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NORMAN, Okla. – The plan for Texas Tech was simple. The Red Raiders were going to make Oklahoma quarterback Blake Bell beat them with his arm. They were going to load up the box until they were forced to adjust.
Bell did get rolling. And once he did, so did the rest of the OU offense in a wild 38-30 victory against the 10th-ranked Red Raiders on Saturday evening.
OU (7-1 overall, 4-1 in Big 12) came out with every intention of having a fast start. It simply never materialized. But in the second quarter, the combination of Bell and wide receiver Jalen Saunders went to work.
Bell and Saunders connected six times for 153 yards and two touchdowns in the second quarter, none more pretty than a 76-yard touchdown pass to give OU a 14-7 lead.
"It was just pitch-and-catch," Saunders said. "I never got down after the last few weeks. I always got to keep positive. I'm not a negative guy."
With the passing game established, OU stuck to its plan in the second half and went with a physical running attack.
The Sooners rushed for 208 of its 277 yards in the second half, led by Damien Williams who had 97 yards on 19 carries and two touchdowns.
But as has been the case all season, it's not just one guy. Roy Finch rushed for all 55 of his yards in the second half, while wide receiver LaColtan Bester once again provided a spark with a 35-yard touchdown run in the third quarter.
"We wanted to pound the ball," Williams said. "It was very crucial for the passing game to get going because it got those extra guys out of the box. They didn't want us to go over the top on them anymore. Any chance you can get some fresh legs, it's great. We're all ready."
But Tech (7-1, 4-1) entered the game undefeated for a reason. Just when it looked like the Sooners were ready to run away with the game with a 21-7 lead, the Red Raiders responded with 17 consecutive points to take a 24-21 lead late in the third quarter.
Bester's touchdown gave OU the lead for good, while Williams' second touchdown gave OU a 35-24 lead with 11:04 left in the fourth quarter.
"LaColtan made a huge play," OU coach Bob Stoops said. "We were trying to get the ball out to Blake, they covered him, so LaColtan pulled it down and made a play."
Bell finished 14 of 22 for 249 yards with the two touchdowns. And for the first time in three games, Bell didn't commit a turnover.
The Sooners suffered a major loss in a season full of them when team captain senior fullback Trey Millard suffered a torn ACL covering a kickoff in the fourth quarter.
Texas Tech quarterback Davis Webb was 33-of-53 for 385 yards with two touchdowns, while three Texas Tech receivers had at least eight catches and 99 yards. Eric Ward led the Red Raiders with nine receptions for 106 yards and two scores.
But the Sooners made Webb pay for some mistakes. OU had three sacks and Aaron Colvin and Gabe Lynn each had an interception.
"We were just trying to make plays," Colvin said. "I told Gabe before the game tonight that we needed to have big games tonight and make some plays. I'm proud of Gabe."
The seniors delivered and now OU is right back in the hunt for the Big 12 championship with a showdown against undefeated eighth-ranked Baylor coming up.
"We don't get down," Stoops said. "Kept positive. Kept fighting. We're playing together really well as a team."


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Start back at the glorious dawn. Take from your pocket that crumpled card with the Five Pledges and contemplate its very modest proposals. Remember that they were the result of extraordinary New Labour discipline, promising very little but certain to deliver. Trust would not be broken. Yet even hitting these has proved far harder than anyone imagined.
Yes, those particular primary-class sizes have been cut - but go into most inner-city comprehensives and shudder at what still has to be done. Yes, hospital waiting lists will be down by 100,000 - but this wrong target, slow to hit, makes trust in a new health plan harder to rebuild. Yes, 250,000 young people will be in jobs, but most would have been anyway. No, there's been no rise in income tax - but the rise in other taxes has been found out. As for young offenders, the time taken to process them through courts may not be halved as promised, but is now down from 142 days to 96.
In Labour's first 100 days, what bliss it was to be in government! Enthusiasm abounded as trailblazers, pathfinders and pilots shot out in every direction seeking the magic formula -What Works. Evidence-based policy was the only way. Social science was back, rehydrated from long atrophy.
Wherever you went, eager huddles of politicians swapped gems of social research that held the keys to social change. The causes of human failure and the mysteries of human regeneration were nailed down definitively in conference, seminar and meeting room. And out came answers, solutions and plans. Taskforces brought forth fruitful reports, many of them classics of research, good sense and elegance. The white heat of social engineering glowed on the faces of politicians genuinely in pursuit of truth, not gimmicks.
But between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow. It is not disillusion or loss of faith. It is certainly not cynicism. It is simply the weary discovery that these things are very much harder to implement than to devise. Out there the real world is messy, slow, obdurate, unyielding.
Yet while they struggled and wrestled, up there on the platforms Blair and Brown were already boasting of the triumphs of these policies, before anything had happened anywhere. The fateful two-year spending freeze was papered over with rhetoric. The first money was not only double-counted, but all announced in July 1998 when the money wouldn't start to flow until the following April. Pollsters say expecta tions that summer peaked, and crumbled ever after when people failed to find any change in their schools, GP clinics or hospitals.
Just one example. Downing Street's website lists progress on 177 manifesto policies. Under the manifesto words on employment, it asserts breezily: "Employment zones now provide local communities with the help they need to tackle persistently high rates of unemployment, encourage enterprise, improve employability and support work experience which benefits the wider community." Problem solved then? The first 11 zones went live only three months ago.
Sure Start is a jewel in the government's crown - rightly one of the programmes they are proudest of. It offers under-fives in the poorest areas family centres, extra health visitors, nurseries and help for mothers. Its targets are tough, including a 10% reduction in children on the at-risk register, 10% reduction in children's emergency admissions to hospital, 90% of children with normal speech and language development. It follows the US Head Start programme that proved how intensive nursery education cut crime and increased employment. It is Labour's grandest vision, poor babies given the best, entering improved primary schools and, by then, better secondaries, progressing on to enlarged universities.
Two hundred and fifty Sure Starts will open by 2002. Wonderful. But so far it is in only 59 small areas, opened only six months ago. All 250 will still cover only 20% of poor children and it all takes so much longer to start than they thought. Admirably, Labour never expected to reap the social rewards of this very long-term policy. They just hope the positive evaluations will come in time to safeguard it from any future Tory government onslaught.
Then there is the New Deal, a cornerstone symbolising New Labour itself. At £5bn, it was the one big spender in the lean years. Soon it hits its 250,000 target. But even that apparent success is not a simple boast. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research reports that 44,000 in two years were found work purely through New Deal intervention. It is a very good programme, it pays for itself in saved benefits. It takes in 40% functionally illiterate and gives many, if not yet all, skills to keep them in work. But its very success is a cruel political conundrum. As soon as you start to solve a social problem, it ceases to be a problem and no one is interested any more.
I could go through them all - the new deal for communities, the coalfields regeneration programme and lists of excellent schemes and initia tives crisscrossing one another around the country, before considering core education and health spending: it all looks good. But it's only now beginning to roll out. That's why so much capital has lain unspent. Advertising for bids, sifting through, auditing, agreeing, employing and training staff takes a disappointingly long time. From idea to roll-out takes at least a couple of years - and politicians are impatient, as we have seen recently with Campbell and Blair throwing policy into speeches like pepper and salt: forget evidence-based policy when news priorities rule. Many ministers wince as they watch it.
Those older and wiser ministers now say this to their leaders. Make no needless boasts. Turn down the hyperbole. Tell Gordon not to do it again when he unleashes his great burst of money in his comprehensive spending review next week. Tell him not to promise too much too soon. How tempting for him to play Zeus swooping down on Danae in an extravagant shower of gold, but fragile trust in politicians' golden words is already fractured.
Cynicism, scepticism and post-modern ironising do indeed greet anything upbeat with a sneer, so don't raise expectations. Underplay and understate. Let outcomes speak for themselves: there will be good outcomes -but not for a long time. Voters no longer believe what they can't see, but they might be touched by an unaccustomed show of political modesty.


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so, a few weeks ago i noticed that my baby's front tooth looked like it had chipped but only the outer enamel. both the ped and dentist both said there's nothing to do for it (which i was relieved about... i was worried we'd have to have it fixed with sedation). today, i noticed his other front tooth has a similar (but smaller) area that has chipped away- again, just the outer layer.
i have so many thoughts swirling through my head... he was on mega antibiotics as an infant for pyelonephritis, and then also on amoxicillin (first) and bactrim (second) prophylaxis for months. these were really tough choices for us, as we avoid antibiotics as much as possible and our two older children have been extremely healthy. could the antibiotics (esp amox.) have done damage to his developing tooth enamel?? is there anything i can do to help his teeth heal or stop further chipping? i've been reading the threads about healing decay, but i'm not sure if i should follow the same steps? has anyone experienced this before?
i went through the same trauma with my little son. Started with just a little mark on his front tooth. Within a month or so his inscisors had crumbled away and more teeth he is five now and has had no new decay for two years. we found a dentist in pocatello ID Drs Misner and Bybee, their approach was nutrition. we did the SCD (specific carbo hydrate diet) for three months and it rocked our world. the decay stopped. basically we "fixed" his gut. Check out Rami Nagels book "curing tooth decay" he condenses 60 years of research and thousands of years of know how and his protocol is exactly what our holistic dentist recommended. Get on it, those soft little teeth go fast.
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Category Archives: Upholstery
Upholstery workshops
Occasionally, students send me photos of their completed upholstery projects which they have started with me and finished off at home. Earlier this year, this particular student came for a weekend upholstery workshop where she reupholstered a pin stuff seat. … Continue reading
Interiors Show
Yesterday, I had a great day at Cheltenham Race Course attending the 'October Interiors' show hosted by CABMFF (the Curtain and Blind Makers Friendly Forum). My top purchase was from Glover Bros, my regular upholstery suppliers – a Batavia rechargeable … Continue reading
Paint & Upholster
I've teamed up with Karen at The French Nest in Bromyard to offer a weekend of "paint and upholster" – paint your chair on the Saturday and upholster it on the Sunday. It's amazing what you can create. On Saturday, Karen will teach … Continue reading
A new year, a new challenge(s)!
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Upholstery is an addictive hobby, beware!
Upholstery can become incredibly addictive in a very short space of time and I warned my first students of this fact when they arrived clutching their old chairs and stools. A class of 3 students, all eager to learn and … Continue reading
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Funny what a couple generations of failure to engage, communicate, enlighten has resulted in. Unsurprising. And not all that funny, either.
Personal responsibility. Parenting. Hard work. Education. The "golden rule." Balance and moderation. What a concept. And if those were foremost in everyone's lives, I'd bet that much of the storm of disconnected insanity would evaporate ... after a couple more generations. If only.


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The Blessed Life…What is it? How do you get it? – Words to Live by
By Pastor Lonnie G. McCowan
Have you ever read a promise in the Bible and wondered how it could ever come to pass in your life?
Have you ever read in the bible, "by [His] stripes ye were healed" when your body was wracked with sickness and pain? Or you heard someone preach that God will meet "all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus" when your bank balance was zero and your unpaid bills were piled high?
IT ALL SOUNDS GREAT But I don't know how to get there from here. It looks impossible! Everyone who has ever lived by faith has felt like that at one time or another.
Everyone. Even Abraham, who was one of the greatest heroes who ever lived. The first time he heard God's promises to him, he had no idea how they would ever come to pass.
He'd grown up in a totally heathen culture—surrounded all his life by people who worshipped the moon. So when God said, "I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing" (Genesis 12:2), Abraham had no clue how to connect with that blessing and cooperate in its fulfillment.
He must have been especially puzzled about how God was going to make of him a "great nation." After all, Abraham's wife was—and always had been—barren. What's more, they'd both grown too old for baby making.
How do you get from being a childless old man with a barren old wife to being a great nation? He must have wondered. It's impossible! but Over the years, God answered that question for Abraham. He taught him how to think in a way that would connect him with The Blessed Life. He taught him how to talk and live the life of faith; The Scriptures call him the father of faith.
Abraham's faith made him look, sound and act different than everyone else. But it sure produced results.
It opened the door for The Blessed Life to come on his life just like it was originally designed to do for Adam and Eve when God spoke it over them. It empowered Abraham to "Be fruitful, and multiply…and have dominion" (Genesis 1:28). As Abraham's faith connected with The Blessed Life, that blessing produced such supernatural abundance in his life that it created around him a kind of Garden of Eden wherever he went.
That's how The Blessed Life works. It worked that way for Adam and Eve until they cut themselves off from it by yielding to sin. It worked that way for Abraham when God passed it down to him. It worked that way for Jesus during His earthly ministry, and it will work that way for us.
According to the Bible, as born-again believers we have inherited the blessing of Abraham through Jesus. God didn't give it to us as an afterthought. He had us in mind from the start. When He blessed Abraham, He did it so that through the plan of redemption,(what Jesus went through on the cross for us) we could receive that blessing too. Galatians 3:8-9 says it this way: "The scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, in thee shall all nations be blessed. So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham." We are the people who have been made righteous by the blood of Jesus and blessed with faithful Abraham.
That means if we can find out what Abraham did, if we can learn what God taught him about how to connect with The Blessed Life, and we can enjoy the benefits of The Blessed Life as he did.
Galatians 3:13-14 confirms that. It says: "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith."
The last phrase of that passage leaves no doubt about it: We receive THE BLESSING, which is the promise of the Spirit, the same way Abraham did—through faith. That's The Blessed Life! To be continued in the next issue Lonnie G. McCowan is pastor at The Miracle Center of Ventura, in Ventura, CA. He can be contacted through email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by visiting www.miraclecenterventure.com.


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For example, when I was about twelve years old, out of the blue, I decided that I was vegetarian but several hours after I declared that I was no longer going to eat meat, one of my sisters tempted me with pepperoni pizza. I then decided that the veggie life wasn't for me! I was also very into metal and head banged to my favourite songs. I discovered Nirvana and decided I was grunge instead. I once wrote about these phases in the past and how I came to Goth in my teenage years.
Considering I recently celebrated a birthday and as I am very slowly getting closer to my fortieth birthday (it's still a few years away), I have been looking into my past a lot these past couple of weeks. I realize that as I grow older, the more like my baby bat self I become...except this time, I am much better informed about the subculture than I was back then! It seems as a I get older, the more I am reverting back to my old ways. I look at my personality and certain traits that I once brushed aside because I assumed was being immature are starting to re-surface. For instance, I can be a "bouncy" person. I am jovial. I always wanted people to take me seriously and felt like I needed to tone that down in order to do so. Over the past couple of months, I noticed that I use that perkiness (after all that coffee I drink, who wouldn't bounce off the walls?) to my advantage.I make stupid remarks. I use my sarcasm and wit because I think I am being hilarious and I really do believe that this is well received! I think one of the reasons why I like the show Gilmore Girls so much is because I am a lot like the main character. I realized people don't just call me Abby from the show NCIS because I apparently look like her, it's because I act like her! When I was younger, I was constantly told that this made me arrogant and unpleasant. The first real job I had working in a corporate office, I was told that it made me unprofessional or even seem immature but you know something? Perhaps it is the fact that I worked at the same company for 5 years but I think a lot of my coworkers actually like that attitude. I am not ass, I can be polite, especially when I need to tell someone "no" but I add my own little flair into things.I think this is one of the many reasons why my husband fell in love with me. I am a bundle of energy! I make him smile.
I do not have any fun recent photos so please accept these regurgitated silly ones.
I spent years of my life trying to fit into a tiny box. I allowed a lot of stupid societal pressures get to me. I realized that as I get older, the more subdued I become. I just stopped giving a fuck .Unlike my teenage years where I would tell people off for looking at me funny, I just stopped caring. I realized that some people even today still talk about me behind my back or even imply to my face that they disapprove of my lifestyle. Like their opinion of me or on things they have zero knowledge on, would mean something to me. As if dressing all in black and very occasionally going out is committing a felony. How dare I wear clothing that make me feel confident, attractive and happy in? How dare I find time for myself? I must be a REALLY bad mom. The way I see it, this speaks volumes about them and less about me. I like that I can be sarcastic and witty. I like the way I dress. I like being Goth. I love having like-minded friends who not only have the same music preferences as I do but also share my love for the macabre. I like that I can talk fast and make funny remarks at the drop of a hat. I like that I can be a bundle of sarcasm. I like being geeky and make silly pop culture references.I am not everyone's proverbial cup of tea. I like that I got that pole out of my ass and just stopped taking myself so damned seriously all the time! Life is too short. As for anyone's opinion about me, I just learned to not care.


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Evaluating a Psychosocial Competence Program for Urban Adolescents
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- O'Hearn, T.C. & Gatz, M. The Journal of Primary Prevention (1999) 20: 119. doi:10.1023/A:1021489932127
This study evaluated a primary prevention program called Going for the Goal [GOAL], designed by Danish and colleagues to teach life skills to at-risk urban adolescents. The 10-week program was administered to 350 middle school students by 55 trained high school leaders in a predominantly Hispanic school district. The program focused on setting positive, reachable goals, anticipating and responding to barriers to goal attainment, using social support, and building on one's strengths. Participants were randomly assigned to treatment or waiting-list control group conditions. Results demonstrated gains in knowledge of the skills being taught as well as attainment of goals set during the program. Leaders also showed an increase in their knowledge of life skills. The approach maximized both community resources and ecological validity while giving high school leaders the chance to benefit in their role as helpers.


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Re: Do you know the muffin man?
Blueberry style.
Re: Banana Stand Bank & Trust
Collab with fishbiscuit5--thanks!
Re: Can Haz Cheezburger
Whats better for grillin' than a cheezburger?
Re: Labels don't matter
Vegetable.. fruit... it's not so black and white.
Re: Health Food
Carrot cake is packed with veggies!
Re: Food
I prefer my shirts to include a bit of blunt honesty.
Re: William Shakes"pear"
I wanted to give this one another chance cause it's one of my favorite designs! So I remade it! Hope you like it!:D
Re: Poisonberry Pie
Obviously inspired by Halloween, but allows you to be devious all year long. Muhahahaha.
Re: Cutie Pi
Hopefully I'll have time to work on another version of this. School is dumb, kids. Don't bother.
Re: It's Evolicious!
BWAHAHAHA! Hilarious, and something only a parent of a young child would think of! Brilliant!
Re: Everyone Loves Me!
It's true... everyone loves bacon.
Re: Humble Pie
Some people could use a slice!
Re: Oracle of Seasoning
Re: The Hot Pepper
A spicy pun!
Re: Make Bacon, Not War
Some sound advice if you ask me!
I love this one. Definite +1.
That said, my cats never show any interest when I eat cheeseburgers. Is something wrong with them?
Re: Eat Me!
Here's the apron view. Enjoy!
Re: Eat Your Greens
Greens make you live longer! ;)
Re: Pie Chart
There is a pie for all occasions.
kevlar51 wrote:I prefer my shirts to include a bit of blunt honesty.
Food. Almost as good as sleep.
love his expression
Looking awesome you 2! +1!!!
I love this one Kevin! Super wearable!
Re: Hutt's Secret Recipe
Can I get some Han Solo shavings on top of my chicken salad? Thank you.
marceepauff wrote:Food. Almost as good as sleep.
I'm one of sleep's biggest fans ;)
Re: Choose Your Side
Healthy food is so...healthy...but joining the dark side is DELICIOUS!:D
love the colors too
Re: Sausage King
turned out great!
nathanwpyle wrote:love the colors too
thank ya
Awesome lighting
Re: Carving Tools
Always choose the most elegant blade for the job.
nathanwpyle wrote:love his expression
Thanks Nathan! I am making reference to a famous meme in the expression. It's also my favorite rage comic meme face. I think it expresses being humble like no other.
I love the drawing, the lighting and the idea, but the lightsabers seem superfluous. I think it would be a much stronger design without them.
Re: Fast food
thats a really good one!!!!
Re: Slow Cookin
Same placement on the apron.... lol... i forgot.
The taste has come full circle! ;)
kevlar51 wrote:turned out great!
Thanks Kev!
sonofafish wrote:BWAHAHAHA! Hilarious, and something only a parent of a young child would think of! Brilliant!
Why thank you! ;) The original design I had for this shirt (which I did as a daily long ago) said EMBRACE TEACHABLE MOMENTS... ;)
Really like how this looks on the shirt
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I'm doing my laundry on Christmas Eve. The Ebenezer Scrooges who own my building see fit to provide only one dryer for all the residents.
It's positively Dickensian, I think to myself, as I stand watch over the dryer, lest one of my neighbors cut in line, leaving my laundry in a damp heap to mildew the night away.
"Aren't you going anywhere tonight?" asks a neighbor, loading her laundry into a washer, wearing perfume and freshly curled hair. I wonder how she knows I have no plans, until I glance down at my cut-off sweatpants and inside-out T-shirt. You don't have to be Nancy Drew, I suppose.
"Staying in tonight," I say. I finish the thought only in my head: "though I plan to drink heavily, if that makes you feel better."
I don't bother explaining the whole Jew-on-Christmas thing to the poor woman, who's trailed by a young girl, presumably her daughter, and an obese black cat. The woman leaves and the cat stays behind.
"Hey, kitty," I say, petting the space between its kitty ears. "Why are you so fat? Huh? Are you old? Are you pregnant? Don't look at me like that. You're a cute, fat kitty cat. I'd like to catnap you and take you home. Yeeeessss."
I'm using that clenched-teeth voice I reserve for cats, babies and boyfriends who are mad at me.
I'm having a meaningful dialogue with a cat because it's the only living creature I've had real contact with in two days.
Everyone has left town, gone home for the holidays. I opted to stay in town, thinking I'd need the rest and solitude after a busy work month.
"Every man needs both solidarity and solitude," says my dad quite often, quoting I don't know who.
I've had enough solitude, so I drive myself to a nice Christmas Eve movie, "Cast Away." I chuckle to myself in line, thinking about the time I went to the movies on Christmas and the only other the guy in the theater turned out to be my rabbi, all decked out in a Bill Cosby sweater and enjoying a rare day off.
I allow myself the indulgence of a pack of Milk Duds, as reconstituted caramel and waxy chocolate do take the edge off a lack of companionship. I settle in my seat and look around the theater. I note a fine collection of Jews and society's castaways — not the Tom Hanks kind but the kind with excessive nose rings, odd overcoats and unfortunate orthodontia. I guess I'm both, minus the headgear.
Here's a suggestion. If you're feeling a little socially isolated, do not, do not see a movie about a man all alone on an island for four years with nothing to talk to but a volleyball.
"Merry Christmas," I say to the usher on my way out. He looks at me as if I were a tainted batch of wassail, and I go on my unmerry way.
I get home, and while not drinking heavily as I silently promised my neighbor, I do take a few tiny nips of Southern Comfort. Please, don't write letters. I'm only human, people.
I decide that 9 p.m. is way too early to go to sleep and that such an early bedtime will undoubtedly result in my waking at 5 a.m., with nothing to do but watch those bad insomniac news shows and wish I knew how to fish. I decide to bake cookies for my building manager, with whom I've been in a gift-giving war all year. With NPR blaring on my portable radio, I measure and stir. I feel productive.
The cookies don't seem quite right and I can't trace the culprit. Was it the butter? The eggs? The Southern Comfort?
I tell myself it's not so bad and continue to scoop the dough onto baking sheets and stick them into the oven.
Earlier in the day, I cleaned like a mad woman. I reorganized my closet, discovered the attachment on my vacuum cleaner that lets you suck all the dirt out of the corners of your rugs. I went to yoga. I read an entire book. Isn't this what solitude is all about?
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According the American familys survey Americans are wirth 22% less than they were 4 years ago,this is a very sharp decline in our pocket books of course if you think about the devaluation of the dollar its easy to understand because prices have also risen at the rate of inflation,we must do something to get the price of gas up,maybe refuse the Canadian pipe line or just force the oil co's to use more corn,what ever it takes to get it up to 5 dollars per gal so ppl will stop using it.
#2 Feb 26, 2013
Nothing about is a surprize to me,i know ppl that are walking to use to be riding,ppl in apartments,ppl renting that use to own houses.
#3 Feb 26, 2013
I want 10 dollar per gal.gas price,its the only way Obama will be happy.
#4 Mar 1, 2013
why is it people think that obama has ANYTHING to do with gas prices. It jumped from less than $1.50 to over $3.00 when Bush was president.
#6 Mar 5, 2013
Yes it did for 4 mounths not 4 years,but have no fear the president is working on 5 dollar gas and i hope he gets it,you deserve it.
#7 Mar 5, 2013
Yes five years ago our dollar was worth more,it would buy more,we paid less for most things we needed such as houses,cars,food,insurance,the re was just more money 5 years ago,there are some ppl that it will not hurt as much as others, if you have a million dollars cash you now have 15% less,no it wont hurt you as much as a person trying to raise a family,its the same way with 5 dollar gas,it wont hurt some,but to some it will.
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#8 Mar 11, 2013
seems to me either you have a short memory or are just ignorant . i believe the later. lol
#9 Mar 11, 2013
But profits are at an all time high. The wealthy have all the money tied up in their secret tax shelters. So much for trickle down economics and job creators!
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#10 Mar 11, 2013
What do you have against white ppl that have money,why so jealous,if you work you can have money,yes Obama wont like it,but its not against the law,that welfare check will just make you wish you had money.
#11 Mar 11, 2013
You're missing the point. Companies are making more profits than ever while the workers are being paid proportionally less. With record profits should come more jobs with higher earnings.
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#12 Mar 12, 2013
You're missing the point large companys may be making more money but cost are up,besides how would you know anyway,companys most likely are paying more to employee's that are important to the company,but small business is having a hard time staying in business,thinks to all of the regulations along with the fact that the president just told us the sky is going to fall,these companys are not going to invest more money in labor when they hear this,they have to have capital to pay their current employee's,if things are so great why dont you jump in get you're feet wet,it easy to stand on the bank and tell someone in the water what to do,start you're own business,if you choose not to do that then quit,find you another job,if you were of value to who you work for then they will pay you more,besides why would business pay you more if they can find ten ppl to do the same job you do at the same money,you sound as though a company owe's you or someone else just because they are making money,this is not the case,you dont go to the store and pay more money for an item that the store is losing money on do you,you're problem is you think the wourld owe's you,sit on you're socialist ass draw welfare because this is never,never going to work the way you expect it to,you just dont understand business because you never have been in a business where you were the one behind the 8 ball.
#13 Mar 12, 2013
You are a clueless moron. Get back to Fox News before you grow some common sense.
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#15 Mar 12, 2013
The man just explained how you dont understand business,finance,i wonder how a person with the mentalitity you have survives,do you have anyone to help you manage you're money,how do you pay you're bills,surely you drive cars,eat,have rent,or house payments,by reading you're post i'm not sure you are capable of handling any money,who helps you with you're finances,its certain you have never had any type of business.
#16 Mar 13, 2013
I've heard ppl argue that Obama is trying to control everyone by helping them. I always figured it would be a lot easier to control a bunch of ppl who were hungry. He didn't create the mess we're in but at least he's making sure children are being fed and families who need support are getting it until our economy is more stable. Change isn't happening so quickly but if you do the research you'll see that things are improving steadily, if slowly.
#17 Mar 13, 2013
The key word was 'profits'. The last time I looked profits are what's left after expenses. The fact is that profits are at an all time high. So where are the jobs? You can go back and watch Fox News now. Please don't comment on things you don't understand.
#18 Mar 13, 2013
Not tue...me now gts 22% more free mony from the GOP and 44% more free Chezz me be happy in my trailer.GOP saes vote for us and we give you a free new Car nex.And a Case of Dry rubed Rumbers.
#19 Mar 13, 2013
Me no thunk so your best frieds the Tea buggers like June Boozman are likink the 6.95 Ranger.
#20 Mar 13, 2013
There are more workers than jobs. Like it or not a employee is nothing more than a tool to get a task done as cheaply as possible. If a machine can go it cheaper then the employee is no longer needed. shure someone has to fix that machine. but the cost of the machine and the maintaince is still much less than the cost of labor. Decades ago I operated a bulldozer for $2 per hour 40 cents above the minium wage. It took me two years to save up enough to buy my own dozer. I asked $30 per hour. A farmer was telling me it wasnt worth that much. I asked him what he paid his help. he stated $2 per hr. I then asked him could 15 men do as much work in a hour as my bulldozer. He had to admit they couldnt. I then asked hin could 30 men. still he had to admit they couldnt. I got the job. Now that same farmer bought 6 new row equiptment and bigger trucks ect. that way he could farm more acres with less hired help. three men in old single axel bob trucks where replaced by one guy in a semi tractor trailer rig. used to be all the hay was small square bales. someone had to physically haul them by hand to the barn. Now its big round bales that can sit outside until needed. and loaded & fed with machinery. labor just isnt in demand much these days. Having stated this The fact is a persons well being success or lack of success doesent necessarily have to be dependent on other people things or conditions. everyone can paddle their own canoe if they really want to.
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#21 Mar 13, 2013
If things were improving then we would not owe 17 trillion dollars,of which Clinton left us oweing 5.6 trillion,Bush 10.5 trillion,Obama has us near 17 trillion in 4 years,that is $50,000 for every man,woman,and child in ths country,of course Obama is going out in 4 years and he could care less how much debt he will leave,but get ready you are headed for hard times ahead,you will need twice as much money to buy any item you are now buying,which also means you will buy less items,the ecomony will go down,you're cost up,its called inflation.
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#22 Mar 13, 2013
You have answered you're own question,where are the jobs,if things were doing well busineses would need help,you are going to see prices rise of doors close,poky will start to crumble,watch the fast food places first,ppl are head over heels in debt,credit cards along with other debt is more than these ppl can handle,its going to start soon,i know because i deal with ppl daily,get ready.
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The Foothill-De Anza Community College District recently received more than $1.1 million from PG&E for energy savings generated by the installation of photovoltaic (PV) solar panels in three parking lots at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills. The college district will have received a total rebate of more than $1.75 million at the conclusion of the five-year program in Fall 2016. The Savings by Design Program is administered by California utilities and encourages high-performance, non-residential building design and construction.
PVs are arrays of cells containing a solar photovoltaic material that converts solar radiation into direct current electricity. According to PG&E, the Foothill College PV project has achieved an energy savings of 4,019,452 kilowatts, which equates to 373.8 metric tons of avoided carbon dioxide—the equivalent of one year of powering 188 homes or removing 79 cars from the road.
"Foothill College is committed to energy efficiency for three reasons: Sustainability is one of our core values; our new energy curriculum utilizes the campus as a living laboratory; and renewable energy sources make sense—and cents!" said Foothill College President Judy C. Miner, Ed.D. "We are particularly excited that the rebate will help fund the transformation of our library into a state-of-the-art learning resource center."
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The PV project was funded with proceeds from Measure C, a $490.8 million bond approved in 2006 by voters residing in the Foothill-De Anza Community College District service area. By reducing the district's electricity costs, the PV project frees up money that can be redirected to other needs, such as instruction.
In addition to saving energy, the photovoltaic panels play an important role in the Foothill College Science & Learning Institute (SLI), which promotes an innovative instructional model based on educational research and best practices for the successful teaching and learning of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at all levels.
In fact, Foothill's new 25-unit Sustainability & Energy Program features a five-unit course that introduces technical students and working professionals to the field of photovoltaic technology. The course, ENGR 82: Photovoltaic & Solar Cell Design, transfers to the CSU system, and has been designed by faculty experts with recommendations and support from leaders in the energy engineering industry. Students study key research and policy areas for clean and sustainable energy solutions. Using the photovoltaic panels, they also analyze the real-time energy intake and output data as an instructional exercise in applied STEM learning. The class provides a comprehensive conceptual and practical framework, and is excellent preparation for advanced study and careers in solar technology.
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In the aftermath of the battle last week, the Meisters and co. grieve for Lockon, eliciting the usual flashback scenes. Over at the UN side, they've suffered a number of losses themselves and Sergei plans to retreat, but the UN sends over some reinforcements to continue the battle.
Pimpin' gold mobile armor, yo!
Once the reinforcement arrives, in the form of a huge pimpin' gold colored mobile armor (henceforth named "Gold" for the time being), also solar reactor powered and piloted by the now somewhat batshit insane Alejandro Corner, the UN force attacks. Ptolemaios suffers an initial blow from Gold's particle beam, and the Meisters hurriedly scramble out to defend, with Exia taking front point, heading straight for Gold.
Kyrios and Nadleeh take defensive positions around Ptolemaios, but they both suffer attacks from Gold and the numbers of the GN-X'es. Nadleeh loses an arm and its legs to concentrated fire, even using the Trans-Am system, but Tieria manages to take down Patrick before he's taken down himself. Kyrios, under Hallelujah (the batshit insane one), fares better, taking down a number of GN-X'es, but it still loses and arm and a leg thanks to Gold's particle beam.
Ptolemaios suffers major casualties on the other hand, taking repeated blasts from Gold, losing it's medical room in the process (poor doctor whose name I still don't know). Sumeragi and Ian take u defensive positions in Dynames' Assualt Container, and Feldt is tricked in to joining them by Christina.
One stray GN-X manages to get close enough to Ptolemaios, and shoots the cockpit, before Sumeragi manages to take it down. Lichty and Christina are both killed in action, but not before a sappy scene revealing that Lichty is half-machine and Christina declares her love for him.
Bridge bunny #3 and #4 T.T
Back to Exia, Setsuna and Lasse's tag team fails to punch a hole through Gold's forcefield, so he decides to rush in directly using the Assault Container, but Gold uses built-in robotic arms to tear the thing apart, with Exia and Lasse (in the GN Arms) escaping in the nick of time. Angered, Exia rushes directly towards Gold.. with the objective of silencing it.
You can almost see the emo facial contortions….
Overall, another somewhat-epic episode of Gundam 00, with quite a number of (insubstantial) deaths. Patrick gets pwned finally, and I'm somewhat happy to be rid of him. The poor bridge bunnies deaths was already set in concrete once I saw Sumeragi leaving her command post, and thanks to Christina's quick thinking, Feldt was saved as well.
Alejandro's Gold mobile armor is just… hax, seriously. It came out of nowhere too. It's probably another Celestial Being experimental mobile armor he stole, since Sumeragi notes that it's solar reactor operated, and it sure has quite a heck of one, seven, in fact.
Tieria's fate is still left hanging, and for a moment there, I actually thought he was gonna die. But seriously, he kinda sucks at using Nadleeh, probably too used to Virtue's huge ass armor. Isn't the suit supposed to be a high mobility type? Hallelujah is still pretty much safe, since he can still fight, albeit w/o an arm and a leg.
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The news that Japan will re-start some nuclear power facilities gives us this headline in the New York Times (6/17/12):
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TOKYO — Brushing aside widespread public opposition to avoid feared electric power shortages, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda ordered the reactivation of two nuclear reactors at a plant in western Japan on Saturday.
If there's "widespread public opinion," can people really be divided? It turns out this is not just a problem with a headline writer. The article later states that the "Japanese people have remained deeply divided on the safety of nuclear power."
Have they? Fackler writes:
According to polls, two-thirds of Japanese express deep concern about the safety of nuclear plants after last year's accident, which contaminated food with radiation and shattered the myth of Japan's infallible nuclear technology. The day before Mr. Noda gave the order, his government was visited by an antinuclear group led by the Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe, which presented what it said were the signatures of 7.5 million people calling for the abolition of nuclear power.
Two-thirds of Japan being worried about nuclear power doesn't sound all that divided. And, as the Associated Press reported earlier this month (6/5/12), one poll showed a remarkable shift against nukes in the last year:
Japanese oppose nuclear power more strongly than they did while the tsunami-damaged Fukushima plant was still in crisis a year ago, according to a poll that found widespread dismay with the government's handling of that disaster and the ongoing recovery.
The survey released Tuesday by the Washington-based Pew Research Center said 70 percent of Japanese believe the country should reduce its reliance on nuclear energy, up from 44 percent last year.
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ROBERTSPORT, July 30 (LINA)-The Grand Cape Mount County Health Team (CHT) and partners have distributed more than 4,000 leaflets and 500 posters in cities, towns and villages on Ebola prevention as part of the Ebola awareness campaign in the county.
According to the Liberia News Agency (LINA) correspondent in the county, this was disclosed by the County Health Officer, Dr. Julius Garbo, during the Ebola Response Coordination meeting held on Wednesday, July 30 in Sinje, Garwula District.
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Of all the maddening complexities that make it hard for the American people to decide what should be done about immigrants, the problem of assimilation may carry the most emotional impact. All those people who look different, speak a different language and eat different food -- will they ever blend into American society the way previous immigrant groups have? Or will they be a quasi-alien presence down through the decades of the coming century?
One way or another, we have been arguing about this question in America for the past 170 years, since Germans and Irish began arriving in our largest cities in massive numbers. We were an Anglo-Saxon Protestant society: The Irish and many of the Germans were Catholics. Would they be taking orders from the Pope rather than the institutions of American authority? Much of the elite thought so. It turned out to be a ludicrous concern.
Half a century later, the issue was immigration from Italy and from the Pale of Jewish settlement in Russia. The question then was generally not religion per se but the adaptability of the poor from Southern and Eastern Europe to the modern United States. The Jews, Poles and Italians dressed, spoke and behaved so exotically on the streets of New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. How could they represent the future of American society? This wasn't a concern that dwelt mainly on the fringes of American politics. To a remarkable extent, these were the beliefs of the country's best-educated, most affluent and most influential citizens.
The odd thing about these arguments over immigration was that they tended to be self-contradictory. On the one hand, nativists argued that immigrants would never assimilate and would remain aliens in every important way -- religion, culture, politics, the fundamental values of Western democracy. On the other hand, it was feared with equal vehemence that these millions of newcomers would intermarry with native-born Americans, dilute the quality of the nation's genetic stock and produce what was referred to frequently as "a mongrel race." This was more than a little crazy. If foreigners couldn't assimilate to Anglo-Saxon culture, why would Anglo-Saxons want to marry them? Still, both of these ideas remained current in national political debate on into the 1920s, and in large part led to the exclusionist immigration bill that was passed by Congress in 1924 and remained in effect for more than 40 years.
Today, at a time when Jews are essentially treated as WASPs when they apply to elite private colleges, and Irish-, Italian- and Polish-Americans have become overwhelmingly middle-class, all of this sounds like the quaint mythology of an unrecognizable time. And to a great extent, it is. But the dilemma of assimilation never really went away, and in the past decade, it has re-emerged as powerfully as ever.
WE ALL KNOW the reason why. The foreign-born population of the United States was less than 10 million when the nation's borders were opened up by law in 1965; today it is nearly 40 million. About a quarter of this immigrant cohort has arrived from Asia; to a great extent, that portion is middle-class and upwardly mobile and has attracted comparatively little controversy. It is the 20 million immigrants from Latin America, a majority from Mexico and many of them in this country illegally, who have returned the question of assimilation to the forefront of public debate.
And it was no less a figure than Harvard University political scientist Samuel Huntington, by no means a proponent of crude racism, who raised the issue most bluntly in his 2004 book "Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity."
Well aware that the assimilation issue had been a red herring for most of the nation's history, Huntington nevertheless insisted that it was relevant in dealing with Mexican immigrants in the past couple of decades. He offered some provocative numbers: Rates of high-school graduation for the Mexican-born in America were roughly half those of the foreign-born population as a whole. Poverty rates for Mexican immigrants in 1998 were more than double those of any Asian group and considerably higher than the rates for other Hispanic newcomers. Mexicans were much more likely to marry within their own ethnic enclave than any other immigrant population, and more likely to identify emotionally with their country of origin than with their adopted home.
In short, Huntington insisted, the massive Mexican immigration of the 1980s and '90s constituted "a major potential threat to the cultural and possibly political integrity of the United States." Nativists may have cried wolf over and over again in earlier centuries, but now the nation was faced with the genuine prospect of a large alien enclave likely to plague it for decades. In his view, the Mexican influx was simply so large that historical comparisons suggesting more rapid assimilation were irrelevant. Mexicans in America were generating such a large in-group that they had relatively little incentive to venture out of it.
Huntington's analysis was vulnerable to challenge on several counts -- and "challenge" may be too mild a word for the response it attracted -- but Huntington did perform one valuable service. He refocused interest in the seemingly eternal question of assimilation. How important is it, and how might we begin to measure it?
Four years later, some interesting answers have begun to emerge. They are coming mostly from the work of Jacob Vigdor, a professor of economics at Duke University who has spent the past year developing a statistical index of immigrant assimilation, in collaboration with the Manhattan Institute in New York.
Vigdor believes that we will never understand assimilation as long as we continue to assume that it is a simple, unitary idea: that people either are assimilated or they aren't. He makes the plausible point that there are at least three distinct forms of immigrant assimilation that one might be interested in and want to measure. There is economic assimilation -- the pace at which newcomers reach middle-class salary levels and acquire their own homes. There's cultural assimilation -- the rate at which they learn English and marry native-born Americans rather than fellow- immigrants. And there is civic assimilation, measured by such things as naturalization and military service.
THE CONCLUSION of Vigdor's study is that each of these brands of assimilation operates on its own schedule and applies to different ethnic groups in strikingly different ways. Asian immigrants are very quick to assimilate economically. They learn English easily, graduate from high school at impressive rates and launch and successfully operate small businesses of their own. On the other hand, they are relatively slow to assimilate culturally, at least according to the criteria that Vigdor uses. They cling to traditional religious practices and look for marriage partners within their own tight-knit immigrant cohort, rather than marrying into other ethnic groups. One's view of Asians as more or less assimilated depends to a great extent on which of these categories one considers most important.
Mexicans are very weak on the index of civic assimilation. They are far less likely to vote than other immigrants, or even to take out naturalization papers. They maintain political ties to Mexico, just as Huntington noticed, and in many cases return there to live after a period of years in the United States. The numbers on voting and naturalization aren't exactly a surprise: Millions of Mexicans are in this country illegally -- they couldn't become citizens or vote even if they wanted to.
But Vigdor argues that the tendency of many new arrivals to tune out from American politics doesn't necessarily imply much about prospects for long-term civic assimilation. The data for Italians who came to America early in the 20th century are actually rather similar to the data for Mexicans now. They were slow to become American citizens and traveled back and forth to Italy on a regular basis. It's been estimated that roughly one-third of those who came here from Italy in the wave of migration a hundred years ago ended up returning for good. But those who remained here did eventually become citizens and vote in numbers roughly comparable to the national average. It just took them a while.
A careful reading of Vigdor's research suggests to me that panic at this point about a permanent enclave of alien foreigners in our midst is about as misguided as it was a century ago, however different the ethnic details might be. What it doesn't suggest is that we ought to throw the borders wide open and welcome another 10 million as soon as they want to move here. Communities that are heavily affected by the most recent immigration have legitimate concerns: schools that can't handle the overflow and inadequate housing stock that invites dangerous living conditions and the flouting of local codes. Long-time residents of any community have a right to be concerned about those things -- and not to be derided as racists every time they bring them up.
This is the moment, if there ever was one, to bring our borders under control and slow down the pace of immigration for a little while. Once we do that, we may be in a position to ponder the implications of Jacob Vigdor's research, and reassure ourselves that, in the long run, the American economy, polity and culture are not going to be destroyed by immigrants from south of the border, any more than they were by immigrants from across the ocean a century ago.
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The South African stunner wears her hair in a messy ponytail as she flexes and stretches for the camera, proving that she has the workout chops to go with the attire.
Back in 2013 she fronted Juicy Couture's Spring Campaign and now Candice Swanepoel is back as the face of Viva La Juicy.
The gorgeous blonde poser looks incredible in the newly-released images, with plenty of gold accents and a tiny pink dress to go with the oversized fragrance bottle.
Showing off their charitable sides, Candice Swanepoel, Lily Aldridge and Liu Wen are all part of a new philanthropic initiative ahead of United Nations World Food Day.
The trio of pretty posers are the faces of Michael Kors' Watch Hunger Stop Campaign, with t-shirts and watches dedicated to raising money for the UN's World Food Program organization.
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Earlier today (October 1) the popular brand announced that this year's extravaganza will air on December 8th at 10:00pm on the CBS Network.
The fashion modeling industry is full of fierce competition, and Forbes just released the 2015 Highest-Paid Models List, including a couple of new additions.
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Record storm brings record 511 Web traffic
Date: 05/14/2014
This week's record spring snowstorm resulted in a record 19 million hits to WYDOT's 511 Travel Information Service website.
The high volume of users caused slowed response times for some of the site's pages during the storm.
"We are working to correct the problems," said Vince Garcia, manager of WYDOT's Geographic Information Systems/Intelligent Transportation Systems program. "WYDOT is making every effort to provide information in text, email and Web formats in an effort to save money by reducing the number of phone calls to the 511 system."
Between 12:01 a.m. Sunday and 2 p.m. Monday, the 511 site's text-based pages (wyoroad.info) received 14.76 million hits. The site's high-bandwidth interactive map page (map.wyoroad.info/hi.html) got 4.21 million.
During the same period, the 511 telephone system responded to 64,455 calls.
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Idle Problem MAF?
I have a 1995 325i and I'm getting that up and down revving thing. It'll go from about 200 rpm up to 1500 rpm and will eventually die if I press on the gas too much. And when I press down, it really lags and is not strong at all.
Took a video of it so you can hear the noise and see what it does. Duct tape on the boot. There's a nice tear in it.
I just cleaned the MAF sensor and still nothin. I got the code 1215 which IS the MAF sensor.
So I'm about ready to buy a new sensor and a new boot. But before I drop 200 dollars, are there any other things I could check to see what the problem might be?
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Separating real part and imaginary part from each other
suppose I have the expression
f(z) = (a*z+b) / (c*z+d) with z=x+I*y
I did the calculation by hand and was able to separate real part fom
imag. part to obtain something like this:
g=f(x+I*y) = Re(g) + I * Im(g)
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The Inn is the longest operating lodge in the county. The first and only remaining hotel in Mt. Crested Butte from the first year the ski area opened in 1963. Owned and managed over the past 45 years by Allen and Judy Cox who became known for their sense of humor, genuine hospitality, and personal connection with their guests; a culture and tradition the new owners continue to carry forward today. Beautiful renovations combined with the charm of the original hotel make this mountain inn an unforgettable one-of-a-kind experience. We invite you to begin each morning in the warmth of the Breakfast Room with a wholesome continental breakfast to start your mountain adventure. After a day of playing hard, we welcome you back to a roaring fire in the Inn's Great Room where you can relax, socialize, play games, or just take in the amazing views of Mt. Crested Butte.
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Damp in concrete floor
How to deal with damp in concrete floor
- In principle all concrete floors should include a damp proof membrane across the whole floor area and this should be linked to the damp proof courses in the surrounding walls to provide continuity of protection against ground moisture.
It follows that any breaks in the membrane will lead to dampness of one degree or another within the floor area. Because the source of failure is often so difficult to pinpoint, you could be looking at having to renew the floor in its entirety.
One alternative that may be feasible is to apply an epoxy resin coating across the floor to seal it against damp. Two coats are usually required with say 6 hours between, so it can be done in a day. But you need to be able to get at the whole floor area up to the surrounding walls so if it's a kitchen, all the units will have to come out. Surface preparation prior to application will be crucial but even so it will be less disruptive than taking up and renewing the floor.
Not a DIY job though.
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For Bustle, E. CE Miller documents eleven poetry collections by women that have mesmerized her since college. On the list: collections by Warsan Shire, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich, Robin Beth Shaer, and more.
1. Shipbreaking by Robin Beth Schaer
As a debut poet of 2015, Robin Beth Schaer has me totally excited to see what she's going to give us next. Her poetry is a kaleidoscope of almost-electric imagery, with undertones of the past, present, and future; fantasy; science fiction; and philosophy. Exploring environmental disasters alongside those everyday tragedies of daily life on planet Earth, Shipbreaking is all about the beautiful, messy, and dangerous ways we all live in this world.
2. Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
I could not be more in love with Warsan Shire if I tried — and poetry fans all over the world seem to agree. Shire was 2014's Young Poet Laureate of London, and her collection Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, has literally gone viral — on YouTube, through Facebook posts, and via 140-character excerpts splashed across Twitter. Interested in home and displacement, and immigrant and refugee experiences, Shire's poetry speaks of trauma, politics, female strength, and journeys both around the world and into the self.
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Very nice! I'm jealous.
This is a discussion on New AR within the Defensive Rifles & Shotgun Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; I had talked about my new rifle a couple of weeks ago, so here is a photo....
I had talked about my new rifle a couple of weeks ago, so here is a photo.
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Sorry and I forgot to add I also have a green laser dot sight, but I don't have a picture with it on the rifle.
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Nice rifle, but no iron sights? What happens when/if that Hubble telescope you have mounted fails?
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Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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Get some flip-up BUIS.
Although I dont know where you are going to put the rear one....
Nice AR!!!!
I like the scope!
That's on a Pistol AR right?
No? ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! LOL. Just Kidding...
LOL. Hey I like that scope, I don't like shooting at close range (50 yards) so me and my buddies wanted to try something new so I got the scope so we could shoot 200+ yards.
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It is a nice scope and I bet it will get out to 200+ yards.
I have flip up iron sights on mine. Of course I like to plink with my
Mosin's too.
Pretty AR you have there and I really like the scope!
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What kind of scope is that? How is it working? What type/brand of ring mounts are you using?
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Nice acquisition.
I saw a photo over at ar15.com that an older shooter put up. He has a decent sized scope as you do, and he had the YHM offset dovetails front and rear with flip up iron sights on them. That way he can cant the rifle to use the non-magnified iron sights, or use the optics for shots where time is not as pressing or range is greater.
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Weird sputtering issue
Hey guys, I have recently come into possession of a '70 DeVille 472.
We rebuilt the carb and virtually nothing else done, then I made the journey from ATL to Ft. Bragg NC (400 miles).
Along the way I ran into a largely inconveniencing issue - At first it went a good 40 miles with no issues at HWY speed (70mph),
however after about 40 miles it got to where every 5 miles or so at HWY speed it would start to sputter and jerk (similar to when
spark plug wires are going bad) however, if I tried to continue it at a furious pace it would continue to sputter and slowly beat me down
to a lower speed.
Say I started at 70, ran about 2 miles or so, it would start sputtering (on hills especially) requiring me to give it less and less gas, working me
down from 70 to 60, then to 50, and after about a total of 5 miles or so it would force me to go 40 and under, making me either pull off onto
the shoulder for about 30 seconds to idle, or off an exit long enough to turn around and get right back on the HWY to rinse and repeat.
Around town she runs great, I would assume its all of the stop and go. My assumption originally was that the car was somehow flooding itself
like maybe the float was getting stuck or something but jiggling the pedal and the fact that it is 100% reproducible the same way every time
makes me think it has more to do with the fuel pump itself.
I'm not terribly mechanically inclined, and I dont have access to a huge assortment of tools, so my questions are: does it seem from the sounds of it
to be the fuel pump? and if so, how difficult is it to replace one?
Also, what would any of you previous 472 owners recommend I start with as far as general replacements for parts known to be outdated or obsolete?
Any and all help is appreciated guys!
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Re: Weird sputtering issue
It sounds like it is starving for gas to me. Either a plugged fuel filter or bad fuel pump.
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Been there. My case it was the fuel pump pumping all fuel back to the tank via the bypass. A quick way to check is pinch the return hose back to the tank and go for a test drive. In my case it was a less than 2 year old Airtex pump. Replaced with another Airtex pump. Stayed working almost forever.
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I, personally don't like Airtex products and it doesn't matter which one. Fuel pump, water pump, whatever, usually lasts one year, just past the warrantee, then failure. I use AC, or Carter units for replacement parts. I hate doing a job more than once over a short period of time.
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Just thought I would post an update for you guys:
It was indeed the fuel pump. The car actually broke down on me on the expressway, luckily I was only 2 miles from my barracks so I got it towed back free thanks to AAA.
I picked up a new fuel pump for 33$ at O'Riley, spent about 60$ on tools and went to town in my parking lot. It took me about 3 hours (I have no mechanical knowledge whatsoever), but I was able to install the new fuel pump and after a minute of pumping the gas while turning the key she fired right up.
The fuel filter in the bottom of the old pump was so filled with dirt and crap that it was falling out in marble sized chunks as I tapped it on the ground. I took it out last weekend about 50m away to another city with absolutely no problems whatsoever, however on the way back I had it sputter on me one time, so I know that I need to probably change the fuel filter again, or get into the filter in the carb itself and see how bad caked up that one is.
My goal now is to get one of those fancy HEI distributors in the car, but I have absolutely no clue where to even start so this will be interesting. Thanks for all the help guys!
Re: Weird sputtering issue
If you get any new junk sucked into the pump it may do the same as the last pump.
Might be time just to bite the bullet and replace the gas tank and gas tank straps for cheap insurance.
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Oh man don't tell me that!
What kind of money would I be looking at for that?
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Re: Weird sputtering issue
I think ape man is right. The tank has got crap in it. If its not leaking it could be cleaned out.. But still has to come out.
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Re: Weird sputtering issue
Replacement tanks go for around $125.00, but dr is right. With some effort and patience, you can clean out the old one, provided there are no holes that get exposed in the process. Sounds like you need a new sock on the pick-up tube also.


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