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Kings Dominion Issues Second 2018 Attraction Teaser
A week after the first, Kings Dominion has issued their second 2018 attraction teaser on social media. Here it is:
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Sadly I'm not quite sure what either would mean for a new ride, suspected to be a redo of the Hurler roller coaster. 20 of something being better than 4 sounds like it would work for something counted, perhaps air-time moments, instead of general statistics like height, drop, speed, or track length. The significance of 24, if that's the case, could be that a 2018 reopening of a modified Hurler would come 24 years after it originally opened, in 1994.
Also worth noting is that one of the Ts in "better" is upside down. Obviously that could refer to potential inversions that the ride may have.
Like the first teaser, there are also some words hidden in the background of the image. This time I'm able to fine Snoopy, Wood, Candy and Orchard. Still not sure of the Snoopy references, but wood appears to relate to Hurler's track style (former?). Candy is probably related to Candy Apple Grove, which is also hinted at through Orchard as according to Wikipedia that area was originally themed as one.


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Introducing – Kerry Blondheim – Queen of the Kitchen & Guest Blogger
I am happy to be introducing you to my cousin (through marriage) – Kerry Blondheim. I first discovered what an amazing baker/cook/canner (hence – Queen of the Kitchen) she is when I was collecting recipe's for our cookbook – Farm Fresh Recipes. She sent me TONS of fantastic recipes that helped fill our cookbook with a great variety.
Recently we were chatting and I asked Kerry to be a guest blogger for the orchard. She's going to share with us her recipe's and experience creating dishes that use anything that we grow at the orchard. I think you'll be happy to see the variety she shares with us all!
Before I post her first recipe – here's some questions she answered for me:
When did you start creating in the kitchen?
I "helped" my mom in the kitchen from an early age. She was wonderful about encouraging my interests without worrying about the messes I'm sure I created. The first cake I made and decorated was an igloo-shaped cake, not a simple sheet cake. I was probably 7 years old at the time.
How did you learn to cook?
My mom encouraged me to follow recipes, and she let me practice making things on my own.That resulted in a few learning experiences, like the time I used granulated sugar to make frosting for my dad's birthday cake. I hadn't realized that confectioner's sugar was powdered sugar. Those type of lessons stick with you.
What is your favorite thing to make?
This is a tough question because I enjoy both cooking and baking. My favorite creations are probably cupcakes and bread. I have a tremendous sweet tooth, and there's something extremely satisfying about making bread that's far more delicious and healthier than most loaves in the store.
What is the biggest lesson you've learned in the kitchen?
In addition to learning about confectioner's sugar, I've had a few other mishaps. I learned to make sure I knew my sugar container from my salt container when I made a very salty blueberry cobbler. And I learned to double check that I added all the ingredients when I made banana bread without flour, of all things. Fortunately, I covered those basic lessons when I was younger than 10, and my family forgave me for all of them.
Do you have any 'tricks' for cooking?
It's not really a trick, but don't be afraid to experiment or go outside your comfort zone whether it's trying a new technique or a food that you don't usually use. The trick I'm working on mastering now is learning how to bake and cook with a 3-month old!
Who is your favorite 'taste tester'?
My husband David is the only captive audience I have as a taste tester, so he wins this category. I've taken things into work as well and shared with other family members, but David is the one who tries everything. He's a really good sport, probably because there's more treats like Tequila Sunrise Cupcakes than soups where I sneak in ingredients he thinks he doesn't like, such as squash.
What do you do with all that food!?
Most of my breads go into the freezer until we're able to get to them. Treats with shorter shelf lives like cupcakes or the pumpkin flan that's baking right now become our treats for the week or get shared with others. And the fullness of our freezer is really what inspired me to start canning, which has become another hobby. This summer, fall and winter, we've canned 287 3/4 pints. That's a record I'm going to attempt to break next year! A lot of our canned goods become Christmas presents for co-workers and family members. I'd love to start selling some of my canned goods, breads or cupcakes, but I'm not there ... yet.
Anything else you'd like to share with my readers about your kitchen life feel free to include!
I use my blog as my virtual recipe box, so I can find favorite recipes and share recipes with others. You can follow my kitchen adventures online at www.nonesuchexists.blogspot.com.
Kerry, my cousin David, and their son, AJ
Stay tuned for the first recipe Kerry's sharing with us: Vanilla Pear Jam
I'm crossing my fingers that Kerry's going to find a jar to share with me ;)

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OAKLAND, Calif. | Oakland prepared Wednesday to again become the epicenter of Occupy Wall Street movement as local organizers aided by labor unions and advocacy groups finalized plans for a broad-based call to action that was expected to include marches, pickets outside banks, school shutdowns and an attempt to close the nation's fifth-busiest port.
Occupy Oakland participants, elected officials and business leaders expressed optimism that the widely anticipated "general strike" would be a peaceful and even unifying event for a city that last week became a rallying point after police used tear gas to clear an encampment outside City Hall and then clashed with protesters in the street.
"We are expecting the marches and demonstrations to remain peaceful, and the police department's and the city's role is to facilitate that process," city spokesman Karen Boyd said. "We have done that many times in the past. We've seen many, many instances of peaceful protests, peaceful expressions."
Along with protesting financial institutions that many within the broader Occupy Wall Street movement blame for high unemployment and the foreclosure crisis, supporters of the Oakland events are convening around grievances such as local school closures, waning union benefits and cuts to social services.
Demonstrators in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Philadelphia said they planned to hold solidarity actions Wednesday.
The day's events in Oakland are expected to begin at 9 a.m., when the first of three rallies scheduled by strike organizers is supposed to kick off downtown. The activities are expected to culminate with a march to the Port of Oakland, where local protesters said the goal would be to stop work there in time for the 7 p.m. evening shift.
In between, other demonstrators, some affiliated with established community groups, said they planned to target banks that do not close for the day, convene a dancing flash mob, sponsor music and street parties, march with elderly residents and people with disabilities to the California state office building, hold youth teach-ins and takeover foreclosed homes and vacant city buildings.
Because of the activities' free-flowing and therefore unpredictable nature, city leaders said they had no idea how many people would take part or how much a disruption they could pose to residents' and workers' daily routines. Boyd said the government "will be open for business as usual" and was encouraging businesses to do the same.
But the president of the police officers' union said he was worried officers were being scapegoated by Mayor Jean Quan and "set to fail" if Wednesday's actions got unruly. "We're going to be seen as the establishment, and it's not fair to the police, it's not fair to anyone," Oakland Police Officer's Association President Sgt. Dom Arotzarena told The Associated Press.
On Oct. 25, police acting at the request of the city's administrator, who reports to the mayor, were asked to clear the protesters' camp site during an early morning raid. A confrontation with marchers protesting the raid followed that night, and an Iraq War veteran suffered a fractured skull and brain injury when officers moved in with tear gas, flash grenades and bean bag projectiles.
Quan allowed protesters to reclaim the plaza outside City Hall the next day. At least six dozen tents and a kitchen buzzing with donated food have been erected on the spot since then, while the crackdown has galvanized anti-Wall Street events elsewhere and made politicians in other cities think again about interfering with their local encampments.
Occupy LA, a month-long 475-tent encampment around Los Angeles City Hall, is planning a 5:30 p.m. march and rally through downtown LA's financial district to express solidarity with the Oakland general strike and to protest police brutality.
"It was obvious to the entire world that the acts perpetrated against Oakland occupation were acts of police brutality," said Julia Wallace, spokeswoman for the Committee to End Police Brutality at Occupy LA.
In San Francisco, the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday passed a resolution calling on Mayor Ed Lee to allow the Occupy Wall Street protestors to remain in a tent city near the historic ferry terminal, an area frequented by commuters and tourists.
"We need to have a government that is truly accountable to the 99 percent, so I wholeheartedly support the movement," said Supervisor John Avalos, who drafted the nonbinding resolution that also calls on city police to avoid clashes with the protesters.
Quan said in a statement Tuesday that she was working with interim Police Chief Howard Jordan to ensure that the protesters issues remain "front and center" on Wednesday.
"The pro-99 percent activists — whose cause I support — will have the freedom to get their message across without the conflict that marred last week's events," Quan said.
Unions representing city government workers, Oakland's public school teachers, community college instructors, and University of California, Berkeley teaching assistants all have endorsed the daylong work stoppage and encouraged their members to participate.
"It's sort of a realization that a lot of people are having that we've all been fighting our own issues, but really, it's all related, it's all the same issue," Oakland Education Association Secretary Steve Neat said.
The Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce released an open letter to the mayor Tuesday in which President Joseph Haraburda expressed concern for "the mothers and children, and even grandmothers, who plan to come to Oakland to conduct their regular business" and for business owners who "must face a day of uncertainty" if they do not close for the strike.
"We want to be clear, should Wednesday's planned protests go awry, someone will need to be held accountable," Haraburda said.
Associated Press writers Terry Collins in Oakland, Calif., Beth Duff-Brown in San Francisco and Christina Hoag in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
Oakland Prepares to be Occupy Movement Epicenter
OAKLAND, Calif. | Oakland prepared Wednesday to again become the epicenter of Occupy Wall Street movement as local organizers aided by labor unions and advocacy groups finalized plans for a broad-based call to action that was expected to include marches, pickets outside banks, school shutdowns and an attempt to close the nation's fifth-busiest port.


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You know I have to disagree with the philosophy of the lonely planet books, the way they put a positive spin on everywhere they research. It'd be more honest and _better for everyone all around_ if they told you to just avoid places that had no redeeming qualities.
Anyway, it could be worse. We could've been involved in a bus plunge or been taken hostage or something. And it was our own fault for ending up here. We didn't plan far enough in advance and didn't realise the lunar new year would have such a huge effect on accommodations in this country.
The only interesting thing about Ipoh is the local buses. They look like they were made by people who'd only heard descriptions of buses and never seen any.

It's mostly my fault. We had to leave Penang and I was given the task of finding the next place to go. There was still a week or a little less til we were due back in KL for the flight out, so I was looking for somewhere in between Penang and KL. In korea, I always like to see the average cities – to see the real korea. And so I thought Ipoh would be similar in Malaysia's landscape. Fuck knows why I end up turning every trip into some grim documentary. Aren't holidays supposed be about escaping reality? In conclusion I will say that there appears to be some sort of electioneering on the streets of Malaysia, and it's promoting "1 Malaysia" in the sense of three ethnicities, one country but when I look at the differences in wealth between KL and Ipoh, the split isn't between ethnicities, it's between the city and the rural areas.
In Ipoh, we are staying at the *Tune Hotel*. It's like staying in a Borg Cube! From the same people who brought you Air Asia, Tune Hotels give you what you pay for and not a jot more. When you pay for the room that's what you get – the room. You pay extra if you want air conditioning, tv, or even a towel. You can pay some extra for wifi internet but you pay in 24hr blocks, and the password they give you _is only valid for one device_. That's probably to stop people setting up server farms during their overnight stays. Just like making bookings with Air Asia, there's a lot of things that can catch the first-time customer out. Like, if you're ordering the towel and you're two people, then you need to enter (and pay for the use of) two towels on the booking page. And if you're staying for two days and you want a fresh towel for the second day, you need to order that too. I'd be interested in trying the flat-rate room for one night to see what it'd be like with no a/c, which is almost mandatory in this heat. Here's what you do get : bed, pillow, linen, ceiling fan, coat hanger (or 3), 1 international powerplug, 1 british style powerplug, combination mini-safe, shower, toilet, hair dryer, bin, mirror, and a window. Every room is the same size and has a window — that's Borg-style democracy for you.
What you don't get is a mini-fridge, optional breakfast, phone, toiletries of any sort apart from toilet paper, and you don't get any love neither. But sadly, this is probably the future of hotels. Or business hotels at least. To continue the science fiction analogy, I can remember back to my younger days working as a room cleaner at the Park Royal in Melbourne, and it was always obvious when a business person (let's face it 90% were businessmen) had occupied the room because I could hardly tell they'd been there. Nothing was touched – not the coffee satchels, not the little bottles of shampoo — nothing. And in a few odd cases the bed hadn't even been slept in — like they'd just stood in the corner and plugged into a power terminal for the night. Those kind of people would love Tune Hotels.


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Utah State University professor Jake Gunther began this year's Inaugural Lecture Series presentation in Nov. 2012. Coordinated by the Provost's Office, the series highlights the accomplishments of faculty who have been promoted to full professor.
Gunther's discourse, "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Math in Signal Processing," was the first of 13 lectures to be presented at USU President Stan Albrecht's home.
"It is a variation on a theme from a sequence of papers that have appeared over the years entitled 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Math in ____,' you fill in the blank," said Gunther.
"My field is signal processing, so I substituted signal processing into the blank and talked about how remarkable it is that the physical world can effectively be described and signals processed using mathematics," said Gunther.
Gunther, a professor in electrical and computer engineering, entered college majoring in accounting.
"After a course on bonds and annuities, I turned away from accounting and business forever and changed my major to mechanical engineering," said Gunther.
After taking a class in electrical engineering, Gunther changed his major one final time to electrical engineering.
"It was incredibly satisfying because every class that I took seemed to answer questions about how things work. I felt like my life had finally begun," said Gunther.
Gunther earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Brigham Young University and moved to Manassas, Va., to work for Lockheed-Martin.
"I found that I missed learning and researching at school. So when I received an invitation to return to school from the man who would later become my Ph.D. advisor, I jumped at the chance," said Gunther.
Gunther completed his doctorate degree in 1998 and joined a technology industry startup company.
"I spent two years doing signal processing; speech recognition and synthesis, microphone arrays and noise and echo cancellation."
Gunther enjoyed the job but knew his long-term career goal was to be in academia. Gunther took a position with USU in 2000 in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
"It has been a privilege for me to work with the best students on campus: the students in my classes and those that I've worked with in research," said Gunther.
Gunther has involved both theoretical and applied research in his work.
"I naturally like applied work where we build and deploy real systems," he said. "Nothing is as much fun as building things and seeing them work as designed."
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A new study showing more Americans using cell phones while driving than Europeans, has helped build momentum for a bill to curb texting while driving.
The bill would impose a $30 fine for anyone who does it and a $60 fine for doing it again within five years.
Many say this bill needs to pass because a new Centers for Disease Control study says one in three people admit texting or emailing behind the wheel.
That same study shows Americans use their phones while driving way more than Europeans.
The survey of drivers in the US and Europe shows a big difference in the numbers of people who admit they get distracted by texting at the wheel.
Federal government researchers reported Thursday that two thirds of people in the US admit to texting while at the wheel.
"In the last 30 days, have you texted while driving?" is the question Channel 4 asked people around town. "I'm not going to lie," one driver said. "I sure have. All the time."
"It's absolutely hard not to, especially when you drive most of the time," another driver admitted.
In Channel 4's own survey of people in the River City, we found some honest people who owned up to doing it and some we had to break in.
"Have you texted while driving in the last 30 days?" we asked. "Uh no," one driver started to say. Actually, take that back. Yes, I have. I have."
A new government study found Americans text at the wheel way more than our foreign counterparts.
About 69 percent of Americans 18 to 64-years-old admitted to using a cell phone while driving at least once in the past 30 days. That's compared to 21 percent of British drivers, and 40 percent in France.
Researchers said they can't put a finger on why the numbers are so different, but the law could play a role.
In the US, states have different cell phone use laws and in Europe, nearly all countries have a ban in place, something our crime analyst said we need in Florida.
"I hope they continue their efforts so that they can make it illegal for you to text and drive simply because it'll save lives," Ken Jefferson said. "The math is very simple. If you stop texting while you're driving, that means that you're not being distracted by texting and driving and paying close attention to the road. The likelihood of you getting into an automobile accident as a result of your own fault is greatly minimized"
Almost all experts agree it's distracting, even hands-free use. And many say people shouldn't use phones at all while driving.
"I don't do that at all," one driver said.
"Because it's dangerous. Like, I have children so I've got to make sure my focus is on the road at all times," another driver said. "Texting could wait."
The CDC says 33 states and the District of Columbia have laws that ban at least some teens or new drivers from using cell phones while driving.
The National Transportation Safety Board has recommended a blanket ban on the use of them in cars and has also encouraged the development of technology that would disable cell phone function within reach of a driver in a moving car.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A new study showing more Americans using cell phones while driving than Europeans, has helped build momentum for a bill to curb texting while driving.
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| 0.6°C Belfast
Parts of Britain enjoyed their warmest weather of the year today as temperatures reached 20C (68F) for the first time in nearly six months.
Gravesend in Kent was the warmest spot in the country, recording a temperature of 20.5C (68.9F) at 2.30pm today, according to the Met Office. The last time the 20C mark was breached was on October 8 last year.
Most other parts of England have been experiencing warmth around 18C (64.4F) with East Anglia and the East Midlands enjoying the best of the sunshine, said the forecaster.
But Kirk Waite, a meteorologist at the Met Office, said the unseasonal warmth would not be staying after the weekend.
"Parts of the north and west of England and Wales are experiencing some cloudy drizzlier conditions. This band will be travelling down the country, so unfortunately it might just be one nice day followed by less pleasant days, particularly for those in the east of England who will struggle to see double figures on Monday," said Mr Waite.
"London will be reasonably warm tomorrow around 14C (57.2F)-15C (59F) with a cloudier feel during the day. But it will be a dry week with any rain coming towards the end of the week and restricted to the far north of the country."
Last year, the 20C mark was first passed on April 14, according to weather service provider MeteoGroup.
In anticipation of the balmy weekend, some British supermarkets were forced into getting early riped strawberries onto their shelves, while retailer John Lewis reported an 11% increase in online sales of barbecues this week, compared with the same period last year.
The sunnier temperatures are welcome relief after the Met Office declared that Britain had had the wettest winter on record.
Before today, the highest recorded temperature of 2014 was 16.9C (62.4F) in London on Friday.


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Get Rid of Those Pesky PestsPosted by Bonnie S. Calhoun at 11:16 PM
Okay, we're dreaming of warmer days and less snow...those wishes will also bring the outdoor pests gnawing at woodwork to get in. Here are some eco-friendly ways to rid yourself of ant, creepy crawlers, and mice. LOL...and it's entertaining too!
LOL...click on that strange blue arrow down in the bottom right corner!
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- Loren said...10:36 PMOh that is just adorable and we are all LOL-ing! Thanks for the giggle! Have a blessed week Bonnie
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You can find millionaires everywhere, but many of them choose to live in cities where they can enjoy their wealth and find services that meet their particular needs.
Spear's magazine, in what it said was the first survey of its kind, recently ranked the top 20 cities with the highest percentage of millionaire residents.
For purposes of the survey, WealthInsight, a wealth consultancy firm with which Spear's collaborated, defined a "millionaire" as an individual with net assets of $1 million or more, excluding primary residences.
The survey — not surprisingly — found that tax havens attract lots of well-off people. So do banking and financial centers.
Other cities have long been bastions of wealth, for both millionaires and billionaires, because of their unique allure as cultural and financial meccas.
Still others beckon with their burgeoning energy and technology sectors.
"Favorable tax and outstanding location are important criteria for attracting clusters of millionaires, but so too is ready access to wealth managers and private banks," WealthInsight analyst Oliver Williams said in a statement.
Williams said the new ranking was important "because wealthy individuals, more than any other group, will change their home and even their domicile based on these factors."
Following are Spear's top 20 cities with the highest concentration of millionaires. Top 20 Global Cities by Millionaire Density
20. Paris (2.04%)
19. San Francisco (2.07%)
18. Houston (2.09%)
17. Brussels (2.11%)
16. Venice, Italy (2.25%)
15. Toronto (2.29%)
14. Doha, Qatar (2.31%)
13. Dublin (2.40%)
12. Rome (2.54%)
11. Hong Kong (2.58%)
10. Florence, Italy (2.59%)
9. Amsterdam (2.63%)
8. Singapore (2.80%)
7. Oslo, Norway (2.90%)
6. London (3.39%)
5. Frankfurt, Germany (3.88%)
4. New York (4.63%)
3. Geneva (17.92%)
2. Zurich (27.34%)
1. Monaco (29.21%)
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When J. J. Newberry of Roebling, New Jersey, recently inquired
about the Worthington tractor he owned, we were unable to turn up
much in our files. We had printed one previous story on a
Worthington, written by Peter Noyes in our October 1989 issue.
As is often the case, our further research turned up yet another
remarkable individual at the center of the development of an
American tractor. Charles Campbell Worthington was the
internationally known industrialist and sportsman who developed the
Worthington tractor. Thanks to the Monroe County Historical Society
in Stroudsburg, Pa., we were able to find photographs of the
tractors and learn quite a bit about C. C. Worthington.
C. C. Worthington was born in Brooklyn, New York, in January
1854, son of Henry R. and Sara Newton Worthington. In 1840, his
father had invented the first direct-acting steam pump, the success
of which led to the creation of the well known Worthington Pump and
Machinery Corporation.
After his 1879 marriage to Julia Apgar Hedden, C. C. Worthington
lived in New York City and Irvington-on-the Hudson, and the couple
had five children. A graduate of the School of Mines at Columbia
University, Worthington entered the pump business, and took over
the Worthington Company upon his father's death in 1880. During
his tenure there, he contributed hundreds of important improvements
and developments in pumps, compressors and other machines.
The business thrived, plants were opened in many European
cities, and many honors were bestowed at Expositions. Perhaps his
greatest achievement was during the Egyptian Sudan insurrection,
when the British Army faced certain defeat unless water could be
carried to them across 200 miles of desert. Worthington's
successful engineering of this problem resulted in knighthood.
In addition, he administered the affairs of the Holley Steam
Pump Company of Buffalo, New York, which he owned and controlled.
He was a director of banks and corporations and a patron of the
Metropolitan Opera and Philharmonic Societies.
In 1899, C. C. Worthington sold his interests in Worthington
Pump to six of the leading pump companies in the U.S., which were
incorporated under the name of International Steam Pump Company.
Worthington was its president until his 'retirement' in
1900 at age 46.
The automobile age was now dawning, and Worthington was
interested. He designed and built several steam automobiles which
were promising, but the gasoline engine interested him enough to
organize the Worthington Automobile Company. Several kinds of
domestic and foreign pleasure cars were built and introduced by the
In the early 1900s, he took up summer residence at
Shawnee-on-Delaware, where created Buckwood Park. A great
sportsman, Worthington was both an accomplished rifleman and
fisherman. He brought deer to his 5,000 acre estate and many other
wild life were protected there, as well. In order to meet his
desire for others to share in his appreciation of the property, he
designed and built Buckwood Inn, a summer resort. Surrounding the
Inn he created the Shawnee Country Club with its famous golf
course. In 1906, he married Maude Clement Rice and the couple had
two daughters.
Worthington was an avid golfer, having played in Scotland when
the old feather ball was used. He had built a six-hole course on
his estate at Irvington-on-Hudson, and helped in the creation of
other golf clubs as well, in Mt. Hope and Ardsley, New York.
One of the offshoots of Worthington's golf hobby was that
the formation of the PGA (Professional Golfers Association) was
brought about through his efforts. In 1912 he asked a group of
professionals to be his guests at Buckwood Inn and the results
produced the organization.
Maintenance was a matter always uppermost in Worthington's
mind. At first, he brought a Scotsman with his dogs and sheep herd
to do the job, but they ultimately proved inadequate. This led
Worthington to invent the first commercially successful gang
lawnmower. He founded the Shawnee Mower Co., which later became
Worthington Mower Co.
Worthington's first gang mower had three moving wheels and
was pulled by a horse. The horse wore leather boots to keep its
hooves from marring the fairway. In 1919, Worthington designed a
tractor to pull the mower. Worthington mowers then became the
standard for golf course maintenance. In 1938, Worthington's
grandson Ross Sawtelle adapted the mower for use in military
airfield maintenance, and the mowers were produced all during World
War II. So great was the company's excellence of production,
they were awarded the Army-Navy 'E' and 'Star'
Worthington died at his Washington, D.C. home in October of
1944. The company, which had been located at 140 North Second
Street in Stroudsburg, Pa., was apparently sold to Jacobsen
Manufacturing in 1945, and continued to produce mowers for
homeowners as well as golf courses. The company was listed in
Stroudsburg directories until about 1959. According to the listing
of the members of the Manufacturers' Association of Monroe
County in 1926-27, the company at that time had an average of 26
In the early 1920s, Worthington kerosene engines were made in
sizes from 1? to 25 HP by the Worthington Pump and Machinery
Corporation. C. C. Worthington managed the firm for the last twenty
years of the last century, before moving on to other pursuits. This
illustration is from an A.S.M.E. catalog.
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The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose last week but held close to a six-year low and gave a positive signal for hiring during the month.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits climbed 13,000 to 336,000, just above the level expected by economists in a Reuters poll, Labor Department data showed on Thursday.
Despite the increase, the four-week moving average for new claims, which gives a better reading on labor market trends because it smooths out volatility, fell to its lowest level since November 2007.
The data were collected during the same week the Labor Department surveys employers for its monthly employment report, and the trend in claims hinted that hiring may pick up during August.
At 330,500, the four-week average was about 5 percent lower than it was during the employment report's survey week in July, when employers added a lackluster 162,000 jobs to payrolls.
A Labor Department analyst said no states had been estimated and there was nothing unusual in the state-level data.
The Federal Reserve is closely monitoring the labor market as it mulls plans to draw down a major economic stimulus program in which it buys long term bonds to keep borrowing costs low.
The U.S. central bank has said it plans to start scaling back on the program this year, and many economists expect the Fed will begin reducing monthly bond purchases next month.
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Recently, Facebook announced they got a new algorithm that's supposed to spot suicidal behavior. What I'm about to present isn't a claim for or against this. This doesn't have much to do with my philosophy of suicide. Rather, I'll analyze the technology based on the McLuhan-ian view of technology as extensions of man. My purpose is to present this analysis and let people decide whether this technology is worthwhile. Spoiler alert, I think the conclusion means it's bad.
First off, here's the basic theory of McLuhan. When McLuhan talks about 'media', he talks about any technology. Any technology is an extension of a function of us. A 'weapon' isn't something that sprang out of nowhere. Every weapon is an extension of our ability to hurt other people. Another integral fact is that every extension is meant to be more effecient in achieving its end, but means less involvement.
A hammer is an extension of our ability to hit things. What the hammer does and what the hand does when they beat the nail isn't any different. The difference is in the effiency and involvement. The hammer is better at knocking the nail, can insert it more quickly into the surface. Once we use the hammer, we're also less involved in the process. This is more vague, but what it means is our experience is limited. When we knock the nail with the hammer, we don't feel the nail.
To use the weapon example, think of the atom bomb. It is just an extension of our ability to cause destruction, only far worse than a fist hitting a board. When you hit something with your fist in order to destroy it, you're deeply involved in the process, you feel the surface of the object being destroyed. The object has to be close to you so you'll use your fist. The atom bomb makes us less involved, since we don't feel the surface of the buildings being destroyed. We don't even see the victims since we have to drop the bomb from far away. This fact explains why technology leads to far deadlier wars, since people are less involved in the act of killing.
Of course, it's possible this is not exactly what McLuhan meant. His writing can be cryptic, but this is the framework I'm working with here.
Now, for the algorithm. People have the ability to reach out to people that they consider in need of help. In our case, being suicidal means needing help. Life's positive value is an axiom for many. Currently users can report posts they consider problematic – by that, I mean containing signals of 'self-harm' or suicide. I'm not sure if this can be called an extension of our ability to reach out, since it is already embedded in a technology – Facebook, which is an extension of our social circle/neighbourhood. What the algorithm does is search for these signals of 'self-harm' and report them, instead of users doing it.
Our ability to offer help is extended via this algorithm. It serves the same function, yet unlike a single person it scans thousands or millions posts a day. This alone makes it more efficient, since no post will go unnoticed and every distressing signal will be reported. In general, people will report a distressing suicide if it will be explicit. A show of hands: How many of you had people reaching out to you because you expressed something sad? By 'reaching out', I don't mean commenting but engaging in conversation. If our current methods were efficient, we wouldn't create an algorithm to do this. We wouldn't feel the need to extend this ability if we did it right, just as we don't have a machine to extended our ability to chew because our teeth work.
Now comes the bad side. Extensions of ourselves make us less involved, which is good if the experience wasn't worth much. No one is going to miss feeling the pain of hitting a needle. In this case, the algorithm makes us less involved because we're no longer reaching out as a person. Many in Sanctioned Suicide mocked this. We're less involved since we're no longer giving personal feedback, seeing the distressing signals with our own eyes and containing it. We don't contact the person and hear what they got to say and hear their feedback to our attempts at help. Although this algorithm will be more efficient at finding distressing signals, we will be less involved in the experience of reaching out.
The question is, is this bad? My answer is, yes.
Involvement is critical when it comes to personal issues. Else, we'd all confess our sins to Cleverbot. A common complaint against psychotherapy is that the therapist isn't actually involved and doesn't really care. It's a profession for them, they ask questions for the salary. The whole idea of caring demands involvement. In order for someone to care for us, for our troubles to mean to them something they need to be involved in our life. They need to find our troubles affecting, consider them important. Try reading about a serial killer and then watching an interview with him. In the second instance, you're more involved with this person, you see them and hear their voices. Empathy demands involvement, since we can't be empathetic unless we imagine ourselves in the position of the person suffering.
The algorithm, by making us less involved in the process of reaching out to people undermines itself. By removing ourselves, we remove the most crucial thing. The basis of reaching out is that someone actually cares about your troubles and wants to be involved in getting through them. Remove the person who cares, and there is no 'caring'. An algorithm cannot care, it is not a person.
The main message this algorithm sends is not that someone is so caring they'll invent this technology but the opposite. Someone is so uncaring that they'll invent a technology that will do the caring for them. You can lead a horse to water, but a bunch of professionals showing up at a person's house doesn't send the message you care but that you want control. The reason communities like Sanctioned Suicide work compared to R/SuicideWatch is that the people in SS are deeply involved with one another, they communicate and exchange ideas, don't aim for a specific result but are just there with a person.
Let's assume we take the position that suicide is bad. This algorithm is another symptom of our pathetic attempts at controlling people, rather than helping them. If suicidal people are really in a bad situation and in need of help, how can we help them by patronizing them, caging them, trying to control them rather than reaching out to them? We can't complain about being mystified by suicide since we don't even try to understand it. Technology now extends our ability to reach out for others, to letting them know we hear their troubles in such a way that actually tells them we don't care.
If we really did care, we wouldn't need to invent a technology to do it for us.


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On January 20th, I completed a consumer survey (n=~2500) asking: Which of the following on-line sites have you used regularly to find local businesses? The obvious winner was Google with the YellowPages.com making a surprisingly strong showing.
In a recent article by Greg Sterling, YP.com noted that they were going to compete directly with Google and Yelp as a general purpose directory.
On the surface the results show that YP.com is a contender in people's minds as a resource for local discovery, with marginally more mindshare than Yelp and roughly the equivalent of Bing & Yahoo combined. In this survey it would even appear that almost 1/4 of the US internet adult population, in choosing none of the listed sites, would possibly be possible targets for YP.com as well.
However when you dig into the details of the survey YP.com's problems are much deeper than they appear on the surface. The headwinds that they face may make the goal of competing with Yelp and Google unrealistic.
The issues confronting YP.com all revolve around demographics.
Firstly there is the issue of Google's share. On average it was 60.9%. However in the youngest cohort measured in the survey of adults 25 and older Google's share was almost 80%. This survey did not cover 18-24 year olds but one can assume, based on previous research, even an greater skew there. Overcoming a market share lead like that amongst younger cohorts is a much more daunting task.
Yelp shows a similar age skew. Yelp does significantly better amongst younger cohorts and while tied in general is way ahead in the 25-34 year old bracket.
YP.com shows their greatest strengths in the over 65 market where their print products are also still popular. The reality is that YP.com has not yet found a way to attract younger readers. Or even middle aged ones for that matter.
What about that 25% that still hadn't shown a preference that YP.com could target? Those that noted none of the above to the question of their preferred site for finding local businesses? Most of those readers (71%) are 55 and over with almost 40% over 65.
So while YP.com's goal of competing directly with Google and Yelp is laudable they are facing the inertia of the Queen Mary when attempting to turn around their brand image. The reality seems to be that their their customers are dying off and they have yet to figure out a way to make their brand and site appealing to the younger age cohorts where they need to be successful in order to be successful in local search.
Dave asked if there were regional and/or differences by urbanicity. There were nearly indistinguishable differences for the search engines but for YP.com and Yelp.com there were some interesting patterns. YP.com is most popular in the midwest and rurually. While Yelp is favored by the urban set.
Regional differences:
Urban Density:
In the west, in younger age groups and in cities, Yelp does much better than elsewhere:
Younger, Urban vs suburban, older users:Which Sites Do Consumers Use to Find a Local Business? Why YP.com is Facing Headwinds by Mike Blumenthal


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that is, on the screen shot attached, if I did not ytpe in the function description "deleteAllEmail", I would have gotten some strange error message about a fn set not being defined (which means nothing to me). I tried typing into the fn box: function() { ... } but that did not work, then I put the name and it seems to have. I'd suggest putting a default name in there and let me override it if I don't like it.
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Note: This short review references the video, not the book of same title.
First of all, the matter in hand is a pure video. No application to resume with the last seen, no electronic table of content, no electronic glossary.
As the title says, the subject is database design and relational theory. Even though C. Date makes mention of practical usage, it's still theory. Such it addresses database professionals to enhance the practical knowledge with all the information needed to scale the next level. And of cource, the listener needs a robust foundation of database design to follow C. Date. Sometimes, it seems to be a bit boring to hear all that theoreticall stuff about relational variables, normal forms, redundancy, mathematical proofs etc. But then, suddenly new cognition arises. And that's why that video is so valuable.
For the most part, C. Date talks about normalization. First in an informal, then in a formal way. Beware, informal doesn't mean practical. He mainly covers functional dependencies and Boyce/Codd normal form, join dependencies and 5th normal form as well as multivalued dependencies and 4th normal form. By the way he talks a bit about other normal forms and denormalization. After this big part, he spends some time on th priniciple of orthogonal design and redundancy. His credo is "We need more science". And in the main appendix he states primary keys to be nice but not essential. Thus, design theory goes much beyond current implementations.
Conclusion: This video is a mess for all that people who only perform practical database creation. For all those people who really design databases, this video drive skills.
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Calma wrote:I wasn't very happy with the coverage this year.
FS1 just dragged it on with the foo-foo stuff.
The announcers weren't all that knowledgeable either.
Chris Meyers calls the car races for goodness sake
And the ladies? Yeah, 'nuff said.
Hope their contract isn't too long
And they can get back to the USA network.
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On the way to work Thursday morning, the clutch pedal sanpped to the floor when I pressed it, and it stayed there. It was still in gear, and I was able to limp to a parking lot.
I looked under the dash, and the pushrod that goes through the firewall was disconnected from the piece connecting to the pedal. Below is a picture of what the metal pushrod looks like resting on top of the connector:
There is a plastic piece that connects the two together. Either I'm installing it incorrectly, or it's just a piece of junk. Below is a photo of what the plastic piece looks like, and what it looks like when it's connected:
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The reason I'm posting this is because, on the way home from work Friday, I heard a "snap" when pressing the clutch pedal. It still worked, but when I looked under the dash today, I could see that the plastic piece is once again broken, and a part of the bottom of the plastic piece is missing. I'm lucky I made it home, because I could remove the connection with absolutely 0 effort. It was literally just resting in place, and it's amazing I made it home.
Why does this piece keep breaking, and is there a much more robust method for connecting these components so that I can rely on this vehicle as a daily driver?


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Couples, Monty highlight Hall of Fame inductees
St. Augustine, FL – Fred Couples and Colin Montgomerie headlined the 2013 World Golf Hall of Fame class that was inducted on Monday evening.
Ken Venturi, Ken Schofield and Willie Park, Jr. were also inducted in this year's class. Venturi and Schofield were inducted via the Lifetime Achievement Category. Park was elected via the Veterans Committee.
Last year, Sandy Lyle became the first living Scot to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. He was joined by two others this year, Montgomerie and Schofield.
Couples was a 15-time winner on the PGA Tour, including the 1992 Masters. After playing on nine national teams (five Ryder Cups, four Presidents Cups), Couples will captain his third straight American Presidents Cup team this fall.
The previous two U.S. Presidents Cup squads were victorious. He was also an assistant captain to Davis Love III at the 2012 Ryder Cup.
Couples also won two Players Championship titles, was the PGA Tour Player of the Year twice and was the first American to reach the No. 1 spot in the world golf rankings.
"At the age of 14, I was lucky enough to go to a clinic at a course in Seattle that an unbelievable PGA Tour player was playing at, or doing a clinic, and I got up front and I was staring at him, and after a couple hours when I went back, I wasn't really the person who said that's what I want to do, I'm going to be a PGA Tour player, but I knew I wanted to really, really get involved in golf," Couples said at the induction. "And the gentleman's name was Lee Trevino, who has been a mentor and someone I love."
Montgomerie stands fourth on the European Tour all-time wins list with 31 victories. Those titles, the most by a Brit, helped him claim a record eight European Tour Order of Merit crowns.
Monty played on eight straight European Ryder Cup teams, and he captained the 2010 European team to a 1-point win at Celtic Manor. His posted a 20-9-7 Ryder Cup record, including 6-0-2 in singles matches.
The lone knock on Montgomerie's stellar record was the fact that he never won an event on American soil.
"This is the highest honor within the game, and I thank the committee for selecting me along with fellow inductees in 2013, Freddie Couples, Willie Park, Jr., Ken Schofield, and Ken Venturi, who we all wish a speedy recovery," Montgomery stated. "Thank you all for coming here this evening to celebrate what I think is the greatest game of them all, and I'm sure you all agree, a game that I started playing at the grand old age of five in Troon, Scotland. Mind you, in Troon, Scotland, that's about all you do."
Venturi, the 1964 U.S. Open champion, collected 14 PGA Tour titles before shifting to the broadcast booth. That move was made more because of injury than anything else.
Venturi battled Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, which affected his ability to compete at the highest level. He spent 35 years as a broadcaster with CBS Sports, where he worked alongside fellow World Golf Hall of Fame inductee Frank Chirkinian.
Schofield was the European Tour's executive director from 1975-2004, and helped the tour expand from 17 events, which were mostly played in Western Europe, to 45 events in his penultimate year as the tour's leader. Those 45 tournaments were spread over four continents.
"This is a proud and humbling evening for me. This is the proudest moment of my professional career," Schofield said at the induction ceremony.
Park was a two-time British Open champion, and joins his father Willie Park, Sr. in the World Golf Hall of Fame. Along with being a champion golfer, the younger Park designed over 150 courses worldwide.
Among the more well-known courses on that list are Maidstone Club, which is just outside New York City; the North Course at Olympia Fields, near Chicago; and the famed Old Course at Sunningdale outside of London.


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The Recessionary Sentiment Brightened Around the World in Q2
More than half (55%) of global respondents to a Nielsen online survey believed they were in a recession in the second quarter—the lowest level reported since Q1 2011. The recessionary mindset among North Americans strengthened the most during the three-month period, declining six percentage points to 69 percent. The increase is noteworthy because this metric hasn't dipped below 70 percent since before the Great Recession.
"The improved recessionary sentiment among North Americans was driven by positive macro-economic developments in the U.S.," said Dr. Venkatesh Bala, chief economist at The Cambridge Group, a part of Nielsen. Seventy-two percent of U.S. respondents said they were in a recession—a 5-percentage point improvement from Q1 and a 15-percentage point change from a five-year average (2008–2012), when 87 percent of Americans felt mired in a recession. Concern about the U.S. economy also reported a marked decline of 8 percentage points among American respondents in the second quarter, dropping to 19 percent.
Recessionary sentiment also improved in Middle East/Africa (down 4 percentage points to 73%), Europe (down 2 percentage points to 74%) and Asia-Pacific (down 1 percentage point to 40%). Recessionary sentiment grew in Latin America, increasing 3 percentage points since Q1 to 56 percent.
The Nielsen Global Survey of Consumer Confidence and Spending Intentions, established in 2005, measures consumer confidence, major concerns and spending intentions among more than 29,000 respondents with Internet access in 58 countries.
Other findings include:
- Global consumer confidence increased one index point to 94 in Q2.
- Quarterly confidence rose in all regions except Latin America.
- European respondents remained stuck in a spending holding pattern.
- Confidence in Middle East/Africa returned to its Q4 2012 level.
- Discretionary spending intentions improved in Asia-Pacific.
For more detail and insight, download Nielsen's Q2 2013 Global Consumer Confidence Report.
About the Nielsen Global Survey
The Nielsen Global Survey of Consumer Confidence and Spending Intentions was conducted between May 13–31, 2013, and polled more than 29,000 online consumers in 58 countries throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and North America. The sample has quotas based on age and sex for each country based on their Internet users, and is weighted to be representative of Internet consumers and has a maximum margin of error of ±0.6%. This Nielsen survey is based on the behavior of respondents with online access only. Internet penetration rates vary by country. Nielsen uses a minimum reporting standard of 60 percent Internet penetration or 10M online population for survey inclusion. The China Consumer Confidence Index is compiled from a separate mixed methodology survey among 3,500 respondents in China.


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In his State of the Union speech, President George W. Bush outlined a plan to create the Terrorist Threat Integration Center for combining and analyzing terrorist-related information. The goal is to help intelligence agencies "connect the dots" using information collected in the United States and abroad to detect terrorist activity, something they failed to do before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Bush's instructions in Tuesday night's speech were directed at the directors of the FBI and CIA, the secretary of the newly-created Department of Homeland Security, and the Secretary of Defense. But it's not clear whether the new center will be part of any of those organizations or a separate entity.
The new center will "permanently eliminate the seam between foreign and domestic intelligence on terrorism," according to the White House. It will create a structure for sharing information across agency lines, providing intelligence and law-enforcement agencies with the most comprehensive possible picture of terrorist threats. In the past, the FBI, CIA, National Security Agency, and other intelligence and law-enforcement organizations have faced technical, cultural, and regulatory hurdles to sharing information. While the Terrorist Threat Integration Center should help eliminate those hurdles, details about how the center will operate and the technology it will utilize aren't yet available.


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I came across this column sizing weirdness the other day.
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