"It's such a community organization; it's always personal," she said. "Homobiles is like my own car; I just don't happen to be the one driving it. When I was a stripper, I didn't want to stand outside in my slutty outfit trying to hail a cab."
Likewise, Chucka said it's tough for drag queens to hail cabs - and sometimes even tougher when they stop.
"I kept running into drivers who assume if you're in drag, you must be a prostitute," Chucka said.
Breedlove said that's one reason the service especially caters to performers, although anyone of any persuasion is welcome.
"If you are putting on a face for whatever reason - drag queen, burlesque dancer - and you have to get to SoMa for your show, it's a little iffy to try to flag down a cab," he said. "A cab driver might feel you're a hooker. How long will you stand there freezing your ass off, looking like a piece of candy that maybe doesn't want to be unwrapped?
"We're there to get you where you want to go in a safe little portal so you don't have to run a gauntlet and defend yourself from all kinds of weird energy and worse."
Carolyn Said is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @csaid


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Watch Tuesday, July 15, 2014 at 8pm on WORLD
At a time when the world is rethinking its drug policies large and small, one state rises to the forefront. Once a pioneer in legalizing medical marijuana, the state of Montana may now become the first to repeal its medical marijuana law.
Set against the sweeping vistas of the Rockies, the steamy lamplight of marijuana grow houses, and the bustling halls of the State Capitol, Code of the West follows the political process of marijuana policy reform – and the recent federal crackdown on medical marijuana growers across the country. Chronicling the opinions and reactions of patients, growers ("caregivers"), politicians, activists, and community members on both sides of the issue, the story paints an image of what happens when federal and state governments clash with communities in the crossfire, and the individuals involved who ultimately pay the price.


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Lundin Homes necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 181 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
Lundin Homes
We are a house builder situated in Scotland and are looking for a new company image as we are rebranding ourselves as Lundin Homes. Previously Boyack Homes http://www.boyackhomes.co.uk. We deal with sites of 100+ dwellings to special one off projects in timber frame construction. The name is taken from the nearby Lundin Links, famous for Lundin Golf Club regularly selected as a final qualifying golf course for the Open Championship. (please go easy on the golf theme as we are a house builder)
The local community, mainly families. Also we want other construction companies to recognise the symbol.
A fairly simple logo with not too many colours, possibly based around construction...........doesn't have to be. Something that exudes quality but not too fancy, simple font with bold colours.
Will have to be a versatile file, like a scaleable vector. For use on letterheads, signage etc.
Our previous logo is on:
Colour choice is open for designer.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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At The Plate – Not a lot going on for the Cubs in this one as they could only manage one run on four hits in the loss. Logan Watkins was 1-for-2 with, yes you guessed it, two walks, and a caught stealing. Ryan Sweeney was 1-for-4, while Brian Bogusevic was 1-for-4 with a double and a run scored. Brad Nelson was 1-for-3 with an RBI in the loss.
On The Mound – Nick Struck was solid in this one, but was still hung with the loss as he fell to 0-2 on the season. Struck went six innings giving up two runs on five hits while walking two. Casey Coleman tossed a scoreless inning out of the pen and he also struck out the side. Yoanner Negrin had his second straight rough outing as he gave up two runs on three hits in one inning of work.
At The Plate – Really tough loss for the Smokies in this one as they let a 3-1 lead get away in the ninth. Christian Villanueva was 2-for-4 with an RBI in the loss. Johermyn Chavez was 2-for-3 with a walk, a double, and a run scored. Jonathan Mota was 2-for-4 with a home run, two RBI's, a double, and a run scored. Matt Szczur and Arismendy Alcantara continue to tear up the base paths as Szcur stole base number seven, and Alcantara registered his eleventh stolen base already.
On The Mound – Kyle Hendricks was down right nasty, unfortunately he had to settle for a no decision. Hendricks went seven innings giving up one run on three hits while walking one and striking out nine. Zach Rosscup had another solid outing out of the pen tossing a scoreless inning while giving up on hit and striking out three. Trey McNutt didn't have his command and it came back to haunt him in this one, he worked the ninth and gave up three runs on three hits while walking two to get a blown save and the loss.
At The Plate – A powerless night for Daytona as they could only manage four hits while being shut out. Ben Carhart had a solid game going 2-for-3 with a double. Zeke DeVoss and John Andreoli added singles and that was it. Daytona walked only once, and it was Javier Baez go figure, and struck out ten times.
On The Mound – P.J. Francescon had an encouraging outing as he had been roughed up as of late. He worked five inning giving up one run on five hits while walking two and striking out four, he got the loss. Yao-Lin Wang struggled out of the pen as he went 1.1 innings giving up two runs on four hits while walking one and striking out one. Frank Del Valle was outstanding again going 1.2 scoreless innings while walking one and striking out four.
Guess what? Yep, you're right, Kane County was rained out.
Thanks for reading,
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Stockton, CA
Rosie Moran Burgos
August 30, 1924 - October 20, 2013
Rosie M. Burgos passed away surrounded by her family on October 20, 2013. She was preceded
in death by her husband of 57 years Maximo Q. Burgos; sons
Albert and Joe Burgos; daughter Eva Burgos and grandsons Neto and Rudy Anthony Torres. Rosie leaves behind 8 children Paula, Lydia (Jesus), Maximo (Jenny),
Richard (Elena), Gloria (Donald), Rita, Tony and Marciano; numerous grandchildren, great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren. She was loved and will greatly be missed by her family.
A visitation will be held on Monday, October 28, 2013 from 3:00-8:00 pm. A prayer service will start at 6:00 pm at Frisbie-Warren & Carroll Mortuary. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 10:00 am at Frisbie-Warren & Carroll Mortuary. Committal will follow at San Joaquin Catholic Cemetery. Please sign the online guestbook at frisbiewarrencarrollmortuary.com.


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May 31, 1889: "The Johnstown Flood (or Great Flood of 1889 as it became known locally) occurred on May 31, 1889. It was the result of the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam situated 14 miles (23 km) upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA, made worse by several days of extremely heavy rainfall. The dam's failure unleashed a torrent of 20 million tons of water (4.8 billion U.S. gallons; 18.2 million cubic meters; 18.2 billion litres)….The flood killed 2,209 people and caused $17 million of damage….It was the first major disaster relief effort handled by the new American Red Cross, led by Clara Barton. Support for victims came from all over the United States and 18 foreign countries. After the flood, victims suffered a series of legal defeats in their attempt to recover damages from the dam's owners. Public indignation at that failure prompted the development in American law changing a fault-based regime to strict liability."
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May 30, 1923: Death of Rudolph Hering; 1912: Death of Wilbur Wright
May 30, 1923: Death of Rudolph Hering. "Although Dr. Hering was one of the first to recommend mechanical filters for pumping the water supplies at Atlanta, and elsewhere, and was connected with important water supply investigations at New York, Philadelphia, Washington, New Orleans, Columbus, Montreal, Minneapolis and numerous smaller places, his accomplishments were greatest in the field of sewerage and sewage disposal and led to his having been designated years ago as the 'Dean of Sanitary Engineering" in this country. Recognition of such standing was perhaps first made by President Harrison, who, in 1889, appointed him Chairman of a Commission to prepare a program for sewerage improvements for Washington, D. C.
Dr. Hering was an active worker on the committees of various professional organizations as well as civic movements. His most important work was undoubtedly that for the American Public Health Association in the matter of the collection and disposal of refuse. He gathered statistics as to results of operation and otherwise elucidated practice in this country and Europe. Some twenty-five years ago he gave liberally of his own time and money for gathering information upon this subject, although his activities in the field of water supply and sewerage did not permit him to publish the results of his investigations in the disposal of solid wastes of the municipalities.
Dr. Hering was in partnership with George W. Fuller, M. Am. Soc. C. E., from 1901 to 1911 and with John H. Gregory, M. Am. Soc. C. E., from 1911 to 1915. After the latter date his activities were confined largely to work upon a book on 'Collection and Disposal of Refuse' of which he was a joint author with Samuel A. Greeley, M. Am. Soc. C. E….
He received an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1907, and an honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute at Dresden in 1922. He was a member of a large number of engineering societies both in this country and in Europe. He was an honorary member of the New England Water Works Association and of the American Water Works Association and a Past President of the American Public Health Association. He became a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1876, was Director in 1891, 1897 to 1899, and Vice President in 1900 to 1901."
Reference: "Rudolph Hering." 1924. Journal AWWA. 11:1(January): 305.
May 30, 1912: Wilbur Wright dies of typhoid fever.
The year 1908 signaled the beginning of drinking water disinfection in the U.S. A lot of important things happened in that year and later. Jim Rasenberger in his book, America 1908, chronicled the technological, exploration, political and sociological milestones in the U.S. during 1908. On the first page of his book, he stated succinctly the thrills attendant to the year, "…1908, by whatever quirk of history or cosmology, was one hell of a ride around the sun." During these 366 days, the Wright brothers amazed the world with extended flights of heavier-than-air machines, the Model T went into production, two explorers reached for the North Pole, a 20,000 mile race in automobiles from New York to Paris was started and completed, a new President was elected, the national pastime captured the attention of the country in a strange pennant race, the Great White fleet started its round-the-world cruise and deadly race riots and other violence scarred the national conscience.
The capstone to 1908 was a two-hour and twenty minute flight by Wilbur Wright on December 31 in a suburb of Paris, which shattered all previous records for continuous flight. For manned flight, this was truly a major year. "In tracing the development of aeronautics, the historian of the future will point to the year 1908 as that in which the problem of mechanical flight was first mastered…"
To put the achievements of the Wright brothers in the context of their time and the history of application of scientific principles, part of Wilbur's obituary summed up their accomplishments.
"The death of Wilbur Wright has brought intense personal sorrow to all who were in any way associated with him…The science of aviation has lost its greatest student, and in time to come the name of Wilbur Wright will be recorded in the annals of invention with the names of such pioneers as Robert Fulton, Stephenson (first steam locomotive engine), Bell, and others who have given to the world the value of practical experiments and successful achievements." (emphasis added)
Thus, Wilbur Wright was not the first person to gaze at a bird and wonder how humans could fly. Nor was he the first person to build an airplane and try to lift off the ground. He and his brother, Orville, were the first to actually accomplish powered flight, but, more importantly, they demonstrated in a practical manner how to control that flight. Once again, technological progress is made by those who make an idea work. An original idea without practical implementation is just a waste of oxygen feeding the brain.
Wilbur Wright died of typhoid fever on May 30, 1912. He was just 45 years old. Four years earlier, he had astonished the world with his extended flights near Paris. What might he have achieved in continued partnership with his brother, Orville, had he not been struck down so early? The disinfection revolution did not spread fast enough to save the life of this inventor and world-renowned figure. But chlorination did travel fast enough and far enough to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of future inventors, engineers and scientists who transformed the U.S. and the world with their creativity.
What does the author of America 1908 make of the disinfection revolution that occurred during this seminal year a few miles from the center of his story, New York City? Not surprisingly, no mention is made of the events that occurred at Boonton Reservoir. Only passing mention is made of public health and water supply with millions dying from infectious diseases, a cholera epidemic in Manila when the Great White Fleet visited and the construction of a new water supply by Mulholland for Los Angeles. The cause of Wright's typhoid fever has been described as coming from various sources. Wilbur's obituary mentioned bad fish in a Boston restaurant, but the author of the obituary had no particular reason for believing that was the source. The only thing that appears to be certain is that he contracted the disease on a business trip back East (that is, east of Dayton, Ohio).
As noted in the previous chapter, chlorination had been instituted in hundreds of U.S. cities by 1912 but the typhoid death rate was still high. Boston had a typhoid fever death rate of 8 per 100,000 in 1912. In the same year, Washington, DC and Baltimore had typhoid death rates of 22 and 24 per 100,000. Wilbur Wright more likely died from contaminated water rather than bad fish.
Reference: McGuire, Michael J. 2013. The Chlorine Revolution: Water Disinfection and the Fight to Save Lives. Denver, CO:American Water Works Association.
May 29, 1953: Death of Earle B. Phelps
May 29, 1953: Death of Earle B. Phelps. "Earle Bernard Phelps (1876–1953) was a chemist, bacteriologist and sanitary expert who served in governmental positions and as an academic in some of the leading universities in the U.S. He is known for his contributions in sewage disinfection, water chlorination, sewage treatment, milk pasteurization, shellfish control, and for describing the "oxygen sag curve" in surface water bodies….
After graduating from MIT and until 1903, Phelps worked as an assistant bacteriologist at the famous Lawrence Experiment Station in Lawrence, Massachusetts. From 1903 until 1911, he was a chemist/microbiologist with the Sanitary Research Laboratory at MIT. He also taught at MIT during this period as an assistant professor of chemistry and biology. Early in his career, he investigated a typhoid fever epidemic at the State Hospital in Trenton, New Jersey. During this same period, he worked for the U.S. Geological Survey as an assistant hydrographer. In part, he worked on the purification of industrial wastes and he began his investigations on stream pollution with that agency. In 1910 to 1911 he conducted groundbreaking research with Colonel William M. Black of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the pollution of New York Harbor. This work established for the first time the concept of using dissolved oxygen concentrations in the water as a measure of water quality in the harbor.
In 1913, he left MIT and became the head of the Chemistry Division at the U.S. Hygienic Laboratory in Washington, DC., which was part of the U.S. Public Health Service. Phelps worked with H. W. Streeter who was a sanitary engineer with the Public Health service on the characterization of oxygen depletion in a stream receiving organic wastes. The Streeter-Phelps equation was the first quantitative model that was used to determine the impact of biochemical oxygen demand discharges to surface water bodies. Their equation led to deterministic modeling which made it possible to limit specific discharges from waste treatment plants.
In 1919, Phelps left the Hygienic Laboratory to accept an academic position at Stanford University. Later, he also taught at Columbia University from 1925 until 1943. From 1944 until his death in 1953 he was a professor of sanitary science at the University of Florida at Gainesville. He has been described as a gifted teacher who generously shared his knowledge with his associates and students.
Phelps had a long and distinguished career as a consulting sanitary expert. He worked for many cities helping them resolve problems with water treatment and sewage disposal. From 1907 to 1909, he was a consulting expert for the New Jersey Sewerage Commission. He visited all of the sewage disposal plants in the state and made annual reports on the results of his inspections. He also was retained by the Sewerage Commission of Baltimore, Maryland as a consulting expert in relation to experiments with sewage disposal. Phelps supervised the design and construction of a large number of sewage purification plants including those at Toronto, Canada, Tarrytown, New York, Rahway, New Jersey and Torrington, Connecticut."
Commentary: This article is taken from the Wikipedia entry that I wrote for Phelps. I knew him from his participation as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the second Jersey City trial that I described in The Chlorine Revolution. He was incredibly accomplished and contributed to many of the water specialties that we engage in today.
May 28, 1914: Chlorination of Torresdale Filtration Plant in Philadelphia
May 28, 1914: Municipal Journal article. Disinfecting Philadelphia's Water Supply. By Francis D. West. "Bleach was first used at Torresdale [now called the Samuel S. Baxter treatment plant] in the form of hypochlorite of soda, produced electrolytically, during September, 1909. Two cells manufactured by the National Laundry Co. were used. A current of 35 amperes at 110 volts was used to decompose a brine solution. The chlorine and soda were allowed to recombine and the temperature was so high (about 110° F) that chlorates were formed. The bleach was applied directly in front of the first valve of one of the preliminary filters operated at a 20 mgd rate, or about 1/4 normal.
The conclusions were in part that the bacterial efficiency of the filter was considerably less than that of filters operated at four times the rate without treatment.
Hypochlorite was again used in December 1910. Due to the fact that the bacterial efficiency of slow sand filters decreases considerably in cold weather and the fecal organism B. coli communis was present in the filtered water, it was decided to use chloride of lime to disinfect the water in the filtered water basin. Treatment was continued until April 1911, when it was stopped; was again started December 1911, and was continued without interruption until February, 1913.
Liquid chlorine was first used Nov. 26, 1913, in conjunction with chloride of lime about 90 lbs. of liquid and 800 lbs. of powder being used daily until Feb. 9, when the use of chloride of lime was stopped.
May 27, 1907: Birth of Rachel Carson; 1755: First Municipal Water Pumping Plant
May 27, 1907: Birth of Rachel Carson. "Biologist and author of Silent Spring, The Sea Wind and other non-fiction work intended to improve the public understanding of science, Carson became a leading figure in the environmental movement before her death in 1964."
"Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries,[2] and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her a U.S. National Book Award,[3] recognition as a gifted writer, and financial security. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the reissued version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. This sea trilogy explores the whole of ocean life from the shores to the depths.
Late in the 1950s, Carson turned her attention to conservation, especially environmental problems that she believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. The result was Silent Spring (1962), which brought environmental concerns to an unprecedented share of the American people. Although Silent Spring was met with fierce opposition by chemical companies, it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy, which led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides, and it inspired a grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Carson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter."
May 27, 1755: Hans Christopher Christiansen installed the first municipal water pumping plant in America at Bethlehem, PA; city supplied from a 70 foot high tank that was filled with water pumped from a spring through wooden pipes.
"Begun in 1754 and enlarged in 1762, the Bethlehem Waterworks is thought to be the first municipal pumping system to provide drinking and washing water in the United States. Johann Christopher Christensen devised the system in 1754 to transfer spring water from the Monocray Creek flood plain to the Moravian settlement on the bluff above it. Six years later, Christensen enlarged the waterworks and installed it in a 24-foot-square limestone rubble structure with a red-tile covered hipped-bellcast-gable roof. The system's 18-foot undershot waterwheel powered three single acting cast-iron pumps which forced spring water through wood (later lead) pipes 320 feet (94 vertical feet) by a collecting tower, and from there water flowed by gravity to strategically placed cisterns throughout the community. Machines to raise water had been in use in Europe for centuries, but until the construction of the Bethlehem Waterworks, none had been erected in the American Colonies.
In 1652 the Water-Works Company of Boston had constructed a gravity conduit system that used bored logs to convey water from wells and springs to a 12-foot-square reservoir, but the system had not fulfilled the expectations of its promoters and had fallen into disuse. Christensen, born in Schleswig-Holstein in 1716 and trained during his youth in a royal mill in Hadersleben, probably took his ideas for the Bethlehem system from his knowledge of the forcing pumps that had been in use in many German cities since the end of the 15th century. The system served the city until 1832.
By the 1960s the area had become an automobile junkyard. The stone pumphouse was restored in the 1970s, and the waterwheel and pumps were subsequently reconstructed based on the original plans that had been preserved in the Moravian Archives in Germany. The Old Waterworks is a National Historic Landmark."
References: "Business History." Website http://www.businesshistory.com/index.php and Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/delaware/wat.htm
May 26, 1977: Drought Cartoon; 1928: Birth of Marion Stoddart
May 26, 1977: Drought Cartoon. The Los Angeles Times has published cartoons over more than 100 years that depict the many droughts that California has suffered and the reactions to them. Here is one that I think you will enjoy.
May 26, 1928: Birth of Marion Stoddart. Environmental Pioneer and Activist in Massachusetts. "During the 1960s, the Nashua River made the top 10 list of most polluted rivers in the U.S. Then Marion Stoddart got involved, building a citizen coalition that changed laws, attitudes, and restored the river. In the process, Marion won the United Nations Global 500 Award, was profiled in National Geographic, and had a widely-read children's book written about her." Go to this website for more information: http://www.workof1000.com/
May 25, 1806: Description of Glasgow Filtration Works
May 25, 1806: Letter from Thomas Telford discussing design of the filtration works at Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow was the third city in the world to receive filtered water (after Paisley, Scotland and Paris). Delivery of water by pipes to customers began in 1807.
"Thomas Telford, who later founded and served as first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, was engineer for the Glasgow Water Works Co. Correspondence between him and Boulton & Watt (13) affords meager data regarding his plans for the earliest filter at Glasgow. In a letter dated May 25, 1806, he said that "if there is any difficulty in getting the water [from the Clyde] to subside or filtrate so as to be perfectly good-then instead of one reservoir 6 ft. in depth, it will be advisable to have two of 3 ft. in depth each-and each one acre in superficial area."
About forty years after the works were completed, Donald Mackain, engineer of the company then supplying water to Glasgow (14), described how Telford proposed that water be pumped from the Clyde at a point two miles above the city to three reservoirs each holding a day's supply. These reservoirs were to be so placed, wrote Telford, in a report no longer available, "that the water in passing from one to another shall be filtrated." Telford's plan was followed, says Mackain, but in times of flood the river brought down alluvial matter that did not soon subside, followed by water from sources higher up which had a deep brown color. Telford's filter yielded water differing little from that of the river.
Again what a pity that Telford and Mackain made only vague references to filters built so early. Neither Telford in his autobiography (15) nor Sir Alexander Gibb in his recent biography of Telford (16) mentions Telford's filters at Glasgow.
James Simpson, in a discussion (17) of Mackain's paper, describes Telford's filters as "a series of cells, filled with sand" through which the water passed in succession. When the water was at its worst it was little changed after passing through the first filter, but at times the filters worked satisfactorily."
Reference: Baker, Moses N. 1981. The Quest for Pure Water: the History of Water Purification from the Earliest Records to the Twentieth Century. 2nd Edition. Vol. 1. Denver, Co.: American Water Works Association, 80-1.


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My grandparents were divorced when my father was young and he did not have much contact with his mother after that. Because of this, I never knew her or much about that side of the family. I am sure that it was a bit painful for my father so not much was ever said. Still, I was curious about these missing ancestors and searched for information about them. One thing I found was a biography on my great-great grandfather, Reuben Holcomb (my father's great-grandfather) and a pioneer in Wisconsin.
Did you ever have a "genealogy moment" . . . a time when you made a key discovery that opened the door to your entire family history? That happened to me in the summer of 2008.
That was in 2002. For the next few years, I would occasionally search for family names but most of the time, I came up empty. But something was happening with on-line research that I was not aware of. More and more searchable information was becoming available, some for free and some for a price. Fast forward to 2008. On a Friday afternoon as the work day was ending, I started typing in some names. I was actually typing in Goldner, another of my father's ancestors, who were from Chicago. All of a sudden, I came across a Louis Goldner born in 1861. I had been to the cemetery in the western suburbs and also had an obituary for Louis so when I saw this I knew it was my Louis. The information was on a website called Kindred Konnections and I would need to fork over $18.00 for a one month membership if I wanted to get any additional information. This was the first time I had found anything in quite a while so, a little desperate, I signed-up. I did find some valuable information on Louis and his brothers and parents. Not a lot but it was stuff I did not have. Since the membership was paid for, I decided to type in some other names. So I entered Reuben Holcomb and that is when my genealogy moment happened . . . jack-pot . . . there he was. Not only was Reuben listed but also included were his ancestors all the way back to Thomas Holcombe and the beginnings of this country. I had hit the genealogy mother-load. For those of you who get into this stuff, you know the feeling I was having at that moment. I had wanted colonial ancestry and now I had it in spades. Wow!
If you want to read about Thomas and Reuben Holcomb(e) and any other ancestors of mine, go to my Archive Page and click on any post.Something else happened that day, the ancestry bug really bit me and I got serious. I started searching the web for everything I could find on Thomas Holcombe. This led me to the Holcombe Family Website. Here I found detailed information on my line of the family and much more. It was awesome and the information lead to more information. I would spend the next couple of years trying to get a handle on all of that information. I would also make mistakes, get things wrong, fail to cross-check information or verify the facts. It was definitely a learning process and that process continues to this day.
What was interesting about my initial find was that my Reuben had just been added to the Holcombe Website in 2007. That was the year that one of his descendants provided the Holcombe Family website with a connection. It just wasn't there prior to that and so I could never find it. But I have also been lucky as Thomas Holcombe and his allied families are well documented. The discovery opened the floodgates for me. Since that time, I have accumulated over 1000 documents about my family from many sources: photo's, maps, places, names, dates. I have census records, passenger records, military records, local histories, burial information and other documents. I have also broadened my search to include more publications, additional family furnished information and numerous cemetery visits in Wisconsin and Illinois.
In about 10 years (but mostly just the last three or four) I went from knowing just a small amount about my family history to becoming the "family historian." I feel so much richer for the experience, so much more connected to places and history of this country and so grateful to all of those who have done the hard work and made their discoveries available to the rest of us. It all goes back to that Friday afternoon, where with low expectations, grasping at straws, I typed some family names into the Google search box.
Additional Reading:
Genealogy and the Internet
1940 Census - Once in a Lifetime
Two Years of Blogging about Genealogy


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The long-awaited new studio album Tearing Down The Walls Released on April 14th, 2014 via earMUSIC. Featuring the new single "A Shot At Redemption" taken from the same titled 4-track EP – released February 14
"What can you say about H.E.A.T? If you don't like these energetic Swedes you must be dead inside, as this year they've shown the UK crowd how to be the most complete band on the planet." – Classic Rock Magazine
April 14th, 2014 sees the UK release of the long awaited new studio album "Tearing Down The Walls" by Swedish rock band H.E.A.T via earMUSIC. Once again the band decided the move into Bohus Studio with Grammy-award winning producer Tobias Lindell and created an explosive, fresh sound. The first sneak peak of the album is the lead single A Shot At Redemption. It confirms all that H.E.A.T showed before and more: a catchy hookline, a driven beat, the obligatory guitar solo and the raw, beyond comparison vocals of singer Erik Grцnwall.
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Added on top to the "A Shot At Redemption" EP are the previously unreleased "Under Your Skin", a goosebumps worthy acoustic version of H.E.A.T's "In And Out Of Trouble" and a sensual cover of one of the greatest ballads, "She"s Like The Wind". Four songs to enjoy the energetic and explosive side of H.E.A.T and their great talent for ballads, to ease the wait for the very anticipated new studio album.
"Tearing Down The Walls" – their brand new studio work – is the follow-up to the successful "Address The Nation" which was praised by media worldwide as one of the best album's in 2012 and consolidated the band's reputation as the new leading band in hard edged melodic rock.
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CMJ picks his 100 greatest cricketers of all time - Times Online
as we try to select our top 25 batsmen and bowlers chris martin jenkins has written a book on his top 100 test cricketers. should be worth a discussion
CMJ picks his 100 greatest cricketers of all time - Times Online
as we try to select our top 25 batsmen and bowlers chris martin jenkins has written a book on his top 100 test cricketers. should be worth a discussion
no kumble in top 100? that is strange.
alan davidson may not find a place too.
the top 10, i guess, could be
This guy has no clue what his talking about. No Matthew Hayden but yet Sangakkara, Pietersen, Jayasuriya, Jayawardene and Smith all made the list.
Jayasuriya rated ahead of Dravid, Flower, Donald, Holding, Walsh, Greenidge, etc.
Love reading lists and it's an impossible task really as he mentioned in the article.
A little surprised that he'd have KP already ahead of Steve Waugh, but ah well.
Anyways I put together a list of my own...
001. Sir Donald Bradman
002. Sir Garfield Sobers
003. Sir Jack Hobbs
004. Shane Warne
005. Sachin Tendulkar
006. Sir Vivian Richards
007. Imran Khan
008. Ricky Ponting
009. Walter Hammond
010. Glenn McGrath
011. Malcom Marshall
012. Wasim Akram
013. Graeme Pollock
014. Curtly Ambrose
015. Muttiah Muralitharan
016. Keith Miller
017. Brian Lara
018. Greg Chappell
019. Sunil Gavaskar
020. Sir Leonard Hutton
021. Sir Richard Hadlee
022. Dennis Lillee
023. Fred Trueman
024. Michael Holding
025. Joel Garner
026. Ian Botham
027. Dennis Compton
028. Matthew Hayden
029. Steve Waugh
030. Allan Border
031. Jacques Kallis
032. Javed Miandad
033. Rahul Dravid
034. Hebert Sutcliffe
035. Neil Harvey
036. Allan Donald
037. Kevin Pietersen
038. Adam Gilchrist
039. Frank Worrell
040. Jim Laker
041. Waqar Younis
042. Allan Davidson
043. Andy Flower
044. Courtney Walsh
045. Shaun Pollock
046. Anil Kumble
047. Clyde Walcott
048. Bill Ponsford
049. Jeff Thomson
050. Ken Barrington
051. Barry Richards
052. Ray Lindwall
053. Kumar Sangakkara
054. Victor Trumper
055. Bill O'Reilly
056. Everton Weekes
057. Bon Willis
058. Richie Benaud
059. Kapil Dev
060. Peter May
061. Arthur Morris
062. Gordon Greenidge
063. Graeme Smith
064. Headley Verity
065. Geoffrey Boycott
066. Abdul Qadir
067. Lance Gibbs
068. Sydney Barnes
064. Wilfred Rhodes
065. Allan Knott
066. Clarrie Grimmett
067. Alec Bedser
068. Graham Gooch
069. Bill Johnston
070. Peter Pollock
071. Derek Underwood
072. Bishan Bedi
073. John Snow
074. Les Ames
075. Stan McCabe
076. Clive Lloyd
077. Andrew Flintoff
078. David Gower
079. Wes Hell
080. Andy Roberts
081. Mohammad Yousuf
082. Colin Cowdrey
083. Inzamam-ul-Haq
084. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
085. Bruce Mitchell
086. Doug Walters
087. Ted Dexter
088. Harold Larwood
089. George Lohmann
090. FR Spofforth
091. Vijay Merchant
092. Shoaib Akhtar
093. Brian Statham
094. Gary Kirsten
095. Dudley Nourse
096. Bill Lawry
097. Zaheer Abbas
098. Bob Simpson
099. Clem Hill
100. Sir Conrad Hunte
no inzi?
I can understand not picking him in the top fifty, but top hundred?
taking the piss.
I like it. Leaving out Hayden is a bit silly, but you can't have everything.
Rest In Peace Craigos
Ben, Hayden ahead of Sutcliffe, Ponsford, Dravid, Kallis, Richards, Barrington, Trumper, Weekes, Walcott, Waqar, Sydney Barnes, Courtney Walsh, Roberts and Benaud? Can't say I agree with that. Hayden should probably be in the top 100, but certainly not in the top 30 for me. I don't think Ricky Ponting is the 8th greatest player to have ever played the game either. Probably in the Top 30odd, but not the Top 10.
No shame in putting Ponting in the top 10. Statistically, probably the 2nd best batsman ever (not saying he is), and his such a great batsman to watch. Makes runs in the tougher conditions, when the team is in trouble aswell. Playing 130 odd Tests and his lowest average against an opposition country is 47.
Performance wise, he arguably stakes greater claims then Warne or Sobers, who moreso get in people's good books because of reputation and their ability to produce something amazing. What people ignore is that Sobers was moreso a lower-order batsman, who cashed in heavily against India on flat Indian tracks when India was very, very feeble and that although he could bowl pace & spin; he wasn't a talisman with the ball, striking at every 92 balls per wicket, so he was never going to run through an opposition.
Warne also got destroyed by every International batsman who was good enough to make hay against spin bowling. The best two batsman he bowled to in International cricket both murdered him - Tendulkar & Lara. However, Warne was unique and successful, so of course he should be in the top 10 cricketers of alltime, despite the fact that he failed miserably against the best opposition that he faced. Not to say Murali is better because he suffered similar treatment.
The only reason I said Hayden was an all-time great over Dravid on MSN to you is because I honestly didn't want to get into a discussion about Hayden with you, as they're incredibly tedious. I don't rate Hayden anywhere near as highly as you do, and having read up more on Dravid, watched a few video clips I now hold him in far higher regard. He still wouldn't be in my top 20 or probably 30, but I'd have him ahead of Hayden.
As for the claims that Sobers was a lower order batsman that cashed in on flat tracks, it's a pretty laughable opinion tbh. I don't even think it's worth attempting to prove you wrong with stats, as frankly it's so incorrect. A Hayden fan slagging off Sobers for cashing in on Flat tracks is pure hilarity. Sobers was a far better batsman than Hayden could ever hope to be. Sobers was also very good in the field, and was an expert in the close in positions, most notably at slip and leg-slip, and although his bowling was never Marshall-esque, he offered a useful option with his medium-fast seam bowling, and then a very useful left-arm spin option. He is the definition of all-rounder, and the most naturally talented cricketer the game has seen, miles ahead of Ponting.
I notice there's no WG Grace in your list as well?
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RUTHER GLEN, Va. — Authorities have found the remains of the third occupant of the hot air balloon that burst into flames at a Virginia festival, police said Sunday.
Now investigators are trying to determine what made the balloon drift into power lines, catch fire and crash, killing the pilot and two passengers.
Donald Kirk told CNN on Sunday that his son, Daniel Kirk, was on the balloon when it crashed. The 66-year-old Army veteran had been piloting balloons for more than 30 years, lived for flying and never flew if the weather conditions weren't right, his father said.
"He was a very good pilot," Donald Kirk said. "Something happened, I just don't know what happened."
Two members of the University of Richmond women's basketball program were among those aboard, the university said.
Witnesses captured photographs of the balloon after it burst into flames Friday night and crashed into the countryside at the Mid-Atlantic Balloon Festival about 25 miles north of Richmond. Some reported seeing two people either jump or fall from the basket at a dizzying height.
Investigators found the remains of two occupants on Saturday. They located the remains of the third occupant on Sunday morning, Virginia State Police said.
The remains were found about 100 yards north of where one of the occupant's remains were found on Saturday, Corinne Geller of the Virginia State Police said.
Police and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.
Norm Hyde, spokesman for Meadow Event Park, which hosted the festival, said Federal Aviation Administration inspectors were on site Friday, checking balloons and safety records before the balloons took off.
All the balloons' safety records were up to date, he said.
FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said she couldn't confirm whether FAA inspectors were at the Virginia festival, but she said they "routinely conduct surveillance at air shows, balloon festivals and other aviation events."
Before flight, anxiety
Ginny Doyle, associate head basketball coach at the University of Richmond, and Natalie Lewis, director of basketball operations, were on the balloon, the school said in a statement.
"Words cannot begin to express our sorrow," said Keith Gill, the university's director of athletics. "We are all stunned by the tragic news. Our thoughts and prayers go out to their loved ones."
Doyle was a former star player for the school who played a key role in recruiting, according to her biography on the university's website.
She posted on social media about her plans to fly in the balloon on Friday, sharing several pictures of the festival.
"Getting ready to go up in a hot air balloon today," she wrote on Instagram. "Tried it at 6:30am but was too foggy. Will go up this evening #anxiety."
Balloon hit power line as it descended
Weather conditions are one of the elements investigators are looking at, NTSB air safety investigator Heidi Moats said.
There was no inclement weather at the time and, so far, officials don't believe those conditions played a role in the crash, Geller said Saturday.
Thirteen hot air balloons had been soaring on the eve of the Mid-Atlantic Balloon Festival in Doswell, and three were landing close to each other. Two landed safely, Geller said, but as the third balloon descended, it hit a power line, sparking a fire that spread quickly.
The pilot began doing his safety maneuvers and "took every step to manage the situation," Geller said. But then there was an explosion, and the basket and balloon separated.
Those aboard the balloon pleaded for their lives, witness Carrie Hager-Bradley told CNN affiliate WWBT.
"They were just screaming for anybody to help them. 'Help me, help me, sweet Jesus, help, I'm going to die. Oh, my God, I'm going to die,'" she said.
Organizers canceled the festival after the accident.


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Schoolchildren should be given simple radio kits to build so they can learn basic electronics, communications minister Ed Vaizey said yesterday.
"It would be great to get amateur radio kits in schools like we have with the Raspberry Pi," he added, referring to the cheap PC that's sneaking into classrooms to promote computer science to youngsters.
The Tory MP spoke at the opening of the Radio Society of Great Britain's National Radio Centre, which aims to show groups of schoolchildren and other visitors the history and principles of radio technology.
It is hoped that teaching tykes the foundations of wireless communications will help them appreciate and take a greater interest in things they take for granted - from Oyster cards to 3G mobile web surfing.
"Looking around the room, I can see amateur radio appeals to a certain demographic, but there's nothing wrong with that," Vaizey told the society's radio hams.
He acknowledged that the broadcast hobbyists were involved in "long-term technical work, which may not have the glamour of jumping out of aeroplanes but still contributes to national greatness".
A 1920s radio in The National Radio Centre at Bletchley Park…
…and one of today's top-of-the-range transceivers: the Yaesu FTDX-9000D at the centre
The small centre was set up at Bletchley Park, home of the boffins who cracked Nazi Germany's Enigma-encrypted messages during the Second World War.
The building has a cinema, four historical radio exhibits and a functional broadcast centre packing some top-end kit - including a £9,000 Yaesu FTDX-9000D transceiver complete with a HF aerial, and a Kenwood TS-2000 VHF/UHF transceiver hooked up to a satellite-tracking remote-controlled aerial.
Carlos Eavis, who oversees the National Radio Society's education efforts, said the amateur radio kit equivalent of a Raspberry Pi would be a £1.50 crystal set: it doesn't need a battery and just requires wiring up an aerial, tuning coil, diode, a couple of capacitors and an ear piece. That's all you need to pick up primitive AM radio.
Older kids could solder together a relatively more complex design involving transistors, he added:
For a group of 12- to 13-year-olds, I'd suggest a battery-powered transistor radio. Even with a simple one, you can learn what all the components do. An average one is £5 or £6. You can play around with all the aspects of radio on a computer but you're not building the hardware that way.
He admitted that sometimes, amateur radio was a hard sell:
If you get a group of 16-year-old girls and talk about 'amateur radio' their eyes glaze over. But if you take their mobile phones and show that you can read the Bluetooth signal coming off it they pay attention.
"You have to explain to them that their phone is a radio device," Eavis continued. "They use radio every day even if they don't listen to the radio. They always think about radio in the broadcast sense - like Radio 4 is something that their parents listen to.
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New ways to think about age and fertility
NEW YORK -- I often joke that working in women's media for six years has made me way too aware about how one's fertility declines with age. My husband and I decided to start trying to conceive when I was 29, in part, because I knew, from all of the articles I'd read on the job, that my eggs were rapidly shriveling up and dying with each passing day. I should amend that statement. I thought I knew my eggs were rapidly shriveling up and dying. A jaw-dropping new article by Jean Twenge in the Atlantic shows that a lot of what we've been told about the fertility plunge that happens to women in their 30s has been highly oversold.
Here's just one example of how imprecise the popular literature surrounding fertility is. Facts that I remember parroting to my husband -- that I had a 20 percent chance of conceiving each time I ovulated -- turn out to be based on no specific published medical literature. The study that Twenge did discover, by biostatistician David Dunson, who is now at Duke University, found that:
[I]ntercourse two days before ovulation resulted in pregnancy 29 percent of the time for 35-to-39-year-old women, compared with about 42 percent for 27-to-29-year-olds. So, by this measure, fertility falls by about a third from a woman's late 20s to her late 30s. However, a 35-to-39-year-old's fertility two days before ovulation was the same as a 19-to-26-year-old's fertility three days before ovulation: according to Dunson's data, older couples who time sex just one day better than younger ones will effectively eliminate the age difference.
Even more shocking is that a lot of the statistics we hear about modern fertility are based on historical data from French birth records from 1670 to 1830. According to Dunson's research on contemporary women, there is only a 4 percent drop in pregnancy rates from age 28 to age 37. This comes as a huge shock because almost everything I've read takes it as a given that age 35 is a huge cliff that you will fall off of with a resounding splat.
It is true that if you have fertility problems, it's better to know that sooner rather than later, as interventions work more successfully on younger women. And Twenge does bring up the fact that birth defects increase with a mother's age -- though not as much as we might think. The data about all of this is still sparse and we need more research to know more.
Some things Twenge's article doesn't mention: how pregnancy can affect an older woman's body differently than it affects a younger woman's body. And then there are the benefits that are not quite so tangible -- enjoying your children for longer; having a greater probability of seeing grandchildren; having your own parents be involved in your child's life.
That said, it's wonderful news that the statistics about fertility decline have potentially been exaggerated. Then perhaps we can push back against attitudes that women are "waiting too long" because they're deluded or selfish or career-obsessed.
Most women time their children based on a host of factors -- economic stability and romantic stability among them. We can't all snap our fingers and have a good marriage and a stable career in our 20s because that's the "optimal" age to have children. I'd also love to be able to dance and have really, really thick hair, but that ain't happening either. It's good to hear that our bodies will cooperate with the way society has changed. I don't know that I would have made my choices differently armed with this new knowledge. But I'm glad it's out there.


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The Funniest Stand Up Comedians Of All Time
List Rules Stand up comedians only. Must have done actual stand-up, not just film or TV.
A ranked list of the best stand up comedians in the history of the art form. First and foremost, all of the people on this list are funny comedians. But beyond that, this is a diverse list of people with different styles who approach different types of subject matter. These are the cream of the crop: they are the top comedians in the game, and many thousands of people agree. Many of the popular comedians listed below worked their way up through the stand up circuit and eventually landed a show on Comedy Central, while others started their own web series and put their best stand up out into the world that way. The funniest comedians can come from any type of background, obviously there are insanely talented black, Asian, Latino and white comedians (and everything in between.)
Being a good stand-up comic is tough, and whether they're an observationist, an orator, an absurdist, blue collar, or alternative, all of the funny comedians on this list are unique, hardworking, and hilarious. Many of the best comedians of all time got their start as stand-up comedians and then progressed to star in their own films or TV series. It takes a certain skill set and ability to connect with people to excel at stand-up comedy, and we feel that these are the ones that shine.
This list is made of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians and then some. The top comedians are always changing. Feel free to add your votes to this Crowd-Ranked list of the greatest stand ups of all time, or make your own contributing list and give your voice more weight in the calculations.


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Hispanic rights leader Obledo dies at 78
Obituary: Mario Obledo, who rose from selling newspapers in downtown San Antonio as a boy to steering the Chicano civil rights movement at its peak, died Wednesday in Sacramento, Calif.
Mario Obledo, who rose from selling newspapers in downtown San Antonio as a boy to steering the Chicano civil rights movement at its peak, died Wednesday in Sacramento, Calif.
Obledo co-founded the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, among others. In 1982, he ran unsuccessfully for governor of California.
Obledo died of a massive heart attack. He had suffered complications of diabetes in recent years, and both of his legs had been amputated. He was 78.
"Mario had a huge impact on San Antonio history," former Mayor Henry Cisneros said. "But few San Antonians fully appreciate the impact that he had nationally."
"If you want to make a difference, you do things that will reach beyond your time," he said. "Mario Obledo's co-founding of MALDEF is the kind of impact that will be felt almost into perpetuity."
State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte said Obledo's death was a personal and public loss. She said the "icon of the Latino community" wrote her a letter of recommendation to get her into pharmacy school.
"He had a consuming devotion to Latino students," Van de Putte said.
At his death, the Fox Tech High School graduate, a trained pharmacist and lawyer, was president of the National Coalition of Hispanic Organizations in Sacramento.
Obledo was former California Gov. Jerry Brown's secretary of health and welfare and the president of the League of United Latin American Citizens. He received the nation's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, from President Bill Clinton in 1998 and the Ohtli Award from Mexico in 1985. That award is presented to U.S. citizens of Mexican descent for public service.
Obledo was born to immigrants who arrived in San Antonio after the Mexican Revolution. His father died when he was 5, Roth said, leaving his mother, Concepción Guerra Obledo, to raise 12 children alone. He was the ninth child.
The older children held jobs while going to school, and even the youngest found ways to help out. Obledo sold newspapers and shined shoes downtown. Later, he hung around Baptist Hospital's pharmacy, showing early interest in the profession.
His sister Gode Roth said that while their beginnings were humble, "no one slept on the floor," as a major newspaper reported last week.
In fact, a village came to his mother's side.
"We had an aunt who was very good about helping us," said Roth, who also credited San Antonio businessman Roy Akers, among others, with helping the family.
"He was everything to us," she said. "He was very important in our growing up."
The Akers family even sought to adopt a couple of the boys, but her mother wouldn't have it.
Roth said her mother's unrelenting focus on education and language skills pushed the Obledo children to succeed.
"We had a picket fence. She said, 'Inside the fence, you speak Spanish to me,'" Roth said. But her mother insisted that outside the fence, her children speak English.
All 12 graduated from Fox Tech, Roth said.
When Obledo came to Minneapolis in summer 1947 to visit Roth, then at the University of Minnesota, "there were signs of him wanting to do something big."
Mario Obledo enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin in 1949. After a stint as a Navy radar technician during the Korean War, he went back to UT in 1955 on the GI Bill. He graduated in 1957.
He worked as a pharmacist while pursuing a law degree at St. Mary's University. He graduated in 1960. By that time, he was married to his first wife, Mary. They had three children.
Obledo was in private practice until the mid-1960s, until he was appointed assistant attorney general of Texas in 1965, serving until 1968.
He was MALDEF's first general counsel and later its president, working to improve Hispanics' political representation and access to education.
Roth said her brother was driven by the poverty and injustice he saw around him.
"He was a humanist," said Rosa Rosales, past president of LULAC. "He worked for the well-being of Latino communities and all communities."
Obledo left MALDEF in 1973 to teach at Harvard Law School before being tapped by Brown as secretary of health and welfare. He left that post in 1981.
"He was a very down-to-earth person," said activist Rosie Castro. "There was no pretense. Even though he had reached great heights and had so many accomplishments, he was still Mario."
"Texas was still in his heart," said his son Mario Obledo Jr.
"The impressive thing about him was he was on the level, upfront. He didn't play games," said Mario Compean, a founder of the Raza Unida Party.
"He was a beautiful guy," said former state Sen. Joe Bernal. "He was very sensitive about people's problems."
A memorial in San Antonio is being planned, his son said. His funeral Mass in Sacramento will be Friday.
"Though MALDEF is now headquartered in Los Angeles, its roots came out of the hotbed of San Antonio's civil rights politics in the 1960s," Cisneros said. "Mario Obledo was right at the center of it. The Latino community owes him, and the nation owes him."


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If Google users are ever in China, they may need to draw a few Chinese characters to get a direct translation on their computers. While the feature has been on Android for a year, it's now finally available for the desktop on the Google Translate homepage.
The new feature is considered a necessity in countries or regions where the Latin alphabet isn't used, such as China or Japan, according to Xiangye Xiao, a Google product Manager on the official Google Translate blog. From the post:
Handwriting input lets you translate a written expression, even if you don't know how to type the characters. For example, suppose you see the Chinese expression "饺子" and want to know its meaning in English, but have no idea how to type these characters. Using the new handwriting input tool, you can simply draw these characters on your screen and instantly see the translation.
The page supports the handwriting in 45 languages. Handwriting and other Google input tools will be available on Gmail, Drive, Chrome and Android. Although it's probably more handy on Android, it's necessary that Google makes the service available across all its products or it loses the message of its latest move, Google Accounts, which gives users one password for all its services.


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Coale Photograph Collection - PP176
Collection finding aids of photograph collections in the Special Collections Department
ca. 1850-1863
Special Collections Department, Maryland Historical Society
201 W. Monument Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Finding aid created by Katherine Cowan with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, December 1999
Collection Origin
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George B. Coale (1819-1887), an amateur photographer, pursued a life-long career as an insurance executive in Baltimore, working with the Merchants Mutual Marine Insurance Co. His position allowed him to pursue his avocation even while at the desk; he once boasted that "I can . . . let my negatives print themselves in my office window while I am attending to my business". In his leisure time, Coale wandered over the country lanes surrounding Baltimore with camera, in pursuit of the perfect picture.
Sometime around Fall of 1857, Coale traveled Falls Road from the northern city limit (North Ave.) out towards the Ruxton area photographing buildings, mills, and outcroppings with his lens. In Coale's words, "Landscape, Architecture and similar subject (were) chosen for their exercise of skill," resulting in "views of marvellous (sic) accuracy, painted by Nature herself". Coale also travelled and photographed west from Baltimore along the Windsor Mill Road.
Coale's photographic experience prompted him to write an instructional book, A Manual of Photography, appearing in 1858 and purporting to be the first guide for amateur photographers published in the United States. He later joined the New York-based Amateur Photographic Exchange Club, founded in November 1861. These camera enthusiasts, drawn mostly from northern east-coast cities, exchanged copies of their work with fellow members at regular intervals.
By 1863, Coale's photographic activity seems to have ebbed. That summer a friend replying to Coale's earlier leter remarked, "I am sorry to learn you have to suspend your doings . . . with your enthusiastic temperament the weaning must be difficult". Possibly the movements of the Confederate Army throughout Maryland, or the string of protective forts ringing Baltimore interfered with Coale's camera "ruralizing". It is not known if he resumed his camera work with the same vigor following the Civil War. Coale's obituary in the Baltimore American makes no mention of his passion for photography, describing him merely as "a man of wide information and culture". He was known as an art collector, and was, as well, the second librarian of the Maryland Historical Society.
-- This section was adapted from an essay by Robert Schoeberlein which accompanied a portfolio of Coale images previously published in Maryland Historical Magazine.
Provenance unknown. Possibly transferred from the Manuscripts Department, MS. 676, 1530, 1530.1, or 1530.3 (Gifts of Mary B. Coale Redwood or her estate, 1924, 1934, and 1941).
The collection consists of 1 box with 35 folders containing 50 photoprints, made in ca. 1850-1863. Subjects are views along Falls Road to the northwest and along Windsor Mill Road to the southwest of Baltimore. Included are farms, mills, hotels, quarries, train tunnels and bridges, houses, and ruins. There are views of Stricker's and Hollingsworth's mills, Nelson's Hotel, a Catonsville blacksmith shop, and the Jones Falls and Patapsco Rivers. There is also an image of African-American men at a shanty/wash-house, and one carte de visite portrait of George B. Coale.
Note: Related materials are found in the Manuscripts Department of the Maryland Historical Society: MS. 676 and MS. 1530, the Redwood Collection; MS. 1530.1, the Redwood Collection Transcripts; and MS. 1530.3, the George B. Redwood Papers.
The photographs are arranged according to PP catalog numbers.
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1 Box
PP176.1 Farms, Baltimore Co.
PP176.2 Farms, Baltimore Co.
PP176.3a,b Old willow, Windsor Mill Road.
PP176.4 The point at which the Falls Road leaves the Valley of Jones Falls, 2 ½ Miles from Baltimore.
PP176.5 Stricker's Mill.
PP176.6 Stricker's Mill.
PP176.7 Stricker's Mill.
PP176.8 Stricker's Mill.
PP176.9 Stricker's Mill.
PP176.10 Stricker's Mill.
PP176.11 Stricker's Mill.
PP176.12 Stricker's Mill.
PP176.13 On Jone's falls, three miles from Baltimore.
PP176.14 White's Mill, later Timanus Mill, also known as Rock Mill.
PP176.15 Falls Road, Profile Rock.
PP176.16 Falls Road, Profile Rock.
PP176.17 Gneiss Quarry, Falls Road.
PP176.18 Hollingsworth's Mills.
PP176.19 Hollingsworth's Mills.
PP176.20 Hollingsworth's Mills.
PP176.21 Hollingsworth's Mills.
PP176.22 Jones Falls, 2 miles from Baltimore (Rock Mill dam).
PP176.23 Jones Falls, Rock Mill Dam (White's Mill/Timanus Mill).
PP176.24 Falls Road, Turnpike Gate, ca. 1860.
PP176.25 Falls Road, Turnpike Gate, ca. 1860.
PP176.26 Falls Road, stone house.
PP176.27 Falls Road, frame house, façade.
PP176.28 Falls Road, frame house, different view of façade.
PP176.29 Falls Road, frame house, rear view.
PP176.30 Falls Road, stucco house.
PP176.31 Falls Road, observatory? (Is this George Dobbin's observatory at "The Lawn"? Not on Falls Road!).
PP176.32 Falls Road, ruins of stone house.
PP176.33 Patapsco River at Thomas Viaduct.
PP176.34 Patapsco River at Thomas Viaduct.
PP176.35 Blacksmith Shop, Catonsville.
PP176.36 Potomac River near St. John's Run, B&O Railroad.
PP176.37 Railroads B&O tunnel.
PP176.38 Reading Railroad Bridge.
PP176.39 Elk Ridge, ca. 1860.
PP176.40 Nelson's Hotel.
PP176.41 West Saratoga St. at Park St., Baltimore.
PP176.42 Cheat River Valley.
PP176.43a,b Windsor Mill Road [African-American men at shanty/wash-house].
PP176.44 Unidentified women [sketches on verso] Coale?
PP176.45 Tygart Valley River, ca. 1860.
PP176.46 George B. Coale.
PP176.47a,b Bujac's House, Old Windsor Mill Rd.
PP176.48 Thomas Viaduct, before 1873
PP176.49 Thomas Viaduct, ca 1860-1867
PP176.50 Patapsco River above Thomas Viaduct at Relay, ca 1860-1868
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Yazan Hijazin-Benchark Bench
At Design Interviews
Interview with Yazan Hijazin : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Yazan Hijazin : My inspiration for this piece comes from the space it was designed for; an Art Gallery. It's the only piece of furniture that was made for the gallery visitors to set on and enjoy the various paintings that are hung over the gallery's walls which are constantly changing according to artists' work on exhibition. Therefore, I wanted the only piece of furniture to be on the same level of its surroundings; creative and unique while keeping its main function. On the other hand, people of different backgrounds will be using the bench, and I always have been fascinated by one common element in people-no matter where they come from; contradiction. Contradiction is a sign of maturity I strongly believe. Hence I wanted my piece to have such a trait as well, as a result, I chose to work on a unique blend of motion and stillness. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Yazan Hijazin : In general, I wanted to create a whole new design for a bench, impressing my client, and all potential visitors to the Gallery. In particular, I wanted to create a versatile design. I presented this version with wood, bronze and copper finish. If I can get an international chance to produce this design with a proper manufacturer, I can present BenchArk in other materials and on different scales. I can see the wooden part replaced with old antique-finish silver while the current metal part can be made of either traditional fabrics or even burgundy modern finished wood. Creating a design that can be equally good with different materials is an obsession of mine, I guess. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Yazan Hijazin : Initially it was designed for Orient gallery. Now it's a Golden Award winner. I hope I will cross paths with the right partner. The more international the better. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Yazan Hijazin : It's my first time ever to design a bench. I presented three options for my client, and I was hoping for BenchArk to be selected, which they did. It took me 21 days to develop a concept and a hand-made model. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Yazan Hijazin : It was a commission by Orient Gallery based in Amman-Jordan. The design was made to inspire. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Yazan Hijazin : I am open to suggestions and collaborations. Some offers are on the table. Whatever is the best for BenchArk, I'll do it. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Yazan Hijazin : Actually none. It all came out of my head. I tell you this; I have been surprising myself a lot since I stepped into this field. I am the hardest boss on myself. I want to get more chances to prove to myself first and everyone else second that an anonymous Jordanian designer can be a world-wide known. Hence my brand: Anknownymous. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Yazan Hijazin : Thank you for this question. I strongly believe that BenchArk can be a unique piece in a hotel lobby, a lounge, a villa, a palace or even any spacious interiors. If I get the chance to reproduce BenchArk internationally, I have already thought of some interesting modification to make it even close to a platinum award ;). .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Yazan Hijazin : Many factors on the design level; its structural design, size, and the blend of materials it is made of. The unconventional structure of BenchArk design comes on top, in my opinion. It's a different bench structure that blends organic movements of its legs with a minimalist and modern straight line. As in most of my collection pieces I work with both modern and minimalist aspects and combine them with contemporary classic curves. Its length, 3.5 meters, is above average which imposes strong presence and demands attention, even in a space that's filled with high quality art. Finally the mixture of materials between wood and bronze and copper is somehow original, especially that the metals have been used in their real powder form which was a very conscious way of reaching the desired look and finish of bronze and copper using a fraction of the cost compared to using the actual metal sheet format. This bench was designed by a Jordanian investment banker! and it wasn't produced by a large size manufacturer, on the contrary, it is a hand-made piece at a small carpentry shop in Amman. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Yazan Hijazin : I was designing a bench that I wanted it to be the benchmark for all other benches. The design resembles an abstract of structural remains of an ancient wooden ark. Having said so, the name as is, is a random suggestion of a very close friend of mine through a brainstorming session in order to find the right name. The moment he said BenchArk, I knew I not only have a unique design, but also the perfect name. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Yazan Hijazin : I started with hand sketches then a hand-made model using aluminum foil, isolation sheets, golden tape and some pins. And after client approval, I made an AutoCad file for the side prospective in order to help the carpenter in cutting the wood as per the unconventional lines of the bench. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Yazan Hijazin : A design that radiates contradiction between motion and stillness yet is in full harmony. BenchArk is a blend between art and function, therefore it demands attention .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Yazan Hijazin : First challenge was to have such a commission in the first place, taking my none-design background into account. Second, finding the right level of know-how among the local craftsmanship taking the very basic furniture design/manufacturing industry in Jordan into consideration was very challenging, especially when it comes to bespoke design. Jordan design industry doesn't use proper 3d computerized machines, no single Laser cut machine exist and not to mention very limited wood suppliers with little varieties of wood types. The concept of a prototype means a waste of money and time for most carpenters; the small-sized carpenters would be afraid of taking such an assignment, and the big guys find it financially very unrewarding. Finally it wasn't easy, execution wise, to apply more than 2.5 Kg of real metal powder of bronze and cooper in order to reach the final desired finish/look. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Yazan Hijazin : I will always be looking for the right international award to participate in. I am looking for an international exposure. I have big dreams and I am only driven by passion and raw talent. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Yazan Hijazin : The self satisfaction that I got when my client saw the bench for the first time has emphasized my belief that exceeding a client's expectation is a very rewarding strategy. The relationship that arises between me and the bench from concept to realization has enriched me on all fronts. Last but not least, I was extremely lucky to have such a client as Orient Gallery. Mrs. Hala Jardaneh, the owner, has left me absolute freedom to execute my vision, the only restriction was 3.5 meter long bench. A designer rarely comes across such a client. This unique situation has unleashed a higher level of creativity and made me capable of transforming my mental images into reality. This, I believe, has led me to win a Golden Award. I am so grateful. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Yazan Hijazin : Yes, I feel obliged to thank some key people who have supported me on various fronts. First my client, Orient Gallery represented by Mrs. Hala Jardaneh, the amazing professional carpenter Mr. Yousef Tahhan, Mrs. Rania Omaish, editor in chief for Trendesign Magazin, the talented photographer Miss Linda Khouri , and my family and close friends for their continuous support, in particular I would like to thank Noura and Sami. .
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(CNN) - In a photo posted from Bill Clinton's Twitter account just after midnight on Tuesday, the former President is sitting in a military airplane, reading some kind of device and sporting a pair of sunglasses.
Look familiar?
"I'm following my leader!" the tweet read.
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The image appears to be Bill Clinton edited into his wife's Twitter profile picture, a meme-friendly image that went viral in 2012. The former secretary of state can be seen staring down at her BlackBerry on a C-17 transport to Libya while wearing a pair of shades.
The photo on Bill Clinton's Twitter account has the same people in the background, only it's the former President who's seen glaring at a device.
Hillary Clinton tweeted back: "Well, that explains what happened to my iPad!"
The original photo, taken by Diana Walker for Time magazine, inspired the tumblr, "Texts from Hillary," which kicked off in April 2012. Using memes, the website imagines conversations that Clinton has with celebrities or political figures who are also shown looking at their phone.
Hillary Clinton embraced the website, inviting Adam Smith and Stacy Lambe, the co-creators of "Texts from Hillary," to her office and presenting them with her own version of the meme.
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Hello TMC'ers!
It's been many many years since I've been online - in that time, coffee went from being something important to something put the back burner in my pursuit of travelling and photography.
Now I've moved from London to Singapore and looking to rekindle my love for coffee. The lovely L'anna broke down in transit and I had to send her off for repairs. She's now come back but things just don't seem right. Pressure at the group head is now closer to 13 and seems to jet out when I remember the water dancing. I've also got a gut feel that the temperature is just too high.
Does anyone have some tips on setting the l'anna up so I can adjust the various pressures, temperatures etc so I can get her back to live again?
Thanks all!