|05-10-2002, 10:53 AM||#1|
Join Date: May 2001
How does the quality of the alloy compare to modern alloy? Wasn't the 50's a really good era for Colt? Pros and cons?
I'm putting it here because of my question on alloy frame may best be answered by gunsmith.
|05-10-2002, 04:29 PM||#2|
Join Date: Feb 2002
Rumors are just that. LW Commanders are great carry guns. They are as tough as any aluminum lower end gun from the 50's when they were concieved until the present time I have seen many cracked Colt frames and we used to drill a 1/16th inch hole in them to stop the crack travel. I have a friend who has carried one of my vintage ( 1954)since Korean days. It looks terrible and shoots great. I almost like that light purple lower end and the light gray patina on the slide. I think the metal these were made of is better than what they use today but have no basis for that thinking. I am sure I am on worng on that count. If I were building any lightweight lower end 1911 I would use a ramped barrel and Accu-Rails. That way I know it would shoot forever. Some people put a metal feed ramp in but I think that is silly. Why bother, I guess , when you can solve the problem my way. Any of the lightweight 1911's that are produced now would be of no use to me. I don't care for them and don't find them fun to work on. That's why Baskin Robbins makes 31 flavors. I am usually wrong, according to the other forum. So use your own judgement and spend your money like you want. Mine is too hard to come by to throw it away on guns I don't believe are worth the money. Bob Brown knows about carry Commanders.
|05-10-2002, 07:04 PM||#3|
Join Date: Mar 2001
Hello. Certainly, this is from limited first-hand experience, but a fine gentleman who was like a grandfather to me owned a couple of early '50s Commanders. They were stock. He carried them with ball ammo when I shot them in the early '80s. Not surprisingly, the pistols worked flawlessly and the sights, though small, were "on." Later, he sold me two LW Commanders, but not those, and I had both slightly customized to include high-visibility fixed sights, and a few other things. I tested both and have shot the fire out of one while the spare rests in the safe. I suspect I'd better shoot the spare, too, as the original just continues to shoot and shoot and shoot.
Most know that I'm a confirmed Browning HP nut, but for a most easy to tote and quick to use pistol of decent power, I find the Commander very hard to beat.
In fact, I'm not sure it can be done.
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|05-11-2002, 05:15 AM||#4|
Join Date: Dec 2001
I have carried some form of LW Commander since I started my law enforcement career in 1981. The only concern I would have with a 50's LW would be with the slide, not the frame. Not because the steel was better or worse, but because the slides had a series of lightening cuts, and they have a tendency to crack. Remember Cooper's addage of a gun to shoot a little, carry a lot. The LW is a .45 that I would use a Shok Buff in, and change the recoil spring frequently.
|05-16-2002, 08:49 AM||#5|
Join Date: May 2001
Since Boothman brought it to my attention, are there disadvantages (problems) associated with the early LW Commander skeletonized slides? Did Colt change this because of cracking problems or cost issues? The gun would be a carry gun and not shot much.
|05-16-2002, 09:24 AM||#6|
Join Date: Feb 2002
Colt quit doing the light weight slides because it cost money to machine them, not because there was a problem with them. I have never had a cracked LW slide come my way, but all parts fail. Some fail sooner than others. Colt also has never cared what it's customers want or need. They have the Great American Corporate Arrogance that has kept them on the verge of bankrupcy for most of my lifetime. I have no use for them or their products. They could have made a ton of money by selling their parts when Cooper started the 1911 craze, but they wouldn't. They do not answer their phone, and do not return their calls.They deserve to go broke.
|05-16-2002, 11:45 AM||#8|
Join Date: Apr 2001
We gunfolks are a strange community. As a group we are as bad as the society we come from about seeking superlatives. It's like the ongoing quibbling about Ruger Redhawks and Blackhawks vs S&W 29's and the Ruger 357's vs anyone elses: who cares? They both seem to blow at so close to the same psi that it all seems moot. Might matter if I shot silhouette as a MAJOR competitor, but I don't--and if I did I'd choose a Freedom Arms SA anyway. Since I don't, I prefer the smaller size, the greater grace, the better balance and handling, and the better fitting of my early 29's (without even--horror of horrors--having the vaunted "endurance" packet).
At least two writers over the years have run several 5-10K round endurance tests on the Commanders and found that they basically kept functioning despite minor problems that were easily fixed. The drilling of a hole to stop an incipient crack has already been pointed out. Think I'll dig those out of the reference files one of these days.
Consumers jumped on the steel framed Commanders (perhaps because the Gunshop Codos leaped on the catchy COMBAT appelation), but I've always suspected that was because the 26-ounce Commanders kicked too much for the would be shootists whereas the couple of ounces difference beween the long and short steel jobs were so immaterial as to make any thinking person wonder why anyone would give up the extra sighting radius and velocity and the slight bit of extra muzzle weight at just the right point.
The Colt Commanders have endured for right on half a century and work for what they are intended. Alloy frame pieces were made to CARRY, not to serve as match guns. I surely don't know metallury well enough to pontificate about metallury then and now---and suspect few do with the specifics of the Commander alloy at any specific point in time. All I know is that my own last pair date to the early seventies, have never had anything lighter than GI ball run through them, and neither gun has presented any problem over the years.
Hell, even old Skeeter Skelton with his love of the 5 inch 27 and 44 SAA's was partial to his brace of Commanders when things really got tense. Now, how could anyone wish for more proof of the Commander's excellance, durability, and reliability than that old revolver man's sanction?
|05-16-2002, 06:00 PM||#9|
Join Date: Mar 2001
256, Now THAT was very well said indeed!
I have three lightweight Commanders, all 70's series, and have never had an ounce of trouble with any of them! (ounce of trouble, no pun intended). :grin:
I remember the article from Shooting Times where Skeeter did the 5,000 round torture test with a lightweight Commander, and a Gold Cup. Neither gun failed in any way, and they were both stock from Colt.
|05-17-2002, 06:36 AM||#10|
Join Date: Apr 2001
Thanks, Lou. Appreciate the kind words. I thought Skelton did one of the articles and I think that old fraud Nonte did the other. In any event, both tests were pretty abusive and while I might doubt Nonte's conclusion (under any of his several pseudonyms), I'd take Skeeter's word as gospel. I need to dig those pieces out of my files.
People are funny about Commanders. They don't get a lot of publicity and yet folks keep dropping the term that they are "the professional's gun." That being said, I've never known a lot of folks who carried them. Of course, they've been around since the early 50's so they don't have the shine of brand, spankin' new offerings. I think I've seen more steel frame Combat Commanders than Commanders and, of course, for younger folks, the Commander seems to be ignored for the Officer's ACP's.
Personally, I think the Commanders are easier to conceal than say, an all steel Officer's ACP. The Commander distributes the weight better. Don't have a problem with the grip size and I'd rather have the extra rounds than the short grip. I surely feel that Commanders are much more reliable than the shorter guns---and even Commanders have had a reputation for being a bit less reliable than the full size guns. (That has NOT been my experience, however, though I do like a long ejector in the short guns).
I really do wish folks would make an effort to distinguish between THE COMMANDER which is an alloy framed weapon and the Combat Commander which is the all steel gun (less a few of the omnipresent plastic parts, of course).
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The Purple Line extension allows for easy access to the historic temples and lush orchards along Nonthaburi's shorelines
On a sunny day, I spent about 50 minutes riding the Airport Rail Link and taking advantage of the extension of the MRT Purple Line to travel from Bangkok's eastern suburb to the old town of Nonthaburi in the northwest.
Sitting on the banks of the Chao Phraya River, the old town has been bordered with a thread of lush orchards, colourful flower gardens and historic temples that mirror the ways of waterside communities that have existed since the Ayutthaya period.
It's like having a private trip when a train is empty during the day, yet good for passengers to maintain social distance. My sight-seeing tour began with a songthaew ride to Wat Chaloem Phrakiat Worawihan, which is located about 5km away from the MRT Yaek Nonthaburi 1 station.
Shady and greenish with a row of towering trees and local plants, it lies on the banks of the Chao Phraya and visitors can still see strains of flooding at its pier and in other spots. To pay honour to his family, King Rama III constructed this temple in 1847 on a plot of land that had previously been a residence of his grandparents and Princess Mother Somdej Phra Sri Sulalai.
A statue of Phra Buddha Maha Lokaphinanthapatima in the ordination hall of Wat Chaloem Phrakiat Worawihan.
A white 48m pagoda houses Buddha’s relics.
Completed during the reign of King Rama IV, it's enclosed by walls that resemble those of the Grand Palace with turrets on four sides adding a majestic touch to the location, which was originally the site of historic fortresses. In the past, some of the Chao Phraya's water around this area was utilised in various holy royal ceremonies.
This monastery is famous for its stunning Thai-Chinese architecture, while the ordination hall boasts gables adorned with vibrant cotton rose-inspired ceramic tiles from China. Inside, it houses a gold statue of Phra Buddha Maha Lokaphinanthapatima, and the walls are covered with pastel-shaded floral motifs that look simple yet elegant, showcasing top-class Thai craftsmanship.
Aiming to support Buddhism, it was the brainchild of King Rama III to mine copper in Nakhon Ratchasima for the creation of two Buddha statues to be installed at Wat Chaloem Phrakiat Worawihan and Wat Ratchanatdaram as well as other 34 Buddha images in different postures.
Behind the ubosot, a 48m-tall, white spherical pagoda stands on a Lanka-style lotus-shaped base that contain Buddha's relics. At a neighbouring vihara, visitors can pay respect to the white stone sculpture of Phra Sila Khao, which sits on a carved wood throne furnished with coloured mirrors, and admire a classic dhamma cabinet.
Wat Prasat was erected in the late Ayutthaya period. Murals at the temple’s ubosot depict the Ten Birth Tales of the Buddha and the way of life in the Ayutthaya era.
Wat Phra Ngoen showcases an antique wood tripitaka hall in a pond.
On the other side, the chapel has a Phra Buddha Patima Chaiwat statue, and a wall of murals depicting falling flowers and window panels with lotus, birds and aquatic creatures. By the river, a pavilion serves as a vantage point from which tourists can watch a unique view of the waterside community or purchase bread to feed fish.
A 5.5km drive from the MRT Bang Rak Yai station brought me to Wat Prasat, which is reminiscent of traditional Ayutthaya-style architecture. Located on the Bang Kruai-Sai Noi road, it welcomes visitors with a large open-air ground, home to replicas of Buddha statues from various renowned temples such as Phra Phuttha Sothon from Wat Sothonwararam Worawihan.
A colourful promenade with 100 vintage umbrellas leads us to the ancient ubosot, which was erected in the late Ayutthaya period and has been renovated multiple times. Its curved base is designed to resemble a junk and the carved wood gable depicts the god Narai riding a garuda capturing a naga.
Without windows, this ubosot has three doorways that show the original masonic structure, and in the middle is a principle Buddha statue surrounded with 25 sculptures of disciples, all of whom are seated in a meditation posture.
Wat Boromracha Kanchanapisek Anusorn was constructed to mark the 50th anniversary of King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s accession to the throne.
Using colour powder extracted from local plants and flowers, the walls are blanketed with fading murals to illustrate the Ten Birth Tales of the Buddha, angels listening to sermons, the way of life and other royal ceremonies like the royal procession to the temple in the Ayutthaya era.
A short stroll from the ubosot, the monastery compound also features a vihara of masters that is home to a figure of Luang Pho Son Thammasaro, the former abbot who specialised in superstitions, making his sacred amulets popular with local collectors and pilgrims.
Visitors are allowed to explore a pair of Panya-style gold teak houses constructed during the reign of King Rama V when Western civilisation spread to Siam, as well as a wood tripitaka hall, which was built in 1997 in the middle of a pond.
MRT Khlong Bang Phlu is the next stop after Bang Rak Yai. It's a 4.8km drive to Wat Boromracha Kanchanapisek Anusorn, Nonthaburi's most popular destination for Thai-Chinese descendants to pray for luck, wealth and protection.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of King Bhumibol Adulyadej's accession to the throne, Thai-Chinese Buddhists contributed funds to build this Chinese monastery in 1996 as a branch of Wat Mangkorn Kamalawat in Chinatown.
Locally known as Wat Leng Noei Yi 2, the construction took 12 years and was given its name by King Bhumibol. Occupying 12 rai, it is inspired by Beijing's Forbidden City in order to highlight beautiful Chinese architecture from the Ming dynasty, while the layout is based on Mahayana principles.
On the ground floor, the ceiling is adorned with red lanterns and the counters are selling some offerings and amulets in various styles. Climbing up to the 2nd floor, it's home to a drum tower and a bell tower, where visitors are allowed to write their names on a red ribbon and hang it on a large bell to ask for fame and success.
In the middle, Tian Wang's Sanctuary boasts a green ceiling with dragons and several statues of Chinese deities such as Katyayana, the Sun god, the goddess of the Moon, the Great Emperor of the North Pole and Tudi Gong.
Those born in the Year of the Ox, Big Snake and Dog gather at the foot of a massive stone stairway and ask Tai Sui, the god of destiny, for protection. Upstairs, the Meun Buddhasukkavadi Hall is home to a trio of soaring Buddha statues -- Amitabha (the Buddha of eternal life), Phra Sri Sakyamuni and Phra Bhaisajyaguru Vaitoonprapha (the medicine Buddha) as well as a row of gold and crimson statues of their followers.
Walking through a marble-like cloister to the Avalokiteshvara Guan Yin Hall, visitors can pray for good health and prosperity in front of a beautiful carved wood sculpture of Guan Yin (goddess of compassion) with a thousand hands. The compound also has the meditation hall, Phra Pariyat Tham School and a lush expansive courtyard with a Chinese-style pavilion and a lifelike, marble-like Guan Yin figure.
The chapel at Wat Boromracha Kanchanapisek Anusorn is home to statues of Amitabha Buddha, Phra Sri Sakyamuni and Phra Bhaisajyaguru Vaitoonprapha.
The Phra Ngoen Plant Market is one of the largest in Bang Yai district.
Talat Nok Hook (Owl Market).
Just a few stops from MRT Bang Phlu to MRT Talat Bang Yai, then it's a 7km journey to Wat Phra Ngoen, which is situated on Bang Muang-Bang Kulad road. It was built in 1821 and houses an antique wood tripitaka hall with a two-layered roof and a glass gable, which stands in the middle of a pond.
Not far from the temple, the Phra Ngoen Plant Market is a good place to take a break and find some keepsakes for home. This is one of the largest markets in Bang Yai district, with more than 100 vendors offering a variety of gardening supplies, plants and flowers such as croton, fern, orchid, caladium and alocasia.
I returned to MRT Yaek Nonthaburi 1 and ended my journey at Talat Nok Hook (Owl Market) as the sky got dark. Just a 400m walk from the station, this night market looks dynamic with a thousand vendors selling a wide range of secondhand sneakers, fashion apparel and accessories, home decorative items, vintage collectibles, festive gear, ceramic tableware and musical instruments. Prices start from 20 baht.
If you want something for dinner, the food court lures people with a variety of popular local and international dishes as well as sweets. Charcoal Thai crispy pancake, sticky rice with mango, fried squid eggs, spicy coconut salad, seafood salad and barbecue buffets are among the highlights.
- Wat Chaloem Phrakiat Worawihan is located on Soi Wat Chaloem Phrakiat, tambon Bang Si Muang. It's a 5km drive and travellers can take a taxi or songthaew from the MRT Yaek Nonthaburi 1 station. It's open daily from 5.30am to 6.30pm. Admission is free. Find out more details at the WatChalermprakiatWorawihan page on Facebook.
- Wat Prasat is on the Bang Kruai-Sai Noi road and around 5.5km from the MRT Bang Rak Yai station. It's open daily from 7am to 6pm. Admission is free.
- Wat Boromracha Kanchanapisek Anusorn is on Thetsaban 9 Road, Bang Bua Thong district. It's a 4.8km drive from MRT Khlong Bang Phlu station and is open daily from 9am to 4pm. Admission is free. Find out more at watboromracha.com.
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Google Glass 2.0 that is called as the Enterprise Edition has been spotted at Federal Communications Commission (FCC) website. The second generation augmented reality glasses that were seen in the filings published by the FCC, were first reported by 9to5Google.
The Enterprise Edition sports a similar design to the original Google Glass but comes with a couple of tweaks. This one has larger glass prism which is the display where users view content. Next up there is an addition of a hinge that makes it easy to fold the device similar to a regular pair of glasses. This was one of the most requested features in the Explorer program. The Enterprise Edition Glass comes with 5GHz Wi-Fi support and a faster Intel processor. There are battery improvements along with an external battery pack that attaches to Glass via magnets.
The device is also said to be waterproof and more durable than its predecessors. Hundreds of participants in the “Glass for Work” program are testing the device in the field, added the report. The FCC filing comes after a report in The Wall Street Journal suggested that Google is working on a new version of Glass aimed at businesses rather than everyday consumers.
Google has been mum about the Enterprise Edition and it is not known when the company will announce the next iteration of the Google Glass. Just a quick reminder, the original versions of Glass dubbed as Explorer Editions were available to consumers for $1,500 only in limited quantities.

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Pensacola is as authentically Spanish in its pedigree and tradition as is St. Augustine, but with a much stronger infusion of the French influence, emanating from nearby Louisiana. Whether from these influences, from its comparative isolation from the newer Florida of the peninsula, or from something in its climate, with just enough of a tang to be invigorating in mid-winter and constant sea breezes which keep it from becoming enervating in mid-summer, Pensacola presents to the visitor a suggestion of gayety, as of a community whose people are completely satisfied that they are living in the best of all possible environments, and can afford not to take life too seriously. That is not to suggest indolence, but rather a cheerful energy which seems to pervade all of Pensacola’s activities and which is building the city and its environs not only into one of the most beautiful communities to be found in or out of Florida, but into an increasingly important industrial and commercial center.
Parallelling the civic progress of Pensacola is its growing importance as a center of activities of the United States Navy. In striking contrast to the Navy’s ancient timber reserve along Santa Rosa Sound, a relic of the ancient days of wooden ships, is the daily spectacle of the squadrons of the air maneuvering over the bay, cadets undergoing training at the United States Naval Air Station, which has given to Pensacola one of its widely-known sobriquets, “The Annapolis of the Air.”
Few cities anywhere have been planted in lovelier natural surroundings. Built on high ground which in some parts of the city reaches almost bluff-like proportions. Pensacola fronts on an almost completely land-locked arm of the Gulf of Mexico, a perfect natural deep-water harbor, large enough for all the navies of the world to manoeuver in. Pensacola Bay, with its northerly and easterly arms, Escambia Bay and East Bay, cover 175 square miles. The Escambia River flows down from Alabama on the North; Perdido Bay and River, hardly a rifle shot from the city, separate Florida from Alabama on the West. From the North and West two important trunk line railroads enter the city, the Frisco and the Louisville & Nashville. The latter continues eastward across Florida where its lines connect with the westernmost terminal of the Seaboard Air line at River Junction.
North, east and west broad paved highways radiate from Pensacola. Through the heart of the city, over a new street named, appropriately, Cervantes, after the great Don Miguel who wrote “Don Quixote,” runs the Old Spanish Trail, the great transcontinental highway which connects St. Augustine on the Atlantic with San Diego on the Pacific. It is an hour’s run by motor to Mobile, half a day’s journey through Biloxi and Gulfport to New Orleans. One can motor from Pensacola to the capitals of either Alabama or Mississippi and back between dawn and dark. Fine motor roads lead from Pensacola to the beaches. Pensacola Beach, on the Gulf shore of Santa Rosa Island, is reached by a toll bridge across Santa Rosa Sound. Opened in 1932, its accessibility draws motorists by the thousands on week-ends and holidays from a hundred or more miles, Winter and Summer. The waters of the Gulf are seldom too cool for comfortable bathing, though there are winter days when the air temperature is low enough to make a bathing suit uncomfortable wear on the beach. An older and locally more popular resort is Gulf Beach, to the west of the harbor entrance.
Historically, Pensacola challenges St. Augustine’s claim to being the site of the first white settlement in what is now the United States. The relation between the two is like that be tween Roanoke Island and Jamestown. Sir Walter Raleigh planted his Roanoke colony in 1587, twenty years before the Jamestown settlers landed; but the Roanoke colony vanished while the others made a permanent settlement. Just so, in 1559, twenty-eight years before Roanoke, Don Tristan de Luna landed at Pensacola with 2,000 followers, with the intention of establishing a colony. But a hurricane destroyed some of the vessels’ heavy supplies for the new colony, the day after they landed, and after less than two years of hardships the 500 survivors abandoned the colony and sailed back to Spain. It was six years later, in 1565, that Menendez planted the first permanent settlement at St. Augustine.
That first attempt at colonization on what the Spanish called the Bay of Santa Maria was the only attempt of Spain to gain a foothold on the north shore of the Gulf of Mexico for nearly 140 years. Secure in their possession of Mexico, they felt safe from aggressions from the unsettled North. But when the French, coming down the Mississippi in the trail of the discoveries of LaSalle and Pere Marquette, began to plant settlements which threatened the Spanish hold on the Gulf Coast, an expedition from Mexico under Andres de Arriola set forth in 1698 to plant another colony on Santa Maria Bay. They named the settlement Pensacola from an Indian tribe which inhabited the vicinity. They built a fort of logs to which was given the name San Carlos de Asturias, located about where the restored fort of that name, forming a part of Fort Barrancas, now stands as one of the historic spots of Pensacola.
The French arrived at the Bay two months later, but finding the Spaniards in possession retired to Biloxi. In 1718, however, France sent an expedition which took the Spanish colony by surprise. All of its inhabitants were captured and shipped to Havana. On the arrival of these ships with their Spanish prisoners at Havana, the governor general ordered the crews seized and imprisoned. Then manning them with Spanish crews, sailing under the French flag, he sent to Pensacola an overwhelming force that drove out the French and reestablished Spanish dominion. But this was short-lived, for before the year was over an expedition had come from Mobile and left, on the site of Fort San Carlos, reduced to ashes, this inscription:
“In the year 1719, on the 18th day of September, Monsieur Desuade de Champmeslin, commander of the squadron of His Most Christian Majesty, took this place by force of arms, as well as the island of Santa Rosa.”
Under the treaty of peace between France and Spain in 1723 Pensacola Bay was again restored to Spain. In rebuilding their colony the Spanish, with keen remembrance of the French raids from the landward side, established their town and fort on the western end of Santa Rosa Island, near where Fort Pickens now stands. But a hurricane in 1754 swept away the little town, and the Spanish rebuilt on the site of the present city.
When Florida became an English possession in 1763 Pensacola was made the capital of West Florida, the British claims extending from the Chattahoochee River to the Mississippi and northward beyond the site of what is now Montgomery, Alabama. The town became the commercial and political headquarters of all that region, the center of the trade with the Indians. The town which the British took over consisted of forty huts, thatched with palmetto leaves in the Indian style. The new owners laid out the plan which the Pensacola of today closely follows. The main street, named Palafox now, was called George Street and at the top of Gage Hill, named for General Gage, who was then in command at Boston and whose name has come down in history because of his part in the Revolutionary War, they built Fort George.
Isolated as it was from the British colonies to the Northeast, Florida did not join them in the Revolution; but in 1779, when Spain had joined France in the war against Great Britain, the Spanish, then in possession of Louisiana, sent an expedition by land and sea and again, on May 8, 1781, Pensacola became a Spanish city. Spain held its recaptured possessions with such a weak hand that in the war of 1812 the British, with whom the Spanish were allied in the fighting against Napoleon, openly used the town of Pensacola as a base of operations, inciting the Indians against the United States.
It was this that brought Pensacola and Florida to the attention of General Andrew Jackson and, by his expedition undertaken on his own responsibility, to call the Spanish gov ernment to account for such a breach, brought General Jackson to the knowledge of the English and Spanish. After driving out the English quartered here, and providing that the hostile Indians, who had operated from here, should be hunted down, he moved on to bring greater discomfiture to the British in the Battle of New Orleans. He seized Pensacola again four years later, on the pretext that the Spanish were stirring up the Seminoles, against whom he had led an expedition, and for a year and a half the city was under a provisional government having no authority back of it but the personal dictatorship of General Jackson. There was another short interval when the town was returned to Spain, but the cession of Florida to the United States in 1821 put an end to Spanish rule on Pensacola Bay.
Many of the present day inhabitants of Pensacola, including leaders in business and civic affairs and of social prominence, are proud of their descent from the Spanish settlers of the 18th century. There is also a considerable strain of French blood, tracing from those early colonial days, among the old families of Pensacola.

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A major financial services company says it will be spending about $59 million on settlements to resolve concerns of state and national agencies about its mutual fund sales and management practices.[@@]
The company, Ameriprise Financial Inc., has negotiated settlements with the Minnesota Department of Commerce, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the National Association of Securities Dealers, Washington.
“It should be noted that the costs of these settlements were reserved for in prior quarters and will have no effect on the company’s fourth quarter 2005 earnings,” the company says.
Standard & Poor’s, New York, says the settlement announcements will have no effect on its Ameriprise ratings because the potential existence of the fines and other penalties already are factored into the company’s ratings.
Until recently, Ameriprise operated as American Express Financial Advisors, a unit of American Express Company, New York. American Express turned Ameriprise into a separate company in September by giving shares of Ameriprise stock to American Express shareholders.
Ameriprise has reached 2 separate settlements with the SEC.
- Ameriprise will pay $15 million in disgorgement and civil penalties to the SEC to settle charges that AEFA had inadequate procedures in place for enforcing rules against market timing between early 2002 and October 2003, and that AEFA let some mutual fund and variable annuity holders time the market after forbidding customers to do so.
- Ameriprise Financial Services Inc., an Ameriprise broker-dealer unit, will pay $30 million in disgorgement and civil penalties in connection with SEC concerns about revenue-sharing programs.
The SEC says the company now known as Ameriprise Financial Services gave preferential treatment to mutual funds with revenue-sharing agreements without adequately disclosing the agreements to customers.


The ICON Silverleaf is a new 72-unit luxury condominium complex located within the upscale Silverleaf master-planned resort community. The project is comprised of 8 residential 4-story buildings with open parking as the first level of each building. Wright Engineers’ structural design incorporates the innovative ConXtech chassis-based modular building system which enables the buildings to be erected much faster and with less waste. The development is now open for sales and is slated to begin closing homes in the Fall. The architect is Robert Hidey Architects. The building owner is the The New Home Company.
LEGOLAND DEEP SEA ADVENTURE
On July 2nd, 2018 guests set sail on the maiden submarine voyage at the new Lego City: Deep Sea Adventure attraction in Legoland California Resort. Guests ride in a real submarine where they can view over 2,000 salt water sea tropical fish, sharks, rays and other sea creatures. Interactive touch screens help identify undersea creatures and features. Wright Engineers’ Irvine team provided structural, mechanical, and plumbing engineering services for the building shell, tenant improvement, and theming including the 12 foot deep dive tank and supports for the ride. Ethos Architecture is the project’s architect.


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Ensemble Health Partners Inc. set terms for its initial public offering on Tuesday, with plans to offer 29.5 million shares, priced at $19 to $22 each. The company would raise $649 million at the top of that range, at a valuation of $1.2 billion. The company has applied to list on Nasdaq, under the ticker "ENSB.' Goldman Sachs, BofA Securities, Deutsche Bank and Guggenheim are lead underwriters in a team of 12 banks working on the deal. "Ensemble Health Partners is a leading provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management ("RCM") solutions for health systems, including hospitals and affiliated physician groups," the company says in its prospectus.
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Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Regenerative Medicine (MGH-CRM) and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have a developed a new type of human pluripotent stem cell that can be manipulated more readily than currently available stem cells. As described in the June 4 Cell Stem Cell, these new cells could be used to create better cellular models of disease processes and eventually may permit repair of disease-associated gene mutations.
"It has been fairly easy to manipulate stem cells from mice, but this has not been the case for traditional human stem cells," explains Niels Geijsen, PhD, of the MGH-CRM, who led the study. "We had previously found that the growth factors in which mouse stem cells are derived define what those cells can do, and now we've applied those findings to human stem cells."
The first mammalian embryonic stem cells (ESCs) were derived from mice and have proven very useful for studying gene function and the impact of changes to individual genes. But techniques used in these studies to introduce a different version of a single gene or inactivate a particular gene were ineffective in human ESCs. In addition, human ESCs proliferate much more slowly than do cells derived from mice and grow in flat, two-dimensional colonies, while mouse ESCs form tight, three-dimensional colonies. It is been extremely difficult to propagate human ESCs from a single cell, which prevents the creation of genetically manipulated human embryonic stem cell lines.
In previous work, Geijsen and his colleagues demonstrated that the growth factor conditions under which stem cells are maintained in culture play an important role in defining the cells' functional properties. Since the growth factors appeared to make such a difference, the researchers tried to make a more useful human pluripotent cell using a new approach. They derived human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) – which are created by reprogramming adult cells and have many of the characteristics of human ECSs, including resistance to manipulation – in cultures containing the growth factor LIF, which is used in the creation of mouse ESCs.
The resulting cells visibly resembled mouse ESCs and proved amenable to a standard gene manipulation technique that exchanges matching sequences of DNA, allowing the targeted deactivation or correction of a specific gene. The ability to manipulate these new cells depended on both the continued presence of LIF and expression of the five genes that are used in reprogramming adult cells into iPSCs. If any of those factors was removed, these hLR5- (for human LIF and five reprogramming factors) iPSCs reverted to standard iPSCs.
"Genetic changes introduced into hLR5-iPSCs would be retained when they are coverted back to iPSCs, which we then can use to generate cell lines for future research, drug development and someday stem-cell based gene-correction therapies," says Geijsen. He is an assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a principal faculty member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
Co-authors of the Cell Stem Cell paper are lead author Christa Buecker, MGH-CRM and Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI); Hsu-Hsin Chen, PhD, Laurence Dahern, and Konrad Hochedlinger, PhD, MGH-CRM and HSCI; Patricia Okwieka, MGH-CRM; Jose Polo, PhD, MGH Cancer Center; Lei Bu, PhD, MGH Cardiovascular Research Center; Tahsin Stefan Barakat and Joost Gribnau, PhD, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; and Andrew Porter, PhD, Imperial College London, U.K. The study was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Dutch Science Organization, the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation and the National Science Council of Taiwan.
Massachusetts General Hospital, established in 1811, is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. The MGH conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the United States, with an annual research budget of more than $600 million and major research centers in AIDS, cardiovascular research, cancer, computational and integrative biology, cutaneous biology, human genetics, medical imaging, neurodegenerative disorders, regenerative medicine, systems biology, transplantation biology and photomedicine.
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The primary motivation for the secession of the southern states was their belief that their rights given to them under the constitution were being taken away by the northern controlled federal government and the new regionally dominated Republican Party. Many argue that the main reason the South seceded from the union was only over the issue of slavery. The South thought that the new Republican Party and the newly elected president, President Lincoln, were going to abolish slavery in the South. Although this may be, for the most part true, it is not the sole reason for the South’s decision to secede. The four states that seceded later in 1861, had at first voted against secession on the sole basis over the issue of slavery.
Nevertheless, the Emancipation Proclamation had no instant until Thirteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution in 1865, about three years after the Emancipation was ordained. (Tackach 9-10). If the Emancipation Proclamation did not completely abolish slavery, what was the point of the document? Lincolns Emancipation a Proclamation was not actually written for the intention of freeing slaves at all. Preferably, it was a war tactic to militarily weaken the South and preserve the Union, add soldiers to the Union cause, and in many opinions please abolitionist northerners.
He countered this by stating he will uphold the doctrine of states right. Most southerners distrusted him.. His victory in the election led to the secession of eleven southern states from the union leading to the formation of the Confederate States of America with Jefferson Davis as its president. This was viewed by the US administrators as an act of treason. Hostilities were prompted in April of 1861 when the conferderationist attacked a US military installation at fort summer in South Carolina leading to Lincoln, who had been in office for only six weeks to call for each state to volunteer an army. He declared these acts of secession as illegal and asked Congress for 500,000 soldiers to crush what threatened to be an aggressive rebellion.
In the 1840s and '50s, the party was in conflict over extending slavery to the Western territories. Southern Democrats insisted on protecting slavery in all the territories while many Northern Democrats resisted. The party split over the slavery issue in 1860 at its Presidential convention in Charleston, South Carolina. The Gilded Age politics, called the Third Party System, was characterized by intense competition between the two parties, with minor parties coming and going, especially on issues of concern to prohibitionists, labor unions and farmers. The Emancipation Proclamation issued on 1863 may have given some 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process of rebuilding The Jim Crow laws were racial segregation laws enacted after the Reconstruction period in Southern United States, at state and local levels, and which continued in force until 1965, which mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities in Southern states of the former Confederacy, with, starting in 1890, a "separate but equal" status for African Americans.
However, many southern states found ways around the laws to disenfranchise the black populations. They did this by introducing a ‘Grandfather Clause’, which is that only people whose grandfather voted, gave them the ability to vote. Also literacy test was another method used, which in most ways wasn’t made fairly and even well educated people were disenfranchised and not allowed to vote. However, in 1946 President Truman established The President’s Committee on ‘Civil rights’, producing a report examining the experiences of racial minorities in America. The report was called ‘To Secure These Rights’, this report highlighted the problems facing African Americans and proposed radical changes to make American society better.
| Radical Republicans | They control the south to help prevent them from returning to their war ways. | 17th president Andrew Johnson many of the bills that actually passed. | So many other republicans join the radicals and together, which gave the republicans in congress the ability to over side the president. | Southern Democrats | The removal of all of the remaining federal troops from the south as well having a change congress. | They had commended the decision of the commission and directive to make Rutherford B. Hayes.
His speech, given in 1858, stated that, a divided house cannot stand and visualized that America can not endure a “half-slave and half-free.” This clearly showed that he was a moderate and was therefore not up to task, in the views of the southerners, to be able to tackle the abolitionist they perceived as a threat. He countered this by stating he will uphold the doctrine of states right. Most southerners distrusted him.. His victory in the election led to the secession of eleven southern states from the union leading to the formation of the Confederate States of America with Jefferson Davis as its president. This was viewed by
The Civil War only ended the slavery, not racism. Though the Thirteenth Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment were passed, they were mostly pushed by federal government. One of the most famous case in that period, Plessy v. Ferguson, involved a Louisiana law that required separate seating arrangements for the races on railroads. In the case, the petition stated that this act conflicts the Thirteenth and Fourteen Amendment which give black equality. While the court held that separate accommodations did not deprive blacks of equal rights if the accommodations were equal; in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political; legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts, or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences, and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation.
Using the Law In 1947, President Truman told the Committee on Civil Rights that it was time to make sure civil rights laws were enforced. He said ‘We have been trying to do this for 150 years’ However; many state laws enforced only change these laws if they could show they were unconstitutional. This should have been easy; the fourteenth amendment to the constitution made black people full American citizens. Many people in government (especially people of southern states), fought to keep these laws in place. In 1896, in the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson, the Supreme Court had ruled that facilities, transport, and education could all be segregated as long as they were kept separate but equal.
The Emancipation Proclamation The Emancipation Proclamation began on January 17, 1863 and the purpose of it was to determine which states were rebellions. The emancipation also was criticized because of the legal document, which applied in most of the southern states but not in Tennesse. The voters in west Tennesse voted in but the middle and east Tennesse were against the whole idea. Tennesse was one of the states that was asked to come up with a troop to put the rebellion down. Alexander P. Stewart was from east, Tennesse graduating from West Point in 1842.

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|The Provincial Archives in Mariehamn, Åland, has the Sheriff's Archive of the Åland
Islands. In the series Bb. Passförteckningar there are "Förteckning över
utfärdade resepass 1863-1916" [List of issued passports 1863-1916]. In the list
there are the names of over 10,570 applicants and also many family members.
The passport list began in May 23, 1863. In the beginning there are only names, professions, dates and destinations. Between 1882 and 1899 one can also find the place of residence of the applicant, and beginning in 1900 the year of birth is also mentioned. From about 1892 one can find a more accurate place of destination, i.e. information whether the applicant intended to travel to Sweden, America or some other country.
The Passport Lists are completed by the Borough Administrator's Passport List for 1882-1903.
Fees, the validity time of the passport, and information about the church to which the applicant belonged are omitted to save space.
The original records are in very bad condition and there may be errors in the list because of that reason.
The list was typed into the computer by Karin Mansén at the Provincial Archives.
The passport list has been divided into smaller parts after it was typed to computer. Some of the lists are still large and it may take a while to download them.
A separate list is sorted in alphabetical order to make the search easier. Some of the names are sorted in normal order to bring similar names together. In spite of that the same person may be found in different places in the list. This is because different names may have been used for the same person at different times, different ways of writing names have been used, or reading and typing errors were made while the data was typed into computer.
The exact date and the destination have been left out from the alphabetical lists. The column at the right shows a reference to the chronological lists. The number after the year is the actual month (year:month).
At the end of the alphabetical lists there is one list with all the passport applicants not residing at the Åland Islands. These applicants are also found in the other lists.

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6mm- Crystal AB
Czech Fire Polish Glass Beads
Traditionally used for bridal and special occasion, the clear crystal with the AB (aurora borealis) finish is as popular today as it was one hundred years ago. The coating gives a beautifully feminine feel to what would normally be a clear, unadorned bead. With a generous 1mm hole (you can easily thread C-lon through twice), it makes laddering and weaving easy as can be.
Sold on strands of approximately 25 beads. Measures 6 inches in length when strung.

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In response to the World Financial institution, Africa’s inhabitants is anticipated to achieve 2.8 billion by 2060, which is able to end in native authorities’s concentrate on creating and strengthening transport networks. The continent’s two-wheeler market is projected to cross US$10 billion by 2022 owing to inhabitants, rising urbanisation and absence of dependable public transportation system in a lot of the African nations. The requirement for last-mile connectivity options presents alternatives primarily resulting from the comparatively low penetration of two-wheelers vis-à-vis the full inhabitants of the continent. This has resulted in main international two-wheeler producers from China, Japan and India growing their presence throughout the continent.
Two-wheelers in Africa
Africa devised non-conventional modes of public transport via vans and minibuses. Extra lately, two-wheelers are doubling up as public transport resulting from requirement of quicker conveyance, glorious manoeuvrability provided by the merchandise throughout the various panorama, straightforward two-wheeler financing and the swelling inflow of imports from Asian producers.
The African auto market’s regular development is supported by rising employment, enhancing city infrastructure and the flexibility of Asian producers to produce cost-efficient autos which can be comparatively low in upkeep whereas providing larger mileage. African nations similar to Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania have seen vital migration in direction of Indian two-wheeler manufacturers. The spurt in development is especially prevalent in Kenya, the place the federal government has prolonged tax waivers to each the imports of bikes and to native meeting crops.
Indian ‘Belief Issue’
Clients want Indian manufacturers as a result of they provide higher high quality, sturdiness and better gasoline financial system. Moreover, Indian producers construct customised merchandise for the African market as every area has distinct necessities. Due to this fact, the product portfolio developed by Indian R&D groups for the African markets focuses on catering to various buyer preferences and the various terrain. For instance: Some markets are going through energy scarcity, subsequently, TVS Motor Firm offers considerate function additions similar to USB charging port for the shoppers to avail in case of emergencies.
As most two-wheelers in Africa double up as boda boda, ambulance taxi and two-wheelers, clients are searching for long-lasting and sturdy merchandise. One problem which African markets face throughout worldwide imports of two-wheelers in the absence of full service assist. The shortage of crucial service services and non-availability of spare components usually hamper the longevity of the car.
TVS Motor Firm has been current in Africa for the previous 20 years providing the full sale, service and spare assist. The corporate builds multi-utility two-wheelers with fuel-efficient engines and robust suspensions to traverse various terrains. TVS Motor has arrange its meeting crops through tie-ups with native companions in choose nations similar to Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. The corporate has additionally arrange a provide chain in Egypt and Nigeria. These partnerships have helped in creating native hubs, which in flip have generated employment and entrepreneurial alternatives for near 1 million native populaces. TVS Motor has been offering staunch assist to the market within the on-going pandemic in type of masks, sanitisation and meals. All service middle workers are skilled to take ample precautions and supply upkeep ideas.
The pattern of utilizing private commuting had emerged throughout the continent lately. In a social distancing led world of COVID-19, individuals will go for solo and sanitised journey thus creating an alternative for scooters and bebeks. The supply sector can be anticipated to create alternatives for small tonnage two-wheelers together with institutional gross sales alternative with authorities and personal sector. In particular markets, ride-hailing apps are rising.
Indian producers are poised to fulfill this demand with a variety of choices. They are additionally increasing their community in the African market to supply sustainable mobility options to all commuters. The expansion of this sector is sweet information for Africa because it would result in job creation and improve employment alternatives.
Authored by: Mr. R Dilip, Government Vice President – Worldwide Enterprise, TVS Motor Firm


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See the “Big Five” on this 11 days Tanzania luxury guided Lodge safari to the top game-viewing areas of Tanzania: Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Serengeti National Park and Tarangire National Park. The wildlife concentrations and diversity here are unsurpassed – and you’ll be able to view them from the comfort of your 4×4 Landcruiser, in the company of an experienced safari driver / guide. Accommodation in Luxury Tented Camps and Lodges on Full Board.
Price: From USD $6,875.00
What You Can Expect
Day 1: Arrival – Arusha On arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, you will be met and welcomed to Tanzania by our tour representative. Transfer to Arusha for overnight and relaxation. Overnight: Mt. Village Serena Lodge/Similar.
Day 2: The Safari start by picking you from your Arusha Hotel 8:00AM driving 124 km arriving at our first park – Tarangire National Park – We take you on your first Game Drive arriving back just before dusk to overnight Tarangire Sopa Lodge
Day 3: Tarangire – Lake Manyara After your delicious breakfast at the lodge, proceed to Manyara National Park to arrive in time for lunch. Afternoon depart for a game drive before returning to your reserved lodge for dinner and overnight. Overnight: Lake Manyara Serena Lodge/Similar
Day 4: Lake Manyara – Hadzabe Bushman On this day, after breakfast, drive to visit the Hadzabe Bushman Tribe for cultural experience with packed lunch. In the afternoon return to your lodge at Manyara national Park. Overnight: Lake Manyara Serena Lodge/Similar
Day 5: Lake Manyara – Serengeti After breakfast, enjoy a morning game drive at Lake Manyara National park and after lunch depart for Serengeti. Overnight: Serengeti Sopa Lodges/Similar.
Day 6: Serengeti National Park. After breakfast drive to Serengeti National Park, En-route optional visit to Olduvai Gorge (Extra cost), in the afternoon proceed for game viewing until dusk. Overnight Sopa Lodges/Similar.
Day 7: Serengeti National Park. Spend two breathtaking days of game viewing with morning and afternoon game drives at Serengeti National Park. Get the opportunity to see all the big five. Overnight . Overnight Sopa Lodges/Similar.
Day 8: Serengeti National park. After breakfast, check out and drive to Lodge with en-route game viewing of the Park to arrive at the camp for late lunch. Overnight: Buffalo Luxury Camp/Similar.
Day 9: Serengeti National Park. On this day, have an early morning game walk/nature Walk in the concession area before retirning to the camp for breakfast. After breakfast, game drives at the concession area. Later after lunch, enjoy a visit to Masai village for culture experience. Overnight: Buffalo Luxury Camp/Similar.
Day 10: Ngorongoro Crater After breakfast, depart for Ngorongoro Crater, Spend the full day exploring the lakes, woodlands, and wide-open plains of the Crater floor. Dinner and Overnight: Ngorongoro Serena Lodge/Sopa/Similar
Day 11: Ngorongoro-Arusha-Kilimanjaro International airport. Have an early morning game drive, return to the lodge for breakfast. Later transfer you to Arusha and proceed to Kilimanjaro International airport for your flight back home
- 10 nights accommodation Meals as per itinerary (B=breakfast, L=lunch, D=dinner)
- Professional guide
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Private tour
- Transport by 4X4 WD
- Transport by private vehicle
- Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
- Drinks Gratuities (optional)
- Souvenir photos (available to purchase)
Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Children must be accompanied by an adult


Report criticizes interim Iraq government
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: AP - Middle East: "WASHINGTON -- Serious human rights abuses occurred under the interim Iraqi government installed by the United States after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, including torture, illegal detention by police and forced confessions, according to a State Department report.
Though the interim government did reverse 'a long legacy of serious human rights abuses' under Saddam, the report said that 'corruption at all levels of government remained a problem' during the period and Iraqis continued to be victimized by police, courts and others in authority.
Iraqi officials were correcting these practices, the report said. It said the January elections and continuing struggle against insurgent violence had helped 'create momentum for the improvement of human rights practices.'"


This was the case for the University of Texas, who have recently passed a “campus carry” law that allows licensed gun holders to carry a concealed handgun on campus.
Understandably, many aren’t pleased with this decision.
In order to highlight the ridiculousness of the rule, one student has set up a Facebook page encouraging others to carry dildos around campus as a sign of protest.
The reason? Dildos are banned from the university.
Jessica Jin has set up a Facebook event called the Campus (DILDO) carry and she’s gaining more and more followers by the day.
The event reads:
“The State of Texas has decided that it is not at all obnoxious to allow deadly concealed weapons in classrooms, however it DOES have strict rules about free sexual expression, to protect your innocence. You would receive a citation for taking a DILDO to class before you would get in trouble for taking a gun to class. Heaven forbid the penis.
Starting on the first day of Long Session classes on August 24, 2016, we are strapping gigantic swinging dildos to our backpacks in protest of campus carry.
ANYBODY can participate in solidarity: alum, non-UT students, people outside of Texas. Come one dildo, come all dildos.
“You’re carrying a gun to class? Yeah well I’m carrying a HUGE DILDO.”
Just about as effective at protecting us from sociopathic shooters, but much safer for recreational play.
(For those who aren’t gun experts/don’t live in the U.S, a glock is a type of handgun).
The event currently has over 2,900 people attending, and is set to take place on the 24th of August.
The University of Texas isn’t unfamiliar to gun violence.
In 1966, Charles Whitman situated himself on the University’s tower and opened fire on those around him, killing 14 people, as well as his mother and wife at home.
The shooting was the largest of its kind until the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012.


By R. Zeke Fread
Buju Banton, the anti-gay Jamaican dance hall, ragga, and reggae singer, whose song “Boom Bye Bye” advocates killing gay men with submachine guns and by pouring acid on them, is touring in four Florida cities, as part of his Rasta Got Soul Tour.
By Christi van der Westhuizen
COPENHAGEN, Aug 5 (IPS) – The second World Outgames, held in the Danish capital, offered up a veritable smorgasbord of sport, politics and arts while celebrating sexual and gender diversity. But it also reminded participants that bigotry against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, sometimes culminating in violence, remains a scourge across the world.
The week-long Outgames, which ended on Aug. 1, attracted 6,500 LGBT athletes and an estimated 20,000 spectators from myriad countries and was characterised by high-level political commitment from the Danish government. The rainbow flag – the international LGBT symbol – adorned the city hall and other buildings surrounding the main square in Copenhagen.


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Around the system with the past decade, a substantial selection of men and women from various pieces with the earth have got right up Best Urban Garden Plants Inspirations. During this regard, these men and women have found by themselves interested equally in making superb floral gardens as well as in augmenting thriving plant gardens. A the vast majority of gardeners continue to rely on what could be regarded as mainstream approaches in terms of the treatment and upkeep of possibly his or her floral or vegetables smaller gardens. To put it differently, these gardeners often rely upon numerous commercially availabable chemical treatment plans and products to treatment for his or her landscapes. Numerous types of garden-related chemical substances from pesticides to plant foods can be obtained conveniently at backyard garden offer outlets and discounted retail shops. Additional often these days, these fundamental products is usually received for any relatively realistic price.
Like a man or woman gets more involved with the treatment and upkeep of their backyard garden, this sort of a person has a tendency to develop into more mindful and aware of how the components they makes use of to have a tendency a backyard garden space really effects the setting as well as the crops staying developed (specially vegetables). Therefore, quite a few skilled gardeners have became turned into natural gardening techniques.Organic growing plants techniques really happen to be close to and used by men and women due to the fact specific historic tribes quit searching and collecting and satisfied right down to mature their own individual crops and to maintain their own individual tamed canines. In their most elementary sort, natural gardening techniques is made up with the use of normally appearing components (natural components) from the treatment and therapy of a backyard garden area vegetables or flowers. No synthetic chemical substances or any sort are used in accurate natural Best Urban Garden Plants Inspirations.
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Gardens are not only for grass and also house play areas, however could likewise be perfect places for storage sheds in which one can merely generally stock extra house stuffs in the shed. As component of the entire house exterior, it is only but proper that garden sheds will also look in-relative and also nice to your house's style.
Today there are a few really crucial points to take into consideration when beginning a vegetable yard, whether to start from plants or from seeds. Growing your veggie yard from seeds call for even more patience, time and also is much less expensive.

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BAE Techniques Australia has introduced that its bold long-range drone referred to as STRIX has efficiently handed essential design overview.
That includes a modular design, the drone can slot in an ordinary transport container and carry as much as 160 kilograms (353 kilos) of payload.
Additionally it is able to vertical takeoff and touchdown (VTOL), eliminating the necessity for lengthy runaways.
Firm officers advised Breaking Protection that some key components of the platform had been modified earlier than it reached the brand new milestone. Nonetheless, they supplied no additional particulars.
Regardless of being barely delayed, BAE Techniques Australia mentioned a completely operational system may be anticipated in 2026.
Named after an owl species, the STRIX is a hybrid, tandem-wing unmanned aerial car that may operate as a weapons platform or an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platform.
It may be managed from a floor station or perhaps a helicopter utilizing the corporate’s STRIX Car Administration System.
The drone can be able to working in high-risk environments, with a recorded operational vary of 800 kilometers (500 miles).
“STRIX leverages present, confirmed applied sciences to supply an reasonably priced and cost-effective functionality that’s mission configurable and upgradable in response to rising applied sciences or threats,” BAE Techniques Australia chief govt Ben Hudson mentioned.


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Cameroon singer Paddy Foks could be on his way out of his record label, Schengen Black Movement (SBM) by November after just eight months with them.
A close source to Foks tells us the singer is not happy with the way the label is treating him and Foks now thinks his standards and values are now way higher than the label.
Foks who gave a brilliant performance at the 237 Industry Nite in Buea on October 8, is a vibrant singer and performer who says he’s ready to make a change in the Cameroon music industry but,
“I don’t want to be like everybody else. I want to be different, bringing something no one has done on the table,” Foks tells us.
Neither Foks nor a spokesperson from SMB has released a statement concerning the singer’s future with the label.
All calls to both teams were to no avail. Stay with us for more scoop.

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Don’t come back on Saturday!
So the plan this morning was to take my new shoes out for a 5 mile pace run. At 6:30am when we woke up to thunder and lightening, it didn’t look good for a run. But by 8:00am, when the alarm sounded the rain seemed to have stopped.
I have a shoe dilemma…
My awesome purple shoes that I have been training in since May have too many miles. I started feeling the effects during some recent long runs and wasn’t exactly sure what to do. I ended up ordering some new shoes (awesome black and blue color) and an adorable long sleeved tshirt. I paid the extra $5 on top of my free shipping to expedite the shipment. My shoes arrived last night and as soon as I slipped my foot in this morning, I knew that the extra support was exactly what I needed.
I took the shoes for a test drive with an aggressive morning pace run. During which I began to think about my plan to get these shoes ready for the marathon in just a few weeks. Ugghh! So my dilemma…which shoes do I wear for Saturday’s 20 miler? I fear that wearing my old (purple) shoes will cause unnecessary aches and pains, but I’m not sure the new (black) shoes are ready for 20 miles. Ideally, I’d love to wear the new ones for the first 12 miles or so, and then switch, but that’s not an option. So help me…what should I do??? Do I wear the shoes with too many miles or too few?
The saddest part about this new shoe situation is that I picked out my neon green socks to go with my purple shoes (I love green and purple together) and I’m not sure how good they will look with the black and blue shoes. Ok, back to more important things than my race day outfit…this morning’s run. It appeared that the rain was done and that I would only be joined only by fog and humidity, but with a little over a mile left to go, the skies opened and the rain came pouring down. I was in the perfect place to take a short cut home and after some debate, and another gust of rain as I rounded the corner on to my street, I decided to cut my run a little short. Even with a slower last mile, I finished my 4.6 mile run below race pace averaging 8:33 min/miles. It was tough to maintain that pace, but I’m happy I pushed through this morning.
I didn’t eat breakfast before my run, which may have made that last mile tougher. I had a fantastic plan for my post run recovery snack…Summer Sander’s Post-Run Smoothie! I discovered this in Women’s Running magazine while reading it last night. It’s definitely different than my usual smoothie and I LOVED every sip!
I’m sure it feels like the majority of my posts have been about running lately. This is mostly because the majority of my life has been about running lately. With a side of work, eating, and maybe some sleeping. If you’re not into the running stuff, then you’ll be happy to know that my last long run is this weekend and then the taper begins! Wish me luck on Saturday’s 20 miler and cross your fingers for a rain free day!
One last thing…
Did you know tomorrow is Run at Work Day?
Ok seriously…which shoes should I wear this weekend?
Is three weeks enough time to get new shoes ready for 26.2 miles?
Summer Sander’s Post Run Smoothie
From Women’s Running Magazine
1 cup ice
1 cup almond milk
2 tbsp peanut butter (I used almond butter)
1 ripe banana
1 tbsp honey (I used 1/2 tbsp agave)
4 pitted dates
Add all ingredients into blender. Mix until smooth. Enjoy!


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By Vivian Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly For folk singer and songwriter Vikesh Kapoor, he is a musician first and a social observer second. A first-generation Indian American, Kapoor draws on observations and reactions to the world around him for inspiration. Born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, his first taste of the larger world came when […]
By Staff Northwest Asian Weekly New routes from Seattle to multiple airports in Asia will begin to see travel in June, as Delta Airlines and All
By Assunta Ng When you fly on Asian airlines from Seattle to Asia, you’ll discover that U.S. carriers have much to learn from their Asian counterparts. Food and services are much more superior. And Asian carriers are making money, while U.S. carriers to Asia, are often struggling. What does it say our about competitiveness?
By Samantha Bomkamp The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Delta Air Lines wants to expand service to Asia through its partnership with Alaska Airlines. Delta plans to add a flight between Seattle and Shanghai starting on June 17, 2013. Delta, which is based in Atlanta, is also proposing a flight between Seattle and Tokyo-Haneda, […]
By Assunta Ng Visiting the ambassador in Beijing “Did you see Gary?” my friends immediately asked when they learned I had just returned from Beijing, referring to U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke.
Delta Airlines has added two new flights from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) to Beijing and Osaka this summer.
According to the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), Jason Chaffetz, Republican nominee for U.S. Representative from the 3rd Congressional District of Utah, proposed the construction of “prison camps” surrounded by barbed wire to confine undocumented immigrants. The JACL are against this.


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By Linda Hill
When Mary Norton's family recently arranged a family reunion around the time of her 90th birthday on July 15, 70 people arrived in Madras to help her celebrate. Then, the following Sunday when she returned home from church, she was greeted by more than 120 friends who had gathered for her birthday.
Born in 1913 in San Luis Obispo, Calif., Mary Madeline Mainini was raised on a dairy farm. As one of six children of Italian immigrant parents, Italian was Mary's primary language until she began attending a tiny one-room school. After finishing eighth grade there, she attended and graduated from high school in San Luis Obispo, then worked for nine years for a large insurance and realty firm.
Mary married Parr Norton in 1939. Parr, the son of a superior court judge, had also been raised in San Luis Obispo. He loved horses, and decided that a farming life could allow him to own and work with them. His first job in agriculture was on his grandfather's farm near San Luis Obispo, and in 1945 he and Mary took on a rice farm near Willows in the Sacramento Valley. But rice farming was not for Parr. "He really wanted to be in ranching," Mary relates, "and he kept me busy answering ranch advertisements for him."
Though the Nortons didn't have much ready cash, "it was possible in those years to tie up land with no money," Mary said. In 1946 the couple secured two ranches near Mitchell in Wheeler County. When they moved up from Willows in 1947, however, they settled on the old Priday Ranch near Willowdale.
Mary's earliest recollection of Madras was that "it seemed to have as many small churches as houses." The roads were generally unpaved, and dust was everywhere, she remembers. "Parr came through Madras once, before we bought up here, and there was a dust storm. Then it began to rain, and it rained mud."
Finally, the Nortons settled on a ranch near Ashwood. Though Parr died in 1969, Mary, with the help of her eldest son, Tom, continued to run between 700 and 800 head of cattle there until 1973.
Life on the Ashwood ranch, with six children to raise, was always busy. Shuttling the children back and forth at different times along the nine-mile road between the ranch and Ashwood often meant two hours a day behind the wheel of a car.
"We were at the end of the road, most of it gravel, and some of it just dirt, and there were several other mothers who lived along it doing the same thing I was," Mary remembers. To cut down on all the trips to Ashwood and to create a little recreation, the women decided that occasionally, after dropping the children off for school, they would spend the day in Ashwood and learn to play bridge. "We taught ourselves, and then we played regularly twice a month."
Without television or phones during the early years that the Nortons lived on the ranch, folks in the Ashwood area also managed to find other ways to have fun. "When the new gym was built at the school, we organized volleyball games," Mary recalls, "and everyone played--even the little children."
Living beyond Trout Creek also brought its share of danger, excitement and inconvenience. Just before Christmas 1964, Parr took the two youngest children and drove into Madras to do his Christmas shopping. When they returned, they found that Trout Creek had flooded and washed out the bridge in Ashwood. The two eldest children, Tom and Parrline, saved the day by swimming their horses through the flood water to carry their father, siblings and the presents back across the creek. "The water and power lines washed out in that flood, and we had nothing for weeks," Mary recounts. "We had to wait until the water went down to even ford the stream. The bridge wasn't rebuilt for months."
In 1973 Mary sold out at Ashwood and moved to Jericho Road in the Culver area. But she still was as busy as ever. She recalls: "Someone talked me into running for County Commissioner. I was up against Louis Olsen, and was really surprised that I beat him. But I enjoyed my stint on the Commission."
Serving on the County Commission has not been Mary's only public service. She has also been an Ashwood School Board member, a Juniper Bank Board director and a council member for St. Patrick's Church in Madras.
Mary now lives on the eastern edge of Madras, where she had a house built in 1985. She still keeps active and still plays bridge. With four surviving children, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren, there are numerous family visits. And then, of course, there was that 90-year milestone to celebrate, both with family and with all the friends she has made in her 55 years in Jefferson County.
Looking back to when she first arrived in 1947, Mary remembers: "We moved up in the winter, in February, and I could see only rocks and sagebrush. I remember thinking to myself, what am I getting into here? But it grows on you, and I've come to love it and the people."


Like kids in a candy store
In a scene being played out in 50 capitals, local, state and federal officials are tussling of who gets what and how much as they desperately hope to stave off major painful local cuts.
The desire for political credit combined with real needs to fix roads and bridges and prevent layoffs holds the potential to turn friend against friend -- and slow down what is supposed to be a quick infusion of capital into a comatose economy.
Um, excuse me, Mr. Representative. You are just one elected person and you serve a population much smaller than the governor.
"The concept that one person, who is politically elected, is the sole person to decide where the money should go, just doesn't seem right," said US Representative Michael Capuano, a Democrat of Somerville who has been an early and frequent supporter of Patrick. "I would argue that no individual should be given that sole authority."
"When I said money should go to Longfellow Bridge, it's an earmark," he added. "But when Governor Patrick says it, it's a worthy idea."
The view is even sharper one step farther down on the ladder.
Even the normally sleepy proceedings of the Pioneer Valley Metropolitan Planning Organization recently erupted in controversy. During a meeting last week in West Springfield, mayors in Western Massachusetts were shocked when state transportation officials said they wanted to use about $60 million in federal stimulus money for construction on the Massachusetts Turnpike.
The mayors feel the money should be used instead to fix municipal-owned roads and bridges in local communities. The meeting ended after several confrontational exchanges and was rescheduled for tomorrow.
"They've all submitted everything - including the Taj Mahal in every town - from wish lists they've had for years," Senate President Therese Murray said in an interview. "It's probably, what, $4 trillion?"Patrick seems to have an interesting idea for breaking up the playground spat: a special administrator named by him, the attorney general, inspector general and auditor. It's the process used to name the IG in the first place.
Ever the realist, the one-time Senate Ways and Means Chairwoman says that's fine:
"If you gave us all the money and we all got to decide, we'd never agree where the money should go," Murray said.Not to mention the fact that if you took the Patrick administration's timelines for producing casino and transportation plans, we'd be into the next recession before things got done.


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J Neurosurg 135:300–308, 2021
Acute low-pressure hydrocephalus (ALPH) is characterized by clinical manifestations of an apparent raised intracranial pressure (ICP) and ventriculomegaly despite measured ICP that is below the expected range (i.e., typically ≤ 5 cm H2O). ALPH is often refractory to standard hydrocephalus intervention protocols and the ICP paradox commonly leads to delayed diagnosis. The aim of this study was to characterize ALPH and develop an algorithm to facilitate diagnosis and management for patients with ALPH.
METHODS EMBASE, MEDLINE, and Google Scholar databases were searched for ALPH cases from its first description in 1994 until 2019. Cases that met inclusion criteria were pooled with cases managed at the authors’ institution. Patient characteristics, presenting signs/symptoms, precipitating factors, temporizing interventions, definitive treatment, and patient outcomes were recorded.
RESULTS There were 195 patients identified, with 42 local and 153 from the literature review (53 pediatric patients and 142 adults). Decreased level of consciousness was the predominant clinical sign. The most common etiologies of hydrocephalus were neoplasm and hemorrhage. While the majority of ALPH occurred spontaneously, 39% of pediatric patients had previously undergone a lumbar puncture. Prior to ALPH diagnosis, 92% of pediatric and 39% of adult patients had a ventricular shunt in situ. The most common temporizing intervention was subatmospheric CSF drainage. The majority of patients underwent a shunt insertion/revision or endoscopic third ventriculostomy as definitive ALPH treatment. Although the mortality rate was 11%, 83% of pediatric and 49% of adult patients returned to their pre-ALPH neurological functional status after definitive treatment. Outcomes were related to both the severity of the underlying neurosurgical disease causing the hydrocephalus and the efficacy of ALPH treatment.
CONCLUSIONS ALPH is an underrecognized variant phenotype of hydrocephalus that is associated with multiple etiologies and can be challenging to treat as it frequently does not initially respond to standard strategies of CSF shunting. With early recognition, ALPH can be effectively managed. A management algorithm is provided as a guide for this purpose.

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