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Creatine Gluconate is a molecule of creatine bonded to a molecule of glucose. When these two molecules are combined, the result is a form of creatine that is absorbed in much the same way as glucose. This means an advanced amount of creatine can arrive at your muscle, increasing all the usual benefits of normal creatine.
Creatine increases physical performance in successive bursts of short-term, high intensity exercise. With Creatine Gluconate, the glucose molecules act as your transportation system giving you an increased absorption of creatine in to the muscle.
Creatine Gluconate is ideal for anyone taking part in successive bouts of short-term, high intensity exercise, and is looking to increase overall performance and recovery.
The dietary choices of all our customers are extremely important to us. Whilst this product is manufactured using ingredients and processing aids suitable for the vegan diet, please note that dairy powders are also used within the same production facility and cross contamination may occur at very small levels.
Please note that the labelling on this product is provided in English as a minimum. French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Swedish and Finnish may also be present on a product by product basis.
Add 5g to water, shake and consume. Use 1-2 times daily preferably directly before and after exercise. After 8 weeks of continued use take 1 week off and start cycle again.
Note: We advise that all servings are measured using an accurate set of scales. While we make every attempt to provide an accurate equivalent measure using our Myprotein scoops, these are only approximate and are not a substitute for using a standardised measuring device.
Do not exceed the stated recommended daily dose. This product is a food supplement and therefore should not be used as a substitute for a varied diet and a healthy lifestyle. Store in a cool dry place, out of the reach of young children.
Made in a facility that also handles Milk, Soy, Egg, Gluten and products thereof.
Unflavoured: Creatine Gluconate (100%)
Serving Size - 1 tsp (5g)
Servings Per Container - 50 (250g), 100 (500g), 200 (1kg)
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|Creatine Gluconate
|5 g
The nutritional information is based on the Unflavoured version, when choosing an alternative flavour the nutritional values may vary.
RRP: 4 090 Ft
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Significant strength gains since I started taking Creatine Gluconate, got rid of the stomach cramp I got with Creatine Mono. Great product.
I don't find this mixes in a shake very well. I often add it to my BCAA's to have at the gym as in 1.5l it dissolves ok over the course of a workout but would always be loads left in the bottom of a shaker. Think it just need time to break down
Hard to rate this accurately. Usually go for creatine monohydrate, however went for a change this time. Since you don't really feel the effects of creatine, along with its long term effects, it's hard to rate the effectiveness. Doesn't mix as well as monohydrate though. Still have a grainy texture left. I went for tasteless so taste rating doesn't really apply here Goes Well With:Protein
Quite new to this, but the product mixes well and doesn't add too much of a chemical flavour, which is excellent. Whether or not it works remains to be seen, but I do feel like I have a bit more staying power!Goes Well With:A smoothie of Milk, whey, BCAAs, Glucosamine Sulphate, cocoa powder, banana, strawberry.
I find that having this before a gym session has made a massive difference
Does exactly what you want/need it to. Great value and mixability. No issues with this product at all and assists greatly pre and post workout.Goes Well With:Pre workout and whey
Noticed some improved strength after taking this
Noticed some moderate improvement in my lifts after taking this. Early days as I have only done one cycle
A great product that can be incorporated with anyone's goals, whether that is building endurance or building muscle. I usually mix the recommended serving with 500-600ml of juice (water and cordial) in a protein shaker. I tend to leave it for a while and sip it an hour and a half before my workout. as you're not necking it in one go, it dissolves a lot better that way. If it's left a good time to dissolve, there are no bits at the bottom and you cant taste anything! Just like having the juice on its own. I have noticed that my muscles feel a lot fuller during the workout and a lot of the time, my muscles feel pumped a lot of the time after cycling it for 2 weeks. I would definitely recommend it as a 250g pouch can last a long time if you stick to 10g a day. Maybe cycle a pouch a time so you don't need to buy loads in one go? For something that gives a significant result at a low price, it's a winner in my eyes.Goes Well With:Juice cordial or a protein shake that requires over 500ml of liquid (post workout)
First time I've this type of Creatine as I've usually had Monohydrate in the past. First at all it does not mix well at all with water! It does not dissolve smoothly and theres always bits and clumps at the bottom of the glass to neck down. However It isn't noticable when added to a protein shake. Cannot argue with the results though! Within days I'm breaking through my max weight limitations. Finding extra energy for more reps and sets when doing heavy lifting. Played football after a week on Creatine Gluconate and I had the stamina of a dog, where as I normally shattered after 20 minutes. I will definitly purchase again after I've finished my 8 weeks on and 4 weeks off cycle. Just a shame it doesn't mix well.Goes Well With:Protein Shake
I wanted to try this creatine, even there are not official studies that show tha creatine gluconate is better in any way! Untill now its just ok, doing something better than protein alone! I have to wait more..
Great stuff to take with Glut and Pro...
Best most effective creatine. Worth the bit of extra money.
Creatine Gluconate is a great price and a great product.Goes Well With:Water, juice.
I tried this Creatine Gluconate after hearing nothing but good things, but no matter what I didn't feel a thing. As far as the taste goes, there was hardly any, with a bit of a gritty consistency left over so thought that I would be on to a winner as far as creatine supplements go, but after repeated use I had no noticeable effects from the supplement, which is odd because I have taken creatine for about the last 15 years and always notice something, but this had absolutely no effect whatsoever. I will definitely be going back to the others I have had great success with.
I've tried Creatines on and off for a few years now. Although I am a creatine responder and gained both weight and strength from using it over a few weeks, I did tend to get bad digestion from Monohydrate and even the micronised versions sometimes seemed to be a bit clumpy when mixing. I never really liked the capsule format creatine variants, I take enough pills and wanted to have a powder to mix into drinks and shakes. Although it's hard to rate Creatine Gluconate as being wildly more or less effective than regular mono, I am seeing the same sort of weight, fullness and strength increases as with any creatine and the mixability seems better. As I've had no stomach distress so far, I intend to stick with it. It might just be psychological, but it seems like an improvement over monohydrate - at least for me.Goes Well With:Pre and post workout shakes
As with all creatine, this Creatine Gluconate does the job and is just a little quicker due to the glucose attached. It's always a part of my training!Goes Well With:whey protein, BCAAs
Creatine Gluconate is a good price and it does the job intended. I'll be buying more.Goes Well With:Impact whey protein.
Quality stuff, instant changes and very very cheap. I couldnt ask much more of this product its perfectGoes Well With:Goes well with Hurricane Xtreme Smooth chocolate
All that needs to be said is if you want to lift big you need this Creatine Gluconate!Goes Well With:Both pre and post workout shakes
The taste of Creatine Gluconate is sweeter than creatine monohydrate. It mixes with ok with everything I've tried even though it is still insoluble. I feel stronger and more focused since taking it but, would recommend the monohydrate option instead as I believe you would get a better concentration of pure creatine.Goes Well With:Impact whey, pulse v4, water
I have been on Creatine Gluconate for a few weeks and have seen a big improvement in my power. I've added 10kg in most core lifts and has helped me to recover quicker. This is a great product.
I mix Creatine Gluconate with blackcurrant, so I cannot taste it. I mix it with hot water then add juice. As with all creatine, I've seen fantastic results. I use it for 2 weeks then take 2 weeks off, and the difference when I am not using it is very noticeable. I cannot lift as much or last as long in the gym. It's a first class product and is cheap too.Goes Well With:t matrix and protein
I get good results from Creatine Gluconate; my body responds well to creatine. I'm in the armed forces and need to stay on top of my CV as well as lifting. I found that I have managed to maintain this to a good standard.
I mix this with the protein shake and it's a little bit grainy not enough to cause any issues just being picky. I noticed the effect of it pretty much straight away, doing that extra rep or 3 and the Gluconate side of things did help with recovery time as well as the pain. Thanks!Goes Well With:Whey protein
I haven't been using Creatine Gluconate for very long and find that it isn't mixing at all. It lines the protein shaker in a gritty powder which sometimes comes through into my mouth. I did the same thing yesterday and can't say it was bad, but today, I'm completely unsure how much I've actually consumed. I've been mixing it with Impact Whey Isolate (vanilla).
Seems to work a lot better than creatine mono, but not sure if, for more than double the price, it is worth it. Also, it seems to work faster than the 60-90 mins needed for creatine mono.
Bought the small packet (250g) as hadn't tried this before. Good, fast delivery and easy ordering from My Protein Have been using the Creatine Glucomate for about a week. I do feel that I am starting to feel the benefits. Able to work for longer during my weights sessions, and feel like my stamina is building during my cardio sessions. Will be interesting to see how this continues The packet says to take 5g before and after exercise using the My Protein scoop. I don't have a my protein scoop, so had to try and work out what that equated to in tsp amounts. (It's about 2 tsp). It also doesn't say how much liquid to have it with ? I am having the powder with water or orange squash, and it does take some shaking to get all the powder dissolved Overall a good product so far and simple to useGoes Well With:Orange squash Black currant squash
Definitely felt the effects of this product but it made me feel sick when working out, mainly when pushing out that last rep.Goes Well With:water
This product does exactly what it says on the tin. I found within the first week of use I could lift more weights and my sessions were longer. Great productGoes Well With:Water
Creatine Gluconate is a great product. I'm very satisfied with it, it mixes great and the taste is good!Goes Well With:Impact Whey Protein
Creatine Gluconate is a great product that's highly recommended.Goes Well With:hard training
Creatine Gluconate is a good product and I can feel the benefits straight away. I would recommend this.
Creatine Gluconate is an excellent product and lasts for ages. The taste isn't great but mixes really well so it's easy to consume in one go. The results are good with this. I usually take prior to workout and again 1 hour after. Overall you cannot go wrong with this product. It's cheap and does the job!
Have tried a few Creatine products before, although not this one but I've found all of them so far have worked extremely well. This is definitely a supplement that you can get a lot out of although you have to make sure that you drink plenty of water. Also, don't get drunk when you're loading as this stuff upgrades your hang-overs by a bonus multiplier of apocalypse squared. Seriously, don't do it. That aside, this product is great for increasing your speed, strength and general endurance at the gym. Goes Well With:Impact Whey Protein BCAA's
Creatine Gluconate reduces recovery time and increases my strength. It mixes well with protein drinks or with OJ.Goes Well With:alanine, Taurine and glutamine
I ran out of the Creatine Gluconate product recently and I noticed I lost 4kg! I was really disappointed and couldn't understand it. Also my strength gains plateaued even though I have switched my program around. It must be because I am off this product, so I am ordering more today. No bloating has been noticed and I maintained my cuts when on this product. I use 5-6g pre work out maintainence phase and 10-12g on the loading phase (4-5 days).Goes Well With:EAA, BCAA, HMB, Beta Alanine, AAKG as a pre workout supplement
"took a while to saturate but defo notice it now it has. Great volumisation for sure, good solid pump that lasts a while. no discomfort, just plenty of water on an empty stomach no side effects. Had no water retention at all even with large doses and with taurine. Definitely maintaining strength from when using a previous brand and has defo added length to my workouts before burn out, not just in sets but overall. can really smash the shoulders on a monday and since now im mixing it with a couple of scoops of BCAA my back and shoulders have exploded! many more sets, more weight and longer work outs. Deadlifts have gone through the roof. Massive ++ for this product. Any creatine is good, but one that works, is cheap, quick to absorb and with NO and i mean NO discomfort at all is a winner!!"
"Excellent price, absorbs well with much less bloating than monohydrate. still a little discomfort which i dont ever seem to get in pill form only powder form but nothing worth shouting about. Definitely work, helps keep you working hard for the whole session, and you can feel that there is still some reserve to push through those last real burning reps. I am missing some pump though, used to use CEE by another company, similar strength/stamina gains with this one but defo down on pump. just being honest but imnot complaining as the price i excellent. will defo recommend and will be buying again! Thanks MP"
good results but dosent come with a scoop which means i i had to make another order and spend more money which is mainly p&p. :/
"I have now been on this creatine for 2 weeks now, and already I have became noticeably bigger. My arms especially look more ""buff"" and I also see the difference when actually working out. This product gives me that extra bit of power to achieve those last working reps. When mixed with protein, the taste makes it slightly sweeter, but nothing that puts me off taking the shake. I have noticed also that it supports the mixability of the protein shake itself, which causes less time wasting. Really good product to have, recommended greatly by myself!"
I bought this to supplement alongside hurricane evo as it works out cheaper to get the required 5g's of creatine each day. I have 1 hurricane shake and 2.5g's of the gluconate which equates to the 5g's. Since taking this product I've gotten stronger and noticeably bigger. My favourite creatine!
"Taste, is unoticable when taken with fruit juice or protein shake. Decided to go on a course off this and after a year I seemed to gain strength will on a cut, and felt my recovery was quick when using this product before training and using Hurricane XS after training. Muscles became more defined as well as greater lean muscle development, will definitally order more of this when im done."
I bought this recently as part of my post-Christmas bulk. It's too early to tell if it's doing anything much but it seems to mix easily enough and due to being tasteless you can take it with pretty much anything.Goes Well With:Anything. It's basically tasteless.
Been using this for a few weeks now, pre and post workout, noticed strength gains and more muscle stamina
Lovely taste and highly effective. All new members use my code MP26870082 for triple loyalty points on your order!
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Mayor Gabriel J. Campana says he might not have enough money to keep a city pool open....
Nothing I said was intended for the honest working law abiding citizens there justin but I can prove the my statement especially when their portraits are posted in the paper and on tv so you sir can argue that one all you want but facts are facts and that's that I'm just sick of people using the discrimination claim yes it's time they grow up
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"I only have to hear the names on the news and I can tell what race they are isn't that sicking". Yes that is "sicking" that you would say that, considering I'm a African American with a "white" name, grow up.
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Well Snydbob go figure but are you as a white going to scream discrimination? But I bet they will and have you also noticed a trend in means of crime in Williamsport? I only have to hear the names on the news and I can tell what race they are isn't that sickening
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A remark was made about the black and African American community in relation to the Memorial Pool. Not everyone in that area is black or of African descent. I live in that neighborhood and I am not black or African. Many of my neighbors are also not black or African. Do they think the pool at Memorial Park was put there just for black or African American people? No! It was built for anyone to use. I get so tired of hearing how a certain group is not getting the same opportunities as others. We are all Americans. My neighborhood is full of Americans. We should be equal and there should be no need to single out one group. Garben78 is right. Shut down all the pools. The city does not need to be in charge of recreation. Think of the tax dollars saved.
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"Councilman Randall J. Allison said he is concerned that in the midst of talk and comments in the newspaper, people may not understand council has an obligation and responsibility to do its due dilegence, research the information and "make our best decision."
Then how about doing the research from other cities that have this ordinance and provide the citizens facts on how it has helped reduce crime. We all hear about what you hope it will accomplish, yet we hear nothing about what it has accomplished in other communities.
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This is a disgrace. We continue to take away from our children, yet we find money to dump in to center city and attempts to attract tourism.
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Shut all the pools down city shouldn't have to be n charge of recreation
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What if Charleston's next mayor came from "off" the downtown peninsula?
Or, how prepared will he or she be to handle a large-scale hurricane evacuation? Even more curious: What if the next mayor manages to stay in office for decades to come, just as Mayor Joe Riley has done?
With two years left in what Riley says is his 10th and final term, jockeying is underway to become his successor. There could be more than a dozen hopefuls filing for the job, with early estimates running as much as $1 million needed to wage a credible campaign.
And don't be naive. Though city elections officially are nonpartisan, Democrats and Republicans will try to influence who the next mayor will be, as well as local preservation and conservation groups, developers and hoteliers, the food and beverage crowd, and those seated on both sides of the extremely divisive cruise ship debate.
Just as important: Who will Charleston's black population get behind as gentrification continues to change the face of the historic city amid the expanse of hotels, businesses and apartments that are squeezing into previously blighted areas?
The mayoral election is in November 2015. Riley said he does not plan to endorse a successor - unless he finds there's an overriding reason. Being mayor is a full-time job that pays $162,815.90 a year and involves leading the state's second-largest city, one with more than 125,000 residents and with a $172 million annual budget.
Several potential candidates have already stepped up, representing a wide range of experience and interests. That list is only likely to grow. See how it's shaping up on Page A7.
City Councilman Aubry Alexander
Has represented District 9 covering West Ashley and around Charles Towne Landing since 2008. Alexander likely would have to surrender his City Council seat to run since it is up in two years as well.
Former state Rep. Jimmy Bailey
Challenged Riley in 2003 but lost in what was then the city's first nonpartisan election. Appointed chairman of the city's 10,000 Trees in Charleston initiative by Riley. Bailey said the idea of running for mayor is "percolating."
Charleston County Councilwoman Colleen Condon
Has represented West Ashley on council since 2005. Condon said she's been encouraged to run but has not done much about it. "If I were truly committed to this race, I would have started raising money already."
Restaurant developer Dick Elliott
Operates some of the area's more popular restaurants as president and founder of Maverick Southern Kitchens. "I really haven't done anything except listen," he said. Elliott has a background that includes journalism, law and manufacturing.
State Rep. Wendell Gilliard, D-Charleston
Served 11 years on City Council before moving to the state House of Representatives in 2008. He's part of the "Project Cool Breeze" effort aimed at providing fans and air conditioners to those without in summertime.
City Councilman William Dudley Gregorie
Unsuccessfully ran for mayor two and six years ago and was widely viewed as the choice of shadow groups and residents critical of Riley. Currently the city's mayor pro tempore. "Considering; nothing definite," he said.
Businesswoman Linda Ketner
Ran a close race for Charleston's seat in Congress as a Democrat in 2008. "I am considering it," she said, "but it's two years off."
Contractor Marc Knapp
A staple at City Council meetings, Knapp routinely rises during public input sessions to speak his mind on what's wrong with city government. Ran for mayor twice before but now thinks Riley won't leave office. "We're all of the same opinion that Joe ain't gonna quit," he said.
State Rep. Chip Limehouse
A Republican who has served 18 years in the General Assembly. He's up for re-election this year. Called the Charleston mayor's job "probably one of the best offices in the state."
City Councilman Dean Riegel
The first to officially confirm he's in the race with an announcement in the fall. Riegel, however, has not started fundraising. State ethics rules require filing an initial disclosure report within 10 days of spending or receiving the first $500 in campaign funds.
City Councilman Mike Seekings
Represents the central tourism neighborhoods downtown and is seen as an advocate for alternative transportation such as buses, bikes and skateboards. "It's a long way off; it's certainly something were going to look at."
State Rep. Leon Stavrinakis, D-Charleston
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John Tecklenburg
Now works in commercial real estate but previously worked for Riley and on his past campaigns. Been out of city government since 2000. "It caught my interest again," he said. "I'm very interested in the job of mayor of Charleston."
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WARREN?- Geneva Reid is a self-proclaimed troublemaker, and she says so with an infectious laugh.
In reality, Reid, in the last 60 years, has become a nationally respected advocate for various groups in the area and around the country.
Reid, 83, was asked to help organize an inauguration party for President Jimmy Carter, controversially brought activist Gloria Steinem to Packard Music Hall in the 1970s and helped run a battered women's shelter in the city.
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She also stuck up for tenants in government housing and for housekeepers across the country, starting the Household Technicians of America organization in Warren, and later headed the national organization.
Reid has sat on, and still is part of, several boards and organizations created to help the poor or underrepresented.
"This is all volunteer work," said Reid. "You have to let your children know what you have done in your life because that gives them the incentive to do things in their life."
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''She's done things and been places that other grandkids can't say their grandparents have done,'' he said. ''I just hope and pray that when she's gone, I can pick up where she left off. I want to walk in her footsteps.''
Youngstown attorney Elliot Lego, who worked with Reid at Northeast Ohio Legal Services, which later became Legal Aid, in the late 1970s to the early 1990s, remembered Reid as one of a handful of innovative and "hardcore" activists for the welfare rights movement.
"She was clearly one of the originators of the welfare rights movement in Warren, the Mahoning Valley and Ohio," Lego said. ''I don't think there's people around doing what she did nowadays. She was really aggressive in organizing from the ground up.''
Reid was inspired by her father David Williams, a worker for the Trumbull Metropolitan Housing Authority and member of the Urban League, who hosted meetings with candidates seeking political office at his home, inviting neighbors to meet them and ask questions.
"He can home one day and said the Urban League was offering a program that seemed to be perfect for me," Reid said.
Williams encouraged his daughter, in her 20s at the time, to join the AmeriCorps Vista program, designed to train community leaders to help fight poverty.
The experience changed Reid's life.
"That was a big turning point for me," she said. "I had gone through a divorce, and I was able to get a little stipend from them, and it really helped."
Upon her return, she decided she wanted to organize the tenants in her TMHA housing project, who constantly came to her for advice on how to deal with their problems.
That's when Reid first started giving other people headaches with her persistence. She organized the tenants, holding meetings every Monday from government housing neighborhoods all over Warren.
She started getting eviction notices that she flatly ignored, while living in the same place fore 18 years.
"I had eviction notices all the time and I got a letter from the head man because he wanted me to live somewhere else," she said. "I wrote him back, and I said 'I like it fine where I'm at.'"
Reid, who was a maid before the Vista program, then went on to start the area's first domestic workers organization, SURGE, which had a downtown office across from the county courthouse.
Several years later, she read a magazine story about First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, who said she couldn't find good housekeepers. Reid wrote a letter to Johnson, and was contacted by a national domestic workers group in Washington looking to organize, and Reid brought 67 of her SURGE members to New York City for the meetings.
She was then named the head of the national Household Technicians of America organization and turned down offers to work out of New York and Washington, D.C., in order to stay in Warren with her family.
Later, she helped controversially bring 1970s activist Gloria Steinem to speak at Packard Music Hall and, because of her status as the head of the household technicians organization, she was asked to plan an inauguration party for President Jimmy Carter. She later became the volunteer coordinator at Someplace Safe battered women's shelter in the 1980s until she retired in 1997.
"Most women that came in, they would come back two or three times," she said. "Some really changed their lives and some never did. We had women from all walks of life: doctor's wives, policemen's wives."
Her status in the community began to spread and she ended up on several boards, including Community Legal Aid and the Board of National Client Counsels. She was named Vice President of the National Consumer Law Center board and the head Grand Matron of the Eastern Star fraternity, the top spot in the country's largest fraternal organization that admits both men and women.
She is on a supervisory board for the Trumbull County Job and Family Services, the Ohio State Client Counsel, Sunshine Housing Inc. and Trumbull County Community Action Plan, an agency that blacklisted her from attending meetings 60 years ago because she asked too many questions.
"I could never find out why, but I still have the letter they sent me," Reid said. "I represented people who had issues. I would go to meetings and listen and see what was going on, but I also asked questions. People didn't' like that. They considered me a troublemaker."


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A group of (male) friends is at a party to check out some girls. Whoever spots a pretty girl first can "call dibs" on her. That way he can make sure none of his buddies would make a movie on her.
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Emigre is a digital type foundry and publisher of the design journal Emigre magazine. Based in Northern California, Emigre was there, in the eye of the storm, when the Macintosh computer was first introduced in 1984. As part of a small group of believers, Emigre used the restrictions of low resolution output to create inventive new typeface designs and layouts. This earned them recognition early on as innovators in the field of graphic design.
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Every listener of Outside the Box can now experience the ever-widening ripple effect of Billy McComiskey as the finest B/C button accordionist in Irish-American music. He is revered by box enthusiasts on either side of the hyphen. Or as Billy himself put it: "My playing is...more
"Billy McComiskey is the finest and most influential B/C box player ever to emerge from the US. In that sense, Billy's place within the transatlantic pantheon of Irish button accordionists is both high and secure, and Outside The Box will only strengthen that judgment."
- Earle Hitchner, The Wall Street Journal / Irish Echo
Billy McComiskey is a highly regarded player and composer of Irish traditional music. A Brooklyn native, he started studying accordion with the late Sean McGlynn from Galway in his early teens. He won the All-Ireland Senior title in 1986. He formed and played with two legendary trios: Washington DC's Irish Tradition and the internationally acclaimed Trian. He is known on both sides of the Atlantic as an indefatigable session player, teacher, and promulgator of the music. On Outside the Box, Billy's first solo CD in almost 25 years, the listener is once again reminded why Billy is known as "the most accomplished B/C box player to emerge from Irish America".


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Braised Rabbit with Potatoes, Kale and Oranges (yield 20 servings)
-1 T. canola oil
-6 rabbit hind quarters
-¼ t. salt
-¼ t. crushed black pepper
-3 c. chicken stock
-3 Yukon gold potatoes cut into small dice
-1 head flowering white kale (minced)
-1 t. horseradish
-1 t. canola oil
-¼ t. salt
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Heat oil in a skillet. Season rabbit quarters. Sear all rabbit quarters skin side down. Once golden brown, deglaze with chicken stock. Reduce heat and allow to simmer for 45 minutes covered until meat is fork tender. In a sauté pan, heat oil. Saute potatoes. Season with salt. Add kale and horseradish. Cook until kale and potatoes are tender. Finish with oranges. Plate underneath finished rabbit quarters.


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something that has never happened anywhere, ever, to anyone, at all.
"Excuse me darling, now that we have achieved maturity and entered a sexual relationship, let us perform that rainbow kiss we heard about in school."
"erm, no, I don't think we should actually."
"erm, no, I don't think we should actually."
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When a guy gives head to a girl while she is having her period, and gets all the blood in his mouth. And a girl gives a guy head, and gets cum in her mouth.
Now when the guy/girl has blood/cum in their mouth, they kiss eachother.
Now when the guy/girl has blood/cum in their mouth, they kiss eachother.
"Hey Melissa, say I give you head when you're having your period, and then you give me head, and then we kiss after."
de J* 28 décembre 2003
Indeed, the term refers to performing cunilingus on a menstruating female, often followed by orally swapping semen and blood/other secretions. NOTHING to do with homosexuals.
de duncan 13 mars 2003
Basically, the guy gives the girl a mouthpiece whilst she's subscribing to the monthly rags. She simultaneously gives him head till he shoots his load in her mouth. Once they have an adequate mouthful of eachothers bodily fluids, both participants rear up their heads and enjoy the different sensations that tickles their taste buds in a passionate kiss.
As it was the only way I was ever gonna get head off that frigid bitch I had to grit my teeth, cover my eyes and boldy go where no man has gone before.
de c0za 8 avril 2005
Performing 69 while a woman is on her period. The man ejaculates in the woman's mouth and the two kiss, the menstrual blood and semen mixing to form a beautiful rainbow of colour.
We shared the most beautiful rainbow kiss last night... This girl is really special.
de Cunny 24 janvier 2005
When a girl has her period, a guy eats her out and holds the blood in his mouth, while the girl sucks the guys penis and holds the cum in her mouth. When their mouthes are full they makeout and mix the fluids.
Joe and Sara gave eachother rainbow kisses.
de skejgdfjksdgf 31 mars 2003
When a guy eats out a girl with her period then she blows him then they kiss with all of the stuff in their mouth
You guys Rainbow kissed last night, thats sick!!!
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Billie Joe Armstrong returns to the cast of American Idiot for 50 performances only as St. Jimmy, starting January 1, 2011 through February 27, 2011.
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The mysteries surrounding "I'm Still Here," the documentary film directed by Casey Affleck that tracks Joaquin Phoenix's supposed breakdown, appear to have been solved.
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As many long time readers of this blog may recall, the late winter and early spring is a very busy time for those who work in the social ministry of the Church; Liturgically – of course – this time of year corresponds on the Church's calendar to the season of Lent during which Christians across the world are called to undertake corporal and spiritual disciplines in order to prepare for the commemoration of Our Lord Jesus' Passion and Death during Holy Week which culminates with the celebration of his Resurrection on Easter Sunday morning. But its not only the preparation for these most profound events on the Christian Calendar that is cause for the frenetic activity of late January, February and early March around here, instead much more mundane – and yet still important – pursuits than those ultimate ones require attending to as well. Roughly speaking – the season of Lent almost always corresponds to the legislative "budget season" for national, state and local government, and so for those of us who's job it is to work for the protection and promotion of human life and dignity, this season means that we then set about to do those things necessary to bring the concerns of our Church to those in positions of power in Washington and Albany. The actual work attendant to advocacy efforts such as these involve everything from the exhilarating – actually meeting with United States Senators and Congress People, State Senators and Assembly Members and their staffs and discussing the impact of policies on the poor and vulnerable – to the hum-drum: ensuring that meetings are set up, and that every person has a "seat on the bus" and makes it not only to their destination, but – equally important – back home again. In fact, it has occurred to me that some of the workaday elements of the preparations for our advocacy efforts are a very good thing for me spiritually at this time of year if only in the sense that I can then "multi-task" some of the more tedious but still essential "chores" I do over to the Lenten sacrifices portion of the ledger. And more than this, it has also occurred to me that the "there and back again" nature of this kind of work actually corresponds roughly to the nature of advocacy work in democracy itself; especially for those who have been at these efforts for a long time like me. I have come to see that almost no issue is ever won or lost completely and forever, and as such it is truly the work – and indeed Christian duty – of every generation to be defenders of that which is laudable and essential for the promotion of human dignity and the flourishing of the human person, and so to, to equally combat that which is contemptible and stands against this dignity and flourishing. As such, the work of securing and promoting human dignity is both constant, and yet always new – and certainly never ever boring!
Of course, February's hot ticket here in the Archdiocese of New York was for the trip to Rome to share with His Eminence Cardinal Dolan his elevation to the position of Prince of the Church by Pope Benedict XVI; the event itself was covered by just about every media outlet and was so thorough that you almost didn't need to make the actual journey yourself to still feel part of Cardinal Dolan's special honor. Unfortunately, I didn't quite make the cut for that trip, but instead traveled first down to Washington D.C. with about 500 other Catholic social ministry professionals in year's Social Ministry Gathering, and then later on in early March I traveled up to Albany with over 1,000 Catholics from around New York State for the annual "Catholics at the Capitol" Public Policy Forum Day. Both events were generally successful this year thank goodness, and although I wasn't as fortunate as those who were able to accompany His Eminence to Rome (if only to enjoy the beautiful of Vatican City and partake in some of the delicious food), I have to say that this year's advocacy trips – especially the one to Washington D.C. – were a little more momentous then those in years gone by. Some of this could have to do with the level of media attention that the meetings had this year, which – in contrast to years gone by where the attention paid by the media in general was zero if you discounted the coverage of the event in the Catholic press – was everywhere; wherever you turned the print, television and radio media at this year's meeting were there. I'd like to think that some of this was because the reporters and their news editors had recently discovered some of the good work that the Church does in the social ministry field of feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, healing the sick, ministering to the imprisoned and welcoming the stranger and were eager to cover this work….but my hunch is that the actual level of media coverage had a little something more to do with a set of regulations promulgated earlier this year in January by the Obama Administration's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requiring that almost every employer – except for houses of worship specifically, but including religiously sponsored social welfare organizations – had to offer their employees health insurance coverage that includes sterilization, contraception and abortifacient drugs. In case some of you readers have been on a recent trip to Mars, these regulations have been the cause of quite a bit of controversy as of late, so much so that discussion of these regulations has filtered into the Republican Presidential debates, and triggered a response on the President's part when he offered what he termed an "accommodation" for religious employers under the HHS rules, whereby the responsibility for covering contraceptive services for the employees of the religious organizations was shifted from the organizations themselves over to their insurers.(Funny enough, the press conference where the President announced these accommodations to the HHS rules took place while I was actually on the Amtrak on my way down to Washington D.C. for the Social Ministry Gathering; when my father called my cell phone to tell me of the President's offer at the press conference, I responded the timing of the announcement was because the White House knew that the "Catholics were coming" – a bit tongue in cheek perhaps – but who knows!) While this compromise on the part of the President was a good first step, there remains some significant concerns on the part of the Church, particularly the fact that the definition of who the HHS deems a "religious employer" remains exceedingly narrow: covering only organizations who hire and serve primarily those of their own faith, and will also still involve the government in deciding exactly what is and is not effectively a "Catholic ministry". In response to these accommodations, the Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on March 14th issued a statement on Religious Liberty that invited the Executive Branch to continued dialogue in an effort to secure broader exemptions from the law that would not involve the Federal government forcing Church institutions to act against Church teaching, and urged Catholics everywhere to pray for religious liberty – at home and abroad.
Since then of course, the whole controversy itself has been sucked up into the vortex that is the "culture wars" in our society, where vitriol serves as oxygen that feeds a fire of misunderstanding and miscommunication that generates intense heat but very little light. So outrageous has the public discourse on this matter become that on the one side, you had a nationally prominent radio commentator speculating on the number of intimate encounters a graduate student who gave testimony before a Congressional Sub-committee in favor of the contraceptive mandate had on a monthly basis, and on the other, there was a mean-spirited and ignorant full page ad in the New York Times that called Catholic women "enablers" of the Catholic Bishops' "war against women" urging them to "vote with their feet" and "exit – en Mass" in a tawdry attempt at double entendre. The whole situation is incredibly sad, and has obfuscated the entire issue of the religious liberty concerns of the Church, as often happens in our sensationalistic, media driven society when issues of sexuality and human reproduction are added into the mix.
Like most people, I have my own personal responses to the situation, and they correspond – like most personal reflections do – to my life's experiences. While I do not practice law per se, as a graduate of law school I am very concerned about the erosion – both in the present situation and others – of institutional conscience protection. While the mainstream media often concentrates on violations of individual rights and freedoms, institutional freedoms often suffer a lack of public sympathy; this frankly is much to our determinant, because as anyone who has ever tried to bring about any kind of social change comes to realize, individuals effect social change collectively through the institutions of civil society – institutions such as the Churches and their social welfare agencies. The importance of this insight was brought home to me when – soon after my graduation from Law School – I had the opportunity to travel to several republics of the former Soviet-controlled Eastern Block soon after the collapse of communism in the early 1990s. I actually had traveled there with members of a group that was sponsored by the New York Times called "The Center for Independent Journalism"; the goal of this organization was to teach journalists, and the newspaper editorial boards that employed them, the ins and outs of how a "free press" operated – so long had the papers been under government control and oversight they had forgotten the habits they needed to make their now "free press" run. Being in those countries, at that time, with a group dedicated to teaching the principles of a free press made me very proud of our country and its freedoms – Americans are rightly very proud of our Constitution, and particularly our First Amendment, which guarantees for us freedom of speech, and of the press. But what we should not forget is the other essential freedoms that great First Amendment guarantees to us just as precious as our freedoms of speech and press. I think this is summed up best a famous First Amendment scholar and United States Court of Appeals Judge for the 9th Circuit John T. Noonan Jr. when he wrote, "an unregulated, unregistered press is important to our democracy. So are unregulated, unregistered Churches. Churches have played an important – no, an essential – part in the democratic life of the United States….In a secular age, Freedom of Speech is more talismanic than Freedom of Religion. But the latter is the first freedom in our Bill of Rights".
As someone who as part of his job is asked to help Catholic Charities staff identify the "Catholic identity" of our work, I am equally concerned with the overly narrow definition of what constitutes our ministry. Whenever I am approached and asked why it is that Catholic Charities does the things that it does, I always find it instructive to turn to the 25th Chapter of Saint Matthew's Gospel and ask the questioner to read the admonitions of Jesus as to what is required of us to live a righteous Christian life: feeding the hungry, welcoming the stranger, clothing the naked, caring for the ill and visiting the imprisoned – it reads almost like our annual report! And of course, in our care for the least of our brothers and sisters, we try as best as we can to do so in a way that – in a phrase made famous by the Hard Rock Café – "Loves All and Serves All" – regardless of their race or gender, beliefs or religious practice. How is it that the drafters of the HHS regulations were unaware – or at least tone deaf – to this fact and the impact this could have on our good work? There are those who see malevolent intent in this action, perhaps this is true – or perhaps it was just naiveté – or maybe we weren't telling our story long enough, and loud enough to enough people.
And so, I conclude this post right back where I began – "there and back again": almost no issue is ever won or lost completely and forever, and it is the work of Christians and other people of good will in every generation to be defenders of that which is laudable and essential for all our human flourishing. It appears now that – at least for the short term – one of those good and laudable essentials that require renewed appreciation and defending – in addition to all those other things required to live lives of Human Dignity – includes our cherished right to religious liberty. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has an excellent page on their website that can help concerned citizens refamiliarize themselves with this foundational principle and steps needed to secure this essential liberty for themselves, for the Church and for all who cherish freedom of conscience.


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5 Pro-Marijuana Arguments That Aren't Helping
I have a lot of friends and family who smoke pot, and the majority of them are pretty vocal about wanting it legalized. Let me make perfectly clear right off the bat that I'm not coming at this as an "anti-pot" guy because I personally don't give a shit if they legalize it, and it doesn't bother me that people smoke. I've done my share of illegal substances.
But goddamn are pot advocates some of the most annoying fucking people on the planet. I'm not talking about the average Joe who just wishes it were legal. Hell, those people are inching into the majority and comprise a significant portion of our own audience. I'm talking about the people who push it so hard that they're just short of going door to door, like Mormons. And they get so aggressive and misguided in their arguments that I'm pretty sure that they are their own worst enemy at this point.
I take this guy totally, 100% seriously.
I'm at the stage where I cringe every time I hear...
Taxing it Will Save the Economy!
This one seems to be the dominant argument ever since the economy went to shit. "Legalize it and tax it! With all the money we'll save from enforcement and all the tax money we'll take in, it'll balance the budget!" And no, I'm not exaggerating the claims -- here's one of the more articulate articles that literally says marijuana would "save the economy."
"Look, up in the sky!" "...what?"
He cites some pretty big numbers. "Full legalization would bring in [...] $6.2bn annually if it were taxed at rates similar to those on alcohol and tobacco." Man, that's a lot! But when you put that up beside the total taxes collected in 2010 ($2.1 trillion) and the current national debt ($14.4 trillion), the dent it makes is comparable to trying to change the orbit of the Sun by shooting it with your BB gun.
There's no doubt that legalization would create some jobs and bring in some tax revenue. But it's a drop in the bucket, and when you start presenting that drop with titles like (as in the wake of the Prop 19 legalization movement in California last year) "Save California: Legalize Marijuana" and "To Save California, Legalize Pot", it makes it sound like you have no fucking idea what you are talking about. In fact, it makes it sound like a bunch of young stoners making shit up, and that gives opponents an excuse to dismiss everything else you're saying.
It's the same when the advocates say that we'd be able to "fix the budget" by eliminating the cost of marijuana-related law enforcement, based on this insane idea that once the drug is legal, we'd no longer need any of that. As if the country would suddenly turn into a free-for-all, grow-your-own, weedathon where there are no regulations or restrictions on its production, and yet everyone would just volunteer to report and pay the $50 per ounce tax out of a sense of civic duty. Why? Because people prefer to do things the legal way? That's true... because they fear going to jail. Which means you still fucking have to pay for cops to investigate and arrest people who use unauthorized pot.
This is what opponents were trying to explain during the California legalization debate, that you're going to need a shitload of new regulations to figure out just exactly what activity you're legalizing, and what happens to the people who violate the new laws. Do you get the FDA involved in regulating the THC content? So then you need somebody enforcing those regulations, right? And to go after the stronger, black market stuff? Then we'd still have DUI arrests to deal with, and figuring out what weed does to your health insurance premiums, etc.
Oh, wait, it'll create jobs? Well, why didn't you say so? We totally overlooked that part!
Again, let me make clear that whether it's legalized or not, my life doesn't change. I couldn't give less of a shit. It's the dishonesty of the arguments themselves, and the way you're absolutely bludgeoned with these on the internet, that I find infuriating. And none piss me off more than...
We Need it for Cancer Patients! And to Make Paper!
This is a tactic used by almost every advocate I've ever met. See, they don't want to legalize pot because they want to smoke it and get high. No, they're only concerned on behalf of cancer patients. And they'll have martyrs they can pull out as examples, like that guy who was fired for using medical marijuana on the job. That's what legalization is really about, right, TokeOfTheTown.com?
I'm all about the medication, baby.
This is usually lumped in with the general defense that "Hemp can be used for lots of things! You can make paper out of it. Clothing. Rope." Hell, marijuana was only made illegal because the traditional paper industry was afraid superior hemp would take over, right, website that has "420" in the URL?
I hear both arguments from friends constantly, and not a goddamn fucking one of them has cancer. None of them has ever had a need for, nor owned a rope. And before they started reading "facts" off of a pro-weed website, not one of them thought twice about the paper industry. It's a bullshit, back-door argument. And, again, it makes everything they say seem invalid -- the same as when states that do legalize for medicinal use immediately see half of the patients use it, not for cancer, but mysterious "chronic pain" or "stress relief." In other words, they lie so they can get medicinal weed, not caring that it makes the entire campaign seem like a lie.
Yep, you're a far less healthy person without marijuana. It is the only medication that can treat your obviously debilitating disease.
People want to get high, and I just wish they'd come out and say it. Of all the arguments I've ever heard, I've never had a solitary person step up and just say with unmasked honesty, "I want to get stoned without the fear of being arrested." Which is ironic to me because it's the only argument I've ever heard that makes sense. It's the only one that's even remotely logical.
Putting up this front that weed is a magical cure for all things economic not only requires you to bend the truth beyond recognition, but makes it seem like you're admitting that simply wanting to get high is not a valid reason to make it legal. In fact, the cancer patients who do in fact benefit from it wind up becoming the victims of your bullshit. When a perfectly healthy guy with dreadlocks and cannabis leaf t-shirts stands up next to the cancer patient and pretends the interests of the cancer patient are all he has in mind, it makes it look like both of them are full of shit.
Take that, cancer!
It's Good for You!
So the picture I'm starting to get is that pot advocates saw the government's old, ridiculous anti-weed propaganda that grossly exaggerated the harm of the drug and decided that the best way to combat that was to simply tell equally silly lies in the opposite direction. So in my lifetime I've seen the argument go from "pot isn't as bad as other illegal drugs" to "it doesn't hurt you" to literally saying weed is "good for you." You know, like it's Vitamin C or calcium.
Via Cape Cod Today
Hell, he's doing those other people a favor by giving them a contact health boost!
For instance, when various studies showed that THC might slow the growth of some tumors (while making others grow faster), all of the studies pointed out that they got their results by injecting the chemical and not getting lab rats to smoke joints (a pretty major fucking difference). Yet, pot advocates immediately took those results and translated them into endless headlines asserting that smoking weed "cures cancer." Never mind that all of these studies on the positive side effects of TCH and other chemicals in cannabis go way the fuck out of their way to tell you that this does not mean that smoking weed will cure your cancer.
That's because on the whole, breathing smoke of any kind, is not good for you. And with pot, you're inhaling smoke into your lungs and holding it there for a long time, and that's going to damage the tissue. In fact, just three joints a day do as much damage to the lungs as twenty cigarettes. We can be fair and cite this study saying there is no connection between cancer and smoking marijuana. Though we could also cite the studies that have found the opposite to be true.
But even if we take cancer off the table, there are a whole host of negative effects we can list. Right after smoking, the average heart rate increases between 20% to 100%, and that effect can last up to three hours -- your risk of heart attack shoots up fivefold within the first hour of using. If you have anxiety disorders, there's even more bad news. It's being found more and more that modern pot can actually cause panic attacks, and is a high risk for triggering an already existing condition. In the still-growing brains of younger smokers, it can stunt basic emotional development and promote paranoia. And just on the whole, users are far more likely to come down with illnesses and miss work than non-users. One of the biggest debates right now is whether younger users are at higher risk for the emergence of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia.com cites 30 studies that show a connection.
Dude, don't be bogartin' that shit.
But again, I'm not trying to fall back to the government's "one joint will drive you insane" scaremongering. Pot is not as bad as heroin. That isn't my point. But don't go the other way and start acting like the shit is fucking broccoli.
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The start of the 2013 softball season is just three weeks away, and the Hatters will be playing their 11th season at their beautiful award-winning facility, Patricia Wilson Field.
In recognition of the ballpark's 10 years of service, we here at GoHatters.com will take a look back at the top 10 games in Patricia Wilson Field history.
The feature will begin Monday, January 21 and run each weekday through Friday, February 1.
A few notes on how the list was chosen.
With over 400 Stetson games to choose from and numerous "neutral" games during regular season and conference tournaments, we considered only games involving the Hatters. We rated games based on their drama, significance, and uniqueness, win or lose, but even with those guidelines narrowing the list to just 10 games proved very difficult.
Did you know that in the 10 seasons at Patricia Wilson Field...
Stetson has won 278 games
Stetson has had 38 walk-off victories (non-run rule)
Stetson has had 12 walk-off home runs (run-rule and non-run rule)
Stetson has had 10 no-hitters including two perfect games
And numerous other great individual performances. So all apologies up front if any games deserved to make the list and didn't. Feel free to let us know your thoughts on facebook (Stetson Athletics).
So check back Monday as we begin our countdown of the Top 10 Games in Patricia Wilson Field history here at GoHatters.com.


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On Thermal Interaction between Slab-on-Ground Structures and Subsoil in Finland
Rantala, Jukka
Publication type: Doctoral dissertation
Issue date: 2005-09-02
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University: Tampere University of Technology
Faculty: Department of Civil Engineering
Department: Institute of Structural Engineering
This research focusses on the part of the building envelope that forms the interface between the indoor environment and the subsoil. The attempts to control indoor air conditions and the interaction between the interior and the environment for comfort, health and economic reasons have emphasised the significance of slab-on-ground structures as a borderline between the indoors and the soil. In order to study the thermal and moisture behaviour of a slab-on-ground structure one must know the ambient boundary conditions. The main objective of this study is to determine the thermal conditions along the fill layer underneath a slab-on-ground structure of a heated building. Thermal interaction between the slab-on-ground structure of a heated building and the subsoil under varying temperature conditions is a complicated three-dimensional heat transport problem. Many state-of-the-art methods consider slab-on-groundsubsoil interaction to occur only between two boundary temperatures the internal and external temperatures ignoring the thermal effect of the subsoil itself and treating it merely as a conduction body in between. However, any building on subsoil or bedrock is built on a vast thermal storage reservoir with a relatively constant balance of heat: the earth's crust. Seasonal variations occur only close to the soil surface, and the thermal disturbance caused by a heated building on soil surface is marginal compared to the massiveness of the soil and rock volumes beneath it and the heat they can store. According to the field measurements and numerical simulations of this study, the temperature distribution in the fill layer underneath a slab-on-ground structure is influenced by three ambient boundary temperatures: the internal, the external and the subsoil temperature. The influence of internal boundary temperature and the thermal resistance of the slab structure are the most significant factors affecting the temperature distribution in the fill layer in the central part of the slab. The impact of external temperature increases near the external wall line. According to the performed numerical simulations, the DSA analysis and their comparison with field measurements, the periodic external boundary temperature and the fill layer underneath the slab structure interact directly through the footing wall as well as laterally along the fill layer underneath the slab. The influence of constant subsoil boundary temperature is lesser: according to static-state weighting factor analysis, its impact on the fill temperature is 10 to 20 per cent. However, constant subsoil boundary temperature acts as a balancing force by warming the fill layers under the slab structure during winter and by cooling them in summer. Based on previous observations, a semi-analytical method for the estimation of temperature distribution along the fill layer underneath a slab-on-ground structure in periodic conditions was developed. The method applies the superposition principles, where the annual mean boundary temperatures form a basic steady-state temperature distribution and the amplitudes of external and internal temperatures contribute periodic seasonal alterations. Keywords: slab-on-ground structure, temperature distribution, heat flow, subsoil, fill layer
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Just found a link on Daria's Facebook page pointing towards an interview she has done with Absolute Skating:
In it she reveals her new partner and talks about their plans for the future. She also talks about last season, and the split with Bruno Massot.
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HOW TO: DIY At Home Gel Manicures Made Easy!Natalie
A few months back I had my very first gel manicure. Also called gelish, or shellac. Seriously I've heard a million different names for this manicure. But one thing they always were, no matter what you called them: expensive. And time consuming. But then they'd last for up to three weeks and we were all like: SOLD! Am I right?
Each time I'd get a manicure I'd tell myself it would be my last. At $35 a pop (here in the city) they are not inexpensive. But I just loved the little bit of luxury they represented. And there is nothing that takes the edge off of changing a dirty diaper than a really pretty set of nails (that you know you're not going to ruin). Finally I did some research and realized it's entirely possible to get your own at-home kit for the price of about three professional manicures. And then you're set! For a really really long time.
To find out how you can do your own at home manicures, click after the jump!
What You Need 1 of 10The most important supply you'll need is a UV lamp. You can get them on Amazon for anywhere from $25 to $100. I wanted one wide enough for two hands at once. You can buy yours HERE, $49. You'll also want nail polishes, but these don't necessarily need to be the gel polishes made by CND or OPI. Top secret: any polish will do. Shhh! I know! But you do need the top coat, and I like to use the CND brand. You can get your own top coat HERE, $15.
Step One 2 of 10First you want to buff and file your nails with an emery board. You need a little bit of texture for the polish to really grab on. Don't go crazy, just a nice even buff. I once went to a salon in Utah where they used a Dremel on my nails. Um, thanks, not necessary.
Step Two 3 of 10Trim your nails and make sure they're shaped just how you want them. This is a time when removing cuticles and trimming your nail beds really will make a difference.
Step Three 4 of 10My local Duane Reade sells these prep polishes that are basically made of rubbing alcohol. They dry the nail and make sure it's primed and ready to go. They also claim to prevent fungal growth, for those of us who wear polish most of the time and don't give our natural nails too much time to breathe. An unnecessary step, probably, but I like to use it. You can get a similar product HERE, $2.
Step Four 5 of 10Polish time! Yes, I am skipping the base coat. In my experience, the base coat isn't necessary. In fact, there's such a high margin of error on that stuff that the few times I've used it my polish has peeled right off in one big chunk. So, straight to polish. Try to keep your polish coats as neat and thin as possible. Layer slowly. No thick coats allowed! Unless you feel like curing under the lamps for ten minutes each coat...
Step Five 6 of 10In between each coat you'll need to set your nails under the UV lamp for 2 minutes, if you're using gel polish. This dries the polish. Gel nail polish will NOT dry on its own, ever. Regular polish will require less curing, but I still bake a full two minutes for each coat. Better safe than sorry!
Step Six 7 of 10I decided to try some nail art (soooo trendy right now) and while I don't totally love it, I don't hate it either. One coat of polka dots, and I set it for another two minutes.
Step Seven 8 of 10This is the part where your nails become indestructible. A thin (very thin!) coating of this stuff, followed by two three-minute sessions under the lamp (the salon I go to has me cure for three sessions!). This is of the utmost importance: keep the coat thin, and pay extra attention to the tips of your nails. Make sure you're covered all the way to the very tips, so there won't be any chipping. I like to run the brush horizontally along the end of my nail just to be sure.
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All Finished! 10 of 10You're done! Enjoy two to three weeks of blissfully perfect nails! To remove, simply soak your nails in acetone for a few minutes until the polish becomes soft enough that you can gently scrape it off. Enjoy!


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If you've ever witnessed an extended Bruce Springsteen guitar solo in concert and realized it was as much exorcism as celebration; if you've been flabbergasted by folks who treat a subdued, introspective in-concert rendering of "Mansion On the Hill" as an opportunity to talk loudly or head to the refreshment stand for yet another beer; if you realize that the late career, Bush-era masterpiece "Magic" is as good an album as "Born to Run," and a better one than "Born in the U.S.A."; if you heard, from the beginning, the sense of moral outrage and humanitarian disgust at the heart of the oft-misinterpreted "anthem" that is the song "Born in the U.S.A.," and wondered how anyone hearing it could miss the point – then Peter Ames Carlin's "Bruce" is for you.
There have been abundant biographies, philosophical exegeses, fan tributes, socioeconomic discourses and cultural theses penned in the name of Springsteen. Invariably, these have been, at least, worth reading. Occasionally, they have come across as absolutely essential – Dave Marsh's "Born To Run" and "Glory Days" sitting at the top of this short list. But if ever again a disbeliever confronts me with the standard "Just what exactly is the deal with this Springsteen character you're always babbling on about like a religious zealot?" it will be Carlin's "Bruce" that I'll thrust forward by way of response.
Why? It's simple. Carlin is the biographer who has gone the deepest into Springsteen's character. He's the only one to cogently posit a desperate need to claw one's way out of the darkness and toward something resembling the light as the central motivating factor in Springsteen's career arc.
Carlin, more than any other writer, offers us a Springsteen for whom making music is an act of existential self-affirmation. In the process, he rescues Springsteen from the unfortunate popular conception that he's some sort of simpleton who writes proletarian anthems and bar-room rockers for white people to drink beer to. Perhaps to some portion of his audience, that's all Springsteen is. But the development of the music over the years, and the way the biographical data fills in around and complements that music, suggests a much more fleshed-out portrait. Carlin's Springsteen is an infinitely more complex man and musician, a figure wrestling with demons planted during childhood, and haunted, even in the midst of massive success, by, as he puts it himself in "The Promise," "the broken spirits of all the other ones who lost."
Carlin greatly benefited from first-person access here – not just to Springsteen's oldest friends, bandmates, ex-lovers and former business partners, but to the man himself, who agreed to be interviewed as long as the author conceded to a single caveat – that he refrain from making Springsteen appear as some sort of saint. Carlin held up his end of the agreement. Though he's clearly a fan, the author does not shy away from the ugly underneath, and presents many anecdotes in which Springsteen emerges in less than heroic form.
More than any previous Springsteen biographer, Carlin is hip to the aspect of Faulknerian tragedy at the heart of Springsteen's art and family history alike. The book begins with a recounting of the death of Virginia Springsteen – sister of Bruce's father, Douglas – who was struck and killed by a truck at the age of 5. Her death left a desolate emptiness in the core of the family before Bruce even entered it. Douglas Springsteen never seemed to get over the loss. Bruce's grandparents didn't either, and the fact that the young boy spent much of his childhood living with those grandparents cast a deep pall over his experience. His grandparents doted on him, but also placed no restrictions on him, offered little in the way of guidance, and emerged from their fog of grief only to suggest that there was little reason for young Bruce to even bother attending school, when he was fully capable of entering the work force as his father had done immediately after completing ninth grade.
Springsteen maintained a nourishing relationship with his mother Adele, but his father appears as a Kafka-esque presence in "Bruce," an unsmiling and stoic figure who worked various factory jobs by day and spent his nights seated at the kitchen table in the dark, chain-smoking, drinking beer and staring into the middle distance – "with the eyes of one who hates for just being born," to borrow a Springsteen lyric. His son's obsession with music did not assuage Douglas Springsteen's misery; by the time Bruce was a long-haired '60s teenager regularly gigging around Freehold, N.J., the two were at loggerheads.
Many of Springsteen's strongest songs detail the father/son dichotomy in the family home. The postcard-from-hell that is "Adam Raised A Cain" does so perhaps most viscerally: "Daddy worked his whole life for nuthin' but the pain/Now he walks these empty rooms lookin' for something to blame/But you inherit the sins, and you inherit the flames/Adam raised a Cain," the singer howls in imagery clearly gleaned from his own unpleasant experience in Catholic schooling. It's easy to see in Carlin's portrait that, for Springsteen, music was much more than an opportunity to meet girls and escape a dire economic reality – it was the only means available to him to transcend the darkness and death he felt surrounding him at home.
All wasn't misery, of course. Springsteen attempted to be a happy kid, tried to fit in, played baseball, made an effort to turn off his brain and sit still in class.
"But no matter how sweet the boyhood moments," Carlin writes, "Bruce still had his old man's fragile psyche to deal with." "You couldn't access him, you couldn't get to him, period," says Bruce, recalling his many attempts to talk to his father. "You'd get 40 seconds in, and you know that thing that happens when it's not happening? That would happen." "When dinner was over and the dishes were done, the kitchen became Doug's solitary kingdom. With the lights out and the table holding only a can of beer, a pack of cigarettes, a lighter and an ashtray, Doug passed the hours alone in the darkness."
Of course, Carlin's "Bruce" doesn't concern itself only with the dysfunctional father-son relationship – the book moves with agility and insight through its subject's formative musical years, his evolution into an in-demand virtuoso lead guitarist, bandleader, songwriter and Jersey shore "bum" living only for the next gig, and the one after that. The early years, the formation of a partnership with manager Mike Appel, the hard work that finally yielded an audition for Columbia's legendary John Hammond, the years of tireless road work and faltering commercial success that made the making of "Born to Run" into a desperate last stand with the threat of being dropped from his record label dangling over Springsteen's head – all get their due.
The bulk of "Bruce" thoroughly covers the significant milestones in Springsteen's transition from revered cult figure into stadium-filling superstar, among them the falling out with Appel; the lawsuit launched by Springsteen to retain the rights to his music, and the attendant existential crisis that led to the masterpiece "Darkness on the Edge of Town"; the creation of "The River," and following it, a success that finally yielded financial security; the dichotomy between the stark "Nebraska" and its more polished counterpart, the massively successful "Born in the U.S.A"; and each tour and album cycle that followed. Carlin does an excellent job of presenting Springsteen's personal evolution alongside his growth as musician, songwriter and public figure.
Yet, at the heart of the story remains the image of Douglas Springsteen seated at his kitchen table in the dark, staring out the window in search of God knows what. It's his father, and so many like him, that Springsteen struggled so desperately to escape, and then spent the rest of his career writing about.
The image of that man whose dreams have been crushed beyond recognition informs Springsteen's political consciousness, his need to speak for those who've been denied the right to speak. As Carlin makes clear, the failure to communicate with his father pushed Springsteen to seek communication on a mass level, and ultimately, to reconcile the loner in himself with the need for community, connection, family, civic involvement. With connection came commitment – to the ideals the music always represented for him; to his band mates; to consistent charity work; to marathon concert rituals even as a 63- year-old man; to bountiful campaign stops in key states supporting Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.
Carlin's "Bruce" is a complex and often troubling tale, but ultimately, it's a story of triumph over adversity, of a poor kid from New Jersey whose ability to rise above family tragedy, isolation, alienation and lingering despair in order to become a voice "for all the other ones who lost."
By Peter Ames Carlin
494 pages, $28
Jeff Miers is The News' pop music critic.