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TradePMR Doubles Down on Growth Plan, Announces Expansion in Tampa
Firm dubbed one of "The Best Places to Work in Financial Technology" for a second consecutive year.read more
TradePMR Rolls Out Refined Trading Tools on Top-Ranked Custodial Platform Fusion
Registered Investment Advisors seeking alpha now have access to modern trading tools that enable an advisor to quickly streamline an advisor's day-to-day operations.read more
Baldwin Named one of "20 People Who Will Change Wealth Management in 2020" by the editors at Financial Planning magazine (December, 2019)
Robb Baldwin, founder and CEO of TradePMR, has been recognized in conjunction with John Peluso, head of First Clearing, for their efforts to launch an RIA channel within a wirehouse. The magazine cites,read more
TradePMR, Swamp Head Brewery Team Up to Raise Funds for Humane Society of Grand Bahama
TradePMR, a local custodial and fintech firm for financial advisors and Swamp Head Brewery are teaming up to raise funds for the furriest victims of Hurricane Dorian. The duo will host a benefit for the Humane Society of Grand Bahama on Wednesday, September 18 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at Swamp Head Brewery.read more
TradePMR Recognized for "20-for-20 Initiative," Named Industry Awards Finalist by Wealth Management
Momentum continues in 2019: The technology and custodial services provider named to CIO Review's 50 Most Promising FinTech Solutions Providers of 2019.1 TradePMR, a technology and custodial services provider dedicated to serving registered investment advisors (RIAs),...read more
Synergy RIA Conference Recap
Synergy 2019 RIA Conference Recap by Advisor Services, Trade PMR | Jun 04, 2019 |TradePMR TradePMR hosted its annual Synergy conference for growth-minded RIAs at the beautiful Eau Palm Beach Resort and Spa in Florida May 22-May 24, 2019. The three-day conference...read more
Robb Baldwin, President and CEO of TradePMR was recently interviewed by Matt Halloran, the host of the Top Advisor Marketing Podcast, at the Market Council Summit in Las Vegas in December of 2018.
Highlights of the interview with Robb include: Robb Baldwin's history in financial services Robb Baldwin's journey to becoming President and CEO of TradePMR Robb Baldwin's frustration with custodial offerings in the early 90s What makes TradePMR truly...read more
TradePMR Mentors CFP Students and Student Tech Talent With 'Big Reveal' Slated for Jan. 31, 2019
The custodial services provider sponsors team from University of South Florida in annual T3 Conference competition GAINESVILLE, Fla., Jan. 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- TradePMR, a brokerage and custodian services provider, is supporting a team of four University of South...read more
Are You Ready to Answer These 3 Common Questions From Prospects?
Perhaps one of the greatest challenges facing financial advisors as they grow their practice is finding new clients. Part of that struggle may very well stem from a lack of client trust in the financial services industry and in financial advisors specifically. In...read more
Women in the RIA Space: How to Attract and Recruit More Women to Your Practice and Retain Them
Women in the RIA Space: How to Attract and Recruit More Women to Your Practice and Retain Them (Part 1 of a 2 Part Series on Women in the RIA Space) Cerulli Associates, a global research and consulting firm, reports that women represent nearly 51% of the U.S....read more
These 3 Myths About Millennials Could be Hurting Your RIA Practice
It is believed that the millennial generation, born between 1982 and 1994, often get a bad rap in the financial advice space for being over-confident, mistrusting and obsessed with technology, but a new research study sponsored by the CFA institute and the FINRA...read more
TradePMR Celebrates Successful "20-for20 Initiative"
When TradePMR, a custodial and brokerage-services provider dedicated to serving registered investment advisors (RIAs), announced their plans earlier this year to celebrate its 20th anniversary by organizing and participating in 20 service projects, all led and staffed...read more
TradePMR to Host Fourth Annual Oktoberfest Celebration
The event is part of the Gainesville, Florida-based company's 20-for-20 Initiative to benefit the community TradePMR will host its fourth annual Oktoberfest celebration on Thursday, Oct. 4, from 5:30 - 7 p.m. at the TradePMR headquarters in Gainesville, Florida....read more
TradePMR's Director of Social Media Named 2018 "Fierce Award Winner" Profiled in Business in Greater Gainesville Magazine
As Social Media Director at TradePMR, Monika Baldwin is able to deliver messages of positivity and accountability across the many communities she is a member of, both professionally and personally. Regardless of the community, Baldwin works to lift up those she...read more
Finalist in Financial Services Awards Competition
The custodial services provider earns nod for the rollout of Earnwise platform. The annual 2018 WealthManagement.com Industry Awards are just a few months away and we are excited to learn we have been chosen to be a finalists in the category of Custodian (Emerging –...read more
Attend this Free Webinar to Learn about the SEC's Fiduciary Proposal and Form CRS
In April 2018, the SEC attempted to tackle the Fiduciary debate with its proposed Standard of Conduct Proposal. The proposed new rule, 204-5, would require an investment adviser to deliver a relationship summary to each retail investor before or at the time the...read more
Ever See a 2-Day Conference Set Up and Breakdown – and Everything in Between – in 17 Seconds?
The upcoming Synergy Conference being hosted by TradePMR May 16-18, 2018 is right around the corner. Have you registered yet? What does it take to put together a great conference for a great group of RIAs? Watch this fast-paced video for 17 seconds of time-lapsed /...read more
Join Us for a Special "Branding Reception" at Synergy San Diego
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Growth-Minded Advisors to Gather at TradePMR's Annual Synergy Conference May 16-18, 2018 in San Diego
We're so excited! TradePMR will gather with a select group of registered investment advisors (RIAs) from across the country to celebrate our 20th anniversary at TradePMR's annual Synergy conference May 16-18 in San Diego. This year's conference theme "Get There" will...read more
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Why did you want contact lenses?
'Actually my mother suggested it because I used to play tennis and glasses aren't very practical on the tennis court. My vision also kept deteriorating every time I had my eyes checked, and I did not always want to wear glasses, I don't like the feeling of the arms of the glasses behind my ears.'
Were you nervous at first?
'A bit. We went to an opticians, where they taught me how to put the lenses in and take them out. It took me a few weeks to really get used to it, but luckily I'm rather vain so I persevered. And then after a while you get the hang of it.
'For me the biggest benefit is not having anything on your face'
What were your biggest prejudices against contact lenses?
'In the beginning I was afraid they would disappear behind my eyes. I really thought that could happen! Now I know that it's actually impossible.'
What do you love most about contact lenses?
'For me the biggest benefit is not having anything on your face. That gives me such a sense of freedom. I prefer to wear daily contacts because I find the idea of having fresh, new lenses hygienic, but at the moment I use the monthlies and I do have to take extra care that I clean them properly before I put them back in their case. When I go on holiday or to a music festival I always take dailies though, because good hygiene isn't always guaranteed in those situations.'
Do they ever bother you?
'Not really, no. Even if I go out late I never suffer from dry or red eyes. I don't play tennis anymore, but I do still wear my contact lenses.'


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In our prior post we announced the April 2nd release of the "new NAV" whose name has officially been changed by Microsoft to "Dynamics 365 Business Central." We noted then a lack of space in a single blog post to parse all the official announcement's details, so we'll cover those here in our concluding post wrap-up.
Current NAV users may be asking themselves: What about us? Is our beloved NAV going away, only to be replaced by this new cloud-based incarnation? Of that we can give a resounding 'No.' Recall those 160,000 companies out there using NAV, across 2,700,000 users, spread over 195 countries around the world. Microsoft earns an awful lot (even by Microsoft standards!) of revenues from that installed base, and they're not anxious to disrupt that. Rather, by the D365 Business Central evolution, they are fully intent on building a very large base of next generation customers, but still built upon that core NAV code base in which countless millions have already been invested.
In fact, the new D365 BC has a lot to recommend it. Following are some key highlights:
- A cloud presence supported on Microsoft Azure, among the world's leading global cloud platforms.
- A deep focus on BI – business intelligence, analytics, big data… call it what you will, but the integration of Dynamics 365 with Office 365 and LinkedIn and the custom applications developed by third parties, ISVs and partners means there is an enormous world of data out there to be mined for business insights and improved decision making, in a way never before available. If there's a big takeaway, we think it's about this openness to big data.
- When you realize that instances of D365 BC will also include Azure, Business Intelligence via Power BI, Power Apps, and Microsoft Flow it gives new meaning to the term "all-in-one business management solution."
- Starting in fall 2019, there will be no "NAV 2019." Instead, you'll have Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premise. Just like clients up until now have always enjoyed it. The new cloud implementations are simply an additional, new, future-facing option.
- The product will be robust. With the entire existing NAV code base, users are offered Marketing, Sales, Service, Operations, Supply Chain, Warehouse Management, Discrete Manufacturing, Talent, and of course, Finance. It's full NAV objects and functionality with D365 branded vertical solutions and ISV cloud embed programs (like PrintVis, already a leading business management solution for the print industry).
- Partners can still do individual client customizations, but we'll do them via "extensions," with an option for publishing those extensions in the app store.
- The code will continue to evolve as Visual Studio, but with 44 business APIs available at the announcement, it leaves the product open to all manner of 3rd party apps and extensions in many other environments including C#, Python, Azure, Android Studio and many others.
- Pricing will be three-tiered with choices including: Team Member (similar to the former "lite" user), Essentials (like the former "full" user), and Premium (includes Manufacturing & Service).
This new release of Dynamics 365 Business Central is destined to change the face of the ERP landscape and opens up the product and our customers to a whole new world of data insights, interoperability with other pieces and whole new worlds of functionality. The release is just the first step in the long journey forward to ensure that, by any name, the Microsoft ERP product is destined to be here, in many forms, for a very long time.
We'll continue to keep you apprised of future Dynamics 365 changes and announcements as always. For now, welcome to the future!


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UnDistracted is a simple app developed to help you stay concentrated on the task at hand. The utility has settings that will eliminate distractions and promotes activation of a "Focus Mode" that will make all the necessary adjustments without too much user interference.
- Turn everything off–with one click – There are a lot of things on your screen that distracts you: crazy amount of icons, Dock with dozens of notifications and an ocean of inactive apps. Information noise is annoying and interrupting the work. Only one click and UnDistracted app turns off everything unnecessary and helps you to focus on the most important things.
- Personal approach – Some people get distracted with the Dock menu. Others with push notifications. UnDistracted allows setting it up based on your personal needs. Every time you switch on your computer, it will be activated automatically.
- Focus on the most important – Do you work with dozens of tabs opened? Are there too many of them to get concentrated? UnDistracted can shadow all windows except the active one. Fine tuning allows you to choose the shadow level. Now, only the essential things stay right in front of your eyes. Nothing interferes with you anymore.
There are a lot of different applications that can do only one of those things. Some of them shadow windows (HazeOver, StayFocused), and the others hide icons on the desktop (HiddenMe, Desktop Ghost) or hide Menu bar and Dock (Menu Eclipse), but to get concentrated and delete everything that distracts you, it is necessary to launch several applications, set them up in the System Preferences, it is inconvenient and time-consuming.
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The Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies at UBC is a vibrant centre for the study of Romance languages, literatures and cultures. Our faculty is composed of a group of specialists whose expertise ranges from second language acquisition and linguistics, to literary and cultural studies.
Our department offers an exploration of the languages, literatures and cultures from places that speak Latin-based languages – French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. We strive to connect language studies to literature and culture through a variety of interdisciplinary methods. We offer a variety of programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Our courses explore the abundant traditions of French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese cultures, both in their countries of origin, and in the cultures of diaspora, including Quebec and a wide variety of geographic areas such as Latin America, as well as the Caribbean, African and Asian countries.
Our language course offerings are for students at many levels of language proficiency and understanding. Our main programs are designed to enhance active communication skills, solid grammatical training, and to develop an appreciation of many different cultures. We explore Romance languages and traditions from Latin and vernacular, to dialect and regional variations, to creole and hybrid idioms. Our language courses promote lively, inclusive environments in which to learn a new language or to improve your skills.
Our literature and culture course offerings take students on stimulating journeys of wonder and complexity. We teach literature and culture courses in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, as well as in English. Our course topics range from the earliest European oral and literary traditions, to the earliest cultural exchanges with North Africa and Asia, to the history of navigation and global exploration, to the cultural explosion of the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and Romanticism; to innovation in modernity and postmodernism, to post-colonial regions and relations, to globalization and current affairs.
Our diverse courses intersect with multiple areas of interest and study such as Cinema and Visual Studies, Linguistics, Theatre, Music, African, Asian, Caribbean, European, Latin American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Gender Studies, Social Sciences and Critical Theory.
We offer our students outstanding preparation in critical thinking and analytical writing. Our department provides an education in the Humanities in preparation for a future in a globalized economy and diverse communities. Our graduates pursue a wide variety of careers in teaching, law, business, management, government, journalism, and the sciences, among many other fields.


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23 Nigerian graduates have been selected across the six geo-political zones in Nigeria as beneficiaries of the (ARMTI) training on agribusiness development to empower them as employers of labour and drive youth self-sufficiency. Recall my post on the Call for Agric Graduates (kalusam.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/opportunity-youth-empowerment-for-agric-graduates-in-nigeria/)
The training which is aimed at providing participants with practical exposure to the agribusiness industry, will also equip them with proposal writing mechanism that would assist them in the accessing of loans from the relevant banks.
Addressing the audience at the opening ceremony in Ilorin, the Ag. Executive Director of the ARMTI Dr. (Mrs) Comfort Jolayemi stated that while ARMTI is providing the participants with free accommodation, feeding and allowance, the Bank of Agriculture (BOA) is expected to provide them with loans for agribusiness ventures at the end of the programme.
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HERTS/MIDDLESEX ONE:Kilburn Cosmos 25 Old Abbotstonians 30
Relegation-threatened Old Abbotstonians secured a dramatic 30-25 win in a match where the lead changed hands no fewer than seven times.
Abbots were heading for their sixth defeat from seven games until in stoppage time a good move from the base of a scrum saw skipper Stuart Parkin outflank the Kilburn Cosmos defence to score under the posts.
The priceless victory moved Abbots above Cosmos and out of the drop zone in what could turn out to be an early relegation decider.
The Abbots side was ravaged by injury and it started nervously, but took a 3-0 lead thanks to a Jamie Jamieson drop goal.
A penalty and a converted try left them 10-3 down but man of the match Neil Gordge twice forced his way over the Kilburn line within 10 minutes to take Abbots back in front, only for Cosmos to punish a misunderstanding in the visitors' defence and sprint through a gap from a line-out to make it 20-18 to Kil-burn at half-time.
Nerves showed after the break and the second period was littered with errors, infringements and turnovers.
Abbots exchanged unconverted tries to retake and concede the lead for a third time and with 15 minutes to go they trailed 25-23 before sneaking home at the death.
They entertain West London in the first round of the Middlesex Bowl on Saturday at 12.30pm.


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- Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Sustainability explores questions around the central concept of sustainability: What are its foundations and politics? How do crises challenge sustainability? How is sustainability connected to local and transnational environments? How is sustainability connected to tourism and recreation? Readings by a range of ecologists, urban planners, philosophers, geographers, reporters, artists, and ordinary citizens take up these questions and more. Questions and assignments for each selection provide a range of activities for students. The website for the Spotlight Series offers comprehensive instructor support with sample syllabi and additional teaching resources.
The Bedford Spotlight Reader Series is an exciting line of single-theme readers, each reflecting Bedford's trademark care and quality. An editorial board of a dozen compositionists at schools with courses focusing on specific themes assists in the development of the series. Each reader collects thoughtfully chosen selections sufficient for an entire writing course—about 35 pieces—to allow instructors to provide carefully developed, high-quality instruction at an affordable price. Bedford Spotlight Readers are designed to help students from all majors make sustained inquiries from multiple perspectives, opening up topics such as money, food, border crossings, music, humor, subcultures, happiness, monsters, sustainability, and gender to critical analysis. The readers are flexibly arranged in thematic chapters, with each chapter focusing in depth on a different facet of the central topic. The website for the Spotlight Series offers comprehensive instructor support with sample syllabi and additional teaching resources.


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I just found the 2010 Debut Author Challenge at The Story Siren! Participants have been challenged to read at least 12 books, but we can read however many more we want to. Here's my list.
- Firespell by Chloe Neill
- Fallen by Lauren Kate
- Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
- Hearts at Stake by Alyxandra Harvey
- The Mark by Jen Nadol
- Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
- Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
- Voices of Dragons by Carrie Vaughn
- Intertwined by Gena Showalter
- Guardian of the Dead by Karen Healey
- The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting
- Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon
- The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
- Almost to Die For by Tate Hallaway
- Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
- Firelight by Sophie Jordan
- Matched by Ally Condie
- The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade
- Black Wings by Christina Henry
- Hold Me Closer, Necromancer by Lish McBride
- The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
- Virals by Kathy Reichs
- Angel by L.A. Weatherly
- Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton
- next!
Books I'd like to read this year
Halo by Alexandra Adornetto
Raised by Wolves by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Line by Teri Hall
Tyger Tyger by Kersten Hamilton
Shadow Hills by Anastasia Hopcus
Claire de Lune by Christine Johnson
Hunger by Jackie Morse Kessler
Other by Karen Kincy
The Witch's Alphabet by Caitlin Kittredge
Sea by Heidi R. Kling
Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves
The Candidates by Inara Scott
Paranormalcy by Kiersten White


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The 'One Thing' band are expanding their merchandise empire to include a range of dental products.
One Direction have teamed up with dental care giant Colgate to launch their own range of toothbrushes and toothpaste.
The 'Live While We're Young' five-piece have lent their name and likenesses to a new line of products set to launch this November, just in time for the festive season.
The band's biggest fans will be able to get their hands on the One Direction Colgate MaxFresh Power Toothbrush, complete with a small oscillating head, the One Direction Manual Toothbrush and the One Direction MaxFresh Toothpaste, which comes in a fresh mint flavour.
All three products come in variations of pink and purple colours while the power toothbrush also features the faces of band members Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne and Zayn Malik printed along the handle.
Check out a picture of One Direction's newly announced dental range below (Credit: Colgate):
The One Direction tooth care line is the latest in a long line of merchandising the band have released since rising to fame on The X Factor back in 2010, which now includes their music as well as posters, t-shirts, other apparel, DVDs and various accessories.
Over the past week band member Niall has been pictured out on crutches after revealing that he has aggravated an old knee injury, and revealed he will eventually have to have surgery that will put him out of action for two and a half months.
One Direction are preparing to launch their second studio album 'Take Me Home' next month (12th November).


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Curriculum & Materials
A Range of Instructional Materials Provided
The curriculum is carefully designed to fulfill the requirements of the philosophy and learning theory. Lessons are planned to provide an appropriate scope, an understandable sequence and an achievable goal.
In addition to satisfying the broad principles of the philosophy and learning theory, the curriculum and activities have been designed to:
- Be play oriented, academically based, and relevant to the children.
- Provide daily experiences that promote both cooperative learning and individual exploration.
- Include parents , family, and community as an integral part of the education process.
- Incorporate teachers and specialists with an understanding of early childhood and development.
- Be consistent, carefully planned, and structured, (on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis).
- Include individual education plans for each child.
- Be designed to support later learning in elementary school
The curriculum is also designed to develop these specific skills:
|Basic Life Skills
|Language Enrichment
|Fine & Gross Motor Skills
|Communication Skills
|Sound / Letter Recognition
|Art / Music / Dance Appreciation
|Problem-solving Creativity
|Number / Numeral Recognition
|Cooking and Gardening
|Cultural Awareness
|Science & Sensory Skills
|Computer Skills, Time / Chronology
A broad range of instructional materials is provided, including many which are available to children on a free-choice basis.
The school has been designed to provide "specialized" learning environments. Our classrooms are designated by two subject groups: Math / Science and, Language / Social Studies / Arts. Our playground and garden area are also utilized as learning/recreational areas. Children enjoy a variety of stimulating atmospheres each day.
This unusual design allows teachers to specialize in specific subjects, and devote more planning and teaching time to those areas. When planning lessons, teachers incorporate skills and concepts from other content areas making the curriculum consistent, comprehensive and integrated.


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This room in the gallery is of recent representational paintings in oil, acrylic or combined media available for exhibition and sale. They represent our natural environment including water, fields, forests, flowers, animals, insects and birds. The most recent and very popular insect series features butterflies and dragonflies. Some have a textured under painting to add depth and variety in the surface. In these original paintings I make a strong statement about color, texture and composition. I keep the subject true to nature, however I usually push the emphasis on rich and saturated color. If you would like to view more paintings or have an idea and would like to commission an original painting please contact me. These and other artworks are available for exhibit and sale in your gallery, fund raising event or place of business. Contact me and we can design a show for your needs.
This gallery is updated often so please check back for new original paintings. Please visit the sculpture, abstract and cosmic art galleries for more original art. Art makes great gifts for yourself and others!


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If you're anything like me, you have probably been at the public access checking the ice every night after work. I keep a chisel in the back of my truck and stop on the way home. My rods are rigged and tackle boxes organized. First ice always leaves me feeling like a kid on Christmas morning. While I primarily spend my hard water season chasing panfish, first ice has me dreaming of walleyes. It can be a short window of opportunity but during the first few weeks of the hard water season the planets align. The walleyes bulk up for the long winter ahead. Oxygen rich waters and large baitfish call for aggressive tactics. My favorite of which is the jigging spoon. Jigging spoons drop down fast in deep water allowing you to put the miles on necessary to ice some walleyes.
A handful of jigging spoons is all that is needed to get started. Different spoons can be used to impart different actions. Some are meant to be fished with bigger jigging motions, while others respond to the slightest movements. I learned a lot about how to fish different spoons by watching them on my underwater camera. The general rule of thumb is to jig more with thicker spoons and less with thinner ones. I would recommend something with a rattle like the Northland Buckshot Rattle Spoon or Lindy Rattl'n Flyer for a search lure. These lures make a lot of commotion and call fish in for a closer look. While you may have to switch to a less aggressive spoon to get a commitment, these spoons will give you an idea if fish are present in the area. A second choice would be a thin flutter spoon like the JB Weasel. These impart a much different action than their bulky counterparts and are needed to seal the deal some days. My third choice, and an absolute classic, would be Bay De Noc's Swedish Pimple. I caught my first winter walleyes using these spoons and never leave them behind to this day. Lastly, I wouldn't be without the Northland Macho Minnow. The small flicker tail can keep a walleyes attention with a simple squeeze of the rod handle. While you could add many other effective choices to your arsenal, this will give you plenty of different actions to tempt even the most discerning of marble eyes.
My favorite part about spoon fishing early ice walleyes is that they allow you to fish fast. Even in deep water you can quickly drop a spoon down, jig a few times, reel up and move. This allows me to sort through several pieces of structure along with previous hot spots in a single outing. I no longer spend long periods of time camped out in last years "hot spot" waiting for the sun to set. I have been burned by that strategy before. Spoons allow me to work through an area. If no fish are present I keep searching. If I am seeing a lot of fish on my electronics but not getting any to bite, I make a way point on my hand held GPS and return once the sun slides behind the trees.
Standard jigging for me consists of dropping my spoon to the bottom. I then reel up 1-2 ft off bottom and hold for five seconds. I then raise my spoon about a foot with a sharp motion and return to my original position, letting the spoon fall on a slack line. I then pause again and repeat. When a fish is seen on my electronics I switch to much smaller jigging motions.
I make a point to fish every hole that I drill even if no fish are present on the flasher. Walleyes don't school up as tight as panfish. Many times I will walk up and stick my transducer into a hole to discover nothing. After dropping my spoon to the bottom a fish will appear. I don't recommend committing large amounts of time to holes that are void of fish. Drop the spoon to the bottom, reel up a foot, hold for five seconds, jig, hold, and move on. Before leaving the hole I usually swing the transducer in the hole like a pendulum in order to see what's happening outside of the beam or cone. If I notice a suspended line, I will give the hole a little more time.
When a fish comes into view 1 of 3 things will usually happen. #1. The fish will rise up to the spoon and crush it. This is everyone's favorite scenario and happens more during early ice than any other time. Walleyes have typically had several weeks without pressure. Combine that with nature telling them to bulk up for the long winter ahead and you have a receipt for success. #2. Is what we like to refer to as a stand off situation. The walleye will rise up, or come in suspended, and sit right below your spoon. Just like a police swat team, I try to avoid a standoff at all costs. The best avoidance technique is to keep working fish up and up and up. I refuse to let walleyes get too good of a look at my presentation in fear they may realize it is an imposter. One technique that can produce is to squeeze the rod handle and lift at the same time. It imparts just enough action to get the treble hook to swing back and forth in a very tantalizing manner that marble eyes can't resist. Another technique that can work is to place you index finger on the rod blank and lightly tap while lifting at the same time. We refer to this technique as the smoker, as it mimics someone ashing a cigarette. While smoking is terrible for your health, the only effect you will feel from this method is violent strikes from passing fish. My standard technique is small 1- 2" jigging motions while either lifting slowly or holding right above the fish. #3. The third scenario is when a fish comes in for a look and drops back down to the bottom. In this scenario, I always feel like I have nothing to lose. One big jigging motion followed by a pause will often cause the walleye to turn around for one last look. I have not had great success with dropping the spoon down to the fleeing walleye. When a fish turns around for one more look I will usually lift the spoon an additional foot. A quick lift sets off the predatory response and forces them to make a decision before their meal escapes.
The wait is finally over! It's time to get out and catch that first walleye meal of the season. Experiment with some different jigging motions. The tips here are only guidelines to get you started. Each fish needs to be "read" and coaxed individually through the use of your electronics. If the fish don't seem to like what you are doing, change it up until you find something that works for you. Working on my dabble is what keeps me coming back and keeps me dreaming of first ice.


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One Way Trip- A Hungry Giantess
I hope this finds you happy and healthy will all this quarantine business still going on.
I filmed an awesome Giantess video today and I really hope you'll enjoy it.
Here's the storyline:
You'd better run, I am awful hungry! Your giantess has woke up in quite a fowl mood today and YOU are reaping the harsh repercussions of her mood. She stand SO tall and huge. You are well aware of the fact that she could end you with one stomp or one swallow.
She lays the law down to you today and begins by showing you in detail how she could make you meet your demise. Will it be but one single drop of her drool? Will she pop you into her huge mouth? Will she sit and torment you with her huge amazon ass? Maybe she will put you in her massive cleavage or stick you in the crack of her deep, dark bush. She talks in detail how you may have to use your last bit of strength to push back the mountain of flesh just to catch your breath.
Here is the link if you'd lie to check it out:
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Two sources have told us that director Adam McKay (Anchorman, the upcoming action-comedy The Other Guys) is in serious talks with Sony Pictures to helm an adaptation of the comic book series The Boys. Near the end of April, we reported that director Samuel Bayer (the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street) said he wanted to adapt the comic, but that "The studio is really hot on [McKay]".
We've been told that McKay is a die-hard comic book fan and that he's been looking to tackle a movie in the comic book genre. I always support directors taking risks and heading out into uncharted waters in their career. Due to the extreme violence and language in the comics, I doubt we're looking at his fifth feature film with Will Ferrell. However, just to be clear: no contracts have been signed and in Hollywood everything can change in a heartbeat. But right now, it looks likely that we'll be hearing official word soon.
Hit the jump to learn more about the comic.
The Boys was created by writer Garth Ennis (Preacher) and illustrator Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan). According to Wikipedia,
"The series is set in a contemporary world very much similar to the real one, with one notable exception: a number of people have some form of superpower. The series follows a superpowered CIA squad, known informally as 'The Boys', whose job it is to keep watch on superheroes and, if necessary, intimidate or kill them."
The Boys are comprised of the characters, "Billy Butcher", "Hughie Campbell", "Mother's Milk", "The Frenchman", "The Female (of the Species)", "Lieutenant Colonel Greg D. Mallory", and "The Legend".
While Ennis' work has come to rub me the wrong way (it seems like he engages in vulgarity for vulgarity's sake), I'm excited to see what McKay would do with a project that's so different that anything he's done previously.


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The University of Texas at Austin Housing and Dining Executive Director Hemlata Jhaveri will serve as the new Executive Director of Housing Dining Hospitality (HDH) after April 16, 2018.
The current Executive Director, Assistant Vice Chancellor Mark Cunningham, will retire at the end of the academic year amid two different responses: consistent and public student frustration from students and praise from several administrators like Chancellor Pradeep Khosla and Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer Pierre Ouillet.
"Please join me in wishing Mark a wonderful next step in his life and in warmly welcoming Hemlata to our community," Ouillet wrote in a campus-wide email. He described Jhaveri as committed to progressive leadership and management, with a "proven record of commitment to continuously improving the student experience, building strong relationships with faculty and campus partners, new construction, and capital projects and food service operations."
Jhaveri received a doctorate in Education and Human Resource Studies from Colorado State University, as well as a Master's in Business Administration from Illinois State University and a Master's in English Literature from the University of Mumbai.
"I look forward to reaching out to them [Jhaveri] and connecting them to issues students are facing with HDH today," Associated Students of UC San Diego (ASUCSD) President Lesly Figueroa told The Triton. "I plan to create a strategic plan with the new director that elevates students' needs and authentic student and worker voices into HDH. In fact, I plan to host more student forums next quarter so students can get to meet the new director and begin creating a relationship that uplifts student and worker needs."
Gabe Schneider is the News Editor at The Triton. You can follow him on Twitter @gabemschneider
Update June 9 3:20 p.m.: The Triton was alerted of misspellings of Jhaveri's name in the photo caption and the article has been corrected accordingly.


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The Pine Barrens, also known as the Pinelands or simply the Pines, is a heavily forested area of coastal plain stretching across more than seven counties of southern New Jersey. The name "pine barrens" refers to the area's sandy, acidic, nutrient-poor soil. Although European settlers could not cultivate their familiar crops there, the unique ecology of the Pine Barrens supports a diverse spectrum of plant life, including orchids and carnivorous plants. The area is also notable for its populations of rare pygmy Pitch Pines and other plant species that depend on the frequent fires of the Pine Barrens to reproduce. The sand that composes much of the area's soil is referred to by the locals as sugar sand.
Despite its proximity to Philadelphia and New York City, and the fact that the Garden State Parkway and Atlantic City Expressway run through it, the Pine Barrens remains largely rural and undisturbed. The Pine Barrens territory helps recharge the 17 trillion gallon Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer containing some of the purest water in the United States.[1][2] As a result of all these factors, in 1978 Congress passed legislation to designate 1.1 million acres (4,500 km²) of the Pine Barrens as the Pinelands National Reserve (the nation's first National Reserve) to preserve its ecology. A decade later, it was designated by the United Nations as an International Biosphere Reserve. Development in the Pinelands National Reserve is strictly controlled by an independent state/federal agency, the New Jersey Pinelands Commission.
The Pinelands Reserve contains the Wharton, Brendan T. Byrne (formerly Lebanon), Penn, and Bass River state forests. The reserve also includes two National Wild and Scenic Rivers: the Maurice[3] and the Great Egg Harbor.[4]
The noted author John McPhee wrote The Pine Barrens (1967), on the history and ecology of the region.
During the colonial era, the Pine Barrens was the location of various industries. Bog iron was mined from bogs, streams, and waterways, and was worked in furnaces at Batsto, Lake Atsion, Ferrago, Hanover, and several other locations. Iron from these early furnaces was instrumental in supplying the American military with weapons and camp tools during the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Second Barbary War. For example, Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr. sailed to Algiers armed with 24-pound cannons that had been cast at Hanover in 1814.[5] The bog iron industry declined in the mid-19th century after the discovery that iron ore could be mined more cheaply in Pennsylvania.
Other industries such as paper mills, sawmills, and gristmills rose and fell throughout the years, catering chiefly to local markets. Smaller industries such as charcoal-making and glassmaking also were developed, meeting with varying degrees of success. Over time, however, the forest reclaimed almost all traces of the Pine Barrens' industrial past. Ghost towns—remnants of villages built around these former industries—can still be found at various locations. Batsto Village has been restored to its mid-19th century state as a state historic site.
The Pine Barrens were home to many rural, backwoods families. For years, residents of the rural area were called "Pineys" by outsiders, as a derogatory term. Today many Pinelands residents are proud of both the name and the land on which they live.[6] In the early 20th century, a family identified in a case study by the pseudonym, the Kallikaks, were presented as an example of genetic inferiority by eugenicists. Today, scholars understand that the facts in the Kallikaks study were misrepresented, including photographs altered to make the family members appear more backward.[7]
On July 12, 1928, the Mexican aviator and national hero Emilio Carranza crashed and was killed in the Pinelands while returning from a historic goodwill flight from Mexico City to the United States. Flying back from Long Island, he encountered a thunderstorm and crashed in Burlington County. A 12 ft (3.6 m) monument identifies the location of the crash.
Despite rapid urbanization of surrounding areas, the Pine Barrens remained largely untouched because its sandy soil was unsuitable for growing most crops. Its iron and charcoal deposits did not compete with more readily accessible deposits elsewhere. In 1969, the Pine Barrens averaged a density of 15 people per square mile, compared with 1000 people per square mile in the lands bordering it. With rising environmental concerns at the time, people became alerted to the possible destruction of the Pine Barrens and its aquifer by urban sprawl.
State authorities in the region discussed plans to construct a jetport and associated city in the Pine Barrens to alleviate congestion at other major regional airports of the mid-Atlantic. The low cost of land and lower incidence of fog in the area made the plan appealing.[8]
Congress created the New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve, the country's first National Reserve, to protect the area under the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978. The New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve contains approximately 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) of land, and occupies 22% of New Jersey's land area, including territory of much of seven counties. Counties affected by the Act are Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and Ocean.
The reserve contains Wharton State Forest, Brendan T. Byrne State Forest, Bass River State Forest, and Penn State Forest.[9] The Pinelands was designated a U.S. Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1983 and an International Biosphere Reserve in 1988.[10]
Howard P. Boyd was instrumental in working to preserve the Pine Barrens and educate visitors. He died in December 2011, within the Protection Area of the Pinelands National Reserve.[11]
The Pine Barrens is associated with many legends and tales.
The Pine Barrens gave rise to the legend of the Jersey Devil, said to have been born in 1735 to a local woman named Mrs. Leeds in an area known as "Leeds Point".[12] It was said that he was her 13th child and, because of the unlucky number, he was cursed. Another story says that the mother gave birth to a hideous monster that attacked her and her nurses, before flying up and out of the chimney and disappearing into the Barrens. Most alleged sightings of the legendary Devil have occurred in or near the Pine Barrens.
The Pine Barrens comprise a major part of the Atlantic coastal pine barrens ecoregion. The forest communities are strongly influenced by fire, varying from dwarf pine forests less than 4 feet (120 cm) tall where fires are frequent, to pine forests, to oak forests where fires are rare. Dark swamps of Atlantic white cedar grow along the waterways.
The Pine Barrens are home to at least 850 species of plants,[13] of which 92 are considered threatened and endangered.[14] Several species of orchids, including the Pink Lady's Slipper, are native to the Pine Barrens.[15]
The Pine Barrens are home to at least 39 species of mammals, over 300 species of birds, 59 reptile and amphibian species, and 91 fish species.[16] At least 43 species are considered threatened and endangered by the NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife,[17] including the rare eastern timber rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus) and bald eagles.[18]
The Pine Barrens are at risk from increasing development and suburbanization in the area. A threatened species of frog, the Pine Barrens Tree Frog, has a disjunct population there.[19]
Believed to have been extirpated from the state by 1970 due to destruction of its territory and human encroachment, the bobcat gained legal protection in 1972. It is classified as a game species with a closed season; in 1991 it was added to the list of endangered species in New Jersey. Between 1978 and 1982, the state introduced 24 bobcats from Maine into the northern portion of the state. Since 1996, they have been monitored by biologists with the aid of GPS transmitters in order to determine habitat ranges and preferences.[20]
A scent post survey in 1995 proved bobcat presence in four northern counties. There have been reliable sightings of the bobcat in nine additional (mostly southern) counties, including those encompassing large swathes of the Pine Barrens and others skirting it, namely: Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Ocean, and Salem counties.[21]
Industries in the Pine Barrens are primarily related to agriculture and tourism. New Jersey produces the third-highest number of cranberries in the country, mostly cultivated in the areas around Chatsworth, including Whitesbog. The first cultivated blueberries were developed in the Pine Barrens in 1916 through the work of Elizabeth White of Whitesbog, and blueberry farms are nearly as common as cranberry bogs in the area. Most blueberry farms are found in and around the town of Hammonton.[19]
In the Pine Barrens, forest fire has been a common occurrence before habitation by humans. Fire has played a major ecological role in the Pinelands, and the ecotypes "suggest that short fire intervals may have been typical in the Pine Plains for many centuries, or millennia."[22] Although natural fires have occurred, evidence shows that most fires in the region are of human origin.[23]
The fire regime before European settlement is poorly understood.[22] Scholars know that the Lenape tribes burned the woods in the spring and fall to reduce underbrush, and improve plant yields and hunting conditions.[24] The Pine Barrens, with its sandy soil, did not attract a permanent agriculture population (whose main interest would have been to establish permanent boundaries and clear the forests for fields.)[23] The area's sparse population encouraged a long-lasting attitude that forest fires should be set for local benefit—even on the lands of others. For instance, it was profitable for charcoal burners to set fires deliberately, in order to make the trees useless for any purpose other than charcoal making, then purchase the trees for a discount.[23]
Forest fires play an important role in regulating the growth of plants in the Pine Barrens. Frequent light fires tend to reduce the amount of undergrowth and promote the growth of mature trees. Forest fires have contributed to the dominance of Pitch Pine in the Pine Barrens. They can resist and recover quickly from fire by resprouting directly through their bark (something very unusual for pines). Their serotinous pine cones open only after having been heated by a fire.[23][25] The prevalence of forest fire allows the pitch pines to dominate over oaks, which by comparison are usually killed outright by a moderate or intense fire. High air temperatures and dry plant undergrowth contribute to the intensity of the fire. While severe fires are uncommon, severe fires at fairly frequent intervals can eliminate species that do not bear seed at an early age. Frequent killing fires keep an area covered with small sprouts.[26]
Efforts to battle forest fire attract debate over how to best preserve the Pine Barrens. While fires constitute a danger to property and inhabitants, preservationists argue that eliminating forest fires would cause the Pine Barrens to become dominated by oak trees. A few areas which had previously consisted of scrub and pitch pine have become dominated by oak trees because of intervention after settlement to reduce the frequency of forest fires.[27]
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It goes without saying for most experienced family historians that the search for family connections leads one along strange and unexpected paths. For example, an explanation for how John Tuttle of Ringstead in Northamptonshire made his way to Saint Albans in Hertfordshire, and met and married the widow Joan (Anterbus) Lawrence is a mystery.
There is, however, a greater untold love story involving Joan Anterbus (which spelling is how the family's name appears in Saint Albans parish records).
Joan Anterbus was born to parents Walter Anterbus and his second wife, Joana Arnolde, who married February 8, 1586/7, in Saint Albans Abbey.
Joana was baptized April 28, 1571, as Joana Arnald or Arnolde. She was one of seven children born between 1562 and 1573/4.
Unfortunately, we have no details about what follows. The Saint Albans Abbey parish records as transcribed provide none. What we can surmise is that the wife of John Arnolde, the mother of these children, was probably named Joan, as was her mother and one of her daughters.
The family, as were dozens of others in Saint Albans, were victims of the plague that ravished London and nearby villages for five years, 1578-1583. (See below.)
The first Arnolde burial was Joane, on June 14, 1578. A mere two weeks later, two of her daughters were buried: Elizabeth Arnolde on July 1 and a second Elizabeth on August 29. This may or may not have been a double entry. The Elizabeth Arnold, daughter of John and Joan, was baptized November 29, 1562. She would have been about sixteen.
John Arnolde, most likely the son of John and Joan, was baptized February 6, 1573/4. He would have been about four or five when he was buried November 28, 1578.
Martha Arnolde, baptized, May 22, 1569, and Rebecca Arnolde, baptized August 10, 1572, would have been twelve and nine respectively when they were buried July 28 and July 29, 1581.
Only three young girls survived the plague in the Arnolde household: Anne, baptized July 18, 1565; Sara, baptized September 7, 1567; and Joana, who was to become the wife of Walter Anterbus in February 1586/7. Perhaps the older girls were healthier than their younger siblings or maybe they developed a degree of immunity while taking care of their family.
To this sad tale we have to add the death of their father, "Mr. John Arnolde", who was buried November 10, 1582/3. There is no doubt that he may well have died of a broken heart.
The 1578-1783 Black Plague in England
In May 1577 there were two burials in Saint Albans Abbey, Hertfordshire; in June, there were another two, and in July there were five, two of which came from the Rogers family. These could have been related to natural causes–however, they were not. It was the beginning of the black plague finding its way from London streets to the countryside, most likely brought by merchants and other travelers.
A few months later, in September 1577, the first death in the Goulstone family came with that of Thomas alias Fuller. The following June there was another family member, Grisill Goulston. In July 1578 there was a serious uptick in burials for the Goulston family: Elizabeth, Penelope, and Jane Goulston were all buried on July 1st; a second Thomas was buried on the 2nd and Francis on the 3rd. This brought the total to seven, an unusual number for a single family compared to prior years.
This activity heralded a new plague era for Saint Albans in particular and England in general. Parish clerks became uncomfortably aware of the five-year plague period of 1578-1583. (See Charles Creighton, A History of Epidemics in Britain available online.)
[In 1578 London] … the statistics that the deaths from all causes had risen to more than three hundred in a week before Michaelmas—a small mortality compared with that of 1563, or of any other London epidemic of the first degree. From other letters, relating to plague at St Albans, Ware and other places near London, it may be concluded that the citizens had escaped from London to their usual country resorts in plague-time. On August 30 there were said to be sixty cases of plague at St Albans, and on October 13 Ware is said to have been 'of late' infected. Plague-deaths are entered also in the Hertford parish registers in 1577 and 1578 …
Saint Albans, by the way, is a mere twenty-five miles north of London. Weekly figures in London, beginning in January of that year, stayed in the double digits until August, when deaths related to the plague epidemic reached 162 in a single week, peaking at over 230 for three weeks, before dropping back below 200. In 1578 there were more than 3500 deaths attributed to the plague. In 1579 there were less than 700; 128 in 1580; 987 in 42 weeks of 1581; and just shy of 3000 in 1582.
While the increase in deaths are noted in the Saint Albans parish registers, they are not identified as plague deaths, only as burials. There is no way to differentiate.
Saint Albans experienced a parallel increase in plague-related deaths to that of London. A January 29, 1578 letter reported that deaths in London had increased from seven to thirty-seven deaths in a brief span of three weeks.
In May 1577, the number of burials at Saint Albans had risen to eight; in June, there were 27; July, 45; August, 68; September, 62; October, 44; November, 27; December, 14. By January 1578-9, the number of burials began to drop off significantly, with only four that month, three in February, and one in March. There was a small increase in April, with eight burials. The numbers dropped off again in July, with only one burial, but there were four each month in July 1579 and May 1580.
This was apparently a premature lull before the next uptick in burials in July 1581, with eighteen, and in August, with another thirteen. Another brief drop-off in burials ended in March 1582, with six; April with eleven; and October, nine. The monthly burial rate for 1583 through 1588 averaged one to four, with the only larger number being in July 1583, when there were six.


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Reading the following, it occurred to me that I've never been in an Ital, and I'm not sure that I ever set foot inside a Marina either.
What did I miss?
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Only eleven Morris Itals still in existence? I am sure there are many more tucked away unused or forgotten in garages countrywide. If you believe the "How many left?" site, there were in fact 39 Itals of various guises licensed in 2018.
Not a large number but I would guess the truer figure of extant Itals must be in the hundreds at least.
One of my parents' friends bought himself a brand new Morris Ital 1.3 on his retirement as a Police Inspector in February 1982 and ran it more or less trouble free until 1993. I cannot (unusual for me) remember the complete registration number *DM 444X.
I was to be a passenger in it once but it did not seem in any way unpleasant.
I drove several Morris Marinas including a brand new 1.3 Special 4 door in Tahiti Blue in October 1978 - SJC 777T. It was my cousin and her husband's new car. He was away on a banking course and asked me to go and collect it and take their part exchanged 1975 Austin Maxi to the selling dealer - M&K in Old Colwyn.
I think it had 20 miles on the odometer and apart from being "stiff" and reluctant to rev as a new car did then, it drove well enough.
Marinas and Itals were not BAD cars but a Marina 1800TC was quite an entertaining car to drive - and pokey.
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I'd be very surprised if that number was even vaguely true. The Marina lads are just like any other owners group.
is a good fun read. No real illusions about the abilties of the cars (they were deeply flawed), but quite a passion for restoring and maintaining the survivors.
Good luck to them.
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The Ital is quite rare now, much more so than the Marina that preceded it. There simply wasn't the following for the Ital, the styling isn't as nice as the Marina and the improvements under skin not significant enough to make it stand apart from the Marina.
Having had a bright yellow Ital estate as the family car when I was very small in the mid-80s, I don't remember it being that different to any of the other cars I encountered with the exception of a couple of upper market ones. The black vinyl seats weren't particularly pleasant in the summer, but it was otherwise a fairly ordinary experience. It certainly felt like a nicer car than the saggy old Cortina estate (a MkV, if memory serves) a neighbour had though not as comfortable as the Renault 11 a family friend had.
It was just ordinary, and a little dated, I believe it had the 1700 so it wasn't even particularly underpowered, though I do recall Dad upgrading the front suspension to 'telescopics' since he was unhappy with whatever it came from the factory with.
I'd expect there to be about 11 road legal ones at the time the article was written, though I'd be surprised if more than 50 cars actually survive. By the time we got to the 90s, most of the cars had reached the end of their useful life, succumbed to the usual entropy, and had absolutely no worth and were simply disposed of. People don't recall them fondly, they weren't exceptional in any way, just competent, and the lack of chrome seems to have kept them from getting that all important cult status.
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I don't think the Ital ever got to Australia, but the Morris Marina certainly did. My father bought one new when they first came out, about 1972 I think. It was plagued with front suspension troubles and the Lucas alternator was a disaster, being replaced countless times during it's warranty. I drove the car on many occasions and I cannot remember anything remotely exciting about it.
They were available here in two body styles, 4 door sedan and 2 door coupe and with a choice of 4 power plants. 4cy.-1500cc OHC, 4cy.-1750cc OHC, 4cy.-1750cc OHC with twin carbys and a 2600cc OHC 6 cylinder called "Big Red".
In the day they were never serious competition for the Japs and there are virtually none left on the roads here today.
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In the 1970s I had a 1.3 Morris Marina as a company car. It didn't inspire enthusiasm for it, but it did its job without any trouble and I have no bad memories of it. It's replacement was a 1.6 Ford Cortina Mk IV, which was an absolute disaster - trouble from the word go, and still unreliable when I left the job in 1980! Following my experiences with the Cortina and a later Sierra, I will never have another Ford ...
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I also had a new 1.3 Morris Marina as a Company car. It was a green 4 door saloon with fully padded door cards!! At first I was pleased as punch - it was my first new car and I was glad not to have to use my Mk1 A55 Cambridge for work.
I soon realised that it didn't have the same build quality as the Austin but it was just as reliable. I covered over 100,000 miles in it and that included two camping trips to the South of France. It NEVER let me down.
Eventually, the rear wheel arches succumbed to rust and it began to take on a down at heel look. Every morning, come rain or shine, it would start and go.
After a while I began to resent the Marina (my Boss only ever replaced a car if it became unreliable) and as other colleagues were driving newer cars my Marina became the butt of many jokes and leg pulling.
When it was eventually exchanged I was rewarded with a stylish Lancia Beta 1600 with a very distinctive herring bone interior. A great car to drive - a driver's car - but it developed many faults (including needing a new engine) and on one occasion a c/v joint failed while on holiday.
So the Marina was a very ordinary but worthy car - although I would obviously have preferred the 1800 TC - but the 1300 was essentially a Morris Minor in disguise.
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The company I worked for in the late 70s ran two door 1.3 Mariina's two door 1.3 Escort's and a few two door Avengers. To start with everyone wanted the Marina but after a while everyone wanted the Avengers as they were quicker, quieter, and more comfortable than the Escort and Marina and also handled better than the Marina.
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Ray White wrote:
So the Marina was a very ordinary but worthy car - although I would obviously have preferred the 1800 TC - but the 1300 was essentially a Morris Minor in disguise.
The Marina had a very similar front suspension to the Minor but the 1300 didn't handle as well as the Minor and the 1800 was enormous fun or positively lethal depending on your point of view.
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Reading the following, it occurred to me that I've never been in an Ital, and I'm not sure that I ever set foot inside a Marina either.
What did I miss?
........nothing to be honest, in my opinion they were dreadful but I think penguin sums it up nicely they deserve to be saved and fair play to the enthusiasts.
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The company I worked for in the late 70s ran two door 1.3 Mariina's two door 1.3 Escort's and a few two door Avengers. To start with everyone wanted the Marina but after a while everyone wanted the Avengers as they were quicker, quieter, and more comfortable than the Escort and Marina and also handled better than the Marina.
I think just about anything handled better than the 1.3 Marina which if nothing else kept you honest.!
Actually, they were O.K. (sort of) when new but quickly deteriorated to banger status.
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I bought a 3 year old Marina 1.8tc in 1980, the garage had to fit a new petrol tank because I filled it up and it stunk of fuel, the top of the tank had rusted away.
It was a good load lugger, but the front seats, cloth and reclining, very posh, were uncomfortable on a long run and the frames broke. Whoever was responsible for the ergonomics of the dashboard must have been on drugs, the radio was angled to the passenger seat.
It handled like two drunken heifers riding a tandem, I had traded in a Renault 4TL thats road holding was brilliant once you stopped being alarmed by the body roll. I regularly drove a North Yorkshire rural road to the nearest chip shop, on it was a small S bend with a wide grass verge. The Renault would just flick left, right, left and go round it. The Marina, well lets say I collected my number plate on the way home......
Mechanically the Marina was a complicated as a spoon. It pulled well, was reasonable on petrol, and quite spacious.
All in all the Marina was a maid of all work but excelled at nothing in particular. It was average.
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i overtook one on the M5 in devon a few weeks ago, it looked quite tidy, also one used to appear at the brean car show a few years back, it was an estate one, but the owner was not very talkative?
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i overtook one on the M5 in devon a few weeks ago, it looked quite tidy, also one used to appear at the brean car show a few years back, it was an estate one, but the owner was not very talkative?
I suppose there is always the possibility that someone might have unkindly said something to him?
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The Ital had vastly imoroved front suspension to sort out some of the handling issues.
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"When you awaken, you will have to find her yourself. Or she will find you."
These were the words given to Rowan Summerwaite by the Goddess as Rowan lay clinging to life. Broken—but not defeated—by the ancient Vampire Enyo.
After weeks of mandatory down time, a recharged and vengeance-fueled Rowan heads out from her father's Keep, leading a team of some of the most terrifying beings on earth with one goal in mind—track and eliminate the Vampire who attacked her.
But as the team moves across Europe and is hit with wave after wave of attacks, the tensions between Clive Stewart—the haughty, stylish Scion of North America whom Rowan grew even closer to during her recovery—and a rival Vampire ramp up. Befuddled, confused, flattered and annoyed, Rowan's the woman in the middle. She's not used to being claimed in a way that's not about how strong her sword arm is or who raised her. Clive Stewart is everything she shouldn't want in a man—he's bossy, he's a Vampire, and he considers her his—but she's past denying how it makes her feel that he fights for her the way he does. She's past denying she's in love.
In contrast to the uneven footing falling in love has given her, Rowan is utterly certain she will locate her quarry. She's stronger and more powerful than she's ever been after the tests and bloody lessons of the last years. Her connection with the Goddess is seamless and the light of her mission burns from within. And she'll need all the help she can get because it's not very long before Rowan and her team realize the threat is far greater than one crazy old Vampire. There's a war brewing and Rowan will fight it to the death. It's what she was born to do.
Rowan Summerwaite has finally healed and is ready to begin her hunt for the ancient vampire witch, Enyo, who attacked her when she was unarmed in her childhood home. It has been weeks of hurry up and wait, and Rowan is beyond ready to get this hunt on. But before she can gather up the hand-selected people who will be accompanying her on this hunt, Rowan must deal with more bull from Hunter Corp, the company she hunts for. Rowan is also confronted with a temporary madness from Theo, The First—the vampire who has stood as Rowan's father for so many years.
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I have a theory. It is this: no one actually believes in doping. They believe it happens, but in their heart of hearts, no one really believes that it makes any difference to how fast someone can go.
Look at it this way. If we accepted that doping changed how fast someone could ride, then whenever a second place rider was elevated to first after the original winner had been disqualified, we wouldn't feel we had to always mention as a caveat that they actually hadn't crossed the line first on the day.
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We wouldn't do that if they'd been disqualified for holding on to a team car for 20km.
And, God knows I don't like to bring up Lance Armstrong, but the reason that the Tours de France from 1999 to 2005 are left credited to no winner at all isn't just to piss him off. That's just a bonus. They're blank because no one has a clue who should have won them. Yet, still, we continue to look at it from the point of view of the doper, not the rest of the sport.
They're the Tours of the Unknown Rider, which is a rather more fitting memorial than the Tours that Half the World Seems to Think Lance Ought To Get Back because Jan Ullrich Was At It As Well.
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I found myself thinking about this because everyone seems to have spent a lot of the last week or two talking about TUEs.
It's a matter that has infuriated some, and confused others.
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The concern, prompted by a Russian hacking group, is that some Western athletes have been using illegal Therapeutic Use Exemptions to access things like asthma inhalers for the non-asthmatic.
The group's motivation is to create a distraction from recent revelations about state-supported doping in Russian sport. I think it's very sweet that so much of the Western media has been so keen to help out with this project.
I'd suggest that no one really believes doping works, because the world seems to accept that a dodgy TUE is as reprehensible as a state-sponsored doping cover-up. It's not. One is EPO, human growth hormone, blood doping, and the other is a dodgy asthma inhaler.
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It's a fact that dogs are direct descendant's of grey wolves, an evolution that began over 30,000 years ago. The grey wolf resembles a German shepherd but closer examination reveals the wolves head is larger, the chest is narrower, paws are bigger and the legs are longer. Also the German Shepard's tail curls upward and the wolves tail is fairly straight.
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