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Following a heads up e-mail from the world famous foodie MSPD, Josh and I headed over to the Ronin Sushi Cafe in Lakeville, MN which is located in the storefront that was previously occupied by Papagayos which closed in April of 2007 and hasn't been in use since.
I stopped by there at around 12:45 today and found a small sign on the door that said that they will be open this entire weekend including today (the 4th of July) and they will be serving their Thai dinner starting at 5 PM. I called Josh and asked him to bring along his camera and let him know to look over their menu for when we headed back later tonight. While they have their Thai dinner menu available they said that their full sushi bar menu will not be available until August. As of today they don't yet have beer or wine but they soon will (they said that the beer man doesn't deliver on the 4th of July).
Their About Us page shows their sushi options which include Omakase (Open Sushi) and they say you that start with $30 and work your way up until you're full. They have three levels ("rookie" through "hardcore") which offers you the option of eating sushi and rolls without many raw items up through spending a ton of money (they say, "Beware!") and eating some hot foods. On that note, their page also lists that their spiciness scale goes from 1. mild to 5. "5 – Insane – Don't even go there, there's no going back!"
We headed over there around 4 and walked in to a nearly empty restaurant. According to the owner (who is a first time restaurant owner/chef who has experience working in other family restaurants) they were supposed to open yesterday but due to a family emergency it had to wait until today. There was one other person eating when we arrived and when asked what he thought he said, without pause, "Delicious!" Knowing this was their opening day I thought to myself, "whatever." The interior hasn't changed much at all since Papagayos but it looked nicer somehow — I might just not be remembering correctly.
The waitress came over and handed us our menus which Josh remarked, "That's a way to do it, just print out your website." While I already checked the menu before we left I decided to do my usual and ask the waitress what her favorite dish was and try that. She immediately recommended their Drunken Noodles which are listed on the menu as "Fresh fun noodles, basil, tomatoes, mushrooms, bell pepper," and normally whenever I see that I smile and think, "yeah right," and that's exactly what I did today. When ordering the waitress asked if I wanted meat or tofu added and I chose chicken and also how hot I wanted it. I asked how hot their hottest was and if it was recentered for Minnesota tastes and she said she'd add fresh Thai peppers to it for me. I asked for extra napkins (nose blowing) and as much water as they had in preparation. Josh couldn't decide what we wanted at first but after much decision making he decided on their Yellow Curry which has potatoes, onions, and carrots and he also asked that they add chicken to his.
When they brought the dishes out I immediately noticed the large portion size and the gorgeous fresh vegetables that added a ton of color to the dish. We were notified that if it wasn't hot enough they would gladly cut up some more fresh Thai peppers for us. Josh had received his first and had already taken a few bites and determined that it was not hot enough. After a few bites of mine I also came to the same conclusion. I asked the waitress and after quite some time they arrived at our table with two more small bowls filled with freshly cut Thai peppers and also a bright orange habanero. Both Josh and I dumped a good bit of the peppers on our plates and the waitress and owner said, "Oh! You like it as spicy as we do!" Yup, sure do. The habaneros did the fucking trick and minutes later our mouths were on fire and the napkins were being used to clear our noses (I dumped them in the bathroom trash so the poor waitress wouldn't have to clean up our snot).
The vegetables were quite fresh and the chicken was plentiful. My dish was fantastic and even though I enjoyed what I had eaten at Spice Thai in Savage, this absolutely wrecked that. I may have found my newest favorite South Metro restaurant! Josh's also improved with the additional peppers and the cocunutty sweetness of the curry dropped the spice down to tolerable thresholds. Another impressive dish although one I wouldn't order myself because I'm already watering at the mouth for another plate of those noodles. YUM FUCKING O! Seriously.
After dinner they brought us two dessert sticks with our bill (which came to $23.38 before tip) and soon after that they dropped an excellent sticky rice treat that had some sort of bean paste inside and were made with some fruit that I have never heard of before. The taste was similar to green apple candy and one that I would definitely order in the future. Please forgive the photos, we dug in before I remembered to snap some.
I absolutely, positively, and unconditionally recommend Ronin Sushi Cafe in Lakeville and am already excited to go back and try their sushi. If their Thai dishes are this good I can only imagine how tasty that will be. According to their website they are planning sushi training sessions and also visits from other local sushi chefs. Sounds pretty good to me…
If you head over to Ronin let us know what you think below!
Ronin Cafe and Sushi Bar
7704 160th St
Lakeville, MN 55044
Restaurant: 952-997-6646
Delivery/Catering: 612-849-7525
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Is anyone else getting ridiculous framerate problems on PC? My setup is way more than enough for the game. I'm running an i7 3770k 3.5ghz, 8GB RAM, and a GTX 670. Some parts of the game will go in the 100+ fps region, but then during combat it can drop to the 40s. Locking the framerate doesn't make it not drop either. My computer is running cool and everything, so what do you guys think is the problem? Is it on my end or is this game poorly optimized? The massive framerate drop happens while the game is maxxed out AND when it isn't.
Edit: I see people having the same or similar problems on various YouTube videos, seems like it is the game and not necessarily the hardware.
Edit 2: For comparison's sake, this PC runs BF3 maxed out with no problems and always maintains more than 60 fps.
Edit 3: Lowering PhysX makes no difference. I'm starting to think it must be a combo of drivers and/or optimization. I'll try older drivers when I get a chance to play tomorrow.
Edit 4: I rolled back my drivers by a version and the performance is only barely better. The game just seems to get massive frame drops on a lot of cards.


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All you should have to do is use Simple FS Dumper Simple FS Dumper 0.41 - GBAtemp.net
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Early in her adult life, Patricia Mann worked as a programmer at The Hartford for 14 years. The insurer offered her the job right out of South Carolina State University with a computer science degree, and she loved it.
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But Mann, 48, also is a people person—a nurturing woman with a bright smile and the organizational skills of an event planner. For years, she was curious about the teaching profession, although "when you're in your own career, you don't have much time to explore," she said.
Mann found the time. After becoming a teacher in 2000, Mann is now the Connecticut Technical High School System's 2013 Teacher of the Year.
A central office committee chose Mann, an instructor at A.I. Prince Technical High School in Hartford, out of 16 finalists who were the respective teachers of the year at technical high schools across the state, school officials said this week.
Mann is head of Prince Tech's Information Systems Technology department, where students learn trades such as computer programming, networking, hardware, web design, graphics and desktop publishing. Aside from being a classroom teacher, Principal William Chaffin said, Mann is involved in professional development, staff mentoring and school committees. She organized last week's graduation.


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according to my last missed period i would be 24w3d pregnant. yet according to first ultrasound im 23w3d, 2nd ultrasound 24w0d and last ultrasound 25w0d. so which one do i go by? lmp or ultrasound? and if ultrasound, which one?thanks!
How far along were you when you had your first ultrasound? Very early ones are more accurate.
i thought i was 7w5d, but ultrasound said 6w5d
I'd go by ultrasound then. That was pretty early and the early ones have a high degree of accuracy. You know due dates are just estimates anyway, right?
Go by your first one.
If you had an earlier U/S I'd go by that. Later U/S are more inaccurate. I always tell people I have a Due Month not an EDD. There is a reason that there's two weeks on either side of an EDD.
If you are positive about your lmp, I would go with last missed period. When you are that far along measurements are far from accurate, babies come in lots of different sizes by that time. In your first trimester measurements are more accurate, but your lmp would be even more so if you have a normal 28-30 day cycle. Oh, I just read you got the first one in your first trimester, yea, around that time they are pretty accurate. Plus or minus six days, though I think they are usually more accurate then that.
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Destination America will air episodes featuring the Tri-Cities-based Paranormal Investigations Team. (Contributed)
"What do you want?" Paranormal Technology Investigations' co-founder Kathy Shephard asked an unknown force after she removed a mother and family from a residence outside Jonesborough because of a possible haunting.
"Just her soul. Bring her back," the apparition repeatedly said, later picked up with electronic voice phenomena recorder.
The alleged ghost, Shephard said, was well aware the investigators had removed members of the family from the area so they could perform their work.
This is a somewhat common occurrence with Paranormal Technology Investigations' team, who said they receive, on average, about three calls a week from people who want some kind of spooky situation looked into. While the symptoms of the alleged paranormal activity are frequently the same — loud footsteps in someone's house, seeing a ghostly figure, even someone getting scratched or knocked to the ground — each situation is different.
Paranormal Technology Investigations looks to help families of these types of trouble through a spiritual blessing and come Sunday night, viewers will be able to see what their investigations look like. The Destination America channel will air its "A Haunting" show at 10 p.m. and use footage put together by the Paranormal Technology Investigations team. The first episode will show what they call paranormal activity that took place in Hampton on Dennis Cove Road in 2011.
There are more episodes filmed, but Shephard's team is unsure when those will run. One of these includes a trip where four members of Shephard's team went to Wasilla, Alaska, to perform an investigation, where they were all able to help out a family with a potential haunting.
Robb Phillips, a former preacher, now heads the paranormal outfit with Shephard, trying to help rid houses of negative or evil energies or spirits. They will perform exorcisms and special prayers and special blessings as needed. He said they don't make money in carrying out their investigations but make some money when they offer historical walking ghost tours around the area. This money helps his team financially survive to help others. Because of the nature of the work they do, they're careful not to give too much information on possibly haunted houses.
There have been times where his team has asked ghosts to move items around them and the ghosts would, on command, move a rocking chair or make a loud noise in one particularly intense haunting, he said.
"We'd hear a couple arguing with each other inside the walls," Phillips said. Once members of his team put their ears up to the wall, he said, there was a massive slap, like that of a sledgehammer, next to where they were listening from inside the walls.
All this and light bulbs shattering above their heads and Phillips said they try their best to remain calm.
"We try not to show fear, because they sense that," Phillips said.
The process conducted by the Paranormal Technology Investigations' teams includes an interview with the person or persons alleging the paranormal activity, which is subsequently followed by a walk through of the property, an investigation conducted there, an analysis of the evidence, a spiritual blessing and then a series of check-ins to see how the process went.
"You can't imagine the streaks of bad luck that can occur," Phillips said. "The blessing removes anything negative or evil, depending on the family."
Phillips and Shephard say they hope the episodes show what their investigations are really like and how intense their encounters can get.
Many people, Shepard said, come to them as skeptics of run-ins with ghosts and demons, but after they go through investigations with the team, they're frequently turned into believers.
"Oh, my gosh," one recent skeptic said after investigating with Shephard. "I can't believe this."
But he could believe it, she said, requesting as many of the recordings of what they all had seen as he could get.
For more information about Paranormal Technology Investigations, go to the group's website at www.tcprs.com.
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Jackson Elementary and the A2 Charter schools recently held an all-school assembly with Rich Wieber. Wieber used his bicycle to present a high-energy and fast-paced program that inspires students to live out their dreams. During the 45-minute program, Wieber talked to the students about determination, goal achievement, drug awareness, peer pressure and perseverance.
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The UK Confronts Islamism… "…the biggest threat to civilization in the twenty-first century…"
FrontPage Magazine ^ | December 10, 2013 | Daniel Greenfield
Posted on Tuesday, December 10, 2013 10:32:32 AM by SJackson
A century ago the murder of a British soldier in broad daylight in London would have been an act of war. In this post-imperial and post-everything age, an atrocity leads to a task force which produces a report which is then filed in a desk drawer by the undersecretary for something or other.
Like clockwork, the murder of Lee Rigby led to a task force and to a report. The report is 7 pages long. It's possible to read it in much less than the twenty minutes that it took London police to respond to the murder in progress. You could even get through it a few times in real time while a Muslim convert who describes himself as a soldier of Allah saws away at a fallen Englishman's head with no one to stop him.
There is a thing that organizations say when they know that they are hip deep in a crisis. They say that "we are taking this seriously."
The report, "Tackling Extremism in the UK" certainly takes matters seriously. The evidence of that is not so much in the report, as in the task force which included the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, four Secretaries of State, three Ministers, one Chancellor, one Lord Chancellor and a partridge in a pear tree.
Like so many of the more "serious" and "sincere" efforts at tackling the biggest threat to civilization in the twenty-first century, the report mixes occasional good ideas with politically correct absurdities. It starts off by equating Islamophobia with…………….
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Q. What do Bibi Netanyahu and Bill Ayers have in common?
they were both rich white children of privilege raised in the suburbs of Chicago they were both on the FBI's "10 Most Wanted" list they both went by the nickname "Boom Boom" as young men. A. # 3, They both went by the nickname "Boom Boom" as young men!
(Reader Responses: Gunny G…) Have we no patriots in DC? Are all of our Representatives cowards?
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US President Barack Obama could deliver a major policy speech as early as next week laying out his new Middle East strategy following the US killing of Osama bin Laden and amid ongoing upheaval in the Arab world, US officials said on Wednesday.
A key sticking point is whether Obama, who gained a boost in global stature with the death of the al Qaida chief last week, will use also his coming address to present new proposals for renewed Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, a source familiar with the administration's internal debate said.
Obama, who will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on May 20, is considering giving the speech before he leaves on a trip to Europe early in the week of May 22, a senior administration official said.
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Barbarians within: Why Brit-style riots could spread to US ~ "Think it can't happen here? Think again."
They were cleaning up the mess in London yesterday — replacing the windows at the Ritz, fixing the wooden façade at Fortnum & Mason and attending to a vandalized Trafalgar Square in the wake of Saturday's protests — and riots — by trade unionists and anarchists.
Think it can't happen here? Think again.
The British press reports that up to half a million people took part in the demonstrations, 200 were arrested and more than 160 injured — including 84 police officers, 11 of whom had to be hospitalized.
Why? Because Prime Minister David Cameron announced a $130 billion cut in public spending and this is how the infantile left reacts when its I've-got-mine-Jack gravy train is threatened.
The weekend demonstration was led by Britain's powerful Trades Union Congress, whose leader, Brendan Barber, has been warning for more than a year that "industrial unrest" would greet any Tory government that dared attack Britain's sky-high social spending.
Addressing the gathering in historic Hyde Park was Ed Miliband, the Labor Party's new hard-left leader (his father was a prominent Marxist), who likened the protesters to the suffragettes, the US civil-rights movement and the fight against apartheid in South Africa. Which ought to tell Britons all they need to know about their prime-minister-in-waiting.
In the aftermath of the all-too-predictable violence — in Trafalgar Square, the words "fight back" and "Tory scum" were scrawled on the bronze lions and red paint was splashed on the 2012 Olympics countdown clock — there was the usual tut-tuting
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Obama, Presidential Greatness and the War Temptation
Will Barack Obama feel the temptation to enhance his claim to presidential greatness by transforming himself into an aggressive war leader? Could this desire lead to an "October Surprise"- like a military strike on Iran– that could radically alter the dynamics of the upcoming Congressional elections?These questions connect to the recent publication of Tony Blair's fascinating memoir, A Journey, which places special emphasis on his controversial role as Britain's leader in the Iraq War.
This ferociously formidable politician served as Prime Minister for ten full years only the last four of which overlapped with military operations in Iraq, permanently transformed his Labour Party, won three landslide victories and made fateful decisions that impacted every aspect of British life. Nevertheless, the world sees Blair and the former PM clearly sees himself above all as the charismatic, energetic commander who teamed with George W. Bush to rid the world of Saddam Hussein.The only other Prime Minister since World War II with a reasonable claim on greatness was also associated with decisive military leadership.
Margaret Thatcher, "The Iron Lady," sent a major task force halfway around the world in 1982 for an amphibious assault on the Argentine invaders who had seized remote British settlements on the Falklands Islands. In the one-sided 74 day conflict, British forces killed 649 Argentines and took 11,300 prisoners; for the rest of her career, "The Falklands Factor" added to Thatcher's stature and popularity.
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Dressing as Elijah & Pouring Out Love
Three customs regarding the seder verses "Pour Out Thy Wrath"
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In the traditional Passover Haggadah, a verse from Jeremiah (10:25) appears following the Grace After Meals, when the door is opened for Elijah the Prophet: "Pour out Thy wrath upon the nations that know Thee not, and upon the families that call not on Thy name; for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation." In Hebrew, the verse begins, "Shefokh hamatkha…" Many Jews, especially in modern times, have had problems with the violent nature of this verse. The following article describes three customs, the last of which offers a creative alternative to reciting this verse. Reprinted with permission from the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem.
Quite a few scholars have already detailed the history of these verses, which are recited after Birkat Hamazon [the Grace After Meals] and before Hallel. We shall describe here three customs related to these verses:
Dressing Up As Elijah
The apostate Antonius Margaritha (born ca. 1490) relates in his book Der Gantz Judisch Glaub, published in Augsberg in 1530, that when Jews open the door for shefokh, someone in costume enters the room quickly, as if he is Elijah himself coming to announce the coming of the Messiah.
R. Yosef Yuzpah Hahn (1570-1637) says, "how good is the custom that they do something in memory of the Messiah. One falls into the entranceway at the beginning of shefokh to show during the night of our first redemption our strong belief in our final redemption."
Apparently, someone would pretend to be Elijah coming through the door, and Rabbi Hahn thought that this was a wonderful custom. But R. Yair Hayyim Bachrach (1638-1701) was opposed to this custom: "But what the servants and maids are accustomed to make the figure of a man and the like, something frightening when the door is opened–this is only licentiousness and derision."
This custom clearly fits in with the Cup of Elijah and other Elijah customs at the seder. It may have been another tactic to keep the children awake. On the other hand, this may be a misunderstanding of the "wandering Jew" skit which took place, at many different points in the seder.
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Federal authorities are investigating the collapse of a trench during the repair of a newly built bridge in Allentown, PA, that killed one worker and injured another.
Michael Wilson, 20, of Coatesville, PA, died after the walls of the 6-foot-deep trench along the Linden Street Bridge collapsed at 8:40 a.m. EST Tuesday (Jan. 4) and partially buried him under huge chunks of concrete.
Wilson's co-worker and best friend, Otis Smother III, 21, also of Coatesville, was freed from the rubble within an hour and was recovering at an area hospital from bruises and a shoulder injury.
'Together at the End'
The men worked for construction contractor J.D. Eckman Inc., of Atglen, PA, a family-owned company founded in 1945. The company built the bridge, which opened in April 2009, and was making repairs at the time of the accident.
The company did not return a call seeking comment Wednesday.
Wilson's parents, Rick and Shirley Wilson, told a local television station that the men had been best friends since seventh grade and had started work for Eckman on the same day.
"They were together at the end," Shirley Wilson said.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the accident, said Jane Kulp, director of OSHA's Allentown office. "The intent is to determine what happened," she said, noting that OSHA has up to six months to complete its investigation.
Allentown Assistant Fire Chief Lee Laubach told reporters that the ground had caved in, but authorities do not know why.
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At the time of the collapse, the men were working to replace an electrical and communications duct bank on the west side of the bridge, said Lehigh County Capital Projects Director Glenn D. Solt.
"The duct installations they did were not proper according to specifications, so they had to come back out and redo them," Solt said.
The local utility company discovered the problem shortly after the bridge opened, Solt said. "When the utility company went to use them, they weren't adequate," he said.
Eckman repaired the east side of the bridge in December, he said.
Solt said that the bridge project, awarded as a low bid, was Eckman's first for the county and that construction had proceeded with "no significant glitches."
OSHA Record
J.D. Eckman has a record of safety violations with OSHA. The agency has made 58 visits to Eckman work sites since 2001, all but five of them stemming from an OSHA enforcement program that selects various companies or industries for stepped-up inspections. (The other inspections were the result of referrals or complaints.)
Kulp could not say why Eckman's sites had been chosen for inspection seven times in 2010, 14 times in 2009, eight times in 2008, and several dozen times before that.
Four of the 2009 inspections resulted in citations for violations, as did three inspections in 2008. Eckman was fined a total of about $18,500 for 11 violations, most of them serious. Several violations related to fall protection violations during bridge projects.
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Polling users would help
The Veterans' Administration scandal has apparently been going on for years. When you depend on the folks doing the work to tell you what kind of job they are doing, what do you really expect? Without some independent look, this cannot be fixed.
The solution is deceptively simple: Poll your users. Invariably when I go into a chain restaurant that is a mess, I can find no comment card. Duke Hospital always polls me on the service I got during my last visit. They ask how long I waited, how I was treated and if it was easy to get an appointment.
This idea will solve many problems. Poll folks who get traffic tickets. Were you treated respectfully? Was the stop fair? Did the policeman ask to search your car? Statistics tell the tale. Compare responses from white, black and hispanic to see if problems exist.
Poll users of the court system.
Prisons are a lot like schools. If you have a good principal, it leads to a good school. Some prisons really aren't "correctional" facilities. Prisons take on the character of their leadership and as I have seen, the difference can be radical. Poll men who have been released from prison and ask them how they were treated. Poll volunteers who come to the prison to see how they are treated. Whistleblowers lead a hard life. Let the results tell the tale. You will easily find where the problems are if you want to know.
Larry Bumgardner
Don't forget bus drivers
I write this editorial with much appreciation to all bus drivers, monitors and transportation staff at northern transportation for Durham Public Schools.
I recently had an accident and am unable to return to work this school year or work over the summer. My coworkers took up a donation and sent to me with thoughtful cards and best wishes for a speedy recovery. I cannot tell you the appreciation that I feel for all of their kind words, cards, prayers and gifts. What humbles me the most, is that these people were willing to give to my cause despite the fact that they all are on a limited budget and are one of the lowest-salaried positions in the school system in Durham.
We all are hearing so much in the media about teacher pay raises but nothing about bus drivers and monitors. I do not dispute the teacher pay raise, I just ask that school bus drivers and monitors are not forgotten about and are equally deserving of a pay raise. We face a tremendous amount of responsibility and liability every day while driving to ensure the safety of our students. I ask that Durham County does not forget to reward those of us who deserve to be rewarded for hard work and such demanding responsibilities.
Again, thank you to all of my coworkers at DPS Transportation for your generosity! I will see you all in the fall!
Mark Young
Losing a friend
I have lost a good friend. My friend used to stick up for me and I knew my back was covered.
My friend used to take care of my other friends and cover their backs.
My friend used to protect me and fight along my side to be sure all was safe.
My friend used to help others in need.
Now my friend has turned his back on me and my buddies and will lie and try to cover up his indiscretions.
My friend was the great United States. My friend has turned against me and my real friends!
But "what difference does it make?"
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Yes, it's a cutsie rom com. We know this because there are two good-looking, youngish people starring in the film and on the cover of the DVD, etc, plus there is instant sexual chemistry, though, naturally, the two do not like each other at first. Your typical rom com fare. Here the good-looking couple who are determined NOT to fall in love are Amy Adams (so irresistibly perky and vibrant) and Matthew Goode (so brooding…doing his best "I do not want to be lovable" routine). The two of them almost make us forget that not only have we "sort of" seen this type of material before, we have seen almost EXACTLY the same material in a 1995 Lawrence Kasdan film, French Kiss with rom con queen Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline. There, Ryan, like Adams, runs off to follow her boyfriend abroad where she meets Kline, a Frenchman, and naturally nature takes its course and soon the boyfriend is forgotten and Kline is the ONE! So, Goode is Irish not French and plotwise, the boyfriend in French Kiss met another woman in Paris and in Leap Year, it's that said boyfriend hasn't proposed yet. But, still, they are pretty similar. And, to top that off, I LOVE French Kiss. It's one of my favorite films from the 1990s and definitely one of my favorite contemporary romantic comedies. And I still like Leap Year, with its copied and clichéd characters, plot, etc.? Yes, I do. Amy Adams and Matthew Goode are so likeable (separately, but mostly together) that we do not care that we already know the ending and have heard much of the dialogue and seen much of the plot before. Another bonus here is Ireland…the lush scenery, the vistas, the gloom and rain… Well, you can't have sunshine everyday, right? Think again – it's sunshiny everyday in Romantic Comedy Land.
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A fun, lighthearted film that really, really, really made me want to eat. Not cook, mind you. Some would want to copy the co-main character, Julie Powell, on her quest to cook all of Julia Child's recipes from her Mastering the Art of French Cooking classic cookbook. I just wanted to eat my way through the movie. Aside from this film encouraging my foodie-ness, it is highly entertaining, though I must admit, I enjoyed Meryl Streep playing early Julia Child on an odyssey to to get a French cooking cookbook published in English MUCH more than the odyssey of Powell and her recipe crusade. Amy Adams as Powell is appealing, as Adams always is, but I had little interest in Powell's saga. She cooks and blogs about cooking and talks about cooking and fights with her husband about cooking. It gets a little tiresome. The Julia Child parts, mostly set in Paris after WWII, are full of life and passion…just like Child herself. It is impossible to take your eyes off of Streep's Child…not only is the characterization by Streep spot-on, but the storyline is also more vibrant and lively. We take a vested interest in Child and her cookbook quest, whereas with Powell, we honestly don't care by the end. Fortunately, the Julia Child pieces of the film are so overwhelmingly funny and sweet, they make the film worth watching. And, it's not that you will HATE the Powell storyline…you just won't want to be best friends with her. With Child, you want to be her pal…to help her along with her cookbook…to talk with her…and especially, to EAT with her. And, I'm sure this has to do with both Child's gregarious personality and also with Streep's vivacious performance. All in all, an engaging, entertaining film that you most definitely should not watch on an empty stomach!
Junebug is a hard movie to say whether I liked it or I just felt so sorry for the characters I took pity on the film. The best way to describe it is the call it a slice of Southern small-town American living. It's basically a story about George, who has moved to Chicago but, on a trip back home, reconnects with his Southern roots. Those roots might have been dormant when he fell in love with and married Madeleine, an uptight, highly educated art dealer, but once George gets back home, those dormant characteristics began to surface….from everything from afternoon naps to singing hymns at the local church's pancake breakfast. The supporting characters are the ones, though, that made this movie special for me. Amy Adams plays Ashley, a pregnant young woman just starved (I mean REALLY STARVED) for affection and attention. She is desperate to like Madeleine, mostly because she has very little positive reinforcement in her life. Ashley's husband and George's brother, Johnny, is a gruff loner who shows more attention to his cars than he does to anyone in his family, especially his pregnant wife. Even though Madeleine and George seem to be at the center of the story, I got more out of the supporting characters and their troubles. The Ashley character alone is so complex in her simplicity that she could star in a movie all her own (which might be one of the reasons Amy Adams got so many raves for her over-the-top yet (at the same time) understated performance, including an Oscar nomination for supporting actress).
A great movie that actually makes its audience think. I know — THE HORROR, THE HORROR. We have to THINK! A tough, hard film, Doubt is superbly acted and scripted. Why is it hard? Well, it deal with one of our most taboo subjects — priests and young boys and doing more than sipping the alter wine together. Meryl Streep places a nun running a school in the early 1960s. Philip Seymour Hoffman plays the attached church's priest. There is some suspicion about him with the alter boys, but Streep doesn't have any proof. She just has her doubts. I walked out of the theater thinking I had just seen a good movie and that would be the end of it…but it stuck with me. I couldn't stop thinking about it. Did he or didn't he? Did Streep's nun do the right thing? What would have been a better solution? Etc… Sadly, most movies today don't even make your brain click on. So, when one comes around where it keeps your thought processes going for days…it's a keeper!


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Rochester police arrested three Edison Tech basketball players Wednesday morning on disorderly conduct charges. They were waiting for a school bus downtown to take them to a scrimmage against Aquinas. The teens and say they did nothing wrong.
In a statement, the Rochester Police Department says the young men were asked to move several times but didn't. This is an area downtown where businesses have complained of loitering and fights. The teens are home tonight after posting $200.00 bail. Their mothers want the charges dropped.
Raliek Redd, 16, a sophomore at Edison Tech and two of his teammates say they were waiting for a school bus this morning on a corner downtown. There were 16 players waiting on the corner for the bus scheduled by their coach. That's when a Rochester police officer told them they were loitering.
"The cop just came over there. He told us to move. Then we was walking away and he turned, we turned around and he arrested all of us," said Raliek Redd, Rochester.
Redd, Deaquon Carelock, 16, and senior Wan'tauhjs Weathers, 17 are charged with disorderly conduct. They were arrested and booked.
"I feel it's unfair. Like, we weren't doing nothing. We're just regular kids trying to get to our game. Like we not doing nothing wrong, we're not harrassing nobody. We're not causing no trouble, no nothing," said Wan'tauhjs.
Raliek's mother, Crystal Chapman, says their coach watched it all. When he tried to intervene, the coach says he was threatened with arrest. Coach Jabob Scott verifies the players' account. Chapman will fight the charges until they're dismissed.
"I'm really upset and I don't plan to let it go. At all. Because, these boys wasn't doing anything," said Crystal Chapman.
Wan'tauhjs's mom is angry too.
"I think he seen a group of young black men and kind of stereotyped them for loitering, looking for trouble. He didn't take the time to speak to nobody of authority to see if they were actually telling the truth or if that what was going on," said Tynicia Weathers.
Rochester School Superintendent Bolgen Vargas reached out to the parents. He says he's looking into the matter.
The Rochester Police Department says the boys were told to move because they were blocking an entrance to the business and traffic on the sidewalk.
Their coach tells me they're good kids. A judge will decide what happens. All three are due in court Friday.


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Special report: Dieter Massin double-dips, violates WMA rules
Dieter Massin
Dieter Massin, the German president of the Eurovets, is openly defying newly approved rules in World Masters Athletics while sitting on the WMA Council. Not good. Conflicts of interest have always been banned by WMA, but previous presidents have flouted the group's Constitution by joining the board of the International Masters Games Association — which runs the World Masters Games. As founder and president of the European Masters Sports Association and organizer of the first European Masters Games (2008 in Malmo, Sweden), Dieter has been skating on thin ice for years. But now he's gone whole-hog. In August, the General Assembly of WMA approved Motion 4 of the "bye-laws" — toughening anti-conflict laws with this provision: "Council members may not hold organizational positions with organizations that promote events not sanctioned by WMA."
On Monday, I sent email to Dieter and other top WMA officials noting that his federation, the EVAA, is promoting the 2011 European Masters Games in Italy — apparently not sanctioned by World Masters Athletics — on its events calendar.
I asked Dieter these questions:
- 1. Do you still hold office in EMSA?
- 2. Are you involved in organizing the 2011 EMG?
- 3. Has WMA sanctioned the 2011 EMG, or does it plan to vote on this eventually?
- 4. If you have an EMSA or EMG involvement, will you step down from the WMA Council as stipulated in Motion 4?
His reply? Nothing, nada, zippo.
He's apparently decided to ride out any bad publicity since his patron, WMA President Stan Perkins, isn't likely to do anything. Stan himself has a masters games background. He helped organize the Pan Pacific Masters Games and was a principal of Gold Coast Events Management until 2002.
In March 2003, masters publisher Russ Haines said this about Stan, his fellow Aussie:
We have an unusual situation in our AMA president (Perkins) being manager of one the biggest Games held in Australia and also charged with the responsibility to promote the national championships. As I said, the interstate athlete has to choose. To me this is a conflict of interest that wouldn't be allowed in public companies or in politics. To be fair to Stan, I have never seen him use his position to promote the old Asia Pacific Games. But, on the other hand, we are not going ahead in over-age athletcs and the Games seem to be winning.
So Stan isn't likely to discipline the man who helped get him elected president (by a single vote) last August.
So why should anyone care about this?
Conflict-of-interest rules exist for a reason — to assure that the leadership of WMA is laser-focused on its mission of putting on the best possible world and regional championships. Being on the WMA Council (as an area rep), Dieter should not have competing interests. And trust me, the 2011 European Masters Games in Italy are a concern.
Even though the 2011 EMG will be held in mid-September — two months after Sacramento worlds — the event represents a potential drag on turnout for WMA's flagship meet.
So it's up to someone else in WMA to call Dieter to account.
He has a simple choice: Separate himself from the masters games or quit the council.
Dieter can't have it both ways. And neither should masters athletes abide this.
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Anthony Treacher - December 3, 2009
This nonsense has gone on long enough. WMA and IMG are two organizations that must be friends. We live in a small world with a finite number of masters events and a finite number of efficient volunteer organizers – there is bound to be overlap. It may even be beneficial. So WMA must either sanction (in the positive sense) IMG events, or abolish the rule that "Council members may not hold organizational positions with organizations that promote events not sanctioned by WMA." And Ken, we are all free agents, including Dieter Massin. Dieter Massin must be allowed to apportion his time and energy to whatever he wants.
stefan waltermann - December 4, 2009
Please, consider the FACT that participation in all EVAA (European Veterans Athletic Association) events (for example, the European Masters Championships) are reaching levels of participation that can no longer be managed. It is only natural that progressive and forward thinking managers like Dieter Massin promote an organization that gives access to the thousands of masters athletes that would otherwise choke EVAA events. Where we in the US have the strong need to attract athletes from the National Senior Games to USATF events, the Europeans simply need the European Masters Games to help managing the overwhelming numbers of masters who want to participate in track & field meets. Yes, most of the athletes who participated in the first European Masters Games did not participate in the European Championships, they will not participate in Sacramento as well. Also, unlike our dear USATF events, the EVAA events demand athletes to meet minimum standards thus excluding many of the athletes who participate in the Masters Games. Dieter does the right thing. Promoting the European Masters Games is good for EVAA, good for WMA if the WMA would be smart about it. For me the real issue is much less a question of stupid rules, by-laws, and chiefdoms than a question of working on behalf of us athletes. Dieter is a good guy and one of masters' best friends in the world. Last not least, don't forget the WMA needs the EVAA much more than the EVAA needs the WMA. Ken, if you like your reputation as a rebel, try to be more sympathetic to other rebels. You fight your own little fights in San Diego with gusto but want other rebels to bow to the mighty and live by rules that do not make any sense? Yes, you can also be a rebel working from within an organization…
Tom Phillips - December 4, 2009
Ken, I very much disagree with you on this. I don't see a conflict between these meets. The first EMG in Malmo came a matter of weeks after the last Eurovets in Slovenia. I don't think anyone could possibly claim that the small turn-out in Malmo drained talent from Ljubljana's excellent and well-supported meet. Far from it.
The situation might be different in 2011 if some Europeans choose not to go to Sacramento for the WMA Champs, (on the grounds, for example, that they can't afford it, might not be able to get insurance cover, etc) and then decide to go to EMG in Italy instead. But isn't that legitimate personal choice? What would anyone have them do – sit at home and just miss out on both competitions?
Can we really say that WMG Sydney damaged WMA Lahti numbers? No evidence of that. The world economy did that job better.
How can we Masters complain about a lack of competitive opportunities and then shoot at those who try to arrange them for us? I'd far rather see Dieter Massin free to use experience gained in WMA/EVAA to help ensure good EMG/WMG options, and vice versa. It strikes me as unbelievably arrogant of WMA to appear to think that they have a captive group of athletes who should, in effect, be deprived opportunities elsewhere. If people want to choose one over the other, that's fine with me. If they choose both, that's fine too. For many of us, and for many more younger Masters, the bulk of their competition in a year comes at meets that don't have, and don't need, WMA sanction anyway.
A crunch is going to come in 2013, of course. I don't think it will only be European Masters who will remain completely unconvinced by what Port Allegre will offer, and will fall for the charms of Turin and the WMG event. You pay your money and you make your choice. Why shoot at Dieter Massin on this?
Tom Phillips - December 4, 2009
Hi Stefan. I missed your post first time. It hadn't appeared when I wrote mine.
Most of what you say, I agree with, but I need to correct what you say about EVAA events. I don't think there are any minimum standards. They are just like every other Masters event in that respect.
In Malmo, I wouldn't go as far as saying "most" people in EMG were not at Ljubljana a few weeks before, though it's true that many were not there. That's not because theu didn't feel they were competent to run in EVAA. Look at the number of Malmo performances that were close to, or even better than, top EVAA performances in Slovenia.
The Brits I know who were in Malmo and not Slovenia were people who couldn't get to Ljubljana due to time constraints, or the higher cost.
Bras - January 7, 2010
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By definition (USEPA/ASTM): "Biodiesel is a fuel comprised of mono-alkyl esters of long chain fatty acids derived from vegetable oils or animal fats, designated B100, and meeting the requirements of American Society of Testing Material (ASTM) specification D6751."
It is a domestic, renewable fuel for diesel engines and can be used in any concentration with petroleum-based diesel fuel in existing diesel engines with little or no modification.
It is not:
These are often referred to in the literature as biodiesel. Green and Renewable diesel are based on commercial processing technology by Shell and Conoco-Phillips Oil companies. The chemical composition is different.
The chemical process used to produce biodiesel is known as transesterification. Vegetable oil and alcohol are reacted, producing esters, or biodiesel, and a byproduct, glycerol. The process to produce green or renewable diesel involves hydrogenation or hydrocracking and no glycerol is produced.
Vegetable oil can be used as a fuel but requires modification of the fuel system.
In some systems, the engine starts and runs on regular diesel fuel until the system is hot enough to reduce the viscosity of the vegetable oil. On shutdown, the system must be converted to regular diesel again as the system cools down.
The economics of producing bio-diesel and the quality of the biodiesel are affected by the feedstocks. Cost of the feedstock is over 75% of the production cost. The degree of refinement of the byproduct of the transesterification, glycerol, is also a major factor.
In the US, soybean oil is the major feedstock. Waste cooking oils are in high demand as feedstocks for making biodiesel. An ideal food – biodiesel cycle is to produce the crop, use the oil for cooking, take the waste cooking oil, convert it to biodiesel for use in tractors to plant the crop.
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Following cataract surgery, the capsule may produce cloudy cells that typically cause blurred, hazy vision. Some patients may also experience glare problems when driving at night. This common condition, known as posterior capsular haze, occurs in as many as 40% of patients who undergo cataract surgery. Posterior capsular haze may occur months or years postoperatively.
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Video:How to Say I Love You in Italianwith Jodina Hahn Gallo
I love you in Italian translates differently depending on the situation. Learn how to say I love you in Italian in a variety of ways.See Transcript
Transcript:How to Say I Love You in Italian
Buongiorno! I am Jodina. I am a professional credentialed Italian language teacher and I spent nine years of my life living in Italy. Let's talk about love. Many people think that Italian, italiano, is the language of love, la lingua d'amore. Well, let's see how you say I love you in italiano.
Two Ways to Say I Love You in Italian
First of all, the verb amare is to love, and also love itself is amore. So amore is love and amare is the word to love. Now, to say I love you there are two very, very distinct ways to say I love you. Whereas in English it's I love you and then I love my mom, I love my car, I love my job, I love ice cream, I love my dog. Not in Italian, not in Italian.
I Love You in Italian Isn't Always Romantic
Ti amo is I love you for a romantic partner, the serious stuff, the big L. For everybody else; your family, your friends, your children, it's ti voglio bene. Ti voglio bene, which would also translate to I love you, but it's more like if you were to do a literal translation, I want well for you or I care about you. So how would you say I love ice cream? Well, you would say il gelato mi piace tanto, meaning ice cream pleases me very much. So there are other variations of ti voglio bene. Now, if you wanted to say I really, really care about you, you would say ti voglio tanto bene, ti voglio tanto bene, which you can call I love you very much, or I really, really care about you.
Abbreviate I Love You in Italian
Now, a little interesting side note that you can take away with you. There is an abbreviation that Italian people use for text messages or Facebook messages for ti voglio bene. And it's T V B. T V B, ti voglio bene. Now if you wanted to up the ante a little bit. You want to say ti voglia tanto bene, you text message abbreviation would be T V T B. So you can use these in your text messages. You can use these in your Facebook messages.
And that's how you say I love you in Italian. Have fun.


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Lake Champlain Fisheries Meeting Summary for October 2002
October 16, 2002
1. Status of Leahy funding. As of late September, $300,000 was requested in the Senate's proposed budget; not sure what is proposed in the House budget. The proposed budget is still in conference and may be stalled long term. Continuing resolutions may fund the federal government through the year, which could mean that special appropriations such as this are not acted on.
2. Deep water electrofishing:
- Based on results from 2002, treatments will not be done on the Little Ausable and Salmon River deltas. Only about 135 acres on the Ausable delta, and a portion of the South Fork of the Ausable River are presently projected for treatments. This is a major cost savings to the program.
- The Committee agreed that equipment to outfit a second boat would be purchased utilizing the Leahy funds. A list of equipment needs, drafted by Dave Nettles, was provided to the group. Wayne Bouffard noted that he has an electrofisher unit that can be made available for use on the second boat. Dave N. should talk to Brian Chipman about purchasing the necessary equipment using the Leahy funds. A second deepwater electrofishing boat will provide back up for equipment failure as well as capacity make up for fowl weather down time. Improved statistical reliability can also be achieved with the additional sampling that a second boat would allow.
- The ability of the various agencies to staff a second electrofishing boat in 2003 is presently unknown. However, the Leahy funds can apparently be used for that purpose if necessary. Dave N. will again direct the sampling.
3. Summary of this fall's lamprey treatments as of the date of the meeting.
- Post treatment assessments estimated about 110,000 lamprey were killed on the treatments of the Salmon, Little Ausable and Ausable Rivers. Non-target mortalities were very light. Incident reports must be completed for treatments that kill 50 or more of any non-target species.
- Transformers were relatively abundant in Ausable River even though the last treatment was just 3 years ago. That could indicate unexpectedly rapid growth, or that ammocoetes were missed in the previous treatment.
- Wayne B. has complete some pretreatment surveys on Lewis Creek and expects to re-sample following the treatment. Live cages with non-target species will also be placed in Lewis Creek during the treatment.
4. Treatments in 2003.
- Bill Schoch should contact the GLFC concerning procedures for ordering Bayluscide granules and TFM for next year's treatments. Chemical will be purchased using the Leahy funds.
- Dave Nettles should determine equipment needs for applying Bayluscide granules. The Leahy funds will be used to purchase the equipment.
- Expectations are to treat the Boquet and Winooski Rivers with TFM in 2003, not with the TFM/Niclosamide combination. Permits for a combination treatment on the Winooski River probably can not be obtained in time for a 2003 treatment.
- If feasible, staff may be sent to the Great Lakes in 2003 to be trained in combination treatments.
- Storage of chemical may be limiting next year due to the large quantity of TFM needed for the Winooski River. Possibly Bayluscide granules can be stored in Federal or State facilities in Vermont to allow sufficient space for the TFM in the specialized pesticide storage building in New York. Bayluscide granules apparently do not need to be stored in a heated building, and do not have the volatility concern associated with the TFM formulation.
- Vermont will begin the design process for a pesticide storage facility this winter.
- Two portable HPLC's were ordered an have arrived. The process has begun for ordering a mobile lab.
5. Pike River, recent response from Quebec.
- The Quebec Ministry of the Environment has posed a variety of questions about lamprey control. Fish and Wildlife Service staff are preparing responses.
- The Quebec letter indicates that a federal Canadian agency is "reevaluating" TFM. Dave T. will following up with his Canadian counter part as to what the review may involve.
- The response from Quebec was supportive of barrier on Morpion Stream. A barrier is consistent with the FSEIS's approach to the Pike River, so the committee supported seeking funding from the Basin Program for an engineering study of a barrier on Morpion Stream. It was noted that funding for the actual construction of a project located in another country may be difficult to obtain.
6. When does the time clock start for the five year Poultney River delay? Craig M. has been questioned about what starts the 5 year time clock for the Poultney River. The committee agreed that initiation of treatments, in September of 2002, started the time clock. If walleye sampling in spring of 2007 shows that the walleye objectives have not been met, then the Poultney treatment could proceed in 2007. For other species, analyses of wounding rates from 2007 may not be completed in time to make a decision on treating in 2007.
7. Water Resources Development Act (WRDA). Conceptual information on the Salmon River barrier proposal should be provided to Dave T. to bring to the CORPS for their consideration.
8. Salmonid stocking
- The salmonid stocking targets developed in 1997 continue to apply. For 2003, short-lived salmonids can be stocked in excess of the targets, based on the present high abundances of sea lamprey and smelt. If Vermont has surplus lake trout, up to a few thousand in excess of the target can be stocked in Lake Champlain. Larger surpluses of lake trout should not be stocked in Lake Champlain. Stocking large surpluses of (long-lived) lake trout concurrently with the anticipated decline in sea lamprey abundance raises concern for over exploitation of the smelt forage base.
- Representatives from this committee will meet this winter to review whether we are collecting the appropriate data to know whether the stocking rates (salmonid and walleye) are appropriate. The primary concern is to avoid over exploiting the smelt forage base. Abundances of both predators and pray are likely to fluctuate dramatically in the next few years: Smelt abundances were high this year, but very low in 2000 and 2001; and piscivor numbers are expected to rebound as sea lamprey control takes effect.
- Some anglers have expressed concern that stocking should be increased, because lamprey are abundant and the fishing is poor. Responses to that concern include: we have, and will continue to, stock surpluses of the short-lived salmonids; smelt abundances were very low in 2000 and 2001, indicating caution relative to stocking rates; and the abundance of sea lamprey is expected to decline sharply in the next few years.
- Returns of Sebago strain salmon to the Grand Island Hatchery are well below expectations. If returns do not improve, the ability to conduct the proposed strain study may be threatened. If 30 pair have not been collected by November 1, additional effort will be directed to collections.
9. Lake trout strains. A genetic analysis indicates that the Lake Champlain lake trout population is a hodgepodge of strains, not predominantly Seneca strain as may have been expected. Vermont stocks lake trout from eggs collected from Lake Champlain, while New York utilizes eggs from Seneca Lake. This mixed approach has genetic implications, potentially prolonging outbreeding suppression. If all the lake trout eggs were collected from Lake Champlain, roughly 6 to 10 generations (many years for long-lived lake trout) may exhibit outbreeding suppression before a genetically fit, "Lake Champlain" strain is developed. Alternative strategies could maximize hybrid vigor, or focus on one strain (presumably Seneca). Representatives from this committee will meet to: review the genetic implications of the present lake trout egg take/stocking practices; consider objectives based on the genetic concerns; and evaluate resources and procedures needed to achieve those objectives.
10. Lamprey tagging update. About 2600 transformers were tagged in 2001. A total of 500 to 600 adults have been returned for testing. About 400 of those have been checked for tags and 3 contained tags. Additional transformers were tagged this fall and collections of adults will continue in 2003.
11. Pheromones: The GLFC is applying for an experimental use permit, and hopes to do field work with pheromones in 2003. That will likely to include work on Lake Champlain.
12. Wayne has conducted QAS on the LaPlatte , Missisquoi, Winooski, Boquet, Mount Hope, and Beaver this year. The results are not available yet.
13. Bioassays are needed on several species for TFM/Niclosamide combination treatments. Brian has a list.
14. Proposals for funding from Basin Program. This committee will recommend three proposals to the TAC: Morpion Stream barrier engineering study (Dave Tilton lead) was given the highest priority; followed by the cormorant/smelt interactions/smelt vertical distribution study (Dona Parrish); and the bait fish identification guide (Shawn Good) as the third priority.
15. The alternatives working group expects to have a meeting in January. A pilot "nest" study was conducted by Wayne Laroche in spring 2002 to develop preliminary information on the feasibility of nest raking and its effects on benthic organisms. Preliminary data from this study suggests that nest raking requires a greater amount of effort (as measured through raking strokes) to remove eggs from a nest than originally anticipated. The Alternatives Workgroup will be evaluating a suite of potential control methods, including nest raking, through a sea lamprey life-history model. This model is being developed by Ellen Marsden and her graduate student, Eric Howe. Research control strategies will be developed by the Alternatives Workgroup and forwarded to the Fishery Technical Committee for consideration.
16. The Lake Champlain Management Cooperative Policy Committee will meet in January, 2003. This committee recommends reporting on the budget, and lamprey control. We will also offer presentations on sturgeon, cormorants, stocking, lamprey tagging, walleye, alternatives, lake trout spawning, and salmon strains.
17. Annual report. March 2003 is the target date for completion of the 2002 annual report. To meet that deadline, committee members should have brief summaries of their areas of responsibilities to Bill Schoch by the end of January. A draft report should be ready for review by the end of February.
18. Eric Palmer is now chair of the Management Committee.
19. The next meeting of the full Technical Committee is scheduled for January 14, 2003. A meeting on lake trout genetics and data needs to assess/monitor stocking rates is scheduled for December 5, 2002.


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Re: Having trouble asking a girl out in college
1) Be good friends with her, make little jokes to loosen up your relationship etc..
2) Try hang out with her after school times, then walk her home or to her bus stop
3) Before she leaves, ask her the question or try to make a move, this will make things a lot less awkward afterwards, if she says yes, you will have time to think about how you should talk to her tomorrow, avoiding the awkward "er....what do we do now..?" and if she says no, she leaves anyway!
PS: Try do that when it's dark, 10x more romantic and people seem more open during that time. As a bonus, people wont be able to see you as well :)
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Hey all,
I was surfing today and found this hat at Burberry.com. They want $180.00 for it! It's really interesting and I wonder if anyone has seen a pattern like this before. Through the link you can zoom in and get a better look.
Link: http://www.burberryusaonline.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2674609&cp=1862200&parentPage=family
Thanks all for your input and comments. Maybe Entrelac is my next technique to learn.
If you zoomn in on the display page for the hat you can see that it is NOT entrelac - though I'm sure entrelac could be used to make a similar item. The hat pictured is either cabled or worked in sections, braided and then grafted. I'm willing to bet cabled.
MMario - ambiguity is cultivated, it doesn't happen in a vacuum!
IThe closest I have seen to this hat is this Entrelac Pattern, http://www.minidata.co.nz/major/freepatt/patt02.htm with a bit of adjustment I'm sure it could look very similar.
It looks to me as though it has been knit in sections, then braided and brought together on the crown.
I think you are right - and it's about 54 stitches around - alternating 5 k w/7 purl after the 1 x1 rib at the brim; maybe 50 rows total. about an hour and a half's work, tops I would think.
wish I could get that kind of money for knitting.
MMario - ambiguity is cultivated, it doesn't happen in a vacuum!
I think it is actually cabled - though possibly sections knit seperately and braided.
MMario - ambiguity is cultivated, it doesn't happen in a vacuum!
Should have had a better look it is an enterlac but it is alternating sections of stocking stitch and reverse stocking stitch.
Hi there, I would agree with Martin. As far as the pattern you may have to try and work something out for yourself.
Looks like Entrelac to me & I've never been clever enough to master it.
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DAY 3 Recap 2013 WSOP Main EventPosted by Poker Videos on July 13th, 2013
Day 3 was moving day at the 2013 World Series of Poker. Players either built chips to make a run at the money or went home licking their wounds. Both Phil's failed to survive the day while the Godfather of Poker dodged bullets and Father Time.
Doyle Doesn't Know This Father Time Person
Doyle Brunson logically should not still be in the Main Event. He is 80, the game supposedly has passed him by, and most considered his place in the event more of an "honorary" one.
Someone forgot to tell Doyle this.
Surprising everyone in the poker world, Brunson not only made Day 3 of the Main Event, but thrived. Starting with 224,000, he built that stack through the day and by the time that play finished on Day 3, he finished near the top of the field with 626,000 in chips.
With the field just 18 players from the money, Doyle will cash in the Main Event for the first time in 9 years. This will also be his first live event cash since 2011. Now the question remains how deep that Doyle can go in the event and he will surely be the focus of a ton of attention on Day 4.
Ivey Crushed in Set Over Set Confrontation
While Doyle is the big story of the Main Event, Phil Ivey's elimination may have been one of the more shocking of the day. Ivey had been steadily building his stack and had around 416,000 chips before suddenly being eliminated by Max Steinberg.
On a flop of As-10h-3s, Ivey bet out for 16k which was followed by a raise by Olaoluwa Okelola to 41k. Steinberg made the call and Ivey shoved for 416k having flopped a set of threes. Okelola folded and Steinburg snap-called and turned over pocket tens for a better set.
Ivey was drawing to a single out and failed to hit his out. Steinberg moved up to around 900k after the hand and finished the day 3rd in chips with 987,500.
Coleman Stacking to the Maxx
Maxx Coleman will lead the 666 remaining players into Day 4. He is the only player at present with at least 1 Million in chips with 1,071,500. Joshua Prager is in the #2 spot with 993k in chips. Max Steinberg, Dick van Luijk, and Vladimir Geshkenbein round out the top 5.
When play resumes on Friday, it shouldn't take long before play reaches hand-for-hand play. Once the money bubble finally bursts, expect up to 200 players to be eliminated quickly as the short stacks try to double up or go home.
Who Will Be the Last Woman Standing?
Annette Obrestad remains the top female in the field through Day 3. She finished the day with 564k in chips. Melanie Weisner is not far behind with 536k in chips. Lucinda Martinez is currently the third high woman in the field with 410,000. Lauren Kling is the only other name of note with at least 100k in chips and will start Day 4 with 185,500.
With all the focus on Doyle, not as much attention has been paid to the ladies but as the field starts to shrink, the race for "Last Woman Standing" should begin to heat up. Obrestad is looking for her 2nd WSOP bracelet and to become only the second person in history to win both the WSOP Vegas and WSOP Europe Main Event. Weisner is looking for her first major title and her first WSOP bracelet.


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April 14, 2005 - William K. Reilly, the former administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and current chairman of the World Wildlife Fund, will be the ninth speaker for the annual Wege Speaker Series at Aquinas College. Reilly, who served as EPA administrator from 1989 to 1993, will speak on "Energy and Environment: A Whole New Ballgame" on Thursday, April 28, 2005 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center on the Aquinas College campus, 1703 Robinson Road S.E., Grand Rapids. Reilly brings a unique perspective to environmental issues, having served in leadership roles in government, with national environmental groups and now leading a private business focused on improving access to safe drinking water and sanitation. As the seventh head of the EPA, Reilly was responsible for improving and protecting public health and the environment. His priorities were focused on elevating attention to the protection and restoration of the country's natural systems, preventing pollution before it is generated, enforcing environmental laws aggressively and fostering innovate clean- up technologies.Reilly played a key role as EPA Administrator in launching the "Great Lakes Water Quality Initiative," which developed for the first time common pollution standards for the Great Lakes basin across the eight states in the watershed. He also worked with his Canadian counterparts to enhance international cooperation in protecting the Lakes, including new efforts to protect Lake Superior's relatively-pristine condition. Reilly's leadership on Great Lakes issues is particularly relevant to the Wege Foundation's recent launch of a new "Healing Our Waters" Coalition for Great Lakes restoration, for which the Foundation recently made a five-year, $5 million grant.As the current board chairman of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Reilly is at the forefront of global conservation issues, such as preserving the world's endangered wildlife and wild places. He has been associated with the WWF for more than 25 years, having served as its president from 1985 to 1989. He was also president of the Conservation Foundation from 1973 to 1989, which was formally joined with WWF in 1985. As President and CEO of Aqua International Partners and investment group, Reilly continues his commitment to the environment. The organization finances the purification of water and wastewater in developing countries and invests in projects and companies that serve the water sector. Reilly recently co-chaired a diverse group of public and private experts on mobilizing the U.S. government, private businesses and not-for-profit organizations to bring safe drinking water and sanitation services to the world's poor. Reilly has written and lectured extensively on environmental issues. He has served on the boards of numerous public and private sector organizations and received a number of awards and medals for his contributions to environmental progress. He helps corporations fuse financial goals with sustainable business practices. He discusses how to mobilize and manage for the transformation of natural resource-based industries, how incentives can improve the environment and how ethics and economics can combine to produce eco-efficiency, all working together to create value, reduce cost, avoid waste and steer clear of litigation and bad public relations.Reilly joins a prestigious list of Wege Foundation speakers that includes: Christine Ervin, former president and CEO of the U.S. Green Building Council; John L. Knott, Jr., a third-generation builder/developer recognized as an expert in urban revitalization; B. Joseph White, former interim president of the University of Michigan; Author, Environmental Activist and Chief Prosecuting Attorney for Riverkeeper Robert F. Kennedy Jr.; President Emeritus of Williams College Harry C. Payne, Ph.D.; William McDonough, dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia; Herman E. Daly, Ph.D., a renowned economist at the University of Maryland and author of "Steady-State Economics;" and The Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame.