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NEW YORK, March 11, 2005-Vasila, an 11-year-old Afghani girl, has a beaming smile, a bold singing voice, five brothers and sisters, a house they and their parents share with six other families and, between the 20 children who live there, one toy: a little plastic doll without arms or legs. Vasila also has a congenital heart defect that could take her life if it is not treated within six months. Now, thanks to an anonymous donation to "Vasila's Heart"-a new fund at Project Kids Worldwide-she has something else as well: hope.
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Dictionary » P » Paste Pastepaste 1. A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware. 2. Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough. 3. A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water, or the like, used for uniting paper or other substances, as in bookbinding, etc, also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or colour. 4. A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously coloured, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See strass. 5. A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc. 6. (Science: chemical) The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded. (Science: zoology) Paste eel, the vinegar eel. See Vinegar. Origin: OF. Paste, F. Pate, L. Pasta, fr. Gr. Barley broth; cf. Barley porridge, sprinkled with salt, to sprinkle. Cf. Pasty, Patty. Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page Results from our forumPopulation Genetics QuestionsFor problem 1, paste sequences in Word and change font to Courier New. It would allow you to align them. Once you do that, you will see that seq. 4 does not fit. Thus, that seq. is of the reverse strand. You will need to create reverse ...
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Help - Why can't DNA be parallel?... thing I made up. First image is it normally, the second is my interpretation: http://i.imgur.com/DPbK1.jpg All I did was copy and paste the strand, and flipped it horizontally. I also changed the base pairs so they would match up... Do you guys see what I mean? I feel like 5'-3' ...
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Re: Natural selection ends in absurdity or nonsenseI invite forum members to copy and paste just about any portion of jumma's quotes into a search engine (with quote marks to get more relevant results). This stuff has been around for years and has made the rounds of many forums (including ...
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Connect ClustalwFor sure it should be possible to do that online. At least you can copy-paste your sequences ;) What server do you use? Similarly for the offline version. There must be some way how to feed the data. Do you have some manual or something?
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I am in search of a color to paint our living room, we painted the dining room Benjamin Moore Anganthus Green with BM frostine trim - it turned out beautiful, now trying to find a complimentary color to paint the living room, lr is a dark room - only two windows, home is a center entrance colonial, dining room and living room are seperated by enrty and stairway which is painted frostine. Looking for a color sugestion to compliemnt the aganthus green and bring some light into the living room, trying to stay away from grays as they are too dark. Thank you! |
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The National Football League Players Association is doing all it can to get Aaron Hernandez money it feels is due him from the New England Patriots.
According to multiple reports, the players union has filed a pair of grievances on behalf of Hernandez that seek to compel the team to pay a total of $6.2 million to its former tight end.
The Patriots signed Hernandez in 2012 to a contract extension that was potentially worth $40 million through 2018. The team cut Hernandez and voided the contract in June, when he was arrested and charged with the murder of 27-year-old semipro football player Odin Lloyd.
Hernandez, 23, has pleaded not guilty, and is being held without bail.
One of the grievances filed this week seeks the final installment of Hernandez's $12.5-million signing bonus -- a sum of $3.25 million, which is due to be paid in March.
The other seeks to require that the team pay Hernandez his contractually guaranteed base salaries of $1.3 million for 2013 and $1.1 million, plus a $500,000 bonus, in 2014.
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Tom Karst, National EditorI saw a link on the Drudge Report the day after Christmas that the "Christmas overload" of online shopping resulted in some unfulfilled promises for deliveries from online marketers.
The Wall Street Journal's Shelly Banjo wrote in the story "Shipping overload leaves many giftless" that "many shoppers are blaming online retailers for stealing Christmas."
Online companies Amazon.com, Kohl's and Wal-Mart overpromised and under delivered, resulting in some empty wrapped presents with only a promise of the coming gift.
That was not my experience. I ordered a several things from Amazon on Dec. 20 and Dec. 21 and received them all before Christmas Eve night. Being a member of Amazon Prime, the selections were sent without a shipping charge.
The bliss I felt in ordering these items online was wonderful. I didn't have to point my car to the vast and un-welcoming mall, with its slushy parking lots, distracting crowds, over-picked merchandise and long checkout lines. The packages arrived on my doorstep magically, as if delivered by brown-clad elves.
I have to admit I like this online shopping. It suits me.
But does it suit consumers of fresh produce? The expansion of Amazon Fresh into the San Francisco market grabbed headlines recently and sparked conversation about the future of online retailing of fresh foods and grocery items.
In coverage for The Packer, I talked with Bill Bishop, chief architect of Brick Meets Click and chairman of Barrington, Ill.-based Willard Bishop Consulting, about the emergence of online retailing. He said online buying and home delivery may appeal to a mix of customers, including time-starved working parents, millienials and some older shoppers.
Yes, but is online ordering and home delivery really poised to become a viable business model? It appears so, more and more.
Statistics from Brick Meets Click show about 11% of shoppers have purchased food online in the past month. Online grocery shopping accounts for about 3% of purchases across all banners now, but that share could expand to anywhere from 7% to 17% by 2023, according to projections from Brick Meets Click.
I recently asked members of The Packer Market for their observations about online retailing.
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Homeowners, co-op owners and building owners and landlords from Clinton Hill, Fort Greene; Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Bedford Stuyvesant, Park Slope, Flatbush and Windsor Terrace are invited to attend a Wednesday May 23rd Owners' Night at P.S 316 organized by the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD). The event is co-sponsored by Council Member Letitia James who represents Council District 35 and State Senator Eric Adams who represents Senatorial District 20, which include the neighborhoods mentioned above.
The event will provide information on the availability of HPD services such as low-interest loans, housing violations correction and assistance with mortgages and refinancing as well as HPD courses including building management and maintenance, expense reduction strategies and owner-tenant relations. Attendees will watch a DVD entitled "Services for Residential Property Owners" that presents HPD's services and rehabilitation loan programs. A panel of experts from HPD will then answer questions from the audience.
HPD Commissioner Shaun Donovan said, "Many property owners are unaware of the assistance that is available for maintaining and improving their properties. The Owners' Nights provide opportunities to put people in touch with assistance they can use. Maintaining and preserving New York City's housing stock and encouraging investment in infrastructure improvements to homes and apartment buildings is a fundamental objective of Mayor Bloomberg's New Housing Marketplace Plan, a $7.5 billion plan to create and preserve 165,000 affordable housing units for 500,000 New Yorkers over ten years."
Council Member Letitia James said: "HPD's Owners' Night is an important event for property owners because it provides invaluable information, assistance and counseling, straight from the source. Preserving, maintaining and protecting the housing stock in Brooklyn is of the utmost importance to me and the constituents that I serve. By focusing on the maintenance and improvement of properties, we are securing the economic future for Brooklyn."
HPD's Owner Services Program travels from borough to borough, educating residential property owners about the availability of low-interest loans, free educational classes on subjects such as lead paint, energy conservation and fair housing as well as free owner counseling. Launched in February 2001, Owners' Nights in neighborhoods such as Morrisania in the Bronx and Park Slope in Brooklyn have drawn more than 10,000 property owners to events across New York City.
WHAT: Owners' Night, a program by the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development
WHEN: Wednesday May 23rd 6:00pm to 8:00pm
WHERE: P.S 316 (Auditorium), Entrance Corner of Park Place, 750 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238.
DIRECTIONS: 2, 3, 4 and 5 trains to to Franklin Ave. Station.
SEATING IS LIMITED: PLEASE RSVP BY CALLING 212-863-7054 OR 311 BY MAY 21th
For information on upcoming Owners' Nights and other resources HPD makes available to building owners call 311 or log on to www.nyc.gov/hpd
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The Department of Housing Preservation and Development's mission is to promote quality housing and viable neighborhoods for New Yorkers. The department is the nation's largest municipal housing development agency and is implementing Mayor Bloomberg's New Housing Marketplace Plan to build and preserve 165,000 units of affordable housing over ten years. The New Housing Marketplace Plan is the largest municipal affordable housing effort in the nation's history. HPD also encourages the preservation of affordable housing through education, outreach, loan programs and enforcement of housing quality standards.


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Leaders from two of the nation's largest gay rights foundations will help raise money for students and organizations in Montana during a fundraiser at Corby Skinner's historic house on Friday, Jan. 25, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Kris Hermanns, the executive director of the Pride Foundation, and Tim Sweeney, CEO and president of the Gill Foundation, will speak about the state of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality movement in Montana and the impact of recent marriage equality wins in the region.
Sweeney, a Billings native and graduate of the University of Montana, joined the Gill Foundation as executive director in October 2007, bringing three decades of leadership experience in the movement to advance equality for all Americans. Prior to joining Gill Foundation, Sweeney worked to build national efforts to support the rights of lesbian and gay couples to civil marriage and provided support for organizations implementing a California law that safeguards the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.
From 1986 to 1993, Sweeney led the Gay Men's Health Crisis, helping to build the largest community-based HIV/AIDS service, prevention and advocacy organization in the world. Under his leadership, the organization formed a national coalition to press Washington to pass anti-discrimination legislation. Working with allies, they secured passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Ryan White Care Act.
Hermanns is a self-described "country girl" from rural Wisconsin, with nearly two decades' experience and expertise as a program manager, fundraiser and nonprofit administrator.
Before joining Pride Foundation last year, she was the deputy director at the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Prior to that, she was a program officer with The Rhode Island Foundation, where she created Equity Action, a field-of-interest fund for LGBTQ concerns, and developed the grant-making program for the Women's Fund of Rhode Island. Hermanns earned a master's degree from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
In addition to her professional work, Hermanns served on the board of directors of Funders for LGBTQ Issues and is a shareholder in the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League.
Skinner, a Pride Foundation volunteer, will provide appetizers and beverages in the castle house, located at 622 N. 29th St. The event is free, but donations to support Pride Foundation's grants and scholarships in Montana are encouraged.
Seattle-based Pride Foundation has made a big splash in Montana since hiring on-the-ground staff two years ago. There are now six times as many donors in the state, and an active statewide board that includes Shelley Hayes of the Billings Clinic and Aaron Browning, principal at Hilltop Public Solutions.
Last month, Pride Foundation awarded $23,000 in grant funds to 10 Montana organizations, including Billings-based Yellowstone AIDS Project and TAP 365.
According to Montana Regional Development Organizer Caitlin Copple, Montana is part of a larger national trend toward greater acceptance of people, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.
Founded in 1985, Pride Foundation is dedicated to inspiring a culture of generosity to connect and strengthen organizations, leaders and students who are creating LGBTQ equality across the Northwest states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. To learn more, visit pridefoundation.org or email email@example.com.


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FNH Audio presents a complete and unabridged reading of H.P. Lovecraft's famous story "At the Mountains of Madness". The story is related by one of the two survivors from a polar expedition. Unlike other polar explorers who may have died from cold, starvation or simply getting lost, in this story things are somewhat different.
The survivor is desperate to prevent a new polar expedition because there are "beings" there, strange murderous beings. There are things that man should not see beyond the recently discovered mountains at the pole. Scientists listening to the story told by the survivors have assumed that the teller has gone mad because what they describe just cannot be. Or can they...
"Starts strong but goes downhill"
Possibly. This is the second Lovecraft book I've tried and while the stories show great promise with their ideas, the actual telling of them makes them fall short of the mark. Lovecraft uses seven words, when two will do. This makes for an extremely frustrating listen as I wanted him to do was get to the damned point and go on with the story. The look started out strong. The plot moved forward at a nice pace and had me glued. However when Dyer and Danforth start their exploration of the lost city, the pace grinds to a crawl as Lovecraft tells us the history of the Elder Ones and the Shoggoths. While this information is welcome and necessary, it goes on for ages. The whole second third of the book focuses on this and there are whole chapters that consist of Dyer musing on these facts as he and Danforth move from room to room. By the time the book approached the end, I just wanted it to be over.
The discovery of the Elder Ones and the mystery surrounding them. I particularly enjoyed the sense of foreshadowing they gave as the dogs couldn't stand to be near them. You knew something was going t go terribly wrong.
Maybe. I found Herriot to be very underwhelming. Perhaps this is due to the way the book was written. But there was hardly any emotion to his performance.
Most definitely. Guillermo del Toro has been trying to make this movie for over a decade. I firmly believe that it would be far more entertaining as a movie, and if del Toro made it, you could be assured of brilliant creature design and effects. He also knows how to create that sense of the weird and disturbing.
I would have liked to hear more of the monstrous beings in the higher mountain range that even the Elder Ones were afraid of. The mystery surrounding these hardly-mentioned horrors intrigued me greatly.
Let's face it, these authors aren't paying me, so there's no need to lie!!
"GREAT story, HORRIBLE music!"
IMPORTANT-- This would be 4.5 stars IF it didn't have the HORRIBLE, LOUD, STARTLING music every 15 minutes, interrupting the story. The narrator is good enough. The story is VERY cool, especially for how old it is. But, seriously, the music will come out of nowhere and scare the CRAP out of you!!
This is the genisis of all those stories like The Thing, Alien vs Preditor. There is nothing like discovering where all the great sc-fi horror has come from. This is the seed of so much of what I have read in the last 20 years. In the begining there was Lovecraft.
"A bit disapointed!"
Probably. FNH did a good job. However the story was so tediously filled with details that it detracts from the events and ruins its premise.
He could have added more momentum to the story. He hints of horrors and scares throughout the book, but never gets there. I did find only a single scene near the begining as somewhat scary.
He has an academic pronunciation which suits the story perfectly.
"Great story."
No, but that doesn't mean it isn't great still.
I can not speak it.
He knew when to raise the suspense and that worked really well for me.
Yes, I have read it before I just wanted see how it would sound in audio form.
Such a spooky story, creeps me out every time.
"Enjoyable story!"
I think many listeners will enjoy the stories of HPL even more when they are read by a good reader. Some of his style is hard for people to read compared to modern writers that they may like better at a first read. I've had more than one person that I have tried to turn on to his work tell me later that he too difficult to keep interested in long enough to finish the story. Especially some of the Cthulhu stuff can be very tedious to read, but if someone reads it to you it seems to go much faster and is even more enjoyable.
It's pretty tough to compare HPL to anybody else from his era. His style of writing wasn't always the most polished, but his creativity and originality was in a league of his own. I am surprised there haven't really been any modern filmmakers that have been able to nail any of his ideas on film. Most of the films inspired by his stories have been pretty lame which is sad because he really was ahead of his time in many ways.
FNH does a pretty good job, especially with all the difficult to pronounce names, etc. His vocal style is a bit monotone, but other than that I enjoy his reading very much.
I think I'll stay away from trying that...I'm better at criticizing than coming up with my own ideas!
Can't wait to download more HPL.
"Great Reading of the infamous novel"
Great production value
That it's totally unabridged and you can drink in every detail.
Elocution intonation dramatization and even breathing
When they run from the Shogaths
"Not the best, not the worst"
Maybe. There may be more
Great British accent. He also made a convincing academic and brought some emotion to what could have been dry text.
The music at the end and beginning of each chapter grows old.
"Pretty good story, great production"
I liked the 'steampunk' feel of it- written at a time when Antarctica was little known and science was in early days it is a great 'alternative history' of polar exploration.
The structure of the story doesn't really do the ending justice- there as so many heavy hints only the dumbest listerner couldn't figue out what is coming next. That is Lovecraft's fault, not the productions'.
It is all narrated as the view of one party so this question is not relevant.
The Antarctic Horror?
"very enjoyable"
Intriguing, captivating, spine tingling
William Dyer
excellent narration
Come see this movie even though it has Tom Cruise
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22 After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea, and there He tarried with them, and baptized. | 22 After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. |
23 And John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized, | 23 Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were constantly coming to be baptized. |
24 for John had not yet been cast into prison. | 24 (This was before John was put in prison.) |
25 Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. | 25 An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew over the matter of ceremonial washing. |
26 And they came unto John and said unto him, "Rabbi, He that was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou bearest witness -- behold, the same baptizeth and all men come to Him." | 26 They came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan--the one you testified about--well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him." |
27 John answered and said, "A man can receive nothing, unless it be given him from Heaven. | 27 To this John replied, "A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. |
28 Ye yourselves bear me witness that I said, `I am not the Christ,' but that `I am sent before Him.' | 28 You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ but am sent ahead of him.' |
29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy, therefore, is fulfilled. | 29 The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom's voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. |
30 He must increase, but I must decrease. | 30 He must become greater; I must become less. |
31 "He that cometh from above is above all; he that is of the earth is earthly and speaketh of the earth. He that cometh from Heaven is above all. | 31 "The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. |
32 And what He hath seen and heard, to that He testifieth, and no man receiveth His testimony. | 32 He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. |
33 He that hath received His testimony hath set his seal to this: that God is true. | 33 The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. |
34 For He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God, for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him. | 34 For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit. |
35 The Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hand. | 35 The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. |
36 He that believeth in the Son hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him." | 36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him." |
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Reviewed Millionaire's Shortbread
May 30, 2011 in Food Network Community Toolbox on FoodNetwork.com
"For someone with very little baking experience this recipe was really easy! I didn't have any 8" pans so I used a cookie sheet and I also used a mixer to make the shortbread. It turned out great and there was enough caramel and chocolate to cover the whole sheet. All in all it was easy and everyone loved it!""


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Three stars of the game:
3rd star: Bryce Salvador (2 assists, 23:37 ice time)
2nd star: Chris Kreider (Rangers – 1 goal)
1st star: David Clarkson (Game-winning goal, 3 shots)
"Every goal he scores is a game winner. I hope he can get 7 more." Those were the words of Ilya Kovalchuk in his postgame interview at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night. He was referring to David Clarkson's third period goal that held up as the game-winning goal that tied the Eastern Conference Finals at one game apiece after dropping Game 1 on Monday night. The Devils got the job done, winning 3-2, and will make the short trip across the Hudson River before Saturday's Game 3 against the Rangers.


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Hi! I'm jamie, 30 years old, divorced a couple years now. Before i got married, I had no clue how to cook other than simple top ramens or pasta ronis. Although, the women in my family (mom, aunt, grandma, great grandma, etc) were amazing cooks. One of the wedding gifts I recieved was an handwritten cookbook from my grandmother who collected all the family recipes from over the years, it is so treasured to me. I began my journey in cooking though that cookbook, and now i consider myself a pretty good cook ;p at least i've been told so!! :)
Hope you will give some of my recipes a try! And if you do, please leave a review... i love to hear what people think of the dishes, good and bad. I truly enjoy cooking and am always looking for ways to make my dishes yummier and irrestible!


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Name: Cheyenne Status: student Grade: 9-12 Location: AL
Do the salt we use really come from the ocean and if so about what percentage of salt do we take and about what percentage is left?
If you mean table salt, I think the vast majority of it is mined, not evaporated from the ocean. At least in the US anyway. Sea salt is from the ocean, and you can get that if you want.
The amount of sea salt taken from the ocean for human use is so extraordinarily small, I hesitate to calculate. The oceans overall volume is 1.3 billion cubic kilometers, roughly. So making the math easy, let us call it 1 billion cubic kilometers, which in liters is 1 followed by 21 zeroes. 1 liter of water weighs roughly 1 kilogram (actually more for seawater). Roughly 3-4% of seawater is salt. That means there are 3-4 followed by 19 zeroes kilograms of salt in the ocean. Let us exaggerate and say the world's population is 10 billion, and each person consumers 10 kilograms of salt a year (30g per day) -- . That is 1 following by 11 zeroes. With these over-estimated numbers we still would only use 0.000001% of the ocean's salt in one year. In reality, we put salt back into the ocean as well.
Hope this helps,
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Hi Cheyanne,
Table salt mainly comes from salt mines, only a relatively small amount of it comes from evaporation ocean water. But even if all our salt came from the ocean, there is no danger of "using it up". Compared to the amount of salt in the ocean, the amount we use is immeasurably small. Note, however, that the salt in underground salt mines was deposited millions of years ago as primordial oceans dried up. So salt does indirectly come from the oceans of long ago.
Bob Wilson
There are actually two important sources of salt, the sea and mined minerals. Sea salt is obtained by channeling sea water into shallow basins and allowing the water to evaporate. If the salt thus collected is scheduled to end up as table salt, this is further refined to remove unwanted minerals that affect taste, if it is used for clearing snow and other industrial usage, this may be used as is. Mineral salts are mined in deposits that are high in salt. Such deposits are usually the result of evaporated ancient lakes.
Sea water contains about 3.5% salt. The world production of salt is about 210 million metric tons per year (but I do not know how much of that is from the sea and how much is from minerals). Assuming that all comes from the sea, you can calculate how much sea water has to be used. You can then calculate how much of the ocean (knowing the total volume of the ocean) would have to be dried out to produce that much salt. However, you would also have to factor in the replenishment of this salt from rivers that carry minerals into the ocean (I do not know what that statistic is).
Hope this helped a bit.
Greg (Roberto Gregorius)
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I love a clever repurposing project that lightens the landfill load and that looks great to boot. Check this one out. Flower pots made out of repurposed tires. From the photo, it looks like you can make a doggie bed, too.
Here are the directions:
Take an old tire that is still mounted to the rim. This method will not work if the tire doesn't have a rim on it, as the rim is what holds it together.
Make zig-zag or scalloped cuts approximately eight to twelve inches from the rim on one side of the tire, depending on the size of the tire. (Note that these cuts are only on the flat part of the tire near the rim, not onto the area where the treads are.) Make the cuts all the way around the tire so that the tire is separated into two pieces, held together by the rim. Remember, do not take the tire off the rim.
Turn the tire inside-out. The easiest way to do this is to put the tire on a stump (or stool or something like it), with the cuts facing up. Take the outer part of the cut tire, and pull it out and downward to turn it inside out. It's hard at first, but once you get it going, goes fairly smoothly.
Once you've turned it inside-out, you should wind up with one very large section (which becomes the plant holder part of the planter) and one very small tire section (which becomes the base of the planter). The holes in the rim become the drainage holes for the plant.
At this point, if desired, designs can be painted on the outside of the large part of the planter. Tole designs work nicely on this.
Put some dirt or fertilizer inside the large section of the tire.
Plant your little plants or flower plants in it. Water it.


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14 Behold, the days come , saith the LORD, that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. | 14 " 'The days are coming,' declares the LORD, 'when I will fulfill the gracious promise I made to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah. |
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Dolly Parton gets adventurous in Joyful Noise
NEW YORK—Dolly Parton is enveloped in a wee bit of perfume. Or, rather, it precedes her into a New York hotel room where she has come to talk about her new film, Joyful Noise. Then there is the rest of her.
There's the mythical bosom—It's real! Well, maybe not entirely—over which she's wearing something involving sparkly gold threads that's not particularly zipped up. She's 4-11, minus the spiky heels (is she ever?) and the fearsomely teased hair, and her waist is precisely size nothing. She has on sleek, black fingerless gloves looped over each thumb, very long, bright nails, and many dazzling rings, each the approximate breadth of a small nation.
The pretty, lavishly made-up face (and the warm Tennessee trill) is that of the Dolly we know—and that of the ever-refurbished Dolly at which she herself has always cheerfully poked fun. Even the latest on-screen version of Dolly is in on the joke.
"Who cares if I've had a few little nips and tucks?" her movie alter ego, G. G. Sparrow, says in Joyful Noise (which opens Friday [January 13] ). "God didn't make plastic surgeons so they could starve."
Amen, sister.
Just now, Parton is telling folks in the room, including her costar, Queen Latifah—who is towering, er, sitting beside her—that she has recently been touring nonstop.
"I'm like the Playboy—whataya call it?—I was gonna say Playboy bunny," she says, laughing. "I'm like the Eveready," she tries again, not quite able to bag the Energizer Bunny she's hunting for. "With batteries included!" "Wrong bunny!" Latifah says.
"Well, how do you know!" Parton says.
Backwoods Barbie (that is the title of one of the country star's albums) and the Queen frankly make a pretty weird pair. Joyful Noise requires the two to relentlessly spar, which is also a bit visually startling. And, because it's a movie, they must have a food fight.
"We had fun doin' that," Parton says. "Man, we were in the room fightin' for a day and a half. We were wore out with it. I was ready to kill her for real."
"It wasn't my fault," Latifah says. "You were the one had the spaghetti."
"I kept slidin' around in the spaghetti 'cause I had to throw all the salads," Parton says. "And you know me—"
"I don't know how you kept your balance," Latifah interrupts.
"—I had to keep wearin' my boots 'cause
I gotta have my shoes," Parton says. "So I was skiddin' around. It's a wonder I didn't broke a wrist or a neck or something."
Spaghetti is tossed for good reason. The Pacashau, Georgia, Divinity Church Choir's new director, Vi Rose Hill (Latifah), believes in the glory of traditional gospel, while G. G. wants to go country—and pop, rock, and R & B. The choir must win the national Joyful Noise competition or the church won't finance their purple-robed selves. (Incidentally, Parton wears possibly the only sexy church-choir robe invented.) Thus, food fight. And some singing.
There's a YouTube video showing Parton performing her 1974 hit "Jolene" that year on something on TV called The Good Ole Nashville Music. The host introduces her as "one of the prettiest, sangingest, songwritingest little blonds", after which the prettiest, sangingest little blond sings the song she wrote, wearing one of the tightest, lavenderest, flaredest jumpsuits. "Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene/I'm begging of you, please don't take my man." Both the voice and blond are so irresistible everyone knows even an emerald-eyed, redheaded hussy couldn't thieve her man.
There was some strange fan fallout after "Jolene", even for someone who's had "some weird fan encounters". This particular weirdness happened at Parton and her husband Carl Dean's Nashville farm. "We came home one day and there was a box at our gate. There was a baby in it and a note sayin', 'Her name is Jolene. I named her after you and please take her.' And weeee freaked out!" They managed to call child services. "But can you believe it! That's the weirdest."
There can never be enough Dolly lore. Even Dolly Rebecca Parton, born in 1946 in the Great Smoky Mountains, one of 12 children sprouting on a tobacco farm, doesn't mind rehashing how Dolly became Dolly. "Well, I always tell this story—and it's a true story—that I patterned my look after the town tramp in our little town," Parton says. "This is the truth. There was this woman who'd walk up the streets and I thought she was the prettiest thing. I would say to people, 'Oh, ain't she pretty!' And they'd say, 'Oh, she ain't nothin' but trash.' "
Turning into "trash" didn't swing with her "daddy" and her Pentecostal-preacher granddaddy. "They couldn't scare it out of me. They couldn't beat it out of me. They couldn't wipe it off of me. I just knew that I just wanted to be me and I would dress up. I got whipped a lot for just bein' myself."
But one can't help the naturally burgeoning bits. "I always had nice boobs. I've had 'em doctored some, too, as years went by, but I always had a nice little body."
Parton has written movie music aplenty and received best-song Oscar nominations, including for the title tune for Nine to Five—her 1980 film debut, for which a smitten Roger Ebert called her "a natural-born movie star". But, oddly, she's been AWOL on-screen for almost 20 years. "Well, nobody's sent me anything good in all these years." Plus, she's been busy. "Music is the most important thing. It was a song that brought me out of the Smoky Mountains and a song that's led me here."
And in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, there's Dollywood. It's probably appropriate that a woman who is the human equivalent of an amusement park should own one. Just don't ask Parton to ride the rides. "One year we had the press down—we had our first big roller-coaster ride and they were tryin' to get me to ride it. I said, 'I'm not ridin' it.' And I said, 'I have an idea.' So we had a bunch of Dolly look-alikes. We had about 14 people on the ride just goin' around. And when it stopped, I ran around behind the thing like I'd got off it."
And forget about Dollywood's "biggest ride ever", the nearly finished Wild Eagle roller coaster. "I just have too much to lose. Like my hair and my makeup and my boobs. It's like anything could fall out on one of those." Okay, but even she would admit she's built to last.
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Four seniors honored in final home match
"Getting any point is great, but the last one is sweet," she said. "Just to turn around and look at your teammates, and they are all looking, it seems, right into your heart, it's just the best feeling ever. It really is."
Thole matched her career high with eight of her 20 kills in the third set of the Salukis' (20-7, 10-6 MVC) win over Bradley (9-19, 3-14).
"It takes everything," Thole said. "It takes great passes from (senior libero) Bailey (Yeager), great sets from (sophomore setter) Amy (Drabant), but I thought we did a great job executing across the net."
The team could have notched its 20th win Friday but lost in four sets to the University of Northern Iowa (24-3, 14-3). Instead, the team marked the win during senior night. This is the first SIU team to earn 20 wins since 2002, when the Salukis went 23-10.
"It's what they are going to remember," said coach Justin Ingram. "Everyone remembers their last match at home."
The Salukis kept pace with the Braves in the first set and tied the game 13 times until the final tie at 21. Two kills from Bradley led to an SIU timeout, and the teams traded points until Bradley pulled ahead with a kill from senior outside hitter Madelyn Ervin to win its first and only set of the night 25-23.
The Salukis bounced back to end the second set 25-17 with a .387 hitting percentage as they held the Braves to a .158.
The second set ended 25-17 with a three-point SIU run finished by a block from junior outside hitter Jessica Whitehead and senior middle blocker Alysia Mayes. Mayes contributed eight block assists to the team's 15 blocks for the night.
Ingram said there would have typically been a bigger point spread with 15 blocks.
"We were getting touches but not handling those opportunities," he said.
Bradley junior outside hitter Alise Tupuritis had five of her 19 kills of the night in the second set.
"The right front blocker, in our system, their responsibility is to get to the line, close the line out and press their hands into the seam," Ingram said. "What was happening was we were very late to respond to that attacker, and we were late to the line."
After adjusting to the left side hitters' success in the first set, Bradley junior middle blocker Amy Angelos stepped up in the third set to bank seven of 17 kills. The Salukis were unable to slow her down, and she posted a .467 hitting percentage.
The third set was much like the first with multiple early ties. The teams were tied at 14 after an out-of-bounds SIU block. The Salukis went on a 4-1 run with kills from junior outside hitter Elly Braaten and freshman middle blocker Taylor Pippen.
Pippen posted no hitting errors in the match and finished with 12 kills and a .545 hitting clip.
SIU won the third set 25-23 with a kill from Whitehead after playing twice for set point.
The fourth set differed from the other three with five lead changes and nine ties. SIU pulled away with a 6-2 run and finished 25-20 with the final kill from Thole.
Yeager finished the night with 24 digs, putting her total number up to 1,355 and tying her for third in school history.
Senior setter Rachael Brown ended the night with an ace and eight digs, and Mayes had eight kills and eight block assists.
Northern Iowa
The night before the Salukis' 20th win, the team fell to its second-place Missouri Valley Conference rival. The Salukis got swept in three sets the last time they played UNI on the road. SIU won a hard-fought third set Friday but couldn't hold on to the fourth set and lost 19-25, 16-25, 29-27, 23-25.
SIU had a four point lead in the first set, which disappeared after an early UNI timeout when the Panthers went on a few multiple-point runs.
At the end of the set, UNI's four-point run— all of which were scored from Thole and Pippen attack errors — was halted with a Pippen block. It wasn't enough, though, as the Panthers went on to win 25-19 with a kill from junior setter Molly Turk. SIU ended with a .111 hitting efficiency.
"We can't sustain that pressure from a team like Northern Iowa," Ingram said of the multiple point runs. "They are not just going to let you off the hook and score four or five on your side."
Ingram called a timeout in the second set when the Salukis were down by four. Thole chipped in a kill after play resumed, and SIU slowly crept closer to UNI. SIU would add a point, but Iowa would answer with two, and the team ended the set 25-16 on a final four-point run.
The Salukis fought back in a third set that saw nine ties and six lead changes.
SIU was up 20-13 before UNI began to get closer and Ingram called a timeout. Iowa went 7-1 after the timeout, which put it up 22-21. The teams battled back and forth and played for set point five times. SIU took the last three points — the last two off of blocks — and won the set.
Whitehead said being at home is an advantage as the crowd was very loud in the third set. She said the team kept talking to each other while playing set point to stay focused.
Whitehead notched five of her 17 kills in the fourth set, and she had only one of her seven errors during the set. She said she doesn't think about the error when it happens and keeps playing for the next point.
In another close battle, the team lost the fourth set 23-25.
"Win or lose, it doesn't matter," Whitehead said. "We just wanted to fight hard … All of us had the jitterbugs, but we were just trying to work hard, go hard and go after everything."
The Salukis will play Illinois State Friday and Indiana State Saturday in their last two regular season games.
SIU has a guaranteed playoff spot in the Missouri Valley Conference Volleyball Championship for the first time since 2009. The team ranks fourth in the Valley under Creighton, UNI and Wichita State.
Whitehead said the team hasn't discussed the tournament yet and will just focus on the final two season games.


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The pending nuptials this time are those of Stu (Ed Helms), the milquetoast dentist who ironically lost a tooth in the tumult of the first film. Stu is now engaged to a beautiful Thai woman, and the wedding is set to take place in a picturesque resort on the southern coast of Thailand. In an amusing scene, Stu gathers his friends Phil (Bradley Cooper) and Doug (Justin Bartha) at an IHOP and announces that this is the bachelor party, so traumatized is he from their last blowout. But Stu's careful plans are wrecked when Doug insists that his brother-in-law Alan (Zach Galifianakis) be invited to the wedding—the same Alan whose drugs led to disaster in Vegas. Galifianakis again steals the movie with his portrayal of this weird, selfish, irresponsible man-child, a "stay-at-home son" who treats his compliant mom as his personal servant.
In Thailand, Stu must also deal with his very judgmental future father-in-law Fohn (Nirut Sirichanya) and comparisons with Fohn's teenage-prodigy son Teddy (Mason Lee), a pre-med student who also happens to be a virtuoso cellist.
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Thus another amateur mystery investigation is set in motion, as the self-proclaimed "Wolfpack" frantically searches for Teddy and crosses paths with Russian drug dealers, stick-wielding Buddhist monks, transvestite hostesses, and a crime boss played by Paul Giamatti. Director Todd Phillips and co-writers Craig Mazin and Scot Armstrong have clearly upped the ante here, with more full-frontal nudity, more squalor and violence, and even more serious consequences for their characters. But more isn't necessarily better; the Wolfpack's Bangkok odyssey is at times so unpleasant, you start to forget you're watching a comedy. As the action and bedlam accelerate, the air begins to escape this calculated retread of the first big success.
Still, audiences will bring lots of goodwill to the movie's three lead actors, who are all much bigger stars a mere two years later. Handsome Cooper anchors the film as the level-headed straight man who's still up for a good time when it doesn't involve gangsters or misplacing friends; Helms has refined the art of taking a mild-mannered schlemiel into full panic mode; and Galifianakis is in an eccentric class by himself. Jeong, a fan favorite, treads dangerously into Asian-stereotype territory, but he seems to be in on the joke.
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The value of collections is revealed frequently and in often unexpected ways
"One of the most agreeable features of writing on the wartime Army is meeting the archivists and librarians who steer the erstwhile researcher through the maze of records. They are among the nicest, most dedicated people anywhere, and without them history would be a lot more fiction than fact." — Geoffrey Perret, author of There's A War to be Won: The United States Army in World War II
When your job is to maintain the largest number of collections under one roof at the University of North Dakota, you never know what someone will want or the reason they'll want it.
"I love my job because I get to do so many different things and help so many different people," said Curt Hanson, head of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections at UND's Chester Fritz Library.
As collection curators, Hanson and his staff are accustomed to handling requests from the routine to the unusual. Sometimes they're from on campus. More often than not, they come from the opposite side of the world.
"It's not as if we're only documenting North Dakota," Hanson noted. "Our interest doesn't stop at the border."
But whether they're helping faculty update department histories, tracking down an interstate water treaty or looking for information on the origins of lumberjack songs, Hanson and his archivists do all they can to help researchers find what they need.
"Our mission is to preserve and make resources available," he explained. "The whole idea of preserving collections is with the expectation that at some point, someone is going to want to take a look at the material. We want to let people use this material, research it and examine it so they can write, publish, and create presentations based on our resources."
The range and variety of collections is enormous, spanning the beginnings of UND and key people in North Dakota's history to events that shaped the world, such as the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals following World War II. A growing number of the collections have been digitized, and listings of the library's major collections and their contents are available online.
Appropriately, the department is named after Elwyn Robinson, the late UND professor emeritus who wrote History of North Dakota in 1966, the first comprehensive history of the state.
"The Special Collections Department existed before the library," Hanson related. "Beginning in the late 1950s, the History Department — including Elwyn Robinson — decided that the University needed to collect important historical documents."
"It's the largest collection of North Dakota history materials in the state," said Kimberly Porter, chair of UND's Department of History. "If you're looking for broader materials that cover the state's history, the Chester Fritz Library is the best place to do that."
When Porter decided to update the history of North Dakota where Robinson left off, she used the archives of UND's Special Collections to help write her book, North Dakota: 1960 to the Millennium.
"As I tell my graduate students, the library is where it begins and ends," she pointed out. "If you want to do quality research, if you're going to do primary research, a lot of that's tucked away in Special Collections. If you do it right, your work ends up in the library as a published document or book."
While UND students and faculty frequently use Special Collections to create research papers, theses, dissertations, articles and books, the vast majority of requests for information and materials come from off campus.
"Research is a very wide-ranging term for us," Hanson said. "For every researcher who comes into the library, we probably have four or five others we never see who contact us primarily via e-mail and phone. We look through our materials on their behalf. We photocopy or scan materials and send them off."
One of the library's digitized collections contains the political cartoons of Stuart McDonald, who worked for the Grand Forks Herald from 1961 to 1967. The works of the nationally recognized, award-winning cartoonist are valued by historical researchers interested in political issues of the 1960s, such as the Vietnam war.
Several months before U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts died, the Boston Globe contacted Hanson for permission to use some of McDonald's cartoons related to the Kennedys for an online Web exhibit. That wasn't suprising but another request a short time later was somewhat odd.
"The state of West Virginia wanted to use two of McDonald's cartoons in one of their state assessment tests," he said. "Imagine that: A guy who was drawing political cartoons in Grand Forks, N.D., in the 1960s is featured in something designed to test the competency canada in levitra of West Virginia high school students."
That's how it is in Special Collections, which can be a boon to everyone from military historians to genealogists to experts on international law. People sometimes discover unexpected gems while mining the archives for information.
A well-known resource is the Department's Family History and Genealogy Room, which includes more than 1,000 volumes in its Bygdebøker (Norwegian farm history) collection.
"There's always somebody out there researching something, no matter how off-the-wall I might consider it," Hanson said. "I'm amazed at the creative ways people use our collections. There are people going down completely different avenues that I would have never imagined. It's our researchers, our users, our patrons who give value to our collections."
Hanson recalls a PBS TV producer searching for information on William Bell, a UND student from the early 1900s who played an instrumental role in the development of the tuba.
"When we were able to find photos of Bell in our UND yearbooks, he was incredibly excited," Hanson said. "He acted as though it was Christmas Day because we found a photo of Bell in the UND band. He was just thrilled."
How much a collection is used or likely to be used doesn't determine whether it's accepted for the library's Special Collections Department. Only with the passage of time can a collection's value be determined.
For example, Hanson notes that 50 years ago, nobody foresaw the popularity of women's history. Today, there's a great deal of interest in the subject, which means that collections containing women's diaries and journals, as well as records from women's organizations and businesses, are sought after by those studying, teaching or writing about women's history.
"We have that topic very well covered," Hanson said, "even though it's not something we would have been collecting back when the History Department began putting collections together. It's how history travels."
Another example Hanson cites are the Frank L. Anders Papers. Anders, a World War I veteran and Medal of Honor recipient who lived in Fargo, spent much of his life collecting documents and other materials on Gen. George A. Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Before he died in 1966, Anders donated his collection to the Chester Fritz Library where it went unused for more than four decades. Recently, a historian studying Little Big Horn found the Anders Papers to be an invaluable source of information.
"Even though a collection may not be used on a regular basis, we do everything in our power to preserve it," Hanson said. "Everything we take in, we do it with the expectation that at some point in time, someone's going to find it useful."
When Hanson teaches archiving to UND history students, he delivers an important message: "I tell them that you may not know the people who come here to research a collection, and it may not even happen in your lifetime, but I guarantee you that they will appreciate what you've done."
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From Troy to Sundance to Berlin: the movie 'H.'
"H.," the little, locally shot movie about a meteor strike and other weird goings-on in Troy, is screening throughout this week at the Sundance Film Festival, where it made its Park City debut on Sunday. Next month it moves on to the Berlin Film Festival, debuting on Tuesday, Feb. 10. Co-directed by Daniel Garcia and […]
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Sufjan Stevens, Mark Knopfler coming to Albany
The Palace Theatre in Albany has announced two new shows: Brooklyn singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, and Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler at 8 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 11. Admission runs $30, $35, $40 and $45 for Stevens' show — and $65.50, $75.50, $85.50, $95.50 and $105.50 for Knopfler's. Tickets for both […]
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Slipknot, Lamb of God, more headed to SPAC
Slipknot will head up a metal lineup at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, performing at 6 p.m. Friday, July 31, with Lamb of God, Bullet for my Valentine and Motionless in White, Live Nation has announced. Tickets run $30 for lawn admission (limited four-packs are $90 plus fees, available only in advance) or $40, $50, […]
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Coming to SPAC: Lady Antebellum, Brad Paisley, more
The Saratoga Performing Arts Center has again scheduled a multiple-show "Country Megaticket," offering three shows at one price: Lady Antebellum on May 31, with Hunter Hayes and Sam Hunt; Brad Paisley on July 26, with Justin Moore and Mickey Gutyon; and Brantley Gilbert on Aug. 16, with Lee Brice ("and more"). Announced by Live Nation, […]
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Jim Breuer @ Troy Music Hall, 1/23/15
Jim Breuer raucously funny in Troy By Steve Barnes TROY — I have never experienced a greater disparity between my low expectations for performer and the superb show he delivered than with comedian Jim Breuer's appearance Friday night at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. It was some of the best comedy I've seen in […]
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Review: Ani DiFranco @ The Egg, 1/23/15
Still staunchly independent, Ani DiFranco gets happy, too By Greg Haymes ALBANY — Singer-songwriter and self-proclaimed "little folksinger" Ani DiFranco has been the poster child for do-it-yourself indie music for 25 years now, and she's still doing it her own way. Staunchly. Fiercely. Unflinchingly. On Friday night at The Egg's Hart Theatre, the Buffalo-born songsmith kicked […]
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'Tigers Be Still' funny, affecting at Curtain Call By Steve Barnes LATHAM — There's only one actual striped feline predator in the poignant comedy "Tigers Be Still," which is receiving its regional premiere in a beautifully acted production at Curtain Call Theatre. The plural noun of the title is a metaphor for the varying stages […]
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Tickets are set to go on sale this weekend for the Tanglewood music festival, which has also announced several updates to the 2015 program. Among the new and recent additions are singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow on June 19, the pop-classical Piano Guys on Aug. 28 and two ladies of Broadway, Idina Menzel on Aug. 29 and […]
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