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Fun, festive party decorative pop poms. Perfect for any occasion. Pre-cut pieces for easy assembly. Contains 2 pink pre-Strung 6-foot long garlands.
Pieces are pre-cut so assembly is a breeze
Just unfold and fluff the tissue paper pom poms to create a lovely festive garland
Contains 2 pre-strung 6-foot long garlands
Pom Poms fluff to approximately 4 inches in diameter.
Product Details:
Product Length:
0.43 inches
Product Width:
5.75 inches
Product Height:
5.95 inches
Product Weight:
7.6 ounces
Package Length:
6.0 inches
Package Width:
5.8 inches
Package Height:
0.6 inches
Package Weight:
0.09 pounds
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6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Great product
Oct 22, 2011
By CMW
I bought 2 packages for a baby shower I was planning. There were beautiful and got a lot of compliments. The only downside is the amount of time it takes to open up the pom poms - it took two of us and hour and a half to prepare 4 garlands, so make sure you keep that in mind. It was definitely worth it though!
16 of 20 found the following review helpful:
Why didn't I think of that?
Sep 04, 2012
By MGBF
Ever have one of those moments where you see a neat invention and think to yourself, "I wish I came up with that...I'd be a millionaire!" Looks like Martha beat us on this one. This item is very simply tissue paper folded into an accordion and tied to ribbon. I would agree that it's very time consuming to fluff these because of the possibility of ripping the paper. There are two strings with six poms per string.
I think the price is fair, but if you have tissue paper, scissors and ribbon at home, you can make your very own garland!
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Adorable to look at, maddening to assemble.
Apr 23, 2014
By St.PaulyGirl
While my friend and I loved the final results of this decoration, we almost lost our s#!t trying to assemble them. Of course, when we got to the last two or three puffs, we had the process down, but they almost went in the garbage about 6 times trying to get to that point.
In the end, everyone at the shower loved them and they were a great find.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Cute and Difficult to open.
Aug 09, 2013
By Carol
As makes sense, these poufs come folded and flattened into a small plastic pouch. Unfortunately that left me anxiously setting up for a bridal shower with shakey nervous hands, unable to unfold each pom-pom without tearing it multiple times. Imagine trying to take apart filo dough layer by layer....
They ended up still looking pretty cute, but it takes patience and a delicate touch to set these up. Maybe do it beforehand so your'e not nervous about time.
7 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Perfect party decor for baby girl 1st bday!
Jun 25, 2011
By E. Pruett
Loved this kit! A little time consuming to fluff each tissue "puff" but it looks exactly like this picture when finished. I was thrilled with the finished product. Also, the colors of the tissue were exactly what was represented on the packaging.
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Im having my first baby im 9 weeks and due January 19th. I heard my babies heartbeat today it was so amazing. My little beans pulse was 121. Amazing!
First Baby :)
Posted 06/22/2012
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Posted 06/22/2012
congrats! :) it's our first too. i'm 7 weeks today but got to hear the heartbeat earlier this week.
Bridgett (30) + Chris (31) TTC since 8/11, Diagnosed PCOS 2/12, BFP 6/4/12, Due 2/8/13 *IT'S A BOY!!*
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Congratulations! Im 35 weeks with my second boy :)
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Congrats! I will be 31 weeks tomorrow and this is our first too. It's an amazing feeling to hear that little heart beat for the first time. I cried like a baby.
Joe and Amanda Happily Married 03/11/11
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Posted 06/22/2012
I heard my babies heart beat at 8 weeks n I cried as well. It amazed me to know they had a heart beat that early. N now 24 weeks when I hear it I smile so hard!!! Lol congrats tho mama.
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Posted 06/22/2012
Thanks! Im pretty nervous. My boyfriend is all I have and we know nothing about babies! Any good books yall recommend to help us learn?
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Congratulations!! I am 21 weeks with my first. Every time I hear her heartbeat I cry. I hope your first trimester is much easier then mine.


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I totally missed this one until a few days ago, but VMware has released the ESXi Hypervisor free of charge. They obviously see the pending challenge from Microsoft, Xen and Virtualbox and are hoping to gain traction and mindshare in the community – but I have one piece of advice for VMware.
If you want to regain the "developer" mindshare – those evangelists that sponsor VMware in their corporations – then restore the VMTN Subscription.
VMTN was my affordable way in to VMware – and because of that and my persistence in my current workplace, VMware now has over 20 ESX Enterprise license sales.
VMware releases ESXi for free
I totally missed this one until a few days ago, but VMware has released the ESXi Hypervisor free of charge. They obviously see the pending challenge from Microsoft, Xen and Virtualbox and are hoping to gain traction and mindshare in the community – but I have one piece of advice for VMware.
My year with Microsoft Vista.
Today sees the 1st birthday of my current laptop so a happy birthday to it. The machine was a top-of-the-line, fully tricked out Dell Latitude D830, Core 2 Duo 2.2Ghz, 4GB RAM, 160GB HD, nVidia quadro NVS graphics plus the new snazzy 1GB Intel TurboCache Memory module.
Because of the specs – you need a 64bit OS to make use of the 4GB – and the TurboCache part only works on Vista I thought I would give Vista 64 a try – a serious try. I would give Vista a whole year as my primary OS. Here I am one year later to report my findings.
The is a company laptop, and Vista is not yet an approved OS for use in the workplace, but I work in IT and I'm quite proficient at taking care of myself, plus some IT members are evaluating Vista as an option for corporate roll out. I also installed Automatic Updates from Microsoft to stay current (bypassing the corporate WSUS server that sometimes takes months to push out updates because of close periods, quarter ends, etc).
Thus there was minimal risk to this endeavour.
Setting up a new machine so you can get your work done is always the most painful part of getting a new computer, this proved to be the case again with Vista. However, the pain was double in that many of the drivers I needed didn't exist or were hard to source plus some of my loved devices just didn't work any more (my MSI USB TV dongle has suffered the indignation of remaining in my drawer for a year).
Ricoh were really good with drivers for the multifunction printer/copiers in the office. Installation of the driver was a bit fiddly, but once done it worked very well. However, for anyone with Vista it means the drivers need to be installed manually whereas XP users get the driver delivered to them when they connect to the printer.
Most of my regular applications worked fine out of the box, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Office (well you would hope this would), McAfee AntiVirus, however I had significant issues with other necessary applications.
Initially the corporate F5 VPN didn't support 64bit and I had to wait some months before were were given a beta version to test.
VMware Workstation was just into beta supporting Vista so I was able to use that from the off which was useful – because I virtualised my old XP laptop and was able to keep that around for legacy app support for the things I just couldn't get going in Vista – VMware, I love you dearly. However, I am also our VMware Virtual Infrastructure goto-guy and to this date VMware Virtual Infrastructre Client does not install natively on Vista 64… I had some pretty nasty hoops and hacks to go through to get that installed. I wouldn't like to have to do that again. Come on VMware, sort it out.
Microsoft AD and Exchange Admin Tools. What can I say? They don't work. Microsoft acknowledge that they won't work on Vista. Your prime adopters of Vista in a corporate department are the IT people – but we *need* the admin tools to do our jobs. Thus we need XP. How can you expect corporate IT departments to push Vista to the workforce when we can't use it for our basic Windows AD/Exchange administration? Major, major oversight.
Yahoo Messenger was another troublesome application, and still is. Before the "beta vista" version, it frequently crashed out and would not remain connected. However since the beta vista version arrived it has been stable but and it is a big but, RAM usage in it is insane. I have just started the application and have had no messages sent or received and it is already claiming over 500MB of ram.
Which neatly leads me on to…. RAM usage. Everything takes more RAM in Vista. Vista introduces some new processes to the mix like the PresentationFontCache.exe (520MB) plus lots more buried in svchost.exe processes (the DLL service runner program). If I total up the RAM usage in svchost.exe processes I come to 1.8GB ram.
This laptop has been powered on for maybe 30 minutes and it is using 2.5GB ram – what applications are open? Firefox, putty and Task Manager. By the time I fire up Outlook and some other apps I use I'll be looking at 3.8GB – which isn't necessarily bad, it is within my physical RAM limit so the machine isn't swapping. However it does bring into question the reason for a 64bit OS in the first place – to make the 4GB ram available. Would I have been better taking the addressing limit of XP and living with 3.5GB ram?
Finally, and the cruncher. This machine is slow, sometimes and frequently, painfully frustratingly slow. I fully expect that it will take minutes from pressing the power on button to getting to my Desktop. Powering down sometimes takes longer and frequently hangs/locksup/bluescreens when powering down while in the docking station (I can't believe Microsoft and Dell still haven't figured out this constant and widespread problem after all these years – this is a constant bugbear for Dell owners).
When in operation the machine will start to act slowly, to the point that I can see the putty terminal window repaint itself. Firing up SysInternals task manager shows the CPU(s) at 100%, sometimes it is McAfee's updates, sometimes other apps, sometimes nothing is apparently consuming the CPU, but all the same, it is pegged at 100%.
This week already I have had 4 "coffee events" – where the machine gets so slow that you decide you may as well go and make some coffee in the vain hope that the machine will rectify itself by the time you get back. If it is still stuck when you get back then it is a measurable coffee event. The responsiveness will return perhaps within 5-10 minutes, but it is frustrating and supremely annoying.
My conclusion?
Vista is not a terrible OS by any means. It is Windows, it works like the Windows and for the most part behaves in an acceptable fashion. However, I find it hard to justify the resource requirements – I don't see the benefit. Vista doesn't do anything more than XP did except for perhaps the annoying UAC controls and the feeling that somehow you are slightly better protected from the world. I constantly ask myself if XP would perform better on this machine (which isn't a slouch) and now that I have completed my Vista year the next (if you'll pardon the pun) window of opportunity available to me, I will be reformatting and going back to XP.
Vista is years ahead of its time – maybe in 3-5 years when we have Eight Core 10Ghz CPUs it might perform to an acceptable level.
Script to generate a list of valid email recipients from a qmail setup
Last week I set-up a Postfix+MailScanner+ClamAV anti-spam and anti-virus mail relay server. Testing seemed all good, except that it was scanning lots of bogus email addresses, e.g. to firstname.lastname@example.com
Postfix provides a relay_recipients file (at least thats what the MailScanner setup called it) where you specify the specific email addresses that you are prepared to accept email for.
In the old days we used SMTP VRFY – which people dropped because it was a way to verify good email addresses and clean spam lists. However, by dropping it it seems the spammers just ignored cleaning and just blast out to any and all email address they could find. The irony being that the problems are now worse because we are constantly being bombarded by spam to bogus addresses.
As my primary email system is (still) qmail I needed a way to build a list of valid emails that qmail would accept – so I set about writing a perl script that would process the control/virtualdomains users/assign and dot-qmail files in the same way that qmail would.
The result is here:
Feel free to make use of the script – hopefully it can help others too. Note that it doesn't handle ~alias users, nor if you have a database backed system – but manual and vpopmail setups should be just fine. No warranty implied or given though Use at your own risk.
Once I added the relay_recipients file to the postfix relay and waited a few days, awstats reported that 99.8% of all my email was to bogus addresses – wow! That is a massive saving on CPU (antispam/av scanning) and traffic.
Holy Irony Batman!
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FastCGI for IIS (PHP related)
I haven't seen this announced on the PHP blogs (planets) yet and since it may be of interest to those running PHP (with IIS as a CGI) I'll repost the details here.
Joe Stagner's Blog (Microsoft employee) has posted that the IIS team have released the FastCGI extension for IIS 5.1/6.0 as a free download from http://www.iis.net/.
Rather than reword it all, here are the salient bits in Joe's words:
|HUGE KUDOS to the IIS team for their hard work and innovation (technical and political) for making FastCGI a reality.)
If your a developer that needs to use a CGI based platform (Like PHP) and work on Windows � then this is a godsend.
They guys went into over-drive to get this ready before the upcoming Zend-Con.
Here are the official particulars.
Since early 2006, Microsoft and Zend have been working together on a technical collaboration with the PHP community to significantly enhance the reliability and performance of PHP on Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008. As part of this collaboration, the IIS product group has been working on a new component for IIS6 and IIS7 called FastCGI Extension which will enable IIS to much more effectively host PHP applications.
New blog category – Photography
I've had a semi-keen interest in photography for a year or so now, but never really put anything together to display some pictures properly. So in the absence of actually writing any real blog posts – why not put up some pictures?
Well first up is a shot of my little girl, Lauren, who just turned 3 years old. I was really going for the depth of field, and I think this one (out of about 20) came out really well.
Next is my eldest, Erin.
Here we have the first of the twins, Kirsten.
And finally, the other twin half who makes up all of the noise quota for any set of twins, Shane.
Comments and suggestions are very welcome.
Delphi for PHP (aka D4PHP)
Yesterday I installed Delphi for PHP (D4PHP), a new development environment from CodeGear, a Borland company.
D4PHP is CodeGear's first attempt at bringing visual rapid application development to PHP. To be honest my first impression was fear. Here I am, 10+ years into PHP and used to developing raw PHP in vi and Zend Studio, with a couple of forays into Eclipse, staring at a PHP RAD tool without the first clue where to begin.
At first glance, it looks like a familiar IDE environment and my first thought was to File / Open, open a .php and use it as an editor. But no, if I'm going to use it I should use it the way it was meant to be.
"Hello world" was pretty straight forward, but going beyond that left me pretty bewildered, not sure what was going on underneath, nor how it was supposed to plug together. VCLs (Visual Component Library) exist to "simplify" the building of applications, so I thought I would follow the build-a-component guide and turn my preg_find recursive directory iterator/filter/sorter into a VCL. I think I succeeded (it "compiles" ok) but I don't know how to test it!
Make no mistake – D4PHP is a mindshift for traditional PHP developers like myself.
Step back from the POST handlers and sequential logic we are used to and prepare to look at application components that seem to have a life of their own. I have to confess that being a simple procedural kind of guy that thinks OO is mostly hype, D4PHP is a huge concept for me to grapple with. But I think I might just enjoy it.
Code release: preg_find() – A recursive file listing tool for PHP
Version 2.1
I originally wrote this a few years ago and never really promoted it beyond the realms of the #php IRC channel on EfNet. However, it has managed to find its way into applications such as WordPress and many other PHP apps. It is gratifying to know that others are finding it useful.
So what is preg_find() anyway? A short summary for those who have never encountered it: Imaging a recursive capable glob() with the ability to filter the results with a regex (PCRE) and various arguments to modify the results to bring back additional data.
Well today I thought I would add one commonly requested feature. Sorting. Using the power of PHP's anonymous (lambda-style) functions, preg_find() now creates a custom sort routine based on the arguments passed in, filename, dir+filename, last modified, file size, disk usage (yes those last 2 are different) in either ascending or decending order.
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A simple example to get started – we'll work on my PHP miscellaneous code directory:
Example 1: List the files (no directories):
include 'preg_find.php'; $files = preg_find('/./', '../code'); foreach($files as $file) printf("
%sn", $file);
You can see the result here
Now let us look at a recursive search – this is easy, just pass in the PREG_FIND_RECURSIVE argument.
Example 2: List the files, recursively:
$files = preg_find('/./', '../code', PREG_FIND_RECURSIVE); foreach($files as $file) printf("
%sn", $file);
You can see the result here
Lets go futher, this time we don't want to see any files – only a directory structure.
Example 3: List the directory tree:
$files = preg_find('/./', '../code', PREG_FIND_DIRONLY|PREG_FIND_RECURSIVE); foreach($files as $file) printf("
%sn", $file);
You can see the result here
It should be obvious by now that we are using constants as our modifier arguments. What might not be immediately obvious is that these constants are "bit" values (.e.g. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, …, 1024, etc) and using PHP's Bitwise Or operator "|" we can combine modifiers to pass multiple modifiers into the function.
How about a regex? Files starting with str_ and ending in .php
Example 4: Using a regex on the same code as example 1:
$files = preg_find('/^str_.*?.php$/D', '../code'); foreach($files as $file) printf("
%sn", $file);
You can see the result here
What about that funky PREG_FIND_RETURNASSOC modifier?
This will change the output dramatically from a simple file/directory array to an associative array where the key is the filename, and the value is lots of information about that file.
Example5: Use of PREG_FIND_RETURNASSOC
$files = preg_find('/^str_.*?.php$/D', '../code', PREG_FIND_RETURNASSOC); foreach($files as $file) printf("
%sn", $file);
You can see the result here
As I mentioned earlier, I added sorting capability to the results, so let us look at some examples of that.
Example 6. Sorting the results (of example 1)
$files = preg_find('/./', '../code', PREG_FIND_SORTKEYS); foreach($files as $file) printf("
%sn", $file);
You can see the result here
Example 7. And reverse sort.
$files = preg_find('/./', '../code', PREG_FIND_SORTKEYS|PREG_FIND_SORTDESC); foreach($files as $file) printf("
%sn", $file);
You can see the result here
Ok, thats all well and good, what about something more interesting?
Example 8. Finding the largest 5 files in the tree, sorted by filesize, descending.
$files = preg_find('/./', '../code', PREG_FIND_RECURSIVE|PREG_FIND_RETURNASSOC|PREG_FIND_SORTFILESIZE|PREG_FIND_SORTDESC); $i=1; foreach($files as $file => $stats) { printf('
%d) %d %s', $i, $stats['stat']['size'], $file); $i++; if ($i > 5) break; }
You can see the result here.
Or what about the 10 most recently modified files?
Example 9.
$files = preg_find('/./', '../code', PREG_FIND_RECURSIVE|PREG_FIND_RETURNASSOC|PREG_FIND_SORTMODIFIED|PREG_FIND_SORTDESC); $i=1; foreach($files as $file => $stats) { printf('
%d) %s - %d bytes - %s', $i, date('Y-m-d H:i:s', $stats['stat']['mtime']), $stats['stat']['size'], $file); $i++; if ($i > 10) break; }
You can see the result here.
I am keen to receive feedback on what you think of this function. If you have used it in some other application – great, I would love to know. Suggestions, improvements, criticisms are also always welcome.
Release: vmclone.pl for VMware ESX Server
I have released a script, vmclone.pl, to assist in the cloning of full Virtual Machines within an ESX Server box. This came about because of a gap in functionality between replicating individual hard disks and the clone option in the VI client that was mostly missing from VMs.
The tool will replicate and rename all the files in a VM with a single command line execution and optionally allows you to tweak (using regex) some of the options such as changing the memory size of a VM.
The tool is available here: http://www.pgregg.com/projects/vmclone/
I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions on it.


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OAKLAND, Calif. A man wanted for violating his parole killed three veteran police officers and gravely wounded another in two shootings Saturday, the first after a routine traffic stop and the second after a massive manhunt ended in gunfire, authorities said. The gunman was also killed.
"It's in these moments that words are extraordinarily inadequate," said Mayor Ron Dellums at a somber news conference announcing the slayings. It was the first time in the history of the Oakland Police Department that three officers were killed in the line of duty in the same day.
The violence began when two officers on motorcycles stopped a 1995 Buick sedan in east Oakland just after 1 p.m., Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason said. The driver opened fire, killing one officer and gravely wounding another.
The gunman then fled on foot, police said, leading to an intense manhunt by dozens of Oakland police, California Highway Patrol officers and Alameda County sheriff deputies. Streets were roped off and an entire area of east Oakland closed to traffic.
Around 3:30 p.m. officers got an anonymous tip that the gunman was inside a nearby apartment building. A SWAT team entered an apartment to clear and search it when the gunman opened fire, police said. Two members of the SWAT team were killed and a third was grazed by a bullet, police said.
Officers returned fire, killing 26-year-old Lovelle Mixon of Oakland, Acting Oakland police Chief Howard Jordan said.
The slain officers were identified as Sgt. Mark Dunakin, 40, who was killed at the first shooting. The officers killed at the second location were Sgt. Ervin Romans, 43, and Sgt. Daniel Sakai, 35. Officer John Hege, 41, was in grave condition.
Reached by telephone late Saturday, Hege's father, Dr. John S. Hege said, "He had an injury to his brain ... and it's not clear he can survive. ... It is a stunning thing to face, although we were always aware of the risks."
Hege, a retired physician from neighboring Piedmont, said his son loved being a policeman. He worked well with people and was an Eagle Scout. He played high school football and wrestled. He umpired and coached even as a youth, and joined the Oakland Police Department reserves.
After graduating from St, Mary's College in Moraga, Calif., he taught high school physical education for a few years in nearby Hayward before joining the police department a decade ago.
He recently became a motorcyle traffic patrol officer, Dr. Hege said, adding, "He liked excitement."
As for the slain shooting suspect, the father said, "The man was evidently terribly desperate. It is a sad story..."
Grieving officers at the police station hugged and consoled each other.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said it was a tragic day.
"All four officers dedicated their lives to public safety and selflessly worked to protect the people of Oakland," he said in a statement. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those lost, the Oakland Police Department and law enforcement officers throughout California during this difficult time."


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Ahhh. You Federation are always concerned when I crash your party
My writeup yesterday was more for Gul Nador's benefit than anything else. You know how we Cardassians need some friendly threats and challenges in order to build a trusting working relationship.
I also wanted to make his little trip to Harmony Station in his duct-tape and peanut-encrusted Galor a bit more interesting than just clunking along at Warp 3.5. So I thought to do an experiment to attach the Galor to the secondary hull of a Starfleet BCE (ship background backstory fluff to follow) by use of a gravitic anchor... then activate the quantum slipstream drive and see if it still sticks at Warp 35
A Galor class destroyer is not exactly as small as a Lyran PF but given the sheer size of a star cruiser, and the fact that I can tow away 3-5 Borg Spheres simultaneously for about 20km with TBR1 + EM3... does make a Galor look rather tiny compared to Starfleet's current graviton generator tech.
The way I do things, I don't just magically appear at the RP venue without some sort of background... which does not affect your established GMing but rather enhances it.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not exactly alien to Gul Nador in-character. Infact we work very well together on the Allied Reconstruction Project for the past month or so despite unwanted interference from passing Federation fleets, and are active in the same theatre of operations.
you keep mention peanuts, what did you do Nador? replace your keys with peanut shells held in place with good ol duct tap?
i would like to get this pony train under way tonight, will be posting the new thread in a bit.
PS ive worked with Nador on these boards in RP's as well. least till he tried to compute the last didget of Pi


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I remember years ago hearing Dale Earnhardt Jr, I believe, say that the Brickyard had such a hold over Tony Stewart that sometimes he just wanted to shake him and tell him to "let it go man." Of course that may have been before Tony won his first Brickyard but it still illustrates how IMS is a special place. Honestly, wouldn't wouldn't want to win at their home track.
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Giveaway: Coca-Cola / Carmike Cinemas Gift Basket!!Posted by in Contests | NASCAR - (18 Comments)
*****ENTRIES FOR THIS CONTEST ARE NOW CLOSED AND A WINNER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED VIA EMAIL. Thank you EVERYONE who commented and tweeted.*****
As you probably know there are several #NASCAR drivers that are members of the Coca-Cola racing family- including our beloved Tony Stewart (and fellow Stewart-Haas Racing Drivers Ryan Newman and Danica Patrick)! But did you know that Carmike Cinemas have these really cool collector cups featuring Coca-Cola Family Drivers TONY STEWART, Ryan Newman, Danica Patrick, Jeff Burton and Greg Biffle? They do! These awesome looking cups can be purchased at the theater concession stands starting August 1st 2012 (what a great excuse to go to the movies right?) and will be available until September 30th OR until the cups run out! You will want to get thee to a theater as soon as possible to get one (I tell you I WISH I lived in an area with these theaters because I would be there on August 1st to make sure I got a Tony Stewart cup or three!). And along with your uber cool Coca-Cola collector #NASCAR cup you also have the chance to enter for a trip to the Daytona 500 (WHOO HOO!)! So be sure to head over to your local Carmike Cinema starting August 1st to get your #NASCAR Coca-Cola Racing family cup! If you LIKE the Carmike Cinema Facebook Page they have a great little ap for you to look up movie times that is super handy!
GIVEAWAY: To announce the Coca-Cola Racing Family cups- I have been given a GREAT Coca-Cola/Carmike Gift Basket for you to win! The basket includes 4 of the Coca-Cola #NASCAR driver collectible cups, a Coca-Cola t-shirt and cooler, 2 Carmike Cinemas movie passes and a $50 AMEX gift card! What an awesome gift basket!
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General disclosure: The prize was provided by Coca-Cola. Neither Coca-Cola nor its program partners (NASCAR + Carmike Cinemas) are sponsors, administrators, or involved in any other way with this giveaway. All opinions expressed in the post are my own and not those of The Coca-Cola Company or aforementioned partners. Winner to be chosen by Bad Groove.
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Amy's NASCAR Reading List Special: Interview With Author Melissa GoodmanPosted by in General | NASCAR - (1 Comments)
As a NASCAR fan who is also a voracious reader I have a whole shelf in my bookcase devoted to NASCAR. This specific shelf has books that range from driver biographies, to general NASCAR guides like NASCAR FOR DUMMIES, to coffee table books filled with spectacular pictures. There are books of quotes and how-to books (Seriously I own a book about how to be a crew chief). (more…)
Amy's #NASCAR Reading ListPosted by in General | NASCAR - (1 Comments)
I will be out of town until Tuesday of next week so you guys have to make these last! Also- feel free to leave me random comments on this post because I will be randomly checking my email from my phone (it's not a smart phone so it's quite the rigamarole) and they will make me smile! Until next week (I have some good stuff planned for next week people!):
Congress Preserves Military Sponsorship of Sports- Dustin Long for USA Today
Stewart Wins Second Career World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series A-Feature- Speed Staff for SpeedTV.com
Dale Earnhardt Jr., Danica Patrick Working Together To Promote Nationwide/Satisfy Sponsors- Bob Pockrass for SportingNews.com
12 Questions with Brian France- Jeff Gluck for SBNation.com
Osbourne Out As Crew Chief for Carl Edwards, No.99- team release, NASCAR.COM
Midseason Grades: Some Drivers Get A's But Guess Who Gets An F- Jeff Owens for SportingNews.com
Busch Offers Glimpse Of True Self- Lee Spencer for Fox Sports
Gratuitous Tony Stewart Picture:
Four NASCAR Drivers Listed on SI's 50 Most Fortunate AthletesPosted by in General | NASCAR - (0 Comments)
Sport's Illustrated came out with the "Fortunate 50," simply a list of the top 50 highest earning American athletes based on salary, winnings, bonuses, endorsements and appearance fees only. Four NASCAR drivers made the top 50:
8th- Dale Earnhardt Jr
18th- Jeff Gordon
29th- Tony Stewart (technically Tony is tied for 29th with baseball player Cliff Lee).
33rd- Jimmie Johnson
I don't know why but I am surprised Jimmie Johnson is that low on the list. And pleasantly surprised that Tony is above him. But wow…the other three drivers are all Hendrick drivers. Just saying that is a strong team financially.
Race 20: Louden (aka The Kitchen Sink Race)Posted by in Contests | NASCAR - (0 Comments)
So to me it seemed like the 14 Team and crew chief Steve Addington had to throw everything but the kitchen sink at the #14 Chevy during the 301 laps at New Hampshire Speedway yesterday. It was near painful to watch the team struggle getting the car where it seemed drivable. And when I say they threw everything at it- they threw EVERYTHING at it. The first caution pitstop they threw 2 tires (most teams were taking 2) fuel 1 round up on the track bar and 2 rounds of wedge. Yet Tony continued to struggle- even after searching for different grooves on the track and being unsuccessful. The team eventually fell a lap down struggling with grip (I believe at one point Tony mentioned wanting to choke the Goodyear engineers in his frustration with lack of grip).
The team has to be credited for not giving up though. After falling a lap down the team was able to get back on the lead lap (and stay there) by taking a wave around. Then during the last caution pit stop Steve Addington took another HUGE swing at the car- calling for yet another track bar adjustment AND spring rubbers out of the front of the car. He restarted in 16th and was able to move up through the field to 11th at one point. He finished the race 12th and fell down to 7th in the points.
I don't really have any "notes" for this race and while watching the race I thought it might be fun for me to share some of my favorite race day tweets with you. You can click on the tweet to be taken to the original. Let me know if you like this feature!
My Favorite Race Day Tweets from LOUDEN, NH:
Next weekend is an off weekend as teams prep for the Brickyard 400!
Some (of my) Words About The Espy's & Amy's #NASCAR Reading ListPosted by in General | NASCAR - (1 Comments)
I know I usually just throw up a list of articles I have read and then carry on when it comes to the #NASCAR reading list but today I have some words I must share about last night's Espy's. Tony Stewart was nominated for two of ESPN's Espy Awards (Best Championship Performance and Best Driver). He won Best Driver (Yey! He has won Best Driver every year following a championship win- so whoohoo for keeping the streak alive there!). He did NOT win Best Championship performance, which I think is RIDICULOUS. Seriously? The #14 team went into the chase wondering if they should even BE there. They turned around and won HALF of the chase races- something that has NEVER been done before- and it still came down to a seat of your pants race at Homestead-Miami- where basically Tony HAD TO WIN the race to win the championship. HAD TO WIN. Then there was the race…where he had to come up through the field not ONCE but TWICE. A race where his car sustained damage early on and STILL THEY WON- because that is PURE WILL right there. And I know Tony would tell you right now- it wasn't just him- but the WHOLE TEAM that made that happen. Some of you might be saying I am biased and yeah I probably am (hell I KNOW I am). But I don't care which TWO drivers it had come down to- it would still have been spectacular if the situation was the same. It greatly helped that it was Tony and Carl because the two bantered back and forth in the media about it. So to quote one my twitter friends- it's "EMBARRASSING" that they didn't win. While Tony gets DRIVER of the year all to himself- I think the Championship Performance of the year would have been one that the entire 14 TEAM could have held up together- as they totally deserved that. (And Yes I voted. And YES I encouraged my Tony fans on twitter and facebook to join me in voting).
Ok so I am off my Espy's soapbox! Now onto the reading list which includes a link from my brother who does not follow NASCAR as closely but wanted me to share a link with you.
Allmendinger's NASCAR Career Is Effectively Over- TC for NASCARInsiders.com
The Science and Smoke Behind NASCAR's MOBIL 1 Motor Oil- Karla Sanchez for MotorTrend.com
The NASCAR drug policy- Bob Pockrass for SportingNews.com
Long Road Ahead For Allmendinger?- David Newton for ESPN.com
Very UGLY Incident Involving Tyler Walker at Williams Grove- Jeff Gluck for SBNation.com
Monday Morning Tear Down: Frustrated Dale Earnhardt Jr. Says Daytona Rules Need Some Work- Bob Pockrass for SportingNews.com
12 Questions with Brad Keselowski- Jeff Gluck for SBNation.com
And the one my brother emailed me to share with his concise commentary of WTF: Woman Watched NASCAR With Deceased Man For Over A Year- Nick Bromberg for Yahoo! Sports
As always a Tony picture for your viewing pleasure:
10 More Things About Daytona & Tony Stewart's Win (It's Like Watching A Horror Movie)Posted by in General | NASCAR - (0 Comments)
In my excitement after Tony took the checkered flag after a drama filled Daytona- I had forgotten a couple things that I wanted to mention- but then I watched this video recap from Showtime's InsideNASCAR and remembered them: (more…)


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Netherlands ordered to compensate families of Bosnian Muslims killed after Dutch troops handed them over to Bosnian Serb forces in 1995.
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THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS—A court on Wednesday ordered the Netherlands to compensate the families of more than 300 Bosnian Muslims killed after Dutch troops handed them over to Bosnian Serb forces in 1995, in a ruling that could make countries more leery to contribute troops to peacekeeping missions.
The civil court in The Hague cleared the Netherlands of liability in the massacre of nearly 8,000 others, saying that although those people sought protection in the UN safe haven of Srebrenica they were never directly in the custody of the Dutch troops.
The ruling could be appealed, however, meaning it's unlikely to resolve the Dutch national trauma over the country's role in the worst massacre on European soil since the Second World War.
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The court ruled that the Dutch peacekeeping troops could have protected the 300-plus men and boys who were among thousands of Muslims — mainly women, children and elderly people — taking shelter in a Dutch compound inside the UN-declared safe haven of Srebrenica.
The troops — part of a Dutch UN battalion known as Dutchbat — handed over those in the compound two days after the town fell. The Bosnian Serb troops then killed the Muslim men and boys, who "would have survived if Dutchbat had acted properly," said presiding Judge Larissa Alwin.
The court said the Netherlands could not be held responsible for people who had taken shelter in the town but who were not inside the Dutch compound. Those included thousands of other Bosnian Muslim men and boys who fled into the nearby forests when the town fell and were later rounded up and killed by Bosnian Serb forces.
In an emotionally charged hearing attended by a handful of victims' relatives, Alwin said the peacekeepers should have known that the men taken from the compound would be slain because there was already evidence of the Serbs committing war crimes.
"By co-operating in the deportation of these men, Dutchbat acted unlawfully," Alwin said.
On July 13, 1995, the peacekeepers bowed to pressure from Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Gen. Ratko Mladic and forced thousands of Muslim families out of their fenced-off compound.
The Bosnian Serb forces sorted the Muslims by gender, then trucked the males away and began killing them in what would become the bloody climax to the 1992-95 Bosnian war, a slaughter that international courts have ruled was genocide. The war claimed 100,000 lives in all.
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December 18, 2012
Residents in unincorporated King County — including Klahanie, Mirrormont and Preston in the Issaquah area and more than 200,000 people countywide — no longer face a $20 vehicle-license fee to fund road maintenance.
King County Council members dropped the proposed fee from the 2013 county budget, and approved the spending plan Nov. 13 in a unanimous decision. Instead, officials plan to lobby the state government for additional road dollars — a challenge as the state faces another budget shortfall next year.
In September, King County Executive Dow Constantine proposed a $20 fee to fund road maintenance and storm response in rural and unincorporated areas.
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Rowley Properties executive Richard Symms retires
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Longtime Rowley Properties executive Richard Symms retired Sept. 1 after 44 years as a leader at the Issaquah-based company.
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Symms worked as a teacher in the Issaquah School District before joining Rowley Properties founder George Rowley Sr. to sell houses on Squak Mountain.
Residents can honor Symms by sending a 4-by-6-inch note card with thoughts or a story to Rowley Properties, Attn: RSS, 1595 N.W. Gilman Blvd., Suite 1, Issaquah, WA 98027. The deadline for submissions is Oct. 5.
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Washington Conservation Corps seeks members
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Like the New Deal-era Civilian Conservation Corps, the 21st-century equivalent enlists young adults to tackle habitat and infrastructure projects.
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Lindbergh High School's Max Ferguson wins Cougar Mountain Trail Run Series
August 14, 2012
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People take interest in running for a lot of reasons. They do it for the health benefits, the stress relief and even the runner's high. But for Cougar Mountain Trail Run Series 13 Mile winner Max Ferguson, he had only one thing in mind.
The ladies.
"I guess I started in eighth grade because I wanted to be better at the mile in P.E.," Ferguson said. "I thought that me being better at the P.E. mile would help me do better with the ladies than I was doing at the time."
Ferguson attended Lindbergh High School where he ran as a member of the cross-country team. After going to college on the East Coast, Ferguson returned home and, like a certain Tom Hanks character, kept running.


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- Specify pickup details, such as the ready time, latest time or special instructions.
- Set up email notifications to the recipient or others to inform them of the scheduled pickup.
- Access your FedEx Ship Manager® address book.
Ready to schedule a pickup online? Here's how:
- Log in to your account on fedex.com. If you don't have a FedEx account, register now.
- Navigate to the Ship tab and scroll down to Schedule a Pickup. Your account information and address will automatically appear in the Pickup Address section.
- Select which type of package pickup you would like to schedule.
When you schedule a pickup, you can choose to have it picked up the same day or next day using FedEx Express. If your timing is more flexible, choose FedEx Ground to get it picked up the next day or up to 10 days from your request. And if you have a regular scheduled FedEx Ground® pickup, you get your FedEx Express® one-time pickups for free.
Scheduling on the run
You can schedule a pickup online even when you're on the go. It's easy to do from your smartphone. Just open our mobile website at m.fedex.com. Or if you have our mobile application installed, simply click on More at the bottom of the screen and then select "FedEx® Mobile Web."
Get started
Click here for more information on how to handle your pickups online. Then go to fedex.com to log in and schedule your pickup today.
Not ready to give up the phone? You can schedule a pickup by calling 1.800.GoFedEx 1.800.463.3339.
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