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I've never had a gas stove so I'm totally unfamiliar with them. We're installing gas in our new kitchen so I will need to buy a gas range. We have frequent power outages(in the mountains) and I'm wondering how you start them with no electricity?
I'm guessing the oven won't work at all because there's no way to work the thermostat, but what about the burners? Could you use them to heat up soup? I need a 30" range. What should I look for? Good or bad brands? I'm totally in the dark as far as what options I need. I need something that is not fancy but will hold up to heavy use. I live on a farm and process all our own foods. Lots of canning, bread baking, etc. Thanks for any input! |
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First off, I highly recommend a generator. It is so worth the investment. We too live in an area with frequent power outages, and after putting up with it for 15 yrs, we finally broke down and got a generator last fall after living through hurricane Irene (no power for over 3 weeks) and a freak snowstorm in October. Especially living on a farm - if your well is run by an electric pump (most are), you'll be without water too, unless you have an artesian overflow like we do (still a pain to collect water and bring it up to the house). To answer your question, yes, you can use the stove without electricity. (That's how we always survived when the power would go out!) Most gas stoves have an electric starter mechanism, but even without that, you just turn on the burner and light a match to it. Magic! |
- Posted by localeater (My Page) on Fri, Oct 5, 12 at 15:54
Since you live in the mountains I am assuming you will not be getting a natural gas stove, you will be getting a propane(LP) stove. This is important for a couple of reasons. 1) when you are buying it you will need to find out if it comes with a conversion kit or if you need to buy one or if you need to buy the model of the stove that works on LP 2) when ever you are looking at a stove it will give the burner power in BTU's based on natural gas different stoves lose different % of power when they convert to LP. These are very difficult to find on manufacturer's websites, sometimes you have to send an email or call their customer service. However they are always on the stove itself usually in the bottom drawer. As jenswrens said you will be able to use the stove top, just use a match. Usually you can't use the oven, one exception I know of is the Bertazonni which has an overide for the electric start and a mechanical as opposed to electronic thermostat. It sounds like our needs are similar. I cook all our food from scratch, bake my own bread, can tons, etc... I choose a Bosch, getting delivered the 19th of this month so I can't tell you yet if it is perfect. |
- Posted by liriodendron (My Page) on Fri, Oct 5, 12 at 16:09
And of course if you light it with a match, you will need to remember that if it blows out, it will not relight automatically since it has nothing to produce another spark. When you have power this makes no difference but if you are used to using a very low flame, or if you have a simmer burner that relies on the flame cycling off and on, then you'll need to remember this. In some ranges the broiler burner stays on continuously(unlike the oven), so if you can access where the broiler burner gas comes out you can light it with a match. I'd use a long match and be prepared for a little flare up unless you're very nimble at the lighting stage. I do mine that way occasionally during power outages. Of course if you're really in a pickle and have a good externally readabale oven thermometer you can operate the oven in a power outage by just turning it on and off as the temp changes warrant. Takes constant watching, though. And of course any convection fan doesn't work during power outages. One last point: ranges, like all appliances, are getting more and more electronic-ified. It is always possible that soon even gas ranges could progress to the stage where they can't be lit by a match. You should always ask about this before buying. HTH L. |
- Posted by starinasgarden (My Page) on Fri, Oct 5, 12 at 16:22
I live in a very rural area, and have learned to make sure that there is someone that can service any appliance I buy. I have learned this the hard way. The burners on my gas(lp, converted) range light with a match. Wonderful in an outage. |
I believe that it is still possible to buy a new gas range that has pilot lights, but only if it doesn't have a power cord at all--no clock, no timer, no electronic controls. Pilot lights are inefficient, since they burn all the time, but they are not affected by power outages. Vintage gas ranges (like an O'Keefe & Merritt or Wedgewood-Holly from the 1950s) would have pilot lights (even if it did have apower cord). I had a Wedgewood-Holly for years (ca 1960), and the oven thermostat worked fine without electricity. |
Of course if you're really in a pickle and have a good externally readabale oven thermometer you can operate the oven in a power outage by just turning it on and off as the temp changes warrant. That won't work with the gas ovens I am familiar with. The gas valve is controlled by a solenoid, which is wired in line with the silicon carbide ignitor. The idea is that you can only get gas to flow if the ignitor is hot. (There are some subtleties concerning the resistance vs. temperature behavior of silicon carbide, but I don't think we need go into them here.) Bottom line -- the valve that admits the gas is electric. This was true on my 25-yr-old cheapie White Westinghouse, my brand-new Blue$tar, and many others in between that I am familiar with. |
I wanted a gas range that didn't use power, or at least didn't need it. I found three brands - Unique, Brown, and Premier. That's it. I never came across any others that you could use the oven without power. Some you can use the burners, some you can't. I went with Premier which has pretty mixed reviews but it seemed the best of that small bunch. It's being delivered on Tuesday. |
- Posted by localeater (My Page) on Sat, Oct 6, 12 at 8:29
You can use the Bertazzoni oven with no power. I spoke to the rep when I was looking at one, and he has one at his camp in the allagash for that very reason. |
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Thanks to a surprise donation, Scobey Public Schools will have iPads for each of its students next school year.
"We got a call last Wednesday night saying they'd like to donate right away," Superintendent Dave Selvig said. "I just didn't believe it at first, but the next day, they came through."
The $130,000 donation came from Shale Exploration LLC, a Texas-based oil and gas exploration corporation with offices in Scobey that is working in North Dakota's Bakken oil fields.
Sam Tallis, Shale's president, and Sid Greehey, a fellow principal and majority stakeholder, were in Scobey on Monday to present the check.
They said they made the donation because they plan to be in the area for years to come and want to be more than just a company with an office in town.
"You can't tell someone you're going to be their long-term partner if you don't back it up," Tallis said. "A Bakken may last 25 to 30 years, but an education lasts a lifetime."
Selvig said the donation will pay for about 250 of the tablet computers for the district, which has about 260 students.
Produced by computer giant Apple, the iPad is a tablet computer with a touch screen. It is 9.5 inches by 7.3 inches and is one-half inch thick.
The tablets are Internet-ready and allow for interactive use through a variety of programs called apps.
Apple has sold more than 58 million iPads since launching them in 2010.
The donation accelerates Scobey's initiative to integrate technology into the classroom. The school board recently approved a plan to buy an iPad for each of its 29 teachers and planned to bring those into the classroom in fall 2012 before starting a push to provide one for each student in 2013.
"We've had an idea of what we wanted to do for a little while now," Selvig said. "But this really speeds things up. We've got a lot of planning to do."
In January, Apple announced a big push to incorporate the touch screen tablet computers into education across the country through two of its apps — iBooks 2, which allows for the use of interactive digital books, and iTunes U, which allows access to educational materials, including courses, lectures, quizzes, assignments and textbooks.
Many large textbook producers in the U.S. have signed on to provide content.
Selvig said that the variety of material available, especially in light of Apple's efforts, will provide a great supplement to what's already available in the classroom.
"There's so many apps out there for education," he said. "As we start phasing it in, there's just so much out there that we feel will really help the students."
Greehey said Shale, and his family, has made similar donations to schools in Texas and that, thanks to online and video capabilities, they provide opportunities not otherwise available.
"It allows you to use it in different ways," he said. "At one of the schools, we were able to go to a video conference for a meeting and the students watched a college lecture. You can't do that with a book."
They're not likely to replace all of the textbooks there — at least not within the next few years — but they could help the district save money on book costs. A textbook on the iPad costs about $15, while a hardcopy can run more than $75.
Madalyn Quinlan, the Montana Office of Public Instruction's chief of staff, said she's not aware of any other school districts in Montana that provide iPads for all of their students, although the office also does not track such numbers.
However, OPI recently debuted its own educational content on iTunes U, mostly geared toward educators.
"We have encouraged our staff to post information on iTunes U related to information from OPI, especially our initiatives," Quinlan said. "The audience for that isn't only students, but also staff. It's a great opportunity to provide information in an easily retrievable format on particular issues."
Providing the tablet computers to large numbers of students in a district isn't unheard of in the region. In Powell, Wyo., the school district was authorized in June 2011 to spend $977,000 on the purchase of 1,180 of them, one for each middle and high school student and three carts of 30 for each elementary school.
R.J. Kost, the Powell school district's curriculum coordinator, said the district started using the iPads in the schools last fall and, once the staff was able to show the kids "that it's a tool for education and not a toy," that the technology has provided a new way for students to learn interactively.
"Ideally, we want them to be used to increase educational knowledge and increase their ability to achieve in the 21st century," he said. "Not only will the use of the iPad help our students be more literate in the use of computers and access information, but hopefully they'll have a better background overall."
The biggest effort in Powell has been education on Internet etiquette and electronics usage to ensure everybody knows what's appropriate at school and how to be safe online.
Shale plans to open an office in Billings within the next few months and will hire between 25 and 40 people. Tallis said he hopes to set an example for other energy companies coming into the region.
"We're neighbors," he said. "We get involved, we work fair booths, we give our time and give money to charitable organizations. We hope that our actions induce other energy companies to do the same, to make a long-term commitment to the communities."
It'll be a busy spring and summer for the Scobey schools, with efforts to get teachers up to speed on incorporating the tablets in the classroom.
Officials are researching ways that other schools have done so and hope to bring in a professional development team to work with the staff. Selvig said the schools won't have to fix up much of the infrastructure, including high speed wireless Internet.
"It'll be a supplement at the start," he said. "It's going to be interesting to see where this goes. We think it'll excite our students a little more and that was part of the goal."

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Stephen Levy's huge profile of the Amazon Kindle eBook reader in Newsweek may not include an image of the device, but it did give us one clue as to its appearance: it's default font, a serifed face from Linotype, called "Caecilia."
The rest of the article is worth a read if you're into the eBook concept, and outlines the basics of the Kindle program, confirming that the devices will cost $400, have EV-DO radios built-in for over-the-air eBook purchases, and will have at least some sort of PDF support. (The real question, as always, is if the device will also display plaintext files; we'll find out soon, I'm sure.)
Book prices vary, but examples are given from $2 for classics to $10 to just-published works.
The Future of Reading [Newsweek.com]


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· Net profit of SAR948 million (US$253 million) for the three months ended 31 March 2013 - an increase of SAR94 million (US$25 million), or 11.0%, compared with SAR854 million (US$228 million) for the same period in 2012.
· Operating income of SAR1,438 million (US$383 million) for the three months ended 31 March 2013- an increase of SAR203 million (US$54 million), or 16.4%, compared with SAR1,235 million (US$329 million) for the same period in 2012.
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Diane of Philadelphia, writes:
I purchased a Kingsdown plush mattress and experienced 6 months of getting up stiff and very sore every morning. I also found the Kingsdown mattress very warm. I then purchased a Sealy Posturepedic Reserve Ultra Plush. The softness of the mattress was very comfortable. I did not wake up sore in the mornings. On the negative side, I sweated all night. I exchanged the ultra plush mattress for a Sealy Posturepedic Reserve Cushion Firm. I now do not sweat at night but do wake up with sore hips many mornings. The cushioned firm has a comfortable level of softness at the head and foot of the bed and is too hard in the middle. The model I tested in the store did not seem to have this extra firmness in the middle. I am allegeric to latex; have back problems; am primarily a side sleeper; and am about 5'9" and weigh about 180. Any mattress or topper recommendations would be appreciated. Thank you very much.
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Bible Verses About Abounding
Bible verses related to Abounding from the King James Version (KJV) by Relevance
1 Corinthians 15:58 - Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Hebrews 13:8 - Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
1 John 3:5 - And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
2 Peter 3:9 - The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Ephesians 1:22 - And hath put all [things] under his feet, and gave him [to be] the head over all [things] to the church,
1 Corinthians 3:16 - Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Romans 1:16 - For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Matthew 28:19 - Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Leviticus 20:13 - If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them.
Genesis 4:25 - And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, [said she], hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.
Genesis 2:18 - And the LORD God said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Genesis 2:15 - And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
Genesis 1:28 - And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:26 - And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:1-31 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Read More...)
Revelation 3:21 - To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Jude 1:7 - Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
1 John 2:2 - And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] the whole world.
2 Peter 3:10 - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
1 Peter 2:9 - But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
1 Peter 1:17 - And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning [here] in fear:
Hebrews 1:2 - Hath in these last days spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
1 Timothy 5:21 - I charge [thee] before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
Colossians 2:8 - Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Ephesians 5:23 - For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
Ephesians 5:22-25 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. (Read More...)
Ephesians 4:28 - Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with [his] hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Ephesians 4:6 - One God and Father of all, who [is] above all, and through all, and in you all.
Ephesians 1:23 - Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Ephesians 1:22-23 - And hath put all [things] under his feet, and gave him [to be] the head over all [things] to the church, (Read More...)
Ephesians 1:11 - In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Ephesians 1:10 - That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; [even] in him:
Galatians 3:28 - There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 3:27 - For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Galatians 3:26 - For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 1:3 - Grace [be] to you and peace from God the Father, and [from] our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 Corinthians 11:3 - But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:21 - For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
1 Corinthians 15:28 - And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
1 Corinthians 15:24-28 - Then [cometh] the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. (Read More...)
1 Corinthians 15:23 - But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
1 Corinthians 15:1-58 - Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; (Read More...)
1 Corinthians 12:13 - For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:11 - But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
1 Corinthians 6:10 - Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, (Read More...)
1 Corinthians 6:9 - Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1 Corinthians 3:9 - For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's building.
1 Corinthians 2:14 - But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 2:13 - Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Romans 12:2 - And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Romans 12:1 - I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.
Romans 10:12 - For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
Romans 10:9 - That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Romans 8:27 - And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what [is] the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to [the will of] God.
Romans 8:26 - Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Romans 8:11 - But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Romans 8:9 - But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Romans 6:4 - Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:3 - Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Romans 2:11 - For there is no respect of persons with God.
Romans 1:1-32 - Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called [to be] an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (Read More...)
Acts 10:34 - Then Peter opened [his] mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
Acts 8:38 - And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.
Acts 2:38 - Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 2:36 - Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
Acts 2:22 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
John 17:23 - I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
John 17:3 - And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
John 15:26 - But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
John 6:27 - Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
Luke 10:7 - And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
Mark 16:15 - And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Matthew 24:3 - And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what [shall be] the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
Malachi 3:6 - For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Zephaniah 3:17 - The LORD thy God in the midst of thee [is] mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
Joel 2:12-13 - Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye [even] to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning: (Read More...)
Daniel 12:1 - And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation [even] to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
Ezekiel 33:11 - Say unto them, [As] I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
Ezekiel 18:23 - Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: [and] not that he should return from his ways, and live?
Isaiah 66:19 - And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, [to] Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, [to] Tubal, and Javan, [to] the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 - Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Proverbs 31:31 - Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Proverbs 31:15 - She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
Psalms 103:8 - The LORD [is] merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
Joshua 5:13-15 - And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, [Art] thou for us, or for our adversaries? (Read More...)
Leviticus 19:15 - Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: [but] in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Leviticus 18:22 - Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.
Genesis 26:4 - And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
Genesis 20:12 - And yet indeed [she is] my sister; she [is] the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Genesis 19:1-38 - And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing [them] rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; (Read More...)
Genesis 17:5 - Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
Genesis 15:2 - And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house [is] this Eliezer of Damascus?
Genesis 14:18 - And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he [was] the priest of the most high God.
Genesis 9:1 - And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Genesis 6:3 - And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 5:24 - And Enoch walked with God: and he [was] not; for God took him.
Genesis 3:23 - Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Genesis 3:20 - And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
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By Dr. Joey Shulman D.C., RNCP
Autism is classified as a mental disorder that tends to develop mysteriously in toddlers who appear to have a normal infancy. Around the age of 18 months, parents often notice that their child is not reaching various developmental milestones. Sensitivity to touch, failure to make eye contact, frequent temper tantrums and improper speech are all common symptoms associated with autistic disorders. For more information on diagnostic criteria for autism, visit Childhood Illnesses.
Autism affects 5 out of every 10, 000 people in North America. In addition, 15 out of every 10, 000 people are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. Autism affects individuals of all races, cultures and socioeconomic groups. More males than females are affected, with the ratio being 4:1.
Causes of autism are not known. Potential causes appear to include genetics, leaky gut syndrome, food sensitivities, vaccination, exposure to environmental toxins and a difficult pregnancy or labor.


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As Christine Hume describes this short film in her essay, "Some Capacities and Fallacies of Literary Hybridity: A Card Game":
"The scene: French soccer star Zinedine Zidane head butts Italian defender Marco Materazzi after he verbally provokes Zidane during the FIFA World Cup final in 2006. Claudia Rankine's 'Situation One' explores how linguistic agency emerges from this scene of enabling vulnerability. In her video-poem, nine seconds become an unsettling five minutes of examined life, of encounter with the Other, of polity constituting itself through exclusion and effacement."
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Kettlebell Exercise Tip A Kettlebell Seesaw Press is a great exercise for working out your Shoulders and Triceps. Clean two kettlebells two your shoulders. Press one kettlebell. Lower the kettlebell and immediately press the other kettlebell. Make sure to do the same amount of reps on both sides.
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Regression analysis - CurveFitter 1.1
CurveFitter program performs statistical regression analysis to estimate the values of parameters for linear, multivariate, polynomial, exponential and nonlinear functions. The regression analysis determines the values of the parameters that cause the function to best fit the observed data that you provide. This process is also called "curve fitting".
See also: curvefitter, statistical, regression, analysis, parameters, linear, multivariate, polynomial, exponential, nonlinear, function, complex, data, value, curve, fitting, equation, model, polynomial, rational, math, emulator, capability, range, non-linear, graphing, graph, plotting
TransLT 1.2.3
TransLT is an application which offers the following two major functionalities: the calculation of transformation parameters between two coordinates systems and the transformation of coordinates between two coordinates systems. To make it easy to operate with the multitude of existing reference coordinates systems, TransLT contains a module that extracts information from EPSG database.
See also: TopoLT, ProfLT, AutoCAD, ZwCAD 2010, transformation parameters, coordinate system, GPS technology, geodetic work, EPSG database, polynomial transformations, coordinates conversions, map projection, Oblique Stereographic, UTM, Bursa-Wolf, Bonne
Equation Plotter - EqPlot 1.3.8
Graph plotter program plots 2D graphs from complex equations. The application comprises algebraic, trigonometric, hyperbolic and transcendental functions. EqPlot can be used to verify the results of nonlinear regression analysis program. Graphically Review Equations: Up to ten equations could be plotted at the same time, so that intersections and domains could be studied visually.
See also: equation, graphing, graph, plotter, eqplot, nonlinear, formula, algebraic, trigonometric, hyperbolic, transcendental, logarithmic, polynomial, exponential
Taylor Calculator Level 2 184.108.40.206
A handy, fast, reliable, precise tool if you need to find symbolic and numerical Taylor polynomials of standard functions. The calculator calculates partial sums of Taylor series of standard functions (including hyperbolic). Calculation history can be stored into text file or printed. Numerical coefficients and values are calculated with precision 14-16 digits.
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Dec 31, 2012 at 11:00 am
The doghouse is made out of vanilla butter cake with eggnog-flavored buttercream, covered in fondant. Snoopy is RKT covered in fondant and Woodstock is gumpaste.
All credit for the design goes to jenbakescakes. I'm still in the early stages of this hobby, and thus sincerely flattering others by imitation. ;) – from album Christmas


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Sniper Elite V2
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Timedemo or Level Used: Built in Benchmark
Developer Homepage: http://www.rebellion.co.uk/
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Sniper Elite V2 features detailed sniping simulation with advanced ballistics, taking into account gravity, wind, velocity, bullet penetration, aim stability and more. Guaranteed to provide players with the most realistic simulation of military sharpshooting yet available.
Across the board we can see that Sniper Elite V2 performance is ahead of both HD 7790 setups here. More importantly, though, we manage to scrape in a 60 FPS average at 1680 x 1050.


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Does anyone know where I can get the rear height of cut plates & bolts for a Toro Super Recycer 20037. The new kit is #105-1290 . I 'm looking for used since the mower is 12 years old. Thanks |
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Are you referring to the height adjusters? The part that holds the pinion gear parts and the wheel is called the Pivot Arm Assembly and the lever/handle that you adjust the height with is called the Knob Arm. |
Actually, these are just plates that you bolt on next to the height grooves that are built in to the deck. Just spoke with Toro who tells me I am looking for part #43-5050 in a quantity of 2. ( The purpose is to repair the filed down height adjuster grooves in the deck ). |
After market repair add on.. I got you now. ebay and such places have them for around $22.00 a set or $11.00 each. Be hard to find them used due to them being used to repair a deck. Then the deck would have to trashed before someone would remove them. |
Thanks for the tip - will check ebay. |
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This week we pulled out all the stops and invited our good friend and fellow HOTH writer, Jonathan Willis on the show to talk about the great start to the Oilers season. We also touch on some super-important stuff like the James Wisniewski suspension, ugly sweaters (not jerseys), Jeff Finger getting waived and Mike Ribeiro getting drunk in public. Feedback is always encouraged and don't forget to subscribe to the podcast, it's totally free and a good way to kill time on the commuter train while you hate on everyone else.
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October 1, 1999, 12:00 AM
By Mike Sager
He discards curtly, flipping the reject to a spot just left of the tidy pile of newly cracked Bicycles at the center of the round table--one of two decks in service for this high-stakes game of three-man, round-robin gin, delivered with great alacrity by the locker-room boy, who went away with the heady flush of celebrity contact in evidence on his youthful countenance, a goofy, fawning, aw-shucks glaze, a crisp Ben Franklin clutched securely in his hand, the second such windfall of the day, proffered absently by Iron Mike from a fat roll of bills secured with a rubber band, kept in the front right pocket of his expensive slacks amid a treasure trove of special man-toys: a cigar cutter, a butane torch, a silver pocketknife with a plastic toothpick accessory, and a thick felt-tip marking pen used for signing a constant stream of autographs, the most recent of which--"Best Wishes, Mike Ditka"--was scribbled today upon the desiccated flank of a four-inch cigar butt reclaimed from the ground by a fan at a personal appearance three years ago and stored until this momentous occasion in a Ziploc baggie.
Tap-tap-tap goes his heel. That he is here at Olympia Fields for a golf tournament to benefit a Catholic nuns' home for disabled children and adults; that he is biding his time with a friendly game of gin, waiting to address a steak-and-potatoes crowd of well-heeled male contributors; that he is on vacation, in the first days of a golf holiday that will take him and his best buddy, Fred, to stellar courses all across the nation in his newly leased private jet, something he acquired at his wife's urging, in his newfound spirit of can't-take-it-with-you; that he is here to try to relax and have fun during this slim month of downtime between minicamp and preseason training--all of that seems lost at the moment. Ditka in repose. He blows a cloud of acrid blue smoke. Tap-tap-tap goes his heel.
HE PLAYED LIKE CRAP ON THE COURSE TODAY, shot a 95, well above his 7 handicap. Hook, slice, bunker, rough--the confounded ball was all over the confounded course, defying his every attempt at compensation: left of the tee, right of the tee, club face open, club face closed. His nervous, fluttery setup and his odd little hip wiggle and his semi-elliptical swing with its short, muscular hook at the finale--it just wasn't working, it just wasn't his day, a series of solid, steely thwacks followed by the sickening rustle of leaves, and him bolting off in hot pursuit in that dwarfishly absurd electric cart, listing a bit to port under his weight, his left shoe--a bright white buck--extended precariously outside of the vehicle as he drove, as if there weren't a moment to spare, as if the game were somehow predicated upon speed, upon hopping out of the cart before it even stopped to right the mortal wrong of his last bungled shot.
Though Ditka has been known in the past to leave a scorching trail of four-letter words across the manicured fairways of the nation's top courses, this day on the links found him frustrated but largely contained. In October, he will turn sixty. His players and assistant coaches say he's mellowed, gone back to the Catholic Church, gone so far as to order an end to all cursing on the field. His general manager, Bill Kuharich--who was a fourteen-year-old ball boy, son of the coach, when Ditka played tight end for the Philadelphia Eagles--speaks glowingly of Iron Mike, calling him a regular guy with that certain something of a star, a class act who keeps morale high in the front office and on the field. He points to Ditka's weakness for giving to charity; last season alone he bailed out a Special Olympics weight-lifting team that had lost its sponsor, picked up the hotel bills for an entire group of handicapped kids and their chaperones at Disney World, performed countless other unsung acts for the needy.
Ditka's wife of twenty-two years, Diana, is a lighthearted Arkansas pistol with a 15 handicap who once told a reporter from New Orleans Magazine, "If I suck on something, it's not going to be a crawfish." Known affectionately as the Iron Lady, Diana says that her husband is lately feeling his age. "Mike's campaigning for a spot in heaven," she quips. "When men go through the change, they find some kind of inner peace. Mike has definitely changed. I tell him if he doesn't watch out, that halo is gonna slip down and choke him."
Ditka admits that the years are beginning to catch up. Physically, the wear and tear is evident. He walks a bit like a penguin, grimaces audibly when negotiating stairs. A permanently dislocated foot, loose ligaments in the knee, two artificial hips, an arthritic shoulder, a mouthful of replacement teeth. One heart attack, an angioplasty, a procedure last March to shock his heart back into rhythm. His large, square, chiseled face, crowned with its familiar plume of bristly hair, is sunburned a peculiar, florid shade of cherry-red, a side effect of his heart medication. Just yesterday, he sprained his ankle during his predawn three-mile run along the lakefront.
Ditka says he's "started seeing life a little differently. The things that seemed so important when you were young don't seem so important anymore. You start realizing that the greatest gifts you've got are life, health, family, friends, your spiritual beliefs. I feel a lot more secure with myself than I did a couple years ago. I think there were times when I didn't like who the hell I was. I would get mad at myself when I saw film of myself blowing up on the evening news. Not that I'll never blow up again; I probably will. But heck, you know, you gotta try. There's a great saying that says hell comes when the person we are comes face-to-face with the person we ought to be. That's about regrets. And I don't want to live a life of regrets. I want to be the kind of person I should be."
Which doesn't mean, he is quick to add, that Iron Mike has lost his edge. "You can mellow by your actions, but you don't have to lose your drive, you don't have to lose your competitiveness," he says. "Anyone can be the best person they can be. That's the whole key, see? To succeed in life you gotta have three main things. The first is attitude: That's basically the only thing you can control. If you have a bad attitude, you're not gonna do very well when you get a chance. The second is character: what you stand for, what you believe in, knowing right from wrong. And then there's enthusiasm: You have to like what you do. You have to make a commitment to what you're doing. If you don't like something, then heck, don't do it--don't do it! If you settle for defeat, you're gonna be defeated. If you settle for mediocrity, you're gonna be mediocre. If you're gonna play, you gotta play to win."
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These days, fake break-away glass is now typically made from a clear resin, but for low-budget or home fun, you can make your own with just a few simple things.
Step 1: What you need
- 1 C Water
- 1.75 C Sugar
- .5 C Corn Syrup - the clearer the better
- .25 t Cream of Tartar
- Sauce Pot
- Spoon or spatula (I recommend high temp silicone)
- Stove
- Candy or Deep Fry thermometer (needs to go up to 300 degrees accurately)
- Corn Starch
Step 2: Sugar
The glucose and fructose are connected by a single oxygen atom. By applying heat and an acid (cream of tartar), you can break the bond between the saccharides. More on that later.
Sugar is hygroscopic which means that it really likes water. If you've ever left hard candy out in the open on a humid day, you've probably returned to a sticky mess later. Therefore, any sugar glass that you make, you need to use quickly.
In theory, you can make sugar glass with just sugar, water and heat, but it will be very unstable as you make it, and very likely to burn or flash crystalize.
See the following links on Sucrose for more information:
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I made it, works great will hopefully do a video on it soon... Will link to this page seeing as I used your recipe... Thanks!!
Am done :D (http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Make-Fake-100-Edible-Glass-From-Sugar/)
I can confirm that dyeing the glass does work fine, just make sure that it is cooled first to be safe... I added mine at 200F...
I used the Sugar Glass to make an Edible Nest for some Chocolate Eggs XD
From a first timers view... It is pretty tasking...
hrrrrrm time to experiment!
BTW I voted for this with the contest, it's really good! And could you leave a html for the video of it being broken over your head? Or could you get it posted? It'd be pretty sweet!
It's by Jacques Torres.
The Smooth-Sil 940 is food grade, and will handle temperatures up to 450 degrees Farenheit.
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Winona County Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors will hold their regular monthly board meeting at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 12, at the Ag Service Center in Lewiston.
October 13
Natural Living Group meeting October 13, 6:30 p.m. at the Houston Nature Center, Houston, Minn. Topic: Homemade Lotion and Bath Bombs. Contact Tricia 896-4752.
The Whitewater Joint Powers Board will meet on Thursday, October 13, at 8:30 a.m. in the Whitewater State Park Visitors Center, 19041 Hwy 74, Altura.
The Hiawatha Valley Civil War Round Table will hold a joint meeting with the Winona County Historical Society on Thursday, October 13, at 7:00 p.m. at the Winona County History Center, 160 Johnson Street, Winona. Our star will be Patrick Falci of New York, who previously appeared before us as he portrayed the role of Civil War General Jeb Stuart. This time he will be describing many of the humorous and interesting events surrounding the making of the movie Gettysburg, in which he played a prominent part.
October 15
The Minnesota City Historical Association will meet Saturday, October 15, at the First Baptist Church, 140 Mill Street, Minnesota City. The meeting begins at 9:30 a.m. and is open to the public. The agenda includes the final preparations for the presentation that will be given Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. at the First Baptist Church by Gordon Fredrickson. The web page is being regularly updated. Check it out at www.minnesotacity.org.
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The Winona Shrine Auxiliary will meet October 17, at Westfield. The menu will be beef tips over noodles, green beans, salad and dessert. Collection of 2012 dues will be held this month. For reservations call Connie Wood at 454-1781.


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TaxProf: "The Tax Court yesterday denied a New York tax lawyer's claimed $100,000+ medical expense deduction for the costs of prostitutes and pornographic material." Earlier here. More: Gothamist last year on related state-tax enforcement action ("The state auditor also argued that 'in addition to being illegal in New York State, these expenses are not substantiated with receipts.'"
Tax Court: NYC lawyer can't deduct $100K+ for sex "therapy"
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"But, Your Honor, I got my tax advice from ACORN!"
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If he had been in congress, he wouldn't have to pay ANY taxes, and the prostitutes would have been paid for by taxpayers. That's what our politicians are best at.
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2x-run-time Baby Hack (Version-2)
This is a nicer way of doubling the run time of the DiNotte light. After seeing my first hack Paul P., fellow Randon (Google Groups) member emailed me with his idea. I like it better, so I built it, here it is:
Use 3 9V Snap Connectors (Radio Shack Catalog #: 270-324)
1- Slide the 2 small diameter Heat Shrink tubes then a larger diameter over them.
2- Connect 2 Red to one black cables
3- Connect the other 2 Black cables to the remaining Red cable.
Note: You can buy the extra battery holder just like the one that come with the Dinotte light at Radio Shack. (Catalog # : 270-383)
Click the "Next" link above the photo to go to the next instruction.
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Sarah Palin knows a job opportunity when she sees one, whether that's a place on a ticket as Vice Presidential candidate or space next to Whoopi Goldberg around a talk show table.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter about the pickup of the second season of her Amazing America with Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor said she doesn't really approve of doing a political talk show, largely because today's politics are "incorrigibly disastrous." But, she said, "I hear everyone recently got canned from The View, maybe a show like that needs a punch of reality and a voice of reason from America's heartland to knock some humble sense into their scripts. You know, someone willing to go rogue."


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Watson returns to 221B for the first time in a couple years. Mrs. Hudson is quite peeved at him and understandably so -- he hasn't called or written. It's pretty heartless of our warm humane Watson. "It just got harder and harder to pick up the phone, somehow." She reveals she couldn't bring herself to rent out the flat, which is probably the toughest thing in this episode to buy given the going cost of a two bedroom in Central London.
Watson reveals he's getting married, and there's an exchange where Mrs. Hudson thinks he and Sherlock were gay. It's amusing, but this is one running gag on the show that should probably be retired. It's one thing for strangers to mistake them their relationship, but it's odd to have Hudson not knowing better.
And now ... as much as we've wanted to know how Sherlock survived his fall, this is the real scene we've wanted to see -- the reunion. It's written and played brilliantly. Like Doyle's original short story upon which this episode is very loosely based, Sherlock opts to appear in a disguise, here cleverly snatching items as he strolls through a fancy restaurant to look like a snooty waiter. We're treated to some playful banter between a clueless Watson searching the wine list and Sherlock making recommendations. "Well, surprise me," Watson says. "I'm certainly endeavoring to, sir," Sherlock replies.
Enter Watson's significant other Mary, played by Martin's real-life partner and Mr. Selfridge star Amanda Abbington. The casting smacked of such nepotism that I had a tough time being excited by it, but she's perfectly charming in the role.
Watson is going to propose, which makes this scene all the better. She knows what's coming. He fumbles, Watson-like, through the question. Disguised-Sherlock returns with the wine, hinting, hinting...
Watson finally sees him. Really sees him. His expression is ... hard ... and difficult, at first, to read. It's complex, and not easy to peg one emotion on it. As Sherlock continues going through his prank, Mary gives voice to the moment. "You died! You jumped off the roof!" Sherlock says, "The short version: not dead."
Then Watson's synaptic storm appears to congeal into one clear one emotion: rage. Sherlock rubs off his mustache and teases Watson, "Does yours rub off too?"
And Watson rightfully attack him! Cut to another, cheaper, diner. "How could you do that?" Watson asks -- which is perfect. Not everybody's question, of how DID you do that, but how COULD you do that.
Frustratingly, Sherlock doesn't explain the obvious reason for his ruse that we all know about and that would make Watson feel better -- that he was protecting his loved ones from Moriarty's network. Screenwriters often have characters omit such information to add more drama, but it's annoying. When Sherlock reveals that both Molly and some of his homeless network were in on the gag, Watson attacks again.
Outside, Sherlock once again mocks the mustache. It's really bugging Sherlock because as he pointed out, it makes him (Sherlock) look bad by association. "Mary likes it," Watson says, which Sherlock points out isn't true. Watson: "Oh brilliant! This is charming. I've really missed this." And so have we. With that line, we feel like the duo are really back together, at least for the moment.
Mary tells Sherlock she'll talk Watson around to forgiving him, which surprises Sherlock (and us). He sizes her up and discovers she's a Size 12 cat lover, among other things.
With that reunion done, we see Sherlock reunite with a few other old friends. Saying hello to Molly, scaring the bejesus out of Hudson. And Lestrade recognizes him at merely the sound of his voice and gives him a big hug -- awww.
Finally, we get what happened on the roof. The real story -- we think? A dummy with a Sherlock mask goes over the edge. Sherlock and a very much alive Moriarty sit on the roof and snicker to each other, then turn sober. They lean in to kiss--- whaaa?
Another feint! Drat. More Sherlock fan-fic inspired tales from conspiracy theorists. Anderson has a Sherlock club dubbed "The Empty Hearse" debating various ways he could have survived. They see a great headline on the telly: "Hat Detective Alive."
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I would like to keep you updated on what's going here, while I'm installing gentoo on a DS25... Booting from CD-ROM does not work at all. A colleague installed a redhat 7.2 on it and I could boot it, then installing gentoo on another HD, chrooting in it and all the common stuff in the procedure. Since I have no network connectivity I downloaded all the files needed on a CD-RW. It should be added that, once the installation is complete, I could not run 'emerge' because an error in python (not able to load libgcc_s.so.1). I had to download python2.3, compile it into the redhat system and copy into the chrooted gentoo environment. I was quite confident that gentoo would boot, but from the SRM environment the DS25 freezes while trying to load the gentoo kernel... Now I'm trying to move the redhat kernel into the /boot partition of gentoo but I'm getting errors like: Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02 or Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel Actually I got the second error first, I tried to rebuild a initrd and then I got the second error... I have one more doubt: how the /etc/fstab would figure? I mean, looking at the gentoo handbook I see a *traditional* fstab, like /dev/sda2 / ext2 etc. but the redhat fstab is slightly different, meaning that the first entry is not the device but something like LABEL=/ / ext2 etc. Any hint on this? Thanks again Davide -- firstname.lastname@example.com mailing list
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Evans, David J. and Megson, Graham M. (1987) Construction of extrapolation tables by systolic arrays for solving ordinary differential equations. Parallel Computing, 4 (1). pp. 33-48. ISSN 0167-8191
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We consider here the systolic array constuction of extrapolation tables us sed in the solution of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE's) associated with initial value type problems. The technique is examined first for a low order formula, i.e. Euler's method which is combined with extrapolation to improve the estimates of the solution. We also show how this is extended to the Bulirsch and Stoer algorithm and hence a generic form can be given to systolic arrays for the construction of extrapolation tables.
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CAIRO - Rejecting their hate message, a huge number of anti-racist activists have rallied against members of a Swedish anti-Muslim nationalist group, sparking clashes in the southern Sweden city of Malmö, The Local reported on Sunday, March 24.
"There were angry skirmishes after the anti-racists marched from Möllevångstorget square to the Stortorget square around noon, a lot of people seemed ready for a fight," said The Local's Patrick Reilly from the scene.
"They were pushing over barricades, setting off flares and some threw bottles, and went up against the police," he said.
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"There was also the odd snowball tossed at police."
Racist anti-Muslim group Swedish Defence League (SDL) had called for a rally in Malmö on Saturday.
News reports said only about 20 SDL members were present.
The SDL were waving a Swedish flag on their way to the square and gave the counter-demonstrators the finger, Reilly said.
Rejecting their message, more 600 counter-demonstrators showed up, the news agency TT reported.
Some demonstrators used a Eurovision awning on the square to beat out a rhythm, chanting "No racist on our streets".
One banner hoisted above the march read "No Breivik Soldiers on our streets," according to the TT news agency.
The SDL is a sister group of the anti-Muslim English Defense League (EDL) and was set up in 2012.
In August 2012, SDL invited the EDL to Sweden for anti-Islam rally.
The EDL was cited in the writings of Norwegian terrorist Anders Breving Breivik. He himself claimed he had "close ties" to the EDL and he had 600 EDL members as Facebook friends.
Muslims make up some 200,000 of the country's 9.5 million population, according to semi-official estimates.
But leaders of the Muslim minority put the number at 400,000.
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Trying to defuse clashes, mounted police, police dogs and helicopters were part of the security measures.
"The police said they were prepared because there was a lot of talk on Facebook and Twitter before hand," Reilly said.
The rally was called off as counter demonstrators clashed with mounted police.
Across Europe, far-right politicians have accelerated their rhetoric against Muslim minorities in recent years.
In Britain, far-right groups like the English Defence League and the British National Party are playing the card of immigration to stoke sentiment against Muslims and immigrants.
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In the Netherlands, far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders called for banning the Muslim face-veil in the Netherlands and stopping immigration from Muslim countries.
In Sweden, the far-right Sweden Democrats unveiled plans to impose a moratorium on building new mosques in the Scandinavian country.
New groups were also appearing in Denmark after English Defence League leader Stephen Yaxley-Lennon held the inaugural meeting of a Europe-wide network of defense leagues in Oslo two weeks ago.
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US neo-conservative and evangelical groups were also beginning to share resources with the leagues as images of EDL demonstrations were already used at Tea Party movement fundraising.
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Here's a little info about my life and my passions. First, my name is Shemane. There's no "r". It comes from the movie "El Cid" with Charlton Heston (check out his book comment to me!), and Sophia Loren. My parents got creative and named me after Sophia Loren's character, which is spelled much differently in the movie.
Michigan is my home state. I grew up in an average Midwest town. We had a river in our backyard, and my brother, Guy, and I swam pretty much every day in the summer. At the time, he probably hated it but I wanted to do everything he did. So, I climbed trees, raced motorcycles, and swam competitively. Compared to my big brother, I was just "okay", but I won over one hundred medals, ribbons and trophies for athletics and was a state champion swimmer twice.
Continuing the athletic saga in high school and college, I became a gymnast and a cheerleader. Like many, I packed on the Freshmen Fifteen (pounds) and then worked out til I lost it. Just about that time, "aerobics" became the new exercise craze. Yes, I was a proud owner of leg warmers and a thong leotard. Somewhere, there is a video of me teaching probably one of the first group exercise classes on cable TV ever! The big hairstyle alone will scare you!
My college degree was in Radio, TV and film. My first job was as a newscaster for college radio, then as sports reporter for COX cable in Gainesville, Florida, covering the Gatornationals. Little known fact: For my senior class project we had to make music videos. At the time, there was also a contest on MTV to make Madonna's video. I decided to do both. Out of thousands of entries, my video was one chosen to air on MTV (3 times! Not that I counted). My professor, who was typically tough (especially on women) gave me an "A."
Upon graduation, I got a job as a radio traffic reporter for a rock 'n roll radio station in Detroit. The only thing my brother and I didn't have in common was that I didn't really like rock 'n roll music. Whereas, he's been wearing concert t-shirts for forty years.
Only a month after I started working as a traffic reporter, with my desk nestled next to that of author Mitch Albom, Ted filled in for the morning crew for an entire week. On radio, your job is to talk – a lot. For four hours a day, I got to know Ted Nugent. He was funny, witty, didn't drink or smoke and seemed to be a doting dad to daughter Sasha and son Toby. Still, Ted asked me out and I said no. My boss asked me to reconsider, and always the team player, I complied.
Ted and I first met on October 3, 1988. We were engaged at our radio station's Christmas party a few months later, and married January 21, 1989.
My dreams of becoming the next Diane Sawyer were crushed, but I utilized my skills filming Ted's hunts long before outdoor shows were prevalent. For two decades, we have co-hosted and co-produced the award-winning television show "Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild", now on the Outdoor Channel.
Our son, Rocco, was born on July 22, 1990. He is the pride and joy of my life. Being a mother has been the most gratifying thing in my life, by far.
But the road to happiness is often filled with potholes.
Ted and I have had some pretty substantial obstacles to tackle. In my book "Married to a Rock Star," I chronicle some of the trials and tribulations we've endured. It hasn't been easy. No marriage is. And like other marriages, I don't always agree with everything my husband says or does. But I'm learning to find my voice, which is a pretty big deal for me.
The emotional challenges were minimal, however, compared to losing our health.
We discovered our MTV Cribs home was contaminated with toxic mold in between the walls. Over a course of two years, my health deteriorated. Debilitating migraines plagued me daily, as did chronic fatigue and insomnia. Ted and Rocco had similar symptoms too. Doctors told us our problems were stress related, which seemed quite possible. There was something more though. My investigative skills finally paid off…a little too late. Ted and I had four different types of mold in our blood stream. Rocco had severe asthma and I was diagnosed with having pre-emphysema. We destroyed our home and moved to Texas where I could be near a medical facility that dealt with toxic exposures.
It was a year before I could even consider exercising. I discovered Zumba fitness it changed my life immensely. I regained my strength and stamina and found a workout that was both fun and effective. It came along at the perfect time, too. Rocco graduated high school and left home to pursue his dreams. It filled my heart with so much joy to spread my love for fitness and health with so many others. I have been blessed to be able to develop programs for Zumba and travel the world doing what I love.
Never a dull moment, my mother always says. I have trouble with finding a novel that's more exciting than my life. Oh yes, and that's another activity I enjoy….writing. Writing takes me away from some of the trying times. My imagination is vivid and endless. I've written three screenplays, one of which has been optioned by my son's production company. And there's nothing more I'd rather do than spend time with my son.


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CAIRO - Familiarizing with the fifth pillar of Islam, American students are stimulating the spiritual journey of hajj, performing the rituals millions of pilgrims are engaged in the holy lands.
"Most of these kids are too young to fully understand the significance of what they're doing, Souheil Zekri, principal of the American Youth Academy, told Tampa Bay Times.
But we try to get them into a rhythm.
"Islam is all about finding a rhythm. It's the rhythm of life."
Singing together and holding hands, children as young as two have joined together to stimulate the rituals of hajj, which started on Wednesday, October 24.
Some students climb into a tent to demonstrate how pilgrims stay in the tent city of Mina as the start of hajj.
Then they move to Mount Arafat, which marks the climax of the ritual.
Afterwards, students collect stones to perform the symbolic stoning of the devil as the pilgrims do.
Students, who have performed the hajj simulation before, whispered excitedly as they scrambled for pebbles.
This is the fifth year the academy organized the hajj stimulation to familiarize students with the rite.
Muslims from around the world pour to Makkah every year to perform hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam.
Hajj consists of several ceremonies, which are meant to symbolize the essential concepts of the Islamic faith, and to commemorate the trials of Prophet Abraham and his family.
Every able-bodied adult Muslim who can financially afford the trip must perform hajj at least once in a lifetime.
Child Pilgrims
Fatima Khan is watching her son Adil as he is performing the ritual.
"It's quite the change for him," she told Tampa Bay Times.
"He doesn't speak a word of Arabic."
Khan believes that the stimulation will help teach her son about his religion.
"We wanted him to learn some basic religion," said Khan, a dentist who works in the area.
"I don't know if it's because we have two children now and work full time, but it's become so much harder to teach them at home."
Shahira Saad, 25, can't stop her tears from rolling down her checks as she watches her children perform the ritual.
"He's been singing the songs all week," said Saad, pinning a white towel across the chest of her son, Abdelrahman Yasin, 5.
"I can't help getting all emotional."
Five-year-old Jude Sullaiman is very excited about drinking the holy water of Zamzam during hajj stimulation.
The water, poured out in colorful plastic cups, tastes "sweet, like strawberries," she said.
Many attending parents hope that their children will before the ritual in reality one day.
"I hope someday she will have the desire to go and do it for real," said Soloman Tamari of his daughter Zain, 5."This teaches her early to appreciate the hajj, to have a good, clean heart."
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August 17th, 2010Heavy Rains slow down search efforts at Pakistan crash site
July 31st, 2010Heavy monsoon rain is creating havoc in Pakistan killing more than 400 people until now and destroying property, infrastructure worth millions. In the meantime, the worst is being experienced at the Pakistan plane crash site near Islamabad, where consistent rain and fog are hampering recovery efforts.
The Airbus A321, belonging to Airblue, a private Pakistani airline, crashed into the Margala hills on Wednesday killing all 146 passengers and six crew members aboard. Heavy fog and rains are predicted to be the most probable reasons for the crash, one of the most damaging incidents creating a dent in Pakistan's aviation history.
The majority of the bodies have been recovered and rescue efforts were in full force at the crash site, struggling to salvage remains and any evidence that could provide a hint to the incident. However, operations have been abandoned due to continuous showers, preventing rescue workers from arriving at the crash site. Furthermore, helicopters are unable to fly within the area due to thick fog and low clouds.
Meanwhile, some 105 mutilated bodies' identification process is in progress and so far 50 identified remains have been handed over to relatives. The mutilation has made it hard to recognize the victims and a special testing centre has been set up in Islamabad to test the DNA of the bodies.
A probe into the Margalla crash has started on Thursday by a seven-member team of the Pakistan's Civil Aviation Authority, headed by Junaid Ameen.
Its official: Bournemouth Air Festival confirmed for August 19
July 21st, 2010How would you typically like to spend the school holidays with your friends and family? An outing or a trip to an entertaining place with your loved ones is usually an attractive option. I guess, a stopover to the 'Bournemouth Air Festival' would surely guarantee an enjoyable experience for the young ones as well as the adults. Read the rest of this entry »
Solar powered plane completes 26-hour flight successfully
July 8th, 2010A solar powered plane designed to fly round-the-clock without traditional fuels has completed its 26-hour flight after flying continuously through the night. Read the rest of this entry »
Google to buy ITA software
July 2nd, 2010Google has bought the Massachusetts-based ITA software firm for $700m (£460m) to make it convenient for users to search for specific flight information on its highly-dominant search engine. Google might have described its intention as "pro-competitive" and "pro-consumer", but it has expectantly shook up online booking agencies. Read the rest of this entry »
Dubai opens second airport
June 30th, 2010Dubai officially opened its second Al Maktoum International Airport on Sunday for cargo operations. Previously known as Jebel Ali International Airport, it is the emirates second airport and supposed to become the world's largest. Read the rest of this entry »
June 16th, 2010Journeys today are not so easy; but neither was it in the past. Gone are the days when people used to depend on modes of transportation like waterways and roadways. In the present day, travel has seen a remarkable change, where the medium of air travel has overtaken all other alternative modes of transport for the simple reason that it saves time. Read the rest of this entry »
Airport Lounges (Clubs)
June 7th, 2010Delays in flights, security checks, and arriving too early for check-in are all part and parcel of airline travel. Despite travelers understanding the existence of such and many more unwanted factors in airline travel, it is no wonder they play chaos in executives' professional lives. Read the rest of this entry »