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It's that time of year again! Football season is here, which means Washington, DC has a fever for the local team. Washington is led by head coach Jay Gruden, who embarks on his fifth season at the helm with high expectations. The 'Skins will look to reach the Super Bowl for the first time since 1992. Here are a few reasons to enjoy their quest in person at FedExField – then don't forget to score tickets to the big game while you're in town.
With the departure of quarterback Kirk Cousins comes the arrival of veteran signal-caller Alex Smith. The three-time Pro Bowler and former no. 1 overall pick has been one of the winningest QBs in the league over the last seven years, compiling a 69-31-1 record with the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City. He's also coming off his most successful season as a pro, as he threw for 4,042 yards and 26 touchdowns in 2017 while leading the league in passer rating (104.7).
Smith leads a unit that also features free agent signee wide receiver Paul Richardson, Jr. and recently acquired, Hall-of-Fame-bound running back Adrian Peterson. These two welcome acquisitions add to a Gruden-led offense that already boasted tight end Jordan Reed, explosive tailback Chris Thompson and slot receiver Jamison Crowder.
While Washington's defense showed improvement last season, there's room for a lot more in 2018. Enter Da'Ron Payne, the team's first-round pick (13th overall) out of Alabama. The run-stuffing defensive tackle pairs with his former Alabama teammate, Jonathan Allen, to create a formidable defensive line duo that should help stuff opponents at the line of scrimmage. A standout last year, Zach Brown returns at middle linebacker, while a retooled secondary is led by veterans Josh Norman (cornerback) and D.J. Swearinger (safety).
The home game slate starts with the Andrew Luck-led Colts on Sept. 16 (1 p.m.), with many more can't-miss matchups to come. The following week (Sept. 23, 1 p.m.), former NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers leads the Green Bay Packers into FedExField, while Cam Newton (another former MVP) and the Carolina Panthers visit on Oct. 14 (1 p.m.). Of course, NFC East rivals are also on the schedule, as the Dallas Cowboys roll into town on Oct. 21 (4:25 p.m.), the New York Giants visit on Dec. 9 (1 p.m.) and the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles continue their title defense on the last day of the regular season (Dec. 30, 1 p.m.).
This season, FedExField has added a new Fan Pavilion in the West End Zone. The new area, which is available to all fans in attendance, offers a renovated bar section, great sightlines and multiple high definition TVs showing games from around the NFL. FedEx has also revamped its food menu. Fans can enjoy new items such as the Pit Bull, a foot-long, all-beef hot dog, in addition to smoked chicken wings, steak and cheese eggrolls, a Maryland crab grilled cheese and BBQ chicken and waffles.


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It's got to be the ugliest clock I've ever seen. Worse than that it was broken – fully wound, yet not even the hint of a tick when shaken, and the hands were dangling loose. Cosmetically it was in poor shape too, tarnished, with rust leaking through the gilt, and I really didn't care for that ormolu filigree decoration at all. Who in their right mind would waste money on such a thing? Okay, so I would, but for £1.50 from the charity shop it was hardly a ripoff, and I'd get some pleasure from tinkering with it, even if it was only to learn a little more about how these things were put together. Such knowledge is pointless of course, because nothing is put together like this any more. But then much of what we pick up in life, even the stuff we think is really, really important, turns out to be pointless in the end.
It's a Blessing – the clock I mean, made in Waldkirsch/Breisgau, West Germany. Like most old consumer grade clockmakers they're gone now – the latest I can date them to is an advert for 1974, but they were a prolific maker in their day. If you search online, Blessing clocks are as common as Smiths. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder of course, so I'm being subjective in describing it as ugly. Anyway, clocks of this period are usually pretty "robust", so all was not lost. I was sure I could get it going.
What usually happens is they get dirty inside, the original oil turns to mush and the whole thing gums up. It slows down, becomes unreliable, you get cross with it. It stops. That's the thing with these old wind-up clocks. You could have it serviced by a clockmaker, but it'll always be cheaper to throw it away and buy a new one. So, quirky and unloved, consumer-grade tickers like this usually end up in the bin. How this one escaped is a mystery, but anyway,..
It's an act of defiance I suppose, that I should want to get it going, though who the enemy is, who or what it is I am defying is harder to say – and I don't just want to get it going, I want it ticking as sweet and accurate as when it was new. In a further act of defiance I can perhaps give it back to the charity shop and they can get a fiver for it.
I suppose what I'm doing is acting in a way I'm not expected to. I've been doing this fairly effortlessly one way or the other all my life – like the way I get the exact atomic time from my 'phone each morning, and transfer it to any one of a variety of wind-up wristwatches, circa 1950, which manage to keep track of it within about ten seconds per day. But this is another story – unhelpful tangent – except to further illustrate my eccentricity and total lack of any coherent explanation of myself.
Anyway back to the Blessing: Mechanical devices from this period – I'm guessing late sixties/early seventies – were manufactured in ways that were reversible – in other words you could take them apart, strip them to their nuts and clean them up. They were put together by people sitting at a bench. Modern, consumer clocks are made and assembled by robots and are meant to be thrown away when they stop. Many aren't even granted the dignity of a fresh battery.
Sure enough, the mechanism comes out of the case without much trouble – just unscrew a few things and the case comes apart into an array of interesting bits and pieces, all of them metal except for the acrylic "glass".
The back-plate of the mechanism is stamped by the maker. This is West Germany, and marks it as coming from the pre-unification, cold war period, as important a period in post-war European History as will be the period post BREXIT. Already our ugly old clock is having us think of interesting things.
Let's see: the balance spring is in good shape, likewise the rest of the escapement. So, our ugly old clock is in with a chance. Note of caution though: there are fingerprints all over the end-plate, so it's obvious someone's had a go at it before me. This is not uncommon – a squirt of 3-in-1 oil being the usual desperate remedy. I know because I've done it myself as a kid. It hadn't worked – it never does – and fortunately further attention seems to have proved too intimidating for my predecessor – there being no tool marks on the nuts that hold the plates together.
So far my £1.50 investment is yielding great value for money.
The mechanism is heavy with fluff and hair, both human and cat, and goodness knows what else. A preliminary swill in white spirit gets the worst of this gunk off, then the mechanism is at least in presentable condition for the workbench, and further disassembly. One day I'll get myself a cheap Ultrasonic tank.
Already we see the clock is wanting to run, the balance wheel is fluttering and a hesitant ticking is beginning to emerge from it. We're a long way yet from getting things going properly, but the signs are promising.
Next comes the fun of a full strip down and a battle with the feeling that the further one goes, the less likely one is to remember how things go back together. Once stripped, we clean every little pin and pivot, put it back together, oil it, and away it should run.
Does the clock survive? Do I? Does any of it really matter? Well of course not, but that's life. We ponder what we think matters, and we ponder it wherever we can find it. And we can find it anywhere, even in the innards of an ugly old clock.
Jack the lad, and his mum and dad!
There's a debate among collectors whether or not a personalised inscription on an old watch or a piece of jewellery alters its value. The majority view is that it devalues it considerably, indeed on a cheaper piece it renders it all but worthless.
Other collectors, perhaps less concerned with an object's material value, will say it adds human interest. It can also be useful if the inscription includes a date so we can accurately place the piece in time.
Personally though, I avoid old watches with a dedication. I'm not sure why. I have plenty of old books on my shelf that bear a dedication to strangers, yet I feel I possess them no less for all of that. I mean a book is a book, after all. But a watch is a wearable piece of kit and it will always feel like someone else's watch if it's got their name on it and a hint of their history. It wouldn't feel right to wear it myself. It would be as if I had stolen it. With a book it's more like borrowing it.
I don't know who jack was, or his mum and dad, but I do know the watch has a fine seven jewel pin-lever movement, a Swiss MST 374 to be precise, which dates the watch to 1950. It's a well worn piece, indeed a lifetime of wear by the looks of it, most of the gold plating rubbed off, the case pitted with a million dings, and the plexiglass all finely crazed, but somehow not unattractive for all of that. There is still something elegant about it.
I'm guessing Jack's dead now, that the watch came from a house clearance or something. Jack would have been in his late eighties, his passing quite recent, his life cleared out, his furniture given to charity, his papers burned, a few items picked up by the clearance merchant and put on Ebay. What else can we surmise? Well, I suspect there were no children nor grandchildren, or they might have held on to the watch, given the inscription, and the family significance, or maybe they just weren't sentimental about stuff like that.
I find it rather sad to think of this parental gift, marking time for the whole of Jack's adult lifetime, only to be discarded and wash up anonymously on the second hand market, though I suppose that's better than it going in the bin. How easily these days we are deleted, our life's worth scattered to the four winds, how easily we can be forgotten, brushed off, even by kith and kin.
I wonder about him, about his Mum and Dad, and I try to imagine that birthday long ago, when this little Medana was sparkling new, the gold plate unworn and deep with lustre, and Jack was making his first steps into the adult world. Medana was a respectable brand, a sister brand to Roamer, good quality manufacture, though neither of them in the luxury bracket, so Jack's parents were not that well off, not your Patek Phillipe, dynasty founding types, but they appreciated a bit of quality for a special occasion.
This was an ordinary life, Jack the lad and his mum and dad. Had he any surviving sisters? Brothers? Surely they too would have kept the watch had they known about it. For a reasonable sum it could even have been professionally restored and passed on, kept in the family, but I guess it's just no that kind of watch. I hope Jack did not die lonely.
The lustre of the case has not lasted a lifetime, but it tells me Jack was loyal to the watch even as it began to show its age, loyal to the gift and the memory of his Mum and Dad. It also carries jewellers marks inside the case, further indicating it was looked after, serviced, loved, valued. I see Jack wearing it from the time he was 21, strapping it on each morning and setting out into the world, his world, and now he's gone. And I've got his watch, a watch that's worth nothing, and even a little less than nothing for having his name on it, but then such is life. As a story though it speaks volumes, filling the imagination, even though the actual truth of Jack's life we'll never know.
But here's my dilemma: I can't tinker with it. This isn't just any old watch after all. It's Jack's. So I'll put it in my little tin of keepers – maybe to confuse my own progeny when I've popped my clogs and they're clearing out my own tat.
I don't know, but I raise a glass.
I found this little Raketa alarm clock at the weekend. It was on a junk stall,and the seller wanted £1.50 for it. It's an old clockwork model, and wasn't running. You can buy a new alarm clock, pretty much like this one for a couple of quid these days, a modern battery version – so £1.50 for a broken clock might not seem much of a bargain, but I like stripping and cleaning old clocks and seeing if I can get them going. Human beings aren't always logical creatures and our emotional drivers are usually too complex to explain to others. Indeed, if we have to explain them at all, we're probably wasting our breath and better finding someone else to talk to.
Like broken human beings, what old clocks and watches like this are mostly suffering from is neglect. This one was simply gummed up with decades old 3 in 1 oil, and it responded well to a bit of TLC. I dismantled it, cleaned it up in white spirit, then reassembled and sparingly oiled the jewels with proper watch oil. It was very satisfying to see it come to life.
The unassuming exterior of the Raketa hides a very fine 19 jewel movement, originally designed for a pocket-watch, but adapted to take a nicely engineered timer and striker mechanism. By contrast the modern alarm clock is not designed to come apart much, other than to change a battery. They are not intended for repair. If it broke, you'd throw it away. This is the natural evolution of Capital, to make something deliberately beyond economic repair from the outset.
With an occasional service by a watchmaker, the Raketa will last a hundred years, but at forty quid a service who's going to pay that? There'll be no watchmakers in a hundred years, only tinkerers like me. Clocks and watches like this are to be our natural inheritance, also the reasons why we bother in the first place.
The Raketa was built in Soviet era Russia, a period when east-west tensions had us all talking about Nuclear Armageddon, a period that taught me there was no surviving such a thing, that the lucky ones would be those sitting under the first bombs as they fell – at least in Europe where the population density is high and the targeted cities are insufficiently far apart to provide safe havens in between. In a nuclear war, there are no safe havens, you see? You either die fast or you die slow – and the former is obviously preferable. What you cannot do is survive. And those weapons haven't gone away, we managed to pretend for a while they had, but now we're talking about them again, talking up the likelihoood of a nuclear war.
Imagine the other side have launched their nukes (Russia, North Korea). You're going to die one way or the other. What would you do? Launch yours as well, simply to ensure the other side is wiped out along with you? Imagine you have a potential leader who says they wouldn't hesitate to do it, that their readiness to do it is in fact our best defence. Or you have another potential leader who says they'd not launch under any circumstances, that it was immoral. Who would you vote for? And what kind of civilisation would be asking such questions in the first place?
But we were talking about clocks.
Time-pieces interest me on many levels. On the scientific and engineering level it's a question of how you design a device to accurately shadow the movement of the earth with respect to the sun and provide a globally synchronised reference for conducting human affairs, so for example sixteen hundred hours on the twelfth of January 2027 means the same to everyone. But we can also think in more philosophical and existential terms, a time-piece being then a construct that maps our place in time, the hands sweeping up the history of our lives as they circle.
I prefer mechanical timepieces, even though they are less accurate. There's something about analogue mechanisms being themselves a metaphor of life – each piece visible, open to scrutiny and doing its bit, responding to the rhythm of life, its function being to assist in recording the history of its greater self.
My little Raketa has known a great deal of modern history – it's perhaps thirty or forty years old. It's known the ending of the cold war, and the reunification of Germany. But I'm not sure how long its been asleep, and what it's missed – a couple of gulf wars perhaps, the Syrian civil war, Libya,the European refugee crisis? What it will witness in the future one can only guess – the breakup of the European Union seems likely, also Scottish independence, the forced reunification of Ireland, and perhaps a new American war with North Korea?
Perhaps I'd've been better leaving it on the shelf. Some things I'm sure, like me, it would rather not know about. I'm reminded that I retire in 2020, that alarm clocks will then no longer be necessary, though I could make a decent hobby out of tinkering with old clocks and watches – and writing of course. A question for myself then: do I build a writing cabin in the back garden, or a nuclear bunker?
It has to be a writing cabin. The nuclear bunker is a waste of time, though I notice they are very much back in vogue.
My apologies to the other bidder who was after this rather nice looking Bernex. I know it doesn't help now, but I assure you I would not have bid any higher than the £22 it went for, so you should have kept going, added that extra 50p and clinched it. But that's the curse of auctions, online or otherwise, isn't it? If we're not careful we get carried away, ego takes over, and we're damn well going to have the thing, no matter what it costs. The only winner then is the auction house. So, in this case we both stuck to our limits and in that way we were both winners. I may have clinched the actual prize this time, but the goddess of restraint has had me miss out on it often enough in the past.
But here's the thing: what I really wanted was the Montine that closed five minutes after the Bernex, and which I suspected most vintage horologists had taken their eye from in single minded pursuit of the Bernex, and which I'd therefore imagined I could nail pretty cheap. Sure enough, the Montine went for just £14 and would have made a more ideal tinkertoy, but by then my pocket money was spent and I had to let it go. From past experience I thought the Bernex would have sailed on up to £50 or £60, which goes to show you just never can tell with auctions. It comes down to the mood of the day, perhaps even the phase of the moon.
The seller said it winds and runs, and it does. The seller said the timekeeping had not been measured and in any case could not be guaranteed, but I find it keeps time reasonably well. There's some wear of the plating on the case, and it needs a new glass, but other than that it has survived the years with dignity – except for that disgusting Fixoflex strap – remorseless nipper of the hairy wrist! Uggh!
Polished, a new glass, a decent strap, and professionally serviced, this one could sit happily in the vintage section of the posh jeweller's window with a price tag of maybe a hundred, or a hundred and fifty pounds. I hesitate therefore to tinker, to strip it to bits, to clean and oil and regulate, to risk losing the screws to the carpet, or bending the balance, or marking this fine seventy year old dial with a careless slip of a screwdriver blade.
The rickety old Avia I wrote about a while ago, and which I'd not wanted to die on my watch, died on my watch. The balance jewels turned to dust when I cleaned them, and an intricate repair to the lever, carried out in the mists of time, and under the lupe of a man more masterful at the art than I, came undone. At best I now I have an Anton Schild movement as spares for the more robust bits that tend never to be needed. I don't want the Bernex to go the same way, end its days in the ignominy of my bit-box. It is not a Rolex, just as it is not a Rolls Royce, but even a Ford Focus man like me can enjoy those rare moments when mass produced stuff has a quality about it that shines.
£22 is about the cost of dinner, an experience all too often questionable, and in any case gone in an hour, lingering in the memory only as indigestion. I do not dine out much these days, but for the same money I shall have many more hours of delicate tinkering with this old beauty, learning as I go, and this time I hope, another nice vintage gent's dress watch to fill a gap in my collection of sensibly priced tickers – indeed a Bernex to add to my Avias!
The Ebay bug continues to bite. Search: Gents vintage watch. Maximum bid £20. To date I've managed to mend slightly more of them than I've junked. But let's be honest, this "mending" has involved only patience in the stripping down, cleaning, oiling and reassembling. Anything broken or missing is, I fear, (usually) the death knell for the consumer grade tickers of yesteryear. I do not tinker with the luxury end of the market, nor anyone's priceless family heirloom. One slip with a screwdriver and it's game-over. That's just too risky a business.
I'm sure you can still get hold of the delicate bits of Rolexes and Omegas dating back to the 1940's, and that's fine – those old beauties will survive for centuries, but a Timex, an Avia, or a Services? It is these consumer grade tickers that are the endangered species, beautiful in themselves but vulnerable to the misadventures of tinkerers and Bodger Bills like me. But I shouldn't be too hard on myself – it's up to the Bodger Bills to preserve these less prestigious makes, because their insignificant value means that when they stop, they are not worth a proper watch-maker's time, and the bin is their usual fate.
My most recent project was rather a sorry looking Cardinal for which I paid ten pounds. All the gold plating was worn off and it was losing 5 minutes a day. But it was a valiant little specimen, keen to keep going, and for all of its poor time-keeping, it kept that poor time reliably, if you know what I mean. The plan was to polish up the case to more of a chrome shine, clean and oil the mechanism and regulate it back into decent time-keeping.
The dial told me Cardinal was a Swiss manufacturer – usually the mark of a watch designed to long outlive its original owner, but opening this specimen up revealed an uninteresting mechanism – purely functional, no flourish to it at all, and a little flimsy. It was made to market, product of a cost cutting era when the West still sought to rescue its share of consumer goods, under fierce competition from the East. We lost. We were never very good at going cheap, the secret being to somehow retain the soul of a thing, rather than it being the first thing we threw away, which we all too frequently did. Nowadays we still manage a decent fist of the luxury end of the market, but much of that is nostalgia for a time that probably never was and we shall never recover our prowess for GDP enhancing volume manufacture. At least not in my life-time.
So, I was disappointed in the mechanism, but you can't argue over the price I paid for it and a clean in my little agitation tank, and some fresh oil got the rate back up to a more accurate attempt at 300 beats a minute. The beat itself was lopsided though – more tick-tick-a-tick than a smooth tick-tick-tick, but there was adequate adjustment to bring this back in line. After an evening of tinkering we had what looked like a promising return to good time-keeping, its daily losses now counted in fractions of a minute rather than multiples.
Meanwhile the case polished up very nicely indeed – all the remaining bits of gold removed and the base metal brought up to an impressive chrome shininess by successive layers of abrasive paper: 600 grit, 1200 grit, 2400 grit, then a good going over with Solvol metal polish and a fine buffing wheel on a Dremel drill. The result was pleasing – the time spent was enormously absorbing.
Then came reassembly, but I chose an inopportune time, the TV nagging in the corner of the room and one of those occasional familial spats kicking off around me. Watch tinkering requires focus. The lifting of every screwdriver, the unfastening of every screw, the withdrawal of every pin, the lifting of every plate. The smoothness, the focus, the deliberation, the intent, all guard against surprise, and against the panic that sometimes ensues when "surprise" happens. In this sense watch repair is like meditation. And like meditation, to begin with at least, we need a quiet room.
The plate was about five millimetres diameter, brass, a quarter of a millimetre in thickness, and had curled into it a spring, like a paperclip, but again very small, so I had not noticed it on strip down. I spotted it now through the loupe as it pivoted away, ready to fall. I caught it with the tweezers, breathed easy, teetering on the brink of disaster. Then the agitation around me reached a crescendo, broke through momentarily, caused a ripple of irritation on the still surface of my thoughts, a tremor of the hand,… and the spring literally dematerialised. One moment it was there, held safe in my tweezers, the next it was gone.
The spring was part of the mechanism that flips the date, a complication which, in the case of this watch was more complicated than any other I have encountered. The watch would still go back together, tell good time, I supposed, but that it would never know the date again was unfortunate. On the plus side, it was not a good quality watch, so I had not ruined much. But I had thought that if I could have got it running better and cleaned up to a more presentable shine, I could in all good conscience have resold it on the Bay as a more superior specimen than the one I'd bought, but alas it looked like I'd junked it, and all for the want of a spring the size of fly's leg.
But a spring is a spring, fashioned from spring-steel, and I remembered I had it a-plenty from my torsion clock days. I chose a quieter time. No TV, no other people around. An hour under the loupe with snippers and pliers and a new spring took shape. It slotted into place snugly, held firm and performed crisply, pressing the tiny detent mechanism into the date wheel, so it stepped through the days properly. The Cardinal once more knew what day it was, as well as making a better stab at the time. And I began to feel less like a Bodger Bill and more like a watchmaker.
Nope – still a Bodger Bill, Michael.
I remember an old clockmaker showing me once a repair that had been made on a three hundred year old clock. The bit of bent iron crudely fashioned into an escapement mechanism I correctly identified as a discarded horseshoe. I was impressed by such ingenuity. The clockmaker was not.
I've worn it for a week now, and it does passably well – all right, sometimes it gains a minute, depending how I set it down at night, and then there's a slackness in the train that makes the minute hand wander plus or minus a minute when you tap the watch, so the time will always be something of an average, no matter how well the beat is regulated. Alas I cannot release it back into the wild as anything other than another tinkerer's tinker thing. Yes, it's running slightly better than when I got it, but admittedly not much, and I would certainly not like to rely on it. But the watch tinkerer's Cardinal rule is that we must accept much of the value in what we do is not in the end result of our actions, nor in the final bid price if we decide to sell, but in the journey we took the moment we flipped off the back.


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Das Shire of Paroo ist ein lokales Verwaltungsgebiet (LGA) im australischen Bundesstaat Queensland. Das Gebiet ist 47.613 km² groß und hat etwa 1640 Einwohner.

Geografie
Das Shire liegt im Süden des Staats an der Grenze zu New South Wales etwa 720 km westlich der Hauptstadt Brisbane.

Größte Ortschaft und Verwaltungssitz der LGA ist Cunnamulla mit etwa 1000 Einwohnern. Weitere Ortschaften sind Barringun, Coongoola, Cunnamulla, Cuttaburra, Eulo, Humeburn, Hungerford, Jobs Gate, Linden, Nebine, Noorama, Tuen, Widgeegoara, Wyandra und Yowah.

Geschichte
Nach der Erforschung in den 50er Jahren des 19. Jahrhunderts begann zögernd die Besiedlung des Gebiets, besonders um die Wasserstelle beim heutigen Cunnamulla. 1879 wurde die lokale Verwaltung des Paroo Shire eingerichtet.

Verwaltung
Der Paroo Shire Council hat fünf Mitglieder. Der Mayor (Bürgermeister) und vier weitere Councillor werden von allen Bewohnern des Shires gewählt. Die LGA ist nicht in Wahlbezirke unterteilt.

Weblinks
 Offizielle Seite des Paroo Shire Council (englisch)
 Queensland Places: Paroo Shire (englisch)

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There's some really loony stuff out there. Some of it comes in the form of laws and here are some Canadian examples. Bear in mind that some of these are quite antiquated, but you gotta wonder just what precipitated some of them:
So, did you know that in Canada . . .
- That it's illegal to challenge someone or accept an invitation to a duel.
- That it's illegal to use a false name on a telegram. (What is a telegram?)
- That it's illegal to pay for a purchase over $5.00 with nickels.
- That in Thomson, Manitoba it's illegal to live in a streetcar.
- That in Newfoundland it's illegal to keep cows in your house.
- That in Alberta it's illegal to set fire to the wooden leg of a wooden legged man. (Gee, I wonder what the story is behind that?)
- That in Calgary, Alberta, when a prisoner is released from prison, it is required to give him a handgun with bullets and a horse so he can ride out of town. (I don't think they apply that one anymore.)
- That in Montreal, Quebec, it's illegal to swear in French. (Guess that means you can swear all you want in English.)
- That in Beaconsfield, Quebec, it's illegal to have more than 2 colours of paint on your house.
- That in British Columbia, it's illegal to exercise in a manner that frightens a horse without permission.
- That in British Columbia, it's illegal to kill a Sasquatch. (They haven't actually determined for sure yet, that these things actually exist, but in case they do, well, the law is in place.
- That in Ontario, it's illegal to drive your sleigh on the highway without at least 2 bells attached to the harness of your horse. (So that means, I can actually drive my sleigh down the 401 in Toronto where it's about 24 lanes wide, as long as I have 2 bells on my horse's harness. Wow!)
- That in Bancroft, Ontario, it's illegal to skinny dip.
- That in Ottawa, Ontario, (the Nation's capital) it's illegal to eat ice cream on Bank Street on Sundays. (What a bunch of spoil sports!)
- That in Windsor, Ontario, it's illegal to play your flute, recorder or mouth organ in a public park without a permit.
Lest you think this country abounds in loony laws, here is a very brief sampling from just across the border.
- California - It's illegal to wear a sweatshirt inside out. This is considered threatening.
- Florida - If you leave your elephant tied to a parking meter, the fee has to be paid as if it was a vehicle.
- New York - A $25.00 fine can be levied if you are caught flirting. A 2nd conviction requires the male to wear "horse blinders" when out in public.
- Alaska - It is illegal for moose to have intimate relations on the streets of Fairbanks.
- Kentucky - Burglaries can only be committed at night.
- Texas - It's illegal for a person to go barefoot unless they've obtained a $5.00 permit.
And on and on it goes . . . Actually, just maybe, but I'm not quite sure about this, but I think sometimes that the whole world is nuts.
Did You Know . . . ?
This is the time of year when hardy souls go out and tap their maple trees--which is also a sign that spring might yet still come.
So here's some stuff about maple syrup that you might not know.
- It takes 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup but it's worth the effort.
- A maple tree ready for tapping is at least 12 inches in diameter and around 30-40 years old.
- Tapping maple trees doesn't hurt them.
- Each tap yields about 10 gallons of sap.
- There is a variety of maple trees in Canada but only 3 of them are suitable for tapping.
- Don't be fooled. "Maple flavored" syrup is not the real thing. It doesn't taste like real syrup and never will match up. It's corn syrup with some stuff added to it so it doesn't taste like corn syrup.
- Maple syrup is ready for the table, after a whole lot of boiling, when it reaches 7 1/2 degrees above the boiling point. At this point it's 67% sugar.
- You ask is it fattening? Of course, but maple sugar is a somewhat less bad version than refined sugar. Go for it!
- 80% of the world's supply come from Canada and of that the Province of Quebec produces 2/3 of the world's supply.
- Get this. In 2012, unscrupulous villains invaded the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers' well guarded stockpile of syrup and stole 6 million pounds of syrup. That was absolutely atrocious, almost a crime against humanity, and it was one of the largest agricultural thefts ever. 23 people were arrested. Sadly 1/3 of the syrup is still missing.
- I used to tap our sugar maple tree and it was a fun spring thing to do. And it's wonderful on pancakes and waffles and vanilla ice cream or even on pumpkin pie.
- Easy Peazy pancake recipe: 2 cups Bisquick, 2 eggs, 1 cup milk. You can figure out the rest.
The weather man is giving out all kinds of dire wind warnings for today. Gusts up to 100 km. Sounds pretty windy to me, which made me think of WIND! And WIND energy.
Did you know . . .
- Albert Betz (1885-1968), a German physicist is the pioneer of wind and turbine technology. He discovered the wind energy theory and published a book on the subject in 1919--almost 100 years ago.
- Germany and Spain have the most generators even though I think there are an awful lot of them around where I live.
- And by the way, wind is the flow of gases at various rates of speed: a breeze--quite pleasant, a gale--not so pleasant, a storm--hang onto your hat and think about going for cover, and a hurricane--run for cover as fast as you can.
- Wind has become the fastest source of renewable energy--as in those windmills.
- Windmills are nothing new. They started to use them in Persia and China around 2000 BC to pump water.
- The 1st modern turbine was built in the 1940's in Vermont.
- The largest windmill, 20 stories high, is located in Hawaii. Each blade is the length of a football field.
- And now I think I'll poke my head outside to make sure everything is battened down and tied down and oh, look, the leaves are absolutely flying off the trees. Future job raking them up.
Now I don't want to depress anyone here, but the current season brings it to mind.
The word "hurricane" is derived from a Native word that means 'evil spirit of the wind'. Well you wanna believe it!
Hurricanes, which are considered weather disasters are given names. This was first done in the early 1900s by an Australian named C. Wragge. It's true, they are much more memorable when we have a name attached to an event rather than say, Hurricane No. 5.
In the Pacific Ocean, these weather disasters are called typhoons.
Jupiter has a hurricane which appears as a red dot. It's been spinning for 300 years already and it's bigger than planet Earth. Wonder when it will ever stop. It's kind of scary.
Winds in a hurricane can cause 2 million trillions gallons of rain per day. If you want to know what that is in liters, figure it out for yourself, but it's an awful lot. How on earth does it all stay up there in the sky? I guess it can't, because it comes down.
Florida is hit by 40% of hurricanes that occur in America. I wonder if they've ever thought of abandoning the state along with California which suffers from an altogether different set of natural disasters.
It is believed that hurricanes have killed about 1.9 million people in the last 200 years. A force to be reckoned with . . .
There are lots more facts about hurricanes which we've all heard on the news and this subject is mostly depressing and I'm not trying to make anyone more depressed than maybe they are because their house is flooded, or the roof is gone and well . . . you know, but here's just one slightly smilely question: What goes up when the rain comes down? Answer: Umbrella.
Did You Ever Wonder . . . . ?
Did you ever wonder what disease cured ham? And will it cure me?
How do you now when you're out of invisible ink? Duh!
Do toads sit on toadstools?
Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes? Would have saved the world a whole lot of trouble and aggravation. Makes you feel itchy all over just thinking about it. Now doesn't it?
Do Red Rose employees take coffee breaks?
When it rains, why don't sheep shrink? Well, how do you know they don't? Some things do come to us pre-shrunk.
Why is it that people who know the least, know it the loudest?
And do you ever wonder what possessed you to give me your email address?
That there is such a thing as eating too much chocolate? Yup. Chocolate contains a stimulant similar to caffeine called "theobromine". So if you were to eat, at one sitting, 22 lbs. of chocolate or 40 bars dairy milk (Sorry, don't know what size) you might achieve the state of heart failure, seizures, acute kidney damage and dehydration. Yup. Let the chocolate eaters beware.
- On a pleasant side, because chocolate is really very, very pleasant, we should save Earth because it's the only planet with chocolate. Yup.
- On an even pleasanter side, chocolate comes from a fruit tree. Very good for you.
- It takes 400 cacao beans to make 1 lb. (450 gr.) of chocolate.
- There are 1.5 million (1,500,000) cocoa farms in West Africa, so you can bet that's where a lot of this stuff comes from. Hey, I thought it came from South America. Wonder how it got transported to Africa.
- The Aztec Emperor, Montezuma, was known to drink 50 cups of cacao a day from a gold chalice. Based on the information above, he may have been pushing his luck healthwise.
- Chocolate can make your cat or dog sick. Like really sick. No chocolate for Muffin or Fido.
- And get this, there is a company that is now producing chocolate covered potato chips. Yup. Gotta check that one out at the grocery store.
- Is it good for you? Well, it is a fruit and it does have anti-oxidents in it. Guess that answers that question.
Did You Know that . . .
Now that we've had Daylight Saving Time inflicted on us again, YAWN,
- It was the venerable Ben Franklin who once suggested the concept as a means of saving on candles. Some say he was only joking, but obviously much of the world took him seriously.
- Not every country changes clocks on the same day which causes a certain amount of chaos in the business world for a week or two. And not every country actually changes its clocks. In fact, in Canada, the Province of Saskatchewan dug in its heels and they don't change their clocks at all. And they're managing perfectly fine and they avoid the things noted below:
-The time change temporarily changes us into lousy workers. YAWN.
- The day after is typically one of the most dangerous days of the year for driving with at least 20% more accidents which include dozy pedestrians not watching where they're going.
- A study in 2007 suggests that we never really get attuned to Daylight Saving Time. We just cope and are relieved when we go back to Standard Time in the fall.
- And note: It's "Daylight Saving Time", not "Savings"
I don't know why it is, but everyone I talked to this year was particularly annoyed and distressed about sending our clocks ahead by an hour. Maybe the Powers to Be should rethink the whole process. One study showed that perhaps 1% of electricity is saved because of this brain child. Bah! Humbug!
YAWN! YAWN! YAWN!
Did you know, and I bet you didn't, that the gravity in the area of Hudson Bay and surrounding area, in far northern Canada, has lower gravity than other parts of the world? Huh? Does that mean that polar bears, and people too for that matter, just go floating off into space? Imagine that!
So this phenomenon was first noticed in the 1960's when the world's gravity fields were being mapped. Of course you would expect gravity to be lower up on a very high mountain, but this is a low land area. What gives?
Certain theorists, who probably watched too much Star Trek, immediately claimed that there is a mysterious spot here that may be a portal to another world. But let's be reasonable.
Where did the gravity go?
A more scientific approach says that the Laurentide Ice Sheet (think Ice Age) which covered much of Canada and the northern United States, about 10,000 years ago, by its sheer weight, dented the earth. The ice sheet was up to 2 miles thick (3.21869 kilometers). This dent literally bent gravity. That's their take, though I don't presume to understand how you can bend gravity. Doesn't work for me. Meanwhile the earth is taking a very long time to bounce back into shape and they figure it will take another 5,000 years to do that so don't hold your breath.
Rest assured, the affect this lower gravity has on your weight is about 1/2 ounce (14.175 grams) per person. Aw shucks. You will not go drifting upwards through the Aurora Borealis and on into outer space.
On the Subject of Water, Did You Know?
- There are 117 million lakes on earth covering 3.7% of the continental surface but not including Greenland and Antarctic. . .
- Of all those lakes, 90 million of them are less than the size of two football fields. Maybe they should reconsider and call them ponds. . .
- If you add up the shorelines of all those lakes, the distance is 250 times the distance around the equator. . .
- The Dead Sea in Israel is the lowest lake in the world at 1371 feet below sea level. . .
- The highest lake in the world is Lake Ojos del Selado at 20,965 feet above sea level. It straddles the border of Chile and Argentina. . .
- The deepest lake is Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. It goes down 5,371 feet--yes, that's more than a mile. . .
- The longest lake in the world is Lake Tanganyka in Africa at 410 miles. . .
- And of course we have the Great Lakes, Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario. These mighty bodies of water hold 21% of the world's fresh water supply and yes, I'm about to go for a refreshing dip in one of them--and get all wet!!!
P.S. - The picture is on Georgian Bay, a really, really huge bay connected to Lake Huron.
Rain, Rain, Rain . . .
This is what it's been doing the last while. Rivers are overflowing, puddles are massive and it just keeps coming and coming down. But maybe it's a good thing it's water rain and not some other kind of rain. Did You Know that on Venus and several other planets rain comes down in the form of sulfuric acid or methane? Makes you wonder why the planets have simply not dissolved or exploded. I didn't know this but it is quite interesting. Don't ya think?
Sooo . . . Now that spring is here, I can safely do this. Didya know that Canada vies with Russia for first place as the coldest country in the world? I didn't know that, but I do now. The average daily temperature (for the whole country combined) is 5.6 Celsius or 42.08 Fahrenheit. Hmm, I thought we were such nice warm people.
More of Did You Know . . . .
Well, winter is here and they're predicting a whole lot of messy weather for today--snow, high wind, rain etc. etc. So what about this snow stuff?
Did You Know that snow has never been recorded in Key West? Sounds like the place to be.
And Did You Know that the average snowflake is made up of 180 billion molecules of water? Yup. Took me a whole hour to count 'em.
Furthermore, Did You Know that in 2011, over 22,000 Nova Scotians flopped down in the snow and made snow angels. Perhaps it was a sort of supplication to God to please let it not snow quite so much in the province.
And Get This. The average snowflake falls at a speed of 5 km/hr. (3.1 mph). Didn't hurt a bit when it landed on my nose.
Oh yes, the Innuit have at least 100 words for snow. I have a favourite. Blech!
Yes, it's fall, but did you know that pumpkin apparently is the most craved food in autumn--maybe because they're available and all those delicious pumpkin things become available--pie, muffins, cookies, soup--why we even bought pumpkin sausage recently from the butcher. It was very good.
Did You Know you can eat pumpkin flowers, but you'd have to do that early in the season, and then of course, you would have no pumpkins and no pie and no jack-o-lanterns etc. It's a trade off.
Did You Know that pumpkin was once recommended for removing freckles and curing snakebites but just how both those things were accomplished makes one wonder. Perhaps it was applied or dosed in the form of pie.
Did You Know that pumpkins are 90% water?
And Do You Know why so many jack-o-lanterns have such stupid smiles? Well because they have no brains!
In praise of Summer, I'll bet you didn't know . . . .
- That on hot summer days, the iron in France's Eiffel Tower expands and it grows 6 inches taller.
- That deliciously cold, wonderful treat we know as the Popsicle was accidentally invented by Frank Epperson, an 11-year old boy living in San Francisco. He left a glass of soda outside and next morning it was frozen. It was a fortuitous mistake because now over a billion are consumed each year, the favorite US flavor being cherry. Personally I prefer chocolate or orange and then maybe lime.
- That the first woman's bathing suit was created in the early 1800's. It came with bloomers. Going to the beach had become very popular what with amusement parks springing up and becoming place to see and be seen. Of course ladies of the era did not want to be tanned like a common worker and these bathing suits covered them from head to toe. They even had funny little cabanas on wheels (called bathing machines) that were hauled into the water by horses. The woman could change inside, discreetly step outside into the water to dunk herself, and then just as discreetly go back inside to change into her street clothes. It was assumed the horse would return to haul the whole business out of the water to dry land. Awesome.
- You know those studies they do? Well some study showed that kids grow faster in the spring. Maybe this is when to apply the term "growing like a weed."
- That you can balance an egg on its end only on the spring equinox? This is a myth. If you persist long enough, and hold your tongue just right, you can do it any day of the year.
- Ben Franklin proposed Daylight Savings Time in 1784. What was he thinking???!
- "Spring Fever" isn't just a saying. Your body's makeup actually changes due to diet changes, hormone production and temperature.
- The earliest use of the term "Spring Cleaning" was in 1857. Somebody didn't have enough to do and was compensating. Now they've laid this guilt trip on all of us. Should be ashamed of themselves.
Did you Know . . . This being cough season and all . . . .
- That fish can't cough? You better believe it.
- Cough drops are not a recent invention. The first recipe ever found dates back to 1000 BC from Egypt. Smart Egyptians! They mixed together honey, herbs, spices and citrus fruits. All sounds very healthy.
- On the other hand your grandmother might have mixed together 3 1/2 ounces of dried elderberries, probably picked in her back 40, 1 quart distilled water (don't know where she got that), 1/2 cup of brown rice syrup (never heard of that one before) and 1 cup honey. As you can see, your parent survived.
- On the other hand your grandfather might have mixed together 1 pint of whiskey (which he kept hidden in the barn, up in the loft), 15 cents worth of rock candy pulverized with a hammer, 3 ounces of raw linseed oil (from his workshop), 1/2 cup of honey and 15 cents worth of glycerin. He mixed it all together, gave it a good shake and gave your father 1 good teaspoon full and himself a good tablespoon. Both recovered!
Please note that the common denominator of all these recipes seems to be honey. Maybe all you need to take is one teaspoon of honey. Voila! Cured!
You probably know, and I`m noting this because `tis the season, that if a man is sick, it`s the flu and he is required to do nothing except lie in bed or veg out in front of the television and make unnecessary demands on his spouse. However, if a woman is sick, it`s just a mere cold and she can carry on as usual with all the activities necessary to the day. Obviously women are hardier and healthier than the male of the species. Achoo! I do believe I have a paltry cold coming on.
You will note on the accompanying picture, that the man (husband, physician) is saying to the woman, `There, there my dear, it`s just mind over matter. Just have a nice cup of tea and you`ll be ready to the laundry, ironing, shopping, scrub the kitchen floor and look after the eight kids. Don`t forget to take Eddy to hockey practice and Missy to her ballet lesson.`
Now as an aid to suppressing one's appetite, you should know that baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day. Again, someone with nothing better to do measured them. But just think, 14 feet! That's all the way from here to there. It's almost 5 yards! Now figured that each worm averages about 4 inches in length (my unofficial guess) that would be about 126 worms in a day with about 4 babies per nest, well that would be about 500 worms that those poor parents have to collect in a day. Seems incredible!
Did you know that you'll eat about 35,000 COOKIES in your lifetime? Yup. I counted 'em. Well . . . not really, but somebody with nothing better to do did count them, or else they based their figures on how many the average person eats in a week and extrapolated that out to the average lifespan. Now based on that, and the fact that a large percentage of those cookies will be chocolate chip cookies, and the average number of chocolate chips in a cookie would be about eight for store-bought and about a dozen for home-made times the average lifespan, well that could be millions of chocolate chips!! It could work out to several tons of chocolate chips. Do the math! I dare you to!
Spring is coming. Oh yes it is! Of course it always does though we sometimes wish it would come a lot sooner, which puts me in mind of puddles, a natural outcome of spring's arrival. So what is a puddle? Apparently, by definition, the actual amount of water is immaterial. Rather it's all about the dint in the ground. You can say a puddle is big enough to step in and get your shoes all wet, but it's too small to sail a boat in. Okay folks, be a kid. JUMP in it!
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." -- Victor Hugo
Winter has finally rolled in with a blast and Did You Know . . . . And, And You Really Need to Know This . . .
- An average snowflake, that tiny little white thing, contains 180 billion molecules of water. And I would really, really like to meet the person who actually sat down and counted them and I'd also like to know how they got so many of them packed into one tiny flake. It's incredible!
- Of course everyone knows that snowflakes have 6 sides, even those paper ones you cut out--yes, they are supposed to have 6 sides. If they don't, you did it wrong.
- Blizzards. Nasty things. What exactly is it? Well if you can't see 1/4 mile (you figure it out if you want it in kilometers), it could be a blizzard. If the wind is 35 mph plus and the bad visibility last for over three hours, you can bet it's a blizzard. Anything less than this is a snowstorm or a snow squall. We had a snow squall this morning. You couldn't see 1/4 mile, but I could see the neighbors, and it only lasted about half an hour. The silly cat actually went out in it, very briefly, 30 seconds exactly.
Soooo you've probably noticed that when artists paint still life pictures, they're usually filled with flowers and pretty vases all laid out on a beautiful linen tablecloth. Well I was thinking about this and thought why not try a different subject that's more ordinary and mundane. So here it is, scenes from my husband's workshop . . .
Did You Know . . . .?
After considerable research, studies have shown that those who have more birthdays live longer.
So why not have a birthday every month?
Anybody got the recipe for this cake???
Earth is the only planet with chocolate! Why move.
One of the earliest references to an ice cream (sort of) product was in 1st century China, where, and get this, they heated buffalo, cow and goat's milk. Then they fermented it and added camphor for flavoring and it should be noted that camphor is also used for embalming. Then it was chilled. Just thought you might be wondering. And what's the weirdest flavor of ice cream you've ever tasted?
Bet you didn't know this . . . .
Tablecloths were originally invented so guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating. This must have been before the advent of cutlery and manners.
CREATIVITY IS A NECESSITY, NOT A LUXURY
And knitting is the last hobby I'll ever give up.
SNOW It's been a very snowy Arctic winter in case you hadn't notice. Did you know that when a blizzard is coming, instead of stocking up on wholesome things like carrots and celery and oatmeal for porridge, people stock up on cookies, and cake and candies? Can we possibly hope for another blizzard so I can legitimately BUY CAKE!
Did you know . . . that your cat purrs at the same frequency as an idling diesel engine? This is not a need to know, or even memorable, but definitely interesting. This is my cat Daisy and I checked this out with her and she agrees.
Did You Know . . . that insects outnumber humans by 100,000,000 to one? Can you imagine our world being taken over by insects? But then, they are really tiny. And why is it that we think butterflies in our gardens are so lovely but ants in our kitchen cupboards are not? And bees make honey, but we'd rather not get too close to them?
The world is full of all kinds of unsolved mysteries -- like why doesn't a duck's quack echo? This is just too profound for words.
Photos used under Creative Commons from wuestenigel, BiblioArchives / LibraryArchives, Los Paseos, Virginia Sea Grant, Official U.S. Navy Imagery, Laurent Lebois ©, torbakhopper, Jaro Larnos, wuestenigel, martie1swart, mypubliclands, 2bmolar, Lorie Shaull, JKehoe_Photos, m_p_king, Leimenide, Amanjeev, kkmarais, tedeytan, plindberg, katie.thomas0214, Javcon117*, tillwe, ElizabethHudy, westy48, adKinn, StarMama, nevynxxx, Sam Droege


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Biogeosciences, 11, 635–649, 2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-635-2014
Research article 05 Feb 2014
Research article | 05 Feb 2014
Climate and atmospheric drivers of historical terrestrial carbon uptake in the province of British Columbia, Canada
Y. Peng1, V. K. Arora1, W. A. Kurz2, R. A. Hember3,2, B. J. Hawkins4, J. C. Fyfe1, and A. T. Werner5 Y. Peng et al. Y. Peng1, V. K. Arora1, W. A. Kurz2, R. A. Hember3,2, B. J. Hawkins4, J. C. Fyfe1, and A. T. Werner5
1Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Environment Canada, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, V8W 2Y2, Canada
2Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, 506 West Burnside Road, Victoria, BC, V8Z 1M5, Canada
3Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T1Z4, Canada
4Centre for Forest Biology, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
5Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Received: 08 Jul 2013 – Discussion started: 16 Aug 2013 – Revised: 06 Dec 2013 – Accepted: 18 Dec 2013 – Published: 05 Feb 2014
Abstract. The impacts of climate change and increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration on the terrestrial uptake of carbon dioxide since 1860 in the Canadian province of British Columbia are estimated using the process-based Canadian Terrestrial Ecosystem Model (CTEM). Model simulations show that these two factors yield an enhanced carbon uptake of around 44 gC m−2 yr−1 (or equivalently 63 gC m−2 yr−1 over the province's forested area), during the 1980s and 1990s, and continuing into the 2000s. About three-quarters of the simulated sink enhancement in our study compared to pre-industrial conditions is attributed to changing climate, and the rest is attributed to increase in CO2 concentration. The model response to changing climate and increasing CO2 is corroborated by comparing simulated stem wood growth rates with ground-based measurements from inventory plots in coastal British Columbia. The simulated sink is not an estimate of the net carbon balance because the effects of harvesting, insect disturbances and land-use change are not considered.
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How to cite: Peng, Y., Arora, V. K., Kurz, W. A., Hember, R. A., Hawkins, B. J., Fyfe, J. C., and Werner, A. T.: Climate and atmospheric drivers of historical terrestrial carbon uptake in the province of British Columbia, Canada, Biogeosciences, 11, 635–649, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-635-2014, 2014.


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We're no strangers to looking at uncapped silicon. This time around it's not just a show and tell, as one transistor form a ULN2003 chip is reverse engineered.
The photo above is just one slice from a picture of the chip after having its plastic housing remove (decapped). It might be a stretch to call this reverse engineering. It's more of a tutorial on how to take a functional schematic and figure out how each component is placed on a photograph of a chip die. Datasheets usually include these schematics so that engineers know what to expect from the hardware. But knowing what a resistor or transistor looks like on the die is another story altogether.
The problem is that you can't just look at a two dimensional image like the one above. These semiconducting elements are manufactured in three dimensions. The article illustrates where the N and P type materials are located on the transistor using a high-res photo and a reference diagram.
If you want to photograph your own chip dies there are a few ways to decap them at home.
It's been just over three weeks since Supply Frame bought Hackaday and a lot has been going on. Almost all of it has been behind the scenes as we make our way through the scaffolding that was built up over the years to run the site. I'll share more on that as things develop. But now I'd like to introduce you to the staff.
We've actually had a staff page for about a year but I'm not sure it was ever announced. Check out the Staff roll call to see a picture and bio of each of our team members. [Brian Benchoff] and I make up the editorial team. [Eric Evenchick] joins us once again as a writer. And over the last couple of weeks we hired [Mathieu Stephan] (aka Limpkin), [Josh Marsh], and [Michael Ciuffo] (aka ch00f). The six of us come from a wide range of backgrounds. We have interests and skill sets that complement each other, and as we get used to working as a team this will equate to better features and more original content. Please join me in welcoming the new writers, and long live Hackaday!
EMTs and other first responders don't just sit around waiting for a disaster to happen. If they need to train for a disaster – environmental, terrorist, or otherwise – they put together a mass injury simulation, or their version of a war game. As you can imagine, coordinating one of these simulations is a nightmare, but [David] came up with a way to simulate a casualty with a few XBees, a Parallax Propeller, and a few RFID cards.
This triage training simulator consists of an 'acting coach' on each simulated victim that includes a speech-to-text module that speaks instructions into the actors ear, a pulse simulator and a readout for vital signs that correspond to twelve major injuries. When an EMT triages a victim, they swipe an RFID card for each medical procedure they perform – intubating is one card, while a bandage is another – and all this is sent back to the coordinator's tablet.
The coordinator has direct control over each of the actors through a two-way radio link, and can initiate changes in each victim, monitor a paramedic's responses, and "escalate" the situation by setting off another simulated bomb.
All this is created with off-the-shelf hardware, vastly reducing the cost of this type of training device. An amazing application of what we usually consider to be just robot parts, and we're happy for [David] to share it with us.
[Mustafa Dur] wrote in to tell us about his hack to control the television with a smartphone. Now the one-IR-remote-to-rule-them hacks have been gaining popularity lately so we assumed that's how he was doing it. We were wrong. He's using his satellite receiver to provide the Internet connection. It pushes commands to his LG 47LH50 TV which has an RS-232 port.
The image above is the back of another LG television (it came from a forum post about controlling the TV with a PC). [Mustafa] is using a Dreambox DM800 satellite receiver which also has a serial port an he can telnet into it. He searched around the Internet and discovered that it should be possible to connect the two using a null modem cable. His initial tests resulted in no response, but a tweak to the com port settings of the box got his first command to shut off the television. After a bit of tweaking he was able to lock in reliable communications which he made persistent by writing his own startup script. From there he got to work on a Python script which works as the backend for a web-based control interface.
If you want to find out what else you can do with this type of serial connection read about this hack which used a script to try every possible command combination.
For all the cool things the Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, and other low-power Linux boards can do, there's one thing we haven't seen much of: creating music with software synthesizers. Yes, soft synths have been around for ages now, but compiling them for these ARM boards is something we haven't seen much of (to say nothing of the Linux audio system). Luckily, [Paul] and [Trev] have put together a tutorial for making synthesizers on these small Linux boards using Csound, the premier audio programming language for Linux.
[Paul] and [Trev] have already put together a few Csound instruments that include a Vangelis-inspired synth, a Lorenz Strange Attractor FM synth, a drum machine, and a classic monophonic style synth. All these instruments are ready to play on a Raspi or BeagleBone and we're sure we'll see a few more applications of this great tool for creating musical instruments as more musicians are turned onto these small Linux boards.
Let's all slow clap for [Daniel Taylor] who, after a long journey, got his home built PCB mill up and running with remarkable precision. That's 10 mil traces with 0.5mm pitch pads. We're impressed! The board will be used for breaking out the connections of an LCD screen he has on hand.
After seeing a CNC project as yesterday's Fail of the Week it's nice to look in on one like this that does some amazing stuff. In fact, [Daniel's] creation has been working for months already. The link above is the project log he kept while hacking, tweaking, and retrofitting his rig to get the level of precision he was after.
Improvements include swapping out drawer slides for proper linear bearings and completely reworking the Z-axis along with a motor upgrade. For those that aren't fans of the reading (how did you make it this far into this feature?) you can take a quick look at his image gallery which includes captions.


Macromedia isn't exhibiting at macworld SF. They were not included in the keynote and one have to dig deep for information about mac os x compability on macromedias site. Not like adobe which reads <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/adobesupportsOSX.html"; target="_blank">Adobe and Mac os X </a> on their frontpage.
I know freehand is ready..but has the strategy changed??


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ACCEPTED

#### According to
Index Fungorum

#### Published in
Sydowia 16: 308 (1963)

#### Original name
Asteridiella naucleae var. cuvierae Hansf.

### Remarks
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text:
#include "ipcserverclient.h"

#define NUM_THREADS 2
#define USAGE_STRING "Usage: receiving_client_key message_to_send (Example: 42 hello)\n"
#define INIT_USAGE "Invalid arguments.\nUsage: ./client.out running_server_key new_client_key\n"

/**
 * Receives a message from the message queue and puts it in a buffer
 * @param msgqid Queue key
 * @param msgp   pointer to message buffer
 * @param mtype  Type of message to recieve
 */
void receive_message(int msgqid, msgbuf * msgp, long mtype) {
  //blocking receive
  int bytesRead = msgrcv(msgqid, msgp, sizeof(struct data_st), mtype, 0);
  if (bytesRead == -1) {
    if (errno == EIDRM) {
      fprintf(stderr, "Message queue removed while waiting!\n");
      exit(0);
    }
  }
}

/**
 * Sends a message to the client via the messsage queue
 * @param message Message to send
 * @param msgqid  Queue key
 * @param to      server to send to
 * @param from    client/server key sent from
 * @to_client     client to send to
 */
void send_message(char message[MSGSTR_LEN], int msgqid, long to, long from, long to_client){
  msgbuf new_msg;
  new_msg.mtype = to; //reciever server
  data_st ds;
  ds.source = from;
  ds.dest = to_client; //receiver client
  char * null = "\0";
  int length = strlen(message);
  if(MSGSTR_LEN < length) length = MSGSTR_LEN;
  int i;
  //send a character at a time
  for(i = 0; i < length; i++) {
    strncpy(ds.msgstr, &(message[i]), 1);
    new_msg.data = ds;
    //blocking send to prevent error
    int ret = msgsnd(msgqid, (void *) &new_msg, sizeof(data_st), 0);
    if (ret == -1) {
      perror("msgsnd: Error attempting to send message!");
      exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }
  }
  strncpy(ds.msgstr, null, 1);
  new_msg.data = ds;

  int ret = msgsnd(msgqid, (void *) &new_msg, sizeof(data_st), 0);
  if (ret == -1) {
    perror("msgsnd: Error attempting to send message!");
    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
  }
}

/**
 * Thread for running the sending of messages.
 * @param arg Arguments needed to send messages
 */
void * send_thread(void * arg) {
  int * qID = arg;
  int * key = arg+sizeof(int);
  int * client_key = arg+sizeof(int)*2;
  int other_client_key;
  char buffer[MSGSTR_LEN];

  printf("You are now connected as client %d\n%s", *client_key, USAGE_STRING);

  //continue to get user input for sending messages
  while(fgets(buffer, MSGSTR_LEN, stdin)) {
    if (buffer[strlen(buffer) - 1] == '\n') {
      buffer[strlen(buffer) - 1] = '\0';
    }

    char* input = buffer;
    if(strcmp(EXIT_STR, input) == 0) {
      send_message(EXIT_STR, *qID, *key, *client_key, *key);
      exit(0);
    }
    char* space = " ";
    int start = 0;
    int pos;
    char numberbuff[255];
    char messagebuff[255];
    pos = strcspn(input, space);
    //parsing out the key and message
    if(pos) {
      other_client_key = atoi(strncpy(numberbuff, input, pos));
      if(other_client_key) {
        char * message = buffer+pos+1;
        //sending the message
        printf("Sending \"%s\" to %d\n", message, other_client_key);
        send_message(message, *qID, *key, *client_key, other_client_key);
        //is it time to exit?
        if(strcmp(message, EXIT_STR) == 0) exit(0); //exit if you say to exit
      }
      else printf(USAGE_STRING); // incorrect input
    }
    else printf(USAGE_STRING); // incorrect input
    //clear the buffers
    strncpy(numberbuff, "", 255); //clear buffer
    strncpy(messagebuff, "", 255); //clear buffer
  }

  int * myretp = malloc(sizeof(int));
  if (myretp == NULL) {
    perror("malloc error");
    pthread_exit(NULL);
  }
  *myretp = (*qID);
  return myretp; /* Same as: pthread_exit(myretp); */
}

/**
 * Thread that receives the messages
 * @param arg Arguments needed to receive messages from the queue
 */
void * receive_thread(void * arg) {
  int * qID = arg;
  int * key = arg+sizeof(int);
  int * client_key = arg+sizeof(int)*2;
  int to;
  int from;
  char message[MSGSTR_LEN];
  msgbuf tempbuf;
  tempbuf.mtype = *client_key;

  msgbuf messagebuf;
  while(1) {
    receive_message(*qID, &tempbuf, *client_key);
    //move data from temp buffer to variables
    to = tempbuf.data.dest;
    from = tempbuf.data.source;
    strncpy(message, tempbuf.data.msgstr, 1); //one character
    //move from variables to local buffer
    messagebuf.data.dest = to;
    messagebuf.data.source = from;
    strcat(messagebuf.data.msgstr, message);

    //have to wait until all character are in. we can tell by the NULL character
    if(strcmp(message, "\0") == 0) {
      printf("Client %ld: \"%s\"\n", messagebuf.data.source, messagebuf.data.msgstr);
      strncpy(messagebuf.data.msgstr, "", MSGSTR_LEN);
    }
  }

  int * myretp = malloc(sizeof(int));
  if (myretp == NULL) {
    perror("malloc error");
    pthread_exit(NULL);
  }
  *myretp = (*qID);
  return myretp; /* Same as: pthread_exit(myretp); */
}

/**
 * Start a created thread
 * @param thread Thread to start
 */
void start_thread(pthread_t * thread) {
  void * thread_ret_ptr;
  int ret;
  ret = pthread_join(*thread, &thread_ret_ptr);
  if (ret == -1) { perror("Thread join error");
    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
  }
  if (thread_ret_ptr != NULL) {
    int * intp = (int *) thread_ret_ptr;
    printf("Receive thread returned: %d\n", *intp);
    free(thread_ret_ptr);
  }

}

/**
 * Creates a thread based on type given
 * @param thread      Thread pointer to set
 * @param vars        Variables for the thread initialization
 * @param thread_type Type of thread to create
 */
void create_thread(pthread_t * thread, void * vars, int thread_type) {
  int ret;
  if(thread_type == 1) ret = pthread_create(thread, NULL, send_thread, vars);
  if(thread_type == 2) ret = pthread_create(thread, NULL, receive_thread, vars);
  if (ret == -1) {
    perror("pthread_create");
    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
  }
}

/**
 * Main program to run the sending
 * of messages and receival of messages
 * @param  argc Argument count
 * @param  argv Argument array
 * @return      Exit code
 */
int main(int argc, char * argv[]) {
  pthread_t threads[NUM_THREADS];
  int targs[NUM_THREADS];
  int i, ret, ret2;
  int qID;
  int key;
  int client_key;
  int vars[3];
  char * input;
  // 1st commandline argument = key of message queue
  if(argc == 3) { // get command line argument
    key = atoi(argv[1]);
    client_key = atoi(argv[2]);
    if(!key || !client_key) {
      printf(INIT_USAGE);
      exit(-1);
    }
    qID = msgget(key, 0); // 0 for making use of existing queue
  }
  else {
    printf(INIT_USAGE);
    exit(-1);
  }

  if(qID < 0) {
    printf("Failed to get queue, got status: %d\n", qID);
    exit(-1);
  }

  //values needed for threads
  vars[0] = qID;
  vars[1] = key;
  vars[2] = client_key;

  //create sender/receiver threads
  create_thread(&(threads[0]), vars, 1);
  create_thread(&(threads[1]), vars, 2);
  //start the threads
  start_thread(&(threads[0]));
  start_thread(&(threads[1]));
  return 0;
}


text:
Katherine Cartwright
Nickname: Cookie
Birth: March 23, 1941
Home Town: Kingston, Ontario
Inducted as: Athlete
Inducted for: Golf, Hockey,
Inducted in: 2000
The "Cartwright era" in Kingston women's golf began in 1960 when Cookie won her first of 24 club championships at the Cataraqui Golf and Country Club.
She won nine Kingston District championships between 1964-1984 and on numerous occasions competed for the district team at the provincial level.
Cookie also made a significant contribution to women's hockey. She was responsible for the reinstatement of women's university hockey in 1960. She chaired the steering committee that formed the Ontario Women's Hockey Association and drafted its constitution. This organization became the cornerstone for the explosive growth of women's hockey since 1980.
As a player, Cookie played at Queen's University and then spent three seasons playing Senior A women's hockey. Twice she was selected Most Valuable Player at North American championship tournaments.
In 1969 she co-founded the Kingston Red Barons, which became a powerhouse in elite women's hockey in the 1970's.


I hand draped and hand-stitched this lovely piece of headwear from shocking pink buntal straw. Turn heads wherever you go with this dynamic sculptural beauty. I was inspired by the Japanese Kabuto, helmets for Samourai warriors. Take it to the beach, or races!
The shocking pink is very vibrant! The computer doesn't do it justice.
Inside is an adjustable grosgrain ribbon, so the size of your head can be medium to extra large: 22 1/2" to 27". The visor extends out from 3" to 7".


text:
es una estación de radiodifusión por satélite privada en Kanda, Tokio (Japón). Es una estación de televisión independiente y es una subsidiaria de Bic Camera. El nombre del canal es BS11 (BS Once) y fue BS11 digital hasta el 31 de marzo de 2011. Fue fundada como  el 23 de agosto de 1999, pero cambió su nombre a Nippon BS Radiodifusión el 28 de febrero de 2007 y las emisiones de televisión de alta definición se iniciaron el 1 de diciembre de 2007.

BS11 da alta prioridad a los programas de noticias, incluyendo la tarde noche de anime y programas de televisión en 3D.

Canal
 Televisión: BS211ch

Enlaces externos
 Official website

Referencias

Canales de televisión de Japón


Founded by Jasper Jolley in 2017, Resplendent Living is an event planning and residential interior decorating studio and blog based in Savannah, GA. Learn more about Jasper and what we believe in!
Life is worthy of celebrating, from the smallest of achievements to the biggest of milestones, and I offer a variety of event planning services and packages perfect for you and your budget.
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Last Friday evening, surrounded by their family of children and a host of friends, Mr. and Mrs. John Wiedenhoeft celebrated their golden wedding. About seventy-five neighbors and friends of the couple were present and the evening was made a very enjoyable occasion. Supper was served in the old church in order to accommodate the large crowd. At 10 o'clock p.m. they went to Zion Lutheran Church, where they repeated their vows of fifty years ago that made them man and wife.
Mr. and Mrs. Wiedenhoeft were married at Tuchel, Konitz County, Prussia, July 19, 1868. Mrs. Wiedenhoeft's maiden name was Miss Augusta Mihlke. Very soon after their marriage they came to America and to Wisconsin and located at Theresa, Dodge Co., where they lived for twenty-five years. In 1883 they came to Colby, Wis. and bought the farm of George Zelle in the town of Colby, Clark County. They lived there for twenty-two years and by a great deal of hard work made a very nice farm. Three years ago they built a new residence in the city, which has been their home ever since. They are the parents of eleven children, eight of who are living. They are William of Anoka, Minn., Herman, Albert and Gustav, and Mesdames Charles Feind, Albert Franz and Ed Feind, and Miss Anna, all of who were present except William. Mr. and Mrs. Wiedenhoeft have every reason to be thankful for the fact that their lived have been spared to witness this occasion and although passing through the many ordeals which come to every one in life's struggle, they are both still hale and hearty and enjoying life to the fullest extent and it is hoped many more such years will fall to their lot.
Ludwig Wiedenhoeft, born ESTIMATED 1854 in Germany, married Bertha KRAUSE. Three children: 1)Clara Bertha Wiedenhoeft born Dec 13, 1885,Koshkonong Township, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, married Herman WEGNER; 2) Henry Wiedenhoeft, married BAUMGARTNER; 3)Elsie Wiedenhoeft, married LORKE.
My Grandmother was Lillian Wegner.My Grandfather was Olin Sweetland.


Modifié dans la version 3.4: The return type is now unsigned long rather than long.
Generic handler for the tp_alloc slot of a type object. Use Python's default memory allocation mechanism to allocate a new instance and initialize all its contents to NULL.
Generic handler for the tp_new slot of a type object. Create a new instance using the type's tp_alloc slot.
Finalize a type object. This should be called on all type objects to finish their initialization. This function is responsible for adding inherited slots from a type's base class. Return 0 on success, or return -1 and sets an exception on error.


Why Acklam Car Centre? Find out why customers choose to buy from Acklam Car Centre.
Acklam Car Centre was founded in 2001 and is an Award winning family owned Independent car dealership based in Middlesbrough specialising in Porsche, BMW, Audi, Mercedes, Bentley, VW, Land Rover and more. We have become a real success story improving year on year in all facets of the business. The ethos from the very start of the process, is to provide the customer with the best experience of buying and selling a car. Our team has been developed and nurtured to achieve this ethos with very low staff turnover and a very high experience level throughout all departments in the dealership. The teams are led by highly experienced professional people who ultimately want the best for both the customer and the business.
Whether you're at Acklam to buy something special, or you would just like to browse, we want to offer you a very personal level of service leaving you with a great impression and you wanting to come back. Here at Acklam Car Centre we are very proud to have the largest independent facility in Teesside which is fully equipped with a purpose built forecourt and indoor showroom. Selling and buying a wide range of cars and vehicles including prestige, 4x4 and sports, we guide each one of our customers through the entire process of buying, finance arrangements, servicing and selling ensuring a hassle-free experience for the customer. Since being founded, we have retailed and sold approximately 17,000 cars throughout the UK and overseas. Most importantly, we owe our success not only to ourselves and our team, but to our customers and their undivided loyalty for choosing us. This is where our Heritage is found and where our success stems from. We offer our sincerest thank you to Acklam Car Centre customers of past, present and future.
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All of the words (And)
Any of the words (Or)
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Linda Wagner-Martin (2)
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Biography & Memoir (2)
Literature & Criticism (2)
Elaine Showalter
Telling Women's Lives: The New Biography
by Linda Wagner-Martin.
Rutgers, 201 pp., $22.95, July 1994, 0 8135 2092 4Show More
"... LindaWagner-Martin, a highly respected scholar of American literature who teaches at the University of North Carolina, was bewildered by the hostile reception in Britain of her biography of Sylvia Plath, published in ..."
Wendy Steiner
Gertrude Stein in Words and Pictures
by Renate Stendhal.
Thames and Hudson, 286 pp., £14.95, March 1995, 0 500 27832 6Show More
'Favoured Strangers': Gertrude Stein and Her Family
Rutgers, 346 pp., $34.95, August 1995, 0 8135 2169 6Show More
"... by feminists, who have unearthed a vast amount of new information and broadened the picture of 'the mother of us all'. They have had another effect as well, which is especially evident in LindaWagner-Martin's 'Favoured Strangers': Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Here the inspiring, if slightly cartoonish, legend of Stein as a genius spinning idiosyncrasy into gold is replaced by a depressing pseudo ..."
Dye the Steak Blue
Lidija Haas: Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories
edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
Library of America, 827 pp., $35, May 2010, 978 1 59853 072 8Show More
"... �I'll just put down housewife."' Sylvia Plath was impressed by Jackson's second novel, Hangsaman (1951), which charts a young woman's mental deterioration: she asked to meet Jackson, LindaWagner-Martin relates in her 1987 biography of Plath, when she was working at Mademoiselle in the summer of 1953. Wagner-Martin has elsewhere called the 1950s 'the decade of Jackson', although an ..."


Here's a little one minute clip showing what it takes to create a game ready 3D character from scratch.
We at ArtSource cover all the bases when it comes to making and animating 3D characters. Working with a studio like ours is way better than dealing with several freelancer (at least when it comes to complicated tasks like this).
Instead of managing a bunch of people, you just tell us what you need and we do it. We'll tell you what problems you might be facing with your designs and we'll suggest ways to optimize work.
This guy here was commissioned by our friends at Multithreaded Games for their RPG project.


Two weeks ago I got a phone call, Tarq hurt his tongue, I should come over, the vet was coming too.
It was total horror! His tongue was torn out of his mouth! It was lying in the next (empty) stable.
The vet gave us "Bute" medicine and painkiller, and antibiotics, and we had to make soups for him to eat. Making sure he would not get a massive infection was the first priority. If we could avoid an infection he would probably be alright the vet said. He would have to learn how to eat again. After eating we would have to rinse his mouth to get all food matter off the ragged remains of his tongue.
Tarq could not eat that evening. probably too much pain. He was also very cold so I borrowed a blanket for him.
I could not sleep at night.
Two days later I took him for a walk and he wanted to eat grass. Grass is soft so I thought I'd let him try. He dropped some bites but he managed somehow to get some up and chew it. The Tarq was enjoying himself very much.
So the next morning I took him out to graze again, he was very feisty! So I took him into the arena to loose some steam.
This was amazing, I felt a lot better because Tarq was just having fun and seemed unfazed.
And very keen on his dinner!
He was in a rather, ehm, opulent condition, so he had some calories to spare. We fed him sebior pellets, they dissolve very easily in water, and are very nourishing so he would get enough nutrients. Which he did. I think he didn't loose a pound of fat during the whole disaster.
If anything he got fatter!
I still slept badly at night.
When the vet came for a check-up, we saw that his tongue looked very good; all pink and healthy and no sign of infection! Just to be sure I got some antibiotic injections to give to the Tarq because he didn't like taking the powders, and he knew they were in whatever wonderful tasty stuff we gave him. even the special treat mixes which Tara gave me. He was very interested in the mixes, but as soon as the powders were added he turned his nose up!
So the Tarq is doing very well, and here is my Daily Painting to prove it!
Oh, I haven't been talking about my new Daily Painting project have I?
I am so happy to hear he is REALLY doing well and recovering/recovered of this horrible, horrible accident. Any ideas of how this could have happened?
No we don't know. And the vet said we'll probably never find out. There were two spots with blood, not even a lot of blood. The tongue had a huge gash from left to right, maybe he got stuck and panicked.
Horrible idea… Poor Tarq. Poor you.
He is doing amazingly well. Horses are só resilient!


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TAMPA -- In just one hour Wednesday afternoon, 97 patrons of Danny Boy's Restaurant in Sun City Center signed a petition asking that Debra Lafave return to work.
Lafave quit the restaurant last month while a probation officer investigated whether she had an inappropriate and private conversation with a female co-worker who is a minor.
Ed Leary, 78, one of the organizers of the petition drive, said the group now is trying to figure out where to send the petition. He guessed it would be forwarded to the Florida Attorney General's Office.
Lafave, 27, was arrested Tuesday and charged with violating conditions of her house arrest by having private and sexual conversations with a 17-year-old, a female co-worker at Danny Boy's. Reports show that the two talked about "family problems, friends, high school, personal life, boyfriend issues and sexual issues."
The former middle school English teacher has completed two of her three years on house arrest. In 2005, she pleaded guilty to charges of lewd and lascivious battery for having sex with a 14-year-old student.
Lafave is scheduled to appear before Circuit Judge J. Rogers Padgett on Jan. 7 to answer the new charge.
On Nov. 20, the manager of Danny Boy's got a call from Lafave's probation officer. He told the manager that Lafave no longer would be working there.
On Wednesday, scores of restaurant patrons, mostly senior citizens, joined a "mission" to have Lafave return to work, Leary said.
Above the signatures were the words "Free Debra Lafave," Leary said.
"We feel it is terrible that they are raking her over the coals again," Leary said. "We all had great compassion for her. There is no sweeter, kinder person that we have ever met."
Those who signed the petition, he said, think she should be "freed, taken off of probation, left in peace and permitted to return to her waitress job at Danny Boy's, where she was happy."
Leary moved to Sun City Center from Lancaster, Pa., two years ago. He is a retired computer scientist who worked for the U.S. government.
Currently, Lafave is working at her mother's barber shop.
Although Tuesday's arrest was Lafave's first house arrest violation, probation officers have kept a close eye on the former teacher. In documents released this week, notes detail two years of Lafave's life.
Over the months, officers inspected her driving log and GPS ankle monitor.


There's just enough ginger, chili powder and garlic powder in the sauce to spark the taste of this enjoyable steak specialty. For variety, you can substitute chicken or pork for the sirloin. If I'm in a hurry or don't have fresh vegetables on hand, I'll reach for two bags of frozen stir-fry vegetables instead.
In a skillet or wok, stir-fry steak in oil for 3-5 minutes. Add broccoli, cauliflower, onion, carrots and soy sauce mixture; cover and cook for 8 minutes or until vegetables are crisp-tender, stirring occasionally. Serve over rice.
1 cup: 286 calories, 13g fat (3g saturated fat), 63mg cholesterol, 1008mg sodium, 17g carbohydrate (10g sugars, 4g fiber), 26g protein.
Taste great. Quick and easy! Love this recipe.
This is excellent! I used mushrooms instead of cauliflower and doubled the sauce to serve over rice. I also always season the meat with a bit of steak spice just to add extra flavor to the meat. Can't wait to try it again with snow peas or sugar snap peas and serve over noodles.
Very good. I didn't have cauliflower so I omitted that and added red pepper, celery and bamboo shoots. Will definitely make again!
This recipe is fabulous! I made it for the first time for supper and wouldn't change a thing, except for adding green peppers, fresh garlic , and patty pan squash. The sauce goes perfectly with the veggies and makes a delicious and satisfying dish! My family loved it and I'm sure I'll be making this recipe over and over again!
Excellent stir fry. My wife loved that I made this for dinner. This is my new go to recipe for steak and vegetables stir fry.
Added a bag of frozen sugar snap beans too.
This a very good and easy recipe. I did double the sauce and served on noodles. Soo good and the family loved it.
The chili powder gives just a hint of heat. Easy and yummy!
This recipe is easy and very good!
The sauce is perfect with the right amount of veggies and meat. I cut back on the meat and add more veggies and you use whatever you have on hand. I've made 3 times in two weeks and this will definitely be the new base for my stir fries.


Hello, welcome to the Summer blog hop! I'm so happy to have joined forces with some amazing designers to bring you some fabulous double page Summer themed layouts.
I chose to make my layout about my son at the park. The funny thing about that time at the park was that we were there for about 5 minutes. Yep, we were there long enough to go down the slide a couple of times and go down the fireman pole. I documented this because of a lesson that my little man taught me in those short five minutes.
I used lots of Bella Blvd products on this layout. I combined patterned papers from the Campout collection and the Simply Spring Collection kits (you can find a full list of supplies at the bottom of the post).
I used three 4x6 photos and lined them up across the page. Two of the photos are on the right hand side of the page and one is on the left hand side next to the title and journaling.
I used my sewing machine to stitch down a few accent words that I fussy cut from a piece of patterned paper from the Campout collection. I love stitching my layouts. I almost always do some sort of machine stitching on all of my projects.
The journaling on this layout tells the story of how I need to slow down a little bit and let my little man play at the park, even if it's only for five minutes.
Now, onto the rest of the Summer blog hop. I know these amazing designers have some great projects in store for you. Next you're off to see Debbie Hodge.
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Are you creating double or single page layouts about your Summer activities?
I love everything about this layout ... especially the stitching! Maybe I need to get a sewing machine.
What a cute layout. I love the adorable papers!!!
Fun layout, Love the colors and the embellies! Lots going on with this layout!