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Earl Lee Prince age 69 of Malvern passed away May 5, 2011 He was born December 25,1941 in the New Deroche Community to the late Walter Lee and Opal Burris Prince. Mr. Prince was a United State Army Veteran. He had worked many years for Hot Spring County Medical Center in the Maintenance Dept. He was of the Catholic Faith a member of the Knights of Columbus and loved Music. Other than his parents he was preceded in death by two sisters: Ruth Flores and Sara Prince Sanders and one brother Louis Prince.
Survivors include his daughter Gail Willcut of Jerusalem AR, grandchildren: Violet Crabtrey of Fairfield Bay, and Bridgett Nicole Robinson of Malvern, and 5 great grandchildren, nephews: Stephen and Larry Flores, Joe (Karrie) Sanders, and, Charles Garner, nieces; Rosmary Prince Pittman and Ferrin Pittman, and special cargivers: cousin Elizabeth Henderson and niece Danielle Ross and the Staff of Arbor Oaks and a grand nephew: Page Ross
A Memorial Service will be held Thursday May 12, at 6:00 pm at the Brawley Cemetery on Hwy 171.
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As I watched the closing laps of the Aaron's 499 at Talladega on Sunday, there was a feeling of disgust starting to creep into my head.
There was a rain delay and track drying that ate up more than 31/2 hours. And by the time they decided to resume with daylight basically down to dusk at NASCAR's biggest track, you just knew the customary late-race "big one" - a cliched, but very true term - was bound to happen.
The obligatory carnage came with five laps remaining, a 12-car pileup that took out everyone from Jeff Gordon to Danica Patrick to Ryan Newman. ...

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The European Union on Tuesday condemned remarks by an Albanian Cabinet member that people participating in a gay pride celebration scheduled for May should be beaten.
Deputy Defense Minister Ekrem Spahiu, who also heads a small royalist party in the governing coalition, said last week that those who join Albania's first gay pride parade on May 17 "should be beaten with batons."
The EU's office in Tirana condemned "any discriminatory rhetoric as well as any incitement to hatred or violence."
Albania has applied to join the 27 nation bloc and Brussels issues annual reports on the country's progress in meeting EU entry requirements.
The EU "strongly urges the Albanian authorities to ensure that such behavior is not repeated," it said in its statement.
Prime Minister Sali Berisha also criticized Spahiu's remarks as "unacceptable," while Albania's Ombudsman Igli Totozani and 48 Albanian non-governmental organizations also condemned the comments and asked the politician to apologize.
Human Rights Watch called Spahiu's words "terrible."
Albania passed an anti-discrimination law in 2009 and also allowed same-sex weddings the same year. But there is still widespread homophobia in the small Balkan nation. This is the first time the gay community has felt safe enough to march, but the minister's comments have been seen as stoking possible violence.


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Both Debbee and I, being The Journal publishers, came from a background of having served as Marketing Director and Publisher respectively, of Surfer Magazine. I was there for twenty-one-years as the employee of the holding company that owned it (before that I mostly shaped surfboards and wrote), and Debbee for eight years, before we left in spring of 1992, to start our own publishing business. Luckily we could both wear a lot of hats because we started alone in a rented room in Capistrano Beach. There was circulation, marketing and business systems to figure out, surf shops to sign up, editorial to gather, refine and invent, graphic production and manufacturing to source and develop, and U. S. postal regulations to understand.
At the start Debbee swore she wouldn't learn the complicated second-class postal rules-but she ended up knowing them well. There are thousands of processes necessary to create a periodical that succeeds, many hundreds of people to coordinate, and tens of thousands of supporters to attract. Our idea was to base a surf periodical on the constant of a surfer's stoke rather than on the surf industry's variable health and fickle advertising support.
Soon enough, we weren't working alone, as Kathy Freygang came on board to help at everything, Jeff Girard to design and produce, and then Rob Gilley volunteered to photo edit until we could afford to hire him. By the next spring our small family was living in a 1,500 sq. ft. industrial office space with warehouse in San Clemente, CA, and we were releasing our first issue, with a cover price that no one had heard of before, $12.95. It was received well.
That proved that surfers would pay for quality when it came to honoring their love of the sport. Over the next five years, we knew for sure the idea was working as subscriptions grew to over ten thousand (now 20,000!). It was a good thing because we had invested all our savings without a second thought.
Now, approaching our twenty second year, The Journal has earned its place as the definitive purist voice of our sport, with a level of thoughtful in-depth literature and imagery that you might expect to find in a scholarly journal. We work hard to create a content package that peels back the surface of the wave riding culture, targeting experienced intelligent surfers.
As custodians of The Journal, and as fellow long-time surfers ourselves, we take that responsibility seriously…but not too! For despite all the philosophic and poetic waxing about man and wave, the connection to nature, and the quasi-religious experience of the ride, when it comes right down to it surfing resides in the toy department of human affairs, and we think it's perfect there. -- S.P.
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I needed to replace our bathtub drain, which I had never done before. Went online looking at videos and all the tools ranging from 10-75 bones. I decided on this tool since it was the lowest price around. Worked like a champ!! Made the job easy, and I couldn't be happier. Does exactly what it is supposed to do.
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Using the narrow end of the tool and a large adjustable wrench to apply leverage, I was successful in quickly removing a 30 year old Price Pfister tub drain flange. Maybe I got lucky, but the tool did its job and appears to be sturdy and well constructed. I applied heat from a heat gun for a couple of minutes to the flange to help loosen the dried plumbers putty, so maybe that helped.
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Mayor's Summer Night Lights!
The Kleeman Community Center kicks off Mayor's Summer Night Lights on June 17! Families and youth can take on an active role in making their communities safe through this fun-filled program. Dinner will be served each night, DJ, local music artists and motivational speakers weekly.
This program is free, every Monday and Wednesday from 6 to 9:30 p.m. through Aug. 7.
Summer Youth Program
Summer Youth Program participants and their families can enjoy an outdoor showing of "Happy Feet 2" just for them on June 21 at Heritage Park!
Summer Youth Program is free to youth, ages 6-16. Gyms at various locations are staffed with directors and assistants who provide activities and instructional classes such as gymnastics and karate. Registration continues at the following sites:
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Independence Day Celebration
Join us as we celebrate our nation's independence with the sixth annual Independence Day Celebration at a new location! Join us on Tuesday, July 3, at Liberty Park for food, fun and entertainment for the entire family. Activities begin at 6 p.m. and will include performances by local bands Brio and The Beagles and will conclude with the city's largest fireworks display set to kick off at 9:30 p.m.!
Guests are encouraged to park at the seven-acre grass area adjacent to the park, located at 1188 Cumberland Drive. Clarksville Transit System will provide free rides to and from the designated parking area beginning at 4 p.m., with the last bus departing from Liberty Park at 10:30 p.m.
Youth Co-Ed Flag Football
Did you miss out on our first Youth Flag Football Clinic? Never fear! A second session will be held for boys and girls ages 5 to 17 at Northeast High School from 8 a.m. to noon, on July 13.
The clinic will introduce the fundamentals of flag football as participants learn rules, develop skills and make new friends!
Cost is $25 and includes a shirt, lunch and water bottle. Each clinic participant is also eligible to receive $5 off of registration for the Youth Flag Football League set to begin later this summer. Registration for the Youth Flag Football league will take place June 17 through July 19. Cost is $65 per child and includes shirt, medal, flag belt & flags.
Pre-registration can be completed online at recpro.cityofclarksville.com or at the Parks & Recreation Main Office.


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EVENING TALK: The architectural and design historian Tim Benton discusses the vast collection of photographs taken by Le Corbusier, the celebrated champion of Modernism.
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The next Minister to be profiled in the Right to know series is Hon Hekia Parata, Minister of Education and Pacific Island Affairs.
As did many other respondents, Hekia Parata provided us with a redacted version of the spreadsheet log kept by her office. She also emphasised in her accompanying letter that this "may not be a complete, or accurate, reflection as this would require cross referencing each entry with each individual file…"
Along with uncertainty whether the log is 100% accurate, it is also evident that she regularly responds to requests late with only just over half the total number of responses sent within the 20 day statutory period. Her full response can be found here, and is well worth a look.
You'll find a few, but there is one particularly flagrant example of the Minister's disregard for the Official Information Act at the bottom of page one where a request from the Research and Advice Team (of an undisclosed organisation) was due on 10 May and actually responded to on 18 June!
I will place a caveat on the 10 requests we have classified as not having been responded to. There were multiple instances of an x appearing in the "Response Date" column which we have assumed to mean that for some reason that entry was not applicable. In some instances the request had been transferred or withdrawn but in other the rationale for the x was not so obvious.
The ten classified as "Not Responded to" however had no entry whatsoever in the 'Response Date" column but the other columns are complete and as such we think it reasonable to conclude that these requests have not yet been responded to.
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Sydney-based firm Todae offers households and businesses viable solutions to reduce ecological footprints, make efficient use of energy and other natural resources, and in the case of businesses, create a strong environmental brand ethos amongst customers and staff. The focus of their products and services are sustainability.
Products range from energy efficient globes, portable solar chargers, water saving devices and wind generators to organic body care, organic bedding & towels, kids' toys & games, baby products and garden & composting. By providing their customers with affordable environmentally friendly products that have been thoroughly tested and researched, the company aspires to promote incremental changes to heal our planet.
Todae also provides an environmental assessment service designed to help clients benefit from the advantages of using efficient technologies and products, and in the process enable them to create a more comfortable and sustainable home/business environment. As part of the assessment the client gets a detailed report on:
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What services would you like to be offered? How could a business help you live more sustainably? What's your favorite business, NGO or government program for promoting effective green living?
Is there a similar service in the US?
What I would be willing to pay to find out is how much carbon emissions are embedded in the goods and services that I purchase.
I can figure out how much carbon is emitted by the gasoline, natural gas and electricity that I purchase directly. But, how much CO2 was emitted when I purchased my bed, or my laptop, my cheeseburger, or my refrigerator? Or when I go to the movies, how much CO2 was emitted to make the movie, and project in the theater? Or if I go to the doctor, how much energy was required to heat the building and how much of that should be allocated to me the consumer?
There are carbon calculators out there that calculate emissions, but none of them really look at the embedded carbon in our purchases, which I believe makes up about 2/3 of total emissions. I would like to purchase goods and services which minimize CO2 emissions (or choose not to buy those that have large emissions), but frankly I can't find any good information on it.


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Page Weight Matters
Three years ago, while I was a web developer at YouTube, one of the senior engineers began a rant about the page weight of the video watch page being far too large. The page had ballooned to as high as 1.2MB and dozens of requests. This engineer openly vented that "if they can write an entire Quake clone in under 100KB, we have no excuse for this!" Given that I agreed with him and I was excited to find a new project, I decided to champion the cause of getting the YouTube watch page to weigh in under 100KB. On the shuttle home from San Bruno that night, I coded up a prototype. I decided to limit the functionality to just a basic masthead, the video player, five related videos, a sharing button, a flagging tool, and ten comments loaded in via AJAX. I code-named the project "Feather".
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Exclusive fabrics, technology make designer jeans a wardrobe staple
Oscar Adames is known as "the denim guru."
Watching him interact with women, getting them to try on a jean size smaller than they think they wear, you see how he's earned that title. It fits him perfectly, just like the pants he chooses for his clients.
Adames is an event and retail fit specialist for J Brand, a high-end denim company, based in Los Angeles.
Prices are in the $160 to $220 range.
The Queens, N.Y., resident works out of the business' main office in New York and has been to every state, as well as all over the world, helping women — and men — feel wonderful in a pair of jeans.
He was at Larrimor's, Downtown, Nov. 7 for a trunk show.
"I have never seen anyone as skilled as Oscar at interacting with and making people feel comfortable in a piece of clothing," said Lisa Slesinger, who co-owns the store with Tom Michael. "He is that good."
Maybe it's because of his 17 years of experience in the fashion industry. He started selling shoes in SoHo in New York and worked for H&M, Bloomingdales and Versace. He spent more than three years at Saks Fifth Avenue, where he interacted with celebrities, stylists and lots of denim companies.
"J Brand was the only brand that I could fit everyone from my fiancée to my grandmother," Adames said. "I met a woman who said she never wears jeans, but when I fitted her in a pair of J Brand, she loved them."
With nearly eight years at J Brand, Adames said he enjoys doing events and interacting with customers to learn their denim needs and wants. It's information he relays to the company.
This was his second trip to Pittsburgh.
"I love being at Larrimor's because it is Downtown, and I love being in the city seeing all the beautiful women walk into this store," said Adames, who was wearing a skinny style designed for rock star Mick Jagger. "I try to mix a little New York City flavor to the flavor of the people I meet in Pittsburgh. Then everyone will want a bite. I want women to feel happy and sexy and fabulous in a pair of jeans."
Susan Farber of Fox Chapel does. She has bought J Brand in the past and tried on several pairs.
"I do love these jeans," Farber said. "It's all about the fit. And, the fabric feels really nice."
Larrimor's sales associate Michelle Pacis of the North Side agreed.
"The pair I own are too big, and I work here," Pacis said. "But, after meeting Oscar, now I know the right size to wear. I loved the one pair I tried on because the fabric was so soft."
It's worth investing in a pair of designer jeans because of the exclusive fabrics, technology and craftsmanship, down to the stitching and zippers, Adames said. Jeans can be worn year-round and to more places because dress codes are less strict than ever before.
"I really love what I do," said Adames, a Dominican Republic native. "Just like all fashion, it's about feeling confident in what you are wearing. Buying jeans is like buying a bathing suit, because your body is going to be shown in a pair of jeans just like swimwear. It has to look right on the body."
Celebrities are often seen wearing J Brand, from Kate Middleton, Madonna and Gwen Stefani to Bradley Cooper, Ben Affleck and Jay Z.
"J Brand is popular because it's a sexy silhouette that has a classic feel to it and that many celebrities love," Adames said. "J Brand is also a jean that you can dress down with flip-flops and a T-shirt or dress for work with a blazer and boots or dress for the evening with pumps and a sparkly top and red lipstick."
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Arthur Patterson is in the news again (Korea Times) . In April 1997 a 23-year-old Korean student was stabbed to death in the Burger King in Itaewon. Apparently his murder was just a spree of the moment act of violence.
Police arrested two suspects ― Patterson, son of a U.S. military contractor, and Edward Lee, his Korean-American friend. Both were 18 at the time.
Patterson and Lee accused each other of committing the murder.
Initially, the prosecution indicted Lee for the murder but he was acquitted in 1999 by the Supreme Court for lack of evidence.
Prosecutors then banned Patterson from leaving the country to help investigators solve the case. He, however, departed for the United States in August 1999, hours after the travel ban expired. The Korean authorities failed to renew the ban.
In December 2009 – the Korean Government re-opened the investigation into the murder and in January the Ministry of Foreign Affairs made a request for Patterson to be extradited to Korea to stand trial (Time Magazine, January 2010). Last May – at the request of the Korean government – Patterson, who was a fitness trainer, was arrested and bail denied three times. This was discussed on The Hole shortly afterwards. Even though the extradition has been approved it won't be done anytime soon. According to the Chosun Ilbo:
The U.S. decision to extradite Patterson does not guarantee he will stand trial in a Korean court in the near future.
"Patterson has voiced his willingness to exercise his right to protect himself from arbitrary state action through habeas corpus, so it may take more than a year until he can be extradited to Korea," the official added.


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Senior wide receiver Nick Toon shaved more than a tenth of a second off of the 4.54 second time he had posted at the Scouting Combine, ran crisp routes and plucked the ball out of the air easily, highlighting what one veteran NFL scout called an "impressive group overall" at the Wisconsin Pro Day.
The 6-2, 215 pound Toon was clocked at 4.43 seconds Wednesday. The improved time is important as average straight-line speed is considered to be Toon's biggest shorting. He also improved upon his vertical jump (39") from the Combine (37.5) and registered a 10'10" broad jump, as well. Toon is currently rated by NFLDraftScout.com as a 3rd round prospect and the No. 100 player on our board, overall.
Toon was hardly the only Wisconsin standout to enjoy a strong day.
Quarterback Russell Wilson not only completed 59 of 63 passes, according to Tom Mulhern of the Wisconsin State Journal, he also improved on the one element that scouts question the most -- his height.
After being measured at 5-11 even at the Senior Bowl and Scouting Combine, Wilson inexplicably came in 3/8 of an inch taller at the Pro Day. Conspiracy theorists know this, pro scouts are the ones doing the measuring at each event.
Wilson, according to the scout, was poised throughout the workout and demonstrated "the same touch and arm strength we'd all seen on tape -- whether here [at Wisconsin] or before [at North Carolina State]."
"He's a very impressive fellow," Green Bay Packers' general manager Ted Thompson said of Wilson, "articulate, knowledgeable, confident, and he projects that confidence. He's going to be a good get for somebody." Wilson is currently rated as NFLDraftScout.com's No. 10 quarterback. His size is the biggest factor keeping outside of the top five at the position and thus a team willing to cater their offense around his ability to throw on the run could grade him significantly higher.
While the skill position players got most of the buzz, scouts believe the Wisconsin tradition of producing quality offensive linemen could be proven yet again with one or two Badger blockers the first players drafted from the school in 2012.
Offensive guard Kevin Zeitler was "efficient and powerful" during positional drills. Junior Peter Konz was unable to fully participate due to the fact that he's still recovering from the dislocated ankle that sidelined him for much of the second half of the regular season in 2011. He did do the snapping to Wilson in drills, however. Scouts like Konz's size and mobility enough that some view him as possible convert to guard or even right tackle in the NFL. More than a few scouts are concerned with a lack of ideal strength shown during the bench press drill at the Combine, where Konz lifted the bar "only" 18 times. Zeitler, by comparison, had 32 reps.
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A study led by Carmen Sapienza, Professor of Pathology in Temple's Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, suggests how and why high fat diets are linked to colon cancer.
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Epidemiologists have long warned that, in addition to causing obesity, eating too much fat and sugar puts a person at greater risk for colon cancer. Now, researchers at Temple University have established a link that may explain why.
The findings, "Epigenetic Differences in Normal Colon Mucosa of Cancer Patients Suggest Altered Dietary Metabolic Pathways," were published in the March issue of the American Association for Cancer Research's journal, Cancer Prevention Research.
"There have always been questions about why things like diet and obesity are independent risk factors for colon cancer," said Carmen Sapienza, Professor of Pathology in Temple's Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology, the study's lead author. "This study suggests how and why high fat diets are linked to colon cancer."
The researchers compared colon tissue in non-colon cancer patients with normal colon tissue in patients with the disease. In the normal tissue from patients with colon cancer, they found that epigenetic marks on genes involved in breaking down carbohydrates, lipids and amino acids — abundant in the fatty Western diet — appeared to have been retrained. Epigenetic marks are chemical modifications that serve as on/off switches for many genes.
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NOTE: There is a lot of good information in here, but if you are impatient please at least read the Tips section below to save yourself a headache later.
So you have a new house or want to spruce up your hold house by putting some laminate wood flooring down? Well I've just gotten done with a fairly long house project of taking out all our carpet and replacing it with the laminate wood flooring and here are my tips for you, things to watch out for and where to buy it from.
What is Laminate Wood Flooring?
First things first, this flooring is made to look like wood flooring but it doesn't match it perfectly (NOTE: In this picture we haven't put the base-boards back on yet, so it looks a bit tacky, but you can see how it's done):
So if you idea of a "wood floor" is a newly waxed, flawlessly cared for real wooden floor from back-east, you may not want to go this route. Instead you may want to look into real wood floor panels that has recently been modified to be sold with the tounge-and-groove style that laminate wood flooring made so popular… so you literally snap the pieces into each other. You can find this flooring at any hardware store or online at the links I give below.
Laminate wood flooring is more durable than the real wood counter parts, but it is fake. You purchase the flooring in boxes of planks; usually about 4-8 planks per box depending on the thickness of the flooring.
The floor itself is compressed saw dust mixed with glue and other elements the under high pressure formed into boards. The top and bottom are then "sealed" with a thin but durable hard layer. The top most layer is actually a series of layers of hard base, then a computer-printed image of a wood grain (yes, printed image) and then a hard clear coating on the top to "seal" the plank.
You might read the "printed image" part and think it's a negative, but the flooring looks pretty darn real AND you can get it in any color, style, grain you could ever imagine. You could even pick up a texture that looked totally natural:
Now I've gotten down close to the flooring and tried to tell it was fake, looking for things like pixelation in the texture, but I can't see it. It looks pretty nice.
Where can it be used?
Now, because of how the wood is made some of you may have thought "well shit, what happens when you get water on it?!", well it swells up like any other wood and you want to get water off of it right away. If you want to lay this stuff in a bathroom, you CAN but you need to take extra precautions, like making sure the tounge-and-groove joints on the planks have a sealant in them, or that you use silicon caulk around the edge of the bathroom to keep moisture out from under the floor.
As a side note, I'm still not sure I would put this stuff in a bathroom… a wet bathmat sitting on it, weeks after weeks I think will give you a problem. I'd encourage you to just tile your bathrooms. Same goes for laundry rooms and kitchens.
Surprisingly enough this stuff is so durable I don't have any qualms putting it in living rooms, hallways or play rooms even if you have big dogs. It holds up surprisingly well.
What do I need to know before buying it?
Anyway the trick to picking flooring is being able to make the following decisions:
- Style and Color, how the floor looks.
- Thickness, 8mm-12mm is the normal range, you can get thinner and thicker
- Warranty/Durability, what will this floor be used for?
- Budget, the cost of flooring can vary wildly
- Tile? You should at least consider if tiling is a better option for you
- Can you cut/compute/lay the wood yourself or are you hiring someone? This can effect the cost drastically as well.
I'll let you figure out #1, #3 and #4 above, but here are some tips for the rest:
- THICKNESS: Flooring can come in thickness anywhere from 6mm up to 14mm and thicker. The thinner the floor, the more you are going to feel the sub-floor (what the new floor is sitting on). So if you are putting flooring down on concrete, it's going to be a pretty hard floor to put a 6mm panel with a thin pad on concrete. Also some have said that with a thicker floor, the floor tends to feel more like a wood floor. We opted for a 12mm floor and loved it. It's comfortable and durable with a nice weight to it. Keep in mind that each box of 6 planks or so with this level of thickeness can weigh up to 35lbs or so and it also makes cutting the wood harder. The most popular thickness because of big-box stores selling this now, tends to be around 8mm.
- DURABILITY: If you are a single, quiet person that lives in an apartment by yourself, getting a cheap 8mm floor is going to suite you just fine. If you are part of a family of 10 with 8 dogs and a pony that lives in the house, you might consider some of the industrial flooring that can be 10, 12, 14 or 16mm thick but comes with thicker protective coatings and longer warranties on the material.
- COST: Typical cost for laminate wood flooring is $1.50-$2.00 / sqft. Some of the nicer laminate flooring can run as high as $5 or $6 / sqft, and if you decide to have someone from a big-box store lay it for you as part of the purchase, I've seen quotes as high as adding $2.50 / sqft. to the total cost… doubling your costs basically. If you can do this work yourself you'll save a bundle, but it's not a walk in the park.
- SHOULD YOU TILE: Since the cost of laminate is high enough, considering tiling an area might work better or be cheaper. I'd say "Yes" to tiling if the environment is a wet one, like a kitchen or bathroom. Also if durability is important because the floor is going to get beat on constantly (like a pet care facility) you might consider a different flooring that is easier to repair because repairing laminate is not that friendly of a process.
Is installing it hard?
Well it can be. If you have done wood-working before, are good at taking measurements, calculating lengths/widths and all that stuff you'll have no problem. If you have never used a saw before and envision yourself snapping these things into place like a checker-board and not having a single problem, you are in for a big surprise.
Putting this flooring in IS actually a lot of work, there are 4 things (possibly 3) to be concerned with:
- Taking out the existing flooring in the room
- Preparing the "sub floor" and making sure it's all level, clean and in good shape.
- OPTIONAL: Putting down the "pad" the floor will sit on.
- Measuring and cutting the planks then putting the floor in.
The reason #3 is OPTIONAL is because some flooring comes with the pad glued into the backs of the planks already and you don't need to worry about it. This does normally increase the cost AND you don't get to control how thick of a pad you have, which can make the floor a bit more comfortable especially if it's sitting on concrete.
How does maintenance work with this stuff
Assuming you live a normal life, you'll probably only ever vacuum and mop this floor with a damp towel (cannot use any cleaners) once a week or once a month. There really isn't else much to do. The flooring is durable enough to hold up to heavy traffic fairly well. After years ours still looks great and we have friends with 3 dogs that still have their flooring looking great as well.
The problem is when you chip one of the panels either by dropping something heavy or damaging it in any way, you either have to live with the fault or you have to saw the effected panel out which is a complete pain in the ass. The way this flooring works is that every panel, on every side, hooks to every other panel. So your floor is effectively "floating" in the room. The weight of the floor and items on it keep it from moving anywhere, but you cannot just pop a panel out of the middle of the room out because of this. You actually have to get a radial saw, set it on a shallow setting, and cut the bad panel out. You can do this by cutting down it's center, then across it a little bit and trying to chisel out the broken panel.
Then, the worst part, to get the "fixed" panel back in, you have to cut the edges off the outer edge of all the panel because you cannot lock it back into place, so what you need to do is place it down into the open spot and glue it there. As opposed to tile where you can simply chisel out the broken tile and re-grout it.
I will just come out and say that these floor are low-maintenance but are not fix-friendly. The hope is that you never have to repair it.
Where do I buy it?
Ok so you are ready to get started with laminate and want to know where to buy it right? I have one suggestion for you and I am not affiliated with this company in any way… we just had such a good buying experience with them that I have no qualms recommending them again. That company is FloorOne.com.
NOTE: FloorOne.com will send you samples of any flooring you want. I would highly encourage you to try out at least 2 to 4 samples before you narrow down your tasks to a specific style of flooring.
I would suggest going to Home Depot, Lowes or even Costco to get an idea of the style you like and how the wood feels, maybe even taking home some samples, but when you go to buy, I'd suggest getting a big break on price and shopping at FloorOne. We ended up buying 75 boxes (1200 sqft roughly) of Vectra 12mm flooring and the total was $2300 which included:
- Flooring
- Foam padding
- Moulding for the doorways where the floor transitions.
The same flooring from Lowes at the time was around $5k and with installation I'm sure would have been closer to $8k.
When you do get ready to buy a few things to remember are:
- Does your flooring have foam on the back of it? If so, then you don't need the foam padding like we did.
- Don't forget to get moulding or "T-strips" of the same-colored wood that goes between the flooring where it transitions in the door ways. You essentially lay two rooms of flooring up to each other in the doorway then leave a 1″ gap. You cover that gap with these strips of wood to hide the transition and it ends up looking nice.
- See the tips section below, but you may or may-not need the channel that these strips are suppose to click into.
- Be sure to order the installation kit if you don't already have one. The tapping block is a must, the pull-bar is handy at times, but can really chip up the edges of the floor if you aren't gentle.
- It can't hurt to spend the $10 and add the instructional video to your order as well if you haven't done this before.
After ordering everything from FloorOne.com it should get delivered shortly on a few palettes that are unloaded from the truck and placed in your driveway. You'll need to get some friends to help you move the boxes into the house, or just push them into the garage, but either way you are ready for business.
This section contains my tips on installing the flooring that were learned from experience. Hopefully they will save you some time.
- IMPORTANT: Use paper towels to dampen the impact of the tapping block or pull-bar on the edges of your flooring while you are tapping it into place. So many times I've gotten overzealous with my tapping and ended up chipping the shit out of the side of one of the planks… this may not sound like a big deal, but if it's in the middle of the floor OR a piece that was custom-cut and took a long time to do and a lot of measuring, you will want to kick yourself. For example, imaging chipping this piece, you gotta take that whole row out:
- IMPORTANT: You cannot just start laying planks in a room starting in the corner. You have to measure the room first and then calculate if you start laying the room with a full plank, what will the last row end up looking like? There are times when I won't measure, and I'll get to the other side of the room, to find out that my last row is actually only 1″ thick, which the flooring isn't suppose to be cut to because it's unstable that thin. It's a total pain the ass to take a floor back up or to fix an entire row and move the floor over just because you didn't measure ahead of time and ended up with a little strip of a row at the end.
- If your flooring is thicker than 10mm, you may not need the female channeling that you are suppose to secure to the ground, then push the T-strips down into. The reason for this is that the male part of the T-strip is not long enough to go into the female channel when it's sitting between thick pieces of flooring. A tip I got from someone at Home Depot, was to simply use an entire canister of Liquid Nails and fill the entire gap with glue, then push the T-strip down into the gap. I did exactly that and it worked like a charm.
- Measure once, then measure again. I don't know what the deal is working with this flooring, but I've lost count of how many times I've measured something, gone and cut it, then come back and laid the plank down and sat and looked on in amazement to see that my measurement was no where near being right. So to save yourself burning through flooring, be sure to measure.
- Take the baseboards off your walls when you put the flooring down. You have to leave a 1/4″ gap between the floor and the wall for it to expand, it looks ugly if you leave the baseboard and run the floor up to the base board then try and hide it later. Instead, take the baseboards off the wall, lay the floor, then cover the gap with the baseboards again… it looks a hell of a lot nicer.
- Don't skimp on the flooring. Do your research and try and find a high quality and high durability wood with a long warranty. This stuff isn't meant to be taken back out, so don't go throwing the $0.80 / sqft. stuff down then need to fight with chips and deformation after a year.
- OPTIONAL: We found this very handy, but after you narrow down the floor you want using samples or choosing in-store, you may want to buy a box of the exact flooring, then bring it home and take it out of the box and hook all the planks together on the floor and walk by your patch of flooring for a few days to really get an idea of how it will look in different lights and if you like it. We did that with a few at one time, and the one we ended up liking, oddly enough, was the only patch of flooring our cats would lay on… strange.
So in closing, laminate wood flooring can be a good choice for you and your home. There are a lot of things to consider but I've tried to outline them all above.
If you found this article helpful please pass it along to anyone else that you think would enjoy it. If you have suggestions for anyone please leave a comment letting us know your own tips on laying flooring or your own experience with laminate wood flooring.
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(Technology helps in capture of a fugitive)….30 year old Michael David Wilson had been indicted in July.
He was accused of receiving and distributing child pornography. Shortly after the indictment, the Delano resident fled the area. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Operation Predator featured Wilson on its smartphone app. A resident of Mexico alerted CBP Officers at the Calexico Port of Entry of Wilson's possible whereabouts. Mexican authorities were notified and the fugitive was taken into custody. He was transported across the border, and booked into Imperial County Jail to await his return to Kern County.


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Day 12: It Begins to take Shape…
Too tired to offer much this evening…but a few thoughts.
Germany cruised to victory (this afternoon) against an Ecuadorian team who rested a few key players and played as if they were fairly indifferent as to who they faced in the 2nd round (which they probably were). If their opponents (England as it turns out) judge them solely on this half-hearted showing, however, then they may be in for a nasty shock. They are capable (as they showed in their previous two matches) of playing some tidy, attractive, attacking football….and equally capable of some (super) heroic celebrations.
I first thought that the bould Kaviedes (pictured after his goal against Costa Rica) was paying tribute to one of his favourite Lucha Libre wrestlers (or some such) even though such a gesture would, of course, have been more appropriate coming from a Mexican player.1 As it happens, however, the celebration was in memory of a fallen comrade:
His masked-man stunt was a tribute to Otilino Tenorio, a teammate killed in a May 2005 car crash in Ecuador, just three days after he played for his country in an exhibition game at New Jersey's Giants Stadium.
"He is a partner, a friend, a brother who was with us and is a part of us," Kaviedes said. "He was with us a long, long time, and he transferred to us this joy that was very contagious."
Tenorio, whose nickname was "Spider-Man," used to pull the mask from his shorts during his goal celebrations.
"We had a feeling that he was present with us," Carlos Tenorio, who is not related, said through a translator.
It's gratifying that the normally finicky and punctilious FIFA overlords chose to view the act in the spirit in which it was intended rather than (as seemed likely) punishing Kaviedes for it.
While there were no masked figures to be found tonight in Cologne, England's closest thing to a superhero – Wayne "Metatarsal Man" Rooney – was back in the starting line-up. While he did (unsurprisingly) inject some much needed life and vitality into an English team that has (up to now) been disappointingly stagnant and one-dimensional, it was Joe Cole's dynamic performance that particularly caught the eye. England sill look far from the finished article (and a sad, serious injury to Michael Owen will hardly help their cause) but at least they finally showed intermittent flashes of imagination and creativity against the dogged – but mediocre – Swedes.
While I'd still fancy them to (just about) overcome Kaviedes and Ecuador, a potential ¼ final against Argentina may (as it did in 1986) spell the end of this particular World Cup road.
Germany 3 Ecuador 0
Costa Rica 1 Poland 2
England 2 Sweden 2
Trinidad & Tobago 0 Paraguay 2
- There may well be a well-developed Lucha Libre style wrestling scene in Ecuador that I'm unaware of. [back]
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Relationships are difficult. And they get only more complicated around the month of February, mais oui?
My February holds two trips: a week in New York City and the start of a three-week trip to Paris. I also have a big birthday that, due to travel plans, will be spent away from my husband. Yes… I never get any sympathy for anything said after the word "Paris."
While I don't blame you, I can offer that this Paris trip will be different: I'll be returning with souvenirs and I'll tell you more about them soon… but let's enjoy a Paris interlude, courtesy of choice photos from a Paris-New York friend?
So as if my schedule can take yet another blow, there's the sometimes adored, sometimes depressing, always feared Valentine's Day. After years working at a dating website and then in the floral design world, I would expect the magic of February 14th to be lost on me. But as long as I approach the "holiday" as a non-holiday, just another day of the year to say "I love you," it's all good. It's even better when there's food. And when the food is handmade by small business, well, then maybe we can really think of it as magical.
Be My (Big) Valentine Gift Box
Be My (Sweet) Valentine Gift Box
Be My (Hip) Valentine Gift Box
Last year, we sold out of our Valentine's Day gift boxes of handmade food. A little publication announced them to the world and they were snatched up in what felt like seconds. This year, I wanted to launch them a few weeks early, to give you time to pre-order a gift box (or ten) for all your lovers or loved ones.
We tried to thoughtfully craft two different boxes full of flavors I know I want to enjoy right now: warm caramels, all sorts of bright citrus flavors, a bit of nuttiness and a touch of spice. There's a little chocolate too – because just a little is perfect – especially in the form of chocolate pate de fruit. And when you put the items from both gift boxes together into a crafty larger one, well, that's a big box of love that a couple can enjoy for days and weeks.
These three boxes are packed with love, with a hand-written card, and available until they sell out. All orders will be shipped in time to arrive to their destination by Valentine's Day. Essentially, you place your order and then leave the rest to us!
Thank you, in advance, for your order. I promise we'll take good care of it! I also promise to share more about those Paris souvenirs soon… until then, a couple more pretty Paris shots…
All gift box photos taken by Heidi Murphy/White Loft Style and the Paris photos were taken by karigee.
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Lampu meja
Lampu meja membolehkan anda mengubah suai suasana sesebuah bilik dalam lebih daripada satu cara. Ia memberikan anda cahaya tambahan di tempat yang diperlukan sambil menambah sedikit personaliti. Lampu kami terdapat dalam pilihan gaya yang luas untuk menambah sedikit warna, tekstur dan cahaya tambahan ke kediaman anda.
Table lamps ¬to brighten up your life
Welcome to our table lamps, in lots of styles, sizes and materials. Winters are long and dark in Sweden, where we come from, so we love lamps and light. Maybe that's why we have such a big choice, from modern table lamps made completely of glass to more traditional ones with handmade paper shades. As well as adding general background light and evening out harsh contrasts, table lamps add a lot to the look of a room even when switched off. Many of our table lamps have built-in dimmer switches, so you can adjust the amount of light depending on the atmosphere you want to create.
Find what matches your table lamps, too
Many of our table lamps are part of a lighting series, so you can get other lamps – like floor lamps or ceiling lights – that coordinate exactly. Check out our VÄTE or KROBY series, for example. (Talking about coordination, we also have lots of furniture that your table lamp will match, too). Of course, you need a mix of different lighting to get the right light for all the different things you do throughout your home. So it could be useful to look at our other lights, too, like pendant lamps and wall lamps. When you buy table lamps or other lamps, check if bulbs are included. If not, we sell them as well.


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In this section you will find the final report 2009 providing a detailed analysis of the project, its rationale, activities and outcomes. Other research resources relevant to Beyond Current Horizons except the papers that directly informed the six future scenarios development (these are in the evidence section) can also be found here.
Final report 2009 – the summative report from the Beyond Current Horizons programme
Final report executive summary
Maintaining futures expertise report – informed by expert interviews with seven futures practitioners this report aims to give an introductory overview of futures work and offer some common ways of categorising it.
Futures review – a context for the early phases of Beyond Current Horizons
Make the future – A new video looking at ideas drawn in the main from research commissioned under the Beyond Current Horizons programme, considers futures for education in the light of social and technological change over the next two decades.
Podcast – Dan Sutch explores the question 'why think about the future?' The podcast examines some of the reasons and benefits to actively thinking about the future to inform the way we conceptualise and develop education.
Journal paper – The implications of BCH for educational technology research. K. Facer & R. Sandford.
Other findings – papers on some of the original long-list of Beyond Current Horizons research challenges
Blog archive – the project blog, capturing ideas and progress
Other related work – links to other relevant work
Learning Futures: Education, Technology and Social Change, Keri Facer (2011), London: Routledge – In Learning Futures, Keri (former Research Director of Futurelab and the BCH programme) draws on the work of the Beyond Current Horizons Programme to explores the implications of socio-technical change for questions of social justice, democracy and education.


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Sonoco Alloyd and Rethink Robotics focus on advanced packaging technologies
BOSTON, MA, Aug. 11, 2015 (Globe Newswire) -
Rethink Robotics and Sonoco Alloyd, a unit of global packaging leader Sonoco, have entered into a strategic alliance to deliver complete, innovative manufacturing solutions to Sonoco Alloyd's packaging customers.
AICC conducts its regular Sales Compensation Survey
Alexandria, Virginia - AICC, The Independent Packaging Association, has announced that in the next weeks it will be conducting the 2015 Sales Compensation Survey. This bi-annual survey is the most comprehensive survey of key sales compensation salaries and benefits being paid by the independent packaging sector in the United States and Canada.
Smurfit Kappa wins six awards at Accolade Wines' supplier awards
DUBLIN, Ireland, Aug. 18, 2015 (Press Release) -Smurfit Kappa, one of the world leaders in paper-based packaging solutions swept the board at the recent Accolade Wines recent 'Supplier' Awards, held at the MShed in Bristol, taking six of the twelve available awards.
Voith supplies complete containerboard PM 6 to Papierfabrik Schoellershammer in Düren, Germany
HEIDENHEIM, Germany, Aug. 6, 2015 (Press Release) -In April, Heinrich August Schoeller Söhne GmbH & Co. KG commissioned Voith with the supply of a complete process line for the manufacture of corrugating medium and testliner for its Schoellershammer paper mill, based in Düren, Germany.
Accurate Box installs Bobst laminator and die cutter
PATERSON, NJ, Aug. 7, 2015 (Press Release) -Accurate Box Company located in Paterson, New Jersey, recently installed its third BOBST laminator. The MasterFlute is the latest generation of Asitrade high performance web to sheet laminator that runs at higher speeds, increased accuracy, and minimized waste.
UK-based Benders drives plastic to paper cup conversion
WREXHAM, UK, Aug. 4, 2015 (Press Release) -Benders Paper Cups, a leading UK manufacturer of paper cup products, is currently leading the way for the vending industry's plastic to paper cup conversion.
Smurfit Kappa launches Paper Navigator as new brand positioning for its portfolio of paper for packaging
International Paper to present lightweight cartonboard Alaska Plus at 'Packaging Innovations 2015' in London, Sept. 16-17
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POSTED: 5:05 p.m. HST, Mar 12, 2014
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LONG BEACH, CALIF. >> Hawaii picked up its first Big West tournament victory since rejoining the conference in women's basketball in a 52-49 second-round defeat of Long Beach State on Wednesday night.
With UH clinging to a one-point lead, point guard Morgan Mason came up with a huge steal in the paint and got fouled with 6.9 seconds left. She made both free throws sandwiched around a LBSU timeout for a three-point lead. The 49ers called timeout again, but their desperation 3 to tie was off the mark.
Third-seeded UH advanced to face second-seeded Cal Poly in Friday's semifinals at the Honda Center in Anaheim.
The last Wahine conference tournament victory came in the 2009 WAC play-in game, 70-57 against San Jose State. The last time UH got to a league semifinal was in 2003, when UH lost to Louisiana Tech 85-58.
UH (17-12) equaled last seasons's win total despite being tasked with beating the 49ers on their home court at the Walter Pyramid. The Wahine were also without leading scorer and rebounder Kamilah Jackson for a seventh straight game.
"You know, I'm really proud of these young ladies to come and beat a team on their home court, their home crowd, in their home locker room. Sleeping in their beds," UH coach Laura Beeman said. "That was a tough, tough, insurmountable task. And we found a way to do it.
"We had some hurdles we had to jump and we jumped them tonight."
Junior wing Ashleigh Karaitiana came off the bench to score a game-high 18 points and grab eight rebounds. She sank four of five 3-point attempts. Shawna Kuehu added eight points.
UH shot just 32.1 percent overall but went 7-for-14 on 3-pointers. LBSU attempted 24 3s making only four (16.7 percent).
A seven-point UH halftime lead evaporated within the first six minutes of the second half as the 49ers used a 12-0 run to go up 33-30. UH opened the period shooting 1-for-11.
It was back and forth from there. The Wahine recaptured the lead temporarily at 34-33 with back-to-back breakaway hoops by Karaitiana and Kuehu.
Karaitiana hit her fourth 3 for a 48-47 lead with 2:15 left.
Kuehu sank two free throws for a 50-49 advantage with 1:41 remaining.
UH had a chance to extend its lead. Kuehu missed from 17 feet, UH got the rebound but Morgan Mason missed on a drive.
LBSU grabbed the rebound and called for time with 27.9 seconds left. That's where Mason got her key steal.
LBSU shot just 24.2 percent in the first half, including 1-for-17 (5.9 percent) on 3s. In contrast, the Wahine sunk four of seven from long range.
Karaitiana hit one from the top of the arc for the last quality shot of the period and the Wahine led 27-20 headed into halftime.


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I purchased this deck to replace the aging M475 that had done me well for years. Clarion marine head units are known to be some of the most durable out there. I was excited for the Bluetooth capability and updated technology. Upon receiving, installing and using the unit, I knew that I had made a mistake. The technology is great, yes, but the interface is pure junk and has to do with the ridiculously large front control knob. This is the only - ONLY - way to control the deck. It's very sensitive and awkwardly large which makes trying to complete a task as simple as turning the volume up and down while the boat is moving in any kind of chop completely impossible.
One little bump to any side and a random menu comes up and it's mess to get it back to the start just to change volume. Just to get to the bass/treble control you have to hold it down just right in the middle, then scroll through menus, hoping all the while that you don't bump it to one side and lose your place and repeat process. In the two weeks that I've owned it, I've turned countless time to the female co-captain and said, "I HATE THIS DECK". I've decided that I'm returning it, and going with the M309. Oh, did I mention that the unit isn't even SEALED in back like the M309? The circuit board is wide open for water/moisture intrusion. Garbage. Sorry, Clarion. Nice try, but epic fail.
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Building a Cohesive Team in Your Program
This six week course will explore ideas about the importance of intentionally creating environments that reflect great team spirit. Environments where communication, dedication, trust, affirmation, management of mistakes, recognition and many other attributes are present at all times.
*This course includes posting responses to weekly discussion boards, participating in weekly online chat sessions, completing e-mail reflections, and a final written assignment which includes an action plan and two page summary.


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After participating in last weekend's family friendly BPL outing to Hoover Wilderness, Michelle and I decided to take the initiative and organize another family friendly BPL outing.We were looking for something that would
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If you are new to BPL and don't have a membership that allows you to post on here, you can just PM me. Just click on my name on the left and send me a personal message.Best Regards,Manfred
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Please tentatively sign up me, my wife Becky, and our two kids, Olivia and Al. Will need to double check the work schedule as the time gets closer.Thanks,James
if the Ohlone is anything like mt diablo (which it is..), it will have some ticks. this is not a huge deal, but one might be advised to be aware of them.the trails are very open (being dirt roads the most part) and nice.cheers,v.
Ohlone is a little like Mount Diablo in its climate (and therefore its flora and fauna) but the similarity stops there.Ohlone is SO much more removed and remote. I see bald eagles every day, looking over my bowl of Cheerios in Kenai Alaska, but in the Bay Area, it is dang cool to see a bald eagle fly by. Waterfalls. Being miles from anyone. Hours, potentially days between seeing anyone else. It really is an amazing resource so close to such urbanized areas.I was working in a backpacking store in the early 1980's, talking to many of the people who were instrumental in establishing the trail and I know a lot of people who took some of the very first (legal) trips through there. (I also knew people who did commando trips in that area before all the deals were hammered out with the Water District).I've done it myself, much more recently and referred uber-outdoorsy Californians, Slovakian Forest Rangers, and others to it and no one has been disappointed.
I talked this week two times with the East Bay Regional Park District. There seems to be a problem with the water supply at Eagle Springs Camp. At this point it is unclear whether the spring is dry or the valve is blocked. I went ahead and booked camps for Skyline-to-the-Sea for the same dates. The itinerary would look as followsFriday: Castle Rock Trail Camp (2.3 miles from parking) Saturday: Waterman Gap Trail Camp (7.6 miles from Castle Rock Trail CampSunday: Jay Camp (8.4 miles from Waterman Gap Trail Camp) Monday: Hike to Waddell Beach (either 8.9 miles via Mt. Mc Abee or 12.3 miles via Golden Cascade, Silver Fall and Berry Fall)People can hike all the way from the Skyline (Castle Rock) to the Sea (Waddell Beach) or decide to join us Saturday evening at Waterman Gap or even Sunday evening at Big Basin (Jay). I was only able to reserve 12 spots for Skyline-to-the-Sea. As we are right now at 11 people that should be no problem. Can everyone please let me know your thoughts before I cancel the camps for Ohlone.Thanks,Manfred
Today I talked again with the East Bay Regional Park District and canceled our reservation for the Ohlone Wilderness Trail due to lack of water. However we have backup plans and we will now hike the Skyline-to-the-Sea trail instead. Please PM me if you would like to reserve a spot.Best Regards,Manfred
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September brings the month-long Eat Local Challenge, hosted by the Eat Local Challenge website and Locavores. The emphasis this year--the third year of the challenge--will be on preserving September produce for the winter, when eating locally can be an exercise in monotony.
Why eat locally? One reason is that food grown locally did not travel far to get to your plate, thus conserving energy and emitting fewer greenhouse gasses in transport than something grown across the continent or half a world away. Another is that buying locally-produced food supports your region's smaller farms. Helping these farmers stay in business contributes to building local food security and keeping lands open instead of built up.
Here are a few changes Eat Local encourages people to make during September, along with some additional links, ideas, and information.
While I support the idea of eating locally grown and seasonal food, eating locally to avoid "food miles" only helps the environment if your local food can be grown energy-efficient. The concept of "Food miles" is not reliable to judge the eco-friendlyness of our food.
A Lincoln University, New Zealand study shows that food grown in New Zealand is more energy efficient than food produced in the UK, even when factoring in transport. See http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/story21175.html for more information.
For some of you living between Latitudes 30 to 45 (North or South), check out the work of Eliot Coleman and the "Four-Season Harvest." In essence, this involves growing cold-hardy crops under row covers inside unheated greenhouses. You can harvest fresh vegetables through the winter, without canning or freezing.
We do this. We've had fresh greens and other goodies from our unheated greenhouse all winter. Other things we grow are stored in a root cellar. No electricity required. I can't claim that this food is a large part of our calories, but it is a large part of our nutrition, since it's fresh and nutrient-laden.
By the way: that New Zealand study was about lamb, not food in general. It makes a good point about one foodstuff, less of a point about an entire diet. It does prove that if live in Britain, and you ate a diet of exclusively lamb, you'd use less energy importing the lamb from New Zealand than eating all British lamb. If that's your diet, more power to you - this study will be very useful. Otherwise, it's little more than one more data point.
I need to apologize. The New Zealand study looked at lamb, dairy, apples and onions. This study seems to follow up one done earlier about just lamb. My main point is that a diet is more than any one foodstuff, so an analysis of local versus imported has to account for an entire diet, not just a few food items.
We all have a "diet footprint." Calculating it is hard. It's tempting to latch onto "local" or "comparative advantage" or another narrow viewpoint, but that won't capture what's really going on with our diets.


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Chiefs Favored By A Touchdown Over Texans
The Kansas City Chiefs will play host to the Houston Texans on Sunday afternoon at Arrowhead Stadium in what is turning out to be a familiar position: favorites.
For the sixth time in seven weeks, the Chiefs are favored by oddsmakers, but somehow not by as much as they were against the Oakland Raiders.
Sure, the Texans have much more talent than the Chiefs AFC West rivals, but they are also starting a second-year quarterback that has never seen action in a regular season NFL game. So the seven points being given to Houston right now seems like a low number.
Once the news of Case Keenum's start broke, I thought the line might jump up closer to double digits. Beyond the 8.5 points the Chiefs were favored over the Oakland Raiders last weekend. But so far it's holding strong at a touchdown and isn't looking like it'll move before kickoff.
The only reason the Chiefs don't have go give more points is because of the top flight defense Houston will be bringing to Kansas City to face what's been a mostly pedestrian offense. But they'll also bring a four-game losing streak and the second-worst turnover differential (-12) in the league.
If the line doesn't move, and at this point it doesn't look like it will, Kansas City seems like as good a bet as any this weekend.
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