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In the back of the magazine store on the corner, I find the gun magazines.
It's hard to miss them. There are dozens, more than you'd imagine, if you've never spent time looking for gun magazines.
Their titles shout their obsessions: TRIGGER, RECOIL, GUNS.
I choose a dozen.
At home, I spread the glossy publications out on the floor.
I've fired guns in my life — a .45 on a long-ago first date at a gun range, a rifle on a rural property in Northern California, an airgun at a county fair in Pennsylvania to win a small stuffed dolphin.
I've been a freelance writer for 15 years, but gun magazines have barely registered for me. They're what I overlooked on my way to grab the latest Vogue or Esquire.
The alarmingly titled WORLD OF FIREPOWER is a kind of Playboy for gun enthusiasts, focusing on those who are expert in military combat and law enforcement. In addition to spotlighting "warbirds" and "non-lethal but deadly" accessories, there are tips for hunting mule deer. Speed, precision, and deadliness are the firearm magazine's equivalent of a Playmate of the Month's bust-to-waist-to-hips measurements.
TRIGGER is the new kid on the block. The cover of its debut issue promises readers William Gibson-sounding "SMART GUNS" that can shoot "BETTER THAN YOU." The editor's letter vows to "insightfully explore the gun culture wherever guns are found."
Guns & Ammo is, like its peers, filled with ads: for guns, for rifles, for ammunition, for holsters, for "Sons of Anarchy." A full-page ad for a Nikon-made riflescope emits a siren's call to those who plan on "CHANGING THE AR WORLD ONE CARTRIDGE AT A TIME." Colt seduces prospective buyers with the heady allure of "FACTORY FINISH. NEW RIFLE SMELL."
Gun Digest's special shotgun issue, by contrast, instructs everyone to "LIGHTEN UP!" — with Weatherby's SA-08 Deluxe 28-gauge semi-automatic shotgun, natch.
Of the dozen I selected, the covers of only two feature something other than a gun or a man holding a gun. On the cover of Women & Guns, a woman wearing a pearl bracelet takes aim at a target depicting an armed man in a ski mask. On the cover of Shooting Gazette, two cheery hunting dogs gaze into the camera, their pink tongues lolling.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Women & Guns is less expensive than its competitors. Several of the magazines I picked up retail for $8.99. Women & Guns is a mere $3.95. One could surmise the female-friendly ads found in Women & Guns (for example: a Savage Arms Lady Hunter rifle offering both "NICE CURVES" and "one shot, one kill") and a story about one woman's "journey to gunownership [sic]" don't generate as much revenue as, say, GUN WORLD.
Shooting Gazette, which is published in the UK, paints a headier version of gun life, one in which a man sporting a £595 tweed shooting coat hunts wild game with his retrievers and finds a use for the back of the book's venison scotch eggs recipe.
As for Combat Handguns, a front of the book column reminds one of Penthouse Letters. In this issue's installment of "It Happened to Me": "Kahr 9mm thwarts knifepoint mugging!" and ".40-cal. response sends carjacker fleeing!"
In a recent post on Bloomberg.com's The Ticker, Bloomberg View editorial board member and former executive editor of the Week Francis Wilkinson proclaimed: "Guns Are for White People." He came to this conclusion because he "asked the guy at the subway kiosk for as many gun magazines as he could give me before the #4 train pulled in." However long that was, it resulted in Wilkinson acquiring three gun magazines. Flipping through the pages, he discovered the magazines were loaded with guns — and white people.
There are pictures of guys with guns, gals with guns, animals with guns, ammo with guns and guns with guns. Curiously absent are pictures of black people with guns, brown people with guns or Asian people with guns. The good guys are white. The bad guys are white. In the Gunworld depicted in these pages, pretty much everyone is white.
There were few non-whites, he concluded somewhat hesitantly, confessing he was not entirely sure of the race of everyone in the magazines, but why?
"Gun politics is always racially fraught," he declared. Perhaps it was the PC police at work, he considered, since most of the "bad guys" depicted in the magazines were white, too. It was hard to say.
Iain Harrison, 45, is the editor of RECOIL magazine, and when it comes to guns, he is no slouch. A former British Army captain, he won the first season of the History Channel's "Top Shot" reality show in which expert marksmen and markswomen compete to become the next top shooter. His prize: $100,000. He left the UK in part due to the anti-gun climate; he has since become an American citizen.
"I don't have a journalism background," admits Harrison, who's also an amateur gunsmith. "I came into this business purely as a fluke."
Of the firearms magazines I perused, RECOIL was the most familiar. Over-sized and boxy, its silver and black matte cover posits it as the anti-Cosmo. Rather than focusing exclusively on guns, it's about the "gun lifestyle."
There are artfully shot weapon porn spreads, catchy headlines (a piece on a "survivor truck" is titled "APOCALYPSE WOW!"), and feature stories on subjects ranging from aeronautics to attack dogs to a profile of U.S.M.C. scout sniper Collin Raaz, who lost both legs to an IED in Afghanistan and returned home to found a shooting gear startup. A four-page spread on "BOURBON: AN AMERICAN MAN'S DRINK" advises: "SHOOT, THEN DRINK. IN THAT ORDER"; an accompanying sidebar tells you "HOW TO DRINK BOURBON" (an excerpt: "Drinking a rocks glass of bourbon is your birthright as an American. It is like drinking a glass of freedom. It fuels your inner man."). Here, the advertisers are more diverse: truck tires, motorcycle gear, a slim ad in the back offering 50% off an adult video from Adam & Eve ("Use code 'RECOIL5′ at checkout" for your discount). As a bonus, every issue of RECOIL comes with a free target for shooting practice. This month's poster-sized pullout has a sexy blonde in ripped, bust-exposing clothing being attacked by a male zombie. Thankfully, she is armed to the teeth with a Spike's Tactical Compressor in her right hand and a large knife in her left hand. The zombie, who is losing half his face, appears hellbent on eating her brains, but with that amount of weaponery, my bet is on the blonde. ("There's nothing hotter than a heavily-armed beautiful woman," Harrison observes.)
The magazine, which launched in January 2012 and has a circulation of around 225,000, is published by Source Interlink Media, which publishes, among many other titles, Motor Trend and Geek Magazine. For now, RECOIL is Source Interlink Media's lone gun title.
"They saw a huge, gaping void in the market for a magazine that was design-heavy and skewed to a younger demographic that was really being under-served at the time," Harrison says.
Clearly, RECOIL is more Maxim than your dad's Guns & Ammo. It's hipper and cooler, but still unabashedly male. Harrison's stated goal with the publication is to "be more manly than Men's Journal," and he may well have achieved the heretofore thought impossible.
"If [gun magazines] weren't profitable, you wouldn't see quite so many of them," he divulges. As for RECOIL, they've experienced 300% growth in the last 18 months.
Regarding the lack of diversity in the pages of firearms magazines, Harrison says that behind the scenes at RECOIL it's another story.
"If you look at the masthead on RECOIL, I think I'm the token white guy," Harrison muses. "Most of my staff, most of the people who work on RECOIL, are non-Caucasian." The images in RECOIL are somewhat more racially diverse than its competitors but not much, I discovered. "I think for the most part it's not intentional," he says. "We feature a bunch of guys from all over."
Generally, there are far more images of women in gun magazines than, say, African-Americans.
"Women are the largest growing demographic in firearms right now," Harrison says. "You cater to that demographic. If that demographic isn't there, you might not cater to it." The idea that gun owners are gun-happy rednecks is a myth, he counters. Instead, guns are the common denominator that transcends racial lines. "In reality, the people I shoot with, that I hang around with — I think post-racial is a pretty good way to describe them. Like, we don't really care."
Kenn Blanchard is Black Man with a Gun. Officially. That is, he trademarked the moniker. He even wrote a book with the same title. A reverend, a former Marine, and an ex-federal police officer, Blanchard is one of the few high-profile African-American gun rights activists. (At the moment, the highest profile would be Colion Noir, a gun enthusiast and NRA spokesperson who has garnered a legion of followers with his entertaining YouTube videos.)
Was he offended by the Bloomberg piece? No. For Black Man with a Gun, one surmises, this is his reality.
"It's not black and white," he explains. "I looked at it as a marketing piece. I looked at it as a guy asking questions. It was what he saw. It will inflame some people. It will piss off some people who will see it as a true. There's enough white people in the industry that they don't have to market to anybody else. It's comfortable. It's a private magazine, they can do what they want."
Still, he admits, "It took me a while to get here. When I first stated it off, I was that guy screaming, 'Where am I in that?' I'm a little more tempered than I used to be."
Besides, he says, "It's always the bottom line. You always market to who you know. There's no color here, only green."
In the end, it's all about your firepower.
"Anybody who hands you a gun is not your enemy, that's your brother," Blanchard tells me. "Anybody who tries to take your gun away from you, that's your enemy. The color has nothing to do with it."
In the magazine store, I asked the guy behind the counter if there are any gun magazines that target African-American readers.
"I don't think so," he said, gazing at the racks of magazine before him.
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— Bruh. (@TheePharoah) August 9, 2014
The killing of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old African-American whose death has sparked protests in Ferguson, Mo., may have been live-tweeted.
On Friday, Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson flagged tweets from a St. Louis-based Twitter user, @ThreePharoah, who appears to have been present at Brown's shooting on August 9.
"I JUST SAW SOMEONE DIE OMFG," @ThreePharoah wrote at 1:03 p.m. that Saturday. "Im about to hyperventilate... the police just shot someone dead in front of my crib yo."
"[D]ude was running and the cops just shot.him. i saw him die bruh," @ThreePharoah wrote.
The Twitter user claims that the police shot Brown seven times, twice in the back and then five times more after he turned around. The user said Brown was running and appeared to have stolen some "rellos," a reference to Cigarellos.
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Dick Greenwell, vice chairman of the LaRue County School Board, resigned his seat at Monday's school board meeting.
Greenwell, who was in his third term as a board member, said he is leaving for "personal reasons." He has served constituents in the fifth district which includes Hodgenville, Mount Sherman, Otter and Atilla since January 2003.
"I appreciate his service as a board member," said LaRue County Superintendent Sam Sanders.
Film crews from the Bureau of Education and Research out of Bellevue, Wash., spent last week videotaping LaRue County elementary school teachers as they modeled effective reading strategies in their classrooms.
Schools will be closed Nov. 23-25 and Dec. 19-30.
Site-based council schedule
The ALES site-based council meetings will be 5:30 p.m. Dec. 12, Jan. 9, Feb. 13, March 12, April 16 and May 14 in the conference room.
For more information, call the school at 358-4112.
Independent readers
Independent readers may stay after school until 4:15 p.m. each Tuesday in the library.
Academic Team meets
The Academic Team meets 3-4:15 p.m. Nov. 30 in the library.
"A" Honor Roll
4th grade
Alexandria French, Bryson Arnette, Emily Pearman, Gary Lin, Gilbert Cox, Grace Ramey, Jacob McAdams, Jacob Sandidge, Kaleigh Graham, Makenzi Fulkerson, Savannah Bandurske, Savannah Smith, Sydney Pepper, Wyatt Pearman
"A-B" Honor Roll
4th grade
Western Kentucky University honored 47 students from six area high schools for their academic achievements.
The annual High School Scholars recognition ceremony honored students who qualify for a renewable scholarship to WKU.
This year's group has an average ACT composite score of 28.7 and grade-point average of 3.9 and included four National Merit Semifinalists and 25 Kentucky Governor's Scholars.
Monty's Plant Food Company, a Louisville, Kentucky-based manufacturer of plant and soil enhancement products for the agriculture, horticulture, lawn and garden and turf industries, is now accepting applications for four, $1,000 college scholarships. The awards will be made in conjunction with the National FFA Organization to high school seniors who are members of FFA.
LaRue County Middle School
SBDM Meeting Minutes
October 18, 2011
I. Call to Order
Meeting was called to order at 4:30pm in the LCMS library. Those members present were Bob Bright (principal), Trudy Gardner (parent), Karlotta Cecil (parent), Angie White (teacher), Eddie Paden (teacher), and Joe Reed (teacher).
II. Approval of Agenda
A new scholarship fund has been established at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College to assist students studying in the college's nationally acclaimed automotive technology program.
The Automotive-Diesel Excellence in Education Scholarship fund was created by members of the college's automotive technology faculty, using proceeds the program received from WIX Filters for winning the Southeast Region in Tomorrow's Technician's "School of the Year" competition this past spring.
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An expert panel has selected NEON as the winner of an RIBA Competition to design the RIBA Lounge at MIPIM UK. During the event - due to be held at Olympia London from 15 to 17 October 2014 - the RIBA Lounge will be used for networking, business events, and a showcase of British architecture. Furniture for the space will be provided by Herman Miller and the Lounge will be sponsored by Equisys and Ordnance Survey.
George King, Partner at NEON said: "NEON are thrilled to have been chosen to design the RIBA Lounge at MIPIM UK. The event promises to be a fantastic platform to showcase the best of British architecture and we are excited to be a part of it. We look forward to working with the RIBA to create a space that highlights the exceptional work of its members."
Sean Blair, Equisys Timemaster Account Manager, said: "We were particularly impressed with [NEON's] existing portfolio of work, specifically some of the shop window displays which really visualize how very small spaces can express such innovation and creativity. Their use of colour, space and materials are what really made this practice stand out; and we are looking forward to seeing some of their design proposals for the RIBA lounge."


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Our Lady of the Lake University does not play football. Since its founding in 1895, the University has never fielded a team that runs or throws an oblong sphere, otherwise known as a pigskin. So what do you make of this: A school without a gridiron possesses a long list of graduates who have won more than 1,000 high school football games and claimed four state championships.
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Whole Pork Shoulder
16 Apr 2009
Whole Pork Shoulder recipe is one that can be prepared in nearly no time. It a delicious and simple Chinese dish using whole pork shoulders.
|Pork shoulder
|5 Pound
|Soy sauce
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Brown sugar
|1 Tablespoon
|1 Ounce
Put the meat in a large bowl of cold water to soak overnight.
Put the pork in a large pan with enough water to cover, bring to the boil, remove the scum, cover the pan with a tight fitting lid and simmer for 1 1/2 hours.
Add the soy sauce, sherry, sugar, whole spring onions (scallions) and ginger cut into thin slices bring back to simmering point; cover and cook for another 1 hour.
Serve the pork on a large dish with some of the liquid and pick pieces off with chopsticks or with a fork.
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A wee bit o' the tardy in arriving, but here's a 70-frame slideshow I just tossed to YouTube from beginning to finished-product end of our roughly 10-week kitchen renovation that took place from the middle of August to the beginning of November:
Fri 28 Nov 2014
Kitchen Renovation Slideshow
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Thu 27 Nov 2014
Short Storytime
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I dreamed there was no knife in my hand after I took the punch to the side of my head.
It was a nice dream while it lasted, but I came awake with a jump at the subconscious knuckle crunch of fist against temple, much in the same way people who are falling in their sleep jolt awake just before they impact whatever hard parcel upon which they are about to land.
Blinking the blur out of my eyes, the flood of relief I felt at the absence of the knife boiled entirely away in the instant I found myself still in the jail cell I'd been placed in after being booked for murdering the road-rager who'd thrown the blow.
Because there had been a knife in my hand. Funny thing, not only do I not remember how it got there, but I had initially planned on just accepting the slug. In a way, I totally deserved it.
I'd gotten off work. I was coming from Hollywood into the valley through the Cahuenga Pass where I'd been in a hurry to drop off a package for my boss at the FedEx near a curve in the road past Barham. I was in a rush to get home to my Encino apartmetn and cleaned up for a date later all the way back over on Melrose with none other than Elie Tolsen. I'd known Elie since high school, but back then crush be damned, I was a stoner fuck-up to whom such a princess wouldn't give the time of day. Since then, I cleaned up nicely and got a promising job at Paramount. She'd filled out nicely and landed a co-starring roll on a popular TV cop show that just so happened to film at the same studio.
So there I was, FedEx package delivered and putting my car in reverse there on the driveway apron, trying to make every second count. Instead of backing out, heading east and turning around safely and sanely somewhere back in the direction from which I'd just come, I opted instead to back out across the clear eastbound lanes and arc into the space for left turns in the center of the street.
While I executed the obviously questionable maneuver perfectly, it surprised the driver of a car coming west around the bend who laid on the horn as he passed me, an alarm I fully deserved. After pulling into the lane I came up behind him stopped at a red light a couple blocks down. While the driver of the car was just glaring at me in his rearview mirror, it was the passenger who'd gone totally apoplectic with anger, turning fully in his seat full-throat yelling at me and flipping me off through the rear window. Seriously, there was spittle involved. Man overboard!
The irony is not only did the driver try to calm his friend down, but I also gave it my best attempt to placate the asshole. I mouthed sincerely that I was sorry and gestured as best I could to indicate I was certifiably the worst driver in the world who shouldn't be allowed to walk the streets much less operate a motor vehicle upon them.
It didn't translate to the guy riding shotgun. He just kept laying on with the fuckyous and the assholes and the middle fingers and the kickyerasses to the point where I had enough and returned fire. Then he gestured: let's fucking go right fucking here, right fucking now.
Next thing, the light's turning green, but he's out of the car and moving towards me. Nothing about him was outwardly concerning — 5'10" maybe 175 pounds, no guns in his hands. But regardless of his lack of physical stature or weaponry, logic dictates that one should not stay frozen in a confined and hardly defensible space such as the interior of a vehicle as some stark and raving lunatic closes the distance. One should get out, the better to fight or to flee.
But for some strange reason, I stayed put — surprisingly calmly so. Ignoring the psycho as he arrived at the driver's side window and instead looked straight ahead at the driver of the car who also remained behind his wheel but now in exasperation held his head in both hands.
I don't remember what the fellow yelled and spit at me through the open window, neither is it important. What is important is that my failure to engage enraged him further enough to first slam his hand down on the roof of my car and then bitchslap at the side of my head, coming into contact with my left ear enough to cause an intense burning sensation.
Here's the thing. I don't take pain well. I don't mean to say that I have a low threshold for it, it's just that I woefully lack the ability to ignore whatever thing — be it animate, inanimate or in this case highly animated — that is the cause of that pain. I've destroyed chairs that I've stubbed toes on. I flushed a hamster down the toilet that bit me on the pinky. During my first year in junior high, I put a towering ninth grader in the hospital for suckering me into accepting a high five with a nail held between his middle and ring fingers. The school security guard had to pull me off him to stop me with hands full of his ears and hair from banging his head face first into the playground asphalt for the tenth time. It's a byproduct overdrive impulse to inflict an equal or greater amount of damage to that which has been inflicted upon me.
Slim as it may have been, any chance of me not going batshit at the eird slap was taken off the table when his fist came in full contact to my temple, the force of which drove me across onto the passenger seat, upon which sat my backpack and in which resided the buck knife with a folding four-inch locking blade that was a gift from the warehouse manager of a previous employer back when I hadn't quite cleaned up so well. The job was in a bad part south and east of downtown and the manager told me for very good reason that I should never ever be without a knife.
In the ensuing daze of ear-ringing semi-consciousness I won't deny going through the complicated process of opening the appropriate pocket of the backpack, removing the knife from its leather case, and locking it open. It's just that I sincerely don't remember doing so. All I recall is that when I felt him grabbing at my shirt and pulling me back toward him, I came up more quickly than he expected. With my left arm I pinned his right arm against pillar of the car frame and kept pushing the forearm away from me at an unnatural angle until there was a very satisfying crack and and even more satisfying a scream. Then what may have been the butt of his left palm connected with my forehead and I saw a light show before my eyes during which I drove the knife in my right hand into and out of and into and out of his midsection.
I couldn't tell you how many times, other than I didn't stop until he slumped and fell away from my car onto his back in the number one westbound lane just in time to be run over by a passing FedEx truck. Whether he was dead before he hit the street, or was finished off under the tire treads, I don't know.
All I knew when sirens sounded in the distance and grew louder with each passing second was that I had killed two things, a man and my date with Elie. I was far more upset about the latter.
Sun 31 Aug 2014
Buster Busts A Move
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I thought we'd lost her yesterday: Buster, our Russian tortoise. Lately on weekends I've been taking her out of the self-contained hutch we built in 2007 and letting her have what we call the "pumpkin patch," a roughly 10′ x 4′ section of the backyard normally reserved during this time of year for any would-be jack o' lanterns I attempt to grow.
With its perimeter built up with river rocks and bricks, the patch has proven to contain Buster pretty well, thanks to me paying close attention to the weakest exit points that she inevitably and incessantly will exploit and then strengthening them in some manner… maybe with a repositioned river rock or some stakes driven into the dirt that she can't defeat.
At dusk last night, when it came time to move her back from the patch into her hutch, she was gone. I asked Susan if she'd returned her, and she said no. I wondered if perhaps one of our kitchen renovation workers, not knowing the exploratory nature of tortoises had seen Buster trying to escape and helped her over the barrier figuring "How far can a tortoise go?" That's a typical rhetorical people ask themselves and the answer is "Far enough that you may never see them again."
I'm serious. They can get themselves under some foliage, dig down into the soft earth and even though they're theoretically under your nose, they're just as completely GONE as if they'd managed to crawl all the way to Kern County.
My first thought was one of relief because I was pretty sure she was at least somewhere in the backyard as there weren't any readily accessible escape routes out of it. But compounding matters and fears, said workers had left the backyard gate nearest the patch open during their time here, meaning that if Buster either escaped on her own or was assisted, she was only about 15 feet and one low step away from getting beyond the backyard into the north side yard, with its thick growth offering plenty of places to hunker down over night before setting out for Kern County in the morning.
So time was pretty much of the essence, and with the daylight failing Susan and I got busy. I stuck to the backyard and north side of the house while Susan went all the way down to the street and down the block.
You think that's silly? Then check out my account below of an escape she made back in 2004. The use of "Miracle" in the headline is NOT an exaggeration.
Long story cut short: There was much rejoicing and relief when I found Buster still in the backyard, instead of going out the open gate she made a left and crawled under the potting table among a half-dozen or so brown widow spiders, wedging herself against the outside of the kitchen wall.
Maybe she was interested in the renovation's progress.
Sun 24 Aug 2014
A Different Kind Of Bucket Challenge
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Lately (and to the point of ad nauseum in my less-than-humble opinion) there's been a trend fadding or a fad trending called the ALS Bucket Challenge, nobly started to raise money for research into Lou Gehrig's Disease, but now everybody's seemingly dumping buckets of iced water over their heads and challenging everybody else to do the same.
My particular bucket challenge isn't something I'd demand anyone else do nor does it waste a drop of water. As alluded to in my previous post I got busy yesterday afternoon transferring the above-pictured big ol' pallet of brick slices from my parking space in the garage up 17 steps and around to the side yard using two of the pictured buckets.
To be specific, a bucket holds 20 pieces weighing 44.6 pounds (yes, I weighed one). On Facebook yesterday I submitted the above picture and opened up the guessing as to how many buckets it might take. Here's the comment thread that resulted:
Roughly three hours later, the transfer was completed involving a total of 52.5 buckets (kudos to Steven Frein for his guess of 50 buckets).
Here's where they ended up neatly stacked in the sideyard:
And whilst enjoying a cold beer afterward, I did the math and can now use the term "ton o' bricks" quite literally: 52.5 buckets at 44.6 pounds per bucket equals a total weight of 2,341.5 pounds, that I loaded, carried up 17 steps, and unloaded. The total number of half-bricks was 1,050.
If my back and the rest of me weren't so totally freakin' exhausted I'd be feeling pretty badass right about now.
Sat 23 Aug 2014
Kitchen Reno Report: What Lies Beneath
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Demo of all cabinetry, lathe and plaster and flooring commenced Monday and was fast and furiously done, giving way to the entirely unsexy but essential plumbing and electrical work that continues on the underguts of the kitchen and future pantry and laundry room (out of view behind the cam). Removal of the laminate wood flooring and subflooring (concrete! and linoleum) revealed a tangled web of pipes and wiring that an inspector would have said "Oh hail nah!" to and so were ripped out and are now in the slightly protracted process of being replaced.
In other news that left wall of the kitchen will need reframing. The 2x4s were installed wide side out, which is how they were allowed to build things in the early 1900s, but the opposite orientation is how walls must be built nowadays.
And also, we'll be adding first-time insulation to all the exterior walls.
Lastly, if I'm feeling like a particular glutton for punishment, I may give myself a workout today hauling up the pallet of cut Simons bricks that will be our future kitchen floor up to the side yard from the garage where they've been all week.
Why Simons bricks specifically? Good of you to ask. The Simons Brick Company (roughly 1900-1952), located first in Pasadena and then in what is now the City of Commerce, was a major supplier of bricks for the southern California region, including our 1906 house's original foundation (replaced in 1999). Susan and I originally considered saltillo tile for the kitchen and pantry, but that just didn't seem to fit in to the Craftsman style. So we thought about brick as having a stronger connection and then we wondered how awesome would it be if we could find enough Simons bricks, have them cut to paver depth and install them.
When that initially proved a pipe dream, we considered reclaimed-look brick tiles from an array of manufacturers but the color and consistency wasn't quite right. Rather than settle, Susan undertook an epic expedition and in what was something of a miracle finally found a salvage yard in the South Bay that not only had plenty of Simons bricks onhand, but bonus: could cut them as well. In doing so we went from spending about $12 per square foot for the flooring of our kitchen and pantry to $4.
And now a pallet of them sits in my parking space in the garage. We'll see if they're up in the sideyard and I'm exhausted by the end of the day.
Tue 19 Aug 2014
Kitchen Reno Chronicles: And Then Came The Total Gutjob
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Sun 17 Aug 2014
Kitchen Reno Chronicles: Cleared For Take-Off
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Perrier MELTING
This is a commercial advertisement for Perrier. This commercial was released in June 2010 in France under the titled of 'Perrier MELTING'. It was made by Ogilvy, France advertising agency.
It was also awarded with Bronze in the Cannes Lions 2010 Film Lions.
PERRIER is the ultimate solution for extreme refreshment on a planet gripped by heat that is so intense that everything around us starts to melt.
And can you guess who this attractive woman is? She is from the commercial ad of Perrier. I am not quite sure about it because her name could not be found in the 'Credits' of the commercial ad of Perrier. But, if you have any information about the commercial ad, please leave your comment.
The song which was used in the commercial ad of Perrier is "Waves" by the French singer Camille released on April 7th 2008. And this song "Waves" is included in her third studio album "Music Hole". For those of you who like this song "Waves", you can download it from Amazon or Itunes.
You can enjoy the Youtube in high-definition in the size that fits the entire screen by clicking the Youtube capture images. And the 1 minutes and 07 seconds-long director's cut version of the commercial ad of Perrier is provided. Learn more
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Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper has been placed on the 15-day disabled list with a left thumb sprain, and will travel to Cleveland on Monday for a second opinion with a hand specialist, manager Matt Williams announced on Sunday.
The Nationals are cautious to give a definitive timeline for Harper until after Monday's examination. Harper had an injury to the same thumb in high school and may have suffered ligament damage.
"He does have some history in that he hurt it in high school," Williams said. "The question is how new is it, and how much of the old injury is it. There are guys that play with it all the time. We'll get him a second opinion. We're putting him on the DL for now until he gets that second opinion. We'll get the swelling out of there, evaluate how he is, and see where he's at."
Harper hurt his thumb in Friday's game when sliding into third base on a triple. He jammed his hand into the bag while sliding and received an MRI the day after.
Harper is now icing it and taking time off in hopes the swelling will subside.
"It's sprained right now. I sprained it, they said. I'm just really trying to figure out in 15 days how I feel and not worry too much. We got a lot of off days in the next two weeks, that's huge. I'm really just trying to get a lot of treatment on it and see where I'm at," he said."
With Harper out of the lineup, Williams expects Nate McLouth to see a majority of the playing time. There could be a platoon situation with Kevin Frandsen, and Tyler Moore could also make some starts. But McLouth was essentially signed over the offseason to be the fourth outfielder and is ready to step in.
"He has the ability to play out there and play well, so we're going to rely on him," Williams said. "The ability to play all three positions is key for the extra outfielder, if that's what you want to say he is."
Williams said the team hopes Harper's thumb will get better with ice and rest. If he did suffer ligament damage, it could be something he deals with even after returning.
On that notion, however, Williams found one silver lining.
"The good thing, if it's an ongoing thing this year, is that it's his left hand, his glove hand. It's not his throwing hand. He took some swings the other night after he did it and felt okay. He hasn't done anything since because it's been swollen. The prognosis we just don't know yet because we're in the early stages. We decided to shut him down."
Harper now joins teammates Ryan Zimmerman, Wilson Ramos, Scott Hairston and Doug Fister on the disabled list. The first month of the 2014 season isn't even over, yet the Nationals are patching together lineups due to injuries up and down their roster.
Harper is disappointed to miss time, but realizes it's part of the game.
"It sucks definitely. It's part of baseball, you slide into the bag and sometimes it gets your fingers, that's just part of it. We'll see where I'm at at 15 and really try to get back as quick as I can."
Harper slid headfirst into third on Friday night and has since received criticism for hustling too much in a situation he didn't have to. Just one week before he was benched for not playing hard enough, presenting a tough continuum for the 21-year-old.
His manager, however, says there is no reason to question the play he injured himself on.
"I think it's bad luck. Guys slide first all the time, it just happens that he got his thumb in an awkward position. You can't question that, you can't question the way the kid plays the game. He plays the game hard."
The Nationals called up outfielder Steven Souza, Jr. from the Triple-A Syracuse Chiefs as the corresponding move.


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Waukesha's La Clinica closes; services move community health center
La Casa de Esperanza's outpatient La Clinica in Waukesha has closed after nearly 25 years in the city of Waukesha.
La Clinica offered free, bilingual alcohol and other drug abuse services, along with mental health counseling. But the clinic is small and board of La Casa has been looking for a number of years to find a new home for the services, said Anselmo Villarreal, president and CEO of La Casa. It closed on March 31.
Starting on April 7, La Clinica's services and program staff will move to the Waukesha Community Health Center, located just around the corner at 309 E. North St. The center is a satellite location of the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center in Milwaukee.
"We have been looking to identify another provider that could take the clinic to the next level and the Waukesha Community Health Center can provide a complete array of health services for clients as well as additional behavioral health, social services and insurance enrollment," he said.
Villarreal said one of the biggest gaps in service for Latinos in Waukesa is the access to mental health services.
The clinic began notifying patients several weeks ago that this change would be taking place, he said.
Julie Schuller, a doctor and executive vice president of the Sixteenth Street/Waukesha Community Health Centers, said the addition of staff and alcohol and other drug treatment services is a good fit for the menu of services that have been growing at the Waukesha center since it opened almost two years ago.
La Clinica's bilingual counselor Ligia "Lee" Wipfli will continue at the Waukesha clinic, and three other part-time counselor/therapists will also move to the new facility.
The move also allow La Casa to focus its resources on its core programs, which include education, workforce development, housing assistance and community support. Villarreal said the agency is working on getting a new charter school
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Online Device Help
This section provides information about:
The benefits of Online Device Help
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Benefits and Purposes of Online Device Help
Online Device Help (also known as the "Get help for my hardware device" wizard) delivers targeted content on problems with hardware and peripheral devices installed on the system. This mitigates the need for users to call support professionals to resolve hardware issues. Users interact with Online Device Help in products in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 family when installing new hardware (through the Found New Hardware Wizard).
At the conclusion of the Found New Hardware Wizard, when the user's system uses a device driver that is not found on the operating system installation CD or is not available through Windows Update, Online Device Help collects anonymous data on the problem device (including a unique hardware identifier for that device) and sends that information over the Internet to a server at Microsoft. If a match for the device is found, content on that device is then downloaded to the user's system and is displayed in the Help and Support Center user interface. This content may include:
Information from the independent hardware vendor (IHV) about upcoming and planned device support.
Links to the product compatibility area in Help and Support Center to enable users to search or browse the Windows Catalog Web site for compatible devices. The Windows Catalog Web site is located at:
A link to the Web site of the IHV for that device.
The data provided by Online Device Help enables Microsoft to identify the number and system locale of users experiencing hardware problems due to missing drivers and to identify the most common problem devices. Microsoft works with these hardware vendors to provide targeted troubleshooting content on the most common problem hardware devices.
This section of the white paper explains how to control Online Device Help in a managed environment.
Overview: Using Online Device Help in a Managed Environment
Users have control over whether to upload the data required by Online Device Help. In a managed environment, however, it is unlikely that users can choose to install any device; this function would normally be controlled in some fashion by the IT department. You can block Online Device Help at the firewall or through the Services snap-in. The configuration options and procedures for controlling Online Device Help are described later in this section.
How Online Device Help Communicates with Sites on the Internet
If no information for a particular hardware device is found on either the installation CD for the operating system or through Windows Update, users are prompted to release anonymous information about their hardware profile through Online Device Help. This subsection summarizes the communication process:
Specific information sent or received: The following information is collected from the user's computer and uploaded to a server at Microsoft. The user is not uniquely identified.
The hardware ID, also known as the PnPID (code that indicates the device manufacturer, device name, and version)
The time and date that the data was sent
Language code of the operating system, and platform and build information
- The hardware ID, also known as the PnPID (code that indicates the device manufacturer, device name, and version)
Default and recommended settings: Online Device Help is enabled by default. Recommended settings are described in the next subsection, "Controlling Online Device Help to Limit the Flow of Information to and from the Internet."
Triggers: Online Device Help is triggered if no information for a particular hardware device is found after the user has completed the Found New Hardware Wizard.
User notification: Users are prompted to send anonymous hardware profile data to a server at Microsoft. If users opt to send this information, the privacy statement is displayed. Users can view the contents of the hardware.xml file being uploaded by clicking a link on the privacy statement page.
Logging: Errors that result from problems installing hardware devices without drivers are logged to the event log.
Encryption: The data transferred to Microsoft is not encrypted.
Access: The raw data uploaded to the server is accessible to operations engineers at Microsoft.com and is used in the Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) to improve Windows-compatible hardware and drivers.
Privacy statement: Online Device Help is covered by its own privacy statement. The privacy statement (located in a file on the user's computer at systemroot\pchealth\helpctr\system\dfs\privacy.htm) is displayed when users opt to send the anonymous hardware profile data to Microsoft.
Transmission protocol and port: The transmission protocol used is HTTP and the port is 80.
Ability to disable: You cannot disable Online Device Help directly. Disabling Internet access or HTTP port 80 will, however, block Online Device Help.
Controlling Online Device Help to Limit the Flow of Information to and from the Internet
Users have control over whether to upload anonymous hardware profile information about their system. You cannot, however, disable Online Device Help directly. To block Online Device Help, you can restrict Internet access. You can also use a firewall or configure the Services snap-in. The following table describes the result of each option.
Configuration settings for Online Device Help
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Block HTTP port 80.
Blocks Online Device Help.
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Disable the Upload Manager service (uploadmgr).
Blocks Online Device Help. Any other services that depend on uploadmgr will also fail to start.
How controlling Online Device Help can affect users and applications
If you decide to disable Online Device Help, users will not be prompted to upload anonymous hardware profile information and they will not receive up-to-date, targeted self-help content on hardware issues relating to missing or problem drivers.
|If you restrict Internet access to block Online Device Help, the feature will queue the data and periodically retry to upload the hardware profile information for some period of time. If an Internet connection becomes available during that period, Online Device Help will upload the queued data. If an Internet connection does not become available, no data will be uploaded. Users will not be impacted in either case.
Alternate Methods for Controlling Online Device Help
You can also control Online Device Help by disabling the Upload Manager service (uploadmgr) that manages synchronous and asynchronous file transfers between clients and servers on the network. Disabling this service will block the upload of the anonymous hardware profile data (although users will still be able to complete the Found New Hardware Wizard). The following subsection gives the procedure for this method.
Procedure for Controlling Online Device Help
You cannot disable Online Device Help directly but can do so indirectly by disabling the Upload Manager service in products in the Windows Server 2003 family.
To disable Online Device Help by disabling the Upload Manager service
Click Start, and then either click Control Panel, or point to Settings and then click Control Panel.
Double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Services.
In the details pane, right-click Upload Manager, and then click Properties.
Click the Log On tab, then click the hardware profile that you want to configure, and then click Disable.
Important If the Upload Manager service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.


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In other news, the throttle bodies are just about finished, with only a little grinding left to do to get them usable. They fit on the bike, and the fuel injectors are lined up pretty well with the valves. There's enough flexibility in the mounts that I'll probably need to make a bracket that will attach to the frame at the battery tray mounting bolts, but the throttle cable works well. I'll be able to route a rubber hose between the two fuel rails since the feed is on one side and the fuel pressure regulator/return is on the other. As for air filters, I should just be able to take a tube, mill a ring in it to seat an o-ring, and hold it in place with a couple bits of metal to the stock airbox mounting bolts on the throttle bodies, and then mount an appropriately sized filter over the end of that.
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Prior to working at Starcom MediaVest Group as marketing and business development director, De Souza was director of client planning at JCDecaux. She will report to national sales director Ged Weston.
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Ok so I'm considering ordering some hay. It's about an hour and a half away so I was going to have it delivered. The guy says he has square bales of alphalfa/orchard grass mix hay which tested 15%. Does anyone know what these tests mean? Is 15% good? Years ago we never used testing. If it was green, no dust, no mold and smelled good it was good.
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I would think that that means it tested at 15% protein, which is a fairly high level, plenty for most horses. I think straight alfalfa tends to be something like 18% protein? Straight grass hays can have low levels of protein, sometimes low enough that horses need supplemental feeding with high protein feeds to make up for it.
Horses only require 7% to maintain..15% is what I call dairy quality...horses will need less of it to maintain, but since they are grazers and you will be feeding less..causes anxiety if they have nothing to do all but but wait for that little flake.. without the roughage a horse requires from lower protien hays, you stand of chance of colic since the gut isn't full.
If the horse is stalled, you will also get a higher usage of your bedding since alfalfa makes them urinate more... good source of hay for a working horse though.. I would get some of his and mix it wil a lower quality hay if you could...
Green don't mean good quality nowadays..especially with the high use of drying agents..:-( Horses find it bitter to eat and will actually go off their feed to avoid eating it. It can cause ulcers.. when you chew hay it should taste sweet..
Thank you very much for your help. I knew this would be the place to go to find out. Yeah...I'm going to order it and mix it with some of my other grass hay I already have.
Thanks again!~
Oh and by the way...I don't think I will ever order hay again from Craigslist without seeing it first. The ad description said 2nd and 3rd cutting alphalfa, orchard grass mix. When I asked if it was good quality, he said yes and it tested 15%. It looks like maybe 2nd 3rd cutting from 2 years ago. I checked out a couple bales to make sure it wasn't dusty or moldy. Seems to be ok. Just looks a little old. I'm hoping its ok and I don't see much alphalfa in there but I need hay so I took it.
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