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Revival in Ohio
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Formerly based in Monroe, Ohio, The Woodworking Shop has experienced so much growth in the last couple of years that it recently expanded into a larger, 30,000-sq.-ft. facility in Miamisburg, Ohio. Company owner and founder Mark Sams says the lack of space in the previous shop (7,500 sq. ft.) hindered the company from taking on more projects and had him turning down work every day.
"The economy for us is doing very well. We are still busy as we can be and are turning down as much work as we are doing. I recently turned down work for a major grocery store and for a new hotel in Columbus with another construction company, so I'm saying no as much as I'm saying yes. Part of this move was so when opportunities come in we can take advantage of them without having to say no," Sams says.
Sams, who has eight employees, runs a full turnkey operation. The shop offers design, manufacturing, delivery and installation services of custom cabinetry, millwork, casework and solid-surface counters for hotels, retail stores, medical facilities, educational institutions, grocery stores and churches. In addition to millwork and casework, it also offers wood and plastic laminate lockers.
A very busy man, Sams also dabbles in other business endeavors, such as helping manage his family-owned retirement community in North Carolina and running a local consulting business with his father for non-profit organizations. He has been a preacher for more than 30 years and is currently a church pastor at LifeBridge Christian Church in Middletown, Ohio. These have all enriched his networking and interpersonal skills and contributed to his success in the woodworking industry.
Starting off small
"I started the company in 2002 and, for six years, it was much more of a hobby than a livelihood," Sams says. "I did some jobs on the side, most of them residential casework and built-ins. I did a few commercial things here and there. I was in a small building on my parents' farm, here in town."
He moved to the Monroe shop in 2008, which was only 2,500 sq. ft. then.
"Right before that move I literally told my wife I could figure out how to pay for the space and utilities for a year and said, 'Let's try this out and see where it goes.' I had started in a new church and needed additional income, so I said, 'Let's do this, too.' "
It was risky, what with the U.S. economy facing the Great Recession, but Sams had a plan.
"I knew the market was obviously going to come back so when everybody else was closing their businesses, we were buying their equipment and growing. I knew when it came back, it would come back hot and heavy and there would not be the companies out there to meet the demand."
The big break came when he got a call asking if he was interested in building lockers for a national manufacturer.
"We started building wood lockers for this company and we still do today," Sams says. "There are only about seven major wood locker companies in the U.S., so we manufacture for one of those companies. We have lockers at Harvard, Yale, Texas State and Virginia Tech. We have done athletic lockers for new sports complexes, which are plastic laminate with raised panel doors, like you'd see in a country club.
"Later, when I thought I could pursue commercial work, I did. About 95 percent of what we do now is commercial and about 25 percent of that is lockers. We do very little residential work nowadays."
Contractors are calling Sams, asking him to bid jobs, rather than just look at them. That's a sign that his business has gotten the recognition it deserves from his years of hard work. He says the turnkey service is very appealing to contractors because they can always know what's going on with one shop working on many tasks.
The company does not engage in marketing and relies completely on word-of-mouth referrals for sales. Sams is a member of iSqFt (www.iSqFt.com), a service for general and subcontractors to see what construction is going on in their area and to learn professional tips. He is also a member of the Cabinet Makers Association, which keeps him in touch with colleagues on a national scale.
About 70 percent of the company's work is considered local, which includes all of Ohio and parts of Kentucky. But the company has connections and jobs set up all over the country. It completes about 90 jobs per year, but they are different in size where one hotel, for example, is a job in itself.
"Commercial-wise, we do a lot of hotels," Sams says. "We have contracts for three Ohio hotels right now in 2015 with contractors and builders, the Hampton Inn in Cincinnati, Fairfield Inn in Columbus and also the Holiday Inn in northern Cincinnati.
"This Holiday Inn is nearby for us and it's a flagship hotel being the only one in the country with a chapel along with it. There are four or five bridal suites. They're going after the wedding market and it's a whole new approach for Holiday Inn. We're doing the restaurant and all the millwork; it's kind of cool."
The company also provides casework for retailers such as DSW (Designer Shoe Warehouse). Another part of the business is church and clergy work. Sams' background as a preacher helps him relate and get the job done right.
"One of our contractors does a lot of church buildings, so we usually get all of those. We are doing work in a church right now in Dayton, the Christian Life Center; we are doing all of the millwork there. Because of my church background, it makes it easy for us to deal with churches. We know what they're thinking."
Sams is planning to hire a production manager in the next few months, with any luck. "Finding employees is a challenge right now. I would bring in three guys today, if I could find them," he says.
The shop looks like an SCM showroom. Sams has a strong relationship with the company, participating in its "Lunch & Learn" program by hosting prospective buyers at his shop for machinery demonstrations.
Sams isn't the least bit apprehensiv e about being friendly with his competitors. He's quick to help them out and feels there is plenty of work to go around.
"There are companies that bid jobs and every so often we will lose one because of that, but we really don't find competition being that big a deal for us," Sams says. "I don't know if it's because of the arena we work in with the contractors or whatnot, but we don't find competition to be a big deal in this area. And we have a good relationship with all of our competitors. We know them and they know us. I could knock on all of their doors and they'd say hi and welcome me and the same thing here."
A very good year
Sams says he expects to gross close to $1.5 million this year. "In 2015 we will almost double our gross sales from 2014," he says. "Our anticipation for 2016 is to grow another 50 percent beyond this year, if not more than that.
"We have a plan to hire more individuals in 2015 and additional ones in 2016. Another part of the reason for the move and relocation is to streamline what we're doing in-house. Our actual in-house staffing and employee base is pretty good. In other words, we should be able to produce the product and get it out the door. We are going to hire a production manager and installers to install the product since I install and do not sub that out."
The company has a new product that's being well-received. It is a hidden storage shelf for valuables that releases from the bottom with a magnetic key. Sams has partnered with another company to make the product available through major retail outlets in the sporting goods and furniture industries.
Finally, Sams sings the praise of running a manufacturing business in the Buckeye State.
"Ohio is a very positive place to own and run a business," he says. "We do not have some of the regulations they have in other parts of the country, such as the Northeast and West Coast, so it's not as tough. The area that we just moved into very open to bringing in new businesses, so they have been very welcoming to us."
Contact: The Woodworking Shop, 1195 Mound Road, Miamisburg, OH 45342. Tel: 513-330-9663. www.thewoodworkingshop.com
This article originally appeared in the July 2015 issue.
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Chelsea can dominate for years to come, what more is needed?
Matt Haynes | 21.10.2014
Jose Mourinho has cleverly assembled one of the best Premier League squads. One of the reasons why they sit atop the Premier League, and are odds-on at 1/2 with Coral to win the title this season. Currently unbeaten so far this season, they are 20/1 to make that last for the rest of their Premier League campaign, and 5/2 to not record a defeat at home.
Self-proclaimed as "the Special One" in his first spell as Chelsea's chief coordinator, a term he boldly branded himself in his initiation with British press back in 2004 in a crowded, stifling Stamford Bridge media room, he needed a new name upon his return.
Can you really top "the Special One"? The derivation of the Portuguese name 'Jose', lends the literal translation, "May God give increase". Effectively, Mourinho hit the nail on the head with "the Special One", though was perhaps more refined and relaxed in his second, first Chelsea press conference. He hailed himself as "the Happy One", in good humour and humility to let everyone know his joy at being back at the Blues.
There was very little change in the first season of Mourinho's second stint. Content to give players a chance, he swiftly recruited in the January transfer window. His knowledge of, and contacts in, the Portuguese league enabling him to bring Serbian midfield enforcer Nemanja Matic back to the club he left as a boy, having become a man. Egyptian winger Mohamed Salah followed for £11m, as did teenage centre back talent Kurt Zouma for £12.5m.
Mourinho's masterstroke at balancing the books was offloading Spaniard Juan Mata, to a desperate David Moyes for £37.1m. The 26-year-old was deemed surplus to requirements, because Chelsea had Oscar, who had that one quality Mourinho values the most; high work rate. As a result, the club's net January spend came to £8.4m, a feat even qualified economist Arsene Wenger would struggle to emulate at cash-cow Arsenal.
Falling just short in the title race, there were obvious flaws in the Chelsea squad. A lack of potency in front of goal, and that instinctive creativity, despite the ever-developing precocious talent Eden Hazard, who is perhaps more direct.
Recognising the need to do business early in the transfer window, players were swiftly signed. It has since emerged that these deals were done 12 months prior. Long-term target Diego Costa came in for £32m and Cesc Fabregas followed for £27m. Mourinho had his priority recruits, with Chelsea demonstrating once again that they have become masters at squeezing every possible penny out of a deal.
Putting that into context, the £59m spent on the pair was £3m less than Arsenal paid for Alexis Sanchez (£30m), Danny Welbeck (£16m) and Calum Chambers (£16m). If hairs are to be split, the Blues also brought in Mario Pasalic, the same age as Chambers, for £2.4m, which more or less evens up spending on three players apiece.
Consequently, the Gunners currently sit eighth on 10 points, nine behind Chelsea, who also beat Wenger's men 2-0 at Stamford Bridge recently; Fabregas playing a key part in the decisive goal. To further prove Mourinho's instincts right, Costa leads the scoring charts with nine goals, four ahead of Argentine pair Sergio Aguero and Leonardo Ulloa, and Saido Berahino, while Fabregas is top of the assists table on seven.
Despite also bringing in talented left back, and Costa's teammate from Atletico Madrid, Filipe Luis (£15.8m), plus former fans favourite Didier Drogba back to the club on a free transfer, and Loic Remy (£10.5m), there is the suggestion the blend in the striking department isn't quite right.
A lot of responsibility rests on Costa's shoulder, like Drogba in his prime, though the Brazilian-born Spain centre forward apparently has injury concerns. If they did lose him for even a couple of months, Remy would need to step up, or the ageing Drogba would need to re-discover the scintillating form of the past.
French forward Remy clearly has talent, and could be world class, though within the striking hierarchy perhaps a more established striker needs to be brought in who can competitively challenge Costa. Due to Mourinho utilising a one-frontman system, the problem is finding someone who would be content with spending spells on the bench who isn't quite world class, though can offer the physical element.
Jackson Martinez, who flourished at the World Cup in scoring two goals for Colombia, currently plays for Mourinho's former club Porto, and has consistently expressed his desire to ply his trade in the Premier League. At 28, he is at the right stage of his career to move on, and would suit Chelsea to a tee.
Already, he has nine goals in 11 games, across all competitions, including three in two Champions League matches. If Martinez wants to catch the eye, more of the same in Europe's elite competition would surely convince Mourinho to make a move.
Perhaps what they also need is more of a driving force in central midfield; the box-to-box dynamism Frank Lampard used to offer in his pomp. Although Ramires is full of energy, he is considered quite lightweight for the Premier League, and has a rash streak that has made him a magnet for bookings and increases his chances of injury.
Recently, the Blues have been linked to Real Madrid's Sami Khedira, who is thought be available for as little as £10m. Lining up alongside Matic, with Fabregas in front and Hazard and Andre Schurrle on the flanks, this would be a formidable midfield quintet. Mourinho then has the nice headache of trying to fit in Oscar's work rate.
One sticking point is that Madrid are thought to want goalkeeper Petr Cech in return, who has lost his place to Thibaut Courtois. Chelsea, however, have proved over the past couple of years that they are a club to watch when it comes to negotiation, and could give Real a run for their money.
Added to the £37.1m they received for Mata, they sold Brazil defender David Luiz, who went onto flop at the World Cup, for £50m, as well as big Belgium frontman Romelu Lukaku for £28m. These deals financed their own outgoings for Costa, Fabregas, Luis and Remy.
The likelihood is that Chelsea will once again be successful in any new transfer dealings. They also currently have a raft of young talent they have accumulated over the years, out on loan that can be sold for huge returns.
Case in point; Lukaku. Roman Abramovich more than doubled his money on him. It is also reported that this process was repeated with Kevin de Bruyne. Their new business model cannot be argued with.
When John Terry decides to hang his boots up, they have Gary Cahill, who is gradually starting to look like a carbon copy of the 33-year-old for both club and country. Options are limitless and, with Borussia Dortmund's German talent Mats Hummels courting interest from both Manchester United and Arsenal, previous form suggests if they Blues enter the race then those other suitors are in trouble.
They beat both teams, plus Manchester City to the signing of Eden Hazard, one that took many by surprise and established Chelsea once again as serious contenders. There is no doubt whether Hummels would suit Chelsea. Refined in style, comfortable on the ball and aerially dominant, he could slot straight in, though there is also Zouma ready to zoom off the conveyor belt.
Whatever happens at Chelsea over the coming seasons, they appear to be in great shape, and for the Champions League victory Jose Mourinho craves they are 6/1; though, it is perhaps a season too early. Just three more quality signings could change the shape of the Blues' future, and leave a permanent smile on the face of "the Happy One".
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A long-suffering Leeds fan, Matt studied Sports Journalism at university, and has a plethora of multi-industry experience. Having worked on behalf of multiple hedge funds and top-tier investment banks in executive search, he has also had a stint with the BBC and the Press Association. Outside of work, he pursues entrepreneurial activities and likes to keep fit.
Although he has interviewed current England manager Roy Hodgson as well as Rafa Benitez and a number of other names, he is honoured to have spent time in the company of Gordon Banks. Matt enjoys cultivating long-lasting professional and personal relationships, is solution orientated, and supports Coral's sports content provision.
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From these discoveries, we are assured that no vegetable grows in vain, but that from the oak of the forest to the grass of the field, every individual plant is serviceable to mankind; if not always distinguished by some private virtue, yet making a part of the whole which cleanses and purifies our atmosphere. ... nor is the herbage, nor the woods that flourish in the most remote and unpeopled regions unprofitable to us, nor we to them; considering how constantly the winds convey to them our vitiated air, for our relief, and for their nourishment"�.
From these discoveries, we are assured that no vegetable grows in vain, but that from the oak of the forest to the grass of the field, every individual plant is serviceable to mankind; if not always distinguished by some private virtue, yet making a part of the whole which cleanses and purifies our atmosphere. ... nor is the herbage, nor the woods that flourish in the most remote and unpeopled regions unprofitable to us, nor we to them; considering how constantly the winds convey to them our vitiated air, for our relief, and for their nourishment"¦.
Today is National Arbor Day, and the Arbor Day Society of Nebraska and many other groups are still educating the public on what Joseph Priestley, who died in Northumberland, Pa., discovered more than 200 years ago: that trees and other green plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen. They provide the precious gas we all need to breathe.
Priestley was a religious free-thinker who published an English grammar that became the established textbook for 50 years, but his experiments with gases, which he called "airs," brought him recognition. He independently discovered oxygen, designing his own experiments to identify oxygen's unique properties. He conducted a sequence of experiments in 1774 using a closed jar. First, a lit candle went out. A mouse placed in the same jar suffocated, but a plant survived and grew. A week later, another mouse placed in the same jar survived. Thus, Priestley was able to demonstrate that plants take in carbon dioxide, but give off what he called "dephlogisticated air": oxygen. His discovery had enormous scientific importance, and the process he demonstrated, which occurs constantly around the planet, has enormous importance to our survival.
According to the Arbor Day Foundation, rain forests make up just 2 percent of the world's surface, but provide habitat and nutritional support for almost half of the Earth's living species. It's up to us to protect them.
You can help. Avoid buying rain forest-produced wood, furniture or beef. Buy sustainably produced tropical nuts and fruits and products such as resins, rattan, and others to benefit rain forest economies without damaging the resource. Spread the word. Visit www.arborday.org to learn more about trees and their role in our world. Support community Arbor Day events and plant trees. Locally, the Monroe County Conservation District and the Brodhead Watershed Association will hold a public sale of native plants, shrubs and trees from 9 a.m. to noon tomorrow in Bartonsville. Call 629-3061 or visit www.brodheadwatershed.org for information and directions.
Joseph Priestley continued his scientific and theological studies throughout his lifetime. His enthusiastic defence of religious and civil liberties angered residents of Birmingham, who in 1791 burned his home, library and laboratory. Priestley left England for Pennsylvania, where scientists at the University of Pennsylvania offered him the chemistry chair. He declined, moving his family to Northumberland, just two hours west of the Poconos, where he built a Unitarian congregation.
Joseph Priestley died in 1804. He was the first person to observe plant respiration. As the Royal Society noted, "From the oak of the forest to the grass of the field, every individual plant is serviceable to mankind," cleansing and purifying our atmosphere.
We can all acknowledge Priestley's important discovery by planting a tree today in his honor.


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Andrew Victor McLaglen (Londres, 28 de juliol de 1920 - Friday Harbor, Estats Units 30 d'agost de 2014) va ser un director de cinema, de televisió i actor ocasional d'origen anglès, amb nacionalitat estatunidenca. És conegut pels westerns i pel·lícules d'aventures, sovint protagonitzades per John Wayne o James Stewart.

Biografia
Andrew McLaglen va néixer a Londres, fill de l'actor britànic Victor McLaglen i Enid Lamont, que es van mudar a Hollywood en la dècada de 1920, poc després del seu naixement. Va ser educat de forma convencional, després va anar al Black Fox Military fins al cinquè grau. Fins al vuitè grau, va anar a la The Carl Curtis School, una escola acadèmica que feia un fort èmfasi en l'educació física. A finals de 1930, a l'escola de secundària, la Cates School a Santa Barbara, amb una càmera de 16 mm, va reunir els amics per fer petites pel·lícules. Després va entrar a la Universitat de Virgínia. En acabar va tornar a casa i amb la Segona Guerra Mundial a punt de començar, va intentar allistar-se però el van refusar per l'alçada, ja que feia més de 2 metres.

Ell era d'una família dedicada al cinema, incloent 8 oncles i una tieta. Gràcies al seu pare, el jove Andrew va treballar i va viure amb la flor i nata dels artistes més originals i idiosincràtics de Hollywood. El primer crèdit és com ajudant de direcció el 1945 de la pel·lícula d'Albert Rogell, Love, Honor and Goodbye?. Després de treballar com a assistent de direcció en un parell de pel·lícules menors, John Ford li va donar el treball d'ajudant de direcció en la pel·lícula The Quiet Man (1952). Després d'assistir en diverses pel·lícules a William A. Wellman, McLaglen va dirigir la seva primera cinta, Man in the Vault (1956), un film negre que va ser seguit per Gun the Man Down el 1956, una pel·lícula de l'oest de la sèrie B amb James Arness, Angie Dickinson i Harry Carey, Jr, i co-produïda per John Wayne.

En aquest moment va treballar molt per la televisió, dirigint episodis de Perry Mason (7), Gunslinger (5), Rawhide (6), i després 116 episodis de Have Gun - Will Travel, The Lieutenant (4), The Virginian (2), i 96 episodis de Gunsmoke.

El 1963 va dirigir un western d'alt pressupost que el va portar a l'èxit amb un gran èxit de taquilla: McLintock!, amb John Wayne i Maureen O'Hara de protagonistes. Després vindrien Shenandoah (1965) i The Rare Breed (1966), ambdós amb James Stewart; The Devil's Brigade (1968), Mitchell (1975), The Wild Geese (1978), North Sea Hijack (1979), i The Sea Wolves (1980). Va fer sobretot westerns, però més tard es va especialitzar en les pel·lícules de guerra o d'acció, sent la darrera Return from the River Kwai (1989).

També va treballar moltes vegades amb John Wayne en pel·lícules com Hellfighters (1968), The Undefeated (1969), Chisum (1970), i Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973). També va dirigir The Last Hard Men (1976) interpretada per Charlton Heston i James Coburn. McLaglen va patrocinar Murder at the World Series, una pel·lícula per la TV de 1977 en la que va tornar a fer equip amb l'actriu de Chisum Lynda Day George.

En el seu primer matrimoni amb l'actriu Veda Ann Borg, van tenir el fill Andrew Victor McLaglen II.

Filmografia
 Gun the Man Down (1956)
 Man in the Vault (1956)
 The Abductors (1957)
 Freckles (1960)
 McLintock! (1963)
 Shenandoah (1965)
 The Rare Breed (1966)
 The Ballad of Josie (1967)
 Monkeys, Go Home! (1967)
 El camí de l'oest (The Way West) (1967)
 La brigada del diable (The Devil's Brigade) (1968)
 Bandolero! (1968)
 Hellfighters (1968)
 The Undefeated (1969)
 Chisum (1970)
 One More Train to Rob (1971)
 Setge de foc (Fools' Parade) (1971)
 Something Big (1971)
 La soga de la forca (Cahill U.S. Marshal) (1973)
 Mitchell (1975)
 Els últims homes durs (The Last Hard Men) (1976)
 The Wild Geese (1978)
 North Sea Hijack (1979)
 Breakthrough (1979)
 Els llops de mar (The Sea Wolves) (1980)
 Sahara (1983)
 Els dotze del patíbul: Una altra missió (1985)
 Eye of the Widow (1989)
 Return from the River Kwai (1989)

Referències

Directors de cinema londinencs
Directors de cinema estatunidencs
Actors de cinema londinencs
Morts a l'estat de Washington
Actors de cinema estatunidencs

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Charges or fees associated with receiving a service tend to get on people's' nerves. When customers believe the charges or fees were applied in an unfair manner things can quickly escalate to whole new level of frustration. Perhaps this type of feeling is behind the filing of the All-South Subcontractors, Inc., et al. v Sunbelt Rentals, Inc. class action lawsuit. The suit alleges that the Defendant charged and collected Pay On Return Refueling Charges and Transportation Surcharges which were in excess of its costs for providing them. The Plaintiffs claim that such acts breached contracts and violated certain state statutory laws. It should be pointed out that the Defendant denies any wrongdoing nor has the Court found that Sunbelt did anything wrong. However, both sides have agreed to a settlement in order to avoid the costs and risks associated with taking the case to trial. Class Members can begin the online claim filing process by going to the SBR Fee Settlement page and clicking the Claim Form tab.
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The Defendant has agreed to establish a settlement fund of $10,000,000 to be used to pay Class Members who submit timely and valid claims. Any court approved attorney's fees, class representative incentive awards, administration costs, and reimbursed litigation expenses will be paid from this fund. At this time it's not possible to determine how much any individual Class Member may receive from the settlement. Class Members with questions may want to review the information found under the FAQ tab of the SBR Fee Settlement page. Those who prefer live over the phone assistance can reach out directly to the Settlement Administrator.


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Q: CYGWIN( UNIX):How can I use variables count how many times grep finds a "yes" or "no" in the files in my directory? IN CYGWIN( UNIX) I am searching for the words "yes" "no" in files my directory. each file will only say "yes" or "no". How can i use variables YES=0 and NO=0 to count how many times grep finds a "yes" or "no" in the files in my directory?

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Granddaddy's Horseless Carriage
By Lydiaq ELITE, Somonauk, Illinois
Lydiaq ELITE, Somonauk, Illinois
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Love, because you can't love your way out of the lunatic asylum, but it makes it more fun to be a lunatic.
--Me
Broken Saw, SD
"What in Heaven's name is this child doing here? Pickle relish! Well, this is a pretty can of worms!"
"I'm your granddaughter, Josephina," I explained patiently, "come to spend the summer! I came on the twelve o' clock Prairie Rose Express, 'way from Chicago."
"Harrumph! Well, you can get right back on that train and go back to your rich mama and daddy in Chicago. Why can't they take care of you?"
"They can take care of me just fine, Grumsie. Only they got tired of me, you know, doing things—sliding down the banister, crashing into servants, climbing the chandelier, roller-skating in the parlor, and spilling teapots. Mama says I'm disgraceful for a young lady of thirteen."
"Harrumph!" Grumsie said again. Grumsie is dreadfully fond of saying, "Harrumph!", isn't she?
"Anyhow, the train's gone. I'd like to put away my things, if you know what I mean."
"Pickle relish," muttered Grumsie. Her face wrinkled like a prune. "Just look at the child. Velvet valise, peacock-feather hat, kid-leather boots. Unicycle! Canary in a cage! She won't let that ridiculous bird fly free, not in my house she won't!"
"Roger K. Maroony is a good bird," I said, reproachful-like. "Here, Roger, say hello to Grumsie. Where are your manners? Roger will do tricks, Grumsie, but only if I feed him chocolate caramels."
Grumsie asked me, "Just what kind of little girl are you? Where did you go to school?"
I said, "Oh, I've gone to the Young Ladies Academy on Forty-fourth Street ever so long. Mama makes me. I adore poetry and I'm trying to write my own plays for the theater. And I can hook pot-holders, and I can play seven songs on the piano, and I can even sing a little. I got a C in penmanship, which isn't fair, because I write the most flowery compositions in the whole school! I can speak German and I only mispronounce two-thirds of the verbs. I'm not exactly a Sunday-School model little girl, but one can't be everything in this world, can't he?"
"Well, you'll have to try. You'll have to put your silly pampered little featherbrain to some good use. We have no servants, and you will do your share. You will tend the hogs and wash the dishes and straighten up the parlor good and proper."
"I'll do anything to preserve the Maroony family honor," I vowed solemnly. "I would cut off my foot and cast it into the coal-heater for you, dearest Grumsie. I would scourge my bare shoulders with a riding-whip. I would drink kerosene."
I'd hardly started upstairs when Grumsie hollered, "JOSIE-PHINE-A!"
"I should like to be called Joey, if you please. Josephina is so stuffy. Joey is a boy's name, and I wish I was born a boy. Why was I born a girl?"
"What were Xavier and Charlotte thinking?" Grumsie said. "Didn't write me or nothin'. Just send the kid over, sudden as a prairie tornado! I s'ppose they were too busy gadding in Europe to care. Dog-blasted rich folks, what do they know? The child's a regular brat, that's plain to see. 'Spare the rod and spoil the child,' I say. Time that child had a good dose of birch-rod medicine. If she was mine to raise, I'd take her over my knee and whack her till she yells for mercy! I'd scalp her like an Indian."
And Grumsie stalked into the kitchen and pulled out the flask of headache whiskey which she used for trying situations. I thought Grumsie was for temperance, but we can't be everything in this world, can't we? I was fairly certain that she spit tobacco, too.
It took five trips to take everything upstairs to the spare-room, canary and unicycle and all. And I unpacked my things. How wonderful to sleep in a spare room! Hooked-lace curtains in the spare room windows give it such an air. There is a gigantic stuffed buffalo-head, and framed daguerreotypes of dead relatives. All the dead Maroony ancestors are ugly and unsmiling. I flopped down on the quilts, dusty boots and all, and buried my head in the straw ticking.
I said, "I believe I'm going to like it here. In fact, I don't believe I'll ever leave!"
I've been a week here in Broken Saw. Things get stranger and stranger!
Just presently I'm stuck up in the spare-room. Of all the bad luck! It's a sunshiny Sunday afternoon, and the world calls me to come and play! All I can do is sit here and daydream. Grumsie will bring up my supper-tray of bread and butter at six o' clock. Oh deary me, it's so romantic to think that I'm a princess locked in a dark tower. Although what happened this afternoon was not at all romantic. It wasn't very ladylike, either.
I put on my best hat and nice polished boots and trotted off to Sunday School with my Catechism and Hymn-book. I was terribly good and didn't fidget one bit during Mr. Waspwood's sermon, "The Heathen in his Blindness." Grumsie glared at me all very sternly—I suppose she thinks that I'm the heathen in his blindness. Anyhow, while I sat very still, my imagination ran riot. I thought the most delicious things.
Our neighbor, Mr. Harold Christy, has a sow named Veronica which just had piglets, and when I saw those teeny-weeny little things with their eyes shut fast, I thought, "Oh, you poor dears!" I said, "No, Joey, you will do no such thing!" But I did, before I could think. I just took the runt of the litter, because I couldn't bear to have Mr. Christy's dirty and stupid hired boy, Jenkins, kill it with an axe. I took it home under my dress and sneaked it into the stove.
Grumsie had the Ladies' Mission Society over for tea. I made the layer cake and sandwiches. I said, "They're onion-paste and dill. That's my favorite." The ladies looked rather aghast as I said, "The layer-cake dropped out of the oven, but I frosted over the gash." I told them how Roger K. Maroony caught a rat and mauled its skeleton. They sipped tea and talked about the heathen in his blindness and the naked children in the Philippines and such things, and I felt very solemn in doing my duty. Grumsie said, "Would you please take that apple-bread out from cooling in the oven?" And I cracked open the door, and the little pig gave a terrific shriek and came tumbling out. Dear Mrs. Christy nearly fainted dead away as the pig crawled on her lap. I said, "For Heaven's sake, you're scaring the poor thing!" Mrs. Christy stood up and cried, "You wicked, wicked girl! You stole that pig!" And I said, "Your husband's hired boy was going to kill it with an axe. How'd you like to be killed with an axe?"
Deary me, how hard it is to be good! There's no feeling like the feeling of neglecting your duty. I believe I have disgraced the Maroony family honor. I am very bad indeed and I believe I must do penance for my crime.
Oh, what a day! What a day! I wouldn't trade places with saints and angels, I'm so happy.
Granddaddy took me to the County Fair and Auto Show in Horseshoe while he picked up some seed and parcel of garden-rakes. Granddaddy asked me, what did I wanted to be when I grew up, a musician in Paris or a fine sculptor or painter? I said an outlaw like Jesse James. And Granddaddy just laughed, "Ho, ho, ho, hi, hi, hi!" Granddaddy is fat with a curled U of a mustache like Saint Nicholas and Grumsie said he's perfectly ridiculous. I say he's perfectly lovely. As Granddaddy hitched Bessy to the surrey and took the whip, he said, "Pretty soon Bessy will be out of a job, Chickabidee. They're making carriages run by gas motors, without horses or anything. They're making 'em so cheap every farmer in America can have one!"
"How does a gas motor work, Granddaddy?" I asked. And he began explaining about throttles, gear-levers, gaskets, steering power, and such exciting things. I said, "Gee, I wish I had a horseless carriage. If I asked Daddy, he'd get it for me right away—he gets me everything. I just have to start yelling!"
Granddaddy's laugher nearly shook the surrey off the dirt road. It's so nice to have a kindred heart! We had a very nice time. At the Auto Show, the screaming people pressed three layers thick.
Granddaddy said, "Granger Rockefeller's Pierce Arrow is racing Jenkins' Oldsmobile. That Jenkins is one stuck-up hired boy for Mr. Harold Christy. He claims that he'll send rockets to the moon before long. He says, 'A car? What's a car? I'll invent a flying car! I've got the parts in the barn, all ready. And you'll be stuck on the ground in your cars, and I'll be soaring high above the clouds!'"
A cloud of choking dust exploded, and a horrid smell, and then I saw a very dirty boy driving the Oldsmobile. Jenkins cried, "Take your dog-blasted Pierce Arrow and go to the devil, you Rockefeller trash! I'm goin' home to build my flying car!"
"I haven't seen the last of you, high-falutin' turkey-boy," Mr. Rockefeller said. "I'll see you at the 1909 Grand Prix, and I'll blast you from here to Transylvania."
Granddaddy asked, "What is your favorite flavor of ice-cream? I'm partial to ice-cream myself." I said, "I like chocolate, strawberry, pineapple, root beer, New York cherry, and Tutti-Frutti, please." My ice-cream cone had all those flavors. I got pretzels, peanuts, licorice sticks, gumdrops, Coca-Cola, and candy apples. And I came home and got fearfully sick and Grumsie had to give me hot-water bottles and Mexican tea, which is the nastiest stuff, and a scolding besides.
Oh, but what a day! What a beau-ti-ful, marvelous, spectacular, shining day! Granddaddy told me his GREAT SECRET over the ice-cream—he got me the ice-cream so I wouldn't tell Grumsie his GREAT SECRET.
Granddaddy said, "I've sent in a loan to buy us a horseless carriage—the very finest horseless carriage in America—a Pierce Arrow. Grumsie can't know. She says that cars are the Devil's own invention, but we'll change her mind, won't we, Chickabidee?"
"How will you pay for it, Granddaddy?" I asked.
"We'll wait and see. We can't get drought and tornadoes two years in a row—this year's crops will work. I'm gambling on it. It's the Maroony family honor."
All the way home, I couldn't say anything except, "Won't Grumsie be surprised? Won't Grumsie be surprised?"
Grumsie was surprised, all right.
She was more than surprised. She called Granddaddy a lot of names, like rascal and devil. But the Pierce Arrow is ours—our very own! We're rich folks! I begged Granddaddy, "Teach me to drive! Please, please, please, please!"
Granddaddy said, "Chickabidee, first I must learn to drive myself."
We went driving this afternoon down Granger Rockefeller's dirt road. Please note that I use the word "driving" loosely. It was the most exciting day of my life!
Granddaddy got the Pierce Arrow down at Jennings' Garage and said, "Chickabidee, what do you say we name it?" I suggested One Little Pig. I suggested Sweet Lizzie and Dune Cruiser and Dirt Devil and Blind Heathen. Granddaddy said, "Let's name it Blind Heathen." I don't think that's a nice name, and Grumsie doesn't approve, but Granddaddy's made up his mind. We got the Pierce Arrow, and said, "It's perfectly wonderful. Really swell! Sweet! Spectacular! Marvelous! Greatest car that ever was!"
Granddaddy got into the seat—he was so fat that he took up half the car—and grabbed the crank. He said, "There's a right and wrong way to pull a crank, Chickabidee." And he grabbed and grabbed. And nothing happened! "Blasted thing's no good," Granddaddy muttered, wiping his forehead. He scowled and cursed, and I said, "Crank has more than one definition, Granddaddy." Just then, with no warning, Blind Heathen heaved, chug-chug-chugging. I screamed, "We're off, Granddaddy!"
We'd forgotten only one thing—dusters. Dust flew up under us, got in our eyes, made us gasp and choke. My clothes were disgraceful in five minutes. Granger Rockefeller was hauling pig's potatoes and hollered, "So you've joined, Sebastian? Thought you were too leather-headed to drive horses. You tried to drive cows back in them day."
I just hollered back, "Blind Heathen! Blind Heathen! Blind Heathen!" It felt so good to be naughty!
"This is life, Chickabidee," Granddaddy said. "You just lean back at the steering wheel, stare at the sky, and watch the world. Not a care!" And he began to sing, "Come and ride with me, Lucille, in my merry Oldsmobile."
Just then I smelled a horrible burning and hollered, "Granddaddy, the engine's afire!" He had to stop right away, but he couldn't—he just spun in circles in Granger Rockefeller's fields. "Granddaddy, look out for that fence!"
When Granddaddy finally stopped, I dashed to the wells to water the engine, which was pouring smoke. Mr. Rockefeller said, "You gonna drive that thing home, or do I need to haul it?"
"We're fine. We're just dandy," Granddaddy said, but he looked bewildered. "It was simply beautiful, riding this road. All downhill."
"Well, I don't pity you, Sebastian Maroony. Now you've got to go uphill. Serves you right for ruining my fence! I swear, you'll pay me, or else I'll—"
July 3rd
This Pierce Arrow business is getting out of hand. Granddaddy can't eat or sleep. All he does is fix Blind Heathen. And he keeps rambling about her machinery, his eyes glazed and unseeing. Grumsie said, "Pickle relish, it's a jinx. That man's bewitched! If I put gears on his supper-plate and gasoline in his coffee, he wouldn't notice!"
PSSST…I have a DELICIOUS secret. Tomorrow is the Glorious Fourth in Broken Saw, and I will be there. I will be stuffing my face with popcorn balls and gumdrops. And I will race Granddaddy's Pierce Arrow with Jenkins!!! Did you ever hear of such a thing? Of course, Granddaddy's just teaching me to drive. Jenkins stopped by our place while Granddaddy crawled underneath Blind Heathen, and he gave me a terrible black look. He had a pet pig with him, dressed in doll clothes. My heart just broke for that poor pig. Jenkins is the Evil King of Pigs—he sets them drunk on sour apples and chases them with butcher knives.
He put the evil on me. I'm afraid he's planning something awful…to burn our barns, kidnap Bessy, or worse yet, steal Blind Heathen! I must save the Maroony family honor. That hired boy will never defeat us!
It was everything you'd except from the Fourth of July—and MORE.
Granddaddy took me into Broken Saw in Blind Heathen, while Grumsie stayed home to make us supper. "Pickle relish! Such nonsense goings-on," she said. Granddaddy told me, "Look at that flag, that grand old flag! Chickabidee, there's nothing prouder than being American."
I recited glibly, "'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator will certain inalienable rights, namely life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' The pursuit of happiness—that's my philosophy. I do whatever I want and get as much fun as I can."
Granddaddy looked me sternly in the eye. "Whoa, there," he said, like I was Bessy, which made me mad. But not for long.
In front of Pigstew's General Store, about fifteen automobiles were lined up, but none of them were so fine as Blind Heathen, I was happy to note. The summer sun flashed off her red paint, and she shone like a red-hot cinnamon drop. Surely Blind Heathen was the very horselessest of horseless carriages!
Jenkins was busy polishing his Oldsmobile with spit on his undershirt. He gave me a very black look and whispered, "You pig-stealing little thief—you little idiot! Your granddaddy's got the finest car, doesn't he? Well, it can't fly. You'll never beat that!" And he stalked away.
All through the Mayor's speech, which was very long and dull, I thought mean thoughts about Jenkins and his Oldsmobile. And then General Burns hobbled up to tell about his experiences in the Mexican War. I thought this might be interesting, as General Burns was rumored to be one hundred ten years old and had a sawed-off arm that was just a greasy blackened stump. Anyhow, I was hot and my feet were asleep and my eardrums were clean worn out and General Burns wanted to talk until he was one thousand years old. As General Burns attempted to bow and his daughter led him offstage, I got up quietly in the hubbub and slipped away to Blind Heathen.
Jenkins was waiting beside his Oldsmobile. He was shirtless. He was still spitting and polishing. He looked up at me, like he'd been expecting me.
"Good," he said. "Leave that old rat to squeak on by himself. Let's get down to business."
"What kind of business?" I swallowed hard.
"Try this—if you can't beat this princess here, I'll stop by your granddaddy's house with a butcher-knife tonight."
I hoped he wasn't serious. It isn't nice to joke about such things! So I said, "I'm not letting any hired-boy kill us!"
"Wanna try?" Jenkins said. He hopped into the driver's seat of his Oldsmobile.
"You bet," I said. But I didn't feel so brave.
Grab the crank…grab the crank…grab the crank! Never did a crank seem so stubborn. "Please, Blind Heathen," I cried, "Don't let me down now! Please behave yourself…"
Suddenly I was blasting down the road with dust-devils whirling up all around me. The engine's chug-chug-chug-chug-chug-BOOM! roared in my ears. Sweat trickled down my forehead and mixed with the dust to make me a regular mudslide. I didn't care about my looks at a time like this, for Jenkins was gaining on me.
"JENKINS!" I hollered, "CAN YOU HEAR ME? I'll take the high road, and you'll take the low road, and I'll be in Horseshoe afore ya!
"Sure," Jenkins yelled back, and he swerved onto Higginson Road.
Now, with that devil out of sight, I needed to think up a plan, for this was getting desperate. And I wasn't entirely sure how to use the brakes. Why is this car shaking? Does it have the heaves?
Chug-chug-chug-chug-chug-BOOM! My eardrums were splitting open! "Go away, infernal racket! I can't hear myself think!" I shouted. And then—oh, how dreadful! —a hill loomed above me. I pushed on the gas with everything in me, but Blind Heathen had given up. I sat there helpless and thought of defeat…
After ten minutes, I had to go ask a farmer for help. Gritting my teeth, I left Blind Heathen quivering in the road. The farmer stood on the porch, spitting tobacco without a care in the world. His backyard swarmed with wild turkeys.
"Out of here, you gasoline-stinkin' scum!" roared the farmer. "I put nails on this road! Get out with that beast of yours, or I'll shoot!"
"But it's an emergency! I'm in a race with a hired boy—and this hired boy threatened to stab my grandparents to death in their sleep! You wouldn't want that dark cloud of remorse haunting you all your days, for killing a little orphan's grandparents because you wouldn't push a horseless—"
"Go home and stitch hankies, little girl. You got no business fooling around with that newfangled son-of-a-devil. Run along, go home, I say!" And I saw the rifle in his scarred, weather-worn hands.
"I can shoot, too," I burst out. "I can shoot good."
"What's a little girl like you want with a rifle?" He laughed a mean, choking laugh.
I scowled. "I can too shoot. They call me the Wild West Legend Sharpshooter. Besides, I'm a suffragette. I will shoot the heads off five wild roosters in your backyard if you push my horseless carriage uphill."
"I'd like to see you try." He grinned a sour rotten-toothed grin and didn't move.
"Give me the rifle," I said. And I grabbed it in my sweaty palms and marched out back. "Blasted wild turkeys, you git!" I shrieked with all the ferocity of my heart. "You'll meet your fate now, yes you will! Don't look smug at me!"
Pow! Pow! Pow! I had never fired a rifle before in my life, but now I did…I was Joey the Wild West Legend Sharpshooter. Blood spattered around the yard. Poor turkeys tore about in headless despair.
Grunting and spitting, Mr. Farmer grudgingly pushed Blind Heathen uphill. I said, "Thanks a million. You have saved our lives and our family honor. I am forever indebted to your gracious generosity. If I knew a leprechaun, I'd give you ten million pots of gold. I would—"
"Go on now, Missy. And don't show your face on my property again!"
And so Blind Heathen chugged away, snorting and spitting oil, shaking harder and faster every minute. "I can't win against Jenkins, not now!" I wailed. "When I get to Horseshoe, 'twill be all over. It's been a good life, Blind Heathen. I shall miss you dearly—the greatest car that ever was in all the United States!"
The sign said, WELCOME TO HORSESHOE, SOUTH DAKOTA, POP. 800, INCLUDING ONE DROOLING IDIOT. "Who's the drooling idiot now?" I demanded. "It's got to be Jenkins!"
And as I passed the Horseshoe Township Post Office, Blind Heathen gave up the ghost. The left-front wheel went flying…flying across town, into the fields and sky. And it shook so bad that I could hardly hold the steering wheel.
Who are all these people? What are they doing here? Why are they cheering? It can't be for me. I'm dead.
And then everything happened in a blur. Granddaddy pounded me and shouted like a little boy: "Atta-girl! Look at her, ain't she lovely as day? Yessiree, my very own girl!" I wasn't sure if he meant Blind Heathen or me. I said, "Oh, Granddaddy, it was so terrible! I very nearly got shot, and Jenkins was chasing me, and—"
"Quick! Get water! That's car's overheated. That car's about to burn up!"
Suddenly, very dirty Oldsmobile chugged into Horseshoe. It looked like it had driven through a swamp. Jenkins was all splattered with mud, and he shot me an evil eye. And he was madder than a hornet-hive. I soon saw why. At least one thousand escaped hogs ran behind him. Well, not exactly one thousand—perhaps two dozen.
And I just stood there grinning and grinning till my face nearly stretched in two.
Everyone knows how Jenkins is the Evil King of Pigs. Jenkins abuses pigs, which is funny, because that's hurting his own species! I remembered Jenkin's pet pig stuffed in doll clothes. And that poor runt I'd rescued—he hated me because he'd wanted it, for the pleasure of killing with an axe! No wonder all the Hogs of Broken Saw County revolted and chased him down! He'd driven straight into a farmer's mudhole, full of bathing hogs.
This started a terrible scene that hasn't ended, I'm sorry to say. All the hog-farmers and hog-butchers started rioting in Horseshoe. And the Sheriff of Horseshoe County was called out, and five saloon-windows got busted, and the Morning-Glory Hotel set afire. The police raided Jenkins' barn and found he had no flying car—just a lot of suffering, diseased, neglected pet hogs. And now Jenkins has been dragged off, kicking and screaming, to the Broken Saw County Penitentiary.
All the while the people shouted, "Hang Jenkins! Hang Jenkins! Hang Jenkins!"
This is all terribly disgraceful! I said, "Joey Maroony, I fear I haven't been ladylike." When I told Grumsie, she only said, "Harrumph! A little snip of a girl like you taught a lesson to that rat of a hired-boy, Jenkins— that's got to amount for something."
I think Grumsie likes me after all.
Summer ends! I thought it had just got started. It was just getting exciting!
Well, Mother and Daddy sent word that I'm to return to Chicago on the Prairie Rose Express. I think they got bored and started missing me. And deary me, how I hate to leave! Chicago seems sooo dull…
Granddaddy drove me to the Broken Saw station in Blind Heathen, with my valise and unicycle and Roger K. Maroony in his cage piled on top. Granddaddy said, "Come again next summer, Chickabidee!" Even Grumsie sniffed, though she said, "Pickle relish! I must've caught cold." And I cried, "Goodbye, Grumsie and Granddaddy. Goodbye, Blind Heathen! Goodbye to every soul in the Extraordinary Town of Broken Saw…yes, even to Jenkins. Tell him goodbye and have a nice time in the penitentiary!"
I thought of what Granddaddy said, that this is a new century hardly gotten started. A horseless carriage? What's next? Flying machines! Moon-rockets! Impossibilities of all kinds! While I'm on the train, I shall be stuffing my mouth with chocolate caramels and starting a new play—the great and fantastic drama GRANDADDY'S HORSELESS CARRIAGE.
© Jack L., Abbeville, SC
This story of a spoiled teen visiting her farm grandparents in 1908 is meant to be a rip-roaring adventure story. Please comment and tell me what you think of it.
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Lydiaq ELITE said...
on Aug. 10 2021 at 8:07 pm
WolfGurl PLATINUM said...
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. –Anatole France.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. –Josh Billings
Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.- George Carlin
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. —Franklin D. Roosevelt
Never lose. Either win, or learn. - Me
She kind of is, but I love it❤❤❤😍😍😍
Super awesome, Lidiaq
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"It Will Be Good." (complicated semi-spiritual emotional story.)
"Upon his bench the pieces lay
As if an artwork on display
Of gears and hands
And wire-thin bands
That glisten in dim candle play." -Janice T., Clockwork[love that poem, dont know why, im not steampunk]
she is a brat...


Quote Reply Topic: Centre Stand on Loop Frame Ambassador?
What am I doing wrong??....... I cannot get my bike onto the centre stand!! .....Am I being stupid? .....Is there a knack?...... Or are they simply an utter nightmare to get on the stand?..... I even took the panniers off to able me to get a full lift on the grab handle.
Push the stand down with the projecting lug.then move foot to the stand foot and lift.
I cant either...enlist help !
Eat more cakes, my 13 stone mate finds it easier than (11 stone) me!
I couldn't do it to begin with and, even now, the bike needs to be on a level surface. The way I do it.
- standing on the left of the bike.
- put centre stand down with right foot.
- move right foot to back of stand.
- ensure that bike is held upright on both feet of the stand (should be able to let go of the bars).
- lift up and back with the lifting handle while at the same time pushing down as hard as you can on the stand with your foot. You're trying to increase the distance between foot and hand.
Probably easier for me than many others as I'm 6'4" and I can get the leverage. Also my bike has a handy lifting handle sticking out of the left hand top shock mount.
Thanks for the replies fella`s. Watched the video (looks a doddle), followed all instructions and still can`t do it I`ll have to think of a plan "B"? It`s as if my exhausts are too low and can`t get my foot in??
Is your centrestand complete? It should have a bit sticking out to bring it down with your foot, you shouldn't really have to be poking your foot too far in. Are the bottom of the feet on teh stand flat and parallel? Not worn, or the stand is bent?
It appears to be complete? There is a bit sticking out so you can lower it to the floor, the stand itself is curved with flat feet?
Don't know then - maybe get down the gym and pump some iron ! I have to say, the older I get, the heavier big Guzzis are to heave onto their stand, so don't think you're alone. But there is definitely a knack that once learned makes it all easier..
I'm 10-1/2 stone and 5ft7 and my loop is the easiest centre stand I have ever tried.
Use the projecting lug to put the stand down, but then you need to put your foot on the end of the curvy bit right under the bike (without burning your leg on the exhaust). No strength required at all if you push down on the stand and pull up/back on the bike. I have a Craven rack which gives me a handhold in a good spot.
I too find my Eldorado to be the easiest bike to put on the centre stand. So long as you use the very tip of the stand to press down on - much easier than my Convert.
I never have any trouble getting the V7Special onto its' stand, but getting it off is another matter.The holes in the frame brackets which take the pivot bolts are so worn that the bike sits lop sided on its' stand and the rear wheel touches the floor.Getting the thing off its' stand on a plywood shed floor is very difficult.The bike Just skids along the floor on two wheels and two stand feet.I leave it on its' side stand now as I fear a slipped disc or heart attack getting it off the center stand.I think some welding is required.


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Distributed Egocentric Betweenness Measure as a Vehicle Selection Mechanism in VANETs: A Performance Evaluation Study
Ademar T. Akabane
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Richard W. Pazzi
Edmundo R. M. Madeira
Leandro A. Villas
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Sensors 2018, 18(8), 2731; https://doi.org/10.3390/s18082731
Received: 24 July 2018 / Revised: 15 August 2018 / Accepted: 16 August 2018 / Published: 20 August 2018
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In the traditional approach for centrality measures, also known as sociocentric, a network node usually requires global knowledge of the network topology in order to evaluate its importance. Therefore, it becomes difficult to deploy such an approach in large-scale or highly dynamic networks. For this reason, another concept known as egocentric has been introduced, which analyses the social environment surrounding individuals (through the ego-network). In other words, this type of network has the benefit of using only locally available knowledge of the topology to evaluate the importance of a node. It is worth emphasizing that in this approach, each network node will have a sub-optimal accuracy. However, such accuracy may be enough for a given purpose, for instance, the vehicle selection mechanism (VSM) that is applied to find, in a distributed fashion, the best-ranked vehicles in the network after each topology change. In order to confirm that egocentric measures can be a viable alternative for implementing a VSM, in particular, a case study was carried out to validate the effectiveness and viability of that mechanism for a distributed information management system. To this end, we used the egocentric betweenness measure as a selection mechanism of the most appropriate vehicle to carry out the tasks of information aggregation and knowledge generation. Based on the analysis of the performance results, it was confirmed that a VSM is extremely useful for VANET applications, and two major contributions of this mechanism can be highlighted: (i) reduction of bandwidth consumption; and (ii) overcoming the issue of highly dynamic topologies. Another contribution of this work is a thorough study by implementing and evaluating how well egocentric betweenness performs in comparison to the sociocentric measure in VANETs. Evaluation results show that the use of the egocentric betweenness measure in highly dynamic topologies has demonstrated a high degree of similarity compared to the sociocentric approach. View Full-Text
Keywords: ego-networks; sociocentric centrality measures; egocentric centrality measures; egocentric betweenness measure; vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs); social network analysis (SNA) ego-networks; sociocentric centrality measures; egocentric centrality measures; egocentric betweenness measure; vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs); social network analysis (SNA)
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Home Departments Construction Grounding: The Key to Lightning Protection
Grounding: The Key to Lightning Protection
Sankosha develops conductive grounding cement to decrease turbines' vulnerability to storms.
Bruce Thatcher
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By their very nature, wind turbines end up in harsh locations where damage from volatile weather makes them vulnerable.
In fact, wind turbines may be the most exposed of all types of generators connected to electric-power networks. Costly lightning-related damage is most often caused by insufficient direct strike protection, inappropriate or inadequate transient voltage surge suppressors, or unsatisfactory bonding and/or grounding. Lightning damage results in expensive repair or equipment-replacement costs, and it is the leading cause of unplanned wind-turbine downtime resulting in the loss of countless megawatts of power generation. It has been reported that up to 80 percent of paid insurance claims for wind-turbine damage were caused by lightning.
A Real Threat
As tall, isolated towers composed of sensitive electronics, wind turbines face a persistent and real threat from lightning. Advances in wind-turbine technology have made them both more sophisticated and more vulnerable, but a properly designed lightning protection system will prevent physical damage to the turbine by redirecting lightning currents to Earth.
The cost of these lightning-protection systems represents a small portion of the total project capital expense but results in a dramatic improvement in reliability.
Lightning-stroke density in the United States during the 10-year period from 2005 to 2014 ranged from a low of less than one stroke per square kilometer per year in the far West to more than 32 strokes per square kilometer per year in some areas of the deep South and Florida, according to the Vaisala National Lightning Detection Network.
In its early years in the U.S., the wind-farm industry was concentrated in the low lightning-frequency areas in California, but, as it expanded to other regions, lightning exposure increased dramatically.
An integrated lightning-protection system design combines several components to minimize risk. Wind-turbine blades, the nacelle, structural components, the drive train, low-voltage control systems, and high-voltage power systems all must be protected. Provisions for personnel safety must also be maintained.
One element is crucial to all wind-turbine lightning protection systems: a low resistance path to Earth. The best Surge Protection Devices (SPDs) available will fail to offer protection if grounding resistance is high.
Designing an effective grounding system for single turbines or entire wind farms in high resistivity environments poses a serious challenge.
San-Earth conductive cement offers a safe, economical long-term solution to the wind-farm grounding problem. It was specifically developed for locations where resistivity is high and access may be difficult. The recommended design for a conductive cement electrode system for a single wind turbine is shown in Figure 1. It consists of a perimeter ground totaling 60 meters (197 feet) in length combined with four radial electrodes 30 meters (98 feet) each in length and yields a resistance value of 2.5 ohms in 300 ohm-meter soil. The conductive cement electrodes are 0.25 meters (10 inches) wide and installed at a depth of 1 meter (39 inches).
In the higher resistivity environments often associated with wind-farm installations, similar low-resistance values can be achieved by simply increasing the length of the radials. Four 75-meter (246 foot) radials yield a resistance of 2.4 ohms in a 500 ohm-meter resistivity environment.
Installation is easy. First, 0.25-meter (10-inch) wide trenches are dug to an appropriate depth, 1 meter in the example in Figure 1. The product can be installed as a dry powder or mixed with water and applied as a mortar. A counterpoise wire is placed in the trench, so the material surrounds it. Over time, the cement hardens to become a conductive solid. Thus, the surface area of the grounding electrode is greatly increased, and lower resistance values are achieved. Corrosion in the counterpoise wire is prevented and conductor theft becomes much more difficult.
Connecting Turbines
Wind turbines grounded in this way can be connected together to achieve even more dramatic results. In Figure 2, the grounding electrode systems for three turbines are connected together using the San-Earth design. Vertical ground rods, often difficult to install at wind-farm locations, are not needed to achieve a consistent low-resistance connection to Earth.
Grounding resistance and soil resistivity are, by definition, proportional. The system inFigure 2 would yield a resistance value of 1.32 ohms in a 1,000 ohm-meter resistivity environment. Even if the resistivity went as high as 3,000 ohm-meters, this design would produce a resistance value below 4 ohms.
Wind-turbine grounding systems must be designed, so excessive overvoltages are prevented and potential gradients that could cause damage to equipment or threaten human life are eliminated. With San-Earth, that goal can be achieved easily and economically.
San-Earth is manufactured in the U.S. and is ideal for use in areas where soil resistivity is high. It reduces construction costs and produces long-term consistent results. It is environmentally safe and conforms to IEC Standard 62561-7.
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The humble watch is seen as somewhat old-fashioned compared to the digital life that nearly all consumers live these days, tech companies on the other hand, have been looking to integrate various digital features within so-called smart watches with the aim of marketing the product for the 21st century. Global GPS brand Garmin who are synonymous with Sat Navs have unveiled a new watch by the name of the Quatix 3.
Below is a quick rundown of the announced specifications.
The watch also comes equipped with a "protective stainless steel EXO bezel and buttons".
If you happen to be a fisherman or an avid race boat enthusiast, the Quatix 3 has you covered, below is a quick summary of these targeted features.
Saltwater fishermen – Will have features available to them that include navigational as well as NMEA 2000 data including depth, speed, water temperature etc.
The watch also contains an Altimeter, Barometer and Compass.
The watch is expected to be released within the first quarter of April 2016, prices are expected to be $599.99 (£420.54).
It will be interesting to see if this watch has a great appeal within the general consumer market when you consider many of the features are targeted at a specific audience. Garmin will hope this watch will be able to hold its own, it makes sense for Garmin to implement its knowledge within a new smartwatch.


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From the start, I narrowed my decision down to Mapbox and Mapzen because they have more robust data visualization APIs and are based on OpenStreetMap. To their credit, I believe Google Maps has better and more reliable data than OpenStreetMap, but I feel it is important to run an open data based service on open mapping data and open source libraries. Additionaly, for my purposes, which are heavily focused on data visualization and interactivity, Google Maps's lackluster datavis APIs would leave me to rely on something like Leaflet, which doesn't take advantage of the excellent WebGL features that Mapbox and Mapzen's libraries have.
Between Mapbox and Mapzen's rendering libraries and data services/APIs, the choice comes down to what your use cases are. Mapbox has the superior rendering libraries — Mapbox GL libraries work across the web, iOS, and Android. Mapzen has a WebGL renderer, but their mobile library is still in its early stages of development Mapbox seems like the smart choice here.
With respect to data access and API usage, the situation becomes more complicated. If you're building a commercial application with Mapbox, you have to start out with Mapbox's Premium plan, which runs at $499/month. If you're a business with any revenue at all, this is almost certainly worth it, and you can negotiate a higher-tier plan if you exceed the Premium plan's rates. However, if you aren't ready to start with the Mapbox Premium plan, Mapzen may be the better choice, because they allow commercial apps to use their free tier. If you don't care about commercial mapping licensing or supporting thousands of users, then either service's free tier APIs will almost certainly suit your needs. Mapzen's rate limits for their free tier are incredibly generous, more so than Mapbox's, and you can grow your application to support many users before even having to worry about upgrading. It seems their pricing plans are still under development, but I can't imagine their prices settling any higher than those of Mapbox.
Ultimately, I decided to go with Mapbox's libraries for their better cross-platform support and feature-completeness; however, for mapping data and APIs, I chose Mapzen's services. Every aspect of Mapzen's stack, from routing to geocoding to tile generation and serving, is open source. So in theory, if you wanted to host your own rate-unlimited Mapzen instance, you could (though it would likely be far more expensive than simply paying Mapbox or Mapzen for their services). And if either service were ever shut down, you could still run your own instances of Mapzen's open source software and get the same usability. Luckily, Mapbox's libraries make it easy to use Mapzen's services. If you have the revenue to do so and aren't paranoid of a shutdown, paying for Mapbox's APIs may be the simpler decision. However, Mapzen's open source approach is inviting and reassuring, and its compatibility with Mapbox's web and mobile rendering libraries gives me the best of both worlds.
UPDATED 12/24/2016 to support TensorFlow r0.12.
Prepare to fall down a rabbit hole of Linux compiler errors — here's a guide on how to set up a proper Python and TensorFlow development environment on Columbia's Yeti HPC cluster. This should also work for other RHEL 6.7 and certain CentOS HPC systems where GLIBC and other dependencies are out of date and you don't have root access to dig deep into the system. A living, breathing guide is on my GitHub here, and I will keep this post updated in case future versions of TensorFlow are easier to install.
Create an alias for the directory where we'll do our installation and computing.
You can add this Python to your path, but I am just going to work entirely out of virtual environments and will leave the default path as-is. If you're particular about folder structure, you can install specific Python versions in (for example) $WORK/applications/python/Python-2.7.12 to keep separate versions well-organized and easily available.
We're going to install TensorFlow from source using Bazel.
Make sure numpy is installed in your pythonenv: pip install numpy.
Note that /usr/local/cuda-7.5/lib64 is automatically added to $LD_LIBRARY_PATH when you run module load cuda, so we only need to add the other directories. Also note that /usr/local/cuda is symlinked to /usr/local/cuda-7.5, so you don't need to include the versions in the path directories, but I'm doing it to be explicit.