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Will be at a family wedding today, and thus unable to watch the Twins battle the Tigers today.
But hey, maybe I'll see something like this:
The great thing is, you just never know!
Preview (45-41, 3rd, 2.5 GB CWS): Nick Blackburn (7-6, 6.00) vs. Jeremy Bonderman (4-6, 4.81)


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Shelby isn't the only company celebrating a major anniversary in Monterey this year. Lamborghini marked its 50th year in business, and the 2012 Concorso Italiano is packed with Raging Bulls from every era of company's history. While the show serves as a showcase for all Italian makes, the Laguna Seca Golf Ranch always sees a wide cross section of manufacturers and models from around the globe.
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The Arctic Research Support and Logistics (RSL) Program supports the field component of research projects funded through science programs in the Arctic Sciences Section of the Division of Polar Programs and through other programs at National Science Foundation (NSF). The program accepts proposals that
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Men's Basketball Starts New Year With Win at Elon
Princeton has won three of its last four games after a 3-6 start, and all but one of the team's losses have come by seven points or fewer.
Elon fell to 8-6 with the loss, ending a two-game winning streak that began with a one-point win over Columbia. The Phoenix were trying to go 3-0 against the Ivy League this season, coupling their win over the Lions with a victory at Dartmouth, but the preseason-favorite Tigers prevented that.
Princeton scored the first five points of the game and led by as much as 16 in the first half, using the last bucket of Will Barrett's 5-for-5 shooting from beyond the arc before the break to pull ahead 39-23. Elon went on a 7-0 run from there to bring it back to single digits before halftime, but the Phoenix were never closer than six the rest of the way.
A 36-25 rebounding edge was a key difference in a game where other measures were close. Princeton had 15 offensive rebounds that led to 14 second-chance points.
Ian Hummer tied a career high with 28 points to lead all scorers and as one of three Tigers in double figures along with Barrett (17) and T.J. Bray (12). Jack Isenbarger led Elon with 16 points.
The win gives the Tigers a boost heading into Ivy League play, which opens Saturday at 6 p.m. in Jadwin Gym against Penn.
Postgame notes
• Princeton evened the all-time series with Elon at 1-1 after the teams' first meeting a year ago in Jadwin Gym, a 56-55 Elon win.
• Ian Hummer finished with 28 points, moving him past Bob Scrabis '89 (1,365) into seventh place on the Princeton career scoring list, now with 1,381. Next on the list is current Tiger assistant coach Brian Earl '99 (1,428).
• Hummer vaulted into fourth place on the career list for field goals made, now with 538. He passed Geoff Petrie '70 (530) and Craig Robinson '83 (534). Next is former teammate Douglas Davis '12 (545).
• Princeton has won five straight first games of a calendar year, dating back to 2009.
• Will Barrett's five 3-pointers tied a career high. His 17 points were three off his career high of 20, set in the season opener at Buffalo.
• Hummer's 28 points matched his career high, set earlier this season at Lafayette.
• The Tigers shot better than 40 percent from the field for the seventh game in a row.
• Princeton's .571 shooting clip from beyond the arc (8-14) was its second best of the season, behind its .600 (6-10) output at Lafayette.
• Princeton's nine turnovers made it the third time in 13 games this season that Princeton has had single-digit turnovers, after eight against Rutgers and four against Bucknell.
• Princeton's nine steals were more than it had in the three previous games combined, against Rider, Bucknell and Akron (six).
• Princeton's last three opponents have shot better than 45 percent from the field.
• Eight 3-pointers tied a season high for a Princeton opponent, after Northeastern had eight back in November.
• For the first time this season, Princeton got to the free throw line more than its opponent, and did so by a margin of 23-6.
• Elon's one steal was a season low for a Princeton opponent and the fewest since Columbia had only one steal on Jan. 14, 2012.
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If there is one gun that everybody should own, my choice is the Henry AR7. This marvelous little rifle comes in .22LR. It can be disassembled and stored in its butt stock. It floats in water assembles or disassembled. It is also a dependable shooter. It takes detachable 8 round magazines. They are light enough and compact enough to be carried in a backpack. You could leave on hidden in a corner of your cars trunk. All in all, a very good gun for survival purposes.
This gun was originally designed for Air Force pilots to carry with them as they flew off to combat. In the event that they had to bail out of their plane, it was desired that they should have something they could shoot for protection or possibly to get game. It was decided that any gun beats no gun. They decided that the best caliber for this little gun would be the .22.
The AR7 was designed by Armalite around 1959. Down through the years they have been made by several manufacturers--some good, some not so good. Henry is the manufacturer today and this company prides themselves for making quality products. And, every fiber is made in America!
I have handled these before. They handle nicely and seem to shoot every time you pull the trigger. As I said before: Everybody should have one!
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I'm really interested in using the PLASMA library for eigenvalue solutions to large, double and complex double matrices. I have downloaded the latest 2.4.5 release, however the contained documentation is rather scant and the online documentation is well out of date and I cannot seem to find any reference to the usage of the dsyev or zheev routines, apart from the source files. I'm interested in an example or explanation of how to call these routines from fortran code, in addition to any initialization requirements for PLASMA. Initially I'd like to start with the 'lapack style' matrix input before I move to the 'tile' format.
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- You find something new. If you feel a lump, breast pain, or lumpy thickening of the breast tissue, call your ob-gyn. Once she's examined you, she may help you get an appointment with a specialist faster.
See a Breast Specialist If…
- You're at increased risk for cancer. "Breast or ovarian cancer in multiple family members or relatives younger than 40 is cause to see a specialist," says Rachel Simmons, MD, a breast surgeon at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. If your ob-gyn has suggested genetic counseling and you test positive, a breast surgeon should oversee regular mammograms and specialized screenings like MRIs and sonograms.
- You have ever gotten suspicious biopsy results. Consider a breast specialist over a general surgeon if your results show abnormal cell growth or any tissue changes. Because these doctors work solely on breasts, they better understand the tissue makeup and the cancer treatments.
- You've ever been diagnosed with breast cancer. "Many general surgeons never see you after your operation because they don't see chronic patients, and breast cancer is considered a lifelong disease," says Deanna Attai, MD, a breast surgeon in Glendale, California. "But I'm in the best position to tell a woman if thickening in the breast is a change from surgery or a recurrence. I'll know your breasts, and I'll know what to look for." Breast specialists offer newer surgical and treatment options than a general surgeon who works on a colon one day and a breast the next. They're also connected to a team of doctors, often housed under one roof, who can share your records and consult each other on test results and treatments.
How to Find a Specialist in Your Area
Get your ob-gyn or primary doctor to recommend one, or use the "doctor finder" service at the nearest cancer care center. Then call the doctor's office and make sure the majority of her practice is breast. Some surgeons may have done a breast fellowship and/or may be affiliated with the American Society of Breast Surgeons.
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In tough economic times like these, people look to save money any way they can. One increasingly popular strategy: Going the do-it-yourself route instead of paying a professional for home maintenance and repair projects.
An April 2012 Merrill Edge survey of "mass affluent" Americans (defined as people with $50,000 to $250,000 of investible assets) found that in the past year 70 percent of folks in their 50s and 60s had taken on a DIY project that they normally would've paid a professional to tackle. Of that number, 42 percent said they're handling little repairs around the house, like fixing leaky faucets; 36 percent are doing their own yard work; and 18 percent have started major remodeling projects.
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Bill Belknap came to Idaho in January of 1978 as Athletic Director and oversaw a hugely successful stretch of Vandal athletic history. During his 10-year tenure at Idaho, Belknap hired such coaches as Don Monson, Dennis Erickson, Keith Gilbertson, Tim Floyd and Pat Dobratz. Teams won 13 conference titles under Belknap's watch, as well as a 1986 WNIT title in women's basketball. Both football and men's basketball garnered NCAA top-10 final finishes under his watch and seven sports overall won conference titles. Idaho's women's teams also earned the 1982-83 All Sports Champion honor for the Mountain West Athletic Conference. Following his time as Idaho's Athletic Director, Belknap moved on to another role at the University of Idaho Assistant to the President for Centennial Development Programs, where he helped manage the Idaho Centennial Celebration and the $43 million fund-raising campaign for the University.


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Gardening Articles: Flowers :: Perennials
Guide to June Gardening (page 4 of 5)
by John R. Dunmire
June Gardening in the South (zones 7 to 10)
Gardeners in the South enjoyed their June earlier, in May or even April. The lower the latitude, the earlier the high season. An old classic June bloomer in cooler areas, 'Lord of June' tall bearded iris, may open in April or May in the South.
Hydrangeas that will not bloom until July in the Northeast are June performers in the South. The big white, pink, or blue hortensias (Hydrangea macrophylla, zones 6 to 9) are now available in smaller varieties. 'Forever Pink' reaches 2 to 3 feet, with somewhat greater spread, and its 4-inch flower heads appear from June to frost, fading from pure pink to deep rose. 'Pia' is even smaller: 2 feet tall and broad, with purple-toned pink flowers in 4- to 5-inch clusters. Oakleaf hydrangea (H. quercifolia, zones 5 to 9) produces its tall pyramidal white flower clusters this month. Its flowers age to pink, and the bold oakleaf foliage takes on handsome maroon to purple tones in the fall. 'Snowflake' and 'Snow Queen' have been selected for bloom quality.
Crape myrtles (Lagerstroemia, zones 7 to 9) do not peak until late summer, but a few varieties-white semidwarf 'Acoma', lavender 3-foot dwarf 'Centennial', tall dark red 'Centennial Spirit', pink semidwarf 'Hopi', and tall white-flowering 'Natchez' are likely to blooming in June.
Butterfly bushes (Buddleia, zones 5 to 9) provide long bloom beginning in late June. They also attract butterflies. Pruning presents no complications; cut the stems nearly to the ground each spring. Improved varieties include: B. davidii 'Dartmoor', with dense, many-branched flower clusters; and the Nanho series (B. d. nanhoensis), compact growers with flowers in blue, purple, or white.
Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus, zones 5 to 9) is considered a late-summer bloomer, but it often starts to bloom earlier in the South. Newer varieties of these tough, tolerant shrubs with a long bloom season have sterile flowers that produce no unattractive seed capsules and no unwanted volunteers. 'Aphrodite' is pink with a red eye, 'Diana' pure white, 'Helene' white with a deep red eye, and 'Minerva' deep lavender with a dark red eye.
June Gardening in the Rockies (zones 3 to 7)
In the Rocky Mountains and high-desert areas of the Southwest, June is not a month for languor. Everything needs doing. You must plant trees, shrubs, and perennials in June so they can sink in their roots before early frosts. Set out bedding plants after the last frost. Crackling dry air and uncertain rainfall in these regions make careful attention to irrigation a necessity. Take special care to water plants under roof overhangs; they don't receive moisture from summer rains, and the death by drought of otherwise hardy plants is sometimes mistakenly attributed to winterkill.
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text: Jan 31, 2013 14:10 Pink Collar Comedy Tour bring laughs to La. Pink Collar Comedy Tour bring laughs to La. Abbi Crutchfield, Carrie Gravenson, Kaytlin Bailey, and Erin Judge are the comedians of the Pink Comedy Tour. Photo provided by Erin Judge. Erin Judge, Carrie Gravenson, Abbi Crutchfield and Kaytlin Bailey are the comedians of the Pink Comedy Tour. Langdon HerrickSpecial to theadvocate.com Jan. 25, 2013; 6:25 p.m. Comments We all have different ways of dealing with stress. Some people go jogging. Some people listen to heavy metal. And some people become really, really funny. The Pink Collar Comedy Tour features four very funny ladies traveling the country and working through their issues one joke at a time. "I was born in Brooklyn and moved to Texas when I was a kid, and so I had to become a comedian in order to cope," said Erin Judge, one of four comedians comprising the Pink Collar Comedy Tour. The tour will stop at Chelsea's Cafe in Baton Rouge on Friday, Jan. 25 and the Movement Theater in New Orleans on Saturday, Jan. 26. If each of these comic's resumes are any indication, show goers are definitely in for a laugh. Judge has peddled her comedy wares internationally and on a Comedy Central special, Kaytlin Bailey regularly performs at the famous Gotham Comedy Club in Manhattan, Carrie Gravenson kills at comedy competitions, and Abbie Crutchfield's Twitter page was singled out by the Huffington Post as singularly funny. (https://twitter.com/curlycomedy) Judge was candid about how she got involved in the tour. "Kaytlin Bailey accosted me at the Cape Fear comedy festival in Wilmington, N.C. and demanded to work with me. And she's not the kind of person you can say 'no' to easily. But the rest of us all know each other from the New York scene," Judge said. "We'd never worked together as a group until we started touring as the Pink Collar tour together. We had our first leg of the tour last summer in the South...and it turned out we didn't hate each other. Like, we kind of liked each other. So we decided to keep going." The Pink Collar crew's fellowship was tested when Judge was asked to describe each of her tourmates, who happened to be riding along in the car at the time and listening in on her answers. "Kaytlin Bailey is ruthlessly fierce, kind of terrifying, and extremely funny...you're afraid she's going to yell at you if you don't laugh...and she probably will." "Thanks, you're hysterical," said Kaytlin. "Abbie Crutchfield is surprisingly goofy and self-deprecating for someone who is so beautiful, and she totally means it...and Carrie Gravenson is the girl next door... if you're from Queens." By now, the Pink Collar tour has traveled all over the country, and that's on top of their solo gigs. When asked if being on the road so much provided a comedian with new energy each night, or sucked them dry and left them bereft and jokeless, Judge replied, "Generally, the schedules that we keep are pretty relaxed. We're driving around a bunch, but we just throw our stuff in the car and hit the road. And once we get to the next city we're generally amped up from hanging out and giggling and driving each other crazy, so we have a lot of energy that needs to come out onstage." Each of the four comedians has a different style, and of course, different material. Kaytlin jokes about post-college graduation woes and living with her odd-couple bipartisan parents, Carrie talks about being newly single and offers simple solutions to serious economic problems, and Judge likes to poke fun at everyday life. "I like to talk about social phenomenon and social commentary," she said. "I talk about things like weddings and women's magazines and the trappings of society that we all have to deal with every day. I like to rake them over the coals." Judge had one last thing to tell people who are interested in seeing the show. "We're definitely a group of lady comics, but everyone who comes to see our show has a good time," she said. "Everybody's welcome, and everyone can find something to relate to. We've performed in so many different kinds of places at this point--so many different towns and venues, from big opera theaters to little bars, and we always have fun. So, if people want to have a good time, they should come. And if they hate fun, we're not for them." The Pink Collar Comedy tour will be performing at the Chelsea's Cafe in Baton Rouge on Friday, Jan. 25 at 8 p.m., and at the New Movement Theater in New Orleans on Saturday, Jan. 26, at 9 p.m. More information about the tour is available at their website, http://www.pinkcollarcomedytour.com/ Get The Advocate in your inbox Subscribe


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Congratulations to the all of the winners of the 2012 Pour One Out Video Contest!
First Place: Just Pour One Out
Peter Sullivan & Family
The winning video "Just Pour One Out"– which included an original rap song from the Sullivan family of Nashville, Tennessee - was inspired by Peter Sullivan's own personal struggle with soda consumption. Sullivan was a self-proclaimed "sodaholic" and credits his kids, Caeley and Elijah, for convincing him to make a lifestyle change. His daughter actually said "Dad, I don't want you to be big and fat at my wedding" after Sullivan started writing the lyrics for the video and knew he needed to include the winning line. "I was surprised by how much the process changed my drinking habits," says Peter. He now feels much better, physically, after making the switch and drinks at least a gallon of water each day.
Second Place: Pour One Out...And Fill One Up
The runner-up video was produced by 5th grade students in Laurel Frederick's after school club. Frederick is an AmeriCorps member and the Science and Outdoor Education Program coordinator at Incline Elementary School in Incline Village, Nevada. The students participated in the after school club to learn about the harmful effects of sugary drinks by participating in different activities. "They (students) calculated the amount of sugar in selected drinks and did hands-on activities to help drive the point home," said Frederick. Ultimately the students collaborated to work on the video for the contest.
Third Place: One For My Boy
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Third place went to Dennis Nguyen, an IT professional from St. Metairie, Louisiana who got together with a few friends to create this winning video, "One For My Boy," with a clever twist. He was inspired by childhood memories of the prominence of Kool-Aid in his neighborhood and the marketing that spurred him to buy more of the sugary drink. "I clearly remember collecting Kool-Aid points and getting into the fever of winning those prizes. Thinking back you feel like a sucker because you can see that [the points] were meant to get you to buy more Kool-Aid, so that's why I decided to lampoon it in the video."
Honorable Mentions:
- Cristian Barreto
- Ekaete Ekwere
- Adam Fendley
- Mitchell Lawson (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center)
- Drew Lee & Jared Woods (American Medical Student Association)
- William McIntosh & Mary Hardy (Students: Joshua, Joseph, and Andrew)
- Stephen Patek
- Shivani Sharma (Firefly Creative Inc. and 3 Pint Productions)
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It wasn't so bad when soft drinks were the occasional treat. But now sugary drinks are the number one source of calories in the American diet. With one third of America overweight and another third obese, it's a wonder anyone is still swallowing what the soda companies are selling.
Big soda companies have billions of dollars to tell their story, but we have each other. Oh, and we have the truth. Help The Real Bears spread the truth about soda by sharing the film on Facebook ('like' their page, too), Twitter (#TheRealBears), and beyond. Find out more about the unhappy truth about soda at TheRealBears.org.


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Eternal Elysians is inspired by the mythological Greek vision of a beautiful meadow in eternal summer, the land of ethereal transitions of the beloved ones of Zeus. It's an angelic realm where the rocks and sea are echoed in the drape of the cloth on golden bodies dancing in the field of unearthly delights.
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- Hang sticky red spheres by mid-June to trap apple maggots. Place them at eye level in direct sunlight but surrounded by developing fruit. Scrape away dead insects and renew the adhesive every three weeks through August.
- Replace codling moth traps and lures.
- Thin young fruits, leaving only the largest fruit in each cluster. After thinning, fruits should be 6 to 8 inches apart. Dispose of any infested fruits.
Michael Phillips is a commercial apple grower and the author of The Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist (Chelsea Green, 1998; $35).
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text: 11.05.13 Mo-what? November is the Month to Build Men's Health Awareness So what is Movember, exactly? It's a movement that asks men to grow moustaches, and for their communities to support them. Funds raised support men's health research and charities. As important as the money is the awareness the conversations that ensue due to the often unique facial hair brings greater awareness and understanding of the health risks men face, helps men take action on their health, and brings help and support to the forefront for those who need it. Fun Faces, Serious Fundraising In 1999, in the land down under (Australia, that is) the first Movember group was organized to raise funds for various causes. In 2004, another Australian group linked the idea to men's health and started raising funds.Since then it has expanded around the world (it reached the U.S. in 2007) and raised more than $174 million – and spawned some truly epic facial hair. Grow Your Deduction – And Maybe a Mo So here we are again in Movember. If you want to get involved, the great news is, you're not only helping a great cause, you're also earning a potentially valuable tax deduction. If you donate (with or without facial fuzz), it may be tax deductible. Be sure to keep your receipts and cancelled checks or credit card statements supporting your donation. If you get involved by hosting an event, keep track of the out-of-pocket cost of participating. These costs include: - 14 cents per mile for travel while organizing, working, and cleaning up the event- Postage, printing, mailing or other costs of advertising- Food, drinks, and gifts to volunteers or participantsMake sure you keep receipts of all of your expenses, a log book of all your miles, and include them with your annual tax return records. Better documentation likely means a bigger tax deduction and lower taxes. Show off Supporting Movember? We want to see your staches past and present! Post them on our Facebook page or tag Jackson Hewitt in your favorite mustache-sporting selfie and we'll help spread the word.


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This event builds on achievements made since 1991 in the area of women and environment. In November 1991, UNEP convened a Global Assembly of Women and the Environment, as a programmatic response to the 1985 World conference to review and appraise the achievements of the UN Decade for Women that was held in Nairobi, Kenya. In particular, the Global Assembly, which was held at the margins of the 20th anniversary of UNEP and the UNCED in Rio, sought to promote �cooperation among institutions, men, women, and youth to advance environmental sustainable projects that are affordable, visible, sustainable and repeatable�.
A key outcome of this assembly was the interventions by civil society and countries that resulted in the integration of gender issues in Agenda 21 of the 1992 Rio Declaration. As a follow-up to the 1992 UNCED, UNEP convened a series of meetings at regional and global level in 1994 that culminated in a high-level event in the UN Conference on Women held in 1995 in Beijing China that saw the integration of environment sustainability as one of the key areas of implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action.
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- 2-inch slice pound cake (Sara Lee)
- 2 cups corn flakes
- Green and yellow food coloring (McCormick)
- 2 cans (16 ounces each) vanilla frosting
- 24 vanilla cupcakes baked in orange foil liners
- 24 honey wheat sticks (Pringles)
- 144 soft caramels (Kraft)
- Orange round candies (Sixlets)
- Yellow and purple candy-coated sunflower seeds (Sunny Seed Drops)
- Ground cinnamon
- 1. Tint 3 tablespoons of the vanilla frosting light green with the green and yellow food coloring. Spoon the frosting into a resealable bag; set aside. Spoon 3 tablespoons vanilla frosting into a resealable bag; set aside.
- 2. Line a cookie sheet with waxed paper. Place the corn flakes in a large bowl. Tint 1/2 cup of the vanilla frosting green with the green food coloring. Heat the green frosting in a microwave-safe bowl until liquid, about 10 to 15 seconds, stirring well. Pour the frosting over the corn flakes and toss until completely coated. Pour the coated corn flakes onto the prepared cookie sheet and spread out into a single layer. Allow the corn flakes to dry, about 30 minutes.
- 3. Meanwhile, cut the pound cake into 1/8-in. cubes; cover until ready to use.
- 4. Cut the wheat sticks in half. Soften several caramels in the microwave for no more than 3 seconds. Flatten a caramel slightly and place one end of a wheat stick in the center of the flattened caramel.
- Bring the caramel up and over the end of the wheat stick and shape into a drumstick. Trim the overhanging end of the wheat stick to 1/2 in. with a serrated knife. Continue to make 48 drumsticks.
- 5. Microwave four caramels at a time to soften, about 3 seconds. Press the caramels together and roll them out to a 3-1/2-in. diameter. Cut caramels into a 3-1/2-in. circle with a round cookie cutter or the opening of a glass. Cut out an opening for the stuffing about 1-1/2 in. wide and deep. Repeat with the remaining caramels to make 24 skins. Place the caramel skins between sheets of waxed paper. (The drumsticks and skins can be made up to 4 days in advance and kept in an airtight container.)
- 6. Place a mound of vanilla frosting on top of a cupcake; top with a caramel turkey skin. Tuck the edge of the caramel in 1/4 in. from the edge of the cupcake. Use a small knife to push the caramel into the frosting: it will make the turkey look plumper and give room for the lettuce corn flakes. Pinch the ends of the caramel opening; some of the frosting will pop out. Press some of the cake cubes into the frosting as the stuffing.
- 7. Lightly brush one side of each drumstick with a bit of water. Press each drumstick to each side of the stuffing opening. Hold several seconds to secure. Repeat with the remaining drumsticks.
- 8. Snip a small corner from the bag with the vanilla frosting. Add the green corn flakes around the edge of the cupcake to look like lettuce. Use some vanilla frosting if necessary to help secure. Pipe dots of vanilla frosting on the ends of the wheat sticks to look like the ends of the turkey bones. Add more cake cubes as stuffing if desired.
- 9. Snip a small corner from the bag with the light green frosting.
- Pipe a few dots around the turkey and add the candies and seeds as fruit. Cluster the purple seeds as a bunch of grapes and pipe a dot of frosting on top as the stems. Sprinkle the top of the caramel turkey with some cinnamon. Yield: 2 dozen.
Reviews for Turkey Dinner Cupcakes
"Very cute"
"Wouldn't these be wonderful as place card holders at each place setting! What a unique "eye candy" for our guests...plus it is dessert"
"way to complacted"
"It was fun but very time consuming. I did not like the corn flake part of it so I used icing instead. I tried to make it look like lettuce. I gave away about 30 and everyone loved them. I will do them again."
"I added one simple step to this, I filled the cupcake with jellied cranberry sauce. Overall the outcome was and ok product but you definitely need to set aside the whole day to do this recipe. Very time consuming. The carmel stuck to the wax paper as I was trying to make flat. The corn flakes didn't take the frosting as nicely as in the picture. My cupcakes were smaller so I had to adjust the "turkey" accordingly. I got one done and didn't have the patience to do the rest. So I just filled the rest with the jelly and did frosting as normal. The family did really like and was amazed with the one cupcake though. So if you have the patience for the recipe its really well received , but definitely not as easy as they make it look in the video."


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So far, so good. My only problem: Cardio.
I curl dumbbells, bench press, do push ups or use the crunch machine all day, but once I step on the treadmill... After about a minute into my jog, I hit the cool down button. Even that makes me tired and dead inside.
Friends have given me their opinions:
"Just go for ten minutes to start." I can't even go two minutes to start.
"Increase by a minute and 0.1 miles per hour each time you use it." Maybe that will work, but it will take a while to actually reach 2 miles per hour. "Work out in the gym, but do the cardio at home. That way you can take your time with the machine, and nobody will steal it from you during your water break." I don't have a StairMaster at home... but I do know a good exercise bike machine in Layton (pictured below).
"Get a personal trainer to keep you motivated." I can barely afford the healthy stuff I'm eating now at Whole Foods. No way I can afford $120 each time I hit the gym.
"Do a five-minute warm up before you increase your speed." As long as the warm up is just walking... it is walking, right?
"Take your cardio outdoors, and run the neighborhood instead." Maybe, just maybe.
Of course... I have been saving the cardio for the end of my prior 40 minutes workout. Could that be the problem? I could do the bike and treadmill first, and then start my lunges, squats, leg curls and tricep extensions.
Fitness gurus, help me out. What's the best way for me to last more than two minutes on a treadmill or exercise bike? Should I take a piece of advice above, or is there another solution.
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Idles Fine, stalls when I apply throttle. (SOLVED)
I just got my bike a little bit ago. It sat for 16 years and I have been restoring it. It starts fine and idles at the appropriate rpm. I rebuilt the carbs and replaced all the hoses. However, if I try to give it throttle, it stalls. The worst part is that this is not a consistent problem. It may work one day, and then not work another. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!
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Re: Idles Fine, stalls when I apply throttle.
I have the same (if not very similar) problem. My brother bought a 1983 920 midnight virago. We have got the bike to pristine condition, it's really good looking! However, just as OP said, I can start it with the choke closed, and it idles beautifully, but open the choke or give it any throttle at all and it kills. I have removed and inspected the carbs, they were astonishingly clean for a bike that sat for 6 years. I'm stumped, any ideas?
check for clogged filters...there's 2 in the tank and 2 in the carbs...i'd check the tank's first
Is there a diagram or picture on where to find these filters? I had the carbs all the way off and dissassebled and didn't see anything resembling a filter or a screen. Are the filters in the tank associated with the petcock?
1983 virago 920 midnight edition - current project
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Re: Idles Fine, stalls when I apply throttle.
anyone else? I cant find any filters in the carbs, and the problem is unresolved.
the tank filters are attached to the petcock[s]...did you remove the needle seats and look behind them?...t is not unusual for the diaphragm air filters to clog the needle seat screens with trash
all filters are 100% clean, suprisingly in fact. is there anything else i should check before putting the carbs back on? now i did notice that the mixture screws were WAY out... almost 4 or 5 turns. I put them back to 2 1/4 turns. could that affect it in any way?
also, could this be a synch issue?
1983 virago 920 midnight edition - current project
1981 honda cb750c - daily driver
1983 Honda cx650c - next project
its a full miss on the front cylinder, spark is present. i left it idle for 5 minutes and accidentally touched the front exhaust pipe... but it was cold.
1983 virago 920 midnight edition - current project
1981 honda cb750c - daily driver
1983 Honda cx650c - next project
what's the plug look like...is it getting fire
Re: Idles Fine, stalls when I apply throttle.
ive actually never seen it before, but the spark plug is broken internally, with no fouling. im going to pick up a new one tomorrow and hopefully that will fix it
I actually figured it out. After checking the filters and everything I realized it had to be the mixture screws. After adjusting them and making sure the pressure was good and both pipes were warm I adjusted the throttle screw. Put some new gas in it, and made sure the throttle cable didn't have too much slack. Everything works amazing now!
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When Kristen Walsh planned the home birth of her second son, she invited five women who live just a few minutes' walk away to attend. It's not unusual for a family member to support a woman through labor. But for Walsh, 44, it was important that her neighbors be involved. "They're my community," she explains. She printed out the lyrics of several songs for them to sing, including "Air I Am" and "Opening in Sweet Surrender," hoping that the simple, repetitive melodies might help ease her body through the birth process. When her contractions began, the women headed over to her place, song sheets in hand, and for the next hour or so, their voices filled her bedroom.
A former radio-station program director, Walsh might have found it hard to pull off a production like this if she hadn't been part of the Puget Ridge cohousing community in Seattle. Here, 23 families live in their own town houses while sharing a 2.4-acre plot of land, a common house, some meals and a deep sense of responsibility for one another.
LikeWalsh, I'm drawn to the idea of living within a community's supportive embrace. My husband, Lucas, spent a considerable chunk of his childhood on a commune, the old-fashioned hippie kind, with lots of bearded guys and very little indoor plumbing. But now we live with our two young sons in a single-family home in Brooklyn, New York. Good friends reside in the vicinity, but we're all so time strapped that it's hard to see one another. If our homes were closer together, I'd have a cushion of companionship and cooperation—or so I imagine. We'd share shopping, kid chauffeuring, a snowblower and compost bins.
Coincidentally, in my conversations with women, those living solo as well as those with families, a similar longing keeps surfacing.
This kind of interest in group life is growing. The Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC), which tracks and fosters living collectives, says traffic on its website (ic.org) has climbed 10 to 15 percent each year since 2005. FIC's first directory, published in 1990, listed about 325 American groups. Today's online version names more than 1,900 established "intentional communities" (to use the term preferred by collectivists to refer to cooperative living arrangements based on explicit common values). About 350 identify themselves as eco-villages and grow at least some of their own food. Old-style income-sharing communes number about 240. Cohousing developments like Puget Ridge account for at least 120. Women seem to find intentional communities appealing, particularly as they get older, says Laird Schaub, FIC's executive secretary and a longtime communal resident in Missouri who has visited more than 100 of them.
Should I seriously consider a move to one of these outposts? I decide to find out by visiting three, starting with Puget Ridge (pugetridge.net). Trudi Fajans, a family friend, was 43 when she became a founding member of Puget Ridge, drawn by the vision of living among a tight-knit circle of friends. She invites me to dine alfresco at a patio table next to her town house. Soon what I thought would be a quiet meal morphs into a lively social hour as neighbors stop by to chat.
Fajans, 61, introduces me to Walsh, who, like all the other residents, puts in 40 hours a year doing work such as cleaning the common house,repairing paths and cutting back the property's wild blackberry bushes. "Outdoor tasks are actually fun," she says. "We have company." Walsh and her husband, Brandon Faloona, spent $235,000 to buy their 1,100-square-foot unit and an additional $80,000 to remodel it. They also pay about $280 a month in condo fees. The theory is that private homes don't need a lot of square footage, since members can also use the common house and yard. Puget Ridge residents—who range in age from two to eighty--something and include an architect, a bus driver, a teacher, a lawyer and an arborist—are encouraged, though not required, to attend monthly meetings to address whatever problems arise. The group uses a consensus model, in which every member must agree to proposed changes, so the process can be time consuming. But attendance is usually good: This is when members update one another about their lives. Also popular are the communal meals served at the common house at least twice a week. Participants pay $3.50 per meal and do a cooking or cleaning shift twice a month. Eating communally allows Walsh many evenings of fine dining in good company without having to lift a finger. "I can't imagine living any other way," she says.
Can I imagine living this way? When I head over to Fajans's house on my last day, a neighbor pops out to tell me she isn't home. Would I like a cold drink? Years of living among people who try not to butt into one another's private business make me suspicious of her invitation. I decline the offer politely and slink off, feeling decidedly uncommunal.
PugetRidge could pass for any leafy middle-income suburb, but the Sirius compound (siriuscommunity.org), with 31 residents, set on 90 hilly acres in Shutesbury, western Massachusetts, feels almost like a nature preserve. Foliage curls around the wooden sign at its entrance. Deer saunter across its dirt paths. Back in 1985, the founders used sustainable materials to build the common house, an octagonal wooden wonder that resembles a giant beehive with windows. Rays of sunlight poke down through the skylights onto the circle of meditators holding hands below.
Among them, wearing a flowered blouse and a calm smile, is Deb Wilson, 50. She has a laugh that bubbles up easily and often, but as the weekday 7:30 am meditation begins, she looks solemn. The group sends a quiet "om" up toward the rafters, and as if on cue, a gust of wind blows open the wooden doors, letting in a burst of crisp air and the twitter of birds.
Wilson and her husband, Brice, came here 18 years ago as guests. Then they rented a place nearby. One snowy afternoon, "I looked out the window and knew we wouldn't be going anywhere in a car," she says. "So I bundled up the kids, and we walked to the common house. There was a fire in the fireplace. People were playing cards, talking. It ended up being a great time." Wilson and her family became residents soon after.
There are plenty of places where you can find warmth and good conversation but not as many, perhaps, that offer warmth and silence. This is what Wilson and Monique Gauthier, 47, seek out one recent Wednesday at the Sirius community sauna. Gauthier and Wilson have been neighbors and close friends for 13 years and have a lot to talk about. (Wilson has a life--coaching and healing practice; Gauthier is a midwife.) Yet this day the two opt for silence. They just sit, enveloped by the steam. Indeed, Sirius's signature may be the easy way it weaves a nature--infused spirituality into daily life. Before meals in the spacious dining room (supper is served most nights), members close their eyes, join hands and say thanks. Nonresidents flock here for workshops on topics such as composting and organic gardening and more ethereal pursuits such as "transformational breathing" and "heart forgiveness." But Sirius has a following beyond its official property. More than a hundred neighbors are informally affiliated with the community, visiting for regular open-mic nights, bonfires and pizza baked in a wood oven.
Gauthier and her husband, Daniel, moved to Sirius in 1998 from New Hampshire. When she was a child, her parents split up—in part, she thinks, because of their lack of connection to others. "Isolation causes anxiety, depression, loneliness," says Gauthier, who was determined not to go down the same path. Like all full members, she and Daniel put in eight hours of work a week. Within a few years, they had two children and more than enough work caring for them. Now they rent a house just outside Sirius, close enough to enjoy the fellowship but without having to shoulder the work commitments.
It's easy to see why people would want to stay connected to Sirius. The gardens are as beautiful as they are productive. Participation in collective meals is free, as long as you also take part in the cooking rotation. The buildings are pretty. Wilson and Brice live with two of their children, plus a dog, two cats, a bunny and a bird, in one of the community's larger homes, a four bedroom with a two-story open lounge space and giant picture windows overlooking pine trees. Because Brice's full-time job is running the Sirius conference center, they get a reduction in their rent (they pay only $1,000 a month), but the living spaces (all rentals) are quite affordable. A 300-square-foot studio apartment with a kitchen, for instance, rents for about $500 a month.
Sirius rules stipulate that all members go through conflict-resolution training, so when interpersonal problems arise, they can sit down together and work out their differences. Having "processed" with my husband, my sisters and my closest friends, I know what these conversations are like. Could I commit to this level of honesty and intimacy with such a large group of adults? Just the thought of all that potential conflict wearies me.
Sirius is small compared with Twin Oaks (twinoaks.org), a community in Louisa, Virginia, with 93 adult members and 15 children. "It's like being in an arranged marriage with 93 people," says Biddy Remick, 44, a self-described misanthrope and former financial manager for a nonprofit who came here three years ago. Founded in 1967 on 465 acres of farmland, Twin Oaks is one of the longest-surviving intentional communities in the country. Tie-dyed gauzy skirts and names like Trout and Firefly (people here often rename themselves) abound on this rural outpost, and a vaguely -patchouli-and-sweat-tinged fragrance permeates the air. Members live in eight residences, each of which has 10 to 18 bedrooms and two or three bathrooms, and each person gets a private bedroom, regardless of whether he or she is part of a couple.
Twin Oaks has explicit, often -complicated policies regulating pretty much everything. To the dismay of Remick, broadcast TV is a no-no. (She gets her fix through Netflix and a laptop in her room.) The use of cell phones and computers is restricted to certain areas. Illicit drugs are strictly prohibited, and there is a nuanced four-page, single-spaced policy on nudity. "If the UPS guy comes, you have to put your clothes on," is how one member summed it up for me.
Most members do not hold outside jobs; instead, they work 42 hours a week for the community's businesses. These generate about $1.6 million a year in gross sales, which is pretty good for a crew that operates without any business training or, as far as I could see, a stitch of office wear. Approximately $625,000 of that income derives from the production of tofu, which Twin Oaks sells through various retail outlets, including some Whole Foods stores. The community also earns about $700,000 from its handmade hammocks and surprisingly comfortable swinging chairs. Other jobs, such as housecleaning, eldercare, construction, tech support and book indexing, make up most of the rest of its income. The collective provides baseline health, vision and dental insurance, and members can choose their chores. At various times Remick has cooked dinner, tended chickens, boxed tofu and tutored kids in math. Child care counts as work, regardless of who does it, so parents typically share child--related tasks with other residents.
The fact that each person's share of income is only about $5,000 presents one of the biggest challenges of living at Twin Oaks. Life here is modest. Members make do with a monthly allowance of just $75 for personal expenses, including travel, toiletries and treats. "Objects of envy," the Twin Oaks term for cars, dining room sets and similar pricey items, must be donated to the community on joining or given away.
Most residents I speak with say they were drawn to Twin Oaks by its values and unconventional lifestyle. Many came at solitary junctures in their lives. But, according to some members, the community's one-bedroom-per-person policy seems to encourage breakups and new romantic pairings. A resident called Tigger, whose ex-partner and child have left the farm, told me only half-jokingly that the community feeds on the drama: "Since we don't have TV, that's how we amuse ourselves."
By the time I return to Brooklyn, I realize I could never make a home for my family in an intentional community. All the meetings, the coordinating, the accountability to others seem like too much work. Instead, I decide to experiment with a more informal arrangement. When I pick up my son after school, I invite his friend and her mother to come over. Her first response is an incredulous "Now?" Happily, her second response is a shrugging "Why not?" and we wind up spending the rest of the cold winter afternoon pleasantly holed up together.
Just as they're leaving, I take an even bolder step. Kate, one of my oldest friends, who has two boys around the ages of mine, phones to hammer out a brunch for next month. "Why not just get together tonight?" I say.
"Like right now?" she asks with that same tinge of surprise. Yes.
That evening Kate and I sip wine and assemble the lasagna we'll all eat for dinner. Our conversation meanders. Nothing we say is momentous or deep. Yet it is precisely this kind of mundane togetherness that I've been longing for, a small step toward a more connected existence. It's not a commune, not even a sleepover. But I'm happy to have had these few hours of connection—and afterward, I'm happy to have my time alone.
Sharon Lerner is the author of The War on Moms. Her next book is about ideal places.
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ZF-2923: Zend_Loader::autoload() causes a file not found warning when unable to include the class
Autoload functions should not cause errors when they can't include the requested class. They may only be one function in the autoload stack, or they may be being used by class_exists() to simply check if a class is available. It isn't the job of any individual autoload to ensure a class is defined, therefore they should fail silently in the event that they cannot include the class.
At present the Zend_Loader::loadClass() method (used by Zend_Loader::autoload()) causes a PHP file not found warning if it cannot include the requested class. (Line 83)
One obvious solution is to change the {{autoload()}} method to suppress errors on the call to {{self::loadClass()}}, but what happens when the file does exist, and it has a parse error or a warning that the developer should see? Such error suppression solves one problem while causing other potential problems. The complexity of dealing with PHP errors here is a bit like a waterbed... if you push down one side, the other side pops up.
The next step would be to capture the errors and make them available to the calling script (except fatal errors of course), but this may be a performance hog. We'll need some tests and benchmarks, I think.
Maybe someone else has a better idea?
So we have four options:
- Don't check the file exists before inclusion and get errors when not found
- Don't check the file exists before inclusion and suppress all errors, including parse errors
- Don't check the file exists before inclusion but somehow catch the PHP file not found warning and suppress it, at the cost of performance
- Check the file exists before inclusion, at the cost of performance
None of them are ideal really. For the time being I've settled on option 4 for my workaround. Although I've got no idea on the actual performance impact of this.
Please see SVN r8903 as a possible solution.
Of course, this solution also suppresses any such "file not found" warnings from user code, such as in the following:
$foo = new Foo();
In Foo.php:
include_once 'Foo/Exception.php';
class Foo
If '{{Foo/Exception.php}}' is not found, then the warnings generated by this user code are invisible.
We could augment the solution with an accumulation of such warnings rather than suppressing them altogether into the void. I'll commit another version that does this shortly.
Please see SVN 8904 for the augmented solution.
I've just run some (fairly unscientific) benchmarks on my standard application skeleton, here's the results:
Average load time in seconds based on 10 requests:
Using simple error suppression on the include_once (@): 0.3055 Checking file exists before inclusion (Zend_Loader::isReadable()): 0.3442 Using the new error suppression method in incubator: 0.3086
So, there's practically no performance hit with the new method. Looks good to me.
You make a good point regarding the inclusion of other files, but I see that as less of an issue. I guess you could always change the regex in suppressFileNotFoundWarnings() to look for the file name as well, so that only errors related to that file are suppressed? Mind you, you can't parse anything to the error handler can you? So I guess it would complicated things further.
I resolved ZF-2985 today. Please tell me if ZF-2985 causes something wrong.
Resolved in trunk in r12769. However, this is a slight change in behavior, and cannot be released until the next minor release (1.8.0).
Matthew is this still on track to be released in 1.8.0?
Yes -- Zend_Loader_Autoloader is complete in the incubator, and just needs to be documented before I push it to trunk, and that offers the most comprehensive solution.


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This is a story about a guy who finished last. Which is technically true. You can look up the results of the race, and you'll see his name, right there, lonely at the bottom. Taylor Phinney. USA. Finishing time of six hours, twenty-two minutes, fifty-four seconds. One hundred-and-ninth place. Last.
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That's what kept his son pedaling in the cold Italian rain.
"I knew that if my dad could be in my shoes for one day—if all he had to do was struggle on a bike for six hours, but be healthy and fully functional—he would be me on that day in a heartbeat," Taylor Phinney said. "Every time I wanted to quit, every time I wanted to cry, I just thought about that."


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All branches of Marin County Free Library will be closed on Monday, July 4 for Independence Day.
Martin Luther King Day is a federal holiday celebrated on the third Monday in January to commemorate the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King. King is remembered for his nonviolent activism during the civil rights movement, and shortly after his assassination in 1968 a campaign was begun to create a holiday in his honor. President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it was first observed in some states on January 20, 1986. It was officially observed in all 50 states in 2000.
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Mayor Williams Responds to Conde Nast Traveler's Reader Survey
Posted on 08/03/2013 8:45 am
In response to yesterday's Condé Nast Traveler's reader survey that ranked Wilmington as America's No. 8 unfriendliest city, I felt it necessary for the Williams Administration to communicate to residents and visitors our passion and determination to make the City of Wilmington the envy of the East coast. My thoughts are below.
"As a growing, thriving city it is unfortunate that a traveler has had such an experience. The Williams Administration values each visitor's experience as they stay in our city. We work daily to create an inviting, entertaining, and enjoyable city for all visitors, traveling both for business and leisure. It is not clear how the survey was created, conducted, and/or compiled; however, we believe that the voice of a single unsatisfied visitor is just as important as the one that expresses discontent through a national survey.
Sentiments contrary to Wilmington's inclusion as an 'unfriendly' city are readily available. According to Sarah Willoughby of the Greater Wilmington Convention and Visitors Bureau (GWCVB), "Many visitors to Wilmington are impressed with the area and often comment on how friendly our hospitality is."
The Williams Administration is working to improve the experience of our visitors, as well as the daily lives of our residents. Supporting downtown facade improvements, working to increase recognition and celebration of local businesses through the Mayor's 'Lunch Bunch,' and, most recently, increasing awareness of Wilmington's energy to engage and celebrate our downtown with the "Jenny on the Block," segment on Fox 29 are just a few of the initiatives underway.
The inherent nature of surveys is that there is always one survey that will contradict the findings of another. For example, last year Parenting Magazine listed Wilmington as one of the "Top 10 Most Dangerous Cities in America,*" , yet just two years prior it reported that our city was one of the "Best Cities for Families 2010.**"
As Wilmington's hotel industry grows, and visitors continue to enjoy our city's arts, cultural, historical, and entertainment amenities, I challenge the naysayers to survey patrons at the DuPont® Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, the 4th of July Celebration on the Riverfront festivities, this weekend's Riverfront Blues Festival, or those who will visit for the upcoming August Quarterly celebration. As opposed to 'unfriendly' I believe you will hear 'amazing' or 'I will be back again next year.'
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