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#1 Thu 22 Mar 07 4:00am
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Organic Gardening
I'm very sure the new series will be inspiring vegie gardens all over the world. There is absolutely nothing like a home grown tomato, or sharing your produce with friends, family and neighboours. In cheers to World Water Day today, don't forget to consider water saving measures when establishing your home or communal crop - mulching, drip irrigation...
Big thanks for the show Jamie - its inspirational on so many levels (I love the guy in the show that manages your garden!).
#2 Thu 22 Mar 07 1:00pm
- Forum super champ Occupation Mother of 2 working more than full time
- From Wallerawang, Oz
- Member since Wed 29 Jun 05
Re: Organic Gardening
Or save the kids bath water & grab a bucket!
Im just getting my gardens in order as we moved in before Christmas, lucky for me & I have 5-6 tonnes of mulch arriving from the local tree lopping guy, my nephew used to work with him.
There is an old vegie patch up the back, but it has been sadly neglected, the weeds are bigger than me... lots of work on the horizon
#3 Thu 22 Mar 07 10:46pm
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- From Aberdeen, Scotland
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Re: Organic Gardening
I'm only 14 and I have been so inspired by jamie's garden I have decided to grow my own. This summer im building a small vegi patch in my garden. My family have backed my idea and i should be starting soon.
#4 Fri 23 Mar 07 4:17am
- Forum super champ Occupation Mother of 2 working more than full time
- From Wallerawang, Oz
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Re: Organic Gardening
Thats great Lew, I wish I had been that inspired at your age!
#5 Sat 24 Mar 07 9:54pm
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- Member since Mon 23 Oct 06
Re: Organic Gardening
Thats a lot of mulch Frizz! Good luck with your garden! How big will your garden be?
I started some seeds a couple of weeks ago; swiss chard/Lincoln peas/sweet basil and 2 baskets of nasturtiums... I went and looked at them today and they have all sprouted! Mind you they are in a heated house @ 20C but it's great when they all get going! I have a few more flats ready to go but need to pick up some more seeds.
I have never seen JO garden or the show you are talking about... I wonder if we get it here in Canada??
#6 Sat 24 Mar 07 11:29pm
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- From Alberta
- Member since Sat 24 Jun 06
Re: Organic Gardening
We are supposed to be getting it in April. I have been checking the Food Network webpage but so far no info.
I finally planted some Sweet Basil this morning. I could not find any seeds or plants last summer! Hopefully they will sprout soon (and the cats don't get them while I'm not looking - no one has told them they aren't herbivores!)
Hope you are having a great day.
#7 Sat 24 Mar 07 11:34pm
- Forum champ Occupation Mom and TKD Red Stripe
- From Alberta
- Member since Sat 24 Jun 06
Re: Organic Gardening
Just checked again and this is what I found! It starts on April 1st - Yah!!
I hope the link works ( I don't have much luck with stuff like this )
#8 Sun 25 Mar 07 6:37am
- Forum champ Occupation Registered Nurse
- From Adelaide, OZ
- Member since Tue 03 Aug 04
Re: Organic Gardening
I'm lucky - I have a gardener who does as I tell him.
#9 Sun 25 Mar 07 9:35am
- Forum super champ Occupation avoiding housework
- From The land of song.
- Member since Tue 04 Oct 05
Re: Organic Gardening
I have a tiny garden but its a walled garden ,lovely old stone walls that have endless places for the slugs and snails to hide !
After 16 years of living in the house and removing all slugs and snails as I find them, I do beleive that we are beginning to get on top of the problem!
I think that I might be able to plant a few asparagas crowns this year in my tiny border.
The asparagas gives a beautiful fine fern which for the flower arangers amongest us ,( and I can not be counted as one! ), are lovely in flower arangements.
But the real reason for planting some is the delicious asparagas that just seems to pop up overnight during the short asparagas season. My father had a huge asparagas bed in his garden ,its something that I miss.
For the 'hayfever' sufferers ....its low pollen .
#10 Mon 26 Mar 07 12:25am
- Member Occupation Still at school
- From Aberdeen, Scotland
- Member since Fri 24 Nov 06
Re: Organic Gardening
This sounds great, i always love to cook freshly grown foods.
Does anyone know where to find herbs, i so want to plant them???/
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I was out in my backyard for a good long while today, 8 degrees with a torch in my hand thawing out my well-head. Good snow covering, plenty of sunshine. Felt amazing really, was warm due to black clothing. Dogs were running around, sniffing my equipment, just enjoying their black coats and nippy ambient air.
Something set them off, dunno what but they began to play. Hard play, head down full pumping runs back and forth, much growling and chatter.Then the jumping and chest bashing and chase/roll/wrestle. Went on for a long time while I kneeled down with a torch. Killed me to sit there and watch them go berserk and not join in, but having water kinda trumps frolicking in the snow.
What I noticed:
Cable(3-ish y/o male) was toying with Allie(female, almost a year now). Allie has him on cut and run for a few strides, but Cable is a PREDATOR. He's an adult and his mind is lightening fast, he anticipated and tracked, setting the poor girl up for some massive rolls. He's lean and cut and has explosive acceleration linearly. He can't switch direction quite like Allie can and has nothing like her ability to jump. If Allie kept the speeds down, she could dance around him and avoid the turf, the second she vectored Cable was on her with the quickness. Cable's closure angles were spot on, I also noticed he has a penchant for using obstacles(trees, bushes) to narrow the preys choices of escape. Wolves must be eerie to watch with their undiluted predator skills.
I was getting a bit worried that Cable was going to click over into real predator mode, Allie was being such a good little prey item. However the tables turned and Allie became the hunter. I didn't catch the que, or see anything that established her as the chaser. Yet, she started chasing and Cable duly ran from her. That game was a lot more chasing and way less contact, Cable stuck to his strong points of muscling the speed and minimizing the turns, Allie misjudged the intercept angles just enough for him to slide by(or she was intentionally blowing the skin/skin vector). But OH MY WORD can that girl jump. Seemingly effortless 4+ foot vertical(bottom of outstretched feet) leaps, compact landings wherein she angled off at acute angles. In tight she is well nigh uncatchable. Her moves reminded me of my Mal. If Allie stays small(she is mid 40s now) she might be a candidate for agility, she sure has the aptitude for it.
I was out there for a couple of hours. Once I had thawed the well-head I began running conduit for a heat lamp and new well cover. I was busy, staying moving so I didn't get cold. The dogs wanted to play and play and play and play. Sunny and single digits makes GSDs frisky beyond belief. I didn't want to get my hands wet with snow as I was handling a butane torch for connection, so fetch was out. So I began kicking snow at them. Great game. They began bombing runs on me, wide angle swooping attacks. If I timed it right they would get a snoot full of snow, take a fall and roll around in the snow. They made up the game. It had rules. These dogs amaze me.
In the time I was out there, possibly 1.5 to two hours the mutts were moving around in a high-cardio state for at least 50% of the time. My work took longer as I was splitting my concentration between the dogs and work. I was sorta sad when the work was done, as it meant bedtime for me but I wanted to stay out there in the bitter cold and watch my dogs just be dogs. Unfettered and no stress, just reveling in the great play weather. So I sat down(gore-tex pants for the win) and watched for awhile. When the dogs saw me just sitting there they came over, gave me hello nose bumps and curled up next to me. I'm not an overly emotional person by any stretch, but it almost made tears come to my eyes. Sitting in the snow in single digit weather wishing it could be like that all the time and it was because of two dogs. Says something eh?
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On Tuesday we got our first tiny tease of the new promo materials for Madonna's new 2-disc greatest hits album titled Celebration and today we get our first look at the cover artwork for the package. As you may recall, on Tuesday we saw two short teaser video clips that featured Andy Warhol-like graphics and today we learn that the official album artwork for Madonna's new greatest hits package features the same theme. Here is her new album artwork long with the press release for Celebration:
Madonna, who has racked up a record 37 top 10 hits as well as seven No. 1 albums (including her last four) on the Billboard Pop Charts, has given her fans yet another opportunity to "celebrate" her musical achievements. Today, Warner Bros. Records officially confirmed the September 28th release in the U.S. (September 29 outside U.S.) of "CELEBRATION" – the ultimate compilation of Madonna songs. The songs on "Celebration" have all been remastered and selected by Madonna and her fans. They cover the expanse of the Material Girl's extraordinary career of hits including "Everybody," "Express Yourself," "Vogue" and "4 Minutes." "Celebration" will be available in a two-CD set as well as a single CD. There will also be a "Celebration" DVD released simultaneously which includes the video visionary's best videos including several that have never before been available on DVD. "Celebration," the CD will also include two new songs that were recently recorded in New York City. The first single, also titled, "Celebration," co-produced by Madonna and Paul Oakenfold, will be released August 3rd. A video for the single, which will be included on the "Celebration" DVD was just filmed in Milan, Italy and was directed by long time Madonna collaborator Jonas ("Ray of Light") Akerlund. Several dance club remixes of "Celebration" are already headed to the clubs. The song will also be available on CD and vinyl maxi. Radio will receive the "Celebration" single on August 3rd. The cover for "Celebration" was created by street pop artist "Mr. Brainwash" who is best known for "throwing modern cultural icons into a blender and turning it up to eleven." Madonna, a multi Grammy award winning singer, writer and producer has had over 12 No. 1 singles and has a record-smashing 39 No. 1 singles on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs Chart – by far the most of any artist in the over 30 year history of the list.
Okay … so the cover art is pretty cool but I'm not sure I'm feelin' the scowl on Maddy's face. She looks disgusted, not celebratory. In any regard, it's a very striking cover and I'm sure it'll do well with fans. I'm bummed to learn that there are only 2 new songs on the disc rather than the 3 we've been hearing about. Now that we know what's in store, we can better judge whether or not this 2-disc greatest hits package is worth picking up. So … who's buying?
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It was autumn in Iran's province of West Azerbaijan and village roofs were sprouting towering, bristling stacks of hay and straw, agricultural high-rises to see precious animals through the approaching winter.
Men, women and beasts need all they can muster to keep warm up here... when I visited this region in February a few years ago, the snow lay metres deep and villagers were frenetically sweeping snow off the roofs to prevent them from collapsing.
Some of the rooftop adornments consist of straw gleaned from the undulating wheat fields that surround the villages. This is Iran's bread-basket and now that the harvest is in, the landscape is tawny gold as the stubble bakes in something of an Indian summer heat wave.
We are little more than 150km from Iran's border with Iraq. It is hard to imagine, in this tranquil rural backwater, that turmoil and destruction is so close by.
In spring and before the harvest West Azerbaijan, with its adobe villages that seem as natural a part of the landscape has the farmlands themselves, would be alluring enough for travellers. But there is another reason for deviating from what passes as the main tourist trail in Iran.
Beside a road where shepherds still tend their flocks of sheep and goats on foot or by donkey lies one of Ithe country's most far flung World Heritage sites - Takht-e Soleiman.
Iran, at the best of times, receives proportionally few overseas tourists and some particularly adverse publicity this year has reduced that number even further.
Add to this the fact that western Iran is one of the least visited regions and it is no exaggeration to say we are well off the beaten track.
Being the only overseas visitors in towns or villages in Iran is not unusual of course, but it still seems extraordinary to find one's group almost the sole tourists in a UNESCO-listed site on a perfect autumnal day.
Ancient rulers, possibly dating back to the great Persian kings, the Achaemenids in the 5th century BC, certainly knew a good location when they saw one.
Takht-e Soleiman, which translates as the throne of Solomon, is perched on the top of a volcanic plug, in the centre of which is a crater lake.
The ruins that stand here today date mostly back to the sixth and seventh centuries AD however, when Sassanian kings encircled the cone with a wall and 38 stone towers. Inside they built palaces and - most importantly - three fire temples.
This fortified town, on its volcanic cone, still dominates its surroundings, even in their semi-ruined state. In its glory days it must have been truly imposing as well as easy to defend.
The rulers of old would not only have had the psychological advantage of being above their subjects, but would also have felt in touch with the elements, with the water mysteriously but continuously welling up in the crater lake and the wind whistling around the ramparts.
Fire temples are one of the most essential elements of the Zoroastrian religion, which was the dominant belief system in ancient Persia before the Arab invasion in the 7th Century AD.
Zoroastrianism is considered one of the first monotheistic religions and veneration of the four elements of earth, water, fire and air are vital elements of their beliefs. There are still thousands of Zoroastrians living in Iran today.
They are often wrongly called fire worshippers. Even today a fire burns continuously in their remaining fire temples, but it is not worshipped, rather used as a symbol - a visual dynamic reminder of their belief in the god Ahura Mazda and the goddess Anahita.
At Takht-e Soleiman there are three fire temples (which once housed sacred flames) and it was these that drew worshippers for many centuries.
Just as they would thousands of years ago, visitors must walk up the slope of the volcanic cone to the arched stone gateway. What makes this entry rather different to many other castle entrances is the fast flowing stream that flanks the path. Smelling faintly of sulphur, its edges encrusted with mineral deposits, this is the outflow from the crater lake within the fortification's walls.
Even today, with the palace and temples in ruins around it, the lake exudes a powerful sense of presence. It is easy to see why it appealed as a place from which to perform religious ceremonies.
From its banks, and beyond the encircling walls, hills stretch away in all directions, with the most eye-catching of all being another dramatic volcanic cone known as Solomon's Prison.
Despite the references to Solomon, there's absolutely nothing in the archaeological finds here or the history of the site to indicate it had anything at all to do with King Solomon.
Throughout Iran there are sites named after Biblical references. It's believed this was the locals' way of protecting Zoroastrian sites, especially from destruction by the invading Muslim Arabs.
The latter were intent on wiping out any rival religions and the locals, though willing to embrace Islam, were equally determined to protect what they still held as sacred.
By declaring that fire temples or palaces had links with Biblical and Koranic figures that were held sacred in Islam as they were in Judaism or Christianity, they saved them from destruction.
It seemed to work, although subsequently did lead to some historical confusion. The tomb of Darius, the great Achaemenid king, for example, was "disguised" as Solomon's mother's tomb and as a result is still intact today near Shiraz in southern Iran.
Set around the lake are the remains of royal palaces and the fire temples, one of which was dedicated to the Sassanian warrior classes.
To most visitors they are simply picturesque and ancient ruins but experts believe the barrel-vaulted palace reception rooms and other structures contain architectural elements that were later adopted by Islamic builders in the centuries that followed.
After the Mongols, including Tamerlane in the 15th century invaded, Takht-e Soleiman was abandoned and left to slowly crumble on its volcanic peak.
Now protected from further destruction (including preventing locals from using the stone ramparts and other buildings like a take-away quarry) it remains a testament to the long-lost glories of empire.
Its dramatic location is also proof that the real estate mantra of location, location, location has been in operation for several millennia.


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Pitoniak: Joseph delivers in clutch
Syracuse University's senior forward couldn't make a shot to save himself, misfiring on 10 of his first 13 shots as the second-ranked Orange men found themselves in a battle to the finish with a pesky South Florida squad that came into the Carrier Dome riding a four-game win streak and a 10-4 Big East Conference record.
But despite Josephs' struggles, SU head coach Jim Boeheim wasn't about to give up on him.
You go to go-to guys even when they are throwing up enough bricks to construct a new dormitory on campus.
"He told me that great players forget about everything that happened and you just keep playing,'' Joseph recalled afterward. "Coach was very confident in me. He kept coming back to me and my teammates were doing the same."
And that faith was repaid handsomely down the stretch as Joseph scored seven of SU's final 12 points in a 56-48 win.
The 6-foot-7, 235-pounder from Montreal had two huge put-backs in the final four minutes. On a night when the Orange men again struggled on the boards (they were out-rebounded 41-31), Joseph aggressively followed up on his misses to ice the Cuse's 28th win in 29 games.
"I played terrible the whole game until I made those plays,'' he said after a 12-point, 9-rebound effort.
This is the pattern the Orange men have followed of late. They've gotten off to unnervingly slow starts, they've struggled to put together complete offensive games, they've been dominated on the boards, but they've emerged with victory after victory because they play hellacious defense, don't turn the ball over and come up with some huge baskets during crunch time.
It hasn't been pretty, but it has been incredibly effective.
"We don't panic; we don't lose our confidence, no matter how much we might be struggling," Joseph said. "We have a lot of guys who can make plays, and we believe that it's all going to turn out well in the end."
This was a very strange game - a game where SU showed it could be as explosive as any team in the country with a 26-0 run and a game in which it shot just 35 percent from the field and its starting lineup was held scoreless for the first 12 minutes and 24 seconds.
If you are looking for key stats, winning stats, try these on for size: SU had nine blocks - six by Fab Melo; 11 steals and just nine turnovers. There was one stretch where the Orange held South Florida without a point for 11 minutes and 22 seconds. And those 26 consecutive points marked the 13th time this season SU has had a run of 10 or more straight points.
Scoop Jardine hit some key shots on his way to a team-high 15 points and C.J. Fair had his typical fill-up-the-stat sheet night with 13 points, six rebounds, three assists and five steals.
Add it all up and SU pulls out another down-to-the-wire victory to improve to 18-0 at the Dome.
"We'd rather not be facing situations like these, but if you look at this game it could be a positive thing, where if we are in a situation like this in the tournament then we'll be ready,'' Joseph said. "We've been in these situations a few times this season. I think it will help us a lot in the long run."
It no doubt will. But SU will need to get its offense out of first gear if it wants to make a run at the national championship. That means shooting the ball more consistently and hitting the boards better, especially on the offensive end. And it means getting off to better starts.
March Madness is just around the corner, but two interesting regular-season tests remain. Saturday night the Orange men go on the road to play a Connecticut team that took them to the limit in the Dome before fading in the final five minutes in their Feb. 11 meeting. The Huskies have been erratic, but are talented and could use a victory over the nation's second-ranked team in order to keep their NCAA tournament hopes alive. The following Saturday SU will host a Louisville team looking to avenge its loss to the Orange nine days ago.
Good challenges for SU as it prepares for the Big East tournament and the NCAAs.
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Same here, Champs for me. Sometimes I'll get the 100 pack UMC HPs for range too.
Federal Champion because of Federal's reputation, and the fact that they are the cheapest 9mm ammo I can get. The local Wal Mart sells the 100 round value pack for $19.95.
Same here, Champs for me. Sometimes I'll get the 100 pack UMC HPs for range too.
The Winchester White Box really dirties up my guns, but performs good enough. I don't like to shoot steel cased in any gun except my Com-Bloc ones.
I like the WWB ..
100 round value box is 23 bucks at our walmart..
I just ran a 250rnd box of UMC yellow box FMJ's from Wallmart thru my M&P and had 3-4 misfeeds. The rounds looked 1/16" shorter overall than the Federal FMJ I had left over from previous outing..
I like the Blazer brass and Sellier & Bellot best, Fed is fine, WWB okay. I've run Tula and Silver Bear through my 9mm without a problem, but like others I prefer not to shoot steel except through Com-Bloc guns like IJ-70 Mak pistol and SKS rifle.
Like the Winchester White Box 9MM and also PMC. Have not liked the Federal Champions that much, alot of deformed and damaged bullets, and I seem to get a lot of fliers with them, only use them when I can't get anything else.
I voted other since I just bought 200 rounds from freedom munitions and it was about the same price as TulAmmo (which nearly got me run off the range) they had some silly idea it caused fires. Anyway it's steel cased and all the freedom munitions stuff I saw was brass. Even the reman 40S&W I bought looks like new man.
Palmetto arms free shipping bonanza.. Magtech 9mm, $10.99/box of 50, free ship, no tax... SOLD!
I grabbed 500 myself, and tlr4 and 2 boxes of critical defense, and, and, and...
I second the Federal champion at wall Mart, 100 round value pack for $19.95...you can't find ammo any cheaper. Now all they have to do is keep it stocked.
Like Berattatoter,I use silver bear exclusively though.I never had a FTF or any ammo problem,but Wolf wont work in my cz-82.When my fingers came away filthy from handling the ammo I quit.The silver bear is so close to my main carry of hornady critical defense I see no reason to change.I stay away from wally world as much as possible and support my local GS who gives me a good deal.
If you find a box of Estate ammo try it. You will feel and hear the difference, this ammo kicks. It is accurate and shoots clean, too. It's not the easiest to find.
I would not recommend Tula in any caliber... They are extremely hot loads that spew fire like a dragon and run horrendously dirty....
Personally I prefer Winchester white box because it's been the most consistent out of any of the 9mm target rounds that I've shot. I'm thinking of trying my own loads with 125gr Montana Gold JHP for target and comp loads. They are useless for defense but from what i've heard consistent and reliable as hell for target and competition loads, and $120.00 for 1k bullets. I plan on using CCI primers, winchester brass and I'm still experimenting with powders. I want to run a hot powder but at relatively low pressure to try and gain an edge in competition as far as lesser recoil for quicker target acquisition..... and now that i read it all it looks like im trying to hijack the thread sry....
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I voted other, i'm new to shooting and have been using Independence ammo. Haven't had any problems.
If I could get it, I'd shoot the Remmington UMC all the time, it's the cheapest where I live and I've had no issues at all- 2nd choice would be Federal Champion, it's $2 more / 100a, but has also been flawless for me.....
The only Winchesterr I've shot was "white box" that was labeled "9mm NATO" and I had a few FTP's, but I'd give it another shot (pun intended)...
In my experience, Blazer Brass is the worst of the ones thati'very shot; lots of FTP's & FTP's; I won't buy it again!


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Clouds in the summer sky provide clues about the organization of star populations
Bruce Elmegreen, Yuri Efremov
At the beginning of the universe, when the galaxies first appeared, there were no stars at all. The galaxies began as condensations of hot gas, and only after they had time to cool did the first stars begin to form. The densest galaxies worked quickly, turning all of their gas into stars when the universe was still quite young. Others, such as our own Milky Way, puttered along at a relatively modest rate of star formation. Indeed, our Galaxy has a lot of gas left, and is still forming stars today at the rate of about 10 new stars every year. These stars are formed in what might be called a stellar nursery: a vast cloud of gas and dust where hundreds or thousands of stars may be born within a few million years of each other. The authors describe how stars form in such large groups, and why some groups stay together as they age, whereas others disperse.
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You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/page2/1998/3/the-formation-of-star-clusters
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This girl can do everything! With Robert Pattinson busy filming overseas, K-Stew decided to travel to Nashville, Tenn. and get behind the camera for once to direct a music video for her friends from the band, Sage & the Saints, and HollywoodLife.com got all the EXCLUSIVE details.
Kristen Stewart has had a little downtime in between projects, but she isn't taking a break by any means. Instead of sitting at home and waiting for Robert Pattinson to return, a source tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively that the Twilight actress headed to Tennessee to take a stab at directing.
Kristen Stewart Directs A Music Video
K-Stew teamed up with the band Sage & the Saints to film a music video in Nashville, which could be the first step towards Kristen's dreams of one day directing a full-length feature film. "This was really good experience for her," the source told us. "Directing is something she wants to do a lot more of, plus screenwriting."
The video was filmed at Short Mountain Distillery in Nashville, according to the insider, and it really freed Kristen up and let her explore her creativity as a first-time director.
And as it turns out, the music video project was only slightly separated from Kristen's relationship with Rob, because the band's leader, Sage, is a mutual friend of the couple's.
Kristen Stewart Staying Busy Away From Robert Pattinson
It's great to see K-Stew getting out there and tackling a new challenge — and judging by the happy fan pictures she's taken in Nashville, it's clear that her trip was a massive success.
So even though Kristen can't be together with Robert Pattinson right now, she's finding new outlets to keep her busy and make her feel fulfilled. What do you think, HollywoodLifers? Let us know!
— Andrew Gruttadaro
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Lately there have been alot of home invasions, and seems like the trend is only going up. One of the last ones I read about was FIVE invaders.
Here is my question for you fellas/ladies. If your home were invaded, and you were able to post up at the top of your staircase in a defensive position while significant other handles 911. Would using an AK47 type weapon with a 40 round magazine be considered excessive?
Considering you would be at the top of the stairs I would think the angle of fire would definitely reduce the likely hood of a round going anywhere
but toward the BG's and the ground. Reducing the risk of injuring innocents.


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A life-saving hobby
How the internet and an enquiring mind are not necessarily dangerous!
Written by Greyowl55, published about 1 year ago.
My life-long hobby has been genealogy; family history. Such things as ages and causes of death interest genealogists. I spotted a cluster of cancer related deaths at young ages in one distant section of the family, made contact and was told that they had VHL. Wondered why my father had died at 43 of a brain tumour. In 1965 these things were not known. Obtained his death certificate - a hemangioblastoma. Did some research, made the connection - approached my doctor with a file of papers and he agreed to refer me to the genetecist. Blood test - positive for VHL. All the bits of the jigsaw fell in to place; the vision disturbance, the ridiculously high blood pressure, the uncontrollable sweating, the abdominal pains, the feelings of impending doom.
I can only say that but for my hobby and but for our superb National Health Service here in the UK, I would no longer be here.
Things have been quiet since my adrenal glands were removed 6 years ago. But, since the discovery of a tumour in my spinal cord at Christmas, I feel it in my blood that things are limbering up again, so I have started a tweet on twitter.com to log progress.
Search for @greyowl55 if you wish to follow.
And best wishes to all my fellow sufferers!
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Aereo Online-TV Service Questioned by U.S. Supreme CourtGreg Stohr and Alex Barinka
U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned the legality of Aereo Inc., the Barry Diller-backed startup aiming to upend the broadcast industry's decades-old business model by selling live television programming over the Internet.
Hearing arguments today in Washington, some justices suggested they viewed Aereo as violating broadcaster copyrights by using thousands of dime-sized antennas to get over-the-air signals without paying fees.
"There's no technological reason for you to have 10,000 dime-sized antennas other than to get around the copyright laws?" Chief Justice John Roberts asked.
At the same time, the hour-long hearing didn't clearly indicate the likely outcome, as justices including Stephen Breyer repeatedly asked whether a ruling favoring the broadcasters would imperil the cloud computing business.
Aereo would give consumers a new way to watch broadcast television without buying the packages offered by cable and satellite companies. It now lets customers in 11 cities watch live and recorded broadcast programs for as little as $8 a month.
Broadcasters including CBS Corp. and Walt Disney Co.'s ABC say a legal victory for Aereo would devastate the industry, creating a blueprint that would let cable and satellite providers stop paying billions of dollars in retransmission fees each year to carry local programming.
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The broadcasters drew support from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who told Aereo's lawyer, "you are the only player so far that doesn't pay any royalties at any stage."
The threat posed by Aereo was magnified last year when a federal appeals court said the company wasn't infringing the broadcasters' copyrights. ABC, CBS, Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal, 21st Century Fox Inc., Tribune Co. and the Public Broadcasting Service are asking the Supreme Court to reverse that ruling.
The broadcasters' lawyer, Paul Clement, met resistance from justices who asked about the implications for other technologies, including cloud computing.
"Are we somehow catching other things that really will change life and shouldn't, such as the cloud?" Breyer asked.
Off-Premise Storage
Cloud computing is the delivery of content, like video, through the Internet. The information isn't stored on-site with the user; instead, it is held off-premise in servers managed by a cloud provider.
Online storage services -- including offerings from Dropbox Inc., Box Inc. and Google Inc. -- manage online content for customers through the cloud.
Users can upload photos, videos, personal documents and other information over the Internet to be stored on remote servers, which allow the data to be accessed across customers' phones, tablets and computers.
Clement argued that a ruling against Aereo wouldn't impede online storage companies because there is a "fundamental difference" between customers uploading their own content and the dissemination of content that is new to the customer.
Justice Elena Kagan picked up on that argument, asking Aereo's lawyer whether the court could draw a line to insulate companies that are just "providing the space" so that users can store their own content.
Aereo's lawyer, David Frederick, said a ruling for the broadcasters "absolutely threatens cloud computing."
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The court fight centers on a provision in the federal copyright law that gives owners the exclusive right to perform their works "publicly." The appeals court said Aereo's service is legal because the separate antennas let each customer create a distinct copy of a broadcast program for viewing, so no public transmission takes place.
The broadcasters say Aereo is trying to use a technical detail to circumvent well-established legal rights. The Obama administration is backing the broadcasters.
Aereo says it is facilitating thousands of "one-to-one" transmissions from an antenna to a customer's screen. The company says its system is legally indistinguishable from the antennas homeowners have placed on their own roofs for decades.
Aereo also distributes Bloomberg TV to subscribers. Bloomberg LP is the parent company of Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Television.
With retransmission fees estimated to exceed $4 billion this year, some broadcasters say they may convert to cable channels if Aereo isn't shut down. Conversion to a cable network would mean that broadcast signals would no longer be freely available over the airwaves.
The court will rule by early July in the case, American Broadcasting Cos. v. Aereo, 13-461.


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The Politics of Evangelical Identity:
It is now a common refrain among liberals that Christian Right pastors and television pundits have hijacked evangelical Christianity for partisan gain. The Politics of Evangelical Identity challenges this notion, arguing that the hijacking metaphor paints a fundamentally distorted picture of how evangelical churches have become politicized. The book reveals how the powerful coalition between evangelicals and the Republican Party is not merely a creation of political elites who have framed conservative issues in religious language, but is anchored in the lives of local congregations.
Drawing on her groundbreaking research at evangelical churches near the U.S. border with Canada—two in Buffalo, New York, and two in Hamilton, Ontario—Lydia Bean compares how American and Canadian evangelicals talk about politics in congregational settings. While Canadian evangelicals share the same theology and conservative moral attitudes as their American counterparts, their politics are quite different. On the U.S. side of the border, political conservatism is woven into the very fabric of everyday religious practice. Bean shows how subtle partisan cues emerge in small group interactions as members define how "we Christians" should relate to others in the broader civic arena, while liberals are cast in the role of adversaries. She explains how the most explicit partisan cues come not from clergy but rather from lay opinion leaders who help their less politically engaged peers to link evangelical identity to conservative politics.
The Politics of Evangelical Identity demonstrates how deep the ties remain between political conservatism and evangelical Christianity in America.
Lydia Bean is senior consultant to the PICO National Network, the largest multiracial network in the United States bringing low- and moderate-income faith communities into public life.
"Bean's work is refreshing. Not only does she offer a persuasive alternative to prevailing theories on the relationship between evangelicals and politics, she does so in a clear and compelling way, drawing on a trove of original evidence obtained via diligent, on-the-ground research. The Politics of Evangelical Identity is required reading for anyone looking to make sense of the connection between evangelicals and politics in North America and should be part of this conversation for the foreseeable future."--Daniel Bennett, Journal of Church and State
"The Politics of Evangelical Identity is a bracing corrective to the perception of evangelicals as theological stooges mesmerized by the spell of conservative masterminds. Bean persuasively argues that the appeal of conservatives in the evangelical base has far more to do with how they connect the political to everyday spiritual and religious practices. Her path-clearing and transformative book brilliantly engages the political perspectives, moral passions, and religious beliefs of evangelicals from a practical, grounded perspective."--Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University
"The Politics of Evangelical Identity is a very important book, a truly original and deeply insightful exploration of why America's white evangelical Christians allied with the political Right to a degree that evangelicals in other countries have not. Writing with flair, respect, and understanding, Bean shows how American evangelicals have woven political conservatism into the fabric of everyday religious life. This book should permanently alter how both its friends and its critics view the Religious Right."--E. J. Dionne, Jr., author of Souled Out and Our Divided Political Heart
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Jun 5, 2013 - Melissa Aronsing, Corning, N.Y.Editor:
I am not a resident of your city, and I do not mean to butt in where I am not wanted. But I do want to share an opinion on the Memorial Day speech I happened to hear at the Mountain View Cemetery by your mayor of Riverton, Mr. Warpness.
I was in your area to see a young relative at her high school graduation before driving on to Yellowstone, and I went to the cemetery to see the grave of another relative on Memorial Day.
While there, I heard the mayor start off with a traditional sort of speech and some anecdotes about his childhood (I take it he grew up in Riverton).
But then it jumped into a partisan-style diatribe criticizing the president and his administration, mentioning the IRS investigation and other things.
This is supposed to be a holiday honoring, first and foremost, our deceased military veterans. The president is the commander in chief, for one thing, even if you didn't vote for him. (My brother was career military and a Vietnam veteran, which the introduction said the mayor also was).
Aside from that, a Memorial Day speech at a cemetery is not the time or the place for a political speech. He should have talked about his days in service or something appropriate to the day. Keep the politics out of a graveside speech on Memorial Day. That should be a time and place where divisive issues can be set aside.
This was most unfortunate and inappropriate. I should add that I did enjoy your mayor's remarks comparing life to a loom. I think he should have left it at that.
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If you need a reminder of the brilliance of art made here, it's especially evident with nearly every local venue digging into Ocean State creativity this month — from the RISD Museum opening its big survey of "Locally Made" art to AS220's steady monthly showcases of art made here.
It's unusual — but welcome — to see our big institutions like RISD putting art made here at center stage. But what's not unusual is to see collector and philanthropist Joseph Chazan behind a lot of it.
"NetWorks 2011/2012," his fifth roundup of Rhode Island-made art since 2008, is at the Newport Art Museum (76 Bellevue Ave, through September 15). One can quibble with some of who's in and who's out, but "NetWorks," with 10 to 20 artists in each edition featured in exhibitions, catalogues, and — especially — individual video profiles (see youtube.com/user/NetWorks Project2008), is a primary record of the cream of Rhode Island artists of our era.
Among 25 artists in the current show are WaterFire founder Barnaby Evans and Eugene Lee, resident set designer for Trinity Rep since the '60s, a designer for Saturday Night Live since 1975, and the winner of multiple Tony Awards, including his 2004 prize for sets for the Broadway production of Wicked.
Brian Chippendale's 2011 collage, drawing, and painting The High Castle depicts a hill that's a sort of fairyland garbage dump jumble — with ragged fences, a broken airplane, a boat, a toadstool, jack-o'-lantern heads, a dome city, and butterflies. A cat-headed guy warms its hands at a hobo fire. At the summit stands a ramshackle wooden shack that radiates bands of artificially-flavored rainbow hues, like the building is possessed or it's an alien craft landing from outer space. The title seems to reference a Philip K. Dick novel that imagines America losing World War II. The whole composition is sort of melting and hallucinatory — and feels like castoffs of America. The High Castle is a knockout artwork, one of the best made in Rhode Island in the past decade.
Corey Grayhorse grooves in this same candyland psychedelia that has been a signature of Providence over the past couple decades; her photos merge fashion and dreams. She's a better photographer than her four prints here suggest, but Come On Now Child (2013) gives you a taste of her style: a blonde, brown-skinned model pulls along a girl sporting a cat mask in front of a big blue wall.
Mark Taber's Mind Your Ps and Qs (2013) is a shiny chrome carriage decorated with hearts and stars and twinkling chandeliers, that seems to be driven by a Jazz Age magic rocket engine.
Philip Jameson's 1991 black-and-white photo Yosemite Lower Falls shows a great rush of white water of crashing down against coal black rocks. It's the sublime beauty and power of nature, done in an Ansel Adams style. Richard Fishman's monumental bronze cast of the stump of an elm tree is a simple, straightforward idea. It sits in the middle of the gallery, split in two suggesting a pair of benches, and slowly radiating elemental power.
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Chico teacher takes class on bike ride
CHICO, Calif. - A new trend is becoming very popular at one Chico elementary school.
Sixth grade teacher Phil Swingle at Park View Elementary School takes his students on bike rides for field trips and at the same time learning about safety.
"There's a lot of stuff you can teach about ratios, and there's mathematical things you can learn using a bicycle," said Swingle.
At the start of the school year, Swingle began using bikes for all kinds of activities like teaching his class about bike safety or taking students on bike rides throughout the city of Chico.
So far this year, they have taken field trips to Chico State and Bidwell Park.
"There are so many destinations that are accessible by bike that it makes it possible," said Swingle.
The idea was sparked by Swingle's colleagues at Citrus Elementary in Chico. From there he started asking his class to bring their bikes.
"It's like having a whole science lab in your backyard," said Swingle. "You can study what's in the textbook behind the fence of your school."
"I like doing this as a class because it's fun and it's easy to get there on bike than on foot," said Swingle's student, Moises Ospina.
Swingle realized he didn't have enough bikes for all 27 of his students, so his father got a couple of damaged bikes on Craigslist. Swingle fixed them up so everyone in his class had a bike to ride.
"We looked around for a lot of the simple bikes like single speeds, coaster breaks and cruisers," said Swingle.
Swingle got a bike rack at an auction. He believes this idea should be in every school.
"I've had a least one teacher tell me that she liked to get it in place," said Swingle.
Swingle said he tries to get his class riding their bikes at least twice a week.


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Why do you suppose ±3 standard errors are used in control charts and not two standard errors or even one standard error? Explain.
In statistical process control, the control chart, also known as the 'Shewhart chart' or 'process-behaviour chart' is a tool used to determine whether a work or business process is in a state of statistical control or not. If the chart indicates that the process is currently under control consequently it can be used with confidence to predict the future dramatization of the process. If the chart indicates that the process being monitored is not in control, the shape it reveals can help determine the source of variation to be eliminate to bring the process back into control. A control chart is a specific kind of run chart that allows significant correction to be differentiated from the natural variability of the process. This is switch to effective process control and improvement.
The control chart is one of the seven central tools of quality control (along with the histogram, Pareto chart, check sheet, cause-and-effect diagram, flowchart, and separate diagram).
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By Christina Harper, HeraldNet
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EVERETT, WASHINGTON (HeraldNet) - A woman recently browsed around the three-room basement, through racks of clothes at the YWCA Working Women's Wardrobe Program in Everett.
She couldn't find anything to wear.
Pat Lawrence saw that the woman's teeth had been knocked out. Lawrence suggested the woman take another look at the various donated suits and tops, dresses and pants, and take some into one of the changing rooms to try on. The woman was reluctant and unsure.
But with encouragement from Lawrence and other volunteers, the woman left the program filled with self-confidence and a couple bags of clothes and accessories to help her find a job.
"By the time we finished that day, our hearts were so full," Lawrence said.
Lawrence volunteers as the coordinator at the Working Women's Wardrobe. She's also a member of the Mill Creek Women's Club. She helps Snohomish County women who are re-entering the work force to pick out and put together two or three professional outfits suitable for job interviews or work.
The women, or clients, are referred by social service organizations such as Goodwill and The Women's Mission.
"We are so blessed in this community," said Luanne Kunz, community affairs coordinator with the program.
Kunz receives clothing and toiletry donations from individuals, consignment stores, Macy's and J.Jill. The program needs clean, gently used clothing in good condition, as well as clear plastic hangers, clothing-store shopping bags, shoes, unused makeup, hats and bags. Personal care items such as shampoo, conditioner, soap, toothpaste and toothbrushes, washcloths, and feminine hygiene products are always needed.
"I'm looking for shoes size 12," Kunz said. "Always."
People hoping to volunteer at the Working Women's Wardrobe Program can expect to be matched up with a variety of jobs, including sorting and hanging clothes and helping clients find suitable clothing. Potential volunteers fill out an application online and are given a background check. They are then interviewed by Lawrence.
"I find them a job and get them trained," Lawrence said.
Other members of the Mill Creek Women's Club and groups including Premera Blue Cross, as well as community volunteers, give their time to the program.
"I think this is such a great opportunity to help women get their feet on the ground," Lawrence said.
Clients come to the Broadway location by appointment on Thursdays. Approximately 120 women a month use the program, which served 1,460 people last year.
Women who come to choose free clothes are asked to fill out a form that asks where they live and their ethnicity but does not require them to list their names. Each woman gets two or three outfits, a pair of shoes, and personal care products in a department store bag.
"Not a grocery bag," Kunz said.
Grateful clients sometimes send notes thanking Kunz when they get a job. When they can, they donate some of their own clothes. Lawrence and other volunteers feel good that they are able to help women in need as well as have fun putting outfits together.
"If I didn't have volunteers doing this, I couldn't do it," Kunz said. "They are the heartbeat and pulse of this program."
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The Dykes on Bikes Tattoo and Bike Show (last month during Mardi Gras) was a great place to whip up something using novelty fabric - and Gertie's Sweetheart Sundress pattern seemed a good fit.
The fabric is a quilting one from Alexander Henry, and three meters was more than enough to make the bodice and a gathered skirt.
I love the Gertie patterns, but i've yet to make one that didnt need some form of modification and this dress wasn't any different. I found when I did the bust gathers there was too much fabric to gather properly, and the gathering didnt extend low enough to flatter a full bust.
My other major mod was adding cute little pockets with black flaps on the outside. I love pockets on a dress!
My Mods:
Reduced the fabric at the centre bust, extended the gathering downwards for 2 inches.
Inseam pockets with decorative black flaps.
Matching black bow at the bust.
Completely lined the bodice.
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The bodice pattern is going to get used again i'm sure, as I want to try and make a tiki-dress. I think next time i'll play with the bust detailing to make it wing out a bit more, like a true Alfred Shaeen number.
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Exoplanet detection capability of the COROT space missionP. Bordé1, D. Rouan1 and A. Léger2
1 LESIA, UMR8109, Observatoire de Paris, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France
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COROT will be the first high precision photometric satellite to be launched with the aim of detecting exoplanets by the transit method. In this paper, we present the simulations we have carried out in order to assess the detection capability of COROT. Using the model of stellar population synthesis of the Galaxy developed at Besançon Observatory (Robin & Crézé 1986) and a simple cross-correlation technique (Bordé et al. 2001), we find that COROT has the capacity to detect numerous exoplanets, not only Jupiter and Uranus-class ones, but also hot terrestrial planets, if they exist. We show that small exoplanets should be mainly gathered around 14-15th magnitude K2-M2 dwarfs and giant exoplanets around 15-16th magnitude F7-G2 dwarfs. We study the effect of crowding and the impact of a high stellar variability noise that both reduce the detection capability of the instrument.
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SCENE I.--The Street before DON JEROME'S House.
Enter LOPEZ, with a dark lantern.
Lop. Past three o'clock!--Soh! a notable hour for one of my regular disposition, to be
strolling like a bravo through the streets of Seville! Well, of all services, to serve a young
lover is the hardest.--Not that I am an enemy to love; but my love and my master's differ
strangely.--Don Ferdinand is much too gallant to eat, drink, or sleep:--now my love gives
me an appetite--then I am fond of dreaming of my mistress, and I love dearly to toast
her.--This cannot be done without good sleep and good liquor: hence my partiality to a
feather- bed and a bottle. What a pity, now, that I have not further time, for reflections!
but my master expects thee, honest Lopez, to secure his retreat from Donna Clara's
window, as I guess.--[Music without.] Hey! sure, I heard music! So, so! Who have we
here? Oh, Don Antonio, my master's friend, come from the masquerade, to serenade my
young mistress, Donna Louisa, I suppose: so! we shall have the old gentleman up
presently.--Lest he should miss his son, I had best lose no time in getting to my post.
Enter DON ANTONIO, with MASQUERADERS and music.
SONG.--Don Ant.
Tell me, my lute, can thy soft strain
So gently speak thy master's pain?
So softly sing, so humbly sigh,
That, though my sleeping love shall know
Who sings--who sighs below,
Her rosy slumbers shall not fly?
Thus, may some vision whisper more
Than ever I dare speak before.
I. Mas. Antonio, your mistress will never wake, while you sing so dolefully; love, like a
cradled infant, is lulled by a sad melody.
Don Ant. I do not wish to disturb her rest.
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Readers of smh.com.au describe their experiences of this morning's bus crash in the eastern distributor tunnel in Sydney.
Kylie Johnson
I was on the first bus, the X73. I was standing up, probably in the middle to front section. The buses were going quite fast ... Our bus was going along quite quickly when [the driver] started to brake heavily because the traffic in front had stopped. We came to a stop then the bus behind smashed into the back of ours. It was such a loud noise and a big impact and as the buses were so full, I am surprised more people were not injured. I fell straight to the ground - we all did as it was such a big impact. The guy in front fell on top of me - it was better that it was full because everyone cushioned each others' fall.
We checked people at the back to see whether they were all ok, and then I rang the ambulance. Not many people had reception [in the tunnel] but I did. The ambulances took three or four minutes to get there.
I just have a bit of a bruise. A few people had cuts to the head. They were taken off the bus first and taken to the ambulance. They were the ones sitting at the back of the bus and got the full impact of the shattered back window.
I thought there would have been more injuries ... One of the other passengers commented, when we got on a bus to take us the rest of the way into the city, that one thing he would take away from this is that he would never sit at the back of a bus again.
Michael Dimento
I was on the second bus, sitting in the seat in front of the rear door of the X74. I was thinking to myself, "we are having a pretty good run here with no stoppages". Then I felt the bus trying to slow down, which didn't seem to work. It then slowed down even more and then the bus braked, hard, everyone leaned forward expecting it to stop and then I saw the front windscreen shatter and go through the back of the other bus.
There was no skidding - I was kind of surprised about that. My knees slammed into the seat in front of me and dented it, and the lady next to me had a gash in her knees - she must have hit the metal part of the seat. My knees are quite bruised now.
All the emergency services were great. The bus driver seemed very shaken. He came round to the back door - the front door wouldn't open - and apologised to everyone, saying he was very sorry and that he had never been involved in a major accident before. v sorry never been involved in a major accident before apologising to people.
Michael Legg
I was a passenger on the front bus, the X74 which ran into the back of the X73 about 100 metres from the William Street exit at about 8.50am.
The two buses had come down the entry ramp near the junction of Anzac Parade and Flinders Street and were merging into the main traffic flow when the collision occurred.
Both buses were packed and there was a hell of a lot of traffic in the tunnel at the time.
People sitting in the back three rows of the bus were showered in broken glass from the rear windscreen when the X74 ploughed into the back.
The frame of the back window was also dislodged by the impact. Because the X73 was packed so tightly, the people standing up were not thrown about or badly injured.
Name withheld
I was at the back of the second bus standing but it's the people sitting who didn't get any warning. I grabbed two poles and my arms felt hyper-extended.
It seemed we were going too fast and it was very loud when we hit.
It was an age before we could get off. The driver said nothing. He was probably in shock. Everyone was in shock and the door was shut.
We were stuck there for 20 minutes in the heat before the ambulance and police came.
We couldn't have got off anyway as the traffic was still going past and there was nowhere to go. A lady made a call to the police and ambulance.
It was quite a big impact but everybody tried to keep their cool. It's surprising in situations like that.
I'm surprised there were weren't more injuries but there could be later on when people get their backs checked.
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Don't erase the landmark Martin Tower building from Bethlehem's skyline just yet.
"The demise of the tower is slightly exaggerated at this point," Duane Wagner, who represents one of the building's owners, told the Lehigh County Industrial Development Authority Tuesday afternoon. "We don't have any plans at this time to demolish the tower."
Wagner went to the authority meeting in Bethlehem to ask it to initiate a new
tax increment financing –TIF – plan for the Martin Tower property. The authority attempted to get TIF financing for Martin Tower a few years back but the Bethlehem Area School Board rejected the proposal.
The 21-story former Bethlehem Steel office building stands on 53 acres at 1170 Eighth Ave. Completed in 1972, it is the tallest building in the Lehigh Valley. It also has been vacant for several years. Wagner presented the authority with a plan to improve the tower and add apartments and townhouses on the property.
He said the owners worked diligently to get the property listed on the National Register of Historic Places "in order to preserve it and take advantage of the tax credit incentives that are available to developers for adaptive and historic reuse. So we don't have any intention of demolishing it."
The four authority board members at the meeting when Wagner completed his brief presentation informally agreed to revive a TIF initiative for Martin Tower.
"I do support us going through the process again," said authority chairwoman Cindy Feinberg.
"I say we should take another look," agreed board member Joanne Kuchera.
Tax increment financing allows a portion of property taxes that would go to a municipality, school district and county to instead be diverted to help pay a project's development costs for up to 20 years. The advantage for local taxing bodies is redevelopment of a property generates much more tax revenue than they receive if it is not redeveloped.
"The TIF is really the linchpin for the redevelopment of this property to commence," said Wagner. He asked the authority to reiterate its support for the project and to talk to the taxing bodies. "We'd like to get in front of them as soon as possible and request your support to do that."
Martin Tower is on the eastern edge of Lehigh County. But Feinberg, who is Lehigh County's director of community and economic development, said the property is one of the most important redevelopment areas in the county. "It's been on our redevelopment plan for years." She said it's a good time to revive the TIF because both commercial and residential development "are picking up everywhere."
After the meeting, Feinberg said Wagner works with Lewis Ronca, one of the owners of Martin Tower property. She identified the other owner as Norton Herrick.
A few years ago, the authority designated TIF committee members for the Martin Tower project but never made presentations to Bethlehem City Council or to Lehigh County.
"It never got that far," said Atty. John Lushis, the authority's solicitor. "We never presented the TIF plan to anyone but the school board. And the school board – we really got bogged down in a lot of politics."
"The school district decided they didn't want to do it, so it didn't go anywhere," confirmed Feinberg.
"If your decision is to work on this one, we start from scratch again," Feinberg told her board. That would involve going back to the taxing bodies to participate, then putting together a new TIF committee to help develop a new TIF plan.
Lushis said he will put his legal hat on to look at the previous TIF plan that was developed for the Martin Tower property. "Do we have to go back to square one or can we work from that TIF plan, make an adjustment and just present it?" he pondered.
Lushis said the solicitor of the Bethlehem Area School Board repeatedly has advised him that board may be more receptive now because it has a major problem with Nitschmann Middle School, "which needs to be torn down and rebuilt, to the tune of $40 million to $45 million. The school district doesn't know where it's going to get the money to do that, other than by increasing taxes."
If the value of a property such as Martin Tower increases through redevelopment, local taxing bodies can collect far more tax revenue, even if a designated percentage of that increased revenue goes to help the developer fund the project for up to 20 years.
Wagner said TIF proceeds will be used to make infrastructure improvements, including site excavation, water and sewer lines, paving, sidewalks and street lights.
He said a new TIF would include only the redevelopment of Martin Tower and the apartments, which were included in the previously proposed TIF, but not the townhouses.
Wagner showed the board a new concept plan for the property that has three major components: redevelopment of the tower at the west end of the property; adding three-story, garden-style apartments on the northern side of the property -- 240 units in 10 buildings – and adding up to 183 townhouses on the southern side.
He said the prior plan had the apartments on the southern side of the property and townhouses on the northern side.
The current plan labels the townhouse section as "interchangeable development" between residential and commercial. Wagner explained that's because of "a continuing increased demand" for commercial development in the 8th Avenue corridor.
"We can easily decrease the number of townhomes" so commercial uses – such as an office building -- can "grow" into that section of the property, he explained. He added more commercial uses will enhance the speed at which the property gets redeveloped, rather than waiting years for townhouses to be sold.
Wagner said the city requires Martin Tower itself must remain standing on the property for mixed-use development to occur there. He did not mention who would occupy that building or describe how it would be modified.
Kuchera said the authority had been told it would be cost prohibitive to knock down the building "because of the asbestos situation" and asked Wagner: "Is that still the case?"
He replied the only thing that would make them considering knocking it down will be if it remains vacant for "three, four, five, six more years. It may hit a point there is nothing else you can do because of structural degradation. Right now the building is functional. It is able to be re-used. The asbestos is still there. There is still significant demolition that has to occur within the structure itself."
He said the site contains obsolete mechanical equipment, including a building with 24-inch asbestos pipes used cool the tower. "All new infrastructure has to go in."
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#1 Thu 17 May 07 6:23pm
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My opinion on Jamie (lately)
It seems to me (who watches his shows every chance i get) that ever since Fifteen and the dinners project, he isnt as happy chappy as he used to be (and understandably i guess). It seems like hes had the life sucked right out of him. I do think that Jamie does a wonderful job with these projects and its greatly appreciated, but i think hes losing what was so great about him and what most of us fell in love with him about - his pure passion and love of food, making people happy with it and (i think most importantly) HAVING AN AWSOME TIME WITH IT. I recently went back and watched The Naked Chef series along with Oliver's Twist and i think the real fun that he used to get out of it seems to have been drained from him in these last few years. Even the Great Italian Escape which (from what i understand) was thought up as a way to get away from all that seemed to be just a huge amount of stress in itself.
So Jamie, as a young guy who got inspired by your passion, love and pure enjoyment you got from food, I rkn you take a much needed break me ol' mate.
Maybe some people disagree, but i think it would do a world of good just to put fifteen and whatever else on the back burner for a while. What do u guys rkn?
#2 Fri 18 May 07 3:39am
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- Member since Tue 03 Aug 04
Re: My opinion on Jamie (lately)
Mutiny - I agree. Jaime just looks tired in Jaimes Chef.
#3 Fri 18 May 07 8:17am
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Re: My opinion on Jamie (lately)
I agree that he looks tired. He still has the passion for what he does, but we don't see him jumping around, sliding down staircases or shooting hoops anymore. But, then, didn't he celebrate his 31st on Jamie's Chef at the Woodstock party?
He has grown up from a "young lad" into a man with the world watching. He is a celebrity, a chef (how often he gets to practice his art, I don't know), a
mentor, businessman, author, tv presenter, husband and father. How he ever gets any sleep or family/"down time" is beyond me.
He's finalising the new book (and hopefully-selfish me- dvd) and, I read recently has just signed up with the publishers for an autobiography. Don't know if the latter is true- blame the Sydney Morning Herald.
For him and his family, perhaps it would be great to take "time out". The reality is, though, given his commitments and "self", it would be very difficult to "walk away" for a break. Also, I guess, (my opinion only) he has to make the most of things while he can.
Just hope he doesn't burn out.
Jamie, if you read this thread, much love, admiration and gratitude for being so giving of yourself.
(In your words) "Big hugs",
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#4 Fri 18 May 07 8:28am
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Re: My opinion on Jamie (lately)
Maree is right .. he is getting older. We are all not as young as we used to be.
But I do hope that he does take time out for himself and his family because he does alway seem so busy .. so full of energy and passion for life.
Someone, please give me what he is having...
#5 Fri 18 May 07 8:43am
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Re: My opinion on Jamie (lately)
Michelle, I also want some of whatever he is having .
PS. Last September's Sydney shows (I went to two- had one of those "big 0" birthdays- booked the shows and a hotel for a couple of nights and charged it to my partner's credit card, lol).
Jamie was on for 3hrs, playing drums, cooking, bantering with the audience, having them on stage (sadly, not me ) and jumping around (like the "old" [younger] Jamie).
The show the day after was just the same! Amazing!
#6 Fri 18 May 07 8:52am
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Re: My opinion on Jamie (lately)
My OH & I flew over from Adelaide to the 1st Melbourne show. I didn't get picked either, but had a ball.
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Feb. 20, 2010
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By Zach Stipe, Media Relations Graduate Assistant
ATHENS, Ga. - A pair of third-place finishes from sophomore Samara Gelb and junior Aleksa Akerfelds on Saturday night helped pace the 13th-ranked Tennessee women's swimming and diving team to its highest point output in over a decade, and its third straight fourth-place finish at the 2010 SEC Championships.
Gelb broke the UT record with her bronze medal performance in the 200y breast (2:10.34), while Akerfelds nabbed third in the 1650y free (16:02.78), as the Lady Vols tallied 497 points - their most since scoring 501.5 in 1997 - at the Gabrielsen Natatorium.
The meet kicked off with Tennessee capturing the 200y medley relay conference title on Wednesday and was highlighted by senior Michele King's repeat victory in the 50y free the next day.
Lady Vol head coach Matt Kredich's three straight fourth-place finishes is a feat that has only happened twice before in Tennessee history: 1988-92 and 1995-97.
The Big Orange will now turn its attention to the NCAA Championships from March 18-20 in West Lafayette, Ind. Kredich expects at least 10 Lady Vols to qualify for the national meet based off their SEC performances and hopes more can earn invites at next weekend's Last Chance Meet in Knoxville, Tenn.
"I love how aggressive we raced this whole weekend," Kredich said. "It was just a really solid effort tonight, all the way through the weekend. This is one of the best meets we've ever put together. I'm proud of the team. We've got a lot to build off of for NCAAs. Our plan is to get faster. In three-and-half weeks, we have a great chance of swimming a lot faster.
"Tonight was another really good night for us. We had some brilliant racing, in particular Sam Gelb's 200 breaststroke. I'm also really proud of Aleksa's swim in the mile. She was out of the water for five months rehabilitating after shoulder surgery. And the way she's come back this season has been incredible - especially tonight."
No. 1 Georgia won its seventh SEC Championship, scoring 824.5 points at its home site. No. 6 Florida was second (698), while Auburn was third (568). Alabama placed fifth (272) and No. 19 Arkansas was sixth (262.5).
Akerfelds kicked off the final session of the 2010 SEC Championships in style, snagging the second bronze medal in the 1650y free of her career. Her time is a season-best and a B-cut. It's the second fastest mile performance ever by a Lady Vol, just off Akerfeld's own UT record (16:00.11) set while earning her first bronze in the event at the 2008 conference meet.
Gelb stole the show for Tennessee on Saturday night with podium finish and a school record in the 200y breast.
"I definitely didn't expect it at all," Gelb said. "I couldn't have done it without the whole team cheering me on throughout the whole race. My plan was to stay relaxed and swim my own race. I couldn't really tell where I was, but I could hear my team cheering and that really pushed me at the end of the race."
Gelb's finals performance broke senior Alex Barsanti's year-old UT mark of 2:11.14. It also led another stellar breaststroke performance from the Orange and White. A day after placing two on the podium - and four in the top-six - in the 100y breast, Tennessee placed four in the top-nine of the 200y breast. Junior Martina Moravcikova (2:13.08) and Barsanti (2:13.60) finished 5-6 for the second straight year, while senior Jamie Saffer won the consolation final with a season-best readout of 2:13.50. All four times were B-cuts.
Freshman Kelsey Floyd and junior Tricia Weaner competed in two races each on the final night of competition.
Floyd (1:55.92) and Weaner (1:56.05) finished 5-6 in the 200y back. Later in the evening, Floyd came back to take seventh in the 200y fly (1:58.78), while Weaner returned to take 13th in the event in a season-best 2:00.16. All of the duo's performances were B-cuts.
Sophomore Jenny Connolly, two-time SEC runner-up in the 100y back, captured the 200y back consolation final in a season-best B-cut mark of 1:55.84 to place ninth.
Connolly teamed with Floyd, senior Michele King and sophomore Caitlin Perks in the last event of the meet, the 400y free relay. The quartet took fourth in a season-best B-cut clocking of 3:17.83.
King also wrapped up her final conference meet with her second consecutive fourth-place finish in the 100y free, touching in 48.81, a season-best and a B-cut.
The York, Pa., native was part of the 40th and 41st SEC event championships in UT history. Joined by Floyd, Connolly and Barsanti, she anchored the victorious 200y MR and won the 50y free.
Three Lady Vol divers wrapped up the conference meet by scoring in the platform event during the morning session, as well.
Sophomore Gabbi Trudeau, an All-American on the tower in 2009, struggled on her first dive and wound up 10th with a score of 231.55, just missing the eight-person final. Junior Jill Pierce finished 14th (206.35), while freshman Skye Sanders was 16th (198.70). Both scores were season-bests.
"I'm really proud of Jill and Skye for getting points on the platform today," UT diving coach Dave Parrington. "There was a quality field today and they got their jobs done. Gabbi came out a little too excited and was playing catch-up the rest of the way. I'm disappointed for here, but she battled hard."
|Lady Vol Medal Count
|Michele King
|50y free
|Connolly, Barsanti, Floyd, King
|200y medley relay
|Alex Barsanti
|100 breast
|Jenny Connolly
|100 back
|Aleksa Akerfelds
|1650 free
|Breanna Folk
|100 breast
|Samara Gelb
|200 breast
|*Tennessee Record


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