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Woods State Park
9285 Beall Woods Avenue
Mt. Carmel, IL 62863
Jacque Cullison - Interpreter
Visitor Center is open Monday through Saturday 8AM-4PM and Sunday
Beall Woods is located six miles south of Mt. Carmel on Route 1
near Keensburg.
Please contact the site office for up to date program information
and visitor center hours.
Woods State Park 2015 Program Schedule
Thinking about taking a field trip........Beall
Woods offers educational activities for school
groups, 4-H clubs, youth groups, scouts, etc... Call and schedule
your visit in advance.
The park has resources available to assist educators in the classroom.
Classroom presentations
can also be scheduled with the Site Interpreter.
IDNR Trunks
Aquatic Illinois (5th - 9th)
Insects/Spiders (K - 6th)
Trees (Pre-K - H.S.)
Illinois Fossils (4th - 5th)
People and Animals of Illinois' Past (K - 3rd)
Mammals of Illinois (4th - 6th)
If you are interested in any of the programs or would like additional
information, please
call 618-298-2441.
All programs are free of charge.


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This summer, I'm working on a project dubbed Craft of Electronics. I just wrote a post on our blog and thought I'd highlight it here as well. Read on below for more, and if you're interested just drop us a line in the comments.
The Craft of Electronics is a project to develop an introductory electronics curriculum at Berea College in Kentucky. But it's also about "creating a world where it's possible for students to learn college-level electronics in a craft-first (and theory-sometime-later) format, through learning from, participating in, and contributing to the open hardware movement." In fact, we've been blogging, brainstorming, and writing on craftofelectronics.org where all of the content is available under a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license. For more background, this post captures a lot of what we're trying to do.
Well, you may say, why the shout-out now? If you've been following us on Twitter, you'll notice that our current logo isn't even very deserving of that name. So.
Help us out with a new logo! We promise we won't be picky, but it needs to meet a few of specifications:
- it needs to come as a vector graphic
- it needs to perform well as a Twitter/identi.ca icon, as well as on t-shirts or when engraved in wood; this is obviously a somewhat subjective statement, but we'd love to talk to you.
- it needs to be licensed at least under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license (more permissive licenses are of course also acceptable & welcome)
And here's what's in for you: we said "engraved in wood" above. That's right, at Berea, we have access to a machine shop including a laser cutter & a CNC router. So if we chose your design, you'll receive:
- the gratitude of the entire team (@jadudm, @mchua, @sdziallas)
- a t-shirt with the logo on it – we'll be making these for us and get you one as well
- a wooden plate with the logo engraved for you to put on your desk (or your mug on, if you're so inclined)
If you're up for the challenge, you can email us on the mailing list.

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Cookbook & Recipes
Home > Cookbook & Recipes
A Bed and Breakfast stay is not complete without the tastes and smells of homemade cooking.
These recipes represent some of the personal favorites of the innkeepers, and we are proud to bring them to you. (See catagories below.)
Cook up a Bed and Breakfast Experience with our second Cookbook
Minnesota Innkeepers are endlessly creative and so it is with their cooking. Follow this adventure in cooking as the pages of "More Minnesota Mornings and Beyond" guide you to recipes with new ingredients or reinterpret familiar flavors and ideas and entice you to taste and travel Minnesota B & B's. Since your B & B experience might include a bottomless cookie jar, evening appetizers, holiday taste tour, or even lunch and dinner, we thought it was only appropriate to include more than breakfast recipes.
A sampling of the breakfast recipes included:
- Dark Chocolate and Earl Grey Creme Brule
- Granny Smith Apple French Toast
- Homemade Syrup
And "Beyond" breakfast, might try:
- Vegetarian Chili with Avocado Salsa
- Coconut Battered Shrimp with Peach Dipping Sauce
- Dr. Gunz's Cure-All Rhubarb Pie
There is nothing that the Minnesota B & B Association members would like more than for you to come and enjoy their fine food and think "beyond"! 140 pages, 81 recipes, descriptive tours of participating inns.
Original cover price $15.95, now $10 (plus tax and shipping). Special price available only through this website. Click here to Order
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Hm, never heard of that. Btw, your running vista perhaps?
Hm, never heard of that. Btw, your running vista perhaps?
I have a Laptop (TravelMate 2410) and I run Windows XP. Plz help me out. Maybe a virus?
I'll do my very best, miss sophie
Ok, when other games/apps are running fine it seems that you got some virii/trojan etc. My suggest is do a full virus scan on your comp first, then run spybot and ad-aware, links are in first post here.
Should I run Hitman Pro on my computer?
Hey I want to try downloading MapleStory again but I want to know in what folders I have look to delete old MapleStory and Nexon stuff. Can you give me the names of the folders please.
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Hey Gundel, nice thread :P, and I have something extra to add on to it.
I managed to fix my GR2D error without updating my graphics card or anything, considering it's as old as hell :P. I did it by changing my screen settings from 32-bit to 16-bit in the Display Properties (for those who don't know how to get there, just right click your desktop and click on Properties, then go to the very last tab (settings) and change the colour quality).
Hope that helps.
Hey I have something weird. If I start my computer and when I see me screen, I got an error: epm: 'cannot find the given up module' or something. I don't know how it happened..
But do you know what the error is?? What epm or something is?
Okay Gundel, I did a full scan on my computer with ad-aware, spybot S&D and hitman pro. Sometimes it says: '2 detected' or something, but does the virusscanner remove the virus automaticly?
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This should defiantly be stickied and take down some of those ridiculous stickies.
AKA About Maplestory
Great job gundel. It helped.
O Hai, My sig isn't too big now is it?


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Wind Shield Jacket (Men's) (out-of-stock)
Out of Stock Product Number: 26650
The Men's Wind Shield Jacket by Patagonia is an extremely packable jacket made of durable, stretchy knit-polyester laminated to a supple polyurethane film that provides full wind protection, wicks moisture and dries quickly.
The wind races in from the Patagonian Ice Cap with such unimaginable velocity that even a simple trail run can seem daunting, so go prepared. The lightweight Wind Shield's stretchy, durable 100% polyester has superb compressibility and is laminated to a polyurethane film for full windproof protection; a Deluge DWR (durable water repellent) finish resists moisture. For enhanced breathability, the underarm panels and cuffs are made of 6.8-oz Polartec Power Dry high-low fleece grid. Jacket details include a brushed fleece collar, full wind flap and zipper garage, two zippered handwarmers, a rear center-back pocket with an interior cord pass-through and a slightly dropped tail. Reflective logos on the left chest and center back.
* This product does not qualify for shipping to all countries.
- 3-layer circular knit polyester is windproof, stretchy, and provides full protection and comfort
- Lightweight, supple fabric is durable and extremely packable
- High/low fleece grid at underarm panels and cuffs is breathable and quick-drying
- Zip-through collar with brushed fleece for next-to-skin comfort; full wind flap
- Pockets: Two zippered handwarmers; center-back pocket with interior cord pass-through
- Reflective logos on left chest and center back; back pocket features reflective zipper
- Slight drop tail with single-pull drawcord
Gender: Men's
Weight: (9.9 oz 281 g
Material: Knit-polyester, polyurethane film
Fit: Slim Fit
Technologies: [Polartec, Regulator]
Season: F12
Vendor ProductId: 24982
Review ProductId: 22160
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- Breathable
- Lightweight
- Stylish
- Windproof
Best Uses
- Hiking and Camping
- Wet Weather
Comments about Patagonia Wind Shield Jacket (Men's):
Bought this for my husband in a x-large and the fit was pretty good except that it was too tight in the bicep area. He loved the jacket but we had to return it. :(
- Fit:
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Curious... the buzz sounds like it might fit the bill for me... maybe last a little longer on our wooded holes.
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Hello Im new to this side
I own the 7a and i have the kit lens now.
But I feel its ugly
Is there any sexy lens which is cheap and good to use? Something what has some metal like Voigtlander. I need something to photograph People. They are moving but not fast so I need them look good.
a fast focus as well
Oh and I dont like super big lenses I feel them to intimidating
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Klipsch has announced a new product that the company is releasing. They are releasing their new S4A in-ear buds that will be able to utilize the Android in-line remote. There are some of the best that you will be able to find for under $100, and there are a number of variants that have been made available over the course of the last few months. Previously getting some earbuds like these would cost you quite a bit of money, but these are some of the best that are currently available. These will also be able to be utilized along with the remote, and should be some of the best ear buds that are out there on the market today.
The remote capabilities will include utilizing the Android 2.1 and above operating system such as unlocked Samsung Galaxy S II, Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc, etc.. I and will be slightly tweaked from the previous versions and will have less buttons. The specs that have been released say that the earbuds should work for phone calls, the ability to control your music, the ability to adjust your volume, and various other uses.
It is clear that they are looking to bring to the table a high quality, top notch accessory that is going to be able to add customized functionality to the devices. At just around $100 there is no current word on the ship date for the devices, but you can expect that to be announced at some point in the very near future. It will be interesting, to say the least, to see how they are going to be able to market this product moving forward and whether or not it will find its intended audience. there have been many applications like this one in the past, but this one seems to take it to a new level that we have not seen before in terms of quality.
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Types of Triangles
Triangles abound in this BrainPOP triangle movie! In it, Tim and Moby introduce you to one of the sharpest shapes around. You'll find out exactly what a triangle is, how many kinds there are, and what all of a triangles angles add up to. Discover the two ways in which we classify angles and the three categories within each group. You'll also learn which triangles have three equal sides, which have two equal sides, and which has sides that are all different sizes! Finally, you'll learn what a hypotenuse is, and the difference between acute and obtuse angles. It's a festival of triangles!
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Steve Nickas. photographed this bird on a beach on Hutchinson Island.
Billy Ocker photographed this spider hanging onto its web during a rainstorm in Sebastian.
Duke Heffer took this photo of a Canna Lily in his backyard in Indian River County.
Grace Dillon photographed this graceful butterfly at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.
Susan Bielefeld found this great blue heron resting on the shores of the canal in the Rustic Hills Development in Palm City.
Tish Gelineau photographed a recent summer day at the Sailfish Splash Park in Stuart. She was visiting the park with her granddaughter.
Steve Nickas photographed this pair at Hobe Sound Beach enjoying the sun.
Joanne Hanney took this photo in a Publix parking lot in Martin County and notes that her unexpected visitor didn't leave until she blew the horn.
Grace Dillon photographed this great blue heron and thinks it's most photogenic.
Jake Sunnycalb had fun watching these proud parents at Easy Street Park in Sebastian. " 'Mabel' and 'Danny' with 5 new little additions to the park! Note: They love bread!"
Diane Di Maio came upon these elegant tan tree mushrooms in White City Park.
Trish Powers photographed this dragonfly clinging to a vine on South Beach near Bear Point in Fort PIerce.
Doreen Poreba found this heron at Indian RiverSide Park in Jensen Beach during the Worldwide Photo Walk on Oct. 13th. It was shot with a Nikon D300.
Bernie Yacovella photographed this sunset by the Vero Beach boardwalk with an iPhone 2. "It was so spectacular that I wanted to share it with everyone."
Derek Ray photographed this Florida Scrub Jay at the Indrio Savannas.
Jan Howington photographed one of a pair of eagles that appear quite frequently in one of the trees behind her home on Roseland Road in Sebastian.
Melissa Keyes found this racoon hanging around a neighbor's oak tree in Palm City.
John Massung photographed the Environmental Learning Center from the air in a powered parachute.
Joe Mumaw, photographer for the Garden Club of Fort Pierce, took this photo during a lunch event in which club members served lunch to hard working employees of the Fort Pierce Department of Public Works.
Jeannie Meeker found this seahorse attached to the bait bucket she was using while fishing the Indian River. "I was amazed when I looked down on the fishing dock and saw it! The best I could figure was that it had attached itself to the bait bucket and when I pulled it up, it fell off on the dock. So surprised to see it there!" She used a Canon Powershot digital camera.
Beverly Dally photographed this fiery sunset at Spanish Lakes Country Club Village in Fort Pierce. She used a Nikon Cook Pic L 20 camera.


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This morning I received an email from the organizers of the TEDxLowerEastSide event, which is scheduled to be held later this month at The Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts. As one would expect with a TED event, the speakers' list looks fantastic and the theme for the day, The Hero's Journey, is a strong platform on which to build an emotionally and intellectually compelling program.
I've been to one previous TEDx event, TEDxHarlem, and it was terrific, so I was eager to fill out the application. Sure, I'd be getting home late the previous day from London, but these type of opportunities shouldn't be missed. So, I started to fill out the application which was pretty standard stuff until I came to this part:
Please choose one question and answer in 500 words
- If the success or failure of this planet, and of human beings, depended on who you are and what you do, how would you be? What would you do?
- What is it you are trying to create in the world and how is your work helping to manifest or support that?
- What question are you living?
Could you answer these questions? Have you even asked yourself these questions? If you're at all like me, things just got really uncomfortable for you. Uncomfortable in a way that punctures your probably comfortable life. My guess is that you are reading this from within a well-lit, climate-controlled environment, or perhaps off of your smartphone. Sure, we all have hardships and challenges in our lives, but by and large you are probably reasonably comfortable. Go read those three questions again.
You hear a lot of talk about "getting out of your comfort zone" but it's hard isn't it? A job, kids, leaky roof, maybe elderly parents, there's a lot going on in your life and quite frankly staying inside your comfort zone sounds like a damn good idea. I get that. So I'm not going to ask you to quit that nice gig, or even give up your $4.50 latte. But do this for me – copy and paste those three questions into a word document. Don't try to answer them right now, just print the questions out and tack them up on your office wall. Just read them each day for a week, or maybe a month. Think about them a little bit. Then, when you are ready, try to answer just one of them. If you do, I hope you'll share them with me, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
UPDATE: After I wrote this blog post, I sent a note to the TEDxLES organizers saying that I appreciated the invitation to apply for attendance, but didn't feel I could honestly answer any of the three questions. this afternoon they got back to me and referred me back to the application page, noting that based in part on my comments, they have amended the application essay question. It now reads as follows:
- If the success or failure of this planet, and of human beings, depended on who you are and what you do, how would you be? What would you do?
- What question are you living?
- What is your favorite TED talk and why?
- TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. Which of the 3 are you particularly passionate about and why?
- If you were to give a TED talk, what would it be about and why?
So they added to more questions, which are 'easier' to answer. I'm not sure how I feel about this. Actually, yes, I am sure. I don't like it. Now people can take the easy way out. We have too much of that in this life. If I do decide to apply for attendance I won't choose one of the latter to questions.


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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
2012. United Kingdom. The Quay Brothers.
With live musical score by Mikhail Rudy
Monday, January 7, 2013, 4:30 p.m.
Theater 1 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1), T1
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
2012. United Kingdom. Directed by The Quay Brothers. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets, these screenings of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka mark the North American premiere of the Quay Brothers' newest film. Commissioned by Russian-born French pianist Mikhail Rudy in affiliation with Cité de la musique in Paris, where it premiered last March, the film is screened with live piano accompaniment by Rudy, performing the music of Czech composer Leoŝ Janáček. The Quay Brothers' interest in Franz Kafka goes back to their days as design students at the Philadelphia College of Art in the late 1960s, and they originally conceived the notion of adapting Kafka's best known story to film in the mid-1970s with a series of drawings currently on view in the Quay Brothers exhibition. Shot on digital video, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is an avant-garde combination of stop-motion animation, puppetry, and live-action pantomime, recalling the Quays' earlier encounters with the music of Janáček, the theater of Michel de Ghelderode, and the experimental storytelling strategies used in their British television documentaries with Keith Griffiths in the early 1980s.
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The Adventure Cycling blog covers bicycle-travel news, touring tips and gear, bicycle routes, organizational news, membership highlights, guided tours, and more. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter for daily updates.
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It's been a cold winter in the Northern climes. Western Montana only started looking like spring a few days ago. The spring Adventure Cycling Big Bend Van Tour had a lot of folks from Northern regions and I think we all found a little joy in the desert sun.
Adventure Cyclist 3.0 starts now, and in the months to come there will be much more to keep readers engaged.


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Posted on February 12, 2008'LIL JONNY... Jonny Santos, vocalist of Spineshank, is a proud dad. Last night, May 6th, his wife Jen, gave birth to a 7lb 3oz baby boy. Jonny and Jen spent long and hard deciding on a name and came up with....Jonny. Congratulations to Jonny, Jen, and Jonny...and the rest of the Spineshank family, too.
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Rangers @ Penguins
CONSOL Energy Center, 7:00 p.m. Monday
Rangers record: 9-7-1
Penguins record: 9-8-1
The Rangers are right back at it tomorrow night in Pittsburgh on the heels
of a wild 8-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers. Certainly the Rangers' confidence must be running high following two
victories at home without Henrik Lundqvist and with a dominant Marian Gaborik
back in the lineup. But obviously,
taking on Evgeni Malkin, Sidney Crosby, and the rest of the Penguins is never
an easy task.
hasn't had a great start to the season, but they always seem to be a much
better second half team. Still, the
absence of Jordan Staal and horrible play of Marc-Andre Fleury are cause for
concern. The Penguins have won two in a
row over Tampa Bay
and Atlanta,
but prior to that had won only two of eight games. Fleury was back in net for the last two victories
and gave up only three goals between them, so maybe he's starting to settle
in. After a tremendous start to the
season, backup goalie Brent Johnson has struggled recently. It seems likely that Johnson will get the
start for Pittsburgh
which will be playing its third game in four days. The Penguins made some interesting roster
decisions this summer that have changed the direction of the franchise. Sergei Gonchar left via free agency but the
Penguins quickly reinvested the money saved from losing Gonchar, and then some,
in signing Paul Martin and Zbynek Michalek. The problem for Pittsburgh
is the salary cap. So much money is
invested in Crosby, Malkin, Staal, Martin, Michael, Orpik and Fleury that the
Penguins are unable to surround their ultra-talented centers with any component
wingers. Chris Kunitz and Pascal Dupuis
are the best wingers the Penguins have to offer, meaning if opponents can
contain Crosby and Malkin, a huge if to be
sure, they have a great chance to win. Crosby hasn't struggled without any wingers, he's been
good enough on his own to tally 12 goals and 15 assists so far this
season. Malkin, on the other hand,
hasn't been the same the last couple years and has seven goals and nine
assists. He did have a hat trick
yesterday so the Penguins must be hopeful that he's returning to form. Pittsburgh's
retooled defense hasn't been bad this season, but inconsistent goaltending has
been the team's downfall. Still the Penguins
rank 13th in goals against and fifth on the penalty kill.
All indications are that Lundqvist will be back in between
the pipes tomorrow for the Blueshirts, and against Crosby and Malkin lord knows
the Rangers will need him. The Rangers
are capable of beating the Penguins, but of course, it starts and ends with containing
Crosby. Pittsburgh
has been bad on the power play thus far, but anyone who has watched the
Penguins in recent years knows just how dangerous the Penguins can be with the
extra-man. It appears the loss of
Gonchar has hindered the team a bit, but the Rangers don't want to be the team
that lets the Penguins' power play gets going. The line of Dubinsky/Anisimov/Callahan will likely see a lot of time
against Crosby. Hopefully the tenacious wingers can harass
Sid enough to throw him off his game. Of
course, the Blueshirts will also look to employ their ferocious fore-check to
stop the Penguins from spending too much time in the Rangers zone in the first
The recipe for victory against Pittsburgh is simple. Stay out of the box, contain Crosby, and take advantage of the Penguins' lack of
depth. The Rangers may be better
equipped for this than in years past because of their considerable depth. But of course, without a strong effort from
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That the Rangers were a mere
shootout goal from quashing the Flyers postseason chances is an even more
bitter pill to swallow now that Philly has reached the Stanley Cup Finals. But despite the Philly hatred that
runs through Rangers fans' veins, perhaps we should take the success of the
Flyers and Chicago Blackhawks as a sign of hope for the future. Neither team is immune to the albatross
contracts for which the Rangers are so frequently lambasted. We all know the Rangers are bound to Chris
Drury, Wade Redden, Michal Roszival, Marian Gaborik, and Henrik Lundqvist. But both Finals teams have shown that having
large contracts is not necessarily the end of the world.
The Blackhawks boast one of the
league's best collections of young talent, but they have their share of high
paid players. They've marched to the
Finals despite missing one of their top paid players, defenseman Brian
Campbell, who makes over $7 million a season. The 'Hawks also pay Marian Hossa, Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, and
Cristobal Huet over $5 million a year. Despite
their strong chance at a Stanley Cup this season, the Blackhawks may be in worse
shape financially than the Rangers. They
were already forced to trade promising young defenseman Cam Barker this season
to ease their cap situation, and they may be forced to make similar moves this
On the flip side, the Flyers were
cellar dwellers for a brief period not long ago but successful drafting and
player development helped them recover from a down period faster than anyone
could have imagined. They too have huge
contracts on the books, including Danny Briere, Jeff Carter, Simon Gagne, Mike
Richards, Scott Hartnell, Kimmo Timonen, and Chris Pronger who all make north
of $4 million. But the Flyers have been
able to incorporate young and mostly still cheap talent in the form of
Richards, Carter, Claude Giroux, Ryan Parent, Braydon Coburn, and James Van Riemsdyk
despite their financial constrictions.
So as upsetting as this Rangers
season was, perhaps we should look to the two teams that are about to compete
for Lord Stanley's Cup for hope. Though
the Rangers have an extremely frustrating history when it comes to spending on
players, the Flyers and Blackhawks have shown that spending sprees are not
impossible to overcome. The Rangers do
have several blue-chip prospects, and whether they succeed or not is no
certainty. But the two teams that are
about to battle for the Stanley Cup have shown that an infusion of young talent
can conquer financial woes. Obviously
the Rangers are in a tight spot, but believe it or not, Drury and Roszival will
soon be off the books. And when they
are, Chris Kreider, Derek Stepan, Evgeny Grachev, Ethan Werek, and others may
be ready to rescue the Rangers sooner than any of us imagined. After all, Stepan already captained the United States
to a World Junior Championship title. Is
it so hard to imagine him in a "History Will Be Made" commercial?