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While most dietary supplements leave much to be desired, Trimlife offers a comprehensive support plan in addition to its herbal product. Via Trimlife's website, you'll have access to personalized meal plans and exercise recommendations, tips for success, recipes and a weekly newsletter. It's a well-rounded program for even the most elementary of dieters.
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While Trimlife is made of popular and known herbal ingredients like green tea, bitter orange, guarana extract and Peruvian ginseng, it is strongly recommended that you not solely depend on this supplement to help you meet your weight and health goals.DIET and NUTRITION
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Lunch - Baked Potato Topped with Chicken, Chicken Noodle Soup and Broccoli Pasta Salad.
Dinner - Asian Stir Fry, BBQ Shrimp New Orleans Style or Cheesy Deep Dish Pizza.
They even give snack and dessert options like a Banana Coffee Smoothie, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Coffee Cake and Crispy Potato Skins.
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I DO NOT recommend this product AT ALL! I took this supplement, and after about a week and a half of useage, I experieced SEVERE liver pains...i'd be curled up in such pain that i just wanted to pass out. I am not sure if Trimlife has been recalled, or if it is out there anymore, but i seriously advise people to STAY AWAY from it! It's not worth it!
Not a big difference. Good for your body but do not expect miracle!
not impressed with this product. tried it for 2 months, and really didn't notice a big difference. it is basically just green tea.
trimlife doesn't seem to add any value, they tell you to eat right and exercise, and I haven't seen glowing reviews that this product helps reduce or burn fat
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One of the world's greatest living painters, German artist Gerhard Richter (born 1932) has spent over half a century experimenting with a tremendous range of techniques and ideas, addressing historical crises and mass media representation alongside explorations of chance procedures. Gerhard Richter Painting is a thrilling document of Richter's creative process, juxtaposed with intimate conversations (with his critics, his collaborators, and his American gallerist Marian Goodman) and rare archive material. Audiences see the then-79-year-old create a series of large-scale abstract canvasses, using fat brushes and a massive squeegee to apply (and then scrape off) layer after layer of brightly colored paint. This mesmerizing footage, of a highly charged process of creation and destruction, turns Belz's portrait of an artist into a work of art itself.
Check out a local review of the film here.
The MFAH film department is supported by Tenaris; The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; The Consulate General of the Republic of Korea; Nina and Michael Zilkha; the National Film Preservation Foundation; Franci and Jim Crane; James V. Derrick; and Lynn S. Wyatt.


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St. Louis decisions will have an impact
Conference play begins next week around the Atlantic 10. Who will be on Saint Louis' roster when it does remains a pretty significant question with an answer that could drastically affect the league race.
Willie Reed and Kwamain Mitchell, the Billikens' two best players a year ago, were dismissed from school in the fall. Officially it was for violating the school's code of conduct. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch said it was connected to a claim of sexual assault at SLU that was investigated by police, but didn't lead to charges being filed.
SLU administration left the door open for the two players to re-apply for admission to school for the spring semester. The Post-Dispatch reported that both are seeking to return.
That's where the questions start:
1. Will the school take them back?
2. How long will it take the school to decided whether to readmit them?
3. If they are reinstated does it make sense to play them this year?
Before Mitchell and Reed got booted, Saint Louis was a popular pick to make a run at the NCAA Tournament. Reed was one of the league's best interior presences on offense and defense and Mitchell was a point guard who could score and pass.
If they return in decent shape and shake the rust quickly, Saint Louis could still be a factor in Atlantic 10. But the Billikens are 5-7 going into Saturday's game against Bowling Green, a pretty big hole to climb out of it they want to be in NCAA Tournament consideration.
The current squad has no seniors and just two juniors. Would it make more sense to redshirt both players for the rest of this season in hopes of having a deep veteran unit for the next two seasons?
The rest of the conference will be watching with considerable curiosity.
COTHRON OUT AT UNO - Former almost-Minuteman Luke Cothron's stay at New Orleans was a short one. After leaving UMass, where he was sitting out as an academic nonqualifier, the highly-touted forward from Alabama enrolled at New Orleans where he was taking advantage of a loophole in NCAA rules. Because UNO was transitioning out of Division I, he was eligible to play under Division II academic standards, and capable of transferring next year to Division I schools without sitting out. Schools that couldn't have accepted him as a nonqualifier, would have been able to take him as a transfer.
But the NCAA closed that loophole preventing Cothron from playing. He played just one game at UNO and is no longer enrolled there. He'll likely enroll at a junior college or explore playing overseas.
COACH K CLIMBING - On Wednesday, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski can pass his long-time rival leaving only his mentor left to chase as the Blue Devils host winless UNC Greensboro, which is one of the biggest mismatches on paper in quite some time.
Krzyzewski's 880 wins has him tied with long-time North Carolina coach Dean Smith for second on the career coaching wins chart. Former Army, Indiana and Texas Tech coach Bob Knight is the career leader with 902. Krzyzweski played for Knight at Army.
A-10 GAME OF THE WEEK - Temple at Villanova, Thursday, 7 p.m. - The Owls have won six straight and look like the A-10 favorites. Back in the Associated Press poll at No. 25, a win here would lift Temple's NCAA Tournament seed in March.
HOT SEAT? - Georgia Tech's 23-13 record and trip to the NCAA Tournament last year seemed to temporarily quiet rumors that Paul Hewitt's job was in danger, but those rumblings are getting louder again as the Yellow Jackets are 6-5 with bad losses to Siena and Kennesaw State, which has no other Division I wins. Their only victory of note was a 67-54 win over Richmond. A bad ACC performance could further sink the coach that took Tech to the NCAA Championship game in 2004.
But it might not be that simple. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Hewitt, who has a six-year rollover contract, would be owed $7.1 million if the school chooses to fire him. That's a big pill to swallow for anybody.
SNOW NO GO - Fordham's game at Georgia Tech Monday and Tuesday's Fairfield at Florida game were cancelled because of travel problems created by the snowstorm that hit much of the east coast. Numerous referee assignments were expected to be changed based on travel as well.


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Not Made Up: Tourists Boost Cosmetics Industry
The so-called Korean cultural wave is proving to be a boon to the country's cosmetics industry.
According to data released by Statistics Korea this week, total sales of cosmetics in South Korea surpassed 10 trillion won, or $8.87 billion, in 2011, up by 9.6% from a year ago. The cosmetics market has been steadily growing from 7.9 trillion won in 2007.
Growth is attributed not only to increasing spending by Koreans, but also to the growing popularity of Korean cosmetics among foreign visitors who are drawn to the fashion and makeup of Korean stars.
Indeed, Korean cosmetics were found to be the most popular shopping item among Chinese tourists last year, the second biggest tourist group after Japanese, according to Korea Tourism Association. And it was the second most popular item among Japanese tourists after dried seafood.
Visitors to Seoul's major shopping districts can't fail to notice the plethora of small cosmetic stores, where many sales staff are fluent in Chinese and Japanese and some of the techniques to bring customers inside border on physical assault.
Lifesize posters of K-pop and movie stars are often on display to lure in fans of Korean pop culture. Meanwhile, Korean cosmetics are increasingly known as being good value for high quality products.
Meanwhile, exports of local beauty products have also jumped significantly. The Korea Cosmetics Association said they've been growing at an annual rate of 28.4% during 2006~2010 to $708 million last year. Imports have been growing at an annual 10% since 2006, passing $1 billion for the first time in 2010.


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Do-it-yourself projects and plans for anyone who can swing a hammer.
In 1976, my youthful dream started to unfold as I began building my remote fishing lodge, The Talaheim Lodge, in the wilderness of Alaska. Most of the state can't be reached by road, so many Alaskan fishing lodges, like mine, have to be reached by either helicopter or plane. Everything from a toothpick to a gallon of gasoline has to be flown in to our site.
During my younger days we built stockades with local timbers. Large cargo, single-engine aircrafts on skis are expensive to charter, so most of my lumber was cut on-site with a chainsaw mill. Our first crude building was built from logs and chainsaw cut lumber and went up like a kid building a tree fort. For the next 30 years, I used a chainsaw to cut as much lumber as possible in order to keep costs down when building miles away from roads. We only averaged about one board an hour but most of our lumber didn't have to be flown in which saved us money.
All our logs are skidded to our site by snowmobile in March and April when the snow is deep and settled. Everything out here comes by air except our snow machines that we drive out in the winter - a 50-mile journey from the nearest road system. In 2006, I purchased a very large wide-tracked snowmobile, which was capable of pulling in much larger logs than I was able to in the past. Glaring at my log deck of about 100, 12' long and 16" diameter logs, I suddenly started to tense up thinking about all that back breaking chainsaw milling I would have to do.
Cutting timber with chainsaws is slow, tedious and a backbreaking chore from being bent over for long periods of time. Not to mention chainsaws burn up gallons of fuel and oil, and the 3/8" wide kerf produce piles of sawdust that could be used as lumber instead. There had to be a better way. Shortly after, I found a Wood-Mizer LT10 bandsaw mill featured in a local outdoor magazine. It caught my eye as it was lightweight and could easily fit onto a ski plane. The local dealer 100 miles away had one on display that I could try. Seeing the mill in action secured the sale.
After the snow left, we had a running sawmill in one day and a friend and I cut those 100 logs into lumber in about five days. With my LT10 sawmill and a small tractor rigged with a forklift attachment, we weren't just in the fishing business, we were also in the lumber business. My mill paid for itself in the first season with savings on lumber cut on site instead of flying it in. Most of our timbers are cut and used "green" with the exception of our hardwood cuts. We cut primarily slow growth spruce for building and "house dry" birch for flooring.
Since having the bandmill, I've built five new buildings from three-sided logs and timbers cut from our mill and cut in excess of 40,000 board foot. The sawmill has saved me thousands of dollars on lumber and has allowed me to cut huge beautiful beams that would be impossible to fly out. I've had great factory and local Wood-Mizer support from Anchorage, Alaska and with about all my buildings completed for my lifetime, I am now focusing on the fun stuff like birch flooring and birch and spruce furniture!
I still love living in the wilderness and building with materials I've gathered locally. Today I manage with my band sawmill, a tractor with a front-end lift, and snow machines capable of bringing in large logs over the snow. Not only do I save money, but also I enjoy working the land. Robert Service once wrote, "It's not the gold we seek, but the seeking of it". For the past 38 years, my fishing lodge has given me the opportunity of "living off the land" in the Alaskan wilderness.
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With the chilly winds and cold air sweeping against our skin, it's time to give some extra tender loving care to your body's largest organ. And believe me, your skin will thank you.
Just a month ago I tried a sugar scrub for the first time. I massaged it into my legs and arms and rinsed it off with water before shaving. Not only did my skin feel tingly and clean as if it could finally breathe, I did not receive as much shaving burn due to my newly smooth, exfoliated skin.
As someone who's been on a mission to try out all-natural beauty products in hopes to transition into a green beauty routine, I've found that making your own toxin-free, environmentally friendly products is super easy. Additionally, it's likely that you already have most of these ingredients in your home!
The epsom salts in this scrub exfoliate the skin while the coconut oil nourishes and moisturizes. Epsom salts have also been known to soothe aching muscles. Lavender essential oil is known to be a calming agent in aromatherapy that can help with stress and anxiety. This homemade scrub is perfect gift for a loved one to enjoy a relaxing at-home spa-day.
Here's how to make your own Homemade Lavender Salt Scrub:
• Epsom salts or organic granulated sugar
• Organic coconut oil
• Sprigs of fresh lavender
• Lavender essential oil
• Recycled jar
1. Spoon out about two tablespoons of organic coconut oil into a microwave safe dish. I like to use Trader Joe's Organic Virgin Coconut Oil, but any oil such as olive oil will do.
2. Microwave the coconut oil for 2-3 ten second intervals stirring each time until the oil is translucent. The oil gets hot very quickly, so remove the dish carefully.
3. Next, spoon about a half cup of epsom salts into the coconut oil and mix well. Depending how wet and conditioning you want your scrub, you can add more melted coconut oil.
4. Take a couple springs of lavender and chop into small bits. I picked my lavender from my backyard, but you can also find lavender at most herbal and natural food stores.
5. Place the lavender bits into the oil and salt mix. Add 5-10 drops (depending on preference) of lavender essential oil.
6. Spoon your scrub into a small jar. I tied a bow from some twine for an extra touch. Enjoy!
Until next time, you can find more eco-friendly DIYs and sustainable fashion tips on Sustainable Daisy.
Karen Housel is a fashion designer and DIY enthusiast. She would love to see what types of trinkets you repurpose into cheery magnets! If you share on social media, use #sustainabledaisy so she can take look. Follow Karen on Twitter, Instagram, or subscribe to her blog at Sustainable Daisy for more eco-friendly lifestyle tips! Read all of her MOTHER EARTH NEWS posts here.
I made my first batch of soap about 15 years ago. It was a big deal since I decided to render beef tallow myself, just for the experience. It added a lot of work and time to the soap making process, but for me was worth the experience. The soap turned out nice—but not terribly exciting. Next I tried a recipe that used olive oil. The soap turned out nice, but again, not terribly exciting. Then, after years of thinking my soap making days were over, I found a recipe that had a combination of rich, emollient nut and vegetable fats, plus coconut milk. This is a very creamy, fine-bubbled moisturizing soap and also doubles as a shaving bar. I'll share the recipe below, but first a little history, science and basics about soap making.
An excavation of ancient Babylon turned up evidence of intentional soap making around 5,000 years ago. It was made from fats boiled with ashes and the resulting soap was used for cleaning fibers used in textile manufacturing. More history of soap can be found on the Today I Found Out web site. Trivia: Ever wonder how soap operas got the name? It's tied to the excessive amounts of money Proctor & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Lever Brothers spent advertising their soaps on such TV programs. They had the perfect audience!
You must be very specific when measuring soap making ingredients: saponification is a chemical process that requires the correct balance of fats and alkali. Fats (vegetable/nut oils and animal fats) are triglycerides. When triglycerides come in contact with a strong base (e.g. lye), the molecules are split and fatty acid salts and glycerol are released, making what was once oily fat into a water-soluble hygroscope (attracts and holds water molecules from the surrounding environment).
Soap-making Basics
Melted oils and fats are combined with an alkali (sodium hydroxide, commonly known as lye, mixed in water or other liquids). The lye has a chemical reaction with the fats, called saponification. The resulting mixture is placed in a container for 24-48 hours to harden (incubation), then removed and cut into bars and set out to air-cure. The lye eventually deactivates during this time and the fats/oils are turned into soap. The curing process takes about 4-6 weeks to complete.
Tools You'll Need to Make Soap
• Digital scale
• Non-reactive pot, spoon and spatula
• Bowls of various sizes (for ingredient measuring and lye mixing)
• Plastic or cardboard shoebox, wax paper & tape
• Sandwich baggie
• Hand-mixer or submersible blender
• Thermometer (digital is best; 2 are even better)
• Towels for incubation
• Some sort of drying rack
Warnings - ALL Are Very Important!
1. Soap recipes are generally given in weights, not volumes (as stated above, this is chemistry so proportions have to be specific). A scale is necessary.
2. Use only non-reactive containers, pots and utensils when making soap. Glass, stainless steel and plastic are all fine.
3. Lye can be scary. If the crystals become damp, they will burn through anything. Safety glasses and dishwashing gloves are recommended. ALWAYS pour the lye into the water, not the other way around, to avoid damp lye particles from being disbursed. It's best to mix the lye and liquids outdoors if possible‑there's a gas given off by active lye that you don't want to inhale. Finally, the lye will heat the water to about 200 degrees F.
4. Both the melted fats/oils and the lye/water need to be as close to 100 degrees as possible to get them to emulsify properly when mixed together. Any additional ingredients (fragrances, essential oils, abrasives, oatmeal, spices) are added after the fats/lye/liquids are emulsified.
This is tracing, see 6 below.
Making Soap
1. Prepare your soap mold by lining with wax paper (tape helps)
2. Weigh all ingredients carefully (even liquids!) and set aside. Place the weighed lye into a sandwich bag.
3. Place weighed liquids in a non-reactive container (Pyrex works fine), take it outdoors if possible, and gently pour the lye into the water being careful not to splash. Mix gently with spoon. Do not inhale the fumes! The mixture will get very HOT. Throw out the empty bag.
4. Place fats/oils (not fragrance or essential oils though) in a pot and melt, then remove from heat.
5. Check the temperatures of both the melted fats and lye/water mix. When they are both as close to 100 degrees as you can get them (it may take a little juggling back and forth to get them to both the same temp at the same time), carefully pour the lye mixture into the pot of melted fats. Mix together with a non-reactive spoon.
6. Blend with the hand mixer or blender for about 5 minutes, then stir by hand for 5 minutes, back and forth until "trace" is reached (the contents will thicken like pudding and eventually you will be able to make traces of the mixture onto itself. (See photo.) You can stir in your fragrances, etc. now.
7. Pour/scrape the mixture into your mold. Wrap the mold with towels and keep for 24-48 hours in a temperate place.
8. Pop the soap block out of the mold, peel off the wax paper and slice with your favorite cutting tool. Place bars of soap on a rack and let them air-cure for 4-6 weeks. You MUST do this since some lye will still be active. Bars may lighten in color over time.
Soap bars on a cookie rack for curing.
Enjoy! The printable recipe for my favorite moisturizing soap can be found here.
Deb Tejada is an urban farmer, foodie, do-it-yourselfer, graphic designer, illustrator and web developer living in sunny Colorado. When she's not in the kitchen or garden, you can find her at The Herban Farmer. Read all of Deb's MOTHER EARTH NEWS posts here.
One of the great joys I have in gardening edibles is preserving them for use during the restful wintertime. Beside the jars of canned goodies (salsa, preserves, butters, and such), the bins of root veggies (potatoes, sweet potatoes, and garlic), the haul in the fridge (carrots and cabbage) and freezer (frozen cilantro and pesto), I dry a variety of herbs.
At the top of the list of dried, must-haves in order to survive the winter, are mint and chamomile for my tea each morning. Also high on the list is sage for those wintertime pork roasts. At the urging of a dear friend, I've begun to steep some of my other cooking herbs in my tea. I feel a whole new adventure in next years gardening opening up as I add more herbs to the mix!
Because I want to leave room for instructions below for making a catnip toy, I'll tell you that my final dried herb for this blog is catnip or catmint (Nepeta Cataria). I'll admit to having a dickens of a time growing my own. When I tried indoors, the cats nibbled it to death before it grew large enough to dry. Growing it outdoors hasn't proven any easier since we have a fair amount of wandering neighborhood cats who insist on frequenting our wildlife-friendly garden. I'll try again, but will have to cage it to keep it safe.
This week, I'm sharing instructions on how to create a furry, catnip Mousie for your cats. This is a fun, quick, and easy project to do with children. I heartily recommend it as a way for them to create something for their own cats or for gifts to others with cat family members. Warning: you should NOT do this with your cats nearby unless you want their undivided attention throughout the process! I have had to track down mousie parts, before they were completed.
I'm sharing the dimensions for two sizes of Mousie. The larger size may be easier for some children. My cats love both sizes, but slightly prefer the smaller version.
Supplies needed:
• pattern (see instructions below)
• 1 piece of faux fur (large: 4-1/2" square, small: 3" square)
• 1 piece of batting (large: 2-1/2" x 5", small: 1-3/4" x 2-3/4")
• 1 tail (5" of leather cord, or anything else you think might work and last)
• 1 small lump of fiberfil (you can use a cotton ball)
• 1 pinch of dried catnip
• rattle (large: 2 bottle caps, a rubber band, and a bit of dry rice; small: 1-1/2" piece of plastic drinking straw, tape, and a bit of dry rice)
• needle and thread
• scissors (both paper and fabric)
1. Create your pattern from a piece of card stock. For the large Mousie, draw and cut a 4-1/2" square.
2. Measure the center point on three sides of the square and mark with a dot.
3. Connect the dots so they form a "V" (on either side with the centered dot between the opposing sides) and cut the corners off creating a shape that looks like the silhouette of a house (see photo above). For the small Mousie, follow the same directions given but use a 3" square.
4. Use this pattern to cut a piece from the faux fur.
Prepare rattle
1. For the large Mousie, take one bottle cap and fill about two-thirds of the way with dry rice. (You can use something else, if you prefer. I simply use rice because I always have it and it's relatively inexpensive. It also rattles nicely.)
2. Place the other bottle cap on top and rubber band them securely together.
3. For the small Mousie, cut a 1-1/2" section of plastic drinking straw (I use the slightly wider-holed variety).
4. Wrap tape around one end of the straw then fill it halfway or less with rice.
5. Tape the other end to contain the rice. (You can test your shaker for your preferred sound before sealing.) When happy, attach tail to the shaker. I tie it on the rubber band, or tape it on the straw.
1. Flatten and slightly stretch the fiberfil and place the catnip in the center.
2. Wad the fiberfil around the catnip and place on the shaker.
3. Take the piece of batting and wrap it around the shaker and the fiberfil.
4. Sew up the seam and the ends of the batting to encase the shaker (this keeps kitty's teeth safer). The tail should be sticking out one end.
5. Fold your faux fur (previously cut into the house shape) in half, furry side in, along the long center point.
6. Holding short (non-angled) sides together, sew along that short edge only. This will produce a tube.
7. Turn right side out. Stuff batting Mousie innards into the center of this tube with the tail hanging out the end opposite the point.
8. Fold in edges of each end and whipstitch both openings. For extra padding, you can fold the point up and tuck it in before stitching this end closed.
Your Mousie is now ready for play. Shake, rattle, and throw for your cat to capture! If you're like me and prefer visual instruction, I have created a page just for you!
Blythe Pelham is an artist that aims to enable others to find their grounding through energy work. She is in the midst of writing a cookbook and will occasionally share bits in her blogging here. She writes, gardens and cooks in Ohio. Find her online at Humings and Being Blythe, and read all of her MOTHER EARTH NEWS posts here.
I have lots of small treasures hidden within the drawers of my armoire, or dwelling within depths of my bed-side storage. They are collections of trinkets from my childhood; pretty jewelry that have lost a few gems and bags of sea-glass that I've picked up from the beaches of my college-town. I wanted to think of ways to place these types of special items into the open instead of hidden in boxes that I only occasionally open and come across. That's when I decided to place them on an appliance I frequent daily — the refrigerator!
I chose to repurpose two groups of precious pieces into repurposed magnets. One, a collection of stones and geodes that I have picked up over the years from road trips. The other set of magnets I created are glam holiday-inspired fridge décor made from an old brooch and two clip-on earrings that had lost their mates.
I think that these magnets turned out great! They also act as a cute gift to give someone just in time for the holidays!
Some other things you could repurpose are: seashells, broken keychains, Polaroids, spare buttons, holiday ornaments, baby pinecones, small plastic toys, puzzle pieces, extra markers from jumbled board games, pogs, bottle caps, old keys, and dice.
Follow along for this super easy do-it-yourself project!
• Glue gun
• Magnets
• Small knick knacks
• Gold oro (optional)
• Paintbrush (optional)
1. Place a generous amount of glue on to the back of a magnet.
2. Place the object on to the glue and hold for 10-15 seconds. Depending how large and heavy your knick knack is, you want to make sure that the magnet is strong enough to hold a magnetic force with the added weight of the object. I chose the thickest nickel-sized magnet for my largest geode.
3. An optional route is to paint your repurposed magnets. I planned to paint a thin gold strip along each rock, but I opted out at this stage. I really like the simple, all-natural look of the geodes on their own. Gold oro has a shiny metallic sheen which can give a nice finishing touch to your magnets, depending what objects you chose.
4. Enjoy! My two batches, an earthy grouping of gorgeous geodes and a glam batch of diamond bursts, can be swapped out throughout the year to change the décor of the room. The two looks are created from the same concept of repurposing small treasured doodads scattered around my home! Repurposing allows you to feel good about making previously owned items useful and treasured again.
Karen Housel is a fashion designer and DIY enthusiast. She would love to see what types of trinkets you repurpose into cheery magnets! If you share on social media, use #sustainabledaisy so she can take look. Follow Karen on Twitter, Instagram, or subscribe to her blog at Sustainable Daisy for more eco-friendly lifestyle tips! Read all of her MOTHER EARTH NEWS posts here.
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Something is very satisfying when a person can complete a project from reused items so that they don't end up in a landfill while saving money in the process. Last year, we constructed a goat barn using mostly reused building materials and it cost us less than $1,000.
The barn is 16 feet square and of pole construction. The posts used were of Rocky Mountain juniper (locally known as cedar) that had been killed in a wildfire. Several years ago, we obtained a permit from the Forest Service and harvested the dead trees. This particular species is naturally resistant to rot and, for added protection, a layer or roofing tar was applied four feet up from the bottom.
All the holes were laid out and then dug by hand. One difficulty with using this type of post is the natural taper of the tree. The posts were plumbed only toward the outside of the building to ensure the walls were straight.
Next, the roof beams and rafters were installed. The beams are lodgepole pine that was harvested in western Wyoming. The trees were standing dead and had been killed by mountain pine beetle. A very inexpensive post and pole permit was obtained from the Forest Service to harvest the trees. Lodgepole pine is extremely strong and makes excellent roof support beams.
The roof purlins, wall girts and rough-cut siding were all purchased from a local sawmill. The lumber was cut from beetle-killed ponderosa pine. The barn was sided in the board-and-batten style. The battens were cut on a table saw from rough 2-by-8-inch boards to reduce the lumber needed and reduce project cost.
The base boards that make up the bottom perimeter are 2-by-6-inch and green-treated. The boards were acquired from a rancher friend and had been salvaged from snow fence in Wyoming. Areas of Wyoming have very severe winters and many miles of snow fence have been constructed to reduce snow drifting on state highways. The snow fence is occasionally repaired or rebuilt and sometimes the landowners are allowed to salvage the old fence materials.
The two windows were acquired from a friend who had gotten them from a neighbor after he had replaced all of the windows in his home. My friend was tired of moving them and organizing around them, so he was glad to have someone get them out of his shop.
The only materials that were purchased new consisted of the corrugated roofing steel, screws/fasteners and the electrical wiring and boxes. The barn was wired for lights and outlets. It was to be used for milking and kidding in addition to shelter and hay storage, so power was needed for water tank heaters and heat lamps.
A weatherproof outside outlet was also installed to provide power to the adjacent chicken coop (a DIY chicken coop, which happens to be a salvaged oil/water separator building from a local oil field).
Shortly after completing this barn, we purchased several thousand linear feet of roofing steel that had been salvaged from a warehouse, which had hail damage and was replaced with new. We found only a few hail dents in the entire lot of steel roofing. We sold a majority of the steel for over twice what we paid for it and now have large supply for future projects and it cost us virtually nothing. We regret not having this supply of steel when we built this barn.
A DIY tip: A person must preplan and be willing to purchase reused materials when they become available at a reduced price. Many times larger lots must be purchased to get the best deal but like in the steel purchase, we were able to resell much of the material for a profit while retaining what I needed.
The barn was built completely by us with no outside labor and the final cost was around $1,000. The methods that we used to acquire the materials for this barn will not work for everyone but if the builder is imaginative and keeps a look out for affordable cheap building materials, it's amazing what can be found. Classified ads, Craigslist and Restores are excellent places to find building materials for reuse.
Another DIY tip: Don't be afraid to pursue materials that may not be for sale yet. It's always shocking what people will sell if you just ask.
Our DIY experience shows that buildings constructed from reused materials can look as nice as buildings constructed with new materials for much cheaper and come with a great story.
Jason, Amanda and their two daughters live on 20 irrigated acres outside of Cody, Wyoming. Jason has more than15 years of professional natural resource, vegetation, rangeland management, invasive species management and rangeland restoration experience and Amanda has more than 9 years of experience in prevention and wellness program and nonprofit management. Together they own The Happy Cowgirl, where they blog and offer freelance writing services and small acreage consultation.
Children's bedrooms are areas of the home where you can truly let your creativity take over. However, while you could transform this space into a dream come true for your kids, many kids' bedrooms unfortunately are rather dull and boring. This simple, affordable, do-it-yourself project can be just the flare of improvement your child's room needs. This project can also be customized based on the style or theme in your child's room.
Kids love chalkboards, and you can easily add a fun chalkboard wall to their room. Follow these easy steps to creating your own chalkboard wall in your child's room.
Tools Needed
• 100-grit sandpaper
• Putty knife
• Paint roller with an extension handle
• Safety glasses
• Drop cloth
• Gloves
• Pole sander
• Ladder
• Paint tray
• Painters tape
• Respiratory protection
• Latex chalkboard paint (writable and erasable)
• 3-inch paintbrush
1. Move everything away from the wall that you don't want paint on. Remove any nails from the wall and place the drop cloth on the ground in front of the wall you're painting. Also remove the baseboard. Using the pole sander and sandpaper, sand the wall from the ceiling to the floor, wall to wall. If you're painting around a window, be sure to tape around the edges using painter's tape. When done, be sure to vacuum up any dust residue.
2. Pour the paint into container that you will use to cut in around the window trim, ceiling corners and edges of the wall. Apply two coats of the chalkboard paint to the edges of the walls, around the window and in the corners.
3. Once you have finished painting the corners and edges, pour the rest of the paint into the container. Using the paint roller, apply one coat of the chalkboard paint onto the wall. After two hours the paint should be dry enough to apply a second coat. Be sure to not over soak the roller with paint.
4. Once the second coat of paint has dried, pull off the painter's tape and throw away. Be sure to clean the roller and container with warm soapy water. If needed, touch up any trim paint. Replace the baseboard, and any nails. Let the chalkboard paint sit over night before writing on it.
You can add an open picture frame or even tack molding around the painted area to give definition to the chalkboard feature. If you don't want to paint an entire wall, you can also create a chalkboard by painting a piece of flat, sanded wood with chalkboard paint and tacking that board to a frame. Be sure to add a chalk tray or other storage compartment for the chalk nearby to keep mess to a minimum. As a side note, you can also add some sliding barn door hardware to help preserve your child's imaginative creations while adding a rustic flare befitting a room with a chalk wall.
With these couple of DIY projects, you can transform any child's room into a more fun and inviting space.
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As above really.I've had the gyro for about 5 years and I've upgraded amp , speakers ,cart , arm .....and I've allways been dubious about a power supply improving a belt drive deck ?
Is it a big improvement or not ????
As above really.I've had the gyro for about 5 years and I've upgraded amp , speakers ,cart , arm .....and I've allways been dubious about a power supply improving a belt drive deck ?
Is it a big improvement or not ????
Definite improvement, more detail, better soundstage whether big or not is a matter of conjecture. But in the overall scheme of things it's not that pricey is it.
Nostalgia is not art (MIB 1 Jul 13)
QC worked wonders for mine. Better than the Orbe platter imo.
As I understand it the HR power supply gives a more even flow of power thus resulting in better control of the platter speed and torque?
I am sure it is going to make an improvement.
Just coz you got the power... that don't mean you got the right.
Serge, changing PSU on my old LP12 made a huge difference, not subtle at all, I assume the principle is the same here.
So what changes?
All fair points as they stand Serge but isn't it enough that people just get a better musical experience?
Nostalgia is not art (MIB 1 Jul 13)
Don't know Serge, I don't have any measuring gear other than my ears but what I heard was a cleaner, less muddled sound, which I thought was probably from less vibration from the motor. W&F was never the best on the LP12 anyway because of the belt/lowish mass platter so I'm not sure it made much difference there.
I'm currently looking at PSU options for my Garrard - the theory is that lower voltages do exactly this, reduce vibration, but being direct drive this may be easier to accept as a logical consequence.
Motor runs more smoothly, discharges less vibration into the plinth? Pulls belt & hence platter round more smoothly? The suspension system & belt are mechanical filters but they aren't perfect by a long chalk. If they were, the deck would never be able to start.
I think we are onto semantics here, when I said the improvement wasn't subtle, I meant it was clearly and immediately audible, easily identifiable A to B, no thinking about which was which. I think for most people here when you get an improvement like that, it qualifies as huge as most attempts at tweakery have results far more subtle than that (to put it mildly).
AFAIK, the major improvements are a lowering of mechanical noise through a much more 'clean' electrical feed to the motor and an increase in speed stability at the macro and mirco level. Whilst a belt may provide some mechanical isolation, as Murray says, it isn't that great. Further, mechanical noise is invariably going to be otherwise coupled to the platter. Night and day? Of course not, but in the couple of cases I've heard, a marked improvement nevertheless.
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but Im not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant.
Can't speak for the HR PSU but I found an iprovement in adding a Martin Bastin Wave mechanic PSU to my NAS Hyperspace - and there's a couple of other wammers with the same deck who had the same experience with the Wave mechanic. Difficult to describe - but for me the music seemed to 'settle down' nicely into a very integrated soundstage - no piss taking please - that's the best i can get to trying to describe the audible experience. Wammer Melstock has one - he may be able to describe it better !
We both agree it was worth while.


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WALWORTH — Art runs in his family.
"When my dad was about 10 years old, I think, he woke up Christmas morning and found an art box underneath the tree," Bruce Thompson said. "He painted a still life, a bowl with some fruit. It was all done by the time his parents woke up."
Thompson, owner of the art gallery and studio that bears his name in Walworth, shared his family history in art with the Big Foot Historical Society July 25.
"Eventually, his mom, Vera, had his portfolio looked at by Chicago art professionals. They asked if he could attend classes."
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Thompson's father, Richard Thompson, was an American impressionist painter, often compared to Monet, founder of the French impressionist painting movement in the 1870s, Thompson said.
Richard's paintings are in galleries across the United States, including Johns Hopkins Hospital, Marquette University and the Naval Art Collection at the Pentagon.
"He started at an art school when he was a freshman in high school," Thompson said of his father.
"He excelled and prospered at the school. He went to the American Academy of Fine Art then onto the Art Institute of Chicago."
Thompson said after his father finished school, he was granted an internship with an illustration studio.
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"From there, he started creating advertisements for the Haddon Sundblom Studios in Chicago, whose major client at the time was Coca-Cola," Thompson said. "He did many pieces that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and other big papers. He had a very big career going."
When the Thompson family was living in Chicago, Richard took frequent trips to Geneva Lake. When the train route was built between Chicago and Walworth, Thompson said, Richard transplanted his family to Walworth.
"It was a full day's ride from Chicago to the lake in a Ford Model A," Thompson said. "When the train came, he made a mad dash to live in Walworth. He realized he could live here and work there."
Richard traveled from Walworth to Chicago every day for 25 years before he came home one day and said to his family, "I'm done." Thompson said the family was shocked.
"We just kind of assumed he had a bad day at work or something," Thompson said. "But no, he was done working commercially. He wanted to return to art."
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Richard started painting more, all day, every day.
"He told us he was going to be the artist he knew he was inside," Thompson said. "No more train rides. Just painting. At that time, we started looking for places to sell his art. It was difficult."
When Richard was painting, in the 1960s and '70s, the art trend was modernism, but he tried to "buck the trends," Thompson said.
"He brought some of the pieces he made into the house and ask our opinions," he said. "We've have them up on the wall for a little while, then they'd be replaced by new pieces. He was a very prolific painter, and he was swimming up stream (against the trends) the whole way. People liked his work, though."
Thompson said his father's work sold in 11 high class art galleries across the country.
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Thompson's brother, Dick, was working in California at the same time, and Thompson said he was finished with that career.
"My brother was driving through San Francisco and saw a for rent sign on a little store front," Thompson said. "He said, why not? He talked to my dad, and they ended up selling his paintings there. Dad was now a trend. We had people coming from all over the country and the world to buy his paintings."
Thompson said 80 percent of his dad's work was sold.
The gallery closed in 1995, four years after Richard's death.
Now many of the remaining paintings are at the Thompson Art Gallery and Studio, where Thompson continues the family art tradition.
"Our story has continued on," he said. "My dad taught me so much. We'd be out in a fishing boat on the lake, and he'd say, look at that light. Look at the waves. He taught me how to see patterns move, how light changes things. It's really poetry."
Thompson said he was in college when he discovered his passion for photography.
"My mom gave me this camera," he said. "I took it everywhere. I was walking to class (in college), and I'd take pictures. Holding the camera and taking photos fit. It was like slipping on a glove. I knew I wanted to study something in art, but there wasn't a photography program back then."
A couple of Thompson's professors approached him to create an independent study program in photography.
"They were going to give me credit for taking photos," he said. "It was pretty fun."
Thompson started submitting his photos in art contests, and "before I knew it, I won the damn things," he said.
The art contests gave him more exposure and opportunities for photography.
"An advertising firm working for the state of Wisconsin approached me and asked if I wanted to be the state photographer," Thompson said. "Yes, sure, of course. I get to drive around and take photos, real photos. I didn't have to stage anything. It was great."
Since then, he's worked in fashion, industrial and corporate photography, but his true passion is for art.
"The advertising and running around was exhausting," he said. "I never stopped doing it for art. About 10 years ago, I said the same thing my dad did. I'm done. I'm going to be the artist I know I am."
His son and daughter follow the family tradition, too.
"My son Benjamin, the moment he picked up a pencil he could draw," Thompson said. "He's still working on finding a fit. My daughter, Emily, she claims she has no artistic talent, but I swear, she's the best doodler I know. She has talents working with autistic children."
Thompson now exclusively shoots artistic photos.
"Where do you find beauty?" he asked. "Well, go to your front door, open the door and step outside. Stop. There it is. That's how far you need to go."
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January 26, 2007 The COROT telescope has successfully opened its protective cover and began gazing at the stars.
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January 16, 2007 Two years ago, scientists accomplished an amazing feat when the Huygens probe descended through the thick atmosphere of Titan to reveal the moon's unique surface.
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The 16-year-old Ulysses spacecraft reaches what could be considered a low point in its mission observing the Sun today - and solar scientists could not be happier. The European-manufactured, joint NASA- and ESA-managed spacecraft, has reached maximum latitude in its exploration of the heliosphere, the bubble in space blown out by the solar wind.
"At max latitude we are actually passing below the Sun looking almost directly up at its south pole from 329 million kilometers (204 million miles) away," said Nigel Angold, Ulysses mission operations manager from the European Space Agency. "The trajectory provides a perspective of the Sun no other spacecraft can equal."
This unusual perspective is courtesy of the spacecraft's one-of-its-kind 6.3-year-long orbit around the Sun. An orbit that swings Ulysses both over and under the Sun's polar regions and as far out as the orbit of Jupiter.
"Max latitude is the start of an important mission phase," said Dr. Ed Smith, Ulysses project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "The spacecraft will soon begin accelerating as it transits from below the Sun's south pole to its equator and then up and over its north pole. This trajectory provides us a ringside seat to all the solar processes we want to observe."
This phase of the mission is expected to return high priority scientific observations revealing the changing Sun and its effect on space during the ongoing minimum in the 11-year Sunspot cycle. During this portion of the mission, Ulysses will rapidly scan the Sun's magnetic field, solar plasmas, solar radio noise, energetic particles, galactic cosmic rays and cosmic dust between the poles and the equator - imparting a more complete perspective of the Sun's atmosphere.
Understanding the Earth's nearest star and its processes is paramount, as the space weather created by the Sun has a huge effect on the third rock from it and its inhabitants. The Sun's gaseous outer atmosphere can create huge space storms. This violent space weather, in turn, can affect Earth's electrical grid, cell phone communications, the functioning of satellites and the operation of astronauts in orbit. This passage between the Sun's poles is the third in the 17 years of Ulysses operations. The first transit occurred during the previous Sunspot minimum in 1994 to 1995, and the second during Sunspot maximum in 2000 to 2001. The opportunity to repeat the scientific investigations during the ongoing solar minimum is important because the Sun's magnetic field has changed significantly since the previous minimum.
The Ulysses spacecraft was carried into Earth orbit in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery on Oct. 6, 1990. From Earth orbit it was propelled toward Jupiter by solid-fuel motors. Ulysses passed Jupiter on Feb. 8, 1992; the giant planet's gravity bent the spacecraft's flight path downward and away from the ecliptic plane. This put it into a final orbit around the Sun that would take it past the Sun's north and south poles.
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Hamamatsu, Japan - Yamaha Corporation is beginning a year of activities to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the commencement of its operation starting on October 1, 2012, and is posting content on its websites in various countries around the world, also beginning today.
To help our many customers throughout the world to gain a better understanding of our company, this content will include Yamaha's history as well as a video message from the president of Yamaha Corporation, which are translated into more than 20 languages. Notices of various business activities and plans to be implemented during the year commemorating Yamaha's 125th anniversary (which will extend from October 1, 2012, through September 30, 2013) will also be posted on Yamaha's websites in countries around the world.
Special 125th Anniversary Year Content
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The development that led to the eventual establishment of Yamaha was when Torakusu Yamaha fixed a reed organ that had fallen into disrepair at Hamamatsu Elementary School (current address: Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture). Thereafter, Yamaha offered a range of products and services, mainly related to musical instruments. Today, Yamaha has expanded its business activities throughout the world with the corporate objective of "CREATING 'KANDO' TOGETHER."
Yamaha Corporation has specified the year 1887, when Torakusu Yamaha built his first organ, as the date of its commencement of operations, and the name of the company and trademark go back to the surname of the founder. Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd., the predecessor company of today's Yamaha, was established on October 12, 1897. The name of Nippon Gakki was changed to today's company name, Yamaha Corporation, on October 1, 1987, marking the 100th anniversary since operations began.
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Every Tuesday night at 6:30pm the Hindu Temple of Greater Cincinnati fills its airways with the bass-heavy rhythm of the dholak, a double-headed hand drum, and its traditional accompanying instrument, the harmonium. The two instruments provide temple-goers a resounding, energetic medium through which their minds can transition from daily thoughts to the flow of the Hanuman Chalisa, forty lines sung (five times) in respect and admiration for the Hindu deity Hanuman.
The temple, which is open seven days a week, has been hosting Hanuman Chalisa every Tuesday for the past twelve years. Pratap Jani, whose musical prowess as a singer and keyboard player is well respected within the community, has been an active participant throughout that time. "Initially we were five or six people, and over the years more people started coming. Over fifty people now attend [the event] regularly. They come, recite Hanuman Chalisa and disperse. The temple is now booming."
Hanuman's symbolic representation is associated with the human mind. "In monkey form, Hanuman is a rudra avatar [incarnation] of Shiva, said to remove ignorance and negativity. His gadha [mace] represents that, bad thoughts," says head priest Kailash Sharma. In relation to the human intellect, the monkey form is symbolic of that which is ever restless, never still.
For Hindus, the reasoning behind such beliefs relate to our unique ability, as humans, to condition our minds and realize the power associated with changing the way we perceive ourselves and the world around us. Hanuman, as a champion yogi, represents a mind capable of calming and controlling senses. Through faithful devotion and selfless service, Hanuman devotees aspire to still their minds and overcome ego in an approachable way. Although Hinduism is deeply complex, Hanuman offers simplicity, says Kailash Sharma.
You can visit the Hindu Temple of Greater Cincinnati at 4920 Klatte Road, Cincinnati, Ohio 45244. On Tuesdays, chances are you'll see priest Kailash Sharma, Pratap Jani and a diverse group of regulars from a variety of backgrounds and regions of India enjoying music and singing Chalisa.
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I would like to know if it is possible to use DBUS on Android using Java. From what I have been searching till now it appears like there isn't any DBUS programming support on Android. However, Bluetooth on Android uses DBUS. I would like to confirm if it is actually the case. If so, is there a possibility that DBUS would be supported in the future?
As dbus is written in C, and Android supports (mostly) the Dalvik subset of Java its not surprising that dbus is not supported.
You can write C code for Android but unless you are a phone company (i.e. able to install OS level updates) there is no practical way to distribute your software.


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Well done you weren't bumping around! But your arms were a little stiff!
28 April 2009 15:06
thank you, a friend at my riding school who also does a lot of work with her is going to go to some comps with her and shes having lessons with the chairman of the BHS, so theres big things planned for her!!! Shes only 7 so has a long way to go. This is on one of her good days, some days her canter can be awful and she is not always that wiling!! But shes good really!!
30 March 2009 21:44
wow love your posture and an ealantet canter you should go in so more comps with dressarge your good
29 March 2009 10:49
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your posture is very nice, but you arms seem to be a little stiff.
your posture is very nice, but you arms seem to be a little stiff.
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If you are a dyer or want to experiment with creating your own skeins of colored yarns, Gene Shepherd's comprehensive guide of dyeing techniques for fiber artists "prepared to DYE", will show you the way. If you have never dyed before, "courage" is what Gene says you will need to "push the edges...to surpass your wildest dreams" in this process book.
Gene is a rug hooker, so the book includes dyeing wool as yarn as well as cloth. Multiple photographs on every page will add to your 'getting started', 'dyeing in batches' with commercial acid dyes and 'dyeing without dye'. There are nineteen step by step demonstrations of dyeing methods from dump, spot, marbleizing, bleeding...for wool and techniques for mohair, nylon and more.
'Traditional multivalue swatches' can create a half dozen or more colors in the same value. 'Lazy swatches' does something similar but without all the measuring. The 'bleeding wool' section was fascinating and new to me. You can "recycle dye" from a piece of deeply color saturated wool cloth or even a dyed skein of yarn. Use this, to dye a new skein of yarn.
Whether or not you try all the various ways of dyeing fiber...just reading what Gene has to say, will expand your knowledge and creative use of color. If you know a rug hooker...tell them about this book.
Meet Gene in this dye video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sz3jNeMU1Y . He is dyeing wool cloth. Wool yarn should be turned down to a simmer. When the bath has cooled a bit, add yarn. You don't want the yarn to felt.


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Docket No. AB 55 (Sub-No. 703X)
Digest:[1] CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), is permitted to terminate service over, and to eliminate, a 2.71-mile rail line in Chesterfield and Darlington Counties, S.C. CSXT plans to sell or lease the line to the only shipper located on the line, for that shipper's private use; however, other parties may offer to buy or subsidize the line for continued rail service.
Decided: January 19, 2011
By petition filed on October 1, 2010, CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), seeks an exemption under 49 U.S.C. § 10502 from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. § 10903 to abandon a 2.71-mile line of railroad on its Southern Region, Florence Division, Hamlet Subdivision, between milepost SJ 304.75, at Tabernacle Road, and milepost SJ 307.46, at Bobo Newsome Highway, in Chesterfield and Darlington Counties, S.C. (the line). Notice of the exemption was served and published in the Federal Register on October 21, 2010 (75 Fed. Reg. 65,048-49).
CSXT states that it seeks to abandon the line for purposes of reclassifying the line as excepted spur track under 49 U.S.C. § 10906 and subsequently selling or leasing the line to Progress Energy Carolinas, Inc. (PEC), the sole shipper on the line. According to CSXT, PEC has expressed interest in acquiring and maintaining the line to allow for expanded intra-plant operations and has executed a letter of non-opposition to the proposed abandonment provided that CSXT sells or leases the line to PEC after the abandonment is consummated and the line is reclassified as excepted spur track (Exhibit F of CSXT's petition). According to CSXT, sale or lease of the line to PEC would allow PEC to perform intra-plant operations on its own, without incurring a common carrier obligation. CSXT contends that, because the line is no longer needed for common carrier purposes, retention of the line as regulated track is not necessary. Moreover, CSXT states that it will avoid the costs of operating and maintaining the line and also avoid opportunity costs for the line.
To facilitate the reclassification of the line as excepted track and its subsequent transfer to PEC upon consummation of the abandonment, CSXT requests that the Board condition the abandonment upon CSXT and PEC reaching an agreement providing for the sale or lease of the line to PEC within 30 days after CSXT has consummated the abandonment and reclassified the line as excepted track. CSXT also seeks an exemption from the offer of financial assistance (OFA) provisions of 49 U.S.C. § 10904. We will grant the exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 10903, subject to environmental and standard employee protective conditions, but will deny both CSXT's requested condition and the request for exemption from 49 U.S.C. § 10904.
Under 49 U.S.C. § 10903, a rail line may not be abandoned without our prior approval. Under 49 U.S.C. § 10502, however, we must exempt a transaction or service from regulation when we find that: (1) continued regulation is not necessary to carry out the rail transportation policy of 49 U.S.C. § 10101; and (2) either (a) the transaction or service is of limited scope, or (b) regulation is not necessary to protect shippers from the abuse of market power.
Detailed scrutiny under 49 U.S.C. § 10903 is not necessary to carry out the rail transportation policy. By minimizing the administrative expense of the application process, an exemption will minimize the need for Federal regulatory control over the rail transportation system and will reduce regulatory barriers to exit, in accordance with 49 U.S.C. §§ 10101(2) and (7). An exemption will also foster sound economic conditions and encourage efficient management by permitting the rationalization of an unnecessary common carrier rail line, consistent with 49 U.S.C. §§ 10101(5) and (9). Other aspects of the rail transportation policy will not be adversely affected.
Regulation of the proposed transaction is not necessary to protect shippers from the abuse of market power. In its letter of non-opposition, PEC, the only shipper on the line, indicates that it does not object to the proposed transaction, provided that CSXT sells or leases the line to PEC upon consummation of the abandonment and reclassification of the line. No opposition by any other entity to the abandonment has been received. In view of both the carrier's and shipper's stated intent that this line will be transferred to the shipper, removed from common carrier service and operated as spur track for the shipper's use, we will treat this abandonment request as unopposed. To ensure that PEC is informed of our action, however, we will require CSXT to serve a copy of this decision on PEC so that it is received by PEC within 5 days of the service date of this decision and to certify contemporaneously to the Board that it has done so. Given our market power finding, we need not determine whether the proposed abandonment is limited in scope.
Exemption from § 10904. Exemptions from the OFA process at 49 U.S.C. § 10904 have been granted from time to time, when the right-of-way is needed for a valid public purpose and there is no overriding public need for continued rail service. See, e.g., Union Pac. R.R.—Aban. Exemption—in Pima Cnty., Ariz., AB 33 (Sub-No. 141X) (STB served Feb. 16, 2000). Here, CSXT has not justified an exemption from the OFA process, as it has not demonstrated that the right-of-way is needed for a valid public purpose. Rather, CSXT seeks the exemption simply to facilitate a sale or lease of the line to PEC for its private use. Because we find no reasonable basis for departing from Congress's objective of providing an opportunity for maintaining common carrier rail service as part of the abandonment process, CSXT's request for an exemption from the OFA provisions at 49 U.S.C. § 10904 will be denied, and the OFA process will be allowed to proceed. See, e.g., CSX Transp.—Aban. Exemption—in Marion Cnty., Ind., AB 55 (Sub-No. 702X) (STB served Aug. 12, 2010) (denying a requested exemption from the OFA process to facilitate sale of a line to the shipper for its private use). Nevertheless, given the apparent lack of need for this line by any shipper other than PEC, any person seeking to file an OFA must provide evidence of how this line will be turned into a viable common carrier line serving shippers other than PEC. See id.
CSXT's Requested Condition. To facilitate the transfer of the line to PEC upon consummation of the abandonment and reclassification of the line as excepted spur track, CSXT requests that the Board condition the abandonment upon CSXT and PEC reaching an agreement providing for the sale or lease of the line from CSXT to PEC within 30 days after CSXT has consummated the abandonment and reclassified the line. This request will be denied. Once abandonment of a line has been consummated, that line is no longer a part of the national rail network, and its disposition is outside the Board's authority. If no party files a bona fide OFA, CSXT may dispose of the line as it chooses, including its proposed reclassification of the line as excepted track and sale or lease of the line to PEC.
Employee protection. Under 49 U.S.C. § 10502(g), we may not use our exemption authority to relieve a carrier of its statutory obligation to protect the interests of its employees. Accordingly, as a condition to granting this exemption, we will impose the employee protective conditions set forth in Oregon Short Line Railroad—Abandonment Portion Goshen Branch Between Firth and Ammon, in Bingham and Bonneville Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C. 91 (1979).
Environmental review. CSXT has submitted an environmental and historic report with its petition and has notified the appropriate Federal, state, and local agencies of the opportunity to submit information concerning the energy and environmental impacts of the proposed action. See 49 C.F.R. § 1105.11. Our Office of Environmental Analysis (OEA) has examined the environmental report, verified the data it contains, and analyzed the probable effects of the proposed action on the quality of the human environment.
OEA served an environmental assessment (EA) on November 30, 2010. In the EA, OEA recommended that one condition be imposed on any decision granting abandonment authority.
In the EA, OEA states that the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) identified one geodetic station marker that may be disturbed by the proposed abandonment. Therefore, OEA recommends that CSXT be required to notify NGS at least 90 days prior to beginning salvage activities that would disturb or destroy this marker to plan for the possible relocation of the geodetic station marker by NGS.
Comments on the EA were due by December 30, 2010. No comments on the EA were received. Accordingly, we will impose the environmental condition recommended by OEA in the EA. Based on OEA's recommendation, we conclude that the proposed abandonment, if implemented, conditioned as described in this paragraph, will not significantly affect either the quality of the human environment or the conservation of energy resources.
It is ordered:
1. Under 49 U.S.C. § 10502, we exempt from the prior approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. § 10903 the abandonment by CSXT of the above-described line, subject to the employee protective conditions set forth in Oregon Short Line Railroad–Abandonment Portion Goshen Branch Between Firth and Ammon, in Bingham and Bonneville Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C. 91 (1979), and subject to the condition that CSXT shall notify NGS at least 90 days prior to beginning salvage activities that will disturb or destroy the geodetic station marker identified by NGS to plan for the possible relocation by NGS of this marker.
2. CSXT's request that the abandonment be conditioned upon CSXT and PEC reaching an agreement providing for the sale or lease of the line to PEC within 30 days after CSXT has consummated the abandonment and reclassified the line as excepted track is denied.
3. CSXT's request for exemption from the provisions of 49 U.S.C. § 10904 is denied.
4. CSXT is directed to serve a copy of this decision on PEC so that it is received by PEC within 5 days after the service date of this decision and to certify contemporaneously to the Board that it has done so.
5. An OFA under 49 C.F.R. § 1152.27(c)(1) to allow rail service to continue must be received by the railroad and the Board by January 28, 2011, subject to time extensions authorized under 49 C.F.R. § 1152.27(c)(1)(i)(C). The offeror must comply with 49 U.S.C. § 10904 and 49 C.F.R. § 1152.27(c)(1). Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing fee, which currently is set at $1,500. See 49 C.F.R § 1002.2(f)(25).
6. OFAs and related correspondence to the Board must refer to this proceeding. The following notation must be typed in bold face on the lower left-hand corner of the envelope: "Office of Proceedings, AB-OFA."
7. Provided no OFA has been received, this exemption will be effective on February 18, 2011. Petitions to stay must be filed by February 3, 2011, and petitions to reopen must be filed by February 14, 2011.
8. Pursuant to the provisions of 49 C.F.R. § 1152.29(e)(2), CSXT shall file a notice of consummation with the Board to signify that it has exercised the authority granted and fully abandoned the line. If consummation has not been effected by CSXT's filing of a notice of consummation by January 19, 2012, and there are no legal or regulatory barriers to consummation, the authority to abandon will automatically expire. If a legal or regulatory barrier to consummation exists at the end of the 1-year period, the notice of consummation must be filed no later than 60 days after satisfaction, expiration, or removal of the legal or regulatory barrier.
By the Board, Chairman Elliott, Vice Chairman Nottingham, and Commissioner Mulvey.


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Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, Mockup, LR-63-AJ-1
This is a mockup of an LR63-AJ-1 liquid fuel rocket motor developed by the Aerojet Engineering Co. as a "Superperformance engine," or built-in JATO (Jet-Assisted-Take-Off), to boost the performance of a U.S. Air Force F-86 jet fighter. It produced 3,500-5,000 pounds of thrust.
During the Korean War, there was an urgent requirement for a Superperformance engine for the F-86 to counter the superior performance of Soviet MiG jets. The LR63 was already being developed experimentally for the F-84 fighter-bomber. It was subsequently modified for use on the F-86. Flight tests on an F-86 were made in 1956 but the war had ended and the YLR63 did not become operational. The motor was donated to the Smithsonian by the Aerojet General Corp. in 1968.
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If you hung around until after The Amazing Spider-Man 2's credits rolled then you were in for a surprise treat. At the end of it was this scene from 20th Century Fox's X-men: Days of Future Past, which is a weird bit of cross-promotion considering Spider-Man is under Sony's umbrella. The reason for it is that director Marc Webb still has a film left to complete with Fox Searchlight after (500) Days of Summer, and this was the compromise the studios made so that he could helm The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
The scene gives us a glimpse at some important characters in the X-men mythos, one being a young William Stryker, who we saw as the villain in X2, and Alex "Havok" Summers played by the returning Lucas Till from X-men: First Class. We also see a younger version of Toad and a couple of other mutants who join up alongside Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique.
X-men: Days of Future Past opens May 23rd.


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Children's Health
The MP3 Generation: At Risk for Hearing Loss?
Loud rock music contributed to hearing loss among baby boomers, but MP3 players are poised to make the problem much worse for the next generation.
New surveys from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association highlight that risk, noting that high school students are much more likely than adults to blast the volume in their MP3 players, raising the risk of hearing loss later on.
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When Your Child Is Afraid of the Doctor
Marcela Jones, an English professor in Washington, D.C., says her 3-year-old daughter, Amalia, starts screaming as soon as they step into a doctor's office. Her child's white coat-triggered misery started, Jones says, with her two-year checkup -- Amalia had her routine shots and then went upstairs to another office for a lead blood test. "We had to have three people holding her down," says Jones. "It was horrible." What's a parent to do? Jones knew she didn't want a struggle like that again, so...
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These devices, which pump music through headphones directly into the ear canal, enable the user to overcome the rumble of the subway or the drone of an airplane engine without drawing angry shouts of "turn it down!"
As a result, they easily desensitize the user to dangerously high sound levels. A CD player and a Walkman do too, but MP3 players such as the iPod pose an additional danger.
Because they hold thousands of songs and can play for hours without recharging, users tend to listen continuously for hours at a time. They don't even have to stop to change a CD or a tape.
Longer Listening, More Damage
Since damage to hearing caused by high volume is determined by its duration, continuous listening to an MP3 player, even at a seemingly reasonable level, can damage the delicate hair cells in the inner ear that transmit sound impulses to the brain.
Increasing reports like this have caused U.S. lawmakers to step in. Earlier this year, Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) asked the National Institutes of Health to research the potentially devastating effects posed by earbud headphones. The NIH recently responded by saying, "Any type of headphone has the potential to cause [noise-induced hearing loss] if used improperly in terms of absolute level of the sounds, the length of exposure time to sound, and the fit of the earphone or headphone." They add that more research is still needed to determine if a particular type of earphone increases the risk.
"Studies have shown that people exposed to 85 decibels for eight hours tend to develop hearing loss," Brian Fligor, ScD, of Children's Hospital in Boston, tells WebMD. He found that all the CD players he examined produced sound levels well in excess of 85 decibels.


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Weight" includes all items that come wih the tent
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Mom with newborns and older infants need connections with other moms for several reasons. Connections with moms who have similar interests are important for the well-being of a new mom. Discussions about topics of interest bring new ideas for parenting if one is a first-time parent, and new ideas can also be great for parents with several children. After all, no two children are alike. There is a wealth of new information out there for new moms with topics from everything from diapers to baby activities for early learning.
Sarasota has many organizations that provide great connections for new moms. The month of April is coming soon with new workshops for new moms. Topics will cover immunizations, communication with your newborn, and fun activities for active infants. Check out the organizations in the List this week for upcoming events for new moms. Friendships can also be a benefit from participating in some workshops for the coming month.
Play and resources are all a part of these upcoming workshops and fun with other moms.
Immunizations in debate
Sarasota's Holistic Moms club will be meeting on April 1 to discuss the hot topic of immunizations for infants. Their topic "Educate Before You Vaccinate" will address issues with vaccinating your infant. There is a wealth of information out there, and this workshop/discussion will provide resources for parents to access and discuss with your pediatrician. The workshop sponsored by the Holistic Moms Network will be held on April 1 from 7-9 p.m. at Whole Foods Market, located at 1451 1st Street in Sarasota. Additional information about the workshop or about this networking group can be obtained by contacting Roxanne Jorgenson at email@example.com. You may also log on to Holisticmoms.org.
Everyday baby
Wee Hands at Everyday Baby in Sarasota is offering fun classes for new moms with newborns-walkers beginning on April 2, 5, and 7, each for 4 weeks. Language and communication with your newborn will be of special interest with the Sing and Sign classes with fun activities for singing with your baby and how to recognize signs for baby's needs throughout the day. You may obtain a full schedule and register by calling 941-953-2891 or logging on at www.EverydayBabyStore.com. The workshops will be held at 329 Gillespie Ave. in Sarasota.
Baby play
Temple Beth Sholom Schools will offer Baby Play on April 4 for parents with infants 4-14 months. The activities will be held from 9:15-10:30, unscheduled play. Bring your baby for playtime with moms and peers. Temple Beth Sholom School is located at 1050 S. Tuttle Ave. in Sarasota. The Temple wants community moms to know that you don't have to be Jewish to participate. All moms and babies are welcome to play. You may call Rachel at 941-552-2770 for information, of you may log on at TBSSchools.org. Come out and play!


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I made an acoustic version of Numb by linkin park
i cant sing so i took the studio acapella
here is it
Man, nice work! Serious. A very interesting kind of chord melody.
The chorus fits perfectly. :}
Originally Posted by Anelle Botha
like what you're doing is interesting. but its way outta tune with the notes chester is hitting. if you could match that up it'd probably be real dope. also if you're going to have reverb on your acoustic you'd probably wanna throw some of that on the acapella in that way everything kinda blends together better.
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One section of the Walt Disney Co is about to layoff several hundred employees. The Disney layoffs will be made in the interactive division. This section focuses on gaming products and the Disney.com website. Reuters reported via MSN Feb. 3 that job cuts will occur after the quarterly earnings report to come out on Wednseday.
The job cuts will be aimed at Playdom, a gaming business Disney added to its vast acquisitions in 2010. The Disney layoffs will predominately be geared towards the interactive unit as the company tries to turn it around, according to the report. The unit has about 3,000 employees.
Last September Disney reported a $16 million profit for the third quarter. It was far better than the $76 million loss in 2012.
The report added that a spokesman from Walt Disney Co. did not respond to a request for comment.
In the case of these Disney layoffs, it is directed to a specific section of the empire and not a reflection of the business as a whole.


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If the newest rumors hold any water, then Portia de Rossi was once very busy setting up Ellen DeGeneres for a fall. The latest reports coming out of the troubled marriage is that Portia videotaped her arguments with Ellen and had threatened to release them to the tabloids, according to UPI on July 14.
The tapes are said to show a very controlling and demanding Ellen at home, who thought she was in the confines of privacy. Apparently Portia invaded that privacy by recording Ellen showing her true colors and she threatened to share them with the world. Reports say this tactic would be used only if Ellen tossed the 41-year-old Portia to the curb.
Apparently Portia was "drunk" at the time she taped their fights and Ellen, 56, "flew into a rage" when finding out that these tapes existed, according to Cover Media via Yahoo News. It seems as if Ellen did some detective work of her own, checking her wife's emails to make sure that the videos were not sent to the media already.
This comes on the heels of the reports that Portia checked into a rehab for 30-days for her substance abuse problem. While the two were very much on the road to demise a while back, the rehab stay seemed to be the first step in mending fences between the two.
Ellen became very supportive of her wife's rehab attempt and supported her by visiting her daily. The two have been seen out and about in recent days looking very much like the old Portia and Ellen with that strong relationship, which is somewhat extinct in Hollywood.
In the past Portia and Ellen even sought out couples' therapy to get the balance back in their five-year marriage. Friends say that Portia is "passive" and Ellen is "very domineering," which can be tough on Portia sometimes. Their life together became unbearable for Portia who reportedly turned to booze and pills to fill a void she was feeling from being under Ellen's control.
While all of this makes for some interesting gossip, the reports of the marriage slithering towards demise, the rehab and the reunion after rehab are nothing but rumors today. Neither Ellen nor Portia have come out with any type of official confirmation for any of these reports, but the beat goes on.
An insider reports that Ellen and Portia, although on the mend, won't have an easy time of it as "Portia will always battling these demons, but they love each other." The demons are more than likely her substance abuse problems.