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Words Scrawled on Subway Order Leaves Customer in Tears
"It's not right. It's not right," said Murrieta resident Allison Brown, choking back tears.
For Brown, the emotions are still raw, two weeks after a lunch stop at a Vista Subway restaurant on 1906 Hacienda Drive.
Brown said a young worker greeted her and took her order for a 6-inch tuna sub sandwich and two flatbread "Flatizzas" -- one for her and the other for her husband.
When she got home, she couldn't believe what she saw.
"When I took it out, I saw 'Big Mama' … What is this?" said Brown, who added she has always been conscious of her weight.
The words "Big Mama" were written on one of the Flatizza boxes.
"I was hurt. I was devastated. I was crying," said Brown.
Brown was a loyal Subway customer, and she told 10News she was inspired to eat right by Subway spokesperson Jared Fogle, known for his weight loss off the Subway menu.
She said that's why it's so unbelievable the message was written by a Subway employee.
"It's not nice to be picked on. It's not nice to be made fun of. This really destroyed me," said Brown.
When Brown went to the franchise owner of the Subway, she said he apologized and told her this about the worker: "He just said he doesn't know better. He kept trying to explain it to him and his worker didn't get it," said Brown.
Frustrated, Brown hired attorney Dan Gilleon.
A letter was sent to Subway's corporate office that stated legal action was possible. However, instead of money, Brown wants anti-discrimination training led by an outside firm for all Subway employees.
"This was discrimination, harassment, teasing, mocking somebody -- a customer," said Gilleon.
Brown said she's coming forward to speak out for anyone who's been ridiculed for their weight and never spoke up.
"We all come in different shapes and sizes, and then you see something like this … 'Big Mama'? How is that helping anybody?" said Brown.
In statement, restaurant owner Sanjiv Mehta said:
"As a small business owner, I do not tolerate discrimination of any kind. When I learned of this incident I immediately investigated and disciplined the employee involved. I also made contact with the customer in an effort to resolve this matter."
Subway has yet to respond to the incident.
"They were contacted soon after the incident and they've basically blown my client off," said Gilleon.
"I will never stop foot in a Subway again. You couldn't pay me to eat there again," said Brown.


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Excerpt: "After storming through the NFC and winning their second Lombardi Trophy in five seasons, the New York Giants failed to make the playoffs in 2012 with a team that arguably possessed more talent than the one that took home Super Bowl XLVII. Although there are a number of factors that contributed to the Giants' failures a year ago, the lack of production along the defensive line inhibited defensive coordinator Perry Fewell's defense from operating efficiently.
In 2011, the rejuvenation of the Giants defensive line enabled the defense to compete with the top offenses from around the NFL. Tony Romo, Matt Ryan, Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady all succumbed to the pressure produced by Jason Pierre-Paul, Osi Umenyiora and Justin Tuck during the final six games of the season. The Giants were able to sack the quarterback on 7.51 percent of all passing plays, which ranked Big Blue fifth in the NFL.
Last season, without a healthy or effective Chris Canty to play in the middle of the defense, the Giants sack percentage dropped to 5.82 percent. Over the final three games of 2012, the team was able to get to the quarterback at a dismal rate of 1.94 percent, which was good for the second worst ratio in the league. For the Giants to establish themselves as Super Bowl contenders next season, the defensive line must rebound from its pathetic performance in 2012. With the loss of Osi Umenyiora and an aging Justin Tuck, it's a task that may seem unrealistic, but general manager Jerry Reesehas prepared the team for this moment throughout the offseason.
With the additions of Cullen Jenkins, Mike Patterson and Jonathan Hankins at defensive tackle, the middle of the Giants defense has gone from a point of great weakness, to potentially the deepest position on the roster. In 2012, the Giants finished 23rd in the NFL in sacks per game, with 2.1, but 18th in sack percentage. It's a small discrepancy, but it says a lot about how opposing offenses attacked Big Blue last season.
Without an athletic middle linebacker or a healthy defensive tackle unit, running the football was how team's beat the Giants. Opponents ran the ball an average of 29.1 times per game against the Giants, and averaged 129.1 yards per contest. By running the football down the throat of the defense, the Giants were unable to let their pass rushers take off up-field and get the quarterback. Additional injuries in the secondary to Kenny Phillips, Corey Webster and Prince Amukamara made blitzing a risky proposition, as it was nearly impossible for he team to play effectively in man coverage without a safety over-the-top." Read more...

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|NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Gemini Video Card
|Reviews - Featured Reviews: Video Cards
|Written by Olin Coles
|Thursday, 24 March 2011
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DX11: Battlefield Bad Company 2
The Battlefield franchise has been known to demand a lot from PC graphics hardware. DICE (Digital Illusions CE) has incorporated their Frostbite-1.5 game engine with Destruction-2.0 feature set with Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 features destructible environments using Frostbit Destruction-2.0, and adds gravitational bullet drop effects for projectiles shot from weapons at a long distance. The Frostbite-1.5 game engine used on Battlefield: Bad Company 2 consists of DirectX-10 primary graphics, with improved performance and softened dynamic shadows added for DirectX-11 users.
At the time Battlefield: Bad Company 2 was published, DICE was also working on the Frostbite-2.0 game engine. This upcoming engine will include native support for DirectX-10.1 and DirectX-11, as well as parallelized processing support for 2-8 parallel threads. This will improve performance for users with an Intel Core-i7 processor. Unfortunately, the Extreme Edition Intel Core i7-980X six-core CPU with twelve threads will not see full utilization.
In our benchmark tests of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, the first three minutes of action in the single-player raft night scene are captured with FRAPS. Relative to the online multiplayer action, these frame rate results are nearly identical to daytime maps with the same video settings. The Frostbite-1.5 game engine in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 appears to equalize our test set of video cards, and despite AMD's sponsorship of the game it still plays well using any brand of graphics card.
Battlefield Bad Company 2 Extreme Quality Settings
but i will wait until aftermarket coolers for 6990 appears
anyway i appreciate great competitions like this one
If the results show low power use in Furmark for the 590, you know the card is activating its limiter, therefor the temp/noise reading are not realistic.
Simply put the power/temp/fan noise should be done on the games as you benched them, its all to easy to program a driver to fool one application to make it look and sound good.
Actually, the hardware sits in a big box for retests and other projects. After a year or so, they become gifts or sold for what little they're still worth.
Hey- I never did see any of your work from PAX! Hope it was fun, and worth the visit.
They really need to put some 2g or even 3g of mem on those 580 cards.
I'm pretty sure that's not right.
So what's up next week?
When you look at the things that are not bias towards either product IE Heaven benchmark. Thats where you see the real difference in the cards. All this end talk about features is complete garbage. You can say the same for ATI there card and 3d bluray is far superior then the Nvidia solution. Eyefinity maybe a novel feature but it does work. Something Nvidia has yet to even come close to matching. Heck this is first card with 3 monitors support. Also the displayport is a mute point because ATI is now including a displayport adaptor that illiminates the super high cost of this solution among other reasons could state that this is not a fd it will eventually be the standard. If your going to skew your review because you like nvidia just do it at the begining. Its getting extremely old seeing the bait and switch from both sides.
Some of your remarks are a relief to me, because they show how uninformed you truly are. According to you, features like PhysX, 3D Vision, and CUDA support don't matter. I suggest you start asking around, because like it or not those 'garbage' features help sell these products.
By the way, those 'biased' NVIDIA games that always score the highest... games like BattleForge and Battlefield Bad Company 2... those are AMD co-developed games, not NVIDIA.
Then Toro's jumped on this forum and blogged his ATI Fanboy Mumbo Jumbo. But you know what, that's ok, Handicap need a place to lay their heads at night. If he had read the whole review he would have seen that facts. 1. The 6990 has its pro's and con's. Fact 2, The Nvidia and ATI cards are pretty neck and neck. Fact 3, the 590 won 5, tied 5 and (barley) lost 5. I don't know how anyone could have taken this review as "BIAS" towards Nvidia. I am an Nvidia fan, but I own a 6990 and 2 580 GTX's, they are both powerful................nevermind, I know if Toros is reading this it wont make sense so i will save my time.
Interesting read though. I am anxious to see how the cards compare at their overclocked overvolted limits on reference cooler.
For all I know next year could have big stuff for processors.
The rest of you fanboys should really stop honestly. In the case of the 6990 and 590, what is there really to say one card is superior to the other? I don't find 50w less, 5c degrees less or a card that runs EVER SO quieter to the other good ways of saying my card beats yours. There is no real pure power difference. So I must agree with Colin above and say they are both virtually the same exact cards.
I just have to stick with purchasing Nvidia however for my 3D setup, no biggie.
I was wondering if the 6990 still had the aggressive AF optimizations which results in texture shimmering. I am referring to the AF optimization discovered earlier and brought up in an nViDIA blog.
I really hate texture shimmering, that is a deciding factor for me. If I have to switch setting around in Catalyst in order to get rid of shimmering the benchmark results would not indicate the actual performance I'll get from 6990.
Thanks in advance.
Usually shimmering (if it's present) can easily be seen in Half-Life 2 in road or railroad parts of the map which extend long into the horizon.
I remember having horrible shimmering in HL2 back when I had 7800GTX.
In the Unigine night scene you mention, can you get rid of shimmering by setting Catalyst AI to high or turning it off altogether?
I suppose in the same Unigine scene , GTX 590 is not showing any shimmering?
Thanks for the reply btw.
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Can you get rid of shimmering by fiddling with Cat AI ? Does the GTX 590 show the same amount of shimmering as well? In HL2 particularly, since it can easily be detected when moving the camera.
Neither AMD nor NVidia are charities. You want a bleeding edge product, prepare to bleed the cash.
Yes NVIDIA does include HDMI with their cards, I can only assume it is up to AIB partners whether it will be mini-HDMI or a full size port.


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West End residents blame Allentown for storm water flooding
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Angry Allentown residents are blaming the city for late August flooding that damaged homes and destroyed dozens of cars in their West End neighborhoods.
During a two-hour meeting in City Hall Thursday night, several of them accused the city of negligence.
They said the city has known about the need to improve storm sewers in that part of town for nearly 30 years but has done nothing, while residents have faced "flood after flood after flood."
They want the city to fix the stormwater sewer system to stop the flooding. Based on responses by city officials, any fix probably is well over a year away.
"The city has been negligent in taking care of this," declared Gail Tannenbaum, who lives at 22nd and Allen streets. "This is not a natural disaster. This is not environmental. This is the city not taking care of the drainage. This is negligence."
"Don't sit here and tell us that you have no responsibility," said Atty. Don Klein, whose office is at 19th and Allen streets. "You have all the responsibility.
"You don't have immunity if you're negligent. And you've been negligent for 30 years. It could have been fixed. I'm sure plenty of attorneys will take this case and I think they're going to win."
Another man in the audience stood to advise officials: "It's always a lot cheaper to fix it before the lawsuit than after the lawsuit, because you've got to fix it anyway."
Many residents said they face many thousands of dollars in uninsured damage to their homes and garages from the Aug. 29 flooding.
"We lost 43 cars just in our little section of the West End," reported Tannenbaum.
Residents reported garbage, dumpsters and even empty cars floating down streets.
Cars were coming down 22nd Street from Liberty Street "like a flume," said one. "Almost every street was flooded," said another.
Residents talked about water being up to their calves, even up to their belts, and completely submerging cars. One woman said a child was saved from being washed away in the flood.
Some said it was the third damaging flood they've faced in just three years.
The impacted neighborhoods are not in low-lying flood-prone areas along streams; but they are down slope from Chew Street to the south.
Near the end of the meeting, city officials said a new hydrology study, which could take up to one year to complete, must be done before any work is done to end the problem. That study will identify specific projects, said Richard Young, the city's public works director.
"I don't know that they presented a solution," said Stein after the meeting, "but I'd like to believe that they will. They did say that they're going to do something."
Tannenbaum said she was satisfied with the city's response, but added: "We'll see if they do act. I'm not going to let go. I'm going to follow up and follow up. I don't care about the report. I want the action after the report."
At the beginning of the meeting, Tannenbaum took issue with a city news release that stated Mayor Ed Pawlowski agreed to organize Thursday night's forum because he wants citizens to be heard.
"I organized this forum," she declared. "I went down to the mayor's office and I made this happen."
She was applauded.
Pawlowski was not at the meeting. Klein criticized the mayor for telling people to go to the meeting, but he didn't attend it.
Tannenbaum estimated about 40 people attended. She hoped many more would be there.
She handed out 550 flyers about the meeting to residents and businesses from 23rd and Liberty streets down to 17th and Tilghman streets.
She said the Aug. 29 flood waters crossed Tilghman Street and ran down to Sumner Avenue. She said she talked to people at every business from 18th to 6th streets on Sumner Avenue, adding: "All but three got flooded."
Residents want compensation
"There's no way to stop this type of natural disaster," said Tim Duncan, the city's risk manager. He recommended people prepare by insuring their properties.
Residents complained flood insurance is prohibitively expensive, almost impossible to get and does not cover damage to basements.
Some maintained the city should pay them retribution for their losses.
"We want to be compensated," said Sharon Reyes of the 500 block of N. 18th Street. "We deserve to be compensated. And the City of Allentown should take responsibility."
Duncan said it's a common misconception that local government is responsible and should pay for damages. "Since the city cannot provide financial assistance, it is important for you as a homeowner and business owner to be properly prepared."
How much rain?
Young reported that a total 3.69 inches of rain usually falls during the entire month of August. But he said this year more than four inches of rain fell just on Aug. 28-29.
Young said those amounts were recorded at Lehigh Valley International Airport. He believes much more rain fell in the West End and center city. The storms that hit two weeks ago were localized and variable, said Young. "A lot of areas got hit hard, some areas hardly at all."
It was raining so hard that night that you could not see a few feet in front of you, said one West End resident. She reported more than 12 inches of rainwater were measured in a large empty trash bin after the storm.
Nationwide, said Young, stormwater sewer systems in residential areas of cities are designed for 10-year storms – meaning the kind of big storm that only comes along once every 10 years. He added: "If this area was hit with 12 inches of rain, that exceeded the 100-year storm."
Storm water systems are not designed to handle all storms, such as the torrential downpours described by residents, explained Craig Messinger, deputy public works director.
But residents said something is wrong with that system when floods occur over and over in the same area of the city.
Bottlenecks in the storm sewer system?
Tannenbaum said the city developed a plan to fix the sewers in that area in January 1985. Stein named several improvements that were recommended in that plan but never made.
Tannenbaum indicated there are at least two major bottlenecks, where storm water flows from larger pipes into small pipes, which causes it to back up on streets and worsens flooding.
One problem area was identified as sewer pipes running for three blocks from 21st and Allen to 18th and Allen.
Another is three blocks of Andrew Street, where 78-inch diameter sewer pipe runs underground. Upstream and downstream from that section are rectangular drains, called box culverts, that are six feet high and eight feet wide.
Those storm sewer lines were installed in the late 1920s, said Young after the meeting, adding he doesn't know why that section is different.
Emergency services
Manuel Quintana, who lives in the 2100 block of W.Allen Street, said that night he tried waving down three police cars to help direct traffic congestion caused by people rushing through the rain to leave Allentown Fair on flooded streets. He said he made eye contact with all of those police officers, but they kept going. "So I stood in the middle of the street, directing traffic."
Other neighbors shoveled tightly-packed trash off storm sewer grates so water could recede.
Fire Chief Robert Scheirer assured residents that city fire trucks are designed to go through a couple of feet of water, but not through four feet of water.
However, Scheirer said those trucks carry enough hose to fight a fire by getting as close as they can and fire fighters then dragging hoses. He said the fire department responded to nearly 30 calls in the West End that night. "I can assure you if there was a fire that evening, we would put it out. We are there to take care of you. And we took care of many people that evening."
The chief said he had water damage at his own property. "I know exactly how you feel because I'm in the same situation. The insurance isn't covering any of my damage as well."
Disgraceful looks?
The meeting was moderated by Francis Dougherty, the city's managing director.
Although the eight city administrators seated at the front of the room were introduced by Dougherty, several people in the audience seemed to think they were addressing City Council. More than one assumed they had been elected to their positions. One man even said taxpayers had voted them in.
Some residents just shouted out comments from their seats, rather than following Dougherty's suggestion that they go to the podium to speak.
For several minutes, the meeting disintegrated into residents arguing with each other.
The men at the front of the room were silent for much of the meeting, rather than engaging residents in debate.
But Klein accused most of them of having "disgraceful" looks on their faces when people spoke. He said only Fire Chief Scheirer seemed to recognize there is a problem.
Responding, Scheirer asked the audience to "please, stop making us the enemy. We're not. We're here to listen to you and we're here to try to address the problem."
Ironically, heavy rain was falling over Allentown just before the meeting began. One woman asked: "Are we going to go home and find out homes flooded again?"
Another said she was moving because she no longer can stand living in fear every time it rains.
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DIY Anthropologie Byzantine Floral Choker
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
I'm so happy with how it turned out! Here's how I made it.
I am much more of a visual person, so for these next few I tried to draw the path of the string so it's easier to see what I'm attempting to explain with words.
Then, put some glue on the back of the center bead and place the spacer bead across it. Let this dry long enough to form a strong bond before moving on.
BTW - I'm not sure why this necklace is called a choker, because it is about 19 inches long. So definitely not a super long, but too long to be a choker.
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Yours looks almost identical- what a great job! I'm totally not skilled at making jewelry, otherwise I would try it.ReplyDelete
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Life Extension Mix™ provides a high amount of chromium to help maintain arterial wall structure and already normal glucose levels. We have upgraded our chromium-containing products with Crominex® 3+' a highly stable and biologically active form of chromium blended with Capros® and PrimaVie®.
Magnesium helps protect arteries and heart valves' and supports heart and brain cells. Life Extension Mix™ provides six different forms of magnesium to saturate the body with this lifesaving mineral.
Cholinergic nutrients help maintain high levels of acetylcholine in the brain to help support cognitive function and memory.
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Serving Size: 14 Capsules (per day)
Servings Per Container: 35
Amount Per Serving / % DV
Vitamin A (as 90% betaene D. salina natural beta-carotene with mixed carotenioids and 10% acetate) 5000 IU / 100%
Vitamin C (as calcium ascorbate' ascorbic acid' ascorbyl palmitate' magnesium ascorbate' niacinamide ascorbate' acerola extract) 2000mg / 3333%
Vitamin D3 (as cholecalciferol) 2000 IU / 500%
Vitamin E (as D-alpha tocopheryl succinate) 100 IU / 333%
Thiamine (vitamin B1) (as thiamine HCI) 125mg / 8333%
Riblflavin (vitamin B2) (with 2 mg riboflavin 5'-phosphate coenzyme) 50mg / 2941%
Niacin (vitamin B3) (as 53% niacinamide' 38% niacin' 9% niacinamide ascorbate) 190mg / 950%
Vitamin B6 (as 100mg pyridoxal 5'-phosphate coenzyme and 5mg pyridoxine HCI) 105mg / 5250%
Folate [from lemon (Citrus limon) extract (peel)] 400mcg / 100%
Vitamin B12 (as 42% cyanocobalamin' 42% hydroxylcobalamin' 16% ion exchange resin) 600mcg / 10000%
Biotin 3000mcg / 1000%
Pantothenic acid (as D-calcium pantothenate with 5 mg pantethine) 600mg / 6000%
Calcium (as calcium ascorbate' D-calcium pantothenate' Calcium D- Glucarate) 218mg / 22%
Iodine (as potassium iodide) 150mcg / 100%
Magnesium (as magnesium oxide' citrate' glycinate' taurinate' arginate' ascorbate) 400mg / 100%
Zinc (as OptiZinc zinc monomethionine' zinc succinate) 35mg / 233%
Selenium [as 50% Se-Methyl L-Selenocysteine' 25% L-selenomethionine (yeast free) 200mcg / 286%
Copper (as TRAACS copper bisglycinate chelate) 1mg / 50%
Manganese (as manganese gluconate) 1mg / 50%
Chromium [as Crominex 3+ chromium stabilized with Capros (Phyllanthus emblica) extract (fruit) and PrimaVie Shilajit] 500mcg / 417%
Molybdenum (as sodium molybate) 125mcg / 167%
Potassium (as potassium chloride) 37.4mg / 1%
N-Acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC) 600mg / **
Taurine 200mg / **
Inositol 250mg / **
Phosphatidylcholine (from soy) 150mg / **
Choline (as choline bitartrate) 120mg / **
Boron (as boron citrate/aspartate/glycinate complex) 3mg / **
Ascorbyl palmitate (fat-soluble vitamin C) 250mg / **
para-Aminobenzoic acid (PABA) 200mg / **
Trimethylglycine (TMG) (as betaine anhydrous) (from sugar beets) 100mg / **
Citrus bioflavonoids complex (Citrus aurantium L) (peel and fruit) [std. to 50% hesperidin (100mg)] 200mg / **
Broccoli sprout concentrate (A proprietary blend ort broccoli sprout concentrates and Calcium D-Glucarater) (providing glucosinolates' sulforaphane' D-3T' PEITC) 525mg / **
Calcium D-Glucarate 200mg / **
Decaffeinated green tea (Camellia sinensis) extract (leaf) [standardized to 45% epigallocatechin gellate (EGCG) (146.25mg)] 325mg / **
Acerola (Malpighia punicifolia) extract 4:1 (berry) 300mg / **
Ginger (Zingiber officinale) extract (root) [Standardized to 5% ginerols (10mg)] 200mg / **
HiActives 100% fruit/berry complex (proprietary blend of concentrated blackberry' blueberry' cherry' cranberry' elderberry' persimmon' prune powders) 200mg / **
Wild Blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) standardized anthocyanin extract (fruit) 150mg / **
Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum) extract (seeds) [standardized to 85% silymarin (85mg)] 100mg / **
Maqui berry (Aristotelia chilensis) anthocyanin extract (fruit) 100mg / **
Tart cherry (Prunus cerasus) proanthocyanidin extract (skin and pulp) 85mg / **
POMELLA pomegranate (Punica granatum) extract (fruit) [Std. to 30% punicalagins (25.5mg)] 85mg / **
MitroSelect bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) extract (fruit) 30mg / **
Leucoselect grape seed (Vitis vinifera) proanthocyanidin extract (seeds) 25mg / **
BioVin grape (Vitis vinifera) proanthocyanidin extract (whole grapes) 25mg / **
Bromelain (from pineapple) (Ananas comosus) (stem) (2400 gelatin digestive units per gram) 15mg / **
Lutein [from marigold (Tagetes erecta) extract (flower)] (providing 465mcg trans-zeaxanthin) 15mg / **
Olive Juice (Olea europea) extract (fresh fruit) (providing polyphenols' hydroxytyrosol' tyrosol and oleuropein) 12.5mg / **
Sesame Seed (Sesamum indicum) lignan extract 10mg / **
Luteolin [from Pureolin (Cynara cardunculus) extract (leaf)] 8mg / **
Lycopene [from Tomat-0-Red Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) extract (fruit)] 3mg / **
Cyanidin-3-glucoside (C3G) [from black currant (Ribes nigrum) extract (fruit)] 1.25mg / **
trans-Pterostilbene (as pure Pterospan and SMART pterostilbene) 0.5mg / **
**Daily Value not established.
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Partisan politics and emergence of economic competition among challenges faced by Americans of all ages
Thursday, April 03, 2014
But the orator on the stage of Lesley University's penultimate event in the 2013-2014 season of the Boston Speakers Series wasn't a professional comedian. The man who kept the crowd laughing through most of his 90-minute appearance was former governor of Utah Jon M. Huntsman Jr., a Republican who served as ambassador to China under Democratic President Barack Obama.
That sort of bipartisanship — and willingness to put service ahead of politics — played a role in derailing his hopes of becoming the GOP standard-bearer in 2012, Huntsman joked. And if that weren't enough, compliments paid to him by liberal filmmaker and activist Michael Moore and an endorsement from the Boston Globe kept that train off the track and mired in mud.
"My career was so toast, it was over," he said. "Then those invitations from Fox News stopped, and I got the message."
Huntsman, though, said his ancestors ("a line of saloonkeepers and educators") wouldn't have tolerated his saying no to a president just because he was of a different party. After all, the Huntsmans were used to being Republicans who found political success in left-leaning parts of the country, like the San Francisco Bay area. And his Republican grandfather kept a picture of President John F. Kennedy in his house.
Yet Huntsman was self-effacing when it came to his political accomplishments, instead highlighting the importance of early education and extolling the virtues of educators, both in his family and everywhere. He went on to joke that his grandfather had said not everyone was cut out to be an educator; one needed a fallback profession.
So Huntsman's father went into business.
But not everyone is cut out for business, so one needed a fallback profession.
So Huntsman himself went into politics.
He continued that he told his daughter that not everyone is cut out for politics. So she went into journalism.
"I am the failure of a failure of a public educator," Huntsman said, capping off the bit.
Still, despite his near constant joshing, Huntsman said America has a serious problem with partisan gridlock, a situation that leaves older voters frustrated and causes young people to "peel away from the system."
"We're experiencing a human failure," not a structural one, on Capitol Hill, Huntsman said. And the presidential race, of which he was a part (he finished third in New Hampshire, his best showing), isn't a whole lot better.
"You look at the stage and say, 'This is the best we could do?'" he said of the 2012 debates, which he likened to reality TV or game shows, designed to amp up the drama and conflict.
Barriers to changing things for the better include largely unfettered campaign financing, the gerrymandering of congressional districts — creating 70 percent one-party majorities in most cases — and a lack of congressional term limits.
"Incumbency reaches up, grabs people by the ankles, drags them down and puts down very deep roots," Huntsman said.
However, he said he sees reason to be optimistic. Young people, he said, are far less beholden to political parties than their parents are, and even nearly half of the older electorate is registered "unaffiliated" as either Democrat or Republican.
In addition, nonpartisan groups like No Labels, of which Huntsman is an honorary, though extremely active, co-chair, are endeavoring to "instill an ethos of problem-solving" in Congress.
The timing couldn't be better, as the United States is facing a new challenge from the far east: the emergence of China as an economic superpower.
With a quarter of the world's population, the rise of China's economy could either bring the promise of a robust trade partner and the opening of vast markets, or it could bring about the threat of chaos, even war. When the size of China's economy matches that of the United States, which Huntsman said is only a few years away, "There will be a fear factor in this country."
Part of the problem is that China itself, while transitioning from an "old export machine" to a consumer economy, has incurred staggering debt, largely from $650 billion spent on state-of-the-art rail and air infrastructure. In addition, the nation has 800 million farmers, but realistically needs only 200 million, leaving China in a quandary about how to employ 600 million surplus agricultural workers
Adding to the consternation are renewed rivalries with Japan, instability in North Korea and competition from South Korea.
Internally, China is experiencing some growing pains of Westernization, as well, as 700 million Internet users and 100 million bloggers speaking freely and publishing content that would have gotten them imprisoned several years ago.
Huntsman, though, sees hope in the "millennial" generation, people the age of his own children who more and more are studying the Mandarin language in school, and are more widely traveled and multicultural than any generation before. He believes schools should move away from the Cold War-era foreign language instruction and focus more on Mandarin and Arabic in response to emerging world cultures.
Lesley University's Boston Speakers Series wraps up the 2013-2014 season on April 30 with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.
The crowd at Symphony Hall was perhaps in an especially receptive mood Wednesday night, as emcee Phil Redo of WGBH revealed the roster of Lesley University's 2014-2015 Boston Speakers Series:
Wisdom from 2017 National Teacher of the Year Sydney Chaffee (M.Ed. '07)Faculty composition tackles anxiety of "Alternative Facts"Gearing up for Commencement 2017Taking action against sexual violence
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Walk-off grand slam stuns Mitchell, ends seasonThe Lesley Lynx became the only fourth-seeded baseball team to ever win the NECC in a 10-6 victory over Mitchell CollegeThe DayMay 8, 2017
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Sunday, March 2, 2014
Inspiration Sunday
Title and Artist Unknown. Found on Oh, No. Trish Is Thinking Again.
This prompt is yours to draw inspiration from. If you use it, and decide to post the resulting piece on your blog, or other online forum that hosts your writing, let me know in the comments section. I'll make sure to drop by and share my thoughts.
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Podcast: Why ADT Is Cracking Down on Deceptive Sales Tactics
In this podcast, ADT Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary David Bleisch talks about alarm industry sales scams and the firm's recent $25,000 bounty reward offer.
By SSI Staff · July 1, 2014
ADT hosted a press conference during ESX 2014 outlining its campaign to rid the electronic security industry of deceptive sales practices, particularly tactics often used by door-to-door alarm dealers.
ADT's new program, which launched in May, will award up to $25,000 for proof that an alarm company has trained its sales team to be deceitful.
Security Sales & Integration Editor-in-Chief Scott Goldfine got a chance to catch up with David Bleisch, senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for ADT, to discuss the company's latest initiative.
In this podcast, Bleisch discusses alarm industry scams, more details on the bounty program and how others in the industry have responded to ADT's campaign.
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Degree or Certs/Experience?
My ultimate plan is to obtain a career in InfoSec/Pen-Testing. Do you think it's worth my time to go to Finland and upgrade to a BSc degree or should I hang tight and keep applying for networking jobs to get more hands on experience and go that route?


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Olivia 3-Piece Locker Tower & Bench Set
- Unlimited Flat Rate Delivery
- Overview
Customize your entryway or work space with a versatile system that's built to last. The cubby bench has lots of slots for storing shoes and other small items, and also makes for a comfortable extra seat. The wall-mounted tower saves floor space and four hooks on the inside of its doors hold coats and bags.
- Built of pine, pine veneers, MDF and particle board.
- Finished in Tuscan Chestnut.
- Bench features four small and four large open cabinets, and is fitted with metal label holders.
- Tower's doors can be mounted to open from left or right.
- Towers feature one fixed shelf, two adjustable shelves and four hooks.
- Towers must be mounted to the wall with included hardware for stability.
- Use with our Olivia Bench Cushion (sold separately).
- Use with our Havana Utility Basket (sold separately).
- Includes Tip Resistant Kit.
- Bench has adjustable levelers to add stability on uneven floors.
- Bench: 53" wide x 14" deep x 22.5" high
- Wall Mount Tower: 20" wide x 14" deep x 67.5" high
- Set includes two Towers and one Bench.
- Dimensions & Care
- Overall: 53" wide x 14" deep x 22.5" high
- Top Cubby (4): 12.5" wide x 14" deep x 6" high
- Bottom Cubby (4): 12.5" wide x 14" deep x 11.5" high
- Maximum Weight Capacity (top): 300 pounds
- Weight: 66 pounds
- Havana Utility Basket: 12" square, 8" high (sold separately)
Wall Mount Locker Tower
- Overall: 20" wide x 14" deep x 67.5" high
- Interior (below fixed shelf): 18.5" wide x 13.5" deep x 19.5" high
- Interior (above fixed shelf): 18.5" wide x 13.5" deep x 44.5" high
- Weight: 88 pounds
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Hi everyone,
I wanted to introduce our game to you and hear what you think about it.
Saga of Pandoria is a single-player fantasy action-RPG inspired by various SNES classics built using the Source engine. Help Cyrus, Kira and Dyani to restore balance to the world. Fight crazy and imaginative creatures. Explore the biggest continent Pandoria with its detailed and unique environments. Experience the future of travelling: cannon air aviation. Feel the love we put into this game. Become a hero and save the world!
Saga of Pandoria is a mix of classic "Western" and "Japanese" RPG elements and we have been working on the game for quite some time now. The game has been designed and programmed with coop in mind; this is why the game is running on MP code already. However for the first release I want to polish and release single-player first, to make sure that the game is fun even if only playing alone. As second step then I want to add 3 player coop, as this will require much additional effort in testing & balancing.
Technically we are close to being able to release the game, but as we are using the source engine according to Valve we are required to pass Greenlight before they are willing to let us purchase the "Indie" license of their engine. In other words, without passing Greenlight we can never release the game.
Just a short overview of the features:
• Indie Fantasy Action-RPG, Story driven campaign, 7 Chapters on multiple continents, Monsters with unique attack patterns & demanding BOSS fights
• Third person fast paced fighting / Block / Combo / Skill / XP system
• Learn and how to master the power of Mana, cast skills thoughtfully based on individual situation and get rewarded.
• 3 Difficulties and 40 player levels to unlock, progress stored independent from game-session ("Diablo" principle)
• Designed for full Xbox360/Steam Controller game-pad support / best enjoyed in big picture mode / Could be launch game for SteamBox
• Unique art style / Detailed game world / Added Source engine effects e.g. Depth of Field (DOF).
I would LOVE to hear what you think about our game, and of course if you like our game voting for us would mean the WORLD to us.
Without passing Greenlight our game can never see the light of day
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Phyll wrote:I didn't say tea from teabags is detrimental to your health like Big Mac or Fries are (if you eat them often).
Drinking low quality tea is generally detrimental to your joints in the long term. I can't define the meaning of "low quality" in this case, however. I was advised by a knowledgable chinese medicine practitioner (my martial arts master in Asia, actually). This is a "take it or leave it" advise from me. Sorry...no hard proof offered.
Phyll wrote:High quality liquor is safer than homemade moonshine
If the home moonshine maker knows what s/he's doing, it's fine! Otherwise, say goodbye to your liver and eyes.


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Article first published as Innovation – It Makes The World Go 'Round on Blogcritics.
The Social Media Inside Of Innovation
Innovation is all around us and impacts just about every aspect of our lives. In today's digital, technology empowered world the pace of innovation is ever increasing. Concurrently, the performance bar is also being raised in everything from product development, service delivery, creativity, design, and workplace management. It is very easy to get swept away by the technology of innovation…it can be amazing. So, it is very important to constantly remind ourselves that the essence of innovation still lies with people and their passion for ideas and discovery. And this week I am very lucky to be surrounded by some of the most innovative and passionate people in the world. How good is that!
A Collaborative Innovation Summit
The World Innovation Forum 2011 is being held in New York City this week and I am honored to be one of about 50 people designated as "some the very best business bloggers" embedded right in the middle of all the action. The World Innovation Forum brings together ideas and insights from a unique group of experts and practitioners offering their personal perspectives on how innovation is being implemented across an array of different fields. This is a powerhouse group of innovators including one of my all time favorite big thinkers and innovators Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.
Listening "Softer" To See Deeper
As an asset-based thinker I'll be looking at how speakers tell their stories about unleashing their personal power and innovative spirit, how they persevere by seeing threats as challenges, turn shortcomings into aspirations, and leverage collaboration versus competition. Learning how these asset based approaches have helped motivate and leverage the power and promise of innovation in the past can serve as invaluable guideposts for the future.
Another great opportunity at this event will be listening to the buzz and chatter of the businessmen, academics, and innovators in the audience, observing their body language and feeling their enthusiasm. There will also be a Bloggers Hub complete with high speed internet access, cloud resources, and all the electronic bells and whistles we'll need to report live from the conference.
Positive Social Media Amps Up Engagement
The event organizers, HSM Global, get a big Asset-Based Thinking shout-out for creating the Bloggers Hub, a unique feature at the event. It is a state-of-the-art resource placed right in the middle of the action that provides the featured bloggers with full access to everything happening at the event—upfront and behind the scenes. The bloggers hub is a very smart communication idea for conferences, with some great "ABT" benefits.
• Facilitates a friendly, open platform for bloggers to provide real time updates, commentary, and coverage of the speeches of some very smart and influential leaders.
• Serves as a micro-community of a diverse group of bloggers to connect around a common interest…live reporting and disseminating information of significance…what I call "Content of Consequence."
• Creates an environment of mutually supportive and connected energy that feeds on itself. A special "vibe" that brings a new collective dynamic to a usually solitary writing process.
• Provides a "streaming commentary" on topics and discussions as they happen and invites real time response and interaction from each blogger's audience which we in turn can use as fuel for our reporting.
• Links a network of "Trust Agents" and enables their power to apply leverage to issues and opportunities. Chris Brogan (@chrisbrogan) describes this as the "Archimedes Effect" in his book entitled (of course) Trust Agents.
Stay Tuned. More To Come


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New Law Takes Aim at Metal Theft in KY
June 8th, 2011
|FRANKFORT, Ky. (June 8, 2011) – Attorney General Jack Conway announced that a new law takes effect today to deter the growing problem of metal theft in Kentucky. House Bill 242 unanimously passed both houses of the Kentucky General Assembly during the 2011 legislative session and was signed into law by Gov. Steve Beshear on March 16."Near-record prices for copper, platinum, aluminum and other metals have fueled the theft of common items such as copper wiring from utility lines, tornado warning sirens, coal mines and even foreclosed homes," said General Conway. "Metal theft is not only taking a heavy financial toll on businesses, it is endangering lives and putting communities at risk."
Metal theft costs businesses nationally around one billion dollars each year, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damage. It can also affect public safety by compromising communications or emergency response capabilities, such as 911 service.
Kentucky's metal theft laws are designed to deter this growing problem by targeting thieves who steal and then resell secondary metals. House Bill 242 prohibits anyone from buying or selling metal that has been smelted, burned or melted.
"Metal theft is a major concern across the Commonwealth," said Rep. Mike Denham, Vice Chairman of the Agriculture and Small Business Committee and sponsor of House Bill 242. "I am hopeful this new law will help stop these thefts and better protect our communities and our businesses, both large and small."
Kentucky businesses, like AT&T, also welcome the new law and attribute the increase in metal theft to a number of factors, including the ailing economy.
"The steady rise in the market price of copper and the state of the economy have led some people to extreme measures, including stealing copper cables from houses and telephone poles," said Mary Pat Regan, President AT&T Kentucky. "This new law will help us prevent the theft of copper wire from AT&T telephone poles, work centers and cell sites, which puts our customers and sometimes entire communities out of service."
Kentucky and other states require scrap-metal dealers to keep detailed and extensive records of their transactions in an electronic format, including the seller's photograph, signature and their vehicle's information. In addition, penalties for damaging a communication or utility facility or interrupting services can include a felony conviction carrying prison time and heavy fines.
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Pulaski Technical College will join organizations from across the country in observing Constitution and Citizenship Day on Friday, Sept. 17.
The observance commemorates the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787, and honors and celebrates the privileges and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship.
Student Ambassadors will be distributing free copies of the U.S. Constitution at tables set up in the Campus Center foyer on the main campus and near Student Services at Little Rock-West and Little Rock-South. Ambassadors will also have printed instruction for how students can participate in an online mock citizenship exam for a chance to win three credit hours of free tuition.
The 100-question, multiple-choice exam draws from questions on the test administered to people applying for U.S. citizenship. It tests knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, politics and government, history, geography, presidents and some black history.
The exam will be open from 8 a.m. until midnight on Sept. 17. Test-takers have 60 minutes to complete the test. The person with the highest score will receive a tuition waiver. Other prizes from the PTC Bookstore will be awarded to second- and third-place winners.
The Web link to the exam will be provided in an updated version of this article later this week.
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Mushrooms developing on, in, or around the anal regions, especially in the crack, resulting from not cleaning the anal cavities and not cleaning the semen from your anus after homoerotic intercourse.
I haven't showered since that homoerotic experience and there is a certain very exotic fungus developing in my rectum or anus region. I think it's cragmag.
by mike dibacco. i have cragmag. March 31, 2005


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In the second of a series of articles, Sam Judd - our Young New Zealander of the Year and co founder of Sustainable Coastlines - reflects on the challenges and opportunities that the United Nations Environment Program faces with regard to oceans.
Perhaps the biggest environmental problem we currently face is the contamination of our waterways by nutrients.
Ever since the Land and Water Forum released the fact that most of the point source pollution has been curbed by regulations, the main threat we have in New Zealand comes from diffuse sources that are mainly from agriculture.
When Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch designed a way to combine hydrogen and nitrogen (from thin air) and produce ammonia they were hailed as heroes and accordingly received Nobel Prizes for their work. The fertiliser they created caused a population boom, as we were suddenly able to artificially supplement plant growth and grow huge amounts of food.
What Haber and Bosch didn't know was that when nitrogen fertiliser is not managed well, it leaches into the waterways, damaging human health, causing toxic algal blooms, killing fish, threatening sensitive ecosystems and contributing to climate change.
The ethical debate is always difficult when it comes to food. Our blossoming population will continue to grow, we will have to find a way to feed everyone and fertiliser will be required to do this. While organic farming is better, the International Fertiliser Development Centre says that if the world's 1.5 billion hectares of farm land were farmed organically, there would only be enough food for 2.4 billion people, about one in three of those in the world today.
To support population growth since the 1960s, human use of synthetic nitrogen has increased nine-fold globally, while phosphorus use has tripled and a further increase will be required over the next forty years too.
One has to ask though - how much food to we really need?
The lead authors of the United Nations-backed Global Partnership on Nutrient Management say in their report Our Nutrient World that 80% of the harvested nitrogen in the world ends up feeding livestock rather than people and that Europeans eat 70% more protein than needed, while sub-Saharan African farmers are desperately low in nutrients and thus undernourished.
So the question becomes one of food luxury, rather than food security. The biggest impact that we as individuals can have is to eat less meat. This doesn't mean everyone has to be a vegetarian, it just means we need to reduce how much is consumed.
At an industry level, there are some major gains to be made by improving nutrient use efficiency, which makes immediate sense. On average over 80% of nitrogen and 25-75% of phosphorus consumed end up lost to the environment, wasting the energy used to prepare them (which collectively makes up 2% of global energy use) and causing pollution through emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide and ammonia to the atmosphere, while nitrate, phosphate and organic compounds are also lost into the water.
The United Nations has a goal of a 20% relative improvement in full-chain nutrient use efficiency by 2020 that would save about 20 million tonnes of nitrogen per year. It would also deliver an estimated improvement in human health, climate and biodiversity worth around $170 billion per year.
To do this farmers need to think about the four 'R's of efficient nutrient use, while basing their applications on real science (rather than from a soil consultant with a vested interest in selling fertiliser). These are using the right source, the right rate, at the right time in the right place.
When these factors come together, you get a farm that requires less work, less spending and produces a higher yield with lower impact on the environment.


text: Having just seen a thread title about Boston hosting nationals in 2014, I started to wonder about the last time the Chicago area hosted a Skate America, nationals, or other big event. When was the last time it happened? While Chicago may not have the prestige of Colorado for skating history, I do think it has some recent ties to big names. From what I understand, Oleg Vasiliev trained Totmianina/Marininin in Bensenville, a Chicago suburb; Evan Lysacek lived in Naperville, another suburb, until 2003; Gracie Gold trains in two area rinks; and so on. Chicago has cold winters, is the third-biggest city in the U.S., and has hosted skating shows, so I'm a bit surprised that it hasn't seemed to host any prominent USFSA events for a long time. What gives? Does the USFSA have some grudge against it? Does it not like giving events to cities not on either coast? Does Chicago not have an available, appropriate venue?


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Forest Labs: Big Earnings Beat But Shares Giving Back Gains
Forest Laboratories (FRX) had the prescription for a big earnings beat, but its big gain is slowly evaporating.
Shares of Forest Labs opened up 4.8% this morning. But that has so far proved to be the high of the day, as the stock is up only 0.6% at $69.17 at 10:39 a.m..
The Wall Street Journal has the details on Forest Lab's earnings:
Forest Laboratories Inc. swung to a fiscal third-quarter profit, as its next-generation drug sales continued to grow.
For the full fiscal ending March 31, the company raised its per-share earnings estimate to $1.25 to $1.35, from its October estimate 95 cents to $1.15 a share.
For the period ended Dec. 31, Forest Labs reported a profit of $18 million, or 7 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $153.6 million, or 58 cents a share. Excluding acquisition-related amortization and other items, adjusted earnings were 27 cents compared with a year-earlier loss of 21 cents. Revenue rose 25% to $846.8 million.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected earnings of earnings of 4 cents a share on $827 million in revenue.
Leerink's Seamus Fernandez and Ario Arabi see more upside in Forest Labs' shares:
What is particularly striking is the upside across nearly every product with surprising upside vs. our forecasts for Namenda XR, Linzess, Teflaro, and Tudorza.
We continue to be bullish on FRX's prospects to continue harvesting profits across the combined FRX-Aptalis P&L and see several opportunities for FRX to continue driving further P&L leverage as it executes on pot'l synergistic product acquisition opportunities that marry with its current product portfolio. We believe the recently completed acquisition of Saphris from [Merck (MRK)] is only the first of many similar pot'l opportunities for FRX going forward, and given Mr. Saunders' willingness to apply his experience in private equity to deliver improved cash flow and EPS accretion, we continue to recommend investors buy FRX at these levels.
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Shares dangers of thin ice
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Authorities are urging people to be careful around lakes or streams during these winter months.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol says ice needs to be tested and should be 4 inches thick before you walk on it.
Capt. Tim Hull of the Highway Patrol says weeks like this, with the weather constantly changing, puts people at risk for falling through thin ice.
"Ice safety is something that at this time of year is very dangerous and people need to be reminded about it," said Hull.
Hull says children are a big concern to the patrol because they often don't think about how the ice is becoming thin with the higher temperatures.
"Kids have a tendency to want to go out and play on ice, whether frozen over ponds or frozen over coves, around the lakes like that," he said.
The patrol stresses the importance of parental supervision for any child who is going to be on ice.
Hull says adults who venture out are just as much of a concern.
"We also see fisherman that want to get out and go fishing, ice fishing, things like that," said Hull.
The patrol advises that no one try to go on a frozen river. They say the current makes the ice formation process longer, causing thin ice in many areas.
It also says it is important to have someone with you if you are going to be out on the ice.
"We always recommend that you use the buddy system if you're gonna go out on the ice. Make sure that there's someone with you," said Hull.
That way if you do fall in, there will be someone to call for help. Hull says the smart and most helpful thing to do if you see someone fall though the ice is not to go in after them.
"We recommend that they go and get hep because if they go out on the ice, they could fall through as well," said Hull.
But, the patrol says if you find yourself on thin ice and do fall through, follow these steps to get back to safety:
"Turn yourself around, spread your arms out as wide as you can get them, get back to the ice that's not broken and to push yourself up on to that ice with your feet. Kick yourself up on there. When you do get up on there, don't stand up and try to walk away or run away. Stay on your back or your stomach and roll," said Hull.
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Really enjoyed the video and this thread...thanks
Really enjoyed the video and this thread...thanks
Matt, thanks for posting your trip and the video, I think we all learn from seeing things first hand.
I'm not a pro and this is only what I understand from trying to educate myself.
Trevor may be able to explain correctly if I'm wrong.
The first early bloom is expected to be lost.
All grove owners try to get groves sprayed very well right before the major nectar producing bloom.
The problem is how "before" the bloom is determined. The grove owner next door may spray a week after the grove you are in is sprayed. They then spray as soon as the bloom is done. I think the goal is to have trees go the shortest amount of time between treatments and it is illegal to spray during the bloom.
My impression is that greening disease is a huge threat and they would spray as often they could.
I think I've seen groves being sprayed year round but I can't tell you with what.
Yes, about a mile from home on the way back we hit an ice patch here in Virginia. It was about 1:30 a.m. Law Enforcement responded and decided it was not an accident, therefore, no ticket. This is my first year in the groves, but not in pollination. It took us a year to locate a grower who would take us and about that time to find a place to stage the colonies and allow them to build up on the pepper flow prior to moving them in. It does appear the Kubota is a total loss and the adjuster is going through the motions to take care of replacement. I appreciate the comments of everyone, and for those whose expectations I did not meet, well, I will just have to try harder next year. :---) Wishing you all the best,
PS, DC Honeybees posted the video. I am not good at those highly technical things which is why my son kicks by ****** at video games. Jeff does a great job with the videos and such.
'Summary: Let's not demonize this important resource to our farmers and our own hobby. How commercial beekeepers manage their bees may not gel with everyone's view of long term sustainability, but you would be hard-pressed to find a group of folks more passionate about the health and well-being of the honeybee'
DC - thanks for this summary - it was well said and really hits the nail on the head. It was enjoyable to watch your "transformation in understanding". Until you've done a trip front to back, hours of getting ready, hours to load, 15 hours on the road and then after being up for 24 or so hours, hours unloading - all the time worrying about your bees, it's hard to appreciate what goes on. Everyone should get to do this once! I hope you share this with your other DC beekeepers and perhaps you could forward it to NYC beekeepers as well, thanks for sharing it here!
Im with you beeslave!!! Good thing those beesuits were handy!! I've only had bees that mad when I dropped a pallet.
I must say the DOT folks must a been a naping the day you went south!
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Those are awesome :D:D:D
I don't know. They look exactly like a pair I have that are Gingher's. Of course, Gingher could have copied them from this original... but buyer, beware!
What is uber?
They look just like my gold plated Gingher's. vintage? sure, they were my grandmother's.Quote:
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I agree with Ceil - careful there, even the gold plate vintage Gingher's like mine generally sell at auction for about $25. There are whole websites and collector's articles devoted to vintage and antique scissors. Read up so you don't get ripped off. OR go to Joans with a 50% off coupon and get a nice shiny new pair of Gingher's stork scissors with a case and everything.
Interesting story behind the scissors. Thanks for sharing
"Uber" is a a german adjective adopted by the younger generation meaning "to the extreme" or "excessive" eg., uber rich or in this case, uber cool. :lol: (Though I am quite old, I myself, keep very up to date on the language of the young though my teenaged neice who keeps me current and uber trendy). hahahaQuote:
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So the seller didn't even list a price? Or did I miss it?
Here's the Gingher's - also gold plated-
And there are cheaper versions out there, some as low as $8.
Buyer beware is an understatement (although maybe not intentionally from the seller's standpoint).
Interesting! :)
There are tons of reproductions of this design out there...


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Went to the gun show a couple weekends ago, and came home with a new toy: Kimber Tac-II Custom, a GM-size 1911, but with a lightweight alloy frame. I had posted previously on two different threads that I thought a full-size lightweight would be my next gun. Unfortunately, the only ones I have seen have had the external extractor. I promised myself that if I ever saw one with an internal extractor, Id get it. Well, I saw exactly one at the whole show, so I bought it.
First thing I did was unscrew the flared magazine well doodad thats designed to help with speedloading. This will be a concealment gun, not a competition gun, so reduced profile trumps speedloading. The flared mag well is held on by a screw, and a dovetail.
A week or so later, I found a Pachmayr rubber mainspring housing on eBay, so I installed that.
Then I replaced the stylish plastic Kimber stocks with rubber Kimber stocks, that I just happened to find at the gun show for $5. I like rubber stocks; have them on almost all my guns.
Next order of business was to replace the guide rod/finger-slicing plug with GI parts, as God and John Browning intended. I used the same recoil spring that came on the gun, just replace the guide and the end cap.
Then, I replaced the hex-head screws with flat-head screws. (The four stock screws, and the magazine catch screw.) I rarely or never have Allen wrenches with me, but I almost always have a Swiss Army knife in my pocket. If a screw comes loose, I want to be able to tighten it on the spot, and not wait until I can get to a tool kit. The purpose of hex-head screws is to keep people from tearing up the screws by using a wrong-size screwdriver. I figure screws are cheap. If I destroy one, I can replace it.
Heres the gun after all the fiddling (but before the Pachmayr mainspring housing):
- The trigger sucks. I have an Ohaus spring-loaded trigger scale that goes to 4.5 pounds, and this goes off that scale. Not by much. Maybe its 5 or 5.5. A touch on the heavy side, but creepy. Slow-fire shooting for accuracy is hard work; I have to get through the creaking and scraping before the sear releases. Bummer. I hate to spend money on a gun, and then have to spend more for a decent trigger. I have two other Kimbers, and owned another one previously, and none of them needed trigger work. Maybe its the super-duper whiz-bang (and useless) firing pin blocking gizmo that they use. (It's on this one, but not on my other Kimbers.) One of these days when I have some time, Ill pull out those parts and see if the trigger is better as a result. That might be it, or it might not be.
- I can take or leave the checkering on the front strap. I dont have it on any of my other pistols. If I were building a pistol from scratch, I would leave the front strap smooth, but I guess I can live with it.
- The checkering on the underside of the trigger guard is just stoopid. What is the purpose of roughening the underside of the trigger guard? You dont grip the gun there. All it does is scrape your finger when the gun recoils. Its like glueing a piece of sandpaper inside your collar. Its useless, and annoying. I might try painting it with Plasti-Dip or something.
This is the first magazine fired through the gun: 7 shots, 7 yards, 2-hands, standing (no rest), fighting the trigger. The hole furthest to the right was the first shot, which I called right, getting used to the trigger. Note that the group is a little high, though. That will become more significant later.
Here are 9 shots at 7 yards. 3 rounds 2-handed; 3 rounds right-handed; 3 rounds left-handed. The left side of the group was the left-handed shots, the right side of the group was the right-handed shots, the middle of the group was the 2-handed shots. The gun is intrinsically accurate enough, but note again that everything is above the point of aim.
Out to 25 yards. I fired as carefully as I could, aiming at the diamond shape, and got no holes on paper! It looked like there were some holes on the backer, though, above the target. So, I taped up a second target below the diamond. I held the sights on the center of the cross, and made holes on the target above, about 6 or 7 inches high. Not a good thing. I want my pistols to be on at 25, maybe an inch or two high, max. I dont know what to do about that, with fixed (Tritium) sights. I hate to whittle on the rear sight, what with the tritium dots there. Any ideas?
OK, back to 7 yards, to work from the leather. I used a turning target (indoor range), with the target exposed for 2 seconds. From the leather, 2 shots in 2 seconds. (That's 2 seconds max. I was finishing well before the targets turned back, but on this range, I can't set the turner for fractions of a second. On the outdoor range, using a PACT timer, pairs are usually 1.5 - 1.7.) I was using a Galco Gunsite holster that I had bought a half hour earlier from a guy on Craigslist. $45, which I thought was a pretty good price. Holster looks barely used. Anyway, as you can see, everything went low left, a sure sign of trigger yank. I repeated the drill with 2 other Kimbers, and everything was nice and centered. I repeated the drill with this gun, same thing low left. I attribute it to really having to fight the trigger, and the light weight of the gun making it easier to push off target.
Note: I've been back to the range since, and put another 200 rounds through the gun. Timed pairs are now centered, but it really is hard work fighting that trigger. I didn't have a camera that time around.
Summary: Cool gun. I intend to carry it a lot, but not until I get the trigger sorted out, and get a few more rounds through it, so I can be more familiar with it. Not sure what to do about the sights. According to my handy-dandy sight-adjustment formula, it will require removing only 2 to 3 thousandths of an inch from the top of the rear sight to center the group at 25. There is enough material on the rear sight to do that, without running into the tritium inserts. I may try that.


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I have wanted to get a hive of bees for quite some time now but have yet to do it, 1. because my wife is scared that the kids would be attacked and killed by the bees, and 2. because its a fairly expensive hobby to get started. Then I found this site and I just cant stay out of here....I just finished my first TBH and got the paint put on there on May 6th.
Question #1: How long do I need to wait before I can put some bees in there? I put a coat of primer then three coats of external paint on the outside of the hive and did nothing to the inside. (last coat of paint was on the 6th)
Question # 2: I have put the word out that I am interested in collecting a swarm, but I am afraid that I am about too late. A friend of a friend has two trees in his yard that he wants cut down. both trees have bees in them. One of the holes about head high, the other about waist high. The large tree has had bees in there for 12 years. The small tree is a swarm from the large one. I have read about the cone method but I am about an hour and a half from the site and dont really want to drive out there any more than I have to. What is the chances of cutting the tree down and gettting the brood/bees out?


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Check out that poster. Clever, huh?
Anyways, the second "Last Exorcism" continues the story of Nell Sweetzer, who was possessed by a demon (and more) in the first "Last Exorcism". Here, she's discovered with a bout of amnesia and given shelter in a home for girls. Of course, it's not long before her battle with demonic forces begins again.
She's still being hounded by the demon "Blahblahblah…lum"
Nell Sweetzer (Ashley Bell) finds her way into a couple's home after having endured a traumatic ordeal revolving around demonic possession. Nearly catatonic when she's found, she's taken to a hospital and nursed back to health. She has a degree of selective amnesia and no means of taking care of herself, so she's discharged to a home for girls.
Nell Awkwardly tries to fit in. She's jumpy, doesn't remember her recent past, and is more than a bit naive overall. It's more than just her lack of social skills interfering, though. Soon, she's experiencing demonic activity again. She's having nightmares, she sees visions, and strangers on the streets whisper scary things to her, like, "He's coming", "We've missed you" and "Your mortgage is overdue".
Eventually, as the signs get more and more intense, Nell is forced to seek help from a voodoo practitioner she met at the hospital. After a preliminary psychic reading reveals that Nell is indeed haunted by the demon Alacazam, the nurse calls upon some friends in order to perform a second last exorcism. This time? Voodoo style.
"The Follow Up Exorcism" is dumber than I can possibly make it sound. The lead actress? Bad. The script? Bad. The directing? Bad. There's literally nothing here of any value except as the butt of jokes. Nothing is scary, there's no tension, in fact, there aren't even many contortionist scenes accompanied by bone popping sound effects, and that's like, this franchise's calling card I thought!
What passes for moments of "terror" here I found to be outright laughable. Part of it's because the cast is so lightweight that a stiff breeze would blow them away. There isn't a worthy performance in the bunch. Of course, they're all fighting with one hand tied behind their back with material this putrid. There's litte backstory given, there's little character work done, there's scant mythology built… hell, looking back on this movie, I'm having a hard time remembering how the hell they filled its 90 minute runtime! I guess she just walked around and got spooked a lot by visions and strangers and birds flying at her and stuff.
Oh. And flies. Which are super scary! "Someone make sure the fridge is shut!!"
At least there's one good thing. The movie ends, after a battle with the demon Shyamalan, in the most comical way possible. I have to admit, I laughed and I think they wanted us to. It was a bit tongue in cheek/wink to the camera and there was just no way to take it seriously… not that I took any of the rest of it seriously. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, and it's certainly not good enough to see JUST for that, but those who did go to see it will know what I mean.
Let's hope this IS the "Last Exorcism", and that we don't get "The Last Exorcism: The Third Time's a Charm". Twice was more than enough.