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NIAGARA FALLS – Rep. Brian Higgins has opened a new Niagara Falls office in the Park Place district downtown. The South Buffalo Democrat recently added the city to his 26th Congressional District and will work from the same office as his predecessor, Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-Fairport.
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SEVEN SPRINGS, Pa. -Seven Springs Mountain Resort and The Buncher Co. of Pittsburgh announced Tuesday the two companies have reached an agreement for Seven Springs to acquire nearby Hidden Valley Resort.
Located near Seven Springs, Hidden Valley consists of about 1,200 acres and includes 29 ski slopes and trails, as well as an 18-hole golf course.
The sale is effective Oct. 1. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Hidden Valley Resort, in western Pennsylvania, has been purchased by Seven Springs Mountain Resort.
"As we have demonstrated with all of our other operations in the region, we are committed to the long-term success of Hidden Valley as a family destination," said Seven Springs Chairman Robert Nutting.
The Buncher Co. is a real estate development firm in western Pennsylvania.
Nutting said Seven Springs and Hidden Valley are "strong and important establishments with long histories and bright futures."
"We have long held a deep appreciation for Hidden Valley and the family experience it offers," he said. "I have fond memories of skiing these very slopes and the slopes of Seven Springs with my family during my childhood, and with my children."
Nutting said representatives of Seven Springs met with Hidden Valley employees Tuesday to announce the sale. No personnel decisions have been made, he added.
As for the upcoming ski season, Nutting said Seven Springs' officials are planning to meet with homeowners, developers and employees at Hidden Valley to devise a plan that works for everyone.
Seven Springs and Hidden Valley will keep their unique identities, Nutting added, noting there likely will be some cross-marketing of the two resorts.
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It can't be awesome character to always be waving the white flag. I wrote about it and days later Pamela mailed a package to my house. She made me that banner.
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Home Team BBQ Owner and Pitmaster Aaron Siegel was presented with area non-profit Operation Home's annual "Kris Basala Person of the Year "award at a special ceremony during the annual fundraiser Drum It Up event on Oct. 20. The Basala Award is in honor of long-time Operation Home board member Kris Basala whose outsized life skills were matched by his extraordinarily big heart. Basala brought his leadership, his creativity and his gifts for communication and organization to his board role. When cancer claimed the life of Basala in 2011, it robbed the Lowcountry of a man who made a difference; however, left behind are many individuals who live life with the Basala vision of a better place for all to live.
Giving back to the local community is one of the top priorities of the Home Team BBQ and they have made that an important focus since they opened in 2006. Local non-profit Operation Home was selected by Home Team BBQ early on as one of their top organizations to support and along with a group of friends, Home Team helped spearhead and host the annual Gimme Shelter event. This past year's event raised more than $54,000 (a record amount for the event) and allowed Operation Home to repair 10 homes in the local neighborhoods in the greatest need.
"This is such an amazing honor for us and we have loved doing all we can to raise money and support for Operation Home," stated Aaron Siegel. "Our staff really embraces their focus on repairing homes for the elderly, especially those in nearby neighborhoods and hope to continue to make a big difference with this cause moving forward in the future."
"Operation Home is honored to have the support of such a generous and creative man as Aaron, and we gratefully acknowledge his community involvement by giving him this year's Basala's Award," stated Sandy Milliken, director of Operation Home.
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#2. Masturbate-a-thon
The Masturbate-a-thon is not my Friday night, nor is it a weekend with 90 percent of everyone on Craigslist. It's a real event that has been going on for over a decade in which people gather and just pound on their junk like gutter children fighting over stray sausages. While logic dictates that this probably happens frequently at certain frat houses and retirement homes, in terms of the -thon itself, it's to raise money for women's health and HIV prevention.
At this point, you're probably thinking either "gross" or "What a good idea!" But you may also be wondering where money comes from when you're masturbating, and if you're anything like me, no matter how many times you turn that crank, dollar bills do not fly out when you're finished. So who exactly is footing the bill for this? We can only guess. Hopefully it's like a charity walk and local businesses are sponsoring their favorite masturbator in the hopes that he or she can go the distance. This also brings up a secondary concern -- can men and women compete against one another? It seems unfair to suggest that a man has the ability to masturbate competitively against a woman, as, for all intents and purposes, if a woman still has muscle control in her arms, she can at least appear to be masturbating, while a man's physiology will fail him like a windsock in a sealed room.
World records have been set at the Masturbate-a-thon, too, because that's interesting and weird to keep track of. In 2012, a new wanking record was set by a dude who managed to keep choke-slamming Patrick Stewart for 10 hours and 10 minutes. The chafing that must have occurred boggles the mind.
A distance record was also set this year, but that's super gross and I will not speak of it further.
#1. Fuck for Forest
Back in the day, everyone cared about the rainforests, but then cooler and more topical environmental disasters took over, and now everyone loves polar bears and oil spills, and no one cares if the rainforests get plowed into Walmarts, because really, aren't they just home to filthy poo-slinging monkeys and indigenous peoples too foolish to have even invented iPhones? Silly locals.
Keeping the rainforests at the forefront of people's minds, Fuck for Forest is a group of people who want to fuck. For the forest. The world's first non-profit ecological erotica organization, FFF produces and sells porn and uses the profits to help mother Earth, who you must assume is a MILF. There's no trick like with PETA, which only pretends to be dirty but never has the balls to follow through. If you go to the FFF website right now, it'll take you less than 30 seconds to find a photo of a girl with dreadlocks exposing her butthole to you. Right in color! In the woods! If PETA really cared about chicken nuggets and goat abuse, they'd have buttholes all over their website, but they don't. Poseurs.
In their first year, Fuck for Forest raised $100,000 to help preserve the rainforests through the sale of paid memberships. People are willing to pay a good deal of money to watch tactless hippies bone just about anywhere. I once paid a bald chick on the bus $10 to slap me and tell me I'd never amount to anything, but of course that story isn't relevant now, so I won't tell it.
Their website and videos are worth a look, especially if you've never seen a grungy Euro hippie in a wheelchair get naked and put on a tiger mask. If you have seen that, then I like the cut of your jib, and I think we need to hang out. Message me, we'll go out for samosas.
Curiously, all the men involved are as disgusting as the men from mainstream North American porno and thus give you the sense that you wouldn't want to even shake their hands, let alone have sex with them, while the women seem just keen. We have to assume that porn is therefore legislated under some secret U.N. convention to ensure that no men who don't look like disheveled street people, cartoon villains or the inspiration for the term "douchebag" may ever be caught on camera humping, no matter the reason behind it.
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WHEATFIELD – Three hundred thousand tons of New York City garbage – enough to fill the Rose Bowl one and a half times – would be hauled by rail to a Niagara Falls incinerator to help power the Cataract City's industries, under a plan presented Wednesday to the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency.
Covanta Energy, which operates an energy-from-waste incinerator on 56th Street, applied for a tax break on a multipronged $30 million expansion project.
Covanta business manager Kevin O'Neil said the project includes a $7 million steam pipeline to the new Greenpac paper mill; a natural gas-fired boiler to back up the garbage incinerator that produces the steam; a rail transfer station to accept the trash from Manhattan; and a special waste-handling facility to prepare the garbage for burning.
Covanta supplies steam to help power the industrial processes at five plants: Occidental Chemical, Niacet Corp., Praxair, Goodyear and Norampac, the parent company of Greenpac.
"This shows you how the industrial base of Niagara Falls is all tied together, and Covanta is at the center of that," O'Neil said. "Our steam supply is critical to supporting 600 jobs in Niagara Falls' industrial area."
The Covanta expansion is projected to add 23 jobs to the 86-person workforce currently at the incinerator.
O'Neil said the rail transfer station would be built on 15 acres that Covanta intends to acquire from Praxair. It's part of a 70-acre brownfield next to the incinerator.
Niagara Falls Mayor Paul A. Dyster said that parcel was the subject of a purchase option Praxair gave to a company that had proposed to erect an ethanol plant on the site, but that company sold the option to Covanta.
At present, about 300 trucks a day haul waste to Covanta, which burns about 800,000 tons a year. O'Neil said 60 percent of the trash is trucked from Canada, and that amount is to be drastically reduced as Manhattan municipal waste is brought in through the new rail siding.
"We regarded that as a net improvement," Dyster said. "This would reduce traffic on the international bridges, which we think is important. … We're big fans of the expansion of the rail network."
Dyster said the Big Apple trash will be much the same as the garbage now being trucked in from Toronto. "The materials are containerized, and the containers won't be opened until just before they're burned," he said.
With Greenpac's opening expected sometime next year, truck traffic in that part of the city would figure to increase, Dyster said, so getting garbage trucks off the streets to and from the incinerator also is a positive.
O'Neil said waste hauling over the border won't be completely eliminated, since Covanta has contracts with the General Motors plant in St. Catharines, Ont.
He said Covanta has a 12-year contract to supply steam to Greenpac. The 24-inch pipeline to be built would be nearly a mile long.
"It's a very exciting project," IDA Chairman Henry M. Sloma said. "The energy is helping to drive all this industrial growth. … They're going to do their best to hire people locally."
O'Neil said Covanta's new jobs will pay up to $100,000 a year, with full benefits.
The company asked for a 15-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes, or PILOT, arrangement on the value of its expansion, not on the current plant. It also seeks an exemption from having to pay sales taxes on building materials and equipment for the expansion, and an exemption from having to pay mortgage recording tax on the land deal.
Members of the IDA staff estimated that Covanta would save a total of almost $8 million in taxes over the next 15 years, but the payroll for the newly created jobs would be about $2 million a year. Covanta's current payroll is $8.9 million a year.
IDA attorney Mark J. Gabriele said Covanta just closed on a $165 million refinancing of its debt through a bond issue approved by the Niagara Area Development Corp., an IDA subsidiary. The bonds must be paid off by Covanta.
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2 cups cauliflower, small florets
1 cup carrots, sliced thin
1/2 cup artichoke hearts, water packed, drained, sliced in quarters
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 Tbsp Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1/3 cup wateror vegetable broth
1/2 tsp Eden Sea Salt
1/4 tsp freshly ground black pepper, or to taste
2 Tbsp fresh basil, finely chopped
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Water district requests rate increase
Berkeley County files petition to hike charge to customers by 19.5 percent
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MARTINSBURG — When opening their water bill, Berkeley County residents may soon see a significant increase to their total amount owed....
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What did I tell you!!!!!! This whole water issue is a crime and we are the ones funding it!!!
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On January 23 there was a story in the Journal saying the Water District was building a new facility. I am sure (facetious) the increase has nothing to do with building another facility.
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How can the expenses to operate the water district incresed this much when the cost of living for the past several years has not? If ANY rate increase is approved by the PSC then it should be done through a rate phase-in plan over several years and not all at once to avoid RATE SHOCK.
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A potential game-winning layup from Ball State's Zavier Turner in the closing seconds hit the front of the rim and the remaining time ticked off the clock.
Senior center Majok Majok led all players with 15 points and 11 rebounds for his second straight double-double, and Chris Bond added 14 points for Ball State (2-2) in front of 6,015 fans at Worthen Arena.
Turnovers derailed the Cardinals' chances of defeating their in-state rival in the 105th meeting between the teams and the first with Butler (4-0) as a member of the Big East. Ball State's 17 turnovers led to 23 points, and three of those plays came during a crucial Butler run in the second half.
After a pair of Elijah Brown free throws cut Ball State's lead to 42-33, the Cardinals turned the ball over on three straight possessions. Butler turned all three of those steals into points in transition and then tacked on a 3-pointer from Alex Barlow to cap an 11-0 run and tie the game at 42 with 11 minutes left.
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dcdonnie4:The more costeffective army can win vs a more expensive (better unit) because they can just keep throwing them at the other player.
if u boom without cows, or u think its dificult.... iro isnt usefull for you.
Cause iro need at least this to do a decent eco.
And during battle iro is much more dificult than during economy.
Test iro fight without cows is like playing dutch without banks or ports without mortars.
You will never reach the full strength without them.
Da_bawwss:My rank is stuck on 0, I am a very skilled player but this gets me kick out of every game.
No eco = no military = lose...
You can't see their real strength without eco. You will maybe boom 2100 points. So you won't have much wood/coin, in case of that your eco will drain hard and you will think:
"Ohh nooooo I lost in 10 minuts... iros are soooo bad their military isn't good... I can't handle them blaa blub blää"
i dont think you need a bo for that.... just get age 4 fast max villies age with 20 villies fur trade
Maybe you can try booming with cows only and no sheeps?
The firepit micro and keeping the right army composition is difficult.
ok i get it now you want to test the military...
BUT if cows are too stressfull for you the fight will be impossible.
You have to switch the firepit the whole time (overpop dance, attack dance/fast train dance) etc.
-you have to micro 10++ cannons
-you have to micro the nats/thomahaks against opponents cav
- you have to use your explorer because he boost your units
- the explorer will die sometimes so you have to dance for him
- rest of the normal micro
so you see if cows are too stressfull for you and you want to play iros against decent players it will be a gg after at least 1 minut...
Iroquois can be an amazing civ but they probably take more micro than any other civ I know. That is why only very good players are really good with them. It's fun to watch a good Iro player in action though.
ok i get it now you want to test the military...
BUT if cows are too stressfull for you the fight will be impossible.
You have to switch the firepit the whole time (overpop dance, attack dance/fast train dance) etc.
-you have to micro 10++ cannons
-you have to micro the nats/thomahaks against opponents cav
- you have to use your explorer because he boost your units
- the explorer will die sometimes so you have to dance for him
- rest of the normal micro
so you see if cows are too stressfull for you and you want to play iros against decent players it will be a gg after at least 1 minut...
to me it take more or less 6 games to be at least decent with iro in battle. Thats after learn eco.
During the first games, u gona lost fast... them with time and watching RGs, u be better...
its the hardest civ.
Iro is the hardest civ in treaty. It's also one of the best non-op civs. If they were easy to boom with (without livestock), they would be considered OP.
If you can't play iro without livestocking, don't even try to practice their fight. You need to play brit before you can play iro. You need to get used to cowing and sheeping during treaty and after treaty before you can even touch iro military. Think of how hard compared to other civs brit is to effectively macro your economy, then chuck in a firepit and wood vills to look after, plus a 100 pop worth of extra military to look after (2 nat posts, 2 inf native cards).
Despite this, I'll give you the generic combo.
You want a fairy decent skirm base. About 20 - 30 forest prowlers most of the time. Rather than use these as your meatshield as you would do with port, use a good deal of manlets. They are coin heavy, but with the economy you get with iro (2800+ without BB card) you'll be able to support them rather well. You won't be losing a good deal as you would with skirm or musket. Keep +/-15 depending on what their composition is. If they are going skirm heavy, make more. If they are going more melee, keep about 12 - 15, just to save your skirms.
VERY IMPORTANT IRO NOTE: Do not make more Light Cannon than necessary, as they get too hard to manage quickly if you make too many. This can be seen in Qinxincao's play style, where he makes about 20 LC and cannon micro them at all, getting slaughtered. I'd keep about 10 or 12 LC maximum. Prioritise the enemy art over shooting inf clusters as they are less effective against inf as most cannon are.
If you are trying to push, keep as many natives from the post as you can. Treat these as a sort of mix between hussar and halb. Effective against ranged infantry and against cav, inca natives are your main push unit. Treat manlet native like musk huss, but with the pop space for skirm. As often as you can, once you have sent your other cards, send your inf native cards. (NOTE: This is why I only use the Blood Brothers card with iro, as you have two inf native cards to benefit from its' effect).
The biggest thing with iro military is firepit micro. At 40, you want to have the battle dance so your units have more attack (make sure you have used the over pop for your start army). The key with iro is to try stay around 225/225. To do this, you need to use a combination of over pop dance and training faster dance. If you find you have about 210 - 225 pop still up and not many units training, switch to battle dance. This is when you push, with the pop and attack advantage.
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Just watch recordings. Following BOs are fine but watching the real thing is much better. It's like learning in class. You could sit there in class reading a text book on theory, copy the notes and try do it in a practical, or you could actually watch someone do the practical and follow what they do, taking your own notes on them. Recording > BO.
The reason why I'm not giving you a non-cowing BO is because it sucks. I understand what you are trying to say but you cannot discover you like the fight and then try to learn how to livestock. Iro is not a civ you can dive straight into without skills from other civs. I'll give you a recording of an iro boom if I can find one.
EDIT: My 2876 non BB boom. Does not include fight. This is for livestock.


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quote: I just don't understand the constant need for the government to steel from it's citizens
quote: Hell, they subsidise entire industries (Farming anyome?) to keep them economically viable. Hell, farming subsidies may cost several hundred billion, but they do increase the supply of food, driving down prices for everyone else. Of course, since we dont "see" where the money is going, we yell about how much we pay (which is still less then any other western nation).
quote: Of course, our two biggest expenses are Medicare/Medicade and Military Spending, and one party in particular has made it clear that we can never under any circumstances cut funding for those two entities, so where exactly does that leave us?
quote: Maybe people should start looking in the mirror before asking why government doesn't work right...government in a democracy mirrors its people, after all.
quote: Why does the government knowingly pay 10 times the going rate for contracted services when the people doing the work could get paid the same if they would be hired by the government directly? Why is it that we don't see government looking at COSTS as the reason for budget problems, rather than on just looking at increasing tax revenue dollars as the solution?
quote: So you think the money the government spends dissapear into the air? The billions of dollars in the annual budget that you might consider "waste" are in actuality funding millions of jobs.
quote: If government was reduced to the bare essentials, measures like sales taxes would like be unnecessary.
quote: But seriously UMMMM it's called taxes... you realize that's how governments pay for the things their citizens demand from them, like roads and schools and police, right?


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Mass spectrometry has emerged as the leading technology for protein characterization. New instrumentation is more versatile and user friendly, expanding the application of mass spec technology to areas that were previously beyond its scope.
A range of new offerings in mass spec instrumentation and their application to protein profiling were discussed at Waters' recent "Mass Spectrometry" conference.
"In the field of proteomics today, the current methods of choice for molecular characterization are liquid chromatography combined with mass spectrometry, tandem mass spec, and nuclear magnetic resonance mass spectrometry," said James Langridge, Ph.D., director of proteomics at Waters.
"However, none of these approaches provides an unambiguous profile of target molecules. Therefore our team has investigated ion-mobility spectrometry combined with mass spec to distinguish isobaric—those having the same molecular weight—metabolites."
As Dr. Langridge pointed out, a particular atomic group may be positioned on a ring structure in one of several positions that are indistinguishable by mass spectrometry. However, with ion-mobility separation, the shape of the molecule enters into the equation and the two isobars can be separated into two distinct peaks.
The T-wave ion-mobility separation is performed by the Waters Synapt high-definition MS system, which combines ion-mobility-based measurements and separations with quadrupole time of flight MS.
The Waters system is built around the concept of a tri-partite device, the Triwave, in which the gaseous ions are accumulated in a trap. They are then moved to the ion-mobility separation segment of the Triwave and finally transferred to the TOF segment of the machine where they are subjected to mass analysis.
The Synapt system can perform a number of operations that are important in proteomics studies, according to Dr. Langridge. These include analysis of intact proteins and protein complexes, enhanced protein sequencing, and improved protein identification.
"I believe that the Triwave technology provides a number of key benefits, including the formation of first- and second-generation product ions from a precursor in a single experiments and the ability to perform a wide spectrum of tasks, such as characterization of post-translational modifications, maximization of sample information content, and a high-resolution analysis of small molecules," Dr. Langridge concluded.
As quantitative investigations flesh out the texture of the proteome, it has become evident that around one-third is composed of membrane proteins. However, membrane proteins tend be to be large and unwieldy, difficult to purify while still retaining functionality, and hard to crystallize.
For these reasons they are underrepresented in proteomics studies, and investigators have often ignored them despite their pivotal importance in cell function.
This has changed in recent years, explained Kathryn Lilley, Ph.D., assistant director of research at the Cambridge Centre for Proteomics and the department of biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. She noted that membrane proteins are of special interest to the pharma industry, given the importance of receptors as targets of specific drugs.
There are still challenges to be considered, however. "Questions raised when targeting membrane proteins include abundance, solubility, and suitability for standard proteomics workflow operations," stated Dr. Lilley.
She and her co-workers addressed these issues through the development of proteomics tools to define the expression of resistance nodulation division efflux pumps—which are low abundance, membrane-bound proteins—in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Mutations in these proteins are a frequent cause of multiple drug resistance.
Absolute quantification of the amount of protein requires the use of a marker peptide as a standard. Dr. Lilley chose enolase and calibrated the absolute abundance based on the performance of its top three scoring peptides. This approach is extremely flexible, she said, and applies over several orders of magnitude.
Dr. Lilley discussed a second example of her approach to membrane protein characterization known as selected reaction monitoring, a complementary proteomic procedure based on the targeted analysis of a set of predetermined proteins and peptides.
Selected peptides, based on their mass to charge ratio, are fragmented in the collision cell of a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer. The detected fragment ions, referred to as transitions, are used to construct a specific and highly sensitive assay for the detection of a particular peptide in a sample.
This approach was also combined with global mass spectrometry-based protein localization studies in experiments aimed at localizing particular membrane proteins to the plant Golgi apparatus.
"We found that a global membrane proteome analysis is more achievable by a combination of a variety of different mass spectrometry approaches," Dr. Lilley said. "We have employed quantification of the membrane protein targets, identification of their binding partners, and a focus on the subcellular location of possible candidates for development of workable hypotheses."
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What Would You Do With $30 Million Dollars? Revisiting Brewster's Millions with Melissa
Remember Brewster's Millions? In that movie, Richard Pryor plays Brewster who must spend $30 million in 30 days to inherit $300 million. The rules are that at the end of 30 days, he can have no assets from the money, and he's only allowed to give 5% to charity and spend 5% gambling. He can tell no one why he is spending the money.
Many of us may daydream about what we would do if we won the lottery, but the hard part of Brewster's challenge is that he can have no assets. What is not completely clear is if you can buy assets for others, since he does shower his friends with clothing and jewelry. If I had to blow through $30 million in 30 days, there are several ways I would spend it. (Let's just ignore the fact that $30 million in 1985's dollars is now the equivalent of $64.5 million in 2012 dollars, according to the U.S. Inflation Calculator.)
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The Melchtal stretches from Kerns between the Sarnersee and Lake Lucerne southwards to the Stöckalp, where a cableway (suitable for pushchairs and wheelchairs) gives access to the invitingly green, high valley of the Melchsee-Frutt. The sunny little village on the shores of the Melchsee has plenty of barbecue spots, a playground and a pleasant walking path to Tannalp. Another highlight is the Fruttli Train, offering popular adventure rides between Melchsee-Frutt and Tannalp.
Picturesque Melchtal, once a of pilgrimage, is home to the Benedictine Monastery Convent of St. Niklaus von Flüe, named after the hermit popularly known as Bruder Klaus. The huge sports complex in the Melchtal is geared primarily towards group travellers, clubs and schools.
Situated between the Bernese Oberland holiday destination of Hasliberg and the central Swiss resort of Engelberg, the Melchsee-Frutt is a popular hiking area. The Hasliberg - Melchsee-Frutt - Engelberg mountain trail is a classic and the six-hour, four-lake section from Melchsee-Frutt via Tannalp, Engstlenalp, Jochpass and Trübsee to Engelberg is a particular favourite. Large sections of the walk can be shortened by using the chairlifts and mountain railways.
In summer the Frutt is a fabulous sea of flowers. Keen anglers are not the only visitors to be captivated by the deep blue mountain lakes of the Melchsee and Tannensee, which are teeming with trout. There are also plenty of adventures to be had climbing the imposing Boni rock faces.
The altitude of the car-free winter sport area Melchsee-Frutt ranges from 1080 m to 2255 m. This high valley, with sunny winter hiking trails and cross-country ski tracks, is flanked by two ski areas: Balmeregghorn and Erzegg, with broad sunny slopes and the freestyle park fruttpark.ch. Steeper slopes run from Mount Bonistock down to Stöckalp, with a difference in altitude of over 1000 metres. The 8-kilometre slope to Stöckalp is a must for sledgers. In Fruttli-Land, kids can enjoy themselves on the magic carpet and ski carousel.
- Bruder Klaus – in the 15th century, the peacemaker and recluse Niklaus von der Flüe, popularly known as Bruder Klaus, sought seclusion as a hermit in the gorge near Flüeli-Ranft.
- The highest covered bridge in Europe – the 'Hohe Brücke' between Kerns and Sachseln, is 48 metres long. Built in 1893, it spans the Ranft Gorge near Flüeli at a height of 100 metres.
- Melchsee-Frutt panorama lift – the viewing platform almost 40 metres above the Melchsee offers a stunning view of the impressive mountain scenery.
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- Tannalp Fair and Bonistock Fair – folk festivals with yodelling competitions in the high-lying valley of the Melchsee-Frutt (July and/or August).
- Melchsee-Frutt wrestling and alpine festival – wearing drill trousers, the heavy weights in alpine wrestling compete in the sand against the imposing backdrop of the mountains (August).
- Alpine cattle descent, Kerns – after a "summer holiday" of around three months, the beautifully decorated animals return to the valley.
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A fine recipe from the heart of Paris! Bon Appetit!
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A large bowl of this hearty soup becomes a meal in itself when served with a green salad and some fresh fruit or other dessert. The soup is even more flavorful when prepared a day in advance.
French Onion Soup
1/4 cup (2fl oz or 60ml) vegetable oil
5 large yellow onions (about 2 1/2 pounds/1.25KG, thinly sliced
2 cups (16fl oz/500ml) dry white wine
8 cups (2 liters) Chicken and Beef stock
Salt and Pepper to taste
8 – 2/4-inch thick (2cm) slices of day-old French Bread
3 cups (12 oz/375 g) shredded Gruyère cheese
In a large, heavy pot over high heat, heat the oil until almost smoking. Add the onions and reduce the heat to medium. Cook the onions for about 30-minutes, or until they are soft and an even deep golden brown; stir frequently.
Pour the wine, raise heat to high, and boil until the soup is reduced by two thirds. Stir in the the stock and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 20-minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Preheat broiler. Place 8 deep oven proof soup bowls or crocks on a baking sheet. Ladle the soup into the bowls, add a slice of the bread to each bowl, and sprinkle the shredded cheese on top. Broil for 3-4 minutes or until the cheese is golden and bubbling. Serve immediately.
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Morning all :) It's quite misty at LG. EJ is cheeping very softly and looking around in between dozing.
We're into May now. Only a couple of weeks before hopefully we get little cheeps and bobbleheads :o))
Morning all
Thanks to everyone, well we are into our exciting month.
Have we had a DATE from any of our wonderful record keepers????
At least the weather is looking better at the moment,
www.virtualtenby.co.uk/weather-forecast.asp?weather=Loch Garten
more than I can say for a wet and windy Devon,though from the morning chatter of the Song thrush, blackbird, robins ,tits and the squabblyy tree sparrow family, to name just a few of the vast number of inhabitants around the garden,am hoping bodes well for a quieter day today.:)
So whats the best date we have to look forward to.LOL :):)
Morning Kate. I think that Tiger was saying 14/15 May for the first hatch, all being well. It's raining here too...again. I'm going rusty from the brain down, lol!
Morning All, its looking a bit misty up at LG but hopefully it will be a another dry day. Tks for starting us off Scylla & for the videos, tks everyone else for the captures and chat.
That duvet that Odin brought in is so vibrant LOL
EJ still nodding on and off
Morning Mary :) EJ having a good preen.
Morning Moffer, hope your headache has been kicked into touch!
Its exciting counting down now to the appearance of little bobbleheads, all we seem to do is countdown all the time LOL
Thanks Mary, it was a migraine. I just couldn't look at the screen, it made me feel sick. I've got a hold on it now, although I might be a bit in and out today. I don't want to push my luck and it come back.
No sign of Odin yet. He must be having a lie in, lol.
Nasty stuff those migraines. Well maybe he is having a lie in Moffer, but Id like him to be bringing an early morning fish LOL.... Maybe he is resting up now preparing for the months ahead of constant fishing.
The calm before the storm eh Mary? I loved that picture of Odin fishing that you have. AMAZING!!!
Garry Ridsdale is a remarkable man not only as a photographer, I am so happy because I now have a A3 size photo of both EJ (bought when I found it up North last year) and now Odin fishing by Garry,
A few cheeps from EJ there..... bless her!
I've just had a good look at that site. There are some stunning shots of Red 8T. He was one of EJ's former lovers! I have to let the dogs out. BBS.
I've just had a good look at that site. There are some stunning shots of Red 8T. He was one of EJ's former lovers! I have to let the dogs out. BBS.
Laughing Moffer the song comes to mind "Who let the Dogs out" LOL...
Yes absolutely Red8T, fantastic and stunning photography, also the Eagles and Red Kites, he certainly works hard at it in ALL weathers.
EDIT: Better get breakfast if I dont move I will still be sitting here at lunchtime.
Odin's here. I saw him fly past the nest and EJ flew off.
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Oh, for those heady days of summer, when we thought the defense might actually be elite. We assumed the defense would be good enough to carry the offense in the tough times, to keep the Bills competitive in low-scoring struggles against the top teams, especially on the road.
Now, it looks as if their only chance this Sunday in Houston will be if the offense can manage to keep that pathetic defense off the field.
The Texans are good, scary good. They have the best running back in the NFL in Arian Foster. They're deadly efficient in the passing game. The defense, led by our old pal, Wade Phillips, is fourth in the league against the run and fifth against the pass. They do everything well.
You know what's really frightful about them? Time of possession. The Texans have held the ball an average of 35:23, a staggering figure this late in a season. That means they run the ball down your throat, then rip it right back. Their defense leads the AFC with 26 three-and-out drives.
So what hope is there for the Bills? Well, how about giving Houston some of its own medicine? The Bills are fourth in the league in rushing. They're averaging 5.3 yards a carry, third-best in the NFL. They finally have tailbacks Fred Jackson and C.J. Spiller both reasonably healthy and ready to share the load.
So run the ball on Sunday, and run it some more. Control the clock, which will accomplish two things: Limit Foster's opportunities against what is shaping up as one of the worst run defenses in NFL history, and keep defensive end J.J. Watt from terrorizing Ryan Fitzpatrick.
No one said it would be easy. But Craig Urbik is expected back at right guard. Cordy Glenn might return at left tackle. The offensive line is the strength of the team. Let's see it. They need to reestablish the snarling physical identity they had against the Chiefs and Browns earlier this year.
"I think it generally starts with the O-line," said center Eric Wood. "You can mask a bad O-line, but a good offensive line can control a game."
Wood holds the O-line to a high standard. He said it needs to play better. If the offensive linemen want more respect, this is when they earn it – in back-to-back games against the AFC elite. Time to let the Texans know they're in a street fight.
"Yeah, and we have to get it established early," said left guard Andy Levitre. "It's going to take us finishing to the whistle. We know how good they are versus the run. In order for us to do better than them, we've got to outplay them for 60 minutes."
That's hard to do when Houston controls the ball for 60 percent of the time. You need to be patient. The Texans haven't allowed a 20-yard run all season. If you pound away at the defensive front and soften them up, you can open up some things in the passing game.
The Packers did that and Aaron Rodgers scalded them for six TD passes in a 42-24 win in Houston.
The Bills aren't the Packers, and Fitzpatrick is more Mister Rogers than Aaron Rodgers.
But the offensive line is good enough, and tough enough, to stand up to the Texans. As Wood said, it starts with the offensive line. Somehow, this reeling football team needs to assert its physical identity.
The defense certainly hasn't done it. One way or another, the Bills need to make a physical statement and put to rest the growing suspicion that what they really are is soft.
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"Lunatics!" is back - Crowd-funding, Free-culture, and Free-Software
After an additional year of production work, our free-film project "Lunatics!" is back up on Kickstarter. We have a lot more done - some "finished" animation, voice acting and soundtrack mixing, a lot more completed 3D models, including some of the toughest mech modeling, and several characters. We are still 100% free-culture, using CC By-SA license for everything we release, and we're still open-source, making our models and other elements available to the commons. We use only music with By-SA compatible licenses, and we are working entirely with free-software, especially Blender, Kdenlive, and Audacity.


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Hundreds of public school teachers and their supporters took to the streets yesterday to protest Chicago's recent announcement of a school consolidation plan, which will close 54 of the city's public schools. Take a look at other U.S. public schools facing financial troubles.
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Here's what Hollywood had to say after U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker in San Francisco struck down Prop 8:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: "This decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyone deserves."
Ellen DeGeneres: "Equality won!"
Portia de Rossi: "I am ecstatic that proposition 8 has been overturned in the state of California. This is an incredibly exciting and historical day and a big step towards equal rights for all."
Lance Bass: "Congrats on the overturning of Prop 8!!!!"
Pink: "It's a good day!"
Ricky Martin: "YEAHHHHH!!!!! PROP8UNCONSTITUTIONAL MOVING FORWARD!!!!!!!!"
Kelly Osbourne: "so happy over the news on prop8 its about time!"
Kim Kardashian: "Prop 8 was struck down! This news is amazing!!!! Its about time! Congrats to everyone!"
Shanna Moakler: "Tonight we celebrate! EQUALITY and LOVE for all! This is so much bigger then [sic] marriage, it's about wisdom, compassion and knowing we CAN be heard, action DOES make a difference!"
Samantha Ronson: "Song Of The Day: Let's Get Married- Jagged Edge."
Paris Hilton: "What a huge historical day for equal rights in this country! They finally overturned Prop 8! There shouldn't be a law on true love. :)"
Sophia Bush: "A MAJOR step forward. Everyone deserves the right to love whomever they choose. I am proud to be from Cali again!"
Rose McGowan: "Yay! No more Prop H8! I wanna be a flower girl in a wedding asap!"
Fran Drescher: "Congrats to CA for c-ing the light & rising above prejudice. u had me worried there! When Iowa is cooler than Cali, it's time to recalibrate!"
Milla Jovovich: "Gay Marriage law overturned in CA!!! Thank god good ppl are being treated equally again! Now we need the rest of the US to follow!"
Still, not everyone cheered the decision. Some proponents of the proposition expressed their disappointment.
"Judge Walker's ruling overturning Prop 8 is an outrageous disrespect for our Constitution and for the majority of people of the United States who believe marriage is the union of husband and wife," conservative politician Newt Gingrich said on his Web site.
The legal fight is expected to continue with an appeal by supporters of Prop 8.
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I've had this notion - to try to make a garland of doves together with my daughter - floating around in the back of my head for a while. Finally, yesterday when Adelaide and I woke up it just seemed like a good day to try and make one up.
To make our garland of doves, Addie and I first googled and did a bit of research about doves. We learned a little about them, and that they are one of the most recognised symbols of peace. We also found some images of different doves, and from them we drew a dove body and a set of dove wings using Adobe Illustrator. I distracted Addie and was able to take a few minutes to do some quick print outs and test on how our doves would work and fit together. When happy with a design, I printed out several copies of our dove layout onto thick watercolour paper, and we were ready to paint!
To paint our doves, I first I brought one of our bird books to our painting table, page opened to a Mourning Dove for inspiration. I showed Adelaide how the bird was mostly white, but also had what looked almost like gold and silver feathers, too.
I then cut out one set of my watercolour paper Dove template - 2 bodies and 1 wing - and got Adelaide painting. I cut up some sponges into 1/2 - 1" pieces for her, and gave her small plates squirted with a bit of white, silver, and gold acrylic paint. Being the same easy technique that she used to paint her autumn leaves, she immediately remembered just what to do and got to work, dabbing and sponging away. So simple!
When Addie had each Dove painted (2 bodies and 1 wing per dove), and the paint was still wet, I set up a 'sparkle station' on a chair, a few feet over. I let her choose from small packets of extra-fine white, gold, and silver glitter, and she would sprinkle her painted Doves. In this manner, together we created 8 (approximately 5") Doves - me cutting, her painting and sparkling. And. then... it was time for a break, and lunch.
After our lunch break, the Doves were dry and We were able to flip (just the) wing pieces over to paint and sparkle them up, too. While they dried, we began to prepare them to be glued, gathering up our supplies: an exacto knife, white school glue, paint brushes, bulldog clips, and string.
When all of our Dove pieces were dry, we began to assemble our birds. Carefully, using another unpainted Dove body as a template, I cut the 1.25" cut across the Dove's body (front). lining up the second body piece, (painted sides out), I was able to match up, mark, and cut the same slice in the back piece of the body. Folding the wing down it's centre, I inserted the wing, first through the front body piece, and then through the back body piece. I then slid the wings and adjusted them so that the two body pieces matched up and the wings were centered nicely on the Dove.
Next, with a paint brush and plate of white school glue, Addie was able to help me glue the body pieces of the Dove while I held them open for her. Leaving the now glued body for a few seconds, I gathered up my string, and then ran it through the centre of the glued Dove's body - one string end coming out at the beak and the other at the tail wing. I clipped both the beak and the tail wing with a bulldog clip for a couple of minutes, to set without shifting around. In this manner, we strung together 8 of our birds - beaks and tails together as though they are kissing.
Placed all together in a garland, our painted Doves are quite beautiful and I find there is a quiet, simple sweetness about them. We hung them from our fireplace mantel, flying happily together. Adelaide was thrilled and we are both very happy with the results of our project.
We have found these painted doves to be quite lovely and can be used in many ways - hung altogether to form a garland as we have done, or kept as single birds for a simple ornament or gift topper. The project can be kept easy - creating just a single dove, or extended - creating multiple doves for a garland. The doves can also be made in all sorts of sizes, large or small. And these doves store easily because their wings fold up flat - so they also can be mailed off and away... perhaps even as a small gift in a christmas card.
p.s. If you'd like to make up some Doves of your own, here is our template - in .pdf format - for you, now:
p.p.s. If you make this project and use the template, please let me know how it goes, and if I could make any changes or additions to my description, or the template, to make it better!