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The Eagles finally took a quarterback, just not the one everyone expected.
After trading up for the first pick in the fourth round, the Eagles selected USC quarterback Matt Barkley. They surrendered their fourth-round pick and a seventh-rounder to the Jacksonville Jaguars to land Barkley.
"We had Matt rated in the top 50 players in this draft," coach Chip Kelly said. "The fact he was still there, there was no better value."
Barkley (6-2, 230 pounds) finished with 36 touchdowns and 15 interceptions last year. He passed for over 3,200 yards.
"I'm excited to be an Eagle," Barkley said. "It's a fresh start."
Barkley was projected to be the first quarterback taken going into the 2012 college season, but many draft analysts feel he took a step back after a stellar 2011. Still, Barkley excelled when he faced Kelly's Oregon Ducks last year, throwing for 484 yards and five touchdowns.
"He's the all-time leading passer in USC history. A four-year starter in high school and college," Kelly said of Barkley. "He has all the intangibles you're looking for."
What the drafting of Barkley means for the other quarterbacks on the roster remains to be seen. The Eagles wouldn't have traded up to get Barkley if they didn't really like him. Unless the team plans on carrying four quarterbacks, it means that Michael Vick, Nick Foles and Dennis Dixon are now competing for three spots.
"I'm coming in here to compete for the starting job," said Barkley. "That has to be my mindset."
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Freezing cold and minus 3 degrees C at the club field but what the heck ..... I needed to do some circuits so took my Wing ......
only problem ...... it wasn't the Xeno despite me ordering the full kit 6 months ago ...... my RC store still hasn't received its stock order .......
I received my personal copy of the MPX december News letter today ..... it said ....
"Merry Christmas and a happy new Year!
Dear Newsletter readers,
All Multiplex team hereby says thank you for the confidence in 2009.
We wish you Merry Christmas and a pleasent take off into 2010"
Where's my Xeno I said to myself .......
Their 'solution' to the flutter problem was to suggest wrapping the wings with glass tape (at the owners cost of course ) to prevent flutter. What a joke!
What MPX need to do is carry out comprehensive testing of their new products before letting the public spend their hard earned cash on them.
They got it perfect with the truly brilliant 'Funjet', so why not with subsequent kits? (Blizzard, Cularis, and now the Xeno to mention just a few) Also, why do they advertise their new kits so far in advance of full production status. All this does is frustrate the buying public and then when it does arrive there's a possibility that it'll be flawed (and expensive) anyway! Maybe MPX need to talk to Ming of ''Windrider.HK'' and learn how he interacts with, and responds to customer input, and how quickly he can get a new (quality) product onto the market at a reasonable cost.
Hi Ben D Wing,
I must agree with what you say!! If it was our company, we would do it right, for sure
on that!!! Merry Christmas and Have a Great Safe New Year
When I use the search function, I can find a few guys who experienced flutter, but the huge majority seems to be very happy with their Blizzard. In the German forums I found even less about flutter issues.
I therefore assume, that those guys having problems either have excessive slop in their aileron linkages or they just expect too much from a foamie.
From the instruction manual:
Like any other aircraft, this model has static limits! Steep dives and silly, imprudent manoeuvres may cause structural failure and the loss of the model.
Please note: damage caused by incompetent flying is obvious to us, and we are not prepared to replace components damaged in this way. It is always best to fly gently at first, and to work gradually towards the models limits. The aircraft is designed to cope with our Tuning (upgrade) power system, but is only capable of withstanding the flight loads if it is built exactly as specified, and is in perfect structural order (i.e. not damaged). Further upgrade measures are possible, but should only be attempted if you have plenty of experience in this field, as additional structural reinforcements will be required.
What is supposedly a problem with the Cularis?
Joined Apr 2001
4,184 Posts
if you don't like it don't buy it
Who is forcing you to wait until these models are available if, like you say, there are better choices out there?
Vote with your wallet, so will i.
Joined Apr 2001
4,184 Posts
16 years ago a year delay for new products was the norm if a new item would become avaiable at all.
Also there might be first revision issues that motivate me to pass a new model until it has ben proven for a while (few mounths)
I have no idea what happend but i think something must have gone wrong at mpx since most (if not all) there new products hve been delayed.
I hope it will not be the same as with m$ vista wich was both late and had "room for improvement" but the report so far apear to be posetive.
A lot of people have had problems with the connection between the electrical aileron/flap joint at the wing root with obvious results! Why didn't MPX use their own foolproof (green) 6 pin connectors instead of trying to re-invent the wheel?
However, if the supplied parts are modified slightly, a reliable connection can be effected.
I wish you all a ''Merry Christmas''!
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl
Joined Feb 2004
460 Posts
back to the Xeno - flies well but sure has a high wingloading. it is much heavier then comparable models - also it turns on a dime but is really not very stable when flown slow. also grass tends to get caught where the rudders are attached to the wings (not sure if I can improve this by changing the design slightly). i like the looks and the foldable concept but am not overly impressed with the execution. it is a sturdy bird though.
Greece, Attica, Piraeus
Joined Jun 2004
1,134 Posts
Hi and Merry Christmas to all of you.
I have some observation to make about the Xeno.
I had a mishap with it (totally my fault) and i crashed it from ~10m.
The plane went in with the nose (typical) in about 10cm grass and here is what i found:
Although the crash was not that bad for any foam flying wing the plane was totaled...
The motor pod plastic bases were broken clean, the canopy was broken, the plastic center section was broken at the hinging area and at the nose and the wing's leading edges were deformed too much for my taste to repair it.
True that some glue would fix things but it would look like Frankenstein
not to mention that the pod plastic base would give up shortly in my mind.
True that all parts are available but i don't like selling my home each time the planes mildly crashes (for a flying wing).
I also have a Robbe Airbull, a Great planes wing and some other wings so i can say that the Xeno flies better than any flying wing i ever had but it is by far the most fragile.
Just to be more clear it is the best flying wing when it flies so i am not bashing the plane, in fact i will get me another one but i will reinforce it heavily with glass especially at the leading edge and this time the motor pod will stay out.
Lab, Slovak Republic
Joined Jun 2008
400 Posts
Merry XMas
Sorry to hear that
Could you post some pics, please?
Romania, Dolj, Craiova
Joined Sep 2007
19,948 Posts
I wouldn't reinforce it so heavily with something strong. The effect would be exactly the same as before, the foam and plastic will crash against the glass instead of ground !
The solution is to damp the impact as much as possible by patching the nose with a hard foam replaceable former that wil take the impact force and protect the plane itself.
Being in your shoes, I would used some layers of autoadhesive foam like this:
I use a similar local bought foam having 6mm and adhesive one side only with great success on all my potential impact areas.
I am planing to build myself the next flying wing having the whole leading edge made from such foam on an internal hard core skeleton made from coroplast.
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The one word answer: orthorexia.
Can someone explain to me why the Whole9 folks advocate against 'Paleo-fying' an otherwise unhealthy food? For example, this evening we will make 'breaded' chicken from the Sarah Fragoso Everyday Paleo book. It's boneless, skinless chicken thighs covered in egg, almond flour, coconut flour, and spices. From where I sit that is even Whole30 approved.
Another example are some breakfast items. I make our kids pancakes with eggs, almond flour, baking soda, honey, and salt. Aside from the honey even that is Whole30 approved. But the Whole9 people are adamant about not converting food to be more paleo, even when not engaged in a Whole30 cycle.
The one word answer: orthorexia.
I think it depends to the extend you take your paleo-fying. Some folks need to just get re-acquainted with real food, so paleo pizzas and paleo hot pockets aren't re-inforcing the idea that food "doesn't really look like that" ... know what I mean?
It also can make people find escape paleo foods that they abuse, or that cause them to stall or whatever.
For instance, you're telling your kids there's a specific type of breakfast food (pancakes, etc) and, to each their own and all, but they'll grow up with this idea and maybe when you're not around to paleo-fy this, they'll resort to the usual pancake set-up, which is not primal. I'm not saying what you're doing is wrong, but it does send the message that "breakfast isn't breakfast without this banging ass pancake"... even if you sometimes do something different, like eggs and meat, etc.
I don't know, but I wouldn't touch almond flour.
I have to agree with the rest. It's harder to dissassociate yourself with your old habits if you are just subbing them out for a similiar one that doesnt taste as good. If you relearn what food is then it really changes your mindset and those muffins/pancakes will no longer look like food to you. I think at first its a good idea to do some of this paleofying, but I would wean yourself and family off it and make it only for a special holiday treat. Almond flour recipes are not the best for your health IMHO because they are so calorie dense and high in O6's.
There's no such thing as "Paleo deep frying" because there would have been no way for Grok to do it, but I don't see a big issue with the occasional chicken tender breaded with potato starch and deep fried in extra virgin olive oil, leaf lard or coconut oil. Deep frying actually retains less oil than pan frying, so if you have an issue with deep frying, don't you dare saute in oil! I did onion rings with corn starch and olive oil over the weekend and they were great. I didn't have potato starch at the time.
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Don't put your trust in anyone on this forum, including me. You are the key to your own success.
I've never tried to deep fry anything with almond flour or coconut flour or anything. In this case the chicken I make is baked. Either way, I was just asking in general. I personally have no issues with almond flour and will continue to use it. We use it in a LOT of meals!
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midnight 28/29 April 2001-1002-0210-0120-0020-0000
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'[Kumina] is to be found primarily in St Thomas and Portland and to a lesser extent in St Mary, St Catherine and Kingston. Kumina ceremonies are usually associated with wakes, entombments or memorial services but can be performed for a whole range of human experiences (births, thankgsiving, invocations for good [or] evil).
'Kumina sessions [some extending, as in this poem, to twenty-one days], involve singing, dancing and drumming and are of two general types; bailo the more public and less sacred form of kumina, at which time songs are sung mainly in Jamaican [NL/nation-language]; and country - the more African, and serious form, and at which time possession usually occurs.
'Male and female leaders must exhibit great . . . strength in their control of zombies [zambies] or spirits and assume their positions of leadership after careful training in the feeding habits, ritual procedures, dances, rhythms, and songs of a variety of spirits, by a previous King or 'Captain' . . . Queen or 'Mother'.
'One is said to 'catch' myal when possessed by one of the threes classes of Gods - sky, earth-bound, and ancestoal [zambies], these last being the most common form of possession. Each god can be recognized by the initiated by the particular dance style exhibted by the possessed, and by songs and drum rhythms [bandu, plain cyas, scrap- ers, gourds, tin-can rattles, catta sticks & bamboo stamping tubes] to which it responds.
'At bailo dances, the spirits who are called, more often than not make their presence known by 'mounting' (i.e. possessing) a dancer; whose given dance style helps in identifying the spirit, but can span all possibilities of movement. The basic dance posture constitutes an almost erect back and propelling actions of the hips as the feet inch along the ground. The dancers move in a circular [anti-clockwise] pattern around the musicians and centre pole, either singly or with a partner. The arms, shoulders, rib-cage and hips are employed, offering the dancers ample opportunity for variations and interpretations of the counter-beats or polyrhythms. Spins, dips, and 'breaks' on the last beat are common dance variations.
'The journey of the spirits from the ethereal to the mundane world is no less ritualised than other kumina elements. Once invoked by music and other ritual paraphernalia (rum with blood, candles, leaves) the spirits are said to hover near the dancing booth [bood]. If successfully enticed they travel down the centre pole in to the ground, then through the open end of the drum to the head of the drum, where the drummer and Queen must salute its presence. The spirit then re-enters the ground, from where it will travel up the feet of the person selected to be possessed, along the whole length of the body, culminating with the full myal possession in the haed of the [transforming] individual.' Anon, Jamaica journal 10: 1 (Kingston 1986) pp6,7]
First it is the knife
in the kitchen. the thick one w/the long bright blade
and the thick wooden handle. that knife wdn't stay
flat. each time i wash it. put it down. it drop or ramp up
on it spine w/the singing edge of the blade running thin
& straight-along like some spiteful future & horizon
Pull out the drawer w/the silvers and it still there. sharp.
prop-over & unquiet on it omen
The cosmology of sudden unXpecting disaster
& its unutterable grief unvomiting the world
i seem to be becoming lightning rod
for like this wreck of Time
we cope so tentative so desperate in dis kingdom
of the dread. the voices reach-
ing out. be-
traying fear & crying out for help beyonn the lyme
of reassurance. tryin to mek sense
of all de wallawallawalla as the whole
world like it topple-over menance. tryin
to regain it recompense of balm & balance hallow
ello! . . . ello! . . . Mummy! . . . This is Ingriid . . .
Kamau & DreamChad coil in each others blood. she
tieing the discomfort his tears for her dead son
while she bleeds as her sun keels from its mangle wheel .
hit off his latenight midnight bi-
cycle middlepassage ship
by a rat-racing-on-our-highways new-money quick-monkey
ill-legal-jjugs-money-traffikin cyaar -
BMW Audi the sleek black latest luxury Discord or Ellectra
or streak Ajax Mardza or Alexandria - in Papine -
Errol Hill beggarmanpoem . Slade Hopkinson & Breeze
madwoman poems
Ogou. Soyinka. Dennis Scott's Dog. Tony McNeill's Ungod. Vera Bell's Gog -
they happen all here -
the unceremonial graveyard. thirsty & unappease -
of yout. artists. don gorgons. Caribbean
slaves. eee-
lectric politricks & politricans. big big-time robber
the 21 days
on the first day
of yr death it is quiet it is dormant like a doormat
no one-foot touch its welcome. its dust on the floor
is not disturb nor are the sleeping spirits of this house
i sit here in this chair trying to unravel Time so that it wouldn't happen twine
on the second day
of yr death. i break a small
i can still smell the sweet flour of yr firstborn flesh
on the third day
of yr death. the water in my urine turn to blood
i cover the waterfront of the mirror w/a blue cloth where yr face stood
on the fourth day
yu shd be rising. knocking at the door of darkness. coming back to me
i do not hear yr call
on the fifth day
after yr death. a young white rooster. white white white feathery & shining tail & tall
neigbour of sound from miles away in the next village
stands in the yard & from his red crown crows & crows & will not go away
he struts round to the back-a-wall
his one eye clicking clicking as he crows
comes to the glissen of my window & he crows
loud like the overflowing voice of my Trelawny waterfall
on the sixth day
after yr death. there is this silence of flowers
their petals say their shining needs
soft water needs
sweet showers needs
sweet rain from heaven
i see them once again inside the chapel of my funeral
on the seventh day
after yr death. the yellow flour
in the cup-cakes in the kitchen have gone sour
there is an eye of rancid in the middle of their meal
i am unhappy like the wind & tides are restless rivers
i can't find you. i can't find you. i cannot cannot cannot be console to dreams
the mad dogs of the pasture kill the cock & pillage
it. madwoman wind is scattering white screaming feathers' petals' pedals over all
the brunt & burnin ochre-colour land
on the eiate day
after yr death
me do nothin. nothin. nothin . i cdn't even get yr inglish 'eighth' spelt streight
on the nine/ff night
yu rise again from off the dead
i see you now & at the hour of yr o not soff not soffly dead
it is my pain it is my privilege. it is my own torn flesh torn fresh
o let me comfort us my chile. is not yr heart is broken
i haffe go down to the Station today to find out
what they doin about yr det. about the 'accident'
dem call it. bout the black-hearted man who a-kill
yu. an whe dem hide yu body
the po. lice who dealin w/this case they cannot look me in the lips
and No One kno
who the boy is or gone or when he will come-back
ten time dis ten dem mek me up & down & book & fourt
to fine my sun. an ten ten time dem ave no ansa for me for me for me
in dis dry-weatha tunda
dem seh because i poor & have no book to haul-out who
inside dis station. an i inn got no song
to sing becau i colour in dis Marcus Garvey country proud an strong
an wrong - yu sun gone out & still yu colour wrong.
inn got no i say song
i wonda who Port Royal is. when de eart goin again goig crack
my daughta Ingrid walk beside me hurt
an strong an dress in black
her face inside she face ink mekkin sport
on the tenth night after a long long distance silence
i born into this world w/nothing but my breath & my bare back an hornets
in my chess
now i will haffe doubt if god is good & black & honesty
wha good god do fe me?
whe god dat cricket midnight criminal when Mark of god get call like dat & kill
Mark cyaan dead so if good. if god
my breath give birt to good like god
my sun dis gold is all my riches that cannot be replace
an suddenly me cannot fine him in dis place before dis good god face to face
wha good fe god. no god. wha good. wha god. no god
if good Mark have no face to face dis god inside dis good god place
after yr debt - o pickney - it is as if me cyaaan wake up
Time has been drain from all my clocks. the sky is overcyas & lock
altho it isn't rainin yet
this night we hold our wake. watch w/ the spirit of my sum before his daily funeral
.people cook food bring bread & drink & there's some singing
of the old traditions by the older folks & country citizens
but they soon fall to arguing and they soon fall down to quarrellin
about the words the phrases time & tempo of these sookey tunes
if seem they isolated in the old traditions in these coffee hills
by three o'clock is gettin cold here in the midnight dew
and all around me. even the young-ones
watch me watch the faces of their coffin spirits growin old
on the tired tireen(th) day
after im det. we tek the body of my son
& walk him from the chapel back up the hill-road
pass Mass Dixon Lane to Bedward buryingrounn & seal him up & tomb
im leave im dere
My aunt husbann tell me later dat tree
time Mark try fe mek dem put im down. de casket get so heavy
de man-dem haffe change sides all de time to ress dem hands
& many willin new ones haffe come fe help dem wid it
im get so heavy heavy going to im grave
time he try fe stagger dem go left. teach
dem to veer down MasonDixonLane whe e grow up
is all too sudden. Sonny. im want to ress a while from all dis pain an distrulation
cause when im reach down-dey. im nevva soon-come-back again
mi look back once onto the leaf. less barrem hillside where he is
cyaaan even see no grief
of flowers there
perhaps there are no flowers there
An do you know what even as he lie there in the street
that midnight widdout light. skull crack. neck broken. trauma. red red red
de passerby-dem Marley sing about -
de woman son shoot down into the street & dead ? -
dem tief-off evva thing they fine pun Mark
So when he went down to the policestation morgue that night
my son mange up widdout im shoes & shocks?
on the fourteenth day after my sun gone. on the first day after him first entomb
i feel my womb
seal-up. de blood brek-down inside me bellybottom
[day 16]
we know 'widow' an i hear of 'widower'
i wonder what dem call a woman lose she sun?
tief too dat too me reckon
again i sit here in this chair trying to unravel Time
so that it wouldn't happen
[day 17]
Death keep gettin-away & gettin-away & gettin in the way
coilin inside dis house like serpent(s)
into its dark corners when we turn to face
eatin away the cupboards of our soul
above the stove an thru the drains an down in. to the cellar w/its term
-ites. torm
-ites tunnel & un. dermine the very grounn we walk
on. how we make love. destroye the very irie way we dance
they was nvr a chance really that we wd avoid
this. clingin to each others bodies. holdin hands. and climb
-in to our souls. feelin the grief like an electric wire
shudder thru our clothes around our ribs where Adam make
us. veins
our gutteries. our lonely bones
we have nvr plan
to be away from love like this
opening these doors one after one one after one
sweeping this dust these ashes from the floor of sorrow
bowed head. the one step one step sweeping
out today today
and down the passage of tomorrow & tomorrow & tomorrow
into the distance of what must be the future but no more no more
each time i turn into the kitchen. head down towards the sink
of chores. lookin a spoon fe wash. fe tea to brew. fe soup to scoup
fe bread fe fat & fry. is you is you is you. keep
comin back. cockroaches of these curses
flickerin up the pipes & plumbin. lickerin the wet surface
w/ they lean
-nail tongue. the lard
oil ori
-faces washin back yr
face. these grey green oil
-(y) fissures that yu cannot clean
as if we cover up in soares & sin. as if we do some
-body some
-thin wrong. as if we do some. body
in & spit out syllables like the split
stringy ends of bonavista peas spit
out the white bright taste of salt into this dry lagoon as if this is the saviour
this the recompence. this is the penalty we play for 'coming from no
whe' for 'being poor'
the rat patrol keep rattin pass my door
and now there is this white night blind
-ness in my eyes for all the years
that are no tears to tell. because there are no years no no more years
fe yell for you in this - this - 'new emergency'
- the blood my heart
the broken body wringing in my belly like a ghost my baby like a bell
of bone
. mi wunda whe e doin now
. mi wunda whe Mark gone
- it seem so long it seem
mi fatha now altho I nvr kno no fatha
- my husbann gone back
to the States to finish up im work
- few nights ago he try to touch me. wake me up. yu know
as if dat comfort? dat wd help
. . .
ah well . . . he had his 10 years time of salt already an he went thru hell
and now he marréd me the poor man like he have to wear my bell
he nevva try to rush me. dough . . . e mean me mean me well
. . .
on the twentieff day after ee tief and the seventh after de burial
i go lookin for my sun in all his glory
Somethin inside my shake & rackkle heart. along my ripple spine
agroin/agroan my nipple guts. w/in the bleedin womb whe he did born
whe he intomb
something inside here tell me there will be no rest no rest no rest no rest no rest no rest
- can be no rest - until I find him - these rock dry-rivva courses - an bring im justice back
in true
becau im nvva born to blue nor no slow horses
back to the world up
-inside down. down inside black
to the world they have lost of the sun
-light & 'real' Rock
in her cradle of arms of all she can give
to the world. beyond all these harms
& their fissures & failures Sleeping
for all ages
Jesus my Revelator Injustice as e dead hit from behine to this afflictuated future. an nvr even kno it. Each bless of him the salted water i now drink. His white flesh broken to this flesh my red i cannot eat No No No No in carne criminate I do not want to see it!
there is a howling she can hear she does not understand is here is hers. like she is hearing in her own ears howling wolf long canine knives & clanking richter rackets Like all his blood is floating down her cistern of his wounds are blessed rain this sound w/in her falling
ears this taste w/in her mouth like she is givin birth to menance memory - his past somehow his tirelesslessness & somehow now - his future some. where in this past where they are bound in what is almost sound in what is almost light & outline - w/in the shadows near the door where they shd pass so they might live - together - as it was before - as it will be. be.fore - is what the sound is saying - giving birth to light - her sun - her son - her cinema - the death that is in him is him becoming death that was-in-him was him. un. coming him - the death that will be him becoming bourne & being born now in this nommonation of these howls so near the 'real' & stranger raiding world now gettin louder gettin clearer gettin warmer so blinding her now so she can't see him anymore tho she still has the howling in her - and somewhere deep inside her bowels now the sleepin rock. im cradle her familiar spirit arms - the womb of his death now safely wounded in her - sun become father - genitor - an almost newborn born & burn. ing in her - one is one & so always w/in him w/in her in her
So that at last possibl - even if unbearable to bear - but bearing - still bearing and at
least & at last no(w) possibl - what yesterday was impossibl - a pathway no possibl -
no(w) possibl - she leaving him new at this door at this threshold this light of forever w/in
her. bearing down
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Born in Barbados, Caribbean poet and scholar Edward Kamau Brathwaite was educated at Harrison College in Barbados and Pembroke College in Cambridge. He earned his PhD in philosophy from the University of Sussex.
Using "nation language" as well as linguistic and typographic innovation, Brathwaite composes poems that deftly parse the connected strands of postcolonial, historical, and personal inquiry. As Publishers Weekly noted in a review of Slow Horses (2005), Brathwaite's work is "omnivorously synthetic, insistently local, sinuously syncopated and consistently exciting."
Co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement, Brathwaite is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Elegguas (2010), the Griffin International Poetry Prize winner Slow Horses (2005), Ancestors (2001), Middle Passages (1992), and Black + Blues (1976). His first three collections, Rights of Passage (1967), Masks (1968), and Islands (1969), have been gathered into The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy (1973). He is also the author...
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Q: Is it possible to spread too much Holly-tone around my arborvitae and Douglas firs? Could too much kill them? I never really know how much to put down and usually err on the side of caution by probably not putting enough down. Can I place the fertilizer on top of the mulch or should I rake the mulch away and place the fertilizer directly on top of the soil?
A: It would take a ridiculous amount to kill any plant with a granular, organic fertilizer like Holly-tone. An excess would have more of a gradual detrimental effect, such as affecting the tree's color or making them more attractive to bugs.
A greater likelihood is simply wasting your time and money applying more fertilizer than you really need. The only sure-fire way to determine exactly what a plant needs is to send off one of those Penn State soil test kits (available for about $10 at most garden centers). The results will give you an exact breakdown of what fertilizer is needed and how much -- if you need any at all. Most established trees really don't need any supplemental fertilizer, especially if you're fertilizing the lawn nearby.
The general guidelines for applying products like Holly-tone are to scatter 5 to 10 pounds of the grains over each 100 square feet of bed space. That would amount to one 5-pound bag, for example, over each 10-by-10-foot space. (You'll go through a lot of little bags at that rate.)
For trees, the suggested rate is to scatter about 3 cupfuls of Holly-tone per 1 inch of trunk diameter around the tree's dripline. In other words, if you've got a tree trunk that's 3 inches across, you'd scatter 9 cups of Holly-tone around underneath it.
Ideally, you'll get best results by scratching the fertilizer into the top few inches of the soil. But that's way too much trouble for any sane gardener to pull up mulch, apply the product, scratch it in and replace the mulch.
Most people (me included) just scatter fertilizer over the beds once all danger of freeze is gone. Right before a soaking rain is ideal. So is right before adding a fresh coat of mulch for the season. Raking the fertilizer into the mulch is even a better option than going the whole way down to the soil.
The main concern is applying fertilizer over a mulch-compacted bed and then having a heavy rain wash most of it down the sewer. That's much less likely to happen on level beds than sloped ones and on beds where the mulch is at least somewhat loose or roughed up instead of packed down like a driveway.


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Crock Pot French Dip Sandwiches
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A simple yummy way to make French Dip sandwiches. Uses everyday ingredients and makes the meat and the broth for dipping all in one pot.
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- 1 (3 -4 lb) lean beef roast
- 1⁄2 cup soy sauce
- 1 beef bouillon cube
- 1 bay leaf
- 4 peppercorns
- 1 teaspoon rosemary
- 1 teaspoon thyme
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- Remove and discard all visible fat from the roast. Place in the crock pot. Combine the soy sauce, bullion and spices; pour over the roast. Cook on low for 10-12 hours. Remove meat from the broth;save broth. Shred the meat with forks. Serve on your choice of rolls with a bowl of broth for dipping.
- We use hoagie rolls but hard rolls are good too.
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Very yummy and it makes a good amount of broth! The only thing I did different was to place a chopped onion under the roast in the crock pot because I love the onions in my sandwich. I also used fresh rosemary and thyme from my indoor garden. I served it with French bread and grilled asparagus. I will definitely make this again.
I hate to be the one to give this this a bad rating. It was easy to put together. Even with the extra chopped garlic, onions, and mushrooms I added. It was too salty. Even with lite soy sauce and a cup of water to tone it down. I will be looking for another French dip recipe.


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Parkland's new hospital "substantially complete," says top official
Parkland Memorial Hospital's new facility is "98 percent done," says Lou Saksen, the hospital's top construction official.
The new Dallas County public hospital was expected to receive a temporary certificate of occupancy Monday, Saksen told the hospital's board of managers Tuesday. But the document requires one more signature.
"I expect it's signed now," he said after the facilities committee meeting in the current hospital.
The permit will allow hospital staffers to enter the new building without wearing a hard hat or other protective gear. However, they will need special badges to get inside.
The $1.3 billion hospital will open next May, if the project stays on schedule. Until then, medical equipment and furniture will be installed throughout the 2.1-million-square-foot facility and the hospital staff will be trained to use it.
Patricia Rodriguez Gorman, who chairs the committee, said she took a tour of the building Monday and called it "terrific."
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We love new technology as much as the next person, but we have to agree with Brooklyn Assemblyman Felix W. Ortiz that driving while wearing Google Glass is just as dangerous as talking on a cellphone. Or texting. Or applying mascara. Or checking the box scores. Or doing anything except paying attention to the road.
For the non-tech savvy, Google Glass is wearable technology embedded in eyeglasses, making it instantly available. Some flashy marketing has piqued the interest of many potential users. It's not available to the general public – yet. But when it hits the scene, it will either fail or fascinate and become the next must-have gadget.
Google Glass, which looks like a tiny appendage on a pair of glasses, does a lot. According to a Google website, it can take a picture, take video, share pictures and video, even live video, through social media, give the user directions, allow the user to speak to send a message, "ask whatever's on your mind," translate your voice, and give information on flight times at the airport.
Google Glass promises to do a lot. And that is exactly why Ortiz, who introduced legislation to outlaw the use of the technology while driving, is concerned. Don't think that Ortiz is on a fool's errand. He's the lawmaker who, back in 2000, authored the original law banning handheld cellphone use while driving.
He thinks that the flood of information Google Glass is able to convey would become a dangerous distraction for drivers. That's what a California officer thought when he ticketed a woman for speeding while wearing the $1,500 glasses in October. She pleaded not guilty in a San Diego traffic court and is awaiting further proceedings.
According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, the officer cited a section of the California vehicle code that prohibits drivers from watching television or video signals other than on dashboards, navigation systems and backup cameras. The law doesn't mention taking pictures and videos and uploading them to social media, so give the officer credit for applying old legislation to new technology.
Google has defended itself. The company, in a message to those taking part in the Google Explorer testing program, implores users to pay attention to the road, whether driving or bicycling. As for safety? There's an app for that available on Google Glass. It's called DriveSafe and it is intended to keep drivers awake. The user can say, "OK Glass, keep me awake," and the wearer gets audible alerts if the device senses that the driver is dozing behind the wheel.
Here's a better way to stay safe, and certainly undistracted, behind the wheel. Don't drive while wearing Google Glass. If it takes legislation to get the message across, we'll come down on the side of safety.


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When George W. Bush was in the White House, Democratic state attorneys general attempted to check his administration's power. State attorneys general, for example, ...
When George W. Bush was in the White House, Democratic state attorneys general attempted to check his administration's power. State attorneys general, for example, played a key role in winning the Supreme Court ruling that designated carbon dioxide as a pollutant.
Now that a Democrat is in the White House, Republican attorneys generals are trying to play the exact same role. One example: health care. Here's Reuters:
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Less than 24 hours after the House of Representatives gave final approval to a sweeping overhaul of healthcare, attorneys general from several states on Monday said they will sue to block the plan on constitutional grounds.
Republican attorneys general in 11 states warned that lawsuits will be filed to stop the federal government overstepping its constitutional powers and usurping states' sovereignty.
Another interesting example is greenhouse gas regulation. Democratic attorneys general pushed for CO2 emissions to be regulated during the Bush years, but now Republican attorneys general are pushing for CO2 not to be regulated by the EPA in the Obama years.
From that, it would be easy to conclude that when a Republican is president, Republicans are content and Democratic attorneys general are the activists. When a Democrat is president, the roles are reserved.
While I think there's something to that cyclical idea, the current activism of Republicans attorneys general strikes me as somewhat new. In the relatively brief period that attorneys general have been national political players, most of the biggest action has focused on progressive causes: taking on the tobacco companies, taking on Wall Street, taking on the Bush administration.
In that context, Republican AGs may be pursuing a new model for conservative activism, but one that's likely be reproduced whenever there's a Democratic administration in Washington.
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RANGOON — Hla Swe, a central executive committee member of Burma's ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), has accused the leaders of a campaign to amend the 2008 Constitution of sowing public disorder.
The opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) and the former students group 88 Generation Peace and Open Society—both of which were born out of Burma's 1988 uprising—are conducting a nationwide campaign of rallies and petitions in an effort demonstrate public support for changing the military-drafted charter.
"Public disorder is never good," Hla Swe told The Irrawaddy. "88 and the NLD want to cause public disorder by stimulating people to change the Constitution. They shouldn't do that."
Hla Swe pointed out that the demands to amend the charter have continued even after President Thein Sein promised that amendments would be made. A committee is currently considering what constitutional changes to recommend to Parliament, but although senior government figures have in principle backed changing the charter, it is not yet clear how it will be amended.
"The NLD and 88 like unrest because they come out of the '88 uprising and they grasp that way," he said.
The USDP lawmaker, who is also a former lieutenant major in the Burmese military, stated that under the current charter, the military can seize control of the country for up to two years if there is "upheaval," in order to restore order.
Nan Khin Htwe Myint, an NLD central executive committee member, said that all the events in the opposition campaign have been organized with the permission of authorities, and that participants have been well behaved.
"If they [the USDP] want to talk like that, they need proof. But there is no public disorder, we are holding the events peacefully," she said. There have so far been no reports of trouble or disturbances at the campaign's rallies.
Nan Khin Htwe Myint added that holding public events was important for the campaign because people should be well informed about the issue.
88 Generation leader Jimmy said that people support constitutional change once they are informed about the charter's current wording, since the 2008 Constitution was written without the public's proper consent.
"If they [the USDP] are just saying they will change it, the public will not believe it. They need to prove it with work," he said, insisting that the public campaign was simply an exercise in democracy.
About 15, 000 people joined on constitutional reform rally in Rangoon on May 17, one of many taking place across the country in recent weeks. A public signature campaign is launched today.
It means the bullies just started the power of the people then. They should know that there was no way they could cheat and suppress the public forever. Promising the nation with democratic government while trying to hold on to power with nargis constitution makes us so sick of the regime. The people under the leadership of suu kyi/min ko naing on one side and regime which is public's enemy number one is on the other side. We are sending a very clear message to the regime that it must stop insulting the nation and her beloved citizens by imposing undemocratic institutions in the union of myanmar. We the people are rising up to clean the house.
Hla Swe still want us to be silent while USDP is raping the nation and its citizens no matter what happens to them. We the people are not pokethinnyo. Are we supposed to bow our heads and say 'Yes' to them forever? We the people have the very right to say 'No' to the regime when we do not like what they say/do. Nothing seems right in the leadership of USDP. Talking democracy while walking on undemocratic road. Enough is enough. Regime better blame itself for facing the public's anger and dissatisfaction. USDP is absolutely the relic of military dictatorship. Its bitterness is distasteful in our life.
The generals would do well to remember that the mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. Hopefully soon!
15,000 or one million is not important for all of us. We all are with DASSK and Ming Ko naing all along in this democratic fight with Fox and USDP although some are at home and job. Fox and USDP will conspire us very soon so be careful and be careful. This time USDP will use their paramilitary and their psy monks to us. In this situation, all ethnics should not sign cease-fire agreement with Fox.
Public Disorder? Seriously? Regime is the real problem-maker. Disorder itself is USDP. Self-serving party is USDP. Uncaring party is USDP. Shameless party is USDP. Public enemy number one is USDP. Relic of military dictatorship is USDP. The most evil party is USDP. The party formed by rapists and murderers is USDP. The party which serves the Devil instead of serving the people is USDP.
Hla Swe is just a clown. He was not elected but appointed by USDP. We can tell his quality and standard from his words on Suu Kyi and her campaign to amend constitution. Thousands of people who were attending the rally had more quality than USDP. No public disorder was there. What was idiot Hla Swe talking about? If Myanmar has this kind of idiot people on the floor of Hlutdaw, the future is not that bright. He just looks idiot and dummy.
A Dog started a Hare out of a bush,but practised game/dog through he was, foung himself left behind by the scampering of its hairy feet. A goat-herd laughed at him:" Fancy a little creature like that being faster than you!" " Its one thing ",answered the Dog," Running because you want to catch something, and quite another thing Running to save your own skin ". This little short fable from Aesop always remind me of the Military Dictators who are having "The last Straw or The Last Bullet"( The last straw that break the Camel's back ).
2008 Nargis Constitution is the Last Straw of Present Govt/Regime.They are trying the Last Assault to the Democracy Loving People. Do or Die ?If they lose the Battle Where would they go ? Now, they have the Same Mentality that Germany Furher Hitler in his last days at the Bunker,attempting poisoning himself.No other way. It can't be help!!
All responses read well and read to the point.
The clowns show their real selves whenever they speak out.
You may think a man is ignorant when silent, and proves that when he speaks out loud. That is how Hla Swe and his colleagues, the like of him, do service to the public and the opposition.
They are morally bankrupt, and democratically inapt. Just listen to General Tin Aye, Ministers Ohn Myint, Aung Kyi, Kyaw Hsan, and so on. Let them say more that way. The more they say such nonsense, the more glaringly they show their real selves, the bullies and robbers.
The modern trend in real politics is to listen and do more for people in need, not for them in greed. These people do not understand that.


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All of Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley are included in a flash flood watch.
Including in the watch are Benton, Carroll, Washington, Madison, Crawford, Franklin and Sebastian counties in Arkansas, as well as Adair, Sequoyah and LeFlore counties in Oklahoma.
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Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura is on the ropes. For the first time since he was elected in 1998, more Minnesotans disapprove of his job performance than approve of it.
According to a Minneapolis Star Tribune poll, 49 percent disapproved of their independent governor. That's a 7 percentage-point increase from the paper's February poll, which also found, more ominously, that only 29 percent believed the former wrestler/talk-show host/actor/Navy SEAL "deserved" to be re-elected. A clear majority - 63 percent - favored "someone else."
And, for the first time in a decade, the March survey found, more people approved of the state's legislature than they did of the governor.
Ventura and the legislature have been locked in a dispute over how to deal with the state's $1.95 billion deficit.
With the Republicans controlling the House and the Democrat-Farmer-Labor party running the Senate, Ventura, an independent, has often been able to play the two - usually warring - parties off each other.
But this time, the GOP and the DFL have teamed up, cutting the governor out of their budget negotiations and then presenting him with a proposal that emphasizes budget cuts that draw on the state's financial reserves and eschews any tax increases.
Ventura, who favors raising taxes and making even deeper spending cuts, has denounced their bill, saying it is laden with accounting gimmicks and is designed primarily to appease voters in an election year.
The governor's term expires this year and, although he has not said whether he will run for re-election, challengers have already begun lining up.
Among them, four state officials: state House leader Tim Pawlenty, R, Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe, DFL, state Sen. Becky Lourey, DFL, and state Auditor Judi Dutcher, DFL.
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amanda is mike naabs b mount.
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for example your second prostitute.
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Thank you, y'all! Pam, the green one is my favorite too. I would love to have that print in other colors if they had them. I had to resist the urg to use it too much in this sampler.
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William Henry Marshall, was born 20 May 1879 in Georgia. W.H. left the Faceville, Decatur County, Georgia area between 1880 and 1900 and settled in Calhoun County, Florida (probably Wewa). He was in the area that became Bay County by 19 January 1908 when he married Idumea C. Gray at the home of her father J. C. Gray in Millville. Idumea was born 4 September 1891 in Alabama. William Henry purchased property at 2321 E. 3rd Street in the Welchs Addition to Millville in February 1908. After the marriage William Henry and Idumea stayed with her sister Mrs. Marjorie Ann Gray March in Millville at 2301 E. 3rd Street while their home was under construction. The W. H. Marshall family had three children during their early years in Millville: daughter Evelyn (born 1909), son Wayne (born 1910) and son Francis (born 1913). When Bay County was created in 1913 W. H. Marshall was elected the first Bay County Clerk of Court in the first primary. At that time they moved to Panama City. W. H. Marshall served for 16 years as Bay County Clerk of Court. After leaving the office of Clerk of Circuit Court he worked for the Coca Cola Bottling Company of Panama City from the early 1930s until his death in 1951. He died 18 March 1951 and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery..
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Morales urges prompt action to finalize tobacco settlement
By MARY ALICE ROBBINS
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AUSTIN - Texas Attorney General Dan Morales said Wednesday that it's imperative for the state to finalize its $15.3 billion settlement with the tobacco industry now that a national deal with cigarette makers is dead.
"We are playing with fire if we delay finality of this settlement any longer," Morales said.
Steven Goldstone, chief executive officer of RJR Nabisco Inc., which owns R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., told the National Press Club that he no longer sees any purpose in working toward the June 20 settlement that cigarette makers had negotiated last year with 40 states because Congress is trying to twist the deal.
Reynolds and other major U.S. cigarette makers said they will fight anti-tobacco legislation now before Congress.
Morales said no one knows when the industry may decide again to back out of an agreement it has made.
"There is no reason in the world why Texas ought not to slam the door shut once and for all on any prospect of the tobacco industry backing out of this deal," he said.
Under the settlement, the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center would receive $50 million to address health issues on the Texas-Mexico border if the Legislature agrees to make that appropriation next year.
Only three states - Texas, Mississippi and Florida - have negotiated settlements in lawsuits against the tobacco industry. Texas sued the industry for repayment of costs that the state incurred in providing health care to persons suffering from tobacco-related illnesses.
Morales said the industry could renege on its deal with Texas if substantial changes are made in the agreement. Two issues that Morales contends are potential deal-breakers are pending before U.S. District Judge David Folsom in Texarkana.
Several counties and hospital districts have complained that the settlement would block them from suing to recover the costs of treating patients with tobacco-related health problems in public hospitals.
Gov. George W. Bush and seven state legislators have challenged Morales' authority to agree to pay a 15 percent contingency fee to the five private attorneys who represented Texas in the tobacco suit. The attorneys stand to collect $2.3 billion in fees.
Morales said his office has been engaged in discussions with the parties involved in the challenges and is encouraged by the response so far. An agreement may be reached within a matter or days or weeks, he said.
Linda Edwards, a spokeswoman for the governor, said Bush wants to see the settlement become final and hopes that Morales will agree to separate the issue of attorney fees so that the $15.3 billion award can be finalized. She said Bush's motion doesn't affect the settlement.
"The governor wants to ensure taxpayers are off the hook for the excessive $2.3 billion in attorney fees," Edwards said.
Sen. Ken Armbrister, D-Victoria, one of the lawmakers challenging the legal fees, said he doesn't plan to back down. Armbrister said he wants an answer to the fundamental question of whether an elected or appointed head of a state agency can commit the state to a contingency-fee contract, as Morales did, without seeking legislative approval.
When the attorney general loses a lawsuit, the Legislature is asked to approve funding to pay the legal costs, Armbrister said.
"It ought to work both ways," he added.
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21 Jump Street
- Directed by Phil Lord
21 Jump Street review
The good:
21 Jump Street DVD Review
Solid Cast
Unique style of comedy
DVD features worth the time
Drags on a bit with a static feel and predictable formula
Quickly decides its direction and whether or not you'll like it
Back in high school there were the popular kids, and the unpopular kids. The stereotypical popular kid was too cool to care about grades as he was busy focused on having a good time, while the unpopular kids were used to acing tests because they didn't spend their time socializing. Each group had their own problems, but the line between the two was very clear. After high school, however, the line blurs a bit when members of both groups are trying to make it in the world. Meet Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum). A nerd and a socialite that reunite seven years out of high school when they attempt to join the local police force. Realizing that they can use their strengths to help each other get out of the academy, they begin working together and a friendship is formed between two that were polar opposites back in high school.
21 Jump Street opens up with younger versions of the two stars gearing up for prom. Their identities are quickly established before it is revealed neither of them will be attending the event, Schmidt because he's too nerdy to have a date, and Jenko because his grades are too low. Fast forward nearly a decade later and we have the duo as a pair of cops, fresh out of the academy. They're stuck on bike detail at a local park, however, obviously not the high octane, adrenaline pumping action they were hoping for in their job. Seeing a few local bikers lighting up a joint, they ride over to investigate it a little. They find a stash of hard drugs, and a bit of a chase scene occurs. Channing Tatum's character has no problem with a foot pursuit of his suspect, while Jonah Hill's slowly hops on his bike, and timidly attempts to apprehend his suspect. The chase doesn't last too long, with Schmidt's perpetrator barreling over him because he's too gun shy to assert his authority. Meanwhile, Jenko tackles his man and proceeds to humiliate him publicly with a number of pelvic thrusts while Schmidt stumbles over and joins in with a bit of tea-bagging. They forget to do one thing though while making the arrest: read him his Miranda Rights. Jenko tried, but memorizing things isn't among the skills a popular kid would have, and so after getting past what you'll hear on a tv show, he continues with his own version.
Back at the headquarters, their police chief can't fathom how they forgot to do the one thing they're supposed to do, and transfers them to a special division of undercover agents, with Captain Dickson (Ice Cube) at the helm, known as 21 Jump Street. There, they receive their new assignment. A new drug is circulating at a local school, and they need to stop it from spreading into other schools. They're tasked with infiltrating the dealers, and finding the suppliers, going undercover as brothers. Ready to return to his old stomping grounds, Jenko is excited, while Schmidt is a bit hesitant because high school wasn't so fun the first time around for him. Still, they press on, and quickly realize that high school has changed since they graduated. A lot.
With the setting in place, and pretty much all that I just summarized was ran through pretty quickly in the film anyway to set the foundation, you will decide whether or not you'll enjoy the film. The type of comedy that 21 Jump Street is can be found in nearly every scene throughout, where it isn't something that's going to have you fall out of your chair, but it still won't disappoint. A fair amount of sarcasm, the typical brand that we have come to expect out of Jonah Hill's roles, with Channing Tatum keeping up surprisingly well. If you've seen other Hill flicks like The Sitter, then it isn't hard to realize that the formula is pretty much the same. A bit of action, a ton of short, punctuated jokes and sarcastic remarks, all with a nice coating of real story and character development. Not so much a laugh out loud comedy, but a more relaxed film with enough drama and scenes that connect with the audience to put a smile on your face.
A pretty recognizable cast is involved, with Jonah Hill already being a veteran in this type of movie, and Tatum showing his versatility a bit, combining his athleticism and good looks with a similar comedic style that we know Hill for. Dave Franco got a much bigger role than he was used to by playing the main popular guy, Eric Molson, and he did well. After having small parts in a few big movies it felt as though he was due, and I hope he becomes a more recognizable actor as the part he played here was very different than what he has in the past. Brie Larson jumped on board to play the main female role, and played it nicely. Ice Cube is always there for a good laugh and Rob Riggle never fails to deliver. There is a cameo later on in the film that I personally enjoyed, but I won't spoil it for those who decide to see it. The casting was done rather well, with a mix of established actors and some newbies, and they all did well.
The guys behind the scenes have pretty impressive resumes, including Jonah Hill being there for the story and Michael Bacall being involved in both story and screenplay. Bacall, more famous for his work on the screen, had already familiarized himself with Brie Larson with his back end work on Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Similarly, the casting director gave Dave Franco and Jonah Hill another chance to work together after they were both involved in Superbad. The main directors only have one big title to their name, the animated feature Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs from a few years ago, but I enjoyed what they were able to do here in a live-action comedy. Looking forward to what direction they will be taking in their next flick.
The DVD of 21 Jump Street offers a couple of languages to watch it in, as well as a nice DVD commentary with the two main stars, and the directors. The commentary actually isn't that bad, with a lot of laughs involved and more than just a boring explanation of the movie or a completely unrelated discussion between the gang. If you pick up the DVD, after you watch the movie, be sure to watch the commentary. It really is that funny to kick back and laugh with. Aside from that there are four deleted scenes, one of which is more or less fifteen seconds or so that were taken out of a scene that did make the final cut. The final deleted scene should have made the movie, in my opinion. It was a bit of a change of pace and I'm not positive where it would fit in best, which was probably why it was removed, but I felt it raised a couple of good points that you couldn't help but smile at. It covered the issue of how even though Schmidt and Jenko are mid-twenties, the characters they're playing are still in high school, and in order to embrace that role they should be having sex with other high school girls. It was good for a laugh, definitely. A "Back to School" option is the final special feature, that shows a behind the scenes look of how things were made and what the actors and directors opinions and mindsets were about various parts of the movie. Helped sort of wrap up things when I watched it after the movie, and I enjoyed it.
21 Jump Street isn't the traditional comedy that will keep you laughing. The jokes are pretty short, but in abundance, and rarely unspoken, occasionally relying the situational irony to deliver the comedy. You will quickly decide in the first fifteen minutes or so if you'll want to keep watching, or just turn it off, because there isn't much evolution comedy wise as the film goes on. The story moves pretty well, and the development of the relationships on screen actually are pretty satisfying. If you pick it up on DVD, be sure to watch at least a bit of the DVD commentary. It adds a new layer of comedy to the film, and is definitely worth giving a look. Aside from that, I'd recommend the movie. It is an interesting style of comedy that Jonah Hill is becoming well known for, and if you like him as an actor, 21 Jump Street will be a nice experience for you.
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IOWA CITY, IOWA The good news: Aaron White keeps getting better with age.
The better news: White still has plenty of aging to do.
A 2011 Strongsville graduate, White has become a force for the University of Iowa basketball team. Last season he was named to the Big Ten All-Freshman Team. Now a 6-foot-8 sophomore forward, White leads the Hawkeyes in rebounding (6.2 rpg.) and is second in scoring (13.5 ppg.).
On Saturday, White led the Hawkeyes with 17 points in a 70-66 win over Wisconsin. He had a team-high 13 points and seven rebounds in a 72-63 loss to Ohio State on Tuesday.
The Hawkeyes are 13-6 overall, 2-4 in the Big Ten.
"There are a lot of good teams in the Big Ten," said White. "On any given night you can get a win, and that's exciting. You have to stay really locked in to the game plan, game in and game out."
The Hawkeyes' opponents have had to stay locked in on White, too. He has improved in just about every statistical category since last season, and he was pretty good then, too. His 199 rebounds were the fourth most by an Iowa freshman, and his point total was fifth best. He was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week three times and ESPN.com ranked him 15th among the country's freshmen.
For a sport that is dominated by underclassmen nowadays, that's quite an accolade.
"People can play no matter what age they are," said White, who is part of an Iowa starting that also includes three freshman and a junior. "Back in the day you used to have to wait until you were a junior or senior to play. It's a tribute to the skill of the players today."
White left Strongsville as the second leading scorer in school history. He averaged 23.1 points and 10 rebounds per game, and earned third-team all-state as a senior. White's career ended with a district semifinal loss to Lorain on a last-second 3-pointer.
"I really wish we wouldn't gotten to state," said White. "We had a really close team there, and a lot of those kids were my best friends through middle school and high school. I thought we had the talent, too."
Trading high school basketball for the college game opened White's eyes to the physical side of basketball. As a freshman, White found himself playing against men who could play through contact.
After the season was over, White realized that, to stay among the best players in his class in the Big Ten, he needed to make the offseason count.
"I think I'm a lot more physical now than I ever was in high school or AAU ball," he said. "I've learned to play through contact. And, as you get older, you just learn more about the game and about yourself."
White actually lost weight since last season — "I still had some baby fat on me" — and dropped down from 224 to 218 at the beginning of the season. The Hawkeyes rolled through the non-conference part of their schedule, building an 11-2 record. But things took a turn when they opened Big Ten play against No. 5 Indiana, No. 2 Michigan and No. 22 Michigan State. The Hawkeyes lost all three games, although two were by single digits.
"You're playing some of the best teams in the country back-to-back-to-back," said White. "As a team I thought we did a good job sticking with it and learning from the mistakes we made."
The Hawkeyes rebounded with wins over Northwestern and Wisconsin heading into Tuesday's game at Ohio State. As they head into the heart of the Big Ten schedule, the Hawkeyes are chasing their goal of an NCAA Tournament berth.
"Last year we made it to the NIT Tournament," said White. "But this year we want to be one of the 64 best teams in the country."
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In Brief: California farmers won't get federal water
Federal officials have announced that many California farmers caught in the state's drought can expect to receive no irrigation water this year from a vast system of rivers, canals and reservoirs interlacing the state.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released its first outlook of the year, saying that the agency will continue to monitor rain and snowfall, but the grim levels so far prove that the state is in the throes of one of its driest periods in recorded history.
Unless the year turns wet, many farmers can expect to receive no water from the federally run Central Valley Project. Central Valley farmers received only 20 percent of their normal water allotment in 2013 and were expecting this year's bad news. Some communities and endangered wildlife that rely on the federal water source will also suffer deep cuts.
Existing-home sales drop 5.1 percent
Sales of previously owned homes plunged in January as severe weather and high costs handcuffed would-be buyers.
Existing-home sales tumbled 5.1 percent from December to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.62 million, reaching the lowest level in more than a year, the National Association of Realtors said Friday. Sales also fell 5.1 percent from a year earlier.
Samsung rolls out Galaxy S5
Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy S5, the latest version of its flagship smart phone. The device includes a fingerprint scanner and will go on sale in April.
Unlike in previous years, when Samsung announced new Galaxy S models with larger and larger screens, this year the South Korean tech giant focused its presentation on a handful of key features.
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Otters add assistants Hartsburg, Laise to coaching staff
Erie Otters coach Kris Knoblauch was concerned he would have a difficult time finding the right coaches for his staff.
He wanted educators. He wanted tireless workers. He wanted hockey people with strong hockey minds. Knoblauch wanted coaches like he had with the Kootenay Ice, when he won 82 games and the 2011 WHL championship in two seasons as coach.
"I found that in these two guys," Knoblauch said.
Those two guys are Chris Hartsburg and Vince Laise, who joined 2013 first-round pick Dylan Strome in being introduced to the media as well as a small group of season-ticket holders and fans during a welcome reception Thursday at Erie Insurance Arena.
"We found what we were looking for," said Sherry Bassin, Otters managing partner and general manager. "We have really good building blocks in our players and coaching staff."
Hartsburg, 33, whose father, Craig, was a defenseman in the NHL and now is associate coach with the Columbus Blue Jackets, spent the past four seasons as an assistant with the WHL's Everett Silvertips. Hartsburg, a native of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, will focus on the defense and penalty-killing.
"I think we're heading in the right direction," Hartsburg said of the Otters. "I see success in the near future."
Laise, 30, a native of Bramalea, Ontario, will handle off-ice training and video breakdown and also assist Knoblauch with the power-play units. He has worked with many professional athletes at the Athlete Training Center, a hockey training facility in Mississauga, Ontario.
Laise was an assistant coach this season with the Brampton Bombers, a Junior B club in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League. He spent the 2011-12 season, his first in coaching, with the Oakville Blades of the Ontario Junior A Hockey League.
"It's 24-7 (with him)," Bassin said. "It's in his blood."
Both took similar paths into coaching as Knoblauch, as all three had successful playing careers in college followed by short stints at the professional level before turning to coaching. Hartsburg played in three NCAA Division I tournaments while at Colorado College (1998-2002) before playing two seasons with the Albany River Rats (AHL) from 2002-04 and four seasons with the Colorado Eagles (CHL) from 2004-08.
Laise played in two Frozen Fours in four seasons at the University of Maine (2005-08) before playing one season with the Fort Wayne Komets (IHL) in 2009-10.
"The three of us will ... create a (strong learning) environment for our players," said Knoblauch, who played at the University of Alberta (1999-2004) and professionally with the Austin Bats (CHL) in 2004-05 and in France (2005-06) before heading into coaching.
Knoblauch said he has someone in mind for the club's part-time goaltending coach, but he planned to wait until the OHL releases the schedule for the 2013-14 season before making a decision. Knoblauch said the team's schedule would need to fit into that undisclosed candidate's plans.
VICTOR FERNANDES can be reached at 870-1716 or by e-mail. Check out the roster for the Otters' rookie development camp this weekend at Mercyhurst Ice Center on the Shootout hockey blog at GoErie.com/blogs/shootout and Twitter at twitter.com/goeriehockey.


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Extra-Curricular Trip Information
The North Franklin School District is involved in many extra-curricular activities which require the transportation of students to events. Spring is the busiest time of year not only due to the numerous sports activities, but the increased number of field trips and academic competitions.
A coach or advisor must be on the bus to and from the event and is responsible for the behavior of the students in his or her charge; however, the bus driver has the final authority. Family members or friends of coaches, advisors, teachers or bus drivers are not allowed to travel on a school bus unless they are a part of the team/event.
District bus rules are the same as those to/from school transportation and will be enforced accordingly. Additional rules are listed below:
|Returning Home
Cell phone usage- Students are to make calls to home from their personal cell phone or from a pay phone prior to boarding the bus. This is usually accomplished when stopped for a meal. Cell phones can be very distracting to bus drivers especially at night. Therefore, once the bus is in motion, use of cell phones is strongly discouraged and permission must be granted from the bus driver before anyone can use the cell phone.
|Authorized stops
The following locations are the only authorized stops when returning from an extra-curricular event:
Basin City Elementary
The bus driver can stop only at the above sites—no one, including a coach or advisor, is to be dropped at ANY OTHER stop. This means that the bus cannot stop at homes which may be passed on the way.
The bus must take the most direct path home; therefore, it is not possible for the bus to service each of the authorized stops. For example, if returning from Othello, stops can be made at Wahluke Watermasters, Basin City, and Mesa then at Connell (if that's when the trip started)—a stop at Merrill's Corner or Eltopia is not an option.
|Unloading at Designated Stops
When dropping students, the bus shall not wait longer than five minutes for any parent to pick up a student. The student will continue on to its final destination with the coach—it is the coach's responsibility to notify the parents. Only the coach has the authority to release a student to someone other than the student's parent; the coach is also responsible for students riding home with someone other than a parent.
HOTLINE NUMBER – For travel information,patrons can call the North Franklin School District Hotline (234-2024)


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NoFan CR-80EH Passive Heat Sink Review
Published: 27th May 2014 | Source: NoFan | Price: 41.26 |
It's fair to say that when it comes to our "testicles out" gaming rigs we're not really that bothered about achieving true silence. For the most part we're happy with a bit of a low hum when we're on the desktop and more than delighted if when gaming the noise level doesn't reach decibels that cause blood to leak from unexpected and inconvenient orifices. On the other hand, there are those situations and applications where very low noise, or for that matter, even total silence is a highly desirable commodity. We are of course thinking of such things as HTPCs, dorm room builds or perhaps just low energy home servers, which may out of circumstance have to live in the lounge or bedroom. It's also fair to say that counterpointing those of us who want their desk-tops to be total power houses, toting multi rad, multi fan set ups enabling massive overclocks, there are also enthusiasts out there who strive equally hard to build simple desk top machines that make as little noise as is humanly possible. It is towards these strivers for silence that NoFan pitch the CR-80EH, a CPU cooler that, as it has no fan (Duh), and as such makes no noise what-so-ever and will enable those who wish to walk the Ninja route to achieve their aim.
NoFan achieve this silence by building a cooler that is on the face of it a large double layered basket of copper wires, somewhat resembling a shuttle cock with the rubber base cut off. The copper wires are held in place by a black frame at their upper most edges, meeting at the base where they join the copper contact plate. As a result of this large surface area 97,157mm squared to be exact they are able to provide enough passive cooling to negate the need for a fan.
Silence though does come at a price, and that price is performance. The CR-80EH is targeted at CPUs with a TDP lower than 80W and is not intended for use on overclocked systems where the volts, and therefore the need to dissipate heat from the chip has been increased. With this in mind and as there was really little point in strapping it to our socket 2011 rig, we varied our usual testing methodology, instead opting for a build based around the AMD A8 we have used in previous HTPC test set ups. We also chose to apply the same tests as we did when we looked at the Streacom fanless case design as we felt this would give us something of a benchmark to measure against. The results as you will see if you refer to the previous page were on the whole good, the most important metric we feel being the temps when the system was used to display HD video. We also decided to test not just in a totally fanless "passive" set up, but also in an arrangement where a few case fans were generating a bit of light through case airflow. Adding this through case flow gave a 6-7 degree drop in the recorded temps and would also serve to provide valuable cooling to Mosfets, VRMs and NorthBridge areas of the board. Starving these critical components of air will lead to them getting very hot indeed and will most likely not end well. Whether or not you opt for active or passive NoFan make it clear that the CR-80EH must only be used in cases where there is a top case vent allowing the rising heat to escape.
The other caveat of CR-80EH ownership is the sheer amount of space it takes up inside the case. The problem isn't so much the height, as at just 113mm high it will fall within the spec of a great many cases. The real issue is the diameter. In order to negate any ambiguity NoFan themselves give guidance, asking that you ensure you have a clear 92mm 360 degree radius of space measured from the centre of the CPU socket. In small cases this could very well take you right up against the roof or side panels and as we saw when we mounted it into our test trooper brought us only a matter of a few millimetres away the rear case fan, and as we also saw it will also get very close to the first PCI slot, bringing it to within almost touching distance of our GPU. The interference issues sadly don't stop there though. Nofan claim to have improved RAM clearance however as we found, you're still very much limited to RAM no taller than 32mm high and dressed in nothing more than standard heat sinks.
It needs to be appreciated that we are not reviewing this cooler and measuring it against the others in the torture test charts. To do so would be stupid. The CR-80EH is something the others aren't, it is truly silent. If you're planning on buying this for a low power dorm room, bedroom, HTPC or home server build you're going to have to be very selective about which case and hardware you pair it with, but in doing so, and if chosen well you could very well end up building yourself one of the quietest systems around. The market is niche, but it is there, and the CR-80EH slots in nicely. Silence may well be Golden, but it's also Copper.
And so to the scoring. If you're surprised to see a score of nine for performance remember that noise levels as well as absolute cooling power form a part of this element of the scoring so the NoFan does well here. At £40 we feel it's reasonably priced for an all copper unit. It goes without saying that the CR-80EH gets a silence award and were it not for the fact we had already awarded it to the bigger brother it would also have taken the Innovation award.
Thanks to Quiet PC for sending the cooler in for review, you can discuss your thoughts in the OC3D Forums.
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NoFan Now offer a fanless CPU cooler. Silent cooling with improved compatibility, Let's see if it's up to the job.
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Bit unhinged on the language on this one?
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i like the shape of this thing if u have horizontal case.. u can cook bacon in it! So you still have to use case fans to cool it, so not fan-less at all
Do you recall what dimensions the fan was on the backside of the case? I need to mostly know the width so I can determine what to order for my case. It looks like you may have a slim fan from Cooler Master on the back, which run from 15 to 25mm. Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to offer.
In that case its a normal 25mm thick fan - just remember CPU placement isnt the same on all motherboards
What board did you use in the review?
I plan to piece together a passive system using the Thermaltake Core V1 case for gaming (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811133260). In regards to cooling, I'll still be running the 200mm front (stock fan) and two Noctua 80mm fans in the rear that should run fairly silent (However, I think the 25mm thinkness of the fans may not work, but the 15mm thick Cooler Master 80mm fans should work). Processor will be an intel 4130T (30 TDP) w/a CR-80CH NoFan CPU cooler, ASRock B85M-ITX LGA, MOBO, Power Color R9 270 passive GPU card, Corsair 512GB SSD and Seasonic 520 watt PSU. I run this rig similarly right now in the Cooler Master 110, but prefer to have the PSU mounted below my MB and I should be able to fit the CPU cooler from NoFan with the added head room. Ideally I'll have a cool running and nearly silent system without all of the excessive fan noise that I get now with my CM110.Quote


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For traditional recipes from the Mysore region and food from all over, with ramblings about life and kids thrown in the mix.
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Gobi Masala
Here is a curry I made with cauliflower. Many of my lengthier curries are usually offshoots of this curry, as this gobi masala is too.
1 small cauliflower, cut into florets and cleaned
1/2 cup milk (or some cream)
1/4 cup tomato puree
Whole garam masala (bay leaves, 2 cardamoms, 3-4 cloves, 2 small cinnamon sticks)
1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
1 tsp red chilli powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp kasuri methi
1/2 tsp garam masala powder
1/2 tsp sugar (optional)
1 tbsp oil, divided
salt to taste
To grind 1:
1 medium onion, chopped
To grind 2:
8-10 cashews
8-10 almonds
1 tbsp raisins
Soak almonds, cardamoms and raisins in warm water for 15 minutes and grind to a paste using a little water.
Fry chopped onion in about a tsp of oil, until brown. Let cool and grind to a smooth paste.
In a pan, heat the remaining oil and fry the whole garam masala in it for about 30 seconds.
Add the ginger garlic paste and saute for at least a minute on medium.
Add the nuts-raisins paste, red chilli powder and turmeric and saute for a minute more.
Add the cauliflower florets, milk, the onion paste and salt to taste.
Mix well. Cover and cook on low until the cauliflower is cooked through.
Mix in the tomato puree and kasuri methi and cook on low for another 4-5 minutes.
Finish with garam masala or KK masala.
15 comments:
- Shweta in the Kitchen said...
Hi Vani,
Stumbled upon your blog & found it interesting, you have a great recipe collection & am happy to follow you.
Inviting you to visit & follow my blog
- June 6, 2012 at 12:19:00 AM EDT
- Poonam Borkar said...
gobi masala looks so inviting..loved your space..glad to follow u..do stop by my space too in your free time! :)
- June 6, 2012 at 12:22:00 AM EDT
- Sharmilee! :) said...
Bookmarked to try..looks so creamy and yummy
- June 6, 2012 at 2:25:00 AM EDT
- Chandrani said...
Gobi masala looks so creamy and yummy...
- June 6, 2012 at 3:35:00 AM EDT
- Sharmila said...
No wonder it looks so creamy ... almonds and raisin paste ... wonderful! Have been trying out some palyas from here ... love them ... never got 'round to telling you. Must try this one too ... will be good with parathas for dinner. :-)
- June 6, 2012 at 3:39:00 AM EDT
- Priya said...
Wat an irresistible gobi masala,looks super rich n yummy.
- June 6, 2012 at 3:41:00 AM EDT
- Happy Cook / Finla said...
So sweet love reading the love happening aobut the big s :-)
Delicious looking curry.
- June 6, 2012 at 3:51:00 AM EDT
- Paaka Shaale said...
Cauliflower is my favourite vegetable. I keep looking for recipes that uses cauliflower. This looks fantastic. I am bookmarking this :)
- June 6, 2012 at 4:56:00 AM EDT
- Prabha R said...
Gobi Masala looks so yummy, cant resist.. Happy to follow you..
- June 6, 2012 at 9:45:00 AM EDT
- Vani said...
Shwetha, Poonam, Prabha - thanks for following me. I have you guys on my reader now :)
Sharmilee, Chandran, Priya, Finla, PS - thanks guys :)
Sharmila - glad you tried the palyas. any one that stood out for you? And oh, you'll love this one :)
- June 6, 2012 at 2:32:00 PM EDT
- Kannada Cuisine said...
rich and satisfying ....
- June 6, 2012 at 2:48:00 PM EDT
- BongMom said...
Almond and raisin paste sounds fab. Am going to flick this idea.
BIg Sis is staying home this summer while LS is going to school summer camp for 2 days. I don't have any plan not even 1% of what you did
- June 6, 2012 at 9:52:00 PM EDT
- Nagashree said...
Another Gobi masala, looks fantastic!
- June 8, 2012 at 12:46:00 AM EDT
- Sharmila said...
The beet root and the eggplant ones are my favs Vani. In fact that is the only way I have beets ... thanks to you. :-)
- June 8, 2012 at 2:42:00 AM EDT
- Vani said...
Thanks, Smitha and Nagashree :)
San - Please go ahead and flick it! It was def flickable :) Kids home for summer? You working from home?
Sharmila - I love the beets too. In fact, N hated beets until he had the palya. Now that is the only way he eats it :)
- June 11, 2012 at 4:15:00 PM EDT


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The first wave of Chinese immigrants came to Chicagoland in the 1870s, after the transcontinental railway connected the Pacific Coast to Chicago. In 1882, the Chinese Exclusion Act prevented working-class Chinese from entering the U.S., except men who could prove they were American citizens. For more than 60 years, many Chinese immigrants had acquired documents helping to prove that they were born in America or had a parent who was a citizen. The men who bore these false identities were called "paper sons." A second wave of Chinese immigrants arrived after the repeal of the Act in 1943, seeking economic opportunity and to be reunited with their families. A companion volume to the exhibition "Paper Sons," organized by the Chinese American Museum of Chicago, this book explores the history of Chinese immigrants in Chicago-their culture, livelihoods, communities, families, and businesses. Four members of the Chinatown Museum Foundation wrote this book. Dr. Chuimei Ho is a scholar of Chinese art and archaeology and the Foundation's president. Ms. Soo Lon Moy teaches at Robert Healy Elementary School and is the exhibition curator. Ms. Grace Hong Chun has had a career in publicity and editorial production. Dr. Bennet Bronson is curator for Asian culture at the Field Museum. Book jacket.
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BeatMaker 2 Beats and Tutorials
Friday, August 24, 2012 at 7:55AM by Tim Webb
Deleswa posted a solid beat he put together in BeatMaker 2.
The editing is great, so you can see how he put it all together. The actions starts at around 1:30.
By a strange coincidence, at the same time Deleswa was uploading that, kennyehsiao was uploading a tutorial series that focuses on the latest version of BeatMaker 2. You can find those on his channel here.
Buy BeatMaker 2 on iTunes: $19.99
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