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In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
 The Rum Runner - NWAP
My Dad, The Rum Runner is Jim’s memories of his father, combined with those of the people closest to Captain Stone during the Prohibition years, newspaper reports, and the ship’s log.
In his evasions he was kept informed of the whereabouts of the Coastguard by coded radio communications from his aunt, Captain Stone’s sister-in-law, transmitted to the Rum Row mother ships, supply ships and offshore boats from the hill high above Vancouver’s Jericho Beach, messages passing on the warnings of other sympathetic coastal vessels.
She sailed south to Rum Row, off Hawai, to serve for six months at a time as a floating warehouse for the fast off-shore craft which ferried the booze into American ports.
www.nwap.on.ca /stone.html   (441 words)

  
 History of Softball
If the runners have all stopped running and are hovering near a hideout, and if the Pitcher has the ball in his control by his stone, the play shall be deemed ended and the Runners shall grasp the hideouts and the next Defender is up.
If either the runner has not stopped running or the Pitcher is not in control by his stone, the ball is still in play.
Once a Runner has touched a Sanctuary, he may not let go of it and then grasp it again - it has been used up for that Runner.
ancasterfastpitch.ca /soft_hist.html   (2752 words)

  
 Reserve Training Submarines - SubmarineSailor.com
Ray Stone: RUNNER was decommissioned 1/25/69 at Boston Naval Shipyard and towed to Great Lakes Naval Training Station, where she served as a Reserve training vessel until she was stricken from the Navy list, 12/15/71.
USS Crevalle or USS Cabrilla was at Orange to be sent to Galveston as a Memorial boat, but when Cavalla arrived it was decided that she was in better shape and she was sent to Galveston instead.
USS Shad (SS 235) was berthed there as a Reserve boat until late 1959 when it was delivered to NSY Boston for sale and scrapping.
www.submarinesailor.com /Boats/Reserve/Reserve.asp   (3443 words)

  
 The Scotsman - Opinion - Lip service between the kisses
All part of the day job and difficult to decide which was more worrying, although Jamie was front runner until native modesty made me look round.
Jamie, noted, among other things, for his conviction that Benedetta Tagliabue, widow of Holyrood architect Enric Miralles, has a soft spot for him, clearly believed he had another little friend in the VIP gallery.
Alongside, the president was unmoved by Jamie’s little peccadillo, unblinking behind his gold-rimmed spectacles, rising with dignity to acknowledge Presiding Officer George Reid’s welcome.
thescotsman.scotsman.com /opinion.cfm?id=70112005   (3443 words)

  
 NRM Stone Burr Mills
NRM has a patented technique for attaching the runner stone to the shaft eliminating any chance of Babbit entering the interior of the mill.
All of these mills are constructed from food grade stainless steel, have self-aligning bearings and extended bases, and contain additional proprietary innovations as well.
All New River Mills are designed to be low maintenance and provide many years of dependable service.
www.newrivermill.com /NewSite/stoneburrmills.htm   (3443 words)

  
 the show - Homestar Runner Wiki
The Rosetta Stone is a fragment of a decree from Ptolemy V of Egypt written in Ancient Greek, Egyptian Hieroglyphs, and Egyptian demotic script, which played a crucial role in deciphering the meaning of the latter two languages.
Homestar giving the contestants random points is a reference to Whose Line is it Anyway, in which Drew Carey would give the contestants a random amount of points at the end of each game for no visible relevance.
The table has been either replaced or expertly repaired (no cracks or seams are evident, even though it was broken in half in the previous email).
www.hrwiki.org /index.php/the_show   (1430 words)

  
 BUTLER vs IPFW (Apr 15, 2005)
Randolph, L. out at first 1b unassisted, runner left early.
Randolph, L. singled to center field; Beachy, J. advanced to second.
Randolph, L. out at first 1b to 2b, SAC, bunt; Clark, N. advanced to second.
www.ipfw.edu /athletics/Softball/2005Softball/game35.htm   (1402 words)

  
 The Islanders - July 11, 2002
For the next year and a half, the ship captured a number of blockade runners; supported attacks on fortifications on land; sent men out in smaller boats to shell the shore, land troops for raids on the city, and patrolled near the shoreline.
The success of the blockade runners, in spite of the advent of the ironclads, must have been frustrating to the Union.
The story of the Confederate blockade runners is an especially intriguing aspect of the Civil War.
www.yesterdaysisland.com /02_articles/native/war2.html   (3027 words)

  
 Westfield, Spees Quickly Dispatch Stone Bridge
Westfield will host Central Region runner-up Deep Run in a Virginia AAA quarterfinal Tuesday while Stone Bridge travel to face Central Region champion Douglas Freeman.
Westfield 3, Stone Bridge 0 Key Run: Stone Bridge led 17-15 in the third game and seemed to be gaining momentum until Westfield senior Catlin Goodman, named the tournament's most valuable player, had back-to-back kills to knot the score at 17.
Spees fired blazing cross-court shots around Stone Bridge's defense and also laced more than one ball straight down the line, a much harder task for an outside hitter and a rare sight in high school volleyball.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/12/AR2005111201576.html?nav=rss_sports/highschools   (558 words)

  
 Reserve Training Submarines - SubmarineSailor.com
Ray Stone: RUNNER was decommissioned 1/25/69 at Boston Naval Shipyard and towed to Great Lakes Naval Training Station, where she served as a Reserve training vessel until she was stricken from the Navy list, 12/15/71.
USS Crevalle or USS Cabrilla was at Orange to be sent to Galveston as a Memorial boat, but when Cavalla arrived it was decided that she was in better shape and she was sent to Galveston instead.
USS Shad (SS 235) was berthed there as a Reserve boat until late 1959 when it was delivered to NSY Boston for sale and scrapping.
www.bottomgun.com /Boats/Reserve/Reserve.asp   (3443 words)

  
 Runner's Web Pegasus Quiz Form
The correct answer was "Herb Elliot was the first runner to break 3:55 for the mile".
The winner of the February 2001 Quiz: Brad Walters of Toronto correctly identified Waldemar Cierpinski as the first runner to break 2:10 in the Olympic Marathon.
Paul Stone of Guelph, Ontario correctly identified John J. Hayes as the last American to win the Olympic Marathon prior to Frank Shorter winning in Munich.
www.runnersweb.com /running/pegasus_quiz_feb2003.html   (1240 words)

  
 Body
Captain [John Newland] Maffit, the former commander of the Florida is now in a Confederate port, in command of a steamer owned by the State of Georgia - one of the fastest vessels afloat and in every way adapted to the purposes of a blockade runner.
The inscription also indicates he was an Acting Master's Mate aboard the CSS Florida, born in 1842 and died in 1907, which may actually be Lionel Vogel, the stone being inscribed in error.
The following account originally dictated to the Columbus, South Carolina, Carolinian, by Acting Master's Mate Lionel Vogel, formerly of the Confederate cruiser Florida, was reprinted in the Atlanta, Georgia Southern Confederacy of June 17, 1864.
home.ozconnect.net /tfoen/vogel.htm   (1240 words)

  
 cwti
Blockade runners to Nassau (sketch); CS ships on front and back covers at St. Georges, Bermuda; Royal Victoria Hotel (where CSN officers stayed) and Old Government House at Nassau.
Stone's (later of CSS Florida fame) CSN early blue officer's frock coat (style as used on CSS Sumter); officer's CSN sword and belt; Common sailor--Confederate Tars; great images of Torpedoes; Cmdr. Catesby Jones painting and sketch of uniform; pictures of Chase, Phelps, Sinclair, Morrell and Arleage.
CSS TALLAHASSEE picture; Cmdr. John T. Wood pic; Cape Fear, NC map
www.csnavy.org /cwti.htm   (1240 words)

  
 Galaxy Bookshop - Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
Galaxy Bookshop - Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
Prizes : Shortlisted for the LA Carnegie Medal (1998);Runner-up in the The BBC Big Read Top 100 (2003);Winner of the Whitaker Platinum Book Award (2001);Winner of the Smarties Book Prize Gold Award (1997);Shortlisted for the BBC Big Read Top 100 (2003)
Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy - until he is rescued by a beetle-browed giant of a man, enrols at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel.
www.galaxybooks.com.au /items.asp?id=115661   (116 words)

  
 Galaxy Bookshop - Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
Galaxy Bookshop - Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
Prizes : Shortlisted for the LA Carnegie Medal (1998);Runner-up in the The BBC Big Read Top 100 (2003);Winner of the Whitaker Platinum Book Award (2001);Winner of the Smarties Book Prize Gold Award (1997);Shortlisted for the BBC Big Read Top 100 (2003)
Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy - until he is rescued by a beetle-browed giant of a man, enrols at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel.
www.galaxybooks.com.au /items.asp?id=115661   (116 words)

  
 The Geartrain
Tentering is the term applied to raising and lowering the runner stone to adjust the spacing between it and the bedstone which determines the fineness or coarseness of the grist.
It passes through the eye of the bedstone, which is stationary, and drives the runner stone which is positioned above the bedstone.
The bedstone is supported by the Hurst frame using two stone beams
www.anselmamill.org /geartrain.htm   (850 words)

  
 Testimony begins in former groom's trial over racehorse death
A last-minute shift change at the horse's stable the night he was fatally injured added to the mystery, Ed Sanford testified as federal prosecutors opened a perjury trial against Alton Stone, a former groom at Lexington, Ky.-based Calumet Farm.
Stone is charged with two counts of lying to a grand jury about how he came to substitute for the regular night watchman on Nov. 13, 1990, and his whereabouts when Alydar broke his right hind leg.
Two days later, Alydar -- runner-up to Affirmed in each of the 1978 Triple Crown races -- stumbled following surgery, broke another bone and had to be euthanized.
www.texnews.com /1998/texsports/alydar0625.html   (547 words)

  
 Sussex Windmills : Sussex Mills Group
When he thought it was time to refill grain hopper, the Miller entered his windmill, to find a mouse on the Runner Stone trotting steadily along the edge of the eye of the stone in the opposite direction to that of the stone's rotation, thus keeping the same relative position.
It had evidently been in the eye of the stone eating grain when the mill was started.
The windmill is a Couris Thing, Compleatly built by art of man, To grind the corn for man and beast, That all alike may have a feast.
www.sussexmillsgroup.org.uk /Wind.htm   (641 words)

  
 MILLSTONES
At Backus Mill, a leather flap is attached to the runner stone which assists the accumulated flour to fall through this hole.
The upper or runner stone (red) can be lifted clear of the bedstone (black) using a crane.
The bedstone is set in the floor of the mill surrounded by wooden skirting.
www.hips.com /spoomcanada/Millstones.htm   (181 words)

  
 bedstone.htm
It's critical that the bedstone and runner stone be square with each other.
I set the runner stone flush with the bedstone and gave it a few turns.
I got the bedstone all set up and ready to re-pour.
www.faculty.mcneese.edu /jbailey/bedstone.htm   (532 words)

  
 - The "governor" -
The use of this ingenious device was the adjustement of the distance between the bedstone and the runner stone, this distance changes as changes the windmill rate.
The governor, which automatically adjusts the distance between bedstone and runner stone.
The centrifugal governor was yet used in windmills (please see the photo), in former times (prior to Watt's age).
www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/6914/regole.htm   (222 words)

  
 CHAPTER 10. MILLSTONES
The "balance rynd" or "mill rind" or "millstone bridge," is a curved iron bar which crosses the eye or central opening of the runner on the under side at the margin of the eye and supports the stone.
Some nether stones were left perfectly plain and the runner a little concave.
The center of a stone for grinding wheat into flour was always dressed to tough the other by one sixteenth to one twentieth part of an inch, the stones came gradually closer until within ten or twelve inches from the "verge" of the stones, from which point it began to fit nicely to the rim.
www.angelfire.com /folk/molinologist/rawson10.html   (1766 words)

  
 Sussex Windmills : Sussex Mills Group
When he thought it was time to refill grain hopper, the Miller entered his windmill, to find a mouse on the Runner Stone trotting steadily along the edge of the eye of the stone in the opposite direction to that of the stone's rotation, thus keeping the same relative position.
The windmill is a Couris Thing, Compleatly built by art of man, To grind the corn for man and beast, That all alike may have a feast.
Mill Societies and owners of Sussex Windmills are invited to contact us with their website address and/or text and photographs for inclusion on our website.
www.sussexmillsgroup.org.uk /Wind.htm   (641 words)

  
 Peirce Mill Operations
The top runner stone on the first floor revolves one-sixteenth inch above the stationary bed stone to crack kernels.
A chute carries the grain to the bin on second floor that feeds grindstone.
The entire mill process is connected from beginning to end and so balanced that the miller by moving one of the stones by hand, causes all other parts to respond.
www.nps.gov /rocr/piercemill/millworks.htm   (641 words)

  
 i-run.com
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Cover is wearing a singlet for the National Guard Marathon Team, on which he had written a name for Friday’s marathon: “Hard as Stone.”
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www.i-run.com   (841 words)

  
 Coal Bumbs
One of the most sophisticated and technically superior ways of tempering the culm was to mix the culm and yellow clay until it was properly tempered under the "Culm Crusher", a large edge-runner grinding stone usually drawn by a horse or other draught animal.
A mixture of culm and yellow clay was ground to a putty by the stone, and the bombs were made by hand or by a bomber and allowed to set.
Culm crusher where the culm was ground on the limestone base by the limestone grinding stone.
www.sip.ie /sip019B/bumbs/bumbs.htm   (1012 words)

  
 Box Office Prophets Film Awards Database: Best Adapted Screenplay 1989
Runner-Up: Oliver Stone, Ron Kovis, Born on the Fourth of July (Best Adapted Screenplay)
Runner-Up: Shane Connaughton, Jim Sheridan, My Left Foot (Best Adapted Screenplay)
Runner-Up: Woody Allen, Crimes & Misdemeanors (Best Original Screenplay)
www.boxofficeprophets.com /awards/display.cfm?awardsaxID=2&awardsyear=1989   (117 words)

  
 Formula 3
Formula 3 became part of the program the following season and in 1996 Martin was absolutely dominant in the National Class (formerly Class B) and often got among the Championship front runners in his older car.
Stayed in Formula B karts for 1995, finishing runner-up in the Paulista championship and won the Brazilian Formula A championship in 1996.
British Formula 3 is the ultimate stepping stone in motor racing, the final confirmation that a driver has what it takes to succeed in the zero-defect world of Formula 1.
www.sport-fans.co.uk /f3.htm   (6369 words)

  
 Formula 3
Formula 3 became part of the program the following season and in 1996 Martin was absolutely dominant in the National Class (formerly Class B) and often got among the Championship front runners in his older car.
Stayed in Formula B karts for 1995, finishing runner-up in the Paulista championship and won the Brazilian Formula A championship in 1996.
British Formula 3 is the ultimate stepping stone in motor racing, the final confirmation that a driver has what it takes to succeed in the zero-defect world of Formula 1.
www.sport-fans.co.uk /f3.htm   (6369 words)

  
 Jean-Paul Cyr Races To Third ACT Win at Riverside : Raceway Media Magazine
Runner-up Todd Stone was CyrÂ’s biggest threat, tracking him for over 50 laps to record his third straight top-three finish.
Stone and third-place Dave Pembroke had pushed Cyr hard, but eased up to protect their positions from fourth-place Scott Dragon when the drizzle increased over the final six laps.
Roger Brown, who had led throughout, was overtaken by Cyr at the drop of the restart green, then lost power in turn four, initiating a five-car stack-up at the flag stand that crumpled Jamie Fisher and sent Eric Williams and Phil Scott limping off to the pits.
www.racewaymedia.com /article2902.html   (6369 words)

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