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Sue's News, December 2005
Happy holidays, everyone!
Right now I'm gearing up for the release of my next book, Walk Like A Man, which will be out in March. Read an excerpt at http://www.sue-swift.com; click on my bookshelf to find the excerpt.
Free product giveaway!
I will send you an e-book, Mac's Secret Father, when you send me proof of purchase of Walk Like A
Contest winner!
The winner of the December drawing is Sharon M., of
Remember, the only way to win is to be subscribed to this newsletter. So tell your friends!
For all the hockey fans out there…
My friend, Liz Jennings, has released an e-book from Cerridwen Press starring (yes!!!) a hockey player. As you might have noticed, books featuring hockey are few and far between. Better, Liz's writing is impeccable. The reviews of Dying in Siena, a murder mystery, are terrific.
Read an excerpt:
Liz Jennings is a translator and writer living in
Want a little sex in your stocking?
Another writer buddy, Suz de Mello, makes her erotica debut this month with a short story from Ellora's Cave. Suz's holiday "Quickie," entitled, "First and Last," is set on the moon in the year 2114 and is a hot, fast read (that's why it's called a Quickie!)
It'll be available on December 26, the first night of Chanukah. In "First and Last," Lunarian law requires 24-year-old Shayna Goldstein to marry before she's 25. She's dated everyone in New Brooklyn, but Gideon Landers, the first man who kissed her, haunts her memories, preventing her from loving anyone else. Desperate, she consults a matchmaker, who sends a reluctant Shayna to Farside Colony to meet her mate.
The commander of Farside Colony, Gideon Landers has never forgotten Shayna. That he's been matched with her is a dream come true, but will Shayna be willing to live in the remote colony?
Suz's first novella will be available January 3, 2006, from Loose Id, another online erotica publisher. You'll think it's July, not January, when you read the mega-hot and sexy Walk on the Wild Side.
Set in contemporary
Wealthy and handsome, James has already crossed paths with Liza--when she dared to arrest him. In James' view, reading a famous bondage novel in public is a blatant come-on, and he's eager and ready to give his nemesis what she wants...
Check out the wondrous cover:
Free erotica giveaway!
To celebrate her new release, Suz will email a free erotic short story to anyone who sends her proof of purchase and download of Walk on the Wild Side.
Read excerpts…
http://www.suzerotica.com…click to enter the site, then click on Suz's stories, which will lead you to excerpts.
I'm pretty sure you won't be disappointed.
I gotta help out another dear friend…
My longtime critique partner writes
erotica as Vanessa Hart
She has a couple of books out soon. Her novella,
(Part of the Zodiac series at Liquid Silver
Books) will be released
January 16, 2006;
and her first time-travel erotica romance,
HEART OF A SOLDIER, will be released
January 23, 2006, also by LSB.
Check out Nessie's books at http://www.liquidsilverbooks.com/authors/vanessa.htm
If you're new to e-books…
They're the fastest growing sector in publishing. An e-book can be downloaded to your PDA or your computer…even to your cell phone…in a variety of formats. They're cheaper than traditional paper books; easier to store, easier to transport. I can increase or decrease the font size as I prefer. When I travel, I can take an entire library with me in my e-book reader, a portable device the size of one paperback novel. Sure saves on space when I'm packing !
Enter the information age…give e-books a try.
Happy New Year, everybody!
Best wishes for a joyous 2006
Sue Swift


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Pennine Leisure report increased sales after 2 months of PixSell
If Pennine are seeing an increase in orders during their quiet season, we can't wait to see what happens during the summer…
Caravan accessories supplier Pennine Leisure are into their third month of using PixSell iPad ordering for their sales team. We stopped them in their tracks to find out how the system was measuring up against their key performance indicators that we identified during pre-sales.
Aspin: One of the frustrations at head office was that everyone had to rally round to get orders entered into Syspro. How has having a system with an electronic order import impacted you all, and alleviated this pressure?
Pennine: This was a frustration for us. We never had a dedicated individual to do this task, and it was constantly distracting us all away from our day jobs. Now that we don't have to sit there and enter in orders line by line, there is more focus on the likes of accounting, marketing and much more. In particular, we are able to allocate a substantial amount of time to stock management. We're a seasonal business, and it's important to have stock of the appropriate items in the right months – and that takes planning and strategy if we want to maximise our customer service levels.
At this time of year, we are receiving our 'Winter stocking' orders which are in excess of 100 lines – not having to enter by hand this has been revolutionary!
Aspin: Are the reps seeing more customers in a day? That was something you'd wanted to happen.
Pennine: They must be – as we have more orders than usual coming back to head office, and that is fantastic! User feedback from the reps has been a mixed bag in that some are inclined to technology straightaway and some will take a little longer to feel confident with it. One thing that they have all said however, is that they can find a customer site much more easily than before thanks to the mapping functions on the app. That is giving them more time to see more customers in a day.
We think it's safe to say that PixSell will be a rewarding investment for Pennine already, with these results at such an early stage. We will be checking back in with Pennine after their busy season to reassess the success of the system.
If you're suffering with a busy head office, and suspect your reps could achieve more in a day, why not telephone us for a chat to see what we can do for you on 01794 500 200.
Thank you to Harrison at Pennine for his comments.

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Mom finally found me a one-piece swimsuit that Grandpa approves….
Grandpa….want to do that thing where we take our pants off and see how deep you can push your cock into my pussy again?
Mom came into my room with her boss and was like….baby, my boss says that if you give him your panties he'll let you suck his cock again….
Grandpa….instead of jerking off onto my titties tonight…….do you want to see how far you can shoot your load up my pussy?
Mom was all…Tina, you can't just let men take pics of you like that…..have some respect for yourself…..and put some heels on next time!
Grandpa….do you want to be the first one to fuck me today?
Mom was all…babe, can you make my boss comfortable in the guest room….
Mom was all…baby, show my boss how quick you can get out of jeans….
Grandpa….Mom taught me how to fuck in a car….want me to show you?
Mom was all…Tina…my boss will be here any minute…..go get those panties off and put some heels on!
Look Mom..my shorts fit like yours do now!
Mom is always like…babe, why don't you sit on my boss' lap while I get us drinks…
Grandpa…if I take my panties off can I sit on your lap again….?
Grandpa says my face is almost as good as my pussy to fuck….
Mom caught me with Grandpa punding my pussy and she was so mad…she was all, Tina Marie, put some heels on….what kind of girl are you!?!
I was all…Grandpa…my panties aren't going to take themselves off….
Mom was like, what did you and Grandpa do today….I was all…you know, we just layed on the couch….
I know Grandpa loves me because he let's me suck his cock any where I want!!
I'm so glad that Mom taught me how to get the popular girls to like me….
All of Mom's friends agreed that I look best with my panties around my ankles….
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- Kathryn Springer
- On Sale: Feb 01, 2011
Scarred ex-cop John Gabriel didn't need anyone else's problems, but he couldn't refuse a request from his former chief. Until John learned what the favor to Chief Kelly entailed: keeping an eye on his granddaughter, Fiona, a young police officer facing a dangerous work situation. John quickly saw that Fiona was in trouble-the fiery redhead lacked departmental support as she investigated a serial arsonist. And when the attractive rookie was trapped in a burning building, John was the one who ended up rescuing her. Yet could Fiona's strong faith rub off on the cynic and make John believe in the Lord...and in the love that was miraculously blossoming in the stony soil of his heart?
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The Sydney Roosters' season has been rubbish so far. So on the weekend, they called in the garbage man.
His name is Eloni Vunakece and he made his first grade debut against Manly aged 28 after collecting rubbish all week for his local council. Yep, Eloni Vunakece is a garbo.
His story is remarkable. Each morning he does the run in Sydney's Leichhardt Council region. Then off he goes to training. Vunakece has two children with another on the way so there's not much time for anything else.
What makes his story even more inspirational is that Vunakece has been turning up at every training session even though Roosters coach Trent Robinson only expected him to show up once a week.
"I was initially training once a week. I'd just been given a fulltime job and I didn't want to leave my job but it worked out well with footy timing wise and Robbo was happy to accommodate me," he told Fox Sports earlier this week.
Vunakece earned a $3,000 match payment for his efforts on Saturday. Had he played for his regular team Wyong -- in the lower tier Intrust Super Premiership NSW -- he would have earned just $600.
Vunakece is on a second-tier deal with the Roosters worth just $50,000. Clubs typically have several players on such deals who are not expected to make first grade appearances but hey, you never know.
The Sydney-born prop has again been named in the Roosters squad for this weekend's match against the New Zealand Warriors. But does having a full time job hurt his ability to compete in this toughest of professional sports? Not if history is any guide.
Rugby league has had several high profile garbos in its past, including Melbourne Storm winger Matt King, but none more celebrated than Olsen Filipaina. He's 58 these days and still a garbo after 35 years. Filipaina played for the old Balmain Tigers in the early 1980s., His story was memorably captured in a Guardian piece, which was the best rugby league yarn we've read in ages.
Filipaina was plucked from reserve grade to play a three Test international ruby league against Australia, and was named man of the series. He always attributed his fitness to the garbage run. But you sense it helped his state of mind too.
Filipaina was racially sledged by crowds for years playing in Sydney and shunned by opposition players and at times even his teammates. Yet he never blew up. He just went to work each day and played football as hard as he could, all the while maintaining a quiet dignity of the sort so many working men possess.
Perhaps Vunakece could entice his disgraced teammate Mitchell Pearce -- who is on a salary in the vicinity of half a million dollars a year -- out on the garbage run a few mornings a week. That might stop some of the trash talk.
Meanwhile there's speculation Vunakece's next contract could secure something like $120,000 a season. It'd be nice to have that sort of cash in the can. Though for now, his manager is keeping a tight lid on the details.


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Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS)
U.S. Department of Labor
May 22, 2009
Employment Standards Administration
Office of Labor-Management Standards
Division of International Union Audits
1341 G Street, N.W., Room 201
Washington, D.C. 20005
Ms. Rita C. Schwartz
National Association of Catholic School Teachers
1700 Sansom Street, Suite 903
Philadelphia, PA 19103
RE: International Compliance Audit Program (I-CAP)
National Association of Catholic School Teachers (NACST)
LM File Number 000-360
Dear President Schwartz:
The Office of Labor-Management Standards (aLMS) within the Department of Labor recently completed a compliance audit of the National Association of Catholic School Teachers (NACST) to determine compliance with the provisions of the LaborManagement Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA). The audit was conducted under the aLMS International Compliance Audit Program (I-CAP).
On May 7, 2009, the I-CAP Team conducted-an exit interview via telephone with you; William J. Blumenstein, Secretary-Treasurer; and Ms. Frances Verna, Certified Public Accountant. During the exit interview, the I-CAP Team reviewed audit findings, specified actions that the NACST must take to correct the deficiencies identified, and recommended actions to enhance the union's internal controls. This letter captures the audit's civil findings as generally discussed during the exit interview. It does not purport to be an exhaustive list of all possible problem areas, since the audit was limited in both scope and duration.
Reporting Violation - LMRDA Section 201(a)
Section 201(a) of the LMRDA requires that every labor organization that amends its constitution and bylaws file a copy of the revised documents when the union files its next annual financial report with aLMS.
1. The NACST's most recent constitution, amended on October 1987, had not
been filed with OLMS at the start of the audit. Copies of this constitution
have now been filed. The Form LM-2 instructions require that if the labor
organization's constitution and bylaws were changed in the reporting period
(other than rates of dues and fees), a dated copy of the new constitution and
bylaws must be submitted to OLMS with the Form LM-2 for that reporting
period (and as an electronic attachment to the Form LM-2). The I-CAP Team
informed the NACST of its responsibility to submit all future changes to its
constitution to OLMS as an electronic attachment to its next Form LM-2.
Reporting Deficiencies - LMRDA Section 201(b)
Section 201(b) of the LMRDA requires that every labor organization file with OLMS an annual financial report that accurately discloses the union's financial condition and operations. The following deficiencies were noted on the NACST Form LM-2 for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2008. The deficiencies identified in this section must be corrected in an amended Form LM-2 for the fiscal year ending August 31, 2008. Further, subsequent Form LM-2 filings must be prepared so as not to contain these deficiencies.
2. The NACST reported the incorrect maximum amount recoverable under its
fidelity bond. The Form LM-2 instructions require labor organizations to
enter in Item 14 (Fidelity Bond) the maximum amount recoverable for a loss
caused by any officer, employee, or agent of the labor organization who
handled the labor organization's funds. The union reported that $50,000 was
the maximum amount recoverable. However, review of the bonding policy
revealed that $70,000 was maximum amount recoverable. The union must
correct Item 14 to reflect the correct maximum amount recoverable under the
fidelity bond.
3. The NACST reported the incorrect number of members in Item 20 (Number
of Members) and failed to report the categories of membership in Schedule 13
(Membership Status). The Form LM-2 instructions require labor
organizations to enter the total number of members and the categories
tracked by the labor organization. Although the NACST had approximately
4,183 members during the reporting period, the union reported it had zero
members. The union must correct Item 20 to reflect the correct number of
members and correct Schedule 13 to reflect the categories of membership.
4. The NACST reported the incorrect dues rate in Item 21 (Dues and Fees). The
Form LM-2 instructions require that regular dues, fees or other periodic
payments that a member must pay to be in good standing, including the
calendar basis for the payment, must be listed in Line (a) of Item 21. The
union entered the amount of $72 per year in Item 21. According to a motion
passed by the NACST Executive Committee in 1993, the dues rate is $60 per
year. The NACST must correct Item 21(a) to reflect the proper dues amount.
5. The ending cash balance reported in Line 22(B) (Cash) is understated by
$66,611 because two money market accounts and two certificates of deposit
(CD) were incorrectly excluded from the balance. The Form LM-2
instructions for Item 22 require the reporting of cash on hand and on deposit
and further advise that cash on deposit includes the following: funds in
banks, credit unions and other financial institutions, such as checking
accounts, savings, accounts, certificates of deposit, and money market
accounts. Neither the money market accounts nor the CDs were omitted
from the Form LM-2, but they were, incorrectly, reported elsewhere. The
NACST reported the balances of the money market accounts and the CDs in
Schedule 5 (Investments) and also, incorrectly, reported one certificate of
deposit as a disbursement in Schedule 4 (Purchase of Investments and Fixed
Assets). The NACST must include the balances of the two money market
accounts and the CDs in the cash balance in Line 22 (Cash).
6. As noted above, the NACST incorrectly reported the value of a certificate of
deposit (CD) in the amount of $15,000 as a disbursement in Schedule 4
(Purchase of Investments and Fixed Assets) and Line 60 (Purchase of
Investments and Fixed Assets). The Form LM-2 instructions require CDs to
be treated as cash and be reported in Line 22 (Cash). Hence, the purchase of a
CD is not a cash disbursement, but simply the conversion of one form of cash
to another form of cash. The NACST must remove the CD from Schedule 4
and Item 60 as a disbursement and include it in the cash balance in Item 22.
7. The NACST investment balance reported in Schedule 5 (Investments) and
Line 26 (Investments) is overstated by $275,218. The union, incorrectly,
double-reported the amount of $238,975 in both Line 2 (Total Book Value of
Marketable Securities) and in Line 5 (Total Book Value of Other Investments).
The union also incorrectly reported the balances of two money market
accounts totaling $36,243 in Lines 1 and 2 and the balance of a CD totaling
$15,368 in Line 6. The union must remove the amount of $238,975 from Line
5 and remove the balances for the two money market funds and the CD from
Lines 1, 2 and 6 of Schedule 5.
8. The NACST incorrectly reported per capita tax receipts of $248,736 in Item 36
(Dues and Agency Fees). This amount should have been reported in Item 37
(Per Capita Tax), as the NACST collects per capita tax, rather than dues. The
Form LM-2 instructions require that labor organizations report dues received
directly by the organization from members in Item 36. The Form LM-2
instructions require intermediate or parent body labor organizations to report
the per capita tax portion of dues received directly by the labor organization
from members of affiliates or from affiliates in Item 37. The union must
report the per capita tax received in Line 37.
9. The NACST reported "Prepaid Expenses" and "Legal Fees" as descriptions of
assets in Column (A) of Schedule 7 (Other Assets). These descriptions are not
sufficient to identify the type of asset. The Form LM-2 instructions require
that other assets must be described in Column (A) and may be classified by
general groupings or bookkeeping categories, such as utility deposits or
inventory of supplies for resale, as long as the description is sufficient to
identify the type of asset. More detailed descriptions in Column (A) of
Schedule 7 are required.
10. The NACST incorrectly described the liability for wage taxes as "Accounts
Payable" in Column (A) of Schedule 10 (Other Liabilities). The Form LM-2
instructions require that other liabilities must be described in Column (A) and
may be classified by general groupings or bookkeeping categories. However,
the Form LM-2 instructions further state that payroll taxes withheld but not
yet paid and other unpaid payroll taxes should be listed separately. The
union must adequately describe this liability in Column (A) of Schedule 10.
11. The NACST reported two officers (William J. Blumenstein, SecretaryTreasurer
and Michael Milz, Vice President), along with all disbursements to
them, on Schedule 12 (Disbursements to Employees) when they are required
to be reported on Schedule 11 (All Officers and Disbursements to Officers).
The union must remove these two officers from Schedule 12 and include
them, along with all disbursements to them, on Schedule 11.
12. The NACST failed to report personal expenses, for extra-night hotel stays by
officers and for the travel of spouses or other family members who
accompanied officers on trips involving official union business, in Schedule
11 (All Officers and Disbursements to Officers). Such expenses were initially
paid for by the union and later reimbursed to the union by the officer.
Disbursements for extra-night hotel stays and for the travel of the spouse or
other family member must be reported next to the appropriate officer's name
in Column (G) of Schedule 11. The Form LM-2 instructions require that
disbursements essentially for the personal benefit of the officer and not
necessary for conducting official business of the labor organization be
reported in Column (G) of Schedule 11 as an "Other Disbursement" to that
13. The NACST incorrectly reported indirect disbursements for officer and
employee lodging and airfare for union business next to the officers' and
employees' names in Schedules 11 and 12. The Form LM-2 instructions
require that indirect disbursements for temporary lodging (room rent charges
only) or transportation by public carrier necessary for conducting official
business while the officer/employee is in travel status away from his or her
home and principal place of employment with the labor organization, if
payment is made by the labor organization directly to the provider or
through a credit arrangement, be reported in disbursement Schedules 15
through 19, rather than Schedules 11 and 12. The union must remove these
disbursements from Schedules 11 and 12 and accurately report them in
Schedules 15 through 19, as applicable.
14. The NACST reported "Legal Representation" as the purpose for
disbursements to Spear Wilderman in Column (C) of Schedule 15
(Representational Activities). This description is not sufficient to identify the
purpose. The description should be specific enough to disclose the type of
legal representation provided in order to clarify if the disbursements are
correctly reportable in Schedules 15, 16, 17, 18, or 19. A more detailed
description in Column (C) of Schedule 15 is required.
15. The NACST reported disbursements to Hare Brothers Printing in the amount
of $5,164, for the printing of newsletters in Schedule 15 (Representational
Activities). Newsletter disbursements are generally associated with union
administration and should be reported in Schedule 19 (Union
16. The NACST reported the incorrect amount of a contribution paid to the John
J. Reilly Memorial Scholarship Fund. Union records disclosed that NACST
contributed $13,500 to the scholarship fund; however, only $250 was reported
on the Form LM-2. The NACST must report the correct of amount of this
disbursement and prepare an itemization page for this disbursement in
Schedule 17 (Contributions, Gifts and Grants).
17. The NACST did not report its employer portion of Federal Insurance
Contributions Act (FICA) taxes paid in Item 65 (Direct Taxes), although the
union reported payment of the employee portion of such taxes in Schedule 12
and Item 67 (Withholding Taxes and Payroll Deductions). The Form LM-2
instructions require that all taxes assessed against and paid by the union,
including FICA taxes as an employer, be reported in Item 65.
18. The NACST reported incorrect totals in Schedule 15 and Item 50
(Representational Activities), Schedule 17 and Item 52 (Contributions, Gifts
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and Grants), Schedule 18 and Item 53 (General Overhead), and Schedule 19
and Item 54 (Union Administration) due to misclassification, omitted
amounts, and misreported amounts. Certain of these inaccuracies have been
previously described (see deficiency items #13, 15 and 16). The audit
revealed several other inaccuracies involving smaller amounts that are not
described in this letter, but were communicated separately by the I-CAP
Team to the union. The union must report accurate disbursement amounts
and allocate them to the appropriate disbursement categories, including
Schedules 15, 17, 18, or 19.
Inadequate Recordkeeping - LMRDA Section 206
Pursuant to Section 206 of the LMRDA, every person required to file any report under LMRDA Title II shall maintain records on the matters reported that will provide in sufficient detail the necessary information from which the reports filed may be verified, explained, or clarified and checked for accuracy and completeness. All required records must be maintained for at least five years following the date the report is filed. Records over five years must be maintained if they are necessary to verify reports filed within the last five years. Records, such as meeting minutes that note approval for officer salary increases, must be maintained for as long as they remain necessary to verify the current financial activities of the union. There were instances noted during this audit where the NACST did not comply with the recordkeeping requirements of Section 206. During the exit interview, you were informed that adequate records necessary to document all financial transactions, regardless of the amount, must be maintained for a minimum of five years.
19. NACST officers and employees did not consistently submit itemized receipts
for meal expenses. The NACST must maintain itemized receipts provided by
restaurants to officers and employees. These itemized receipts are necessary
to determine if such disbursements are for union business purposes and to
fulfill the recordkeeping requirement in LMRDA Section 206.
20. The NACST records pertaining to meal expenses did not always include the
names and titles of the persons incurring the restaurant charges. In order to
comply with LMRDA Title II, union records of meal expenses must include
the full names and titles of all persons who incurred the restaurant charges, as
well as written explanations of union business conducted.
Bonding - LMRDA Section 502
Section 502 of the LMRDA requires that every person who handles funds or other property of the union shall be bonded for no less than ten percent of the total funds handled by those individuals or their predecessors during the preceding fiscal year, but in no case more than $500,000. The audit disclosed a violation of LMRDA Section 502.
21. The NACST bonding policy was not in compliance with LMRDA
requirements because coverage was per occurrence as opposed to per person.
Further, the bonding policy did not provide coverage in the categories of
computer fraud, forgery, or alteration and funds transfer fraud. The NACST
must amend its coverage to fully comply with LMRDA Section 502 in the
above areas.
Internal Controls
Adequate internal financial controls are essential to prevent the misuse of union funds and to support financial responsibility and other obligations under Title II and Title V of the LMRDA. Title V of the LMRDA stipulates, among other things, the fiduciary responsibility of officers of labor organizations. As a general rule, weaknesses in financial controls can lead to violations of Section 501 of the LMRDA.
22. Although the NACST fidelity bond, which is a Commercial Crime Bonding
Policy, meets most requirements of a labor organization bond, the policy does
not include all non-compensated dues collectors, shop stewards, shop
chairpersons, and volunteers in the definition of"employee". The I-CAP
Team recommends that the NACST have a rider attached to its policy,
amending the definition of "employee" to include these additional categories.
23. Bank reconciliation reviews, when performed, were not documented.
NACST officials advised that such reviews are performed on occasion by the
National President; however, the reviews could not be verified. The I-CAP
Team recommends that the NACST require the reviewer to perform monthly
reconciliations and initial the reconciliation as evidence of the review.
Other Issue
Section 201(a) of the LMRDA requires every covered labor organization to file a report with the Secretary of Labor that provides organizational information including statements about its operating procedures, names and titles of officers, initiation fees, dues, and references to various constitutional provisions - along with the constitution and bylaws. This initial union information report must be signed by the union's president and secretary or corresponding principal officers and, as required by LMRDA Section 207(a), must be filed within 90 days after the labor organization first becomes subject to the LMRDA. Section 201(b) of the LMRDA requires that labor organizations file with aLMS an annual financial report that accurately discloses the union's financial condition and operations.
24. Five NACST local unions did not consider themselves subject to the LMRDA.
Thus, these five organizations failed to file, with OLMS, the required
informational and financial LM reports mandated by the LMRDA. During
the audit, the I-CAP advised the NACST that these organizations were
subject to the requirements of the LMRDA. The NACST has agreed to notify
these organizations of the filing requirements.
As discussed during the exit interview, the NACST must submit, within thirty days from the date of this letter, a response letter to this closing letter, and an amended Form LM-2 for the fiscal year ending August 31,2008. The response letter should identify the corrective actions implemented by the NACST based on the results of this compliance audit. We will schedule an on-site follow-up in approximately six months to review corrective actions taken, to discuss the amended Form LM-2 report filed by the NACST, and to assist your organization in complying with the LMRDA requirements.
Please accept my appreciation for the cooperation and courtesy extended by you and your staff during this compliance audit. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
James D. Devine, Chief
Division of International Union Audits
cc: William J. Blumenstein, Secretary-Treasurer


text: Hello, > Christ Almighty... where have you been? busy inventing PEBCAK issues :) > The kernel went to indeterminate drive ordering *years* ago. That's > why fstab now uses UUID or LABEL to associate partitions with mount > points. Hey, may be u missed some of my writings. I wrote, that I came to debian at woody time and from then on, I'm used to *daily* (!) dist-upgrages ... so the last upgrade was from debian 6.0 to 6.1 And yes of cause - I use LABEL and UUID in fstab for years ;) If you read my writing carefully, you'll notice that I wrote, that grub has problems with changing drive order. The point is, in grub.cfg each partition is mentioned by (hd?, msdos?) and hd? never matches. Last weeks I managed grub update errors by manually editing grub.cfg (I know it should not be done, but it was the only way for me to get the system running). > Stable probably WILL break at updates, but it SHOULDN'T between updates. I don't remember, when I came to debian stable, guess that will be more than 5 years - and during that time, *no* "dist-upgrade" *ever* broke my system. - til today - Therefore - for me - debian stable shows up, what's possible to OS stability. Now I built a new partition, where I installed Ubuntu and now I can boot in my "old" Debian stable system having the controller plugged in - using grub from ubuntu. ... by the way: the controller is this (excerpt from lspci): SCSI storage controller: HighPoint Technologies, Inc. RocketRAID 230x 4 Port SATA-II Controller (rev 02) and the mainboard is a GA880GM-UD2H Boot-drive is an Intel X25-V and /usr and /var are on OCZ Vertex 2E each. It has been said, that debian 6.0 is completely free - so if the controller worked the last months, what is more free now, that it won't work with 6.01? Does anyone know a tool, that can recover (deleted) partion table from disks > 500GB? Any hint is appreciated. kind regards Gero


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New York, NY February 15, 2008 -- John Jay College of Criminal Justice announced today a $1 million gift from Patricia Cornwell, America's premier crime writer, to establish a Crime Scene Academy that will become the first and only international center for crime scene training for professionals, undergraduate and graduate degree students, as well as interested members of the general public.
The award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author of both fiction (including her current #1 bestseller, Book of the Dead) and nonfiction (including her #1 bestseller, Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper), Patricia Cornwell has been published in more than thirty-five countries and her work has been translated into thirty-two languages. She has dedicated herself to advancing the boundaries of forensic science and medicine while helping to solve celebrated historic mysteries.
In accepting this gift, President Travis said, "Patricia Cornwell, who is noted for her realistic portrayal of forensic investigations and law enforcement, has been educating millions of devoted fans about forensic science and medicine through her #1 bestselling crime novels for more than 15 years. This makes her the perfect partner for John Jay College, which has long been recognized as the premier center for forensic study in the United States. This generous gift from Ms. Cornwell will allow us to address the critical need to enhance the quality of crime scene analysis around the country. It will also further realize our mission of providing students with the latest innovations in modern forensics and their applications in crime scene investigations and analysis. The Crime Scene Academy will serve a national constituency of law enforcement personnel."
Patricia Cornwell commented, " I've always respected and admired law enforcement professionals, and am intimately aware of the dangers and difficulties of their jobs. Police, forensic scientists and pathologists, and so many others, have been unfailingly generous in sharing their expertise with me. And now it is my privilege to give something back. The greatest gift is knowledge, and there's no better place to get it than John Jay College. "
Widely recognized and praised for her meticulous research and insistence on accuracy in every detail, especially in forensic medicine and law enforcement procedures, in May 2007 Ms. Cornwell was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, who cited her for enlightening society through her "commitment to the principles of academic excellence and understanding for all."
The Crime Scene Academy will not only help college undergraduates pursuing law enforcement careers but also provide a resource for K through 12 science teachers who would like to introduce the study of forensics into their curriculum. The Crime Scene Academy will have five primary components:
Cornwell Fellows Program
- This semi-annual Cornwell Fellowship Program in crime scene decision-making will use the current public fascination with such investigations as an opportunity to teach not only cutting-edge technology and techniques but also fundamental scientific thinking and critical thinking to crime-scene scientists, senior investigators, prosecutors, medical examiner's personnel and others. From across the country, law enforcement professionals engaged in crime scene analysis will be recruited and brought to John Jay to learn the latest advances in crime scene investigation and set the standards necessary for modernizing the practice. Over time, this network of Cornwell Fellows will create a national cohort that will assume leadership roles in the evolution of the forensic sciences community.
Police Leadership Program
- Today's investigative environment demands that law-enforcement leaders possess a strong familiarity with issues related to DNA evidence, eyewitness identification procedures, false confessions and video-taped investigations, crime lab credibility, and initiatives that rely on forensic research such as the Innocence Project. The Crime Scene Academy will host a series of weeklong symposiums for senior executives in law enforcement to foster better understanding of the management of a criminal case from the crime scene through the investigative and adjudicative processes. This program will promote the interaction of police executives with faculty experts in forensic science, psychology, law and police science. The goal of the Leadership Academy will be to strengthen the ability of law enforcement executives to promote the development of a professional approach to crime scene investigations in their agencies.
Law Enforcement and/or Crime Scene Laboratory Training Modules
- With less than 1 percent of forensic laboratory budgets devoted to training, the need for college-level instruction in state-of-the-art crime-scene investigation techniques is crucial. Training modules for police developed by the Crime Scene Academy beginning in Fall 2008 will provide cross training to laboratory analysts and examiners in forensic microscopy, firearms/toolmarks, pattern evidence, trace evidence, toxicology, controlled substance analysis and molecular biology. In addition, to insure national dissemination of these training modules, the Academy will develop a train-the-trainers program supplemented by online training.
Post-Baccalaureate Forensic Science Certificate Program
- Since a graduate degree in forensic science is not a requirement for employment in most laboratories and student interest in courses on crime scene investigation is at an all time high, John Jay will implement an intensive 10-week summer certificate program that will give students with undergraduate degrees in the natural sciences the comprehensive training in forensic science and criminalistics they need to compete for their first jobs at forensic laboratories. Program graduates would be more competitive in obtaining entry-level employment in forensic laboratories.
K-12 Teacher Programs/Continuing Education Public Programs
- John Jay's Department of Sciences already provides a weeklong training session for K-12 science teachers that incorporates the Dolan DNA Learning Center material, developed at Cold Spring Harbor into the curricula. This program combines basic molecular biology, bioinformatics, etc. with crime scene protocols including sketching and measuring the crime scene, and documenting physical evidence. The program will place a special emphasis on DNA typing, fingerprint enhancement techniques and ballistics. The goal is to capture the student interest in crime scene investigations to increase the appeal of the public school science curriculum.
- Middle-school students will also have a chance to participate in crime-scene investigation training through the Crime Scene Academy.
- A Crime Scene Academy will also sponsor a series of courses on the field that will be open to the public, including, as possible topics, The Value of Eyewitness Evidence; Lessons Learned from Exoneration Cases; The Changing Role of Science in Criminal Investigations.
About John Jay College of Criminal Justice: An international leader in educating for justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice o f The City University of New York offers a rich liberal arts and professional studies curriculum to upwards of 14,000 undergraduate and graduate students from more than 135 nations. In teaching, scholarship and research, the College approaches justice as an applied art and science in service to society and as an ongoing conversation about fundamental human desires for fairness, equality and the rule of law. For more information, visit http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/.


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Yale history/classics professor Donald Kagan is a great old-fashioned scholar and teacher. The author of a classic four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, he has written many other books of distinction including Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy and On the Origins of War: And the Preservation of Peace.
Professor Kagan retired from his position at Yale in 2013. He gave his last lecture to a packed auditorium. The Wall Street Journal's Matthew Kaminski attended and sought him out for an interview. Kaminski reported that Professor Kagan had an important message:
Universities, he proposed, are failing students and hurting American democracy. Curricula are "individualized, unfocused and scattered." On campus, he said, "I find a kind of cultural void, an ignorance of the past, a sense of rootlessness and aimlessness." Rare are "faculty with atypical views," he charged. "Still rarer is an informed understanding of the traditions and institutions of our Western civilization and of our country and an appreciation of their special qualities and values." He counseled schools to adopt "a common core of studies" in the history, literature and philosophy "of our culture." By "our" he means Western.
Bill Kristol now presents Professor Kagan to reflect on lessons learned in the course of his distinguished career in the most recent installment of his Conversations (video below, about 80 minutes). The video is posted and broken into chapters here; the transcript is posted here.. Special attention is given to Professor Kagan's unfortunately timely work on the origins of war (and the preservation of peace).
Quotable quote, on American power and global order: "The policy we had during [the] successful phase of [the post-World War II era] was: don't even think of using force to bring about your desires. And it worked because people believed [it]. They knew we had the force and they believed we'd use it. Both of those elements are critical to preserving the peace."
It should be noted that Yale has posted videos and transcripts of Professor Kagan's lectures in his Introduction to Ancient Greek History course. In the introductory lecture, Professor Kagan explains why attention should be paid to the ancient Greeks.
Looking through Commentary's archives for the essays by Kagan that it has published over the years, I find that many are accessible online. See, for example, "As goes Harvard…" (September 2006), "Peace for our time?" (September 2000), "Lessons of the Great War" (October 1999), "Jackie Robinson by Arnold Rampersad" (December 1997), "Our interests and our honor" (April 1997), "Why America dropped the bomb" (September 1995), "Colin Powell's war" (June 1995), "An address to the class of 1994" (January 1991), "Heroes, villains & SDI" (February 1989) and "The first revisionist historian" (May 1988). And the review by Algis Valiuanas (November 2009) of Kagan's book on Thucydides provides a good overview of Kagan's career. This is great stuff.


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Renowned civil rights leader, Julian Bond, has joined the chorus urging the passage of the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act, known as SB10.
In an open letter sent to supporters of SB10 by the Illinois Unites for Marriage coalition on Friday, Bond says he believes that, "marriage strengthens families and communities. I believe that marriage provides the protection and security that every loving couples needs and deserves. I believe that marriage is a universal right, guaranteed equal protection under the law."
The letter comes one day after a prominent group of African-American faith leaders urged lawmakers to support the legislation during a press conference. Their point was that the measure was one of equal protection under the law, and not a religious issue.
In addition to SB10 extending the freedom to marry to all, it also protects churches by ensuring that no clergy or faith organization will be forced to recognize marriages for same-sex couples if it violates their beliefs.
Regarding his own 20 year marriage, Bond writes, "My gay and lesbian brothers and sisters simply want the freedom to make that same commitment. And they deserve the same protection that my wife and I have. It's just that simple."
Bond was a leader in the American civil rights movement, helping to establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and was the first president of the Southern Poverty Law center. He's served a combined twenty years in the Georgia House of Representatives and Senate. From 1998 to 2010, he was the chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Bond currently serves as the Chairman Emeritus of the NAACP National Board of Directors.
"I've spent my life as a civil rights activist, working to make our society more just and fair for all of us," he writes. "It is that commitment to equality that has led me to support marriage for all committed couples."
"Julian Bond's endorsement of the Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act sends a strong statement to Illinois House members that the desire of couples to express their lifelong love and raise their families through the bonds of marriage knows no boundaries," said Bernard Cherkasov, CEO of Equality Illinois, which is a founding organization of the Illinois Unites for Marriage Coalition in a press release.
"We urge the Illinois House to act promptly and pass the bill when it returns from its spring break next week."


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Hey, this is something I've been playing around with making in UE4.
The player movement is done in blueprint, and is a bit floaty/shaky and not great but it's getting there. I'm using assets from the Reflections demo.
Anyway, I don't want it to look abandoned, but just kind of run down/scary/unused.
As you can see, it's pretty dark. I'm trying to get the atmosphere feeling right. Not there yet, but will be soon!
In this one, there is two separate lights that spark. One is timed differently than the other slightly. When screenshotting they were almost at the same time.
Continued in next post, Jamie the current image limit is annoying!


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GOMA, Congo (AP) — Dozens of Congolese demonstrated in the provincial capital of Goma on Thursday against what they described as the impotence of the country's armed forces, which allowed a rebel group to overrun the city a little over two weeks ago. They also decried the passivity of United Nations peacekeepers, who did little to stop the fighters saying it was not within their mandate.
Goma, a city of about 1 million people and a major trading hub for minerals extracted from Congo's lucrative mines, fell to a Rwandan-backed rebel group on Nov. 20. It took days of negotiations, intense international pressure, and the hammer of United Nations sanctions for the thousands of fighters for M23 to finally withdraw from the regional capital this weekend.
The rebels, however, remain perilously close to Goma at about 3 kilometers (1.2 miles) outside the city limit. A rebel delegation is expected to travel to neighboring Uganda for talks with the Congolese government.
"We denounce the failure of the ministers of interior, defense and the army chief of staff. We ask for their resignation. A team that does not work must be changed," said one of the demonstrators, Luc Nkulula.
Micheline Mwendike, another protester, criticized the planned negotiations, saying it made no sense to enter into peace talks with the very people who were aggressors in the city. The rebels are accused of numerous abuses, including using child soldiers, summary executions, rape and pillaging.
"We don't want that the negotiations end up rewarding criminals," she said.
In a letter published this week, the United Nations' Group of Experts on the conflict in the Congo provided detailed evidence of how the M23 rebels are backed by Rwanda. In a day-by-day outline of the invasion of Goma, the letter describes how Rwanda equipped, trained, advised, reinforced and directly commanded the rebellion, including sending four companies from Rwanda's 305th brigade across the border to conduct operations.
Rwanda has fiercely denied the accusations, but several countries including the United States and the United Kingdom have cut off aid to Congo's smaller, but more developed neighbor.
The M23 rebels claim that they are fighting for the implementation of the March 23, 2009 peace accord, which saw their fighters integrated into the Congolese army. They withdrew from Goma on the condition that Congo's government would negotiate with them.
Demonstrators on Thursday burned tires and policemen armed with rifles arrived on the scene. Security forces appeared ready to use disproportionate force to repel a group of youths, who were protesting against the forces' lack of resolve in the face of a rebel army.
"We were here alone. The rebels have raped us, looted us. They have scared us. Why today, when we are expressing our anger, you are coming to stop us?" said Nkulula to a policeman.
The crowd watching the demonstrations was largely supportive. People were talking about a feeling of helplessness and of being ignored.
"We are tired with the war. They are seated in Kampala for their own interest while we are dying like mosquitos here," said Katembo Wansiremundu, throwing his support behind the demonstrations. "We are lacking a voice. It's good they are expressing their opinion."


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Complete Match Notes Liberty (10-17, 7-7 Big South) wraps up regular-season play this week, playing at UNC Asheville (12-14, 8-7) on Thursday at 7 p.m. before finishing the schedule at Gardner-Webb (7-20, 1-13), Saturday at 2 p.m. The Lady Flames trail UNC Asheville by a half-match in conference standings, and would wrap up the No. 4 seed in the upcoming Big South Volleyball Championship with a win on Thursday.
Starting Rotation 1. Liberty has won its regular-season finale 19 out of the last 20 seasons, starting with the 1997 campaign.
2. Anna Gragg scored 26 kills at a .524 pace at PC on Friday. Her 26 kills are the most by a Big South middle blocker in a single match this season, and most kills by a Liberty middle blocker in rally-scoring history (since 2001). Her previous career high was 19 kills.
3. Junior libero Margaret Latchford passed Theresa Passamani (2000-03) for 11th place in program history last Friday, with 1,282 career digs. Latchford needs 25 digs to pass Athena Sherwood (1996-99) for 10th place in program history.
4. Gabrielle Vess (11 kills, 10 digs) and Amaya Williams (45 assists, 12 digs) both posted double-doubles on Friday at PC. Vess leads the Lady Flames with nine double-doubles this season, while Williams has posted seven double-doubles.
5. Amaya Williams has been named Big South Freshman of the Week twice this season. She leads all Big South freshman setters with 8.90 assists per set in conference play. Her 59 assists against PC on Sept. 23 are the most by a Big South setter this season.
6. Shane Pinder, in his 14th season as Liberty's head coach, is the program's all-time winningest coach, at 248-193. He is ranked second all-time among all Big South volleyball coaches in both overall wins and conference victories (142).
7. The six qualified teams for the 2017 Big South Volleyball Championship are set, in High Point, Radford, Campbell, UNC Asheville, Liberty and Winthrop. The top three seeds, in this order, will be High Point, Radford and Campbell.
Monster Match Anna Gragg scored 26 kills at a .524 pace last Friday at PC. Her 26 kills were the most by a Liberty middle blocker in any match in rally-scoring history, and the most by any Liberty player in a four-set match under the current 25-point rally-scoring system.
Sirena Vorster added eight kills, while Kainah Williams scored two kills, meaning 36 out of Liberty's 60 kills came from the middle blocker position. Those 36 kills are the most by Liberty's middle blockers in any match under 14th-year head coach Shane Pinder.
Latchford Leaps to 11th Place in Program History Junior Margaret Latchford collected her 1,000th career dig against VCU, Sept. 12. She is now ranked 11th in program history with 1,282 career digs. The next two players for her to pass are: Athena Sherwood (10th; 1996-99; 1,306) and Liberty Athletics and Big South Hall of Famer Anthonia Akpama (9th; 1996-99; 1,312).
She collected 21 digs on Oct. 27 against Gardner-Webb, the most digs by a Lady Flame in a three-set match so far this season.
On the Attack Liberty hit .159 as a team in non-conference matches this season. The Lady Flames have turned it on in conference play, hitting .213 as a team.
On Oct. 20 at Winthrop, Liberty hit a season-best .333. It was the team's highest hitting percentage in a Big South match since hitting .371 at Presbyterian, Oct. 23, 2015. Casey Goodwin led the way with 16 kills, including 10 kills during set three. She is the first Liberty player since Caroline Douglas against UNC Asheville in 2012 to score 10 kills in one set. Liberty hit a sensational .520 (16-3-25) during the third set, a 25-10 win.
Team Effort Liberty has had several players turn in big dig totals this season. Margaret Latchford's 30 digs against Elon, Sept. 2, were the most by a Lady Flame this season, while Gabrielle Vess collected 22 digs in the same match. Victoria Baptista has collected 18 digs twice, while Kaitlyn Young had a season-high 17 digs against Presbyterian, Sept. 23. Freshmen Amaya Williams and Jenna Culhan have both posted 13-dig matches this season.
Williams Weekly Honors Amaya Williams is one of five Big South freshmen to be named Big South Freshman of the Week exactly twice this season, earning the honor on Sept. 25 and Oct. 16.
She has posted two 50-assist matches this season, both in conference play, and her 59 assists against Presbyterian are the most by a Big South setter in any match this year.
Williams ranks fourth in the conference with 8.90 assists per set during Big South play.
Block Party Liberty posted 10 blocks on Oct. 28 against Campbell, the team's ninth double-digit-block match this season. Last year, the Lady Flames tied a program record with 14 double-digit-block contests.
A year after leading the Big South with 2.45 blocks per set, Liberty has picked up its net defense where it left off, ranking leading the conference with 2.14 blocks per set.
Middle of it All Anna Gragg is hitting .366 while averaging 3.13 kills per set in Big South matches.
Anna Gragg reached double-figures in kills in five consecutive matches, Sept. 16 through Oct. 3. She is the first Liberty middle blocker since Kendle Rollins in 2010 with five straight 10-kill contests.
Sirena Vorster, who along with Gragg was an all-conference honorable mention middle blocker in 2016, averages 1.84 kills per set while hitting .332 in conference play.
Double-Doubles Gabrielle Vess leads the team with nine double-doubles this season, followed by Amaya Williams' seven double-doubles.
Williams, making her first start on Aug. 26 against Virginia, registered a double-double with 36 assists and 10 digs.
Senior Anna Willey is Liberty's active career leader in double-doubles with 28.
Liberty vs. UNC Asheville (Liberty leads, 40-22) (Series Streak: Liberty W3) UNC Asheville (12-14, 8-7 Big South) enters the week in fourth place in the Big South standings after a 3-1 win over PC on Tuesday. The Bulldogs are 6-2 at the Justice Center this season. UNC Asheville is ranked second in the Big South and 18th nationally with 1.66 aces per set.
2016 Big South All-Conference honorable mention selection Cara Guthrie ranks third in the Big South in kills per set, both overall (3.79) and in conference play (3.98). KK Haley is ranked second in the Big South with 0.47 aces per set in conference play, while Sheridan Salisbury is fourth with 0.42 aces per set.
Liberty leads UNC Asheville, 40-22, in the all-time series, including 21-11 under Shane Pinder. These two teams split the season series in both 2014 and 2015 before Liberty swept the season series last year. Liberty is 14-3 in the last 17 matchups overall.
The Lady Flames overcame a 2-1 match deficit to down UNC Asheville in five sets, Sept. 30 at the Vines Center. Anna Gragg hit .400 with 18 kills, while UNC Asheville's Cara Guthrie led all players with 21 kills.
Liberty vs. Gardner-Webb (Liberty leads series, 22-2) (Series streak: Liberty W8) Gardner-Webb (7-16, 1-9 Big South) is looking to snap a 12-match losing streak. The Runnin' Bulldogs' last win was Sept. 26, a 3-2 home victory over UNC Asheville. Gardner-Webb ranks second in the Big South with 2.12 blocks per set this season.
Keira Moore ranks second in the Big South with 1.01 blocks per set. Kaelyn Dyson is ranked ninth in the conference in hitting percentage (.274) while sitting sixth in blocks per set (0.88). Emma Milstead is listed fourth in conference rankings with 4.41 digs per set.
Liberty leads the all-time series over the Runnin' Bulldogs, 22-2, winning the first 11 meetings, before Gardner-Webb swept the Lady Flames, Oct. 11, 2011 at Paul Porter Arena. The Lady Flames have won the last eight meetings in a row, after Gardner-Webb rallied for a 3-2 win over Liberty, Oct. 4, 2013 at the Vines Center.
The Lady Flames swept Gardner-Webb, 3-0, on Oct. 27, Liberty's Senior Night. Liberty senior Gabrielle Vess had a double-double with 10 kills and 11 digs, while Anna Gragg recorded 10 kills and Margaret Latchford collected a match-high 21 digs.
Chasing History With a 248-193 career record in his 14th year as head coach, Shane Pinder needs two more wins to become the second Big South volleyball coach all-time with 250 career wins.
Pinder is 142-60 all-time in Big South regular-season matches. He needs three more conference wins to tie former UNC Asheville and Winthrop head coach Julie Torbett for the most career conference victories among any Big South volleyball coach.
Out With a Bang Liberty won its final match before the Big South Volleyball Championship in 19 straight seasons, from 1997 through 2015, before losing its regular-season finale to CSU last year.
Conference Tournament Picture High Point has clinched the No. 1 seed and Big South regular-season title, while Radford will be the second seed and Campbell, third seed, due to tiebreakers over both Liberty and UNC Asheville. The final three seeds will be decided this weekend, with Liberty, UNC Asheville and Winthrop all still vying for seeds four through six.
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MY Dot wont stay in tune
Posted 25 February 2008 - 06:52 AM
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Posted 25 February 2008 - 09:11 AM
Fascinating! I don't think I have the patience, but I'll give it a try soon just to make sure.
Posted 25 February 2008 - 09:28 AM
Posted 25 February 2008 - 09:50 AM
Isn't there a manufacturer that makes full sets with a wound G?
Posted 25 February 2008 - 09:59 AM
in that quote he tells the tale. it's a trade off most don't make.
You either learn to compensate, tune your guitar to itself as far as balance toward perfection, or add a compensated nut.
and then there's this:
For most players, the problem of fragility is not significant; violent use of the Strat whammy-bar can cause premature string breakage, but otherwise, its generally no big deal. However, the question of bendability is, for most players, rather significant. Many players just assume that a wound third string is out of the question for this reason alone. Im challenging these players to re-evaluate this assumption do you really want to put up with the Tonal Disaster that is the unwound third string, just to bend the third string like a Blues-Weenie rattling off an arsenal of recycled cliches? Is it really worth it?
blues weenie? hey buddy, piss off. and tonal disaster, really? how many of your guitar heroes use wound thirds on electric? sound like weenies to you? bending isn't important? is he unaware of how much bending those rock weenies, country weenies, and jazz weenies do?
sure the third string is a problem.. but can we at least realize that this problem has been overcome to the satisfaction of most professional players without winding the third..
Me, I'll take proper set up and adjustable pole pieces.. good nut slotting, fine fret work, careful intonation.. the right pots and caps.. and an amplifier that's made for the whole schmear. works for me.
Posted 25 February 2008 - 10:30 AM
I had the same problem with my Dot. After a pro set-up the problem went away. I suspect there was a problem with the nut.
Posted 26 February 2008 - 01:22 AM
Besides, after a good setup you won't believe how good it feels and sounds.
Posted 26 February 2008 - 03:04 AM
Yeah, if you can handle a medium set (11-52), Dean Markley gives you a wound .020 and a plain .018 in that set; your choice.
Posted 26 February 2008 - 05:54 AM
I'm using D'addario EXL110W - a 10-46 set with a wound G. EXL115W are 11s.
Posted 26 February 2008 - 06:26 AM
Usually, when a string is in tune when played open but goes sharp when fretted, it indicates that the string is too high coming off the nut. Take a look how high the G string is over the first fret as compared to the other strings - it should just clear it. If it is too high, have a tech file the slot a hair (unless you feel up to the task yourself).
Good luck.
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Two Monday Links
Friend of USSM Jonah Keri has a story on Page 2 today about the No-Stars Team — ignoble counterpart to the All-Stars. A couple of Mariners make the cut. See if you can guess which two.
Also, in case you missed it, check out Kevin Goldstein's "Future Shock" piece on Adam Jones from Prospectus on June 30.
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Jay R. on
July 3rd, 2006 9:39 am
I am shocked that Eddie didn't make he No Stars team. He has been brutal all year long.
JMB on
July 3rd, 2006 9:54 am
Yeah, when Jeff said "guess which two," I was thinking Sexson and Eddie.
David* on
July 3rd, 2006 10:05 am
I was thinking Jurassic and Eddie.
Rusty on
July 3rd, 2006 10:56 am
Thanks for the article on Adam Jones. I really didn't know much about him. Mark McLemore seems like a natural as a mentor for him. I guy who could move seemlessly from the infield to the outfield.
Matthew Carruth on
July 3rd, 2006 11:11 am
Wait, Carl Everett is bad yes, but come on, how do you leave Rondell White off that team?
Everett: 0.3 WARP
White: -2.0 WARP
and 2B? What about Scutaro and Neifi?
Jonah Keri on
July 3rd, 2006 11:21 am
As noted at the top of the article, circumstances count for a lot. Rondell stinks, but a competent DH still has the Twins nowhere near contention. Meanwhile a decent hitter would have the M's in first place, and they'd still have Asdrubal Cabrera.
Same thing at second…Neifi and Scutaro have worse stats, but this isn't the worst WARP leaderboard. Kennedy's been lousy, yet the Angels continue to play him over Kendrick.
That is good feedback, though…some of the emails I got about say, Ausmus?! Whoo-ee!
Matthew Carruth on
July 3rd, 2006 11:29 am
True. I understood about 2B re: Kendrick, but man, there just needs to be some mention of how bad Rondell White was/is.
A competent DH is worth about what, 2 WARP at this point? That would be a 4 game swing putting them within striking distance. But, same being said, we would be in first place.
Oh, and what about the manager? Can't have an all/no-star team without a manager. Too many candidates?
msb on
July 3rd, 2006 11:30 am
Ausmus has been beloved wherever he has gone, and been talked up by the broadcasters & writers wherever he has gone, so no wonder you might have had some less-than-enthusiastic emails 🙂
Jonah Keri on
July 3rd, 2006 1:12 pm
Ron Gardenhire's decision-making is pretty awful. Grover, of course. Sam Perlozzo confuses me on a daily basis.
Ausmus is so overrated it's tragic.
Spencer B on
July 3rd, 2006 1:36 pm
Dear Jonah. Eddie Guardado is really bad. The average batter he's faced this year has an OPS 25 points higher than Alex Rodriguez's lifetime line. The average RH hitter (OK, limited AB's, but he's not really been used as a situational lefty most of the year) has an OPS that is a dead ringer for Ted fricken Williams. Any pitcher that turns the majority of the other team's hitters into Ted Williams for $6 mil + should be not just a no-star, but in the no-star HOF.
That said, I loved your article.
Jeff Nye on
July 3rd, 2006 1:42 pm
Anyone else unable to get that link to Jonah's article to work?
eponymous coward on
July 3rd, 2006 1:47 pm
I have Everett on my HACKING MASS team. Good times. Oh, wait…
Joe on
July 3rd, 2006 2:12 pm
Yeah, I don't think any other player has single-handedly lost as many games for the M's as Eddie. I mean, Sexson doesn't hit, Everett doesn't hit… sure, it adds up, but there are seven or so other guys to pick up the slack (of course they weren't for all of April and most of May, but that's another story). Back when Eddie was
the closer…wait, according to Hargove he's still the closer (because Putz "hasn't established himself"), he's just the only closer in baseball who never pitches in Save situations. He's the "sixth inning if we can afford to give up a couple of home runs" closer. Anyway, back when they thought they could use him in the 9th he out-and-out lost a couple of games. There's been times when Sexson or Everett could have hit a game-winning dinger, but AFAIK they've never done anything to lose a game outright. But the M's would be in sole possession of 1st place in the AL West if not for Eddie. Of course, you could say the same thing about Hargrove.
Jonah Keri on
July 3rd, 2006 3:44 pm
Eddie blows, for sure. He was definitely in contention–Jones just had the better backstory with the whole high-leverage relievers thing on Zumaya et al, and Valverde has been historically bad. Other notable omissions (snubs?): Rondell White, Adam Everett (great glove, at least), Neifi…
flippy on
July 3rd, 2006 5:22 pm
I just love the fact that there are snubs for the "no-star" team
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A lot of rubber is burned on the asphalt, when the great hordes of Thai bikers converge on Ayutthaya once a year for the Cowboy and Indian party. No TAT (Tourist Authority of Thailand) in sight, to promote such an event – it isn't geared as a show-off to tourists in bulk and also not a profit generator for anybody, just for the bikers and their fans. Wheelies are performed here by the boys and girls on their steel horses, clad in black leather or other outfits. The fun begins at sundown and involves a quarter of the city near the bus station, that is usually dedicated to Karaoke-bars and Massage-parlors.
Riders came from near and far, big customized bikes are their trademark. Every new arrival is beeing greeted with cheers and kisses from the Squaws and Cowgirls.
The prices to participate are unbelievably low, they really lure big bikers from a large radius on the roadmaps to Ayutthaya for this event. The 300 Baht (under 10 US-$) inlude all night food and drinks. Alcoholic beverages (firewater) are not excluded!
Besides a great buffet, there are several BBQs on-site and live music from local bands. Country music goes well with the crowd and the mood is great.
Some Indians showed up with their chief dress-ups, others in warrior garb. About 100 followed the call to the ancient capital of Thailand. For the price of a single drink in Bangkok's clubs, you can eat all you want here, get drunk (some did, they camped out for the night later) and play games or dance. I call this fun-maximizing and skip the expensive Bangkok clubs again anytime for this.
Some of the squaws were hard to resist , but my number one squaw was naturally coming along and she demonstrated later in the tomahawk-toss, that axes and tomahawks were nothing new to her (she trailed the later winner of the ladycup throughout the whole contest, only by very small margins).
Their Northamerican brothers would have been proud of their Thai tribesmen, the firewater did flow freely all night. Except for the long gun shooting, the Indians sacked the Cowboys badly in every type of contest.
All of the Karaoke girls were then invited to join and quit their job for the day, most followed much to the dismay of their pimps and customers, we all had a great time.
The long gun contest was dominated by a female cowgirl, who was celebrated wildly by the crowd. This great looking gal would have made every western show in the states a hit, as she had a great aim and wonderful party spirit. She shot 3 times a burning candle on top of a bottle in 50 m distance in a way, that the candle tumbled into the small amount of gasoline inside the Kratingdaeng (Red Bull, original formula) bottle and lit it up in a fireball. Calamity Jane couldn't have done that better. She used a 30-30 lever action Winchester for that with no scope! She also took a victorious first place in the shotgun contest on paper silhouettes.
A lot of beauty was to be seen here and everyone had so much fun, many trophies were awarded later. The event organizers scored big with the guests, as almost no one ended up empty handed.
Cherokee, Navahos, Apache and Chippewah, many known Indian tribes and nations were present, at least their traditional costumes, all hand made and great looking.
This Iroquois warrior was the champ in lasso and cow wrestling contests, he also won the practical joker pedestal, when he lost his hip-cloth accidently and walked naked through the camp to get a replacement dress.
I was definitively underdressed here, but a welcomed guest at the event. They told me, that they never had a foreigner traveling here with his steel horse before. This happened quite a few times before, that I was greeted as the first long nosed pale-face at a regular happening, festival or event. It pays for me to not go with the tourist and expat hordes and hang around with my local buddies occasionally, I get to see and witness so much more.
We will sure be back here in Ayutthaya to smoke a peace-pipe and have a ton of fun, but then I will dig out my Stetson and the boots and will surely book a local teepee for the night, so I can participate in the firewater fun.


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The leader of the first run Stefan Luitz saved his spot on the podium in the second run. Felix Neureuther's teammate found his pace again last season, perfroming at a higher level than he had in the past which offered him and a career best 7th place in the season ranking. Luitz podiumed in Garmisch-Partenkirchen last season, his three other podiums came earlier in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
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Delta, Colorado resident, James Edwards, passed away on Thursday, March 9, 2017, at his home with his family beside him. He was 77 years of age.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 18, 2017 at Eckert Presbyterian Church with Pastor Jim Jesser officiating. Inurnment with full military honors performed by Grand Valley Combined Honor Guard will take place at the Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado in Grand Junction, Colorado will be scheduled at a later date.
James was born on Sept. 1, 1939 to Charles and Myrtle Edwards in Gunnison, Colorado. James attended school in Sapinero and Gunnison before the family moved to Grand Junction. He graduated from Grand Junction High School in 1958.
After graduation, James entered the United States Marine Corps with his brother, Thomas Edwards. He proudly served his country and you often heard him say "Once a Marine, Always a Marine."
James loved the mountains and had the El Rancho Lodge near Silver Jack Reservoir. He met Ann Abendschein from Montrose and they soon married on Nov. 15, 1986, he was the love of her life! They moved to Austin, Colorado where they owned and ran the Austin Country Corner Store. They retired in 1999.
Some of his hobbies were: building and riding dune buggies, motorcycles, snowmobiles; really anything with wheels. He was on the Delta Mosquito Board and was president for two terms. He prized his 1961 Indian motorcycle! Other interests include history of World War II, camping, hunting and animals. He loved his family: and friends. He enjoyed helping others whenever help was needed.
James is survived by his wife, Ann Edwards of the home; two sons: David (Barb) Edwards of Rossville, Georgia, and Michael (Jennifer) Edwards of Grand Junction; his daughter, Michelle (Rick) Kahle of Montrose, Colorado; two sisters: Marjorie Edwards of Grand Junction, Colorado and Mary Lou Barefoot of Walterboro, South Carolina; his inherited by marriage sons: Hector (Bonnie) Fuentes of Boulevard, California; Miguel (Blanca) Fuentes of Baja California, Mexico and Marco (Carla) Fuentes of Ramona, California, brother-in-law David Westerlund of Fruita, Colorado; a sister-in-law, Lisa Edwards of Franktown, Colorado; seventeen grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. He was privileged with several life-long friends: J.D. Warren; Duane Warren; Linda Hubert and Don and Earlene Hickman; numerous nieces and nephews; and his faithful companion, Buddy.
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"I noticed that screenplays are always rewritten by many different writers but that would never happen to a playwright or novelist. Why the double standard? But, then again, that is how screenwriter's will make their money on rewriting someone else's screenplay."
Well, Gina, screenplays often get rewritten by other people because– unlike in the world of theater or publication– when a screenwriter sells a script to a studio, he no longer retains ownership of it; the studio does.
In other words, if you sell a novel to Random House tomorrow, you're really selling them just the publication rights (and probably only for a limited time). But you still own your novel, its characters, the movie rights, the merchandising rights, etc. (probably).
Same thing if you get a play produced at a regional theater, or even on Broadway. The play still belongs to you… so you could go sell the film rights or publication rights elsewhere… the producer is simply entitled to the stage rights.
Not so with movies or television.
In movies or television, the studio actually OWNS the script and almost everything that comes with it: merchandising rights, stage rights, etc. This also means they can change it, re-title it, throw out half the characters, completely change the subplots, whatever. They can also then hire ANYONE they want to come in and rewrite it… including you. Which means if you sell your screenplay to Warner Brothers today, you are now– even though you're the original author– just a "work for hire," like every other scrambling screenwriter out there. (However, the Writers Guild DOES mandate that when you sell a screenplay, you– the original screenwriter– must get first crack at the rewrite. But after that first rewrite, the movie studio can fire you, team you with someone else, keep you aboard… whatever they want. It's their script.)
Now, just to complicate things, writers DO sometimes negotiate something called "separated rights," which means they occasionally get to hold on to things like stage rights, publication rights, etc. But how many separated rights you get depends on the stature and clout of you, the writer, as well as the quality of the agent or manager doing your deal.
Separated rights can get complicated, but here are links to a couple pages with good explanations…
• The Artful Writer (a terrific screenwriting blog written by screenwriters Craig Mazin and Ted Elliot, whose combined credits include Shrek, Scary Movie, and Pirates of the Caribbean) – these guys do a good job of explaining separated rights simply and succinctly
• The Writers Guild of America – Also good, but a much more in-depth, technical explanation
And for LOTS more information, check out The Writer Got Screwed (but didn't have to), by lawyer Brooke A. Wharton. The book is about 12 years old, but it still offers tons of great information on the legalities of screenwriting and Hollywood contracts.
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With Rose Ava Bradley finally making her arrival into the world on November 20th, time further away from home has been been hard to come by but infact, her coming has made me appreciate what is on my doorstep even more.
The original due date was the 5th, and a few folk were justifiably surprised to see me at the Minsmere Cliff Swallow twitch that day. This American vagrant had made landfall near the visitor centre with 3 Barn Swallow, and I managed to convince Debs that should anything happen, I would be back in 2 hours. I was, but need not have worried.
Having lost a week in hospital with initially poorly mum and baby, work kindly offered me another week's paternity leave which I gladly snapped up. This eased the pressure, and I have been able to grab the odd hour here and there on the patch, sometimes with baby. On the 4th of December, I elected to leave Rose with mum and headed down to The Covey at Wheatfen to watch an obliging Cattle Egret devouring worms around the feet of the mandatory cattle. This was indeed a patch lifer for me, and with 3 birds recently at Gapton this was very much on the cards. No idea who found it, but thanks! Later that day we received a visit from Moysiebirder and family, so after the expected ogling over Rose, Ben dad and I nipped out for another look at the Egret and then a dusk vigil at Langley Marshes. This was a superb evening- Hen Harrier, Grey Wagtail (2), Curlew (13; lovely to hear the true call of the wild back on the patch) Barn Owl (3) and a single White-fronted Goose over. Back at the house, at least 2 Woodcock flew by the light of the moon. Top patching!
This morning, Debs and I made use of the accessible track down to Rockland Broad (really need to think about how much of the patch is pushchair friendly now) and spent an hour walking and surveying the Wildfowl out on the broad. Best of all were 2 Goldeneye, making up records 5 and 6 on the patch after 2 early on in the year. Not far off annual, and I expect they arrived during the cold weather and have elected to stay.
I am sat on 120 for the year, 2 off equalling the record of last year. A flyover wild Swan and Short-eared Owl would do it; a Water Pipit would break it! Back to the coal face tomorrow, but with only a week until Christmas holidays, it is on.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. Just in time for last-minute holiday adventures, the all-new 2016 Nissan TITAN XD Crew Cab goes on sale tomorrow at Nissan dealers nationwide. Available in five grade levels and a choice of 4x4 and 4x2 drivetrains, the Cummins® 5.0L V8 Turbo Diesel-equipped TITAN XD has a starting Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price* (MSRP) of $40,290 for the S 4x2. The top-of-the-line Platinum Reserve 4x4 grade has an MSRP of $60,520.
"This is a big day for Nissan, our retailers and our customers figuratively and literally as our new Every Duty' Nissan TITAN XD powers into showrooms across the country," said Dan Mohnke, vice president, Sales & Marketing Operations, U.S., Nissan North America. Inc. "TITAN XD takes the tradition of full-size capacity to a whole new level, with standard 555 lb-ft of torque, a long list of innovative towing aids such as Around View® Monitor and integrated gooseneck trailer hitch, and advanced safety and security features. There's never been a TITAN like this and the diesel-powered TITAN XD Crew Cab is only the beginning."
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