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Orangetown Daily Voice serves Blauvelt, Grand View-on-Hudson, Orangeburg, Palisades, Pearl River, Piermont, South Nyack, Sparkill & Tappan
Breaking News: Police Search For Suspect After Homicide Of Rockland Teen
Propane Gas Leak At Storage Tank On Route 303 Causes Road Closures
Beckerle Lumber Supply on Route in Orangeburg Photo Credit: Google Maps
Police Search For Suspect After Homicide Of Rockland Teen
A stretch of Route 303 was shut down for several hours in Rockland County as first responders dealt with a leaking propane storage tank, police said.
First responders were dispatched to the Beckerle Lumber Supply Company on Route 303 in Orangeburg shortly after 1:50 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17.
Upon arrival, it was determined that a large propane storage tank that is used to fill smaller propane tanks was leaking gas. Fire and Hazardous Material Units from the Orangetown Police Department responded to the scene to assess and address the condition of the leak.
While the investigation into the leaking propane tank was ongoing, Route 303 was closed in both directions to vehicular and pedestrian traffic. The Joseph B. Clarke Rail Trail was also closed due to its proximity to the leak, and several local businesses were also evacuated, police noted.
One firefighter was treated for heat exhaustion and dehydration at the scene. No other injuries were reported.
Units from the Orangeburg, Blauvelt, Sparkill, Nyack, Pearl River, Piermont, Tappan, West Haverstraw, Stony Point, Congers, Northvale, N.J., Northwood, N.J., Old Tappan, N.J., River Vale, N.J., fire departments responded to the scene. Paramedics from the South Orangetown Ambulance Corps., Piermont Fire Department and Rockland Paramedic Service also responded to the scene as a precaution.
According to police, the fuel was safely removed from the large storage tank and operations were complete at the scene at approximately 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 18, at which point the Orangetown Police Department reopened the road and trail to the public.
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In Postal History, Every Stamp Tells a Story
By Maribeth Keane — July 23rd, 2009
Richard Frajola talks about postal history, discussing covers, stamp designs and markings, and the detective work involved in determining how letters got to their destination in the 19th century. He can be contacted via his website, PhilaMercury, which is a member of our Hall of Fame.
I have a stamp collection, but I don't consider myself a collector. I have a collection of my initials on stamps from Great Britain. I've been collecting those for a long time, but I'm a dealer and a consultant for postal history more than a stamp collector.
My interest started with boy scouts when I was 12 years old. I needed a couple of merit badges to complete my eagle scout, so I borrowed some of my sister's stamp collection and mounted them because I thought it would be an easy merit badge. The scoutmaster flunked me, quite deservedly, because I didn't understand what I had. But I thought, "This is interesting. I'm going to have to learn this stuff to show them that I can do it."
It's been a passion ever since. I built a collection of Bosnia stamps and covers and exhibited it at an international show in Washington in 1966. It's been a passion my entire life.
I truly love postal history. With stamps, sometimes you get a little jaded after you've seen an airmail invert, for example—they are all the same basically. They've become commodities, but with postal history, every item is unique and tells a story. My interest has been primarily postal history for a long time. My auctions—which I started in 1981—were all postal-history auctions. I quit that in '95. Now I just do my website and deal with private clients, helping them build or sell collections.
I've had Rfrajola.com since about 2001, and I finally started the PhilaMercury site two years ago. The census portion of the site is for anybody who wants to put up covers that they own or have for sale. It can be sorted in many different ways, so a student who's looking to collect a particular state or town can sort and see what exists in those areas. There are over 12,000 covers posted already.
Collectors Weekly: How has your interest in postal history evolved over the years?
Frajola: When I started with U.S. postal history, there were maybe 10 or 15 books available on the subject, and most did not deal with the subject exclusively. They were mostly about stamps. Now there are probably 200-plus books.
My interest has always been to trace a letter from the hand of the person who wrote it until it was delivered. Did he take it to the post office? Did somebody pick it up at their house? Did he put it in a mailbox? And if he put it in the mailbox at the post office, how did it get transmitted from that point to the next town or country? What ships were available? What routes did it take? One of the things I've tried to do with my website is to get people interested in the nuances on the human side of the story of postal history.
It's much easier now, though still complicated, to find that information. That's one of the reasons I had the board—to have people share ideas and their particular knowledge of a particular country or state or era with other people who may not be as familiar with that aspect. To me, it's a matter of satisfying intellectual curiosity. I've always said the day I quit learning is the day I quit the business, and I don't see that happening.
Collectors Weekly: How do you trace a letter?
Frajola: By the markings. For example, a cover for the United States to China in the 1860s would typically have an origin postmark, then it might have a New York transit marking on the back. The day of that marking would be the date that the ship took it to England, and when it got to England, an official in London would mark it with a transit mark, then put it on a steamer that would go through to the Mediterranean. Then there might be another receiving mark when it made it to Hong Kong, or wherever.
So you can actually track and figure out what vessel carried each leg of that trip. They used different postal routes. Some people collect by the stamp that's on the cover, some people collect by the route that the cover actually took, and some people collect for historical connections. For example, there was the Opium War in Hong Kong in 1841, so somebody might collect letters that are related to that. You have mail carried by naval vessels, you have mail carried by mail steamers. There are all kinds of different ways to look at the same artifact.
Postal-history collecting is very different from stamp collecting. It appeals to a different kind of person. I always say that stamp collectors collect on a grid checklist. They have a defined goal, and they look at a catalog or whatever and they complete a grid of things. Postal history collecting is more about the intellectual curiosity, trying to understand value and quality and rarity. It's a different dimension without conventional boundaries.
Take the Pony Express, for example. I did a book on the Pony Express recently. Some of the covers shown hadn't been on the market since 1904, so when those things come up on the auction, you've got terrific competition among the people who appreciate them and desire them. You may only have one shot in a lifetime. These postal-history collectors tend to keep things and don't sell simply because the value may have risen.
I bought a cover from the first trip of the Pony Express for $125,000 for a client. Somebody offered him $750,000 a year later, and I said no. He did not buy it for a profit motive.
With postal history, it's very hard to judge value. A lot of the collectors are pursuing the same kind of thing and they realize this might be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own it. It's a true collector-based market rather than investor kind of market.
"I consider the backdating of postmarks on first-day covers to be fraudulent."
Stamp collectors tend to think more about investment. They tend to watch how much they pay for things. They're interested in a particular stamp up to a certain cost, and when it gets beyond that level, then they tend to let it go. When I bid for my postal-history clients, I frequently have buyers with discretion bids. It's a whole different mindset. They see something and they want to own it, rather than wanting to own it up to a certain price.
The stamp prices have gone up and down over the years. There was a big market boom in the 1980s when people were putting them into investment portfolios. Right now, other than the very top pieces, that market is depressed probably 35 percent for what I call routine material that appears at auction regularly.
The postal-history market, on the other hand, has steadily gone up without the swings. The material becomes more valuable as the number of people collecting it increases. Postal history pricing is usually too complicated for the guys who are doing it for investment and additionally requires an investment in time to understand the nuances. Most people on the board at my site are pure collectors—you can offer tremendous profits and the stuff will still not be for sale, and it likely won't be for sale until they die.
Right now there are more big-money collectors than ever. A lot of very wealthy people have retired or are nearing retirement. They're very sophisticated, successful people going after a very small pool of high-quality, rare items. That's made the market very strong.
Collectors Weekly: With covers, do you specialize in a specific era or a specific type?
Postmark – August 2, 1854. Origin – Paris, France. Destination: Norwich, Connecticut. August 4, 1954, an Air France Super Constellation with 37 people on board crashed in a potato field in Preston. All 37 passengers survived. Three different handstamps were used, this is one of the three types. 4 Line, Lower case month.
Frajola: When some people say covers or postal history, a lot of times they include things like first day covers, which I consider souvenirs. It's a contrived souvenir, like an Elvis Presley plate or something they sell in Reader's Digest. When I say postal history, I mean items that were not inspired by stamp collectors when they were originally sent through the mail.
I deal almost exclusively in pre-1900 postal history, and ideally pre-1876, which is when the universal postal union started and made all the postal rates to foreign countries at a lower rate. The mail systems became really simplified and less interesting to me after 1876.
In 1865, if you sent a letter locally, it cost 2 cents, and for that 2 cents, the post office delivered mail three times a day. And they had Sunday mail. Mail between New York City and San Francisco took approximately 20 days. After the railroad was built, completed on May 10th of 1869, that trip was reduced to 10 days. They had a very rapid mail system, given the technology that they had, which was primarily trains and stage coaches.
If somebody in the United States wanted to send a letter to China, they'd consult a publication with the schedules of the next departing steamers—in those days, commerce depended on the mail. There were global networks of interconnected mail steamers. You might have a French steamer that served a particular port and whose date of arrival was the day before the departure of a British mail steamer that continued onward to a further destination. It was extremely well coordinated and extremely fast for the era.
In the Roman era, they had cohorts that carried military dispatches. I've never seen anything that early; I don't know that it exists but it might. The Egyptians had a mail service.
In the late 1400s, the Venice merchant guild operated posts from Venice to Constantinople. Generally, the earliest mail systems are very uncommon on the marketplace. In the United States, the earliest mail system was 1689 in Boston. By 1711, they had a transatlantic packet service, operated by the British to communicate back and forth.
The postal system in the United States expanded greatly with the westward expansion. Wherever you find people moving, the mail system was soon to follow. When there was government mail service, the government gave contracts to carry mail. Usually for the first settlers in an area there was no government mail, so they devised ways to carry it privately.
Somebody would say, "Hey, I'll take your letters for 20 cents apiece to the nearest post office to mail them." Throughout the 19th century, up to 1865, at least, the government mail service was so poor in parts of the United States that these private companies thrived. Mail carried by them is often extremely uncommon compared to regular government-carried mail. It's a very interesting little subset of mail.
Collectors Weekly: How did the move to the West affect the mail service?
Frajola: Private enterprises came in and carried mail for a while, until there was sufficient demand and political pressure for the government to provide better service. The government would then establish mail routes and pay contractors to carry the mail.
People on the immigrant trails, the Santa Fe Trail and the Oregon Trail, would give letters to people going in one direction. They had fair trade rendezvous in what is now the River Wyoming area in the 1830s. It was mostly letters from the fur trappers, and there are actually letters that have survived. They were carried back and placed in the mail at St. Louis and whatnot.
Hudson Bay Company had an outpost for Vancouver in what is now Portland, Oregon. They had a canoe brigade to Canada, then down to Montreal, and then by water down to Albany, New York to get mail. It's unbelievable how difficult it was.
Mail has always been extremely important. After the Revolutionary War, the United States government made a very important decision to basically subsidize the mail. They realized the revenues would not equal the expense, particularly for things like newspapers, so the government developed an underlying philosophy that it was a good function for them to subsidize the spread of news to the people, so it charged very low postage rates.
All that changed after the war of 1812. In 1815, as the war was over, they needed to raise revenue, so they increased the postal rates for a year and called it a war surcharge rate to help the Treasury. After a year, they went back down to their prewar rates, but by and large, in the early days, the government subsidized mail.
In California, after the Gold Rush in 1849, transcontinental mail went between New York and San Francisco via Panama by steamer. It took a long time and there wasn't enough mail to pay for this service, but the government still subsidized it to a very large extent. Post-office subsidies still continue in a sense with all this junk mail. The postal rates for catalogs and stuff are a fraction of the actual cost. I'm not sure what the underlying philosophy is now, but it has been a long-standing tradition.
Prior to July 1st, 1845, we had a very convoluted system of postage based on how far away a post office was. Private companies said, "We can do this cheaper," and pushed the government into lowering the postal rates. They lowered it to 5 cents per half-ounce letter. That was the first time the rates really went down substantially.
Collectors Weekly: What was the difference between military mail and regular mail?
Frajola: It depends on the timeframe you're talking about. In the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, letters could be sent to soldiers for free. In the Civil War, certain types of mail was free, but most was not. For example, a letter sent to a sailor stationed in the Mediterranean could be sent using the England rate, but it was still not free.
In World War I, mail from soldiers to friends and family back home was completely free, and I think in the Spanish-American War, no matter where they were, soldiers were able to send mail to anybody anywhere for 2 cents, which was the domestic postage rate at the time. In World War II, mail was also allowed to be sent free. I don't even know about now. I assume it's free, but I don't know.
Collectors Weekly: What's the difference between cover collecting in the European countries and America?
Postmark June 3, 1860. A cover sent privately by Pony Express from St. Joseph, Missouri to Salt Lake City.
Frajola: The American collectors seem to be a little ahead of their European counterparts as far as being able to determine rates and routes. A lot of the Europeans have collected stamps on covers. It's a natural progression. People collect stamps, and then they collect used stamps and they see that they got a cancel from some exotic place, so then they became interested in stamps on covers. Then they realize that there's a whole other world opening up to them. If they have the curiosity, they expand it from there.
To start collecting, you need availability of material and a basic knowledge as to what exists and what's scarce and uncommon. Dealers can shine light on the areas that might be of interest.
In 1990, I handled a collection for Ambassador J. William Middendorf III, a collection of carriers and locals worth a million and a half dollars. It was all government carriers and local posts, which had been an area where there were a lot of forgeries and people didn't know very much about it. So I did two things: I did a catalog that described the companies with a synoptic overview (it didn't have a synopsis for each different company), and then I had the material for sale. Beyond that, I started a society. I got about five or six people with a similar interest and we formed the Carriers & Locals Society, which is still thriving.
Collectors Weekly: Could you tell us a little bit about canceled versus non-canceled?
Frajola: A mint stamp is a stamp as purchased from the post office, if it has not seen postal duty but may have been mounted in an album, or lacks the gum, it is called unused.
A canceled stamp is a stamp that's done postal duty. Usually a lot of collectors want to try to collect mint stamps. I prefer stamps that did postal duty, but people have their own preferences. It gets very expensive very fast to try to build a mint collection of United States material.
There are a lot of fakery problems with things that look unused. In the 1860s, there were pen cancels used in many small towns. It's very easy to clean off a pen cancellation, so you have dealers and collectors selling things as unused that are really used with a removed pen cancel. Like in any collectible, condition is extremely important, especially right now. The market is very specialized and very top-quality items don't show up on eBay from somebody's collection in the attic.
In terms of cancellations, the big towns all had hand-stamped cancels from 1847 on. The smaller towns were allowed to cancel with pen, so you see both. By 1870, it was mostly hand-stamped canceled, and by 1880, it was almost all hand-stamped cancels because the government was providing devices.
Originally the government only provided postmark devices for towns that did a certain amount of distance every year. They gave them devices, and everybody who didn't meet that standard number of postal receipts had to use manuscript cancels. By 1850 to 1860, canceling devices became very cheap. The government lowered the standards, so they were supplying many more of the offices with free devices. By 1880, it was 10 to 20 cents to buy a device, so most of the offices used them.
The real collectors are very passionate, and they go to extremes to try to find information that will help them. There's a potential for great crossover in knowledge and marketing material. For example, there's a whole series of advertising covers made by DuPont, the gun-powder manufacturer. From 1900 to 1930, they produced some wonderful series of multicolor illustrated envelopes for advertising. They were relatively common in the philatelic trade.
Then, all of a sudden, shotgunners or hunters or who had been collecting shot shell boxes realized that there is this whole other area that they didn't know about. It's a completely different market, and they're buying for completely different reason, and now the price has gone way up. They don't care about postal history. They don't care about covers. They're doing it as illustrated Americana in their thematic collection of guns.
Collectors Weekly: What are fancy cancels?
Reverse of 1917 DuPont Powders illustrated advertising cover with an English Setter.
Frajola: Fancy cancels are a subset of cancels. Particularly in the 1860s, the postmasters used wood devices to cancel their stamps. The government gave them steel devices in the 1860s in the bigger offices. Mainly the small offices used cork wood cancels. Some of the postmasters decided to carve interesting things in those wooden devices. Some of the most famous ones are the ones from Waterbury, Connecticut.
Hill was the Waterbury postmaster, and he was a prolific carver. He carved soldiers' heads, women on barns, running chickens. One of the most famous U.S. covers sold for $230,000, a record, and it was a running chicken that he had done. They're wonderful Americana.
There was a group of covers that was donated to the Mattatuck Historical Society in Connecticut, and they gave it to me to auction. They had three of these running chicken cancels and a bunch of other covers, and I tried to get the museum of Williamsburg interested because they have very fine primitive American art at the museum.
Some of those covers were worthy of a museum to show patriotic sympathies. For example, at the start of the Civil War, there were all kinds of waving flag designs. I have one collector who collects nothing but cancels with flags on them. There's that many of them to collect. So it's a whole subset of very interesting material and it's very visual.
A lot of collectors don't care so much about how a cover was handled or mailed; they have a visual attraction to the design and the propaganda that they printed on covers. They had advertisements and political slogans. I recently saw a Lincoln campaign cover with a stamp on it, and the postmaster was obviously anti-Lincoln because he smashed on Lincoln's head with his cancel device and smashed at all the Lincoln references 10 times. Obviously his sympathies were elsewhere.
During the Civil War, you got these wonderful patriotic designs that were used from 1861 to about 1863 that were primarily sold to soldiers and families of soldiers, which was a large chunk of the population. Some people collect patriotic covers [see photo at top]. You may have one with pictures of generals. You might have ones with flags. You might have ones with naval vessels. There's a broad range of subjects.
The confederates didn't have as many designs. They had probably 50 designs as compared to 2,000 generals, but you have confederate flags and regimented designs and all these wonderful visual themes that people can collect.
Collectors Weekly: In terms of the designs on stamps, were they initially mostly patriotic?
Frajola: No, the designs mostly reflect what was politically in favor. Stamp designers originally picked images of Franklin and Washington. In 1847, those were pretty safe to use as design objects. In 1851, they continued to use Washington and Franklin, and then 1856 they added Jefferson.
The English stamps all had Queen Victoria, and most of the foreign countries had either emblems or actual images of kings or queens, so that became like a trend. You really didn't get political themes on stamps at all. They had the Columbian Exposition in the United States in 1893, so they did this series of stamps to commemorate that. Some people just collect commemorative stamps.
The Columbian Exposition was in Chicago, and those stamps were the first commemoratives issued in the United States. They issued a stamp in 1866 of Abraham Lincoln in black that some people considered to be a mourning design because it was printed in black. At this late date, I can't judge what was in the designer's minds. I don't try to speculate because it's hard to know, but some people consider that a commemorative design.
Some of the other foreign countries started producing commemorative stamps at roughly the same time. There was a Spanish series for Spain and their colonies in 1892, and that practice continues to this day. We never used to issue so many stamps in the year, by the way. Even in the 1960s when I started collecting, they were issuing maybe 10 or 20 stamps a year, and they were all 5-cent stamps or 3-centers. Last year they had some enormous number, like 120 stamps or so. It's crazy.
I'm concerned about the future because they're going to these self stick stamps which you can't soak off of a cover. Plus if somebody wants to buy a mint set at the post office, it costs more.
In the old days in the 1950s, there were dealers that promoted current U.S. stamps as investment. I can't tell you how many times I've been called by people who have sheets and sheets and sheets of 3-cent stamps. Right now, dealers usually buy those at 70 percent or less of face value because you can't fit enough stamps on the cover to use them all. I've got tons and tons of these old stamps that are just too hard to use for postage. A lot of people lost a lot of money putting it away in sheets.
Collectors Weekly: Are the Lincoln stamps popular among collectors?
Frajola: There are a lot of people who collect Lincoln. I just sent some extra catalogs to a client in Germany who collects Lincoln. I said, "What are you collecting Lincoln for?" It's pretty funny what some people collect. For example, some of my best collectors for Pony Express and Western Express material are Italians and Germans. I invariably ask them why, and it's because when they were kids, they watched all these spaghetti westerns on TV, and they've always been intrigued by the American West—anything to do with Indians and cowboys and the Pony Express.
To give you an example of what you can find in postal history, there are certain well-known covers. One famous one is addressed to a member of Custer's regiment in North Dakota. It has big marks on it and it was sent back to England without reason for non-delivery. The intended recipient was killed at Custer's last stand. It's absolutely amazing to find a stock like that. This becomes an artifact that is an excuse to tell the story of Custer's Last Stand, for example. Here's something physical, an artifact that relates to a particular event in history that we can use to learn about ourselves and then to talk to other people about.
Collectors Weekly: What are first-day covers?
A July 1, 1851 cover from West Port, Connecticut used on the first day of the new, lower three cent postal rate.
Frajola: First-day covers have an importance in the early period because they can document when a stamp was issued. We may have no firm data about the stamp that's first issued, and by finding it on the earliest known cover, you can try to figure out when the stamp was actually issued to the public. Those kinds of first-day covers have historical importance to document the distribution of the stamps.
In the old days, they postmarked covers on the day they were transmitted. Now the government creates souvenirs to make money, so let's say there's a stamp that was issued January 1st of this year. They'll take orders for first-day covers from collectors until June of this year, and they'll postmark them. They backdate the postmarks January 1st, so there's no way of telling whether the cover was actually mailed on the first or even when it was first printed.
It used to be you could tell, "Well, if there's a postmark on the day it was issued, it's got to be the first printing." They do this nonsense now for six months, and it has absolutely no bearing on the post office at all. It's just a commemorative souvenir. I consider the backdating of postmarks to be fraudulent. They're not true dates of use. They were done to deceive people into thinking that they're something other than what they really are. It's not even stamp collecting to me.
The best collection of that stuff ever formed was by one of my clients. I helped him build an exhibit collection of classic first-day covers from 1844 to 1916. They were legitimate first-day covers, and some of them are exceedingly rare and valuable. He sold that collection for $4 million or $5 million. Those are true "first-day covers." It meant that somebody went to the post office and actually used the stamps on that day because they happened to be first issued.
Collectors Weekly: What about revenue stamps?
Frajola: Revenue stamps were issued to show that tax had been paid and are highly collectible. A lot of people collect them on the original documents, which is basically akin to postal history. They're very popular. The first several issues have all kinds of hand-stamped cancels that people can identify by the companies. They're a great find, and a lot of them are very attractive. It's a good collection area.
The one area of revenue collecting that I don't like—and again, these are my personal prejudices—are these duck stamps that they're doing now. They started in 1934 and the face value was $1 each—now $15 each. There are dealers who basically control the markets. The shenanigans going on are driven by dealer greed. I don't like that.
They were sold to produce revenue for the government, so they're revenue stamps. The dealers sell a lot of them to the duck hunters, and you're supposed to sign them and glue them to your license. Well, now they probably use plastic sleeves so they can protect them, so they have value after they've served the intended purpose. I don't understand it at all.
But other than the duck stamps, I really like revenues and highly recommend them. They started during the Civil War to raise additional revenue to finance the war. They were issued in 1862 so anybody who had a legal transaction had to pay a certain percent as tax. There was revenue embossed paper for checks where you had to pay a tax for writing the check. Those series of stamps, especially the very high denominations, can be quite rare.
Some of them are beautiful. One of them is called a Persian Rug. It's a $500 stamp with an ornate rug-like design framing a portrait. They were very large, 4 inches by 2 inches or so, and multicolored with beautiful engraving. One of those $500 stamps recently sold for $75,000 or so. Some of them are just stunning, and other denominations exist with inverted centers.
Collectors Weekly: Can you tell us a bit about airmail stamps?
An 1870 cover flown by balloon from besieged Paris, addressed to the United States.
Frajola: Probably the most famous of the U.S. stamp errors was issued in 1918. There was one sheet that was printed in red outside with a blue central vignette of an airplane, and there was one sheet found in New York with the blue upside down. They fed it into the machine in two different passes, one printing to the red and another printed the blue.
There's an Air Mail Society in the United States. Most of what they do is collect the different flights. Before the regular airmail was inaugurated, they had air shows where the postmaster allowed aviators to carry contract mail. They're called pioneer airmails, and those are very widely collected and very interesting. One of my clients has a collection and he's only missing one flight to complete it. He's on the road to completion for the first time.
In 1918 the government started carrying regular mail. You could pay a premium like express mail now. Like what they did with the railroads, they gradually expanded the routes. Originally it was Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York. Lindbergh carried mail in the 1920s. So people collect them by the routes. They collect transatlantic airmail routes or routes to Asia. That was very popular starting in the 1920s. It's a huge area.
Dirigibles also carried mail. They went to Germany, throughout Europe, and primarily through the United States and down to Argentina. Collectors would send mail to be carried by the zeppelin on any one of the different flights. There's the Hindenburg disaster in Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1939. They recovered the mail and put them in these black whole body bags, these cellophane envelopes, and then they were delivered to their recipients. Most of the mail that was on that Hindenburg has burn marks and whatnot. So mail exists from all kinds of these airmail trials and services and even some of the disasters.
Collectors Weekly: Mail survived through disasters?
Frajola: Yes. Mail was very important. Somebody did a book on how many pieces survived from the Hindenberg. There are probably 50 pieces that are in philatelic hands now. It's amazing what survives from some of these things. In 1871, France was under siege by the Franco-Prussian Army, so they set up balloons with mail. That's all that was in them. Sometimes they got captured; sometimes they didn't. They did this for two or three months.
But there are thousands of things that survived. There are thousands of these balloon letters alone that survived. That's really amazing when you think about it. A lot of military mail, like letters from the Civil War, survived. There are tons of particularly human Civil War letters that survived because families saved them.
Especially in New England, you get families that save mail forever, and then they sell it to the philatelic market. You also have commercial mail that they saved, and that was how they kept track of their businesses, these large commercial firms. Fifteen years ago, roughly 120,000 letters were found in the archive of a pharmacy company in New York. That stuff had slowly gotten on the philatelic market now. It's amazing what has survived.
When I started in the 1960s, there would be a major find maybe every other year. Now it's probably down to every seven or eight years. One of my early sales was a collection of Pony Express that was from a warehouse in Brooklyn, New York. It had been kept intact since the 1860s. They had some flood damage and decided to clean everything out, and the lawyer handling it knew enough to realize that this stuff was likely to have value.
A special service operated between San Francisco and Virginia City, Nevada for the Virginia City Pony Express, not the same as the Transcontinental. Before the Brooklyn find, there were 40 covers known. After Brooklyn, 50 more covers came to light, so it more than doubled the number of known covers in one shot.
Collectors Weekly: What's driving postal collecting these days?
Frajola: People who realize that these artifacts exist but that they're not all in museums yet, as well as people in an economic position to be able to afford this stuff. Many people are revisiting their stamp-collecting interest from their younger years—they're looking for something more intellectually challenging.
The postal-history shows and exhibits are very interesting and accessible to the public. Most of the best material is handled privately or at auction; probably more at auction now for the expensive stuff. For somebody coming into the hobby, it's probably a very good time to find pieces because you have access to way more material than you used to.
Routinely, I'm following auctions from several different countries that are coming up, plus other ones that are available on the Internet, so I have access to a wide range of material. Invariably the good United States material costs less at sales in Europe than it does in this country because the Europeans don't concern themselves much with the nuances of U.S. postal history. A collector who's willing to invest the time to learn what's good and valuable can find great bargains on things that are genuine.
That's the other thing I like about the hobby is that you can really accumulate a level of knowledge that goes well beyond the dealer's. If you do your homework, you can amass a collection that is worth far more than what you paid for it. You can use your knowledge to benefit yourself. That's because there are no catalogs that tell you what you should be paying for a particular item.
If you're willing to invest the time, you can learn and make that pay off. At a Cleveland show, I bought a very innocuous-looking cover from 1859 and a manuscript postmark. The dealer had gotten it from a family in Ohio, and he looked on the Internet and actually found one of my websites where I listed it, and he realized that it was good, so he marked it up from what he paid.
I was able to buy it at a fair price because I know that there's only one other cover known with that mark and I know four guys who want it. So using the knowledge I have of that item, I was able to pay for my trip, plus a little bit.
Collectors Weekly: Do you see the hobby growing?
Frajola: I think segments of the hobby are growing and some segments are not. What scares me most is that I don't see enough young people, but everybody's been complaining about that for generations. There are some very good young collectors. I mentored two of them that are now in their late 20s. One of them went into business and the other is a collector. When I came up, there were probably 50 people my age in the business. Now there are very few people in their 30s in it, and that troubles me. The good news is that there are a lot more women collecting postal history now than there used to be.
When I was young, stamp collecting was almost like a tradition. My sister had a stamp collection because my grandmother would pick up stamps or save them on envelopes and give them to her. It was a good way to learn geography. They don't teach geography in schools any more, and as near as I can tell they're not very good about history either, so I think we have to be proactive.
One of my friends took a George Washington letter with a postmark into his daughter's grade school class to show the kids a real artifact. You have to spark people's imagination. There's not much to spark a kid's imagination these days. The first time I saw a Bosnia stamp, I said, "What the heck is this? I'd never heard of Bosnia." Now, maybe because of the war, most people know, but in 1960, nobody knew where Bosnia was.
It's very hard to find ways to engage people under 20. Coins seem to be far more accessible to kids because it's something they use every day. Stamps are less so. Plus, you can't get these newer self-adhesive stamps off envelopes. The post office doesn't particularly want you to collect a used stamp; they want you to buy their mint product and not use it. The coin collectors have a younger profile than the stamp collectors. It used to be absolutely equal. I collected coins when I was a kid, too. Now the young coin collectors far outnumber the young stamp collectors. That's one of the things that I would love to be able to help change.
Collectors Weekly: What attracted you to the Bosnia stamps and covers?
Frajola: The time I looked up Bosnia in a catalog, there were 65 different stamps. Most other countries had many more stamps, but Bosnia only had 65. Then I realized that the stamps had perforation varieties, so I started collecting the perforation varieties. Then I looked for proofs, and then I tried to find them on covers.
Bosnia first issued stamps in 1879, and they were issued until 1918. Archduke Franz of Austria was assassinated in Bosnia, which started World War I. Before that, Bosnia was basically a dependency of Austria in terms of stamps, and before that it had been part of the Turkish Empire, so you can find Turkish stamps used in Bosnia if you can recognize the town names.
When I exhibited as a junior in 1966, my pride and joy was one of these stamps with a Sarajevo, Bosnia cancel on it in Arabic. I went to the show and I met a man who collected those Turkish stamps used in Bosnia on covers. He had maybe 40 covers, and I was just, "Wow. Where did you find this stuff?" So that's really what hooked me on postal history. I had a little U.S. stamp collection that was worth very little that I sold right away and started buying covers.
Collectors Weekly: What's the difference between perforated and non-perforated stamps?
Frajola: It was just technology. It was an easier way to separate stamps, using hole-punches between the designs instead of cutting apart with scissors. It was first done by the Brits in 1853 or '54, and then by the United States in 1857. They quit making imperforated stamps a long time ago. The era for imperforated stamps is 1840 to 1860, generally speaking. Most everybody converted to perforated stamps after that, although there are some exceptions.
Usually perforated and imperforated stamps don't have the same design. In the United States, the 5-cent stamp in 1856 was issued imperforate. That's the stamp I wrote a book on—the 1856 issue. In March of 1857, they started printing a perforated version, and it was in use until 1861 at the start of the Civil War. So the perforated ones are very common and the imperforated ones are very rare, and they used the same plates to print them. That's an exception where you can find the same stamp perforated and imperforate.
In the United States, they usually have different designs for perforated because when they originally printed them, they were close together. For perforated stamps, you need more separation between the images. You had to use a different size sheet, so you might as well use a different design, too.
They changed the sheet size marginally. If you had a sheet that was 10 stamps wide, it was still 10 stamps wide. If you added a bigger gutter between each impression on the sheet, you might add a half inch to the total sheet size, so if you're going to change the design, a lot of times you had to change the gutters, and a lot of times they switched over to use new designs. In the United States, actually, they changed the design because of the Civil War.
There were massive quantities of U.S. stamps in the southern post offices when the war started, and they didn't want those stamps being used in the north, so they issued a whole new set of stamps and demonetized the 1857 issues. They didn't want the confederacy to have the monetary gain from the stamps that were on hand, so they used a whole different design.
Collectors Weekly: Are there any collectors clubs and associations you can recommend?
Frajola: There are several good societies for more advanced collectors. The U.S. Philatelic Classic Society is excellent. They publish a very good scholarly journal. For beginning collectors, you have Linn's Stamp News. There's also Scott Monthly. But for anybody who's advanced, I would say U.S. Philatelic Classic Society is a must.
I was raised in Columbus, Ohio, and we had a local stamp club. Everybody there and was very happy to help me. We have physical tools that we use, tongs and whatnot, and the people showed me how to hinge a stamp, how to mount it, and how to use a catalog. So there is some mentoring, and you can't get that off the Internet. You need personal contact.
For a new collector, the best thing is probably to go on the eBay chat board or my chat board and ask questions. People are very helpful as long as the post is not just interested in trying to sell stuff. I wrote a little article on my site someplace about selling stamps on eBay, because 95 percent the people that ask questions just want to know what something's worth so they can sell it or how they can sell it. They're not interested in the hobby. They're just trying to convert something that they know nothing about into cash, and they invariably think it's worth a ton of money.
But old does not necessarily mean money. For example, the first stamp from Great Britain was printed black and the second was printed red: you can buy the red stamp for two bucks. They're very old, but they're common, so they're not valuable.
(All images in this article courtesy Richard Frajola of PhilaMercury)
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September 7th, 2009 at 10:07 pm joe val Says:
It's quite late and the article was very interesting and I should read it tomorrow. What I understand is that after 1847 hand cancellations were being used. I have an envelope with salem hand stamped and so that envelope is probably around that time period?
December 21st, 2009 at 9:47 am Richard Frajola Says:
For an example of a great postal collection, as well as a collection of history through the mails, see the Floyd Risvold collection which will be sold by Spink / Shreves at public auction on January 27-29, 2010.
The online catalog is here: http://www.stampauctioncentral.com/F/F121.cfm
December 30th, 2009 at 7:43 pm Bob Rufe Says:
Another excellent in-depth interview. Very informative!
November 14th, 2010 at 11:41 am Thomas Martin Says:
Dear Sir: Back in 1997 I purchased a set 0f eight "free letterfront"mailings from Benham company in the UK I was advised that these mailings were introduced before the penny post in 1840 and if signed on the front in the lower left hand corner would be sent free by the mailing person usually aristocrats (members of parliament /state officials etc) most of the fronts are appox' 168 to 176 years old and do have red CDS with royal crown and date one front for example is hand stamped FREE 18JY18 1831 . I paid approximately $70.00 for the eight fronts , can you advise if the value may have increased over the last 13 years . I am looking forward to your comments and response , Thank You. Sincerley. T Martin. Windsor CT.
November 15th, 2010 at 9:53 am Richard Frajola Says:
Free mail in Great Britain was introduced very early and the first postal markings on such mail date from 1764. Collecting autographs was very popular in Great Britain in the 1840s-1860s. As a result many seekers requested franked covers from members of Parliament, etc and unfortunately they saved them by cutting down the address leaf or cover and pasting into albums. So, what you have are "fronts" of the whole letter rather than the intact item as transmitted by the post.
The value is largely determined by the importance of the person who signed the item. IF you purchased at around $10 each from a British company as I assume you did, the seller probably sold you examples signed by less prominent individuals. As a result, they are probably worth now about what you paid and maybe somewhat less depending on quality and how badly cut-down they are (meaning how much of the address panel is still there).
June 15th, 2012 at 6:38 am Ricardo C. Guarde Says:
This is a very informative interview by Ms Keane for me , a neophyte stamp collector from the Philippines. Study of Postal history of a country is so interesting, to research and collate the story that is a history. My kudos to Mr. Richard Frajola. Thanks.
April 14th, 2016 at 5:26 am Jim Wentzell Says:
Great information here!
Around 2001 if I recall, eBay had a very pricey CSA (Confederate States of America) cover which the seller had altered, and Richard Frajola actually got eBay to HALT the online bidding before it reached the tens of thousands of dollars. Turns out Mr. Frajola could PROVE that the cover had been altered, as he had photos or scans of the cover BEFORE it was altered.
This made front page Linn's Stamp News headlines (again, around 2001), but I cannot find ANY records or data regarding Mr. Frajola's valient deeds in saving the highest bidder from becoming yet another of eBay's many fraudulent yet tolerated sellers' countless victims.
Any links or info would greatly help many many collectors!
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Pig is a tool used to analyze large amounts of data by representing them as data flows. Using the Pig Latin scripting language operations like ETL (Extract, Transform and Load), adhoc data analysis and iterative processing can be easily achieved. Pig is an abstraction over MapReduce. In other words, all Pig scripts internally are converted into Map and Reduce tasks to get the task done. Pig was built to make programming MapReduce applications easier. Before Pig, Java was the only way to process the data stored on HDFS. Pig was first built in Yahoo! and later became a top level Apache project.
1. Using Regular Expression : Here using the XMLLoader() in piggy bank UDF to load the xml, so ensure that Piggy Bank UDF is registered. Then I am using regular expression to parse the XML.
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Changes to 2020 representative rugby
To help secure the future of the sport, New Zealand Rugby (NZR) and Provincial Unions have today cancelled all provincial representative rugby tournaments below the Mitre 10 Cup and Farah Palmer Cup.
The cancellations include the 2020 Mitre 10 Heartland Championship, Jock Hobbs Memorial National Under 19 Tournament, TECT National Sevens Tournament and all Provincial Union representative rugby tournaments, excluding the Mitre 10 Cup and Farah Palmer Cup.
NZR Chief Executive Mark Robinson said rugby had worked together to make these difficult decisions for the best interests of the game.
We've worked together and the Provincial Unions have led the decision making. This is a partnership and I acknowledge them for being willing to have these conversations and make tough decisions.
"It's surreal how much this has impacted everyone in just seven days and we've needed to act swiftly, decisively and together. We are united in what we want to achieve and that's to secure the future of rugby. These decisions have all been about ensuring when the time comes our communities can be up and running club, community and school rugby as quickly as possible."
Robinson said NZR supported the decision led by the Heartland unions to cancel the Mitre 10 Heartland Championship for the 2020 season.
"It's a blow for the Heartland Unions to lose their much-loved championships. Their top-level teams are the pride of their communities and it was a courageous decision by them in difficult times. The cancellation in 2020 will be a loss for local players and fans. It will no doubt be felt keenly by many."
Ngati Porou East Coast Chief Executive Cushla Tangaere-Manuel said the decisions were based on the greater good for rugby.
"While we are very disappointed that these tournaments won't happen this year, we want rugby to keep thriving long after lockdown is lifted and our communities are safe to play our game. Our three priorities in Heartland regions are our people, our clubs, then representative rugby, including the Heartland Championship. We understand these are the aspirational teams in our Unions but we're confident making these decisions now will safeguard our game."
Robinson said all the cancellations announced today affect the 2020 season only, and no decisions beyond this year had been made. He added no decisions about the Mitre 10 Cup or Farah Palmer Cup have been made at this stage either.
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Степа́н Леоні́дович Литковець ( — ) — солдат Збройних сил України, учасник російсько-української війни.

Життєпис
Народився 1997 року в селі Гарбузівка (Лебединський район, Сумська область); після переїзду родини до Підопригори, навчався в Павленківському НВК. 2017 року закінчив Сумський центр професійно-технічної освіти харчових технологій, торгівлі та ресторанних сервісів. До кінця 2017 року працював шеф-кухарем, мріяв відкрити власне кафе.

Взимку 2018-го вступив на військову службу за контрактом; солдат, стрілець зенітного артилерійського взводу 37-го батальйону «Запоріжжя» 56-ї бригади.

6 червня 2018 року під вечір противник намагався оточити ВОП поблизу селища Піски (Ясинуватський район) але вчасно був помічений військовиками передового спостережного посту, які вступили у бій. Резервна група з 4-х бійців почала переслідування; двоє вояків загинули внаслідок підриву на міні з «розтяжкою» — Ігор Французан та Степан Литковець, ще один виніс пораненого. Загиблих не вдалось знайти — зокрема, через щільну замінованість ділянки «сірої зони». Їх тіла виявили й забрали з поля бою 10 червня — під гарантії української сторони терористи, передали 11 червня за обміном.

13 червня 2018 року похований в селі Підопригори.

Без Степана лишились батьки і дружина.

Нагороди та вшанування
 указом Президента України № 239/2018 від 23 серпня 2018 року «за особисту мужність і самовіддані дії, виявлені у захисті державного суверенітету та територіальної цілісності України, зразкового виконання військового обов'язку» — нагороджений медаллю «За військову службу Україні» (посмертно)

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Robert Ito is a Canadian-born voice, television, and movie actor of Japanese descent who is perhaps best known to television viewers for his roles as Sam Fujiyama on the NBC-TV series Quincy, M.E. and Lawrence 'Larry' Mishima on the CBS-TV night time soap opera series Falcon Crest.
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A super compact addition to the Nikon range. It's reasonably priced and performed well in a wide range of situations.
With the Coolpix S1, Nikon finally adds the missing link from its compact digital camera range, a truly compact digital camera. Once again Nikon has proved being last to market, can be an advantageous, learning from competitors' expensive mistakes. The slim-line body places the S1 in direct competition with ultra-compact 5 Megapixel modes such as the Canon Ixus i5, the Pentax Optio WP, the Casio ExSlim EX-257 and the Olympus Mju-mini, all of whom boast similar dimension and weights. The S1 has opted for a non-protruding zoom lens like models from Pentax, letting the optics work internally to operate the 3x optical Nikkor ED lens, although an improved feature is the 'flick-over' lens cover that protects the front element when the camera is not in use, a feature the Pentax sadly lacks.
Like the Canon, Pentax and Olympus, the S1 is available in multiple body colours, with a white, silver and black option available. Again Nikon seem to have learned that the consumer market probably doesn't need the veritable kaleidoscope of shades that the Olympus Mju is available in, to sell the product to the majority of people.
The S1's body design is simple and effective. The exterior dimensions are 89.9mm wide by 57.5 high by 19.7mm deep, making it the thinnest after the Ixus, and weighting only 118 g. The front panel has a relatively small aperture for the 5.8mm to 17.4mm lens (35-105mm, 35 mm camera equivalent) optical zooms lens, with a 4 x digital booster, and next to it are the compact flash and the AF assist LED. The rear panel houses a 2.5in TFT LCD viewing screen with the 5-way control pad to it's right. The zoom rocker is situated above this pad and the shooting option sliding switch is located below.
When the shot selector-switch is in the left hand position the standard still-image mode is activated, equating on most cameras to the 'program' (P) setting. In this mode the camera will activate standard auto-exposure and auto focus, although refinements can be selected in the shooting set-up menus. Move the slider into the central position and you access the pre-set shooting modes, a number of calibrated functions designed to give you the best settings, depending on your situation. There are 16 standard modes, some of which have a number of sub-settings, aimed then to help you further refine your shooting situation.
The portrait and landscape settings, for example, both offer a number of different 'framing assist' options, which place gridlines, or outlines of characters, onto the viewing screen to help you compose better shots. Ideal for the amateur who wants to avoid cropping heads. One of Nikon's highlighted enhancements is their new 'face-portrait AF', which tries to locate a face in the image being composed, identifying it via a red box, and make sure that section of the image is given focus priority.
The right hand setting on the slider is the movie option. This offers the fairly standard Quicktime recording option with images and sound being recorded at up to 15fps (640x480pixels). One new feature is the capacity to record time-lapse films. These can be set at one of 6 times intervals ranging from 30seconds to 60minutes and, once going, will continue to shoot still images until the card is full, the battery runs out or the operation is cancelled. Once completed the images are all sandwiched together to make a completed movie, which means you can make you own poor man's version of Peter Gabriel's 'Sledgehammer' video, without really trying.
The S1 works with both Mac and PC and the supplied image suite software, PictureProject 1.5 will load on either platform so long as a relatively new OS is being used. When the camera is connected, via USB COOL STATION, and accessed directly through the computers, it appears as a standard USB external device.
Stored JPEG images, Quicktime movies and associated WAV sound files are held on SD removable media cards, although the S1 does come with an internal memory of 12Mb, meaning, on the lowest resolution, you can squeeze on 17 more 640x480pixel images. Getting the images off again is a little more complicated.
In an attempt to save space, and presumably reduce the number of ports in the S1 underside, Nikon have combined the charger socket with the USB, which is smart.
Supplied with the camera is a COOL STATION, Nikon's answer to Kodak's easy-share docking station, which the camera sits in, to charge and transfer images, and although the charger can be plugged directly into the base of the camera, the USB can't, as the socket is non-standard. This means either you have to take the COOL STATION with you or you have to wait until your back at your computer to download the images, which could be frustrating.
Other points of interest are the 'D-lighting' effect which is included as part of the image playback suite of tools. This cunning digital enhancement rebalances the dark and light areas of any image (see sample images), better exposing the subject matter, with impressive results on both people and landscape pictures. Nikon have also increased the S1's reach but offering a completely waterproof housing (WP-CP5) allows the camera's range to be extend from the socialite's handbag to the ocean's depths, offering protection to a depth of 40m.
Gripes, well not many really, the shutter release is a little on the small side and could make better use of the top edge of the body. The auto focus is good although if you are shooting quickly you can end up with some blurred shots. In picture playback mode there seems to only be one option to have the picture info 'on' or 'off' when taking a picture and when that picture is being viewed. Some sort of mid-ground would be useful in this situation as data when shooting is helpful but the quantity of data on playback virtually obscures the image. The coloured plastic front plate could also do with being made slightly tougher.
Overall, a nicely designed, nicely engineered and nicely priced camera. It's clear to see Nikon have been studying the compact market carefully before launching the S1 and the features developed have been well thought out. The balance of aesthetics and the practical photographical functions will attract audiences from both ends of the market and at £230 it may not be 'stocking-filler' cheap but this would be an ideal 'starter camera' thanks to the ease of operations, the 'plug n' play' charge and share, and the framing assist modes.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California has talent, depth and size on its roster. How quickly the Trojans mesh a mostly new group with four returnees will ultimately decide how far they go.
Last season, USC finished 16-17 and tied for eighth in Pac-12 play at 8-10, the program's first losing season in four years.
Entering coach Andy Enfield's seventh season, the Trojans haven't been to the NCAA Tournament since 2017. They're picked to finish fifth in the Pac-12 this season. After bringing in yet another highly regard recruiting class, Enfield has reason to believe things could be different.
"Our team is high-energy. They're very, very competitive," Enfield said. "Our freshmen are as equally talented as our upperclassmen."
The Trojans boast nine newcomers — six freshmen, two graduate transfers and one sit-out transfer.
"The sky's the limit," senior Jonah Mathews said. "We have a really good chance to be better than any team I've been with here."
It starts with forwards Isaiah Mobley and Onyeka Okongwu. Mobley, a 6-foot-10, 235-pound McDonald's All-American, has solid ball-handling skills and can score from 3-point range. He had foot surgery last spring and missed the Trojans' foreign tour in the summer but is expected to be ready for the start of the season.
Okongwu was California's Mr. Basketball as a junior and senior at nearby Chino Hills High (where the Ball brothers starred). The 6-9, 245-pounder is an aggressive and physical defender. They'll be counted on to succeed early alongside senior Nick Rakocevic in the post.
"They complement each other very well," Enfield said of Mobley and Okongwu.
The Trojans open the season at home against Florida A&M on Nov. 5.
NICK THE VET
Rakocevic is one of the Pac-12's top returning big men. The senior averaged 14.7 points and 9.3 rebounds last season and his 15 double-doubles were second-most in the league. He shot 55% from the field, but will need to avoid the foul trouble that plagued him last season. Rakocevic, along with big men Mobley (his father is a Trojans assistant) and Okongwu, will help the team make up for departed Bennie Boatwright and give USC an imposing frontcourt.
Besides Mobley and Okongwu, the other freshmen are forward Max Agbonkpolo, and guards Ethan Anderson, Drake London and Kyle Sturdivant. Agbonkpolo, from Rancho Santa Margarita, California, is an athletic 6-foot-8 forward. Anderson averaged 20.8 points, 6.2 rebounds and 6.3 assists at LA's Fairfax High as a senior. London averaged 29 points as a senior at nearby Moorpark High and will join the team after football season. He's on a football scholarship as a wide receiver. Sturdivant figures to be part of the guard rotation. The 6-3, 200-pounder was one of the top players in Georgia as a senior at Norcross High.
BACKCOURT
Guards Elijah Weaver and Mathews will form the backcourt after starter and assists leader Derryck Thornton transferred. At 6-6 and 210 pounds, Weaver is a tough matchup for most opposing guards. Mathews averaged 12.6 points and made a career-high 78 3-pointers last season.
COMING FROM AFAR
Guard Quinton Adlesh and guard-forward Daniel Utomi are the Trojans' two graduate transfers expected to add shooting in the backcourt. Adlesh comes from Columbia, where he was a career 40% 3-point shooter. Utomi is from Akron, where he averaged 15.4 points as a starter the last two seasons and can play either guard position. Utomi also has made over 200 3-pointers in his career. "They're mature physically, they're mature mentally and they're professionals when they step on the court," Enfield said. "They've been a huge addition to our program not only from a talent perspective but how they conduct their business on a day-to-day basis."
NCAA INVESTIGATION
Along with other schools, the Trojans are facing an ongoing NCAA investigation that could result in punishment for major rules violations connected to college basketball's corruption scandal. Former assistant Tony Bland pleaded guilty to a felony bribery charge. The Trojans indefinitely suspended De'Anthony Melton in 2017-18 after a family friend of Melton's was linked to the federal case. He withdrew from school and later declared for the NBA draft.
WHERE'S CHUCK?
Guard Chuck O'Bannon, a former McDonald's All-American, has yet to make an impact with the Trojans. The son of former UCLA star Charles O'Bannon averaged just 1.3 points as a freshman in 2017-18 before missing all but one game last season with an injured pinky finger. He was hurt over the summer and didn't participate in the Trojans' foreign tour. "He had a very good preseason," Enfield said. "He's slowly getting back to where he needs to be."
EARLY SCHEDULE
The Trojans play five of their first six games at Galen Center. Their nonconference schedule includes a Nov. 16 visit to Nevada (against former UCLA coach Steve Alford), the Orlando Invitational over Thanksgiving, at TCU on Dec. 6 and playing No. 22 LSU on Dec. 21 at Staples Center. Florida Gulf Coast, where Enfield first gained national prominence taking the Eagles to the Sweet 16, visits on Dec. 29.


How many of you start Christmas preparations the day after the Halloween goodies are put away? I know I do! This year besides starting to get cards and baking and gifts ready, I am excited to be starting TWO new traditions for our family this year.
The first is The Elf on the Shelf!
I saw this last year on Georgana Hall's blog. It was too late to get started with it at that point, but I made a note in my "Cut the Crazy Out of Christmas" notebook to order it for this year. The idea is that the little elf watches your children every day and reports to Santa whether they have been naughty or nice. He changes his location each night after the children go to bed and they must find him the enxt morning! He has strict instructions not to talk to the children, only to grown-ups and Santa! I ordered mine yesterday and am looking forward to having the kids grow up with this little elf watching over them. (And I am really hoping he can get them to be "nice"!) The Elf is $29.95 US and you can order it here.
The second new tradition I am preparing for is the December Daily Album. It is the brainchild of Ali Edwards and she has been doing it for a couple of years now. I love the way it is set up to capture and record all the preparations that go into Christmas, documenting the 25 days leading up to the Holiday. I am super excited about this one and have been working on it and some special freebies to share over the past couple of days. I will share more soon, but for now, go read about it and get inspired at Ali's blog.
Tuesday: One of Shane's favorites, Dijon-baked Chicken Thighs with Rice and Broccoli. This recipe is from Sandi Richard - menu planner extraordinaire!
Friday: What else...Pizza and Salad and Wine, Oh my!
Sunday: I'm getting a little bored with roast or ham for Sunday dinner...any other ideas? If not, I'll do a roast. Sigh!
And since I'm asking for advice and ideas, any new ideas for kids meals out there? What are your kids favorites? I feel like I am always cooking the same old same old!
I always love to read your weekly menus and see that you plan a traditional Sunday dinner. How about a roast chicken, meat loaf (great recipe on the Lipton's Dry Onion Soup mix box) or shepherd's pie or something in the crock like beef stew. Mmmmm. As for kids meals, Nico is always in for any kind of pasta and has taken to stir-fries (with a sweet sauce), burritos and fajitas(I can sneak extra veggies in both). Luciano is finally liking solids but will not eat any sort of baby cereal unless it's mixed in to fruit and definitely prefers texture and chunkiness over purees.
OOOH...good ideas my dear!I haven't roasted a chicken in a long time! And meatloaf was always a favorite of mine. It's funny how you forget about certain recipes!
Do you make your own burritos? I've never tried that! Thanks for the ideas!
I did Daily December last year...with my own twist. I used a bunch of gift tags and jouranling cards. I didn't do any photos since I can't print at home and live an hour away from a photo lab. I just journaled on the days when we did something Christmas-y.
I have the Prima Canvas album Ali is using this year. I think I will use it too. But this year I'm going to make a Christmas album about our decorations, traditions, celebrations etc.
I did 30 Days Hath September last year with Stacy J's Have More Fun class and it was alot of work to keep up with. When you miss a day then there is stress and pressure. I'm a stress free scrapper. So this doesn't really work for me.
Good luck with your album, I look forward to seeing pictures.


Like most New York speakeasies, Apotheke (app-o-tek) tends to be a bit on the pretentious side. If you can swallow paying $15 bucks and up for a cocktail, though, then their specially prescribed drinks, made with an array of exotic herbs and fruits, are sure to quench your thirst. The bar has a cushy, velvet interior and some nights you may even be greeted by a puss in boots-esque doorman.
Quiet and low lit, Clandestino is the perfect neighborhood bar to throw back a drink or two on lazy Sunday night.
A chill biker bar with a cavernous back room, complete with projector screen movies, dance floor, and pool table. Drinks are cheap and go down accordingly.
This sketchy massage parlor moonlights as a bar and dance club. The venue also hosts spoken word and literary events throughout the week.
You'll feel right at home at this sweet little dive bar and hipster dance party. Friday nights will have you busting out your 60s dance moves to the DJ's groovy tunes. Drinks are dirt cheap, though there is sometimes a small cover charge at the door ($3).


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The Great Debate: Tongue In vs. Tongue Out
November 18th, 2016 | Funny as Puck, Hockey Debate
As our nation's political battles rage on, one important fundamental debate cannot be forgotten. Of course, we are talking about the critical decision of whether to go tongue in or tongue out with your skates.
Although the decision of whether to go tongue in or tongue out most often comes down to what feels best, it does say a lot about the type of player you are.
Tongue In
Throughout the history of the game, the tongue in look has always been used by the more conservative and humble members of the hockey community. Tongue in is a clean, simple, more protective look.
Most of today's great players go tongue in – McDavid, Laine, Matthews, Kane, Crosby, Stamkos, Seguin – with only a few legends that paved the way – Forsberg, Lindros and Messier (sometimes). In fact, when this blog was published 14 of the 15 top scorers in the NHL went tongue in. Can you name the one player that goes tongue out?
Here are the types of players that typically tuck in the tongues of their skates:
The Defensive D-man (ex. Lidstrom, Chara, Suter, Vlasic, Keith, etc.) almost always goes tongue in. They keep it simple and avoid anything flashy. Big Z is the embodiment of what every defensive d-man strives to be and the long bodied blue liner has used the tongue tucked look ever since he entered the league.
The Grinder/Goon (ex. Cooke, Parros, Ott, Neil, Clutterbuck, etc) most often goes with the tongue tucked in look. These guys are so anti-flash that even the thought of a little tongue showing makes them cringe more than taking a high hit. There is also a good chance that these guys will toss a wrap of clear tape around the ankle to make sure the tongue won't budge from under their shin guard.
The Humble Leader (ex. Stevens, Selanne, Tavares, Crosby, Toews, etc) almost always puts their shinnies over the tongue of their skates. Although these guys are usually the most skilled players on the team, they are also often the captain and leader.
This requires them to tuck the tongue in to contain the pressure and emotions of being looked upon in the locker room. The cleaner tongue in look shows they are truly here for the good of the squad.
The Sniper/Goal Scorer has slowly transitioned from a tongue out to a tongue in player (Hull, Bure, Stamkos, Jagr, Kane, etc). Snipers are typically finicky about their sticks, tape jobs, and gear. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that they typically tuck their tongues under their shin pads. It feels better for most players, looks better according to most players and allows them to focus on going bar dizzown.
The PK Specialist is without question a tongue in player (Nielsen, Doughty, Pietrangelo, Talbot, Adams, etc). Being a quality penalty killer doesn't require a ton of skill, but it does require guts, hard work, and skating ability. The tongue in look fits the bill as it's simple, aerodynamic and provides arguably more protection than the tongue out look (to block shots). The PK specialist tucks his tongues in, puts on his hard hat and goes to work.
Tongue Out
Tongue out is antiquated. It's legendary status – Lemieux, Gretzky, Messier (sometimes), Federov and mostly anyone that played before or during the 90's went tongue out. It feels awkward for most and looks kind of goofy. It says I'm here to party and don't give a flying fack about what you think.
It's hard to find modern NHL players that go tongue out, but there are some brave souls who do, most of which are old school – Ovechkin, Orpik, Thornton, Weber, Grabner, Iginla, Zetterberg, Callahan, Ladd, and Panarin.
Here are the types of players who usually rock the flop:
The Playmaker is usually a tongue out guy (ex. Yzerman, Oates, Sakic, Zetterberg, Thornton, etc). The Playmaker likes to dish the biscuit and puts the team first. They're more concerned about finding the open guy than how their skates feel. You could put a pair of Mega Microns on this guy and he'll still find a way to set up his teammate for a back door tap in.
The Offensive D-man (ex. Bourque, Byfuglien, Weber, Carlson, McDonagh, etc.) typically rocks the flopped tongue look. Big Buff is one of the flashiest, highest skilled d-men in the league and he likes to show it. He dangles around guys and puts them on their ass at the same time! And he does this all while rocking a flop on some of the nastiest custom skates in the game. Mad respect for the skill and the style.
The White Skate Guy. Anyone with white skates is pretty much required to rock the tongue out look (Gretzky, Kovalev, Perron, Smyth, Green, etc). Some believe they specially make the skates with extra long tongues just so it is uncomfortable if you try to tuck them in. You can't be the dude flying around in white wheels if you don't own up to them 100% of the time! Of course, there are some that rock the white wheels and go tongue in, but it's ill advised in our book.
The Power Forward is traditionally a tongue out kind of guy (Tocchet, Lucic, Stevens, Messier, Neely, etc). This guy could give two sh*ts about what his gear looks like. In fact, the power forward probably doesn't even need tongues on his skates. He's more concerned about taking the puck to the net and punishing you every time he gets the chance.
Last, but certainly not least, is the Superstar/Legend (ex. Ovechkin, Gretzky, Lemieux, Francis, Iginla, etc). These guys love everything about being flashy and unique. They love all the attention and live for the spotlight. From embarrassing tendys, to their choreographed cellies, and all the way down to their long flopped skate tongues. Letting the tongue out is a style statement that needs to be made when you are concerned with the pictures that will be taken of you after you score.
No matter which you prefer, most likely based on feel and none of the above, lol, the positioning of your skate tongue says a lot about you and your game.
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The Ever Confused Marina Mahathir #pakdin.my
When a person thinks that she is too intelligent, then she has closed all possibility to accept new knowledge. When that possibility is closed, what happen is that her knowledge will become restricted and unable to be widened. Her arrogance will put her in the same spot and she is refrained to have the ability to understand other issues fully and intelligently.
This is what happened to Marina Mahathir.
Marina grew up overseas, and was surrounded with people from different religion, and she thinks that she has enough knowledge about life compared to others who are guarded by the value of their race and religion. Marina believes that, her openness is equal to her intelligence. The more a person thinks that he or she is intelligent, the more they will rely solely on the logic of their own thought.
Because of it, Marina looked up to the westerners and feels that their way is the best. A lot of times, she is unable to differentiate between good and bad because she's too busy worshipping the westerners.
A person has wisdom must know that everything in this world must have a good side and a bad side. The good thing about the west is that their knowledge and civilization (that they inherit from Muslims culture) and the bad thing about the west is their lack of family values and community spirit. Even though the west is so called the Champion of Human Rights, but the west is also the one who accepted the degradation of humanity by accepting animalistic attributes, purely for their hunger for lust and power.
Sadly, Marina took it all and regard everything about the west is good and non-westerners are bad.
It is clear that Marina does not inherit the features of his father, in the sense of intelligence and wisdom.
Today, Marina stands on the platform of human rights and feminism through a lot of NGO. Among it is the ever notorious SIS (Sisters in Islam).
Marina was invited to launch the Seksualiti Merdeka program in 2011 to promote unnatural sex as a part of human rights. When the program was heavily criticized, Marina came up and defended the program saying it is not about "free sex" but Marina failed to understand that the critics were talking about unnatural sex act that is against the natural attributes of a human being and against the teaching of all religion.
Marina openness seems impaired to help her to come up with a reasonable explanation. The same thing happens when Marina was criticized by the Coalition of Malaysian Muslim (ISMA) regarding the issue of COMANGO.
Recently, ISMA distributed flyers about the "mastermind" behind COMANGO based on her capacity as a part of Sisters in Islam.
Marina however, denied that she has anything to do with COMANGO and threathens to sue ISMA. Marina's denial has created a lot of confusion, especially among her supporters.
Marina has already stated openly about her stands on unnatural sex or LGBT and Marina has made a statement that shows her support of apostasy in one of the articles as stated below:
"There is inclination for a lot of parties to preach to everyone regarding their faiths now more than before. The funny thing is, they are more interested to take action among those who same faith as them. It's like joining a club and you are not allowed to leave, even if you are not satisfied with its rules."
The two things which is LGBT and apostasy, are the main issue that the COMANGO fought for. These issues are a threat to the nation and this is why ISMA retaliated.
Justeru kita tidak faham kenapa apabila dikecam oleh ISMA, Marina enggan mengaku menyokong atau pun terlibat dengan COMANGO pula. Jika ditafsirkan dengan ringkas, kenyataan Marina bolehlah ditulis seperti berikut:
Thus, we do not understand when she is criticized by ISMA, Marina refused to support or admit any of her involvement in COMANGO. It is as if she is saying, she support LGBT and apostasy but Marina does not support COMANGO.
Her statement contradicts one another.
Now, it has been proven that Marina is a person who does not know what she is doing. She is confused and so does her supporters. It has been shown in many of the social media owned by her supporters where they do not understand anything that is currently happening and the ISMA issue that is getting hotter. They just show their support of Marina without knowing what is she fighting for.
We hoped that Marina will understand that openness and liberalism is not the same as intelligence or wisdom. Marina has to learn how to be humble and admit that the "freedom" that she enjoys did not make her more powerful or intelligent than anyone else. For what is worth, her action will only bring shame on herself and her family.
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Food52 Review: WHO: EmilyC tipped us off to Crook's Corner's Green Peach Salad, and now she's working her magic on ripe peaches, too.
WHAT: The royal treatment that your best peaches deserve, complete with herb-scented sugar and salted caramel sauce.
HOW: Make rosemary-flecked sugar in the food processor, then use it to season halved peaches. Pan-roast the fruit in a cast iron skillet with plenty of butter, then finish them in the oven until they're tender and bubbling. Top with a salted caramel sauce for a gooey finish.
To pan-roast peaches: Preheat oven to 425° F. Liberally sprinkle cut sides of halved peaches with the rosemary sugar, and follow with a pinch of salt.
To make salted caramel sauce: Combine sugar, corn syrup (or golden syrup), and 1/4 cup water in a deep saucepan. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring once or twice, until the sugar has dissolved. Continue cooking without stirring (stirring can cause the sugar to crystallize), swirling the pan occasionally while the sugar cooks. If you notice any sugar on the sides of your sauce pan, brush it down with a wet pastry brush to dissolve the sugar crystals.
Once the pan is off the heat, add the heavy cream (stand back because it will sputter upon hitting the caramel), and then whisk in the butter until smooth. If the caramel develops any lumps, place it back over low heat and whisk until smooth. Let stand for 3 minutes, then add the vanilla extract. Season the finished caramel with fleur de sel to taste. Tightly covered and refrigerated, the caramel sauce should keep for several weeks in the fridge; gently rewarm it before serving.
Note: When making caramel, I prefer the taste of golden syrup to that of corn syrup. If using golden syrup, I highly recommend the use of a candy thermometer. The golden syrup makes the sugar solution an amber color from the get-go, making it much, much harder to judge the stopping point by eye.
Hi Emily - Husband and I really enjoy this flavor combo. Next time going to add more rosemary and we'll try it with the sauce. And love Kate's idea with grilled pork chops.
How can I make 6-8 peaches at a time? 12-16 halves?
Hi Martha: use could adapt the recipe to a sheet pan by arranging your halved peaches in a single layer and drizzling then with melted butter. If you want a little color on them, pop them under the broiler at the end!
This is a delicious side (without caramel sauce) with grilled pork chops. I'm very interested in finding other uses for this savory sugar... I'll keep you posted.
Thanks, Emily - I'm looking forward to trying this when our Colorado peaches finally come to market in August!
Really good! Best part: awesomest caramel sauce ever. Thanks!
Mmmmm.. Just made these with pears. I only put about a tablespoon of rosemary in the sugar but was sorry because I can't taste it at all. Served it with gelato alla crema.
And i burnt myself making the caramel. I always do.
Love this recipe. Would be a nice dessert for guests after eating a heavy meal.
Thanks Pat! I like this recipe for the same reason, and for the fact that it can be prepared in advance.
How about some ice cream with it, too?
Oh absolutely yes! I recommend ice cream in my headnote.
Warmest Congrats on the wildcard win!
Congratulations Emily on the Wildcard Win! Roasting, definitely brings out the best flavors in fruits.
Thanks Kukla! I love roasting and grilling fruit this time of year.
Congratulations on the WC win! Yum!
this sounds wonderful and looks beautiful!
Thanks Em! I'm so looking forward to buying my first peaches of the season, soon!
me too!!! i had one last week that was just awesome- made me excited!