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The tape has clearly audible edits and dubs, making the content’s authenticity problematic. So far, Fox News hasn’t responded to ACORN’s request for the unaltered tapes, but the question remains: why wasn’t this fairly obvious set up questioned by ACORN staff from square one? What is ACORN going to do in the future around matters of self-protection and transparency?
ACORN embarassed themselves unfortunately with not learning from last year (and the voter fraud with registering false names) and the right wing witchhunt on their butts to not dot their I’s and cross their T’s and keep their noses clean AFTER THAT MAJOR MATTER! That is what the CEO with her attitude she showcased on CNN needs to be told FOR REAL and be held accountable for the incompetent fools. It is a shame an organization that is for good has come under scrutiny because of their incompetent shady people who work in their offices!!! Unfortunately because they showcase generally good for people of color and the poor (the two groups neocons love to hate and not want to help) along with Obama’s hot minute ties to them and them getting gov’t funding intensifies the ACORN witchhunt on the right!!
I feel for ACORN’s battle they are dealing with but I am sorry they brought this on themselves which is unfortunate!
I do believe there is good in ACORN and what they do. Yet I don’t mean any harm to Michelle Moore but SHE NEEDS TO STOP BLAMING RIGHT WING MEDIA FOR THEIR OWN **** SHORT COMINGS and things that came about as a result of these videos!!!
ACORN needs to TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY of the fact they have some staff members that aren’t trained properly or don’t care about doing their job right and or both. They need to get a grip on reality and realize THEIR BLAME in this as well. PLEASE TRAIN FUTURE WORKERS AND RETRAIN YOUR CURRENT WORKERS on what to do and NOT TO DO!!! Again ACORN should have been trying to dot all I’s and cross all T’s after the voter fraud drama in ’08!! Again also because of the fact that this organization helps people of color and the poor (again Right Wing favorite targets of opposition, hatred and disgust) and because you have faulty workers you guys put yourself in a position to be a hit by the opposition!!

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1. Второй пересмотр рекомендаций ВНОК по профилактике, диагностике и лечению артериальной гипертензии // Кардиоваск. терапия и профилактика. - 2004. - Т. 3, № 3, ч. 1. - С. 105-120.
3. Российские рекомендации по диагностике и лечению стабильной стенокардии // Приложение к журн. Кардиоваск. терапия и профилактика. - 2004.
5. Национальные рекомендации ВНОК и ОССН по диагностике и лечению ХСН (второй пересмотр) // Сердечная недостаточность. - 2006. - Т. 8, № 2. - С. 1-35.
7. Collins R., Peto R., MacMahon S. et al. Blood pressure, stroke and coronary heart disease. Part II: Effects of short term-reductions of blood pressure - an overview of the unconfined randomized drug trials in an epidemiological context // Lancet. - 1990. - Vol. 335. - P. 827-838.
9. Wikstrand J., Warnold I., Tuomilehto J. et al. Metoprolol versus thiazide diuretics in hypertension. Morbidity results from MAPHY study // Hypertension. - 1991. - Vol. 17. - P. 570-588.
11. Viskin S., Kitzis I., Lev E. et al. Treatment with beta-adrenergic blocking agents after myocardial infarction: from randomized trials to clinical practice // JACC. - 1995. - Vol. 25. - P. 1327-1332.
13. Berne C., Pollare T., Lithell H. Effects of antihypertensive treatment on insulin sensitivity with special reference to ACE inhibitors // Diabetes Care. - 1991. - Vol. 14 (suppl. 4). - P. 39-47.
15. Lithell H. Effect of antihypertensive drugs on insulin, glucose, and lipid metabolism // Diabetes Care. - 1991. - Vol. 14. - P. 203-209.
17. Reneland R., Alvares E., Andersson P.L. et al. Induction of insulin resistance by beta-blockade but not by ACE-inhibition: long-term treatment with atenolol or trandolapril // J. Hum. Hypertens. - 2000. - Vol. 14. - P. 175-180.
19. Veterans Administration Cooperative Study Group on Antihypertensive Agents: Propranolol or HCTZ alone for the initial treatment of hypertension. IV. Effect on plasma glucose and glucose tolerance // Hypertension. - 1985. - Vol. 7. - P. 1008-1016.
21. The Working Group on Hypertension in diabetes: statement on hypertension in diabetes mellitus. Final report // Arch. Int. Med. - 1987. - Vol. 147. - P. 830-842.
23. Pool P.E., Seagren S.C., Salel A.F. Metabolic consequences of treating hypertension // Am. J. Hypertens. - 1991. - Vol. 4. - P. 494-502.
25. Weidmann P., Feffier C., Saxenhofer H. et al. Serum lipoproteins during treatment with antihypertensive drugs // Drugs. - 1988. - Vol. 35 (suppl. 6). - P. 118-134.
27. Pepine C.J., Handberg E.M., Cooper-DeHoff R.M. et al. A calcium antagonist vs a non-calcium antagonist hypertension treatment strategy for patients with coronary artery disease the international verapamil SR/trandolapril study (INVEST): a randomized controlled trial // JAMA. - 2003. - Vol. 290, № 21. - P. 2805-2816.
29. The ALLHAT Officers and Coordinators Major outcomes in high-risk hypertensive patients randomized to angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor or calcium channel blocker vs diuretic // JAMA. - 2002. - Vol. 288. - P. 2981-2997.
31. Dahlof B., Devereux R.B., Kjeldsen S.E. et al. Cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the Losartan Intervention For Endpoint reduction in hypertension study (LIFE): a randomized trial against atenolol // Lancet. - 2002. - Vol. 359. - P. 995-1003.
33. Elliot W.J., Meyer P.M. Incident diabetes in clinical trials of antihypertensive drugs: a network meta-analysis // Lancet. - 2007. - Vol. 369. - P. 210-207.
35. Beevers D.G. The end of beta-blockers for uncomplicated hypertension? // Lancet. - 2005. - Vol. 366. - P. 1510-1512.
39. Рекомендации по диагностике и лечению артериальной гипертонии (второй пересмотр) // Кардиоваск. терапия и профилактика. - 2008. - № 6 (Приложение).

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I have had NOPCART since '99 with no issues concerning browsers until now.
Cart is completely functional in all browsers except the latest Firefox. Everything comes through except what the person ordered.
Anyone else have this issue or a fix?
Yes, I had an issue in FireFox too.
I have posted absolutely no changes since 2005 when I added google shopping.
I am going to test what you wrote and see what happens.
I have just tested it again, If I use Internet Explorer, all the information comes across. The customer gets an email showing his address and what he ordered. If the customer uses Firefox, the customer gets an email showing his address, but not what he ordered.
July 11 of this year is when this started. At first, when I got the order with nothing in it, the customer said she used an iPad. So I tested it and it looks like when an iPad is used, if you go to fast, the item ordered doesn't come through. Figured it was a fluke.
I had two more such ordered, and just figured they used an iPad.
Since August 18th, all orders using Firefox just stopped having the customer information (I go back and ask the customers what browser, etc, they are using).
Nope. You have a rather complicated setup and another domain for the checkout. I would have to take a look at all the files and scripts involved.
If it doesn't work with an iPad, it probably doesn't work in Google Chrome either. The iPad has a Webkit browser, and Chrome is also based on Webkit.
It does work on iPad, they just have to wait for the whole page to load before they click next. Other than that, it is fine.
This is just frustrating, really don't want to put on checkout 'not for use with Firefox browswer'.

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We’re passionate about the transformative social, business and technological potential of blockchain. We know that the current underpinnings of the internet – databases (a fifty-year-old technology not designed for data sharing) and TCP IP (a sixty-year-old network tech not built for security) – are not fit for the level of digital life and business activities we do online today. Our sensitive data is overexposed leaving our identities and bank accounts in danger of being exploited. The multiple identities usernames and passwords give us are not controlled by us, the data owners. Businesses’ commercially sensitive data is regularly breached and hacked, and we can’t trust that emails or payment transactions have only been exchanged by sender and receiver. Not being able to work with others’ digital systems leaves private enterprises and public organisations with an IT, transparency, security and trust gap.
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An eight-year-old named Larissa worked up the courage to walk on stage in front of hundreds to audition for “The Voice Kids” in Germany. When she walked out onto the stage with a plastic cup — the audience were bewildered.
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Many kids auditioning on the show perform German songs, but little Larissa decided on a favorite American song called “Cups.” You’re probably familiar with it!
Since it regained popularity, hundreds of versions and renditions have been uploaded to YouTube. Each performer putting their unique twist on the song — sometimes with a cup, other times without.
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The conditions on the river had been superb for catching Barbel on the Trent right from last week-end yet alas things conspired to keep me away. How I wanted to get out last Sunday after the long awaited rise in river levels but other things had to be done. I was desperate for a picture of a carp laying at the side of a bag of the new ‘Magnum Duo’ for something I was working on so Sunday saw me getting a bit of carp gear together and venturing over to a water I had not cast into for 10 years or so. It can be a tricky place but time wasn’t allowing me to travel too far so I took a gamble.
8 x mini Spombs and 6 x pouches of the Magnum Duo scattered loosely in the area in front turned out to be the right approach. I was lucky, my 3 hour session rewarded me with what I wanted and it was lovely to re-acquaint myself with one of the Rosehip Pool fish. It had fallen to a bait right on dark on the Sunday evening so a pleasant end to my week-end escape from the office.

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Independent Everything and a Very Special Thanks!
One of the best things about being an independent author is that you have the ability to network with other independent artists and freelance technical folk for so many different things, all to make your work into a reality. For example, once my book was finished I needed to find a cover artist, that accomplished, I was then able to give my book a face to present to the world. Yay!
My covers are almost all exclusively done by Clarissa Yeo over at Yocla Designs. (www.yocladesigns.com) Her prices are reasonable and her art is fantastic and she makes the process extremely easy.
I am both extremely lucky and blessed in equal measure to know such fine independent artists and I definitely encourage you to check any of these three fine individuals out for your publishing needs! As independent artists we need to pay it forward and keep each other working.
Giovanny is multi-talented, so if you are looking for more than just a logo, I suggest you contact him. He is indeed capable of doing cover art in addition to business logos, I just prefer the artistic styling of Clarissa Yeo’s cover designs for my romance books as opposed to Gio’s style and you know what? He gets that and is good with that because he, like Lia and Clarissa, is a professional.
Ah A.J. – I agree that Lia Rees at Free Your Words! (www.freeyourwords.com) is fantastic! So, I am assuming that the other independents you are sharing are also great. Thanks for the resources. Your book(s) are going to look fantastic!

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Motion-control for handheld gaming consoles has become the talk of the games industry this week, following comments made my Nintendo President Satoru Iwata.
And while Mr Iwata's comment may well have been little more than a throwaway aside in a longer interview, a Dutch company is already going ahead with development of hardware that brings tilt-control to the Nintendo DSi.
Engine Software has developed a camera-based method of motion sensitivity for DSi and has been showing off the tech in a video demo of somebody playing a game of Tilt.
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How to handle error while implementing grpc-java server?
gRPC newbie here, I am following "quickstart".
But I am not sure what is behavior of gprc-java when my code throw RuntimeException.
If you call StreamObserver.onError(StatusRuntimeException), it will use the code from the exception. If your exception does't extend StatusRuntimeException or StatusException, The code will be UNKNOWN, but the Status message will be the same as the exception's.
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This is where the men are sorted from the boys !
Dave receiving his appropriate awards !
Special Open Events are held several times a year (details are in the Club Programme) and attract top quality sailors including several from the Ben Ainslie Racing Team. Some Slipper Radio Sailors compete seriously at Regional and National Events, while others prefer to stay local. New Radio Sailors are welcome and also anyone who thinks they might like to try the sport. A visit to one of the sessions listed above is the best starting point, which will usually result in a trial sail. ESSC member Colin Gordon is the Group Training Officer and is also a good initial contact.
Watch this space soon for some race videos etc, so you can see how challenging and exciting radio sailing is, and we're sure will further strengthen your desire to join us !

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LearnWithOliver - How to say in Greek - I bought myself some new shoes, and then I went to the hairdresser's.
I bought myself some new shoes, and then I went to the hairdresser's.
Αγόρασα καινούρια παπούτσια και μετά πήγα κομμωτήριο.

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I've been trying to source a re-plated Nicasil cylinder and piston kit for my KMX125 to replace the existing cylinder which had been sleeved with a liner when the engine was built.
I've been offered a re-conditioned cylinder for a reasonable price thats been re-plated and comes with a Wosener forged piston kit, but it's a 56mm bore 133cc cylinder and does not come with a matching head. Is it likely that I will need to have the squish band in my head enlarged to 56mm before fitting if I go ahead with this cylinder kit and measuring the compression ratio and squish clearance, or am I better to look for a used std 54mm bore cylinder that I can send away for re-plating instead?
You will have to add the cost of modifying the head to the cost of the bigger bore cyinder and piston unless you can do the work yourself, plus the cost of a non-standard head gasket if it isn't included with the 56 mm cylinder and piston. This may or may not be cheaper than finding a standard bore cylinder and having that replated, plus the cost of the piston of course if you don't have a spare.
What Gerrit said...but first check the outside diameter of the squish band on the existing head - they are sometimes a little larger than the standard bore size (the same may apply to the standard head gasket). Does the KMX have dowels to make sure the head is located concentrically every time it is fitted? If not, it would be wise to make such an arrangement, as the "safety margin" will shrink to practically nothing with the larger bore.
Also check whether the dome radius on the 56mm piston is the same as that on the original 54mm piston - it may complicate things if the are different (but probably nothing that careful machining can't sort out). If you will be machining the head anyway and finance allows, you may like to consider omitting the head gasket in favour of O-rings.
Is there a particular reason why you don't want to use the sleeved cylinder? Although sleeved cylinders are generally regarded as inferior to plated ones, it may be of no consequence if the job has been done correctly. Using what you've already got is usually the cheapest option, but it depends how much time/trouble/money you want to spend. Let us know how you get on!
Is there a particular reason why you don't want to use the sleeved cylinder? Although sleeved cylinders are generally regarded as inferior to plated ones, it may be of no consequence if the job has been done correctly.
a sleved one is always inferior, not matter how good the job has been done. because of the lesser heat dissipation between sleeve and cylinder.
don't think it will matter much in one "underpowered" KMX though.
Hi thanks for all the replies and advice about my conundrum.
Firstly the 133cc cylinder I've seen for sale does come with new head and Base gaskets to suit. Im not sure if these are specially made for the larger cylinder or if they are modified original gaskets. I'll have to check this out.
I guess as said I need to add up the cost of having a firm enlarge the squish band in the head and match the profile to the piston etc, as I can't do this work myself. If it adds much more cost then I think I'd be better looking for a used 125cc cylinder to send away for a re-plate and hopefully it'll not be much more expensive.
The KMX head has no dowels fitted just 5bolts, and I guess there is the option of having an O-ring conversion machined into it. I think there's space for an inner and outer O-ring, as the head casting is the same physical size as the KMX 200. Would dowels and O-ringing be the best long term solution? As im intended on keeping this bike indefinitely.
And regarding the liner in the existing cylinder, we only found this was fitted when Kenny was developing the pipe. But as said depending on how well the liner was matched to the ports and the fact that the heat dissipation will be less, I've been told I could be losing 10-15% power. I figured that seeing as Kenny went to alot of trouble to design the ultimate pipe, and I've got a programmable ignition to fit, that I might as well try and get the most performance out of it.
The other issue is that my Base line dyno run showed about 18.7bhp with the current cylinder and all std except a Fresco pipe. The power drops like a stone just before 9000rpm, so we think that the KIPS valves are either not opening correctly, or that it's restricted still using the B-model KIPS spring which opens the valves at higher rpm than the unrestricted A-model. I plan on changing all the KIPS governor parts to A-spec when I do the top end re-build, so I know that it's the unrestricted set up.
Yes Jan - I agree. As you point out, the cooling "inferiority" of a sleeve may not be noticeable on the KMX. Many earlier bikes used iron bores and seem to cope OK (although they were mostly cast-in sleeves instead of pressed-in sleeves...).
Steve; Does the KMX125 share many/any engine components with the KMX200? If so, could you get a better result using standard 200cc parts (i.e. same power and/or torque as modified 125, but a wider spread with less stress)...? I'm not sure whether the 200cc crankshaft will fit the 125cc crankcase, or whether the cylinders will interchange, but such a conversion may give you a more satisfactory result.
I'm not sure what other modifications you have in mind besides the pipe and ignition, but if you are trying to get as much performance from the 125cc engine as possible, you will likely have to de-restrict the air intake system (possibly also fit a bigger carb), modify the cylinder head, the cylinder porting and would be well advised to fit dowels if there is any slop in the cylinder head mounting which could cause the eccentricity.
Alternatively, you may like to consider using the sleeved cylinder for development purposes and see how it performs. If you were only going to discard it anyway, you haven't much to lose by trying it out - it may well be fine. Just make sure the ports match from the cylinder to the sleeve, that the porting is standard or at least suitable, that the piston clearance is correct and that it doesn't have any obvious defects.
If you are still considering buying the big-bore cylinder, you may like to ask; Why was it bored out? Is the piston clearance correct? Is the porting standard? Has it been modified in any other way?
Thanks for your advice and the link to your head O-ring conversion project too. That looks like a great idea for my bike with the dowel upgrade too.
I've got a lot to think about then I guess. I understand alot of bikes like the Yamaha DT use linered cylinders and run very well, so as said Nicasil might not be needed on a KMX. I just thought because they had it from new that it would have been better and maybe my bike is less powerful than a std one? 2bhp or so is alot to give up on a 125 relatively.
Believe it or not I do have a fresh re-plated and professionally ported 200 cylinder and modified head sat on a shelf ready. The 200 fits the 125 cases and the crank is the same 54.5mm part too. Its just stuff like the carb, radiator and clutch that are different, and I've got upgrades for all those ready too.
The only problem is if I fit the 200 top end on this engine, the custom pipe I've got won't really work, and I've not got a 200 original pipe as they are rare as hens teeth now.
I think the 56mm big bore cylinder conversion I saw was done to get rid of damage after a seizure as there is a Wosner piston to fit a 56mm bore. Im not even sure if I should be using a forged aftermarket piston or if I'm causing more issues for myself? I've not really planned ahead very well and just been buying uprated parts that I thought would be a good idea.
I think I'll have to contact a firm to see about getting the 125 head O-ring conversion fitted and some dowels put it like you say, as that should be a good future upgrade regardless and mean I wouldn't have to worry about head gaskets when re-building the top end next time and checking the squish clearance etc.
The 200 fits the 125 cases and the crank is the same 54.5mm part too. Its just stuff like the carb, radiator and clutch that are different, and I've got upgrades for all those ready too.
How about that? I didn't know the 125 and 200 shared the same crankshaft! As you have all the 200cc parts already, you could either use them or keep them in reserve if the 56mm 125 set-up doesn't work out. I don't suppose your pipe builder could modify the pipe to suit the 200cc set-up...?
Whatever option you choose, let us know how it turns out!
Thanks all for the advice. I've got my new 56mm cylinder and piston ready to fit now. The piston is 55.945mm and the head gasket is 55.86mm inside diameter. Im hoping it'll be close enough to work ok.
Im just waiting for two cylinder heads that are away being skimmed by different amounts. Im aiming to close up the squish clearance from 1.27mm but not at the expense of reducing the chamber volume too much, as the std 54mm piston set up has a quoted 7.8:1 CR. I don't want to increase compression too much further around 8:1 tops if that might be OK?
I'm trying to avoid the extra work that having the combustion chamber dome machined deeper to would entail as it's not a simple machining job really. I've got a measuring burette and stand ordered as then I can at least make an accurate measurement of the combustion chamber volume to compare to the factory spec figures.
I've given up on the dowelling and converting the head to O-rings, as it's not an easy shape to do the outer O-ring and I've been told it'd be expensive and not guaranteed to work any better than a good head gasket.

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Our third site selected is for the The Alamance County Genealogical Society. Visually the biggest issue is the navigation text being part of the header graphic and implemented using mapped co-ordinates. The menu text is very difficult to read, particularly on high resolution screens. Otherwise with the exception of the majority of the header image it just looks dated.
Let me take a moment to address the header image.
As we were working on the site several people commented that they loved the collection of heads in the header. How appropriate it was for a genealogy site but they wished it had been of better quality. The biggest reason for the poor quality is that the image (which I agree is conceptually great) was saved as GIF file instead of a jpg. You should never save anything with lots of different colors or gradients as a gif because at best it will only contain 256 colors. A single gradient can contain more shades.
It is when you look at the code that you see where the real issues with this site occur. First issue is the use of a nonstandard doctype.
Which means that Word or possibly Excel was used on the site, probably for content creation. This is a problem because only Internet Explorer has a clue what the doctype means and vml is proprietary and will not run in other browsers.
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The final issue is an accessibility one. Fonts are specified in points. Points are a unit of print measurement and do not translate consistently to the web. Different operating system and browser combinations can show the same 12pt as anything from 16px in height to 20px (large fonts) or even up to 30px for those who have changed their OS settings because of poor vision. Internet Explorer for example uses the OS settings to determine how many pixels are used while Firefox does not. So save points, inches and centimeters for print stylesheets. Use ems or percentages for fonts sizing on websites. An em will always use the operating system settings to determine the size of the text to use when it renders the page.
Our first design decision after cleaning up the page is what type of layout would work best for the site content. Looking at the content there is a mix of information types. Some of the page content is tabular data and others are lists of links which doesn’t immediately suggest a multi column page layout. Instead, we opted for a single column layout with some sections split into two columns.
What we would like to see is the whole image redone from the original files to a size at least 950px wide because frankly, the head section they created is much better than what I added in. By cutting out just this section we accomplished a couple of things. First, we can use the image as a background to the masthead and allow the page to scale down for viewing on small screen devices. Second, the text is now readable by screen readers and search engines and will scale according to the visitor’s settings.
We also felt that the colors in the society logo didn’t work well with the sepias that dominate the heads graphic so that was also cut out and moved to the body of the site. In keeping with the vintage primarily sepia header we used a subdued ecru sort of color instead of pure white for the content background and a light midtone for the page background.
I asked the person who nominated this site for our redesign what font was used to create the site title in the image. Unfortunately, she didn’t know what it was and while we could have used the text cut out from the graphic it is a little pixelated. Instead looking at Google Fonts, we found a similar display font Parisiene to use for the headings. Sort of dresses it up a bit since there aren’t many graphics on the site.
Once we had decided on the basic layout the rest was pretty simple with one minor exception. That was that we had a bit of trouble getting the two side by side columns to line up correctly. The simplest solution was to put each column into a div with the .halfcol class assigned so that top margin/padding would be applied the same way.


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A lot of the appeal of owning an old home is the fact that it is a part of history. Before I closed on the house, I already began doing some research online. That research led me to my local library; which suprisingly there was a book entitled Foundations of a Community: Oakville before the Turn of the Century; which was published in 1977 by Lemay Bank & Trust.
This book was an invaluable source of information and even provided me with a photo of the house back in 1977. The photo isn't great because once again there are a lot of trees hiding the house (different trees that is); but nevertheless it is a photo I didn't have before.
Below is the history I've been able to pull together from the above named book, census records and misc. other information found online.
Pre 1870s, Henry Taylor Blow, a prominent politician from the St. Louis area owned the land.
-He served in the State Legistature, was a US Ambassador to Brazil and Argentina amongst other things. Sidenote: Henry T. Blow's father was the original owner of the famous slave, Dred Scott.
-While Henry T. Blow had several children, one of his daughters, Susan Blow (for who my street is named after, Susan Road) has a legacy all her own. Susan was a famous Educator and her name has gone down in history as the founder of the first kindergarten in St. Louis.
1870s, Frank Koelbel, a Civil War Veteran purchased 22 acres from H. T. Blow.
1880s-1890s, Conrad Meyer I purchased these 22 acres and his son, Conrad II built the house sometime around 1890.
1910, Mike Zelch (Zilch) purchased the house and farm when Conrad II moved back to his father's farm which adjoined the property. Mike, his wife Minnie and daughter Arville lived in this home into the 1930s and maybe longer.
19xx, the land was divided and sold as separate lots.
19xx, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Henenberg were the owners during the time the book (Foundations of a Community...) came out in 1977.
1985, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Cox purchased the house.
2007, I purchased the home and 1/2 acre that remains-YEAH!!!!
Of course, should anyone reading this know any of the above people, back history or have any further information, I would LOVE to learn more.

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I recently lost an HD and RAID controller(Promise 2037 on my Asus MB. It was setup as a RAID1. I need to replace some hardware, but how I do it is the question. If I get another 250gig HD and a Fasttrak controller I should be back where I left off. But I could use more space(transfering family vids to DVD). Here's my question. If I connect 320gig HD and recreate the RAID1 and then replace the 250 with another 320 will the OS see a 250 or a 320?
once you replace the working 250 with a second 320, you can plug that 250 into a spare IDE or SATA port in your computer, or worst case buy an external caddy for it. Then you can transfer all the data from your RAID array to the 250, delete the RAID array, recreate it at full size, transfer all your data to the new larger RAID array, and tell us if it was worth the hassle!
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The Singers' session continues to grow and grow. We had over 30 songs last Singers' night. Regulars and newcomers sang up and those who didn't, listened.
Two songs on related themes were "Liostáil mé le sáirsint" and "Willie Taylor". We heard "The boatman of Lough Key", "William Hollander" and the "Rose of Tralee".
That's just a taster. Speaking of which, thanks to Breege and Helen for providing such consistently good sambos and cakes too!
A good luck wish to one of our singers, Eimear Browne who was not present at the July session, as she was preparing for her 250km row down the Shannon, starting at the Shannon Pot on 24th July and finishing in Limerick on August 4th. Eimear is rowing in aid of Helping Hands, Cambodia. She'll be playing her fiddle every night at stops along the route and she might be persuaded to sing [in] a bar or two as well.
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Alex Megos (25) is doubtlessly one of the best rock climbers in the world. In 2013 he climbed the route Estado Critico (9a) in Siurana onsight, which changed his life completely. With this ascent, Alex becomes a pro overnight and has been going from one climbing spot to the next ever since.
25-year-old Alexander Megos is one of the strongest climbers in the world. Alex lives in Erlangen, Germany, and has been a member of the GORE-TEX athletes team since April this year. In this interview the amiable athlete touches on how he started climbing, the key moments that influenced his climbing career, his training routine, how he manages to relax and whether he wants to bid for a place at the 2020 Olympics.
Alex, welcome to the GORE-TEX athletes team! GORE-TEX and Megos, is that a good match?
Alex Megos: As a rock climber, I'm outdoors in all weathers. That's exactly what GORE-TEX stands for: being outdoors in wind and rain. So, I'd say we're a good match. If I only ever competed and climbed indoors, that would be different.
Alex Megos, professional climber. How do you explain what you do every day to people who have no idea about climbing?
First, I take my smartphone out of my pocket and show them some photos of me rock climbing. Then I tell them how lucky I am to be doing what I love for a living and that through my sport I'm able to travel to well-known and less well-known climbing spots all over the world. I explain that when I get to my destination I either try to climb hard routes that have already been climbed, or make the first ascent of a new route. For the past year or so, I've been competing again more at official international sport climbing events.
You've just had a birthday. Where were you and what did you do?
I was at home for a change! I just had a relaxing time barbecuing with friends.
Home is in Erlangen in Germany. I've lived there all my life. In recent years, I haven't spent much more than two or three months at home, so now, when I'm back in Erlangen, I stay with my parents. The rest of the time, I'm on the road.
You've risen through the ranks to become one of the world's best climbers. I read that you first went climbing with your father when you were only six years old. Was it love at first sight?
To tell you the truth, I can't remember the first time we went climbing. But you're right. When I was young, as a family we often went climbing in the Frankenjura. What I do remember is that when I was 7 I joined a climbing group. We trained outdoors and in a gym, but only once a week. I did that until I was about twelve. Happy memories!
Do your parents still go climbing?
Sure! The whole family does – my father, my mother, my younger 22-year-old sister, we all go climbing.
Converting a hobby into a profession isn't always a smooth transition. What was it like for you?
I never actually made a conscious decision to become a professional climber. It wasn't anything I had put much thought into. So, from that point of view, you could say that the transition was smooth, even if it was all rather sudden and totally unexpected. It started immediately after my onsight ascent of Estado Critico (note: 9a) at Siurana in Spanien. My life changed overnight. I was suddenly thrust into the spotlight, being approached not only by the media, but also by companies offering me sponsorship agreements. My onsight ascent meant that aged 19, having just left school, I was able to take a year out and focus entirely on climbing.
Back in March 2013, were you aware of what might happen, if your attempt was successful?
No. I had no idea. It came as a bolt from the blue. In fact, I hadn't put any thought into it at all. I wasn't actually seriously thinking of onsighting such a difficult route.
It wasn't only international climbing magazines that ran articles about you, but also prestigious dailies. How did you react to all the media attention?
It was all too much for me! Until then, I had been asked the odd interview question. I was totally bowled over by the constant media attention. Immediately after my onsight ascent I was in the public eye. That was on the second day of my trip to Spain. I had planned to spend another 12 days there climbing various other routes. That all became rather difficult. Journalists were constantly asking for interviews, photographers from a Spanish magazine spent two days climbing with me. Everything was new. I wasn't used to it. Although, with the benefit of hindsight, I'd say that all the hype was a unique chance. Today, I can cope much better.
On May 9, 2018 you successfully made the first ascent of "Perfecto Mundo" (9b+), a former Chris Sharma project at Margalef in Spain. Before they set off, do climbers have to ask the person who originally bolted the route for a sort of permission to climb it?
There are exceptions to the rule, but that's what generally happens in most climbing areas. Chris hadn't attempted the route for quite a few years. Stefano Ghisolfi and I wanted at least to go there and have a look at the route, see it for real, and explore the local area for climbing opportunities. There are masses of great crags to climb there. So, we set off for Spain. I had contacted Chris Sharma by email before we left and he had given us his OK. In the end, Chris was so motivated that he joined us in Spain. He was the first person to congratulate me.
The list of your successes is impressively long, despite the fact that you're only 25. On Wikipedia the list includes 24 first ascents and 20 hard repeats. You've also notched up notable successes in competition climbing. Which would you describe as the key moments in your climbing career?
Alongside "Estado Critico" and "Perfecto Mundo", I'm certainly never going to forget my repeat ascent of the infamous "Action Directe". Not so much because of how it's been graded (9a), but because the route is so famously difficult. New on the list is also my best result in a competition so far: my world cup victory in Briançon, my first-ever IFSC Lead World Cup victory, that was in July 2018.
Why is the repeat ascent of "Action Directe" so important to you?
Because that route has made history in the world of sport climbing. Established by Wolfgang Güllich, for many years it was reputed to be the most difficult route in the world. There wasn't a climber that hadn't heard of it. Action Directe is definitely the most famous sport climb in the world. What's more, it's on my home territory, Germany's Frankenjura. Once I'd reached the required level (note: 2014), my project was to climb the route in a day, and that's what I did. On a personal level, that was a very special moment. In their day, climbers like Wolfgang Güllich, Kurt Albert, also Norbert Sandner (note: now Alex Megos' athlete manager at Patagonia) and various other local climbers, were instrumental in defining the changing face of sport climbing. By coining the term redpoint and taking the concept from the Frankenjura out into the world, they have certainly had a lasting impact.
You have an affinity with both outdoor and competition climbing. How do you manage the balancing act of multiple disciplines?
I can do both disciplines at a relatively high level, but if I'm trying to climb a really hard route, I can't do competition climbing at the same time, or vice versa. As a climber, to perform at your best and produce impressive ascents, you have to decide what you want to focus on. What I can do well is to transition between two disciplines relatively quickly.
Sport climbing is set to make its debut at the 2020 Olympic Games. You've been named as a prospective member of the German squad. What are you going to do? Decide in favour of competing in Tokyo and soon start focussing on competition climbing?
Getting as far as competing in Tokyo won't be easy. There'll only be 20 athletes competing for the medals. Getting a place is going to be difficult. We don't yet know what the qualification criteria are going to be. So, at the moment, it's impossible to say what my chances are.
Do you think you'll try and go for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?
At the end of 2018, I'll decide whether or not to try. I don't want to rush into making a decision, so nothing is settled yet. I have to give it some careful thought. If I decide to try and bid for a place at Tokyo 2020, I will have to spend the next two years focussing entirely on competition climbing and pretty much neglect outdoor climbing.
When you left school in 2012 you focused all your attention on outdoor climbing, travelling from one climbing spot to the next. Was studying never an option? If it was, what would you have studied?
I was undecided and, to tell you the truth, I didn't know what I wanted to study. In other words, my year out came at just the right time. (laughs) And its been a long year. But it's not that studying is no longer an option. It's still a real possibility. You never know what's round corner.
Can you tell us something about your training routine? How often do you train indoors and how much of your time do you spend climbing outdoors?
That really depends on whether I'm at home or on a trip. I've basically climbed everything there is to climb in the Frankenjura. So, when I'm at home, I spend most of my time training, in other words, I train indoors six or seven times a week. When I'm travelling – like in Spain recently – I'll typically have a rest day after two days of hard climbing. If the project isn't too demanding, regeneration is less important, so then I might climb four or five days in a row.
Alex Megos and social media. You have 170,000 followers on Instagram alone. How much do you know about your community? Who are these people?
I don't do any analyses, so I'm only guessing. My followers are probably somewhere between 15 and 30 years old, male and female, and keen on climbing: the sport has seen a massive boom, very much fueled by all the new indoor bouldering walls.
Does your community increase dramatically every time you clock up yet another climbing achievement?
I can't really say. I've only been active on Instagram since 2015. The number of followers has gone up constantly ever since. But there have never been peaks as such.
Does anyone help you with your social media?
No. I write everything myself.
Can you switch off? What do you do when you're not climbing?
I'm very interested in photography, I love cooking and I read a lot.
On October 11, 2018, fans will have the chance to see you at the International Mountain Summit in Brixen. What are you going to be doing there?
I'll be giving a talk which I've called "Alex on the Road". Most of what I'm going to say is new. I'll be talking about my most recent trips and looking at the particular facets of the different climbing disciplines, from bouldering to sport and multi-pitch climbing. Hopefully, there'll also be a few amusing anecdotes. What I try to do when I give talks is to explain what it is that makes our sport so fascinating. There's so much more to climbing than difficulty levels and athleticism. It's a whole package of things including travelling with friends and getting to know new cultures. I would say that climbing is more of an attitude to life than about levels of difficulty.


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Katlego had already started his homework by the time she got home. Once, when their parents were away and they were alone for the weekend, Masego and Katlego had spent the time watching movies, listening to music and having heart to heart conversations. It was wonderful not to have to worry about their parents overhearing them and giving them a sermon, or a beating, for their confessions.
Katlego had told Masego that he felt warm all over whenever Mapadimeng, a boy in his class, stood next to him.
And the two siblings laughed into the night.
“Kat, thanks for the save yesterday, my darling,” she said, giving her brother a hug.
Suddenly Masego’s phone vibrated. Odwa!
Masego smiled and considered her reply.
“That boy is going to break your heart, Sego. I can just see that he is a heartbreaker,” Katlego said, not lifting his head from the books.
“Which boy?” said Masego, putting her phone face down on the table.
“The one you’re talking to, silly,” Katlego said, looking up at his sister with a grin.
“You just want him for yourself,” Masego joked and stuck her tongue out at Katlego.
“Eish, you’re onto me,” Katlego laughed.
Masego took her phone and began to type.
“Geez, eager beaver. Make him sweat a bit. Text after homework,” Katlego said, and winked at his sister.
I think I’m outside your house.
Before Masego could answer, Katlego called from the kitchen, “Our man is here,” and laughed.
Masego ran out to find Odwa waiting by the gate.
“I have really strict parents. The kind that might kill you and deliver your corpse to your parents if they find you here,” Masego said to Odwa, fixing her school skirt.
Odwa stepped closer and kissed her forehead, then her cheek. The, as she lifted her face, he kissed her on the mouth. Deep and long. When they both came up for air, Masego felt dizzy. Like she was in a dream. Her first kiss ever.
“I thought your parents were serious bazalwanes,” Odwa said, impressed with himself.
“They are,” Masego answered, as Odwa took her hand.
“The little I know about Christianity is that it is founded on love and that one of the Ten Commandments is, “Do not kill,” he said, as they walked down the street.
But then Masego stopped in her stride.
“Odwa, I want to do this, to take long walks with you like they do in the movies, and listen to your radio voice. But I have super strict parents and they won’t be happy if I don’t finish my chores,” she said.
“Come on, babe, just half an hour more,” Odwa pleaded.
He tried to draw her closer again, but she pulled away quickly and blew him a kiss as he walked away. Then she turned to go back inside, feeling on top of the world.
After doing her chores she sat down next to Katlego on the couch and switched on the TV.
“So you’re not going to tell me anything about our man? I saw you kissing him. Come on, I want all the details!” he said.
“Well, he gets my juices flowing, that’s for sure!” she said.
“He kisses that well, huh?” Katlego joked.
After supper Masego swallowed nervously before asking her parents if she could work at Malebo’s place on Saturday.
“Will Malebo’s mother supervise?” said her mother.
“What time should I drop you off and pick you up?” her father asked.
“Are you talking back when your father is talking to you? Who do you think you are?” her mother shouted.
Masego didn’t reply, regretting what she had said.
Katlego giggled. He couldn’t believe that Masego had managed to cause chaos two nights in a row. His mother flashed him a killer look and the giggling stopped.
Her father stood up to go to bed, reminding the siblings to pray before they went to sleep.
Masego went straight to her bedroom, changed into pyjamas and said the Lord’s Prayer before checking her phone.
I can’t stop thinking about your soft lips.
Will you please be my girlfriend?
She looked at the phone, not knowing how to reply.
Please say yes. Say yes, you will be my girlfriend.
Masego sat up on the bed, still clutching her phone.
She pressed Send. Then she set the alarm and put her phone on silent.
Tell us: Does anything about Odwa’s flirting make you suspicious of him? Or is this just normal texting between teenagers who are attracted?
NorMal. What's there to suspect?


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Residents from Kennington Park and Bridge Estates braved typical English summer weather in early June to meet Hyde’s repairs and maintenance contractors.
Axis Europe, Mears, T Brown and Temple Lifts hosted the event at the Kennington Park Community Centre. Residents and their children played giant outdoor games and tucked into a free barbeque and ice creams, as well as getting decorating and home maintenance tips from the professionals. The London Fire Brigade was also in attendance, providing home safety advice.
Residents also had the chance to win an iPad, donated by Civic project crowdfunding website Spacehive and Hyde, by coming up with ideas to transform their community and make it a better place in which to live. Charity Active Communities Network also organised a number of activities for 8-16 year olds, including a football tournament and youth workshops.


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January 24, 2017 is a day I will never forget. Every day I live since that day can be considered bonus. When I was growing up in south Louisiana, the term we used to describe that kind of bonus was “Lagniappe.” That’s an old Cajun expression that means “a little extra.” That’s what God has given me. The quick trip through the streets of Lubbock, TX, to the ER at Covenant Medical Center and the events of the next few days are a blur in my mind. I came within minutes of meeting my Maker, but by God’s mercy, I am still here for “a little extra” time and doing very well. Hallelujah!
With a few months to reflect I have identified some important things I learned.
Our faith makes a difference. Amid the swirl of activity around me in the trauma room and the obvious concern of my caretakers as they hooked me up to the paddles, I was at peace. Looking mortality square in the eyes, there was no fear. I knew I was in His hands and that He would care for me and those I love. That is huge! In 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Paul explained this hope of eternal life this way; “That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.” Our God is faithful, and His peace is real.
He’s got us in the palm of His hand. I remember singing that song as a child: “He’s got the whole world in His hands.” Every detail was worked out that made it possible for me to survive. If it had happened in another town further from medical care I likely would not have made it. If Felicia had not heard me struggling to breathe and been on top of the situation to get me quickly to the hospital, I would certainly have died. As believers, we know that God is driving the bus. There are no accidents or coincidences for us. We sensed His protective presence and guiding hand throughout that eventful evening like a great maestro conducting His orchestra.
There is a reason we are on this earth. God has a purpose for our lives. When I got home from the hospital and found that I needed to cut back on my road trips for a season, I knew that it was time to reflect on that purpose. I know God has new stories and songs He wants to give me. I have so many ideas now for characters and songs I want to write. This was a true wake up call that I need to get busy if I plan on leaving anything behind for the next generation. So I am committed to setting aside time for writing and creating. I love to sit at the piano and bring new melodies to life. He has already given me a new song that I’ve sung in every church I’ve ministered in this year. This song is the seed for a new album. I’ll share it a little later in this blog.
God is our source. He not only offered protection and care in a life-threatening situation, He also is providing for our ministry during this down time. I am not able to travel as much this year as in the past, and that could be financially devastating. But God is speaking into the hearts of friends we have made across the past 36 years of ministry. These friends have stepped up and are helping to make the difference. We are not over the hump, but things are much better because of God’s care shown through our friends. It has been so humbling.
The best is still to come. I’m not looking back, but leaning forward. By God’s grace, I want the years I have left to be some of my best. I want to drink up every delicious drop of life. I want to laugh more and love extravagantly. I long for my children and grandchildren to remember me as a man who loved God, loved them and loved life.
I want to share with you the seed of my next album. It is a song based on Psalm 23, and is called “Shepherd Me”. This new collection of songs will be based on some of my favorite Psalms. If you have a favorite Psalm you would like for me to consider in this anthology, drop me an email. ([email protected]) Here is a link to a rough recording of the song when I performed it in San Antonio, TX, at St. Matthew’s UMC. Let the message of this new song minister to your heart.
All we like sheep have gone astray and turned to our own way.
We’ve wandered far from You – in Your love You still pursue!
God of mercy hear the prayer we humbly pray.
Shepherd me; Take me to the pastures green.
Shepherd me; Let me rest by waters deep.
Restore my soul on righteous roads for the sake of Your great Name.
In times of joy, in times of pain, shepherd me.
Through the door to my eternal dwelling place.
Even though I might walk through the valley, no threat of evil will I fear.
Your rod and Your staff bring comfort to me – I’ll feast when enemies are near!
Please, pray for this ministry as we seek to do God’s will and follow His lead.
If your church is planning a revival or renewal event this Fall or next Spring, we’d love to come and be a part of that. E-mail me at [email protected] or call me: 817-975-5524.
Please share this blog with all your friends.
I love your new song, Shepherd Me! Your voice sounds so clear and beautiful!!! I have been thinking about you, and praying for you, ever since hearing of your coming so close to going home to be with Jesus in January 2017. Praying for you and Felicia that this will be a sweet and healing time of rest and reflection, as the Holy Spirit speaks into both of your hearts and minds for the future plans He has for the two of you. I love all of your songs, but one that has especially spoken to me through the years is “Live the Day”. It’s even speaking to me in new ways now as I go through the valley of grief of my husband passing away August 11, 2017. The Holy Spirit is comforting me and encouraging me in ways I could not have imagined before this loss of my precious Dwight. We celebrated our 44th wedding anniversary on June 8th. God is so good, and I know He has more ways that I may serve Him while I am still on this earth! I am trying to be faithful to hear His sweet voice each day and to be obedient to that call on my life with each day that He blesses me with.
May God Bless the two of you abundantly!
I pray you are doing well. So sorry to hear of your loss! What a shock! We are holding you in prayer. May God bless you as you serve Him in Canyon. Thanks so much for your kind words. We so appreciate your friendship.


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Every family dynamic is different and this makes for a colorful world. What a bore if we were all the same! Our Heavenly Father made our families and situations unique. A grand arrangement is that we can all learn and share from one another. Recently Mr. Patient and I received various questions regarding how we manage certain family and child situations and issues. Apparently more than those who’ve questioned us are interested in our responses. Almost 400 folks have viewed our YouTube videos of “12 Things We Don’t Allow Our Children To Do” (parts 1 and 2).
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Today let’s borrow a topic from a #dsma chat held last September. The tweet asked “What is one thing you would tell someone that doesn’t have diabetes about living with diabetes?”. Let’s do a little advocating and post what we wish people knew about diabetes. Have more than one thing you wish people knew? Go ahead and tell us everything.
I’m about to leave for the DiabetesSisters Conference and have spent all morning getting things ready and trying to get my two year olds who have never been without at least one of their parents to understand that mommy and daddy will be back in a few days, “we will be back, we promise”. I can’t say I’m not nervous about this…good luck with em’ Mom and Dad, Ana and Gabriel!
You may think you know a lot about diabetes. You may think you know the truth about diabetes. You may think your grandmother’s diabetes is like my diabetes.
This is the worst thing you can do to us people with diabetes.
What we want is for you to understand that diabetes is wildly complex, varies very much between person to person, and therefore you can never know all there is to know about it. And what you think you know about a person’s diabetes is probably not accurate.
So just be humble and cautious and open to a person with diabetes telling you what their diabetes really is to them.
A girl with type 1 diabetes.


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Patrick Danner Feb. 22, 2017 Updated: Feb. 23, 2017 9:26 a.m.
Retama Park has racked up more than $430 million in losses over the years. The Securities and Exchange Commission last year obtained a $4.7 million judgment against the former chairman of a company that used to operate the track.
A Miami jury on Wednesday found the former chairman of a public company that used to operate the struggling Retama Park race track in Selma violated securities laws.
Christopher J. Hall, who formerly headed Call Now Inc., was accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission in a 2015 lawsuit of perpetrating multiple frauds to obtain more than $5.5 million in loans and wrongfully diverting most of that money into his pockets.
Some of the money was used to keep the foundering race track afloat.
Just what penalties Hall faces is still to be determined. The SEC has until March 8 to submit a motion for remedies.
The SEC could seek a court order directing Hall to return ill-gotten gains of about $6 million and to pay a penalty ranging from about $1 million to $6 million. It will be up to U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga to determine the penalties.
The SEC also could seek to have Hall barred from serving as an officer or director of a publicly traded company.
Daniel Newman, a lawyer for Hall, couldn’t immediately be reached for comment. Hall had denied the SEC’s allegations.
Following a six-day trial, the jury found Hall, 58, acted “knowingly” and with “severe recklessness” in violating securities laws.
Call Now was the controlling owner of the Retama Entertainment Group Inc., which managed the horse track from late 1997 until 2013. Both Call Now and Retama Entertainment no longer are in operation.
The SEC accused Hall of subsidizing the track’s money-losing operations with funds he borrowed from a now-defunct brokerage firm in Dallas, Penson Financial Services Inc.
The agency had alleged that Hall lied about the status of the collateral he used to secure the loans. He pledged millions of dollars in municipal bonds that originally were used to finance the track.
Hall was identified in the SEC’s lawsuit as a Miami Shores resident, but the Bexar Appraisal District’s website shows Hall has a homestead exemption on a Hill County Village home that’s assessed at $2.8 million.
At the time the SEC sued Hall, the agency had settled charges against four executives of Penson.
Retama Park is owned by Retama Development Corp., a quasi-governmental corporation formed by the city of Selma in the early 1990s. The RDC had racked up more than $363 million in losses since its inception through 2014.
A year after the track opened, the RDC sought to reorganize its debts in bankruptcy.
Call Now, which at the time was a Miami-based publicly traded long-distance phone company, stepped in and bought the track’s bonds out of the bankruptcy proceedings. Call Now paid about $10.3 million for $52.3 million in bonds, or about 20 cents on the dollar. It eventually would come to own about $7 million in senior bonds and about $87 million in junior bonds used to build the track.
Hall became the controlling shareholder of Call Now in 2001 and its chairman in 2008.
Retama Park never generated enough revenue to pay off the bonds used to fund construction. It avoided defaulting on its debt because Hall and his company borrowed increasing amounts from Penson that helped cover the minimum principal and interest payments.
From 1999 through 2008, Hall amassed $38 million in outstanding loans to Penson. Call Now owed the brokerage $14 million, the SEC’s suit said.
Hall, Call Now and Penson were counting on Texas changing its gaming laws to allow slot machines at horse tracks, the SEC charged. Expanding gaming never gained lawmaker support, however.
Penson ended up in bankruptcy in 2013. That same year, Las Vegas casino operator Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. took over the track’s license in a $22.8 million deal that also involved refinancing the track’s debt, severing Call Now’s ties to the track.
This article has been updated to include the statement from the SEC’s Stephanie Avakian.


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Last Sunday Morning we met up with our friends Richard, Dennie and Alan and headed to a cafe in Hell’s Kitchen, to meet with some other friends of theirs, before heading to The High Line.
Chelsea Market is in the Meatpacking District, near the Hudson River and The High Line. The building is a full city block wide and long.
It’s considered a “neighborhood market with a global perspective” and has become one of the most visited destinations in NYC over the past fifteen years.
Once everyone had a chance to grab a knosh, we headed for our morning stroll on The High Line.
This was Michael’s and my second visit this trip and Boy, what a difference! So many people! It was a beautiful, sunny morning and the paths were packed with people from all over the world. I have to say, I’m glad to have experienced the park with both more– and fewer visitors… either way, there is still a relaxing, peaceful atmosphere about it.
We stopped at various points along the way to enjoy the views of the city, the Hudson River and of course the wonderfully ingenious layout of the park itself. One of the great things about all the green spaces in NYC is that they are all unique. They all provide a different experience and have their own distinct vibe.
It was brought up in conversation that Chicago is in the process of creating it’s own version of The High Line, called The 606; creating an urban parkway on the abandoned, raised freight rails of The Bloomingdale Line. It’s scheduled for opening this coming fall.
Michael and I split from rest of the group as they headed towards Macy’s and we headed back to Times Square before our show.
Violet I hate to ever pass up the opportunity to see Sutton Foster perform. She embodies honesty, sincerity and loads of passion in every role she plays. This was one of the reasons we scheduled Violet as our last Broadway show this trip.
Violet has been around for awhile, although this is its first Broadway production. I was not familiar with it and had no preconceived expectations of it.
Violet is the story of a girl with facial scar, that sets out on a journey to be healed by a TV evangelist; finding herself, instead, along the way. In the end there is always hope.
I loved the story, the music and the staging. Performances were also good all around. Supporting Foster’s outstanding performance as Violet are Joshua Henry (Flick) and Colin Donnell (Monty), both enamored by her. In the ensemble, Annie Golden gives one of those really rare stand out performances that sticks with you.
Between shows, we stopped back at The Counter to see our friend Amy (who was starting her shift) one more time and had one of their delicious build your own burgers. Then, we headed up 10 blocks to our final show of this NYC visit.
Heathers the Musical No matter what your age, you’d have to practically be living under a rock to have not seen the cult-film, Heathers. Well, now Heathers is on stage in the form of a highly-entertaining Off-Broadway musical. We met up with our friends again and this was actually the only show that we all saw together, at the same time.
We all enjoyed it. Heathers is just crazy-fun. Even though I felt the pace of the performance was off a bit with multiple understudies in key roles, the show still works. Barrett Wilbert Weed leads the cast as the quirky, Veronica, commanding the stage at every turn.
There’s some really good music in this– and I can’t wait for the album’s release date.
A happy and satisfying, last production in our ten day, seventeen show adventure.
Before heading back to pack, we stopped one last time at the 8th Avenue Shake Shack for Concretes. We said our goodbyes, headed back to our place, feeling very fortunate to have had such a great time.
This had been our longest stay in New York to date– and it’s never long enough. It’s always bittersweet saying goodbye to our home away from home.

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We exist to lead students into a growing relationship with Christ that results in the rescued becoming rescuers of the lost. Renov8 is an exciting environment where students can come as they are and allow God to renovate their hearts from the inside out.
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This multi functional community theater is ideal for many things: plays, concerts, weddings, parties, church meetings, lectures and more.
That’s not a term often used to describe a theater, but it fits well for a Monolithic theater. We can design and construct an elegant theater, of virtually any size, for plays, concerts, operas, graduations, special school or community events and even weddings or large funerals.
We feel that every community needs one!
Designed by Architect Lee Gray of Salt Lake City, the theater shown here includes 423 modest, but comfortable seats; a practical-size stage; and green space for dressing rooms, storage, etc.
With a design/build contract, Monolithic can construct this theater in just about any location for approximately $1.1M to $1.2M. That includes the design; a modest amount of site and utility work; the structure; and the finish-out with seating, stage, sound system and stage lights.
Although that price does not include the land and/or a parking lot, we can design and construct an attractive, affordable parking area for an additional fee.
With parking, this complete theater facility requires a site of about 1.25 acres. That land could be on city property or on a school or university campus.
Designs presented here are a starting point!
The attached drawings are flexible theater layouts. By flexible, we mean that our clients are not locked into any one plan. Monolithic will design the theater that fits a community’s wants and needs. It can be big (up to 100,000 seats) or small, elaborate or modest, and include or eliminate just about any item on a wish list.
In 2005, a Monolithic performing arts center was constructed for North Central Texas College (NCTC) in Gainesville, Texas. Because its 360 seats are in a theater whose interior is uninterrupted by supporting pillars or posts, it simply has no bad seat in the house.
NCTC’s facility also includes a lecture hall, classrooms, dressing rooms, rehearsal and practice areas, and a band room.
Shortly after this theater’s construction, the First State Bank in Gainesville contracted to have it renamed the FSB Center for the Performing Arts, and the bookings for both college and community events began.
Please review It’s A Hit: NCTC’s Monolithic Dome Performing Arts Center.
So what’s on your community’s wish list?
Whatever it is, let’s talk about it. Please contact us: sales@monolithic.com or 972-483-7423. We will be happy to work with you. To date, we have built in 49 states and 53 countries. We can get it done for you.
Shown here is an overview of the simple theater. You can see that there is plentiful space for the stage, the blue room and bathrooms. This space is needed and extremely useful.
The view from the street gives you a beautiful building, well laid out. What is more, it is virtually a tornado shelter. In fact, it can be a certified tornado shelter by simply using tornado-safe windows and doors. It may qualify for a tornado shelter grant, depending on the organization owning it.
This side view allows you to evaluate the seats and seating area, versus the stage and stage area. The size of the theater could be half as big as shown or ten times as big as shown.
The view from the stage area back towards the seating shows that you have good seating throughout. Obviously, these pictures are just a representation. But this simple theater for about a million dollars is a spectacular facility for any community.
Fancy Theater with rotating stage. But still half price of competitor.
Simple Theater – beautiful, artful, useful, and very reasonable in price.
Entry for a Simple theater. Note it is tasteful, permanent, And simple itself.
Intermediate Theater: Very nice seating, superior lighting, and sound attenuation.
Intermediate Theater: Simple and nice. Great for music performances.
Vista Dhome, the luxurious Monolithic Dome dream home of Mrs. and Dr. Al Braswell, survives a devastating, California fire that wreaked $2.5 million in damages.


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Tirano itself is a quiet town in northern Lombardy and would perhaps go unremarked if it wasn't also the departure point for one of the most scenic train routes in Europe, the Red Train (Bernina Express) that travels across the Alpine passes to reach Saint Moritz in Switzerland.
The centre of Tirano is dominated by the substantial Sanctuary of Madonna di Tirano, the principal monument in the town.
The church-sanctuary that you see today was built on the site of a smaller church at the beginning of the 16th century and is a very imposing monument with three apses, a colonnaded dome and an attractive belltower with eight levels and inset arches. Built in the Renaissance style, the decoration continues in the interior of the sanctuary which features many scultures and artworks from the 17th century.
The church was built after an apparition of the Virgin Mary took place here in 1504. The Virgin told a local girl, Mario Omodei, that she would end the plague in the town if in return Tirano would build a shrine dedicated to her. It appears that she kept her promise and the town duly built the imposing sanctuary starting in 1505.
Apart from the sanctuary there is little of historical interest in Tirano, but the town also attracts many visitors because it is the starting point for one of the most popular Alpine Train routes: the Red Train.
The Red Train, a tourist train also called the Bernina Express, operates all year round between Tirano and Saint-Moritz in Switzerland. The train follow the Bernina Pass, with the journey taking about 2 1/2 hours each way if you continue as far as Saint-Moritz. The trains also take visitors to other towns and ski areas along the Bernina Pass.
The Red Train / Bernina Express route is the highest Alpine crossing (reaching an altitude of 2250 metres) and the steepest rail route in the world (with gradients up to 7%) and passes through very beautiful Alpine scenery for most of its journey. The route is one of very few in the world to even be listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, under the name of the Rhaetian Railway.
The views across the mountains and glaciers are truly stunning and enhanced by the train design which incorporates large panoramic glass windows. As well as the scenery you will also be impressed by the engineering feat that made the Red Train possible in the first place with the numerous bridges, tunnels and viaducts that were needed.
Note: there are two train stations here in Tirano: one is for 'regular' trains to and from Lecco, a town on Lake-Como, and the other for the metre-gauge railway route that carries the Red Train (Bernina Express) to Saint-Moritz.
The principal highlights in this part of Lombardy are based around the scenery and include Lake Como and also the Valtellina region.
You can find more local travel ideas in the Soncino guide and the Lombardy guide.