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Trace the "Steps" to the American Revolution
There were quite a few developments that led up to the American Revolution, and it can be challenging to remember them all. The Hat Act, the Tea Act, the Stamp Act and the Boston Massacre are just a few of the events that paved the way for the colonists to revolt against England. Want to help your child keep them all straight? This project shows you how to create a visual representation of all the different steps—literally. Engage the whole family (or classroom!) in the activity by delegating different roles to everyone: tracers, fact checkers, writers, and coloring experts!
What You Need:
- Social studies book
- Paper
- Pencil
- Markers or colored pencils
- Scissors
- Tape
What You Do:
- Have the official "tracer" trace different left and right feet onto separate pieces of paper. Have him go around and trace all the members of the family, as it's fun (and helpful) to feature feet of different sizes on the paper.
- Next, invite your child cut out all the traced feet.
- On the inside of each traced foot, have her write a different event that lead to the American Revolution, using her social studies book as a guide. In each of the cut-out feet, be sure to include the date and a brief summary of what happened.
- Now, ask her to decorate the feet with small symbols or pictures. Use bigger feet to indicate more significant events and use smaller feet to show less important events.
- Tape the feet to the wall, the floor, or a window in chronological order.
This activity can be adapted to suit any series of steps leading up to a major event. You can even chart the history of your family "step by step"!


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dCore on Acer Aspire One ZG5
The Aspire One ZG5 is a 8.9-inch netbook from 2008. It features an Intel 945GSE Express chip set with an Intel Atom N270 and up to 1.5 GB of RAM.
Hardware-switch for wireless card
The wireless card can be turned off by a hardware-switch located at the right of the front edge. Be warned about touching that switch, though, as it is impossible to re-activate the card from the running system. That is possible only during the boot-phase.
The sole solution to this problem seems to physically de-activate the responsible pin on the card (e.g. instructions in German).
acer_wmi kernel module would be responsible for such task, yet the hardware is not supported and writes so to the boot-screen. (The same holds for the modules
acerhk and
wistron_btns.) Therefore the module may well be black-listed by the
blacklist boot-code.
Fan Control
The fan is notorious for spinning up unnecessarily and not seizing to spin. The following code in 'bootlocal.sh' loads the
acerhdf module at boot such that the fan starts running at a temperature above 65C and stops below 60C. The
sleep command may be necessary or not.
modprobe acerhdf interval=10 fanon=65000 fanoff=60000 kernelmode=0 verbose=0 #sleep 10s echo -n "enabled" > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/mode echo 0 > /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/cdev0/cur_state
To manually shut off the fan, one may use the following command and maybe make a shell alias for it.
echo 0 | sudo tee /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/cdev0/cur_state
Suspending to RAM works without a flaw through the following command.
echo mem | sudo tee /sys/power/state
Seemingly the settings for the touchpad (see below) do not persist across suspension, likely because the X-screen is re-built in a way. Most notably two-finger tapping is interpreted as right-click then. Thus the scripts under '~/.X.d/' have to be re-run.
Embedding this all into a shelll alias can be done through the following line in '~/.ashrc' (add more scripts if applicable).
alias s='echo mem | sudo tee /sys/power/state ; ~/.X.d/synaptics'
The latter command is executed after waking up from suspension.
The touchpad works with two-finger scrolling out of the box. Due to its minuscule size, "middle-tap" (lower right corner) is quite hard to get right. Therefore I prefer to have two-finger tapping be recoginzed.
The following code placed in a file 'synaptics' under '~/.X.d/' does it. Some more options are commented out. The page on Synaptics in the Archlinux-Wiki provides more information about available configuration settings.
#!/bin/sh #/usr/bin/synclient HorizEdgeScroll=0 #/usr/bin/synclient VertEdgeScroll=0 #/usr/bin/synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1 #/usr/bin/synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1 #/usr/bin/synclient RBCornerButton=3 #/usr/bin/synclient RTCornerButton=2 /usr/bin/synclient TapButton1=1 /usr/bin/synclient TapButton2=2
The program 'synclient' is imported through the package
Three-finger tapping does not seem to be recognized at all on this machine.
Screen back-light
The screen luminosity may be controlled by the keyboard (presumably via ACPI).
Further information
There are numerous Internet pages dedicated to this type of computer that contain tips and tweaks.

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PYONGYANG, NORTH KOREA—North Korea said Friday that it had executed Kim Jong Un's uncle as a traitor for trying to seize supreme power, a stunning end for the leader's former mentor, long considered the country's No. 2 official.
In a sharp reversal of the long-held popular image of Jang Song Thaek as a kindly uncle guiding Kim Jong Un as he consolidated power, the North's official Korean Central News Agency indicated that Jang instead saw the death of Kim Jong Il in December 2011 as an opportunity to challenge his nephew and win power.
Jang had been tried and executed, North Korea said, for "attempting to overthrow the state by all sorts of intrigues and despicable methods with a wild ambition to grab the supreme power of our party and state." It called him a "traitor to the nation for all ages" and "worse than a dog."
The unusually detailed announcement came only days after North Korea said it had "eliminated" Jang from all his postsit had "eliminated" Jang from all his posts. Despite the strong language and allegations in the announcement Monday of Jang's fall, there had been no sign in North Korean media of an imminent execution.
Kim Jong Un has overseen other high-profile purges since taking over after the death of his father, Kim Jong Il, two years ago. But none of the purges have been as public — or as close to home — as the downfall of Jang.
Analysts say Kim Jong Un has acted swiftly and ruthlessly to bolster his own power and show strength, but there are fears in Seoul that the removal of Jang and his followers could lead to instability, a miscalculation or even attack on the South. Jang had been seen by outsiders as the leading supporter of Chinese-style economic reforms and an important link between Pyongyang and Beijing.
In Seoul, top presidential security and government ministers began an unscheduled meeting Friday to discuss Jang's execution and its aftermath, according to the presidential Blue House.
During his two years in power Kim Jong Un has overseen nuclear and missile tests, other high-profile purges and a barrage of threats this spring, including vows of nuclear strikes against Washington and Seoul. His father, Kim Jong Il, took a much lower public profile when he rose to power after the death of his father, Kim Il Sung, in 1994.
Although the high-level purges could indicate confidence, Victor Cha, a former senior White House adviser on Asia, said he sees signs of "a lot of churn in the system."
"If he has to go as high as purging and then executing Jang, it tells you that everything's not normal in the system," said Cha, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think-tank in Washington. "When you take out Jang, you're not taking out just one person — you're taking out scores if not hundreds of other people in the system. It's got to have some ripple effect."
North Korea has recently turned to attempts at diplomacy with South Korea and the United States. But tensions have remained high since Pyongyang's threats in March and April. Those included warnings that it would restart nuclear bomb fuel production.
There was no immediate word about the fate of Jang's wife, Kim Kyong Hui, the younger sister of Kim Jong Il. She was also seen as an important mentor to Kim Jong Un after her brother's 2011 death.
The White House said it could not independently confirm reports of Jang's execution, but has "no reason to doubt" the report from KCNA.
Patrick Ventrell, a National Security Council spokesman, said, "if confirmed, this is another example of the extreme brutality of the North Korean regime."
The KCNA report called Jang a "despicable political careerist and trickster" and "despicable human scum."
But it was also unusually specific. For instance, it criticized Jang for not rising and applauding his nephew's previous appointment to a senior position because Jang "thought that if Kim Jong Un's base and system for leading the army were consolidated, this would lay a stumbling block in the way of grabbing the power."
Jang was described earlier this week by state media as "abusing his power," being "engrossed in irregularities and corruption," and taking drugs and squandering money at casinos while undergoing medical treatment in a foreign country.
"From long ago, Jang had a dirty political ambition. He dared not raise his head when Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il were alive," KCNA, said.
"He began revealing his true colours, thinking that it was just the time for him to realize his wild ambition in the period of historic turn when the generation of the revolution was replaced."
Jang had been seen as a regent figure as Kim Jong Un was prepared to succeed his father. He rose in party and military ranks alongside his nephew, often dressed in a trim white general's uniform and standing within arm's length of Kim on field visits and at state events.
Last year, Jang went to China as head of a business delegation to discuss establishing special economic zones. He was also chairman of the State Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Commission, one of Kim Jong Un's pet projects. Kim Jong Un is a basketball fan and famously invited American basketball star Dennis Rodman for a rare official visit to the country.
Last week, South Korea's spy agency reported that Jang might have been dismissed, and said his two closest confidants had been executed.


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David Belasco opened the Stuyvesant in October 1907, having already bequeathed his name on his 42nd St playhouse, now the New Victory. When he relinquished the 42nd St theatre in 1910, he immediately renamed the Stuyvesant as the Belasco. He provided himself with a duplex apartment above the theatre that had the décor of a Gothic church, and housed much of his theatrical memorabilia. Following his death, the theatre was rumored to be haunted by his ghost, until it was banished by the risqué production, Oh Calcutta!. The theatre came under Shubert ownership in 1948.
Belasco conceived the auditorium of the Belasco Theatre as a living room. He was a proponent of the "Little Theater" movement, which held that the dramatic experience depended partly on the proximity of the audience to the actors, and the shallow depth of the Belasco auditorium accomplishes just that. George Keister was commissioned to design the theatre, with Everett Shinn producing murals (18 of them) and other interior décor. The playhouse is Keister's earliest surviving theatre; he later designed 12 others, including the Apollo in Harlem. His choice of the neo-Georgian style, often used for residences, complemented Belasco's desire for theatrical intimacy. The theatre also boasted a state-of-the-art lighting board capable of producing magical lighting effects. With its freight elevator connecting the basement shops with the stage, it set the technological standard for theatre design. In 2010, the historic Belasco was restored to its former grandeur.
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Details on the Belasco Theatre's Accessibility
Access Information
Access Into Theatre: Theatre is not completely wheelchair accessible. There are 2 steps to box office/lobby. The side entrance has no steps. Please be advised that where there are steps either into or within the theatre, we are unable to provide assistance.
Shubert Audience Services
The Belasco Theatre provides at least 10 infrared assistive listening devices for every performance at the theatre. Beginning 4 weeks after a show's official opening night performance, at least 10 audio description devices are available for every performance at the theatre. In addition, there is unlimited access to downloadable audio description software for personal mobile devices, available beginning 4 weeks after a show's official opening night performance, which provides an automated detailed account of the visual of the production, free of charge, for blind or partially sighted patrons. The theatre also offers hand-held devices and software that provide captioning for deaf or hard of hearing patrons, available beginning 4 weeks after a show's official opening night performance. Additional devices can be available with at least 24 hours' notice by contacting Shubert Audience Services at 212-944-3700 or email@example.com. There is also a representative at the Shubert Audience Services kiosk at every performance to assist any patron with the audio description devices, software, or captioning devices.
Accessibility by Seating Section
Orchestra Location: Seating is accessible to all parts of the Orchestra without steps. There are no steps to the designated wheelchair seating location.
Mezzanine Location: Located on 2nd level, up 1 flight of stairs. Once on the Mezzanine level, there are approximately 2 steps up/down per row. Entrance to Mezzanine is behind row H.
Balcony Location: No elevator, stairs only. Once on the Balcony level, there are approximately 2 steps up/down per row. The entrance to the Balcony is behind row F.
Handrails: Available at the end of every stepped seat row in the Mezzanine and Balcony.
None Available
Located in lobby. Accessible at 54".
Wheelchair accessible restroom available.
Theatre Policies
The use of cameras, recording devices, cell phones, beepers, and other electronic devices during the performance is prohibited. Everyone attending a performance must have a ticket. Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of management. Wheelchair and mobility-impaired seating is intended for patrons with mobility disabilities. Children under the age of four years will not be admitted. No outside food or beverage permitted, unless medically necessary. No weapons permitted on the premises.


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Experience a warm welcome and an authentic Scottish experience at a restaurant with rooms or an inn, all with the convenience of having a restaurant on site where you can mix with the locals and enjoy delicious food and drink.
Why should I choose a restaurant with rooms or an inn?
- You can enjoy a sumptuous meal, safe in the knowledge you only need to walk a short distance to get to bed.
- You can meet friendly locals and pick up tips from people who know the area well.
What is a restaurant with rooms?
It's a restaurant, but some rooms are available to a few lucky guests. In the restaurant, skilled chefs serve up delicious cuisine for residents and non-residents alike. They'll often use locally sourced Scottish ingredients and many hold AA rosettes or even Michelin stars, making them immensely popular places to eat. Booking is recommended!
What can I expect at a restaurant with rooms?
- Comfortable accommodation, usually including breakfast.
- A restaurant that is also open to non-residents.
- Food provided at lunchtime and in the evening.


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FERRISBURGH — An $18,000 federal grant awarded to the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum will allow museum staff to offer the region's teachers free hands-on, on-the-water training, and the materials they need to in turn offer that same outdoor ecology education to their students over the next two years.
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MONTPELIER — The four Addison Northwest Supervisory Union schools are among the 27 Vermont elementary, middle and high schools chosen to participate in field testing the Smarter Balanced Assessment System, a new computer-based educational testing program that will replace the state's current NECAP tests for Math and English Language Arts in the spring of 2015.
MIDDLEBURY — The man accused in a string of burglaries committed in Addison County earlier this year faced additional charges this past Wednesday in Vermont Superior Court's Criminal Division in Middlebury — and was again denied bail.
According to court documents, Raymond Ritchie, 37, of Addison was arraigned Sept. 25 for four more felony counts of burglary, each of which carry a potential life sentence because of his seven prior felony convictions, one from 2005 and six from 2001.
ADDISON COUNTY — The anticipated expiration of the U.S. farm bill on Tuesday could increase uncertainty for one of Addison County's major business sectors, as well as cast the future of food security programs used by local residents in doubt.
"Dairy farmers will be left without a safety net," Rep. Peter Welch, Vermont's lone congressman, said on Friday.
MIDDLEBURY — As Hospice Volunteer Services Director Priscilla Baker knows, death can be a tough subject to discuss — particularly when it involves one's own mortality or that of a loved one.
"We are a death-phobic society," she said on Thursday. "We want to help people find the right language and safety in the conversation."
BRANDON — The Compass Music and Arts Center offers a great opportunity to see a selection of work by one of the area's most beloved artists. Prindle Wissler was a lifelong artist and teacher who studied art at Skidmore College and Columbia University but was a lifetime learner, making discoveries and messes, as she would say, right up to the time of her death in 2011 at the age of 99.
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I just read in the local newspaper that the Hayloft Fabrics may stay in business. They may move into the country furniture store space that is on the first floor of their current building. The space is smaller so the current sale may just be to reduce inventory so that they will fit into their new space.
I'm hoping that it all works out as the Hayloft is only 7 miles from my house and is my "go to" place when I need supplies.


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Introduction to the Boston Acoustics A Series Home Theater Speakers
Boston Acoustics has a well deserved reputation for delivery good sounding and musical speakers at reasonable prices. The very first pair of speakers I owned were Boston Acoustics. It was such a long time ago I can't remember the model number. All I recall are small bookshelf speakers in black ash. Sound wise they stood out at the time as the only speakers I could afford that sounded like music. This was during the late 80s and unlike now, a good sounding affordable speaker was the exception and not the norm. Through the years at every chance I've had the opportunity to listen to a Boston speaker I've always enjoyed the experience.
Boston Acoustics is a part of D&M holdings which owns Denon, Marantz, McIntosh, amongst others. Boston set out to design the new A series with its secret weapon at D&M, Marantz's Ken Ishiwata. I've been a fan of both Marantz and Ishiwata-san since the mid 90s. Every music lover should own a Marantz 2-channel piece of gear once in their life. Ken has been responsible for continuing the house sound of Marantz, that Saul Marantz established. Ken may be the only person at Marantz left who personally worked so closely with Saul. Marantz gear has always been imminently musical, warm, lush, and with a midrange to die for. It was a no brainer then to get a set of the new A series in for review.
- A 360 Floor-Standing Speaker
- Design: 3-Way, Ported
- Drivers: One 1″ Soft Dome Tweeter, One 3.5″ Midrange, Two 6.5″ Woofers
- MFR: 38 Hz – 25 kHz ± 3 dB
- Crossover Frequencies: 800 Hz, 2.7 kHz
- Nominal Impedance: 8 Ohms
- Sensitivity: 89 dB/2.8 V/ 1 Meter
- Dimensions: 41.9″ H x 13.6″ W x 10.8″ D
- Weight: 43.9 Pounds/each
- MSRP: $399.99/each
- A 225C Center Channel Speaker
- Design: 2-Way, Ported
- Drivers: One 1″ Soft Dome Tweeter, Two 5.25″ Woofers
- MFR: 65 Hz – 25 kHz
- Crossover Frequency: 2.6 kHz
- Nominal Impedance: 8 Ohms
- Sensitivity: 89 dB/ 2.8 V/ 1 Meter
- Dimensions: 6.3″ H x 16″ W x 8.9″ D
- Weight: 15.4 Pounds
- MSRP: $249.99/each USA
- A 25 Bookshelf Speaker
- Design: 2-Way, Ported
- Drivers: One 1″ Soft Dome Tweeter, One 5.25″ Woofer
- MFR: 55 Hz – 25 kHz ± 3 dB
- Crossover Frequency: 2.4 kHz
- Nominal Impedance: 8 Ohms
- Sensitivity: 89 dB/ 2.8 V/ 1 Meter
- Dimensions: 10.7″ H x 7.25″ W x 8.9″ D
- Weight: 10.1 Pounds/each
- MSRP: $149.99/each USA
- ASW 650 Subwoofer
- Design: Powered Subwoofer
- Driver: 10″
- Amplifier Power: 300 Watts RMS
- MFR: 28 Hz – 150 Hz, ± 3 dB
- Dimensions: 15.9″ H x 14.7″ W x 16.3″ D
- Weight: 30.9 Pounds
- Boston Acoustics
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Design and Set up of the Boston Acoustics A Series Home Theater Speakers
All 6 speakers arrived in the gloss black finish (white has just been made available, and can only be purchased directly from bostonacoustics.com). The design focuses on gloss side and front panels (with the center channel only having gloss side panels) with a matte leatherette material wrapped from the drivers through to the top plate. The drivers (minus the tweeter) are a blueish white. The whole look is sleek if the magnetically attached grills are left on. Unfortunately the grills are far from being acoustically inert. There's a marked improvement in both imaging and treble detail with the grills removed. Grills off, the center and A25 surround speakers work well aesthetically, the A360 looks just too much like a big black box. Having seen pictures of the gloss white finish, the contrast of the black vinyl and drivers make the A 360 towers considerably more appealing.
Construction is what you would expect for the price. The cabinets are rigid but not overly braced or damped. Fit and finish isn't superb. There is only so much that can be done at this price level. They're no worse than competitors speakers. The A 360 speakers are tall speakers. Unusually so for this price range.
All speakers are rear ported, the subwoofer is front ported. The towers, center, and surround speakers are fitted with single speaker posts that accept bare wire, spades and banana plugs (protective red and black caps need to be removed in order to use banana plugs).
The A 25 bookshelf/surround speakers have a keyhole for wall mounting, but do not include a bung to seal the port if you should choose to mount them this way. In practice they don't produce enough bass for this be an issue, especially crossed over at 80hz or higher.
The A 360 main speakers have fixed rear feet with two adjustable front feet. There are provisions for the provided spikes for use on carpets. I chose not to use the spikes on my hardwood floors as the A 360 is a very tall speaker and I wanted to avoid raising the soundstage even higher.
The A 225C center channel has no tilt mechanism in the way of adjustable feet or pads.
The center channel sounds best pointed directly at ear level. I used Audio-Technical AT6099 Hybrid Insulators at the front to rake the speaker upwards.
My only concern with the design of the speakers centers on packaging. The center, surround and subwoofer are all double boxed with ample foam coverage. While all those boxes sustained external damage in shipping to me, the speakers inside were unhurt and the boxes could be re-used in the future. The A 360 boxes being significantly larger, not double boxed, and with a minimum of foam did not fare so well.
The speakers were cosmetically dinged from transit and one of the rear feet was sheared off. Boston replaced the foot almost immediately (and would do so for consumers as well) and offered to send replacement speakers (again, an offer that would be extended to regular customers). If purchased online or via mail-order I would insist on having the floorstanding speakers double boxed by the shipper.
Boston Acoustics A Series Home Theater Speakers In Use
Movie performance was evaluated with a Marantz SR5005, being fed signals from a Sony BDP-S550 Blu-Ray player, AppleTV 2, and an Audiolab 8200CDQ primarily used as a DAC via USB from a MacMini. Music evaluation used both the Marantz SR5005 in pure direct mode being fed from the Audiolab DAC and a Myryad MI-120 integrated amp. HDMI cables were all Kimber HD19, Interconnects were homemade Oyaide PA-02 with Neutrik ProFi RCA connectors, speaker cables were Furutech FS-301 terminated with Audioquest Banana plugs on the amp end, bare wire at the speaker end. I chose the Marantz receiver for testing for a few reasons. One, it's roughly in the same price range as would be used with speakers of this price. Two, seeing how Ken Ishiwata helped voice the speakers, I correctly guessed there would be a synergy between the Boston speakers and Marantz electronics.
I'll start with movie performance of the entire Boston Acoustics A series collective. The speakers were run in with white noise for a week at moderate level before performing an Audyssey calibration. At this point my room is now well treated for both a decently flat frequency response from 100hz on up and decay times. Confirmed by the fact that after performing three Audyssey calibration sessions, the equalization curves only applied no more than 2 decibels of correction. In fact besides the improvements to the subwoofer, the Audyssey calibration sounded almost identical to having the system off. As such, movie listening was performed with Audyssey engaged (for the improvements it brought below 100hz) and music was in pure direct mode on the SR5005.
The small center channel upon first inspection seemed an unlikely acoustic match to the large A 360 tower speakers. It proved to be unfounded. The A 225C formed a very realistic and well integrated front soundstage. Never standing out on its own, the A 225C went about smoothly blending in between the A 360s and provided real depth to the sonic picture. Audyssey identified the cross over point at 40hz and I had no need to move it upwards. The center has genuine bass response to 40hz and sounded worst when crossed over at any frequency higher than 40hz. The A 360 speakers were identified and run at full range.
Is the A 225C perfect? Far from it. No speaker at this price is without flaws. There is the ever present comb filtering when sitting significantly off axis. Male voices could at times sound overly chesty and boxy, while the tweeter's lack of air kept female voices from sounding lifelike. These are small downsides in comparison to the strengths of the center channel. The A 225C has incredible macro dynamics, it sounds alive in a way most center channels don't. The frequency response is neutral with no obvious bias in the bass or treble. Midrange clarity is good for the money. Overall as with the rest of the system, the A 225C possesses a good balance of strengths and weaknesses.
Highest in the strengths column is the integration with the A 360 towers. It's superbly seamless. A feat I've not heard some center channel speakers costing ten times as much pull off.
The A 25 speakers were only auditioned as a surround speaker. Again, much like the A 225C center, the surround speakers blended in superbly with the A 360 towers. The mid-range of all the speakers is exceptionally consistent. Bass response is decent and as such the speakers were crossed over at 80hz by Audyssey. I manually retuned the cross over at 60hz since I have a natural 60hz dip in my room.
Sitting down to watch The Social Network the combination of the Boston A series speakers and Marantz receiver were simply magical. There's a synergy between the two that is difficult to quantify. There are times when speakers and electronics form a synergy that is greater than the sum of the two. So much so, that for music listening I stopped using the vastly more refined and expensive (adjusted for inflation) Myryad integrated amp for music listening and just ran the Marantz SR5005 in pure direct mode fed by an Audiolab 8200CDQ via analog.
Having seen The Social Network several times in good theaters I was aware of just how good both the score and sound design sounded. Listening to it on blu-ray it was ten times better. The subtlety of the acoustic space of each location was simply staggering.
The combo of the Marantz and Boston speakers allowed the fluorescent light hum of the legal offices to contrast against, the reverberant halls of Harvard and the immensely detailed and bass deep score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. The combo easily handled the smallest of details, to the loudest of passages, the night club scene stands out, as does dinner with Sean Parker. Dynamics are explosive but well controlled, quiet passages are filled with tension and effects steering is lightning fast. Movie watching had an immersive and enveloping quality. The sound field was truly 360 degrees with seamless panning between all the speakers.
If there is one weakness in the package it's the subwoofer. For most small to medium sized rooms the sub would work well, and if you take into account the price, it's a great sub. In my large room it struggled to balance pitch definition with output. The higher the output required, the less tuneful the bass sounded. Some port noise and cone break up could also be heard at reference levels in my space. It's a good sub for the price, but it doesn't deliver the refinement and level of performance the rest of the system is capable of.
Movie after movie the A series speakers delivered a superb listening experience. Whether the movie was Casino Royale or the distinctly more intimate and musical Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist the Boston Acoustics speakers (with the Marantz SR5005) delivered sonic gold. The entire listening experience is so balanced, so natural, so musical, it's just a treat on the ears. This despite knowing more expensive speakers deliver greater detail. Few speakers are just so pleasurable to listen to.
In music listening sessions one thing stood out. The A 360 towers are truly special and not just for the price. They deliver a musical performance (again, especially when partnered with Marantz electronics) that is emotionally engaging and rare regardless of price. If you value that je ne sais quoi of "musical" systems, this is one. There's nothing groundbreaking in terms of realism, resolution, or those typical "HiFi" qualities. There is however a solidity and cohesiveness to music that is warm, seductive and enjoyable. Sure, the A 360s lack treble detail and air, and the bass isn't the most forceful. The midrange isn't a transparent window the way the B&W CM8 speakers were. Instead the even frequency response, the great attack speed of notes and good dynamic capabilities of the A 360s combine with the slightly warm and forgiving sound of the Marantz SR5005 to render truly beautiful music, regardless of genre.
The drivers of the A 360 are superbly integrated and cohesive. The bass never overpowers the mids and highs, and keeps pace with the lightning fast 3″ mid-range.
The 1″ Kortec soft dome tweeter is smooth (though oddly, before break in, it was harsh beyond belief) with good detail and a taste of "air" though it's a small taste. The whole sonic image is impressively organic and you never get the impression that four drivers are present. Sonic images are seamless with good depth and a surprisingly low image height for such a tall speaker.
Whether the music was from The Glitch Mob and Rusko which is bass heavy Dub-Step to subtle tracks by Air or Charlotte Gainsbourg. The A360 speakers are truly music agnostic. One notable limitation, female voices do sound a bit reigned in. When listening to Emmy The Great's album Virtue, her voice lacked that shocking realism more expensive speakers can provide, but not once did that pull me away from the music. Rock and Pop tracks are conveyed with great enthusiasm and energy. Foster The People comes through with the kick drum leading the way in a realistic fashion at anti-social volume levels. Each layer of the mix sitting in its own space with great intensity and energy.
These speakers encourage you to stop analyzing music and just get up and enjoy moving to your favorite songs. I'll take that any day instead of overly analytical speakers. They're not perfect but they are good, very good.
Flaws? Yes, for starters they're not the most accurate when it comes to imaging. There's a sense of left, center, right with a diffuse image in between when listening in stereo. There's a midrange chestiness and female vocals sound less than realistic compared to stand mounts in the same price range. The tweeter is not extremely extended in frequency response and does gloss over details. This is a mixed blessing as it lends itself to a more enjoyable presentation with more modern recordings.
Conclusions about the Boston Acoustics A Series Home Theater Speakers
It's fairly obvious that I've fallen a bit in love with the A 360 speakers and the rest of the Boston A series speakers. The star of this show are those wonderful towers that can go toe to toe with speakers costing twice if not more. Especially in the areas of musical enjoyment. Kudos to Ken Ishiwata and the design team of the A series. The synergy between the A series and Marantz electronics I'm willing to guess is not an accident.
If you're the type of person who simply wants to sit down (I challenge you to remain seated for long) and enjoy music as an intensely pleasurable experience look no further.
Even if you have a larger budget. They may not be the best looking speakers (though I suspect that is different in the gloss white finish) they are pure beauty on the ears.
It doesn't matter if the song is impeccably recorded, a streaming MP3 track from RDIO or a dynamically compressed CD, the A 360, Marantz and Audiolab combo deliver sheer listening pleasure. Oh yes, they also do a great job with movies.


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Dear Bankruptcy Adviser,
I filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy that was discharged in 2009. I was paying my second mortgage loan to the bank for four years without a reaffirmation agreement. I never missed a payment during that time. I recently found out the bank wrote off that loan and gave it to a credit collection agency, which I have not heard from.
If the bank wrote off the loan, it means the loan is defunct, correct? Would being in Chapter 7 also alleviate any lawsuits against me? Does it also mean the collection agency cannot legally do anything since I completed my bankruptcy?
-- Mike
Dear Mike,
Great questions, but you are not clear on a few major issues. I get this question a lot, and while I know you are just hoping to have some equity in your home, you still have to deal with the second mortgage. Based on the information you did give me, I'll try to answer your questions to the best of my ability.
You are correct that the second mortgage lender cannot sue you. Because you received a discharge in your Chapter 7 bankruptcy and you did not reaffirm the loan, the lender no longer has the right to sue you to enforce its loan. You had to reaffirm the loan while your bankruptcy was active in order to re-establish liability.
However, this is the key part of what you may not understand. When you received the first and second mortgage loans, the lender places a lien against the house for each loan. You have to pay both loans to own the home free and clear. In some states, the lender can sue you for failing to pay on either or both loans. The successful bankruptcy eliminates the lenders' right to sue you, but it does not remove the liens from the property. To remove the liens, you must pay the loans.
In your case, the lender may or may not have written off the loan. It is also possible that the lender merely sold the note to another company. The "new" collection company now owns the loan and the lien that is still attached to your home. However, the transfer of the loan to the new company does not bring new liability. You are still protected from lawsuits because you received your Chapter 7 discharge and did not reaffirm the loan. The new company can only foreclose on the property for failure to make monthly payments.
This could be good news now that the loan is with the new company. You may be in a good position to negotiate either a reduced monthly payment or a settlement on the loan balance.
You may be able to settle the outstanding balance for a little more than what the company paid to get your loan from the bank. This removes the lien from your property and eliminates the rest of the remaining balance.
So while the lien still exists, the transfer of the note from one company to another could be great news for you. Call them and see what settlement or payment options exist.
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Update: A Saudi Arabian student attending South Plains College purchased chemicals to build a bomb and was researching targets in the United States - including former President George W. Bush's Dallas home - before his arrest Wednesday by federal authorities, according to a statement issued by the U.S. District Attorney's office Thursday morning.
Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, 20, was arrested late Wednesday by FBI agents on a federal charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. He was set to appear Friday morning in federal court in Lubbock.
Aldawsari received a visa to study in the United States in 2008 and was described as a transfer student for the spring 2011 semester of the community college in Levelland, according to the statement. He had attended the college for six weeks, according to a statement from South Plains.
Aldawsari came to federal attention after a chemical supplier reported a suspicious attempted purchase of a concentrated phenol, a chemical with legitimate purposes that can be used to make explosives, in early February. Surveillance and searches on his apartment revealed wiring, beakers, flasks, Hazmat suits and clocks, according to the statement.
Federal investigators also found several journal entries and email messages he sent to himself with instructions on how to build an improvised explosive device, according to the statement.
Additional emails with the subject "NICE TARGETS" he sent to himself described reservoirs and dams in Colorado and California, nuclear power plants, night clubs and the Dallas home of former President George W. Bush, according to the statement.
Emails also contained the names and home addresses of three former U.S. military members who had been stationed for a time at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, according to the statement.
The statement did not describe any targets in the Texas Panhandle.
"The FBI has assured us that there was no threat to any of our campus locations," South Plains College spokeswoman Myrna Whitehead said in a statement issued Thursday morning.
Authorities at South Plains College in a statement to students said the Federal Bureau of Investigation notified it that one of the school's students had been detained. The statement said the FBI assured the college that there was no threat to any of its campus locations. The student, Khalid Ali Al Dawsari, of Saudi Arabia, transferred to the college about six weeks ago, the statement said. The statement said the college is cooperating fully with the FBI investigation and directed all questions to the FBI office in Dallas.


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Correlation between illnesses and birth month
"Doctor, I'm having some real problems with my stomach. Every time I..."
"What month were you born in?"
"When were you born?"
"I see, well then. I have to wonder about your state of mind."
"Check please."
Oddly enough, it turns out that those born in February are more likely to have Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and toss in some super-sized seizures for good luck. No wonder groundhogs head back into their holes. ("That was a rude thing for him to say George") wow that sounds rude.)
Says a lot for groundhogs and Valentine's Day.
As doctors we no longer consult the stars for help, though I once asked Liberace if he thought my pants made my butt look like a cruciferous vegetable. But researchers have long known that your month of birth can make a very small but noticeable difference in your medical future. Dozens of illnesses have been correlated with specific birth months. Why? What you expose your fetus to (and don't we all hate exposing our fetuses) can have ramifications that last a lifetime. The time of year can determine the abundance or paucity of fetal exposure to certain viruses, nutrition, Vitamin D (the sunshine vitamin), NHL playoffs and even pollen.
For example, schizophrenia, though uncommon, has a 10 percent increased risk if you are born in the dark months. Could fetal exposure to a virus in the second trimester of pregnancy when neurodevelopment begins be linked to schizophrenia? For Multiple Sclerosis, April and May are particularly bad months to be born in the Northern Hemisphere possibly due to low Vitamin D exposure in utero. Interestingly October births have the lowest risk for MS. A new study reports that children whose mothers were exposed to high pollen levels in late pregnancy are at increased risk for asthma and allergies at a young age.
Even people's success later in life may be influenced by the time of year in which they were born, according to researchers from the University of British Columbia, who found that babies born in the summer are less likely to make it to the top of the corporate ladder and become CEOs and get that key to the special washroom. I am an August baby which might explain why it was either the mailroom or politics for me.
And how about life expectancy in general? Should you happen to be born between October and December the odds are that you will live 125 days longer than a sibling born between April and June. The difference is the same as smoking 10 cigarettes a day for four years. Oddly the exact reverse is true if you're born in the Southern Hemisphere.
What diseases and disorders are most common for each birth month? ABC News compiled the following list. You will now skim down to your month and gasp in horror. By consulting this list you can have your diagnosis before you even come to our office.
JANUARY: Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, respiratory syncytial virus
FEBRUARY: Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, epilepsy
MARCH: Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, autism, narcolepsy, Hodgkin's disease, multiple sclerosis, bipolar disorder, epilepsy
APRIL: Leukemia, dyslexia, learning disabilities, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, bipolar disorder, epilepsy, ALS
MAY: Dyslexia, learning disabilities, multiple sclerosis, ALS, Parkinson's disease
JUNE: Anorexia, diabetes, dyslexia, learning disabilities, multiple sclerosis, ALS, Parkinson's disease, and celiac disease
JULY: Diabetes, celiac disease, dyslexia, learning disabilities
AUGUST: Diabetes, celiac disease, autism, Crohn's disease
SEPTEMBER: ADHD, asthma
OCTOBER: Asthma, eczema
NOVEMBER: Asthma, eczema, respiratory syncytial virus
DECEMBER: Respiratory syncytial virus
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Tokyo Fried Chicken Co. Soft Opening
Tokyo Fried Chicken Company is the successor to The Open Door. The restaurant still has the same owner and staff, but they decided to do a complete 180 on their previous food and theme. The restaurant is currently still in its soft opening stage.
The chicken is similar to chicken karaage. It is marinated in soy sauce, ginger and garlic and fried in rice bran oil. Diners each receive a plastic glove for the chicken so that your hands don't get dirty.
The fried chicken dinner set for two which comes with two legs, two wings, two thighs, steamed chicken rice, pickled cabbage, and your choice of two sides. They offer regular sides and "premium" sides for an additional charge.
For my sides, I ordered curried creamed corn and mac and cheese. The mac and cheese was pretty tasty. There are also other unique items such as collard greens, truffle tater tots, truffle-butter edamame, and shisito peppers.
Each table has several different sauces to complement the chicken. There is the standard ponzu and spicy ponzu as well as the sauces they are testing out before their grand opening. I was given a yuzu sauce and a sweet and sour sauce.
Although the chicken was succulent, I didn't think it lived up to the hype. For me, the chicken had to be dipped in massive amounts of sauce to have flavor. The chicken alone was bland. Sauces should complement the chicken, not require them.
For a two person set, it is approximately $25 without alcohol before tax and tip. Overall my impression of the restaurant was so-so. I was such a big fan of The Open Door, that maybe I would give them another chance. Plus, they have fried chicken skin, which sounds amazing. Also, TFC has imported popsicles from Japan.
Happy Eatings!
R.I.P. The Open Door
122 S Atlantic Blvd
Monterey Park, CA 91754


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Buckley Parmenter
My gggg-grandfather, Buckley Parmenter, was born on March 31, 1798, in Framingham, Massachusetts (1). His parents, Elias Parmenter and Eunice Brown, were descended from the founding families of Sudbury and Framingham. He was the oldest of seven children. Buckley is related to me in the following way: his daughter Susan Maria Parmenter -> Addison Parmenter Darling -> Russell Earl Darling -> Edna May Darling Baldwin -> my mother.
Early Life
Since there has never been any hint of this in my family, I was surprised to learn recently that Buckley Parmenter began employment at "Howe's Tavern" or "The Red Horse Inn" (later known as The Wayside Inn) as a boy and continued in that role until late in life. This surprising story was first uncovered by using the Million Short Search Engine which allows you to omit, say, the 1000 most popular web sites, or 10,000, or up to 1,000,000. It's useful in genealogy for accessing content from historical societies, blogs, towns, and other small sites. The search brought up this sentence from from a book (2) excerpted on the Sudbury Archives site:
Squire Howe [Lyman Howe, the last Howe innkeeper] was there and had a housekeeper and Buckley Parmenter was the man of all work. The old bar room could tell of wonderful times if it could speak.(2)
I immediately realized it was the right Buckley Parmenter, since census records referred to him as a "laborer" and in 1860 the location "Hotel" was specified, with owner Lyman Howe. Further books and web resources confirmed it. Buckley was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, and is sometimes listed in the Sudbury census, sometimes Framingham – the inn is on the southern edge of Sudbury, near Framingham – I suspect his family lived on the inn's farmland. The inn, established by the Howe/How family in the 1600's, has been in its current building since 1716. Somehow, I never put it together before.
The Parmenters had been in Sudbury since the beginning of the English settlement. As land grew scarce for later generations of Parmenters, did they begin working on the farm associated with the inn? Did Buckley's father work at that farm? Being the oldest, it's possible Buckley helped on the farm and was gradually entrusted with more and more work at the inn. I feel like I know the end of this story, but it will take future research to discover the beginning.
Buckley Marries and Has a Family
Buckley was 22 when his marriage banns with Persis Hunt were read on 26 August, 1820 in Framingham. Buckley and Persis eventually had five children (4):
- Mary Elizabeth Parmenter 1822 – 1905 (married Luther Fuller)
- Susan Maria Parmenter 1826 – 1910 (my ggg-grandmother; married Ellis Aldrich Darling)
- Eliza Jane Parmenter 1828 – 1908 (married Wilson Darling, the brother of her sister's husband, above)
- Lyman Hunt Parmenter 1829 – 1887 (Lyman Hunt Parmenter was blind. He moved to Boston as an adult and worked as a musician and music teacher, and married twice. He has descendants who research genealogy.)
- Almira Parmenter 1839 – 1913 (married Charles Fish)
Did the children grow up nearby the inn? The 1850 census (similar to 1830 and 1840) shows Buckley and Persis living with Lyman, age 21, and Almira, age 11, still at home (3). In the households on either side were daughters Susan and Eliza Jane, with their husbands and a couple of young children each – no property value given for any of them (so likely no real estate owned). Buckley and the two sons in law were listed as "Laborers." There was another Howe family, owners of the farm, nearby, separated by a few other farm laborer households. When I visited the inn I heard about some farm housing which was (later) rented out, and I suspect the nearby farm may have been where the family was located when the children were growing up. I think this Framingham location is what kept me from realizing he worked over the line in Sudbury.
The era of the 1830's – 1860's is perhaps best captured by Adeline Lunt in her article "The Red Horse Tavern" in an 1880 issue of Harper's Magazine (6). She was one of the many guests who made the inn their home for some part of the year. She described Buckley as follows:
Then there was Buckley – Buckley Parmenter – a faithful male servant of the Squire, and who had a home with him as long as he lived, and who would have laid down his life to serve him. He was near seventy, but nimble as a squirrel, and as spasmodic in his movements. He had a remarkable accomplishment, which was to take a board nail between his teeth and bite it in two! Yet he was vulnerable, for one summer night he set to work to demolish a hornets nest from the corner of the house, and after getting it down he put it quietly under his arm and strolled toward the brook to deposit it there. But the hornets were not disposed to take things thus quietly, and before he had half reached the spot, out they flew in every direction, stinging him fearfully.
The silly, boyish story about the nail makes me think of a story about Buckley's great-grandson, my great-grandfather Russell Darling. He died when I was a baby, but my older brother has a funny memory of him – Jay must have been about 5 or so – and the elderly Russell said to him "Go on, boy, punch me in the stomach as hard as you can! I can take it! Go on!"
The Red Horse Inn and the Squire
The inn belonged for many generations to the Howe family. It is truly an historic inn, with roots going back to the 1600's, on the main road leading west from Boston. During stagecoach times, there was a good business in dining, drinking and accommodations for travelers and horses. The house was expanded over the years to 18 rooms.
Lyman Howe was the last of the direct line of four Howe tavern keepers; he took over from his father, Adam, perhaps around 1830. Buckley would have grown up with Lyman and his sister, Jerusha, and two additional siblings, one of whom was running the grist mill while Lyman ran the inn. Jerusha Howe was an educated and refined woman who owned the first piano in that part of Massachusetts. Engaged to a British soldier, after he returned to England to make arrangements for his new life and was never heard from again, she remained single for the rest of her life and died at 45 in 1842. According to the stories I heard on a visit to the inn this weekend, her spirit haunts the inn.
Like his sister, Lyman never married. Known as "Squire", cultivated and intellectual, he pursued some scientific and civic interests. As railroads took the stagecoaches off of the Boston Post Road, business at the inn shifted from hurried stops to lengthy stays in the lovely country setting of the aging inn.
The history of the "Howe's Tavern" or "The Red Horse Inn" is a fascinating one. The inn played a prominent role at various critical times in American history, including the Revolutionary War. The rooms are reminiscent of travelers downing cider, horses impatiently stamping out front, soldiers marching on the old Boston Post Road. But that's not why it's famous.Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn, 1863
Buckley's Later Years
The 1860 census shows Buckley and Persis living at the "Hotel" with owner Lyman Howe and four employees (5). Lyman's fortunes had declined in the previous 20 years, and debts had built up. Business at the inn was unprofitable and perhaps Lyman Howe was not an ideal manager.
When Lyman Howe died March 26, 1861, it was the faithful Buckley that found him the next morning (7). The estate went to a distant elderly relative, and there were many debts to pay. There was an auction and many of the family belongings were sold, although according to Lunt's article (6) the inn had been only sparsely furnished for decades. The elderly relative died in six months, and her sons maintained the property as a kind of long-term rooming establishment. It was during this transition, in 1862, that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow decided on the inn as a setting for some narrative poems he was forming into a volume.
Longfellow had been familiar with the inn for decades, and the Squire and Longfellow were familiar with each other, although there is no direct evidence of a meeting. Apparently, Longfellow's visit that inspired the setting for his book occurred in 1862, after the Squire's death, and the book was published in 1863. Longfellow was urged by editors to go with the name "Tales of a Wayside Inn" and his volume assembles a set of characters, fashioned after his own friends and various devotees of the inn, including the Squire, to spin poetic tales while relaxing in front of the fire at the inn.
The book of beautiful poems was a huge success, and inspired many to want to get a look at the "Wayside Inn", although The Red Horse Inn no longer operated as an inn after Lyman's death. Its use varied in these years from long term guests or rentals to parties, outings and special functions only. It was a marketing plan that took 30 years to form, and involved some twists and turns, but eventually the inn was purchased by individuals with the money and imagination to turn the historic inn into the "Wayside Inn" which so captivated Americans. And yet, as you can see in my photos, the inn manages to remain true to its actual past as a significant historical landmark. Few buildings, when you walk through them, maintain so much of an eighteenth century simplicity. Today "Longfellow's Wayside Inn" is owned and managed by a historic trust.
Was Buckley still present during Longfellow's visit in 1862? By 1865, Buckley and Persis had moved in with daughter Susan and her family in Wrentham, Massachusetts. Buckley died 28 April 1871 in Wrentham, and he and Persis are buried at the Burnt Swamp Road Cemetery in the Sheldonville section of Wrentham, just behind the house where Susan and Ellis Darling lived.
Longfellow's friend, Thomas William Parsons, (called the "poet" in the Tales), penned a poem after the death of the Squire and, in a sense, after the death of the well-beloved inn. It ends with:Fetch my steed; I cannot linger: Buckley, quick; I must away. Good old groom, take thou this nothing – Millions could not make me stay. – Thomas Williams Parsons, The Old House at Sudbury
Next Steps
- Learn more about whether Buckley's father Elias Parmenter had any connection to the inn
- Re-investigate Persis' death date
- Work to carefully uncover more of Buckley and Persis' grave markers in Sheldonville
- Research all of the Sudbury lines including the Goodnows, Browns, Hunts and Parmenters.
- Investigate the presence of the name "Buckley" in the Howe family (a young Buckley Howe was noted nearby in the 1860 census). Was Buckley Parmenter given a name common in the Howe family, or was the later Howe named for Buckley Parmenter?
(1) "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F4XC-VJV : accessed 05 May 2013), Buckley Parmenter, 21 Mar 1798.
(2) Curtis F. Garfield. Sudbury, 1890-1989, 100 years in the life of a Town, a 256-page sequel to A.S. Hudson's History of Sudbury. Porcupine Enterprises, 106 Woodside Road, Sudbury, MA 01776.
(3) Year: 1850; Census Place: Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: M432_323; Page: 454B; Image: 249. Ancestry.com. 1850 United States Federal Census [database on-line]
(4)Ancestry.com. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
(5) Year: 1860; Census Place: Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts; Roll: M653_510; Page: 994; Image: 575; Family History Library Film: 803510. Ancestry.com. 1860 United States Federal Census [database on-line]
(6) "The Red Horse Tavern" by Adeline Lunt, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, v. LXI, June to November 1880, p. 608-617.
(7) As Ancient Is This Hostelry: The Story of the Wayside Inn by Ridley, Alison and Garfield, Curtis. Porcupine Enterprises, 1989.
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History of Framingham, Massachusetts by J.H. Temple. Published by the Town of Framingham, 1887.
A History of Longfellow's Wayside Inn by Brian E Plumb. The History Press, 2011.
The History of Sudbury, Massachusetts 1638-1889 by Alfred Sereno Hudson. Published by the Town of Sudbury, 1889.
The Old House at Sudbury by Thomas William Parsons. Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1870.
Tales of a Wayside Inn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863.
"The Wayside Inn" by Joseph S. Seabury, The House Beautiful, v. XXXVI, no.2, July 1914, p. 33-39.
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It took Matt Hendrix and Jin Jeong three trips down the 575-yard par-5 18th � including two trips during a two-man playoff � before the two could separate themselves atop the leaderboard. But in the end, Hendrix was able to outlast the Korean-born Australian to win the third annual Cutter Creek Golf Classic championship on Sunday afternoon.
SNOW HILL � It took Matt Hendrix and Jin Jeong three trips down the 575-yard par-5 18th � including two trips during a two-man playoff � before the two could separate themselves atop the leaderboard. But in the end, Hendrix was able to outlast the Korean-born Australian to win the third annual Cutter Creek Golf Classic championship on Sunday afternoon.
�I can�t say enough about this golf course,� Hendrix said. �I knew right away that it just matched the putter I was rolling, the loft of my putter. It felt great.�
During the second playoff hole, a second shot approach by Hendrix from about 230 yards out landed just behind the hole � a shot nearly identical to the one he played in the first playoff, both landing between 20 to 30 feet behind the hole.
�I got away with a poor shot in regulation, but I had two good numbers in the playoff,� Hendrix said of No. 18. �I put two great swings on it, I couldn�t have asked for two better swings of the week at that time.�
However, unlike the first playoff when Jeong matched Hendrix�s shot, placing his ball on the same line but five feet closer to the pin, Jeong�s third shot was a chip from the left side of the green. The attempt left Jeong with a 10-foot putt that he couldn�t connect and signaled that Hendrix�s two-putt birdie was enough to secure the victory.
�Matt played pretty solid,� Jeong said. �He hit the same spots three times in a row and he deserved the victory.�
The win this weekend, along with previous tour event finishes, earned Hendrix an exemption into the Utah Championship next month, a stop on the PGA�s Web.com Tour.
Although the lead stayed between 12-under and 14-under most of the afternoon, there were no shortage of leaders and ties on the leaderboard among the final four groups to finish up their rounds. The change atop the leaderboard was a trend that held true throughout the Cutter Creek Golf Classic. Eight different golfers (Clayton Rask, Mark Silvers, Ben Klaus, Kevin Hall, Matt Hendrix, Adam Hogue, Jeong and Hendrix) finished a day of the tournament in at least a share of first place, and no golfer held the end-of-round lead more than one day.
�When I saw the leaderboard on the 15th green, there were two or three other 13s on the board,� Hendrix said. �I knew there were four or five guys, and the way the wind here on 18, eagle was sitting right there and then anything could happen.�
Ken Looper, who started Round 4 at 7-under, hit his stride after making the turn. He birdied the first four holes of the back nine to take the lead before bogeying three of the next four holes.
However, on No. 18 the Mandeville, La., native, had a chance at eagle � and a share of the lead at the time � but came up about three inches short. Looper was one of five golfers � including Hendrix and Jeong � who stepped onto the 18th green with a legitimate shot of taking the lead.
Green, the 54-hole leader, saw his second putt on the final hole lip out to keep him out of the playoff. He was the only golfer to shoot four sub-70 rounds during the tournament.
Travis Hampshire also three putted the final hole to finish 12-under for the tournament.
Hendrix and Jeong, who played together in the penultimate grouping, both teed off of No. 18 in regulation at 4-under on the day. Jeong faced an easy two putt situation but Hendrix was forced to chip it on after missing the green with his approach, far left of the green. Left with a 5-foot putt, he was able to sink the birdie putt and the pair both went to 5-under 67 on the day.
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Sports Illustrated on Friday had the Kinston native projected to go to the Indiana Pacers with the 23rd overall pick in the June 27 draft.
While the mock draft report is nothing more than a prediction, it bodes well for the 6-foot-7, 200-pound swingman who decided to forego his final year at UNC for the NBA.
The only guaranteed contracts to NBA rookies are those given to first-round draft picks. If Bullock�s stock happens to fall � SI.com isn�t the only scouting service projecting him as a first rounder � he will have to work his way into a contract and onto an NBA roster.
When Bullock announced his decision to turn pro, it caught many by surprise, including his former head coach in Roy Williams.
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�The Pacers face a big offseason decision on Danny Granger, who could be traded to free up some money and/or fortify the backcourt. That could make swingman a position of need for Indiana. Bullock didn�t exactly receive a ringing endorsement from Tar Heels coach Roy Williams, who said he was more worried about Bullock going to the NBA than any of the 11 other players who left early under him. But Bullock is a very good shooter who rebounds well for his position.�
One of two mock drafts at CBSSports.com has Bullock going to the Chicago Bulls at No. 20. The website DraftExpress.com has Bullock going 24th overall to the New York Knicks, while the site NBADraft.net projects he will be taken by San Antonio with the 28th pick.
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Made in the early 60s using a 16mm camera borrowed from London's Royal College of Art while a student, Scott shot the film in his native North East of England and it was eventually completed in 1965 following a grant from the British Film Institute. This also allowed the director to secure the services of composer John Barry (James Bond), who provides the soundtrack to the short.
The film provides an early glimpse at the director's potential, drawing on influences such as Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1956) and the James Joyce novel Ulysses (1922), and including a number of Scott trademarks including the industrial landscape which would be so prominent in later efforts such as Alien and Blade Runner.