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Quicksand & Title Fight @ The Fonda Theatre 1/22
December 3rd, 2012
Recently-reunited NYC-based post-hardcore pioneers Quicksand announced a national tour, and will stop by the Fonda in Hollywood on January 22nd.
Opening the show will be young (and talented) hardcore/punk band Title Fight, fresh off the release of their new album Floral Green.
Tickets for this show are on sale now and cost $39.20 after fees.
Don't miss out on this gig if you're into either band. Quicksand, particularly, were great at this year's FYF Fest, and a real headlining gig is sure to be just as good (if not better).
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Doors: 7:30 PM
The Fonda Theatre
6126 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood CA 90028
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I'll be at FFGEC on Wednesday night (around 6 if I don't hear from anyone, but I have the day off work and could show up anytime they're open if someone wanted).
No particular preference, if someone else is looking for someone to play a game, I'm willing to try new stuff if you're willing to teach.
Or I'm willing to teach if someone wants me to bring something. A tiny portion of some stuff I have around and am interested in that I could bring (no, I'm *not* bringing them all, just saying I could bring a couple of them):
Alien Frontiers
Anything in the History of the World series (History of the World, History of the Samurai, or a Brief History of the World)
Defenders of the Realm (w/ Dragons expansion)
Mermaid Rain
Power Grid (w/expansion maps)
Dungeon! (err, from like 1980 or so)
Small World (w/ expansions)
Starfarers of Catan
Chaos in the Old World
.. or I'd be interested in the scheduled stuff (Fantasy Flight's Civlization game, though it'd be my first time playing it, or Battlestar Galactica)


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- Posted by brom_adorer Mid-North Coast, NSW (My Page) on Mon, May 10, 10 at 3:39
Very Nice Dooleybugs. I can see that those white rocks would work very well, given you have to wear sunglasses when you're in there. he he. They look very nice and fresh. What are the names of your registered plants? It looks as though you have quite a collection going on! Well done. BA |
Very nice, Dooleybugs. Also very nice hybrids - I specially like the one, second row at the right. How was it made and what did you name it? I think the white stones are a very good idea - but how do you keep them so nice and clean and fresh looking? Japie |
- Posted by dooleybugs01 (My Page) on Mon, May 10, 10 at 15:41
Hi Brom adorer, first rego on left N. Rosy spots (Rosy Morn x Bobby Dazzler next to it N. mesmerize (n. Barbarian x Charm) second photo on left N. Extra Caution (n. lucky 7 x lucky7) next to it N. Rose Jewel (my fav. N.georges prince x charm) last one N. Stop press (barbarian x charm) last time i checked they are not on fcbs yet. |
- Posted by brom_adorer Mid-North Coast, NSW (My Page) on Tue, May 11, 10 at 1:35
Thanks Dools, I think my favourite is N. 'Rose Jewel' also. It has a lovely shape and the colour is really nice, especially with the little speckles in there. Japie, I thought the same thing. Maybe Dools gets in there with the toothbrush? BA |
- Posted by dooleybugs01 (My Page) on Tue, May 11, 10 at 2:34
Japie, The white rocks do get dirty from algae and dirt. I scooped one section out a couple months ago and water blasted them and put them back. This seemed to work but would not be practical especially if you have a big area. I am trying a product on the rocks we have in australia call "wet and forget" which is primarily a liquid when mixed gets rid of moss, mould, black fungi and algae. Currently sold as Benzalkonium Chloride but better known as Zephran the detergent doctors scrub up with or alginox which is used for pools to treat algae. It contains no bleach or chlorine. Extremely potent to aquatic life but in very low concentrations used to kill fungi on fish. The way it works is to kill the fungi but not remove the dead sooty colours. A second application and a good hosing a week or so later might detach this. For the australian's out there the alginox (available in coles or woolies) is far cheaper than wet and forget and stronger in it's concentration. Hope this helps!! P.S. BA i will leave the toothbrush for now and may bring it out if the above does not work. |
- Posted by malleeaustralia (My Page) on Tue, May 11, 10 at 10:27
Welcome aboard and thanks for sharing the pics. Some lovely broms there and great to see the recycling in yr set up. all the best |
- Posted by splinter1804 (My Page) on Tue, May 11, 10 at 15:31
Hi everyone, Well dooleybugs01, firstly let me welcome you as another new member from Aus. and also say that as a new member you sure know how to make an entrance with a "bang"!. Wow, what a collection of plants, how long have you been growing brom's? Also, what about your Dad, they're nice looking hybrids, I especially like the two on the right. Has he been growing and hybridizing brom's for very long and do you have pic's of any of his other hybrids? I look forward to hearing and seeing more from you on this forum in the future. "Long live the hybridizer" All the best, Nev. |
- Posted by dooleybugs01 (My Page) on Wed, May 12, 10 at 2:22
Hi Nev, Thanks for your kind words. I have been growing broms only for about 6 years and have never looked back. The love came from my father Who started with orchids and has now moved onto broms. His name is Rob Smythe you may have heard of him. You can look up his rego's on the fcbs. I mainly have neo's as i got most of mine from him to start off. He has a lot of knowledge about broms and is always willing to share. I am doing my own hybridizing and will have my own in another year. If you have some similar seedling's coming up group them together and if they look the same when flowering call them ONE name and not have a different name for each just because one has one extra spot on it than the rest. I see recent neo's registered that are green strappy looking and i wonder why? sometimes i think some people just want to have their name up in lights. Until next time! |
- Posted by splinter1804 (My Page) on Wed, May 12, 10 at 16:22
Hi dooleybugs, Yes I know your dad, but not in person. I admire a lot of the Neo hybrids he has created and he emails me his "Brom Watch Townsville" each month. In fact I have on a few occasions on this forum, promoted his write up on "Oils ain't Oils" for people wanting an easy to make oil based spray for scale, and it's good to see his son is following in his dad's footsteps with the hybridizing. As for the culling, well this is something I still find a bit painful especially after an experience I had last year. I came across a plant that was to have been tossed and had been overlooked. When I found it there were two nice big pups which looked to be an improvement on the original plant so I grew them on and they matured into really nice plants, well worth keeping for the garden. I am now wondering how many nice plants have been tossed by many hybdidizers after a hasty initial assessment, ones which may have produced pups of a much higher standard than the original. I have never registered anything yet as I think only the "best of the best" should be registered and at this stage I haven't bred anything so perfect, but that doesn't mean they aren't worth keeping for garden plants. I do agree with you that there has been a lot of rubbish which has been registered, and can't understand how some of the greenish, strappy looking things that should have been trashed have found their way onto the cultivar register. See what you've done, you've started me ranting again, so I'd better get off my soap box and go home. All the best, Nev. |
Three cheers for your comments on culling, dooleybugs! I couldn't agree more. And put me down as one more whose eye immediately went to Rose Jewel. That is a perfect looking Neo! |
- Posted by dooleybugs01 (My Page) on Thu, May 13, 10 at 2:47
Hello again! Nev, I hate throwing out seedlings but i think it has to be done especially if you do not have a lot of room to put them. Most of the time if there is alot of seedlings from a batch they are more than likely selfings of the mother. I have a couple here that dad has bred and he did not want to register and i thought they were okay. I am waiting as you say for the next generation to see if there have been improvements. Below is an example. Picture not the best but it goes more chocolate with the spots. It is another barbarian x charm. I think also that only registered plants should leave a hybridizer's yard. This should help in the misnaming of plants!! I cannot understand why some hybridizer's put names on plants and do not register them. I see some on ebay sometimes. |
Welcome Dooley, It looks like your dad's passion for broms has rubbed off on you. Cheers, Rick |
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Source: Little-known game-news site Primotechnology.com.
What we heard: In March 2006, veteran Canadian developer BioWare announced it was opening a satellite studio in Austin, Texas to prep a mysterious massively multiplayer online role-playing game. Within minutes of the announcement, rumors were already flying that the top-secret project was the third installment in the award-winning Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic series.
Such speculation was fueled further by the fact that lead designer James Ohlen performed the same duties on the original KOTOR, and several senior members of the studio worked on the Star Wars MMORPG Star Wars: Galaxies. Also, right around the time of the BioWare announcement, Star Wars license holder LucasArts confirmed that it was approached by developers about an all-new Star Wars MMORPG, but declined to elaborate.
However, rumors of a KOTOR MMORPG petered out, thanks to BioWare's successful attempts to keep virtually every detail about the game under wraps. However, now the rumors are back thanks to Primotechnology's claims, which are the first to directly cite a source with knowledge of BioWare Austin's inner workings.
"A source close to BioWare confirmed to us today that the studio's upcoming untitled massively-multiplayer online RPG will be centered around the Star Wars universe, specifically that of Knights of the Old Republic, which the developer released in 2003," read the report. Primotechnology went on to point out that the popularity of Star Wars: Galaxies--which was released in 2003 and drastically revised in 2005--is waning. "It's estimated that the game now has fewer than 100,000 subscribers and less than 20,000 active players," said the site without sourcing the numbers.
The official story: In a recent interview, BioWare co-CEOs Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk steadfastly refused to comment on their MMORPG's subject matter (although they did say it was already in playable form). LucasArts followed suit. "LucasArts doesn't comment on rumors or speculation," said the PR rep tasked with handling the publisher's MMORPG efforts.
Bogus or not bogus?: Bogus that anything's been officially confirmed. And with only Primotechnology's word to go on, there's not enough for a concrete call either way. One thing is for certain, though: A KOTOR MMORPG would be huge. Besides being the stuff of nerd fantasies, the game would have a good chance of stealing away weary World of Warcraft players by offering both a sci-fi MMORPG alternative and BioWare's impeccable pedigree.
It's also worth noting that when Electronic Arts bought BioWare/Pandemic for $860 million earlier this month, it cited the BioWare MMORPG as one of the three main motivators for the deal. Ironically, such an arrangement could see EA developing a game for sometime-rival LucasArts--which it dwarfs in size--to publish.


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Floor-to-ceiling windows, beds so big you'll slumber sweet, the crispest Egyptian cotton bed linen, baths built to soak in long and deep…A lavender-scented roof garden, acres of sun-splashed patios and cool, shady verandas, eat and drink wherever you like…Service to your room day and night, shoes shined to a polished conker gleam, whiskies imbued with the character of their Highland home… You might be forgiven for assuming such a place must be a figment of your imagination. But behind the façade of the 150 year old Lady Glenorchy church, you'll find the clean, modern lines of The Glasshouse - a 5 star boutique hotel, but not as you know it. Voted by Conde Nast Traveller as one of the top 50 hottest hotels in the world. Winner of the 'Most Stylish Hotel' by the Scottish Style Awards. Winner 'Most Sexiest Hotel in Scotland' by Hotel Review Scotland. Awarded five star status by VisitScotland. **Important Information** Transport Initiative Edinburgh has temporarily suspended the parking bay in front of the hotel which allows you to easily park up in a taxi. This is a direct result of the road works being undertaken by the Edinburgh Council to install a Tram network. The suspension of the parking bay will last for nine weeks from the 04th of April 2009. Until the re-instatement of the parking bay, we would recommend the following: If you are travelling by taxi: Request to be dropped off at Picardy Place. Walk towards Leith Walk and cross the road by the Playhouse Theatre, The Glasshouse is located next door to the Theatre. The distance is approximately 40 yards. If you are travelling by car: We would recommend that you park your car at the NCP car park at Greenside Row in the Omni complex, and then make your way to the Hotel via the Omni Centre.
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MLB admits umpires got call wrong on Oakland homer | Baseball notes
Major League Baseball said the umpires were wrong. The Athletics knew that all along. "We saw what we saw last night," Oakland manager Bob...
CLEVELAND — Major League Baseball said the umpires were wrong.
The Athletics knew that all along.
"We saw what we saw last night," Oakland manager Bob Melvin said.
One day after umpire Angel Hernandez and his crew failed to reverse an obvious game-tying home run by A's infielder Adam Rosales in the ninth inning following a video review, MLB executive vice president Joe Torre said an "improper call" was made in Wednesday's game between the Indians and Athletics.
However, despite pointing out the critical error, Torre said the "judgment" call will stand. The Indians won 4-3.
Melvin said he never thought the ruling would be overturned. "No, I didn't think there was any chance at that," he said, "because there'd been calls before that have been missed and nothing's happened because of it."
Few, though, seemed as egregious as this error.
"By rule, the decision to reverse a call by use of instant replay is at the sole discretion of the crew chief," Torre said. "In the opinion of Angel Hernandez, who was last night's crew chief, there was not clear and convincing evidence to overturn the decision on the field. It was a judgment call, and as such, it stands as final.
"Home and away broadcast feeds are available for all uses of instant replay, and they were available to the crew last night. Given what we saw, we recognize that an improper call was made. Perfection is an impossible standard in any endeavor, but our goal is always to get the calls right."
The stunning decision not to reverse the call was the talk of the sports world with everyone seeming to agree the A's had been wronged. Retired Atlanta third baseman Chipper Jones didn't mince words with his take on the umpires' blown call.
"What good is instant replay if u don't have umpires who interpret it correctly?" Jones wrote on Twitter. "Some course of action has to be taken w/ umps. Even worse than that, there were 2 other umpires looking at it with him. What the hell were they lookin at??"
• The Baltimore Orioles have placed right-hander Miguel Gonzalez on the 15-day disabled list with a right thumb blister. Gonzalez is 2-2 with a 4.58 ERA in six starts this season.
• The Indians activated starting center fielder Michael Bourn from the 15-day disabled list after sweeping a four-game series from Oakland Thursday. Bourn had been sidelined since slicing open his right index finger while diving into first base on April 14.
• Red Sox closer Joel Hanrahan is expected to be sidelined at least two months and is scheduled to visit Dr. James Andrews for an examination that could determine whether he will need surgery. Boston transferred Hanrahan to the 60-day disabled list with what the Red Sox said was a strained right forearm. It's the right-hander's second stint on the DL this season. In nine games with Boston, Hanrahan is 0-1 with a 9.82 ERA and four saves in six opportunities.
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Words feel cold at first, but then they make you feel hot.
They fly through the air and penetrate your skin, hurting you inside until you finally fall to your knees in pain.. Sometimes they can be as fatal as the worst forms of disease and death.
My metaphor here is clear, words can be bullets. They can hurt and kill at the pull of a trigger. And oh how much easier it is to simply fire off than it is to actually sit down and compromise.
Sometimes i think that one of the world's biggest arguments was no more complicated than everyday conflicts between people.
World War II was an argument between countries, and most those countries were drawn into the war because of countries already involved either struck them or they were asked to back another country up as an ally. And the entire thing started because one country was mad and vengeful at another and decided to strike them out of spite.
This is not all that different from a group of people in a disagreement. One may strike the other out of vengeful hatred, then friends back up either side, and sometimes other people get involved because they are forced in by the people involved and are unwillingly joining a side rather than staying outside of the conflict.
And what both have in common, are bullets. Words. Such things fly through the air, from brothers and sisters in arms of anger towards opposite sides in attempt to either avenge previous acts, or to see their own definition of a righteous outcome become the result of said arguments.
No one deserves this.
And yet...
No one is safe from it.
I will once again leave you all with a quote of one of my friends.
"Every insult kills, and anger is almost always the smoking gun."
wow...your friends (the ones you've quoted) are as eloquent and well-spoken as you are. i think i would very much like you (and your friends) if we met in person. =) i have a very philosophical, slightly brooding side that rarely sees the light of day.
that said...
hm. i'm not sure what your point is here. do you have one specific point? or was this more of a stream-of-consciousness sort of thing? because i'm getting: 1) words are powerful, 2) anger is something everyone has in common, and those combined, saying that 3) words can be terrible weapons. (although that could just be my views twisting yours...) i agree with the first premise, but not the second entirely. although anger and conflicts are one commonality, you have to remember the other (more positive) passions--that is, love and loyalty. although i guess you're saying those are almost a problem in cases like wwii.
i have a question for you: do you believe such conflicts are inevitable? and if so, how does that affect your view of people in general? are we inherently angry and argumentative? or are we (to go back to the philosophes of the enlightenment) essentially clean slates upon which anger and resentment is written as we get older?
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do!
No one deserves this.
And yet...
No one is safe from it.
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For those Americans who make $250,000 are less, a permeant version of the Bush Tax Cuts may become a reality.
The House voted on the issue this afternoon and passed the bill with a vote of 234 to 188, with 12 House members not voting.
According to Jordan Fabian, a writer for The Hill, "the House narrowly passed debate rules on the proposal 213-203. The vote allows the House to move to debate and a vote on a final passage to extend only the Bush tax cuts for the middle-class, letting end the cuts for high income earners."
The "$1.5 trillion tax-cut package that extends the middle class portions of the Bush era tax cuts and includes an adjustment to the alternative minimum tax," said John Shaw of iMarketnews.com.
CNN states Majority Leader, Steny Hoyer, said the tax cuts would include "permanent extensions of income tax rates for the middle-class, plus tax breaks for married couples, the child tax credit and the earned income tax credit."
Also, according to CNN, republicans feel the tax cuts should be extended to all classes and have said they will block all legislative action until the tax cuts issues are resolved.
A letter signed by all 42 Senate Republicans was sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, stating they would prevent a vote on, "any legislative item until the Senate has acted to fund the government and we have prevented the tax increase that is currently awaiting all American taxpayers."
However, according to the Associated Press, if the bill happens to pass in the House, it would fall flat in the Senate because Democrats, who propose the extension of tax cuts for the middle and lower classes, but not upper class, cannot pass the bill by themselves.
However, compromise is an option, said the Associated Press.
"Republicans and some rank-and-file Democrats want to extend the tax cuts for everyone, and the White House has left open the door for a compromise that would extend all the tax cuts for up to three years, including those for the wealthy," said the Associated Press.
In fact, negotiations are already under way.
"Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and White House Budget Director Jacob Lew began holding closed-door meetings Wednesday with a group of four lawmakers from both parties to negotiate a deal on tax cuts. Those talks continue Thursday, even as the House votes on the Democratic plan," according to the Associated Press.
While appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America" two lawmakers, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md. and Dave Camp, R-Mich., who are involved in the tax negotiations did not sound optimistic about making progress on a deal.
"We've just begun the discussion," said Camp. "But I think it's so important that we prevent a tax hike, so we can get the economy moving again and get job creation going again."
Van Hollen argued it's also important to pass an extension of unemployment benefits for people who are about to run out.
"You have to pay for about $13 billion in emergency unemployment compensation for people out of work through no fault of their own," he said. "But (Republicans) want a permanent extension of tax cuts for the folks at the very top, which adds $700 billion."
Van Hollen added, "This is the kind of conversation we've been having up here."
Even as the vote was taken, these talks were still in session.
With everyone in the political ring wanting their voice heard, it did not come as a surprise when speaker-designate John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he believed the whole vote was "crap," according to Molly Kooper, a reporter for The Hill.
"I'm trying to catch my breath so I don't refer to this maneuver going on today as chicken crap, all right," the top-ranking House Republican said sarcastically, "but this is nonsense! We're 23 months from the next election and the political games have already started trying to set up the next election. We have an honest conversation at the White House about the challenges that we face to get out of here. … And to roll this vote out today, it really is just … it's what you think I was going to say," he said.
Even the president has made his opinion heard when he said he was against an extension on tax cuts for "the wealthiest of Americans."
During a test vote, 33 Democrats, Fabian reported, crossed party lines and voted with Republicans on the issue, including Arkansas Reps. Marion Berry and Rep. Mike Ross.
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A CHOICE review of car rental contracts reveals consumers are being stung by indecipherable terms, dubious clauses and disproportionately high fees.
The report finds that standard excesses in contracts can be unduly high and reducing them through an excess reduction policy adds up to $40 per day to a car renter's bill.
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"Consumers should be aware of insurance exclusions. We found a number of companies charging up to $2,200 on top of existing excesses for single vehicle accidents," says CHOICE Spokesperson, Ingrid Just.
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I have 3 car garage with a 2 car and a 1 car door. I plan on parking in the 1 car area and turning the 2 car area into a game room over the next couple of years. I already have the pool table and furniture for the seating areas. I have 2 questions:
1. I would like some kind of divider between the sections. Is it best to build a permanent wall, or put up something like a heavy drape? I wouldn't want to detract from resale value. 2. I would like to carpet the game room section to help make it warmer in the winter. Is it best to do a flat industrial carpet direct on the concrete, or get it carpeted with padding too? In either case, do you suggest an overflow pan for under the water heater...do those things really help in the case of a leak? |
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- Posted by creek_side (My Page) on Mon, Jan 4, 10 at 18:41
What kind of temps do you have in your area? A garage can be sweltering in the summer and freezing cold in winter. If you are in a humid area, that can add to the misery. |
- Posted by vampiressrn (My Page) on Mon, Jan 4, 10 at 23:58
I am in Northern California...it is hot in the summer and cold in the winter. Would it be better to paint the floor and use area rugs...that is something else I have thought of. I prefer vacuuming, so that is why I was thinking about wall-to-wall carpeting. Think I am going with the built-in room divider, based on some other things I have been reading. Toying with the portable evaporative cooler/heater. Still investigating electric fireplace and infrared heater. |
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We have a separate workshop/garage and are using the garage side as a pool room. I never considered carpet due to the dirty nature of a garage. Regardless of how clean you intend to keep your garage, and we keep ours pretty darn clean, the garage door will allow much more dirt inside than you ever experience inside your house, especially if you live in a windy area like we do. Once you start using your garage as a living area, you'll also start to notice more spiders, bugs, webs, etc. than you ever noticed before. Consequently, we decided to stain our concrete. PROS: CONS: Lastly, I would think any walls you put up in your garage would probably detract from your resale value so I wouldn't do anything permanent. Good luck with your project! |
- Posted by vampiressrn (My Page) on Thu, Jan 14, 10 at 22:18
Thanks folks...this has really been helpful. I will angle toward a painted floor and area rugs in the game room and an easy knock-down divider. I am lucky in that I am in an executive model where the garage interior is completely finished on the inside, so that will make it much easier in the long run too. |
Although it sounds like you have come to a conclusion re: flooring, I have another suggestion (based on what I did). We too had a 3 car arranged as you, though I used the single door side to convert. I put in a fixed wall, insulated and drywalled both sides From all accounts, it turned out well. It is now my wifes dance studio. I locked the single garage door and build a wall (boxed in the door - blanked out windows a bit before boxing in). Next, I calculated my lighting needs and installed 6 pots (my space is only 17 by 28) and 3 pendant lights for our little bar area. On 2/3rds the concrete I covered with foam backed engineered floating wood flooring (suitable type for going over concrete) plus placed a vapor barrier underneath that (a slight overkill but softened the dance floor too). It went down easily, looks excellent (a nice finished appearance). The bar area I designed and installed a nice ceraic tile pattern. (all this is on facebook). I also installed crown mounding down from the ceiling about 8 inches and place rope light behind it for a mood/accent appearance. ALl lighting and ceiling fan (a good idea to have) are on variable switches) Your electric needs need to be considered. May want to runs a separated 30amp sub-panel to this new game room to isolate from garage. As us, you probably will put in TV, refrig...and just stuff. The "juice" use adds up pretty quick. Follow local NEC and building codes of course. Best of luck! Sounds like a nice project but I wouldn't suggest you take 2 yrs to do it! |
- Posted by vampiressrn (My Page) on Sun, Jan 17, 10 at 22:56
Wow...you really did a lot of work on your conversions. My neighbor did something similar on his single side as he is a train enthusiast and has a waist high platform for his set-up in that space with a permanent dividing wall. I am still thinking about the flooring, as concrete is so cold. My friend suggested indoor-outdoor carpeting, so may angle that way. It will probably take me a couple of years (realistically) since I would have to hire out all the work. Once I am ready to move on it, I will develop my own floor plan and get it all laid out and functional to try it before building anything permanent or installing cabinets/flooring. That crown molding sounds wonderful...thanks so much for sharing your information. :-) |
If I were doing what you are talking about and wanted to maintain the possibility of it remaining a garage, I think I would look into rubber flooring which comes in interlocking tiles. I have seen them in gyms and I have a friend who has them on her basement floor over concrete. She says they are easy to clean and they keep the floor warm. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Rubber Floor Tiles
- Posted by vampiressrn (My Page) on Sun, Jan 24, 10 at 15:38
Thanks pnw...I have thought of that type of flooring before, so will research that option, appreciate the link. :-) |
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World trade lost momentum by mid-2011, with export value growth stagnating in developing regions, as advanced economies reeled from budget crises. The WTO has recently lowered its predicted merchandise volume growth forecast for 2011, down from 6.5 percent, to 5.8 percent. In Latin America export growth was hesitant through 2011, with gains of 6 percent (m/m) in May turning negative by July, as demand fell in one of their biggest markets - China. China's brake in import demand corresponds with its own dwindling export orders, a trend reflected in the EAP region more broadly.The region still depends on final demand from high income export markets for two-thirds of its trade, markets affected by the Eurozone crisis and the US debt ceiling row. Export value growth in MENA and ECA turned negative by mid-2011, also indicative of the downturn in their main market – the EU, and disruptions due to the Arab Spring in MENA. Monthly export growth in Africa was already negative by March. Headline trade growth in South Asia paused in June, as the region's biggest economy, India, struggled to contain inflation.
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Challenge them a bit -- with a bit of guidance, they're capable of taking on more than you might think!
Impress, analyze, and then synthesize (256 comments)
You've got to get their attention first -- impress them with something that makes them say, "Wow, that's cool!" This is particularly important when reaching out to high schoolers and others who aren't necessarily techies yet. While some "neat" algorithm or circuit may capture your attention or mine, it's really hard to visualize for people who aren't already in that mindset, so you generally need a good physical interaction to capture their attention and spark their interest in the first place. From our NerdKits DIY video tutorials collection, I can particularly suggest USB-Guided Servo Squirter (a water gun you can point and control with a computer), our iPhone-controlled R/C car, our Valentine's Day LED Heart with PRNG for a randomized twinkling effect, or even our Morse Code Decoder which automatically translates dits and dahs into letters.
Then, only once you have their attention and interest (they've got to be asking, "How'd you do that?"), you can go deeper into the underlying concepts and electronics and programming. Open up a dialogue, ask "How would you build this (conceptually)?", and once you've done that kind of analysis-style thinking on a few existing projects (learning to take things apart), the students will be empowered with the skills they need to start doing synthesis-style thinking on building projects of their own.
Only after that should kind of top-down, system-level thinking should you dive down into the details, like how to use printf and scanf in C for the LCD or serial port, or how to use interrupts in microcontroller programming.
Just yesterday I taught four high school physics class sections, 10th-12th grades, and we were able to talk about concepts around feedback control systems, sensors and noise, motors, etc all around a currently-unreleased project we're working on with our electronics kit. (Lots of links here, but I think they're quite relevant to my reply and show off how we do things in our part of the DIY educational space.)
So in summary, capture their attention with a few exciting projects, make them think analytically to figure out how they work, and from there, let their imaginations run with taking those projects in new directions or in coming up with their own!
Making Science and *Engineering* Relevant (899 comments)
If you're truly trying to integrate science with "mainstream culture", a big part of the overlap is in engineering. Science for the sake of scientific knowledge is great, but we've found that it's often easier to connect to people by looking at how science connects with their lives, which often falls into the realm of engineering (or medicine). We have tried to do that with our free educational electronics videos.
Even as science and medicine and gadgetry continue to advance, it's important to make it accessible and exciting to those outside the field. But while the original book being reviewed argues that "the scientists themslves" must take up the lead in educating the public, the fact is that making these subjects accessible has its own set of required skills that are not necessarily the same as those needed for being an excellent scientist. Some will be able to do both, but it's not for everyone.
Like the "DIY iPhone-Controlled R/C Car" story? (105 comments)
Site seems slashdotted, but this might be similar to the DIY iPhone-Controlled R/C Car story from October -- links to this video tutorial about the project.
Not Slashdotted Anymore! (128 comments)
Hi all,
We had tuned the www.NerdKits.com site to survive slashdottings with its old PHP backend, but we recently started experimenting with some Django. Django is great as a programming framework, but I suppose we have discovered that our tuning of the server settings isn't quite up to handling a Slashdotting! We've temporarily disabled that stuff so the site is back and running. My apologies for the downtime.
- The NerdKits Team
MIT 2.009 Product Design class, and more (112 comments)
For a slightly more holistic project approach, take a look at a MIT 2.009 Product Engineering class (Mechanical Engineering dept), which now has videos from their projects for this semester: microwave fire extinguisher, self-adjusting electric cook-top array, basketball player tracking system, etc. There are also some neat projects for microcontroller beginners on the NerdKits videos page. DIY digital scale interface over USB, morse code decoder, iPhone R/C car control, and more. (Disclaimer: I did some of the electronics design for the 2.009 Purple Team, and am one of the NerdKits team.)
Console controllers for long-term playing? (144 comments)
Maybe it's just me, but for something that I'll be playing even for more than half an hour, I really prefer a PC mouse/keyboard (and sometimes joystick) to a console controller. Since these MMOs tend to focus on people who are going to be playing for a long time very frequently, I hope they've considered that effect. I'd get very uncomfortable with any of the popular console controls (Wii/Xbox) and just don't find them particularly effective. Additionally, text chat seems to be an important part of MMOs.
This isn't a show-stopper, as I'm sure they could adapt conventional PC controls, but I'm still not sure if it's a step in the right direction or not.
The market works to reach equilibrium! (519 comments)
When fuel prices got too high, interest in electric vehicles and alternative energy sources boomed, but simultaneously demand weakened. Now oil prices have come off ~30% from their highs, and suddenly EVs are not a totally obvious solution anymore? Duh... this is how the market it supposed to work. This means that electric vehicle companies are going to have to start competing on real merits and not just squishy fuzzy green feelings. And I hope that makes them stronger! But it's not the worst thing in the world if conventional gas-burning cars remain an acceptable/affordable thing for the time being.
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Think they read them anyway? (581 comments)
Given that they're all probably receiving thousands of e-mails asking them to reject the bailout, I doubt they're really doing much with them. I'd actually be surprised even you get the standard form-letter reply if they're so overwhelmed.
But I think the overall message is clear. It's not a cacophony, it's thousands of people singing the same message: reject the bailout or we'll reject you in a few weeks!
Ultimately, they're doing the worst possible thing right now, which is preserving the hope of a bailout. This leads to a further credit freeze, because banks won't sell their troubled assets at the (very low) market price because there's still the possibility that they'll be getting a much better price from Uncle Sam.
If you want to free up credit again, we really need one of the presidential candidates to stand up and say, "There will be no bailout." That will force banks to start doing transactions again. Some might go under, but that's OK. We just need to end this idea that a bailout might happen, because right now that uncertainty is what is preventing people from liquidating their assets.
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The existing system wasn't working... (212 comments)
From Senator Wyden:
"With over 30,000 civil suits filed by a single entity against individual Americans it is clear that industry is more than able to enforce its intellectual property rights in civil courts without the contribution of taxpayer funds and busy federal prosecutors."
But while that's a kind of system that should be working, it really isn't. There are still tens of millions of Americans who either believe that it is within their "fair use" rights to freely redistribute copyrighted materials to dozens of unknown online participants, or do so fully knowing it is illegal.
So while the method sucks... isn't this actually a reasonable place for government action, you know, in enforcing the law?
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Still need cheaper Wi-fi chipsets for this to work (96 comments)
Nobody wants to run ethernet cable to their toaster... so I really think that making cheap Wi-fi chipsets is the answer here. Unfortunately it still costs at a very minimum $5+ to add wireless to something, so it's going to take a little while for a $2 light switch to get these.
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The bigger question... changing the legal system (429 comments)
So, yes, this is silly, but ultimately this is just one example of a bigger phenomenon: people filing stupid lawsuits, where simply the burden of defending oneself is overwhelming / not worth it. This happens for many reasons: lawyers are expensive, court simply takes time, etc.
Is there some way we can modify the legal system so that these kinds of frivolous suits die quickly and cheaply? Like an online peer review thing, where there's an anonymous, rotating committee of reviewers who can triage filings and vote to reject them? This has its own problems too, of course -- the rule of the mob emerges.
So I'm not sure what the solution is, but it seems like we have to think about how to make it about two orders of magnitude cheaper/easier to defend oneself in court against frivolous suits.
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It isn't the specifics... it's the principle. (312 comments)
Nobody has to agree to the GPL to use a GPL'ed piece of software -- only to gain additional rights like redistribution. All Mozilla really needs to do is to look at the Trolltech / Qt situation, and then look around and see real alternatives to their product (Opera / WebKit / etc), and they'll wake up and smell the coffee. There isn't enough justification for the EULA hassle just to "explain the license", and that will be worked around by developers and distributions.
Looks like they missed the point.
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Just checking... what's the primary anger here? (134 comments)
Yes, this is crazy, but from reading the comments I think there are two things that need to be separated.
1) This is bad because there is massive prior art,
2) This is bad because it is a patent on a software concept.
Which one is it? Number one seems to indicate legitimacy of the current patent system, and number two does not -- very different ideas, but I think slashdotters are conflating the two at the moment.
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Pew Research Center posted yesterday that ownership of tablets and e-reader's among adults went from 18% to 29% over the holiday period. As museum and technology nerds we've all been waiting for the coming wave of these personal devices. Is your institution ready for this boom? I know mine isn't! I don't even have a tablet yet, but that's because I spend all my money on fresh sneakers.
It's too bad the findings aren't able to break this down into the devices people have. Fortunately, it does shed light on the people most using them: ages 30 to 49, college educated, and makes more than $75,000 a year. How does that compare to the visitors and program participants at your museum?


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Jim Grant Speaks
Miliband Apologises to Swindon Labour Leader
We all know who Jim Grant is now. The Swindon Labour leader who Ed Miliband forgot the name of during his train wreck radio interview yesterday has accepted an apology:
"I have spoken to Ed this morning. He apologised for the obvious lack of briefing that he had. But these things happen."
Just more often to Ed than anyone else…


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Goddard faces $550,000 deficitBy Eric Blaisdell
STAFF WRITER | June 15,2013While avoiding any layoffs, Goddard College in Plainfield is imposing pay cuts on its faculty and staff to help counter a $550,000 deficit.
President Barbara Vacarr and Chief Financial Officer Faith Brown met with a reporter and Times Argus Editor Steven Pappas on Friday to discuss the cuts and how the school plans to turn around its financial situation.
The school is running a deficit in its $12 million to $13 million operating budget, Brown said. To bring that number in check, she said, faculty and staff will see tiered pay reductions based on how much money they make. Employees making $30,000 or less will be unaffected, Vacarr said. Other cuts include a suspension of matching contributions for retirement, no severance pay, and some reduced hours for the equivalent of 1½ full-time employees in all departments.
Brown said the school is planning for the cuts to last only a year.
The deficit does not affect any of Goddards capital projects already in the works, they said.
Vacarr described the plan, which was outlined to the Goddard community Friday, as a correction. It received unanimous approval from Goddards board of directors earlier Friday.
Brown said the reason for the deficit is the same problem colleges across the country are facing: declining enrollment. She said higher education is under pressure from a sluggish economy, and with Goddard being 96 percent tuition dependent, with a very small endowment, the school has been forced to look to other revenue sources.
Another reason for Goddards financial difficulties is the way the school fixed its previous economic problems. In 2002, the school closed its residential program and focused all of its efforts on its low-residency model, where students are on campus for just days rather than months and do most of their work at home.
Vacarr said that change put a tourniquet on the problem, and enrollment started to come back. But no one had a plan for the future, she said. What the school is doing today is trying to correct those changes to help keep the school financially solvent, Vacarr said.
The school could have simply raised tuition to help balance the budget, but after already raising tuition by 4 percent earlier this year, Vacarr said, she decided against another increase. She said she did not want to pass any costs on to students.
Our commitment is to keep tuition accessible and within the range of public (college) tuition, Vacarr said.
Instead, Vacarr said, they are continuing to invest in areas of the school where results are taking root, including marketing, partnerships and fundraising.
Laying off employees to help fix the financial issues was another option Vacarr said she refused to consider.
There have been decisions made in fear, and I dont think thats a good way to make a decision, she said. It has to be data driven.
But its not all bad news, as Vacarr said that data and initiatives the school has put into place are starting to show results, and she hopes continuation of those programs will help dig the school out of its financial problems. Certain partnerships that have generated interest in the school are feeding students to the college.
The school is leasing parts of its campus to the Waldorf School and EarthWalk, and Goddard is in talks with the Center for Circumpolar Navigation for a lease.
Goddard also is getting much more interest from potential students, Vacarr said, as inquiries have increased by 33 percent to 5,074 and raw applications have increased by 155 percent to 1,106.
The fundraising the school has been doing is also starting to pay off, Vacarr said, with a once-nonexistent fundraising initiative having gone up 88 percent in the last year. There were 155 new donors to the college in fiscal year 2013, she said.
Faced with the challenges, Vacarr and Brown indicated they will not know if the seeds of their work will yield fruit until about April, when a complete analysis is finished.
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Hello Everybody!
I'm making a Broadway themed cake for my best friend's 30th birthday in September. I found a couple of pictures online for inspiration and most of them are tiered cakes with the colors going from light on the bottom to dark on the top.
At first I was thinking I could attempt to airbrush it but that would mean I'd need to purchase an airbrush machine and such (which I don't mind doing and would eventually like to try it). Then I thought about using Wilton's color mists. I've used them before on cake and liked the results but it wasn't to cover the entire cake. Then I thought I could just color some fondant and do it that way. With coloring the fondant, I'm worried that I won't get the gradual color change that I'm hoping to get. So any suggestions would be very helpful!!
Thank you :)


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To outline how I managed to wander onto the path of toy camera-dom here are extracts from my old blog punkclown daze – Flash Back to April 2005 ~ (wavy visuals and twilight zone theme goes here)
Saturday, April 09, 2005
Whooot! I'm a WINNER!
Well, to cap off a lovely sunny day spent with friends and family I arrived home to find an email from a generous photoblogger named Susan B – who recently had a camera raffle on her site outafocus (has some great photos btw) for some toy cameras. If you wish to find out more on Toy Cameras there is a website devoted to them: toycamera.com ~ anyway to cut a long story short, I actually won one of the cameras she was raffling! I have never won a raffle in my life, so I was pleasantly surprised. Susan is also sending a roll of film with it to get started (I think it takes 120 film) so I have no excuse not to do a bit of Toy Camera Photography (stay tuned for results from this camera) I'm looking forward to it. Some think that the lomo's are toy cameras but i think there would be debate about that, as traditionally toy cameras usually have plastic lens, but perhaps it's more about the look of the final developed image…my Supersampler is probably somewhere between a novelty camera and a toy camera, but it has glass lenses (all 4 of them) ~ anyhow digression and discussion aside, I would like to say a big THANKS to Susan!
Now I'm going out to look through my Telescope as it is a wonderfully clear and balmy night.
(later that month)
Saturday, April 16, 2005
Thanks Susan
I would like to thank Susan Burnstine from outafocus for being such a nice person and fellow camera afficianado – today the Empire Junior she raffled (and I won) on her site arrived by post! Cool! I even managed to load the 120 film (which Susan also generously supplied) without busting it. Now to get some black masking tape for the light leaks she warned me about!
Stay tuned for some 120 photos from this cute little camera (refer to image of me very happy with aforementioned camera)
So there you have it, although I was aware of toy camera photography and had admired other people's toy camera work elsewhere, I really was inexperienced until I got my hands on this little beauty from Susan, so if you apprecaite my stuff, thank Susan B. Of course if my toy camera photography sucks, that's entirely my fault, not Susans!


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Since I can remember, Maria & I have always wanted to help people. I think we get this attribute from our father, because throughout our lives he's helped many people for nothing in return but to see them smile. Then again, anyone in our family would bend over backwards to help out someone in need.
We started this blog almost a year and a half ago because we wanted to share our experiences of eating healthy and staying active in hopes to inspire others to hop on board. We really wanted to help people get healthy and in return be happy with themselves.
I will stop working for my family's business soon to be a stay at home mom. I feel truly blessed that I will have that opportunity and be able to be by Roberto's side every moment of his first few years and watch all the little things he will do as he grows. I really want to do at least 1 year of online schooling during this time to learn even more about nutrition and become a health coach. I'd love to help people change their lifestyles and I think it would be the perfect job to have once my kids aren't toddlers anymore.
Lately, Maria & I have been feeling that we're not really inspiring people with our website and maybe just blogging about our lifestyles is a waste of time. We've made semi-drastic changes to our diet over this time and it makes some people uncomfortable when they're around us. We don't eat nearly as much sugar as we used to and we eat very little grains now. Family parties can be awkward sometimes when people are used to you hoarding the sweet table! We take our health seriously and really focus on nourishing our bodies with nutritious foods and preventing illnesses and diseases. We've recently had multiple occasions where we felt people that we know were judging us on what we eat or how we look.
I, personally, have struggled with comments in regards to my pregnancy.
I don't want to go into too many details, but it's happened more than once where someone will make a comment on how "small" my belly looks and it's because I "eat too healthy" or "workout like crazy."
Yes, I know that my weight gain hasn't been typical and on the low side, but it really puts me down when someone makes a negative comment about it. I know we will all be judged in many areas throughout our lives, but when the comments have to do with my unborn son, it's a different story.
It really bothers me that someone would think for a split second that I'm causing Roberto harm. I've never had any past eating disorders and have no problem eating when I'm hungry. (Which is all the time lately!) I've been eating plenty during my pregnancy and getting in a lot of calories, fat and nutrients. I also don't consider walking 3 days a week, strength training for 45 minutes twice a week and maybe a day of yoga as working out like crazy. That's just staying active… I'm not working out to burn calories or fat, but to stay strong and keep my endurance up for the birth of my child.
Sure, I could stuff my face with donuts, twinkies and cupcakes all day and maybe gain more weight, but that would just be plain silly. Something tells me that sugar and processed foods wouldn't be the best thing for a baby who's brain is growing at a significant rate right now. My doctor is not concerned at all and tells me at every single appointment that everything looks great and I'm doing everything right. He never mentioned anything about me not gaining or growing enough. I brought it up to him, and he told me that everything on my charts looked perfect.
Why do we always have to judge one another and make unnecessary comments? It's either "WOW you're huge" or "OMG you're so small, are you not eating enough?" It's not often we hear anyone say you look just perfect, keep up the good work! Maria and I aren't the "speak your mind" kind of people. We truly believe that if you have nothing nice to say, then don't say anything at all. It's not about a right to speak your mind, but about being kind and not judging one another. You can't tell a person's story just by looking at them from the outside.
I feel like it's only the people we know that read our blog that make the negative comments. I just think it's funny because I personally think that I've been growing slowly but surely. There's not a night that goes by, where I change into my pjs, and Rinaldo doesn't tell me how big my belly is getting! People at work, who don't know about our blog, tell me each week that I'm getting bigger and bigger and have never said anything negative or about me being "small."
Well, I don't want to go on forever here, but just wanted to update on how we've been feeling lately. This has all affected me because I'm trying so hard to grow a healthy baby and make sure to get all the recommended foods in daily (It's not fun eating 2 eggs everyday…I'm getting sick of them) and it hurts when someone makes a comment that I'm not doing it right or for them to think I'm restricting myself. I guess I just had enough this week and had some thoughts that it's not worth it to blog about our personal lives and have people judge us or make assumptions about us.
Maria feels the same way in regards to people judging her on what she does and doesn't eat, but that's an entirely different story… ha! She actually gets very angry and protective whenever I mention any negative comments that I get. I guess it's because she knows just how hard I'm working to nourish Roberto while he's growing inside of me. She's the first person I'd go to when I'd notice that the scale wasn't going up, but I was eating so much! I honestly never in a million years thought I'd have this problem. Maria & I used to joke ALL the time that when we got pregnant we'd gain 10 pounds by the time we just peed on the stick.. We never had problems gaining weight in the past, that's for sure!
Thanks to all of you who commented on our status update on Facebook. You truly made us feel good with all your love and support and we're going to reconsider giving up the blog. We're still not sure what we want to do in the end, but we do know that we loved blogging for the most part and have met so many wonderful people and learned so much in the process. I also want to note that many people close to me have said such nice things to me and how much they love my pregnancy posts! I need to focus more on those people.
Since I missed my 30 week update this week, here's a picture just to update you!
As Ellen DeGeneres says at the end of her show, Be Kind To One Another.
Do you ever feel like giving up your blog? Sometimes we just want our lives to be more private, but on the other hand we love sharing our experiences and tips with everyone.
How do you handle negative comments in your life?


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Alaska smokers bought 31 million packs of cigarettes in 2011.
Each pack costs smokers a statewide average of $9. But every pack of cigarettes costs Alaskans, smokers and non-smokers alike, an additional $19 per pack from smoking-related damages.
That $579 million figure? That's what Alaskans cough up every year. In 2010, smoking cost Alaskans an estimated $348 million in direct medical expenditures and an additional $231 million in lost productivity due to premature tobacco-related deaths.
$579 million. That's equal to a round-trip ticket to Hawaii for you and 800,000 of your friends. As Alaskans, we could focus that money elsewhere. How about a better road system? Or funding for schools and scholarships for our next generation?


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3D Wall View in Search Results
Yesterday, we introduced a new feature in our digital collections interface: the 3D Wall. This is an exciting new interactive view of search results that enables quicker navigation through pages of thumbnails and between items, smooth zooming to high-quality images, and image slideshows.
Here's a 4-minute demo:
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3D Wall uses the program CoolIris. The embedded version requires only that your browser has Flash player; through to use full-screen view, download the CoolIris browser plugin from http://cooliris.com.
Try it out and let us know what you think!
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