text: Hey guys, With the end of the year fast approaching I thought it would be kind of cool to give you guys a photo-timeline of everything I've done to my truck! So to start off: I only have one picture of the truck with nothing done to it - yes that is ice. Here is a screenshot from a video I made…at this point I had Gibson dual extreme exhaust. Another shot of the exhaust. Next comes the 4" BDS lift kit with 305/55/20 Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac's, and OEM mud flaps. Shortly after the lift came color matched bowties. Then the towing mirrors, AVS rain guards, and Recon smoked cab roof lights. Followed by the black OEM grille, removal of running boards and mud flaps, chrome tailgate latch, Recon smoked tail/3rd brake lights, and tonneau cover. Recon "White Lightning" tailgate bar was added next. Then I had the outside of tailgate latch painted. Next came Gibson Stainless Headers and color matched deception badge. I recently took the "White Lightning" tailgate bar off….some of the LED's burnt out. I also added Recon Diamond White Headlights, then eventually swapped out to the Platinum Blue's that I have now. This brings us up to present day, where a 20" Rigid Industries SR2 has been put on, and just yesterday I took off the 4x4 stickers. This summer I plan to do a little more work - starting off with a leveling kit to get rid of the rake that I still have, then I will be able to clear 35" tires. I need to re-gear anyway, but now with 35's I will go up to 4.10's. I also thought about some fender flares and n-fab bed access steps, but we will have to see. I'm really happy with how my truck is looking right now, so maybe I'll just stick with the level and 35's. By the way..my exhaust tips are stainless…just dirty because of the salt, slush, dirt, gunk they throw on the roads... Hope you guys enjoyed the pictures….I hope everyone has a fun and safe new year!

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A strategy that recently divorced people, trying to get back into the dating scene, use to experience rejection as they re-insert themselves into the dating scene. The objective is to deliberately experience rejection by someone who is known to be unattainable (owing to relationship status, class, or behavioural and physical attributes), in order to overcome a fear of rejection.
Bald, stumpy Louie pulled a planned rejection with that hot waitress to get the courage to ask out Amanda.
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I have been using these glasses for a few weeks now. They are not useful for clear days. They do not take the brunt of the sunshine off of your eyes, just dim it a little. The uses I see for the glasses are cloudy days or early morning/late night. The tint will be able to adjust to small amounts of sunlight to keep your vision at an optimal brightness during those conditions. I am going to be trying them out for cloudy winter runs hoping the horizontal slits will minimize the fogging of my glasses. My last pair would fog and then freeze, rendering them useless in 20 minutes of running.One thing I did notice is the way the nose grip sits. It isn't as comfortable as my last pair of glasses. It is functional, but could be better.
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I guess I'm not that concerned with bees foraging sweet liquids in dumpsters and such, since that probably would be a minute percentage of the honey in our hives. But, from a landfill a mile away (and Yes Odfrank, our landfills here in Jamaica are far from, what do you call them? "Sanitary Landfills" LOL!!!, they bulldoze and burn, very unhealthy), I'm a little concerned. From the location in question, I'v caught 4 swarms and have very healthy bees there, but still the worry.


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Located in Circular Quay - The Rocks, InterContinental Sydney is within a 10-minute walk of popular sights such as Sydney Opera House and Circular Quay. This 509-room, 5-star hotel welcomes guests with conveniences like a full-service spa, an indoor pool, and a fitness center. Located centrally in Sydney, it's also close to Sydney Harbour Bridge and University of Sydney.
Enjoy a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, or relax with a drink at the bar/lounge. Savor a meal from the comfort of your room with 24-hour room service, or get a quick energy boost at the coffee shop/café. For your convenience, a full breakfast is served for a fee each morning from 6:30 AM to 10:30 AM.
InterContinental Sydney's 509 air-conditioned rooms provide minibars, coffee makers, and free newspapers. Guests can expect WiFi, wired Internet, and LCD TVs with cable channels and pay movies. Bathrooms offer hair dryers and designer toiletries, and beds are dressed in premium bedding. Other standard amenities include safes, phones, and ironing boards.
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At InterContinental Sydney, guests enjoy a full-service spa, an indoor pool, and a fitness center. Valet parking is available for AUD 45 per day. The front desk has multilingual staff on hand 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Other amenities at this luxury hotel include a sauna, WiFi in public areas, and 15 meeting rooms.
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In addition to a full-service spa, InterContinental Sydney features an indoor pool and a sauna. The hotel offers a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with wireless Internet access (surcharge).
Business-related amenities at this 5-star property consist of a business center and meeting rooms. 15 meeting rooms are available. This luxury hotel also offers a fitness center, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
InterContinental Sydney is a smoke-free property.
- Total number of rooms - 509
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InterContinental Sydney offers 509 air-conditioned accommodations with minibars and safes. Beds feature premium bedding. LCD televisions come with premium cable channels and pay movies. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, bathrobes, slippers, and designer toiletries.
In-room wired and wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. Business-friendly amenities include desks, complimentary newspapers, and phones. Additionally, rooms include coffee/tea makers and hair dryers. Housekeeping is offered daily and in-room massages can be requested.
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Recreational amenities at the hotel include an indoor pool, a sauna, and a fitness center.
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Since Warré beeks do not reuse comb, an efficient method for pressing honey and rendering wax must be found. Also many honey users disdain the abused honey flung from capped comb by centrifugal extractors. One solution to these issues employs the slow manual press known as the Stade (shtah-deh) press used since the skep era in Germany. If you go to youtube you can find some 30+-year old documentaries on heather honey beeking at the Klindworth apiary in the Saxony region of Germany. Stades are used for pressing the thick heather honey, and in hot-rendering wax.
For those wishing to buy such a press, the simple answer is that you can't. But for the aid of DIYers I have uploaded to the sketchup warehouse a model of an updated Stade called the Templeton-Stade press, reflecting some design updates. The design works well and I release it to the beekeeping public for the betterment of the community.
Go to "Templeton-Stade Honey & Wax Press" (http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehou...bf0eea2b154a39) to access the model. I believe the free version of sketchup can be used to view it.
The warehouse notes I added got format-mangled courtesy of google, but they're pasted below:
-- The press is intended to be used at an incline, i.e. back (crank) end elevated to allow natural drainage of honey & wax/water out front.
-- A sturdy pressing sack holding honey comb must be used.
-- A heavy grade of fine poly/cotton/linen fabric must be used for hot-water rendering of wax.
-- Keeping the pressing room warm (35C/95°F) is essential to keep honey flowing.
-- A bulldog/A-frame 1000-lbf. jack is used, disassembled, stripped, relubed with food-safe beeswax/mineral-oil (and kept coated externally with same).
-- It is inadvisable to use wood glues or epoxies in construction. All glues will fail during washing-up or hot-water application.
-- Food-grade stainless hardware only! Types 18/8 or 316 advisable. Zinc-plated or mild steel will corrode and taint your honey.
-- Prototype built of red oak and waterproof marine-grade plywood. Built like a brick sh!thouse and weighs a ton, but should hold up under use and not self-destruct.
-- Food-grade plastic mesh on the piston and platen grid facings may be beneficially used.
Refer to youtube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnu0UGxnJWA to see the press in action.
Good luck and happy pressing!
Alex Templeton


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An alcohalic drink, generally served as a shot. While the exact recipe may vary slightly depending upon where it is being served it typically consists of equal parts of Whisky (Jack), Bourbon (Jim), Scotch (Johnny), and Tequila (Jose).
I drank a lot last night but it wasn't until Chris started in with the shots of 3 hicks and a spic that I got really drunk.


text: This is a great question. To truly understand how the ACE Integrated Fitness Training (ACE IFT™) Model was created, let's first review why it was created. Exercise science has evolved for decades through research that has provided the fitness industry with new training methodologies and guidelines for exercise programming. These methods and guidelines have been adapted into models that address specific areas of training, such as training for strength, endurance, or power. However, none of these models were built to provide a comprehensive system for training based on the science of today with the adaptability to easily incorporate the discoveries of tomorrow. To do this, a new approach to training was needed, one that would provide more than guidelines or a basic template telling trainers "if you see ____, then do ____." A new model was needed that could be applied in any setting with any client at any point along the health—fitness—performance training continuum. While creating a model of this nature may seem daunting, it was exactly what personal trainers, managers, directors, club owners, and educators were asking ACE for on a weekly basis. When it was time to start working on the fourth edition of the ACE Personal Trainer Manual, the ACE exercise science team consisting of Cedric X. Bryant, Ph.D., Pete McCall, M.S., Fabio Comana, M.A., M.S., and Todd Galati, M.A. (myself) discussed the need to develop a comprehensive training system that would provide trainers with a blueprint for understanding the appropriate application of various assessments and exercise programming methods for posture, movement, balance, function, cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular strength and endurance, speed—agility—quickness, power, and most importantly fitness-related behavior change. It was clear right away that developing a model so deep in content and broad in scope would be well beyond the scope of any individual and would require an "all in" effort from each of us. It was at this meeting in late 2008 that the ACE exercise science team developed the idea for the ACE Integrated Fitness Training Model and designed its first framework. Over the next month, we constructed the framework of the ACE IFT™ Model with its two primary training components: Cardiorespiratory Training and Functional Movement and Resistance Training, each with four training phases, and all built on a foundation of rapport, communication, and facilitating fitness-related behavior changes. The next steps were to build out each phase of the two training components with appropriate assessments and programming solutions, and to incorporate tools personal trainers could use to help them identify appropriate strategies for working with each client to enhance motivation, adherence, and rapport. To do this, the ACE exercise science team reached out to leading researchers and practitioners in specific areas of the model to enlist them as chapter authors and content editors for the ACE Personal Trainer Manual (4th edition). Each author was provided with the framework for the ACE IFT™ Model, to help them understand how their respective contributions would fit within it. The list of chapter authors included Carl Foster, Ph.D., Wayne Westcott, Ph.D., John P. Porcari, Ph.D., Tracie Rogers, Ph.D., Barbara A. Brehm, ED.D., Kelly Spivey, N.D., Natalie Digate Muth, M.D., MPH, R.D., Sabrena Merrill, M.S.; and the content editors included Sabrena Merrill, M.S., Len Kravitz, Ph.D., Daniel Cipriani, P.T., Ph.D., Scott Cheatham, D.P.T., O.C.S., A.T.C., Justin Price, M.A., John R. Martinez, P.T., M.P.T., Jessica Matthews, M.S., Carolyn Kaelin, M.D., M.P.H., Kimberly Summers, M.S., David K. Stotlar, Ed.D., and David Ohton. Throughout this process, the ACE exercise science team was entrenched in the process as chapter authors and then as content editors for all chapters covering components of the ACE IFT™ Model, with Cedric Bryant serving as the principal technical editor for the entire project. The end product of this collaborative team effort was the ACE Integrated Fitness Training Model — a model that emphasizes first and foremost that personal training is a customer service business, and that even best training methods are hollow without good rapport, communication, and the ability to help people to adopt physical activity as a fun, regular part of their lives. The ACE IFT™ Model goes well beyond methods built primarily on muscle weakness and tightness, by providing a framework for helping clients to first improve the stability—mobility relationship of their joints, then helping them to improve movement patterns in all planes, then loading their movements, and finally helping advanced clients to train for athletic performance. The ACE IFT™ Model also goes well beyond target heart rate training based on predicted maximums and ranges, by providing field tests for identifying a client's heart rate at the first and second ventilator thresholds (VT1 and VT2), metabolic markers that are unique to each person, allowing for very personalized training plans. The ACE Integrated Fitness Training Model was developed by a committed team of ACE exercise scientists. It provides personal trainers with a practical system for training any client, educators with a framework they can teach to help students pull the various aspects of training together, and facility owners, managers, and directors with a system they can implement to provide consistent training solutions for all members. For more information on the ACE IFT™ Model, please read the four-article series that ran in the February/March, April/May, June/July, and August 2010 issues of ACE Certified News.


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How I'm Investing for the Rest of 2012
Focus: MARKETS
This preoccupation with the fiscal cliff is, frankly, driving me nuts.
I thought I was over it a few weeks ago. But it's gotten much, much worse. You can't go anywhere without reading or hearing about the doomsday deadline when taxes increase and spending cuts kick in, potentially delivering a $500-billion double whammy to the economy.
Markets move up and down based on the Washington rumor mill. On Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 89 points after Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said lawmakers were making "little progress" on negotiations to avoid going over the cliff by year end. On Wednesday and early Thursday, stocks rallied after some hopeful statements by President Obama.
But for all of Wall Street's moaning and groaning, the market has hardly corrected at all over the past few weeks, and the key VIX volatility index has barely budged. Maybe investors are venting their anxieties but voting with their wallets: Ultimately, they expect a deal. Only nervous traders are reacting to every twist and turn of this Beltway soap opera, and they'll pay the price.
If a deal gets done, it will most likely happen just before Christmas, so Congressmen and women can enjoy a cushy holiday of eggnog and fund raising back home.
They won't work out all the details, but there may well be some kind of framework of a final resolution by then, as the President suggested Wednesday.
I say this with all due humility—because, as I wrote here, when it comes to the cliff, "nobody knows anything" about what's going to happen, including me (although two years of writing a political blog has made it clear to me that markets and politics operate by different rules).
- Read Howard's take on how investors should deal with the fiscal cliff on MoneyShow.com.
But this is my best guess based on what the market is doing.
From its recent closing peak of 1,465.77 on September 14, the Standard & Poor's 500 fell to a closing low of 1,353.33 on November 15 in the post-election sell-off.
That's a decline of only 7.7%, barely in correction territory. (We saw an almost identical 7.8% pullback from early April to early June.)
By contrast, there was nearly a 16% drop from late April to July 2010 and a 20% correction from early May to early October of 2011.


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Summary of Classes Offered Report
This spreadsheet provides ADE staff with a snapshot of what classes are being offered and the number of students that are being served. It enables ADE staff to provide technical assistance throughout the year to grantees that may need additional guidance instead of waiting to receive data at the end of the year in the APR.
Change to Form!!
This year there is a slight change to the form. Instead of completing separate forms for the Fall, Spring and Summer classes, the form is now set up as a continuous summary of classes form, meaning you will use one form per site for the entire fiscal year (July 1, 2011-June 30, 2012). Please contact your program specialist if you have any questions regarding the new form.


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The Opposition-instigated parliamentary inquiry into the "crisis" in manufacturing may have no official status. It may have been dismissed as a political stunt by the Prime Minister. Its findings can and almost certainly will be ignored by the National-led Government. But none of that mattered a jot yesterday as the inquiry began its hearings.
What quickly became obvious was that a lot of exporters of manufactured products had been waiting for an opportunity to vent anguish over the high exchange rate.
The targets of the anger - John Key, the Reserve Bank, Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce and the Treasury - were absent.
The inquiry was initiated by Labour, the Greens, NZ First and the Mana Party after National used its majority on Parliament's finance and expenditure committee to block an official parliamentary inquiry.
One of the unofficial inquiry's purposes is to come up with "concrete ideas" to stem the decline in jobs and manufacturing exports.
In other words, the four parties are using the high dollar as a means of testing their compatibility ahead of possible coalition talks.
As a vehicle for promoting those parties' intention to get the Reserve Bank to focus on other economic indicators rather than solely inflation, the inquiry has already served its purpose in terms of publicity.
National may have valid reason to dismiss the political motives behind the inquiry. More difficult to ignore was the warning that came from Christchurch-based CWF Hamilton. The firm, which pioneered jetboats, said any further appreciation in the currency would cut profits to the point where it would not be worth investing more capital.
No government could be comfortable with that statement. The value of the New Zealand dollar is well outside Joyce's brief as Economic Development Minister. But it is his job to help exporters. It fell on him to do what he does best - hose things down rather than adding fuel and inflaming things even more.
He described the high level of the dollar as "challenging' for some, but not all exporters. It was "challenging" for different companies at different times. But there was no generic crisis.
Joyce's repeated use of the word "challenging" was a classic example of politician-speak. It acknowledged the problem while avoiding committing the Government to doing anything about it. Such talk, however, suggests the Government also knows that on the exchange rate it is now very much on a hiding to nothing.


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Posted by Christian Kane on May 9, 2011
Supporting non-BlackBerry mobile devices is a priority for every company I speak with these days. Regardless of industry and size, firms are bringing in mobile device management (MDM) solutions alongside their BES to manage the increasing number of Android and iOS devices that are in their employees' hands.
Now let's be clear, even with these MDM solutions in place I&O professionals should not expect the same levels of security and management for Android and iOS that they've come to know on BlackBerry with a BES, yet. Ultimately these MDM solutions are limited by Apple and Google's APIs, but eventually they will have all of the necessary components to challenge RIM's position as the enterprise mobile device, especially as more companies allow personal devices inside their networks.
RIM is obviously putting a lot of work into combating the market share erosion it's seeing in the hardware and platform space, but what about device management? With well over 25 vendors in the MDM space currently, the fight is on for who will manage mobile devices moving forward. Cue RIM's announcement last week at BlackBerry World stating that it will expand BES and BES Express support to include both Android and iOS devices later this year, you can feel the other MDM vendors collectively shudder.


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This guy is hot.
His face is all over the place. Everyone is talking about him. He would be People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive, if only he were alive.
He is Abraham Lincoln, and let's give it up, ladies and gentlemen, for our hip and happening 16th president!
Currently he stars on the big screen in the epic movie "Lincoln," which is earning raves from critics and fans alike. Even Oscar has developed a major man crush on old Abe. "Lincoln" led the field in Thursday's Academy Award nominations with 12 nods.
Here in the Inland Empire, Lincoln-mania has taken a real hold, with a number of big events in the works, starting with Saturday's "Day of Living History" at the Norman F. Feldheym Central Library in San Bernardino.
Day-long festivities include live performances of Civil War-era music, battle re-enactments, and appearances by period re-enactors including Abraham Lincoln himself, who will recite famous speeches, tell stories and hand out collectible uncirculated Lincoln pennies to all students in attendance.
The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the library, 555 W. Sixth St. The Historic Marine Brass Band will perform starting at noon, and Lincoln, portrayed by veteran re-enactor William Peck, will speak at noon and 2 p.m.
Admission is free to the event presented by the Feldheym Central Library and the American Civil War Society.
Also at the library, a touring national exhibit titled "Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War" continues through Jan. 31. And the library will host additional "Living History" events this month including appearances by Don McCue, director of the Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands, who will speak on this year's "150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation" at 6 p.m. Tuesday; the Rev. Dennis Brown who will present a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. at 6 p.m. Wednesday, and Robert Martin who will present a tribute to Civil War-era social reformer Frederick Douglass at 6 p.m. Jan. 22.
The fact is, Lincoln always is a big deal in the Inland Empire, thanks to the beautiful Lincoln Memorial Shrine on the grounds of A.K. Smiley Public Library in downtown Redlands. It's the largest Lincoln memorial and museum west of the Mississippi, which means the Inland Empire is a sort of Western Land of Lincoln.
The shrine is open daily except Mondays, so Lincoln is honored here year-round, year in and year out. An architectural work of art itself, the shrine is full of Lincoln and Civil War exhibits, documents and artifacts both great and small, and it is a wonderful place for the whole family to visit.
In an event affiliated with the shrine, this year's 81st annual gala Lincoln Memorial Association Dinner takes place starting at 5:45 p.m. Feb. 12 at the University of Redlands Orton Center. Featured speaker is John Marszalek, executive director of the Ulysses S. Grant Association. Tickets are $50 and available to the public. More information: 909-798-7632.
So ... let's review, shall we?
Go see "Lincoln" the movie again, and get your tickets for the big Lincoln Dinner in Redlands, and Saturday head to the Norman F. Feldheym Central Library. and meet the living image of Lincoln himself. More information on the "Day of Living History": 909-381-8238, www.sbpl.org.
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As a run stopper, Te'o has excellent instincts, shows great burst in getting to the ball carrier, and delivers a punishing blow when he makes contact. His athleticism is evident against the cut block, where he shows a consistent ability to extend his arms and push his lower body out and away from the block, leaving him free to pursue. He sheds blocks consistently and fills the gap quickly, rarely getting run over by a runner at the point of attack.
In pass coverage, he shows the hip fluidity you want to see in a potential top-10 pick, and he seems just as comfortable lined up against a back or TE as he is in zone coverage. The same burst and instincts that make him such an effective run-stopper are also present in coverage, allowing him to break on the ball and make big plays in pass defense.
As a pass rusher, Te'o doesn't possess the quiver of moves that you would see out of a pure sack-master, but especially for an inside backer, he's got a more-than-adequate skill set when it comes to getting after the passer. Inside backers are often brought in on delayed blitzes, and Te'o shines in this scenario. His explosiveness makes him a tough task for any offensive lineman trying to adjust to pick him up on the blitz.


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Sounds like Tiki taking credit for making Eli better..............of course.
No one remembers who came in second.
Well, thanks for the props, but we're full at RB...
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite team in the NFL.
Oh my god, did the moon turn brown or something? Tiki? noooo
Someone should write back and say hey Tiki, thanks for being mr. obvious today
This guy has no clue. People have been saying and writing this about Eli for years. It takes 2 SB's and public humiliation on Tiki's behalf to praise Eli? I call BS
People have got to stop hating on Tiki for saying stuff after he retired. Man's entitled to his opinion, right or wrong. I choose to remember Tiki Barber the NY Giants greatest RB ever. The stats don't lie, he had some incredible seasons rushing /recieving & returning the ball! Also has most 200yd rushing games in Giants history. Had he not retired so young & played another 4yrs or so, he'd have a SB ring & be a lock for the HOF.
He retired so young because the horrible TC was "working him too hard" remember?
Tiki is that man and I totally agree here. Eli has some special quality and is Gumby.


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I just ordered my queen rearing kit from Mann Lake.
Now, even thought I know there are instructions, or at least I hope, can someone tell me how to use this stuff.
any potential draw backs? any extra equipment I need?
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Lifestyle differences drive change.
by Patti Hurtgen, Hoard's Dairyman Online Media Manager
Americans spend over 40 percent of their food dollars on meals prepared outside the home. Is that because they eat out nearly half the time? Not necessarily. The cost of eating out is expensive. In 1970, just over a quarter of the food dollars were spent eating out according to U.S. Department of Agriculture reports.
Foods prepared at home, on average, are healthier. They contain fewer calories and have a higher nutrient value. With more people eating out, they are consuming additional calories and less nutrient-rich foods. In some ways, dietary habits are contributing to the growing number of Americans who are overweight and are at a greater risk for cancer, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. USDA reports that 10 percent of medical expenses are related to excess weight and obesity alone.
If we think back, many of our grandparents or parents, mostly grandmas and moms, prepared three full meals for a family that spent all day working on the farm. They had big appetites and metabolism to burn those excess calories. And, a dinner at a restaurant in their era was reserved for special occasions. But, society has changed.
Today, one or both parents have spent the day in an office or have carted the kids around, are looking for some down time. Preparing a meal is not something to look forward to. Bringing home dinner or going to a restaurant is a simpler and quicker alternative.
Eating out has the higher price tag. Look at beverage costs. If you purchase soda in the store and consume it at home, it costs about 25 cents per serving. Purchase that same soda in a restaurant, the cost is over four times more. If in an effort to promote a healthier lifestyle, you can drink milk at home; a serving will cost you about 31 cents, depending on the type. If you purchased milk in a restaurant, expect to pay $1.50 per serving. This time, it is five times the cost of consuming milk at home. And with many restaurants offering bottomless fountain drinks, the cost stays the same, but your caloric intake rises as you consume that "free" sugar-laden beverage. Milk, on the other hand, generally does not come with refills.
So, dollar for dollar, soda appears to be the cheaper option. No wonder people consume it in such large quantities. But is it really cheaper? Calorie counts are quite similar for the two options (whole milk) if equal servings are consumed. But, soda provides empty calories while milk offers nine essential nutrients.
Other than milk appearing to be a higher cost option, we also produce a perishable product. Soda can sit on a shelf for months and not lose taste or flavor. Milk needs to be fresh and kept refrigerated. If not, flavor is affected.
We supply nature's most nearly perfect food, but do not control it through the entire food chain or the consumer's economic pathway. We can take pride in knowing that people will pay for and receive a healthy, quality food, especially when compared to soda.
Learn more from the USDA Economic Research Service.
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Friendly,cozy apt near City Center!
Size30 m²
Floor No.2(with elevator)
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Air conditioning
- Parking available
- Smoking allowed
- Elevator in building
- Balcony/terrace
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|ALEKSANDROU ZAIMI, 122-43 ATHENS-EGALEO, Greece
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|Property ID
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|A few hours
|Calendar updated
|2 days ago
This apartment is fully furnished and equipped with:
* Internet
* Air-Conditioning
* Hot water
* Colour-Tv
* Coffee maker
* Cooking facilities / oven
* Refrigerator
* Linen & towels
* Parking
The apartment is getting professionally cleaned prior to your arrival.
I offer airport pick-up or drop-off, with my car, for 45€.
Fluent in 4 languages: English, Polish,Russian,Greek
House rulesYou will have to respect the apartment and the neighbors.
Parties are not allowed.
Loud music is not allowed.
You cannot invite people to the apartment except if you inform us and agree.
Respect quiet hours: 3pm to 5:30pm and 10pm to 7:30am.
Don't forget A/C on while you are away.
Don't forget water heater on (up to 10 minutes is enough to warm).
SECURITY DEPOSIT (Refundable) cash in the arrival: 50€
Check-in time: 13.00 onwards
Check-out time until: 12.00
Minimum stay for one or two people 2 nights!
|Weekly rate for up to 2 guests
|215 €
|Monthly rate for up to 2 guests
|537 €
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Reviews of this property
Katerina's apartment is located in a quiet neighborhood and easy to reach by your own car or public transport. The major sights of Athens are easy to get to and not too far away. The host is very friendly and hospitable and also able to provide useful information for sightseeing or shopping which, by the way, is at walking distance from the apartment. The apartment itself is very cozy and neat. Katerina's apartment is a place I warmly recommend and personally gladly check in again on another visit to Athens.
Eine hübsche, saubere, nett eingerichtete Wohnung und eine sehr freundliche Gastgeberin. Würde das Apartment jederzeit gerne weiterempfehnen und bei meinem nächsten Athen-Urlaub wieder buchen.
Me and my boyfriend were happy to book this apartment because we loved both the district and the rooms of the monolocal. It's really curate in every detail and good located for bus and metro. It's apart from the touristic area and tourists, so you can feel the real greek mood; we'd like to come again in the future
I liked the stay in the apartment. It has everything it advertises. This very close to the subway and arrive in 7 minutes to the center of Athens. The neighborhood is very nice and cheaper than the center. Katrina and her daughter are charming and provide you everything you need. Would definately return
Excellent location, really close to the town, well connected by the metro. Private parking was available, which was great. The owner was easy going, not disturbing our peace at all. The apartment is really comfortable for two people, with a nice little terrace where you can enjoy early coffees or late water melon... I would suggest to the owner to replace the cooker since it takes ages for the cooking hotplates to warm enough.
The stay in Atheny-Egaleo Studio for 2 person was very nice and the hostess Mrs Katerina Tsyplakos She was very nice and I can many people know about.
Die Aufenthalt in Atheny-Egaleo Studio für 2 Person war sehr schön und die Gastgeberin Frau Katerina Tsyplakos Sie War sehr Nett und kann ich Viel Leute Empfehlen .
I felt in the hotel very well. She is more beautiful than the pictures. Modern equipped and very clean. The bathroom spacious and very nice. I lacked nothing, so I can recommend this hotel highly. The apartment is located in a fairly quiet location, but is still central and the main attractions are easily reached by metro. The landlady was very friendly and extremely helpful. The privacy was nevertheless maintained.
I can highly recommend this apartment. It is even more nice then shown on the pictures. It is modern and cozy furnished, clean, has nice new bathroom. I did not miss anything. The owner was very kind and helpful.
Ich habe mich in der Unterkunft sehr wohl gefühlt. Sie ist noch schöner als auf den Bildern. Modern ausgestattet und sehr sauber. Das Bad geräumig und auch sehr schön. Es fehlte mir an nichts, daher kann ich diese Unterkunft sehr weiterempfehlen. Das Apartment befindet sich in einer recht ruhigen Lage, ist aber dennoch zentral und die wichtigsten Sehenswürdigkeiten sind schnell mit der Metro erreicht. Die Vermieterin war sehr freundlich und ausgesprochen hilfsbereit. Die Privatsphäre wurde dennoch gewahrt.
I can highly recommend this apartment. It is even more nice then shown on the pictures. It is modern and cosy furnished, clean, has nice new bathroom. I didn't miss anything. The owner was very kind and helpful.
Katerina was very friendly and helpful. The internet was not strong and worked best outside on the balcony, which however I would have preferred if I had to choose between indoors and and outdoors, but it meant if I needed to check something while getting ready,I was unable to connect. The washing machine pipe became loose while in use. Fortunately, I had already ensured the extension cable was not laying across the floor beforehand. If you are a person who stays out late and need to get taxis from the centre it can be around 12 euro. Otherwise the apartment had all I needed. Thanks to you and your daughter for all your help!
Sehr schöne Wohnung und sehr gepflegt. Ruhige Lage. Wir sind so begeistert, dass wir im Haus eine größere Wohnung als Feriendomizil anmieten möchten. Also sehr gute Wahl.
Bardzo ładne , przyjemnie urządzone studio . Klimatyzacja działa bez zarzutu , internet prawie cały czas z nielicznymi kilku minutowymi przerwami. Blisko do autobusu i metra, dużego marketu , piekarni i licznych sklepów , knajpek i restauracji. Katerina jest wspaniałą , uśmiechniętą i bardzo pomocną osobą. W pokoju są wszelkie mapki i pomoce gdzie i jak dojechać i zwiedzić. Polecam !!
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Spend an evening with historian Ross King at Rakestraw Books (550 Hartz Ave.) on Friday, Nov. 9. In his compelling new book, "Leonardo and the Last Supper," King explores how -- amid war and the political and religious turmoil around him, and beset by his own insecurities and frustrations -- Leonardo da Vinci created the masterpiece that would forever define him. King unveils dozens of stories that are embedded in the painting. Make your reservation by calling 837-7337. The event is free and begins at 7 p.m.
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on Nov 5, 2012 at 9:30 am
Is this a new address for Rakestraws? I went by yesterday and the old bookstore is closed up...I did not see a sign that they had moved. Maybe I just missed it.
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Yep...they have moved Diane, just last week I believe..


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Idaho Criminal Rule 33.3. Evaluation of Persons Guilty of Domestic Assault or Domestic Battery.
(a) Evaluators. Evaluators of persons who plead guilty or are found guilty of domestic assault or domestic battery under Idaho Code Section 18-918 shall be approved and shall serve under the following provisions:
(1) Qualifications. An evaluator under Idaho Code Section 18-918(7)(a) shall have the following qualifications:
(A) Licensed physician, licensed psychologist, licensed master social worker, licensed social worker if approved prior to July 1, 2008, licensed professional counselor, licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed registered nurse, licensed nurse practitioner or physician's assistant under the laws of the state of Idaho; an evaluator may be licensed in the state of Idaho or any other state;
(B) Twenty (20) hours of specialized education or training in domestic violence within the previous two years that meets the criteria set out in subsection (2), as evidenced by an attached certificate of completion or other supporting documentation.Up to ten (10) hours may be satisfied through approved participatory online CEU programs.;
(C) One year experience after licensure in assessment or treatment of domestic violence related issues;
(D) Approved by the Domestic Assault and Battery Evaluator Advisory Board and maintained on a roster by the Administrative Director of the Courts as persons eligible to conduct evaluations of persons guilty of assault or domestic battery. In the event there is no evaluator approved within the judicial district, then the requirements of (B), (C), and (D) may be waived by the court; and
(E) The evaluator must, at his or her own expense, submit to a criminal history check as provided for in Rule 47, I.C.A.R. Further, the evaluator must sign an Indirect Access Agreement and any other confidentiality agreements required by the Idaho State Police to allow the evaluator access to criminal justice information as required by subsection (c)(2)(K) of this rule.
(2) Continuing Education of Evaluators. Beginning the next July 1 after an evaluator has been approved by the Domestic Assault and Battery Evaluator Advisory Board, the evaluator must take at least sixteen (16) hours of specialized training in domestic violence, or related topics in courses approved by the Domestic Assault and Battery Evaluator Advisory Board, in each and every two (2) year period following the July 1 date. An evaluator must file proof of compliance with this requirement with the Administrative Director of the Courts by July first of the year the continuing education is due. Along with proof of compliance, an evaluator must also send proof of current licensing.
(A) The sixteen (16) hours of training required in this section shall be in one or more of the following areas: (a) domestic violence; (b) violence in families; (c) child abuse; (d) anger management; (e) risk factors for future dangerousness; (f) psychiatric causes of violence; or (g) drug and alcohol abuse. No more than four (4) of the sixteen (16) required hours may be in the area of drug and alcohol abuse. Up to eight (8) of the sixteen (16) required hours may be satisfied through approved participatory online CEU programs.
(B) The sixteen (16) hours of required training in this section shall be acquired by completing a program approved or sponsored by one of the following associations:
(a) Idaho Psychiatric Association;
(b) Idaho Psychologists Association;
(c) Idaho Nursing Association;
(d) Idaho Association of Social Workers;
(e) Idaho Counselors Association;
(f) Council on Domestic Violence and Victim Assistance;
(g) Idaho Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, or the national equivalent of any of these organizations; or
(h) the Idaho Supreme Court
(C) Any program that does not meet the criteria set out in both section (a)(2)(A) and section (a)(2)(B) may be submitted to the board for approval either prior to or after completion.
(3) Appointment Approval. All evaluators under Idaho Code Section 18-918 must be approved by the Domestic Assault and Battery Evaluator Advisory Board. Any person desiring to be approved as an evaluator shall file an application for approval with the Administrative Director of the Courts indicating the qualifications of the applicant and the dates and content of relevant training courses attended. An evaluator approved by order of the Domestic Assault and Battery Evaluator Advisory Board may continue in service from one calendar year to the next unless otherwise ordered by the Domestic Assault and Battery Evaluator Advisory Board. The Administrative Director of the Courts shall maintain a statewide list of approved evaluators by the Domestic Assault and Battery Evaluator Advisory Board.
(b) Advisory Board.
(1) Members. There is hereby created a Domestic Assault and Battery Evaluator Advisory Board consisting of six (6) members with experience and training in domestic violence, as follows:
(A) A district judge or magistrate judge appointed by the Supreme Court for a term of two years, who shall serve as chair,
(B) The Administrative Director of the Courts, or his or her designee,
(C) A social worker appointed by the Supreme Court for a term of two years, upon submission of three (3) names by the Idaho State Counselors Licensing Board or appropriate association,
(D) A counselor appointed by the Supreme Court for a term of two years, upon submission of three (3) names by the Idaho State Counselors Licensing Board or appropriate association,
(E) A psychologist appointed by the Supreme Court for a term of two years, upon submission of three (3) names by the Idaho State Board of Psychologist Examiners or appropriate association, and
(F) A psychiatrist appointed by the Supreme Court for a term of two years, upon submission of three (3) names by the State Board of Medicine or appropriate association.
(2) Powers of Advisory Board. The Domestic Assault and Battery Evaluator Advisory Board shall have the power to make the following recommendations to the Supreme Court:
(A) Recommend qualifications and continuing education of evaluators under Rule 33.3(a).
(B) Review and recommend for appointment approval or rejection applications of persons to be evaluators under this rule.
(C) Recommend the required content and scope of reports of evaluators under this rule.
(c) The scope and content of the evaluator's report shall be as follows:
(1) Identifying iInformation.
(A) Name
(B) Address
(C) Date of Birth
(D) Occupation
(E) Current Incident
(F) Marital Status
(G) Children
(H) Military Service
(2) Risk Assessment.
(A) Current and past violent behavior
(B) Exposure
(C) Threats of homicide/suicide/violence
(D) Ideation of homicide/suicide/violence
(E) Weapons access
(F) Obsessed with or dependent upon victim (Sociopathic Traits)
(G) History of rage and impulsivity
(H) History of sexual abuse (perpetrator or victim)
(I) History of child abuse (perpetrator or victim)
(J) Access to victim
(K) Criminal History Record Information (CHRI) through a National Criminal History Background Check System from local law enforcement or any other authorized individual or agency.
(L) Cultural issues
(M) History of domestic violence protection orders
(N) Prior treatment for aggressive violence
(O) Danger of reoffending
(3) Substance Abuse.
(A) Present usage of drugs
(B) Prior treatment for drug abuse or addiction
(C) Involvement of substance abuse in incident
(D) Assessment
(4) Self-Assessment.
(A) Description of current incident in person's own words
(B) Person's acceptance of responsibility for incident
(C) Remorse evidenced by person
(D) Person's own view of need for treatment
(E) Person's willingness to get treatment
(5) Test Results. (if any - substance abuse testing, psychological testing, I.Q., etc.)
(6) Collateral iInformation.
(A) Police Report
(B) Victim interview
(C) Prior treatment -- review of past records
(7) Personality/Character Assessment.
(8) Behavioral Observations/Mental Status.
(A) Level of cooperativeness
(B) Victim interview
(C) General present mental status
(9) Recommendation.
(A) A summary formulation that identifies the factors causing and/or contributing to the defendant's domestic violence that form the basis for the evaluator's opinion as to the treatment recommendation.
(B) Further assessment opinions and if needed
(C) Treatment recommendations
(D) Providers available to treat
(E) Cost of treatment (estimate)
(F) Cost of alternate treatment
(G) Resources available to defendant
(d) In the event the evaluator submits an evaluation that is not in compliance with subsection (c) of this rule, the court may return the evaluation with instructions to prepare an evaluation in compliance with the rule at no additional cost to the defendant. In the event an evaluator fails to submit an evaluation in compliance with this rule after such an instruction, the court may forward the evaluation to the Board as a sealed confidential document along with a written request that the evaluator be removed from the roster for failure to comply with the rule. If the Board determines the evaluation fails to meet the requirements of the rule, the evaluator may be removed from the roster.
(Adopted effective August 8, 1995; amended August 23, 1996; effective November 1, 1996; amended January 30, 1997, effective February 1, 1997; amended August 3, 1998, effective August 4, 1998; amended March 9, 1999, effective July 1, 1999; amended January 30, 2001, effective July 1, 2001; amended April 22, 2004, effective July 1, 2004; amended May 22, 2006, effective July 1, 2006; amended, effective January 22, 2009; amended and effective January 3, 2011; amended May 9, 2011, effective July 1, 2011.)


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Known as "The Most Trusted Stranger in America," founder and author of PostSecret books, Frank Warren will be speaking at 8p.m. Friday, October 2, at Binghamton University's Anderson Center.
From its humble start as a community art project in 2005, PostSecret has grown into an online blog phenomenon with over 3 million visits per month, and four best-selling books. A fifth book, Confessions on Life, Death, & God, is due to be released October 6. Individuals across the globe send Warren anonymous postcards with their most sacred, soulful secrets. The cards are often crafted in an artful manner, adding additional meaning to their messages.
During his talk Warren will share the inspirational and funny stories behind some of the quarter million secrets he has received over the years. He will also project images of the secrets that were banned from the four PostSecret books. Finally, Warren will talk about his personal secret - an experience he never spoke of for over three decades, and eventually drove him to begin collecting secrets from strangers.
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Adding another light using power from an existing switch is possible if the switch box contains a neutral line. Here's what to look for and how to make the new connections.
You can add a sconce above nearly any light switch in about three hours.
With the power turned off at the main electrical panel, unscrew the switch and pull it out. Turn the power back on and use a noncontact voltage tester to locate the hot wire.
Is your bathroom dimly lit? Do you have a hallway that could use more light? Here's how to add a wall-mounted light directly above a light switch.
This project requires an understanding of how a switch is wired and a few basic tools. You'll need a noncontact voltage detector, a wire-stripping tool, a screwdriver and a drywall saw. Then, with our instructions and a few hours' work, you'll be able to add a sconce to any room that has an appropriate switch.
Not all electrical boxes with a light switch in them contain the necessary ground, hot and neutral conductors. To find out, first shut off the power to the switch at the main electrical panel. Then remove the switch cover, and hold the noncontact voltage detector against the wires attached to the switch. This is to ensure the power is off before you remove the screws and pull the switch from the box.
To locate the required neutral, look for two or more white wires joined with a wire connector. If the only white wire entering the box is connected to the switch, then there's no neutral and you can't power a sconce from this box. If your switch wiring looks different from what we show here and you don't understand how it's connected, put everything back together and abandon the project or call a licensed electrician.
There's one more important test you must complete while the power is still turned on. With the light switch turned off, hold the noncontact voltage detector against each of the wires connected to the switch. Take note of which wire causes the tester to light up. This is the hot wire and the one you'll connect to the "hot" side of the new double switch. If you're adding a separate single switch, this is the wire you'll use to power both switches. Now turn off the power to the switch at the main electrical panel. Back at the switch box, test once again to make sure the power is off and mark the hot wire with a wrap of black electrical tape.
Finally, complete a simple calculation to see if the existing switch box is large enough to accept more wires. For more information, see "Crowded electrical boxes."
After you've determined that the existing switch box will work to power the new light, it's time to shop for the sconce and pick up the remodeling box, cable and electrical connectors you'll need. Choose the fixture first. Then pick a rectangular or round remodeling box that is small enough to be covered by the light fixture canopy. You'll need enough cable to reach from the switch to the box plus about 3 ft. Match the cable, either 14-2 or 12-2, to the existing wire gauge. Fourteen-gauge wire is as thick as a dime and 12-gauge wire is as thick as a nickel.
Trace around the box. Then draw a second line inside the first to indicate the cutout. Cut notches for clamps and other protrusions.
Punch out one of the knockouts in the top of the box with a screwdriver. You'll push the cable through this hole.
Push the cable through the knockout and up toward the hole. If you're lucky, it'll come into sight. Otherwise, reach through the hole to grab it.
Strip the sheathing from about 12 in. of cable. Push the wires through the built-in wire clamp at the back of the box. Make sure at least 1/4 in. of sheathing is visible inside the box. Push the box into the hole and tighten the clamp screws.
Locate the studs. Then hold the fixture against the wall somewhere between the studs to determine the best location and lightly mark the top and bottom of the canopy with a pencil. Center the remodeling box on the marks and mark the box cutout carefully, taking note of notches needed for the clamps and other protrusions. Cut out the hole (Photo 2). Next, punch out one of the knockouts in the top of the switch box and push the cable up to the hole (Photos 3 and 4). Prepare the remodeling box for mounting by stripping about 12 in. of sheathing from the cable and pushing it into the box through one of the cable entry points on the back. Make sure at least 1/4 in. of sheathing is visible inside the box. Leave some slack cable inside the wall to allow some leeway when you connect the switch (Photo 5). Then fit the remodeling box into the hole and tighten the clamps.
Use a double switch to power two different fixtures. The existing box must contain a neutral line that's not connected to the switch.
We're showing how to run a cable through the same stud space that contains the switch. Positioning the light in an adjacent stud space is more difficult. For information on how to do this, see "Fishing electrical wires."
Trim the black and white wires to 8 in., leaving the ground wire long. Strip the ends of the wires. Connect white to white, black to black and bare copper to bare copper. Loop the bare copper wire clockwise around the grounding screw on the fixture strap before connecting it to the fixture ground wire.
Strip the ends of the wires at the switch box. Connect the neutral white wires with a wire connector. Connect the ground wires with a 6-in.-long pigtail wire leading to the switch. Loop the black wires clockwise around the screws and tighten the screws.
Photo 6 and Figure A show how to connect the light fixture. Start by mounting the fixture strap to the box. Strip the ends of the wires and connect them to the fixture.
At the switch, cut the cable about 12 in. beyond the box. Strip 8 in. of sheathing from the wires and push the cable through the knockout, leaving 1/4 in. or more sheathing visible inside the box. Trim the black and white wires to the same length as the wires they will connect to. Then strip the ends of the wires. Connect the white neutral wires with a wire connector. Connect the wires as shown in Figure A. Connect the hot wire to the side of the double switch that has the "jumper tab" between the terminals (Photo 7). Complete the project by mounting the light fixture, screwing the switch to the box, and installing the cover plate.
Have the necessary tools for this DIY project lined up before you start—you'll save time and frustration.
Avoid last-minute shopping trips by having all your materials ready ahead of time. Here's a list.


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iv'e read that this game sucks and im looking for a new game...
i've thought of playing this game since im bored from tales of pirates..
should i play this game?
iv'e read that this game sucks and im looking for a new game...
i've thought of playing this game since im bored from tales of pirates..
should i play this game?
if you want a game where you get the same drops as a lvl 1-35 at lvl 70+ then go for it.
The games system is nice though. Classes are nice and balanced. Game is a good game all around. Grind gets horrible after lvl 70 though. Like 1 week per level. But till then you can easily get a level or two a day.
The game in my opinion is worth the play but the item drop sucks. So does the market economy in this game. Everything is so overpriced. Its hard to make money on this game unless your a healer. The game overall is mid-level game. I would give it a try if I was you. But be prepared for ill experienced GM's barely any updates and frequent lag. They update cash shop more than they do anything on this game.
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To me the game was pretty good, the grind isn't bad, from lv 1-50 its like a level or tow a day, but after that its a level every 4 days, then at lvl 80 its a level every week, then at 85, a level every three weeks. People got to level 100 about a month ago. They just got to 105.
The community is great. The GMs are pretty good, there are four GMs now. Its a good game.
good gm's and players
one problem for me was the grind jump
at 69-70 took me about 4 hours and i was fine with that (example 69-70 needed 2mil xp)
and 70-71 took me about 5 days at like 8 hours a day (example 70-71 needs 31mil xp)
This is pure grind. If you like it it's good, if you don't it sucks.
You have to give your phone number and adress...
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Give them a fake phone number and address then, that's what I did. >_>
Currently playing: FFXIV (Elucifer Arclight, Leviathan server), LoL (Trash Tier Waifu, NA server), SMITE (Zacewing)
I always do that...
Pure grind, boring after a few hours and minimal customizations and its full of botters running around in party's
Seriously Sign up you got nothing to lose and everything to gain.$$ within 2 minutes you could be making Real cash.
game was ok....just all out grinding and GM are like racist lol....err favortism sucks.
Not really..I got bored of it in 30 mins.
Closed beta and Open beta for this game was simply amazing.
It was fun but it does take awhile to level, Just give it a try and see if you like it.


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Discussion in 'General Chevy & GM Tech Questions' started by BABO3, Nov 17, 2010.
I would like a diagram of the firing order of the cylinders for a 2007 torrent .thank you babo3
Hey Babo, welcome to the GM truck club. What engine does your vehicle have???
Sorry about that Is a 3.4 v6 2wheel front drive. babo3
The Below link shows the Firing order for Chevy engines....it has the Firing order for the 3.4 liter V-6.....hope this link is able to help you out....
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It took a disaster at the Bay of Pigs, and then resolve in the Cuban Missile Crisis, for Kennedy to find his inner Eisenhower.
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Most Michigan residents support $350M state help for bankrupt Detroit, survey finds
A survey by the Business Leaders for Michigan shows there is strong support for revitalizing Detroit — and for using state funding to help bring the city out of bankruptcy.
According to the survey, released today, more than 87 percent of state voters believe a strengthened Detroit is important to Michigan's overall economy, while more than 9 percent said it is not important.
On the question of whether to send $350 million to the city over a 20-year period to help extract it from bankruptcy, more than 66 percent supported it, with more than 20 percent opposing it.
That solution, including the funding proposal as well as future state oversight of the city and its pension funds, was expected to be introduced Thursday afternoon in the state House.
"Voter support for a Detroit funding proposal is above 50 percent in every region of the state and crosses party lines," Rothwell said. "Democrats, Republican, independents — they all support state involvement and support for Detroit's fiscal health."
More than 45 percent of respondents approved of Gov. Rick Snyder's handling of Detroit's bankruptcy, with 34 percent disapproving.
The survey has a 4 percent margin of error and was conducted by the Chicago-based Glengariff Group via telephone with 600 registered likely general election voters. The survey was conducted April 22-26.
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text: My name is Craig and I live in Celina, north of Dallas about 45 miles. I'm new to the site and glad to find you all. I have a 2005 Yukon. When I connect the battery my inside blower runs on high and the outside lights blink. I bought this vehicle wrecked with a salvage title and it didn't do this until I had taken everything off the front end (including removing the fuse box from the fender). I have everything back together including connecting all my grounds and its ready to paint, but I can't find the problem. Any suggestions, please? Thanks. - - - Updated - - - Updated info: I found a few others on the site with a similar blower experience and it seems best to replace the resister before looking any further. If it works it is a $21 fix. As for the lights this problem has not reoccurred.


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My bees swarmed (I think judging from a reduction in bees about a 3 weeks ago). I just opened it up and there are two boxes stuffed full of honey and the third is half full of honey. I did not see any capped brood or eggs in the open comb. No swarm cells noted either. Im not sure they have a queen . I was thinking of introducing a comb from my other warre that has capped brood (probably uncapped as well - I did not look too close. The problem with this is that I saw wax moths and mites (they have always had a few mites) on a few bees during the inspection of the queen-right hive...i suspect this one wont survive the winter.
Is it too late to introduce a new mated queen (or even buy one this late in the year?)? Should I just wait and see what happens? (I dont want to lose all the honey to robbers if they are in fact slowly dying away). I really liked this hives genetics (wild, small dark colored bees) so Im kinda bummed right now. I did see one hatching bee but she might be one of the last from the possibly swarmed queen.


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Secondly, I respect your opinion and I am in no position to learnedly disagree with you.
My daughter is not a computer idiot. She has a masters in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins. And is literally a top and sought after expert in computer security. She tells me that Macs are far superior to PC's. She's been nagging me for years to get a Mac and finally broke down and bought me one.
Having said that, since she is traveling and can't be reached right now, does anyone have suggestions on a web browser? Safari truly DOES suck!
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
Morehead, for browsers Chrome is considered the best right now I think, I still use Firefox though, Explorer and Safari both suck.
when it comes to computer security, the thing is Morehead, Apples/Mac's aren't targeted....so if you look at it statistically yes it "looks" like they are better for security, and for a computer idiot I suppose they are, but the real reason behind that is because they aren't targeted not because they are in some way more "secure"
A good analogy would be to compare a Steel door to a Wooden door....the steel door is more secure right? that is unless you take into account that there is a tank that comes by 3 times a day and shoots off a shell towards the Steel door but the wooden door remains untouched.
In that case you would "think" the wooden door is more secure, it's not "really" it's just that it doesn't need to deal with the attacks.
so far labor day monday is good for me, amanda, pappy, daven, sharick, lawl, LT, and lando
waiting on Pats, Kase, Byron, Pizz
edit...be careful to download it fro a reputable site I'll look and see where I got it
here is a link for mac's right from the developer
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We need 7. I like RR getting involved a lot!
Let's go touchdown Cruzzzzz
Score a TD and then force a TO because the defense stinks.
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- Colonies aren't as common as they used to be, but several overseas territories remain, and they're worth a visit
- You can get to France with an hour's ferry ride from Canada to the islands of St. Pierre and Miquillon
- Britain's Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic has a population of just 260, and specializes in exporting crayfish
European colonies might seem to belong to the age of empires, Napoleon, galleon ships and spice trading.
But there remains a handful of captivating islands scattered in the remote fringes of the Caribbean, Pacific and Atlantic that still belong to some of the world's more powerful nations.
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Officially: Overseas Collectivity of France
Located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, the tiny islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon changed hands frequently between the British and the French in the 1700s.
They finally settled in Gallic hands after Napoleon's second abdication in 1815.
With peat bogs, rugged hills and a now struggling fishing industry, the last time the islands made headlines was during the Prohibition era, when they briefly became a hub of alcohol smuggling into the United States.
These days tourism plays a large role in keeping this "department" of France alive.
"I remember the ferry ride and the young school children vomiting with seasickness," says Canadian travel blogger Candice Walsh, who traveled there from Newfoundland via a one-hour ferry trip.
"Then: stepping onto the pier, the whole downtown area opening up with colorful storefronts, old French-styled architecture and adorable little European cars.
"English is barely spoken, and European voltage replaces North American standards. Euros are the currency."
For the 6,300 residents, a hefty $65 million subsidy from Paris is even more important in enabling civilization here to continue.
If you make the trip, you can expect a French-ness that is absolute, from the liqueur stores selling Bordeaux and Burgundy to lace curtains and bijou patisseries selling croissants and pastries.
More information is available from the St. Pierre and Miquelon official website.
Air Saint-Pierre services the islands from St. John's (Newfoundland), Halifax and Montreal in Canada.
Officially: Unincorporated Territory of the United States
Coral reefs, waterfalls, brown tree snakes and a local obsession with Spam, Guam is the most southerly and largest of the Mariana Islands located in the western Pacific Ocean.
A major military asset of the United States, there are huge Navy and Air Force installations here and the surrounding oceans are used by the U.S. military for war game simulations.
For visitors, many of whom come from Japan, there's plenty to do despite the high troop presence.
Huge underwater coral craters teem with stingrays and are a draw to divers.
The food is a unique fusion of Spanish, Mexican and native Chamorro influences -- spicy dishes featuring tortillas, soy, corn bread and coconut.
Food plays a big role in the fiestas in Guam, which take place throughout the year.
"In the South, you don't need to be invited, you can just show up and go to all the different family's homes holding fiestas," says Antonia, who writes the blog iquitmyjobandmovedtoguam.com.
"One guy [told me], 'You can't call yourself an islander until you've eaten these three things. 1. Red rice 2. Dried beef 3. Local crab.' Another said, 'You can't ever lose weight in Guam and no one is ever skinny.'"
Beaches feature almost blindingly white sands.
The sheer cliff edge known as Two Lovers Point is a hugely popular wedding venue for tourists; legend has it that two lovers, forbidden from being together by their parents, threw themselves off the edge into the Philippine Sea.
More information is available from the official Visit Guam website.
Korean Air flies from Incheon Airport to Guam. United Airlines and Delta Air Lines fly to Guam from Honolulu.
Officially: Self-governing state in free association with New Zealand
You can't get much more remote than Niue (pronounced new-way), gloriously isolated in the South Pacific Ocean, some 1,500 miles to the northeast of New Zealand.
This tiny coral reef (known as a "maketa" island) is home to barely 1,500 people, just a fraction of the total number of Niueans, many of whom have migrated to New Zealand, with whom it operates in "free association."
This means, in a slightly different arrangement to an overseas territory, New Zealand, under the island's constitution, must provide "necessary economic and administrative assistance" to Niue.
The underwater chasms, ravines and gullies here make for great scuba diving.
Humpback whales often pass by and, despite the lack of beach (the oval-shaped island rises sharply out of the ocean), there's still a handful of restaurants and bars overlooking the vast Pacific that serve Polynesian specialties including coconut crab, breadfruit, cassava and shellfish.
"There are only 100 rooms for accommodation on the island, and estimates say that Niue only sees about 2,000 tourists a year," says travel blogger Joshua Foster, who visited in 2009.
"This creates a completely unique atmosphere on the island -- locals know tourism is important for their economy, yet the tourism numbers are still small enough that the locals are genuinely happy to see travelers.
"It is far and away the most friendly place I have ever been."
More information is available from the Niue Tourism Office website.
Air New Zealand flies to Niue from Auckland twice a week.
Officially: British Overseas Territory
A source of near constant friction between Britain and Spain, the tiny enclave of Gibraltar on Spain's far southern coast was granted to the UK in the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 -- it remains the only overseas territory Britain possesses in Europe.
For Brits, it's by far the easiest of all the remaining British overseas territories to visit -- even budget airlines fly here from London).
The formerly vital naval base (it's now a hub of offshore finance) is home to nearly 30,000 British subjects.
If the retro pubs serving full fried English breakfasts in the soaring Mediterranean heat don't appeal, there's plenty to explore on the colossal Rock of Gibraltar.
It's inhabited by a huge population of Barbary macaque monkeys and miles of tunnels on and in the Rock, dug out during the 19th century by locals to protect the territory during a siege by the French and Spanish, who were trying to wrestle it out of British hands.
Despite the tensions, Gibraltar's place on the world sporting stage got a boost in 2013 when its team was admitted to Europe's governing football body UEFA.
This means that, as the continent's smallest competing team, Gibraltar will be in the hunt to qualify for the 2016 European Championships in France.
More information is available at the official Gibraltar Tourist Board website.
Easyjet flies to Gibraltar from London Gatwick.
Officially: Special Municipality of the Netherlands
Ferns, elfin forests, tropical flowers and mahogany trees, Saba is one of the quietest and least visited islands in the Caribbean.
It's one of three Caribbean islands administered as "special municipalities" of Holland from The Hague.
Along with Bonaire and St. Eustatius, Saba draws a small yet committed bunch of visitors who come for the diving amid coral reefs teeming with groupers, turtles and the odd shark.
By law, all the houses the 1,500 locals reside in are painted white with red roofs and green shutters.
Goats outnumber people by 10 to one, though you'll need more than a little goat-like stubbornness to climb the 1,064 concrete steps that lead to the summit of Mount Scenery.
The name isn't a misnomer -- the steps pass through rainforest bulging with mountain palms and elephant ear ferns and the view from the top on a clear day is sublime.
Better still, the only company you're likely to be sharing the view with are hummingbirds, iguanas and the odd (harmless) racer snake.
More information is available from the official Saba Tourist Bureau website.
Winair flies from St. Maarten to Saba daily. The flight takes just 12 minutes.
Tristan da Cunha
Officially: British Overseas Territory
Forget what the people of the Galapagos tell you, this is the most remote inhabited place on the entire planet -- a volcanic island in the South Atlantic 1,750 miles from the nearest populated place, Cape Town, South Africa.
The reasons for the 260 British subjects (who share six surnames between them) residence here are bizarre.
When Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena (another British territory in the Atlantic) a small band of British soldiers was stationed on Tristan to prevent the island being used as part of any escape attempt.
Their descendants now comprise the population, which was evacuated to southern England in 1961 after the volcano erupted.
They returned the next year, preferring their island to city life.
"Tristan da Cunha is definitely not the most exotic island to travel to, but if you want to escape the chaos of the big city and experience life in a small, friendly community, you probably won't find a better place," writes Florin Nedelcu, who blogs for hotelclub.com.
The chances of the diminutive tyrant fleeing via here back to France were always pretty remote -- Tristan is thousands of miles in the wrong direction from Paris.
Today, the main industry is the export of crayfish.
There are no hotels, no airstrips, just one pub (the Albatross Inn) and, if you want to get here, you'll have to either snag a place on the few South African fishing vessels that pass by or book a berth on the RMS St. Helena, Britain's last post boat, which delivers mail to the locals.
For more information visit Tristan da Cunha.
For details on the schedule of the RMS St. Helena and other vessels that visit check out this official Tristan da Cunha website.


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Mary Esch has spent the better part of her career investigating the act of storytelling in drawings, paintings, and prints that often take a revisionist look at history, myths, and fables. In a body of work completed for her 1997 Dialogues exhibition at the Walker Art Center, for example, the artist transported the viewer into the wondrous and violent realms of the fairy tale through the dreamlike tableaux of a series of paintings and drawings. While these works display a fascination with the moral lessons of fables such as those of the Brothers Grimm, her stories take a decidedly sharp turn away from the self-assured conclusions of their historical progenitors. If the tale of Hansel and Gretel is clear cut in the resolution of its narrative conflict, such is not the case in Esch's work, which weaves a circuitous and at times bizarre path through her fantastic worlds, twisting them to her own ends and leaving them far more open to speculative interpretation.
Esch's paintings portray garish vignettes where figures driven from the pages of unknown stories frolic, do battle, and act out strange scenes of joy and barbarism. Their cartoonish quality calls to mind the work of so-called outsider artist Henry Darger, whose obsessive drawings and writings portray a violent struggle in a mythical world of his own making. Esch shares Darger's almost perverse delight in upending lessons taught by the likes of Aesop. In Esch's mind, the history of the fable is one in which particular moral positions are circumscribed in their conclusions. The storylines of her paintings work against this trend, as their narrative trajectories are not so completely clear. A duck absurdly proclaims its divinity in one work, while in another two soldiers do battle with pistols amidst a raucous crowd of rambunctious girls. Part of Esch's strategy is to leave the meaning of these seductively naive and childlike images open to interpretation. But in each case, she captures something of the dark underside of the works of the Brothers Grimm, adding at times a gothic tension to complement the lightheartedness of these scenarios. In her Red Riding Hood Studies (1997), she chose to twist its elements to fit her needs. Composed of a cycle of twelve drawings, the series depicts a sequence of events in which the heroine stumbles upon a hyena that consumes her. She is not, however, saved from the creature's ravenous appetite by the heroics of a timely woodsman, but manages to extricate herself from the belly of the beast in a kind of quasi-feminist act of assertiveness. But the story never ends—for as we work our way through these drawings, it begins again in a kind of eternal recurrence that defuses the standard interpretation of the original. Like Hansel and Gretel nibbling on the sweet cake that made up the house of the wicked witch, Esch's work uses and then slowly gnaws away the sanitized veneer of the fairy tale, revealing beneath its surface both the pathos and the infinite possibility of the act of storytelling.


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I don't know what to do with my poor bees.
The other day I came home to troubled family members who had escaped to the house because of bees swarming the swimming pool. I cooled off the hive by spraying nearby trees, misting water over the pool to make them think it was raining, putting a wheelbarrow where the dog water was and filling it up. Plus topping up the "beebath" that I keep close to the hive. They seemed to settle down very quickly and stayed away from the pool for the rest of the day.
I had already checked the hive through the perspex side the day before, so was content that it was just the 41ºC day that had disturbed them. They were happy over the weekend, and seeing as it was only a top of 30°C on Saturday and 36ºC on Sunday, I didn't check them until last night.. I wish I had checked them Sunday instead.
One of the top bars has released the comb! It's fallen on the framed "rescue" bar next to it, was 1/2 full of honey and the bees seem to have anchored it to the floor.
What do I do? It's going to be high 30's (C) all week. Do I go in there and clean up the comb when I get home tomorrow arvo? Do I leave it there for the bees to clean up?
Any suggestions are more than welcome. I only want my stingy little creatures happy. They lost their queen and the babies are only just now hatching from the new queen, so there aren't a lot of bees in the hive. The rest of the bars full of comb seem to coping ok.


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Sometimes it's helpful to remember the reasons to be glad you're Catholic
April 21st, 2011
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