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October 31, 2007

Linn’s Stamp News

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Linn’s Stamp News is the largest weekly newspaper for stamp collectors, boasting a paid circulation of nearly 45,000 (as of 2003).
It is published by Amos Press, who also publish the Scott stamp catalogs.

The front page of the newspaper features major news in the stamp world, including significant new stamp issues around the world, major auctions of rare items, significant new disoveries, philatelic controversies, and oddball news, such as a high price paid for an obvious fake put up on eBay.

In addition, each issue will have a number of additional news stories inside, typically of limited and/or specialized interest. The bulk of the content, however, is in about a dozen “regular features” and an additional two dozen departments.

While many of the regular features go into more depth on traditional philatelic topics such as airmail or postmarks, several are especially notable:

  • “The Insider”, by Les Winick, reports on and analyzed behind-the-scenes politics, whether it be hobbyist organizations wrangling over how to pay the bills for a money-losing stamp show, or direct-mail industry lobbyists cutting deals in Washington DC.
  • “Kitchen Table Philately”, by a pseudonymous writer “E. Rawolik” (”kiloware” backwards), reports in great detail on the contents of stamp mixtures (aka kiloware) bought from dealers advertising in Linn’s, using counts and pricing to determine whether a particular mixture was a good value, or overpriced.
  • “Collector’s Forum” is about unusual stamps or usages reported by mystified collectors. In some cases the Linn’s staff can answer easily, in other cases, the answer comes from another collector in a subsequent “Forum Update”.
  • “Stamps on the Internet” reports on online resources, similarly to the “Glassine Surfer” column in The American Philatelist.
  • “Stamp Market Tips” reports on stamps that are rising in price and thus may be worth buying soon.

The “Stamp Events Calendar” and “Auction Calendar” are essential for planning attendance at future events.

Finally, there is an extensive classified advertising section. Perhaps the most famous alumnus of this section is Michael Dell, who sold stamps in this section at the age of 12, and later went on to found Dell Computer.


References

  • Michael Dell, Catherine Freedman, Direct from Dell: Strategies That Revolutionized an Industry (1999) ISBN 0-7567-1877-5


External links

  • Linn’s Stamp News web site

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October 30, 2007

National Oceanography Centre, Southampton

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The National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) is a purpose-built, joint venture between the University of Southampton and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Opened in 1996, it is one of a group of world-class centres of excellence specialising in marine science, earth science and marine technology. It is unique in providing a platform for leading interdisciplinary research alongside a comprehensive teaching facility.

The NOCS comprises the University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Sciences which operates alongside four NERC research divisions and the NERC Research Ships Unit (RSU). In addition to housing some 450 research scientists and staff, over 600 undergraduate and postgraduate students call the NOCS home. The NOCS’s on-site resources include the UK National Oceanographic Library, the nationally important Discovery Collections and the British Ocean Sediment Core Repository. The NOCS is also the base for the purpose-built research vessels RRS Discovery and RRS James Cook (and formerly the RRS Charles Darwin).

Prior to the 1 May 2005, NOCS was known as the Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC). The name was changed to reflect the Centre’s prominence in ocean and earth sciences within the UK.

The NOCS is located at the University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton, Hampshire SO14 3ZH, UK.


External links

  • National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
  • University of Southampton
  • NERC

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Steelyard Stadium

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Steelyard Stadium is a football stadium in Pohang, South Korea. It is the home stadium of Pohang Steelers. The stadium holds 25,000 people and was built in 1990 (It is the first football-only stadium in Korea.)


External links

  • WorldStadiums.com entry

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Lobo (Dell Comics)

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For the comic book character Lobo from DC Comics, see Lobo (DC Comics)

Lobo is a fictional Western comic book hero who is the medium’s first African-American character to headline his own series.


Publication history

Lobo starred in Dell Comics’ little-known but groundbreaking, two-issue series Lobo (Dec. 1965 & Sept. 1966), also listed as Dell Comics #12-438-512 and #12-439-610 in the company’s quirky numbering system. Co-Created by writer D. J. Arneson and artist Tony Tallarico, it chronicled the Old West adventures of a wealthy, unnamed African-American gunslinger called “Lobo” by the first issue’s antagonists. On the foreheads of vanquished criminals, Lobo would leave the calling card of a gold coin imprinted with the images of a wolf and the letter “L”.

Tallarico in a 2006 interview said that he and Dell writer D.J. Arneson co-created the character based on an idea and a plot by Tallarico, with Arneson scripted it.


Awards

On May 19, 2006, Temple University College of Arts and Sciences presented Tallarico its Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Comics and Books Industries, in recognition of his creating the first comic book to star an African-American.


Black comic-book stars

While Marvel Comics’ 1950s predecessor Atlas Comics had published the African tribal-chief feature “Waku, Prince of the Bantu” — the first known mainstream comic-book feature with a Black star, albeit not African-American — it was one of four regular features in each issue of the omnibus title, Jungle Tales (Sept. 1954 - Sept. 1955). Comic books’ first known African-American superhero, Marvel’s Falcon, was introduced in 1969<ref>Captain America #117 (Sept. 1969)</ref>, but there would be no Black star of his or her own comic until 1972, with Marvel’s Luke Cage, Hero for Hire, followed in 1973 by Marvel’s Black Panther (introduced as a supporting character in a 1966 issue of Fantastic Four) in Jungle Action.


See also

  • List of African American firsts


Footnotes


References

  • The Grand Comics Database

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Product lining

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Product lining is the marketing strategy of offering for sale several related products. Unlike product bundling, where several products are combined into one, lining involves offering several related products individually. A line can comprise related products of various sizes, types, colours, qualities, or prices. Line depth refers to the number of product variants in a line. Line consistency refers to how closely related the products that make up the line are. Line vulnerability refers to the percentage of sales or profits that are derived from only a few products in the line.

The number of different product lines sold by a company is referred to as width of product mix. The total number of products sold in all lines is referred to as length of product mix. If a line of products is sold with the same brand name, this is referred to as family branding. When you add a new product to a line, it is referred to as a line extension. When you add a line extension that is of better quality than the other products in the line, this is referred to as trading up or brand leveraging. When you add a line extension that is of lower quality than the other products of the line, this is referred to as trading down. When you trade down, you will likely reduce your brand equity. You are gaining short-term sales at the expense of long term sales.

Image anchors are highly promoted products within a line that define the image of the whole line. Image anchors are usually from the higher end of the line’s range. When you add a new product within the current range of an incomplete line, this is referred to as line filling.

Price lining is the use of a limited number of prices for all your product offerings. This is a tradition started in the old five and dime stores in which everything cost either 5 or 10 cents. Its underlying rationale is that these amounts are seen as suitable price points for a whole range of products by prospective customers. It has the advantage of ease of administering, but the disadvantage of inflexibility, particularly in times of inflation or unstable prices.

There are many important decisions about product and service development and marketing.
In the process of product development and marketing we should focus on strategic decisions about
product attributes, product branding, product packaging, product labeling and product support services.
But product strategy also calls for building a product line.


See also

  • brand
  • brand management
  • halo effect
  • marketing
  • product management
  • Product line extensions

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Gabriel Dell

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Gabriel Dell (born Gabriel Marcel Dell Vecchio) (October 4, 1919 – July 3, 1988) was an American actor; one of the more unusual members of what came to be known as the East Side Kids/Dead End Kids/Bowery Boys.

Born in Brooklyn, Dell was, perhaps, the most successful of all of the gang away from their films. Dell almost made his stage debut a few years before Dead End when he and his sister were slated for roles in The Good Earth with Alla Nazimova and Claude Raines.

By the time he was cast in Dead End he had changed his last name to Dell, and after achieving fame with the other youthful thugs, Dell moved back and forth between Warner Bros., Universal and Monogram during the guys’ heyday, appearing as a member of the Dead End Kids, East Side Kids and The Bowery Boys before leaving the series in 1950.

He won a role in Tickets Please on Broadway, and also toured with former gang buddy Huntz Hall in a nightclub partnership that eventually caused them both to become divorced. Dell spent the next three years at the Actor’s Studio, married and had a son in 1956.

In the late fifties Dell joined the now-legendary stock company of The Steve Allen Show, along with Don Knotts, Louis Nye, Tom Poston, Bill Dana, Pat Harrington, Dayton Allen and Skitch Henderson. During this period Gabe developed a Bela Lugosi imitation that has since become the “official” Lugosi imitation (see any of the recordings done during this period.).

Over the next few years Dell appeared in several critically acclaimed productions on and off Broadway, and supplied all of the voices for an LP recording of “When Famous Monsters Speak”. In 1964 Dell won the role that brought him to critical and public fame again: the title character in Lorraine Hansberry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window.

Dell had several other hits, a second son, a third wife, and roles on several prominent TV series in the fifties and sixties. In the latter part of his life, Dell also appeared as the propietor of The Corner Bar (1972) on ABC, a major supporting role in “Earthquake”, ” a 1976 pilot, Rusko, and A Year at the Top, in which he played opposite Mickey Rooney as the Devil’s son.

Dell died in North Hollywood of leukemia in 1988 at age 69.


External links

  • Photo
  • Photo from Earthquake

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Dell Rapids High School

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Dell Rapids High School’ is a high school located in Dell Rapids, South Dakota. The athletics teams are known as the quarriers.


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Shepperd’s Dell

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Shepperd’s Dell is a small canyon in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon, located at
which is less than one-third mile (500 m) southeast of Rooster Rock State Park.

The Columbia River Highway runs over the dell on a bridge that was the answer to one of the engineering challenges of the highway’s construction. The dell was carved by a creek that includes two fairly substantial tumbling waterfalls. Due to the topography of the area, it is difficult to photograph the falls. As such, the bridge is what is normally pictured, and thus is arguably better known than the dell itself.

The spelling of the dell’s name tends to vary depending on the source. The official Oregon State Park site [1] spells it with the apostrophe, however the GNIS entry omits the apostrophe.

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October 29, 2007

Jewel

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Jewel may mean:

  • Gemstone or jewellery
  • Common name for damselflies of the family Chlorocyphidae
  • Jewel case, a CD or DVD holder
  • Jewel bearing, used in sensitive measuring equipment
  • Jewel (supermarket), a grocery store chain
  • Jewel Food Stores (Australia) an Australian grocery store chain
  • Jewel (novel), Jewel is a novel by Bret Lott and was chosen as an Oprah’s Book Club selection
  • “Jewel” (song), a song by Ayumi Hamasaki
  • “Jewel” (Jewel song), a 2007 song by Jewel
  • Jewel (band), a Dutch metal band
  • Jewel (film), a 2001 television film
  • Jewel Records, a record label
People
  • John Jewel, 16th-century Bishop of Salisbury, author and theologian
  • Jewel (singer) (born Jewel Kilcher), American singer and actress
  • Jewel (actress) (born Veronica Sage), American pornographic movie star
  • Jewel De’Nyle, (born Stephany Schwarz) American pornographic movie star, sometimes credited as “Jewel”
  • Jewel Mische, Philippine/American actress, winner of StarStruck
  • Jewel Staite, Canadian actress of Firefly fame

Jewel could also be an alternate spelling of the family name Jewell

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Romantic Mode

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Romantic Mode was a Japanese pop group that debuted in 1996 with their first single, “Dreams.” The members are Akira Asakura (vocals), Masaki Suzukawa (guitars/keyboards), and Joe Rinoie (keyboards/backup vocals).

Their style is electronic pop.

Two of their songs, “Dreams” and “Resolution,” were used in the anime After War Gundam X as the first and second opening songs, respectively.

The group broke up soon after their last album was released in 1999. However, Akira Asakura continued as a solo artist.


Discography

  • Romantic Mode - 1996
  • Vision of Love - 1996
  • Dimensions - 1997
  • Romantic Pleasures ~The Best of Romantic Mode~ - 1999


Singles

  • Dreams - 1996
  • Resolution - 1996
  • Liberty - 1997
  • Love Is The Destiny - 1997
  • Eien ga Owaru made Atsui Kiss wo Shiyou - 1997
  • Runner - 1998

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Devonian Botanical Garden

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The Devonian Botanical Garden is Canada’s most northerly botanical garden. It was established in 1959 by the University of Alberta, and is located near the town of Devon, Alberta. The gardens extend over 30 hectares (80 acres) of 12,000 year old sand dune shoreline of pre-glacial Lake Edmonton, and include an additional 40 hA (110 acres) of natural areas. In 1976 a further 40 hA were added and the name was changed to the Devonian Botanical Garden. It contains a diverse variety of plants and fungi, with emphasis on alpine and cold-hardy plants, but featuring such attractions as an authentic Japanese garden. Because of its connection to the University of Alberta, extensive research is carried out by the centres staff in areas including wetland ecology, biology of microfungi, horticulture, and phenology.

The Garden offers several display features: an alpine garden, an herb garden, a peony collection, a primula dell, an iris dell, a collection of Alberta plants, and a Native People’s garden. The Garden is open from May through November.

The Friends of the Devonian Botanical Garden was founded in 1971 as a fundraising group to support the aims and objectives of the garden. Because of its affiliation with the University it has an extensive herbarium and maintains a Members Seed List. It also produces various horticulturally related publications.


See also

  • List of botanical gardens in Canada


External links

  • Univ. of Alberta Devonian Botanic Garden

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Dell Dimension

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Dell Dimension is a line of home desktop computers manufactured by Dell, Inc. As of June 2007, Dell no longer makes the Dimension line other than for business and in non American markets. The high-end Dimension 9200 (XPS 410 in the Amercian market) is still manufactured. The E520/1 and their “C” models no longer exist and are now part of the Inspiron line, previously only a laptop line, under the names Inspiron 530/1 (S) with a new case design.


Current Dell Dimension models

  • Dimension 9200 - Only in the Dell business sections, and the Canadian version of the XPS 410. The 9200, like the consumer-oriented XPS 410, has a taller case than the old E and C models. Like the majority of the company’s current models, the 9200 is offered with Intel CPUs, including the Pentium D, Core 2 Duo, and Core 2 Quad. Has a 375 watt power supply, like the XPS 410.
  • Dimension 9200C- Only in the Dell business sections, bearing a strong appearance to the consumer-driven XPS 210. Also offers Intel chipsets and CPUs, has a 275 watt power supply.


Linux reboot issue

Dell Dimension E520 cannot do a proper reboot with the normal Linux code and thus must rely on its BIOS for reboot. In order to deal with it, Linux uses a BIOS based method for reboot. Prior to reboot, Linux switches to real mode and writes to CMOS register 0×0f which is the BIOS reset entry point. The BIOS POST routine will then recognize that as telling it to do a proper reboot.


References

  • Dell small business desktop computers, accessed in the US on May 12, 2007. http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/dimen?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&sort=price
  • Dell home-oriented computers, also accesed in the US on May 12, 2007. http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/dimen?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs


External links

  • Dell Computer Buying Guides Dell’s official computers buying guides site.
  • Dell Support for more information about specifications.

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Arthur Jones

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Arthur Jones is the name of:

  • Arthur Jones (cricketer) (1872–1914), former England cricket captain;

    • Other people named Arthur Jones who have played first-class cricket are:
    • Arthur Jones (American cricketer)
    • Arthur Jones (Australian cricketer)
    • Arthur Jones (Welsh cricketer)
  • Arthur Jones (inventor) (1926–2007), inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines
  • Arthur Jones (politician) (1915–1991), British Member of Parliament 1962–1969
  • Arthur Jones (athlete) Jamaiacan sprinter
  • Arthur Creech Jones (1891–1964), Secretary of State for the Colonies 1946–1950, was formerly known as Arthur Jones.

See also:

  • Jones (surname)

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October 28, 2007

Donald Herbert

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Donald Herbert may refer to:

  • Donald Jeffrey Herbert, host of two educational television shows, or
  • Donald Herbert, a firefighter who awoke from a coma after ten years.

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October 25, 2007

Ben Curtis (actor)

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For other people named Ben Curtis, see Benjamin Curtis.

Benjamin Bowmar Curtis (born November 2, 1980 in Chattanooga, Tennessee), also known as the Dell Dude, is an American actor and former spokesman for Dell Computers. Curtis was prominently featured in the popular “Dell Dude” ads from 2000 to 2003.


Early life and education

Curtis is the second of two children, and has an older sister named Polly Elise Curtis. He attended and graduated from the McCallie School, an all boys school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, after completing elementary school at Saint Nicholas School, also in Chattanooga.

At four years old, Curtis met illusionist David Copperfield. Inspired by Copperfield’s performance, Curtis started his own magic business at the age of thirteen. Curtis went on to compete in and win a few national stage contests. Curtis later attended Tannen’s Magic School in New York City. While at the school, Ben created, produced, directed, and starred in his first full-scale illusion show. The show consisted of his skills in music, acting, magic, and mime.

Curtis attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. While at NYU, Ben has attended the Atlantic Theater Company as well as studying the techniques of Grotowski and Brecht at Tisch’s Experimental Theater Wing (both in America and Amsterdam).


The Dell Dude

As part of a commercial advertising campaign, Curtis portrayed the character Steven. This advertising campaign popularized the phrase “Dude, you’re getting a Dell.” The commercials would usually feature chipper Steven informing prospective buyers of all the perks of owning a Dell. When the party was sold on the idea he would close with the catchphrase “Dude, you’re getting a Dell”. The campaign was a huge success and not only helped bring prominence to Dell, but to Curtis as well. [1]


Arrest

On February 9, 2003, Curtis was caught attempting to buy a small bag of marijuana on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Curtis was arrested and charged with criminal possession of marijuana. Word of the arrest of the Dell dude spread quickly through the media.

Since the bag Curtis possessed contained a very small amount of marijuana, the judge in his case was lenient. The case was adjourned in contemplation of dismissal, meaning it would be dismissed and Curtis’s record expunged if he stayed out of trouble for the next year. Despite the incident, Dell spokesman Venancio Figueroa maintained that Curtis’ relationship with the company was “still in place.” However, Dell, Inc. fired Curtis as a result of his arrest due to company policy. It ended Curtis’s relationship with them. [2] However, it is believed that Curtis was already in the process of being phased-out in favor of a new pitch for Dell. In early 2003, the Dude ad campaign was dropped in favor of a new set of commercials about three Dell interns.


Life after Dell

Curtis’ career seems to have survived both the Dell campaign and the marijuana arrest incident. In the spring of 2004, Boca Raton, Florida-based AdSouth Partners hired Curtis to lead its marketing campaign for the launch of Gameznflix, an Internet video game and movie rental service. Regarding the marijuana incident, Curtis told an interviewer for the South Florida Business Journal, “I learned a lesson and that was the thing,” said Curtis, then 23, and a senior at New York University. “I’ve been through that experience and I’ve come out of that a better person. I’ve learned what it means to be a role model and I have a second chance.”

In February 2005, Curtis played the role of Christian, in an off-Broadway 16-show production of John Fisher’s comedy Joy. [3] [4][5] The play and his performance both received generally favorable reviews.


External links

  • Dell Dude’ released after marijuana arrest from CNN
  • ‘Hey Dude, It’s Ben Curtis!’ - A visit with one of the stars of Off-Broadway’s JOY from Broadway World
  • Boy’s Life Article
  • Did Curtis’ career as a pitchman for Dell computers end because he was arrested for possession of marijuana? from Snopes

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Pico BTX

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Pico BTX is a computer motherboard and system form factor. Pico BTX motherboards are relatively small, smaller than current small ‘micro’ sized motherboards hence the name ‘pico’. They share a common top-half with the other sizes in the BTX line, but sport only 1-2 expansion slots, designed for half-height or riser-card applications.


Availability

As of January 2007, there are very limited numbers of OEM motherboards and cases for Pico BTX. Complete systems are available from Dell, which embraced BTX quickly within its desktop product line, and appears to use Pico BTX boards in its smallest machines, though no claims are made by Dell in there marketing materials.

Intel as the mainstream mainboard manufacturer is making such boards


See also

  • BTX (Balanced Technology Extended) form factor.


External links

  • Intel BTX press releases: http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/p4/btx/
  • Intel sponsored specification site: http://www.formfactors.org/FFDetail.asp?FFID=12&CatID=1
  • Production Intel Pico BTX Motherboard DQ965WC: http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DQ965WC/index.htm

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Dell PowerVault

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Dell PowerVault products include disk enclosures, disk arrays, tape drives, autoloaders, tape libraries, network attached storage and storage area networks. Some of these products are provided through a partnership with EMC Corporation and are further classified as a Dell/EMC device.

Some PowerVaults, such as the Dell PowerVault 705N and the Dell PowerVault 701N were rebranded Snap Servers.


Sources

  • Dell Storage
  • Dell Storage Guide


See also

  • Dell, Inc.
  • Dell EMC


External Links

  • Repair Dell Laptop Services and Self Help Section For dell all models.

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  • Dell Recycling As personal computers have become common in most homes, there is a growing concern about the environmental impact of old computers, computer parts and other
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Dell Comics

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Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell Publishing, which got its start in pulp magazines. It published comics from 1929 to 1973. At its peak, it was the most prominent and successful American company in the medium.

Its first title was The Funnies which was the first comic book to feature original material, but since it was published in the tabloid format as opposed to the standard one, it is normally not recognized as such.

The company formed a partnership in 1938 with Western Publishing, in which Dell would finance and distribute publications that Western would produce. While this diverged from the regular practice in the medium of one company handling finance and production and outsourcing distribution, it was a highly successful enterprise with titles selling in the millions.

Dell Comics was best known for its licensed material, most notably the animated characters from Walt Disney Productions, Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Walter Lantz Studio along with many movie and television properties such as Tarzan and the Lone Ranger. Writer/artists Walt Kelly and Carl Barks are the most noted talents associated with the company. Other prolific scripters were Gaylord DuBois, Paul S. Newman, Don “Arr” Christensen, John Stanley, Bob Gregory, Robert Schaefer and Eric Freiwald, Lloyd Turner and Carl Fallberg. Artists who worked on comics published by Dell included Fred Harman, Alex Toth, Russ Manning, Jesse Marsh, Paul Murry, Tony Strobl, Harvey Eisenberg, Ken Hultgren, Dick Moores, Jack Bradbury, Roger Armstrong, Jack Manning, Bill Wright, Pete Alvarado, Dan Spiegle, Paul Norris, Frank Bolle, Artie Saaf, and John Buscema. Famed fantasy writer Charles Beaumont contributed a handful of stories for Dell’s funny animal comics early in his career, all done in collaboration with William F. Nolan.

From 1939 to 1962, Dell’s most notable and prolific title was the anthology Four Color. Published several times a month, the title (which primarily consisted of standalone issues featuring various licensed properties) saw more than 1,300 issues published in its 23-year history. It often served as a try-out title (much like DC’s Showcase) and thus the launching pad for many long-running series.

In 1948, Dell refused membership in the nascent Association of Comics Magazine Publishers. The association had been formed to pre-empt government intervention in the face of mounting public criticism of comic books. Dell vice-president Helen Meyer told congress that Dell had opted out of the association because they didn’t want their less controversial offerings to serve as “an umbrella for the crime comic publishers”. [1]

The end of Four Color in 1962 coincided with the end of the partnership with Western, which took most of its licensed properties and its original material and created its own imprint, Gold Key Comics.

Dell Comics continued for another 11 years with licensed television and motion picture adaptations (including Mission: Impossible, Ben Casey, Burke’s Law, Doctor Kildare, Beach Blanket Bingo) and a few generally poorly received original titles. Among the few long lasting series from this time include the teen-comic Thirteen Going on Eighteen (29 issues, written by John Stanley), Ghost Stories (37 issues, #1 only written by John Stanley), Combat (40 issues), Ponytail (20 issues), Kona Monarch of Monster Isle (20 issues), Toka the Jungle King (10 issues), and Naza Stone Age Warrior (9 issues). Dell additionally attempted to do superhero titles, including Nukla, Fab 4, Brain Boy, and a critically-ridiculed trio of titles based on the Universal Pictures monsters Frankenstein, Dracula and Werewolf that recast the characters as superheroes.

Dell Comics finally ceased publication in 1973, with a few of its former titles moving to Gold Key.


External links

  • Dell Comics section at International Catalogue of Superheroes
  • Toonopedia entry for Dell Comics
  • What was the relationship between Dell Comics and Gold Key Comics?
  • Scott Shaw on Tales From The Tomb #1 and Ghost Stories #1
  • obituary for Robert Schaefer
  • obituary for Roger Armstrong

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October 24, 2007

Dell Magazines

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This article discusses the magazine company. For other uses, see Dell (disambiguation).

Dell Magazines was a company founded by George T. Delacorte Jr. in 1921 as part of his Dell Publishing Co. Dell is today known for its many puzzle magazines, as well as fiction magazines such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It is now a division of Crosstown Publications, with headquarters in Norwalk, Connecticut, under the same ownership as Penny Publication, LLC, which publishes Penny Press puzzle magazines.

The first puzzle magazine Dell published was Dell Crossword Puzzles, in 1931, and since then it has printed magazines containing word searches, math and logic puzzles, and other diversions.

Some puzzles that first appeared in Dell magazines, such as Number Place and Cross Sums, gained new popularity when they were used by Nikoli in Japan as sudoku and kakuro and then spread back into the Western world.


External links

  • Dell website

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  • IGN: Dell Magazines Crossword IGN is the ultimate Dell Magazines Crossword resource for trailers, TV | DVD | Music | Comics | Anime | Gear | Sports | Cars | Stars | Find Jobs

Ethnography of communication

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The Ethnography of communication (EOC) is the a method of discourse analysis in linguistics, which draws on the anthropological field of ethnography. Unlike ethnography proper, though, it takes both language and culture to be constitutive as well as constructive. According to Deborah Cameron (2001), EOC can be thought of as the application of ethnographic methods to the communication patterns of a group. Littlejohn & Foss (2005) recall that Dell Hymes suggests that “cultures communicate in different ways, but all forms of communication require a shared code, communicators who know and use the code, a channel, a setting, a message form, a topic, and an event created by transmission of the message (p. 312).”

So, EOC can be used as a means by which to study the interactions among members of various cultures: being able to discern which communication acts and/or codes are important to different groups, what types of meanings groups apply to different communication events, and how group members learn these codes provides insight into particular communities. This additional insight may be used to enhance communication with group members, make sense of group members’ decisions, and distinguish groups from one another, among other things.


History

Originally coined “Ethnography of speaking” in Dell Hymes eponymous 1962 paper, it was redefined in his 1964 paper, Introduction: Toward Ethnographies of Communication to accommodate for the non-vocal and non-verbal characteristics of communication.


Notable studies

Several research studies have used ethnography of communication as a methodological tool when conducting empirical research. A couple examples of this work include: Philipsen’s (1975) study which examined the ways in which blue-collar men living near Chicago communicated or did not communicate based on communication context; and Katriel’s (1990) study of Israeli communication acts involving griping and joking about national and public problems. These studies not only identify communication acts, codes, rules, functions, and norms, but they also offer different ways in which the method can be applied.


References

  • Hymes, D.H. (1962). “The ethnography of speaking”. T. Gladwin and W. C. Sturtevant (eds) Anthropology and Human Behaviour. Washington, D. C.: Anthropology Society of Washington.
  • Katriel, T. (1990). ‘Griping’ as a verbal ritual in some Israeli discourse. In D. Carbaugh (Ed.), Cultural Communication and Intercultural Contact. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 99-114.
  • Lindlof, T. R, & Taylor, B. C. (2002). Qualitative Communication Research Methods 2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 44-47.
  • Littlejohn, S. W., & Foss, K. A. (2005). Theories of human communication (8th ed.). USA: Thompson Wadsworth, pp. 312-315.
  • Philipsen, G. (1975). Speaking “like a man” in Teamsterville: Culture patterns of role enactment in an urban neighborhood. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 61, 13-22.

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Chatto and Windus

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Chatto and Windus has been, since 1987, an imprint of Random House, the publishers. It was originally an important publisher of books in London, founded in the Victorian era by Andrew Chatto (1841–1913).

Chatto & Windus published Mark Twain, Wilkie Collins, Richard Aldington, Aldous Huxley, Samuel Beckett, amongst others the famous ‘unfinished’ novel entitled the Weir of Hermiston (an unfinished romance) (1896) by Robert Louis Stevenson, and the first translation into English (Remembrance of Things Past, C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, 1922) of Marcel Proust’s novel À la recherche du temps perdu, amongst others.

Active as an independent publishing house until 1969, when it merged with Jonathan Cape, it published broadly in the field of literature, including novels and poetry. It is not connected, except in the loosest historical fashion, with the Pickering and Chatto imprint.


References

  • Oliver Warner, Chatto & Windus. A brief account of the firm’s origin, history and development (1973).
  • Knowlson, James. Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett. Simon and Schuster, New York: 1996

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October 23, 2007

Road case

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A road case is a box specially built to protect musical instruments or other theatrical properties when they must be moved between locations. A large number of varying-sized road cases can be built to outfit the needs of an entire touring production company, or custom designed individually for a specific industry or technology. Most road cases are constructed of a Laminate known as ABS plastic’s on[ Birch plywood Or luan plywood] from 1/4″ to 1/2″ if used as road case it must meet ATA shipping standards(Airline Transportation Association)
Or Laminates that are are made with out applying to plywood.(solid core plastic)
which are lighter in weight and just as strong as ABS on plywood.
some with aluminium-reinforced edges and corners, tightly-latching lids, and handles and casters.
Road cases can also be made of molded plastic.

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October 22, 2007

Christopher Dell

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Christopher William Dell is a career United States Foreign Service officer who served as United States Ambassador to the Republic of Zimbabwe from August 12, 2004 to July 2007.


Education

  • Master of Arts - Balliol College, Oxford University (1980)
  • Bachelor of Arts – Columbia College, Columbia University (1978)


Career Service

  • Deputy Chief of Mission, Afghanistan, 2007-present
  • Ambassador to Zimbabwe, 2004-2007
  • Ambassador to Angola, 2001-2004
  • Chief of Mission, U.S. Office, Pristina, Kosovo, 2000-2001
  • Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy Sofia, Bulgaria, 1997-2000
  • Deputy Director, Office of Regional Political Affairs, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, 1994-1996
  • Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy, Maputo, Mozambique, 1991-1994
  • Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for International Security Affairs, 1989-1991
  • Executive Assistant to the Special Negotiator for Greek Bases Agreement, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, 1987-1989
  • Desk Officer for Spain and Portugal, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, 1986-1987
  • Staff Assistant, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, 1985-1986
  • Political Officer, US Embassy Lisbon, Portugal, 1984-1985
  • Vice Consul, US Consulate Oporto, Portugal, 1983-1984
  • Vice Consul, US Consulate Matamoras, Mexico, 1981-1983


Posting to Zimbabwe

Dell became US Ambassador to Zimbabwe in August 2004. During his tenure, the government of President Robert Mugabe has carried out Operation Murambatsvina, which has been described by Mugabe as an “urban renewal” programme and by his political opponents as a crackdown on the urban poor. Western governments, including that of the United States, have condemned it.

Relations between the United States and Zimbabwe have deteriorated as a result of both Operation Murambatsvina and the humanitarian situation in the country, which the United States has blamed on official corruption and mismanagement. In addition, the US named Zimbabwe an abuser of human rights in 2004 annual report.[1]

As a result of tense relations, Dell has borne the brunt of the Zimbabwe government’s displeasure. In mid-October 2005, he was detained for entering a restricted area of the Harare Botanical Gardens [2]. A few weeks later, at a public lecture in the city of Mutare, Dell blamed corruption for the food shortages in the country, which the Zimbabwe government blames on foreign sanctions. On November 8, 2005, Dell was summoned to meet President Mugabe and was told to “go to hell.”[3] [4] The following day, the ambassador was recalled to the United States for consultations.[5] He subsequently returned.

Dell publicly condemned the beating of several opposition Movement for Democratic Change leaders and protestors, which occurred on March 11 2007, including that of party leader, Morgan Tsvangirai.

On March 19, acting on orders from President Mugabe, Foreign Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi summoned Dell and other western diplomats to his ministry to receive an official warning to stop interfering in the country’s internal affairs. When Mumbengegwi refused to allow the diplomats an opportunity to ask questions, Dell walked out, describing the meeting as a “sham” for the benefit of the state media, who were filming the proceedings [6][7].
Dell left Harare the same day for London. The State Department stated that he would return to Zimbabwe soon.[8]

In mid-July 2007, Dell left his posting in Zimbabwe without bidding Mugabe farewell. According to Zimbabwean state radio, at the time of his departure he was disappointed because Mugabe remained in office.<ref>”US envoy leaves Zimbabwe a disappointed man, radio reports”, DPA (Earthtimes.org), July 14, 2007.</ref> Dell has been appointed deputy chief of mission in Afghanistan.<ref>Augustine Mukaro, “Zimbabwe: New U.S. Ambassador Won’t Relent On Zim - Dell”, Zimbabwe Independent (allAfrica.com), July 6, 2007.</ref>


References

  • Biography: United States Department of State: Biography of Christopher William Dell

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Hazel Dell, Washington

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Hazel Dell is a medium-sized unincorporated suburb of Vancouver, Washington. The United States Census Bureau collects data in two separate sections of the community:

  • Hazel Dell North
  • Hazel Dell South
  • In 2000, the Hazel Dell Little League team, managed by Tom Peavey, went to the Little League Baseball World Series in South Williamsport, PA. The team placed third in the United States pool with a 2-1 record. Their victories were against teams from Bellaire, Texas and Goffstown, New Hampshire. The team was eliminated from the tournament due to Little League’s complicated tie-breaker system.


Demographics

• Population: 6,605 residents
o Males: 3.,213 (46 percent)
o Females: 3,392 (51.4 percent)
• Median resident age: 37.4 years
• Median household income: $36,571
• Median house value: $153,800
• Unemployed: 8 percent
• Mean travel time to work: 23.2 minutes
• Race:
o White (Non-Hispanic): 86 percent,
o Hispanic: 5 percent
o Two or more races: 3.4 percent
o Black: 3.3 percent
o Other: 2.2 percent
o American Indian: 1.8 percent
o Foreign born: 3.6 percent
 Latin America: 1.4 percent
 Europe: 1.2 percent
 Asia: 0.8 percent
• Ancestry:
o German: 15.4 percent
o English: 12.5 percent
o Irish: 10.6 percent
o Norwegian: 7.6 percent
o United States: 7.1 percent
o Scottish: 5.8 percent
• Education Level:
o High school or higher: 84.9 percent
o Bachelor’s degree or higher: 16 percent
o Graduate or professional degree: 6.3 percent
• Marriage status (age 15 and over):
o Never married: 24.9 percent
o Married: 49.5 percent
o Separated: 1.6 percent
o Divorced: 16 percent

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On Spec

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On Spec is a digest-sized, perfect-bound, Canadian quarterly magazine publishing stories and poetry in science fiction, fantasy, and allied genres. It started publishing in 1989, and is based in Edmonton, Alberta.


External links

  • On Spec Magazine Official Website

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October 21, 2007

EmperorLinux

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EmperorLinux, Inc.[1], was founded in 1999 on the premise that Linux users needed a source for fully out-of-the-box supported laptops. EmperorLinux was started by Lincoln Durey, a EE Ph.D. from Tulane University. The company’s first product was the BlackPerl Linux laptop, based on a Sony VAIO 505TR with a highly modified Linux kernel. Since 1999 the company has added a range of IBM ThinkPads, Dell Latitudes, and Sharp laptops to its lineup.

These laptops are available with most major Linux distributions[2], including Fedora, RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, and SuSE. Significant improvements to stock Linux distributions come from the empkernel[3], and a carefully configured /etc directory. Supported features include APM and ACPI suspend and hibernate support, CPU throttling, LCD backlight brightness control, wireless, and generally full support of the hardware under Linux.

The company is privately held and based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.


External links

  • Company Website

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Gosmore

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Gosmore is a hamlet in the parish of St Ippolyts near Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. One interesting feature is Bunyan’s Dell, a natural amphitheatre deep inside Wain Wood where the author of The Pilgrim’s Progress preached in secret when his faith was persecuted after the Restoration.

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October 20, 2007

Nashville Vols

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The Nashville Vols were a minor league baseball team of the Southern Association based in Nashville, Tennessee from 1901 to 1961 and again in 1963. Vols is short for Volunteers, referring to the state’s nickname The Volunteer State. They were a Class A team from 1902 to 1935, a Class A1 team from 1936 to 1945, and a Class Double-A team from 1946 to 1961.


Team History

Beginning play in 1901, the Nashville Volunteers (commonly known as the “Vols”) were a charter member of the newly formed Southern Association. Their home ballpark was called Athletic Park, which would later come to be known as Sulphur Dell. The Dell was a notorious hitter’s park often called “Suffer Hell” by pitchers and outfielders.

The Vols won the first two Southern Association championships in 1901 and 1902 behind the leadership of manager Newt Fisher. During the 1902 season, Nashville’s Hugh Hill recorded a .416 batting average, a mark never topped in the league.

The Vols would not win another league pennant until 1908 under manager Bill Bernhard. The championship was won on the final game of the season at Sulphur Dell. Going into the game, the Vols had the same number of losses (56) as the New Orleans Pelicans. But the Pelicans were in first place with 76 wins to the Vols’ second-place 74. Several games that were cancelled due to rain were not made up that late in the season. Vols pitcher Vedder Sitton hurled a three-hit, 1-0 shutout, allowing Nashville to win their third championship by two percentage points.

Eight years later, on July 11, 1916 at the Dell, Vols pitcher Tom Rogers delivered a perfect game against the Chattanooga Lookouts. He retired all 27 batters in the 2-0 victory for the team’s only perfect game in its history. The Vols also won their third Southern Association crown behind Rogers’ league-leading 24 wins.

The first night game at Sulphur Dell was held on May 18, 1931. An estimated 7,000 fans attended the game.

Following the arrival of Larry Gilbert as Vols manager in 1939, the Vols won their first pennant in 24 years in 1940 with Johnny Sain as pitcher and batter. During Major League Baseball’s Centennial in 2001, the 1940 Nashville Vols were named as the 47th best minor league team of all time. The Vols also won the league championship in 1943, 1944, 1948, and 1949.

During the 1954 season, Vols outfielder Bob Lennon hit 64 home runs, a league record never broken. Forty of the home runs were hit at Sulphur Dell.

Following the 1961 season, the Southern Association ceased operations. Sulphur Dell was empty the next year, but the Double-A South Atlantic League came to Nashville in 1963 for one season. Poor attendance and financial problems forced team to leave Nashville at the conclusion of the 1963 season.

Professional baseball was absent from the Music City from 1964 to 1977. But in 1978, Vanderbilt University baseball coach Larry Schmittou led a group of local owners and founded the Nashville Sounds of the Southern League, abandoning the nickname “Vols” which was shared by the University of Tennessee (Knoxville). The Sounds became one of the most successful minor league franchises, moving to Class Triple-A in 1985. They are currently members of the Pacific Coast League.


Affiliations

The Vols were affiliated with the following major league teams:

Year Affiliation(s)
1934-36; 1952-54 New York Giants
1938-40 Brooklyn Dodgers
1944-51 Chicago Cubs
1955-60 Cincinnati Reds
1961 Minnesota Twins
1963 Los Angeles Angels


Hall of Fame Players

  • Waite Hoyt, P, 1918, enshrined in 1969
  • Hazen “Kiki” Cuyler, OF, 1923, enshrined in 1968


See Also

  • Sulphur Dell
  • Nashville Sounds


References

  • Traughber, Bill. Nashville Sounds 2007 Media Guide. 2007: 189.

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Tony Dell

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Anthony Ross Dell (born August 6, 1947, Lymington, England) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 2 Tests from 1971 to 1973.

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Dell Rapids

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  1. REDIRECTDell Rapids, South Dakota

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  • Dell to Offer Ubuntu | Ubuntu LONDON, 1st May 2007 - Canonical and Dell are pleased to announce a partnership to offer Ubuntu 7.04 on select desktop and notebook products.
  • Dell: In the Bloghouse A PC-owner's Web diary of complaints about customer service has yielded heavy traffic and some near-contrition from the maker.

October 19, 2007

Gabriel N’Galula

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Gabriel N’Galula Mbuyi (born June 1, 1982, sometimes referred to as Junior) is a Belgian football defensive midfielder. He is the brother of Floribert N’Galula, a former Anderlecht player who was transferred early to Manchester United F.C..

He showed promise in his early games at Anderlecht, but a long injury saw him lose his place to Yves Vanderhaeghe and Besnik Hasi. In the 2004-05 season, he was thus loaned to R.A.E.C. Mons, that relegated to second division at the end of the season. He was loaned again to Stoke City F.C. in England for the 2005-06 season.

Signed permanent deal with Standard Liege as part of the Mohammed Tchite transfer to Anderlecht, 2006-07 season.

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  • Gabriel Robins Gabriel Robins is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Virginia, where he received an NSF Young Investigator Award,
  • Gabriel Snyder - Variety Breaking entertainment news, movie reviews, Celebrity photos, Pictures, entertainment industry events, Film festivals, festival news and festival reviews,

Bodnant Garden

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Bodnant Garden is a National Trust property in Tal-y-Cafn, Colwyn Bay, near Conwy, North Wales.

This important garden occupies an area of over 80 acres surrounding Bodnant House, most of which was first laid out by Henry Davis Pochin, a successful industrial chemist, from 1874 onwards until his death in 1895. Bodnant House had been built in 1792 but was remodelled by Pochin and on his death it was inherited by his daughter (whose husband became the first Baron Aberconway in 1911). The garden, but not the House or other parts of the estate, was presented to the National Trust, with an endowment, in 1949. The House was the home of the late Lord Aberconway, and members of his family continue to be actively involved in the management of the garden, its tea pavilion and car parks on behalf of the National Trust.

The gardens are varied and include formal gardens bounded by clipped box hedges, ornamental pools and formal herbaceous borders, an enclosed larburnum arch and many rose gardens. However, Bodnant is most famous for its breeding programme, especially of varieties of Rhododendrons and azaleas examples of which are now grown throughout the world. Also noted are the collections of Magnolia, Camellia, Clematis and Hydrangea.

Bodnant Garden is situated above the River Conwy and overlooks the valley towards the Carneddau range of mountains. Begun in 1875, it is the creation of four generations of Aberconways and is divided into two parts: the upper level (around the house) features huge Italianate terraces, specimen trees and formal lawns, with paths descending to at lower level “The Dell” with a wooded valley, stream and wild garden below. Included within the Dell are the Old Mill, the mill pond with the mill race and an attractive spillway waterfall into the River Hiraethlyn, to give the delightful babbling brook through the Dell its proper name.

Of the many specimen trees within the Dell and the Woodland, notable are several Californian Redwoods including Sequoiadendron giganteum planted in 1886 and at 146 feet high, surpassed in height only by another tree from the western United States, the Oregon Douglas Fir Pseudotsuga menziesit at 158 feet. From China in 1949 came the Dawn Redwood, previously known only from fossils and believed to have been extinct.

Above the Dell is “The Poem”, the family mausoleum from which a network of paths leads through shrubberies and the Rosemary garden to the front lawn (separated from the old park by a ha-ha) and across the lawn to the Round garden.


References

  • The Garden at Bodnant Jarrold Publishing Norwich and Bodnant Garden, 2001.


External links

  • Bodnant Garden information at the National Trust
  • Welcome to Bodnant Garden
  • Bodnant Garden Illustrated Guide to Snowdonia
  • A Visit to Bodnant Garden

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Eric Meadus

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Eric Meadus (1931–1970) was an English artist whose work was exhibited in the Royal Academy and Paris Salon.

Meadus came from the ‘Flower Roads’ of Swaythling. He was born in Rigby Road, Southampton, but his family soon moved to Lobelia Road. He first exhibited in a mixed show at the City Art Gallery. L.S. Lowry met him in 1965 and encouraged him. He attended King Edward VI School, Southampton and later worked for Pirelli General where he provided cartoons for their house magazine Cable.

His oils were exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Cork Street gallery in London and at the Paris Salon.


Exhibitions

  • 1969: Paris Salon.
  • 1970: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
  • 1996: Southampton City Art Gallery — Meadus line drawings from the permanent collection.
  • 1996: The First Gallery, Southampton.
  • 1999: Tudor House Museum, Southampton.
  • 2001: The First Gallery, Southampton.


References

  • Meadus, Eric. Not a Day Wasted: An Eric Meadus Sketchbook, (Southampton: First Gallery, 1991). ISBN 0-9512947-2-5.

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October 18, 2007

Camp Tel Noar

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Camp Tel Noar is a Jewish summer camp for children ages 8 through 15. It is located in Hampstead, New Hampshire, in the United States, which is about 1 hour north of Boston. The camp sits on Sunset Lake and has about 275 campers.


History

Camp Tel Noar (CTN) was founded by Eli and Bessie Cohen in 1945 as a Zionist camp. Originally for young adults, CTN currently is a Jewish children’s camp for ages 8 to 15.


Age groups

  • Olim/Olot - grades 3,4,5,6
  • Tzofim/Tzofot - grades 7,8
  • Bogrim/Bogrot - grades 9,10


Facilities


Buildings

One of Camp Tel Noar’s special features is their “Chug” style bunks. These “chugs” are three bunks that are attached and share a lounge and bathroom. CTN also has single bunks for the older campers. The other facilities include a gym, rec hall, dining hall, arts & crafts building, and other support buildings.


1998 fire

During March of 1998, a fire was caused by the roofing company working on the dining hall in the winter. The fire destroyed the dining hall and kitchen. For the summer of 1998, the camp rented trailers that could be used as a dining hall and kitchen. [1]


Areas of Camp

  • The Big Diamond is the softball field directly in front of the dining hall.
  • The Dell is the near A&C, which is used primarily for soccer. There is also the Dell Volleyball Court (”Dell Net”).
  • The Archery Range is located at the top of the Dell Hill.
  • The New Diamond is located behind the bunks and is used the least out of all the fields.
  • The Chapel is located at the back end of the Dell and is used only for Friday and Saturday Shabbat services.
  • The area around the flagpole is used for line up and raising the flags.


Activities


Water Sports

  • Swimming
  • Boating & canoeing
  • Windsurfing
  • Sailing
  • Waterskiing


Land Activities

  • Aerobics
  • Basketball
  • Field Hockey
  • Lacrosse
  • Martial Arts
  • Running
  • Soccer
  • Softball
  • Street Hockey
  • Newcomb
  • Ultimate Frisbee
  • Volleyball
  • Tennis
  • Archery


Arts

  • Arts and Crafts
  • Photography
  • Dance
  • Drama
  • Music


Nature

  • Nature
  • Camping


Schedule

Camp Tel Noar only operates in the summer months of June, July, and August. The campers arrive on the last Wednesday of June and leave seven weeks from there. Staff are required to arrive one week early for orientation. During the year, the facility is mainly closed off, but the dining hall is used for the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs’ Laymen’s Institute [2] and local events.

Sunday through Thursday, a six period schedule is run and on Saturday, a relaxed Shabbat schedule is run.


See also

  • Camp Pembroke
  • Camp Tevya


External links

  • Camp Tel Noar Website
  • Eli & Bessie Cohen Foundation - Camp Tel Noar

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  • Computer parts and Flat screen monitor I then decided to try and mish mosh the higher end parts of my burnt out computer into my new computer. Now neither computer works. The dell will turn on

October 17, 2007

Rim of the Pit

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Rim of the Pit (1944) is a locked-room mystery novel written by Hake Talbot, a pen name of Henning Nelms.

It is one of two mystery novels written by Talbot featuring rugged adventurer Rogan Kincaid (the other being “The Hangman’s Handyman.”) Both were published in hardback as Inner Sanctum Mysteries. “Rim of the Pit” was published in the pulp magazine “Thrilling Mystery Novel”, then as a Dell mapback in the 1940s, a Bantam paperback in the 1960s (as part of “The World’s Great Novels of Detection” series chosen by Anthony Boucher), and reprinted in the 1980s in paperback by International Polygonics, Ltd. “The Hangman’s Handyman” appeared in a 1940s pulp magazine, but not in paperback form until 2005, when Ramble House produced one.


Plot

A group of people gather at a remote snowbound lodge in the wilds of northern New England. A seance is held in order to reach the dead husband of the medium. Remarried, the medium’s husband wants permission from the dead man to open a tract of land to logging. During the seance it appears that the spirit of the dead man returns to possess one of the group, using him as an instrument to murder another of the group. The hero, Rogan Kincaid, is an adventurer who takes it upon himself (with help from a Czech refugee, the daughter of the dead man, and others), to solve the mystery before the police are brought in. As impossibilities pile up (including a locked room murder, footprints that begin and end in the middle of an expanse of snow, and a murderer who seems to be able to fly after being taken over by a Windigo), it looks like the only explanation is a supernatural one.

In a poll of detective story writers this mystery was voted as second best of its type, behind John Dickson Carr’s The Hollow Man.

IPL 495, 1985

Bantam F2922, 1965

1940s pulp magazine edition

Dell Mapback #173,1947

crime map from Dell 173

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Dell Comics

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Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell Publishing, which got its start in pulp magazines. It published comics from 1929 to 1973. At its peak, it was the most prominent and successful American company in the medium.

Its first title was The Funnies which was the first comic book to feature original material, but since it was published in the tabloid format as opposed to the standard one, it is normally not recognized as such.

The company formed a partnership in 1938 with Western Publishing, in which Dell would finance and distribute publications that Western would produce. While this diverged from the regular practice in the medium of one company handling finance and production and outsourcing distribution, it was a highly successful enterprise with titles selling in the millions.

Dell Comics was best known for its licensed material, most notably the animated characters from Walt Disney Productions, Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Walter Lantz Studio along with many movie and television properties such as Tarzan and the Lone Ranger. Writer/artists Walt Kelly and Carl Barks are the most noted talents associated with the company. Other prolific scripters were Gaylord DuBois, Paul S. Newman, Don “Arr” Christensen, John Stanley, Bob Gregory, Robert Schaefer and Eric Freiwald, Lloyd Turner and Carl Fallberg. Artists who worked on comics published by Dell included Fred Harman, Alex Toth, Russ Manning, Jesse Marsh, Paul Murry, Tony Strobl, Harvey Eisenberg, Ken Hultgren, Dick Moores, Jack Bradbury, Roger Armstrong, Jack Manning, Bill Wright, Pete Alvarado, Dan Spiegle, Paul Norris, Frank Bolle, Artie Saaf, and John Buscema. Famed fantasy writer Charles Beaumont contributed a handful of stories for Dell’s funny animal comics early in his career, all done in collaboration with William F. Nolan.

From 1939 to 1962, Dell’s most notable and prolific title was the anthology Four Color. Published several times a month, the title (which primarily consisted of standalone issues featuring various licensed properties) saw more than 1,300 issues published in its 23-year history. It often served as a try-out title (much like DC’s Showcase) and thus the launching pad for many long-running series.

In 1948, Dell refused membership in the nascent Association of Comics Magazine Publishers. The association had been formed to pre-empt government intervention in the face of mounting public criticism of comic books. Dell vice-president Helen Meyer told congress that Dell had opted out of the association because they didn’t want their less controversial offerings to serve as “an umbrella for the crime comic publishers”. [1]

The end of Four Color in 1962 coincided with the end of the partnership with Western, which took most of its licensed properties and its original material and created its own imprint, Gold Key Comics.

Dell Comics continued for another 11 years with licensed television and motion picture adaptations (including Mission: Impossible, Ben Casey, Burke’s Law, Doctor Kildare, Beach Blanket Bingo) and a few generally poorly received original titles. Among the few long lasting series from this time include the teen-comic Thirteen Going on Eighteen (29 issues, written by John Stanley), Ghost Stories (37 issues, #1 only written by John Stanley), Combat (40 issues), Ponytail (20 issues), Kona Monarch of Monster Isle (20 issues), Toka the Jungle King (10 issues), and Naza Stone Age Warrior (9 issues). Dell additionally attempted to do superhero titles, including Nukla, Fab 4, Brain Boy, and a critically-ridiculed trio of titles based on the Universal Pictures monsters Frankenstein, Dracula and Werewolf that recast the characters as superheroes.

Dell Comics finally ceased publication in 1973, with a few of its former titles moving to Gold Key.


External links

  • Dell Comics section at International Catalogue of Superheroes
  • Toonopedia entry for Dell Comics
  • What was the relationship between Dell Comics and Gold Key Comics?
  • Scott Shaw on Tales From The Tomb #1 and Ghost Stories #1
  • obituary for Robert Schaefer
  • obituary for Roger Armstrong

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Flashing Swords!

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Flashing Swords! was a series of fantasy anthologies published by Dell Books from 1973 to 1981 under the editorship of Lin Carter. It showcased the heroic fantasy work of the members of the Swordsmen and Sorcerers’ Guild of America (SAGA), a somewhat informal literary group active from the 1960s to the 1980s, of which Carter was the guiding force. Most of the important sword and sorcery writers at the time of the group’s founding were members; later, membership was extended to other fantasy authors.

The Flashing Swords! series provides a cross-section of the heroic fantasy of the period. Carter and SAGA also sponsored The Gandalf Award from 1974-1981. With the collapse of Carter’s health in the 1980s the anthology series, the Gandalf award, and likely SAGA itself all went into abeyance.


The series

Flashing Swords #1 (ed. .Lin Carter, Dell 2640, July 1973, 266 pp.)

Contents:

  1. Introduction: Of Swordsmen and Sorcerers by Lin Carter
  2. The Sadness of the Executioner (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) by Fritz Leiber
  3. Morreion (Dying Earth) by Jack Vance
  4. The Merman’s Children by Poul Anderson
  5. The Higher Heresies of Oolimar (Amalric the Mangod) by Lin Carter

Flashing Swords! #2 (ed. Lin Carter, Dell 3123, February 1974, 268 pp.

Contents:

  1. Introduction: Flashing Swords and Black Magicians by Lin Carter
  2. The Rug and the Bull (Pusad) by L. Sprague de Camp
  3. The Jade Man’s Eyes (Elric of Melniboné) by Michael Moorcock
  4. Toads of Grimmerdale (Witch World) by Andre Norton
  5. Ghoul’s Garden (Brak the Barbarian) by John Jakes

Flashing Swords! #3: Warriors and Wizards (ed. Lin Carter, Dell 2579, August 1976, 272 pp.)

Contents:

  1. Introduction: Warriors and Wizards by Lin Carter
  2. Two Yards of Dragon (Eudoric Dambertson) by L. Sprague de Camp
  3. The Frost Monstreme (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) by Fritz Leiber
  4. Spider Silk (Witch World) by Andre Norton
  5. The Curious Custom of the Turjan Seraad (Amalrik the Mangod) by Lin Carter
  6. Caravan to Illiel by Avram Davidson

Flashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians (ed. Lin Carter, Dell 0-440-12627-4, November 1977, 272 pp.)

Contents:

  1. Introduction: Of Warriors and Wizards by Lin Carter
  2. The Bagful of Dreams (Dying Earth) by Jack Vance
  3. The Tupilak by Poul Anderson
  4. Storm in a Bottle (Brak the Barbarian) by John Jakes
  5. Swords Against the Marluk (Deryni) by Katherine Kurtz
  6. The Lands Beyond the World (Elric of Melniboné) by Michael Moorcock

Flashing Swords! #5: Demons and Daggers (ed. Lin Carter, Dell 0-440-12590-1, December 1981, 250 pp.)

Contents:

  1. Introduction: Where Magic Reigns by Lin Carter
  2. Tower of Ice (Dilvish) by Roger Zelazny
  3. A Thief in Korianth by C. J. Cherryh
  4. Parting Gifts by Diane Duane
  5. A Dealing with Demons (Ebenezum) by Craig Shaw Gardner
  6. The Dry Season by Tanith Lee

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October 16, 2007

MSDC

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The MSDC option in digital cameras stands for Mass Storage Device Class. It is one of the many subclasses of the USB computer peripheral connection protocol.

This class as implemented in digital cameras, allows a connection between a computer and a digital camera by showing the digital camera, when connected to the computer, as a removable disk drive, temporarily attached to the computer. Pictures taken are retrieved using either cut and paste, copy and paste or drag and drop from the digital camera’s picture folder onto a real hard drive or other writeable media available in the computer.

In addition, arbitrary data (does not have to be pictures) can be stored in the digital camera’s onboard memory to the limit of the memory. The MSDC device class can be implemented by any kind of electronic device which has embedded memory storage in any form such as flash memory, IDE hard drives, etc.


See also

  • Personal storage device (PSD)

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Alan Anton

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Alan Anton (born Alan Alizojvodic) is the bassist of the Canadian band Cowboy Junkies.

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Partition editor

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partition editor, partitioner, and partitioning utility are all synonyms for a computer utility program used to view, create, alter, and delete disk partitions on a computer storage device, most commonly a hard disk, but often a USB flash drive stick or other storage medium.

A partition is a section or segment of the storage space on a storage device. By partitioning a large device into several partitions it is possible to isolate various types of data from one another, and allow the coexistence of two or more operating systems simultaneously.

The list of partition editors includes:

  • fdisk
  • cfdisk
  • GParted is the GNOME Partition Editor application.
  • GNU Parted
  • QtParted


See Also

  • List of partition utilities


Resources

  • Parted Magic — Bootable OS on CD with an emphasis on partition editing.
  • Partition Table Editor (included with PartitionMagic) available as PTEDIT32.zip from Symantec’s FTP site.

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October 15, 2007

Camp Tel Noar

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Camp Tel Noar is a Jewish summer camp for children ages 8 through 15. It is located in Hampstead, New Hampshire, in the United States, which is about 1 hour north of Boston. The camp sits on Sunset Lake and has about 275 campers.


History

Camp Tel Noar (CTN) was founded by Eli and Bessie Cohen in 1945 as a Zionist camp. Originally for young adults, CTN currently is a Jewish children’s camp for ages 8 to 15.


Age groups

  • Olim/Olot - grades 3,4,5,6
  • Tzofim/Tzofot - grades 7,8
  • Bogrim/Bogrot - grades 9,10


Facilities


Buildings

One of Camp Tel Noar’s special features is their “Chug” style bunks. These “chugs” are three bunks that are attached and share a lounge and bathroom. CTN also has single bunks for the older campers. The other facilities include a gym, rec hall, dining hall, arts & crafts building, and other support buildings.


1998 fire

During March of 1998, a fire was caused by the roofing company working on the dining hall in the winter. The fire destroyed the dining hall and kitchen. For the summer of 1998, the camp rented trailers that could be used as a dining hall and kitchen. [1]


Areas of Camp

  • The Big Diamond is the softball field directly in front of the dining hall.
  • The Dell is the near A&C, which is used primarily for soccer. There is also the Dell Volleyball Court (”Dell Net”).
  • The Archery Range is located at the top of the Dell Hill.
  • The New Diamond is located behind the bunks and is used the least out of all the fields.
  • The Chapel is located at the back end of the Dell and is used only for Friday and Saturday Shabbat services.
  • The area around the flagpole is used for line up and raising the flags.


Activities


Water Sports

  • Swimming
  • Boating & canoeing
  • Windsurfing
  • Sailing
  • Waterskiing


Land Activities

  • Aerobics
  • Basketball
  • Field Hockey
  • Lacrosse
  • Martial Arts
  • Running
  • Soccer
  • Softball
  • Street Hockey
  • Newcomb
  • Ultimate Frisbee
  • Volleyball
  • Tennis
  • Archery


Arts

  • Arts and Crafts
  • Photography
  • Dance
  • Drama
  • Music


Nature

  • Nature
  • Camping