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EIGHT Food Show FINDS
This past week was one of my favorite of the year — the National Restaurant Association, the International Wine, Spirits and Beer, and the Sweets and Snacks shows all rolled into town! (It's been known as Food/Booze/Candy Week. Hang on to your diet!)
Since I am currently heavy with child, I didn't attend the Spirits show. Not because I don't think that a pregnant woman shouldn't have a glass of wine every now and then, but because I just didn't want to deal with the quizzical stares I'd inevitably receive. It's one thing to order a malbec while sitting down at a restaurant — quite another to be eyeing vodka displays with my belly outtothere.
That's ok! The Restaurant and Sweets & Snacks shows more than made up for it! Here are some of my favorite finds from the week:
Sweets & Snacks Show
@NibMor vegan, non-GMO, and gluten free drinking choco and chocolate bars. Great texture and flavor. The drinking chocolate is great iced...not too sweet!
@popgourmet Rogue Blue Cheese Popcorn. Good bite of blue cheese, no chalky finish. Non-GMO.
@purechocolatelv gorgeous and delicious truffles. Smooth texture with fruit and spice flavors that pop. Bonus points for the friendly Latvian dudes working their booth.
@eatwhatever mints. Genius 2-step process: A gel cap for your tummy, then a mint for your mouth. Vegan, gluten and sugar free.
National Restaurant Association Show
Tasty kale snacks by @bradsrawfoods
@funleys Peanut Butter Stix in the Mud. All-natural and so delicious.
@hailmerrysnacks Miracle Tart. Vegan, Gluten free, and VERY rich, thanks to coconut oil.
@joialife sodas. Lime/Hibiscus/Clove was my favorite. Good depth of flavor, not overly sweet.


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LAS VEGAS — At this year's International Consumer Electronics Show, everything is getting a bit "smarter."
Smartphones ushered in the notion that cellphones didn't have to be limited to just making calls, and tablets uprooted the definition of the personal computer. Now, the buzz at the world's largest tech gadget conference has shifted from the devices themselves to the growing crop of accessories and technologies that are piggybacking on their massive popularity.
Connectivity is one of the main reasons smartphones and tablets became blockbuster hits among consumers, and tech manufacturers want to bring that feature to other objects — many of them everyday, non-digital household items.
So a smartphone case is no longer just about protecting your phone, a fork is not just an instrument for getting food into your mouth, and a wristwatch is about more than just a fashion statement to tell the time.

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Twister Strikes Near Mineola in East Texas.
Special to the Star and Telegram.
Mineola, Texas, Jan. 5 — A cyclone passed north of Mineola late yesterday. It formed three miles west of town, took a northeasterly course, plowed a path four miles, then disappeared. L. C. Johnson's barn was destroyed. Mrs. H. E. Bryant's house was blown away. J. E. Burkhead's home was completely wrecked. His family took refuge in a n nearby ditch and was saved. No fatalities occurred. The storm's path was forty yards wide, and was visible to Mineola Citizens. — Fort Worth (Tx) Star-Telegram, Page 1, Tuesday, January 5, 1909
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Green tea
Organic Fairtrade green tea (from the Wangfulou tea plantation)
This China green tea comes from the Wangfulou tee plantation in the province of Jiangxi. Contrary to black tea, this natural product is not fermented, which means that it is high in tannins. Used for over 3,000 years in Chinese and Indian medecine, green tea has a wide variety of benefits. Green tea is known for its stimulating and antioxidant action and contributes to physical and mental energy. It is less of a stimulant than coffee thanks to its high tannin content.
Green tea, with its fresh herbal flavour, is a great way to support a slimming regime by helping to control your weight.


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Hi all! Welcome to the DS8 build progress thread! Here's where I'll post occasional updates on the progress of the new site and how things are going as I do it. Let's start, shall we?
Today I started setting up the basic layout of the site. This is more of a mock-up than anything else at this point, but I think it gives you some idea of where I want to go with the site. My goal is to keep things as clean and focused as possible.
Questions, comments, ideas, and suggestions are always welcome!


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Balancing Act
The office we were running conduit in about 30 years ago was of typical wood-frame construction, about 9 feet high, inside a 25-foot warehouse. I was walking along the wood ceiling joists of the small office, placing the conduit handed up to me. Being young and with good balance, I was certain I would not step through the drywall ceiling. As I got to the last 10 feet of office space, I saw several very large pieces of cardboard laying on top of the joists. Making boxes from these huge sheets was the business of this company, so it wasn't surprising to see a few sheets up there. I just continued along the line of the ceiling joists for one more step. In the next moment, I was headed toward the floor. Fortunately, I just caught myself by grabbing the top of the wall. The manager on the phone at his desk was looking through a cloud of dust at me hanging in the corner, and at the cardboard now laying on his absent partner's desk. In an instant, he started laughing out loud. It turned out that they had "expanded" their office space by building walls only, using their cardboard for the ceiling.
Scott Cline
Monterey Park, Calif.
An Unexpected Shower
Two one-year trade school students were assigned the task of wiring a lathe in the trade school's machine shop. Power was to be connected through a 4-inch box recessed in the shop's concrete floor. After making the connections — and to prevent metal chips from the lathe from entering the connection box — the students were instructed to fill the box with a thick insulating liquid. After pouring what seemed to be a large quantity of liquid into the box without filling it, the enraged instructor of the school's auto body shop one floor below suddenly appeared, showered with the thick liquid. Apparently, the flush box was nippled to an empty box in the ceiling below.
Dominic Mascolo
Medfield, Mass.
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ROCHESTER — The Mayor might be the head of the city, but for most Rochester residents, Kelly Walters is arguably its face.
Walters, 43, recently was promoted from Deputy City Clerk to City Clerk, filling the position she has been covering for more than a year.
She considers a "friendly atmosphere" very important to the office.
"When someone comes in the office, even if they're not my brother, sister or parent, I think of them as someone's brother, sister or parent," she said.
Walters said she is looking forward to serving the community as the city clerk. In the next few years she will be seeking ways to organize the office in such a way that would make research easier for the public and city council. She enjoys all aspects of her job but especially enjoys customer service.
"She was chosen from a very competitive group of applicants," Rochester City Manager Daniel Fitzpatrick said. "She's done an excellent job. She proved herself to us in some very difficult times."
Walters is a lifelong resident of Rochester and Gonic, graduate of Spaulding High School, class of 1987, graduate of the New Hampshire City and Town Clerk's Association (2009) and is anticipating her graduation from the International Institute of Municipal Clerks in 2013. Mrs. Walters has three children, Angel, Brandy, and Anthony Kleiner, from her previous marriage and three children, Kevin, Jacob, and "Libby" Walters, with her husband of 16 years, Kevin Walters. Kevin Walters is an LNA, for Clipper Harbor Home in Portsmouth.
Kelly Walters began working in the City Clerk's Office in 2006 as a clerk/typist, receiving a promotion to deputy city clerk in 2009. Her new role as City Clerk pays $56,000 annually plus regular benefits as per union contract.
When she is not working, Kelly Walters enjoys spending time watching movies and playing "Peggle" or doing the dishes with her family. She occasionally volunteers at the Rochester Opera House, although she says she can't seem to sing or dance. She is a dedicated member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Rochester and serves as a co-chair of the Historical Documents Preservation Committee for the City of Rochester.
Rochester held four major elections in the past year, which the clerk's office administered. Walters wanted to thank Marcia Roddy, Acting Deputy City Clerk, and Nancy Carignan, Assistant City Clerk for their dedicated work. In addition, Diane Moses, Assistant City Clerk, who has been retired from the City Clerk's office is a valuable team player during the election season, she said. Walters thanks the many city-workers, city councilors, and election officials who, she said, have gone beyond what is expected and for their dedication to the City of Rochester.
She thanks her father, mother, and immediate family, "who have always been so supportive," and a long list of individuals, too long to print, she said.
Citing personnel issues, City Manager Fitzpatrick would not comment on former City Clerk Sheryl Eisenberg or the reasons for her vacating the position. Eisenberg was arrested in October 2011 at City Hall and charged with falsifying physical evidence and receiving stolen property, for allegedly concealing an Xbox said to have been stolen by her teenage son last year. The Strafford County Attorney's Office did not prosecute the case against her, noting her lack of prior criminal history.
The position of deputy city clerk has been posted, according to Kelly Walters.


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We'll be meeting at:
Argo Tea Café**from roughly 6:30-9:30 p.m.
16 W. Randolph Street (next to the Oriental Theater)
And you shall know us by the trail of yarn.
Out of the Sketchbook
Found this last night. In case you can't read the scribble, it says "Share and Share Alike."
*Meaning I'll say "Welcome" and shake your hand. Not meaning the drinks are on me. And I can't get you a hooker, either.
**Which had better have chocolate chip cookies this time, or I am gonna be pissed.


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Last summer, Google.org (the philanthropic arm of the Internet giant) launched a plug-in hybrid car project and Web site called RechargeIT.org, proclaiming, "Recharge your car. Recharge the grid. Recharge the planet." It could just as well have added, "Recharge your home."
Plug-in cars, some that rely solely on electricity and some that marry an electric motor with a gasoline motor for better mileage and fewer emissions (plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles or PHEVs), are slowly making their way into the mainstream.
And it's not just because they replace most or all of the gasoline used to fuel the typical car with cleaner, cheaper, domestic electricity. The ability of electricity to flow into a car's batteries and also to be pulled back out and returned to the electrical grid has caught the imagination of consumers and environmentalists alike. That return trip—commonly called vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology—could power some of a home's electrical appliances during a grid outage, or could be used by the electrical grid in ways that will increase the storage of and our access to clean, renewable energy.
The story of plug-in hybrids has been unfolding within the past two decades or so, beginning with the battle over modern all-electric vehicles (EVs). General Motors unveiled an electric car in 1990, inspiring California's clean-air regulators to demand that all the major car companies start producing zero-emission vehicles. Thousands of leased electric cars hit the roads, but a weakening of the clean-air mandate in 2003 allowed automakers to cancel the leases and destroy the cars, as documented in the 2006 film, Who Killed the Electric Car?
EVs are powered solely by an electric motor and a large bank of batteries—not by a gasoline engine. When the driver steps on the accelerator pedal, a controller sends electricity from the batteries to the motor, making the vehicle move. Regenerative braking systems use the electric motor to convert some of the car's kinetic energy into electricity that gets fed back into the batteries as the vehicle slows down.
The plug is the best thing—and the worst thing—about EVs: On one hand, you get to plug them in (which is generally a cheaper and lower-emissions source of energy than gasoline), and on the other hand you have to plug them in to recharge their batteries after 30 to 200 miles of driving, depending on the car, driving conditions, and the battery type and size.
While the car companies were making EVs, they also began building hybrid gas-electric vehicles like the Toyota Prius, Honda Civic, and the Ford Escape. Hybrids are gasoline-dependent vehicles with internal combustion engines that also have an electric motor and a small bank of batteries. The electric-drive components work with the engine, providing boosts of power or increasing the overall fuel efficiency of the vehicle. The most popular hybrid, the Toyota Prius, typically gets 45 to 55 miles per gallon.
Hybrids on the market today aren't designed to be plugged in. Instead they use the gas engine and, to a much lesser degree, the drive motor via regenerative braking, to recharge the batteries. Depending on a hybrid's design, the gasoline engine may shut down when the electric motor can meet propulsion needs—saving energy and reducing emissions—and automatically restarts when more power is demanded. The fuel efficiency of hybrids depends on whether they are "full" hybrids that include all the hybrid features, or "hollow" hybrids that claim the name but incorporate minimal features, such as stopping the engine while idling but not using regenerative braking. Hollow hybrids may add merely 1 mpg in efficiency, and are often more about increased power than increased fuel efficiency.
People are realizing that hybrids can be improved by adding more batteries and an AC charger that can be plugged into the grid. With overnight grid charging, a plug-in hybrid like the Prius can travel 100 miles on 1 gallon of gasoline and about 33 kilowatt-hours (KWH) of electricity. And PHEV drivers still don't need to think about finding someplace to recharge the car if they want to drive long distances. If the owner forgets to plug in overnight, it's no big deal—a plug-in hybrid then operates just like a conventional hybrid.
Improved Efficiency. At an average fuel efficiency of 20 mpg, a conventional gasoline car needs 5 gallons of gas to travel 100 miles. The Toyota Prius hybrid needs about 2 gallons to go that distance. In comparison, Toyota's RAV4-EV all-electric SUV goes 30% farther—about 130 miles—on the energy equivalent of just 1 gallon of gasoline (34 KWH). That's half the energy required by a conventional Prius hybrid and one-fifth of the energy required by a standard gas-engine car. So how do PHEVs pencil out?
Using the average price for residential off-peak electricity in the United States—about 8 cents per KWH—the equivalent of 1 gallon of gasoline in energy (34 KWH) costs $2.72. Assuming that amount of electric energy can move a car at least 110 miles, driving on electricity costs about 2 cents per mile. In comparison, for a conventional hybrid that gets 50 mpg on gasoline costing $3 per gallon, each mile in a hybrid costs 6 cents—more than double the cost of fueling with electricity.
Terry Penney, manager of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) FreedomCAR program, compared the costs associated with electricity rates and gasoline prices for a plug-in hybrid with enough batteries for a mere 10-mile all-electric range. He found that in 45 out of 50 states (all but the few states with the highest electricity rates), driving a plug-in hybrid would put money in the driver's pocket: The fuel savings would more than offset a plug-in hybrid's slightly higher projected sales price.
Cash-Back Cars. With vehicle-to-grid technology, a plug-in hybrid can become a "cash-back hybrid," a term coined by Jon Wellinghoff, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission member. According to Wellinghoff, some electrical utilities and power aggregation companies have already expressed interest in the idea of contracting with plug-in hybrid owners to get occasional access to the electricity stored in their vehicles' batteries. V2G on plug-in hybrids is likely to be used to supply electricity for what's called "spinning reserves," for times when it is difficult for the utilities to meet the instantaneous demand of the grid. They could also be used to shave peak loads by some individual V2G utility customers. That, says Wellinghoff, would make dollars and sense for a plug-in hybrid owner, especially if the owner also had a V2G contract. Wellinghoff says that, in the future, plug-in hybrid owners could conceivably make profits of $400 for spinning reserve V2G contracts and $2,700 per year for regulation contracts. The owner's contract would specify how much energy may be drawn from the car's batteries. For example, they could specify that their vehicle must retain at least 50% of its battery charge.
Reduced Pollution. While electric utilities are waking up to the possibilities of plug-in hybrids, some environmentalists are concerned about an increase in power plant pollution if everyone starts plugging in their cars. Most electricity in the United States is still generated by fossil-fueled (read: polluting) power plants and adding cars to the grid's loads would increase electricity demands.
The data on plug-in hybrids, however, has calmed most environmentalists' fears. Even plugged into the U.S. electrical grid, which gets more than half of its energy from coal, plug-in hybrids would produce 42% less carbon dioxide, and reduce emissions of other greenhouse gases and pollutants when compared to conventional fossil-fueled cars, according to NREL.
As more wind and solar generation is added to the grid mix, driving with grid electricity becomes cleaner still. Plug-in cars are synergistic with renewable energy, and V2G expands that synergy. For example, in many locations the wind blows mostly at night, when few people are awake to make use of wind energy. In fact, it's estimated that there's more than enough of an untapped wind resource in the United States to meet all current U.S. electrical needs, but there's no place to store that wind energy during times of off-peak demand. However, nighttime is when people usually plug in to recharge their EV batteries, and the batteries could serve as distributed storage for that additional wind energy. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that plug-in electric vehicles with V2G technology could increase America's access to wind energy by a factor of three. And owners of off-grid RE-powered homes, which store renewable energy in batteries, could be driving cars that run partially on their surplus homemade renewable electricity and use the vehicle battery as further reserve capacity.
A Japanese Web site created in 2005 prominently showcases another important possibility of plug-in hybrid vehicles—providing a source of emergency backup electricity for a home during blackouts. It showed the plug-in Prius as an integral part of the "Toyota Dream House PAPI"—one example of environmentally friendly, energy saving, intelligent home design. The project suggested that if a hurricane or other disaster knocks out the electric grid, the car could supply electricity for some of a home's critical electrical loads for up to 36 hours.
Unfortunately, while the merits of plug-ins have been pimped by the popular press and garnered the favor of an impressive aggregation of advocates, ranging from G. W. Bush to the activist environmental organization Rainforest Action Network, plug-in hybrids have yet to hit the mainstream market.
To convince automakers that there is a market for these cars, the City of Austin, Texas, launched a Plug-in Partners campaign and has gathered more than 8,000 advance "soft" (no financial commitment) orders for plug-in hybrids. Austin's green energy comes from west Texas wind, and the city would like to use more of it. With plug-in hybrids, Austin aims to "replace Middle East oil with west Texas wind," according to the campaign motto.
And another famous Texan is helping drive the plug-in revolution: The day after his State of the Union speech in January 2007, President Bush issued an executive order saying that when plug-in hybrids become available, federal fleets with 20 or more vehicles must buy them. With the stroke of a pen, he signified his administration's support for these cars.
Are automakers listening? Maybe.
Several automakers developed plug-in hybrid prototypes in the 1990s, but cast them aside during their battle to weaken California's Zero Emission Vehicle mandate. Stung by bad publicity from Who Killed the Electric Car?, at least one automaker has started to reverse its course. At the 2007 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, General Motors showcased its prototype plug-in hybrid—aptly named the Volt. With electricity stored in a lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery pack, this car purportedly can deliver 40 miles before the flex-fuel (gasoline, E85, petrodiesel, or biodiesel) engine turns on to recharge the batteries and extend the car's range to 640 miles.
In the past year, at least five other major car companies have said they're developing plug-in vehicles. But the automakers are quick to say that plug-in hybrids won't hit the market until more research is done on advanced Li-ion batteries (see Better Batteries sidebar).
The same day that Google switched on a 1.6-megawatt solar-electric array at its California headquarters—the largest PV installation on a corporate campus in North America—Google.org made another strong move toward energy independence, launching RechargeIT.org. They unveiled five plug-in hybrid conversions and plans to build a fleet of up to 100 plug-in hybrids for employee use. The company also awarded a $150,000 grant for a large-scale V2G planning and implementation research project, and is set to take proposals for $10 million in funding for companies focused on plug-in hybrids, electric vehicles, batteries, and V2G technology, demonstrating that where there's a will (and some substantial financial backing), there's a way.
In the meantime, plug-ins might not be hitting the showroom floor soon, but you can still support the push for these resource-efficient vehicles. Here's how:
Sherry Boschert is the author of Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars that Will Recharge America (New Society Publishers) and is on the steering committee of Plug In America.
California Cars Initiative • www.CalCars.org
Do-it-yourself plug-in hybrid conversions • www.eaa-phev.org
Electric Auto Association • www.eaaev.org
Plug In America • www.PlugInAmerica.com
Plug-in Partners • www.PlugInPartners.org
RechargeIT.org • Google.org's initiative to reduce CO2 emissions, cut oil use & stabilize the electrical grid by accelerating the adoption of PHEVs
Toyota Dream House PAPI: http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/toyotadreamhousepapi.html


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This activity introduces the primary colors of light. Satellites transmit images to us as a series of numbers, and this activity is designed to show how numbers are combined to create images using the primary colors of light. Students work in groups... (View More) to create different colors using flashlights with red, blue, and green theatrical gels. Students create a numerical code to represent colors of light, experiment with building colors using the code, and complete a color mixing table. (View Less)
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Students will collect samples of particles in the air on simple slides they make themselves. They will classify, count and chart their findings, draw conclusions, make predictions, and compare their findings to other available data. Supplies needed... (View More) for the investigation include microscope slides, petroleum jelly, magnifying glass, microscope, Eosin, and Methyln Blue or iodine. The activity is part of the Ground Truth Studies Teacher Handbook, which provides more than 20 activities to build student understanding of global change and remote sensing, and includes background chapters for teachers, glossary, and appendices. (View Less)
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It's all about the feeling. A snowboarder or skier knows exactly what it's like to float through waist-deep powder or stick the landing after a massive trick. Words rarely capture the experience, but video does.
"When everything goes as planned and we capture the trick, there's no better feeling," said Eric Miller, a videographer.
"I joke that I, the filmer, feel just as much joy as the rider who lands the trick because I was able to preserve that moment forever. I've felt both feelings before, and although their levels of adrenaline differ, the 'stoke' factor is identical. I live for the days when the snow, weather, rider and myself are all in perfect sync," he said.
As long as skiing and snowboarding have been around, people have been documenting them, first with still photos and then with video. Warren Miller (no relation to Eric Miller) has made a tradition of epic films showing the best skiers and riders throwing themselves off cliffs and down unbelievably steep slopes.
Now, with advancements in technology, it's a lot easier to make videos, and there's clearly an audience. A yearly epic Warren Miller film is not enough.
A visual sport
A drone hovers in the air, GoPro video camera attached, as snowboarders fly through the air at Stevens Pass, in Washington state.
Nearby, Julian Tracy, of Stevens Pass, directs the drone as riders compete in the Trans-world Snowboarding Transam.
It's tricky work. He can't see what he's shooting. He aims the drone and hopes for the best.
Tracy works for the best shots in the eight or nine minutes he has until the battery gives out. A couple of days later, the video is up on Stevens' YouTube channel, with the drone footage, of course, and lots of other shots showing some of the best tricks.
"It's a very visual sport; it's very aesthetically pleasing," said Natasha Roskach, a 17-year-old snowboarder and competitor in the Transam who had already been on the slopes 62 days by early March. "And it's such a beautiful place. I feel like everyone who is up here snowboarding is here for the beauty of the place and to enjoy it."
Stevens Pass makes a variety of videos. Some are simply to tell skiers about conditions. Some are elaborate productions that showcase a particular event. Mostly, though, Stevens is aiming to produce videos quickly, to post them on YouTube and share them on Twitter and Facebook.
Tracy says they always work to balance timeliness with quality.
While Stevens is making videos on conditions or showcasing an event, it's also encouraging other videographers — giving them passes and sharing their videos, for example — who are able to communicate the feel of the mountain.
Tough logistics
Making videos is often a blast, but the logistics can be rough.
"People think, 'You have the easiest job in the world,' but it's actually a lot of work," Tracy said.
At the Jim Jack's Cowboy Up event earlier this year, Tracy spent about five hours a day swimming around in the snow, postholing and sinking waist-deep to find an angle for the shots, all while trying not to throw expensive camera gear down a mountainside.
The drone did take a tumble — 300 or 400 feet down the mountain — but it survived.
Daniel Silverberg, the co-owner of Waist Deep Media along with Joey Mara, makes videos at Stevens. Silverberg, the main videographer, says he may only get in one or two runs a day. He spends a lot of time with a heavy backpack scouting places to shoot.
Then, once he finds a spot, it's unpacking, setting up, measuring exposures, waiting for the people he's filming, framing shots, retaking shots and repacking. It takes hard work and patience but is also rewarding, he said.
Miller also works in partnership with Stevens. He's created "Monthtages" at the mountains, gorgeously crafted videos of snowboarders playing and of the jumps and other obstacles in the terrain parks and deep snow in the backcountry around Stevens. His videos make you ache to get out in the mountains.
Making the videos is thrilling, but it also takes skill and some luck. To make a good video, a lot of elements must come together: location, weather, riders.
"When all of these elements happen according to plan and the rider is about to perform their trick, there's only one aspect left to this equation: me not blowing the shot," Miller said. "So when the rider lands their trick and I keep them in frame and in focus, it's truly an indescribable feeling. Just knowing that I preserved that moment forever is the reason I keep coming back for more."
Silverberg and Mara, with Waist Deep Media, also showcase plenty of tricks off of cliffs. Beyond that, they bring the landscapes at Stevens to life with time-lapse video and with clever uses of still photos with video.
They also have a sense of whimsy. In one video, an office worker in a tie abandons his desk after discovering Stevens has received fresh snow overnight — in what may or may not have been a dream.
And clearly many people are dreaming about snow. Roskach laughs as she talks about watching snowboarding videos: "What else am I supposed to do when I'm not on the mountain?"


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Members of the Francis Scott Key High School field hockey team embraced the mission of October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month and hosted events and fundraisers to increase awareness and raise money for cancer research.
According to field hockey coach Danielle Unflat, the team collected donations at school-related sporting events — both home and away — collected change during lunches and accepted other donations online and in-person.
Part of the month included a "challenge" from the school's girls soccer team — which was also raising money through a special "Kick Cancer" event.
The culminating event for the field hockey team was a "pink out" event during the team's game against Walkersville. Parents, students, faculty and friends joined the effort to wear pink — and the team won, 1-0.
Unflat said that, overall, the squad collected more than $1,700 through its outreach efforts.
"I am so proud of the girls and what they've accomplished," she said.
The photos shown here were submitted by local photographer Ed Sheahin, who attended the Walkersville game. He said the team, "not only participated in the breast cancer awareness event by dying their hair pink, they were enthusiastic, positive and fiercely focused."
Sheahin also noted that toward the end of the game, the FSK football team, which had been practicing nearby, came to the sidelines to support the field hockey squad, showing "their school spirit and support for their fellow students," he said.
Clockwise from top left, coach Danielle Unflat is decked out in what she described as her "crazy pink hair," accented by a cancer awareness bandanna, which was given to her by the field hockey team captains.
Top right, members of the team celebrate the 1-0 victory over Walkersville. And above, members of the Francis Scott Key football team show solidarity on the sidelines.


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I want to work with someone who understands the professional look I'm wanting to achieve and will work with me patiently to accomplish. The person needs to have an eye and talent for design, but must also know the technical aspects: Needs knowledge of CSS style sheets, PHP if necessary, Woo Commerce and know how to work with the U-Design WordPress Template. The best site to look at to get an idea of what I am attempting to look similar to (not exact) is www.xlibris.com. Before placing a bid on Freelancer, please make sure you have reviewed the following and can accomplish the task with excellence.
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1. Help tweak the overall design and layout of pages in current working site to make them more appealing and professional. All content has been uploaded to the proper menus.
2. Finish setting up Bookstore
• Add a Bookstore landing page with custom content wrapped or to the side of images for each category:
o Featured Books
o Featured Authors
o Featured Website
o Promotional Ideas
o Link to the actual bookstore. I would like to be able to enhance the current bookstore if possible. There is a static image (stack of books on wood) which I don't know how to change out.
• Finish setting up Woo Commerce
o Need to understanding we will only be setting up 6-8 of our products to be sold off of the site.
o All other product will stay as they currently are displayed with links to Amazon and B&N online.
3. Adjust contact form, log-in, newsletter so they are unified. Would like the log-in information captured in an excel spreadsheet for future mailings.
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5. I want the person to review each page in the site and make recommendations for page layouts they think could look more professional.
6. Once the site is complete I will need you to transfer the current test url from to my active url
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8. Misc. work that needs to be done
• Lost password added to log-in
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We're the People: Close-Ups from Zuccotti Park
Click to play slideshow. Photos by Joseph O. Holmes.
When I first visited Zuccotti Park at the beginning of October 2011, I was overwhelmed with the sheer density of the site. It didn't look like a group of protesters—it looked like a tiny overpopulated city, with neighborhoods and paths and specialized areas, the whole landscape dotted blue with plastic tarps and surrounded on four sides by skyscrapers. And though I strongly sympathized with the philosophical message of the Occupation, I was mostly drawn to the nascent society that was growing there day by day.
I returned as often as I could, but I found it impossible to photograph the park in a fresh way—dozens of photographers roamed Zuccotti every time I visited. So I quickly settled on a project of my own, to capture a portrait of every occupier I could manage. But I established a set of rules: I would only shoot with permission, I would capture people just where I found them, and I would ask each one to look straight at the camera. I didn't collect names, or stories or places traveled from, and I asked people to put down their signs. I wanted the sole message of each image to be that occupier's presence, the occupation of that spot at that moment by that person.
I visited Zuccotti for about six weeks and shot portraits of more than 160 occupiers. Then in mid-November the city tore down the encampment without warning in the middle of the night. And though I've visited the park since and taken another dozen or so portraits, it's not the same. It's now a protest site rather than an occupation. I'm no longer taking portraits of the citizens of a tiny, new society in southern Manhattan.
Joseph O. Holmes wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Joseph is a photographer living in New York City, whose work has appeared in Real Simple, American Photo, and Photography Monthly, among other publications. See more of his work at .
In their own words, why protesters are occupying Wall Street.
Introducing the movement that's shifting our vision of what kind of world is possible—from the new book, "This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement."


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A hybrid vehicle has won the famous Le Mans 24 Hours. Hard to believe, but Audi has pulled off the seemingly impossible. Fielding two R18 e-tron Prototype Race Cars in the 2012 Le Mans 24 Hours. The Audi Sport Team Joest took 1st place and 2nd place while the other two R18 TDI powered cars took 3rd and 5th.
"By achieving this further success at the world's most important endurance race our engineers demonstrated their high technological expertise in a particularly impressive way," commented Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the Board of Management of AUDI AG. "With the e-tron quattro in combination with ultra lightweight design, we put a completely new technology on the grid and immediately won with it…"
All four Audi R18 cars had the chance to clinch what amounted to the brand's eleventh Le Mans victory in total. After 378 laps, last year's winners Marcel Fässler (CH), André Lotterer (D) and Benoît Tréluyer (F) at the wheel of the Audi R18 e-tron quattro designated as car number "1" were again the front runners. Dindo Capello (I), Tom Kristensen (DK) and Allan McNish (GB) as the runners-up caused the all-wheel drive of the future in which the conventional drive system is intelligently combined with an electrically driven axle to record a one-two result. Audi is already testing this technology in which the drive shaft is replaced by electric cables for use in production vehicles.
Le Mans rookie Marco Bonanomi (I), Oliver Jarvis (GB) and Mike Rockenfeller (D) in the best conventionally powered Audi R18 ultra completed the fourth one-two-three victory for Audi at the Le Mans 24 Hours after 2000, 2002 and 2010. Romain Dumas (F), Loïc Duval (F) and Marc Gené (E) at the wheel of the second R18 ultra finished in fifth place.
Technology was a major paler in the Audi Sport Team Joest victories. Having already introduced the V6 TDI VTG mono turbocharged engine in 2011 it provided the heart for each of the R18 racecars. The twist this year was adding the new ultra-light transmission with a carbon fiber housing - a novelty in a Le Mans sports car - held up to the Le Mans endurance test covering a distance of 5.151 kilometers in all four vehicles without any problems.
The two Audi R18 e-tron quattro cars embody these two technologies in a particularly extreme form - and they were the protagonists at the 80th edition of the endurance classic right from the beginning. They only had to relinquish the leading position to one of the two Toyota hybrid vehicles once for a few laps on Saturday night.
Le Mans is a race that isn't without it's fair share of incidents. 24 hours of continuous flat out competitive racing will yield some hair-raising moments. The winning car with chassis number R18-208H nicknamed "Electra" was not spared from incidents either. Marcel Fässler touched the track barrier twice on Saturday morning.
An accident by Allan McNish in the fast Porsche corners less than three hours before the finish caused the preliminary decision. Audi Sport Team Joest managed to repair the heavy damage at the front of the R18 e-tron quattro in record time and to thus save second place.
Gremlins seemed to plague the third-placed Audi R18 ultra - car number "4" - lost a lap right at the beginning of the race due to a check of the rear suspension followed by a late Sunday morning incident when a gear got stuck twice.
Two nearly identical slips caused the Audi R18 ultra #3 in which Loïc Duval set the fastest lap of the race to lose its chance for victory.
Head of Audi Motorsport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich had this to say after his four Audi R18 cars had crossed the finish line. "You should never rejoice too early at Le Mans, which was obvious again especially on Sunday noon…I can only take my hat off to the entire squad of Audi Sport that worked extremely hard for a year to make this triumph possible. It was a very big challenge to develop a hybrid car in such a short time that is quick and able to hold up for 24 hours."
With its eleventh victory at Le Mans, Audi has extended its lead in the World Endurance Championship. Dindo Capello, Tom Kristensen and Allan McNish as the runners-up recaptured the lead in the drivers' world championship.


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Two things. First, she has been charged. Second, and more importantly, the man, although he was arrested, isn't named.
About 11 a.m. Wednesday morning, Laura L. Sparks, 20, of Corbin, was charged with falsely reporting an incident.
She was taken to the Laurel County Corrections Center.
She had reported to Laurel County Detectives Charlie Loomis and Stacy Anderkin who investigated an alleged sexual assault in south Laurel County on Saturday morning.
The woman reported the sexual assault and went to the Baptist Regional Medical Center.
She reported it to Sheriff's Deputy William Bo Harris and Loomis continued the investigation.
He arrested a 25-year-old man from Corbin and was taken to the Laurel County Corrections Center on a sexual assault charge.
The investigation by Loomis continued and determined that Sparks had gone to his home and later reported that she had been assaulted.
Witnesses' statements and a followup interview with Sparks and her own admissions indicated it was a consensual act.
Following her admissions, she was arrested.
Assault charges against the man are expected to be dismissed.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Corbin Woman arrested for falsely reporting incident
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Pens4Life wrote:But Shero needs to upgrade bottom six sooner or later,because lineup of (except Sutter and Bennett) D'Agostini, Jeffrey, Zolnierczyk,
Adams, Vitale, Glass in bottom lines is awful to me,too small,no grit,almost no physicality..
Zolniercyzk, Vitale, Glass, and somewhat Adams are all guys that basically make their careers on grit and physicality.
They're definitely not scorers or playmakers. Not sure what games you watch, but the above mentioned make their living solely on physical play and grit.


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WENATCHEE, Wash. — China has taken to growing peaches in greenhouses and it's a beneficial practice that could be done in the United States, a leading peach expert says.
China still grows most of its peaches outdoors but has up to 30,000 acres in greenhouses, Desmond Layne, Washington State University professor of pomology, told growers at the North Central Washington Stone Fruit Day at the Wenatchee Convention Center, Jan. 21.
"That's more than Georgia's and South Carolina's peach production outside combined. It's a lot," said Layne, a Clemson University peach expert before becoming an endowed chair and tree fruit extension program leader at the WSU Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center in Wenatchee a year ago.
China's greenhouse peaches are low-tech with no supplemental heat or lighting and extremely profitable with good-quality fruit that sells for five times the price of outdoor fruit, Layne said.
Plantings are high-density with harvest starting in the second year and in early March in a latitude similar to Washington's, he said.
Fruit is large and not damaged by frost, hail, rain or wind and the Chinese bill it as "pollution-free," he said, noting that means pesticide-free. The sides of greenhouses can be lifted for ventilation.
"The Chinese have a growing middle class. They give fruit as gifts. If you're going to someone's house, instead of a bottle of wine, you take fruit," Layne said.
China grows 50 percent of the world's peaches and nectarines and consumes most of them domestically, he said. Greece, Italy and Spain follow in production with the U.S. trailing at 5 percent. California is the largest U.S. producer, followed by South Carolina, Georgia and Washington.
Layne said it's important for growers to field test new varieties for five years before planting them in large scale because they can develop differently when grown in a different environment than the one in which they were bred.
The DA meter is a new means of measuring chlorophyll absorbency to test maturity of fruit while it's still on trees without damaging it, he said. Temperature is key in post-harvest storage with 32 degrees for two weeks being reasonable, he said.


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In the older versions of windows there is the cached .pwl files in the windows folder. Does Windows XP generate those .pwl files as well? or is there also a option to turn it on/off
-[h3llbringer] is back, again.
-MSN CLoNE.
Windows XP is closer to NT. Creates profiles. I set-up a winxp box at home, I remember an option where you could turn off the login in locally feature. Which is really all a pwl file holds. Local password to the machine. Sorry I can't remember where that option is, but I know there is one.
I'm sure someone else here will know that.
Windows Xp does not create pwl files. The network for windows xp has been totally reformed.
Instead of having a Network icon in the control panel, and sharing all the network components with all the dialers, it installs a tcp/ip and dialup adapter for each dial up connection. Which eliminates the AOL/other ISP error. AOL Binded TCP/IP to the AOL Dial up adapter. Hindering any other ISP's from being installed.
It is better to be HATED for who you are, than LOVED for who you are NOT.
THC/IP Version 4.2
XP does generate *.pwl files, but theyr keep hidden; c:\windows\pwls\*.pwl
But the passwords are only decrypted there i think, all the passwords are keept in a file called sam or sam._
I'll have to look into that, but I have found traces of addresses to c:\windows\pwls\noia.pwl in diff files, but I havnt found it yet...
- Noia
With all the subtlety of an artillery barrage / Follow blindly, for the true path is sketchy at best. .:Bring OS X to x86!:.
Og ingen kan minnast dei linne drag i dronningas andlet den fagre dag Då landet her kvilte i heilag fred og alle hadde kjærleik å elske med.
Uhmm... I checked that out....There is no PWLS folder in the Windows directory.
Also I checked it out in DOS, seeing if Windows was hiding the folder from me. However, NO pwl no nothing like that. Dunno man....maybe you have windows Xp 'Special' Edition.....
my mommy says I'm special
ok charlie.
It must be them again. Start the response cycle.
Originally posted here by Dr Toker
Uhmm... I checked that out....There is no PWLS folder in the Windows directory.
Also I checked it out in DOS, seeing if Windows was hiding the folder from me. However, NO pwl no nothing like that. Dunno man....maybe you have windows Xp 'Special' Edition.....
my mommy says I'm special
I'm not even sure myself. I have used XP since beta. I have always used XP Pro or XP Pro Corp versions with NTFS file system and deployed EFS. So it may have something to do with the XP Home version with FAT 32. I'll have to poke into this myself. I know that XP Home is very insecure by default. It installs with FAT32, auto login, and admin account at boot by default. Also it's vunerable to NTFS DOS booting from a floppy. So far I have'nt had an oppertunity to have to gain access to an XP Pro system. I have entered many NT and several Win2000 and a couple or three XP Home systems. I may have to break down and try to h4x0r my own machine to see how XP Pro fares.
The COOKIE TUX lives!!!!
Windows NT crashed,I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.
Oh my gawd the vunerabililties by default windows xp setup. Not only do you have the Windows Messenger/Remote assistence exploit....but you also have the .VBS .VBE set to open these files with windows base. Also File and Printer sharing is turned on......I love Bill Gates...
He seems to be set on making the average Hacker 7 and a half years of age.
would that be up from 6 and a half with the win95 days?
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Here is the review that I did for Convention Scene….
Slugterra: Heroes of the Underground All-New DVD Collection from the Slugterra Animated Series Coming March 4, 2014 from Shout! Factory Kids and Nerd Corps Entertainment!
I had the opportunity this week to review a collection of Slugterra episodes. Having never heard of the show before, I thought it would be a good excuse to spend a morning watching cartoons. For the uninitiated, here is the official description that accompanied the DVD:
"Slugterra is an epic sci-fi comedy adventure set deep underground, where the ammo's alive and only the quick survive! In this luminous, high-tech, underground world, every cavern holds a new adventure, a new battle and weird little slugs to be discovered.
In this collection, join our hero Eli Shane, his gang of slugslingers, and his best slug buddy Burpy on their numerous adventures Whether they are thwarting a mad scientist, facing an Ice Ogre or questing after fabled treasure, Eli and the rest of Shane Gang prove they are ready to slug it out!"
Well, that sounds exciting, if not a little familiar, right?
I decided to do a little research in order to really understand what I was about to watch. Slugterra is a Canadian/American animated series that premiered on Disney XD Canada in September 2012, and on Disney XD in October of the same year. They've aired three seasons so far, and a Canadian film is slated for Spring 2014. Heroes of the Underground is the 4th volume in the Slugterra DVD collection series. The series has spawned numerous online games and tons of merchandise, mostly targeted at what I would guess to be boys aged 6-11.
The story itself is pretty formulaic. Our hero is Eli Shane, who was sent to the underground world of Slugterra at the age of 15, for what purpose I still do not know. Once there, Eli meets the standard cast of characters: the plucky girl, the gentle giant, and the comic relief. Together, they make up the Shane Gang. The resident villain is Dr. Thaddeus Blakk. In Eli's apparent quest to be the best slugslinger of them all, he will do battle with Dr. Blakk and his thugs, er, slugs, as well as duke it out with other slugslinging challengers.
The slugs in question are kind of cute, actually. There are nearly 50 types of named slugs throughout the series. Each one possesses a 'special power' such as Fire, Ice, Electricity, Water, Air, and so forth. Characters going into battle take their slug of choice, load it into what looks like a shotgun shell, and fire it from a larger blaster. Once they have been shot, the force of the blast causes the slug's power to take control, transforming it into a powerful force to be reckoned with. If you have been treating your slugs nicely and taking good care of them (letting them sleep in a tube sock on your bed like Eli) then the discharged slug will return to you, or at least to your home. If Dr. Blakk gets a hold of slugs, he uses 'dark water' to transform the slugs into Ghouls, of which there are 20 different types.
And….that's it. That's the entire point of the show.
I wish I could say more, but with the absence of a true story arch or semblance of a plot, it was a struggle to hold my attention. The CGI looked really good. The landscape and look of the underground world and all of its caverns was actually beautifully designed. The animation of the characters and slugs themselves reminded me of the style Disney employed for the movie and TV series Lilo & Stitch. The show was a little darker than I expected, with regards to the violence. It had moments where it wanted to be the sort of show an adult could enjoy watching, while trying to maintain the expectations of a Disney children's series. And with the idea that characters must collect, train, and battle their slugs, it is hard not to make comparisons to the juggernaut that is Pokemon. Though, given the choice, I would take Slugterra over Pokemon in a heartbeat.
Ten minutes into the first episode and I was asking myself, "Wait. What am I watching?" But then again, what do I know? I am not a boy aged 6-11. Clearly, with everything that I have seen online, the series has a large and loyal fan base. Just because it didn't click with me doesn't mean it isn't the bees knees for someone else. After all, it definitely had enough action sequences to keep a young child entertained. And the slugs, with their funny expressions and awkward teeth, are sure to be all the rage for little girls of the same demographic. If slugs were that cute in real life, I might collect a few myself! Be sure to check out the Bonus features which include a 'Draw Your Own Slugs' segment. The kiddos will have fun with that one.
Get ready to Slug it Out on March 4, 1014 when Shout! Factory Kids in collaboration with Nerd Corps Entertainment, releases Slugterra: Heroes of the Underground 5-episode DVD collection.
Episodes Include:
- Snowdance
- Inheritance
- A Distant Shore
- The Journey Home
- Roboslugs
DVD Bonus Features Include:
- Drawing Your Own Slugs!
- Slugisodes
About Nerd Corps Entertainment Inc.
Nerd Corps Entertainment is a privately held IP creation, development, production, and distribution company based in Vancouver, Canada, with offices in Toronto, Canada. The company's mandate is to produce stylistically innovative animated projects for television, online, and mobile based on a solid foundation of creative and exceptional storytelling. Working in a state-of-the-art studio with highly skilled artists and production staff, Nerd Corps' expertise in creative development and execution covers all aspects of property generation and management, from development and production to distribution, marketing, interactive and licensing. The studio's award-winning stable of productions includes original series Kate and Mim-Mim, Endangered Species, Slugterra, Storm Hawks, League of Super Evil and Rated A for Awesome, as well as Dragon Booster for Alliance Atlantis and Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5, Max Steel and Monster High for Mattel, Inc.
About Shout! Factory:
Shout! Factory, LLC is a diversified multi-platform entertainment company devoted to producing, uncovering, preserving and revitalizing the very best of pop culture. Founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos have spent their entire careers sharing their music, television and film favorites with discerning consumers the world over. Shout! Factory's DVD and Blue-Ray offerings serve up feature films, classic and contemporary TV series, animation, live music, and comedy specials in lavish packages crammed with extras. Shout's audio division boasts GRAMMY nominated "best of" compilations. In addition, Shout! Factory maintains a vast digital distribution network which delivers video and audio content to all the leading digital service providers in North America. Shout! Factory also owns and operates Timeless Media Group, Biograph Records, Majordomo Records, HighTone Records and Video Time Machine. These riches are the result of a creative acquisition mandate that has established the company as a hotbed of cultural preservation and commercial reinvention. Shout! Factory is based in Santa Monica, California.


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Vericon is a science-fiction, fantasy, gaming, and anime convention featuring many events and distinguished guest speakers. It has been held annually at Harvard University since 2001. The thirteenth Vericon will take place on Friday through Sunday, March 22 to 24.
Harvard Book Store will host author signings with Vericon writers on Saturday March 23, 2013. Stay tuned for updates!
Signing Schedule:
2:30-3:15pm: Shira Lipkin, Jennifer Pelland, Greer Gilman
3:30-4:15pm: Tamora Pierce and Jo Walton
4:30-5:15pm: N.K. Jemisin, Seanan McGuire, and Jeffrey Carver
This event is free; no tickets are required.
Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138


text: Money-Saving Tip: Don't Short-Change Your Farm on Safety February 28, 2014 10:02 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By AgWeb.com Editors Email Editor's note: We've gathered several experts to offer suggestions on trimming expenses in light of tighter margins in 2014. This is one of 10 money-saving tips. Every year, farming accidents injure thousands of employees and family members -- and kill hundreds more. You may already know that agriculture is the nation's most hazardous industry. But did you know that injury rates are highest among children age 15 and younger and adults over 65? Or that most farm accidents and fatalities involve machinery? Whether you're a grain grower expecting tighter margins or a dairy producer pushing production to take advantage of strong milk prices, be sure to keep farm safety precautions high on your priorities list this year. No one wants the human toll or the financial losses that come with farm accidents. In 2012, the fatality rate for agriculture workers was 21.2 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers, the highest of any industry, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Between 2003 and 2011, 5,816 agricultural workers died from work-related injuries in the U.S. Today, tractor rollovers are the single deadliest type of injury incident on U.S. farms, OSHA says. Tractor deaths tell only a small part of the story, because for every person killed in a tractor incident, four people are non-fatally injured in tractor overturns. Dangers exist from improperly hitching a tractor, using steer skidders incorrectly, carbon monoxide poisoning, and clothing and hair entanglement in improperly guarded moving parts. OSHA recommends these safety recommendations for tractor and harvester hazards: • Since harvesting equipment may be used once a year over relatively few days, re-familiarize yourself with the equipment by inspecting it and reviewing proper operating procedures. • Adding harvesting equipment to tractors can change the balance of the vehicle and requires operators' constant attention. • Plan harvesting so that equipment travels downhill on steep slopes to avoid overturns. Space tractor wheels as far apart as possible when operating on slopes. Here are other steps you can take to stay safe on your farm: • Improve farm safety by first increasing your awareness of farming hazards. Make a conscious effort to prepare for emergency situations, including fires, vehicle accidents, electrical shocks from equipment and wires, and chemical exposures. • Discuss safety hazards and emergency procedures with your employees and family members. • Use protective equipment, such as seat belts on tractors, and personal protective equipment such as safety gloves, coveralls, boots, hats, aprons, goggles, and face shields to help reduce farm-related injuries. • Install protective structures, enclosures or frames on tractors. • Make sure that guards on farm equipment are replaced after maintenance. • Take precautions to prevent entrapment and suffocation caused by unstable surfaces of grain storage bins, silos or hoppers. Never "walk the grain." • Be aware that methane gas, carbon dioxide, ammonia and hydrogen sulfide can form in unventilated grain silos and manure pits, and they can suffocate or poison workers or explode. • Take advantage of safety equipment, such as bypass starter covers, power take-off master shields and slow-moving vehicle emblems. Employees also should understand the dangers of the Power Take-Off (PTO) shaft. Clothing can get caught in PTOs and the associated shafts and joints. The worker may be pulled into the shaft, which often results in loss of a limb or death. Some implements do use plastic guards to try to keep a person from becoming entangled in a PTO shaft, but even with guards, operators need to exercise caution around PTO shafts when they are connected into a tractor or truck. When working with PTOs, remember: • All shielding should remain in place and any damaged or missing shields should be replaced. • Employees should not wear loose clothing or have long hair while working around a running machine. Hair and clothing can be caught by the machinery. • Equipment operators should stop the PTO when dismounting from the vehicle. Find more on farm safety here and here. .......................................... Keep Your Production Costs in Check for 2014 With grain prices dropping, it's time to get creative. There is no one-size-fits-all-farmers answer, but there are numerous ways to more closely align costs with returns. Here are the money-saving tips we've gathered. Back to news


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If every one of today's homesteading families has learned as much from their ruralneighbors as we have from ours ... then there must be-buried just beneath the surfaceof MOTHER-land — a whole mine of country lore thatshould be shared.
You know the kind of information I mean: those little, practical down-home, time-tested solutions for minor problems. Solutions that somehow never get included in textbooks or written up into articles ... yet which you and I use every day simply because they work.
You'll notice that the larger percentage of the following tips and hints can be implemented with nothing more exotic than common, everyday farm findings ... such as baskets, feed bags, or vinegar. So — if you'd rather fix or improvise what you need, rather than order a for cash" replacement or make a trip to the store — check in with us here at the Country Lore Column from time to time. You're our kind of people!
Plucking Feathers: One of my favorite country consultants tells me that geese are easier to pluck if each fresh-killed bird is dipped in boiling water and then wrapped in a thick layer of hot, wet wool (old sweaters or shirts soaked in boiling water). Let the moist heat penetrate the down for 20—30 minutes before you start to remove the feathers.
Then, just before you begin to pluck one or two of the geese, snap off the end joints of their wings. The long, stiff, naturally joined feathers make a perfect whisk broom, according to James McPhea of Seaforth, Ontario, Canada.
Make Bread with Leftovers: When you raise your own food, it hurts to see even a dab of those goodies that you've known from the beginning become wasted leftovers at the end. (Do your dibs and dabs get lost at the back of the refrigerator the way mine do?) True, the pigs are ready and waiting. But before you fall back to that last resort, try Carol Glass's (of Troupsburg, New York) Everything Bread.
Simply purée your leftovers with a blender, ricer, or food mill ... and add the resulting Real Food supplement to the warm liquid ingredients of your next batch of bread. You can use potato salad, soup, breakfast cereal, jelly, fruits, vegetables, scrambled eggs, grated cheese, or what have you this way. The resulting loaves are sometimes a bit heavier than usual (depending on what and how much you've added to them), but they're moist and the bread keeps well.
Protect Padlocks: Do you keep tools and hard-to-replace farm implements locked in a shed? Mick Musser of Nunda, New York protects the padlocks on his outbuildings from rust and winter's ice and snow by tacking flaps of rubber (cut from old inner tubes) over them.
Preserve Horseradish: Even if you dig up most of your horseradish this fall, you can preserve the patch—and even enlarge it—if you follow this advice from Esther Wenger of Tunas, Missouri: As you prepare the pungent condiment for table use, leave an inch or two of root attached to each plant's leafy crown ... and then reset the nubbin back in the soil. You'll never miss that extra inch of horseradish this year . . . especially when you find that it's grown back into a whole root again next fall.
A Better Mousetrap: As the days cool, mice begin to seek warm shelter (which frequently turns out to be your kitchen and pantry). And the little rascals have a positive genius for stealing bait right off a mousetrap without triggering their own demise. Karl Youtsey—of Pueblo, Colorado—has an answer for that one, though: Set a cheese-baited trap in a warm oven long enough to melt the bait down into a gob that's really attached to the trap's trigger. Any mouse then attracted to the cheese will have to work so hard to steal it that he's almost sure to be caught.
Storing Paint: Storing odd lots of paint or varnish in screw-top jars or cans? Smear a little hand soap on the caps' inner threads before you screw them on, says Grundy Center, Iowa's Mike Castings. The coating will both help exclude air that might dry the containers' contents ... and make it easier for you to open the cans or jars when you want to use the paint or varnish inside.
Lard Department: Our country cousins who've done it know a lot about making lard. In answer to my question, "How do you know when the lard's done?", LeRoy and Sharron Bennett of West Monroe, New York say that the cracklings being rendered will turn brown and float to the surface when a batch of lard is almost finished. Then, as the pork trimmings lose the last of their fat and moisture, they'll sink back to the bottom of the pot. (if you use a thermometer and maintain a temperature of 255° Fahrenheit under your container of cracklings for 30 to 45 minutes, you'll probably wind up with about the same results.)
"The first clue that your lard is almost done," according to Ross C. Jones of Atmore, Alabama, "comes when blisters—about three to six bumps per square inch—appear on the rind you're rendering." (it should be noted, though, that blisters and scorching CAN occur in local hot spots before a whole batch is finished if you haven't thoroughly stirred and scraped the sides and bottom of the kettle of melting lard as the fat liquefies.)
Mrs. Dan Oldmixon—of Poplarville, Mississippi—adds: "Lard that retains moisture won't keep well. So you want to keep your renderings over the fire until all the water is cooked out of them. I sometimes get double duty out of the process by deep-fat frying finely sliced potatoes in the last of my lard during the final few minutes that it's on the stove."
Loretta Whitbeck of Franklin, New York has another variation on that last idea: "You can add flavor and aroma to your lard," she says, "if you slice some apples or onions into it during the rendering process."
Sweet Potato Annex: Answers to "How do you store sweet potatoes so they'll keep?" came mainly from gardeners in relatively mild climates. Mrs. Paul Reilly of Hondo, Texas—for instance—leaves her yams in the shade for several days, then wraps each one in two sheets of newspaper. The wrapped sweet potatoes are then stored in open-topped cardboard boxes that are spread out around an unheated room. Mrs. Reilly also separates the imperfect sweets from the rest as she stores them and uses the culls first.
Easley, South Carolina's Dennis Childs has a different method. He lays one and a half inches of wood shavings or sawdust in a box and then puts a layer of his sweet potatoes (spaced about one inch apart) down on the soft bed. Another two inches of shavings are next spread over the potatoes, a second layer of yams are added, and so on until the whole boxful of the vegetables is topped with a final six-inch-thick covering of the shavings or sawdust. Make sure that a generous margin of shavings surrounds the outside of each layer of potatoes and that the shavings are dry, or the sweets will mold.
Garland Elkins of Wilmore, Kentucky uses the same idea that Dennis recommends ... except that he substitutes sand for the wood shavings or sawdust.
(Although our own sweet potatoes still didn't keep all winter last year, they did last longer than usual. Probably because I "cured" them before storage by spreading the sweets behind our warm Franklin stove until they'd been given a reasonable approximation of the 10-day, 85-degree treatment recommended in most food storage manuals.—Nancy.)


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Cold temperatures have had an impact on the strawberry crops in the area, which will mean a later season than last year – and possibly fewer of the berries available.
If you're eager to do a little strawberry picking, you may need to wait a little longer this year.
Cold temperatures have had an impact on the strawberry crops in the area, which will mean a later season than last year – and possibly fewer of the berries available.
"We have two things going on, with the plants not growing as fast and some (growers) losing flowerbeds, so we'll see a later season that last year and a reduction in yield," said Lisa Rayburn, an agriculture agent with the N.C. Cooperative Extension office in Onslow County.
Last year the area started seeing berries at the end of March, an early season after a mild winter and warm temperatures early in the spring.
Mike Lowe at Mike's Farm, in Duplin County, said the cold has slowed the growing down a bit, but it won't be too long before the popular spring berries are ripe enough to pick.
"Our strawberries are looking pretty good. The season may start a little later, but by mid-April to late April they should come up," he said.
And he's expecting a good crop.
"Honestly, they are looking better than the last couple of years," Lowe said.
Cal Lewis, owner of Lewis Farms, also expects an excellent crop.
"It's just been cold. We've had a real cool spring," said Lewis, whose company has pick-your-own locations on Gordon Road and in Castle Hayne. "It's only about a week later than normal, but last year it was real early."
The recent cold has kept growers at work to protect plants from frost.
"We've frost-protected a few times over the last couple of weeks," said Clayton Garner Jr. of Garner Farms, off U.S. 70 east of Newport.
While the cold will mean a little later harvest, Garner said he'll see a shortage of berries this season for a totally different reason: Plants they purchased from Canada had a virus that has affected the maturity of the plants.
But he remains optimistic about the season ahead.
"On average we don't start picking until around mid-April. This year it may be a little later," he said.
Rayburn recommends that people call pick-your-own strawberry farms before going to make sure the berries are ready.
Blueberry season follows the strawberry season, and they will likely see a later season and shortage as well.
"We have lost some blueberry plants to the cold so we expect some reduction there," she said.


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A Cisco Plugin Framework for Quantum Supporting L2 Networks Spanning Multiple Switches
Configuration for Quantum 2.0 - Folsom release to achieve Nova network parity with Cisco plugin framework. This requires use of the OpenVSwitch plugin as sub-plugin.
If you are using a Nexus switch in your topology, you'll need the following NX-OS version and packages to enable Nexus support:
- NX-OS 5.2.1 (Delhi) Build 69 or above.
- paramiko library - SSHv2 protocol library for python
- ncclient v0.3.1 - Python library for NETCONF clients
You need a version of ncclient modified by Cisco Systems. To get it, from your shell prompt do:
git clone email@example.com:CiscoSystems/ncclient.git cd ncclient sudo python setup.py install
For more information of ncclient, see: http://schmizz.net/ncclient/
Nexus switch configuration
The Nexus switch must have SSH access enabled. The switch must be connected to management network separate from the Openstack data network. The plugin communicates with the switch over this network to set up your data flows. Each compute (Nova) host should should be connected to a port on the Nexus switch over a dedicated interface just for Openstack data traffic.
Plugin Installation Instructions
1. Make a backup copy of quantum/etc/quantum.conf.
2. Edit quantum/etc/quantum.conf and edit the "core_plugin" for v2 API:
core_plugin = quantum.plugins.cisco.network_plugin.PluginV2
Nexus switch sub-plugin configuration
To turn on support for Cisco Nexus switches:
1. Uncomment the nexus_plugin property in /etc/quantum/plugins/cisco/cisco_plugins.ini to read:
[PLUGINS] nexus_plugin=quantum.plugins.cisco.nexus.cisco_nexus_plugin_v2.NexusPlugin
2. Enter the relevant configuration in the /etc/quantum/plugins/cisco/nexus.ini file. Example:
[SWITCH] Change the following to reflect the Nexus switch details nexus_ip_address=<put_nexus_switch_ip_address_here> Interfaces connected from the Nexus Switch to the compute hosts ports, e.g.: 1/10 and 1/11 ports=<put_interfaces_names_here_separated_by_commas> Port number where the SSH will be running at the Nexus Switch, e.g.: 22 (Default) nexus_ssh_port=22 [DRIVER] name=quantum.plugins.cisco.nexus.cisco_nexus_network_driver_v2.CiscoNEXUSDriver
3. Update the database configuration info in the quantum/plugins/cisco/conf/db_conn.ini file:
[DATABASE] name = ovs_quantum user = <put_db_user_name_here> pass = <put_db_password_here> host = <put_quantum_mysql_host_here>
4. Make sure that SSH host key of the Nexus switch is known to the host on which you are running the Quantum service. You can do this simply by logging in to your Quantum host as the user that Quantum runs as and SSHing to the switch at least once. If the host key changes (e.g. due to replacement of the supervisor or clearing of the SSH config on the switch), you may need to repeat this step and remove the old hostkey from ~/.ssh/known_hosts.
5. Verify that you have the correct credentials for each IP address listed in quantum/plugins/cisco/conf/credentials.ini. Example:
# Provide the Nexus credentials, if you are using Nexus switches. IP address, username and password. # If not this will be ignored. [10.0.0.1] username=admin password=mySecretPasswordForNexus
In general, make sure that Nexus switch used in your system has a credential entry in the above file. This is required for the system to be able to communicate with those switches.
OpenVSwitch sub-plugin configuration
By using the OpenVSwitch plugin as a sub-plugin, parity with pre-Folsom Nova networking is achieved. VLAN mode must be enabled. To use it together with the Nexus device sub-plugin perform the following steps:
1. Update /etc/quantum/plugins/cisco/l2network_plugin.ini so that the [MODEL] and [SEGMENTATION] sections contain single items:
[MODEL] model_class=quantum.plugins.cisco.models.virt_phy_sw_v2.VirtualPhysicalSwitchModelV2 [SEGMENTATION] manager_class=quantum.plugins.cisco.segmentation.l2network_vlan_mgr_v2.L2NetworkVLANMgr
2. Update /etc/quantum/plugins/cisco/cisco_plugins.ini so that the [PLUGINS] section also specifies vswitch_plugin:
[PLUGINS] nexus_plugin=quantum.plugins.cisco.nexus.cisco_nexus_plugin_v2.NexusPlugin vswitch_plugin=quantum.plugins.openvswitch.ovs_quantum_plugin.OVSQuantumPluginV2
3. Update the /etc/quantum/plugins/openvswitch/ovs_quantum_plugin.ini file to set the "sql_connection"
sql_connection = mysql://<username>:<password>@<mysql_host>/ovs_quantum?charset=utf8
and additionally make the OpenVSwitch plugin operate in VLAN mode with the desired VLAN range for each network:
tenant_network_type = vlan enable_tunneling = False network_vlan_ranges = default:<vlan_min>:<vlan_max>
For more details about configuration of the OpenVSwitch plugin please consult the Quantum Admin Guide (http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-network/admin/content/index.html).


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