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The Myprotein Food KlickBox is the perfect storage box for your lunch and snacks when on-the-go. The KlickBox is ideal for sandwiches, supplements, nuts & seeds, fruits and snacks and is made from light-weight and durable food grade plastic. It is available in two sizes and comes complete with handy dividers, to keep foods separate and fresh for longer.
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- 19 x 13.5 x 6cm
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Simply position the dividers as required, add your food and snacks and click the lid in place.
RRP: 5 190 Ft
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Love these lunch boxes ! Super handy for meal prep, I ordered one weeks ago and then reordered few more to have my lunches ready to grab when I do my weekly meal prep, the separators are brilliant I keep my veggies and my chicken separate and they taste super fresh. Also doesn't leak to much which is great but I always put an extra tin foil over the box when I bring them out with me just in case anything does leak. Maybe a better deal would be something that could be improved in the future, but over all amazing box for a great value! Super cheap and good quality! Small is the perfect meal portion and there's still room left in it! Goes Well With:Chicken, broccoli, rice, veggies. Anything really !
Excellent. Got 2 large ones This one is ideal for smaller snacks. Goes Well With:N/A
Perfect container just what I wanted and the dividers are great as they can be moved around different ways to allow for different sized sections
Very good food box with separate case for different food. Do not mix food flavor. Could be thicker plastic.
the small klick box is really handy. You can pack a lot of food into it, and you can hand wash it. Fits easy into a backpack. The partitions are a little bit fiddly to get in, but apart from that it's a great product.
These boxes come with separators and a secure latch to keep them closed in transit and big enough for a good portion. I'll be ordering more soon.
The click box is perfect to moderate your portion sizes, will definitely be ordering a few More!
Love the product and delivery was extremely quick and efficient....would definitely use this company again...
Good little boxes for putting your meal prep in. Haven't used the dividers yet but can see them being handy to keep things separated when required. Bit of a shame they're not water tight but then again what meal prep has sauce?? Only slight issue really is that the lid is permanently attached and gets in the way sometimes but that's about the only negative for something so cheap.
Would highly recommend this product for anyone it's perfect for on the go light weight keeps all my food fresh. Cleans easy will deffo be adding some more of these to the kitchen cupboards
This food box is very useful when you want to go for a picnic!
There is no better lunch box that money can buy, is not leak proof but who cares. Very satisfied! Highly recommended!
Good for taking food to work, the walls that you can take off are a good idea
Exactly as advertised, perfectly sized to fit my lunch and snacks in. The dividers make it perfect for separating your food to save a big mess. Lid is very secure so no worries about my lunch emptying out into my bag. Very happy customer.
Exactly as advertised, perfectly sized to fit my lunch and snacks in and to fit into a cool bag. The dividers make it perfect for separating your food to save a big mess. Lid is very secure so no worries about my lunch emptying out into my bag. Very happy customer.Goes Well With:Chicken, salad, fruits/nuts/seeds, yogurt ( in its pot of course ).
Very good box. I would only like that it has a little rubber on the edge of cover because if there is a little liquid in the box it can flow out.
It's my first food box. Good size, easy clean.
I got the small box. It's a decent size for a lunch meal prep or I use mine to store snacks for the week. Has two dividers and clips closed well. Very good for the price
Perfect little box to take to work. Easy to store and my meals for in fine.
Firstly I need to clarify that this is a review for a klick box and it is functional and was reasonably priced. I would recommend it as a handy storage idea for pre packed snacks and meals. I was asked on this review about the taste and mix ability. In fairness I haven't tested it but I am quietly confident that it wouldn't mix well or taste good! My only slight frustration is that when ordered, along with some impact whey, which tastes good and mixes well. (Better than bulk powders by te way) it didn't arrive as ordered and a shaker sent instead. That said my protein customer services resolved the problem very quickly so all in all I'm happy.Goes Well With:Nuts?
Good standard box to put food in. Good amount of size and space, perfect to put your meals in. Only one issue is that the dividers provided, have small gaps in the corners, so if you have anything liquid (e.g. sauces or curries) they may go into other compartments. Not a major issue though. Overall a good product. It does what its intended.
Drops into your sports bag no leaks no fuss nice and compact with separate compartments which prevent cross contamination of dry foods. Wet or greasy food would need to be bagged first. Got 2 one for me and one for daughter she has a packed lunch in their everyday and loves it.
Love this box, I use it everyday for work. It keeps all my food seperated with no leaks.
Brilliant little lunch boxes, just the right size to fit my bit's & bobs in when on the go.
Great size and value for money, excellent little purchase.
Great and handy little box for pre - cooked foods such as chicken, broccoli and rice. The ridges make it harder to clean but very good and effectiveGoes Well With:smart shaker
excellent thing for tablets,,, my schedule is very excellent and my servant
Great box to pack your lunch in. The dividers are very useful for keeping ingredients apart. The size is perfect. You can put your salad in there or your meat and veggies. Very good quality. I'd recommend it to everyone.
This item is perfect for on the go lunches. The dividers are great and stay in place and the lid closes properly with a clip. I dont have to worry about it opening and leaking as it is sturdy and good material. Can easily store a few different items at once without getting them mixed up. Goes Well With:On the go lunches, snacks
The Myprotein Food KlickBox is great for a packed lunch, with the small size being ample for me. Goes Well With:Food
This does the job for me, perfect size compartments to prevent over eating and separators to keep meat, veggies, nuts etc in place. Bargain.
This box is great, it's big enough (the large one must be massive!) and sturdy. The separators are neat but I haven't used them that many times. Goes Well With:FOOD
I ordered this Myprotein Food KlickBox as it was so cheap, but it's a great quality box and a very good size for packed lunches.
The Myprotein Food KlickBox, Small is the perfect size for a medium meal.
Myprotein Food KlickBox, Small is a good box for snacks but to small for anything else.
These snack boxes are brilliant! I have both the small and the large and use them to make lunches or just to fill with different healthy snacks for throughout the working day. Each box comes with plastic walls to make compartments to the size you wish them. Ideal for nuts, dried fruit, cut up fruit -room can even be made for a sandwich if wanted! I would highly recommend these to anyone who is on the go and needs an effective way to store daily snacks, also good for anyone who is trying to stick to a healthier diet to have one of these with them during the day - to avoid shop bought unhealthy snacks.
Superb product. "Fail to prepare, prepare to fail" a little saying I live by and these simple tubawear help prepare, great meal size microwaveable. The compartments come in handy to, serious about dieting I'd definitely recommend afew o these to prepare your meals makes staying on track a lot easier!
The Myprotein Food KlickBox, Small is a really good choice. It's really practical. I'm using it every single day.
Good sized lunch box with easy to use and clean compartments. Box measures about 19 x 14 cm and is very sturdy, ideal for shoving veg and fruit in to avoid it getting squashed. You can't use the compartments for any liquid type stuff though.
Great little item, got this on sale and its quite a decent size, glad I ordered the small and not the large. Small is definitely a good size for a decent meal and the little partitions work a treat. I will be buying a large one next time I make a purchase!Goes Well With:All food
The Myprotein Food KlickBox says small but this is actually a decent sized storage box. I can't imagine the size of the large version. It's great for taking lunch to work, is a sturdy build and microwave proof.
This Myprotein Food KlickBox is great to carry a days worth of fruit/snacks around if you spend a lot of time driving or at your desk. It saves me no end of guilty snacks from garages/burgers! You can tailor the sections inside to suit your needs.Goes Well With:food, glorious food!
The Myprotein Food KlickBox, Small is very useful and versatile, with moving parts. It's very good for planning meals.
Myprotein Food KlickBox, Small is a great product and a great price! I was looking to buy some Tupperware tubs and came across these, the price is great. I went for the small size option which is more than enough to store my chicken and veg. The removable dividers are great and allows you to decide how to divide. The boxes are study and the clasp is secure. Nothing has been spilt when thrown in the car. Overall I would recommend.
The Myprotein Food KlickBox is pretty much what I was expecting. As other reviews have stated, the dividers are pretty useless however I had read the other reviews and expected this. It doesn't matter though as I'd probably use sealed bags for freshness anyway. I was looking at the large but everyone said it was too big and to buy the small, I wish I had bought the large because those people (now)obviously are anorexic. I'm trying to gain and I'm eating big, I will grab the big one next order.Goes Well With:A moderate amount of food


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New Orleans-style Barbeque Shrimp with Cheesy Grits
2 pounds fresh, jumbo shrimp
1 stick butter, melted
4 tablespoons chili sauce
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons Worcestershire
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon liquid smoke
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon oregano
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
5 cloves fresh garlic, minced
2 cups water
2 cups milk
1 cup quick grits
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 clove fresh garlic, minced (optional)
4 tablespoons butter
11⁄2 cups shredded Colby/Monterey Jack cheese
2 to 3 ounces processed cheese, cubed
Peel and devein shrimp and set aside. Place remaining ingredients (through fresh garlic) in a saucepan. Stir and let simmer for 10 minutes. Remove pan from heat and let cool. Place shrimp in an oven-proof casserole dish and pour the cooled sauce over the shrimp. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours, or preferably overnight.
For the grits, bring water and milk to a boil in a large saucepan. Slowly whisk in the grits and season with salt, pepper and garlic. Reduce heat to medium-low and cover. Cook 5 to 7 minutes or until thickened, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and stir in butter, shredded cheese and processed cheese.
When ready to serve, preheat oven to 400 degrees. Bake shrimp and sauce for 15 to 20 minutes. Serve shrimp immediately over cheesy grits or alone with crusty French bread and a salad.
Marti's Mexican Cornbread
11⁄2 cups self-rising cornmeal
1⁄2 cup vegetable oil plus 3 tablespoons
1⁄4 cup sugar
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs, beaten
1 large onion, chopped
1 cup creamed corn
1 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1⁄2 cup buttermilk
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine cornmeal, 1⁄2 cup oil and remaining ingredients and mix well. Heat remaining 3 tablespoons oil in a 10-inch iron skillet on top of the stove. When hot, pour cornbread batter in the skillet and bake in the oven for about 45 minutes. Cornbread will be done when top is golden brown.
Sharon's Green Beans
4 cans cut green beans
8 slices bacon, cut into 1⁄2-inch pieces
1 small onion, diced
1⁄2 cup sugar
1⁄2 cup white vinegar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Drain green beans and pour into a 9×11-inch baking dish. In a sauté pan, fry the bacon until crisp and sprinkle over the beans. Sauté onion in bacon drippings until translucent. Add sugar and vinegar to the pan and cook until boiling. Pour mixture over the beans. Bake 1 to 11⁄2 hours until the beans reach desired doneness.
MawMaw Dot's Banana Pudding
1⁄2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
3 egg yolks
2 cups whole milk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
32 vanilla wafers
2 to 3 ripe bananas, sliced
3 egg whites
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
Pinch of salt
1⁄4 teaspoon cream of tartar
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
For the pudding, combine sugar, flour and salt and place in the top of a double-boiler over medium heat. Whisk in egg yolks until well combined. Slowly pour in milk, whisking all the while, and continue whisking until well-mixed. Reduce heat to medium-low. Cook while stirring or whisking constantly until thick, 10 to 13 minutes. Remove from heat. Whisk in vanilla.
For the meringue, whip the egg whites until they start to thicken. Gradually add the sugar, followed by a pinch of salt and the cream of tartar. Continue to whip until tall peaks form.
Layer the following bottom-to-top in an oven-proof casserole dish: Vanilla wafers on the bottom and sides of the dish, sliced bananas, pudding and meringue. Bake 12 minutes, until meringue is lightly browned. Allow to cool for 10 minutes before serving.
Note: You can also layer and cook exactly as described above, but instead of using a casserole dish, use 4 half-pint Mason jars for individual servings.
Nancy's Blueberry Salad
1 small box black cherry gelatin
1 small box berry blue gelatin
1 small box raspberry gelatin
2 cups boiling water
1 (15-ounce) can blueberries
1 small can crushed pineapple
1 (8-ounce) block cream cheese
1⁄2 cup sugar
2 cups sour cream
1⁄2 cup chopped pecans
Dissolve gelatin in boiling water. Drain blueberries and pineapple, saving the liquid. Add enough water to the reserved blueberry and pineapple juice to make 1 cup of liquid. Stir the blueberries, pineapple and the 1 cup of liquid into the dissolved gelatin. Pour mixture into a 9×13-inch dish and refrigerate until firm.
In a mixing bowl, combine cream cheese, sugar, and sour cream and mix until smooth. Spread on top of congealed gelatin mixture and sprinkle with pecans.
Crusty Coconut Pie
1⁄2 cup milk
11⁄2 cups frozen coconut
1 cup sugar
1⁄2 stick butter, softened
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 (9-inch) unbaked pie shell
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Pour milk over coconut and let sit while creaming sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, and mix well. Add milk, coconut and vanilla and mix well. Pour into pie shell. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 to 60 minutes or until pie is firm and golden brown.

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Featured Golf News
Rough Enough - Will Pinehurst No. 2 Produce Typical U.S. Open Scores in 2014?
Tired of seeing scorecard carnage and anguished faces from the world's best golfers? Well, the U.S. Open at Pinehurst Resort in 2014 may finally produce some red numbers.
Pinehurst No. 2's 7th Hole
Previous Opens at Course No. 2 - in 1999 and 2005 - have more than held up to par, but that was prior to the restoration of the famed Donald Ross layout by architects Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. The pair returned the historic layout to its 1940s' yesteryear look two years ago, which meant expansive sandy "waste" areas and, as USGA executive director Mike Davis swallows hard, no rough for 2014.
That's a first for the U.S. Open's storied history.
"Your chance of getting a few of those 'green-light lies' at Pinehurst is going to be greater, versus always being in rough where you're going to have grass between your club and ball and not being able to control your distance or your spin," Davis said.
The No. 2 course was an unusual U.S. Open venue before the modifications. Now, the notion that 80 percent of the players may be hitting fairway approach shots and not hacking out of a forest of rough may raise some eyebrows from purists.
14th Hole at Pinehurst No. 2
But don't bet on a score of 10-under par winning the 2014 Open just yet. Pinehurst's defense - its turtleback greens and short-game hollows - remain as formidable as ever and possibly even more difficult along with tons of sand around the putting surfaces to navigate.
"The difference between Merion and Pinehurst No. 2 is they're different styles of short games," said David Orr, the putting and short-game coach for 2013 U.S. Open winner Justin Rose. "At Merion and courses in the Northeast you try to hit soft shots out of the rough to firm greens. In Pinehurst, they will be closely mowed, tight lies, more of a nipping and pinching type of wedge game, or even using a putter off the green. You have to adjust what's in the bag and what kind of shot style you can hit. It's definitely an adjustment."
Believe him or not, Davis said the USGA is not concerned about scoring at U.S. Opens, only testing all of the abilities of the best players - from the physical to emotional challenges over 72 holes.
"Mother Nature can give you certain conditions where it is either going to make it much easier or it make it much harder," Davis said. "In 2006 and 2007 at Winged Foot and Oakmont plus-5 won those Opens, those were really hard golf courses, but we didn't do anything at those Opens to really try to make it harder. Those two years were dry U.S. Opens and we got some wind. My read on Pinehurst is you could see 10-, 11- or 12-under win if we are unlucky and we get some storms and it softens up the greens and they can throw darts at them, but I can see where 3- or 4-over would win if it happens to be firm. In either case, the USGA wouldn't have done anything differently; it was what Mother Nature would have done.
"If 10-under is the winning score and the golf course played properly, in other words it was a difficult test and a fair test, then that's really what we're looking for, trying to identify the best player that week. We want to have it hard - that is kind of the trademark of the U.S. Open - but I'm committed to the fact that we don't want to try to trick up Pinehurst No. 2 just to have a higher score winning."
Davis admits it will be a "wider Pinehurst" in 2014, but wayward shots off the green fairways will find trouble, or maybe not. A haphazard display of native wire grasses, or rough sand, or a fallen pine cone or a pine needle may interfere with a golfer's approach, or golfers may have a clear path to the green from hard sand.
"In the first two Opens here you had a lot of fairways that were 22-28 yards wide; well, we're just not going to have that this go-around," Davis said. "In a sense you are going to see more players hitting into greens from the fairway than the past. That part is going to make the test easier, but the putting greens in a lot of ways are the real defense there in the fact that they sit up and you really have to hit a good shot."
There will be no "prepping" of the sandy waste areas at No. 2, Davis said, the USGA opting instead for a "natural" test out of the sand.
"We're going to make sure those sandy areas have all kinds of different shots," Davis said. "If you hit your ball into one of those areas you are not always going to like what you get. There may be some softer sand that has some footprints in it that make a shot very hard, there are going to be pine needles in it, there is going to be some hardpan, you may roll right up against some wire grass.
"So the idea there is that we really want there to be different types of shots, where with the Bermuda rough when you hit it there you knew what you were going to have even before you got to your ball, you were going to be in 2½-inch rough and the ball was going to be sinking down halfway and you were going to hit this knuckle shot that was going to have no spin on it and you weren't going to hold the green.
No. 2 Flag at Pinehurst No. 2
"This go-around players are going to encounter a lot more variety when they miss a fairway and sometimes it is going to be harder, when you are in a footprint, than if they were just in Bermuda grass or if your ball is right up against the wire grass, but if you are on hardpan, for a touring pro, that's really not that hard a shot," added Davis. "It's going to be a little bit of a crapshoot. They are not going to know what they are going to get until they get to their ball."
Or hear the crowd's reaction - just as if a ball sunken deep into rough and out of site to all TV viewers and on-site spectators during most U.S. Opens.
The U.S. Open venue at Pinehurst has produced record crowds in the past, numbers approaching 50,000 spectators a round. A lack of rough may even affect the fans, since some of the viewing areas may be pushed back or altered.
"Our goal is to rope a course so that we keep balls inside the ropes; in other words, play safe in the arena," Davis said. "Because any time a ball gets outside the ropes, funny things happen. You either get trampled rough or having to move a bunch of spectators or anything you might be in a ton of footprints.
"So, I do think you will see the roping wider. When that ball gets to some of that hardpan, it rolls and it rolls a long way. When you hit Bermuda rough, it stops quickly. So I think there will be a different roping plan. But we are going to be very considerate and thoughtful when it comes to making sure that it's a good experience for the spectators. I know that our staff has thought through grandstand locations and they have thought through making sure there are quite a few good vantage points, but it will be slightly different."
So, who does the New No. 2 Course at Pinehurst favor in 2014? Here are my five favorites a year out.
Tiger Looking over Green at
U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 in 2005
Phil Mickelson: A runner-up here in 1999 to Payne Stewart, Pinehurst requires some magic around the greens. Who has a more creative short game than Lefty? And maybe, just maybe, he's done finishing second.
Justin Rose: There hasn't been a repeat champion since Curtis Strange's run in 1988 and '89, but Rose's short-game coach is headquartered 30 minutes from Pinehurst. Expect Rose's strategy to be spot on. And he's a great bunker player.
Webb Simpson: His parents own a home here and the North Carolina native is ultra-familiar with the course. And he's a great player.
Tiger Woods: Two top-three finishes at the two previous Opens at No. 2 make Woods a factor, if nothing more than from a confidence standpoint.
Carl Pettersson: The dark horse of the group, Pettersson grew up in Greensboro, N.C., and played college golf at N.C. State. He can go low and get hot with his long putter, finishing tied for third in last year's PGA Championship.
David Droschak has covered golf in the Carolinas for three decades, mostly with The Associated Press, where he worked for 20 years as AP sports editor in North Carolina prior to launching Droschak Communications, a full-service marketing and PR firm based in Apex, N.C. Dave, 51, has covered numerous major golf tournaments, including the 1999 and 2005 U.S. Opens at Pinehurst Resort, and is a longtime member of the Golf Writers Association of America.
Dave was honored with the Sports Writer of the Year award in North Carolina in 2005, and is currently editor of Triangle Golf Today (www.trianglegolf.com), a print and online publication regarded as the "No. 1 Source for Golf News in North Carolina." He is golf editor for Pinehurst Magazine, an award-winning glossy publication, and was instrumental in helping launch Triangle Golf Deals powered by Twongo (www.trianglegolfdeals.com) in the fall of 2011.
Dave also is the co-founder of www.HurricanesBeat.com, a website devoted to coverage of the Carolina Hurricanes, an NHL franchise he has covered since the team moved to North Carolina from Hartford in 1998.
Dave grew up in Penn Hills, Pa., about five minutes from the famed Oakmont Country Club and was introduced to the game of golf as a caddie at Green Oaks Country Club in nearby Verona, Pa.
Dave was the co-captain of the 1978 Penn Hills state championship baseball team, was a pitcher for the 1982 Atlantic Coast Conference champion University of North Carolina Tar Heels, and pitched professionally for two years in the St. Louis Cardinals organization. He is a member of the Penn Hills High School Sports Hall of Fame, which also includes NBA coach George Karl and former four-time Pro Bowl offensive lineman Bill Fralic.
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Brian Smith is city editor and a reporter for the Peninsula Clarion. He covers local government, health, energy and environment.
He drove the AlCan from Colorado, where he grew up. He graduated from Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colo., in 2009 with a degree in mass communications. He started his career at the Craig Daily Press in Craig, Colo., where he covered government, environment and courts. He previously interned with his hometown newspaper, the Longmont Times-Call in Longmont, Colo., and was the editor of The Criterion, Mesa State's student newspaper.
He previously worked as a charter boat deckhand out of Seward for two summers during college. Now he fly fishes but rarely catches, will burn a tank of gas aurora-chasing and is learning to appreciate the Alaska way.
Find him here: www.facebook.com/briansmitty
The two entities pushing for cancer treatment services in the area may have worked through a recent impasse that stemmed from competing plans to build a local cancer center when the community can only support one.
Central Peninsula Hospital, under the direction of Chief Executive Officer Rick Davis, and the newly formed Peninsula Cancer Center, under the direction of Anchorage-based Dr. John Halligan, both want to bring radiation oncology services to the central Peninsula but differed on the best way to do that.
As the arctic sun crept over the treeline Saturday morning, Jeremy Sagoonick hovered over several six-inch thick ice holes.
In one hand he gingerly jigged the line, the other was tucked into his pocket in hopes of avoiding the occasional gusts of single digit temperatures.
Under Sagoonick's feet swam objects of desire for the more than 80 fishermen who signed up for the third annual Island Lake Ice Fishing Tournament benefiting the Nikiski wrestling team.
Two entities have proposed building a multi-million dollar cancer treatment center in the area, but both contend the area can only support one -- and neither one is currently backing away from their plans.
Central Peninsula Hospital, under the direction of Chief Executive Officer Rick Davis, and the newly formed Peninsula Cancer Center, under the direction of Anchorage-based Dr. John Halligan, want to bring radiation oncology services to the area.
Daniel German has been competing in a wide range of events in Native Youth Olympics for about four years, but there is one event in particular for which he can't hardly wait.
The seal hop — that's his game.
"I cannot do any basketball, wrestling, track or anything but NYO," said the 17-year-old from New Stuyahok with a laugh. "It is all I can do. It is the only sport I have ever been good at."
At first glance, Kenai resident Betty Osborn might not look like she would be a good bowler.
Just ask her and she'll give you a modest answer about her abilities.
"I'm fair," she said.
But when Osborn's name is called and she steps to the line, she can roll with the best of them. Strikes aren't elusive, even at her age.
Osborn has been the secretary of the Golden Oldies senior bowling league for 20 years and the sport is a big part of her life, just like many others in the league, she said.
Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Mike Navarre said Tuesday he was "hopeful" the state would reject the Certificate of Need application from a group of local surgeons looking to build a surgery center in Kenai.
At a joint Kenai and Soldotna Chambers of Commerce luncheon, Navarre spoke about the health care industry in general and touched on Kahtnu Ventures' proposal to build a $9 million, 8,365 square foot building to perform an estimated 1,700 outpatient surgeries a year. The proposal is currently being considered by the state after public comment closed Monday.
If the stride of your bunny boots makes the concrete groan and the crunch of snow echo wildly through the arctic air, perhaps you're in the midst of the Alaska winter.
By any measure, the Kenai Peninsula's winter is serious. But ask a local and they are likely to compare the Kenai's worst to the average of the state's more northern cities — say Fairbanks or the Interior.
But this winter, particularly the last several weeks, area temperatures have been nippy, reaching lows of 25 below or worse in some areas.
But just how is this winter stacking up to others?
The back of Jimmy Summers' 1991 Toyota 4Runner used to be his home.
But, it was slowly turning into his coffin, he said.
Each day that went by the temperature dropped and so would his spirit.
The then 49-year-old Summers never expected to find himself in that situation — on the wrong end of a business deal, living day to day, sinking into a deeper slump and surviving on bologna sandwiches he bought with food stamps.
Was this really happening?
A standing room-only crowd weighed in Thursday on Kahtnu Venture's proposal to build a surgical center in Kenai before Alaska Department of Health and Social Services officials.
Karen Lawfer, state certificate of need coordinator, said about 35 testimonies were gathered from the crowd that filled the Challenger Learning Center in Kenai.
Residents testified both in favor and against Kahtnu's proposal to build the 8,365 square foot building estimated at $9 million.
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Victoria Eppler led the way with 18 points and 12 rebounds as 13th-seeded North Plainfield got past 12th-seeded Manville with a 51-31 verdict in the first round of the Somerset County Tournament in Manville.
Frankie Cherasaro also scored 18 points and Nia Sheppard pulled down 18 rebounds and in helping North Plainfield into the second round, where it will meet fifth-seeded Rutgers Prep on Saturday in Somerset. Rachel Janes topped Manville with 11 points.


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A parrot that is eager to step up onto your hand may lean in your direction. It may also lift a foot in anticipation of stepping up. A parrot that doesn't fly may squat down low on the perch and quiver her wings as she waits for you to come closer. A flighted bird may not wait at all, and instead launch into the air and land on you.
When you know your parrot is ready to step up onto your hand, you can do several things to make it a very enjoyable experience for your bird.
1) Bring your hand up slow enough to give you time to assess your bird's body language and to also give your bird time to recognize that you are inviting it to step up. You can frighten a bird or trigger aggressive behavior if you bring your hand up too quickly.
2) Present your hand slightly higher and in front of the perch. The distance will vary depending on the size of your bird. Parrots prefer to step upward as opposed to horizontally or down; however, you also want the distance the bird needs to extend her leg for the step up to be a comfortable one. For an Amazon parrot, my hand is usually about 1-inch higher than the perch and 1 inch in front of the perch.
3) Once your bird makes contact with your hand, keep your hand still. Dropping your hand from the weight of the bird can cause your parrot to return to her perch. An unstable hand is not as attractive to your bird as a sturdy perch. You also don't want to move your hand or lift your bird off the perch when she only has one foot on you.
4) Give your parrot the time to complete the action of stepping completely onto your hand before taking your bird anywhere. This increases your bird's confidence and lets your bird know that she is empowered to choose to step up. This helps create a parrot that is more likely to step up in the future.
5) Positive reinforcement is another important element that can influence your bird's response to a cue to step up. Be sure to reward (or reinforce) your parrot every single time it steps up. You can reinforce with a food treat, a head scratch, a toy or verbal praise. Determine what your parrot likes, and use that to reward her cooperation.
If your parrot doesn't step up at all, you can train this behavior, even if your parrot shows fear or aggressive responses toward hands. When training a parrot to step up, keep in mind three key things:
• Avoid forcing your bird at all costs. This is what likely caused your bird to lose trust in hands in the first place.
• Get in the habit of reinforcing your bird for doing things you want.
• Start reinforcing small behaviors that can lead to stepping up.
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Metal News for March 20, 2007
Last updated on September 30, 2016 at 5:32 PM ET
We post metal news every day, throughout the day, covering thousands of metal bands including underground and unsigned bands. You are currently browsing the news archive, but you can also find news by band.
21 news articles posted on this day.
Dimmu Borgir, Devildriver, Unearth Tour Dates
As announced, Kataklysm, Devildriver, Unearth and Dimmu Borgir will be teaming up to tour the US this spring. Confirmed tour dates so far are as follows:
April 20- Cleveland, OH @ Agora Theater
April 21- Detroit, MI @ Harpo's
April 22- Toronto, ON @ Kool Haus
April 23- Montreal, QU @ Metropolis
April 24- Quebec City, QU @ Theater Capitol
April 26 - New York, NY @ Nokia Theater
April 27- Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
April 28- Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
April 29- Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
April 30- Charlotte, NC @ Amos Southend
May 2- Chicago, IL @ House Of Blues
May 4- St Paul, MN @ The Myth
May 5- Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings
May 7- Calgary, AB @ Macewan Hall
May 8- Edmonton, AB @ Edmonton Events Center
May 10- Seattle, WA @ The Fenix
May 11- Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
May 12- Portland, OR @ Roseland
May 13- San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
May 15- Salt Lake City, UT @ Salt Air
May 16- Las vegas, NV @ House of Blues
May 17- Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
May 18- Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
May 19- San Diego, CA @ Soma
May 21- Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
May 22- Kansas City, MO @ The Beaumont
May 23- St Louis, MO @ Pop's
May 25- Dallas, TX @ House Of Blues
May 26- Houston, TX @ Club V
May 27- San Antonio, TX @ Graham Central Station
May 29- Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
May 30- Orlando, FL @ House Of Blues
Killchain Signs To Maintain Records
Maintain Records has announced the signing of death metal band KILLCHAIN from Slovakia. Their debut album, "One More Victim," will be in stores till summer this year and continues a great death metal tradition. The label compares "One More Victim" with Vader's "De Profundis." You can check out "Nobody Is Safe" from the label's MySpace page.
Holyhell's "Apocalypse" Single Release Date
HOLYHELL, the stunning female-fronted newcomer band from Magic Circle Music, is preparing to take the world by storm with their debut single "Apocalypse". The single will be available in stores in Germany, Austria, Switzerland on March 23rd and will also be sold at the venues during the band's guest appearance on the current 'Demons, Dragons and Warriors' tour as well as via the band's website on March 21, and other online platforms.
"Apocalypse" will feature the stomping title track, other soon to be classics such as "Last Vision" and "Resurrection" and a live rendition of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera", featuring a duet with MANOWAR vocalist Eric Adams. It also contains enhanced bonus video material including an electronic press kit and a video of "The Phantom of the Opera", filmed live at their Masters of Rock Festival appearance in 2005 in the Czech Republic.
The band has just completed a successful tour through the Czech Republic as special guest on the "Demons, Dragons and Warriors Tour" with MANOWAR and RHAPSODY OF FIRE. The fans' reaction towards this new diamond in the metal world has been nothing but fantastic. Don't miss this band.
For more info please see the brand new E-Card at holyhell.com.
Remaining tour dates on the Demons, Dragons and Wariors Tour with Manowar, Holyhell and Rhapsody of Fire are as follows:
22.03.2007 Germany Berlin - Max Schmeling Halle
23.03.2007 Germany Munich - Olympiahalle
24.03.2007 Germany Frankfurt - Festhalle
27.03.2007 Germany Dortmund - Westfalenhalle
28.03.2007 Germany Hamburg - Color Line Arena
30.03.2007 Germany Nuremberg - Arena Nürnberger Versicherung
31.03.2007 Germany Stuttgart - Schleyerhalle
04.04.2007 Greece Athens - Olympic Fencing Center
07.04.2007 Russia Moscow - DS Luzhniki
Atrocity To Start Working On New Full Length
Reunited Torrington, Connecticut-based thrash/hardcore act ATROCITY (not to be confused with the German band) have signed with Open Grave Records for a brand new full-length album, due out late 2007/early 2008. Earlier this year Open Grave Records released ATROCITY's "Contaminated", which featured alternative recordings from the original, "Infected" sessions back in 1990.
Formed in early 1985 by Rob Wedda (vocals), Rich Flint (bass), Scott Reynolds (guitar) and Jeff White (drums), ATROCITY had pushed out three demos ("Toxic Death", "Ravaged by Disease", "Mangled") and a self-financed seven-inch EP, entitled "Hatred Birth", by 1989. They soon caught the attention of U.K.-based Metalcore Records, a subsidiary of Plastichead Distribution, whom they ultimately signed with.
ATROCITY's first album, "Infected" (1990), is very raw and featured a very violent death metal/grind sound. The second album, "The Art of Death" (1992), saw a lineup change when Scott left the band and was replaced by Jesse Piechowski on guitar.
Midnattsol Confirmed For Wave Gotik Treffen 2007
The German/ Norwegian sextet MIDNATTSOL have been official confirmed to play at the 2007 edition of the Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, Germany. Festival details are still being sorted out, but AMORPHIS, MOONSPELL, PRIMORDIAL, KRYPTERIA, CREMATORY and HAGGARD are also due to perform.
Go to this location for details on the festival. More...
Hear Dead Mens Dreams' "Stalked By The Dead"
A final mastered track from Orlando, Florida's Dead Mens Dreams entitled "Stalked By The Dead" has been posted online. You can listen to this track on Diabolus Music's MySpace page.
Gates Of Slumber To Headline Doom Shall Rise Fest
Doom Shall Rise Festival will take place at the Chapel (a former U.S. Army church) in Göppingen, Germany on April 27th - 28th.
The latest acts confirmed for the festival include FORSAKEN (headlining Friday) and GATES OF SLUMBER (headlining Saturday).
The running order for the festival is as follows: More...
Graveworm To Issue New Album Via Massacre Records
Gothic black metallers GRAVEWORM have issued the following update:
"The new album will be released in Europe on Massacre Records. The album was produced at the Stage One studio with Andy Classen (DISBELIEF, DEW-SCENTED). The new masterpiece will be released as limited edition digipack."
Massacre Records has set May 25th as the release date for the above mentioned album, entitled Collateral Defect. The album will feature the following tracklisting: 'Reflections', 'Bloodwork', 'Touch Of Hate', 'Suicide Code', 'The Day I Die', 'Fragile Side', 'I Need A Hero' 'Out Of Clouds', 'Scars Of Sorrow', 'Memories'.
Vreid Post Song From Upcoming Album
Norwegian black metallers VREID have posted the track 'Under Isen', from their forthcoming new album, I Krig (At War). Check out the track at this location.
I Krig (At War) will be released via Indie Recordings on May 8th in Norway. European and US dates will follow soon. The album will feature the following tracklisting: 'Jarnbyrd', 'Under Isen', 'I Krig', 'Væpna Lengsel', 'Svart', 'Folkefiendar', 'Dei Daude Steig Av Grav', 'Fangegard', 'Millom Hav Og Fjell'.
Cattle Decapitation Post Bonus Track Online
California-based grinders CATTLE DECAPITATION have issued the following update:
"Rare Cattle Decapitation bonus track added to our page!!!
We're about to head out on tour and to get everyone ready for the destruction, we've uploaded the bonus track from the Japanese version of Karma.Bloody.Karma!!! It's only available on the import version, but now we have it here for everyone to check out and add to their page!
The track is called 'World Full Of Idiots'... Check it out!!!"
The above mentioned song can be found here.
Abominable Putridity Post New Songs Online
Russian brutal death metallers ABOMINABLE PUTRIDITY have posted two new songs over at their official MySpace page for your listening pleasure.
Infected Malignity Post New Song Online
Japanese death metallers INFECTED MALIGNITY have posted a new song entitled "Fictitious Follower" online over at their official MySpace page.
Battlelore Post New Video Online, More Tour Dates
BATTLELORE has announced new tour dates and a new Video for "House Of Heroes." You can watch the video on YouTube (or below).
Battlelore's latest tour dates are as follows:
27.04.2007 DE - Berlin / Darkside
28.04.2007 DE - Annaberg-Buchholz, Alte Brauerei
29.04.2007 CZ - Brno / Faval Club
30.04.2007 HU - Budapest / Petofi Hall Gothica Festival
01.05.2007 DE - Munich / Metropolis
02.05.2007 IT - tba
03.05.2007 IT - Milano / Magazzini Generali
04.05.2007 Ch- Thun / Late Night (new)
05.05.2007 CH - Uster / Rock City
06.05.2007 DE - Illingen / Ellipse, Earthquaker Festival
07.05.2007 DE - Dortmund / Tarantula
08.05.2007 DE - Stuttgart / Universum
09.05.2007 DE - Marburg / KfZ
10.05.2007 NL - Eindhoven / Effenaar
11.05.2007 DE - Marksteft / Rockmania Festival
12.05.2007 DE - Lübeck / Treibsand
20.10.2007 BE - Wieze / Metal Female Voices Festival 5 More...
Laaz Rockit Back Catalog To Be Reissued
OSM Records has set a May 14 release date for the reissue of LAAZ ROCKIT's "City's Gonna Burn." Originally released in 1984, "City's Gonna Burn" was remastered by Colin Davis at Imperial Mastering. The artwork was updated by Mark DeVito of MetalBabies.com. The CD will be issued with bonus tracks.
Over the course of the next year, OSM Records plans to remaster and re-release LAAZ ROCKIT's back catalog all the way up 1989's "Annihilation Principle" LP.
Hear Impetigo's "Trap Them And Kill Them" Remaster
"Trap Them And Kill Them" has been remastered for the upcoming re-issue of IMPETIGO's "Horror of the Zombies" album on Razorback Records. The track was remastered by Patrick Bruss and can be heard on the official Razorback myspace page.
Look for the CD to be out in late April, with extensive liner notes from Stevo and more.
Dave Mustaine Talks About "Sleepwalker" Track
MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine recently spoke to KNAC.COM's Gnarly Charlie about the inspiration for the band's new song "Sleepwalker" from the upcoming CD, "United Abominations". "I was kind of getting bored with people taking snipes at me over the Internet," Mustaine explained. "I just thought it was really cowardly. It wasn't anybody famous; it was just constant stuff, especially one particular news site, in general. And I just thought, 'You know what? It would be really funny if I could go to sleep and just do astral planing and do a little ass-whooping and then wake up and not be held accountable for anything.' (laughs) You know it's kind of sad, because there are disorders where people do, like the Ambien sleepwalk. For me, a lot of it too, was some of the crime stuff that they do, you know, like the old mob movies, 'The Godfather' and stuff like that… I love '24', and I just watched this one thing where I went through every single season because I didn't even discover the series until last year and I watched the first four years all in a row, almost nonstop, with time to sleep and stuff a little food in my face. But, there was one scene where they were up on Mulholland and I just flashed back about these photographers that would say, 'Yeah, you're a model. Hey, here's my card. Let's go take pictures out in the woods.' Duh! You remember that one? He took her out in the woods and he killed her. It's so commonplace — we can identify with these tragedies and stuff like that, but when you think about how gullible a person is and the wickedness that some people have in their hearts when they take advantage of these people, it's like…first off, how could somebody be that naïve, and second off, where are the good guys that protect people from assholes like this?"
"United Abominations" is released on May 15, with the following tracklisting:
01. Sleepwalker
02. Washington Is Next!
03. Never Walk Alone
04. United Abominations
05. Gears Of War
06. Blessed Are The Dead
07. Play For Blood
08. A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free) (feat. Cristina Scabbia)
09. Amerikhastan
10. You're Dead
11. Burnt Ice
You can check out the cover artwork here, and download "Sleepwalker" here.
Harakiri Auditioning Singers
HARAKIRI has begun auditioning replacements for singer Matt Reese, who left the band in January. The group has issued the following update:
"The search for a new vocalist is on. We've started the audition process. We have some good candidates for sure. We're hoping to wrap this up fairly soon so if anyone out there, who hasn't contacted us already, is still interested in trying out get with us asap. Or if you inquired about it but we didn't get back to you, message us again. Things were getting hectic there for a second and I am afraid some emails may have been missed.
We are steadily progressing on the writing of the songs for the new album (musically that is). We pretty much finished up another new one yesterday. We're anxious to get all this done and hit the studio and play some shows.
Anyway, we're alive and trying to push this forward as fast as we can. Once a vocalist is decided upon we'll throw up a demo track probably."
Neuraxis Announce New Vocalist
Montreal based NEURAXIS have announced that vocalist Alex Leblanc (ATHERETIC, POINT BLANK RAGE) has joined as permanent member of the band. The band comments:
"After completing the European Domination tour, we knew Alex was the right man for the job. His vocals were crushing, and he displayed a very intense energy both onstage and offstage. We look forward to Alex contributing to the writing of our next album."
NEURAXIS has confirmed they will be touring Canada in May with MARTYR. The following dates have been confirmed:
Mar. 24 - L'Epiphanie, QC @ Epiphanie Metal Fest (w/MARTYR)
Apr. 06 - Quebec, QC @ L'Imperial (w/ MARTYR)
Apr. 27 - Ottawa, QC @ Babylon (w/GHOULUNATICS)
May 17 - Thunder Bay, ON @ The Office (w/ MARTYR)
May 18 - Winnipeg, MB @ The Zoo (w/ MARTYR)
May 22 - Calgary, AB @ The Underground (w/ MARTYR)
May 23 - Edmonton, AB @ The Mead Hall (w/ MARTYR)
May 24 - Prince George, BC @ The Moose Hall (w/MARTYR)
May 25 - Vancouver, BC @ Balmoral (w/ MARTYR)
May 26 - Victoria, BC @ Sugar Club (w/ MARTYR)
American Hardcore: Rackman and Blush Interviewed
American Hardcore captures the history of hardcore punk from Los Angeles through Washington D.C. and NYC, circa 1981-1986, based on the book of the same name by writer Steven Blush. Paul Rachman's documentary is a strong-willed outcry, which set a politically minded foundation for a lot of later bands.
Interviews with legends such as Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat), Henry Rollins of Black Flag, and H.R. (Bad Brain's fuel-injected dreadlock front-man) infect this DVD with power of such magnitude that you are transported into the sentiment of the time. The movie subtly points out the numbified herd mentality of the general populous, which gives the viewer a much needed kick in the arse when comparing the Reagan administration with the political state of today. Hardcore's aggression was a unified force-it didn't matter if you were a hoodlum, vegan, or straight-edge-at shows there was a sense of unity.
Edward Colver contributes a cornucopia of photos, keeping the movie true to the scene. The DVD also features live footage of Minor Threat, D.O.A, and the Circle Jerks.
I had the opportunity to sit down with Paul Rackman and Steven Blush and talk to them about the newly released American Hardcore DVD; I am grateful to bring this exclusive Q&A to longtime hardcore fans. More...
Hellwitch's "Syzygial Miscreancy" To Be Resissued
Open Grave Records has announced that HELLWITCH's classic album "Syzygial Miscreancy" will be part of the Open Grave Records Underground Reissues series along with the already announced "Pictures of Heaven" from CRUCIFER and "Vomiting The Trinity - The Exterminance Discography" from EXTERMINANCE.
The original "Syzygial Miscreancy" was released in 1990 via Wild Rags Records, and was recorded at legendary Morrisound Studios with veteran producer Scott Burns.
The reissue will consist of the original 7 tracks:
01. The Ascent
02. Nosferatu
03. Viral Ehogence
04. Sentient Transmography
05. Mordirivial Dissemination
06. Pyrophoric Seizure
07. Purveyor Of Fear
A fall release is expected.
Chaosfear Announce Release Date, Post Cover Art
Brazilian thrashers CHAOSFEAR will re-release their "One Step Behind Anger" CD internationally with bonus tracks on May 28 via OSM Records.
"We are extremely psyched about this release. CHAOSFEAR delivers old-school Brazilian thrash the way it is meant to be delivered," says Patrick Ramseier, CEO of OSM Records.
You can check out the "One Step Behind Anger" cover art here.
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New Reason to Buy a Gown in 2014: The People Magazine AwardsDresden Shumaker
If there is one thing we can all agree on, it's that there simply are not enough award shows happening. (No? Just me?) I get pretty giddy about award shows: The Academy Awards, The Tonys, The Emmys, The MTV Video Music Awards. These shows create a soup of excitement of "what will they wear," flawless makeup, and celebrities speaking off the cuff. I get to enjoy it all while sitting on my sofa in my jammies and dining on takeout.
In 2014 there will be a new awards show to enjoy: The People Magazine Awards. Produced by Dick Clark Productions, in partnership with NBC, the awards show will focus less on rewarding works of art, and more on celebrating great moments of the year. Variety is reporting categories for the show will include, "Biggest Phenomenon of 2014, Year's Most Popular Person, The Most Stylish Person, Funniest Person, Sexiest Woman of 2014."
Paul Telegdy, president of alternative and late-night programming at NBC, shares, "There is no better barometer of the cultural events and top personalities of the world than People magazine. This awards show will bring to light all who have broken through the clutter to make their voices heard throughout the year."
What excites me about this show is the potential it has for celebrating the every man, as much as it does for shining a spotlight on an actual celebrity. People magazine is outstanding at covering human interest stories, and it will be pretty special to possibly see a hero honored on such a large and public stage.
If I was to produce an awards show, I would create a show celebrating underdogs and unsung heroes. Categories would be things like: Best Caregiver, Best Teacher, Best Grocery Clerk, Best Unexpected Good Deed, Best Pay it Forward. Every award would be presented by a movie star or famous recording artist.
What about you, if you were to create your own awards show, what would you celebrate?
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text: Chris: This guy is a Turd!!To use threats to try to win against a woman!!WOW! How stupid are his supporters to even consider voting for someone with no moral fiber.... How about Bringing in all the Contractors and food Service companies and students of his Fraud College in the be in the front 2000 rows! Al Capone did the same thing as the RUMP is doing now and so did Hitler, Mussalini and Stallen.. So why is anyone even listening to him.. Because We are stupid!!But I refuse to be stupid for a racist , xenophobe! He wants to change America, Well, First he would have to Stop bribing Officials,not only our officials but also Foreign officials too..something he will never stop doing... Then he uses his Foundation as his private Bank and Bail bondsmen..I would think that is not being put out in the open by him or all the other liars he has on his staff. Change can be many things like having the right person if office even if it is a Black (BORN IN AMERICA) or other qualified person of any race..So why is it that a woman that has worked all her like to make changes and has made them is "Crooked" and not the Male Dope that has everything on paper to prove he is a fraud. Wake up and see what is being done.. he will not win for reasons he will make up later, He will accuse the system and everyone else, He will blame the press and all news stations and then...Write a book well have someone that has knowledge of more than words bigger than "excellent" and BIG.. write it for him. Why is he not in Jail..wait can you say payoffs!!


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Five years ago this week, I was teaching ESL at Gilcrest Elementary School when the tornado that later devastated Windsor dropped down from the sky just south of our school.
I can still remember that morning like it was yesterday – the way the clouds turned from grey to green as they flew in wisps across the sky while we finished up the last day of school games on the playground. The eerie quiet as the pressure dropped and we waited to see if we truly were in the path of the storm.
I will never forget how we went from looking out the window at the approaching storm to huddling in a dark hallway with 200 terrified children. As I comforted my little group of kids, my son was a wiggling mess inside my belly, reacting to my stress. Gilcrest was spared much of the massive damage that Windsor saw, but my drive home that day was still a surreal scene of leveled buildings, wrecked houses and huge trees ripped from the ground.
Now, seeing the horrific aftermath of the tornado in Oklahoma, I am reminded just how lucky we were that our little school didn't take a direct hit in 2008. I can't imagine the terror those little ones felt as the school fell apart around them, or the amazing heroics of the teachers in there with them.
Could I have been that brave?
I'm not sure.
I tell my 4-year-old the story of his first tornado without telling him about the tornado that left many in Moore buried under rubble on Monday. I know the chances are slim that we will see another tornado like the one in 2008, but one was plenty for me in my lifetime. My son loves to hear how he bumped around nervously in my belly for three days straight after the stress of the tornado, and when I get stressed to this day he still acts out physically as my nerves affect him.
When I drive my boys to Denver, I always drive down Two Rivers Parkway and point out the huge dead trees lying on their sides along the river, their enormous roots still reaching out in reminders of the storm. Along with them, I point out some of the buildings still crumbling, in need of new brick and siding in Windsor when we go through there on occasion.
"Is that from the tornado we were in?" my 4-year-old asks when he sees the crumbling bricks at old mill on Main Street.
"Yep," I say, as I launch into my retelling of the path of leveled houses and mountains of debris.
It's hard to picture now, with all the houses rebuilt and the debris so long gone, but it's a story he loves to hear, and one I'm sure I will keep retelling as we remember each year how lucky we were that storm damaged only our houses and trees but left most of us unharmed. The Windsor tornado will be with all of us who lived through it, even the littlest creatures huddling in hallways and bumping around in bellies.
Kayenta Williams is married with two sons. Read her Wednesdays on Greeley Moms. Also check out her personal blog here.
I can still remember that morning like it was yesterday – the way the clouds turned from grey to green as they flew in wisps across the sky while we finished up the last day of school games on the playground.


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Former NOAA Chief to Address Climate Change at FAU's Harbor Branch
BOCA RATON, FL (March 25, 2010)– Retired Navy Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Ph.D., administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 2001-2008, will be giving a talk titled Global Earth Observation and Climate Change at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University on Wednesday, April 7 at 7 p.m. The lecture, which will take place in the Johnson Education Center Auditorium, is free and open to the public. Harbor Branch is located at 5600 US 1 North in Fort Pierce.
Lautenbacher's NOAA experience gives him a singular perspective on climate change. He directed an extensive review and reorganization of NOAA to meet the environmental challenges of the 21st century and spearheaded the development of the Group on Earth Observation, a body involving more than 75 nations and 51 international and intergovernmental organizations dedicated to building a global climate observation network to inform policy development. Lautenbacher previously headed the Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education, now known as the Consortium for Ocean Leadership, a not-for-profit organization of 76 institutions of higher learning seeking to increase basic knowledge and public support across the spectrum of ocean sciences.
Lautenbacher will address both what is known and what is suspected about climate change, and his talk will emphasize the role of global observing systems in improving our knowledge and ability to provide credible science-based information for decision making. Such systems are essential to providing organization and context to the multiple metrics that are being used to characterize the issue, including sea temperatures and levels, polar and glacial melting, atmospheric carbon dioxide, and ocean acidification.
About Harbor Branch Oceanographic
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University is a research institute dedicated to exploration, innovation, conservation and education related to the oceans. Harbor Branch was founded in 1971 as a private non-profit organization. In December 2007, Harbor Branch joined Florida Atlantic University. The institute specializes in ocean engineering, at-sea operations, drug discovery and biotechnology from the oceans, coastal ecology and conservation, marine mammal research and conservation, aquaculture, and marine education. For more information, visit www.hboi.fau.edu .
About Florida Atlantic
Florida Atlantic University opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University serves more than 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students on seven campuses and sites. Building on its rich tradition as a teaching university, with a world-class faculty, FAU hosts 10 colleges: College of Architecture, Urban & Public Affairs, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Biomedical Science, the College of Business, the College of Education, the College of Engineering & Computer Science, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Graduate College, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. For more information, visit www.fau.edu .


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Dreamliner, Navy Prowler to buzz Snoqualmie Ridge TPC this weekend
Keep your eye to the sky on Friday and Sunday morning to spot some unusual aircraft, close up.
At 11:20 a.m. Friday, Aug. 26, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner will buzz the TPC Snoqualmie Ridge course, officially opening the Boeing Classic tournament.
Moments after the flight, the first group of PGA Champions Tour pros tee off in the benefit tournament.
Then at 10 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 28, a U.S. Navy EA-6B electronic-warfare jet, the Prowler, will perform a flyover of the tournament for Military Appreciation Day. The event also marks the centennial of the naval aviation for the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.
The Prowler is based at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.
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Twin NASA probes aimed at the Sun are sending home super-sized panoramas of Earth's nearest star as they take up positions to track explosive solar storms.
Instruments and cameras aboard NASA's two Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft have zoomed out for a planetary orbit-hopping view that stretches from the Sun to Earth's orbit a distance of 93 million miles (150 million kilometers). The panorama [image] serves as shakedown for STEREO's science tools to take three-dimensional scans of the Sun's coronal mass ejections (CMEs), the first of which are expected in April [new video].
"This panoramic view is absolutely unique," Russ Howard, principal investigator for the STEREO instruments that took the new images, told reporters Thursday, adding that the probes have already spotted a CME event. "We're still seeing the evolution of this material as it goes out into to interplanetary space."
Howard leads STEREO's five-imager Sun-Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation (SSECHI) instrument suite for NASA at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. [image].
CMEs are massive eruptions from Sun that spew high-energy particles at prodigious speeds which, if they pass by Earth, can pose radiation hazards for astronauts in space, afflict orbiting satellites and interfere with power and communications systems on Earth.
"They can get their memories reset or power supplies wiped out," mission project scientist Michael Kaiser, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said of CME-susceptible spacecraft during Thursday's press briefing. "They need to know when [CMEs] are coming so they can be set in safe mode."
STEREO's planned two-year mission is expected to build near real-time 3-D views of those eruptions by positioning twin Sun-watching probes at stations leading and trailing the Earth in its orbit [image]. The mission, researchers hope, will yield better forecasts for severe space weather and determine how CMEs speed up and slow down as they flow out from the Sun.
The mission's two spacecraft spotted a CME event between Jan. 24 and Jan. 25, and watched as the eruptions first sped away from the Sun at more than 750 miles (1,207 kilometers) per second only to slow to about 500 miles (804 kilometers) per second. The observations also caught the last vestiges of the tail of Comet McNaught, the brightest comet seen in 30 years, mission scientists said [image].
"This is a discovery. ... We have never been able to see the progress of the CME from the Sun, from its origin, all the way out," Dan Moses, a SSECHI science team member at the Naval Research Laboratory. "We see that this is different from our initial models."
Since their October 2006 launch, STEREO's two probes, dubbed A and B for "Ahead" and "Behind," have not yet traveled far enough apart to begin their three-dimensional Sun observations. Once in their final positions in April, STEREO A--ahead of Earth--will make a complete orbit around the Sun in 347 days, while STEREO B-- behind and further out of Earth's orbit--will complete one circuit in 387 days [image].
Mission managers said the STEREO probes are in good health and have enough propellant onboard to last a decade. The Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland, is overseeing the $550 million mission for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Madhulika Guhathakurta, NASA's STEREO program scientist at the agency's Washington, D.C. headquarters, pledged that STEREO's first 3-D Sun images will be released to museums nationwide and via the Internet.
"These images are just unbelievable," Guhathakurta said of the new panoramas.
NASA has compiled a list of 3-D glasses resources, available by clicking here.
- NEW VIDEO: STEREO's Sun Sights
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- Double Vision: STEREO Spacecraft to Scan Sun in 3D
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A super long pinkie nail. Derived from the term used by druggies to sniff coke.
Hey....I just broke my coke nail...I was really liking it too.
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A long, rounded pinkie nail used to snort coke from. For fiends-on-the-go.
My coke nail is proving more useful every day.
Beküldő: Derge 2004. szeptember 19.
A term used to refer a long pinky nail for coke addicts sniffing coke
Damn it my coke nail broke!
Beküldő: DizzyLizzy 2007. február 8.
When a person has one significantly longer fingernail on one or both hand(s), most often the pinkie nail, which is used for scooping up powder cocaine and snorting it. This is known as doing a bump. The nail becomes the vessel as opposed to needing an item to snort a line of coke through; ie, a straw, rolled up dollar bill, etc...
Did you see the coke nails on that guy?
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Someones pinky nail grown-out long in order to snort cocaine
The criminal seemed to have a coke-nail
Beküldő: cheese man123 2005. július 27.
When a person has one especially long nail, used to do cocaine off of. Generally a pinky nail.
"Did you notice that cashier's crazy long coke nail?"
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a nail, typically a pinky nail, used exclusively to scoop up and snort cocaine.
yo fred lemme see yo nail
dammit fred you picked your nose with your coke nail fuck
the coke is stuck to the booger so i gotta eat it now
thanks a lot fred
dammit fred you picked your nose with your coke nail fuck
the coke is stuck to the booger so i gotta eat it now
thanks a lot fred
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A Philadelphia Police officer and two other people were hospitalized after a car crash in the Logan section of Philadelphia this morning.
It happened around 3 a.m. at 15th and Olney. Investigators say the officer suffered a broken ankle, and some cuts.
A 28-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman were also taken to the hospital. No word on their conditions.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
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text: On 2008 Jan 20, at 5:02 AM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > "Authority" seems to be very close to the common English meanings of > Influence, Power and Ability. > See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influence > > However I'd like to clarify one possible exception. We may casually > say that X can "influence" Y via a covert channel, but Y might not > be in the transitive closure of permissions. Or would we say that X > and Y have permissions to the shared resource used to implement the > covert channel? We have been vague about the meaning of "transitive closure" I think. Ordinary usage of 'authority' might say that I don't have the authority to stop you from flying just because I am in a position to buy the last available ticket. This is an overt signal and I think we must include it in our security analysis, perhaps by making permissions reflexive. Certainly the server and client affect each other. Covert signals are a failure of capability mechanisms which can be minimized to a quantitative degree. > However, we might still have the case: X -> Resource <- Y > But not: X -> Resource -> Y > > Or are permissions reflexive? >


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On Sunday, Jan. 26, the 56th annual GRAMMY Awards will take place at Los Angeles' STAPLES Center to honor the year's best in music. Nominees were announced on Dec. 6, marking Jay Z as the year's biggest nominee. The rapper's work on the album "Magna Carta…Holy Grail" and Justin Timberlake's "The 20/20 Experience" earned nine total nominations.
One of the most interesting categories for the 2014 ceremony is Record of the Year, which covers a broad range of artists. Two nominees—Daft Punk and Bruno Mars—are veterans of the ceremony. Mars earned a nod for "Locked Out of Heaven" off his 2012 album "Unorthodox Jukebox." The singer, who announced an extensive 2014 leg for his Moonshine Jungle Tour, is up for four nominations this year, including Best Pop Vocal Album and Song of the Year.
More surprisingly, a host of newcomers are also up for Record of the Year in 2014. Though Robin Thicke has been active since the '90s, he earned just his first GRAMMY nominations for the album "Blurred Lines" and its breakaway title track. Lorde also is in the running for Record of the Year thanks to her hit, "Royals." The New Zealand native plans to follow her successful 2013 debut by launching her first North American tour this March. Imagine Dragons also will compete for the title with its six-time Platinum-certified single "Radioactive," just days before the group launches its first headlining arena tour from Boise, Idaho on Feb. 8.
Many more nominees for the upcoming awards show also will be heading out on tour in 2014. Find more information on the artists' accomplishments and concert plans broken down by genre below.
Tim McGraw has been moving forward with his Las Vegas residency and plans for a new album, but the singer will look back to 2013's "Two Lanes to Freedom" for this ceremony, as the effort was nominated for Best Country Album. McGraw has already plotted dates for his 2014 Sundown Heaven Town Tour, which kicks off from the Sleep Train Amphitheatre in Wheatland, Calif., on May 9. Jason Aldean also is competing for best album with his 2012 release "Night Train." The Georgia native has a whirlwind 2014 ahead, with two unique tours, stadium concerts, and festival appearances at the inaugural iHeartRadio Country Festival (March 29), Stagecoach (April 25-27), Bayou Country Superfest (May 25), and more.
Elsewhere in country music, Darius Rucker earned his first GRAMMY nomination as a solo artist for the multi-Platinum single "Wagon Wheel." The former Hootie and the Blowfish frontman will launch his True Believers Tour with Eli Young Band on Jan. 29.
Katy Perry will be looking to win her first GRAMMY Award after six consecutive years of nominations. Her No. 1 single "Roar" is up for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. Perry's 2014 Prismatic World Tour, which hits North America on June 22, is poised to be one of the year's biggest, with more than 40 arena dates confirmed for the U.S. and Canada alone. Justin Timberlake fared well at this year's nomination ceremony, appearing in seven categories including Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best Rap Song for his collaboration with Jay Z. The "Mirrors" singer is currently on the road for The 20/20 Experience World Tour, which will extend through August. Perennial pop favorite Michael Bublé was nominated for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album for the 2012 release "To Be Loved." The three-time GRAMMY winner will return to North America this June to continue promoting the album, which hit No. 1 in more than 15 countries.
Black Sabbath's "13"—the band's first studio album with Ozzy Osbourne in more than 30 years—led to three nominations for the legendary rockers this year. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers will return to North America in March with a second leg of the highly successful tour that launched in 2013. Kings of Leon also earned a nod for its acclaimed return to music, the 2013 album "Mechanical Bull." The band plans to support the release with a full-scale arena tour, which begins Feb. 5 in Atlanta. Indie rock favorite Vampire Weekend is in the running for Best Alternative Album. The East Coast natives will headline at a handful of festivals this year, including New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (April 25-May 4), Big Guava Festival (May 2-4), and the NYC Governors Ball (June 6-8).
Theater and Comedy
This year's nominees for Best Musical Recording include three of Broadway's most popular new shows. "Kinky Boots," the 2013 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, is up for the award alongside the crowd-pleasing "Matilda: the Musical" and "Motown: the Musical." All three shows are currently playing on Broadway in New York, while a national Motown the Musical tour is launching from Chicago this April. In the category of Best Comedy Album, Ron White, Kathy Griffin, and Craig Ferguson are among the nominees. All three have plans to tour the U.S. in 2014.


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Chesapeake Members: The registration for our club bonspiel, The Miller, is ongoing. Please contact Scott Dow if you are interested in curling. $25 per curler. Event takes place on 2/9. Includes lunch.
Congrats to the winners of the 2013 Funspiel.
First Event - Team DeJong (Plainfield)
Second Event - Team Banfield (Pittsburgh)
Third Event - Team Stayer (Bucks County)
Fourth Event - Team Findlay (Potomac / Philly)
It was a wonderful tournament with some great curling.
So far very good at the Funspiel. Lots of great folks and lots of great curling.
Follow the full draw here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0Alf9_a4ZKijfdEpFOWNpWFRmN2h...
Funspiel starts tomorrow. Snow is in the forecast for the evening. Everyone drive safely. If you are having difficulties getting to the club for your matches, please call 240-346-4415. Drive safe and good curling.
Also, CCC members, we still need silent auction items and help all weekend long. Contact StayC or please just pop by. Plenty to be done.
If you haven't gotten the times from your skips, the first draws for the Funspiel are now available on the Chesapeake CC website. See you in 10 days. http://www.chesapeakecurling.org/aliens-in-the-hack
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Name: Matt Morrissey
Age: 21
Residence: Tyrone
High school: Tyrone, class of 2005
My favorite sport: Baseball
I usually attend games with: My friends
Favorite high school team: Tyrone
Favorite college team: Penn State
Favorite pro team: Atlanta Braves
My favorite sports memory: When Tyrone defeated Seton-LaSalle on the road in high school football in the first round of states my senior year.
The local athlete I most enjoyed watching while growing up: Tyrone's Matt Sharer
My all-time favorite local coach: John Franco
The most famous athlete I ever met: I have yet to meet anyone who qualifies for famous.
My most prized autograph/picture is of: A football card of Peyton Manning with a typo on it, which makes it even more valuable.
If I have a claim to fame as a fan it would be: I once got to talk to former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, who was in Tyrone for a football banquet.
If I were czar of local sports: Parents of Little Leaguers need to relax more when it comes to their attitude towards coaches and umpires.
If you'd like to participate in Fandom, please answer the above questions and E-mail them to Scott Franco at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 949-7032.


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Howard J. Hollier
A Mass of Christian Burial was held at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, October 15, 2008, at Saint Michael Catholic Church in Crowley for Howard Joseph Hollier, 82, who died at 6:34 a.m. Monday, October 13, 2008, in Crowley.
Father Gary Schex-nayder celebrated the Mass and committal service at Woodlawn Mausoleum.
Visitation was Tuesday from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m. and Wednesday from 8 a.m. until service time. The rosary was prayed at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday by Sister Justina Baker. The Agape' Singers provided their worship in song.
Mr. Hollier was born September 16, 1926, in Duson, to the late Francis and Emily Guidry Hollier.
He served his country during World War II in the United States Navy. He retired from Phillips Petroleum in 1984 as a supervisor. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus 5499 and the Fourth Degree Msgr. George Mallo Assembly, a member of American Legion Post 15, the Veterans of Foreign War, Harold Bossley Post, and a member of the Woodmen of the World.
He is survived by his wife of 61 years, Mary Jane Credeur Hollier; two daughters, Beverly Leblanc and her husband, Joseph of Crowley, Patricia Black and her husband, Ralf of New Orleans; three sons, Kenneth Lee Hollier and his wife, Judy of Lafayette, Patrick Wayne Hollier and his wife, Martha of Crowley and Gregory Allen Hollier and his wife, Annette of Crowley; 10 grandchildren; 14 great grandchildren; two brothers, Francis Hollier, Jr. and Russell Hollier, both of Crowley; four sisters, Beatrice Bourque of Scott, Carita Veronie of Port Arthur, Texas, Ethel Menard of Crowley and Rose Thibodeaux of Mire.
He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Dennis Hollier and Leonard James Hollier.
Pallbearers were his three sons, Ken, Wayne and Greg; two brothers, Francis, Jr. and Russell; and brother-in-law, Raymond Menard.
Funeral arrangements were entrusted to Geesey-Ferguson Funeral Home, Inc. of Crowley.
Friends may express their condolences at www.geesey-ferguson.com.


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Designing What You Need
If you were to construct a hierarchy of web design needs, what would be the greatest need on the bottom of that triangle?
The important factors to consider would be functionality, reliability, usability, proficiency and creativity. The order of these needs would be made according to what your website's end goal is. Does your website need to produce sales leads? Does it need to introduce your brand to the market? In any case, the following order would be helpful in determining the right approach for any web design project.
We have Functionality at the bottom of the hierarchy because it is what makes the website work first and foremost. As well as meeting basic functionality needs, the user interactions are important so they must be accounted for in well developed, well structured applications.
Next we have to test the website for Reliability. Your web design must be stable and perform consistently. It has to not only work, but work again and again. Just as the website has new elements and functions added, it must still work with same amount of reliability every time.
There must be strong focus on the user's needs, so next in the hierarchy we have Usability. It's important to make all the uses of the website easy to find and do. This can be achieved through a well structured navigation system and content. Is it easy to browse the relevant content? Is the layout of the website organised in a way that presents a natural way to navigate? Usability is an important part of the web design early in the process.
Near the top of the hierarchy we have Proficiency. Proficient designs are highly functional. Expanding on basic functionality and providing a new, innovative way of doing things is generally considered proficient. A proficient website might include advanced search options, the ability to combine data from different sources into more sophisticated levels of information and Web-based tools.
At the top, but certainly not an unavoidable part of the process, is Creativity. Once all of the above needs have been met, you can explore the pure design of the website. A creative website might include a mix of good typography, general aesthetic appeal and interaction using modern javascript or Flash effects.


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In this movie we're going to focus on circle and rectangles. Now, because this is the last movie in the sketching chapter, we're also going to bleed a little bit into part modeling as we create the geometry to sketch on. It's not important that you understand everything from a part modeling aspect, because we're going to cover that later, but I think you'll start to see how sketching and part modeling are connected as we move through this video. We're going to begin by extruding this base plate that we've been creating over the previous movies. We're going to right-click and from the Marking menu select Extrude.
We can then select the two profiles that we created and give them an overall Height of .125. We can hit Enter on the keyboard to accept that value and our initial base feature has been created. You can see it here in the browser as Extrusion1. Before we continue sketching we need one more item added to this part, and that's a fillet. We're going to fillet each corner. We're going to start by selecting this first corner and the Heads-Up Display will present a Fillet and Chamfer option. We're going to select Fillet, which is the rounded corner, and we're going to work our way around the parts, selecting each corner edge.
You can select through the part, so I can get to this vertical edge in the back simply by selecting through the part. And once I've selected all four corners, I'll hit the check box to accept those. We've now created our base feature that we're going to build from, and we can begin looking at circles and rectangles. But before we do that I'm going to switch back to the faceplate, which is the completed part so you can see where we're headed. In this case, you can see where the base plate is located here, we're going to go ahead and create circles for these bosses on each corner. We're going to create a circle for the boss in the center.
We're going to create the center hole, and we're going to create a rectangle that locates these holes around the main boss. We'll switch back to our part and continue along the way. We're now ready to being sketching circles. We're going to start with the boss in the center of the part. To do that, we're going to select the top face and from the Heads-Up Display select Create Sketch on the far right. A couple of things happened, we rotated so that we're looking normal to the view. We're straight down on the sketch. And you'll notice the yellow lines were projected from the edges of the part below.
We're going to leverage this projected geometry to create the center boss of our part, and the reason for that is this boss needs to be perfectly centered in the middle of the base plate. To do this, we're going to start by Creating a Line--which we learned about in a previous movie--and we're going to start our line at the center point that was projected from the part. You'll notice as we hover near the center point a green dot appears, which indicates a coincident constraint is going to be applied. We can then hover the end of the line near the center point on the opposite corner, left-click to lock that into place.
We can hit Escape on our keyboard to get out of the command, and you'll notice we now have a line that's locked to the center points and the dark purple color indicates that it's permanently constrained. The next thing I'm going to do, I'm going to select this line, and because we're using this simply as a construction piece of geometry, we're using it just to create a midpoint that we can lock to, select that line, right-click, and the Heads-Up Display has changed to indicate things I can do this line. I could turn it to a Centerline, I could Delete it, or I could convert it to a piece of Construction geometry. That's what I'm going to do.
And after doing so you'll notice the display changes a bit. It's now a dashed line, and what that indicates is that it is construction geometry, and it will be ignored when creating modeling features. All it's there for is so that we can center our circle or our boss on the midpoint of this line. From the Marking menu I'm going to select Circle. I can now hover near the midpoint of this line. Again, I get the green dot to lock the center point to the midpoint. I'm going to left-click to place and begin to drag my circle out. Now, you'll notice the Heads-Up Display for a Circle is showing a Diameter dimension.
In this case, I know we need a radius dimension. So before placing the circle, while I'm in the middle of the command, I can right-click, and I do have an option to change to Radius. If at any point you need to switch back, you can simply right-click while you're in the middle of the command and switch back to a Diameter, it's just a toggle back and forth. In this case, I'm going to go ahead and right-click one more time because I do want that Radius value, and I'm going to enter .413 as my value. I'm going to hit tab on my keyboard to accept that, and then I'm going to left-click to place the circle.
I've now completed the sketch, and I can right-click in the graphics window and select Finish Sketch from the Marking menu, or I can go to the toolbar and select Finish Sketch at the far right, both do the exact same thing, and it's a matter of preference. From the Marking menu I'm now ready to extrude the circle I just created. I can select that circle on the screen and enter a value of .315 for its Height, hitting Enter on the keyboard will accept that value, and the boss is created. Now, it's a little hard to see because of the coloring. I'm going to use my Visual Styles, which we turned on in the navigation tools video, and I'm going to turn on my Shaded with edges option.
This allows me to see the top of the boss a little more clearly and will help as we continue along sketching. The next thing we need to do is add the bosses around each corner. I'm going to sketch on the same face again. It rotates into a Normal view, but this time you'll notice something happened. If I orbit a little bit, you'll notice that this sketch actually runs through this part. Now we're ready to create our circle bosses in each corner. I'm going to use the Marking menu to access the Circle tool, and in this case I'm going to use the projected geometry to completely define these bosses.
I'm going to hover over the center points of the fillets to lock my center point of the circle to that, and I'm going to hover up near the edge of the part to get another coincident constraint. I'm going to left-click, and you'll notice the circle that's created is automatically purple. The center point is locked to the fillet and the outer edge is locked to the edge of the part. This completely defines the circle, and I don't have to add any dimensions. If the fillet underneath changes, the circles will also update. I'm going to work my way around and repeat that process for each of the corners, and we'll be ready to extrude our bosses.
With those completed, I can hit Escape on my keyboard to get out of the Circle command, and I can right-click and select Finish Sketch from the Marking menu. Now we're ready to extrude those bosses. I can right-click on the Marking menu and select Extrude. I can select each of those bosses that I just created, and I can give them an overall Height value of .16. Hitting Enter on the keyboard accepts that value and the bosses are created. Next, I'm going to create the center hole that goes through this boss. To do so, I'm going to start a new sketch by selecting that face and from the Heads-Up Display select Create Sketch again.
Now that we're in the sketch environment, the Marking menu has my Sketch Tools again, and I can select Circle. I'm going to lock it to the center of that part, and I'm going to give it an overall value of .5. I'm going to hit tab on my keyboard to lock that in. But you'll notice that it remembered the Radius that we used previously. While I'm in this command, before I place it, I can right-click and again select Diameter, and you'll notice it maintains the .5 that I entered, but changes it to a Diameter dimension. Left clicking places that, and I'm ready to finish the sketch.
With that circle created I can right-click and select Extrude from the Marking menu. I can select the circle that we created, and I'm going to select a Through All option for this extrusion. I'm going to select the check box in the Heads-Up Display to accept that, and we now have a hole that goes all the way through the part. The final element we're going to cover are the holes that surround the boss. Just to refresh, if I switch back to the base plate, you can see them surrounding the boss here and here, there is four total. We're going to switch back to our part, and we can being a new sketch on that face.
Now here we notice something happens that's a little different than we've seen before. While we get the projected edges, if I orbit a little bit, you'll see that this sketch actually cuts through the part a bit. In order to help with visibility while sketching, you have the ability to right-click in the graphics screen and select Slice Graphics. You can also hit F7 on your keyboard. What that does is temporarily slices the graphics away from the part so that you have better visibility of the sketch you're creating. Again, if I hit F7 on the keyboard, you'll notice it toggles back and forth.
It's a simple temporary visibility enhancement that allows you to see things that you're sketching on. Now, I'm going to rotate back to a Top view so we're looking normal at this view, and we can begin with our Rectangle command. Because we're in the sketch environment, we could bring up the Marking menu, but you'll notice that there is a Two Point Rectangle in our Marking menu. In this case, I don't want the rectangle that's defined by two corners. I'm going to go up to the Sketch tab, to the Draw panel, and find the Rectangle command. The Rectangle command has a split button, and if I select the dropdown option I have different types of rectangles that I can create.
In this case, I want a rectangle that's a Two Point, but one of those point is a center point, because of that I can select the center of this boss which was projected to our sketch. And as I start to drag you'll notice that my square or rectangle is locked into the center of that part. I'm going to use the Heads-Up Display to create dimensions on the fly. In this case, .716 is the Width of the rectangle. I'm going to hit tab on my keyboard to switch to the other dimension and enter .716 one more time.
I'm going to hit Enter on my keyboard to accept those values, and you'll notice the rectangle is created, it's locked to the center of the circle, and it's fully constrained, indicated by the purple geometry. I'm going to get out of my Rectangle command by hitting Escape on my keyboard, and I'm going to make one more change. Because this is construction geometry, I'm only creating this rectangle to locate the center of holes I'm going to create. I'm going to hold Shift down on my keyboard and select each of the outer edges of this rectangle, and with them selected right-click and change to Construction Geometry.
I'm going to hit Escape on my keyboard to make sure nothing is selected now, and I'm ready to finish this sketch. From the Marking menu I'm going to select Finish 2D Sketch, and I'm ready to create my holes now. From the Marking menu I can right-click and select Hole and in this dialog box you can see that I'm ready to select the center points. I can select the center point of these circles by clicking on the corners of the rectangle we just created, and I've now located each of those circles. In this case, the Diameter of the hole is .08, and I'm going to select the check mark to accept that value, and I've created my holes.
Now, because we're going to cover holes and other things around part modeling in future movies, we're going to stop here. At this point we've seen how to use circles and rectangles, and we've started to look at a little bit of part modeling as we prepare for that chapter.
- Navigating drawings with the View Cube and other navigation tools
- Sketching geometry
- Dimensioning parts
- Creating parameters
- Drawing circles, squares, and other shapes
- Creating extrusions
- Creating and managing constraints in assemblies
- Setting basic drawing dimensions


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As offices continue to pop up throughout central Pennsylvania, Immix Wireless is becoming known for its small-town values and its wide variety of offerings for both cell phones and plans.
"We're working really hard to spread the word that we're here, we're a viable choice," said Angela Streight, regional sales director.
The company has been serving 10 counties across central Pennsylvania for nine years, but many people living in this area still don't know about the advantages Immix offers over its larger competitors.
Immix Wireless was officially formed in 2003, in a re-branding effort by Keystone Wireless, and now has six company-owned stores throughout the region.
"We own the licenses in 10 counties in central PA, and those are at Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Sullivan, Union, Montour, Snyder, Schuylkill and Burk," Streight said.
As an independent phone company, Immix can offer more personalized service than customers will find elsewhere.
"All of our customers know our people, which is a huge advantage," Streight said. "We have people who live in this area who have worked in our phone company for years and years and years. If your phone doesn't work at your house, we'll send somebody out to your house to see what the problem is. You won't see that at other phone companies... We give our customers the face-to-face time they need."
Immix also stays up on all the trends in the phone market.
"We have all of the Android lineup... which is super popular right now. We have the Samsung Galaxy X, which is one of the hottest phones on the market," Streight said, adding that the company also carries the more modest flip phones and plain "candybar" phones. "We've got it all."
Immix also has some exciting developments to look forward to in the upcoming year.
"Immix was recently granted federal stimulus money from the government to bring high-speed Internet to the 10 counties in central Pennsylvania," Streight said.
The $36 million grant, awarded in August, will allow Immix to upgrade its network and deliver broadband Internet service to over 300,000 homes in the region.
Streight said the work is expected to take place through 2011-12.
"We also are opening a new store in Williamsport that will be an Internet cafe and cell phone store," Streight said. "That will be our seventh company-owned store."
Streight hopes customers will take the time to compare Immix's offerings and prices to their own.
"I definitely think we would save people money over the competition. We give you far more for less," she said. "You get way more, much better service, and once people do make the switch, they end up being very happy, loyal customers, because they're not treated as a number."