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This past December, British Columbia wound up its AirCare program, which for 22 years had been doing mandatory testing of vehicle emissions. Higher industry standards meant failure rates were few, and the province concluded the program had served its purpose.
Ontario, on the other hand, decided the same diminishing failure rates didn't really justify a biannual badgering of its citizens who owned vehicles older than seven years, so it would instead change the emissions testing to flunk more cars.
It's not quite that simple, but it sure feels like it is.
Introduced in 1999 by the Ontario government, "Drive Clean" was initially meant to weed out vehicles belching unrestrained amounts of exhaust fumes, their particulate emissions contributing to smog and increasing pollution. More than 15 years later, there have been huge reductions in emissions, but those gains are overwhelmingly the result of advances in technology — so long, carburetors — and cleaner fuels.
And even though the costs for taking the tests (sometimes repeatedly) are still borne by taxpayers (not to mention the time), the program makes barrels of money for the Ontario government. According to a 2012 Auditor General's report, the program — which is supposed to be revenue neutral — turned a surplus of $11-million in 2012. It's targeted to have a surplus of $50-million by 2018.
Since its inception, the Drive Clean program has been more thorns than roses. Initially requiring tests on cars every second year once they were just three years old, it was soon nudged to cars over seven. Every two years, owners have to arrange a visit to an accredited Drive Clean facility and pay $30 (it used to be $35) to get a clean bill of health. Any car under seven years old, unless it's the current model year, must also be tested if it is being sold — even those that are essentially brand new.
Read more: Ignore that check engine light at your own peril
According to George Iny, president of the Automobile Protection Association (APA), "failure rates for cars less than 10 years old are now below five per cent. That means 20 vehicles are inspected to identify one bad one – it costs over $700 to pick up a polluter. For vehicles less than seven years old, the cost is in the thousands of dollars to pick up a problem, as only one to two per cent of vehicles fail for legitimate reasons."
The test was changed in January 2014 from a tailpipe emissions test to one that now reads your on-board computer. This change narrowed the margins for a pass and resulted in an increase in failures, a bump from the previous five per cent to eight to 10 per cent, depending on whom you ask. Cars built from 1988 to 1997 still use the older tailpipe testing method; model years before 1988 do not need to be tested. A failed test means you can't renew your vehicle registration until it's made to produce cleaner exhaust.
The Drive Clean test reads the emissions computer OBDII (on-board diagnostics) system; as you drive, your computer cycles through numerous self-tests and stores that information. The problem is your car won't be in test mode if the battery was recently disconnected, drained or boosted, or your computer codes were cleared during a recent repair. If an emissions reading can't be obtained, you'll be told to go drive around for a few days and essentially build up a user history – get your car to run through a complete drive cycle. Of course, the questions are many:
• My engine light is on. Will I pass the Drive Clean test? No. Automatic fail. While there are ways to turn the light off, they will all erase the emissions data that the test must measure. I've heard of people putting a piece of tape over the light because it bugs them; this will not fix the problem. Do yourself a favour though: if your light comes on, check your fuel cap. Sometimes it's simply not closed properly.
• The next step is a diagnostic test to tell you what is triggering the engine light. This will cost about an hour of shop time, usually about $75 to $100.
• If the required repairs exceed $450 (including the diagnostic), you can request a waiver for repairs above that amount and punt your problems down the line until the next inspection, in two years.
• "There is no environmental benefit from issuing a waiver to a polluting vehicle," says Iny.
We've come full circle on the biggest problem of the Drive Clean program.
Eli Melnick is the owner of Start Auto in Toronto. "The intentions of the program were good," he notes, while acknowledging that it's execution has hobbled much of it. "When pollution controls were introduced in the late 1970s, many were clumsy and people were disconnecting and circumventing them as soon as they could." People were disabling them as fast as the EPA could make manufacturers install them. Reduced power and reduced fuel efficiency among other things had people sawing out catalytic converters and connecting a pipe instead, says Melnick.
Also read: Seven of the worst things you can do to damage your car
"The program initially played a significant role in getting heavy polluters off the road. The problem is that fixing emissions problems on a vehicle doesn't have a high perceived value; the car might not feel any different, so people don't want to deal with it." The environmental impact is enormous, he notes, but a car that won't run is far more likely to get you to fix it then one that is emitting something you can pretend isn't there.
When your engine light comes on, it is always a signal that something is wrong in your car's emissions system. So is that sufficient for making people deal with the issue? "As long as a car starts and goes, you wouldn't believe how many people will just keep driving. That engine light fail on the Drive Clean test is sometimes the only way to get people to repair leaky pipes, rusty gas tanks and evaporative emission control (EVAP) systems." Melnick explains the light can come on for a hundred different reasons (up to two hundred in some cars) and the initial reason could be hiding other, bigger problems. "The light doesn't shine any brighter to indicate more than one issue," says Melnick.
Like Iny at the APA, Melnick cites the conditional waivers as a major negative issue. You're essentially identifying the worst offenders, and providing a way to let them get off the hook. It took political will (Conservative) to start the program, and it would take political will (Liberal) to end it; in the meantime, neither party has found the teeth to patch the most obvious hole in the program.
Suggestions from the pros:
• Any program like this has some well-documented instances of fraud. Deal with a mechanic you trust. If suggested repairs seem out of line, get a second opinion.
• If your engine light comes on, get it checked immediately. Shadow problems could be stacking up behind that initial one.
• Don't wait until the day before your renewal is due; you might need a few days to get your car to test mode.
• Your Drive Clean pass is good for a year. You can get it done months in advance.


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"Artists can illuminate truth, offer transcendent experience in a far too literal world, challenge us to feel, and connect us to our common humanity". 6 success stories about collaboration between artists and organizations from the Guardian.
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The Federal Reserve is more likely to warn markets a rate hike is coming than take any action at its two-day meeting.
But Fed Chair Janet Yellen, based on her recent remarks at the Fed's Jackson Hole conference, clearly wants to get back in the game. The Fed's post-meeting statement could indicate that the Fed is close to a rate hike, but without specific timing.
That could still be construed as hawkish, from a central bank that has been frustrated by global events and now weakish U.S. economic data. The Fed releases its statement and new projections for interest rates and the economy at 2 p.m. Fed Chair Janet Yellen will then brief the media at 2:30 p.m. EDT.
Market odds of a rate hike for the September meeting were just about 22 percent Wednesday, and close to 60 percent for December.
The Bank of Japan overnightsaid it would continue its 80 trillion yen of asset purchases, but it would focus on steepening the yield curve. The BOJ plans to remain active in the 10-year sector and focus on keeping the rate of the 10-year Japanese Government Bond at around zero. The 10-year JGB was yielding -0.027 percent Wednesday morning. It also did not cut yields further into negative territory, as expected by some.
"The Fed isn't one to be brave in this cycle," said Bank of the West chief economist Scott Anderson. He does not expect the Fed to raise rates for just the second time in 10 years with the market so off sides.
"I think they'd create a pretty big tank in the stock market. I think the Fed's going to want to telegraph this pretty strongly. They might put the market on notice that this should be penciled in," he said.
Stock futures were higher Wednesday morning, and the dollar was weaker after initially rising on the Bank of Japan news. The yen strengthened, and dollar/yen was at 100.
The Fed meanwhile, is expected to do no more than gently talk the market into its next rate hike. Ninety percent of the respondents in the latest CNBC Fed survey expect the central bank to stay on hold at this week's meeting. Most economists expect the Fed to hold off on a rate hike until December.
The CNBC survey also found that 31 percent believe the Fed will not hike because of global growth concerns, and 22 percent say it is because the markets are unprepared. But 25 percent see other reasons, which include softer and inconsistent U.S. data. Only 11 percent expect the election to keep the Fed sidelined.
According to the survey, 66 percent believe the Fed pays too much attention to market reactions and 58 percent said it focuses too much on high frequency data, like the monthly jobs report or latest inflation data.
Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at MUFG Union Bank, said his recommendation is that the Fed hike now, even with softer August data. The August employment report showed just 151,000 jobs created, 30,000 fewer than expected, and retail sales were disappointing.
"I think people are hiding behind the fact that futures markets have 20 percent odds of a move, and the Fed would not go against that, but my reading is that's not relevant in this case because the market's never going to give them a green light. The longer the Fed goes on, the market is going to do what it does," said Rupkey.
Fed officials shook up the markets in late August when Yellen and two of her inner circle — Vice Chair Stanley Fischer and New York Fed President William Dudley — said a rate hike is possible in September. Two Fed governors, Daniel Tarullo and Lael Brainard, within days swayed markets the other way, saying the Fed could be patient about hiking rates. But since then much of the August data has come in softer than expected. ISM manufacturing activity actually contracted and ISM services growth is slowing dramatically.
While it's unclear whether the economy has just hit a temporary soft patch, economists still see better growth in the second half of the year.
For that reason, some believe the Fed could signal a "hawkish hold" while sounding more confident on the economy. Fed officials are also likely to alter their interest rate outlook. If there is no hike, the outlook for rates this year could fall to one rate hike, from the current two. Fed officials could also tweak forecasts for 2017 and 2018, which now have projections for four rate hikes each.
"I think the Fed has to get over its fear of what the markets are going to do. It should certainly get over any fear of unleashing a new taper tantrum," said Rupkey, referring to a market sell-off when the Fed stepped back from an easing program. "The market itself is not right now, and it probably needs a wake-up call by the Fed."
Anderson said he is watching the Fed's so-called dot plot, or rate forecast chart for changes, and also its inflation forecast. He expects Yellen's comments at the press conference to be perhaps even more important.
"She certainly signaled the case for a rate hike has strengthened. Let's see if she stays with that," he said. "Stocks will be in celebration mode if the Fed holds off. I do think valuations are stretched though, and we're in a hair-trigger environment. If we get some surprise from the Fed … that could throw the market into a tizzy."
But Anderson expects the Fed to emerge from the meeting building a case that it's closer to a rate hike, without specifics. "They've been burned so many times," he said. "They're going to be very cautious about burning their last remaining amount of credibility. They'll be humble in terms of their economic and rate forecasts, given they've been so wrong."


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Race cars go fast. Who knew?!
Really, I don't know much more than that about race cars, beyond having a general idea that NASCAR is different than Indy Car is different than NHRA is different than Sprint Car racing. In grad school, we went to a couple of Enduro races, where a bunch of old 'murican beaters race around and around a small oval track. In a plot twist, however, as they crashed and broke down during the race, the cars were just left on the track, providing obstacle hijinks that led to more wrecks and more broken-down cars. Eventually, when the track became impassable (these were 200 lap races starting with about 50 cars), the race was stopped temporarily, wreckage was mostly kind of sort of cleared, and they started racing again. The car that survived the race and made it 200 laps first was crowned the winner (enduro, get it…). Those races may or may not have been coupled with demolition derbies that we also went to, another wreckage-strewn crowd pleaser.
I took Jack to a couple of dirt track races when he was little. At the monster truck hoo-ha we went to, we laughed and cheered as Grave Digger finally flipped over and, in the process, broke off one of its front wheels. Then there was the motocross thing that we went to see at the stock show complex, with guys on dirt bikes flying through the air and filling up the arena with exhaust and dirt aerosols. Somewhere around that time, we went to the NHRA Summer Nationals at Bandamere Speedway (soooo close to Red Rocks where I had seen Panic just weeks before, but so, soooo far away – culturally). The "good seats" I had purchased should have been labeled "cruel seats". Even with ear protection, it's a wonder that either of us can hear anything to this day. There were races all day, culminating in the funny cars and then the top fuel dragsters. While the noise from the funny cars was simply appalling, the cacophony from the top fuels was unbearable. So, we left.
Grave Digger about to eat it.
Anyway, no motor sports for me in a very long time until this past weekend (although I have seen a number of bike races). Because of many people talking it up, and with its proximity to Dhahran, I decided it was time to become reacquainted with motor car racing. This time, it was a Formula 1 race, the Bahrain Grand Prix, held at an apparently popular stop early in the F1 season, the Bahrain International Circuit. I don't know if the track is bigger or smaller, faster or slower, curvier or straighter, or safer or more dangerous than the other F1 tracks, but it's probably hotter and desert-ier than the others.
Here's a pic from 2014. Let's just say the area hasn't greened up much since then.
And I don't know much at all about Formula 1 racing in general, except that, outside the United States, it seems to be immensely popular. People know the drivers like Americans know NFL quarterbacks. They root for McLaren and Mercedes and Ferrari, among others. To a novice, the cars look like Indy cars, with open wheels, and not at all like hillibillie NASCAR cars. I think.
About three weeks before the race, I started to look at ticket prices and such. Starting from scratch, I leaned on a motorhead internet friend of mine (hi Kurt) for some guidance – principally on where I should sit. There are numerous places for seating – Main Grandstand, Turn One, University grandstands 1, 2, and 3 (Bahrain University is just to the northeast of the circuit), Batelco grandstands, and Victory 1 and 2 granstands. I chose the Main Grandstand because it was in viewing range of the start and finish lines, as well as the pit area. And I sprang some extra dinars for the hospitality tent – a very good call on my part.
Something I hadn't realized until I bought tickets was that there wasn't just one race. The whole extravaganza was an extended weekend of events. Tickets were for all three days, and you couldn't purchase single-day tickets. Race weekend consisted of a free Thursday evening walkthrough of the pits, followed by a full day Friday of practice rounds and qualifying rounds for TCR Series, Porsche GT3 Cup Series, Formula 2, and Formula 1. Saturday held more practice and qualifying for all the groups, plus first races for TCR, Porsche, and F2. Sunday started off with final races for TCR, F2, and Porsche, followed by a couple hours of lead-up to the main event (the F1 Grand Prix). Recall that our weekend here is Friday/Saturday.
Thursday night was Commencement at KFUPM, so that took Thursday out of play for any race activities. Even if we hadn't had Commencement, I doubt I would have gone over anyway for just a pit road walkthrough. When I bought the tickets, I also booked a hotel for Friday night. So, I went over to Bahrain at about 11 AM Friday, checked into my hotel, and drove to the circuit to pick up my tickets and head to the track. I got there in time to catch some of the Porsche practice, and then the full first F1 practice. The Formula 1 cars go fast.
The arrival display. Yes, there are some French, blue, costumed weirdos behind the sign.
Looking toward the main grandstand complex. We apparently can get 30% off 2018 tickets if you want to join me next year.
Friday afternoon was a bit warm, clocking in at about 39°C (103°F), so I went in search of some much needed relief. Like an oasis in the desert, the hospitality tent drew me in. The dark and very cool inside of the tent was instantly relieving. Inside there was seating, many high-def televisions, clean bathrooms, cash food stands and bars, and a DJ cranking out techno in front of a small dance floor. It was a big tent. Food and drinks were ridiculously expensive, but they had a captive audience, so…
They kept ambient temperature in the tent at about 3 degrees above absolute zero. The beer never got warm.
After some time in the tent, I needed to warm up a bit, so I headed back to the track. I caught the Porsche qualifying event and the main Friday evening attraction, the second F1 practice session. The picture below shows first that my seat was pretty good, and second that it's difficult for an iPhone to catch a photograph of a F1 car going 240 mph or so.
I think this was eventual third-place finisher Bottas in a Mercedes.
The drive back to my hotel in Manama was only about 30 minutes and I then settled into a very comfortable bed for the night. I stayed in the City Centre area this time.
Some Manama architecture outside my hotel room window.
A sweet Bahrain-colored Audi R8 parked outside my hotel.
Checking out late Saturday morning, I headed back to the circuit in relatively light traffic. The weather was a couple of degrees "cooler", but still not what I would call comfortable while exposed to the angry sun. I watched the first Porsche race and headed back to the tent. I watched the first F2 race and headed back to the tent. Back to the track, I watched the final F1 practice and headed back to the tent. I sat out the first TCR race, content to watch from the frigid environment of the tent. The main event for the evening was the F1 qualifying. Not really sure what happened there, but Mercedes and Ferrari cars apparently did well and ended up getting the first three starting places for the Grand Prix.
I didn't stay for the Enrique Iglesias concert. Instead, I drove back to KFUPM Saturday evening after the qualifier, without running into appreciable traffic on the causeway. I taught my 8 AM class and chaired a 9-11 meeting Sunday morning and headed back over the causeway just about noon. Traffic wasn't too bad over the causeway, but invariably, I end up in the slow lanes at the checkpoints.
So, here's what a trip over the causeway involves. I'll use KSA to Bahrain as an example. First, you pay a toll of 25 SAR just as you are getting on the causeway. Second, there's a checkpoint for KSA customs – they ask questions and check my car papers (registration, approval to leave KSA in the rental car, whatever). Unless they don't check anything. You get a little ticket thing, regardless. It has a bunch of Arabic writing on it and no English, so I really don't know what the magic ticket is. Third, is KSA passport control. Sometimes they ask for my Iqama, sometimes they don't, and just look at the passport. They take the ticket thing and stamp the passport. Fourth is the Bahrain passport control checkpoint. Fifth, Bahrain customs. Get another ticket thing. Sixth, either just hand over ticket thing or also pay another 20 SAR. I think I know why I either pay or I don't, but signage is really bad and most of the signs are in Arabic. I generally just smile and nod and hold out all my papers and ask what they want at each of the checkpoints. There are lines and lines of cars at each of the checkpoints. If it weren't for all the checkpoints, Dhahran to Manama would be 30 to 40 minutes. Depending on traffic, realistically getting to Manama in an hour is pretty darn good. I've never had it really bad (yet) but there are four-hour horror stories. The return trip, Bahrain to KSA, is about the same, except at Saudi customs you have to get out of the car, open the trunk, and the guys search your car.
I caught the second F2 and Porsche races and retreated to the tent for two hours before the main event, the Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix. They do 57 laps and it takes about two hours from start to finish. It's loud and the cars go really fast. There were a couple of crashes, nothing too exciting or worrisome, and nobody crashes along the Main Grandstand straight track anyway. A German guy in a Ferrari won the race, followed by two guys in Mercedes. The Kias and Hyundais didn't even bother to show up.
Overall, it was pretty fun. There's definitely a family oriented vibe to the festivities, with clowns and jugglers and a haunted house and face painting and other shenanigans. There's a big outdoor food court area with an adjacent outdoor shisha lounge. There are lots of merchandise vendors, but I didn't buy any souvenirs. My VIP ticket came with a hat, so there's that.
Outside the Main Grandstand.
The concert stage in the background. Sorry Enrique!
Trapeze hula hoop shenanigans.
Food court tents with the lit grandstand behind.
Getting the stink eye while taking a picture of the shisha lounge.
Teams getting ready.
Documentation that I was there.
At the start, it was two Mercedes and a Ferrari. At the end it was a Ferrari and two Mercedes. A German guy driving an Italian car won. There was much rejoicing and shit talking in the stands by Ferrari fans.
This is a young Dutch driver that John R. wanted me to root for. He ummmm, strayed from the track pretty early in the race and his car didn't work anymore.
After the race, there were fireworks. I scooted back to Dhahran and made it home in an hour and 15 minutes.
I'll probably do this again next year. Let me know if you want to join me.


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Covestro has won the European Plastics Innovation Award for a composite technology that opens the door to a sustainable future for lightweight products.
Based on continuous fibre-reinforced thermoplastics (CFRTP) in combination with a highly efficient production method, the composite 'A-Cover' will be used in the next-generation of laptops.
Michael Schmidt, co-leader of the Thermoplastic Composites department at Covestro, said: "Winning this prize confirms that we have truly pushed the boundaries with our CFRTPs, in order to meet the needs of tomorrow. These composites are ideally suited for producing thinner, lighter and yet more robust parts for IT devices."
Using a "single mould manufacturing" concept, Covestro combines the three conventional steps of preheating, thermoforming and functional integration into a single process. The results are twofold: substantially lower costs and shorter cycle times.
The European Plastics Innovation Award is run by PlasticsEurope and the Society of Plastics Engineers.
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Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Massachusetts General Hospital analyzed nearly 4,000 computer generated prescriptions received in a commercial pharmacy chain and found that one in ten contained at least one error, a third of which had the potential to cause a patient harm. This rate is similar to the error rate for prescriptions that are written by hand. They also found that the number, type and severity of errors varied by computerized prescription systems suggesting some systems may be better than others. The findings appear in the June 30, 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
The researchers analyzed 3,850 computer-generated prescriptions received by a commercial outpatient pharmacy chain in three states over a four week period. They found that 452 prescriptions contained 466 total errors, with 163 (35 percent) of the errors potentially causing a patient harm, also known as a potential adverse drug event (ADE). There were 95 errors that the researchers considered significant and 68 that were considered serious. None of the errors were life-threatening.
Prescribing error rates and potential for ADEs varied widely among the electronic prescribing systems in use with error rates ranging between systems from 5.1 to as high as 37.5 percent. Different systems were associated with different error types. For example, the most common errors in one system were omitting how long a prescribed treatment should be taken,. In another system the most common errors were inappropriate abbreviations.
"With more than 3 billion prescriptions written annually in the U.S. alone, this could amount to 385 million errors each year, with 128 million of them having the potential to cause patient harm," said Jeffrey Rothschild, MD, from the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice at BWH and a co-author on the paper.
The researchers recommend several strategies to help eliminate errors, suggesting "forcing functions," which would not allow prescriptions to be filled if information is missing, specific decision support to check maximum dosages and calculators to resolve inconsistent quantity errors by eliminating redundant data entry.
"By providing better training and adding some interventional tools to the existing computerized prescribing system, medication errors could be significantly lowered and hopefully even eliminated," said Karen Nanji, MD, from the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and lead author of the study. "Implementing a computerized prescribing system without a comprehensive set of checks in place will not lower medication errors."
The research was supported by a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and in part from the Harvard Risk Management Foundation.


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Pete reports:
"Saturday night's show kicked off with "Hell is Chrome". For me, Jeff could have said "Thanks and good night" and walked off stage after that, and I would have been satisfied. But the festivities continued with another AGIB entry (Muzzle of Bees) followed by a couple from YHF (IATTBYH and War on War), and back to AGIB's "Company in My Back". A few songs later, they debuted two brand new songs, "Empty Corner" (which had been featured earlier in the day in a surround sound installation at the museum) and "White Wooden Cross." Overall, the Saturday night installment was classic, good-as-it-gets, Wilco fare. 24 songs, solid entries from the entire body of work, and a nice two-song encore to cap off the night. Absolutely electrifying, and exactly what one would expect from this band at their own festival in the Saturday night, beachfront real estate portion of the weekend."
Pete recorded this show with the trusty Neumann cards from a very advantageous position at the Soundboard cage. The sound is superb, enjoy!
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[Total Time 1:54:01]
01 Hell Is Chrome
02 Muzzle of Bees
03 I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
04 War on War
05 Company in My Back
06 I'll Fight
07 Shouldn't Be Ashamed
08 An Empty Corner
09 White Wooden Cross
10 Box Full of Letters
11 Remember the Mountain Bed
12 Hesitating Beauty
13 Bull Black Nova
14 Laminated Cat
15 Reservations
16 Side With the Seeds
17 Theologians
18 Someone to Lose
19 Impossible Germany
20 Red-Eyed and Blue
21 I Got You
22 Outtasite
23 [encore break]
24 A Shot in the Arm
25 [Glenn standing on drums]
26 I'm A Wheel
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YWCA Greater Cincinnati provides needed services to thousands of women, men, and families annually. We rely on the generosity of individuals and community partners and thank you in advance for donating.
The following is a list of currently needed items. We ask that items be new (no gently worn items accepted). Donations are collected at the YWCA's Downtown Facility, Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. To coordinate delivery, contact Kate Jarvi, 513-361-2154. You may also consider ordering items from our Amazon Wish List and shipping them directly to the downtown facility.
YWCA GREATER CINCINNATI WISH LIST (New Items Only, Please)
Urgent Needs
Large plastic storage bins (48 quart is ideal)
Twin Sheet Sets
Bath Towels
Wash Cloths
Baby Wipes
Women's pajamas, all sizes
Women's clothes, all sizes
Socks, all sizes
Underwear, all sizes
Cleaning Supplies
Other Needs
Baby Monitors (new or used as long as in good working order)
Rain Ponchos
Books (birth to Preschool, English & Spanish)
Nesting and stacking toys
Legos/building blocks
Board games, all ages
Headphones (new only)
Children's hooded towels
Air mattresses: full and twin
Blankets: twin
Diapers, all sizes
African American/Black dolls (all sizes)
Women's Clothing
House slippers
T-shirts, all sizes
Sweatpants, all sizes
Sweatshirts, all sizes
Cotton shorts, all sizes
Bras (especially 40 or larger)
Women's bath robes, all sizes
Women's bathing suits, all sizes
Household Items
Shower Curtains and Rods
Hand Towels
Toilet Paper
Paper Towels
Cleaning Supplies
Magic erasers
Dish detergent
Carpet freshener
Air freshener
Pine Sol cleaner
Disinfectant spray
Disinfectant wipes
Mops (industrial)
Dust pans
Toilet Cleaner
Shower Cleaner
Personal Hygiene Supplies (prefer full size)
Hand sanitizer
Hair sheen (spray sheen)
Body wash/bar soap
Body Lotion
Manicure sets
Combs and brushes
Children's toothpaste, toothbrushes, bath soap, shampoo, bath poufs
Aromatherapy oils
Warming neck/eye pillows
Ethnic Hair and Skin Products
Motions Shampoo or Conditioner
Hair perms
Hair relaxers
Kinky Curly
Shea Moisture
Mixxed Chicks
As I Am
Miss Jessie's
Dark and Lovely Au Natural Coil Moisturizing Soufflé
Coconut Oil
Jojoba Oil
Organix Moroccan Argan Oil Shampoo or Conditioner
Carol's Daughter Monoi Collection
Carol's Daughter Lisa's Hair Elixer Fortifying Scalp Spray and Restoring Oil
Koils by Nture
Curls Unleased Curl Defining Crème
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Crème of Nature Argan Oil Moisture & Shine Shampoo
Cantu Shea Butter Leave?In Conditioner
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Ouidad Curl Quencher Moisturizing Gel
Curly Hair Solutions Curl Keeper
Max Green Alchemy Scalp Rescue Conditioner
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Healthy snacks & bottled water
Patio Umbrellas (can be gently used)
Target/Walmart/Kroger, other gas/food gift cards (small denominations)
Bus tokens
Batteries AA and D
Low-cost vacuums
Pocket folders (any colors)
Art Supplies
Crayons & Markers
Coloring Books
High Chair (House of Peace)
Patio Furniture (House of Peace)
Journals (House of Peace)
Umbrella Strollers
Infant Wraps or Slings for carrying infants
Pencil Boxes
4 oz. Elmers Glue Bottle
Glue Sticks
Blunt Preschool Scissors
Small Pencil Sharpeners
Individual Scotch Tape
Preschool Art Smocks
Button Maker
Acoustic Guitar (House of Peace)
Passes for local attractions: Kings Island, Coney Island, movie theatres, Cincinnati Zoo, Cincinnati Nature Center, Beach Waterpark, Planet Fitness Eastgate, Scene 75 (Milford location), Beechmont Rollarena, Castle Skateland, Easgate Lanes, Cherry Grove Lanes.


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May 2, 2008
BIRMINGHAM, Mich. – Top-seeded Notre Dame broke out of a third-period 4-4 tie with five unanswered goals, holding number-four seed Quinnipiac scoreless for more than 23 minutes in the process, as the Irish prevailed 10-6 in the first semifinal of the inaugural Great Western Lacrosse League Postseason Tournament.
The sixth-ranked Irish (12-2) now play number-two seed Ohio State (10-4) in the GWLL championship game at noon EDT Sunday. No. 10 Ohio State defeated third-seeded Denver 15-8 in the second semifinal. The tournament is being held at Seaholm High School in Birmingham, Mich.
Notre Dame defeated Ohio State, 17-12, last Sunday at Alumni Field.
Notre Dame's 12 victories mark the most by the Irish since their best-ever 14-2 record in 2001 when they advanced to the NCAA semifinals.
The Irish joined Ohio State and Denver in a three-way tie atop the GWLL regular-season standings, all with 4-1 records.
Junior Ryan Hoff scored three goals for Notre Dame, while sophomore Grant Krebs and senior Michael Podgajny each scored two – with Krebs also adding a pair of assists to pace the Irish in scoring.
Quinnipiac (8-5) opened the scoring less than three minutes into the game (that was delayed 15 minutes at the start by heavy rain and lightning) on a Ted Dimond goal. Podgajny notched his first goal unassisted less than three minutes later, but the Bobcats held a 2-1 after the opening period, thanks to an unassisted Zach Dendas tally at the 2:28 mark.
Notre Dame then ran off three straight goals – one by Hoff (from junior Duncan Swezey at 11:04 of the second), one from Krebs (at 9:59 from junior Peter Christman), then another by Hoff (again from Christman at 6:40).
But Quinnipiac responded with another Dimond goal (from Mitch Cooper with 1:44 in the second period) for a 4-3 halftime score, then tied it at 4-4 less than three minutes into the third period on a Kaiser goal from Gary Messina.
From there it was all Notre Dame.
With Notre Dame senior goalie Joey Kemp and the Irish defense limiting the Bobcats without a goal from the 12:05 mark of the third period to the 3:30 stop in the fourth period, the Irish took control.
Rookie Zach Brenneman gave the Irish the lead for good at 5-4 on an unassisted tally at the 5:08 mark of the third period. Hoff notched his third goal less than three minutes later (from Alex Wharton), then Krebs put up his second goal (unassisted) to make it 7-4 for Notre Dame at the end of three.
The Irish scoring continued to open the final period, as sophomore Neal Hicks scored on a Krebs feed at 14:53, and Podgajny made it 9-4 at the 13:09 juncture, again from Krebs.
The Bobcats got two more goals from Dendas in the final 3:30, sandwiched around a Swezey goal from Hicks for Notre Dame (at 2:19).
Kemp finished with eight saves for the Irish, four in each half. Notre Dame outshot Quinnipiac 35-24 and also led in ground balls (41-30). Senior Taylor Clagett won 13 of 17 face-offs, helping the Irish as a team win 14 of 20. Freshman David Earl paced the Irish with six ground balls. The only odd-man goal came on a man-advantage opportunity by Quinnipiac on the Bobcats' last score.
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Quinnipiac (8-5) – 2 1 1 2 – 6
#6 Notre Dame (12-2) – 1 3 3 3 – 10
Quinnipiac Scoring (goals-assists):
Zach Dendas 3-0, Ted Dimond 2-0, Todd Kaiser 1-1, Anthony Poerio 0-2, Gary Messina 0-1, Mitch Cooper 0-1 Goaltender: Kevin Benzing (L, 60:00, 10 saves, 10 GA)
Notre Dame Scoring (goals-assists):
Ryan Hoff 3-0, Grant Krebs 2-2, Michael Podgajny 2-0, Duncan Swezey 1-1, Neal Hicks 1-1, Zach Brenneman 1-0, Alex Wharton 0-1, Peter Christman 0-2; Goaltender: Joey Kemp (W, 60:00, 8 saves, 6 GA)


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How to Target and Train Your Weaknesses W/ Mike Burgener – Episode 256
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It wasn't that long ago that we didn't have iPhones in our pockets, let alone access to the world's information at the click of a button. Back in the day, coaches and athletes had to figure shit out on their own.
Nowadays, the fitness industry is growing faster than ever, and with that comes new innovations and knowledge around training. That is mainly due to the fact that coaches and athletes are communicating and sharing their experience more and more.
We wanted to hear from one of the top coaches in the game on this topic, so we headed over to Bonsall, CA to visit Mike Burgener. Coach B has watched this evolution occur and has been apart of some of the biggest evolutions in the sport of weightlifting and strength training.
In this episode, Coach B shares his insights into the fitness industry as it is today, and tells stories of what it was like in the beginning. We talk about why most athletes, who want to go from pretty good to competitive, need to start focusing on training their weaknesses. Mike shares tactics and his philosophy around getting strong, the coaches that he works with, and how he gets his athletes to the next level.
If you want to learn how to break through your plateaus and start understanding how to train your weaknesses, you need to drop in for this one.
enjoy the show,
For more:
- Be sure to watch our Full Depth episode with Coach Burgener. The Godfather of American Weightlifting.
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Great Episode, nice to have Mike and Doug back again came back cause of that.
Just heard the comment about parents going to weightlifting competitions. I am now 43 years old. I started CrossFit at age 39 (now age 43) and have started focusing more on Olympic lifting over the last year or so. I volunteered at the Worlds in 2015 (so awesome) and I have done 4 competitions so far and I absolutely love doing it (training and competing)!
Unrelated but I don't know where to put this. Can you have Dr.Serrano on your podcast?
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What's with people always firing up in-depth conversations with the barista at my favourite coffee joint when I'm behind them in the queue? I seem to observe this even more than usual when I'm in a rush. Find someone else's ear to chew on, will you? I needed my double espresso five minutes ago!
Take this morning, for example. When I got to the counter, I found a suited-up dude carrying on endlessly about the commercial applications of structural steel. What, for the love of god, has that got to do with purchasing coffee and a Gruyere toastie? Evidently there's some relationship, because my barista proceeded to chime in with his own thoughts on where to buy steel beams. Melbourne being what it is, I should probably not have been surprised by this – of course the shop has its own custom-designed roasting plant down the road.
Okay, fine. Part of what I love about my barista is that he'll willingly engage with whatever topic you care to throw at him, no matter how specific. I'll concede that he's spent his share of time spit-balling with me about the future of the rag trade. I just wasn't aware that he'd be as responsive to musings on the construction industry.
Regardless, there's only so long one can be expected to wait in line hearing recommendations for structural steel fabricators. Melbourne residents surely have some thoughts around quality steel products. How long is it appropriate to chat with a barista for, especially when there are people queued up behind you waiting for their post-commute caffeine hit? I'm inclined to say 10 seconds, maximum. I don't care how many metres' reach that knuckle crane had or what the load-bearing capacity of your new development's internal columns is.
Yes, alright. I could stand to take this advice myself. I daresay the verbose chap in question would care as much about the comeback of the French seam as I do about the latest developments in building materials.


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Use Farm Spray Pro to record spray applications according to pesticide label requirements including the latest product formulations containing dicamba. With Farm Spray Pro, you can draw, GPS, or import field boundaries, view the field details, add and edit spray records and review spray history.
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This is your farming operation view. When you first come in to the app this is what you will see. After you pan and zoom around, you can always get back to your farm operation view by tapping on the Home button.
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Orange is for office… when you need to do office work for things like Detailed Spray Reports, Tank Mix Calc, and setting up your personal lists for Crops, Pesticides, Farms, Fields, etc.
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Life in Beijing was particularly inspirational and it was the extraordinary mix of modern and traditional, the symmetrical and the haphazard, the cherished and the unwanted, that inspired me to draw some of the quiet and beautiful corners of the city. These drawings, combined with cultural elements that are woven through every aspect of Chinese life, form the basis of my book "A Meander in Beijing".
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Restaurant WiFi
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Create a free or paid Restaurant Internet access, engage guests with advertisements, collect surveys and understand what you can do better to improve guest satisfaction.
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PADI Advanced Open Water
The PADI Advanced Open Water Course takes your newly acquired skills and enhances them. It provides you with an insight into various diving areas that you may wish to take further by Completing PADI Speciality Courses .
The Advanced Course consists of five dives which are undertaken with your Instructor. Two of these dives are what PADI call 'core' dives and these are compulsory and include a deep dive and a navigation dive. The remaining three dives may be dives of your choosing from a range that we can discuss with you such as Night , Drysuit, Peak Performance Buoyancy …The list is huge!!!!!!
We give below a brief explanation of what you can expect on some dives.
Deep Dive – A Deep Dive means a dive to a depth in excess of 18 metres but no deeper than 30 metres under the direct supervision of your Instructor.
Navigation Dive – This dive enhances your new navigational skills with a compass (or not!!). You will be asked to perform various skills with your Instructor with and without a compass.
Dry Suit Dive – This dive introduces you to the correct use of a dry suit for those British dives you will be doing with us during the season.
Peak Performance Buoyancy – Be the best and learn to make diving an art form! You too can look graceful and totally controlled with this dive option.
Night Dive – It is just what it says on the page, a dive at night (or in the dark anyway!). An opportunity to view the underwater life in a completely different light.
Wreck Dive – Select one of our underwater relics and learn how to dive a wreck safely and how to get the most out of your chosen wreck. You could choose our 100+ year old lifeboat, the Elizabeth Austin, and find out about her history.
Photography – An introduction to one of the most popular underwater activities, an opportunity to take a photo of your instructor – smile please.
The above are just a small selection of the most popular dives for the Advanced Course all of which can be upgraded to full speciality certification with further training, and we would be happy to tell you about the rest of the dive options, i.e. boat, drift, naturalist, multi-level, videography, nitrox, SMB.
The Course Fee is £295 or alternatively this course can be run on one to one basis at a cost of £450.


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This recipe is from the August 2012 issue of Today's Diet & Nutrition magazine "Potato Salad Hold the Mayo" article (adapted slightly). This dish is perfect as we enjoy Spring and going into Summer and makes a great side for picnic's, braai's and mid-week meals – my other half and I LOVED it! Here is the recipe:
- 1 kg baby, new potatoes
- 1 tin (400 g tin, 240 g drained weight) artichokes, roughly chopped
- 4 red peppers
- ½ cup of kalamata olives, sliced
- ¼ cup olive oil
- salt and pepper to taste
- Put the potatoes in a large pot of salted water. Bring to a boil and let the potatoes simmer until fork tender (about 15 minutes).
- While the potatoes are boiling, clean and cut the red peppers into quarters. Place them on a baking sheet and bake at 180°C until tender and the skin has blistered (about 20 - 25 minutes). Peel the skin of the red peppers and cut them into bite-sized chunks.
- Drain the potatoes in a colander and let them cool. When they are cool enough to handle, cut or break the potatoes into bite-sized pieces.
- In a large bowl combine the potatoes, artichokes, red peppers, olives and olive oil and stir to blend. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
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A Flight to Remember, it's like a soap in the skies…
OTT plotlines and characters including Christopher Lee as a deep-sea diver as a plane crashes into the sea at the Bermuda Triangle.
Airport '77 Official Trailer #1 – James Stewart Movie (1977) HD, Movieclips Trailer Vault and photos © Universal Pictures
Personally after rewatching Airport 77 (1977), the disaster flick of the third of the Airport films franchise, here crossed with The Poseidon Adventure (1972), I felt the Abrams, Zucker and Abrams trio didn't really need to parody these movies. As the Airport franchise increasingly parodied themselves over the subsequent years, with each plot more outlandish than the last and with an even more dream all-star cast.
This one has it all, an aeroplane disaster, priceless relics on board and the Bermuda Triangle. These all add up to this guilty pleasure of a movie that I
sadly would rewatch over any Superhero movie. Apart from possibly an Antman (2015) or Deadpool (2016) sequel. Who am I kidding? You know me and yes, Airport 77 would more likely to be watched for the comic value, plot lines and the all-star cast.
The all-star cast includes the then big names of Hollywood – James Stewart, Olivia De Havilland (in her disaster movie years where The Swarm (1978) was added to the list the following year) and Jack Lemmon. It also has two prime time soap stars in the making for the
sad eagle-eyed soap fan, Pamela Bellwood (Claudia Bleisdale from Dynasty (1981-89)) and Monte Markham (who played Sue Ellen's married lover Clint in Dallas (1978-91).
Throw in plot lines including the Bermuda Triangle, an incurable illness and an illicit affair and its full-tilt prime time soap. Characters include every stereotype ever from a couple of kids, and a lounger singer to a one-time deep-sea diver Martin Wallace (Christopher Lee) and his drunken lush of a wife, Karen (Lee Grant). Even Airport franchise favourite George Kennedy pops in as Joe Patroni and so does Buck Rogers.
Watching this with me,
under duress was my Darlin' Husband. He impersonated the leads and riffed it mercilessly. So what's the plot? In a nutshell, with the characters mentioned so far, you have all the ingredients for a crime in the skies. The plan falls apart after the plane crashes in the sea in Bermuda Triangle.
So from the beginning, the film tells of the fate of the plane owned by Philip Stevens (played by James Stewart), a millionaire who has invited his guests including estranged daughter Lisa (Bellwood) and her son to stay with him. Also aboard are some priceless paintings – echoes of Terror at 37,000 (1973) feet – and the plane is hijacked to steal these.
We meet most of the characters, Jack Lemmon the pilot, his love interest, air hostess Eve (Brenda Vaccaro), who adds to the drama telling Steven's daughter he's dying adding to her distress. There is Emily Livingston (De Havilland) who reunites with an old flame. The lounge singer, also with a foreboding song as in The Towering Inferno (1974) and the Poseidon Adventure.
In this luxurious plane, with a wee natty tour guide of the plane for us viewers, there is an office where Martin (Lee) tries to talk business with his adulterous, with his drunk wife (Grant) getting in the way and another object of her affections Frank Powers (Gil Gerard from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979-81)). There's a couple of annoying kids, but then
luckily for us sleeping gas puts all to sleep. Then the hijackers, who wearing primitive Bane masks attempt to land the plane to make off with the goods. An oil rig is clipped on its descent and the plane plummets into the sea…. and disappears into the murky depths of the Bermuda Triangle.
So this movie like the Towering Inferno has a wee in-film education film for the actual operations carried out by the Navy for the later rescue scenes in such an emergency. But without instructions given by Steve McQueen. Lemmon plays a great Head Pilot, with a firm and reassuring gruff voice and additional qualifications in deep-sea diving he's the best kinda pilot you could ask for.
Christopher Lee is also great in his part, although small, the looks given to his screen wife reflect those given by us, the audience in his scenes with her. However with Grant as the stereotypical pathetic, annoying drunk wife role – much found in disaster movies – to perfection. The other roles include a paid break from a golf game as filmed at the 18th hole with James Stewart and a wee cameo by Kennedy.
The combination of these disasters, of course, is a bit far-fetched. As the plane falls from the sky, all the furniture in the plane moved from the poker table from the lounge players piano, trapping guests in its wake. And including the lounge singer in an
unlucky twist.
The mysterious curse and conspiracies relating to the Bermuda Triangle, of course, was played to the hilt, and this curse made even more enigmatic in a number of 1970s movies. This film could only have been improved with the lounge singer played by Barry Manilow playing the lounge singer, singing his Bermuda Triangle song as the film plummets from the sky.
Add it to the despair of the cast, taking we the viewers onboard as we sink to the depths of
despair the sea, Then with Manilow's musical lyrical warning "Bermuda Triangle, Don't go too near" ringing in our ears" as the plane hits the water… and "So Bermuda Triangle, Here we come!" before this particular lounge singer met his watery grave.
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The Jack Lemmon Blogathon 2017, No 12
This review was added to the Jack Lemmon Blogathon run by Critica Retro and Widescreen World. Other reviews with this cast include Pamela Bellwood in Dynasty, Monte Markham in Dallas and Christopher Lee in Dracula AD 1972. I wrote a remembrance tribute to George Kennedy here. Olivia DeHavilland stars in The Love Boat and The Swarm (1978). Jack Lemmon stars in The Apartment. Lee Grant also stars in Airport 77, Voyage of the Damned, Omen II and in Buona Sera Mrs Campbell. Brenda Vaccaro stars in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and Water.


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Palm Harbor, Florida, is approximately 20 miles northwest of Tampa and is situated along the Gulf of Mexico. It is home to championship golfing at Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club and attracts fishermen, sailors and water enthusiasts due to its proximity to Lake Tarpon and the Gulf. When traveling to Palm Harbor there are a number of hotels from which to choose.
Lake Tarpon Resort
Along the canal leading to Lake Tarpon, Lake Tarpon Resort (laketarponresort.com) offers 98 guest rooms, all of which overlook the water. Each room features free Wi-Fi Internet, a large balcony, in-room coffee and an iron/ironing board. Hotel amenities include free continental breakfast, heated outdoor swimming pool and jetted spa, a sports bar and grill, banquet facilities and pontoon boat rental.
Knights Inn
Knights Inn (knightsinn.com) is in the heart of Palm Harbor just minutes from Honeymoon Island. It offers a heated outdoor swimming pool, nonsmoking rooms, guest laundry and truck parking. Guest rooms feature free Wi-Fi Internet, cable TV with HBO and in-room safe; some have kitchenettes including microwave and refrigerator. Pets are allowed for an additional charge.
Red Roof Inn
Red Roof Inn Palm Harbor (redroofpalmharbor.com) is a AAA diamond approved hotel that features a large outdoor tropical swimming pool and sun deck, free deluxe coffee bar and newspaper every morning, coin laundry facilities, and lobby computer with Internet access. Guest rooms offer free high-speed Internet access, in-room coffee, cable TV with HBO, iron/ironing board and hair dryer. Pets are welcome.
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AMONG ADULT cigarette smokers in the
U.S., nearly seven out of 10 reported they
wanted to quit smoking, according to the
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they use the cold-turkey method. Used as
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quitting, according to the CDC.
New to Costco's lineup of over-the-counter smoking cessation products is Kirkland
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If you wonder why I haven't posted anything during the last months it's because I'm involved with some very exciting projects which unfortunately take all my attention so the blog currently suffers quite severely. But at least the time has come that I can show you one of the objects of my affection and since the beta invites are going out now you even might get the chance to try it yourself. Here is Peacock (together with Phoenix) in action:
Peacock comes disguised as a "Pattern Generator" but in reality it's an experimental visual playground. I prefer to call it "Lego for Pixels". It features a node based interface similar to those found in Quartz Composer, VVVV, Max/MSP or Yahoo Pipes. It works by dragging hubs onto a workbench, connecting their inputs and outputs and then adjusting their individual settings. There are many different hubs to choose from (and new ones are added constantly) and each one has a specialized function - there are simple generators like Perlin Noise or Plaid, there are effect hubs like Blur, Polar Mapping or Color Matrix and there are some functional hubs, too, that split and join the flow. Like with Legos you can simply try to stick together these elements and see what comes out. Of course once you've familiarized yourself with the functions you can also "program" special effects with a goal in mind.
If you have never worked with a node based interface before the amount of options might be a bit overwhelming at first, but as you will see this gives you unlimited possibilites to create really unique visuals - not just out-of-the-box effects that look almost the same for everyone. (Well you actually can have those too, as you can see in the clip :-) )
The great thing is that once you have build a composition it allows you to create endless variations of it by simply changing a parameter - which makes it almost a generative art generator, too. Here are a few example of things I've made with Peacock (whenever I had the time to play with it instead of building it).


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The word, coined by Australian Bill Mollison in the 1970's, is a combination of "permanent agriculture" and
"permanent culture".
It is the conscious design & maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability & resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape & people. Providing food, energy, shelter and other material & non-material goods in a sustainable way.
While it started as a set of farming design principles it evolved into a design philosophy for human habitat and community.
There are many areas of our world that are becoming increasingly unstable and unpredicable. Climate change, drought, political tensions, national debt, peak oil, health care costs and other impacts may singularly or collectively effect our shared way of life in Spokane. Even now many of our fellow Sponkanians are suffering from poverty and food insecurity.
Whether you have an opinion or not on these global issues we can all learn from the recent tragedies in New Orleans (Katrina), East Coast (Sandy), Midwest (Drought and Tornados). Sometimes a major crisis effects us immediately and sometimes there are delays. For instance will will all see food prices go up because of the droughts in Mid-America. When they strike close to home and hit the new we might expect FEMA and the good will of other countrymen to come to our aid. However we have seen that even with the best intentions, help is often delayed or non existant.
On a smaller scale you don't need a hurricane to drive you and your family into crisis. Every day we see more and more people suffering their own small scale disasters when they lose their jobs, get injured or just run out of resources. When more than one of these issues strikes at once the impacts are magnified.
Using Permaculture Principals we can inspire community oriented action to promote local gardening, food banks, community food forests, farmers markets and many other potential programs that will help build local resilence and food security.
Watch this new preview of the Geoff Lawton video series "How to survive the coming crisis." Geoff is one of the most renown Permaculter Teachers and Consultants in the world.
GREAT!!!! If nothing catastrophic happens effects us all at the same time... then we have just worked together to make sure that we have learned to garden, give our excess bounty to others, gotten connected to the local Farmers Market and supported our farming community. However, the reality is that we all grow old, many of us lose our jobs and our children are eating more and more packaged GMO food. This is happening now.
Permaculture does not only a way to approach farming and gardening but energy management, community sharing and more. It was originated in Australia where they have similar low rain fall and rely on dry land farming. Permaculture projects all over the world have increased yield while reducing cost, fuel and manual effort. As we move in to a future with increasing fuel costs, greater demand and reducing availability adapting these techniques to our area early could prove to be very benefitial to our entire region.
Teaching people to set up low cost, low water, low effort gardens also provides an increased food security but providing a steady supply of nutritious fruits and vegitables. Not everyone will garden but as every gardener knows there will be periods where they grow more than they can eat or put away. Neighborhood sharing, farmers markets and food banks all support a healthy and resiliant community.
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Homeless man in Oakland lives in a box while waiting to move in to a shed
The rats scavenging for food drive Marcus Emery crazy at night.
Their skinny tails thump the walls as he tries to sleep. It's a harsher sound than a leaky faucet dripping through the night, he said.
People can't keep food in the tents they've set up on Northgate Avenue.
"Because if (the rats) smell that food, they coming in," said Emery, who moved from a tent to a donated 8-by-8 plywood box on Northgate about seven months ago.
I've known Emery, 54, for almost a year. When I heard Oakland was opening its second temporary housing lot outfitted with Tuff Sheds between Northgate and 27th Street, I wanted to know if Emery, who's lived on Northgate for almost two years, was excited about the pending move.
Not really, because he knows there's a catch: Only 40 people — two to each shed — can relocate to the Tuff Sheds, which means that dozens of the almost 100 people who currently call one of the most visible homeless camps in Oakland home will soon have to find somewhere else to live.
They're stuck on the streets.
I've supported the city's plan, which seeks to move people from the Tuff Sheds to temporary housing. The first Tuff Shed site at Castro and Sixth streets has moved eight of its 51 participants into housing since it opened six months ago.
Still, the plan helps only a tiny, tiny fraction of the city's homeless population. More people want to move in than space allows, which means people are going to be left out.
Emery may be one of them.
"My name is supposed to be on top of the list, but who's to say," he said. "They won't let us see a list. I done made every meeting they done had, and they still won't give us no information."
A lot of homeless people I've spent time with call their neighbors family. For Emery, it really is family.
His nephew, Shaun Moses, lives next door to Emery in an identical box. It was Moses who erected Emery's first tent on the block, a tent the rats pillaged no matter how far away he swept crumbs, chicken bones, food wrappers and other garbage.
Emery is worried about his older brother, Dennis Emery Young, who was asleep in his broken-down Mercedes-Benz steps from Emery's box when I visited earlier this week.
"Where are the other people gonna go that don't get in the place?" Emery said. "They gon' be displaced."
The police officers and city workers clearing some tents along 27th Street on Tuesday made Emery anxious. He's never asked me for anything before, but that day he asked me if we could take a drive because he wanted to sit in the sunlight by Lake Merritt.
There, on a bench as afternoon joggers ran past the pink rose bushes, Emery shared parts of his story he hasn't before.
He grew up the youngest of 10 children on Chestnut Street in West Oakland. He used to roller skate around the lake as a young adult. He still comes to the lake a few times a week to get away from the nighttime annoyances at the camp — the drug dealing, the prostitution, the rats.
Emery told me he worked for the city of Berkeley's parks and recreation department for almost two decades. Fourteen years ago, he said, he signed up for an early-retirement program that included a one-time payment of $6,000. He began collecting Supplemental Security Income, which is now $997 per month.
"They talked me into it," said Emery, who retired at 40. "They didn't want me there, because I was a hothead, so I took the money and they got me out of there."
Berkeley officials could not be reached for comment.
In 2017, the rent for his Milton Street apartment in Oakland almost tripled — from $800 to $2,100 — he could no longer afford it on his fixed income. Unable to keep up with payments, he was evicted. He also lost his Section 8 housing voucher because of the eviction, he said.
"If I could've kept (Section 8), I could've found something," he said.
He had lived on Milton Street for 18 years. It was Moses, his nephew, who brought him to Northgate. Moses, 47, knew the centrally located sidewalk under the highway overpass was one of the prime camps in Oakland because he's been homeless for five years.
Emery told me he calls his aging mother daily. He said he and his older brother Dennis have tried to stay at her house in Richmond, but one of their brothers has repeatedly blocked the move. Emery said it's probably because Dennis, 61, has never liked to be told what to do.
Emery has told Dennis he needs to move his car before it gets towed.
"And the police keep telling him this is not a parking space," Emery said. "He won't listen."
On one wrist, Emery, a member of New Hope Baptist Church, wore a rubber bracelet with Ephesians 4:8, a Bible verse that ends with God bestowing gifts. When people on Northgate need something — from toothpicks to shoes — they knock on Emery's box with the American flag stapled to the front panel. He gave Dennis a pair of white socks earlier in the morning.
When we returned to the camp, the three plastic, dirt-smudged tables in front of Emery's box were covered with donations. Sometimes it's clothes, but mostly it's food that would otherwise be thrown away. There were apples, cornbread, muffins, celery, cauliflower and mandarins, but Emery didn't take anything for himself.
Through the beaded curtains that hang from the door frame of his box, I saw a twin mattress with tiger print sheets and a dresser. On the floor, there were cans of beans, rows of water bottles and a fire extinguisher. Emery has his own toilet, because, he said, the portable toilets at the end of Northgate are never emptied on schedule.
He wore blue sweatpants covered in lint balls, a hoodie and sports coat with a paisley pattern. He walked gingerly, his body still aching from a recent fall. He removed his San Francisco 49ers baseball cap to show me the pinkish red scab on the back of his head.
He says he helps friends in need with whatever money he can spare. He buys vodka, orange juice and cigarettes for himself. And, of course, there's the $5.69 rat traps he purchases at Captain Liquor on the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Way.
He uses clumps of peanut butter as bait.
"They can't get out of this one," he said, showing me a trap he'd pulled from behind his box.
He proudly shook the trap to make the lifeless tail wiggle.
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Finance News You Need To Know Right now
It is generally accepted that there is a relationship, or a measurable correlation between sure markets. India's fifth-largest private sector lender Sure Financial institution on Thursday reported an increase of twenty-two{816e20184c296c0f70105a319ca30ac108ca8958ba2f5959024bfbd1cdd74df4} within the third-quarter internet revenue to Rs 1,076.9 crore on a yearly basis and a sequential rise of seven.4{816e20184c296c0f70105a319ca30ac108ca8958ba2f5959024bfbd1cdd74df4}. So how does the proper perspective preserve you from crumbling below the load of the every day news, the inventory market reports, rumours, gossip and the like?
On a much smaller scale yet no much less profitable, that is happening within the inventory market each minute of every single day and what you will see in a second is that there are simple methods to see where the money is shifting, where some situation exists which is causing an growing variety of merchants and traders to build up their money in an increasingly favored area of the market.
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ROME — The Italian press is suggesting that two candidates who have emerged as frontrunners to become the next pope represent opposing sides of a major rift within the church: an old guard that controls the Vatican against a crop of reformers seeking to confront the church's problems and shift the way the church operates.
Old-guard forces loyal to Dean of College of Cardinals Angelo Sodano, 85, are said to be throwing support to Cardinal Odilo Scherer, the Brazilian of German descent. But Sodano's main rival, current Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, is backing Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan.
Scola, a protege of Pope Benedict XVI, is a conservative theologian said to have a charisma deficiency. Scherer has a more pastoral persona, but a political alliance with Sodano's bloc may keep him from being the game-changer many observers say the balkanized Curia needs.
A bitter standoff between Sodano forces and Bertone has consumed the Curia for the last few years, and this conclave is seen as Sodano's last stand. Many believe the VatiLeaks scandal was a reflection of Sodano loyalists who were upset that Bertone, who had Benedict's support, had little experience as a diplomat and was a poor administrator, making enemies along the way.
Special Report: A Global Church
The conclave begins Tuesday and the smart money right now says if no decision has been made by the end of Wednesday, that probably signals that either Scherer or Scola has failed to rise — or both men have fallen out of contention.
That would suggest cardinals from various countries are veering away from allowing curial politics to drive the decision, opening the door for a dark horse candidate to rise instead.
Dark horses include Brazilian Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz as well as Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn.
Schoenborn is seen as a genuine reformer who has learned to adapt amid declining attendance in Austrian Catholic churches, "with some praising his prudence and pastoral sensitivity, and others calling for more decisive action," Catholic News Service reported.
Italians have floated Americans Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York and Cardinal Sean O'Malley as compromise candidates with seeming obliviousness to O'Malley's disastrous handling of the Boston archdiocese's finances, or Dolan's decisions in Milwaukee, his posting before New York which is now in bankruptcy owing to lawsuits from abuse survivors.


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Fifty years ago the doors opened to an exciting new institution, the Pavilion Gallery. Later renamed the Newport Harbor Art Museum and subsequently, the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA), the museum was the first devoted to both modern and contemporary art in Southern California and today is one of the most ambitious, innovative, mid-size museums in the United States.
As part of the museum's 50th anniversary celebration, "OC Collects" presents curated selections from more than a dozen of the most important private modern and contemporary art collections in Orange County. The exhibition includes rarely seen major paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper by established figures and emerging artists from around the world including Berlin based Veronika Kellndorfer, who explores California modernism, creating enigmatic prints on glass using her own photographs of homes by mid-century architects; Doug Aitken, an American multimedia artist; abstract expressionist Richard Diebenkorn; and Shirin Neshat, an Iranian visual artist.
In her article "Orange Crush," for Modern Luxury magazine, Wendy Bowman-Littler writes:
Some may not think of O.C. as a hotbed of art collecting–but it is. 'There are people in Orange County who are really enjoying the visual arts and collecting the visual arts, and most of it, in many cases, resides in private residences,' says Darrel Anderson, a local arts supporter and private investor. He and his wife, Marsha, have loaned OCMA eight pieces of figurative art and contemporary photography from the collection in their Newport Beach home. 'They know it exists in other major metropolitan areas and don't think of it as being here because it's such a young county. It isn't New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles, but people here do collect, and they collect wonderful things.'
"OC Collects" is curated by OCMA Director Dennis Szakacs and Chief Curator Dan Cameron. "This is an amazing opportunity to view works that the public never gets to see," Szakacs says. "The public can see how people live with modern and contemporary art, and how it is an essential part of their lives, and hopefully it will encourage others to get involved with collecting and supporting the arts community."
The exhibit runs through December 30, 2012.


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Earlier this year, Charlie Looker (Extra Life, ZS)'s Seaven Teares project released its debut album, Power Ballads. With the help of Amirtha Kidambi (Sequins and Skeletons), Robbie Lee (Howling Hex), and Russell Greenberg (Yarn/Wire), Looker had crafted a curiously hypnotic, boldly anachronistic blend of English folk and Early Music, with touches of dark ambience and modern composition serving as both an aesthetic reminder of its modern reach and a signifier of atemporal themes like violence and transgression.
But of course, Power Ballads opens with perhaps its most conventional song, "Meet Me." Contrasting Greenberg's heavy, thudding downbeat with the playful, impressionistic sounds of Lee's portative organ, the melancholic track foregrounds Looker and Kidambi's vocal arrangements, the forceful acrobatics of which obscure the song's seedier plummets. Here, Seaven Teares drop lyrics like "Meet me where you blush, meet me at your skin/ Kiss me through the bars, unsmiling in pleasure" next to lines such as "The more I grab at your hated parts and search you like a corpse" and "Bars of coke await us there and then we'll flee to separate rooms to cry," juxtaposing its superficially wistful aesthetics with something much darker and more emotionally challenging. It's a difficult listen if you want it to be, a testament once again to the complexity of Looker's unique approach to music-making.
Check out Seaven Teares performing "Meet Me" here:
Power Ballads is out now on Northern Spy. Watch the band perform live on Sunday at Northern Spy's Spy Music Festival (of which TMT is a sponsor) at 285 Kent.
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• Northern Spy: http://northernspyrecords.com
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Kids' Composite Resin Fillings in NYC
When cavities occur and the less-invasive treatment option of resin infiltration is not a suitable alternative, the experienced pediatric dentists at Park View Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics in NYC will turn to dental fillings, including composite resin fillings (white tooth fillings), in order to restore affected teeth. Based on a patient's unique needs, the appropriate type of dental filling will be determined.
For children who are unable to cope with the delivery of dental care, who have a high level of dental anxiety or who have special needs, we offer various sedation dentistry options for completing a composite resin filling procedure. Learn more below, or request an appointment online.
What are composite resin fillings?
Composite resin fillings (also known as white fillings) are a type of filling made of glass or quartz within a resin medium that produces a tooth-colored material. They are used to fill cavities, restore tooth decay, and prevent further decay. Composite fillings are BPA-free, non-toxic, and completely safe.
When should composite resin fillings be used?
Also known as filled resins, composite fillings are often used in small to mid-size restorations, as they provide strength, durability, and resistance to fracture. In addition, the shade of composite fillings is made to closely match the patient's actual teeth, so that other people will not be aware that dental work has been done. In some cases, patients may prefer to receive ceramic fillings (non-plastic and BPA free) or amalgam fillings, depending on their needs.
What does getting composite resin fillings involve?
Composite dental fillings are performed in-office. Before the composite filling procedure, a child will receive local anesthesia in order to numb the affected tooth and area around the tooth. We offer single tooth anesthesia technology, which provides a number of advantages for our pediatric patients.
Once completely numbed, our pediatric dentists will use a drill to remove decay from the affected tooth and prepare it for filling. Then, the composite resin filling will be introduced, which involves layering on resin and hardening it using a specialized light to make it strong. The final step involves polishing the tooth and then applying a dental sealant in order to protect it from future decay.
If you need to schedule a visit for your child or want to learn more about our dental filling options for cavities, including composite resin fillings (white tooth fillings), call our office at (212) 879-6518 or request an appointment at Park View Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics by filling out the form on this page.