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Make the Most Unsightly Bathtub Look New Again
Sometimes referred to as bathtub enclosures or bathtub decks, the skirt is the doodad that frames your tub and creates a nice finishing touch to your bathroom. There are several ways you can update your bathroom; adding a tub skirt is one of the most cost effective ways to add beauty.
The types of bathtubs most suitable for tub skirts are whirlpool tubs and drop-in bathtubs that are made specifically for bathtub enclosures and are the easiest to build around.
For the drop-in and whirlpool bathtub, the enclosure/skirt is necessary to hide the water pipes. For the do-it-yourselfer, the level of difficulty to build a tub skirt is intermediate, of course providing you have a lot of patience, the right materials, and the right tools.
Get creative
How much space you have in your bathroom will dictate how creative you can get. When planning the framework around your tub, you can design wider ledges, tiered ledges, etc. If you want to make your enclosure's ledge wider, just build a second frame a few inches longer than the first and install it next to the first frame. If you want your ledge wider than 16", build a third frame. You can make a step by building a lower frame and installing it parallel to the first frame. Anchor the additional extensions to the floor and wall parallel to the previously installed frame. It should be noted that your frame should be about ¾ inch below your tub's rim to make room for the plywood and tile to fit under the rim.
Why tile?
Besides style, there's a reason why tile is so popular in the bathroom; it's durable and it's water resistant.
The art of tile
Your unique tile configuration is what makes bathroom remodeling so much fun. Making a decision on the type of tile, whether ceramic, terra cotta, or what have you, is just one of the decisions you'll need to make. You'll also want to spend time playing around with different shapes and designs.
You can mix and match with complementing materials such as glass tile, jewels (fake of course), sea shells, mosaic, etc. Heck, you can even use marbles if you want to as long as it works in your design and it's structurally sound.
Textures and contrasting tile tones can complement each other in unique patterns that you design using your own artistic talent. Your bathroom tiles set the tone for your entire bathroom; however, if you choose to create a detailed bohemian masterpiece on your tile tub skirt, it will become the focal point.
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I think salad is a side dish served at every dinner party.
And rightfully so. Salad is so versatile.
So many greens.
So many dressings.
So many toppings.
Whenever we go to holiday dinners with Pete's side of the family, I get asked to bring a salad. I think it's because my salads aren't your usual chopped cucumbers, diced tomatoes, and iceberg lettuce salads. You just never know what's in my salad bowl!
And I'm a little bit of a dressing snob. You do know it's faster to make your own salad dressing than it is to go to a store and buy some, right?
If You Build It
I always begin building my salads with a mix of greens – spinach, romaine, kale, arugula, whatever is in my fridge. There's one rule though, no iceberg. I'm so over iceberg lettuce.
I usually throw in some walnuts, and if it's a really special occasion I like to make candied nuts to top off my salads. I also like to add some fresh sprouts. There's a woman at our year-round farmer's market who makes an amazing variety of sprouts. Sometimes we add a cup of quinoa to our salads. Yum!
When I was in Switzerland a few years ago, I had a salad that had avocado in it and I fell in love. So there's always some perfectly ripe avocado in our salads. And on those special occasions, we like to put some pears or berries in too.
My friend Glenn likes to grate beets, carrots, and sweet potato for his salads. I love the texture this adds to a salad. And the colour rocks.
That's my goal for every salad – to give it some colour.
We have a few salad dressings that we rotate through, but this is a fairly new one. It has yet to be debuted at a Savage Family party. I think it will make its first appearance this holiday season.
Date Vinaigrette
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
3 medjool dates soaked until soft
1 clove of garlic, crushed
1 tsp Dijon mustard (I like to use grainy Dijon)
2 tbsp water (use the date-soaking water)
salt and pepper to taste
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp basil, chiffonade (check out Simply Sugar and Gluten-Free's chiffonade tutorial)
Place the balsamic vinegar, garlic, Dijon and water in a large measuring cup. Blend well with an immersion blender (or in your blender). With blender running, add oil and combine. Add salt, pepper and basil.
This makes a thick dressing so you might want to thin it out with more water. Pete and I like our dressing thick!
Makes ¾ cup of dressing.
Did you know that most balsamic vinegars contain caramel colouring? Why? I don't need my balsamic to be the colour of caramel. I'm okay with au natural. Solution? Buy organic balsamic vinegar. Or go to Italy and buy some…
Are you a salad dressing snob?
You can find this and many more slightly indulgent recipes at Simply Sugar and Gluten-Free's Slightly Indulgent Tuesdays.
This post is linked up to Gluten-Free Holiday celebrations. Visit Gluten-Free Easily by next Wednesday, November 17th, and join in the awesome giveaway that's going on!
I joined the Hearth and Soul Hop for the FIRST time by linking up this recipe! Head on over and check out some amazing recipes, all of which will nourish your soul! I love it.
You'll also find this recipe at Gluten-Free Wednesday which is hosted by Linda at The Gluten-Free Homemaker. Check it out!

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F1 Taps 2012 C63 AMG Estate as Medical CarKharl Prado March 25, 2011
With the 2011 Formula 1 season set to start this weekend, with 24 of the fastest cars competing at the Australian Grand Prix, the F1 organizers have bolstered its ranks with a powerful vehicle of its own: its new medic car, a 2012 C63 AMG Estate.
When there are injuries or severe crashes, the medical car will be on the scene in no time. There wasn't much modification done to the car, which replaces the previous medical car, a C63 wagon model. Still, this particular C63 AMG Estate is fitted with the optional performance kit to ensure good numbers. The 2012 C63 AMG was first showcased at this year's Geneva Motor Show. It sports a 6.2L V8 engine.
On the medical side of things, this particular 2012 C63 AMG Estate comes with emergency lights, a couple of integrated dash monitors, four bucket seats that have six-point harnesses, a radio, and a boot that is replete with the kind of medical equipment that is required of such a sport as Formula 1.
It just goes to show how elite the competition is in F1. If you have an updated C63 AMG Estate as your medic car and there's also the SLS AMG safety car, there's definitely no shortage of high performance vehicles on any given F1 race.


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Does Happiness Have To Cost The Earth?
Abstract from a talk by Nic Marks at the Gaia Foundation, November 2008. Written by Stephen Frank.
Nic Marks is Founder of the Centre for Well-being and has led the Well-being programme at nef since 2001. He is a statician who heads a 'think and do tank' team of people who carry out community action research projects. Nic was the lead author of nef's innovative Happy Planet Index, a global index of human well-being and environmental impact. He is an advisor to the Government of Bhutan, working with the Centre for Bhutanese Studies, on how to con- struct indicators for assessing Gross National Happiness (GNH).
What are human needs and how are they met? For years, Nic Marks from the New Economic Foundation (NEF) has been trying to articulate a non-economic language that allows us to talk about what is important in life. There is a long history of thought on this topic, but in a more modern context the word 'competitive' keeps occurring in the discussion. In addition, many experts, including those at the UN, have taken an essentially materialistic approach to human needs, generally ignoring non-material human needs such as a sense of identity.
In 2001, a new local government act called The Power Of Wellbeing gave all local governments the power to promote wellbeing in their areas in various ways. In line with this, NEF decided that the word 'wellbeing' would become a policy word and although he was not too keen on the word, Nic Marks thought this would give him a chance to explore further aspects of human needs.
However, he soon came across research on happiness and subjective wellbeing and thought this research contained a much more appropriate language with which to talk about human needs - what it is to be human and why that is only partly dependent on our economic situation. This discussion was not only about, 'How successful am I?' and 'How much income or wealth do I have?' It opened the debate on what is deemed important in life and how much happiness and/or wellbeing does a person possess. Wellbeing was defined as the subjective quality of people's live experience - about the experience of life and less about the conditions of life.
In 1946, the World Health Authority defined health as a state of mental, physical and social wellbeing, not merely an absence of disease or infirmity. The second half of the sentence is important because wellbeing is not just the absence of ill-being or the absence of mental health problems. It is about the flourishing, the fulfilment of life. It cannot be measured by absences - like the absence of depression. It is gauged by whether people are experiencing their lives as full and feel fulfilled.
A lot of this has to do with 'functioning' which is connected to being autonomous and doing the things that we do well. Another factor of functioning has to do with our relationships - our connection with others. Depending on how we function, feelings and thoughts about our lives emerge that are positive or negative; wellbeing has to do with how satisfied we are - or not.
Two feedback loops arise here. The first one is to do with functioning: people who do well shape their environment; equally, people who do badly shape their environment. If you have a difficult member of your team at work, you all suffer. And if you have someone who is really inspiring, they shape the environment positively for everyone. So people influence the functioning of the environment.
The other feedback loop is about the experience of life. If you are doing well and experiencing things positively, then you look out on the world much more broadly and see a lot more. You are more open to being connected to other people - to relationships - to learning. You are more playful and you learn all sorts of skills that you will be able to use later; the child that plays is the child that is going to learn.
Since 1973, overall economic turnover in the UK has almost doubled, but generally surveys report that people are no more satisfied with their lives now than they were back then. Using various indicators for his statistics, Nic Marks addresses the question, 'Does money buy you happiness?' Using social relationships as one of the indicators of happiness, he found that people in the lowest 20% income group, but with strong social connections, are generally as satisfied with their lives as people who are in the top 20% income group, but who do not have strong social connections. Yet it is common for people to work incredibly hard to achieve wealth, thinking it will bring happiness. Marks' statistics show that accumulating great wealth is unlikely to bring happiness. A more efficient way of achieving wellbeing would be to improve our social relationships. To get to the top from the lower or middle group can mean quadrupling of income. This would take enormous effort and luck. But to develop relationships with friends, to go out more and connect socially, is something within one's power and does not have to cost a lot of money.
Working on a project called Five Ways to Wellbeing for the government's Foresight Programme, Nic Marks and his team listed Connecting, Being active, Taking notice, Continuing to learn and Giving as the five things one can do to improve wellbeing. Sometimes when we talk about happiness and wellbeing we think that it is a state to get to - a utopia that we are going to reach and then stay there. But this is not the case. Wellbeing is a dynamic state. There is a lot of stretch and challenge in it. Having self-esteem is not just about feeling good. It is not just about contentment. It is not just about relaxation. To be our best we also need that stretch to go forward - to experience the challenge of the stretch. Utopia is today often imagined as a perfect, uninhabited beach. We don't generally imagine utopia filled with people. This is odd, because actually we are relational beings and, according to Nic Marks, the good life - in addition to the stretch-challenge we need - is the relational life, the interconnected life.
But ultimately, because the human system is entirely embedded within the ecosystem, wellbeing has to be linked to the state of the environment, the state of the planet. When we create indicators on progress or wellbeing we need to always be aware that we are entirely dependent on the ecosystem. We should be trying to measure how peoples' lives are going and, in some way, relate that to how well Gaia is doing. We can think about ecosystem-resilience and the health of the ecosystem, but it is somehow beyond our comprehension to know exactly what is going on there. But ultimately that is what we should be trying to understand.
The Happy Planet Index (HPI), launched in 2006, is an attempt to do this. It is a sort of efficiency measure, like miles per gallon, except in this case it asks how successful each country is in terms of the happy, long lives of its citizens - its wellbeing - and then divides that by its resource use - using the famous indicator, the Ecological Footprint (EF) - to get the HPI. Before actually working out the index, there is a scale of countries like the USA and the Gulf States with very high footprints and reasonable to good levels of wellbeing at the top, and sub-Saharan Africa where countries have very low footprints, and the people (statistically) live short, unhappy lives - very low wellbeing - at the bottom. When you work out the index from these extremes, these different countries come out with similar HPIs. In other words, a society with high wellbeing and a high EF will have a similar HPI to a society with low wellbeing and a low EF.
Once you actually work out all the HPIs, countries that do very well are two types - Latin American countries and small islands of the world, which do well everywhere because of the strong community life aspect of happiness. Of the 178 countries on the HPI list, Costa Rica is 3rd, the UK is 108th, the USA is 150th and Zimbabwe is bottom of the list. According to the HPI, it is as bad to have a high footprint as it is to have very low wellbeing.
It seems natural that people want to keep on improving their lives. The HPI helps us grasp that we now need to do this in relation to the planet. For instance, none of us really notices how much energy we consume. We hardly read the meter - we just pay out the money, usually via a direct debit. But if we saw a smart meter by the door as we went out every day, clicking up our total in actual pounds, we might turn the lights off more and turn our TV off standby. Maybe, instead of the FT100, the radio should announce how much energy the UK consumes - 'Has Britain reduced its energy today?' If we work towards collective goals aimed to reduce energy consumption, the thinking will sink into our unconscious minds and we will all develop a daily awareness of how much energy we need and how much we actually use. And not only will our footprint reduce, but by working towards collective goals, our sense of community will also flourish.


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There are many communities like the village of Glenwood, in Alberta. It's small and located in a rural area next to Canada's largest First Nation Reserve (Kainai, or the Bloods). What makes Glenwood unique is that the community school has educated First Nations students from the time of the residential school system through to the present. In fact, parents from the Kainai Reserve would send their children to Glenwood School despite being ordered to send their children to a residential school.
For more than 60 years, Glenwood School, which teaches students from kindergarten to Grade 9, has been educating First Nation students. In many cases, grandparents who attended Glenwood School themselves now have their grandchildren attending the school.
In Alberta, the low high school completion rate for First Nations students is a concern. Students' completion rates are more than 30 percentage points below average. Given the long history of teaching First Nations students at Glenwood School, a question arose as to whether or not students who attended the school were more likely to complete high school than other First Nations students.
Thanks to funding from the ATA Educational Trust, a First Nations liaison, Shirley Chief Moon, was hired to locate all former students of Glenwood School who graduated from Grade 9 (between 1987–2002) to determine if they graduated from high school. Former students were surveyed on what had made the difference between graduating and not graduating.
Students from Glenwood School
Unfortunately, the survey found that the overall rate at which First Nations students graduated from high school remained about the same, even if students completed their beginning years at Glenwood School. In fact, the percentage of First Nations students who completed high school mirrored the national average. On the bright side, one group of students exceeded the national average of students who completed high school. These were students whose parents and/or grandparents had graduated from high school and who had provided support for their children. As well, nearly 80 per cent of these students had been cared for by educated caregivers.
Aside from the one group's success, what dismayed the writer of this study, who has taught at Glenwood School for more than 20 years, was the seemingly insignificant influence that Glenwood School had had on its students. Although staff put in time and effort, tears and love, the overall high school graduation rate was similar to that of the rest of Alberta. Clearly, the overriding factor determining a student's graduation from high school is family support. A student who has a safe place to go to and who enjoys a secure family life is more likely to be successful. This type of home life was offered by families that had been educated.
If Alberta is serious about increasing the graduation rates of First Nations students, then family support given to First Nations families must increase. An all-inclusive (wraparound) solution to the problem with more accountability at the home level for children's education is required. Improvement does not lie at the door of the school; the answer lies at the door of the home.
Kelly Thomas is author of Where Are They Now? Reasons for Success Among First Nation Students at the Glenwood School. The research for the paper was sponsored by the EdTrust.
Read also the article The ATA Educational Trust: Teachers and profession reap benefits of research.
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The Archives of Liver - General Questions
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The Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Forum
for the medical topic: Liver - General. Please feel free to browse our liver - general archive below,
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full archives
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Previous (1996-1999) Liver - General Q&A
wine consumption..how much is considered safe?
Difference of opinion over LFTs
Elevated sgpt/sgot levels
What's next?
Chronic Itching
Help--medicines for hepatitis B
Young person with liver, biliary problem please help
Elevated SGOT/SGPT/ALKP
Elevated Bilirubin
Interpreting data in CT report
Many things wrong, unsure why?
Elevated Lactate Dehydrogenase, significance to Lymphocytes
elevated ast, alt
Info re:Cavernous Hemangioma
elevated sgpt liver function, enlarged liver
Fatty liver
fatty liver??
LFT and gallstones
LFT Test Results
Liver Biopsy Inconclusive
Horrible pain in liver area!
Liver problems, Tylenol, Triglycerides, Cholesterol
Autoimmune Hepatitis
Help, we are stumped
liver test results
More test results...What now?
History of Elevated GGT
Will I Die Before Or After They Diagnose?
elevated alkaline phosphatase
acetaminophen and liver problems
Elevated Liver Enzymes
liver readings ????
Fatty Liver and Medication
Problems associated with Hep "C"??
Liver disfuntion
Itching, flushing, restless and fatigued
Liver Disease and associated neuropathies
treatment for portal hypertension
enlarged liver, etc.
high sgot and sgpt level
Liver Function Test Results - Need help with interpretation
Liver cell regeneration, NASH, Actigall
Many Issues Relating to Blood Work
Elevated liver enzymes
elivated liver enzymes
hepatic encephalopathy
Elderly Grandmother has liver blockage
Severe Bile Duct Damage
cholesterol too low?
ALT Levels and Liver Cancer
High GGT and ALP
Bile Duct Damage
Test results
hypo,with high liver emzymes ( ggtp 362 )
whats is
Liver enzymes
Elevated GGT
Fatty Liver & Ativan
Portal Hypertension
Any new treatments for Hepatitis C?
Hep C alternatives
Fatty Liver
Liver dissorder in conjunction with N.E.C in an infant
Where do I began diabetes, hypothyroidisum, elevated liver enzymes, linked?????
liver function tests and CMV tests
Interferon and Ribo combo question
Questions for DR on liver
Portal Hypertension
sludge in the bile duct
autoimmune chronic active hepatitis
Cysts in the Liver
9mm hemangiomas
consistently high sgot level
Fatty Liver
liver problems
high ldh, sgot, sgpt and trouble walking
Liver Disease
high direct bilirubin levels 3 weeks after birth
elevated liver function tests
Primary Biliary Cirrhosis vs. autoimmune hepatitis
Hep C Treatment: Does infergen give fewer negative side effects than interferon
Increasing Pain and Discomfort
Liver Disorders vs. Gall Bladder Problems
Alkaline phosphatase
Gilberts Syndrome
IS 10 mg. Zocor or dietary change responsible for my elevated SGOT, SGPT
High Billrubin
Back pain increased with alcoholic consumption
GGT in the 240 range
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Theme Song
Growing Just Like Me!
When I look all around
there are changes that I see.
Everything is growing—
growing just like me!
(Repeat refrain after each verse.)
Verse 1
My hair is growing longer.
When I comb it I can tell.
The grass on our front lawn
is growing long as well.
Verse 2
My feet are growing bigger
and my shoes are getting small.
My puppy's paws are bigger, too.
He's faster than us all!
Verse 3
I know I'm growing taller.
There are more things I can see.
The tree in our backyard
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The first American black astronaut to fly in space, willing to poke fun at NASA in the days before political correctness. At the party thrown by TFNG astronauts at the end of their first summer of training, McNair took part in a skit with Judy Resnik and an unnamed white astronaut. Putting their respective arms and face through a white backdrop with an astronaut jumpsuit attached, they portrayed NASA's ideal astronaut candidate - part black, part white, part woman.
Official NASA Biography:
Ronald E. McNair was born on October 21, 1950 in Lake City, South Carolina. McNair was the son of Carl C. McNair, Sr., and Pearl M. McNair. He achieved early success in the segregated public schools he attended as both a student and an athlete. Valedictorian of his high school class, he attended North Carolina A&T State University where in 1971 he received a B.S. degree in physics. He went on to study physics at MIT, where he specialized in quantum electronics and laser technology, completing his Ph.D. in 1977. As a student he performed some of the earliest work on chemical HF/DF and high pressure CO lasers, publishing pathbreaking scientific papers on the subject.
McNair was also a physical fitness advocate and pursued athletic training from an early age. He was a leader in track and football at his high school. He also became a black belt in Karate, and while in graduate school began offering classes at St. Paul's AME Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also participated in several Karate tournaments, taking more than 30 trophies in these competitions. While involved in these activities McNair met and married Cheryl B. Moore of Brooklyn, New York, and they later had two children. After completing his Ph.D. he began working as a physicist at the Optical Physics Department of Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California, and conducted research on electro-optic laser modulation for satellite-to-satellite space communications.
This research led McNair into close contact with the space program for the first time, and when the opportunity presented itself he applied for astronaut training. In January 1978 NASA selected him to enter the astronaut cadre, one of the first three Black Americans selected. McNair became the second Black American in space between Febrary 3 and 11, 1984, by flying on the Challenger Shuttle mission STS-41-B. During this mission McNair operated the maneuverable arm built by Canada used to move payloads in space. The 1986 mission on which he was killed was his second Shuttle flight.
Departed Date: 1986-01-28. Cause of Death: Challenger explosion.. Degree: PhD. Marital Status: Married. Children: Two children. Education: NC State;MIT.
Birth Place: African, South Carolina.
Status: Deceased.
Born: 1950.10.21.
Died: 1986.01.28.
Spaceflights: 2 .
Total time in space: 7.97 days.
Mission Specialists: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics and minimum three years of related experience or an advanced degree. Vision minimum 20/150 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20. Maximum sitting blood pressure of 140/90. Height between 150 and 193 cm.. 8,079 applicants, of which half met the basic qualifications. 208 invited for physical tests and interviews. Of the 35 selected, six were women, three were male African-Americans, and one was a male Asian-American.


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The Los Angeles Times released today that the leading suspect in a killing spree near UC Santa Barbara leaving seven people dead including the gunman is Elliot Rodger. The seemingly senseless act in the Isla Vista neighborhood of UC Santa Barbara has quickly brought attention to his YouTube video, "Elliot Rodger's Retribution."
The video has been removed under terms of violation regulations of terms of service from YouTube. However, a transcript from the video has been released in which the twenty-two year-old Rodger, a student at UC Santa Barbara, claims that he still a virgin and rejected by women. He shows pictures of himself sitting inside his expensive BMW. Despite his expensive clothes and designer sunglasses, he cannot get a relationship.
Last night, he took out his frustration and according to Santa Barbara County sheriff officials he drove through the streets of the Isla Vista neighborhood of Santa Barbara firing upon strangers and running down bystanders. In his video he states that he will take out his revenge upon humanity and claims, "I will punish all of you for it."
Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown stated during a Saturday morning news conference that after viewing of the video it appears that the mass killing rampage and the victim are connected. Authorities also viewed his blog site in which he threatens violence.
Rodger is the son of Peter Rodger, who was an assistant director on the 2012 film "The Hunger Games." Peter Rodger also directed a documentary in 2009 called, "Oh My God" which interviewed people and their answers about their definition of what is God?
Rodger has been releasing videos over the past couple of years, which show him alone and wandering aimlessly, caused his parents concern. They are reported as having had mental health treatment for him. Rodger had subscribed to three different YouTube channels that gave advice on how to pick up women and be an "alpha male."
His Facebook page is full of selfies but no friends or group pictures at college. Instead of friends, Rodgers displayed photos of his rich and advantageous lifestyle as a son of a Hollywood director.
UCSB President Janet Napolitano, former U.S. secretary of Homeland Security, said she was "shocked and deeply saddened" by the shooting near the campus. While families are still being notified, Napolitano announced that counseling services are available for students, faculty and family members through the University. The community of Isla Vista has 23,000 people of which many are students at UCSB or Santa Barbara City College.
Many agree that it is sad that this tragedy began with Rodger's documenting his loneliness on the Internet through blogs and YouTube. The tragedy is magnified by his use of a gun at a time when so many have chosen to use a firearm to release their hatred upon innocent victims.
Rodger's final words in his video are, "I will be a god compared to you, you will all be animals, you are animals and I will slaughter you like animals. I'll be a god exacting my retribution on all those who deserve it and you do deserve it just for the crime of living a better life than me."
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- If you've owned and lived in your home for two of the five years prior to selling it, you can generally excluded up to $250,000 of the gain from your income ($500,000 on a join return, in most cases).
- You are not eligible for this exclusion if you sold another principal residence within the past two years and excluded the allowable gain from your income.
- If you can exclude ALL of the gain from the sale of your primary residence, you don't need to report the sale on your tax return.
- If you have a gain on your principal residence that exceeds the allowable deduction, it is taxable.
- You can't deduct a loss from the sale of your primary residence.
- Special rules may apply when you sell a home for which you've received the first-time home buyer credit. (See IRS publication 523, "Selling Your Home," for details.)
If you're contemplating a short-sale, there are some additional tax implications you should be aware of as well.


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VENICE, CA—Bonnie Rotten kicks off the most important part of the awards season today with the announcement that she has won XCritic's prestigious Female Performer of the Year award.
The XCritic Awards are selected by the staff of XCritic.com.
"Bonnie entered 2013 with a great deal of buzz and promise," Chris Thorne, Editor of XCritic.com said. "She hit the ground running and never let up. She showed that hard work, enthusiasm and plain old charm goes a long way on the road to success in the adult industry. Bonnie Rotten owned 2013 and it's with great pride that we award her our Female Performer of The Year Award."
Later this week the 2014 AVN Awards will be held in Las Vegas. Bonnie has several Avn nominations, including Female Performer of the Year.
This week she will be at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo where she will sign at the Evil Angel booth. Below is her booth schedule:
Wed: 12-3, 4-6
Thu: 11-1, 2-4
Fri: 12-3; 4-6
Sat: 10-12; 1-3
Last week she announced a directing contract with Girlfriends Films. She will direct six titles for the company this year.
"I'm so excited to have won the wonderful award from XCritic," Bonnie said. "This is one of the most exciting times of my life and I can't thank them enough for the honor. This is going to be an unforgettable week!"
Bonnie stars in several big January releases, including the much-anticipated Rambone XXX (DreamZone), which has her taking on the legendary Rambo character with her own sexy, badass twist.
Follow Bonnie on Twitter. Her official website is here. For everything Bonnie, click here.


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German expert in guided missiles during World War II. Member of the German rocket team, arrived in America under Project Paperclip on 16 November 1945 aboard the Argentina from La Havre. As of January 1947, working at Fort Bliss,Texas. Worked his entire life with the rocket team, at Fort Bliss, White Stands, and then at Huntsville. Died at Huntsville, Alabama.
Birth Place: Berlin.
Born: 1914.05.09.
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Election Day: No rest in the final hours of campaign for Obama, Romney
David Goldman, AP
WASHINGTON — Stock up on munchies and make sure the batteries in your TV remote are fresh. With this year's presidential election razor-close to the finish, tonight could be a long night.
Even if the presidency isn't decided until after 10 p.m. MST, there will be plenty of clues early in the evening on how things are going for President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney. Obama has more options for piecing together the 270 electoral votes needed for victory, so any early setbacks for Romney could be important portents of how the night will end.
Here's a timetable for armchair election watchers on how the night will unfold, based on what time the last polls close in each state. All times are MST.
5 p.m.: Polls close in six states but all eyes will be on Virginia, the first of the battleground states to begin reporting results. If either candidate is comfortably ahead in Virginia, with 13 electoral votes, that could be a leading indicator of which way the night is going.
Virginia typically has been fairly fast at counting ballots. But there's a new voter ID law in the state that could complicate things this year. Voters who don't bring identification to the polls still can have their ballots counted if they produce ID by Friday. If the race in Virginia is super tight, it could come down to those provisional ballots. On Election Night, no one will even know how many of them are out there.
Virginia is especially important for Romney. In 2008, Obama became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry Virginia since 1964. Keep an eye on turnout in northern Virginia's Democratic strongholds for an early idea of which way the state will go.
5:30 p.m.: Polls close in three states, including all-important Ohio (18 electoral votes) and competitive North Carolina (15).
If Ohio is particularly close, and polls suggest it might be, there's a chance the outcome there won't be known until after Election Day, and the presidency could hinge on it. In the last several elections, between 2 percent and 3 percent of the state's votes came from provisional ballots, which aren't counted until later. In 2004, after a long, tense night counting votes, the presidential race wasn't decided until 11 a.m. the next day, when Democrat John Kerry called President George Bush to concede Ohio and the presidency.
Romney desperately needs Ohio; no Republican has won the presidency without it. Without Ohio, Romney would need victories in nearly all the remaining up-for-grabs states and he'd have to pick off key states now leaning Obama's way, such as Wisconsin and Iowa. Obama has more work-arounds than Romney if he can't claim Ohio.
In North Carolina, the most conservative of the hotly contested states, Romney appeared to have the late edge in polling. Obama, who narrowly won the state in 2008, has paid less attention to it recently. An Obama victory there could point to broader troubles for Romney.
6 p.m.: More pieces of the puzzle will start falling into place as polls close in the District of Columbia and 16 states, including battlegrounds Florida (29) and New Hampshire (four).
Democratic-leaning parts of Florida tend to be the last places to report, so be careful about jumping to a conclusion if Romney looks strong early on. Most of the polls in Florida close at 5 p.m., so by 6 p.m., when the last polls close, results will start to roll out quickly. But fully 4.5 percent of votes in Florida weren't counted on election night in 2008, so if things are tight, no one's going to be hasty about declaring a victor in the state. Especially after the 2000 fiasco in which the winner in Florida, and thus the presidency, wasn't determined for more than a month. If you want to get really granular, Hillsborough County, home to Tampa, is widely considered a bellwether for the state.
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Sept. 29, 2011
No. 6 Stanford Hosts Robert Morris Friday at 7 p.m.
STANFORD, Calif.- Long regarded as an afterthought, field hockey on the West Coast is suddenly garnering unprecedented national attention and Stanford is leading the charge.
Stanford (8-1, 3-0 NorPac) entered this week ranked No. 6 in the latest Kookaburra/NFHCA National Coaches poll. The No. 6 national ranking matches the highest in program history, first achieved back on Sept. 22, 1987, when the Cardinal also checked in at No. 6 following a 4-1 start. However, the No. 6 ranking from 1987 was determined by the NCAA's weekly top-20 poll, during a decade when field hockey was an emerging a sport played almost exclusively by East Coast schools.
Fast forward more than 20 years later and not much has changed. Of the 79 Division I schools sponsoring the sport, only four (Stanford, California, Pacific, UC Davis) represent the West, with those programs competing in the West Division of the NorPac Conference, whose East Division is comprised of Appalachian State, Davidson, Longwood and Radford. The next-closest schools in proximity to the West are those of the Big Ten Conference.
Stanford has already beaten three top-20 programs from the East (Albany, Northeastern, Indiana), with its only loss coming in the form of a hard-fought 4-2 setback at No. 4 Connecticut in which the Cardinal statistically won the second half.
That's not to say all of this has transpired overnight. Stanford has been a top-20 mainstay over the last four seasons, first cracking the national rankings in September of 2007 following a six-year absence. Ever since then, the Cardinal has played the role of an upstart team on the rise, bouncing around in the lower half of the poll. However, nine games into this year, Stanford has jumped 14 spots in one month since debuting at No. 20 in the preseason poll.
Also off to a fast start is rival California (8-2, 2-1 NorPac), which has defeated five ranked teams from the East. In fact, if not for a loss at Northwestern one week earlier, the Golden Bears might have even joined Stanford in the top-10. In perhaps an ultimate sign of West Coast respect, California actually moved up one spot in the rankings to No. 11 despite suffering a 3-2 loss to Stanford last week in a battle of the NorPac's elite teams.
Head coach Tara Danielson acknowledged there is still considerable room to grow, but a West Coast field hockey program does offer some advantages.
"We have a year-round curriculum that never has to be modified because the weather conditions are always ideal," said Danielson, in her second season at the helm. "So we really are able to progress our players along throughout the year. Also, Stanford is at the forefront of innovation, employing a collaborative approach with different departments such as Sports Performance, Human Performance, Sports Medicine and Biomechanics. We are tapping into all these resources so that our student-athletes can benefit in competition."
As one would expect, Stanford's roster has traditionally included several players from the state of California (this year's count is seven). Meanwhile, the Cardinal continues to maintain a strong national recruiting presence as well, while recent additions from Canada and England have also paid immediate dividends.
That being said, field hockey on the West Coast can no longer be ignored. Consider the viewpoints of three Cardinal players, who hail from different regions within California.
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Senior Stephanie Byrne had never heard of field hockey before her freshman year at Saint Francis High School.
"I was at an open house and they were like: `Oh, you play soccer? This will be fun, come to a camp.' So I checked it out and that was my first exposure to the sport."
A native of San Jose, Byrne had initially thought about attending college on the East Coast. After taking multiple visits and narrowing her choices to Boston College, Indiana, Northeastern and Providence, Byrne decided she could not turn down the world-class combination of academics and athletics Stanford had to offer.
"I remember hearing about all the recruits Stanford was getting," said Byrne, a co-captain this year and 2010 All-NorPac selection. Camille (Gandhi) and Xanthe (Travlos) had just started here and I can recall going to the games, thinking how much I wanted to play with those guys. The year before (2007) was sort of a rebuilding year. They had just won the NorPac Tournament and finally ended the long losing streak against Cal. The program was coming up."
Talk about recruiting promises delivered. Since Byrne's arrival on The Farm, Stanford has compiled a 49-23 record, claimed three straight NorPac Tournament titles and won seven of the last 10 meetings against California after the Golden Bears had won 18 in a row from 2001-2007.
Byrne is the latest in a long line of talented local products to make an impact on the program, joining current teammates Katie Mitchell (Saint Francis HS) and Elise Ogle (Gilroy HS), along with recent standouts Nora Soza (Archbishop Mitty), Jaimee Erickson (Los Gatos HS) and Bailey Richardson (Los Gatos HS).
"I feel like West Coast field hockey is really growing," explained Byrne. "All of a sudden, you have little sisters who want to play. My cousin started playing because I was playing. There are more programs available now for younger players. Seeing so many high school teams out at our games is really cool."
Byrne also cited the influence of Danielson, a native of Greenfield, Mass., and four-year letterwinner at the University of Massachusetts who has since established a reputation as a pioneer for field hockey on the West Coast.
"Tara understands the different dynamic of the West Coast. The girls out here haven't been playing the sport for that long, but she is able to bring us to that level through her experiences in the game on a national scale."
The Bay Area native is hoping for continued success in her final season.
"We are finally getting the respect we deserve and I don't feel like we are overlooked anymore," added Byrne. "This can only help us in the future with recruiting because we are now a top-10 team. It's an exciting time for our program and the conference."
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Much like her NorCal counterpart Byrne, SoCal native Emily Henriksson didn't realize what she was getting into when first approached about field hockey.
Growing up in a family that was heavily involved in sports, Henriksson was active in soccer, swimming, basketball, softball and tennis. However, Henriksson's introduction to field hockey came in the seventh grade when a friend decided to try out for the team one afternoon. Henriksson was told it was like playing "ice hockey on grass".
"My mom was a teacher there at the school, so I went over to her classroom and asked if she could wait another hour for me," said Henriksson, competing in her second full season with the Cardinal after sitting out the 2009 campaign as a redshirt. "I told her I was going to try out for this thing called field hockey."
Everyone who participated in those tryouts ended up making the team. Henriksson stuck with it for the entire season, improved her game and was referred to a Harvard-Westlake camp. From there, one of the parents recommended Henriksson try out for the Futures program, considered a pipeline for selection to the National Team and Olympic Development Program.
Henriksson continued her progression, qualifying for Junior National Camp and competing as a member of the Hollywood club squad. In addition to gaining experience while playing some matches on the East Coast, Henriksson was becoming more informed about opportunities within the field hockey community.
"Through my experience with Hollywood, I was introduced to Moorpark, which at the time served as the headquarters for the men's national team," said Henriksson. "As a result, I was able to meet those players, and train with them sometimes on weekends."
Even though Henriksson seriously considered attending Harvard, her top choice from the outset was Stanford.
"Stanford was very interested in me early on, and I was very interested in Stanford. That relationship was built. I felt comfortable and pretty set on Stanford. When I came here on my visit, I already knew half the team through competition and that was one of the deciding factors. We had already shared experiences."
Henriksson has embraced Stanford's emergence as a national power.
"There was definitely a sense of pride, staying on the West Coast," said Henriksson, who is joined by SoCal counterpart Colleen Ryan (Huntington Beach HS) on the Cardinal roster. "I came to this program anticipating field hockey would be a growing sport out here. I think UC Davis was just starting up its program at the time. The fact that Cal is doing so well right now also is great. It just gives West Coast field hockey a better rep and brings our league more respect. This is really an exciting time for us and the fact that we're beating quality teams feels so good."
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Much of Stanford's early-season success can be attributed to contributions from an impressive freshman class, led by Escondido native Kelsey Harbin.
Harbin started out playing basketball, but followed her older sister, Kristen, into the sport of field hockey while in middle school. At the time, Danielson was entrenched in her role of Chief Executive Officer of RUSH Field Hockey, Inc., a non-profit public benefit corporation committed to the development of field hockey in Southern California.
"Tara and Steve (assistant coach Steve Danielson) were the reason I continued to play," said Harbin, a 2011 graduate of San Pasqual High School. "They were really the only coaches in the San Diego area at the time, so I started participating in their clinics and just fell in love with the sport. They were all about California pride in field hockey. Even though Tara grew up and spent time on the East Coast, she is all about establishing field hockey in California and making it a bigger sport. Those two played a tremendous role with me getting into the sport."
A three-sport standout in high school (field hockey, basketball, track), Harbin finally decided during her sophomore year to pursue a field hockey scholarship. She expressed interested in several schools outside of California, taking visits to Boston College, Northwestern, Princeton and Richmond.
Harbin's experience in the sport up to this point has allowed her to notice the difference. Consider this: a member of the U.S. U-19 National Team, Harbin is the only West Coast participant on an 18-player roster.
"California girls just aren't surrounded by field hockey all the time," explained Harbin, who along with Devon Holman (Fallbrook HS) are tied to the San Diego area. "You're lucky to find a pick-up game out here. The style is different. Although we don't have as much skill training as East Coast girls, it seems like players from the West Coast make up for it by being extremely athletic and just excited to be involved in a new sport. A lot of times players from the East Coast are shocked when we play in tournaments and start winning, because it's girls who are athletic and just have that passion to play. That's how California is making more of a name. Then hopefully as the skill develops, we'll be able to close the gap."
Harbin cited multiple reasons Stanford can emerge as a big-time player in a landscape traditionally dominated by East Coast schools.
"Not only does Stanford have the great academic reputation, but now the field hockey team has been building a reputation for being a better team," said Harbin. "Just the fact that it's in California, why wouldn't you want to come here? Excellent academics, a highly-ranked team and beautiful weather. We're only going to get better and better, because we have all year to train outside on that turf. East Coast schools are stuck inside during the offseason and can only do so much during the winter. We're able to train outside on our turf all year around."
Of course, the recent winning trend helps too.
"We've always known that we could compete at this level. We are just as good, but no one has seen it until every week we just keep climbing in the rankings."
by Brian Risso, Stanford Athletics Communications/Media Relations


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A man was sentenced to 47 years in prison for killing a former Georgia State University soccer star who attempted stop a fight between the shooter and another man after a hit and run in Fulton County, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Emery Parrish, 32, was found guilty Friday of voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault and hit and run as well as drug and weapon offenses in the 2012 shooting death of 23-year-old Ayokunle Lumpkin, according to the Fulton County District Attorney's Office.
The shooting happened on Aug. 19 after Parrish crashed into a parked vehicle at a party in Atlanta, the district attorney's spokeswoman Yvette Jones said. Parish was driving his brother's vehicle in the 200 block of Milton Avenue when, according to witnesses who were attending a nearby party, Parrish lost control, crashed through two fences and struck another car before coming to rest in the front yard of the home where the party was being held, Jones said.
After the crash, Parrish drove a short distance away from the crash scene, parked and then exited the car to inspect the damage, Jones said. Lumpkin and the vehicle's owner confronted Parrish and an argument ensued between Parrish and the car owner, which escalated into a fight, Jones said.
Lumpkin pulled Parrish off the other man, but then Parrish ended up in a skirmish with several other partygoers who attempted to detain him and call 911, Jones said. Parrish then reached into his vehicle, retrieved a gun and fired several shots at the crowd, striking Lumpkin in the chest, she said.
Parrish fled the scene and abandoned the vehicle, but he later surrendered to Atlanta police after warrants were issued for his arrest, Jones said. Parrish was sentenced to 47years in prison without the possibility of parole, she said.


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Project designer Wilson Okamoto & Associates of Honolulu (now Wilson Okamoto Corp.) was selected to plan and manage the project. Established in 1947, it is one of the largest multi-disciplinary engineering and planning firms in Hawaii. Wilson Okamoto worked on all the different phases of this project—planning, design, and construction—cooperating closely with Honolulu's project manager, Wes Yokoyama. They also worked with and supported the city's construction manager because of the unusual installation methods used.
Wilson Okamoto specified only two products for the microtunneled pipes— concrete steel cylinder, or prestressed concrete cylinder pipe (the pressure version of regular reinforced concrete pipe), and CCFRPM. The choice was limited because of the demanding application and installation. First, the pipes had to be both strong enough for jacking and capable of pressure service. Second, considering the seawater external environment and raw sanitary sewer flows inside, corrosion resistance was important.
Finally, reliability was paramount because of the difficulty of future access, depths up to 40 feet, and the critical nature of this application.
The general contractor, Modern Continental of Cambridge, Mass., chose HOBAS pipes for microtunneling to install the remaining 2000 feet of the replacement force main from the container yard to the Sand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant. The microtunneling was completed in four drives. The CCFRPM pipes performed 100% reliably in jacking with no breaks and maximum loads of only 200 tons even on the longest push of more than 1000 feet.
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Sept. 18, 2010
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IRVINE, Calif. - Senior Dicey McGraw, junior Lauren Van Orden and freshman Kelly Reeves all had double-doubles, while junior Lainey Gera added 24 digs, as the 13th-ranked Bruins defeated UC Irvine in four sets on Saturday at the Bren Events Center. Set scores were 25-19, 23-25, 25-14, 25-15.
The Bruins win their eighth in a row to improve to 10-1 on the season, while the Anteaters fall to 4-7.
McGraw had a match-high 19 kills to go with 13 digs for her fourth double-double of the year and 15th of her career. Reeves posted 11 kills and 12 digs for her third double-double of the season, while Van Orden recorded 45 assists and 14 digs for her second double-double. Junior Katie Camp had 11 kills and seven blocks, sophomore Rachael Kidder notched nine kills and sophomore Bojana Todorovic tallied 11 digs. The Bruins hit .256 for the match.
The Anteaters scored two of the first three points of the match, but the Bruins netted the next four to take a three-point edge. After a UC Irvine attack error, Reeves and McGraw had kills and a combo block by McGraw and Camp put the Bruins up 5-2. UCLA increased its advantage to four at 8-4 before UC Irvine came back with a 5-1 run to even things at nine.
The score was still tied at 12 when the Bruins tallied four in a row on a kill by Kidder, an ace from Todorovic, a kill by McGraw and a UCI attack error to go up 16-12. UCLA's lead grew to as many as six at 20-14 and never dipped below four for the rest of the set. The Bruins won the set on an Irvine service error. McGraw posted eight kills in the opener and Gera had seven digs, as the Bruins out-hit the Anteaters .191 to .095.
The second set featured 13 ties and five lead changes, as the biggest edge for either side was three. Neither team led by more than a couple early on until the Anteaters forged ahead to a three-point advantage. UC Irvine trailed 8-6, but scored five in a row to go up 11-8. The Bruins came back with the next three on a UCI attack error, a McGraw ace and a Kidder kill to even things at 11. Six sideouts later, McGraw posted a kill to give UCLA the lead back at 15-14, while an Irvine attack error extended the advantage to a pair at 16-14.
The Anteaters came back to tie the score at 16, 17 and 18, but a McGraw kill and ace put the Bruins back up 20-18. Irvine rallied with the next three and didn't trail for the rest of the set. UCLA tied it at 21, but the Anteaters got the next two and went on to win the set 25-23. McGraw had three kills in the second, Camp, Kidder and Reeves recorded two apiece and Gera notched seven more digs. The Anteaters out-hit the Bruins .190 to .158.
Irvine scored two of the first three of the third, but UCLA came back with three in a row and led for the rest of the set. A McGraw kill, a Camp/McGraw combo block and a Camp spike gave the Bruins a 4-2 lead. The Anteaters got to within one on five occasions, but were never able to re-take the lead. Leading 10-9, UCLA scored four straight and six of seven to take a six-point advantage. Camp had two kills and a solo block during the 4-0 run, while McGraw added a kill. After a UCI sideout, McGraw had another spike and an Anteater attack error made it 16-10.
The Bruins' advantage never dipped below five for the rest of the set. UCLA got its lead to double figures for the first time at the end of the third. Leading 21-13, the Bruins scored three in a row on a kill by Kidder, a Camp/Reeves combo block and a UCI attack error to make it 24-13. A Reeves kill on UCLA's second set point gave the visitors a 25-14 victory. McGraw had four kills in the third, while Camp added three with three blocks. Todorovic recorded eight digs, as the Bruins out-hit the Anteaters .355 to .064.
UCLA scored the first three points of the fourth on a Camp/Kidder block, a UCI attack error and a Kidder spike and never trailed for the set. The Anteaters came back to tie the score at five, but the Bruins responded with five in a row to go up 10-5. After a UCI service error, UCLA received two kills from McGraw and a pair of aces by Van Orden to take a five-point lead. The Bruins never saw their lead dip below five for the rest of the set.
Leading 12-7, the Bruins scored five of six on two kills by Camp and one apiece from Kidder, McGraw and Reeves to take a 17-8 advantage. UCLA's biggest lead of the set was 10 and came on the final point of the match. Up 22-15, junior Sara Sage had a kill and back-to-back spikes by Reeves gave the Bruins a 25-15 victory. Reeves had five kills in the fourth, while Camp, Kidder and McGraw posted four apiece. Gera added eight digs in the fourth, as the Bruins out-hit the Anteaters .341 to .167.
The Bruins open up Pacific-10 Conference play next Friday at the Galen Center against USC at 7 p.m. Gametracker and live audio will be available at UCLABruins.com. The match will also be broadcast on a tape-delay basis by Fox Sports Net. Air times will be announced at a later date.


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IRVING, Texas (SMU) - Caroline Young was named Conference USA Offensive Player of the Week for the second time this season, and Olivia Bailey was named C-USA Setter of the Week as the Mustangs won two of the three conference weekly awards after picking up a pair of road wins.
Young recorded a career-high 26 kills in a 3-1 win at UCF and finished the weekend with 5.43 kills per set, leading the league for the week. She hit .449 against the Knights, and also had four blocks. The Brenham, Texas native had 12 kills, three aces and three blocks in a 3-0 victory at Southern Miss to cap off the weekend.
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Hey ladies and gents ,
I have been recently been thinking about purchasing a STP device that can also be used as a packer.I know where to find them and all that but I have never used anything like a peeing device so it's a new thing plus Im still "PRE T".I wanted to start out with something realistic.
www.toolshedtoys.com (Im getting them from this source most likely)
My problem I faced is that I have no Idea what style to get. There's two that I know of there's "Stand To Pee Packer : Nipple Style" and Stand To Pee Packer : Medicine Spoon Style.I don't know which one is easier to use.? Then I run into question of what "Size" to purchase .I know the sizes rage from 3-5 inches but I would want to get some thing TOO BIG
I have considered that all bodies are different and they may or not work for everyone,but I guess getting some more advice or info on these devices would help me further.Any help that someone can give me?
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Okay... So when I was in this point I was sooo confused I actually got a little gutsy. I drove up to Milwaukee and went into the Tool Shed. This mean that I pretty much have seen all the models side by side, and then given the option to pick one while being given advice and helped out by the clerk.
The clerk and I reached a very strong mutual conclusion about the whole nipple verses spoon thing. It is said that if you are a bigger man down there that you are better off with the spoon model and if not you should go with the nipple. I have no experience using the spoon, but I do know that the spoon is hard plastic and the nipple is softer. It was the clerks opinion that the spoon would be more uncomfortable to walk around in your pants with. Do any of you out there have said experience? the other thing is that the spoon is harder to master because you have to learn to get the positioning just right with the nipple you have more of a positioning window and can thus be slightly off the mark and still have the device work.
Now when I asked for advice on picking out just a packer, the advice was to go small. That is more realistic if you go small. Now when you see all the colors and all the sizes lined up in a row next to each other I definitely saw that although there are design flaws in the smaller one (the balls are disproportionally to big on the ex-small) it was more of a comfortable fit for me at least.
Something you also need to know which they fail to mention...when you take a packer and stick the plumbing through it, the packer stretches out some what. So if they advertise that they used a 3.5' packer to make the device your packer will now be 4'. This may seem like no big deal, but if you go for the extra largest model out there, the 6.5', you will wind up with something that could be pretty much 7' long :P (Yes I know to some of you out there this seems like a very big perk of the situation).
So what I did was go for the smallest thing out there. This would seem to be a logical thing. I have also found that with the smaller model it is hard to use because the actual device is shorter I have difficulties figuring out a way to hook it up through a pair of boxer briefs,and have only had success with it by pulling every thing down:P
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I could never get the hang of the medicine spoon type, The catcher just isn't big enough. So I use an ordinary 3.5" soft packer, push a hole through it (a pointy chopstick works well for this) and push the nozzle of a Whiz (http://www.whizproducts.co.uk/en/) through it. It's a bit too long so I trim the end off the nozzle to fit. The Whiz is soft plastic and comfortable enough that it can just stay in your pants. After a while it gets a bit squished and won't spring back to its proper shape, but you can revive it by putting it in boiling water and re-shaping it while it's still hot. You need to sterilize both the Whiz and the packer regularly anyway, to avoid bacteria and bad smells.
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very helpful. cuz ive been trying to find a website for ppl who are transitioning. and this is something im gunn really look into, kinda confused on where to put it lol but yea i have no idea what any of acronyms mean like FTM, STP and any other ones out there. but thank for posting this, as a person that is considering changing my sex it was helpful
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Surface water samples were collected in 2006 from a lead mine–mill complex in Missouri to investigate possible organic compounds coming from the milling process. Water samples contained relatively high concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC; greater than 20 mg/l) for surface waters but were colorless, implying a lack of naturally occurring aquatic humic or fulvic acids. Samples were extracted by three different types of solid-phase extraction and analyzed by electrospray ionization/mass spectrometry. Because large amounts of xanthate complexation reagents are used in the milling process, techniques were developed to extract and analyze for sodium isopropyl xanthate and sodium ethyl xanthate. Although these xanthate reagents were not found, trace amounts of the degradates, isopropyl xanthyl thiosulfonate and isopropyl xanthyl sulfonate, were found in most locations sampled, including the tailings pond downstream. Dioctyl sulfosuccinate, a surfactant and process filtering aid, was found at concentrations estimated at 350 μg/l at one mill outlet, but not downstream. Release of these organic compounds downstream from lead–zinc mine and milling areas has not previously been reported. A majority of the DOC remains unidentified.
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Stagebridge is America's most established performing arts company for the over 50 crowd.
Come celebrate three and a half decades of life-transforming performance and education on May 8 in Oakland. The Stagebridge Gala will be held at Nile Hall (668 13th Street) in Preservation Park.
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THE residents of Emery Point condominium have sued listed developer City Developments Limited (CDL), the main contractor, five subcontractors and the architect over numerous building defects.
The condo's management corporation, representing the owners, is claiming about $600,000 in compensation to rectify defects in 17 areas.
These include a leaking basement carpark, which is located below a swimming pool, cracks in walls, and lift lobbies with ceilings damaged by rainwater.
The case opened in the High Court yesterday, and is fixed for a 10-day hearing.
Emery Point, an 18-storey block of 51 units at Ipoh Lane in the Tanjong Katong area, is a freehold development completed in 2003, but not fully sold until 2007.
In his opening statement, lawyer Leo Cheng Suan, representing the condo owners, said that CDL was fully aware of the defects. 'The plaintiffs are extremely disappointed that CDL, being a public-listed company, did not live up to its social responsibility to build quality homes.'
He said many of the defects were caused by the long period in which the unsold units were closed up, and exposed to high heat and humidity.
Some defects were discovered in September 2003, when the Building and Construction Authority issued a certificate of statutory completion (CSC) for the development. Others were discovered after the management corporation assumed responsibility for the condo's common property from CDL in July 2005.
Around July 2007, the owners hired building surveyors to conduct an audit, which found extensive defects and shortcomings in 17 areas.
Highlighting the key defects, Mr Leo said the most glaring one was in the basement carpark, which had been 'leaking since the very beginning'.
Despite numerous repairs, the carpark, located below the swimming pool, is an 'unwanted water feature', said Mr Leo.
He also noted that a building surveyor hired by CDL and main contractor Hytech Builders had conceded that there were a 'staggering' 280 points of water leakage in the carpark.
The low fencing of the children's playground also poses a 'death trap' for children if they were to climb over it and fall right into the basement carpark, said Mr Leo.
Other defects include leaky windows and cracks in the tennis court surface.
Mr Leo said the defendants were prepared to do only cosmetic patch repairs at the lowest possible cost, such as 'applying silicone to try to stop the leaks for a few months'. The lawyer described these as 'delay tactics' to 'wear out' the owners until the warranties expire.
CDL, represented by Mr Ling Tien Wah, conceded that there were defects due to the contractors' 'poor workmanship', but contended that 'there is no such thing as a perfect building'.
The developer argued that it was liable only for defects for the two units sold before the CSC date. As for the rest of the owners, who had bought their units after that, CDL was not liable for any defects found in these units.
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