What about the MAC-10 or MAC-11?
I assume, the U.S. military diesn't really have those in storage - the old M-3 'Grease Gun' might be another thing, but I beieve, even those have been removed from storage. This is, however, simply a gut feeling - I can not confirm this in any way.
Actually the Grease Gun is a great idea - it was used until the mid 90's by some armored vehicle crews and truck drivers. There is a very good chance that it could be in the state armory.
M1 carbines would be good, plus you could dress the cavalry up in gorilla suits for that true post-apocalyptic feeling.
Ten points to Simon for the Planet of the Apes reference!!!!
Yes, I had the recollection, the U.S. Army had M3s or rather M3A1s in use for armor crews pretty close to the Twilight timeline, but wasn't entirely sure. I believe, a combination of M1 and M2 series carbines and M3 series submachineguns would be pretty much probable.
most the greaseguns are in NG armories. however i know people who carried them as late as OEF3. so getting those to a cav unit would make sense.
The machine gun killed horse cavalry before the semi-automatic and automatic rifle had a chance to (and really the rifled musket and earliest cartridge firing repeaters had horse cavalry on life support well before that). In T2K, horse cavalry are going to be dragoons, not true cavalry, and do their fighting on foot in all but the most permissive environments (note: Absolutely nowhere in the US would be considered a permissive environment. The UK or other places where firearms aren't very plentiful, maybe).
The ideal weapon for CONUS horse cavalry units would probably the M4, but the M16 would be entirely workable and the M16EZ would get the job done. No reason or need for anything more compact than that, and issuing them SMGs would actually tend to be contraindicated by role -- horse cavalry is an asset for patrolling and reconnoitering relatively open terrain where they have a mobility advantage. Even if they are ordered only to fight in the defense and in a pinch, they'd still be wanting weapons that let them engage fully across the 0-3 or 400 meters riflemen can credibly own without specialized equipment or an incredibly obliging enemy.
I agree with that. In the relatively rare instances where the US has cavalry (We know the 5th ID had a handful for example) longer ranged weapons and light machineguns are the more practical weaponry with perhaps a few mortars, AGLs and HMGs towed on carriages.
Since logistical support (particularly carrying capacity compared to trucks) would be limited, I see cavalry having more in common equipment wise with paratroopers than just about any other troop type. You might even see Paratroop units converted before any others (all nationalities) because of this very fact - swapping one mode of transport for another.
I have the 82nd in Operation Pegasus in Iran moving south on horses.
The current UK news about horse meat being in beef burgers is somehow somewhat ironic given the thread recently. It did give one nice fact though, horse tastes like a less fatty and slightly sweeter beef.
I have avoided Kenya as my version is different to the great write up that has been presented here.
Depends on the horse, one bred for eating is like less fatty and sweeter beef, but those eaten after work are much stringier and have a gamier flavour. Best hang it a bit then. On the whole though, the beef analogy is a good one. Like rabbit though it's high in protein and low in calories (relatively) there are much better foods if you're starving, but when you're hungry you take what you get.
Bear in mind the weight of an M3A1 with ammo, you are actually better with an M16! I would say the ideal weapon for weapon crews would be the M2 Carbine.
Quite happy to look at non-US units.
Will send you the info I have on the Kenyan unit soon - almost have it done.
Horse isn't so lean that rabbit fever would be a problem. I haven't followed all the ins and outs on the debate, but there is a lot of archaeological evidence supporting the fact that horses started out as a domesticated food animal and only later turned into a riding animal. Part of their appeal was that on the Eurasian steppe where domestication started they are much better at self-sustaining (and providing a food source) during winter months than cattle.
Not really on but neither really off topic, the Swedes actually considered using the moose as mounts in the 17th century. It never really took off, though they did domesticate some of them as far as I know. Bigger than a horse, moves well in swampy terrain, has antlers - I can really see the thought behind the idea, even if it was not successful.
Seems to have been used by Wood Elves though - see the film version of "The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey"
Latest version...with a thousand elephants!!!! (Apologies to the Pratchett fans out there).
Sorry the pics are so low res but file size limits apply.
Great additions! Nice work, James.
The Regiment was organized in 1998, starting with a cadre of fifty horsemen and two hundred horses that had been used previously for horse safari tours, organized by a retired veteran of the Household Mounted Cavalry Regiment of the British Army who immigrated to Kenya in 1988 after twenty years service along with twelve White Kenyans who had formed a Victorian Cavalry re-enactor group in early 1992.
While originally the idea of a cavalry unit was not supported by the Kenyan military and government, as petroleum supplies were restricted after the air and nuclear strikes on the Saudi and Iranian oil fields they changed their minds and gave them the resources and equipment needed to begin forming a regimental size cavalry force.
Its personnel are all trained horsemen and women, drawn mostly from the white population of Kenya who traditionally owned almost all the horses in the country. Of Kenya's population of 2000 horses in 1997, some 1400 remain. In addition another 5000 horses have been obtained from Ethiopia in trade for gasoline, ammunition and other items traded to the warlords fighting the central government there.
Eventually some 500 horses were allocated to the regiment to be fully trained as war horses, with enough being trained by mid 1999 for the regiment to be considered ready for combat.
At full strength, the regiment consists of a headquarters squadron, three cavalry squadrons, and a horse drawn heavy weapons squadron, with a total of ten officers and 242 enlisted personnel. Enlisted privates are referred to as Troopers, while NCO's are either a Lance Corporal of Horse (Corporal), a Corporal of Horse (Sergeant), or a Corporal Major of Horse (Sergeant Major). Officer ranks follow normal Kenyan practice.
It is modeled on the British Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, with each cavalry squadron consisting of two divisions, each of one officer and twenty four enlisted personnel, while the headquarters squadron consists of only one division. The heavy weapons squadron consists of two divisions, one being of one officer and eighteen enlisted men with machine guns, the other division being of one officer and twenty enlisted men armed with mortars, with specially built gun caissons used for transporting the weapons and ammunition.
Each squadron has one trained combat medic and each division has one man designated as the cook.
As of April 1, 2001 its current strength is 10 officers and 198 enlisted, with another 50 men in training, with a total of 384 horses available for the regiment after losses due to combat and illness from the last two years. Of these, forty horses were designated as breeders with the rest being available for use.
The HQ and Cavalry squadrons of the Regiment are armed with 9mm Browning pistols and G3 rifles, while the heavy weapons squadron is armed with the Sterling MkIV instead of the G3. In addition, for additional firepower each cavalry division has a Bren light machine gunner (instead of the G3) and two M79 grenade launchers.
The heavy weapons squadron is armed with three M2HB MG and two L-16 81mm mortars. In addition it has the only dedicated anti-tank weapons in the regiment, two captured RPG-7 launchers and four missiles.
The Regiment fights as dragoons, using the horses for transport but not taking them into battle if it can be helped. On at least three occasions, due to ambushes, they have been forced to fight from horseback, with serious losses in horses and men each time. When in combat, one man from each six is tasked to handle the horses while the rest deploy to fight.
Usually the Regiment deploys without the heavy weapons squadron for patrols, only using that for missions where the heavier firepower will be needed, as the caissons slow them down and have broken down in rough terrain before.
The unit has proven itself to be very effective against many of the irregular forces that are in Kenya and has grudgingly earned the respect of those who originally thought there was no place left anymore for cavalry in the modern world.
As ever still a work in progress with much more to be added... also as ever feedback welcome.
Apache 6 I have taken your work on the 2nd Tennesse Cavalry and added a bit, hope you are OK with that - I have included you as their official historian and commander (although just using the callsign name).
James Langham: I just saw your post. Thanks for including the 2nd Tennessee Cavalry in your Twilight 2000 Cavalry write up. Like the Ten Gun, name.
Spartan-177 shared this pic. His friend took it recently in the Netherlands.
Shamelessly adding a link to my follow up Horsemen of the Apocalypse thread here that references this original thread as it's inspiration and resource!


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It's that time again for The Secret Recipe Club! This month I was assigned Erin's blog, Making Memories with Your Kids. Erin is a mom of two cute kiddos and she does the most amazing food activites with them! I'll definitely be borrowing a few ideas when my daughter wants to help out in the kitchen.
After looking through Erin's blog, I decided on her recipe for Oreo Cheesecake Chocolate chip cookies. It was the perfect recipe especially since I had some cream cheese to use up and I've had a new found addiction to peppermint Oreos (cravings already!) This recipe makes a little less than 2 dozen cookies but it's the perfect way to try out the recipe and it's easy to double or triple depending on how many cookies you need! I took them to work and my coworkers RAVED about them…I didn't get a chance to eat any since they went so quickly.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and cream cheese. Add in the sugar and vanilla. Mix well until completely combined. Stir in the flour and then gently stir in the chocolate chips.
In a small bowl, add the crushed oreos. Scoop the cookie dough into 1 to 1 1/2 inch balls. The dough should be sticky. Roll them in the crushed oreos to completely coat.
Place the cookie balls on the prepared cookie sheets and bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until slightly golden brown on the edges.
Cool on the cookie sheet for 2 minutes before moving to a cooling rack to completely cool.
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So glad you liked them! Thanks for the kind words. It's fun cooking with you in the SRC!
Those look AMAZING! I know my husband and kids would go nuts over them!
Oreo's and Cheesecake what a great combination for a great cookie. It looks delicious. It is fun cooking with you at the SRC, have a great day!
Mmm…. Oreos. Cheesecake. Chocolate Chips. Cookies.
Those are music to my ears and I'm going to try these.
I love Erin's blog. Those cookies are just fabulous. What's not to love about cheesecake and oreos?!
Can't go wrong with Oreo's! Nice simple and easy recipe, too!
Oreos, cheesecake and chocolate chips? Wow! Yummy!
All these delicious sweets recipes this month are killing me! I love oreos AND cheesecake! Glad to be a part of SRC with you! Check out my Shrimp & Artichoke Tapenade Crostini recipe from this month's reveal. Happy eating!
I love the look of these cookies. No surprise they were over that quick!!!


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I am loving Lands' End lately. They have the best classics and in all the greatest colors.
Plus have you seen their catalogues lately? Phenomenal.
Sarah passed on the link to this fantastic article that discusses the legal aspects of Pinterest. You can find the article at http://ddkportraits.com/.
So if you haven't read this article and you use Pinterest, you most definitely need to take some time and read it over. Then think about it. And let me know what you think. It has certainly made me rethink some things. In light of that, I will be cleaning up some old blog posts that contained photos from Pinterest.
Please read and share your thoughts. I'm dying to know what you all think!
Adrian and I watched the Oscars and of course it was lovely. The dresses. The hair. The makeup. Though I could do without all the lame jokes. Honestly.
So then. Let me share with you my favorite dress of the night.
Ah. If you know me at all, you surely would have guessed this. It is everything I love. Now, if only I could purchase this dress in a lovely shade of minty green/icy blue. Is that possible? Also, could we create an event for me to wear this too? Could I perhaps get married again? To the same guy, of course.
Also, can we discuss how much we love that Demian Bichir was nominated for best actor? In a movie about an undocumented immigrant? Because we love that. We do.
*picture found via pinterest. Click for link.
I figure if we're going to start Spring, we might as well kick it off with some adorable flats, no?
A friend of mine and I went out for coffee (meaning Mexican hot chocolate) tonight. I realized about midday today that I had some free time tonight and so I called her. And the stars aligned and we sat down and just chatted for a couple of hours. It was wonderful. I think that may be one of my favorite things in life. A good talk.
One of the many topics we came across was the ways in which past relationships and friendships remain with us in the present. We talked about friendships that had gone sour and how, resolved or unresolved, they leave their mark. Whether that be in a lesson for future friendships or the fear of what can not be controlled. We shared about how past romantic relationships led us to offer differing advice on blooming relationships. And the ways in which those past failures come in to play in current relationships.
So then I got to thinking. This would mean that I am comprised not only of who I am today but also who I was yesterday. Or ten years ago. And I carry with me all the past triumphs and failures of all those Emilys who came before this current Emily. The glories. And the scars. And when I meet someone, well then I meet not only the person they are today in this moment but also the person they've been before. Whether they choose to reveal all those that came before or not. And in choosing not to reveal those, they are in fact, revealing something. That perhaps there was something that left them so very scarred as to feel that sharing that would cause me to dislike who they have become.
I think maybe if we remember all this, we might treat each other and ourselves a bit differently, no?
I think today I may have been nineteen for a bit. Which certainly is not my finest self. Slowly I'm working my way back to twenty seven.
Thoughts? I'd love to hear them.
Somehow we've managed to somewhat bypass the traditionally bitter cold Chicago winter. So in honor of that, I've begun looking forward to Spring! Adrian and I are enjoying fruit like it's summer. And, conveniently enough, my wardrobe reflects this color palette. Excellent. I always strive to match my fruits.
So, too soon? Or are you preparing as well?
Friends, I hope you have seen the changes I have been making to this here blog. (If you've been checking it via google reader or some other reader, click on over to the real thing!). I've put quite a bit of time into this and I feel I've finally come up with a design that best reflects what this is all about: life, love, and contentment. But mostly love.
I've also tried to set this up so it is easier to follow. You can follow via google connect, e-mail subscription or blog lovin'. I've also created a facebook page, where I share links, photos, videos and lovelies. So interact however you please. Links to all of these can be found in the column on the right.
I also want to thank all of you who have been reading. I cannot believe it's already been a year. I am so thankful for the opportunity I've had to dive into new hobbies and to develop old talents. So thank you for the support, encouragement and the motivation to keep writing, photographing and sharing. For those of you who have been quietly reading, I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to leave a comment, drop me an e-mail (via the contact form above), or click over to facebook and leave a message.
Happy Valentine's Day, loves. I adore Valentine's Day and I don't care if it was created by an evil greeting card corporation, hungering for more of my hard-earned wages. An excuse for buying/receiving pink gifts is okay in my book.
Get out there and get yourself a pink doughnut. And give someone a hug while you're at it.
A little strange and awkward.
I went to Target today. Then I grabbed a coffee in the little Starbucks at Target to pass the time until my tutoring session.
While sipping a White Mocha Latte (in the cutest Valentine's Day cup, bt-dub!), I bore witness to a super awkward conversation.
A mother and her perhaps 9 year old daughter sat a table over from me. The interaction began normally enough. Talks of school and what not. And then, suddenly, this conversation took a turn for the absolute worst. I distracted myself with facebook and e-mail on my phone so I can't exactly pinpoint how this turn came about. But it did. And horror ensued.
The mother began discussing with her daughter some of the changes that she can expect. Apparently, about this time in her daughter's life, changes can start happening and interactions between boys and girls can become a little strange and awkward.
Awkward? Like having a conversation about puberty in the middle of Starbucks in the middle of Target?
There are times and places for those conversations. Midafternoon in Target is neither the time nor place. I felt horrified for the poor girl.
So how did this little girl handle it?
By one-upping her bold mother.
"A boy said he liked me for my body," she said.
To which the mother, completely caught off guard, shrieked, "What?? You don't even have a body! He doesn't even know what he's talking about!"
They promptly gathered their things and walked out, mother shocked, daughter triumphant.
Sidenote: Thank you, Lyd and Paul, for never pulling that on me. I would have turned bright red and laughed nervously. Shoot, I'd still turn bright red and laugh nervously.
Update: My sister shared her own awkward experience. Anyone else have some good stories?? I'd love to hear them!
A post about pictures. With no pictures. Ironic.
I know I've mentioned before that 2011 was a difficult year for me. While I do acknowledge that there were many hard times, I would also like to acknowledge a bit of growth that took place this past year.
This past year, I came across (and by that I mean I stalked for a few weeks) a lovely Canon DSLR camera on clearance at Target. So I bought it.
And then I didn't use it for awhile.
Then I took some pictures here and there. And I loved it again.
A few months ago, I made a blog for my place of employment. And so I began taking pictures of our students to share on our blog and our facebook page. It was and is so wonderful. To be taking pictures. To edit them. To share them. I love it all.
The best part? Most of our students don't take family photos regularly. Many of them don't own digital cameras. So I relish the moments when I show them a photo of their child and they smile. And if they're on facebook, they share the photo with their friends and family.
So 2011 brought me a new camera, a new lens (thanks, husband!), and a new mini mission. To take decent photos of and for the families we serve.
Oh and this year, I realized I will never be rich. When I saw some of the pictures I had taken of the families, I thought to myself, "maybe if one day I learn to take seriously amazing amazing pictures, I should make a business of it." I followed that thought with, "and take family portraits for people who can't afford professional family portraits."
Meaning I'd do it for free. Meaning I'd make no money. Meaning I will never be rich because I always find a way to turn my hobbies and talents into free services.
Meaning these shoes in every color and everything from this store will never be mine. Unless I find someone wealthy to sponsor me. For life.
One other thing: If you would like to see some of my photos from my work and learn more about that place of employment I'm always talking about, check out our facebook page.


North Carolina triple murderer Craig Stephen Hicks' first wife says he was obsessed with the 1993 Joel Schumacher film Falling Down, starring Michael Douglas as William "D-Fens" Foster, an angry white man on a maniacal sociopathic rampage.
The dark white-world wish-fulfillment fantasy in this popular Hollywood film was designed to tap a generalized social antagonism toward "reverse discrimination" and multiculturalism in the 1990s. The film valorizes the frustrations and anger of the isolated "liberal" individualist, an engineer who's been put out of work in the nuclear defence industry, has marital difficulties and shows little patience with the traffic problems which crop up on LA freeways (of all places!); the film charts this new-age American hero's erratic, credibility-stretching reassertion of white privilege in a series of increasingly destructive stupid-macho acts, beginning with a more or less random assault upon a Korean shopowner, who has the audacity to charge him all of 85 cents for a can of Coca-Cola, while looking and acting extremely... "Korean".
"It's seemingly meant as a sort of dark comedy about the petty annoyances of life, and how they can accumulate and become so maddening that over-the-top cathartic violence seems like the only satisfying option. But Douglas' violent reaction to his surroundings, and the way the film treats virtually everyone around him as worthless, and presents his violence as the comedic payoff, turns it into a tone-deaf, self-pitying lament about the terrible persecution facing the oppressed majority in an era of political correctness and increasing multiculturalism. In its ugly, skewed world, almost everyone but this madman is dumb, incompetent, and offensive, and his only possible solution is to wipe a few of these losers off the face of the earth, then die. It's a profoundly hateful film disguised alternately (and erratically) as either tragedy or humor."
Did Craig Hicks see himself as the irascible, wronged and legitimately aggrieved American lone-wolf hero played by the Hollywood actor?
"Hicks' ex-wife, Cynthia Hurley, said that before they divorced about 17 years ago, his favorite movie was 'Falling Down,' the 1993 Michael Douglas film about a divorced unemployed engineer who goes on a shooting rampage.
"'That always freaked me out," Hurley said. 'He watched it incessantly. He thought it was hilarious. He had no compassion at all,' she said."
It is clear from his Facebook page that Hicks, viewing the world from within his private fantasy bubble, considered religion a problem in general as well as a personal nemesis. The page includes no mention of parking issues. It does however contain strong hints as to Hicks' private conception of a remedy for the larger issues concerning him.
"Frequent posts about atheism and featuring anti-religion views appeared on a Facebook page in Hicks' name, with a recent post reading: 'People say nothing can solve the Middle East problem, not mediation, not arms, not financial aid. I say there is something. Atheism.' One post also featured a photograph of a revolver on a scale bearing the caption: 'Yes, that is 1 pound 5.1 ounces for my loaded 38 revolver, its holster, and five extra rounds in a speedloader.' According to the page, Hicks studied as a paralegal at Durham Technical Community College in Durham, North Carolina, and was a supporter of 'Atheists for Equality.'"
Joel Schumacher, who directed Falling Down, had been regularly aiming his films at specific target audiences; most commonly, in his string of box-office successes immediately preceding Falling Down (Flatliners, The Lost Boys, St Elmo's Fire), at "generational" audiences composed largely of males in their late teens and twenties. He called "working with adults" a defining aspect of his moving on to do Falling Down. "I felt that there was a critical mass building in culture of anger and rage," he told interviewer Chris Robergé of Tech after the film's 1993 release. "In the last 12 years it was swept under the carpet while all of the problems kept getting worse and worse. Unlike in the 60s when most creative people were expressing their feelings, outside of African-American filmmakers and rappers and street art, I didn't see much going on. I wanted to be in people's faces about what was going on. In some ways I think that it's worse now than when we started making the film. Local news seems to be filled with these types of crimes. This sort of crime is on the rise in the country. Just last week there were two in D.C. and one in Memphis. I tried to put a face and a soul to these six o'clock news stories. This is the guy whose neighbors you see saying, `I don't understand. He was very nice.' "
Even very nice guys have bad traffic days, right?
But it seems the real-life individual upon whom Schumacher based the Michael Douglas / "D-Fens" character was viewed in a somewhat different light by those who had actually known him: his mother and ex-wife, for example, suggested he had been not quite so "nice", perhaps, as the director would have it. "Both of them," reported Tech, "thought that he was a somewhat frightening man with a propensity towards violence even before he begins his tragic trek across Los Angeles. Still, Schumacher insists, "'I thought that he has an Everyman quality. I didn't want him to be a lunatic.'"
Everyman good. Many butts in seats.
A similar confusion of fact and intent haunts the film, which attempts repeatedly to elicit a sort of sick sympathy for this character -- whose bad day starts, not with an exacerbated parking dispute, yet parked and exacerbated all the same, in a freeway traffic jam. Honk! Then later, logically enough... apocalyptic American Terrorist mayhem. When a pissed off nuclear engineer blows his wig, common sense and civilization watch out! It's like in the game of Risk: the best defense is a vigilant, aggressive offense.
Falling Down is tugged to and fro by more jagged reversals of sympathetic identification than perhaps any other film in cinematic history. The cause of the movie's deep confusion? Simple enough, to hear its creator tell it: this is Hollywood, not reality. "First and foremost, I have to make some sort of entertainment. I don't like movies that are soapboxes. I felt that the movie was a good story with a western type formula... I feel that [the enraged protagonist] acts out a fantasy behavior. I think that audiences will be hard pressed not to identify with him. I think that people are conflicted. That's the purpose of the film. I think that it would be nice to do this, but we can't... I think we are a violent culture and there's a thin line between what's considered acceptable violence and what's considered unacceptable violence."
Falling Down tries to have it both ways, wobbles back and forth across that thin line, now proposing itself as a serious drama about the plight of the ordinary decent hardworking average Joe turned righteous avenger, now as broad comedy portraying, with tongue no more than half in cheek, a cartoon psychokiller taking out his moment-to-moment rages on a series of predictable racial stereotypes (which is evidently the way Craig Hicks also envisions the game, though of course Craig's not Michael Douglas, he's a real player, and he's all too dead serious).
To employ two of its old reliable clichés, Hollywood has been having its cake and eating it too while getting away with murder for a good while now.
The Douglas character in Falling Down doesn't waste any time doing depth analytics on the sociology of the neighbourhoods he invades. Exactly how much Hicks might have known about his young Chapel Hill victims is unclear. Did he know that Deah Barakat was a Syrian-American of Palestinian origin, who along with other UNC dentistry students was actively involved in arranging a humanitarian mission to Turkey, to treat Syrian refugees as part of a project organized by UNC-Chapel Hill School of Dentistry and the Syrian-American Medical Society? Did he know that Yusor and Razan Abu-Salha were terrific students, lovely generous happy talented young women, and Palestinian-Americans? Did he know how these young people spent their time, when they were together in the condominium with friends? Did Craig Hicks suspect they were up to something sinister -- mapping out a cunning parking plot, say? Or scheming up frightening new ways of providing free dental care to the indigent?
There can be no question as to whether the killer understood that these people were devout Muslims; that much he would have had to immediately recognize, every time he appeared, armed and angry, at their door, which was decorated with a prayer in Arabic -- the sort of tense encounter which, according to witnesses, occurred every month or so.
But it seems as though Craig Hicks wasn't one to care much about prayer, in any form.
"Imad Ahmad, who lived in the condo where his friends were killed until Barakat and Yusor Abu-Salha were married in December, said Hicks complained about once a month that the two men were parking in a visitor's space as well as their assigned spot.
"Both Hicks and his neighbors complained to the property managers, who apparently didn't intervene. 'They told us to call the police if the guy came and harassed us again,' Ahmad said."
On the occasion of the murders, Hicks may have been surprised. There were some differences to be seen in the target environment. Deah Barakat and Yusor Abu-Salha were now married (they'd wed in late December, just six weeks before). Yusor's younger sister Hazan was visiting, evidently using one of the designated visitors' parking spaces outside the condominium. There is some question as to whether Hicks may have regarded these spaces as his own.
"Police have not said how Hicks got inside the condominium, but on Wednesday afternoon there were no visible signs of damage to the door, which was affixed with orange stickers warning of biohazardous material inside. A wooden placard bearing Arabic script that translates to 'Thanks to God' hung over their doorbell."
Had Craig Hicks perhaps also seen the film American Sniper -- another, more recent popular fantasy vehicle featuring American Terror (the export version) and vigilante-style Muslim-stalking spiked with execution-from-a-distance -- and empathized with its murderous hero's summary method of dealing with Muslims?
This much is certain: if Craig Hicks made his bright young Muslim neighbours nervous, they had cause to be fearful; perhaps greater cause than they, even in their darkest private moments of secret distrust of the American Dream, could have guessed -- committed optimists though they seemingly all were, can they never have had a single such doubtful moment, looking as they looked, being what they were?
By looking the way they looked, and being what they were, and living so near to him, they were playing a mortal game of risk.
"Search warrants show the suspect in the shooting deaths of three Muslim college students in North Carolina had an arsenal of a dozen firearms in the home he shared with his wife, along with a large stash of ammunition.
"Records filed in Durham County superior court on Friday list items recovered by police from the Chapel Hill condominium of Craig Stephen Hicks, the 46-year-old charged with three counts of first-degree murder. The warrants show that three handguns were recovered from the Hicks home, in addition to a pistol the suspect had with him when arrested. Also listed are two shotguns and seven rifles, including a military-style AR-15 carbine. Police also recovered numerous loaded magazines and cases of ammunition. Eight spent shell-casings were found in the neighboring apartment of the young couple killed."
Rational people stayed out of this fellow's way, maybe quaked a bit inwardly when unfortunate enough to be in his presence, for when the bleak, chill winds of American Terror blow, the little leaves clatter meekly in the campus condo parking lots, as before an enchanter fleeing.
But the risk game's not quite over. Let us return across the rank, bitter field of ashes and aloes beneath which the soul of this country now lies buried, to consider again the grim, compulsive power of its media images: had the killer, like so many other frustrated and enraged white men with free-floating persecution complexes, counting over the hated names, fondling the beautiful weapons in the neatly kept gun lockers, been affected by, even, perhaps, derived some deranged sense of empowerment from the most recent wave of Islamophobia in America incited by publicity surrounding the atrocities of Islamic State?
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Welcome To Bliss, the Bridal Capital of the Midwest!
Single mom Natalie Castellano isn't feeling so blissful these days…
Natalie's made a career out of screwing up all over her hometown. But it's redemption time, and she's putting on her big girl panties to make sure this year's bridal festival goes off without a hitch. Even if it means she has to play nice with the man who broke her fairy tale.
She's definitely not the one for him. Or is she…
World adventurer and reluctant local hero CJ Blue doesn't want to be in Bliss anymore than Natalie wants him here. But family obligations have brought him back, and now, and now he's somehow been roped into saving the town tradition he'd rather forget with the woman whose kiss he can't forget. She frustrates him and drives him nuts but he's had more fun giving her a hard time about the bridal festival than he has in years.
And their fun is just starting…
Despite their rocky past, these two wounded souls have more in common than they expect. They've both loved and lost, they've both tried to move on, and now they've both been been banned from the local church confessional after…well, they're not supposed to talk about it. But by joining forces for the sake of Bliss, they might find the courage and the sparks to risk love one more time.
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Series: Misfit Brides (Book 1)
Audio Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
Publishing Date: June 10, 2016
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Mar 22, 2015 at Nashville, Tenn.
DP - Stet 2. LOB - Stet 1; LIP 4. 2B - FENICHEL(5). HR - MEZA(9); GRIMALDO(1); HAWN(2). HBP - FENICHEL. SH - YOUNG(1); PLOCHECK 2(6). SF - WILLIAMS(3). SB - MEZA(9); ELMORE(24); NEELY(8); PLOCHECK(1). CS - ELMORE(1).
Win - HOSTETLER (12-3). Loss - YOUNG (6-9). Save - None. HBP - by HOSTETLER (FENICHEL). Pitches/strikes: HOSTETLER 107/73; YOUNG 116/78.
Stetson 1st - VASQUEZ struck out swinging (0-2 KFS). DRURY grounded out to 2b (2-2 KKBB). MEZA fouled out to rf (0-1 K). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Lipscomb 1st - ELMORE walked (3-0 BBBB). ELMORE stole second. NEELY flied out to rf (1-2 KBK); ELMORE advanced to third. WILLIAMS flied out to lf, SAC, RBI (0-0); ELMORE scored. AGUIRRE grounded out to p (2-1 BKB). 1 run, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Stetson 2nd - WATERS struck out swinging (3-2 FBKBBFK). GRIFFIN popped up to 2b (1-0 B). GRIMALDO grounded out to ss (2-2 KBFB). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Lipscomb 2nd - CARTWRIGHT singled to right center (1-2 KBK). YOUNG out at first 3b to 2b, SAC, bunt (1-1 KB); CARTWRIGHT advanced to second. FENICHEL doubled to center field (2-2 FSBB); CARTWRIGHT advanced to third. PLOCHECK reached on a fielder's choice, SAC, bunt, RBI (2-0 BB); FENICHEL advanced to third; CARTWRIGHT scored. PLOCHECK stole second. WELCH struck out looking (2-2 BBKKFK). ELMORE flied out to lf (0-0). 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Stetson 3rd - BRANDT flied out to cf (0-0). HAWN popped up to rf (0-0). SHASTEEN lined out to 2b (1-1 KB). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Lipscomb 3rd - NEELY singled to left field (0-1 K). WILLIAMS flied out to cf (2-0 BB). NEELY stole second. AGUIRRE grounded out to 2b (2-2 BKKFB); NEELY advanced to third. CARTWRIGHT flied out to rf (0-1 K). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Stetson 4th - VASQUEZ flied out to lf (1-1 BF). DRURY flied out to lf (0-0). MEZA struck out swinging (2-2 KKBFBK). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Lipscomb 4th - YOUNG singled to pitcher (2-2 BBKKF). FENICHEL hit into double play ss to 2b to 1b (0-1 K); YOUNG out on the play. PLOCHECK struck out looking (0-2 FKK). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Stetson 5th - WATERS fouled out to 3b (3-2 BBBKF). GRIFFIN struck out swinging (1-2 KSBS). GRIMALDO walked (3-1 KBBBB). BRANDT struck out swinging (0-2 FKS). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Lipscomb 5th - WELCH popped up to 1b (0-0). ELMORE grounded out to ss (0-0). NEELY singled to right field (1-0 B). WILLIAMS grounded out to 1b unassisted (1-2 KBF). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Stetson 6th - HAWN homered to left center, RBI (2-2 FBBKF). SHASTEEN fouled out to c (1-0 B). VASQUEZ grounded out to p (2-1 BBK). DRURY popped up to ss (0-2 KFF). 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Lipscomb 6th - AGUIRRE singled to right center (0-1 F). CARTWRIGHT hit into double play ss to 1b (1-0 B); AGUIRRE out on the play. YOUNG struck out looking (0-2 KKK). 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Stetson 7th - MEZA singled to left field (1-2 KKB). WATERS popped up to 3b (0-1 F). GRIFFIN fouled out to lf (0-0). MEZA stole second. GRIMALDO homered to left field, 2 RBI (1-1 BK); MEZA scored. BRANDT grounded out to 3b (2-2 BKKB). 2 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Lipscomb 7th - FENICHEL hit by pitch (2-1 BBK). DEAN pinch ran for FENICHEL. PLOCHECK out at first 1b to 2b, SAC, bunt (0-0); DEAN advanced to second. WELCH popped up to lf (0-1 K). ELMORE singled to shortstop, RBI (1-2 KKFBF); DEAN scored. ELMORE out at second c to ss, caught stealing. 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Stetson 8th - FENICHEL to c for DEAN. HAWN popped up to rf (2-1 BKB). SHASTEEN singled through the right side (0-1 K). VASQUEZ singled to third base (2-2 KFBBF); SHASTEEN advanced to second. DRURY reached on a fielder's choice (0-0); VASQUEZ advanced to second; SHASTEEN out at third p to 3b. MEZA homered to center field, 3 RBI (2-2 SBBFFF); DRURY scored; VASQUEZ scored. WATERS popped up to ss (3-2 BBKBF). 3 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Lipscomb 8th - NEELY grounded out to 1b unassisted (3-2 FFBBB). WILLIAMS grounded out to p (2-2 BBKK). AGUIRRE grounded out to ss (2-1 BBK). 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.


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Brown, Catharine, 1800? - 1823.
[Identification of item], in the Catharine Brown papers, MS 0834. The Congregational Library and Archive, Boston, MA.
Letters and reminiscences about Catharine Brown, sometimes written by Catharine, a Cherokee educated at the Brainerd mission in Chattenooga, Tennessee, who later returned to the Cherokee Nation. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions collected the materials in order to write a biography about her.
Cherokee native, born "around" 1800, died 1823. John and Sarah Brown were her parents and David Brown (ca. 1798-1829) was her brother. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions sent missionaries to the Brainerd Mission where Catharine attended school. Upon completing her education, she taught at Creek Path. Her life was documented by Rufus Anderson.
Collection created when memoir was written. The processor speculates that given the age of the annotations on each item, it's likely that they were collated by Rufus Anderson while he wrote her memoir. Some documentation indicates that the memoir was written at Missionary House (predecessor of Congregational House / 14 Beacon Street).
Items include letters from Catharine to her missionary friends and some to her family, but they are primarily about Catharine immediately following her death. There are many letters from Moody and Isabella Hall, Laura and William Potter, and Dr. Alexander Campbell. There is an excerpt of Catharine's personal journal (copy of original) from 1820-1822 included.
At some point this collection was numbered by the Congregational Library. It does not seem to be chronological. Earlier numbering system from an earlier era on items, as well.
"Memoir of Catharine Brown". Rufus Anderson, ed. Native American Autobiography, an Anthology. Arnold Krupat, ed. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994 114-120.
Catharine Brown, the converted Cherokee : a missionary drama, founded on fact. written by a lady. (1819) New Haven: S. Converse, printer, 1819. 27 p. ; 21 cm.
Brown, Catharine, 1800?-1823. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions – Missionaries.
Brown, David, ca. 1798-1829. American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Cherokee Mission.
Campbell, Alexander. Cherokee Indians - Missions.
Each item includes a bibliographic description followed by a physical description, including preservation issues/concerns. Items include extensive annotations written after the fact by multiple people. Initials of "AB" is frequent. Mrs. Potter often wrote for Catharine as well. When possible, the first line of text of each item is listed.
Description Letter to "My Dear Son" from John and Sarah Brown. Creek Path, Cherokee Nation. August 13, 1822.
Physical notes 31x19 cm. 1 leaf. Breaks at folds, acid burn on 1/3 of verso.
Annotations Verso: "Her parents. Aug. 1822." ; "31".
First line of text "It is now seven months since your brother John died..."
Description Letter to "Dear Brother" from Mrs. Potter [unsigned, annotated later]. Limestone, Alabama. June 13 1822.
Physical notes 31x19.5 cm. 1 folio. Minor breaks at center and horizontal folds, minor acid damage along central fold. Back page has dirt accumulation along folds.
Annotations "Mrs. Potter's letter, just before her death" and "For Catharine Brown's Memoir"; "No. 24."
First line of text "You have doubtless been anxious to hear from your friend at Creek Path, particularly since the receipt of your Brother Webber's letter in which he stated your sister Catherine was ill..."
Description Letter to "Dear Brother" from Catherine. Limestone Alabama. June 13, 1823.
Physical notes 31x19.5 cm. 1 leaf. Rough edge on left edge of recto. 6 cm rip on bottom left corner.
verso: "Catherine June 13, 1823" ; "No. 23".
First line of text "My Dear Brother, Mrs. Potter has told you the particulars of my illness, and I will only tell you what I have experienced upon my sick bed."
Description Letter to "Dear Brother" from Alexander A. Campbell. Limestone, Alabama. June 1823.
Physical notes 31x19 cm. 1 leaf. Minor breaks along folds, some grime on folds of verso.
Annotations verso: "Dr. Campbell's [account?] of her health" ; "No. 25."
First line of text "Dear Brother, Though personally unknown to you I feel it a debt due you, to inform you– [relative?] to the health of your sister who has been under my care for some time..."
Description William Potter's account of Catharine's last moments, addressed to Jeremiah Evarts, Esq.: Corresponding Secretary, ABCFM. Creek Path. September 20 1823.
Physical notes 33x20 cm, 2 folios. Significant breaks along outside folio central fold. Rough bottom edge of last page of folio. Damage from the sealing wax. Some broken away spots along back page folds. Pages mailed together, without envelope. Back page has postal direction to: "Jeremiah Evarts, Esq. Cor Sec. ABCFM Boston Mass. 2 sheets."
Annotations Above mailing directions: "Rev. Wm Potter. Oct. 16 1823" ; "Mr Potter's account of Catharine's last moments" ; "No. 26."
First line of text "In some of my communications the subject [?] this nation has been mentioned..."
Description Letter to William Potter from William Leech. Huntsville. March 1, 1824.
Physical notes 33.5x21 cm. 2 folios. Rough edges along the outside edges of pages. Discoloration on back page. Mailing directions read: "Rev. Wm. Potter Creek Path".
Annotations Verso of final page: "Mr. Wm. Leech's account of her last days" ; "No. 27."
First line of text "Dear Sir, In compliance with your request, I have undertaken to give you some account of the removal of Catharine Brown from her Fathers house to Dr. Campbell's—"
Description Letter to Jeremiah Evarts from Laura W. Potter. Creek Path. August 26, 1824.
Physical notes 33x20 cm. 1 folio. Sealing wax on outside/verso, plus wear/grime at folds. Mailing directions read: "Jeremiah Evarts Esq. Boston Mass."
Annotations Last page, verso: "Mr. Potter's recollections of Catharine. Sept 20 1824" ; "No. 5"
First line of text "Respected Sir, I have recently been permitted by Mrs. Gibbreath to examine the papers of her lamented sister, Catharine Brown, among which I have found some fragments of a diary..."
Description Letter to Moody and Isabella Hall from Catharine Brown. Creek Path. June 1 1822. Includes separate note on verso from William Potter, to whom the letter was sent.
Physical notes 33x20 cm. 1 leaf. Some acid burn, discoloration and sealing wax residue on verso. Mailing directions read: "Mr Moody Hall [Taloney?] Cherokee Nation".
Annotations Verso: "To Catharine June 1st 1822" ; "No 19."
First line of text "I know not what you think of me for not writing to you before this time. It is not because I have forgotten you that I have not written before."
Description Letters: 2 copies to Alexander Campbell from Catharine Brown. Creek Path. March 16, 1822 and April 17 1823. Some meta-notes from Campbell at the beginning and end of the transcriptions to Rev. Potter.
Physical notes 32x19 cm. 1 folio. Minor grime on back page. Small rip from sealing wax, plus some residue from wax. Mailing directions: "Rev. William Potter Missionary Creek Path Cherokee Nation. Care of Wm Leach Huntsville"
Annotations Back page, verso: "Catharine. March 16 1822. April 17 1823" ; "No. 18."
"My Dear Mr. Campbell, My heart was made truly glad this morning by the arrival of Dr C. I have long been very anxious to see him on account of the low state of my health."
Description Letter to Isabella Hall from Catharine Brown. Brainerd. October 16 1821.
Physical notes 31x18.5 cm. 1 leaf. Minor grime on verso. Hole from sealing wax and wax residue. Mailing direction: "Mrs. Isabella Hall Taloney Cherokee Nation".
First line of text "You have been much in my mind of late and do sincerely thank our Heavenly Father in permitting me..."
Description Catharine Brown's private diary (copy), May 30 1820 - Feb. 2 1822.
Physical notes 33x20 cm. 1 folio, 1 leaf. Some grime and minor breaks at the folds on leaf verso.
Annotations Leaf verso: "Catherine's Journal from May 1820 to Feb. 1822" ; "No. 16."
First line of text "Brainerd 1820. May 30. Tomorrow morning I shall leave this School, perhaps never to return."
Description Letter to Moody and Isabella Hall from Catharine Brown. Creek Path. Nov. 19, 1820.
Physical notes 24x18 cm. 1 folio. Significant damage to back page: rips, holes, acid burn, wax residue. Mailing directions: "Mr. Moody Hall [Pall?] Tolaney Mission Cherokee Nation".
Annotations Back page: "Catherine, Letter" ; "No. 12." ; "Nov. 19 1820" ; "[?] and C. Brown. Sep & Nov. 1820".
First line of text "My Dear brother & sister, This is the first opportunity I have taken to answer your kind letter which you wrote some time since."
Description Letter to Isabella Hall from Catharine Brown. Brainerd. March 8, 1820.
Physical notes 24x19.5 cm. 1 folio. Small rip on back page, very moderate sealing wax marks. Mailing directions: "Mrs. Isabella Hall. Tellony Cherokee Nation".
Annotations Last page: "Catherine. March 8 1820" ; "No 15"
First line of text "My Dear Sister, With pleasure I take my time this morning to address you with my pen And tell you my ardent love to you is still much as ever. That is Christian affection which the world knows nothing of."
Description Letter to David Brown from Catharine Brown. Brainerd. May 16, 1820.
Physical notes 32x20 cm. 1 leaf. Fragile along folds: some break and verso is grimy along top third.
Annotations Recto: "[G] To her brother David, on his way to Cornwall".
Verso: "Catharine. May 16 1820" ; "No. 14." ; "(P)"
First line of text "My very Dear Brother, I cannot express my feelings this evening, [crossed out word] when I read your kind letter."
Description Letter to Moody and Isabelle Hall from Catharine Brown. Brainerd. November 1819.
Physical notes 16x19cm. 1 leaf. Moderate discoloration on verso at folds.
Annotations Verso: "Written on our leaving Brainerd for Taloney" ; "Catherine, Nov 1819" ; "No. 13." ; "(copied)"
First line of text "How solemn my Dear brother and Sister is the idea that we must soon part."
Description To "Brother and Sister" Williams from Catharine Brown. Brainerd. July 5 1819.
Physical notes 32x;19.5 cm. 1 leaf. Moderate tear at one of the folds.
Annotations Recto: "Catherine letter. July 5, 1819" ; "No. 10."
First line of text "My Dear brother & sister Williams, Altho I have long omitted answering your affectionate letters my heart has been often with you."
Description Letter to William Potter fromSarah Hoyt Ellis -- recollections of Catharine Brown. Creek Path. No date.
Annotations Back leaf, verso: "Mrs. Ellis's (Sarah Hoyt) recollections of Catherine" ; "No. 4."
First line of text "I rec'd your line by brother Arch (?) yesterday and regret that I cannot answer more fully."
Description Letter to William Potter from Cyrus Kingsbury. Mayhew, C.N (Cherokee Nation). March 29 1824.
Physical notes 24x21 cm. 1 leaf. Ragged edges, significant wear and tears at folds.
Verso: "Mr. Kingsbury's reflections of Catherine B" ; "No. 3."
First line of text "Dear Brother, I rec'd your letter of Jan.'y 23d about the last of Feby. As our beloved Br. & Sister Williams were better acquainted with particulars relative to our dear deceased Sister Catharine..."
Description Biographical sketch of Catharine Brown. No author listed, no date.
Physical notes 13.5x21 cm. 1 leaf. Torn right corner below text. Some ink smudges, list of names at 90 degrees from bulk of text. Paper is very thin, ink shows through to verso; minimal discoloration on verso. Penmanship less clear than in other items from this collection with several crossed out sections and overwrites.
Annotations Verso: "Catherine Character" ; "No. 29."
First line of text "Cath. B. was an Indian girl..."
Description Biographical sketch of Catharine Brown by Mrs. Gilbreath. April 25, 1824.
Physical notes 13x19cm 1 leaf. Ragged right and bottom edge, ink blot at top of recto that bleeds through. Paper remarkably unmarred and sturdy.
First line of text "Disposition remarkably mild. Dutiful and affectionate to Parents."
Description Letter to Matilda Williams from Catharine Brown. Brainerd. Nov. 1, 1818.
Physical notes 25x20 cm. 1 folio. Recto of first leaf: ink smudge. Tears along folds, paper weak. Verso of second leaf has significant discoloration, ink marks, and sealing wax residue. Mailing directions: "Mrs. Matilda Williams Yello Busha Choctaw Agency".
Annotations Some on second leaf verso hard to read: "Bossvile [?] Cherokee Nation November 2" ; "Catharine Brown" ; "Catharine Letter. Nov. 1, 1818." ; "No. 8."
First line of text "My dearly beloved Sister, I have been wishing to write you even since you left us."
Description Letter to William Potter from William Chamberlain. Wills Town. Feb. 4 1824.
Physical notes 34x21 cm. 1 folio. Very minimal scuffs on final verso. Mailing directions: "Rev. Wm Potter Creek Path Cherokee Nation".
Annotations Final verso: "Mr. Chamberlain's account" ; "No. 7."
First line of text "Dear Brother, Agreeably to your requests I will try and assist you in answering the questions relative to our dear departed Sr. C. ..."
Description Letter, recipient unknown, from Alexander Campbell. Limestone. July 25 1823.
Physical notes 31x19 cm. 1 folio. Paper ripping at folds.
Annotations Final page: "Dr Campbell's account of her sickness and death" ; "No 28."
First line of text "Dear Brother, As I anticipated in my last letter to you, your sister Catharine has paid that debt all of us owe and will e'er long have to pay."
Description Letter, recipient unknown, from Alexander Campbell. Tuscumbia. July 11, 1824.
Physical notes 32.5x20 cm. 2 folios. Moderate rips at the central fold and very minimal discoloration on final page.
Annotations Written on final page across text: "Dr Cambell's account" ; "No 30."
First line of text "Dear Brother, A short time since I was in Huntsville and rec'd yours of the 17th."
Description Excerpts from Brainerd Journal about Catharine Brown. 1817-1819.
Physical notes 30.1x19 cm. 1 folio. Some ink bleed through to first page, discoloration on back page, rips at central fold.
Annotations "Extracts from the Brainerd Journal, relating Catherine. 1818 and early in 1819" ; "No. 2."
First line of text "1817. Oct 30. Katherine Brown a young woman about 18 years of age appears to be..."


It is widely acknowledged  that a basic precondition for inclusive, democratic societies to function is a well-established and protected freedom of the press . A free press is one where political reporting is strong and independent, the safety of journalists is guaranteed, state intrusion in media affairs is minimal, and media are not subject to burdensome legal or economic pressures. Under these conditions, free debate, challenges to authority, and new ideas are all possible.
Nevertheless, "there has been a deep and disturbing decline in respect for media freedom  at both the global and regional levels," in recent months according to the 2016 World Press Freedom Index . The World Press Freedom Index is an annual ranking and report on global media freedom around the world, produced by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). RSF attributes much of the global decline to antagonistic politics, new security laws, increased government surveillance, and physical attacks on journalists that all stifle the spirit of investigation and send chilling messages to journalists and media outlets.
RSF ranks 180 countries by a range of criteria such as pluralism, media independence, media environment and self-censorship, legislative environment, transparency, infrastructure, and abuses.
RSF's index is joined by Freedom House's Freedom of the Press  rankings, which give each country and territory a total press freedom score from 0 (best) to 100 (worst) on the basis of 23 methodology questions divided into three subcategories. The total score determines the status designation of Free, Partly Free, or Not Free.
Both rankings were released leading up to World Press Freedom Day , which aims to raise awareness of the fundamental principles of press freedom, evaluate press freedom around the world, defend media from attacks on their independence, and pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession. This year it was celebrated on May 3, coinciding with the 250th anniversary of the world's first freedom of information law and the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Windhoek Declaration of press freedom principles in Africa.
Niall McCarthy, a data journalist at Statista, created the map for the Independent , using data from the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) 2016 World Press Freedom Index .


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Party Conferences: an opportunity to set out our vision for universities
Professor Steve West
I have recently returned from my first ever Party Conference season and I wanted to share with you the points I made at the events we ran there. More about what we did at each Conference can be found here.
There have been many debates and discussions about the recent changes to the student finance system, student number controls and the regulatory framework for higher education, as proposals have been developed and policies introduced.
However, university leaders and students have not been in the driving seat. Responding to these debates has confined us to the same conversations we have been having for the past ten years.
As a result, the sector lacks clarity about the long-term. In particular, there is no clarity about how and where universities fit within the UK's economy and society vision.
There are many different models of higher education, but the question is what do we need in the UK and how are we going to fund it?
12 months ago, University Alliance started a project called university_vision to look at the long-term future, aspirations and ambitions for higher education.
We wanted to create a different paradigm for exploration, challenge and debate.
Using a scenario-based exercise, University_Vision has helped us explore the difficult questions that really shed light on the challenges and opportunities that face universities in the longer term. It has not been about predicting the future – instead it has been about using scenarios to stretch and challenge our thinking and planning. We have used two axes – social and economic – and considered the interaction between them, creating four credible but extreme scenarios.
The project is sector-led and has been a big collaborative effort, involving experts from around the country, bringing in a range of diverse viewpoints. We have engaged with people from across mission groups and the education sector, as well as involving representatives from industry, the third sector and students. We have also partnered with the NUS, Guild HE and Hewlett Packard, and have encouraged contributions via the web. We want to develop the project even more and engage with wider audiences, in particular the public, to explore further what they want from universities.
The project's aims are to stimulate debate – not to jump immediately to solutions or recommendations.
Some big and difficult questions have been raised, that we as a sector, together with the Government and others, need to be tackling. For example:
What happens if the Government can no longer afford to fund universities and provide student loans?
What if 'disruptive technologies' significantly change the skills needed from the existing labour force?
What if only a few institutions are receiving public funding and others privatise?
What would happen if all barriers to entry into the higher education market were removed and the US, China or others were to set up universities in the UK?
What if the 3-year undergraduate degree was no longer the dominant model of delivery?
If the demand for higher-level skills continues to rise, what does this mean for how we approach post-graduate education?
We can be sure that the future is going to look very different from now and, as a sector, we need to lead, adapt and change. Through university_vision we want to establish a way of thinking and talking about what the future means for the higher education sector and how we can create that future together, as a sector, and as a major player in the UK and global economy and society.
This is a critical time, where the future success of the UK, both in terms of our international competitiveness and social cohesion, will very much depend on the decisions we are making now. We need to be bold, we need to be creative and entrepreneurial, and we need to work together to deliver a high quality and diverse university eco-system, that is centre stage for the knowledge economy we are building
We have something very special which must be nurtured and developed.
I look forward to the continuing debate over the coming months as we play the long-term game and think about our legacy for generations to come.


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Since we opened in 2014, we have been collecting treasures to delight you or that special someone!
You'll find beautiful new items each time you visit!
Twenty-seven years ago, my husband, Jeff, and I took the jumped into the world of retail. After outgrowing our first store within a year's time, we moved into a great old building and proceeded to grow a successful business. While the business continued to grow, so did our family. We adopted three children, and our youngest was very small. I was not going to go through the grueling process of adopting three children just to be gone from them all day every day! Retail is hard work – 24/7 – and while it was something we took great pride in, it was time to wind up the awning and move on. So when approached with the offer to buy our store lock, stock, and barrel, we jumped at it.
Jeff continued to grow his own business (Wisconsin House Woodworks in Barton) and I went to work for a local bank for the next sixteen years.
We are now entering a new phase of life. Our kids are grown, grandchildren have moved to another state. We have once again jumped in "the deep end" and entered the world of retail. This time, we have a different product focus, but with all the ambition and determination we once had to make this a destination store for those who love finding a "treasure" for someone they love, or for themselves.
People always ask me why I chose the name "Over The Moon" for my store.
When my beautiful granddaughter, Brooke, was born, I was "over the moon in love", being a first-time grandma. As she grew a little older, I would always say "I love you to the moon and back!". Eventually, I would say "I love you to the moon" and she would reply "….and back!" I became a collector of anything with "moons" on it. Brooke would often buy me things with moons on them too. So, the "moon" thing became something I associated with love for my granddaughter. I guess you could say that naming the store what I did was in tribute to her, for all she means to me, for how proud I am of her.
Grandchildren are definitely a reward for all the trials and tribulations you go through raising their parent….don't you agree?


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Mivel Észak-Korea nagy mennyiségű szén- és vízkészletekkel rendelkezik, képes volt kiterjedt energiahálózatot kiépíteni. Az első erőmű, a Szupungi vízerőmű, még a japán megszállás alatt épült fel, az ország északkeleti részében. Megépítésekor ez volt Ázsia legnagyobb vízierőműje. Korea kettéosztása előtt a mai Észak-Korea területéről származott a félsziget energiájának több mint 90%-a.

Az 1970-es évektől az ország a kőszénhez fordult, mint energiaforráshoz. A vízerőművekkel ellentétben a szénnel működőek ipari parkok és városok közelében is létesíthetőek, rövidebb idő alatt fel lehet őket építeni, nem függenek az időjárástól.

A hőerőművek kevésbé hatékonyak és magasabb a fenntartási költségük. 1990-ben Észak-Korea erőművei 7,14 millió kilowatt energiát állítottak elő, amelynek 60%-a – 4,29 millió kilowatt – vízierőművekből származott. 1984-ben és 1988-ban az éves teljesítmény 50 és 55 milliárd kilowattóra volt. A második hétéves terv azonban nagyratörőbb terveket tűzött ki célul: 60 milliárd kilowattórát. A tervezetet azonban öt évvel a tervsorozat vége után sem sikerült teljesíteni.

Az egyetlen, kőolajjal működő erőmű Unggi városa mellett található, az orosz határ közelében. A 200 megawattos erőmű a közeli unggi olajfinomítóból nyeri a kőolajat, amely oroszországi importtal kerül Észak-Koreába.

Az 1990-es évek elején a kormány új erőművek építésébe fogott. A legnagyobb tecshoni erőmű északnyugaton, amely elkészültekor az ország legnagyobb vízierőműje lett. Erőművek épültek Kumgangszan, Orangcson, Namgang, Kumjagang és Rjeszonggang, Kelet-Phenjan és Hamhung mellett is. Az évtized folyamán kínai segítséggel négy nagy vízierőmű épült a Jalu folyón. Ezek Észak-Koreát és Kínát is ellátják energiával.

1986-ban a Szovjetunió bejelentette, hogy 1760 megawattos atomerőművet fog építeni az országban. Dél-koreai források szerint az építés 1990-ben kezdődött meg Szinpo kerületben. A befejezést 1992-re tervezték, de ez elmaradt a Szovjetunió saját belügyi gazdasági problémái és a Nemzetközi Atomenergia-ügynökség nyomása miatt.

Az ország a 2000-es évek végén felújította atomprogramját, több atomrobbantást is végrehajtva, valamint erőteljesen fejlesztették az ország nukleáris létesítményeit, elsősorban a dúsítókat. Elemzők szerint ez inkább hadászati-stratégiai célból történik, semmint gazdasági megfontolásokból.

Források

 Andrea Matles Savada: North Korea: Energy (angol nyelven). Washington, Kongresszusi Könyvtár, 2003.

Észak-Korea gazdasága


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Q: Upgrading Windows Vista 32 bit to 64 bit Windows Server I am planning on upgrading Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit to Windows Server 2008 Standard 64-bit (I have a quad core cpu which supports 64 bit and I have 4gb memory so can't see all of it at the moment).
My concern is, some of the development software I have (like those made by the smaller vendors) will not work in this new environment.
The consensus is that my existing apps will work as long as they are 32 bit and not 16 bit, but how can I find out whether they are 32 or 16 bit? I don't want to email each vendor. What are my options if they are 16 bit - host in terminal services?
Thanks

A: Almost all software written in the last 10 years is 32-bit (or greater) - I would say "all", but I've learned not to do this on SuperUser.  I wouldn't worry too much about this if you have purchased your development software in this decade.
If not, you can always host your 16 bit software within a virtual machine.

A: You can find out whether an application is 16 bit in various ways:

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*Look at them.

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*If they don't use visual styles it might be, but many 32-bit applications also do not.

*If the console window resizes itself to 80×25 (indicates command.com starting) then it's definitely one.

*Look elsewhere

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*The task manager will have a process named ntvdm running. This is the Windows NT Virtual DOS Machine, i. e. a host process for 16-bit legacy stuff.

*Do file open dialogs look like the "Add fonts" dialog in older versions of Windows? Do they only show 8.3 file names?

There are a few ways. Looking for ntvdm is the most reliable one.
That being said, there aren't many 16-bit applications still in use. At least not outside very specialized areas.

A: If I was you, I would just go with the upgrade and simply run any old program in Virtual PC or another virtualisation program

A: Straight from Microsoft:

Learn How to Spot a 16-Bit Application
Because most Windows 3.x–based
  programs run properly under Windows
  XP, it's sometimes difficult to tell
  16-bit and 32-bit applications apart.
Here are two methods for determining
  whether an application is 16-bit or
  32-bit: •
Right-click the program's executable
  file and then choose Properties. If
  you see a Version tab, it's a 32-bit
  program. •
Or, if the program is running, press
  Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open the Windows
  Task Manager. On the Processes tab,
  look in the Image Name column for the
  name of the program's executable file.
  If any 16-bit programs are running,
  you'll find an entry for Ntvdm.exe,
  the virtual DOS machine. Just above it
  in the list, you'll see indented
  entries for Wowexec.exe (the Windows
  on Windows subsystem) and the
  executable name of each 16-bit program
  running in that virtual machine.

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A clickable photo gallery is below the article. Thanks to our photo contributors: Mark Burbela, Stacie Goodman Hill, Melissa Ryan and Marc Thomas.
The skies opened up over Chester on Monday, and stayed that way, warranting the largest flood response since Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011. Chester Fire, Police and Ambulance were assisted by units from Londonderry, Springfield, Windham and the water rescue unit from Hartford. By 4:30 pm, the Middle Branch of the Williams River had reached the bottom of the bridge at Routes 11 and 103 and water was pouring across the parking lot at the Sunoco station.
Down stream from the gas station, the river had jumped its banks and poured across the softball field and American Legion parking lot, dumping into the field that has been proposed as a fairground for Chester. At Church Street, Chester firefighters were routing traffic away from Route 11 where a host of problems were being worked including a water rescue of a woman whose house was surrounded by the river.
"This is an awful thing," said Chester Fire Chief Matt Wilson, "but it proves why we need training for things that don't seem to happen often, but they happen. Until three weeks ago, there was not a single (water rescue) rope or life jacket in the department. Today every firefighter had a life jacket." The water rescue team from Hartford assisted with extracting the woman.
Wilson also said that every side road along Route 11 West sustained some damage, particularly severe on Potash Brook, Fenton and Kingsbury roads. One house on Kingsbury sustained damage resulting in a large portion of it collapsing into the river. Wilson also cut power to the area around the junction of Route 11 and Andover Road where there were leaking propane tanks. According to Wilson, the Springfield Fire Department was able to reach them and shut them off. Route 11 was blocked off from about 4 to 8 p.m.
Roads to Andover were difficult to impassable tonight and it was reported that there was substantial damage there.
By 8:30, the firefighters were regrouping at the town garage and Wilson was looking at the clouds. "There's supposed to be another (weather) cell through tonight," said the chief, "so I'm holding these resources here for a while, but I'm particularly concerned about the town road crews out there tonight, so some of us will be here all night." Wilson asked that residents be smart about traveling and if possible stay home tonight.
Water rescue equipment and training have been high on the fire department's priority list since Irene. In April, Wilson requested funds to buy equipment that would allow most firefighters to be trained in water rescue from the Chester Select Board, but the board asked the department to raise a large portion of the money privately. "We have a lot of the equipment we need to begin water rescue training in September, but we are still fundraising for it," said Wilson. Contributions can be sent to the Yosemite Engine Company, P.O. Box 631, Chester.
UPDATE: Here's the complete list of those who responded yesterday according to the Chester Fire Department: Hartford rescue, Springfield Fire, Proctorsville Fire, Rockingham Fire, Weston Fire, Londonderry, American Red Cross, CERT team, Chester Ambulance, and Springfield Dispatch.
The Telegraph will have more about the storm and its after-effects on Tuesday. In the meantime, here are photos from a number of our readers plus our own Shawn Cunningham that document the rains and floods of today, Monday, July 28.
Flooding in the cemetery in the Stone Village. Melissa Ryan photo.
Another view. Melissa Ryan photo.
Fields behind the Stone House Antiques Center. Melissa Ryan Photo.
Flooded fields. Photo by Melissa Ryan.
Missing Link Bridge, which just recently was rebuilt after Irene. Shawn Cunningham photo.
Sunoco on Main Street in Chester with flooding from the Williams River right behind it. Shawn Cunningham photo.
Flooding at the Sunoco. Shawn Cunningham photo.
Another view of the flooding at the Sunoco. Mark Burbela photo.
The Gingerbread Apartments on the edge of the river. Photo by Shawn Cunningham.
Same view. Photo by Mark Burbela.
The parking lot of the American Legion. Mark Burbela photo.
This Chester bridge gets the second test of its short life. The first was right after it opening, during Irene. Shawn Cunningham photo.
The other side of the bridge. Mark Burbela photo.
A later view, with the Dumpster sinking. Marc Thomas photo.
Flooding at the Catholic Church in Chester. Shawn Cunningham photo.
Route 11 West was closed in Chester around 4:30 p.m. Shawn Cunningham photo.
Emergency personnel explain to drivers why the road is closed. Shawn Cunningham photo.
Water rushed down Horsenail Hill Road toward Route 11. Shawn Cunningham photo.
Workers placed safety cones out on Horsenail Hill Road. Shawn Cunningham photo.
A closer view. Shawn Cunningham photo.
The bottom of Horsenail Hill Road at Route 11. Shawn Cunningham photo.
Howard Hill Road in Andover was impassable. This is taken from Route 11 looking up Hilltop Road. Shawn Cunningham photo.
This photo was taken from the other direction, down Hilltop Road toward Route 11. Stacie Goodman Hill photo.
Emergency personnel had to evacuate a woman from this home on Route 11. The Williams River jumped its bank in the rear and created a front yard channel. Shawn Cunningham photo.
Here's another view of the channel. Shawn Cunningham photo.
Near the Chester Rod and Gun Club heading west. Shawn Cunningham photo.
East of Hilltop Road, heading east on Route 11, the road gives way. Shawn Cunningham photo.
Looking west at the same location. Shawn Cunningham photo.
Thank you for the good coverage, Shawn. I appreciate the well-captioned photos.
I hope everyone is doing OK despite being so severely inundated. Has 11 W reopened at Balch Road or Lovers Lane?


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The Mayors' Monarch Pledge is a tri-national initiative to encourage mayors and other heads of local and tribal government to take community-wide actions to help save the monarch butterfly. Following its launch by the National Wildlife Federation in the United States in September 2015, mayors across the U.S. took the pledge and began taking actions to help save the monarch butterfly.
While the pledge was originally designed for municipalities in the United States, the pledge was expanded in 2017 to Canada and Mexico through the Commission for Environmental Cooperation.
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Monarch butterflies "overwinter" in the oyamel fir forests of the Sierra Madre Mountains west of Mexico City. In the spring they head north, mate and lay eggs on milkweed in the northern states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas in Mexico and Texas in the United States. Four additional generations will spread north across the northern United States and southern Canada. All three countries play a critical role in saving the monarch butterfly! Trilateral collaboration is critical for a species like the monarch butterfly whose eastern population's (east of the continental divide) multigenerational migration spans the three countries.
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The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is a tri-national organization through which the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States collaborate, with input from civil society, on the protection, conservation, and enhancement of North America's environment.
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United States Webinar
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Una presentación de Lic. Eliezer Elizondo Zertuche, Dirección de Medio Ambiente, Coordinación de Educación Ambiental, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico
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A presentation from Peter Neufeld, Chief Administrative Officer, Leamington, Ontario, Canada
About the Pledge
What the Listing of the Monarch Butterfly as Endangered Really Means
Butterfly Highways: Conserving Roadside Habitats for Monarchs and Pollinators
Hundreds of Mayors Across North America Lead in the Monarch Conservation Movement
Philadelphia Parks Expert Joins the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center
More than one-third of U.S. fish and wildlife species are at risk of extinction in the coming decades. The National Wildlife Federation is on the ground in seven regions across the country, collaborating with 53 state and territory affiliates to reverse the crisis and ensure wildlife thrive.


EX-Works One of the simplest and most basic shipment arrangements places the minimum responsibility on the seller with greater responsibility on the buyer. In an EX-Works transaction, goods are basically made available for pickup at the shipper/seller's factory or warehouse and "delivery" is accomplished when the merchandise is released to the consignee's freight forwarder. The buyer is responsible for making arrangements with their forwarder for insurance, export clearance and handling all other paperwork.
FOB (Free On Board) One of the most commonly used-and misused-terms, FOB means that the shipper/seller uses his freight forwarder to move the merchandise to the port or designated point of origin. Though frequently used to describe inland movement of cargo, FOB specifically refers to ocean or inland waterway transportation of goods. "Delivery" is accomplished when the shipper/seller releases the goods to the buyer's forwarder. The buyer's responsibility for insurance and transportation begins at the same moment.
FCA (Free Carrier) In this type of transaction, the seller is responsible for arranging transportation, but he is acting at the risk and the expense of the buyer. Where in FOB the freight forwarder or carrier is the choice of the buyer, in FCA the seller chooses and works with the freight forwarder or the carrier. "Delivery" is accomplished at a predetermined port or destination point and the buyer is responsible for Insurance.
FAS (Free Alongside Ship)* In these transactions, the buyer bears all the transportation costs and the risk of loss of goods. FAS requires the shipper/seller to clear goods for export, which is a reversal from past practices. Companies selling on these terms will ordinarily use their freight forwarder to clear the goods for export. "Delivery" is accomplished when the goods are turned over to the Buyers Forwarder for insurance and transportation.
CFR (Cost and Freight) This term formerly known as CNF (C&F) defines two distinct and separate responsibilities-one is dealing with the actual cost of merchandise "C" and the other "F" refers to the freight charges to a predetermined destination point. It is the shipper/seller's responsibility to get goods from their door to the port of destination. "Delivery" is accomplished at this time. It is the buyer's responsibility to cover insurance from the port of origin or port of shipment to buyer's door. Given that the shipper is responsible for transportation, the shipper also chooses the forwarder.
CIF (Cost, Insurance and Freight) This arrangement similar to CFR, but instead of the buyer insuring the goods for the maritime phase of the voyage, the shipper/seller will insure the merchandise. In this arrangement, the seller usually chooses the forwarder. "Delivery" as above, is accomplished at the port of destination.
CPT (Carriage Paid To) In CPT transactions the shipper/seller has the same obligations found with CIF, with the addition that the seller has to buy cargo insurance, naming the buyer as the insured while the goods are in transit.
CIP (Carriage and Insurance Paid To) This term is primarily used for multimodal transport. Because it relies on the carrier's insurance, the shipper/seller is only required to purchase minimum coverage. When this particular agreement is in force, Freight Forwarders often act in effect, as carriers. The buyer's insurance is effective when the goods are turned over to the Forwarder.
DAF (Delivered At Frontier) Here the seller's responsibility is to hire a forwarder to take goods to a named frontier, which usually a border crossing point, and clear them for export. "Delivery" occurs at this time. The buyer's responsibility is to arrange with their forwarder for the pick up of the goods after they are cleared for export, carry them across the border, clear them for importation and effect delivery. In most cases, the buyer's forwarder handles the task of accepting the goods at the border across the foreign soil.
DES (Delivered Ex Ship) In this type of transaction, it is the seller's responsibility to get the goods to the port of destination or to engage the forwarder to the move cargo to the port of destination uncleared. "Delivery" occurs at this time. Any destination charges that occur after the ship is docked are the buyer's responsibility.
DEQ (Delivered Ex Quay)* In this arrangement, the buyer/consignee is responsible for duties and charges and the seller is responsible for delivering the goods to the quay, wharf or port of destination. In a reversal of previous practice, the buyer must also arrange for customs clearance.
DDP (Delivered Duty Paid) DDP terms tend to be used in intermodal or courier-type shipments. Whereby, the shipper/seller is responsible for dealing with all the tasks involved in moving goods from the manufacturing plant to the buyer/consignee's door. It is the shipper/seller's responsibility to insure the goods and absorb all costs and risks including the payment of duty and fees.
DDU (Delivered Duty Unpaid) This arrangement is basically the same as with DDP, except for the fact that the buyer is responsible for the duty, fees and taxes.


Here's the realtor's listing picture of our kitchen from when our house was for sale late 2016. The appliances are a matched set in black, which look good in the overall decor but individually are a disaster each of it's own kind.
Refrigerator: The refrigerator is a side by side – the worst configuration ever invented. I miss the back-saving convenience of my NJ freezer-on-the bottom model, plus there's a lot less room and a lot more pushing and pulling things around to see what's in there. The outside is covered with scratches and magnet marks and the hard water here has etched the plastic parts of the water dispenser and made permanent tracks down the lower half of that door.
Stove: love love love the flat ceramic cooktop but have grave concerns about the oven. First, the thing runs hot and cooks unevenly. a year and a half later, we're still not adjusted to it. Plus I miss my NJ convection oven. The oven door near the bottom where the glass part meets the metal frame is buckled inward and I'm always worried it's going to explode. In that small, work area, we'll all get hit by the shrapnel.
Microwave: In truth this is the best microwave we've ever owned. The issues we have with it are minor and livable. It's missing one light cover on the under side and it only uses a 4 watt bulb in each bay. Not enough work light to baste a midnight egg by.
Dishwasher: No complaints except intractable water marks on the outer surface.
So we are planning to replace 2 out of 4 appliances, but I really think we need to replace them all We'll be doing stainless steel and there's a big difference between manufacturers in terms of color tones and surface finish of the facades. In that small space, any difference will be obvious (and unacceptable to me.) I suspect that appliances even by the same manufacture will look different if added over time instead of all at once.
But here's the thing: the internet says everything is terrible. One brand has a great refrigerator but the stove stinks. Another has way too frequent breakdowns. And don't even ask about the dishwashers unless you want a broken heart. This one is hard to get parts for and that one has a long wait for repair technicians and when they come they are unprepared to actually repair things.
So I turn to you: What brand of kitchen appliances do you have? What's the repair/reliability record of your personal experience? Would you have made the same purchase again or are there regrets?
GE Profile stainless steel dishwasher. Best one I've ever owned, if a bit pricey. Quiet and cleans everything, bottle cleaners on top (worked for grandkids' bottles a few years ago). I've had Kitchen Aid dishwashers and they do not compare with the GE Profile.
I have a stainless Kitchen Aid side by side fridge/freezer, purchased 2005. The ice cube maker has had to be fixed and one of the vegetable drawers on the fridge side has a bit broken off inside so it doesn't fit the tracks well. Meh.
We have a Samsung fridge and they had to replace the computer board twice in the first year. Since then, we've gone eight or nine years trouble free. I love it.
Our dishwasher and range are Frigidaire. I like the dishwasher, but the oven is now dead. Once again, it's a computer board problem. We're just going to replace the whole range in the very near future. The stove is gas and still works fine. Overall, it was a good appliance, and the oven worked well until the very end.
We wrestled with this dilemma four years ago when we remo'd our kitchen. All stainless. It ain't cheap.
Dishwasher's an LG. I like the 34 minute quick cycle and air dry overnight; my DSW would rather the 3 hour full cycle with double dry (which doesn't dry either). The little sing-song tones at the end is an earworm.
Fridge is a Kenmore, 3-door with bottom freezer. Huge. Tried an LG at first and sent that defective monstrosity back to its maker – which is apparently the same subterranean Korean Kave that Konstructs Kenmores. But I knew I could fuss at Sears and quickly get a suitable reaction. I swear it's the same box with different labels.
Oven(s). The old GE failing actually triggered the whole adventure. My DSW demanded double ovens back in the day and uses them *just* often enough to justify it. Whirlpool. Convection top. Thirty inch.
Microwave – since it's in the laundry room, it's white and whatever brand Walmart had for $35.
Vent Hood (since we don't have a Microwave over the stove) Broan, highest capacity you can get for 30 inch.
Stove – Whirlpool. Gas. Four burners (five required an unacceptable loss of cabinet space). Two put out enough BTUs to bring a full stock pot to a rolling boil before you know it. Did I mention Gas? You can still make coffee when the power's out.
Cleaner – 409 Stone 'n Steel. Probably either overkill or placebo.
And apparently the realtor brought in lighting for that vintage picture given your project to enhance same.
Schmed, at this point in time she can't have gas. The only natural gas available is for businesses in the area, the piping of neighborhoods has been going to happen "next year" for the past 7 or 8 years. So if she wants something other than electric she'll have to go with propane, which will also involve installing an underground propane tank. If she goes that route, bigger is better and she needs to own her own tank, which isn't easy or cheap.
I know because my cooktop and water heater are propane. Propane is not regulated in Florida the way it is in other states and price fixing is the name of the game.
Alas. The cruel cold reality of limited choices.
I have a Samsung fridge. It's the french door kind with freezer on the bottom. (Hint neighbor, I was just in Lowe's and they have a bunch of refrigerators on clearance must be changing out model years??) We've had this refrigerator for 7 years now. We've only had one problem which was quickly repaired once we found a competent person to repair it…….that took 3 tries.
We have a Bosch dishwasher, it works great. I love the quick wash cycle.
Both of those are replacements for original appliances. I still have the original cooktop and double convection ovens with warming drawer, which are frigidaire. They work, they get the job done……I just want something nicer, so I keep hoping for them to fail……no such luck yet.
I love those little spice cabinets…..I need them. My spice cabinet is a mess. I end up pulling out half the cabinet to find what I want.
By the way don't forget to check the Sears outlet for appliances, there are two in Jacksonville. You could always go the internet route too, just be mindful not to get something with curbside only delivery…..white glove or buy local!! Also, Lowe's offers many appliances that they may not have in the store, probably same for Home Depot and Best Buy, so check their websites.
As for the hard water stains, CLR, vinegar, lemon juice, used dryer sheet. Any of those or all, just not together. You can make a paste using baking soda and just enough water, coat the area and let sit a few minutes then spray with vinegar. It will bubble and remove scale, but remove it from the surface fairly quickly only give it a minute or two to work. The tray you can let foam away in the sink.