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From: Rod-Lists ------------------------------------------------------ Now if we could just marry this to those air lithium batteries. -------------------------------------------------- After five years of research, students at the University of Middle Tennessee have installed a full plug-in hybrid kit in a stock 1994 Honda Accord. The setup gives between 50 and 100 percent better gas mileage with two electric motors delivering power directly to the rear wheels, leaving the engine-powered front wheels to work with little effort. The price of all the parts comes to about $3,000 and can be applied to almost any car. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2012/08/hybrid-conversion/
=============================================================== From: Dan Lyke ------------------------------------------------------ So, semi-related to this... Charlene and I recently built a sailboat. We love our little sailboat, but it's a bit too small to take friends out on. So on our "3 years out" list (because that's the next time boat registrations and our build schedule come out even), we're thinking about building a bigger one. Petaluma is on the Petaluma River, a narrow tidal slough at the top end of San Francisco Bay. We currently put the boat in the water at a marina several miles downwind from downtown, spend a few hours tacking up into town. Tie the boat up at the municipal pier, hang out and be downtown, and then spend a couple of minutes running downwind back to the ramp. We'd really like to go the other way, but that kinda says we need a little help getting back up-wind. And sailboats do well with a little weight in the bottom of the hold. Lead-acid batteries are heavy. We like the quiet of the sailboat. So I'm starting to think about an electric inboard. Doesn't need to be much because we don't need to push the boat faster than hull speed. I haven't tried to run full numbers on any candidate hulls yet, but I'm guessing that 60 lbs of thrust would be the top edge of what we want. Again, this is all a few years out, but if anyone's got ideas for coming up with some multiple-of-12-volt controller and (brushless?) motor system on the cheap in the 2-4HP range... Dan
=============================================================== From: Jason Brown ------------------------------------------------------ On the cheap is tough. Here is a combo motor and control system that has been used on robot weapons in the past: http://www.robotmarketplace.com/products/EMS-PMACBL275.html You might gather more information there to help you in your search. I've learned a lot in the last 10 minutes searching for "sailboat electric motors" --Jason
=============================================================== From: Mike Harrison ------------------------------------------------------ The bass boat crowd have it all pre-built.. just not cheap.
=============================================================== From: Dan Lyke ------------------------------------------------------ Indeed. There are some kick-ass ready-made outboards and integrated prop-motor assemblies, but put "Marine" on anything and it's a dead-heat with "Aircraft" for price, and if I'm gonna build the bloody hull myself anyway... The one Jason pointed me towards is probably more powerful than I need, and I was kinda thinking "oooh, I can get a used golf cart motor for $300 shipped", but sometimes it's also nice to not be fighting worn-out bearings and whatnot. Dan


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PHNOM PEHN, 9 Aug 2012 – The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is launching a new project in Cambodia aimed at creating employment opportunities and ensuring effective e-waste management in the country.
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Dairy Financing Conference strikes a chord with producers
The size of the turnout spoke volumes about interest in the subject material at the "Dairy Financing Conference" February 22 in Visalia, Calif.
Over 120 people – dairy owners, bankers, co-op leaders, and those who do business with dairies – turned out for the one-day event and came away with a wealth of insight about the new reality of ag lending and the relationships that exist between lenders and borrowers.
It's an event that should have been held 30 years ago and repeated every one or two from now on, to update everyone about constantly evolving situations and circumstances on both sides of the process.
Audience questions were repeatedly encouraged throughout presentations by bankers, accountants, attorneys, consultants, and dairy vendors. The atmosphere was informal, informative, and extremely candid about a subject that producers hopefully won't experience: bankruptcy. There was an overload of information to digest, but there were several clear take-home messages:
• There is no such thing as too much communication and transparency between producers and their lenders, and there is no such thing as talking about an idea or concern too early.
• U.S. dairy producers are an undeniable part of the global market; there is no going back, and their involvement is only going to grow.
• Neither dairying nor dairy lending is going away.
• Lenders do want to get their money back.
• Margin volatility is only going to increase.
• The new reality for the dairy industry is that producers must position themselves to survive downturns so they can benefit from upturns.
• It is now necessary for monitoring and updating of dairy performance, projections, and budgets to be a constant process. Forget annual updates; quarterly reports are the absolute minimum.


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Up to 90% of myeloma patients develop osteolytic lesions, a major cause of morbidity and mortality, during the course of their disease. 2 Appropriate use of imaging techniques is essential to identify and characterize skeletal complications resulting from MM, to determine the extent of intramedullary and extramedullary foci, and to evaluate disease progression.
Several imaging techniques are used to clarify bone and soft tissue disease in the diagnosis and management of myeloma: conventional radiography, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and nuclear medicine imaging. The following International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG) guidelines provide recommendations for the use of each of the technologies. The appropriate use of these various technologies for each individual patient should be discussed directly with the treating physician.
Table 1: Conventional Radiology: Limitations
Table 2: Advantages of Computed Tomography (CT)
Table 3: Role of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Technetium bone scintigraphy
The specificity and sensitivity of technetium bone scintigraphy at the time of initial diagnosis, in follow-up studies, and in the evaluation of bone pain is lower compared to conventional radiography.
Technetium bone scintigraphy is related mainly to osteoblastic process. Since myeloma is characterized by osteoblast dysfunction, bone scintigrapy is not recommended for the assessment of myelomatous bone disease.
99mTc-sestamibi (MIBI) imaging closely reflects myeloma disease activity in bone marrow with very high sensitivity and specificity.5,6
MIBI is not useful in MGUS work-up, since it is always negative and cannot be used to predict MGUS transformation.
MIBI scanning has inferior value compared to FDG-PET/CT, and is inferior to MRI in assessing the extent of myelomatous bone marrow infiltration in the spine.
MIBI score is significantly related to ISS, bone marrow biopsy infiltration rate, and serum B2M.
MIBI washout may predict for response to conventional or high-dose chemotherapy.
MIBI scan was of prognostic value in ISS stage II MM patients, but added no relevant information to ISS in patients with stages I and III.
MIBI cannot detect ONJ (osteonecrosis of the jaw) in myeloma patients.
Postiron emission tomography (PET)
Subcentimeter lytic lesions seen on plain radiograph may not be detectable on PET scanning.
Fusion scanning combining both PET and CT addresses the issue of limited spatial resolution and takes less time than (approximately 30 minutes) than a PET scan alone (approximately one hour).
PET/CT allows identification of high-risk myeloma and can be used to monitor non-secretory myeloma as well as patients in CR without measurable M-component.
PET/CT studies are more sensitive than other imaging modalities for localizing extramedullary disease; they reveal additional lesions in almost 30% of patients who had been diagnosed with solitary plasmacytoma by MRI.
In 30% of newly diagnosed patients, PET/CT scans of the spine and pelvis failed to show abnormal findings in areas in which MRI revealed an abnormal pattern of bone involvement.
Combining PET/CT with MRI of the spine and pelvis increases the ability to detect sites of active MM, both medullary and extramedullary.
PET/CT has false positive results, particularly in areas of inflammation or infection.
PET/CT is more sensitive than MRI for making the diagnosis of mandibular osteonecrosis.
Further studies are needed before the use of PET as a standard tool in both diagnosis and follow-up of MM is recommended.
The use of MIBI PET should particularly be considered in the evaluation of a patient with an early-stage MM to exclude the presence of more extensive disease.
Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA)
DEXA may influence the decision to begin bisphosphonate treatment.
DEXA is a quick, noninvasive investigation that uses a small dose of radiation.
Its use is limited by spinal disease and the difficulty of distinguishing myeloma osteoporosis from malignant osteoporosis.
Sequential DEXA-scans are not recommended because they show heterogeneous local BMD changes, and cannot predict disease progression.
Technetium bone scintigraphy
Postiron emission tomography (PET)
Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA)
1Dimopoulos MA et al.International myeloma working group consensus statement and guidelines regarding the current role of imaging techniques in the diagnosis and monitoring of multiple myeloma, Leukemia (2009), 1-12.
2Terpos E, Dimopoulos MA. Myeloma bone disease: pathophysiology and management. Ann Oncol 2005: 16: 1223-1231.
3Bauer-Melnyk A et al. Whole-body MRI versus whole-body MDCT for staging of multiple myeloma. AJR Am J Roentgenol 2008; 190: 1097-1104.
4Fulciniti M et al. Gadolinium Containing Contrast Agent Promotes Multiple Myeloma Cell Growth: Implication for Clinical Use of MRI in Myeloma. ASH abstract 1809, 51st annual ASH meeting, poster session on Biology and Pathophysiology of Myeloma
5Balleari E et al. Technetium-99-sestaMIBI scintigraphy in multiple myeloma and related gammopathies: a useful tool for the identification and follow-up of myeloma bone disease. Haematologica 2001; 86: 78-84.
6Tiravola EB et al. The use of 99m-Tc-MIBI scanning in multiple myeloma. Br J Cancer 1996; 74: 1815-1820.


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on March 7, 2013 - 2:57 PM
Two Valero gas stations, one in Niagara Falls and another in Sanborn, were robbed by a masked man within hours of each other late Wednesday and early Thursday.
Just before 9 p.m. Wednesday a man dressed in black with a black mask covering his face came into the Valero station at 4708 Hyde Park Blvd., Niagara Falls, threw a bag on the floor and demanded cash. The clerk said the man displayed a revolver and struck him in the face multiple times. The suspect was described as approximately 6 foot, 2 inches, 240 pounds. Police found a black glove just outside the store. Approximately $200 was stolen, police said.
At about 1:20 a.m. Thursday, a man entered the Sanborn Family Mart and Valero gas station at 2939 Saunders Settlement Road wearing a white hockey mask and a gray hooded sweatshirt, maroon pants and a brown jacket.
The suspect, who did not display a weapon, demanded the clerk hand over all the money and two packs of Newport cigarettes. The suspect fled with about $100 in cash and two packs of cigarettes.
A witness who saw the man flee told Niagara County sheriff's deputies that he saw the man fall in a ditch as he fled. Deputies found a black baseball bat near Cambria-Wilson Townline Road and a black sneaker and a black hat believed to have belonged to the suspect near Niagara County Community College property.


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DETROIT -- Detroit Red Wings defenseman Ian White will miss the upcoming four-game road trip due to a fractured cheek bone.
White blocked a shot with his face in Saturday's 5-2 victory over Dallas Saturday. General manager Ken Holland said he will be out 1-2 weeks. Once he recovers sufficiently, he'll be able to play with facial protection.
The Red Wings have recalled defenseman Brendan Smith from the Grand Rapids Griffins. He will serve the fifth and final game of his NHL suspension Tuesday in St. Louis. After that the club will decide whether to keep Smith on the roster or send him back.
Mike Commodore, who has played only two games, will be inserted into the lineup on Tuesday.
Holland said either White or Todd Bertuzzi will be placed on short-term injured reserve on Monday, freeing up a roster spot for Smith.
Bertuzzi has missed four games with swelling in his ear and a sinus infection but is improving and might return to practice on Monday. But he still is several days away from being able to play.


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How? What? Which move could he have realistically done?
I don't know of a dman that has been moved that could replace lids, can I get a name?
Obviously nobody can replace Lidstrom, but there have been plenty of guys over the last couple of years who are legit top four defenders, and if you want a top four defenseman (or top six winger) and you aren't currently developing any in your farm, then you're going to have to overpay in free agency (or else watch them go somewhere else). (2012) Carle, Wideman, Allen (2011) Wisniewski, Pitkanen, Erhoff, Jovanovski, Kaberle (2010) Paul Martin, Dan Hamhuis are all guys who were available and could have been signed. I know some of them got s***ty contracts and all that, and maybe that would have been the case no matter what, but you never know who'd be willing to take less to avoid places like Florida, Buffalo, or Columbus. That's the kicker though, it has to be a LITTLE bit less (in term or salary), you can't expect free agents to turn down millions of dollars in difference just because this is Detroit. Every team has potential anymore.
I honestly believe the reason none of the above mentioned were signed is because nobody expected to lose Lidstrom and Stuart in the same year.
I don't think Kenny is a f*** up, but let's not pretend like there were simply no conceivable options for the last couple of years.
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Sinitsina & Zhiganshin had another disappointing score in today's short dance at the Russia Cup final (59.62). Whilst they have got better as the season has gone on, they have certainly not reached the heights of last season. Hence, they have essentially gone backwards, in what has been a very disappointing season for them overall. Indeed, in my opinion, they are capable of so much more than what they are producing at the moment.
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The crowds gathered on The Mall, the London thoroughfare in front of Buckingham Palace, and the excitement of his impending wedding watched by the world made him restless, he tells interviewer Alan Titchmarsh for an upcoming ITV1 documentary on his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
"I hadn't slept at all that night because obviously all the crowds were on The Mall," he says in Elizabeth: Queen, Wife, Mother, which airs in the U.K. June 1.
"They were singing and cheering all night long. So, the excitement of that, the nervousness of me, and everyone singing meant I slept for about half an hour, I think."
His biggest fear?
"The hardest thing was trying to walk down the stairs with my spurs on, sideways. I had visions of myself and my brother colliding and crashing down the stairs."
Still, "It was good fun, it was really good fun," he adds.
His lack of shut-eye recalls the experience of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, who told biographer Andrew Morton, in Diana: Her True Story (originally published in 1992), "They put me in a bedroom overlooking the Mall, which meant I didn't get any sleep."
'Grandmother First'When it came to ironing out details for the big day, William says his grandmother was a source of wisdom, particularly when it came to the invitations.
He has recalled that his grandmother advised him to tear up the list of people coming if he wasn't happy with it and that they spoke twice a week on the phone about the plans.
As he has gotten older, William says that they have grown closer. "When I was younger and a young boy growing up, I'd say probably Queen first, then grandmother. But now it's definitely a case of grandmother first, and Queen second."
William says he greatly admires how she came to the throne at the young age of "only 25."
"That's really quite something, to be in a man's world and then as a woman to suddenly be thrust into the position she found herself," he says.
And when it comes to the throne, she will be a hard act to follow.
"They're quite hard footsteps to fill," he says. "There's not much wiggle room left for me to try and find my own path, but I will do."


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When one drink is too many, and a thousand aren't enough.
If an alcoholic just doesn't have that first next one, they are on the right track. That first one is the killer.
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Bills wife was getting ready to go down on him, but Bill said no, I'll take a double jack n coke instead.
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Someone you don't like who drinks more than you do.
von lameo 7. Juni 2003
1) a person who has been drinking for years, drinks morning noon and night, feels like they need alcohol, depends on it, and it often gets in the way of their social life
2) a label given by a non or less drinker to someone they think drinks too much but is really just someone who knows how to have a good time; drinks but doesnt depend on it or 'need' it
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1) my dad is an alcoholic, hes been drinking for 15 years and hes getting really abusive.
2) you drank all my beer you alcoholic!
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I'm not an alcoholic; alcoholics go to meetings.
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A person who knows exactly how many days it's been since they had a drink.
E.g., In January, 2007, Lindsay Lohan told People magazine "I haven't had a drink in seven days. Or anything." Lindsay Lohan's publicist Leslie Zelnick confirmed to The Associated Press in December that Lohan was attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
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One who drinks the sweet drink of the gods to the point of reliance upon it.
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on February 25, 2013 - 11:53 PM
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Lancaster Central School District administrators propose cutting two elementary school teaching positions for 2013-14 in response to declining enrollment in the lower grades.
School officials also would add one teacher for hearing-impaired students and one technology support staff member under a preliminary $47.7 million instructional budget, which was unveiled at Monday night's School Board work session.
The instructional budget, the largest part of the district's overall spending plan, would rise by 5.4 percent from the current school year, driven largely by negotiated staff raises.
But district officials cautioned that some of the increase is due to the district absorbing $727,299 in costs that had been covered over the last three years by a now-expired federal stimulus grant. "A couple of years ago, we were allowed to relieve the general fund of these positions, and now they're coming back," Jamie L. Phillips, assistant superintendent of business and support services, said at the session in the former Central Avenue Elementary School.
The session was the third the board has held to cover spending in sections of the proposed 2013-14 budget. At their March 11 session, officials will complete their review of district spending and for the first time publicly address how much revenue the district plans to draw from reserves, property taxes and other means.
"Just so everyone understands: This is nowhere near the final budget. This is the beginning of the process," School Board President Kenneth E. Graber said.
The $45.32 million now in the instructional budget, which includes salaries for teachers and support staff, accounts for half of the $91.5 million overall budget. Spending in this section would rise by $2.45 million in 2013-14 under the preliminary plan.
But Phillips said $727,299 of this increase is a result of 16 full-time-equivalent staff positions returning to the general fund budget after the three-year period when federal economic-stimulus grants covered their costs. This follows last year's loss of a $1.7 million, one-time federal stimulus grant.
The positions returning to the general budget this year include speech therapists, reading specialists and a social worker. Graber observed that the district saves money by keeping those services in-house.
The instructional budget for 2013-14 would rise by 3.8 percent, or $1.72 million, without the effect of the lost federal aid.
All district teachers are receiving a negotiated 4.64 percent salary increase, while noninstructional staff is getting a negotiated 3 percent raise. The district is negotiating a new contract with its principals, while top administrators will get a $3,000 raise, Phillips said after the meeting.
To offset the higher costs, officials cut or rejected requested increases in spending on materials and supplies, equipment and other nonmandated items, Superintendent Edward J. Myszka told board members. "We did cut, internally, $675,000," he said.
Officials did not identify the two elementary school teachers who would be laid off under the preliminary plan but did say the decision was driven by a drop in enrollment.
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on March 18, 2013 - 12:02 PM
If you examine trends, the Sabres' chances of winning the game decreased greatly Saturday when Kyle Turris scored on a wraparound with 63 seconds remaining in the second period. Ottawa had a 9-1-1 record this season when leading after 40 minutes while the Sabres were 2-10-1 when trailing in that situation.
The Sabres this season had allowed 14 more goals than they scored in the second period going into the game while the Senators had scored 14 more goals than they allowed. It wasn't just some crazy coincidence the Senators scored three times in the middle period. It was a continuation of the same.
Turris is the Senators' leading scorer, so was it really a surprise when he scored in overtime to beat the Sabres, 4-3? Not any more than the Senators reaching overtime in the first place. Nine of their 27 games had been decided in the extra period or shootout before they visited the First Niagara Center.
Buffalo hasn't won two straight games in regulation since the first week of the season, which is one reason they've taken up residence between 12th and 15th place in the conference. In sticking with the math, the Sabres would need a 14-4-2 finish to reach 54 points and have a crack at the playoffs.
Allow me to ask again: Where is this going?
By the look of things, Darcy Regier still believes he can save a few jobs, starting with his own, if the Sabres nail down a playoff spot. Ron Rolston has been tagged with the title of interim coach. You would think the gap between them and the curb narrows the more the divide between the Sabres and the playoffs widens.
It becomes dangerous when Regier, the man entrusted with making big decisions, is compromised by his uncertain future. There's been a sense for several years now that he's doing whatever is possible to save his fanny. It's the only conclusion I can draw because clearly he has no idea what's required to build a winner, a Stanley Cup contender.
The greater good of the organization is left suffering, not to mention the thousands of fans who boo the Sabres off the ice after every other home game.
At this stage, the Sabres should be figuring out what they have and where it can take them in the coming years. It means giving their younger guys more playing time and finding out what they can do with increased ice time. Instead, they sent prospects T.J. Brennan to Florida and Mikhail Grigorenko back to his junior team.
Let's start with Brennan, who had major deficiencies. He failed to play defense to any respectable standard. But he's also a 23-year-old who had played a grand total of 21 games on the varsity. He was an NHL infant. For many defensemen, if not most, it takes several years to learn how to play defense in the NHL.
Certainly you remember Brian Campbell, who like Brennan was a good skater and passer but generally lost in his own zone. He was a healthy scratch for 29 games during the 2003-04 season, when he was 24 years old. Many questioned if Campbell would ever come around. He blossomed the following year and grew into a terrific player.
It could turn out that Brennan doesn't succeed in the NHL. Nobody knows for the sure until he plays at least 100 games at the highest level. Panthers GM Dale Tallon, who was largely responsible for building the Blackhawks into a Cup winner, obviously found value in Brennan. Campbell will be there to help him.
In return, the Sabres received a fifth-round pick. The chances of any fifth-round pick ever reaching the NHL are exponentially less than Brennan finding success. Yes, there are plenty of examples of players who did. Ryan Miller was a fifth-round pick. Campbell was selected in the sixth round. There's a longer list of players who failed.
Brennan was caught in a numbers game. It's true, but the Sabres have veterans in Jordan Leopold and Robyn Regehr, both 32 years old, who are going to be unrestricted free agents after this season. They give the Sabres a better chance to win now, but they don't figure in their long-term plans.
If the Sabres couldn't trade either, they should have waived one to make room. After all, winning now accomplishes little. Anyway, they already had lost enough with them in the lineup. Rather than keep him in the press box 17 times in 27 games, they should have played Brennan and learned more about him.
Rather than do what was right for the long-term health of the organization, Regier did what was better for the short-term security of his job.
Grigorenko was in a different situation that included positive and negative side effects to staying in Buffalo or returning to juniors. But once the Sabres started falling apart, they should have given him more playing time and accelerated his development. The timing of their decision to ship him back to junior was stranger than the decision itself.
It goes back to Regier failing to address obvious flaws and needing to win now. His answer for the shortage down the middle was re-signing Jochen Hecht, who has two goals in 28 games this season while making $1.25 million. He was invisible again Saturday, the continuation of yet another trend.
Regier mumbled something the other day about how the ice time couldn't be given to Grigorenko and taken away from players who earned more. Tell me which players deserved big minutes on the 14th-place team in the conference. If it were about the organization as a whole, the Sabres had numerous options for Grigorenko.
They knew enough about Cody Hodgson, for example. The intelligent move would have been giving Grigorenko more time between veterans Thomas Vanek and Jason Pominville and seeing how he would fare with their best wingers. It doesn't mean playing him every shift or an entire game, just more often in general.
Who knows? Maybe the Sabres overall would have fared better. Hodgson might have sparked one of the other lines that have failed miserably all season. And perhaps Tyler Ennis would have found chemistry with a different combination, too. Of course, there was an equal chance that Grigorenko would have flopped.
But there was only one way to find out.
The Sabres are wasting opportunities to plan for the future.
They wasted one with Brennan and another with Grigorenko. They wasted an opportunity after building a two-goal lead Saturday and ended up losing another game.
And that's a trend, too.
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A method of human disposal, developed and perfected by the Italian mob. Involves encasing a person's feet in poured concrete, and dumping them, alive or dead, into a deep body of water.
"Luco Brata sleeps with the fishes. We just fitted him for concrete shoes."
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WAILUKU - With family members of a man killed in a head-on traffic collision saying they didn't want the other driver jailed, a judge Wednesday ordered five years' probation for a woman whose rental car crossed a double-solid line before the crash.
Liliana Driever, 29, of Boston had pleaded no contest to second-degree negligent homicide in connection with the Aug. 29, 2010, crash on the Haleakala Highway extension in Kahului.
Police said Driever was driving a 2010 Dodge Caliber that was traveling west when it crossed the centerline and collided with an eastbound 1996 Mercury Tracer in the eastbound lane at 11:26 a.m.
David Dutro, a 75-year-old Pukalani resident who was driving the Mercury, suffered life-threatening injuries and died shortly afterward at Maui Memorial Medical Center.
"You were reckless. You were negligent. You were inattentive. You were careless," 2nd Circuit Judge Rhonda Loo told Driever. "All those factors led to the demise of Mr. Dutro."
He had visited his wife's grave before the crash occurred, Loo said.
Both the prosecution and defense recommended probation for Driever.
Her attorney, Chris Dunn, said a "10- to 15-second distraction" led to the crash.
He said Driever, who suffered a collapsed lung and several broken ribs, has no memory of the collision or what led to it.
"Was it my client changing the radio station or talking to a passenger or looking at the scenery?" Dunn said.
He said Driever's cellphone records showed she wasn't talking on the phone or texting.
"We're talking about a distraction that any of us who have ever gotten behind the wheel have all fallen victim to," Dunn said. "Thankfully for the vast majority of us, we have been fortunate enough not to have these tragic circumstances."
Driever, an honor student in high school and college, had studied physical therapy and massage therapy and was restarting a business, Dunn said.
"But for this negligent sliver of time in her life, she has led a completely law-abiding life," he said.
Driever said she accepted that she was at fault in the crash.
"I'm deeply sorry for my errors and recognize this accident had a domino effect that rippled through the lives of many people," she said. "David Dutro and his family are in my thoughts every day - people whose lives are connected forever to me and yet strangers."
Deputy Prosecutor Kim Whitworth said Maui police officers and then-civilian traffic reconstructionist Robert Vickers did an extensive investigation to determine how the crash occurred.
She said the investigation showed that Driever, in an unfamiliar car, on an unfamiliar road and 22 mph over the speed limit, crossed 4 and a half to 5 feet into the oncoming lane.
"Yes, there were no drugs. Yes, there was no alcohol," Whitworth said. "It was just pure negligent driving."
Had Driever been attentive and driving at the speed limit of 30 mph, "this collision would not have occurred," Whitworth said.
Dutro's daughter, Corrine Dutro-Ponce, said she was overcome with emotion after her father died.
"I am no longer angry," she said in court Wednesday. "I am no longer wishing for an eye for an eye."
To Driever, Dutro-Ponce said, "I forgive you."
Dutro's son, Clayton Dutro, said he wasn't on Maui when his father died.
"I was hurt and sad to hear of Dad's death," he said. "Everything changed. I don't want anybody to lose their freedom. I just want everybody to be at peace."
Loo said not many families would be as compassionate and forgiving.
The judge said she hoped the sentencing Wednesday would help both Driever and Dutro's family members go on with their lives.
"Honor his memory by being a good person and always remembering him," Loo told Driever.
She was ordered to pay $5,173 in restitution.
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The replacement holiday for Christmas built on the belief that Santa is actually a Ninja due to his ability to get in and out of houses undetected. This holiday is typically followed 7 days later by New Chuck's Eve.
Merry Ninjamas
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Only the best holiday ever. On December 3rd you have the chance to dress and act like the beloved ninja.
Dude1- I can't wait for ninja-mas!
Dude2- I alredy have my ninja stars polished!
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when two hobos partake in combat usually armed with nothing or maybe a broken beer bottle or pipe
bum fights usually happen under bridges
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When you pay two bums to fight each other to the death. The winning bum gets the deads bum's money
You: Hey, i'll pay you 20 bucks each to fight to the death
Bum 1: ok
Bum 2: sounds fair
-The fights starts-
-Bum 2 wins-
You: ok heres 40 bucks
Bum 2: cool
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Best damn video ever.
I'ma serve rocks. All day, all long.
Beküldő: KRHimself 2004. április 16.
when two homeless people brawl for cash or booze
" it's called bumfights"
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Where you get stupid-ass hobos and pay them little or no money to fight and do other stupid shit for your own sick amusement.
Paying on to tattoo BUMFIGHT across his knuckles or his forhead for a couple slugs of whiskey.
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(noun) A well attended and lengthy drinking session.
"Where are we going for the bumfight this week?"
"How about Weatherspoons?"
"How about Weatherspoons?"
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Controversial homevideo, or "documentary", where young men decided to video tape the real "street life." Includes bums fighting, bums being tied up, and vandalism.
BumFights is even too sickening for Tom Green! But Tom Green is some one-balled faggot so who cares! Go Rufus!
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"Spiritual differences " within the Orthodox Churc - John Francis - 25-02-2008
Dear All
Are there "spiritual differences" within the Orthodox Church? e.g.Greek and Russian Orthodox-and British Orthodox or are they the same apart from language?
http://orthodoxeurope.org/page/10/1.aspx Is a site that is the Catechism of the Russian Orthodox in English,which is excellent.I have noticed several previous postings regarding the need for an Orthodox Catechism in English.
In Gods' love
John Francis
- John Charmley - 25-02-2008
Dear John Francis,
You ask an interesting and important question.
Reading what +Hilarion write in his on-line catechism I find nothing with which I would wish to disagree.
I don not think that the real differences between us are great - by that I mean the spiritual approach; but the pragmatics are a different matter.
In Christ,
- admin - 25-02-2008
Dear John Francis,
Yes, let me agree with John that there are no substantial doctrinal differences between Orthodox Churches, but there are differences of culture. Indeed this is why the British Orthodox Church exists as part of the ancient Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, rather than our communities simply being part of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
We have been given the mission of helping people to live out the fullness of the Orthodox Faith in our own British culture, not that we exalt being British above being Egyptian, or Greek, or Russian, but that the Orthodox Faith is for all peoples in all places.
So where there are differences they are generally cultural rather than doctrinal.
Take the issue of language for instance. There are often controversies in the Orthodox Churches when they find themselves in an Anglo-phone context and need to grapple with the choice of language in worship. in my own home town there is a Greek community, but it worships almost entirely in Greek, and though I could probably learn enough Greek to participate in time, it would be very hard for my family, and even harder for any non-Christians who might want to discover Orthodoxy for themselves.
But the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate, which also has to deal with the issue of language, has wisely understood that as British people who are Orthodox it is natural, and appropriate, for us to use English in our worship.
It is also natural and proper for us to venerate the saints of the British Isles, together with those of our Mother Church. We also keep the Western calendar, apart from the Paschal cycle, because in the UK Christmas is kept on the 25th December, and we are British.
These are the sort of things where there are differences between the British Orthodox and other Orthodox.
There are also a variety of cultural and social customs and taboos which have meaning in rural Greece, Russia or Egypt but which are not part of the Orthodox Faith and therefore do not need to be reproduced by British Orthodox. These include some attitudes towards women, but also minority groups like Jews.
I hope this is a little helpful
"Spiritual differences" - John Francis - 25-02-2008
Dear John and Peter
Thank you for your replies.
Having worship in the language of the indigenous country enables the lay person to participate, understand and learn more easily which must be positive.
It is nice to know that there are no substantial doctrinal differences as it would only make my study of the differences between R.C. and Orthodoxy harder.
The only negative that I can see is that when there is a "common" language such as Latin before the changes in the R.C Church was that it enabled understanding of the Mass in any Catholic country.
Many Catholics of my acquaintance still miss the "Old Style" and travel considerable distances for the mass in Latin.
I never knew the mass in Latin so cannot speak from personal experience.
However for the lay person(that includes me) understanding is paramount
In Gods'Love John Francis
- John Charmley - 26-02-2008
Dear John Francis,
Sometimes some Orthodox write as though 'understanding' was not essential; here a linguistic confusion enters into things.
If by that word one means full comprehension of the mystery of the Incarnation and our salvation, then I would agree that we are never going to get there; nor is it needful. But if one means a comprehension of the Scriptures, their import and the language of the Liturgy, then I would argue that we do need to 'understand'.
On another forum an ex-episcopalian who became EO many moons ago asked why, since he had been expected to learn old Church Slavonic, I felt able to become Orthodox without it. My answer was that Acts 15 makes it plain that the yoke should be fixed lightly on the newcomers. If Sts. Cyril and Methodius had taken that point of view then there would have been no service in Old Church Slavonic; and I wonder how many Slavs would have been prepared to learn old Greek?
This is all to confuse the package with its wrapping. Christ spoke in Aramaic and Greek, but His message is universal. Even Latin did not work as a unifier - the Greeks didn't care for it, after all.
One of the many wonderful things about the BOC is that one can worship the Lord in the beauty of the Liturgy of St. James - and understand what one is saying. Having listened, on line, to services in Syriac Churches, the words carry a powerful charge, but I do not understand them. The Coptic Church wisely spotted that Christ came to make Christians, not Copts or Russians - and to adapt a saying of St. Paul, in Him there is neither Old Church Slavonic nor Koine Greek.
In Christ,
"spiritual differences" within the Orthodox Church - kirk yacoub - 28-02-2008
Just to add that,although I attend the Syriac Orthodox Church, where services are in both Syriac and Arabic (inevitably, because 90% of the congregation are from Iraq and most of the rest are from Arab-speaking countries) I have never felt isolated or without understanding. One of the important reasons is that the Church provides two texts for the Liturgy, one in which the Syriac is transliterated into Latin script with an accompanying English translation, the other in which the text is in Syriac,
Garshuni (Syriac transliterated into the Arabic script) and an Arabic translation. The importance of preserving Syriac is immense, it being the everyday language spoken by Christ and His disciples.
Anyone reading the English version of the Liturgy is immediately captivated by the beauty and the piety of the words, and all those who have heard the Syriac intoned and chanted by the choirs and the congregation will immediately sense a spiritual uplify which cannot be described.
Kirk Yacoub
- John Charmley - 29-02-2008
Dear Kirk,
When you write:
Quote: all those who have heard the Syriac intoned and chanted by the choirs and the congregation will immediately sense a spiritual uplify which cannot be describedI can only say: 'Amen!'
Hearing the Lord's prayer in Syriac is a deeply moving experience.
There is a beautiful (sung) example here:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MAEIrp4MF ... re=related
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Great phone and fabulos style. i was thinking to by HTC desire.
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arguably the most infuriatingly arrogant animal in the history of the failing yet oh so grand (and hopefully getting better) experement known as nintendo. has the bad habit of sniggering at players when they dont hit the ever speed increasing ducks.
im gonna freaking KILL THAT DOG!!
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a surfer term meaning a glare or lingering dirty look
when that dude stole my wave I gave him
total stink eye
total stink eye
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The Hawaiian pidgin term for a hard, scornful glare.
I not doin' anykine when some lolo turn an give me stink eye cuz he like beef. (English translation: I wasn't doing anything when some fool turned and gave me a hard look because he wanted to fight.)
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a dirty look
She was giving me the stinkeye, OR I was getting nothing but stinkeye from him.
от duh 12 април 2003
To give someone a really nasty look to show your distaste for them
"Why is Sarah giving me the Stink Eye?"
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a look of contempt or disdain. a loaded glance.
Look, I'm sorry but that's the way it is. Stop being a sour-puss. I see you giving me the stink-eye.
от plsg & smike 14 март 2003
It's like the evil eye, but a little less evil and a lot more stink.
If somebody actually does well on this test they are getting the stink eye from me!
When somebody pisses me off, all I have to do is give them the stink eye and they tremble in fear.
When somebody pisses me off, all I have to do is give them the stink eye and they tremble in fear.
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The dirty glare your boss gives you because it is impossible that you be doing any actual work.
Ross gave the QA team the "Stink Eye"
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HOUSTON, Texas - The Stetson men's soccer team (0-3-0) was defeated by Houston Baptist (2-1-0) on the road by a score of 2-0 on Saturday night. The Hatters, who have played their first three contests of the 2012 campaign on the road, will play its home opener against Jacksonville on Friday, September 7 at 7:00 p.m.
The first half seemed to play evenly for the two squads, as both the Hatters and the Huskies recorded eight shots in the frame. Stetson wasn't able to put any attempts on goal, but did garner three corner kicks to HBU's two.
Unfortunately, an early score from Houston Baptist forced the Hatters to trails the entire first period. The Huskies' Krystopher Tyrpak played a centering ball to Zach Pierce, who beat Stetson goalkeeper Andreas Schnabl to the left side, giving HBU a 1-0 lead in just the 12th minute of play.
As Stetson continued to manufacture attempts to even the score in the second half, none were successful. Seven shots, including three on target, and two corner kicks were not enough to put the Hatters on the board before HBU added to their lead in the 73rd minute.
The Huskies' Christian Cruz stole the ball from the Stetson defense, beat Schnabl in the open field, and scored on an open net to give Houston Baptist a two-score lead late in the contest. The Hatters continued to fight until the end, but it was not enough, as they fell to 0-3-0 on the season with the defeat.
Stetson will now return home after a three-game road trip to start the season. The Hatters host Jacksonville in the home-opener and Atlantic Sun Conference-opener on Friday, September 7 at 7:00 p.m. It will be the first contest for the Stetson men's soccer team on the new game field at the brand new Athletics Training Center.


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CLAYSBURG - Bellwood-Antis senior standout Noah Davis spent the last month on the sideline with a broken wrist.
His return to the Blue Devils' lineup for Saturday night's Inter-County Conference championship game was, in more ways than one, just what the doctor ordered.
Cleared to play Friday after sitting out 25 days and eight games, the 6-foot-6 Davis made his presence known with 11 points and a game-high nine rebounds, helping Bellwood win the ICC title with a 54-40 victory over Northern Bedford at the Claysburg-Kimmel High School gymnasium.
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B-A's Noah Davis was back in action Saturday.
Davis played with his left wrist splinted and taped, and didn't feel 100 percent, but he played well enough to make a big difference in the game and help Bellwood improve its overall record to 20-3.
"It was sore and weak, but I was able to play through the pain,'' Davis said. "I can't really dribble that well, and I could tell that I hadn't played in awhile. But I was able to shake some of the rust off tonight, and help my team get a victory.''
Davis suffered the wrist injury Jan. 21 in the Blue Devils' victory over Claysburg-Kimmel. Bellwood had a 13-1 record before his departure, but lost two games since then.
"I didn't think I was going to come back,'' Davis said. "It was the power of prayer, and the doctors who treated me.''
Bellwood coach Brent Gerwert and the Blue Devils - who open District 6-AA playoff competition against Blairsville Tuesday at Central Cambria High School - are happy to have Davis back.
"It's a great boost,'' Gerwert said. "He gave us that little jolt that we needed tonight. He kind of controlled the paint, and he opens things up for us offensively because he demands the opposition's attention. It's a good lift for us going into the playoffs. ''
Davis was by no means a one-man show Saturday for Bellwood, which also got a game-high 15 points from senior guard Dominic Sisto to go along with 11 points from Davis' younger brother, Nathan, and 10 from senior Seth Worthing.
"We played real well both offensively and defensively,'' Gerwert said. "We didn't make a lot of turnovers, and we did a good job of limiting [Northern Bedford] to one shot.''
Northern Bedford coach Barry Crawford felt that was one of the keys to Saturday's game.
"They played much better than us obviously, and the score indicated that,'' Crawford said. "We spent way too much time on the defensive end, and we weren't patient enough offensively.''
Bellwood - which held a 30-27 advantage in overall rebounds - opened up Saturday's game in the third quarter, extending a three-point halftime lead to 12 points, 40-28 on Sisto's jumper from the key that rolled off the rim and through the basket with 2:14 remaining in the period.
"Dominic Sisto played a great game,'' said Gerwert, whose team went on an eight-point run at the outset of the third quarter that was highlighted by Noah Davis' 3-pointer from the left corner and his steal that set up Sisto's fast-break bucket. "[Sisto] can drive by almost anybody that defends him. We've been stressing at halftime of our games that we've got to be mentally tough for 16 more minutes. We were very patient offensively tonight, and when you're patient, good things happen.''
The game was never in doubt after Bellwood's third-quarter spurt.
Northern Bedford (18-5) got 11 points from junior Zane Snyder and 10 from senior Tayler Pressel, who also grabbed seven rebounds. Northern Bedford will open District 5-AA playoff action Feb. 27 by hosting a semifinal game against an opponent that has yet to be determined.
"We've got to play better than this, or it will be a short run for us in the playoffs,'' Crawford said.
BELLWOOD-ANTIS (54): K. Bartlett 0 0-0 0, Sisto 6 1-4 15, Wyland 3 1-2 7, C. Worthing 0 0-0 0, S. Worthing 4 1-2 10, Na. Davis 1 9-10 11, No. Davis 5 0-0 11, Burch 0 0-0 0, O. Worthing 0 0-0 0, Pearson 0 0-0 0, Burget 0 0-0 0. Totals - 19 12-18 54.
NORTHERN BEDFORD (40): Snyder 3 3-3 11, Diehl 3 0-0 6, Over 2 0-0 6, Z. Pressel 2 3-5 7, T. Pressel 4 1-3 10, England 0 0-0 0, Barnes 0 0-0 0, Litzenberger 0 0-0 0, Cronrath 0 0-0 0, Zimmerman 0 0-0 0. Totals - 14 7-14 40.
Bellwood-Antis14 14 12 14 - 54
Northern Bedford10 15 6 9 - 40
3-point goals: Bellwood-Antis 4 (Sisto 2, S. Worthing, No. Davis); Northern Bedford 5 (Snyder 2, Over 2, T. Pressel).
Records: Bellwood-Antis (20-3); Northern Bedford (18-5).
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Future generations may look back on 2012 as the year the majority of our country took climate destabilization seriously, largely due to record heat waves, droughts and Hurricane Sandy.
Recent polls suggest this is the case, and in his 2013 State of the Union, President Barack Obama explicitly addressed climate change: "We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations."
Shortly after, 35,000 Americans gathered on the Mall in D.C. to urge Obama to deny the Keystone Pipeline.
"For 25 years, our government has basically ignored the climate crisis. ... We shouldn't have to be here — science should have decided our course long ago. But it takes a movement to stand up to all that (oil) money," said Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and a key organizer of the Mall event.
I want to take this insight further to argue that religions also have ignored the climate crisis for 25 years. Mirroring American society at large, we see a slow but inexorable shift toward recognizing climate change as being a deeply ethical and religious matter, one that causes us to dig deeply and re-create our respective covenants with whomever we deem to be the creator's.
Climate change brings an added urgency to the Holy City. We are at its "ground zero" with the emissions of the industrial economy set to trigger a predicted 3-foot rise in sea level this century. If climate models are correct, the standing water on East Bay Street during high tides is only the beginning, and the ports where cargo ships anchor will need to be raised quite a few feet.
We also are at "ground zero" for feeling the impact of ocean acidification, which can trigger the collapse of aquatic food chains and decimate our maritime economy.
Such scenarios call out for sober leadership from politicians and, especially, community leaders.
Religion historically has provided a seedbed from where our society could graft moral concerns onto progressive community change. Climate change may provide yet another occasion for the emergence of ecumenical, interfaith work.
Nationally, such leadership already is emerging. Exemplars include Interfaith Power and Light, the Creation Care movement within evangelical subcircles and Hazon within Judaism.
However, religions in Charleston have been slow to join forces with these national groups although more liberal local religious institutions do have "green" concerns.
The dangers of being at ground zero cut across traditional political, economic, racial and cultural lines. The rising Atlantic cares not if you believe in climate change, or if you believe that this is a fallen world of sin and heaven is all that matters.
Indeed, we are seeing climate-related impacts come true with greater force with each passing year. There is a quip that the proverbial biblical flood, when Noah was tasked with gathering a mating pair of each species, was the original Endangered Species Act.
Unfortunately, such gathering may need repeating in the coming years.
After studying enough religion, naivete is left at the wayside. Humans have and continue to do terrible things in the name of religion (including deny human-caused climate change. See, for example, a letter to the editors in The Post and Courier on Feb. 19, which says climate change is in "the hands of God's jury," yet denies humans are causing it.).
At the same time, in religions we witness what is best in humans. Here we find profound insights that feed into what I call our "cultural commons," and we gain ethical guidance to face environmentally challenging times.
What wisdom can help us prepare for life at ground zero?
From Judaism, we have the call for tikkun olam, or the duty to heal the world. From Islam, we have the example of zakat, or giving 10 percent of income to charitable causes, which may include donating to groups working on halting climate change or groups that are helping the poor and vulnerable throughout the world who are already dealing with climate-related catastrophes.
In Buddhist philosophy, we have the ideal of nonattachment, which could offset the consumerism that runs our society and drives climate change.
Hinduism has the concept of seva, or loving worship of the divine. If the divine is hurting and suffering, then through loving service we can care for and worship the divine.
If our planet is hurting, then through loving service we can provide what Alastair McIntosh calls "planetary hospice" to nurture it back to health.
Secular humanists also offer insights, including their ability to differentiate between religiously motivated culture wars, including wars on science and environmental policies, and rational thinking devoid of demagoguery and fear.
Catholics speak eloquently about social justice, and climate change is indeed a justice issue, both for the Global South and for future generations.
Pagans and naturalistic pantheists offer wisdom about worshipping the embodied divine as a seat of mystery and wonder.
Lastly, climate change is also a pro-life issue, which should unite all people.
The question is: Can Charlestonians move beyond petty, short-sighted politics and disinformation campaigns funded by the Koch Brothers and Big Oil to recognize that we must tap into the cultural commons to come up with some form of Earth-centered ethics that recognizes the reality of life at ground zero?
Or, will we remain wedded to business as usual, in politics and religions, as well as our economics where we worship the consumer market?
At one point, Christianity rightfully pointed out that as individuals we are members of a larger community beholden to one another for good or ill. Such pointed language might be appropriate again. We cannot legislate nor consume our way back to stable ice caps.
Maybe it is time for an 11th Commandment: "Thou shalt not emit greenhouse gases." Or to frame it positively: "Thou shalt celebrate and protect the creation."
Todd LeVasseur lives on Folly Beach and has a doctorate in religion with an emphasis on religion and nature, religion and science, and environmental ethics.


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Dinner together at the table, where Carter sings the Pick-A-Pick-A-Pumpkin song, Noah giggles uncontrollably, and Gray steals all my broccoli.
Life of the Day, Day 02.
That sounds like a good day!ReplyDelete
Sounds good that a child eats broccoli......ReplyDelete
My husband would love for someone to steal his broccoli.ReplyDelete
Sounds like an awesome end to a wonderful day!!!ReplyDelete
Sounds like a good night to me.ReplyDelete
Laughter, love... and a broccoli thief! Sounds like a perfect night!
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and what a wonderful dinner that must have been!ReplyDelete
I love the idea that you are going to post something beautiful about each day. When you search for something special and see the good, your day will just naturally have that extra colour or spring to your step!ReplyDelete
You gotta love a toddler consuming broccoli!
I love dinner time stories. My favorite time of day.ReplyDelete
The stealing brocolli part alone would make my day! To have a child who loves veggies should make any mama insanely giddy!
Sounds like a great day, Steph. :)
I love that scarf! And um, my kids would love it if Gray would come over and eat their broccoli!ReplyDelete
Love my new scarf...now if we would only have cold weather so I can wear it!ReplyDelete
I know it's a sign I have to make more food for dinner when my kids start taking food from my plate.ReplyDelete
One project done...how many to go? hehe...at least Gray is stealing broccoli and not cookies! :)ReplyDelete
Happiness is such a fragile thing until we remember how monumentally blessed we are.ReplyDelete
Did I miss what this day 2, day 3, day 4 posts are all about? I can't find the number 1 post to figure it out on my own LOLReplyDelete


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How much does a new high-efficiency clothes washer cost?
High-efficiency washers start at about $550 and go up from there to over $1,000. Good quality standard clothes washers typically sell for $450 - $550, so the high-efficiency machines are definitely more expensive.
However, if you are in the market for a clothes washer, consider that the water, wastewater, and energy savings from a high-efficiency machine may well make up the cost difference in just a few months or years. You can use the payback calculator below to determine if a high-efficiency machine makes sense for you and your family. A higher efficiency machine will use less water and also energy when less water is heated for each warm water wash cycle. The higher the efficiency of the machine, the lower the Water Factor (measure of water used per cycle per cubic foot size of machine).
To sweeten the deal, some water and/or electric utilities now offer financial incentives for purchasing a high-efficiency washer. You can contact your water or electric utility for information about any incentive (or rebate) programs. If such a program exists in your area, the clothes washer salesperson is likely to know about it.p>
High efficiency clothes washers are now offered by almost all the leading manufacturers and should be available wherever clothes washers are sold. For a list of stores in your area, try the ENERGY STAR store locator. All you need is a zip code!
High-Efficiency Clothes Washer Dollars and Sense
The savings you will achieve with a new high-efficiency clothes washer will depend primarily on the make and model you select. If your current washer is a standard top-loading model purchased sometime in the past 30 years, it is a pretty safe bet that it uses about 40 gallons per load of clothes.
Water Costs
Clothes washers have a significant impact on water and sewer costs. The national average for water and sewer costs is estimated to be $2.84 per 1000 gallons. This brings the estimated total cost for water and sewer over the life of the clothes washer to be around $660 (based on 8 loads of clothes a week for 14 years).
Energy Costs
A standard clothes washer will cost almost $1,100 in energy to operate over its lifetime (based on 8 loads of clothes a week for 14 years, using 13,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity at an average cost of 8.6 cents per kilowatt-hour).
A typical clothes dryer will also cost $1,100 to operate over its lifetime.
The total estimated cost to operate a clothes washer over the life of the product is $1,700 plus $1,100 for the drier.
These values are estimates and your costs may be different depending upon how much you use your appliances and the cost of water, sewer, and energy in your area.
To estimate specific energy costs for your household in your area visit the ENERGYguide "home analyzer" feature.
Water and Energy Savings
A high-efficiency clothes washer saves you money on water, sewer, and energy. The energy use of clothes dryers is affected by how much moisture remains in the clothes from the washer, so the effectiveness of the spin cycle of the clothes washer is important.
A high-efficiency washer reduces water (and hence sewer) usage by about 40%. Hence the estimated operating costs over the life of the appliance will be reduced from $660 to $400 – a savings of $260.
Hot water usage in high-efficiency machines is also reduced by about 40%. Since 90% of the energy costs of running a clothes washer is for heating water and 10% is for running the electric motor the life-of-the-appliance energy costs are estimated to reduce from $1,100 to $700 – a savings of $400.
If the washer you purchase reduces moisture content in the clothes by 15%, drying time is estimated to be reduced by the same amount. This adds an additional $160 in savings.
The total estimated savings from a high-efficiency machine are then estimated to be $820 over the life of the appliance or just under $60 per year>.1 In areas with higher water, sewer, and electricity charges the annual savings may be substantially higher.
Payback Period and Life Cycle Cost
To calculate the payback period for a new high-efficiency clothes washer you must first determine the cost difference between the high-efficiency model and comparable standard machine and then divide by the estimated annual water, sewer, and energy savings.
For example, a high-efficiency front loading clothes washer may cost $750. A standard top loading machine with similar features may cost $480. The cost difference is then $270. If we assume a $60 annual savings, the payback period is then 270/60 = 4.5 years. A 4.5 year payback period is well within the 14 year expected life of the clothes washer so purchasing the high-efficiency washer makes sound economic sense.
Life cycle cost is simply the added cost over the life of the clothes washer of your utility bills combined to the initial cost of the washing machine. Many people simply look at the few hundred dollar cost difference initially rather than the monthly and yearly cost savings that add up over the lifetime of the washing machine. Significant savings can be seen when different models are compared based on "life cycle cost." The Energy Guide label (see Energy Savings page) further describes the life cycle cost for each model when you are comparing in-store models.
Using Energy Guide Labels you can figure out the Life Cycle Costs of any appliance. The cost of an appliance over its expected lifetime can be computed using the annual energy cost you calculate using this formula:
Lifetime Cost of a Home Appliance=
Purchase Price + Annual Energy x Estimated Lifetime x Discount Rate
Common assumptions may include:
1Actual savings may be more or less depending upon utility costs in your area and the frequency that you use your appliances.


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The Buckeye Branch operates on the grounds of the London Correctional Institution (LoCI), which houses an average of 2,500 minimum and medium security inmates. The LoCI Buckeye Branch is proud to commit to the following educational programs:
The Ohio Central School System maintains a high school at the London Correctional Institution. The LoCI Buckeye Branch provides the opportunity for inmates to complete the required courses to obtain a high school diploma. The high school staff is fully licensed to teach the subjects they have been assigned. The high school program provides an in depth educational experience offering students a broad understanding of the subject matter.
The individual attention each student receives allows the student a better opportunity to graduate. Teachers encourage their students to develop a love of learning. Students need to develop new ways of thinking and living. In today's workplace a greater emphasis is placed on education. This is just one example of education and reentry at work at the LoCI Buckeye Branch.


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Dirk Nowitzki (41) of the Dallas Mavericks posts up against Earl Clark (6) of the Los Angeles Lakers at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on Sunday, February 24, 2013.
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Stetson freshman Simon Julin was honored with a spot in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's (ITA) Southeast Regional Rankings on January 3. He became the first player in Stetson history to be ranked regionally after just one semester of competition.
"Simon had a great fall and it is well deserved," Director of Tennis Pierre Pilote said of the accolades. "Unfortunately he missed our first tournament while waiting to be cleared by the NCAA eligibility center. I believe that he would have made it into the national rankings if he could have played our full schedule of events.
"When you become the first to accomplish anything in program history, it is significant," Pilote continued. "We have had numerous nationally and regionally ranked players in the past but none after their first semester of action."
Julin went 6-1 this fall in his first collegiate action, and was recognized for his play with a ranking of 14 in the Southeast. The freshman was joined on the list of 20 by Atlantic Sun Conference competitor Moritz Buerchner of North Florida.
Julin and the Stetson men's tennis team begins play in 2013 at home against St. John's on January 24.


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The Code for America brigade effect | Opensource.com
The Code for America brigade effect
Have you ever seen results from your community engagement and realized the impact of your efforts? We recently told you about the LocalWiki project and shared some of the results from the Triangle Wiki day event. But then our friends at Code for America took it a step further.
The co-founders of LocalWiki were in the Code for America offices last week to see how they could build on the success of the Code Across America event. They took the data--633 page edits, 100 maps, and 138 new photos--and amplified it.
The enthusiasm from the event is captured in a simple graph that tracks edits since the start of the TriangleWiki project in October 2011. You'll notice a significant spike on February 25. It graphically shows the impact of engaging community members with multiple talents—citizens, writers, historians, photographers, and yes, developers. As a result, the impact has been dubbed 'the brigade effect.'
Do you have a similar story to share?
Kevin Curry contributed to this post.
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I'm glad to see these results quantified, as it's sometimes hard to gauge results of a good group of people coming together to do work, what you're referring to as the brigade effect.
Morale of the story: Spend a good amount of time building your tribe, and you will be handsomely rewarded with great collaboration while possibly having a lot of fun.
Great article, awesome way to demonstrate how opening up to the community, showing them they have a voice and can be heard brings that community together.


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Serves 10 |
Prep Time 20 minutes |
Cook Time 30 minutes
.88 ounces Eden Sliced Shiitake Mushrooms, 1 package, soaked 10 minutes in 2 c. warm water
1/2 cup Eden Maitake Mushrooms, soaked 10 minutes in 1 cup warm water
5 cups kombu dashi (soup stock), see Eden's recipevegetable stock, or water
3 Tbsp Eden Bonito Flakes, crumbled, optional
3 Tbsp Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1 clove garlic, finely minced
1 medium onion, finely chopped
1/2 tsp Eden Sea Salt
1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
1/2 tsp Eden Kamut & Quinoa Twisted Pair® Gemellior Eden Spelt Ziti Rigati
2 Tbsp fresh parsley, finely minced
2 cups Eden Sauerkraut, do not drain
Remove the shiitake and maitake from the soaking water, and finely chop. Reserve the soaking water.
Heat the oil in a medium soup pot and sauté the onions and mushrooms for 5 to 7 minutes. Add the garlic and sauté another 2 to 3 minutes. Add the sauerkraut and sauerkraut juice, kombu dashi, crumbled bonito flakes, sea salt and pepper. Cover and simmer for 25 to 30 minutes. Add the pasta and cook until tender, about 7 to 10 minutes. Stir in the parsley and serve.
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OpenStreetMap earns large grant from Knight Foundation
OpenStreetMap makes first open map of the world
Which mapping system do you use the most?
Everyone is talking about maps lately. Google maps are no longer on the iPhone. Apple maps have some serious bugs. Luckily, open source maps are making a move.
MapBox contributes to the open source project, OpenStreetMap, and just announced a $575,000 grant from the Knight Foundation. OpenStreetMap has been called a "Wikipedia-like project" that is creating the only editable map of the world (according to MapBox's blog). It was also built on open platforms, like GitHub. They plan to use the grant to help improve the core infrastructure by making it easier to add data and implementing social networking features.
MapBox is a cloud-based map publishing platform launched in 2010. They allow you to overlay your data with publicly available maps, or you can design your own (according to CrunchBase).
"It has been fantastic working with Knight Foundation over the past few months—their team really understands the value of open data. This grant is a key investment at a critical time in the geo data and web mapping space, and Knight Foundation is being smart by moving quickly and investing in much needed infrastructure in an open and sustainable way. This is our third Knight grant over the past five years, and we think the work it allows will make our biggest impact yet," said Alex Barth, leader of the MapBox data team on their blog.
OpenStreetMap and MapBox are growing rapidly. Apple recently used OpenStreetMap for location data in iPhoto for the iPhone, and MapBox is used by Foursquare and NPR.
If you're interested in keeping tabs on OpenStreetMap and MapBox, you can follow @ericg on Twitter. They plan to start delivering code in November and December.
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The OpenStreetMap Foundation is a not-for-profit, founded in the UK to own and maintain the core infrastructure of the OpenStreetMap project. You can support OpenStreetMap directly, by donating to the OpenStreetMap Foundation.
OpenStreetMap is a Free / Libre and Open Source Software project, as well as an Open Data project. You can also contribute directly to OpenStreetMap by:
- Mapping your neighbourhood and contributing data to OSM.
- Writing, testing or documenting code for OSM.
- Using OSM data and code and feeding back the improvements.
Or you might contribute indirectly by writing and winning a grant, then writing some code which might eventually get adopted by the OpenStreetMap Foundation to then, finally become core infrastructure of OpenStreetMap.
I hope that they do write and contribute code that is so good that it becomes critical to OpenStreetMap. Many individual developers before them have done so. I hope that they do as well.
It is premature to call any unwritten software Core Infrastructure. Their goal is admirable. I hope that they are able to eventually attain it.
I'll definitively create an account and contribute to enhance my neighbourhood and the place I've already knowledge about.
Keep up the great work
google maps is still the best and was the fundamental.
Once you switch to OSMAND in your android device, you'll forget about Google maps. OSM is so much better for my uses, because you don't need permanent connection to use the cached maps. One can cache all the world with highest detail and and use it where google maps would choke without internet. Add to this - no google tracking and the choice is even more easy. Besides the quality is really fantastic. This summer I made extensive tests and now no looking back to google product.


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The 3 Most Depressing Minor Characters in Famous Movies
I'm not great at dealing with human beings and their feelings. Sometimes a person does that thing with their face where it changes into a shape that is altogether unpleasant and there's no way I can make the face go back to normal, even with money and snacks. Close friends are kind enough to realize that they'd have a better shot at receiving empathy if they talked their problems out with friends that aren't me, or helpful-looking strangers, or a dog of above-average intelligence. I'm great for remembering where people parked and untangling difficult knots, but absolute dogshit at helping you deal with emotional issues.
This problem (which I am in no way working to fix) probably stems from the fact that all of my empathy is reserved for the fictional characters on my television and movie screen. My heart breaks not just for the obvious candidates -- your Eponines, your Bambis, your Misters T, and so on -- but for every sad character, even and especially the minor ones that I feel like no one else is paying attention to.
#3. Unnamed Lonely Bus Driver (Mrs. Doubtfire)
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In Mrs. Doubtfire, Robin Williams has to dress up as a sweet Irish lady and pose as a nanny in a misguided attempt to be closer to his children. He does a bunch of voices, there are some shenanigans, there's obviously a scene where he has to balance dinner with his family as his widowed alter ego Mrs. Doubtfire and a dinner with his boss as himself at the same time in the same restaurant. It is, in general, one of the most '90s movies ever made. When annoyingly young people ask me what the '90s were like, I show them Mrs. Doubtfire, Space Jam, Independence Day, and The Rock.
In between shenanigans and montages set to Aerosmith songs, we meet a sweet old bus driver played by the late Sydney Walker.
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Williams as Doubtfire has to take a late bus home from work most nights, and this bus driver is usually the only other person on the bus. When he sees her, he smiles and sweetly flirts with her. It's cute. And the audience watching along is supposed to laugh because, hehehe, the bus driver doesn't realize he's flirting with a guy!
There was no reason for the movie to follow up with this guy because the character only exists as a joke. (In the less sensitive and politically correct '90s, "Man likes other man but doesn't know it!" was an incredibly popular punchline.) I don't know what went wrong in my brain to make me this way, but I think about that guy all the time. To begin with, he's a lonely old man who works the late shift for a bus that is almost always empty. He's obviously single, which means his wife either died or left him, or he still hasn't managed to find someone yet. Then he meets a woman who seems sweet and seems his age and isn't rebuffing his advances, so he probably suspects she's single. Available women his age are probably hard to come by, and now he's found a pretty one that actually seems to like him; he must feel pretty lucky.
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This was his Basic Instinct.
He also seems like just the sweetest man. When he sees Mrs. Doubtfire's bare legs covered in the thick and wild fur that is Robin Williams' natural pelt, he doesn't balk or abandon his flirtation like some other, more shallow men might. He accepts Mrs. Doubtfire, bear-like legs and all, as "Natural. Healthy. Just the way God made you."
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I think about this man and the way he looks and smiles at Mrs. Doubtfire, and I can't help but think that seeing this woman and briefly getting the opportunity to flirt with her is the highlight of his day. Maybe tonight'll be the night I ask her out. Nothing big, just a cup of coffee or something, I imagine him saying to himself at his house, alone, because I'm the kind of person who thinks like that, because I'm a lunatic.
Or maybe he'll never ask her out because he doesn't need to. I say this as a guy who has been nervous, awkward, and lonely in his life: Sometimes seeing the courage you muster to flirt with a stranger rewarded with the smile of a pretty girl is enough to carry you through anything. Maybe the few minutes every night that he gets to spend admiring the beautiful stranger is keeping this sweet old (fictional, remember that he's fictional, Daniel) man going. A nightly flirting routine that reminds him of his younger days, when he had the time and opportunity to flirt with beautiful women. Every night he gets to time travel to the swagger of his youth.
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"You're my tropical island in an ocean of bus-hobo pee."
Mrs. Doubtfire gets her own TV show by the end of the movie. That means the bus driver is going to see it, check the credits, find out that it's Robin Williams in a wig, and just crash. I'm not saying this is a Crying Game situation, where he'll freak out because he's horrified for being attracted to a man; I'm saying he'll be crushed when he finds out that the harmless, nightly flirting ritual with the attractive stranger was just a bunch of bullshit. It was probably hard enough on the bus driver when Mrs. Doubtfire suddenly stopped showing up on his bus route -- now he has to find out she doesn't even exist?
Back to the lonely bus route. The only thing he has.


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The art of getting another interested party to invest in your good time and assume the financial responsibility of yourself or group, usually occuring in a club and/or bar setting.
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