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ALERT and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Receive $750,000 DARPA Award May 16, 2013
ALERT and Los Alamos National Laboratory have received a $750,000 DARPA award for their partnership in Nuclear Magnetic Quadrupole Resonance research. Their proposal was submitted and accepted for the Methods for Explosive Detection at Standoff (MEDS) program. This project will be led by Prof. Carey Rappaport, the Principal Investigator from Northeastern University, and partner lead, Michelle Espy, from LANL.
ADSA09 – Call for Speakers February 4, 2013
ALERT is actively looking for speakers for the ADSA09 – Ninth Workshop for Algorithm Development for Security Applications: New Signatures for Explosive Detection for Aviation Security. This event will take place on May 7-8, 2013 at Northeastern University's campus in Boston, MA.
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Follow-on Funding Awarded to Dr. Conrad Jones January 16, 2013
Dr. Conrad Jones, a faculty member at Southern University, was awarded $50,000 of follow-on funding through the DHS Summer Research Team Program for MSIs. Dr. Jones was originally chosen to participate in the program during the summer of 2012 to work on ALERT research with Profs. Louisa Hope-Weeks and Brandon Weeks at Texas Tech University.
At the end of the summer, faculty participants are encouraged to apply for up to $50,000 in follow-on funding to continue the research collaboration at their home academic institutions during the following academic year.
Congratulations Dr. Jones!!!
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David Castanon discusses ALERT-related research December 6, 2012
Watch Professor Castanon talk about his work in luggage screening, video analytics and explosives detection with the National Science Foundation:
ALERT presents the first installment of ALERT 101: Airport Screening Technologies December 1, 2012
We invite you to watch the first episode of ALERT 101 which focuses on the applications of Millimeter Wave Scanning and Backscatter X-ray in Airport Security Screening.
For users without YouTube access: ALERT 101: Airport Screening Tecnologies
Inspired by the success of TED (www.ted.com) and other educational media forums, ALERT has developed the ALERT 101 video series. Each video short will feature different technologies and research areas that the ALERT Center engages in. We hope that these productions help educate and inform the global community on these topics in an accessible and enjoyable way.
ALERT Researcher Carey Rappaport discusses his work with Northeastern University November 28, 2012
Watch Professor Rappaport talk about his Homeland Security Related Research with Northeastern University:
ALERT welcomes United States Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano November 19, 2012
Awareness and Localization of Explosives-Related Threats was pleased to host U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano on Monday, November 12th following her keynote address at Northeastern University's Veteran's Day Ceremony.
To kick off the visit, ALERT's Director, Professor Michael B. Silevitch, provided Secretary Napolitano with an overview of the ALERT Center of Excellence. Prof. Silevitch then introduced undergraduate and graduate students involved with ALERT research and gave a summary of the demonstrations in video analytics and advanced imaging technologies that were prepared for her briefing. Michael described Napolitano's visit as a significant opportunity for ALERT and its homeland security research, saying,
"It was very important to get validation from Secretary Napolitano about the relevance of our research and its transition to the field in the areas of video tracking of threats and passenger screening. This acknowledgement inspires us."
Professor Octavia Camps led the first demonstration featuring ALERT's Engage to Excel (E2E) Video Analytic Surveillance Transition project, VAST. VAST is a program developed in partnership with Siemens and the Cleveland Transportation Security Administration. The live demonstration exhibited the video analytic counter-flow program developed by Dr. Camps and her team and its ability to automatically detect when a person is proceeding the wrong way in an identified traffic pattern (for example, trying to enter through an exit). The resulting detections enable quick identification of an incident and minimize the impact on TSA resources. This project is currently installed within the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
Following the video analytics demonstration, Professor Carey Rappaport showed Secretary Napolitano the capabilities of the ALERT Advanced Imaging Technologies (AIT) laboratory. This laboratory fuses together various scanning tools to create next-generation security scanning systems. Professor Rappaport, Assistant Professor Jose Martinez and graduate student Spiros Mantzavinos demonstrated the operation and data acquisition capabilities of ALERT's advanced portal-based millimeter-wave imaging radar. During the demo, the system scanned a mannequin wrapped in a skin simulant with various representative objects attached for detection. These types of AIT systems can be used to detect illicit items that passengers may be attempting to carry on their person.
"As a DHS-supported researcher, I found Secretary Napolitano's visit very satisfying," Prof. Rappaport commented. "She was of course quite knowledgeable about the science and technology we are pursuing, but she seemed keenly interested in how we were improving the state of the art. She was completely supportive and she motivated the students with her passion to keeping Americans safe."
Spiros Mantzavinos, currently a Northeastern University Doctoral Candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Gordon Engineering Leadership Fellow, had the opportunity to meet Secretary Napolitano. Mantzavinos said, "It was an honor to host Secretary Napolitano for a visit to our ALERT whole-body imaging lab. Receiving attention and recognition from such a prominent figure in the national security arena assures the relevance of the advances we are making."
Handheld IED Detection Device with Firestorm Emergency Services November 8, 2012
ALERT research out of Missouri University of Science and Technology, led by Prof. Daryl Beetner, is currently working to develop methods to indirectly detect and locate explosives by identifying the electromagnetic emissions from these electronic initiators. This approach has the advantage that a device can potentially be detected from tens or even hundreds of meters away in a very short period of time using relatively small, inexpensive, low-power sensors.
Hidden explosives can be extraordinarily difficult to locate. While the most obvious approach is to look for the explosive compound, techniques which look for these compounds often only work from short distances, can only be used over a very limited area, or are very slow to generate a detection. An alternative is to instead look for the electronic trigger that is used to initiate the explosive. Electronics used in triggers like timers, wireless receivers, motion detectors, and microcontrollers, emit electromagnetic energy (i.e. radio waves) when they are turned on. These radio waves can potentially be detected from long distances in a short period of time using relatively small, inexpensive, low-power sensors.
In the last year, Beetner and his team have developed techniques to locate (not just detect) radio receivers using a stimulated emissions approach. Detection of electronics has an advantage over many other explosives detection techniques in that it can potentially be done relatively quickly from relatively long range and can be done with relatively inexpensive equipment. It gives the bomb technician one more point of information with which to make a decision about the presence of explosives and how to deal with the explosives once found. As Beetner explains, "We've developed methods to accurately detect and locate the most common types of radio receivers. We've shown that these techniques are fast and work well at long distances, even in very noisy urban environments". While detection of suspect electronics does not necessarily indicate the presence of an explosive device, this information can be combined with other information relatively easily to confirm or add information about a threat. The information is unique from other explosive sensors so it is well primed for sensor fusion.
ALERT has teamed up with Firestorm Emergency Services to develop a commercial product around algorithms developed by Beetner and his group. Firestorm manufactures a small, inexpensive, hand-held device for detecting and locating the electromagnetic signatures from aircraft emergency beacons and from radio location beacons worn by Alzheimer's patients, so they already have hardware under development that is ideal for the team's approach. The fundamental detection methods developed here are also being extended with Firestorm to develop systems for locating vehicles at remote border crossings.
Breakthroughs in Ionic Polymer Characterization November 7, 2012
Research led by ALERT investigator Prof. Louisa Hope-Weeks at Texas Tech University, could make the sensitive materials used in detonators safer for mining and military use, as well as less harmful to the environment. Ionic polymers, the class of materials the group works with, are less toxic but more unstable compared to the heavy metals used in current commercial detonators. By understanding the structures of the materials, Hope-Weeks and her group can then develop associated compounds to make the polymers more stable and a more viable option for use.
Currently, explosives used in the field are lead-based, causing detonations to have a huge environmental impact. Hope-Weeks states that the purpose of this research is, "similar to if you take lead out of paint. We are trying to replace lead-based energetic materials with greener compounds" The complexity of the problem is that the researchers are looking at ways to keep power output the same, but to lower the sensitivity of the polymers. The current compound is too sensitive for common use and requires further evolution to become less shock sensitive to make sure the item doesn't react until a true signal is sent.
"We wanted to make an optically activated material," explains Hope-Weeks, "so that if, for example, a bomb squad wanted to blow up a car they suspect has a terrorist device inside, they would have something they could remotely place under the car and then activate it with a laser, rather than someone having to go in there and wire it up." The added benefit of this new lead-free device would be that it's green; thus, causing less of a long-term impact on the environment.
The long-term goal of the work is to make an optically activated material where lasers could be used to activate the explosive from a far distance and eliminate the need for a person to have to wire the charge.
Transition Task at CLE: The Student Perspective November 6, 2012
The ALERT project VAST (Video Analytic Surveillance Transition) is an effort that addresses the needs of the TSA to monitor and mitigate threats by individuals to airport security. ALERT and the TSA Ohio Senior Federal Security Director put together a team of researchers from three COE partner universities (NEU, BU and RPI) and TSA practitioners to develop and transition solutions to "in-the-exit" and "tag and track" issues at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE). The VAST team also has an industrial partner, Siemens Corporate Research, to guide the technology transition into markets, and to lead the design and development of a testbed at CLE.
In an effort to educate the next generation of researchers, the COE partner universities have also brought on students to the teams. Tom Hebble, a student participating from Northeastern University explains, "We travel to Cleveland every week in order to install the software and collect results. Currently there are three universities working on this, and every week someone from one of the three is in Cleveland. Their job is to install the latest revision of their code, as well as collect the results from the previous week's test, so every few weeks we're getting a new revision out there and a few weeks of data to look at and analyze." As stated by Post-doctoral researcher Mohamed Elgharib of Boston University, "Even though I've been in research for almost 4 years, ALERT was the first industry-like experience that I've been through. I've learned how to create a product that satisfies a wider community of end-users, rather than just satisfying a narrow community." Ziyan Wu of Renssellaer Polytechnic Institute explains, "before this project, I wrote my code just to implement specific functions and make things work. This is the first time I've needed to seriously think about user experience, that is, I need to make my software user friendly and easy to understand. This software will be used for security surveillance, so I really need to ensure its reliability and robustness".
Here, students realize that they are not just trying to solve a problem, they need to completely conquer it. That is to say that the algorithm developed needs to be applicable to every circumstance without exception or limitation. According to Binlong Li of Northeastern University, "it's precious industry experience that is a big plus for newly graduated students. We are able to understand how a real project works and is developed in the industrial world. We get a good sense of how to transfer research techniques into real applications". As Wu continues, "I understand that all research should originate from reality. It has to be rooted in the reality, serve the reality, and then enhance the reality".
As Hebble closes, "it's an experience of going through the design cycle of coming up with a new revision, looking at the results, making corrections, and seeing that cycle of looking at the results to find problems and coming up with new ways to solve them. This is a good experience from that standpoint, to get real hands-on design experience as well as the experience with the code."


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10 Disgusting "Foods" You Loved As A Kid
All y'all who grew up in the 70s and 80s: Remember all that crap you ate as a kid? How did we escape our childhoods without going retarded?
Before I proceed, let me just say: Sorry young'ins. I didn't eat Gogurt or whatever it was you threw up throughout the 90s. I was growed up enough to know better.
I'm not talking candy or soda or frozen dinners -- which were the bomb, and which make me wonder how I ingested that stuff without losing a stomach, considering how much of it I ate.
I'm talking about:
Fish Sticks
Probably the least offensive of these foods, fish sticks still need to be called out because they're called "fish sticks." Say it out loud:
I think I liked to eat this stuff because, for being fish, they didn't have much fishy flavor -- indeed, they didn't have any flavor beyond whatever white sauce my mom would serve out of a jar with them. But they were never my favorite! Not like...
Oscar Mayer Cheesedogs
Hotdogs are amazing, when they're proper hotdogs.
Oscar Mayer hotdogs are tragic meat tubes constructed from demon seed and hate glue.
But even the manufacturers of these industrial sodium bombs must have shaken their heads at the prospect of serving up hotdogs filled with a yellow, salty paste which they hesitantly labeled "cheese." Imagine their surprise and wonder when the numbers showed that children across the nation adored these travesties that mock the Natural Order.
McDonald's Chicken McNuggets
You might not remember this, but before McDonald's rolled out Chicken McNuggets, chicken was too hard for the tender little mouths of middle-class kids to eat.
I'll always remember the glorious day when I first sunk my teeth through a chunk of gray and spongy McProtein Mass -- and I'll always remember my pride in being American, citizen of a country in which I possessed the freedom to choose dipping my jellified glob of chicken into honey mustard, barbeque or sweet-and-sour sauce.
Later, I threw up.
Writing the name of That Thing Which Is The Epitome Of All That Is Wrong With Canned Prepared Meals just made me vomit in my mouth a little.
The brain-like texture of the Os.
The sugary "tomato" sauce.
The tiny, tasteless sausage buttons swimming in said sauce.
What the hell was Chef Boyardee thinking? More importantly, how did I ever eat 10 cans of this stuff a week from ages 3 through 13?Yes, I did repeat first grade -- why do you ask?
Fruit Roll Ups
The first time I ate a fruit roll up, I realized there was nothing mankind couldn't accomplish. We'd see flying cars and cities on the Moon by the time I was a teenager.
Mom didn't like me eating candy, which is why she fed these things to me by the hour, not understanding that corn syrup (or dried corn syrup, for that matter) and sugar ain't exactly "100% fruit."
Hey mom, you know what's 100% fruit? Fruit. Not that I would have eaten it...
Kraft Macaroni & Cheese
Remember that one kid in the commercials who kept asking why Kraft didn't name it Cheese & Macaroni? BECAUSE THE CHEESE WAS A COLORED SALT PRODUCT.
I always knew, in the back of my mind, that something was wrong with Kraft Mac & Cheese. Perhaps it started the first time I saw it transformed from food into a congealed waxy mass after sitting in a dish on the counter for an hour.
But I ate the hell out of the stuff anyway -- this was truly my favorite dish.
I think the experience must have destroyed something precious in my head, because the first time I actually tried real macaroni and cheese -- you know, something with actual cheese in it -- I was all, yuck, gimme my Kraft!
Capri Sun
Ah, the halcyon days of drinking watered down juice-flavored drink (made from a concentrate of juices that aren't actually the juices advertised) from a foil bag that included its own straws.
"Made with real fruit juice!" Yeah, all 10 percent of it. Where's the "Made with real high-fructose corn syrup!" warning?
Of course, I really didn't care. It was juice in a shiny bag, after all. Never mind that it didn't taste any good -- I was looking good in the lunch hall.
Cheese 'n Crackers
There's nothing more American than topping soda crackers with a chunk of cheese.
But when that cheese is actually a bastard concoction of oil, acids and several different ways of saying "salt" smeared across a dry, tasteless cracker by way of a red plastic rectangle stored in the same package as the snack, well... you can see why people who liked these things loved Chicken McNuggets.
Like me.
Cap'n Crunch
The fact that I ate this stuff makes me so sad now.
Never mind the instant sogginess of the cereal, and the resulting (and revolting) candified syrup that was created from what once was milk...
...what I can't wrap my head around is why I continued to eat this "food" that continually ripped up my gums and inside cheeks, resulting in gobs and gobs of mouth beef hanging from the roof of my mouth. And then ask for more.
WTF was I thinking?
School Supplies
White paper. Brown paper. Cardboard paper. Elmer's Glue. Eraser tips. Probably fruit-scented markers.
Somehow, all these things ended up in my mouth. I didn't exactly "love" eating them... but apparently I liked these items enough to pop them in my mouth throughout elementary.
And sure, I never intended to eat them... but yeah, probably 50 percent of the time, they went down my gullet and into my digestive tract. I wonder how many pounds of yellow paint from my chewed-up No. 2 lead pencils ended up on the walls of my tummy?
Man, I was a screwed-up kid...
What gross "food" did you love as a kid that makes you go "Hmmm..." nowadays?
My god, that was hilarious! Thank for sharing, indeed.
Guess what? I'm a nineties kid, proudly manufactured in 1994, and these are the same things a typical, red-blooded seventeen-year-old girl will eat daily.
Does anyone else remember candy cigarettes? Man, I thought those were great! Now it's just like eating chalk-it even looks like chalk.
I used to get them all the time. That and the shredded beef jerky in a "chew can".
Holy Hell haha, 8 of those things i still eat and devoured in rightous amounts as a kid. I'm 18 so i grew up in the 90s scrafing that stuff down. It kinda makes me scared. This article was amazing ever considered writing parody articles like what The Onion does?
Freckin hulliarious! :)

You made my morning with the mouth beef comment.
I'd add Ready Brek to that. A sort of sludgy, porridge substitute. I can still remember both the taste and the smell, and there seems to be a paradox there, somewhere. Because although it's the exact same taste and smell as it had when I was nine, my emotional response is incredibly different. What I loved back then, I loathe now. I haven't tasted or smelled it even once in the last decade, so my memory hasn't been updated or compromised by being exposed to the reality - so how is it possible that I've somehow decided that this food is an abomination?

By the way, I share your opinion on the fourth option - although we called them spaghetti hoops in the UK. And they got a strange sort of retro coolness, when Gene Hunt made a reference to them in the first episode of the UK version of Life on Mars. "I'm 'avin' 'oops."
I would still eat Captain Crunch cereal
Not being American, I don't know all of them in the first place. Also, I was one of those gross kids that actually liked vegetables. LIKED. VEGETABLES. It's not surprising I was an outcast before I knew how to spell the word! :D
With the exception of Cap'n Crunch (yuck), I still eat those foods to this day! I especially love the Cheese Dogs, which my 3-year-old son is now hooked on. Let's hear it for another generation of these foods!
I ate so many Mall-wart corndogs my sweat smelled like the corndogs!

Uck!

Maybe that's why I went vegan...to make up for all the crap I ate in my teens!
... I still eat captain crunch o-o
Those microwaveable burritos. Loved them as a kid, can't stand them now. I wonder how I ever liked that crap.
i remember "velvita" probably the most sickening so called food around. I ended up weighing 230 lbs and got good and sick. Took 2 years to get the weight off. Never ever againe. Were poisioning ourselves slowly with this crap and sociopathic corporarions are all to happy to help.
Humm the only ones I really recognize from the list above are fish fingers [great when u have have a hangover with tomato sauce in a sandwich-but the ones made from fillet fish not crap] and spaghetti hoops. The only thing I can think back to being totally disgusting was codliver oil and malt, it was like a honey in consistency my mum used to give me on the way out the door going to school- used to burp fish all morning-yuk!
Dont forget peanut butter, honey, and banana sandwiches.
Hilarious! I too have eaten almost everything on your list. I have never ever dipped into Elmer's glue though I do recall gnawing on those yellow pencils.
Haha - the way you wrote this cracked me up. In Australia 'fish sticks' are 'fish fingers'. And my mum used to serve them with mashed potatoes and tomato sauce. WTF. And I dont know what alot of these 'foods' (I use the term very loosely) are, but reading about those cheese hotdog things made me want to vomit for you. And roll-ups are good, but Mum wouldnt let us eat them when we were kids - in case we choked. Maybe we were a little bit too sheltered - she actually wouldn't let us take apples to school until year 7 unless they were chopped up. Again, for fear of choking. The kids with roll-ups were the envy of my primary school life. Thanks for sharing!
memoreis HAHAHAH
I was really enjoying the reminiscing on all the crappy, yet yummy food I ate as a child until I read bambi2004tsu post. A good reminder of the junk that goes into our food. I can still remember the first drive thru we ever went to. It was a Wendy's & my Mom & her friend laughed there as*es of because they thought it was so funny to talk into a box.

I liked the HoHo's v.s. the Ding Dongs.

Hamburger Helper - Beef Pasta flavor, still eat it.

Tuna Casserole

Yes, I ate SPAM too. Did your Mom ever fry up Bologna?

Don't forget Jiffy Pop Popcorn

Candy Cigarettes
Great list! I never cared to sample the glue, but was allowed rare tastes of the other forbidden fruits. My mother thought she was a saint for keeping "poisons" like Hamburger Helper and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese almost entirely off the menu in favor of the same three or four deathly dry and flavorless (but made from scratch and good for ya!) meat-and-potato recipes she thought she knew how to cook. My jaws used to get tired gnawing through the tough and tasteless tortures she served up. I used to fantasize about going to McDonalds or belonging to a family that sometimes had hot dogs for dinner.
Great post. With the exception of school supplies I ate everything on your list. Reese's Puffs processed lunch meat, pre-pressed burgers with or without cheese, bologna rings(pronounced Boe - Log- nah in my family), King Vitamin ( a suprising WIC approved staple),french fries from fast food places, spam, anything made by Hickory Farms, Velveta, Gogurt, Fruit by the foot, Fruity or Cocoa Pebbles, sausage any kind doesn't matter I ate them all.

I fondly remember the Spaghetti O's Sandwich my mom used to make us. And I still occasionaly do make them as comfort food
Who all rembers that marshmellow stuff that came in a jar? I think it was called marshmellow fluff. God that stuff was gross but my dad put it on everything. I'm sure that if i even smelled it today, i'd throw up!!!
Haha. This was great. I'm really wouldn't be surprised if some parts of our brains cannot function properly as a result of this diet. That fruit roll up stuff, I think it's still sitting in my stomach. Like gum.
Admittedly I remember when they came out with Chicken Nuggets at McDonald's, until then I was scraping the condiments off my cheeseburger (my mom didn't special order) and covering the taste with extra ketchup.

But really how about Cheese Whiz...esp the spray kind, and the nozzle would hold all that hard cheese stuff and of course we would lick that part off and eat it first...mmm
I laughed out loud reading your post! I had totally forgotten about those hot dogs. I was feeling a bit ill by the end of it, but still funny as hell.
gah so true about cap'n crunch. every time i ate it i regretted it, but my mom didn't let me eat it very often so i took every chance i got, despite the pain...
I've eaten ALL of these. I was born in 1993. I may not have had them at their worst (maybe). though I never eaten school stuff... unless you count paper. the "O's" is probably how I got so chubby. I loved them. Haven't had them since. Lack of better judgment I'd still eat the crunch.
HA! I was a 90s kid but man I love fish sticks, mac n cheese and spaghetti Os!!!

My parents fed us some strange stuff as kids... beans and weenies. A can of baked beans with hot dog cut up in it. And Tomato Maccie. Elbow noodles and V8 juice with a little bit of sugar.

I love that stuff. Its wonder I don't weigh 400 pounds now.. mostly because I still eat all of it!
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I now live in southeast Michigan, but have lived overseas a couple of times (in the South Pacific, and in Asia). My family loves to try new foods and has very few dislikes so I am lucky. We love to travel (lately in Europe and the Caribbean) and I have collected recipes and spices wherever we go.
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The wood floors are a superb transition. And the granite you chose is simply exquisite with the backsplash. How do you like the floors? Did you stain the cabinets a warmer color? They look I love the updated window coverings. What does the What color paint on the walls? I miss having yellow in You even put in cans into the ceiling? Was that an I love all the astonishing updates. |
Thank you everyone!! I posted pics then took off for the weekend, and now I have to run out for a basketball game! Can you believe I have forgotten the names/brands of things already??? I will check back tonight when I have time to give all the details. Boxer - I can tell you that the cans were very reasonable! I totally lucked out - my son's friend's dad is an electrician. Last spring (when we were in demo mode) he offered to swap electrical work for DH being his asst. baseball coach!! We got 4 cans, 2 new pendants for the peninsula, a ceiling fan/light in the adjoining FR and an outlet moved for $100!!! More tonight, I promise!!! |
What a pretty, warm space that is now!! I love the layout of the kitchen and the house, very well done! Nancy |
Lovely lovely. Well done! Enjoy. |
Ok, I'm back with some answers! the pendants - Uttermost Galeana...I wish I could remember who on here also has them!! Love them!! They have a fish-scaly thing about them that looks pretty at night...I didn't photograph it but we have the 3 light matching fixture over the table also. Oh, and I love the wood floors! They were pre-finished, so not all that hard to install (once the floors were level, that is!!). I must admit we have put some dings, dents and scratches in them, but it is sooo much better than that nasty old vinyl & blue carpet we had!! Love just sweeping them up and a damp mop to clean. The cabinets were custom - Blue Mountain Woodworking in PA (also a GW recommenation!). They are maple with a cinammon stain. Not quite 42" but close to it. The best part was (I should get a picture of this) we took out the sheetrocked pantry next to the fridge and went with a pantry cabinet. Since they were custom, we had a couple of inched added to them to so we bought a standard fridge but the deeper cabs make it look more built-in. Sink & faucet are both Kraus - a combo deal from expressdecor.com Paint color - I went with Muralo, which I LOVED. Never used before, but the coverage was great. The color is Clover Honey (or Honey Clover???). Just enough yellow for me. The kitchen opens to the FR. We put built-ins on either side of the fireplace there. For those we did Conestoga & assembled/painted them ourselves. Then we took a drive to M. Tex and found Julia soapstone remnants for under $500 that we used in there. I'll try to get a pic of that. I was afraid to go soapstone in the kitchen, so I was able to get in the house somewhere!!! |
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Dr. David W. Pletcher III, MD
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Dr. David W. Pletcher III graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1985. He works in Cary, NC and 1 other location and specializes in Family Medicine.
Gender: Male
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2 And Moses called Bez'alel and Oho'liab and every able man in whose mind the LORD had put ability, every one whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work; | 2 Then Moses summoned Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person to whom the LORD had given ability and who was willing to come and do the work. |
3 and they received from Moses all the freewill offering which the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him freewill offerings every morning, | 3 They received from Moses all the offerings the Israelites had brought to carry out the work of constructing the sanctuary. And the people continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning. |
4 so that all the able men who were doing every sort of task on the sanctuary came, each from the task that he was doing, | 4 So all the skilled craftsmen who were doing all the work on the sanctuary left their work |
5 and said to Moses, "The people bring much more than enough for doing the work which the LORD has commanded us to do." | 5 and said to Moses, "The people are bringing more than enough for doing the work the LORD commanded to be done." |
6 So Moses gave command, and word was proclaimed throughout the camp, "Let neither man nor woman do anything more for the offering for the sanctuary." So the people were restrained from bringing; | 6 Then Moses gave an order and they sent this word throughout the camp: "No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary." And so the people were restrained from bringing more, |
7 for the stuff they had was sufficient to do all the work, and more. | 7 because what they already had was more than enough to do all the work. |
8 And all the able men among the workmen made the tabernacle with ten curtains; they were made of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet stuff, with cherubim skilfully worked. | 8 All the skilled men among the workmen made the tabernacle with ten curtains of finely twisted linen and blue, purple and scarlet yarn, with cherubim worked into them by a skilled craftsman. |
9 The length of each curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains had the same measure. | 9 All the curtains were the same size--twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide. |
10 And he coupled five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he coupled to one another. | 10 They joined five of the curtains together and did the same with the other five. |
11 And he made loops of blue on the edge of the outmost curtain of the first set; likewise he made them on the edge of the outmost curtain of the second set; | 11 Then they made loops of blue material along the edge of the end curtain in one set, and the same was done with the end curtain in the other set. |
12 he made fifty loops on the one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set; the loops were opposite one another. | 12 They also made fifty loops on one curtain and fifty loops on the end curtain of the other set, with the loops opposite each other. |
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too expensive....like a barleywine on crack is more like it.
I started a thread on this a while back. It seems like all of their beers have gone downhill lately. Not to say that I don't appreciate what they've done for the microbrew industry in the US. At least Anchor Steam and Sierra Nevada are still good, even though their both dang twist off's now.
--------------------------------------------------- Desert Planet Brewing Co. Primary :Bloody Nose Porter Primary 2: Bloody Nose Porter Secondary: Blackberry Melomel Secondary 2:air Bottled : 14 Pound Hammer Cider, Punkin Ale, know ale, Domino wheat Keg 1: **** Inside Her Keg 2: IPA Keg 3: one on a weeknight, two on a weekend IIPA Future : Ginger Cream Ale,
I found a great store in Jersey, got to talking with the owner for a while and he let my fiance and I sample a bottle of 2003 Utopia. I was amazed at how smooth it was. Zero carbonation. Nice caramel flavor. Very nice. Price tag at 135$ is too high though...
When people ask what I do for a living, I say I brew beer. No, not as a profession, but to live.
I tried the Winter Lager and was very disapointed. From what I had read here about spiced beers I was expecting something bigger and tastier, this was just plain, not bad but no zing. I love their Black Lagers though. Had my first one this year so I don't know what they were like before but I liked this years enough to copy it in a brew I did myself. Plan on making this one a regular when I get my keg fridge done.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt.
That utopia may be fortified, I have heard. Also, I recently bought their holiday variety pack. Not impressed. The boston ale and lager, and black lager, are good, but the rest are kind of odd. Old Fezziwig isn't bad for a spiced holiday beer, but it's still so-so. The cranberry lambic was my first lambic. I poured half of it down the drain. The holiday porter has an "off-taste", like it was fermented too warm. I didn't like the winter lager at all. I also must throw my hat in for their cream stout. One of those black lagers made an excellent marinade base for these beautiful london broils I grilled last saturday...
Allergy Warning: This post was made by a person who may be nutsFrom the store: Nothing right now, how sadUp Next: Thinking about an amber ryeSecondary: "Not as Pale as Death" pale ale (since april, man I hate bottling.)In bottles: Lager than Life Beer, Rocky Raccoon Honey Lager, A nameless Imperial Stout (my first AG!)
Well, it is the American dream. I don't really begrudge anybody "selling out" or what have you as I wouldn't mind being obscenely wealthy someday. Perhaps there's a compromise...get filthy stinkin' rich off of SA and then operate a microbrewery for the hell of it.


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The heavy hand of the IRS
Thursday, May 1, 2014
FLINT, Mich. — Earnest moralists lament Americans' distrust of government. What really is regrettable is that government does much to earn distrust, as Terry Dehko, 70, and his daughter Sandy Thomas, 41, understand.
Because 35 percent of Schott's Supermarket's receipts are in cash, Terry and Sandy make frequent trips to the bank to avoid tempting actual criminals by having large sums at the store. Besides, their insurance policy covers no cash loss in excess of $10,000.
The civil forfeiture law — if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law — is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.
"To make matters worse, forfeiture law treats property owners like random bystanders and requires them to intervene in the lawsuit filed by the government against their property just to get it back. That is why civil forfeiture cases have such unusual names, such as United States v. $35,651.11 in U.S. Currency — the case involving Terry and Sandy." |


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PARIS (Reuters) – Vivendi (VIV.PA: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) will enter three weeks of exclusive talks with cable group Numericable (NUME.PA: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) in an effort to finalize a deal to sell its telecom unit SFR for 11.75 billion euros ($16.4 billion) in cash, plus a stake in the resulting business.
The decision is a blow to conglomerate Bouygues (BOUY.PA: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), which had also bid for SFR.
Vivendi 'prefers' Numericable in SFR bidding – minister
PARIS, March 14 (Reuters) – Vivendi has decided
"whatever the cost" to pick local cable group Numericable
to buy its French telecoms unit SFR, France's industry
minister said on Friday just before the seller's board convened
to decide on competing bids.
Arnaud Montebourg, said he believed Vivendi "preferred" the
Numericable offer over that of conglomerate Bouygues
despite the "numerous problems and questions" that he saw with
that outcome, such as the amount of debt the newly combined
company would have.
Bouygues, Numericable raise bids in French telco fight
PARIS (Reuters) – French groups Bouygues (BOUY.PA: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and Numericable (NUME.PA: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) have both improved the terms of their bids for Vivendi's (VIV.PA: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) telecoms unit SFR, ahead of a decision by the seller on Friday that will reshape the country's mobile industry.
Construction-to-telecoms conglomerate Bouygues said on Thursday it would raise the cash portion of its bid to 11.3 billion euros ($15.7 billion) from 10.5 billion, while cutting the stake Vivendi would be left with in a combined SFR-Bouygues to 43 percent from 46 percent.
Bouygues raises bid for Vivendi's SFR to shut out Numericable
PARIS, March 13 (Reuters) – French conglomerate Bouygues
enriched the cash element of its offer for media group
Vivendi's telecoms unit SFR on Thursday in an attempt
to seal a deal and shut out rival bidder Numericable.
Bouygues said it would increase the cash portion of the bid
to 11.3 billion euros ($15.7 billion) from 10.5 billion
previously, while reducing the stake Vivendi is left with in the
combined SFR-Bouygues telecoms business to 43 percent, from 46
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Vivendi hunts for the right telecom exit
PARIS, March 12 (Reuters) – The traditional shoppers'
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board meets on Friday to choose between two bids for
its French telecom unit SFR, "seller beware" may be more
Both offers – from conglomerate Bouygues and local
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significant minority stake in the newly-created operator and
continued exposure to the French telecom market, which has been
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Iliad, backed by tycoon Xavier Niel, stands to benefit from
sector consolidation in prospect after media company Vivendi
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A last-minute plea deal has halted a trial for a Spokane man accused of intimidating a public servant for a courthouse outburst at a deputy prosecutor.
Roland W. Finney, 36, (pictured) pleaded guilty to riot today in Spokane County Superior Court and was sentenced to six months in jail. He'll be credited for 59 days already served.
Sixty prospective jurors and a visiting judge were at the courthouse today for what was to be the start of Finney's trial.
Finney was accused of intimidating Deputy Prosecutor Mark Cipolla on Aug. 30, 2010, after Cipolla refiled drug-related charges against him that had earlier been dismissed.
Cipolla said Finney 'threatened to take me outside and 'kick my ass,' " according to court documents. "The threats continued to escalate including killing my wife, 'Life is a bitch, you marry one and then she dies' and that I had better watch out," Cipolla wrote.
In response, Finney's lawyer, Kari Reardon, wrote: "The truth of the matter is that for some, life is a bitch. Further, everybody dies." She said her client's statements didn't constitute threats against Cipolla.
Retired Ferry County Judge Rebecca Baker and Lincoln County Prosecutor Jeff Barkdull were called in to handle the case.
Finney pleaded guilty today before jury selection proceedings began, thus ending any possibility of Reardon cross examining Cipolla.
Man accused of threatening prosecutor
A crime suspect's angry courthouse outburst after a series of prosecution mixups involving the case against him has led to an unusual new charge and prompted authorities to bring in an outside judge to preside over it.
Roland W. Finney, who will turn 36 Friday, faces a single charge of intimidating a public servant in connection with a verbal altercation with Deputy Prosecutor Mark Cipolla last year.
Spokane County prosecutors already had brought in Lincoln County Prosecutor Jeff Barkdull to handle the case, but Superior Court Judge Tari Eitzen on Monday decided to send the case to a judge outside of the county, citing a witness list that includes a deputy prosecutor and fellow Superior Court Judge Michael Price.
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A reputed Spokane gang member facing life in prison for a shooting last summer faces four additional counts of attempted first-degree murder after turning down a plea deal.
Timothy L. "Stoney Boy" Lucious, 39, faces a life sentence under Washington's three-strikes law. He's been in jail since October on two counts of first-degree attempted murder (alternate charges of first-degree assault are offered) and one count of second-degree assault for a shooting July 24.
Those charges were amended last week to add four additional counts of attempted first-degree murder and one count of drive-by shooting after Lucious rejected a plea deal, according to documents prepared by Deputy Prosecutor Mark Cipolla. Details of that plea deal were not available.
Cipoilla explained his decision in court documents: A prosecutor offering "hardball choices to a defendant does not make the process constitutionally unfair, so long as the choices are realistically based upon evidence and options are known to both sides," he wrote. Police found additional witnesses to the shooting that enabled prosecutors to file the additional charges.
Another man charged in the July incident, Michael "Mikey Mike" Gardner, pleaded guilty to third-degree assault in January and was released from jail. He returned a couple weeks later after being arrested in a new assault arrested in a new assault case.


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Turning the big 21 soon and i have my eye on this gun i've fondled it a few times at the gun shop but haven't got to shoot 1 yet. Anybody here have one how does it carry/shoot? Thanks
This is a discussion on Hk P2000sk within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Turning the big 21 soon and i have my eye on this gun i've fondled it a few times at the gun shop but haven't ...
Turning the big 21 soon and i have my eye on this gun i've fondled it a few times at the gun shop but haven't got to shoot 1 yet. Anybody here have one how does it carry/shoot? Thanks
The HK P2000SK is one of my favorite pistols and my CCW. It is very reliable, accuracy is great, control features work very well and it's built like a tank. For a small compact this gun is a soft shooter, I can fire mag after mag with no fatigue. The P2000 and USPc mags also fit although they extend out the botom of the grip. HK makes an attachment to go on the longer mags called an "X-grip". You can't go wrong with a P2000SK.
Have you decided on which trigger, LEM or SA/DA? Which caliber? Night sights are a very nice addition worth the price IMHO.
I have the P2000 9MM V2 with Tritium sights and I love it. It's my main carry handgun. I did look at the SK, but due to a bad hand injury I need a full grip. You can fit the SK to your hand perfectly with the interchangeable backstraps. With the beveled slide it reholsters smoothly. I have put over 800 rounds through it so far without any FTE or stovepiping and it breaks down easily to clean. The recoil is easy and you can get back on target quickly. It's an extremely accurate gun. For OWB carry I use either an an Alessi or Mitch Rosen holster and for IWB carry I use a Kramer holster.
My wife bought a Version 3 because she wanted a decocker. Its a 357 Sig. The recoil is surprisingly mild so it hasn't caused either of us to develop a flinch.
I have a .40 P2000SK (light LEM trigger) and love it. Never FTF or FTE, eats whatever I've fed it, accurate, easy to shoot, etc. It may cost more than most others but you do get what you pay for. I use the 10+1 mags with the X-Grip, making the grip the same length as the P2000 and USPc pistols.
The LEM means that you never can forget to take off the safety. The LEM does have a learning curve but once you embrace it, it loves you right back!
My buddy owns a 9mm P2000. It is great to shoot , even better than my USP
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I have a P2000SK in .40 with the DA/SA and love it. Shoots well for such a small gun with very acceptable recoil. I do have a selection of holsters that I am not fond of I could sell you for 1/2 price (Joking!)
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I Haven't found HK I didn't like yet. I shot a friends 2000, Very nice.
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Try spreading this tangy tapende on crostini or pipe into cherry tomatoes (after slicing off the stem ends and seeding them). For a great sandwich, fill a lettuce-lined pita pocket with tapenade and sliced hard-cooked eggs.
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Calories | 30 |
Total Fat | 1g |
Saturated Fat | -- |
Cholesterol | -- |
Sodium | 58mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 4g |
Dietary Fiber | 1g |
Sugars | -- |
Protein | 2g |
Calcium | -- |
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Yields: Makes about 2 cups
Total Time: 45 min
Prep Time: 10 min
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- 1 cup(s) dried brown lentils, rinsed
- 4 clove(s) garlic, crushed and peeled
- 3 tablespoon(s) black olive paste or finely chopped oil-cured black olives
- 2 tablespoon(s) capers, rinsed
- 4 anchovy fillets, rinsed and coarsely chopped, or 1/2 teaspoon anchovy paste
- 4 teaspoon(s) lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon(s) extra-virgin olive oil
- Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon(s) chopped fresh rosemary
- Combine lentils and garlic in a large saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low and simmer, covered, until very tender, 30 to 35 minutes.
- Drain the lentils and garlic and transfer to a food processor. Add olive paste (or olives), capers, anchovies (or anchovy paste), lemon juice and oil; puree until smooth. Season with salt and pepper. Scrape into a bowl and stir in rosemary.
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Because a Buddha may behave just like you, the action may be exactly the same, but it cannot be similar, because a Buddha-consciousness is so different from you. The action will be only similar in appearance; deep down there must be a great difference - it has to be so.
Buddha also lives an ordinary life - eats, sleeps, feels thirsty. But the reasons are totally different. When Buddha drinks the water, he is just quenching the thirst of the body. When you drink water, you are quenching your thirst.
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