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Confederate General Elkanah Brackin Greer Discharge Certificate Signed "E. Greer/ Col. Com. S.K. Texas Regiment." Two pa...
Confederate General Elkanah Brackin Greer Discharge Certificate Signed "E. Greer/ Col. Com. S.K. Texas Regiment." Two pages, 8" x 12", August 19, 1861, "Regimental Head Quarters, South Kansas Tex. Regt. Camp near Springfield, Mo." Colonel Greer authorizes the discharge of Private Samuel A. Goodman, by signing below the statement, "I, E. Greer, Col commanding the South Kansas Texas Regiment, Approve of the within and foregoing Certificates, and hereby honorably discharge Samuel A. Goodman jr. from further Service as a Soldier."
On the verso are two statements; one is written and signed by Goodman's company commander, Captain David Y. Gaines, who described Private Goodman as a twenty-five-year-old "five foot seven inches high" lawyer who had "enrolled into Service by Capt. H. Harris, C.S.A. at Dallas Texas . . . 1861, to serve 12 months." According to Captain Gaines, Goodman had become "physically weak" and inadequate "to the discharge of the duties of a Soldier." The other statement is written and signed by Wallace McDugald, "Acting Surgeon S.K. Texas Rangers" who found Goodman "afflicted with Phthisis Pulmonalis [tuberculosis]; which is, in his case, immediately hereditary. This condition of his lungs disqualifies him for the duties of a soldier." Mr. Goodman lived almost forty more years. Colonel Greer, the grand commander of the Knights of the Golden Circle prior to the Civil War, fought with his Texas regiment in the war's western theater. Greer's rare signature is on lined paper with minor stains; fine.
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"Hot! or Hmm…" asked Fashion Bomb Daily when Kim Kardashian stepped out in a full-length skunk coat from Lanvin.
It's durable, warm, glamorous and striking. And it comes from an animal that is abundant in the wild, easy to trap, and easy to farm. In short, all the right boxes are checked for a great fur. It was also once the height of fashion. Yet today it's rarely seen in stores, and a pelt sells for the price of a coffee.
This is the conundrum that is skunk fur. Are the fur trade and consumers turning their noses up for no good reason?
Let's start with the end product.
Skunk fur is durable – less durable than beaver, but ahead of the pack and on a par with mink.
Skunk fur is warm. It's no caribou, but unless you live in the Arctic, it'll work fine.
Skunk fur is glamorous and striking. The guard hairs are long (1-2″) with a glossy lustre, and are held erect by thick underfur. And the colouration is unmistakeable: deep brown or black, usually with white striping and cream patterns.
The most prized pelts have solid black backs with a blue sheen, and come from colder regions where pelts are thicker, hairs are finer, and the black is blackest. (No fur is blacker than northern skunk.) If there is one white stripe, and it's long and wide (hooded skunk), this may be retained in a garment, while pelts with two stripes (striped skunk) are normally dyed a uniform black.
So what's the downside? Not much.
The guard hairs are slightly coarser than fox, the most luxurious long-haired fur.
Skunk fur is reputed to have an odour, especially when wet, but this should not be a problem today. Using proper trapping techniques, it is rare that an animal sprays. And even if there is a slight vestigial smell, a skilled fur dresser can remove it.
And last, but perhaps not least, it's called "skunk".
So how easy is it to produce skunk pelts? Pretty easy. Let's start with trapping.
First, skunks are abundant. The striped skunk, the most commonly traded species, has a conservation status of "Least concern" with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. It ranges from southern Canada to northern Mexico, co-exists with humans, and in many parts of its range is growing in numbers.
Second, skunks lack caution and cunning. A box trap works great for nuisance skunks, but is too costly and bulky for fur trapping. Foothold (restraining) traps or bodygrip traps are better.
This unique film footage shows an English skunk farm in 1931. Note how selective breeding has removed all white striping from the animals' backs. For the history of this farm, read here.
Farming skunk is also easy. Indeed, skunk farms were once seen as a stepping stone for beginners looking to graduate to more challenging and valuable furbearers.
Reasons why farming is easy include: Skunk are easily tamed, and at feeding time just come running. They're poor climbers and have few natural predators, so pens are open-topped. They'll eat just about anything – table scraps are fine. And selective breeding produces all-black skunk in just three or four generations.
So why aren't we all dressed from head to toe in skunk fur? Its curious history may shed some light.
For the longest time North Americans had no interest in skunk fur, but it wasn't a case of singling it out. They weren't crazy about fox either. And even when skunk was "discovered" in the mid-1800s, demand was not at home but from Europe.
Skunk quickly became America's second most valuable fur harvest after muskrat, with almost all pelts being traded in London and Leipzig. To meet demand, the first farms emerged in the 1880s, but unreliable pelt prices forced most pioneers to close. Then the farms sprung up again at the turn of the century as European demand surged. In 1911, pelt sales in London peaked at just over 2 million.
And that's how things stayed right up to World War I. The domestic market remained tiny, a fact historians attribute to a lack of Europe's deodorising skills. Or perhaps it was that American dressers had to work with pelts so pungent, European brokers wouldn't take them.
Whatever the case, World War I changed everything, not just for skunk but the entire fur trade. With shipments to Europe disrupted, the age of major American auction houses began, first in St. Louis in 1915, then in New York in 1916.
"Skunk fur is intrinsically of high value," stated the US Department of Agriculture in 1923.
Demand for skunk in North America finally took off, and when the European market came back on stream in 1918, the golden age of skunk had arrived.
Skunk trapping also helped countless rural families weather the Great Depression, mailing their pelts to Sears, Roebuck in return for a check or store credit. Through its annual newsletters and radio shows, Sears (aka "Johnny Muskrat") created a whole new generation of trappers, and became one of the largest fur buyers in the US.
Sears, Roebuck grew as a mail order business serving rural communities, and those same communities sent it their furs. During the Depression, skunk figured large in its educational materials.
And then the age of skunk was over. World War II ended and fur fashion shifted dramatically. Long hair was out and short hair was in. Skunk pelts were almost worthless, red fox pelts were "unsaleable", and even silver fox was scorned. Mink was the new king, a position it has not relinquished to this day.
But a change in fashion was not the whole story. If it had been, skunk would have rebounded along with fox, which still has a loyal following today.
Some observers blame skunk's demise on stricter labelling laws. In the 1930s, the fur trade often took considerable liberties when it came to labelling. Women of all social classes wanted fur, but with the Depression raging, few husbands could afford the premium stuff. What they could afford was humble rabbit, but that didn't sound very glamorous. Enter creative marketing.
"Minkony" was rabbit dyed to look like mink. "Ermiline" was white rabbit, sometimes with black spots for that authentic ermine look. Then there were totally fictitious species like "Baltic black fox", "Belgian beaver", "French sable" and "Roman seal" – all rabbit!
Other furs got the creative treatment too. "Hudson seal" was one of the most popular sellers, though it was actually sheared and dyed muskrat. And no fur, of course, needed a new name more than skunk. Why tell Ma'am she was swathed in the skins of foul-smelling critters when you could sell her "American sable", "Alaskan sable" or "black marten"?
Finally the US Federal Trade Commission cried foul. From 1938 on, the true identity of the furbearer had to be given, though the name of the animal being imitated could stay. Goodbye "American sable", hello "sable-dyed skunk".
Skunk fur stole and muff, circa 1940s. These are natural black with dark brown undertones and cream patterning. The muff is lined with black satin and stuffed with down feathers. From the Lady Violette Vintage Fur Collection.
The trade resisted, and some unusual new names were approved. "Rock sable", for example, became "bassarisk", even though most people called them ring-tailed cats. But it spelled the end for furs like "China mink" and "Japanese mink" (both weasel).
As for skunk, in a few short years it had gone from being "American sable" to "sable-dyed skunk", to plain ol' "skunk". Was it too much for consumers? Are we really that shallow? Apparently yes. A rose by any other name does not smell as sweet!
The last skunk fur farms closed decades ago, and offerings of pelts at auction today are small. Prices, meanwhile, seem frozen in time.
The largest seller today of skunk fur is North American Fur Auctions, in Toronto. At its wild fur sale last June-July, 2,332 pelts were offered (compared with 310,667 muskrat), of which 70% sold. Average price was $5.97.
In February 1920 in St. Louis – that's almost a century ago – skunk pelts brought an average of $5.14. In today's money that's $61!
From time to time, skunk has made small comebacks. In the early 1970s, in particular, it was considered quirky and cool, but it soon went the same way of Afros and bell bottoms.
Popular designers and fashion houses are still willing to give skunk a try. Just recently, America's darling of the gossip columns, Kim Kardashian, caused a stir when she stepped out in a fabulous skunk coat from Lanvin.
Can Kim bring skunk in from the fashion cold? Or will it remain forever sealed in a 1930s time capsule?
Could a kick-start campaign bring this remarkable, but under-appreciated, fur back into the limelight? What do you think?
warmth clothes ! It's disrespectful!!!
And while I'm on my soap box controling the populations of wild animals is nessacary for controlling disease in the populations that can pass to humans, livestock, domestic dogs and cats, and kill off while herds not just a few! Not to mention culling out excessive males that kill young, and breed females to an early death or make populations so inbred they cause more disease and generic defects! I love animals wild and domestic. I wear fur killed by me for food both farmed and hunted. I believe in animal well being such as clean living enviromets, good food, treated with respect, I am a tree hugger….however I also have enough education to understand you have to treat them with respect in their life and in their death whatever the reason! You have to control populations to help control negative outcomes in those populations! Wake up people.
to utilize! Get off your high horses and grow up your God put animals here to clothe, feed, protect, and help and or guide you whatever your religious beliefs. I don't judge… stop judging others and thank them for caring enough to use fur and all other parts of plants and animals instead of creating more pollution with harsh chemicals to make fake fur and materials. Love all gods creatures, show them respect in life, death, dispatch practices and use what they give you with respect, pride, and honor!
I think skunks are amazing, intelligent, and unassuming animals that don't deserve to be valued just on whether you can make a coat out of them or not.
In that Department of Agriculture booklet it said they used to be kept in barns to keep down the mice. They eat a lot of insect pests too. Plus the only reason there are plenty of them is that they weren't hunted to extinction levels because they were worth some money like many other species.
We didn't intend to suggest that the only value of a skunk is in its fur. Sorry if you got that impression. As for their high numbers today, a major reason is that they are very good at adapting to the presence of humans, as are raccoons and coyotes. Over-trapping of some species historically has indeed presented problems, but they are all on the way to recovery today. In fact,beavers are believed to be more numerous today that at any time since European colonisers arrived.
We need not think. These animals have a nice coat, they dress us well. The new winter fashion proves us, skins are more and more fashionable.
What are you, the son of Cruella deVille? Who the hell needs to wear ANY kind of fur, let alone skunk fur? Skunks are mild-mannered sweet little mammals that only want to be left alone. I guess that's too much for you to do, huh?
Jesus. Do you really want people to start skinning skunks again? What is wrong with you?
YOU NEED A LESSON IN MANNERS.
God is utterly irrelevant to this discussion, and has been for at least several centuries since this thing called "secularism" was invented. There are some places where wearing fur is still the best and only reliable way of staying warm, but the majority of Europe and the Americas are not among them. Wearing furs is purely luxury, and it has no place in fashion the same way animal testing for cosmetic use has no place in cosmetics. As a civilisation, we have outgrown this. We need to start taking care of our animals instead of killing them for our whims. This isn't always easy, or even possible (or veganism would be more widespread than it is), but with clothing, at least, we're good at making things that both keep warm and breathe. Even on the natural side of things, we have a wide variety of sheep and camelid species that can be shorne with no loss of life, and produce warm, amazing wool.
On a side note, it's incredibly hilarious that "SJW" now includes "anyone with a concern for the sanctity of life".
You want to enjoy the beauty of furs? I can't stop you, but at least stop making excuses for yourself, especially ones as flimsy as to involve Jesus. "I like wearing furs and I honestly don't care enough about animals to stop wearing something that makes me happy." Just say that and cop to it. I can understand it, even if I don't share that stance.
Genesis 3:21. God made clothing from skins. First chapter in the Bible. God was the first furrier. He didn't see a problem with wearing fur and did it him/her self. I don't see a problem with wearing fur. And as the Old Testament of the Bible is the basis for other religions all well (Judaism and parts of the Koran reference the Old Testament also), other religions don't have a problem with the wearing of fur.
I absolutely loved your article on skunk. It was totally fun to read and thorough. I'm Thom Olson. I work at Harper College in Chicago and am currently working on a book on fur design. May i reprint your article as a sidebar in the book's section about fur types? You will absolutely get full credit for it. I could not have told the story about skunk better.
I like this coat well and some fur accessories I of this animal, a fur will follow. I look forward to it. I like the 30 years he, furs were worn in honor.
If this fur starts to regain popularity, maybe we'll see PETA creating a video of a skunk being skinned alive.
That should be interesting…. I hope it's their CEO doing the skinning.


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Wednesday July 3, 2019 - President Uhuru Kenyatta appointed Wiper Democratic Movement party leader, Alonzo Musyoka, on Tuesday evening as the Kenya's special envoy to South Sudan.
The appointment has been confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs through a statement released to media houses on Tuesday.
The Kamba political kingpin has been given the post as the Government seeks to ensure there is shared prosperity within the region.
Following his appointment, Kalonzo is now tasked with ensuring that there is long-lasting peace as well as security within the region.
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs congratulates Hon Dr Kalonzo Musyoka on his appointment and stands ready to support the Special Envoy in the delivery of his mandate," part of the statement reads
Kalonzo's appointment came after Uhuru and NASA leader, Raila Odinga, hosted South Sudan President, Salva Kiir.
During their talks in State House, Nairobi, Raila Odinga is said to have advised Uhuru to appoint Kalonzo as Kenya's special envoy to South Sudan.
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You can deploy a Pulsar cluster on AWS (for benchmarking purposes) using Terraform and Ansible. You'll need to have both of those tools installed as well as the terraform-inventory plugin for Terraform.
Once you're all set up with AWS and have the necessary tools installed locally, you'll need to create both a public and a private SSH key at ~/.ssh/pulsar_aws (private) and ~/.ssh/pulsar_aws.pub (public), respectively.
If you're using an SSH private key path different from ~/.ssh/pulsar_aws, you can specify that path using the --private-key flag, for example --private-key=~/.ssh/my_key.
There are multiple Pulsar "modes" for which you can run benchmarks. Each mode has its own YAML configuration file in the driver-pulsar folder.
$ scp -i ~/.ssh/pulsar_aws ec2-user@$(terraform output client_ssh_host):/opt/benchmark/*.json .
Make sure to let the process run to completion (it could take several minutes). Once the tear down is complete, all AWS resources that you created for the Pulsar benchmarking suite will have been removed.


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A musical trio consisting of Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa. They have composed music for over 50 soundtracks across five languages - Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and English. Amongst the most critically acclaimed Indian musicians, the trio have won numerous awards, including National Film Award (India), Film Fare Awards, IIFA Awards.. Shankar Ehsaan and Loy have creatively composed, produced and performed numerous hits performing rock, blues, jazz and pop both non- film as well as Bollywood and other Indian film music industry.
A musical, film genius. One of the most decorated Indian film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, playback singer and television host. Born in Mumbai to screenwriters Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani, he grew up in the Bollywood film industry. Akhtar, established a very successful production company made his directorial debut with Dil Chahta Hai (2001) and received critical acclaim for portraying modern youth. The film also won a National award. Following it, he made Lakshya (2004) and had his Hollywood debut through the soundtrack of Bride and Prejudice (2004), Although he initially started his acting career with "The Fakir of Venice", his official debut was with Rock On!! (2008) which was a chartbuster.


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A volcano is just about the unlikeliest place to find a bunch of animals, right? A National Geographic team led by ocean engineer Brennan Phillips took off to the Solomon Islands – and specifically the active underwater volcano Kavachi – to get a glimpse of some interesting hydrothermal activity. What the team didn't expect to find was a thriving submarine volcano community.
The team dropped an 80-pound camera into the water and let it sink 147 feet below the surface into Kavachi's crater. Keeping in mind that the volcano is active and could erupt at any time, they only kept the camera and other instruments submerged for about an hour. When they got a look at the footage, they saw some pretty amazing sights: a group of jellyfish, a few varieties of fish, a sixgill stingray, and both silky and scalloped hammerhead sharks.
Phillips points out that you never really know what you're going to find in an alien underwater environment. The team now has a whole bunch of new questions to work on – like how the animals survive in the very warm, acidic environment and whether they know to scram when the volcano is about to erupt…or if they just burn up in the magma when Kavachi blows its top.


Matthew Friedman is a leading, internationally renowned global expert on modern slavery and human trafficking. An award-winning public speaker, author, filmmaker, and philanthropist, Matthew regularly advises heads of governments and intelligence agencies.
As the founder and CEO of The Mekong Club, Matthew is considered the leading catalyst of the anti-slavery movement in Asia's business sector by captains of industry.
In 2017, Matthew received the prestigious "Asia Communicator of the Year Gold Award" for giving more than 800 presentations to 80,000 people including government leaders and the Vatican on the topic of modern slavery within a five-year period in different countries. Matthew has a unique and powerful speaking style that inspires people and helps them reach their fullest potential.
Each year he is cited at least 40 times in the news media (CNN, Bloomberg, Reuters, Associated Press, the Financial Times, the Economist, etc.) and invited to speak at major international conferences around the world.
He has managed and directed tens of millions of dollars to major humanitarian portfolios impacting millions of people for the World Bank, the U.S. State Department, and the United Nations. His work over the last 30 years of pioneering and managing international anti-human trafficking projects from Nepal, Bangladesh, Thailand and Hong Kong has given him access to many influential networks in different countries throughout the world.
Matthew is the author of 12 books ranging from action novels, non-fiction accounts of his human rights work, to a book that outlines his unique philosophy of "time." A long-time supporter of film and the media arts, Matthew was an executive producer and advisor on four award-winning films, one of which was nominated for an Emmy and another executive produced by Emma Thompson.
Matthew provides a range of inspirational keynote speeches to teach, mentor and motivate people from all walks of life to step up and take a stand in life. He has has an uncanny ability to take something as complicated and confusing as slavery and break it down into a series of simple messages that walk a person down a path to understanding. He has shifted the mindsets of many, even the most resistant detractors. His is always a message of hope.
Matthew is married to Sylvia Yu Friedman who is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, international speaker, and author of Silenced No More: Voices of Comfort Women who also fights the scourge of modern slavery. Together in the summer of 2016 they gave 113 presentations in 27 U.S. cities.


Following an ACL reconsruction, Sportswise patient Bridgette Hoad joined over 15,000 cyclists to complete the London to Brighton bike ride on Sunday 17th June. Working with Maryke Louw and Dr Polly Baker she managed to get fighting fit and complete the 54 mile ride in 6 hours. Well done Bridgette!


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Марфонте́н () — коммуна во Франции, находится в регионе Пикардия. Департамент коммуны — Эна. Входит в состав кантона Марль. Округ коммуны — Вервен.

Код INSEE коммуны — 02463.

Население
Население коммуны на 2010 год составляло 84 человека.

Экономика
В 2010 году среди 52 человек трудоспособного возраста (15—64 лет) 33 были экономически активными, 19 — неактивными (показатель активности — 63,5 %, в 1999 году было 48,1 %). Из 33 активных жителей работали 27 человек (19 мужчин и 8 женщин), безработных было 6 (2 мужчин и 4 женщины). Среди 19 неактивных 2 человека были учениками или студентами, 7 — пенсионерами, 10 были неактивными по другим причинам.

См. также
 Список округов Франции

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Ссылки
 Национальный институт статистики — Марфонтен

Коммуны департамента Эна

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2016 A tumultuous year in the container-shipping industry.
Maersk's Triple-E giant containership Maersk Majestic, at a Chinese port in September. A shift to bigger vessels has been contributing to congestion and delays at ports.
A tumultuous year in the container-shipping industry, which included one big operator going under and others bundling together to stay afloat, ended with three major alliances poised to dominate ocean trade for years to come.
Container shipping, which moves 95% of all manufactured goods, is estimated by industry executives to be worth $1 trillion a year. Traditionally controlled by sovereign-wealth funds and deep-pocketed individuals, it has been a fragmented industry over the past 30 years, with dozens of operators regularly undercutting each other on price.
But overcapacity and sluggish global trade have forced the biggest players to merge or form alliances, allowing them to cut operating costs by hundreds of millions of dollars by sharing ships and port calls. The three major groupings, called 2M, Ocean Alliance and THE Alliance, have cleared most regulatory hurdles over the past two years.
2M, consisting of Denmark's Maersk Line and Geneva-based Mediterranean Shipping Co.—the world's two biggest operators in terms of capacity—is already under way, while the other two alliances expect to begin operations in April. One company left out, South Korea's Hanjin Shipping Co., is shedding ships and other assets after seeking bankruptcy protection in August.
According to marine-data providers, the three alliances, which comprise 11 shipping operators, will handle much of the container trade on the Asia-to-Europe and trans-Pacific routes.
"The few players left outside will either try to join in, shrink to become regional operators or go belly up," said Lars Jensen, chief executive of Copenhagen-based SeaIntelligence Consulting, adding the world's 20 biggest shipping companies are all expected to post a loss for 2016.


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Best Quotes of Brandi Chastain
Brandi Chastain is an American soccer player who has twice won the FIFA Women's World Cup and twice won Olympic gold medals.
Throughout her career, Brandi Chastain has also worked as a coach and a sports broadcaster. From 1988 to 2004, she was a fierce competitor for the United States national team.
In addition, in 192 caps as a defender and midfielder, she has consistently scored 30 goals. Shiroki FC of the Japan Women's Football League, FC Gold Pride of Women's Professional Soccer, the San Jose CyberRays of the Women's United Soccer Association, and the California Storm of the Women's Premier Soccer League are among her professional affiliations. Her path to the National Soccer Hall of Fame and the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame began in 2017 and 2018, respectively.
Here are some of her inspiring quotes.
"I played mostly games like Asteroids and Pac-Man. Today, when I go into an arcade, the games are much more difficult and complex. I don't think I could even play some of the video games that are out there today."― Brandi
"I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun."― Brandi
"Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again."― Brandi
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"You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things."― Brandi
"The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant."― Brandi
"To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice."― Brandi Chastain
"We are shaping young kids to be leaders in their communities and also to be healthier."― Brandi Chastain
"Well there are two things: Number one is, make sure you always enjoy yourself, because when you enjoy yourself, you'll learn, you'll want more information, you'll push yourself."― Brandi Chastain
"My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played."― Brandi Chastain
"Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together."― Brandi Chastain
"So along with that is spending a lot of time with the ball. For me it was, I loved to juggle the ball in my front yard, and I always challenged myself – how many juggles can I get today? I think for players to get better, it's just about spending the time."― Brandi
"So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me."― Brandi
"I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch."― Brandi
"I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field."― Brandi
"I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it."― Brandi
"I was the kid who always liked to take the ball down to the school even in my free time, kick it against the wall, juggle it in the front yard and so it was kind of a perpetual state of playing soccer for me."― Brandi Chastain
"After the '96 Olympics, we all started believing that this is bigger than we thought, and we were willing to do the work. We knew that it was up to us, the players, to make soccer successful."― Brandi Chastain
"And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself."― Brandi Chastain
"I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment."― Brandi Chastain
"I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever."― Brandi Chastain
"You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life – whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement."― Brandi Chastain
"And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you."― Brandi Chastain
"And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates."― Brandi Chastain
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NETSUITE SUITEWORLD, 2016 SAN JOSE, Calif.—May 18, 2016—NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP and omnichannel commerce software suites, today announced that URBAN626, manufacturer of the URB-E compact electric vehicle, has implemented NetSuite to help bring new clean energy transportation solutions to urban commuters worldwide. Since deploying NetSuite, the company has already tripled its daily sales volume without increasing overhead. Instead of being constrained by legacy software with inflexible workflows and limited visibility, URBAN626 can reach a global buying audience with American-manufactured vehicles and a vision of a greener tomorrow. Based in Pasadena, Calif. and founded in 2015, URBAN626 uses NetSuite to manage mission-critical business processes including financials, manufacturing, work order management and assembly.
URBAN626 was founded to solve last-mile transportation problems for growing urban populations worldwide. Shortly after starting full production in 2015, however, the company recognised that its previous on-premise ERP system was not up to the challenge of building and sustaining a global manufacturing business. Even with a tightly connected business model that centralises manufacturing in its Pasadena headquarters, the old system lacked the order and inventory visibility necessary for sustained success. The lack of integration between the on-premise ERP system and the company's ecommerce system slowed fulfilment. With interest in compact, reliable, and portable electric vehicles on the rise, the company knew it had to be prepared to execute during sudden surges in demand.
Knowing the importance of impeccable fulfilment and unfettered growth, the company decided not to wait for a crisis and acted quickly to implement NetSuite in October 2015. The new solution took just 30 days to implement, an extremely rapid timeframe for any software, let alone an ERP solution. NetSuite tracks the sales and work orders for every URB-E vehicle assembled and shipped worldwide, as well as the vendor relationships, which supply over 200 parts and subsystems. For a growth-stage company, saving minutes on every step of the order, build, and fulfilment cycle can translate into greater returns. URBAN626 has already tripled daily sales since implementing NetSuite without missing a beat, and is positioned for more worldwide growth.
"We knew that dedicating the resources to a NetSuite implementation early on would pay off for the company," said Frank Rosales, URBAN626 Director of Operations. "NetSuite's power and flexibility frees us to focus on inventing and manufacturing products that are innovative, intuitive, and beautifully constructed."
NetSuite plays an indispensable role in URBAN626's global business model by providing:
Superior inventory management that enables URBAN626 to better plan for how much inventory it needs, track the movement of goods, and meet customer demand much more quickly.
A breadth of functionality that is designed for modern businesses, helping the company to streamline mission-critical business processes and improve operational efficiency.
Rapid deployment that enabled URBAN626 to get up and running very quickly, in a matter of weeks vs. years.
A highly scalable system, with the ability to quickly and easily add functionality as a business evolves.
Built-in business intelligence that provides real-time insights into key business performance indicators for a unified view of the Organisation, and delivers a single version of truth.
A flexible and agile platform, the NetSuite SuiteCloud Platform, that can easily enable the company to customise NetSuite to meets its business requirements and to integrate with other third party systems, including POS at its Pasadena retail location and a 3PL partner.
NetSuite's comprehensive cloud ERP platform manages everything including manufacturing build plans and sales account management, helping URBAN626's team members pursue opportunities with hotel chains and corporate campuses. The ecommerce integration helps to ensure the company is building and properly customising each URB-E as quickly as orders come in. Future plans include EDI integration with partners and suppliers, which can further streamline operations, and potential international capabilities as the company's worldwide footprint expands.
"We expect that within two years we may sell more product outside the US than inside," Rosales said. "NetSuite is like another member of our family that we can rely on to give us the capabilities we need to grow and develop into a global force."
Today, more than 30,000 companies and subsidiaries depend on NetSuite to run complex, mission-critical business processes globally in the cloud. Since its inception in 1998, NetSuite has established itself as the leading provider of enterprise-ready cloud business management suites of enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and ecommerce applications for businesses of all sizes. Many FORTUNE 100 companies rely on NetSuite to accelerate innovation and business transformation. NetSuite continues its success in delivering the best cloud business management suites to businesses around the world, enabling them to lower IT costs significantly while increasing productivity, as the global adoption of the cloud accelerates.
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By Johnny Cullen, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 17:34 GMT
Ubisoft's Alain Corre has told GI he doesn't expect Kinect and Move to extend the lifespan of either 360 or PS3, saying that the motion tech will only bring a short-term boost to the market.
Instead, Corre – the publisher's European managing director – said next year's big success will be 3DS.
When asked if both hardware would extend the current hardware cycle by at least another two years, he said: "I don't think so, no."
He added: "Yes, it's a good extension of the lifecycle for a certain length of time and it's also a good way to capture some consumers they didn't have on the casual side, because Microsoft's 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 do not have the casual customers. So it will bring in a new category of customer for them."
Corre's comments clash with those made recently by 360 Euro boss Chris Lewis, who said Xbox 360 will be offered for another five years, thanks in part to Kinect.
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President Armen Sarkissian (left) met with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Dec. 24
President Armen Sarkissian and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met on Thursday.
Their offices released specific details about the meeting, only that they discussed the current situation in the country and ways to confront the challenges facing the homeland.
The two leaders also discussed the defense and security of Armenia's border regions, re-establishing a semblance of normalcy in Artsakh and the issues related to the assistance programs undertaken by the government.
It was the first time the leaders were meeting since the Pashinyan signed the November 9 agreement that ended the war but mandated the surrender of historic Armenian territories in both Armenia and Artsakh to Azerbaijan.
Days after the agreement was announced, Sarkissian announced that he was not informed about the document and its provisions and urged the government to put forth a comprehensive proposal to emerge from the crisis. He also called for the resignation of the government and snap elections, which would be organized by a temporary national accord administration made up of experts and professionals.
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Here's sort of a typical day right now. And I wonder why I don't have time to paint!
Cleaned out canary cage (they are so darn messy!) and fresh food and water.
7:00am - Food and water to chickens, plus their morning treats.
Shoveled driveway. It was only a couple of inches.
8:00am - Breakfast! Raw oatmeal with homemade raw milk yogurt and organic honey.
Fashioned bucket lids for the sap buckets. I think they will work.
will hold. So far, they are staying attached, but are flopping open to some degree.
9:00am - Warmed up the cup of coffee I haven't drunk yet.
Called to check on a sick friend.
Arranged for pick up of barrels we will use for sap s torage.
10:00am- Drove to go get barrels. A couple of towns over. Snow flurries. I thought it was going to be sunny today!
Noon- back home with the barrels. They will work.
Washed and sanitized them (had to do t his in the shower, since our outside faucet froze, and it's too cold out there anyway. Improvised a washing tool with rags tied around the end of my broom handle.
Finally had that cup of coffee! And some lunch - celery sticks with garlic cashew butter and some green beans. It was good, really!
1:00 pm - Took barrels outside to set them in a snowbank (sap has to stay cold) This took awhile, and I'm not sure my plan will work, but anyway, I dug around and then shoveled snow back around them.
2:00pm Carted the firewood to the cellar from the garage and stacked it.
Fresh water for chickens, who mucked theirs up as usual.
Planted the celery seed, first round.
attached some bungies to sap bucket lids to help secure them. didn't have enough bungees for all the lids.
3:00pm- Checked temperature in cold frame. Soil is completely frozen still. I really thought it might be starting to thaw. Looks like the early spring stuff wont get plant so early!
Started supper - going to be an herbed rice mixture with citrus and nuts served over a bed of steamed kale, and carrots. I haven't decided if the carrots will be cooked or raw. Steve prefers cooked.
4:00pm Sat down (finally!) to read, but got a phone call.
Decided to write this blog before Steve gets home.
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Please contact the City of North Tonawanda Building Inspection Office if you are planning a construction or major renovation project in order to obtain the necessary work permits.
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What the Beep: The Bull Creek and 45th Street intersection is going to get worse before it gets better
Construction is underway at the Grove development.
Author: Mike Rush
AUSTIN, Texas — For this week's What the Beep, we got an update on construction in a booming area in North Austin.
Bull Creek Road and 45th Street is already a busy intersection – and it's about to get a lot worse before it gets better because construction is underway at the Grove development.
The State of Texas once owned that 75-acre piece of land, and it was supposed to become a cemetery.
Now the plan is for a mixed-use development that will hold more than 1,500 homes, along with businesses and a 16-acre signature park with a pond.
It's a massive development bounded by two neighborhood streets. And while the project is under construction, work has just begun on traffic improvements.
What the Beep: Why does Jollyville Road suddenly stop?
What the Beep: Why are so many new roads toll roads?
What the Beep: How much is sitting in traffic costing Austin?
The goal is to make the Bull Creek and 45th intersection safer for drivers, pedestrians and bike riders. Road upgrades include adding dedicated left-turn lanes along 45th for traffic heading both north and south and adding an additional turning lane where traffic makes a left off Bull Creek onto 45th.
But the most unusual change will be the use of microwave radar to monitor the flow of traffic. The radar will control traffic lights and access to bike lanes and a pedestrian path.
Construction will take about nine months and regular lane closures will be necessary until then.
WATCH: What the Beep: Why does Jollyville Road dead end?
If you have an issue with our roads, let KVUE's Mike Rush know about it. He'll try to get answers to see what, if anything, will be done to make improvements. Sent an email to whatthebeep@kvue.com.
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Andy Dalton is second only to Aaron Rodgers in NFL passing.
Everyone wants to know the difference.
Who is this Andy Dalton, a career 85.0 passer now rated the AFC's best passer and challenging future Hall-of-Famer Aaron Rodgers for the NFL passing title?
Who is this red-head that has imploded on prime time but on Sunday brought one of the NFL's most hostile home fields to its knees twice in a 4:27 span of bloodless efficiency with a pair of 80-yard drives that erased two deficits?
"Look at last year's 3-0," said offensive coordinator Hue Jackson on Monday, the mute button on NFL Network as Dalton's heroics were replayed and rehashed in the league's draining 24-hour recycle on his TV set. "Now look at this year. The guy has eight touchdowns and one interception. That's the difference."
Simply more. Last year it was two touchdowns and a pick. As Bengals quarterbacks coach Ken Zampese says, "We've got more of Andy. We've got more of the guy we knew we were getting when we drafted him."
Zampese, intimately involved in Dalton's selection as the 35th pick in the 2011 draft, is talking as much about personality as he is knowledge. As much about mid-week deportment as he is pre-snap reads.
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d Monday after he met with the quarterbacks. "As he's gotten older, he's gotten better at all these things and as he's gotten older we've added more pieces around him and right now we're all young, healthy and hungry like we were in '04, 05, and '06."
Jackson has the Bengals ranked No. 2 in offense, the highest they've been since they were No. 1 after the 13th week of 2005. After the first month of the season, Dalton has a better yards per attempt than Rodgers and Tom Brady, more TD passes than either Manning brother, and fewer interceptions than Russell Wilson.
But if people would erase the mute button and stop looking at the most recent, numbing 24-hour loop, they would see that this Dalton didn't fall out of the sky Sunday in Baltimore in the middle of the fourth quarter:
_A scant 55 weeks before, he capped a fourth-quarter comeback in Baltimore on his 77-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver A.J. Green with 4:56 left to give the Bengals the only September road win in the seven Ravens seasons of John Harbaugh and Joe Flacco. Until Sunday.
_Three years ago in the din of Heinz Field with the season on the line he threw a 21-yard razor to Green with eight seconds left to set up the field goal that put the Bengals in the playoffs.
_Two years ago this October he put together a 4-0 run with a 116.8 passer rating and was named AFC Offensive Player of the Month. That was 11 TDs to three interceptions. Remember the old days of 2013 when he had Marvin Jones and Tyler Eifert? He threw a Bengals record 33 touchdown passes and became the first Bengal since David Fulcher in 1989 to win the three monthly or weekly AFC awards in the same season.
_Last year at Paul Brown Stadium with another season on the line on fourth-and-one from the 1, he improvised at the line of scrimmage with less than a minute left. Just like he did Sunday with 2:16 left. Last year it worked, too, when he snuck in for another fourth-quarter win that propelled the Bengals to a half-game lead over the Ravens and led to another play-off berth.
But everyone is looking at the recycled playoff loop with the mute button clicked on.
Is there really a difference?
As Zampese says, "When you put the nail in the coffin in Baltimore with (the improv), it's a big deal," and people notice.
Hue Jackson wanted more than pre-snap reads from Andy Dalton and his QB has responded.
Maybe it's only the jokes that are different. The smiles. The ease. More Hue and more Andy.
So it's not that he changed last Sunday's winning play at the line, when he saw yet another blitz coming, switched up the protection by motioning in Eifert from wide to in tight and then threw another seven-yard dart to Green for a touchdown. He's been doing the right pre-snap reads long enough that both the NFL-seasoned Jackson and Zampese say he's one of the best they've ever been around at doing it.
And Jackson says he's given Dalton as much freedom as anyone he's ever had. That would include Joe Flacco, Carson Palmer, and a young Michael Vick. Call Dalton "Carte Blanche," as long as it's on the sheet.
So that's not different. But maybe what is different is how he reacted to losing the ball on a sack and strip for a touchdown that gave the Bengals their first deficit of the season with 6:49 left.
"Andy looked at me and said, 'OK, Coach. Let's go. Don't even worry about it.' That's what he said," Jackson said. "A year ago, I can't tell you he said that. This year, he said, 'Coach don't worry about it. Hey, we don't have to get it all back right here, but if you want to, we can do that.'"
Poof. Twelve seconds later, on ball thrown so well that A.J. Green zipped 80 yards down the seam to suck the air out of the place.
"There was a calmness. There was a veteran player who had been through the wars, who had been through a lot of things here that looked me in the eye and said, 'Let's go.' . . . That's what it was, and that's what I've been looking for. So it's there. And now it will pay off for us in the long run."
A long run to maybe Vegas. Apparently Steve Smith Sr., wasn't the only guy firing out side-line one-liners.
"He was laughing. There were jokes going on out there between me and him sometimes. That's how comfortable this has become, and that's what you want," Jackson said. "There was a time yesterday when I'm in a timeout and I'm saying something and he knows what I'm saying, and he's just sitting there looking at me and laughing.
'Hey, Coach. I got it.' That's just how he is. The last play that was remarkable, I'm giving him the play and about to talk him through the scenario in case this happens and he goes (clap!), 'Coach I got it. Here we go. Let's go.' I mean, that's a comfort level. That's spending time in here, that's spending time in the classroom. That's what you want from your leader, from your quarterback. That's why he has so much respect down in that locker room because they know the time that he puts in."
A difference? Maybe it is Jackson's Type A personality mixing in with all the coaching, repetition, and drills. There's no question that shortly after the Wild Card loss in Indianapolis back in January ended their first season together Jackson gave Dalton the biggest challenge of his career as he sought more leadership from the guy that could do everything you'd want at the line of scrimmage.
But he needed something else from him. And when he saw the placid Green erupt Sunday, he knew he had it.
"I think you guys all saw it," Jackson said. "After the 80-yard touchdown run, are you kidding me? I mean, that guy was on fire. But it's getting to be contagious. It stems from Andy. It starts with him."
Scrambling? On Sunday, Dalton had three huge scrambles, one for a TD, one to convert a third down, and one that led to running back Giovani Bernard's 23-yard catch to ignite the winning drive. But Zampese can click off three big scrambles in his career before Sunday.
And Zampese, the master mechanic, hasn't seen major changes in Dalton's throwing motion. The three stints at Dr. Tom House's quarterbacks camp in the offseason have clearly made an impact.
"He's quicker, more compact, more balanced, more accurate," Zampese said.
QBs coach Ken Zampese has watched Andy Dalton grow since the 2011 draft.
But that doesn't explain the 16-yard rope to wide receiver Marvin Jones for the TD that made it 14-0. It was a seed on a slant that the amazed Jones said was released just four steps into his route.
"That's trust and anticipation and trust with a guy you've done it with 100 times," Zampese said. "If that's a guy we just picked up off the street and he'd been here a week, it's different because you don't have time on task. But it's Marvin Jones, a guy that had 10 touchdowns two years ago, a guy he's thrown to in big situations."
Zampese also hasn't seen a change in Dalton's study habits. When they scouted him at Texas Christian, they knew he was "a football smart guy."
"He wants to do it right," Zampese said. "Whatever you give him to memorize, he will memorize it like it is nothing. But then on top of that he has an ability to see things before they happen by who is located where and it helps eliminate certain things before the snap or adjust to certain things before the snap that puts the odds in our favor more often."
No one wants to sit down and watch tape with you and tell you how he does it. What he sees. That would give away too much. As Dalton walked to the bus Sunday after quieting the hysteria of half-an-hour before, he would only confirm what 70,970 and a CBS audience saw.
"Yeah," said Dalton with the same laugh he gave Jackson. "A.J. was in the slot. I'll give you that."
It sounds like geometry the way Zampese looks at it. He has been around some of the best. Brett Favre in Green Bay. Kurt Warner in St. Louis. Look at the AFC and NFC leaders in third down and fourth quarter passing. Dalton and Arizona's Carson Palmer. Palmer, the man Zampese coached in Cincinnati during that '04-'06 run.
"What he sees and feels at the line of scrimmage, his ability to manipulate the offense to fit the look is up there with the best of them. That's a big positive in his column. He's been doing that for five years," Zampese said.
After five years, it's to the point when Zampese is making more and more notes in his mind that say, "He's already seen that."
"He's comfortable in the offense. He's comfortable in the expectations, what the parameters are," Zampese said. "What his role is in directing guys and the plays and the protections and the runs and what the freedom is for him. When you know where the boundaries are it makes it easier to play within them . . . It brings confidence to me that we're not limited in our imagination because we have a guy that we can do anything we want with him."
And Jackson plans to do exactly that.
Maybe that's the difference.
"We try to take the gray out of a quarterback's mind, play like you're in the backyard," Jackson said. "You kind of play. But it's all driven by pinpoint accuracy by the quarterback, being able to throw very accurately and be smart and trust the guys that we put around you."


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It takes two prosecutors in court to beat up an 83-year-old victim. The prosecutor asked for sanctions against my Dad, but didn't get them. Prosecutor Kaelin lied in court about the two different copies of the order their office fabricated to close an earlier case brought by my Dad. Said the two were filed in different months, but they were dated the same. Obviously, one was fabricated. The best part? The quote from the prosecutor saying this is just my Dad's vendetta against the Prosecutor Cooper. These people don't get it and shouldn't have the power they do. It's the reason nobody was charged back in the day and part of the reason the kids who were kidnapped and murdered in Oakland County in 1976 and 1977 will never have justice.
Well who the hell wouldn't be angry and God help the victimized parents who don't have King's strength. BTW Prosecutors: Do you really want to go down in history as being one of the losers who helped with this cover up? Do you want your great grandchildren to avoid mentioning you? Find some cohones, one of you, and put an end to this disgrace.
I have to believe that at some point the lid will blow. It's not just Karma, but inevitability, human weakness (god, you people are so weak it's amazing you have gotten so many passes!) and almost physics. When that happens, all of you who turned a blind eye, passed the buck, shrugged it off with the idea that "people forget," so you could go on with your life or get promoted, continue to straighten your tie in the mirror, kiss your wife goodnight and forget about this by consoling yourself that more kids didn't get tortured and killed, will get covered in taint. If you are gone, your family, friends and associates will deal with the fall-out. I know quite a few people know what the deal is and have for decades. You've had a great run–almost 40 years–but fair is fair. You will go down eventually and so will the people who covered for you. F is for Fair. P is for Patience. It will happen.
this has gone too far after all the evidence that they have suppressed has come out after 35 years they are still covering up their behavior of the last decades.
Busch was driving a tan Vega wagon at that time.
Somehow someway this case needs to get into the National Media or get Geoff Fieger involved. Its the only way it can finally be solved. Jessica Cooper and her cronies need to be exposed in the National Media for what they have done. Its been almost 40 years, how long are we going to let these people get away with this?
What are the Wayne Cty. people doing? The Vega was seen at an address in Livonia, in Feb. of 75, on a Sunday night.
They will never let it be a matter of public record, that while a network of powerful people, to avoid an epic scandal covered for a network of powerful pedophiles, a killer of little kids slithered in around and through them all. There is so much dirt and blood on so many hands it will never wash off or come clean. May anyone with a sliver of doings in these horrific crimes and cover-ups rot on every level.
I would like to watch the documentary Decades of Deceit, but can't find it anywhere. Is available online anywhere for streaming or by hard copy?
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On the very first bullet of suggested topics for this group, Ephemera & Collectibles ~ odds n' ends, Scott lists NGM variants. I've decided to take a stab at it, although I'm sure my list is far from complete.
First a disclaimer: I am NOT going to list issues with/without the red TV advertisement banners from the '60s, barcodes for newsstand issues, or additional advertisements like the October 2013 "Free Poster" which was only on newsstands.
With that being said, let me proceed with what I've got so far.
Two versions of the July 1889 (Vol. 1, No. 2) issue of NGM as per Buxbaum (1971) page 77. Photos courtesy of Jim Persons.
This is the, now famous "red covered" reprint of the very popular Philippines number. Both Buxbaum and Nathan have documented this cover variant. Membership grew from 3,400 in January 1905 to 11,000 by the end of the year in large part to the popularity of this issue. While additional production runs usually use the same stock, this may have been a "kill two birds with one stone" moment that allowed the disposal of some leftover, red stock from 1903.
The January 1916 issue was so popular that the Society reprinted it with a notice across the top margin that reads "SPECIAL REPRINT".
The first cover lists three articles, the second one has four. The additional article, "100 British Seaports" does appear in both versions. It was just skipped on the cover until the error was caught. Image courtesy of Jeff Persons.
Does the second article have 18 or 17 "Natural Color Photographs"? The answer is 17. This means the erroneous "18" version came first. It was followed, mid production run, with the corrected "17" version. Image courtesy Jeff Persons.
This is known as the "Acorn Issue". Mid production run, the border was changed not only upping the number of acorns, but also changing the globes. Notice Antarctica. Image courtesy of Jeff Persons.
One of these issues was stamped for the fifteenth anniversary of the RRD North Plant on November 15, 1974. It is not known how many were printed. Image courtesy of Jeff Persons.
My knowledge of this variant, with green borders instead of yellow is thanks to Jeffry Persons who has posted a discussion on it right here in this group. It is an interesting read and I'd recommend it. Thanks Jeff! It is a cover-only variant, they were bound with random pages, thus not a true issue. I must confess I do not have this variant in my collection. I just had fun modifying my image with Microsoft Paint.
This is one of seven variants documented by Abramo Russo with the note: (See bottom of Covers). The bottom of one cover is the standard "Official Journal of the National Geographic Society Washington D.C." in black while the other has a television ad in red.
A paper band was added to the issues sold at Colonial Williamsburg to promote the article on Carter's Grove entitled "New Clues to Virginia's Lost Settlement". Photo of issue with band courtesy of Jeff Persons.
The cover used has a hologram of an eagle, the other, which was ready for use if the holographic cover wasn't ready, has a photograph from China. Image courtesy of Jeff Persons.
The covers of these January 1985 issues differ along the bottom edge. These images are courtesy of Juan Carlos Herrera del Castillo.
The holographic globe issue. But which foil to use? Silver or Gold? Gold proved better. Image courtesy of Jeff Persons.
The sticker added to this cover reads "Compliment of AT&T". It commemorates Ellis Island. Photo of cover with sticker courtesy of Jeff Persons.
The sticker on this cover states that this was the 1,000,000,000 issue of National Geographic printed. Photo of cover with sticker courtesy of Jeff Persons.
A sticker was added to the issues sold at Chicago Airport to commemorate the "Sue" T-Rex exhibit. This particular issue includes the article about "Sue". Photo of cover with sticker courtesy of Jeff Persons.
The newsstand version of this issue has an attached strip and a different format of the contents. Image courtesy of Jeff Persons.
Newsstand copy has an attached flap and different formatting of the content. Image courtesy of Jeff Persons.
This is another cover with sticker sold at Chicago Airport advertising the "Sue" T-Rex exhibit. Photo of cover with sticker courtesy of Jeff Persons.
Newsstand copy has an attached flap and differently formatted contents on the cover. Image courtesy of Jeff Persons.
Another cover flap and alternate formatting on the newsstand version. Image Courtesy of Jeff Persons.
The newsstand cover has a special "Watching You" cover while the subscription cover highlights the article about ancient Egypt. Photo courtesy of Jeff Persons.
This issue also had two different newsstand covers. In addition, the newsstand copy that has the same cover image as the subscription copy has a different content format. Perhaps to make room for the barcode. Images courtesy of Jeff Persons.
The May 2004 Issue has two different covers for the subscription and newsstand copies. Thanks to Scott Shier for letting me know about this one.
A limited version. Used on newsstands in conjunction with the regular cover newsstand version. Courtesy of Scott Shier. Note: this cover was also used for the European version.
Limited version, used with the primary newsstand copy, which was the same image as subscription copy. Courtesy of Scott Shier.
This is another example of where the newsstand cover is completely different from the subscription issue's. Image courtesy of Jeff Persons.
This issue had two different covers: one for subscription members and another for the newsstand. Apparently the newsstand version was used to help advertise the TV special on the NGC titled "The Gospel of Judas". Thanks go out to Philip Riviere for pointing this one out to me.
Here, the newsstand and subscription covers have the same photo but different formatting and verbage. Image courtesy of Jeff Persons.
A very limited newsstand version. apparently, used in airport venues only. Courtesy of Scott Shier.
The newsstand version has a zoomed-in pyramid that is offset to the left. The alternate, newsstand cover about post-Katrina New Orleans was pointed out to me by JB Penn. It was a limited run, just for that region of the country. The subscription version, and apparently most of the newsstand copies were about the Maya. Courtesy of Scott Shier.
Still another example of where the newsstand cover is modified from the subscription one. Image courtesy Abramo Russo.
Extremely limited newsstand version. Only used out west in select areas. Also Canada newsstand version. Courtesy of Scott Shier.
The newsstand cover has a different layout than the subscription version. The content info is rearranged and the Pelican is smaller. Photo courtesy of Abramo Russo.
There is a third variant shown here with a slightly different layout than the newsstand version. It is minus the "Mission Blue" entry (bottom left). This variant (and photo) courtesy of Jeff Persons.
First version has barcode, a flap, and King David title on the right-hand side. Second version has the flap and right-hand side title but no barcode. Third version has no flap, no barcode, a the King David title on the left-hand side.
The newsstand version of this issue has an attached strip with a Volcano picture and blurb instead of the table of contents. It superimposes half of the Inca cover photo, is lighter and is easily removed. The Inca photo underneath does NOT have the Table of Contents like the subscription version. This pair is courtesy of Abramo Russo.
A split cover for the newsstand version. Courtesy of Scott Shier.
With the split cover with content information removed is mainly the photo, while the subscription version contains a large headline and content verbiage. This is the opposite of the current practice of having the subscription cover mostly the photo while the newsstand version has an eye-catching headline and content info. Photo courtesy of Scott Shier.
Finally, This issue also had a limited alternate subscription cover sporting a robot. Photo courtesy of Scott Shier.
The cover states "This baby will live to be 120" and has a picture of said baby. There are FOUR versions of this cover, one for each major ethnic group in this country. Philip Riviere has a photo album containing all four, and a fifth one on a Mexican NGM.
This is cheating a little bit. The Hubble cover is from the UK magazine and not the US one. When Thierry Lombry posted it, I just had to get one. It was delivered on April 24th, the 25th anniversary of the Hubble's launch. All the articles are the same but the advertisements are British.
Here's another subscription vs. newsstand variant. This one for March 2016. Photos courtesy of Abramo Russo.
The Society pulled out all the stops for this issue with ten different covers. The theme is "The Photo Ark: One man's quest to document the world's animals, one picture at a time". This entry is thanks to Scott Shier and Philip Riviere.
There are two distinct covers on "Gender Identity" for this issue. Image was found by Scott Shier.
As with January 2017, there are two covers: one for subscribers and the other for newsstands. While the subscriber's cover is more eco-conscious, the newsstand cover plies the buyer with alcohol.
What seems to be a standard practice, when the covers use the same image, the subscriber's copy has minimal writing beyond the banner, while the newsstand's version has bold headlines. This newsstand copy happens to be the Spanish version, the U.S./Canada headline reads "Vikings".
As with last month, the subscription and newsstand covers are different with the newsstand version including bold headlines. Photos courtesy of Scott Shier.
The U.S./Canadian newsstand version has the word "GENIUS" in large letters on it much like the Croatian version shown here. Photo courtesy of Abramo Russo.
Again, the newsstand has a eye-catching "Secret Antarctica" on the cover that is not needed on the subscription version.
The May 2018 cover has the same variants between the subscription issue and the newsstand issue in that the subscription cover has the artwork with very small writing whereas the newsstand one has a large, eye-catching title, in this case "Picasso". As with several earlier issues this is a tie-in with the Nat Geo Channel (Second season of "Genius").
The June 2018 newsstand cover again has the large, bold title "Planet or Plastic" printed on the image along with additional writing. The subscription cover has a minimal title and much less other text leaving the image more pristine.
Continuing the trend of have a large, eye-catching title on the newsstand cover while leaving the photo pretty much pristine on the subscription cover; the July 2018 issue is entitled "Building a Better Athlete".
The August 2018 issue continues what seems to be standard operating procedure with the subscription version's cover having minimum verbiage while the newsstand copies having a large headline and contents documented as well.
subscription one. Also shown are the American newsstand version as opposed to the one from Spain.
November 2018 continues the subscription/newsstand divergence.
The newsstand version of the December 2018 issue has a bold headline again while the subscription copy is mainly the photograph.
The newsstand version of the January 2019 issue has a top banner stating "Special Issue" while this item is missing from the subscription copy. Notice that it pushes the magazine's title down, partly behind the fingers of the hand.
This is a true cover variant. The subscription and the newsstand versions of the cover use different photographs. This is unlike most of the recent issue that basically have the same photo, but use different verbiage and/or cropping.
Back to the bold headline for the newsstand cover versus the diminutive title on the subscription cover.
Note: I just added a citation for the January 2017 upcoming "Gender" issue.
Note: I just added an entry to this list for the February 2017 subscription vs. newsstand covers of National Geographic.
Note: I just added an entry for the May 2017 subscription versus newsstand covers. Photo courtesy of Abramo Russo.
Note: I just added an entry to this list for the subscription vs. newsstand versions of the July 2017 NGM cover.
Note: I just added two entries for the NGM March and April 2017 (both subscription vs. newsstand).
Note: I just added a citation for the January 1916 issue: original and special reprint. Images courtesy of Jeff Persons.
Note: I just added a citation for the July 1889 (Vol. I, No. 3) issue variants noted by Buxbaum (1971) page 77. Images courtesy of Jim Persons.
Note: I just added a citation for the October 1974 NGM cover and spine variations.
Note: I just added a citation for the December 2010 National Geographic Magazine's cover variants. Images courtesy of Jeff Persons.
Note: I just added an entry for the US vs. UK versions of the March 2018 "Astronauts" (or is it Cosmos) issue.
Note: I just added an entry for the subscription vs. newsstand covers of the May 2018 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
Note: I just added a citation for the differences between the subscription vs. newsstand covers on the June 2018 National Geographic.