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Thanks for the advice guys, much of it is sound. In particular, all advice about weather, and approaches to avoid will be heeded, I don't think there is one right way to do any passage, but there are certainly wrong ways.
The Bahamas is only our first destination around Cuba. From there we are going for Turks-DR-Jamaica-Caymans-Cozumel-Florida. Bahamas as currently planned would be the longest leg, being a 5-6 day passage, while most of the other hops should be 2-3 days of 24 hour cruising.
Also, what may be lost is that I am approaching this trip with a significant amount of flexibility. I certainly intend to make a passage from SC-Bahamas, but if we arrive in Charleston facing 2 weeks of North Wind, I'll be spending that time down the ICW to FL. While I may not be superbly experienced, there is only one way to become an experienced sailor. Proper planning and reasonable precaution will ensure the experience does not come at a great cost. Also, there have been tens of thousands of dollars invested into the boat, including new rigging (lines, checked & cleaned sails), new Raymarine e120 nav. equipment, new high capacity alternator, feathering prop, etc.
Significant planning has been made for this trip, and I feel pretty well prepared, the baot couldn't be more prepared. I wanted to know why my plans were different than most, and if I should reconsider. So far it seems my plans are not out of reach, but I should have serious respect for weather and be prepared to alter plans as need, it seems flexibility would be judicious. As far as I can tell, in the right conditions a passage from SC-Bahamas is feasible and enjoyable, but in the wrong conditions it is miserable and potentially deadly.
Does anyone have a good understanding of the Blake Spur, and what happens with currents around there? Right now, assuming I get a good 4-5 day weather window, the activity around the Spur makes me think the leg has to be due East from Hilton Head above* the Spur, then S/SW to Abacos. Can anyone share insight on the currents/ conditions around the Spur, and whether/why it sound be avoided?
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I spied some pots of Victoria in the store and brought them home. I've heard mixed reviews on rhubarb here. Is it possible? I heard on a local board ages ago that someone had success here with it. Anyone here have suggestions on the best place to try it?
I grow it in my garden and have for over ten years. I'm in South Raleigh, zone 7b. It does not like the weather here so on really hot years it suffers, often to the point of death. I just buy new roots in the Spring. The variety 'Victoria' does best for me but does not always show a lot of red on the stalk so a pie can look like you made it out of celery instead of rhubarb (it tastes the same as red stalked plants).
I have tried every trick in the book to keep this plant happy. Some people can get away with planting it in high shade, like under tall pine trees - this hasn't worked for me. I grow mine in full sun and in super rich, dark black soil that I double dig as deeply as possible. I continually add compost to the area around the plant whenever I can. I try to plant as early as I can. If the roots sprout early (like February) I will cover the crowns on really cold nights (below 28) but they can usually handle cold weather. Once the plant gets big I harvest 3-5 stalks and make a pie. I don't follow the guidelines in the books that suggest waiting for three years before harvesting. Around here you never know if the plants are even going to survive summer heat so I say harvest when you can and hope for the best. I never take more than a third of the stalks off of any one plant.

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CHILDREN have been playing alongside heavy machinery at an Oxford primary school, according to their parents.
Bayards Hill Primary School, in Waynflete Road, Barton, is in phase two of its £5.2m refurbishment but parents are concerned the playground is a building site.
The school reopened for the new term on Wednesday.
Father and builder Kieran Carton said he does not believe the school should be open.
Kieran Carton with daughter Annie, five
He said: "That is crazy. I've been working on building sites since I was a teenager and I know there's no way the kids should be in here – it shouldn't be open, it's unsafe."
His five-year-old daughter Annie has just joined the school and said: "It's really noisy – it's bang-bang-bang, clatter-clatter."
The work, taking place around the newly completed classrooms, is to build office space and the school's kitchen.
The building work is fenced off using temporary wire panels which can be moved to let construction staff in and out.
One mother, who did not want to be named, said: "It's a wreck, it's like a war zone.
"There are humungous holes in the playground and the surface hasn't been set."
Seven-year-old pupil William Meecham said: "They're knocking down buildings. It's really dusty inside and it's all noisy. I want the builders to finish."
Some parents are pulling their children out of classes until changes are made.
Hayley Davies's son Jonas, 10, did not go to school yesterday because of the work.
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Mrs Davies, 45, of Headington, said: "It's disgusting – I'm appalled. I'm not letting Jonas come in. No-one's asked me why he's not there yet.
"We got a text on Tuesday saying the school was open. I thought it was going to be safe for them to go in.
"I understand it might not be completely finished, but you can't teach in this."
Oxfordshire County Council's cabinet member for business and customer services Nick Carter said: "There is absolutely no question of children's safety being compromised as a result of Bayards Hill School opening this week.
"Construction work has been taking place at the school over the summer holidays.
"There were concerns up to the start of term that this phase of construction work would not be completed for the school to open this week.
"However, all checks and measures have been taken to ensure the site is safe.
"Staff from the council's property team have visited the site today to reassure parents who have raised concerns."
The school's acting headteacher Sylvia Hawken seemed unaware that parents were not sending children in, saying: "No-one has told me they've taken their children out of school because of this."
Acting headteacher Sylvia Hawken
She dismissed the concerns, and said: "There are lots of schools where building work is going on. It's quite normal."
Following questions from the Oxford Mail, Oxfordshire County Council, which is responsible for the construction work, completed an emergency inspection yesterday.
Oxford East MP Andrew Smith said: "Parents have a right to know that their children are safe at school.
"It would have been better if things could have been organised to avoid this worry.
"If the school does close, then I hope any days lost will be made up, because every day counts in a child's education."
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We are currently remodeling our kitchen and would like to install a chimney style range hood that vents straight up through the roof. The problem is that we live in a cold climate and are concerned that the warm air rising up the vent will condense and cause the hood to drip on the range top. Does anyone have any advice on how we can avoid this problem? Our only option is to vent straight up or go with a recirculating hood that we feel will not do an adequate job.
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A History of Modern Wars of Attrition
A war of attrition is usually conceptualized as a bloody slogging match, epitomized by imagery of futile frontal assaults on the Western Front of the First World War. As such, many academics, politicians, and military officers currently consider attrition to be a wholly undesirable method of warfare. This first book-length study of wars of attrition challenges this viewpoint. A historical analysis of the strategic thought behind attrition demonstrates that it was often implemented to conserve casualties, not to engage in a bloody, senseless assault. Moreover, attrition frequently proved an effective means of attaining a state's political aims in warfare, particularly in serving as a preliminary to decisive warfare, reducing risk of escalation, and coercing an opponent in negotiations.
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EUGENE, Ore. — A specialty kitchen store in downtown Eugene is closing its doors. After eight years in business, Hartwick's is closing its store in the 5th Street Public Market. Over the years, Hartwick's says it's had strong sales, a devoted following, and a successful run of cooking classes. The store will start a liquidation … Continue reading »
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Rib Rub Prep Time: 10 minutes Yield: Makes about 3/4 cup Ingredients: 1/3 cup paprika 1/4 cup sugar 3 tablespoons black pepper 2 tablespoons salt 2 teaspoons dry mustard 2 teaspoons cayenne 1 teaspoon white pepper Preparation: Mix all ingredients. Work 1/2 half mixture into meat 12-24 hours before cooking. Apply remaining rub before smoking. … Continue reading »
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COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. — A Cottage Grove nonprofit is sending stoves to third-world countries, and it's letting community members learn about its business Tuesday night. InStove is having an open house at its plant at 5:30 p.m. In the past few years, the company's made more than 1,000 cookstoves that are used in more than … Continue reading »
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EUGENE, Ore. — The 23rd annual Chef's Night Out is Tuesday night at the Hult Center. The event features some of Lane County's top chefs cooking up samples of their best dishes. The night's festivities will also feature some local breweries and wineries. The proceeds go to food for Lane County and organizers say it's … Continue reading »
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EUGENE, Ore. — How many turkeys would you need if you're expecting 300 guests? A local church is offering a free meal on Thanksgiving. At St. Peter Church on Maxwell Road inside the parish center in a tiny kitchen, a group of women are preparing a feast. These women are preparing a feast, cutting apples, … Continue reading »
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Via True Hoop, via Detroit Bad Boys, comes a story involving Kim Jong Il, which automatically qualifies it as among the day's weirdest. The story focuses on Kim's love of NBA basketball, saying the dictator is
...an avid basketball fan, experts on North Korea say, so much so that he is said to have regulation courts at most of his palaces plus a video library of practically every game Michael Jordan ever played for the Bulls.
Which is fine and all. But more interesting is this passage, about how North Korea's isolation from the world has led to an alternate universe of basketball rules.
...Basketball, with little contact with the outside world, has evolved like the tortoises in the Galapagos Islands. Chinese media have reported that the country even developed its own scoring system, with three points for a dunk, four points for a three-pointer that does not touch the rim and eight points for a basket scored in the final three seconds. Miss a free throw, and it's minus one.
Those crazy Korean ballers. Word, they're even considering this new rule where players would not be allowed to take two steps without dribbling.


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I'm so happy and thankful to see another year! I'm happy to publish the first of many lookbooks and I hope you love it. Inside you'll find pieces from some of my favorite writers, poets and influencer. I hope you love it as much as I do.
Twenty Six- REMIX!
This is the REMIX!! Due to the 19 inches of snow and ugly blizzard we had in Chicago I had to postpone my party Sunday. I cried like a baby all Sunday morning but this blizzard has given me enough time to prepare for the party. I've finished the my party favors and the final edits on my first lookbook. I'm so excited to publish tomorrow! I can't wait to dance the night away!
Cocktails with Camille: Twenty Six 2.1.2015
I'm so excited about my twenty six birthday! Every year is a milestone to me. I would love for you to be there! 2.1.2015! See you there.
I'm ready for you 2015!
Christmas is over and I've been planning for 2015. 2014 was a good year for me. I started the year off on good terms. I was interning at a large PR agency in the John Hancock building, shopping on the magnificent mile and living the life. Until my internship was over and several interviews didn't fall through I was unemployed for the first time in a very long time this summer. It was the first time in seven years that I didn't have a job. My money was funny and I was discouraged with my job search. Looking back this was an awesome summer.
Huh? Why would I say that? I said it because it's true, I finally had time to be with my family, friends, my blog and time to relax. The last seven years I have worked, worked, worked and worked. I was always on the go and I never wanted to relax. I was a total beach bum this summer. I exercised and took long walks on the beach and rode Divy bikes with my brother in Hyde Park. I turned up with my sister any day of the week. It was awesome looking back and reflecting on it. On the last day of summer a very close friend of the family called me late at night recommending me for a job at a university here in Chicago. I sent my application in that night and had an interview set up and boom. I was back working on October 1st. I never imagined that I would be working at a university, but I love my work and being able to create and do all the things I enjoy doing. Since October I've made 20 flyers and planned several events. At the beginning of the year my goal was to become the next amazing PR girl but I got something even better and meaningful.
This year I stopped eating meat for 11 months and just recently started eating seafood again. I got my first membership to a gym and I'm looking forward to taking more fitness classes soon. My goal for next year is to stay committed and consistent in my work, my blog, my workouts and health lifestyle. I made my first vision board in June while I was unemployed and it gave me so much hope and life. Every once in a while when I need inspiration or hope, I just look up and remember I have goals and dreams to make happen. I can't wait to start on my board for 2015.
How was your year? Have you ever created a vision board? Try it!
Rest in Peace Titi Branch – Co-founder of Miss Jessie's Natural Hair Care
When you hear the name Miss Jessie's or the Soho Salon, you should immediately think of Titi and Miko Branch. I found out about Titi's passing early this morning and I was shocked. I send my prayers and love to her sister Miko, her family and everyone who loved her. No one will ever know why she decided to take her own life. Mental illnesses and depression are real and sometimes there's nothing we can do, but seek counseling and help whether it be spiritual and/or medical attention. Depression and the feeling of saddens heightens during the colder months of the season. There have been many suicides this year in the Black community. I believe the community as a whole has to change the way we view going to counseling and seeking help for our minds. Many of us view seeing a therapist as a terrible thing, but it's no different than going to the doctor for a checkup. It's just there to help you see if everything is well. Titi I don't know what you were going through, but I hope you knew you were truly loved and you helped women and men across the world love themselves in their natural state. Your love and legacy will live on forever. RIP beloved.
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Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween! I haven't bought a costume since 5th grade, but this year I am totally in the Halloween spirit. I'm going for a bad girl Rythm Nation type of vibe this year. My leather leggings are from H&M+, my top and jacket are from Old Navy, necklace is from ALDO Accessories, my plastic boots are from Burlington and I'm wearing Ruby Woo from MAC. Do you like my Halloween look?


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Anyone looking for a small development board based on the Arduino platform that is also equipped with wireless connectivity, may be interested in the Arachnio created by Logos Electromechanical.
The Arachnio is open source small form factor board and has been created to provide a compact yet rugged board to allow developers and makers to take the Internet of Things everywhere. Watch the video below to learn more.


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On Thursday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a final rule aimed at decreasing occupant ejections in passenger vehicles. The standard, which will help reduce the number of people partially or completely ejected through side windows during rollover crashes, will begin phasing in during 2013.
"Safety is our highest priority," said U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. "This new standard will help save lives and reduce injuries by requiring vehicles to have a safety system that keeps occupants in the vehicle in a rollover crash."
Under the new rule, vehicle manufacturers must develop a countermeasure for light passenger vehicles under 10,000 lbs. that prevents the equivalent of an unbelted adult from moving more than four inches past the side window opening in the event of a crash.
The new standard will begin phasing in during 2013. All newly manufactured vehicles will be required to provide this protection by model year 2018.
"Rollover crashes are the deadliest of all crash types and this is another important step in our efforts to reduce fatalities and serious injuries that result from them," said Administrator David Strickland, NHTSA. "When fully implemented, we believe this standard will prevent on average 373 fatalities and 476 serious injuries every year."
Thursday's announcement is part of NHTSA's initiative to improve the overall safety for occupants in the event of a rollover crash. Previously, the agency issued rules requiring that all new vehicles come equipped with electronic stability control to keep vehicles from losing control and also upgraded its roof crush standard to keep the occupant compartment intact. To view the new standard click here.
The groups urged planners to add parking near the National Mall for the millions of people who will visit by bus and car over the next several months, kicking off with the National Cherry Blossom Festival.
In their meetings, UMA members shared information about their own businesses and rallied for backing of three critical needs: opposition of FMCSA's proposal to raise the Federal financial responsibility limits, support of Rep. Barletta's proposal to remove CSA scores from public view until the data used to calculate the score can be improved, and support to preserve the current charter service rule.
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Question for smokers........
I don't watch a lot of TV, but it seems as though every time I do, I end up seeing one or more of those dramatic anti-smoking commercials from the Health & Human Services Department. They are certainly striking.
I'm wondering how smokers are receiving them. If you don't mind sharing, do the commercials make you want to quit? Do you think you might call the number on the screen? Do you have a different reaction?
When I was a smoker 40+ years ago, not much was said about smoking and health issues. Seeing these commercials makes me very glad I quit when I did. But of course I've felt that way ever since.
They are very drastic....I wish I had paid attention years ago when the warnings first started coming out...If I manage to survive lung cancer living with 1 and i/4 lung, emphesema and COPD is terrible....but we were so cool way back then...or so we were told.
I have never been a smoker but as a retired home health/Hospice RN I can tell you I have seen the damage smoking tobacco can cause....not a pretty picture and I certainly hope the ads will make a difference.
I have mild emphysema due to be exposed to second hand cigarette smoke while growing up and also in the workplace.
Not a smoker here either. Those warnings against smoking were coming out when I was a kid. We also got to touch and feel the difference between a smoker and and non-smokers lungs in science class. That was quite memorable.
My kids have seen the commercial with the lady who has to add the voice box, teeth and hair to look halfway normal. Dd comments on it every time. I feel the lady is making a difference.
Yeah, good ads because it's much worse than a user on dope, or a crack head, or somebody drinking themselves into oblivion then driving around drunk or doped up and killing people.
I quit smoking 6 years ago, but I still resent the "smoking is bad" attitude and make sure we ignore the drug problem or the homeless problem or people going hungry every night problem.
My quitting had nothing to do with these ads, I quit because I wanted to and that's all there was to it, and I can tell you there's nobody who wants you to quit smoking more than a former smoker, but seriously.....I don't think the ads will make that much difference because it's just another annoying commercial destined to be ignored and quickly forgotten.
I've noticed a few anti-smoling ads. But, what is very noticable is old TV movies. During the late hours of the night, my wife watches a channel that run old serial programs fron the 1950s and a little into the 1960s. Those old programs and movies glamorized smoking, and I notice how diffferent is it today. Back then, there was Geroge Burns who always had a scene punctuated with a cigar. The western dudes fired up regularily and a sea diver would grab a smoke immediately after a dive. Other noticeable scenes have the hero snuffing out a cigarette just before donning boxing gloves and then pound bejabbers our of a punching bag; A guy and gal out on a date at a romatic spot; the guy fires up and smoke swirls around the head of the gal and she ACCEPTS this as normal macho. If he offers her a smoke, she accepts it acting as though she had been waiting. In later scenes when our hero has to make a supreme physical exertion, smoking seemingly had no effect on his performance.
The diffference about how smoking was portraied then and now is striking. I have come to believe that movies and plays from 1920 through 1960s did more to glamorize and promote smoking than tobacco ads did.
I am only 14 days smoke free, I've never tried to quit before and the commercials do not get to me any more than other commercials. I quit because of cervical infusion and I want to heal to the fullest quickest pace possible. I do miss it but I feel so much better already.
Perhaps, zipper and samkaren, these ads will trigger a response in younger people, not so addicted by years and years of habit.
I'll never forget when my 70 year old mother quit a fifty-plus year old habit cold turkey. Didn't tell anyone...just did it! Her motive was MONEY, lol. She finally took her head out of the sand and put down, on paper, the thousands of dollars that she would save if she weren't spending it on cartons of cigarettes. She even figured it out for five and ten years!
Her pleasure in her smoke free life was (and still is) something to see.
It was a beautiful thing. As a 'reward ', we of the second and third generation all worked to scrub and repaint the inside of her house even the ceiling, clean the carpets, clean the furniture, wash every article of clothing, bedding, etc.
My mom was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in 2007 at the age of 45 because of smoking. And only after the surgery to remove part of her lung did she finally quit. And she commented on how much better she felt and she never realized how stinky smokers are until she stopped.
And even after all that, after she healed, she started smoking again until she died at age 46.
It really sucks not having a mom around. She will never see me get married or meet her grandkids. And I 100% blame cigarettes and their addictive power. So ANYTHING that helps people quit or never start is wonderful in my book!
I also think smoking is worse than a lot of other addictions because it directly affects other people unless you live alone and only smoke inside your house. I get annoyed even by people smoking in their cars because I still have to breathe it in at a stop light, even if my windows are up. It seeps in. I think it's so selfish. Do what you want to yourself but don't make others have to suffer for your decisions.
I have never been a smoker, but I am stunned by the price of a pack of cigarettes. I was behind someone in line who was buying a pack and the cost was over $6!!! That is an awful lot of money literally going up in smoke. That would motivate me to quit more than any ad.
...not so addicted by years and years of habit...
(Sigh) It's this kind of naivety, foolishness and misinformation that caused me to light many a cigarette when I smoked. For the intellectually challenged, (since words have become "offensive" these days I won't call them as I see them), uh, let's put this simple, habit is not an addiction. Again? Sure! habit is not an addiction. Very different.
The other thing that annoys me is how people think preaching or nagging will get people to quit. Or people saying they're going to quit thinking you can if you think you can. Or any number of other things. You will quit smoking when, and only when you die, or when you decide you WANT to quit. Poking pins in your ear, putting patches on, sucking on a nicotine inhaler, a vaporizer, and my favorite joke, the "e-cigs" are all good ways to milk money from people. Seldom will they get you to quit, although some people decide they want to quit to be able to quit using those things.
I quit for one reason. I wanted to quit. For me, money was the motivator. Pretty simple. But so many people want to make it complicated. They want to claim "I'm ADDICTED!!!" so they don't have to take any personal responsibility. And all the other little jokes out there.
Now for the commercials: They wouldn't have had much impact on me because it's the exaggeration in action. I'm surprised the politically correct folk haven't attacked the commercials.


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Papyrus and Quills Creative Writing Club
January 6, 2015 •
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Papyrus and Quills is a creative writing club that offers all students opportunities to learn and practice the craft of creative writing. Students meet weekly on Thursdays after school in room 230 for 1 ½ hours in a workshop environment. Students write, read aloud, and critique. In... Read more »
Sewing Club
January 6, 2015 •
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The Sewing Club is for those students who want to learn how to sew their own clothes. We talk about fashion styles, color trends, and ways to look our best. Students learn how to use a sewing machine, how to sew seams, and how to read and follow a pattern. The projects that students make are entirely... Read more »
Art & Fashion Show
Savanna Smith and Christopher Philopena
June 7, 2013 •
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On Tuesday, June 4th, the MHS upper café was packed with the art of students. Ranging from simple pottery cups to a grand and symbolically rich mural, that... Read more »
Writing a Pantoum Is As Easy As 1-2-3-4, 2-6-4-8 Etc.
January 11, 2013 •
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Members of Papyrus and Quills spent a January afternoon trying their hands at writing a pantoum - a poem where lines are repeated in a specific order. ... Read more »
Art Club Creates a Monster for Main Street
October 9, 2012 •
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Students in the MHS Art Club created a Frankenstein Scarecrow for the 4th annual downtown scarecrow festival. Student Autumn... Read more »
Papyrus & Quills Creative Writing
September 4, 2012 •
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Adviser: Mrs. Weinberg Papyrus and Quills is the creative writing club that lets you explore the worlds of fiction, poetry, and screenwriting! Grab your favorite pen or bring your laptop and join students of all grades and abilities as we write, revise, read aloud and share the writing we are all... Read more »
Exploratory Jewelry Club
September 4, 2012 •
Filed under Clubs, Creative, Exploratory Jewelry Club
Advisor: Mrs. Beyer If you enjoy making things with your hands and like to challenge yourself with new things, then you need to come to room 164 every Wednesday. You will learn how to make jewelry in a relaxed environment with your friends and peers from 2:10-3:30 and learn how to market your skills.... Read more »
Art Club
September 4, 2012 •
Filed under Art Club, Clubs, Creative
Advisor: Karen Stavolone The art club meets every Thursday after school in room 161 (pottery room). Activities are created and directed by our club members. Past members have painted murals in the hallway, community projects and individual projects ranging from clay objects to printing holiday cards. New... Read more »


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METRO VANCOUVER -- The new Evergreen Line trains will run through a tunnel that Alice built.
In keeping with tradition, the tunnel-boring machine being used to construct the $1.4-billion rapid transit line was officially christened Friday as "Alice" — after Canada's first female geologist Alice Wilson.
Alice will drill a single shaft in one direction, instead of two, for the two-kilometre tunnel that will run east of Barnet Highway in Port Moody to south of Kemsley Avenue in Coquitlam.
Transportation officials say this will allow for a shorter construction schedule for the rapid transit line, which is slated to open in 2016 and connect Burnaby and Coquitlam. Tunnelling is expected to begin within days.
Once complete, the Evergreen Line will connect the Tri-Cities to the rest of the SkyTrain system, creating the longest rapid transit network in Canada, at 79 kilometres.
Alice's single-lane tunnel is different from the one drilled by "Sweet Leilani", the 86-metre-long boring machine involved in the twin, 5.3-metre Canada Line tunnels between South False Creek and Waterfront Station.
Bored tunnel construction — unlike the cut-and-cover work done on the Cambie stretch of the Canada Line — means there will be no disruption to the surface above, except at entry and exit points.
The biggest sale of the year, on now! Find almost $4 million worth of items such as cars, trips, furniture, gift cards and more at discounts of up to 50% off. Don't miss out as savvy shoppers will move fast to take advantage of these deep discounts. Sale ends Wednesday, April 1, at 9 p.m. Like it? Buy it before its gone. Brought to you by The Vancouver Sun and The Province.


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I am in tennessee and my loan was sent to usda for final review how long is the current wait
I am trying to buy a Hud home and my loan has been sent to usda for final review does anyone know how far out that usda in tennessee currently is, or how i can find that info. i have been all over usda RD website and i can't find anything. i have filled for an extention and from what i understand is that HUD will only go 60 days out. and time is getting close.


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I love the little insights on Tomlin and the tackles working after practice with Robinson.
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I love the little insights on Tomlin and the tackles working after practice with Robinson.
What interests me is that Tomlin was poking at Robinson the other day calling him a "one trick pony". I know what that means...Tomlin loves this kid and will be on his back constantly to make him better. I say Robinson certainly makes the team...right after Golden.
I think there is little chance Robinson could ever clear waivers, especially with teams like the Colts going to the 3-4. Robinson has too much film on him being impressive on the field.
Playing Fantasy Football does not qualify you to be the in the front office or on the coaching staff of the Pittsburgh Steelers. They are professionals and you are not!
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What Unix program generates "diff"s between text files (or INSERT/UPDATE/DELETEs for databases) in such a way that the order that the "diff"s are applied in is irrelevant, and the result is the same regardless of order.
Etherpad used to do something like this.
Example (for a given document or database):
% Adam makes a change X, then Bob makes a change Y, then Adam makes another change Z.
% However, because of network latency, Adam sees the changes in this order: XZY, while Bob sees them in this order: YXZ.
% However, the code/changes are written so that XYZ and YXZ yield the same result.
Note: ideally, this can be done without having to do X/Y/Z inverse at any point.
I have read http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2043165/operational-transformation-library but I'm not sure this really does what I want.


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A tightly managed reimbursement market and mandated earthquake retrofits make creating new environments for care delivery challenging in California. In San Diego, Cambridge assisted Children's Hospital, UCSD's Department of Pediatrics and Sharp Memorial by developing Physicians Medical Center adjacent to their landlocked campuses. PMC is a three-building complex and garage housing multiple clinical specialties. Now owned by Rady Children's, Physicians Medical Center also provides much-needed convenience retail for the campus community and visitors. The property and its staff have won numerous accolades at the county, regional and international levels.
With 34 hospitals and 700 outpatient facilities, Mercy Health System is one of the largest in the United States – and one of the most innovative. Mercy is ranked as one of the best integrated and "most wired" networks and is among the first to have a comprehensive electronic health record that provides real-time, paperless access to records. All of which makes for superb coordination of care among clinicians and better results for patients. Cambridge developed state-of-the-art multispecialty clinics for Mercy in Arkansas and Missouri, facilitating efficient, patient-centered workflows.
When Texas Health Resources decided to spread care throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, Cambridge helped by developing specialized facilities on THR campuses in Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano, Southlake, Allen, Rockwall, Arlington and Bedford. Nearly one million square feet later, THR continues to find ways to engage with its nearly
7-million person community. Case in point: THR has developed a population health strategy to keep people out of the hospital – including working with Healthways to measure well-being and with the Blue Zones Project to create a more walkable, bikeable Fort Worth.
One of most robust growth areas in the United States is the Alliance Corridor in North Tarrant County. In response, Texas Health Resources opened one of the most technologically advanced hospitals in the country with a focus on quality, wellness, prevention and education – all close to home. The hospital includes a medical office building developed by Cambridge which is integrated into the facility design to provide for convenient access between outpatient and inpatient service areas. The medical office facility includes an ambulatory surgery center, imaging, therapy and multi-specialty physician offices.
Texas Health Resources believes hospitals and physicians must be aligned in the areas of economics, management and governance to provide the best patient care. As part of a market-wide expansion of surgical services across Dallas-Fort Worth, Cambridge developed three short-stay hospitals in partnerships with THR and physicians, along with another short-stay hospital and medical office building project in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The projects were designed as "focused factories," concentrating on mostly outpatient procedures in cost-effective, physician-directed and patient-friendly settings. The strategy paid off. Patient and staff satisfaction in these types of facilities is among the highest in any market.
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Tom Six's internationally controversial follow-up to the original cultie, The Human Centipede – ups the ante with Human Centipede II: Full Sequence, unparalleled in bloody disgusting-ness for motion pictures today.
In theaters Oct. 7th, nationwide on demand Oct. 12th.
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Martin is a mentally disturbed loner who lives with his nagging mother in a bleak London housing project, where loud neighbors and cramped living conditions threaten to plunge this victim of sexual and psychological abuse over the edge.
He works the night shift as a security guard in an underground parking garage, where customers and their vehicles come and go as he indulges his obsession with THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE) watching the film over and over on the small TV set in his office and meticulously examining the scrapbook he has lovingly filled with memorabilia from the film, including the mouth-to-anus surgery instructions made famous by Dr. Heiter, the mad scientist from Martin's favorite movie.
Pushed to the brink by his harridan mother, haunted by the teasing voices of his abusive and incarcerated father, Martin sets into motion his plan to emulate Heiter's centipede by creating his own version, in a rented warehouse, which he begins to fill with victims, including a loud neighbor, two drunk nightclubbers, a prostitute and a lecherous john, and several more … including Martin's pièce de résistance, one of the actresses from THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE).
Except that Martin lacks the surgical skill, medical instruments and operating theater necessary to create a larger centipede in the image of Dr. Heiter's masterpiece. So he makes use of materials at hand: duct tape, staple gun, household tools and a fanboy moxie.
What follows is one of the most harrowing and terrifying films ever conceived, featuring a central character that makes FIRST SEQUENCE's Dr. Heiter seem downright cuddly in comparison. THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FINAL SEQUENCE) is a triumph in biological horror by one of the new masters of the horror film.
In the wake of 2010's phenomenally successful THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE, which terrified festival audiences the world over before building an even larger audience via its theatrical and video-on-demand runs, writer-director Tom Six set out to heighten and expand the horrors of the original film — if such a thing was possible.
"When I was writing the first part, I had so many ideas that I couldn't put in the first sequence," Six insists. "That one played out on the psychological level, you didn't see much. A lot of what was happening was in the viewer's mind. For Part Two, I wanted to show everything you couldn't see in Part One."
It's the tradition in sequels for a filmmaker to copy his original story, but Six wanted to create something new and fresh, challenging himself to open up the storyline introduced in the predecessor. The crux of this was What if some crazy person out there tried to copy the idea of the original film — or tried his own hand at creating a human centipede? "At film festivals we were constantly asked this question," Six says. "People seemed very disturbed by the idea of someone emulating Dr. Heiter's work, so I used that concept as a kernel for the second film.
"As a filmmaker and writer, that second one is the more difficult — it's a horror scenario unto itself," Six continues. "If you have a success like the first one, how do you top it or equal it? This is why I chose a different approach within the same concept."
In order to achieve this, Six expanded the notions of suffocation and prolonged suffering that derived from being trapped in the clutches of Dr. Heiter with no apparent means of escape. "It's like in Part One, where the action happens and can't be stopped," Six explains. "It's the idea that nothing can stop Dr Heiter from achieving his goal. In the second film, people are abducted, placed in a warehouse, operated on — again, it's this unstoppable tension. In most horror films, characters are killed off so quickly. But in this new film you see them going through prolonged hell. That is real horror."
Six's greatest challenge for the second film was concocting a screen villain that was as effectively menacing and terrifying as the gastrointestinal genius Dr. Heiter from THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE), so memorably brought to life by the gifted actor Dieter Laser.
"I could never top Dieter's performance," Six admits. "So I chose the total opposite of Laser and Heiter. "Martin needed to be a little man, with a totally different kind of charisma. I had a strong image in my head of what this guy would look like, and we set about searching for the right actors in London."
But none of them matched the description of the madman that was stuck inside Six's head. "I had this character in mind who was very specific," Six explains. "He's mentally challenged and lives in his own world. He can perform a job, but it's simple, it's in a parking garage at night. I knew the guy had to live with his mother — I wanted him to be the victim of sexual molestation as a child. Mentally challenged people molested by their parents have trouble understanding that when they engage in sexual activities later in life, they combine the experiences with pain. Martin feels no empathy because of this mental challenge."
After countless disappointing auditions, Laurence Harvey, a seasoned stage actor and performance artist — and veteran of Saturday morning children's television shows and sketch comedy — arrived in character as Martin and proceeded to deliver a chilling rendition of a rape scene in the film that had Six convinced on the spot that he'd found his central character.
Harvey saw Martin as a character to be pitied. "He's this put upon little man, in the classic silent-movie sense," explains Harvey. "A character to whom lots of bad things have happened. He tries to see his way through this by emulating Dr. Heiter's work in order to gain some power. Except that he makes poor choices and bad mistakes — every choice he makes just makes things worse and worse! And things get messier. I saw him as a sympathetic character, believe it or not. Someone the audience would hopefully take in and accept."
In preparing for the role, Harvey did everything in his own power to ensure he was not filling the shoes of the Dr. Heiter character from the original sequence. "Tom wanted the character to be the complete opposite of that character and that made it easy for me," Harvey explains. "I could find a way into that more easily. The doctor in the first film is this tall, spindly and powerful figure who is always in control; he's dominant and verbally theatrical. My character is silent; the odd mumble escapes from his mouth during the course of the film. He's short, fat, out of shape, at the bottom rung of society, really, getting abuse at every turn. He's powerless and in a position to let resentment build up. I was glad that Tom took a different approach to Martin."
Harvey was drawn to the material after seeing the original HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE) and deeming it a mixture of high art and lowbrow exploitation, recalling such potent works as the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini and Volker Schlondorff, the artworks of Jake and Dinos Chapman, certain category 3 Hong Kong exploitation films, and above all Brian Yuzna's notorious American horror opus SOCIETY, released in 1992.
In other words, Harvey was well versed in the material at hand, as both an actor and performance artist but also as a fan of extreme culture. "I like pushing things to extremes whether it's through cerebral or intelligent means, or through visceral or emotional extremes," Harvey insists. "Tom Six struck me immediately as someone who did that in his work. When I initially met him, he was so enthusiastic, with his boyish charm and exuberant bounce about him — you just want to respond to him straightaway. You get egged on by his energy. And it's great — because it gives you energy. On set he's kind of like Johnny Depp when he played Ed Wood, apart from the pink angora sweater.
As a clever storytelling twist, Six opted to bring back original HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE) star Ashlynn Yennie, who perished memorably in the first film as the putrefying, infected rear portion of Dr. Heiter's gastro-surgical monstrosity.
"Ashlynn plays herself in the new film," Six reveals. "Or rather she plays a naïve version of herself, like she did in the first film. Only I needed to take it to the next level. So Six simply brought her back to life as a desperate but entitled actress who travels to London to audition for a very specific filmmaker — only to experience something else entirely.
Yennie filmed for two weeks in an environment that was vastly different from her experience on the first film, requiring her to endure even more suffocation and constriction than before, this time with a larger cast. "The set was awful, it was so disgusting," Yennie recalls. "In between every shot, they would water down the splintered hardwood floor. We had to lay on it completely naked and there were moments I asked myself 'What the hell am I doing?' But I trust Tom's vision — and I knew from the first time around that he trusts me enough to let me do my thing. I just try to take what Tom's telling me and make it feel real."
She also knew more about this project than the first film, but in typical Tom Six fashion, Yennie was still kept in the dark with regards to how the story would play out — and what might be expected of her on set. "During the first shoot, the three of us didn't know what was going on," Yennie reveals. "There wasn't a conventional script. We weren't allowed to see any footage. Tom would just tell us to act like the girls on MTV's The Hills. It was this month-long shoot and we actors became very close during the process — you have to get close somehow, because we were literally sewn together! When we left the set after we wrapped, none of us except for Tom had any idea what was going to happen with the film."
Going into the second film, Yennie had a better idea of what was expected from her. But filming Part Two was a vastly different experience, right down to the dirty and gritty set, not to mention a broader supporting cast, composed mostly of British character actors from the stage world. "When I walked onto the set, the other cast members treated me like royalty, we formed a very close bond off set," Yennie explains. "We had to go into the dressing room and have our prosthetic butts put on as a group — you felt this kinship and closeness with the other actors, you had this working team around you, functioning as a unit. And it was a safe environment — that's how Tom runs his sets, almost like a family. Because there were so many of us in part two, I couldn't help but fall in love with everyone on set. I was only there for two and a half weeks — to shoot the latter half of the film — but Tom has this really great way of creating this family-like environment on his set. Coming from an American perspective, going to a different country and working with actors who mainly came from a background in the British stage, I gained a lot of insight into their own working process, which was amazing to me."
In keeping with Six's meticulous effort to make the second film feel as radically different from its predecessor as possible, the supporting cast members comprising the new centipede were designed to be unsympathetic people. "In the first one, you got to know the girls and feel for them," Six explains. "But the trick I'm employing with this one is that you almost come to have sympathy for Martin. He's abused and he looks kind of sweet. But the people inside the centipede, like the violent upstairs neighbor who won't stop blaring his techno music — these are rather horrible people."
Next up, Six set about creating a look and feel for the film that was once again the absolute opposite of its predecessor. "It was important for the style of filming to be totally different for the second film," explains Six. "The aesthetic of the first film was totally clinical, and controlled in terms of the camera work." For the follow-up Six employed handheld cameras to create an even more harrowing feel, to heighten the claustrophobic atmosphere of the cramped apartment, dingy underground car park and fetid desolate warehouse where the sequel unfurls.
He employed a dirty, gritty texture, de-saturating his images of any color. Six and his crew shot the entire sequel in and around London. "We set out to find the seediest, darkest places we could locate," Six explains. "The idea was to create this very uncomfortable atmosphere — when Martin's victims are operated on, you actually see the dirt encrusted in their fingernails. It's anything but sterile, which is what I was looking for — because Dr. Heiter's house and laboratory were the very model of sterility."
In order to lessen the impact of the film's considerable violence and brutality, Six and his actors leavened the material with shades of black humor. Explains Harvey: "What worried me in terms of the script is that because we see Martin attack someone early in the film, I wanted the audience to have sympathy for that (owing to his past history of sexual abuse) so I played it as deadpan comedy — a version of Tom and Jerry, if you will. It gets quite dark, but there's always a strand of black humor running through the film."
"We laughed so hard about it, working on that set, where there was so much mayhem — guns, knives, blood, torture, you name it," Yennie remembers of the long hours spent conjoined with her fellow cast members in a much bigger human centipede — in a much grittier atmosphere.
"We were sitting there, chained together for hours in these fake prosthetic butts — it wasn't shorts you could slip on and off like in the first film," she recalls. "You're stuck in this prosthetic contraption for hours, halfway sitting in chairs, totally covered in filth — and someone would say, I think it's time for a cookie! We needed something like that, something normal and comfortable that made us all feel like a kid again — something that would remind all of us that the world was going to be okay. You have to have a sense of humor in situations like this. And we laughed a lot on this set."
Six elaborates: "Humor is so very important to me. Black humor is a crucial component in both CENTIPEDE films — I can't help but write humor, it comes naturally. If you can imagine people on their hands and knees attached mouth to anus, you initially laugh about it. I love the scatological comedies of Farrelly brothers, that kind of black humor where people laugh about diarrhea. Some people saw the first HUMAN CENTIPEDE and laughed their asses off; other people experience it as real horror. It all depends on how your mind works."
Six likens the kind of horror on display in his CENTIPEDE works as the equivalent of a rollercoaster ride for the audience. "It's through horror films that people satisfy their fascination with death and horrible stuff," Six insists. "It's comforting to sit in a theater and watch something awful on the screen, knowing that you're safe in your chair. That's what people look for — it's a thrill not unlike bungee jumping or thrill rides. And it's growing more and more extreme. Westerners have enough to eat and experience — they look for more extreme things to satisfy their whims. This is crucial to understanding my films.
"I think horror movies will become even bigger and more extreme in time. I love that," Six confesses. "I really enjoy making this kind of rollercoaster ride for viewers. They can go to the theater and experience something weird, nasty and sick — the faster the rollercoaster ride the better. For some people, it may go too fast or too far, but they know their own ceiling. Others can go through their own ceiling — and even choose to. That's the filmmaker job, to give them something new — to break their ceiling rather than give them something that's the same thing over and over again."


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