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Cut lengthwise around the middle to the center and twist halves apart.
We are in the middle of nowhere but the center of everything.
Check out the website of our magazine for striving readers in middle school.
Trunk is swollen at base, tapering toward top, sometimes swollen toward middle.
They turned more easily because they concentrated the skier's weight at the middle of the ski's inside blade edge.
Take advantage of the taller types for the middle or back of borders.
Many domesticated plants pollinate in the middle of the day.
Use in the middle or rear of a perennial border, grow in a large container, or use as a screening plant.
The middle layer is a pumpkin pie baked inside a yellow cake.
And terribly exhilarating to be in the middle of a cloud of swarming bees.
My kids and all of their friends got through middle school without the issues that plagued many in my big mega middle school.
The air was so murky that drivers had to use headlights in the middle of the day.
Standing in the middle of the largest gypsum field in the world, you may feel as if you are on another planet.
Tie raffia around the place where the husks meet in the middle.
He may nod off in the middle of a lecture, meeting or conversation.
Writing about science and society invites reactions, good and bad, from the middle to the fringe.
The middle is softer and dissipates energy by deforming.
If you look closely around the middle of the tail, you can see the traces of soft tissue.
Remember to leave space for any stamped design that will show through from the middle card.
It has to do with a small part of our brain called the middle temporal area.
Throw away the red brush of anthers in the middle when you're done, and have another one.
It's astonishing to have such ornate refinement in the middle of the stark landscape.
Whatever their histories, the number of people divorced in their middle years is increasingly visible.
Some customers complained of the horns going off in the middle of the night.
It's not easy to take a urine test in the middle of a firefight.
The game continues until one player has no letters left and there are no more letters in the middle.
It's a glorified toy built by middle-aged hobbyists moonlighting as rocket scientists.
In between are the middle managers, which do a bit of both.
At the time he was standing right in the middle of the dotcom boom.
The anchor in the middle of the picture represents ocean exploration.
The bad news is that the demographic maths imply that equity valuations will continue to fall until the middle of this decade.
Or at the same nominal salary you could live today, a middle income earner.
The shaded section in the middle represents the overlap of the two sets, with answers in this area working for both sets.
Each satellite has a small camera that middle school students can request be aimed at target areas on the moon for study.
The top layer, for example, captures the energy of blue light while the middle layer absorbs green and the bottom uses red.
The future of communication may lie somewhere in the middle.
It has been a busy and productive week out here in the middle of this big blue ocean.
Why not make all cars connected to a track in the middle of the road.
Real family income for families in the middle was flat.
The middle region of the upper zone is called the epigastric, and the two lateral regions the right and left hypochondriac.
The lateral parts of the middle fossa are of considerable depth, and support the temporal lobes of the brain.
It is well-marked and prominent at the upper and middle parts of the bone.
Near the middle of this line a nutrient foramen is often seen.
The middle of the lower border of the anterior nasal aperture, at the base of the anterior nasal spine.
And in the middle of this room was a guy wearing no clothes, shivering, playing the flute.
Now you can do a mini-movie or a short with a beginning, middle and end.
He crossed carrying a table and chair, stopping in the middle to try to sit down and prop up his legs.
It is missing a chunk in the middle and ends abruptly, mid-sentence, in the middle of the final of five books.
It hopes to have that up and running by the middle of the century.
He took a seat on a chair in the middle of the stage and tucked his legs up under him in the lotus position.
Of late there has been much less found usually blooming in early to middle spring.
The main thing that tickled her was that there were pubs in the middle of campus.
Put a metal rack in pan and arrange half of herbs down middle of rack.
The actual cutting is done between the middle and the heel of the blade, and not near the tip.
We are living in the middle of a revolution in consciousness.
Tom's flat was a kip, and the bed sagged badly in the middle.
Tables and chairs and umbrellas will be arranged to form makeshift cafés in the middle of the street.
When the writer was in the middle of the journey of his life, he decided to learn how to draw.
At that moment, a taxi stopped in the middle of the intersection and let get in.
Meaning that often he lives silent in the middle of the world's music.
He had the beginning of a cold sore in the middle of his upper lip.
Some of his peers appreciate his moxie in starting a luxury label in the middle of a recession.
And the citations on genealogy date to the middle aughts.
You're supposed to be ready and able to get up in the middle of the night.
Bars may form when galaxies collide, and they might be an indication of a galaxy reaching middle age.
It's a bit tough to see, but it's the oddly wobbly circular shape right in the middle of this photo.
The middle layer of speckled green represents several layers of photoreceptors, which developed in response to the transplant.
The signal is processed by electronics and sent to a tiny vibrating piston implanted against the small bones in the middle ear.
The wing box begins in roughly the middle of the plane and extends about two-thirds of the wingspan.
The smallest of these would use one engine, the middle version five engines, the largest nine engines.
Or how about an air conditioner sitting up on the roof in the middle of the day in the blazing hot sun trying to cool.
Imagine trying to remain calm and composed while working in the middle of a war zone, a natural disaster, or other crisis.
Both those magazines are for people in their middle age.
If he was right and the housing market crashed, these firms in the middle of the market were sure to lose a lot of money.
Think of a spider in the middle of a web, and all those silky strands bring him information on what's coming for dinner.
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Samuel Graham Astley
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'The big man, with the big voice'. Samuel Astley, a hard working and dedicated musician with a voice worn down by cigarettes and alcohol brings something of a fresh sound into the world from the likes of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Mumford and Sons to name a few.
Since a young age and hearing Dylan's 'Tambourine Man' for the first time, Astley has always had a strong passion for writing music that could make others feel emotion in the same way his own influences have made him feel.
When asked about his writing process he said: 'I never had the easiest youth, so when I write my lyrics, it's about my past experiences, but I like to think people can relate to them'
It's hard to come by a musician that will deliver the goods live. However, Astley does not disappoint. One of his most recent performances at the Acoustic Festival of Britain, an encore turned into an entire repeat of his set, with the crowd still wanting more at the end. Along with many other performances, Astley has shared the stage with the likes of Young Rebel Set, Tom Seals and many more.
After releasing his first EP 'Coffee In The Morning' in 2010, Astley has gone from pub performer to local heavy weight with the only direction being up. The recent release of his latest single, 'I'm Gonna Change' has received nothing but positive feedback and has seen Astley into the next stage of his career.
Samuel Astley is definitely a man to keep an eye on 2012.
Astley, manages to simultaneously convey power in his voice and, with a manipulation of tone, create a relaxing sense of calm. – Hevy Petal.
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At the turn of the twentieth century, as the age of automobiles was afoot, the newfangled gasoline-powered internal combustion engine began to reach the limitations of the fuel that fed it. As higher-compression designs were tried, an engine-wrecking condition known as "knock" or "ping" would invariably develop. Though they didn't know it at the time, the noisy destruction was caused when the increased heat and pressure prompted the air/fuel mixture in the cylinder to detonate all at once as opposed to an orderly burn. In spite of this problem, there was a demand for high-compression designs since they provided increased horsepower and fuel efficiency. The latter was particularly appealing in light of America's forecasted fuel famine.
In 1921, after a long string of inadequate solutions, a clever but chronically catastrophic chemist named Thomas Midgley developed a fuel additive which eliminated ping problems while increasing fuel efficiency. Though the chemical agent eventually gained worldwide acceptance, it left a rash of psychosis, a trail of bodies, an epidemic of crime, and an irreparably damaged environment in its wake.
Mr. Midgley's anti-knock enterprise began in 1916, when he was tasked by his employer to address the shortcoming in America's gasoline. Knock was particularly problematic in aviation applications, where high-performance aircraft engines were stymied by America's low-grade fuel supply. It had long been known that adding a large amount of ethyl alcohol to gasoline would eliminate the engine-injuring knock, however such blended fuels were much more expensive and had an inferior energy-to-weight ratio, making them a poor substitute.
Working for the General Motors Research Corporation over several years, Midgley pinched all manner of substances into his one-cylinder laboratory engine to test for anti-knock properties. After trying hundreds of candidate compounds-- including such unlikely materials as camphor and melted butter-- Midgley's boss Charles Kettering pointed out that certain red flowers were able to bloom in the snow. The researchers wondered whether the red color allowed greater heat absorption. Lacking any red dye, the chemists added a splash of violet-colored iodine to their fuel, and found that it dramatically reduced the knock in their test engine. Unfortunately iodine was too corrosive and expensive to consider as an additive, but the results suggested that a small dab of the right chemical might be all they needed. When the researchers later tried some actual red dye, it had no effect; their red-color reasoning had been flawed, but fortuitous.
With the guidance of their accidental discovery, Mr. Midgley's team tacked sections of the Periodic Table of Elements to the laboratory wall, and used it to single out the compounds with promising properties. This step-by-step process gradually revealed additives of varying effectiveness, but most of the best candidates produced a fragrance that was a grave insult to the olfactories. "I doubt if humanity, even to doubling of fuel economy, will put up with this smell," Midgley confided in a letter to a colleague at Du Pont. But a few potentials remained among the heavier carbon elements. Neither silicon nor germanium worked too well, but an organometallic tin-based liquid called tetra-ethyl tin nearly silenced the knock, and with no objectionable odor. Only lead remained to be tried, an exciting prospect due to lead's extreme low cost. Since America's existing oil fields were dwindling, and imported oil was costly, the discovery of an inexpensive mileage-increasing additive was certain to bring with it a river of money.
The company chemistry lab cooked up a modest batch of tetra-ethyl lead (TEL) on 09 December 1921, and the researchers squeezed a few drops into their test rig. To their delight, even a tiny amount of the thrifty fluid completely silenced the engine knock. The smidgen of lead had effectively increased the temperature at which the gasoline ignited, a fuel characteristic which would come to be known as its octane rating. Midgley and his men, it is said, danced "a very unscientific jig" in celebration.
Lead had one decisive drawback, however, which was its tendency to cause harmful deposits in human blood, bones, and brains. Lead poisoning had long been known to cause such alarming maladies as spasms, hallucinations, seizures, blindness, kidney failure, brain damage, madness, coma, and death. Even worse, the effects were often caused by "slow, subtle, insidious saturation" rather than significant exposure events. But in spite of lead's well-known neurotoxic qualities, it was still common in the US in the nineteen-dicketies, used as a major component in food containers, water tanks, house paint, and fruit pesticides, among many other things. Though naturally-occurring lead is extremely rare, it was cheap to refine, and a cinch to manipulate.
As Mr. Midgley labored to perfect his TEL recipe throughout 1922, the world outside of the US was developing a strong preference for all things unleaded. In that very year the League of Nations recommended a ban on interior lead paints due to health concerns, and though Europe complied, the United States declined to adopt the resolution. Midgley received numerous letters from distinguished scientists around the world, urging him away from the "creeping and malicious poison" of tetra-ethyl lead, citing its role in the death of researchers. According to some estimates, each gallon of leaded gasoline burned would emit four grams of lead oxide, resulting in buildup along roadsides and in tunnels, as well as in the air. The warnings went unheeded.
General Motors' President Pierre du Pont demonstrated his company's awareness of TEL's dangers by describing it in a letter as "a colorless liquid of sweetish odor, very poisonous if absorbed through the skin, resulting in lead poisoning almost immediately." In December 1922, the US Surgeon General wrote to GM regarding growing concerns that environmental lead would become a serious menace to public health. Midgley responded personally, even as he was preparing to winter in Miami for some "fresh air" to treat his own mild case of lead poisoning. The matter of TEL pollution had been given "very serious consideration," he wrote, but "no actual experimental data has been taken." Nonetheless, he stated that "the average street will probably be so free from lead that it will be impossible to detect it or its absorption."
To manufacture and market their incredible new engine-enhancing additive-- which had been dubbed Ethyl-- General Motors partnered with Standard Oil and Du Pont to form the Ethyl Gasoline Corporation. Charles Kettering was installed as the president, with Thomas Midgley as vice-president. Their product went on sale in 1923, and underwent a couple early tweaks to add lead scavenger compounds to prevent pesky engine deposits. Consumers showed interest, particularly after the Indianapolis 500 motorcar race on Memorial Day 1923, where the first, second, and third-place cars were all fueled by Ethyl gasoline. After that, the fortified fuel enjoyed rapid widespread adoption, and indeed it lived up to its mechanical claims. In a note to Kettering, Midgley estimated that Ethyl would eventually be adopted by at least 20% of the nation's fuel supply, providing an annual gross profit of about $36 million. His note was unspecific regarding the dancing of any additional unscientific jigs.
Shortly after the Ethyl factories sprang into action, the mind-dulling effects of lead began to manifest in the workers. Disorientation, impaired judgment, and a staggered gait plagued the lead-polluted employees, and the larger facility in Deepwater came to be known as the "House of Butterflies" owing to the insect hallucinations frequently experienced there. As Ethyl handlers began to turn up at doctors' offices, hospitals, and morgues, the Ethyl Corporation was quick to blame the victims. "We could not get this across to the boys," Charles Kettering claimed, "We put watchmen in at the plant, and they used to snap the stuff at each other, and throw it at each other, and they were saying that they were sissies. They did not realize what they were working with."
In 1923 the Bureau of Mines conducted tests for General Motors, under the stipulation that GM management reserve the right of "comment, criticism, and approval" for all findings prior to their publication. Various animals were exposed to leaded gasoline exhaust from a small engine, and the results stated that the animals were "without harm of any kind." Some scientists decried the inadequate experiments, pointing out that the animals were only exposed to a passing stream of lightly leaded exhaust, but not to lingering accumulations.
Following the death of one worker and irreversible derangement among others at an Ethyl factory in October 1924, the chief chemist there told reporters, "These men probably went insane because they worked too hard." Within days, four additional workers from the plant died, and thirty-six others were crippled with incurable neurological damage. The plant, it seemed, had employed many hard workers.
Meanwhile, Ethyl vice president Thomas Midgley addressed the press. "I'm not taking any chance whatever," he is said to have told gathered journalists as he drizzled Ethyl fluid over his hands and inhaled the fumes. "Nor would I take any chance doing that every day." The reporters dutifully passed this comforting anecdote on to their readers, and consumers' concerns were calmed.
As demand for Ethyl additive increased across the country, the US Surgeon General launched a series of public inquiries regarding the health risks of leaded fuel. In response, Ethyl voluntarily withdrew its product from the market for the duration of the investigations. The details of over a dozen Ethyl-related deaths and hundreds of manufacturing injuries were revealed, but per usual these events were blamed on worker's carelessness and horseplay. "It is a fact that we have a great deal of trouble inducing the men to be cautious," a company spokesperson claimed, "We have to protect them against themselves." The Surgeon General's committee found no firm evidence of a threat to the public, but its members pointed out that its timetable had been insufficient for a thorough investigation, and further studies were strongly suggested.
The public took this finding as a clean bill of health, and soon Ethyl was pumping again. Each year the demand increased, and by 1963 Ethyl and other lead-based anti-knock agents were present in 98% of the US gasoline supply, churning thousands of tons of toxic metal through America's engines. The lead-peddlers enjoyed rabid federal protection, in one instance successfully suing an unleaded gasoline maker who offered a high-octane alternative which "stands on its own merits" without the need for "dangerous chemicals."
Unfettered by facts, the US Federal Trade Commission stated that leaded gas was "entirely safe to the health of motorists and the public [...] is not a narcotic in its effect, a poisonous dope, or dangerous to the life or health of a customer, purchaser, user or the general public." Ethyl, it seemed, had been unfairly exonerated. The lead-additive industry might have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for those meddling geochemists.
In the late 1940s, a graduate student named Clair Patterson was experimenting with a new way to measure the age of rocks, with the ultimate goal of determining the age of the Earth itself. His method relied upon the measuring of lead and uranium isotopes in rock samples, but each sample he tested was found to be contaminated with about two hundred times more lead than expected. Befuddled, Patterson established a strictly contamination-controlled laboratory for his geochemistry experiments, and found that the source of the lead contamination was the atmosphere itself. By 1953 he had mass-spectrographed enough sterile samples that the Earth's age could safely be estimated as 4.55 billion years; a value which still stands today. With that task completed, he directed his attention to the atmospheric lead.
Upon learning that automotive fuel was the source of the contamination, Dr. Patterson began to publish materials discussing the toxic metal's ubiquity and its probable ill effects. In order to demonstrate the increase of lead in the environment, Patterson proposed taking core samples from pack ice in Greenland, and testing the lead content of each layer-- a novel concept which had not been previously attempted. The experiment worked, and the results showed that airborne lead had been negligible before 1923, and that it had climbed precipitously ever since. In 1965, when the tests were conducted, lead levels were roughly 1,000 times higher than they had been in the pre-Ethyl era. He also compared modern bone samples to that of older human remains, and found that modern humans' lead levels were hundreds of times higher.
The Ethyl corporation allegedly offered him lucrative employment in exchange for more favorable research results, but Dr. Patterson declined. For a time thereafter, Patterson found himself ostracized from government and corporate sponsored research projects, including the a National Research Council panel on atmospheric lead contamination. The Ethyl corporation had powerful friends, including a Supreme Court justice, members of the US Public Health Service, and the mighty American Petroleum Institute. Nevertheless, Patterson was unrelenting, and the resulting rise in scientific and public awareness eventually led to the Clean Air Act of 1970, and a staged phaseout of leaded gasoline. Ethyl and Du Pont sued the Environmental Protection Agency, claiming that "actual harm" must be demonstrated rather than just "significant risk," an effort which successfully prolonged lead additives' life by another decade.
By 1986, Ethyl and its ilk were virtually eliminated in the United States, and Americans' blood-borne lead levels have since dropped by 78%. Lead's effects, however, may linger much longer. An estimated seven million tons of the stuff were burned through gasoline in Ethyl's sixty-three years of use; and since lead does not decay, every particle that traversed a tailpipe still lingers in the air today, aside from some that settled onto the ground and into the sea. The contamination has not halted altogether, however; some leaded fuel is still used in aviation, and in automobiles within third-world countries. A few industrial processes also expel lead as a waste product.
The specific harms done by environmental lead are difficult to quantify. It is known that children are much more apt to absorb the neurotoxic metal than adults, and it is suspected to have stricken many children with behavior problems, learning difficulties, hyperactivity, and breathing complications. Even more troubling, a number of recent studies have shown a strong correlation between atmospheric lead levels and crime rates. A study published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Research, which used data spanning more than fifty years, reported a "very strong association" between the exposure of young children to lead, and crime rates twenty years later when they became young adults. This correlation holds true for a wide variety of locales, social conditions, and models of government. The sharp decline in US crime rates which began in the early 1990s dovetails perfectly with the reduction of leaded gasoline in the early 1970s; and other countries which followed suit saw similar declines, also delayed by twenty years. It seems that the lawmakers who claim credit for crime-reducing legislation during that time are probably misplacing their congratulations. In another study, Pittsburgh University researchers found that juvenile delinquents had lead levels four times higher on average than law-abiding adolescents.
As for Thomas Midgley, the father of leaded gasoline continued his distinguished career by inventing chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), the refrigerants and aerosol propellants which famously destroyed a considerable section of the Earth's ozone layer before they were banned. Along the way Midgley received an awesome array of awards for his contributions to chemistry, many of which were later regretted upon discovering the damage done by his innovations. He did not survive to witness the disassembly of his successes, however. After becoming impaired by a polio infection, Midgley devised a machine with motorized pulleys to assist him in rising from bed and turning over. One day in 1944, as his automatic contraption sprang into action, he was ensnared in the cords and strangled to death.
Some historians have argued that Midgley's tetra-ethyl lead was a necessary evil; one which hastened the progress of efficient engines, thereby advancing the economy and contributing to victory in World War II. It is worth noting, however, that in the early years of Ethyl's availability, basic refinery advances boosted the base octane of fuel by 20-30 points, whereas Ethyl additive only boosted it by about nine points. In retrospect, Ethyl's octane improvements were somewhat overstated, and the product owed most of its success to crafty marketing, misleading research, and chronic government incompetence. Whatever Ethyl's benefits, it saturated the planet with an insidious poison, and the true magnitude of its past, present, and future harm are yet to be known.


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Police: Man suspected of robbing Leopard Street restaurant found wearing same clothes as burglar in video
CORPUS CHRISTI - Corpus Christi police arrested a 58-year-old man Tuesday who is suspected of burglarizing a restaurant Sunday on Leopard Street.
Patrick John Kimmelman was arrested on suspicion of burglary to a building, a state jail felony. He was being held Tuesday at the Nueces County Jail on $10,000 bail.
Investigators believe Kimmelman broke into the restaurant in the 5400 block of Leopard about 8 a.m.and took money from a register and a jukebox, according to a news release. Police said the burglar also pulled wires out from what he thought was a video surveillance system.However, he pulled the wrong wires and was caught on video. Images were distributed to officers who tracked down Kimmelman. He was found wearing the same shorts and sandals as the burglar in the video, according to the release.
Detectives questioned him at the police station before arresting him.
Kimmelman was convicted of burglary of a building in 2011 for which he served 14 months in state jail, according to Nueces County court records.
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San Francisco Assistant Event in Heinzight
Excited attendee Tom Heinz sent us these photos and this note about the Profoto Assistant Event at Left Space on 3/12:
I had a great time at the San Francisco Profoto's Assistants Shoot. The room was well equipped with knowledgeable staff and pro-shooters that gave me all the help I needed. Finally, everything came together and I was able to shoot over 500 frames. At times, I shot at 8.5 frames a second with my Canon 1D MK II, and the Profoto didn't miss a beat, of course. There were also 3 others shooting and Profoto's short flash duration of 1/12,000 of a second prohibited me from 'seeing' the flash from the other shooters in my frames. Sweet! I can't wait to work with the software next.
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This is an intriguing story that will have you turning the pages as Stephen, a knight from the past finds himself both blind and transported to a new future he can not see or understand.


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Soft pretzels are craved by snack food connoisseurs everywhere. Now those tasty twists of yeasty dough are made quickly and easily with Nostalgia Electrics' latest creation: the Soft Pretzel Factory.™ This tabletop appliance makes either jumbo or mini soft pretzels in minutes with its interchangeable nonstick cooking plates. Almost any store bought dough can be transformed into delicious pretzels, or the included soft pretzel recipes can be used for a fast, gourmet goodie. It will be available at Bed Bath & Beyond, and other fine retail outlets, in September 2011.
Soft Pretzel Factory™ (Item # SPF200) – Mouth-watering soft pretzels can be cooked at home without a trip to the concession stand or a snack vendor. Best of all, baking in an oven is made obsolete with this handy pretzel maker. Soft pretzels are great for snack time, party time or anytime. They can be made sweet or savory and enjoyed with a variety of dips. Suggested retail price of $29.99.
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Whether in the mood for a soft pretzel party or just craving a tasty treat, Nostalgia Electrics has a soft pretzel maker to suit any occasion. The family fun brand is also launching a complete Soft Pretzel Maker Kit™ that includes a tabletop electric pretzel maker that cooks medium-sized soft pretzels. It will be available at JC Penney and other fine retailers this fall.
Soft Pretzel Maker Kit™ (Item # SPM400KIT) – This complete pretzel-making kit cooks four soft pretzels per batch. It includes a handy pretzel cutter to form dough into perfect pretzel shapes. Cool, display and serve freshly made pretzels with the pretzel tree and use the decorative tin for storing the kit or other soft pretzel making supplies. Suggested retail price of $29.99.
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Nostalgia Products Group, LLC, designs, manufactures and markets the Nostalgia Electrics brand of small electric appliances. Nostalgia Products Group, LLC also develops a wide range of innovative products to excite consumers and retailers alike, such as the Soft Pretzel Factory™ and Soft Pretzel Maker Kit™. Their products are sold through all major channels of distribution from both within the United States and worldwide. Retail and e-retail sales include all major department store chains, home shopping networks, catalogs, and e-commerce companies. Internationally, NPG products carry the GS and SSA electrical approvals. They ship to over 30 countries worldwide. Services include product development, sales, marketing, warehousing and distribution. Please visit Nostalgia Products Group, LLC online at: http://www.nostalgiaelectrics.com.
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Elliott admitted in "Cancer Man" that Gray Matter was just as much Walt's brain child as it was his and Gretchen's. It was Walt's genius that set the company up for success, but he agreed to a $5,000 buyout after things got bad between him and Gretchen. Now he has to watch as they make billions off his genius.
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When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America , you get a front row seat. - George Carlin
checking around the net it would seem that one of the mounts is a claw mount for the G-3 series rifles I assume the HK91/93 models but I believe its calibrated for 308 there is a mount that comes with the NVD for picatinny rails I assume thats its similar to the old weaver style I assume cause I don't know for sure, the other two mounts are for the MG-3 mg or MG42 post war variant and the panzerfaust ( bazooka) so they are useless to me
I do believe these can be fitted to fal with rails
Sprat and sprat1 are one and the same.
Actually I have a FAL dust cover with the integrated rail. Locks up solid so that's what I would use. I have everything I need. Still thinking on it. Would be cool tho.
When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America , you get a front row seat. - George Carlin
I am glad Iwrote the word assumed several times in the above post cause I was not sure if I was correct and when I am mistaken well I say so
ok the mounts that this come with are not adaptable for the picatinny rails and yes the mounts that are supplied with the scope are proper, this setup requires a Arms # 7 mount MSRP $48
of course the claw mount for the g-3 is completely correct, funny these same mounts as sold with these scopes sell for over $250.00 ( these are H&K mounts not cheap aftermarket mounts
still looking for a manual or PDF of one
Sprat and sprat1 are one and the same.
Mine locked up tight on my G3, optic is super clear at 200+ yds.
Well worth the money. I may buy another.
This is a VERY heavy duty scope . Well made, and easy to set the scope on target.
A little on the bulky side, but for the money it's a good buy. I know what most of the
stuff on the scope is for, but it would be nice if a manual could be had.
A question was asked of how to set the scope. In daylight, install the batters, leave the front cover on, turn on. You will see your sight, and will be able to set and adjust sights.
The adjustments are on the left side, under little green rubber covers. The one for up & down will say {H] Right and left will say [S]
Your in my Mind, and in my Sights
I have a copy of the manual for these scopes in german in PDF format
Please feel free to contact me for a copy
just like with the STG 57/Sig Amt Blueprints contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Sprat and sprat1 are one and the same.
thanks for all of your willingness to help others in getting a manual translated.
It's people like you that help make this hobby grow.
So thanks again,
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thank you for the kind words. I am a little busy, as I posted on the weaponsguild site. I took this scope out to the range but I didn't take the manual. On the H&K site one of the guys said to use the top dot for aiming, well its the second two dots used for aiming. Since it was raining in eastern Pa, I could not do long distance. but the scope worked fine. Once I can get back out and use the scope at the proper calibrated distance then I can comment further
as far as translating the manual
due to the graphic's this is a tall order, its not the translation per se, its the translations fitted with the graphic's. I will attempt this after hurricane Irene blows over
and again its for all, upon request
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January 17, 2013
Defense Department guidance on preparations for the possibility of sequestration unfairly targets civilian employees, according to a major federal employees union.
The American Federation of Government Employees sent a letter to a top Pentagon official Wednesday sharply criticizing the department for proposing to slash civilian jobs over contracted jobs, bypassing labor negotiation requirements and ignoring recommendations made by the union in the event of automatic budget cuts set to go into effect March 1 if lawmakers can't agree on an alternative.
While AFGE commended Defense's Acting Assistant Secretary for Readiness and Force Management Frederick Vollrath for his openness and communication, it said his directives would harm not only the workforce but also the American people. While civilians face hiring freezes, firing of temporary and term employees, incentives to retire and furloughs, the contract workers "emerge relatively unscathed," said AFGE National President J. David Cox, Sr. Such a contrast, Cox wrote, would come at the added expense of the taxpayer.
Cox also condemned the possibility of turning civilian workers into contractors. He called the shift illegal and unnecessary. He added that executives at Defense have not been properly notified of their obligation to bargain with unions like AFGE.


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Doughnut Jimmy wrote:Despite the awesome imagery of your second quote Pooh I'm not sure you can take the opinion of the assasin's guild as much of a moral guide - do you really believe Pratchett is trying to persuade us that it is better to kill for money than for a cause?
I don't believe that no.
But surely TP can't stop a book half way through and do a Mike Yarwood and say, "This is the real me" then vent his spleen about something he wants his readers to know, then get back to the story.
You're implying that nothing any character says in any DW book bears any relation to what TP thinks or any message he's trying to get across.
So if you think the whole of Nation bears absolutely no relation to his beliefs, I'd have to say you were wrong.


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UCSD swimmer Beth Dong is "The Comeback Kid"
Perhaps it was then that swimming began to function as the ultimate release — the only activity that the awkward teenager could perform unencumbered.
Swimming felt natural to Beth, it always had.
She'd grown up on pool decks watching her older siblings, Rachel and Jacob, compete at swim meets, while her self-proclaimed "swim-mom" worked the meets as a volunteer.
Beth swam her very first lap at the age of 3, when her mother lured her across the pool with the incentive of a gold medal on the other end. Little Beth had only just started learning how to swim, but she gamely flopped onto her back and backstroked 25 yards across the pool.
Like all little kids, she tried different sports. Swimming was the only one that stuck.
She loved the water, and under the tutelage of Kevin Perry at the Fullerton Aquatics Sports Club, Beth had learned to harness every ounce of that natural talent she'd shown the day she first backstroked to her waiting mother at the age of 3.
The results were rolling in, too.
By age 14, she had qualified for junior nationals in the mile and the 400 IM. Her times were dropping, and the future looked promising. Beth dreamed of swimming for a Division I college on scholarship.
Then came her freshman year of high school. Beth's condition had deteriorated and her spine was now curved 75 degrees and in the shape of a question mark.
Surgery had become a necessity, her doctor said.
If the condition was allowed to progress unchecked, the bones in Beth's spine could rotate, her ribs could get deformed, and her chest could narrow, giving her heart and lungs less room in which to function. If that happened, she could die.
Beth just wanted to know what this would do to her swimming career.
The surgery would require doctors to cut open her back, move the muscles, then insert and secure two metal rods on either side of her spine to force it to fuse straight.
It was a major procedure that came with a small risk of paralysis, and it called for months of recuperation.
If it sounds extreme, that's because it is.
"It's barbaric," says Beth's surgeon, Dr. Robert Bernstein, a pediatric orthopedic specialist at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. "But it's necessary in some cases."
A former competitive swimmer himself, Bernstein warned Beth to prepare herself for the worst: "You could maybe swim again," the doctor told her. "But you're not going to be good. You're not going to really excel."
It was probably the most spirit-crushing thing he could have said.
"I had to say goodbye to swimming, basically," Beth says. "It was devastating. It was like my world was ending."
So by the time anesthesia set in and Beth slipped into the darkness, she was already in mourning.
"We always do the Bernstein Dance," the doctor told Beth when he appeared in her hospital room the day after the surgery.
Beth was in so much pain, she didn't even want to stand up, let alone allow the dark-haired doctor with the kindly face to lead her in any sort of dance.


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A gas station on East Coliseum Boulevard on Wednesday had its alcohol permit revoked by the Indiana Alcohol and Tobacco Commission.
The station, Coliseum Petroleum, at 909 E. Coliseum Blvd., carries the BP brand on its signs. A news release from the Indiana State Excise Police said the revocation followed the May 24 citation of Coliseum Petroleum for two violations of the Alcohol Beverage Code: public nuisance (drugs) and failure to maintain a high and fine reputation.
The manager of the store, 28-year-old Aman Dasson, pleaded guilty to dealing in a synthetic marijuana lookalike substance and paid a fine Aug. 19, the release said. The substance was hidden in plastic eggs that were sold for $5 each and labeled as a car freshener.


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On Wednesday, House Judiciary members voted unanimously to kill proposed legislation, HB 78: The Enact Medical Cannabis Act. The measure – which was supported by some 70 percent of the state's population, according to a January 2015 Public Policy Polling survey – would have allowed for qualified patients to grow personal use supplies of cannabis or to obtain it from a state-licensed dispensary. We are looking into all of our options moving forward.


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Fireworks show canceled because of dry conditions
Jun 27, 2012 - By Emily Etheredge, Staff Writer
The Riverton Little League games have been full of fireworks with perfect pitches and home runs this season, but the league's annual fireworks show has been canceled.
The Riverton City Council voted June 19 to approve a fireworks permit for the June 28 end-of-the-season celebration if weather conditions permitted.
Baseball coach Shane Lassiter approached council members with news that Jim Landis of Flying Phoenix Fireworks had concerns of dry weather affecting the fireworks show.
"Landis is hesitant to go ahead with putting on the fireworks show due to the dry conditions we have been experiencing the last couple of months," Lassiter said.
Lassiter said the fireworks show is something many in the community look forward to every year and asked council to go ahead with approval of the permit in case the weather changed before the show.
"We never know if the weather will decide to drastically surprise us in the next couple of weeks," Lassiter said.
Councilman Richard Gard said if the weather conditions remained dry, the council could schedule the fireworks show for a later date when the fire danger is lower.
"There are a lot of fun things to do with fireworks, and there is no limitation of time to the permit," Gard said. "We could always have the show sometime in January around New Year's and have it associated with Little League baseball."
But on June 21, Lassiter said the show had been canceled because the forecast showed little change.
"Unfortunately, the concerns of dry air and strong winds are not going away, "Lassiter said. "The Ron Saban baseball complex needs some moisture. I just don't think it is going to happen."
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The discipline of software engineering includes knowledge, tools, and methods for software requirements, software design, software construction, software testing, and software maintenance tasks. Software engineering is related to the disciplines of computer science, computer engineering, management, mathematics, project management, quality management, software ergonomics, and systems engineering.
In 2004, the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 760,840 software engineers holding jobs in the U.S.; in the same time period there were some 1.4 million practitioners employed in the U.S. in all other engineering disciplines combined. Due to its relative newness as a field of study, formal education in software engineering is often taught as part of a computer science curriculum, and as a result most software engineers hold computer science degrees. The term software engineer is used very liberally in the corporate world. Very few of the practicing software engineers actually hold Engineering degrees from accredited universities. In fact, according to the Association for Computing Machinery, "most people who now function in the U.S. as serious software engineers have degrees in computer science, not in software engineering".
Typical formal definitions of software engineering are:
The term has been used less formally:
Some people believe that software engineering implies a certain level of academic training, professional discipline, and adherence to formal processes that often are not applied in cases of software development. A common analogy is that working in construction does not make one a civil engineer, and so writing code does not make one a software engineer. It is disputed by some - in particular by the Canadian Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) body, that the field is not mature enough to warrant the title "engineering". The PEO disputed that "software engineering" was not an appropriate name for the field since those who practiced in the field and called themselves "software engineers" were not properly licensed professional engineers, and that they should therefore not be allowed to use the name.
In each of the last few decades, at least one radical new approach has entered the mainstream of software development (e.g. Structured Programming, Object Orientation), implying that the field is still changing too rapidly to be considered an engineering discipline. Proponents argue that the supposedly radical new approaches are evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
Individual commentators have disagreed sharply on how to define software engineering or its legitimacy as an engineering discipline. David Parnas has said that software engineering is, in fact, a form of engineering. Steve McConnell has said that it is not, but that it should be. Donald Knuth has said that programming is an art and a science. Edsger W. Dijkstra claimed that the terms software engineering and software engineer have been misused, particularly in the United States.
The U.K. has seen the alignment of the Information Technology Professional and the Engineering Professionals.
Software engineering in Canada has seen some contests in the courts over the use of the title "Software Engineer The Canadian Council of Professional Engineers (C.C.P.E. or "Engineers Canada") will not grant a "Professional Engineer" status/license to anyone who has not completed a recognized academic engineering program. Engineers qualified outside Canada are similarly unable to obtain a "Professional Engineer" license. Since 2001, the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board has accredited several university programs in software engineering, allowing graduates to apply for a professional engineering licence once the other prerequisites are obtained, although this does nothing to help IT professionals using the title with degrees in other fields (such as computer science).
Some of the United States of America regulate the use of terms such as "computer engineer" and even "software engineer". These states include at least Texas and Florida. Texas even goes so far as to ban anyone from writing any real-time code without an engineering license.
The Future of Software Engineering conference (FOSE), held at ICSE 2000, documented the state of the art of SE in 2000 and listed many problems to be solved over the next decade. The FOSE tracks at the ICSE 2000 and the ICSE 2007 conferences also help identify the state of the art in software engineering.
In 2006, Money Magazine and Salary.com rated software engineering as the best job in America in terms of growth, pay, stress levels, flexibility in hours and working environment, creativity, and how easy it is to enter and advance in the field.
In 1998, the US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) established the first doctorate program in Software Engineering in the world. As of the beginning of 2006, thirteen students had graduated from the program and assumed senior-level leadership roles in the Department of Defense research and development community. Additionally, many online advanced degrees in Software Engineering have appeared such as the Master of Science in Software Engineering (MSE) degree offered through the Computer Science and Engineering Department at California State University, Fullerton.
Steve McConnell opines that because most universities teach computer science rather than software engineering, there is a shortage of true software engineers.
ETS University and UQAM were mandated by IEEE to develop the SoftWare Engineering BOdy of Knowledge SWEBOK, which has become an ISO standard describing the body of knowledge covered by a software engineer .
Some practitioners have mathematics, science, engineering, or technology degrees. Some have philosophy (logic in particular) or other non-technical degrees. And, others have no degrees. For instance, Barry Boehm earned degrees in mathematics.
Most software engineers work as employees or contractors. Software engineers work with businesses, government agencies (civilian or military), and non-profit organizations. Some software engineers work for themselves as freelancers. Some organizations have specialists to perform each of the tasks in the software development process. Other organizations required software engineers to do many or all of them. In large projects, people may specialize in only one role. In small projects, people may fill several or all roles at the same time. Specializations include: in industry (analysts, architects, developers, testers, technical support, managers) and in academia (educators, researchers).
There is considerable debate over the future employment prospects for Software Engineers and other IT Professionals. For example, an online futures market called the Future of IT Jobs in America attempts to answer whether there will be more IT jobs, including software engineers, in 2012 than there were in 2002.
Professional certification of software engineers is a contentious issue. Some see it as a tool to improve professional practice.
Most successful certification programs in the software industry are oriented toward specific technologies, and are managed by the vendors of these technologies. These certification programs are tailored to the institutions that would employ people who use these technologies.
The ACM had a professional certification program in the early 1980s, which was discontinued due to lack of interest.. As of 2006, the IEEE had certified over 575 software professionals. In Canada the Canadian Information Processing Society has developed a legally recognized professional certification called Information Systems Professional (ISP).
Many students in the developed world have avoided degrees related to software engineering because of the fear of offshore outsourcing (importing software products or services from other countries) and of being displaced by foreign visa workers. Although government statistics do not currently show a threat to software engineering itself; a related career, computer programming does appear to have been affected. Often one is expected to start out as a computer programmer before being promoted to software engineer. Thus, the career path to software engineering may be rough, especially during recessions.
Some career counselors suggest a student also focus on "people skills" and business skills rather than purely technical skills because such "soft skills" are allegedly more difficult to offshore. It is the quasi-management aspects of software engineering that appear to be what has kept it from being impacted by globalization.


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In continuation of the 'Operation Save Haven,' police Tuesday arrested about 100 suspected recycled criminals from different ghettos in Monrovia.
Among them were 14 females and 89 males.
Police Media Coordinator Sam Collins said the suspects were arrested during the early morning hour of Tuesday from different ghettos in central Monrovia and Bushrod Island respectively. Most of the suspects were previously arrested on minor offences, including pick pocketing and aggravated assault.
He said out of the latest batch of 100 suspects, 50 were released after a thorough screening while 50 others are currently in police custody undergoing investigation.
"Liberia National Police will not relent to arrest anyone that will create havoc for the public during and after the festive seasons," Sam Collins pointed out.
He urged the public to report any strange movement of suspected criminals and their hideouts in the communities.
In another development, the management of the TOTAL gas company Tuesday presented 1,500 gallons of fuel to the Liberia National Police.
TOTAL Managing Director Robert Fench, said the donation was part of his company's corporate social responsibility to the people of Liberia.
The TOTAL Managing Director said his company was aware of the tremendous sacrifices that LNP officers were making in the protection of lives and properties and as such they were delighted to identify with the police to enhance their functions adequately.
He expressed his company's commitment to working with the police for the general good of the society.
Responding, Deputy Police Inspector General Rose Stryker lauded the management of TOTAL Gas company for the gesture, stressing that it will help the police in fighting crimes in the society.
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SCRANTON — People in Scranton took part in a small but long-standing Christmas tradition. A miniature train display has found its home inside a mall in the Electric City, and its owners say there's something about the holiday season that brings lots of people in.
In the sea of busy store-fronts at The Mall at Steamtown in Scranton, there's one that takes you back to Christmases before shopping malls. And shows you the electric city in a different light.
"I think it's amazing, I'm pointing out different things that I'm noticing, like over there is the stadium from Central and Tech. I graduated from Central. Over there we saw Nay Aug, it's just so neat," said Lori Santarsiero of Moosic.
The Scranton landmarks in miniature are the creation of model train guru Don Clark. Clark was in business for more than 30 years in Lackawanna County. His kids now carry on the tradition in his memory.
The trains run throughout the year. But, Don's daughter Kathy Shock says there's something about Christmas that brings families out to see the display.
"Those kids through the years have grown up, grown up, and they all keep coming back, so I think my father left such a mark on so many people's lives because he was such a good man, such a caring man," Shock said.
Don Clark's dream was to bring his display as close to the Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton as possible.
"He felt home. And as I said, two days after we opened he passed but he was just so content, he was at peace," added Shock.
This is the display's second Christmas in The Mall at Steamtown, and Shock says they plan to be there for the long run. She says visiting the display is free, and always will be.
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It has been a while between whacky inventions but 2014 just went a little bit insane with so much work and work travel before I knew it christmas had come and past, along with the free time that I only get a fleeting glimpse of once a year.... While we focused on family day trips and experiences I couldn't help but build something during this downtime so heres the goss...
Due to my enthusiasm and fascination of cocktails I recently purchased a classic cocktail recipe book I had been intrested in for a while. After 2 months of glorious ownership of this book I had not mixed 1 drink out of its hundreds of recipes, there were simply too many recipes with obscure ingredients overwhelming me, so, instead of actually reading it cover to cover I decided to build an application to save my ingredient list and retrieve a list of cocktails I could make with those ingredients. The idea is not completely original, cocktailbuilder.com does a similar thing but I wanted to focus on quality cocktails from the early 1900's right down to today. I have at least 800 recipes to add and hope to reach 1000 when I will officially launch The Savoy Bartender.
The site was built with responsive html and javascript using AJAX calls to the database which is essentially an API. It was built this way so I could port the frontend to Android or iPhone using PhoneGap or similar. Turning it into a faux-app is part of the plan so once the recipes are all in the database that will be the next step.
Whenever I do build something I try to learn something new, so for savoybartender.com I used Facebook connect to authenticate users instead of building a whole user database with authentication etc. Facebook authentication is a great way to build a simple web application without complex authentication and sessions (savoybartender simply uses the facebook UID to 'CRUD' the users bar stock/ingredients). Facebook authentication was quite easy to setup and use and while many dispise it, in my case it saves me having to worry about storing user data and passwords which is always a security risk.
You can see the beta version of the site live at savoybartender.com with currently 50 recipes.
Well, it happened again... I got carried away with an idea and now I have to write something about it to justify the time I spent on it.
While searching trove.nla.gov.au recently I noticed how un-responsive it is, I mean, some elements respond to different browser window sizes but using it on a phone is not very fun. so I thought I would have a play with Troves API and see what I could come up with.
Using the API is easy enough, just create a Trove account and request access, it is also simple enough to get a hang of quickly with the documentation provided. I will note there are some obvious limitations to the API which are probably there on purpose to protect the content and Trove itself. Once I had API access and had done a few tests I started with a Boostrap framework; who can pass up the ability to have a neat responsive site up and running so fast, even if it does mean sacrificing a completely unique design...
For the most part building rove was straight forward, I used jQuery AJAX requests with all data returned as JSON objects, it was then just a case of cycling through objects to list results. My biggest challenge was getting thumbnail images as they do not always come through the API. To get around this I wrote a small PHP script utilising the simple html dom script to lookup each search results URL and scrape the image source from it, a bit of a hack but it works!
Right now you can search all content types and it links to the trove items page, my next 2 main features are pagination of results with a "show more results" button at the end of each search and then I want to add article content to the result when it is clicked, this way results can be viewed in the same window as the search results and a user can then click through to the items full details on Trove.
Rove is online here: http://rove.michaelhalls.net
I created the load more feature so it allows continuous loading of results as a single page application. I also added the 'Send Item Details' button which allows a mobile user to send the items metadata including Trove URL and a PDF of the result to any email address - the idea here was to create something you might find a school student using in a classroom or library while researching in a group environment.
Rove is on the shelf now, it was a good exercise and I am happy I finished what I set out to build.
Making games has always been something I liked the idea of but thought was out of my reach, I don't want to go and learn a whole new language just to make games. However, thanks to Javascript and Phaser I can tinker with html games with just html and javascript basics and a very small learning curve.
Setting up Phaser is not very hard and there are a lot of examples out there, there is also a very active support forum that I had to make use of, my question was answered overnight and my little testing platform is complete! I had some design ideas floating around so with idraw and sublime text I went at it. Click the screenshot below to try the platform, to play the game use your keyboard arrow keys to move and the up arrow to jump...
The question is, does anyone remember where the games music track is from??? It's 90's gaming memories for me!
I have a feeling it is going to be a good year, well, I mean so far it has been very productive, onwards and upwards?! At least right now anyway everything looks so beautiful on my new macbook pros retina display, so maybe I am just a bit lovestruck... speaking of lovestruck I just finished upgrading Roseann's (my wife's) website. We started with a base Wordpress theme and modified it to suit, she can take over now and update content and blog away, over the next few weeks I need to implement a client viewing gallery area so that might be the next subject for a Wordpress plugin.
As usual with the site, I have stared at it for too long so cannot be subjective in critiqing it, I do know though it was a big upgrade from the last version of the site!
Now I have to try and figure out how to get enough sleep to be able to get up in 5 1/2 hours! There is never a dull moment with kids!
I have been quite busy with work lately but have somehow been able to find some time to create my first Wordpress plugin, I am sure there are many things wrong with how I made it so I will be looking for feedback, but, delving in to the Wordpress Codex was rewarding and I took away quite a bit of knowledge about the core of Wordpress and am excited about creating my next plugin soon!
Check it out! I created a page with some documentation and download links: WC Bulk Buyer Discounts Plugin


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- Category: Calgary Flames Top Prospects
Ben Hanowski, W
Shoots: L
Height: 6-2
Weight: 194
Born: 1990-10-18
Hometown: Little Falls, MN
Drafted: 2009 by Pittsburgh Penguins, 63rd Overall
September 2014 - Ben Hanowski was signed to a one year two-way contract valued at $850k. He will be making an AHL salary of $67,500 for now however as he has been assigned to the Adirondack Flames. Brad Wilson
May 2014 - Hanowski has now played 16 total games in the NHL totaling one goal and two assists. He hasn't looked out of place however much like Joe Colborne he needs to use his large frame a bit better and be more physical. In the AHL he has clipped along pretty well scoring 31 points in 55 games and finishing off the season with one assist in four playoff games. Hanowski looks to be trending more towards a third liner than a top six but with so much depth being stock piled in the Flames organization there is bound to be movement creating opportunities if he is able to continue to develop his offensive game. That is, if the Flames decide to re-sign him. Ben is an RFA in July. Brad Wilson
January 2014 – Hanowski was having an excellent introduction to AHL life, after 33 games he had compiled 25 points on a questionable Abbotsford team. Since the ball dropped marking the New Year, the well has gone dry through 10 games. Hanowski's game also does not translate into what interim GM Brian Burke likes, he has good size but no grit or intensity. Jason Banks
March 2013 - Ben Hanowski has been traded to the Calgary Flames, with Ken Agostino and a 1st round pick, for Jarome Iginla. He joins the Flames' deepest prospect group at LW, he will have to work hard to earn any time in the NHL. He finished his college career with 29 points in 34 games for St. Cloud State, which is sixth on the team in scoring. He has some upside for a second-line job down the road, but how his game translates to the AHL will be key. Seth Brisendine
February 2012 – Hanowski, a junior at St. Cloud State, has compiled 33 points in the Huskies first 31 games this season following seasons of 19 and 18 points. The Minnesota native has a quick release and is a triggerman more than a playmaker. Hanowski was the most prolific scorer in Minnesota high school history when he beat Johnny Pohl's record of 378 points over four seasons. Rich Dillon
Fantasy Outlook: C+
Third liner with potential to move up to second line in a pinch. Hanowski needs to continue to develop his physical game and use his size more.
Ben Hanowski profile, with interview and highlights.
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American Idol Spoilers: Find Out Which Alums May Be On Tonight's Show!
It might as well be alumni week on American Idol 2013. As we all know, Phillip Phillips will be revisiting the Idol stage on Thursday to perform his new single, "Gone, Gone, Gone". According to MJs Big Blog, however, he may not be the only alum to grace the Idol stage.
It took a bit of work and some powers of deduction on MJs part, but it seems as though something is brewing between Ace Young, Diana DeGarmo, Michael Johns, and Pia Toscano.
First, Ace tweeted to Diana, Michael, and Pia, "Awwwe YEAH! We are excited to see you guys!" Then, Ace's soon-to-be-wife, Diana, tweeted, "Having fear flashbacks of the scary grates on the @Americanidol stage... Hope I dont trip tomorrow... LOL. Fingers crossed! #IdolMemories.
So just what is this mystery all about anyway? MJ had an intriguing thought. As she explained, "You may or may not know that a microphone that will be used in tomorrow's broadcast has been on an Olympic-style cross country journey–at times aided by Idol alums in their local cities. It lands at its final destination tomorrow, and I'll bet Pia, Michael, Ace and Diana have something to do with that."
What do you think -- could MJ be right? Expanding a variety of seasons, that sure is a mish-mosh of American Idol alums. We can't wait to see what they're up to!
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A MINOR cut may be all that is needed to rouse dormant cancer cells into forming a tumour.
To investigate how cancerous genetic mutations become tumours, Sunny Wong at the University of California, San Francisco, and colleagues engineered mice to express a human cancer gene in hair follicle stem cells. They then sliced the skin on some of the mice, while leaving the others unharmed. Only the wounded mice developed tumours, which were clustered around their injury (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1013098108).
When skin is cut, hair-follicle stem cells migrate to the injury. Wong says precancerous cells can lie dormant in the body until a trigger such as radiation pushes them into forming a tumour: "In this case, wounding got cancerous cells out of their resting phase." ...
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Struggle veteran Hugh Lewin and former Stellenbosch Professor Michiel Heyns have won the 2012 Sunday Times Literary Awards, Lewin for non-fiction and Heyns in the fiction category. The awards are worth R75 000 to each author.
Lewin won for his memoir, Stones Against The Mirror (published by Umuzi), which the judges described as "a beautifully written and intensely personal story of friendship, betrayal and struggle". The book tells the story of Lewin's journey to meet his former colleague and friend, Adrian Leftwich, who had betrayed him to the security police in 1964 resulting in a lengthy jail sentence for sabotage.
The chairman of the Alan Paton judging panel, Prishani Naidoo, said this was "not a story of reconciliation, it speaks in very moving ways to the truth of the character of experiences of friendship, politics and life in apartheid South Africa".
Lewin commented: "I am thrilled to have won the 24th Alan Paton Award and I have to express my gratitude to Ray Hartley and his team at the Sunday Times who helps to nurture the literature in South Africa - and that is vital!"
Lewin previously won the 2003 Olive Schreiner Prize for his book Bandiet Out Of Jail. A former journalist, he went into exile after completing his jail sentence, returning to South Africa in 1992.
A rare double win
Michiel Heyns completed a rare double win the Sunday Times Fiction Prize with Lost Ground (published by Jonathan Ball), a crime story set in the Karoo. Heyns was a previous joint winner in 2007 for his exceptional translation of Marlene van Niekerk's Agaat.
Lost Ground was described by the judging panel chairman, Professor Sarah Nuttall, as "clever, fast and funny", and she praised its "sheer range of characters" with voices that are "authentic and profound as they unravel the deep threads of what is holding them together".
Heyns' said of the award: "I was privileged to be on an extremely strong shortlist this year and wasn't at all optimistic about winning the 2012 Fiction Prize, but what a wonderful surprise it was when the announcement was made. I must say that I am pleased and honoured to have been in such good shortlist company."
The 68-year-old Michiel Heyns retired as a Professor of English at Stellenbosch University in 2003 to take up full-time writing and has produced five novels - including the recently published Invisible Furies - as well as the award-winning translation of Agaat.


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A decision by the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM) to name a street Newfie Lane may have ruffled some feathers in this province, but results from an online Telegram survey indicate most people are not bothered by the term "Newfie."
There were 1,101 responses to the question, "What do you think of the term Newfie?" Three-hundred and eighty-seven people chose the response, "I hate it," accounting for a little more than 35 per cent of all respondents.
The remaining 714 respondents were either indifferent to the word or said they loved it, 41.2 per cent chose the response "Doesn't bother me," while 23.6 said "I love it."
Halifax response to naming of Newfie Lane astounds expatriate
A story published in last Tuesday's edition of The Telegram about the newly-named private lane in Middle Sackville got a lot of reaction from readers, launching a conversation that had stretched to 313 online comments as of early Sunday evening.
An official with the HRM told a St. John's woman who now lives in Halifax by email that its civic addressing policy "does not exclude potentially derogatory or offensive street names."
A spokesman for the HRM said it would take a unanimous vote by street residents to change the name. That appears to be an unlikely scenario, as the spokesman said its four original residents wanted the name because of their ties to Newfoundland and Labrador.
Comments from the online survey offered varied perspectives on the term Newfie.
"We are a unique, fun loving people who, thank goodness, see the value in being able to laugh at ourselves," wrote one respondent. "The individual who was offended should learn to lighten up."
Some could envision a fun side to living on Newfie Lane.
"I would love to live on Newfie Lane," wrote a grandmother. "My grandkids could then say, 'My Newfie nanny lives on Newfie Lane!' Too bad there's neither one in Newfoundland."
"Until somebody put 'stupid' or 'dumb' in front of it, then it bothers me," wrote a person who chose the response "It doesn't bother me."
While many chose the "I love it" answer, some of those same people did specifically mention finding it uncomfortable to hear certain people say the word 'Newfie.'
"Only when it is used by a fellow Newfoundlander not by anybody else," said one person.
On the flip side, a person who chose "I hate it" also highlighted circumstances where use of the term is less problematic.
"Newfie is a term that can by used by Newfoundlanders for Newfoundlanders, not for mainlanders to refer to Newfoundlanders. When others use it, it is offensive. The same goes for Newfie jokes. It's OK for a Newfoundlander to tell them, but not mainlanders."
One person who said they hate the term Newfie suggested that Newfoundlanders living away from home may be contributing to the term's continued usage by mainlanders.
"Newfoundlanders living away seem to use the term more than those of us who live here. Almost like it is a nostalgic term. That must create confusion for the mainlanders who probably feel the term is OK if Newfoundlanders are using it."
That perspective was in-part given credence by some comments.
"My gosh to me the term Newfie is a term of endearment. I've been living away for 34 years and I can assure you the majority of Newfies I know do not mind at all, actually I'm quite proud, and we think the ones who have a problem with the term have no (sense) of humor or are embarrassed that they are from Newfoundland. They need to lighten up. A very proud Newfie here."
Some spoke of the term's usage from a historical perspective.
"I remember when it was used as a derogatory term against Newfoundlanders and while many people use it as a term of affection towards Newfoundlanders now, it is still a term that originated as an insult," wrote one person who chose the response "I hate it."
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How will we know the difference between the old mac zip files and the new universal zip files? that is without opening them up?
I was wondering this, also. I guess by the name - but will DAZ be putting a consistent identifier in the new file names so we'll be able to distinguish that?