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Worms de-nuding my White Pine!
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My poor White Pine has been infested in late summer with these tiny (1/2" long) yellowy/orange worms. This past year they almost ate every needle. The tree still looks pitiful.
What are they? and how do I keep them off my tree?
One source says that sawfly larvae feed on white pine. Apparently they can come in all different colors. One reference said "Sawfly larvae caterpillars are variously colored but generally feed in groups on the needles. Some sawfly larvae will flex or rear back in unison when disturbed."
Here is a link that might be useful: Sawfly larvae (from Chattahoochee Nature Center)

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I have played and completed Super Mario 3D World and Mario Kart 8. Super Mario Bros. on Smart phone will help Wii U and 3DS, since it makes Nintendo richer. It would help fund Mario Kart 9, Super Mario 3D World 2, and Super Smash Bros. 5 on Wii U. The New 3DS was released this year so Nintendo hardware stays relevant. Sony publish a Xperia running Android, but it failed. Playstation Portable and Playstation Vita were lagging far behind DS and 3DS sales. A "Phoneboy" with 4G LTE would work as long as it runs Android. A Phoneboy running quad core CPUs and 4 GB of RAM.
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Videogame reviews killed my videogame job
The negative reviews at IGN.com (6 years ago) and Gamespot ultimately decided my career. I grew up with N64 and looking at what happening to Wii U and console. It wasn't a good fit. I like collecting them and completing them. Also the industry looks to be changing constantly and the turnover seems higher than information technology. The gamespot and the IGN blogs were testing this industry for FREE! it seems as though these are pretty dark times to be working in the gaming industry.Square-Enix and Capcom have seen much better days. Far from their 90's glory, but I don't think they will fade quickly. However, the gaming public is sick and tired of paying $60 for crap games only to have to spend more money for DLC. , cause everyone loves those shallow pointless games.I was once a huge Final Fantasy fanboy but Squaresoft was purchased and the series has gone to hell, so there goes my interest for a console. A 360 would have interested me for Lost Odyssey but one game isn't worth a $400 bill. The gaming industry never ceases to amaze me with its stubborn refusal to adapt to market demands and its inability to learn from its peers in the entertainment industry pertaining to its current hot issues. It's probably going to take a few more major firms going under and/or splitting up before they get their acts together.
As CEO of Sega of America in the early 1990s, Tom Kalinske oversaw the company during its glory days, when all eyes in the industry were glued to the titanic struggle for console superiority between the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis.
Times have changed, to put it mildy. Kalinske left Sega in 1996 and soon signed up with educational entertainment company LeapFrog, where he remains a vice chairman today. The intervening decades have seen Nintendo's best days as well as its worst, and the company sits in a distant third place in the current console race. Meanwhile, Sega hasn't been the same since Kalinske left. The Sega Saturn bombed. The Dreamcast signaled an end to Sega's days as a first-party hardware maker, and the ensuing decade-plus as a third-party publisher hasn't been all wine and roses, either.
"[Sega] seem to have made the wrong decisions for 20 years."
Kalinske spoke with GamesIndustry.biz earlier this month at the DICE Summit, just days after Sega announced staff reductions and the relocation of its San Francisco offices. Though Kalinske said he doesn't keep especially close tabs on the mainstream gaming space these days, he was shocked to hear his old company was pulling out of San Francisco. And while it might have seemed a foregone conclusion that Sega couldn't compete in the gaming industry once giants like Sony and Microsoft got involved, Kalinske dismissed the notion.
"It was not inevitable," Kalinske said. "It could have been avoided if they had made the right decisions going back literally 20 years ago. But they seem to have made the wrong decisions for 20 years."
Regardless of Sega's ability to best the deep-pocketed intruders, Kalinske said it could have joined them had the right decisions been made.
"One of the key reasons why I left Sega is when we had the opportunity to work with Sony, when [Sony Interactive CEO] Olaf Olafsson, [Sony Corporation of America president and CEO] Mickey Schulhof and I had agreed we were going to do one platform, share the development cost of it, share the probable loss for a couple years on it, but each benefit from the software we could bring to that platform. Of course, in those days, we were much better at software than they were, so I saw this as a huge win. We went to Sony and they agreed, 'Great idea.' Whether we called it Sega-Sony or Sony-Sega, who cared? We go to Sega and the board turned it down, which I thought was the stupidest decision ever made in the history of business. And from that moment on, I didn't feel they were capable of making the correct decisions in Japan any longer."
Regardless, there's still hope for Sega as a brand. And Kalinske should know, having helped breathe new life into flagging brands numerous times over his career, from giving The Flintstones a jolt with the introduction of a line of vitamins to bringing Barbie back from the brink in the early '70s. There's never a shortage of experts willing to pile dirt on a brand before it's truly dead, but as Kalinske emphasized in his DICE talk, "The Experts Are Always Wrong." That said, brands aren't immortal, and Kalinske did identify one thing strong enough to kill them.
"You have to really make a lot of mistakes to kill a strong brand."
"Stupidity," Kalinske laughed. "They're hard to kill. You have to really make a lot of mistakes to kill a strong brand. I do think some great brands obviously have been destroyed, Atari being one of them. Why didn't that survive? I think there's a lot of bad decision making involved in killing brands like that. I hope Sega isn't the same thing."
But even a destroyed brand has some value, some potential for future success. The Atari brand still exists, and people are trying to resuscitate it with a mix of familiar franchises, real money gaming, and fitness apps. Kalinske said even he and original Atari founder Nolan Bushnell saw value in it, as they attempted to acquire the name somewhat recently.
"And we failed in that effort, obviously," Kalinske said. "It was maybe five years ago. We weren't able to put it together. At the time it was owned by the French, and the French didn't want to sell."
Moving back to the big brands of today, many analysts and experts have called on Nintendo to get out of the hardware market and bring its valuable stable of intellectual properties to new platforms, specifically mobile devices. While it's another case that might fall under Kalinske's "The Experts are Always Wrong" dictum, he thought they might only be half-wrong in this case.
"I don't think [Nintendo] should give up hardware or consoles," Kalinske said. "I am surprised that they haven't formed a division to extend the IP. I'd love to play some of their games on my iPhone or iPad. It's really a form of marketing for them in a sense. They wouldn't even need to make that much money off it, but it would keep their brands relevant with the users, including people that are older, like me. So it seems to me it's a marketing mistake, but I don't think they should give up what they're doing because they're damn good at it."
"I don't think [Nintendo] should give up what they're doing because they're damn good at it."
In some ways, Leap Frog faces the same dilemma as Nintendo. It has its own hardware and software built using a proprietary language, so anyone wanting to play LeapFrog content has to play it on LeapFrog devices. And while the company makes consoles and tablets, they aren't exactly as ubiquitous as an iPad.
"We're struggling with that," Kalinske acknowledged. "It's a big internal issue and there's a lot of work going on in that area I really can't talk about. But from my perspective, I would love to see a way [to have LeapFrog content on mobile devices]–so long as it was profitable, because you don't want to do these things if they're not at least a little profitable. And that's what they're struggling with, because most of the education content on iOS doesn't make a profit. Almost none on Android makes a profit."
Kalinske's complaints with the educational app market on mobile devices should sound familiar to anyone who's worked on entertainment apps in recent years.
"There's an awful lot of stuff available that's losing money and isn't very good," Kalinske said. "So you have a mess out there right now. This is one of the criticisms I have of Apple. They should take a look at all the educational content on their site right now, it's terribly confusing to parents, and they ought to do a better job of curating that. Put some standards in and make sure that anything saying it's educational actually is, and get rid of a lot of stuff that isn't very good."
That seems unlikely to happen in the near term. Kalinske has been in the interactive edutainment field since 1996, and one constant he's seen is that the seismic overhauls that reshape interactive entertainment every few years don't seem to happen at the same pace.
"It's really hard to make a profit off doing education well. It's pretty easy, relatively, to do entertainment well."
"Education's been much slower," Kalinske said. "The adoption of really good technology has been much slower. It's still slow. It's still happening. It's great to see Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS), but it's not great to see MOOCS that are boring. My whole thing has been to figure out what the great curriculum is, and then figure out ways to make it fun and interesting, whether that's for a young child or a college age student. Why does it have to be dull and boring lectures?"
There's a reason behind that slower pace of adoption for educational games, and it's one Kalinske said he learned back when he was still at Sega.
"We were doing the Pico, and Pico was a really good system for young kids," Kalinske said. "And we were doing $100 million in business from the Pico and its software. But it had a lower gross margin on it than obviously, entertainment software. And this is again during that time when Japan was making decisions for me. And they said to me, 'Stop wasting your time on that. It takes too much effort and too much money. You could just do another Sonic title and do a lot more revenue, a lot more profitably. It's easier.' And it struck me. That's why Disney hasn't been that good at education, or any of the other big entertainment companies, like Sony. Because it's hard. It's really hard to make a profit off doing education well. It's pretty easy, relatively, to do entertainment well.
"With the amount of storage that one can do today at a reasonable cost, no matter what the subject is, if we wanted to present that curriculum to children or even teenagers in a way that was most interesting to them, we could do that today," Kalinske added. "And we're not doing it. And that frustrates me."
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The Mach 7 Navy Gun
sing electromagnetic energy instead of gunpowder or other combustible fuel, this rail gun fires 23-pound shells a distance of 100 miles or more at seven times the speed of sound — Mach 7. The Navy expects to conduct seaside trials in 2016, after more limited testing in defense labs. A rail gun projectile will cost as little as $25,000 — far less than the current cost of an attack missile, $500,000 to $1.5 million. And one warship could hold hundreds of projectiles. Multiple rail gun shells could also be fired in sequence to blow apart incoming missiles.
Doctors Inside Bodies
Early research is promising for development of medical "nanobots" that could be introduced into a soldier's bloodstream or tissues, capable of releasing treatments for everything from a sore throat to malaria or maybe even the effects of chemical or biological weapons The nanobots, part of an area of research called In Vivo Nanoplatforms, would work at the molecular level, hitching rides on a natural protein in the body. One day they might save the lives of soldiers where combat medicine or medevac services are lacking, and they could eventually find their way into civilian applications, too.
A "Flying Humvee"
This rugged transporter would take off like a helicopter and fly like a cargo plane. When they land, some versions under study by Lockheed Martin, United Technologies and Textron would even be able to drive off like, well, a Humvee. The concept vehicle, dubbed the ARES, would be similar to a small version of a V-22 Osprey transport, which already provides the Army and Marines with a huge operational advantage in difficult terrains. One of its most promising capabilities: quickly moving soldiers and gear over minefields and past roadside booby traps without having to call in a bomb squad first. The military wants the air-to-land vehicle to be extremely rugged, utilitarian in design, easy to operate and simple to fix.
Silent-Running Motorcycles
Imagine off-road dirt bike engines that make no sound. They would be powered by tough, powerful battery packs, allowing warriors to sneak up quickly on an unsuspecting enemy. Such designs are in the works at Logos Technologies and electric bike maker BRD. The electric two-wheelers would have just a small reserve of gasoline in case of an electric failure, plus a secondary fuel source, if needed, to escape danger.
Ship Lasers
Easier to turn, aim and fire than today's heavy shipboard antiaircraft weaponry, laser guns will give sailors a more precise bead on the enemy. So precise, in fact, that naval vessels will be able to zap and disable an approaching enemy boat's engine, allowing sailors to capture and interrogate their combatants rather than killing or wounding them. This technology will be especially useful in close-to-shore patrols, where ships are more vulnerable to attacks from small boats. Several companies are involved in building the so-called Laser Weapons System, including Raytheon and San Diego-based defense contractor Kratos. It will be tested soon aboard the USS Ponce, one of the workhorses of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.
Newer Rom Collection
I knew there was Dreamcast, PS2, Gamecube, Wii ISOs back in 2005, but they were all torrents with 0 seeds. Ten years later, these roms are on FTP servers. I began downloading NDS roms in 2007, because those were only a couple hundred megabytes and are on my old list. In 2010, I was downloading Saturn and Dreamcast ISOs. Last year I began downloading 2 Gigabyte ROMs for Gamecube, PSP.
Super Mario Sunshine (1.0 Gigabyte)
Super Smash Bros. Melee (1.0 Gigabyte)
Mario Kart Double Dash (1.2 Gigabyte)
Metal Gear Solid Twin Snakes (2.4 Gigabytes 2 files)
Playstation Portable
Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (850 MB)
Castlevania Dracula X Chronicles (603 MB)
Daxter (975 MB)
These Roms for the late 2010s when Retro-Bit manufactures Gamecube clone, PS2 clone, Wii clone for $80 once these patents expire like what happened with NES, Super NES, Genesis and GBA patents.


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For the third consecutive year, Goshen College was named Radio School of the Year in the 2014 Indiana Association of School Broadcasting's (IASB) college broadcasting competition.
Broadcasting and journalism students bring home outstanding state and national awards
Classes trace the Apostle Paul's footsteps through Greece and Rome
Goshen College Campus Pastor Bob Yoder remembers how his life was significantly changed by a semester spent in the Middle East during college, when the "Bible came alive" for him. He hopes the same will be true for his students as he helps lead one of two classes spending 20 days during May term traveling together through Greece and Rome, tracing the footsteps of the Apostle Paul.


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Secluded Palau hideaway
Nestled on Cala Capa Bay, Hotel Capo d'Orso Thalasso & Spa is a luxurious beach hideaway, surrounded by unspoiled rocky terrain and fragrant junipers. You might feel like you're on the edge of the world, but it's a 10-minute drive to Palau or a 20-minute boat ride to Porto Cervo.
Garden hammock or golf?
You can relax in hidden garden hammocks, or head to the 2 beaches and the Pitch & Putt greens on the hotel grounds for more outdoor fun. The hotel offers adventures farther afield too, including sailing trips on historic ship The Pulcinella, and tours of the Gallura countryside.
Live music, Turkish baths
An open-air gym makes workouts more fun, or you can opt to lounge by the 3 seawater pools or in the spa's Turkish bath. Breakfast is free, and you can connect to free WiFi at any of the 3 restaurants; in the evenings it's all about cocktails and live music.
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With wrought-iron furniture and tiled floors, the 84 guestrooms are elegant and airy, and each has a furnished veranda or balcony. All rooms offer Sky TV, minibars, and beach towels, while suites feature spacious living rooms.
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The lady in the picture was wearing the biggest scowl you'd ever seen. The photo was taken long ago, and it made you wonder what happened that day to make her so snarly. Was there a death, lost crops, an accident, bad weather or did the photographer make her angry?
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Feta & Olive Baked Potatoes
From EatingWell: January/February 1999
Feta, fresh herbs and chopped olives are a nice addition to a plain baked potato.
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- 4 large russet potatoes
- 1/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
- 2 1/2 tablespoons chopped fresh herbs, such as oregano or marjoram
- 4 teaspoons chopped black olives
- Preheat oven to 400ºF. Scrub potatoes well and pierce in several places with a fork.
- Bake potatoes directly on the center rack until tender, 45 to 60 minutes.
- Top each potato with 1 tablespoon feta, 2 teaspoons herbs and 1 teaspoon olives. Serve immediately.
Per serving: 173 calories; 3 g fat (1 g sat, 2 g mono); 3 mg cholesterol; 32 g carbohydrates; 0 g added sugars; 5 g protein; 2 g fiber; 218 mg sodium; 722 mg potassium.
Nutrition Bonus: Potassium (21% daily value), Vitamin C (18% dv).
Carbohydrate Servings: 2
Exchanges: 2 starch, 1/2 fat
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Okay so when I was pregnant I'm in the store with my 4 year old this little girl runs up to me and asked me " why are you so fat?!?" And my 4 year old gets mad and says "SHE NOT FAT SHE PREGNANT!" Then at that moment I was emberessed...
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3. The Field of Cormallen
It had been twelve days now. For twelve long days and countless more before them, he had been anxious to see Frodo and Sam again. Countless days where he had not known whether they were still alive or not and could only cling to what little hope still remained. There had been times when he had put his concerns aside, for there had been other pressing concerns too, but there was not a single moment when his heart was not with them. In most unexpected moments he would find himself thinking of them, asking himself if they were all right, if they looked upon the same sky, if they had achieved victories like the one the Ents had at Isengard or if they still had to hide in fear of unfriendly eyes. The thought that they might be dead was on his mind too, but he had abandoned it before it could take shape and would not pursue it even in his most desperate of moments.
Only after Sauron's ghastly servant presented Frodo's belongings to him and the armies of the West had he given up. At that moment, all his hopes and fears had come crushing down on him, burying what little light remained in darkness and swallowing every tear he would have shed. There he had given up and embraced death when it came to him. The moment of pain seared all consciousness from his body though many things were on his mind. Pictures of a long forgotten past emerged before his closing eyes - images of the Shire, of his home - and his heart formed the last wish it would ever form; if only I could see those dear ones again, his parents, friends, family, even sisters. And there was Merry, there was Sam and there was Frodo. Frodo, who, by then, was dead for him.
And yet he had lived. They had both lived, though in Frodo's case, living was not what it should be. For Pippin, living meant consciousness even if you were forced to stay in bed. Frodo had stayed in bed for twelve days now, just as Pippin had done, but he had not woken a single time. Merry had told him that he had moaned in his sleep, as he had on their journey to Rivendell after the Witch-king's blade had stabbed him, but apart from that there, had been no sign of life. Frodo's eyes remained closed, his lips sealed and his body motionless. As did Sam's.
Pippin had been disappointed when he had woken up some seven days ago and had found he was not allowed to see them, but he begged Aragorn and Gandalf and even Merry, who came here only days ago, to tell him everything. Yet he had not entered their tent himself, not until today. This was the first day he had been allowed to be up and about. Though he was sure he could have been on his feet before that, Aragorn had remained strict, no matter how he begged and tried to convince him to let him to get up.
Now he was finally up and actually made his way to Frodo and Sam's tent and yet he could not make himself and walk to their beds. No matter that he was glad to see them, he was also frightened. While he rested, he had wondered what the journey to Mordor had done to them. Had it left only traces of its evil on his friends, or changed them entirely? Mordor was, after all, not the easiest road one could take, especially not with the One Ring around your neck, a thing perilous enough on its own account. He would have liked Frodo to have remained as he had always been: a cheerful, thoughtful, queer fellow who had as much a sense for mischief in his forties as Pippin had in his tweens, but he worried it would not be so.
Taking a deep breath, Pippin slowly turned to face the beds Frodo and Sam lay in. He had to get this over with now or he would never find the courage to do so.
"You have slept away your birthday," he said with a scowl in his voice as he approached Sam's bed. He was careful to avoid looking at Frodo just yet. Shaking his head, he even managed a smile. "You silly hobbit. Probably only wanted to get out of giving mathoms. Well, I can tell you, you won't get around my present and don't tell me you had not thought of a little something for me because I know you have." The smile on his face faded and his cheerful voice broke. "What else could you have thought of during the long nights you were away?"
Sam had probably not even known his birthday had come and gone. He had looked after Frodo just as he had promised, probably better than anyone else could have. Still, he was a cheerful hobbit and birthdays were a cheerful topic so he could not help pulling Sam's leg a bit even though he was still unconscious.
The sight of Sam's face gave him a start of fear. His usually chubby cheeks had lost their rosy colour and were pale, cavernous, with healing scratches all over them. Deep lines of worry and sorrow now marked his brow and, though he looked peaceful, his face told of many hopeless hours and great pain. Sam had never been one to give up hope easily, just as Pippin would remain cheerful if he could, even in the darkest hour, but he knew, somehow, that this time, Sam had given up. Perhaps on the very same day he had.
Gandalf had told him how he had found them and Pippin somehow knew that they had waited for death there. What else could they have done? They had no hope of being rescued amidst ashes and flames. Pippin suddenly found himself wondering whether they would have welcomed death more than the eagles that had born them away. He abandoned the thought immediately and lifted a trembling hand to brush back some of Sam's golden curls. Sam certainly would not have welcomed death more than rescue and Frodo would not either. Pippin would not allow him to.
"I want to thank you, Sam," he whispered almost voicelessly, "not only for following Frodo, but also for taking care of him. Though I haven't looked at him yet, your face tells me a lot of what you have been through together and I want to thank you for being his strength. Frodo is tough, but I have seen the Ring gnawing at him ever since we left the Shire and its effects grew worse the further we travelled. I don't even want to imagine what it did to him in the end. You will have to tell us of it, you know, because Frodo will never speak about such things. He has never been one to speak about anything that has troubled him, fearing we would worry. But we worry because he is dear to us, as you well know, and we want to take care of him."
He placed a gentle kiss on Sam's forehead as a token of his love, gratitude and a multitude of other feelings words failed to describe. Pippin gazed at the sleeping face before him for a long moment studying the fine lines time and troubles had carven into it and dreading to look at the other face he had ached to see and prolonging the moment he would finally turn around for as long as he could.
He remembered Frodo's face in Rivendell, worn and white as a sheet. He had been unconscious then and Pippin had thought long about what the journey from the Shire had done to his cousin. He had sworn to himself that he would never allow Frodo to go through anything like that again. And yet he had. Frodo had recovered and had volunteered to take the Ring on an even more perilous journey than the previous one, a journey on which he and Merry had initially not been allowed to join him. He remembered Merry's words that if Frodo had to go, then it would be punishment for any of them to be left behind and he could hear his own voice echoing in his ears. "We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up." And he would have, even if he had not gained Master Elrond's permission.*
Pippin had tried to keep evil from Frodo, but in the end, even a whole fellowship could not protect his cousin. It had been Frodo's fate to go to Mordor alone and Pippin was convinced that it had also been his fate to go through the things he had experienced.
Taking a deep breath Pippin shook his head. He was being far too pensive for a fine spring morning. He would soon become as broody as Frodo.
At last, Pippin turned to look at his cousin, but even Sam's condition had not prepared him for the sight. It struck him like a mortal blow. For an instant, he swayed, clutching the mattress of Frodo's bed with both hands and gasping as if the very breath had been taken from him.
And even as he stared at the pitiful body, an image came to his mind of a night long forgotten. Standing at the bottom of the Hill in the Shire, laughing and joking with Frodo and Sam as they adjusted their straps. "He's been quite slack lately, and he'll feel the weight less when he's walked off some of his own," he had teased when Frodo moaned about the weight of his pack. The memory of the merry laughter that had answered him filled his eyes with tears. It had been so long since he'd last heard that bright, clear sound. "I shall be as thin as a willow-wand," his cousin had joked. **
Frodo had changed much since Amon Hen where Pippin had last seen him. In Rivendell, he had already been thinner than he had ever been before but now… Thin as a willow-wand he had become indeed.
His face seemed that of a stranger, yet there remained about it something that was familiar. Pale skin that even the sunlight streaming through the tent could not brighten showed many blood-crusted scratches and swellings that seemed unwilling to heal. Cavernous cheeks accentuated pallid, chapped lips and a chin made stronger by the hollowing of the jowls. Though Frodo looked peaceful in his slumber, fine lines had carved the traces of pain, strain and sorrow deeply into his face. Ebony curls that once glimmered in the light of a new morning were dull and strands of silver among them gave the tousled mop an uncharacteristically aged look. To Pippin it seemed as if the Ring and the journey to Mordor had sucked all youth out of Frodo's body.
Pippin's legs turned to jelly and he knelt beside his cousin's bed. His eyes filled with tears that he tried his best to blink away.
"My dear cousin, what has this journey done to you?" he whispered in a broken voice. Frodo looked so fragile Pippin was afraid he might break, but he needed to touch him, to prove to himself that this was real, that this was his beloved cousin. He reached out a trembling hand and lightly stroked the wan cheek. The skin was warm beneath his fingers and soft and the young hobbit could not help smiling, though Frodo showed no reaction to the caress.
The touch was enough to ease Pippin's fear. Frodo looked terrible and Pippin could see much of what he had been through in his wretched face, but he was alive and Pippin could feel the soft light shining from him. It was the light of love, compassion, mercy, goodwill, curiosity and understanding. It was Frodo's light; a radiance Pippin had first seen as a child, snuggled close to his elder cousin on his first visit to Bag End, his first night away from home. He had forgotten about it and yet the light had always been there, emanating from Frodo like an invisible essence.
He sighed with relief. The light meant Frodo, and it meant that whatever he had endured, he was still Pippin's dear cousin. The wounds would heal, the deathly pallor be cured. He leaned forward to place a soft kiss on Frodo's cheek. "I'm sorry I could not come earlier, Frodo, but I was hurt too and Aragorn would not let me up. He is King Aragorn now, I'll have you know, but he is just as stubborn as he ever was."
Pippin's his gaze fell upon Frodo's right hand. It was bandaged but Pippin could see the gap where Frodo's finger once had been. Merry had told him about the injury, but no-one knew how he had lost the finger. Pippin lowered his eyes, sadly.
"You have paid dearly for this journey, cousin. I once thought we were only going on an adventure," He lifted his head to Frodo's worn but peaceful face. "Do you remember when you asked me if I were willing to follow you? To be honest, I would not have come had I known what would come to pass, and I think I would have tried to stop you too, somehow. Our adventure was not quite like old Bilbo's, but an adventure we've certainly had." Pippin reached to caress Frodo's cheek again and his smile returned. He suddenly felt like an old nanny telling stories to a child in a sickbed. "Wait until you hear of the Ents and Isengard and how we came to meet the King of Rohan. Merry is his esquire, you know. He has the same shiny green and white mail every knight of Rohan wears. But he doesn't look half as handsome as I do in the silver and sable of Gondor. I am an esquire too, but in service to the King of Gondor, Aragorn. I offered my service to Denethor, who was the Steward of Gondor but--" Pippin paused, realising suddenly that he was babbling again, and snickered, shaking his head. "Just wait until you hear all the tales, Frodo. Merry and I can tell a great many and I don't doubt you and Sam have a few yourselves. You had better wake up soon so we can both hear all that has happened since our parting at the Anduin." Pippin still smiled though unshed tears shimmered in his eyes and his voice, exuberant from story-telling, grew low again. "Just wake up soon."
A hand lay upon his shoulder and Pippin jumped, startled to find Merry standing behind him, his face grave and sorrowful. "He will wake up," the older hobbit assured and Pippin nodded scrambling to his feet but not taking his eyes from Frodo. Sam and his cousin would wake up; it was only a matter of time.
"Let them rest now," Merry said softly. Pippin kissed Frodo goodbye and Merry led him slowly out of the tent. "I heard that bit about the livery, you rascally Took!" he said. Pippin grinned. "Don't you dare think you look better than I do! What's that tree compared to the white horse of Rohan?" Merry tried not to smile. "Frodo will agree with me, you shall see!"
Pippin nodded feeling he would agree with anything Frodo said if only he could hear his voice again. Merry put an arm around his shoulders, smiling compassionately at him. "He'll be all right," Merry assured him, and, though his voice remained cheerful, Pippin could see his sorrow reflected in his cousin's eyes. Though Merry might not show it and seldom spoke of them, his cousin shared the same fears and worries about Frodo as he did.
* The Fellowship of the Ring – The Ring Goes South
** The Fellowship of the Ring – Three Is Company
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I need a recessed light plan for my kitchen remodel. Help!
We are doing a DIY remodel of out kitchen. My husband will wire and install LED undercabinet lighting. We also want to redo the recessed lighting since the kitchen layout is changing.
We currently have 6" cans in the kitchen. We are tearing out all of the sheetrock in the kitchen ceiling in the cabinet/island area. So pretty much anything is possible I guess.
We will probably have 2 pendant lights centered over our island. What I really need help with is where to put the recessed lights/what kind (LED seems popular)/what size and where exactly they should go (how far out from the wall?).
Here is a vision of what the finished kitchen will look like
And the exact layout
Since we already have 6" cans it would be nice to reuse those and just get new trim kits for them. Can that be done? I've seen a 5" trim kit at Lowes that can fit into a 6" housing. Our current recessed lights are black inside which I hate. So I definitely want to get rid of that. I will buy new housings if thats what it takes.
Thank you!
CR6 or the RT6 should work fine - you will not see the black insides.
The following should help.
Here is a link that might be useful: LED recessed guide
using a CR6 or the RT6 lights will work great for this kitchen. I would also suggest taking under cabinet strip lighting into consideration. I will really light up your counter space and will make all the difference in your kitchen. The best part is, they are fairly cheap, last a long time and are easy to install your self! Good luck with you kitchen!
Thank you both. We will put undercabinet lighting in. Probably Seagull LED lights. My husband installed that brand in our last house and he is familiar with it. But perhaps we will try something else...any recommendations?
EW Profile or maxlite.
Here is a link that might be useful: Led Ucl discussion
Whats the best place to buy the EW Profile lighting online? What should I expect to pay for the materials? I have the following upper cabinets that would need to be outfitted - I added in the breaks for windows/no upper cabinets
sink with window
24" angled lazy susan
break with a window, 42" range hood, window
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The separate upper cabinets should be wired directly instead of attempting to use jumper wires.
The 33" section could use a 11" + 21", mounting track, 1 jumper wire and 1 wiring compartment.
You need to include all the necessary parts to get the total price. - mounting track, wiring compartment, possible jumper wires.


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How do i replace my chain saw fuel line?
My fuel line is broken on my craftsman chain saw. The plastic tube goes down into the engine where it doesnt seem accessible. How do i find a replacement tube and connect it?
On a 20 yr old Poulan that hadn't been started in several yrs, I found the right size plastic tubing that was compatible with gasoline at an auto parts store. To install it required removing several items: Cover, gas tank, carb (or whatever provides fuel). After all this, the chainsaw still would not start.
Best fix is to take it to a repair shop. The labor to replace a fuel line is low. The correct hose needs to be used.
Often, to replace a fuel line on a chain saw, the engine and fuel tank need to be removed to get access to the part. The fuel line is inserted into the fuel tank through a very small hole in the tank and takes some experience to replace without putting a hole in the new line.
You might find an experiences person to help---if you lived in Kansas City, I could show you how fairly easily.
I just had to do this with a 25 year old Poulan. I happened on a web site that has great little videos on small engine repair. Here is the link to the video on how to replace a chainsaw fuel line. Hope it helps.
Here is a link that might be useful: Replace fuel line video
That video is quite good----for that type saw. If the fuel tank is in front of the motor---that video is only good for the way to insert the new line.
I used a home made wire hook to find and pull out the line with the filter. I did have the forceps to install the new line.


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Better Know Bachmann: Homosexuality is "Part of Satan"
July 22, 2011
HRC Backstory this week highlighted some of Rep. Michele Bachmann's more egregious statements about the LGBT community. In order to defend her thoughts on the LGBT community, Bachmann had this to say at the EdWatch National Education Conference in 2004:
"Don't misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders."
She then continues on to characterize homosexuality as "a sad life," "sexual anarchy," and "part of Satan."
Words like this have emotional and social consequences, particularly when it comes from an elected official. Such anti-gay rhetoric creates a toxic environment that can make LGBT people believe they aren't worthy of the same legal rights and love that all Americans deserve.
Learn more about HRC's work to call out incidents of homophobia and transphobia through the Call it Out campaign.
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Posted by Stephanie Moore on April 21, 2011
I am very excited to be back at Forrester. After 2 years of being immersed in the customer experience, I can't wait to share new insights and advice with both Sourcing and Vendor Management (SVM) clients and the vendors that service those clients. Together we can watch as the consulting and outsourcing market faces yet another tipping point driven by:
· The increasing sophistication of the Sourcing and Vendor Management executive.
· The expanding "cloud "and the need for service aggregation and integration.
· The democratization or consumerization of technology (if users can buy an application for 99 cents to optimize their commute to work, why can't internal IT build an effective claims processing system with a million times that budget?)
· The increasing importance of contextual knowledge in the building and maintaining of enterprise IT systems.
· The need to expand the idea of global sourcing beyond India and China in order to efficiently harness the requisite contextual knowledge.
In returning to the analyst role, I plan to devote my energies to exploring this transformation and helping clients to exploit newly emerging global sourcing benefits.
Starting next week, I'll do a weekly wrap up of the interesting things I learned/saw/analyzed during the previous week. This could include vendor briefings, conversations with clients and industry experts, industry events, earnings announcements and/or consulting assignments. On a more frequent basis, I'll also try to blog specifically about inquiries that I answered during the day or week.
Posted by Duncan Jones on April 7, 2011
My tireless research of sourcing and vendor management technologies has brought me to Barcelona, for Emptoris' EMEA customer conference. I'd like to assure my colleagues in Boston, still cold and still "0 and . . .", that I'm not writing this while sitting in the sunshine at an open air café, sipping a cold cervesa and watching the lightly clad señoritas walk by. I'd like to assure them that, but I can't, because this is exactly what I am doing. Hopefully you'll also be able to experience Barcelona if you attend our IT Forum here in June: http://www.forrester.com/events/eventdetail/0,9179,2510,00.html
I saw some very good presentations by customers about their implementations of Emptoris' sourcing site. As a fearless analyst, I asked the question about the elephant that, while not actually in the room here in Barcelona, is certainly present in the customers' IT environment, namely SAP. All the speakers were procurement professionals in supposedly SAP-shops, so why had they chosen Emptoris over SAP's sourcing and CLM products?
Posted by Bill Martorelli on April 4, 2011
Recently, it seems that IT professionals cannot turn around without seeing another industry announcement involving the word "cloud." I am guilty too -- in fact, the SVM team at Forrester has written extensively on the topic of what cloud strategies mean to sourcing and vendor management professionals. Cloud impacts every technology, service category, industry vertical, geography, and company size differently. But despite impressive growth in software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service still takes a back seat to more conventional outsourcing "towers."
My colleague, Wolfgang Benkel, and I recently published The Forrester Wave™: Global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing, but we realize there are unique regional considerations, which we covered in separate market overview reports for North America and Europe. In terms of what client references told us about what they are actually outsourcing from their IT infrastructure outsourcing providers, services like help desk, deskside, and storage management predominate, while old (which are on their way out, i.e., mainframe) and the new (which have tremendous growth potential, i.e., IaaS) technologies are among the least represented.
We will present the findings from this Wave in a teleconference on May 12, 2011. Click here to register for the teleconference now.
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CAIRO â?? Egyptians took their quarrel over a draft constitution to polling stations Saturday after weeks of violent turmoil between the newly empowered Islamists and the mostly liberal opposition over the future identity of the nation.
Regardless of the outcome, the heated arguments among voters standing in line signaled that the referendum over the contentious charter is unlikely to end Egyptâ??s worst political crisis since the revolution that ousted Hosni Mubarak nearly two years ago.
The voting capped a nearly two-year struggle over the post-Mubarak identity of Egypt, with the latest crisis over the charter evolving into a dispute over whether Egypt should move toward a religious state under President Mohammed Morsiâ??s Muslim Brotherhood and their ultraconservative Salafi allies, or one that retains secular traditions and an Islamic character.
Underlining the tension, some 120,000 army troops were deployed to help the police protect polling stations and state institutions after clashes between Morsiâ??s supporters and opponents over the past three weeks left at least 10 people dead and about 1,000 wounded. The large-scale deployment did not stop a mob of supporters of ultraconservative cleric Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail attacking the Cairo offices of the liberal Wafd party, a member of an opposition alliance that has campaigned against the draft constitution.
â??Today I would like to offer my condolences to the Egyptian people on the collapse of the rule of law,â?ť Wafd leader El-Sayyed el-Badawi said.
The opposition called for a â??noâ?ť vote, while Morsiâ??s supporters said the constitution will help end the political instability that has roiled Egypt since the autocratic Mubarak was overthrown. Clerics, from the pulpits of mosques, have defended the constitution as a document that champions Islam.
The draft would empower Islamists to carry out the most widespread and strictest implementation of Islamic law that modern Egypt has seen. That authority rests on the three articles that explicitly mention Shariah, or Islamic law, as well as obscure legal language buried in a number of other articles that few noticed during the charterâ??s drafting but that Islamists insisted on including.
For Islamists, the constitution is the keystone for their ambitions to bring Islamic rule, a goal they say is justified by their large victory in last winterâ??s parliamentary elections. Morsi rejected opposition demands that he cancel the referendum.


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Amy Schumer Set to Host the 2015 MTV Movie Awards
Amy Schumer took over MTV's social media accounts last night to reveal some big news: She's officially signed on to host next year's MTV Movie Awards, which is set to air live from Los Angeles on Sunday, April 12th a 9:00pm. "Wickedly funny and sharply insightful, Amy Schumer is perhaps the most ascendant talent in comedy today and she's on the brink of an epic year," said MTV President Stephen Friedman in a statement. "We are thrilled to work with Amy to create an unpredictable and hilarious showcase for Hollywood's biggest blockbusters and brightest stars in what promises to be the most combustible Movie Awards ever."


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China's cash welcome, but Hanoi has Hun Sen's heart
Publication Date : 23-02-2014
When an ethnic Vietnamese crashed his motorcycle into an ethnic Khmer's car in Phnom Penh's Meanchey district last Saturday night, he was attacked by Khmers shouting the racially charged term for Vietnamese - "yuon" - and beaten to death.
That an ordinary traffic accident turned into a racist attack underlines the importance of managing ethnic fault lines in Cambodia - and the country's complex relationship with Vietnam, Cambodia's longtime regional rival, but also an ally of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Tens of thousands of ethnic Vietnamese - some born in Cambodia, but others recent immigrants - have the right to vote in Cambodia. Hun Sen needs their support in his rivalry with the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), says Dr Sok Touch of the International Relations Institute in Phnom Penh. CNRP leader Sam Rainsy - who still refuses to accept the result of last July's general election - on the other hand, plays a divisive anti-Vietnam card.
The two parties pointed fingers at each other after last week's incident.
Hun Sen, whose Cambodia People's Party (CPP) came to power in 1979 with the help of Vietnam, visited Hanoi in December last year as protesters back home demanded his resignation.
As this visit and a trip by the Premier to Japan showed, Cambodian foreign policy reflects the realities of domestic politics as well as its strategic interests.
Hun Sen visited Japan in November last year and Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe reciprocated a month later with a visit to Phnom Penh. For Hun Sen, courting Japan - a United States ally - is an indirect way of keeping on the right side of the US, says Dr Sok.
The trips have taken place at a time when Cambodia's relationship with China has cooled somewhat as Hun Sen's hold on power has become less certain, although Chinese companies are pumping millions of dollars in investments into Cambodia, from malls to mines.
Sino-Cambodian ties were much better in July 2012 when Cambodia took Beijing's side over the issue of China's overlapping claims with several Asean states in the South China Sea, at an Asean foreign ministers' meeting in Phnom Penh.
Using its position as chair of the regional bloc, Cambodia blocked consensus on the mention of the South China Sea disputes in a joint statement. As a result, for the first time in its history, Asean was unable to issue a joint communique.
A year later, after the July general election which Hun Sen's CPP won narrowly, China was among the first to congratulate him.
However, the narrow win and the continuing political turmoil in its aftermath as the opposition CNRP rejected the election results, refused to take its seats in Parliament and continued its protest against the results, raised questions on Hun Sen's longevity in office.
The swing against the CPP - put down to a younger generation of voters less impressed by him and his government, widely seen as corrupt - came as a surprise to the well-entrenched party and showed that Hun Sen was not invincible.
As the political stalemate dragged on, the Chinese were apparently displeased.
In December last year, China's state news agency Xinhua published an article rebuking Hun Sen for failing to deal with the dispute.
It cited political analysts saying Hun Sen should act swiftly to "restore his popularity". It also called for "serious and deep reforms" in Cambodia over the next five years.
China was now keeping Hun Sen "at arm's length", wrote researchers Murray Hiebert and Phuong Nguyen of the Washington-based think-tank Centre for Strategic and International Studies in an article published by the Yale Global journal earlier this month.
Citing the Xinhua article, they wrote: "Chinese leaders probably will not give Hun Sen the cold shoulder any time soon, but they seem to be charting a middle course and slowly moving away from their past policy of wholeheartedly endorsing his government."
Other analysts are not so sure. On Feb 14, an article in the Phnom Penh Post newspaper quoted Australian historian and author Milton Osborne - a noted authority on Cambodia - as saying:
"We will need a great deal more evidence than is currently available to conclude that this relationship, which has so far served both parties well, is changing in a clear and important fashion."
And, important as Cambodia's ties with China are - China being Cambodia's most important economic partner - Hun Sen has not allowed these to affect his country's ties with Vietnam. If anything, with China's increasing coolness to him, his relationship with Vietnam may become all the more important.
"As (an) immediate neighbour, Hun Sen has to keep Vietnam happy. After all, it was Hanoi who put him in power," Dr Ian Storey, a senior fellow at Singapore's Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, told The Sunday Times.
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It was around this time two years ago, Thanksgiving, when Barnesville High School football player Zach Hochhalter learned his mother was diagnosed with brain cancer.
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The annual Minnesota County Human Service Cost Report for Calendar Year 2013 (PDF) is available on DHS' public website. The report, compiled by the Financial Operations Division, contains statewide and county-specific costs and revenue shares for economic support, health and social service programs.
An updated County Records Retention Schedule (PDF) recently was posted on CountyLink. Only item 13 on the schedule was updated to meet new federal records retention requirements related to the Affordable Care Act. DHS worked with county partners to update the County Human Services General Records Retention Schedule to align public assistance document retention with the new federal requirements as well as clarify document management and retention practices for counties. More information is in a bulletin about the new schedule (PDF). Child Support records are not a public assistance "related program" for the new requirement, see Item 18 on the schedule for retention guidelines for Child Support records.
A new online publication from DHS provides information about DHS public health care programs and MNsure for county, tribal and state eligibility workers. DHS public health care programs and MNsure: Weekly information for county, tribal and state eligibility workers is available on the CountyLink website. DHS' Health Care Administration (HCA) created the update in an effort to keep county, tribal and state eligibility workers informed about news and information that affects their work. HCA will send this publication each Monday to ensure information reaches workers in a timely manner.
DHS and the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) recently launched a new State Innovation Model (SIM) Minnesota website at mn.gov/sim. In February 2013 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation awarded Minnesota a $45 million SIM testing grant to be implemented during a three-year period ending October 2016. The goal is to help Minnesota providers and communities work together to create healthier futures for Minnesotans. Minnesota will use the grant money to test new ways of delivering and paying for health care using the Minnesota Accountable Health Model. Minnesota's SIM initiative is a joint effort between the departments of Human Services and Health with support from Gov. Mark Dayton's office.
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