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September 21, 2013 • Amy Palser
Sewing is an exercise in small things.
Fine strands of thread, tiny round bobbins, presser feet like miniature snowshoes and the miniscule needle's eye. They are itsy-bitsy items that require steady hands and sharp vision (or at least a good pair of bifocals).
And it wasn't until last week that I had the pleasure of being introduced to this Lilliputian world — which is surprising for someone like myself who's a bit obsessed with small things.
I grew up in a family that treasured the "cute" things in life. The miniature version was always better than the real thing. My mom is a collector of tiny tea sets and baby-sized spoons. We grew up on burger sliders and Vienna sausages, mini muffins and bite-sized cheesecakes. We wrote to-do lists in little notebooks. We drove small, compact cars. And a miniature pony standing among a group of statuesque horses always incited a heartfelt "Awww!"
A fondness for tiny things is one of the little-known side effects of being short.
Last week, my mother-in-law came for a visit and brought her sewing machine, as well as a small, quilted case containing all sorts of minute sewing necessities. She has sewn for me before, both at her house and mine, but I have always been off doing this or that, working or taking care of an infant.
This trip, however, I was fully at her service having turned in my Tribune key several months ago for a more "leisurely" life of taking care of three children. I expected to assist my mother-in-law as she made new pillows for my couch and drapes for her daughter's home. But instead, she told me she was going to teach me to sew.
And that's just what she did. After a trip to the fabric store, she pulled out the scissors and told me where to cut. Then she had me look over her shoulder as she tacked two sides of a pillow cover together with an arrow-straight seam.
"Now you do the rest," she said.
I was a bit apprehensive, but she appeared to have full faith in me. Sitting down in the dining room chair, my foot found the pedal and slowly but surely I began to follow as straight an imaginary line as I could.
"Just pull out the straight pins as you go," she instructed, and after a few startling finger pokes, I got the technique down.
My seams were not perfect — not like the quick and flawless seams of a woman who sewed clothes for four children who are now grown and have children of their own.
Speaking of those young offspring, my 5-year-old Ruby was waiting in the wings for her turn to sew with Grandma.
"When do I get to sew?" she would ask every few minutes.
"In a little bit," I would reply automatically, largely ignoring her. I was using all my concentration to keep the fabric whirring through the machine as unswervingly as possible, and feeling concerned I wasn't doing it right.
Ruby asked once more about her turn.
I looked up from the machine. "Grandma has to teach me first, and then she'll teach you."
"Mo-om," she replied in a sing-songy voice. "Adults can't learn anything — only kids!"
We laughed. In a young child's mind, adulthood means knowing everything there is to know. (In a teenager's mind, it's just the opposite.)
But I also laughed because learning new things never stops. It keeps life fresh and interesting, no matter how old you are. And some of the recent things I've learned — like jogging, playing the ukulele, or just being a better friend to my elderly neighbor — are every bit as wonderful and important as things I learned earlier in life.
Eventually, Ruby got her turn at sewing, sitting on her teacher's lap and wincing as her hands (resting safely on top of Grandma's) guided the fabric close to the bobbing needle. She beamed as she held up the small treasure bag she made from scraps of fabric. I beamed as I looked at my four new brightly colored pillows on the sofa.
I mentally added sewing to my list of recently learned and beloved skills. And I added bobbins, needles and presser feet to my list of favorite tiny things. Oh, and Ruby? She's been on that list for a long time.
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I liked Tamatown, thought it was fun, but couldn't do much since I ran out of batteries for my V5 and Music Star. Oh well. Thank Europe for the 4.5 and below Tamatowns.
And Dazzilitchis and Dreamitchis are going extinct due to this.
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I liked Tamatown, thought it was fun, but couldn't do much since I ran out of batteries for my V5 and Music Star. Oh well. Thank Europe for the 4.5 and below Tamatowns.
And Dazzilitchis and Dreamitchis are going extinct due to this.
Posted 26 June 2013 - 06:49 PM ( #62 )
Now the European TamaTown has gone.
Goodnight, sweet prince.
Posted 26 June 2013 - 08:01 PM ( #63 )
It's the end for our current times. Perhaps in the future Tamagotchis will make a come back like Furbys.
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Posted 28 June 2013 - 04:47 AM ( #66 )
Is there a way now to still generate the Souvenir codes?
Without the servers it's pretty much impossible right? or did someone save how the generator works?
My favorite tamagotchi is still my V3 and I really liked getting all souvenirs for every generation that came
Posted 28 June 2013 - 02:21 PM ( #67 )
'Tis a shame... Now I won't be able to visit my parents and grandparents. Or get my souvenirs. TToTT
R.I.P. TamaTown </3 It is a huge loss.
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Posted 22 July 2013 - 04:45 PM ( #70 )
I was decompiling the original files and got the main town out of it, but the different areas to visit use their own separate files which archive.org did not save. I tried checking euro and US' servers. Maybe if someone has the Japanese links I could check there for it but I am not expecting much.
Posted 26 July 2013 - 04:35 AM ( #71 )
Oh no, the European one too? The world sucks now. It already did, but now it sucks worse than before.
Posted 05 August 2013 - 08:31 AM ( #73 )
I only came back to tamatown a few moths for the first time in years and sadly missed tamatown before it closed. I did get to see the V3 and V4 sites though and am extremely happy I got the chance as the V3 Tamagotchi Town was a big part of my childhood.
I'm very sad they've closed, but at least I managed to bring back my childhood memories before they were gone...
Hopefully one day they'll re-open, maybe as an app on the iOS/android market.
Posted 12 August 2013 - 12:18 PM ( #74 )
that makes me very sad. i had a lot of fun playing on all of the attractions throughout those years... its awful to see them go.
i dont thik they have anythig else in store, the tamago came out in 2010 in USA and nothing from there..
Posted 14 October 2013 - 10:30 PM ( #77 )
Oh duuude I remember Tamatown like I would be all excited to see my Tamagotchi person on the computer and the website would lag and I'd wander aimlessly with no idea what the hell to do and I'd be there for like ten minutes until I realized that my tama had just reset randomly and I never went back because it was cursed
Those were the days man
Posted 19 October 2013 - 06:41 PM ( #78 )
I saw that too and i was so sad D: I miss TamaTown!
Posted 03 January 2014 - 11:59 PM ( #79 )
I was sad when they closed it D:
I loved that website and always annoyed this one person lol
but people in porteguese still get to use it D: so unfair!


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I first got into the Harry Potter books when I was in college, and would read them aloud to my roomie so we could both enjoy them at the same time. They were great fun, sweet and funny and full of nostalgia for me, back then.
I loved the first book, it was the introduction to this amazing new world that used bits and pieces of all kinds of myths and legends and made them into something that was incredibly enjoyable. I knew I'd be reading this book to my children someday.
The second book seemed a little weaker than the first, but it was still definitely amazing and enjoyable and I couldn't wait to find out what would happen next. The characters were as beautifully developed and loveable as their world.
The third book is my favorite in the series. It was just a bit deeper than the first two, a bit darker, but also with this beautiful feeling of family and a happy ending. Yes, I was certain these were books that I'd definitely be reading to my children someday.
The fourth book was also a strong book, a bit longer, a bit more complicated and a bit more high stakes than the first three, with a tragic ending, but still something that I had enjoyed and planned on sharing with my children someday.
The fifth book when it came was much darker than I had expected there were things in it that shook me a bit for something I thought had been intended as a children's series.
The sixth book finished my decision that I wouldn't be able to share this series with my children as soon as I might have liked. The tone had changed it was darker and sadder and didn't seem like the same series it had begun.
These feelings were only confirmed by the seventh book and by the end, though the plot was still intriguing and I still loved the characters I still couldn't help but feel disappointed and betrayed.
In a way, I still love this series and I reread it and enjoy it, but I am saddened and disappointed that it did not remain the children's series that it started. In a way I wondered if the author had fallen out of love with what she had created, because the last books struck me with that sort of disillusionment. As a young adult series this works well, I think, though it is not the best one ever written, but I still can't help but be saddened for the loss of the children's series it began as.
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Samsung developed a new 5.2" glasses-free 3D AMOLED panel for mobile applications. Samsung uses a six-subpixel structured white OLED with color filters. The 3D is achieved using fixed parallax barriers and the AMOLED panel features only about 5% crosstalk and is only 1mm thick.
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The next PSP is 5in, so could this be for sony, or even an unannounced microsoft product? Currently tablets all are over 7 inches in screen size, and no cell phone will ever have a 5in screen. So, too big for phones, and too small to be a tablet screen. That leaves UMPC's, GPS units, and portable gaming units as practical receivers for a 5.2 inch screen.
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The Standard has the same tube size (same as the older Modular version too).
Very little difference between the new Standard & older Modular, except for the legs (the look), and the wing nuts. The tilter is different but that's a given, you can see that haha!
My Modulars are 1.25, 1 & .75, same as the Pro line.
The Pro has the integrated memory locks, the lock at the bottom, updated look...
The castings for the height adjustment are pretty dang solid, and it all adds with the weight (or stability).
I had a Pro snare stand (not the detachable basket one), and it was very nice quality, very adjustable, & the basket is great (no choke whatsoever).
It was just so frickin' heavy, I wasn't willing to lug it around. I went back to what I had been using.
The Standards weigh basically what the older Modular stands do (I've checked between them). They aren't super heavy, so they're decent to deal with, and are very sturdy.
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cool, just be aware that they're pretty heavy. Not sure if they are more, or less than any other brands "top line" stands weight though--
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This instructable will show you how to make custom wooden knobs for a fraction of the cost of ugly, plastic store-bought ones. I recently had a need for a few knobs for an adjustable miter fence for my table saw. Rather than buy the plastic ones, I thought I'd make my own - always a better choice!
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Step 2: Drill a Hole For The Threaded Insert
It is easier to install the threaded insert while the blank has square and parallel edges, so next we will drill a hole that will receive the threaded insert. With a hardwood, it is important to size the hole properly for the insert. You can probably look it up, but the hardware store where I got mine has the drill size listed in the bin with the inserts. Carefully lay out the location of the hole and clamp the blank into a drill press vise. Set the depth of the hole based on the dimension of the threaded insert. Just turn on the machine and drill away.
Cool 'able! I saw these at Lowes the other day and thought the same thing - I can make these!! I'm always looking for these for the CNC machine to hold stuff down, but more "hole thru" design
First and foremost, I like your knobs...that said you took way too many chances with your fingers while shaping the profiles...Since you inserted the threaded section first, I would have used a piece of threaded rod with a little lock-tite on it and used the rod as a handle for shaping the wood on the belt sander, also a simple coping saw would have made an excellent cutting tool without the dangers of the wood flying off the tip of a miter saw...I have always told my men...safety first and quality will follow...BE SAFE then sorry...other than that, it looks very nice
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The causes of this (relatively) sudden explosion of multicellular life are not well understood. Life on Earth appeared at least 3.5 billion years ago, in the paleoarchean, as evidenced by stromatolites found in rocks of that age in Australia. For much of Earth's history, life was unicellular and prokaryotic. But eukaryotes appeared about 1.4 billion years ago, during the mesoproterozoic, and the first evidence of multicellular life is almost as ancient - about 1.2 billion years old, during the Ectasian period of the mesoproterozoic. Why then, did it take another half billion years for more complex forms to appear? Assuming, of course, that the fossil record is reliable in this regard, which is by no means certain. Small soft-bodied animals do not fossilize well, and rocks of such great age are relatively uncommon. So it may well be that complex life goes back earlier than we currently know. As mentioned above, the discovery of Ediacaran fossils also produced a change in our thinking, pushing back the appearance of complex multicellular life by another 20+ million years.
Such ideas also have implications about how we think of evolution. The sudden appearance of a diversity of organisms during the Cambrian was one of the reasons why evolutionary biologists such as Stephen Jay Gould proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium - that evolution follows a pattern of relative stasis interrupted by bursts of rapid change. However, with the discovery of earlier fossils, such as those from the Ediacaran, it is becoming clearer that these "bursts" of change were not as abrupt as we had thought, that they were part of a more gradual process of evolution. Also, modern re-interpretations of early Ediacaran and Cambrian fossils indicate that they might not be as "diverse" as we previously thought. Some of the forms of these fossils (such as critters with 5 eyes or 3 legs) were so different from modern life that people assumed that numerous new phyla suddenly appeared, and competition between them caused some to become extinct, leaving behind only the more successful ones. But modern interpretations show that it is not necessary to assume such a plurality of phyla, that the great diversity seen in the fossil record may reflect modifications and variations of much fewer fundamental body plans.
Given these things, it is still remarkable how much life changed at the start of the phanerozoic. This was truly the beginning of large, macroscopic, complex life - the period in which such life became established, evolved, and led to most of the forms we see today.
Landmasses during the Phanerozoic
Plate tectonics drives the movement and formation of continents, and over the history of the Earth, continents have appeared, changed shape, moved around, and sometimes disappeared. Here is a short blurb I wrote on the presumed history of different continents. Prior to the phanerozoic, the supercontinent Rodinia existed between about 1.1 billion and 750 million years ago. Rodinia was a barren, desolate landmass, since life had not yet colonized land. Around 750 million years ago, Rodinia started to rift apart, and broke into 3 major pieces: Proto-Laurasia, Proto-Gondwana, and the Congo craton. Proto-Laurasia drifted southwards towards the South Pole. Proto-Gondwana rotated northwards, and for a time, the Congo craton lay between these two landmasses, forming another supercontinent - Pannotia - around 600 million years ago, just before the start of the phanerozoic. Since the two major landmasses lay towards the poles, joined by a much smaller landmass at the equator (the Congo craton), the climate is presumed to have been very cold, with extensive glaciation.
Temperature record of the Earth during its 4.6 billion year history (from Barry Saltzman, Dynamical Paleoclimatology: Generalized Theory of Global Climate Change, Academic Press, New York, 2002, fig. 1-3).
The radiation of complex life starts with this period, around 563 million years ago, in the Ediacaran. This was a period of major changes. Pannotia existed for a very short time - around 60 million years - because the collisions that formed it were glancing collisions between landmasses that were already rifting and breaking up. Around 540 million years ago, the breakup of Pannotia was complete - into 4 major landmasses: Laurentia, Gondwana, Baltica and Siberia.
The last supercontinent was Pangaea, which formed during the early Permian, about 300 million years ago. This landmass existed more or less intact for the next 100-150 million years, until it started to break up in the early-mid Jurassic. The break up was in 3 phases, beginning with the early/mid Jurassic up to the end of the Cretaceous and the beginning of the Cenozoic, around 50-60 million years ago.
These events are important in understanding the distribution of plants and animals, for example, in explaining why North American dinosaurs in the Cretaceous did not spread across the rest of the world (north America had already broken away from the Pangaean landmass during the mid-Jurassic). Also, the breakup and rifting of this huge landmass created many shallow seas, which were important habitats for many animals that existed during the time.
Climate during the Phanerozoic
It is difficult to estimate the climate or average temperature of the Earth in past geological ages. Various indirect means are used to deduce these things, and the degree of error is very high the farther back in time we go. More accurate readings are available for relatively recent times, based on ice cores taken from the Antarctica or the Greenland ice cap. The Vostok and EPICA cores from the Antarctica go back at least 450,000 years. For earlier periods, the records are much less reliable.
The accompanying climate graph shows the estimated temperature of the Earth over its 4.6 billion year history. We assume that the Earth cooled down rapidly from the hot, semi-molten state in which it was formed, and within the first 100 million year or so, the surface was cool enough to support liquid water. Of course, surface temperatures were still much higher than they are today. By about 4 billion years ago, the Earth was on a cooling trend, but average global temperatures were still much higher than today (about 25-28 °C compared to about 15 °C today).
Atmospheric Oxygen Levels, two different records, based on (1) Berner, R, et al., 2003, Phanerozoic atmospheric oxygen, Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., V, 31, p. 105-134, and (2) Falkowski, P, et al., 2005, The rise of oxygen over the past 205 million years and the evolution of large placental mammals, Science, V. 309, p. 2202-2204 (Sept. 2005)
Note that the time scale (y-axis) on the climate graph is not to scale. The pre-cambrian is shown on a much smaller scale, followed by the paleozoic and mesozoic on the same medium scale, and finally the quaternary on a much larger scale. In the early (pre-cambrian) record, we see high average temperatures, with one large dip in the temperature graph, corresponding to the Huronian glaciation, about 2.4 - 2.1 billion years ago during the Siderian period. Life has existed on Earth for at least 3.5 billion years (perhaps even 4 billion years), but around 2.8 billion years ago, with the evolution of photosynthetic organisms, oxygen started being produced in large quantities. For many hundreds of millions of years, this oxygen production produced no discernable rise in atmospheric oxygen, due to the presence of various oxygen sinks or buffers. However, around 2.5 billion years ago, enough oxygen had accumulated to produce an Oxygen Catastrophe. Life during that period was anaerobic, and oxygen was toxic to it. During the oxygen catastrophe some trigger either released vast amounts of accumulated oxygen, or else the oxygen buffers reached their capacity, and free oxygen started rising, causing a mass extinction event. This was possibly the trigger for the Huronian glaciation, though the exact mechanism remains unknown.
The next major dip in the graph occurred around 800 - 630 million years ago, during the Cryogenian. This was the most extensive cooling the Earth has ever seen, and resulted in the "snowball Earth" scenario, when glaciers possibly covered the entire Earth. This cooling may have been associated with the formation and breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia, which interrupted oceanic currents that disperse heat from the equator.
The phanerozoic begins with the warming of the Earth after the Cryogenian. The initial radiation of metazoa precedes the phanerozoic by a few million years, in the late Ediacaran period. This is pretty much the period when the Earth had warmed to temperatures similar to the present, after the cryogenian glaciations.
During the first part of the phanerozoic - the paleozoic era, the Earth was somewhat warmer than today. Glaciations were rare, and the climate was much more stable than today. The two notable glaciations during this period occurred during the late Ordovician and late Carboniferous, and both are associated with extinction events. For much of the paleozoic, the Earth was free of glaciers and sea levels were high. This turned many of the lower altitude parts of the continents into shallow seas, where marine life first took hold. During the early paleozoic, most metazoan life was still in the sea - it was not until the middle paleozoic that life on land first took hold.
The middle part of the phanerozoic - the mesozoic, was accompanied by rising temperatures and a stable climate, with no glaciations. In the early mesozoic, the climate was hot and dry. Pangaea was a huge landmass, and the interior parts must have been vast deserts, being far away from the oceans. Despite the high temperatures (probably about 10 °C warmer on average than today), sea levels remained low, because the landmass was clustered into one large continent.
In the Jurassic, Pangaea started to break apart. Although temperatures continued to rise, the spreading of the sea floor increased sea levels, as new crust was formed on the sea floors. This caused flooding of the low lying coastal areas, and together with the increase in coastlines due to the breakup of Pangaea, the climate became much more humid. The vast deserts of the Triassic retreated, and for the most part, were confined to the interiors of continents.
Oxygen levels were lower in the Jurassic than they are today. Good estimates are lacking, so it's hard to say how much lower. The accompanying graph shows the oxygen levels according to two published papers. The more recent record shows the Jurassic starting with oxygen levels below 10% (though they rapidly rise to 15-17% for the rest of the mesozoic). These figures have been disputed. Many people believe that oxygen levels were at least high enough to support natural combustion, which requires atmospheric oxygen levels of at least 12% (at least 15% according to some newer publications).
The climate of the late mesozoic, or Cretaceous, is less certain. Some people believe that the much higher levels of carbon dioxide which existed at the time produced a flat temperature gradient across the whole Earth, with very little dependence on latitude. If this is true, equatorial regions must have been hot enough to be largely deserts, despite the presence of nearby oceans. No glaciers could exist even at the poles with such a flat temperature gradient. This is also disputed, since some computer models indicate that glaciers should exist at least at the poles. However, there is no geological record of any glaciations during the entire mesozoic.
High temperatures would have also warmed the oceans, and some models show that the oceans may have reached temperatures of up to 20 °C, even in the deep ocean. This would have been too warm for sea life, and probably vast volumes of the ocean lacked enough oxygen as well to sustain life. These conclusions remain uncertain, though, and more research is needed to better understand the climate during the cretaceous.
The late phanerozoic, or Cenozoic period shows continuing warm temperatures at the beginning, but a prolonged cooling trend starting towards the end of the Eocene. This was due to the separation of South America from the Antarctica (the opening of the Drake Passage), which allowed the formation of the Antarctica Circumpolar Current, which brings cool water from the depths of the Antarctica to the surface.
The cooling trend continued through the Miocene, with small fluctuations between warmer and colder periods. Towards the end of the Miocene, South America became attached to North America, forming a continuous land barrier between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. This caused the strengthening of the Humboldt Current and the Gulf Stream, which rapidly cooled down the Arctica. This cooling of the northern hemisphere produced a steeper cooling trend, specially since the start of the Pleistocene, which continue to this day. This has led to cycles of intense glaciations, called ice ages, during which glaciers advance from the north and form mile-thick sheets of ice over the northern landmasses. We are currently in an interglacial warm period.
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Affordable Houses of Character Address Gulf Needs
Cottages to Call Home: Tiny "Katrina Cottage" makes a strong impression as affordable designs from Mississippi charrette begin to rise from ground
By Stephen Filmanowicz and Emily Ziring
The 308 square-foot "Katrina cottage" was one of the smallest – and most attention getting -- of the dozens and dozens of replacement houses conceived and sketched at the six-day post-Katrina planning charrette put on by the Congress for the New Urbanism in October.
Designed by New Yorker Marianne Cusato with tall windows, a generous porch, graceful proportions and an anticipated build-out cost somewhere below $35,000, the captivating alternative to a bare-bones FEMA trailer landed on the front page of the Biloxi Sun-Herald and became a hit with readers. They saw in it a temporary home they could inhabit with pride – and later turn into a guesthouse or studio.
Last week, the tiny Katrina Cottage – now fully realized in bright-yellow plank siding, pressure-treated wood, and galvanized sheet roofing – made a big impression as a special exhibit at this week's International Builders Show in Orlando. Over four days, thousands were introduced to the potential to create affordable housing of considerable character for those with homes demolished by Katrina.
Built by Jackson, Mississippi builder Jason Spellings with design assistance from Mississippi architect Michael Barranco and donated materials such as fiber-cement siding from sponsor James Hardie, the cottage will leave Orlando for display in Ocean Springs on the Mississippi Coast, before ultimately being donated to a Mississippi family that lost their home to Katrina. One of the goals of the exhibit was to find manufacturers interested in building the cottages in significant quantities. Cusato is optimistic that this mission was a success. She and her colleagues are currently in negotiations with several manufactures. Once under production, these cottages should be available in a variety of colors and materials for around $35,000.
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"The house is faithful to traditions, yet it's ingenious in how the storage is handled. You'd think you were in a much bigger space," said CNU President John Norquist. "It's no suprirse that it's already starting to influence the housing market."
In addition to the Katrina Cottage, the seven-day Mississippi Renewal Forum and its follow-up efforts produced an array of tools and plans – from city and neighborhood plans to transportation improvements and house designs -- for coastal Mississippians and their local leaders use in rebuilding and renewing their devastated communities.
Since Katrina's surge leveled 80 percent or more of Mississippi cities such as Waveland and Bay St. Louis and wiped out whole neighborhoods in larger cities such as Gulfport and Biloxi – taking with it most traces of the cities' rich architectural heritage -- the charrette participants who focused on housing recognized two urgent needs. The people of the coast needed fast, affordable replacement shelter. And they also needed a way to reconnect with their towns' distinct character. They needed options beyond FEMA trailers and the typical house plans that would turn the coast into Anywhere U.S.A.
Charrette designers came through with nearly 100 designs for emergency housing, affordable housing serving longer-term needs, and storm-zone housing raised on stilt foundations. Through various mechanisms, these designs are beginning to influence home builders and to address the towering need for replacement housing in Mississippi, where an estimated 65,000 homes were lost to hurricane damage.
Progress is visible on a number of fronts:
Plan books: A publication from the New Urban Guild – The Gulf Coast Emergency Plan Book – is turning designs form about 10 architects who were at the charrette into buildable house plans. The houses are "tiny houses" of about 200-800 square feet and "thin houses" of 500-1200 square feet. The latter are like traditional Gulf Coast shotgun cottages except that they have side hallways so residents can move between the front and back of the houses without having to walk through bedrooms and other private spaces. The Emergency Plan Book contains easy-to-follow plans for the developers, builders, and property owners addressing the urgent need to replace homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
Available before February at www.newurbanguild.com, the volume of emergency plans is actually the first in a series of plan books coordinated by Steve Mouzon, a charrette participant and principal founder of the New Urban Guild. Due out later this spring, the second book in the series, Katrina Cottages, will be a larger version of the Emergency Plans book, featuring about 40 buildable plans for houses designed with post-Katrina recovery in mind.
Due out this summer, the third book in the series, Gulf Coast Houses, will include coastal house types larger than cottages. Published with the assistance of home-products-supplier James Hardie, this second and third books in the series will be sold at half price to anyone ordering from within the Katrina-devastated areas and is expected to sell on newsstands and in builders-supply centers in the region.
In addition to honoring the regional vernacular, a hallmark of the work of many of the architects at the charrette, the building plans feature storm-resistant foundations and frame reinforcement. The designs fit the narrow lots of coastal Mississippi's traditional neighborhoods and the new neighborhoods envisioned by New Urbanist planners.
Pearlington Habitat Homes: Through the cooperation of charrette architects and a non-profit housing coalition, people in Pearlington, MS who lost their homes to Katrina are moving into sturdy, attractive temporary homes that contribute character to the neighborhoods in which they are built – and can easily be converted into attractive permanent houses down the road. The homes are specially adapted versions of 350-400 square-foot temporary homes available from New Hope Construction of Hendersonville, TN, one of the project partners. These furnished Habitat homes can be purchases by residents after a gratis period for the construction cost, generally reduced through donated materials and labor to between $15,000 and $18,000.
After Katrina struck, New Hope joined with several Florida-based organizations – the Seaside Community Foundation, Habitat for Humanity of Walton County, and Hurricane Helpers of South Walton, FL – to form the Walton County Hurricane Relief Coalition. At the request of Seaside, FL developer Robert Davis, executives of New Hope visited the Mississippi Renewal Forum, where architects Gary Justiss, R. John Anderson, and Susan Henderson showed how New Hope's existing designs could be modified to incorporate larger windows, a wider porch and other elements of the coastal vernacular. CNU-board member Ray Gindroz and his colleagues at Urban Design Associates, provided additional advice based on their experience adapting high-quality designs to the unique production conditions associated with Habitat projects.
The coalition included some of these features in the first seven homes they committed to build in Pearlington, most of which are now underway. With 14 additional homes awaiting building, the designs continue to move even closer to a faithful interpretation of the vernacular through further design guidance from Anderson.
The first home was completed in December and went to Suzie Ward and Josh Burton, a couple in their seventies who rode out Katrina by clinging to a post on the back porch of their former home as waters rose in Pearlington. The couple was married in their new home just before Christmas.
Andres Duany, a CNU-co-founder and the charrette's lead organizer, said the Katrina cottage and related post-charrette efforts are models for giving Mississippi residents the high-quality designs they deserve. "Everything that you build here has to be this nice," Duany told an audience of builders at last week's conference, referring to the cottage. "What [communities] will do in exchange for you building to this standard is to make approvals easy and efficient."


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luck and upkeep do have allot to do with how long it runs but it doesn't give an idea . it's like you can say your smart car might go 200 K but some only get 80 K before major cash out puts for turbos etc. One expert in England said they get worn around 60 000 miles. But back to my question there no real data is there out there because so few here ride far and long what i wondering. For small brand theres not the number of people to say one way or the other??? thinking of one for 2250 wit 28 000 K but might just go back to motorcycles . KlR 650. With the right paperwork it's same insurance as a helix 30 bucks a month.
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Sorry if this has been asked. I searched and came up with a few options, but I'm considering replacing my Garmin Montana with a phone or tablet. Of course, this app is part of the plan. I have a Samsung GS3, but I want a dedicated phone that lives on my bikes. I'll be replacing a Montana.
My single biggest issue, and the reason I don't already use a phone for GPS is the glove friendly issue. Does a phone exist that is usable with gloves? I know I'm asking too much here, but waterproof is a close second...
Sony Xperia Active
looks interesting, and it comes with a little loop on the bottom to attach a lanyard
Looks like more than I'd like to pay though, and well, I'll still need to remove my gloves anytime I want to tweak it which is ALL THE FRIGGIN TIME!
I'm using the xperia active and it is just great. Crafty is right, I have the remote for it and use that a lot. But the phone is easy to use as a stand alone and there are a few things that the remote can't do that you need a finger touch for. I have absolutely abused the poor thing and it is no worse for the wear.
I looked at the Galaxy Active and it doesn't look up to the task so I am staying put with the Sony.
When it is pouring rain I'll shut the little access doors to the power and headphone jacks but they've been open plenty of times and gotten soaked.
Mine is the international version, so I don't get 3G or 4G with ATT service, only EDGE (major suck). So it pretty much lives on my bike and I use WiFi for whatever DSM needs I have.
For dirt riding, I have a pair of gloves that I've snipped the end off of the index finger and that works. For real gloves, you'd probably have to put some conductive thread in a fingertip or something like that. I haven't tried it.
The lanyard is great but not really needed on the bike.
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Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson will appear on this Sunday's 60 Minutes — his first interview about his upcoming book, due out on Monday and already #1 on the Amazon bestsellers list.
CBS has released a preview of the interview, in which Isaacson tells 60 Minutes anchor Steve Kroft that the late tech mogul refused cancer treatment that might have saved his life, finding the notion of surgery intrusive. Instead, Jobs opted for a combination of diet, spiritualists, macrobiotics — "roots and vegetables", as Isaacson describes them — and waited 9 months to begin treatment in earnest. By then, the cancer had spread from his pancreas to the surrounding tissue.
"He said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened…I didn't want to be violated in that way," Isaacson remembers Jobs saying in one of the 40-plus interviews he conducted with the Apple founder before his death this month at age 56.
"I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don't want something to exist, you can have magical thinking. We talked about this a lot," Isaacson tells Kroft in the video. "He wanted to talk about it, how he regretted it. I think he felt he should have been operated on sooner."
Kroft is unable to fathom Jobs' reluctance, asking Isaacson: "How could such a smart man do such a stupid thing?"
The entire interview will air on CBS this Sunday. For more on the Isaacson interview, see the 60 Minutes site.


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Lupe is saying his words hold the answers to anything, so maybe the world will understand his double entendre's once he takes a breath to explain.
He could also be playing a homophone on the word breath with bereave, bereave meaning to deprive. Meaning when Lupe is done with Hip-Hop, it'll be deprived of what he has to offer. Maybe that's when they'll see how much of a legend he truly is.
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Hey JJ
Is the KLR scratching your SE itch?
Did you get it sold?
The SE is GONE...and the new owner has posted that he is riding the hell outta' it (which makes me very happy for him). I guess I was the guy who had the good fortune of goin' through all the "growing pains".
The KLR will NEVER be an SE. But, that is the ONLY downside.
The KLR is scratching all of the itches that the SE would never, EVER be able to reach...dependability, reliability, ease of maintenance, and (most of all) TRUST.
It takes me to work, everyday, with no hassles (which is HUGE). It transports me to the Texas Hill Country, and beyond (without that little fear in the back of my mind that it will leave me stranded). That is also huge for me, as I (sometimes) find myself in locales where I don't see another human being, or vehicle, for two hours (and come-across alot of dead animal carcasses, along the way).
I know it's issues (weeping oil filter cover and oil usage), and don't have to spend hours (and, sometimes, days) having to hunt for them. If I need to work on it, I don't have to remove the engine/fuel tank/etc. to do so.
The KLR is my (current) "magic carpet", that is...slowly...transporting me back to my love of motorcycles
(that almost drowned in sea of Orange)...
I spent all my money on motorcycles, 4X4's, whiskey, and women...The rest I just wasted.
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This admonition is quickly becoming effective healthcare advice for American service veterans who have been charged with crimes or who suffer from a diagnosed substance abuse and/or mental health disorder.
Nearly one-fifth of the homeless population in the United States is veterans. Among our nation's vets, substance abuse is pervasive … often with mental health problems that lead to criminal behavior. In fact, recent statistics show for every five veterans, one has symptoms of a mental health disorder of cognitive impairment. One-in-six veterans who served in Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom suffers from a substance abuse issue.
In 2008, Robert Russell, a judge in Buffalo, N.Y., noticed an increasing number of veterans on his court's docket, which led him to create the first court specialized and adapted to meet the needs of the men and women who have served their country in the military and now suffer from addiction or other mental health disorders. Veterans have long fought for an alternative justice system that takes their wartime trauma into account.
Largely independent from the federal government, the rapid growth of Veterans Treatment Courts has been sparked by the recognition of judges, prosecutors, public defenders, and legislators that a significant number of veterans are returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with mental health issues, which often manifest in criminal acts at all levels. In the last three years, more than 98 Veteran Treatment Courts have sprung up across the country.
There is new realization that steering the former soldiers toward the treatment they might have initially rejected could benefit society in the long run. The specialized courts help veterans regain the discipline and camaraderie they had while in uniform by turning to mentors who have also served in the military and by helping troubled veterans get counseling, links to government benefits, and direction to a more positive course.
This unique approach to working with veterans who have gotten off track was on display at the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP) 18th Annual Training Conference, held at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville from May 30 to June 2.
The NADCP conference is the largest in world on the subjects of addiction, mental health, and the criminal justice system. Attendees at this year's conference, "Where Accountability Meets Compassion," included more than 4,000 state and federal justice leaders, celebrities, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, clinicians, police and probation officers, military veterans, business owners, Drug Court graduates and their family members.
On May 30, NADCP's Justice for Vets hosted the Veterans Treatment Court Summit. While most veterans are strengthened by their military service, combat experiences have left a growing number of them afflicted with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury. Research continues to draw a link between substance abuse and combat-related mental illness. Left untreated, mental health disorders common among veterans could lead to involvement in the criminal justice system.
The Veterans Treatment Court model requires the former soldier to appear for regular court appearances, as well as mandatory attendance at treatment sessions and frequent and random testing for substance use.
Veterans Treatment Courts are tapping into the distinct aspects of military and veteran culture and using it to the benefit of the veteran. Through these unique courts, those who served in the nation's Armed Forces are allowed to participate in the treatment court process with their fellow veterans, re-instilling a sense of the camaraderie they felt while on active duty. The Veterans Treatment Court simulates the military unit: the judge becomes the commanding officer, the veteran mentors become first team leaders, the court team becomes the company staff, and the veteran defendants become the troops.
For anyone who has spent time in a regular courtroom, a visit to a Veterans Treatment Court can be eye opening. Veteran defendants stand before a judge at parade rest, and say, "Yes, ma'am," or No, sir," and there is interaction and support from their fellow veterans.
Veteran Treatment Courts act as a "one stop shop" linking veterans with the program benefits and services they have earned. For instance, the courts have a Veteran Health Administration's justice outreach specialist present during the court sessions who is equipped with a laptop computer and able to access confidential medical records, make treatment appointments, and communicate this information to the court.
Other veteran services provide representatives and contacts, while volunteer veteran mentors offer morale and support. Since they are not employed by the criminal justice system, these team members normally would not be present in the courthouse. Consolidating justice-involved veterans onto a single docket permits the mentors to actively serve as representatives to support those who need their help.
Additionally, the NADCP conference featured more than 175 educational sessions. Speakers included some of the country's most highly respected industry professionals, including U.S. Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, and West Huddleston, chief executive officer of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals.
At a press conference held during the NADCP meeting, Kerlikowske announced the Obama Administration's support for Veterans Treatment Courts, noting the specialized court exemplifies the administration's 21st century approach to drug policy, which is focused on improving the health, safety, and wellbeing of individuals and communities across the nation.
He pointed out that a group of judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and clinical professionals created the Drug Court movement as a common-sense approach to improving the justice system by using a combination of judicial monitoring and effective treatment to compel drug-using offenders to change their lives, and, ultimately adopt the broader "problem-solving court" principles taught in law schools and utilized in everyday court practice throughout the country.
Justice for Vets Director Matt Stiner said, "It is critical that we bring everyone involved in Veterans Treatment Court together so that we can address critical issues, learn from one another, and ultimately ensure that no veteran is left behind."
On the closing day of the conference, Huddleston joined a panel of national experts for the discussion, "Reconstruction After the War on Drugs," outlining the future of drug policy in the United States.


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Housed in an historic building, the library offers books and periodicals, computers, multi-media, and an extensive archival collection, maintained in conjunction with the Wyandotte Historical Society.
Home to Wyandotte Figure Skating Club and the Wyandotte/Riverview Hockey Association, the arena also offers open ice skating throughout the season.
Provides information on city government, events, recreation, emergency services, courts, and historical resources.
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Nondenominational church that meets every Sunday at 10:30 am at the "Out of the Box Theater" on the corner of Ford Ave. and 12th St. Also offers children's programming for ages 0-12 during the gathering.
Historical museum to promote an awareness and appreciation of the history of the area. Includes historical programs, tours, collections, and preservation.
A 9-hole municipally owned and operated, regulation golf course. Offers a score card, hours, rates, pro shop, and concessions.
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Dear Editor,
I recently sat down to watch the budget meetings being held by the county commission, and I was simply stunned by what appeared to be the complete lack of education held by our elected officials. I honestly couldn't tell if they just don't know any better, or if they just don't care.
Issue after issue was discussed. County departments of all kinds approached the commission asking for increases in their individual budgets, and some departments didn't even ask for increases. But one thing was obvious. The County Commission needs to take a class in Florida law.
Since they seem to be completely oblivious, let me explain. The bulk of county revenue comes from tax dollars, more specifically, property tax dollars. An up-to-date efficient Property Appraiser's Office results in more revenue for the county. It does so as follows: When a new home is built on vacant land, someone from the Property Appraiser's Office must visit the property, determine the value based on sales, and add that to the tax roll. The same goes for when people add on rooms to their existing homes, add swimming pools, porches, patios, etc. If the office is understaffed, these new houses and additions can sit there for years before they added to the tax roll, resulting in lost revenue for the county. So basically, the most important county office to improve is the Property Appraiser's Office. Without them, you have no money to fund anything else. It is that simple, but sadly, not to the geniuses on the County Commission.
When I saw Mr. Burke stand before the County Commission and get turned down when asking to increase his already short staff, my jaw hit the floor.
Florida state statute requires that every property in the county be physically inspected at least once within a 5-year period. That is state law. Mr. Burke even brought this up during his request. According to Florida state statute, once the Department of Revenue agrees that staff should be added to an office, it is then the responsibility of the County Commission to approve it.
There was a similar situation last year in a larger Florida county where the County Commission refused to disperse funds to the Property Appraiser's Office. That Property Appraiser filed a lawsuit the County Commission. That lawsuit is not yet settled, but the result is expected to favor the Florida Department of Revenue and the Property Appraiser of that county. The County Commission is not more powerful than the DOR when it comes to the Property Appraiser's Office, but apparently, no one bothered to tell them that.
I think that citizens should be aware that Mr. Burke appeared to be trying to make his office as efficient as possible to do the job required by state law, and the County Commission ignorantly denied his request, because apparently they have no clue as to where the county's revenue comes from. The state statutes on the assessment of Florida properties are public record. As a citizen, I took the time to read them myself. Why haven't the people we voted into office to represent us? Clearly they are not doing their jobs. Maybe it is time to vote them out.
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The Importance of Property Rights to Development
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This article explores the difference that the institution of property rights has made to the economic and political life of developed countries and the promise it holds for developing countries. By shaping the incentives of individuals and undergirding the institutions of society, a strong property rights regime lays the foundation for growth, freedom, and overall well-being. For individuals, property ownership entails opportunity, responsibility, and economic freedom. For society, these translate into investment, innovation, the possibility of widescale exchange, and even improved governance.
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text: GamesBeat Why Microsoft made its top-down Windows tablet game, Halo: Spartan Assault (video interview) June 4, 2013 6:30 AM Dean Takahashi 0 If you're not reaching, engaging, and monetizing customers on mobile, you're likely losing them to someone else. Register now for the 8th annual MobileBeat, July 13-14, where the best and brightest will be exploring the latest strategies and tactics in the mobile space. Halo: Spartan Assault is debuting on a Windows tablet, bringing the blockbuster franchise to mobile fans for the first time. It's a twin-stick, arcade-style action-shooting game that uses a top-down perspective of the sci-fi battlefield. You control the game with your fingers, tapping the screen turn shoot or turn your character. (Here's our full preview). The vision was to give Halo fans a new way to experience the franchise that has sold more than 50 million copies since 2001 and generated more than $3.4 billion in revenue. The team tried out more than 15 versions of the mobile game over a period of years before they felt they got it right. You play as Sarah Palmer, the character from Halo 4's Spartan Ops missions. The time is set in 2552, when the cease-fire with the Covenant alien races has been broken. You can customize your armor and acquire boosts. You can choose to use just about everything from the franchise assets: vehicles, weapons, armor abilities, and Skulls. The graphics do look good, but it's hard to say if hardcore gamers are going to go crazy of this. Vanguard Entertainment made Spartan Assault under the direction of Microsoft-owned Halo development studio 343 Industries. It runs on Windows 8 and Windows 8 Mobile devices. The game will debut in July for $6.99. It's a risk for Microsoft to make it captive to its own hardware, but it might also be one of the only ways to get the Microsoft-branded tablets to sell. It has 25 missions. We sat down with developer Graeme Jennings of 343 Industries at a recent pre-E3 preview. Jennings told us that the team spent a long time making the game more accessible. One of the challenges was making the game easy to play for people with different hand sizes. "It took loads of user testing to get it right," Jennings said. "One of the key things about this game is production values." Here's our video interview below. VB's research team is studying mobile user acquisition... Chime in here, and we'll share the results.


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Robert A. Buzzeo, M.D., joined the Alliance in 1997. He practiced at one of founding practices (Tampa Bay Pediatrics) of Pediatric Health Care Alliance.
Dr. Buzzeo received his undergraduate degree from St. John's University, Jamaica, New York (1973) and his Doctor of Medicine Degree from the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara , Jalisco, Mexico (1977). He completed his internship in Pediatrics at New York Medical College - Misericordia Hospital, Valhalla, New York (1978) and his residency in Pediatrics at the New York Medical College - Metropolitan Hospital, New York, New York (1981).
He is also an educator and preceptor for the University of Tampa and University of South Florida Nursing Colleges. He is clinical instructor of medical students and residents at the University of South Florida, and an active member in the Section on Home Health, Computers and other Technologies, and the Provisional Section on Telephone Care. He is medical advisor for the On Call Department at All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, and After Hours Urgent Care in Tampa. Dr. Buzzeo also serves as Chairman of the Division of Pediatrics at University Community Hospital.
Dr. Buzzeo has been Board Certified with the American Board of Pediatrics since 1986.
He has been elected by his peers for inclusion in Best Doctors in America® each year from 1996-2004 and 2007-2014. Best Doctors® is a leading resource for linking consumers with expert medical care. Physicians are chosen through an exhaustive peer-review survey that asks: "If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, to whom would you refer them?" Only physicians who earned the consensus support of their peers were included.
Dr. Buzzeo is married and has two children. In his free time, he enjoys photography, cycling and sailing, and he is fluent in Spanish.


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Priyanka...you make us proud
From the list above, Irrfan Khan truly deserves the Number 1 spot. Good to see he's finally getting the recognition that he deserves. If not in India, then internationally. One of the few actors that chooses his films sensibly.
Irfan Khan and Tabu - Hands down, these two people are just amazing with their performances! Ash has done nothing apart from, "you're worth it"
im sorry what did Ash actually do apart from 2 crappy projects and a L'Oreal ad?
aishwarya rai n priyanka n tabu amazing
Mr. Anupam Kher and Irfan khan are the most talented of the lot, and have been consistent part of hollywood movies. They have impeccable acting abilities especially Mr. Irfan Khan. Unfortunately he is so underrated in India, but he has been getting recognized slowly. :)
not to be disrespectful but Anil kapoor has only done two Hollywood projects. slumdog millionaire and mission impossible and that too a five minute screen time. irfan khan has been consistent in his appearances and has been a major part in his movies. Anumpam kher as well. amrish puri should be given the respect he deserves, as mentioned by someone previously. he was also in Gandhi.
What about Amirsh Puri? Kabir Bedi?
He was one of the first person to enter Hollywood in one of the Indiana Jones series Temple of Doom,
Did you know that Steven Spielberg, was so amazed with Amirsh Puri performance in Indian movies, he specially to India to get screen test for Amrish Puri ji because he couldn't fly to U.S.A due to visa and schedule problems. Also Kabir Bedi is the first the 1983 James Bond movie series in Octopussy with Rogger Moore.
You guys should really do research from old to new generation.
Anumpam Kher and his wife appeared in some tv series, also Omi appeared in Bones tv series.
Before all these new actors.
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Or Anupam Kher??? He was in You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger! That was directed by THE Woody Allen! Or Silver Linings Playbook?! That was nominated for the Oscars!
What about Mallika Sherawat? Poor thing! Nobody takes her seriously.
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The Community Participation program porvides adults with developmental disabilities the opportunity to spend the day being actively involved in the community. The planned activities help participants develop or maintain valuable life skills such as community orientation, money management, communication and productive use of leisure time.
Activities include volunteer work, community education or training, leisure and recreation activities. This program offers the opportunity to make choices, experience inclusion and give back to the community.


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Description: The prom night is a popular event among high school students held near the end of the last year. On the occasion of the prom night, boy students and girl students have the opportunity of meeting together and performing dances. Of course, each boy and each girl will appear at the prom night in extremely gorgeous dresses. Thus, you let dress them up with various clothes in the game so they can be confident before entering the prom. In order to begin the game, you should choose a random boy and a random girl. After that, use outfits at two sides of the screen to make over their appearances and help them become Prom Prince and Prom Princess.
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To celebrate the impending release of Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I DON'T KNOW on November 19 (that's next week!), our friends at Cartoon Network and D3Publisher have given us two awesome watches to hand out to the Destructoid community!
You can see how amazing this Finn-themed beauty looks in the gallery below. To win one for yourself, just leave a comment in this thread telling us your favorite moment from Adventure Time! Limit one entry per person, and the contest is open to anyone in the US. You have until this Friday, November 15 at 11:59pm Pacific to enter.
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About the watches: Nooka has partnered with Cartoon Network Enterprises again (CNE) to create a limited-edition timepiece based on Adventure Time, the fun, irreverent series from creator Pendleton Ward that has people everywhere saying things like "algebraic," "mathemagical" and "rhombus!". The Adventure Time Finn watch from Nooka features graphics and colors inspired by Finn, Jake's loveable human companion and best friend.
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Rinsing your hair in lemon juice wil lighten teh hair,, makes it squeaky clean too!!
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Get rid of all temptations
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You know when you go to clean your oven, especially the self clean oven, and you go to put your racks back in, and they are a little laggy and stiff??? Well, if you put a little olive oil on paper towel, and rub each end with the oil, slide them back in the oven. They glide right back in! Voila!!
- Submitted by SUNNYDAYZ4ME 3/27/2010 in Around The House | 4 Comments
While you brush your teeth, alternate standing on one leg as you switch mouth quadrants (every 30 seconds). Balancing develops your core muscles and may even be good for your brain. Burns 10
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When you get angry don't take it out on your loved ones. CLEAN HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I recycle the foaming soap dispensers from bath and body works. I use dr. bronner's castille soap in the old soap dispenser (THE FOAMING TYPE OF DISPENSER) and I dilute the soap with mostly water.... say 1 part soap and six parts water. This is a very economical soap and smells great.
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I use white vinager to clean just about everything. I keep a spray bottle with 1/2 vinager and 1/2 water. I use it to wash windows, floors, bathrooms, laundry, and carpet stains. it is a great sanitizer and deodorizer. the vinager smell will go away. Baking soda and vinager help clean drains.
- Submitted by TRISH106 3/27/2010 in Around The House | 3 Comments
Using just warm water and a cloth will clean your windows so much better and greener than the spray glass cleaner.
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When I make soups and spaghetti sauce and Chili I make extra and freeze them in freezer bags. After they are frozen you can stand them up or leave them lying down. I also do this with fruit when it is on sale. I can have fruit year round.
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keeping squirrels out of birdseed
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Rick Fox Teases Big Bang Theory Appearance
If you're not too busy with American Idol tonight, head over to CBS to catch The Big Bang Theory. Former Dancing with the Stars contestant Rick Fox is making a guest appearance, and it should be a fun one.
Fox will play the ex-boyfriend of Bernadette, Howard's timid girlfriend. Expect sparks to fly.
Check out what Rick has to say about his appearance in the video below.
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In so much fucking pain I could kill.Nov 19 2012 04:20 PM
SpermWhat a great advice hahaha. I think I'll pass for the night. :p
Nov 19 2012 05:55 PM
The SnarkPainkillers aren't even helping me right now...we can kill together!
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SpermSame! They're useless :/
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