text:
Build your career and your future
at H&R Block.
you need for
success is here.
Join our Talent Community to stay
our jobs, events,
news and more! Join Now
What We Believe
Our culture and values reflect what is important to us: our people, our clients, doing the right thing and creating shareholder value.
Our values reflect what is important to us and guide our daily behavior. We believe in our people. We take care of our clients. We deliver for our shareholders. We do the right thing.
We believe in our people
- We bring out the best in our people and celebrate their successes.
- We take a positive "no blame" approach, and continuously learn from our mistakes.
- We aim high.
We take care of our clients
- We strive to consistently deliver more than our clients expect, and always act in their best interest.
- We serve our clients how they want to be served, and help them year-round.
We deliver for our shareholders
- We manage our resources wisely.
- We build sustainable value and return on investment for our shareholders.
We do the right thing
- We hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards.
- We are open and honest in everything we say and do.
- We take accountability for our actions.
Tax Office Jobs
Flexible hours, new skills and strong client relationships make working in our tax office rewarding.
H&R Block is the world's largest consumer tax services provider and the leader in the tax preparation industry. We provide tax advice throughout the year, drawing on more than 50 years of tax preparation experience. Each year we hire thousands of additional seasonal associates to look at our clients' lives through tax and find ways to help.
Tax Office Seasonal Positions
Tax Professional
Tax professionals at H&R Block establish relationships with clients to look at their lives through tax and find ways to help. We offer tax courses to assist you with the skills you need to become a tax professional. The H&R Block Income Tax Course160 is recognized as the industry's leading tax-training program. If you are an experienced tax professional, there are abundant opportunities for you to further advance your tax knowledge.
Tax Professional Next Steps:Learn about the H&R Block Income Tax Course
Have prior tax prep experience?Complete the Tax Knowledge Assessment
Already completed the Income Tax Course?Apply Now
Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community to stay connected regarding our jobs, events, news, and more!
Join Now
Office Leader
Office leaders are responsible for the overall operation and results of H&R Block retail tax offices, including daily supervision and coaching of office associates. If you have the enthusiasm it takes to develop and motivate people, leading a tax office could be the right opportunity for you.Apply Now
Tax Office Support
We have a variety of service support opportunities to meet your career interests. Our service support roles assist our tax offices to run smoothly by supporting the daily operations.Apply Now
The Field Training organization is responsible for preparing H&R Block tax professionals, the top tax preparers in the industry. This group ensures that all future H&R Block tax professionals are prepared to successfully complete the H&R Block Income Tax Course and then continue enhancing their tax education year after year.Apply Now
Corporate Jobs
Get set for variety, opportunity and challenge, no matter where you start.
At H&R Block, we look at your life through tax ... and find ways to help. The H&R Block brand is rich in history and founded on the timeless principles of quality service and client focus. This foundation has served our organization well for more than five decades and will continue to guide us for years to come.
We are the leading global consumer tax company bringing tax and related solutions to clients year-round.
Given the variety of positions available within H&R Block's Client Support Center (CSC) there is something for everyone.Apply Now
Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community to stay connected regarding our jobs, events, news, and more!
Join Now
Information Technology
Our IT department provides an exceptional customer experience through reliable systems, consistent delivery and innovative solutions. We have challenging and rewarding opportunities within our corporate and field retail tax organizations.Apply Now
Tax Operations Field Management
Tax Operations is the engine that runs the largest and most successful tax company in the nation. This organization oversees more than 11,000 company and franchise tax offices staffed by regular full-time and seasonal associates. Positions include district, regional and divisional leadership roles.Apply Now
Your taxes are our business, but we're not all tax professionals - H&R Block has opportunities in Communications, Customer Service, Financial Services, Government Relations, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing and many other areas. As we continue to grow we are constantly looking to complement our associate base with bright minds and new ideas.Apply Now
Tax Operations Support
We have a variety of service support opportunities to meet your career interests. Our service support roles assist both internal associates and our tax clients with their technical, product, and general services questions.Apply Now
Our Benefits
Our associates receive a comprehensive selection of benefits.
At H&R Block, we believe in our people, and with that belief is our commitment to your total well-being: physical, financial, career, team and community. Together, when we balance all of these components, we are achieving personal strength, team strength and organizational strength. Our comprehensive benefit offerings provide you access to benefits that will help you plan for the health and security of your family.
Full-Time Associates
Health and Wellness
Medical - H&R Block offers the Consumer Choice Plan, Max Consumer Choice Plan and Basic Consumer Choice Plan. All three plans qualify as a high deductible health plan, meaning you are eligible to open a Health Savings Account, to which both you and H&R Block contribute. These plans do not have any copayments and preventive care is covered at 100%, even before the deductible is met. Pharmacy coverage is included with these plans, with maintenance drugs covered before deductible.
Physical Well-being - Throughout the year, we focus on physical well-being and our commitment to helping you live a healthier lifestyle. Our goals each year remain the same: healthy associates and lower costs for both you and the Company. The programs and resources we have in place, including a health assessment and biometric screenings, help us achieve these goals, and reward you for your efforts with incentives and rewards!
Dental- The H&R Block dental plan provides preventive and diagnostic services as well as restorative and orthodontia coverage.
Vision- The H&R Block vision plan provides coverage for an annual eye exam, as well as coverage for contacts, lenses and frames.
Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Short-term and Long-term Disability- H&R Block provides a variety of options to help you take care of yourself and your family in the event of injury, illness or accident.
Flexible Spending Accounts - In addition to the Health Savings Account, associates may also elect to defer money into either the Medical or Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account.
Wealth Accumulation
Retirement Savings Plan - The H&R Block Retirement Savings Plan, a 401(k) plan, provides the opportunity to save on a tax-deferred basis. H&R Block matches up to 4% of your contribution, and, you are always 100% vested in both your and the Company matching contributions.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan - This plan provides associates the opportunity to purchase H&R Block common stock at a 15% discount.
Other Benefits
- Vacation(hourly associates), Time Away from Work (salaried associates), Sick Time and Holidays
- Pre-paid Legal Services
- Discount Platform
- Employee Assistance Program
- Vacation(hourly associates), Time Away from Work (salaried associates), Sick Time and Holidays
- Legal Services
- Discount Platform
- Employee Assistance Program
- Health Care Advocacy Assistance
- Adoption Assistance
- Tuition Assistance
- Tax Preparation Services
Seasonal Associates
- Medical Coverage
H&R Block will extend the opportunity to enroll in a company sponsored medical plan to those seasonal associates who satisfy the eligibility guidelines of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). H&R Block's medical benefit satisfies the affordability and coverage requirements outlined in the ACA.
- Retirement Plans
Upon meeting the eligibility requirements, seasonal associates may participate in the H&R Retirement Savings Plan 401(k). Seasonal associates become eligible to participate in this plan by completing 1,000 hours of service (1) between their initial employment date and the first anniversary of employment or (2) in any Plan Year (calendar year) beginning after their first day of employment.
In addition, seasonal associates may qualify to participate in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan if they meet the eligibility requirements for that plan.
- Discounts
Seasonal associates are also eligible for H&R Block's discount program, Buy and Save. This is an online program offering meaningful discounts on many products and services that associates use every day.
Talent Community
Not ready to apply? Join our Talent Community to stay connected regarding our jobs, events, news, and more!Learn More


text: After having a set of mud terrains made by Dean tire company last me about 65,000 miles, I was tempted to go for another set. However, they weren't the greatest tires in snow, and the road noise drove me nuts! So I decided to opt for some all terrain tires that were not only affordable, but had a nice warranty, looked aggressive and were built by a well known company. My tire guy told me that Cooper was introducing the Discoverer AT3, so I did what little research I could do on them, as there wasn't much material on them yet. At $1500 for 5 tires (with a 50,000 mile warranty, plus free tire replacement warranty from the tire store themselves), I will admit that it was a bit more than I wanted to spend, but it was also a step up in tire size (285-70-17). I installed this tires prior to most of our snow melting off and before a couple more smaller storms that would cover the highways enough to give me a good idea of what they could do, and I was very impressed. Snow and ice traction was even better than my studded winter tires, and even on wet asphalt, they grip great with little slippage and seem to stop the truck just as well. Off road, they grip to debris extremely well and seem to clean themselves out in mud just as good as the same Dean mud terrains that I had before. about 2000 miles on them now, and while I do have some uneven wear on the front due to my stupidity of forgetting to install my hub rings, it's hardly enough to notice even by touch. A tire rotation and my hub rings installed, and they should be good as new! On road, if you don't know what to look for as far as road noise, you would think you were driving on regular street tires. With my head unit on a modest volume, tire roar is non-existant at 65 MPH, and they seem to handle our highways pits, dips and bumps very well. I will admit that they do rub in parking lots when backing out of spaces, but that's thanks to going up to a 33" tall tire with no lift and little back spacing. Towing seems to be fine with them too, though I have not had large loads in my trailer yet to give an accurate review on that. Installed on a set of custom alloy wheels, these tires weigh in at a whopping 83.9 pounds each. Remember to lift with your knees and not your back when installing! On a all terrain tire scale of 1-10, I would rate these tires at a solid 9. Sure, you can probably find yourself a cheaper set of all terrains, or even spend a little more and even get a better more aggressive set, but for the money, the GREAT warranty and buy a Made in America product, these tires are great value and really are of high quality. I highly recommend them to anybody looking to upgrade.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Does anyone know if Octoberfest, which is being held in Barrie this weekend, will be on SkateBuzz or livestreaming? Just had a look, and it's now a 4 day competition? Wow.
Does anyone know if Octoberfest, which is being held in Barrie this weekend, will be on SkateBuzz or livestreaming? Just had a look, and it's now a 4 day competition? Wow.
I haven't been able to find it. A previous poster (I think on this forum) suggested that the COS competitions might not be live-streamed, because one of the sponsors for the competitions sells videos of the skaters. So far that's been correct, apparently.
In any case, the schedule for Octoberfest is here, and the results are at this link. Most of the novice events have taken place, and today the juniors and seniors start.
The senior men's competition is stronger than might be expected for a regional competition, with Nobunari Oda and Andrei Rogozine entered, for example. The women's competition might be a foretast of the fight for bronze in senior ladies, with Alaine Chartrand, Gabrielle Daleman and Adriana DeSanctis entered (although I suppose Gabrielle Daleman is young enough that she might be competing in juniors at Canadlans).
One competition that is being live-streamed this weekend is the Autumn Leaves competition in BC. This link brings up the main BC section page. The links to the live-streaming are on the right-hand side of the page, about halfway down (white arrows on a blue background).
Schedule for the competition is here. The novice and junior women's short programs and novice men's short programs took place yesterday, and their free programs are today starting at about 5 PM local time. All these events take place in Rink #1. Results are at this link. There's also a tab on this page for archived programs from the competition.


text: This won't be the last time you hear this, i want either of these guys. Depending on who's there or gone. Mercilus from ILLINOIS is a high motor guy. As for Gilmore, he is 6'1 decent speed. New's replacement. With Whitney Mercilus, 6'4 265 sets records with 8 ff, 16 sacks, however projected to play OLB at next level.


text:
If you feel this item is offensive in any way, let us know.
Just give us an indication of what you find objectionable
(sometimes it isn't neccesarily clear), and we'll look into it.
Item ID: 66359
(Can we spend our way out of this economic mess?)
What is inappropriate about this item?


text:
A baseball team that started in 1998. They were in last place every year from 1998 to 2007. Then, in 2008 they changed their name from the "Devil" Rays to just the Rays. This "new team" is completely transformed and became the first team in MLB history to be the best team in the MLB after a year in which they were the worst team.
by Booma August 27, 2008
An Anglo-Portuguese expression with three meanings. One is positive and essentially means 'Awesome'. The second is the original meaning which is tacky or bad. The third meaning is a salutation similar to hello or whats up.
That Cambridge sweatshirt is ray.
That Cambridge sweatshirt is ray!
Person 1:Ray
Person 2:Hi, im good
That Cambridge sweatshirt is ray!
Person 1:Ray
Person 2:Hi, im good
by DI London July 10, 2011
Cleveland Steamer Plush
The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush
wiz khalifa says "got ray ? roll it then"
by That 412 Kid January 27, 2008
The Urban Dictionary Mug
One side has the word, one side has the definition. Microwave and dishwasher safe. Lotsa space for your liquids.Buy the mug
The most caring guy on this planet,understanding,sexy curly hair and just enough hair on his chest,always there for you,smarter then he gives himself credit for,the bestest cook i know,wants to only make you smile,says the sweetest things and actually means it,when he promises forever and a day count on him to take your breath away,my love,my everything,Ray.
by eraddd December 02, 2010
Ray is a shorter version of Rachel. Ray, is smart and sexy. They have the most beautiful eyes you've ever seen and the are illuminated by the sun light. Ray's are confident, but they sometimes let fear keep them from doing what they really want to do. They work hard, and know what they want. However, they do not always know how to go about getting what they want. Most Rays are born in Spring, when everything is waking up from the grey of winter, and emerging with light and warmth in the months of March, April and May. Rays make the most honest best friends. They are trustworthy and kind. One can depend on a Ray for anything and everything. No matter what time of day, or where a Ray may be. Rays like nature, and the beach, they are ambitious and above all else, they are passionate. They are passionate in everything they do. From writing, to making love, Rays are born with passion in their blood, and a warmth inside of their hearts. A Ray is one of the kindest, most considerate person you'll ever meet, so make sure to greet them with open arms, and a smile, and they will be sure to never let you down.
I really do love me some Ray :)
Who, Ray? YEAH... I love her!
Who, Ray? YEAH... I love her!
by CURIOUSBYNATURE March 29, 2011
An intense stare meant to intimidate or correct its target. (Originated within Benny Goodman's orchestra; the name was given to the stare that Goodman gave to his musicians.)
If you weren't playing the chart the way Goodman wanted you to play it, he'd give you the ray. It was very unsettling.
by Todd W. Zimmerman February 01, 2007
The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush
by rayregime March 06, 2009


text:
Princeton Marriott Hotel and Conference Center
The Annual Women in Government Celebration Day honors the contributions of women in public service. This year we are honoring women who demonstrate a commitment to advancing women's active participation in government.
We are pleased to announce that Tracye McDaniel, President and Chief Executive Officer of Choose New Jersey is our Keynote speaker.
In addition to the Keynote speaker we will be holding not only a panel discussion with Mayors on the challenges of elected officials in municipal government, but providing an opportunity for networking.
Presentation of Outstanding Women in Government Award:
Sharon Robinson-Briggs, Mayor of Plainfield
REGISTER TODAY - WORD or PDF
$30.00* – Government Officials
$35.00* – Non Government Officials
*Price includes a buffet brunch


text:
Whether behind the line of a critically acclaimed kitchen, holed up in a basement pumping out some of the best nosh in the city, or braving Boston's pothole-filled roads to bring you ass-kicking bites, the chefs here are fast becoming ones to watch. We infiltrated their kitchens to get a glimpse at how they're making their mark — and what they're up to next.
The Hometown Defender
Doug Rodrigues
[UPDATE: After the Phoenix went to press, Rodrigues was arrested for assault and battery; he is no longer employed at Clio. See our update for more details.]
It's noon, and the dining room at Clio is empty, silent, and pristine. Without the usual chatter and squeals of delight as a plate lands in front of an excited guest, even the air seems refined. Doug Rodrigues, the former chef de cuisine and newly crowned executive chef, doesn't exactly match the vibe.
He peppers conversation with the occasional well-placed swear in his mild South Shore accent, and swirls of darkly shaded tattoos cover his arms. He's fiercely loyal to his hometown, and he wastes no time letting you know.
"I try to keep Scituate on the map, or at least on the menu," he says emphatically. "Scituate needs it. I support them because it's a fishing community, and while a lot of chefs will say they're 'sustainable' and 'local,' mostly they're lying their asses off. With Scituate, you get the real deal."
Rodrigues grew up eating overcooked pork chops and pasta, but yearned for the fine-dining fare that he watched Julia Child, Martin Yan, and Graham Kerr, the "Galloping Gourmet," make on television. When he worked with his father, a plasterer, during the summers, he always spent his pay on lobsters from Mullaney's.
Rodrigues started skateboarding at 10 years old, with dreams of going pro. (Two years ago, he shattered his heel "jumping off of something way too high in Quincy." He worked the line on crutches.) Growing up in a family of laborers, he says he learned the meaning of work ethic at an early age: since he was soon breaking a skateboard a week and his parents were sick of footing the bill, they made him get a job.
"Cooking was always something in the back of my head that I knew I wanted to do, but I didn't know where to go to cook," he says. "Plus, skateboarding always came first. When I was 14, the Atlantica opened, and it was the first restaurant on the South Shore that I knew was fine dining, as opposed to fucking veal cutlets."
After folding boxes in a local pizza shop and kicking around at a diner, he finally applied as a dishwasher at the Atlantica at 15. They threw him on the line instead. "They thought it was hilarious," he says. "I was tiny."
The chef continued to toss their new kitchen charge dare after dare — fry station, grill, the 18-burner sauté station — but failed to overwhelm him. He's now been a part of Clio's kitchen for seven years, working his way through the ranks, as he's done in every kitchen he's known. His new title doesn't mean anything will change, though.
"I'll never stop. It's never good enough," he says. "It's an obsession with climbing the ranks, but it's the nature of the beast. I still have Ken [Oringer] standing over me all the time, catching what I miss."
To maintain Clio's reputation for breathtaking plates, Rodrigues is letting his creative impulses run the gamut — he has a dish on the menu based on a painting in the dining room, and the current beet salad was inspired by a picture of a pile of burning ashes.
"I'm kind of a live wire. I'm not consistent, and people can't really read me most of the time. As soon as you think I'm some hard-ass prick, I'll go soft on you," he says. "If you look at the food, you can tell where I'm at."
Clio » 370A Comm Ave, Boston :: 617.536.7200 or cliorestaurant.com
Table of Contents
Cover Archive
Masthead | Authors | Contact us
See all articles by:
All Slideshows


text:
2 to hospital, 2 walk away after Cleveland crash
The crash happened on East 186th Street just after 2 a.m. Thursday.
The crash happened on East 186th Street just after 2 a.m. Thursday.
Officials didn't identify the alleged seller but said charges are pending.
The former governor of Massachusetts, who is 67, had jumped back into the presidential discussion on Jan. 10, when he surprised a small grou…
Police arrested and took the student to the Mahoning County Juvenile Justice Center.
Police said they found a small meth-making operation at a hotel in Canfield earlier this week.
Police also said they found heroin and drug paraphernalia.
The accident happened on State Road West.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol is investigating the crash.
Fans continue to buy national championship gear and keepsakes.
Philippine forces have battled Muslim rebels for decades.
A transformer failure caused a power outage in Austintown Thursday night.
Scientists say the phenomenon is supposed to happen just once every few years.
Authorities said the incident was being investigated as a homicide.
It was numbered 00-000-001 – the first Social Security payout.
Signs are carefully worded to keep from referring to it as the Super Bowl.
The event is also a way to shine a light on the work that goes into maintaining the 25th president's legacy.
The history of the Rotary Club of Youngstown will be on display at the Tyler History Center for several months.
The transformation started five years ago as YCS started looking ahead to build a broader vision for the future.
With his ex-teammates about to play in the Super Bowl, former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez went on trial on murder charges Thur…
An Ohio father ended up in hot water for leaving his children out in the cold.
No information was immediately available on the condition of the driver.
Menzel said singing the anthem before Super Bowl 49 is the culmination of a lifelong dream.
Important Notice About Our Privacy Policy: We have modified our Privacy Policy to update and clarify our data collection, use, and disclosure practices.
By using this site, you agree to the updated Privacy Policy and Terms of Use


text:
|Topic Review (Newest First)
I started the iron dosing today so we will see what happens as I know the plants are showing iron deficiency. I have also started trimming the dead off the plants.
Should I drop the lighting down right now or only change one thing at a time? I know it makes sense to only change one thing at a time, but will my plants survive if it is too much light? I know others out there have higher light than what I am using as it seems I am using more of a med-high light set-up. The website that recommended 6-8 13w T-2 lights for my sized tank said that it is equivalent to 2-3 54w T-5 lights. My understanding was that 2-3 54w T-5 lights was Medium-high light. Correct?
|I re-read that article about the T-2 lights and it appears I have the equivalent of about 2w per gal if I was using T-5 lights. I can back off to make it about 1.33 by shutting off one bank if that will help. Or down to about .67w by turning off two banks. Is the problem that I have too much then?
I thought so too with the t5s but these are only half as long as I would have with a t5 and are 13w vs 54W so two across would be 26w total for each bank, but yes I was thinking I might be cooking them with too much light. The one indication that I may not have too much is that the dead stuff is all the old growth and closer to the substrate (and possibly shadowed) while the bright green stuff (which I am pretty sure means iron deficiency) is closer to the light. Am I off?
For removing the decaying parts, it is ok to just cut off all those leaves and have a bare stem? I would hate to to send the plants into further distress. Thanks.
I think you have the information on lighting backwards. T2s are more efficient than T5s according to this site.
Try cutting back to half the bulbs you are running now to see it that helps. You may only need one bulb if they are really that good!
Do remove dead and decaying material. I find that new plants tend to sit there and look horrible until all the growth is from after arrival then they decide to stick around and look pretty.
Temp is 80F.
I dose both micros and macros. Most of those stem plants were red when I got them so I assume they need extra iron as well. But I don't think lack of extra iron from something other than micros. Does that jive with common belief?
|ei dosing macros as well? looks like a lot of the issues are with stem plants which I believe are mostly water column feeders so all those root tabs won't help. And I believe most root tabs are mostly micros not macros so they won't help anyhow.
|What's the temperature of the tank ???
Help with new planted tank please
I started researching planted tanks about 6 months ago and decided I was ready to jump in. Well, I am not so sure now. It seems I cannot do anything to make my tank flourish. I planted the plants 3 weeks ago and while most of the plants that remain show new growth, the original parts of the plants are all still decaying and I am replanting plants 2-3 times per week that have detached from the rooted parts of the plants. I managed to keep at least one of every plant that I purchased, but some look to be on their last leg.
Tank Setup (fully cycled 3 months before putting current plants in, but no fish yet):
- 55 Gal Standard Tank
- 6x T-2 6400k lights (I've been told it is roughly equivalent to 3 T-5 54W lights)
-- 8 hours of light per day
- Eco Complete substrate (3" in front to 6" in back)
- EI dosing with CSM+B and GH booster, also have API root tabs for now and clay balls with CSM+B in substrate. Have osmicote plus that will go in after the current root tabs are done. I will soon start adding Iron to the regular water column dosing as well.
- 50% water change every week
- Pressurized CO2 with Cerges reactor where drop checker reads green by the time lights turn on...I had it reading yellow for a while, but am trying to dial back to allow fish eventually
-- CO2 starts 2 hours before lights turn on and stops 1 hour before lights out
- Rena XP3 filter and Hydor 750 for water flow
Water Parameters for what I can test:
- Ammonia/Nitrites = 0
- Nitrates = ~80 (day before 50% water change)
- PH drops about 1 degree during day due to CO2, but reads around 7.4 before CO2 added
Plants in tank (almost all arrived in great shape):
- Rotala roundifolia
- Myriophyllum sp. 'mini'
- Ludwidgia sp. 'red'
- Echinodorus tenelus (Sag?)
- Rotala Magenta
- Blyxa Japonica
- Ludwidgia repens x arcuata
- Water Sprite
- Proserpinaca palustris
- Limnophila macrandra
Video of my tank:
Still pictures if you do not prefer the video (sorry some of them are a little blurry as this was taken with my phone and the plants may be moving too much inside the tank to get a good still shot):
So questions I have:
1. Should I cut the new growth and replant for those plants that have a large amount of decaying in the old growth?
2. Are the plants telling me I don't have enough or too much light?
3. Do I need to adjust my EI dosing? I am sure I am going overboard, but that is kind of what it is about anyways right?
4. Do I have too much water flow? Is there enough/too much surface ripple? I am seeing some film on the surface.
Thank you for your help.
|Posting Rules
You may post new threads
You may post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off


text:
Trip Start Jun 09, 2009
26Trip End Aug 08, 2009
Map your own trip!
Loading Map
Loading Map
Map Options
Show trip route
Hide lines
Camping at the festival meant sleeping in the local rugby field (apparently these guys are alright over here).
First night - Ting Tings and Coldplay, Coldplay were amazing! In between a thunderstorm he came out and played in the middle on piano... right in front of us.
Got interviewed for the local newspaper... �Why did you come to Arras?� I felt too mean to say that it was cause everywhere else was sold out!
Second day - Toured the Wellington Caves, where NZ soldiers dug 19km of tunnels so that the Allies could pop up on the front line unnoticed
Tonight was the dud night, Lily Allen, Kanye West (ew) and Birdy Nam Nam.
Third day - Hit the food markets... always a treat! Lineup for the evening was Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs and Placebo, who encored two times... ahhhh!!!
Fourth day - Picked up cheap wine for canal lunch then the evenings entertainment was Franz Ferdinand followed by Lenny Kravitz and Moby.
Yes I am still wearing my wrist tag!


text:
Shadow Creek in Las Vegas, Nevada isn't just desert golf at its best; this could be among the best courses you'll ever play. Encircled by desolate desert terrain, it's nearly impossible that this Steve Wynn creation exists where it does. The 350-acre site has the most lavish conceivable landscaping, with rolling green hills, lakes, streams, and waterfalls. There are thousands of trees on the course, consisting of at least 200 various types.
The interestingly unusual thing about this place is that once you enter the gates, no pictures are permitted and you are whisked via chauffeur to the links.
It used to be that only guests of Steve Wynn himself were allowed to play golf on his course. However, it is now owned by MGM Resorts International, which means that as long as you are a guest at an MGM resort, you have the privilege of playing golf on this posh course.
The golf ranges at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon are designed for golf purists. There are four courses: Pacific Dunes, Bandon Dunes, Old Macdonald, and Bandon Trails. These are sculpted into colossal windswept sand dunes on the Pacific Coast. Although classified as a public course, the Brandon Dunes is exclusively priced and is not in close proximity to any significant metropolitan areas. However, golf enthusiasts will go to just about any length to golf there.
The sheer splendor of Torrey Pines is among the top reasons why golfers adore coming here. The scenery is unparalleled. The course, located in La Jolla, California sits on a high cliff looking over the Pacific Ocean, where you could spend hours just enjoying the ocean breeze and admiring the gorgeous views. Torrey Pines is such a celebrated course that it hosts the annual PGA Tour's Farmers Insurance Open, attracting A-List players to the first city-run golf course to host such a tournament.
Rancho de los Caballeros Golf Club
Ranches generally do not involve golf; however, at Rancho de los Caballeros, it's the primary attraction. This luxury resort in Wickenburg, Arizona has one of the best courses in the state. Situated approximately 55 miles northwest of Phoenix at the foot of the Bradshaw Mountains in the Sonoran Desert, the course is semi-private, which means that it's available to the general public in addition to members. The par 72 course itself is quite a challenge, having a slope rating of 135. The really exceptional quality of the ranch is that it is genuinely family friendly, so nobody ends up getting stuck on the course who doesn't truly want to be there.
Kiawah Island Golf Resort has five pristine championship courses and is situated on a barrier island just a few miles from Charleston, South Carolina. As you golf your way through each course, it seems that each one is better than the last, until you reach the final one, which is the Ocean Course. This is a public course that lives up to its title, with 10 holes directly alongside the Atlantic Ocean. Having such distinguished greens, the Kiawah Island Golf Resort has hosted the Ryder Cup, the Senior PGA, and the 2012 PGA Championships.
Amelia Island Plantation Golf Course
In Florida, the Amelia Island Plantation has three renowned golf courses, including the Tom Fazio-designed Long Point Club. Peaceful, off the beaten path, and lavish throughout, this par 72 course covers various types of island terrain, from salt marshes to sandy dunes to dense foliage.
Golfing Trivia From The Famous
It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course: Babe Ruth
Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course: Lee Trevino
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball: Jack Lemmon
If you're caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron: Lee Trevino
The oldest golf club in the world is St Andrews, Scotland, which was founded in 1552
Two Mexican detectives were investigating the murder of Juan Gonzalez.
'How was he killed?' asked one detective.
'With a golf gun,' the other detective replied.
'A golf gun? What's a golf gun?'
'I don't know, but it sure made a hole in Juan.'
Real Telephone Calls to Golf Clubs
It is hard to believe that these phone calls have been made by people who actually PLAY golf. We think that the callers should already know the answers. What do you think?
Club Staff: Golf course, may I help you?
Caller: What are your green fees?
Club Staff: 38 dollars.
Caller: Does that include golf?
Receptionist: Golf course, may I help you?
Caller: Yes, I need to get some information from you. First, is this your correct phone number?
Staff: Golf course, may I help you?
Golfer: Yes, we have a tee time for two weeks from Friday. What's the weather going to be like that day?
Receptionist: Golf course, may I help you?
Caller: Yes, I had a tee time for this afternoon but I'm running late. Can you still get me out early?
Staff: Golf course, may I help you?
Caller: Yes, do you have one of those areas where you can buy a bucket of golf balls and hit them for practice?
Staff: You mean a driving range?
Caller: No, that's not it.
Receptionist: Golf course, may I help you?
Golfer: Yes, I'd like to get a tee time tomorrow between 12 o'clock and noon.
Receptionist: Between 12 o'clock and noon?
Golfer: Yes.
Receptionist: We'll try to squeeze you in.
Staff: Golf course, may I help you?
Caller: Do you have any open tee times around 10 o'clock?
Staff: Yes, we have one at 10:15.
Caller: What's the next time after that?
Staff: We have one at 10:22.
Caller: We'll take that one. It will be a bit warmer.
Amusing Things You Will Never Hear a Woman Say About Golf
I love it when you play golf on Sundays, I just wish you had time to play on Saturday too.
Listen, I make enough money for the both of us. Why don't you retire and get that nagging handicap down to a 5 or 6.
I'd rather watch golf and drink beer with you than go shopping.
Forget the stupid Valentine's day thing and buy yourself new clubs.
The game of golf is played on a huge, grass-covered area known as a golf course. The course is either a nine-hole or an eighteen-hole playing field. Many beginners
prefer to start with a nine-hole golf course. Some people prefer to go right
for the 18 hole golf courses but really, if you're a beginner, 18 holes could
make for a very very long day!
Each player needs the necessary equipment to play the game. You need a set of playing clubs, balls, shoes, tees, and of course a nice golf bag to put everything into. Once you have the necessary equipment, you must attempt to hit a golf ball into successive holes, which are located on the course.
You need to start at the teeing area. Place a tee straight into the ground and then place a golf ball on top of it. Once the ball is set on the tee, swing your club and hit the ball. The goal is to get the ball into the first hole on the course. It's ideal
to get the ball in the hole on the first try but that is near impossible,
especially for a beginner. Score is kept in the game of golf by how many strokes
it takes to hit the ball into every hole. The least number of strokes wins the
Now, it's difficult enough to hit a small white ball into a hole, but to make the game more interesting, there are all kinds of obstacles on and around a course, making a hole in one even more difficult to obtain.. There are bodies of water, trees, shrubs, sand-filled traps, and roughs. When your ball winds up in an area like this, you absolutely cannot touch the ground or the water with your club. If you decide not to play your golf ball, but then you must add a penalty stroke to your total score.
What if you hit your golf ball out of bounds or it gets lost? Here is the basic rule for that: A ball is considered to be lost if is not found within five minutes. If your golf ball is lost or out of bounds, you must add a penalty stroke to your score and replay
your last shot.
People of different playing levels will swear up and down that their way is best – but really, their is no right way t play golf. You need to have the proper equipment, know the basic rules and then just practice, practice, practice.
Many players swear the golf equipment, such as adams golf drivers, can make for a better game. Every game has to have some sort of scoring system, and golf is no exception.
These are the basics of the game of golf. Of course, the right equipment and lots of practice is what will make you good at the game!
It's not as easy as getting the 'latest-greatest' driver at $500. It's not buying Titleist ProV1's at $45 a case. It's not even taking more lessons (although swing mechanics are very important).
The answer is improved strength and flexibility from a rotational standpoint…in your core…to play a power golf game.
The golf swing is a turn (rotate back) and a turn (rotate through). If there are limitations that don't allow you to rotate back fully and store that torque (energy), then you will never play a power golf game. I hate to sound harsh, but it's the truth…plain-and-simple.
Do you currently feel like you can make a full backswing with max torque in your core area? I mean a 90+ degree shoulder turn with nothing more than a 45 degree hip turn…and with both heels on the ground?
If you can't…do you think hitting more balls is the answer? Or taking more lessons? I hope not! It's about getting off the course and doing some simple golf exercises and stretches that won't even take 20 minutes to do…a couple times a week.
No gym! No fancy equipment! Just simple exercises done in your home with minimal equipment. You don't have to get overwhelmed thinking it's a gut-busting, sweaty workout.
Although…when you get a taste of what being 'fit' feels like…it's almost addicting. It's like the 'runners high'. You start looking a little better. Having more energy. Experiencing less aches and pains. And best of all! You're killing the ball long and straight!
Every exercise you do to create a power golf game should be focused on core rotational exercises. It's easy! Get in your golf posture and grab a single dumbbell or bag of sugar. Something that weighs about 5 pounds. Now make partial swings…staying in your posture for 20-30 swings. There's one simple and easy-to-implement rotational exercise.
I'll bet you can handle that one.
How bad do you want to play "power golf?" How bad do you want to be the 'last golfer' to hit your second shot into the green? How bad do you want all your golfing buddies to the proshop after the round talking about one of your LONG drives?
Start implementing exercises like the above example and you're one step closer to playing power golf!


text:
Choose Your Language:
Hello Guest
Login Here
register now
Forgot password?
Top 50
toggle menu
Become a fan
On Facebook
Follow Us
On Twitter
Follow Us
on Google+
» Searching:
qms logger
qms logger downloads
Search results
No results found.
Antivirus & Spyware
Audio & Video
Business & Office
Desktop Utilities
Home & Education
Network Tools
Photo & Graphic
Software Development
System Utilities
Web Authoring
New Additions
OCZ SSD Utility 2.3.2773
Monitor and manage your OCZ SSD more efficiently and get notification about critical events or available updates with this software solution
Mz CPU Accelerator 4.1
A lightweight tool that lets you run applications at significant higher speeds
CloudBacko Lite 220.127.116.11
A simple application that lets you backup and restore files and folders in the cloud or on your local computer
CloudBacko Home 184.108.40.206
Easily backup and restore your files to and from your local hard drive or cloud storage
MemTest 5.0
A robust RAM testing utility that enables you to analyze your RAM
Mz RAM Booster 4.1
A system optimization tool that can improve your computer's performance, free up RAM and prevent memory leaks
ieSpell 2.6.4 Build 573
A browser add-on for Internet Explorer designed to check the spelling of text entered on web pages
Hex Workshop 188.8.131.5219
A robust and professional hex and sector editing application
StatPlus 184.108.40.206
A robust statistical analysis program
Exportizer Pro 184.108.40.206
View, edit or export entire databases as well as convert them to other formats
TVideoGrabber Video SDK 10.6.2.2
A video capture and media player SDK for developing Delphi, C++Builder, Visual C++, VB.NET, QT and C#.NET applications
T-shirt Design Software 1.0
A powerful application that lets you create custom T-shirt designs
SUNRISE Contacts 2017 for Mac 1.8.2
A practical contact and general information organizer for Mac OS
Aquarium Lab 2017.4
Easily track and log aquarium parameters and publish them on your website
NetShred X 5.0.8
A functional application that helps you easily erase Internet tracks such as cache, history and other browsing data
Spytector Lite 220.127.116.11
A completely undetectable keylogger that tracks all computer activities
Rapid Environment Editor 9.1 Build 936
View environment variables as an editable tree
Unreal Commander 3.57
A free and practical file manager
SterJo Weather Forecast 1.0
A free and intuitive app that shows you up to 5 day weather forecasts
AuctionSieve 2.8.0
Find the best eBay deals and browse availabe auction using powerful search filters
How To
Get Drivers
Software Reviews
New Software
Top 50 Downloads
Popular Searches
Copyright © 2006-2017 FileCluster - Your free software downloads archive. Get the latest, most popular software for Windows, MacOS, Linux and Mobile.
Terms of Use
Privacy Policy
Link to Us


text:
The 10 Best Mountain Towns in America
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Steamboat is no Aspen or Vail, which is to say that Colorado's most genuinely Western mountain town has Rocky Mountain beauty and unpretentious authenticity. Beneath Sleeping Giant mountain, the 12,000-foot Flat Tops, and the sharp, solitary summit of Hahns Peak are working cattle ranches spread over undulating green hills that give the town a feeling of big-sky spaciousness.
Downtown, with its century-old red-brick buildings, has an old-school soda fountain (complete with cream sodas and a jukebox) and shops like F.M. Light & Sons, a 100-year-old Western-wear store that sells 6,000 cowboy hats a year – in a town of 12,000. The main drag, Lincoln Avenue, is still wide enough to accommodate a cattle drive, as it regularly did a century ago. Locals head to the pro rodeo Friday and Saturday evenings to eat barbecued ribs and watch big names from all over the country compete in bull riding and rope handling. The town's local orthopedic surgeon is also a pro bull rider.
And your local fly-fishing guide might be an Olympian, as Steamboat seems to breed athletes: The town sent 17 locals to the last Winter Games. Johnny Spillane, a three-time silver medalist in Nordic combined, does summers at the Steamboat Flyfisher shop. "What I love about Steamboat is being able to get outdoors without having to drive," says Spillane. "Within 15 minutes, you feel like you're in the middle of nowhere."
During the mild summer months, athletes like Spillane cross-train with road riding, lift-assisted mountain biking, hiking or trail running on Howelsen Hill, roller skiing the country roads, and paddling the Yampa River. Local athletes in the know soak sore quads afterward at Strawberry Park Hot Springs, a series of secluded, natural-stone pools full of 104-degree mineral water.
Getting There: Fly to Denver; drive three and a half hours northwest.


text:
News: Tagged as FF Dirty Faces
New release: FF47
New design
FF Mister K Pro by Julia Sysmäläinen – The manuscripts of author Franz Kafka had such a profound impact on Finnish graphic and type designer Julia Sysmäläinen that she decided to convert his handwriting with its unusually strong calligraphic characteristics into a digital script. Read more about FF Mister K's features (like scribbles, underlines, and multiple alternates) and download a PDF at the FontFeed.
read more


text: LAS VEGAS – Colliers International – Las Vegas announced the finalization of the sale of an industrial property to Tanus Cabinet Designs Inc. The 6,406-square-foot property is located at 6611 Schuster St. in Las Vegas. The total transaction value was $570,000. Son Olney of Motion Properties represented the buyer. Dan Doherty, SIOR, Chris Lane and Jerry Doty of Colliers … [Read more...]


text:
2'6" x 6'3" / 75cm x 190cm
3'0" x 6'3" / 90cm x 190cm
4'0" x 6'3" / 120cm x 190cm
4'6" x 6'3" / 135cm x 190cm
5'0" x 6'6" / 150cm x 200cm
6'0" x 6'6" / 180cm x 200cm
2'6" / 75cm
3'0" / 90cm
4'0" / 120cm
4'6" / 135cm
5'0" / 150cm
6'0" / 180cm
Tavistock by Relyon at Mattressman
The Tavistock is a superb divan set from Relyon. The mattress contains 1400 supportive pocket springs in the king size model. These springs do a fantastic job in supporting the spine and relieving pressure as the pocket springs work individually like pistons, shaping to the contours of the body. The Tavistock mattress contains latex and poly-cotton fillings which will do a great a job in providing you with a comfortable night sleep. The Tavistock mattress features two rows of side stitching which helps to provide support even at the edge of the mattress. The air vents allow the mattress to breathe, helping to keep you cool during sleep and refreshed for the day ahead. Being non turn, the mattress only requires to be rotated from end to end which can easily be achieved using the flag stitched handles provided.
The divan base is sprung edged which means the mattress will get even more support for a more than comfortable night sleep. Many different drawer options are available and wheel castors are provided as standard.
Please note the headboard is not included.
Please note headboard is not included.
Please note wood may be visible through the Classic fabrics.
Divan base is manufactured by British Bed Company
Mattressman are always looking for new ways to make quality sleep more accessible. Why not spread the cost of a new bed or mattress with our finance
scheme, made possible with Pay4Later. Using finance allows you to get that dream mattress right now, without the wait. We offer a number of finance
solutions, including interest free starting at a minimum order value of £300. All you need to do is add your desired items to the basket,
and select the finance option in our secure checkout.
is the level of support to the body, suitable for all average weighted people. This is not a comfort rating.
in a 5'. Each spring is encapsulated in fabric, body moulding, no roll together, quiet and perfect for side sleeping.
fillings regulate the body temperature, giving great absorption qualities, a well as soft comfort with a cool feel.
moulds well to your body contours, Cooler than memory foam and naturaly antibacterial, sourced from rubber trees.
buttons evenly over the sleeping surface, keeping the fillings together and adding a tension to the springs.
Attached to the border, aiding rotation and turning of the mattress.
effect, that looks separate to the mattress but is actually attached with a hidden return, usually has soft fillings.
Located on the border, allowing the mattress to breath and release damp air.
mattress, no need to turn this mattress, but rotation is recommended.
Domestic Flamability Rated Source 2 for Low Hazard, General Domestic use
This product is made in Britain
The manufacturer will provide a 5 year guarantee on this product against material faults & workmanship. More info
Download Here


text:
The Ultimate Spider-Man is one of our family's favorite shows and, thankfully, the new season is right around the corner. This season promises to be packed full of new adventures and villains, and special appearances by members of the Avengers.
Also beginning this Monday is the "Marvel Comics Close-Up" initiative. a new program to champion children's literacy through Marvel comic book storytelling.
I was given an exclusive interview with Cort Lane, Supervising Producer of the Ultimate Spider-Man series, to get his insight into this season as well as get his thoughts on children's literacy and the new program, which is backed by Disney XD, Marvel Entertainment and First Book.
GeekMom: To start, lets talk about Peter Parker. He was trained in the first season, but where does his character start emotionally at the beginning of the new season and does that change throughout?
Cort Lane: I think there is an emotional arc that is even greater and more challenging for him in the second season. He's training to be a better hero in the first season. In the second season, he's learned a lot, but now he is taking on new responsibilities. Nick Fury challenged him to take on a lot of responsibility and become a better hero in season one, and in season two Peter takes on new responsibility on his own.
He takes on responsibility for his team mates and he's also taking on the responsibility to be their leader, it's not an easy fit for him.
Being a leader doesn't come naturally because he's a loner. He's also a teenager, so he makes mistakes. That's a big emotional burden on him.
He's also taking responsibility to help two friends that are very connected to Spider-Man. He wants to help Harry and save Norman Osborn from being the Green Goblin and he works towards that in the new season. His buddy and mentor from S.H.I.E.L.D, Curt Connors, becomes the Lizard in the first episode of the season and Peter has this intense need to do what he can to not only help stop the Lizard but cure him and get Curt Connors back to the friend that he needs.
We temper that with the usual Spidey quips and gags to make it light and humorous for kids, but he has some big challenges.
GM: After the destruction of the helicarrier in the last season, I'm guessing the rest of the team might feel a little displaced. Will we get to see them adjusting to living with Peter and some of the challenges they face living dual identities with Aunt May?
CL: Yea and we get to learn the origins of each of his team mates, in special stories that run throughout the season. This is still the Spider-Man show, so it's still focused on him, but he is going to learn a lot about his team mates and through that we get to see how they got their powers, where their families are and it links to all aspects of the Marvel universe.
There are some surprising links between Nova and White Tiger to other Marvel Universe characters.
Continue Reading "GeekMom Exclusive: Interview with Cort Lane, Producer of Ultimate Spider-Man" »


text:
Adding Testosterone to Viagra May Not Help Erectile Dysfunction »
"For men with low testosterone, taking testosterone along with Viagra may not help their erections more than if they only took Viagra, a new study shows.
"There were lots of reasons to think that it would work," Boston University rese"...
Read the Adding Testosterone to Viagra May Not Help Erectile Dysfunction article »
Fortesta Patient Information including If I Miss a Dose
In this Article
- What is testosterone topical (Fortesta)?
- What are the possible side effects of testosterone topical?
- What is the most important information I should know about testosterone topical?
- What should I discuss with my healthcare provider before using testosterone topical?
- How should I use testosterone topical?
- What happens if I miss a dose?
- What happens if I overdose?
- What should I avoid while using testosterone topical?
- What other drugs will affect testosterone topical?
- Where can I get more information?
What happens if I miss a dose?
Apply the gel or skin patch as soon as you remember. Skip the missed dose if it is almost time to apply your next dose. Do not use extra patches or gel to make up the missed dose.
If a transdermal patch falls off in the morning, reapply it. If it does not stick well, apply a new patch. If the patch falls off in the afternoon and cannot be reapplied, wait until your regular patch replacement time in the evening before putting on a new patch.
What happens if I overdose?
Seek emergency medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222.
What should I avoid while using testosterone topical?
Do not apply AndroGel or Testim testosterone gel to your penis or your scrotum. Testim gel should also not be applied to your stomach area.
Avoid swimming, bathing, or showering for at least 5 hours after applying AndroGel testosterone gel, or 2 hours after applying Testim testosterone gel.
Avoid using lotions, oils, or other skin products on the area where you will apply the skin patch. The patch may not stick properly to the skin.
If your doctor recommends a topical steroid medicine such as hydrocortisone to treat skin irritation caused by wearing a testosterone skin patch, avoid using an ointment form of the steroid.
Testosterone gel may be flammable. Avoid using near open flame, and do not smoke until the gel has completely dried on your skin.
What other drugs will affect testosterone topical?
Tell your doctor about all other medicines you use, especially:
- insulin;
- a blood thinner (warfarin, Coumadin, Jantoven); or
- a steroid such as methylprednisolone (Medrol), prednisone (Sterapred), and others.
This list is not complete and other drugs may interact with testosterone topical. Tell your doctor about all medications you use. This includes prescription, over-the-counter, vitamin, and herbal products. Do not start a new medication without telling your doctor.
Where can I get more information?
Your pharmacist can provide more information about testosterone topical.
Remember, keep this and all other medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use this medication only for the indication prescribed.
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information provided by Cerner Multum, Inc. ('Multum') is accurate, up-to-date, and complete, but no guarantee is made to that effect. Drug information contained herein may be time sensitive. Multum information has been compiled for use by healthcare practitioners and consumers in the United States and therefore Multum does not warrant that uses outside of the United States are appropriate, unless specifically indicated otherwise. Multum's drug information does not endorse drugs, diagnose patients or recommend therapy. Multum's drug information is an informational resource designed to assist licensed healthcare practitioners in caring for their patients and/or to serve consumers viewing this service as a supplement to, and not a substitute for, the expertise, skill, knowledge and judgment of healthcare practitioners. The absence of a warning for a given drug or drug combination in no way should be construed to indicate that the drug or drug combination is safe, effective or appropriate for any given patient. Multum does not assume any responsibility for any aspect of healthcare administered with the aid of information Multum provides. The information contained herein is not intended to cover all possible uses, directions, precautions, warnings, drug interactions, allergic reactions, or adverse effects. If you have questions about the drugs you are taking, check with your doctor, nurse or pharmacist.
Copyright 1996-2013 Cerner Multum, Inc. Version: 12.02. Revision date: 4/18/2012.
Your use of the content provided in this service indicates that you have read,understood and agree to the End-User License Agreement,which can be accessed by clicking on this link.
Fortesta Patient Information in Detail
- What is Fortesta?
- What are the possible side effects?
- What is the most important information I should know?
- What should I discuss with my healthcare provider before taking?
- How should I take?
Additional Fortesta Information
Report Problems to the Food and Drug Administration
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit the FDA MedWatch website or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
Get tips to boost your love life.


text:
hence why i dominate you
i don't know what the means, but bottom line is im sexy and i dominate you
Printable View
RG3 in like Vick...a million times better, but still similar, right now and maybe for the next few years he's AWESOME, but over time the hits will take their toll....he will miss more and more games every year until they need to replace him, Luck on the other hand will be able to have a career twice as long probably.
I'm not saying RG3 is bad, or that the offense can't be run...it just shortens the window.
Of course you think we run the run and shoot offense as well so I consider the source.


text:
forum: Campaigns and Community
Pages: 1 | Home » Campaigns and Community » Wanting to start a food blog!
#1 Thu 14 Jun 12 4:57pm
- Member
- Member since Thu 14 Jun 12
Wanting to start a food blog!
I've decided (with backing from my work) to start a food blog.
I love to cook... but I love to eat more! I mainly focus on desserts, but I'm a big meat and 2 veg cook.
Just wanted to gain a feel on what kind of posts food bloggers like to see/share/comment on.
Any suggestions or examples would help.
Thanks guys
#2 Fri 15 Jun 12 2:15am
- Forum super champ
- From Melbourne Australia
- Member since Sun 12 Apr 09
Re: Wanting to start a food blog!
Good luck Inzaneya,
I don't follow any blogs at the moment, and mine is in recess.
There are so many blogs that I don't think there is a particular niche that no one else is doing, it will be your own passion and design and ability to communicate your love that will make the difference, so my tip is to do what pleases you first!
#3 Fri 06 Jul 12 8:58am
- Member
- Member since Mon 25 Jun 12
Re: Wanting to start a food blog!
here is a blog I follow:
Quite simple, but I guess if the cooking is good, people will follow.
I'm looking to start one myself.
#4 Fri 06 Jul 12 1:45pm
- Forum champ Occupation Musician
- From NYC
- Member since Fri 12 Dec 08
Re: Wanting to start a food blog!
Though I don't follow any blogs I love the idea of the blog. What ideas do you have already? Do you want to test recipes, dine and review restaurants, this is what I made today, or focus on one particular cuisine? Whatever you decide, blogs need lots of pics!
#5 Sun 08 Jul 12 11:07am
- Member Occupation Full-time student, part-time food writer
- From Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
- Member since Mon 07 May 12
Re: Wanting to start a food blog!
I don't know much about blogs, but if you post recipes, as suggestion is to make them globally accessible. For example, writing temp in both F and C or weight in both grams and oz. I always find it frustrating having to look everything up on conversion charts.
#6 Sun 08 Jul 12 12:39pm
- Member Occupation Builder (bricklayer/ stonemason)
- From S.Wales.
- Member since Sat 10 Oct 09
Re: Wanting to start a food blog!
I think creating a blog is a brilliant idea. There are some fantastic blogs out there which were just started by people like yourself who perhaps wanted to keep an online diary of the things you create.
I run a Wood-fired oven forum for enthusiasts in this field and always push people who post beautiful pics of their food to create a blog. Many of my members now have successful blogs....this is my favourite.. http://countrywoodsmoke.wordpress.com/ from Marcus.
Introducing a guest tracker number count makes it even more fun. I've been told that the Wordpress.com is the easiest blog to create. You can always start off here on Jamies forum creating a blog within a forum. There are some real good blogs on this forum. I created one a while back ( http://www.jamieoliver.com/blogger/cannyfradock ) but I'm not a good blogger, but there are some great blogs here from the regular posters.
Best of luck
#7 Sun 08 Jul 12 2:28pm
- Forum super champ Occupation Just being me
- Member since Fri 28 Mar 08
Re: Wanting to start a food blog!
Thanks Terry, that blog is quite nice. I always appreciate someone pointing out a good blog to me. Now all I need is a wood oven! Boy, the food coming out of that baby is lovely.
#8 Sun 08 Jul 12 2:40pm
- Forum super champ
- From Newcastle, Australia
- Member since Sat 10 Mar 07
Re: Wanting to start a food blog!
Hmmm, how to put a wood-fired oven on an inner-city balcony with neighbours who think cooking per se is weird let alone cooking (much of the time, at home) for one?
Let me think about that (yet again)
Pages: 1 | Home » Campaigns and Community » Wanting to start a food blog!


text:
75th Anniversary
Pistol-Packin' Padre
May 23rd, 2011
January 1947, page 1
Photo from Photos.com
It reads like an Old-West TV show: The people of St.Agnes Church, on the west side of San Antonio, Texas, are oppressed by poverty and crime — so much crime that they're even afraid to come to church. Desperate to help, the archbishop of San Antonio calls for a hero. And out of the dusty fields of Yoakum, Texas, comes a former bronco-busting rancher turned priest, Father Henry V. Hug, a holy tough guy afraid of nothing, who's good with his fists and carries a gun hidden in the folds of his cassock. But don't worry. As this January 1947 article says, he only "shoots to kill crime."
It would make good TV. But, as the article points out, it made for an even better pastor. After arriving at St. Agnes in the early 1940s, Father Hug worked hard to make the parish neighborhood safe, to bring the people back to church, and to provide health care and educational opportunities. He is still remembered and dearly loved by many older parishioners at St. Agnes. One parishioner said "Father Henry V. Hug was a very dear friend of my family from the time he arrived at St. Agnes. …His housekeeper was his sister Josephine, lovingly called 'Dough Dough.'" Another remembered how he led the efforts to establish a clinic to care for underprivileged children and mothers, and how he helped the parish grow and thrive.
When Father Hug died from cancer in 1971 at the age of 65, the San Antonio Light noted that while he was just as tough as the next guy, he was also "a good and gentle man" who spoke Spanish fluently and did all he could to get neighborhood boys and girls out of gangs. The Light also noted that he "received a tearful and rousing sendoff when he left the growing parish in 1948. He served several other parishes during the last years of his life, but none like St. Agnes, which he learned to love the most." (My special thanks to Ester Perry, current pastoral associate at St. Agnes, who kindly sent me comments from parishioners and Father Hug's obituary from the San Antonio Light.)
So, here, from January 1947, meet Father Henry V. Hug, the Pistol-Packin' Padre.
Dan Connors
Click here to download a PDF of this classic article


text: I have a 2010 silverado. I had a 3.75, 3.5 is what it may be called, rc suspension lift on 33in trail grapplers w/ 18 inch rim. I recently put a 3 inch zone body lift on and bought a set of 325/65/18 (35/12.50) fierce attitudes. I know my truck requires at least 6 inches of lift to clear 35s, this set-up should provide 6.5 but is there a difference between my set up and let's say a 6 inch procomp? I'd hate to put them on and them not fit. That was the main reason for the body lift.


text:
Evan Lindquist 5k Walk/Run attracts a crowd in spite of rain
The second annual Evan Lindquist 5K Memorial Run/Walk raised $4,779, with $1,422 raised Saturday, May 18, alone, bringing the total amount raised to date to $20,823.
This amount was raised with the help of approximately 350 participants and large anonymous donations.
The money raised by this annual event will be given to the graduating class of 2022, in honor of their classmate, Evan Lindquist, who died tragically in a bus accident.
Following 2022, the scholarship will be used to reward one boy and one girl graduate each year. Money raised through these events could someday be invested to increase the amount available to graduates.
There were also "virtual participants" from Champaign, Ill.; Colorado Springs, Colo.; and Key West, Fla. One donation came from Denmark.


text: Anyone buy one of these? I usually do crush and strain, but this isn't such a big investment to have hanging around for when I wanted to spin. I would love feedback from y'all. I'm definitely a hobby person. Thanks. In case anyone wants one, here's the link. $159, regularly $200.


text:
Every programmer knows there is one true programming language. A new one every week
Brian Hayes
If you want to be a thorough-going world traveler, you need to learn 6,912 ways to say "Where is the toilet, please?" That's the number of languages known to be spoken by the peoples of planet Earth, according to Ethnologue.com.
If you want to be the complete polyglot programmer, you also have quite a challenge ahead of you, learning all the ways to say:
printf("hello, world\n") ;
(This one is in C.) A catalog maintained by Bill Kinnersley of the University of Kansas lists about 2,500 programming languages. Another survey, compiled by Diarmuid Piggott, puts the total even higher, at more than 8,500. And keep in mind that whereas human languages have had millennia to evolve and diversify, all the computer languages have sprung up in just 50 years. Even by the more-conservative standards of the Kinnersley count, that means we've been inventing one language a week, on average, ever since Fortran.
For ethnologists, linguistic diversity is a cultural resource to be nurtured and preserved, much like biodiversity. All human languages are valuable; the more the better. That attitude of detached reverence is harder to sustain when it comes to computer languages, which are products of design or engineering rather than evolution. The creators of a new programming language are not just adding variety for its own sake; they are trying to make something demonstrably better. But the very fact that the proliferation of languages goes on and on argues that we still haven't gotten it right. We still don't know the best notation—or even a good-enough notation—for expressing an algorithm or defining a data structure.
There are programmers of my acquaintance who will dispute that last statement. I expect to hear from them. They will argue—zealously, ardently, vehemently—that we have indeed found the right programming language, and for me to claim otherwise is willful ignorance. The one true language may not yet be perfect, they'll concede, but it's built on a sound foundation and solves the main problems, and now we should all work together to refine and improve it. The catch, of course, is that each of these friends will favor a different language. It's Lisp, says one. No, it's Python. It's Ruby. It's Java, C#, Lua, Haskell, Prolog, Curl.
Sadly, linguistic diversity has a dark side. Communities separated by differences of language don't always get along peaceably; the term "Balkanization" comes to mind. And, like weary, war-torn countries, the computing professions have had their share of sectarian strife and schism. As far as I know, the conflicts have never come to actual bloodshed, but harsh words have been exchanged (in many languages).
The Endian Wars
In 1726 Jonathan Swift told of a dispute between the Little-Endians of Lilliput and the Big-Endians of Blefuscu; 41,000 perished in a war fought to decide which end of a boiled egg to crack. This famous tempest in an egg cup was replayed 250 years later by designers of computer hardware and communications protocols. When a block of data is stored or transmitted, either the least-significant bit or the most-significant bit can go first. Which way is better? It hardly matters, although life would be easier if everyone made the same choice. But that's not what has happened, and so quite a lot of hardware and software is needed just to swap ends at boundaries between systems.
This modern echo of Swift's Endian wars was first pointed out by Danny Cohen of the University of Southern California in a brilliant 1980 memo, "On holy wars and a plea for peace." The memo, subsequently published in Computer, was widely read and admired; the plea for peace was ignored.
Another feud—largely forgotten, I think, but never settled by truce or treaty—focused on the semicolon. In Algol and Pascal, program statements have to be separated by semicolons. For example, in x:=0; y:=x+1; z:=2 the semicolons tell the compiler where one statement ends and the next begins. C programs are also peppered with semicolons, but in C they are statement terminators, not separators. What's the difference? C needs a semicolon after the last statement, but Pascal doesn't. This discrepancy was one of the gripes cited by Brian W. Kernighan of AT&T Bell Labs in a 1981 diatribe, "Why Pascal is not my favorite programming language." Although Kernighan's paper was never published, it circulated widely in samizdat, and in retrospect it can be seen as the beginning of the end of Pascal as a serious programming tool.
Still another perennially contentious issue is how to count. This one brings out the snarling dogmatism in the meekest programmer. Suppose we have a list of three items. Do we number them 1, 2, 3, or should it be 0, 1, 2? Everyone in computerdom knows the answer to that question, and knows it as an eternal truth held with the deepest, visceral conviction. Only one of the alternatives is logically tenable. But which is it? Consider the Java expression Date(2006,1,1); what calendar date do you suppose that specifies?The answer is February 1, 3906. In Java we count months starting with 0, days starting with 1, and years starting with 1,900.
Even the parts of a program that aren't really part of the program can provoke discord. "Comments" are meant for the human reader and have to be marked in some way so that the computer will ignore them. You might think it would be easy to choose some marker that could be reserved for this purpose in all languages. But a compendium of programming-language syntax compiled by Pascal Rigaux—a marvelous resource, by the way—lists some 39 incompatible ways to designate comments: # in awk,\ in Forth, (*...*) in Pascal, /*...*/ in C, and so on. There's also a running debate over whether comments should be "nestable"—whether it's permissible to have comments inside comments.
Then there's the CamelCase controversy. Most programming languages insist that names of things—variables, procedures, etc.—be single words, without spaces inside them; but runningthewordstogether makes them unreadable. Hence CamelCase, with humps in the middle (also known as BumpyCaps and NerdCaps; but sTuDLy CaPs are something else). To tell the truth, I don't think there's much actual controversy about the use of CamelCase, but the name has occasioned lively and erudite discussions, revisiting old questions about Camelus dromedarius and C. bactrius, and offering glimpses of such further refinements as sulkingCamelCase (with a droopy head).
Organizing Babel
I mock the pettiness of these squabbles—and I believe some of them deserve mocking—and yet I don't want to give the impression that only cosmetic issues are in dispute, or that programming languages are really all alike under the skin. On the contrary, what's most fascinating about programming languages is how dramatically they differ. I would argue that the distance between C and Lisp, for example, is greater than that between any pair of human languages.
Noam Chomsky asserts that all human languages have the same "deep structure," which may even be hard-wired into the brain. In computer languages, too, certain features seem to be universal. Almost all programming languages are built on the same kind of grammatical scaffold, called a context-free grammar. At the semantic level, almost all programming languages have the same computational power: If you can compute something in one language, you can get the same answer in any other, given enough effort. But this formal equivalence is misleading. Raw computational power is not what people care about in a programming language; the real criterion is how readily you can express your ideas.
In the 1930s the linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf argued that what you can think is conditioned by what language you think in. For natural languages, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has met with much skepticism, but for computer languages the idea seems more plausible. Different categories of programming languages elicit quite different modes of thinking and problem solving.
Programming languages are usually classified in four families. Imperative languages are built on commands: do this, do that, do the next thing. The commands act on stored data, modifying the overall state of the system. The imperative approach was the default in most early programming languages, including Fortran, cobol and Algol.
A functional language is modeled on the idea of a mathematical function, such as f(x)=x 2. The function is a black box that accepts arguments as input and returns values as output. A key point is that the calculation depends only on the arguments and affects only the value; there are no extraneous side effects. This property makes it easier to reason about functional programs, since there's no need to keep track of the state of the entire machine. Functional programming began with Lisp, although most versions of Lisp allow other styles of programming as well. John Backus, the lead developer of Fortran and a contributor to Algol, later became an advocate of functional languages. Several "pure" functional languages have emerged since then, including ML, Miranda and Haskell.
In object-oriented programming languages the root idea is to bind together imperative commands and the data they act on, forming encapsulated objects. Instead of defining a procedure to manipulate a data structure, one "teaches" the data structure how to carry out operations on itself. Most object-oriented languages also have some notion of inheritance, whereby an object is born already knowing default behaviors. The object-oriented languages trace their heritage back to SIMULA 67, but they began to attract attention only in the 1980s with Smalltalk. In a curious turn of events, object-oriented principles became wildly popular, but the result was not the widespread adoption of Smalltalk; instead, object-oriented features were bolted onto other languages. From C, for example, came C++ and Objective C and eventually C#; Java is also in this family. Object-oriented notions are now so deeply ingrained that they influence almost every new language.
The languages of the fourth category are variously known as logic, relational or declarative languages. What they have in common is the idea of programming not by spelling out step-by-step algorithms but by stating facts or relations. The best-known exemplar of this technique is Prolog, which relies on an method called unification to make deductions from stated facts. Related concepts also turn up in less-exotic areas such as database-query languages and spreadsheets.
These four categories suggest the breadth of the programming-language spectrum, but there are further variations across many other dimensions. At the most superficial level, the various languages simply look different. C is terse, cobol quite verbose. Lisp is full of parentheses. Perl, said some wag, looks like Snoopy swearing: @&$^^#@!.
Languages can also be distinguished as "low-level" or "high-level." The low-level ones allow more-direct access to aspects of the underlying hardware, such as addresses in memory or input and output devices. High-level languages provide an insulating layer of abstraction.
A generation of languages created in the 1970s emphasized "structured programming"—otherwise known as bondage and discipline. Pascal is in this group: It enforces strict rules about types of data and the flow of control through a program. The reaction against such constraints produced "hacker-friendly" languages, including C.
Languages also differ in their intended audience or area of application. Fortran began as a language for scientific computing, COBOL for business. Quite a few interesting languages were designed for teaching or for children. BASIC, Pascal and Smalltalk are all in this class, and so is Logo. (All of them have had to struggle to be taken seriously as languages for grownups.)
The remarkably wide range of programming languages would seem to offer something for everyone. We could celebrate diversity. We could let a thousand flowers bloom. What actually happens, more often, is that we launch a crusade to convert the infidels—or else exterminate them.
In 1975 Edsger W. Dijkstra, a major figure in the structured-programming movement, wrote a memo titled "How Do We Tell Truths that Might Hurt?" The "truths" were mostly Dijkstra's opinions of programming languages; how he told them was very bluntly. Fortran is "an infantile disorder," PL/I "a fatal disease," APL "a mistake, carried through to perfection." Students exposed to COBOL "are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration," he said. "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." When the memo was published a few years later, defenders of COBOL and BASIC replied in kind, although none of them were quite able to match Dijkstra's acid rhetoric.
In fairness, I should note that most disputes over programming languages are neither as vicious nor as humorless as the affair of Dijkstra's "truths." Today's missionaries take an upbeat approach, spending more time in promoting their own religion and less in dissing the other person's beliefs. The message is no longer "You'll burn in hell if you write C." It's "Look what a paradise Python offers you!" (I think maybe I liked the old sermons better.)
Much of this proselytizing is done with the best of intentions. When you have found a tool that seems artful and elegant, you want to spread the good news. This is a generous impulse. But there is also self-interest at work. For programming language P to prosper, it must have a community of users—people who write P programs and buy books about P, who teach P to students, who agitate to get P supported on new platforms, who hire P programmers. Every convert to P improves P's chance of survival; if the convert comes from the rival language Q, so much the better.
Quarrels over notation are hardly unique to the world of computing. In mathematics there was the famous impasse between the Leibnizian dx/dt and the Newtonian "x-dot" (known as the war between deity and dotage). Chemists wrangle about how to name molecules. Even chess players have fought over how to record moves. But the situation in computer science is of a different order. Calculus never had 2,500 ways to write a derivative.
Over the years, the cacophony of programming languages has repeatedly been cited as a threat to further progress in computing. The usual response has been—what else?—to propose yet another programming language. "If we could all just get together and agree on one last, greatest language...." In the 1960s this was the ambition of PL/I, the language that Dijkstra called a fatal disease. Later, Ada was to reunify all of computing—by mandate of the U.S. Department of Defense. A decade ago Java was the shining hope, promoted with the slogan "Write once, run anywhere."
A few programming languages—most notably Fortran and Lisp—seem to be all but immortal; the rest are like waves washing ashore and then draining into the sand. Riding the crest of the latest wave are the scripting languages, especially Python and Ruby. Their origins are humble. The idea of scripting began with batch-command languages, used as "glue" to bind together other programs, and with extension languages, meant to be embedded inside programs. But scripting languages have grown up into general-purpose programming languages. They are popular now for writing Internet applications. Python also has a following in scientific computing.
Lisping in Numbers
My plea for peace in programmerhood would carry more weight if I could present myself as an impartial arbiter, with no stake in the outcome of the language race. But it's time to confess. I too have a favorite programming language, which I cling to like a child with a bedraggled teddy bear. Don't you dare try to take away my Lisp!
Without engaging in missionary zealotry of my own, it's hard to explain my fondness for Lisp. I'll just say it's a simple-minded language with one trick that it does very well. Every Lisp expression is a list, evaluated by reading the first element of the list as the name of a function and the remaining elements as the arguments to the function. For example, (/ (+ 3 5) 2) is a program for dividing (+ 3 5) by 2 , where (+ 3 5) is a subprogram for adding 3 and 5 . The value of the entire expression is 4 . The syntax is brutally simple, even primitive, but that's its strength. Lisp evangelists always note that data and programs are represented in the same way, which makes it easy to write programs that manipulate other programs. That's true, but what appeals to me is just the uniformity of the notation. Everything is done the same way, and so there's not much to remember. (One thing I won't mention is the profusion of parentheses (which annoy some people). (What the world needs (I think) is not (a Lisp (with fewer parentheses)) but (an English (with more.))))
In the chronology of programming languages, Lisp comes from the very dawn of time. It was conceived nearly 50 years ago by John McCarthy, now of Stanford University. My own acquaintance with the language goes back 25 years. To persist in using such an antique idiom seems peculiar and affected, like speaking in Miltonic verses. There's something stubborn and curmudgeonly about it. It looks like a rebuke to all the effort expended on programming-language design since the 1950s. Do I really mean to suggest that not one of the 2,500 newer languages has been able to improve on Lisp?
No, I don't. And of course the Lisp I speak today is not the language McCarthy introduced 50 years ago. It has been augmented, overhauled, updated, split into multiple dialects, then reassembled in a standard called Common Lisp. (Still, the parts of the language I like best were there at the beginning and have changed little.)
An International Lisp Conference was held at Stanford a year ago. This was a gathering of the faithful, and naturally there was talk about how to bring enlightenment to the rest of the world. It was also an occasion showing that even advocates of the same language are quite capable of arguing among themselves deep into the night.
At the end of the final session, John McCarthy rose to speak. He looked around at his audience and remarked, "If someone set off a bomb in this room, it would wipe out half of the worldwide Lisp community. That might not be a bad thing for Lisp, because it would have to be reinvented." His meaning, as I understood it, was partly that the Common Lisp standard had stifled innovation. But he went on to say that if he could go all the way back to the beginning, there were things he would do differently. Even the maker of the language did not see it as beyond improvement. I found McCarthy's candor refreshing, but I also had the thought: No, no, don't tamper with it. I like it just the way it is.
I do believe there are real differences among programming languages—better ones and worse ones—and I rank Lisp among the better. When you get to the bottom of it, however, I write programs in Lisp for the same reason I write prose in English—not because it's the best language, but because it's the language I know best.
© Brian Hayes
Community Guidelines: Disqus Comments
The Art and Science of Communicating Science
American Scientist Classics
Women in Science
Purchase a Back Issue
2014 Annual Index
The Age of Nuclear Weapons
25 Years in North Carolina
Of Possible Interest
Engineering: Traffic Signals, Dilemma Zones, and Red-Light Cameras
Computing Science: Computer Vision and Computer Hallucinations
Spotlight: Making the Cut
Foreign-Language PDFs
© 2016 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society


text:
Your tutorial is easy to follow. I have bookmarked it. Thanks for sharing.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Your tutorial is easy to follow. I have bookmarked it. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much, I love it and have it bookmarked. Your tutorial is easy to follow and I also liked your colors. Great job!! Thanks again.
This is one of my favorite patterns. Your tut is very clear, great way to do this pattern. Thank you.
Thank You! for the tute... I am a visual person and your instructions are great. Your quilt is BEAUTIFUL!
Easy instructions. I also bookmarked. I want to make a quilt for my brother and his new wife. I think this will be good. I wanted stars because he was in the Navy and she is from Brazil. Looked at your blog. Beautiful things and photos.
Looked at some of your other photos too. Did you take all of them ?
Your English is better than some American's! Thank you for the wonderful tutorial. I look forward to seeing your blog, too.
Thankyou roolen
I love this pattern. Your work is fantastic and I enjoyed reading your blog. The instructions were very easy to follow.


text:
Nature & the Environment
Dharma Rain
Sources of Buddhist EnvironmentalismRead More
Paperback$34.95+ Add to Bag
Deep Ecology for the Twenty-first Century
Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism
Every day, in newspapers and on television, we read and hear about the ongoing destruction of the environment: the greenhouse effect, ozone layer depletion, deforestation, and air and water pollution. Deep Ecology offers a solution to the environmental crisis through a radical shift in human consciousness—a fundamental change in the way people relate with the environment. Instead of thinking of nature as a resource to be used for human needs,… Read More
- edited by
- George Sessions
Paperback$45.00+ Add to Bag
Earth Conference One
Sharing a Vision for Our PlanetThey came from around the world: from parliaments, senates, and assemblies; from temples, churches, and mosques; from laboratories, universities, and boardrooms. It was the first time that spiritual and parliamentary leaders had come together with scientific experts to confront the threats of environmental crisis, nuclear war, famine, and disease. After five days of dialogue and contemplation the participants pledged to join forces to care for and protect the Earth with… Read More
Paperback$19.00+ Add to Bag


text:
Save Money and Earn Rewards Every Time You Shop With Your Maika`i Card.
Our Maika`i Program is a frequent shopper program for Foodland, Sack N Save and Foodland Farms customers. In Hawaiian, Maika`i means "excellent", and excellence is exactly what this program offers: excellent savings, excellent service and excellent rewards every time you shop with us.
As a Maika`i Member you will earn one Maika`i Point for every dollar you spend at our stores. When you've accumulated 250 points, you'll receive a My Rewards Certificate good for 5% off a future grocery purchase, special product savings or 200 HawaiianMiles.
Also as a Maika`i Member, you'll receive instant savings on thousands of items throughout the store. Just look for Maika`i shelf signs to identify items featuring discounts exclusively for Maika`i Members.
It's simple to become a Maika`i Member and there is no cost to participate. Visit one of our stores [1] today and ask our cashier to apply. The best part is that once you become a Maika`i Member, we'll track your purchases and points.
Your Maika`i Card is Hawaii's most powerful way to save! The more you shop, the quicker your savings add up.
For more information, view our Maika`i FAQs [2] and Maika`i Program Terms and Conditions [3].
If you currently have a Maika`i Card, but are unable to find the correct Maika`i Card number, please click here [4] to look up your Maika`i Card Number. [4]
[1] http://www.foodland.com/stores
[2] http://www.foodland.com/maikai-card/faq
[3] http://www.foodland.com/maikai-card/maikai-card-terms-and-conditions
[4] http://www.foodland.com/maikai-card-number-look


text:
ISU professor plans to build Bigfoot blimp
POCATELLO, Idaho - An Idaho State University professor has a plan to build an aircraft specially designed to search out Sasquatch.
"(This is) a means to conduct a state of the art aerial wildlife survey in order to try to track and locate a Sasquatch," ISU Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology Jeff Meldrum said.
The plan is to build a 50-foot-wide Bigfoot blimp with the help of a Utah based company.
"It looks like something out of a science fiction movie. It's a dirigible, an airship that has two aircells that gives it a kind of catamaran stability in the air," Meldrum said.
The airship is designed to be filled with high tech equipment including infrared cameras that will give researchers the best possible chance of spotting anything elusive in the woods.
"It's not just looking at a little blob of red light against a blue background. This is high-definition videography that will use a telephoto lens that can zoom in from a mile away literally," Meldrum said.
Of course, before the airship has its maiden voyage it has to be built. Meldrum said the money to put it together will come from completely from private donations.
Beyond the more attention-grabbing goal of finding Bigfoot, Meldrum said the planned aircraft has many other possible uses.
"All kinds of wildlife studies even geological studies could be conducted with data that could be garnered from an airship gathering this type of aerial surveillance imagery," Meldrum said.
You can learn more about the airship project at http://bigfootblimp.com.