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Highway Construction Careers Training Program
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During this intensive 450-hour program, you will learn the skills you need for acceptance into the highway construction trades and the opportunity for a career with high wage-earning potential. You will work on a service project, doing hands-on work to gain extra skills in construction and tool usage. There will also be opportunities to talk directly to representatives from various trade unions and contractors to learn about available jobs in the highway construction field.
Green Initiatives at Richland Community College
At Richland Community College, sustainability is being implemented and measured through collaborative actions. The College has been taking steps to reduce and measure their greenhouse gases for years. In January 2008, the Richland Board of Trustees adopted a tenet that encouraged the College to create a culture of sustainability by weaving the core values of commitment, respect, excellence, accountability, and diversity into sustainable concepts with a perspective measured by the Triple Bottom Line - Environment, People, and Economics.
Motorcycle Safety Courses
The Motorcycle Rider Program is offered free of charge to new and experienced riders. They are offered on the Richland Community College Campus through a partnership with the University of Illinois. To determine eligibility, see the class schedule, and for further information, please visit www.mrp.illinois.edu or cal 800.252.3348.
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Midwest Paralegal Study Program, in partnership with Richland Community College, is offering a 12-month Paralegal certificate of completion. The five-class generalist and entry-level program gives a comprehensive overview of paralegal roles and responsibilities. Recommended for people with a minimum of a high school diploma/GED or for those in the legal profession seeking advancement or career change. If you elect to take individual classes instead of the complete 5 course program, you will not receive a program certificate of completion. For dates, program details, and
Hobby & Leisure Courses & Workshops
Continuing & Professional Education coordinates all the community education hobby & leisure classes at Richland Community College. We invite you to explore areas of interest that may help enrich your personal or professional development. We make every effort to offer an assortment of subject areas that will have a broad appeal. Community members are welcome to make suggestions for new class ideas by calling the CPED office at (217) 875-7211, ext. 6353.


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The Royal Parks
Millions of Londoners and tourists visit the eight Royal Parks for free each year. The 5,000 acres of historic parkland provide unparalleled opportunities for enjoyment, exploration and healthy living in the heart of the capital. A simple walk or a picnic in the park, sport, top quality entertainment, community and education projects - all waiting for you.
If it's history and architecture you're after, the Parks have hundreds of buildings, statues, and memorials, giving a fascinating insight into London's heritage.
The Royal Parks manages these spaces and almost everything in them. We also conserve the Parks to ensure future generations can enjoy them too. We look after:
•Bushy Park
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•Greenwich Park
•Hyde Park
•Kensington Gardens
•The Regent's Park and Primrose Hill
•Richmond Park
•St James's Park
We also tend a number of other spaces in London, including Victoria Tower Gardens, Brompton Cemetery, the gardens of 10, 11 and 12 Downing Street, and Grosvenor Square Gardens.
Keeping 5,000 acres of urban parkland stocked with trees and other plants is no small task. We have our own nursery to meet the demand and a dedicated team of plantsmen and Parks staff keep the Parks looking great all year round.
Part of our remit is to conserve the Parks for future generations. We have a Green Housekeeping Committee, which looks at how we can reduce the impact we have on the local and wider environment. We also have an Ecology Officer, who advises on habitat management, sustainability, and biodiversity.
The Royal Parks is an executive agency of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).
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After our first video look at ViewSonic's 7in Android tablet from IFA and a more in-depth glance at its specs in the ViewSonic Showcase earlier this month, we now bring you a video look at the unboxing.
We especially like the inclusion of a decent-quality case with side-pocket and the universal mini-USB charger, both significant advantages over the significantly more expensive Samsung Galaxy Tab which comes with no case and a proprietary charger.
So there you have it; if the device is anything as good as its presentation, ViewSonic is onto a winner. We'll have full text and video review combo up for you on Thursday 25 November, where we'll see if this is the small Android tablet to get.
You seem to have listed this under "Reviews" by mistake. Taking something out of a box isn't really a review.
@Mark Gadsby: It's listed as a preview.
An unboxing video on TR? Really?
@Ed - Don't worry, you got the plugs right. =)
Even though it wasn't a proper video review, it was still pretty informative in one regard...It showed quite clearly how you feel about Quick Start Guides (and proper manuals as well I would assume). I'm sure the majority of people share those feelings, and don't even glance at all the literature that comes with electronic devices. Which I'm sure is one of the reasons why all the easy-to-use and intuitive iProducts have become so popular. I also think it's a reason why a lot of people will never realise some of the restrictions and inferior hardware/features of their iProducts. If they ever try some other device that has better hardware/features, they are still going to be put off by the fact that it'll probably never be as easy to use as their iProducts. Which is a shame, since I do think there are better products out there.
What I'm trying to say is, that I think TR should put less emphasis on how easy some devices are to use (tabs, smartphones etc.), and more emphasis on what the devices can actually do. Ease-of-use is more important for the casual user (which you are most of the time at TR, when you have a product for maybe a week before sending it back), not the owner of the device. If you own a device and use it on a daily basis for several months, or even years, you're going to get used to how the device works, and maybe more interested in what your device can actually do. Taking a look through the guides/manuals might help a lot in finding that out.
@JK: It's always a difficult balance as we appeal to a very varied audience. On the whole I totally agree, though. That said, surely it's precisely the ease of use issues that can be most infuriating over time?
As to the manual, I had actually had a flick through the manual for this device before shooting the video and confirmed it contained nothing more useful than 'plug in this cable to charge' and 'press the button', as most quick start guides don't - few products in fact even have a proper manual.
@Simon: We will probably look to make such videos actual previews in the future, but this product had already been previewed so we went for a more succinct unboxing instead. We're also experimenting with ways to create extra video content so we'll see what the reaction to this is and adjust accordingly.
Guys, please don't try and be Engadget. I come here for 2 reasons:
1) The reviews are excellent;
2) You put your news in context in a very helpful way.
Everything else is just filler, and distracts you from what you're best at.
@Ed - I actually feel quite the opposite when it comes to using devices over time. As you become more familiar with your device and get used to how it works, it will automatically become easier to use as well. But if it's lacking in hardware, it's always going to be lacking in hardware.
For example, if the owner of a basic point-and-shoot compact camera decides to upgrade to a basic DSLR, he will undoubtedly find it quite complicated or even hard to use at first. But the more he uses it, the easier it's going to get. He might even discover new features several months (or years) later as he gets more familiar with the DSLR. It will never be as easy to use as his old point-and-shoot, but it will however, be easy enough for him to appreciate the possibilities and features of the DSLR more than the ease-of-use of the compact camera.
(Assuming in this case that the ease-of-use refers to actually taking pictures with the devices, and not to their physical size and carrying them around)
I know my example might not be very relevant to iProducts, but it was an easier way to get my point across without going in to specific models of iProducts.
I loved the unboxing. Look forward to more unboxings in future.
Just one thing I wish to remind TR, when you do the review, and whether its for a phone, camera or computer, to please ensure there is a Spec Sheet.
Keep up the great work. For me, TR remains the freshest, uncluttered, easy to access tech site. Thanks.
Agree with supamario on all points. The only perturbation was seeing Ed's weird cyborg reflection. How exactly did you strap that huge looking camera to your head? And what camera was it? It was very effective, however, and led to some quality sound and video and is also a great way to get stuff done more cheaply, eh? Minimised staff and all that. Very clever. Guess you had your own CSR at TR then? ;)
I'd love to see more of these types of unboxings in future, though with a greater emphasis on showing what the device can do. Ie, maybe run a quick bit of video or a more demanding game to better demonstrate its performance or more unique selling features?
As for the product, it's looking quite good. Shame it wasn't larger maybe. For the review, please be sure to give its battery a good testing. If it's meant to be used as a more portable device rather than something used in the home then it's important to know how long the battery lasts and what you've been doing with it. Cheers. Good job.
Simon, this is just one part of our content which includes the announcement, the launch and subsequent press events, and the main product review itself.
Unboxing videos are popular with consumers and we will be following this up next week with a full review incorporating text and video.
Until then, we took the opportunity to publish a quick and easy video and would like to know what what you think.
@Ed: A fair comment, but the homepage has two main columns - Reviews and News. I'd have stuck this under "News" (which I mostly ignore anyway).
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Officials are enlisting one of Japan's best-known historical figures — the ninja — to encourage tourism.
Governors and mayors from prefectures around the country traded their usual bland suits for ninja costumes Sunday to announce the launch of the Ninja Council.
The council sees local authorities forming alliances with tourism agencies to thrust the ninja — usually known for their ability to become nearly invisible — into the spotlight.
The council will gather and provide information on its website about the feudal-era martial arts masters and assassins and about tourist destinations, organizers said.
It will also respond to inquiries from home and abroad, and is scheduled to host events to boost the popularity of the dark warriors.
Ninja are a "subject that always comes up whenever we go abroad to promote tourism," said Hiroshi Mizohata, former head of the Japan Tourism Agency, which is part of the transport ministry.
The not-so-stealthy move comes as villages, towns and cities turn to tourism as a promising driver of economic growth ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
"Through ninja, we want to revive our communities," said Mie Gov. Eikei Suzuki, which is known as the home of the Iga school of ninjutsu.


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Capri Anderson Identified as Charlie Sheen Companion
Posted by Orhan Bülbül Labels: Charlie-Sheen
Capri Anderson has been identified as the woman at the center of this week's Charlie Sheen scandal.
But the 22-year old - who met Sheen in the Plaza hotel bar Monday, went out to dinner with him and a few friends that night, and then called security early the next morning because the actor went on an alcohol and drug-fueled rage over a missing watch - wants to make one thing clear:
She isn't a prostitute. She's a porn star.
With Capri Anderson, the Two and a Half Men star was reportedly a one and a half minute man.
Sources close to the star of Seduced By A Real Lesbian #8 told TMZ their friend was 'extremely afraid' of Sheen prior to locking herself in a bathroom around 2 a.m. Tuesday.
That was a major contrast from earlier in the evening, when a tourist staying in the room opposite the actor said she heard 'happy noises, love-making' from his suite, but 'they didn't go on for too long,' she said to The New York Daily News.
Ouch. Sorry, Charlie.
Sheen is two months removed from rehab and still on probation for attacking Brooke Mueller in December 2009. He was taken to a Manhattan hospital for psychiatric evaluation after the hotel's front desk called 911 at Anderson's behest on Tuesday.
He was released later that day and is said to be returning to work this week.
'Oh man, I'm fine,' Sheen his texted from Los Angeles yesterday. Thank goodness, too. We've just been so worried about him.
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Key West overviewKey West is a relaxing place known for its beaches and historical sites, and surrounded by picturesque views of the sea and islands. You'll enjoy the ample bar and dining options, along with outdoor areas for biking and walking. Learn about local heritage at popular landmarks in the area like Audubon House and Tropical Gardens and Mallory Square. Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum and Southernmost Point are popular sights to see. Key West is an inviting destination that has something for everyone.
Where to stay in Key WestWhether you're planning to stay for a night or for the week, Key West has accommodations to fit every need. There are 97 hotels in the Key West area and you can shop as many as 30 deals for rooms on Hotels.com, some with discounts of up to 40%.
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How to get to Key WestFly in to Key West, FL (EYW-Key West Intl.), 4.2 mi (6.7 km) from downtown Key West. Miami, FL (MIA-Miami Intl.) is the next closest major airport, 121.9 mi (196.2 km) away.
What to see around Key WestThe area's local highlights include its museums and places like:
- • Ripley's Believe It or Not
- • Heritage House Museum
- • Custom House Museum
- • Key West Museum of Art and History
- • Key West Shipwreck Museum
- • Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park
- • South Beach
- • Higgs Beach
- • Smathers Beach
- • Key West National Wildlife Refuge
- • Audubon House and Tropical Gardens
- • Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum
- • Mallory Square
- • Southernmost Point
- • Key West Art and Historical Society
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Four local boys from Ram Hockey changed out of the orange and into pink to show their support for those celebrating recovery, and those who lost the courageous battle with cancer. On April 20-22, there was a three-on-three hockey tournament at Ferris State University for many age groups. Aidan Hoffman, Riley Pitcher, Theo Thrun and Corbin Venckus played in the Squirt Travel AA bracket as Team HotShots (pictured). They dedicated their efforts to raise $905 for Susan Komen Foundation and $815 for Oncology Nurses Reach Out (ONRO).
Susan Komen Foundation will use funds to provide mammograms (cost $150) and wigs (cost $50). ONRO helps patients and families from out of town with the basics of gas, food and shelter.
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NEW HAMPTON- A local pastor will soon take the plunge….into Lake Michigan that is. Kevin Frey (FRY), pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church in New Hampton is taking part in the New Year's Day Polar Plunge in Milwaukee. Frey says this is his second year taking the plunge into freezing waters.
In conjunction with the plunge, Frey and Trinity Lutheran Church are trying to raise money to help fund a "Homes for Haiti" home.
One home costs just over $5,000 to construct. Frey says the church is close to reaching its goal and he plans to fully submerge his body into the water if the goal is reached.
Frey says he and his companions plan on dressing up in Star Wars or Harry Potter costumes to take the plunge. To donate to the Homes for Haiti fund contact Trinity Lutheran Church at 394-2552.


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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Lawmakers on the state's budget writing panel have unanimously endorsed a roughly $30 million proposal to help people with disabilities and struggling nursing homes.
The funding measure approved Wednesday after an all-night session closes a MaineCare shortfall for the 2015 fiscal year, while also funding $5 million for services for people with disabilities on Department of Health and Human Services wait lists and $5 million in additional reimbursement for struggling nursing homes.
State Rep. Peggy Rotundo of Lewiston says the proposal protects the state's most vulnerable citizens.
The funds would eliminate and reduce the wait lists, allowing hundreds of people with severe disabilities to get critical home-based care services. It also provides $2 million for critical services required under the state's court ordered mental health consent decree.


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Evo was softer than the SL, which was softer than the Heritage. I loved the Heritage, but that board is sold out and my goal was to use my demo credits to defray the cost of a board if I found one I liked. I like the SL too but they only had in a 161cm. I have an Arbor Element cambered board so the Evo represented a nice departure from that in building my quiver. I still need to find a board that is <=156cm so I can check it as normal luggage, but whatever.
I rode the Evo and I liked it because it was stiff enough for me to charge, plus it's twin and I'll be able to learn switch and play in the park on it. Just looking for a good binding. I'll probably go with the 390 bosses, thanks for your advice!
Hey would you be able to explain the differences in the boards you tested? Just curious on why you picked the evo if you liked the heritage so much. On paper it seems like the evo is much softer than the heritage with the sl sitting somewhere in between them.
To answer your question I'd go with the 390 bosses. Tried k2 cinches, cartels and 390's and much prefer the 390's on my new sl. I was looking for a softer all mountain binding as well as don't spend much time in the park. The canted footbeds are a good bonus as well but i'm still testing which angle i like more. Set them to 3.5 yesterday at northstar and they felt pretty good (15 -15 stance).
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Ok, looking around and I have some other options. Any opinions on Ride RX (09/10) or Ride Revolt (10/11)? Burtons are great but they don't cant footbeds except for the EST from what I've found.
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Demo'd the Evo, Heritage, SL, and Custom Flying V at Telluride over the past few weeks. They didn't have a Heritage or I would have bought one.
Picked up the Evo 158. Can anyone help me with binding advice? It helps if you speak my language. For three reasons I'm leaning towards 390 Bosses: 1, I love the blue/white (I bought the white version), 2, I want canted beds just to have the option, 3, I have Targas on my Arbor Element and LOVE them.
I'm concerned about the stiffness level though. I need to be able to enjoy riding these around the mountain, not just in the park. I had Missions on my SL and HATED them. Can't emphasize that enough. Tried out Cartels on the Heritage and was very happy with those. Anybody know where the Bosses fall on that spectrum? I'd rather they were a little too stiff for park than a little too noodly for all mountain. The Bosses will be pricy/impossible to find so I just want to know if they're worth it.
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About saturation
Time to kick off a new year of blog posts! For my first post of 2015, I'm continuing a series I've had on hold since nearly the same time last year, about the research I work on for my job. This is based on a paper my group published in Physical Review Letters and an answer I posted at Physics Stack Exchange.
In the first post of the series, I wrote about how particle physicists characterize collisions between protons. A quark or gluon from one proton (the "probe"), carrying a fraction of that proton's momentum, smacks into a quark or gluon from the other proton (the "target"), carrying a fraction of that proton's momentum, and they bounce off each other with transverse momentum . The target proton acts as if it has different compositions depending on the values of and : in collisions with smaller values of , the target appears to contain more partons.
At the end of the last post, I pointed out that something funny happens at the top left of this diagram. Maybe you can already see it: in these collisions with small and small , the proton acts like a collection of many partons, each of which is relatively large. Smaller means more partons, and smaller means larger partons. What happens when there are so many, and so large, that they can't fit?
Admittedly, that may not seem like a problem at first. In the model I've been using so far, a proton is a collection of particles. And it seems totally reasonable that when you're looking at a proton from one side, some of the particles will look like they're in front of other particles. But this is one of those situations where the particle model falls short. Remember, protons are really made of quantum fields. Analyzing the proton's behavior using quantum field theory is not an easy task, but it's been done, and it turns out an analogous, but very serious, problem shows up in the field model: if you extrapolate the behavior of these quantum fields to smaller and smaller values of , you reach a point where the results don't make physical sense. Essentially it corresponds to certain probabilities becoming greater than 1. So clearly, something unexpected and interesting has to happen at small to keep the fields under control.
Parton branching and the BFKL equation
To explain how we know this, I have to go all the way back to 1977. Quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the model we use to describe the behavior of quarks and gluons, was only about 10 years old, and physicists at the time were playing around with it, poking and prodding, trying to figure out just how well it explained the known behavior of protons in collisions.
Most of this tinkering with QCD centered around the parton distributions , which I mentioned in my last post. Parton distributions themselves actually predate QCD. They first emerged out of something called the "parton model," invented in 1969, which is exactly what it sounds like: a mathematical version of the statement "protons are made of partons." So by the time QCD arrived on the scene, the parton distributions had already been measured, and the task that fell to the physicists of the 1970s was to try to reproduce the measurements of using QCD.
When you're testing a model of particle behavior, like QCD, you do it by calculating something called a scattering cross section, which is like the effective cross-sectional area of the target particle. If the target were a sphere of radius , for example, its cross section would be . But unlike a plain old solid sphere, the scattering cross section for a subatomic particle depends on things like how much energy is involved in the collision (which you may remember as from the last post) and what kinds of particles are colliding. The information about what kinds of particles are colliding is represented mathematically by the parton distributions . So naturally, in order to make a prediction using the theory, you need to know the parton distributions.
The thing is, we actually can't do that! Believe me, people are trying, but there's a fairly fundamental problem: parton distributions are nonperturbative, meaning they are inextricably linked to the behavior of the strong interaction when it is too strong for standard methods to handle. They already knew this in the 1970s. However, that didn't stop people from trying to calculate something about the PDFs which could be linked to experimental results.
It turns out that even though the exact forms of the parton distributions can't be calculated from quantum field theory, you can calculate their behavior at small values of , the green part on the left of the preceding diagram. In 1977, four Russian physicists — Ian Balitsky, Victor Fadin, Eduard Kuraev and Lev Lipatov — derived from QCD an equation for the rate of change of parton distributions with respect to , in collisions with energy much larger than either the masses of the particles involved or the amount of energy transferred between them (, roughly). In modern notation, the equation (which I will explain later) is written
is something called the color dipole cross section, which is related to from before via an equation roughly like this:
That's why is often called an integrated parton distribution and an unintegrated parton distribution. I won't go into the details of the difference between and , since both of them show the behavior I'm going to talk about in the rest of this post.
Anyway, the behavior that Balitsky, Fadin, Kuraev, and Lipatov analyzed comes from processes like these:
At each vertex, one parton with a certain fraction of the proton's momentum splits into other partons with smaller values of . You can see this reflected in the equation: the term represents the disappearance of the original parton, and represents the creation of two new partons with smaller momentum fractions . When this happens repeatedly, it leads to a cascade of lower-and-lower momentum particles as the branching process goes on. This explains why the number of partons, and thus the parton distribution functions, increase as you go to smaller and smaller values of .
This BFKL model has been tested in experiment after experiment for many years, and it works quite well. For example, in the plot below, from this paper by Anatoly Kotikov, you can see that the predictions from the BFKL equation (solid lines) generally match the experimental data (dots with error bars) quite closely.
The plot shows the structure function , which is a quantity related to the integrated parton distribution.
Parton recombination
However, there is one big problem with the BFKL prediction: it never stops growing! After all, if the partons keep splitting over and over again, you keep getting more and more of them as you go to lower momentum fractions . Mathematically, this corresponds to exponential growth in the parton distributions:
which is roughly the solution to the BFKL equation.
If the parton distributions get too large, when you try to calculate the scattering cross section, the result "breaks unitarity," which effectively means the probability of two partons interacting becomes greater than 1. Obviously, that doesn't make sense! So this exponential growth that we see as we look at collisions with smaller and smaller can't continue unchecked. Some new kind of physics has to kick in and slow it down. That new kind of physics is called saturation.
The physical motivation for saturation was proposed by two physicists, Balitsky (the same one from BFKL) and Yuri Kovchegov, in a series of papers starting in 1995. Their idea is that, when there are many partons, they actually interact with each other — in addition to the branching described above, you also have the reverse process, recombination, where two partons with smaller momentum fractions combine to create one parton with a larger momentum fraction.
At large values of , when the number of partons is small, it makes sense that not many of them will merge, so this recombination doesn't make much of a difference in the proton's structure. But as you move to smaller and smaller and the number of partons grows, more and more of them recombine, making the parton distribution deviate more and more from the exponential growth predicted by the BFKL equation. Mathematically, this recombination adds a negative term, proportional to the square of the parton distribution, to the equation.
When the parton density is low, is small and this nonlinear term is pretty small. But at high parton densities, the nonlinear term has a value close to 1, which cancels out the other terms in the equation. That makes the rate of change approach zero as you go to smaller and smaller values of , which keeps from blowing up and ruining physics.
By way of example, the following plot, from this paper (my PhD advisor is an author), shows how the integrated gluon distribution grows more slowly when you include the nonlinear term (solid lines) than when you don't (dashed lines):
So where does that leave us? Well, we have a great model that works when the parton density is low, but we don't know if it works when the density is high. That's right: saturation has never really been experimentally confirmed, although it's getting very close. In the third and final post in this series (not counting any unplanned sequels), I'll explain how physicists are now trying to do just that, and how my group's research fits into the effort.


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Re: Keel cooling
I will look into package coolers. I have only used cooling pipes on my power boats. Sailing is new to me takes a different mind set for sure. Still haven't found a good option for the exhaust. Don't like running a extra pump if I can help it back to the same problem I have now. Kelp,sea grass,plastic,jelly fish, all that good stuff plugging the intake. But at least I could throw a bucket of water on the pipe till I was out from the beach. I just love poking about in the little bays and estuaries ware most people don't go.
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Keel cooling is on the list of things I would like to do with my boat since I have a RW cooled engine. It's the least troublesome form of FW cooling there is.
For a sailboat, you would want to use a "Package Cooler" from Fernstrum or Walters instead of a bunch of pipe looped back and forth. You will be surprised how small it is for 20-30 hp. The boundary layer gets so thick towards the back of a boat that the drag won't be significant with a wedge in front of and behind the cooler.
Dry exhaust isn't practical. You will need to install a second water pump belted off the engine to provide exhaust water. You will also need a small header tank.
Raw water cooled engines like mine have a thermostat set to a temperature that is too low for optimum operation. This is necessary to keep salt deposits from quickly building up. One of the main reasons I would like to convert to keel cooling is to get the engine running hotter as well as being able to make domestic hot water.
Yanmar does not sell a thermostat with a higher setting which will fit my engine so I would need to remove the thermostat and replace it with an external one that would keep all the water in the keel cooler loop at the right temperature. As you can see, there are some design and engine specific issue so a keel cooler conversion should be done with some informed professional help.
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I've had keel coolers on workboats but they had exhausts that went up vertically through the deck. A small keel cooler would create very little drag but you'd still need to keep a wet exhaust unless you could devise some sort of exhaust exit that wouldn't melt lines or sails. Fumes might also be a problem. On workboats you're usually in the cabin when motoring and the exhaust pipe is pretty high.
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Wouldn't using a keel cooler mean that the engine would have a dry exhaust? Not a problem on a larger motorboat, but I would think a dry (and very hot) exhaust on a sailboat could be problematic.
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Wouldn't using a keel cooler mean that the engine would have a dry exhaust? Not a problem on a larger motorboat, but I would think a dry (and very hot) exhaust on a sailboat could be problematic.
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I've thought of that on occasion. Many of the boats and in particularly fish boats up here use keel coolers. They seem to work very well. This is just a guess but I think you would definitely need one on each side and you would loose half the cooling effect when your heeled over. Even if it's recessed you would get lots of drag.
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We used Walter Keel Coolers on a series of 34' hydrographic survey launches for Canadian Fisheries and Oceans in the 90's. Since we were laying up hulls on site we built foam blocks as hull recessess so coolers would be flush, reducing drag. Worked great, but drag could be a serious issue for you at sailing speeds. Best to get some serious designer input here.
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Is their any reason I shouldn't use keel cooling with my yanmar sb12 on my 29 ft boat. How much drag can I expect to have . No interest in racing just want trouble free cooling. I have set it up on power boats with car engines that we modified but drag was not a issue for just cruising in the local bays and inlets.
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A Cloud-Computing-Based Data Placement Strategy in High-Speed Railway
1State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
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The American Health Care Association has awarded the Silver National Quality Award to Majora Lane Center in Millersburg. This award program recognizes quality long-term care providers across the country. Majora Lane is one of only four Silver level award winners in Ohio, with just 52 facilities nationwide receiving the Silver level award this year.
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After you get these wheels and tires mounted I would be interested on the fitment. I plan on going with the same sizes wheels and tires. Although I have tanabe lowering springs I would hope that minor fender rolling would solve any issues.
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It will solve your issue. This is my 2nd 2011 build.
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You could help your fender issue if you found a 40, 42 or 44 offset
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It's hard to find the Rota rims I want in with that offset in the size I want 18x9.5 or preferably 18x9. Any pointers on fender rolling?
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"We're getting calls on this issue all day long, every day," says a member of Conrad Burns' staff in Washington D.C. "All of them are opposed to attacking Iraq."
Continuing their efforts to reach and influence legislators, advocates of peace and diplomacy assembled at Sen. Max Baucus' field offices in cities throughout Montana last Tuesday.
So what's the next step for peace activists? Anita Doyle with the Jeanette Rankin Peace Center says the current round in the struggle to derail the Bush administration's war machine is being fought in the U.S. Congress. Says Doyle, "The most important thing that people can do at this moment is to continue to call Congress."
Both the U.S. House and Senate are currently debating resolutions that would authorize Bush to use any force against Iraq that he deems necessary and appropriate. Numerous lawmakers have expressed deep-seated reservations about granting such authorization. Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a conservative Democrat, adamantly believes it would be unconstitutional, and is considering a filibuster to block the resolution.
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Peace activists are also heartened by a broadening of the anti-war movement to other sectors of the political spectrum. There are those who question the logic of attacking Iraq on economic as well as moral grounds. Some critics see the Bush administration's posturing as a real-life "wag the dog" scenario—a crass political ploy to manipulate the public during an election season, or to distract Americans from the social and economic crises taking place here at home. Others point to Bush's newly released National Security Strategy, a document that unabashedly plans for permanent U.S. military and economic domination of every region on the globe.


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One-tenth of women in an English survey reported that they loved their pets more than their relationship partners, while nearly a third of women said they loved their pets and their partners an equal amount. What do you think?
"Not me. My dog's a lying, cheating sack of shit."Melanie Sardi Addiction Counselor
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Week Of Shell Wonder
Could you imagine finding these 2 huge empty HORSE CONCHS wading through the Sanibel gulf waters? Well Diane Foley and her sister-in-law not only found 2 off Middle Gulf Drive... they found 5 of these gorgeous treasured shells. Shellzam! Then used my cleaning tips to get those first 2 to look amazing.
Remember Abigail from our iLoveShelling Adventure with Sight Sea-R Cruises this week? After our cruise, her dad Ken posted this photo on my Facebook page. Abigail found a big beautiful empty HORSE CONCH on Sanibel too. Yahoo!
Lainey found an awesome empty LIGHTNING WHELK at Blind Pass Sanibel. The big shells might not be rolling up on the beach but they are sure in the water. Way to go!
I was so honored to meet the Santiago family from Georgia this week staying at the Island Inn Beachfront Resort. They were the big winners of our iLoveShelling 5 Year Shellaversary GiveAway for 5 nights stay at Island Inn. It was so much fun hanging out with Sierra, Pete, Keaton, Cynthia, Claire and MaKalie who were enjoying every second of their stay in their beautiful room with a view of this awesome beach.
They showed me a few of their favorite finds including TRUE TULIPS, LETTERED OLIVES, FIGHTING CONCHS, SUNRAY VENUS, LIGHTNING WHELKS, all sorts and colors of SCALLOPS and an array of minis.
Claire couldn't keep her eye of the cutie KITTENS PAWS. I love them too, Claire!
Big or small, strolling the beach in sunshine along aqua water is a dream come true. Live it, Love it.
Join me on a Shelling Adventure! For more information CLICK HERE…Read More
6 Most Common Shells On Sanibel Island, Florida
Have you ever wondered what are the most common seashells that wash up on Sanibel? We see them every day on the beach but all of those "little white CLAM shells" start to look the same and we tend to look over all of them in search for our favorites like the TULIPS and WHELKS.
If you have shelled the beaches of Southwest Florida several times, then you might not be surprised to hear…
The 6 most common shells found in beach drift on Sanibel, Florida are:
TRANSVERSE ARK (Anadara transversa), CROSS-BARRED VENUS (Chione elevata), PONDEROUS ARK (Noetia ponderosa), KITTENS PAW (Plicatula gibbosa), COQUINA (Donax variabilis) and the JINGLE (Anomia simplex).
They look pretty familiar don't they?
The TRANSVERSE ARK (Anadara transversa) seashells are literally everywhere on our beaches and this is why it's hard to find any other shell on the beach because we get so overwhelmed by looking at so many of these "little white clams shells".
CROSS-BARRED VENUS (Chione elevata) shells always intrigue me because they have so many different interior colors.
PONDEROUS ARK (Noetia ponderosa) normally looks like just a bigger version of the TRANSVERSE ARK but when they are juveniles, it is really hard to tell the difference. Closely looking at the interior is the only way to decipher the juvie PONDEROUS from the adult TRANSVERSE.
KITTENS PAW (Plicatula gibbosa) – How can you walk on a beach in Sanibel and not smile when you see one of these?
COQUINA (Donax variabilis) shells have stolen the hearts of most of us the first time we walked on the beach and saw these sweet little butterfly shells scattered along the beach.
JINGLE (Anomia simplex) shells are like shimmering little beacons calling out from the sand- love them.
So how do I know that these are the most common shells on Sanibel? Well, because Susan Hewitt (our Susan H !) did a comprehensive but simple research study of the most abundance shell species while she was visiting Sanibel in 2011. She took loads of samples all along West Gulf Drive to separate and count each species. (This was not her sample bag in this next photo- she had buckets full)
I helped with her study by scooping up shells for her shell material research on the beach at Blind Pass Sanibel.
I also took samples at Sanibel's Lighthouse beach for her.
After identifying, separating and counting every single shell collected, she got to work on writing her paper. To read her entire study paper, CLICK HERE
So now we know! It was so much fun being involved in her very cool project to answer the question asked about our beaches of Southwest Florida "What are the most common shells on Sanibel?". Thanks Susan H for this awesome report!
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Meowy Kitten Paw Christmas
Do you see what I see?
Thousands of purrfect KITTEN PAW SHELLS!
These sweet little KITTIES washed up on the sand bar at Blind Pass yesterday waiting to be adopted (errr I mean collected) for a good home. Here Kitty Kitty Kitty Kitty!
Aha- And I know what I "knead" to do with them. I love this idea!
Charlotte P. shared a photo of her KITTEN PAW creation on iLoveShelling Facebook page and said…
"My two nieces, my sister and I collected kitten paw shells at Blind Pass this past June. They were so plentiful, that we just scooped handfuls of them into our shell bag. I made these 9-inch trees using about 460 shells each. Now we will always remember our fun summer day every Christmas! …use Michael's stryo cones, sort shells according to size. I used the largest on the bottom. (The shells that are still hinged together are too thick. Also, the really curved ones don't work either. ) Shove the shell into the cone until secure. Take it out, insert hot glue and jam it into place. Repeat about 459 or so times!"
CLICK HERE to find the link to her post on iLS Facebook page…
Our kitties PuppyCat and Dustie are already in the holiday spirit dressing in ShellElf hats to match their mom so I'm sure they would love to help me. They love craft time.
Wanna scratch around in the sand to find a few KITTENS PAWS too? Lets go CYBERSHELLING! Click on the next image to enlarge…
Want more? Take a walk on the beach with me to see the shells, waves, water and listen to the jingle of the shells against the surf…. and be amazed at the oodles of KITTENS PAWS (and itty bitty orange ROUGH SCALLOP I couldn't resist). Here's a video! (sorry if the vid looks a little "fuzzy" right now- I hope it clears up)
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Kittens Paws To The PuppyCat Show Video
Mother Nature must have known that cat lovers "knead" Sanibel Island so she made KITTENS PAWS plentiful on our beaches. Or maybe it's the other way around? Kitty lovers love Sanibel since its the purrrfect place to curl up on the beach to enjoy so many KITTENS PAWS Mother Nature has given us. Either way, KITTENS PAWS may be one of the most common shells that "litter" the beaches on Sanibel but we think they are Meeeowvalous!
You might recall we adopted a new orange fur-baby last December who didn't want to stick with the name "Rustie" that we chose for him for the first 2 months. So now after 8 months of kitty love and entertainment (and has the cutest little Kitten Paws), his permanent name is "PuppyCat". He's a kitty that thinks he's a puppy! This Sanibel kitty wags his tail and he does tricks for treats every afternoon. Yup… he really puts on a show! Wanna see?
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Shell 'N Tell At Shellabaloo 2
After you enjoy feeling the excitement of finding shells on the beach, you get to enjoy the excitement all over again when you show them to someone else that "gets" what you found and knows how you feel. That's why our Shellabaloo 2 "Shell 'N Tell" was one of my favorite days of the whole week during Shellabaloo. Do you see what Michele (Ohio) is holding in her hand in the first photo with her husband Bill? She found a JUNONIA! But that's not it… she found what she calls "The Trifecta!"… A large HORSE CONCH and a large WHELK along with her JUNONIA. Do you think she was a happy girl or what! So happy for you Michele!
Here are some of her other finds (minus the JUNONIA since she was showing it to the others when I took this) …
For the week of Shellabaloo 2, I made up another Shellinger Hunt. The hunt is really meant to just have fun learning about different shells and not to overlook some of the common shells like JINGLES and KITTENS PAWS because…. well… because I think they are beautiful too! So you will see some of the displays with a dozen JINGLES in a COCKLE SHELL because that was point for the Shellinger Hunt. It wasn't about who could find and take the most shells off the beach- it was all about enjoying the shells that were found… and some bigger points for finding things like The Sanibel Six or finding the rarer shells. It was so much fun to see these shellers find shells they've never found before and to rediscover the ones that can easily be overlooked.
On our last day, I asked everybody to bring their fave finds and/or their entries for the Shellinger Hunt at our home base at Island Inn so we could all see what everybody else was collecting. We set up tables for each person to display their shells and it turned out to be a mini Sanibel Shell Show!
Terri (NY) made a beee-uuuteeeful display of her favorite finds.
Lee and Susan (Cuba) narrowed down their favorite finds on a cooler tray for the Shellinger Hunt…
Of course I added a BEACH BLING category on the hunt ( i Love the BLING!) so it's so funny they added a dried up fish tail that looks just like a MERMAID and a washed up fishing bobber as the faves in that category. LOL
Rick (Texas) brought a plate of his fave shells… the miniature shells. I just love how everybody organized their shells so creatively!
Rick's wife Murfy showed her faves along with her favorite vintage shell book…
There is one shell in the middle of the others that is a little different. It looks like some sort of a TURITELLA… which I dont think is native to this area. I think it is either a FOSSIL shell that found it's way to the gulf on a high tide from sidewalk fill or it was left over from a party or wedding after someone bought shells to decorate with. Hmmmm.
If there was a prize for being creative… Sharene and Tom (Ontario) would have won for creativity!
Rusty and Donna (Apopka, FL) narrowed down the favorites and of course it included an ALPHABET CONE and the SEA WHIP that had the ONE-TOOTH SIMNIAS I showed you in the first Shellabaloo 2 post.
Roger (MO) told me that his favorite shells were the minis he found at Lighthouse Beach. It was his first time finding WENTLETRAPS, RICE OLIVES and TUSKS so it was really fun to find something new.
Margie (AL) is so adorable! Her favorite shell was the PONDEROUS ARK because she loved the black PERIOSTICUM (the shell's "skin") on the white shell so that's all she collected. She is going to make a black and white frame for a mirror when she gets home so I hope we get to see it!
Cutie Pie Becka needed her own table to make room for all of her newly found treasures.
Kendra (IN) had a sweet organized display of her favorites but also for the Shellinger Hunt.
She was so afraid she was going to lose her first TUSK SHELL so she wrapped half of a bandaid around it so she would know where it was (on the blue plate). LOL
Pat (Boca Raton, FL) had an amazing display of shells and BLING for the Shellinger Hunt.
While I was oooohing and aaaahing at all of her finds, she pointed out a piece of BEACH BLING that she wanted to know what it was. Whoa! Pat! You found the OPERCULUM to the SHARKS EYE! Clark just found our first ones just last month so I was absolutely thrilled for her that… A) she saw it and picked it up… and B) that she knew it was something special to show at the Shell And Tell. See why I love these shellers? Who else would think this thing on the beach was cool…
Speaking of awesome shellers, unfortunately, Gina couldn't come to the Shell 'N Tell but I still have to show you one of her exshellent finds… Gina found a yellow SEA WHIP. We find the purple ones a little more often but not the perfect yellow ones like hers. And no, I couldnt get her photo either because she was a little camera shy but Ha! I took a "long-arm shot" with me in it so we could get her picture and the SEA WHIP. LOL And yep, you guessed it! There were two ONE-TOOTH SIMNIAS on it!
I have found yellow SEA WHIPS before but never one with the yellow ONE-TOOTH SIMINAS on it. Yahoo! Gina did! Such a treasure!
Okay back to the Shell 'N Tell with the rest of the awesomeness…. Here's Cindy with her huge HORSE CONCH I showed you in my last post! Now you can see all of the other fabulous shells she found as well.
She also found a big ALPHABET CONE …which is part of 2 sets of The Sanibel Six for her Shellinger Hunt finds. She found a FLORIDA CONE to make her other set. And look at all of the SHARKS TEETH!
Okay… It's time to announce the winner of the Shell And Tell and you won't believe this prize! The winning sheller went home with a silver JINGLE SHELL necklace made by Sealife By Congress. It is beautiful! This new Sanibel jewelry store in Periwinkle Place Shopping Center is filled with seashells, SEAHORSES, DOLPHINS, STARFISH, SAND DOLLARS and every other sea life in gold, silver and with tasteful gemstones as well. I was thrilled they wanted to give our winner this perfect shell necklace.
After much laughter and ado, we narrowed the winners down to Michele (with her JUNONIA and HORSE CONCH) and Cindy with her HORSE CONCH based on their points score…
Before we announce the winner, Cindy and Michele clicked their CONCHS as if it was a toast. Cute and so much fun!
Drum Roll Please! …. wait for it…… The winner is Michele! Her JINGLE necklace is perfect for her! Congratshellations, my friend!
I can't even begin to tell you how much fun both Shellabaloo 1 (in January) and this Shellabaloo 2 have been since it really brings amazing people together with not just shelling in common but we all seem to be like-minded in so many other ways. It's quite a bonding experience, I must say. Thank you Island Inn for hosting such a great Shellapalooza. I'm sorry to say that I don't know when the next one will be- no dates of been set yet for this 4 day Shellathon but as soon as we've come up with a plan, you will be the first to know.
But wait! I'm gathering a group of shellers for an afternoon of shelling at Cayo Costa next Sunday May 19 from 1-4pm on a Captiva Cruise. Join us! CLICK HERE for more info or call 239-472-5300 and ask to come along for the next iLoveShelling cruise!
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Constricted Shelling Seems Like An Oxymoron
When I am shelling on the beach, the rest of the world melts away. My breathing gets easier because my body loosens up and my whole outlook widens. To think of anything that is constricted about shelling seems like an oxymoron to me. Constricting and shelling are contradictory words! That's why I was surprised to find this CONSTRICTED MACOMA mixed in with oodles of ALTERNATE TELLINS around West Gulf Dr.
This one looked so different because it looked like the sun melted one side of it. I couldn't find a match in any of my books to identify it but MurexKen assures me it is the CONSTRICTED MACOMA. I wonder what it is so constricted about? I would have called it the MELTED MACOMA or MELTY TELLIN… but who asked me, right?
Quit constricting, MACOMA!
Relax like some of your other relatives, the ALTERNATE TELLINS…
…and like some of my buddies when we get together to enjoy just hanging out on the beach and shelling…
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Shards of My Reality is my first ever perzine, and I thought I would kick it off with a Hello to the Zine Scene at large. :)
It includes some of my artwork, comics, some information about me and who I am, ect. ect. including a SUPRISE ENDING (I say suprise, because something exciting happened while I was still working on this zine that was a suprise to me, and I end off…
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Im making my first ever perzine, entitled "Shards of my Reality"... Hope it will turn out okay! Eep!
Heres a preview page.
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Im thinking of making a series of zines about the tabletop games Iv played, kinda comics about the storylines plus character sketches, all the technical information and charts, ect.
Im not sure about what to call it though. "Tabletop Adventures" seems too bland....anyone have any ideas for a name?
Also, would this idea be of interest to anyone? Does anyone here even play any tabletop games?
Added by Grace on January 22, 2011 at 3:45pm — 5 Comments
Just finished my new zine, Insomnia!
This has taken me a while to do, drawing comics is a lot of work.
17 pages in all, this is a detailed guide to all the ways that I personally have tried to fight off insomnia. Its called a "warriors guide" because Iv kind of done a battle theme, breaking it…Continue
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This is a preview page from the NEW zine I am working on on the subject of Insomnia!! Fun times!
I figured Id do something a little less "riske" so that I could reach broader audiances. Iv been having a string of rejections and controversy of late which is really rather frustrating as an artist. Of course, iv been wanting to do an Insomnia piece for a…Continue
Added by Grace on January 9, 2011 at 12:30am — 2 Comments
Iv made a small little personal website seperate from my main website (eruannadraws.webs.com) for a listing/reviews of all the zines I currently own... its mainly for my own sake, to archive my collection, but its up there in case anyone wants a looksee of whats in my collection, it has little details about each zine and a link to the makers. Cheers!
Added by Grace on December 5, 2010 at 6:09pm — 4 Comments
14 pages long, black and white printed on pink paper, Pretty Pussy! is a minicomic piece on the topic of pubic hair grooming and body image.
Iv been working on it steadily for the past few weeks, had the idea in my head for forever. I wanted to do something feminine and uplifting, and heres what Iv come up with. Tips on hair removal and how to keep your skin clear afterwards of ingrown hairs and rash. While it is of course focused on…
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Well, so I just signed up to this website, still trying to figure out how everything around here works.
I mostly read comic zines, I was introduced to the entire concept of a zine through looking for indie self published comic books. I am a fascinated by comics as a medium and am always looking for more interesting, innovating and/or non-conventional comics to read. Avid reader of japanese manga as well as american comics as well, but Im interested in collecting comics that…Continue
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Yeah chads piece came out looking pretty fresh... mad respect as usual...
Zewls you know paint markers do not work very good on paper and tend to look pretty bad... try them out on a better surface like wood or canvas...
Yeah chads piece came out looking pretty fresh... mad respect as usual...
Zewls you know paint markers do not work very good on paper and tend to look pretty bad... try them out on a better surface like wood or canvas...
i only had a black and silver, i only got them to catch hands...believe it or not the ironlak streakers didn't come with a black...what a waste of 50 dollars. I feel stupid because I feel like if I had decent markers that piece would have came out a lot better. Fuck it man, I don't expect any votes at all. Good job though mone on the character. I mean I figured it would just be so predictable to do something puke themed ya know? But nonetheless, I've never really tried full pagers, but you pulled your's off pretty well.
I'll post my second sketch just for crits :
Sorry the blue one wasn't for that battle !!
my girlfriend said she could do better than that. the B is way bigger than the rest of it...your color schemes aren't really workin' for ya. On the puke one, black fills on a blackbook=no go. Unless you had a silver to do an outline and 3d.
yeah crook on your 3d none of the letters on the puke one have a ninety degree corner persay , so your bottom edge of the 3d shouldn't have one either. except the right bar on the k
and on the blue one the bottom left corner of the u is rounded , so should the bottom right of the 3d then
can we get a new word addiction?
Is it my call?
If not,then whoevers up,jump on it.
I know its over but blink at least deserves a shoutout, if not a late vote. Shits fresh. Word to addiction though no doubt
Thanks for the props to everyone who gave em,a lot of you made me think I should put more into my future shit cuz most of yours,especially Mones,Blinks,Nose,looked like you spent some time and my shit was pretty thrown together. .
on to the next. .
yo, could we shorten the word to just "HOME"? everytime there is a long word, no one seems to join in. just a thought
^i second that notion , and thnx for the props my fav. add. i spent no time on mine at all man , it's all good just fuckin with u
Yeah,I personally like long words,but youve definitely gota point.
New word is HOME!
ironic, my round robin battle was the same word, might as well enter it here too lol
not feeling it today what so ever
yo nigguh you need to chillllll, that H looks like a weird M and that M looks like i dont even know what with that squiggly shit, go simpler dude
roflmao @ ian being a laaaazy ass
dude, dont get blown up just yet, you still need hella practice, just coz ure winning in the RR doesn't mean that it's time to kick back, relax and enjoy the safe zone :P
get to sketching!
go do a new piece haha
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You'd think they'd put the wine into the chocolate, but turns out they ACTUALLY put the chocolate around the wine! It's a very delicate operation, we've heard.Imagine, if you will, a large planetarium shaped warehouse where men in zero-gravity suits float on tethers with spray guns full of chocolate as spheres of wine are released from a huge eyedropper, one at a time. That's the secret inside of the Guy Debbas Wine Filled Chocolate Factory, and that's how each of these delightful little candies is born.
Over 200 retired astronauts are kept on staff at all times to cover the Cabernet, Chardonnay and Champagne with smooth, proprietary chocolate from the award winning G. Debbas Chocolatier. And 400 championship cricketers are on hand as well, rushing in with their wide cricket bats to slap the Guy Debbas Wine Filled Chocolate across the room into the Box Tunnel, where the candies fall delicately into each box as gravity is restored. Then trained swans carry each box to the shipping room, and a team of twenty bats per box swoop down and grab tiny golden strings, zooming off into the night with-
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My Mom wants to make something and she started by rolling all her yarn into balls. Why is this done? is it really needed or just a waste of time?
i need to know. Thanks
Depends on how the yarn is wound when you buy it. If it is a hank of yarn, then yes, you have to wind your yarn into more manageable balls. A hank is just yarn wound into a loop and if you tried to knit with it the way it comes from the store, it would turn into a mess of tangles.
If it is a skein or a center pull ball, then you don't have to wind a ball. They are set up so that you can just find the end of the yarn and start knitting with it straight from the yarn as it comes from the store.
I wind all my yarn becasue I have had several times I have been in the middle of a row and have then seen that the yarn is tied together. So I always ball mine now. I sometimes do a center pull one and sometimes just a regular one.
I might be really weird, but I actually enjoy winding all of my yarn into balls! I get to appreciate my purchase a second time as I wind it up. It's part of the excitement of buying new yarn for me!
Also, like MAma Dawn, I have had enough problems with skeins either knotted together or actually coming out really tangled to justify my yarn-balling habit.
Thanks for your input. I didn't realize - My mom is recooping from surgery and wanted something to work on. She started this and it will be interesting to watch. Maybe i will learn a little something.
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'Our ascending stars'…. follows the progress of professional dancers who have graduated this year. Regular readers will know that all of the dancers featured here were interviewed just as they made the transition from vocational school to professional ballet company. Here we see how they've been getting on….
Shiori Kase, Artist, English National Ballet
What is it like now that you are working as a professional dancer?
I feel weird! I still can`t believe I'm in the Company and that I actually dance with the Company. But I really like being here, especially now that I can wear whatever I want to, and I can work for myself in class and rehearsals.
Which roles have you performed so far and what did you enjoy?
We`ve done Scherazade, Giselle and The Nutcracker and we are doing The Snow Queen at the moment. I really enjoy dancing every role but if I have to say my favourite it's going to be "Vine Gatherers" from Giselle, "Mirlitons" and "Walz of flowers" from The Nutcracker.
What have you learnt that`s been unexpected?
It`s a hard one for me. I didn`t realize how difficult it would be to dance the choreography as well as staying in perfect alignment.
What`s been the best thing about company life so far?
Dancing in the Coliseum! We`ve been touring to so many places and every theatre is so different, but the Coliseum is nice and big! And also I love dancing with people from here, everyone is so nice and I am always watching amazing dancers. They make me work hard more and more!
Which roles are coming up for you in the next year?
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The religious wars erupted in Israel when a Muslim driver went through an Orthodox neighborhood committing the heinous crime of playing his car radio too loud on Yom Kippur. A group of Jewish youths assaulted the driver accusing him of deliberately making noise on the holy day. Rumors spread through Arab neighborhoods that the motorist had been killed which prompted several Arabs to take to the streets with their protest. Rioters from both sides hurled rocks at each other. Not surprisingly, an ultra-nationalist MP, Arieh Eldad claimed Arabs had been engaged in a "pogrom."Arab MP, Mohammed Barakeh blamed "Jewish fascist gangs" for the turmoil. Finally, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni came to Acre to attempt calming down people about the conflict.
Religion is supposedly the source of peace and justice. A motorist played some music on his car radio. One can assume since he was driving a car it would only be a matter of moments before he was out of the neighborhood and that would end the entire matter.
By the way, my grandfather was beaten up in the famous 1905 pogrom in Russia. There was no Arab "pogrom" in Acre.


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A clerk at an east side convenience store opened fire on customers overnight, Newsradio 1200 WOAI reports.
It happened in the 4300 block of East Houston.
Police say several men who had been in a dispute over paying for beer, opened fire on the store.
The store clerk fired back and told police he thinks he hit one of the men.
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Top Teachers: Erin Bourne
By Tom Lappas, Henrico Citizen Editor 02/18/11
Erin Bourne is willing to concede that the future employment opportunities of her current algebra students are unlikely to depend upon their abilities to solve quadratic equations on the spot.
But, they may depend upon their abilities to solve problems.
Bourne, who has taught eighth-graders for 11 years at Byrd, does her best to make algebra fun for her students while impressing upon them the importance of understanding the process they use.
"They might not use this specific topic, but what I'm teaching is problem-solving skills and how to use them," Bourne said.
It's working; Bourne is a student favorite who earns high marks for her classroom demeanor and willingness to help students who need assistance.
"Every child that has or has had her as a math teacher loves her," one nominator wrote of Bourne. "She is patient and inspiring. Her knowledge of algebra and trigonometry is above and beyond. She takes algebra and applies it to real life, and therefore the kids seem to appreciate why algebra is essential for life. She is well respected and highly regarded by all of the students in her class."
Math comes naturally to Bourne, who said she has always loved it but wasn't sure what she'd end up doing with it. A career fair in college helped sway her toward teaching.
Students appreciate her personality – a mix of excitement and occasional silliness.
"I have been told before by my kids that I'm very funny – they compare me to Jim Carey in my facial expressions," Bourne said with a laugh. "I'm very enthusiastic – I almost feel like I'm performing when I'm teaching."
Bourne regularly holds tutoring sessions before school begins to offer extra support for any students who need it. She can relate to those who do.
"The kids would probably be shocked to know that I took algebra twice," she said. "I got a C the first time in private school, then took it again in ninth grade."
The fit at Byrd has been a comfortable one for Bourne, who describes the faculty as a supportive family.
"Everyone is supportive, willing to help," she said. "Every year there's a new initiative that the county wants us to take on, and those faculty members who have been trained in it are anxious to help others."
Richmond Montessori School earns VAIS reaccreditation
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Richmond Montessori School, an independent Montessori school for children ages 2 to 14, recently earned reaccreditation from the Virginia Association of Independent Schools. The VAIS accreditation program is one of only a few recognized at the national level through the National Association of Independent School's Commission on Accreditation and is also recognized and approved by the Virginia Board of Education through the Virginia Council for Private Education. > Read more.
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Neil Burton, the founder of Strangeways Brewing in Henrico, will serve on the 2017-18 Leadership Council of The Virginia Craft Brewers Guild (VCBG). Burton will share the chairmanship of the Marketing & Tourism Committee with Kevin Erskine of Coelacanth Brewing. Other local brewers in leadership positions include Eric McKay of Hardywood Park Craft Brewery (VCBG chair), Hunter Smith of Champion Brewing Company (co-chair of the Government Affairs Committee) and Kate Lee of Hardywood (co-chair of the Quality Committee). > Read more.
James River Juvenile Detention Center to graduate its largest class
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James River Juvenile Detention Center will celebrate its largest class of high school graduates June 27, as 13 residents receive their high school diploma or GED certificate.
The ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. at the detention center, 3650 Beaumont Road in Powhatan County. The graduates will mark their academic milestone by walking across a stage in a cap and gown before an audience of family members. A reception will follow. > Read more.
The ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. at the detention center, 3650 Beaumont Road in Powhatan County. The graduates will mark their academic milestone by walking across a stage in a cap and gown before an audience of family members. A reception will follow. > Read more.
Henrico School Board selects redistricting Option E
Citizen Staff Reports 06/23/2017 EducationGeneral News
JUNE 23, 10:30 A.M. – The Henrico County School Board Thursday concluded its latest redistricting process by selecting a plan for middle school redistricting that will impact a number of students in the western and northern parts of the county, as well as a few in Eastern Henrico.
The process sought to reduce overcrowding at Hungary Creek Middle School, create room at Wilder Middle School for a gifted academy and address the poverty level disparity among some middle schools. It will impact about 775 students, according to school system officials. > Read more.
'Senior Cool Care' program to help older adults in Metro Richmond
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For the 27th year, Senior Connections, The Capital Area Agency on Aging is helping older adults combat summer heat through a program now called "Senior Cool Care" (formerly the Fan Care program) that provides fan and air conditioning units for eligible senior citizens.
The program is available to low-income older adults age 60 and older who reside in the City of Richmond and the counties of Charles City, Chesterfield, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, New Kent and Powhatan. > Read more.
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These days, nothing that comes out of Japan really surprises me anymore, especially when it comes to robots.
Including this news (courtesy of DigInfo News), in which we see a Panasonic-developed prototype for a dry head spa robot. Of course, I had no idea what a dry head spa was, but apparently in Japan . But now you can have a robot do this - not only in a spa, but they're looking to add this to things like bathtubs, massage chairs and a desktop model.
I guess it's only natural that Panasonic developed this, as they already had developed several hair-washing robots for salons.
Come to think of it, I could use one of these at my desk while I'm writing these blog posts.
Keith Shaw rounds up the best in geek video in his ITworld.tv blog. Follow Keith on Twitter at @shawkeith. For the latest IT news, analysis and how-tos, follow ITworld on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.
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You don't have to be best friends with Mother Nature to enjoy a little rest and relaxation alongside the picturesque lakes, hardwood forests and cypress-filled bayous of Louisiana's State Parks.
18 of the 22 Louisiana State Parks offer comfortable cabins.
Imagine waking up in Bogue Chitto State Park in a cabin overlooking the bluffs or rocking on a private porch with views of Lake Pontchartrain in Fontainebleau State Park. Picture yourself enjoying the quiet seclusion of a bayou-side cabin at Chemin-A-Haut State Park or strolling through the gardens and rock formations at Hodges Gardens State Park before retiring to your rustic log cabin retreat.
These homes away home are ideal for family or group gatherings, sleeping between six to eight people, and some parks offer lodges for even larger groups. Louisiana State Park cabins are stocked with basic cookware, utensils, tableware, towels and linens.
Amenities vary across the parks, but some perks include satellite television, Wi-Fi and fireplaces ideal for curling up in front of on cool fall nights. There's no roughing it here!
But the best part of these cabin getaways is the wallet-friendly rates, which typically range from $120 to $150 per night. And you can check availability and book your stay directly from the individual Louisiana State Park websites.
With boating and fishing opportunities, hiking and biking trails, and special events such as hayrides and history tours scheduled throughout the year, there's plenty to do without ever having to leave the park.
Louisiana State Parks with cabin rentals:
*Please check availability, local conditions and up-to-date information on the cabins listed below.
Bayou Segnette, Westwego
Bogue Chitto, Franklinton
Chemin-A-Haut, Bastrop
Chicot, Ville Platte
Cypremort Point
Fontainebleau, Mandeville
Hodges Gardens, Florien
Jimmie Davis, Chatham
Lake Bistineau, Doyline
Lake Claiborne, Homer
Lake D'Arbonne, Farmerville
Lake Fausse Pointe, St. Martinville
North Toledo Bend, Zwolle
Palmetto Island, Abbeville
Poverty Point Reservoir, Delhi
Sam Houston Jones, Lake Charles
South Toledo Bend, Anacoco
Tickfaw, Springfield
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5 Steps to Launch Your International Social Media
Yesterday we wrote about Social Media in Russia where the most popular social networks aren't parallel with the rest of the world. However, this is exactly what you need to consider when launching an international social media campaign.
Christian Amo, of Lingo24, wrote an article on Jay Baer's blog, Convince & Convert, about the steps you need to do when launching a your product or service worldwide through social media.
Even though Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google are American companies, social media doesn't begin and end at the shores of the USA. If your company operates multi-nationally, creating and perpetuating a social media presence globally will eventually become a consideration – if it's not already.
The challenge is that your social media efforts need to be localized for each target market, in the same way your websites need to be. It's tricky, but not as difficult as it may seem. The five steps are:
- Choose the right social networks.
- Find what people like.
- Develop a strategy.
- Localize your content.
- Interact with your followers.


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