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Publisher Raphael Tuck and Sons, of England, produced several aviation series of its trademark "Oilettes," or postcards reproducing original oil paintings. These paintings documented the Wright Brothers Biplane, the Zeppelin, the Spherical Balloon, the Bleriot Monoplane, and M. de Lesseps' Channel Flight.
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In the 1920s, the United States Postal Service contracted out its air mail routes to 12 carriers, including companies that evolved into Pan Am, Delta, American, United, Trans Wor...
Of course, as they grew—particularly after the Boeing 247 and Douglas DC-3 were introduced in the 1930s—the airlines themselves issued official cards featuring various airplanes or touting different routes. Cards from once glamorous and now-defunct airlines like TWA and Pan Am are of particular interest to collectors.
The least valuable aviation postcards are those made by museums, as they were published in great numbers and are rather common now.
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Middle years of schooling in new times : implications for teacher education
Bahr, Nan, Mayer, D. E., Kapitzke, C., Carrington, V. M., & Doherty, C. (2001) Middle years of schooling in new times : implications for teacher education. In 2nd Annual Conference of the Middle Years of Schooling Association, 24-26 May 2001 , Brisbane.
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Are seasteaders politically agnostic?
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Since hearing Joe Quirk, director of communications for the Seasteading Institute, speak at Voice & Exit in Austin last June, I have become very excited about the creation of autonomous communities out at sea. I think seasteads may be the future of freedom and innovation, a way to bring greater health and wealth to humanity as a whole, and greater liberty to individuals. Pursuing these goals is, as I see it, the positive agenda of libertarianism.
So is seasteading fundamentally libertarian?
The folks over at the Seasteading Institute say no. They claim that the institute and the movement are politically agnostic.
The Seasteading Book itself (perpetually in beta, it seems) has this to say:
While the authors have a libertarian viewpoint, we want to stress that seasteading is politically agnostic. We're attempting to describe (and create) an enabling technology for small-scale sovereignty. This will give many different groups the autonomy to experiment with their theories. We find it very satisfying to be empowering all minority political groups, not just advancing our own vision.
And in this "Floating Cities" video, Joe Quirk says,
Seasteaders are agnostic about what political systems are going to work in the future. Our goal is to create a Silicon Valley of the sea, where lots of seasteads — hopefully thousands some day — compete to attract residents. And the best social systems attract the best people…. Why not give your political opponents a chance to try out their ideas on a seastead? You can laugh at the fiascoes, and you can learn something if something surprising works. We think the inevitable result will be that solutions will emerge that are not part of what we argue about now…. I would love to see a socialist seastead trying out its ideas. I would love to see an anarcho-capitalist seastead trying out its ideas. I'd like to see political systems I've never heard of and don't understand trying out their ideas. I'd like to see them attracting different types of people, different kinds of ideologues to different seasteads…. And hopefully we'll create a diversity of political systems suitable to different kinds of people with different kinds of values, and in this market of governance, we'll discover the best solutions for how to live together.
But how is this different from libertarianism? So long as individuals are free to enter and exit these competing governments at will — and to take their property with them — the world of a zillion seastead communities would exemplify libertarian free-market anarchy.
Do socialists believe that libertarians want to prevent them from practicing voluntary socialism?
Do the opponents of the freedom philosophy somehow believe that we want to deny them their options?
The only option we refuse to acknowledge is the option to deny us our options.
I suspect the Seasteading Institute is wise to distance itself from a political philosophy so many people misunderstand. Their goal is to save the world through the freedom of association, not to clear up muddleheaded misunderstandings of that very freedom.
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The MC-1 is Charisma Audio's debut moving coil cartridge. Charisma's Bernard Li teamed up with a cartridge guru who has over 35 years of cartridge design and build experience. By outsourcing production to established pros allowed Bernard to offer the MC-1 at a more attractive price than if manufactured in house.
Weighing in at 13.6g the components of the MC-1 are housed in an attractive curved pastel red aluminum body with internal mounting threads—no fussing with tiny little nuts. Interestingly the cantilever is annealed INOX stainless steel as opposed to the more common boron or aluminum. The stylus is a 5 x 150 uM line contact nude diamond. The coil is 6N OCC (Ohno Continuous Cast Copper) wire wound on a soft iron cross. Other sundry specs are as follows:
The MC-1 comes in a nice wooden box with instruction/specs sheet and a little red cloth bag that contains the necessary mounting hardware. I installed the MC-1 to the arm wand of my Well-Tempered Lab Amadeus turntable and balanced it to the recommended tracking force of 1.9g or thereabouts. This took all of ten minutes primarily due to the Amadeus wand's fixed head and the internal mounting threads of the MC-1. One thing to note, as the MC-1 is rather hefty, a fairly heavy counterweight is required. Incidentally I recently upgraded the Amadeus's arm wand with WTL's Symmetrex wand. It sports the familiar golf ball but in a slightly different configuration that supposedly improves tracking ability. Overall I noted greater focus and solidity especially in the bottom end. A no brainer upgrade if you're an Amadeus owner. While you're at it, consider WTL's DPS power supply which also gave music a more explicit sense of timing and flow over the standard issue wall wart. I remain flummoxed as to how a turntable power supply can have such a noticeable effect on music playback but it is clearly audible even to non-audiophiles.
While impressed right from the start, I let the MC-1 run in for several days with randomly selected records before sitting down in full reviewer mode with a stack of favorite albums. One stack o' wax turned into several stacks as the MC-1 put the hook in me, so to speak. In fact it played music so well that I often forgot about it altogether.
The MC-1 offered a near ideal blend of refinement, detail, clarity and tonal complexity. The top end was delicate and airy, never grainy or overly bright. The midrange was clear, natural and impressively detailed and offered a soundstage that was wide as it was deep. Music never sounded excessively forward, aggressive or harsh. Refinement, focus and clarity were the order of the day.
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It also found more and wider dynamic contrasts on my records than my similarly priced Ortofon Rondo Blue. Also of note was the MC-1's ability to track all my records without issue.
The MC-1 remained composed and unfazed during loud complex music, such as Zubin Mehta's fine recording of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony, in which tension and volume ramp up and down unexpectedly.
The MC-1 avoided dragging down the beat or slurring notes of Ray Brown's bass lines on a number of wonderful Oscar Peterson LPs I have which were recorded in the '70s on the Pablo label.
The massed strings on the aforementioned Mahler album were sweet, natural and textured if not quite to the same degree of EMT's twice as expensive TSD-15 I reviewed some time ago. The latter is the finest cartridge I have tried to date and remains my benchmark.
Groove noise was considerably lower than my Ortofon Rondo Blue. Whether that was due to the size and shape of the diamond, the design of its motor or some unknown resonance control properties, I cannot say.
The performance of the MC-1 was such that substituting a superior phono stage such as Audio Exklusiv's P 0.2 in place of my Pro-Ject Tube Box SE was clearly audible. The P 0.2 better showcased the MC-1's excellent level of information retrieval, wide tonal range, resolving and delicate and silky top end. Strings were gorgeous with this combination. Bass performance also took a notable uptake in performance.
The MC-1 lacked a little bit of the texture and drama of the EMT TSD-15 but possessed a great deal of its delicacy, refinement and purity. And its freedom of surface noise was at least the equal of the more expensive German cartridge.
The Charisma MC-1 was an excellent moving coil cartridge and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it. It handily left my Ortofon Rondo Blue in a cloud of dust in pretty much all musically relevant ways and added further insult to injury by retailing for about the same price. At first blush, a $1095 cartridge is not what I'd call a bargain but since it offered performance awfully close to one twice as expensive, perhaps it is. Well done Charisma. Paul Candy
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Namdar describes the influence that the form and style of Jewish text--Hebrew Bible, siddur, mahzor--has had on him as a Jewish artist and posits that it is this distinct style, its inherent sense of drama, and its endless possibilities that make Jewish art Jewish.
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This tutorial explores the world of inter-process communication (IPC) in Unix, and solutions for Node developers. IPC actually covers a broad swathe of methods, including POSIX signals and pipes, which we've already covered in this series. Here I'm only going to cover IPC methods that are based on sockets or Unix domain sockets.
IPC enables structured data to be shared between processes. In terms of architecture, scaling software by creating smaller programs that communicate with each other using simple data formats fits in with the Unix philosophies mentioned previously in this series. Additionally, it may be desirable to use established Unix-based IPC systems from within Node.
Beyond modularity and performance, IPC can also be used to restrict privileged access to certain resources. For example, a Node web application could run on a registered port (above 1023) which is generally accessible by ordinary user accounts. Then another program with additional privileges to access port 80 could proxy requests to it, thereby limiting access and potentially improving security.
It's likely that contemporary developers that don't come from a Unix background will already use IPC and RPC. Message queues in particular are very popular now -- ZeroMQ can be configured to communicate locally using its IPC transport that's based on Unix domain sockets
D-Bus supports many POSIX operating systems. It's most closely associated with KDE, but can be installed on Mac OS, and there's even a Windows port. It can use Unix or IP sockets.
D-Bus generally runs as a system-level daemon, and also as a session daemon:
A GNOME environment normally runs two kinds of buses: a single system bus for miscellaneous system-wide communication, e.g. notifications when a new piece of hardware is hooked up; and a session bus used by a single user's ongoing GNOME session.
The two most popular Node implementations are node-dbus (License: MIT, npm: dbus) by Shouqun Liu, and node-dbus (License: BSD, npm: node-dbus) from Motorola Mobility. They're both built using C++ extensions that wrap around the libdbus APIs.
It's unlikely that D-Bus is (or will be) a popular solution for IPC with Node developers, but it does allow us to integrate more tightly with desktop environments. For example, if I use a GNOME music player that exposes services through D-Bus, I could write Node scripts that monitor what I'm listening to and post the data to Last.fm. Linux Journal has a general article on this topic that serves as a basic introduction: Control Your Linux Desktop with D-Bus.
There are dozens of modules that provide IPC and RPC solutions that are aimed at Node developers without integrating with existing high-level Unix daemons.
DNode by James Halliday is one such example that works with Unix domain sockets, TCP streams, or WebSocket. It's an RPC implementation that uses a newline-terminated JSON protocol which is documented in the dnode-protocol module.
There's also thintalk (License: MIT, npm: thintalk) by Andreas Madsen that implements a lightweight RPC layer. It's aimed at pure Node environments, unlike DNode which can be called from different programming languages and browsers.
Easy IPC (License: MIT, npm: easy-ipc) by Oliver Leics is an event-based IPC implementation. It supports newline-terminated JSON streams, but can work with plain text as well.
The ØMQ messaging library is lightweight, high-performance, and asynchronous. The zmq (License: MIT, npm: zmq) module by Justin Tulloss is a popular solution, with an idiomatic Node API.
ØMQ runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS, and specifically targets fast performance. In contemporary discussions on IPC, it's often cited as a suitable alternative to legacy message brokers.
IPC is an incredibly broad term that covers using files for communication, signals, sockets, message queues, pipes, shared memory, and pretty much everything else. I'm still searching for a quantum-entanglement IPC solution for Unix.
It's therefore difficult to keep this discussion focused on Unix, particularly as modern systems like ØMQ will run just about anywhere. However, I hope that by mentioning D-Bus, Node hackers who run desktop systems like KDE or GNOME might be inspired to rewire their desktops in all kinds of creative ways.


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Re: split a number to Date format
You have to use a series of string operations, such as ToString, Characters, StringJoin, and others such as Partition and Prepend, all of which are really quite basic in Mathematica. First convert your time stamp (call it "num") into a string, split it into its individual characters, and group them into pairs. Then add a "20" to the first pair and join this to the remaining pairs. Convert this into an expression (i.e., from a string into an ordinary Mathematica expression; a list of numbers). Then use DataString and you're done. This said,
In[1]:= num = 111205020000;
Check first step:
In[2]:= Partition[Characters[ToString[num]], 2]
Out[2]= {{"1", "1"}, {"1", "2"}, {"0", "5"}, {"0", "2"}, {"0", "0"}, {"0", "0"}}
Check second step:
In[3]:= StringJoin[{"2", "0"}, First[Partition[Characters[ToString[no]], 2]]]
Out[3]= "2011"
Then put everything together in a one-liner
In[4]:= DateString[ ToExpression /@ Prepend[StringJoin /@ Rest[Partition[Characters[ToString[no]], 2]], StringJoin[{"2", "0"}, First[Partition[Characters[ToString[no]], 2]]]]]
Out[4]= "Mon 5 Dec 2011 02:00:00"
> Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:54:09 -0500
> From: cdmartin at me.com
> Subject: split a number to Date format
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> I have experimental data in spreadsheet format. The first column is a time stamp in the format 111205020000.
> If I could parse or split the number 111205020000 into {11,12,05,02,00,00} and replace the first 11 with 2011, the Date commands would work fine. I can do the replacing, but am having difficulty seeing how to split the number into {11,12,05,02,00,00}.
> DateString[{2011, 12, 05, 02, 00, 00}] gives
> "Mon 5 Dec 2011 02:00:00"
> Any help to convert my number to the right Date format would be appreciated. I am using Mathematica 8.
> Thanks in Advance
> Derek


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RubenBristian saidyeah , I think css framework is quite bad. I think there are many coders use framework before can master a language. they talk about jquery bug but don't know javascript too much . they talk about wordpress bug but don't know php too much
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RubenBristian said
I hate frameworks.. I code everything up from scratch.. It takes me less time..
I don't think so , framework made our life easier and faster. the – is it hard to learn for noob and debug is not easy.example is jquery vs javascript.
the topic is about css frameworks not js frameworks.. css frameworks usually contain a lot of useless code for projects and one can do well without it. buttons? if you have cool designs to code you will probably never ever use a single button from the framework. other elements? the same goes for them.
"is it hard to learn for noob" .. what? css? if you can't code a site without a framework you shouldn't be in this business You first have to learn the language really well, and only then use frameworks to make your life easier. Otherwise you'll always remain a noob..
Anyway .. the main point is that frameworks are good, yes, but for creative projects they are not so good.
PS. Just to make myself clear: I use WordPress(PHP) frameworks & i use JS frameworks. I love them. I just don't stand CSS ones
RubenBristian said
I hate frameworks.. I code everything up from scratch.. It takes me less time..
+1 I find 'rolling' my own CSS a lot quicker than a framework. Less bloat, and as I wrote the class names / ids, I think it easier to debug.
Frameworks are a great starting tool though.


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A new study says Wednesday's rulings on gay marriage could turnout to be a cashcow for California's coffers. The Williams Institute at UCLA's law school says the state's budget could see a gain of $40 million in wedding-related tax revenue over the next three years. With 37,000 expected weddings over the next three years, the Golden State could generate almost a half a billion dollars in revenue for the state's wedding industry.
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Kabul, Afghanistan • An Indian woman whose memoir about life under Taliban rule was turned into a Bollywood movie was shot dead Thursday by suspected members of the Islamist militia, officials said.
The killing of Sushmita Banerjee was the latest in a string of attacks on prominent women in Afghanistan, adding to fears women's rights in a country where many are barely allowed outside the house will face setbacks after U.S.-led foreign forces fully withdraw in 2014.
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Second show is all about Lalu or Hari (Dulquer Salman) and his friend Kurudi or Nelson Mandela (Sunny Wayne) both of them being two uneducated youngsters finds way to sustain their life. Kurudi being a lazy guy depends on Lalu for everything moreover Lalu's mother (Rohini) is so kind that she considers Kurudi as her son too. Vavachan (Baburaj) gives them a job as a bully and after that Lalu meets Geethu or Geethanjali (Gauthamy) as a nurse in the hospital. Later Lalu works with Vishnu Budhan (Sudesh Berry). The movie deals with all the later happenings in their life.
From the beginning of the movie it goes fine. The first half was filled with a lot of comedy as well as good sequences. Starting of the second half may feel a bit lagging but soon the movie catch up the pace. The climax of the movie needs a very special mention. What a great climax for a good movie. Seeing this climax you will stand up to clap for the movie it's really a brilliant part of the movie.
Srinath Rajendran who assisted Jayaraj in Mammootty's Loud speaker he is the real man behind this good movie,the way he narrated the movie, the way he presented the movie all felt fresh and beautiful. Being his first directoral venture he achieves a big success with Second Show. Vini Vishwalal's script was really brilliant that it suited to the occasion taking up a normal old story. Even though the story was not a fresh one, a person who watches this movie doesn't feel so that's the beauty of the direction as well as script. The music by Avial team was awesome. BGM by Rex vijayan was really brilliant and amazing that at many situations in the movie the music gives us the feel of the situation. Pappus camera works were also great to watch.
In the Acting section this movie may be a rare one were everyone in the movie gives a mesmerizing performance. Dulquer Salman along with Sunny was the real show stealers. Dulquer was the person whome everyone was looking for, being the son of one of the greatest actor India has ever seen. He puts up a brilliant show which is much more than what people had expected. It's really a tuff task for a person to come up to the expectation with his first movie, but Dulqaer have given a good show. Sunny too gave a great performance that at times we feel he is taking away the movie. Gouthamy was good to see but there was nothing much to do for her in the movie. Baburaj , Rohini and rest of the crew also did a great job.
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Objectives: This study evaluates the influence of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) on the components of quality of life (QOL) of patients after discharge from the hospital.
Design: Extracted from a prospective national survey on Dutch intensive care units (ICUs).
Setting: Thirty-six ICUs of both university and nonuniversity hospitals, spread throughout the country.
Methods: For a period of 6 months, 9,803 consecutive ICU admissions entered the study. Outcome in connection with in-hospital CPR was analyzed by comparing the CPR group (n=477) with a standardized control group without CPR (n=500).
Interventions: Activities of daily living were registered at the time of hospital admission. A record was kept of each patient for demographics, severity of illness, length of stay, daily use of manpower and ICU technology, and mortality. Six months after hospital discharge, the QOL of 69 patients in both the CPR and control groups was measured with the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP).
Results: CPR was performed in 4.8 percent of the patients, mainly from the general ward. These patients were older, had a higher severity of illness, and a higher daily consumption of nursing resources. The QOL did not correlate with severity of illness on admission, length of stay, or consumption of resources in the ICU. On the whole, the SIP scores of both CPR and control groups did not differ much: 11.7 vs 10.7, and circulatory arrest did not appear to impair the self-sufficiency in the study group significantly in comparison with the controls. An increased dysfunction was found in the CPR group of patients concerning their work and their psychosocial functioning.
Conclusion: Patients who have recovered from a circulatory arrest after CPR resuscitation find their capacity for resuming work diminished after discharge from the hospital, while they seem to experience a postponed negative effect on their mental functioning, especially the functions connected with the awareness of their environment.
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Charlie Sheen Drops By "Wendy Williams Show"
Posted Friday March 30, 2012 10:59 AM GMT
Taking care of some media duties, Charlie Sheen was spotted at the "Wendy Williams Show" in New York City this morning (March 30).
The former "Two and a Half Men" stud was in the house to promote his new television show "Anger Management," and appeared to be in good spirits.
And though he's a massive baseball fan, Sheen claims he didn't have the green to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers, though he wish he could have.
Commenting on Magic Johnson's $2 billion acquisition of the team, Charlie said he stayed out of the deal because, "I didn't have any money at the time."
Enjoy the pictures of Charlie Sheen arriving at the 'Wendy Williams Show' (March 30).
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Color Advice For Master Bedroom
I really need an advice for decorating new bedroom. We are newly married and this is going to be our first own home. We already have the furniture which is very dark brown wood, pretty classic style. I like deep colours and I really would like the colours of the walls in this room to be something like irish green (I got some examples like French olive, Verdant or Blarney stone.... I haven't picked yet tought).
My husband thinks that it is going to be too much to make all the walls green so he suggested to have 1 or 2 green walls and the rest some neutral color. What would you recommend to match the colours that we already have? What about the ceiling?
I hope it all makes sense and sorry about those silly questions :)
Your never ever want to make a small room a dark color. Makes it look like a cave.
Go on any real paint companys web site and most will have sample rooms you can paint on the computer. Sherwin Williams has a way to down load a picture of you room and you can change the colors right on screen.
Go with a shade of green on 1 or 2 walls, and mix it with a nice cream beige or other neutral tones.
With green you can go with greyish or dark blue color. You can also try some other dark colors like brown or tan. Try searching on the internet some color ideas as well.
How big is your bedroom? Is it a conventional 4-wall rectangle-shaped room? What wall is your bed on? Can you post pictures? I love dark colors. I agree that painting really small rooms dark colors can produce a cave-like effect. But, if your room isn't terribly small, sufficient lighting will keep it from feeling like a cave - most rooms need three (artificial) light sources to not feel oppressive. Years ago when I lived at my parent's house, I painted their living room a deep greenish-teal color, almost like the ocean when it's that deep glassy green. They were quite skeptical at first because the color was so dark, but they love it now. If you're not going to paint all the walls, I'd probably recommend painting the wall the headboard is against, and maybe that's the only one. Do you have any pictures? I also agree that neutrals would go well, but it really depends on the green you end up picking. You could paint the ceiling a lighter shade of the neutral you end up picking so the contrast isn't so great.
I recently did a bunch of renderings for a client who was interested in painting her guest bedroom green - I thought her favorites (at the bottom) sounded similar to what you might like. The bedroom renderings start about halfway down this post: http://hardtimesdesign.com/2012/01/2...m-and-bedroom/
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A bit under the radar at the moment, Antwan Walker had a breakout performance on Saturday. He was absolutely dominant at 6-foot-7, hitting threes, attacking the glass, blocking shots, and making plays in the mid-range. Walker could be a bit of a later bloomer, and high-major coaches are going to begin to take notice very shortly. There aren't many quality unsigned prospects left, but Walker is one, and his recruitment is set to explode.
The future Maryland Terrapin was once again tremendous. A growth area for Anthony Cowan has been to make shots from deep, and he was doing that. Not only is he making them, but he looks infinitely more comfortable taking shots from deep, and that goes along with his ability to get into the lane and create. Cowan was getting to the foul line at will, and showed why he is one of the top true floor generals in the class and should be a huge addition for Mark Turgeon and company.
The upside is through the roof for 2017 prospect Naji Marshall. While he didn't have a great game shooting the basketball, he did finish with 16 points and sank a pair of free throws to win the game in overtime. Marshall is a high level passer and a good athlete who can guard about any position on the floor. Add in some toughness on the interior and an ability to rebound, and all of the tools are there for him to make a huge leap over the next 12 months.
He only showed flashes, but Kiyon Boyd looks to have a lot of potential. The 2018 wing has a great frame and is someone with good athleticism and a nice looking jumper. He didn't assert himself as much as he should have, but when he did attack he was tough to deal with. Boyd has a good handle and a nice ability to shoot off the catch. When he gets more confident and aggressive the sky could be the limit here.
He is small, but Donovann Toatley is a heck of a player. Toatley can score in bunches and has the ability to really push the tempo. His physical size limits him some going forward in terms of level, but he is competitive and if he finds the right system will be a major problem to deal with.
It wasn't a good day for Clinton Christian as they got blown out, but Jermain Harris showed some major potential for a 2018 prospect. Harris has good size at 6-foot-8, runs the floor well, has good hands, and can score on the low block. Now he is still a work in progress, but the tools are there with development to be very solid down the road. He was really the only player who consistently brought energy for his team, and there is a lot to like long term.


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Old Canaan Rd Complex
315 Old Canaan Road
Spartanburg SC 29306
Area: Spartanburg
(864) 595-5356
Old Canaan Road (OCR) Soccer Complex, known for its championship athletic turf features well-maintained and perfectly conditioned soccer fields. Located at 315 Old Canaan Road Extension, the complex is easily accessible from the Interstate. Eight soccer fields make Old Canaan Road Soccer Complex a great place to host a tournament.
Fields: 3 full size and 5 youth fields. OCR can be transformed to provide additional youth or micro fields.
Playing surface: All fields are covered with Bermuda grass providing a rugged, mat like surface.
Parking: Bottom level consists of 98 regular parking spaces with an additional 6 handicapped spaces. Upper level consists of 162 regular parking spaces with an additional 9 handicapped spaces.
Additional Comments: Old Canaan Road Soccer Complex has 2 gazebos with eight picnic tables and restrooms available on-site.
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SpaceShip Two
Space travel, until now the preserve of astronauts and cosmonauts, has been thrown open to the general public by maverick business tycoon Richard Branson of the Virgin Group. SpaceShip Two was unveiled to the world at the Mojave Spaceport, California, by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California and Governor Richardson of New Mexico on 7th December, 2009 (the parts for the spacecraft are made in these two states).
SpaceShip Two (SS2), when harnessed to its carrier plane WhiteKnight 2 (WK2) looks like a flying specimen of the catamaran. The WK2 which is powered by Pratt and Whitney PW 308A engines can carry the spacecraft to 50,000 ft, where after its rocket fires it to outer space.
Built from carbon composite materials, the Virgin Galactic project team had very stringent emission targets to work with.
Sir Richard, as he is now addressed by virtue of his being knighted, has always had an eye for the unconventional. He commissioned the services of Burt Rutan, the iconic American aerospace engineer known for his out-of-the-box and futuristic aircraft designs. Rutan had designed SpaceShip One in 2004, the first privately built and financed craft to have flown into space. The SS2, which draws on the experience gained during the development of the SS1 in 2004, will be the first manned private space flight carrying six passengers and two pilots.
A jaunt on the SS2 is not for the faint hearted or the proletariat. The cost of a ticket to see our planet from outer space is not going to be cheap. Does that mean few takers? No way! There is a queue of people to get on board. There is no dearth of social wannabes who wish to acquire bragging rights to a trip into outer space, besides those who are genuinely curious to see what Earth looks like from Out There.
No doubt our planet, from outer space, appears far more benign and placid than what we know it to be!


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Candida, Dysbiosis & C-Difficile - Oh My!!
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quote:They drew out about a pint of blood from my arm and then they put the O3 into the blood (which changed the color of the blood from really dark to a bright red), then they put the blood back in the arm.
Danger Will Robinson, Danger.quote:colloidal silver
I am not a doctor, but utilize sources of information not readily available to the public. Some of this information may contradict what you think you know and some of it may sound harsh, but the information is what it is, and you got it here for free. I am just a messenger. Always consult a real doctor.
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27 million Americans are affected by thyroid disease. Half of those do not know they have it. Thyroid disease strikes women at a ratio of 7:1. ALL women over 35 should be screened for thyroid disease annually. Diarrhea and constipation are just two of the many symptoms of thyroid disease. Moderator of http://www.mediboard.com/graves
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Alright to start of the new year i want to do a GHE challenge for about 5 months! if you don't know what the green house effect is(GHE) it's when you apply an all natural oil to your hair from root to tip or moisturizer then put a shower cap over your head then put a bonnet over your head then put a scarf over your and maybe a hat for security.
The point of doing all this is the GHE creates a nice warm, steamy, tropical environment for your hair to grow in. It helps to produce more Sebum on your scalp which is your bodys natural oil, which will help nourish your hair and help it grow. The focus of the GHE is to allow the natural oil (sebum) that God created in our bodies to help grow our hair and just let nature take its course.


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Creamy Fruit Salad
June 20th, 2016
Several months ago one of my friends introduced me to a little sandwich shop where they specialize in gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches. They have all different kinds, such as a French Dip grilled cheese, a Monte Cristo grilled cheese, and even a Thanksgiving grilled cheese with turkey and mashed potatoes on it. The restaurant is called Cravings Bistro, and it's in Pleasant Grove, Utah. So the first time I went there, I had one of their gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches and some of their Creamy Tomato Basil soup. I thought it was so good, and since I didn't have a recipe for a really good tomato soup, I decided I was going to try to duplicate the one at Cravings Bistro. I started off with a recipe by Barefoot Contessa, but I made several changes to it, including adding brown sugar because I liked how the soup from Cravings Bistro was sweeter than hers. I also used a food processor to blend up the ingredients just before serving it because I think it makes the soup look more appetizing. And guess what, my husband and I did a taste test with my soup and some of the soup from Cravings Bistro, and both of us thought mine was even better! But, shhhh, don't tell them because theirs is really good, too!
At Cravings Bistro, they serve their Tomato Basil Soup with grilled cheese croutons, so I decided to do the same thing for my photograph. To make the croutons, I just made regular grilled cheese sandwiches with good-quality bread, and then I cut off the crusts and cut the sandwiches into 1-inch squares. Then I put the squares on a baking sheet and toasted them in a 300-degree oven for five minutes. They were very tasty with the soup, too.
Serves 6-8
Recipe by Barefoot Contessa/Heavily Adapted by Winner Dinners/Inspired by Cravings Bistro
3 pounds Roma/plum tomatoes, cut in half lengthwise
1/2 pound carrots, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons olive oil
1 tablespoon sea salt
1-1/2 teaspoons black pepper
2 cups onions, chopped
6 garlic cloves, chopped
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
1 (28-ounce can) plum tomatoes, with their juice
2 ounces fresh basil, chopped
1-1/2 teaspoons dried crushed rosemary
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1 (32-ounce container) chicken stock
2/3 cup brown sugar, packed
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Toss together the tomatoes, carrots, 1/4 cup olive oil, salt, and pepper. Spread the tomatoes and carrots in 1 layer on a baking sheet and roast for 45 minutes.
In an 8-quart stockpot over medium heat, saute the onions and garlic with 2 tablespoons of the olive oil, the butter, and red pepper flakes for 10 minutes, until the onions start to brown. Add the canned tomatoes, basil, rosemary, thyme, chicken stock, and brown sugar. Add the oven-roasted tomatoes and carrots, including the liquid on the baking sheet. Bring to a boil and simmer uncovered for about 15 minutes. In batches, process the soup in a food processor until well blended. Return the soup to the pot and heat through.
My family and I go to PF Chang's quite often because they have fantastic Chinese food. It's my youngest daughter's favorite restaurant, and she chooses to go there for her birthday every year. My husband and I always order their Hot and Sour Soup before our main dish because we love spicy foods, and egg drop soup doesn't have enough of a kick for us.
I can't remember where I got this recipe, but I have been working on it and making changes to it for quite some time to get it as close to PF Chang's recipe as I could. I think it's really close. In fact I'm not sure if I would be able to tell the difference if I was doing a blind taste test.
Sometimes I serve this soup with egg rolls that I purchase from the freezer section of the grocery store. It makes for a quick and easy Chinese dinner. Enjoy the soup!
Recipe Heavily Adapted by Winner Dinners/Origin Unknown
Serves about 6
1/2 ounce dried shiitake mushrooms
3 (14-ounce) cans chicken broth
3/4 cup soy sauce
3/4 teaspoon white pepper
6 ounce chicken breast, cut into small strips
1/2 cup thinly sliced bamboo strips (from a can)
1/3 cup cornstarch
1/3 cup water
2 eggs, beaten
1-1/2 tablespoons white vinegar
6 ounces tofu, cut into small pieces
Reconstitute the dried mushrooms according to package directions, and then slice them very thinly. Bring chicken broth to a boil. Add soy sauce, white pepper, mushrooms, chicken, and bamboo strips. Let cook for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, combine cornstarch and water. Add the cornstarch mixture to the soup a little at a time and stir until thick. Add the eggs and cook for 30 seconds. Add vinegar and tofu. Heat through.
Several years ago we took our kids on a trip to Washington DC, and we stayed at a French hotel called Sofitel. One night we were out seeing all of the monuments, but I had a sore throat and wasn't feeling well. My husband offered to continue the tour with our kids, so I got on the subway and headed back to the hotel alone. When I got there, I went into their restaurant and ordered some of their French Onion Soup. Oh, it was wonderful. I haven't forgotten it in all these years. It was the perfect comfort food for somebody with a sore throat.
Ever since then, I have wanted to be able to make French Onion Soup that is as good as what I had at the hotel that day. I can't even remember where I got this recipe, but I have worked on it for a long time, making a lot of changes to it. I think I finally have a recipe that's pretty close. Bon appétit!
Recipe Heavily Adapted by Winner Dinners/Origin Unknown
Serves 4
3 tablespoons butter, cut into 3 pieces
4 pounds of large yellow onions (about 6 or 7), halved and cut pole to pole into 1/4-inch thick slices
1-3/4 teaspoons salt, divided
1/2 cup cooking sherry
2 (14.5-ounce) cans of chicken broth
1 (14.5-ounce) can of beef broth
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/8 teaspoon ground thyme
1 bay leaf
1/2 teaspoon pepper
fresh thyme for garnish (optional)
1 French baguette, diagonally cut into 1/2-inch slices (you need 8 slices)
1 tablespoon butter, melted
8 ounces Gruyere cheese, sliced
Adjust the oven rack to the lower-middle position and heat the oven to 400 degrees. Generously spray the inside of a heavy-bottomed large (at least 7-quart) Dutch oven with a nonstick cooking spray. Place the butter in the pot and add the onions and 1 teaspoon salt. Baked, covered, for 1 hour (the onions will be moist and slightly reduced in volume). Remove the pot from the oven and stir the onions, scraping the bottom and sides of the pot. Return the pot to the oven with the lid slightly ajar and continue to cook until the onions are very soft and dark brown, 1-1/4 to 1-1/2 hours longer, stirring the onions and scraping the bottom and sides of the pot after 1 hour.
Using oven mitts since the pot will be hot, stir in the sherry and cook on the stove, stirring frequently, about 5 minutes. Stir in chicken broth, beef broth, garlic, thyme, bay leaf, pepper and the remaining 3/4 teaspoon salt. Bring just to a boil. Cover, reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes.
For the croutons: While the soup simmers, arrange the baguette slices in a single layer on a baking sheet and brush them with the melted butter. Bake in a 400-degree oven until the bread is crisp, about 6 minutes. Set aside. Increase the oven temperature to 450.
Set 4 individual oven-safe crocks on a baking sheet and fill each with soup. Top each bowl with 2 baguette slices and place slices of Gruyere cheese on top, overlapping the edges of the crocks with the cheese. Bake at 450 until the cheese is melted and bubbly around the edges, 3 to 6 minutes. If desired, garnish with fresh thyme.