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Ultimate Deluxe Killadilla Collection All Original Recordings (CD's made to look like the original vinyl record) Rare Video of the El Loco Tour (Tophats,Boiler Suits and Red Boots) Rare Interviews & Behind the scene Every Tour Program Posters Keychains Hot sauce and mucho more Preach on it boy L Dub
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Your ZZ Keychain makes a great tree ornament...Happy Holidays Earthling's
80's Flashback : First time I seen ZZ play Manic Mechanic on the El Loco Tour in 81, they had these purple dots that went crazy all over the stage. Man it was like taking a trip off this planet. I got disconbobulated for the first time.....after that it was ok to be weird
Launching Play list : Precious and Grace Nasty dogs and Funky kings Arrested for Driving While Blind Manic Mechanic Heaven, Hell or Houston Thug Sleeping Bag Lovething Made into a Movie Alley Gator Fuzzbox Voodoo I Gotsta Get Paid L Dub's over and out there
NASA will be sending a new rover to Mars in 2020
The new Trucker hat is cool.....gotta have it!
Has anybody tried the BFG Lucky Mojo # 10 Mud Sauce?
me-te-or-ite : A metallic mass of matter that has fallen to earth's surface from outer space. Making a guitar pick-up out of a meteorite.......Only Billy dares to go where no earthling has gone before.
TEXICALI will be the name of the first city on MARS. NASA's new home will be called "THE BIG JONHSON SPACE CENTER".


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The millionaire behind the maverick SpaceX rocket venture, Elon Musk, says the verdict on last week's partly successful Falcon 1 rocket launch is "looking increasingly positive" now that his team is getting a close look at the data. Before its second-stage engine cut off prematurely, the Falcon flew to a height of 180 miles (289 kilometers) - a performance not quite good enough to reach orbit, but good enough for Musk to declare the end of the rocket's test phase and the beginning of its operational phase.
The assessment came in a post-flight data review published Tuesday on SpaceX's Web site. Musk said the engine cutoff was traced to overly vigorous sloshing of liquid oxygen in a propellant tank - a bad spin that was exacerbated when the first stage bumped into the second stage's engine nozzle during separation.
The slosh cut off the flow of propellant to the second-stage engine - and that triggered a shutdown of the rocket, just 90 seconds prematurely, Musk said. "For those that aren't engineers, imagine holding a bowl of soup and moving it from side to side with small movements, until the entire soup mass is shifting dramatically," he wrote.
If you depended on sucking a continuous flow of broth through a straw that was stuck into that bowl, you'd run into trouble - and that's sort of what happened to the Falcon 1.
Musk said his team was already working on a fix:
"We definitely intend to have both the diagnosis and cure vetted by third party experts; however, we believe that the slosh issue can be dealt with in short order by adding baffles to our 2nd stage LOX tank and adjusting the control logic. Either approach separately would do the trick (eg. the Atlas-Centaur tank has no baffles), but we want to ensure that this problem never shows up again. The Merlin [first-stage engine] shutdown transient can be addressed by initiating shutdown at a much lower thrust level, albeit at some risk to engine reusability. Provided we have a good set of slosh baffles, even another nozzle impact at stage separation would not pose a significant flight risk, although obviously we will work hard to avoid that."
Last week's $7 million test mission, paid for by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, carried an experimental payload consisting of equipment that might be used to monitor future launches. Musk said the next Falcon 1 mission would be for real, with a U.S. Navy satellite called TacSat 1 due to be placed in orbit. The launch window for that mission opens in September. The mission after that, scheduled for November, would put the Malaysian Razaksat telecommunications satellite into orbit.
Some observers have wondered whether SpaceX was rushing things, considering that Falcon 1's first launch ended with the rocket dropping into the sea and the second launch didn't reach orbit. Musk addressed those wonderings head-on:
"There seems to be a lot of confusion in the media about what constitutes a success. The critical distinction is that a test flight has many gradations of success, whereas an operational satellite mission does not. Although we did our best at SpaceX to be clear about last week's launch, including naming it DemoFlight 2 and explicitly not carrying a satellite, a surprising number of people still evaluated the test launch as though it were an operational mission.
"This is neither fair nor reasonable. Test flights are used to gather data before flying a 'real' satellite and the degree of success is a function of how much data is gathered. The problem with our first launch is that, although it taught us a lot about the first stage, ground support equipment and launch pad, we learned very little about the second stage, apart from the avionics bay. However, that first launch was still a partial success, because of what we learned and, as shown by flight two, that knowledge was put to good use: there were no flight critical issues with the first stage on flight two.
"The reason that flight two can legitimately be called a near complete success as a test flight is that we have excellent data throughout the whole orbit insertion profile, including well past second-stage shutdown, and met all of the primary objectives established beforehand by our customer (DARPA/AF). This allows us to wrap up the test phase of the Falcon 1 program and transition to the operational phase, beginning with the TacSat mission at the end of summer. Let me be clear here and now that anything less than orbit for that flight or any Falcon 1 mission with an operational satellite will unequivocally be considered a failure.
"This is not 'spin' or some clever marketing trick, nor is this distinction an invention of SpaceX - it has existed for decades. The U.S. Air Force made the same distinction a few years ago with the demonstration flight of the Delta 4 Heavy, which also carried no primary satellite. Although the Delta 4 Heavy fell materially short of its target velocity and released its secondary satellites into an abnormally low altitude, causing re-entry in less than one orbit, it was still correctly regarded by Boeing and the Air Force as a successful test launch, because sufficient data was obtained to transition to an operational phase.
"It is perhaps worth drawing an analogy with more commonplace consumer products. Before software is released, it is beta tested in non-critical applications, where bugs are worked out, before being released for critical applications, although some companies have been a little loose with this rule. :) Cars go through a safety and durability testing phase before being released for production. Rockets may involve rocket science, but are no different in this regard."
Will further analysis bear out the preliminary conclusions about this month's flight? Will Musk's company "make it out of beta" on SpaceX's current timetable? Stay tuned...


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Jump to a company: Kickfire | Marketcetera | Vyatta | Sonatype | Untangle | Qumranet | XAware | SnapLogic | Acquia | Openmoko
Network World - With the Open Source Conference (OSCon) and IDG's LinuxWorld show in the rearview mirror of 2008, it is clear that open source is no longer just a trendy conversation.
What has happened is a clear evolution of a community that has grown up and produced intelligent, cutting-edge technologies with an eye on making computing faster, smarter and cheaper for corporate users. Companies like Openmoko are challenging the mobile device market with its notion that users should control what applications are installed. Others like XAware and SnapLogic are opening up data integration possibilities, and still more are tangling with virtualization, databases, and trading systems. Along with a company accurately called Untangle, the companies' point is to make computing less complex.
The decision is no longer a question of open source, but about what product is best at solving computing problems regardless of how it was built.
Here is a look at 10 companies to watch.
Founded: June 2006
Location: Santa Clara, Calif.
What does the company offer? Analytics appliance based on MySQL featuring the industry's first SQL chip.
Why is it worth watching? Kickfire combines software and hardware to create fast database query performance using the MySQL database. Also provides data warehousing and reporting features lacking in MySQL. The SQL chip moves query processing to a single powerful chip.
How did the company get its start? The company's founders saw current instruction-centric von Neumann architecture as inefficient for processing large data volumes so they sought to minimize the operation set and maximize the data throughput. A key was having an open architecture available via MySQL.
How did the company get its name? A combination of "kickstart" and "fire" was used to convey a new approach in the database market.
CEO and background: Raj Cherabuddi, CEO/president/co-founder. He also was the founding CEO of Sanera Systems, which eventually was bought by McData. He also served as lead architect for Sun's UltraSPARC IIIi processor.
Funding: Series A funding of $10.75 million and Series B at $20 million backed by Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, The Mayfield Fund and Pinnacle Ventures.
Who's using the product? Kickfire is in beta with interest coming from marketing, telecommunications and software service providers, network management, retail, media and government organizations.
Founded: April 2006. The 1.0 product will launch by the end of 2008
Location: San Francisco and New York
What does the company offer? The company has developed the financial industry's first open source platform for automated trading systems.
Why is it worth watching? Marketcetera gives trading companies an open platform that translates into more flexibility and control, and faster deployments which can result in considerable cost benefits.
How did the company get its start? Founders Graham Miller and Toli Kuznets worked for years as software developers and executives in hedge funds and found themselves repeatedly implementing the same trading systems. They tapped the rise in algorithmic trading and the acceptance of open source in the financial services industry to create a platform and offer services.
How did the company get its name? The company thought "Market" + etcetera" was a clever wordplay.
CEO and background: Graham Miller has more than 10 years of experience in the finance and software industries. He recently was director of electronic trading strategies for a New York-based hedge fund and worked for Jane Street Capital, which included overseeing the development of several high-throughput black box trading systems. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Stanford University, with a concentration in artificial intelligence.
Funding: Led by Shasta Ventures, the company received $4 million in January 2008.
Who's using the product? Hedge funds and investment banks of all sizes.
Founded: 2005
Location: Belmont, Calif.
What does the company offer? The first commercially supported open source router/firewall/VPN solution, which appeared in 2006.
Why is it worth watching? The company is combining x86-based processors and multicore technologies with open source code and communities. Vyatta's routing and security appliances scale from branch-office to service-provider installations.
How did the company get its start? Vyatta was founded by Allen Leinwand, venture partner at Panorama Capital and an early Cisco employee, who took his cue from an open source router project out of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley.
How did the company get its name? The word "vyatta" is ancient Sanskrit and means open.
CEO and background: Before joining Vyatta, Kelly Herrell was the senior vice president of strategic operations at MontaVista Software. Previously, he was vice president of marketing for Cobalt Networks, a provider of open source-based server appliances for Web hosting. He also worked at CacheFlow, Oracle, NCR, Teradata and AT&T. He has a bachelor's degree in marketing from Washington State University, and an MBA from Cornell University.
Funding: Vyatta completed Series B funding in April 2007, to bring its total venture capital funding to $18.5 million. Investors include Panorama Capital, Comcast Interactive Capital, ComVentures and ArrowPath Venture Partners.
Who's using the product? Vyatta's Community Edition software has been downloaded more than 200,000 times by organizations in aerospace and defense, education, financial services, government, and technology. Corporate customers include enterprise, service provider and governments.
Founded: 2007
Location: Palo Alto, Calif.
What does the company offer? Software, support and services centered on making it easier to use Maven, a software tool for Java project management and build automation.
Why is it worth watching? Sonatype wants to give Java developers an environment that rivals Microsoft's Visual Studio and .Net. Maven has been downloaded more than two million times, and Sonatype adds to the mix its Nexus repository manager and m2eclipse plug-in, which ties it to the Eclipse IDE.
How did the company get its start? Sonatype saw a gap and filled it after recognizing Maven's widespread adoption highlighted the need for stout development infrastructure tools along with Maven support and services.
How did the company get its name? Sonatype takes its name from the Hindi word "sona," which means gold, and the Latin word "type," which means model.
CEO and background: Jason van Zyl is also founder and CTO. He has more than 10 years' experience in open source and proprietary enterprise software development. He is the founder of the Apache Maven project. Prior to Sonatype, he founded Periapt, which provides software infrastructure development services to Fortune 500 companies. He has also worked as a technology architect at Compusens. He helped found Codehaus, an incubation facility for open source community projects.
Funding: Privately funded.
Who's using the product? Sonatype's tools and services have been downloaded more than two million times by a wide range of companies and organizations that include many members of the Fortune 2000.
Founded: 2007
Location: San Mateo, Calif.
What does the company offer? It offers a commercial-grade open source gateway to small businesses for blocking spam, spyware, viruses, adware and unwanted content on the network. (Compare Messaging Security products and Secure Web Gateway products.)
Why is it worth watching? The company is aiming at being a leading IT supplier for small and midsized businesses, and is developing other open source IT tools to go along with its network security wares.
How did the company get its start? Dirk Morris and John Irwin spent three years writing code to drastically reduce the cost of proprietary software and the complexity of open source deployments. The pair used dozens of open source technologies and has open sourced 95% of the code they created.
How did the company get its name? Company founders say the Untangle name reflects their mission to eliminate IT complexity for small businesses.
CEO and background: Bob Walters used to land F/A-18 Hornet fighter aircraft on aircraft carriers before selling Teros, an application security start-up, to Citrix Systems. He has held executive and/or general management positions with Securant, Linuxcare, Informix Software and Red Brick Systems. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and was a Guggenheim Fellow at Princeton University.
Funding: Two rounds totaling $18.5 million with CMEA Ventures and Rustic Canyon Partners.
Who's using the product? Customer list of 5,000 includes Genesis Physicians Group, Bishop Kelley High School, Franklin Academy, University of Georgia and Maine State Employees Association-SEIU Local 1989.


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With the aid of Farmer John (Forshee), Emily Patton of Waynesfield directs a stream of goat milk in the direction of Smudge, the Michigan man's trained Border Collie. His show gives adults and children a new appreciation for farmers and their busy schedules.
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Betty Felon is an outfit blogger of superheroine proportions. When not photographing her own outfits and costumes, she documents her favourite Fashion Tips from Comic Strips. Plus, one time she made this really wicked Pokemon dress, forever securing a place in my heart.
If you were a superhero, what would your costume look like?
First and foremost, a domino mask is mandatory, as are bow-shaped Batarangs, since I wear bows with almost every one of my outfits. The rest of my dream costume would include a long-sleeved leotard, matching tights, patent combat boots, a streamlined utility belt, and an optional cape that falls mid-thigh. As for the color palette, I think that I'd stick with a more retro colourway — light aqua body, cherry red cape and mask, and lemon yellow accents.
Do you think there is a difference between costume and fashion?
I think it really depends on the role that fashion plays in your life. In a general sense, there really is no essential difference between costume and fashion when you recognize both as a means of visual identity. While costumes often seem a bit audacious and inappropriate in normal settings, you really have to consider the significance of a costume to a superhero or supervillain, serving as an iconic identifier; even after years of redesigns, most characters can be identified simply by their synonymous symbol, theme, or style. Similarly, civilian characters also have a symbol in the form of a signature look, which allows us to identify Lois Lane by her impeccable sense of business-casual or Jim Gordon by his browline glasses within even the most intricately dense splash page. In relation to the fashion world, I think that virtually everyone has a signature style or item that they wear that personalizes their daily ensembles.
However, I think that the similarities between costume and fashion are actually more apparent when heroes and villains assume their civilian identities. As civilians, they wear "normal" inconspicuous outfits to blend in with their surroundings, not unlike how less-than-super individuals will abide by a dress code at work or this season's popular-yet-overdone fashion trends on a daily basis, usually for the primary purpose of fitting in. Their civilian wear in turn serves as their Average Man and Normal Woman costumes, giving them the power to hide their actual powers and identities.


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When you change the budget debate from cutting or adding to discussing outcomes, you change the entire focus of government. As a result, governments that utilize BFO transform the very nature of their work. They embrace continuous improvement because managers are accountable for results and programs must deliver the results citizens want most from their tax dollars.
Governments that align their budgets directly with citizen priorities experience a renaissance in their relationship with the public. Because the budget process is transparent and more understandable, citizens can be engaged as partners. Here's what local governments report:
Governments that utilize BFO report a "cultural revolution" that develops leaders, improves communication, cultivates new talent, and unifies the entire organization around focused goals. BFO is an inclusive endeavor that leverages ideas from a much broader pool of individuals.
While the BFO process isn't traditional, the focus on purchasing results citizens value -- instead of just adding or cutting last year's budget -- is surprisingly intuitive.


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Get ready, art-aholics, it's almost time for downtown Orlando's monthly 3rd Thursday Gallery Hop (March 21, 6-9 p.m.). Explore the old Church Street Exchange, at the corner of Pine Street and Garland Avenue, where several art venues have set up shop. One is Jai Gallery, which will host "Vessels: A Solo Exhibition by Barbara Sorensen." The Central Florida artist is known for her abstract sculptures with a classical Greek aesthetic. She has exhibited across the country and close to home, where her show last year at the Orlando Museum of Art was accompanied by original ballet and music. Jai Gallery has invited Josh Garrick, an expert in ancient Greek art, and local theater director and actor John DiDonna to produce "Myths and Muses," a "choreographed dialogue" between the sculptures and the performance artists. The show begins at 7 p.m. with a suggested donation of $10. Be sure to stop by the nearby CityArts Factory, corner of Pine Street and Orange Avenue, to see several exhibitions in its multiple galleries including group shows by Orlando Art Collective and Osceola School of the Arts Senior Show. CAF has maps to other venues participating in the downtown art walk.
'Off the Wall'
For something completely different check out "Off the Wall," a one-night showing of work by international photographer and artist Pam Loudon. The event is 6- 9 p.m, Thursday, March 21, at 1807B E. Winter Park Road, near Corrine Drive in the Audubon Park area of Orlando. Loudon says her manipulated photos "capture the worldwide urban pulse of city life and culture." Guests will be encouraged to paint on several pieces while listening to music by DJ Stranger and watching a live graffiti art demo.
Anniversary exhibit
The Artists' League of Orange County celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. As part of that celebration, the Casselberry Art House (127 Quail Pond Circle; 407-262-7700, Ext.1122) is hosting an exhibition of work by the league's current members, with a public reception Friday, March 15, from 6-8 p.m.
Photography at Crealde
"A Sense of Place" opens Friday, March 15, at the Crealde School of Art (600 St. Andrews Blvd., Winter Park; 407-671-1886). The exhibit is part of the 13th Southeastern Photography Invitational. Three award-winning photographers from across the country were selected to participate in this year's exhibitions, workshops and lectures at Crealde.
Open house at UCF center
The University of Central Florida is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The school, which began as Florida Technological University, has expanded tremendously since I attended (we parked in a sandy, tree-shaded lot behind the library). One of UCF's newest additions is the Center for Emerging Media in downtown Orlando (500 W. Livingston St.). The facility is packed with talented people, lots of art — and the parking lot is paved. Stop by on Wednesday, March 20, 6-8 p.m., for a public showcasing of art, technology and the fab work of students and faculty.


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Our lab studies the microbial ecology of high temperature terrestrial and deep-sea hydrothermal vents. We are interested in global patterns of biodiversity in these ecosystems and use the observations to study the physiological ecology and diversity of key thermophilic populations. We use a combination of classical cultivation, molecular phylogenetic, metagenomic and transcriptomic approaches to address these fundamental questions about ecosystems that are so tightly connected to the geology and geochemistry of their environment.
We currently have two NSF-funded projects:
Enhancing expertise in archaeal taxonomy: Classical and molecular-based monographic research of the Nanoarchaeota. (co-I, Mircea Podar).
Geochemical effects on the functional microbial community dynamics of hydrothermal deposits along the Eastern Lau Spreading Center (co-I, Jeff Seewald).


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This online bonus material supplements the Cakewalk Sonar 7 Producer Edition review in the May 2008 issue of EM.
Although Sonar 7 includes plenty of new and improved features, in a perfect world there would be several things that worked better than they do now. In the interest of giving Cakewalk some food for thought and Sonar users some constructive work-arounds, here''s my wish list.


text: About the brand - Object Collectors ItemIf you mix the true Scandinavian heritage of clean design with a multi cultural and colorful vibe, add creativity, some raw street flavor and a tad of humor, you will see the fundament of Object Collectors Item and True Objects starts to take form. Our design is created in the twilight zone between a straight to the point urban attitude and a playful, humorous yet sassy style. Object Collectors Item saw the day of light in 2003 in Denmark. Born in Scandinavia with a multi cultural feeling it quickly become a success in most of Europe with approximately 750 clients in Holland, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Austria, and Switzerland.


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Rancho Lifts The Hummer H2
The Hummer H2 evokes a number of responses from people, ranging from envy to amusement to dislike. If you're a reader of Four Wheeler you know that we've tested H2s extensively, in both SUV and SUT forms, and we haven't been shy in pronouncing them to be some of the most off-highway-capable fullsize rigs available. They're designed with some of the best approach, departure, and rampover angles in the biz, and they come standard with an electric rear locker. All things us wheelers want and love. We fall into the envious category.
The aftermarket has responded to the H2 over the years, and we're not talking about chrome accessories, though there are most certainly enough of those things. We're talking about suspension kits that further enhance the H2's capabilities. One of those companies is Rancho Suspension, and this month we look at how its 4-inch kit for the H2 helps to modify the rig to make it an even better performer on the trail.
We know what you're thinking. You don't own an H2 and you never will. Well, this story may be relevant to you anyway because some of this suspension kit's architecture is similar to that found in other Rancho late-model GM light truck and SUV suspension systems. Rancho engineers like to say they're the "same parts, but different." For instance, the Rancho H2 subframe has similarities with the subframes used in other Rancho GM lifts. Another example is that the knuckles used in the H2 kit are the same used with the '01-'08 GM 2500 HD suspension system.
We installed this kit at Attitude Performance in Arlington Heights, Illinois, under a vehicle that had already been fitted with 37x15.50-20 tires. The vehicle had no lift, so the larger-than-stock tires were rubbing when the steering system was at full lock. The owner chose to install the kit to solve the problem. Here are the major components and installation highlights of the Rancho kit.


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Win $1,000 for Travel in the Expedia Surprise Storybook Vacation Giveaway
By Kara Williams on April 23, 2014
Surprising my husband with a last-minute trip to Cabo San Lucas was a dream come true. When I told him to pack his bags at 7 p.m. on a Saturday night, he had no idea we'd be sipping cervesas on the beach in the Baja Peninsula less than 24 hours later. He was so appreciative of my efforts to create a wonderful romantic getaway for the two of us, and we both had a ball exploring a new-to-us destination. Now I want one lucky reader of The Vacation Gals to have the same opportunity to surprise a loved one with a dream trip, inspired by Expedia's Find Your Storybook campaign. That's right, I'm giving away $1,000 for you to spend at Expedia! All you need to do is enter via the Rafflecopter widget below, and next week--after the vacation giveaway ends at 12 a.m. in the wee hours of May [Read more]
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With five teams playing for a spot in the postseason and only three spots available, two teams are going to be disappointed Friday night.
For Anniston, Jacksonville and Lincoln, it's simple — win. For Alexandria and Cleburne County to get in, its gets a little more complicated.
Alexandria (3-5, 3-3) faces Jacksonville (6-2, 4-2), and Cleburne County (5-3, 3-3) takes on Lincoln (4-4, 4-2). These two battles have serious playoff implications. If there's ever a time to leave it all on the field, it's Friday night for these four teams.
Unfortunately for Anniston (5-3, 3-3), the Bulldogs face region-winner Munford (7-1, 6-0) on the road. If there's one team that doesn't feel pressure tomorrow night, it's the Lions. But don't expect Will Wagnon's team to take it easy on Anniston.
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On Friday night, it will be 364 days since the scoreboard at Pete Rich-Alumni Stadium read Pell City 34, Oxford 28. With the loss, the Yellow Jackets were out of the playoffs.
Now nearly a year later, Oxford doesn't have that kind of pressure. When the Yellow Jackets welcome Pell City to Lamar Field on Friday, the rivals will battle for second place in Class 6A, Region 7, with Oxford having an shot of winning the region with a win and a Clay-Chalkville loss.
Oxford is riding a six-game winning streak, and Pell City has lost three of its last five.
Does Ohatchee get in the win column?
It's been a long year for Ohatchee, but things may get easier Friday night.
The Indians travel to Victory Christian for their final Class 2A, Region 6 game, and this provides Ohatchee its best chance to get a win this season. Victory Christian is 1-7 and on a seven-game losing streak after opening the season with a win against the Alabama School for the Deaf.
Despite the winless record, Ohatchee has had opportunities to win in several games this season, but no matchup has seen the Indians favored as much as Friday night's will.
Will Ranburne win the region?
Ranburne's 29-26 loss to Wellborn last week takes some shine off this week's Class 2A, Region 6 showdown with Fultondale, but the implications are the same.
Ranburne has only one loss in the region, while Fultondale is unbeaten. The Bulldogs can clinch a tie for the region title by knocking off Fultondale.
The Bulldogs have had a lot of "first since" accomplishments this season and a region championship would be Ranburne's first since 1993.
Not having lost a game this season before last week, how will Ranburne rebound? Last season the Bulldogs only rebounded with a win once after losing a game.
Fultondale enters Friday's contest having scored more than 35 points every week and not having allowed 30 or more points. It's a big challenge for Ranburne, but the Bulldogs are in this position for a reason.
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Clay Central has a chance to have as many Class 4A, Region 3 championships as it has had seasons.
The Volunteers travel to Dadeville on Friday in a repeat of last season's region championship showdown. Just like last season, Clay Central enters the game unbeaten, but this season Dadeville sits at 7-1.
In 2012 this game did not live up to the hype. Clay Central dominated Dadeville's spread offense and won 34-0.
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I was thinking a Circular saw with a blade for cutting metal o maybe even a jigsaw would work, any ideas ???
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But if you do, be aware that you may have to replace the inner core that you're cutting off. You will also have to do something to prevent the exposed cut-off metal edges from rusting -- that's the tough part. Good luck.
A metal kick plate and door sweep ought to take care of the rusting problem on the bottom. I'm not sure what a metal door looks like on the inside, but if it's the same as a hollow core wood door, you can re-use the core that you cut out. Just wedge, it, glue it, or screw it in place. If you can't re-use the old one, just make a new one.
Get a metal cutting blade for the circular saw. Cut the door and replace or make and install a new core. You can try sealing the edge with something like paintable caulk or epoxy. Then paint it. It should last a while, no telling ho long.
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It began with this year's edition of the National Restaurant Association's annual "What's Hot" survey. Once again the results showed that American Culinary Federation chefs feel ethnic-influenced breakfast are "Hot." That meant that eggs and their traditional home turf continue to be recognized as something alive and vibrant. Yes!
Then the brand and product consultancy Sterling-Rice Group (SRG) issued its annual "Cutting Edge Dining Trends" for 2014, naming one of its ten trends "The Year of the Yolk." Although whole eggs remain in growth mode, in SRG's view the yolk itself will be making news this year. The group's belief is that the "creamy, decadent, golden globe will reign in 2014," providing a richness to foods that might have been thought to be the sole jurisdiction of cheeses and creams.
Examples of operators chosen by SRG to show those currently using yolks in creative ways are fine dining operations, which are traditionally where trends incubate before moving on to other segments' menus. Included among them are Blackbird (Chicago) and its Heirloom Tomato Salad with Cured Egg Yolk, and Blue Hill (NYC) with an Egg Yolk Carbonara in celery root and bacon.
To be sure, cured egg yolks are showing up on more and more menus, and the growing interest in Korean cuisine in which yolks are an integral part will also increase their visibility. We're looking forward to seeing what else creative chefs do to prove the Sterling-Rice group right.
Then, in January, came this pronouncement from Restaurant.com: The #1 trend in 2014 for American eateries would be eggs. And not just in the morning.
"Overall, 2014 really will be the year of the egg," stated Christopher Krohn, president and CEO of Restaurant.com, the largest restaurant dining deals website.
The organization reviewed thousands of menu items from more than 15,000 operations to prepare its 2014 trend predictions. The item that kept rising to the top? Eggs.
Krohn expects to see "an explosion of egg dishes in 2014." Although breakfast is a given, he anticipates significantly more eggs on lunch and dinner menus as well. And the dishes won't be only traditional egg salads or quiche, but also egg-topped salads, burgers, pizza and pastas.
The breakfast-for-dinner trend is expected to continue to grow, as will availability of ethnic egg specialties such as Huevos Rancheros. Eggs have a lot going for them. They appeal as a comfort food, are also extremely versatile and fit into a wide variety of cuisines.
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"When you're in this business you just have to move forward and make corrections, and hopefully we can stay on the field with Walter Wellborn this week," said Fultondale coach Keith Register. "Coach (Jeff) Smith has them going in the right direction. They're a machine offensively, so hopefully we can stay on the field after that loss last week.
"You're dealing with kids, so … they have a chip on their shoulder," Register added. "You have to refocus and almost forget what happened last week, make corrections and changes and focus on the upcoming opponent."
As Register and the Wildcats spend practice this way trying to figure out how to stop Wellborn's wing-T offense that has averaged 55.66 points per contest this season, Smith said the Panthers have their hands full with Fultondale quarterback ArDarius Stewart.
"I don't know if you actually can show or generate the talent where he is," Smith said on preparing for Stewart. "We can't simulate it. I mean, the boy runs a 4.3 (second) 40 (yard dash). We're just going to get out there and show the kids what to do and get them pumped up and excited and do the best we can."
Woodland coach Larry Strain said his team was able to stop the four-star Alabama commitment last Friday night because the Bobcats focused on stopping the senior's rushing attack.
However, Stewart still rushed for 70 yards, Strain said, including a 31-yard touchdown run from the tailback position. Stewart also played some at wide receiver.
"He's our heart and soul," Register said about Stewart. "When he does well, we do well. When he doesn't do well, we don't do well. If he's having a good game, is running well and things go well, we have a good game.
"Hopefully he'll be back on page doing what he does every week, and hopefully they can't slow him down," he added. "If he's slowed down, we're in a little trouble."
Friday night won't be the first time Smith and the Panthers have played a championship-caliber team. Smith said over the three years he's been coaching at Wellborn they've played some of the best of the best.
"We've played Clay County, Handley and Leeds the last two years, we've played Leeds the last three years," he said. "In '09, we played Piedmont and Leeds back to back, and Piedmont won the state championship and Leeds went to the semifinals. We play very good competition and have seen some very good players."
With the defense allowing an average of 13.66 points per game, Smith said it is important for the unit to play together Friday night like he said it has done in the first three games if Wellborn is going to stop Stewart and Fultondale.
"The thing that we've got going on at Wellborn right now, it's not about one or two guys, it's about our team," he noted. "We've got a good team that gets along good with each other, that's unselfish, they work good and it's not really about who does what, it's about do we get the win at the end of the week.
"I think our team is kind of the Rocky Balboa of high school football right now," he continued. "We're going to fight you until we've got nothing left in us."
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Hit the high seas for a boatload of fun in this interactive cruise vacation for Wii. There's something for everyone aboard this ship, from outdoor challenges to tests of skill to classic table games. Play your choice of ten mini-games, including Mini-Golf, Ping Pong, Shuffleboard, Driving Range, Rock Climbing, and Trap Shooting. Then leave things to chance and hit the casino to try your luck at Craps, Roulette, and Blackjack. You can choose your character's appearance, pick your difficulty level, and more. The games challenge you to use a wide range of the Wii's controls, so no matter how smooth your moves, your skills will always be tested.
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If my friends could see me on this cruise, they would probably stop being my friends. What kind of vacation is this? "Hey kids, come on board the SS Minigame and try your hand at some of the ten mini games (Trap Shoot, Shuffleboard, Skiiball, Table Tennis, Miniature Golf, Driving Range, Rock Climb...more
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The ABX Switch allows seamless switching of up to two preamplifiers, two power amplifiers, and three sets of speakers either with or without subwoofers.
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The AVA ABX Switch can be used to evaluate cables and component parts as well as electronics and loudspeakers. It can also be used for those that have more than one audio system for ease of switching.
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Fourth generation (4G) data services are in the deployment stage, but is will be a few years until there is ubiquitous LTE coverage. Meanwhile, there are competitive threats emerging against incumbent carriers' core voice services. This is coming at a time when all bearer services (voice and data) are becoming marginalized due to market expectations, economic conditions, and a coming supply side expansion in terms of network capacity.
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The Greater Omaha Young Professionals group invites the public to explore the abandoned Omaha Belt Line during a guided bicycle tour Saturday morning.
It's an opportunity to learn more about the corridor's potential as a light rail and commuter trail, organizers say.
The 20-mile belt line once connected the city's key industrial centers but was vacated in the 1980s and remains unused.
Emerging Terrain, a local nonprofit, has proposed repurposing the line.
The group's founder, Anne Trumble, said the project has the potential to spark economic development, link different parts of the city and promote public transport.
Greater Omaha Young Professionals is hosting the Bike the Belt Line event to share Emerging Terrain's vision.
"The young professionals in this town are interested in this kind of initiative," Trumble said. "A lot of them work in corporations and firms that would be interested in it as well."
Participants will bike three miles of the northern section of the corridor, starting at 10 a.m. at the Charles B. Washington Library near 28th Street and Ames Avenue.
They will stop at points of interest along the route, including the North Omaha Transit Center, the Malcolm X Memorial and Adams Park.
"It's probably the most unexplored part of the whole 20 miles, and it's such a beautiful landscape," Trumble said.
After the tour, the guides will speak in greater detail about the belt line.
Trumble hopes the event also familiarizes people with B-Cycle, a public bike-sharing system that recently expanded to downtown Omaha.
B-Cycle will provide a limited number of bicycles for the event, but those who plan to attend are encouraged to bring their own. To reserve a bike, register online at www. omahayp.org/news.
Those who borrow a B-Cycle bike will receive a free bus ride back to the tour's starting point.
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Rav Bina, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh has sent the following letter out to alumni of the Yeshiva: Dear Alumni, This Wednesday one of my grandchildren will be undergoing crucial surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his leg. I ask all of you to please recite tehillim for him during the surgery, […]
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As support of their messianic dream, Halevi and Antepli approve dishonoring Hirsi Ali as a 'renegade.'
PA president Abbas, who is about 9 years late for democratic elections, has threatened to dismantle the PA and annul the Oslo Accords. Sounds good to us…
Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and his family's visit to the Temple Mount was cut short when violent rioting once again broke out on the holy site.
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Like Hamas, Hezbollah also builds tunnels. Those tunnels pose a serious danger to IDF border patrols.
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Visa has ads in an Egyptian magazine in which a story describes Jews as vampires. And worse.
Two major obstacles have kept Israel from joining the program: Allegations by U.S. officials that Israel has discriminated against Arab- and Muslim-Americans seeking entry, and a proliferation of young Israelis traveling to the United States as tourists and then working illegally.
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