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Nice! Looks like you've found some pretty places to ride it too. Tell us about some of the rides you have done on the Wahoo. Be sure to exaggerate the pain and terror aspects because it is so much fun to scare the non MTB riding guys.
The more you ride your bike, the less your ass will hurt.
And an even bigger picture - nice bike! My wife and I were hiking on a really great mtn bike trail yesterday - just wish I had the mtn bike, although some of the climbs were too steep for me.
Looks like your having a great time on that sweet hardtail!! I've not gotten onto singletrack with my new Jamis Trail-X 3.0 as of yet, did a nice long "dirt" double track ride a few days ago on the Santa Fe Trail, thru the Air Force Academy into Palmer Lake, CO. Been trying to help the wife get some "miles" on her new Trail-X 1.0 before we start working on riding some of the local Colorado Springs singletrack trails, (Bear Creek Regional Park and Palmer Park trail systems). Enjoy
Take care, RIDE SAFE, have FUN!
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Nice, looks a lot like the country I ride in in CT. The Wahoo seems to be a pretty good choice for a hardtail.
Most definitely the wrong colour- but that can be modified with a bit of mud.
Good starter bike- but watch out for those roots and trees. Just a few too many of them for my liking. Especially the ones that will suddenly jump out in front of you. But 6 months of riding it and you will already have noticed them.
How long was I in the army? Five foot seven.
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BluesDawg---(Tell us about some of the rides you have done on the Wahoo. Be sure to exaggerate the pain and terror aspects because it is so much fun to scare the non MTB riding guys.)
Whan I first got it I also got a Cannondale Six Carbon 5 and clipless pedals for both. I ride the Six much more and am totally use to clipless on that. I was riding the Wahoo on a Rails to Trail path freshly paved early on and decided to try a wheelie, big mistake clipped in and not familer with the bike. Over I went and still clipped in and upside down I was thinking this is going to hurt! It did too. Tailbone hurt for a week and then some, elbow was a bloody mess.
DnvrFox, thanks for the resize. I am sure it is simple but how do I resize for future posts? I use Photobucket for pictures. It it something there I do?
BD has plenty of tales he can relate- not all of them will put you off Mountain biking.
Our trails are open but steep and with poor surface- Mind you- we can get down into the forest- especially if we want a breakfast.
But Mud is one of the things we have to put up with over here. Quite a soft landing if you choose the spot but blood is rare nowadays- I lost most of it years ago.
How long was I in the army? Five foot seven.
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I then placed my cursor on the large picture and right clicked, and then clicked on properties.
I copied properties and pasted it in the new post, with [img] at the beginning and [/img] on the end.
(Use "reply with quote" to my post with the big picture to see how this looks)
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HA HA HA YES/oN A BIKE NAMED WAHOO AT LEAST TWICE THE BLOOD AND THREE TIMES THE BEER./kENNETH
If you are using Photobucket, you can put the img link (look below the photo) directly into the text of the message instead of using the forum's clumsy attachment process. You can even use clickable thumbnails if you explore Photobucket a little to find its features.
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The powerful propeller on a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter doing a Memorial Day demonstration has blown tree branches into people on the ground in a New York City park.
Firefighters say ten people suffered minor injuries. The Osprey is from the New River Air Station in Jacksonville.
The Osprey helicopter was landing at Staten Island's Clove Lakes Park around 8 a.m. Monday as part of Fleet Week. It's an annual event honoring the U.S. military.
Marine Corps spokesman Lt. Josh Diddams says the wind generated by the aircraft's propeller broke some branches off a nearby tree. The branches were swept into some people on the ground.
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The secretary of state says the dispute over the election of Gov. Christine Gregoire should be settled in the courts, not the Legislature.
OLYMPIA — Secretary of State Sam Reed filed court papers this week siding with Republicans on key legal issues in the lawsuit over the governor's election, saying, for example, that the dispute should stay in the courts and not move to the Legislature as Democrats want.
Reed said that in court, the Republicans' effort to have Gov. Christine Gregoire removed from office and to force a new election can be decided in "a prompt, orderly, and non-partisan manner."
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Reed is a Republican and the state's chief election official. In the nearly three months of legal wrangling over the Nov. 2 election, he has sided at various times with Democrats or Republicans. His apparent nonpartisan approach has angered some Republicans who thought he should aggressively fight for Dino Rossi.
The next hearing in the case will be in Wenatchee on Feb. 4. Republicans named Reed, all 39 counties and their auditors in the suit. Several of those counties have asked that the case be dismissed, saying Republicans have made no substantive allegations of wrongdoing.
In six filings made Wednesday in Chelan County Superior Court, Reed sided firmly with the Republicans.
"I'm sure there is a lot of scrutiny to the extent we are lining up with one party or the other party," said state Election Director Nick Handy. "We are trying very hard to take positions that protect the integrity of this election."
Attorney General Rob McKenna, a newly elected Republican, recently had his office take over the lead in representing Reed. The office now supervises the private Seattle law firm that had been hired to do the job.
Handy said the state's legal positions now are decided by officials from the Secretary of State's Office, the Attorney General's Office and the Seattle firm of Foster Pepper & Shefelman.
The latest round of legal arguments come in response to Democratic motions to have the case dismissed on various grounds.
Democrats said the state constitution gives the Legislature sole power to hear a legal contest to the election of a governor.
One of the briefs filed on Reed's behalf by Assistant Attorney General Jeff Even says Democrats misread the constitution and case law, and that the Legislature has granted the courts authority to hear election contests. The state's response quotes Democratic lawmakers who two weeks ago argued against any legislative involvement in the dispute.
Democratic House Speaker Frank Chopp yesterday added his voice to those opposed to having the Legislature settle the disputed election.
Chopp said he hasn't polled Democratic lawmakers but said, "quite a large number disagree with the state party on that."
He said the Legislature's only role was in certifying the election, and, "We already did our job."
Reed also weighed in on the question of what constitutes an illegal vote.
The state law setting out a process to contest an election says illegal votes are one ground for overturning an election. While that law specifically mentions felons, Democrats have argued felon voters qualify as improperly registered voters and would have needed to be challenged before the election.
Reed disagreed. He said votes cast by felons, people declared mentally incompetent and those who vote more than once are clearly illegal votes under the law.
Republican Party Chairman Chris Vance held a news conference Wednesday to outline the hundreds of alleged illegal votes he says have been discovered, including those of felons and people who voted more than once.
The state did not respond to all of the Democratic arguments.
For example, Reed did not answer claims that evidence provided by Republicans is vague or exaggerated and would not be sufficient to overturn an election.
"Their silence is deafening," said Democratic Party attorney Jenny Durkan. "Sam Reed at the end of the day, I think, will stand with the auditors and understands that everybody believes there should be a fair election, but like in any human endeavor there is never a perfect election."
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Overestimation of mentally retarded persons' IQs using the PPVT: a re-analysis and some implications for future research
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1993.tb00880.x
Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
Volume 37, Issue 4, pages 373–379, August 1993
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FACON, B., BOLLENGIER, T. and GRUBAR, J.-C. (1993), Overestimation of mentally retarded persons' IQs using the PPVT: a re-analysis and some implications for future research. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 37: 373–379. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1993.tb00880.x
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- Received 2 September 1992; revised 18 February 1993
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Numerous validity studies have shown that the PPVT consistently overestimates mentally retarded persons' IQs. One possible interpretation is that this phenomenon is an outcome of the dissociation between their cognitive level and their experience. Indeed, compared to intellectually average subjects of the same mental age, they have had more learning opportunities, simply because they have lived longer. In order to validate this hypothesis, the French version of the PPVT, Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices (RCPM), and the 1966 version of the Binet-Simon were administered to 90 subjects of various chronological ages matched on mental age (30 nonretarded 5 year olds and two groups of 30 retarded subjects aged 10 and 16 years, respectively). The results indicate that CA exerts a strong effect on vocabulary, but not on RCPM performance. The research implications of this finding are discussed.


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Long way from dog days: 2011 might see record Dow
NEW YORK Could the Dow set a record high next year?
That question would have seemed crazy early last year when fear and panic enveloped the stock market and the Dow Jones industrial average plunged to 6,547 on March 9. Many investors thought it would take a decade or longer to get back to the record of 14,165, set on Oct. 9, 2007.
Now we could be on the verge. The Dow has soared 76 percent the past 21 months, and it would have to climb just 23 percent from Friday's close of 11,492 to set a record.
That's a big jump, but the Dow has risen 23 percent or more six times since 1985, or roughly 1 in 4 years. Two other years, the Dow just missed with a gain of 22.6 percent. Add them and the number becomes eight years out of 25, or roughly 1 in 3.
Many analysts don't expect a 23 percent gain in 2011, but they agree conditions are in place for the rally to continue.
"There are some really compelling reasons out there that say the Dow could approach its highs," says Randy Bateman, chief investment officer for Huntington Asset Advisors. "You've got a fairly rosy scenario, where there isn't a whole lot of competition for stocks."
Corporate bonds provide decent income but lack the potential of stocks to appreciate. Interest rates on cash investments, such as bank CDs and money market mutual funds, remain in the basement. Meanwhile, corporate earnings keep rising, which makes stocks more appealing. Companies also are sitting on a record amount of cash, giving them leeway to pay bigger dividends, buy their own stock or buy competitors.
The economy could help, too. The Great Recession ended in June of last year, so this economic expansion is only one and a half years old. Expansions since World War II have lasted an average of nearly five years. The Dow doesn't always rise the year a recovery marks its second anniversary. But the last time it did so, in 2003, the Dow jumped 25 percent. This expansion has been fitful so far. If it finally gains traction next year, stocks could do well.
The Dow has already had a good run this year. It's up 10 percent despite serious problems lingering in the economy, including a 9.8 percent unemployment rate and a weak housing market. Part of the reason is that stock investors focus more on what's ahead than what's happening now. They believe the economy will continue to heal next year and companies will keep earning more money. On Friday, investors got the latest sign that the economy is on the mend. The Conference Board's index of leading economic indicators rose last month at the fastest pace since March.
Here's a look at how the Dow made a leap of more than 23 percent six times the past 25 years:
- 1985. A third straight year of strong economic growth - GDP grew 4.1 percent - after a deep recession had ended in November 1982 fueled a 28 percent gain in the Dow. The inflation rate remained stable a fourth straight year, convincing many investors that the inflation monster of the late 1970s had been slain.
- 1989. Mergers and acquisitions, including takeovers by corporate raiders, helped push the Dow up 27 percent. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.'s purchase of RJR Nabisco was the largest corporate deal the country had seen. In August, the Dow regained the level it had reached in August 1987, two months before that year's "Black Monday" crash.
- 1995. The Dow jumped 33 percent as what would become the longest economic expansion in U.S. history powered through its fifth year. And more Americans were putting money into stocks through 401(k) accounts. The number of households owning stocks jumped to 41 percent, up from 37 percent in 1992 and 32 percent in 1989, according to the Federal Reserve.


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Anne Andrews, the former City Clerk and Human Resource Director for the City of Springfield, was arrested Thursday and charged with fraudulent use of credit cards and grand theft.
Andrews, while employed by the City of Springfield, is accused of making multiple personal purchases with the Regions Bank credit card without the consent or permission of the city.
During the course of a financial audit, it was discovered Andrews made the purchases between the dates of January 18, 2012 through March 29, 2012. Purchases were made at T-Mobile, Sears, Knology, and Hammacher Schlemmer. The purchases totaled $1,456.59.
Andrews also transferred funds from restricted city bank accounts to other city accounts.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Jun 30 2009Blocky Moonwalky: Michael Jackson As LEGO
This is Michael Jackson in LEGO form. And, because I'm actually made of solid gold classiness, I'm not going there. And by there I mean Michael Jackson jokes. And by not going I mean I heard they're going to burn the body so he can be the king of snap and crackle now too. *moonwalks self in crotch*
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That's the blackest MJ ever!
might have to whip out the genesis and play some moonwalker. And by genesis i mean my penis
Why won't he just die? 'Cause he's made of plaaaaastic!
xD LMFAO
They need one for the lean from Smooth Criminal.
Thats awesome.
Michael Jackson as a Lego? Great, now this time the kids get to play with him......
why does this guy hate on good ole mj?
post bad comments on bad video
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadowe's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max hit a golfball into the groundskeepers apartment. They shared a joint and some wine, and the groundskeeper invited himself to swim in Max's pool. Max suggested the pond would be better for him though.
what a bad paintjob, i could do better
lol, I hadn't heard that one about the snap and crackle before. I heard all the other jokes before the poor bastard was cold.
Hmm, anyone else besides me realize that Billy Mays and Michael Jackson where both 50? I think Ole Billy didn't wanna be out done by Jackson so he conked himself in the head -Nod nod- So now we just have to wait for someone to bring out the ole oxyclean Lego figure
Looks like it could be a character from Final Fantasy 7...
They say that celebrity deaths always come in threes, but pitchman Billy Mays just had to throw one in, "ABSOLUTLEY FREE!!""
Rock me...
so r they gna make a white one? Mj r u ok? r u ok? r u ok MJ? xD
Hey any hotties wanna chat call me at 631-708-4240 I will be waiting ^_^
@ Everyone with jokes.
This man is a legend & will never die no matter what decisions he's made or what race he is. He has accomplished more than what any of you douche bags has ever done.
R.I.P. King of Pop a.k.a. Michael Joseph Jackson.
@ me.
I'm a douche and feel the need to validate myself by insulting others for having a sense of humor and not crying over someone they have never personally known. I love you MJ. I wish you could have touched my penis while I was still a child!
No stop motion? This is weak. This is weaker than those movie posters redone with legos from a few weeks ago.
@19 - Just cuz you liked it when MJ fingered you doesn't mean all those leukemia kids did.
its not a real micheal jackson lego until it has enough surgery to got from being black plastic to white playdough
Wow Black Lego Mj SOmebody is sooo in denial
YAY now kids can touch him the same way he touched them well except not sexually............ one down
now if only we could take out the catholic priesthood and the wiggles..........
It looks like James Brown ^_^
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the nose is all wrong.
heeeeee heeeeeEEEEE
i knew that was coming. im glad we're all grown up enough to respect the legendary pop king and make jokes when hes r.i.p. so when all of yall are done being 12 year old little girls maybe you can respect the respected. dumbasses.
@ 28... I think insulting someone by calling them a 12 year old little girl would be in effect you insulting 12 year old litte girls... why don't you just ignore the comments or go find another forum to post on? I wonder if michael jackson actually did have innapropriate relations with your child if you would still defend him as much since he's 'respected' as you put it... point is just STFU asshole!
why does everyone remember MJ for the bad things he did? yea he had issues but he donated a lot of his money to foundations, but NO ONE remembers that, all they remember is the bad things
@ 30... thats true but bad things tend to stand out more especially when it's someone famous I suppose. was just making a point in my earlier post though
@ everyone with the jokes.
There is a line crossed when you make a joke about someone who recently passed away who was a legend that influenced many including myself. I personally admit to saying jokes but now is not the time.. give the guy some respect there's a difference between being a douche and getting girls and being a douche and getting no play, and those of you who make jokes about M.J. now are definitely douche's that get none.
@ everyone with the jokes
Keep it up. I find it very funny.
@ crybaby MJ fans
Where were you when a real talent, Chuck Schuldiner, died? I tell you where. You were busy trying to shove your cocks into children. Now STFU and get of the Geek Pages.
Could the Moonwalk be developed from the Polka?
Skins too dark...
@ 28 & 32
My question to you is why this bothers you so much? Do these comments feel like personal slights? Should we pity him (Michael Jackson), because he is dead or because he died in disgrace? Which is it?
oh yeah, that looks just like him...
Can everyone stop giving a shit about this pedofile, this was xanax/ ambien's greatest contribution to the world.
30 - I know, right? If I donated $2 million to charity and then on the way home raped your 5 year old - you'd totally remember me for the charity donation, right?
Farrah Fawcet's dying wish was to protect the children of the world. It was granted aprrox 10 hours later when MJ died.
@Two point Oh- Blow me bitch boy!
this post could be endless of MJ crybabies vs joke tellers
looks more like jamesbrown but w/e
awesome! But there is one thing misleading, Michael Jackson isnt black, HE'S WHITE YO!! lol
@ 30 & 32
Yeah I totally agree. Remember all the good things Hitler did? But nooooo, all he gets remembered for is the genocide of 11 million people. Sux dude :(
(this is dripping with sarcasm in case no one realizes it)
its about time LEGO melted him down. now the jokes about kids playing with him for a chance will come true.
Hitler was a sensitive man
LOVE MJ, all the haters are just products of the sensational-obsessed media.
@13: already taken care of.
...besides... a lego skeletor is much more closer to the real MJ. Back to the drawing board LEGO. *for shame*
anyone heard elton john's song about MJ?
it's called "Don't let your son go down on me"


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Mutual ignorance of our respective societies plays into hands of hard-line leaders calling for destruction.
The looming Iran-Israel confrontation has a seemingly deterministic quality to it. Listening to the politicians, one gets a sense that powers beyond our control are pulling us toward a 21st-century disaster. Yet a great deal of the force propelling us into confrontation is fueled by ignorance and dehumanization. Israel is demonized as "Little Satan," while Iranians are portrayed as irrational Muslim extremists.
Indeed, mutual ignorance of our respective societies plays into the hands of the hard-line leaders who are calling for blood and destruction. They manipulate and distort; above all, they do everything to prevent us from recognizing that the enemy has a face.
Not that either of us is naive enough to believe that mere knowledge of one another will offer a miraculous solution. We do believe, however, that mutual understanding will go a long way toward allowing us to feel empathy and compassion for each other, and to sound off at those calling for bloodshed and war.
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1. Israel is a vibrant yet incomplete democracy
On his visit to the United States last fall, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad famously stated that there are no homosexuals in Iran. Well, in Israel there are plenty of homosexuals, and they are the only ones in the Middle East who have an annual gay pride parade in their capital city.
Democracy in Israel means that every citizen and group (Jewish or otherwise) has the right to express him/herself and assemble in public. Also, that every citizen is equal under the law, has voting rights, religious freedom, access to education, health care and economic opportunity.
Undoubtedly, Israel's democracy is still a work in progress. The fusion of religion and state has limited people's rights and freedoms (for example, Israelis of different faiths cannot legally marry one another in the country), and the de-facto secondary status of Israeli Arabs is an affront to the country's democratic ideals. Fortunately, many people in Israel are assiduously working to change the system from within.
2. Iran is a vibrant quasi-democracy
It is far from a full democracy, but neither is it a complete dictatorship. Its severe limitations notwithstanding, Iran has a lively civil society and possesses most of the building blocks for a successful democracy down the road. Iranians' struggle for democracy dates back to the 1906 Constitutional Revolution. Since then, Iranians have learned two important lessons.
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Second, when you carry out a revolution, you know against whom you are revolting, but not necessarily for whom you are waging the revolution. Iranians have little appetite for another revolution. As unpopular as their current government is, they prefer gradual and manageable change.
3. Streets are named for poets
Just like Iran, Israel puts great value on the written word. In Israel, streets are named for poets - writers who have revived a people and its ancient language. It is the pen and imagination, more than the sword and muscle, that have been responsible for the creation of this nation. Israel's historical roots are traced in a book; its people are called the "People of the Book"; and its founding father, Theodor Herzl, a playwright, liked to write books. It is no surprise then that Israel leads the world in new book titles per capita, per year.
As in Iran, everyday conversations in Israel are as likely to be peppered with literary references as with practical concerns.
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Much like Israelis, Iranians feel painfully isolated in the Middle East. They are surrounded by people with whom they share neither language nor religion. Iran is majority Persian and Shi'ite; its neighbors are majority Arab and Sunni.
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In a show of disrespect, many leaders in Iran refer to Israel as the "Zionist regime." While being called a "regime" may not be flattering, for most Israelis, Zionism is not a dirty word.
From within, Zionism is a national liberation movement, whose aim it is to create a safe haven for Jewish people, culture and national identity. Zionism is the Jewish people's answer to the centuries-old impulse to erase them from history. When Ahmadinejad and his ilk speak of Zionism's imminent doom, they are in fact strengthening the very movement they seek to eliminate.
Israelis joke that Israel is the only country in the world where the words "dirty Jew" mean a Jew who has not taken a shower. In a way, this joke encapsulates the essence of Zionism. Everything else is commentary.
6. Sympathy with Palestinians, but no desire for conflict with Israel
Ahmadinejad's venomous rhetoric notwithstanding, Iranians don't spend much time thinking about Israel. They are far more concerned about Iran's crippled economy and rampant corruption. While the sympathies of most Iranians fall squarely with the Palestinians, this is not an issue they feel their country must be actively involved in.
Iranians will fiercely defend their independence and territory, yet they have no desire for conflict with Israel. Iranians remember Alexander's sacking of Persia, the Arab conquest in the seventh century C.E., the Mongol invasion, and the 1953 CIA coup against Iran's democratically elected prime minister. But there is no recollection of any conflict with the Jewish people because there hasn't been one. Most Iranians would like to keep it that way.
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It ain't over til the fat lady sings Mickey - there's still 8 games and 24 valuable points to play for.
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well if you can keep 5 or 6 points ahead of chelsea for another 4 or 5 games , i think you can do it. chelsea do have a habbit of grinding out 1-0 wins. so spurs will need to do the same. if you can get 19 points out of the last 24 available. your do it. i can see chelsea losing 2 and maybe a draw. arsenal can do you a favour when we play chelsea. chelsea have to watch out for newcastle a win for them today would put them level on points.
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i think getting 4th spot will be more concerning than finishing above the might gunners.


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Human remains found nearly two months ago near Bridgeton Elementary School have been identified as a missing teenager.
Craven County District Attorney Scott Thomas says the bones found off Avery Road belong to Robert Scott, Jr. of Bridgeton. The 19-year-old was last seen on February 4th, 2010 as he was walking away from the Cedar Street area of New Bern. At the time police believed his disappearance may have been the result of foul play.
Thomas says the man's family has been notified and the death investigation is ongoing. Authorities say they do not yet know how Scott died.


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Broccoli with Red Pepper Recipe
Karen Davies of Wanipigow, Manitoba shares this colorful side dish. The crisp snap of water chestnuts adds to its great taste.
- 4 cups fresh broccoli florets
- 2 teaspoons minced fresh gingerroot
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 sweet red pepper, cut into strips
- 1 can (8 ounces) sliced water chestnuts, drained
- 1. In a skillet, stir-fry broccoli, ginger and garlic in oil for 2 minutes or until broccoli is crisp-tender. Add red pepper and water chestnuts; stir-fry just until heated through, about 1 minute. Serve immediately. Yield: 4 servings.
Nutritional Facts
Diabetic Exchanges: One serving equals 2 vegetable, 1-1/2 fat; also, 117 calories, 28 mg sodium, 0 mg cholesterol, 17 gm carbohydrates, 3 gm protein, 7 gm fat.
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Park News - (10/26/15) Following the win of a baseball related bet against the chain's St. Louis park that saw one of the St. Louis coasters renamed Cubs Thunder, Six Flags Great America is now forced to honor a bet they lost against Six Flags Great Adventure after the Mets beat the Cubs. For the remainder of the season Six Flags Great America has now been renamed as "Six Flags Great Mets" and the Goliath rollercoaster has been renamed "GoMets". (7/31/15) Six Flags Great American will offer something new and interesting this fall for Fright Fest... a sign up in the park posted to Twitter lists it as the Apocalypse Zombie Experience where you will "Shoot first or get bit by zombies! Survive... if you can!"
2016 - Justice League: Battle For Metropolis - (5/17/16) Six Flags Great America has confirmed that Justice League: Battle For Metropolis will open on May 28th. (3/7/16) While Justice League just opened at Six Flags Mexico on Friday, the latest tweet from Six Flags Great America tells us that their version is only now starting to install the ride's themeing. (1/14/16) Six Flags Great America tweeted a great picture of the Justice League: Battle for Metropolis ride building construction site. Glad to see things are moving along quickly. (9/3/15) Six Flags Great America has confirmed that the park will add Justice League: Battle for Metropolis, a new 4D interactive dark ride adventure to the park for 2016. The ride first opened at Six Flags over Texas and St Louis parks in 2015 and was a huge hit. Check it out below!
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Students Create Vending Machine for Engineering Supplies
May 24, 2013
Read the full story by Anna Fiorentino, published by Thayer School of Engineering.
Forget cola and candy. Dartmouth's newest vending machine offers consumables of another kind: batteries, duct tape, epoxy, and other project supplies. Installed outside the entrance to Thayer School of Engineering's Machine Shop, the vending machine dispenses necessities 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
From left, Thayer students and Machine Shop Teaching Assistants Yerwa Dheeraj Reddy MEM'13, Srivatsan Vasudevan MEM'13, and Amogh Poudyal MEM'13 refurbished an old vending machine to create the new one at Thayer. A fourth TA, Mani Alaei MEM '13, also worked on the vending machine. (Photo courtesy of the Thayer School of Engineering)
"The Vending Machine Project provides authorized students with access to materials for project work any time, at no charge," says Srivatsan Vasudevan, Thayer '13, a student in the Master of Engineering Management Program whose job as Machine Shop Teaching Assistant (TA) is to facilitate student project work.
Before the vending machine arrived, students could access these supplies only from inside the instrument room and the Machine Shop on weekdays until 4:30 p.m., and would often ask TAs to locate them. Now, 33 small items approved by professors, including adhesives and gloves—in even higher student demand than traditional mill components such as nuts, bolts, and tools—are available in one place, freeing up TAs to train on technical aspects of project work. This new addition also cuts back on distractions caused by those who visit the machine shop only to gather materials for their course-related projects.


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Chun a' Rubha - a Gaelic Tour
|Tuesday October 13th 1:00 PM
|Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Village, Iona
|Museum charges apply
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|Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Village
|Contact info
|Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Village (Baile nan Gàidheal / Highland Village) - (902) 725-2272
Come join us for "Chun A' Rhubha," a Gaelic tour and afternoon srubag (tea). Jim Watson will lead us on a walk through the eras of of Gaelic Nova Scotia ending with tea, stories and songs. This is an immersion event and will be held entirely through the medium of Gaelic. Space is limited and pre-registration is required. Call to book a spot 902-725-2272 While you're visiting, be sure to look for the Gaels of Nova Scotia Exhibit, as well as the exhibit Lèirsinn:An Taisbeandh, which are both installed throughout the site and included with the price of admission.