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GLM Products names national sales manager
Posted onMonrovia, Calif.-based GLM Products named Paul Smith as the company's new national sales manager.
Smith, who brings more than 35 years of marine industry experience, will be responsible for the entire North American market through his sales office in Fort Lauderdale.
"I'm very excited to be working with GLM again. It's great to be back," Smith said in a statement.
Smith owned a marine manufacturers' representative agency in the Southeast for more than 22 years until he took a national sales manager position with another marine company a few years ago. His former representative agency, Paul L. Smith & Associates, sold the GLM line of products for more than 20 years.
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Updated: May 8, 2013 6:06AM
Jimmie "Jim" D. and Mary L. (Pyle) Carroll recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a surprise party at White Hawk Country Club in Crown Point with their family and friends.
Their children are Shelley Tims and husband Guido, Mark Carroll, and Katy Shifflett and husband Shaun.
They have eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. They all reside in Indiana.
The honorees were married March 8, 1963 in Pontiac, Ill. They moved to Indiana in 1974.
Jim retired from BP/Amoco and Mary retired as co-owner of A Stitch in Time in Munster.
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Travis reveals 2012 Dodge Dart livery for GRC
Dodge and Travis Pastrana are excited to reveal the brand new livery for the Dart that will aid Pastrana in his seven (7) event campaign this year within Global Rallycross. Wrapped in a blue quintessential Pastrana plaid, the custom-built Dart features a 2.0-liter, 4-cylinder, 16-valve turbo-charged 600-horsepower coupled to a Sedav 4-wheel drive gear box that puts out more than 550 lb.-ft of torque. The aerodynamic and agile Dart is expected to deliver incredible 0 to 60 times as low as 1.9 seconds.
"When I first heard about GRC, I was really interested, and after watching some of the rounds last year and then actually competing at X Games I was hooked! Now to be able to partner with Dodge to field my own program this year is a dream come true,? said Pastrana. ?The new Dodge Dart offers the perfect platform for rallycross, and I look forward to putting it on the podium all season long!"
Reid Bigland, President and CEO-Dodge Brand, is excited for the new partnership and for the public to see what the new Dart can do on the track.
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A very busy year at work in conjunction with some TOP SECRET happenings in the Bandura Making world have conspired to not allow me the time to update this site in a while. Luckily, time has finally freed up a bit.
As you recall, the last instrument I finished was a prototype for the instrument I'm building for a friend, Yuri Petlura. That instrument came out quite nicely and I'm very happy that I decided to build a proto before going on to the real instrument with the re-tune mechanisms. The only thing I wasn't too happy about was the scroll which was the best I've done to date but, it was still a little sloppy (click any pic to enlarge):
Carving a scroll is hard and it's harder than it looks! Since I made that one, I found this site from an experienced cello maker that describes how to make a violin type scroll: http://www.allthingsstringscommunity.com/profiles/blogs/making-a-new-cello-pt-23-the I'm not going to document my steps too much as I'm not nearly as good at is as that guy.
The scroll is something that's very distinctive and I'd also like to come up with something that makes my instruments instantly identifiable just from the scroll which I think I've done and I'll get to that in a moment.
Current Projects:
My kids are rapidly approaching bandura lesson age so I'm going to need a couple of child sized instruments. I also owe Yuri his instrument so, my current projects are to build two child sized banduras and Yuri's instrument. Because carving the scroll is so hard, I decided to make the scrolls on the kiddie instruments the same as what I plan on Yuri's so that I could get some more practice in carving. Using the techniques I learned from the website above, I managed to make what I think are my finest hand carved scrolls yet:
As you can see, I changed the traditional design enough that I'm pretty happy that it's a design that looks quite unique and modern but not so over the top that it's ridiculous.
As I mentioned, carving scrolls is a difficult process that takes years to master. It's difficult enough that the thought of carving a scroll is stressful enough to keep me out of the shop. It's one of the longest single steps in the creation of an instrument. If only there was a way to make this process easier and faster that wouldn't compromise the look of the instrument? Would using an easier method that looks the same detract from the instruments value?
Re-Tune Mechanism
One of the long standing issues with banduras is the ability to play in multiple keys. Almost since the beginning, bandura makers have been working on coming up with a simple method of re-tuning individual strings quickly to allow players to change keys quickly. Most of these attempts have been failures but, there are a few that work too, but they're still rather sketchy.
I'll go into greater detail in another post but, there are two basic kinds of bandura: The Kyiv Style and the Kharkiv Style. Yuri's bandura will be of the Kyiv style and luckily for me, there is a working mechanism that I was able to purchase:
This mechanism lives at the top of the instrument, the shemstok. By flipping a lever, you can change e.g. all the Fs to F#s with a single movement. Below are a couple of pictures showing how this works. The string is threaded through the hook which shortens the string and increases the tension a little bit:
In this photo, all of the mechanisms are "Off" and all of the hooks are up.
In this photo, I've flipped the top lever which lowered the highest hook thereby shortening the string.
This mechanism works fairly well but still requires a lot of setup time and fiddling through the life of the instrument. This may be something that's insurmountable though. Pedal Harps, the kind they use in orchestras, also have a re-tune mechanism and they too have to be regulated once a year or so.
The other problem with this mechanism is that although it is available, I got it from Ukraine and they can be somewhat unreliable in terms of delivery. This mechanism is also un-usable on a Kharkiv style instrument because of the tuning pegs being on top and the mechanism being in a straight line.
I've been pondering the idea of a re-tune mechanism for years and even made a few prototypes and I finally think I've come up with something that would work on a Kharkiv instrument. As usual though, the devil is in the details - it would require hundreds of precisely drilled holes and very tight tolerances held on every part to get it to work. Even then, I won't really know until I try. Do I want to spend all that time drawing up plans and making templates for something that might work? If only there were a way....


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Priceline Founder Jay Walker Sure Has Filed a Lot of Lawsuits For Someone Who's Not a Patent Troll
Ever since Jay Walker founded Walker Digital in 1994, the company has made its fortune by spinning ideas like Priceline out into companies. But in a profile today, the Wall Street Journal reports that Mr. Walker's new money-making strategy seems to be filing lawsuits.
Last year, the Stamford, Connecticut-based company put its patent portfolio up for auction. But although a bid was made for $135 million for ideas like "managing identities and connecting with friends online" (circa 1996) it didn't meet Mr. Walker's minimum.
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There's a new eBook coming out later this year – musicians take notice! This is not any ordinary guide to making it in the music biz. The official press release, courtesy of Brian Penick (author of Musicians' Desk Reference and founder/CEO of The Counter Rhythm Group) is below – read it, and scroll down for our response:
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OUR STORY Brian has performed in touring bands for over 13 years, always handling the business in each project. Over the past 2 years, Brian has been helping independent musicians with The Counter Rhythm Group, offering assistance in areas such as record marketing, publicity and radio promotion to a broader demographic of artists than traditionally serviced.
OUR REASON Soon after The Counter Rhythm Group opened its doors, requests came flooding in. Without the workforce to help all in need, Brian developed a system that would offer guidelines and instructions to musicians on a larger scale while remaining customizable.
OUR MISSION The purpose of MUSICIANS' DESK REFERENCE is to create a set of guidelines that define the unknown variables musicians inevitably face when dealing with the music business. The working model of the book organizes and chronologically displays a set of instructions that will help both those who are just starting their musical careers to established and experienced musicians working on their own progression.
Through a collection of constructed documentation including templates, instructional guides, examples and video tutorials, MUSICIANS' DESK REFERENCE offers a completely customizable experience for the user by highlighting several pertinent aspects of the music industry.
It is the belief of the author that through standardization of information and working models within the music business, musicians will have answers to the ever important questions of WHEN, WHY and most importantly HOW to progress within the modern music industry.
I'll admit, it's hard to make an accurate judgment call on something that is yet to be released. I'll say this though – Penick bears paying attention to because he has a rare combination of traits – empathy for the struggling musician and savvy business sense. If in the first two years of existence, his establishment can help propel a band like WALK THE MOON to fame he must be doing something right. More specifically in regard to this project, I appreciate the template aspect of the eBook. Watch out Nashville – Cincinnati may be giving you some competition soon out of the Midwest.
Look for a Kickstarter campaign helping to fund this release in February, followed by a formal release at the Midpoint Music Festival later this year.


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Took the Glock 20 out for the first time today. As always I want to change out the factory sights. Aside from that I ran 50 200 grain rounds through it. I forget what they were. I picked them up for $13 they were relatively light loads. I put 10 Hornady 155 grain jhp's supposedly pushing 1265 fps through it just to make sure they would feed without issue for carry purposes. The gun functioned flawlessly and I will be blowing out the x at tactical range as soon as I change out the sights. I love it. Now I also took out the ruger sp101 and ran a box of American eagle 158 grain. 357 magnums through it. I picked them up for $20. Honestly I like the gun but the sights and grip are terrible. I'm lucky to be in the black with it and the two guys I let try it were lucky to hit the target. One of the guys fired one shot and put it down. The other said it's terrible and grabbed his patrolman for me to try. That gun is fantastic I put all 6 shots in the x easily. Anyway to rap it up the ruger bruised the crap out of my hand but I kept shooting it until the box was empty.
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Lance Armstrong is the richest cheater to be stripped of a championship or Olympic medal for using performance-enhancing drugs. It isn't even close.
Seven relay teammates of admitted steroid user Marion Jones can keep the medals they won at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the highest sports court ruled.
Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds, snubbed from the baseball Hall of Fame yesterday because of their links to steroids, might find their own path to redemption by watching Lance Armstrong on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong , who two former teammates say took banned performance-enhancing substances, is facing a legal process that eventually proved similar allegations against other professional athletes accused of doping.
Lance Armstrong may lose as much as $200 million in future earning potential, more than the wealth he accumulated in a championship cycling career now gutted by revelations of doping.
Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball's career home-run record holder convicted of obstructing a U.S. probe of steroid use in professional sports, faces sentencing by a judge who chose not to jail two athletes for similar offenses.
Lance Armstrong, the seven-time tour de France champion, and his professional bicycle racing team are no longer the subjects of a U.S. criminal probe, the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles said.
Lance Armstrong's loss of support from Nike Inc. and other sponsors after the cyclist was tied to performance-enhancing drug use will cost him about $30 million in earning potential, according to a sports marketing agent.
Lance Armstrong didn't win the Tour de France, the grueling race he once dominated, the one jokingly dubbed the Tour de Lance. In prior years he pedaled and pedaled and pedaled until he was the last man standing on the podium. Past tense.
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[Mac OS X] Master your cartooning skills with Animation Desk
Posted By Tucker On January 23, 2013 @ 11:32 PM In Mac OS X | No Comments
[1]Did you watch "Rocko's Modern Life" growing up? It was totally my favorite Nicktoon, especially the episode where Rocko and the gang took over Bighead Studios and started making their own cartoon. I couldn't help but think about that painful, old school animation process as I experimented with Animation Desk, a Mac App developed by KDan Mobile Software. This solid app is way simpler to use than the old method of animating.
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The next logical extension of KDan's Animation Desk apps for iPad and iPhone, Animation Desk for Mac lets users create simple cartoons. Animation files can be shared across all iOS devices, making it easy to work on a project while away from your home computer. Users can the upload animations to YouTube, or share their creations on Animation Desk's "Anizone" community.
[2]Like most other KDan offerings, Animation Desk distinguishes itself by having a great navigation system. Despite a truly massive array of tools and utilities, the menus are really simple to navigate, and never overwhelming. There are some great keyboard shortcuts you can make use of as well. Brush size adjustment is done with the command key + mouse, while the adjustment for brush opacity adjustment is a simple alt key + mouse.
It's great that you can share animation projects between devices (though of course, you do need to cough up a bit of extra dough for the Animation Desk apps for other iOS devices.)
One thing that is really cool is Animation Desk's Anizone community. It's a cool place to get inspiration, share your projects-in-progress, or just waste a little time. It's a nice function that makes the whole Mac App experience fell a bit more well-rounded.
Some users have complained of frames being lost during the saving process, or jumbled frames when scrolling. I personally haven't encountered any of these issues, but it's still worth reporting them.
If you have ever wanted to experiment with making your own little cartoons, this is a great Mac App to play around with. It's user-friendly enough to not intimidate beginners, but robust enough to intrigue more experienced visual artists as well. If you've got $10 and a passion for drawing, this is well worth investing in.
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NOP Proposes Renewal of Twelve Substances
The NOP published a proposed rule to renew the listing of 12 substances currently allowed in production and handling of organic foods.
January 4, 2011
The National Organic Program published a proposed rule to renew the listing of 12 substances which are currently allowed in the production and handling of organic foods.
The proposed rule would extend the exemptions for these substances, which have a sunset date of September 12, 2011, on the U.S. Department of Agriculture National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances (National List).
These substances include:
Organic crop production
- Hydrogen chloride (CAS # 7647-01-0) for seed preparations. This product is used to eliminate lint from cotton seed, making it possible to mechanize planting.
- Ferric phosphate (CAS # 10045-86-0) as slug or snail bait.
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- Egg white lysozyme (CAS # 9001-63-2), a natural anti-microbial. The food applications for egg white lysozyme include cheese and wine.
- L-Malic acid (CAS # 97-67-6). L-Malic acid is often used as a flavor enhancer, flavoring agent and adjuvant, and for pH control agent in a variety of foods.
- Microorganisms-any food-grade bacteria, fungi, and other microorganism. Microorganisms are essential for the production of many fermented foods.
- Activated charcoal (CAS #s 7440-44-0; 64365-11-3).
- Cyclohexylamine (CAS # 108-91-8) for use only as a boiler water additive for packaging sterilization.
- Diethylaminoethanol (CAS # 100-37-8) for use only as a boiler water additive for packaging sterilization.
- Octadecylamine (CAS # 124-30-1) for use only as a boiler water additive for packaging sterilization.
- Peracetic acid/Peroxyacetic acid (CAS # 79-21-0) for use in wash and/or rinse water according to FDA limitations as a sanitizer on food contact surfaces.
- Sodium acid pyrophosphate (CAS # 7758-16-9) for use only as a leavening agent. Sodium acid pyrophosphate is commonly found in baked goods.
- Tetrasodium pyrophosphate (CAS # 7722-88-5) for use only in meat analog products.
If substances are not renewed by their sunset date, they are no longer allowed in the production and handling of organic foods.
This proposed rule provides a 30-day period for interested persons to comment on the proposed amendments, ending Feb. 3, 2011. Written comments may be submitted online at www.regulations.gov (search for docket ID AMS_FRDOC_0001) or by mail to Toni Strother, Agricultural Marketing Specialist, National Organic Program, USDA-AMS-NOP, 1400 Independence Ave., SW., Room 2646-So., Ag Stop 0268, Washington, DC 20250.For further information, contact Melissa Bailey, Ph.D., Director, Standards Division via telephone at (202) 720-3252 or via fax at (202) 205-7808.


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At Encore Electric, we are committed to excellence in service, our employees, and our customers in providing quality preconstruction, construction, and maintenance services in a safe, timely, and cost effective manner.
The Company
Encore Electric, Inc. is a Colorado based company that focuses on delivering to its customers a wide array of electrical construction projects and maintenance services. Encore has earned the reputation of high quality, innovation and customer satisfaction throughout Colorado. Encore provides design/build and design/assist services including extensive pre-construction cost analysis and constructability reviews. Our proven depth in project management and skilled workforce assures quality and safety as part of every project. Our service department offers a comprehensive post-construction service and maintenance program including 24-hour on-call support, power quality and proactive maintenance services.
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To use the resources of our superior team to partner with our customers in providing total electrical solutions and to provide services our clients cannot get anywhere else.
Encore Electric, Inc. is an EEO/AA contractor
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Encore Electric, Inc. focuses on serving the states of Colorado and Wyoming from our Denver Metro office in Englewood, Colorado and our mountain office located in Avon, Colorado.
Additionally, Encore Electric, Inc. has the ability to perform work in the following geographic locations: California, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Utah.


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I should go back and see how many times I've started a post with "I've been slack." This one may take the cake, though – it's been nearly 5 months since I've bothered to blog. Part of this is the problem of it building – not only do I post on the blog, but I put pictures in the gallery, and list projects on Ravelry. One or two are not a big deal, but once you've gone a month or more, it gets to be daunting and you put it off – and off – and next thing you know, it's the end of January.
So here's a post that's mostly pictures – but you'll get the idea.
Mark goes bald – all in one day. Actually, it was for a really good cause – he had his head shaved for the St. Baldrick's Foundation, which raises money for children's cancer research. In the end he raised $690, and spent several weeks being mistaken for Mr. Clean.
Also in September, Mom's cousin Dori was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. They held a benefit to raise money for her treatment and for her family. I made lace scarves out of Noro Kureyon and Silk Garden.
The bottom one was actually one of Mom's Christmas presents, but this is the only picture I got of it.
In September we also took a family trip to the beach (with the MINI club), and celebrated Shea's 18th birthday. Sniffle, sniffle is all I have to say about that. During our trip, I worked on a pair of socks for a sweet lady (Donna) in the MINI club. These are my first pair out of Berroco Sox, and I must say I loved it.
I also knitted some boot socks for OtherMom, who along with Dad has recently moved to the NC mountains, where they actually get snow. These Cherry Tree Hill DK socks should fit the bill quite nicely.
I finished the socks to go with my orange sweaters – Lorna's Laces Gold Hill was the winner, and it was the Sockapalooza 4 pattern (I think – don't quote me on that).
At some point in September, I also started the Mystery Stole 4. More about that later.
October is mostly a blur. The MINI club took a trip to an alpaca farm (gotta love it when you can combine interests!). I came very close to kidnapping this sweet girl and bringing her home with me.
Sometime in there I finished up Mark's Gentleman's Fancy Socks, made with a Trekking Pro Natura. Another great yarn – washes up beautifully.
Somewhere in October I got tickled by the top of my washer and dryer on laundry day – now that there are 2.5 wool sock addicts in the house, we're running out of drying space!
November was busy, full of play practice, mountain trip, and a new roof.
Of this roof, I can say four things: it was time, it was expensive, it made for a very noisy 2 days at home, and it was worth every penny. We had weeks of driving rains in December, and my kitchen would have been a disaster.
And I can't forget to mention frantic knitting for birthdays and Christmas:
Mark's Happy Feet Footies – knitted during our trip to Fontana – it was a slightly rainy, cool weekend, but the leaves were still beautiful.
At some point I finished up the Mystery Stole, which by now had decided that it's fate was to go live with Grandma – I knew she would love it. Yarn is Malabrigo in color Molly (I think), with 1000+ beads hand-knitted into it.
As anticipated, Grandma flipped over the stole!
I knitted socks for Mom and Lee for Christmas:
Great Adirondack Silky Sock – pattern is Mockery
Happy Feet – basic ribbed pattern (in size 13!)
I made fingerless mitts for Sarah's birthday:
(thanks to Jennifer for modeling) – Sweet Georgia Speed Demon, Berry Hill pattern (and enough yarn left over to make a pair for me!)
and socks for my sister for her birthday:
2×2 ribbed socks, Mama E's C*Eye*Ber Fiber color English Roses
December came and went in a flash – we had Mom and Lee in for Minnesota – visiting for Hayley's play and my birthday, and the rest of the family here for the play and for birthdays. Hayley had a principle role as the Minstrel in Once Upon a Mattress. The play was phenomenal, and H had a great time, and did a fabulous job. If you haven't seen the play, the Minstrel and Jester are the main narrators, with several parts of the narration sung. Here she is with the Jester:
In mid-December we got the sad news that Dori had passed away. She was young, with pre-teen and teenaged children, and it was a sad loss.
By the 3rd week in December, the big girls were home for college, and we had Christmas break. It was busier than usual, and definitely noisier than usual, but we had lots of fun. Holly was "bored" – nothing to study, and her computer was broken, and she needed something to do, so she asked if she could knit something. I said sure, and we found some yarn, and she knit a 7-foot striped and ribbed scarf in 3 days. There was enough yarn left, and she made a ribbed beanie.
Then she needed another project. I took the girls to the yarn store, always an expensive thing to do. Shea picked out 4 gorgeous yarns for a scarf (I'm still waiting for her to send pics, as she took it back to college), Holly got yarn for a beret, and Hayley got yarn for a scarf and legwarmers. Here's Holly's beret:
It was much bigger to start with – too big and floppy, and we tried to hand felt it, with no luck. We decided to throw it in the wash machine and see what happened – and here it is. A bit smaller than planned, but really cute, and Holly loved the idea of felting. This was a common sight around our house during the month that Holly was here:
That still wasn't enough – she ended up making another beret-type hat and another beanie before she left.
I made her a school colors scarf, and a pair of socks (of which I apparently didn't get a picture):
The "M" is for her school name.
I finished up a pair of socks for me in Sweet Georgia Boheme – the pattern is Simplicity from the new Eclectic Sole book.
I got an awesome Christmas gift from my husband – a beautiful sweater chest for the end of our bed, made by a good friend of ours.
I made a sweet pair of booties for Zoe, my new niece-to-be, due in June. Her mom and dad refuse to dress her in pink, so I figured green was cute, and thought it would be fun to give them a baby present WAY in advance.
Just before the end of Break, the girls went to see my sister for a photo shoot. Brenna is an awesome photographer, and she shot well over 100 pics of them. These are some of my favorites:
We are so blessed!
It's now January 20th, Inauguration Day. I had taken the day as a personal day, as it was a teacher workday – it would have been ½ a day of meetings, then I would have left for a doctor appointment. As it turned out, it snowed last night, the workday was cancelled, and my doctor's office is closed. Of course, the roads are 98% fine, but that's how it usually goes. Hayley was disappointed that we didn't get as much snow as Shea did in Charlotte – they got 3-4" and campus was actually closed today.
One more thing before I go – many of you out there know Alison, designer and knitter extraordinaire, and one of the best people I know. She has been truly sick these last few weeks, beyond anything I can comprehend (if you want details, they're on her blog), and I'm asking for your prayers for her. There's a running joke in the comments on her blog that God must be getting really tired of hearing her name, there are so many people who love her and are praying for her. Alison – we love you, and hope that you recover soon!


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Canberra Brick Expo 2011 is on this weekend!
Posted by jpmanalo,This weekend Australia's national capital, Canberra, will be playing host to Brick Expo 2011. After last year's massive attendance, Brick Expo's organisers have decided to spread this year's event over two days - Saturday 6 August and Sunday 7 August.
Here are the event details:
- Where? Corinna Ballroom, Canberra Southern Cross Club - Woden, 92-96 Corinna Street, Phillip, ACT, 2606, Australia
- When? 10:00am to 5:00pm, Saturday 6th August 2011 and 10:00am to 4:00pm, Sunday 7th August 2011
- Admission? $2.50 per Child/Concession, $5.00 per Adult and $10.00 per Family.
- All proceeds from Brick Expo will assist Brick Expo's major charity, PaTCH, to purchase much needed medical equipment for the Paediatrics Department at the Canberra Hospital.
More information is available from the Brick Expo website.
I'll be in attendance at Brick Expo again this year along with other members of SydLUG - so if you see me in the crowd, feel free to stop to say "Hello" and/or have a chat about all things LEGO!
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Wish I could make it...just a bit too far from Perth. Hope it goes well.
Hey jpmanalo, next year could you post this maybe a week or so earlier? Would have loved to go, but 48 hours notice is a bit short! My fault of course, but come on, if you can't rely on Brickset, who can you rely on? :)
I'm almost certain I'll be there. Knowing me I'll probably back out at the last minute for some stupid reason, but on the other hand, maybe that won't happen for a change. Now I just need to sort out an adequate bus route there; and they say there's no good reason to live in Canberra...
@Quietelk: I would've loved to have posted this earlier - but the pressures of real life (Brickset isn't my real-life job! lol) meant that the earliest I could post this up was last night :-( I assure you (and everyone else) that I always try to post news up as quickly and often as possible.
Awwwww...it's in Australia! : (
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- February 22, 2013 - 13:44
What nonsense. With only half as many students in the school system as a generation ago, and now with 1 teacher for every 13 students, teaching positions should be the first thing cut. This is just typical teacher's unions tactics of saying, "If you cut our jobs, your children will be the ones to pay!" Teachers know that they are on the chopping block too. The union was pretty quick to get this campaign rolling. I'm sorry for the teachers, but let's be honest, with an aging population, NL needs more focus on geriatric medicine and long-term care (e.g., nursing homes) - not retaining teacher staff levels.
- Cindy
- February 22, 2013 - 07:30
One place they can find savings in the education field is to not increase the pay of every teacher who decides to complete their Masters Degree, only to increase their pension! In most places you can improve your education but until a job comes up to meet those qualifications, you dont get a pay raise. ie...nurse practitioners. These teachers do their Masters, come back to their exact same jobs and get a $20,000 raise! Until their duries(principal, guidance councellor,etc) change they should not be availing of this. Also...some teachers go on education leave to achieve this too. Wow!!!!! Anyways...this is my opinion on how they can make some savings in the education field! I am sure it will go over well...lol.


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Janelle Monáe released her long-anticipated sophomore album The Electric Lady and it features a vibrant collaboration with Solange. The Target deluxe edition of the record hosts four bonus cuts, including this kicked-up remix featuring guest appearances from Big Boi and Cee-Lo, doing a spoken word verse reminiscent of Goodie Mob's "Beautiful Skin." Check it out below.
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I have two sets of leather furniture and have had both sets for approximately 15 years. One set ( the tag says it is Old Granite Leather Craftsmen) still looks great and the leather is wearing the way I would expect leather to wear. This set was more expensive than the other set which is Benchcraft and the Benchcraft is breaking down and the leather is about shot in certain sports, just rubbing off, not wearing like the other leather furniture. I have to replace my good leather set, as it is showing age, but not horribly, so I will be moving it downstairs, and getting rid of the Benchcraft furniture. Can anyone tell me what brand of leather furniture is similar to the quality of the Old Granite Leather. I have tried to do research, but it is hard to find anything about the Old Granite. I am beginning to wonder if it is Leather Craft? Any help is greatly appreciated. |
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- Posted by foxes_garden (My Page) on Wed, Jul 29, 09 at 14:09
I had also heard that about Hancock and Moore. My local furniture store that tries to only stock American-made has stopped carrying them. This makes me very sad, since I liked a lot of their line. Anyone know if there is still some American-made subset of the H&M line? |
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Sorry, you folks have some bad information. Hancock and Moore is 100 % American Made in Hickory, NC. They have a Chinese import line named "Randall Allen" which is NOT American made. All leather hides are imported for all leather makers, and therein may lie the confusion. There are no more American tanneries. Many 'crusts' come from the USA and are shipped to other countries for the tanning and finishing process, then returned to the USA as finished leathers. OSHA and the EPA have effectively closed all US tanneries (its a nasty, dirty business in a tannery). Some hides come from China, some from Germany, some from New Zealand, and some from Italy or South America. But they are all imported. BTW, in my professional opinion, there are NO other makers doing the work to the level of Hancock and Moore. Classic Leather comes close.... If you see "Hancock and Moore" on the label, its made in Hickory NC. |
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Distinction is very good and made in NC. I added a link that ranks leather furniture. |
Here is a link that might be useful: manufactures quality ranking
Leather quality varies from tannery to tannery, to country to country and even within the tannery itself. It starts first in choosing the hides that will be used for aniline dyed to pigmented leather. Also their are many different methods and chemicals used in the production of leather. Some good some you wouldnt want to have in your home. Basically its up to the manufacturer of the upholstery to have good quality control over their leather producers and have enough knowledge and care to determine if they are receiving better leathers. Leather upholstery should be considered an investment. BTW, hate to get picky, but H&M is located in Taylorsville, actually just inside the Alexander County line, across the Catawba river. On the otherside of the river is Hickory. |
- Posted by riverspots (My Page) on Thu, Aug 13, 09 at 8:03
Choose the frame first. Pick one that is screwed and doweled. Glued and stapled frames don't last as long. Then pick a better grade of leather and get samples. Even "upgraded" leather varies in its processing and some scratch much easier than others. Down padding on top of the foam is often an option-but one I thought was unnecessary. I've bought online from Wellingtons and was very satisfied. I've read other good reviews from those who bought from Boyles. |
- Posted by ThornhillLouis (My Page) on Wed, Apr 11, 12 at 4:25
Leather has always been a popular material option for covering a wide range of furniture pieces starting from bar tools, sofas, dining chair, recliner and other types of casual furniture. However, many variations of the material are now available in the market that are literally identical to leather but are actually not leather. This makes it difficult for people to point out the differences between the leather match and all leather furniture. |
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In a New York Times article posted Thursday about Amare Stoudemire's eventual return to the Knicks lineup, Howard Beck dropped an intriguing revelation for Raptors fans. Citing "a person briefed on the discussion," Beck reports that "In February, the Knicks wanted to send Stoudemire to Toronto in a deal for Andrea Bargnani."
He goes on to write that the offer never made it to the Raptors because Knicks chairman James Dolan shot it down, but that according to team officials, Toronto "would not have made the deal anyway."
Looking back on things, it makes sense that the Knicks were considering making this proposal. New York was hovering around .500 and generally under-performing at the time, Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony didn't look good as a tandem when they were on the floor together, Amare's max contract was starting to look like the disaster most pundits thought it would be, and Bargnani was enjoying the best season of his career, albeit in just 13 games.
What's curious is that Andrea didn't actually play any games in February this year, as after re-injuring his left calf in Utah on January 25, he didn't suit up again until March 10. But again, considering how bad Stoudemire's contract was looking and how much the Knicks were struggling to live up to expectations, it's not hard to imagine the Knicks wanting a 26-year-old (at the time) Bargnani who was averaging 23.5 points on 47.6 per cent shooting to go along with 6.4 rebounds, especially when he saved some of his best performances over the years (including a career-high 41 points) for New York.
Furthermore, remember that in February, Mike D'Antoni was still manning the sidelines at MSG, and based on the plethora of Bargnani to the Lakers rumours we've discussed over the last month or so, we know all about how well Andrea would theoretically fit into a D'Antoni offence.
From the Raptors' perspective, it's also totally understandable why Bryan Colangelo and co. would not have considered this deal. As ludicrous as it now seems in hindsight after another uninspiring stretch of poor Bargnani play to start this season, at the reported time of this would-be proposal, plenty of people thought Bargnani might have finally "figured it out" under Dwane Casey's tutelage, so you know B.C. wasn't about to give him away for an older player on bad knees and a horrible contract just when Andrea was looking capable of repaying six years worth of faith.
Even without that positive and misleading 13-game run and even as bad as Bargnani has been to start 2012-13, I still wouldn't trade him for Amare. I want the Raptors to rid themselves of Bargs as much as anyone, but Stoudemire has nearly $20 million on the books for this season and is scheduled to make roughly $45 million over the two years after this season. In other words, he might own the NBA's lone truly untradeable contract.


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The title says it all. I want an evergreen shrub, sorta tall 6-8 feet tall, for shade and sometimes soggy soil. I love Rhodedendron Maximum, but they want well drained soil, unless I make a large mound for them to grow up on, they won't make it. The mound idea will look stupid, or unnatural, unless I made the mound long, like a stream bank and I can't afford to go hog wild with this yard, so a tall Wax Myrtle is hopefully okay. It will be dappled shade eventually. It will be moist to wet according to the rainfall amount. Maybe dry in drought years. I have seen some listed zone 4-10, but they may be Dwarf. The good ones are zone 7-10. Anyone have any in zone 6 or less that are evergreen and fairly tall. |
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Define, "soggy soil". Do you mean occasional standing water? Important, because standing water would eliminate many possibilities. Also, there is a cold-hardy, native Pa. Myrtle (not sure how it compares to the southern species). I like Aucuba japonica for shade, it would work in zone 6b plus, but not in "soggy" soils. The one in the picture is right outside the shower, so gets plenty of water, but would not describe the soil as soggy. |
- Posted by alabamatreehugger 8a/8b south Alabama (My Page) on Mon, Feb 3, 14 at 21:11
You could try Osmanthus americanus (Devilwood). It's native to zones 8-10, but some sources say its hardy down to zone 5. |
- Posted by butterfly4u 8 (My Page) on Mon, Feb 3, 14 at 21:59
Poaky, You have a native form of southern wax myrtle up where you are. It's the same bush, only the zone 6 version. It's Bayberry. Yes, just go find a Bayberry bush up where you live, it's the same thing as wax myrtle. Wax myrtle has the berries too. They smell like bayberry. You know, I would plant one and try it. I do know they love sun though, but just try it and see how it does. Southern wax myrtle won't make it where you live, even with climate change. I would buy a bayberry, same thing. |
Thanks for the replies, I will try Bayberry, Wiki says wet soils are okay for it. The Devilwood was listed as zone 8 +, and said to grow in zone 7, and Daves garden said Kentucky in Georgetown, Lexington and Louisville, which the last 2 are zone 6 according to a map for Kentucky gardening zones, so I may try both. It is for an area that stays very damp unless we have less rain than the past 3 years. Some areas are standing water a couple inches during the growing season, or after winter precip melts or is rain. If we have less rain it may change. The area is the lower yard area. I have an area upslope for well drained lovers like Rhodies. I want my yard to be shaded with beds including some shrubs at the top and the sometimes soggy bottom, so I will need some shrubs for the soggy bottom, the years it is soggy. It may turn around and not rain much for several years here, and rain where there has been drought, but it has been soggy the last 6-7 years, at least. One area has an underground spring, so will remain moist, I think anyway. My goal is to be able to to have most of my yard shaded, except where I have veggies growing. I may be dead or old before some trees get that huge. I love the Bayberry thought. I can make potpourri with it and some evergreen Mag leaves etc. |
- Posted by alabamatreehugger 8a/8b south Alabama (My Page) on Thu, Feb 6, 14 at 19:02
Ilex glabra (Inkberry or Gallberry depending on location) grows on wet sites down here just fine. I think its native all the way up the east coast. |
Inkberry is a terrific native with a vast range, and readily available at the big box stores. Love it! |
I have 2 Rhod. max already. I would use them but I would need to make a mound to grow them on. I put that in my original post. I know sometimes when you read a lot of posts and skimming through all of them, it's easy to miss important things already mentioned, I'm sure I've done it many times. I think if they were planted up on a bank, the stream or whatever pooling water underneath is ok, but directly on the ground with soggy soil or pooling water for several days before drying out on a regular basis may rot their roots. The Rhod maximum would be my choice if not for the soggies and full sun for now. I found the 2 Rhod. Max I have: one was locally wild dug and the other I got from Rarefind nursery. I tried from seed and failed. I am glad for the suggestions, especially the bayberry. My evergreen mags have nice smelling leaves, so adding some bayberry to them and other stuff that I don't know about yet, will be fun. For potpourri or making soap, if I can soak the leaves in olive oil and the scent transfers to it. I used to make my own soap, but have been lazy for a couple years. |
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Push is on to expand North Cascades National Park
Advocates of the North Cascades National Park explain why they are pushing to expand the borders of one of the country's least-visited national parks.
Seattle Times staff reporter
About the group: www.americanalps.org/
North Cascades by the numbers
Current size of park, in acres
How many acres of federal land the proposal would add
Number of new trails proposed in expansion
Number of campgrounds proposed
$23 million
Estimated cost of improvements
Source: American Alps Legacy Proposal, staff research
It's a scenic jewel hidden in plain sight. Yet it's one of the least-visited national parks in the country.
North Cascades National Park, created in 1968, has its champions though, and some of them want to see the park expanded to include more than 200,000 acres of federal land left off the original proposal that many people probably even today think are protected.
Liberty Bell? That iconic peak isn't in the park. All that mountain scenery clawing the sky along Highway 20? Nope. The rain forest and old growth along the Baker River? No.
Longtime advocates for some of the state's most beautiful wild lands want to change that.
They face formidable political challenges. Battles to get Congress to expand parks and wilderness areas usually take years and are often opposed by those who fear new restrictions on recreational use or development. And the North Cascades proposal, first floated three years ago, lacks a champion in a Congress that is focused on budget cutting.
But supporters are in it for the long haul. They are a high-powered group with deep roots in the state's conservation movement.
There's former U.S. Sen. Dan Evans, who in Congress helped write the state's wilderness areas into law, and as governor, stood up for creation of the park. Polly Dyer of Seattle, who as a founding board member of the North Cascades Conservation Council helped get the original park legislation through Congress, is among other luminaries of the region's conservation community backing the proposal, including Norm Winn, Art Kruckeberg, Gordon Orions, and Estella Leopold, along with climbing superstars John Roskelley and Jim Wickwire.
"It's wild, and it should always stay that way," said Dyer, 92, who was traveling to visit Harts Pass in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest with Donna Osseward, 73, and a van full of camping gear last month. Osseward, a committed conservationist herself, had to feign a bad back to keep Dyer from pitching a tent.
To Dyer, this landscape, with meadows that give way to glacier-carved valleys and infinite views to the west, ridge upon ridge, always should have been in the park.
But it and other landmark landscapes on federal land were left out because of controversy over logging and other extractive use that could have sunk the whole park proposal. Pulling back the boundaries of the park left out important places that today remain unprotected — and underutilized.
"We fought for every inch," said Evans, who battled for the park as a Republican governor of Washington. "There was opposition, as there always is, especially in those days when natural-resource industries were a much bigger part of our economy, and particularly with the timber industry there was a lot of opposition to any park at all."
As the state's population grows, protection is needed now more than ever, Evans said. "We have got to preserve these places, otherwise we lose an awful lot of our heritage."
The park always has been an underdog.
It lacks the sort of marquee attractions that bring in tourists, such as Paradise Inn at Mount Rainier National Park. The North Cascades National Park also is a struggle to reach on a highway that is closed some eight months of the year. Even when Highway 20 is open, it provides no direct, paved access to the park, which is reached only by footpath or gravel road.
It takes about an hour, for instance, to reach popular hiking trails such as Cascade Pass on the 23-mile, unpaved Cascade River Road.
The National Park Service, which tracks visitation by backcountry permits and estimates of day hikers and visitors to Cascade Pass, rates North Cascades National Park by far the least visited of Washington's three national parks, with just more than 20,000 visitors a year.
That is the second-lowest rate of visitation to a national park in the Lower 48, after a park on an island in the Great Lakes.
The park also suffers a bit of an identify crisis. Highway 20 until this month had no sign announcing the existence of the park. And even the North Cascades National Park visitor center in Sedro-Woolley sells memorabilia featuring landscapes labeled as landmarks in the park that actually are outside its boundaries.
Part of the goal of the expansion plan is to increase park visitation by bringing the park's boundaries down to the highway and adding about $23 million in new amenities, with the cost spread over at least five years.
The proposal includes new trails and campgrounds, to provide more family-friendly, low-elevation, three-season recreation opportunities that the high rock and ice of today's park can't offer.
The expansion also would protect important habitat for salmon and other wildlife, including animals in need of big, open space, from grizzly bears to mountain goats.
Wickwire, the mountaineer, and co-chair of the advisory committee for the American Alps Legacy Proposal, as the project is called, said he knows these things take time. But to him, this is a landscape that has waited long enough.
"To get this kind of view, you usually have to climb one of these things," Wickwire said, looking out from Slate Peak, more than 7,400 feet in the sky. While he's climbed many of the major peaks in the world — and was one of the first two Americans to ascend K2 — "it's the mountains close to home that mean the most," Wickwire said.
First rolled out in 2009, the original proposal has been scaled back.
The eastern boundary of the expansion was pulled back to Washington Pass from the Mazama area when critics in the Methow Valley opposed having the park — or a park gateway community — in their backyard. That shrank the proposed expansion to a little more than 237,000 acres from 350,000.
Some people say they just don't like the National Park Service as a landowner because they want to be able to do whatever they want in the woods: take pack animals, hunt, camp, bike, enjoy motorized recreation or bring their dogs.
They also want to go wherever they want, whenever they want in the backcountry, instead of having to make reservations or get a permit
"To me coming into the backcountry is partly about getting off the clock," said Perry Burkhart, of Gig Harbor, who with his wife, Sharon, likes to tour the backcountry of the North Cascades using goats to carry gear.
"We can't take our goats in the park, and we'd have to get permits. It restricts your freedom," Burkhart said. "So we prefer it the way it is."
But outside the park, lands that also lack federal wilderness protection are vulnerable to mining, logging, hydropower development and road building. "This is about long-term protection," said Jim Davis, president of American Alps.
With Congress consumed with infighting and a ballooning deficit, it's a hard time to get attention for a proposal such as expanding a park. The redrawn 1st Congressional District and potential committee chairmanship changeovers also make action on the proposal unlikely until at least next year.
Asked about the proposal, Sen. Maria Cantwell was noncommittal. "Senator Cantwell wants to increase use and access to the North Cascades National Park ... ," her spokesman Jared Leopold said Friday. "She looks forward to input from the community on how best to do that."
But the North Cascades do have a way of winning over people.
As he hiked out of a trail to Easy Pass in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest on a recent afternoon, Joe Beatty, a firefighter and woodcutter from Twisp, said he hit 50 in January and has become a blossoming hiker. He's not much for regulations. "I've heard park used as a four-letter word," Beatty said.
"But there is enough development going on," he said. "And this," he added, looking up at the trail to Easy Pass that he had just hiked — none of it in the park, but proposed to be — "is our treasure."
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