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I am sure that most of you are aware of the existence of a pelisse which may have been the property of Jane Austen and is now in the care of the Hampshire Museums Service.
This rather beautiful article of clothing, with its very appropriate decoration for Jane Austen of oak leaves, has recently been the subject of intensive study by Hilary Davidson of the University of Southampton. She has written an article about it, entitled Reconstructing Jane Austen's Silk Pelisse, 1812-14. This is the first ever intensive study of the coat, and I would love to be able to read it. Here is her summary of what the article has to say:
This article explores the physical qualities and historical contexts of the silk pelisse coat dated c. 1812–1814 associated with Jane Austen (1775–1817) through family provenance and now held by Hampshire County Museum Services and Archives. The author took an exact pattern of the pelisse (included), then made replica garments. The association with Jane Austen is considered using evidence from Austen's letters about her tastes in colours, length of fabrics needed for clothing, and ownership of a silk pelisse. The silk's oak-leaf pattern is interpreted as a British patriotic motif, especially during the period of Napoleonic conflicts. Questions and insights arising from the process of reproduction are discussed, and the pelisse is compared to other surviving garments, and to contemporary fashionable images. As evidence suggests the pelisse probably did belong to Austen, her physical characteristics that can be gleaned from the garment are compared with information about Austen's appearance.
Sounds fascinating, doesn't it? It truly does. No doubt, dear reader, you would like to read it too…..but…as it is an academic article, unless you have access to it via an expensive subscription, ( £24 for a 24 hour pass) this won't be possible. But…a light now shines for us at the end of the tunnel for, in a rather inspired move, Hilary Davidson is trying to raise the necessary funds( £500 or $800 US) to allow the article to be made freely accessible to all.
The author has to pay the sum of £550 to the publishers for the article to be made available via open access online. So she is trying to raise the relatively modest sum via her crowdfunding page which you can access here
A donation of just £2 / $2.95 will give you a PDF copy of the article the day it is published, sent directly to your inbox. If you would like to contribute more, a £10 / $15 donation will also get you an exclusive 15x15cm / 4×4 inch sample of the reproduction pelisse fabric being made by specialist firm Whitchurch Silk Mill, which I wrote about here. Do note that the silk has no fixed production date as yet so will take a little longer to arrive.
As I write £181 of the total £550 has been pledged, and there are 53 days left to raise the remainder. Please can I ask you to contribute to this cause, for by pledging a very modest amount of money the article could be available to all, a wonderful notion I am sure you will all agree.
I've pledged, and I hope the total is raised for a successful outcome to this request. I will keep you all up to date, I promise. ;)


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The Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable
Juliette de Bairacli Levy
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This hard-to-find treasure, originally published in 1952, remains an invaluable resource for anyone wishing to bring their farm animals to a state of vibrant health. It is also an inspiration as to what really can be done without chemical medicines and supplements.
Juliette de Bairacli Levy was a licensed veterinarian before she became the mother of today's herbal movement. Her work is therefore wonderfully supported with her knowledge of animals and animal diseases, and she is recognized as a pathfinder in the field of animal health, particularly for her work relating to canine distemper.
If you love animals and the planet, you'll love both the journey that is the book and the very practical help that it offers.


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The Seagull Play
Anton Chekhov, the Russian dramatist, is widely acknowledged for his dramatic works. The Seagull Play is the first play in the author's second period of writing for the theater. If you are looking for a complete info about the Sea-Gull Play, then look no further.
You will get in-depth information about the play Seagull, right here. The play has been variously translated in English as The Sea Gull and The Sea-Gull. Inspired by a real-life incident of the death of a sea gull, this is hailed as the best written play and a masterpiece by Chekov.
Browse the place to get all the details of the Seagull, a play famed for a brand new form of literature as to emphasize characters other than plot.


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None of us are called to be "Messiahs" for no matter how great our
need (either subconscious or conscious) for self-sacrifice, or how
obsessive this belief may be. God's gift at Calvary provided healing,
forgiveness and wholeness for all of humanity. God needs no more
While I do not
believe that God directly punishes anyone for their careless or deliberately
cruel actions towards another, I do believe that there are natural spiritual
Laws that God set into action when the Universe was created, and Jesus to me
spelled it out best: "What you sow, you will also reap."
Suffering has visited some of our heart-homes so often it feels like an old friend. Let it be a guest, learn from it all you can, it will often teach you more wisdom than the good times will.
If suffering was an indication that one was out of the will of God, one
could thereby conclude that every one of the heroes of faith in Scripture was
out of God's will. It is a spiritual fact that suffering that is brought
about by unGodly forces can not only be redemptive, but show us to be in
God's will, in that the closer one draws to God, the more he or she will be
called upon to suffer.
I was a transsexual! The Lord had dealt me yet another blow,
I thought!! ... My suffering was well deserved, I was a freak... a
perverted, twisted joke of a human being.
What the author hopes will happen for the reader is that this article will
give him or her hope that regardless of the pain they may be experiencing
because they have been rejected by family, former friends, the church or
society as a whole, peace can be experienced merely by a change in one's
attitude regarding their afflictions and there is a good reason for not
giving up on one's self.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
And why are you so far away from my distress?
After several weeks of receiving this answer, I understood that I was not to
ask any more, but to accept that God desired to keep me as I was, a gay man.
God had said "NO!" and I had to start learning how to live with that.
If you're so damned good, why all this suffering?!?! Why have the past ten years of my life been so miserable? Oh sure, sometimes it's been okay, but please, please, give me joy! I want joy! I want thoroughgoing peace. Why can't I have it?
Before the foundation of the world, from eternity past, God has chosen us (believers) as "holy," which means we have been set apart, for Him, with an eternal purpose. There is an eternal purpose in everything we get involved in. Even on this earthly, temporal situation, there is an eternal purpose in it.
God and sex. One, I learned about through very
intentional, formal instruction, the other, through hearsay
and secret books and brief, embarrassed sections in health
class. The connection between the two was implicit and
vague but strong enough to stop conversation if one came
up in the discussion of the other.
The Bible is not, nor was it intended to be, a recipe book for the petty
concerns of daily life. It was intended to remind us to look up, when those
petty concerns become overwhelming.
I am going to present several scriptures that will help on reconciling our homosexuality and also to prove that homosexuality isn't a sin.
"... the documentary profiles sixteen sons and
daughters-between the ages of four and twenty-three-in five families
who are facing the usual highs and lows of growing up while
encountering varied reactions from extended family, classmates,
teachers, neighbors, and public officials."
Rev. Thornburg hopes those who do take time to read the book will come away with a better understanding of the issue facing the church and why homosexuals should be welcomed.
The Union United Church, a 125-member institution led by Rev. Theodore L.
Lockhart, voted to become a "reconciling and inclusive" church - a term that
essentially means a church that accepts and affirms gay and lesbian people.
Why does God permit testing of our faith? Because such tests
stretch our faith to its outer limits.
Jesus remains at the door, pleading with us to open. His love is
nothing to play games with. In a world where true love is in short supply,
none of us can afford to let him, who is love itself, stay outside, bathed in
the dew of our indifference.
Despite the fact that God has repeatedly saved the people and blessed them, the people remain clueless about what God truly wants of them. They have sacrificed and still have practiced injustice, oppression and evil and have displayed haughtiness. God tells them their sacrifices are not what God requires of them.
Having studied the whole debate from all sides, I can only
conclude that the attraction itself is that desire, that stretching out after, that
longing, described in Genesis 3:16. Thus, it is there that we see the origin of
sexual orientation.
Let us be honest for a minute: how many of us, as gay, bisexual, or
transgendered men and women following Christ, have not at some point
understood Jeremiah's prayer in chapter 20? How many of us have not wished
never to have been born rather than to struggle with our sexuality on the
one side and our church on the other?
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Pickysaurus: Thanks for taking the time to speak to us. Firstly, why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself?
Pathoschild: I'm a web developer by day, so modding is a nice change from my usual work. I actually became a modder accidentally. There were some issues with a mod I wanted to use, but the author had lost the code and was too busy to work on it. I decompiled the mod with their permission, added some fixes and improvements, and offered a pull request so they could release the changes. They preferred working alone though, so they suggested forking it instead. That became my first mod, Chests Anywhere, and I figured I might as well keep working on it.
Things just snowballed from there. Now I develop SMAPI (the modding API), the mod build package (used to create mods), my own mods, the upcoming web API and toolkit, and internal tools for modders; maintain mods for some inactive authors; write documentation on the wiki; moderate /r/StardewValley and the Stardew Valley Discord; provide support on Discord/Nexus/Reddit/forums; submit pull requests to other modders and prepare unofficial updates; etc. It's pretty much a full-time hobby at this point, so it's weird that it all started with a bug fix.
The Stardew Modding API (SMAPI) for Stardew Valley which is a cornerstone of the modding community in that game, but for the uninitiated, what is SMAPI and how did you end up maintaining it?
SMAPI loads mods into Stardew Valley, and hooks into the game to provide events and APIs for mods. Most types of mods aren't possible without SMAPI. It also rewrites mods for compatibility (e.g. so nearly all mods work on Linux/Mac/Windows despite the game differences), intercepts errors and usually auto-recovers the game, provides mod update alerts and compatibility checks, and creates daily save backups. Mainly it's a framework for modders though, so most of its features aren't directly visible to players.
When I got into modding, SMAPI was a fairly small Windows-only project and was no longer in development. After I contributed some improvements, the maintainer transferred the project to me since they'd moved on to other things. SMAPI 1.0 was my first release, and I just kept going after that.
What is it that draws you to Stardew Valley and what is it about modding that you enjoy most?
Stardew Valley has the most friendly and welcoming community I've seen. It's a community where someone can ask newbie questions, and they'll get lots of friendly explanation, guidance, and positive feedback. The elitism I've seen elsewhere isn't really present. There's a lot of really cool stuff that happens when players, new modders, and veteran modders can all chat and work together. I enjoy working with that community and it's great to see my work put to good use.
Thanks to the extension you created, Vortex now supports direct downloads and management of Stardew Valley mods. What do you think of Vortex as a mod manager for players of Stardew Valley?
SMAPI mods are easy to install, but players often want a mod manager to organise their mods, keep track of updates, and switch between profiles. There aren't many options for Stardew Valley though. Vortex's extensions system is great for letting smaller communities add support for their games. It's still in alpha, but I think it'll be a solid option when it's released.
You also have a selection of useful mods for Stardew Valley, including Lookup Anything, Automate and Chests Anywhere. What inspires you to work on these varied projects?
A few of my mods aren't original: Chests Anywhere and Tractor Mod continued from earlier abandoned mods (with permission and credit), Automate was created from scratch based on a different vision for CJB Automation (which I was maintaining), and Debug Mode was a better alternative for a SMAPI feature removed in 1.0.
Most of my other mods are meant to peek under the game's hood and make things easier. Data Layers shows various data layers like hidden paths and sprinkler range; Skip Intro gets you into the game much faster (especially useful when testing mods); Fast Animations speeds up repetitive animations; and Lookup Anything demystifies in-game mechanics and shows useful info (with a data mining option to show the internal game data).
Content Patcher is a bit different. It aims to replace an entire category of mod which has many limitations, while providing a framework for non-programmers to create complex mods without writing any code. I'm really happy with how well it's worked out so far, and I have a lot more planned for it.
When you are not busy modding, what other things do you like to do for fun?
I also like reading and games, exploring the festivals and events in the city (Montreal has lots of those), mountain hiking, kayaking, and being out in nature. My perfect vacation would be a mountain or beach cabin in a thunderstorm with a good book.
In regards to gaming: Which game do you have the fondest memories of? What games are you currently playing, if any?
The Witcher 3 was probably my favourite game. I loved its open world full of interesting content (without the busywork like "find every rock" that other games often have), its more nuanced decisions and morality, and its storytelling quality. I don't actually play Stardew Valley anymore. After spending so much time modding it, I'd rather take a break by playing other games. I've been playing through Dark Souls recently.
Back on the topic of modding - have you ever created mods for games other than Stardew Valley, or are there any you'd like to try?
Nope. I've used mods for other games, but I never got into their modding scenes. I'm not sure I'd have time to mod anything else at this point, with all the projects I have for Stardew Valley.
How does it make you feel that hundreds of thousands of people out there are using a tool that you developed?
It's pretty awesome. Coming from an industry that's often about monetising users, creating something just for their enjoyment is a great feeling.
Are there any authors in the Nexus Mods community whose mods you particularly enjoy playing?
Some mods are impressive technical achievements (one mod added multiplayer before the game supported it), but I've always been fond of the simpler quality of life mods. I have a list of my favourites for players looking for their first mods.
We have recently rolled out our Donation Points system as well as our Patreon to help the community supplement our donation fund that we pay into ourselves. Being a mod authors yourself, what are your thoughts on this new system?
I love the concept — most modders get pennies per hour at best otherwise, so getting a bit of money back is great! I really appreciate Nexus doing it. I feel like the current implementation is heavily tilted towards bigger communities like Bethesda games though, and linking donation points to unique downloads incites modders to create lots of small mods/clones instead of continuing to improve their existing mods. That said, I think it's a good idea overall and I'm interested to see how Nexus improves it over time.
Is there anything else you would like the community to know about you, your plans, or future projects?
Chucklefish added a lot of my suggested changes to help modders in Stardew Valley 1.3. If you use Stardew Valley mods, keep an eye out for mods doing lots of new things in the future!
Big thanks to Pathoschild for taking the time to speak to us! If there's an author or mod project you'd like to know more about, send your suggestions to BigBizkit or Pickysaurus.


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The nose knows: Specialty firm evaluates all things stinky
The worst thing Mike McGinley ever smelled? Hyper-concentrated skunk spray that was so vile it caused an emotional reaction, he says, "like somebody had just completely berated me and insulted me. It was depressing and horrible."
That's saying a lot, since McGinley is an expert in quantifying what does and doesn't stink. He's the lab director responsible for product development at Stillwater, Minn.-based St. Croix Sensory, a specialty firm owned by his parents, Charles "Chuck" and Donna McGinley. The company built its 24-year legacy helping clients by scientifically measuring factory, landfill and agricultural emissions for their effect on the human sense of smell.
One of only about a dozen such businesses worldwide, according to McGinley, St. Croix Sensory helps clients across industries evaluate whether and to what extent they may have a problem with environmental odors. The company also evaluates products, trains odor assessment specialists and manufactures its own line of equipment enabling other companies to test and measure their own odors. Its flagship product, the Nasal Ranger olfactometer, now represents 20 percent of the firm's revenues.
McGinley declined to note sales figures but said they've grown by about 7 percent annually in recent years, thanks to a strong focus on R&D efforts.
McGinley spoke with Crain's about the company's past, present and future.
Q: How did your company get started?
A: My dad was an engineer for 3M in the 1960s when it was developing "scratch 'n sniff" products and then [he] gained more expertise as state odor inspector.
In 1980 my parents started an engineering firm that designed odor-abatement systems, and that was spun off into St. Croix Sensory in 1993 to meet growing awareness of and regulation around environmental air quality.
These days my dad is technical director, my mom is president and my three siblings are involved as company consultants. We now have eight regular employees and about 60 local contractors we've trained to evaluate smells.
Q: What is your background?
I joined the company in 1997 after earning a master's degree in public health and working in the field as a self-employed consultant. My primary role now is overseeing product and material evaluation work and looking for opportunities to use our sensory-testing know-how.
Q: How much of your work takes place in the field versus in-house?
Most of our work starts when clients send us products for testing. We then conduct the sensory evaluations and scientific testing using olfactometers, consider our clients' research questions and design tests that can provide quality answers.
One example: determining how much cat urine to add to a liter box to represent three days of use.
Q: How do you protect your testing environment?
We ask everyone not to wear scented personal care products, and we use high-powered ventilation and exhaust systems to keep our testing area as smell-neutral as possible.
Q: How often are the smells overwhelming for staffers?
Headaches or stomachaches are an occasional trade hazard; we all have our own triggers. You learn to shut off your gross factor so you can do your work, even though you're exposed to really horrible smells you may not normally encounter.
Q: Tell us about a major challenge in your business.
We work on a project-by-project basis, so it's hard for us to forecast sales. Our top five clients are different every year and commonly represent different industries.
Q: How has the legalization of marijuana impacted your business?
While most people immediately think of the odor from smoking marijuana, the initial issues in some states are related to nuisance odors from grow facilities. That's provided a 10 percent boost in sales of our Nasal Rangers over the past two years as communities and grow facilities need to measure odor levels to properly address controls.
Q: Tell us about your side work with Minneapolis haunted house attraction the Haunted Basement.
We've volunteered for the past nine Halloween seasons to create ambient smells to help scare customers. Without giving away trade secrets, I've made rooms smell like baby powder, sweaty feet, popcorn and cotton candy. (McGinley explained he's also created smells for museums and for theater productions of "Treasure Island" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," and teaches the craft to others as well.)
Q: How might St. Croix Sensory expand in the future?
We continue to see strong growth in testing of products and materials. Current "hot" areas are packaging, clothing (odor control of sweat odors) and performance testing of products that reduce malodors in the home. There are also renewed efforts in the automotive industry to look more closely at odors from vehicle components.
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The city has yet to select a design option to renovate and repair the City Hall building downtown, which has been closed since a mid-morning arson fire on Aug. 17, 2010.
No one was arrested for setting the fire in the fourth-floor attic, the result of which was extensive water damage and the subsequent demolition of interior walls.
The cost of repairing City Hall, which is located across from Church Green at 15 Summer St., has ranged from $15 million to $23 million.
Until such time that the building is repaired, the city will continue to operate its temporary city hall in what had been Lowell M. Maxham School at 141 Oak St.
A pre-demolition survey has been underway for at least a month at the Leonard Block/Star Theater. That four-story, dilapidated building stands within yards of City Hall.
In late 2013, the city took possession of the Star from former owner Michael O'Donnell, after a housing court judge found him in contempt for failing to make significant structural repairs and to remove debris and junk from inside.
City officials have said they will tear down the Star as soon as possible to lay the groundwork for repairing City Hall. Doing so, they said, will afford construction crews easier access to City Hall and will also create more parking space opportunities.
A $6 million lawsuit filed by the city against both its former insurance carrier and agency has yet to be settled.
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"Investigate the Banks!" Today a coalition of progressive groups handed in a petition with more than 360,000 signatures that demanded exactly that. It calls on the Obama administration to stop pushing a cushy fraud settlement for bankers, to pursue a fair deal for shafted homeowners, and to let criminal investigations against Wall Street crooks proceed.
Yet White House officials are still aggressively pushing the very same cushy deal on foreclosure fraud that inspired the petition. And just this week the Justice Department declined to prosecute fraudulent bankers once again as it worked to settle another bank fraud case.
Thinking about this relentless pursuit of Wall Street settlements, suddenly the last line of The Great Gatsby —the one about "boats against the current"—came to mind. Bankers are today's Jay Gatsbys. They're shady figures who have adopted a veneer of respectability, yet remain relentlessly, ruthlessly, and sometimes illegally self-interested.
And the very kindest way to look at Democrats who flirt with them is to compare them to Gatsby's old flame Daisy, whose reunion with him ended in disaster.
"He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it."
There was a time when Democrats could succeed by triangulating liberal imagery against neoliberal economic policy. It looked like they could have it all: The enthusiasm of their base, widespread public support, and Wall Street campaign money, all at the same time. The '90s-era stock bubble even made it look like this was smart policy.
Those days are over. The facade has been pulled away from Wall Street's crimes. The myth of deregulation has been exposed. Bankers have been revealed, not as "Masters of the Universe" but as ordinary people with ordinary talents but extraordinary drive and ambition—and in some cases, extraordinary greed and immorality.
Wall Street broke the economy once, and next time it could be worse. In its relentless pursuit of a mythical past where "Wall Street and Main Street rise and fall together," the White House is endangering both the economy and its own political future.
The progressive groups behind the "Investigate the Banks" petition include Color of Change, MoveOn, Credo Action, New Bottom Line, Progressives United, and Campaign for America's Future (where I have a fellowship). "President Obama," the petition says. "Hold Wall Street banks accountable by fully investigating the big bank fraud that caused the housing crisis."
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter–tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . "
Even as they were preparing to deliver it to Obama offices around the country we saw a wave of news stories with headlines like this one from Bloomberg News: "Federal-State Meeting Planned to Rally for Foreclosure Accord." And this one: Settlement would end yearlong negotiations over deceptive mortgage practices…
There were others, too: Mortgage settlement between banks, states 'close'. Or 'Robo-signing' settlement close: reports. Or Foreclosure deal with banks is 'very close,' HUD's chief says. Or US, Banks Near 'Robo-Signing' Settlement; US HUD's Donovan: 'Very Close' To Robo-Signing Settlement.
There was even this overhyped line, as reported by Reuters: One million homeowners may get mortgage writedowns: US. Since the proposed settlement figure is $25 million, somebody's exaggerating here. (More than 10 million homes are underwater, and $25 million for one million homeowners comes to $25 apiece.)
"He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night."
A number of Attorneys General have refused to sign on to the Administration-backed deal despite intense political pressure to do so. We also learned recently that the White House is leaning on these heroes even harder, rather than backing off and letting them do their jobs – or, better yet, helping them. From Saturday's New York Times article on California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who joined Beau Biden, in taking a strong stand:
Since taking office …. Harris has clashed with the Obama administration over one of her signature issues: foreclosures and mortgage fraud … She said the proposed settlement sought by the Obama administration asked California to "excuse conduct that has not been adequately investigated."
The Times article includes a threat from the spokesman for Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, who says he'll move on without her and the others, and from a spokesman for the California Mortgage Bankers Association who threatened that California borrowers "would get nothing."
It's not hard to see that there's a major disconnect forming between the White House and many of the groups it will need to rally in order to regain the White House in November. More importantly, the Administration-backed deal would let criminal activity go uninvestigated, much less unpunished, and would leave the economy vulnerable to future banking predators. (See below for more information.)
"And one fine morning—-"
And the disconnect continues. There was even a trial balloon about the President appointing Larry Summers to lead the World Bank.
All of this suggests that the overly intimate relationship between our leaders and those who designed our failed, deregulated system – and then got rich from it – continues. So does this week's partial settlement of currency fraud charges with Bank of New York Carnegie Mellon, where the bank agreed to stop defrauding customer while negotiations for the cash part of the settlement continue – without any apparent effort to charge the individual executives who conducted the fraud.
There's a great war brewing on the left between Obama's supporters and his critics. But even his staunchest supporters should be dismayed by his Administration's insistence on pursuing unjust deals with crooked bankers. It does the President no good to pretend that these moves won't hurt him politically, that they aren't bad for the country, or that they're part of some mythical 'long game' that the rest of us can't possibly understand.
They're tragic mistakes, and everyone – the Administration's friends, as well as its critics – should insist that he stop making them.
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
The President's inclusive "and/and" approach to governance can be admirable. But when it comes to criminal fraud by the nation's bankers and the public's resulting outrage, the situation is "either/or": Either the law applies to everyone or it doesn't. Either you represent wronged borrowers or you represent the bankers. America won't humor the mad Gatsbys of Wall Street any longer, and neither should the Administration.
The days when Democrats could have it both ways are over forever. To cling to the dead triangulations of the nineties is to drown in the shifting political tides.
The president's allies should join his critics in encouraging him to abandon the Jay Gatsbys of Wall Street to sail with, rather than against, the currents of history.
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– Wall Street: Guilty as Charged
– Mr. President, Stop Protecting Bankers …
– Pictures Of MERS, Part 1: Corporate Documents Illustrate The Mortgage Shell Game
– Fix Foreclosure Fraud With A Borrowers' Bill Of Rights
– Getting Medieval On Your Assets: Four Reasons Foreclosure Fraud Really, Really Matters


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"OEM" or Original Equipment Manufacturer are parts that the stove manufacturer makes themselves or outsources from other suppliers for their specific stove models. When you order replacement parts for your pellet stove directly from a manufacturer or it's retailers you can be certain that these parts will be "OEM".
"AMP" is an acronym that stands for After Market Parts. This is equipment that is sourced out directly which cuts out the stove manufacturers hefty markup. AMP equipment works exactly the same as its OEM counterpart, especially when you're looking at blowers, igniters, fire backs, switches, gaskets and controls, as quite often, they are made by the same exact manufacturer that supplied the OEM parts as you will see with many "Fasco" blowers and "Gleason Avery" auger motors.
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Familiar faces back for softball
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The Marion Warriors softball team will have five seniors returning from last year's team. Seniors Chelsea Voth, Jay Dee Schafers, Montana Percell, Balee Shiplet, and Andrea Nordquist give the team an experienced core.
Pitcher Megan Richmond, a junior, further adds experience to the team.
But six players doesn't make a softball team. The Warriors have 21 players total.
"I believe there will be some freshmen that will make not only some appearances, but a significant impact," head coach Jennifer Felvus said. "One of those freshmen specifically is Bailey Robson."
The team is loaded with pitchers, Felvus said. There are six pitchers on the team: two seniors, Voth and Percell; two juniors, Richmond and Megan Davies; and two freshmen, Kayla Kroupa and Shyla Harris.
"I am excited to see what they all bring to the table," she said.
The beginning of the season has been productive, Felvus said. She thinks the team will be up to speed when it begins competition March 26 at home against Herington.
"Several players have shown significant improvement in multiple areas, but I need to give a shout out to the outfielders as a whole," she said. "Led by senior Balee Shiplet, that group has dove headfirst into the challenges I have laid out for them and are quickly checking them off."
Felvus said she doesn't have her lineup set, but she does have some ideas.
"I am really torn at some places," she said. "I asked the girls at the first practice to work so hard that the decision of what nine take the field will be one of the most difficult I ever make. They have definitely done so."
Felvus and the players have thought about their goals for the season, and goal number one is improvement.
"To call this season a success, we are looking for more wins than last year, making the magic number seven," she said. "However, the girls have mapped out the goals for the season, and I can assure you they have no intention of stopping there."
Felvus is in her first year coaching Marion softball, but not her first year coaching. She played all through high school in Junction City and one year at MidAmerica Nazarene University. She has coached recreation and travel teams, as well as private lessons. Most of her coaching has been with the Chapman Lady Irish tournament team. She is assisted by Chad Adkins and Jill Hudson.
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An event we've been eagerly waiting for, the 2014 SES TT Zero electric race was billed as a battle for the #1 spot between the Mugen riders, John McGuinness and Bruce Anstey, and battle between everyone else for the third and final podium position. And that is exactly what the 2014 Isle of Man TT fans got.
First to leave Glencrutchery Road, and the first to return, John McGuinness took his 21st IOMTT race win while on the Mugen Shinden San. The first time that the Mugen team has won the electric solo race at the IOMTT, McGuinness's lap also officially broke the outright record for an electric motorcycle at the Isle of Man TT, with a 117.366 mph lap.
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Legislative Panel Tackles Economic Development
PIERRE - A negotiating committee plans to hammer out proposed changes to a comprehensive bipartisan economic development plan on the penultimate day of South Dakota's main legislative session.
Building South Dakota would be funded on an ongoing basis by a portion of the contractors' excise tax collected on large projects and some of the unclaimed property that the state receives from abandoned bank accounts.
But proposed changes to the bill supported by Republicans and Democrats would kick start the effort with $7 million from the state's general fund.
The amendment would also add a safety valve that would withhold spending if projected ongoing revenues would be insufficient to fund education, Medicaid and state employee costs.
The changes would need to be approved by both chambers.
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KHL Playoff Game Day: 4-19-10
KHL Gagarin Cup Finals
(3)Kazan 2 @ (2)KHK MVD 3
Kazan Leads the Series 2-1
Dmitri Kazionov, Kazan, 0-0-0, +1, 2 PIM, 2 SOG
Season totals: 52 GP, 18-9-27, +8, 18 PIM
Playoff totals: 18 GP, 3-1-4, +4, 12 PIM
KHK MVD got a pair of third period goals from Maxim Velikov and Alexei Tertyshny less than 4 minutes apart to defeat Kazan 3-2 and cut Kazan's series lead in half to 2-1. Lightning prospect Dmitri Kazionov was on the ice for a late Kazan goal by defenseman Stepan Zakharchuk. He played 14:16 in the match and took a 2nd period minor for high sticking. Game Four is slated for tomorrow.
In an interesting twist, it was announced this week that KHK MVD will be merging with Johan Harju's former team, Dynamo Moscow, next season after Dyanmo's main sponsor pulled out to back SKA St. Petersburg instead. Harju has already signed a 1-year deal with the Lightning next season.
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