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teamed up with Pacific Accessory (PAC) to develop a new OEM-integration amplifier in a Camaro.
The new amplifier can replace a factory amplifier, plugs into the OEM wiring harness, and retains all factory electronics features, including factory steering-wheel controls, head unit functionality, Bluetooth, OnStar and chime functions, the company announced.
The product will be demonstrated at January's International CES. Pricing wasn't available.
The only other wires that installers must connect other than a plug-in connection to a factory wiring harness are power and ground wires. The amp makes it unnecessary to hunt for and splice into data and computer control wires with what the company called "a patchwork of band-aid black-box solutions." The latter solution, a spokesperson said, "leads to a greater possibility of damaging components of the vehicle and, most importantly, loosing many key OEM features and functions."
Because the installation is reversible, Phoenix Gold said, it's suitable for leased vehicles, and consumers who purchase their cars can easily remove the amp when they sell their vehicle.
The amplifier's built-in signal processing (DSP) system uses multiple preconfigured settings to optimize sound quality.


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During their time in the scouts, boys progress through seven ranks, finishing with the rank of Eagle+Scout. In order, these ranks are Scout, Tenderfoot, Second+Class, First+Class, Star, Life, and Eagle. Troop 8 has a proud List+of+Eagle+Scouts.
Scout ranks reflect increasing level of skills, maturity, and leadership. The Scout rank is earned as part of the joining requirements, and is almost identical to the requirements for the Arrow of Light in Cub Scouting. Tenderfoot, Second+Class, and First+Class ranks are earned by completing a "laundry list" of requirements that include basic camping skills, first aid, and citizenship. The "field ranks" of Star, Life, and Eagle+Scout require completion of merit badges, leadership within the troop, and service to the community. In order to earn a rank, a boy must complete all of the requirements by having them "signed off" by a scoutmaster or a scout of field rank. Next, the boy must have a personal conference with the scoutmaster, where he must demonstrate his knowledge. Finally, the boy must appear before a "board of review" composed of troop adults and satisfy them that he deserves the change in rank. It's a great experience for developing confidence and interviewing skills.
Merit badges are recognition of advanced skills in a particular area. Merit badges are awarded for outdoor skills, citizenship, hobbies, and career-related achievement. Twelve merit badges are termed "required," because they must be earned in order to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout (citizenship, camping, first aid, etc.). To earn a merit badge, a boy must fulfill all the requirements for that badge and be "signed off" by a merit badge counselor who is knowledgeable in that particular field. Counselors are always troop adults, either scoutmasters or parents. In addition to ranks and badges, scouting and Troop 8 each have a number of additional awards and recognitions for boys who have developed particular skills or participated in noble activities.
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Six of the top prep javelin throwers in the country, including the nation's top three returning girls, will be in Chapel Hill this weekend for the first of the Kultan Keihas Project Javelin fall clinics. The clinic, running Thursday, October 17 to Sunday, October 20 – is the first of two held here (the other is planned for December 27-30) with sessions at the University of North Carolina track and field faculties and the "Field of Dreams" javelin facility operated by Klub Keihas Coach Jeff Gorski in Chapel Hill.
(Kultan Keihas means "Javelin Gold" in Finnish)
This is the beginning of the third year of the project, originated and produced by the National Scholastic Athletics Foundation (NSAF). These clinics are open to all interested throwers and coaches, but for the six elite athletes, they're part of a 9-month program that will culminate in a trip to the national training center in Finland next summer – a country which treats the event like a national pastime.
The Foundation, based in Chapel Hill, launched the project in the fall of 2011 after founder and Executive Director Jim Spier and COO Joy Kamani had observed that the javelin was one event where the U.S. was falling short in the Olympics and other international competitions, and aspired to start a program that would address the challenge.
The clinic coaching staff includes Gorski, a former USATF Javelin High Performance Chair and coach of many elite throwers and U.S. record holders; Bill Schmidt, the 1972 Olympic javelin bronze medalist who has worked with scores of national and international-level throwers; and Kari Ihalainen, who has served 15 years as the National Javelin Coach for Finland. Barry Krammes, an active two-time Olympic Trials qualifier, will also be on hand, training and advising athletes.
The elite athletes involved in the program include:
* Karen Bulger, Northwest Christian (Lacey, Wash.) senior – The unbeaten state Class 2B champ in Washington threw 161-5 as a junior, #4 in the country and best among non-seniors. In the summer, she was 2nd in World Youth Trials and won the USATF Youth title (17-18 women) with 148-6.
* Katelyn Gochenour, Marian (Omaha, Neb.) sophomore – The javelin is not a high school event in Nebraska, but in USATF competition, Gochenour threw 156-8 — #7 in the country, 2nd-best among non-seniors and #1 for all 9th-graders. She won two different divisions at the Pihtipudas Javelin Carnival in Finland last summer to earn MVP honors, but was 3rd in a showdown with Montgomery and Fitzgerald at the USATF Junior Olympics in Greensboro.
* Tairyn Montgomery, Redondo Union (Redondo Beach, Calif.) sophomore – Montgomery's best of 155-9 won the USATF Junior Olympics over Fitzgerald and Gochenour, and ranked her as #8 in the U.S., #3 among non-seniors, and #2 among freshmen.
* Emma Fitzgerald, Thayer Academy (Braintree, Mass.) sophomore – Fitzgerald's best of 149-5 was second to Montgomery at the USATF Junior Olympics and ranked her #16 in the country, #6 among non-seniors, and #3 among freshmen. But she also won the World Youth Trials, throwing 167-10 with a lighter youth javelin and beating Bulger. A great all-around athlete, she won the USATF Junior Olympic heptathlon with 4,698 points,
* Trevor Danielson, Newberg (Ore.) senior – Danielson threw a PR 206-0 while winning the Jesuit Twilight Relays in May as a junior, making him #8 for 2013 nationally and the #5 returnee. He was 4th in a very tough 6A state meet at 199-10 and won several other meets with consistency at mid-180s or better.
* Kristen Clark, Ruston (La.) senior – Clark threw her best of 139-5 in taking 5th in the New Balance Nationals Outdoor (also a NSAF event). She was 2nd in Louisiana's 5A state meet after winning the 4A state meet as a freshman in 2011.
Also participating in the domestic clinics will be Lawrence Free State (Lawrence, Kans.) senior Alexa Harmon-Thomas, a World Youth Finalist in the heptathlon and among the top jumpers and hurdlers in the country. The javelin is one of her events in the heptathlon and, given that she's seeking particular improvement in that discipline, she was invited to the domestic clinics (although she's not part of the elite program).
Another athlete, Glacier (Kalispell, Mont.) senior Todd Ogden, is also part of the elite program but unable to attend this weekend's clinic due to a football commitment. Ogden was the #4 javelinist as a junior last spring, hitting a best of 211-11 at the Pihtipudas Javelin Carnival in July. He was the Montana 2A state champ and is the #3 returnee as a senior this year.
Gochenour, Danielson, Clark and Ogden are all returning athletes in the Kultan Keihas Project Javelin, while Bulger, Montgomery, Fitzgerald (and Harmon-Thomas) are newcomers. Among the departed seniors in the program during 2012-13 was Megan Glasmann of Park City, Utah. Now at Stanford, Glasmann as a senior moved through the program and by the end of the summer had become the second furthest javelin thrower in U.S. prep history with a 176-11 that won the Pan American Junior Championships for Team USA in Medellin, Columbia, South America.
For more information on the Kultan Keihas Project Javelin, go to http://www.nationalscholastic.org/javclinic.


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Day 6 - Evening.
Helena Goldwater - embed
This 4-hour performance explores the task of transforming a vast space with small actions. By covering, enclosing and ordering, these actions hope to nourish the ground. Nourishing the ground is a labour of love. Small actions take time to fill the space. They are hard work. It takes the whole body. Goldwater is bedding down, in the hope of finding a place, to rest one's head awhile, or to journey toward.
Helena Goldwater's performance works can equally be seen as installations. She shifts bodily materials and territory over time, transforming the everyday or repetitive tasks into extraordinary acts and environments to dwell upon. She creates miniature spectacles, which are concerned with re-positioning, revealing and re-forming the spaces we inhabit.
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Nathaniel Wyrick - Not an Egg in the Hayloft
Nathaniel Wyrick utilises the use of objects to locate a history or placeness. Through this use of objects, he explores the connections between fragments of memory and image. Much of his sculptural and performative work is a process of the creation or re-creation of this fragmented imagery; he thinks about colour palettes, smells, sounds, and the seemingly choreographed task of a live action. All of this working together to trigger or create connections between the artist's own personal history and that of the viewer.Nathaniel will place slip casted porcelain eggs into small jars one at a time. Eventually dissolving, cracking, and breaking, they will release their insides. Concurrently, he will be weaving a basket from start to finish. Once finished, the jars will be emptied by hand into the basket and the liquid will be consumed by the artist. Through these actions, the artist hopes to think and investigate ideas of birth, abortion, and gender roles through this year's provocation "In-Utero".
Selina Bonelli - honey-glassed
honey-glassed explores themes of violence, desire and loss. Actions and materials act as carriers for haunted memories and paralysed wakefulness. The inability to verbalise sensations, the silence that ensues, the attempt to express and hold shame, the guilt feeding off self blame and the body's enduring loyalty to scarification, all play out into a mix of sharp edges and failed dreams.
Esther Neff - The Scraping Shape of the Socially Cyclomythic Womb
The Scraping Shape of the Socially Cyclomythic Womb assembles unsubstantiated perceptions, reclaiming parallels between menstrual cycles and abilities to communicate, transfer, and share sensual, mental, and somatic phenomena in order to dissemble essentialist and pathologizing notions of womanhood and madness.
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Volume 66, Issue 4 (1967)
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Zoospore Release Rates in Giant Kelp Macrocystis
Einar K. Anderson and Wheeler J. Noth
Food Habits, Habitat Preference, Reproduction, and Diurnal Activity in Four Sympatric Species of Whiptail Lizards (Cnemidophorus) in South Central New Mexico
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New Records of Talitridae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from the Central California Coast
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Competitions ArticlesBarter Theatre announces 2007 Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights Competition
Bid for Extra Credit Earns THS Seniors a Barter Drama Award
Public Art in Kingsport
Knoxville Writers' Guild Launches Revamped Writing Contests
Applications accepted for Summer Music Institute Fellowship
Opportunity Available for Filmmakers
MECC Sponsors Arts Competition for Students and Alumni
Call for Entries: Bristol's 2007 Art in Public Places Competition
2007 Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition Call for Entries
Knoxville Writers' Guild annual contests offer $1,200 in prizes
Catherine Bush, Barter's Resident Playwright, a Finalist in Prestigious Competition
Youth Spotlight: Milligan College
Vote for "The Best Place to Listen to Bluegrass Music"
'Freedom' Named Finalist in 2008 Film Competition
Tribute to Women Honors Three in the Arts Community
Winners of Barter 2008 Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights Announced
Winners Announced for Newell-Hendershot Watermedia Exhibit
Young Actor also a Wrestler
Fun Fest Art Show Winners
Winning Virginia Highlands Art on View
Local Artist Selected for USEF Pony Finals
People's Choice Announced for Festival's Juried Fine Art Show
Rhythm and Roots Photography Competition Winners
Bristol Herald Courier wins Pulitzer Prize
Pinnacle Award Winners Announced
Call for Entries: (Mildly) Scary Story Contest
Campfire Stories: 'Magic in the Pumpkin Patch'
Winners in the (Mildly) Scary Story Contest
Scary Story Judges Revealed!
"A Frozen Halloween"
"A Bad Bet"
"Are You Scared Yet?"
Barter Theatre Unveils "Shaping of America"
Arts Commission TV Series Wins Regional Emmy
Winners of Poem-In-Your-Pocket Contest Winners
"Nash" the Goat wins
Highlands Festival Art Show Awards
Barter Players announce Coloring Contest Winners
Winners of Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights
ETSU Digital Media Students Win ADDY Awards
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Craigslist Sperm Donor Ordered To Pay $6,000 In Child Support
The state of Kansas is forcing a man to pay child support to he donated his sperm to a lesbian couple three years ago — even after a written agreement that stated otherwise. Do YOU think that's fair?
William Marotta has found himself in the middle of a pricey and expensive legal battle three years after he donated his sperm to Angela Bauer, 43, and Jennifer Schreiner, 34, partners who desperately wanted to have a child.
Now, after Angela lost her job and the family was put on welfare, the state of Kansas is asking William for child support — and making him fork over $6,000.
The lesbian couple found William on Craigslist, and all three signed a contract agreeing that he would have no legal responsibility for the child.
Speaking Out About Donating His Sperm
William, a married mechanic who fosters children with his wife, revealed to the Today show on Jan. 3 that he wanted to help out a couple that needed assistance having children.
"If you are two women, it's difficult without a man there, so I donated," he said during the interview. "No good deed goes unpunished."
Angela & Jennifer Also Don't Think William Should Pay
The couple also believes William doesn't need to fork over the cash — they agree that he shouldn't be legally responsible for their daughter.
"We never intended for him [Marotta] to support her," Angela said on Today. "That's our responsibility we have as her parents. I have the joy of raising her and loving her and it's only because of William."
Angela de Rocha, spokesperson for the Kansas Department for Children and Families, said that when a parent seeks benefits for his or her child, they need to determine who the child's father is to lessen costs from taxpayers. So that's what the state did — and are strapping William with the $6,000 bill.
What do YOU think of the state forcing William to pay child support HollyMoms? Let us know in the comments below.
— Christina Stiehl
More controversial baby news:
- Sperm Donor's 24 Kids NEVER TOLD About His Fatal, Genetic Disease! How Horrible!
- Mother Harvests 21-Year-Old Son's Sperm Before Switching Off Life-Support Machine: 'I'm Making His Dreams Come True'
- Yowza! Jennifer Aniston's New Sperm Donor Movie, 'The Switch,' Will Make People Think She'll Do This In Real Life!


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Valentine's Day is right around the corner. Do you know what you're doing for your valentine? I've got a treat for those of you looking for healthy decadent gluten-free treats. I've compiled a list of some of the best 35 treats from around the web. Looking for date ideas? Frugal gifts? A romantic dinner at home? See the links below to get some valentine pointers from some amazing bloggers.
Looking for more gluten-free recipes and resources? This Everything Gluten Free page is a library of everything gluten free we've worked on.
Cakes & Custards
Nothing says love like a cheesecake to this girl! But I know some of you are looking for a more traditional chocolate fudge cake or maybe a pots de creme so I've included those too.
2. Peanut Butter Cheesecake Topped with Chocolate Ganache (sugar-free)
3. New York Style Cheesecake (sugar-free)
6. Peppermint Mocha Pots de Creme
7. Maca Chocolate Pots de Creme
Whip together one of these amazing fudge recipes for your sweetie and wrap it up. You're sure to win your valentine's heart!
8. Chocolate Raspberry Paleo Fudge
9. Honey Sweetened Chocolate Sauce with one of these 9 healthy ice cream recipes!
10. Rustic Lovers Cordial Goji Fudge
Who knew there were so many healthy brownie recipes?! Check out these recipes and find a gluten-free brownie sure to make your taste buds tingle.
12. Rich and Delicious Sugar-Free Brownies
13. Looking for raw brownie bites? We've got you covered: Raw Brownies or Raw Brownie Bites or Raw Brownie Bites
A red rose and a tin of fresh baked cookies will be sure to put a smile on your gluten-free sweetheart's face.
16. Chocolate Coconut Macaroons
19. Chocolate & Walnut No Bake Coconut Cookies
Fruity Desserts
I'm not much of a chocolate person (don't be a hater!). Maybe the one you're baking for doesn't want chocolate to take center-stage in their dessert either. Try one of these tasty fruity treats.
20. Baked Bananas with Chocolate
21. Chocolate Dipped Strawberries
23. Sour Cherry Gummies: Fun valentine treat for the kids!
With all of these recipes, you could make a platter of candies for your valentine. It would make a fantastic healthy treat to take to your kids school party!
24. Sugar-Free Peanut Butter Chocolate Candy
26. Raw Peanut Butter Truffles
27. Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls
28. Chocolate and Coconut Bars
29. Honey Sweetened Chocolate Marshmallows
30. Paleo Nutella
31. Chocolate Coconut Crispy Bars
34. Peanut Butter Cups (sugar free)
Looking for more Ideas?
Follow my sugar-free & gluten-free desserts Pinterest board.
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- Surprise Your Valentine Giveaway
- 5 Simple Valentine Gifts for the Mom With Young Kids
- Splurge on a Romantic Dinner at Home and a Giveaway
- Surprise Your Valentine with Fabulous Gluten-Free Treats
- How to Surprise your Tech Savvy Valentine
- Tips for a Frugal Valentine's Day
- The Ultimate Valentine Surprise
- Valentine Giveaway Fairies to the Rescue
- 50 Fun Date Ideas
- Romantic Winds are Blowing Your Way for Valentine's Day


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Everything you need to know about making BlueMail work for you
How Do I Select Which Folders to Sync for My Exchange/ActiveSync Account?
Some Exchange users may have the ability to choose which folders they would like to have synced. For users with large mailboxes, this can help you to choose which folders you would prefer to have synced in BlueMail and which ones you may not.
To select which folders you would like to sync while you are using an Exchange/ActiveSync account simply tap More... | Various Account Settings | Select The Desired Account | Folder Management
Finally, tap Folder Sync and select the folders you wish to sync.
Please note: If you have Sub-Folders contained inside the folder you select to sync, you will need to select each Sub-Folder individually so that they will be synced as well. Only the emails in the selected folders will be synced.


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It's almost winter time.
I can feel the weather is getting colder, and sometimes I feel the city is quite chill.
It makes me homesick; I miss my parents and the mood of the city that I grown up.
Anyway, I'm going home for this Christmas and New Year again.
Somehow I'm kind of disappointed that I've never had a Christmas in Vancouver.
Yesterday was Halloween. Well, this is always not my day. I don't have any friends around me that will enjoy the mood of scary night. Honestly, I was hoping there would be something interesting happened. However, I just watched two not so scary movies last night with XXX. And these brownies are brought to home by her, and it was the only thing will remind me Halloween. Maybe next year, I will get involved and wear like Sakura Momoko. LOL!!


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Administration of Medicines and First Aid
Children should not attend school if they are suffering from the following:
- High Temperature
- Diahorria or Vomiting (Children should not return to school for 48 hours after symptoms have stopped).
- Have an infectious illness.
- A heavy cold/cough which prevents them from learning effectively.
Administration of Medicines in School
If a child returns to school and they need medication then this must be taken into the front office where a form will be given to the parent to fill out and sign. The medicine is then kept in the fridge or medical cupboard in the front office.
The medicine will be administered by a member of staff at the time indicated and recorded in the medical folder in the front office.
Any medicine brought into school should be collected from the front office at the end of the school day. Medicines that are prescribed three times a day can be given to the pupilsat home, before school, after school and in the evening.
Epipens are to be kept in the pupils' classroom in a box labelled with child's name on the top and any instructions inside with the Epipen. If possible a second Epipen may be kept in the medical cupboard in the front office. Epipen training is part of staff's First Aid Training.
Inhalers and spacers are kept in pupil's classrooms, in a named box and if possible one at the front office in the Medical Cupboard. If a child needs to use one during the school day this will be recorded in the Medical Folder in the Front Office.
Parents with children suffering from a long-term illness or condition requiring permanent medication, (e.g. Diabetes or Epilepsy) or special care should discuss their child's needs with the head teacher. In most cases a Care Plan will be put into place to make sure the child is cared for in the best possible way whilst at Littleton.
If a child becomes unwell whilst at school they will be seen by the School Secretary who is First Aid Trained or by another trained member of staff. Any minor injuries (cuts or grazes) will be treated by a qualified first aider. Plasters/dressings will be applied for cuts and grazes after being cleaned with water. No creams or lotions will be applied. Head bumps are treated with cold compress and parents will be notified by phone call or letter depending on injury.
If a child is not well enough to continue learning then a member of staff will contact the parent and ask for them to collect.
In the event of an emergency a parent will be contacted immediately as well as calling for an Ambulance. In the event of not being able to contact the parent a member of staff will stay with the child if they need to go to hospital until a parent arrives.


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Welcome to This Week in Location Based Marketing where we rehash the news that matters in the location based marketing world.
Welcome to episode #77 of this week in location based marketing. On today's episode we take a global tour from RVs to TataDocomo in India and everywhere in between. We ask what is up with Apple's latest patent – # 20120115512, are we seeing the end of the coupon and what does Converse see as the way to connect with customers? Plus we have our usual plethora of deals, our resource of the week PLUS special guest legendary entrepreneur and Canadian extraordinary, Dan Martell. Enjoy!
Episode 77
Recorded: May 13, 2012
Hosts: Rob Woodbridge & Asif Khan
Show highlights:
1. All Stays Camp launches RV camping mobile application (6:06)
2. Tata DoCoMo partners with Snapdeal (9:00)
3. Apple files patent: #20120115512 for Beacon-based Geofencing – why? (12:45)
4. Edo Interactive to launch card-based location offers – signalling the end of coupons? (20:00)
5. Converse partners with Journeys for mobile QR marketing campaign (28:35)
Featured Guest
Clarity: With Dan Martell (36:35)
Funding / M&A News
1. EchoEcho closes $750K from Google Ventures (43:55)
2. Samsung acquires MSpot – an $8+ million buy that gets them in the cloud busines (46:28)
3. Belly raises $10M from Andreessen Horowitz (53:00)
Resource of the Week
Marketing Goes Local (58:25)
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Garlic Dill Pretzel Snacks Here's the warning… They are addicting!
Breakfast Nacho's
Breakfast Nacho's OMG… These are so delicious, can't believe I hadn't thought about this before… Genius and so easy = Love!! Breakfast Sausage and Ham Nacho's
Claussen Pickle Chips
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Refrigerator Dill Pickles (Like Claussen's)
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Sri MGR Year 97, 30th September, Tuesday
Merry Go Round or Carousel is a amusement ride often witnessed in temple functions and exhibitions in India. The merry-go-round we see in our temple functions were very small in size and can only accommodate children.
The merry-go-round have cars or rockets designed as seat for the children. In cases of cars we can see the name of famous heroes and heroines of the time.
Long ago when I was a kid maybe in the year 1980 or 1981 I think, I enjoyed the merry-go-round, the mount is shaped as a car, in my car the name of the Hero and Heroine written was "Kamal - Sridevi". And other three cars had "Sivaji - Vanishri", "Rajni - Sripriya" and the last one was "MGR - Latha".
Recently happened to see one merry-go-round, all the names in the car have changed but not our Puratchi Thalaivar MGR. The other pairs given are Vijay, Ajith and Dhanush. Below is the image I had captured showing the pair for the car is "MGR and Manjula".
A carousel showing the name of the Hero MGR. His name lives in many formats. Another fact the short form of merry-go-round is MGR.


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The album itself is from Creative Memories, and comes with a front and back flap and 12 white pages. I then used a DCWV 6x6 stack and added some co-ordinating papers. I also found some stickers, chipboard, bling and ribbon in my stash - I don't get to use boy colours very often and really had to hold back on the flowers - although I managed to add a considerable amount of blue bling - even Coen's name is blingy!
I also doodled around some tags that I added at the top, and the square at the front - which Coen's parents can pop a photo of him behind.
If you happen to spot this Karine before I give it to you - I hope you like it! Can't wait to catch up with you all!


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Ryback recently spoke with The Phoenix New Times. Here are some highlights from the interview.
How confident he is in eventually winning the WWE title: "I know it's going to happen, it's only a matter of time. I've been a fan my entire life and growing up watching this and its going to be surreal moment and I'm going to take every second of it in. And I look forward to waking up every day the WWE champion."
His match with Team Hell No vs. The Shield at TLC: "I'm very proud of that. Daniel Bryan is one guy that I'm pretty close with in the WWE, him and Wade Barrett. But to be a part of that match with Kane and The Shield… I firmly believe that those three men [are] extremely talented and when they eventually go on their own, all of them are going to be a big part of the WWE for many years to come. So to go out there and have that kind of match with everyone, it's a tremendous honor. And it was a very physical hard-hitting match. And that crowd in Brooklyn was hot. It felt good to be a part of that."
If he was a fan of Goldberg: "I was a fan of his. I think he was unbelievable and exciting and fun to watch. But I truly, truly love this and have a passion for this and want to be as great as this as I could possibly be. I love money and want to make millions upon millions of dollars, and I'm going to. But at the end of the day, I'm going to be in WWE. I've said it at the beginning, I want to be part of WWE for the rest of my life. And I don't know Bill Goldberg personally, so I don't know exactly how he feels about wrestling and whatnot, but I can just tell you how I feel, and I think at the end how I feel is what's going to be what separates me from Goldberg ultimately when my career is winding down. He was a huge draw and hopefully I can be as big if not bigger of a draw as he was in his prime. It motivates me and I look forward to outdoing him in any way possible. It's never been a negative thing in my mind."


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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]
The Honourable John Thomas Peacock
The Honourable John Thomas Peacock, Member of the Legislative Council. is one of the small bapd of early colonists who landed at Port Cooper in 1844, some years before the Canterbury Settlement was Inaugurated. He is the eldest son of the late Mr. John Jenkins Peacock, was born in 1827 in the Hawkesbury district, New South Wales, and was educated at Sydney College. At the age of fifteen Mr. Peacock accompanied his father to this colony, and for twelve years was engaged in trading on the coast. Mr. Peacock commenced business in Christchurch under the style of J.T. Peacock and Co., as merchants and shipowners, and for seven years conducted a large and growing trade. Retiring in 1863, he built his handsome residence in Papanui Road, known as "Hawkesbury," where he has since resided. He bears the reputation of being a most enterprising colonist, and has never hesitated to risk his energies and money in enterprises deemed to be of advantage to the country. He is one of the original promoters of the Kaiapoi Woollen Company, and to his enterprise in purchasing the plant of the original company, which would otherwise have been sold for export, is due the credit of saving for Canterbury the nucleus of this splendid industry. Mr. Peacock is chairman of the local board of directors of the Alliance Assurance Company, of London, and was one of the founders and continuously a director of the Union Insurance Company, which was acquired by the former society. He is a director of the Christchurch Meat Company and of the Permanent Investment and Loan Association of Canterbury, and is one of the largest proprietors of the Christchurch Tramway Company. Mr. Peacock was one of the promoters of the New Zealand Shipping Company, and continued to act as a director until it was decided to use steamships, when he resigned, as he considered the proposal premature. He was a member of the Provincial Council of Canterbury in the early days, and held the position of Secretary of Public Works for two years before the abolition of the provinces, the late Mr. W. M. Maskell being Provincial Secretary, Sir Craeroft Wilson, President of the Council, and the Hon. W. Rolleston, Superintendent. In 1869 Mr. Peacock was returned to the House of Representatives as Member for Lyttelton, which he represented for three years, and five years later was elevated to the Legislative Concil. Mr. Peacock is a Justice of the Peace, and has served on local governing bodies. He was the first mayor of the Borough of St. Albans, and filled the chair for two years; for nearly a quarter of a century he has held a seat on the Lyttelton Harbour Board, of which he was some time chairman.
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Discussion in 'Model S: User Interface' started by jlucero, Jan 13, 2016.
a date would be nice...something simple, like Wed 1/13/16....
And a compass.
Compass is shown in the center screen nav display.
Only when you don't select North to be up, which is what I prefer. Then you have to figure out the orientation yourself
True. I never have my center screen nav map showing north up, I prefer the map to be oriented the same way the car is pointed.
Heretic! No one actually sets their map display this way intentionally, surely.
Apparently @Max does, which is fine. Personal preference. (@LetsGoFast, I know you were just kidding him
I rarely look at the compass, I just wanted @JenniferQ to know that it was available in case she was not aware.
People's brains are literally wired differently: some people have a better innate sense of direction than others. I rarely have a problem determine direction. In contrast, my wonderful spouse usually has no idea which way north is, for example.
Yes, but I'd love it to be there even if i don't have Nav up. Many others do.
And for that matter, the date is there if you keep your calendar up.:tongue:
The date is there when if you don't keep your calendar up. The date is ON the calendar icon.
Now if you mean the DAY of the week, that's different, then you're correct.
I'd love to see the compass readout somewhere else, perhaps at the bottom of the IC or on the top of the main display, either spot is "fine" just put it somewhere... I too like the map to always orientate north and while I can quickly discern my heading by looking at the arrow, I'm lazy... Not to mention this is the first car I've had in a long time that didn't have a compass readout somewhere...
A cleaner time\date would be nice as well but I can usually glance at the calendar icon for the date and the time is easy to see, having them together would be "nice" as well but at least the information is there, albeit separated...
Yes, I stand corrected. However, I don't care about a day or a date. I just want a compass all the time.
Look at the calendar icon - it shows the current date.
I liked the old 6.x method of showing the complete date with day of the week. Not sure why they took that away.
exactly! thats what im talking about.....the date is simple enough to put on dash!


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The couple accused of attending a White House state dinner last November without an official invitation appeared Wednesday before the House Committee on Homeland Security. But Tareq and Michaele Salahi declined to answer any of the questions posed by lawmakers about how they got past security to attend the function.
The United States Secret Service says this couple was not invited to the White House, but somehow, Tareq and Michaele Salahi got through security and attended the state dinner for the Prime Minister of India. They even met President Barack Obama.
Lawmakers on the House Homeland Land Security Committee wanted to know how they did it but received no answers.
REP. SHEILA JACKSON LEE: "Your names were not on the guest list and your request for an invitation from Michell Jones was denied and rebuffed. Can you tell me what more did you need in order to understand that you were not invited."
TAREQ SALAHI: "On advice of counsel, I respectfully assert my right to remain silent and decline to answer your question."
Representative Laura Richardson of California tried again.
REP. LAURA RICHARDSON: "Have you ever attended an event at the White House?"
MICHAELE SALAHI: "On advice of counsel, I respectfully assert my right to remain silent and decline to answer your question."
While the Salahis refused to answer any questions, Tareq Salahi did say this in his opening statement.
"We have great respect for the presidency, the men and women of the United States Secret Service," he said.
The comment angered several committee members, notably Representative Dan Lungren.
"To suggest that somehow what you're doing shows support for our men and women is an abomination," said Lungren.
The Salahis did not appear when first asked to testify on Capitol Hill in December.
They appeared at this hearing under supoena, ordering them to show up or face punishment.
Tareq Salahi said he has tried to cooperate.
"We're ready to tell you all the details, but through only our counsel," he said. "But if you want to know the details, they're ready to tell you."
But Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi and others say hearing from the Salahi's lawyers is not good enough.
"These lawyers were not at the state dinner and had no firsthand knowledge of the facts," he noted.
The Salahis may be silent now, but shortly after the White House event last November, they appeared on television with their side of the story.
Not everyone is blaming the Salahis for crashing the White House party. Some opposition Republican Party members of Congress expressed their frustration that White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers has declined to testify about the lapse in security.
"Obviously, something went wrong and it originated with the White House not with the Secret Service, and not with the Salahis," he said Representative Peter King of New York.
Federal investigators are looking into whether the Salahis broke any laws by attending the state dinner. Michaele Salahi told lawmakers she will tell them how they entered the White House at the end of the criminal investigation.


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Ulcer, is an ailment afflicting many; yet they don't know how they came about it. What causes ulcer? It is caused by the bacterium, Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), especially gastric and duodenal ulcers. The chronic use of anti-inflammatory medications, such as aspirin, is another major cause of ulcer. Cigarette smoking is also another cause of ulcer. It can also disturb the treatment of ulcer. But eating raw cabbage and banana daily can heal stomach ulcer, a traditional medicine practitioner, Dr Lambo Adebisi, has said.
According to him, the fruits contain anti-bacterial substance that slow down the growth of ulcer-causing bacteria called Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori).
Adebisi, Managing Director of LAMDEBS Clinic, Ojota, Lagos, said studies have shown that animals fed with bananas have a thicker stomach wall and greater mucus production. This, he added helps build a barrier between digestive acids and the lining of the stomach. "Also, honey may be taken by patients to soothe and reduce inflammation of the lining of the stomach. Colloidal silver can kill the H. pylori bacterium, as it also helps to heal injured stomach tissues (ogbe inu, yoruba).
He identified other herbal-plants like garlic as a good plant with antibacterial properties that can fight the ulcer causing bacteria, H. pylori: "Likewise, plums and other red and purple colored foods such as berries slow down the growth of H. pylori. Coconut oil kills the bacteria that cause ulcers, but it's mostly a long-term remedy. Raw goat milk also helps. Stomach ulcers, he said are small holes or sores in the gastrointestinal tract, which affect a lot of people daily.
Adebisi said the major symptom of an ulcer is a burning or gnawing feeling in the stomach area, adding that it can last for about three hours. "Usually, a patient may experience pain in the upper abdomen. Sometimes, it may be below the breastbone. There are several natural remedies which can heal and soothe stomach ulcers without taking medications.
"Other symptoms are recurrent vomiting, black stool, blood in the stool and anaemia. Sometimes, ulcer pain may be misinterpreted as heartburn, indigestion or hunger. Stomach ulcers are caused by the destruction of the gastric or intestinal mucosal lining of the stomach by hydrochloric acid."


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After watching three of the top four seeds lose in the quarterfinals of the Big East tournament last March, the conference's men's basketball coaches were in agreement that the double-bye system was unfair.
Losses by Syracuse, Villanova and Pittsburgh, which earned double-byes in the 16-team tournament at New York City's Madison Square Garden, was enough for a unanimous vote when the coaches met last May to do away with the system for the 2011 tournament.
But that vote wasn't enough to change the minds of the athletic directors and the conference board of directors as the league confirmed that the two-year old format won't change for 2011, Big East associate commissioner Tom Odjakjian said Tuesday night.
The top four teams in the league will continue to advance to the quarterfinals, waiting until Thursday to play. Teams 9-16 will play on Tuesday of Championship Week in the first round. The four winners will then meet teams 5-8 in the second round. The four winners in the second round will take on teams 1-4 in the quarterfinals. Last March, the only top four seed to advance was West Virginia, which ultimately won the tournament by beating Georgetown 60-58 in the final. Three of the four semifinalists -- Georgetown, Marquette and Notre Dame -- played in the second round.
"The coaches are 16-0 in favor of the change but it was tabled," said Notre Dame coach Mike Brey, who was in Kansas City for the National Association of Basketball Coaches meeting. "We will still pursue it and discuss through the year and in Jacksonville at the [spring] meetings."
Brey said the coaches "felt the double bye was a killer and the stats prove it." But he said there wasn't enough time from the May meetings when the concept of returning to a straight tournament format like the NCAA tournament was presented to get everyone on board. Brey added that eliminating the Big East awards dinner on Monday night has hurt the league as former players still discuss the merits of the event. Now, the top four seeds don't arrive in New York until Wednesday.
"I never thought it was a done deal," Pitt coach Jamie Dixon said. "Coaches are looking at the basketball part of it but the Big East is looking at a number of other different issues like financial issues [of having all 16 teams in New York on Monday]."
A number of schools are on spring break during the tournament, making loss of class time not as much of an issue.
"I think we have a very unique situation," Dixon said. "The strength of our conference means you're going to have upsets in our conference because you're playing top 25 teams in the final eight [of the Big East tournament]."
Dixon said Pitt's losses in the quarterfinals the last two years were to West Virginia and Notre Dame, two hot teams coming into the tournament.
"The separation from the No. 4 team to the No. 8 can be just a one-game difference," Dixon said. "And the unbalanced schedule means there isn't equity in the final standings."
Dixon said he liked that every team could get there at the same time so the teams and fans could book travel early. Teams, he said, would know they were playing Tuesday every year under a more traditional format, but in the current format a team doesn't know early in the year if it's playing on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. And Dixon said there are some instances, like his team last season, when a team didn't know if it was going to play on Tuesday or Thursday since it could have finished anywhere from four to nine.
Andy Katz is a senior writer at ESPN.com.


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News in PCSCHEMATIC Automation 20
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Quick start manual
This manual gives a quick introduction to PCSCHEMATIC Automation. (However, it contains no examples on using Module & Model Based Drag'n Draw for easy creation of projects. Click here to see product videos about this).
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Create your first Motor Control project
Create your first motor control project by following this tutorial.
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Create your first PLC project
Create your first PLC project by following this tutorial. Please note that the project files used in this tutorial are included in PCSCHEMATIC Automation version 16 and later.
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Create your first Electrical Installation project
Create your first electrical installation project by following this tutorial.
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Create your own components easily (Component Wizard)
This tutorial shows you how to easily create your own components in the database, using the Component Wizard in PCSCHEMATIC Automation.
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Manual for PCSCHEMATIC Automation
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Ellie is fourteen, and has a secret crush on a sixteen-year-old boy at school. And then there's Simon, her little brother, who wants to make her life miserable by revealing her secret to everyone because she tattled on him again.
But before the secret can get out, Ellie is hit by a car, and falls into a coma. Thrown into a corner of her subconscious mind with no memory of who she was or where she came from, she struggles to find her way back. Will Ellie wake up from her coma, or will she stay locked inside her own mind forever?


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Paul M. Weyrich, the conservative thinker and strategist whose iron principles, articulate fervor and organization-building skills were instrumental in propelling the right wing of the Republican Party to power and prominence in the 1980s and '90s, died Thursday. He was 66 and lived in Fairfax, Va.
Lee Edwards, a friend of Mr. Weyrich's for four decades and a distinguished fellow at the Heritage Foundation, the conservative research group that Mr. Weyrich helped found, confirmed the death, at a hospital in Northern Virginia. The family did not release a cause, Mr. Edwards said, but Mr. Weyrich had many health problems, including diabetes. His legs were amputated at the knee in 2005, and he had broken his back in a fall some years earlier.
A writer, a lobbyist and an organizer on behalf of conservative causes and especially social conservatism, Mr. Weyrich (pronounced WY-rick) was one of the far right's most unbending ideologues. He was widely credited with coining the phrase "moral majority" as a rallying label for social conservatives. It became the name of the religion-based political organization that was led by the Rev. Jerry Falwell.
A deacon in the ultra-conservative Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Mr. Weyrich openly fused his faith and his politics.
"Defense is a moral issue," he told The Washington Post in 1983, before the fall of the Soviet Union, adding that he considered the Communists to be godless oppressors. "There are some things worse than war. One is surrender — the moral consequences are such that the nation would be destroyed. Since I believe in eternal life, if it became necessary to sacrifice my life for my country or my beliefs, well, then I'm willing to do so. The people who have come up with the better-red-than-dead idea are not believers."Continue reading the main story
For more than a quarter of a century, Mr. Weyrich was one of the Republican Party's leading antagonists from the right. President Ronald Reagan, he said, had overemphasized economic issues and kept social issues "on the back burner," as he wrote on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times in 1984.
In 1989, he testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that the first President Bush's nominee for secretary of defense, John G. Tower, was unqualified for the post because he was a drinker and a womanizer, issues that eventually doomed the nomination. More recently, he accused the current President Bush of profligate domestic spending, and he was a critic of the Iraq war, asserting that a war conducted to spread democracy rather than to protect vital national interests deviated from conservative principles.
Perhaps more than anything, Mr. Weyrich was a nondeviator in his unswerving faith in small government, free-market economics, the right to life and the sanctity of the family. One possible exception: as a lifelong train enthusiast, he was an ardent advocate of government support for Amtrak.
Mr. Weyrich started the Heritage Foundation, a Washington research organization whose express aim is to influence Congress, in 1973 with Ed Feulner, helped by $250,000 from the Colorado beer magnate Joseph Coors. Both he and Mr. Feulner were Congressional aides at the time.
Mr. Weyrich also started the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, which raised money for conservative political candidates and focuses on vulnerable liberal incumbents; it later became the Free Congress Foundation, a separate group that specializes in cultural conservatism. Its statement of principles, issued in 1987 and written largely by Mr. Weyrich, defines "the belief that there is a necessary, unbreakable and causal relationship between traditional Western, Judeo-Christian values, definitions of right and wrong, ways of thinking and ways of living — the parameters of Western culture — and the secular success of Western societies."
It was Mr. Weyrich's conviction in making such sweeping statements — and the prickly, impatient, let's-get-it-done manner with which he did business — that made him an architect of the conservative movement of the last part of the 20th century.
"Paul Weyrich fought tirelessly for three decades to protect the preborn, preserve traditional marriage and ensure that people of faith had a voice in shaping the public policy that affected their lives," James C. Dobson, the founder of Focus on Families, said in a statement on Thursday. "Had there been no Paul Weyrich, there would be no conservative movement as we know it."
Richard A. Viguerie, the conservative direct-mail pioneer, said in a telephone interview that Mr. Weyrich was the least known of the four pillars of modern conservatism, the others being Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley Jr. and Ronald Reagan.
"It was a very, very brave soul who would get up and disagree after Paul had spoken," Mr. Viguerie said. "He had great conviction, one face, public and private, and with his energy and drive, he just propelled us forward. He was fearless and tireless. We'd always be looking for someone to bell the cat, and Paul was always available to call this congressman, to call that senator and tell him, 'You're doing this wrong!' or 'You got to help us on this!' "
Paul Michael Weyrich was born in Racine, Wis., on Oct. 7, 1942. His father, Ignatius, was a German immigrant who worked for 50 years stoking the furnace in a Catholic hospital and who raised his son to treat religious and political matters alike with deep seriousness.
Mr. Weyrich attended the University of Wisconsin but did not graduate, supporting himself at first as a reporter for television and radio and at The Milwaukee Sentinel. He eventually became the news director for KQXI in Denver, and from there he went to Washington as an aide to Senator Gordon Allott, a conservative from Colorado.
A year or so later, Mr. Weyrich attended a meeting of aides to Congressional liberals that was also attended by lawyers, lobbyists and Brookings Institute fellows. What he witnessed was a revelation, he said. The subject of the meeting was President Richard M. Nixon's failure to move forward on fair housing legislation.
"All I did was sit there with my mouth open, watching the system being orchestrated," he recalled years later in an interview with The Washington Post, "including getting outside demonstrators, when to get the op-ed piece in the newspaper so it would coincide with the demonstrations, when to have personal lobbying, who was going to speed up the timetable at Brookings to get their study out. It was magnificent. I said, 'Thank you, Lord, I have needed this insight.'"
From that moment on, he said, he devoted himself to creating the same system for the right.
Mr. Weyrich's survivors include his wife of 45 years, Joyce; two daughters, Dawn and Diana, and three sons, Peter, Stephen and Andrew.
"He was a throwback to an earlier age of people in politics, people who prized free-market economics, old-fashioned, traditional values," Mr. Viguerie said. "The world has changed, but Paul didn't change."Continue reading the main story


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ARGON: Gas that is used to fill the space between two panes of glass to increase insulation.
ATRIUM: Glass cover for a courtyard.
BAY: The distance from one edge of post to the edge of the next.
BASE WALL: Also known as a pony wall or knee wall. A short wall that is below the glass.
CAP: Finish aluminum trim to cover screws or unfinished material differences.
CONDENSATION: The moisture that deposits on the glass due to temperature changes.
CONDUCTION: The direction of heat as it flows from one solid material to another throught direct contact.
CONSERVATORY: A classically designed sunroom.
CONVECTION: The direction of heat as is flows through gas or liquid.
DOUBLE PANE: Two panes of glass separated by a spacer and sealed making it a sealed unit with air or gas between them.
EAVE: Where the front wall meets the roof.
FLASHING: Metal material that is used to waterproof between layers of construction.
FOOTING: Base of a foundation wall, usually concrete.
FOUNDATION: A wall that something is built on or supported by.
FRONT WALL: The full front length of the sunroom between the two gable walls.
GABLE END: The sidewall or end of a sunroom.
GLAZING: A system of glass, gaskets, sealants, framing and any other component used in installation of glass.
GLAZING TRACK: The base of an extrusion that holds the glass in place.
GUTTER: A track that collects rain or condensation of water and diverts it to the drain.
HEAT TRANSFER: How heat flows from hot to cold. There are three methods of this, convection, conduction or radiation.
LENGTH: The dimension that is the same as the front wall.
LOW E GLASS: Polaritic coating applied to the surface of glass that reflects long wave energy.
MUNTIN: Horizontal member used to support the bottom and top edge of sunroom.
RAFTER: Support member that extends between the ridge and front wall.
SHADING COEFFICIENCY: Measure of how glass transmits solar heat.
SILL: Horizontal member that is installed first on the floor or pony wall.
SINGLE GLAZE: One layer of glass.
SOLAR CONTROL: The ability of glass to resist heat flow from the sun's direct radiation, the short wave energy that lies near visible light in the spectrum.
SOLAR COOL BRONZE GLASS: A type of glass that has a heat reflective coating. This type of glass reduces the amount of heat entering your sunroom.
U-VALUE: Describes the rate of non solar heat gain or loss through glass.
WEEPAGE SYSTEM: A series of holes and channels in the aluminum framing system that allows accumulated moisture to escape outside.


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UPDATED Nutcracker Children's Party
+ November 29, 2013
Artistic Director Laura Reinschmidt and the wonderfully talented dancers of Ballet North are pleased to present the Nutcracker Children's Party Performances coming up on Saturday, December 7 2013 at 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm.
Featuring Act II of that beautiful, classic masterpiece of Tchaikovsky with choreography by Artistic Director Laura Reinschmidt, The Nutcracker Suite!
Come and see all those famous dances: Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Arabian, Candycanes, Clowns, Sugar Plum, Waltz of the Flowers and Grand pas de deux. Performance length is just about 45 minutes making this a very fun and totally family friendly event suitable for all ages.
After the performance, take pictures with the Sugar Plum and the Dew Drop and children may decorate cookies.
Reservations are required in advance and are $10 for adults, $5 for children 12 and under. Hurry, space is VERY limited!
(Use the buttons to the right of this post to select which time and type of reservation you need.)


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Scientific Name: Puma concolor
Historically, these felines ranged across the southeastern United States and as far west as Texas. Now, the breeding population is found only in the southern tip of Florida, with a few young males traveling into northeast Florida.
Refuges where the Florida panther can be found:
The Florida panther is one of the most imperiled creatures on the planet, with only about 100 animals remaining. The cat has been protected from hunting since 1958, and it was added to the endangered species list in 1967.
One of more than 20 subspecies of cougar, this beautiful cat has a tawny brown back, creamy white underbelly, and a black tipped tail and set of ears. Florida panthers are generalists, living in a variety of habitats including forests, prairies and swamps. Like most cats, they are solitary hunters and are most active during dawn and dusk. These cats will stalk their prey by moving silently and then springing for the kill with their front claws extended. They are strict carnivores, primarily feasting on white-tailed deer, but also eating rabbits, raccoons, armadillos, birds and other creatures.
Panthers use vocalizations and scent markings to communicate with one another. They lack the ability to roar, but they do make many distinct sounds such as growls, whistles, peeps and moans.
These cats are polygamous, having multiple mates throughout a breeding season. The female panther is solely responsible for raising her litter of one to four kittens. Panthers will live to be about 12 years old in the wild and 16 or more in captivity.
These endangered animals have only two natural predators: alligators and humans. Besides predation, the biggest threat to their survival is human interference. Their small population has led to inbreeding, which has caused health problems. Climate change, habitat fragmentation and loss, and collisions with vehicles also pose serious threats to the panther.
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Help us protect the Everglades, where the Florida panther and many other species live. The Florida Everglades is part of our Beyond the Boundaries program. The Greater Everglades landscape, which extends from the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes in the north to Big Cypress National Preserve in the south, contains dry prairies, longleaf pine savannas, expansive working ranch lands and seasonally wet grasslands. This relatively intact landscape serves as a home and a corridor for more than 30 threatened and endangered species, including the endangered Florida panther. Learn more.


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Annie's Sweatshop is pleased to announce a new fabric option, Black and White Poppy. The new Show Off Collar and Leash is super for summer. Plus it's made from a re purposed curtain. How eco friendly!
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Review: Mahler's 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Posted on May 10, 2010
The Halle and BBC Philharmonic's Mahler Triumph reviewed by Citylife
"It was the big one. Mahler's 'Symphony of a thousand' – in practice, the symphony of just-over-half-a-thousand, but pretty spectacular nonetheless – performed jointly by the Hallé and BBC Philharmonic, with an army of choral singers, in the joint series marking the composer's 150th birthday.
Sold out for months, the concert had its own sense of expectancy, with an ovation at the beginning simply for our own organ virtuoso Jonathan Scott, who came on, microphone in hand, as the warm-up man for the organist of Notre-Dame in Paris, Olivier Latry.
When M. Latry embarked on his 20-minute improvisation on the plainchant theme of Veni Creator Spiritus, it was clear that his role, as he saw it, was at least partly to explore the enormous range of colours available from the Bridgewater Hall's Marcussen organ, including a striking exploitation of the lower range of the mutation stops.
His harmonic language owes much to Messiaen, and he is extraordinarily fond of building his textures on ostinati, with exciting-sounding results.
After one man controlling 5,500 pipes, it was down to one man to control 500-plus performers, in Mahler's eight symphony. And the challenge facing Sir Mark Elder was not merely to co-ordinate those vast forces and
harness the huge sound they could make, but to deliver a musical result out of it all.
The eighth, is after all, a one-off among the Mahler symphonies, with almost none of the structural cohesion we think of as 'symphonic'. It's really a big cantata followed by a quasi-operatic scene, but it's packed with counterpoint and telling details which must emerge from the swirl of sound.
Sir Mark's instincts are always theatrical, and they served him well here. He burst into the opening ('impetuoso', as it says in the score), and never let up on fundamental impetus."
To read Robert Beale's whole review click here


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Definition and Variation
Nightwork (for GS and FP employees) is regularly scheduled work between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. local time, including regularly scheduled overtime. "Regularly scheduled" means the work or overtime is scheduled in advance of the administrative workweek in which it is performed.
The head of an operating unit or a designee may designate a time after 6 p.m. and before 6 a.m. as the beginning and end, respectively, of nightwork for the purpose of paying night shift differential at a post outside the United States where the customary hours of business extend into the hours of nightwork. Times so designated must correspond reasonably with the beginning and end of the customary hours of business in the locality.
Rate for Night Work
An employee is entitled to pay for nightwork at his or her rate of basic pay plus premium pay amounting to 10 percent of that basic rate. Rate of basic pay for this purpose includes any applicable special pay adjustment for law enforcement officers under section 302 or 404 of the FEPCA of 1990 or locality-based comparability payment under 5 U.S.C. 5304, before any deductions and exclusive of additional pay of any kind.
Full-time/part-time employees. A full-time or part-time employee is entitled to night shift differential if he or she is normally scheduled for nightwork or if he or she is assigned on a temporary basis to a position for which a night shift differential is payable. The latter situation is distinguished from one in which irregular or occasional night work is assigned to the employee in his or her own job and for which no differential would be payable.
Intermittent employees. An intermittent employee is not eligible for night shift differential unless substituting for an employee who was scheduled to work nights.
First 40-hour employees. Nightwork is considered regularly scheduled work for employees whose basic workweek consists of the first 40 hours of work on 6 of 7 days of the administrative workweek if the nightwork is performed on one of the 6 days.
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An employee is entitled to night shift differential while on excused absence on a holiday or other nonworkday and while in an official travel status whether performing actual duty or not. (25 Comp. Gen. 399; 36 id. 733.)
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Relation to Compensatory Time
With the exception of employees working a flexible alternative work schedule, compensatory time with night shift differential may not be authorized since compensatory time off is in lieu of payment for irregular overtime and night shift differential is premium pay for regularly scheduled hours.
Recording Hours for Which Night Shift Differential is Payable
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It seems like a good time for some random updates and babbling. I'll be talking audio books, Twitter, idiotic Verizon commercials, and yummy chicken dinners. 🙂
First of all, I've finally opened an Etsy shop. Some of you know I've had the bags and wallets I make on sale in my Selz bookstore, but the shipping options there are incredibly limited. Still, I've been hesitant to wade into Etsy, because I worry that my sewing just isn't good enough, but after receiving encouragement from just about everybody I know, I decided to give it a shot. So, for those who are interested, you can find the bags and purses I make at https://www.etsy.com/shop/MarieSextonBags.
Trailer Trash is now available in audio, narrated by John Solo. You can find that here:
Winter Oranges will also be available in audio sometime in the next few weeks.
Social Media Boycott
I announced back in August or so that I'd be away from social media for a while, but I wasn't sure how long. Well, some of you may have noticed that I've ventured back onto Instagram already. I fully expect to be back on Twitter as well in a couple of weeks, once all the bullshit from the election has died down. Not tweeting during football games is driving me crazy. As for Facebook…
I still hate it.
Now, don't get me wrong. I like being able to connect with readers, but that seems to be about 2% of what Facebook has to offer these days. It's mostly people acting like assholes. Add in political bullshit and the never-ending genre drama, and I'd rather wash poopy cloth diapers by hand in icy cold water than spend even two minutes wading through FB. In theory, I can unfriend or block people, but as an author, I can't do that without risking more of the aforementioned drama. The easier option is simply to stay away.
For now, at least.
In short, I'm still working on my long-range plan for Facebook. I don't think I'll be back there anytime soon.
More On Twitter
But because I've missed Twitter, let me just spend a few minutes randomly babbling about the stuff I've most *wanted* to tweet about over the last few weeks. (While admitting up front that they're all goofy, silly things.)
That's Not Colorado
Few things annoy me more than when people misrepresent my state, which is why this commercial drives me batty. First of all, these people seem to be on some kind of commuter train, heading to Boulder. Too bad no such thing exists. There's no train service of any kind to Boulder.
Second, even if that train DID exist, it would probably be to/from Denver. But just look at that scenery out the window. A huge, flat, green field, with giant clumps of deciduous trees, and a few mountains way, WAY in the distance. The problem is, there is NO PLACE between Denver and Boulder that looks anything like that. That area is packed full of suburbs, not open fields. Not to mention those trees are all wrong for Colorado, and those are clearly NOT the Rocky Mountains in the background (and certainly not the Flatirons).
I'm calling this commercial a gigantic #FAIL.
Don't Call it a May/December Romance
Can we just talk about this phrase for a minute? I can't be the only person bothered by it.
It seems to me people used to talk more about May/September romances, but these days, I keep hearing it with "December" in place of "September." The problem is, December is at THE END of the year. If we're likening a person's life to the months of the year, then somebody in December is just this side of kicking the bucket. In romances labeled "May/December", the older man is usually in his 40s. 50s, at the most. That is NOT the "December" of a person's life.
Let's talk numbers.
A quick Google search tells me that the average life expectancy for an American male is 76 years. If we're going to line that up to a calendar, it means about 6.3 years for each month. So:
January: birth – 6 yrs
February: 6-12 yrs
March: 12-18 yrs
April: 19-25 yrs
May: 25-31 yrs
June: 31-37 yrs
July: 38-44 yrs
August: 44-50 yrs
September: 50-56 yrs
October: 57-63 yrs
November: 63-70 yrs
December: 70-76 yrs
So, a May/December romance would be somebody between the ages of 25 and 31 falling in love with somebody in their seventies. That's a 40+ year age difference! Now, if that's what floats your boat, more power to your odd self, but for the most part, I don't think that's what people want to read.
I refuse to call any of my books "May/December" romances, because none of my protagonists are 70+. My stories with age gaps (Family Man, Making Waves, Flowers for Him, Chapter 5 and the Axe-Wielding Maniac) are really more like April/July or May/August romances, but I admit, that's getting nitpicky. For that reason, I have deigned to use the "May/September" designation on my Find a Book by Trope page. But NOT "May/December."
Because ew. Just…. ew.
Yummy Food!
And finally, I wanted to share this recipe from I Breathe, I'm Hungry. It's really worth tweeting about. It's gluten-free, low carb, easy to make, and just yummy as hell.
- 20 oz frozen cauliflower florets (about 4 cups)
- 4 oz cream cheese, softened
- 2 cups cooked chicken, shredded
- ½ cup Salsa Verde
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- ⅛ tsp ground black pepper
- 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- ¼ cup sour cream
- 1 Tbsp chopped fresh cilantro (optional)
- Put your cauliflower in a microwave safe dish and cook for 10-12 minutes or until fork tender. Add the cream cheese and microwave for another 30 seconds. Stir. [Note: I used fresh cauliflower and steamed it, rather than using frozen.]
- Add the chicken, salsa verde, salt, pepper, cheddar cheese, sour cream, and cilantro. Stir. [Note for Brian: notice the cilantro is optional.]
- Bake in a preheated oven at 375° (F) in an ovenproof casserole dish for 20 minutes. OR you could microwave on high for 10 minutes.
- Serve hot.
That's About It
I'll see you all back on Twitter in a couple of weeks. Until then, maybe make yourself some yummy chicken casserole while listening to an angsty, coming-of-age (A.K.A. "March/March") romance on audio. 😉


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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled the Polo Association may sell sunglasses with a logo that is similar to the Ralph Lauren trademark.lRead More
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The section will speak as much to people who are considering a move as to those who simply are interested in improving their homes.
Boston, MA (PRWEB) March 28, 2014
The Boston Globe will launch a new, expanded real estate broadsheet section, called ADDRESS, on Sunday, March 30.
The 12-page weekly section replaces the existing tabloid real estate section, with new features, writers, columns, photos and visual elements.
The section will continue to include the popular "Home of the Week" feature by Globe reporter John Ellement, which will be expanded and show more photos. It will also have new features and columns that focus on the lifestyle, rather than the business, of real estate.
"Stories about whether to refinance your mortgage will continue to be covered in the Business section," said Doug Most, the Globe's deputy managing editor for special sections and new initiatives. "Stories about how to spend the money on your house that you save by refinancing your mortgage, that's something that could be covered in ADDRESS."
The editor of ADDRESS will be Eileen Woods, a 15-year Globe veteran, who was previously a copy editor for the Boston Globe Magazine, where she wrote the "On the Block" real estate column.
ADDRESS differs from the previous Boston Globe real estate section, casting a wider net and broadening its focus to cover topics and trends relevant to anyone with an address: whether buyers or renters, empty-nesters, second-home buyers or millennials renting their first apartment.
"The Greater Boston real estate market is dynamic, one of the hottest in the country," said Most. "Even if you're not thinking of moving, when a home in your neighborhood hits the market, there is endless fascination with how it looks, how busy the open houses are, and how much it eventually sells for. The section will speak as much to people who are considering a move as to those who simply are interested in improving their homes. There will be profiles, stories on real estate trends, and a special focus on neighborhoods."
The new ADDRESS section will include:
- One major feature on the section's front page, with compelling graphics or photos.
- "Location, Location, Location," a full-page column highlighting a new neighborhood, street or town each week, and what defines the place, its people and culture.
- "One Great Room," a highly visual column that will feature a beautiful room each week and provide close-up details of the space.
- A full-page advice column, "Ask," will feature three columnists giving advice on everything from home improvement to gardening to interior design to mortgages to home sales.
- "My First Home," a first-person essay sharing the funny, sad, scary, educational, mistake-filled experience of buying or renting a first home.
- "Home of the Week," the popular feature from the existing section with a bolder, expanded look, occupying a full page, with more photos and longer accompanying article.
- A full-page "Real Estate Transactions" section with detailed listings, showing the price, size and scope of the property sold, customized to each circulation zone so readers can see listings from their area. This new section is complemented by traditional real estate listings for those readers looking to buy.
The Globe's new ADDRESS section debuts Sunday, March 30, 2014. All content will also be available to subscribers at bostonglobe.com/address, and readers can also follow ADDRESS news on Twitter @BostonGlobe.
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