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Before you buy a new hot tub, you need a place to put it. Most portable and above-ground tubs can be installed indoors or outdoors, but they take up a lot of space. On the plus side, keeping a hot tub indoors or in a sheltered location outside, such as a covered patio, means that you can use it in any kind of weather, and you won't have to worry about damage from wind or sun. Whether your installation site is indoors or outdoors, it must meet a few basic requirements:
Once your hot tub is installed, it requires regular care to keep it clean and running smoothly. Spas should be covered when not in use for safety reasons and to conserve heat and reduce evaporation. A skimmer is handy for scooping out stray debris, and you should brush the sides and bottom of the tub weekly to clear away dirt and prevent algae growth. About once every three months, drain the water from the hot tub and clean its entire surface.
A 600-gallon hot tub with just five people in it will accumulate body oils from dirt at the same rate as a standard swimming pool with 250 people in it. The filter is the first line of defense in keeping the water clean and most will last one to two years, but they must be cleaned on a regular schedule. The instructions included with your hot tub should explain how to do this.
The filter can't do the job on its own, however; just as with a swimming pool, you'll also need to use a chemical treatment to kill bacteria and keep the water at the proper pH level (between 7.4 and 7.6). If the pH is too high or too low, it can irritate your skin and eyes or damage the tub's plumbing. You must also monitor the level of calcium in the water, which can leave scaly deposits on the equipment. Experts recommend testing your spa water at least once a week. The simplest method is to use a test strip that will show results within seconds.
Chlorine is still the most popular chemical treatment for hot tubs, but some sanitizing systems use other chemicals such as bromine or natural minerals and enzymes. One newer form of water treatment is a saltwater system, which uses salt and a diamond electrode to create a chemical reaction in the water that helps cleanse it. Many newer hot tubs include an ozone generator or "ozonator" that produces ozone in the water. This won't eliminate the need for chemical treatment, but it can greatly reduce the amount of chemicals required. However, as discussed in our report on Air Purifiers, ozone is a dangerous gas and its use is controversial -- and probably to be avoided if your hot tub is in an enclosed space.
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I'm agnostic but always thought the muslim version of Jesus probably made more sense (assuming Jesus did exist)... it made me roflmfao the first time I watched: "The Muslim Jesus" to see the similarities and differences between the two http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...03235708840999
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As $93.1 million of taxpayer-funded construction continues at Chesapeake Energy Arena, Oklahoma City faces the prospect of a season without the headline tenant residents counted on when they approved taxing themselves to pay for it.
The NBA and the NBA players' union entered a critical stage of negotiations last week as a work stoppage enters its fourth month and closes in on the start of the regular season Nov. 1. NBA Commissioner David Stern told reporters recently that regular season games could be canceled if the league and union can't strike a deal by Monday, though media reports indicate insiders think only a few weeks of games are truly at stake for now.
But even one missed game could be costly. Oklahoma City's Executive Manager for Special Projects Tom Anderson said officials estimate each Thunder home game pumps about $1.28 million into the city's economy, and that doesn't count ticket sales or wages for team and arena workers.
The city had a boost in direct spending of about $66.6 million last season for the 52 total home games, including pre
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Each missed game likely would mean a little bit less tax revenue for Oklahoma City, said Doug Dowler, the city's associate budget director. But because the city is already ahead of projected sales tax revenue growth of 4 percent for this fiscal year, losing Thunder home games would likely only make a small dent in Oklahoma City's robust numbers.
And it's important to note the arena still can bring in revenue for the city's economy even without a Thunder season, Anderson said. Officials will be able to fill some of the dates that would be left open with concerts and other events, and the renovations might help the city lure events that skipped the area in the past.
City officials have had preliminary discussions on what budget maneuvering would be required if the NBA season is canceled but haven't yet studied it in depth, Dowler said. The largest impact would likely be an increased subsidy for the arena, but by how much isn't yet known, and it would not likely cause many problems within the city's $920 million budget for fiscal year 2012.
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The biggest hit to the Oklahoma City economy likely would be to midweek revenue in Bricktown, said Jeannette Breckenridge, executive director of the Bricktown Association. Bricktown already is busy on the weekends, but weeknights when games are scheduled surely would have fewer diners and drinkers if the season is lost.
"I haven't really heard anyone talk about loss of revenue yet," Breckenridge said. "Certainly we love our Thunder, and the activity and the traffic it generates. But we're going to grin and bear it and wait and see what happens."
Roy Williams, president of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber, noted that most spending by local residents on the Thunder is discretionary, so people would likely find other ways to entertain themselves and much of the money would remain in the area.
Businesses that thrive on the Thunder's presence could have a tough year, but would still be standing tall, Williams said.
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The Thunder declined to comment for this story through spokesman Dan Mahoney, who referred questions to the NBA. League spokesman Tim Frank also declined to comment.
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Ward 3 Oklahoma City Councilman Larry McAtee initially had a few reservations about the city paying for some of the things the Thunder wanted, particularly the $16.1 million practice center nearing completion in north Oklahoma City. But he eventually was convinced it was a great deal for the city, and he said he still is.
McAtee said he's sure the city and its businesses will be able to muddle through if the season is canceled. What he hopes is that fan passion doesn't subside, because he thinks it has made a big difference around town.
McAtee told a story about approaching a checkout counter during the Thunder's run to the Western Conference Finals last season. The clerk, in her 60s or 70s, noticed the Thunder shirt McAtee was wearing.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. – All the runs came early as the Long Beach State Dirtbags came from behind with an 8-5 win over No. 17 UCLA on Sunday in front of 2,582 fans. The Dirtbags (15-15) captured the series win over UCLA (18-12) behind another three-RBI day from Richard Prigatano and a shutout effort from the bullpen.
Nick Rossetta and Logan Lombana combined for the shutout effort in relief. The Dirtbags were forced to go to the bullpen early after Ryan Strufing was touched up for five runs on four hits in the second inning. Rossetta came in to finish up the second and needed just one pitch to get out of the bases loaded jam.
From then on, Rossetta and Lombana took control on the mound. Rossetta went four more innings without issuing a walk. He allowed just two hits through his four innings and never allowed a runner to reach third after retiring the first four batters he faced.
Lombana took over in the seventh and retired nine in a row after a small hiccup to start off his relief effort. He hit the first batter he faced and walked the next to put two on with no outs. A couple of strikeouts and a ground out ended the threat with no damage and Lombana went 1-2-3 in the eighth and ninth to earn the save. Rossetta came away with his first win.
The Dirtbags took a 2-0 lead in the first when Ino Patron doubled in Garrett Hampson and Prigatano singled in Patron. UCLA responded by sending 10 batters to the plate in the second to take the 5-2 lead. A sacrifice fly plated Ty Moore, who doubled to start the inning. With two on and one out, Trent Chatterton laid down the squeeze bunt to score the next run and Pat Galagher's single handed the Bruins the lead.
A walk and hit by pitch scored one more UCLA in the second before another bases loaded walk brought in the fifth run of the inning and ended Strufing's day.
UCLA wouldn't get many scoring opportunities the rest of the day while Long Beach State continued to light up the scoreboard, scoring in each of the first four innings. Three singles in a row from the bottom of the order plated the Dirtbags' first run in the third with Colton Vaughn knocking in Eric Hutting. A bunt single from Bekakis loaded the bases and chased UCLA starter Cody Poteet from the game as UCLA was forced to take an early dip into its bullpen.
Scott Burke was the first of four relievers in the game and retired the first two Dirtbags he faced. However, Richard Prigatano dropped a single into right field to score two more runs and tie the game at 5-5. Michael Hill's chopper back to the mound was misplayed, allowing a run to score instead of ending the inning, to give the Dirtbags the 6-5 lead.
Hutting's triple to start the third was cashed in by Vaughn for his second RBI and Alex Bishop brought home Prigatano with a ground out in the fourth to completes the scoring. The Dirtbags weren't able to get much more going off the UCLA bullpen but held on to the 8-5 lead to capture the series.
Sunday's crowd of 2,582 fans at Blair Field is the 20th largest attendance for Long Beach State at Blair Field. Fans packed the stands for Stramski Day at the park with half of the proceeds going to the Stramski Center of Miller Children's Hospital.
Long Beach State is back home on Tuesday for a 6 p.m. contest with LMU.
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The Unforgettable Actun Tunichil Cave
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We had breakfast of eggs, oatmeal, toast, beans, granola and juice. Wonderful. I was also looking forward to a cup of coffee (like any good American). Cup full to the rip, I took a deep sip and I commented, "This is fantastic coffee!" Ben laughed, "It's just Folgers." Aaron thought that was pretty funny as well. So maybe Folgers tastes better in Belize... Now that I think of it, this could have been one of Ben's little jokes.
From Pook's, the three of us hiked through the foothills of the Maya Mountains, into the jungle. I carried a backpack full of our lunch and dry pack, Ben carried our spelunking gear, and Aaron carried our camera equipment. We spotted a number of birds including a couple toucans and a tiger crane -- we also spotted a fat toad and a number of millipedes along the path. It was a beautiful morning -- mist was rising off the hillsides. Ben pointed out that the mist helped to indicate where there are caves. The caves are scattered throughout the region; their numbers are quite impressive. It was an easy hour and 45-minute hike to the mouth of Actun Tunichil Cave. I was totally excited!!!!
To enter the cave you must swim across a pool roughly 30 feet wide. It was chilly, but growing up swimming in Lake Superior I had no problem with the water temperature. Aaron, on the other hand, was not as forthcoming. But he put on the brave face and jumped in. Dress as you like for this tour, but just note that you will be wet for essentially 6 hours. I wore a cotton t-shirt and a pair of swim trunks. For the most part I stayed warm, but did get a little chilly near the end of the tour. To do it again, I may opt for a quick-dry synthetic top. An excellent pair of water shoes is also a must for this trip. At times we were climbing over rock, other times we were wading in thigh-high water or clutching to the sides of rock as the water reached 8+ feet deep. As we made our way through the cave, we were spoiled with fantastic cave formations: hanging stalactites and towering stalagmites that literally sparkled in the light from our helmets. Ben showed us exactly were to step, where to lay our hands, to prevent further disruption of the cave formations. As delicate as they are beautiful, it is important to respect your surroundings. Guides require a special license to lead tours in Actun Tunichil. Ben has been leading tours in the cave for years, and his experience shows. Man-made figures also decorated the cave; ancient carvings of a jaguar and a woman with child came to life as Ben shined his spotlight over the rock formations, casting a dramatic shadow within the cave. Aaron and I would have never noticed them without Ben's thoughtful eye.
It took us about two hours to reach "The Cathedral," the central area of Actun Tunichil. The Mayan believed that caves were the entrance to the underworld, and as such, sacred. Entering "The Cathedral," I could completely understand this; there is definitely a spirit, an essence, to the cave. You have to climb up to the entrance. We left our shoes at the entrance of "The Cathedral" stocking feet are required to explore this area to keep you literally on your toes and prevent -- as much as possible -- disturbance to the area. Unfortunately, not everyone has been so careful. Broken artifacts attest this fact. Again, Ben did an excellent job guiding us through the area; we shadowed his footsteps as close as possible.
We were carefully guided to the skeleton remains of a seven-year-old boy, as well as a number of infant skeletons. We passed clusters of ancient clay pots. Aaron, a ceramist himself, was particularly fascinated with these Mayan artifacts. I was speechless; Ben did well answer my questions before they even reached my lips. On our hand and knees we crawled into secluded regions where enormous clay pots lay hidden for centuries. Ben told us that 13 skeletal remains have been found so far in Actun Tunichil. We saw five of these, including the "Crystal Maiden" who once graced the cover of National Geographic. Her remains are of particular interest because they have been remarkably well preserved. And unlike the other skeletons within the cave whose remains are in pool-like forms ("pool-like" is a very accurate description, because it was actual pools of water that filled the cave and drained away, leaving the bodies in small-circular gatherings) the Maiden is still lying in the position of her death. Her body easily distinguishable -- arms, legs, fingers -- that remind her visitors of their own mortality. This tour is very raw, very authentic. There is nothing "Disney" about it. We were completely alone in the cave, I felt almost as if we were the very first people to stumble on these remains. All except a roped-off region protecting the Crystal Maiden there is little evidence of modern-day visitors.
Before leaving The Cathedral we checked our shoes for spider-scorpions. Ugly little cave dwellers, Ben pointed one out just to my right, who got a little to close for comfort.
It is hard to give an accurate description of Actun Tunichil without becoming overly romantic. We spent nearly two hours exploring The Cathedral, and almost six hours within the cave itself. I could have easily spent another six. This tour is very dramatic and mysterious, and very exciting. Ben is of Mayan descent and I could feel his sense of respect for the cave and his ancestors. I was privileged by the experience.
Before hiking back to Pook's the three of us enjoyed a picnic lunch. Back at the lodge, Aaron and I poked around the tiny library and enjoyed our surroundings until dinner. A completely excellent day.


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A number of Northeast's top eateries will pitch tents at the Northeast Farmers Market on Saturday, Oct. 5. for the third annual Taste of Northeast. Market-goers will be able to sample some of Northeast's tastiest bites for around $3 to $6 a plate.
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This is one of those books that you can't read fast enough, and at the same time you wish would last for months. Mitchell makes 1799 Japan come alive with his soulful writing, the characters are fully formed and believable. Shifting POV usually annoys me to no end, but in this case it makes the plot unpredictable and exciting, it is a puzzle to be solved. I was trying to explain the plot to a friend… usually there is the protagonist and you can draw a straight line of how the story follows him/her over a period of time. I would draw this plot as a series of overlapping triangles. I know - that probably makes no sense. If you like historical fiction, just read it.
Very well written. If I were an author and maybe an English teacher, or a house wife. I would probably enjoy this book a lot more. However, I did not find the story interesting. I didn't really like the title character either. This was my first David Mitchell novel. I am still planning on reading Cloud Atlas. Hopefully that book will combine his superb writing with an intriguing plot.
Waaay overwritten.
Follows Jacob de Zoet, honest young red-haired Dutch trader/clerk, to Dejima, the football-field-sized island in Nagasaki harbor which served as the Dutch trading outpost to the shogunate. He befriends Ogawa Uzaemon, an interpreter, and falls in love with Orito Aibagawa, a midwife learning European techniques with other students under the tutelage of Dr. Marinus (who reappears in The Bone Clocks). After her scholar father dies, Miss Aibagawa is sold to Lord Abbot Enomoto, who sends her to his Shiranui Shrine, to look after the sisters of the shrine -- their periodic "engiftment" requires her services as a midwife. The creeds of this shrine, written on a scroll, are smuggled out by a disillusioned monk, and the scroll's transfer, from Jiritsu to Otane to Ogawa to de Zoet to chief magistrate Shiroyama, drives most of the plot forward, the main exception being the intrusion of the British ship Phoebus, with Captain Penhaligon (ancestor of Jonny Penhaligon of The Bone Clocks) at the helm. Mitchell's cast of characters spans the globe, from the United States (Captain Lacy) to Surinam (Fischer) to Capetown (van Cleef) to New South Wales (Twomey, Major Cutlip). If only Akira Kurosawa were around to direct the film version!
Didn't feel this was as good as Cloud Atlas, and even though the story was just getting on I gave up and moved on.
There are no easy answers or facile connections in "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet." In fact, it's not an easy book, period. Its pacing can be challenging, and its idiosyncrasies are many. But it offers innumerable rewards for the patient reader and confirms Mitchell as one of the more fascinating and fearlesswriters alive.
Another Booker Prize nomination is likely to greet this ambitious and fascinating fifth novel—a full-dress historical, and then some—from the prodigally gifted British author
For his many and enthusiastic admirers — critics, prize juries, readers — the fecundity of Mitchell's imagination marks him as one of the most exciting literary writers of our age. Indeed, in 2007, he was the lone novelist on Time' s annual list of the world's 100 most influential people. Through five novels, most impressively with his 2004 novel, Cloud Atlas, Mitchell has demonstrated flat-out ambition with respect to testing — sometimes past their breaking points — the conventions of storytelling structure, perspective, voice, language and range. The result, according to Mitchell's rare detractors, is an oeuvre marked by imaginative wizardry and stylistic showmanship put on offer for their own sake. For most everyone else, however, Mitchell's writing is notable because its wizardry and showmanship are in the service of compulsively readable stories and, at its best moments, are his means of revealing, in strange places and stranger still ways, nothing less than the universals of human experience.
Though direct in its storytelling, Jacob de Zoet marks a return to full amplitude. That means occasionally over-long scenes and one or two rambling monologues. But it also guarantees fiction of exceptional intelligence, richness and vitality.
With "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet," David Mitchell has traded in the experimental, puzzlelike pyrotechnics of "Ghostwritten" and "Number9Dream" for a fairly straight-ahead story line and a historical setting.
He's meticulously reconstructed the lost world of Edo-era Japan, and in doing so he's created his most conventional but most emotionally engaging novel yet: it's as if an acrobatic but show-offy performance artist, adept at mimicry, ventriloquism and cerebral literary gymnastics, had decided to do an old-fashioned play and, in the process, proved his chops as an actor.
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Urban Gardner: Ralph Gardner Jr. Interviews Baker Duff Goldman About His Cake-In-A-Jar
It would be a significant exaggeration to say I awoke Monday night in a cold sweat over my interview with baker Duff Goldman the next afternoon. When I wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night, it's usually over money, death or the two in tandem.
But it did occur to me that there was no conceivable way that the product about which the star of the Food Network's "Ace of Cakes" and I were to confer, Cake-In-A-Jar, was half as silly as it sounds. Who would buy devil's food, or even your standard layer cake, if it arrived in a container typically associated with mustard, pickles or grape jelly?
When it comes to cake, form follows function. Or maybe the other way around. A cake that comes with a lid and that you have to eat with a spoon would make no more sense than a rectangular sun rising in the morning. Cake is all about symmetry. It's made to be cut into slices, each slice revealing its delicious DNA in the form of alternating layers of cake, buttercream and, perhaps, if you're going for Old World charm, apricot jam.
Also, I'm a big fan of decorated cakes. How are you supposed to stuff buttercream flowers into a jar, certainly without them getting all smushed?
No, my bout with insomnia Monday night involved the realization that Mr. Goldman's product must actually be rather practical cake mix in a jar. In fact, the name of Mr. Goldman's well-known Los Angeles bakery is Cakemix.
But as soon as we took our seats at a conference table in the Food Network's Chelsea Market test kitchens, Mr. Goldman, a gentleman who looks like he enjoys gateau in all formats (and happily confesses to as much), told me I had it right the first time: Cake-In-A-Jar is cake in a jar. Complete with icing and sprinkles.
He pushed a Mason jar filled with all the components in front of me. I can't say it looked appetizing, but it did look exactly like you'd expect cake in a jar to look.
"What we do is really aspirational," Mr. Goldman explained of the cakes produced at his bakery as he showed me a photo on his cellphone of a life-size R2-D2 cake that he made for George Lucas. "It's made of exactly the same stuff as in the jar. People want to taste that R2-D2. We're giving them that R2-D2."
I couldn't help but think he was missing the point. Life on Earth is a mixture of carbon and a few other basic ingredients. It's the infinite ways in which the molecules configure themselves—layer cakes among them—that gives existence its je ne sais quoi.
As far as I'm concerned, there's nothing aspirational about Cake-In-A-Jar. Unless, I suppose, you've gotten lost on the Appalachian Trail and run out of food. It might also have potential at picnics.
I had a few questions about Mr. Goldman's childhood. My interest wasn't in trying to psychoanalyze him to determine from what universe he sprung that he thought Cake-In-A-Jar a good idea. It's just that I associate my own childhood with happy memories of traditional birthday cakes exploding with frosting and flowers.
"I was a graffiti artist up in Boston," Mr. Goldman explained. "I got arrested a lot. A weird thing happened when my mom and my parole officer and my art teacher all got together."
It was determined that Mr. Goldman had talent, a talent that he eventually turned to cake decorating.
But might there have been a "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" moment that didn't involve law breaking? Perhaps a toddler birthday cake that came with mocha frosting and "X-Men" characters?
"My seventh birthday cake," he remembered. "It was a snowy owl. It was the first cake I saw that wasn't a square or a circle."
He continued: "At my bar mitzvah I had a Torah cake." Now I knew he was grasping at straws. Everyone has a cake in the shape of the Torah at his or her bar or bat mitzvah.
However, we bonded over cupcakes and over the perfect ratio of cake to frosting. It was here that Mr. Goldman displayed his talent for thinking outside the box, or inside the jar: "If you take the bread and break it in half, and stack it on top of the frosting, that should make a good, delicious sandwich," he explained. "That's how I eat cupcakes."
Cake-In-A-Jar was actually an inventive solution to a nagging problem: what to do with all the cake scraps Mr. Goldman's bakery had left over after making cakes for the likes of George Lucas. "We took it to the homeless shelters," he explained. "If you bring them a cake, they want a cake."
As I was saying.
So, rather than compost the high-quality debris, the baker decided to drop it in a jar, add buttercream and sprinkles, slap on a $14 price tag for two 8-ounce jars, not including shipping, and sell it online. The offerings currently come in four flavors.
So how does Cake-In-A-Jar taste? Quite delicious, actually.
Nonetheless, I think I'll stick to cake the old-fashioned way. Probably for the same reason I don't eat ice cream out of the container. Unless you're on the lam or binging, nutrition is maybe 50% ritual.


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It was the nation's deadliest single twister in nearly 60 years and the second major tornado disaster in less than a month.
Authorities feared the toll could rise as the full scope of the destruction comes into view: house after house reduced to slabs, cars crushed like soda cans, shaken residents roaming streets in search of missing family members. And the danger was by no means over. Fires from gas leaks burned across town, and more violent weather loomed, including the threat of hail, high winds and even more tornadoes.
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"I've never seen such devastation — just block upon block upon block of homes just completely gone," said former state legislator Gary Burton who showed up to help at a volunteer center at Missouri Southern State University.
Unlike the multiple storms that killed more than 300 people last month across the South, Joplin was smashed by just one exceptionally powerful tornado.
Not since a June 1953 tornado in Flint, Mich., had a single twister been so deadly. That storm also killed 116, according to the National Weather Service.
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Hayes said the storm had winds of 190 to 198 mph. At times, it was three-quarters of a mile wide.
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"I spent most of my life at that hospital," Roscoe said at a triage center at Joplin's Memorial Hall entertainment venue. "It's awful. I had two pregnant nurses who dove under gurneys … It's a testimony to the human spirit."
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Major employers in and around the city include electronics manufacturer LaBarge Inc., colleges such as Missouri Southern State University and hospitals and clinics. Agriculture is also important to the economy.
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Shielded by mattresses, former lawmaker Chuck Surface rode out the storm in his basement with his wife, daughter, granddaughter and dog. After about five minutes, the deafening roar abruptly stopped.
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