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Launching The Filthy Good Bread Files! Sharing Adventures of a Home Cook Baking Artisan Sourdough!
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10 months ago addiction struck in the form of baking sourdough bread. There is something therapeutic about handling dough, forming loaves, baking and devouring them.
Ever since I baked that very first loaf I've been receiving more and more request to share the Breadgasmic Experience of making Filthy Good Bread.
So, today, I'm launching the Bread Files where I'll share everything I know about Filthy Good Bread!
I'm no profession, but, I'm happy to help anyone by sharing the tips and tricks of baking quality artisan sourdough bread at home. Sometimes, the best way to share is by baking together, I've been running the occasional workshops to get people started. If you're interested get in touch and I'll let you know when I'm planning to run the next one.
It's a small step from making wine to making bread! Just like wine, it's all about quality ingredients and fermentation. The learning curve is steep. The satisfaction from baking your own loaf, breaking bread with friends and family is one of life's simple pleasures.
I've been hooked on making my own bread since my first, kinda average, loaf made it out of the oven back in October 2013. Hopefully, I can help you avoid the "experiments" that didn't go so well and start baking yummy Filthy Good Bread sooner!
Stay up to date with all things Filthy Good Bread by subscribing. You can check out my Bread Making field notes thus far here.
The Bread Maker's learning curve is steep! The loaf on the left is one of my first rock hard attempts. The beauties on the right were made just 10 months (& 100kg of flour) later. I'm proud to say I've bought just two loaves of bread in all that time!
I keep a Photo Diary of my Filthy Good Experiments you can view it here! There's often tips & tricks in the comments. You can follow me on Instagram @paolovino or on Twitter Follow @PaulKaan


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In the race to develop a low-carbon replacement to the internal combustion engine, the electric car has always had something of a handicap. Whilst we are used to refilling petrol engines in a minute or two, the standard time to charge a car-sized lithium-ion battery is 8-10 hours (reports of a 10-minute charge time seem a little far-fetched).
Hence the excitement about Better Place's battery-switch technology, unveiled last week in Japan. The Silicon Valley startup has developed a $500,000 prototype 'shuttle', which can remove a dead battery and have the car back on the road with a fresh one in around 80 seconds, without anyone needing to get out of the car at all.
This would greatly increase the usability of electric cars, but raises at least two further challenges.
The first is that Better Place's vision needs a dense infrastructure of 'Switch Stations', creating a chicken-and-egg scenario whereby the technology can't take off until the infrastructure is in place, but there is no incentive to develop the infrastructure until the technology has been widely adopted. This negates one of the great advantages that electric cars have over, say, hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles.
The second difficulty is that for the technology to work the auto industry would need to standardise the batteries they use for the next generation of vehicles; something akin to putting the same engine in a hatchback and a sports car. Wired is sceptical, apparently based on comments from two leading automakers.
Resistance from the auto industry shouldn't come as a surprise. At around $10,000, batteries are a significant portion of an electric car's value, and Better Place's business model would require a consumer to rent the batteries, rather than purchase them along with the car. By implication, the manufacturer is selling a less valuable product.
This may be overstating the problem, however. As production ramps up, the price of a battery is likely to fall dramatically – some analysts predict a drop of two-thirds by 2010-11. It is also easy to imagine a small number of battery makers becoming dominant, with swap stations offering each type of battery – much like fuel stations currently offering three or four types of fuel.
Lastly, the auto industry is in such a poor state at present that standardisation of battery technology may be a small price to pay to access what could soon be a swiftly growing market.

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Can we hijack men's tailoring for our own gain? It comes in so terribly useful, after all. Well, yes, we can. For if there is ever a trend that dominates Pre-Fall, it is Men's Tailoring.
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JD, Mr. Rabbit. If you look around under those bushes and you will find a bunch of small round of fecal materials. They broke my heart many times by slicing my newly grafts right in half and ate the whole scion with fresh leaves. I used fresh cut apple in a live trap to get them. Some of them are huge with a very sharp teeth. Tony |
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It's a cool Monday morning; the first in October, in fact. After opening your office, and after downing the requisite two cups of coffee, you turn on your computer and open them: The dreaded capital budget spreadsheets.
But there is more to the story this year than you realize. Your office phone rings. It's the boss. "Chief", he says, "I know the capital budget is due this Friday, so it's important that I tell you now. I've decided that we'll start broadcasting IBOC at the end of next year, on the FM and the AM. I've been following the trades, and it's just something I want to do this time. So make sure you figure out just how to do it and just how much its going to cost us." Click. You didn't even have a chance to get a word in. In fact, you sit there, stunned and slack-jawed.
After a few minutes, and a quick mental review of what you've learned in the trades and at the NAB convention, a plan starts to settle in your mind. According to what you have read in the press, the gear will be available next year. For purposes of planning this far ahead, it's possible to ignore regulatory difficulties; in fact, in order to carry out the boss' plan, you've got to assume everything is a go.
With a little help from your friends at iBiquity, you obtain a block diagram of the IBOC system for both AM and FM. (See Figure 1 for the AM and FIgures 2 and 3 for the FM.)
The FM side
Delivery: If you deliver your program audio to your transmitter site as analog discrete or analog composite, you are going to have to convert that audio to the AES/EBU format prior to hitting the input of the IBOC exciter.
Figure 1. An IBOC transmission system will contain several new elements. Shown here is an AM transmission chain. (Click image for larger view.) |
Processing: Ibiquity has always assumed that a station would want to process audio for the analog transmission differently than for the digital transmission. Since the digital system does not make use of pre-emphasis, there is no need for HF limiting, as there is on the analog path. However, since the point of this article is budgeting, it does seem reasonable to point out that the same processing device could be used to feed the IBOC exciter as well as the analog exciter. One caveat: it is likely that the engineer will be able to get away with far more processing on the analog path than on the digital. PAC is not friendly to high amounts of equalization to the program audio. There is also some question as to the character of clipped audio after it passes out of the PAC decoder. Although one could use the same processor for both the analog and digital, compromises will need to be made between adjusting a single processor for best analog sound or for best digital sound.
RF stages: All of the major transmitter manufacturers will have linear amplifiers designed to work with the IBOC signals by NAB next spring. In the not-too-distant future, the same manufacturers will market transmitters that combine the low level IBOC carriers with the analog FM carrier, followed by high-power, linear amps that will amplify the IBOC carriers and the FM carrier alike. This common-amplification approach is a bit too far ahead for year 2002 budgeting.
Figure 2. If an analog FM transmitter is incapable of passing the IBOC signal, a high-level combiner system must be used. (Click image for larger view.) |
At this point you have two options. The first is the high-level combiner that has been shown at the last two springtime NAB conventions. This combiner has four ports: one input for the analog transmitter and one output that feeds the antenna; one that accepts the high-level IBOC carriers, and finally one for a dummy load. The obvious advantage of this approach is that you use the same antenna for radiation of the IBOC carriers as you do for your analog FM carrier. There are several things to consider, though. The high-level combiner has about a .46dB insertion loss for the analog carrier throughput. You'll need about an additional 10% RF output from your analog transmitter. Don't neglect to consider the additional power needed by your transmitter, along with a larger heat load. The second input of the combiner accepts the IBOC carrier RF signals, but only couples 10% of their energy to the output port connected to the antenna. The rest is dumped into the dummy load.
What does this mean in terms of the size of the IBOC amplifiers? Well, let's take, for example, an FM with an ERP of 100kW, and an antenna input power of 33.3kW. Since the average power of the IBOC carriers will be 20dB below the analog carrier power, in this example the antenna input power for the IBOC carriers is about 333W. Neglecting all transmission lines losses for simplicity's sake, we need the IBOC carrier level going in to the combiner to be 3,330W. It is important to note that the linear amplifiers for the IBOC carriers will need to be able to handle at least 5.5dB above the average power level (albeit on a short duty cycle). So, neglecting transmission line losses, you need to purchase and install an amplifier big enough to put out 11,815W, just so that you can get 333W at the antenna input. Keep in mind the need for extra power from the AC mains, along with the extra heat load. In this example, you would probably need at least one full rack to house the amplifier for the IBOC carriers, and you'll need space for the high-level combiner itself.
The second method would be to use a separate antenna solely for the purpose of transmitting the IBOC signals. This antenna should be optimized to closely match the main antenna pattern. Using a similar antenna design and paying attention to maintaining the same relationships to tower structural members can produce patterns within a few decibels of each other. Taking the same 100kW example as above, and using another antenna with the same amount of gain, (neglecting transmission line losses again) 333W would be required at the input of the antenna, and an amplifier that could put out 5.5dB over 333W, or about 1,181W. An amp this size will fit in a rack comfortably. No need to buy or install the high level combiner.
Figure 3. Newer transmitters, possibly with minor modifications, may be capable of passing the IBOC signal. In this case, a low-level combiner can be used. (Click image for larger view.) |
Of course, the right choice will depend upon the circumstances. You could use the same antenna, and sink money in to a larger amplifier and combiner, and face larger electricity bills (and maybe even site rental), or you could buy smaller gear and install another antenna and transmission line. Obviously you'll need to consider the cost of that on a monthly basis as well.
The AM side
Delivery and Processing: The requirements for AM IBOC are similar to that of the FM system. The audio that arrives at the transmitter site will need to be digitized into the AES format. The audio bandwidth of the analog portion of the transmission will be limited to 5kHz. Since this is not a requirement for the digital portion, it is desirable to use separate audio processing for the separate AM and digital portions of the transmission.
Transmission: Several transmitter manufacturers have already shown products at the NAB convention that can pass the IBOC carriers along with the normal AM carrier. Unless your transmitter is less than five years old, it is highly unlikely that it will pass the IBOC carriers, so if the boss is really serious (indeed this is the way to find out for sure) than make sure to budget for a new transmitter for the AM side.
Don't neglect the antenna itself; the characteristics of the system, as seen by the transmitter, will need to be symmetrical ±5kHz from center frequency. The frequency response of the antenna system will need to be symmetrical over the same bandwidth. If you had previously optimized your antenna system for stereo, then it will be optimized for IBOC as well.
Doug Irwin is director of engineering for Clear Channel San Francisco.
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Game wardens: Record deer was taken illegallyJanuary 29,2013By Patrick McArdle
STAMFORD - The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department had good news and bad news for a local hunter in December.
The good news was that the large, trophy-antlered buck that Jim Smith, 47, of Stamford, had harvested in Stamford was the largest taken in Vermont in more than 20 years.
The bad news was that the buck was taken a day after the 2012 rifle season ended so instead of congratulations, Smith is now facing criminal charges for which he is scheduled to be arraigned in Bennington criminal court on Feb. 11.
In a press release, officials with the department said someone had witnessed Smith removing the 10-point buck from the woods on Nov. 26 and then tipped them off.
There was no record of the deer being reported so Vermont Sate Game Wardens Richard Watkin, Kelly Price and David Taddei conducted an investigation.
During an interview on Dec. 19, Smith admitted to killing the deer on the day after rifle season ended but said he had mistakenly believed the season was still open. The antlers, meat and hide were seized by wardens.
Smith has been cited to appear in court for taking a deer during the closed season. If convicted, he could be sentenced to 60 days in prison, lose his right to hunt, fish and trap in Vermont for up to three years and be fined up to $3,000.
Curtis Smiley, a lieutenant with the Fish and Wildlife's enforcement division and president of the Vermont Big Game Trophy Club, said the buck would have a Boone and Crockett score of 165 2/8 gross. The Boone and Crockett score, the standard for North American hunters, is based on antler size.
According to Keith Balfourd, marketing director of Boone and Crockett, the score described it would make it the fifth- or sixth-largest buck reported from Vermont since the scoring system began almost 100 years ago.
Vermont doesn't historically produce big-racked, white-tail deer and there are only 13 in Boone and Crockett's record books, Balfourd said.
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- Place-Based Writing (including literatures of the Great Plains and the American West)
- Digital Humanities
The following are the Graduate Faculty in Literature Studies in English. Please see individual faculty web pages for more information on research and teaching interests:
Stephen C. Behrendt, Romanticism, later 18th-century literature and the other arts, Romantic-era women writers
Susan Belasco, 19th-century American literature and culture, Women's Studies
Stephen M. Buhler, Renaissance literature
Peter Capuano, Nineteenth-Century British, Victorian Novel, The Dickens Project
Joy Castro, Fiction and creative nonfiction, Latina/o literature, U.S. and British modernism
Kwakiutl Dreher, African American literature, popular culture, film
Thomas C. Gannon, Native American literature, British Romanticism, Ecocriticism
Rhonda Garelick, Modernist English, American, and French literature, performance studies, European modern drama, dance history, popular and material culture
Melissa J. Homestead, American Literature and the History of the Book, with a focus on women's authorship
Maureen Honey, American Studies, Women's Studies, Popular Culture
Frances W. Kaye, Canadian Studies, Plains Studies, Native Studies
Thomas Lynch, Ecocriticism, Western and Southwestern American Literature
Amelia María de la Luz Montes, 19th-century American Literature, U.S. Latina/o and Chicana/o Literature and Theory, Gay and Lesbian Literature, creative writing (fiction)
Kenneth M. Price, American literature, textual editing, humanities computing
Stephen Ramsey, Digital Humanities, Media Studies, Drama
Guy Reynolds, American literature (and its historical contexts), Willa Cather
Gregory E. Rutledge, African-American Literature and Culture, American literature.
Julia Schleck, Medievel and Early Modern Literature, Interdisciplinary study (Literature, History, Music, History of Science), Travel Literature
Kelly Stage, Medieval and Renaissance Literature, especially Shakespeare and non-Shakespearean drama, and literature of 16th and 17th century London
Laura Mooneyham White, 19th and 20th-century British literature, Jane Austen
Literature Studies in the Department of English is the location for three major digital scholarly projects. The Walt Whitman Archive and The Willa Cather Archive receive Programs of Excellence funding from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Corvey Project, an electronic collection of thousands of texts from the Romantic period, is another major digital resource housed in our Department. Graduate students regularly work with these archives to produce innovative scholarly work and to gain expertise in digital humanities.
Work done in Literature Studies in English plays a significant role in interdisciplinary programs and centers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, such as Women's and Gender Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Nineteenth-Century Studies, and the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities.
Graduate students in Literature Studies regularly present papers at regional, national, and international conferences and have published in scholarly journals such as Studies in American Fiction, Literary and Linguistic Computing, American Periodicals, Emily Dickinson Journal, PLL: Papers in Language and Literature, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, Cather Studies, Journal of American Studies, Mediaevalia, Women's Studies, Journal of Caribbean Studies, Rhizomes, M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture, and College Language Association Journal.
PhD students in Literature Studies have gone on to tenure-track jobs at the University of Toronto, the University of Texas at Austin, Washington University, Boise State University, Winona State University, Bridgewater State College, York College, Flagler College, Shippensburg University, and other colleges and universities.
Recent PhD dissertations by graduate students in Literature Studies include the following:
Jennifer Overkamp
"Truth, Fantasy, and Paradox: The Fairy Tales of George MacDonald, G.K. Chesterton, and C.S. Lewis"
Mark Robison
"Making a Career of Play: Willa Cather and the Recreation Movement"
Sylvie Shires
"A Hand of Steel in a Velvet Glove: Purpose and Fulfillment through the Gender Sphere in Nineteenth-Century British Literature"
Nicole de Fee
"From Colony to Empire: The Decolonization of National Literary Identity in Antebellum American Literature"
Amy Ahearn
Engaging with the Political: Willa Cather, McClure's Magazine, and the Production of National Rhetoric"
Ramon Guerra
"Literature as Witness: Testimonial Aspects of Chicano Self-Identity Narratives"
Michael Page
"'Continual Food for Discovery and Wonder': Science and the Nineteenth-Century British Literary Imagination from Erasmus Darwin to H. G. Wells"
Steven Moore
"Black Rage in African American Literature Before the Civil Rights Movement: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Charles Chesnutt, Nella Larsen, Richard Wright, and Ann Petry"
Alvin Baker
"Thomas Creech's Concerning the Nature of Things Books I-II"
Stacey Berry
"The War Zone: A Dialectic of Space and Oppression in Post-1945 American Fiction"
Robert Gibney
"The Tests and Teachings of Paul A. Olson; Literary Scholarship, Uses of Myth, and an Activist Life"
Derek Driedger
"Writing and Circulating Modern American Journalism and the American Novelist, 1872-1938"
Lynn Wake
"E. B. White's Environmental Web"
Young Seon Won
"Reading Books, Reading Life: The Cultural Practice and the Literary Representation of Reading in Jane Austen's Time"
"Editing Whitman and Dickinson: Print and Digital Representations" by Amanda Gailey
"A Complex and Unbound Consciousness: American Women's Short Stories, 1830—1912" by Darcy R. Carbaugh
"Tied in Nots: Great Britain, Native America, and the Discursive Creation of United States National Subjects" by Brett Barney
"'The Next Best Currency after Dollars': Exotic Bodies and (Neo)Colonial Desire in Recent Fiction by Caribbean-American Women" by Pascha Antrece Stevenson
"Decadent Aristocracies in Nineteenth Century British Literature" by Shaun T. Harris


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Chevron's interim update, at first glance, is bad news. Earnings for the fourth quarter 2009 are expected to be lower than in the third quarter of 2009. When broken down by segment, downstream – refining and marketing – results, are expected to be sharply lower, due mainly to significantly weaker refining margins, which are affecting the industry as a whole. Upstream – exploration and production – results are expected to be in line with third quarter results, as the benefit of higher commodity prices is offset by the absence of gains recognized in the third quarter associated with formal approval of the Gorgan liquefied natural gas project in Australia.
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A video clip of the Matahari band. Produced by Alfedus s.r.o. Directed by: Marek Dobeš. Main camera: Radim Dittrich, editor: Tomáš Poleník.
Matahari - Proti Proudu (Upstream)
Marek Dobeš was inspired by the title hit of album "drunk" by Marek Ztracený for eponymous short narrative film.
A short movie Woman's Day.
Interview with the most famous czech prisoner Jiří Kajínek
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'Anchorman: The Legend Continues' is Due Out in One Year
Though they're still working on script, and should start filming shortly - even after releasing a teaser this summer - we only have a small inkling of what's in store for us when 'Anchorman: The Legend Continues' hits theaters next year. But now the picture has a release date, and it means only one thing: Will Ferrell is gunning for an Oscar.
Angelina Jolie Signs on to Direct a Project That's Older Than Her
Though she is one of the most beautiful and talented actresses working today, Angelina Jolie seems more interested in working behind the scenes of late. Her directorial debut 'In The Land Of Blood And Honey' may have got lost in 2011's year-end awards shuffle, but she's locked up her next project, which isn't '50 Shades of Grey' as was once rumored.
'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' on Track to Break Box Office Records
Though Peter Jackson's 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' hit screens mere hours ago, it's already on track to have the highest opening weekend of any picture to open in December. That's right, it's on track to open bigger than 'Avatar.'
'The Lone Ranger' Trailer: Johnny Depp Instructs Armie Hammer to Wear a Mask
"There come a time when good man must wear mask." So intones Johnny Depp to Armie Hammer in 'The Lone Ranger' trailer, which reveals that director Gore Verbinski is up for being a little weird in his big budget blockbuster.
'Star Trek Into Darkness' Trailer: Cumberbatch Has Returned to Have His Vengeance
Though the trailer won't hit the web until December 17, and the film doesn't hit theaters until May 2013, 'Star Trek Into Darkness' has just released their teaser for the trailer that's coming. Yup, this nonsense again, but at least this one's a minute long.
'Argo' Featurette: The Oscar Race Isn't Over Yet
It wasn't but two weeks ago that 'Argo,' the Ben Affleck-directed hostage thriller, was considered a front-runner, and possible winner of Oscar gold. Two critics awards later, and now it's 'Zero Dark Thirty' that has taken its thunder, and possibly for good. But the race isn't over, and 'Argo' has just unleashed a featurette spotlighting how good it is.
'Jack Reacher' Japanese Trailer: Tom Cruise Plays Tough
By now, all of the big end of the year pictures have screened, including 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' and 'Django Unchained.' Well, all but one. We're still waiting to hear word about 'Jack Reacher,' which stars Tom Cruise, and was directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Now there's a Japanese Trailer, which offers some new footage.
'A Good Day to Die Hard' Featurette: Jai Courtney Plays John McClane's Kid
We're nearly twenty five years removed from the release of the first 'Die Hard' movie, and 'A Good Day to Die Hard' release coincides with the first film's silver anniversary. And though the connective tissue may be strained, we're down for a Bruce Willis action fest, so this featurette for the new film gets us a little excited.
Hugh Jackman to Join 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'?
Holy Snikt! Bryan Singer's 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' is not only offering the new Magneto Michael Fassbender and Professor X James McAvoy along with the original versions played by Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, it looks like Hugh Jackman may be joining the cast for his seventh go-around as Wolverine.
Cate Blanchett Poised to Join Mark Romanek's 'Cinderella'
Okay, so we've had Snow White twice ('Mirror Mirror' and 'Snow White and the Huntsman'), and we're going to get 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters' and the new take on 'Sleeping Beauty' with 'Maleficent,' so what fairy tales are left to redo as a live action re-imagings? It turns out the next one will likely be 'Cinderella' and it could be pretty great as it's got Mark Romanek attached to direct and is looking to land Cate Blanchett as the evil stepmother.


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I saw Jeffree Star using a white eyeliner and it made his eyes look bigger so i wanted to try it and I was quite dissapointed due to lack of pigmentation.
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Is this a colored pencil? It sure feels like it. This product is not very pigmented, requires more pressure than I would like to have to use so close to my eye, and starts to fade in a few minutes.
So basically, when I watched Michelle Phan's video on how to brighten your eyes, I immediately wanted to buy a white eyeliner. Couple years later, and now I finally have one. However, I don't know quite what to do with it. Using it on my waterline made my eyes look a bit weird, and it didn't last long either. I finally figured I would use it as a highlight on my cupid's bow, under my eyebrow, and whatever else I can think of. I'm not disappointed that this didn't work out since it was super cheap.
Considering this was only $1 at Walgreens, I'm not holding this eyeliner up the same standards as other products I use. I bought this on vacation when I realized I had forgotten my white eyeliner I use on my bottom rim. This color is barely pigmented, but it did the trick. It did not last long, but I was able to use it and get my desired look. However, I would not repurchase this again.


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Accessories and Documentation
Tucked in the back of the box you will find a few things. One of them is the near two meter braided cable that is gold plated on both ends, and uses a USB connection to plug into the PC and the mini-USB to plug into the bottom of the Stealth.
You also are given a USB to PS/2 adapter to take advantage of the full NKRO support versus the standard 12 KRO in USB usage. If you want to use the On-The-Fly Repeat Rate buttons, you will also need this adapter for it to function. The other piece setting there is a key puller to help you swap out extra key caps.
Speaking of those extra key caps, you are sent a red WASD key replacement set with both the letter and the arrow being painted on the plastic cap. This is the same story for the pair of Cooler Master caps, they are painted on the cap as well.
There is some paperwork to help you find your way around the keyboard. In this section CM covers the layout of the key features. You are pointed to the Repeat Rate keys, the multi-media keys, Windows lock key, the pair of Windows keys, and of course the location of the Function key to work most of these features.
Along with the specifications, package contents, warranty information and tech support information, there is also a little bit of product placement advertising at the bottom showing off the Recon mouse and Sonuz headset you may not already own.
You also have the nine features that were listed on the back of the box, again listed in the paperwork. This covers everything from the switches used all the way down the list to the removable braided cable we just took a look at.
On the back of this fold out pamphlet you will find most of the warranty information and what the warranty will or will not protect against. I will say this about the construction, I have seen the YouTube video of CM Storm's Carter running these over with cars and trucks, so unless you do something drastically wrong of get some sort of component failures, if you can run them over and have them work, I think they will do just fine on your desk.


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Reviewed Beignets with Raspberry Sauce
Jan 17, 2011 in Food Network Community Toolbox on FoodNetwork.com
"I gave this three stars because the recipe was not up when I posted this review. I'm sure when I actually read the recipe, I will give it five stars. I am concerned that those using Po'boys as weapons are actually making fun of this recipe in some fashion. I have not determined how they are doing so, yet, but when I do, I shall mark their reviews..."


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Policy Exchange press release
At the launch of his review into airport capacity, Sir Howard Davies confirmed that he would be considering a recommendation to build an airport to the west of Heathrow. The proposals, outlined in a Policy Exchange paper, Bigger and Quieter, is a four runway hub located immediately west of the current Heathrow site. This would double the existing capacity to 130million passengers, cementing it as Europe's premier hub.
To reduce the effect of noise the report proposes:
· A complete ban on the noisiest aircraft at all times, rather than just at night. Airlines would have to ensure their fleet complied with new decibel measures by the time the new runways were ready for use
· Imposing a complete ban on night flights. The increase in the number of slots available would mean no planes would arrive or depart between 11pm and 6:15am
· Landing narrow bodied planes at a steeper angle as they already do at London City airport. This again means they are higher over any part of West London on their descent. For example, a plane would be 925m rather than 260m above Hounslow
Because the proposal reuses existing terminals and infrastructure, the price is likely to be around half that of Foster's proposal for an estuary airport. Approximately 700 properties would need to be demolished compared to the 1,400 that would need to go to make way for the estuary airport. The cost and ease of travel to Heathrow as well as the fact many businesses are already located near the current airport makes it the most suitable site.
David Skelton, deputy director, Policy Exchange, "The UK needs a new four runway hub airport located in the South East which has spare capacity to accommodate the likely increase in demand, especially to cope with the rise in middle class travellers from emerging markets.
"It is possible to expand Heathrow in such a way that it cements itself as Europe's number one hub, while significantly reducing the noise nuisance over West London. A four runway airport would be straightforward to construct and relatively low cost by the standards of hub airports. It causes the lowest level of disruption to the wider economy of any likely airport expansion scenario."


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I don't know how much longer I can carry on with this. When I was younger, when I first began, it all seemed so much easier. It was almost effortless in a way. It seemed that every idea I had, every concept I constructed, would get me into the papers with another Brit-Art Bad Boy produces Another Piece Of Outrageous So-Called 'Art' story.
The mid-market tabloids were the easiest, of course, they always reliably respond in the time-honoured fashion with their 'this so-called modern art' rants. It's almost like a ritual, or some other sort of formal arrangement, with them. The down-market tabloids, the red-tops always used to ignore me, of course. That is until they decided I'd become a celebrity, when I started turning up in their world with the obligatory latest model or actress hanging onto my arm and obligingly falling out of her dress right in front of their slavering cameras. That too was all part of the game.
The posh-lefty broadsheets, though, decided I had to be taken seriously. There is nothing their bourgeois little minds like better than a bit of anti-bourgeois pretence. If it outrages the Daily Mail, then in their eyes it must be good, because there is nothing they like more than safely conforming to the latest anti-conformity stance. It is sad, I know, but it's given me a living, a very good living.
Again, it is all part of the game. It is all as formal, as organised, as strict, as one of those dances they do in the Jane Austen adaptations on the BBC. We all - us in the celebrity dance – know which step to do and when to do it, to keep the whole dance moving along while the music plays and the money comes tumbling in.
Of course, my greatest work of art, my greatest creation is myself, or rather the persona of Sebastian Stiles that I created. All of it as false as my working class accent, and the sex and drugs and footie and birds and 'doing it large', or whatever the current argot is. It is funny how the art world, the media, and all the luvvies that run them both want their heroes to be working class – 'a bit of rough' for them to fantasise over. It was a bit awkward, for a while anyway, when some smart-arsed reporter discovered I'd been to public school, the same one as the then – Labour, obviously - Prime Minister, as it happens. But I managed to ride that one out by pointing out my grandfather had been an iron foundry worker and I had 'gone back to my roots', or some sort of similar working class solidarity guff. The arty types in the media fell for it straight away, mainly because they wanted to – needed to – believe it. I was their bad boy and they needed me to remain that way. That was especially true of those posh birds who fancied a bit of rough, but a 'safe' bit of rough, if you know what I mean. Drop a few working class references, a few dialect words into the interview and they – in turn - can't wait to drop their knickers for me. Trouble is, now I don't want to, not any more. Even the easy, meaningless sex is… well… getting too meaningless and far too easy.
Another thing; I never used to get hangovers, back when I was younger. I'd be out clubbing, womanising, drugging, dancing and drinking until well into the following morning and all I'd sometimes have would be a bit of a sore head and a dry throat. Maybe I'd be a bit sharp with one of my assistants, but that was it. Nowadays, it seems, I can't drink at all, and as for the drugs – well, I don't seem to like them – and they don't like me – not any more.
Trouble is, though, going out with people intent on getting off their faces, while you remain sober and straight is incredibly boring. People don't realise – I certainly didn't realise – just how tediously dull they are when they are getting wasted through drink, drugs or – more usually - both at the same time, even though they do believe - at the time - they are having a great time and they are the life and soul of the party. So, I seem to have given up going out.
Even the papers have noticed that I'm no longer the life and soul of the party, that I am no longer always where the best parties are, and they've started calling me a recluse. Not that I care that much, not now. Seeing your own face staring back at you from the pages of the newspaper soon becomes as boring for you yourself as it must be for all the other punters who have to wade through the endless photos of the tedious celebrity doings to get to the TV pages or the footie results. Well, it was for me anyway.
Although, there are some I know, including my last 'girlfriend', the 'world famous supermodel model Oslo' as she is known in tabloid-land, who seem to need their fix of publicity as much as their fix of whatever celebrity drug is the most fashionable nowadays. Oslo was a great one for heroin, herself. Luckily, for her, the heroin-chic look was all the rage at the time. Probably still is for all I know. She was lucky that way, with her work and her main interest in life coinciding like that.
Oslo is too famous to need a last name, which is good because I've forgotten it. That is if she ever told me it in the first place, I can't remember now. She was – she pointed out to me – also too famous for me. She – her agent had told her – needed a higher-status boyfriend than me, possibly even a husband, for the next stage of her career-arc. So, she dumped me. Well, one of her assistants dumped me, for her - by text message.
Not that I cared – officially – at the time. My office responded immediately with a press release about my new-found friendship with Steve Boddington and his (ex-)pop star wife Penny. She used to be in that massive 80s girl-group, Pout - only the Spice Girls were bigger at the time. Nowadays, she is just famous for her fake tits, and her weirdly-named, essential fashion accessory kids: Marble, Transcendental and Surprise.
Actually, Bodds, as we all must – it seems – call him these days, just wanted me to fuck his airhead wife for a while, while he was off with his latest PA in some artificial jungle somewhere making a reality programme for TV. Seems she wanted someone 'intyllecytual', to shag her for some reason – I suppose in her position – top of the celebrity-tree, doing an Open University course and boffing the lecturer was out of the question. So one day I had the call from Bodds and next day I was on the plane out to Italy – where he was nominally playing his football in those days – and a taxi ride to his villa. Where Penny met me – standing stark naked in the cool marble hall of their massive hillside villa (apparently they conceived their first born in that marble hall too, hence his name).
Well, Bodds had bought several of my more expensive works – so I felt I sort of owed him a favour. Anyway, it turned out that Penny's definition of intellectual seemed to consist of reading Jeffrey Archer novels – slowly, one syllable at a time, her lips moving, and watching the satellite celebrity news channels for sometimes as long as ten minutes, but only if they mentioned her name.
I tried, I really did try. But Penny (the tabloids still – it seems – call her Bad, even after all these years, that weirdly obviously contrived 'nick-name' from her Pout days) did nothing at all for me. Considering the artifice of all the art I've created, it is odd, but fake tits just turn me right off, and that infamous body of hers. Yes, it turns out that - this time - the rumours of the inspiration for my piece Celebrity are true – those two moulded orange jellies sitting on an ironing board - were inspired by 'Bad' Penny.
Penny threw me out only one day later, well, her bodyguards threw me out for her, because she was too busy getting her PA to make an appointment with her plastic surgeon. Apparently, all the work she'd put into failing to get me to perform for her had damaged her famous pout and she needed it urgently repaired before she could be seen in public again.
Being dumped like that – twice, one after the other – somehow really depressed me - which was quite odd. I'd got used over the years to living this kind of life where you just floated over the surface of everything, not letting it touch you, being 'cool' about every fucking thing. Usually women came into my life, we came, and then they went without leaving even a shadow in my memory. At the time, I put it down to getting old. Maybe, I thought, I was looking for something a bit more meaningful. But I was the darling bad boy of Brit-Art what need had I for meaning, for worth? I was still the king of superficial mindless tat.
Then, suddenly, while I was still reeling from all this, the Credit Crunch appeared out of nowhere, and the bottom just fell out of the whole Brit-Art shtick. Seemingly, all at once, Brit-Art - and all us once fashionable art-world bad-boys and girls - were about as welcome in the celebrity haunts as a fart in a space suit. We'd known it would never last, of course, the world of celebrity, of fame, has its fads and fashions too: film stars, pop stars, TV people, comedians, 'Reality' stars, they have all been, gone, come back and gone again as the fickle finger of fate has grown tired of them and shifted on to point at some other fad of the moment. The problem is that the celebrity pool is a very shallow puddle and there is only so much stirring that the finger of fate can do with it, especially when that bright glare of excess rabid publicity begins to dry that puddle up, evaporating its edges.
So, yeah, it all just suddenly fell around me and I was left stumbling through the wreckage, of – when all is said and done – a pretty wasted life. Fair enough, I was actually wasted myself for a great deal of it. Still, I can't help wishing I had a bit more to show for it than a few pieces of tat spread here and there through museums, art galleries and private collections, in those fashionable art places that have always had far more money than sense, or – even - far more money than taste.
The irony is though, now those infamous pieces of art I made, that made me all that money and fame, are all falling to bits, decomposing, rotting, as though they too know the party is over and they are returning to their constituent parts, or just rotting away to dust. It's a bit like the clock has struck midnight, the fairy godmother's spell has worn off and my vintage Porsche has turned back into the pumpkin and a bunch of mice.
Anyway, I dunno what I'm going to do now. Although, the Labour party in some act of desperation have offered me a set in the Lords – providing we can disguise my 'donation' is some suitably obscure way. Typical of politicians, of political parties, they wait so long for it to be safe to jump on a bandwagon, that by the time they've built up the courage to clamber aboard, everyone else has long got off, leaving it to career on down the road, leaving those poor unfortunates like politicians and other hangers-on to stumble free of the wreckage once it runs off the road for the final time.
So, I might give that a go. I quite fancy myself as a Lord, controlling, even though only in a peripheral way – for the moment – the fate of the nation. After al, I can't screw it up any more that they already have, can I?
No, don't answer that.


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Updated: March 14, 2014 8:48AM
Midlothian resident MacKenzie Lim is only a freshman at Marist High School, but she already has lived a life well beyond her years.
That's because she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia last April and is being treated at Advocate Children's Hospital in Oak Lawn.
It's going to be a long battle for MacKenzie, but not one that she's fighting alone.
MacKenzie, whose father, Bob, is the athletic director at Marist, will get a chance to see how much the community supports her and her family when the Team Mack Benefit is held from 2 to 7 p.m. Sunday at 115 Bourbon Street, 3359 W. 115th St., Merrionette Park.
Sue Blisk, a family friend who's organizing the event along with nine other friends close with the Lim family, said she had received 200 pre-orders for tickets as of Wednesday. Blisk said tickets can also be purchased at the door.
"I work with Bob as well, and they (Lim family) are all wonderful and amazing to watch," Blisk said. "They have tons of friends around them, and we are all here to help."
MacKenzie is winning her battle, and the fluid in her spine is cancer-free, according to a statement issued by the family.
Tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for individuals 13 and under. Food, wine, beer, soft drinks and water are included in the ticket price. There will also be a raffle and silent auction featuring Bulls, Blackhawks and Chicago Fire tickets.
For more information, call Blisk at (708) 404-8324, Mike Staunton at (708) 217-9553 or Eileen Flores at (708) 220-9019.
Donations are also being accepted at Team Mack, c/o Archer Bank, 3435 W. 111th St., Chicago, IL 60655.


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7 Bring me out of prison so I can thank you. The godly will crowd around me, for you treat me kindly." | 7 Set me free from my prison, that I may praise your name. Then the righteous will gather about me because of your goodness to me. |
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I replaced a transmission bracket on my LawnBoy model 10672 and first time use was perfect. Using second time after about 10 feet the right rear wheel totally locked. Will not go forward or backward. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thx |
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make sure the washer is in the dust cover properly, could have fell out when installed ,that washer stops the wheel bolt from overtighting. |
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If you're a new teacher or someone looking to get a firmer understanding of what standards based instruction involves (or even is, for that matter) then this visual guide is packed with useful information. It's quite dense and may take you quite awhile to get through. However, once you do you'll know how to determine if students are actually learning or if they're simply reciting.
That's a key differentiation between the different levels of learning. Do students appropriately identify main topics, supply background and supplemental information, as well as add in some connection to other topics? Are there parallel ideas being presented? That's the end goal of this visual guide and hopefully the same goal you have in the classroom.
An important side note: I recently found this on Piktochart, a fabulous (and free!) web tool that lets you create your own infographics even if you are not *ahem* good at graphic design. As someone who is not good at design, I'm not ashamed to say that Piktochart is like a lifeboat for me when I want to make an interesting graphic or visual guide to something fun for Edudemic. It takes a bit of understanding as well as trial and error but that's to be expected with any graphic design software. Photoshop and Illustrator aren't exactly easy to pick up and start using in a few minutes! Piktochart is.
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PHOENIX (AP) - Proposition 303 on the Nov. 5 ballot would raise an estimated $62 million a year to help pay for health care for poor Arizonans, subsidies for hospital emergency rooms and research into leading fatal diseases.
Smokers would pick up the tab - if Arizona voters approve the referendum's 60 cent increase in the state's current 58 cent excise tax on each pack of cigarettes, for a total of $1.18. Taxes on other tobacco products would go up as well.
For a pack-a-day smoker such as Barbara Wells, the increase would cost $219 a year.
Wells, a state government finance supervisor who said she's been smoking about 40 years, said the added cost could help motivate her to finally stop smoking. "I can't afford much more," she said.
The state's last tobacco tax increase - a 40 cent increase on the tax per pack narrowly approved by voters in 1994 - came after tobacco companies poured millions of dollars into an opposition campaign.
The issue was a hot topic leading up to the 1994 election, but that's not the case this year with ads for three competing gambling initiatives and a heated gubernatorial race dominating the airwaves.
Supporters of Proposition 303 have raised a $1 million warchest, chiefly from hospitals and anti-smoking groups, but the tobacco companies are not matching that effort this time.
Instead, opponents are mounting low-key efforts largely consisting of releasing position papers and making representatives available to reporters for comment.
Supporters of Proposition 303 include hospitals now picking up the tab for unreimbursed emergency care and state officials who want extra money to pay for a voter-approved increase in eligibility for the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System.
Also, supporters say, the higher tobacco prices will reduce usage by simply making cigarettes and other tobacco products too pricey for some potential buyers, particularly juveniles.
"For me, the problem is secondhand smoke. There's a lot of reasons from a pediatrician's standpoint to fight (for) this," said Robert Cannell, a Yuma pediatrician and state representative who was a prime author of the referendum.
Opposition to the tax increase comes from a conservative think tank, the Goldwater Institute, and at least one tobacco company, Phillip Morris USA.
Those critics say the tax increase, if approved by voters, will encourage many smokers to buy cigarettes from alternate sources, rather than in-state retailers, to save money.
Those sources could include bootleggers who smuggle in cigarettes from low-tax states, Internet suppliers and retailers in other states, they say. The result could be fewer sales for Arizona retailers and ultimately less revenue for the state for health care and other programs, the critics say.
Also, said Jamie Drogin, a spokeswoman for New York-based Phillips Morris USA, "we do feel it is unfair to single out smokers - a small percentage of the population - to fund services for a larger percentage of the population."


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Asian-Food Lover's Guide
We've eaten, sipped and shopped our way through restaurants, tea houses, bars and markets to find the city's not-to-be-missed Asian fare
43 North. Photo by Katrina Taloza.
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Don't miss the duck confit noodle with poached egg and mizuna created by Madison's famed chef Shinji Muramoto at 43 North. The deeply flavored, sweet yet savory duck confit coats ramen noodles in a delicious sauce that melds with the soft egg yolk. Scallions and greens add sparks of flavor and texture to this sublime dish.
Saigon Noodles, on Madison's west side, is a favorite Asian restaurant of Madison's great chefs, and is famous for their pho. Another great dish is the grilled lemongrass beef and vermicelli bowl or "bun." Thin rice noodles are heaped upon a layer of vegetables—cucumber, lettuce, pickled carrots, basil, bean sprouts and peanuts, topped with the house sauce. Get it with the eggroll.
Suwanasak Thai is tucked away in an inconspicuous strip mall on Gammon Road but is poised to outgrow its space, rapidly gaining the attention of Thai food lovers citywide. The broad, flat, slightly charred rice noodles in the Phad See Ew have an amazing mouthfeel and are stir fried in a sweet-savory oyster sauce with crisp Chinese broccoli. Fresh cilantro and scallion garnish brightens the dish's flavor. Hot sauce on the side packs a punch.
Head east to Ha Long Bay, which features an extensive menu created by owners and head chefs Chris and Jean Tran. From Thai to Vietnamese and Lao dishes, Ha Long Bay excels. Try the "drunken noodles," pad-kee mao—food for the soul. The wide, flavor-laden rice noodles are mixed with tender mushrooms and broccoli in a sweet, savory and spicy sauce. There is no alcohol in this dish, but perhaps the name is derived from the feeling of complete satisfaction one reaches upon eating it.
Viet House, a recently opened eastside eatery in yet another nondescript strip mall on East Washington, makes authentic Vietnamese food. Try the pho, an aromatic broth poured over rice noodles, with your choice of various meats and veggies. The slow-cooked broth is divine, made with beef bone, onion and whole spices such as star anise, coriander, cinnamon and a touch of sugar. The soft rice noodles have their place, but aside from the broth, the "salad" is key. Drop thin slices of beef
tenderloin in the hot pho and top with fresh scallion and peppers, lime juice, hoisin and chili sauce, and herbs.
No question that dumplings are delicious, but who knew that those small packages of soft, warm dough filled with meats, veggies and spices could be so versatile? The Dumpling Haus, an unassuming eatery in Hilldale, offers an assortment of homemade dumplings including Haus Jiao Zi, traditional pork dumplings that celebrate the owner's Beijing heritage. Ground pork with bits of scallion and ginger are encased in a tender housemade dough. Or try the open-topped shaomai dumplings filled with a delicious blend of pork, water chestnuts and spices. The shrimp dumplings are a delicate treat: tender shrimp steamed in rice paper wrappers, with a light, salty dipping sauce. Though buns take a slight detour from the dumpling category, the Nutella Bao, a homemade steamed bun filled with creamy Nutella, is certainly a comfort food!
Speaking of buns, Graze's pork variety, soft steamed buns folded over crispy grilled local pork belly, topped with housemade kimchee and pickles, are truly comfort food. Who but chef Tory Miller could elevate Asian street food to a gourmet dining experience featuring Wisconsin-grown ingredients?
Himal Chuli, a popular Himalayan eatery on State Street, offers both meat and vegetarian dumplings. The vegetarian momocha, filled with vegetables and a peanut paste, and the chicken momo are blended with spices that incorporate flavors from India to China. The lively tomato-coriander dipping sauce is a perfect complement to the dumplings.
Natt Spil, a fun, late-night hangout, is perhaps an unexpected stop for shu mai, typically served as part of dim sum brunch fare in China. Natt Spil's dumplings win on texture as well as flavor. The thin dough wrappers are filled with pieces of spicy pork sausage, shrimp and water chestnuts, steamed and served over a soy, sesame oil and rice wine sauce, sprinkled with sesame seeds.
Korean Flair
Korean food has grown in popularity over the past few years, and bibimbap—meaning "mixed rice"—serves as a tasty introduction to the cuisine. A popular street food, bibimbap features rice topped with meat or protein and various vegetables, such as lightly steamed bean sprouts, greens, carrots and radish. Then comes a sunny-side-up egg and chili sauce. It's all mixed together into one delicious meal, and served with side dishes, which actually take center stage in Korean cuisine.
Try the rock cooker bibimbap at New Seoul, Madison's original Korean restaurant. The heat from the large clay bowl continues to cook the rice, creating a fragrant crust. The pickled radish, housemade cabbage and radish kimchee, and fried potato side dishes, give each bite a unique, provocative piquancy.
K Pepper's beef bulgogi bibimbap combines two great dishes in one—Korean beef barbeque and the mixed-up rice topped with various steamed veggies and an egg. The side dishes at K Peppers vary daily, except for kimchee, and showcase traditional and fusion flavors. Egg and potato salad, tempura broccoli and a corn pancake are just a few of the many variations you might find on your table.
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With giving in their hearts during the holiday season, eight groups of donors gathered in front of the Sheila R. Veloz Breast Imaging Center on the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital campus recently and presented gifts totaling more than $120,000 to benefit the breast imaging center.
Henry Mayo President and CEO Roger Seaver greeted the more than 25 people who attended the donation presentations by expressing his gratitude to the donors for their generous support of the breast imaging center.
"I would like to thank all of the people who have come forward after the Sheila R. Veloz Breast Imaging Center was created to make sure the center continues to have the most-up-to-date equipment to provide early breast cancer detection."
Among the donors at the event were Valencia Acura owners Don and Cheri Fleming and their partners, Wayne and Dianne White Crawford, in the 8th Annual Crawford-Fleming Golf Invitational.
The Crawfords and Flemings presented $113,500 in proceeds from the golf invitational and the Valencia Acura/Henry Mayo Breast Cancer Awareness Tea-held at the Valencia Country Club in October.
"The Sheila R. Veloz Breast Imaging Center has provided a wonderful service for women throughout the Santa Clarita Valley and we are proud to do what we can to help this worthwhile cause," said Don Fleming, whose mother died from cancer.
Cancer has also affected Grainger Branch Manager Dion Beck, whose wife Valerie was diagnosed with breast cancer on June 26. Since then, Valerie Beck underwent a mastectomy and has become Henry Mayo's 2006 Breast Cancer Awareness testimonial speaker.
Wishing to make a contribution to the breast imaging center on behalf of the Grainger branches he manages in Valencia and Northridge, Dion Beck was pleasantly surprised to learn that branch managers from the company's Torrance, Commerce, Compton, Oxnard, Los Angeles, Inglewood and Culver City branches had also chosen to donate funds through the company's local giving program to the Sheila R. Veloz Breast Imaging Center. Together, the nine branches donated $3,750 to the breast imaging center.
"It was very touching that the other branch managers in our district decided to give money to a cause that affected my family," Dion Beck said.
Valerie Beck echoed her husband's sentiments about Grainger's contribution.
"It's amazing that a company would support the community like this," she said. "Grainger believes in giving back to the local community and that is what they did by donating locally to the breast imaging center."
Also in attendance at the check presentation on behalf of Grainger were: John Nishanian, District Branch Services Manager; Mia Acquino, Account Manager; Pattie Rosolanko, Senior Administrative Assistant for the Los Angeles Region; Sara Boyme, Corporate Brand Manager; and Erin Ptacek, Regional Communications Director.
Susan Bayer, CeCe Frankhuizen and Debbie Hattox of the "Wildflowers and Poppies" branch of Longaberger presented a donation of $3,130 to the breast imaging center from proceeds raised at a luncheon hosted by Susan Bayer, including raffles and a silent auction.
"I got together with a few of my fellow Longaberger Home Consultants Cece Frankhuizen, Debbie Hattox, Myrna Litt and Kristie Leiner," Bayer said. "We organized a Luncheon at my home in Acton to raise money for the Breast Imaging Center and to educate women about early breast cancer detection. At the luncheon, we had a Breast Cancer Survivor share her story and Terry Bucknall, the Director of Women's Imaging Services at the Sheila R. Veloz Breast Imaging Center, gave a presentation about breast cancer awareness. It feels wonderful to contribute to this center because I use this center and I love it."
For the past three years, Cobblestone Cottage owner Kathy Allie has donated a portion of the sale of each Brighton breast cancer bracelet sold at her store beginning in the month of October, to the Sheila R. Veloz Breast Imaging Center. On Friday, Allie announced that $1,500 will be donated from those proceeds to the breast imaging center.
Allie, who will celebrate Cobblestone Cottage's 20th year in business this January, said the $50 breast cancer bracelets, which feature Swarovski crystals and beautiful charms, are still available for purchase at her Valencia gift store. Portions of the proceeds from any additional sales will continue to benefit the breast imaging center.
"I love this breast imaging center," Allie said. "It provides women mammograms, who otherwise, would not be able to afford them. To me that is very important."
Swimmer Gary Greenwood, also known as "Dolphinman," had swam 18 miles along the perimeter of Castaic's Upper Lake to raise funds for the breast imaging center. On Friday, Greenwood was delighted to present $950 raised by his swim to the breast imaging center.
"I feel blessed that I was physically able to help the women of this Valley by raising funds to benefit the breast imaging center," Greenwood said.
Valencia Panera Bread General Manager A.J. Amirnezami presented a $471 check to the breast imaging center. The donation came from .25 cents from every pink ribbon bagel sold at the Valencia Panera Bread during Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October. "I'm very proud to be a part of this cause," Amirnezami said.
Shelly Jefferis, owner and instructor for Stroller Strides — a total fitness program in which new moms in Santa Clarita can exercise with their babies — presented a $280 check from a fund-raising walk that she recently coordinated.
"I plan to make the fund-raising walk an annual event," Jefferis said. "It feels great to contribute to such a worthwhile cause."
Also acknowledged at the check presentations, was Karen Kettering of Longaberger and Acorn Industries, who raised $550 by hosting a luncheon with raffles and a silent auction.
Nine-year breast cancer survivor Dianne White was recognized for donating close to $10,000 to the breast imaging center in October.
Crawford raised the donated funds through her business, Pink Ribbon Gifts. The donation was made in memory of Crawford's good friend, the late Tom Veloz, who supported Crawford during her cancer treatments and played an integral role in the development of the Sheila R. Veloz Breast Imaging Center.
The Sheila R. Veloz Breast Imaging Center also received more than $4,000 in donations in memory of Tom Veloz.
For more information about donating to the Sheila R. Veloz Breast Imaging Center, please call the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Health Foundation at (661) 252-8082.


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Facebook Places Goes Live On The iPhone. Check-In While It's Hot (If You Can) At Facebook's Places event earlier tonight, they noted that their iPhone app would be updated tonight with the new check-in functionality.
Sure enough, here it is. Though the App Store update alert hasn't kicked in yet, if you go to the actual page and redownload it, it should be the latest version (version 3.2). As you can see, the new Places area is front and center in the app. Clicking on it brings up a list of your friends who have recently checked in to various places. Clicking on those friends shows more details about the place they are at. Live From Facebook's Location Event (Video Stream) We're at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, where the social network is finally unveiling its much-anticipated location feature, which will be called Places.
We've already published the first screenshots of the new feature, but we're about to get the full rundown on how it works and who Facebook is partnering with. The company has invited dozens of press to the event (it even shuttled some of them down from San Francisco), and it's clear that it's treating this as a very big deal. I'm liveblogging my notes from the event below. Facebook Has Been Working On This Location Feature For 8 Months. Today at an event at their headquarters in Palo Alto, CA, Facebook unveiled their new Places product — their location/check-in solution.
Obviously, their entry in this space has been rumored for a long time — a very long time. But during the Q&A session, someone asked how long Facebook has actually been working on this Places product. Since December, one of the engineers in charge of the product replied. But he also revealed that there have been other "skunkworks" projects internally at Facebook surrounding location long before that. The past 8 months have just been specifically focused on what is now called Places. Facebook Wants Advertisers To Help Build Out Its Directory of Places. As we heard tonight, Facebook has officially launched Places, the social network's location-based platform.
We know what Places will mean for Facebook users. Users will be able to check-in to Places (created by both people and businesses) via the web or through mobile apps. And the feature has an API so partners like Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp and Booyah can allow their users to check-in to Facebook's places. But what does this mean for businesses? Interestingly, Facebook seems to actively be targeting advertisers on the network. The Implications Of Facebook's "Places" Foursquare's Dennis Crowley: Still deciding on Facebook Places.
With Facebook's announcement of a check-in feature dubbed Facebook Places, we're all wondering how it will affect location-based services like Foursquare.
So I went ahead and asked founder and chief executive Dennis Crowley. While Foursquare had a presence at the Facebook announcement, it wasn't very clear what exactly the two companies would be doing together. Other location-based games, like Gowalla and Booyah, were a bit more vocal claiming integrations with Facebook. Facebook Partnering With Gowalla And Foursquare For Places. Today at an event in Palo Alto, CA, Facebook unveiled its new Places product — essentially their check-in utility.
Obviously, there has been a lot of talk about what this means for the current players like Foursquare and Gowalla. Well, Facebook is partnering with both of those guys. We hinted at this possibility a couple days ago. Representatives from both Gowalla and Foursquare were invited to take the stage at the event to talk about how they plan to leverage Facebook's new Places API. Both will allow you to check-in and publish the data to your Facebook feed. Facebook Punks Foursquare, Gets Them To Announce Nothing. I love how companies "cooperate" in the tech industry.
Twitter recently "helped" out TweetMeme by giving them another business to focus on. Facebook has now "helped" out Foursquare by making them wonder what's next. They also welcomed the company up on stage to announce that they would … GASP … consider what to do with Facebook Places! Apparently Foursquare will eventually have Facebook integration, however right now they are working on their own product roadmap and don't have the resources to integrate. Facebook Places Plays Nice with Yelp, Foursquare, Gowalla and Booyah. Facebook just launched Places for the United States.
In short, it is a location check-in platform. They launched with four partners (Foursquare, Gowalla, Yelp and Booyah) all of whom are federating check-ins in some way. The Places API is currently read-only, while the Write & Search API are in closed beta. Facebook Places was created with three goals: Helping people share where they are Seeing who else is around you Seeing what's going on around you. Chris dixon: will be interesting to see...


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The company has combined its patented WindTunnel™ technology with a bagless dirt-collection system to create a commercial upright with reportedly excellent cleaning effectiveness. The new Hoover® WindTunnel™ bagless commercial upright uses technology that is said to be a breakthrough in the design of the agitator cavity. Dirt is channeled into a dual-duct arrangement in the WindTunnel nozzle, reportedly preventing dirt from being scattered back onto the carpet. This technology, says the company, improves cleaning effectiveness, which is the most sought-after benefit that users want in an upright, according to independent research. The vacuum also comes with a multiple-stage, heavy-duty commercial filter located in the dirt cup; a six-piece, on-board tool set that includes a super-stretch hose that reaches up to 11 ft; and edge groomers, which are a series of flexible bristles aligned vertically along the far edges of the agitator cavity to brush dirt particles along baseboards and then draw the particles by the suction of the cleaner toward the air ducts. The vacuum also comes with a 12-A grounded motor and a clean-air design, meaning that the motor pulls (rather than pushes) air into the dirt cup. The Hoover Company, North Canton, OH, U.S.
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