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I've been a member of GW for several years now but mostly I am found in the tropical fruits forum. I always browse the other forums but decided spend more time here. This recipe is similar to the Asian dish "Lemon Chicken" with a more flavorful twist. Last night I "genned" up a recipe using carambola (starfruit) which I have a "LOT" of much of the year. It's a chicken curry / carambola sandwich or rice drench deal. Note: store bought Carambola are notoriously horrid tasting so getting tree ripened specimens at a farmer's market or from a neighbor is best. Ingredients: (for 1 expand as needed) 3 chicken thighs with skin and meat removed and diced into bite size cubes. 1 large or 2 medium sized RIPE carambola blended into a soupy liquid (strain or not as desired, I did NOT strain it) Butter Curry powder 1 TBSP (OK to leave out if you don't like curry) Water (not much 1/4 cup to none depending on juicyness of the Carambola) 1/2 to 1 cup of Sugar (less if you don't use sugar and the whole cup if you like a sweeter taste.) Soy sauce (1 Tbsp more or less to taste) Braze the dark meat in a frying pan with the butter and when mostly cooked add the carambola, curry, sugar and Soy sauce and simmer for 10 minutes. You can pour it over rice or onto a hoagie roll, I did both last night it was very satisfying. |
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Sounds good. I think I would prefer it over rice. ~Ann |
- Posted by foodonastump (My Page) on Fri, Mar 15, 13 at 10:28
I always eye star fruit at the market... Now I guess I know not to buy it? Oh well. Welcome to CF. There are other tropical growers here. |
Welcome to the cooking forum. I'd like to try your recipe, I'm always looking for new ways to dress up chicken, but I have never seen star fruit at the farm stands here and few in the regular grocery stores. I assume it doesn't grow in Northern California or it doesn't have a market in my area. I'll take a look at the Asian markets. I might find it there. Thanks! Eileen |
Welcome to the CF gnappy! Teresa |
Welcome, gnappi! Your recipe sounds really good and I think I might have to try it if I can find some ripe starfruit. I've seen them in our local groceries, but not all the time. |
Hi, waving to you from the CF. I always look at the carambola display at Publix but pass by because I don't know what to do with them. Thanks. |
Hi Gnappi Welcome to the cooking forum! I also grow starfruit and I agree with you about the store bought ones. Some fruits you can really taste the difference with the home grown ones. Your recipe is bold! I was thinking to make chicken with loquat sauce, maybe?. My neighbor also grows a star fruit and yesterday he surprised me with a carambola pie and it was very well done, he said he used a recipe for apple pie. Someday I may try to make carambola wine... I did some harvest for lunch today, baby potatoes, cauliflower, peas, herbs and frozen tomatoes from the garden and made a curry, I just love homegrown produce! Silvia |
Cathy - I just slice them and eat them. They are fantastic. I bet your grandkids would love them just for the fun shape once they are sliced. I've been buying them here in Minnesota for 35 years. Thye taste great as long as they are ripe. And when I was a flight attendant I would visit a friend in Florida who grew them. She always gave me a box of them to take home. Teresa |
Thanks for the comments: "I always eye star fruit at the market... Now I guess I know not to buy it? Oh well. " "I always look at the carambola display at Publix but pass by because I don't know what to do with them. " Carambola turn yellow in the market they do NOT ripen like a mango, that means little or no sugar content lift. Tree ripened carambola are my fave fruit. Store bought carambola are bitter and not juicy I too wouldn't know what to do with one! "I was thinking to make chicken with loquat sauce, maybe?" Hmm.. My baby loquat only gives me a dozen or so fruits but I have a good source for them. They make a great addition to mixed fruit juices. Right now I'm saving wine bottles to do just what you said, make wine. My Italian ancestors (all of them made wine right up to my Dad) will roll in their graves :-) I pick my Carambola when they start to develop what I call "age spots" a light tan discoloration on the skin and they are at the peak of sugar and water content. I give them a little tug and if they come off it's off to the carambola slaughterhouse :-( I use them sliced and eaten, juiced, as a garnish, cooking where most fruits can be used and soon wine. Oh they make killer smoothies with some vanilla yogurt, powdered malt, half and half, a banana and ice!!! |
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OCFP Office of Child and Family Policy |
Department of Children and Family Services
Index No: 2000-02 |
Issuance Date:
February 1, 2000 |
Origin of Request:
Child Care Center Architect |
Licensing Staff, Administrative Staff, Office of Child and Family
Policy (A,L,P) |
Key Words: 89 IAC 407, Licensing Standards for Day
Care Centers, Outdoor Play Area, Fence, Enclosure, Entrapment. |
Approved by: |
Question: Can
a fence for children under 2 years of age be made up of a 48 inch-high top
rail, a bottom rail 3½ inches off the ground, and vertical pickets spaced 3½
inches apart or would additional horizontal slats spaced 3½ inches apart be
necessary to ensure that no openings are greater than 3½ inches?
Applicable To: Licensed Day Care Centers
f) All play space shall be fenced or otherwise enclosed or
protected from traffic and other hazards.
Fences shall be at least 48 inches in height (for fences installed or replaced after January 1, 1998). Fences
shall be constructed in such a way that children cannot exit without adult
supervision. Corral-type fences and
fences made of chicken wire shall not be used.
Play areas for children under two years of age shall be enclosed so that
the bottom edge is no more than 3½ inches above the ground and openings in the
fence are no greater than 3½ inches.
Added at 22 Ill. Reg., effective January 1, 1998)
Discussion: The intent of Section 407.390 is twofold,
to prevent entrapment and to keep children from exiting by climbing the fence.
Vertical pickets spaced 3½ inches apart provide a space small enough to prevent
entrapment and not readily climbed by children under two. While 3½ inch-spaced horizontal members placed
squarely between the 3½ inch-spaced vertical pickets prevent entrapment, they
provides a 5 inch diagonal space and a plane in which a child could easily get
a toehold and climb the fence. Although
Section 407.390 (f) prohibits fence openings greater than 3½ inches, the 44½
inch gap between the top and bottom rails inhibits climbing and poses no
greater entrapment risk that the 3½ inch-square interweave design.
Response: A
fence for children under 2 years of age may be constructed with a 48 inch-high
top rail, a bottom rail 3½ inches off the ground, and vertical pickets spaced
3½ inches apart.


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Citing a challenging and inconsistent global economy, especially in emerging markets like China (a growth driver for Cisco), the networking giant in August 2013 announced it will lay off 4,000 employees, about 5% of its global workforce. The move follows nearly 8,000 job cuts in the past two years. Shifts in the networking market, with some large enterprise companies opting to buy their equipment from low-cost Chinese vendors, is putting the competitive heat on Cisco.
The company adheres to an aggressive growth strategy, making numerous acquisitions in high-growth segments, such as cloud and mobile.Mergers and AcquisitionsCisco is a highly acquisitive company, bolstering its offerings with purchases both large and small. In mid-2014 it paid $175 million for Tail-f Systems, a Swedish company that provides multi-vendor network service orchestration for traditional and virtual networks. The acquisition will boost Cisco's cloud virtualization offerings.
In 2013 it bought five companies, ending with San Jose-based Insieme Networks, a privately-held developer of application-centric infrastructure products, in December. In October the company purchased New Jersey-based WHIPTAIL, an all-solid-state array vendor, for about $415 million in cash. Cisco will use WHIPTAIL's capabilities to enhance its Unified Computing Systems, a rack that combines servers, storage, and networking, and which is sold into the data centers of large companies. Also in October Cisco bought cybersecurity firm Sourcefire for some $2.7 billion, its largest buy of the year. IT security firms are a hot commodity, and Sourcefire fits with the company's strategy to boost its holdings in the area. In mid-2013 Cisco purchased enterprise IT energy management firm JouleX for about $107 million. The privately held company complements Cisco's EnergyWise technology. Also that year it acquired data virtualization software firm Composite Software.
In 2012 Cisco closed one of its largest transactions ever when it paid about $5 billion to buy UK-based NDS Group, a provider of software and content security products, such as cards and set-top boxes, for pay-TV operators. Besides ramping up Cisco's video services, such as its Videoscape streaming platform, NDS gave it greater access to emerging markets such as China and India. Major NDS customers include Sky plc, DIRECTV, and Vodafone. Also that year Cisco bought Pennsylvania-based Lightwire, a developer of optical interconnect technology that supports higher bandwidth in networking applications at a lower cost; ClearAccess, a developer of software used in provisioning and network management applications; and San Francisco Bay area-based Truviso, which provides software for real-time analytics and reporting. It ended the year by purchasing cloud networking firm Meraki for some $1.2 billion.
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My husband and I have been building a house, and we are nearly ready to start painting. I have been stressing out over the great room though - although most of the rooms in the house are small, our great room is around 50 feet long and has a vaulted ceiling (around 16 feet at the top, dropping down to 8 feet on one wall). I included a picture of the room with most of the drywall in, and it will be getting texture on both the walls and ceilings. Since the room includes the kitchen, living room and dining room, I want to use either egg shell or satin paint - no matte! So, here are the questions keeping me up at night.
1) The house is straw bale, and the line between the plaster on the bales on the drywall isn't straight. We'll be filling it before painting, but it still won't have a clean line. I'd like to paint the entire great room (including the ceiling) the same color because of this. Usually, I see flat as the suggested finish for ceilings, but I feel like it would look weird to have a line where the same color paint transitions between egg shell/satin to flat ceiling paint. Can I just go all one finish? 2) We'll be doing the painting in the house, but I'm a little concerned that using a paint with a sheen (as opposed to matte) will make the marks from our rollers obvious. Is this actually something I should worry about, and if so, what is the best way to counteract it? |
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I'm more concerned that anything that isn't matte will show the unevenness in the wall that you talk about and make it stand out. I've had this argument with DH and the architect over the years and I've folded and gone with matte for the very reasons they state....no lap marks, reduces the impact of imperfections in the walls.... The only way I know to avoid lap marks is to paint it once and paint it well...it's when you go back over stuff to catch those areas where it's thin or didn't cover completely that you really see the sheen build up and it shows. I don't see a pic of the room. |
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PARIS - Terrified by increasing physical attacks against their community, French Muslims have taken to the streets to protest assaults on women over wearing hijab, appealing for protection.
I am French, I am a Muslim, I have the right to my dignity, Rabia, a victim of Islamophobic attack, told Press TV on Sunday, June 23.They must stop Islamophobia.
French Muslim Loses Baby After Niqab Attack French Want Tougher Anti-Hijab Laws French See Islam Incompatible' Most French See Islam Threat: Poll |
I cannot understand why my hijab is a reason for aggression.
Four Muslim women have recently been physically attacked in Paris.
One of the Muslim women, 21, has lost her baby after being attacked last week by two skinheads while walking in the Paris suburb of Argenteuil.
Media reports have initially said that the pregnant woman was assaulted because of her face-veil (niqab). But later it was found out that the woman only donned the hijab.
The attack came three weeks after a veiled Muslim woman in Argenteuil was targeted in a similar manner.
French police also invited the anger of Muslims in the neighborhood after attempting to arrest a woman for wearing the face-veil earlier this month.
The repeated attacks were seen as a result of a law banning the wearing of niqab in public places.
France banned the wearing of face-veil in public places in 2011.
Offenders are fined 150 euros ($189) or required to take part in a citizenship class.
People who force women to wear a face-veil risk up to a year in prison and a fine of $41,000.
It came after the European country banned the wearing of hijab, an obligatory code of dress in Islam, in 2004.
French Muslims have called on the government to provide protection to their community.
The government has some complicity in the fact that French society still confuses the burqa with the simple hijab like mine, many Muslims wonder if the government wants this confusion to continue, said Muslim activist Sumeja Rahmani.
The [French] interior ministry must protect everyone from insecurity regardless of any distinctions such as gender, color or religion.
France is home to a Muslim community of nearly six million, the largest in Europe.
French Muslims have long complained of rising discrimination and hostile sentiments in the European country.
A recent IFOP poll found that almost half of French see Muslims as a threat to their national identity.
French Muslims have also complained of restrictions on building mosques to perform their daily prayers.
The French government has outlawed Muslim street prayers, a sight far-right leader Marine Le Pen likened to the Nazi occupation.
Amnesty International has criticized France and a number of European countries as Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland for discriminating against their Muslim minorities.The London-based group said several European countries have made policy decisions in recent years that discriminate against their Muslim citizens, citing bans on face-veils and other religious symbols in schools as being among the most damaging measures.
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[1890] Increased Expression of MicroRNA-210 in Microsatellite Instability High Endometrial Carcinoma and Its Potential Role in DNA Damage Repair.
Deqin Ma, Zhao Chen, Hanyin Cheng, Bojana Djordjevic, Keyur P Patel, Madan G Luthra, Bedia A Barkoh, Su-Su Xie, Shuguang Ma, Gang Chen, Jeffrey Medeiros, Russell Broaddus, Rajyalakshmi Luthra. The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Center, Houston
Background: Endometrial carcinoma (EC) is the most common malignant neoplasm of the female reproductive tract. Young women (< 40 years) with EC usually have a better prognosis and are managed conservatively. Approximately 20% of ECs are associated with microsatellite instability (MSI-high). MicoRNAs (miR) are small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression. Differential expression of miRs has been shown in MSI colorectal carcinomas. In this study, we report for the first time the miR expression profile in MSI-high and microsatellite stable (MSS) ECs.
Design: RNA was extracted from frozen endometrial tumors (15 MSI and 15 MSS) using the RNeasy Mini kit (Qiagen, Valenica, CA). 100 ng RNA was labeled with Cyanine 3-pCp and hybridized onto the Agilent Human miRNA V3 8X15K microarray (Agilent Technologies). The slides were scanned using a G2565BA scanner (Agilent). The data were extracted using Agilent Feature Extraction Software and analyzed by Nexus Expression Revision 2.0 (Biodiscovery). MiRs identified by microarray were validated by quantitative real time PCR. The potential targets of miR were identified by in-silico prediction algorithms using the Sanger miRBase (http://www.mirbase.org).
Results: A total of 11 miRs (miR-26a, -30a, -30e, -34a, 92a, -130a, -210, -1246, -1290, let7b and let7c) were differentially expressed in MSI-high tumors by microarray. Six of these miRNAs (let-7b, miR-210, -26a, -30e, -92a, and -130a) were validated by TaqMan-based stem-loop qPCR. Among them, miR-210, which has been reported to down regulate DNA homology-dependent repair (HDR) pathways through RAD52 gene, was upregulated in MSI ECs. Two additional potential targets involved in DNA damage repair system, ALKBH3 (alkylation repair homolog 3, in E. coli) and DDI2 (DNA-damage inducible 1 homolog 2), were identified and confirmed by in vivo assays. An inverse correlation between the expression of miR-210 and expression of ALKBH3 or DDI2 mRNA was observed in EC samples.
Conclusions: MicroRNAs are differentially expressed in MSI-high ECs. Increased expression of miR-210 may contribute to the pathogenesis of MSI-high ECs by downregulating genes that are involved in DNA damage repair.
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January 18th, 2011 1:11 pm
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Univa Acquires Grid Engine Expertise
Addition of Founding Sun Grid Engine Team Advances Data Center Optimization Strategy
Lisle, IL, January 18, 2010 – Univa, the data center optimization company, today announced that the principal engineers from the Sun/Oracle Grid Engine team, including Grid Engine founder and original project owner Fritz Ferstl, are joining Univa. The company will immediately offer superior engineering support for Grid Engine versions already installed and will publish a Univa version of Grid Engine before the end of Q1 2011. Univa will concentrate on improving Grid Engine for technical computing and HPC use cases in addition to promoting the continuity of the Grid Engine open source community.
As part of this announcement, Mr. Ferstl has been appointed Chief Technology Officer and will direct Univa's technology strategy as well as lead the company's growing EMEA business.
Grid Engine, a policy-driven workload and resource management system that automates workload distribution across a network of servers, is the most widely used system of its kind with over 4 million CPUs under management. The addition of Grid Engine technology and expertise directly supports Univa's data center optimization strategy by bolstering its workload and resource optimization capabilities, which already include the leading desktop management product, Grid MP.
"The first step to data center optimization is effective sharing of systems and workload distribution, and now Univa provides the leading resource management system as a primary element in our optimization stack," said Gary Tyreman, CEO of Univa. "Grid Engine is an area in which Univa has invested significant time and energy over the past 3 years, and we believe we are now best positioned to lead the pursuit of top HPC use cases and requirements that serve our most important customer sets. With this move, Grid Engine users gain a predictable and sustained future for Grid Engine that might not have been available otherwise."
"Combining the Grid Engine and Univa technology offerings was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that the new Univa EMEA team and I just couldn't miss," said Ferstl. "Now we'll be able to interact with and serve users worldwide investigating and understanding their data center optimization needs and providing the most innovative and enterprise-strength solutions to meet those needs."
Univa now offers the broadest and most innovative set of product capabilities for optimizing data center efficiency. Univa software continuously and dynamically optimizes an organization's efficiency with respect to workload and resources, people and processes, and application and license usage. This unique approach helps organizations earn rapid ROI through faster time-to-results and by keeping larger costs under control.
"Univa can now claim the most comprehensive set of category-leading products," added Tyreman. "We offer Grid Engine, the leading workload management solution; Grid MP, the leading desktop solution; and UniCloud, the leading dynamic cloud management software stack."
"I'm very excited by Univa providing continuity and ongoing support for Grid Engine," said Wolfgang Gentzsch, former CEO and President of Genias Software which originally developed the Grid Engine software acquired by Sun. "This is clearly a win-win-win situation: GE's thousands of users now have access to enterprise-class support at Univa, Univa customers benefit from the extended capabilities now available for fully optimizing data center efficiency; and the GE open source community can rest assured that robust development will continue thanks to Univa's commitment to the project."
"Univa developing and supporting Grid Engine is welcome news for the GE community," said Ian Foster, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. "This move by Univa brings with it a new competitive spirit and sense of innovation to a market that continuously benefits from pushing the envelope."
"This move propels Univa into a lead position in both the data center optimization and workload management spaces," said Steve Tuecke, co-founder of Univa and Deputy Director of the Computation Institute at University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. "We selected Grid Engine as a core part of Univa's software stack almost five years ago due to its market leading feature set, large user community and vibrant open source community, all backed by a fantastic engineering team. Now that key members of the Grid Engine team are part of Univa, it seems a no-brainer for Grid Engine users to go with Univa for ongoing GE technology and services, as well as the broader data center optimization stack Univa has built around GE."
For additional quotes/reactions from the user and technology community, visit: http://www.univa.com/about/quotes.php.
Grid Engine support is available immediately from Univa, and the Univa version of the product will be available by end of Q1 2011. For more information about Univa's Grid Engine offering, including options for current Grid Engine users, visit http://www.univa.com/products/grid-engine.php.
About Univa Corporation
Univa, the Data Center Optimization Company, is the leading provider of optimization and management software for traditional, dynamic and cloud data centers. Our award-winning products are used by Global 2500 companies to improve resource sharing, amplify the efficiency of people and processes, and increase application and license utilization. Univa offers the industry's broadest, most innovative and integrated product set for managing shared, high-demand data center resources. From workload management to policy-driven provisioning across physical, virtual and cloud resources, only Univa provides a proven combination of enterprise-class capabilities, industry expertise, and community sponsorship. Univa is headquartered in Lisle, Illinois with offices worldwide.
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Gary Tyreman brings more than 20 years of executive software experience to his role as the President and CEO of Univa Corporation. Gary leads corporate development and fundraising activities and is the architect of Univa's data center optimization strategy, which couples the strategic addition of Grid Engine expertise with Univa's innovative and industry-leading integrated cloud computing management products. Gary has established Univa as a top multi-national competitor and has expanded the markets the company serves. Prior to taking the position as CEO, Gary spent three years as Univa's Senior Vice President of Products and Alliances.
At Univa UD, Gary is Vice President and General Manager of the High-Performance Computing Division. In this role he oversees all aspects of the company's HPC business, including strategic planning, engineering, marketing, sales and business development. He also directs the growth of the company's online open source community.
Prior to joining Univa UD in 2008, Gary was Vice President and Business Manager for Platform Computing HPC division. During nearly five years there, he led the company's business planning, innovation and product management efforts while marshaling a team that developed some of the industry's most popular software.
Tyreman was among the first in the industry to recognize the emerging entry-level user in the HPC space and was responsible for developing a vision for how to simplify running applications off the shelf, a key to unlocking value among organizations new to HPC. He worked with Intel Corp. to develop his innovations, which were taken into account when Intel announced the Intel Cluster Ready program last year, making it easier to design, build, sell, program, acquire and deploy clusters built with Intel components.
Prior to his tenure at Platform Computing, Tyreman held a variety of executive positions in product management and marketing in technology growth companies, including Hummingbird, Delano and Itemus.
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Welcome back to the another installment, the second installment, of Impact Wrestling's Top Ten Tier where rank the top 10 talent of the week. This ranking scale goes hand and hand with the 6/27/13 episode. I rank it based on how much time they got on television this week to match outcomes. As I stated last week, "It is strictly my ranking, but feel free to give your thoughts and your own ranking!" If you want to check out last week's Top Ten Tier, click here.
1. Austin Aries – LW: 9; Wks: 2
There's no doubt Austin Aries takes the number 1 spot this week. It only makes sense. While I don't like him going from number 9 to number 1, it is all about a week to week ordeal. He went from winning a match against Jay Bradley last week to winning the X-Division Title and cashing it in against Bully Ray at Destination X. It's quite amazing how fast someone can be put over. Aries is right back where he was last year. While many people felt like he lost some steam after the whole Christy Hemme incident, Aries is back in full gear.
2. Samoa Joe – LW: -; Wks: 1
Samoa Joe wasn't on the board last week, but someone wrote to me and said he very well should. Joe didn't win his match though. This week, he did win and even joined the Main Event Mafia. That gives Joe a lot of points and it gives him the number 2 spot. Joe is now aligned with the very best in the company. He will be acting like the best and will be dressing like the best. He is in a major role on the show and that will give anyone a great spot on the board.
Magnus is on a huge role… and I mean huge! Magnus won his match last week in the first week of the Bound for Glory Series. He gained major points with a submission win. Magnus went on to beat Roode this week and is still leading the leader board for the series. He is on top and that says a lot. Not only is TNA giving him the ball right now, but it will only help him for the future. Magnus is on his way and it certainly shows as he moves up one slot from last week.
4. Mickie James – LW: -; Wks: 1
Mickie James put her title on the line against an aggressive Velvet Sky. Sky wanted a rematch for weeks, but failed to get it because of her knee. She was cleared to go only to have Mickie re-hurt the knee. She came back and was ready to go, but Mickie isn't going to give up. She beat Sky and left Sky crying at the end. Mickie's heel turn is quite a success and now she moves on to her next opponent.
Bully Ray was number 3 last week, but he had to move down because he is slowly on the verge of losing it. The Main Event Mafia is getting bigger. Aces & 8s are slowly falling as they lost the Television Title, D-Lo Brown, and the falling out between Doc and Mr. Anderson several weeks ago. Bully Ray has been through rough battles and now he has Austin Aries to worry about. Ray didn't see that coming at all. Elto explained in detail about the whole story in his latest article featured here.
6. Kurt Angle & Sting – LW: (Kurt: 2), (Sting: 1); Wks: 2
It only makes sense to pair Kurt Angle and Sting up from now on because when Sting is on, Kurt is on. When Kurt is shown, Sting is shown. They are family now and they are sticking by each other's side. They were shown very frequently on the show as they look for possible members to join them in the Main Event Mafia. They are having a great time building their family.
7. James Storm & Gunner – LW: -; Wks: 1
I had to pair these two up on account of them being TNA Tag Team Champions. They weren't on last week's show, but appeared on this show. James pulled out one great in-ring promo. The discussion during the live Impact Wrestling coverage on WrestlingNewsWorld.com had people debate on whether James is a great on the mic. There's no doubt that he is and certainly one of the best in the company. He was interrupted by Robbie E and Jessie Godderz. They are now a tag team that will be breaking into the division. It certainly is a step down from who James and Gunner fought, Bad Influence and Roode and Aries, but it is a tag team. The division goes from solid booking for 4 to 6 months to barely any tag teams in the division. Gunner and Storm, quite frankly, are the tag team division now.
8. TJ Perkins – LW: -; Wks: 1
Some people actually didn't know who played Suicide since the character returned, but it was TJ Perkins as we broke the news on WrestlingNewsWorld.com. TJ has been revealed. We seen him on camera a couple of times as he was brought to the stage by Hulk and he was confronted by Bully Ray backstage. I don't know if TNA will be keeping the Suicide character around or have TJ just be TJ.
9. Hulk Hogan – LW: 10; Wks: 2
Hulk Hogan appeared as number 10 last week and I got some heat about it. I read everyone's comments on it, but I am still sticking to him being on the ladder. I clearly had to move him up, not only because Adam had to be last on the ladder, but because he appeared multiple times during the show. Not only is he involved with the whole Bully Ray situation, but he also became involved with the whole Suicide/Austin Aries situation. He was right in the middle of the whole situation trying to get to the bottom.
10. Adam Ohriner – LW: -; Wks: 1
I was very critical about the Gut Check match on this week's Impact Wrestling. It was all for the right reasons. Adam faced Ryan Howe and it certainly was a match that had no direction or plan. A match is suppose to tell a story, but that is not what went on in the ring when these two fought. It was just a move by each trying to impress us. Sadly, their wrestling skills did not impress me. I liked Ryan's character as it was unique and different from what TNA has today. I liked Adam's look. I have been reading what others have been saying about this match and I do have to agree that Adam looks like another Crimson or Rob Terry. Adam has a great muscular body, but it isn't any different from the stars I just listed. You have to stand out. Adam won the match, which gives him this spot, but can he hold it or climb the ladder? It all depends if he gets a contract for TNA Wrestling next week. If not, he probably won't be seen on here again.
This certainly was a roller coaster type of The Top Ten Tier this week. Looking at last week, lots of people quickly leave the board from Jeff Hardy to Christopher Daniels to Mr. Anderson to Brooke Hogan. The thing is, those people weren't even on this week's show. Ken Anderson was, but he lost. AJ Styles wasn't even on the show. I'm coming to realize that it is not going to be about being on the leader board, but how how long you can stay. That is the ultimate task! Who would you have in your top ten list for this week?
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Making a Recovery Drive for the Microsoft Surface RT
Q: How do I make a Recovery Drive for my Microsoft Surface RT?
A: Microsoft's Surface RT runs Windows RT, which looks like Windows 8 but behaves slightly differently in often unexpected ways.
For example, the Surface RT includes a traditional Windows desktop, but it can't run traditional Windows desktop programs. And since the operating system comes pre-installed, there's no way to boot an ailing Surface RT from a DVD.
So, after you're through admiring your new Surface RT's flashy colors, create a Recovery Drive: A USB flash drive of at least 4GB that contains the files Windows RT needs to run, even if its system files are missing or damaged. (A 4GB USB drive costs about $5 on Amazon.)
To create a USB Recovery Drive on a Surface RT, follow these steps:
- From the Start screen, tap the Desktop tile to open the Windows Desktop.
- Slide your finger in from the right to fetch the Charms bar, then tap the Settings icon.
- When the Settings Pane appears, tap the words Control Panel from the pane's top edge.
- When the Desktop Control Panel appears, tap the System and Security section, then tap File History.
- When the File History window appears, shown below, tap Recovery in the bottom, left corner. Then tap Create a Recovery Drive when the Recovery window appears.
The program walks you through inserting a USB flash drive of 4GB or larger into the Surface RT's lone USB port. After formatting the USB flash drive, the program copies the Surface's recovery partition to the flash drive, creating a Recovery Drive.
Addendum: After copying the recovery partition to the USB drive, the program offers you the option of deleting your Surface RT's recovery partition. Although this frees up almost 4GB of storage space on your Surface, I don't recommend it. If you ever lose or damage your USB Recovery Drive, you'll no longer have the recovery partition to bring your Surface back to life. Before deleting the recovery partition, decide what's more important to you: more storage space, or a stronger safety net.
Using the USB Recovery Drive
Later, if your Surface doesn't load properly, follow these steps to boot from the Recovery Drive:
Warning: Following these steps will reset your Surface RT to factory conditions, just like the Surface's Reset command. Use this as a last resort.
- Turn off your Surface, then insert the Recovery Drive into your Surface RT's USB port.
- While holding down the Volume Down switch, press and release the Surface RT's Start button.
After a minute or two, the Surface RT wakes up and loads from the USB Recovery Drive, leaving you at the opening screen, shown below.
Hopefully, you'll never have to use this Recovery Drive. But if your Surface RT ends up in trouble, the Recovery Drive just might be the thing that brings it back to life.
For more Surface information, buy my book, Surface For Dummies, available for pre-order now on Amazon.
Posted: November 12th, 2012 under Books, Safety, Surface For Dummies, Windows RT.
Tags: backup, recovery drive, Surface RT
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Time December 26, 2012 at 8:26 am
If you were to do a recovery on the Microsoft surface, I would highly recommend getting Network attached storage that will allow you to get its network address. Upon using the network location provided by the Network attached storage, I am able to set the time I want to do a recovery. If you guys need any help or inquire about my workaround, you have my email to contact me.
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Time December 26, 2012 at 8:00 pm
Ranjeet, this article is about backing up the recovery partition. The quickest and easiest way to do that is with a USB drive.
Are you referring to a backup method for the Surface RT using Network Attached Storage?


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"My husband loves turnips ... a recipe from his childhood I have never been able to replicate until Tyler's recipe ... I on the other hand hate them, the smell, texture ... yuck!
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Last year saw the summer of the "staycation", when the collapse of sterling forced us to rediscover the joys of half-remembered British holidays from our childhoods. This year holidaymakers are being offered tradition with a twist. In Wales a new company called Sheepskin (sheepskinlife.com) is offering country cottages that, instead of the mouldy pine furniture and dusty sofas that came as standard in the good old days, are kitted out like boutique hotels. There are fluffy bathrobes and towels, iPod docking stations, plus a concierge service, and chefs on call to come and cook (and wash up) for you. Best of all, the prices are fixed year-round, so there are no ruinous high-summer rates. Meanwhile, in North Yorkshire, Jollydays (jollydaysluxurycamping.co.uk) has done the same trick for camping. Instead of leaking groundsheets and cold toilet blocks, Jollydays offers tented lodges bigger than most hotel suites, with wooden floors, woodburners, wool blankets and cotton sheets on four-poster beds, chandeliers and sofas by the fire.
Summer music festivals have been booming for the past few years, but this year the kids are being invited too. In Cheltenham, for example, the lineup for the Wychwood festival (4-6 June; wychwoodfestival.com) includes the Happy Mondays and the Levellers to keep the adults happy, while the kids have Justin Fletcher from CBeebies, a special toddlers' area, circus and street theatre performances and the Children's Literature festival, featuring favourites such as Philip Ardagh, Ian Whybrow, Sally Grindley and Linda Chapman. Alternatively, a new babysitting service will be launched at this summer's Latitude and Big Chill festivals. Boutique Babysitting (boutiquebabysitting.com) will run air-conditioned tipis at both events, with fully qualified staff, where you can leave children for up to four hours at a time.
Tapping into our need for nostalgia, the designer Wayne Hemingway is launching a new festival, Vintage at Goodwood (13-15 August; vintageatgoodwood.com). It's a celebration of British style from the 40s through to the 80s, featuring DJs and bands, plus vintage clothing and record stalls from each decade. In the grounds of the Goodwood Estate in West Sussex, this promises to be a refined affair, but the music – ranging from Heaven 17 to Horse Meat Disco – suggests there will be much revelling too. Fancy dress is also central to Winterwell (18-20 June; winterwell.co.uk) near Cirencester, a specialist festival limited to 1,500 guests. This year's theme is the entire works of Roald Dahl, and organisers promise guests will find themselves in a Willy Wonka wonderland.
Cornish holidays have always been strong on sandcastles and ice-cream, but now they come with added adrenaline, thanks to the opening of Britain's longest zip wire, in a disused quarry near Liskeard. Participants jump off a cliff and slide down a wire nearly half a kilometre long, passing over a lake at speeds of up to 40mph. The owners of Adrenalin Quarry (adrenalinquarry.co.uk) point out that age isn't an excuse to opt out – people from five to 83 have already jumped – and if you're still looking for thrills, you can learn to drive a hovercraft across the lake afterwards.
Britain's obsession with festivals has been matched by our newfound fascination with food, so it's little surprise that the two have been combined. There are now hundreds of food festivals around the country to suit all tastes, from the Isle of Wight Garlic festival (14-15 August), to the Oyster festival in Rock, Cornwall (19-20 June) and the International Cheese Awards, on 28 July, when 600 cheese makers will descend on Nantwich, Cheshire. But for a great week's holiday, hire a cottage in south Wales to coincide with Pembrokeshire Fish Week (26 June to 4 July). The biggest fish and seafood festival in Britain, its 200-plus events across the county feature cooking demonstrations, special menus in pubs and restaurants, guided costal hikes, kayak trips and fishing lessons.
One of summer's delights is the chance to spend long, lazy evenings outdoors. This year the National Trust (nationaltrust.org.uk) is providing the perfect excuse to do just that, with its Twilight Picnics series. On selected dates in June, the trust is opening some of its historic houses and parkland later than usual, and encouraging visitors to come for a mass picnic to watch the sunset. Crost Castle in Herefordshire and Tattershall Castle in Lincolnshire, for example, will be open until 10pm on 19 and 21 June respectively. Marie Curie Cancer Care (mariecurie.org.uk/events/walking) has a more active take on the idea. It is organising a series of 11 sponsored walks, which will finish at 10pm and take place in stately homes and parks that are normally closed in the evenings. Venues include Tatton Park in Cheshire, Stourhead in Wiltshire and Stormont Estate in Belfast.
Sunsail (sunsail.co.uk) is to launch its successful flotilla holidays in the UK this year. The idea is that a family or group of friends are given their own yacht, and with about a dozen other boats, you follow a lead yacht, which has a professional crew. The trips leave from Portsmouth and explore the Solent and Isle of Wight. You need some boating experience, or take a three-day training course. Or get closer to the water still on a sea-kayaking trip from Oban, Scotland. Several operators offer trips into the sheltered sea lochs near the town, where you might see porpoises, dolphins, minke whales and basking sharks – visit oban.org.uk.
The Green House Hotel (thegreenhousehotel.co.uk) opened in Bournemouth last month making the bold claim that it is "the greenest hotel in the UK". It boasts numerous groundbreaking initiatives, from the dining room chairs, made from recycled PlayStations, to the excess cooking fat used to run the hotel's sales manager's car. Perhaps most enticing is that though everything is geared around sustainability, it's been done without compromising luxury or aesthetics.
If the summer turns out to be another three months of drizzle, it pays to have a few ideas like these up your sleeve
Four-dimensional cinema
Disappointingly, this has more to do with vibrating seats than time travel, but promises to be great fun nonetheless. At the new 4D cinema at Edinburgh's interactive science centre, Our Dynamic Earth (dynamicearth.co.uk), visitors are taken on a journey from the Arctic to the tropical rainforest, featuring real snow, lightning flashes, shaking chairs and even the smell of rhino poo. Madame Tussauds in London (madametussauds.com) is converting the famous dome of the former planetarium into a 4D cinema to bring to life Marvel comic book heroes such as Spider-Man, the Hulk and Iron Man.
Robin Hood
Nottingham is making the most of Ridley Scott's latest take on the merry men in a new exhibition featuring sets, props and costumes from the film at Nottingham Castle (nottinghamcity.gov.uk) and Sherwood Forest Visitor Centre (sherwoodforest.org.uk) until October. If the rain clears up, you can head outdoors to visit the 800-year-old tree, the Major Oak at Edwinstowe church, where Robin and Maid Marian are rumoured to have married.
Indoor surfing
Yes it is possible, thanks to the brand-new Flow Rider simulator at the Bodyflight centre in Bedford (bodyflight.co.uk). Water is pumped at high speed up a ramp made of trampoline-like material, creating a perpetual wave. The centre also offers indoor sky diving in a vertical wind tunnel.
Railway Children
To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the original film of The Railway Children, a new production is being staged at a uniquely appropriate venue – the former Eurostar terminal at Waterloo station. The audience will be seated on either side of the track, with the action taking place on both platforms and track, and using a real steam train. It runs from 4 July to 4 September (railwaychildrenwaterloo.com).


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3 more weeks and i go for our last U/S assuming nothing shows up wrong...I will be 28 weeks...a little concerned we are still not going to get an accurate gender due to it being so far in the pregnancy.....Hoping nothing shows up wrong or go into labor lol.....still been having contractions but not dialated so that is good...Cant wait for the 18th....so excited...what does everyone think bout gender U/S at 28 weeks??? how accurate will it be...I heard that the further the harder because everything gets squished and u dont always see boy parts or boys look like girls...wonderin if that is what happened with my last one...he was sposed to be a girl but didnt find out sex until almost 3rd tirmester....well we didnt find out til after he was born but the family got to know lol....and everyone bought girl stuff lol....still nervous on hearing boy hoping the GD dont hit to hard again...
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I think you have a great chance of being able to determine the difference between a labia and scrotum shot at 28 weeks. Fx you hear pink, as I love the name Autumn Grace, since it is the name of my dd1. Gl!
I really hope so I hope to bring home confirmation pics and let all of you lovely people take a look for me!! lol....and is it really autumn grace??! so beautiful..hehe...we thought autumn because thats the season shed be born in and it sounded pretty yet different....and then grace my step mo middle name, a couple of grandparents on my biiological moms side and then lynn is my moms middle name..O and grace is my middle name too lol...i got two too:)I hope to hear pink to but i still think id be afraid to believe til a girl popped out lol...since ive been facing gd and this scan i be going with all the kids but no dh..we decided if they will do it to get the gender pics but i wont look at them and have them put in envelope with sex on it lol...so can open it in private with dh..and so dont cry in front kids and tech again if it is a boy...hopn wont cry at all this time.....


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- Posted by EATREALFOOD (My Page) on Sat, Nov 17, 12 at 18:38
VERY NICE !Bathroom/mudroom combination is so handy to keep dirt out of the house-especially in the countryside. Looking forward to seeing the sink. What are you using as an adhesive ? |
Epoxy, like I used for my kitchen counter seams in 2011. |
Ooh, enduring, that soapstone DOES look lovely. I wish you the absolute best of luck on the sink. I am sure you have it figured out well enough and will be able to pull it off! Godspeed! |
That is so beautiful! Good luck with the sink-I'm sure it will be as lovely as everything else you have done. |
Thanks Angie for the blessing! I am researching epoxy right now. For my counters I used something from Lowes. But for the sink I was thinking of using a product that would be high end. What epoxy did you use? I have been looking at a brand from Tenax called Domo 10 or Revio 50. They both have longer open times. Domo is white and Revio is straw colored. There is a clear called Strong Edge, but that sets in 20 min. Too fast for me. Domo an Revio are for indoor or outdoor. Leela4 Thanks for the well wishes and complement. I can imagine that over the years I will be sitting on the toilet and gazing lovingly at the front of my sink :) |
I used two different kinds. For one seam, I used a product that M. Teixeira sold me. It does not have a label on it -- M. Teix. slaps their own sticker on it. It is black, and is "knife grade." I found out that that means it is gelid even before you mix it with hardener. It has the consistency of jam. In theory, then, you can butter it onto the edges of the stone. However, it set up very fast. It was supposed to have a 10 minute working time. However, it really started to harden after 2-3 minutes. (I precisely mixed the ratios of hardener to epoxy using a digital scale, so messed-up proportions was not the problem.) On the second seam, I used good ol' J.B. Weld (available in any hardware store). This is gray, and has a working time of about 4-6 hours. I thought I would leave my counters unoiled, so the gray seam would not stick out so much. However, that seam is near my stove, so it is "naturally oiled" from cooking grease, etc. Good luck! |
Thanks Angie, I need at least an hour working time, I just know it. EATREALFOOD , I realize I forgot to thank you for your comment - I instead just impulsively replied "epoxy". Thanks you for your thoughtful post and I will be sure to keep GW updated with the progress. |
- Posted by mabeldingeldine (My Page) on Mon, Nov 19, 12 at 9:49
Enduring, if anyone can do this, you can! You are an inspiration! If it works, I may have a new project! Sending good vibes for success your way... |
Thanks Mabeldingeldine, I am sloooooow. And it is soooo dark after work. This is something I will need to do outside if at all possible. And Friday its going to start a cool down in Iowa. But it will still be above freezing so probably can still work outside. It has been unseasonably warm. We do have the farm shop that I can relocate to if I need to. |
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- Posted by mabeldingeldine (My Page) on Mon, Dec 3, 12 at 20:53
Mabeldingeldine, I'll be freaked if I get this together and it doesn't hold water! I don't have a plan B. I'll know hopefully by this week end:) |
This post was edited by enduring on Mon, Dec 3, 12 at 22:00
Wow, I really like the looks of the joinery on the mockup..... Cannot wait to see how it turns out. |
- Posted by onedogedie (My Page) on Tue, Dec 4, 12 at 9:36
Beautiful stone. Do you know what variety of soapstone it is? Can't wait to see more of your progress. I might have to put a DIY soapstone sink on our list of things to do. |
- Posted by mama_goose (My Page) on Tue, Dec 4, 12 at 10:05
enduring, the stone is beautiful, and worthy of your kitchen! If it doesn't hold water, I'll take it, and you can do another one. Or, you can use epoxy for any improbable leaks. (The little mama_goose dressed in red, sitting on my left shoulder, was whispering, "Don't mention the epoxy--you'll never get the sink.") |
Enduring you are AMAZING! This is going to be a gorgeous sink! I watch this thread with great anticipation. Thank you for including us in the step by step process! |
Mamagoose: don't get your hopes up -- ain't no way that sink is going to leak, nary a drop! |
Last weekend when I looked at the backsplash on the shop floor I used my imagination and saw the whole thing put together and in my bathroom (off of the kitchen ☺). I just couldn't believe that it would come together. I know its not there yet but inching closer. I looked at DH and said something like "I will be astounded if I can get this installed". I just can't imagine something like this turning out. I don't know why I was having those feelings of disbelief. I will feel so honored by the soapstone gods if I can pull this off. Angie, thanks so much. I took inspiration from you and Mama-goose that I could use a router on my soapstone. The joinery is a copy of the Bucks County Soapstone sink video that I stopped and started a million times to understand how to put this together. Once I got going it was very straightforward. Onedogiedie, I don't know the variety. It was a batch of remnants from a small stone yard. One long piece that is about 12 " deep is probably from another slab as it is so plain compared to the other trim pieces. I will use this plain piece to construct a counter top for my cabinet that will hold the wall mounted tub filler faucet. Mama-goose, as noted above I couldn't have done this if I didn't see those pics of yours and Angie cutting runnels ☺. Your little red dressed devil is too late, I already special ordered epoxy just for this job. The brand is called AKEPOX 2010. It is a 2:1 type and is knife grade. It has good strength and is used in the stone fabrication industry. When I put my counters in last year I used something I got at Lowes. It has worked fine. But I'm not taking chances with this project so I spent about $30-40, included shipping, to get this stuff. Tea4all, thanks so much for the support. I will keep this updated. I am thinking I will be able to work on it Thursday &/or Friday and over the weekend. |
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- Posted by mabeldingeldine (My Page) on Sun, Jan 6, 13 at 17:28
You are a genuine ROCK STAR!!!! It is spectacular!! |
- Posted by chris11895 (My Page) on Sun, Jan 6, 13 at 17:35
Loooooooove it! |
I agree-it's beautiful!! You rock!! |
- Posted by debrak_2008 (My Page) on Sun, Jan 6, 13 at 17:59
Really cool! how much does that thing weight? |
Can I become your apprentice? Seriously jealous of your abilities!!! |
- Posted by cluelessincolorado (My Page) on Sun, Jan 6, 13 at 18:57
That turned out great! Of course it did :-) |
- Posted by EATREALFOOD (My Page) on Sun, Jan 6, 13 at 19:41
Oh enduring I cannot believe you built that !!! What a sense of satisfaction you must have. Now make sure you direct all guests to enter through the mudroom not the front door so they can give you the accolades that you deserve. |
Ohhh, yay yay yay! Enduring, it looks like you hit it out of the park! It is beauteous! Very impressive joinery. I am so happy for you. It looks great. You done good! |
- Posted by AboutToGetDusty (My Page) on Sun, Jan 6, 13 at 22:28
Gorgeous! So impressed. You must be beaming :-) |
Thank you all for your great comments! I am very happy with the progress. Of course I see the imperfections but when my carpenter came by to measure for the stand, he checked it for square (I hadn't got around to it), and he said it was exactly square. That will make his job easier :) Some answers: |
- Posted by IowaCommute (My Page) on Mon, Jan 7, 13 at 9:12
I think I speak for everyone here who has been waiting so patiently to see your sink. You and the sink are amazing. I have been deciding between a SS apron sink or a soapstone. Of course after seeing your lovely sink I'll be bookmarking it for later use. |
- Posted by mermanmike (My Page) on Mon, Jan 7, 13 at 9:13
This is truly inspirational--beautiful! |
That is amazing! You should be very proud of yourself. |
AWE!!!!!!!!! Much awe at your crazy, mad skills! Looks gorgeous so far. :) |
Thanks you guys for your appreciation of soapstone! Your words are very kind. I am so ready for this project to be completed! |
I already loved you for your herringbone backsplash. This sink is beyond cool. I would also like to be your apprentice and learn half of what you can do. |
Linelle, Thanks! I'm still loving my backsplash.The vanity is being made for the sink. I have the tile to finish up STILL, before the sink can be installed. And I have to fine tune the finish on the inside of the sink, but just haven't got down to "The Shop" for that procedure. It is my DH's farm shop where he repairs equipment, etc, for the farm operation, and stores my project crap. It is a never ending process for me, but I'm getting there. I glued up one of the counters over the weekend, using the last of my large remnant. No pictures. I have to get the clamps removed. I am sure it is dry:) I don't know if I mentioned but I went to the stone yard where I got these pieces last spring to look around their scrapes. They expressed interest in having me give them a photo when I'm done, for their web site. We'll see. I am not going to make a business out of this!!! The men at the desk were kind to humor me when I told them my whole construction process. |
Enduring WOW What a great project! I'm trying to talk my DH into doing our soapstone counters to save some $. It is well within our skill set- he's just never done it so he's skeptical.I have to show him your sink. I fell in love with the sinks at bucks county soapstone last week, but not in our budget. You have given me hope! You go girl!! |
This post was edited by enduring on Sat, Feb 23, 13 at 1:14
Oh, enduring!! Yowzw wowza! It is the ne plus ultra. That is really, really fine work (both yours and the cabinetmaker's). I adore it! |
Thank you so much Angie!! Here is an absolutly sweet picture from this morning: And just think what it will look like with a faucet and backsplash; oh and some knobs :) |
This post was edited by enduring on Sat, Feb 23, 13 at 0:38
Enduring that bathroom is wonderful. Congratulations on your beautiful sink. Great job! |
Didn't see this thread before but wow, that is amazing. What a wonderful job you did! How unique and lovely. Love the floor and it all looks great together. |
That bathroom is wonderful. And your sink--Oh my my my it is awsome!! It has been said before but well worth repeating-- Enduring you are amazing! Truly amazing. |
Thanks Leela for your kind words. It is so exciting to share these later stages where things are coming together. Deedles, yes this is a running thread that I created to follow the process, for prosperity I guess. Thank you for your complements. I just gush over the vanity and sink even if it isn't completely done yet. Kind of like a new mom ☺ Tea, thanks so much for your enthusiasm for my bathroom and especially this sink. It was a real labor of love getting this thing to fruition. To all, I couldn't have done it if it weren't for all of you guys, sharing ideas, support of the downers, and celebration of the triumphs. I know that might sound corny, but hey, I'm from Iowa. |
Sorry about the very first two pictures that are missing at the top of this tread. I updated something on Photobucket and it took out all the links. I relinked the others because the edit option is available for the later post. The backsplash and faucets are set. There are two pencil trim pieces that need to go in, next to the backsplash sides. Other wise, I think the sink is done! |
This is so beautiful. |
- Posted by mabeldingeldine (My Page) on Sat, Feb 23, 13 at 15:40
Swooning. Want to come to Maine for vacation? ;-) |
- Posted by mama_goose (My Page) on Sat, Feb 23, 13 at 15:43
enduring, that is breathtaking. Your talent and perseverance are inspiring. Do you hug it every time you go in the room? ;) |
Steph, thanks so much, what better complement than to say "beautiful" :) Mabeldingeldine, I would love to come to Maine ;) I want to give you a swoon back to your very very cute/sweet bath, with the yellow vanity, love it. Mama_goose, your kind words are a real treasure. Yes, LOL, I do (almost) hug this vanity every time I go in the room. I sit across from it and gaze, and being the good little girl that I am, resist jumping up and down. I need to send these finished pictures to Brett, the woodworker that made the vanity for me. He told me it was a favorite project. |
- Posted by IowaCommute (My Page) on Sat, Feb 23, 13 at 16:12
Your vanity (along with everything else in the bathroom) is absolutely beautiful. I hope my small future bathroom is half as wonderful as yours. I'm not going to lie. Some of your lovely bathroom ideas may be lifted and found in a future Iowa bathroom. |
- Posted by aliceinjersey (My Page) on Sat, Feb 23, 13 at 16:44
That is a truly lovely... |
Thanks Aliceinjersey and IowaCommute, it is such a pleasure to share these pictures with everyone. Happy to hear your appreciative words. I am not modest with this project :) You now IowaC, I live in central Iowa :) |
Absolutely gorgeous! What an amazing job! |
Congratulations on a wonderful job! It is a beautiful, unique and calming bathroom. And there is no way you should be modest about this project-all of you DIY soapstone (and other) people are awesome. |
- Posted by IowaCommute (My Page) on Sat, Feb 23, 13 at 21:22
Enduring~I think I remember you saying you were from Iowa in another thread I commented on. We'll be about 30 minutes NE of Waterloo when we get up there. My in-laws have a farm we will be build on. We will probably also have to do a custom vanity (I want to do soapstone sinks and counters) and the vanity itself will only be 19" wide for our bathroom. |
That is so impressive. |
Thanks Wags, Leela, & Crl I am so pleased with this project. I owe a lot thanks to the great folks here on GW as I tackled this odd project. Especially Angie_DYI who, as everyone knows, is so supportive. She even gave me a "Courage" badge on an earlier post when this project was in its infancy. I call this an odd project, because when I told others in my day to day life that I was making a sink, they'd look me strangely. edited to add comment to IowaCommute: IowaCommute, I hope that you love Iowa! You will be closer to the NE corner of the state, lucky you. It is so pretty up there. That location didn't get hit with the last glaciation 13 thousand years, or so, ago - so the landscape is more developed with more hills. I think that area is one of the most southern remnant Boreal type woodland landscapes. I'll post a link from an article by the University of Iowa. When this bathroom gets finished I will be posting the "reveal" on the Bathroom Forum; though the room is small so not much else to show :) But, when I do post the reveal I will be featuring the whole project, not just the sink, as I've done here on the Kitchen (sink lovers) Forum. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Iowa and its Flora
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- Posted by mabeldingeldine (My Page) on Sun, Feb 24, 13 at 16:38
Enduring, when you are ready to come to Maine, you let me know! I love visitors and I'll have a nice new bathroom for them :-) |
Thanks for the kind words. I am humbled and moved. As you know, I oohed and aahed over your GORGEOUS sink and cabinet on the "New to Kitchens" thread. It is really swoonworthy! |
I am absolutely in awe of you. This is so charming and beautiful! What a great job. |
Angie, yes saw your post on "New to Kitchens". Glad you posted here too! Now as I am getting ready to tackle another bathroom project I'll need to dig up that badge. Now where did I lay that badge...? GWlolo, thanks so much. The stone was a blast to work with. The sticking point with the project was all in the head, that is why I got the "Courage" badge from Angie a while back. !Found the badge, at the end of this soapstone post from last year! See link. Mabledingeldine used it too, for grouting, from the sounds of her post :) |
Here is a link that might be useful: DIY Soapstone People Show Your Counters !
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