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While it's fairly common knowledge G1 Megatron was originally Takara's Microman Micro Change Gun Robo MC-13 Walther P-38 Uncle Type, MC-13's origin may not be as straightforward as it may seem.
The Japanese Micro Change line consisted of 1:1 scale toys of household objects and in the Microman storyline, these transformed into robots which aided the Microman in their battles against the dastardly Acroyear. (Thus, Megatron was originally on the side of angels.)
This did raise an interesting question that's never been satisfactorily answered: what kind of Japanese household had a World War II-era German handgun complete with silencer, extended barrel, scope and shoulder stock just lying around?
The "Uncle" in "MC-13 Walther P-38 Uncle Type" provides a major clue. MC-13 was nearly identical to the heavily customised Walther P-38 seen on the Sixties television series, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. It's also worth noting the Japanese company MGC produced a replica of the television prop in 1966. Curiously, however, MC-13 lacked the extended magazine clip seen on the television prop and the Japanese replica.
There was another possible candidate for MC-13's inspiration closer to home. The Japanese television series, Seibu Keisatsu, a cop show set in a highly-combustible Eighties Japan, had merchandising tie-ins by Yonezawa and among these was an U.N.C.L.E-inspired Walther P-38 airsoft gun. Colours aside, it's a dead ringer for MC-13. The problem is the timing is awkward. The third series of the Japanese show started airing in April 1983, the Walther P-38 apparently appeared in episode 21 which aired in September and Takashi Matsuda applied for the MC-13 patent in June. Intriguingly, however, Yonezawa's 1982 toy catalog showed the Walther P-38 Uncle Type and the toy was copyrighted in 1982. It's highly likely MC-13 and the other Gun Robo in the Micro Change line were toys based on Japanese airsoft guns, which is how they fit the "toys of household objects" concept of Micro Change.
Toy companies are understandably wary of selling realistic-looking toy guns like MC-13/Megatron these days given kids wielding them have been accidentally shot by law-enforcement personnel. More to the point, a 1988 US law prohibited anyone "to manufacture, enter into commerce, ship, transport, or receive any toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm" without "a blaze orange plug inserted in the barrel of such toy, look-alike, or imitation firearm."
The Transformers toy designers have, on occasion, produced sly workarounds. The Titans Return Sixshot figure, for example, had a submarine mode which bore a striking resemblance to Sixshot's G1 gun mode when flipped upside down. As Sixshot's gun mode was, to be generous, gun-shaped rather than a realistic model of a gun, this was less a deliberate attempt to circumvent the toy gun law than a token attempt to avoid controversy.
There has been a surprising amount of controversy over the years. There were protests over toy guns as far back as the Thirties when mothers feared kids playing with toy guns would grow up to be gangsters. However, matters became exacerbated in the Eighties after the toy companies took full advantage of Reagan-era deregulation of television to promote their wares. Toy guns along with war-themed toys and cartoons became the frequent target of finger-wagging activists and scientists-turned-activists constantly on the lookout for simple solutions for complex societal issues.
''The message of toy guns is that you solve problems by pulling a trigger," proclaimed a professor of psychology, psychiatry and pediatrics. A Vietnam War vet went further and blamed war toys for conditioning kids to kill in battle as adults. A man was arrested for placing stickers on G.I. Joe figures in a store with the message: ''Warning - Think before you buy. This is a war toy. Playing with it increases anger and violence in children. Is this really what you want for your child?'' Protesters even held demonstrations against G.I. Joe at Hasbro's headquarters.
Others opted for a scientific approach in order to convince the public of the danger posed by toys. In 1985, Dr. Thomas Radecki conducted a study of play involving violence-themed toys and announced, "The evidence is quite strong that we are transmitting an unhealthy message encouraging children to have fun pretending to murder each other.'' The toy in question was He-Man, the study was conducted on preschoolers and the study size was 20.
A founding member of the National Coalition on Television Violence, Radecki had a more personal reason for taking a stance against violent entertainment. He revealed he had a violent fantasy after watching "A Clockwork Orange" and became so convinced violent entertainment could lead to real violence he warned "we are taking a serious chance of causing the end of the world."
(Depending on your familiarity with the history of moral entrepreneurs, you may or may not be surprised to learn Radecki was later imprisoned for illegal prescriptions of drugs under his somewhat unsuccessful "Doctors and Lawyers for a Drug-Free Youth" programme.)
The toy companies did push back by claiming they were only supplying what the consumers wanted. "If the consumer doesn't want to buy, trust me, the consumer doesn't buy," said a spokeswoman for the Toy Manufacturers of America. The G.I. Joe brand, which went out of fashion after the Vietnam War and returned to popularity during the Reagan era, was cited as an example.
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, then-president of Axlon, the makers of Techforce toys, made the not unreasonable point kids would engage in aggressive play even without war toys and toy guns. "Take away their toy guns and they still have (the finger gun gesture): bang, bang," Bushnell said.
(Bushnell would undoubtedly be nonplussed to learn a 10-year-old boy was suspended from school for three days for doing just that in 2014. Zero tolerance policies in schools have resulted in even more absurd examples: an 8-year-old was suspended for three days for brandishing a breaded chicken finger at a teacher and going, "Pow, pow, pow" and another 8-year-old was suspended a day for using a 2-inch-long G.I. Joe gun "in a threatening manner.")
Bushnell also rightly noted toys and cartoons are not the only source of violent imagery. He asked, "Can we require our kids not to read the front page when we bomb Khaddafi?" Some forms of real-world violence are clearly culturally approved, encouraged and celebrated. (Go Patriots!)
Tara Woodyer raised another interesting point, "War scenarios are often passionate expressions of detailed knowledge about particular characters and fantasy worlds depicted in books, TV and films. As play is an important means through which children learn to deal with uncertainty, assess risk and develop resilience, is it right to seek to restrict forms of play that we, as adults, might on the surface see as more troublesome?"
Dr. Helen Boehm, a psychologist, admitted she simply didn't like toy guns but conceded "children don't learn values from toy guns and G.I. Joe. It's parents and other role models who have the most important influence on a child's behavior."
Despite all the handwringing over them over the years, toy guns are still being sold in the millions these days. It's just that they are neon-coloured and futuristic rather than realistic, shoot foam darts instead of BB pellets, and are called "blasters" instead of toy guns. Hasbro's Nerf brand dominates the blasters market and is expected to make over half a billion dollars in wholesale sales this year.
If there's been a distinct paucity of outrage over toy guns, violence-themed toys or violence on television in recent years, it's because the moral entrepreneurs have predictably moved on. As Kirsten Drotner pointed out in her 1999 study of media panics, "The intense preoccupation with the latest media fad, immediately relegates older media to the shadows of acceptance."
Patrick Markey and Christopher Ferguson wrote, "Over the past four decades, American pundits and politicians have blamed violent games for just about every societal ill: school shootings, racism, obesity, narcissism, rickets (a skeletal disease), self-control problems, and drunk driving. Violent games have been held responsible for homicides, carjackings, and rapes, for causing limbs to fall off (seriously), for learning disabilities, and even for the terrorist attacks on September 11th."
Things did improve over time. "The fact that most scientists discount the notion that violent media causes real-world violence is a relatively new phenomenon. Surveys of media scholars conducted thirty years ago revealed that 90 percent of psychologists felt that media violence was among the primary causes of behavioural aggression," they wrote.
"Although society's mistrust of video games seems to be ebbing, people will undoubtedly find something new to fear. Perhaps it will be the dangers of virtual reality, the rise of YouTube stars, or maybe it will be a technology we have yet to imagine," Markey and Ferguson cautioned. "We're already seeing the beginning of a new panic around social media, with concerns that it is isolating and 'brain draining.' People have even tied these fears to those of gun violence …"
As Drotner wrote, "All panics are united by a firm belief in rational argumentation: if people only know about the dangers of the media, if only their tastes are elevated, or if the media mechanisms are properly revealed, then they will change their cultural preferences. But this belief is facilitated by, indeed founded on, an intrinsic amnesia. Every new panic develops as if it was the first time such issues were debated in public, and yet the debates are strikingly similar."
A while ago I found this swanky Robert Graham shirt brand new at the thrift store for $3 (it’s around $200 new). The inside is embroidered with the words Knowledge, Wisdom, Truth—three concepts that have been under attack for too long in this country. I thought it fitting attire to celebrate last night!
Holy Trinity Column
Object ID: 22660 Rathausplatz
The late Baroque Trinity Column was built 1753-1782. It is considered as latest baroque column of Lower Austria, the combination with a fountain facility is a rare design.
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(further information is available by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
History of the City St. Pölten
In order to present concise history of the Lower Austrian capital is in the shop of the city museum a richly illustrated full version on CD-ROM.
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On the occasion of the commemoration of the pogroms of November 1938, the Institute for Jewish History of Austria its virtual Memorbuch (Memory book) for the destroyed St. Pölten Jewish community since 10th November 2012 is putting online.
Prehistory
The time from which there is no written record is named after the main materials used for tools and weapons: Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age. Using the latest technologies, archaeologists from archaeological finds and aerial photographs can trace a fairly detailed picture of life at that time. Especially for the time from the settling down of the People (New Stone Age), now practicing agriculture and animal husbandry, in the territory of St. Pölten lively settlement activity can be proved. In particular, cemeteries are important for the research, because the dead were laid in the grave everyday objects and jewelry, the forms of burial changing over time - which in turn gives the archeology valuable clues for the temporal determination. At the same time, prehistory of Sankt Pölten would not be half as good documented without the construction of the expressway S33 and other large buildings, where millions of cubic meters of earth were moved - under the watchful eyes of the Federal Monuments Office!
A final primeval chapter characterized the Celts, who settled about 450 BC our area and in addition to a new culture and religion also brought with them the potter's wheel. The kingdom of Noricum influenced till the penetration of the Romans the development in our area.
Roman period, migrations
The Romans conquered in 15 BC the Celtic Empire and established hereinafter the Roman province of Noricum. Borders were protected by military camp (forts), in the hinterland emerged civilian cities, almost all systematically laid out according to the same plan. The civil and commercial city Aelium Cetium, as St. Pölten was called (city law 121/122), consisted in the 4th Century already of heated stone houses, trade and craft originated thriving urban life, before the Romans in the first third of the 5th Century retreated to Italy.
The subsequent period went down as the Migration Period in official historiography, for which the settlement of the Sankt Pöltner downtown can not be proved. Cemeteries witness the residence of the Lombards in our area, later it was the Avars, extending their empire to the Enns.
The recent archaeological excavations on the Cathedral Square 2010/2011, in fact, the previous knowledge of St.Pölten colonization not have turned upside down but enriched by many details, whose full analysis and publication are expected in the near future.
Middle Ages
With the submission of the Avars by Charlemagne around 800 AD Christianity was gaining a foothold, the Bavarian Benedictine monastery of Tegernsee establishing a daughter house here - as founder are mentioned the brothers Adalbert and Ottokar - equipped with the relics of St. Hippolytus. The name St. Ypolit over the centuries should turn into Sankt Pölten. After the Hungarian wars and the resettlement of the monastery as Canons Regular of St. Augustine under the influence of Passau St. Pölten received mid-11th Century market rights.
In the second half of the 20th century historians stated that records in which the rights of citizens were held were to be qualified as Town Charters. Vienna is indeed already in 1137 as a city ("civitas") mentioned in a document, but the oldest Viennese city charter dates only from the year 1221, while the Bishop of Passau, Konrad, already in 1159 the St. Pöltnern secured:
A St. Pöltner citizen who has to answer to the court, has the right to make use of an "advocate".
He must not be forced to rid himself of the accusation by a judgment of God.
A St. Pöltner citizen may be convicted only by statements of fellow citizens, not by strangers.
From the 13th Century exercised a city judge appointed by the lord of the city the high and low jurisdiction as chairman of the council meetings and the Municipal Court, Inner and Outer Council supported him during the finding of justice. Venue for the public verdict was the in the 13th Century created new marketplace, the "Broad Market", now the town hall square. Originally square-shaped, it was only later to a rectangle reduced. Around it arose the market district, which together with the monastery district, the wood district and the Ledererviertel (quarter of the leather goods manufacturer) was protected by a double city wall.
The dependence of St. Pölten of the bishop of Passau is shown in the municipal coat of arms and the city seal. Based on the emblem of the heraldic animal of the Lord of the city, so the Bishop of Passau, it shows an upright standing wolf holding a crosier in its paw.
Modern Times
In the course of the armed conflict between the Emperor Frederick III . and King Matthias of Hungary pledged the Bishop of Passau the town on the Hungarian king. From 1485 stood Lower Austria as a whole under Hungarian rule. The most important document of this period is the awarding of the city coat of arms by King Matthias Corvinus in the year 1487. After the death of the opponents 1490 and 1493 could Frederick's son Maximilian reconquer Lower Austria. He considered St. Pölten as spoils of war and had no intention of returning it to the diocese of Passau. The city government has often been leased subsequently, for instance, to the family Wellenstein, and later to the families Trautson and Auersperg.
That St. Pölten now was a princely city, found its expression in the coat of arms letter of the King Ferdinand I. from 1538: From now on, the wolf had no crosier anymore, and the from the viewer's point of view left half showed the reverse Austrian shield, so silver-red-silver.
To the 16th Century also goes back the construction of St. Pöltner City Hall. The 1503 by judge and council acquired house was subsequently expanded, rebuilt, extended and provided with a tower.
A for the urban history research important picture, painted in 1623, has captured scenes of the peasant uprising of 1597, but also allows a view to the city and lets the viewer read some of the details of the then state of construction. The economic inconveniences of that time were only exacerbated by the Thirty Years War, at the end of which a fifth of the houses were uninhabited and the citizenry was impoverished.
Baroque
After the successful defense against the Turks in 1683, the economy started to recover and a significant building boom began. Lower Austria turned into the land of the baroque abbeys and monasteries, as it is familiar to us today.
In St. Pölten, the change of the cityscape is closely connected to the Baroque architect Jakob Prandtauer. In addition to the Baroquisation of the interior of the cathedral, a number of buildings in St. Pölten go to his account, so the reconstruction of the castle Ochsenburg, the erection of the Schwaighof and of the core building of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Englische Fräuleins - English Maidens) - from 1706 the seat of the first school order of St.Pölten - as well as of several bourgeois houses.
Joseph Munggenast, nephew and co-worker of Prandtauer, completed the Baroquisation of the cathedral, he baroquised the facade of the town hall (1727) and numerous bourgeois houses and designed a bridge over the Traisen which existed until 1907. In the decoration of the church buildings were throughout Tyroleans collaborating, which Jakob Prandtauer had brought along from his homeland (Tyrol) to St. Pölten, for example, Paul Troger and Peter Widerin.
Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II: Their reforms in the city of the 18th Century also left a significant mark. School foundings as a result of compulsory education, the dissolution of the monasteries and hereinafter - from 1785 - the new role of St. Pölten as a bishop's seat are consequences of their policies.
1785 was also the year of a fundamental alteration of the old Council Constitution: The city judge was replaced by one magistrate consisting of five persons, at the head was a mayor. For the first mayor the painter Josef Hackl was chosen.
The 19th century
Despite the Napoleonic Wars - St. Pölten in 1805 and 1809 was occupied by the French - and despite the state bankruptcy of 1811, increased the number of businesses constantly, although the economic importance of the city for the time being did not go beyond the near vicinity.
Against the background of monitoring by the state secret police, which prevented any political commitment between the Congress of Vienna and the 1848 revolution, the citizens withdrew into private life. Sense of family, fostering of domestic music, prominent salon societies in which even a Franz Schubert socialized, or the construction of the city theater were visible signs of this attitude.
The economic upswing of the city did not begin until after the revolution of the year 1848. A prerequisite for this was the construction of the Empress Elisabeth Western Railway, moving Vienna, Linz, soon Salzburg, too, in a reachable distance. The city walls were pulled down, St. Pölten could unfold. The convenient traffic situation favored factory start-ups, and so arose a lace factory, a revolver factory, a soap factory or, for example, as a precursor of a future large-scale enterprise, the braid, ribbon and Strickgarnerzeugung (knitting yarn production) of Matthias Salcher in Harland.
In other areas, too, the Gründerzeit (years of rapid industrial expansion in Germany - and Austria) in Sankt Pölten was honouring its name: The city got schools, a hospital, gas lanterns, canalization, hot springs and summer bath.
The 20th century
At the beginning of the 20th Century the city experienced another burst of development, initiated by the construction of the power station in 1903, because electricity was the prerequisite for the settlement of large companies. In particular, the companies Voith and Glanzstoff and the main workshop of the Federal Railways attracted many workers. New Traisen bridge, tram, Mariazell Railway and other infrastructure buildings were erected; St. Pölten obtained a synagogue. The Art Nouveau made it repeatedly into the urban architecture - just think of the Olbrich House - and inspired also the painting, as exponents worth to be mentioned are Ernst Stöhr or Ferdinand Andri.
What the outbreak of the First World War in broad outlines meant for the monarchy, on a smaller scale also St. Pölten has felt. The city was heavily impacted by the deployment of army units, a POW camp, a military hospital and a sick bay. Industrial enterprises were partly converted into war production, partly closed. Unemployment, housing emergency and food shortages long after the war still were felt painfully.
The 1919 to mayor elected Social Democrat Hubert Schnofl after the war tried to raise the standard of living of the people by improving the social welfare and health care. The founding of a housing cooperative (Wohnungsgenossenschaft), the construction of the water line and the establishment of new factories were further attempts to stimulate the stiffening economy whose descent could not be stopped until 1932.
After the National Socialist regime had stirred false hopes and plunged the world into war, St. Pölten was no longer the city as it has been before. Not only the ten devastating bombings of the last year of the war had left its marks, also the restrictive persecution of Jews and political dissidents had torn holes in the structure of the population. Ten years of Russian occupation subsequently did the rest to traumatize the population, but at this time arose from the ruins a more modern St. Pölten, with the new Traisen bridge, district heating, schools.
This trend continued, an era of recovery and modernization made the economic miracle palpable. Already in 1972 was - even if largely as a result of incorporations - exceeded the 50.000-inhabitant-limit.
Elevation to capital status (capital of Lower Austria), 10 July 1986: No other event in this dimension could have become the booster detonation of an up to now ongoing development thrust. Since then in a big way new residential and commercial areas were opened up, built infrastructure constructions, schools and universities brought into being to enrich the educational landscape. East of the Old Town arose the governmental and cultural district, and the list of architects wears sonorous names such as Ernst Hoffmann (NÖ (Lower Austria) Landhaus; Klangturm), Klaus Kada (Festspielhaus), Hans Hollein (Shedhalle and Lower Austrian Provincial Museum), Karin Bily, Paul Katzberger and Michael Loudon ( NÖ State Library and NÖ State Archive).
European Diploma, European flag, badge of honor, Europe Price: Between 1996 and 2001, received St. Pölten numerous appreciations of its EU commitment - as a sort of recognition of the Council of Europe for the dissemination of the EU-idea through international town twinnings, a major Europe exhibition or, for example, the establishment and chair of the "Network of European medium-sized cities".
On the way into the 21st century
Just now happened and already history: What the St. Pöltnern as just experienced sticks in their minds, travelers and newcomers within a short time should be told. The theater and the hospital handing over to the province of Lower Austria, a new mayor always on the go, who was able to earn since 2004 already numerous laurels (Tags: polytechnic, downtown enhancement, building lease scheme, bus concept) - all the recent changes are just now condensed into spoken and written language in order to make, from now on, the history of the young provincial capital in the 3rd millennium nachlesbar (checkable).
www.st-poelten.gv.at/Content.Node/freizeit-kultur/kultur/...
Dubai Knowledge Village, where GPP was held. Included in this section is the local driving school -- a building which I am quite certain has never been graced by one of the local cab drivers...
Apparently, there are literally hundreds of traffic accidents in Dubai every day. We only had two instructors injured via car accident in the whole week we were teaching. That, apparently, is a pretty good batting average.
This was shot with a G9 (bunch of handheld shots) and automatically assembled in the PhotoMerge routine in PS CS3. If you have not tried it (CS2 does not work nearly as well) you should. It rocks.
Something caught my attention when I heard that the 5,000 year old Iceman found in the Alpes in 1991 was carrying a steel blade. For some reason I didn't think steel was available until much more recently. Yet this knowledge did nothing to prepare me for the surprise to learn that medieval armor was fashioned from steel. I'm a little slow. I admit it. Now I get to learn how steel was made. If only because I'm now very curious to understand how humans learned to work metals in such a seemingly sophisticated manner. From what little I've learned it seems that metal workers in Milan made major contributions to the art of armor fabrication.
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The Dhammakaya is the body of enlightenment of the Lord Buddha and “vijja” is the true knowledge; together, “vijja Dhammakaya” means the true and supreme knowledge illuminated by the Dhammakaya vision. This knowledge is the core principle of Buddhism that will lead to extinguishing of suffering and attainment of the state of supreme bliss known is Nibbana. for Ceremony, at Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Pathum Thani, read more at www.dhammakaya.net/blog/2013/09/18/96-Years-of-Dhammakaya...
good for wallpaper... i didn't look at the pages before i took pictures of them. Hence the pregnancy tips
Archive of Spatial Knowledge is a curated collection of spatial memories hosted on an experimental digital platform. It gathers idiosyncratic spatial and social memory of individuals and groups who were forcefully displaced from the geographies of their origin or are denied representation and the possibility to build historical and cultural continuity in the locations of their current residence. The archive uses a mobile software application, as a tool to allow its contributors to attach their stories to geographic locations, creating a protected pool of knowledge overlaid on the physical landscape. At the same time, the archive functions as a spatial intervention. Using the same digital tool, the viewer of the archive can access the erased knowledge on location, to juxtapose invisible stories and the reality of physical spaces. The archive‘s first edition addresses the issues of spatial justice in and around the Russian occupied regions of Georgia.
Photo: Carla Zamora
The Dhammakaya is the body of enlightenment of the Lord Buddha and “vijja” is the true knowledge; together, “vijja Dhammakaya” means the true and supreme knowledge illuminated by the Dhammakaya vision. This knowledge is the core principle of Buddhism that will lead to extinguishing of suffering and attainment of the state of supreme bliss known is Nibbana. for Ceremony, at Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Pathum Thani, read more at www.dhammakaya.net/blog/2013/09/18/96-Years-of-Dhammakaya...
Once upon a time, there lived a girl named Ariane. She often wondered, "How does one fathom and take a gander at exactly what the inner and outer workings of my womanly interstices?" As she quietly pondered, the answer to her agony slowly but surely presented itself in the form of consumerism (as all American citizens should). As quickly as she felt vexed, she exclaimed gleefully, "TO THE BARNES AND NOBLE CHILDREN'S SECTION I GO!" And go she did!
The Dhammakaya is the body of enlightenment of the Lord Buddha and “vijja” is the true knowledge; together, “vijja Dhammakaya” means the true and supreme knowledge illuminated by the Dhammakaya vision. This knowledge is the core principle of Buddhism that will lead to extinguishing of suffering and attainment of the state of supreme bliss known is Nibbana. for Ceremony, at Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Pathum Thani, read more at www.dhammakaya.net/blog/2013/09/18/96-Years-of-Dhammakaya...
Delaware State Police
Dodge Charger
Picture Date: 04/08/2010
A very dirty Delaware State Police Dodge Charger. This Charger sports clear lenses on the lightbar which is different from most other DSP vehicles. This was also the first Charger DSP purchased and equipped, hence the experimental "swooped" striping on the sides. It was decided that the rest of the Chargers will have straight stripes, as normal, and this is the only Charger where the swooped stripes remained to my knowledge.
Just wanted to post a belated Happy New Year message to all my 'friends' on Flickr, including everyone who has commented on my vintage photographs, shared their knowledge and detective skills to help identify images, and also all those who have shared their own wonderful images.
Here's to an equally enjoyable 2011!
[image taken in Kew Gardens, 20 December 2010. Owner of scarf unknown!]
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We kept seeing this man doing the London "Knowledge". For those not in the know, this means he's riding around town learning the streets in order to gain his Hackney Cab licence.
A picture that has just come to light. Taken in Feb 2000 Southampton Docks. The chap on the left is Roland Kennington, who was the Lead Engineer during the late 1990's overhaul and effective rebuild of Flying Scotsman. A really nice guy and with great knowledge being railwayman that I had the pleasure to call a friend, as well as working with. Photo by Paul Keller EH Groundstaff at the time with thanks
North Platte Community College hosted its annual Inter-High Scholastic Competition and TECH-Knowledge & Skills Discovery Day on Wednesday at the North and South Campuses of the college.
The theme for Inter-High Day this year is “Spotlight on Success.” Students from 28 area schools took nearly 900 tests in the Inter-High Scholastic competition. In the TECH-Knowledge and Skills competition, more than 120 students represented 21 high schools.
Awards were presented to the top three individual finishers in all categories. They also received a certificate for up to three credit hours of free tuition to be used at MPCC this summer. First place winners were awarded with $500 Mid-Plains Community College Area scholarships. The schools also competed in divisions.
Results of NPCC’s Inter-High Day are:
Accounting:
First - Megan Stokey, North Platte High School
Second - Megan Trierweiler, St. Patrick’s
Third - Carissa Rayburn, Brady
Art:
First - Alissa Rosentrater, Wallace
Second - Amber Nelson, Elwood
Third - Brooklyn Nordhausen, Wauneta-Palisade
Athletic Training:
First - Maegan Hiatt, Hershey
Second - Sage Schmidt, Medicine Valley
Third - Brittany Lawrence, St. Patrick’s
Biological Science:
First - Jordon Laubry, Eustis Farnam
Second - Jocy Nelson, Sutherland
Third - Calyn Werkmeister, Maywood
Business Communications:
First - Libby Jensen, Dundy County Stratton
Second - Abby Daffer, Southwest
Third - Sam Staggs, Sutherland
Chemistry:
First - Megan Kelley, Southwest
Second - Alec Fox, Paxton
Third - David Trierweiler, St. Patrick’s
Dramatic Arts:
First - Alex Roc, McCook
Second - David McCown, Maxwell
Third - Karni Doyle, Callaway
Fire Science/EMS:
First - Kris Kopetzky, South Platte
Second - Chris Werth, Eustis Farnam
Third - Tristan Johnson, Arnold
Grammar & Composition:
First - Grace Magill, Arnold
Second - Christi Christner, Wauneta-Palisade
Third - Bailee Clark, St. Patrick’s
Health Occupations:
First - Sabine Vanhaaren, Cody-Kilgore
Second - Jamie Smith, St. Patrick’s
Third - Taylor Ellison, Callaway
History:
First - David Trierweiler, St. Patrick’s
Second - John Klintworth, Medicine Valley
Third - Joey Anderjaska, Hayes Center
Information Technology:
First - Jared Brosius, St. Patrick’s
Second - Hayden Pollmann, Wauneta-Palisade
Third - Nathaniel Maxcy, Sutherland
Introduction to Business:
First - Cody Ballew, Elwood
Second - Dawson Brunswick, McCook
Third - Chance Kennicutt, Wallace
Literary Analysis:
First - Justin Hardwick, Paxton
Second - Rebekka Ralston, Sutherland
Third - Izzy Fox, Dundy County Stratton
Mathematics:
First - Megan Siebrandt, McCook
Second - Hayden Pollmann, Wauneta-Palisade
Third - Isaac Langan, McCook
Music Performance (Instrumental)
First – Sohyeon Yi, Cody-Kilgore
Second - Matti Mickelsen, Medicine Valley
Third - Brandon Montgomery, Brady
Music Performance (Vocal):
First - Nathan Rick, Hitchcock County
Second - Rachel Gordine, McCook
Third - Alisha Heelan, Garden County
Music Theory:
First – Josie Burke, Sutherland
Second – Matti Mickelsen, Medicine Valley
Third – Mason Harouff, Hayes Center
NPCC Facts:
First - Cheyanne Loeffler, Paxton
Second - Valerie Most, Brady
Third - Alexis Franzen, Brady
Personal Finance:
First - Cassandra Medina, Sutherland
Second - Marley Sandberg, Sutherland
Third - Ian Bridge, North Platte High School
Physics/Engineering (session one):
First - Cody Trump, Cody-Kilgore
Second - Kyle Halsted, North Platte High School
Third - Chet Krajewski, Garden County
Physics/Engineering (session two):
First - Lane Vasa, Arthur County
Second - David McCown, Maxwell
Third - Dakota Seng, Callaway
Word Processing:
First - Brooke Scott, Hitchcock County
Second - Tristan Johnson, Arnold
Third - Rebecca Lorens, Dundy County Stratton
Results by Division are:
Division 1 –
First – St. Patrick’s
Second – Sutherland
Third – McCook
Division 2 –
First – Cody-Kilgore
Second – Medicine Valley
Third – Hitchcock County
Division 3 –
First – Wauneta-Palisade
Second – Arnold
Third – Elwood
Results of NPCC’s TECH-Knowledge & Skills competition are:
Autobody:
First – Aaron Stegman, Garden County High School
Second – Joel Anderson, Garden County High School
Third – Jon Jackson, Franklin High School
Automotive/Diesel:
First – Philip Hammer, North Platte High School
Second – Logan Mull, North Platte High School
Third – Wesley Hoatson, North Platte High School
Building Construction (teams):
First – Walker Wolff, Ivan Rosfeld, Austin Wobig and Wyatt Galloway of Cody-Kilgore High School
Second – Lucas French, Jayson Rezek, Nick Hahn and Calvin Carsten of Sutherland High School
Third – Brock Alexander, Caleb Kleewein, Justin Cosler and Clancey Barnum of Stapleton High School
Electrical:
First – Tyler Daniels, Franklin High School
Second – Walker Wolff, Cody-Kilgore High School
Third – Ivan Dobesh, North Platte High School
Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning:
First – Wesley Hoatson, North Platte High School
Second – Logan Mull, North Platte High School
Third – Blaker Morrissey, Maxwell High School
Welding:
First – Dillon Schultz, North Platte High School
Second – Colton Thompson, North Platte High School
Third – Trevor Hanna, Stapleton High School
Six more of the books I've completed as part of the series of twenty-five. I have twenty-one of the books completed (as of today) with the other four two be finished by the end of the week. I have a few more pieces to figure out for the installation of the work. Things are going well so far.
A progress report about this project on my blog.
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