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Accommodations: Lakehouse (Sleeps 6-8), 3 Bedrooms + Bed Loft (master bedroom-queen size bed and private bathroom with shower, 2nd bedroom-full size bed plus 2 full size mattresses in bed loft, den-queen size gel memory foam sleep sofa, and living room- full size gel memory foam sleep sofa) The main bathroom has a full shower/tub, fully equipped Kitchen with breakfast bar and dining room table (seating for 10), large living room with floor to ceiling windows to enhance your lake view, hardwood floors and knotty pine ceilings throughout as well as a fully operational antique fireplace to give you that cozy "camp" feeling.
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A large outdoor patio with 4-burner propane grill is conveniently adjacent to the kitchen door to provide outdoor dining facilities that comfortably seat over 20 people to accommodate large gatherings. This patio is slightly shaded during all hours to give you some relief from the summer sun, yet still allow spectacular dining views. This area also has a self-contained fire-pit (equipped with ample seasoned firewood) with flame arrester to enable you to safely enjoy smores over the campfire overlooking the beautiful lake. There is a large, flat, grassy area to play some badminton, disc golf, or other dry land games. A basketball hoop, badminton/volley ball net, and a horseshoe pit are also set up for your convenience.
Little Ossipee Lake is one of Southern Maine's nicest lakes, 564 acres and over 3 ½ miles long of crystal-clear water ideally located in Waterboro, Maine…between Portland, Maine and North Conway, New Hampshire. The lake is stocked with trout, bass, and others for your recreational fishing endeavors. The town of Waterboro has a Hannaford Supermarket, Lakeside Market, Dunkin Donuts, Subway, Aroma Joe's, Flipping Good Pizza, and restaurants to provide you with the amenities of your home at this secluded getaway vacation location. A public boat launch facility is available from the town free of charge.
The Lakehouse is a short ride to southern Maine's legendary coastline, Old Orchard Beach, that offers 7 miles of sandy ocean beach with an amusement park and numerous shops and Restaurants, as well as Funtown/Splashtown which is a full fledge amusement and water park both only a 30 minute drive away. Kennebunkport, Maine's quaint seaside village with various shops and restaurants, as well as Kittery and Freeport with their numerous factory outlets can be reached in less than one hour. Fall is the perfect time to view Maine's fall foliage with a canoe or boat ride around the lake or visit the agricultural country fairs in Fryeburg in less than 40 minutes.
When you rent, everything is in the exact order we keep it for our own use (excluding the linen you must provide for sanitary reasons). From Pots & pans and dishes & knives, to cable tv and Wifi internet service in every room, this lakehouse will truly give you the comfort of your "home away from home". We rent just a few weeks each year while our children are busy in sports and only rent to individual families with required references to ensure we can maintain the property at a very high standards. You must be 25 YEARS OR OLDER to rent this property. No smoking or pets are allowed inside the Lakehouse.
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Solskjaer: Cardiff have a mountain to climb
Cardiff City boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer knows his side have "a mountain to climb" after they slipped to the bottom of the Premier League.
The beleaguered Welsh side were hammered 4-0 by fellow strugglers Sunderland at the Stadium of Light on Sunday, a defeat which saw them replace Gus Poyet's men at the foot of the table.
In-form striker Connor Wickham opened the scoring and was then brought down by Juan Cala late in the first half, with the Spanish defender being sent off for the incident.
Fabio Borini tucked way the resultant penalty, despite Cardiff protests, and further goals from Wickham and Emanuele Giaccherini sealed three precious points for the hosts.
Cardiff are two points adrift of safety with matches against Newcastle United and Chelsea to come, and Solskjaer acknowledged his side are up against it, despite remaining positive.
"The effort and attitude was there for everyone to see. We go into the next two matches knowing we have to win those two," Solskjaer said.
"It's a great challenge for everyone at the club. We need two strong performances. The most we can get is 36 points and, if we can get that, I think that will be enough to keep us up.
"We've given ourselves a mountain to climb and we need to start climbing."
The former Manchester United striker refused to be drawn on his opinion on Cala's dismissal following a defeat that he admits could relegate them.
"Going in at half time 2-0 down made it very hard for us," he added.
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Citing the "difficult financial climate," the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in its budget request this week that it would do away with $10 million in grants it gives each year to state and local agencies in coastal and Great Lakes states to test for tainted water.
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Customer Reviews - To see what customers are saying about the Gamoto PID motor controller, take a look at some of the customer reviews!
Distributors Wanted! We are looking for distributors, especially
outside of the U.S. Please contact us if you are interested in carrying the
Gamoto PID motor controller and other Gamatronix products.
Universities & Colleges: Think about using the Gamoto for your next control systems course or robotics contest. For a list of universities currently using the Gamoto, click here!
Product Showcase: (813) 477-0275 is using the Gamoto inside their strap-on automous vehicle kit, the (440) 719-1779 It's a set of servo motors and control system that allows you to convert any normal automobile into an autonomous vehicle! This kit is becoming very popular for teams entered in the DARPA Grand Challenge and the Urban Challenge.
C#/.NET Example! Just added, this example application shows how to use C# and the .NET environment to control the Gamoto. The example files can be found at the bottom of the product description for the gamoto.
LabView Library! Just added, this library and set of examples make it easy to integrate the Gamoto motor controller into your LabView control panels, or to develop a curriculum or project based on LabView. The library and example files can be found at the bottom of the product description for the gamoto. Be sure to read the readme.txt.
UMass Amherst Nine-Gamoto robot! This research group has been using nine Gamotos to control a balancing robot that must be seen to be believed. Here are some 6153755728 and description of the bal. Our hats off to the UMass team!
Firmware Version 21 Available - Changed behavior of thermal shutdown - now if the H-Bridge reaches thermal shutdown, the LED gets latched, to allow you to see the problem. Previously LED flashed very briefly, causing difficulty when diagnosing the problem.
Firmware Version 20 Available - Minor bug fixes and refactoring of code, memory organization
Firmware Version 19 Available - Fixed bug when ReverseMotor and PowerMode are both active.
Firmware Version 18 Available - This version fixes a bug in the Integral calculations that, in rare cases, caused an overflow in the Integral register. Also changed the gain of the Integral function to give it five times the previous resolution. Customers changing to this version (and later) need to increase their Ki setting by a factor of five to maintain the same gains.
Firmware Version 17 Available - This version adds a "ReverseMotor" bit that allows you to reverse the standard "forward" direction of the motor. It's a lot easier than swapping wires around, and necessary in some cases where the hookup is fixed with respect to the feedback pot.
Firmware Version 16 Available - This version adds a 'streaming' mode that allows streaming position commands to up to eight controllers with one single command packet. It saves having to wait for an individual response from each controller. Our beta tester says, "The changes seem to work perfectly. We've increased our servo rate (updating a serial bus with 5 Gamotos on it) from 2Hz to over 300Hz! Thanks for making the changes!" Also in this version, an option to reverse the "positive" motor direction and save it to flash. This allows you to keep your motor wiring polarity the same, and change some or all of your motors to turn the opposite direction.
New Code examples added for C++, and BasicX At the bottom of the Gamoto product description, check out links to a couple new example code snippets for controlling the Gamoto. The C++ example is a Gamoto class written in Visual C++ 6.0, but the code could be easily ported to other C++ or C environments. And thanks to a customer who posted the BasicX code on the Gamoto user group!
Gamoto Firmware Version 15 Available - Latest version adds multiple steps per step pulse when using the step/direction inputs (simulating a stepper motor controller). Also some important bug fixes for older versions, with regard to negative positions and trajectory behavior.
New Atmel Project Board - We're pleased to announce that we have
recently added the excellent MAVRIC-IIB
development/project board to our stock. This is such a great board - it manages
to squeeze every possible option of the rich ATmega128 into an extremely small
package. We're going to start using this board to run verification tests on the
Firmware Version 13 Available - This
new version add lots of new features. Version 12 added Step & Direction
Pulse Inputs, to allow the Gamoto to act like a stepper motor driver.
Great for CNC applications! It also adds new high-speed 115,200 baud rate, for
extremely high speed data collection/control/monitoring. Analog feedback has
also been added - this routes analog channel 1 to the mPosition register, allowing
you to use a potentiometer in place of quadrature encoders. Version 13 adds
R/C (Remote Control) Pulse Input ability, which makes it super
simple to convert any DC motor to a remote controlled servo. Standard R/C pulses
(0-3ms wide) are converted to a position setpoint via a customizable scaling
formula. Works well with the Analog Feedback feature, to convert a motor + potentiometer
into a powerful servo. Requires the latest version of MotoView.
MotoView 1.0.15 Released - This latest version of MotoView
supports the new version 13 features. MotoView can be downloaded from
the link at the bottom of the Gamoto product description page.
MotoView 1.0.12 Released - This latest version of MotoView
supports the version 10 SerialShare enable bit. MotoView can be downloaded from
the link at the bottom of the Gamoto product description page.
Gamoto Firmware Version 10 Released - This latest version
adds a new option to share the serial port. It allows you to string together
up to 8 Gamotos on the same serial TX, RX lines, without having to use any special
hardware. A single pullup resistor (~10K) is recommended if your host MCU or
transceiver doesn't have one. When the Gamoto is not transmitting, it frees
the TX line, allowing others to communicate. Also in this version, some minor
bugs in the trajectory routines have been fixed. Serial sharing requires MotoView
1.0.12 or greater.
New product added - The Atmel development / project board,
the Mavric-IIB
board from BDMICRO is now part of our product line. We're excited to
carry these boards that are a favorite in the Atmel development and robotics
community. Use one for your next project!
MotoView 1.0.11 Released - The latest version of MotoView
adds a communication logger, allowing you to view the data sent to and received
from the Gamoto while running the MotoView software. This is a big help in learning
how the Gamoto serial protocol works. Just open the Communication->Logging
window, then open any other windows and the communication will be logged. This
version also supports the latest firmware features, through version 9, and fixes
a bug in MotoView 1.0.10. MotoView can be downloaded from the link at the bottom
of the Gamoto product description page.
Canadian team takes 2nd Place with Gamoto! The students of Sherbrooke University in Quebec
recently took second place in this 562-633-7131
using two Gamoto boards driving their wheels, and navigating the maze using dead reckoning.
The contest is called "Cahier de la Machine."
Here's a copy of their final report (in French),
and a photo of their robot. The entire
267-704-3046 should be proud!
Version 9 Released (03-April-2005): Version 9 firmware for the Gamoto
adds two new commands (SetHome and Reset) and one new mode (MotionDone Enable),
plus a performance improvement for I2C access. Now no matter how much I2C traffic
there is on the bus or to/from the Gamoto, the motion trajectories will remain
smooth and unaffected. A hardware interrupt output was added, to signal your
system when a trajectory is complete. Check out the latest version of the user
manuals for complete details of the update. To upgrade your Gamoto, please send
an e-mail to sales @ gamatronix.com.
Trinity Fire-Fighting Robot: We posted a nice example of a fire-fighting
robot in progress that is using the Gamoto motor controllers. This site shows
details of construction, and includes a video of the robot navigating the entire
maze. Check it out at Randys
Robot Site.
Student wins Third with Gamotos: Check out the 3rd place finisher from
the 2004 Trinity contest, powered by two Gamotos and two Handy Crickets. Some
pictures are available here,
and at tremblingcricket.com
Another UMass Lowell student project also uses the Gamoto. A rythmic pendulum
that lets the user adjust speed and frequency. Click 4083707029
to see a picture and description.
Version 7 Released: Version 7 firmware for the Gamoto adds RS-485 functionality
by including the Gamoto address in the serial protocol. By adding an RS-485
transceiver to the Gamoto, you can connect up to 8 Gamotos on a single serial
Gamatronix in the news: The March 2004 Nuts and Volts ran an article
on the Gamoto! It ran in the New Product News section. Just in case you missed
it, we have posted a copy of the
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DARA BioSciences to Raise $2.8 Million Pursuant to Securities Purchase Agreement
DARA BioSciences to Raise $2.8 Million Pursuant to Securities Purchase Agreement
Funds Earmarked for Soltamox Commercial Activities, Gelclair Launch and Working Capital
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- DARA BioSciences, Inc. (NAS: DARA) (the "Company" or "DARA") announced that it entered into a definitive securities purchase agreement with certain investors providing for the issuance of $2,800,000 of shares of Series B-3 and Series B-4 convertible preferred stock (convertible into a combined total of 3,684,210 shares of common stock), two and one half year warrants to purchase up to 1,842,105 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $1.05 and five and one half year warrants to purchase up to 1,842,105 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $1.05. None of the warrants are exercisable for six months from the initial issuance date. The Series B-3 and Series B-4 convertible preferred stock is convertible at any time into shares of common stock at an initial conversion price of $0.76 per share.
David J. Drutz, M.D., Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We are pleased to have consummated this financing, which will provide additional capital for the commercial activities related to Soltamox®, our FDA-approved treatment for breast cancer, and for Gelclair, our FDA-cleared product for the treatment of oral mucositis, which we expect to launch in the first quarter of 2013. Funds will also be used for general corporate purposes. We expect that with this additional funding we will have enough cash to effectively execute our commercial plan and believe that this raise will alleviate our needs for additional financing in 2013."
Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., Inc., a subsidiary of Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. (NYSE AMEX:LTS), acted as the exclusive placement agent for this transaction.
The closing of the sale of the securities is expected to take place on or about December 31, 2012, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
The shares of Series B-3 preferred stock described above were offered pursuant to a shelf registration statement (File No. 333-173098), which was declared effective by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on April 19, 2011. The shares of Series B-4 preferred stock and warrants described above have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Act"), and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration with the SEC or an applicable exemption from such registration requirements. The Company has agreed to file one or more registration statements with the SEC covering the resale of the shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of or in connection with the Series B-4 preferred stock and upon exercise of the warrants. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities described herein, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. When filed with the SEC, copies of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying base prospectus relating to this offering may be obtained at the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov or by request at Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., Inc, 4400 Biscayne Blvd., 14th Floor, Miami, Florida 33137.
About DARA BioSciences, Inc.
DARA is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of oncology treatment and supportive care products. DARA has comprehensive commercial coverage across the national oncology market through a series of agreements with a number of specialty pharmacy providers, leading group purchasing organizations (GPOs), retail partners, reimbursement experts, and an industry-leading third-party logistics provider. As part of an integrated national network with annual sales of over $1 billion in cancer therapeutics, DARA has significant commercial scale and capabilities. Its distribution network consists of more than 45,000 retail pharmacies, mail order pharmacies, and long-term care facilities. This provides DARA with established reimbursement and logistics expertise, as well as partnering opportunities with more than 300 sales and marketing personnel uniquely focused on oncology and oncology support products. This comprehensive network of partners is rare if not unique among companies in the oncology supportive care area and provides DARA a strong foundation for product introductions into this underserved market.
DARA increased its focus in oncology through its January 2012 acquisition of Oncogenerix, Inc., which holds the exclusive U.S. marketing rights to Soltamox®, a novel oral liquid formulation of tamoxifen citrate, which is widely used in the treatment and prevention of breast cancer. Soltamox is the only FDA-approved oral liquid version of tamoxifen citrate and fulfills a vital clinical need for patients who cannot tolerate existing solid tablet formulations of this drug. DARA launched Soltamox in October 2012 to coincide with National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. DARA has exclusive U.S. rights to Soltamox through a license from Rosemont Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. Additionally, in June 2012, DARA launched its first product, Bionect®, a topical treatment for skin irritation and burns associated with radiation therapy. DARA has rights to market Bionect in the US oncology/radiology markets under license from Innocutis. In September 2012, DARA entered into an exclusive agreement with the Helsinn Group of Switzerland for U.S. commercial rights to Gelclair®, an FDA-cleared product for the treatment of oral mucositis. DARA plans to launch Gelclair in the first quarter of 2013.
Prior to acquiring Oncogenerix, DARA was focused on the development of a cancer-support therapeutic compound, KRN5500, for the treatment of neuropathic pain in patients with cancer. This product is an excellent fit with DARA's strategic oncology focus, has successfully completed a Phase 2a clinical trial, and has been designated a Fast Track Drug by the FDA. DARA is working with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to design an additional clinical trial under joint DARA-NCI auspices while continuing further Phase 2 development. DARA has submitted an Orphan Drug Application to the FDA for KRN5500.
In addition to its oncology products, DARA's pipeline includes DB959, a novel, non-TZD dual delta/gamma PPAR agonist for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and dyslipidemia. DARA has completed Phase 1 testing of DB959 and is presently pursuing opportunities to out-license this product.
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All statements in this news release that are not historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such forward-looking statements are subject to factors that could cause actual results to differ materially for DARA from those projected. Those factors include risks and uncertainties relating to DARA's ability to timely commercialize and generate revenues or profits from Bionect®, Soltamox®, Gelclair®or other products given that DARA only recently hired its initial sales force and DARA's lack of history as a revenue-generating company, FDA and other regulatory risks relating to DARA's ability to market Bionect®, Soltamox®, Gelclair®or other products in the U.S. or elsewhere, DARA's ability to develop and bring new products to market as anticipated, DARA's current cash position and its need to raise additional capital in order to be able to continue to fund its operations, the current regulatory environment in which DARA develops and sells its products, the market acceptance of those products, dependence on partners, successful performance under collaborative and other commercial agreements, competition, the strength of DARA's intellectual property and the intellectual property of others, the potential delisting of DARA's common stock from the NASDAQ Capital Market, risks and uncertainties relating to DARA's ability to successfully integrate Oncogenerix and other risk factors identified in the documents DARA has filed, or will file, with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). Copies of DARA's filings with the SEC may be obtained from the SEC Internet site athttp://www.sec.gov. DARA expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in DARA's expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which any such statements are based. DARA BioSciences and the DARA logo are trademarks of DARA BioSciences, Inc.
Contact for DARA BioSciences, Inc.:
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Scott Wilfong, 425-242-0891
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Stare at a blank sheet of paper smeared with ink, and you might detect a specific image. But show that same sheet of paper to someone else, and there is a good chance they will see a different image. Of course a psychologist will tell you that the Rorschach test tells us more about the viewers than the sheet of paper.
In many ways, the study of nutrition is similar. All that is needed is a few moments looking at various search engine results about diet and nutrition to see there are widely differing views on the best ways to eat. Add on top of this, the confusion that government agencies and industry lobbyists create, and suddenly it becomes clear why so many people view that ink stained paper in so many different ways.
However, I believe a consensus is slowly starting to form, and a specific image is becoming increasingly transparent to an increasing number of people. The consensus is, of course, in favor of a plant-based diet.
I know of no other diet, because not a single study exists, which can scientifically be shown to reverse heart disease, other than a plant-based diet. Increasingly, the leading experts on cancer are finding the benefits overwhelming as well, as evidenced by the recently statements made by the World Health Organization.
As we enter a new year, and as I enter my 9th year as a plant-based vegan, I can firmly state that the tide of the evidence for a plant-based diet is growing. And I believe that 2016 will only further support such a healthful message.
As we begin this year together, I remain optimistic, and I invite you all to join me on this journey as we move every away from the wilderness, and closer to living with longevity, intention, and peace.
Today's recipe is called Papas de Navidad (or Christmas potatoes) because I made this dish for M when she got home from her 24-hour shift on Christmas day morning. This is a sweet and savory dish.
I chose to make this dish this Christmas because while we were spending our first Christmas living together, we were both away from our families, and while it is summer here, I'm told that traditional Argentine Christmas dishes tend to mimic the dishes of bewintered North America. As such, this dish incorporates some flavors of the North East, by using maple syrup, an ingredient which we brought to Argentina with us from New York when we moved, making it an extra special dish.
Papas de Navidad | Breakfast Potatoes
4 potatoes - cubed
2 large tomatoes or a handful of cherry tomatoes – cubed or halved
1 medium onion – chopped
1 small head broccoli – chopped
1.5 tablespoons maple syrup – save to the end
2 cloves of garlic – diced (Or 1 teaspoon of garlic powder)
1 teaspoon cumin
½ teaspoon turmeric
¼ teaspoon rosemary
¼ teaspoon oregano
As mentioned below,* I pre-boiled my potatoes for about 15 minutes until they became soft to pierce with a fork. While the potatoes are boiling, prepare the remaining vegetables. Once all of the veggies are prepared, toss them in a oven safe container (I like to use cast iron for this dish, as it adds a real country flavor to the vegetables) and generously spread the spices evenly throughout.**
Now cover the vegetables with tin foil and place into the oven on 350°. If you pre-boiled the potatoes as suggested, cook for an additional 15-20 minutes, depending on how browned you like your potatoes.
Once done, drizzle the vegetables with maple syrup. I served the dish with a large bunch of steamed kale and dried cranberries, which we also drizzled with maple syrup (don't knock it until you try it).
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season!
Feliz Ano Nuevo!
*I prepared the potatoes the night previously to help reduce the overall cook time by boiling them until almost soft.
** Pro Tip – Put the veggies and spices in a large container with a lid and shake the container for 10 seconds until the spices fully coat the veggies.
As always the information presented in this blog is for educational purposes only. It should not be considered as specific medical, nutritional, lifestyle, or other health-related advice.


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WEINIG Conturex SYSTEM - dual-track: System solution with a unique selling proposition
Production with the Conturex means complete processing of window and door components in a single clamping. A prerequisite for this is patented clamping table technology. Regardless of the expansion level or investment volume, every system that leaves the Tauberbischofsheim plant has this CNC-controlled workpiece guidance via which a workpiece, once positioned, can be held in the same position for the duration of processing.
Weinig has expanded its Conturex philosophy into a modular concept. Tables, portals, assemblies, tool magazines and mechanization in the most diverse combinations allow the construction of highly complex systems.. Also included is the entire periphery of window production with automation elements, from the unmachined parts warehouse and moulders to the cutting systems.
Our extensive expertise across the entire window production process created the challenge of networking all components with each other to create maximum efficiency in the production process. Consequently, WEINIG has also developed a suitable modular control concept that ensures complete compatibility of hardware and software.
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The price of a WEINIG machine is just as individual as your requirements are. Therefore, let us discuss briefly what is most important to you – you will then receive our preliminary, non-binding quote.
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Together with your WEINIG expert you will find the ideal machine for your requirements. Simply submit the completed form, and your local WEINIG expert will be happy to discuss all further details with you.
The WEINIG Conturex SYSTEM technology offers you
- Networking of individual production steps based upon proven Conturex technology
- Everything from a single source. WEINIG - Your partner in solid wood processing
- Customized complete solutions for optimal profitability and quality
What does Weinig Conturex SYSTEM offer you?
- Processing without processing times even for small lot sizes
- Flexibility and enhanced performance via the new Vario-PowerGrip clamping table
- Modularity of the units
- Energy feedback modules means savings in energy
Technical Details
WEINIG - Your partner in solid wood
With professional project management, WEINIG creates the basis for perfect implementation of a project for our customers.
Safety – sound insulation – dust protection
The visuals and design of the Conturex reflect the state-of-the-art technology inside it. The elaborate full paneling concept takes consistent account of the high performance. The result is an exemplary safety standard while also setting benchmarks in sound insulation and dust protection.
The controlled extraction directly at the workpiece and the tool is a unique selling proposition. This works without expensive chip removal technology and requires minimal maintenance.
Options for extension
Everything in hand
Maximum production depth is indispensable for Swiss window manufacturer Adi von Euw to maintain high-quality manufacturing. However, this only requires a small team since the degree of automation in the operation is enormous.
Adi von Euw wanted direct access to all stages of production of his high-quality windows. That is why every process stage from raw materials storage to surface treatment has been relocated to the Rothenthurm factory. This also includes metal processing for the company's own wood/aluminum systems. At the same time, the Managing Director has consistently driven forward the development of operations towards maximum productivity. As the variety of profiles in the market has expanded, we have had to adapt our technology accordingly. "The Conturex concept immediately fascinated me," says Adi von Euw. The highly productive system with complete processing of even complex profiles in a single clamping enables switching from one order to another with no changeover. The system is also based upon a modular concept that enables customized solutions for every requirement. Von Euw's tripartite Conturex system comprises 6 portals. Processing is performed on two tracks in parallel, which are equipped with 16 tables. Four of these supply the processing units alternately with window parts. Profile splitting with one and the same tool configuration ensures a high throughfeed, which can also seamlessly accommodate immersion functions. The system produces Von Euw's entire product spectrum. This includes round arch production, angled assembly of window and lift-slide door elements as well as angled window constructions with angles of ± 75 degrees. The required 2 parts per minute can be processed effortlessly. "In principle, the concept even enables performance of more than 3 parts per minute," says WEINIG window expert Dieter van Dyck. The fully-automated system delivers this high output with one-man operation and in excellent quality. "We can fulfill almost any customer request with little effort," says Adi von Euw.
A meeting of quality fanatics (left to right): Fredy Dormann (WEINIG Holz-Her Schweiz), Klaus Müller (WEINIG Head of Marketing and Communication), Adi von Euw (Managing Director of Von Euw Fenster AG) and Dieter van Dyck (WEINIG Sales and Project Director)
"I never want to handle another workpiece manually"
Optimal automation is the stated objective of French window manufacturer Bader. Managing Director Patrick Kaltenbacher had correspondingly clear visions for his new production equipment.
As a qualified mechanical engineer, competitive quality and cost reduction are priorities for Patrick Kaltenbacher. Since taking the helm of the company in 2002, he has had one particular objective – unstaffed production. "I will be happy when we never have to handle another workpiece," says Patrick Kaltenbacher.
At the Messe Basel trade fair, he came across the WEINIG Conturex CNC processing center. Complete processing with milling, drilling and profiling of external notches in a single pass came very close to his vision of perfect production. However, he also wanted to incorporate warehouse logistics into the process. The WEINIG technicians configured the a portal charging system with vacuum suction for the Bader workshop. The systems takes the raw scantling from the stack and feeds it to the infeed mechanization of the cross-cut saw. A further request was the integration of glazing bead production into the overall process. This is where the innovative WEINIG glazing bead management came in. The WEINIG Powermat not only processes the scantlings on four sides, it also profiles the glazing beads with ship laps in the same throughfeed. The beads, which are sorted in a special carriage, can then be fed back into the remaining production process in a sorted condition.
The third highlight of the system is the tool cleaning. Tools are fed into the cleaning bath automatically to build-up of debris. This means system downtime. The system has only been running for a matter of months. However, Patrick Kaltenbacher is already full of praise. "It is the system I have wished for."
Englert Fensterbau - success with the WEINIG Conturex Compact
Window production in its 4th generation
Tradition and progress are two decisive elements that confront you at Englert-Fensterbau in Sachsenhausen. On the one hand, the workshop has been in business since 1889 and is now in its 4th generation and successfully managed by master glazier Hubert Englert. On the other hand, the business is growing steadily and is now active in the regional market, with 7 assistance glaziers and an apprentice.
Intelligently networked
In the Conturex CNC center, Weinig offers an established machine concept that can be flexibly tailored to the requirements of window manufacturers – from standardized to highly complex systems. According to an article in trade journal BM, 10.2014 issue:
Östringer Fenster + Türen
Östringer Fenster + Türen: Manufacturing like the big boys
Can small workshops still keep up when it comes to window and door production? Östringer answered this question in its own way: Their highly flexible CNC complete processing line practically dissolves the differences in performance between 'large and small'.
Tischlerei Kolb: Profitable production in a changing market
In the Bonn region, Kolb GmbH is part of the furniture. This is primarily attributable to the firm's interdisciplinary concept. The company adapts its window production precisely to the latest market requirements.
You have to believe in the future
Such was the title of the attached report on window production at Klarer.
Klarer Fenster AG has ordered a new production line. Why this makes sense and what the considerations were is explained by the management themselves.
(Source: website of Klarer Fenster AG, http://www.klarer.ch/home/)
Overnight help
Smooth series production needs a strong partner. Fensterwerk Schröder GmbH took its lessons from a crash.
Shock at Schröder in Hesel, North Germany: A self-inflicted breakdown of the automatic planer paralyzed wooden window production. "At that time Weinig Service helped during the night. That's not something you don't forget" says Manfred Fecht, the Timber Production Manager, remembering the occasion. So when it came to acquiring a modern profiling center, Weinig was at the top of the list. "Meeting deadlines is of primary importance for us. In addition, we needed a fast line which could be used to produce the roughly 40 systems we have with consistently high quality and with minimal manpower", says Hendrik Schröder, explaining their requirements. The Conturex 124 in the 2nd generation was the perfect setup for them. They also invested in a Weinig optimizing cross-cut saw, which is linked up to the Conturex. The positive experience has proved the window specialists right: "I am impressed with the reliability of the line" says the Managing Director today. This is key, because Schröder GmbH makes full use of the Conturex capacity.


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42nd HUMANA FESTIVAL OF NEW AMERICAN PLAYS
February 28 – April 8, 2018
See it First. See it Here.
The Humana Festival of New American Plays Lineup
God Said This
by Leah Nanako Winkler
directed by Morgan Gould
Marginal Loss
by Deborah Stein
directed by Meredith McDonough
Do You Feel Anger?
by Mara Nelson-Greenberg
directed by Margot Bordelon
Evocation to Visible Appearance
by Mark Schultz
directed by Les Waters
commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville
You Across From Me
by Jaclyn Backhaus, Dipika Guha, Brian Otaño and Jason Gray Platt
directed by Jessica Fisch
performed by the actors of the 2017–2018 Professional Training Company
commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville
we, the invisibles
by Susan Soon He Stanton
directed by Dámaso Rodríguez
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Campral isn't designed to "work". It is designed to help serious quitters with withdrawal symptoms. You can drink drink forever and a day on Campral with no ill external effects (but, you will be destroying your liver at an accelerated pace at the same time).
Campral is for people who have quit already; you badly need Antabuse.
Be fair dinkum about the whole thing; I was able to quit in three weeks total after well more than 25 years where I never missed a daily bottle/s once.
Good luck, if I can do it, anyone can.
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Hope you had a wonderful feast of St. Valentine yesterday!
Our family tradition involves flowers, chocolate or candies, and gifts. The guys in the family give the girls flowers. Tom is hoping that by showing the kids how a man should treat a woman, especially in the little things, it will help the girls choose a good husband and show our son how to be a good husband. Anyway, I get lillies, Brittany gets roses, and the little girls are supposed to get mini-carnations. However, since Tom was away on business, he bought the flowers on Saturday, with little girls in tow.
He came back with:
Lillies for me ...
Roses for Britt ...
And for the little girls ...
... well, the little girls suckered him into getting them gifts from the Disney store. What a softie daddy :)
The aprons I was working on did get finished, and they love them. Wore them right till bedtime.
Tested them out making cookies with Auntie.
And we all enjoyed and completely devoured the famous pretzel dots. These are the best.
Enjoy the treats now. Cause you know what's coming next week.


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The company is liquid, with a current ratio of over 4, and has been doing well for a few years now. With a sales drop in FY 15-16, Ashiana Ispat now seems to have turned the tables and has already achieved sales worth Rs 235 Cr in the current financial year.
Listed on the BSE, the stock is currently trading at 28.15 and seems to be a value pick for the near term. Financial metrics and performance metrics of the company reflect sound management policies and strategies which is a key pillar to the growth of a company.


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JOE Walton was the star man for Humbledon & Plains Farm as they overcome title rivals Farringdon ISL with ease.
Chris Winn was back among the goals and Mark Davison notched a double, while Jonny Davis fired the final goal in a 4-0 victory to take Plains Farm to the top of the league and put themselves in pole position in the championship race.
They lead Farringdon by a point and have five games left, to their rivals' four.
The Guide Post gave RCA Grangetown Florists a good game in their own back yard and were unlucky not to come away with all three points.
James Slack scored a brace to get Guide off to a great start. Thompson pulled one back for RCA, but Dan Armstrong extended the lead to 3-clinch a point for Florists.
Ryhope CW local heroes Rogerson and Benson were on hand to overcome a two-goal deficit, deservedly rescuing a precious point in a 2-2 draw with third-top Myers to boost their survival chances. Myers had Sumner and Dugdale on target.
Hylton Castle TWR were thwarted by visitors Sandhills in a close-fought 1-1 draw.
Jordan Monson put Hylton in front, but, late in the second half, Blakelock leveled things for Sandhills, who are battling to beat the drop.
Silksworth Paragon consolidated fourth place with a 2-1 success against SR Dons.
Hopps found the net again with a fine strike, but Dan Emery levelled with a fine goal of his own. The winner was a sublime goal - as a 60-yard pass from Lee Scott found the feet of McMann, who dispatched with ease to sinks Dons, who are not safe from the drop.
Welcome Tavern gave table-topping Vane Arms a bit of a scare, but the home side hit four goals in the final 20 minutes to seal a 5-2 win and inch closer to promotion in Division Two.
McNulty gave Welcome the lead, but Thornton replied. Daz Green came off the bench to restore the visitors' advantage and they were on top until 20 minutes from time.
Vane's gaffer made three telling changes as his men took the game by the scruff of the neck. Adam Wasey levelled with a cheeky effort, then midfield duo Ben Stokoe and Rob Thompson both scored to put Vane 4-2 up then it Bobby Bosanko hit a killer fifth.
Hylton Road Carpets Elite kept up their promotion push, beating Willow Pond 3-1.
Hardy hit the first, followed by Billy Harrison's goal. Julio Arca reduced the deficit with a deft finish, but Elite made sure of the points when Steven Anderson nodded home
Luke Taylor's double gave Oddies a great start as they outgunned Farringdon Detached 7-2.
Eddy Wood also chipped in with a brace, with Hammond and star man Snowdon also netting. Stevens and South rallied Detached, but Davie hit the seventh to finish the rout.
The Royal Marine drew 3-3 with Pennywell Comrades, with sub Anth Maggiore salvaging a point.
Pennywell took the lead with a Johnson strike, but Atchison and Robinson turned the game around. Glenwright and Jenkins then put Comrades in charge, but Maggiore equallised late on.
Mill View CIU scored four goals but still went down to defeat, with Harbour View lethal in front of goal as they secured a 6-4 success, with Muir among their scorers. Moore and a hat-trick from Alhajeri proved not enough for Mill.
Wear United have seen their relegation from Division Three confirmed despite their mini winning streak continuing with a 2-1 victory at Washington Colliery.
Parkin and Musther got the goals for Wear, with Naisbett replying for Colliery, who must win their final game to avoid being in the bottom two.
Anth Rathbone came up trumps with a brace as an emergency striker as champions Hendon enjoyed a 4-2 victory at The Dolphin.
Carrick hit the next for Hendon before Coomber and Martin replied, then Davis came off the bench to add Hendon's fourth.
Jolly Potters, still in with a chance of a top-two finish, are enjoying life at the moment, with the influx of new players doing a world of good for them.
Copeland, Wilson and Lewis Cummings scored as Potters edged a 3-2 win at Ryhope Railway Inn, with Whelam and Machin responding.
In the First Division Subsidiary Cup, Henderson's Butchers have a slender 2-0 advantage against Redhouse Last Orders to take into their semi-final second leg. Carl Old's double proved decisive.
Stewart was given his marching orders for Redhouse, who have it all to do in the return.
The Stackyard won 5-4 on penalties to knock out The Ashbrooke after winning the second leg 2-1 to level the tie 4-4 on aggregate. Hall and Smith grabbed the important goals for Stackyard, with Taylor responding.
South Hylton Potters won 3-1 at Thorney Close Inn, thanks to Greener and Bussey (2).
The Stumble Inn progressed in the Third Division Subsidiary Cup second round, winning 4-3 on penalties against Washington New Tavern.
Down 2-1 from the first leg, Thubron, Antliff and Dodsworth gave Stumble Inn a 3-2 win in the return to level the aggregate scores, with Harrison and Davies replying.
In the Fourth Division Subsidiary Cup, Ashbrooke Sports Club claimed an 11-0 first-leg demolition of Oddfellows Arms.
Turnbull (2), Teasdale, Brown (2), Ridley (3), Collinson (2) and Atkinson did the damage, while Forrest shone for Oddfellows.
Railway Club and GBSC produced an epic 4-4 thriller.
Brannen, Mustard and a brace from Tyzack gave Railway their draw, with New, Whigham (2) and Houghton replying.
Town End Farm RA again showed their class against the Lansdowne, recording a 4-3 away victory over Tom Smith's team. Greener and Devlin both scored braces to give Town End the advantage.
New Town embarrassed Jollies with a 13-1 second-leg win to cruise through on aggregate.
Salicki and Holland both plundered hat-tricks, backed by Hennis, Elliott Clark (2), Foster and three subs Thompson, Winlow and Dobinson.


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Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain
Matthew Carr (New York: New Press, 2009)
The tale of Granada, and its conquest in 1492, has been repeatedly told: the surrender of its keys by its last monarch, Boabdil, to Ferdinand and Isabella; his forlorn departure; his last glimpse upon his former realm from the ridge overlooking the city; and his sigh, último suspiro del moro, the Moor's Last Sigh. For a long time, Granada outwitted fate. Toledo had fallen to the Reconquista in the final years of the eleventh century, the fabled Cordoba's time came in 1236, Valencia's conquest came two years later, Seville's turn was next, in 1248. All that remained had been Granada: the unification of Castile and Aragon had doomed it, and that remnant of the Andalusian world had been living on borrowed time. The Turks had not come to the rescue of Granada, and Boabdil had cut a deal and let it go. In the annals of this much adorned history, Boabdil's mother is said to have taunted him on that ridge on January 2, 1492: "You should weep like a woman for this kingdom you were unable to defend like a man."
But there is another Moorish tale that has not had its share of storytellers and romance: the wholesale expulsion of the Moriscos (the Muslims who stayed behind and converted to Christianity), which began in 1609 and played out over a five-year period, driven by a relentless quest for "purity." By the time that drive had ended, some three hundred and fifty thousand men, women, and children had been rounded up, uprooted from their world, and dispatched to North Africa.
Matthew Carr, a British journalist, has come forth with a splendid narrative of that history. He has retrieved for us the passionate obsession with the Moriscos that ate at Spain, the unhappy accident of a hapless Habsburg monarch, Philip III, who knew little about his realm but sought renown for himself in Christendom by "purging" Spain of the descendants of its Muslims. The Moriscos were all baptized, they gave every evidence of their devotion to their new faith, but the Holy Office of the Inquisition, and the monarch and rapacious courtiers and priests, eager for the savings and possessions of the Moriscos, knew no rest.
Spain had begun to falter in the closing years of the preceding century: the excitement of the voyages of discovery in the New World had faded. Disappointment and a sense of failure now suffused Spanish life. By then the Spanish had suffered the defeat of the Armada in 1588; the Spanish war against the forces of international Protestantism had ended in stalemate and frustration. Castile's economy, which had been sustained by gold and silver bullion from the New World, had fallen on hard times. The gentry ( hidalgos ) were embittered; hunger had become a fact of Spanish life, and even the upper orders were not spared adversity as they scrambled for crumbs of bread and favors from the Royal Court. In Carr's apt summation, the early seventeenth century "was a period of acute social distress for much of the Spanish population. These were years of hunger and famine, and poor harvest, of price rises and high taxation. . . . Between 1599 and 1600, Spain was affected by a devastating outbreak of bubonic plague, which killed an estimated six hundred thousand people."
The Moriscos had been subdued. They were a vulnerable lot, cultivators and silkworm breeders, small artisans, farmers who worked the land of the aristocracy. Islam had been overwhelmed in Spain, but the phantom of an Islamic return was never slain. There was a struggle in the Mediterranean between Spain and the Ottoman Empire, and the humble Moriscos, trying to stay out of harm's way, were seen as potential traitors to the realm who would aid the Turks and the forces of Barbary in a campaign to restore Islamic dominion. Prophecies abounded and fed that fear. A bigoted but influential functionary of the Church, Archbishop Juan de Ribera, in Valencia (a third of its population were Moriscos), was a vengeful agitator. Not for Ribera were the Moriscos' professions of devotion to Catholicism. Those were Moors, he believed, like their kinsmen across the Strait of Gibraltar, "heretics and traitors to the Royal Crown." Their presence in the land, Ribera argued, was to blame for the loss of divine favor, for the failure of that "enterprise of England," and for the setbacks of Spain in its struggle with the forces of international Protestantism in northern Europe.
There was a cruel irony to Spain's place in Christendom: Here was the realm of the "Most Catholic Sovereigns," the land of militant Christendom, but Christian rivals to its north taunted Spain about the Moorish presence, and the Moorish blood, and the Moorish stain. Spain had cast out its Jews, she had gone wholesale in rooting out the conversos , the Jewish converts to Christianity, banished them from the professions and the economy—and the ranks of the clergy. Limpieza de sangre , purity of blood, had become the realm's passion and creed.
A consensus crystallized that it was idle to try to assimilate the Moriscos. To be sure, there was a minority—landholders with a vested interest in the diligent labor of the Moriscos, some enlightened men of the Church who believed that the Moriscos were "new plants" to be gently nurtured. Assimilation could work, this minority argued, and Spain could incorporate the Moriscos as Rome incorporated outsiders. But the prevailing view was that of Ribera, who saw the Moriscos as "wizened trees, full of knots of heresy," that were best pulled up by the roots. They were "a cursed and pernicious seed," he said. There were perfectly respectable men speaking openly now of the extermination of the Moriscos. The dreaded thought had a purpose. As Carr rightly observes, "The argument that the Moriscos 'deserved' death for their religious transgressions was often used to present expulsion as a magnanimous alternative."
The "heretics" were difficult to convert: there were radical proposals for casting the Moriscos adrift in ships and scuttling them. The monarch could affect a posture of wisdom and prudence. "If they can be expelled with good conscience, I think it is the most convenient, easiest, and swiftest course."
"O n the morning of September 24, 1609, town criers in the city of Valencia proclaimed the decree of expulsion to a fanfare of drums, horns, and trumpets," Carr writes. "In it Philip accused the entire Morisco population of Valencia of heresy, apostasy, and 'divine and human lèse-majesté ' and announced his intention to expel them to Barbary in order to ensure the 'conservation and security' of his realm." Spain was done with the "equivocation." Carr is particularly good at depicting the cruelty of expulsion. Many died of hunger and exhaustion, children were separated from their parents, countless people left their children with local Christians. Some defiance and perhaps some exaggerated joy punctuated the calamity. There were two or three incidents where Moriscos "danced on the beach to the sound of lutes and tambourines." There were others who came to the ships clapping and singing the songs of their suppressed culture. A Morisco or two could offer the consoling thought that the North Africa that awaited them was a "land of plenty," a place where gold and fine silver are "found from one mountain to the next." These themes, Carr reminds us, figure prominently in the literature of the defenders of the expulsion. The real history was the violence it took to dispossess and banish a huge population. There were the privateers on whose ships the defenseless passengers were robbed of their possessions, and then thrown overboard. And there were the children kidnapped and sold into slavery. Some had refused to go peacefully. An estimated twenty thousand Moriscos took refuge in the sierra of the Laguar Valley and elected a "king" to lead them. But the odds against them were overwhelming: for all the paranoia about Morisco sedition and hidden caches of weapons and secret militias, the Moriscos were doomed. Their pursuers were crack troops eager for loot and murder.
Valencia had been a case apart. The expulsion had begun there, where the Moriscos lived apart from the old Christians. But the edict of expulsion was always meant to extend to the rest of Spain: the Crown had been shy and evasive, but other parts of the realm read the wind. In Castile, La Mancha, Murcia, and Andalusia, the Moriscos were virtually indistinguishable from their neighbors. They regarded themselves as Christians, and were viewed as such by the secular and religious authorities. From Murcia, the city council wrote to the Court pleading for their own. "They were born and bred in this city and would be offended to be taken for descendents of New Christians. . . . We regard them as such faithful and loyal vassals of the Royal Crown that we would regard it as astounding and incredible to find anything in them to the contrary." From Granada, Church officials wrote to Philip, reminding him that "our Holy Mother protects those who have erred," and counseled him to find "a more gentle remedy with more hesitation and time." From Seville came a Church report that the Moriscos were "like old Christians in language, dress and acts of religion." Little more than a century earlier, the Iberian world was more tolerant, Carr rightly observes. Ferdinand and Isabella had offered the Jews the choice between exile and conversion. Now the ground had shifted: it was blood—unchanging, a curse for the ages—that sealed the fate of men.
The machinery of expulsion was at work and was readied for Catalonia and Aragon as well. The apologists put the word out that the expulsion from Valencia had been a great and successful prelude for the cleansing of the realm. One radical "expulsionist" wrote that the deed had met with divine approval, that there had been fair winds and good weather to facilitate the journey of the ships to North Africa, and that trees and harvest crops had sprouted up in the kingdom since the departure of the Moriscos. Philip and his courtiers could not make up their minds about the Morisquillos, the little Morisco children. They couldn't be sure if these children could yet carry "the memory of their sect into adulthood." If left in the realm they could yet re-infect it, the priests feared. On the other hand, there were some who believed that a good Christian education might save these children and see them to the proper faith. Philip found the solution: Morisco children who stayed behind would be brought up by old Christian families until they reached the age of twelve. They would then repay these families with labor for an undetermined number of years. A form of slavery awaited these children.
T he Moors had been banished, Muslim bathhouses and mosques had been destroyed. But still Islam would remain like an apparition, making furtive appearances in Spain. Cervantes gives Ricote, an old Morisco, a chance to return to his native land, disguised amidst a band of German travelers. Ricote was a man of Castile and spoke pure Castilian. He had yearned for his country, yet he found some acceptance of the fate that befell him. "It was not safe," he is made to say, "for Spain to nurse the serpent in its bosom." Banishment and distance had not dimmed his love for Spain: "Wherever in the world we are, we weep for Spain, for after all, there we were born and it is our fatherland. Nowhere can we find the compassion that our misfortunes crave; in the Barbary and other parts of Africa, where we expected to be welcomed and cherished, it is there where they treat us with the greatest inhumanity. We did not know our happiness until we had lost it."
The absolution offered Spain by Ricote puts Cervantes in the mainstream of Spanish opinion. (The first part of Don Quixote had been published in 1605, the second in 1615; Cervantes was thus a witness to this history.) After all, Cervantes himself had lost the use of his left hand in the great sea battle of Lepanto between the Spanish and Ottoman navies; he had spent five years in a prison in Algiers. There was no love lost for the Moors in Cervantes. Where Cervantes, via Ricote, is right is on the cruel fate that awaited the Moriscos in North Africa. Muslims in a Christian land, they were now Christians and infidels in Muslim lands.
It did not take long for the enthusiasm occasioned by the expulsion to give way to indifference and disillusionment. The sycophants had hailed Philip as the "last and ultimate conqueror of the Moors of Spain." The monarch himself had claimed that it was "divine providence" that had given him the firmness and the vision to see the deed through. But the "giddy expectation of national regeneration," Carr writes, "would be swiftly forgotten, as Spain continued to experience an inexorable decline that was in many ways as spectacular as its rise to power." Revisionism soon reared its head. It had been wrong, the second-guessers now opined, to have banished the Jews and the Moors. It would have been the better part of wisdom to grant the Moriscos "some honor without marking them with infamy," one prominent chaplain now thought. The Moriscos might have come into the "temple of virtue" had they been shown leniency and regard. Philip's own son and successor, Philip IV, a year after his father's death, officially recognized the "great harm caused by the expulsion." The Count-Duke of Olivares, the great figure who dominated the politics of Spain and its empire in the 1620s and 1630s, would proclaim that the laws of the limpieza de sangre were "contrary to divine law, natural law, and the law of nations."
For the Moriscos, home would be hard to shake off. The exiles put together new lives in North Africa, Egypt, Lebanon, the Balkans. "The exiles tended to pursue the same occupations in their adopted countries that they had practiced in Spain," Carr writes. "Some worked the land, others were craftsmen and artisans, adapting their skills to local needs or introducing innovations of their own." In the way of exiles, as best they could, they would attempt to recreate the culture and vegetation of the Valencian plain and the splendor of the Granadan vega.
O n March 11, 2004, Madrid would be visited by the furies of the Islamic world. In the morning rush hour, ten bombs tore through four commuter trains. One hundred and ninety-one people were killed, some two thousand wounded. This was the deadliest terror attack in Europe since the Second World War, and it was the work of al-Qaeda. "This is part of settling old accounts with Spain, the Crusader, the American ally in its war against Islam," read a letter sent to a London-based Arabic daily. History hadn't gone away, and peace hadn't come between Spain and its Muslim neighbors across the Strait of Gibraltar. Spain had rid itself of its Muslims, or so its people thought. Some four centuries later, a new Muslim presence would put down roots in the Iberian Peninsula.
The newcomers were not Moors battering the Visigoths. This encounter was made of different material. The Muslims were now drifters and desperate young men outgrowing their crowded homelands and looking for a way out, and bands of militants and terrorists. But it would be banal and wishful thinking to believe that history does not hover over this new encounter, that Spaniards and Muslims alike are not given to a thought or two about what had played out between these two peoples in a blood-soaked time when the Iberian soil was the subject and the prize of a merciless struggle.
Fouad Ajami is a professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the author of The Foreigner's Gift.


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February was a very inspirational month for me this year. I am happily in love, but I have always LOVED valentines day. Here are a few things I made this month to celebrate love.
Tissue paper heart candle holders inspired by pinterest. I got the tissue paper at the dollar store and the candle holders at Michaels. Over all, this cost me about $12.00. Not too bad in my opinion.
This one was all my idea. I bought the stickers at Michaels and just saved a few wine bottles. My tip for this project is to soak your wine bottles for a long, long, long time in order to get the labels off.
This one was also inspired by pinterest (craftaholicsanonymous). The canvas is an old top to an ikea coffee table. For the letters I bought some thick scrap book paper and used the die cut machine at my work to get the perfect X's and O's. After I got the letters but I simply glued them onto the piece of wood. I used tacky glue.
This is another project inspired by pinterest. I used a deck of cards to make an extra special valentine for my sweetheart. I put a different reason I love my boyfriend, Colin on each card. This project was a little tedious since I decided to mod podge each reason onto each card. If you wanted, i'm sure it would be cute to just write the reason on each card.


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1943 in the United States
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Timeline of United States history
Events from the year 1943 in the United States.
Federal Government
- President: Franklin D. Roosevelt (D-New York)
- Vice President: Henry A. Wallace (D-Iowa)
- Chief Justice: Harlan F. Stone (originally now residing in from of the U.S. state of New York)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Sam Rayburn (D-Texas)
- Senate Majority Leader: Alben W. Barkley (D-Kentucky)
- Congress: 77th (until January 3), 78th (starting January 3)
- January 4 – Culbert Olson, 29th Governor of California, is succeeded by Earl Warren.
- January 11 – The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China.
- January 14 – The Casablanca Conference, where Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II).
- January 15 – The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
- January 23
- Duke Ellington plays at New York City's Carnegie Hall for the first time.
- Critic and commentator Alexander Woollcott suffers an eventually fatal heart attack during a regular broadcast of the CBS Radio roundtable program "People's Platform".
- February 3 – The legendary Four Chaplains of the U.S. Army are drowned, when their ship (Dorchester) is struck by a German torpedo.
- February 5 – Howard Hughes's Western The Outlaw, starring Jane Russell, is released for a week prior to Motion Picture Production Code censors requiring its withdrawal from distribution.
- February 7 – WWII: It is announced that shoe rationing will go into effect in the US in two days.
- February 8 – WWII – Battle of Guadalcanal: United States forces defeat Japanese troops.
- February 11 – General Dwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the Allied armies in Europe.
- February 14 – Battle of the Kasserine Pass: German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia; it is the United States' first major battle defeat of the war.
- February 20 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
- February 27 – The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
- March 2 – WWII: Battle of the Bismarck Sea – United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
- March 4 – The 15th Academy Awards ceremony is held in Los Angeles.
- March 8 – WWII: American forces are attacked by Japanese troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville, in a battle that lasts five days.
- March 13 – WWII: On Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700.
- March 26 – WWII – Battle of the Komandorski Islands: In the Aleutian Islands, the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese troops attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
- March 31 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! opens on Broadway, heralds a new era in "integrated" stage musicals, becomes an instantaneous stage classic, and goes on to be Broadway's longest-running musical up to that time (1948).
- April 13 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birthday. The bronze statue is added in 1947.
- April 27 – The U.S. Federal Writers' Project is shuttered.
- May 11 – WWII: American troops invade Attu in the Aleutian Islands, in an attempt to expel occupying Japanese forces.
- May 12 – The Trident Conference begins in Washington, D.C., with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill taking part.
- May 17
- The United States Army contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the computer ENIAC.
- The Memphis Belle becomes the first airplane in the 8th Air Force to complete a 25-mission tour of duty.
- May 19 – Winston Churchill addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
- May 31 – The Zoot Suit Riots erupt between military personnel and Mexican American youths in East Los Angeles.
- June 22 – The U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division lands in North Africa, prior to training at Arzew, French Morocco.
- July 6 – WWII: Americans and Japanese fight the Battle of Kula Gulf off Kolombangara.
- July 10 – WWII – Allied invasion of Sicily: The Allied invasion of Axis-controlled Europe begins with landings on the island of Sicily off mainland Italy, by the U.S. Army 45th Infantry Division and a number of Allied paratroopers.
- July 11 – United States Army forces assault the village of Piano Lupo, just outside Gela, Sicily.
- July 24 – WWII: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian airplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
- August 1 – Operation Tidal Wave: 177 B-24 Liberator bombers from the U.S. Army Air Force bomb oil refineries at Ploieşti, Romania.
- August 3 – WWII: John F. Kennedy's PT-109 is rammed by a destroyer.
- August 5 – WWII: John F. Kennedy and crew are found by Solomon Islanders coastwatchers Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana with their dugout canoe.
- August 6 – WWII – Battle of Vella Gulf: Americans defeat a Japanese convoy off Kolombangara, as the U.S. Army drives the Japanese out of Munda airfield on New Georgia.
- August 14 – The Quadrant Conference begins in Quebec City; Canadian Prime Minister MacKenzie King meets with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- August 16 – WWII: The USS Intrepid is commissioned.
- August 17 – WWII: The US 7th Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Sicily, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of [[Sicily]cbn].
- September 5 – WWII: The 503rd Parachute Regiment under American General Douglas MacArthur lands and occupies Nadzab, just east of the port city of Lae in northeastern Papua New Guinea.
- September 7 – A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.
- September 8 – United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the surrender of Italy to the Allies.
- October 1 – WWII: American forces enter liberated Naples.
- October 6 – WWII: Americans and Japanese fight the naval Battle of Vella Lavella.
- October 28 – The alleged date of the Philadelphia Experiment, in which the U.S. destroyer escort USS Eldridge was to be rendered invisible to human observers for a brief period.
- October 30 – The Merrie Melodies animated short Falling Hare, one of the few shorts with Bugs getting out-smarted, is released in the United States.
- November 1 – WWII – Operation Goodtime: United States Marines land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
- November 2 – WWII: In the early morning hours, American and Japanese ships fight the inconclusive Battle of Empress Augusta Bay off Bougainville.
- November 14 – Leonard Bernstein, substituting at the last minute for ailing principal conductor Bruno Walter, directs the New York Philharmonic in its regular Sunday afternoon broadcast concert over CBS Radio. The event receives front page coverage in the New York Times the following day.
- November 16
- WWII: After flying from Britain, 160 American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
- WWII: A Japanese submarine sinks the surfaced U.S. submarine USS Corvina near Truk.
- November 20 – WWII: Battle of Tarawa: United States Marines land on Tawara and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands and take heavy fire from Japanese shore guns.
- November 22 – WWII: War in the Pacific: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and ROC leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
- November 25 – WWII: Americans and Japanese fight the naval Battle of Cape St. George between Buka and New Ireland.
- November 28 – WWII – Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran to discuss war strategy (on November 30 they establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord).
- December 2 - Fifteen atomic scientist, including soviet spy Klaus Fuchs, arrive from Britain to join the US atomic research project.
- December 3 – Edward R. Murrow delivers his classic "Orchestrated Hell" broadcast over CBS Radio, describing a Royal Air Force nighttime bombing raid on Berlin.
- December 4 – The Great Depression officially ends in the United States: With unemployment figures falling fast due to World War II-related employment, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the Works Progress Administration.
- December 24 – WWII: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe.
- World War II, U.S. involvement (1941–1945)
- March 12 – Nosson Tzvi Finkel, American-born Israeli rabbi, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2011)
- March 31 – Christopher Walken, actor
- May 3 – Jim Risch, United States Senator from Idaho since 2009.
- May 11
- Clarence Ellis, computer scientist and academic (d. 2014)
- Matthew Lesko, author
- May 16 – Dan Coats, United States Senator from Indiana since 2011.
- June 6 – Ken Hatfield, American football player and coach
- July 22 – Kay Bailey Hutchison, United States Senator from Texas from 1993 till 2013.
- July 28 – Bill Bradley, United States Senator from New Jersey from 1979 till 1997.
- August 27 – Bob Kerrey, United States Senator from Nebraska from 1989 till 2001.
- October 3 – Jeff Bingaman, United States Senator from New Mexico from 1983 till 2013.
- October 5 – Ben Cardin, United States Senator from Maryland since 2007.
- November 10 – Saxby Chambliss, United States Senator from Georgia since 2003.
- November 13 – Jay Sigel, American golfer
- December 2 – Wayne Allard, United States Senator from Colorado from 1997 till 2009.
- December 11 – John Kerry, United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 till 2013.
- April 4 – David Roitman, Russian-born American cantor (b. 1884)
See also
External links
- Media related to 1943 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons


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