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Adrian, Edgar Douglas Adrian, Baron
Adrian, Edgar Douglas Adrian, Baron, 1889–1977, English physiologist, M.D. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1915. He was research professor (1929–37) of the Royal Society and professor of physiology (1937–51) at Cambridge. In 1951 he became master of Trinity College. His research was chiefly on the physiology of the nervous system. He wrote The Basis of Sensation (1928), The Mechanism of Nervous Action (1932), and, with others, Factors Determining Human Behavior (1937). With Sir Charles S. Sherrington he shared the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on the function of the neuron. He was awarded a barony in 1955.
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It was nearly two years ago that Pelikan announced the M805 Stresemann. That model was very well received but many in the community lamented the fact that the finish was only available in an M8xx sized pen. Those hoping to see the anthracite binde in a different sized Souverän just got their wish. Several vendors today broke the news of a forthcoming Souverän M405 Stresemann. Similar in appearance to its bigger brother, the M405 will bring the anthracite finish to a whole new group of consumers. For those of you not familiar with the Stresemann moniker, it is a term that has been used to describe the Pelikan pen's classic pinstripe appearance. It is the nickname of the Souverän series and was derived from the Secretary of State of the Weimar Republic, Gustav Stresemann. He was well-known for wearing black/grey striped trousers and a jacket in black or anthracite.
The anthracite Stresemann finish that is soon to grace the M405 line will be made from cellulose acetate. The cap, section, and piston knob will be done in black resin. The M405 is 4.92 inches long and weighs 15.3 grams with an ink capacity of 1.30mL. The furniture is palladium plated as is customary of the x05 lines. Trim will include two rings at the piston knob and one on the section. The cap will have two cap bands and the cap top will be palladium plated with a single chick logo. The nib is a monotone, rhodium plated 14C-585 in sizes EF, F, M, and B. This finish will also be available in rollerball and ballpoint variants. Pricing will vary by vendor and currently ranges from €256-310 (~$281-341) from overseas vendors. US pricing is not yet clear but will probably range somewhere between $380-400. Those purchasing from outside of the European union can score some savings with prices of $280-300 when the VAT is subtracted. The M405 release is slated for mid-November.
I like the looks of the M405 because I love my M805. I will personally pass on this one since I already have the larger model. I'm sure many will welcome this finish in a smaller size and I recommend it to anyone that was turned away by a pen with the heft of the M805. That said, I can already hear the disgruntled voices of those that would have loved to have seen this finish in an M6xx sized model. While there is no news on that, I wouldn't rule it out as a possibility in the future.


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Note: Please see the update at the bottom
One year ago, I wrote a blog post about the City's "John Street Corridor Improvement Study". I called into question the validity of some of the measurements in the report. Specifically, the study claimed that there was not enough road width to include bike lanes and wider sidewalks. It was presented as a choice: bike lanes OR a wider sidewalk. I took advantage of a high-tech quantifying device called a "tape measure" and proved them wrong:
But the width measurement wasn't the only questionable item in the report. I was astounded to see this piece of data:
Two percent? I found that hard to believe. Were they actually suggesting that if you took a random group of one hundred people on John Street (pedestrians, drivers, and cyclists) that only TWO would be on a bike? Even stranger was that for EVERY SINGLE time period of the week (morning, evening, weekend, weekday) their data remained the same. 2%. All the time. This lead to me to a simple conclusion: The math was completely fabricated. They didn't actually count.
So, I decided to organise a community-driven traffic count. I was going to do it last year, but I've been awfully busy flying kites. So almost 12 months later, I finally got down to business.
Step One was to find out what those hand-held clicker things were called ('tally counters'), and where I could buy some (Staples).
Step Two was to make some simple traffic-counting forms.
Step Three was to find an all-star team of volunteer traffic counters! Seven people signed up to help, mostly from the Toronto Cyclists Union.
Step Four was to feed the volunteers with coffee, cookies and muffins as they clicked away for two solid hours. We measured from 7:30am to 9:30am, collecting data at 15-minute intervals. We were seeking the modal share breakdown for John Street, but also getting comparative counts of bike traffic on Peter, Duncan and Simcoe.
Step Five was to take all the collected data, and make pretty charts and graphs.
To be honest, I got cold feet before the count. I was worried that all of this effort might just confirm the original data. What if it really was only two percent? I crossed my fingers and prayed that we would find bike ridership to be in the range of at least 10 percent. Maybe, just maybe, if we were lucky, it might even hit 15%. Or, dare I suggest, 20%?
This is what we found:
32% • Average for cyclists over two hours, southbound at Richmond.
37% • Highest level of cyclists during a 15 minute period at Richmond.
50% • Average for bikes over 90 minutes, southbound, north of Queen.
774 • Southbound rush-hour cyclists in the Entertainment District
0 • Number of bikelanes in the area.
In almost every 15 increment, there were MORE bikes than cars! Sometimes, there were more bikes than cars OR pedestrians.
I could hardly believe the numbers as they came in. The discrepancy between the data is astounding:
What's most worrisome is that this data was being used as part of a public consultation process, to guide decision-making. What's the point of having a consultation, if the data is actually misleading the public rather than informing them?
These are the questions that need to be answered:
1) How does the city collect data? And how can we re-build trust in these numbers?
2) What role do private consultants play, and how are they regulated/supervised?
3) Why do we STILL have an anti-bike attitude in our urban planning community? When will the 1950s end in Toronto?
4) How can we ensure that roads are being designed for ALL users, rather than just two modes (pedestrians and cars)?
These questions should be answered, before we re-design ANY roads in our city. The way we design our streets has a huge impact on our lifestyle, our environment and our safety. When a street is being re-designed, all stake-holders should be consulted, and they deserve a fair process and good data.
What we saw yesterday was a river of bikes. Over 700 human bodies flwoing through the Entertainment District in two hours. These folks deserve safe streets, including a safe network of bikelanes in the core. And they deserve respect from the City and the processes we use to engage residents in decision-making.
One last question: I spent $30 on tally counters. Who can I send the bill to at City Hall?
Entertainment District Traffic Count
Raw Data: PDF Excel (.xlsx)
Tally Team (first count): Stephen Cooper, Herb van den Dool, Andie Garcia, Dan Godin, Baye Hunter, Ben Sulky & Lynda Young
This post is the first part in a three-part series. On June 22nd, we finally got this note from City staff:
"On the City's behalf, I'd like to thank you for the effort that you have put in to supplementing our counts with new material gathered in the past weeks…..We agree it was inappropriate and incorrect to have used the 2% figure for weekday peak hours."
This was great exercise in community engagement and democracy. I want to thank the volunteers who made it happen:
Andie Garcia, Baye Hunter, Ben Sulky, Dan Godin, Herb van den Dool, Jane Farrow, Josh Matlow, Stephen Cooper,Steve Barnes, Lynda Young, Miro Wagner, Ross K and Stephen Cooper.
I also want to thank Stephen Schijns, Manager of Infrastructure Planning at the City, for being very responsive and working with us to resolve the situation.
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|Welcome to the HIPE Known Issues page. Please take a look at the table of contents below. You can find known issues for each HIPE version, in addition to installation/uninstallation, startup, help, Science Archive and other issues common to different HIPE versions.
|This page is for known issues in the HIPE software. For known issues in data products see this page.
|These known issues are applicable to the latest versions of HIPE and its dependent software (for example, Java 6/7). Any issue that is resolved with an update to the operational version of HIPE or Java, is listed on this page.
/Applications. If you have installed HIPE successfully in the past, and are now experiencing write permission problems, it may be that some other application changed the permissions in the meantime. There have been cases of scientific applications such as SciSoft doing this. Once you revert write permissions to their correct values, HIPE installation should succeed.
-Dsun.java2d.dpiaware=false . Unfortunately, it doesn't work with Java 8 because Oracle has added to the java.exe manifest file the following statement, overriding the JVM argument:
<asmv3:application> <asmv3:windowsSettings xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings"> <dpiAware>true</dpiAware> </asmv3:windowsSettings> </asmv3:application>If you do not mind modifying your Java installation, you can edit the manifest of java.exe, javaw.exe and javaws.exe with a tool like ResEdit and set the dpiAware value to false. Then Windows will scale UI elements automatically to the proper size.
getObservation, these are not available from the Product Browser perspective until you restart HIPE.
Root cause: For this to happen, you have Save data on demand enabled in Preferences > MyHSA > Advanced. This happens because the Product Browser only searches in the direct retrieval sessions for MyHSA where the connection status is
OFF and, in this use case, the observation has been downloaded into one which is
ON-CACHED so it isn't checked when you launch the query from the product browser in the current session. When you close HIPE and re-open it, it locks this direct retrieval session so it is
OFF and that is why it then works and resolves the
ProductRef locally in a new session.
Workaround: Restart HIPE. NOTE: Disabling the Save data on demand option will not work because then the observation will not be saved locally so the Product Browser will still not find it.
herschel.ia.task.TaskException: failed: The file <yourSerFile.ser> could not be loaded Because org.python.core.PyObject; local class incompatible: stream classdesc serialVersionUID = -5518487409570819225, local class serialVersionUID = -2690220732157457541Where
yourSerFile.ser is the saved session state and variables generated with HIPE 14 and earlier.
Root cause: A change in how the serialisation is handled in the new version of Jython (2.7) used in HIPE 15.
Workaround: None at the moment.
scanamorphosNoiseSpectrum task outputs can have subtle differences between runs due to using a different random seed each time
scanamorphosNoiseSpectrum, used internally in
scanamorphosIndividualDrifts, the seed is left up to the system, so the distribution of the values is different between runs and this affects the final result.
Workaround: None at the time, because this behaviour is not controlled by any user property or parameter.
OFLN-GLS and
Root cause: HIFI maps are read correctly by the HIPE software, but the actual projection types of
OFLN-GLS and
OFLT-GLS are NOT implemented in HIPE, just the keywords are accepted.
Workaround: None, the manipulation of WCS coordinates for SSO should not be done within HIPE.
spire-cal Updater is not working.
A workaround exists that it is to retrieve the latest calibration tree (the appropriate one to work with HIPE 13.0) directly from the HSA by running this command from the command line:
cal=spireCal(calTree="spire_cal_13_1", saveTree=True)
getObservation with obsid and tag parameters
getObservation (
GetObsTask), the task is unable to retrieve tagged observations from local pools.
Root cause: The task will first look in MyHSA pool (which does not store tags, being a cache for the archive), when no
poolname is supplied as an argument, and won't find any tagged observation there.
Workaround: Always use the
poolname where the tagged observation is stored. MyHSA does not support tags.
[installation_dir]/apps/hipe) and examine the text output. Note that the output from some errors can be quite lengthy, so you may need to scroll up to discover the root cause.
The next entries list some common problems that prevent HIPE from starting.
Error occurred during initialization of VM Could not reserve enough space for object heap Could not create the Java virtual machine.To fix this error you have to modify two properties in the
installed.properties file within your HIPE installation directory. There is no need to reinstall HIPE.
The properties you need to modify are the following. You have to lower the amount of allocated memory:
java.vm.memory.max java.vm.options=-XX:PermSizePossible values are the following:
java.vm.memory.max=1024m java.vm.options=-XX:PermSize=128mTry running HIPE after modifying the values until it successfully starts.
| You may have the same properties defined in a
hipe.props or
user.props file, located in the
.hcss directory within your home directory. In this case, any values set in
hipe.props override those in
user.props, which override those in
installed.properties. Make sure to edit the properties in the file with highest proprity for your changes to take effect. See this page for more information on property files and their precedence order.
To solve this issue, add the following line to the installed.properties file in your HIPE installation directory:
java.vm.options = -Djavax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl
EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION error related to a class in
Restart HIPE to resolve the issue.
This error is probably due to a bug in the Java Virtual Machine, and has so far been found only on Windows XP 32 bit.
Import "from herschel.hifi.all import *" returns: Import Error -> No module named hifiSuch messages are harmless and just reflect the fact that you have not installed the software related to the specified instruments.
.hcss directory inside the home dir.
18-Mar-14 11:41:16.968 WARNING LogView : Could not log to file: java.io.IOException: Couldn't get lock for C:\Users\wrongdir\.hcss\apps\hipe\logs\hipe_user_20140318_114116.log at java.util.logging.FileHandler.openFiles(Unknown Source) at java.util.logging.FileHandler.(Unknown Source) at herschel.ia.jconsole.views.LogView.(LogView.java:119) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source) at herschel.share.util.ObjectUtil.newInstance(ObjectUtil.java:153)wrongdir is the directory that Java has retrieved using the faulty algorithm described below. user is the Windows username of the current user. In a "normal" set-up, these two strings should match. Root cause: Due to a bug in Java, probably present since the first version, the Virtual Machine uses a non-supported method for determining the user home directory (which is retrieving a well known path from the Registry: the Desktop path, and considering the base directory as home directory). This usually works for single user, or multiple user computers which are not joined to a Windows domain, but causes errors if the computer is domain-joined, has special configuration for the redirection (symbolic links) of user directories or any other non-standard configuration related to user profiles. Workaround: If the special folder redirection is not applied using group policies but it is a persistent change of configuration (perhaps added to the system image used to install Windows), you can change the path of the value
Desktop to a user-writable directory. This value is inside the following Registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
NOTE: Please take care editing the Windows Registry and be sure to follow the Microsoft recommended procedure.
.jnlp file of Aladin is downloaded to the Java Exception Site List. These are the steps:
JavaLaunchHelper implementation in a dynamic library (.dylib extension) provided by a third party and registered as a Safari browser plug-in.
Workaround: There is no workaround at the moment (see below in "Side effects") except waiting for the new update from Oracle.
Side effect: This message does not actually indicate an error, as the external application was correctly launched, used and closed. The modal dialogue is displayed because HIPE gathers any console (error) output when the external application is executing and displays it in a modal dialogue when it is closed.
WARNING WindowsPreferences <init>: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0x80000002. Windows RegCreateKey Ex(...) returned error code 5.Root cause: In a Windows installation with Java 7 version 21 or later, the Windows Preferences classes in Oracle's JVM try to read from the Windows Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs . Since the key has not been created by the Java installer (as was the case in previous versions of Java), these classes try to create them and fail due to insufficient privileges. This is displayed on the Java console as seen above in the warning message. Workaround: This warning message can be safely ignored. But if you want to remove it completely the easiest workaround is starting HIPE at least once as administrator. Side effects: The attempt to read this Registry key does not affect the behaviour of HIPE, since HIPE stores the user preferences in the CURRENT_USER hive of the Windows Registry.
index.jsp not found in the command line terminal. There are two options to solve the problem:
/private/var/folders/[1]/[2]/T/yahajs_[username]_[HIPE version]/jetty/instance_[instance number]/webapp (the first ellipsis [1] is a pair of alphanumeric characters and the second [2] is a string of 30 alphanumeric characters). For Linux, the path will be something like
/tmp/yahajs_[username]_[HIPE version]/jetty/instance_[instance number]/webapp depending on the distribution.
firefox %u to
firefox %s (same if
mozilla is your default browser). See the documentation of your Linux distribution for how to change default web browser. Alternatively, in HIPE choose Edit --> Preferences, go to Help & Documentation and enter the path to Firefox, or to another browser on your system, in the Browser field. Click Test to check if it works.
hipe_help command, which resides in the
apps folder in your HIPE installation. The
hipe_help command will start a standalone Help System in a window called Yet Another JAva Help System. Press the Display button to open the Help initial page in your default browser.
doc/api/ folder of your HIPE installation. The complete Javadoc can now be accessed from the HIPE Help System by clicking on HCSS Developer's Reference Manual (API) in the Developer Reference section. The plan is to remove the static version of the Javadoc completely.
INFO: HAIO request: http://archives.esac.esa.int/hsa/aio/jsp/product.jsp?urn=urn:hsa:herschel.ia.obs.BrowseImageProduct:283481&protocol=HTTP Jan 15, 2015 4:38:58 PM herschel.ia.pal.pool.hsa.myhsa.cache.AbstractDownloadJob warn WARNING: java.io.IOException: Error writting file 'D:\data\MyHSA\session\1421311115192\products\1342220914-herschel.ia.obs.ObservationContext-601367.xml': java.io.FileNotFoundException: file:\D:\data\MyHSA\session\1421311115192\products\1342220914-herschel.ia.obs.ObservationContext-601367.xml (Invalid syntax in filename, directory name or volume name.) at herschel.ia.pal.pool.hsa.xml.HsaXmlManager.writeXmlFile(HsaXmlManager.java:706) at herschel.ia.pal.pool.hsa.xml.HsaXmlManager.writeXmlFile(HsaXmlManager.java:661) at herschel.ia.pal.pool.hsa.myhsa.cache.HsaCachedReadPool.getXmlRootFor(HsaCachedReadPool.java:189)Root cause: The Java cache directory (where Java stores JAR files downloaded from the Internet) is corrupted. Workaround: Do not try to clear the cache using Java Control Panel -> General -> Settings -> Delete files (select all checkboxes), as Java won't be able to clear it because of the corruption. Delete the storage directory (
C:\Users\username\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache on Windows Vista, 7 and 8.1;
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache on Windows XP) and Java will re-create the cache successfully. For more information about the paths, check this link on application data directories on different versions of Windows or the official description of the Java cache on Java's website.
/ as directory separator
String, considering the Windows directory separator (
\) as an escape character. Example
D:\data\myhsa should be entered as
Root cause: This happens because the hooks are added to the child process created by the launcher and terminating the launcher process does not guarantee that the hooks will run. For more information see this bug in Oracle's database.
Workaround: Kill the child process directly in the manner appropriate to each platform. Shutdown hooks added to the child process will execute.
HCSS____ keyword from the header of all extensions.
|The Gatekeeper feature only handled Java applications for the Apple-specific version in older Mac OS X (before Mac OS 10.7.2). The Java version from Oracle has a mechanism for validating publisher certificates completely independent from the operating system (see the related archived known issue for the HSA UI).
java[40745] <Error>: CGContextGetCTM: invalid contextThese errors are harmless and can be safely ignored.
bg command (you may get an
hcss.ia.pal.pool.lstore.lock = simpleSee the HIPE Owner's Guide for information on how to set properties. If this solution does not work, please try removing the lock files (write.lock) present in the local store directory. This bash one-liner script can speed up the process on UNIX-based systems (including OS X):
find <pool> -name 'write.lock' -exec rm {} \;
home being your home directory):
OutOfMemoryError related to PermGen space. What can I do?
hipe.props property file:
java.vm.options = -XX:MaxPermSize=256mNote that this parameter is specific to the Sun/Oracle Java implementation, which is the only one officially supported by HIPE. For more information about property files, see the HIPE Owner's Guide.
C:\hipe, so that full paths remain below the limit.
If you already have several files with long paths that you wish to delete, you can delete them from the Command Prompt (
CMD.EXE) prepending the path with
\\?\. For example for deleting
C:\too\long\path\fitsfilename.fits you should write:
C:\>del \\?\C:\too\long\path\fitsfilename.fitsand press
tmp_product_sink_* pools in my local store directory?
.hcss/lstore in your home directory) after reducing data with HIPE. These are temporary pools that are not deleted upon quitting HIPE due to a known bug. You can safely delete them by hand after quitting HIPE.</verbatim>
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This blog post is part of a series of blog posts on Daily Scrum patterns. For some background, you might find it useful to read my previous article on a simple Scrum Patterns framework. Daily Scrum Patterns fall under the category of "Scrum Technique Patterns", as introduced in that article.
Today we'll talk about "Obstacle Resolution Patterns"
- All Scrum Patterns are displayed as such: <Scrum Pattern Name>.
- All patterns currently link to the same Daily Scrum Patterns Summary Chart, where you can find out more info about each pattern.
"The Sprint Backlog at the Daily Scrum" Patterns
While it's a popular and proven practice to <View the Sprint Backlog at the Daily Scrum>, it's a controversial practice to <Update the Sprint Backlog at the Daily Scrum>, as the updating can detract from the true objectives and focus of the Daily Scrum in some situations.
Also, don't forget to be creative and <Create Your Own Pattern>, and don't ever hesitate to use a technique that is not described by a documented pattern.
The Sprint Backlog at the Daily Scrum Patterns:
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Lafayette Residents Without Garbage Service Now Face Fines
The Lafayette City-Parish Council approved major changes to Lafayette's solid waste laws last night, now requiring unincorporated residents to sign up for waste management services and imposing fines on those who leave garbage cans near the road after pickup.
"Mandatory garbage laws are necessary to avert public health issues," said environmental quality manager Mark Pope. "Our current law dealing with solid waste collection is really ineffective. There's no enforcement mechanism."
According to the new regulations, those who don't sign up for waste collection will face a $50-a-week fine that's capped at $200. Those who leave garbage cans at the road for more than 24 hours after pickup will be fined $25, but no more than $100.
Pope said residents who don't utilize garbage collection services typically burn the trash illegally, dump it roadside or stuff it other people's or business's trash cans.
KATC reported an estimated 1,200 residences of 16,500 in the unincorporated areas of the parish have not signed up for trash service, according to figures from city-parish government.


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What is it?
This is the car that will revitalize club racing, inspire everyone to enter Formula D and redirect fame and fortune to Toyota's flagging Scion division, all for about $25,000 a pop. If that sounds like too much for one model to bear, you haven't driven it yet.
The Scion FR-S and its twin, the Subaru BRZ, are what we have been waiting for for years--an affordable, front-engine, rear-wheel-drive compact car that is nicely balanced, responsive and fun. Not since the debut of the Mazda Miata more than 20 years ago has there been so much buzz about a new entry in the segment. People are staking out ports to watch them roll off ships.
It's true, you have always been able to buy great sports cars; those never went away. Problem was, they were either front-wheel drive or they cost half as much as your house. The FR-S/BRZ represents the return of the affordable, even practical, sports car.
The FR-S is engineered by Subaru and designed by Toyota. Toyota added the highly efficient D4S direct- and port-fuel injection system that helps broaden the 2.0-liter boxer's power and torque bands. Power peaks at 200 horses at 7,000 rpm, just shy of the 7,400-rpm redline, and torque peaks at 151 ft-lb between 6,400 rpm and 6,600 rpm.
Inside are nicely bolstered seats, a grippy steering wheel that is just more than 14 inches in diameter and a digital speedometer to keep up with the revs more accurately. There is a back seat, and we selfishly asked a media colleague to sit there for a short drive. He suffered to some extent, but even though he was six feet tall, he did fit, did not expire from cramping and got out under his own gymnastic power without any help from the Jaws of Life, though those might have helped.
Child seats fit in the back seats, Scion says. Fold down those seats and the trunk space expands to fit the four racing wheels and tires you will definitely have for track days and drifting.
What is it like to drive?
It's everything you'd hoped for. Remember, this is not a Porsche 911/Ferrari 458/Porsche Cayman/BMW Z4 competitor. This is at the lower end of the sports-car spectrum in both power and price. But it will remind you of the great sports and sporty cars you had in college, such as the Datsun 510, the Mazda RX-3, the Alfa Giulia and the BMW 2002tii. It is nicely balanced, with 53 percent of its weight on the front wheels, which chief engineer Tetsuya Tada said he preferred to a 50/50 balance. We drove it all over Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch in beautiful, sunny Pahrump, Nev., and never got tired of it. In fact, we stayed on the track all afternoon until they finally kicked us off at about 4 p.m. or so, such was the car's sway over us.
Our first drive at Spring Mountain was on an improvised figure-eight drift course, with instruction by no less than Formula D great Ken "The Gush" Gushi, who drives an FR-S in competition. Scion kept a layer of water on the surface to make drifting easier for those not schooled in the sport. But after one session to get the hang of it, we were hanging the tail out all around the course. (Smoothness and minimal input is the key.)
On Spring Mountain's road course, with TRAC and VSC off, we were also hanging the tail out. The front MacPherson strut and rear double wishbones combined with the standard Torsen limit-slip meant that over the track's two big whoop-de-dos you can keep it flat and all that results is a nice, controlled sideways slide, with the back end drifting out a little more than the front.
Exiting the decreasing-radius turns it was again easy to slide but always just as easy to bring back in line. The FR-S has the same tires as the Toyota Prius, ironically, a move made for cost and wear considerations. So a set of grippier aftermarket tires would no doubt increase the amount of power you could put down to the ground. Or you could leave the stock rubber on and go drifting.
After a while we detected some brake fade in one of the models we drove, but that might have been a result of overbraking by the previous driver. For track days you might want a different set of pads.
In a straight line, under less than ideal conditions, we managed a 0-to-60-mph time of 8.3 seconds in only a few quick tries--launching at 5,000 rpm, quick clutch engagement, rubber in first and second. Second gear got us to 59 mph, so a little more goofing around might have dropped the time quite a bit. Published figures from sources that must switch on their clocks halfway through the run claim 0 to 60 mph in 6.7 seconds. The real number, we think, lies somewhere in between.
We drove both six-speed manual and six-speed automatic versions of the FR-S. In an earlier drive late last year of the identical-twin BRZ on a wet track in Japan, we really liked the automatic, with its rev-matching downshifts and quick, paddle-operated upshifts. The automatic is also programmable, with manual and sport modes that increase responsiveness from the powertrain and a snow mode for decreased response.
In the dry of Spring Mountain, hammering several different cars all day, we definitely preferred the six-speed manual. The shifts were short, quick and precise every time and we could definitely feel the greater driveline efficiency of the manual.
The Scion version of the two cars has a softer front end that is supposed to reduce understeer. We would agree with that contention, though the difference is very subtle. On public roads and highways the first thing we noticed was that rough pavement transferred into the cabin more than you'd expect had you been driving a FWD "sporty coupe." This might steer away the poseurs, which just means more FR-Ss for true sports-car drivers. There is, after all, a huge gap between those who want a sports car and those who want a sporty car.
Do I want it?
If you are reading this magazine, or even just looking at the Web site (sign up for the damned mag, will ya?), you like sports cars, and this is the car for you. It is affordable and it is fun. With its back seat and trunk you can even convince the spouse that it is practical. With its 25 mpg combined manual and 28 mpg combined automatic you can even say it's economical. You can drive it all week then race or drift it all weekend. In the winter, buy a set of snow tires and click on the snow mode.
Scion will bring in 10,000 in the remainder of this year and 20,000 in 2013. Scion has about 1,000 dealers, so you should be able to get a hold of one. (Subaru is bringing in 6,000 in the first 12 months.) Pricing will be $24,930 for the manual and $26,030 for the automatic. Both will be offered in "monospec," i.e., loaded. The only choices owners will make are transmission, color and some accessories. Later this year there will be TRD options such as exhaust, suspension upgrades and body kits and wheels from Five Axis.
But to answer the question, yes, you want it.
2013 Scion FR-S
On Sale: Now
Base Price: $24,930
Powertrain: 2.0-liter, 200-hp, 151-lb-ft H4; RWD, six-speed manual
Curb Weight: 2,759 lb
0-60 mph: 7.5 sec (AW est)
Fuel Economy (EPA): 25 mpg


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Gigas (3.5e Race)
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The weakest of giantkind, they are also the most prosperous of them all. Having originally been a result of half-breed which resulted in the half-giant race, gigas (plural gigantes) instead went on a different evolutionary path, keeping their unusual size while forgoing things such as psionic power.
Gigas vary in personality greatly, but due to their social living arangements, they are almost always loners. In groups, they often feel crowded, and an actual city gives them a crushing sense of claustrophobia. For a gigas, each family is a city all in itself. A father, mother, and children make up a "city", with a gigas living solo and on his own whenever he decides to "leave the nest". A gigas found upon the road in travel is often one who has just left home in search of their own land, or one looking for a mate, having heard of no gigantes anywhere close. Many a gigas adventurer started out simply as an attempt to settle down, only to be caught up in some unusual business.
Within the family, all those of age are expected to help out with some part of living. The natural cunning of the gigas often ends up creating various tools to help ease what would normally be a heavy workload, even if they have had no formal experience with machines. Because they are often seperated from civilization, gigantes "technology" does not often advance beyond the surprisingly sophisticated but otherwise primatively forged machines, giving the gigas a bad rep concerning their intelligence. In truth, they are as smart as any human, simply niave.
Physical Description[edit]
Gigas appear as oversized humans, somewhat thicker and more muscled, as if someone enlarged a dwarf. Men tend to more lion-mane type beards, but the race as a whole is not predisposed to hair and many are in fact bald. They range anywhere from 8 to 10 feet tall, with broad flat faces and large and tough feet. Mountain dwelling gigantes have taken on lighter skin tones with long hair, while those in the plains and deserts have darker skin, shorter hair, and piercing eyes. Traditional clothing is loose and vaguely persian in design, with ribbons and bits of jewelry, and giant hoods in times of strong sunlight. Leathers and hides are frequently dyed all manner of unreal colors, with various patterns scribed upon them.
Gigantes seem xenophobic and shy to others, as they live lives in small communities, or by themselves, marking out a plot of land as their own. The idea of having homes as close together as most human homes are is stifling and poor living conditions. Their need for large tracts of land, their mistrust of others, and their giant size has brought conflict between humanoids and gigantes in the past. Recent events have been more accepting of the gigantes, who is not inherently violent... no more so than a human. A few successful deals have been made, with a gigas helping others with heavy labor in exchange for goods, trade, and workers who tend to fields. Many such civilized gigantes run successful mass farming operations, while using their own devices to help aid the process.
Gigantes can be of any alignment, but life tends to award those who temper their beliefs. As such, many gigantes are neutral aligned.
The gigantes live largely in the hills and mountains near deserts, and rarely upon open plains. They seem well suited for deserts, and they stay out of swamps and forests, where the ground does not support them, and the trees block their passage. When in the mountains they enjoy the company of dwarves... while not crafters in the strictest sense, gigantes seem to have a natural knack of generating Rube Goldberg levels of machines... be it something obvious as a windmill made of logs and stones, to as complex as setting up an ecosystem in the backyard where natural fauna end up cleaning waste, and attracting prey for dinner. This craftmaking potentials with all things fluid and in motion gives them a common ground with their short brethern.
Gigantes have by and large become agnostic, choosing to worship elemental forces and primal concepts than any god. Those who do worship are usually driven by person-specific motives, and thus they vary wildly.
Gigantes speak Common and Giant.
A typical gigas name emphasizes sounds which sound thunderous or drumming, with repeated sounds such as Humbaba, Thordoru, and Ravana.
Racial Traits[edit]
- +2 Strength, -2 Dexterity, +2 Constitution, -2 Wisdom, -2 Charisma: Big, strong, and tough, their large bodies react slower than the nimble humans, and their sheltered life and general behavior leaves them socially hampered and limited in knowledge.
- Giant: Gigas are giants distantly related to half-giants. Their subtle connection allows them to qualify as a half-giant for any racial feats or classes, when applicable.
- Large: As a Large creature, a gigas takes a -1 size penalty to Armor Class, a -1 size penalty on attack rolls, and a -4 size bonus on Hide checks, but he uses larger weapons than humans use, and his lifting and carrying limits are twice of those of a Medium character. They have a space and reach of 10 ft.
- Gigas base land speed is 20 feet. However, gigantes can move at this speed even when wearing medium or heavy armor or when carrying a medium or heavy load (unlike other creatures, whose speed is reduced in such situations).
- Stability: A gigas gains a +4 bonus on ability checks made to resist being bull rushed or tripped when standing on the ground (but not when climbing, flying, riding, or otherwise not standing firmly on the ground).
- Slow to Act (Ex): The gigantes nervous system seems to run a tad slower than humans, resulting in a -2 initiative penalty. However, this does help them resist pain. They gain a +2 bonus on saving throws related to any spell or effect based on pain.
- Gigas have a mechanical cunning, working with even simple tools. They recieve a +2 bonus on Craft checks. The bonus rises to +4 if the creation is a trap or has moving parts.
- Claustrophobic: Whenever a gigas is flanked by two or more opponents, they take a -1 morale penalty on saving throws.
- Automatic Languages: Common and Giant.
- Bonus Languages: Draconic, Dwarven, Goblin, Ignan, Orc, Terran, and Undercommon.
- Favored Class: Ranger
- Level Adjustment: +0
- Effective Character Level: 1
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|Middle Age1
|Maximum Age
|50 years
|75 years
|100 years
|+5d10 years
|Base Height
|Height Modifier
|Base Weight
|Weight Modifier
|8' 2"
|400 lb.
|× (1d6) lb.
|8' 0"
|350 lb.
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Roman Polanski is on my computer, on my radio, in my newspaper. A petition signed by a host of actors and writers begs for the case to be dropped. His victim, now a mature woman, is enduring a new media onslaught. Who can stop the madness?
It's simple. Roman Polanski can stop it.
He ran from his own plea bargain. He can stop dragging this thing out and tell his lawyers to end it. He's 76 years old. California does not want or need another geriatric ward of the state. They have more dangerous prisoners that they have to release for lack of space.
He just needs to get his lawyers and his entourage and face a judge and end this. He's not going to persuade the US legal system that he deserves a free pass for being rich and famous, but he can probably clutch his heart a few times and cough pitifully, and persuade them that locking him up is more trouble than he's worth.


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Today, the guys in the Goodreads Top 5 Wednesday group had a great topic: Characters I Wouldn't Want to Trade Places With!
Great topic again this week, because who hasn't daydreamed about trading places with your favorite book characters. I know I have, especially in the past. But there really are A LOT of characters who I would never, ever want to be for a second, because their lives are so damn awful most of the time. And here are my top five picks. Well, five spots anyway. I had to find a way a way to squeeze them all into five spots, right? 🙂
5. Falcio val Mond
Sebastien de Castell's Greatcoats series is one of my favorites of the moment. The Three Musketeer-like camaraderie between the main characters, the swashbuckling daring-do of its heroes, and the constant agony that Falcio endures is a delight to read about, BUT I don't ever want walk in Falcio's boots for a single minute: this guy's life is one long session in the torture chamber. I'm not going to get into spoilers, but trust me, this guy needs a run of good luck SOON.
4. Anyone in The Builders
Daniel Polansky's stunning tale of revenge with talking animals as our heroes and villains. And, I really mean it when I say stunning; it is probably one of the most engrossing novellas I have ever read, one which took me completely by surprise and kept me turning pages deep into the night. Even with that being said though, this isn't a tale where all the endings are happy. Nope, this is a story about justice and harsh reckoning, and as such, I have no desire to ever slip into any of these characters places and live through it.
3. Anyone in Rage of Kings or Blood Dragon Empire by Andy Remic
I've grown to be a big fan of Mr. Remic's brand of grimdark; it combines brutal and graphic violence with humor. Naturally, from that description, you've probably already guessed the characters go through some fairly harrowing circumstances throughout their stories. That isn't half of it though. The heroes here are generally pretty despicable people to begin with, and after they go through hell and back, they are even more mentally screwed up than before. So, needless to say, I don't want any part of swapping bodies with any of these guys.
2. Anyone in Manifest Delusions
Michael R. Fletcher really flashed some amazing creativity with this exquisite tale of mayhem and magic. I mean, the whole damn world is one huge madhouse! Literally. Everyone here is crazy as hell. What makes it worse is that the more delusional you are the greater your magic, so you can bring your mad ravings to life by morphing reality around your madness. Which means everyone and everything might or might not be what they appear. And the characters all go through horrid, emotional trauma dealing with all this shite all the time. So, hell no, I don't want to go anywhere near these characters — outside of reading about them in the next book in the series.
1. Anyone in A Song of Ice and Fire
We've read the books. We've watched the HBO series. We know that none of these guys are safe from episode to episode. And their fates have been pretty damn horrible when it has come upon them, so all of you understand my reluctance to switch places with any of these guys. I mean, what if I end up in a certain character's shoes before his/her date with torture or death. No, I can't take that chance, nor do I want to. George R.R. Martin's has written a legendary story so far, but he has also taught me I do not want to go anywhere near Westeros.


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Now that winter is almost over, **knock on wood** I can start breaking out the shorts…or at least this week! I am excited for warmer temps…but I am not excited for hot summer days. For now, I can mix up my morning, lunch, and evening workouts…but pretty soon, I am going to be keeping it to a morning only schedule – once the temps are too warm for getting out later in the day. Am I really thinking about this now?! After a few days of "warmer" temps?! Oh well…a girl can dream!
Workout Recap
Marathon Training – Week 8
Sunday- 12.4 miles – long run
Since I had an interesting assortment of workouts on Saturday, none of which included my long run for the week, I decided to use Sunday as my long run day for the week. This means – that I will be having a longer mileage week due to 2 long runs! Let's see how this goes…
Monday- 2.05 miles – recovery run
I lost track of time at work and didn't get in a lunch run…more like a late afternoon break. My legs felt surprisingly fresh – especially after my long run the morning before. Then, since the weather was still nice, the little man and I went for a jog/walk in the evening.
Tuesday- 4 miles – recovery run
Took a nice lunch run on the linear trail
Wednesday- 5.5 miles – interval run
I am so glad that the weather has been amazing lately! I was able to get in my interval run over my lunch hour 🙂
Thursday- "rest" day – the warmest day this "winter" and this week; "rest" = "shmest"
4.5 miles – "easy" run
Friday- 5.65 miles – hills run
I have been missing out on my morning runs for a bit now…so I was glad to get out for a mild, morning hills run…I could even wear shorts!
Saturday- 15.3 miles – long run
Well, my long run started early! I planned on getting another mile or so in, but I just wasn't feeling it! I am glad for the miles that I WAS able to get in today!
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Weekly Miles: 52 miles
Weekly Minutes: a lot of minutes 🙂
298 / 2,016 miles in 2016
This Week's Projected Workouts
Marathon Training – Week 9
Check out some awesome #linkups this week!
There is the great Weekly Wrap #linkup with Holly and Tricia!
…and check out a couple other weekend updates with Meghan and Katie!
Check out the Tuesday's on the Run gang as well: Patty, Erika, & Marcia!
I am also linking up with Angelina Marie, Annmarie, Nicole, and Michelle for Wild Workout Wednesday 🙂
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Pantsing, when successful, lets you create a story closely resembling the spark that ignited it. ~Janalyn Voigt, Live, Write, Breathe
The first step in starting a blog is finding the perfect name. I wanted to call mine Contrariwise, as an homage to Lewis Carroll and to my ability to locate an argument in nearly any issue I come across.
Contrariwise was already in use, however, several times over, and I couldn't find another literary allusion that satisfied, so I named it Whiskertips. It was my own invention, an homage to the two whiskered beasts with whom I share living quarters.
The next step is thinking of something to blog about. For most people, determining a theme would be Step #1. Reversing the steps led to a series of posts I like to think of as eclectic. In other words, I wrote about whatever came to mind. I also hosted guest bloggers. Mark Twain and Emily Dickinson appeared often. But after a while, nothing came to mind, and I began to fall back on the beasts. When they assumed complete control of content, I withdrew and created another blog. I took its name from Gertrude Stein: To Write Is to Write Is to Write.* In a note in the sidebar, I stated the purpose: I would write about the experience of becoming a writer. I would write about writing.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
But the best-laid plans of mice and men, etc. In only weeks–days–I had another eclectic blog on my hands. Why? Because I didn't know anything about writing.
Or, to qualify that, I didn't know anything writers–or anyone else–would want to read.
I know the basics: grammar, usage, mechanics, various elements of fiction, methods and techniques learned from reading, attending workshops, taking classes, reading articles, books, and blogs. But I had nothing to add. Other people had gotten there first. And who wants to read another article about where the commas go?
The worst part was that most of the authorities claimed to have the One True Way:
Write fast. Don't revise as you go. Outline–you have to outline every scene. Use index cards. Use colored pens. Tape butcher paper to the wall. Never share your work before you've completed it. Find a critique group. Write 1,000 words a day, and in ninety days you'll have a completed manuscript. Write every day. Write morning pages. Keep a writing journal. Keep a bible for your manuscript. Query early. Query later. Have a platform. Establish a brand.
All good advice, I was sure. And frustrating, because I couldn't seem to follow the rules.
Finally, I gave up. The experts were great at explaining how they write, but they weren't so good at telling me how to write.
I had to struggle for a while, find my own way, develop my own process, set my own rules, and deviate from rules I'd outgrown.
Now, after years of wrangling with the experts, and with myself, I finally have something to say about how I write:
I don't start with an outline. I start with a character and a line and go from there. I can't construct a decent plot until I understand the characters, and I can't understand the characters until I know their backstories. The only way I can know backstories is to write them, not in a separate document, but as part of the manuscript itself. Afterward, I go back and start putting the material in order. I may have to scrap some of the best parts–the darlings–but they go in a Darlings file so I can use them later if I find a place they fit.
This method is called pantsing–as in flying by the seat of your pants. Some plotters look down on pantsers. That used to make me feel like a failure. Then I read Writing Mysteries, a collection of essays edited by Sue Grafton, in which Tony Hillerman tells about his own pantsing. He said it takes longer, but in the end, he gets there. Since reading that, I've stopped apologizing for pantsing. What's good for Tony Hillerman is good enough for me.
Let me make one thing clear: I revise. The condition of my first manuscript dictates that I revise a lot. The end product looks very different from the original.
Because I'm a pantser, the NanoWriMo program of writing a 50,000-word novel in thirty days doesn't bring out the best in me. I write more slowly, and I can't pound out a book on someone else's timetable. For years I registered for NaNo and then wrote perhaps ten words. That's called losing Nano. Now I register and write whatever I want on my own timetable. I lose nothing, NaNo loses nothing.
(There's another reason I don't do well with NaNoWriMo. I don't like to talk about it. But if you want to read about it, check Wikipedia under Passive-Aggressive behavior.)
The exception to my pantsing process occurs when a story comes to me already outlined. One such blessed event happened one night just after I'd gotten into bed and turned out the light: a story appeared, beginning, middle and end. I thought it would take about 600 words, but the final version turned out to be nearly 5,000 words. It included a little pantsing.
When I began this post, I knew only two or three things about writing, but now I realize I know more. Having already run on at length, I will leave the rest for another time. After I've pointed out one more thing:
Some writers, myself included, know (There's another one!)–that writing is a form of thinking, a way to generate ideas, to learn what we already know.
But I also subscribe to Gertrude Stein's description:
One of the pleasant things that those of us who write or paint do
is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
I depend on the daily miracle. When I write, and keep on writing, it does come.
*The entire quotation is "To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write." I presume it was not already in use because no one wanted it.
Kathy blogs at To Write Is to Write Is to Write and at the group blog Writing Wranglers and Warriors.
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A phone is a phone is a phone, right? Well, there used to be a lot of truth in that sentiment, but today's phone realities are rapidly changing.
For one thing, as they become integrated into the larger communications infrastructure, phones need to be able to support the requirements of other components. That's part of the driving force behind Polycom Inc.'s new SoundPoint IP 560, a high-end executive desk phone that, among other things, supports Gigabit Ethernet.
Does voice require (or benefit from) bandwidth that high? No, but, increasingly, organizations are upgrading to GigE in order to more effectively deploy bandwidth-hungry applications like video.
Now, in a typical VoIP-enabled office, there is a single network cable drop that connects first to the desk phone, and then, through the phone, to the PC. An organization making the FastE-to-GigE upgrade needs to get its PCs connected with the big pipes. If the pipe runs through the phone, then either the phone needs to pass the full bandwidth, or the IT manager needs to run a second cable drop to each office—quite a costly option.
As Polycom puts it, a GigE-capable phone "future proofs" the investment in voice equipment. But the SoundPoint IP 560 is future proof in other ways as well.
HD ("high definition" or, in effect, high fidelity) voice is another trend that's catching on in the VoIP world, where there's generally enough bandwidth to carry a wider data stream. (TDM codecs and circuitry were typically designed to use very low bandwidth, and the voice signal was deliberately constrained to allow for this.) Anyone who's used Skype with a good headset has heard the difference.
The SoundPoint IP 560 joins several other elite phones in the Polycom line that feature HD Voice, which uses the ITU standard G.722 codec, along with Polycom's Acoustic Clarity Technology for noise reduction, echo cancellation, and speakerphone capability.
GigE and HD Voice are the features that are getting most of the fanfare from Polycom, but the IP 560 has got some other stuff that's really, in its way, cooler, and much more VoIP-ish.
Did we mention that this is a SIP-based phone? No? Well it is, and if you've been following these pages, you know that some technology companies are doing some amazing things with SIP. (Here, for example.)
Polycom has certification with some 25 "call control platform partners," including 3COM, BroadSoft, Digium, and Sylantro, who are making available an ever-growing number of advanced SIP features and capabilities. Along those lines, the SoundPoint IP 560 supports text messaging, presence, buddy lists, and web browsing, so the phone can take advantage of HTML-based applications.
Now that's future-proofing.


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No More Free Lunches? Outrage as School District Pledges to Dump Lunches if Parents Don't Pay Up
Citing abuse and a $50,000 bill for its Humanitarian Meal program last school year, one New Jersey school district warned parents last month that unless their child was deemed eligible for a free lunch, their food will be thrown away if they don't pay for it.
"Please be advised that effective September 5, 2013, there will be a new procedure in place regarding lunch services to students who are unable to pay the required funds. The only exception to this procedure will be for students who have been validated through their eligibility status to receive free meal(s)," said a copy of a letter sent to parents from the Willingboro Public School District dated August 26, 2013, in a My Fox Philly report.
When it is discovered "that your child's lunch account only has $5.00 remaining the District will notify you to ensure that more funds can be added to the account. If there are insufficient funds in a student's lunch account, the student will not be provided with a humanitarian meal," said the letter.
The letter also warned that if a student goes through the lunch line and doesn't have enough money to pay for it, lunch staff will throw the food away.
One mother in the school district complained, however, about the fairness of the policy.
"I don't think it's fair for the children to go all day without eating," Rosa Berder told My Fox Philly. "That's like wasting food. If the kid already had the lunch, let the parent know instead of taking food from a kid."
Another mother, who did not want to be identified for fear of retaliation, told My Fox Philly that she was worried because even though she normally fills up her children's lunch account, she is not always notified when it gets too low.
"I'm aggravated...a child would go hungry and suffer the social embarrassment of having food thrown in the trash because there's no money in the account," she said in the report.
District Superintendent Ronald Taylor said he hopes that parents won't allow food to be dumped into the trash.
"It's either all or nothing type of policy, when you have parents not taking advantage of the reduced lunch and taking away dollars for instruction we have to adopt a policy to enforce it," he told My Fox Philly.
He explained that last school year parents abused the Free and Reduced Lunch program and the district was billed "upwards of $50,000 for students who had not applied for Free and Reduced Lunch who received free lunches."
"Part of the reason we're doing this is to help hold parents accountable," he said.
"We have guidance counselors and outreach personnel that would reach out well before this happened," he added.


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Carving pumpkins with scary faces is kids stuff. Carving pumpkins with sexual scenes more explicit than you ever thought possible (for a pumpkin)—that's what mature witches and warlocks do. Say hello to the not-safe-for-work-or-neighborhood-kids Pornkins:
The Pornkins set, which is on sale for $20, includes 2 carving knifes, 1 poker tool, 1 instruction sheet, 1 scoop, and all 10 stencils. Those knives and the stencils are for making the pornkins—the rest, who knows! [Pornkins - Thanks Jason!]


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…dying with Francis – and learning to live again…
ShereeKrider 7/11/2017 7:51:32 PM
On Father's Day Sunday June 12th, 1983, I had a perfect baby girl. On Father's Day Sunday June 19th, 2017, I lost my baby girl at 34 years old in a horrible one vehicle accident along north Interstate 65 a few miles outside of Nashville about four a.m. Apparently, she fell asleep while driving, swerved, went over a guardrail, flipped three times, and she was gone from my life forever before the little Toyota truck finally stopped. Her fiancée was asleep with his head in her lap and apparently that is what saved his life and for that I am eternally grateful. But ourselves, the children, the rest of the family and of course her fiancé, along with so many other close friends who have been left behind are so lost. A world without Francis is incomprehensible. …
When the officer came on Monday morning it was my husband /her father who met him in our driveway. We are always sitting on the back screened porch if we aren't busy elsewhere. The porch is our living room weather permitting. Its where all the family likes to be. Her father thought well hell, what trouble did she get into this time and what jail is she at?
I cannot even begin to explain the torrent of emotion that ran thru my body. It still has not totally left yet, and I suspect never will, or at least it sure feels that way. The initial first 18 hours after we found out was a genuine ride thru hell in a handbasket. Not knowing at first whether her fiancé was dead or alive, not knowing where to begin to find out the information we needed and what to do about transporting her body and funeral and notifying everyone – when I couldn't even begin to speak. I was completely terrorized.
Francis was far from gangster but she had been in trouble a few times for shoplifting small items in several stores and she was a Buprenorphine user although it was not prescribed by a doctor – she chose to medicate herself after having been addicted to opiates, hydrocodone mostly. She rarely touched Marijuana because she was afraid of being drug tested. The Buprenorphine, she said, she could get out of her system faster.
So there you go…..
My child was afraid to detox with Marijuana because she couldn't afford to fail a drug test.
She never received a formal diagnosis because there never seemed to be the right kind of doctors to do so. They threw antidepressants at her many times but it didn't work for her. She was angry and irrational at times. Very depressed and dysfunctional. Chronic major depression seems to run in the family as I was diagnosed with that and extreme anxiety at 23 years old. I had suffered with it since age 12.
Francis was never a failure. She had gone to high school at a private religious school until 10th grade when she ended up dropping out because of illness with her first pregnancy. She later went to school to be a CNA and always kept her registration active but did not work in the field much because of the emotional distress it caused her – depression.
Francis had fell in love with a young man who lived in our neighborhood in Louisville at age 15. She was barely 16 when she gave birth to her son Andrue who was stillborn. On a very cold November day in 1999 we laid her first-born Son to rest at the foot of his Paternal Grandmother who had died only 2 weeks earlier. Francis never got over this but her and J.S. the young man she loved stayed together and had two more son's together J.D. and D.R. Twelve years later their relationship broke down and they were separated. They stayed friends and even though J.S. lived in Louisville and we had all relocated to Cave City he kept in touch with his children the best way he could – Facebook mostly and occasionally the boys would go spend a few days or week with their Dad.
When I called J.S. with the horrible news he came after his boys that night. I was not happy with the decision he had made at all, at first. I did not want my grandsons taken away from me. I was the one that they stayed with most of the time even when Francis was alive. And now that she was gone my grandsons should remain with me – or so I thought. But J.S. and the boys and last but not least the Barren County Sheriff explained that they needed to go with their dad.
The timing sucked. Baby T.K. was now losing 2 brothers within a day of losing his Mother. He is only four years old. He wants his Mommy and his brothers.
So now comes T.K.'s father calling on "Facebook messenger " the very next day wanting to come get HIS son. A son he has not seen nor talked to nor paid support for that I know of since T.K. was 2 months old. A veteran with 9 other children with I don't know how many mothers. A man who cannot hold a job that I know of and has been in and out of the judicial system. A man who had taken advantage of Francis when she was lost, and ended up blessing her with a biracial son. I say that he blessed her with her son T.K. because that was the only thing good that came out of that short-term relationship. T.K. is a very beautiful and special child and we are blessed to have him.
The difference between J.S. and N.L. who is T.K.'s father is that J.S. knows and loves his boys and there is no doubt in my mind of this. Even though he's had tough times in his life he never did anything to make his sons life any harder on them than it already was. N.L. wants his child because "T.K. is mine", period. And of course, he will be able to get a check on him.
Because Francis was paranoid of people trying to take her kids away, namely N.L. and CPS, she would never write up a will or POA for me in case of emergency even though all the kids were with me a lot of the time, – and so here we are. fighting against all odds to get custody of T.K. and keep him with the family that knows him, loves him, and has cared for him since his birth. To try to protect him from being thrown into a family that he knows nothing about or has ever seen. Even though I asked N.L. to come to the funeral where he could meet his son he neglected to show up and in a text, he said he had a flat tire and his kids were fighting with their mother. What could be more important than being at the funeral of your child's mother? Especially when you are wanting to take that child?
The funeral went smoothly, and many friends and family came to see Francis and say their good-byes. Everyone was congenial with each other and caring. My only regret is that I could not have her in Cave City for her funeral and burial, but because I had no insurance on her and I only owned two plots and they were in Louisville, that is where she ended up. My Daughter Marie, Francis's Sister, had to put up over $4000 to cover the remainder of the costs. I do not know what we could have done without her help. We will be paying this debt for a while, for sure. A monthly reminder of what we have lost. The Insurance company would not release funds to pay for the funeral and we are still in process of dealing with that. Insurance companies rarely do what they are needed or expected to do. If it wasn't for Marie, Francis likely would have become property of the State. That in and of itself is a sad thing, but most people are living in such circumstances that they cannot afford the luxury of Life Insurance. By the time they must pay for car insurance and health insurance, combined with all the other necessities of life, there is no room for anything else.
Marie is seriously heartbroken as she is now an only child who has lost her only Sister. I never wanted her to be an only child. I never had any siblings, and I'm here to say that everyone needs brothers and sisters. I married mine when I married my husband who had 7 of them. They have been a godsend to us in our time of sorrow and need.
A few close friends helped me survive the first three weeks. We had quite a few extra people in the house for over a week following her death. It took 7 days just to get the arrangements finalized and completed. Groceries, babysitting and nanny to help keep T.K. occupied, emotional support and more was very much needed while we walked blindly through the fog that was Our Daughter's death and burial, and I will be forever grateful for their help.
At the same time, we were making arrangements, AFTER having to tell three Grandson's that their Mother was gone, we were terrified of T.K. being "snatched" away from us, by his Father. We made I don't know how many trips back and forth to the Courthouse and CPS and a consult with a Lawyer, even though we couldn't afford to hire one, to try to make sense of what we needed to do to protect him. It is not an easy thing to do.
On July 1, T.K.'s Father did show up at my house. I called the Sheriff to come check things out and he was arrested for a warrant previously incurred. He was still incarcerated at the time of the July 10th hearing and he was not able to attend. The Judge honored our request for temporary custody.
I do not know how many times we will have to appear in Court over this issue. I do not know what the outcome will be. I can only hope and pray for a good outcome for T.K. for he is the one who will suffer the most if the wrong decision is made. We will follow through.
This is just the beginning of a long road to come. We are now 57 and 59 years old with a four-year-old child. But we are not alone because I know that there are many others out there like us. It happens every day. And we are not alone in raising this child. My Daughter, his Aunt, will become a surrogate parent as well. I am sure it will take all of us to accomplish this – but we will prevail.
This change in life shall remain indefinitely. The loss of a Child in such a way is a terror that will never completely heal. There could not be much of anything that would be harder to deal with. The shock, the horror, the emotions, the funeral, the thoughts that you accumulate from the experience that will never totally leave, the unknowing of the future at hand, suddenly being totally responsible for a young child's care, the shear sense of a loss that will never end…
this, is a true story…the saddest one I have ever written.
(The names were changed for privacy reasons)
My Dearest Baby, Sarah Francis,
How did this even happen? It is a horrible nightmare that I will never wake up from.
You were born on Fathers Day and died on Fathers Day, how does that even happen?
When the Officer came to the house last Monday morning, your Dad was the one who got the news first.
I've never seen him so distraught.
There isn't any news in the World that could be more horrible than that was.
I still think that you are going to come up the drive and skid into the rock like you always did.
But you won't.
I love you so much words cannot explain this loss.
J.S. came and took J.D. and D.R. away…
N.L. is coming to take T.K. away…
I have lost 4 children at once.
Baby girl, it is not your fault!
You are and will forever be an Angel to the Lord.
It is the evil in this World that took you down.
It was not your fault!
The cards were stacked against you (and all of us) from the day we were born.
When you needed medical help – it was not there.
When you needed support – it was not there because even though we love you with all of our heart and soul,
it was just not enough to get you through the distress in your life.
I am so very sorry.
Sorry for not being able to help you more,
Sorry that you were born into a World that is so self-centered and evil,
Sorry that I could not save you,
Sorry that I could not save your Children, or my Grandchildren from the evil in this World.
I would do anything for you – because you are my heart and soul, you are my Baby Girl.
Marie is so heartbroken, I don't know what to do.
Your Dad is so heartbroken, and so am I and SO many other people who have lost you.
You will always be in our life, every day, from now till the end of our lives, and beyond.
Every day when I wake up I will see your beautiful face,
Every night when I lay down I will see your beautiful Soul,
I miss you so much,
I miss you yelling at me,
I miss you needing me,
I miss everything about You,
I want You back,
We are all so lost without You,
Rosie is now an only Child, and I know from experience that is not a good thing.
Every child needs a brother or sister,
and now Rosie's is gone forever.
Oh My God what can I do?
With all of my heart and soul I love you,
Guess what?
T.K. just learned to ride a bike – a big bike – without training wheels – today!
David fixed the bike for him and brought it down the other day,
and today he is riding it on his own!
It's like he grew up overnight,
I know D.R. wanted to be here with him, and that breaks my Heart,
I'm doing everything that I can to keep these babies together, but it isn't going my way at all.
I love you Darling – now and forever,
Please be at Peace,
Know that we love you,
Know that you are not in any way at fault in any of this,
Know that you are a good Mother,
Know that you have Beautiful Children,
Know that We know that You did your best…
Know that I will do my best for your Babies,
Know that I will do my best for Robert, as he is so hurt and lost without you, he will remain in Our Family.
Just KNOW that EVERYONE LOVES YOU AND MISSES YOU AND OUR LIVES WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN…


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While Viagra makes men's hanging cavernous tissue hard, scientists at the Ruhr Universitat in Bochum, Germany, have now discovered that it can save lives too by causing the opposite effect: Viagra makes some heart muscles less stiff.
Professor Wolfgang Linke and his team have found that Viagra activates an enzyme that causes protein in heart muscle cells to relax and become more flexible. Ironically, before becoming a drug to promote erections, the blue pill's original purpose was to treat high blood pressure and other kinds of heart disease. It failed to achieve this objective, but the side effects below the waist proved extremely convenient for millions of penises worldwide and Pfizer's bank accounts.
This newly discovered benefit can help patients with diastolic heart failure. This illness makes heart ventricles abnormally inflexible. As a result, they don't fill with enough blood. Apparently, the drug helps this condition almost instantly. This discovery would also finally make true that old saying: "do you have diastolic heart failure or are you just happy to see me?"


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Broadway Players Present "Moon Over Buffalo"
April 5, 2019 – April 6, 2019
roadway Players is excited to kick off their 2019 season with this rollicking farce!
Friday, April 5th & Saturday, April 6th--7:00 PM
Friday, April 12th & Saturday, April 13th--7:00 PM
Sunday, April 14th--2:00 PM
The hilarious Moon Over Buffalo centers on George and Charlotte Hay, fading stars of the 1950s. At the moment, they're playing Private Lives and Cyrano De Bergerac in rep in Buffalo, New York with five actors. On the brink of a disastrous split-up caused by George's dalliance with a young ingénue, they receive word that they might just have one last shot at stardom: Frank Capra is coming to town to see their matinee, and if he likes what he sees, he might cast them in his movie remake of The Scarlet Pimpernel. Unfortunately for George and Charlotte, everything that could go wrong does go wrong, abetted by a visit from their daughter's clueless fiancé and hilarious uncertainty about which play they're actually performing, caused by Charlotte's deaf, old stage-manager mother who hates every bone in George's body. With a plethora of pratfalls, slamming doors, and backstage shenanigans, Moon Over Buffalo is a fast-paced, hilarious screwball comedy!
Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the box office of The Princeton Theatre or at www.broadwayplayers.org.
For evening performances doors open at 6 for cocktail hour. The auditorium opens at 6:30 and curtain is at 7pm. For the Sunday matinee, the auditorium opens at 1:30 and the show begins at 2pm.
For more information head to broadwayplayers.org or call 812-635-9185.
301 W Broadway
P.O. Box 634
Princeton, IN 47670
(812) 635-9185


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Welcome on Rabbit Planet. This place was a nice and peaceful, till one day Evil Doctor invented Gamma Water, that turns sweet creatures in his evil minions. You are lucky, you've escaped from the cage, but will you be able to beat the Professor in final battle ? Arrows Keys for play ! Thanks !