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I called Roberta to fix my computer. The computer was completely frozen and nothing I did worked to fix it. She walked into my room, and as she came within a foot of the computer, it miraculously started working perfectly again. She is an amazing technopath, and I have seen these technopathic skills displayed by her over and over again.
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In a move signaling growing commitment to conferencing technology, Seventh-day Adventist leaders at the church's Inter-American Division headquarters last week connected with thousands of church elders during the region's largest virtual council.
The two-hour live webcast was meant to support a continued partnership between church elders and pastors. There are currently more than 30,000 church elders serving alongside 3,000 pastors in Inter-America, which includes Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the five northernmost countries in South America.
With many pastors in the region overseeing multiple churches, church elders play a significant role in supporting congregations. Many pastors rely on elders to handle member visitation, small groups leadership, community outreach and other aspects of day-to-day spiritual care.
"Nothing really happens without the joint efforts of the pastor and the elder," said Hector Sanchez, ministerial secretary for the church in Inter-America and webcast organizer. "[Elders] are like the nerve center of the church, and that is why we wanted to connect with them directly today through technology."
The council was presented in English, Spanish and French, and is now available as an online resource. Division-wide, organizers said more than 7,000 online viewers connected and interacted during the meeting.
Adventist Church administrators in Inter-America and worldwide are increasingly looking for ways to use conferencing technology to curtail travel costs and broaden participation at meetings. Virtual meetings also allow church leaders to further unite the 17 million member global denomination in mission and ministry.
Church leaders in Inter-America held a similar virtual council in 2011, when they connected with the region's 3,000 Adventist ministers.
Church leaders in South America, too, have in recent years embraced the benefits of using conferencing technology. Last year, weekend training seminars and a Web forum hosted by the Communication department of the church's South American Division reached thousands of Communication secretaries at local Adventist congregations.
Adventist world church Communication director Williams Costa Jr. applauded the effort to level boundaries between church leaders and lay members. Since then, Costa has reiterated a call for more virtual Communication advisories.
"We need to take every opportunity to come together, whether through videoconference, satellite or Skype," Costa said. "This is important for the unity of our church. When we regularly connect to share ideas and collaborate, we strengthen our ministry."
Earlier this month, the church's South American Division hosted a live video lecture and chat on creationism from its headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil. The event included experts in the fields of genetics, geology, and archaeology, who presented evidence of intelligent design, the biblical flood and the validity of the Bible.
Event organizers said an estimated 15,500 people worldwide watched the video lecture, and hundreds of viewers responded to a feedback questionnaire afterward.
"[It was] very good to be able to send in questions," said Margareth Marques, who participated from Sao Luis, Brazil.
In September, the church's North American Division will host a virtual Festival of the Laity, which organizers said offers training and resources for member ministry and outreach.
"It's going to increase the level of our participation and save participants money, said Al Johnson, Adult Ministries director for the church in North America. "It's actually coming to them at no cost via the Internet."
Back in Inter-America, Juan Antonio Pinedo, head elder of the Juarito Adventist Church in Chiapas, Mexico, said he was excited to see the church move toward a more collaborative style of ministry.
"I'm so overjoyed to see the interest that the church leadership has in promoting such unity among pastors, elders and church members in one single mission," Pinedo said.
Pinedo works as a public school teacher, but for more than a decade, he has dedicated his free time to visiting members, leading a small group ministry, Bible studies, leading a group of lay people, serving on the church board and assisting the pastor.
Church leaders in Inter-America believe technology can help them better connect with Pinedo and thousands of other church elders who comprise the backbone of ministry in the region.
"This is the largest virtual council ever organized throughout our [region] and one that shows us that the church is prepared for greater things," Sanchez, the ministerial secretary, said. "We are closer and closer to our local churches and continue to work on being more united."
Plans are underway for more virtual councils in the future, Sanchez added.


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Notice of Intent to Revoke (NOIR) Letter: ALK-Abello, Inc.
Express Mail
March 15, 2013
Jose A. Moreno Toscano
ALK-Abello, Inc.
1700 Royston Lane
Round Rock, Texas 78664
Dear Mr. Toscano:
In 2004, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) formed an internal committee to review available scientific and medical data on the safety and effectiveness of non-standardized allergenic extracts. FDA formed this committee to consider the previous evaluations performed by the allergenics advisory review panels convened under Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations 21 CFR 601.25 and 21 CFR 601.26, as well as to consider information about non-standardized allergenic extracts licensed since July 1, 1972, and therefore not subject to the 601.25 and 601.26 review. The internal committee collected and analyzed available literature associated with each product in order to assess the safety and effectiveness of non-standardized allergenic products, and designed a data file to document its review and supporting data.
The FDA announced the availability of its report of scientific and medical literature and information concerning the use of non-standardized allergenic extracts in the diagnosis and treatment of allergic disease in the Federal Register of September 26, 2011 (76 FR 59407). FDA requested comments from public and private stakeholders on the report it provided in a data file entitled "Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Report of Scientific and Medical Literature and Information on Non-Standardized Allergenic Extracts in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Allergic Disease." FDA also sought input on the report from the Allergenic Products Advisory Committee and the public at a meeting held on October 25, 2011. We note that an Industry Representative was in attendance at the Advisory Committee meeting on October 25, 20111, and FDA has conducted outreach on this issue in its regular meetings with the Allergenic Product Manufacturers Association and with allergy professional groups.
FDA has completed a comprehensive review of the published literature, available manufacturer data, data from other external sources, and the comments it received on the 2011 report in order to assess the safety and effectiveness of non-standardized allergenic extracts. FDA's review has identified non-standardized allergenic extracts that do not meet the standards of safety and effectiveness. Therefore, at this time FDA has concluded that certain non-standardized allergenic extracts are not safe and effective for all of their intended uses or are misbranded with respect to any such use, and is initiating action to remove numerous allergenic extracts from the licenses for such products pursuant to 21 CFR 601.5(b)(1)(vi).
We note that this comprehensive review was the third review of non-standardized allergen extracts conducted under FDA auspices. Earlier reviews by external panels of data related to the safety, effectiveness, and labeling for non-standardized allergenic extracts, took place in 1974-1979 and 1982-1983. FDA reviewed those recommendations in accordance with a process FDA established in 21 CFR 601.25, which was later supplemented by 21 CFR 601.26. In each of these three reviews, we invited manufacturers and others to provide data related to the safety and effectiveness of non-standardized allergenic extracts, and each time, manufacturers failed to provide adequate information related to their products.
We are taking this action under 21 CFR 601.5, instead of sections 601.25 and 601.26, because sections 601.25 and 601.26 apply only to those products licensed before July 1, 1972. Few of these licenses for non-standardized allergenic extracts were issued before that date. Accordingly, FDA is electing to use the 601.5 revocation authority, which can be applied to all licensed products, even though a manufacturer may be able to establish that one of the identified allergenic extracts was in its approved license before July 1, 1972. In this way, FDA will provide manufacturers of all impacted non-standardized allergenic products with the same administrative process as FDA moves forward with proceedings for license revocation.
Pursuant to 21 CFR 601.5(b), this letter is to provide you with notice that it is the intent of FDA to institute proceedings to revoke your biologics license with regard to a subset of extracts as specified below:
Lic 1256 STN103753
Dust, House Mixture
Pollens – Weeds and Garden Plants, Castor Bean Ricinus communis
Pollens – Weeds and Garden Plants, Mexican Tea Chenopodium ambrosioides
The Agency intends to institute proceedings under 601.5(b)(1)(vi) to revoke the biologics license for these products, unless you do the following:
- Within ten (10) working days of receipt of this letter, advise the FDA in writing of your intention and commitment to provide additional data that has not already been considered and reviewed by FDA, regarding the safety and effectiveness for all of the intended uses of the extracts described above.
- Based on your commitment above to provide additional data, within thirty (30) working days of receipt of this letter, submit a detailed response including data that has not already been considered and reviewed by FDA, regarding the safety and effectiveness for all of the intended uses of the extracts described above which may include, but is not limited to:
- Published literature;
- Data from other external sources;
- Serological response evaluation in clinical studies or other laboratory assay evaluations;
- Investigations corroborated by partially controlled or uncontrolled studies;
- Documented clinical studies by qualified experts;
- Reports of significant human experience during marketing.
These submissions should be sent to Ms. Mary A. Malarkey, Director, Office of Compliance and Biologics Quality, HFM-600, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 1401 Rockville Pike, Suite 200N, Rockville, Maryland 20852-1448. Ms. Malarkey may be reached at (301) 827-6190. Additionally, a copy of all submissions should be sent to Dr. Jay Slater, Director, Division of Bacterial, Parasitic, and Allergenic Products, Office of Vaccines Research and Review, HFM-422, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, 1401 Rockville Pike, Suite 200N, Rockville, Maryland 20852-1448.
If we do not receive an adequate response within the prescribed time the Agency intends to proceed pursuant to regulations governing formal evidentiary public hearings, as found in 21 CFR 12.21(b), and to publish in the Federal Register a notice of opportunity for a hearing on a proposal to revoke your biologics license with regard to the subset of extracts described above.
If you wish to waive the opportunity for a hearing, you should contact Ms. Malarkey within ten (10) calendar days of receipt of this letter. The waiver must be confirmed in writing and may be accomplished by your voluntary request that your biologics license be revoked with regard to the extracts described above.
Karen Midthun, M.D.
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Mr. Andrew Ameye
Vice President
ALK-Abello, Inc.
35 Channel Drive
Port Washington, New York 11050
Mr. Pedro Aldahondo
Authorized Official
ALK-Abello, Inc.
35 Channel Drive
Port Washington, New York 11050
1See: October 25, 2011: Allergenic Products Advisory Committee Meeting: Transcript


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"This camp has been great, if you look around you see all of these guys that have the potential to be great someday," Oubre told NBC Sports. "If you want to stand out you have to do something different than all of these guys because they can all really play. You have to come out and play to the best of your ability, warm up hard and show out."
Bluiett back to Xavier for senior season
Xavier lost one significant piece to the professional ranks this spring, but will return another.
Trevon Bluiett, the team's leading scorer last year, announced via social media that he will be back to play his senior season with the Musketeers.
Chris Mack will return the bulk of a roster that struggled February only to make a run to the Elite Eight, but getting Bluiett for a final season makes the Musketeers especially dangerous. The 6-foot-6 Bluiett scored a team-high 18.5 points per game last year while also putting up 5.7 rebounds and 2.1 assists per night. He shot 37.1 percent from 3-point range, the second-best mark on the team. His return, even with point guard Edmond Sumner going pro amid his ACL tear recovery, makes Xavier one of the top teams in the Big East heading into the 2017-18 season.
Bluiett himself is enough to keep Xavier relevant in the league, but when he's coupled with the likes of returners JP Macura, Sean O'Mara and Quentin Goodwin, plus a recruiting class featuring two four-star prospects, it's not difficult to see a path for Mack's group to a place where they can compete with the likes of Villanova and Seton Hall atop the league.
Welsh and Holiday returning to UCLA
UCLA sustained some major, though expected, attrition from its roster this spring. On Tuesday, the Bruins announced a pair of significant contributors that will be back.
Thomas Welsh and Aaron Holiday will both return next season to the UCLA program, according to the school.
Welsh, a 7-foot center, averaged 10.8 points and 8.7 rebounds as a senior last year for the Bruins. He shot 58.5 percent from the floor and blocked 1.2 shots per game, and decided to declare for the NBA Draft without an agent before ultimately deciding to return to Westwood.
"Thomas has worked hard all spring," UCLA coach Steve Alford said in a statement. "We supported him testing the NBA waters and are excited to have him returning for his senior year. He simply continues to develop each and every season.
"Thomas will be one of the top centers in college basketball next year and, undoubtedly, has a great chance to be a first-round pick in next season's draft."
The 6-foot-1 Holiday averaged 12.3 points and 4.4 assists last season while sharing a backcourt with Lonzo Ball, whose departure, along with those of TJ Leaf, Bryce Alford and Isaac Hamilton will leave UCLA with a very different look next season. The positive results, however, may not fluctuate too significantly with Welsh and Holiday coming back to play alongside two five-star recruits, Kris Wilkes and Jaylen Hands, as well as Lonzo's younger brother LiAngelo.
West Virginia's Macon forgoing final year
West Virginia's attempt to dethrone Kansas atop the Big 12 took a bit of a hit Tuesday.
Elijah Macon, a 6-foot-9 forward, announced his decision to forego a fifth year in Morgantown in order to pursue a professional career.
"First things first I would like to say thank you Bob Huggins and Erik Martin for believing in a young 15-year-old boy growing up from the Southside of Columbus, OH losing my mother and still having you guys push me to be the man I have become," Macon said according to the school. "I can do nothing but thank you for all you and Mountaineer Nation (have) done for me. Unfortunately, I will not be returning for my senior season at WVU and instead sign with a(n) agent and play professional basketball. Thank you guys for all the love and support!"
Macon wasn't a major contributor for the Mountaineers last season, averaging 6.3 points and 4.2 rebounds in 16 minutes per game, but he was an experienced and tough player who was well-versed in Huggins' style and demands. Given the pace that the newly-fashioned Press Virginia plays at, depth is also paramount for them as a program.
Macon's departure, though, may have been expected or at least partly anticipated by West Virginia. The Mountaineers signed five players in its most recent recruiting class, putting them one over their allotment of 13, so something had to give. West VIrginia will stay have interior depth, anchored by junior Esa Ahmad, so the loss of Macon is one they likely can weather, even if it may take some time to acclimate the newcomers.
"Elijah is in the process of completing classes during this summer school period that ends June 2 and will graduate with a bachelor's degree in August," Huggins said in a statement released by the school. "I respect his decision to become a professional basketball player and to go make money to support his family. He had a great four years with us, and we wish him nothing but the best."
Key returning to Alabama for sophomore season
Alabama's top scorer is returning to school.
Braxton Key has withdrawn his name from the NBA draft and will be back with the Tide for his sophomore season, the school announced Tuesday.
"I spoke to coach Avery (Johnson) just over a week ago and informed him of my decision to withdraw my name from the NBA Draft and return to the University of Alabama for my sophomore season," Key said in a statement. "I made that official when I sent my paperwork to the NBA league office Monday morning. I want to express my appreciation to my teammates, Coach Johnson and the entire coaching staff for giving me their full support while I went through this process.
"I am excited for the future of the Alabama basketball program and looking forward to getting to work as we prepare for next season. Roll Tide and Buckle Up!"
The 6-foot-8 forward averaged 12 points and 5.7 rebounds per game while shooting 43.3 percent from the field as a freshman. He gives Alabama four returning starts to pair with one of the country's highest-regarded recruiting classes, headlined by five-star guard Collin Sexton. The Tide will also have an eligible Daniel Giddens, who previously transferred in from Ohio State.
Key didn't seem likely to stay in the NBA draft, especially after he wasn't invited to the combine, but his ultimate decision is a huge one for Avery Johnson as he looks to break through in his third season in Tuscaloosa with his first NCAA tournament appearance.
Report: Justin Jackson to return to Maryland
Maryland forward Justin Jackson is expected to return to school for his sophomore season, according to a report from FanRag Sports.
Jackson is an intriguing talent, a 6-foot-7 combo-forward with a 7-foot-3 wingspan that shoots 44 percent from three. But he's also still developing his offensive game and consistency on the defensive end of the floor, which is why he was projected as a second round pick in this year's draft.
With Jackson back in the fold, Maryland is a borderline top 25 team. They lost Melo Trimble to the professional ranks, but that's something that Mark Turgeon has prepared for. With a sophomore class that also includes highly-regarded point guard Anthony Cowan and sharp-shooter Kevin Huerter, the Terps have a promising season ahead of them.


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San Antonio Silver Stars in action
Free tickets: Saturday's Silver Stars finals game
By Tim Brownlee
Assistant Director of Public Affairs
(Sept. 24, 2008)--Vouchers for free tickets to Saturday's San Antonio Silver Stars Western Conference Finals game will be available Thursday, Sept. 25 at the University Center information center on the 1604 Campus and at the Student Activities Center in the Durango Building on the Downtown Campus. The vouchers will be available for UTSA students, faculty and staff with a limit of one voucher per person; a voucher is redeemable for four tickets.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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>> The San Antonio Silver Stars will play the Los Angeles Sparks at 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 27 at the AT&T Center, where WNBA All-Star Becky Hammon of the Stars and rookie sensation Candace Parker of L.A. will lead their teams in the conference finals.
Vouchers will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. To redeem a voucher for tickets, go to the will-call window at the AT&T Center. (From Interstate 35 north, exit Walters/AT&T Center Parkway (old Coliseum Road), turn right on Walters Street and turn left onto Houston Street to the AT&T Center.)
UTSA information center hours are 7:30 a.m.-11 p.m., Monday-Thursday, and 7:30 a.m.-midnight, Friday. For more information, call (210) 458-4735. At the Downtown Campus, Student Activities Center hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Monday-Friday; for more information, call (210) 458-2817.


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I got new woodenware today I spent the inventorying, and assembling. OMG the smell of pine and beeswax what a wonderful smell(I('m addicted now) as I was finishing a lone honey bee buzzed up to me made a couple of passes then checked out the hives I went in side to get the lemongrass oil and of course she was gone by time I got back. later my kid came home and she was bouncing off the walls trying on her veil, & wanting to see my in my beekeeper costume.
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Discussion in 'Member Introductions' started by 92GMYukonon24s, Oct 30, 2012.
Hi Everyone,
My name is Mark I'm from Michigan. I'm 26 and I have a 1992 GMC Yukon GT.
We are the Borg. Lift your vehicle and surrender your keys. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile. Welcome to GM Truck Club, Mark! :great:
Welcome to The Club, Mark.
Welcome to the G M T C, Mark!
Welcome to GMTC from Lake orion, MI
Welcome to the club Mark, it's good to have you with us... :glasses:
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I picked up an APEX KGKT kit from a private party. I don't know if all of the parts pictured are included in what APEX sends out.
I see nothing but the "dreaded red Xs"
Nemo ME Impune Lacessit
Manus sapiens potens est
пиштоли не убиваат луѓе, тие само го прават тоа полесно
I don't know how to fix that. The pictures show up fine for me.
Can you see this picture?
I see the pics
thanks for posting them.
Doesn't look like it was used much before it was demilled.
Really sucks they are hacking up the barrels, even if it couldn't be rebuilt the barrels could be used for other projects.
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem" Ronald Reagan
LOL I just noticed there's two barrels in the pics
Yeah the receiver doesn't look that bad, the front looks like it's kind of close but then if I remember right the barrel does set into it fairly far.
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem" Ronald Reagan


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Students vote Sept. 18-19 in SGA runoff
By Barry McKinney
UTSA Director of Student Activities
(Sept. 17, 2007)--UTSA students are encouraged to vote Sept. 18-19 in the Student Government Association run-off election for the SGA secretary position.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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Voting is online from 12:01 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 18 through 11:59 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 19 via the ASAP information system.
Election results will be announced at 3 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 20 outside the Office of Student Activities, University Center Room 1.02.08, 1604 Campus. The results then will be posted outside the Office of Student Activities.
Read more about last week's SGA election results.
For more information, call the Office of Student Activities at (210) 458-4160.


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March 2012 JOTM Winner
March 1st, 2012 Comments off
March 2012 JOTM Winner "MudMan" Jim
This Pic was taken by my friend Lance out at BMRA in Gilmer Texas back in July 2007. I was on Clyde's Ravine and got a little off camber on the front end. I ended up with a strap on the back and the front then drove/pulled out.
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The act of urinating in a hookers mouth while she is performing oral sex on you. Usually done as a surprise.
I gave that bitch a dallas gold rush. bitches love the dallas gold rush. They may never talk to you after...but they love it
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House Bee
Posts: 1
From: magee mississippi
Registered: Aug 2004
posted August 22, 2004 06:11 PM
>Allen said: I just registered for beesource forum and please forgive my ignorance on how to communicate but i resently read about the permacomb subject of dipping permacomb in wax. this seems time cousuming but a great idea. i recently had trouble with acceptance of plastiframe from dadant. so i took a sponge paint brush a 4 in. and dipped it in hot melted wax and applied to plastiframe foundation it can be applied lite or heavy depending on how thick you desire by continuing to re-apply. it amazingly goes on even so i thought it might work on permacomb. i presently don't have it yet but i thought it might help some of you. just dip the brush and make an even stroke across the frame. if one of you with permcomb try this please let me know the outcome.
>Michael says:
The problems with wax coating PermaComb that I have faced are, first the cells are deep and you can't easily brush it or spray it into the cells and coat the walls evenly. Second, if the PermaComb is cold the wax clumps up on the PermaComb. Last, my intent is to get natural sized cells out of it, so I need a fairly thick consistent coating.
My method:
HereÂs what I have for equipment to do this and where I do it. I have an old gas stove with an oven set up outside. I have a table next to that with a Âturkey roaster pan. The pan is thermostatically controlled and has a double boiler/steam table kind of arrangement. Meaning it has a roaster pan inside of the roaster. I can put water in the outside part and a little water in the inside roaster with the wax. This keeps the wax from getting too hot. I set the thermostat to about 250 degrees F which boils the water which keeps the wax about 212 degrees F. I have some rubber dishwashing gloves and a frame grip. I set the oven, using an oven thermometer, so that it is about 200 to 210 degrees F. I put a piece of cardboard on the rack (with a fold so it runs up the back of the oven) and put PermaComb in the oven. If you want something as feedback until you get the hang of it, you can put a small piece of wax in one of the cells of the front PermaComb so you can look and check if it has melted yet. When the PermaComb gets up to temp (about 20 to 30 minutes) and the wax is up to temp (the wax is melted and the water in it is bubbling a bit) you pull one comb and dip it. My pan isnÂt quite deep enough and I have to lay on one side and wait for the bubbles to stop, then the other side and wait for the bubbles to stop, and then because the pan isnÂt quite long enough, I have to put the opposite end in and repeat the process. Now that every cell is full of wax, I have to shake as much of the wax back out as I can. I start by holding it upside down with the frame grip and shaking it over the pan. Then I shake it horizontally to shake one side out more and then flip it and shake the other side out more. Then I hit the top of it on the table several times to knock some more wax out and then I move to a spot beside that spot and slam it flat ways a few times on each side. Then I put the comb in a Langstroth box upside down on the frame rests so it can drain more if it will. Then I do the next comb. After a few combs I go back to the first few combs in the rack and hit them a couple of more times to knock out some more wax and then I put them in a regular box right side up.
I know this sounds complicated, and it is a bit. But mostly it is very messy and very hot. You will have wax all over your clothes and your shoes. The concept is that the comb needs to be hot enough to melt wax so that the wax wonÂt clump up in the cells. The wax should be hot enough to run well, but not too hot so it doesnÂt melt the PermaComb. PermaComb melts at temps over 220 degrees F. Then you get all of the insides of the cells coated and then you try to get all of the excess off so it doesnÂt make clumps and drips and fill up the bottoms of the cells.


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Just for fun I thought I would see if anybody is interested in having a friendly competition this summer. This is more of a competition with yourself than with anybody else, but I want to read about your results in this thread.
The rules:
1.You must start with a single package of bees or a single Nuc.
2.You have 4 months from the day you install that package or Nuc to turn it into as many hives as you can in that 4 month time period.
3.You may not make contributions of brood or bees from any other hives except the original started hive.
4. You may use empty drawn comb if you have it available.
5. You may feed as you see fit.
6. You may use queens from an outside source to head up splits from the original hive.
Let the Preparations begin.


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Random numbers have a peculiar power, even when they are only pseudo- or quasirandom
Brian Hayes
In the early 1990s Spassimir Paskov, then a graduate student at Columbia University, began analyzing an exotic financial instrument called a collateralized mortgage obligation, or CMO, issued by the investment bank Goldman Sachs. The aim was to estimate the current value of the CMO, based on the potential future cash flow from thousands of 30-year mortgages. This task wasn't just a matter of applying the standard formula for compound interest. Many home mortgages are paid off early when the home is sold or refinanced; some loans go into default; interest rates rise and fall. Thus the present value of a 30-year CMO depends on 360 uncertain and interdependent monthly cash flows. The task amounts to evaluating an integral in 360-dimensional space.
There was no hope of finding an exact solution. Paskov and his adviser, Joseph Traub, decided to try a somewhat obscure approximation technique called the quasi–Monte Carlo method. An ordinary Monte Carlo evaluation takes random samples from the set of all possible solutions. The quasi variant does a different kind of sampling—not quite random but not quite regular either. Paskov and Traub found that some of their quasi–Monte Carlo programs worked far better and faster than the traditional technique. Their discovery would allow a banker or investor to assess the value of a CMO with just a few minutes of computation, instead of several hours.
It would make a fine story if I could now report that the subsequent period of "irrational exuberance" in the financial markets—the frenzy of trading in complex derivatives, and the sad sequel of crisis, collapse, recession, unemployment—could all be traced back to a mathematical innovation in the evaluation of high-dimensional integrals. But it's just not so; there were other causes of that folly.
On the other hand, the work of Paskov and Traub did have an effect: It brought a dramatic revival of interest in quasi–Monte Carlo. Earlier theoretical results had suggested that quasi–Monte Carlo models would begin to run out of steam when the number of dimensions exceeded 10 or 20, and certainly long before it reached 360. Thus the success of the experiment was a surprise, which mathematicians have scrambled to explain. A key question is whether the same approach will work for other problems.
The whole affair highlights the curiously ambivalent role of randomness in computing. Algorithms are by nature strictly deterministic, yet many of them seem to benefit from a small admixture of randomness—an opportunity, every now and then, to make a choice by flipping a coin. In practice, however, the random numbers supplied to computer programs are almost never truly random. They are pseudorandom—artful fakes, meant to look random and pass statistical tests, but coming from a deterministic source. What's intriguing is that the phony random numbers seem to work perfectly well, at least for most tasks.
Quasirandom numbers take the charade a step further. They don't even make the effort to dress up and look random. Yet they too seem to be highly effective in many places where randomness is called for. They may even outperform their pseudorandom cousins in certain circumstances.
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One Way to Design a Planted Tank LED Light
Here is one way to design a LED light that will meet your planted tank requirements. Obviously, you first start with the tank you want the light to work with. Next, decide if you want the light to be suspended above the top of the tank, or sit on top of the tank. Suspending it is by far the best idea. Decide if you want to spend a little more money and be able to adjust the apparent color temperature of the light, which requires more LEDs and two LED controllers.
A very good PAR to design for is 60 micromols per square meter per second. This is medium intensity light - if you miss the target, you should still have either low-medium light or high medium light, both of which are very usable.
Pick the LEDs you want to use: Cree XP-G, which are high output, high power, and a bit cheaper than Cree XM-L, which are higher power, and higher output.
If you will suspend the light above the tank, you will want to use optics on the LEDs to focus the light to reduce the spillover light, and make better use of the full output of the LEDs. For lights which will be less than 2 feet from the substrate, 60 degree optics work well. For lights up to at least 36 inches from the substrate 40 degree optics work well. Decide which you will use.
It is best to run LEDs at less than maximum power to ensure that they will last for many years before wearing out. Also, the more power you run them at, the more likely you will need active cooling and a quality heatsink, which add to the cost, the complexity, and the noise. Pick a LED driver or drivers which can deliver the current you want to use.
Look up the lumen output the LEDs produce at that current from the pdf data sheets for the particular model LED you will use.
Write down these parameters:
LED model _______________
LED current_______________
lumen output per LED_______ (L)
Height of light from substrate________inches (H)
Optic cone angle__________(probably 60 or 40 degrees) (ø)
Now make this calculation:
where a equals the spacing between LEDs in inches, and n equals the number of rows of LEDs to be used.
Assume one row of LEDs will be used, and calculate the spacing between LEDs ( the square root of the result above)
Alternatively, assume 2 rows of LEDs will be used, and again calculate the spacing between the LEDs.
Assume 3 rows of LEDs will be used, and again calculate the spacing between the LEDs
To decide how many rows of LEDs will be best, calculate the spread of the high intensity portion of the cone of light. That will be equal to 2 x H x tan ø/4. That spread should be about 2/3 to 3/4 of the front to back depth of the tank. If it is less than that, 2 or 3 rows of LEDs should be used, to expand the spread.
Now that you know the spacing of the LEDs, and the number of rows of LEDs, calculate the number of LEDs per row. The row of LEDs can end at about one half of the tank front to back depth from each end of the tank, to avoid spilling a lot of light at the ends of the tank. The length of each row will be the tank length minus the tank front to back depth. Divide that number by the spacing of the LEDs (a) to get the number of LEDs per row.
Look at the specifications for the LED drivers you want to use to see the minimum and maximum number of LEDs they will power. Based on that you can determine how many LED drivers you need. If you want to be able to adjust the apparent color temperature of the light you will have to use two colors of white, cool white and neutral white, for example, with separate dimmable drivers for each color. Make sure the number of LEDs of each color is not fewer than the minimum for the driver.
Electrically connect each color of LEDs all in series, up to the maximum the LED driver will power, and connect those to one dimmable driver. Do the same for the other color.
Pick a heatsink or heatsinks that will accommodate the rows and LEDs per row that you will use. If you are using an LED current near the maximum power for the LED model you are using, also figure out a cooling fan or fans configuration to keep the heatsinks cool.
Finally, determine how you will hang or otherwise support the light, and find the parts needed to do that.
Use of a splash guard is optional. Lights hanging above the tank do not need any splash guard. Lights sitting on top of the tank, with no glass lid on the tank, may need a splash guard, and will need one if you use an air stone in the tank.
I propose this single post be a sticky. Unless there are specific additions that will clarify something specific let us not clutter this one up. Please.
Great info! Thanks Hoppy!
Always enjoy reading your posts! :proud:
Great info Hoppy. Thanks :), Nice and concise.
I notice that your spreadsheet also requests to use "half the optic cone" angle. Which is a reference to other posts where Hoppy and other have said that this is the area of most intensity.
You do use the same equations Hoppy used above though. IE, you're still dividing the cone angle by 4.
Is this how the equation in the original post of this thread is meant to be used? It makes sense to use the "effective angle" for PAR (half the optic angle, so 20 for a 40, and 40 for a 60), but making sure that Hoppy did not already account for this in his equation?
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The angle is the advertised cone angle of the optic, not half of it. I corrected this on the spreadsheet, and added a calculation for the LED current for Cree XM-L and Cree XP-G LEDs. But, I don't know how to attach an Excel spreadsheet to this post. Once I know how to do that we can include both the correction and the added calculation.
I used the Cree pdf for each LED model and derived an equation that works for most of the range of the Lumens vs current graphs here. The equations work for the 350 to 1500 mAmp range for both of them. For the XP-G the equation breaks down for lower currents, and for the XM-L it breaks down for higher currents, overestimating the lumens produced, in both cases. But, I wouldn't even consider using a higher current for either LED, just because of the cooling that would then be required for the heatsinks.
Thanks to fizzout I learned how to to this: Here is the updated calculator, for which fizzout gets 95% of the credit.
Edit: Added Cree XP-E-Q5 LEDs which are available at DealExtreme, and which are more suitable for lower height tanks.
Attachment 44862
Edit: Added Cree XR-E-P4 Bin WD (5700-6350K), which are less than $3 each on DealExtreme. Attachment 44874
Thanks for making the correction. Now the calculator can really be a useful tool for anyone designing a new LED lighting. :icon_lol:
And with that the light design philosophy for the next 1X years has been written.
Think I'm pretty well set that I want to do an LED next then. Will pick up some valuable soldering/electronics skills along the way.
I know I read Hoppy in another post that the "number of rows" multiplication may not hold up once the spacing between rows grows to the 6" distance which would happen if I spaced out even 3 over the middle 12 of an 18" front-to-back, so I will have to use this thread, other graphs Hoppy's posted, and probably a little guesstimating to figure out how to build a 40B light. I will need to crunch some numbers in Excel if I get a chance this week but thinking I'll try to do it with three rows, but treating the PAR value as "two" rows because of the wide spacing between the outermost front and back. I am presuming, before having done the numbers, if I aim for 50-60 PAR with 600-700 mA this three row design would get me close enough that I could either go down intensity or up, if I'm wrong, and not hit the "min current" or "need cooling" thresholds.
Use of LEDs will allow me to build a light to fit my desired canopy design, instead of building my canopy around desired lights (for T5HO I'd need to be concerned with heat as well as height, on a 40B I will want a "squatter" canopy)
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Excelent work I just checked my proposed design for my 72x24x24 and its works--I mean its very close to whats been projected before this spread sheet.
Wonderfull job alls left to do is place the order and put it together then comes the par meter--I have full confidence---
Hey doc when will NJAGC update the site --is this group really up and running-
dont mean to high jack thread you can PM me
The attachments included in the "Edits" above aren't working for me. I may be doing something incorrectly. When I click them, ie. "on DealExtreme. Attachment 44874"
I get: Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator
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The last attachment doesn't work for me either. So, let's try again:
Attachment 45001
Now, it works. Attachments are not nearly as easy as photos are.
I did some work using the equations and posts you've made in this thread and elsewhere along with the excellent spreadsheet tool. I think my questions below belong in this thread because they address a topic that will be common among anyone with wider tanks.
I am working on designing a fixture for a 40 breeder which is 18" front to back. As far as I can find online I haven't found anyone making one yet so breaking some new ground, in a way.
I don't mean the below to ask, "design me a fixture." Instead I am asking for some clarifications or suggested assumptions in using the equations and sheets to account for cases of widely spread LED rows of 4-5" spacing between rows (and >8" spacing between first and third rows)
As previously suggested by yourself and common sense, I went into this with some "knowns" and requirements for the fixture, to fix some of the variables. I know that I want the recommended middle PAR range of 40-60 as you have frequently referenced, I want even lighting over my tank, no more than 2 LED drivers, dimmable for fine-tuning PAR, passive cooling via aluminum channel or other heat sink, and I wanted to build a canopy that is less than 15" above the tank rim - the canopy height bit is one of the more important variables that can be fixed because it most directly impacts how the LED will be designed of course.
For use in the spreadsheet I chose 20" above substrate as the height. Pending actual builds etc I could vary this up and down within reason, as the canopy itself won't be built prior to the lights.
I know that an 18" wide 40 breeder with lights 20" above the substrate will require multiple rows of LED lights if I use aluminum channel passive cooling. With 40 degree optics (more on this in a second), at a height of 20", the "high intensity" inner-half cone diameter will have a 3.5" radius at the substrate surface. To avoid high intensity glass strike, I figured that the starting point for my rows would be to have one directly centered in the tank, one 5 inches from the front glass and one 5 inches from the back glass.
I read with great interest a post you made elsewhere regarding that rows of LEDs greater than a few inches apart don't add up when kept at a low height, and thus it probably isn't accurate to use "n = 3" for number of LED rows in this design.
So, knowing that my front and back rows would be 8" apart, and the center row is 4" from the row on either side of it, it seemed I was at the point where it's just a guess to select any number above 1 as the "number of rows" combining for PAR.
Using 1.25 as "n" rows to account for the large spread from front row to back row but still account for "some" combination, I came up with the following:
27 Cree XPGs
3.333" Spacing per row, 4-5 inches between center row, front row and back row
20" above substrate
40 Degree optics
Would let me run the XPG at .6-.7 Amps – within the passive cooling range and if I adjust the PAR down it gets better from there.
This seems like a high number of XPGs, and with quite focused Optics, compared to what I've seen elsewhere used for tank lighting applications. Do you think I have made drastically wrong assumptions at some point in the process?
If I change to 60 degree optics the calculated LED current required to hit 60PAR with the 27 XPG (3 rows of 9 at 3.33") goes to 1.1 A. Way too high for passive cooling. But why would I need 40 degree optics only 20 inches above the substrate?
edit: Of course if I change my assumption to "n=2" which is still of course only 66% of my actual number of rows to account for the spread from front to back, it decreases the number of LEDs required (4" spacing) and amperage as well. Seems like I might need to just experiment. Which isn't so bad anyway - the two worst cases are that I either end up having to go higher above my tank than I wanted to do and possibly rethinking using a canopy, and/or having an extra row of LEDs on a heat sink I can use for another tank. I can't find it but I am sure you have posted somewhere the graph of Cree XPG output vs distance from light (horizontal) at one or various mA? If you have, I would be able to look at that and figure out how much each spot on substrate should get with this setup.
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Robert "Bob" Peterson
Robert "Bob" Peterson
Robert "Bob" Peterson, age 86, of Hackensack, passed away Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, at the St. Cloud Hospital due to heart complications (86 year old "rusty pipes"). He was born to Carl Oscar and Myrtle Peterson on June 11, 1926, in Hackensack.
Bob served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga. In 1951, he married Arlene Tabaka in Longville. He was a member of the Pine River Volunteer Fire Department for 20 years from 1958 to 1978, and a member of the Hackensack Legion from 1946 until the present time, marching in 65 consecutive Memorial Day parades as a member of their firing squad. Bob was the first licensed master plumber in Cass County and also built many quality homes in Pine River and the surrounding area. People would wait several years to have Bob build their home. After retirement he spent the next 25 years cutting trees and working in the woods. He was an avid deer hunter, fisherman and outdoorsman.
Bob is survived by his children: Joan (Rodney) Helms, Carol (Jim Blanchard) Johnson, Bruce (Marilyn) Peterson, Carl (Shari) Peterson, Jerry (Brenda) Peterson; brothers: Russell Peterson, Donny Peterson; sisters: Joyce Coder, Nancy Olson; stepbrothers: Lee Peterson, Kenny Peterson, Calvin Peterson, Jerry Peterson; 18 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; stepfather, Justus Peterson; brothers: Carl "Sonny" Peterson, Jack Peterson; sisters: Peggy Norris and Betty Miller.
Services will be 11 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 25, at Heartland Baptist Church, Hackensack, with Pastor Steven Harlow officiating. Visitation will be Wednesday from 5-7 p.m. at Kline Funeral Home, Pine River, and one hour prior to the service at the church on Friday. Burial will be in Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis.
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Welcome to the BEST handgun forum in the world!!!
I have tried to get an all in one kit but I always find something I need to add to it. So I just picked up a bunch of metal ammo cans and used one for all of my cleaning stuff.
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I don't know of one kit that has the oil/solvent/grease combo that I use either.
I am sure there are some nice kits out there but it would be missing something I want or need.
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1. Is The Lorax movie based on the Dr. Seuss book?
It is and was made with the approval and involvement of Audrey Geisel, Theodore (Dr. Seuss) Geisel's widow. The two main human characters in the movie, Ted and Audrey, are named after the two of them. Read the full story of how it was expanded into a movie in "The Evolution of The Lorax From a Book to a Movie."
2. Does the movie follow the book's plot?
Yes, but it fills in the spaces before and after the book starts, giving reasons about why the young boy — known as Ted in the movie — would go to see the Once-ler, and what happens after he obtains the last seed of the Truffula tree.
3. Will I like it?
This is true to the spirit of Dr. Seuss and contains many lines from the book. It's a lot of fun to watch and the grim parts about the death of the land and trees are broken up by songs. It starts with a big opening musical number that should catch your attention right away.
Danny DeVito as the Lorax is perfect, Ed Helms has great fun as the Once-ler and sings quite a bit, and even Rob Riggle as a character original to the movie, Mr. O'Hare, gets a song.
So, yes, highly recommended.
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Sulphur High's Hannah Cupit, a 5-foot-7 guard, led Sulphur with 13.5 points, 5.8 rebounds and 4.9 assists per this year. Cupit was named the District 3-5A District MVP. (Rick Hickman / American Press)
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McNeese State head women's basketball coach Brooks Donald Williams announced the signing of three players — Sulphur High's Hannah Cupit, Crowley High's Mercedes Rogers and Byrd High's Diamond Willis — Wednesday on the first day of the Spring signing period.
Cupit, led the Lady Tors to the state semifinals before falling to state runner-up Natchitoches Central and one of the Cowgirls' early signee Victoria Rachal.
Cupit, a 5-foot-7 guard, led Sulphur with 13.5 points, 5.8 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game during her senior season. Cupit was named the District 3-5A MVP, received All-State honors and participated in the LHSAA All Star Game this spring.
"We are thrilled about officially adding Hannah to our Cowgirl family," Williams said. "Hannah has McNeese in her blood. She comes from a long line of McNeese graduates and she has a lot of family loyalty for the blue and gold. Hannah has a passion and knowledge for the game that is rare and special. Besides her basketball talent and skill, her coaches rave about her leadership, which is something that is certainly rare with young kids today."
Crowley High's rebounding machine, Mercedes Rogers averaged 17.0 ppg, 12.0 rpg, 6.0 steals and 3.0 blocks per game, will provide depth at the post position. Rogers, a 6-1 forward, was a first team all-district selection the past four seasons.
"I would like to thank Coach Williams for giving me this opportunity to further my education and to play for the Cowgirls," Rogers said. "I'm looking forward to playing for a winning and successful program."
"I really think McNeese is a real good fit for her," said Crowley head girls basketball coach, Alton Allen. "She can contribute to the success McNeese has had. With hard work, she, as well as McNeese, will be pleased by the time her playing career is over with."
Diamond Willis is a 6-0 forward from Byrd High School. The Shreveport native averaged 15.0 ppg, 6.0 rpg, 5.0 apg and 3.0 steals per game during her senior season. Willis was named first team all-district and first team all-city, as well as KSLA athlete of the week this season.
"As a coach, you always want your players to choose a place where they will grow as a player and a young lady," said Byrd head coach Toni Martinez. "I think McNeese is the perfect place for Diamond to do these things. I have the upmost respect for the coaching staff and the positive influence they have on their young ladies. I feel very confident that Diamond will reach her true basketball potential in the next four years as a McNeese Cowgirl."
"Diamond and Mercedes are both very versatile players. I am looking forward to adding their length defensively in the full court and in half. I am also excited about their force on the boards, which could help us right away. I love the potential these two girls have offensively. I truly believe, if they buy into our work ethic here at McNeese, they will be very special players for our program. Hannah is a no brainer. She lives it. She is a student-athlete who has a passion and a fight in her for everything she does. Hannah is a pure shooter and has a savvy about her game. We are thrilled about all three of these young ladies and the positives they are bringing to our program as we continue to move forward," said Williams.
The three players join early signees Victoria Rachal (Natchitoches Central High), Keanna Rainwater (Saline High), Amber Donnes (St. Thomas Aquinas) and Haily Jenkins (Martins Mill High).


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im from Germany and 25 Year's old, so far i have nearly 0 Experience with programming and it will be just a Hobby. I want create small 2D Games so im looking for an easy Language + Framework.
My Toughts so far C# + XNA, Pyhton with Pygame or C++ with SFML 2.0.
I really like C# + XNA + VS but i did hear XNA is dying so what would you advice me?
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12.18.12 - The Colorado Rush REACH program has been assisting children through the provision of used soccer gear since 2004. Just recently, the founder of REACH, Donna Pettigrew, organized a trip to South Africa which represented the first overseas mission to deliver gear and also plan a sustainable league for an affiliate Rush Club. The trip proved to be a great learning experience for everyone involved and was a succesful one, as well. There is now a full out 6v6 league that will run year round with a goal to eventualy implement a U8, U9, U10, and U11 league, as well. It was also amended to eventually include a U17 girls team, based on the high passion of the volunteer coaches and their desire to learn and play.
The trip lasted 11 days – 8 days actually on the ground in Durban. In addition to humanitarian work within the community and the local church affiliated with the community, various soccer related events were planned throughout the course of the trip. These included coaches clinics, coaches presentations, player camps, a tournament and involvement in a community based Childrens' Festival.
There are still obstacles to overcome as far as finding permanent fields, but the contact the Rush Ambassadors and coaches were able to make with local clubs such as Shallcoft Football Club and Escombe Sports Club over the 8 day trip could prove to be very influential in achieving this task.
The continued support of the REACH program by Rush members nationwide is grealy appreciated and can make a huge difference in kids' lives as we've seen first hand! For a journal of the whole trip written by the Rush Ambassadors, please visit the following link: South Africa Journal
Below are some soccer pictures from the trip:
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Dorothea Lange (1895-1965). This socially conscious documentarian of Dust Bowl migrants in the 1930s took one of the most famous photographs of the Depression era, Migrant Mother. Dorothea Lange was born on May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey and learned photography at Columbia University in New York. During the Great Depression Dorothea Lange worked for the Farm Security Administration documenting the plight of the unemployed, homeless and migrant laborers. Dorothea Lange died on October 11, 1965.


text: Obviously Lindsay Lohan has not seen I Know Who Killed Me or Labor Pains. In fact, I bet Lindsay does not remember a movie she has starred in for the past decade or she would not have her people leak phrases like "She has got used to all the negative press around her personal life but this is the first time she has experienced it about her work. No matter how bad things were going for her personally, everyone would always agree that she was a great actress." Huh? Did anyone see Saturday Night Live this year? I think the only thing that Lindsay Lohan was good in was mean Girls and I credit that more to the writing and the rest of the cast and sometimes there is a perfect part for a person in that time of their life. Nothing else that Lindsay has done since has been better than average. I don't understand why anyone thinks she is a great actress. She once had promise, but so do thousands of others. The only reason the producers hired her for Liz & Dick was for the publicity. People just had to watch, they didn't have to buy a ticket to get in. It was stunt casting like anything else during sweeps. What I am grateful for is that hopefully people will no longer hire Lindsay for anything but stunt casting so she can get the silly notion out of her head that she is a good actress.


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Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. MB Rule # 1
huh...That could be a problem if the O-line decides to block for Foles. Hell Andy reid might not want to let the Rookie throw too much and Finally run the ball with McCoy.
But damn do I pray that change will just make them even worse lol.
"...two minute drill at the end of each quarter, Ya'know with the wind like this blowing mooch and marshall into the ocean...If that's behind me I think were getting 3 from 70 so holla at your boy. IF YOU DON"T PICK ME THAT'S A JOKE RIGHT?" - Justin Tucker, Ravens kicker
Complain?, ain't Nobody got time for dat!
Football has been very, very good to us.
After losing seasons 2013-15, the giants put up 11 wins in 16.. they are on way Back
But for now we can console ourselves with this fact-
# of Super Bowl victories since 1985:
1-Chicago, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Seattle
2-Washington, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Baltimore
3-San Francisco, Dallas, Denver
4-New York Giants!!!
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Hi Brandt! Most Excellent! Wow! Your lines are well done and the proportions are very close. You have highly developed visual skills (also called "seeing as an artist" or "visual intelligence"). :o)PASSAs previously mentioned, I'd like to help you learn how to draw the proportions of your subjects more accurately. There are oodles of little tricks in a professional artist's repertoire of skills. I have prepared an image for you to demonstrate one of the more basic techniques. Please keep in mind that all this stuff does become totally automatic with time and practice. However, it's always perfectly OK to look for proportional clues before you begin to draw and/or when you double check your drawings for accuracy. This is not cheating - this is smart drawing! :o)Please refer to imageBrenda
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- Agreement to take immediate action to eliminate forced and child labor in violation of international human rights standards on forced, child, and trafficked labor from Hershey's cocoa supply chain through:
- tracing its supply chain to the farm level,
- sourcing from farmers who can show through independent verification that they do not use forced labor or child labor,
- asking suppliers to end such practices throughout their supply chain.
- Commitment to sourcing 100% FairTrade CertifiedTM cocoa beans by 2012 for at least one of its top-five-selling chocolate bars that prominently displays the Hershey name.
- Additionally, a commitment to making at least one additional top-five-selling bar 100% FairTrade CertifiedTM every two years thereafter, so that Hershey's top-five-selling cocoa bars will all be 100% Fair Trade CertifiedTM within ten years.
- Finally, a commitment that the majority of Hershey's cocoa across all products will be FairTrade CertifiedTM by 2022.


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An interesting note is that Hebron's hostilities can be traced back to the period when Abraham, made a covenant with God and also purchased the cave of Machpelah as burial place for his family. Sarah, the wife and mother, Abraham and a number of his children and their family was buried there.
This site became sacred to Jews and Muslims. In the past they had tolerated one another and openly shared their visits to the tombs.
Friction between the Jewish and the Muslims rose sometime in early 1970s when the Jewish community returned to settle in the city.
The situation of the city shows no signs of an easy solution. There are a number of military set ups everywhere around the town.
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The Pittsburgh Pirates and New York Yankees are on the verge of completing a trade that would send right-hander A.J. Burnett to Pittsburgh and are expecting to take the proposal to the commissioner's office Friday for approval, sources said.

The Pirates are expected to send a pair of prospects to the Yankees, sources said.

The approval is needed because of the money involved, as the Yankees will eat about $20 million of the $33 million still owed Burnett for the last two seasons of his contract, sources said.

As a Yankee the past three seasons, Burnett is 34-35 with a 4.79 ERA. He is 121-111 with a 4.10 ERA in 13 seasons with the Yankees, Blue Jays and Marlins.

As soon as the Burnett deal is done, the Yankees will begin the aggressive pursuit of a veteran designated hitter, sources said.

Sources said that there is a good deal of sentiment within the Yankees organization to go after Raul Ibanez -- who wants to play for the team -- to be their designated hitter against right-handers, partly because they believe he can give them some days of outfield play.

Although Johnny Damon and Hideki Matsui are also available, they are generally regarded as unplayable defensively, sources said.

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I give the Yanks 84 wins.

This coming from a guy who wins predictions for the Red Sox last yearlessened by the month.

I was on pace for 101 until the collapse. Morehead puts himself out there. All you guys love to knock someone else's predictions but don't has the balls to make one yourself.

I am sorry I don't make predictions.

I guess as you say I don't have the balls.

But you say the Yankees will have 84 wins, what are your prediction for the Red Sox?

Bear in mind, they gave up with a manager who gave your franchise 2 world series titles. But now they will give full effort all season to Bobby Valentine?


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HARWINTON >> An ordinance that would make the election of Board of Education members a ballot decision passed on Tuesday night during a special town meeting.
The ordinance means Board of Education slots must be filled during the November elections, at which time candidate's names will appear on the ballot. This replaces the previous method of selection, which involved voting in members at town meetings.
More than 120 people were present during the meeting Tuesday night, and the majority voted in favor of the ordinance put forth by the Board of Selectmen.
"The entire town is going to vote, not just the group of people in the meeting," First Selectman Michael R. Criss said.
The ordinance was seen as unfavorable by most of the current Board of Education members, including Beth Duffy, who opposed the idea and voiced her opinion during the meeting.
Criss said Board of Education members Joseph Arcuri and Elaine Schiavone also opposed the idea.
Theresa Foley, who was recently elected into the Board of Education, supported the ordinance.
"I actually think it's a good thing because it allows people to be part of the process," Foley said, adding that more people will be able to decide on who gets the position, instead of just the people in a single room.
Criss said the new method of voting in the board members will not affect the board itself, a board which he said is "apolitical." He said that nearby Burlington has chosen Board of Education members in the same fashion for almost 15 years. According to Criss, one of the reasons Duffy felt opposed to the ordinance was precisely because Harwinton did things differently than Burlington.
Duffy was reached for comment via phone but was not immediately available for a response.
"What you want is the best representation of the town representing the board of education; those individuals ultimately control our taxes," Criss said.
A total of nine items were discussed during the meeting, which ended nearly at 10 p.m. In addition to the Board of Education ballot ordinance, a right to farm ordinance and the purchase of a historic piece of land were also discussed.


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daffy... wrote:^ the most gross post ive read on this forum yet. pickled eggs and canned hot dogs. interesting.
... we usually have hostest mini donuts, jerky, sometimes breakfast sandwiches wrapped up. all day hunts. theres nothing better than a sandwich and moxie soda. (moxie is a local soda made in my home town, i believe it doesnt get much further than NH) something about that soda screams the outdoors to me. most people hate it
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Town Square
Good Neighbors
Original post made by [removed], Alamo, on Jul 20, 2011
As you review your town square forum you will find attitudes denying the needs of residents, institutions and businesses to be good neighbors within a community. As neighborhoods committees continue mitigation of issues in our Alamo region there are typical responses that excuse various people and organizations from being good neighbors.
Monte Vista High School supporters do not feel that the school needs to be a good neighbor because the school was there first and education is a greater good that any neighbors problems with the school. Supporters of the new Alamo fire house have repeatedly claimed a greater good provided by the fire house and little need to mitigate issues with neighbors and Stone Valley parents. Much has been said about RHCC's right to impose nighttime operations of lighted tennis courts in proximity to neighborhoods. Supporters of the SRV YMCA continue to lament the loss of the facility planned for that site and continue to defame those neighbors opposing construction and operation as not being part of the greater good for Alamo. Even incorporation continues to be a discussion and AIM supporters continue to defame voters that would not support the undefined incorporation proposal as ignorant of the greater good for Alamo.
A Diablo View on the subject of good neighbor responsibility by organizations, institutions, businesses and individual residents would be newsworthy in our region among selfish viewpoints willing to impose on neighbors for their own purposes. Subscriber news service just provided a national view of this good neighbor issue produced by a major news service and a very local presentation of good neighbor issues would be a logical follow-through.
a resident of Alamo
on Jul 20, 2011 at 10:05 am
please explain what an aim supporter is
a resident of Alamo
on Jul 20, 2011 at 11:48 am
Dear Editor,
For clarification, AIM refers to the Alamo Incorporation Movement, 2007 through 2009.
a resident of Blackhawk
on Jul 20, 2011 at 12:42 pm
yawn ... yawn
a resident of Alamo
on Jul 21, 2011 at 9:08 am
please site instances where someone aim as you say is defaming someone who was not for incorporation and if you can not, stop defaming those who may have been for it
a resident of Alamo
on Jul 21, 2011 at 9:34 am
Dear Editor,
Within your Express Forum are examples of commentary that claims ignorance was the reasons for a majority of Alamo residents rejecting incorporation. There are volumes of e-mail from former incorporation supporters directed to neighborhoor reps and participants that specifies ignorance as the reasons for the NO vote. Certainly, those authors must be given the opportunity to provide their positions because neighborhood reps will not violate their confidences.
The reality, once again, was a majority of Alamo residents rejected the AIM incorporation proposal because it did not define the structure of government, provide plans for its operations or specify budgets for voters' consideration. Alamo voters did not reject incorporation, but did reject the lack of a realistic business plan for the proposed Alamo government.
Let's return this exchange to its primary purpose of requirements for good neighbor policies by organizations as well as residents in consideration of their role in our communities.
a resident of Blackhawk
on Jul 21, 2011 at 10:15 am
Com'on [removed] ... give us a break please. Your postings are really inane.
a resident of Alamo
on Jul 21, 2011 at 2:12 pm
stop telling of all the derogatory e mails by aim people post one or shut up
a resident of Alamo
on Jul 21, 2011 at 7:21 pm
Dear Editor,
You were invited to provide journalism in how good neighbor policies supports community relationships. The extend of your participation to date is to invite disconnected and unrelated comment from sponsored pseudonyms as commentators. Such commentary takes a critical subject adrift into isolated review that is best served by public review of known comment on these unrelated subjects including your forum during January to May 2009.
Communities are not built on the lack of good neighbor policies by organizations, businesses and institutions in our communities and neighborhoods. That is the subject for your journalism and it is only addressed to your capabilities.
a resident of Alamo
on Jul 23, 2011 at 9:27 am
you are a total joke and a shill for the a i a i challenged you to release just 1 e mail you have accused people of sending, and you return with more of your insane diatribes if you are going to publicly accuse someone whomever once again put up or shut up. you will not because your accusation is total b s
a resident of Danville
on Jul 23, 2011 at 2:19 pm
REF: Web Link
a resident of Alamo
on Jul 25, 2011 at 7:58 am
Dear Editor,
Subscribers among major corporations have provided news service researchers their corporate policies for community engagement as "good neighbor" programs for their facilities and support for the communities in which they are located. In commentary, Cece, a director in one corporation's community engagement organization, noted that governments and districts do not have the same stake in communities as corporations, "communities are not their customers."
News service editors responded, governments and districts are owned by the residents of communities and are obligated to be good neighbors in the communities they serve. Yet, editors were quick to note that governments and districts often feel they are authorities in communities rather than working is service to communities' residents.
Do your readers believe their governments and districts are good neighbors in their communities?
a resident of Vista Grande Elementary School
on Jul 25, 2011 at 6:04 pm
Hal...please stop....okay?


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Price tag for recall elections continues to climb
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Mail-in ballots were supposed to be sent out Monday to voters in Senate Districts 11, but a court's decision will send voters to polling stations instead. The decision carries a hefty price tag.
A judge ruled third party candidate names can be added to the ballot until Aug. 26. The decision eliminated the possibility of a mail-in recall election for state Sens.Angela Giron and John Morse.
"The costs that we have lost so far at this point have to do with the things we've printed in anticipation for a mail ballot election," said Ryan Parsell with the El Paso County Clerk's Office. The office is overseeing the recall election in Senate District 11.
El Paso County already bought inserts, postage, envelopes and secrecy sleeves for a mail-in election. Secrecy sleeves keep ballot information private while ballots are in the mail or sitting in a ballot drop box. The county will be able to re-use postage and envelopes in future elections. The rest will go to waste. Parsell estimates the county has spent $25,000 to $30,000 on mail-in material.
Pueblo County spent $20,000 on mail-in election materials.
"None of this money is in our budget. We did not anticipate this recall election to happen so we have no money in our budget," said Pueblo County Clerk and Recorder Gilbert Ortiz. His office oversees Senate District 3's recall election.
Ortiz hopes his office will be reimbursed by the Secretary of State's Office. However, he isn't unsure if that will come to fruition. Otherwise, he says county commissioners will have to evaluate other office's budgets and cut funding accordingly.
It will cost El Paso County almost $200,000 to run the election at polling places. A mail-in election would have saved almost $50,000. In Pueblo County, a mail-in election would have saved more than $100,000.
Ortiz said the recall election will cost at least $260,000. That number does not include the price to print ballots. He is still waiting on an estimate from the printer. Ballots will have to be printed over Labor Day weekend which will likely drive up the cost of labor to account for holiday pay.


text: You're way ahead of me. How did the replacement nose piece fit? Some posters have said they were too tight for the M53s. You could probably go back to our correspondence and see how I predicted all the problems I'd have but hell I have one now. CSS is supposedly going to come out with a receiver. We'll see. Still need another FAL receiver.


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Excerpt: "The Packers franchise quarterback is taking a seat.
Aaron Rodgers said Tuesday he has a fractured left collarbone and has no idea yet how long he will be out. The Packers play the Giants on Nov. 17.
The 2011 NFL MVP offered details of the injury on his weekly radio show on 540-AM ESPN. He got hurt after getting sacked by the Bears Shea McClellin on a third-down play during the Packers first series while he was scrambling outside the pocket. He hurt his left, non-throwing shoulder.
I do have a fractured collarbone. Thats a significant injury, Rodgers said. Well know more about the severity and the timetable later this week.
Rodgers said he was holding out hope he would heal quickly. In this case, it was considerably more pain than Ive felt in a long time, he added.
That collective groan you heard came from the state of Wisconsin.
The sliver of good news for the Packers: coach Mike McCarthy indicated that the injury wont end Rodgers season. He sounded much more optimistic than after Monday nights 27-20 loss to Chicago.
Im relieved, no doubt, McCarthy told reporters at Lambeau Field. With the new information that was given today, everybody felt better about it. How long? We dont have our hands around a timeline yet, but I know Aaron is very optimistic and hell do everything he can to get back in a timely fashion. Read more...


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