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"I had no problem jamming a hard hat over my curls or trading my ballet flats for steel-toed boots. Stepping into a hoist elevator — one of those rickety wood-and-metal boxes you see attached to a steel spine, rising up on the exterior of condos under construction — that was a different matter altogether.
Up I went. I held on where there was no handle, did not raise my gaze from boot level and tried my best to breathe as we made our way noisily, ungracefully and painfully slowly all the way up. The condo in question is the Festival Tower, the residential side of the building of the moment, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Bell Lightbox. Our final destination: the 46th-floor penthouse.
On this day in mid-August, the sky was a perfect, cloudless blue and there was mercifully very little wind as we stepped out on to a south-facing balcony. There's not much I recall, numb as I still was with fear, and my hand trembled so violently I couldn't keep notes. But I do remember the view. It was stunning and spectacular and made the trip up (almost) worth it.
From its position at King and John streets, in an area thick with condo towers, Festival exists inside an odd, almost eerie clearing — no other building can block this southern view.
"You see that in the distance?" says Tom Dutton, senior vice-president of Daniels Corp., the project's developer, as he gestures to what looks like a faint cloud hovering over Lake Ontario. "That's the mist rising up from Niagara Falls."
As at this point the four penthouses are little more than concrete and glass, there's nothing to see but the city on all sides. To the north, Will Alsop's Ontario College of Art and Design looks like a box of matches. And as I connect the dots — the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Film Board, the CBC, Roy Thomson Hall and theatre row — I realize how utterly well-placed this building is.
"This is where the arts intersect," says Bruce Kuwabara, the project's architect and founding partner of KPMB. "Maybe there's another location for this, but I can't think of a better one."
Some 50 years ago, the land upon which the Lightbox and Festival Tower now stand, was purchased by post-war Czechoslavakian immigrants, parents of Canadian film director Ivan Reitman. They operated a dry-cleaning business, and then a car wash here. When TIFF was on the hunt for its new home, Mr. Reitman and his sisters donated the property in honour of their parents. The other piece of the equation was the developer John Daniels, president and founder of Daniels Corp. He was one of the first benefactors to TIFF before it was TIFF in the 1970s.
"Ivan [Reitman] calls this interconnectedness kismet," says Mr. Kuwabara, "the way things all seem to align to create good fortune."
This good fortune is far reaching. With 98% of Festival suites sold, residents will enjoy an exclusive three-year film fest membership, which includes such perks as private screenings and preferred pricing to more than 100 Lightbox events a year. For inspiration on the mix, Mr. Kuwabara looked to New York City, where condo towers are well-integrated with cultural destinations, like the ones built into Carnergie Hall and the Museum of Modern Art — occupants there can relish privileged access to Matisse and Pollock, away from the common folk. "This is a city of film — the festival is embraced and well attended by Torontonians," Mr. Kuwabara says. "Residents will become a part of the story of this building."
For a bit of distance from the hoopla, they will find their suites from the condo's entrance on John Street (whereas the Lightbox opens on to King) where they can tune into the TIFF closed-circuit TV channel. And since streamlined Miele kitchens favour fancy over function — penthouses excluded, the only ovens are of the convection-microwave variety and fridges are a fraction of standard ones ("They'll have very small Thanksgiving turkeys," Mr. Dutton says) — hunger pains can be answered by a quick call to one of two Oliver & Bonacini restaurants below. Straddling King and John, O&B's casual Canteen and fine-dining Luma are just another part of this "vibrant hybrid of residential, cultural and commercial components," Mr. Kuwabara says.
Ordering up a lobster burger with cucumber slaw from Luma is just one of the celeb-style à la carte services guests will enjoy. With the help of the resident services director, they'll also be able to arrange for housekeeping, dog walking and spa services in the building's private treatment rooms. Those rooms are part of the Tower Club, amenity space that spreads over the 10th and 11th floors of the building and includes the 55-seat Tower Cinema, designed after the five hyper-modern screening rooms in the Lightbox — sleek, black, silent and sealed cocoons. There are three lounges, the main one opening on to a landscaped outdoor terrace and bar area within prime paparazzi range of TIFF's outdoor terrace. And to help balance all those O&B meals, there's a fitness centre, yoga studio, outdoor meditation garden and an indoor pool room with hot tubs, saunas and a dramatic floor-to-ceiling waterfall.
Sumptuous amenities, slick suites, sweet views and an important cultural institution (and perhaps a Clooney sighting) right next door — residents are in for quite a show.
First comes the film festival, then occupancy — by the end of November, the first residents are expected to move in. Lucky for them, they'll have a proper elevator, too."
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If a top hive body containing Honey Super Cell was packed with winter stores wouldn't the bees be well on their way to being Small Cell when the cluster moves up in the winter?
Acceptance of the HSC would be less of an issue since there's no place to go... And the Super Cell would have been "seasoned" by them packing in their stores.
In the spring the boxes could be reversed and a queen excluder installed above the Super Cell as needed until new comb has replace the old.
Seems like a "lazy" way to regress a colony... if it would work out that way.
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there's a golf course near where i live that has some bees living in a cedar tree that just had the top busted off about 5 or 6 feet up. i would like to do a cutout, but have never done one and not knowing what to expect, i can't just go in there and take a lot of time and stir them up so that no one can play the hole. the problem is the tree is close to the green and near the center of the fairway because it juts out as a dog leg.
i'm open to suggestions. i was wondering about going in the evening after everyone playing has passed hole 7 (where they are) one night and cutting into the tree to expose the hive and then leaving. this would allow them to settle down and golfers could play the next day. the following evening i could cut in and actually cut out the hive. possibly leave the box until the following evening to get any stragglers. any thoughts.


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Hef's Movie Notes: Safety Last!
Hugh Hefner screens the silent comedy Safety Last.
Tonight: Harold Lloyd in the silent four-star comedy classic Safety Last!
With musical accompaniment from our own Robert Israel on the piano!
Harold Lloyd was one of the most popular stars of the silent era and—by the mid-1920s—the most successful, making movies that outgrossed Chaplin, Fairbanks and Rin Tin Tin.
The most famous of these—made in 1922—was Safety Last!
Even people who have never seen a silent film are familiar with the image of Lloyd hanging from that clock atop a skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles.
It is the single most famous, most enduring image of any silent film ever made. It's still that powerful.
It's powerful because it's real!
There were no special effects, glass shots, hanging miniatures or rear screen projection used in the making of this picture.
Harold Lloyd really climbed that building.
Well, sort of.
A stunt double was used on the long shots.
But the rest was Harold—hanging on for dear life—two and three stories above the padded rooftop below, shot at an angle so that he seemed to be much higher.
And he did it all with one hand!
Working for Hal Roach, Lloyd had made nearly 100 one- and two-reel shorts as a Chaplinesque character called Lonesome Luke before he came up with the All-American, naïve but always optimistic character with the horn-rimmed glasses.
He epitomized the go-getter enthusiasm of the postwar era that defined the Roaring '20s.
But Lloyd's career almost ended at the start of the decade when a freak accident—the explosion of a supposedly harmless prop bomb—blew off the thumb and forefinger of his right hand.
Recovering from the accident, Lloyd proved as indomitable as the character he portrayed on the screen. He resumed his career and, despite the physical handicap, he continued to build on his reputation as a physically adept comedian.
The idea for Safety Last! was inspired by an accident in July, 1922 when Lloyd happened upon a group of people in downtown Los Angeles staring upward at a man climbing the side of the Brockman Building. It was a publicity stunt.
This unnerved Lloyd.
Despite having made several two- and three-reel daredevil comedies, including Look Out Below (1919), High and Dizzy (1920) and Never Weaken (1921), Lloyd was afraid of heights. He was acrophobic.
He made these films precisely because they frightened him. If he found them frightening, he reasoned, so would his audience.
Lloyd watched the man scale the side of the building.
"And when he got up there," Lloyd said, "he had a bicycle and he rode it around the edge of the building. Then he got on the flagpole, and he stood on his head."
This daredevil was an unemployed steelworker named Bill Strother, who billed himself as the Human Spider.
Lloyd took him to meet Hal Roach, who put him under contract.
Then Lloyd and Roach began planning a film around the stunt Lloyd had just witnessed.
The shooting on Safety Last! began on September 17, 1922—atop the roof of the International Bank Building at the corner of Temple and Spring.
They shot the climax of the film first and wrote the story around it afterward.
Bill Strother, "The Human Spider," appears in the film as Harold's pal.
Mildred Davis plays the female lead. She appeared in several of Lloyd's films.
Safety Last! was completed in January 1923.
And after several previews—Roach believed in previewing his films to get audience reaction—the picture opened on April Fool's Day.
On April 2, Hal Roach sent Harold Lloyd a telegram from New York saying:
"Safety Last! opened to bigger business than any previous picture!
"Theater manager and audience delighted! Regards to everybody. Hal."
Safety Last! had cost $22,000 to produce.
At a time when theater tickets could be had for a dime, the film grossed an incredible $1,588,000.
The net profit, after prints and advertising, was $1,278,000. That amounted to an astounding 580 percent return on investment.
Few films in the history of Hollywood would match such success.
At the conclusion of the picture, Harold Lloyd's leading lady announced that she was leaving Roach to make movies elsewhere.
Lloyd was stunned.
"I needed the prospect of losing her to bring home the fact, apparent for months to everyone else…that I loved her," Lloyd said.
They were married on February 10, 1923, while Safety Last! was still being previewed. So he got the girl at the end of the picture—in the movie and in real life too!
They remained together the rest of their lives.
Along with our feature, we have a Harold Lloyd short—High and Dizzy, from 1920—before Lloyd lost a part of his hand.
And then—from 1923—
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The flat is sunny and spacious. Living room with kitchen, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathroom with shower, jacuzzi bathtub and a hairdryer. Perfect for 4 person. There is also a TV, internet access (paid extra). Fully equipped kitchen with a gas hob, oven, fridge/freezer, dishwasher, washing machine, plates and cutlery. Families with children are welcome. The apartment is equipped with underfloor heating, air conditioning and marble floors.
Outside you can find a spacious terrace with wooden walls and floor, where you can enjoy fresh air and a romantic dinner. On a private lawn you can get some tan. There are two swimming pools in the resort (one is covered) with heated water.
Close to the resort you can find the best of Andalucia`s golf courses, in nearby Tarifa – beautiful sandy beaches perfect for kite and windsurfing. Many walking paths around with a view on Gibraltar and tropical nature of Costa del Sol.
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Details, Details, Details – Taking A Closer Look
Boundary Waters 53
Virginia A. Spiegel
Kathy Loomis writes an eclectic and always interesting blog, Art with a Needle. She recently posted an article questioning whether details matter in fiber artwork (both for viewing and jurying) by using the example of my Boundary Waters 53 which she saw and photographed at Form, Not Function. Read her post here.
This post is a comment in a longer format discussing why details matter as much to me as they do to the viewer. Also Kathy was correct when she said her photography didn't show the richness of the artwork; these photographs were taken by Deidre Adams.
Boundary Waters 53, Detail
Virginia A. Spiegel
Kathy contrasts the use of detail shots for jurying fiber work v. painting. I do paint on stretched canvas (just for myself) when I'm in a creative rush, but I always miss the lovely dimension and texture of fiber. I work a lot with paper and collage – ditto. Interesting, but not THAT interesting after a bit unless I spend a lot of time building up texture. In my fiber work I veer back and forth from basically paintings on cloth with a bit of stitch (such as Boundary Waters 19) to heavily textured pieces such as BW 53.
But as I have always said, technique never trumps message for me. If you start with Boundary Waters 48 and work your way up to Boundary Waters 53 on my website, notice the color changing and morphing. It's not coincidental. Of course, there is a story I'm telling even if you may not know exactly what it is.
My sister and I were "stuck" on a narrow ledge of a campsite in the Boundary Waters due to high winds and storms for about three days. In small lulls, we would venture forth from our tent and stare at our only scenery – a huge cliff covered in granite rocks, trees with fall foliage, and a few pine trees. As the storm progressed, the leaves were beaten from the trees and fell in cascades of red, orange, yellow, and green. When viewed through the never-ending rain, it was as though streams of color and texture were flowing down the cliff. Toward the end of our stay, the dark wet rock rather than the leaves were becoming the dominate feature of the cliff face.
Boundary Waters 53, Detail
Virginia A. Spiegel
In this series within the Boundary Waters series, I'm trying to show this progression. I'm trying to show that the very horizontal surface of the cliff became very vertical with the falling of a blurred stream of leaves cascading down wet rock. I was mesmerized then and I am still amazed just recreating the scene in my mind. So primeval – rock, rain, leaf; so beautiful in the destruction of a delicate autumn scene back to the underlying and ever-present granite.
For these artworks, the materials list is long: White cotton cloth, acrylic paint, textile oil paint, felt, hand-dyed cheesecloth, hand-dyed yarn, upholstery fabric, duck cloth, velvet, Lutradur, vintage polyester scarves, polyester fabric, netting, silk paper, silk fabric, and thread.
That's a lot of materials and you would never know or appreciate their inclusion if you didn't take a closer look. All the materials were needed to show the texture, the movement, and the majesty of that amazing and dynamic event. It was more difficult than you would imagine to keep all the materials in hand, to sew them down without adhesives, to place them with care to keep the rhythm of the artwork, and finally to sew them again to emphasize the flowing verticalness (if that's a word) of the scene.
Why weren't there more works along this vein in the Boundary Waters series? When I'm out of materials, I'm done. There is no way I can recreate the lovely compost heap of materials I had in hand when I was seized with the need to recreate this message of the ever-evolving rhythm of life and death in Nature. But the Boundary Waters series continues exploring this message as it has from the beginning.
I say, thank goodness for detail shots. If you can't see an artwork in person, they are the next best thing to show you something more about the artwork and the artist's intent. With fiber, and with me, there is always a MORE and detail photography is a useful way to begin the dialogue with a viewer about that more-ness. If you have read any of my book reviews you know my refrain, "It's not a painting, show us detail photos of surface design and stitching." It doesn't make fiber art less a work of art to show us these things; it makes our art more understandable and even more interesting.
And, of course, I have an opinion about the utility of detail photography and other aspects of jurying. I wrote this post after jurying Journal Quilt Project II and this after choosing the artists for the invitational Sightlines exhibit.


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I am starting up my second attempt at a life-sized Han Solo in Carbonite. Many members here saw my first attempt, which came out OK and cost around $350.00. But since I have some more detailed pieces, an increased budget, and a bit more experience, I am hoping this one will be nicer and more authentic. Here is a reminder of what the first one looked like, mostly built from scratch.
On this new project I will be using one of Stromriders excellent partial front panel casts. I also have a set of VashDStampede's side panels which I have probably been holding onto for over a year. These are the best panels I have seen. I also have a set of D. Nguyen's panel greeblies, also been holding onto those for about a year.
Speaking of which, D. Nguyen made an outstanding HIC and set the bar high. I doubt mine will look as good, I don't have that level of expertise nor the patience.
Here is the partial panel I got from Stormrider.
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Tried running pixel fixers on it, ya know, the apps that flash all those pretty colors? Yeah, no luck. I noticed the pixel while reading an ebook last night with a nighttime theme with a dark colored paper background. When you hold the device vertically, the pixel is either at the top left corner of the screen, or, when flipped 360, directly in the center of the battery meter on the bottom right.
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Track Profile
- Track Length: 3/8 mile, D shaped
- Surface: Semi-banked, clay.
- Bubba Raceway Park began operations in 1952, 2016 will mark it's 64th year of operation making it the oldest track in the state of Florida.
- The Speedway has also been called Ocala Speedway, Zuber Speedway, Marion Speedway, and Lightning Speedway over the years.
- The track operated as clay for 45 years, asphalt for 10 years, and in 2008 converted back to it roots as a clay track again.
- New granstands, new musco lighting, new sound system, new restrooms, asphalt and concrete pits.
Racing Classes:
- Late Model, Open Wheel Modified, Hobby Stock, Mini Stock, V-8 Thunderstock, Gladiators
Visiting Racing Series:
- USAC National Sprint Car Championship
- World of Outlaw Late Model Series
- UMP DirtCar Open Wheel Modifieds
- UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions
- ASCS Winged Sprints
- Florida Sprint Car Association
- Florida Mini Sprint Association
- Dirtcar Pro Modifieds
- United Dirt Late Model Challenge Series
- Summer Jam Monster Truck Series
- Stars Pro Truck Series
Track Records
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|Home Town
|Winged Sprint
|#9 Daryn Pittman
|Pittsboro, IN
|02/08/2013 Winter Nationals
UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions
|Late Model
|#1 Josh Richards
|Shinnston, WV
|02/15/2013 Winter Nationals
World of Outlaws Late Model Series
|Non-Winged Sprint
|#17 Max McGhee
|Mooresville, IN
|02/19/2016 Winter Nationals
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Hey Billsfan, thanks for the good wishes. I am an OLD Giants' fan and remember SB 21 very well. Kelly was fantastic and if I'm being honest they should have won. Marv Leavy did not adjust to the Giant's defensive scheme and should have had more Thurman Thomas and less Kelly passing. That's my 2 cents.
Your current team can make some waves. I like RFP as your QB and you have some serious talent on O. Your defense is fast but you play in a very tough division.
I hope you can unseat the Pats next year and keep those annoying Jets down as well. I never hated the Jets until Sexy Rexy took over. BLEH what a boob he is.
Take care man. Thanks for wishing us well. I'm beyond nervous.


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Last year around this time, a friend of mine made an off-handed comment on Facebook that I should open a movie blog. A large number of status updates I had been making were essentially mini-movie reviews, and he said something to the effect of "Dude, you should start a movie blog". When another friend chimed in a few minutes later with "I would totally read that", I was off to the races.
Thank you Bob and Matt, I owe you one. LOL
I signed up for WordPress, played around with the graphics of the site for a bit, wrote a handful of reviews, and then at the end of the week (June 18) I "opened for business" by announcing to my friends and family that I had opened up a blog. Thus began a painful few months where I strong-armed the people close to me into reading and commenting. I'm glad to say that many of them did, and really helped me through the painful early days with a lot of positive feedback and support. It was also great to see my old friends from the Halls show up, and its been great to have a new place to connect.
We're up and running now, for sure. Things are going well, the podcast is taking off, and I've got a bunch of "Lammy lottery tickets" out there, we'll see how we do with those this week…
WHAT? You guys got me presents?? Ohhhh man… you shouldn't have… honestly… ohhhh… let's see what they got. Cmon now, this is too much!
1) I'm watching movies with new eyes.
Now that I know that I'll be reviewing whatever I watch, I'm watching movies in a much more critical way. That's not to say I'm harsher on them, there's nothing I like better than awarding the A++. I watch, I think, I form an opinion that I know I'll have to defend. That's a fantastic process that's a lot of fun. It really adds to my enjoyment of watching movies. Plus, I'm learning a TON by doing my MTESS Series!
2) I've been given an outlet to express my passion for movies.
I don't think I'll ever forget the day I turned on "The Breakfast Club" and watched it for the first time as a blogger and thought "I have to write about this!" Well, nothing was stopping me! There's always a way available to me now to express my enthusiasm, thanks to FMR.
3) An amazing network of online friends, visitors and fellow bloggers
I've made a LOT of new friends this past year, and through the modern magic of social media, we're always wired in. There's always someone around to crack wise, or talk movies, or just all around goof off with. It's been great meeting so many new people and getting to know you all!
4) Building the site and watching it grow has been amazing
Running a blog has been a fascinating thing for me… coming up with content, promoting it, watching the page views, subscribers and comments grow… it's really been great. I get to put it together, brick by brick, and then see what it looks like as it progresses. It's a very cool thing, what a great experience!
I realize that with all the Lammy posts, it's been a little self-congratulatory around here of late, but I didn't want the timing of these things to spoil my opportunity to celebrate the site's anniversary. I also didn't want to miss out on the opportunity to thank you all for giving me so much over the past year, it's really been a rewarding, satisfying endeavour for me, and I owe that all to the people who visit! Thanks to all the commenters and "likers" and lurkers… it's your feedback and visits that keep me firing content out!
I kind of thought we might have some fun today and just goof around and turn this thread into a mock party… I have a feeling I can get things going in the right direction and find a few people who'd like to play along. LOL 😀 So whatever you'd like to post, let 'er rip. Have fun! If anyone wants me to upload any pics to comments, just email them to me at firstname.lastname@example.com and I'll put them up!


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The South's Largest Antebellum Mansion
Nottoway Plantation Resort • White Castle, LA
Escape Kit
- A One-Night Stay for Two in a Cottage Room, Sundays through Thursdays ($142) or Fridays and Saturdays ($174)
- Or, a One-Night Stay for Two in a Mansion Room, Sundays through Thursdays ($192) or Fridays and Saturdays ($224)
- Breakfast for Two and $40 Dinner Credit
- Guided Mansion Tour for Two
- Two Tickets to the Rural Life Museum
- Combine Vouchers to Stay for Up to Four Nights
The Destination
Head south of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, following the mighty Mississippi until the urban sprawl fades and the suburbs give way to wide-open farmland. Here in the small town of White Castle, the landscape has hardly changed since the antebellum era, with gorgeous plantations and acres of crops spreading as far as the eye can see. Southern hospitality is very much alive and well along the Mississippi, with plenty of front porch swings and mint juleps to go around.
The Digs
The hand-carved mantles and stately oak trees of Nottoway Plantation Resort harken back to times of both war and peace—in fact, a former guest turned Union soldier saved the grand Louisiana estate from destruction during the Civil War. Now the largest remaining plantation house from the Old South, the property has been meticulously restored to its present splendor. Completed in 1859, Nottoway boasts 53,000 square feet of Greek Revival and Italianate-style architecture sprinkled with Corinthian columns and 19th-century crystal chandeliers. Tastefully appointed rooms offer antique and reproduction furnishings, private baths, Wi-Fi, and flat-screen TVs.
Located on the ground floor of the magnificent rotunda, The Mansion Restaurant at Nottoway features stunning views of century-old oaks. It serves dishes like the Cajun 3-step—a chicken-and-sausage jambalaya with fried Gulf shrimp and crawfish étouffée—in the restored turn-of-the-century dining room.
The Diversions
• The Mansion Restaurant at Nottoway
• The Salon at Nottoway
• Le Café
• Rural Life Museum
"Nottoway is everything you want in a dazzling Old South mansion. Dating from 1858, it's the largest existing plantation house in the South, a mammoth structure with 64 rooms (covering 53,000 sq. ft.) and pillars to rival the White House's."-- Frommer's
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To delight our guests and a great passion during our work - this is what the Schweizerhof team is standing for. Get to know us!
5-star quality combined with an extraordinary large number of exciting events to appeal to local and international audiences.
Simple and free into the web: All guests at the Hotel Schweizerhof Luzern benefit from free WiFi access with the highest quality and security standards in the entire hotel area.
Special discounted offers available throughout the year or to coincide with special festivals – view the current selection for yourself.
Our team offers a comprehensive service for private or business functions. Contact us for more details.
Benefit from individually designed offers for the most special day of your life!
From 24 March 2017 our guest chef Gaetano Basiricò brings a whiff of Sicilia to the Hotel Schweizerhof Luzern. You can enjoy his creations until the 5 June 2017.
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Maintaining healthy and strong teeth requires frequently attended personal oral care. Hundred types of bacteria live in our mouth. Some are helpful biologically while others are harmful such as those responsible for tooth decay. Proper brushing and flossing your teeth will help prevent cavities and gum infections. Freshen your breath and eliminate plaque by brushing regularly. Keep a regular schedule of visits to your dentist for checkups and advice.
Proper Brushing
Regular brushing of your teeth is very important. Make this a habit and brushing twice a day will do you good. Allow sufficient time after taking meals or drinks before you brush your teeth. Instant brushing after meals is not recommended as this can damage your teeth. An interval of about one hour after meals is advisable. This allows the saliva sufficient time to neutralize the acid contained in foods. It is necessary that you brush your teeth in the right way and for sufficient amount of time.
Here are the tips:
- Place the head of your toothbrush in a tilted position such that the bristles are in contact with the teeth at an angle of 45 degrees. Involve small circular movements severally on all surfaces of the teeth. This is a good way to scrap away tartar that may have started to build up.
- Use the same brushing technique on all inner surfaces of the teeth.
- Target the chewing surfaces of the teeth.
- Do not use a mouthwash to rinse your mouth after brushing as this removes the protective toothpaste.
- Get a fresh breath by brushing your tongue.
- Avoid eating or drinking immediately after brushing. Allow an interval of about 30 minutes.
Dentists recommend that you change your toothbrush every three to four months. Old toothbrushes are not effective in removing tartar because of worn out bristles.
Mouth Flossing and Using Mouthwash
It helps to remove food particles between your teeth and in the gum line where a tooth brush cannot be used. Food particles deeply lodged in the gum line can lead to gum infection when left here for long. It is advisable that you floss your mouth once daily. This can be done before or after a normal tooth brushing preferably at night. Consult your dentist on the best flossing techniques.
Use alcohol-free mouthwash is another way to prevent tooth decay and gum infection. Dentists recommend use of fluoride-containing fluoride. Choose a specific time to use mouthwash, maybe after lunch. Similar to brushing, do not eat or drink immediately after using mouthwash. Mouthwash removes potential groups of bacteria found in the mouth and reduces chances of tartar build up.
Dentists recommend that you limit the amount of sugar in your meals and drinks to prevent tooth cavities. This reduces the amount of acid formed in the mouth. Avoid sugary snacks after main meals. Artificial sweeteners which do not promote tooth decay are a good choice. Use of sugar-free gum after meals leads to production saliva which neutralizes the acid hence preventing erosion of your tooth enamel.
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Wow Week Underway at Cal Poly
Police Plan Heightened Patrols During Semester's First Weeks
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - As freshmen students begin to arrive for their first semester at Cal Poly, organizers of "Wow Week" plan several events to welcome the incoming class.
WOW stands for "Week of Welcome," billed as a week-long series of orientation events on and off the campus. Planners strive to give students opportunities to learn about the campus, orientation to what services and programs are available and provide a method to meet fellow students.
The San Luis Obispo Police Department will increase patrol staffing during the start of school, to include Move-In and Week of Welcome activities. Enhanced patrol deployments will be prepared to respond to the any large gatherings generated from the various WOW participants and other start of school year gatherings that often occupy the neighborhoods surrounding the Cal Poly Campus.
As part of that plan, SLO Police will team up with Cal Poly University Police for a quick response to neighborhood issues that may arise.
A philosophy called "The "Mustang Way" will be shared by police with students to encourage an atmosphere of mutual respect, responsibility for actions and appreciation for the surrounding neighborhoods. Officers have been encouraged to share the philosophy as they interact with students, neighbors and others during a period of intensified patrol and enforcement.
SLO Police will have a fully staffed deployment for WOW week and the first two weekends of school.
The WOW program is open to freshmen or new transfer students. Organizers place participants in groups of 10 to 20, led by an existing Cal Poly student, who plans activities based on the interests of students in each group.
For more information, the website is http://www.studentlife.calpoly.edu/orientation/wow/


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Just started. Does anyone know when's the cutoff for the live feed on IN?
Just started. Does anyone know when's the cutoff for the live feed on IN?
Barely got any sleep, but made sure to get up just in time for Gretchen Donlan & Andrew Speroff. Loooooved their Led Zeppelin "Stairway to Heaven" FS. Too bad about the fall on the side-by-side 2A by her (in the past he was the one that had problems with it, but not today).
Becky B. & her partner had a nice skate to "Chicago". Lots of show presence, too bad about the mistake on the death spiral, if that didn't happen they would have finished higher imho.
Good skate by Molly Aaron & Daniel Cohen, just a freak fall by her on a side-by-side jump and I think she had a touchdown of her hand on a throw jump. And now the replay shows her two-footing the throw 3R jump, and he had a stumble on his side-by-side jump. But their interpretation to "Malaguena" was pretty good!
ALL RIGHT, Donlan & Speroff are leading thus far out of 6 pairs that have skated thus far!!!!!
They were in 9th place after the SP, out of 13 pairs, but now they are going to definitely move up a spot or two ~ YEAH!!!!!!
That's it, they're not showing any more. Says Championship FD up next.
Nice to watch on big screen tv in HD. Just showed Caitlin and John's SP. It was just gorgeous. My fingers are crossed that they
win Gold this afternoon. Wishing all the pairs good luck.
Wow, good synchronization on those side-by-side spins for Caydee and Jeremy.
Unfortunately I cannot watch. The NBC east coast feed available on 1TVPC is coming out of an NBC affiliate in Florida and they are showing some kind of local parade instead of the Pairs LP. I do not like waiting three hours from the tape delay on the west coast. I sure hope that station in Florida does not chack the ladies LP tonight. I believe it is supposed to air on NBC at 8PM Eastern, IIRC.
i really stink out doing pbp's - and worse with pairs than singles. But, they had good energy and show lot's of improvement on the "finesse" factor. I think they did a throw3tiwst; 3 toes nice; throw 3 lutz; 2 axel sequence. nice sbs spins. good.
Caydee and Jeremy are not ready to reliquish their National title yet. Theys skated like champions they should be very happy.
Caydee and Jeremy skated well for themselves. He stepped out of the 1st 2Axel in the 2Axel+2Axel sequence and he was a little unsteady on the 1 foot lift, and overall, they skate with much less speed and less choreographic and transition content than the very best pairs in the world. Their skating has way too many basic crossovers. For skating in the US though, what they did was fine, and I wouldn't be surprised to see them move up considerably with that skate.
117something for Caydee and Jeremy, I believe. Didn't fully catch it because I forgot my closed captioning was still on and it blocked it.
Time for Mary Beth and Rockne! Gooooooooo!
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I say keep him, he played well, given the circumstances. And for being a Giant citizen, I was very impressed the way he engaged the kids from Newtown during player intro's. He's my kind of Giant.
I have no problem keeping him for the right price. But do we "need" him? No.


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I'm kicking myself for not returning to Lily Bistro, in Rockland, Maine, sooner, Chefs/owners Rob and Lynette Krajewski won me over at first bite, when I dined there during there opening year, returning now and again as my schedule permitted for cassoulet or frites or any of the other classic French bistro fare on the menu. The downtown restaurant closed yesterday, a victim of a triple whammy that shouldn't have happened. I'll let Lynette explain:
"Rockland closed Main Street for six weeks and parked excavators and sewer pipe in front of the Bistro. We watched our business slip through our fingers. We tried to renegotiate our loans with Camden National, but they were completely unwilling to work with us," she says. "Funny thing is, Maine state rev and the IRS were great, CNB, nothing, with one year left on our loans. So, we had to close."
That's not the worst of it. The Krajewskis are saddled with "liens for the business on everything we own, we have 60 days until the bank takes the house. We were pretty wrecked, but now we are in survival mode. Bob has taken a job at Aquataine in the south end of Boston and I am on the hunt. [Boston] is the only place we have a chance of making money and digging us out of the hole. Big banks, small business, poor city planning. But on to new things :)."


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Police Blotter - December 26
Breezy Point Police Department
FRAUD: Report on Dec. 21 of credit card fraud from Breezy Point resident.
ACCIDENTS: Two reports of cars in the ditch between Dec. 16 and Dec. 23.
Pequot Lakes Police Department
ACCIDENTS: Report on Dec. 16 of an accident with minor injuries at Highway 371 and County Road 168 in Pequot Lakes.
Four reports between Dec. 16 and Dec. 22 of vehicles in the ditch, including one rollover.
Pine River Police Department
THEFT/DAMAGE TO PROPERTY: Report that on Dec. 16 in the early morning hours the change machine was pried off the wall of the Pine River Laundromat and taken. Damage was done to the wall and wiring. The case is under investigation.
Lake Shore Police Department
FIRE: Report on Dec. 22 of a snowmobile on fire off of County Road 107. The snowmobile was a total loss.
ACCIDENT: Report on Dec. 23 of a crash on Ridge Road. The driver lost control on the icy roads and slid off the road into a large tree. The vehicle was severely damaged but there were no injuries reported.


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What Happens After Treatment for Cancer of the Esophagus?
For some people with esophagus cancer, treatment can remove or destroy the cancer. Completing treatment can be both stressful and exciting. You may be relieved to finish treatment, but find it hard not to worry about cancer coming back. (When cancer comes back after treatment, it is called recurrence.) This is a very common concern in people who have had cancer.
It may take a while before your fears lessen. But it may help to know that many cancer survivors have learned to live with this uncertainty and are living full lives. See Living With Uncertainty: The Fear of Cancer Recurrence for more detailed information on this.
For other people, the esophagus cancer might never go away completely. These people may get regular treatments with chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or other therapies to help keep the cancer in check. Learning to live with cancer as more of a chronic disease can be difficult and very stressful. It has its own type of uncertainty. See When Cancer Doesn't Go Away for more about this.
Follow-up care
If you have completed treatment, your doctors will still want to watch you closely. It's very important to go to all of your follow-up appointments. During these visits, your doctors will ask about symptoms, examine you, and may order blood tests, upper endoscopy, or imaging tests such as upper gastrointestinal (GI) x-rays, barium swallows, or CT scans. These tests are described in " How is cancer of the esophagus diagnosed?"
Follow-up is needed to check for cancer recurrence or spread, as well as for possible side effects of certain treatments. This is the time for you to ask your health care team any questions you need answered and to discuss any concerns you might have.
Almost any cancer treatment can have side effects. Some may last for a few weeks to several months, but others can last the rest of your life. Don't hesitate to tell your cancer care team about any symptoms or side effects that bother you so they can help you manage them.
It's very important to report any new symptoms to the doctor right away, especially if they include trouble swallowing or chest pain. Early treatment can relieve many symptoms and improve your quality of life.
It's also very important to keep health insurance. Tests and doctor visits cost a lot, and even though no one wants to think of their cancer coming back, this could happen.
If cancer does recur, treatment will depend on where the cancer is, what treatments you've had before, and your overall health. For more information on how recurrent cancer is treated, see " Recurrent cancer of the esophagus." For more general information on dealing with a recurrence, you may also want to see When Your Cancer Comes Back: Cancer Recurrence.
Help for trouble swallowing, nutrition, and pain
Palliative treatments are aimed at helping to relieve the symptoms of esophagus cancer, rather than trying to cure the cancer. In some cases they are used along with other treatments that focus on curing the cancer, but palliative treatments are often used in people with advanced cancer to help improve their quality of life.
Cancer of the esophagus often causes trouble swallowing, which can lead to weight loss and weakness due to poor nutrition. A team of doctors and nutritionists can work with you to provide nutritional supplements and information about your individual nutritional needs. This can help you maintain your weight and nutritional intake. For more information and nutrition tips for during and after cancer treatment, see Nutrition for the Person With Cancer During Treatment: A Guide for Patients and Families.
There are many ways to control pain caused by cancer of the esophagus. If you have pain, tell your cancer care team right away, so they can give you prompt and effective pain management. For more information, see Guide to Controlling Cancer Pain.
For more information on palliative treatments, see " Palliative therapy for cancer of the esophagus.
Seeing a new doctor
At some point after your cancer diagnosis and treatment, you may find yourself seeing a new doctor who doesn't know anything about your medical history. It's important that you be able to give your new doctor the details of your diagnosis and treatment. Gathering these details during and soon after treatment may be easier than trying to get them at some point in the future. Make sure you have this information handy and always keep copies for yourself:
- A copy of your pathology report(s) from any biopsies or surgeries
- Copies of imaging tests (CT or MRI scans, etc.), which can usually be stored digitally (on a DVD, etc.)
- If you had surgery, a copy of your operative report(s)
- If you stayed in the hospital, a copy of the discharge summary that the doctor prepared when you were sent home
- If you had radiation therapy, a summary of the type and dose of radiation and when and where it was given
- If you had chemotherapy (or targeted therapy), a list of the drugs, drug doses, and when you took them
- The names and contact information of the doctors who treated your cancer
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After Treatment
- What Happens After Treatment for Cancer of the Esophagus?
- Lifestyle Changes After Cancer of the Esophagus
- Can I Lower the Risk of My Esophagus Cancer Progressing or Coming Back?
- Can I Get Another Cancer After Having Esophagus Cancer?
- How Might Having Esophagus Cancer Affect Your Emotional Health?
- If Treatment for Cancer of the Esophagus Stops Working


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A team from one of the world's top business schools has touched down in New Zealand to collaborate with two local start-ups.
Eight MBA students from the MIT Sloan School of Management, based in Massachusetts, are working with Wellington start-up CricHQ and Auckland-based Vend.
CricHQ - which has former New Zealand cricket captain Stephen Fleming as a director - describes itself as a "cricket mad" company working to meet the technology needs of cricket players, fans and coaches.
Chief executive and founder Simon Baker says the company has created a social network for cricket players among other things.
"They have a profile with all of their career stats and they can follow their favourite players and get notifications from the game ... potentially in the future they'll be able to post a video clip of them celebrating their 100 [runs] and that goes up on their profile" he said.
The four MIT MBAs at CricHQ have been helping the company refine its strategy for its push into India, where a third of the start-up's 60 staff are now based. The other four students are in Auckland working with Vend, which creates point-of-sale software for retailers.
Vend chief executive Vaughan Rowsell said the visiting team had looked into strategic partnerships that the company could pursue.
"It's a great programme and it has been of immense benefit to us. Having them on board for even such a relatively short period of time has helped our thinking on a couple of key strategies," Rowsell said.
The students spent three months working with the two start-ups remotely from the US, followed by three weeks in New Zealand.
The programme - part of the Global Entrepreneurship Laboratory (G-Lab) project - is government-funded and has run since 2006. Under the scheme, up to 20 MBAs from the business school select Kiwi companies to work with and travel to New Zealand each year.


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Marilyn Monroe is fronting a promotional campaign for luxury perfume Chanel No.5 from beyond the grave.
The late screen icon, who famously touted the scent as her favourite fragrance, follows in the footsteps of other brand ambassadors, including Nicole Kidman and Carole Bouquet, and most recently Brad Pitt, who starred in the last No.5 advertising campaign.
Monroe will now be taking over from Pitt after Chanel bosses put together a new promo featuring previously unreleased pictures of the actress and unheard audio in which she explains her famous quote about wearing nothing but Chanel No.5 in bed.
She says in the film, titled Marilyn and No.5: "They ask you questions like ... What do you wear to bed - A pyjama top? ... A nightgown? So I said, 'Chanel No.5' because it's the truth!... "


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Nostale has prepared a giveaway for Onrpg users!
All new players who enter our game and are also members of onrpg.com
will receive entry level consumables to help them through the initial
stages of the game.
Fried Chicken (50)
Gillion Stones (10)
Pets Guardian Doll (1)
Miniland Sculpture (Nosmal item)
2. Once these players reach level 21, Nostale wishes to reward them with some
fun and nice items like a free nosmall costume to decorate their
character. Only the first 100 to reach level 21 will be entitled to the reward.
Costume (1 Week)
Gillion stones (20)
Fried Chicken (99)
3. Also the first 100 players to become pajama spe******ts will be
rewarded with 5,000 Noscash. They can use this buy various character
enhancement items in nosmall. This will allow them to take their gameplay
to a whole new experience.
4. So, How to join?
It's very easy.
First, Go to Nostale Global (www.nostale.net) and Register yourself.
Second, create your character.
Thrid, come back to Onrpg.com and log-in. If you are not yet a member please sign up here http://www.onrpg.com/boards/register.php .
Forth, come back to this Forum Page .(http://www.onrpg.com/boards/103081.html)
Fifth. Nostale GM will welcome you. So, Leave your IGN there.
Six. When you reach Lv. 21 and Pajama Spe******t. take screen shot and post it on Nostale Forum site.
Seven. Enjoy Nostale !!


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I would like to plant about 100-150 basswood trees (for the bees of course!) and was wondering where a good nursery is. Also, I've found a site that will sell me the seeds. Is it too late in the year to plant these? Thanks!
I would like to plant about 100-150 basswood trees (for the bees of course!) and was wondering where a good nursery is. Also, I've found a site that will sell me the seeds. Is it too late in the year to plant these? Thanks!
BTW, the seed is difficult to germinate, and I don't find too many seedlings near the trees on my acreage. They regenerate primarily from sprouts after they are felled.
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Basswood seed is notoriously hard to germinate. Percentages are usually very low.
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I didn't know that it was a flood plain tree. I have the perfect spot! I was going to plant willows there but this will probably be better. Thanks Mapman, I can always count on you for good information!
Don't plant them too close to standing water. Need well-drained location. Oh, stay away from willows - you will regret it if you plant them, as they are messy, and come down in storms, too! I have a horticulture degree, among others...
At what age or height do Basswood trees start blooming? I planted four of them last year. They are still only about 2 feet tall.
That's a tough question, as there are many variables which come into play before any tree blooms, such as location, environmental extremes of heat and cold, amount of moisture available, amount of growth per year based on climate, etc. Age and height are not always good indicators either, as age and height are not always related - some conditions on northern slopes are ideal for most tree growth, whereas southern slopes tend to be drier and the trees mature more slowly.
In ideal conditions, I've seen some basswoods (we're talking the American Basswood here) bloom when they are 20 feet high, and I'd guess (and it is a guess) that most bloom by 30 feet in height. I've seen it referenced that a tree won't bloom and set seed until it is 15 years of age, so how high it is is dependent on environmental factors. It is tough to tell sometimes, because they are a sprouting tree - many (most) trees have at least two trunks originating from a central trunk, and they all bloom in varying years. Aside from their blooms, I think that it makes some of the best construction lumber around - much better than pine/spruce/fir, and it is fantastic for carving. The floor joists in an addition to my home added in the '20's is basswood - solid as can be.


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Don't let the manufacturer photos fool you! Many of the Dog Bowls & Diners below are available in sizes that work well for the typically sized Neapolitan Mastiff, but you may have to dig a bit.
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Two years ago, there was a flurry of excitement because MarketWatch journalist Rex Nutting crunched annual budget numbers and proclaimed that Barack Obama was the most fiscally conservative president since at least 1980.
I looked at the data and found a few mistakes, such as a failure to adjust the numbers for inflation, but Nutting's overall premise was reasonably accurate.
As you can see from the tables I prepared back in 2012, Obama was the third most frugal president based on the growth of total inflation-adjusted spending.
And he was in first place if you looked at primary spending, which is total spending after removing net interest payments (a reasonable step since presidents can't really be blamed for interest payments on the debt accrued by their predecessors).
So does this mean Obama is a closet conservative, as my old—but misguided—buddy Bruce Bartlett asserted?


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So, the cat's out of the bag! Yes, I'm planning on going to Honduras. But, it has not been an easy decision, even from the beginning.
When my friend, Steve, told me about his daughter, Jasmine, already teaching in Cofradia, I thought, "This is it! This is what I've wanted to do, for years." I quickly tore through a book Steve recommended, "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder (if you want to read a book about changing the world for the better, I highly recommend this book. You can get it at Barnes & Noble and at Amazon). It's a true story about a young medical student, Paul Farmer, who decides to set up shop in Haiti. He wants to make a difference and change the squalid conditions the people he met, on an earlier trip, were living in. He's crazy, but his story can move you. It moved me, and maybe I'm just as crazy
The idea of applying for this teaching position had been germinating for several weeks. While reading "Mountains Beyond Mountains" I had discussed the idea with family, in January, on a ski trip to Snowshoe.
- This guy, Paul Farmer is amazing!
- Am I crazy for even thinking about such an adventure?
- Am I too old, too tired, etc.?
- Is this really how I want to contribute to the universe?
- I've thought about something like this for years, why not now?
- If not now, when?
- What will I do with all my belongings, my job?
- What about all the friends I'll be leaving behind?
- Do I have the energy to make all new friends?
- God, I'm old!!
I was aware of feeling excitement, fear, anxiety, uncertainty, the pebbles under my toes slipping over the edge as I stood unsure on this new cliff of decision. And I jumped...
So on February 16, at 11:43, on a ski trip to Vail, in a cabin in the middle of nowhere, Leadville (BFE), CO, and after all the guys on the trip had already gone to bed, feeling exhausted, but excited, and daring, but scared, I hooked into the condo's wireless network, logged onto BECA (Bilingual Education for Central America) - Volunteer to Teach in Cofradia, Honduras, gasp, Web site, clicked on the "Volunteer to Teach" link, took the "BECA Quiz," and began the application process. I felt elated. I felt like all the stars, through the cold, crisp winter air were twinkling for me. Now, when I look back it seems ironic that I finally made this move from, of all places, Leadville. I feel asleep that night with visions of giggling Honduran children dancing in my head.


text: Hey guys I figured I would start a thread on "How long will you keep your current GM vehicle/when will you get rid of it?"...I just got a 2009 Chevy Silverado 1500 LT Crew Cab Z71 about a month ago and I plan on keeping it for a VERY long time.I had a 2003 Chevy Silverado 1500 for 3 years before I got this one...I traded it in because I needed a crew cab due to our growing family.Im just curious too see how long people will keep there current GM vehicle!...Lets see what people have to say!.........Ready,Set,Go!:great:


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I can't see eggs in my hive, but I do see larvae, should I let it alone and wait for a while to see what happens? Unable to see eggs, bad eyesight..Dont know what to do now.
I can't see eggs in my hive, but I do see larvae, should I let it alone and wait for a while to see what happens? Unable to see eggs, bad eyesight..Dont know what to do now.
If you have uncapped larva, you have had a queen in the lasts 10 days or so. I think you're fine.
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I have a tough time seeing them too and my eyesight is good! I started spotting eggs in the PHOTOS I took while inspecting. Is it new, light colored wax? The doesn't make it any easier either. Sometimes holding the frame up to the sun can help spot them too.
I think quite a few people on the forums here use cheap, overpowered reading glasses to help see them.
I am having the same problem on a swarm that I caught. I hadn't found the queen, but I put black plastic foundation in this hive and the eggs really stand out.
About the only way I see the eggs in my other hives is by looking at the pictures. Both of those queens were marked, so they are super easy to spot.
Beepop check out wood craft for magnifying glass. I got the head set two lenses ,there 29.00 dollars. Like you my sight not that good I got them for my wood carving ,but I wear them when I go in hive and they help me see those little eggs. he black Also use black plastic foundation in brood nest, the eggs stand out against the black. Heres web page. http://www.woodcraft.com/search2/sea...ifying%20glass
Heres the maginifying glasses. http://www.woodcraft.com/product/200...hout-lens.aspx
Go with the 3x power reading glasses i see the eggs real easy with them easy fix only 9.00 for 3 pair great deal WALMART.
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Taking part is fun, but winning really rocks. Sure, BU's 600 student-athletes love what they do, but when you're competing at the highest level of college athletics in 25 NCAA Division I varsity sports, results count.
Over the last nine years, BU has captured a staggering 51 conference championships, raised the Beanpot four times and earned the University's fifth men's ice hockey championship.
The 2013-14 academic year marks the beginning of a new era for the Terriers, as BU officially joined the Patriot League on July 1, 2013. With the announcement, 20 of BU's 25 athletic programs will now compete under the Patriot League banner. The men's and women's hockey teams remain in the Hockey East Association.
Last season was highlighted by the women's ice hockey team advancing to its second NCAA title game in three years. Ten individuals powered their way through to NCAA postseason competition in 2012-13, while eight student-athletes combined to claim 10 All-America accolades.
This upcoming spring will showcase the first season of competition for the men's lacrosse team, which was elevated from a club sport to varsity status. It is the second consecutive season that we have added a sport, as women's lightweight rowing officially hit the water in 2012-13.
The landscape of BU Athletics is also set for a new look, as the state-of-the-art New Balance Field opens this August. This facility will be the new home of the Terriers' nationally ranked field hockey team and will feature an 110,000 square-foot field and seating for 500 spectators on Babcock Street.
Staying true to our motto of Excellence in Athletics, Academics and Community, our department-wide grade-point average was over 3.0 last year and our student-athletes combined to participate in over 4,500 hours of community service and outreach.
We call this success Points of Terrier Pride. The Dog Pound, our loyal and loud fans, call it another rocking year. And the volume will be up again next year. And beyond. Check out what the future holds for Terrier Athletics in the department's strategic plan.
You can also watch games and highlights through our live and archived streaming, join our Facebook group, follow our Twitter and Instagram feeds and read about our latest success at GoTerriers.com.
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By Susan Black
One Friday afternoon, a fourth-grader in upstate New York's rural Yates County boarded his school bus for the ride home, a backpack slung over each shoulder.
One pack held his books and homework. The other pack was stuffed with small boxes of raisins, cups of applesauce, packets of oatmeal, packaged tuna and chicken, peanut butter, and easy-to-open, microwave-ready soup.
Earlier that week, volunteers from Milly's Pantry, a nonprofit organization that works with Foodlink and Feeding America, a nationwide program that supplies emergency food to school children and their families, filled more than 500 backpacks, some in a church hall and others in a village youth center. The backpacks were delivered to two school districts, some 20 miles apart.
The backpacks, says George Schaeffer, Milly's Pantry's president, help ensure that "food insecure" children have full tummies over weekends and school holidays. The program, he adds, is a "grassroots model" that strives to eliminate the "footprint of poverty" at the local level.
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text: Hello all, Want to say thanks very much for the great How-To's, I am however having an issue. I am unable to open the ISPConfig in the web. I have tried several things I have read on the forums here. (and I have removed my actual domain name and replaced with mydomain just for posting purposes) At first I read someone elses post that that had to run /etc/init.d/ispconfig_server start to get working, I did as well and it had asked me for my passphrase, enter it in, seemed to start up, but still unable to connect to the web interface. If I use http://mydomain.net:81 or http://www.mydomain.net:81 it says: Code: Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port. Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please. Hint: https://mydomain.net:81/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache/1.3.33 Server at mydomain.net Port 81 But when I use https://mydomain.net:81 or https://www.mydomain.net:81 it says: Code: The page cannot be displayed The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings. Here is my netstat -tap Code: login as: root [email protected][email protected][email protected] Another thing is when I run chkconfig --add ispconfig_server or chkconfig --levels 235 ispconfig_server on it says: Code: login as: root [email protected][email protected][email protected] When I try to connect on the actual box itself using https://localhost:81 I get an error saying. Code: Could not establish an encrypted connection because certificate presented by localhost is invalid or corrupted. Error Code: -8182 Another strange thing is if I visit my normal domain using http:// on IE I get the default page saying bleh bleh, server installed ect.. With info on apache and mandriva, ect.. But... If I visit it using FireFox, it shows the site in text, including the html tags. Not even parsing the site or something? I tried via Firefox 1.06 and 1.07 on both Windows XP and Linux. My normal http:// domain still works however in IE Hope someone can help me


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The House gave final congressional approval Sunday night to a bill with the stated goals of getting 32 million more Americans covered by health insurance, curbing rising medical costs, restricting unpopular insurance practices and raising additional taxes.
After the 219-212 vote on Sunday, House Democrats also passed a "reconciliation" package of amendments that the Senate plans to take up later this week. The reconciliation package is supposed to fix problems that some House Democrats had with the Senate-approved bill. The reconciliation bill would also revamp financial aid for higher education.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the overall cost of the Democrats' health care plan would be $938 billion over 10 years. But the CBO projected that this would be more than offset by additional taxes, other revenue and spending cuts. So if everything goes according to the letter of the law, the CBO says federal deficits could drop by $124 billion over the next decade and possibly by much more after that.
Much uncertainty surrounds these estimates, however. (See next article on the importance of cost control efforts.) In addition, $70 billion of the anticipated deficit reduction comes from premiums for a new public long-term care program (the CLASS Act), and that money is already fully committed to cover promised benefits.
Another fiscal question mark: Congress still needs to take up legislation to cancel scheduled cuts in Medicare payments to doctors. This change, which has bipartisan support, could cost taxpayers more than $200 billion over 10 years.
Different parts of the health care reform plan would begin at different times over the next few years. The ones with the largest fiscal impact would: (CBO dollar estimates over 10 years)
- Provide subsidies to help many low- and middle-income people buy insurance. ($464 billion cost)
- Require many businesses to offer employee health insurance plans or pay penalties. ($52 billion offset)
- Require most Americans to buy health insurance or pay penalties. ($17 billion offset)
- Extend Medicaid to cover people with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level. ($434 billion cost)
- Raise the Medicare tax on high-income individuals and families. ($210 billion offset)
- Eventually tax high-cost health plans that some employers offer, a step that many analysts consider essential to rein in medical costs. ($32 billion offset)
- Increase prescription drug benefits in Medicare. ($43 billion cost)
- Fund pilot programs and demonstration projects that could lead to better value in heath care. ($14 billion cost)
- Create the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) to monitor health care costs and suggest improvements. ($16 billion offset)
The President plans to sign the health care bill on Tuesday, March 23. At that point, the Senate will take up the reconciliation package. This has the potential to be a long, drawn-out process because the rules regarding reconciliation disallow any provision interpreted by the Senate parliamentarian to be non-budget related. There will be numerous points of order and opportunities for amendment and if any succeed, the package would have to go back to the House for another vote.


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Cartel boss captured with Fast & Furious weapons
posted at 9:21 am on October 2, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
How high up did the weapons of Operation Fast and Furious go in the cartels? This high:
When Mexican authorities took Juarez drug cartel carnage king Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez — better known as "El Diego" — into custody, he had weapons from Operation Fast and Furious on his person, the English-language transcript of the Spanish-language television network Univision's special investigation into the scandal shows.
"According to investigations, 'El Diego' forms the link between this massacre and Fast and Furious," an anchor read on air in Spanish Sunday evening, referring to two different mass killings drug cartel operatives used Fast and Furious weapons to conduct as Univision reported.
"When he [El Diego] was captured in Chihuahua in the summer of 2011, he was found with weapons that the American government had allowed to enter Mexico," the anchor added.
Supposedly, the point of the ATF/DoJ operation was to track the weapons so that they could find the movers and shakers in the Mexican drug cartels. Imagine what would have happened if the ATF actually had intended totrack the weapons and cooperate with the Mexican government, as the Bush administration did earlier in Operation Wide Receiver. The partnership might have caught El Diego a little sooner.
And they might have prevented this:
The English-language translated transcript of Spanish-language television news network Univision's special report on Operation Fast and Furious shows that drug cartel leaders orchestrated a hit on innocent civilian teenagers using weapons they got from President Barack Obama's administration. …
Davila's children — 18-year-old Jose Luis Davila and 20-year-old Marco Davila — were next door at a birthday party with about 60 of their friends. "They had bought sodas, chips — the neighbors were going to make oranges with chilies for them, cracklings, everything," their mother told Univision.
After that gunshot, Luz Davila said she knew something horrible happened to her children.
"I stood because it came to me and I said, 'Something happened,'" Luz Davila told the network.
What had happened was Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez, or "El Diego," the onetime leader of the Juarez Cartel's La Linea, sent his team to the birthday party to kill what he thought were members of the rival Sinaloa Cartel.
Hernandez had ordered his men to block off the street and conduct the massacre under the mistaken notion that some of the attendees were Sinaloa rivals. That turned out to be false, but more than a dozen hitmen sprayed fire throughout the neighborhood, killing 16 people overall, with guns helpfully supplied by the ATF. (After his capture, Hernandez acknowledged that the targets were innocent.)
The Univision reporter says at the end that "the United States government has many things that they ought to make public." Unfortunately, this administration is still hiding Fast & Furious evidence and witnesses from Congressional investigators via a bogus executive privilege claim. Perhaps that will change soon …. but perhaps it would be better to get a new executive in place so we can finally get answers as to how the American government armed Juarez cartel hitmen to conduct this massacre, and more importantly, why.
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UTSA and KLRN host panel on foster care issues
(June 7, 2005)--KLRN-TV and the UTSA Department of Social Work will host a program on the foster care system, "Aging Out: What's Next?," from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Durango Building Southwest Room (1.124) at the UTSA Downtown Campus. The program is free and open to the public.
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The program, a community summit on transitional living for teens in the foster care system, will feature a panel discussion on the problems encountered by teens as they "age out" of the system and a resource fair for foster youth to learn about support services available in the community and statewide.
Panelists include Margie Quintanilla, Alamo Community College District; Linda Kappus, Casey Family Programs; Rebecca Durand, Roy Maas' Youth Alternatives TurningPoint program; Norma Davila, Education Source; Jennifer Talley, Project Quest; Randy McGibeny, Baptist Child and Family Services; and Cheronda Tillman, Youth Advocates in Action.
For more information, contact Ellen Roberts-Evans or Brandon Oliver, KLRN public relations, at (210) 270-9000 or visit KLRN's "Aging Out" Web site.


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Intellectual Foundations (IF) is the general education curriculum at Buffalo State. It encompasses the SUNY General Education Requirements and is designed to provide the intellectual and creative foundations for all educated persons regardless of their chosen profession.
Changes were made to the IF program in 2012. The original IF program is for students who enrolled fall 2006-spring 2014. The revised program is called Intellectual Foundations 2014 (IF 14). IF 14 is for new and transfer undergraduates entering SUNY Buffalo State during summer 2014 or fall 2014 and later. Please note: the Provost waivers granted to students, in the original IF program, do not place the students in the revised IF 14 program. An AA/AS does not waive IF 2014 requirements for transfer students. The core is already reduced with the one CORE SUNY minimum GETA approved class.


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How do you legally stop oil and gas drilling in your community? As far as I know,Āyou can't unless you obtain all of the mineral rights in your community.ĀBy owning the mineral rights, you can say "no" to any drilling.
A lot of people don't know about mineral rights' ownership. You may own property -- let's call it your surface land, including your yard -- but you may not own what is under your land: the mineral rights. Someone else may own them and they have more rights to get at them than you.
In Waterford Township, Jordan Development Company, LLC acquired the mineral rights to all Michigan-owned properties in the immediate vicinity of Waterford Township, some private property within Waterford and surrounding communities. It is also negotiating with the Waterford School District, Oakland County, the Oakland County International Airport and with municipalities to the north and west of Waterford Township.ĀIt has done this by either purchasing or leasing "the mineral rights" of all of this property. You can own what's on the surface, but it owns what's underneath.
I do not support any drilling at all in our community. I also stand behind Waterford's Board of Trustees.ĀThey were put in an almost impossible situation.ĀThey were asked to protect Waterford from fracking, and they did.ĀIf the township had owned all of the mineral rights, they could have controlled all of the drilling in Waterford.
In doing what they did, they may have also set a precedent for other communities to control the type of drilling done in their area.
Maybe a legal expert on mineral rights should be called upon to explain the facts and laws concerning ownership of mineral rights.
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I guess you never were a Boy Scout. Go unprepared and you will learn why the Boy Scout Motto is "Be Prepared".
What's the hurry? Get youre smoker, hivetool, veil and gloves. Move the hives as large as you can, don't disassemble them, unless you have to. Get a partner to help lift and move them.
Have you ever gotten a free kitten? Just because these hives are free that doesn't mean you won't pay for them, in a way. This will be a learning experience for you. Take it slow and prepare for the worst and hope for the best.


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by Daniel R. Brennan, MD, CLC, FAAP, Pediatrics
Going to the doctor for an immunization is about as much fun as getting a shot in the arm, except that you might get a sticker and lollipop. When you consider some of the diseases that you could contract if you skip these vital vaccines, then it's definitely worth choosing the poke and getting the pop.
For many of us in the child rearing years, diseases such as polio, measles and pertussis sound like ancient history. Many young parents did not grow up fearing these diseases and often have a false sense of security about their child's risk of contracting a vaccine preventable disease. The truth is, pertussis is at epidemic levels across the country and other diseases, such as measles and polio, are just a plane ride away.
Pediatricians embrace vaccines because they help our tiniest patients build strong immune systems. Most parents were vaccinated when they were young and are excited to offer immunizations to their children. A few parents have concerns and wonder if vaccines are still necessary and safe to give.
The incidence of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is at a 60-year high in California. A highly contagious bacterium, pertussis can cause a debilitating cough lasting several months and can be fatal for infants. Tetanus can be contracted from a dirty cut or wound. Diphtheria is rarely seen in this country anymore, thanks to our immunization programs.
HIB was a common cause of meningitis and epiglottitis until recently. Our immunization program has successfully eradicated this bacterial strain from our communities, but it is still prevalent in neighboring countries. My senior partner likes to remind us about how many spinal taps he used to do in the office before the HIB vaccine.
This virus is still present in parts of the world, such as Africa and India, and we will continue our vaccination program until we can eradicate it completely.
This vaccine is one of my favorites. It protects infants against strep pneumococcus, a common cause of meningitis, blood infections, pneumonia and ear infections. This vaccine prevents many babies from needing hospitalization, powerful antibiotics and invasive procedures such as spinal taps.
Unfortunately, measles and mumps outbreaks still occur in this country, largely triggered when an unimmunized person travels abroad, gets infected and brings it back home. Rubella can cause serious birth defects if acquired by a pregnant woman. A decade ago there was concern that the MMR vaccine could be linked to certain developmental delays, such as autism. We now know this theory to be untrue. Contracting the measles and developing a complication called encephalitis can still cause permanent brain damage, however.
Up to 150 children a year used to die from the chickenpox and thousands more had serious complications. Universal vaccination is contributing to the eradication of the chickenpox virus.
This nasty virus can be contracted from contaminated food or water. If you like to travel, swim in the ocean or eat fresh fruit at a farmer's market, then please stop by your doctor's office for this two part series.
This hepatitis is generally spread by contact with bodily fluids and can lead to serious liver disease. It's better to be safe than sorry.
This virus may be the worst of the "stomach flu" viruses. It is responsible for thousands of hospitalizations and emergency room visits each year. This vaccine is administered to infants in the form of oral drops.
People living in crowded quarters such as dorms are at higher risk for meningococcal disease. Most colleges now require this vaccine.
The virus that causes genital warts can also cause cervical cancer. This is the first vaccine that can prevent cancer and is now available to both females and males.
This booster to the DTaP can now offer teens and adults a chance to boost their immunity to pertussis. Did you know that almost a third of infants infected with pertussis contracted it from their moms? It is especially important for new and soon-to-be moms to get this vaccine.
Vaccines successfully keep our children healthy and continue to reduce infant mortality. With higher rates of immunization, our communities are less likely to experience outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases. The few who choose to not vaccinate, however, put their own children at risk and increase the chances of other children or adults with compromised immune systems to become ill. To see the full benefit of vaccines, we recommend that all children follow the standard vaccine schedule that is published yearly by the CDC and American Academy of Pediatrics, rather than adopting a fad 'alternative' schedule.
Pediatricians can offer more than ever to keep our children healthy. Decades of research have proven vaccines to be safe and effective. Childhood vaccines continue to be an important tool in the prevention of disease.
The next time you come in for your annual checkup, please don't forget to ask your white-coated crusader about vaccines – you might even get lucky and go home with a sucker and a sticker.


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CPJ condemns attack on Pakistani journalist Raza Rumi
New York, March 28, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalist condemns today's attack on the senior Pakistani journalist Raza Rumi in Lahore, which killed his driver. Unidentified gunmen fired on Rumi's car near the Raja Market neighborhood after he left the studio following his TV show. Rumi and his guard were injured, according to news reports. The driver was identified only as Mustafa in reports.