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It really frustrates me when i look at the used gun listings. Half the handguns I see listed are priced higher than my local store's new price. Does anybody really think it benefits us as gun owners if we wring the last dollar in profit off a gun sale. Why would anyone want to buy a gun in a possibly unsafe environment for more than a retail store. I think the answer is obvious. I don't want any of us to face the business end of one of my sold guns just because I was more interested in a few more dollars profit than the proper vetting of a buyer.
I will never sell a gun to to a private owner unless they have a chl or do an ffl transaction. A drivers license is just not enough.
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The loss of more than 12,000 jobs, dulling the momentum seen earlier this year, was the largest decline in five years.
Minnesota's volatile employment market turned in another set of surprising numbers Tuesday, with a hefty loss in jobs for September coming two months after a robust gain.
The loss of 12,700 jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis for September was the largest single-month decline since April 2001 and the third-largest monthly loss since the state began compiling unemployment figures in 1950.
The jobless rate rose, meanwhile, from 3.7 percent to 3.8 percent in September -- driven mainly by an increase of 11,300 in the state's labor force, the largest increase this year.
After factoring in the numbers, state government and businesses have added 57,100 jobs over the past 12 months. That's down from the yearly total of more than 79,000 touted at an August news conference by Gov. Tim Pawlenty after the July numbers came out.
Pawlenty's opponents in next month's election, DFL Attorney General Mike Hatch and Independence Party candidate Peter Hutchinson, didn't pin the bad numbers in September on the governor. At the same time, they said it was wrong for Pawlenty to claim credit for the rosier job numbers reported in the summer.
"It is a concern though," said Hatch of the September job loss. "I hope it's an anomaly and not a trend."
Pawlenty campaign spokeman Brian McClung said it's important to note that the state has added jobs in 13 of the past 15 months and that its job creation rate for the past year stands at 2.1 percent, compared with a 1.3 percent rate nationwide.
Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development officials warned against drawing conclusions about the overall employment picture based on a single month, adding that the September numbers could be revised next month. In a conference call with reporters, the department's acting commissioner, Ward Einess, said it's not unusual to see a pause in job growth after a period of strong increases.
Einess said the government, education, health services and manufacturing sectors all lost jobs in September. Most of the government sector losses were in education, where smaller-than-normal layoffs in June translated to smaller-than-usual job gains in September.
Einess said there was no clear explanation for the losses in education and health services. Manufacturing job losses were attributable largely to layoffs at the Ford plant in St. Paul, he said.
Sectors with job growth in September included professional and business services, financial activities, and certain services. Construction employment remained steady with gains in highway and commercial activity offsetting declines in residential construction.

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I've been enjoying your plethora of knowledge for some time now. Sadly, the first thing I wat to post is about my mugo (I guess) pine. Early August, when I put it in the ground it had beatifull yellow-green colors and very dense foliage. By the end of september, the older needles started to go more green and eventually brown, especially at the tips. Since then more needles have gone brown and it has lost many of them. This is more obvious on the north side of the tree. I've uploaded some images on my site (which is irrelevant to conifers :-) ) but please see them for any insight to what is the cause. I couldn't bring the images down to 60kb and still be viewable so I posted them there.
Also an identification of the cultivar would be great.
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Here's your links made clickable . . . August: It's actually a cultivar of Eastern White Pine Pinus strobus. The brown needles are old ones that are dying off naturally ďż˝" EWP only has fairly short needle retention, compared to most pines. It is perfectly healthy. Resin |
Eden so, I'd check the rootball for moisture status. New plantings can run short of water, thus exaggerating the "normal" needle loss simply because it's not yet rooted into the surrounding soil. |
Thank you very much guys. I thought it was pine strobus short after I posted, when I saw Dax's post where he has one Pinus strobus UCONN Gold seedling that looks a lot like mine. I will also make one or two deep waterings around the rootball to be sure. Best regards, Fotis |
- Posted by gardener365 IL 5b/6a (My Page) on Tue, Oct 12, 10 at 8:43
Hi Fotis, Don't, however, start watering any Pinus strobus on a regular basis. They do not like copious water and do like being on the dry side. You plant is a graft and would have been grafted also too, to a Pinus strobus (seedling). What you do have is a grafted-cultivar, and not a seedling. Hope that clears some things up, fer ya. And yes, of course, what you see is only natural, needle-shed. One more tip: clean out the dead needles with your hands. Dwarf conifers (particularly pines) build up needles in the inner of the plant and if not maintained, these extra needles can choke/kill a plant. The same applies to needle-build-up under a plant. 3" of pine needles is great and is free mulch. 6" (you wouldn't even know it's there if I hadn't told you...) will choke a conifer, too. Future Regards, Dax |
Thank you Dax, I'm just new (and passionate) in conifer collection. I have planted some conifer species' cultivars and I have several more on order, so I try to build up knowledge in aftercare like you guys. Although it's hard to find some exciting cultivars in Europe it still is so amazing and addicting! I will remove dead needles by hand and use them to add to the mulch I've set for my other trees. Can you please tell me how you post more than 60kb images, because later in october I might "feel" the need to post a gallery of my young trees... Best regards, |
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This is a draft for the VZ elections (which take place Sunday.) I will
send in budget and add in a section at the top when we see the results,
but wanted to focus the election piece more on the PSUV's plan to
strengthen its political grip through these communal councils as a way of
compensating for potential electoral losses. Thank you to Reggie for all
the help in research.
With violent crime and economic insecurity on the rise in Venezuela and
threatening to undercut the popularity of the ruling party, Chavez and his
allies have been prepared an elaborate, localized system to help insulate
the regime from potential election losses.
The system concentrates power in the hands of local communal councils. By
empowering these councils, which are largely comprised of members loyal to
Chavez, the regime has a more effective means of undermining the clout of
state and city governors who could pose a threat to the ruling party.
The concept of the councils was born early on in Chaveza**s presidency in
1999 when a new constitution was drafted. Their creation was intended to
counter the power of the pre-existing planning councils They weren't a
counter, they were intended as an avenue for popular decision-making
alongside the councils, kind of as a complement to them. This was before
the idea of staffing the councils with PSUV folks really came into its
own. The councils were a part of communal participatory laws but weren't
quite yet the dominant local gov't force they are now , consisting of
local mayors and council members. Though the 2005 Public Municipal Power
Law affirmed that communal councils remained subservient to planning
councils, the president had begun pushing more aggressively for more
participation at the local level through communal councils. After the
opposition boycotted 2005 parliamentary elections, Chavez used his
expanded clout in parliament to pass a law in April 2006 that severed
communal council links to both the planning councils and municipal
authorities. The law also created the Presidential Commission for Popular
Power to establish a direct link between the executive branch and the
communal councils. With a direct link, the president could effectively cut
out problematic mayors and governors from decisions on local development
projects. As a result, a vote for a hospital upgrade or road construction
would theoretically fall to the PSUV as opposed to a rival political
party. The more Venezuelans that depended on the president for their
everyday needs, the more loyalty could be enforced.
By March 2008, 26,143 communal councils had spread across the country and
10,669 were in the process of being formed. Nearly a decade after the
communal councils were created, the government claims to have formed
30,935 of these councils. The PSUV is now prepared for the next step in
empowering the communal councils through a package of five laws, dubbed
the a**People Powera** Popular Power would probably be a better
translation of this legislation.
A key component of the legislation is a shift in how state funding will be
distributed. Under the new law, the communal councils would receive funds
directly from the executive branch through a newly-created National
Communal Council Fund (supplied by VAT and surplus oil revenue.)Whereas
before the government would distribute 42 percent of funds to the state,
20 percent to municipal governments and 30 percent to local communal
councils, the new plan calls for states to receive 30 percent of funds,
municipal governments 20 percent and communal councils the remaining 50
percent. With a cut in funding for state and municipal governments, the
new law will thus make it much more difficult for opposition members to
penetrate traditional PSUV strongholds in Venezuelan slums with
development programs of their own. The Venezuelan government announced in
September that it had transferred another $1.2 billion bolivares to the
communal councils this year for the execution of 9,512 projects.
One of the most controversial bills I don't know about the most
controversial, the communes law was pretty much the one that inspired the
most opposition comments and attacks. I'll concede that the arms law was
right behind it, though in this package of legislation is one that gives
the national government the sole authority to issue weapons licenses and
import and sell firearms. The law also bans the use of firearms in public
places. In the near future, the government is expected to conduct a
national survey of weapons and will confiscate any that are deemed
illegal. Ostensibly, this law is intended to reduce violent crime in
Venezuela. In reality, this legislation will be difficult to enforce, but
it will work toward the statea**s aim of keeping the bulk of weaponry in
Venezuela in the hands of security organizations a** like the expanding
National Bolivarian Militia a** whose loyalties are tied to the president.
The law has also spread concerns among corporate security directors
operating in the country who will now likely have additional layers of
bureaucracy to cut through in trying to acquire firearms and who already
face a looming threat of the government nationalizing private security
firms (link.)
The Venezuelan government is also using the Peoplea**s Power legislation
to try and rein a number of money laundering rackets that have debilitated
key state sectors, including energy, electricity, food and metals I don't
know if that's a specific aim of this. The idea of presenting the national
rackets in connection with these makes it seem like there's a big
overarching conspiracy rather than a whole bunch of little corrupt
schemes. Eliminating the local level corruption and the food
hoarding/speculation might be a more logical plan behind the communal
currency law. The Organic Law for the Promotion and Development of the
Community Economic System introduces a new system that avoids the exchange
of local currency at the local level. Instead, it will encourage a
bartering system for communal councils to exchange food. For exchanges of
non-equal value, the communal councils are to create their own currencies
(independent of the bolivar) to buy and sell food. The idea behind this
legislation is to cut out speculators in the food trade by avoiding the
exchange of bolivares at the local level. However, this proposal is more
likely to exacerbate Venezuelaa**s corruption troubles than resolve them.
Generally speaking, the more layers added to an already complex
bureaucratic system, the more avenues are created for corrupt transactions
to take place. Venezuela already operates under a complicated
two-two-tiered currency exchange regime that differentiates between
essential and non-essential foods a** a system that state sector managers
have exploited in an elaborate money laundering scheme that is now
contributing to the countrya**s widespread electricity outages, food
wastage and declining economic production overall. Even if food is
exchanged in communal council currency at the local level, it will still
have to eventually be transacted into bolivars at higher levels of the
government. It is within these higher levels of various government
institutions where the potential for corruption is highest.
From project funding to weapons licensing to food distribution,
Venezuelaa**s communal councils are being granted significant governmental
authority. Though Chavez and his allies will benefit from a widespread
network of loyal governing councils with direct links to the executive
branch, the quality of governance provided by these councils remains in
question. Communal council leaders are elected by their local councils and
the qualifications for membership appear to depend much more on loyalty to
the ruling party than on education level, skill or experience. Supporters
of the system will claim that power is better managed by the people than
by a coterie of corrupt bureaucrats, but Venezuelaa**s state sectors are
already staggering due in no small part to unskilled management and
distorted funding schemes. This is especially true for critical state
entities such as PdVSA, where a debate has been brewing between so-called
hardline Chavistas pushing for tightened control over each sector and more
moderate Chavistas who are stressing the need for technocratic skill to
revive oil production and keep state revenues flowing is this obtained
from insight? I haven't really seen a technocrat vs hardliner debate, but
maybe that's just not prevalent in OS. This is a debate that is far from
resolved, but the priority of the Venezuelan regime moving forward remains
that of political control.


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I vote for some type of cavendish. |
- Posted by gardenguy_ z6b PA (My Page) on Mon, Sep 11, 06 at 23:30
Ditto here as well. |
I agree with them. And if it's a cavendish, you can store it in the basement or garage as long as it doesn't freeze. But if those pups are small, you will have to keep them going in whatever window space you have because they wouldn't be big enough to store. |
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Ceasar salad like Pizzafari?
Weird question, I know, but does anyone know of places outside the parks that have ceasar salads like they do at Pizzafari? :rotfl: I know they have the same salad on the buffet at Cape May, but I was looking for some place a little less expensive. Thanks!
Anyone? :confused3
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Lavinia is a character in the morbid Shakespeare play Titus Andronicus (obv. set in Roman times) who is raped, and to prevent her from notifying authorities of her assailants, they cut off her tongue and hands.
She was given a broomstick to write the assailants' names in sand.
Heck, that wasn't even real; Stephen Hawking talks mostly with eye movements.
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The Writing on the Wall CH20The light grew fast, but thankfully that was because Demetrius had helped me to stand and started walking toward it, taking long strides. He seemed excited to have a goal. Or perhaps that was just me. He could have been embarrassed by his faux pas and wanting to leave it behind, as if it were a physical landmark.It would have been easier to convince myself of that if he had shown at least a bit of remorse over what he'd done, but that was not something to dwell on. He would never make sense to me, I decided, and that was that.All thoughts of this nature dribbled out of my head like beads of wax down the sides of a distressed candlestick when we had come close enough to the light to discern its nature. It was a cavern, carved out of the rock by deliberate hands.I let go of Demetrius, pulling my arm away from his shoulders, and walked over to one of the walls. Placing my hand on the rock, I rubbed my fingers over it.
The Writing on the Wall CH19"That's impossible."It didn't matter who said it, I wasn't listening terribly closely. All of my attention was on the Hollow Child and its lack of teeth. Hollow Man cried out somewhere. Like a caged animal. "Being used by..." That was the question they should have been asking. Who was using him?Or perhaps I should have been asking myself why I cared. The other person inside me twitched, and I fell to my knees, retching. Oh, Dr Cordet, thank you so very much. Focusing or thinking, whatever it was she had told me to do, had not just woken up some connection. Nor a magnet pull either.Someone held my hair back out of my face while everyone else kept their shoes clear of my breakfast. I coughed and wiped my mouth on the back of my hand. The Hollow Child flickered in and out of my vision now, as if whatever had made it so hard to shake had gone out of me with
The Writing on the Wall CH18Out in the natural light of the world, I had to cock a grin. It was like going to another country, but as another person. I was a licensed sigil artist--a courier had brought the license with a dry letter from the king, both of which were in my modest rucksack.The sheer rush of it, of being outside and official, were enough to flood my emotions. I could obscure from myself the fact that we were already leaving the outside in favour of a dank cave where the walls dripped and the king's men had insisted we would find the Hollow Man.At the head of our meagre party, Soterios and Demetrius walked like soldiers. Soterios, rather less so. Although he didn't look foolish with a sword bouncing against one hip as he walked, the pistol on his other side made for a funny contrast. I couldn't say why. He followed a step behind Demetrius, who had geared himself up to look exactly the way he had when I'd first met him.
The Writing on the Wall CH17To know a thing, my mum had used to say, was to no longer know any fear of it. This had once seemed to me to be the most abject of wisdoms, comparing it to the monsters I knew. The things that rattled and bumped in the night. The fears I knew.What the Hollow Man did to his victims scared me no less when I had finished the log than it had before. This might have seemed unfair to me had I taken a moment to try and soothe my mind with something so comforting as simple irritation.I didn't want to talk about it to anyone. They didn't ask, even after I had shut Ser Naderry's dusty old book and covered my eyes. He had been a good writer, in his own plodding way. Not like a writer of tales, but as a record keeper. He did not leave anything to the imagination. I could almost be grateful. My imagination was a bit too skilled in filling in gaps with horrible things.The states of the Ho
A Cuckoo Sings Inside Me CH3He looked at her the same way that the rest of them had. Trying not to screw up her face and say something privately unpleasant, Eleuin let her eyes drift about. She could not quite explain why this young person had given her the faint glimmer of hope he had. Possibly it was that he was even dirtier than the people she saw day to day.Or it was because he was such a vivid piece of the world outside the window. It was not likely that he was the brown-cloaked man she had seen that afternoon, but she had been told that beggars all wore one like it. Eleuin tended to remember what she was told.They sat there in uncomfortable silence for what seemed like hours to her, but may have only been a handful of seconds. Time passed so abominably slow on this planet.Finally, she broke down and spoke again. He had been spending the interim inching away from her, like a worm retreating a dry spell. "It's true," she insisted.
A Cuckoo Sings Inside Me CH2When an insect sees a weaker insect, all it sees is another bug. When a cousin sees a cousin of lower caste, he may call him 'lesser', but he loves him as his own.Gremlin sat on the edge of a box and counted his take for the day. It was slim pickings by the docks, but he got less kicks than when he braved the merchant's run. There was enough for bread at least.Kicking up dirt and grinning, he made a beeline for the bakery, a good indoor shop that he was only allowed into if he wiped his feet before entering. To be sure, he had to dodge the odd swing from a patron who disliked the lack of humble hunch in his youthful shoulders, but that was all down to instinct. Gremlin was already seventeen, after all. Two years a man, and proudly waiting for the stubble on his face to become a proper scruffy beard.He had little enough to be proud of, after all.The baker looked up as his coins clanked against the wooden counte
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The Writing on the Wall CH16"This doesn't make any sense!"Noni's chair screeched loudly as she pushed it away from her desk. A cluster of scientists consulting Asclepia of some matter or other looked up disapprovingly at her, but she paid them no mind as she stomped over to my work station.She held out a little potted plant and handed it to me. The leaves were brown and wilting, hopelessly close to death, or more likely a year or more beyond it. It had possibly been a flower once, or meant to be one, but the brown and grey clump that hung down from the top of the dry brown stem might have easily been a deformed aboveground potato as a blossom. I would have believed the potato hypothesis first."Does this make sense to you?" she asked me."That depends on what I'm looking at," I said. "What is supposed to make sense?""It isn't. It just defies logic.""I doubt that. You are not synonymous with logic," Chrysander said, not looking up fro


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First Gaming Obsession: Beast (ASCII game on the PC)
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On the Radar: Justin's been on the UK GamesRadar team since early 2006, back when all this was just fields. Before that, he worked for regional weekly newspaper The Somerset County Gazette, reviewing games whenever he could, even though he only ever got sent 2D fighting games from SNK. Oh, and Viewtiful Joe. That was a good day. He earned a degree in multimedia journalism at Bournemouth, but only recalls taking pictures of squirrels in the park and gambling Lovehearts and chocolate bars on the results of house tournaments on PES 2.
First Gaming Obsession: Treasure Island Dizzy (ZX Spectrum+)
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On the Radar: After graduating with a BS in Business and becoming exposed to the cruel realities that he had to get a job, Lorenzo chased the corporate monster, landing jobs labeling stool samples, working in an internet start-up, and even manning the trenches of game testing. Now he's taken refuge in GamesRadar's cheats and guides pages learning the ropes of games journalism, and helping gamers in their struggle with achievement and trophy related strife.
First Gaming Obsession: Contra (NES)
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First Gaming Obsession: Sensible World of Soccer (Amiga)
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I'm about to buy a Wii in Hong Kong, for use in Hong Kong and maybe later in Australia. I've checked online and I see that there are two versions here, US and Japanese, can anyone explain the difference? I realise that the US one is probably for NTSB TV format, but are there other differences?
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There are three formats, I think - PAL (Australia, Europe), NTSC (North America), and Japanese. Each format can only play games that are set to that format, so you wouldn't be able to play, for example, Mario Galaxy in PAL format on an NTSC Wii, and you wouldn't be able to play Japanese Mario Galaxy on an PAL format Wii... and so on. The only way you can get around this is to either mod your Wii, or get your hands on a copy of Freeloader, a piece of software that's supposed to let you play any region's games on any Wii after you load the software up.
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Week of April 28, 2014
North Texas LPGA Shootout Presented by JTBC
Las Colinas Country Club
Irving, Texas
(Note: Irving is 1 hour behind Eastern Time Zone)
Inbee Park takes on third title defense of the season Inbee Park will be taking on her third title defense of the year this week in Irving. Park came so close to defending in Thailand in her first start of the season at the Honda LPGA Thailand where she was runner-up and two shots of Anna Nordqvist. The 25-year old did not fare as well in her second and first of three major championship defenses at the Kraft Nabisco Championship. She only shot one sub-par round at Mission Hills and closed with a 75 on Sunday.
The Rolex Rankings No. 1 player who is known for her prowess on the greens said things have finally started clicking with her ! atstick the past few events. Park has had by no means a disappointing year so far to many people's standards but the nine-time LPGA Tour winner is itching to break back into the winner's circle. She has six top-10's in her first seven starts of the year including two top-4's in the last two events.
Lexi Thompson returns to action after first major championship win
This week at the North Texas Shootout Presented by JTBC, Lexi Thompson will return to action for her first tournament since making the leap into Poppie's Pond after winning the Kraft Nabisco Championship for the first Major Championship of her young career.
Despite not competing at LOTTE and Swinging Skirts, Thompson has kept herself busy away from the course doing a media blitz which included stops by Morning Drive, SportsCenter and SquakBox on CNBC. Additionally, Thompson traveled across the Atlantic to the Puma headquarters, in Germany, for a promotional shoot with other Puma athletes, including Usain Bolt.
When Thompson does return to the course this week she will look to keep the momentum going in what has proven to be a stellar 2014 campaign with the victory at Kraft and a pair of additional top-10 finishes at the Kia Classic and Honda LPGA Thailand.
Amateurs earn spots through "Qualifying Shootouts"
This week in Irving provides several unique aspects to the event at Las Colinas Country Club. The "shootout" format of the tournament will consist of two cuts; the first will be made after the second round to the top-70 and ties, and the second cut will be made to the top-50 and ties after the third round on Saturday.
The tournament will also provide a unique opportunity for amateur players to tee it up against the best players in the world through two qualifying "Shootouts." Annika Clarka (Pasadena-First Baptist Christian Academy) and Maddie Szeryk (Allen High School) beat out 22 other top high school players from the area in March at the High School Shootout. They were co-medalists after both finishing
with 71's at Las Colinas.
Sammi Stevens (Hereford, Texas; University of New Mexico) and Brittany Fan (Pearl City, Hawaii; University of Colorado) were co-medalists on Monday after each carding 68 at Las Colinas in the Collegiate Shootout. All four amateurs will be making their first starts at an LPGA event.
Changes at the top of the Rolex Rankings
With her win at the inaugural Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic last week, 17-year old Lydia Ko mixed things up at the top of the Rolex Rankings. The New Zealander unseated Suzann Pettersen for the No. 2 spot in the world while Pettersen dropped down to No. 4 after a T28 finish last week in San Francisco. No. 3 Stacy Lewis stayed in the third spot in the rankings after battling it out with Ko down the stretch at Lake Merced, eventually finishing one stroke of the young Kiwi. Lewis' game continues to be as consistent as ever and her runner-up finish last week was her third this season and sixth in her last 15 starts dating back to the Safeway Classic last season in early September.
Ko will be taking the week of in North Texas, setting up Lewis and Pettersen to make their strikes to the teen phenom's jump in the rankings. Top-ranked Inbee Park doesn't look ready to give up the top spot just yet and is coming of a third place finish in Hawaii at the LOTTE LPGA Championship and a tie for fourth last week at Swinging Skirts. This week marks the 55th consecutive week the South Korean has held the No. 1 spot in the Rolex Rankings.
April 1 -4
North Texas LPGA Shootout Presented by JTBC
Las Colinas Country Club
Irving, Texas
Field: 144 (140 professionals, 4 amateurs)
Par: 71
Yardage: 6,410
Purse: $1,300,000
Winner: $195,000
Defending Champion: Inbee Park
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April 1 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
April 2 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
April 3 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
April 4 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
All times listed are Eastern
Past Champions
2013 Inbee Park
2014 LPGA Tour Rookies (13) | |
Amy Anderson | Joanna Klatten |
Anya Alvarez | Xi Yu Lin |
Jaye Marie Green | Megan McChrsytal |
Megan Grehan | Guilia Molinaro |
Emma Jandel | Erica Popson |
Kim Kaufman | Paula Reto |
Jennifer Kirby |
High School Shootout Qualifiers (2)
Annika Clarka (a), 71
Maddie Szeryk (a), 71
College Shootout Qualifiers (2)
Sammi Stevens (Univ. of New Mexico '14), 68
Brittany Fan (Univ. of Colorado '18), 68
Monday Qualifiers (2)
Alex Stewart, 69
Ashley Knoll, 69
Rolex Rankings
Top 10: 7/10
Top 20: 14/20
2014 LPGA Of cial Money List
Top 10: 7/10
Top 20: 16/20
Tuesday, April 29 | ||
Time | Event | Location |
1:00 p.m. | Lexi Thompson Press Conference | Media Center |
2:00 p.m. | Inbee Park Press Conference | Media Center |
3:30 p.m. | Michelle Wie Press Conference | Media Center |
Wednesday, April 30 | ||
10:30 a.m. | Stacy Lewis Press Conference | Media Center |
TBD | Paula Creamer Press Conference | Media Center |
TBD | Collegiate Shootout Co-Medalists | Media Center |
Sammi Stevens & Brittany Fan | ||
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Hi there. We are in full swing on our kitchen, and I am thinking of putting brackets/corbels under the ends of my upper cabinets (sort of like shelf brackets)...I have been searching for a picture to show our carpenter, but cannot find any...does anyone have this feature and can share a photo?
This is another "white" kitchen, simple shaker cabs. Thanks for your help. : ) |
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I have "ends" to my hutches that connect the upper to lowers. but thats all
I notice all 3 pics of corbels on upper cabinets so far have beadboard. What's your backsplash? The link below has some kitchens with longer sides, rather like corbels, but not quite. They also have tile backsplashes, so you can see a slightly different look. |
Here is a link that might be useful: cote de texas blog
Check out the kitchen in the movie Something's Gotta Give. Corbels on subway tile backsplash...I'm assuming it could be done IRL. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Something's Gotta Give Kitchen
- Posted by domesticah (My Page) on Wed, May 25, 11 at 21:26
Thank you so much for coming to my rescue jessicaml, vickimp, nhbaskets and adh673. I love how you did the brackets under the counter in your kitchen nhbaskets and on your hutch adh673. I am especially partial to painted kitchens so I love thet kitchens on cote de texas blog and somethings gotta give (hooked on houses is an awesome site!!!) It never seeks to amaze me how many thoughtful and generous people are on this site -- taking time to look for pictures and posting them. Thanks again for your help. |
- Posted by domesticah (My Page) on Thu, May 26, 11 at 22:26
Thank you boxerpups! Wonderful pictures... Jesscam1, my backsplash is a compromise with my husband (yes, he cares! : ( ) I wanted subway or marble, he wanted a diagonal wave tile (subway frame). It will be white, so hopefully it won't be a detractor. So I am wondering if the brackets should go all the way to the end of the cabinet...love the corbels in the kitchen with hammered copper hood above (very much like the somethings gotta give house). Thanks again all for the inspirational pics. : ) have a great night.-- |
Mine hold up shelves: Note: if you do this you'll lose a tiny bit of rear counterspace clearance unless you have deep cabinets (these are 30" lowers and 18" uppers). And if you do, tall people will not see them at all, unless there is seating nearby or they are viewed from the side. All in plain sight to me, but the spouse could see none of it. Hm. These were sized to fit a mug I broke right before the remodel finished. Hm! |
- Posted by domesticah (My Page) on Sat, May 28, 11 at 9:01
Hi fori,love that shelf, great idea. anyone know an online source for corbels? trying to find 11 x 11 ones... http://houseofantiquehardware.com/Wood-Shelf-Brackets/Large-Cherry-Shelf-Bracket and this one http://www.vandykes.com/product/9-1-2-curved-bracket-corbel (sorry for the pastes). I really wanted something with a outward curve...not that easy to find. : ) |
Here is a link that might be useful: nice but too thick
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Favorite thing: In Arenal and Monteverde it can be cloudy most days that time of year, especially at Arenal and La Fortuna. At the coast, the weather is very good. It is considered the dry season (as well as the high season) but that is mostly at the coast. The later you go in March the better chance you will have in seeing Arenal Volcano. I have been there 6 different years in January and once in March and never saw the top of Arenal. Went once in July, picture perfect view of Arenal errupting. Still, it should be a great trip!
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Cloud forest
Favorite thing: Cloud forests are found at an altitude of at least 1500 m. The forest is shrouded in mist for 9 months of the year. The mist and clouds come with the trade winds of the Pacific Ocean. The vegetation is somewhat different from the rest of the rain forest. Here you will find plants that grow well in this colder and more humid environment like moss and fern.
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12 Zones-30 Kinds of Rain Forest
Favorite thing: In 1947, the biologist L.H. Holdridge introduced a system of classifying vegetation types or "zones" by analyzing combinations of temperature, rainfall, and seasonality. Each zone has a distinctive natural vegetation and ecosystem. Costa Rica has 12 such zones, ranging from tidal mangrove swamps to subalpine paramó, with its stunted dwarf plants above the timberline atop the high mountains
You can obtain a life zone map from the Tropical Science Center (Calle 1, Avenidas 4/6), a private nonprofit organization which operates the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve.
Within the rainforest area, botanists have made distinctions between 30 or so different types of rainforest. The species that live and grow in each type is determined by temperature and rainfall. Tropical evergreen rainforest exists in areas of high rainfall (at least 200 cm) and regular high temperatures averaging no less than 77deg. F. In Costa Rica, the lush tropical evergreen rainforest of the Caribbean lowlands gives way on the Pacific side to a seasonally dry evergreen forest in the well-watered south, and tropical deciduous forest--dry forest--in the northwest..
Fondest memory: The Children's Eternal Rain Forest has three forest types: seasonal evergreen forest, cloud forest and a seasonal rain forest.
Each of the areas has plants and animals in common, but slightly different amounts of rain and temperature (partly due to differences in elevation) means that the animals and plants are different in distribution. Each different trail and area has it's own plants and animals to look at.- Family Travel
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Gotta love those baby sloths
Favorite thing: As we were traveling along, close to Monteverdi we noticed a boy by the side of the road with a strange looking animal in his arms. We stopped and chatted with him. It turns out that it was a baby sloth, which you are of course not allowed to keep as pets, however, this one was blind and had been abandoned by it's mother. Or so the story goes.. Anyway, we were happy to give the kid some change for milk to feed the sloth. After we pulled out, we noticed the next car on the road saw it and pulled over to stop..:-)
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Sta Elena and how to reach it
Favorite thing: Sta Elena is the place to go, when you want to visit the famous Monteverde cloud forests. It is a very touristic place like you can imagine. Souvernir shops, hotels and restaurants all over the place. Try the bakery close to the buss station, they have very nice things there!
It is a hard way getting there, but you'll survive, I'm sure! There are busses to Puntarenas and to Tilaran. There are also other touristic services. The ways to get there are from the most terrible (unpaved and like a like gryére cheese) and when that doesn't make you feel sick, you get it from all the turns in the way or from the fast driving driver...- National/State Park
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Favorite thing: To be honnest, we've not seen much more than just trees. Beautifull trees, but the promised quetzals, monkeys, ... all on holiday. Well, the jungle itself is also quiete impessive. After the sky-walk (walking on the so famous bridges true the jungle) we did the sky-trek. There you had to "fly" from one side to the other on a stale cable. Never known that I was so scared by hights, but it was very high, up to 160m above the ground! On that highest point I had to close my eyes, but it was fun.
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Never was a title more apt: "Cloudforest"
Favorite thing: Walking in a cloud. Walking in a forest. I always think about quiet and solitude when I envision a forest. Imagine a cloud descending upon a favorite patch of forest and shrouding it with wisps of soft mist. Now add a constant drip, drip, drip of water descending from leaf to leaf until gentling finding its way to the forest floor. The cloudforest is a little bit of serenity and it should be treated with gentle footsteps.
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The photo opportunities are endless
Favorite thing: From the macro to the micro, the cloudforest is a playground for the curious photographer. To be sure, lighting conditions can be very difficult under the canopy. The skies are often gray and often times drizzle will be a constant companion. But there is so much life and it is one of the most diverse biospheres on the planet. The possibilities are virtually limitless. For me it was nothing short of pure joy.
Fondest memory: Life--in all of its incredible forms.- Jungle and Rain Forest
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Costa Rica is a country of rainbows
Favorite thing: I think I saw at least one rainbow each day in Costa Rica and many days we were treated to multiple rainbows. Not surprising, since water and light will usually produce a rainbow and it seems to always be wet somewhere in Costa Rica.
Fondest memory: The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow was the next adventure that inevitably led to the discovery of new and fascinating wildlife.- National/State Park
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a sloth!!!
Favorite thing: I know that the sloth is almost imperceptible in my pic but also for this I was so thrilled to have spotted it in spite so high and immobile and then I was still ecstatic of the animation movie Ice Age and of its charcter Sid that to have seen my first real sloth made my day... well... who knows me, also knows I'm very emotional ;-)...!!!
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