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Pequot Lakes ECFE Garage Sale is March 23
The Pequot Lakes Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) Advisory Council will host its second annual Garage Sale from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 23, at the Trailside Center in Pequot Lakes.
The ECFE Garage Sale is a fundraiser for the School Readiness program scholarship fund.
To support the ECFE Garage Sale, donate items to the ECFE program to sell at the ECFE sales table area. ECFE volunteers will sell these donated items.
New and gently used clothing items for newborn to youth sizes may be sold at the sale. Don't bring clothing with stains or holes, or cribs or car seats. Items allowed include baby/child equipment of all kinds, toys, bikes, books, maternity and nursing items, games and more.
Families can sell items by renting a table or area to set up display racks. A 12- by 12-foot area with an 8-foot table can be rented for $25. Each seller is responsible for pricing and selling their own items.
Sellers can set up from 4-9 p.m. Friday, March 22.
Sales space is limited. To reserve a table to sell items, contact Melissa at 612-483-4881 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Registration will continue until March 15. Additional tables can be reserved for $10 each. Tables are not guaranteed until your payment is received.
An admission fee of $2 will be charged at the door the day of the garage sale, which provides an all-day pass into the ECFE Garage Sale. Food, beverages and coffee will be on sale, too.


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I put up a gallery in my facebook account with pictures of a good amount of the armor work that I've done for various people as well as my own. I've put an explanation or description under each picture to help those who may be interested in working with metal armors.
I'll also add some new pics that show the various tools I use, so that you know what it takes to make professional metal armor for your mando.

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Did you know that Cairns and Tropical North Queensland is one of the best places in the world to go ballooning? This is the ultimate scenic experience in the tropics! Balloon rides take off every day and are in the top three Cairns must do activities and truly, one of Australia's best kept secrets. So don't miss out, book well in advance come flying in Australia's favourite place to balloon, flights depart daily from Cairns and Palm Cove and Cairns beaches.
Start your day by watching the sun rise over the rolling hills of the majestic Atherton Tablelands then experience your first balloon ride. Enjoy the 360 degree panorama, before coming gently back to earth. Afterwards, there's pack up games, free wifi to send your friends your photos, check out the morning's in-flight and personal portraits too, then drive back through Kuranda and the rainforest mountain drive. Door to door transfers are included or choose to connect after ballooning to Kuranda or the Great Barrier Reef. Whichever way, start your day in Cairns on a high note, with a Cairns balloon ride.
Experience your first balloon ride, highly recommended, excellent value and sure to be a highlight of your Cairns holiday. From the minute you arrive see the spectacle at launch of so many large colourful balloons standing ready for take off at dawn.
Hop onboard to enjoy gently floating over the Atherton Tableland's impressive landscape, west of Cairns, in the quiet morning sunrise and experience the best ballooning day tour in Australia. Come down to earth, there's fun pack up games, see the photos in-flight and personal portraits, taken that morning, then drive through some spectacular rainforest scenery, door to door transfers back to your Cairns accommodation.
Note: Information on listed products and services are provided by the operator and were correct at the time of publishing. Rates are indicative based on the minimum and maximum available prices of products and services. Please visit the operator's website for further information. All prices quoted are in Australian dollars (AUD).


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Pick Yourself Up
Pick Yourself Up
More From Kay
Senator (R-Texas)
Female Senators' Support System
Getting Dads Involved
Across Party Lines
Republican Support for Women
Excluding Conservative Women
A Game Changer
Banding Together
A Subtle Media Bias
Pick Yourself Up
Bucking Tradition
We Don't Hire Women
Creating Your Own Opportunity
The Lone Female Reporter
Kay's Biography
First Paying Job: Counselor at Camp Longhorn.
Founding Father: Her great great great grandfather signed the Texas Declaration of Independence.
Favorite Piece of Advice: From Ann Armstrong, former RNC Chair: "'Know when to fight and know when to switch'…sometimes you're going to lose and you just have to know when the time is to say, 'We'll live to fight another day.'"
Cause of Choice: TAMEST
Kay Bailey Hutchison is the first female United States Senator from the state of Texas. She has also served in the Texas State Legislature and as the state's Treasurer.
Hutchison was raised in La Marque, Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas Austin in 1962. In 1967, she was one of five women to graduate from UT-Austin Law School out of a class of five hundred people. "It was when I got out of law school that I hit my first brick wall," she says. "Law firms in Texas didn't hire women." Instead, Hutchison found a job a news correspondent for KPRC-TV in Houston, becoming the first female reporter in the Houston market.
She burst onto the political scene in 1972, when she became the first Republican woman to be elected to the Texas House of Representatives. In 1976, President Gerald Ford appointed her to the National Transportation Safety Board.
Despite these successes, Hutchison left politics for over a decade following her lopsided loss in a Congressional primary in 1978. Shortly afterwards, she was named Senior Vice President and General Counsel for RepublicBank Corporation. Over the next decade, she would go on to found Fidelity Bank of Dallas and then to purchase McCraw Candies Incorporated.
Hutchison returned to public service in 1990 and quickly resumed her path-breaking ways, becoming the first Texan woman to win statewide office when she was elected State Treasurer. She was elected to the US Senate in 1993 in a special election to replace Lloyd Bentsen, who had been named as Treasury Secretary by President Bill Clinton. She has served continuously since then.
Hutchison ran in the 2010 Texas gubernatorial election but lost in the primary to fellow Republican Rick Perry. She has announced that she will retire from politics in 2012.


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Date/Time: Thursday, May 17th at 7:00 PM
Location: Manhattan, NYC
Number of Available Tickets: 25 Admit 2s
RSVP Close Time: TBD
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So how do you get tickets?
Passes for this screening will be emailed to 25 random Cinemit members who successfully RSVP. To RSVP, you must respond to this RSVP post with an answer to the following question:
If you were in the Navy and lived on a Battleship, what would you want your occupation to be?
Rated: PG-13
In Theaters May 18th
Directed by: Peter Berg
Written by: Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber
Featuring: Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker and Liam Neeson
Plot: A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals.
Trailer: Please click here for the trailer.


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2004: Google unveils Gmail. It will change webmail … and a few other things as well. Seven years ago, if we wanted to talk to somebody halfway around the world, we'd open up Outlook, Eudora or some other bulky piece of software on our desktops and type an e-mail. Most of us had webmail, which […]
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Spons'd Tingles: Savoury Moments by Dr Oetker
Oompa Loompa Valentino
It's the beginning of the month so it's time for another Savoury Moment in Gossip. In March it was Jesus Luz's mom. In April it had to be the orange that keeps giving and giving. Mr Valentino.
But first a note about our friends at Dr. O. As you know, Dr. Oetker has been sponsoring the Savoury Moments on our site. Now they want to know if you'd like to shoot your own Savoury Moments and are putting a few amazing cameras up for grabs. Win one of five Sony DSC-W270 Digital Cameras and snap away. Contest details and the entry ballot can be found here. Good luck!
Back to orange V…
I thought about Billy Ray Cyrus's "flavour savour" but then again, given that his daughter referenced it in an interview, maybe a hillybilly icky relation isn't exactly what you'd call appetising.
And while Valentino's shade of purple is certainly alarming, at the same time, he just provides so much joy!
I would eat them!
April was a special month for the man of the red dress. He premiered his movie Valentino: The Last Emperor and he received the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Award – here he is with his partner and Giancarlo Giametti and Anne Hathaway, his face more enflamed than the carpet. Am amazed he's still breathing. This is why they call him an artist.
What would Valentino think of Jesus Luz's "mother"?
They say Mr Valentino, who was forced to retire a couple of years ago, will be designing again, apparently because he was fined $44 million for tax evasion.
Get to work sister.
Photos from Wenn.com


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Well that's why its called an opinion and I think it would work effectively. Oh and Btw love the profile pic, its from one of my favorite movies
Dion Jordan can play that type of role but would have to stand up on third down.
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beat me to it.
we have who you are looking for in mathias kiwanuka. von miller's position on the defense is pretty much made just for him, in order to put him in the best possible situation to use his best assets. to say the Giants need a linebacker like von miller is basically just saying we should trade for von miller.
I'm concerned we've narrowly missed the playoffs in the other two years but I'm more concerned about the second half collapses in general, it's happened literally every year under Coughlin and he's clueless about how to fix it.
My bad, i just meant pass rushing linebackers in general
He is just completely oblivious to making adjustments
On defense, I think the biggest issues are at DT and LB, not DE and secondary. They do give up a lot of big plays against both the run and pass and the pass rush isn't nearly as good as last year. I think a lot of that has to do with the LB positions, they are unable to shoot the gaps and aren't very good dropping into coverage to stop those short passes that keep the chains moving, forcing the D to stay on the field way too long. If you can do a better job taking away those quick passes and stopping the run, the QB holds the ball longer and the DEs have time to get to him.
My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I`d go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I`m now resigned to the fact that this won`t happen. -- Michael Strahan, just when you think you're down...


text: Yes. It's scheduled for the odd years; they went ahead with 2012 because of the tsunami cancelling the first and the requirement that there be more test events for the Olympics, I believe. It depends. If D/W win, the retire (maybe after Tokyo). If they lose, they think about not retiring but will be overtaken by other teams. I think Worlds will tell the tale. If any team is within ten points by the end of the competition, they can be overtaken next year.


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Oregon History: World War II
[Also see Life on the Home Front: Oregon Responds to World War II, a Web exhibit by the Oregon State Archives]
The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, pulled the United States out of neutrality and plunged the nation again into world war. Because Oregon lay along the nation's Pacific Coast, it was considered in the war zone. The consequences were almost immediate. To create a wartime mentality as well as to prepare against attack, residents of coastal communities faced nightly blackouts. Block wardens monitored compliance. Shades and blankets covered windows and many painted over the upper half of their car headlamps. Volunteers joined the Ground Observer Corps to log the make and identity of airplanes. Soldiers maintained coastal patrols, supplementing Coast Guard personnel in their watch of the sea. Jeeps ran along the beaches to isolated dugouts where foot patrols with dogs stood duty.
War preparedness had begun in the late 1930s with scrap drives. Schoolchildren competed to see who could tally the heaviest pile of metal. The occasional school that located an old logging railroad locomotive surged to top honors. With the declaration of war, Oregonians confronted rationing of tires, gasoline, meat, sugar, and clothing. For those who lived far from town, rationing necessitated careful trip planning.
Executive Order 9066 of February 19, 1942, fell heavily on the Japanese-American population of Oregon. Although most were American citizens and many had sons, brothers, and fathers who had enlisted or were drafted into military service, the families of Japanese background living west of the Cascades in Oregon were placed under curfew and ordered to report to evacuation centers, preliminaries to removal to distant relocation camps. Over 120,000 Japanese-Americans from Oregon, Washington, and California endured relocation. Japanese-Americans in Hawaii--more fully in the war zone--were exempted from relocation. Those removed lost homes, crops, farm animals, property, bank accounts, and personal possessions.
The war gripped the United States and Oregonians. Dozens of towns erected permanent billboards that carried the names of citizens killed in defense of their country. Oregon had 2,826 wartime deaths and over 5,000 wounded. Tensions rose when a Japanese submarine surfaced off the mouth of the Columbia River and on June 21, 1942, fired 17 shells at Fort Stevens. Concern rose again on September 9 of the same year, when a small airplane, launched by a catapult from the deck of a Japanese submarine off Brookings, carried Nubuo Fujita and Shoji Okuda over the Siskiyou National Forest to drop incendiary bombs on Mount Emily. Oregon suffered civilian casualties on May 5, 1945, when participants in a church picnic near Bly poked an incendiary balloon that had floated across the Pacific. The device, intended to set forest fires, exploded and killed the minister's wife and five children.
A wartime economy helped pull Oregon out of the Great Depression. Federal expenditures mounted dramatically. The investment included facilities, construction salaries, and assembling of large numbers of personnel who needed housing, food, clothing, and other services. The U.S. Army built Camp Adair north of Corvallis and Camp Abbott on the upper Deschutes River south of Bend. These troop-training facilities served thousands of recruits. Camp Adair even included a fake Japanese village where soldiers practiced assaults should they reach the main islands of Japan. The Umatilla Army Depot near Hermiston became a sprawling repository for munitions in hundreds of semisubterranean silos. The Army also constructed hangars and airfields at Portland, Astoria, Newport, North Bend, and Floras Lake. The U.S. Navy built the Tongue Point Naval Station at Astoria and at the Tillamook Naval Air Station erected two of the largest wood-frame buildings in the world. Blimps, stationed at Blimperon 33, moved out of these massive hangars and glided up and down the coast to patrol for enemy ships and submarines.
The electricity from Bonneville, dubbed by some in 1939 as the "dam of doubt," moved through the BPA grid to aluminum plants from Longview to Spokane. Inexpensive electricity heated the smelters to process bauxite into rolls of aluminum, which moved by rail to the Boeing manufacturing plants on Puget Sound. There was no doubt about the dramatic rise of employment where nearly 50,000 workers by 1944 were able to produce 16 airplanes every 24 hours. In Portland and nearby Vancouver, Henry J. Kaiser's shipyards employed an estimated 100,000 workers. Men and women worked side by side to build "Baby Flattops" and "Liberty Ships." By 1945 some 150,000 workers were engaged in 85 shipyards in Oregon and Washington.
Jobs in aluminum plants, shipyards, military bases, and lumber production for the war effort created a surge of migration. During World War II an estimated 194,000 people moved into the state. For the first time, Oregon's African-American population grew substantially--in Portland increasing from 2,565 in 1940 to 25,000 in 1944. Drawn by jobs, steady salaries, and the area's reputation as a decent place to live, newcomers coped with inflated rents, shantytowns, camps, and trailer parks. In 1942 Edgar Kaiser met some of the housing problem by building Vanport on the south bank of the Columbia. With 35,000 residents, the community became Oregon's second largest town until destroyed in May, 1948, by breaking levees during a major flood. Public housing projects, dubbed "cardboard palaces" by some, met short-term needs and, in some instances, were used for years or were transformed into student housing on college campuses.
When World War II ended, Oregon was a different place. The economy was good, even when labor disputes erupted with the West Coast Longshoremen's Union. The federal projects of the 1930s created an extensive infrastructure for the use and enjoyment of national forests and the public domain. Many Oregonians had disposable income and savings. The future beckoned far more brightly than during the drab years of the Great Depression or the uncertainties of World War II.


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Designer Kim Samson Scandinavian House Tour
Tour a Winter White Scandinavian Home
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Tour a Winter White Scandinavian Home
Here's a post from OnSugar blog House of Anaïs:
Designer Kim Samson certainly loves the outdoors no matter what the weather is, and she brings the outdoors in to her white-based and so Scandinavian house. Sheep outside as well as sheep inside in the form of rugs is a major theme in this funky home. And all, of course, with the always fashionable, uber-chic and rustic Nordic touch . . .
Keep clicking to tour the home!


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New students planning to attend Pulaski Technical College during the summer II session can visit the one-stop SOAR program this week for orientation, advising and on-site registration. Hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Thursday and Friday and 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday. Continuing students can register online via Campus Connect.
The SOAR program is located in the student center in the Administration building on the Pulaski Tech campus, 3000 West Scenic Drive, North Little Rock.
SOAR advisers will be available to assist students with their academic plans and schedules. Students will register the same day they are advised by submitting their advisement form to the registration staff in the student center. Tuition should be paid by the advertised tuition date in order to reserve classes.
Open registration (the last day to register) for new and returning students for the summer II 2005 session is Tuesday, July 5, from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Classes begin Wednesday, July 6. For more information, call (501) 812-2231.
Pulaski Technical College


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Paranormalcyby Kiersten White
Series: Paranormalcy #1
Release date: 31st August, 2010
Publisher: HarperTeen
Pages: 335 (Hardcover bought for me)
Second book: Supernaturally
Summary from Goodreads:
Weird as it is working for the International Paranormal Containment Agency, Evie's always thought of herself as normal. Sure, her best friend is a mermaid, her ex-boyfriend is a faerie, she's falling for a shape-shifter, and she's the only person who can see through paranormals' glamours, but still. Normal.
Only now paranormals are dying, and Evie's dreams are filled with haunting voices and mysterious prophecies. She soon realizes that there may be a link between her abilities and the sudden rash of deaths. Not only that, but she may very well be at the center of a dark faerie prophecy promising destruction to all paranormal creatures.
So much for normal.
Review By Alaiel Kreuz:
So... I've been sitting in front of my laptop rubbing my temples and wondering how am I going to write this review... You see, I have a problem. I liked the book, I completely loved the cover (for those who know me, pretty covers are one of the things I care a lot in a book) and the way Kiersten writes was fluent and very entertaining. But... there, you see? I have a BUT and I don't like that (is it me or this sounded very bad?! xD). Anyway, let me explain this.
We see the story from Evie's point of view. She is a sixteen year old girl working for IPCA tracking paranormals to make sure they don't hurt humans but all she wants is to be "normal". And what is normal, you ask. Well, for her this is normal: she wants to go to high school, have a locker, have some friends to hang out and a couple of cute guys to flirt with. And this is what she gets: she is home-schooled by a werewolf, her best friend is a mermaid, her ex is a faerie, her boss fullfils more less the role of "mother" (Evie is orphan) and her best weapon is a pink taser with rhinestones called Tasey.
She is funny and sweet, maybe a little bit annoying sometimes being so naive and all but I really enjoyed her. I mean, you must have a very strong personality to wear a zebra-print wrap dress with pink stiletto boots. And to own a pink taser with rhinestones. I think her style is unique and cool, kudos for that! (I love crazy, funny, sweet outfits, hehe.)
And her relationship with Lend (hot and sweet shape-shifter/water-boy) was one of the things I loved the most. They don't rush into things, first they became friends and then things develop in a very pleasant way.
My favorite character was Lish, the mermaid, and the computer's translation of her phrases. My favorite quote is:
"Bleep stupid bleep bleep faeries and their bleep bleep bleep obsessions. He had better stop bleep bleep bleep the bleep bleep rules or I will bleep bleep bleep the little bleeeeeeeeeeep."
But for me, something was missing. I don't know... I think I was expecting more action, more intrigue somehow and the easy breazy path of the book was too calm for me. And the ending... oh my goodness the ending... where was it?! I think I missed it, no kidding. It just happened, like that, in a second. Sorry for those who loved this book but I truly believe that the ending had a lot more potential than that. The plot between Evie and Fire-girl had everything to make a superb final and... it never came.
Saying that, believe me, I already have the second book and I'm going to read it for sure because:
- I had a great time reading Paranormalcy.
- I enjoyed Evie's mind (so cute and funny!).
- I seriously want to know what happens next.
- I want to read more about Lend and Reth (crazy ex faerie boyfriend).
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Genre: Fiction
Number of pages: 224
What's the basic story line?
Queen Victoria lives in Buckingham Palace. But behind the walls and under the floorboards live the mice. And for every job a human does, a mouse is doing it too—and better. The smallest mouse in the palace, Mouse Minor, is determined to find out who he really is. "Who were my parents, and what am I meant to do?" he wonders. He sets out on a journey to meet Queen Victoria herself and ask her his questions. In his quest for self-discovery, the tiny mouse journeys to new and exciting worlds.
Are the characters believable?
The characters are definitely believable, especially Mouse Minor. When he's attending the Royal Mews Mouse Academy, he is faced with bullies who pick on him terribly. The author captures bullying very realistically, and makes you want to yell at the bullies to leave Mouse Minor alone. I was able to relate to Mouse Minor throughout the story, and I think other kids will be able to relate to him too.
On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being best), how would you rate this book?
I would rate The Mouse with the Question Mark Tail a 10 in a heartbeat. It's fun to see Mouse Minor figure out who he is. (Be on the lookout for a surprising conclusion!) I also like the fact that the author includes historical context for the story. I think animal lovers and anyone looking for a good read will truly enjoy this book.


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How far have these students walked by the time the teacher's car
reaches them after their bus broke down?
If you have only 40 metres of fencing available, what is the maximum area of land you can fence off?
Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons,
and explore how the different positions of the red dot affects its
speed at each stage.
Take a look at the interactivity below which shows regular polygons "rolling" along the horizontal surface.
It leaves a trace of the path of the red dot and on the graph it records the distance that the dot travels.
Experiment by positioning the red dot at the centre of the polygons, at one of the vertices or at the centre of one of the sides of the polygons and explore how this affects the distance / time graph.
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Can you now work out what produced the following distance / time graph?
The rolling polygon had a radius of 40.
Can you work out how many sides it had and where the red dot was placed?
Try to explain how you worked it out.


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Crackdown on distracted drivers underway
Local law oficers join statewide effort
BUELLTON, Calif. - Local law officers want drivers to put down their cell phones and reduce the chance of an accident.
They are joining a statewide effort in April to target distracted drivers. Extra patrols will be on the roads to pull over and cite drivers who are talking on their phones, texting or doing anything that is a distraction while they are behind the wheel.
California Highway Patrol Captain Marty Maples said, his officers want the public to help keep the roads safe and notify the CHP of dangerous drivers.
"Often times officers report that motorists see other motorists violating the law saying that person up there is talking on their cell phone or doing something that's distracting," said Maples.
"It drives me bonkers," said a driver from Santa Ynez, Ashley Pollock. "I've known enough people who've almost been hit (because of texting and driving.)"
An Orcutt resident has seen the tragic results of distracted driving and say more needs to be done to get compliance.
"I don't think there's less of it. I think it's increasing. Everyone has a phone and everyone thinks they can use it while they are driving and I think it's a myth," said Eilene Okerblom who lost her son, Eric, in a distracted driver accident in 2009.
She urged drivers to stay off the phone and focus on the road.
"When you send or receive a text message, the average amount of time your eyes are off the road is four seconds," said Okerblom.
The starting fine for a distracted driver is $159.


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Moonachie facing long road back from Sandy
The Dumpsters that sat for months outside almost every house in Moonachie have almost all been carted away, taking with them the most visible symbols of the damage superstorm Sandy wrought here.
Gone are the sad curbside displays of soggy furniture, molding drywall and broken bits of family keepsakes that made this middle-class town's plight unmistakable. Submerged in a matter of minutes by a tidal surge that overwhelmed nearby flood controls, low-lying Moonachie and neighboring Little Ferry were North Jersey's version of the Shore towns or the Rockaways, the hardest hit for miles by this historic storm.
But the appearance of a return to normalcy in Moonachie is deceptive. Three months after the storm and the tidal surge that inundated the town, people are still struggling. A couple who own a deli put every asset they had into rebuilding their store; they have managed to re-open, but business has not returned nearly as much as they had hoped. The only pharmacy in town is still closed and the owner has moved to Florida, though the longtime head pharmacist has decided to buy the business and reopen.
Members of a close-knit family with three houses on a block are just now getting back some of the everyday comforts they once took for granted, like bathtubs and working ovens, but the family's matriarch has been told that, because of a technicality, her still-gutted home will not qualify for a loan from FEMA.
These people, like countless others in Moonachie and Little Ferry, have emptied retirement accounts, taken on staggering amounts of debt and put in countless hours of manual labor. But there is still much more work to be done.
A too-quiet morning
At the tail end of another quiet morning at Margie's Deli on Moonachie Street, the changes Sandy brought are measured in what is missing.
The freshly laid tiles on the floor are gleaming. The display refrigerators along a wall in the dining room hum. But there are no shouts from Raffaele Accetta in the kitchen, who jokes that when the line at the register grows several miles deep, as it used to at 9 a.m. on a weekday morning, he reverts to swearing in his native Italian.
On this Tuesday morning, Rosa Stefano, the sandwich maven, was preparing for lunch behind the counter. Raffaele, who goes by Ralph and owns the place with his wife, Connie, was training a new cook in the kitchen — the first new addition to the now four-person staff in months. Connie was wiping tables.
"How's the roasted chicken," she called to the kitchen.
"It's ready," Ralph replied.
"And the lentil soup?" Connie said, softly. Ralph didn't answer.
The calm is unnerving to the Accettas, high school sweethearts who grew up in Hoboken and borrowed deeply from their friends and family members to completely renovate and reopen the deli as soon as they could after the storm. They are proud of the transformation.
The first time they were allowed to return after the flood, so much spoiled food was strewn across the storeroom that it blocked the door. Floodwaters carried the freezers across the floor, which was covered with an oily silt.
They reopened quietly on Dec. 17, but more than a month later, many of their regular customers and commercial catering clients have yet to return.
"I guess it's because they don't know that we're open," Connie said. They are planning a formal reopening sometime soon.
The Accettas spent $65,000 to rebuild the deli, and they estimate that between the damage and lost business, the storm cost them as much as $140,000. They've been putting so much energy into rebuilding that they haven't even begun to repair the extensive damage to their Little Ferry home. After long days at the deli, they return to a plastic sheet blocking what used to be their kitchen. The couple recently received a letter from the insurance company informing them their policy would be canceled because they didn't pay the bill in January — a notice Connie found almost comically insensitive after the hours she has spent on the phone trying to get copies of documents damaged in the flood.
"It's been very tough," Connie said. "Once we leave here, we go home and we have that whole other situation."
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A 4-0 win over Mexico clinched the CONCACAF Championship and a birth in the 2014 U20 Women's World Cup for the USA U20's over the weekend!
The Americans rolled through the tournament outscoring their four opponents 29-0. Colorado Rush alum Lindsey Horan and Michigan Rush Alum Mallory Weber both contributed goals during the course of the tournament and will both be in the running to make the final World Cup roster when that tournament begins in Canada on August 5th.
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An airy and spacious apartment close to Portobello market with excellent Wi-Fi connection and easy access to commute options.
The flat is on the first floor of a beautiful old house with high ceilings and big windows. It is located only a few hundred metres from Ladbroke Grove tube station, and is a good size for two. You'll also have the place to yourselves as I'll only be letting out when I plan to be away.
The decort is simple and stylish. The kitchen is compact but well equipped for a short stay with small cooker, microwave, fridge, freezer, etc. There isn't a washing machine but there is a laundrette just across the road. The shower can be temperamental - so if you need a power shower every morning this flat probably isn't for you.
There's no TV but you can use the WiFi. The house is on a bus route - which is very convenient but can be a little noisy at night. There's one double bed, with a fold-up bed and spare duvet in the cupboard.
Notting Hill has many cafes, bars and restaurants and, of course, the market - which mainly happens on a Saturday, but there's a reduced antiques/clothing market on fridays/sundays and a fruit and vegetable market most days. There's two supermarkets within 100 metres (open 7am-11pm). And we're well-appointed for transport with many bus routes (which run throughout the night) and the tube - which can take you into London's glittering West End in 30-45 minutes (depending on time of day).
I would appreciate it if you would message me before making a reservation with the dates you are interested in and your arrival and departure times (so that I can be certain I would be available to check you in and out again). I would also appreciate it if you you add a short description and photo to your Wimdu profile (if you haven't already) before messaging: this is my home and I like to know a little about guests who may be staying in it. Please also let me know who any additional guests would be and I promise to get back to you quickly so that, if all is well, we can get the reservation confirmed swiftly.
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The flat was just as the description, the subway is just a few minutes walking and outside there is a bus stop that take you to the center, Nathan was there to receive us and give us the keys in the moment and helped with all the intructions needed for arriving and leaving, great help for anything and don't be afraid of the shower is good enough, we had a good stay.
Our stay was very confortable. The flat is very well situated, super close to the tube and Portobello Market. There are also some shops open late, the location is very convenient. The flat itself was practical and very luminous.
Nathan was easy to reach and very welcoming.
Everything was just perfect:
Nathan is a wonderful host, very kind and helpful.
The flat is cosy, has a nice atmosphere and it is perfectly situated.
It was a real pleasure to stay there.
Our stay in the Nathan's apartment was very nice and was true to the description.
Nathan was really attentive and he made our stay pleasant.
It's well located close Nothing Hill and Portobello market. The subway line is very close from the appart and with many busses you can reach every part of London.
Comfortable home away from home. Great location near Ladbroke Grove underground station and short stroll to nice restaurants, cafes and Portobello road markets. Nathan was a pleasure to deal with and provides plenty of tips for a nice stay.
The flat is perfect, very comfortable. It's near the underground and portobello market, so it's in a perfect area. Nathan was very helpful. Surely I'll come back in this flat in future
This flat was perfect for the two of us & had everything we needed and more! Will be booking here again in future. Great property & location for getting around London, good communication and overall host! Thanks Nathan
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The apartment is very comfortable, the localization is perfect and Nathan is very welcoming.
I'd definitely try and go to Nathan's again next time I come to London.
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How would lives and landscapes change if every car had a computer in the driver's seat?
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The car that will take Jane to the city and then go park itself will not be a 2012 model. The car that can reduce highway fatalities by 99 percent will not be a 2012 model either. Measured against those goals, the current state of the art for robotic vehicles looks pretty wimpy—but not hopeless.
Here's a story that gives a hint of what computer-controlled driving is like today. A vehicle named Talos, built by a team at MIT, was being prepared for the DARPA Urban Challenge, a competition staged in 2007 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In preliminary testing, Talos was nearing an intersection when it noticed another vehicle approaching on the cross street. The other car had the right of way, and so Talos stopped to wait. But then, because of "sensor noise," Talos momentarily lost track of the car. When the sensors reacquired the signal, the planning and guidance logic concluded it was seeing a new vehicle, which had just arrived at the intersection. This meant that Talos had priority, and so it started forward. So did the other car. They didn't collide, but it was a near thing.
This incident offers a fascinating glimpse into the mind of an alien intelligence, trying to make sense of a world where cars can pop in and out of existence without warning. The story also suggests we are still a long way from creating a computational agent with the kind of common sense needed to pass the road test for a driver's license. I believe this assessment of the situation is correct, but it gives the wrong impression about the prospects for building driverless automobiles.
Much of the recent work on autonomous vehicles treats driving as a problem in artificial intelligence and computer vision. The challenge is to extract meaning from sensory signals and form an accurate conceptual model of the roadway situation. With great effort, this approach may eventually succeed, though perhaps only in creating a computer driver as fallible as a human one.
There's another way to go about it. Instead of trying to replicate the driver's sensory faculties and mental model of the world, we can reengineer the world itself so that sophisticated perception and cognition are no longer needed. Consider again two cars at an intersection, trying to decide who goes first. Human drivers rely on subtle forms of communication, including eye contact and occasional hand-waving, to resolve this situation. Perhaps a computer could learn to do the same thing, but an easier course is to provide a data channel over which the cars can communicate and negotiate directly.
Aviation offers a useful point of reference. Commercial aircraft routinely fly under computer control (except at takeoff and landing). But the aircraft autopilot does not look out the window and try to interpret visual cues. Instead, the flight-management system relies on ground-based beacons, satellite signals and inertial navigation, as well as plane-to-plane data links for collision avoidance. Meanwhile a central facility (air-traffic control) coordinates the movements of aircraft and resolves conflicts.
Admittedly, navigation and traffic management are easier in the wide-open spaces of the sky than on crowded, quasi-one-dimensional roadways, but the same principles could be applied. With appropriate infrastructure, each car could have accurate and timely information about the state of the roadway and nearby cars—their positions, velocities and intentions. Even with such complete information, computing optimal paths for all the cars remains formidably difficult, but it is a problem of algorithms and control theory, not cognitive science.
The key first step in making this approach feasible is building a communication network linking nearby vehicles and roadside relay stations. Standards for such networks are already in preparation. Some version of the network is likely to be implemented soon for less-grandiose purposes, such as traffic reporting and entertainment.
Building new infrastructure is slow and expensive, so even if all the technological problems were solved, it would be years before large numbers of cars on large numbers of roads were routinely taking charge of their own movements. Thus there's time for planning and choosing what kind of transportation system we'd like to have. It's a good moment to be asking not just "Can we get there from here?" but also "Do we want to go?"
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To date Cartoon Network's smash animated series Adventure Time has seen a trio of dedicated iOS video game releases. While the first was an engaging (but sadly too short) point-and-click-style adventure, the latter pair have instead elected to put that Adventure Time spin on the now iconic endless runner genre. It was with these rather narrow preconceptions that I dove into the upcoming fourth iOS title Rock Bandits, only to discover that it was a horse of an entirely different color. #ladyrainicornpun
Rock Bandits instead has a bit more in common with the WayForward-developed Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?! than Canabalt or the Monkey Island series. It's a full-on platformer that challenges Finn and Jake to run, jump, smash, glide and, of course, slash their way through 20 levels spanning the breadth of the Land of Ooo. Continue Reading "An Exclusive First-Look at Adventure Time: Rock Bandits for iOS" »


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Posted by Richard Fichera on July 16, 2013
My Forrester colleagues Ted Schadler and John McCarthy have written about the differences between Systems of Reference (SoR) and Systems of Engagement (SoE) in the customer-facing systems and mobility, but after further conversations with some very smart people at IBM, I think there are also important reasons for infrastructure architects to understand this dichotomy. Scalable and flexible systems of engagement, engagement, built with the latest in dynamic web technology and the back-end systems of record, highly stateful usually transactional systems designed to keep track of the "true" state of corporate assets are very different animals from an infrastructure standpoint in two fundamental areas:
Suitability to cloud (private or public) deployment – SoE environments, by their nature, are generally constructed using horizontally scalable technologies, generally based on some level of standards including web standards, Linux or Windows OS, and some scalalable middleware that hides the messy details of horizontally scaling a complex application. In addition, the workloads are generally highly parallel, with each individual interaction being of low value. This characteristic leads to very different demands on the necessity for consistency and resiliency.


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Discarded fish eyes are being used by a Kiwi scientist to help early detection of diseases like diabetes and cancer.
Dr Luigi Sasso is undertaking research into the nanotechnology possibilities of proteins in hoki fish eyes at University of Canterbury's Biomolecular Interaction Centre.
Removing the protein from unwanted fish heads using a method developed in the UC lab, Dr Sasso is producing small nano-thin protein structures that can be manipulated and used for research.
The nano-fibres are up to 10,000 times smaller than a strand of human hair.
He said the research was a step toward solving many health issues in society.
"My research is based mainly on utilising biological materials for technology. In today's world, where us humans have abused and oppressed our natural environment for our purposes, I believe it is important to learn how to work together with the world we live in, especially when it comes to technological development," Dr Sasso said.
"The study of biological structures already found in nature can lead us to alternative methods to develop biosensors or other analytical devices from green nano-fibres which can be used to detect sugar levels for diabetics, lactose (for dairy-intolerant people) and downstream indicators of diseases such as cancer.
"How great would it be if you could go down to the pharmacy, pick up a cheap and easy to use device to check your blood for early stages of cancer and then toss it in the recycling bin when you're done? It would allow people to be aware of their health issues way before they reach a dangerous level, meaning that, in the end, more lives would be saved."
Dr Sasso is working with Dr Madhu Vasudevamurthy and Professor Juliet Gerrard, a world leading bionanotechnology expert. The team aims to put New Zealand at the forefront of bionanotechnology research.
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Pequot Lakes: Highway 371 project addressed
Pequot Lakes Mayor Nancy Adams asked the legislators what they could do to help make sure the Highway 371 four-lane expansion project doesn't get delayed again.
"Pequot Lakes has been very quiet because we knew two projects were ahead in the pecking order, and then we were next," Adams said.
Recently, she learned that suddenly two other vocal groups supporting their own highway projects had jumped ahead of the Highway 371 project.
"I think for the economy of this town, for the residents of the town, this is very disturbing," Adams said.
The legislators asked for a city council resolution.
Ward said the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is laying out the 2013-17 project list, which has led to competition for the 2018 project list, which the Highway 371 expansion project is still a part of.
Mark Jurchen, chair of the city's Economic Development Committee, said cities shouldn't have to wait 20 and 30 years or more for a project. He cited Staples' Highway 10 expansion project as an example.
"Something has happened to our ability to get things done in a timely fashion," Jurchen said. "The longer we delay it, the more it tears a community apart, the more money it costs, the more it has an affect on economic development. There has to be a timeline — and not 20 to 40 years like Staples dealt with. More like five to 10."
Brenda Myers' and her family's properties will be affected by the Highway 371 expansion in Pequot Lakes.
"This is taking forever, and keeping people hanging on the wire is hard on families, it's hard on businesses. We went through struggles with our own family," Myers said. "We decided to be last on the list because we want to live where we're at for as long as we can. My daughter and son-in-law decided to move on and sold to MnDOT last spring."
Myers also told legislators about a project she and others are working on to bring a regional park to land behind Eagle View Elementary School and the Lowell Wildlife Management Area for multi-recreational purposes, like horseback riding and snowmobiling.
"The initial interest is to preserve, conserve and sustain the area for rural living and horseback riding, and other recreational opportunities," she said, noting creation of this regional park also hinges on whether the Highway 371 project happens.


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Wow. So that came at me fast. Ten days ago they only had honey on the middle six frames and were just starting on the insides of the seventh and eighth. I had been given to understand that I was unlikely to see a harvest my inaugural year, do to the bees getting a late start, (mid April) and that they would need their first year's honey to overwinter.
My initial impulse was to get on the line to the local association about renting an extractor, but now I'm wondering if I shouldn't play it safer and just stack another super on top.
...Then REALLY make out like a bandit next year.


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2012 began for me with the Lupus Foundation of Minnesota asking me to be an ambassador for their organization. I was initially hesitant for a couple reasons. One was the lengthy flare I had been dealing with from the recent, and very sad, death of my father – I wasn't sure if I would be able to follow through. The second reason was my ongoing, on-and-off lupus diagnosis – I wasn't convinced that I would be a very good ambassador with my "lupus-like", "watching you for lupus", borderline ANA-negative, and undifferentiated mixed-connective tissue disease titles that I carried. I had only recently been declared as having lupus from my immunologist/autoimmune specialist in Plymouth, and I thought they might want someone with a more black and white case, not fifty shades of gray!
However, because I have had so many years of medical testing, hospitalizations, surgeries, placental abruptions/miscarriages, bleeding disorders, neurological issues and other crazy symptoms that have systemically affected me, and because my only child, a young daughter, was having similar problems and was being watched for lupus, I felt it was important to say yes.
People with autoimmune diseases need better care, testing and treatments. Period. This is especially true when diagnosed with multiple conditions. In the past 10 years, I have been told I have Hashimoto's, ITP, Raynaud's, fibromyalgia, autoimmune autonomic neuropathy, unexplained pancreatitis, inflammatory arthritis, degenerative arthritis, mixed-connective tissue disease, immune deficiency, and now lupus. Whew! In the years prior to this, I had a over a decade of anemia that didn't respond to medications, low platelets, bleeding and migraines. Yet through it all, no answers with minimal treatment.
The medical community, itself, needs to have a better understanding of lupus and other similar autoimmune diseases. Perhaps there should be more clinics, like the one my daughter and I now visit, that strictly specialize in immune/autoimmune conditions. (We should brainstorm on that, and other helpful changes we'd like to see in 2013!) Regardless, the lupus community needs assistance, our medical community, families and friends need more awareness of this disease and the research community needs funding to pull it all together.
As I began to volunteer and speak at a few gatherings, I found out how much this all bothered me. When faced with discussing my medical condition, as well as my daughter's, I found I had to speak broadly or I'd be overcome with emotion. Every day we face choices, pain and fatigue. Some days we face a new symptom or crisis. Other days we feel strong enough to push through, perhaps then "overdoing" it. Added stress causes flares, having fun outdoors causes flares from the UV, viruses linger on and create more fatigue, pregnancies can be dangerous, social gatherings are tricky and dare we plan a vacation? It seems no matter what we do, lupus creates a challenging situation. But the most frustrating part comes from the lack of understanding and treatments for it. It feels like you're going for ride, not knowing where, how or when you'll get there – and having to accept it whether you like it or not.
I decided I wanted to do more than just speak and be a face at the Walks, I was going to attempt to make a difference, even if it was just towards a few individuals. Through the help of Gwen, I created a "lupus ambassador" facebook page that I would share current research findings, inspirational stories and lupus facts.
After that, I decided to host a fundraiser the evening before the Lupus Walk for Hope and 5K Run-Duluth. I made a handful of calls and in less than an hour had raised funds, sponsors, food and beverages to hold the first "This Train is Bound for Glory" event. I was deeply touched by the overwhelming response by everyone I called. My bank donated money, Green Mill donated all the food, Bernick's Pepsi the beverages, my daughter's orthodontist donated funds, as well as a friend from church to sponsor the band's equipment rental -the band, MYNX, donated their time and talent, and my employer, the Lake Superior Railroad Museum & North Shore Scenic Railroad, donated the use of a multi-car train on a two and a half hour trip along the North Shore. KOOL 101.7 donated numerous radio spots and an interview. Volunteers were numerous, including the engineer, fireman, conductor, bartender, car host and the crews who put the train together and gave us heat on a cool October evening. Members of the local lupus support group jumped in and assisted with raffle prize tickets that evening too, and brought their families along for the ride. At the end of the night, we raised $3,000, had a wonderful time, gained television coverage and created relationships with sponsors who would like to participate next year if we do it again. Incredible support from all directions flowed in to benefit both myself, and the LFM event I was creating.
Reflecting on the year, I feel like I was the one who benefited the most, because I reconnected with some great friends from high school. Not only did one friend drive up here and support the walk, she brought a friend, her sister and brother in-law and has since asked me when next year's walk will be, so she can recruit more people to make the four hour drive to Duluth from our hometown. Wow! Then on Christmas morning, my grade school/middle school best friend from many, many years ago wrote on my Facebook page that she gave me a Christmas present this year – a donation to the Lupus Foundation of Minnesota! Between research advancements, awareness efforts, and the love and support I felt from new and old friends and family – 2012, with LFM, was a commitment I'm glad I accepted.
Peace and blessings to you. Happy New Year!


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I am finding myself needing (more out of convenience and code cleanliness than necessity) a specific type of container class that isn't already a part of the standard library. Like vector, since my container is resizable, I want to have more memory available than is actually currently being used. std::vector has the current 'size' and also the 'capacity' to grow without reallocations. When vector has the memory reserved, the reserved memory isn't automatically constructed as that could have undesired side-effects, or simply just not be possible if the templated type didn't have a default constructor.
So I basically have everything already written out, except I'd like some clarity about explicitly calling the constructors and destructors.
Question 1:
For allocating memory, without calling the constructors in the memory, which of these are considered better practice/more-common:
unsigned char *memory = new unsigned char[num * sizeof(MyType)]; void *memory = ::operator new(num * sizeof(MyType));Is this the time and place to use malloc() and free()?
Should I store the pointer as void* or unsigned char*?
Why unsigned char* over char*?
If I access a void* using the subscript operator[], will [n] access (n * sizeof(unsigned char)) or (n * sizeof(void*)) into that block of memory?
(I would assume sizeof(void*), but if void* is used for raw data access, I'd suspect people would want to increment a byte at a time)
Question 2:
Is this the correct way to manually call the constructor on raw memory?
new (&memory[atByte]) MyType(constructorArguments);
Is placement-new the only way?
Is this the correct way to destruct the object?
And I can turn around and reconstruct it (with placement new again) to reuse the memory location?
Question 3:
How am I supposed to free the raw memory? Just delete[]?
But I have to run through it and destructor all the objects that haven't been destructed yet, right?
But I can't destruct any objects that haven't been constructed yet, right?
Any other tips or traps to watch out for?


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Security professionals have been in high demand in recent years, but today, according to Schmidt, there's a surge in employers looking for security skills and certifications in all their job applicants, not just the ones for security positions.
"In virtually every job description I've seen in the last six months, there's been some use of the word security in there," he says. "Employers are asking for the ability to create a secure environment, whether the person is running the e-mail server or doing software development. It's becoming part of the job description."
This, Schmidt says, mirrors the trend toward integrating security into companies' day-to-day operations rather than considering it an add-on role performed by a specialist. Companies will still need security specialists and subject-matter experts, Schmidt says, but more and more, every IT person a company hires will have to have an understanding of the security ramifications of his area.
Hopkins echoes that sentiment. "Every single certification we do now has an element of security built in," he says. "We keep getting feedback from the market researchers that security touches everything and everyone. Even an entry-level technician better understand security."
Saunders says DeVry University has responded to this demand by adding a security curriculum to some of its campuses throughout the U.S. "Companies are increasingly interested in protecting their assets against cyberterrorism and internal threats," he says.


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With only one week left in the camper we were kind of sluggish in our plans for the time being and just headed in the general direction of Sydney.
We went for a very long drive through the forest down a old logging road to see some waterfalls. After the falls we were trying to get to the 'Fern Gully Walk' (just because it was called fern gully). We ran into a sign that said the road was closed, too bad for us because the only other way around was 50km back the way we came which took us a good hour to drive in the first place! So we (mostly me James who was driving) decided that it was not worth the gas to see trees when we had been surrounded by them for the last two hours. We did though come across another waterfall (Minie haha falls) and stopped to take some pics at the mini falls
When we finally emerged from the bush we went and found a camping spot along the 'ninety mile beach'. We went for a walk on the beach and found some shells and a dead stingray that was being eaten by birds. It was extremely windy and cloudy though so it was only a short walk.
The next day was Day 100 of our trip!!!!!
We went to the library to phone Jackie's dad because it was his B-day but all we got was an answering machine. We went and visited St.Mary's cathedral in a town, which neither of us can remember the name of, that had lots of muriel's and hand-paintings all over the ceilings and walls.
We then had a very healthy lunch at McDonald's because it was raining and neither of us wanted to cook. We looked on the map and noticed a name of a mountain nearby named 'Mount Little Dick' and just had to get a picture of the sign (...James was typing this, so let me correct him- JAMES just had to get a picture of a sign with the title on it).
We then went on a random search for a place called 'Cabbage Tree', it turns out it was at the end of another shit road and it ended up just being a 10 minute walk through the trees and then back to the carpark. We were going to stay there the night but thought against it considering it was along way off the road and we didn't want to be murdered by backwoods people. Instead we got lucky a few towns down the road and found a parking/campsite for free.