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Anakin Skywalker
Discovered as a slave on Tatooine by Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker had the potential to become one of the most powerful Jedi ever, and was believed by some to be the prophesied Chosen One who would bring balance to the Force. A hero of the Clone Wars, Anakin was caring and compassionate, but also had a fear of loss that would prove to be his downfall.
Padmé Amidala
Jango Fett
In the final years of the Republic, Jango Fett was regarded as the best bounty hunter in the galaxy. A proficient marksman and unarmed combatant, Fett was covered in a sleek armored suit that concealed his scarred face. His combat gear featured an arsenal of weaponry, including retractable wrist blades, a snare, dual blaster pistols and other more exotic tools of the trade. In combat, Jango used his harnessed jetpack to gain the advantage of speed and height over his enemies. The backpack also carried a nasty surprise -- an explosive rocket could be launched from it. For interstellar travel, Jango traveled aboard his well-worn starship, Slave I.
Count Dooku
Count Dooku was a menacing Sith Lord and central figure in the Clone Wars. Once a Jedi -- trained by Yoda -- he became disillusioned with the Jedi Order and thirsted for greater power. Dooku voluntarily left the light side behind and became Darth Sidious' dark side disciple, taking the secret name Darth Tyranus and leading the Separatist army. Dooku advanced Sidious's secret plot to take over the galaxy, but forgot that betrayal is the nature of the Sith.
Video //
Locations //
A city-covered planet, Coruscant is the vibrant heart and capital of the galaxy, featuring a diverse mix of citizens and culture. It features towering skyscrapers, streams of speeder-filled air traffic, and inner levels that stretch far below the world's surface. Coruscant was the seat of government for the Galactic Republic and the Empire that followed, and was the site of numerous historic events during the Clone Wars. It also housed the Jedi Temple and Archives, which hosted Jedi training and learning for over a thousand generations -- traditions that ended when the planet bore witness to Order 66.
Purged from the otherwise complete Jedi Archives is all evidence of the mysterious world of Kamino. A lonely world beyond the Outer Rim and just south of the Rishi Maze, few could have predicted that Kamino would become a key contributor to a massive shift in political power in the final days of the Republic. Kamino is a planet of endless oceans and storms. Few features mark its surface, save for massive stilt-mounted cities wherein reside the planet's natural inhabitants, the Kaminoans. From Tipoca City, the planet's Prime Minister rules. Lama Su closely monitored the operations of Kamino's most prized export: clones.
A harsh rocky world less than a parsec away from Tatooine, Geonosis is a ringed planet beyond the borders of the Galactic Republic. Its uninviting surface is made up of harsh, rocky desert, and the creatures that evolved on Geonosis are well equipped to survive in the brutal environment. The most advanced lifeform are the Geonosians, sentient insectoids that inhabit towering spire-hives. The Geonosians maintain large factories for the production of droids and weapons for the Separatist cause in the Clone Wars. After the Clone Wars, the Empire chose Geonosis as the construction site of the first Death Star, restricting travel to the system and sterilizing the planet's surface.
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Republic Attack Gunship
Rugged, combat-equipped repulsorcraft, Republic attack gunships rained down blistering barrages of laser and rocket retribution against the droid forces of the Separatists. Each winged gunship was covered in weapons, offering air-to-ground and air-to-air support as well as serving as an infantry transport. The front of the gunship features hunchback-style cockpit bubbles, wherein the gunship pilot and copilot / gunner sit in single file. Chin-mounted on the craft are a pair of laser cannon turrets. On the gunship's dorsal surface are its primary armaments, two massive rocket launchers fed by a rear-mounted missile belts.
Super Battle Droid
The infantry used by the Trade Federation had several major shortcomings that were carefully revisited by the battle droids' designers. From that research came the super battle droid, a bulkier, stronger, and more advanced version of the standard mechanical soldier. The super battle droid requires no overriding command signal to operate, and thus has a limited degree of independence. They are fearless and tireless, and will run at full speed into combat, their cannons extended, firing until they have reduced their targets to smoldering ruins.
Dwarf Spider Droid
During the last decades of the Republic, the Jedi order had replaced any need for a unified military for protection. Instead, private interests maintained their own armed forces in local territories, and the engines of commerce could afford the most powerful and most effective armies. Despite legislation designed to curb the potency of any one private army, the massive corporations were able to build sizable droid forces. The dwarf spider droids favored by the Commerce Guild appeared in the Separatist ranks. The four-legged dome-shaped mechanical arachnid featured a powerful, centrally mounted laser cannon.


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The Niagara Wine Trail is holding its annual wine and cheese pairing event June 13-15. Featuring Yancey's Fancy artisan Cheese, the timing of this event is ideal for celebrating both Father's Day and recent college graduates.
Presale tickets are available online for $30 each until June 12. Event tickets will also be available for $35 at each winery the day of the event. Tickets include a tasting of three wines with a cheese sample from each participating winery, plus a commemorative wine glass from each participant's starting winery. The event hours are Friday, June 13, from noon until 5 p.m.; Saturday, June 14, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, June 15, from noon to 5 p.m.
Some of the featured pairings during the event include Yancy's Fancy peppadew cheddar paired with Riesling at Eveningside Vineyards; a Bergonost cheese paired with Chateau Niagara Winery's semi-dry Riesling; and a choice of either Siegfried (for a dry palate), Riesling (semi dry) or Catawba (sweet) wines with Double Cream Cheddar at Schulze Vineyards.
A full list of pairings and participating wineries can be found on the wine trail's events page.
Wine and cheese event tickets are valid for all three days of the event, so patrons may take advantage of spreading their tastings over the weekend. Event attendees are welcome to visit different wineries each day in any order they choose. As a reminder, tickets do not include transportation. A valid photo ID with proof of age is also required to participate in wine tasting. For more information, a calendar of other events along the trail, and to purchase tickets, visit the Niagara Wine Trail online at http://www.NiagaraWineTrail.org.

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To be honest, I should have made my username Bulma_Briefs--like I did on http://www.animeforum.com/forum.php. But I decided to keep my username as Desu_Maiden mainly because I like the Desu Desu Desu meme.
Yes! My number 1 Anime of all time! Not GT just Z, in all the anime i watched you can't beat the fighting Haha well it beats mine i wish i had chose a better one.
Used to be a fan although I do sometimes watch a few videos here and there. The manga retains a better story telling but the anime bought me back nostalgia during my childhood.
Animanga hunter extraordinaire
used to watch it back on Toonami when I was in high school, but that's one of those shows I can't bring myself to watch anymore. things liked in nostalgia are better left in nostalgia.
glass, once broken, can never be restored perfectly
I've rewatched it soo many times I have many memories from the show T_T I cried at the ending.
h Dragon Ball Z... It is a series that I can't really hate since it was the first anime I ever saw and got involved with, however, the older I got, the worse Dragon Ball Z seems. It is actually a pretty damn terrible story. Which is a shame since Dragon Ball was both awesome and funny. DBZ's humor was not as on point, and it was just fighting... all... the... time... For episodes and episodes. I think the Goku vs. Frieza fight was 19 episodes long. That doesn't even count all the episodes of everyone else fighting Frieza before Goku showed up. It is just too much. Also, it tended to repeat the same crap over and over again to the point it gets pretty boring.
However, I still don't hate the series despite these flaws, and can probably still sit through any episode again with limited to no complaint. I do think Dragon Ball is a superior series though. But, after the newest DBZ movie, I am actually very curious to see where they go on from there. The Dragon Ball humor I thought was missing from Z came back full force in that movie, and blended really well with the action. I actually look forward to whatever comes out next from that. XD
As for GT... let us not speak of that series... It is now out of continuity anyway. XD
me, me! it's 00:04 AM in Poland and I am going to sleep, so... Well my mind isn't capable of thinking right now. I'll edit this post after I've slept for like 6 hours (and after work, ofc) xD
mad at the world that chooses morality over reason and logic
Once upon a time I would argue why Gohan was stronger than Goku at the end of the series and all that shit... Now I couldn't give a rat's ass. But I would still consider myself a fan. Don't want to see more of it, except maybe a version that doesn't censor the manga and such.
Life is precious
Absolutely. I've loved it since I was a kid and still love it today even if I don't really watch it anymore.
No... No one here likes DBZ -.- you are not a true DBZ fan if you dont like GT. GT was a must for the series to continue any longevity that can continue in the future.
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No... No one here likes DBZ -.- you are not a true DBZ fan if you dont like GT. GT was a must for the series to continue any longevity that can continue in the future.
GT focused more on a different type of setting though. Yeah, it took place on Earth later onbut also had an adventure type of style similar to the early stages of the Namek Saga.
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Dragonball was my very 1st anime i`ve ever watched when i was a child, then Dragonball Z was my 5th anime.
I`m leaving Crunchyroll today.
I like DBZ but Dragon Ball is better than DBZ
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Well I used to watch the Ocean group dub on YTV if that counts but honestly I haven't watch it for years and I can't remember what was going on when I watched.
Im not a big fan of DBZ But I loved The original dragon ball
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Lead Acid Battery Charger
Here is a lead acid battery charger circuit using IC LM 317.The IC here provides the correct charging voltage for the battery.A battery must be charged with 1/10 its Ah value.This charging circuit is designed based on this fact.The charging current for the battery is controlled by Q1 ,R1,R4 and R5. Potentiometer R5 can be used to set the charging current.As the battery gets charged the the current through R1 increases .This changes the conduction of Q1.Since collector of Q1 is connected to adjust pin of IC LM 317 the voltage at the output of of LM 317 increases.When battery is fully charged charger circuit reduces the charging current and this mode is called trickle charging mode.
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Foreign secretary releases latest 'India in Business' edition
New Delhi, Jan 10 (IANS) Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh Friday released the latest edition of 'India in Business', a publication of the ministry of external affairs aimed at providing information about the country's economic potential for those interested in doing business with India.
The publication would be distributed to all the Indian missions and posts abroad for further dissemination among foreign investors and business.
Speaking at the event, the foreign secretary said: "Countries recognise economic diplomacy as part of their statecraft, and India has never been an exception to this.
"In this changing world of inter-connectivity and interdependency with various global players striving to influence the outcome of economic relationships, economic diplomacy continues to plays a central role in how the external affairs ministry interacts with the world."
This year's edition gives an overview of the Indian economy and provides information on 25 promising sectors of the Indian economy, including a 'Useful Web Links' section at the back of the booklet as a ready reference of important websites related to investment, economic and commercial work.
The publication offers information on tax and regulatory aspects and also covers the legal, administrative and compliance aspects of FDI. The ministry has worked in conjunction with KPMG, which has provided the content and the design for the publication, a statement said.
In order to cater to larger target base of those interested in doing business with India, the publication is to be brought out in 10 foreign languages, including Spanish, Chinese and French.
The ministry's Investment & Technology Promotion (ITP) division gives a definite direction and focus to the economic diplomacy strategy.
It works closely with Indian Missions abroad and government ministries/departments and state governments as the nodal division for facilitation of India's trade, investment, technology-transfer related matters.
It engages with Export Promotion Councils, Chambers of Commerce & Industry and Industry Associations in promoting common objectives of facilitating trade, investment & technology promotion and provides support to commercial wings abroad in form of resources and information to enable them to carry out their functions in an efficient and effective matter, a statement said.
The division also hosts a website, www.indiainbusiness.nic.in, which gives regular updates on investment, trade and economic policy issues.
It also brings out a weekly and monthly newsletters which are circulated to missions and posts and used by them for disseminating information on developments in India.


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sfsfsfgiants wrote:sleandres wrote:sfsfsfgiants wrote:sleandres wrote:sfsfsfgiants wrote:The thing that surprised me the most was the lack of good prospects they got in return. The best pitcher in the league, and you dont even get the incoming team's best prospect? Their best prospect is Fernando Martinez, by the way. I would be pissed if I was a Twins fan.
Yeah...well they screwed the hell out of Sabes (FRANCISCO LIRIANO, BOOF BONSER and JOE NATHAN for a piece of ****!) but yeah...tough break for Twinkies fans!
I've been trying to forget that day.... you just brought up bad memories.
sorry...but if I have to remember that, so do you
It seems every time we make a trade, we get raped on it.
Accardo------> Chulk and Hillenbrand
Pierzynski-----> Bonser, Liriano, Nathan
Jerome Williams-----> LaTroy Hawkins
Totally, Sabes seemed to have lost his touch after that Schimdt trade. Everything after that has been complete crap!


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Sir, You Are Being Hunted is the mad Kickstarter game from UK developer Big Robot. It sees your human character hunted across a randomly generated British countryside by killer robots. Sound, visibility, approach – all of these things are important if you want to survive the metallic hunters out for your squidgy pink flesh. Watch the alpha gameplay footage below.
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DELAND, Fla. (May 10, 2007) - With the Bucs leading 3-2 heading into the bottom half the fifth, Gardner-Webb broke the game wide open with a five-run inning and cruised to a 7-4 victory, handing ETSU its first loss of the Atlantic Sun Tournament presented by Coca-Cola Thursday evening at Patricia Wilson Field.
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ETSU's lead did not last long as Gardner-Webb plated two runs in the bottom half of the inning. Melody Harrell recorded her fifth straight hit of the tournament with a RBI double to right center, scoring Abbie Looper, who led off the inning with a walk. The Runnin' Bulldogs took the 2-1 lead on Jessie Williams' single to right, but Katy Jett (
Gardner-Webb's Joanna Ward led off the second with a single, but Vercoe eased out of any damage by flashing some leather as she turned a double play when Haley Scism lined one back to the circle.
The Bucs quickly regained the lead in the third as Vercoe helped her cause by driving in Stephanie Gaynord (Manassas, Va.) with a chopper to first, and Trisha Massenzo's (Russellville, Tenn.) bases loaded single drove in Jett, giving ETSU a 3-2 lead. The Bucs took advantage of wild pitching and bad fielding as Gaynord led off the inning with a walk, and Jett reached on a throwing error by Abbie Looper as she threw the ball into center, trying to force Gaynord out at second. Hackworth posted her second infield hit of the game as she lined one to third, which loaded the bases and led to the rally.
For the second straight inning Vercoe worked out of a jam as she had runners on first and second with only one out, but forced the next to G-Webb hitters to line out, keeping the ETSU one-run lead in tact.
After cruising through three scoreless innings the wheels came off for the Bucs in the fifth as G-Webb tagged ETSU's pitchers for five runs on five hits. Triples by Kelly Linsley and Lindsey Whitfield plated runs for the Runnin' Bulldogs, while singles by Williams and Scism led to three runs, giving G-Webb the 7-3 advantage.
ETSU loaded the bases for the fourth time of the game in the sixth as Kate Powell (Johnson City) and Gaynord posted singles and Cheniece Cason (Moreno Valley, Calif.) reached on an error by Joanna Ward at first; however, the Bucs missed out on a golden opportunity to reach closer as Coffey limited them to only one run.
Vercoe suffered the loss and dropped to 10-12, allowing six runs (five earned) on eight hits in 4.2 IP, while Coffey surrendered four runs (two earned) on seven hits in 6.0 IP, moving to 9-8 on the season. Timely hitting cost ETSU the chance to pull off its first win over G-Webb this season after leaving nine runners stranded.
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PARK CITY, UT (Aug. 4) – U.S. Nordic Combined Ski Team veteran Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, CO) locked up his career 20th U.S. Championship title as he came from behind to take the win under blistering heat at the 2013 U.S. Nordic Combined Championships in Park City, UT. After landing eighth in the jump, Lodwick made up a deficit of a minute and seven seconds to take the win while skiing the fastest cross country race. He was joined on the podium by teammates Johnny Spillane (Steamboat Springs, CO) and Taylor Fletcher (Steamboat Springs, CO).
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This win is huge. For me it's a benchmark. I won my first U.S. Championship in 1994 and to be U.S. Champ 18 years later is humbling. I'm very fortunate to be doing what I'm doing and have the support system that I have through teammates and coaches and the people around me. I've got a lot of training still to do but this is a lot of motivation going into the winter.
I was really disappointed on the jump hill. It's been a hard week for me on the jump hill and trying to be on top in both sports. I hold myself to a high standard just like my teammates do and for me I was disappointed after the jump. It's not me on the jump hill. I had to rely extremely heavily on my cross country and the training that I've been putting into it to even have a chance to get close to the front group. I put myself at a huge deficit [after the jump] and I'm really excited to be able to pull through in the cross country.
When I started I could still see the chase group going out of site. I knew not to stress out in the first lap and to rely on technique and rely on knowing that I'm going to catch them slowly and then attack at a certain time and catch the group and then be able to rest.
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It was an exciting race. I was surprised that Todd caught up so quickly, but he was strong in Sochi, Russia and is showing that he's in good shape right now. Todd and Billy [Demong] got in an little entanglement on the course which may or may not have changed the outcome for Todd but for sure it did for Billy and that's unfortunate, but "rubbing is racing" and it's going to happen. I was psyched with the way everyone raced under the hot conditions. Thanks to the Utah Olympic Park and Soldier Hollow for providing great venues for the competition.
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Lillian Zeiner, 96, of Nebraska City died Jan. 11, 2014 at the Ambassador in Nebraska City. Lillian Olive Beaudry was born on July 2, 1917 to Frank and Delphine (Martin) Beaudry on a farm near Albertville, Minn.
Lillian Zeiner, 96, of Nebraska City died Jan. 11, 2014 at the Ambassador in Nebraska City. Lillian Olive Beaudry was born on July 2, 1917 to Frank and Delphine (Martin) Beaudry on a farm near Albertville, Minn.
She was baptized and confirmed at St. Albert's Catholic Church, graduated from Elk River High School at the age of 14, and the College of St. Benedict, St. Josephs, Minn. She taught for five years at St. Bernard's Academy in Nebraska City.
On June 17, 1942, she married George Zeiner. They returned to Nebraska to live on a farm near Nebraska City. Lillian was a member of St. Benedict's Catholic Church where she was an active member of the Altar Society. She also was a member of the Four Mile Neighborhood Breakfast Club and the Catholic Daughters of America. Her interests included sewing and music, and, for many years, Lillian volunteered as the typist and secretary for the Ursuline Sisters who taught at Lourdes Central High School.
She was preceded by husband George; brothers Hermes, Lawrence, Camille, Marvin, Alvin, Victor and Gerald; and sisters: Eleanor, Bernice and Evelyn.
She is survived by children Margaret Scribner of Westminster, Colo., and Marian Henderson and husband Larry of Brock; grandchildren Tina, Tracy, and Elaine; great-grandchildren Trevor and Nicholas; brother Arnold Beaudry and wife Betty of Beaver Creek, Ore.; sisters-in-law: Frances, Germaine, Doris and Dorothy; and other relatives and friends.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15, at St. Benedict's Catholic Church in Nebraska City with Fr. Mark Cyza celebrating the Mass. A rosary will be recited at 10 a.m. Burial will be in the St. Benedict's Cemetery.
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A year and a half in the making, Ryerson Inc.'s restructuring is positioning the company to focus locally—a focus that will help the Chicago-based metals distributor and processor drive to fill its geographic holes, according to company executives, although that's only one piece of the multi-point growth plan.
Ryerson went "from a highly centralized to a far more decentralized organization" as the company implements its growth strategy, Stephen Makarewicz, Ryerson's chief executive officer, said in an interview with AMM.
"All the purchasing and credit activities were run out of Chicago, (but now) the company functions better decentralized in terms of touching customers and suppliers. We wanted to increase the local activity. We wanted the credit people to understand the credit profiles of local customers and work with them more closely," he said.
Ryerson now has presidents for six North American regions—five in the United States and one in Canada—reporting to Matthias Heilmann, the company's new chief operating officer as of the end of January. The Chicago headquarters purchasing staff continues to negotiate with key suppliers, however, and Chicago sales executives still negotiate with the largest contract customers.
Platinum Equity LLC, Beverly Hills, Calif., bought Ryerson in October 2007. "We learned we were able to reduce the size of our organization and take costs out of overhead from the purchase date to mid-2008 and into 2009," Terence Rogers, Ryerson's executive vice president and chief financial officer, said.
The company has reduced head count by at least 15 percent since the buyout, with some slimming still taking place. Ryerson is shutting down a stocking location in Loudon, Tenn., and shedding five positions there. Customers will be serviced from the Chattanooga, Tenn., service center.
Makarewicz acknowledged that "suppliers weren't initially thrilled with having to negotiate with our different regional operations, but they have come around," in part because the scale of the regions ranges from $800 million to $1 billion in annual sales. "Once they adjusted to our desire to create value, they have come on board 100 percent," he said.
"Having senior people closer to the customer helps them react more quickly in local geographies," Rogers said. The planned new service centers in Salt Lake City and McAllen, Texas, were decisions "based on senior managers recognizing the need for growth in those markets."
One component of Ryerson's growth strategy is geographic expansion. "We don't have many geographic holes, but there are a few areas we would like to expand to—important but smaller," Makarewicz said. "We are also trying to grow in areas where we have strength, such as fabrication—burning of heavy plate, second-stage processing, putting together parts for our customers. We are also looking at complex fabrications, where we manage the supply chain for customers. We make parts in our own service centers, put together kits and the customers assemble them."
A third component is international growth. Apart from doubling its ownership stake in a Chinese joint venture, "we have plans to re-enter the Mexican market," Makarewicz said. Ryerson had operated a joint venture called Collado Ryerson, formed in 2003, but the two partners separated last year. "We have no investment in Mexico now, but we will try to expand directly rather than as part of a joint-venture structure."
Lastly, acquisitions will be featured in Ryerson's growth. "We are actively looking right now, and one or two look promising," Makarewicz said. One sticking point is that sellers are "optimistic about the value of their companies, which is a bit problematic." Nonetheless, "we are absolutely committed to growing through acquisitions. We can fund these internally."
Rogers credits Platinum Equity with contributing ideas and with supporting Ryerson's acquisition plans.
And both Makarewicz and Rogers said that Platinum Equity had helped make Ryerson healthier in terms of capital structure and working cash management. "We entered this downturn with a better cost structure and better liquidity, which will help us to thrive and take advantage of opportunities," Rogers said.
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RED BLUFF, Calif. — Bryce Borror had a perplexed look as he stared at a dry creek bed on leased land just outside of Red Bluff.
His family's Tehama Angus Ranch in Gerber, Calif., usually winters cattle on the property, but isn't doing so this year because of a lack of water and usable grass.
"I don't know" what the future holds, said Borror, a fourth-generation rancher.
"We simply haven't turned out on our winter rangeland," he said. "We don't have any stockwater and feed from last year is pretty short as well. Without spring rains last year, we ended up pulling cows off there earlier — around April 15 — and we didn't leave as much grass as we normally do on winter rangelands."
The ranch specializes in breeding Angus cattle, so it's reluctant to start culling and lose valuable genetic information, Borror said. But the drought that's gripping California for a third year has other cow-calf producers trimming their herds to cut down on consumption costs, said Tim Koopmann, a Sunol, Calif., rancher and president of the California Cattlemen's Association.
As many as 15 percent of cows have already been marketed, Koopmann said. Pretty soon, ranchers will have to start culling their more productive cows, which means they won't have as many calves to raise.
"It's basically a compilation of three years" of dry conditions, Koopmann said. "Right now the impacts from a statewide standpoint are absolutely horrible. It's devastating."
Koopmann compares this drought to the one that hit California in the mid-1970s, which he said put some ranchers out of business.
"There's a fine line between putting breeding cattle out on the market and feeding them," he said. If it doesn't start raining soon, "people are going to have to make some serious business decisions."
Ranchers have been supplemental feeding with hay and grain for most of the fall and winter as drought conditions have persisted, particularly in California's San Joaquin Valley and Central Coast, according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Range and non-irrigated pasture around the state remains in poor to fair condition, NASS reports.
Poor range conditions prompted the USDA's Farm Service Agency last summer to designate 57 of California's 58 counties as natural disaster areas, making them eligible for low-interest emergency loans from the agency. Most of the state is classified as being in severe or extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
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This story appears in the August 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine.
It's a good thing there's a rumble strip running along the shoulder, because Tim Samaras can't keep his eyes on the road. It's summer, and he's driving a big, black Denali pickup pockmarked by hail and pulling a 16-foot trailer outfitted with high-speed cameras and other electronic gear. A laptop computer is mounted inside the cab to the right of the driver's seat, and with one hand on the steering wheel and the other on a trackball, Samaras is mousing his way around a weather radar map of the Oklahoma Panhandle. A blob of colors—red in the middle surrounded like an oil slick by orange, yellow, green, and blue—shows a thunderstorm forming northeast of Boise City.
"It's starting to spit out some pretty good lightning," he says, looking at the little yellow crosses popping up on the radar. He glances again at the laptop, where another window is tracking our position with GPS. Then comes the buzzing of his tires against the rumble strip, and he calmly steers the rolling laboratory back onto the road.
With bugs splashing onto the windshield and a spiderweb of cracks—more old hail damage—gradually growing wider, we pass through Boise City, following the storm east toward Guymon. Ahead of us clouds are boiling up like cauliflower, the classic sign of the warm, moist updrafts that separate negatively charged water droplets and ice particles from positive ones (no one knows exactly how), creating multimillion-volt potentials—like the one that just exploded in the sky ahead of us.
"Did you just see that strike?" Samaras exclaims. Then comes another, and another. He's got a pair of reading glasses dangling from his mouth, which he puts on to look at the radar, then swipes off to glance at the road. "See how that storm is anchored right there? That's what we want."
The flashes are coming every few seconds now, and the truck is hitting the rumble strip again and again. But just as he's looking for a place to pull over, the blob on the radar starts shrinking. Samaras picks up speed, but by the time we reach Guymon, 60 miles down the road, the sun has appeared, and a rainbow is arcing overhead.
"Whenever you see the rainbow, it's game over," he says. "It's a goner. I can't believe it." But at 6 p.m. his day is just beginning. The radar shows another blob forming over southern Kansas, 80 miles away.
Late summer is thunderstorm season in this part of the country, and since 2006 Samaras has been trying to do the impossible: capture an image of a lightning strike the moment it is born. The process typically begins when a descending zigzag of negatively charged electricity—a stepped leader—feels its way from cloud to ground. When it gets near enough, positive fingers of charge reach up from the earth. The instant the two come together, a dazzling surge of current—some 30,000 amps traveling at a third of the speed of light—leaps toward the sky. The burst of light from this "return stroke" is what you see with the naked eye, which often interprets the motion as downward. From beginning to end, the entire process takes as little as 200 milliseconds.
In Samaras's trailer there are two Phantoms, high-speed cameras capable of shooting 10,000 frames per second. They have allowed him to capture stunning slow-motion videos detailing the paths of downward stepped leaders and occasionally the upward streamers. But as soon as the two connect—initiating an event called the attachment process—the flash from the return stroke blinds the camera, obliterating the details. Scientists would love to peek behind the curtain and watch the event as it unfolds, with the return stroke lifting off like a rocket from the ground.
Lying within the imagery might be clues to some of lightning's biggest mysteries. Why will a lightning bolt sometimes strike a low tree when right beside it is a tall metal tower? And why, for that matter, does lightning strike at all? For all their intensity, the voltages produced in thunderclouds are not nearly strong enough to overcome the insulating properties of air. Some extra factor is required, and a picture of the attachment process might suggest an answer. Opening this frontier calls for a custom-outfitted camera capable of shooting more than a million high-resolution frames per second. There's just one camera like that, and it too is in Samaras's trailer.
Weighing 1,600 pounds and standing six feet high, the camera is a relic of the Cold War, originally used to film aboveground nuclear tests. Samaras first laid eyes on it in 1980, when he was working as a technician at the University of Denver Research Institute. The massive instrument was a marvel of analog technology. Light entering its main lens would strike a three-sided mirror, which sat at the center of a turbine driven by compressed air or, for really high speeds, helium. Rotating as fast as 6,000 revolutions per second, the mirror swept the light across the lenses of 82 35-millimeter film cameras, mounted shoulder to shoulder around the rim. The result was a sequence of images less than one-millionth of a second apart.
Samaras's job involved studying conventional explosions, and he became the behemoth's keeper, learning its idiosyncrasies, catering to its whims. Twenty-five years later, when he heard that the camera was being auctioned as government surplus, he placed a bid and bought it for $600—a hair above the price for aluminum scrap. Its proper name is a Beckman & Whitley 192. Samaras calls it the Kahuna.
With the help of funding from National Geographic, he retrofitted the beast, replacing the film technology with extremely sensitive digital sensors designed for deep-space exploration and adding specially tailored software and circuitry. But no matter how you modify it, an instrument weighing close to a ton has obvious drawbacks. In addition to its lack of maneuverability, the astoundingly fast Kahuna is in another sense very slow. Each time you want to take an ultra-high-speed shot, you have to wait about ten seconds for the turbine to spin up to speed. Then you have about a minute before you have to spin it down so it doesn't overheat. If you've been lucky enough to capture an image, it will take a full 20 minutes to download the 1.8 gigabytes of data to see what you've got. Only then can you recock the trigger and try again.
In other words, Samaras will need a stationary storm that is producing lightning again and again, right where the camera is pointing. Some people rate his chances of success at close to zero. There are research facilities where he could reduce at least some of the variables by deploying the Kahuna on lightning triggered by firing rockets into storm clouds. But Samaras is dismissive of manufactured lightning—only the wild type will do.
He is used to having people tell him that what he's trying can't be done. Before he became obsessed with lightning, he spent several years chasing after tornadoes. He had designed electronic probes, mounted with video cameras and other instruments, to lay down in the likely path of a tornado so he could record what it looks and feels like from the inside. People were dubious about that too, but he managed to gather some of the most accurate readings ever of wind speed, barometric pressure, temperature, humidity—the ingredients that when mixed just so erupt into a devastating funnel of wind.
With hopes of catching up to the storm, we pass through Liberal, Kansas, and then head straight north toward Sublette. A dark mass of clouds is building over the plains. As the sun sets, the tops of the clouds cool. That means more uplift, more separation between negatively and positively charged particles, and more lightning. By the time we pull to the side of the road, the storm has become so violent that in the distance it has spawned a small tornado. The twister quickly dissipates, leaving a spectacular lightning show. Two long bolts crisscross the sky like an electrified X,followed by a barrage of ground strikes. Samaras starts up a gasoline generator, and the equipment inside the trailer comes alive. A wall of video screens displays weather information, and an electronic voice—the Lightning Lady, I call her—matter-of-factly announces the distance of the strikes: "17 miles, 15 miles, 11 miles." Then she gives a warning: "Very high electric field."
"The electric-field meter is going absolutely nuts," Samaras observes. A sensor mounted on the shell of the trailer measures the charge of the atmosphere at ten kilovolts per meter and rising, meaning that it's dangerous to be outside. The two Phantoms aboard the trailer go to work, capturing images of the milliseconds before and during the lightning flashes. Thunder is cracking above us. But throughout the cacophony, the Kahuna sits quietly off-line. The conditions just aren't right for getting the shot.
We pack up and move on, and soon another rainbow—a double one—appears. Samaras stops the truck in the middle of the main intersection of Clayton, New Mexico, oblivious to the honks and cursing drivers, while the National Geographicphotographer takes some pictures, of the ordinary kind.
On Labor Day weekend, toward the end of the season, I caught up with Samaras at an exit off I-25 in Belen, New Mexico. By then he and his crew had driven more than 10,000 miles across six states, collecting hundreds of megabytes of data from the Phantoms—but only near misses with the Kahuna.
With only two days left in the summer's expedition, we followed a battery of storms north of the Magdalena Mountains. In midafternoon we found ourselves parked, purely by coincidence, directly across Highway 60 from the turnoff to the Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research—a premier spot for studying rocket-triggered lightning. A storm hung suspended over the mountains as if posed for a portrait, sparking lightning obediently above a distant ridge. Standing in the foreground on the other side of the highway, a cow gave us a curious eye. Using the animal as a reference point, Samaras started up the turbine and took aim. The sky flashed, the Kahuna fired, and the long download of data began.
Then, with the camera off-line, there was a better strike—this one directly over the cow. Unsure of the first shot, Samaras made a split-second decision to terminate the download and try again. The chance never came. He'll never know whether that first attempt captured an image of the attachment process or just a blurry silhouette of a cow.
By the time I saw Samaras again, two years later, he had reluctantly decided to try what he felt in his heart was cheating: aiming his camera at rocket-triggered lightning. With a new pickup truck and an improved Kahuna—he had stayed home the previous summer jiggering the electronics—he and his crew had spent another two weeks following storms across the Southwest. Now he was making the long, slow climb to Langmuir's mountaintop laboratory.
Built in 1963 by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, the laboratory sits in the path of the monsoonal moisture that flows up each summer from the south. Sheltered inside an underground bunker called the Kiva, on South Baldy peak, a researcher remotely fires rockets, each connected to a long wire, into a highly charged storm cloud. Colleagues record the strike with a Phantom and other instruments in a building called the Annex, a mile away.
Bill Winn, head of the lab, seemed as skeptical about Samaras's approach as Samaras was of triggered lightning. ("Isn't he just interested in pretty pictures?" Winn had asked me earlier.) But the two men greeted each other cordially.
"You should have been here today," Winn said. "We had three strikes."
"Figures," Samaras said. One of the scientists explained that when conditions were right, a rocket would be armed and a five-second countdown would begin—any longer and the storm might produce a natural flash out of range of their instruments. Samaras looked worried. Since the Kahuna took ten seconds to spin up to speed, he would have to idle the turbine at a loping pace to keep it from overheating, then crank it up before the countdown began.
The next day's weather was discouragingly calm, but the storm that arose on the third day justified the wait. By early afternoon seven red-centered blobs were registering on the radar—a potent weather system to our northeast headed right for us. By 3 p.m. rain was falling faster and faster, hardening briefly to hail. We retreated inside the trailer and watched out the back. Thunder, lightning—then the radio call: "Kiva is arming rockets." One storm had a purple center now, the most intense. Bands of red and orange were passing in front of us.
While the Langmuir crew watched from the safety of the Annex, I huddled on the trailer floor, shifting my attention between the weather outside and its abstraction on the radar. Wind was rocking us back and forth. If it hadn't been for the anchor provided by the Kahuna, I thought the trailer might blow off the mountain. With another crack of the radio, the Kiva requested a launch window, and Samaras began idling the turbine. Then, "Kiva launch in five." He ramped up the speed, and in the sky above us a rocket fired, its long, trailing wire instantly vaporized by lightning. But it happened too quickly. As Samaras had feared, the five-second window was too narrow. Over the next hour the Kiva fired five more rockets and triggered three strikes. But the Kahuna could not be readied in time.
Samaras left the mountain with some beautiful imagery from the Phantoms but once again without the long-awaited shot.
With another season over, Samaras retreated to a home he had recently purchased on a hill east of Denver overlooking the Colorado plains. But he is far from giving up the chase. He has installed an array of 12 computers to drastically reduce the Kahuna's download time. And with help from a government contract, he is building a "snorkel van" to house the camera, which will be attached to a periscope on the roof that can be nimbly turned in all directions. I would be surprised if he isn't out there now, one eye on the road and the other on a new storm throwing violent colors onto his laptop screen.
"I'm still in hot pursuit of that image," he told me. "And I won't stop until this is done."
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Candy Finnigan, the addiction specialist featured on "Intervention," the Emmy-winning A&E documentary series that chronicled real-life addicts and their efforts to get sober, is coming to town.
At the request of her friend, Webster Board of Health member Nancie A. Zecco, Ms. Finnigan will moderate a Town Hall panel discussion and a question-and-answer session that starts with a performance by country singer Kiley Evans at 6 p.m. June 29.
Ms. Zecco said residents of Webster and its surrounding towns will get priority to attend the free event.
She told the Board of Health recently she wanted to put together the event because the town had made strides in trying to get rid of drugs and meth labs.
Ms. Zecco said she wanted to help people and families struggling with addiction.
Ms. Zecco said her brother, Paul S. Zecco of Worcester, died of symptoms of alcoholism at age 55.
In a phone interview, Ms. Finnigan said she had been involved in 31 similar town hall-style presentations in other communities, including a talk about prescription drugs in Las Vegas.
The self-proclaimed "good Irish alcoholic" has been sober 27 years; and for 21 years has helped others recovering from addiction.
Ms. Finnigan, 65, said she always thought heroin was "the big boy" of illicit narcotics, but in California, where she lives, at least six people die from overdosing on prescription medications every day.
In Florida last year, seven people died of prescription medications each day, five of them between the ages of 12 and 21, she said.
"If you start thinking about the stats of 2,000 kids between 13 and 22 using a nonmedical prescription drug every day for the first time, I'd have to say we're in trouble," she said. "It's the worst epidemic in the history of the U.S."
It is frightening that one could simply "turn around in a circle, take a pill and nobody would know you took it," she said.
"You can take two prescription meds and drink three beers and go into an absolute alcohol coma from alcohol poisoning, because the absorption in your body, mixed with this barbiturate, is going to put you in a coma," she said.
The expense of prescription pills is why so many young people turn to heroin, she asserted.
Asked about making addiction less private, Ms. Finnigan responded that when the secret of addiction comes out, there is often resolution.
The disease is incorporated with shame, blame and guilt for families, which is why, she said, the show was so popular.
The relative of an addict could relate to someone on the show, for instance, stealing a grandmother's jewelry.
"In the company of others who suffer as you do, I think more truth comes out," she said.
But after eight years and 13 seasons, A&E recently opted to cancel the show.
Ms. Finnigan called this "incredibly sad" because the show helped 234 families, of which 178 people are sober, a 71 percent success rate. The best treatment centers in the country have a 5 percent to 7 percent success rate, she said.
She said 286,000 families applied for the show.
Ms. Finnigan said she became friends with Ms. Zecco when Ms. Zecco worked for a pharmaceutical company and Ms. Finnigan got involved with the recovery process.
"I'm really there to educate and listen," Ms. Finnigan said of her visit to Webster. "I don't have a solution for anything, but I think I represent hope because I've been able to stay sober and help a lot of people through the medium of television."
The panel will consist of Jayne Lepage, assistant professor of pharmacy practice at the MCPHS University in Worcester; Susan Butler, director of psychiatric emergency services at Harrington Hospital in Southbridge; Webster police, and Carol A. McCarthy and James F. McKenna, community services representative and vice president of marketing at AdCare Hospital in Worcester, respectively.
Ms. Evans' performance during the first hour is sponsored by Christopher and Beverly Robert of Indian Ranch, Ms. Zecco said.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (May 10, 2006) - The ETSU women's tennis team (23-4, 9-0 A-Sun) is set for its first ever appearance in the NCAA team tournament, where the Lady Bucs will face in-state rival and 12th-ranked Vanderbilt (21-4, 11-2 SEC) in the opening round Friday. The two teams will face each other in regional action beginning at at the
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in the nation's capital are all but certain to approve a charter amendment on Tuesday that would grant the city more control over its municipal budget.
In theory, the amendment would take effect unless Congress passes a disapproval resolution and President Barack Obama signs it. But both the White House and Senate Democrats have shown strong support for greater independence for the district, so that is highly unlikely.
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Formula One has settled on a 19-race schedule for the 2013 season.
F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone said last month that the vacant July 21 date on the calendar would not be filled — and that was confirmed at a meeting of the World Motor Sport Council in Geneva on Friday.
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In a recent customer meeting, several IT staff members were explaining some serious performance problems they were having with a newly deployed IT system. It began with a general discussion among us about the benefits of scalability and agility in cloud computing. Then they dropped a bombshell: "Oh, our application is in the cloud!"
Given our discussion about scalability in the cloud — juxtaposed with a newly deployed IT system that was not scaling even under a normal load — this statement seemed out of place. And here we have the crux of the matter: Why host a brand new IT system in the cloud and not take advantage of a core cloud benefit like scalability?
In the federal government there are really only three possible answers to that question:
First, an agency's IT organization may be just "checking a box" to comply with the administration's "cloud-first" policy. Cloud-first, which called on agencies give a priority to cloud-based applications and services, was announced by Jeff Zients in 2010, when he was deputy director of management at the Office of Management and Budget. This policy was later reaffirmed by federal CIO Vivek Kundra's 25-point plan to reform federal IT and the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy. These are both good policies that may or may not be implemented well depending on an agency's interpretation of the spirit versus the letter of the policy.
Second, the agency's IT organization may be leveraging the cloud's ease of provisioning and cheaper hardware costs. While this is a valid reason to host in the cloud, it is a marginal benefit at best when compared to the vast improvements in application effectiveness, reliability and scalability that are available for cloud-native applications.
Also, anyone who has estimated the cost of developing an IT system knows that labor costs always dwarf the hardware costs. The pecking order is labor costs, software costs and then hardware costs — each differing by multiple orders of magnitude. So customers will pay much more in lost productivity and additional re-engineering labor costs than they would have if they built it right the first time.
Third, the agency's IT organization may not yet be educated on the distinction between running applications in the cloud and building applications for the cloud.
The term for applications built specifically to run in the cloud is "cloud-native." As I discuss in my new book, cloud-native applications leverage a set of cloud architectural patterns to deliver scalability, reliability and elasticity. Some of the patterns leveraged are the queue-centric workflow pattern, reliable messaging pattern, scheduler pattern, a foreman-worker pattern and a failure/recovery pattern. If you use a service-oriented architecture, you may have already worked with some of these patterns.
Simply put, a cloud-native application must take advantage of message queues, asynchronous communication and the ability to automatically scale across multiple servers (called horizontal scaling).
The education necessary to create cloud-native applications goes beyond federal IT managers to the IT staff and developers (including the contractor's developers). Unfortunately, "elasticity of computing resources" is just not in the current vernacular of most software developers.
Thus, IT managers must check if their development staff, including contractor development staff, is up to speed on developing for cloud computing environments (and especially cloud architectural patterns). It is important to note that building these cloud-native applications is applicable to both platform-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service environments.
After reading this, I am confident that any new application that you put "in the cloud" will actually make use "of the cloud" to benefit your end-users with scalability, elasticity and reliability.
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Thank you for this valuable information, and yes you are right cloud hosting is not cloud computing. In simple we can say
cloud hosting- you can add the same server hardware to a cloud, and the power of the cloud will just go on increasing.
Cloud Computing is simply a technology, which makes use of the internet as well as centrally located remote servers for maintaining various data & applications.
very useful but how come it overcome security issues?
While Mr. Daconta makes valid points, he seems to overlooking what may be the chief barrier to adopting "cloud native" apps. These cloud native applications often times lack the features and functionality of the more established perpetually licensed applications. Unlike the federal governement, until the tipping point is reached where the cloud native apps have similar features and functionality as their predecessors, many companies will have a hard time justifying the move based on the development costs to provide equivalent functionality.
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United States U.S. Military District of Columbia Military Records
Many military records are found at the Family History Library, the National Archives, and other federal and state archives. The United States set of Wiki pages provides more information on the federal records.
- Washington Arsenal -- Textual records of this post, 1825-1829, including registers, reports, and correspondence, are in the National Archives and are described in Records of United States Army, Continental Commands, 1821-1920, under the section entitled Records of Posts, 1820-1940 (Record Group 393.7).
- Washington Barracks -- Textual records of this post, 1885-1886, 1901-1903, including registers, reports, and correspondence, are in the National Archives and are described in Records of United States Army, Continental Commands, 1821-1920, under the section entitled Records of Posts, 1820-1940 (Record Group 393.7).
Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
The 1835 Pension Roll
On June 5, 1834, the U.S. Senate required the Secretary of War to submit a statement showing the names of pensioners who were on the pension rolls or had previously been on the pension rolls. For more information on the 1835 Pension Roll see Revolutionary War Pension Records. The 1835 Pension Roll for the District of Columbia is available online:
- Report from the Secretary of War... Vol. III (Google Books)
- The Pension Roll of 1835, Vol. III (Ancestry) ($)
For a list of Revolutionary War soldiers buried in the District of Columbia see
- John Clagett Proctor, E. Melvin Williams, and Frank P Black, Washington, Past and Present, A History (New York: Lewis Historical Publ., 1930) (FHL 975.3 H2p).
War of 1812 (1812-1815)
The War of 1812 between Britain and the United States confirmed the separate existence of the United States and the future Canada.
See the Wiki article, District of Columbia in the War of 1812, for information concerning military records, histories, links to relevant web sites, etc. for the District of Columbia.
Mexican War (1846-1848)
Civil War (1861-1865)District of Columbia in the Civil War for information about District of Columbia Civil War records, web sites, etc. with links to articles about the District of Columbia regiments involved in the Civil War. The regimental articles often include lists of the companies with links to the counties where the companies started. Men in the companies often lived in the counties where the companies were raised. Knowing a county can help when researching the families of the soldiers.
The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System allows name searching for soldiers. The result set gives the regiment for the soldiers. Then you can check the regiment page to determine counties. Often knowing the counties that had men in a regiment will help you determine if a soldier was your ancestor.
World War I (1917-1918)
- United States. Selective Service System. District of Columbia, World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. National Archives Microfilm Publications, M1509. Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1987-1988. (FHL 1570933) These cards have been digitized and are searchable online. See WWI Draft Records for more information.
World War II (1941-1945)
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For records of other wars and additional records for the above wars, check the Family History Library Catalog and other repositories, such as the National Archives.


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It goes without saying that one of the most exciting things about having a baby is the blanket making opportunities it provides. I have loved making blankets for my friends and their babies, but oh my it's just such a thrill to be finally making something for your own baby. I have made four blankets for Tiny Tin Bird now and today I am excited to share with you my pram blanket.
I've had this blanket in my mind for months now but lacked the necessary funds to purchase the yarn for it. I was too busy saving for the pram for the blanket (and baby of course) to go in! Then I received an email from a very kind lady named Emily who was setting up her own yarn shop and wondered if I wanted some yarn in exchange for some thoughts on yarn types to stock that I'd given her earlier in the year, during her "shop planning" stages. I am a bit shy about receiving gifts as I hate feeling grabby or entitled or anything, but after checking and double checking that Emily was happy to gift me some yarn I said a big fat YES with open arms because let's face it, free yarn is the ultimate gift! You can visit Emily's shop here: London Wools.
Emily sent me six balls of yarn, and then I added to these to get the palette that I had envisioned. I wanted a blanket that was all different shades of blue and green, with stripes of red and yellow running through it. I was able to afford the other shades because I cancelled the TV Licence (such a stupid thing but we've not had a TV since we moved in here two years ago but I thought we would and kept on paying the licence, but came to my senses and am now saving £12 a month AND got a refund on the unused quarters) and used some of the refund money to order the yarn. The package arrived in my first week of maternity leave: I LOVE getting a package of yarn!
N.B as I worked the blanket the cream didn't fit very well with it so I pulled those rows back and didn't include it after all. I do have other plans though and it won't go unused.
The concept for the blanket was simple: just plain stripes of UK treble crochet. Single stripes, and not turning the work each time. This makes all the rows the same height (I talked about this a bit in this post: Spring Colours Baby Blanket)
This worked well up to a point, but I noticed that the blanket started to lean one way even though I had the right number of stitches on each row. I think this could be blocked out but I am not going to bother: It's not a huge problem and it's not going to be noticeable when it's being used that it's a little parallelogram shaped rather than a rectangle.
I started this blanket on the 15th of August, and took the photos of the completed item on the 30th of August. I didn't work on it during the time that my mum and sister were here, so that's about 4 or 5 days making a total of ten days to make this whole blanket which is quite impressive until you think that I didn't do anything except crochet and watch the Hairy Bikers on iPlayer during that time as my feet were so swollen I couldn't walk!
I worked a little bit on my granny blanket at the same time and it make me laugh to see how similar the colours were. I'm so in to red, blue, green and yellow at the moment!
I decided on a simple border for this blanket because the main focus for me is how lovely and stripy it is and I think a fancy border detracts from that. I worked two UK double crochet stitches in the end of each row (but not the top and bottom edges), and then did one round of uk treble crochet around the whole blanket. I did put a pointy picot edging on it but it was far too fussy and I didn't like it at all so I pulled it all back. The benefit of the pointy picot edging is that it stops the blanket from curling (as it is worked in the back loops only), so to get the same effect I did another round of double crochet working in the back loops only and it seems to have worked really well.
I also made sure that the first row I made when making the blanket was the colour that I was doing the border in, and I made the final stripe in this colour too.
And here is the finished blanket:
There is no repeating pattern in this blanket. I set out the first 11 colours before I made the blanket to give me a starting point and then after that it's just a case of choosing each colour as you go. I hesitate to use the word random as I know it's mathematically incorrect but I just kept an eye on the colours to make sure I didn't forget any, and to keep the darker shades spaced nicely. I think when you have a striking colour like red in a blanket like this you can either choose to have them equally spaced, or you take the plunge and make them deliberately uneven as I have done here. The thing with unevenly spacing them is that you have to make it look deliberate by leaving very different gaps otherwise it just looks like you can't count. I also tried not to repeat any salient sequence of colours so that it didn't look like I had a repeating pattern that went wrong.
I love how it complements my pram, and that it's wide enough to tuck around baby and under the sides of the mattress. It is also long enough that it can be folded in half and still keep baby snug.
So, let's try to fit all the stats for this blanket in here:
Yarn used: Debbie Bliss Baby Cashmerino in shades (top row L-R) 32, 27, 204 (or 202, can't remember), 31, 001 and then (bottom row L-R) 47, 101 (cream not used in the end), 700, 46, 49, 44
Hook size: 3.5mm
Starting chain: about 128 I think
Time taken: 10 days ish
Measurements: 58 x 71 cm approx
I LOVED making this blanket. It's the first time I've used the Baby Cashmerino and I hope it won't be the last. It's a beautiful yarn to work with and the overall fabric of it is so smooth and warm but still light. It was quick to make, simple to make but with the added excitement of choosing the colours as you go along. It turned out exactly how I wanted it to which is very satisfying. The best part for me though is sitting and hooking it with my mind full of thoughts of the teeny tiny boy that it would soon be keeping snuggly warm in his pram. Being able to make a blanket to keep your baby warm is priceless, and I shall treasure this blanket forever.


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Israel can wait.
Jug Head has The Letterman Show to do...
3 fundraisers a day on average for more then a year, hundreds of hours logged on the Golf course etc, yet Barry can't find an hour in his schedule to meet with the prime Minister of one of our closest allies to discuss issues surrounding (Iran)the worlds greatest threat?
Bam snubs Bibi: Won't meet with Netanyahu this month
By GEOFF EARLE Bureau Chief
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WASHINGTON The already-frosty relations between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu turned to solid ice yesterday when the White House nixed Bibis request for a face-to-face meeting at the UN General Assembly later this month.
Netanyahu had sought the parlay as the two nations grapple over the looming threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, Israeli officials said yesterday.
After news of the snub sparked outrage, Obama, in an apparent effort at damage control, placed an hourlong call to Netanyahu last night to discuss Iran.
Earlier in the day, Netanyahu had made a blistering attack on US policy on Iran.
The world tells Israel, Wait, theres still time. And I say, Wait for what? Wait until when? he said.
Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran dont have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.
The White House insisted those tough words didnt spark the initial cold shoulder.
The president arrives in New York for the UN on Monday, Sept. 24 and departs on Tuesday, Sept. 25. The prime minister doesnt arrive in New York until later in the week, said Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman.
Theyre simply not in the city at the same time. But the president and PM are in frequent contact and the PM will meet with other senior officials, including Secretary [Hillary Rodham] Clinton, during his visit.
Israeli officials indicated that Netanyahu was willing to travel to Washington for a meeting. But Vietor last night denied that such a request was ever made, or rejected by the White House.
There have been signs of a split between the nations over what to do about Tehrans uranium-enrichment program. Israel has hinted at taking military action, fearful that a delay would let Iran develop a nuclear weapon while reminding the world that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said hed like to see Israel wiped off the map. But the Obama administration seeks more time for tougher sanctions to work.
This has got to be one of the most dysfunctional relationships in the history of the US and Israeli relationship, Aaron David Miller, who has advised five presidents on Israel and other Middle East issues, told The Post.
I find it extraordinary in the extreme that both an Israeli prime minister and an American president would not see one another at this moment, he continued. Number One, the whole discussion of red lines, assurances and what to do about Iran requires a long conversation between these two.
Even if they dont have it, they need to appear to be in sync.
The rejection of a meeting with Netanyahu could play out on the US political stage in November. Obama has sought to downplay a chilly relationship with the Israeli leader and concerns among Jewish voters that his administration doesnt have Jerusalems back.
Obama and Netanyahu clashed in the spring of 2011 after the president called for negotiations over Israeli boundaries based on 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps.
Netanyahu lectured Obama in an Oval Office photo-op following one of their nine meetings together, calling those lines indefensible.
There is talk in Israel that Netanyahu might launch a strike against Iran before the election because Obama would be pressured to go along. Either Obama or Mitt Romney could try to put the brakes on an attack after November.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/interna...#ixzz26GT5QFSX
Israel can wait.
Jug Head has The Letterman Show to do...
Was being dicsussed on MSNBC this morning (Morning Joe) where they all basicly agreed that Iran should be allowed to have the bomb, because iran is run by sane people who will not use it (unless provoked, of course, the definition of whcih is as fluid and political as "fairness") and that Netan. is basicly big liar who lies abotu everything and is a warmonger.
Said there is no cicrumstance Obama will support an Israeli action, nor should we. hesitated for a minute when asked who was a worse actor on the World Stage, Iran's supreme leader or Netan. After a full minute, he stuttered that he wouldn't say Netan was, but counched it heavily and then derided the questioner for asking teh question rather than really answer it.
Good, Im glad he didnt meet Bibi. I dont understand why the Right wing sucks up to this douchebag so much. The guy is unpopular in his own country. He is an a$$hole. This is clearly a political stung on his part. He is dying to have Romney win because Romney is a stooge who will do anything the Likud wants him to do.
Memo to Netanyahu: Our economy stinks and fixing it is America's first priority, we can not afford any more US Dollars or US blood on a third war that makes absolutely no sense for the US to start. The stupid wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost us enough in terms of money and lives. You egged on the previous administration to attack Iraq claiming it was necessary b/c Saddam posed an imminent threat. It was not necessary and he was a threat only to Iran. If you feel that threatened by Iran, the US taxpayers have done a very good job subsidizing your elite, world class military. You have enough fire power (including Nuclear Capabilities)to wipe out the entire Mid East. Please feel free to spend your own shekels and spill your own citizens' blood to do what you believe is necessary to defend your people. The USA has already done more than enough. Good luck and good bye.
Is Bibi contributing any money to the Democratic campaign? Why else would Obama give him the time of day right now?
Maybe Jews can pray to their god to get rid of Obama.
But he won't show up, because there is no such thing as a Jewish god. God doesn't exist. Keep killing yourselves over pieces of desert, morons
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Netanyahu is a poser; I was involved with transporting his entourage from the private jets at SFO down to Seibel systems; he had a book that he was handing out, signing to all the security heavies (I was a driver back then - 2004?)...he made quite a spectacle. THe ride down from the airport was amazing, like a James Cameron movie we were flying in formation at 75 miles an hour. THis was in the days of Orange Alerts. It seemed like silly overkill.
HOWEVER: With the rhetoric out of Iran...how do you downplay that?
However - no more wars please.
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EX: I am for protecting the constitution when it comes to Obamacare.
I don't speak up about protecting the constitution when it comes to the "patriot" act.
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Goodie good.
But where were these voices from the right from 00'-08'?
Its just like the liberals who were against the patriot act and more military actions during the Bush years and yet are now silent.
I am a progressive liberal but both parties are a disgrace and so are their lackies that vote.
"Who are the bigger fools; the fools or the fools that follow them"?????
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Netanyahu wants to preemptively strike Iran.
We don't.
But who knows, after the election, whoever wins might they think they have the political capital/political security to start a war with Iran. I for one hope that is not that case.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A pair of first-half goals by seniors Molly Duffy (New Providence, N.J.) and Michelle Teplensky (Somers, N.Y.) helped propel the nationally-ranked No. 19 MIT field hockey team to a 9-0 victory over Lasell College on Tuesday night. The Engineers saw their ledger improve to 6-0 on the year while the Lasers' record dipped to 3-3.
MIT opened the scoring after 2:26 expired when Duffy knocked in the rebound of sophomore Molly McNamara's (Auburn, Mass.) shot at the near post. McNamara followed with a strike of her own just over three minutes later as she redirected a centering pass from Teplensky and quickly got the ball past sophomore goalie Taylor Sheehan (Brewster, Mass.). The scoring tandem of Duffy and McNamara returned in the 17th minute when McNamara's feed into the arc was tipped in by Duffy at the near post. Teplensky accounted for the Engineers' next two goals as her first was a rebound off junior Elizabeth Dethy's (Morristown, N.J.) shot while her second was set up by Dethy on a penalty corner.
With just under 12 minutes remaining in the first half, Lasell sophomore Nikita Soares (Westport, Mass.) made a deep run into MIT's defensive end. The threat drew sophomore goalie Evie Kyritsis (Mountain Lakes, N.J.) off her line but she stopped the attack by kicking the ball away in the middle of the arc.
Freshman Rachel Rotteveel (Langhorne, Pa.) gave the Engineers a 6-0 advantage almost four minutes into the second stanza courtesy of a blast just inside the arc on the near side. A defensive battle ensued until MIT converted a penalty corner in the 56th minute. Sophomore Olivia Massey (Greenbackville, Va.) sent a pass to classmate Siobhan Rigby (Richmond, Va.) at the top of the arc who put a blast to the nearside of the cage. Freshman Krishna Jaitly (Bethesda, Md.) recorded the first goal of her career with 3:30 left to play as her one-timer from the top of the arc made its way through traffic. The hosts wrapped up the scoring with a 1:04 on the clock courtesy of a Massey effort that was set up by sophomore Isabella DiDio (Jenkintown, Pa.) during a scramble in front of the net.
Despite several deep balls from Lasell, it was unable to put a shot on goal as Kyritsis came away with her third shutout of the season. Sheehan finished with 19 saves while junior Jamie Trevino (San Diego, Calif.) picked up a defensive save late in the game.
Next up for MIT will be its NEWMAC opener on Saturday, Sept. 21 at Springfield College. Lasell, meanwhile, continues non-conference play on Thursday, Sept. 19 when it hosts Anna Maria College.


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It is said that a band is only as good as its drummer. Not only do drummers serve as the anchor that keeps the rest of the players in time, they also provide the essential foundation upon which most songs are built.
The one thing most rock drummers can agree upon is that it takes a lifetime of learning to master.
Neil Peart of Rush, widely considered one of the world's best rock drummers, says that even 40 years into an incredibly successful career, he seeks out teachers who inspire and challenge him.
"I've been fortunate to have three really good teachers in my drumming career, from the beginning up until quite recently," says Peart, who will participate in the Drummer's Reality Camp at the Los Angeles Music Academy College of Music in Pasadena from June 27 to 30.
The camp, now in its third year, offers aspiring drummers from all walks of life the opportunity to learn from the masters.
The Canadian drummer, who lives in West L.A., hopes to inspire burgeoning drummers at the camp in much the same way his teachers have inspired him.
He also cites the unique sense of community among drummers as a key aspect of the camp.
"It's pretty well recognized among all musicians that drummers are tighter — and looser — with each other than any other players," Peart says. "Two drummers get together and immediately their hands are moving around and they're talking about what they do with an excitement that's rare. There's no such thing as jealousy, vanity or competitiveness among drummers, for the most part."
Also participating in the camp are legendary session drummer Jim Keltner, Doane Perry of Jethro Tull, Uli Frost and drumming instructors from the LA Music Academy including Ralph Humphrey, Joe Porcaro and Gary Ferguson. The camp is open to drummers ages 14 and over who have had at least one year of private instruction, and costs $495 for the four-day session, which includes clinics, concerts, lectures, private lessons, a tour of the DW Drums factory in Oxnard and a roundtable discussion.
Keltner, whose percussion work can be heard on countless landmark albums, including the solo projects of three of the four Beatles, as well as Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Dolly Parton and Neil Young, will join Peart for the roundtable. It will examine the importance of going beyond drumming to master songwriting, penning lyrics and playing other instruments, and also look at the attributes of great drumming.
"Good drumming is good listening," says Keltner, who just finished working on Jerry Lee Lewis' new album and is contributing to projects with Don Was and Dhani Harrison. "The drummer is like the catcher on a baseball team. He's involved in every play, and he's watching everything and everybody. He's got the ball in his hands all the time. You've got to be able to hear everything. The better your ear is trained, the better musician you're gonna be."
Keltner cites Dave Grohl, who drummed for Nirvana and now fronts Foo Fighters, as an example of a drummer who hits hard but still has incredible finesse. "For my money, Dave has always been the greatest rock drummer I've ever heard," he says. "Dave is proof that you can play hard and still groove like crazy. He has really interesting fills and supports the guitar and vocals in an amazing way."
Keltner also admires the unique, laid-back style of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham. "I was a peer of John Bonham, and I saw him play with Zeppelin at their first gig in the U.S.," he recalls. "What was great about him was he played like a jazz drummer to me. I was like, 'Wow, he sounds like a rock 'n' roll Elton John!' He also played like he had no cares and no worries."
For Peart, jazz greats Jack DeJohnette and his teacher, Peter Erskine, top the list of drummers he admires. Erskine's teaching had a particularly "huge impact" on his playing, says Peart, who is Rush's lyricist. "He led me along a path and gave me exercises to work on. And once I applied myself, I found a whole new freedom in that I've been wanting to get more improvisational." Peart says he used this improvisational technique on Rush's highly anticipated new album, "Clockwork Angels."
"It all came together in the recording of the drum parts that I was able to play completely improvisational," he says of the new album. "It was fun and gave me a whole new character to my playing I'd never had before. So even after playing drums for more than 40 years, there's somebody that had some valuable information to help my development."
In addition to offering campers wisdom culled from decades of experience, Keltner and Peart will be there to support the vision of their longtime friend Don Lombardi, president of DW Drums and chief executive of drumming instruction website DrumChannel.com, who helped organize the event and whose companies are co-sponsoring it along with Guitar Center.
Lombardi — a drummer himself — is passionate about music education and sees the Drummer's Reality Camp as the perfect forum for sharing techniques and having fun. "We have great drummers covering all different areas, from Latin to jazz to rock, and we try to keep it small so it's personalized," he says, adding that they expect 60 to 80 campers to attend this year.
"Participants get a lot of personal attention and get exposed to other campers from around the world," says Mike Packer, vice president of the L.A. Music Academy. "For kids coming here from other parts of the country and the world, it gives them a glimpse of what it's really like out here. We want to give them a sense of what it's like to be a professional musician and a professional drummer."
While most participants are young drummers just starting out, Keltner — who remains more active at age 70 than most people in their 30s — encourages people of all ages to take up the drums and pursue their dreams.
"If you're older, like my age, don't ever think it's too late for anything," he says. "Start now, and five years from now, you're gonna be a monster."
LAURA FERREIRO is a Los Angeles-based music journalist.
Drummer's Reality Camp
Where: L.A. Music Academy, 370 S. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena
When: June 27 to 30
More info: (866) 439-7924; DrumChannel.com; firstname.lastname@example.com