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Competition intense for Canadian roster spots
Thursday, 12.26.2013 / 2:44 PM CT / News
By Dan Rosen - NHL.com senior writer
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Arguably no country boasts as many Olympic-caliber players as Canada. Often you'll hear people say the Canadians have enough talent to field at least two teams at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. The rules make that argument moot. Like the rest of the field, Canada will have 25 players (14 forwards, eight defensemen, three goalies) going for gold in Russia. The rest will be home watching. The task of selecting these players is one of the most difficult in hockey this season because so many factors go in to finding the best 25 out of a large field of deserving candidates. Canada has a lot of players who are strong skaters, but who are the strongest? The Canadians have plenty of forwards who are responsible with the puck, but which are the most reliable? There are a lot of Canadian centers who can move to the wing, but who can do it without any drop off in their game? Who among Canada's elite defensemen can be just as effective in 15 minutes of ice time as they are in 25? Among Canada's goalies, who has the most mental toughness to stay in the game and come in off the bench if necessary? Canada executive director Steve Yzerman will have the final say on all of these decisions, but like most other fans and media members, we're here to give him our input as the Jan. 7 roster deadline nears. Here's a look at three NHL.com projected lineups for the Canadian Olympic team:
|Matt Duchene
|Sidney Crosby
|Steven Stamkos
|Patrick Sharp
|Jonathan Toews
|Rick Nash
|Eric Staal
|Ryan Getzlaf
|Corey Perry
|Logan Couture
|John Tavares
|Martin St. Louis
|Patrice Bergeron
|Claude Giroux
WHAT'S CHANGED: Dallas Stars captain Jamie Benn was on the projected roster last month as the left wing on a line with Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry. Benn got bumped for Tampa Bay Lightning center Steven Stamkos, whose status is still in question because of his leg injury. Stamkos, though, should be named to the roster and replaced later if he is unable to play. Patrick Sharp and Matt Duchene swapped spots. They could both play with Sidney Crosby, but Sharp's familiarity with Toews means he should get a run on that second line. Duchene has never played with Crosby, but they know each other and have worked out together. Staal takes Benn's spot, moving down from being the right wing on the top line.
|Duncan Keith
|Drew Doughty
|Jay Bouwmeester
|Alex Pietrangelo
|P.K. Subban
|Shea Weber
|Marc-Edouard Vlasic
|Brent Seabrook
Normally you'd see Seabrook paired with Duncan Keith, but Drew Doughty is up there, replacing Shea Weber in that spot from last month's projected roster. A Keith-Doughty pairing gives Canada a chance to have two of the best skating and puck-rushing defensemen in the League on the ice at the same time. Skating and puck possession are important factors to win on the big ice in Sochi.
Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Seabrook could be a match because they each play a physical game but can also jump into the play. Seabrook can also move up to play with Keith at times and Doughty would still be a fit with Vlasic in a pinch.
Weber and P.K. Subban could work because Subban will be able to try to create his offense and take some risks because Weber will be in position to back him up. They will be dangerous from the points because they both have hard, heavy shots.
WHAT'S CHANGED: Brent Seabrook replaces Toronto Maple Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf. Seabrook was part of the Olympic team in 2010 and has played like one of the NHL's top blue-liners for most of the season.
|Carey Price
|Roberto Luongo
|Mike Smith
Price has had recent hiccups against the Los Angeles Kings and St. Louis Blues, but overall he's been consistently excellent this season. He knows pressure too, because it's never easy on a goalie playing in Montreal.
Roberto Luongo has clearly been elite too, but he showed in 2010 that he can come in mid-tournament and be good enough for Canada to win gold. Babcock may prefer to have Luongo in his back pocket, an ace in the hole so to speak, if Price falters.
WHAT'S CHANGED: Carey Price moves up the depth chart to No. 1 and Mike Smith replaces Chicago Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford, who has been out of the lineup since sustaining a lower-body injury on Dec. 9.
Phaneuf and Sharks defenseman Dan Boyle were the final cuts on the blue line. Crawford and Washington Capitals goalie Braden Holtby were considered but ultimately not selected.
|Arpon Basu -- LNH.com Managing Editor
|Corey Masisak -- NHL.com Staff Writer
|Steven Stamkos -- Sidney Crosby -- Martin St. Louis
John Tavares -- Ryan Getzlaf -- Corey Perry
Patrick Sharp -- Jonathan Toews -- Claude Giroux
Matt Duchene -- Patrice Bergeron -- Logan Couture
Tyler Seguin -- Taylor Hall
|John Tavares -- Sidney Crosby -- Steven Stamkos
Patrick Sharp -- Jonathan Toews -- Matt Duchene
Chris Kunitz -- Ryan Getzlaf -- Corey Perry
Jamie Benn -- Patrice Bergeron -- Logan Couture
Claude Giroux -- Joe Thornton
|Duncan Keith -- Drew Doughty
Jay Bouwmeester -- Alex Pietrangelo
Marc-Edouard Vlasic -- Shea Weber
Dan Hamhuis -- P.K. Subban
|Duncan Keith -- Drew Doughty
Jay Bouwmeester -- Alex Pietrangelo
Marc-Edouard Vlasic -- Shea Weber
Brent Seabrook -- PK Subban
|Carey Price
Roberto Luongo
Josh Harding
|Carey Price
Roberto Luongo
Braden Holtby


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Karen X. Cheng wanted to do two things: learn to dance hip-hop in a year, and then share her joy with the rest of the planet.
She posted her two-minute dance video on YouTube one Tuesday morning in July. Facebook friends passed it around, and social media sites Reddit and Mashable grabbed it and flung it every which way. By bedtime Wednesday, "Girl Learns to Dance in a Year" had 280,000 YouTube views. By Thursday, nearly a million had watched Cheng finding her groove. It got another million hits by Friday, and it's been hurtling through Internet space ever since.
"I'm overwhelmed,'' said the 26-year-old Web designer from San Francisco, still reeling from her byte-borne debut. "You can share a video all you want, but you can't make people reshare it. My message must have really resonated.''
Uh, yeah.
What about the rest of us? With a clever idea, couldn't we all be as wildly successful as Cheng? We decided to make a video and find out.
In this latest installment of our series on how technology is redefining our lives, we explore the changing nature of fame through our own quest to go viral, using our homemade video as a touchstone for the broader evolution of celebrity on the Internet today. And it's not only the Justin Biebers and Ashton Kutchers who have harnessed the power of social media to supercharge their careers. The Internet and tools like Twitter and Instagram have turned scores of nobodies into somebodies. Some had huge talents, others relied on equal amounts of pluck and luck. But they all found cyberfame in ways that would not have been possible 20 years ago.
Our video was made to provide us a peephole into that phenomenon. But when we reached out for guidance from the social media mavens, the "experts'' were all over the map. Some warned us that it's impossible to "make" a video go viral; others assured us that by following the right steps any idiot could do it.
So, we brainstormed like Mad Men, kicking around storylines -- from videotaping dogs sharing the driver's seat with their owners (dogs go viral, right?) to unleashing a herd of goats into the newsroom on deadline (chaos in the workplace!).
We settled on a spoof on our obsession with tech toys. Our video introduces the "iChicken,'' Silicon Valley's latest gotta-have-it gadget, just in time for the holidays. Bay Area News Group reporters and photographers showed up with live chickens at coffee shops, city sidewalks, train stations, even at Apple's (AAPL) iPad Air launch in San Francisco.
The video bordered on slapstick, capturing those familiar scenes of digital distraction: drivers fixated on devices at stoplights; a romantic dinner interrupted by that glance under the table at a glowing screen. But instead of smartphones as the culprit, the iChicken had become our obsession.
Virality was just a breath away, right? Not so fast. We quickly discovered that if there were a foolproof formula for going viral, every cat owner with an iPhone would have achieved fame by now.
Fame ain't what it used to be. Red-hot and out-of-the-blue, the online notoriety Cheng and other individuals, companies and special-interest groups are achieving today are a product of our digital era. As sharing technologies blur social boundaries, wiping away lines once separating private from public and local from global, the concept of branding has been turned inside out. It's as if the whole Internet were now some jampacked casting call in the cloud.
"The very fiber of fame has changed," says author and branding consultant Peter Shankman, who calls the viral video the "metaphor'' for this new kind of celebrity. "The generation growing up now knows that fame can be achieved not only on a movie screen but by making a video that blows up on YouTube. Yet while fame's much easier to grab, it's also harder than ever to hold on to because it unfolds in this sort of short-attention-span theater.''
While stages like Pinterest and SoundCloud are there waiting for us all to shine, this re-engineered fame comes wrapped in as much illusion as the old-fashioned variety. There's "this belief that the Internet is this amazing place to be discovered,'' says Jason Cieslak, president, Pacific Rim, for global strategic branding firm Siegel+Gale. "But while a lot of people will try, most of them will fail over time and eventually give up.''
Cheng was the exception, and she's convinced her success was no fluke. In a blog post, she offered tips on how she did it, including keeping the video short (she shaved it to under two minutes), packing it with emotion (the viewer vicariously shares the hard work and dedication she put into the project), and most of all: telling a story.
"It's not just a story about dancing,'' she wrote. "It's about having a dream and not knowing how to get there -- but starting anyway.
"People want stories. That's what all TV, movies, and books are. Tell a story.''
On the morning of Nov. 19, as we posted our nearly three-minute iChicken video on YouTube, we imagined tens of thousands if not millions of viewers clicking on our clip and passing it on. That's the thing about achieving Internet fame: It looks so damn easy.
Give it a catchy but not-too-clever name so it's descriptive and easy-to-search, our experts told us. Cheng tweaked her title several times so that it naturally followed "Hey did you see the video of __________? Fill in the blank,'' she wrote. "That's your title.''
So we named ours "Introducing the iChicken." Launch early in the week, our advisers suggested, when people are back at work, to build up momentum long before the weekend. And tweet it out to everyone we could think of, they said, including the influencers we'd never met. So we launched on a Tuesday morning and tweeted our brains out.
With Google (GOOG)+, emails, Facebook, Instagram and even a boost from social media superstar Guy Kawasaki -- "Apple nails it again: iChicken. What the cluck?" -- we tried to create the buzz that would make iChicken a hit. A link from Kawasaki, the self-dubbed "former chief evangelist of Apple" with more than 5.5 million people in his Google+ circles and almost 1.4 million Twitter followers, should have been the golden egg.
And, yes, YouTube's view meter started moving. By noon, we'd been viewed in 16 countries, including Sweden and Fiji. Encouraging comments -- "I want one!" -- started pouring in. Yet the YouTube click box had moved up to only 1,025 by Day One. Still, we held on to hope. Tomorrow, we go viral!
We had found ourselves in the same roiling digital waters that every business, entertainer and content provider in our hyperconnected world must now navigate. Whether it's bedroom bootstrappers promoting their talents from an in-home recording studio or large corporations pushing shaving cream or HoneyBaked hams, branding today is a messy mosh pit of crowdsourced chatter.
"Your image is no longer controlled by your ad agency or designers but by your customers and their relationship to you,'' says tech marketing consultant Andy Smith. He's co-author of "The Dragonfly Effect," a sort of Frommer's guide for navigating social media as an agent for change. "And if you screw up, you can no longer ignore it or pave it over with PR.''
Branding has been redefined by this mad scramble into social networking, but none of it's a cakewalk. Bryan Kramer, a social media strategist with PureMatter in San Jose, says that "while going viral is the cherry on the top, you can't force things to go viral; you can only make them as good as you can and hope for the best.''
Or as Smith sees it: "Virality is not a strategy; it's an outcome."
Our own strategy, we were starting to realize within a few days of the iChicken launch, was producing a disappointing outcome. We were learning firsthand just how hard it is to make a video go viral. You can't MAKE Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak tweet about your video (we tried, he never called back). You can't MAKE Twitter super-user Bob Scoble tell his nearly 400,000 followers to watch the iChicken (we tried, he never called back). And even when someone agreed to give the video a nudge, as did a colleague's ex-wife who works for large Chinese Internet company, it didn't always have the intended effect (she tweeted for us, but not much happened).
After pushing this digital boulder up a hill for two weeks, with only 15,000 YouTube views to show for it, it felt as if the rock had rolled back down on all of us.
Part of the problem we faced is that anyone seeking a spotlight will find an already packed stage. More than 100 hours of mostly original content is uploaded every minute to YouTube, making any particular snippet of video a mere droplet in a digital ocean.
At the same time, there is hope because the audience is so huge. According to digital-metrics trackers at comScore, 189 million Americans watched 49.1 billion online content videos in October, while the number of video ad views totaled 24.5 billion, up from 13.2 billion in March.
Photojournalist and Instagram star Richard Koci Hernandez says "the moment I got onto social media, my career took a decidedly different turn." With more than 180,000 followers now devouring his black-and-white, multi-filtered dreamscapes, the Emmy award-winner describes initially feeling like "a sandwich-board guy on the side of the road saying 'Look at me!''' But as he reached out to others and saw his audience mushroom, Hernandez realized he had it backward. The reason some people find Internet fame while others don't, he said, is because the successful ones learn quickly that "the power of social media is not about 'Look at me,' but about starting a conversation with others. It's about connecting with other people who are also creating something.''
And the iChicken, obviously, was more like the sandwich-board guy by the side of the road.
In this redefined world of sudden mass exposure, YouTube serves as the center spotlight. Much more than 140-character tweets or Pinterest boards, videos seem to carry that emotional heft that marketing executive Devra Prywes with video-tracking service Unruly says is crucial to making people want to share what they see.
"We study why viral videos work,'' Prywes says. "And we've found that they don't have to be sexy or flashy to be highly shared. A video goes viral because it makes people feel something. What matters most is making that emotional connection, which then makes people who feel it want to share it with others.''
That's where the iChicken failed, and "Girl Learns to Dance in a Year" succeeded.
"It takes guts to put up videos of yourself dancing, especially if you're just learning,'' one fan wrote on Cheng's YouTube page. "That last shot by the train is super satisfying. It doesn't just show that this girl has progressed with dancing but it seems to show her moving outside of herself as she takes the dance from out of the shelter of her home.''
So what exactly went wrong? It was time for the iChicken's post-mortem, but it would feel more like a colonoscopy.
We used animals like "the experts'' told us to do. We made sure the final cut didn't exceed three minutes. And we recruited dozens of colleagues to help us push the thing. Yet we still hit that same wall that most YouTube creators hit.
"I couldn't tell why I should continue to watch it,'' said Emmy award-winning journalist Kare Anderson. "What's the reason people would share it? Why is it 'clever'? It's too much about you; what does it say about 'us'?''
So the iChicken wasn't funny enough?
"People share things that they expect a self-expressive (this is me/I am cool) benefit from,'' consultant Andy Smith wrote us in an email. "This, unfortunately doesn't bring this out of me. Comedy is hard. It feels more tongue-in-cheek than funny. People seem to be poking fun at something, but is it themselves? Or the viewer? Or Apple?''
That distinctive "wow moment'' that has made videos go viral -- like Jean-Claude Van Damme's splits on a pair of moving Volvo trucks or Carrie's telekinetic freakout at a coffee shop -- was more like a '"hmmm moment'' in our video.
Despite the fleeting nature of digitalized notoriety, a simple truth endures: While the online stage is very public, it is often the very personal that attracts the most attention.
Cheng was passionate about this point: Seeing someone perform at the top of their game is seeing only a small part of the whole picture. What you don't see, she says, is the blood, sweat and tears that eventually gave birth to the performance.
"You don't see the self doubt, the lost sleep, the lonely nights spent working,'' explained Cheng, who has turned her success into a startup to inspire and showcase others' 100-day projects. "You don't see the moment they started. The moment they were just like you, wondering how they could ever be good.''
But then you see the girl learn to dance.
And you can't help but pass it on.
Contact Patrick May at 408-920-5689 or follow him at Twitter.com/patmaymerc.

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|i second that!
Sorry to revive this old thread but frankly, this and your pressurized CO2 thread, are the two absolute best primers out there.
On topic, I was very interested in your explanation about how the WPG has fallen apart (not to mention LED being a completely different bag). Simple question: How does the single 13watt CP over my Fluval Flora (basically a 12" cube) rate? I'm guessing "low light". Would a second one take me up to "Medium", or would that be getting towards what would be considered "high"?
|Hey Anthony, your pic links are broken!
Originally Posted by danaj11 View Post
if i wanted to start a 55g tank how many diy co2 you think for it 3? Since I have only 1 diy on my 10g
I use 2 2L bottles for 20 gallons.... just do maths but that is a lot of bottles to renew every 2 weeks..
planted tank
if i wanted to start a 55g tank how many diy co2 you think for it 3? Since I have only 1 diy on my 10g
|Aqua Jon
Fantastic article! I'm going to be referencing it myself often and referring other to it as well! I have a few clarifications and a couple ideas I'd like to get opinions on.
First - I'm setting up a 50g heavy, i'd like to nail down the CO2 before adding fish, but dont know how much CO2 the fauna(phishies & inverts) will increase the concentration in the tank. Ie the tank begins without fauna at 20-25ppm CO2 with room for an additional 5-10ppm CO2 when the fish and such are added so that I dont exceed the recommended 30ppm.
Second - Is the drop checker a one time check that you need to refill for each reading or is it progressive?
Ideally i think it would be cool to have 2 drop checks, one with a 4dKh solution to make sure im under and one with a 3dKh solution to make sure i have enough CO2. Any thoughts on that?
Hi, I have this plants in a riparium newly planted:
Do you think I need a co2 diffuzer in it (it's only 11 gal)? Any fertilizer outside/inside? (there will be fish in one month)
oK...So I just did this DIY and after a couple of hours of hunting around this was the best I could do:
Now....I didn't have the proper tool to cut a larger hole out of the top of this salt shaker I bought...so left it thinking that the holes that were already in it may work......well after a couple hours the solution is still dark blue.
Mind you, I did follow all the direction and scaled up the mixture to 30mL of distilled water/baking soda, and 54 drops of the solution from the API pH test kit (9 drops x 5)....
Do you think that this is because I didn't cut the hole in the salt shaker head to make a bigger surface area? Or do you think it may be because of the tubing I connected to the paint tip applicator up to the 'air' in the shaker?? Maybe a combination of both?
Whilst some say higher levels CO2 do not reduce dissolved oxygen in the water (it sometimes can, depending on other factors) even moderate increases can have some fish gasping at the water surface. If it doesn't affect the dissolved O2 then what's going on?
To diffuse the CO2 out of their blood across their gill surfaces, fish require a concentration differential between the water and the blood. As the differential diminishes due to increased CO2, the gas exchange slows and stops. The fish can't excrete the CO2 and they die. This is sometimes exacerbated by aquarists 'turning off' the air stone so as to reduce CO2 loss at the surface. This the results in lowering the dissolved O2. Then the lights go out and the plants start respiration. They stop eating CO2, start using oxygen and the balance tips and in the morning you find some dead fish and it's a mystery.
Originally Posted by jwm5 View Post
good write up. nice easily explained information.
few questions that I have...
Will having CO2/ferts expand your effective light range. Probably confusing statement, what I mean is if I have a low light tank with ferts and CO2 will I be able to potentially keep moderate light plants in the tank? Or are light levels locked, low light plants can grow in all light levels, as if it were an upward ladder, plants can use light levels up the ladder, but never down the ladder, ie high light would never do well in moderate/low light.
I have just set up a new tank 30Xhigh. Currently my plans are mostly a planted tank with little to no fish. If there are no fish (there are a few snails) do I have to worry about CO2 levels or can I just throw a DIY system on there and not worry about oxygen levels.
Is there such a thing as over fertilizing. In a tank with or without fish ( I also have a 55 planted with fish, moderate light but no CO2) is it possible to overdose the fertilization to the point where it negatively effects plants (in a non fish tank) or fish in an populated tank.
My 55gallon (~2.3 wpg) has BBA. I have routinely started Flourish (2x week) and daily Excel. The BBA does not appear to be spreading at all in the tank, and no other algae seems to be growing. Will regular dosing of ferts and presumably healthy plants ever be enough to get rid of the BBA or once I have it even if it isnt spreading it will not go away on its own. Will the addition of pressurized CO2 cause the algae to die off? And if I add CO2 should I discontinue Excel, but continue on with the other ferts?
Edit- thought of another one. I run an airpump in 55g 24/7. It is not overpopulated, but it is probably about as stocked as I would want it, close to capacity, without overcrowding. If I ran CO2 would I be a fool to continue running the airpump, at least when the light was on? Or if it is pressurized CO2 put through a reactor, will it not matter. The air pump is a model for a 20 gallon tank, so it isnt pumping out huge amounts of air, but I had shut them off when I first started using Excel, and I guess I had a ph crash (if thats possible with Excel) I woke up the next morning and 30% of my fish were dead, got the airspump back on and within half an hour everyone that was still alive was back to normal. So I am nervous about the whole CO2 / lower oxygen level issue...
Thanks for any info you can offer...
The only thing I can't find is a small enough bottle for this the only one I can find is an old spice jar that's glass and about 3" long/ deep would that still be accurate if filled just under the top of the glue cap there will be a lot of space in there?
Live out in the Estates? I just moved from Naples... lol
My advice is just try and see... learn to observe your plants, they'll start discoloring if they need iron.
although i do now have a question, i have well water down in south florida, and my water is very high in iron. i have Flourite substrate and also the liquid Flourish (from another tank, have not used it with the substrate tank). would my high iron in the water decrease my need for the liquid fertilizer?
or am i overthinking it? lol
|That was some easily understandable information that really halped me figure out the CO2 my plants need =) thanks a bunch
Plant fertilizers are available as liquid or substrate fertilizers. Both should only contain the micro nutrients. Liquid fertilizers have to be dosed more frequently; substrate fertilizers will last longer. Since there are no obvious differences in efficiency, it is up to the aquarists' preference which to use.
Next to the micro nutrients, fertilizers contain chelates. The chelate is an organic molecule which binds metal ions thus protecting them from early precipitation. The preferred type is abbreviated DTPA because of its stability up to a pH level of 7.5
Unfortunately some fertilizers contain the chelate EDTA, which is much cheaper. However chelate EDTA is only stable at a pH up to 6.0 and therefore mostly useless in aquariums.
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Mini Pumpkin Cakes (Treats For Co-Irkers)
These little cakes are filled with moist deliciousness and the icing takes them over the top. This recipe would also make 12 regular size cupcakes. Adjust baking time accordingly.
Mini Pumpkin Cakes (Recipe adapted from Meals.com) yield 24 cakes
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3 large eggs
1 can (15 ounces) pureed pumpkin
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 package (8 ounces) 1/3 less fat cream cheese (Neufchâtel), at room temperature
1/4 teaspoon Fiori di Sicilia (original recipe called for 1/2 tsp orange extract)
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 cup powdered sugar
2-3 tablespoons half & half
Spray 12-welled mini bundt pan with cooking spray. Preheat oven to 325 degrees
Combine flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
In mixing bowl, cream butter and sugars until light a fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time and beat well. Stir down bowl and beaters and add pumpkin and vanilla and beat well to combine. Stir down bowl and beaters again.
Add flour mixture gradually to wet mixture and mix well. Stir down bowl and beaters one last time then beat for another minute.
Distribute batter among wells, about 2/3 full. Bake in preheated oven for 16-18 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from oven and cool on rack for 10 minutes before removing from pan to cool completely.
In mixing bowl beat cream cheese and extracts until smooth. Gradually add in the powdered sugar and continue mixing until icing is smooth. Add in half and half and mix until desired consistency. Drizzle icing over cakes.
20 comments:
- Velva said...
These mini-pumpkin cake treats look fabulous! Wow. All I would need is a good cup of coffee and a couple of these treats!
Thanks for sharing. Very nice blog pos.
- October 15, 2009 at 8:32 PM
- June said...
Wow - love pumpkin anything. Yum. I did however have to Google "Fiori di Sicilia"...smarty pants!LOL Just what do Sicilian flowers taste like? Inquiring mind needs to know!
- October 15, 2009 at 8:41 PM
- Mags said...
Velva: Thank you for commenting!
June: Hey, turn about is fair play. You made me Google "harp peeler" last week remember? I purchased that fiori di sicilia for a cinnamon roll recipe I made a few months back. It's a citrusy vanilla kind of extract, if that helps.
- October 15, 2009 at 8:48 PM
- Barbara Bakes said...
You caught me on the fiori di sicilia too! Sounds like a great addition to a terrific cake!
- October 15, 2009 at 11:20 PM
- Co Irker said...
These were soooooooooooo moist. And beautiful. And perfect. And and ...well I think everyone should try this recipe.
We're very excited in the office because you were kind enough to pack four seperately for us and only three coirkers are here. Shhh...don't tell on us, okay?
And we get pumpkin next week? Yes! I lurve pumpkin.
Thank you so much our pretty, poised perfectionist.
- October 16, 2009 at 7:04 AM
- June said...
Since that pretty poised perfectionist is also properly modest, I'm breaking the news that she's hit the big time and her blog is featured on the front page of Saveur's web site at the moment. Check this out! Isn't that amazing??? Congratulations ppppm!We love you! http://www.saveur.com/article/recipes/breaded-veal-sandwiches-with-avocado
- October 16, 2009 at 9:11 AM
- Chocolate Shavings said...
Those are adorable!
- October 16, 2009 at 9:37 AM
- Mags said...
Barbara: It really does add a little special something to the icing.
Co Irker: Your secret is safe with me..lol. Glad you like pumpkin because next week it's mini pumpkin cheesecakes. Yup, you heard it here first!
June: I'm blushing girl! (but thanks for the link to my Saveur post)
Chocolate shavings: Thanks for commenting!
- October 16, 2009 at 10:08 AM
- stephchows said...
adorable! is the wedding on halloween??? will you be dressing up :D
i'm actually going to be this, LOL
- October 16, 2009 at 10:10 AM
- Set in the Cleft said...
Just came across your blog and really enjoy your pictures, as well as the recipes (the sound of them, anyway!) I am trying to find my "inner chef"... I am the type that loves to peruse my cookbooks, watch Food Network and two of my favorite movies are Ratatouille and No Reservations. Yet, I HATE to cook :( I'm just a wannabe! But, in an effort to provide healthy, yummy meals at home on a more consistent basis despite our busy schedule, I am looking for inspiration. I will be checking in on your blog often!
- October 16, 2009 at 10:36 AM
- Moogie said...
Hey Mags,
Great looking little pumpkin cakettes.
I've used "Fiori di Sicilia" and I'm not that crazy about it. The mango liqueur that I recently made would make a great addition in a lot of recipes.
- October 16, 2009 at 2:11 PM
- Mags said...
Steph: That is one wicked costume. I love it! We were told there would be absolutely no costumes allowed at this wedding. I think they knew what we were up to...lol
Set in the cleft: Thanks for commenting and please stop back again!
Moogie: Mango liquor eh? That does sound like a great flavor.
- October 16, 2009 at 4:40 PM
- natalie said...
oh yum! i love pumpkin muffins, but these are super cute and i'll have to try these next!!!
- October 16, 2009 at 6:46 PM
- Amanda said...
Oh I just love how these turned out, they are fabulous!
- October 17, 2009 at 1:55 PM
- Lady P said...
one - again with those lucky co-irkers! my weekly rant
they are getting too big for their britches (lterally) with all this baking you do
two - must find mini bundt pan - these are a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e!
what's this!? saveur magazine! wow - mags, you have hit the big time and don't you just deserve it!!
- October 17, 2009 at 3:00 PM
- Mags said...
Natalie: I hope you enjoy them!
Amanda: Thanks! Glad you enjoyed them.
Lady P: LOL...better the co-irkers getting too big for their britches than me! And yes, I was so tickled to be noticed by Saveur. Shocked, actually!
- October 18, 2009 at 3:46 PM
- Jen @ My Kitchen Addiction said...
Very cute pumpkin cakes... they look delicious!
- October 19, 2009 at 10:27 PM
- Mags said...
Thanks Jen!
- October 20, 2009 at 9:42 PM
- Design Wine and Dine said...
I am so glad to have found your blog! I love the photos and what I see! These lil cakes are a thing of beauty! I can't wait to check out more!
Thanks for visiting my blog! :)
- October 14, 2010 at 10:09 AM
- Sue said...
Gorgeous little delectable cakes!
WOW, Congrats on the Saveur feature! You're so modest...you didn't even tell us(Thanks, June)!
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SARASOTA COUNTY - This county's community banks matched their January output for loans last month, but the dollar value fell precipitously.
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POSITION: Goaltender
CATCHES: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Kingston, ON, CAN
DRAFTED: DAL: 2001-161 overall
|NHL All-Rookie Team (2007) Traded to Sudbury (OHL) by Kingston (OHL) for Sudbury's 10th round choice (Billy Burke) in 2002 OHL Midget Draft, October 25, 2000. Traded to Tampa Bay by Dallas with Jussi Jokinen, Jeff Halpern and Dallas' 4th round choice (later traded to Minnesota, later traded to Edmonton Edmonton selected Kyle Bigos) in 2009 Entry Draft for Brad Richards and Johan Holmqvist, February 26, 2008. Signed as a free agent by Phoenix, July 1, 2011.
Played in 62 games and posted a 3.16 GAA and a .904 SV%...Registered a .922 SV% in his final 16 games of the season from Mar. 1-Apr. 11…Posted a .934 SV% in 12 appearances in March to rank 4th among NHL goalies with at least 12 games that month…Recorded 32 saves in 4-3 OT win at BUF, Mar. 26…Made 41 saves on 43 shots vs. VAN, Mar. 22…Stopped 42 of 44 shots vs. CHI, Mar. 12…Collected 32 saves in 3-2 SO win vs. VAN, Mar. 5…Stopped 30 shots in 4-1 win at CBJ, Feb. 3…Made 24 saves in 3-1 win at TOR, Jan. 29…Stopped 34 of 35 shots in 4-1 win vs. WPG, Jan.
8…Had 23 saves in 6-3 win vs. CBJ, Jan. 3…Made 25 saves in 5-2 win at EDM, Dec. 1…Stopped 37 of 39 shots in 3-2 SO win at ANA, Nov. 7… Collected 28 saves in 3-2 win vs. TOR, Nov. 4.
2013-14 Highlights
Finished 27-21-10 with a 2.64 GAA and a .915 SV% in 62 games...Scored his first career goal and added three assists... Recorded three shutouts...Posted a 1.94 GAA and a .934 SV% in a 16-game span from Feb. 1 – Mar. 22 before suffering a season-ending injury at NYR, Mar. 24...Made 39 saves in a win at LAK, Mar. 17...Turned away 23 shots in a shutout vs.
2012-13 Highlights
Went 15-12-5 with a 2.58 GAA and a .910 SV% in 34 starts...His five shutouts tied for tops in the NHL...Missed 12 games with injuries...Played in his 100th game with the Coyotes on Apr. 24 vs. SJS...Notched 24 saves in a shutout vs. COL, Apr. 6...Stopped 23 shots in a shutout at CBJ, Mar. 16...Turned away 30 shots in a shutout vs. CGY, Feb. 18...Matched a season-high 41 saves in a 3-2 OT win at COL, Feb. 11...Registered 33 saves in his second shutout of the season at SJS, Feb. 9...Collected 17 saves in a shutout vs. DAL, Feb. 2.
2011-12 Highlights
Went 38-18-10 with a 2.21 GAA and a .930 SV% in 67 games...He ranked fourth in the NHL in wins (38) and SV% (.930) and he ranked seventh in GAA (2.21)...His eight shutouts were tied for third in the NHL and matched the single-season franchise record...Ranked third in the NHL in saves (2,066) and seventh in starts (67)...Set the single-season franchise mark in SV%... His GAA and wins ranked second on the single-season franchise list...Selected as team MVP... Won five straight starts to end the season...Named the NHL's First Star of the Week, Apr. 8... Posted a 0.67 GAA, .982 save percentage and one shutout in three straight wins from Apr. 3-7 as the Coyotes captured the Pacific Division title for the first time in franchise history...Began the week by making 54 saves, an NHL record for saves in a regular-season shutout, in a 2-0 victory vs. CBJ, Apr. 3...The win vs. CBJ also extended Smith's shutout streak to three consecutive games, a career high...As part of the streak he also had 44 saves in a 4-0 SO vs. ANA, Mar. 31 and 38 saves in a 2-0 SO vs. SJS, Mar. 29...His overall shutout streak (Mar. 25-Apr. 6) reached 234:25...Smith made 161 consecutive saves during the streak, the most since saves were introduced as an official NHL statistic in 1976-77... Collected his 100th career win vs. COL, Mar. 22...Recorded his fifth SO vs. SJS, Mar. 10, while also picking up his 30th win...Named the NHL's First Star of the Month for February...Went 11-0-0 in the month...His 11-game winning streak set a franchise record...Posted a 1.42 GAA, .952 SV% and two shutouts in Feb...Named the NHL's First Star of the Week, Feb. 13...Recorded four wins and a league best 0.74 GAA and .975 SV% during the week...Posted back-to-back shutouts Feb. 11 vs. CHI (38 saves) and Feb. 16 at LAK (28 saves)...Won his 20th game of the season vs. DET, Feb. 6...Set a new career high for wins in a season (15) at FLA, Dec. 20...Posted an 8-2-1 record in Nov...Notched 26 saves in a 3-0 win vs. DAL, Nov. 26...Recorded his first shutout with PHX at SJS, Nov. 12 (31 saves)... Won his first game with the Coyotes vs. WPG, Oct. 15...Made 46 saves in PHX debut at SJS, Oct. 8...2012 Playoffs: Went 9-7-3 with a 1.99 GAA, .944 SV% and three shutouts in 16 postseason starts...His three shutouts ranked tied for first among playoff goalies and he ranked second in SV% (.944), and fourth in GAA (1.99) and wins (9)...Stopped 36 shots in a 4-0 shutout at LAK, May 20 in Game 4 of the WCF...Appeared in all five games of the WCSF against NSH...Posted a 1.73 GAA and a .943 SV% during the WCSF...Recorded a shutout in Game 4 (25 saves) at NSH, May 4...Appeared in all six games of the WCQF against CHI...Posted a 1.81 GAA and a .950 SV% during the WCQF...Recorded his first career playoff shutout in Game 6 at CHI, Apr. 23, stopping 39 shots...Made 46 saves in Game 2 vs. CHI, Apr. 14...Made 43 saves in his postseason debut with PHX in Game 1 vs. CHI, Apr. 12 in a 3-2 OT win.
2010-11 Highlights
Went 13-6-1 with a 2.90 GAA and a .899 SV% in 22 games with TBL…Won his final three starts of the season Mar. 26-Apr. 9…Was 5-1-1 with a 1.68 GAA and a .945 SV% in his last six starts of the year…Stopped 42 of 44 shots in a 6-2 win at CAR, Apr. 9 (regular season finale)…Earned a shutout with 31 saves at CHI, Apr. 3…Turned away 33 of 35 shots in a 4-2 win at CAR, Mar. 26…Recalled from Norfolk (AHL) on Feb. 25 after going 1-4-0 with a 1.83 GAA and a .924 SV% with the Admirals…Assigned to Norfolk, Jan. 20…Missed 15 games with an injury Dec. 20-Jan. 20…Earned his 10th win in his 17th game on Dec. 18, marking a career-best for the fastest span to that many victories…Won four consecutive starts from Nov. 18-24…Stopped 26 of 27 shots in a 3-1 win vs. BOS, Nov. 22…Turned away 29 of 30 shots in a 2-1 win at BUF, Nov. 20…Went 4-0-1 in his first five starts of the season…2011 Playoffs: Went 1-1-0 with a 1.00 GAA and a .958 SV% in three playoff games during the ECF vs. BOS…Made his first career postseason start in Game 5, in which he stopped 17 of 19 shots…Stopped all 21 shots against in relief during Game 4 of the ECF, earning him his first career postseason win…Made his NHL playoff debut in relief in Game 2 of the ECF, stopping all eight shots faced in 18:49 of ice time.
2009-10 Highlights
Surpassed his previous career high total by appearing in 42 games in goal for TBL…Had 13 wins…Earned his 50th career win on vs. PIT, Jan. 2 and recorded his 10th career shutout on at PIT, Mar. 31…Was named the NHL's Second Star of the Week on Jan. 4 after going 2-0-1 with a 1.31 GAA and a .957 SV%…Made a season-high eight consecutive starts from Dec. 21 to Jan. 8.
2008-09 Highlights
Played in 41 games with TBL, posting a 14-18-9 record, a .916 SV% and a 2.62 GAA with two SO…Missed the final 32 games of the season with an injury…Set career highs with 14 wins, 1,282 shots against, 1,174 saves, 2,471:21 minutes played and a .916 SV%…Recorded his second career assist Oct. 28 at TOR…Posted his longest shutout streak of the season, 111:37, from Oct. 18-31…Faced a season-high 46 shots Oct. 11 vs. CAR.
2007-08 Highlights
Posted a 2.79 GAA and a .893 SV% with one SO in 13 games after being acquired by TBL…Went 12-9-0 with a 2.46 GAA and a .906 SV% in 21 games with DAL…Had two SO with DAL…Stopped all six shots faced in shootouts and posted a 2-0 record…Earned his sixth career SO, his first with TBL, with 20 saves and earned his first career assist vs. NYR, Mar. 15…Made 35 saves on 36 shots faced, both highs with the Lightning, for his second win with TBL at BOS, Mar. 13…Played in his 50th career game at CBJ, Mar. 9…Made his Lightning debut vs. MIN, Feb. 27 and made 24 saves on 27 shots in a loss…Was named the NHL's Third Star of the Week for the week of Nov. 19-25…Notched his second SO of the year at MIN, Feb. 7, making 25 stops…Faced a season-high 41 shots Nov. 25 at NYR…Posted his first SO of the season Nov. 19 vs. LAK, making 22 saves.
2006-07 Highlights
Named to the 2006-07 NHL All-Rookie Team…Second player in DAL history named to the All-Rookie Team (Mike Modano, 1990)…Was named the NHL's Third Star of the Week on Feb. 12 for the second time of the season (also on Nov. 26) after going 3-0-0 with a 0.85 GAA and a .967 SV%…Registered a career high 131:06 shutout streak from Jan. 4-11, spanning four games…Became first goaltender in DAL history to record a SO in his NHL debut at PHX, Oct. 21 with 22 saves.
2005-06 Highlights
Appeared in his fourth professional season with Iowa (AHL), recording a 25-19-6 record, a 2.50 GAA and a .917 SV% in 50 games…Led all AHL goaltenders in assists (6), ranked fourth in GAA and saves (1,387), seventh in SV% and eighth in wins…Was named the AHL Goaltender of the Month for April, going 5-1-0 with a 2.11 GAA and a .937 SV%…Tied an AHL record with three assists at Peoria, Mar. 3, becoming the third goaltender all-time to do it…Was recalled by DAL Jan. 18 but did not play…Earned the first SO in Iowa (AHL) history in a 1-0 win vs. Hamilton, Nov. 19…Played in seven Calder Cup playoff games, recording a 3-4 record and a 2.74 GAA…Posted the first playoff win in Iowa history Apr. 22.
2004-05 Highlights
Posted a 19-17-3 record with 2.42 GAA, a .915 SV% and five SO with Houston (AHL)…Played in three Calder Cup playoff games with Houston, posting a 1-2 record and a 1.33 GAA.
2003-04 Highlights
Went 8-11-0 in 21 games with Utah (AHL), posting a 2.83 GAA.
2002-03 Highlights
Made his AHL debut with Utah, posting a 5-5-0 record with a 3.23 GAA in 11 games…Played in 27 games with Lexington (ECHL), recording a 11-10-4 record and a 2.55 GAA…Became the sixth goaltender in ECHL history to score a goal and added a 21-save shutout on Oct. 26 vs. Dayton.
2001-02 Highlights
Won 19 games and posted a 3.06 GAA and a .914 SV% with the Sudbury (OHL).
2000-01 Highlights
Went 22-13-7 with a 2.52 GAA and a .913 SV% in 43 games with Sudbury (OHL)…Appeared in three games for Kingston (OHL).
1999-2000 Highlights
Was 4-5-0 with a 3.78 GAA and a .881 SV% with Kingston (OHL).
International Career
2014: Won a gold medal with Team Canada at the Olympics in Sochi, Russia...2013: Played in four games for Team Canada at the IIHF World Championships in Stockholm, Sweden and Helsinki, Finland...Posted a 1.65 GAA and a .944 SV%.
Mike and his wife Brigitte have three sons Aksel, Ajax and Nixon...Smith played hockey and softball growing up in Ontario...His softball team won seven Ontario championships and he almost played in the 2001 World Junior Softball Championship, except it coincided with his hockey playoffs...His wife Brigitte is a Canadian World Cup and Olympic skier...Mike's first job was working at hockey schools...He idolized Patrick Roy growing up...Lists "Old School" as his favorite movie...If he wasn't playing hockey he would want to be playing baseball or be a professional fisherman...Enjoys vacationing in Boca Grande, Florida...Favorite activity is tarpon fishing.


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It all started one year earlier. Actually, Super Bowl Sunday 2002. I started hearing voices and having symptoms of schizophrenia. I spent two weeks in the hospital and after they finally got the medication right they let me out. I lived fine for about six months.
Right around the time the tickets for Madison Square Garden went on sale, I stopped taking the medication. I was really lucky to get tickets over the phone the day they went on sale. A few weeks later I ended up in the hospital again when the voices and symptoms just took control again. I was in the hospital for six weeks and got out on Dec 10th, the week Phish was on Saturday Night Live with Al Gore.
I was completely broke from not working for the previous six weeks. I had been sober for two months and I really, really wanted to make it to MSG. For Christmas, my parents gave me $250 and a ticket to a Big Wu show in Minneapolis on the 27th. During the setbreak of the Big Wu show, my friend called me on my cell phone and told me that he didnt want to go to New Years anymore and that he gave his ticket away to a friend. So I had no ride.
I got home from the Big Wu show and almost started crying. I turned on Strange Design, a song that has helped me deal with schizophrenia all along. But instead of crying I started laughing. I was sitting on two tickets for the first Phish show in two and a half years, and all I wanted to do was bring a few companions on this ride.
A little later my friend Jason called me and he was more then happy to be my companion along with his girl. We left for Chicago the next day, picked up Annie, and headed out to New York. We got outside of MSG and it was very crowded. Everyone was looking for a ticket. I split up with Jason and Annie right when the doors opened. Annie didn't have a ticket and Jason was going to help her find one.
I got inside and sat down and just loved the pre-show music. Every song just made me feel so good. Some of the songs I remember were the Welcome Back Kotter theme song, It Feels Like the First Time, and The Boys Are Back in Town.
It was getting closer to show time and I was still by myself. I figured I was a big boy and I could handle being by myself for this show. But right as the lights turned out, I saw Jason about fifty feet away. I ran over to him and gave him a huge hug. Right then, the band walked onstage and the crowd noise was so overwhelming that you couldnt hear what the band was playing, or if they even were playing.
The crowd noise died down and it was Piper. The song was just building and building and right around when Phish starts singing the lyrics to Piper I just started balling. After all I went through since the last time I was at a Phish concert, they were finally back and I was free from being in the hospital and free from schizophrenia.
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Family and friends will gather at Macedonia Baptist Church Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 at 11 a.m., to celebrate the life of Ronald Gene Murph, age 55. Ronald was born Sept. 1, 1957 in Ardmore and departed this life Oct. 4, 2012 in Mercy Memorial Hospital following an extended illness. Interment will follow in Clearview Cemetery. Pastor John Roberts will officiate and Ronald's uncle, Carl Loftis, will deliver the eulogy. Ronnie, as family and friends knew him, was a lifetime resident of Ardmore. He attended Ardmore Public Schools, and during his youth united with Macedonia Baptist Church, where he was one of the lead singers in the youth choir. Ronnie worked at Stromberg-Carlson and the Ardmore Veterans' Center.
Ronnie loved to sing. He loved music, and especially loved the music composed and sung by Stevie Wonder, James Cleveland, and Marvin Sapp. Additionally, he had a great love for western movies and owned a mass collection of them.
Ronnie is survived by a daughter and her husband, Angel and Kenneth Wayne Taulton, Jr., and their children, Sedrick Cotton, Jr., Aja Murph, Anthony Taulton, Lakevia Taulton, and Keondra Taulton, all of Cedar Hill, Texas; mother, Wanda Anderson, Ardmore; father, Olen Murph Jr., Boston, two brothers, Anorda Murph, Tulsa, and Ricky Murph, Ardmore; two sisters and brothers-in-law, Margaretta and Dwight Rogers, Monica and Timothy Milo, all of Ardmore; his maternal grandmother, Amy Loftis, a host of cousins, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, and many friends.
Robert was preceded in death by a sister, Juanita McCarroll, Sept. 7, 2010, his step-father, Robert Anderson, March 18, 2007, and his maternal grandfather, Elredis Loftis Dec. 11, 1976.
Pallbearers are nephews, Josh Murph, Cormel Houston, Darnel McCarroll, Dwight Rogers, Jr., and Marchello Anderson; flower bearers are nieces, Kamiah Anderson, Tamiah McCarroll, Dominique McCarroll, Renisha Murph, Riquinda Murph, and Quanesha Rogers.
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While water pipes are out of service, Charlotte Water maintains a continuous supply of water to customers through an above ground temporary water system. To ensure the water is safe to drink, the temporary system is disinfected and tested prior to putting it into service. Water pipe rehabilitation process involves an innovative technique of cleaning the inside of the existing water main, then applying a protective coating to extend the useful life of the pipe. This is accomplished using limited digging at strategic locations, which means less digging and pavement repair and less inconvenience to customers.
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Fronted by a powdery white-sand beach along the turquoise Atlantic Ocean, Sands at Grace Bay faces Grace Bay on the north shore of Providenciales Island in the Caicos group.
Pools and channels
Attractions include three freeform pools, swimming channels amid lush gardens, complimentary water-sports gear, a children's pool, and a beachfront Caribbean/American restaurant.
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In addition to an idyllic sugar-sand beach, Sands at Grace Bay features a 75-foot (22.8-meter) freeform pool, a circular children's pool, and 2 freeform pools connected by 2 channels that wind through the gardens. Treatments including seaweed, mud, and water-lily wraps, as well as waxing and nail care, are available in a massage room. A hospitality lounge includes complimentary wireless Internet access and a computer with complimentary high-speed Internet access. Complimentary supervised children's activities are offered in winter. Self-parking is complimentary.
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Spa services on site
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Spa tub
- Fitness facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Bar/lounge
- Restaurant
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 114
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Porter/bellhop
- Number of floors - 3
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Tennis on site
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Wedding services
- Concierge services
- Free WiFi
- Laundry facilities
- One meeting room
- Garden
- Luggage storage
- 24-hour business center
- Free self parking
- Outdoor tennis court
- Number of buildings/towers - 6
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Outdoor tennis court
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Separate sitting area
- Access via exterior corridors
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Ceiling fan
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- In-room massage available
- Shower/tub combination
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Cable TV service
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Daily housekeeping
- Desk
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Free WiFi
Where to Eat
Hemingway's - Casual, open-air beachfront restaurant/bar. Seating under wooden roof, on patio, and at umbrella tables on wooden deck with sweeping ocean and sunset views. Tiki torches and oil lanterns at night. Caribbean barbecue with live music Tuesday and Thursday evenings.
Breakfast choices include Eggs Benedict, Cuban-Style Huevos Rancheros, Toasted-Almond Pancakes. Lunch choices include conch chowder, conch fritters, conch salad, mango-shrimp salad, fish and chips, burgers, sandwiches, fried ice cream. Dinners choices include crab cakes, rack of lamb, Plantain-Crusted Mahi Mahi, Penne with Shrimp, Grilled-Chicken Curry, steaks, nightly specials.
Nearby Things to Do
This resort is located along an unbroken seven-mile beach on the Atlantic Ocean. A 75-foot freeform pool and an 18-foot-diameter children's pool are situated above the beach. Two 40-foot-long, freeform pools are connected by twin 80-foot channels that meander through dense gardens. A spa tub is secluded in the garden courtyard. Cushioned lounge chairs flank pools.
Use of Hobie Cat sailboats, kayaks, snorkeling gear, and bicycles is complimentary, as is use of a lighted tennis court. An independent water-sports operator offers reef and wreck scuba-diving and snorkeling excursions, scuba-diving lessons and certification classes, parasailing, and deep-sea, bone-fishing, and bottom-fishing trips. Provo Golf Club, an 18-hole championship layout, is two miles east. An 18-hole miniature golf course is adjacent to the golf club.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the resort; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Scuba diving nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Fitness classes on site
- Sailing on site
- Snorkeling on site
- Volleyball on site
- Windsurfing on site
Spa Services
- Hot stone massage
- Deep tissue massage
- Swedish massage
- Reflexology
- Couples treatment rooms
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Massages
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 350 per stay
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
24-hour check-in
Optional extras
- Fee for cooked-to-order breakfast: USD 6 per person (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: USD 22 per person (roundtrip)
- Pet fee: USD 350 per stay
Hotel Name
- Grace Bay Sands
- Sands Condo Grace Bay
- Sands Grace Bay
- Sands At Grace Bay Hotel Providenciales
- Sands At Grace Bay Providenciales
- Sands At Grace Bay Turks And Caicos/Providenciales
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Sarasota Coldwell Banker buys 2 Brevard County brokerages
Published: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 12:25 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 12:25 p.m.
MELBOURNE - Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate LLC, the Sarasota-based arm of NRT LLC, has acquired two real estate brokerages in Brevard County.
Pruitt Real Estate, with two offices and 70 sales associates, and Keldorff Inc. -- which does business as ERA Showcase Properties & Investments, with seven offices and more than 100 sales associates -- will open up a new market for Coldwell, which has 80 offices and nearly 4,800 sales associates in Florida.
The deal follows another in March for the luxury team of Florida Real Estate Group based in Palm Coast, which included nine sales centers.
NRT is part of Realogy Holdings Corp., a company whose shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
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A group of friends in Colorado Springs decided to put the "extreme" in extremely generous.
After meeting a homeless man named Keith, 19-year-old Kristopher Kirtland, had an unusual offer.
"Have you ever thought about skydiving," Kirtland asked.
Videoing the entire exchange, the look of surprise is obvious on Keith's face, but that was quickly followed by a yes.
"Being homeless, you're not given much and when you're given an opportunity…this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for this man," Kirtland said. "He jumped on it."
Starting the day living on the streets, after a shopping trip for new clothes, a shower and a haircut, Keith was on his way to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
"His last words just before jumping out of the plane that we caught was 'I hope this experience gives me the courage to succeed in other areas of my life," Kirtland said. "For us, that was really what it was all about, was giving him the courage to move on in his life and take the next step."
The group of friends, who call themselves 'Media Overload,' say they spent around $800 on the day including a couple of nights for Keith in a hotel room. Kirtland says Keith has already had a couple of job interviews.
"He taught me that just because you're in a bad time in your life you don't have to be negative," Kirtland said.


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7 Arm Exercises for Immediate Results
Arm workouts for women just got a lot more effective thanks to celebrity fitness guru David Kirsch
1. Place the heels of your hands on a chair or bench. Keeping your back straight, extend your legs at a 90 degree angle to the top of your stability ball.
2. Keep your butt close to the bench and your shoulders blades back as you lower yourself down.
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The spiderman push ups are a killer! I have been doing these for a month and I see so many results it is crazy! I can carry something that weighs more than 15 pounds and my arms don't feel like wings when I wave hello to someone haha!
by sunkissedkat Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at 12:07AM Report as inappropriate
Helpful, thank you.
by bksc Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 11:55PM Report as inappropriate
helpful ideas, thank you! I'm tired of my flabby arms and summer doesn't seem that far away.
by tulipsarebetter Monday, January 14, 2013 at 04:49PM Report as inappropriate
Great ideas! I was just thinking about ways of toning my arms.
by Chantilly Monday, December 24, 2012 at 01:39AM Report as inappropriate
Yay! I'll definitely be trying these out.
by NillaButterfly Saturday, December 22, 2012 at 07:19PM Report as inappropriate
like these
by jaye_tyler Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at 09:17PM Report as inappropriate
I could never do boy pushups so I'm going to start with the knee pushups and hope to take it to the next level. Upper arms def need some toning help
by EricaF123 Monday, October 22, 2012 at 03:52AM Report as inappropriate
These are great ideas. I wonder what type of "immediate " results I can expect. My arms need a lot of work!
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This is exactly what I need, thx.
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Great article. Love the graphics :)
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Despite remarkable advances in medical research and treatments during the 20th century, infectious diseases remain among the leading causes of death worldwide for three reasons: (1) emergence of new infectious diseases; (2) re-emergence of old infectious diseases; and (3) persistence of intractable infectious diseases. Many logistical and scientific challenges stand in the way of better prevention, treatment, and control strategies for emerging diseases and those infectious diseases that primarily affect the developing world. Addressing these challenges will require collaboration among the biomedical industry, government agencies, international organizations, and private foundations.
Expanded studies in microbiology and infectious disease ecology will improve prediction and prevention. Research in specialized fields, such as molecular biology, genetics, cell biology, population and evolutionary biology, mathematical modeling, computer science, and remote sensing technology, is essential to this effort.
Rapid, sensitive methods for pathogen identification and disease diagnosis, determination of the drug sensitivity of microbes, and determination of the pesticide sensitivity of arthropod vectors would significantly increase the quality of patient care and simplify infectious disease control and surveillance programs. New research suggests that many "noncommunicable" diseases are caused or exacerbated by infectious agents.
The potential health burden of these diseases warrants more extensive analysis of the contributions of infectious agents to chronic diseases.
Examples of Emerging/Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
The goal of treatment research is to identify targets of vulnerability during the complex processes of colonization, replication, and eventual transmission to new hosts. Recent advances in structural biology, computer modeling, crystallography, combinatorial chemistry in drug design, and robotic technology for high-throughput screening must be harnessed to identify and produce candidate compounds for therapeutic use. Design of therapies against unknown pathogens, whether naturally emerging or the result of bioengineering, poses a special challenge and emphasizes the need for developing better broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents.
Development of resistance is fueled by increased and/or inappropriate use of therapeutic drugs and amplified by person-to-person or common-source transmission in crowded settings such as hospitals. Agricultural practices that include extensive use of antibiotics in livestock and pesticides on crops are adding selective pressure on microbes.
Improving our global ability to combat infectious diseases that are resistant to current control strategies presents many unique research challenges. Basic research is needed to understand how pathogens evade normal host defenses, and epidemiological and field- based research is needed to understand the natural history of disease.
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Digital Communications Transformation (DCT)
UBCMS Hands-On Training Class
Please Note: We request that offices which are new to the DCT process first go through a general orientation. (more details).
In this course you will learn:
- the various UBCMS roles, such as Viewer, Author, Publisher and Advanced Users
- how to log in to the UBCMS
- how to familiarize yourself with the UBCMS environment
- the basics of creating Web pages in the UBCMS
- the basics of editing and modifying Web pages
You'll benefit by learning:
- the basics of how to use the UBCMS Web interface
- how to leverage available templates within the UBCMS
- the basics of the various components within the UBCMS
- shared content and tagging concepts
Participants should view the following online training modules before attending a training session:
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The Galaxy have done it again - sending Beckham off with another trophy. The LA Galaxy defeated the Dynamo 3-1 to claim their second MLS championship in a row and secure their fourth title.
Celebrate the 2012 MLS Cup champions with this commemorative MLS Cup 2012 Winners Travel Mug!
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My bicycle is our second car. I love to bicycle in all weather, for all distances, and on all routes. Bicycling has brought so much joy to my life, and I want to share it with anyone who is interested. I will use my soapbox to tell you about the joys, the freedom, the benefits, and, yes, the challenges of bicycling and walking for transportation.
My husband had business in Columbia, MO the other day and I went along for the ride. I arranged to meet with a couple friends, and I brought my bike so I could bike from one friend to the other. CoMo received a $22 million Alternative Transportation grant several years ago, and the infrastructure changes have mostly been built in the past 3 years since we left. When I started biking we lived in CoMo, and I was curious to see what had changed.
I had thought it was a bike-friendly place, although since I'd never biked much in any other town I didn't have anything to compare it to. When we moved, I was surprised to find any bike lanes at all in Kirksville, but such a small town as this has very low traffic and, while not bike-friendly, isn't bike-hostile.
There sure are a lot of new bike lanes, sharrows, and "bike route" signs in Columbia, and several connector trails have sprung up. Businesses everywhere are sporting bike racks, and not the wheel-bender type. They have good solid serpent-style bike racks or, even better, the post-and-loop style.
More important than this infrastructure were the actual bicyclists. Not only were there many, but they rode like they knew what they were doing, riding in the direction of traffic, signaling turns, taking the lane, and waiting their turn.
I noticed all this before we had even parked the car. I eagerly jumped on my bike and headed south to meet one friend at a coffee shop (which did not have bike racks). We had a good long chat and then he recommended a route back to downtown, where I was meeting another friend, using a nascent connector trail that had been graded but not paved yet.
"You should be able to ride most of it," he said, "except perhaps a short stretch toward the end."
The trail wound through the woods, flecks of sunlight through the green forest. It was lovely. It was also a bit muddy. My tires picked up the mud and skidded slightly on the switchbacks. The trail dropped into a valley and I walked through the mud. The mud rendered my wheels immobile and I dragged my bike along. Back on dry land, I freed the wheels and pedaled into downtown, flinging bits of mud everywhere. (I hosed the bike down when I got home.)
Both friends are current City Council Representatives, and it was exciting to hear how far CoMo has come. No more arguing the merits of Livable Streets and bike lanes; everyone takes those for granted. They aspire to have a City/University-partnered transit system that will rival those of Ames, IA, Champaign-Urbana, IL, and Lawrence, KS. They're talking about a bike share program. They recently approved an experimental apartment complex with a car share program, reduced parking for tenants, and a separate rent for the parking space, models they hope to incorporate into city ordinance and see widely adopted.
It's an exciting time to be there. Lessons learned through CoMo's experiments impact all of Missouri. Smaller towns all over Missouri are already applying CoMo's Walking School Bus in their own Safe Routes to School programs, and will be able to incorporate CoMo's experience to become healthier, walkable communities.


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Open Movie Editor Releases New Version
Linux based non-linear video application, Open Movie Editor, has released a new version. Originally new sourced were rolled out on May 21st, with a small bug fix update now available from May 23rd.
I've compiled and installed the new version from source and generally it works well, with a few minor quirks that are sure to be ironed out shortly – for example the audio and video codec rendering options are woefully short of all the libraries I have installed on my machine. Never mind, I always render out a project in the highest quality anyway and then transcode directly with FFmpeg. This might not be optimal for everyone.
As usual, existing Project files are recognised (these are saved in your /home/username directory usually anyway), so work can easily continue on earlier timelines.
Features of this release include:
– Zoom buttons in timeline
– Preview in separate Window
– Images in node graphs
– Lift, gamma, gain 3-Way color-tool
The Zoom buttons are probably more intuitive for new users, although I've already become quite used to the old drag-the-slider zoom method. Time will tell whether this new functionality will be better.
Preview in a separate window works, but I can't quite figure out yet how I would use it. It only previews the timeline, and not clips yet to be added to the project. Previewing clips before they're added to the timeline would be a really useful feature.
I've not yet tried node based editing or the new colour correction tools.
Full release note details can be found here:
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About the Book
In Bloody Crimes, James L. Swanson—the Edgar® Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt—brings to life two epic events of the Civil War era: the thrilling chase to apprehend Confederate president Jefferson Davis in the wake of the Lincoln assassination and the momentous 20 -day funeral that took Abraham Lincoln's body home to Springfield. A true tale full of fascinating twists and turns, and lavishly illustrated with dozens of rare historical images—some never before seen—Bloody Crimes is a fascinating companion to Swanson's Manhunt and a riveting true-crime thriller that will electrify civil war buffs, general readers, and everyone in between.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
On the morning of April 2, 1865, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, received a telegram from General Robert E. Lee. There is no more time—the Yankees are coming, it warned. Shortly before midnight, Davis boarded a train from Richmond and fled the capital, setting off an intense and thrilling chase in which Union cavalry hunted the Confederate president.
Two weeks later, President Lincoln was assassinated, and the nation was convinced that Davis was involved in the conspiracy that led to the crime. Lincoln's murder, autopsy, and White House funeral transfixed the nation. His final journey began when soldiers placed his corpse aboard a special train that would carry him home on the 1,600-mile trip to Springfield. It was the largest and most magnificent funeral pageant in American history.
The saga that began with Manhunt continues with the electrifying Bloody Crimes. James Swanson masterfully weaves together the stories of two fallen leaders as they made their last expeditions through the bloody landscape of a wounded nation.
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HAYWARD -- Two teenagers charged with strangling a Castro Valley woman and then returning later to set her body on fire pleaded not guilty to murder and arson charges Friday in Alameda County Superior Court.
Christian Birdsall, 16, and Cody Nicosia, 18, entered the Hayward Hall of Justice courtroom shortly after 9 a.m., a faint smile crossing Nicosia's face as he noticed his picture being taken. Birdsall stared blankly ahead, gazing upward only to address the judge as he spoke.
After the pleas were entered, attorneys requested a delay on the teens' upcoming preliminary hearing, citing the need to review data related to the case. They are due back in court April 19 for a pretrial hearing.
"We don't have all of the police reports, and there are hundreds of hard copy pages and DVDs to review," said Albert Wax, who is representing Nicosia. "And we're expecting more to come."
Birdsall is being prosecuted as an adult in the case, even though he is younger than 18.
The slaying of 58-year-old Barbara Latiolais, which Alameda County Sheriff's deputies called "the kind of case nightmares are made of," occurred about noon Oct. 17 inside a home at 2431 San Carlos Ave. in Castro Valley. Latiolais lived there with her longtime partner, Michael J. Rice, 60, a retired San Francisco firefighter.
Witnesses who saw Birdsall driving a car belonging to the victim helped lead investigators to the teens less than 48 hours after Latiolais was strangled.
Police issued a search warrant for a Hayward home on Rex Road, where both teens were living with Nicosia's father.
When investigators arrived, Nicosia's father became upset and told the teens, "If you did something, you need to come clean."
Police said Nicosia then looked his father in the eye and told him, "We killed someone."
Birdsall, who was distantly related to Latiolais' partner and had previously done yard work for him, knew he was going to be out of town and made plans to rob his home, investigators said.
The suspects waited outside and, when Latiolais failed to leave the home as expected, Birdsall went to the door about noon and offered to do some work.
"They had made the decision to kill her before he walked up to the door," Alameda County Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. J.D. Nelson said.
Latiolais, who neighbors described as a "kind, peaceful woman," let Birdsall into the home. He unlocked the back door for Nicosia, who allegedly came up behind the woman and choked her until she passed out. According to Nelson, the two strangled her with a rope after she began making noises.
The teens allegedly completed the burglary, left the home in the couple's Volvo and went to lunch at a local restaurant. After meeting up with friends, they reportedly decided to return to the house, where they are thought to have soaked Latiolais' body with gasoline and spread fuel around the home. The pair left close to midnight, reportedly after throwing a match through the front door.
Fire crews found Latiolais' body while extinguishing the blaze.
"This woman was in the sanctity of her own home, and violated by someone she trusted," Nelson said. "Why two teenagers would do something like this is beyond imagination."
After the court appearance Friday, Cody Nicosia's attorney said his client was feeling remorse.
"Cody's demeanor has changed," said Wax. "He's feeling very sorry."
The teens remain in Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on no-bail holds.