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Weathorford for Game MVP so far
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Weathorford for Game MVP so far
KILLDRIVE even looks disgusted
We look great on defense this is good. O will get it together. LETS GO@
Gilbride....whos side is he on??????</P>
Why don't they try a screen once in a while when its not 3rd and long?
[quote user="Pop it Ahmad"]That was an Eli audible guys. IDK about killing Killdrive there.
No Eli just flipped the play. It was a run to the left...
Anyone who backs up gilbride after that call is a complete idiot. he needs to go!! **** you killdrive
[quote user="Pop it Ahmad"]WTF Eli..why?
The original call could have been shotgun draw for all you know.
[quote user="Mr Excitement"][quote user="BigBlue1971"]what is Gilbride calling??????????????????????????[/quote]
Seems like we say that every week.......God awful playing calling....
Its cool just blame Fewell.
what's with this f-ing conservative play calling on offense?


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Schiphol airport closed all except 1 runway and many planes were cancelled. The following morning we had a 8:30 a.m. flight to Dublin and were concerned about how well the airport would be operating. There was so much backlog that no incoming planes were allowed to land until mid-day in order to allow time for the backlog of planes that had been stuck there overnight to leave.
But, we did make it to Dublin - only 3 hours late. Good thing because the evening after we left, it was -4 F which was the coldest it has been in the Netherlands in the last 50 years!
While some people hoped that the snow and chill would permit the "Elfstedentocht", the famous Eleven Cities, 125-mile ice-skating canal race, the weather didn't remain cold long enough. Weather hasn't permitted that to happen in many years.

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The two airlines completed their merger in December and retained the American name for the larger company.
While members of American's AAdvantage and US Airways' Dividend Miles will eventually belong to one program, that won't happen right away. This is the first step in an integration process that will last months.
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Members of both programs can earn and redeem miles on either airline, and eligible travel on either airline will count toward elite status on the customer's chosen program. American Admirals Club and US Airways Club members now have access to both airline clubs, and American AAdvantage Citi Executive cardholders have access to US Airways Clubs.
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This is the honeymoon period for frequent fliers of both airlines, said Brian Kelly, founder of ThePointsGuy.com. "There's nothing being taken away right now," Kelly said. Fliers can pick the benefits they like from each program, like choosing one program's lower mileage redemption levels for similar flights. When airline officials finally do merge the two programs into one, the merged program is likely to retain higher redemption levels for similar flights, he said.
Other changes are expected soon. They include the first phase of a codeshare agreement to provide easy access to each airline's global network, which is expected to be implemented in the next few weeks, American said.
Upgrades and other frequent flier program policies will be made consistent across the two airlines. US Airways will exit the Star Alliance on March 30 and enter into the oneworld alliance on March 31.
American's new Find Your Way website, aa.com/findyourway, has more information on the merged airline's frequent flier programs and other travel information.


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#1 Mon 16 Apr 12 11:16pm
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Graduates supper clubs .. celebrating 10 years for Fifteen
What a lovely evening and what a lovely group. I was honoured to be able to attend this momentous event held as part of the Fifteen Restaurant 10th Birthday celebrations.
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SUPPER CLUB 15th APRIL 2012
I am sure that I am right is saying that ten years ago , this group of people would have had no idea that they would have been helping to celebrate the tenth aniversary of the Fifteen restaurant , let alone being those who would be cooking for others on this chilly April evening.
15th April 2012 was the date that some of the second group of Fifteen graduates , Nunzio , Andrew , Terrence , Dennis , John and Thasanne came together once again as a group to cook a fantastic meal as part of celebrating the 10 years of Fifteen.
Listening to them , telling us about how their lives have progressed since they first walked through the doors of Fifteen it is obvious that thier lives have been enriched and formed as a direct result of the training that they received whilst going through the programe at Fifteen .
The evening started with us being greeted and shown into a large room above the Fifteen restaurant. There was a huge
'L ' shaped table that was covered with red checked table cloths , gleaming cutlery and sparkling glasses with large menus standing proud between the glasses and telling us tales of the magical feast to come.
The group gathered and started to chat. There were photos strung along one wall , a reminder of wonderful and hard working times that the then trainees went through.
Sitting down at the long table we were served the meal with some wonderful Italian bread that we could dip into the fruity Puglian olive oil . This olive oil has a magnificent colour to it and poured in good sized white dishes the vibrance of it was just lovely and the taste , even better !
This kept everyone happy whilst they chatted and before the 'Starters' were served .
'Starters ' were a treat .
Smashed peas ,broad beans and English asparagus brushetta with mozzarella and pea sprouts.
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Oh I wish you were all there to taste this , a genorous amount of beautifully seasoned crushed fresh peas and broad beas sitting on the toasted bread and topped wih mozzarella that was just unctuous. Now that would have been wonderful on its own but this was crowned with thinly sliced raw English asparagus and pea shoots lifting the great dish into a magnificent dish.
(The English asparagus season has not fully started yet and this was the first tasting this year for me.)
For a main dish ,I was served, as a vegetarian, Aubergine Parmigiana.
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The tomato sauce that was between the aubergine layers was beautiful , sweet and prepared with great care.
I was delighted to be served this as it is a favorite of mine and it did not disappoint either as it was delicious .
Dessert was discribed as 'The Lightest Vanilla Pannacotta with Lavender Jelly , Rhubarb Compote and Smashed Honeycomb.
Now those of you wh know me will know that I am not exactly a dessert person , prefering a savoury dish to a sweet dish , but this I managed to eat very happily !
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The pannacotta was beautiful. It had that 'little wobble' that gets so much talked about .
I was unsure what I would tink about the lavender jelly so this was the first element of the dish that I tried. On its own it was a very delicate flavour not very sweet and put together with the pannacotta, became totally yummy !
The addition of rhubarb to the plate added yet another flavour dimension to the plate , I am a bit of a rhubarb fan and I was not disappointed. The lengths of rhubarb were cooked just as I like it but one of the stars for me was the little spots of the smooth rhubarb compote which were just divine , packed with flavour and which made your taste buds dance with delight.
In between the courses the Fifteen graduates introduced the dishes and also told us a littel about hemselves and how their lives had progressed since moving on from Fifteen.
Now, I hope I have remembered all this right !
Nunzio Citro ... After graduating Nunzio worked in Cecconi�s just off Bond Street, a modern day Italian restaurant and also for Gary Rhodes . After a while he went travelling and leaving his previous self behind he went along a new path as an artist and photographer. The supper club was the first time he had been cooking in a profesional kitchen for a number of years.
Nunzio comes across as someone who is at ease with his choice in life. I am sure that I remember him saying that he had recently opened a bar, not far away from where Fifteen is situated. I must find out more about that and make a visit sometime soon.
Andrew Clements ...Andrew left Fifteen and went to work for Rick Stein in Cornwall . He stayed working for him for a period of 2 years after which he returned to London to work for Marriott Hotels and Ritz Carlton. He has also worked for various other establishments which include , Jimmy�s Farm and the Treble Tile in West Bergholt ,
Andrew is now the head chef at Musa in Colchester and considered to be one of the region�s most talented up and coming chefs.
Thasanee Robinson ... Thasanee is a delight , every time you looked at her she was smiling. She has since worked in Italy, Bank in London, and at Market, the Jean Georges restaurant in Paris. She made the decision to do management training and now works as General Manager for Theo Randall .
Terrence Davis , I was so excited to hear the news that Terrence had just become a father a few days before the supper club that I failed to make note of the places that he had worked in and simply jotted down ,'
Bank 2 year.. Holdings 4 years '
but I can tell you that he has a daughter named Dolly after a grandmother and that Dolly weighed in at 6lbs 2 ounces .. so I did remember important details .. just not the ones I was supposed to remember ! ...Terrence now works at Fifteen as Junir Sous Chef.
Dennis Duncanson , now I have found out that Dennis when he was a trainee , went on a trip with Mr Oliver and another chef to America where they cooked a suprise birthday meal for a Mr Brad Pitt !
After graduating Dennis rapidly 'rose through the ranks' and before long he was chef de partie at Fifteen, London he then went on to be sous chef at the new Jamie's Italian in Kingston.
At present Dennis is responsible for new openings of Jamies Italian and Union Jacks
( taking advantage of this I suggested that he might like to see his way to opening a Union Jacks in Cardiff ..I know I am a bit cheeky, I was sad to hear that there are no Union Jacks planned for Cardiff at the moment but you never know. maybe one day ..... !)
John Relihan , I have feeling that John might have been fun as a trainee , he is bursting with that wonderful Irish charm and that charm must have worked a treat as he managed to get a whole lamb donated for this event. He then set about butchering the lamb , removing all the bones and rolling it ready to be cooked and excitedly showed me the pictures that he had taken on his phone of the whole process not realising at the time I was one of the vegetarians present at the meal ! I did assure him that although I dont eat meat I do indeed cook it for my family.
John has spent time cooking in America in San Francisco and has reterned to be a Sous Chef at Barbecoa.
I knnow that I have said this before and I am sure that it wont be the last time that I mention this , but all the trainees, chefs and other staff that I have met who work at Fifteen and in other resataurants are all really lovely people.
Thankyou for a very memorable evening .
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#2 Wed 18 Apr 12 2:45pm
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Re: Graduates supper clubs .. celebrating 10 years for Fifteen
These are the phtographs that I took of the event , I hope from these you ca see what a happy evening ot was.
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#3 Wed 18 Apr 12 3:25pm
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Re: Graduates supper clubs .. celebrating 10 years for Fifteen
Wonderful story Mumz, glad that you were able to attend. I know all of the grads well, great bunch and I am proud to call them my friends : )
#4 Wed 18 Apr 12 3:29pm
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Re: Graduates supper clubs .. celebrating 10 years for Fifteen
Thay are all a delight to spend time with Danny .
My lovely daughter will be writing a short piece soon so you will be able to read what she thought also.
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#5 Wed 18 Apr 12 8:38pm
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Re: Graduates supper clubs .. celebrating 10 years for Fifteen
A very interesting review............I am glad to hear Dolly is doing so well!
After watching the original '15' apprentices go through their growing pains on tv, it's nice to hear that the 'what happened next' to others is as good as viewers hoped it would be. Good luck to each & every one, I say!
#6 Mon 23 Apr 12 10:09pm
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Re: Graduates supper clubs .. celebrating 10 years for Fifteen
Hi all, it�s Mummza�s daughter, adding to mum�s earlier post as promised.
After a full week of running around for work, friends and other things, I have finally been reunited with my laptop and I have the time to write about my visit to the Supper club which happened more than seven days ago! I apologise for my tardiness � I promise to be more prompt in future.
I�m not usually one for clich�s, but the first phrase that comes to mind to describe last Sunday�s supper club is �family atmosphere�. We walked up the steps to the side of Fifteen and we were greeted straightaway with big smiles from Cesar, front of house at the restaurant, and Thasanee Robinson, one of the second year graduates. After a little milling around and a few minutes admiring the photo display on the wall which showed the graduates in their early training, curiosity pulled me towards the kitchen. I stuck my head around the door, expecting a flurry of activity and high pressure prep work, but I was surprised to find the majority of the chefs casually leaning on the windowsill, chatting. Of course there was activity and of course there was a lot of prep, but it was much more like a reunion of old friends than a busy kitchen before service.
Nunzio Citro, was one of the first graduates to come over for a chat. Nine years after his graduation from Fifteen, he�s now a full-time artist (you can check out some of his stuff at his website www.thecolourkid.com) and bar owner, having just purchased a premises on City Road which will soon become Alekano. He briefly explained a few of his artistic ideas to me, including the tattoo on the palm of his left hand; a tattoo of clock without hands. The tattoo had something of a colourful back story. Apparently, as a boy, Nunzio watched the classic Bill & Ted films and was very much taken with the idea of time travel and the scene where Bill and Ted cheat death. This, so he told me, fed into his already budding interest in philosophy and made him think more about time and how the meaning of time changes. The tattoo, and much of his work as an artist, grew from this.
Naturally whilst in the kitchen I also asked about the menu and Thasanee told me about how John Relihan had managed to get the lamb for the main course donated, in part by butchering it all himself. �He has photos of it if you want to see!� With little prompting John whipped out his phone to show us a picture of him with the whole side of lamb, then he swiped his way through a series of action shots as he sliced and diced � as if we didn�t believe that he really did it all himself!
After this we all sat down at the long gingham table-clothed table (which had something of a street party feel) and we were presented with a selection of breads and olive oil, shortly followed by the started. The starter was a bruschetta of creamy crushed broad beans and peas, mixed with mozzarella on crisp grilled bread. Slivers of asparagus and fresh pea shoots cut through the richness making it surprisingly light. Having only just meat my dinner companions, I did at first try to use my knife and for to slice the bruschetta and eat daintily. It did not take too long for this method to go out the window though � all bruschetta lovers know that it�s much easier to pic the thing up and get a good mouth-full!
By the time the main course rolled around, Mum and I were happily chatting to our �next door neighbours�. We actually had a bit of luck in the seating, being right next to Martin Levy of Fresh Direct who was attending with his wife and son. Fresh Direct source a great many ingredients for Jamie�s restaurants. What started as veg only soon grew into veg, olive oil, dairy products, and many other notable items such as cordials. I should also add that Martin and Fresh Direct donated all of the veggies for the evening�s meal. He and his family made for very interesting dinner conversation. I even got to learn more about my favourite sticky toffee and snickers ice creams which are currently on sale at the Union Jacks restaurants.
The main, as I�ve already mentioned was lamb - whole roasted lamb to be exact. It was first brought out on an enormous slate so that we could see it in all of its glory before it was taken into the kitchen to be sliced (into more than generous portions) and plated. This was served with a charred aubergine mash, tiny minted new potatoes and a mixed leaf and parmesan salad. As you would expect from a chef who has been nine years in the business, John had cooked the lamb beautifully. It was pink and juicy and the richness went very nicely with the smoky charred aubergine; particularly as the aubergine mingled with the gravy on my plate and took on a sauce-like quality. It was particularly well complimented by the minted potatoes � honestly the smallest and sweetest new potatoes I�ve ever eaten. In the interest of full disclosure, I will have to admit that I could not quite finish my main course though � my belly was already dangerously full and I had to save room for desert.
On paper I was somewhat sceptical of the dessert � Madagascan vanilla pannacotta with lavender jelly, rhubarb compote and honeycomb. Not being a great fan of rose water or other flower flavours, I was not expecting to like the lavender jelly when saw it on the menu. Neither was I expecting to enjoy the rhubarb compote as I have a tendency to find rhubarb a bit too tart for my tongue. I thought I would probably end up sticking to the pannacotta and the honeycomb, and eating around the rest. I will, however, have to give full credit to Dennis Duncanson; I found myself loving the rhubarb. It was the first thing I cleared from my plate, even before the honeycomb! The lavender jelly also complimented the rich vanilla pannacotta surprisingly well (surprising to me at least). It was much more delicate than I would have thought, reminiscent of my favourite Earl Grey tea. Dennis came over to say hi after desert was cleared away too and I got to learn all about how to make the perfect honeycomb. Apparently the trick is to heat the sugar to 153ᵒ, no more, no less. Then you add the baking soda and pour it straight out. I haven�t tried it yet, but I�ll let you know how it goes when I do.
So, it�s probably time for me to sign off, but before I do I should of course give a little shout to everyone from the Fifteen Foundation. We got eat good food and hear the graduates� own stories � effectively tasting and hearing about the good that the foundation does for young people. It was a lovely evening.
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What a fabulous post Lulubell!
Thankyou very much! I really felt like I was sharing in a wonderful meal with wonderful people!
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I enjoyed reading it as well Joy , its interesting as it shos the same event through a different pair of eyes.
We will both be at next months graduates supper club on the 15th May so you will be able to read about that one also .
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I am heading up to London again today for the next supperclub . I will try to take photos for you all and will be writing about it in the next day or so . One of my daughters will be with me so she will also be writing about it .
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Project Status: Licensed; In Compliance Phase. Operational: October 1, 2012
The California Energy Commission approved this project's Application for Certification on May 18, 2011. The Commission monitors the power plant's construction, operation and eventual decommissioning through a compliance proceeding.
Committee that oversaw Original Licensing Proceeding:
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Mariposa Energy, LLC (Mariposa Energy) filed an Application for Certification (AFC) on June 15, 2009 for the Mariposa Energy Project (MEP). This proposed project would have a nominal capacity of 200 megawatts (MW). The facility would be a simple-cycle generating facility consisting of four GE LM6000 PC-Sprint natural gas fired combustion turbine generators, and associated equipment. Linear facilities would include a new 580 feet natural gas pipeline and a new 1.8 mile water connection with the Byron Bethany Irrigation District.
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nevermind. no biggie.
Dam packer handbag spammers
I still think it's funny that they started banning Giants fans over on there board. I wonder if their banable offense was that they went against that "Packers beat themselves" mantra.
They ban NY Giants fans over there because we don't go along with their twisted bizzarro world peeception that Aaron Rodgers is the greatest QB ever and Green Bay Packers only lost because they beat themselves. They are a board full of whining crybabies that feed off one another and the want to condemn anyone that does not believe in their rwisted crybaby doctrine.
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I'm a fan of 'public clouds'—I believe they bring the disinfectant of light to operational processes and computational architectures. If your cloud is the public market leader its unlikely to resemble the sluggish, bureaucratic, internal monopolies I've encountered in many large enterprises (but thanks for the PO's guys). Its the difference between competing at a county track meet vs. the Olympics, there is a difference between local and global leadership. What is the compelling economic reason for thousands of architecture committees to deliberate for months if you can solve the problem over the network in a day?
But let's be honest—that is a philosophical and revolutionary argument—its epistemologically weak. Even though cloud computing is clearly in a transitional phase (Tiktaalik computing)
it doesn't excuse all of the data from the conversation.
Two Big Private Cloud Data Points: Google and Facebook
Any 'it will all be public' cloud fan-boy must confront a simple fact. The world's highest demand computing architectures are run by their respective companies private IT departments. Even web giant Amazon was only able to offer cloud resources because of the success of its internal IT efforts. Yes, demands from the public now outpace their internal requirements—Tiktaallik era and all—but is there a top 10 web company built on a public cloud? No. Amazon and Microsoft heavily consume Akamai (so much that Akamai has to declare them material in their SEC filings) and other CDN's but are both building massive data-centers of their own as well.
If I'm JP Morgan Chase I examine this scenario and conclude that private cloud may be the way to go for core high value ad applications specific to my own industry value. If I want to be the computational workload king of the hill in my industry perhaps it pays to go private and roll my own. Simplistic perhaps, but where is the large company counterpoint so far? The real success of the cloud like compute services so far has been in bringing small and midsize companies to market incredibly fast. Here I'm thinking Youtube and CDNs.
Hardware is cheap. If you want to buy ten thousand two socket quad core servers you can get top of the line stuff installed for less than three thousand dollars a server. So for thirty million bucks you can buy an eighty thousand core cloud. Spread over an aggressive three year refresh and you are looking at only $10M a year in server charges for a sick sick compute farm—or precisely mouse nuts to JPMC. (The average enterprise hardware sales guy carries a $25M++ quota.)
Throw the evolving Ubutu/Eucalyptus stack on those servers for free, use the AWS API internally and externally if you need to and wallah—no big deal private-public hybrid of Amazon.
In today's tight environment, with data-centers maxed out from growth its much harder than just buying the hardware—no doubt. But in the long term companies that want their own hardware in their own data-centers will always have decent economics behind that call. Even if the hardware build were 2x the charge from a public cloud $10M is nothing to highly scaled enterprises. They call it a commodity now for a reason–owning it alone is easy.
The real threat is not a disadvantage in hardware or data-center economics—but in organizational alacrity, human costs, and software. More on the massive human costs another day.
Its not about the hardware
Public clouds need to ad more data-handling, and ease of use value before they have a killer, impossible to replicate value proposition. The Google and Facebook cloud applications are great examples of software as the defining value of any cloud.
If you are unfortunate enough to follow my @wattersjames cloud chatter on Twitter you know I took a little heat from @samj and others for saying Google and Facebook were private clouds. Some argued they were just a giant grid and a LAMP cluster. My answer back is, Google isn't all that batchy so I don't love the grid distinction—and if a massive LAMP cluster creates a very on-demand, responsive and massively scalable cloud platform like Facebook then I welcome it to the cloud tent. Not to mention FB does have its own internal Hadoop cloud they often discuss.
Once you write your own massively user/data scalable software IP, deployable on a highly elastic basis across a huge quantity of servers, you've created cloud magic. Google and FB have both done this and deployed it on private hardware.
The highest value work in cloud computing is writing the software and scaling it.
Because this work is hard and high value companies need to get very selective about where they spend their development minds and dollars. Unlike buying hardware creating unique, cloud native, software IP and value is risky, and heavy in rare human talent costs. Buy as many servers as you like, but run standards based (we'll get there both from proprietary as well as open-source platforms) cloud infrastructure on them. Kick the wasteful addiction of doing custom hardware integration, and attempting to create software outside of your core.
With over $200B a year (spent with outside vendors alone)customizing IT I'd say we are doing a pretty horrible job of it. We were such addicts we went on a body count bender and tried to train every able mind in India to customize code for us…like a junkie breaking into his neighbor's house for cash.
Cloud computing is enterprise and government ITs intervention moment their last chance to go clean. It is the architectural adrenaline injection that will either save their life or kill them off.
Yes, I'm afraid of sending enterprise IT back to their old bad influence friends of internal process architecture and customization and private clouds, but maybe there is a chance for them all to go clean together?
For very large companies, with 1/3 developers claiming to be writing private cloud native applications, the answer seems to be yes.


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While its location in the Rocky Mountains gives Steamboat Springs the ski slopes it's renowned for, the river that bisects the town is responsible for its unique name. When early trappers heard the churn of the nearby hot springs, they mistook the sound for the chugging of a steamboat on the Yampa River, and the Colorado resort destination was named. Snow sports dominate the winter months, but cyclists and water sports enthusiasts turn up in droves in the summer.
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Your comfortably furnished condo—each with a fully equipped kitchen—in the Village at Steamboat is the perfect home base for mountainside adventures. Studios accommodate two people, one-bedroom condos sleep up to four, and two-bedroom units have space for six. Situated at the base of the ski area, the condos offer spectacular views with close proximity to both outdoor activities and resort-town attractions. If you still have energy following after all that play, unwind in the indoor or outdoor pool or hit the fitness center and clubhouse game room.
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Imagine dining on the freshest, most succulent vegetables in town every night, and you don't even have to go to the grocery store to get them. That's only part of the satisfaction you'll enjoy from growing your own vegetable garden from seeds. You'll also love watching your rows of fat, juicy tomatoes or thick heads of lettuce get ready for your feast. Growing your own veggies from seeds is fun, economical, and very, very tasty. Here's how to do it.
If you're just getting started, you may want to buy seeds from a catalogue company that specializes in growing vegetables. You'll receive good instructions, quality, and selection.
If you already have a vegetable garden, it's fun to collect seeds for next year's planting. Just clean the seeds and let them dry out. Then store them in an airtight container in a cool, dry place until planting time. If you're not sure you're doing it right, follow the specific directions for the vegetables you plan on growing.
Paper cups, small flowerpots, or flats work great for starting seeds indoors. Make sure they allow for drainage (put small hole in the bottom of your paper cups.).
Fill your containers with Miracle-Gro� Seed Starting Potting Mix, which is ideal for germinating seeds, or a good potting mix, such as Miracle-Gro� Potting Mix. Sprinkle seeds onto the soil, then cover them with more soil to the depth recommended on the seed packet.
Once your seeds start to sprout, give them a little extra room by transplanting them to bigger pots. Then let them get a taste of the great outdoors by putting them outside for a few hours at a time. This helps the plants get used to their new environment without suffering shock.
Indoor planting works differently for different kinds of plants. Here's an easy guide for
Plants that start well indoors: Tomatoes, peppers, celery, cauliflower, head lettuce, eggplant
Other plants you can start indoors: Broccoli, brussels sprouts
Plants you can start indoors or out: Beans, peas, most lettuce, and corn
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Is there a fan store in the stadium?
Just order stuff on sale online, or just order team stuff from amazon.
Even retail stores carry good stuff.
Also worth mentioning that the store is really INSIDE the stadium.....meaning you need a game ticket to have access.
Hey I am heading to US for the first time this Friday...will be in NYC late August and I am attending the Giants v Jets game. Wondering if I should buy all my gear from the store...I had a look at the website and the prices seem reasonable. I that will be the same prices as in the Store at metlife.
If there is another sports store I should hit up instead and anyone knows that would be great.


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Episode 9 - 3GHz Phenom, GRAW 2, Dell vs DIY and Wangtec
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In this episode, Gareth calls on Alex, Ben and Phil to discuss, among other things, AMD's demo of a 3GHz Phenom chip and Quad CrossFire. The team mulls over Mark Rein's claim consoles are holding back PCs, and give a sneak peak into our upcoming new benchmark suite. Phil gets stuck into GRAW 2, and we discuss the merits of buying a PC versus building it yourself.


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Where does one obtain large/plotter print-outs of the actual receiver dimensions as visible on Grasshopper's first posting on page 1 of 11?
yeah i was thinking the same thing about the yugo underfolder kits. i have one on order so hopefully i can at least find some drawing of the receiver with dimensions,,,,
Where does one obtain large/plotter print-outs of the actual receiver dimensions as visible on Grasshopper's first posting on page 1 of 11?
I think that the inner measurments are the same 1.250". The change, on the Yugo, is in the thickness of the flat 1.50mm vs. 1.05mm. Which on this jig means that the angle iron sections would need to be an additional .45mm apart. Then you would have to remove a section from each angle iron to allow for clearance of the two "Bulged" side areas for the front trunnion. Someone on another board thought that placeing a wedge of oak in the bottom of the jig to limit the flat's (at the front trunnion end) travel into the jig. Therefore not messing up the receivers bulges. I think that some have said that the rails on the flat are already bent so you would not have to worry about that,
Any thoughts?
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The wedge makes sense, once the intial fold is made you push the flat through till you get to the bulges. The wedge is just there for insurance that you dont go to far and damage the bulges. If the bend isn't quite perfect you can tweak it ....or BFH it till it's perfect. good luck and post pics.
Ok, I have read this thread 3 times now. On the first trip through, I found the distance between the 2 pieces of angle iron. Now my old eyes can't find that dim any more!
What if you ran 2" angle iron and steped it down on one end to the side distance (at the front of the receiver) minus the bulges? Run the flat down in the front until it bottoms out then work the rear of the receiver down into the jig?
the inside dim is 1.250" plus the wall of your flatX2.
I just built one of these today.
I had a piece of sheel metal with an ace template glued to it just sitting around and I figured, what the heck.
Cranked down the bolts and VIOLA', one brand spanking new, completely bent home brew ak receiver.
Finished it by moving the flat stock up to the top rail lines, cranked it down in my vise, it in the jig, and hammered over the top rails.
It's a beautiful thing..............
I have mine almost done. I don't have metric dial calipers so I have been a liitle held up.
Great idea. I love the ingenuity I keep seeing on this forum. When the Yugo flats come in for fixed-stock kits I'm going to use your idea to make a frame for my DPH bending jig.
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The inside dimensions of the yugo reciever are different than a standard receiver due to the thickness of the metal. The outside dimensions of the receiver should be the same. Inside of a standard receiver is 1.25" and a yugo is around 1.20".Originally Posted by LonghunterCO
"To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em."
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These are dark times for Rhode Island's homeless.
The economy's ugly slide has proven ruinous for thousands. Smith Hill is cutting the safety net in the face of multi-million dollar deficits. The shelter population is at an all-time high.
And in the fall, the courts dismantled a series of tent cities that made the invisible visible for a time.
But amid the heartache, there is a curious bit of resolve, even boldness, among the state's small band of homeless advocates: Rhode Island, they say, could end homelessness in a decade.
And they may be right.
This is a small state, after all. And its homeless population is even smaller, estimated at some 4500 to 5000 per year. The overwhelming majority – like the overwhelming majority of the homeless nationwide – are on the street temporarily, thrown into crisis by a fire, a lost job, or a break with a violent husband.
The chronically homeless – out on the boulevard year after year – number just 500. Maybe 1000 at the most. House them, advocates say, and the state can go a long way toward ending homelessness.
"It's not really all that complex," says Noreen Shawcross, former executive director of the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless and current chief of the state's Office of Housing and Community Development.
Shawcross's prescription might have seemed hopelessly naive not so long ago. The chronically homeless, often mentally ill and drug addicted, stymied policymakers for decades.
But after years of failure, advocates say they know what works. They say they have the answer. All Rhode Island needs to end homelessness, they argue, is the political will.
Jean, who asked the Phoenix to withhold his last name, still remembers his mother's break with reality some 15 years ago. "We woke up one day and all the windows were open, it was cold as hell," he says. "She was upstairs and she wasn't talking in her right mind."
It was a signature moment in the disintegration of his family life. And a sign of what was to come for Jean himself.
He would struggle with mental illness, alcohol, and marijuana. The Army National Guard discharged him early. Jean, 31, was in and out of the shelters, in and out of jail. He felt hopeless. Angry.
And then, last year, staffers with a small program called Housing First Rhode Island did something remarkable: they handed him the keys to an apartment, no strings attached.
This "housing first" approach, ascendant nationwide, is on some level quite simple: give the homeless a home. But in the three-decade course of homelessness policy, it also represents a radical break.
For years, service providers required the homeless to work their way up from a shelter to transitional housing, getting sober and practicing life skills along the way. Only when they were "ready" could they qualify for permanent housing.
Trouble was, the hardcore homeless struggled to meet the clean-and-sober standard. They lingered on the street. They wound up warehoused in shelters that were originally designed as temporary refuge.
Then in the early '90s, New York City pioneered the new approach: instead of requiring the chronically homeless to get housing-ready, providers placed even the most destructive clients in apartments right away.
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Sounds like a deal now a days. Seen them going for way more than that.
I just found a 223 norinco underfolder AK very good condition, guaranteed to function perfectly, pristine bore, $700 bucks. Worth it?
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Sounds like a deal now a days. Seen them going for way more than that.
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference- they deserve a place of honor with all that is good. George Washington
"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
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worth it I see them go for more than that, mags are available but spendy
go for it
I owned one of these when they first came out in the late 80's great rifle
Sprat and sprat1 are one and the same.
Even if/when prices start to go down and stabilize, 700 is not a bad buy for this rifle.
I never met a Norinco that I didn't like and when it comes to resale, you won't ever get stuck with it.
What the guys are saying mtdew.. Norinco good.. Buy.. Very good price in today's market..
No more are being imported, better than money in the bank..
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781
+1., good price. The .223 Chinese AK's are less sought after than the 7.62 varieties and the price reflects that. Mags and ammo are much more costly than 7.62., but at that price it is a very good buy.
in 2013 that is a "deal" price--
the only thing i remember from that lates 80's Norinco 223 rifle was the brass came out badly nicked, but I did not reload then so it did not matter, I knew the cause and remedy, since I reload now I would have corrected that asap. yesterday on ar-15 two(2)mags 223 norinco were $95 shipped
Sprat and sprat1 are one and the same.
I hate to say it ,,,but,,, I had one in the 80's I got for $149 with 4 mags, NIB, from a shop,,at shop prices.Tax included.
But then I also bought my 83 Chevy P/U for 8600 bucks new, delivered,, back then too,,,price, it's all relative I guess.
By today's standards, a good deal,,, I guess you'd say???
Supply and demand. Plus no more Norinco's coming in.. Even the Chinese mags, I grabbed a bunch for $10 each every time I hit the fun shows.
Not just guns and ammo. Girlfriend does the shopping, I just pay.. Few times I do shop, seems like every damn thing is doubling in price.
Now gas is pushing the $4.00 a gallon mark down here again..
Were all gonna die, starve, food riots, get attacked by zombies..
Ah hell buy it mtdew, just do not let the wife see it..
"No honey I did not just buy that.. For Gods sake it has been sitting there for years. You don't remember that one?"
"Man needs but two things to survive alone in the woods. A blow up female doll and his trusty old AK-47" - Thomas Jefferson 1781


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I just received two packages today - 6 inches of snow on the ground and temperatures in the 30's. It is supposed to get into the 40's tomorrow. It won't get to 50 until Friday. Should i keep the packages in my detached garage (no heat), or bring them in the house until I hive them?
Should I go ahead and put them in the hive while it is in the mid 40's?


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We have been looking for you.....
yes we have. your Jays beat up on my Yanks and you didn't show up and gloat.
you okay?
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Hope all is OK health wise for you Bandy my friend........missed that sense of humor of yours

thought maybe you got called up to play for the Blue Jays after taking my batting cage advice []

[/quote]i'm good Mr 105.. stress test tomorrow... Bandy vs the Treadmill!!!
as for getting called up, the Jays have enough guys that can't hit a fastball lol
Give it to that treadmill Bandy and good luck my pal

lol on the Jays ....Bautista is really drilling the ball and they are only a few games out....it's baseball...anything can happen

[/quote]thanks.. i will need it!. heh anychance you would happen to be in the Hamilton area tomorrow around 1130ish and feel like running in place for a few hours? come on do it for ol Bandy
I've taken the test....the nurses push ya......but not more than you can't handle. Just so you*know there is always a doctor just a shout away. There is also one where no treadmill is invovled , they inject something into .....a nuclear test? or something like that. My wifes not here so I can't ask her

At any rate........best of luck on it and pleae be posting by 4pm or so

Does this mean we won't be ordering calzonees when we meet up?* lol***** sushi or grilled instead?

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CBS News: Documents reveal that Holder received briefing on Fast & Furious in July 2010; Update: Holder doesn't always read his briefings?
posted at 7:22 pm on October 3, 2011 by Allahpundit
Why's that a big deal? Watch the video below from CNS showing Holder's testimony before Issa's House committee back on May 3. The question: "When did you first know about the program, officially called, I believe, 'Fast and Furious'?" The answer:
I'm not sure of the exact date but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.
Not so, says CBS News:
New documents obtained by CBS News show Attorney General Eric Holder was sent briefings on the controversial Fast and Furious operation as far back as July 2010. That directly contradicts his statement to Congress…
The documents came from the head of the National Drug Intelligence Center and Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer…
Two Justice Department officials mulled it over in an email exchange Oct. 18, 2010. "It's a tricky case given the number of guns that have walked but is a significant set of prosecutions," says Jason Weinstein, Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division. Deputy Chief of the National Gang Unit James Trusty replies "I'm not sure how much grief we get for 'guns walking.' It may be more like, "Finally they're going after people who sent guns down there."
The Justice Department told CBS News that the officials in those emails were talking about a different case started before Eric Holder became Attorney General. And tonight they tell CBS News, Holder misunderstood that question from the committee – he did know about Fast and Furious – just not the details.
He didn't know about the details? Here's the unredacted bit from the briefing sent to Holder on July 5, 2010 by the director of the National Drug Intelligence Center:
No code words or euphemisms there. Nice and specific. And yet Eric Holder, upon discovering that 1,500 guns had been "supplied" to Mexican drug cartels in an operation managed by the ATF, apparently didn't demand a full explanation. Fancy that.
Follow the CNS link above and you'll see that Issa's maintained all along that Holder must have known about F&F sooner than he testified. Last month, at a DOJ news conference, Holder called F&F "clearly a flawed enforcement effort" but added:
"The notion that this reaches into the upper levels of the Justice Department is something that at this point I don't think is supported by the facts and I think once we examine it and once the facts are revealed we'll see that's not the case," Holder told reporters.
Well, obviously it does reach into the upper levels of the Department. Even if you're willing to buy Holder's absurd excuse that he had no reason to know the details of the operation despite knowing that guns were being walked to Mexican drug lords, we've got the memos from Breuer and the Drug Intelligence Center and the e-mail discovered by CBS between Weinstein and Trusty. (I'm dying to know which "other case" the DOJ thinks they were discussing, per the Department's excuse to CBS.) In fact, Issa told Laura Ingraham last month: "We have a paper trail of so many people knowing that the only way the attorney general didn't know is he made sure he didn't want to know… But if you don't want to know something of this sort then you shouldn't have the job he has. And ultimately one of the questions is, if he didn't know, is he that inept that he is dangerous to have as the attorney general, and that is for the president to decide." That's exactly where we are here tonight with these new docs. Either Holder didn't want to know more after reading that July 2010 briefing or he read it and simply didn't recognize the gravity of what he was reading. Big, big trouble either way.
Update: Here's Fox's segment on the new docs. The key bit is at the end, where they say a former DOJ official familiar with Holder's operation told them he receives dozens of memos a week and doesn't always read them. Fantastic. That's exactly what you want in America's top prosecutor. Let's have him back before that House committee and let him offer the "I don't always do my homework" excuse himself.
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I can't tell from the picture if that's a thermometer or a clock. If a clock is included in the kit, I wonder if it could be exchanged for a calendar for a modest fee.


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The Volkswagen Golf 7 is one of the showstoppers at this week's Paris motor show, although it will have to share the limelight with lots of other new metal.
Manufacturers are pulling out the stops for the last big car show of the year. Compact and mid-sized cars dominate this year's edition and they are flanked by some mouth-watering new sports vehicles. The show is at the Paris Expo in Porte de Versailles.
The VW Golf 7 competes for attention with Toyota's second-generation Corolla, known as the Auris in Europe. The compact sedan went on sale in Japan a few weeks ago. New engines developed for the Corolla in conjunction with BMW will not be available until 2014, says company spokesman Thomas Heidbrink.
Alongside the Corolla, Toyota will be fielding a revised version of the GT 86 sports coupe in uprated 300 horsepower trim.
VW's Spanish subsidiary, Seat, has the Leon, which is a child of the company's MQB modular platform.
The chief feature of the platform is the uniform position of engines and transmissions across the marques in a bid to trim production costs.
The Leon gets a new engine and fuel-saving start/stop technology as standard. Seat says fuel consumption has been cut by 22 per cent. The car will be in northern European showrooms from November.
VW's upmarket arm Audi has a new compact car to show off. The A3 is a sporting hatch with five doors and a more potent S3 version is waiting in the wings.
The engineers from Ingolstadt have also rejigged the flagship R8 sportscar. The top model is now badged as a R8 V10 and has 550 horsepower. With automatic transmission fitted as standard the car can bound from a standstill to 100km/h in 3.5 seconds and has a top speed of 317km/h.
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On the stand of BMW-owned Mini will be the seventh variant of the second-generation babycar. The two-door Mini Paceman is designed to be a sportier drive than the Countryman while providing more space than the standard Mini hatch. A van concept may be unveiled too, but Mini officials have been tight-lipped about other possible Paris debuts.
Premium maker Mercedes-Benz is playing its cards even closer to its chest. A report in the Auto Bild indicated that another four-door coupe codenamed CLA - a kind of mini CLS - could be unveiled.
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I enjoyed these the most when they are cold. They are not exactly what I call healthy food, but I find them a good alternative to chocolate bars. My husband also takes them to work for a quick snack and calorie boost. I will definitely buy these again in the future- good value and good taste.
What a shame...
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Would be such a good product if it wouldn't contain SUGAR!
Sweet treat!
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Very tasty, with cookie dough texture. It is good if you have craving for something sweet but maybe a little too sweet for some people. I prefer my chocolate to be a little bit more bitter. Definately tastes like cokkie dough though!
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I enjoyed these the most when they are cold. They are not exactly what I call healthy food, but I find them a good alternative to chocolate bars. My husband also takes them to work for a quick snack and calorie boost. I will definitely buy these again in the future- good value and good taste.
Amazing texture
Posted by lucygoosyxo on Apr 04, 2012 | Verified Purchase
These are great, probably a close second favourite to the Peanut butter cookie flavour. I love the texture of the choc chips in these after they've been in the fridge a couple of hours. Really tastes like cookie dough!!
SOOOOOOOOOOOO goooooooooooooood
Posted by Reviewer2774490 on Apr 26, 2012 | Verified Purchase
Just tried my first one. and OMG.... It tasted EXACTLY like cookie dough! I'm surprised people said it didn't! Best Larabar I've tried so far! It is pretty sweet... but a nice alternative when you are craving chocolate or sweets. I will keep ordering this one!
5 stars
Posted by australia on May 02, 2013 | Verified Purchase
Yummy bars that act as a filling snack.
Tastes well to me.
Posted by InozarDeBenz on Jul 10, 2013 | Verified Purchase
I like this. I have tried almost all Larabar energy bars. I have lots of allergies and food intolerances, and strangely enough I tolerate most Larabar energy bars. My food intolerance has decreased my appetite (due to stomach complaints or a narrow diet), and I love the way to get some easy calories, and still avoid what is bad to me (majorly dairies, gluten, soy, egg whites etc.) This one taste ok/good, but not as good as some of the other Larabar products that I have tried, so I don't give it top rating. Four stars.
these are ok
Posted by 4711491453576432946 on Apr 11, 2014 | Verified Purchase
I've tried the peanut butter larabars and loved those but these were not as great as I was hoping. Still nice just not really cookie dough tasting to me.
Too sweet
Posted by Reviewer3241272 on Nov 02, 2010 | Verified Purchase
I love Larabars and I love chocolate, but this is just too sweet for me. It is sickly sweet. I rated it two stars instead of one though, as some people might like the sweet taste and the box is excellent value for money.
Posted by Reviewer1931308 on Nov 15, 2011 | Verified Purchase
do not taste like cookie dough at all...