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Who Wins The Bachelor 2013: Who Does Sean Pick?
Fans of The Bachelor 2013 cannot wait to find out who receives the final rose on tonight's much-anticipated finale and we have all of the details on who wins before the episode even airs!
If you want to know who Sean picks between Lindsay and Catherine, we have all the details for you here. If you don't want to know, we suggest you stop reading – there are major winner spoilers ahead!
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If you've been asking yourself who Sean picks for the past few weeks but haven't come to the point of searching for the spoilers until now, good job on waiting so long – I definitely couldn't have done it. I searched for them back in January and realized Reality Steve had already posted the winner months before. Turns out, he was right again, and we have all of the winner spoilers below.
If I hadn't read the spoilers well in advance of tonight's finale, I might have a hard time predicting who would win. In fact, I think I might have thought whole-heartedly that it was Lindsay. For some reason, Catherine seems too weird and immature for Sean (not to mention the fact that she is much less likely to pack up and move to Sean's city compared to Lindsay who said she's ready to move whenever) but I guess I would have been wrong.
Turns out, Sean does pick Catherine on tonight's finale and sends Lindsay home devastated. While we know who he picks, we don't know the details of how everything goes down tonight. It's rumored to be a regular final rose ceremony with each woman showing up separately and one being sent home.
Lindsay is expected to be on the After the Final Rose ceremony where I'm sure she'll get some of the answers she's been looking for.
Now that you know who Sean picks tonight, we have to ask: Do you think Sean and Catherine will get married?
I do not think they will get married. He was too unsure right to the very end. That's not love and it will never work.
I knew he should had picked Lindsay Kathryn is the WRONG pick
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I think he picked Lindsay because she is the first one that he gave the rose all the time.
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We just had one of those weirdly serendipitous moments on the stereo, accidentally finding affinities, as you don't, between Kanye West and Jackie O Motherfucker.
Somewhat after the event, I'll admit, I finally got round to playing Kanye's "Graduation", the highlight of a pretty dispiriting experience (and I write as someone who loved his first two albums) being a hefty sample from Can's "Sing Swan Song" on the almost identically-themed "Drunk And Hot Girls". Soon after, we put on the new Motherfucker album, "Valley Of Fire", and I was struck by the way its opening track, "Sing", has that orbiting, featherlight feel of Can at their most evanescent.
I guess it's not much of a surprise to find a band like JOMF referencing Can; after all, the affinities between New Weird American types and their Krautrock brethren have been well-documented, not least by me. Jackie O Motherfucker, I should explain at this point, are one of those new weird/psych/free folk/avant-jam bands so beloved of this blog - though in fairness I haven't actually been down this path for a good two or three weeks now.
They are, I think, from Portland, Oregon, though the nature of these ever-shifting collective units means that anything so prosaic as a base camp might be a bit reductive for such free spirits. As a basic reference point, I suppose Sunburned Hand Of The Man might work. That said, JOMF are probably less pranksterish and funkish, and more inclined to a heady, slow-building, dilated-pupils, backwoods spacerock.
That came into sharp focus on the uncanny folkish songforms of "Flags Of The Sacred Harp", which came out a couple of years ago on the ATP label. And that trend continues to a point on "Valley Of Fire", not least on the title track, which sits somewhere spiritual between Will Oldham and Spacemen 3.
It's a lovely, warm record, all told, and more welcoming than some of the freak-outs from this world which I've featured here in the past. "Valley Of Fire" is, above everything, economical and beautifully structured, drifting in on that wave of cosmic rustle, coming gently into focus with a couple of tremulous folk songs, then unravelling with the mighty rattle and hum of "We Are Channel Zero", which arrives at chaos in a very beguiling way. Some of the chants on this last jam might remind you vaguely of the Animal Collective and there's some great octopoid free drumming going on which reminds me of sometime Sunburned man Chris Corsano (particularly his work on Six Organs Of Admittance's "School Of The Flower").
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[1121] An Immunohistochemically Defined Correlate (PAX2-null SCOUTs) of Concurrent High-Grade Serous Carcinoma That Resides in the Fallopian Tube.
Charles M Quick, Geng Ning, Anna R Laury, Sara O Vargas, Frank D McKeon, Eleanor Y Chen, Wa Xian, Christopher P Crum. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background: Secretory cell outgrowths (SCOUTS) are discrete expansions of tubal epithelium that share loss of PAX2 expression with high-grade serous carcinoma; and, in one recent study (Chen 2010), were observed more frequently in cases of serous carcinoma. This study computed the frequency of PAX2-null SCOUTs (PAX2NS) in tubes of a range of conditions, including prepubertal, reproductive age (tubal ligation and benign disorders), endometriomas and low-grade endometrioid carcinomas of the ovary as well as high-grade serous carcinomas (HGSCA).
Design: A series of 167 cases (65 benign \ non-lesional controls, 14 ovarian HGSCAs, 41 low grade ovarian endometrioid adenocarcinomas, and 47 ovarian endometriomas) were culled from divisional files. Immunohistochemical staining for PAX2 was performed on all sections of fallopian tube, and null areas with traditional SCOUT morphology were counted. The PAX2-null SCOUTS (PAX2NS) were scored as events per cross section of fallopian tube (n=1200 cross sections), and data compiled as an average per histologic cross section.
Results: Patient age ranged from 26 to 84 (average 49 years). The frequency of sections with PAX2NS ranged from 0 – 0.11 in pre-adolescents and benign controls to 0.042-0.066 in endometrioid lesions. In contrast, the percentage of PAX2NS sections in HGSCA was 0.314, a highly significant difference relative to the other groups by chi square analysis (p < .001). Moreover, the disparity in average frequency of PAX2NS per section was greatest when comparing benign samples (0.0-0.11), endometrioid lesions (0.045-0.085) and HGSCA (0.562) (p < 0.001). The patient groups with a higher frequency of PAX2NS were older on average, and SCOUTs tended to cluster at greater frequency around 50 and 65 years of age. However, at any age, the frequency was always higher in the group with HGSCA.
Conclusions: This study reveals, for the first time, an immunohistochemically detectible entity (PAX2-null SCOUT) in benign tubal mucosa that is strongly associated with high-grade serous carcinoma relative to benign conditions and endometrioid neoplasia. This supports further the concept that the fallopian tube is not only a site of origin for HGSCA but harbors alterations in gene function in the benign epithelium that could signal either the presence, or greater risk, of pelvic serous cancer.
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Thanks to the birds, I've collected very few zinnia seeds this year and now they're predicting frost for three nights this week. They're tall so I think it would just break them off if I try to cover them so I thought I might try bringing some in to hopefully finish. In hindsight, I should have netted some to keep the birds away but I didn't get around to it.
How successful do you think it would be if I just cut some and put them in a vase of water for awhile? Any advice? |
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Christie, As you can see, the petals don't have to turn brown to have viable seeds attached. Save the fat green seeds and discard the empty ones. Bring the green seeds indoors and spread them out on some surface to dry out for a couple of weeks. Then you can pull the seeds off of the petals and store the seeds. |
- Posted by christie_sw_mo Z6 (My Page) on Tue, Oct 18, 11 at 7:06
Thanks Zenman - I'll see what I can find today. I usually don't have so many birds. This year I had flocks of what looks like house sparrows hanging around in a nearby shrub row. They've been carefully getting every single seed from my zinnias before they're even dry. |
Hi Christie, I solved the problem of our Kansas winds blowing the nets off, by using a safety pin to tuck in the net at the bottom. |
- Posted by susanlynne48 OKC7a (My Page) on Tue, Oct 18, 11 at 20:56
Plant something the birds really like and they'll leave your Zinnias alone.....maybe. I have Sunflowers growing around my Zinnias, and they MUCH prefer them over the Z's. I know that vegetable and herb gardeners do this. I think they call it a "trap" crop. I've always been curious if one can collect "green" seeds and they will continue to ripen after they're removed. Now I know you can do this with Zinnias, are there other annuals you can do this with, ZM? Susan |
- Posted by christie_sw_mo Z6 (My Page) on Wed, Oct 19, 11 at 9:15
I collected a lot of seeds yesterday and most look fertile so if I just didn't get them too early, I should have plenty of zinnias next summer. I just collected from the flowers that were starting to brown a bit at the tips and let the others go. I might try the sunflowers but I'll have to plant birdseed. If I plant named varieties, I would mad at the birds for stealing those seeds. Did you make the net or buy it Zenman? I used netting last year just gathered around the flowers and then put a twisty around it but it was kind of hard to gather it and keep all the edges in. I like your way better. |
Susan, As is shown in that picture, there are several ways to open the green seedcoat enough to get rapid germination. If you plant a greenseed without opening the seedcoat, it takes a couple of weeks or more for the coat to die and become water permeable, after which time the seed germinates, still saving several weeks over letting the seedhead become brown before saving brown seeds and quickly planting them for a second generation of zinnias. Then I tried drying the greenseeds and saving them and planting them next year, and that worked too. So using green zinnia seeds has been doubly useful for me. But I haven't tried that technique with any other annuals. |
Christie, "Did you make the net or buy it Zenman?" I have been making the zinnia nets myself. I bought several yards of black netting at a fabric store and some black yarn. The color black does a better job of not "standing out" in the garden. I use a large needle to loosely weave the yarn as a quick way to join the netting. My yarn "stitches" are one half to three quarters of an inch long. I just alternate from the front to the back side. It is a very simple stitch. Next year I may experiment with using my serger to close the net edges. I think I need to get some black woolly nylon for that, and I need to re-read my serger manual to figure out how to thread the thing. My old Pfaff serger is not a self threading model, and threading it is fairly complicated. It mounts as many as five spools of thread, although I probably won't need that many threads for zinnia nets. Incidentally, some current serger models mount as many as 8 spools of thread, and they self-thread. It would probably be easier to use my wife's Pfaff sewing machine to do a zig zag stitch, but I think the serger stitch might work better with that open netting fabric. However, hand sewing the nets with the yarn goes fairly rapidly, too. ZM |
- Posted by susanlynne48 OKC7a (My Page) on Thu, Oct 20, 11 at 7:04
Nifty, thrifty idea, ZM! Couldn't you just glue it instead? Susan |
- Posted by christie_sw_mo Z6 (My Page) on Thu, Oct 20, 11 at 9:39
I came across a link that says to lay strips of tissue paper under tulle for support when sewing on a machine, then you just tear off the tissue paper. Sounds like it would work. Not sure there would be enough there to use glue. |
I save old nylons and cut them in sections. Then I tie the open ends or put rubber bands around them and slip those over the blooms to protect them from the birds. Martha |
Martha, "I save old nylons and cut them in sections..." Thanks for that tip. It could be helpful for some people. I have a bunch of old nylon hose for use in the garden, but I prefer to use the more open tulle netting because it lets in more light and airflow. And you can see through it better. I have used the nylons for making slings to support trellis-grown melons, and the strength and flexibility of the nylons are suitable for the melon slings. I have a lot more tulle netting than nylons, so it is just as well that I prefer the netting to the nylons for protecting blooms. The tulle netting has also kept pollen eating bees from disturbing my favorite breeder zinnias. However, your scheme should work just fine for protecting blooms from birds. ZM |
Susan, "Couldn't you just glue it instead?" I tried several different kinds of glue, including a hot melt glue gun, and I didn't like the results of any glue approach that I tried. I also tried fusing the nylon tulle with an extra hot iron, and that formed a rather stiff bond that tore apart rather easily. The glue gun was a stringy mess, and the resulting zinnia net weighed a lot because of its heavy load of glue gun glue. If I had a high energy laser, I think I could fuse the nylon nets together. But I don't have such a laser. A small blow torch could work, except for the smell. I'll do some more experiments this Winter on zinnia net-making techniques. ZM |
Christie, "I tried duct tape once to attach two large pieces of tulle together and it could have been a comedy skit." I considered some of that tape that melts when ironed, but couldn't find any. Just as well. I think I would have wound up with melted tape all over the iron because of the openness of the tulle netting. I tried some double-sided Scotch tape, but it didn't stick tight enough. The tissue paper tip may come in handy when using my serger with the netting. ZM |
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This list notifies the reader of ten mistakes often made in web design. After giving it the once over, I can easily say that I agree with pretty much everything said here. The big one here, as far as I am concerned, is leaving the price off of a product page. I can't tell you how many times I have been thoroughly frustrated with a product site not listing the price of something I was interested in, instead pointing me towards a sales representative phone number. At that moment, they lose my business. Check out the article, which also lists the top 10 web design mistakes for years past as well.
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What the hell? Johnny Swing is one crazy fella. This man constructed a chair out of quarters, after all. If that doesn't suit your fancy, he also has a sofa made of nickels as well as another made completely out of empty jars. Am I missing something here? There are going to be a lot of unhappy vending machines out there by the time this man is done - and good luck finding any change you happen to lose in this one.
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This is the death of the platform. Unless Apple integrates DirectX, the port time would only decrease by roughly 33%. We really only spend about a 1/3 of our times AT MOST on Endian issues (ie, byte-swapping). The rest of the time is spent converting DX and Windows OS calls to OpenGL and Mac OS. The big problem is that for the next few years, developer time will increase. You now have to make sure the software runs on two completely different architecture sets. We'll still have to do all the byte-swapping mess for the older PPC Macs. So say a game today takes 12 months to port. That time will be increased to probably 14-16 months, simply on the basis of having to do additional testing and debugging on the Intel architecture.However, Andrew Welch of Ambrosia Software provides a counterpoint:
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Ever since iTunes unveiled their music video section (free music videos you can watch via streaming media in the iTunes player) it's been frustrating to have to wait for the videos to buffer before watching them. Another irritation is that you can't watch the videos in full-screen, even if you have Quicktime Pro. But can it be done? As always, we have your hookup.
You see, digging through the web doesn't help – the instructions out there on the Internet are rather vague and half of them don't work. Trust me – I've tried. The only viable solution seemed to be to use a video capture program but then you generally won't have audio — defeating the purpose of a music video. It seemed like a lost cause, that is, until now. On his website "A Warm Gun," Seattle web designer, tech blogger and self-proclaimed Mac geek Ian Adams details for the world exactly how one should go about this suprisingly simple (albeit slightly unintuitive) proccess, in language that anyone who is familiar with MacOSX should be able to understand. It's so easy once you get the directions right! All you need is an AppleScript, a few videos you'd like to save, an Internet connection and some spare time. Be sure to give it a try, this is one hack that Mac users shouldn't miss!
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Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: Brazil
Can you confirm these amateur observations of Rhinella henseli?
Range Description
This species is found at altitudes of under 1,000 m in the southern Atlantic Forest of Brazil; in Rio Grande do Sul State and southern Santa Catarina State, north to the west side of the Serra Geral mountains.
Habitat and Ecology
This species is restricted to the Atlantic Forest. It presumably reproduces by larval development in backwaters of streams and in temporary pools. The species is believed to be fairly tolerant of habitat modification.
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The Atlantic Forest has been subject to substantial deforestation and fragmentation due to historical logging and ongoing large-scale clearance for cattle pasture, and crops such as sugar cane, coffee, and exotic trees, as well as for smallholder agriculture. Clearance of forest for coastal development is another threat within the range of this species.
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The species is known from some protected areas (F. Baldissera in litt. 2005).
Taxonomic Notes
This species was removed from synonymy of Rhinella crucifer by Baldiserra et al. (2004).
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High school graduates to age 25 are invited for Rev2.0 night. They meet twice a month on the second and fourth Thursday at Rohs Opera House. Will meet Thursday, July 22 from 6:30-8 p.m. There will be games, prizes, food and fun. Childcare is provided on site. All this is free.
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Harrison County High School golf coach Jason Crisp is in his second year of coaching the boys' golf team and will be coaching the girls' team for the first time this season.
The teams are as different as night and day. The girls have virtually no varsity experience while the boys return four of their top five from last year. Crisp had tryouts for the boys' team while there are only four girls so there was no need for a tryout.
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There will be an open fast pitch softball tournament at River Road Park Aug. 13-15 for teams 8 and under through 16 and under. Some games will also be played at Shirley Field at the high school.
The tournament will be played under high school rules and will feature games of seven innings or 75 minutes. Entry is $275 and will close Aug. 8.
Team signup will be on a first come first served basis.
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The 2010 KHSAA baseball champion Harrison County Thorobreds will be honored on Saturday, July 31, at Applebee's Park when the Lexington Legends take on the Delmarva Shorebirds.
The entire Thorobreds baseball team will be recognized with an official flag raising between innings at the game, designated at Harrison County Night. Game time is 7:05 p.m. Coach Mac Whitaker will throw out the ceremonial first pitch.
The state championship flag will fly over Applebee's Park until a new state champion is crowned in 2011.
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Special Warranty Deed: Chase Home Finance, LLC to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 2.1159 acres at 4446 Ky. Hwy. 1842 N.
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I always know when football season arrives. Officially for me and unofficially for others, the season arrives when the first meeting of the CKFOA is held. The CKFOA is the Central Kentucky Football Officials Association and the first meeting was Monday.
In order to officiate a sanctioned high school football game in Kentucky, a person has to be registered with the KHSAA and with an association like the CKFOA, which is responsible for training and assigning officials to the games.
The annual Anderson/Cummins family reunion will be on Aug. 1 at Antioch Mills Christian Church. A potluck dinner will be served at 12:30 p.m. Relatives and friends are invited. Bring a covered dish and/or dessert.
The Harrison County High School Class of 1995 will host its 15-year reunion at the Cynthiana Country Club on Aug. 14, 2010 from 7 p.m. to midnight.
Tickets purchased in advance are $15 for a single and $30 for a couple.
With weather forecasts calling for highs in the mid-80s this week, no one can argue that summer is right around the corner, begging us to come outside and bask in all its glory.
It's this time of the year when Cynthiana and Harrison County residents step outside their doorsteps, feel the warm glow, then scratch their head and say, "Well, what are we going to do outside?"


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noun \ˈgrāp-ˌfrüt\: a large yellow citrus fruit
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plural grapefruit or grapefruits : a large citrus fruit with a bitter yellow rind and inner skin and a highly flavored somewhat acid juicy pulp
: a small roundheaded tree (Citrus paradisi) of the rue family that produces grapefruit
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noun (Concise Encyclopedia)Tree (Citrus paradisi) of the rue family and its edible fruit. It originated in the West Indies (probably Jamaica) before being brought to the New World mainland. The shiny, dark green foliage is very dense. The large white flowers are borne singly or in clusters. Lemon-yellow when ripe, the fruit is 4–6 in. (100–150 mm) in diameter, about twice as large as a medium-size orange. The mildly acidic pulpjuicy and light yellowish, pink, or redis an excellent source of vitamin C. It is popular as breakfast fruit in various parts of the world.
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478 Ball to Department of External Affairs
Cablegram ACJ8 TOKYO, 17 April 1947
1. At (yesterday's) meeting of the Allied Council the subject of wage and price fixation was again raised. I reminded the Council that at the previous meeting I had insisted that this was primarily a political and not an economic question. I said I maintained that view. Nevertheless it appeared that GHQ Officers would welcome the views of members on some of the administrative and economic questions involved. In a desire to help in every way possible I would table a number of detailed recommendations.
The following is a summary of my conclusions and recommendations.
1. The destruction and wastage of war and the dislocations of defeat present the Japanese Government with a series of major economic problems.
2. Japan to-day is faced with a twofold task. First to restore capital equipment for the production of peace time goods and second to ensure that the goods produced are justly distributed.
Efficiency and social justice must be the key note of economic policy.
3. Inflation must be stopped. It has produced inefficiency since available resources have been wasted [in] non-essential uses. It has caused injustice by throwing the main burden of sacrifice on wage and salary earners while other sections of the community have profited.
4. While the immediate cause of inflation is the unbalanced budget a more fundamental cause is the failure to make price control effective by strictest control over the distribution of raw materials and consumer goods.
5. The control of raw materials must be enforced to make price control effective and to ensure that materials are reserved for essential use. It should be based on a permit system. Permits should be necessary for both the purchase and transport of controlled materials. Records for Government inspection of movements of controlled materials should be kept by suppliers, merchants, carriers and users.
6. Rationing of essential consumer goods is necessary to ensure just distribution and should be controlled by a coupon system.
7. Prices should be fixed to restrict profits to a minimum.
Control of prices to prevent profiteering is more important than fixing particular level by money wages since in the present circumstances of Japan's economy increases in wages simply raise costs and prices and do not increase real wages.
8. Provided profiteering is eliminated by price control, wages should be pegged as an additional safeguard against excessive increases in costs and prices. These pegged rates should however be periodically received [1] and raised as production effectively increases.
9. Every effort must be made to ensure that Government revenue keeps pace with expenditure. Taxes should be based on current incomes. Returns of business and professional incomes should be made at intervals of less than one year if possible each quarter so that taxes may be adjusted to current earnings.
10. Government expenditure should be pruned to eliminate all but the most essential items. Accounts submitted by Government contractors should be carefully audited to prevent excessive charges.
2. A S.C.A.P. officer presented a comprehensive description of the Japanese banking system. Discussion of this was held over.
3. Derevyanko spoke on the present state of public health in Japan. He said the system of state and private hospitals was utterly inadequate and that only the well-to-do could afford medical attention. He claimed that there was a very high death rate and that contagious diseases were increasing.
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Ok, I started about a month ago with a 45 gallon preformed pond and pump. It got overfilled with water plants in about a week, lol. Yesterday I got a 100 gallon one to accomodate my big water lilly I got for my birthday. Hubby thinks I am going to remove the smaller one and dig a bigger hole and put in the new one. What I really want to do is join the two together, lol. Can someone tell me how to do it? My pump has a bell fountain on it and is way really strong for the little pond and I read the water lillies don't like water splashing on the pads so can I use it somehow to recirculate the water between the two ponds so I can keep a few goldfish and make my plants happy too? |
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One of my ponds is set above ground. Fifteen feet away, I have another pond set at ground level. I built a dirt ramp leading from the top one to the bottom, built up the sides with big rocks and some cement, laid EPDM liner in it, and built a spillway coming out of the top pond. Then I put my waterfall pump in the bottom pond, plumbed schedule 40 pipe to the top pond (buried the pipe underground), and stubbed the top of the pipe out for my waterfall at the top pond. I built a rock formation around the stub-out to hide the pipe. I put a valve on the schedule 40 pipe near the top pond to regulate the water so that the water didn't run into the bottom pond faster than the pump could recirculate the water to the top pond. It has worked really, really well. I'm reconstructing my bottom pond at this time, but I will post some pictures in a week or so, when I get it finished. I'll add this -- having a waterfall at the top pond, a couple of small waterfalls in the stream, and another smooth, low-ripple-effect waterfall going into the bottom pond provides awesome aeration of the water. |
- Posted by fool4flowers Copperas Cove, Tx 8 (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Wed, Jun 11, 08 at 11:42
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Lol, its like a disease. I don't know why I keep getting these preformed ones when I know I really want an inground one. If you want to email the pics you can so you don't have to post them. I just need an idea to start with. Should the ponds go from smaller to larger down the hill? I hope so since I would like a couple of fish in the lower one so I can see it good from the patio. |
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Flowers, I have heard that it's a good idea to have your bottom pond big enough to hold the contents of your stream, plus the run-off of your top pond, just in case your pump shuts down and all the water from the stream, and the top couple of inches of water in your top pond, all runs down to the bottom pond. I had some bad wiring on the outlet used for my pump, and the GFI would trip on occassion. When this happened, I would have a boggy flooded section on my lawn where the bottom pond filled up with the stream water, and then overflowed. Here are some pictures of when I first put my ponds/stream together: [IMG]http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll184/mattmecham/Twoofthestreamwaterfalls.jpg[/IMG] The bottom pond was still in the construction phase. From the bottom pond to the top pond, I built up a dirt ramp about two feet wide, and went from ground zero to a height of about 14 inches. I compacted it really well, watered it, let it sit a while, compacted it some more, etc., to make sure it wouldn't slump over time. I then built rock walls on either side of the ramp, mortaring them in place -- the rock walls got shorter as they neared the bottom pond. I then put some coarse sand on the dirt, smoothed it up the sides of the rock walls, and laid my pond liner all the way down the stream. I had basically cut "steps" in the dirt ramp to make my waterfalls, and also to make some nice little pools behind each waterfall. [IMG]http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll184/mattmecham/Topwaterfall.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll184/mattmecham/Morganbyponds.jpg[/IMG] There are four waterfalls in the stream. I was able to get that many because my stream has a fall of about 18 inches over about a 15 foot length. |
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Updated: 02/25/2014 5:56 PM
Created: 02/25/2014 5:49 PM KSTP.com
By: Cassie Hart
Several hundred people rallied at Minnesota's Capitol in favor of an increase in the minimum wage.
House Speaker Paul Thissen said at the Raise the Wage Coalition rally that hiking the state's minimum hourly pay requirement is probably Democrats' top priority as a new session gets underway.
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk has been more hesitant to back House Democrats and Gov. Mark Dayton's wish to boost the wage to $9.50 by 2015. But Bakk softened his position at the rally. He now says he believes Senate Democrats will sign on to $9.50, but that it might not get all the way to that level next year but rather phased in more slowly.
Republicans warn a minimum wage increase could make businesses cut jobs.
Governor Dayton released the following statement:
"Minnesotans who work full-time should be able to earn enough to lift their families out of poverty, and through hard work and additional training, achieve the middle-class American dream. I strongly support increasing Minnesota's minimum wage to $9.50, which would put $472 million each year into the pockets of over 350,000 Minnesotans. Economic experts tell us that low- and middle-income Minnesota workers will spend that money at local businesses on basic necessities, goods, and services – [benefiting] Minnesota's entire economy."
(Copyright 2014 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
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It's as if a function specifically looks for the file and deletes it both places. I have started removing my stick every time I edit a file. We purchased a computer with Windows 7 in September, but this just started in February. (I did not have the back-up box checked in Options. I do now.) Any ideas?
First guess is that it may not be as perceived. Seems implausible that AutoSketch would have a search-and-destroy function that searches the computer for .skf files and deletes them. Could there be some other issue that is confusing the situaiton like:
-Files never were really saved
- Look different because Win 7 is hiding the extensions
- You aren't loooking direct at the resources / drives but instead at some other Windows false-intelligence crap that is trying to play middleman? (libraries or whatever)
- You are searching wrong. Search set for fiels with different extions etc.
Suggest verifying that the file is saved and where it's REALLy at. Then look at it later via a direct file viewing method at the actual resource (C:\)
Just a few thoughts Maybe all no good.
Thanks Fred9... LOL - I really didn't think there was any need for paranoia... but the files are just plain gone! The files were saved, because an old version, without new/updated information, was found on an older back-up CD. We are using Win Explorer and all file extensions show, including .skf files from other projects. We store our files in a data drive (D:\) and in this case as I mentioned, duplicated on a flash drive.
Anyway, we've 'checked' the Back-up box now...
This will likely remain a mystery.
Kill all background tasks. I wonder if antivirus is removing these files.
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Computex 2002 from Taiwan is well and truely under way as we enter Day 2. AMD have their K8 line of products with the accompanying chipset support from ALi, SiS, VIA and nVidia as well as Serial ATA being a big hit with the masses. Taipei has turned on some great weather for us this year, both days around 28 - 30c with a nice cool breeze making for a more pleasant experience on the Island. One of our scheduled meetings this year for Computex 2002 included an exclusive English media interview with Joe Liu, President of Kingmax Semiconductor.
In our relatively short, but interesting, interview earlier today at the Kingmax booth from Hall 1 I ask Joe Liu about DDR-II, release dates of future memory products, whether or not they will enter the VGA card business and if the Taiwanese company would support Intel's PC1066 standards which included how Intel "encouraged" Kingmax to produce PC1066 RDRAM.
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Earlier, before the Saints replaced Reggie Bush with a poor man's Reggie Bush and before the Buccaneers signed two more of their core players long term, and before the Cards wrapped up another key cog, and before Vince Young became Michael Vick's backup (italics necessary), I sent a message to Goal-Line Stand contributor Sean Tomlinson suggesting that this might have been "the craziest f—in' day in NFL history."
And while the first day of free agency is annually quite wild and draft day is sick and the Super Bowl is a spectacle, I don't know if I've ever seen something like this in my 46 years covering professional sports.*
It was a day that started with Adam Schefter reporting before sunrise that the Redskins had actually found a way to dump Albert Haynesworth's contract … and in the most unlikely place in the world: Foxborough.
Seventy-four transactions and 73 Adam Schefter reports later, the day closed with news that Young was going to take Kevin Kolb's spot as Michael Vick's backup in Philadelphia.
Between those two moves, the Patriots also dealt for Chad Ochocinco, the Cardinals traded away a young starter and a high pick for Kolb (then handed him an out-of-the-world contract), Reggie Bush took his talents to South Beach, the Bears sent Greg Olsen packing, the Texans signed a Pro Bowl-caliber corner, the Eagles signed a double-digit sack guy and the Bills added a dynamic wrinkle to their offense. On the same day, Young and Bush, the No. 2 and No. 3 picks from the 2006 draft, and two of the most famous college football players of all time, were sent packing by their respective teams.
Those were the moves we got to personally. Each would be a mind-blowing story in isolation, but they've all blended together in a haze of transaction euphoria. It's almost too much for a football fan to handle in one 18-hour stretch. We're failing to fully grasp the immensity and historical relevance of the deals being made before our tired eyes.
Unfortunately, those moves made it impossible for us to get to a few of the deals that ordinarily would have been front-page news. For example:
The Falcons wrapped up highly sought after tackle Tyson Clabo for the next five years, removing him from the Bills' reach for the low cost of $25 million (with $11.5 guaranteed). GLS MOVE RATING: 7.5/10
The Cardinals re-signed underrated starting center Lyle Sendlein despite the fact he was reportedly drawing interest elsewhere. Considering how poorly Kolb performs under pressure, it was important they kept Sendlein in place. GLS MOVE RATING: 7/10
The Buccaneers wrapped up two starting offensive linemen, giving guard Davin Joseph $53 million over seven years (wait, what?) and Jeremy Trueblood an undisclosed amount over two years (that sounds a little more reasonable). Regardless of the ridiculousness of the deal given to Joseph, it was important that the Bucs keep a very good line together as Josh Freeman continues to become a star. Remember, they gave big money to star left tackle Donald Penn a year ago. GLS MOVE RATING: 6/10
The Saints quickly replaced Bush with former Charger Darren Sproles, who's getting a very reasonable $14 million over four years and adds that extra jolt as a change-of-pace back. Some think he's better than Bush, and comes without the baggage and is less of an injury risk. He's also a great receiver out of the backfield. GLS MOVE RATING: 8/10
And finally, the Texans continued to rebuild a bad secondary by giving a four-year, $20 million contract to former Bears safety Danieal Manning. At 28, Manning is just entering his prime and is exceptionally good against the pass. It just so happens that the 2010 Texans were exceptionally bad against the pass. GLS MOVE RATING: 9/10
You'll notice that four of those six moves were re-signings. In fact, the vast majority of the transactions made during the first three days of this free agent signing period have been teams rewarding their own players. That's the healthy way for free agency to take place. Is it less fun? Maybe. But what we're lacking in movement among average-to-good players we're making up for with blockbuster trades and big-name signings.
Quality over quantity.
And so ends the wildest day we've ever seen in NFL circles. But then again, it still hasn't really ended. Nnamdi watch continues…
GLS DAY RATING: 11/10 (okay, we admit that was cheesy)
* May have exaggerated by approximately 40 years.