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Season 7 | Episode 707 | "Judge Match" | Aired Sept 2, 2014
We've seen a lot of awesome things since Face Off first premiered, but nothing as awesome as seeing the judges participate in a challenge. Yes, this week was the oft-promoted Judge Match. It's one thing to hear the judges critique, but it is another thing entirely to see them down and dirty in the lab, creating instead of judging. Even McKenzie seemed a little weirded out by the whole thing. It felt like some sort of parallel universe, but in the absolute best way possible.
McKenzie begins the episode with six of Face Off's best and brightest from previous seasons. Each judge will choose a team of two all-stars. The winning judge will get $5,000 donated to the charity of their choice. (And bragging rights, obviously.) In addition, their team members will also walk away with $5,000.
The challenge is to create a pair of living chess pieces that could live in a colorful, stylized fantasy world. And since the theme of the season is life and death (remember that theme from the first episode that we never spoke of again?), one piece must be pure and pristine, while the other is evil and twisted.
Team Glenn
Charity: North Shore Animal League
Chess Pieces: King and Knight
Laura (season 3, season 5 winner)
Wayne (season 4)
Team Ve
Charity: A Window Between Worlds
Chess Pieces: Queen and Rook
Roy (season 3, season 5)
Conor (season 1 winner)
Team Neville
Charity: Orangutan Foundation International
Chess Pieces: Bishop and Pawn
Miranda (season 2, season 5)
Anthony (season 4 winner)
The judges and their teams have three days to complete their challenge, so they jump right in. Ve firmly believes that there can never be enough evil queens, so she heads that direction. Glenn is making a half-horse/half-human champion knight, and an evil, diseased king. Neville is a little concerned. He does mostly creative design, and works on a lot of science fiction, not fantasy. He decides to use this to his advantage and create an altar-boy pawn that is being turned by a dark bishop.
Ve still does a lot of applications, so she's prepared for the latter parts of the challenge, but she hasn't sculpted in 30 years. Welcome back to grunt work, Ve. Roy (one of my all-time favorites) is a phenomenal fabricator, and he is sent away to build a castle. On Glenn's team, Wayne is an insanely fast sculptor, and he begins working on an ENORMOUS horse head for their knight.
Neville is creating a digital version of his sculpt to guide his team's design. He is very focused on the detail work of the pieces. He nitpicks a lot, and his team slowly starts falling behind. They are racing to get their sculpts done in time.
The judges all are spending most of their energy on one character, and letting their teams handle the other. Glenn is working mostly on his king, and Ve on her queen. (Appropriate, no?) Ve decides that her queen must have long red hair, even though Conor created an entire headpiece. My thoughts are more on Ve's hair, and wondering how on earth she spent the entire challenge with her hair down and in her face.
In true Face Off fashion, the judges wander around the lab and compliment each other's amazing work. I love seeing so much of the judges' personalities in this episode. The judges also get to learn how hard this show actually is. I think it's great that they will have this understanding of the contestants going forward.
Finally the chess pieces are finished. They are being judged by Lois Burwell and Michael Westmore. But the winner will be chosen by Glenn, Ve, Neville and their teams (but they cannot vote for themselves). Lois, Michael and McKenzie will serve as tiebreakers.
All of the pieces are, unsurprisingly, amazing. Glenn's knight is enormous. Ve's queen is stunning. (Although I wanted to see more of Roy's awesome fabricated castle.) Neville's pair looks the most like chess pieces, but the least realistic. After a stop in a Survivor-esque voting booth, Neville is named the winner. (I am a little surprised, but really, how could you choose?)
What did you think of the Judge Match? What other competition show judges/hosts would you like to see participate in their show? (I'm hoping to see Jeff Probst, personally.) And who else wants Ve's evil queen to get her own movie?
Face Off airs Tuesdays at 9/8C on Syfy.


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Tea & Crumpets A Holiday Tradition In Adams
Getting together for tea and crumpets is a holiday tradition in southern Jefferson County.
The event is put on by the Historical Association of South Jefferson in Adams.
Over the weekend, they served all kinds of tea from different parts of the world, including gingersnap tea and a variety of holiday teas.
Association director Mary Demianenko said many people haven't had a chance to see the museum during the holidays and the tea was a good chance to show it off.
"We want to show them how beautiful it looks at Christmastime with all the lights and all the trees that are up and the rooms are all decorated," she said.
The tea is gone, but the museum's holiday decorations will be up all month.
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Hebrews 11:1-6
King James Version (KJV)
11 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
As we embark upon one of the greatest seasons of our lives, many believers don't have all of the physical signs to prove what God has promised us. Those around us may not be able to understand the assurance that we have. Knowing that God is faithful concerning His promises, mature believers do have to have a sign. There is an understanding that faith is our confirmation for the things that have not yet been revealed to the senses, or manifested in the earth realm.
When we choose to live by faith, our days of living defeated lives are over. We stop reading the bible as a novel, but we see it as revelation from God that defines the quality of life that He desires for us to have, lives of abundance, freedom, healing, deliverance, and peace. Therefore, we can resolve that we will not be moved by what we see, or what others may say. We KNOW that any moment our promise will show up.
We have to remember:
1. Faith is not a feeling, but a conscious choice to believe what God has said. We will never progress as long as we stay on the plane of our feelings. Faith chooses, then acts, then the feelings follow.
2. Faith acts even in the face of doubt and opposition.
3. Faith sees what others do not see.
Simply stated, Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.


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This is a cell phone pic that someone took when Tolga and I were dancing our first dance as husband and wife. It is such a sweet memory.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
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It has been said that no matter how much you know about a subject,
youre never an expert unless someone else says you are. Since no one
has ever claimed that about me, and I dont have a diploma, I cant
claim to be an expert on any subject, and therefore dont speak with
the Voice of Authority .
However, as a Traverse City native and a lifetime avocational
archaeologist, I have studied the history and archaeology of the area
for over fifty years, with some noteworthy area archaeological
discoveries to my credit. Since my tentative plans include moving
south in a couple of years, I am currently documenting as many
archaeological sites in the area as I can, so there will be at least
some documentation of the areas historical sites -- just in case
anyone cares.
Having a particular interest in the nautical and maritime history of
the Grand Traverse region, a subject of particular interest to me has
always been the fate of the Griffon, about which Ive studied and
researched extensively. If Steve Libert has found it, as claimed in
your article Search for Le Griffon, well and good -- another Great
Lakes mystery solved, and I love it when someone solves such
historical mysteries.
However, I dont feel, on the basis of my research, that Libert has
indeed found the Griffon. I believe his conclusions are erroneous,
based as they are on misinterpretations of existing documentation and
faulty reasoning. My research indicates that the Griffon is nowhere
near where hes looking, nor did it sink in a storm. It was destroyed
by a storm, to be sure, but only because it was driven aground -- and
you wouldnt believe where it ran aground. Lets just say its a lot
closer than people think.
Having read internet articles about Liberts find, I cant say what
hes found, although I suspect its a beam from a barn someone was
moving across the ice when it fell through. I do know that the beam
in question is not a bowsprit, for the simple reason that it is
squared. No ship ever built carried a square bowsprit. Theres a
reason why a ships spars are round.
There are a lot of things Id like to say to refute Liberts claim,
but this isnt the time or place to do so. Oh, and those cannons hes
hoping to find to prove the identity of his discovery? Thats wishful
thinking, Im afraid. Those cannons were salvaged by a helmet diver
from Petoskey in the 1940s, and sold to the government as scrap metal
for the war effort.
Yes, I believe I do know where the Griffon is. Not only that -- Ive
seen it with my own eyes.
Howard J. Blodgett TC
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Condition Black
On any given day, NATO hospitals in southern Afghanistan enter
CONDITION BLACK a status that alerts military tactical commanders
that hospital beds are full and patients should be diverted elsewhere.
Commanders options are limited however in the south NATO has only
two Role-3 hospitals those that are capable of dealing with complex
polytrauma that is a common result of IED blasts.
Its typical for a soldier to arrive from the battlefield with
injuries requiring vascular, orthopedic, burn, and general surgery.
The most seriously wounded will stop at the British hospital in
Helmand province or the U.S. hospital in Kandahar province for
stabilization surgery prior to the long flight to Europe for further
These hospitals are modern-day trauma factories dealing with scores
of brutally battered patients daily, not all of whom are soldiers.
Many of the wounded are innocent Afghan civilians whose neighborhoods
have become battlefields. In fact, Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM)
(an independent and impartial Afghan rights group) reports that 1,074
civilians were killed and over 1,500 were injured in the first six
months of 2010.
And thats where this gets complicated.
Even though the NATO hospitals will report CONDITION BLACK, they will
always make room for NATO troops requiring care; there just is not
another option. Not so for the civilian casualties; in CONDITION
BLACK, NATO will either refuse to collect them from the battlefield,
or deliver them to the poorly-staffed Afghan Army hospital near
Kandahar, which is not capable of complex polytrauma surgery. The
result is that NATO is triaging patients based on
Although the Geneva Conventions require the warring parties to protect
civilians and provide medical care to the wounded, the U.S. chose to
escalate the war knowing that civilians would increasingly be killed
and wounded without a proper level of trauma care in place. While
ARM attributes 60 percent of civilian casualties to the Taliban, they
are not a signatory to the Geneva Conventions and have no medical
facilities. Such is the condition of conducting a counterinsurgency
the burden lies with the nation states U.S. and United Kingdom.
In July 2009, General McChrystal issued a directive that required
commanders to more carefully consider civilian casualties while
engaging the enemy. A June 29, 2010 article by Amnesty International
credits this policy with a 28% reduction in civilian deaths in the
second half of 2009 from the same period in 2008.
A small group of veterans part of Veterans For Peace in Traverse
City appealed to the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services
Committee to investigate the lack of medical care to civilians.
Senator Levin has yet to respond.
Meanwhile, in this poor isolated nation with few true allies, the most
innocent bear the brunt of the suffering; six civilians are killed and
eight wounded daily. Its time to end the war. Short of that the
Commander-In- Chief must do the morally right thing provide medical
care to civilians at the same level offered to NATO forces.
Dave Lannen TC
Dave Lannen is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, a veteran of Iraq
and Afghanistan, and a volunteer with Veterans For Peace in TC.
Last week's article on Cafe Sante in Boyne City listed incorrect
hours. The restaurant is open 7 days a week, 8-3 breakfast and lunch,
Mon-Sat 3-11 dinner and Sun 3-10 dinner.
Also, a Northern Seen photo failed to mention that Teresa Crouse was
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The Jidao Miao Village is about 25 kilometers from Kaili City in Guizhou Province. About a thousand people live there. There are two parts to the village: Shangzhai (Upper Village) and Xiazhai (Lower Village). About 500 people live in each. There are about 170 families, and there are many old traditional wooden houses. People can visit at any time, but the best time to come is in warm months between March and October.
In the 3rd lunar month and the 10th lunar month, there are popular festivals where the people dance and entertain the visitors. In the 3rd lunar month, there is the New Rice Eating Festival; and in the 10th lunar month there is the Miao New Year Festival. Every 13 years, there is the Miao Guzang Festival. The Miao women in Guizhou dress with a lot of silver jewelry and silver headdresses. There is a village dancing square where vistors may watch them dance and sing. The Miao people are known for their traditional songs and dances.
It is said that about 3,500,000 Miao people live in Guizhou. There were several wars between the Miao people and the Qing Empire who were trying to subdue them. The last war of the Miao people happened during the Taiping rebellion in the middle of the 19th century. When they lost, a large number of the Miao people moved from their territory in Guizhou and surrounding regions to the south and into Southeast Asia. The Miao there are called Hmong.
Jidao Miao Village is located 25 km (15.5 miles) away from Kaili City in Guizhou Province. You can take a sightseeing bus from Kaili City to go there directly.
Best time to visit: The best touring season is from March to October every year.
Admission: Free.
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With the All-Star Game behind us, it's time to start looking forward to the second half. We're halfway through the baseball season and coincidentally, halfway through the summer movie season. So to change things up a bit, I will be dividing the teams up into divisions based on their summer movie counterpart as we go through the rankings.
Since we're only halfway through the summer movie season, I only included films that have been released up to this point. So while the final Harry Potter film looks promising and is poised to shatter every film record, I had to leave it off the list. And granted, I didn't include every single film released this summer season, just the ones that matter. So those of you expecting comparisons to Dylan Dog or Priest, sorry to disappoint.
How I rank the films depend on three categories: what I thought of the film, what Rotten Tomatoes' top critics thought of the film and how much it made in the box office. The first two categories will carry most of the weight but in some cases, the box office, and thus what the average person thought of the film, can catapult the film's ranking.
For the teams, these rankings take into consideration how the team performed in the first half and how well I expect them to perform in the second half.
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Pediatric nurses and SIAST alumni Alice Trusty and Kerry Yaschuk (left) have a conversation with Dean of Nursing Netha Dyck (right) at an alumni meeting at Moose Jaw Union Hospital on Friday afternoon. Times-Herald photo by Nathan Liewicki
Twenty-seven years later, after she finished her nursing studies, Sue Myers is still going strong.
The 1976 Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (SIAST) psychiatric nursing diploma graduate is still involved in the nursing field. She is currently an instructor at SIAST, and holds a high regard for the program that helped get her ready for life after school.
"A lot of it was experiential learning, but I had great mentors and peers that taught me the ropes," said Myers. "It was a great starting point for me."
She noted that the program provides tremendous experience to young students right out of the academic gates because they are introduced to clinical work almost immediately.
"You'll know right away what the program is about," she noted. "You will get your feet wet right away."
Myers was one of a handful of former students on hand at a nursing alumni meeting at Moose Jaw Union Hospital on Friday afternoon. The meeting kicked off the program's second annual alumni homecoming weekend, which will also feature campus tours, a Saturday evening dinner and brunch Sunday afternoon.
Dean of Nursing, Dr. Netha Dyck, was also on hand at the meeting to converse with former graduates.
"It's important to connect with our alumni and thank them for their service," noted Dyck. "They have made valuable contributions in the profession of nursing and an impression on the students."
Alice Trusty is another alumni member who has been making contributions to the professions for many years. She graduated from SIAST's nursing program in 1977 with her certified nursing assistant diploma – later completing her registered nursing degree in 1980.
Her advice to young people contemplating applying for entry into nursing at SIAST is first and foremost to make sure you like people and care about them. She also advises new and incoming students to make sure they don't isolate themselves.
"Make sure you scope out all area of nursing because that will expose you to more things in the field," she said.
Kerry Yaschuk agreed with Trusty. A graduate herself back in 1989, Yaschuk, like Trusty, now works as a pediatric nurse. She remembers spending time in various hospital wards — medical surgery, psychiatric nursing, home care — and noted that students should explore different areas of the profession before choosing one area to pursue.
"I remember how heavy and intense the work was in clinical, but I was so fresh and loaded with lots of knowledge that I just felt so prepared when I started working," said Yaschuk.
Across the province there are roughly 500 students in various nursing fields studying at SIAST.
Nathan Liewicki can be reached at 306-691-1256 or follow him on Twitter @liewicks.


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It has been ages since I last installed a new server, especially with so little resources: 30 Gb are great if it's just a shared hosting, but on VPS, 20 of these 30GB are used by the operating system itself.
Now I also have to setup some kind of backup strategy to avoid loosing all my posts in case of problems. I think I'll probably adopt the Dropbox approach suggested by Rob Conery for the websites files, and will setup a weekly backup of the database that goes in a dropbox folder as well.
Probably I'll also think into moving all my static files (CSS, images, code downloads) somewhere in the cloud (like Amazon) just to reduce the disk usage and also the bandwidth consumption on the server.
Not just the bandwidth costs and disk usage, but also for the roundtrip time! Being able to reply a 304-Not Modified in 20ms vs 200ms makes a huge difference!
Yeah, true...will be a big boost in the overall speed of the site.Just need to find an easy way to manage it in a semi-automatic manner.Ideas?
I'm using an S3 bucket for the static items: scripts, artwork and a CloudFront distribution on top of that with a custom CNAME, e.g. static.contoso.com. You don't really need to use an S3 bucket as you can use custom origin servers these days. The app itself is not hosted by EC2 like yours but with a shared hosting partner (currently winhost.com). I think CloudFront updates too slow to have it cache dynamic stuff. BTW my app does mostly video, and S3 + CloudFront is simply great for that.In your case, I'd say make a CloudFront distribution with a custom CNAME and have it point at your webserver, then start changing urls with static stuff to point to the distribution. CloudFront is like a big cache that will automatically come fetch the stuff it doesn't already have when requested, so it's a lot easier to manage than a 'push' type CDN like any of the other I've seen. Actually, CloudFront + S3 is the push style version of it, if you think about it.Mail me if you need more help.
Thank you Dave,I already had a CloudFront and I remember had setup an S3 account as well.So you say that now I can have it take files directly from my server instead of having to upload them to S3 first? How to do it? In the AWS console, when I create a new distribution, I only get to specify an S3 Bucket, not a custom origin.As for EC2... I'm not directly on EC2, I'm testing a "new way of doing VPS" on it... more on this will come in the future
Before checking out Amazon S3, you might want to look at RackSpaceCloud. New Customers are being moved to the Akamai CDN, which has a lot more POPs than Amazon currently does... As for Amazon, the custom origin stuff is available though an API... CyberDuck allows you to do some stuff, but never had success with taking from a HTTP server and loading into CloudFront.
Just as an FYI, here is a GIST that will get you started with AWS CloudFront Custom Origins. https://gist.github.com/704820 had this working in a matter of seconds!
Hi Simone,take care also of IIS Logs and Temporary ASP.NET Files in a server with so few resources.
Simo,you ever thought about using Google Apps to serve your static files? Just setup a nice sub-domain and point it to google ;) My old skin was hosted on google, new one on way.....
I use Amazons CloudFront for some of my sites that have lots of multimedia. Take it from m for the price that I'm paying it's so worth it.
@Tiernan - thanks for the link to the GIST. That could come in very useful.
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Emerging markets to grow to 12 GW p.a. by 201727. November 2012 | Markets & Trends, Global PV markets, Top News | By: Jonathan Gifford
IHS has plotted the shift away from established markets towards emerging markets in its latest photovoltaic market report. It has forecast cumulative demand of around 30 GW to be delivered by the emerging markets over the next four years.
While subsidy cuts are predicted see photovoltaic demand fall away in established markets such as Germany, increasing activity in emerging markets have held some hope for the photovoltaic industry. This trend has been quantified in a new study, the "IHS Emerging Markets Study," which was released today.
Analyzing the potential for photovoltaic market development in 40 countries, the report has found that annual demand could increase from 1.6 GW p.a. to up to 12 GW p.a. from the emerging markets by 2017. The forecast for 2013, set out in the report, is between 2.1 and 3.5 GW p.a., growing to between the extremely wide span of 2.9 to 12.2 GW p.a.
The IHS report specifies that South Africa, Thailand, Chile, Romania and Brazil are the "most appealing" emerging markets, followed by "tier 2" markets Argentina, Ecuador, Turkey and Mexico. While the outlook for photovoltaic growth in these countries is good, IHS notes that there are risks in companies looking to expand into them.
Key drivers of the growth in the emerging markets, as identified by IHS, are the heavy reliance on fossil fuels for power generation in Africa and the Middle East, and how 26% electricity demand will mean that subsidies for these fuels will no longer be possible in 2017. Renewable Energy Standards (RES) requirements are signaled to be the big driver in emerging European markets, while Turkey may employ photovoltaics to "ease its surging power demand."
India is seen to have the highest mid-term market potential, driven by high industrial prices and power shortages. A heavy reliance for oil for electricity production in Southeast Asia and Latin America is indicated as being behind photovoltaic development in these regions.
In terms of the planning of photovoltaic projects, IHS has identified 20 GW in development, with 14 GW in the pipeline stage. However it notes that "notoriously slow approval and implementation processes" means that les than 1 GW of this is currently under construction.
Of this pipeline the 1 GW project, proposed by Securum Equity Partners, in Serbia is noted however IHS cautions, "whether the project is fully completed remains to be seen."
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• About 50 disgruntled PPR workers in France blocked company head François-Henri Pinault (Salma Hayek's husband!) in a taxi in Paris for almost an hour the other day. Pinault had just had a meeting with the European workers' council — PPR plans to cut 1,200 jobs. [WWD]
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Historic Preservation in Indiana
Essays from the Field
Publication Year: 2013
Over the last half century, historic preservation has been on the rise in American cities and towns, from urban renewal and gentrification projects to painstaking restoration of Victorian homes and architectural landmarks. In this book, Nancy R. Hiller brings together individuals with distinctive styles and perspectives, to talk about their passion for preservation. They consider the meaning of place and what motivates those who work to save and care for places; the role of place in the formation of identity; the roles of individuals and organizations in preserving homes, neighborhoods, and towns; and the spiritual as well as economic benefits of preservation. Richly illustrated, Historic Preservation in Indiana is an essential book for everyone who cares about preserving the past for future generations.
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I have always been struck by the passion and fervor of historic preservationists and environmental activists. They have a thirst, an appetite for their respective causes that sustains their advocacy and fuels their zeal. This is as it should be. After all, there is a lot at stake: cut down a Sequoia or tear down Penn Station and they are gone forever...
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Many people have worked to turn the idea for this book into reality. First among them is our sponsoring editor at the Indiana University Press, Linda Oblack, who championed the proposal and saw it through to contract. Linda's assistant at the press, Sarah Jacobi, and project editor Nancy Lightfoot have also been unfailingly patient and helpful...
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Turkeys are a common sight in the fields surrounding the Monroe County Airport near Bloomington, Indiana. But out of the hundreds I've spotted over the years, there is one I will never forget. It was an autumn day in 2008 when this particular turkey caught my eye. Ten feet off the asphalt, it lay breast-up in the corn stubble, clad in a white plastic wrapper...
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Historic preservation is a natural aspect of human existence, an inevitable result of our being creatures of memory and intention. We select and protect things to locate ourselves in time, in space, in society. The old woman on a green hill in Ireland washes weekly and displays daily her precious collection of plates; each was a gift and...
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Our family moved to Bloomington in 1963. It was a different city then. A railroad ran through the center of town dividing it socially and economically. East of the tracks was Indiana University, with large homes and expensive student rentals. West of the tracks was the city's industrial heritage – the railroad, limestone mills, and a massive furniture factory, by then defunct – along with the modest homes originally...
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As I sit writing, I look out the west window through a curtain of lace, slatted wooden blinds, and mullions. My gaze moves on through the boughs of two century-old firs standing guard over the dignified front porch of the neighboring house. Additional trees provide a tracery of branches in winter and a comforting green canopy in summer...
4. The Old Library Debate: How Bloomington, Indiana Preserved Its Carnegie Library
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Carnegie libraries are a common sight in cities and towns across the United States, monuments not only to the steel magnate whose wealth made their construction possible, but also to the largely unknown communities of people who planned and preserved them. Every Carnegie library building stands for the work of local...
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Why, you may ask, does a weathervane in the shape of a fish swim atop the dome of the county courthouse in Bloomington, Indiana, six hundred miles from the sea? The explanations that circulate hereabouts range from sober to silly. My own theory tends, I suppose, toward the crackpot end of the spectrum, but I will share it with you...
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As preservationists, we are always looking for what a building can become at the same time as we are investigating what it once was. For that reason, industrial buildings present an especially compelling challenge. Once hubs of extensive and productive activity, when found abandoned or underused they stand as memorials – to the...
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Bill and I had always liked Indiana history and architecture, and we spent hours exploring southern Indiana in the 1960s when we could spare the gasoline and the time. That was our recreation, eking out a few hours from our small Bloomington business, which we had started together at home and were gradually growing...
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The place was, and still is, south of where County Roads 300 West and 200 South intersect, approximately eleven miles below Petersburg in Pike County, Indiana. If you were to turn west from State Road 57 onto County Road 200 South, just north of the Gibson County line, and follow that road until you reach the first crossroads, you could...
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At a historic preservation conference in the 1980s, I was introduced to a noted preservationist and dedicated champion of Indiana's historic places. Upon learning that I was an archaeologist, he mentioned that he was involved in restoring a house; workers had nearly finished repairing the foundation, but he wondered whether the house...
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From its flat, lake-studded terrain in the north to the rolling hills of the Ohio River valley in the south, the Hoosier state is composed of an extraordinary variety of natural landscapes. The dense forest, meandering creeks, and rugged ground that so tried the determination of early nineteenth-century settlers have been prized for their beauty by generations since...
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Since its founding in 1976, Bloomington Restorations Inc. has relentlessly strived to save and restore the old buildings and neighborhoods of Bloomington and Monroe County, Indiana. Formed by people fed up with the destruction of landmark houses near downtown Bloomington, the group quickly moved beyond advocacy into the direct...
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The first time my husband and I drove Maple Grove Road, a rural historic district near Bloomington, Indiana, we were surprised. From the descriptions given us by friends, all of whom praised its rural charm, we had formed an expectation of idyllic, uninterrupted farmland dotted with benevolent old farmhouses. The farmland was still there. But...
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There is something mystical about the places you inhabited when you were young. Visit them decades later and you will find your mind redressing and regressing the houses and other buildings, cascading you into a reflective state of haze in the face of suddenly living memory. The past is a fading dream, and buildings are its symbols...
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Print-ISBN-13: 9780253010469
Page Count: 224
Illustrations: 16 color illus., 30 b&w illus.
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You may know that Mitch Zeller became the Center for Tobacco Products' Director in March 2013. What you may not know is that he has been working on FDA issues for 30 years! Consider this your invitation to learn even more about CTP's new director, via a special FDA Basics webinar that was recorded on December 11, 2013.
In the webinar, you will learn more about Director Zeller's background and hear his thoughts on key opportunities for FDA to help reduce the burden of tobacco through product regulation. The webinar was moderated by CTP's Director of Health Communication and Education, Kathy Crosby, and also includes a question and answer portion at the end of the presentation.
The FDA's Center for Tobacco Products will host the webinar.
- Moderator: Kathy Crosby – Director, Office of Health Communication and Education, Center for Tobacco Products
- Featured Speaker: Mitch Zeller, J.D. – Director, Center for Tobacco Products
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This handsome men's gift collection has a rich presence. The jewelry box neatly stores rings, watches and cuff links on the top tray, and has a roomy compartment below.
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HERNDON, VA – COOP Systems, the developer of the most advanced Business Continuity Management (BCMS) software package in the world, has a special relationship with Project Discovery of Virginia. We have adopted this organization as COOP's primary community outreach. Vicki Alvord, our CFO, serves on the Board of Directors.
"Project Discovery makes a tremendous difference in the lives of the 2,500 Virginia students we serve annually. Most of our students are from low income families or the first in their families to go to college" said Vicki Alvord, CFO of COOP Systems. "COOP Systems is proud to be involved with such a great cause. We urge you to visit the Project Discovery website and donate generously. If you are a Virginia resident, your donation qualifies for a Neighborhood Assistance Program Tax Credit."
|ABOUT Project Discovery of Virginia Inc. - An Investment that Pays
Project Discovery is a state-wide, post-secondary education access program for economically disadvantaged potential first-generation college students designed to develop the skills, knowledge and desire to stay and thrive in school and ultimately make their college dreams a reality. By offering students encouragement, support, and resources at an early stage, Project Discovery gives students the forward momentum that translates into healthy, engaged and productive citizens who drive economies and enrich communities.
Today's students drive tomorrow's economy. When it comes to underperforming students from underserved populations, the earlier we are able to direct attention and resources, the better the chances those students have of succeeding. For children who are the first in their families to go to college, a college graduation is a crucial milestone for eliminating intergenerational poverty. Having a college education is instrumental in building the basis upon which more people can be considered two generations out of poverty.
Without Project Discovery, compared to students state-wide, about ten percent of Project Discovery students would drop out of high school. The estimated cost savings of raising Virginia's high-school graduation rate by even five percent is over $179 million per year.
High school drop-outs are eight times more likely to become incarcerated, each costing Virginia an average $25,498* per inmate, per year. If ten percent (220 students) didn't have Project Discovery and dropped out, it would cost Virginia over $500,000 per year in additional anticipated incarceration costs.
High school dropouts are more likely to rely on public assistance, including Medicaid and TANF payments. Average monthly TANF payment is $376**
High school drop-outs represent a loss in taxable income. The median income for someone without a high school diploma is $21,000. This is 28% percent lower than the median salary for those with a high school diploma or GED ($29,064) and 60% less than those with a bachelor's degree ($53,522).
Over ten years, a college graduate will pay an estimated $41,000 more in Virginia state taxes than someone without a high school diploma. If 276 Project Discovery graduates earn college degrees each year, Project Discovery earns Virginia an additional $1.13 million per year in taxation revenue.
* Virginia Dept of Corrections: State Responsible Offender Population Trends FY 2008-2012; March 2013
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The Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood has started a petition, asking Fisher-Price to stop manufacturing and marketing their Newborn-to-Toddler Apptivity™ Seat for iPad® device.
Let me tell you about this atrocity. It's a bouncy seat that has an attachment where a parent can place an iPad — right in front of their baby's face. This contraption retails for $80 and parents can download four "age-appropriate" apps, including one for the youngest babies.
This is not Fisher-Price's only baby toy that is designed for use with iPads, which shows that technology is really overtaking our lives in every aspect — including parenting. How many moms and dads hand over their smartphones to their toddlers, and how many preschoolers have their own tablets? I'm definitely not anti-technology, but the idea of planting an infant in a seat, strapping him in and sticking an iPad in his face is ludicrous.
Experts agree that no screen time before 2 years of age is the way to go. And really, the iPad aspect isn't the whole problem — it's also a baby container problem. There are so many things for modern parents to put their babies into. Strollers, bouncy seats, car seats… the list goes on, and on, and on. There is almost an epidemic of babies with plagiocephaly, or "flat head syndrome." That's not always caused by an overuse of baby-containment items, but often it is.
Here's an idea. Interact with your baby. Hold her, carry her, wear her. Put her on the floor for tummy time. Don't strap her into a seat and play iPad apps for her. She needs visual stimulation from the real world, real experiences and real people.
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Lori's Story: I Knew In My Heart It Was Right
Nicholas was born July 10, 1987, at about 2:30 in the afternoon. It was the best day of my life. Sonne, his adoptive mother, was at the birth and took pictures. Later that night Larry, the adoptive father, arrived at the hospital to see his newborn son.
This all happened in Pennsylvania and because the laws are different there, I got to spend the first three days nursing and loving Nicholas. Then, on the fourth day, he left with Sonne and Larry to go home to California. It was very painful for me to watch him go but I knew in my heart it was right. Sonne kept in touch with letters and lots of pictures which helped ease the pain a little. I got to watch him grow and change, although at a distance. That was okay though, because I knew he was getting so much more than I could have given him.
I've since moved back to California where I'm originally from and I happen to live fairly close to Nicholas. I see him twice a year on his birthday and Christmas. I still get letters and lots of pictures. Nicholas is six now and, although I still have some pain deep in my heart, it's gotten a lot smaller as my joy for the whole situation has gotten a lot bigger. I love my visits with Nicholas. He is a great little boy. I really like him a lot and he likes me too. I believe that Nicholas came through me, not to me. He is where he was meant to be and he is having a wonderful life.


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The president of a Tucson elementary school PTA was arrested for voyeurism after he took a photo of a teenaged girl in a clothing store dressing room, police said.
Aaron Lee Garibay, 31, was booked into the Pima County jail April 24 in connection with the incident that occurred April 13 in a thrift store on East 22nd Street. Voyeurism Class 5 felony.
The mother of the 17-year-old victim called police after the teen saw someone in an adjoining dressing room hold a cell phone over the top of the wall to take a photo of her. The teen and her mother confronted Garibay before calling the police, said Sgt. Pete Dugan, spokesman for the Tucson Police Department.
"Detectives confirmed the 17-year-old's story by looking at surveillance video," Dugan said.
The video showed Garibay was not carrying any clothing when he entered the dressing room.
Garibay is president of the parent teacher association at Steele Elementary School in the Tucson Unified School District. Steele Elementary is at 700 S. Sarnoff Drive between East Broadway and East 22nd Street.


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Barbara B. Okerson, PhD, is a Senior Health Information Consultant at WellPoint. Okerson supports the West Coast Region Client Advisory and Reporting Services as part of Health & Wellness Solutions. She handles ad hoc and report development requests with SAS software. Okerson has worked in the healthcare industry for more than 15 years. She is a SAS Certified Professional, a Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality, and a Fellow at the Academy for Healthcare Management.
How long have you been using SAS®?
23 years.
What SAS products have you used in the past? What products and solutions are you currently using?
In the past: Base SAS, SAS/GRAPH®, SAS/IML®, SAS/STAT®, SAS/OR®, SAS/GIS®, SAS/AF®, SAS/ETS®, SAS/QC®, SAS/EIS®
Currently using: Base SAS, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/STAT, SAS/ETS, SAS® Enterprise Guide®
What is a problem you have solved using SAS?
The most frequent problem would be process automation. I have used it in academics – I've done automatic test scoring with SAS. In the health care field, I created a report card application for providers and also used SAS to create monthly automated risk-scoring reports.
What is the most innovative way you have used SAS?
I used SAS to create a database to store several hundred bibliographic sources and their topical uses for dissertation.
What is your most memorable SAS moment?
Being chair of (Southeast SAS Users Group) 2011.
How has SAS changed in the time you have been using it?
I started using SAS with the VMS operating system – not a Windows environment – so I would say the Windows environment is the biggest change. The other big change would be using ODS for formatting. I used to rely on Annotate, PROC GREPLAY, and graphics primitives to approximate what I wanted – all of this is much easier with ODS. (I still use the Annotate facility).
Have you ever attended a SAS users group meeting or SAS Global Forum? If yes, please list them.
I have attended all SUGIs and SAS Global Forums since 1990 in Nashville (23 straight). I have also attended most SESUGs, as well as some NESUGs (NorthEast SAS Users Group) and MWSUGs (Midwest SAS Users Group). I have attended Virginia SAS Users Group meetings since 2001 and have been an officer since 2006. I am also a member of the planning committee for the WellPoint In-house Users Group.
Has your work with SAS been influenced by any other members of the SAS community?
Yes, I have been influenced by Mike Zdeb, Darrell Massengill, Art Carpenter, Daniel O'Connor, Robert Allison and others. I am also influenced by all those conference attendees whose papers I access when I have a question.
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Way back in October, we shared the exciting news about the
The full version of Diablo III for PC and Mac (obviously)
Diablo skull
4GB soulstone USB drive with a PC/Mac copy of
Behind the scenes DVD/Blu-Ray
Art of Diablo III book
Diablo III Soundtrack
In-game content for Diablo III,
The listing that appears on GAME's website looks almost identical to what we already knew, with one glaring omission. While the USB drive is included, there is no mention of a pre-loaded copy of Diablo II and Lord of Destruction. This might not be a huge factor for the Diablo faithful, but for those that missed out on Diablo II and have succumbed to the hype of Blizzard's next big adventure, it's sad that it might not be included.
We don't know if this is set in (soul)stone and, if so, if this spells bad news for the North American Collector's Edition, too. We'll keep you posted.
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Do Facebook-driven comments kill trolls?
Ever felt the need to chime in on a subject, only to digress after seeing that the comment thread had already devolved to name-calling and mud-slinging? Many civil and useful comments are probably not posted every day on sites where comments have become the armpit of the site.
I spent a bit of time looking for suitable comment quotes to illustrate this story… but ended up leaving the really illustrative once on the offending pages.
So, check out the comment threads on Yahoo! Buzz for live evidence that commenter anonymity (screen names and avatars) can create an atmosphere where valid debate and discussion of an issue is overwhelmed by shouting, name calling, and antisocial behavior. I've shown some of the tamer comments below:
keep talking Robert, you're looking dumber by the second…
Does you mommy know you talk naughty online?
Let the right wing nuts jobs be racist in 5…4…3…2…
And let the conspiracies fly…
god – And let the narcissistic, egomaniacal liberals try to antagonize them because it is their sole source of energy in… -Ah, good work.
What makes a particular site's comments devolve into the cesspools, while other sites (such as True/Slant) are more civil? Is it comment moderation? Curation? User votes up and down? Something else?
Generally, those comment management techniques can certainly help. A commenter is less likely to be the first to be destructive if the comment quality on the post or site is already high, or if low-quality comments are hidden. An online version of the broken window theory, which states that communities with buildings in disrepair – even one broken window – are more likely to see increasing vandalism; fixing that window can forestall additional smashed windows.
Of course, there are other factors at work. One theory that should be given credence is that online anonymity contributes to delinquency in the same way darkened streetlights make it difficult to recognize vandals and lawbreakers in a city. The use of screen names and avatars, such as those in Yahoo! Buzz, gives each commenter a degree of anonymity, and as a result, commenters may feel that there are few repercussions to what they say. But is that the sole reason for crappy comments? I'm not the first to ponder this topic, nor will I be the last. Mathew Ingram posted a few months back on the anonymous comments debate and includes several links to various points of view.
When I'm asked about comments, I often say that to me, comments and the ability to interact through them are like democracy. Most people support democracy and its various principles, even though in practice it is frequently ugly and brutal and betrays some of the worst elements of humanity for everyone to see (Winston Churchill said that democracy was the worst possible form of government, except for all the others). So it is with comments. And just as anonymity has a broader purpose in a democratic society — whistleblowing, for example (a point Topix CEO Chris Tolles made), and keeping a check on arbitrary authority — I think it has a purpose in comments and online communities as well.
Regardless of your point of view on anonymity, however, a simple fact remains: using a public profile, and one's real name, tends to make nearly everyone think twice about their comments… resulting in a more civil tone that makes the work of moderating and curating comments much easier.
So using Facebook Connect or oAuth (using Twitter or other social media credentials to log in to a site and present an online identity while on that site) can be very helpful to websites wishing to generate a highly civil, educated commenting atmosphere. It's not the only tool, and it comes with a few costs (beyond implementation, not everyone has a Facebook or Twitter account, so it can present a barrier to some folks) but it's certainly worth exploring in any website's strategies.
But wait – that's not all. As Salon magazine has pointed out,
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In tough economic times, the flimsiness of the environmental movement comes to the fore.
Environmentalism is the luxury of those without more pressing concerns — like survival. In places like China, where their government worries about feeding 1.3 billion people, environmental concerns take a back seat to human concerns like food, water, and jobs.
It was with interest that I followed Robert Scoble's tweets from China. He reported choking smog and horrendous pollution that was the side effect of making the cheap consumer electronics we Americans used to enjoy buying before the current economic downturn. Scoble also reported that the Chinese are making strides to make environmentally friendly factories.
Environmentally friendly factories are all to the good and not exclusive of human concerns. Without money flowing to buy products, there will be no factories. Environmentally friendly ones will be as out of business as polluting ones.
This begs the question: Does anyone not want to care for the environment? I put the environmental grandstanding in the same category as torture. Who the heck is for torture? No one. And who is for destroying the environment? No one. The question gets murkier when survival is at stake. If a person must choose, and sometimes leaders must choose, between survival and the ideal, sometimes an ethically challenging decision must be made because the higher value is the value of life. More on that in a bit.
Hostile Green Takeover: The Auto Industry Faces Environmental Thuggery
Senate Floor Speech – November 20, 2008
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) – Ranking Member, Environment and Public Works Committee
The latest bailout demand making the rounds in Washington is for the Big Three auto industry. Democrats would have you believe the proposed bailout is all about saving jobs, but, having been in Washington long enough, my instincts led me to dig deeper where I unearthed green roots hiding beneath the bailout rhetoric.
It now appears that much of what you have heard in the media about the auto bailout being about "jobs" has been misleading. In fact, there are "usual suspects" working behind the scenes to subvert the auto bailout and ultimately betray auto workers.
The facts are these:
The proposed $25 billion bailout of Detroit now appears to have been hijacked by the powerful environmental lobby.
The November 19 Wall Street Journal asks:
"When is $25 billion in taxpayer cash insufficient to bail out Detroit's auto makers?" Answer: "When the money is a tool of Congressional industrial policy to turn GM, Ford and Chrysler into agents of the Sierra Club and other green lobbies."
According to the Wall Street Journal, the auto bailout has degenerated into a tool to "make Detroit a subsidiary of the Sierra Club."
The Wall Street Journal explains:
"In their public statements, proponents describe the bailout as an attempt to save jobs, American manufacturing and the middle-class way of life. But look closely and you can see that what's really going on is an attempt to use taxpayer money to remake Detroit in the image of the modern environmental movement. Given a choice between greens and blue-collar workers, Congress puts the greens first."
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'Six Characters' in search of relevance
By Peter Marks
Monday, November 26, 2012
The literary limbo of the benighted family of "Six Characters in Search of an Author" is capably handled in the revival of the Luigi Pirandello play by Arlington's WSC Avant Bard -- even if, by contemporary standards, there's no longer anything very "avant" about the 1921 absurdist classic.
The fairly conventional treatment the piece receives under Tom Prewitt's direction at the Artisphere makes it a worthwhile experience for students of theater history and others who might be curious about how Pirandello's brain-teasing work fares on a stage. But it should be noted that even when inhabited by such watchable actors as Brian Hemmingsen and Nanna Ingvarsson, the play can't entirely shake off its faintly dated odor.
Hemmingsen and Ingvarsson are The Father and Mother of "Six Characters," fictional characters who barge in on a huffy Director (Bruce Alan Rauscher) and a group of jaded actors rehearsing another play. Along with The Stepdaughter (Sara Barker), The Son (Joshua Dick), The Girl (Emily Ocasio) and The Boy (Sebastian Ingvarsson-Hemmingsen), the Father and Mother materialize to beseech The Director to hear their story and, more important, allow it to be enacted on the stage.
Their understanding of reality, however, is limited to the outlines of how their tale has been written, and so in confronting the acting troupe, they are able only to articulate a sliver of life as they know it. "I live and breathe my torment. It never ends," declares Ingvarsson's Mother, dressed in the mournful black of a woman who's experienced only woe.
Once the dimensions of their plight have been explained -- most compellingly by the imposing, vocally adept Hemmingsen -- the play enters a phase of rhetorical stasis. It turns out, of course, that we are as trapped in our existences as they are in theirs: "We suffer under the illusion that we are the same person for everyone," The Father notes.
For an audience, reflecting on the breadth of Pirandello's dramatic ingenuity can certainly be edifying, though the "Twilight Zone" novelty of the piece soon wears off. What you're left with is the unraveling of the rather cold and murky details of The Father's past behavior, as angrily recounted for the actors by Barker's outraged Stepdaughter. The melodrama-within-a-play is only mildly absorbing.
Collin Ranney's set, with painted images of clouds on the floor and backdrop, provides the properly ethereal environment for "Six Characters," whose appeal on the basis of this production these days resides most reliably in the realm of the academic.


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to continue, i need to know how you define something like N(n)
I don't know where to start or how to do this proof. Can someone please help me?
Prove by induction on n that if r < n and f:N(r)--> N(n), then f is not onto N(n). (Where N is the natural numbers)
Thank you for your help!
to continue, i need to know how you define something like N(n)
so you want to prove for all
where is the statement " and " where
and the statement is " is not onto "
Now, if the statement is false, then the implication is always true.
The thing is, is false for the inductive step. since if we take (which i am assuming is the first natural number by your definition), then there is no such that . Thus the part of the first statement is false, which ends up making the whole statement true. thus, the inductive step holds.
Now i need to know how you define for some
Claim: P(n+1):=" if r < n+1 and f:N(r)--> N(n+1), then f is not onto N(n+1)"
There are two cases to consider:
Case 1:
Trivially not onto.
Case 2:
Define a function g:N(r) --> N(n), such that
By Induction Hypothesis on g, there exists a , such that . But then g(i) = f(i). So the conclusion follows.
Afterthought: I think this proof is not completely right. You can proceed in a similar manner. You have to take care of a small detail in case 2. Anyway can you spot the mistake?


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Quick Shortbread Fingers
Total Time
Prep 10 mins
Cook 35 mins
I have been cooking from this book for the past 40 years. I in fact paid 30 shillings for it (I know that shows my age!). This is a favourite of my children, my friends, their friends and everyone else. They just cannot get enough. I hope you enjoy it and please let me know if you have any suggestions to make it that little bit better.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 4 ounces butter
- 2 ounces caster sugar (if diabetic replace with Splenda or another brand - 5 tbs)
- 6 ounces plain flour
- 1 tablespoon caster sugar, for decoration
- Place all ingredients in a mixing bowl.
- Knead together well with fingertips (you can also mix this well in a blender)until you form a smooth, firm ball.
- Turn out onto a lightly floured board and divide into two portions.
- Roll out and trim into two oblongs, about 8 x 2.5 inches.
- Place on baking tray covered with grease-proof paper and prick with a fork.
- Bake in a moderate oven for 30-35 minutes (about 180).
- Once baked, cut into fingers whilst still warm and allow to cool on baking tin.
- Sprinkle with the rest of the sugar and seal in an airtight tin.
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Clearly, Tim Tebow is "excited" to join the New York Jets — he only used the word 44 times in a press conference yesterday — which at least makes one of us since I'm less than thrilled to endure future bimbo-isms from a football-slugging super-Christian. Like, can't you throw your Jesus balls around somewhere that isn't where I live?
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Cabin w/PrivateHotTub,Swimming Pool Access,WiFi
From $92 / night
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Bedrooms: Studio
Bathrooms: 1
Sleeps: 3
Type: Apartment
Pets allowed: Yes
Internet: Yes
Hearts Desire has all the amenities you need including a hot tub on a covered deck, tv on cable, DVD player, WiFi, fireplace, full kitchen, full bath with tub/shower, and a separate jacuzzi tub. Guests also have free access to the community swimming pool.
Hearts Desire is dog friendly as well.
My husband and I here locally and take care of our cabins ourselves. We personally make sure they are clean and everything works properly. If you need anything during your stay you will talk to one of us and we will help anyway we can. You can see all 7 of our cabins at our business site on the web.
We would be honored to have you as our guests!!
Terry Kay Stagg
Terry Kay Cabin Rentals
It is also located just a couple miles from the new Pigeon Forge LeConte Convention Center.
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About:My husband and I live here locally and take care of our cabins ourselves. We have 6 cabins which can be viewed at terrykaycabinrentals
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|Deposits: ASK US ABOUT SPECIALS WITH FREE NIGHTS!! A two night stay is possible certain times of the year, please ask. More than 30 days from arrival - $100 deposit which goes towards total fee. Remaining balance due 30 days prior to arrival. Less than 30 days from arrival - whole amount is due when making reservation.
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|Other Fees: Holiday rates are higher. Pet fee $35 We have specials all year long, just ask us for the latest special. NO CLEANING FEES !!!
- 1 King Bed
- 1 Sofa Bed
- Air Conditioning
- Full Kitchen
- Hot Tub
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- Deck
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- View (City Lights)
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- High Speed Internet
- Parking Included
- View (Mountains)
- Alarm Clock
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- Winery
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- Restaurant
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Reviews for this vacation apartment rental in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
almost heaven cabin #50
james mcalister
Westminster,S.C. 29693
Cozy and quaint
Lisa Johnson
Irvine. Ky
Thank you so much for sharing your cabin with us.We came in from Knoxville and it was our first time in the mountains. It was very nice to be able to bring our dog Bailey with us. It was great to have the secluded mountain cabin feel while being so close to the attractions of Pigeon Forge. We enjoyed every aspect of your cabin from the fireplace to the hot tub on the deck! It was great reading all the guest book entries of previous visitors who had the same great experiences we did! I am especially pleased with the great value and "no hidden fees" of your cabins. We also enjoyed having a kitchen and outside grill.
We will definitely be back!
Jessica and Adam
Tim and Terry,
We had a great time, the cabin was great as usual. This is our 3rd cabin of yours we've stayed at, they are all great.
Thank you so much for providing us with a wonderful place to stay. Our dog "Gracie" just loved it. We will be back.
God bless you and your family!
Larry and Nana
Arab, Alabama
Thanks so much for letting us stay in your cabin for our honeymoon. We really enjoyed it and would love to come back again. Our dog Bella (yorkie) was also excited that she got to come with us, so thanks for having pet friendly cabins also.
Brandt and Kelli
Baton Rouge, La
Our first time staying in a cabin, and I must say it's been wonderful! Just what the doctor ordered. This is what heaven must be like, in the mountains, closer to God!
Thanks so much for a much needed R&R. Loved it!
Teri and John
Southern Indiana
My wife and I have really enjoyed our stay here in Pigeon Forge and in your cabin. It was just right for waht we needed. We are thankful for people like you who make it possible for the plain and simple people to have a place to come and relax and enjoy ourselves. After a day of exploring and shopping it was nice to come back to the cabin and enjoy the jacuzzi and unwind. Looking forward to October when we come back to another of your cabins to enjoy the fall colors. May God continue to bless you as you have blessed others.
Thanks again,
Randy and Betty Ann
Live Oak, Florida
We have stayed at mostly all of Terry Kay's pet friendly cabins. We really enjoy this cabin for the view and convenience of being close to everything, yet feeling farther away. It's perfect for the two of us and our wonderful dog Rusty. This is our second stay here and looking forward to many more.
Thank you Tim and Terry for giving us a place to get away. God bless you! The decor has been great in all of them.
Rich, Pamela, and Rusty
Columbus, Ohio
We love your cabins. This is the second one we stayed in and they were both wonderful. We come for the peace and quiet and found it here. We recommend them to everyone coming up to the Smokies. My husband says I've been ruined by staying in your cabins. I would rather be here than any hotel room anyday. Thanks for everything.
God bless you both!
Danny and Dorothy
Henderson, Ky
Great cabin for two people! Class and comfort with every amenity! Will highly recommend to our "pet owner" friends. Great job on interior decor here in cabin. Really felt like home.
Everything was exactly the way your site described - we had no dissappointments!
Thanks for a great stay!
We LOVED this cabin! We used this time as our late honeymoon (married 6/26/11)& as "us time". Since my husband had been in military training since September 6th and graduated the day before we came, the place was perfect!
We loved the studio feel, and we used the hot tub every moment we could. WE are already planning our next trip here, perhaps for our 1st anniversary. Thank you for the great cabin, it was everything we hoped for and more.
Kyle & Samantha
Gallatin, Tn
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Cirque Musica and one of their performers was given a small token of appreciation by Indiana's Mayor George Hood.
At a media event earlier today (Monday), Mayor Hood presented Ambrose and David Larible, two of Cirque Musica's performers with the Key to the city. Larible said that even though he was far away from his native Italy, he felt at home in our area. He said in an interview afterwards that he heard about the large Italian-American population in our area, and said it made him feel good.
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There is a growing need for effective methods of designing correct computer hardware and software, particularly for safety critical systems such as automotive embedded systems software or for systems that are costly to recall such as microprocessors (e.g., the $500M loss by Intel on the Pentium division error.) To cope with these problems, Formal Methods have been developed based on the use of mathematical logic precision tools for specifying and reasoning about program correctness. Hardware, software, and design automation companies use formal methods to make their products more reliable and less costly to develop.
This course will survey the basic concepts of formal methods. The emphasis will be on using and applying mathematical logic plus finite state systems theory to program verification and debugging.
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How many miles? 7 Miles / 12 Km
How many times? 12 mins
Distance from Elysburg, PA to Coal Township, PA is 7Miles or 12 Km. You can get this distance about 12 mins. If you want to planning travel with plane for 6 Miles or 9 Km, You can get this distance about 30 mins .
A car with an average MPG will needs 0.32 gallons of gas to get the route between these points.
The estimated cost of gas to get between Elysburg, PA and Coal Township, PA is $0.73.
During the route, an average car will release 6.27 pounds of CO2 to the atmosphere. Your carbon footprint is 0.9 pounds of CO2 per mile.
* Average US MPG used for calculations is 21.6 MPG.
* Average US gas price used for calculation is 2.27 per gallon.
* Coordinates of Elysburg, PA is 40.8646385, -76.55253859999999 and coordinates of Coal Township, PA is 40.7926465, -76.56408770000002
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KILMARNOCKThe Lancaster school board on Monday hired a dean of students at Lancaster Middle School (LMS). Superintendent Dr. Daniel Lukich introduced the school's newest hire, Kelvin Evans, to members of the school board and the public.
Evans, who lives in Hampton with his wife and two daughters, wasted no time in getting started, showing up Tuesday morning for introductions to students and faculty.
The new dean brings experience as a middle school teacher in the Hampton Roads area as well as being a pastor and businessman.
In his new position, Evans is expected to handle growing discipline problems at LMS, a problem which surfaced last month after an assault on a seventh-grade boy led to over 200 parents gathering to express concern and form a new organization, Community for our Schools (CSF).
Lukich received board approval for an interim position of five months, which will cover the remainder of the school term.
LMS principal Kim Hammond noted the position will not be listed under vice principals and is not on her staff request for next term. Previously, there were two vice principals at the middle school. However, one position was eliminated during last year's budget cuts.
The dean of students position was added to the agenda's consent docket during the meeting. After the meeting, some members expressed dismay at having the position pop up on the agenda at the last minute without advance knowledge and with little information. However, there were no objections when the agenda was amended nor when the vote was held on adding the position, which passed on a 5-0 vote.


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Religious Freedom is the Crux of the MatterPosted by The Congressional Prayer Caucus | March 09, 2012
In recent weeks, the severe religious freedom implications of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) mandate have been obscured beneath a flurry of political rhetoric. At the heart of the matter, the fact remains that the mandate will require most religious employers to provide their employees with health plans that cover abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives, and sterilization at no cost to the patient, despite the fact that scores of employers—and employees, for that matter—have religious and moral objections to these services. The issue is whether the government should be able to force individuals to take actions that directly violate their constitutionally protected religious freedoms.
After a firestorm of opposition to the mandate, President Obama finalized a plan that includes only an extremely narrow exemption for churches and a temporary one-year transition period for other nonexempt religious employers. He also released a press statement announcing an abstract accounting gimmick "to come" that will attempt to pacify religious hospitals, schools, charities, and other nonexempt organizations by forcing insurance companies to provide the services "free of charge." Of course, the obvious concern is that when an insurance company provides a service, someone pays for it. Some have voiced concerns that if insurance companies are forced to pay for the services, premiums will increase across the board. As a result, those whose religious convictions directly prohibit these services would still be forced to pay for them.
The Heritage Foundation recently posted an article on the mandate, saying, "Some have attempted to make this a debate about other issues, but despite their efforts, the core complaint about this anti-conscience mandate remains: The President's policy is an unprecedented attack on all Americans' rights as protected by the First Amendment. And those who prize religious liberty aren't backing down." You can read more about continued efforts to expose the mandate's real threat to religious freedom by clicking here.
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Sunshine Mills hires vp
September 16, 2002-- Home Textiles Today,
Sunshine Mills Inc., a new greige weaving mill based here, has added John Cavanaugh as its vp, marketing and sales.
Cavanaugh was most recently with Textile Resources Inc., and was formerly executive vp of CMI Industries' greige goods division. He is also the former president of the Textile Distributors Association and currently serves as its chairman.
Cavanaugh will be based out of the company's Long Island, NY, sales offices.
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Michael Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles ran roughshod over the Washington Redskins in Week 1, surviving a fourth-quarter burst in a convincing and captivating victory.
On Sunday's rematch, a different quarterback was at the helm for Philadephia, but the result was the same. The Eagles dominated on both sides of the ball for most of the afternoon, jumping out to 24-0 lead before holding off a late push in a 24-16 win over their division rivals.
The Eagles moved to 6-5 on the season and took sole possession of first place in the NFC East over the Dallas Cowboys, which had a bye this week. Philadelphia had lost 10 straight home games before Sunday's win, which was their third straight win overall.
At the other end of the spectrum, the Redskins -- which could have pulled to within one game of first place with a win -- dropped to 3-7 and the cellar of the maligned division.
Eagles quarterback Nick Foles, who has filled in admirably since Vick was sidelined with a hamstring injury six weeks ago, delivered another solid performance Sunday, completing 17 of 26 passes for 298 yards. He also ran nine times for 47 yards, including a 4-yard score in the first quarter.
His counterpart, Robert Griffin III, was largely ineffective in the loss, though a pair of strong drives in the fourth quarter made his final numbers (17-35, 264 yards, 2 TD) respectable.
The Redskins made it interesting late. Griffin threw a 62-yard touchdown pass to Darrel Young, and two-point conversion cut the deficit to 24-8.
After the defense stiffened, Griffin threw a 41-yard bomb to Aldrick Robinson, who cradled it in the end zone. After another two-point conversion, the score was suddenly 24-16 with plenty of time remaining.
But as in Week 1, the Redskins' second-half comeback attempt against the Eagles fell short, and in the most heartbreaking of ways.
After a punt pinned them deep in their own territory, Griffin led an impressive drive to get the Redskins inside the red zone with less than a minute remaining. But on third-and-one from the Eagles' 18-yard line, he was pressured into an ill-advised pass off of his back foot, which was intercepted in the end zone by the Eagles' Brandon Boykin to effectively end the rally -- and likely Washington's playoff hopes.


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Seahawks place Russell Okung on IR, with return designationAs expected, the Seattle Seahawks have placed left tackle Russell Okung on injured reserve, with the designation to return. He'll be able to return to practice after six weeks, and Okung will be able to play after after eight weeks. With a Week 12 bye, it… (more)Source: profootballtalk.com
Seahawks make Hauptmann signing officialThe Seattle Seahawks made it official today that they have placed tackle Russell Okung on the injured reserve/designated to return list and signed tackle Caylin Hauptmann from the Cleveland Browns practice squad, the team announced this afternoon. Haupt…Source: seattletimes.com