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Well friends, it's true, I-5 Minus 3 goes into effect AGAIN this weekend! Commuters who attempted to navigate the construction zone last weekend were met with long lines of brake lights, resulting in length delays. At the height of the work only ONE lane will be open between Albro and the West Seattle Bridge. Again, the DOT is asking you- if you don't have to drive in the mess, please don't! Use an alternate road, help a brother out!
Here is the info again, in case you need a refresher:
On consecutive weekends – March 29-April 1 and April 5-8 – drivers will see significant lane closures on northbound Interstate 5 near South Albro Place to the West Seattle Bridge/I-5 interchange. From 8 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday, three out of five lanes will be closed around the clock, leaving two lanes open. From midnight to 4 a.m. Friday and Sunday nights, an additional fourth lane will close, leaving one lane open. That's a big closure, and we need some big help! We'll get into specifics below, but overall, we need at least 60 percent of drivers who normally use northbound I-5 to take alternate routes or be prepared to face long delays. Can you be in that 60 percent?
The closure covers about a quarter of a mile just south of downtown Seattle. The stretch was constructed in 1965 but 50 years of traffic has weakened the steel expansion joints that connect the concrete spans that make up I-5 as it curves through the industrial area.
Yes, we know the first closure comes during Easter. But this is critical safety work that is part of the Spokane Street Interchange Special Bridge Repair project and it simply has to get done. Without this work, the risk for serious collisions will continue to grow. With so much going on in Seattle, there are no "good" weekends for this kind of closure, so we do everything we can to make it as painless as possible.
We've worked closely with existing projects to coordinate work. We'll have crews in the field monitoring traffic and the construction work and making adjustments as needed. Extra Incident Response Team trucks will be available to quickly clear any disabled vehicles to keep traffic moving. Travel times, alternate route options and any other updates will appear on overhead message boards and on our website and Twitter feed. Additionally, we're keeping the I-90 express lanes westbound all weekend to help improve traffic flow.
If you must drive through the area, add plenty of extra time into your trip. We expect the heaviest traffic to come midday Saturday and Sunday on northbound I-5 and I-90 into Seattle and on I-405 approaching I-90. Consider using alternate routes like northbound I-405 to I-90 and northbound SR 599 to SR 99. Maybe now is a good time to try public transportation or carpool.
During the closures, crews will replace four expansion joints that run the width of the highway. If they fail, they can pop up and create obstacles for vehicles, which could lead to collisions and damage to the cars or trucks. We is committed to keeping our highways as safe as possible and we're working to prevent any problems before they arise.
The current joints are coming apart. No surprise, since this section of highway carries more than a million vehicles every week. The new joints will bend and flex as the concrete expands and contracts with changing traffic and weather patterns, leading to a safer commute.
We know there are going to be backups on northbound I-5 during these closures. Those are impossible to avoid. But with some planning ahead of time, adjustments to schedules or routes and simply knowing what is going on and what to expect, we hope that at least some headaches will be avoided, and we thank everyone for their patience and cooperation!


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'Not everybody can bring themselves to like us Conservatives," says Maria Caulfield, a Tory councillor from Brighton. "It's not like 1997 when everybody loved Labour. People don't love us. We've got to earn their trust and prove that we're different from what they think we are."
In both respects, the Conservatives have their work cut out. A Populus poll this week showed that 68% of the electorate think the party has not changed under David Cameron's rule. However well the Tories may be doing, however much everyone thinks they're going to win the next election, this is a worrying statistic for the Tories.
Caulfield and I are standing in a queue for a hog roast in a basement bar in Manchester on Monday night. The occasion is a pub quiz in aid of the Save the Great British Pub campaign, which calls for the scrapping of the 33p tax on each British pint. There are pickled eggs and onions going begging at the bar, and behind the MC's microphone is another kind of pickle – Eric Pickles, chairman of the Conservative party. "It's an important campaign because for a lot of communities, the pub is about the only thing that's left holding them together," Pickles tells the drinkers. It's a remark that chimes with the Conservative conference theme this week of mending our mangled economy, broken society and ruined politics after 12 years of Labour rule. The Tories aim to rebuild "broken Britain", starting – if tonight is anything to go by – with the British pub.
Let the quiz commence. "In Greek mythology," asks Pickles, "what is the name of the old man who ferried the souls of the dead across the Styx to Hades?" "Gordon Brown!" yells one Tory delegate. "No it's not," snaps Pickles. "That's a cheap attack on our respected prime minister." Pickles is in his element. Flanked by William Roache, the Tory-supporting actor who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street, the Tory chairman looks and sounds like the over-nourished love child of Corrie's Betty Turpin and Stan Ogden.
The mood, despite Councillor Caulfield's misgivings, is buoyant, and for a diehard leftie like me – a former jazz critic of the Soviet-era Morning Star, in fact – being in a basement full of gleeful Conservatives is hardly a pleasant experience.
But why shouldn't they be buoyant? They meet this week in Manchester 13% ahead of Labour and the Lib Dems in the polls. "A lot of people are having a really good time," says former Tory MP and novelist Michael Dobbs. "I suspect it wasn't the same in Brighton last week." Having spent last week in Brighton, I can confirm that Dobbs is right.
The Tories' Manchester mood is so buoyant, in fact, that Pickles issued a champagne ban at the start of conference, to ensure that delegates don't appear on telly looking triumphant – yet. "The election is not yet in the bag," warns the party chairman. The champagne ban hasn't quite been stuck to – Alan Duncan and Cameron himself, now dubbed "fizzy rascal" by the Mirror, have already been snapped with glasses. For tonight's quiz, though, one of the prizes is a case of Harvey Nicks' champagne – to be put on ice until at least the exit polls are in.
After all, those exit polls could still bring bad news. "We've got to get the biggest swing ever," says Greg Clark, shadow energy and climate change secretary, at a fringe meeting earlier in the day. "If that's not a sobering thought, I don't know what is." To form the next government, the Tories need to win 117 seats, which requires a bigger swing than Margaret Thatcher managed in 1979. "We haven't managed such a swing since 1931," says Clark.
At 7.30am a fringe meeting organised by Google is packed with prospective parliamentary candidates all determined to make that swing happen. What are you doing up at such an ungodly hour, I ask one PPC. "Trying to learn how to use the internet to win the election – like Obama did." PPCs dutifully take notes as Google pointyheads explain how to embed your YouTube video in order to facilitate something called "social colonisation".
The Tories' head of new media, Rishi Saha, stresses that the party can beat Labour by canny use of the internet. "A lot of people hated Webcameron [the website for the Tory leader's videoblogs, now three years old] but it makes this guy human for millions."
Can the Tories persuade the unconvinced 68% that they are new and substantial? "Nobody can say now we don't have policies," says William Hague, shadow foreign secretary. "We have them in detail and they show we are very different from Labour."
"Now what we need to do is put those policies before the people," says Greg Clark. "We must have a mandate to govern, not just get voted in because voters hate Labour."
Clark thinks the Tories have already shown they are different from their predecessors by their attention to Britain's poor. "That's down to Iain Duncan Smith, who has really helped us reconnect with our one-nation traditions and our concern for social justice." To be sure, that concern for social justice is hardly what the British voters expect from the Conservatives – two of whom (Cameron and London mayor Boris Johnson) are privileged Etonians, while another at their top table (George Osborne) went to St Paul's – whom many suspect will, if elected, look after their rich chums and let the rest of us eat cake.
But that expectation was confounded by one part of Osborne's speech on Tuesday – a development that upset some Tories and neocon economists. Osborne refused to scrap the 50p tax rate on those earning more than £150,000, which many delegates thought would drive the last remaining entrepreneurs out of Britain. Neocon economist Irving Steltzer told a fringe meeting on Tuesday: "I think Gordon Brown is a disaster but the net effect of Osborne's speech is to hurt entrepreneurship. If you drive the entrepreneurs out of the country, and this tax does that, it's the poor who will really suffer." The poor, after all, are the entrepreneurs' cleaners and nannies. "You need the entrepreneurs to stay and make the British economy grow."
So why did the Tories refuse to scrap that higher marginal tax rate? After all, it is good for business, and good for their rich chums. "There is a queue of taxes hikes that we will need to overturn when we are elected," Hague tells me. "But we will need to cut National Insurance first because that affects poorer people directly. We can't be seen to be handing money back to the rich first." Political expediency trumps economic ideology.
That is what the new Tories are like. They realise that they need to posture as the friends of the poor if they are to be elected. Whether their heads will swivel through 360 degrees once they seize Downing Street is not the point, electorally speaking. That is why Osborne's repeated mantra on Tuesday was: "We're all in this together." In response to national crisis, a restatement of Disraelian one-nation Conservatism. Even if it isn't true.
And anyone who dares suggest otherwise gets a rough ride. Delegates round on Steltzer for suggesting the Tories are light on the vision thing. "I missed my lunch for this," shouts an angry delegate from Harpenden. "He ought to have attended the rest of the conference to see the policies we are putting in place to make Britain grow again."
Whether the new Tories can woo voters with such policies is moot. They certainly lost a few earlier this week with their proposal that the retirement age be raised to 66 for men by 2016, and for women by 2020. But Osborne is unrepentant. "This is how we can afford to pay for the rise in state pensions for all."
What's been especially striking about this week's conference, for me at least, is the extent to which leading Tories are prepared to chat in the corridors to the media. It wasn't like this last week in Brighton. Why, I ask Hague? "We've got a story to tell about how we've changed and a narrative about what we're going to do in power," he says. "That's what we're trying to get across." To be fair, though, the Tory big hitters prove very evasive when you try to pin them down on some of the more embarrassing episodes of this week – such as Cameron's seeming dithering over the call for a referendum over the EU Lisbon treaty, one of the issues that divides the party.
And Europe isn't the only issue that makes the Tories put their fingers in their ears and run for cover when the likes of me ask them about it. Earlier in the week, Cameron wouldn't talk about why the Tories won't equalise the age of retirement for men and women until the century is in its mid-teens. But it is an issue that makes the Tory rank and file queasy – why should men work longer than women before they receive their state pensions?
In fact, behind the heady vibe of a party revelling in a 13% lead in the polls, are Tory delegates anxious about what the current shadow cabinet will be like if they win power. Delegates I speak to are worried that Cameron's dithering over a Euro-referendum and his cosying up to dubious Euro groups (of which more later) betokens a leader who may not be as savvy in No 10 as he seems when quizzed by Jeremy Paxman. Many worry whether Osborne is up to being chancellor. Telegraph columnist Simon Heffer, speaking at a fringe meeting, certainly thinks that Osborne is an inept steward of the nation's finances, and others on the platform – all Tory loyalists – suggest that Hague would do a better job. "Osborne's been spineless for four years," one delegate tells me later. "He didn't stand up to Brown when Brown was letting the money supply go bonkers, which shows he either doesn't understand economics or that he's a wimp. Either way he must go before the election."
There is, then, even among some among the party faithful, a worry that the muggles waiting in the wings may be just as inept as the muggles currently in power. They could be a cabinet of ditherers and economic illiterates. And if some Tories at this week's conference think that, what are those outside the security ring of steel in Manchester supposed to believe? Councillor Caulfield is right: not everybody can bring themselves to like the Conservatives. Worse yet, not all the party faithful can bring themselves to like the shadow cabinet very much either. At least not this week.
Of course, I also find gleeful Tories who aren't willing to countenance such defeatist talk on the brink of electoral victory. "It makes me furious when I hear any dissent about David or his cabinet," another delegate, who I accost as he is trying on overcoats at the Crombie outlet in the conference's market hall, tells me. "They really are the only people who can make Britain great again." How? "We'll start manufacturing things again, which is how you create a sustainable economy. We'll stop wasting our young people's lives, get them off street corners and into employment. We'll boost the family, which is what we need to do to heal our broken society. Labour won't do any of these things." He looks as though he believes this.
The night after the jaunty hog roast comes the second stage-managed soiree of conference. This is the first official Conservative Pride event in Manchester's gay village, and is designed to show how far the Tories have travelled since the days of Section 28, the 1988 Thatcherite reform devised to outlaw "the teaching in any maintained school of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship". When Cameron's Tories apologised for this (long repealed) legislation in the summer, that admission seemed to typify how the Conservatives had changed. Under Cameron, it seemed, the Tories had become socially liberal – why, even those formerly wicked homosexuals were lovely people whom the Cameroonians would be proud to have at their party.
One problem. On Tuesday night, Ben Summerskill, head of gay rights group Stonewall, pulls out of speaking at the Pride event because Michal Kaminski, a Polish rightwing politician whose reputed views on Jewish people, gay people, immigrants and Obama might make him a more natural ally of the BNP, was attending conference. How could a gay rights campaigner endorse a party that gave a platform to such a man? More to the point, why have the Tories allied themselves with Kaminski in the European parliament?
By their friends shall we know the new caring Tories – such is the worry about Cameron. The debacle not only calls into question how far the Tories have changed to become tolerant, but also the political judgment of David Cameron. If he allows his party to ally with reputed antisemitic homophobes, what hope for him doing a good job governing a Britain ravaged by recession?
"Our biggest asset is David Cameron," asserts Greg Clark. And clearly he's right: this week's Populus poll found that the Cameron brand is stronger than that of the Conservative party. Cameron may be a Bullingdon toff but – what a conjuring trick! – he is cuddlier than Gordon Brown. That Webcameron has really paid dividends in humanising the Tories.
All of which makes the speech that Cameron gives this afternoon in Manchester a compelling prospect. Can he convince the British electorate at his last conference before the general election that his party has changed, and truly cast off its unsavoury past? That it can steer us out of recession better than Labour? The answers are uncertain, but Pickles is certainly right. The Tories shouldn't start popping champagne corks just yet.
• This article was amended on 8 October 2009. The original included George Osborne among politicians educated at Eton. This has been corrected.


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Beginning in the seventies individual mill buildings began to be purchased at very low prices and gradually
the mills began to fill up with an assortment of light industry and artists studios. At that time there was such
a vast quanity of unused space that for very little rent people took the space they needed and many artists
lived in the mills in very bohemian spaces. This period of Housatonic's history coincides with the similar
developments in New York's So Ho. Unlike So Ho however almost nobody knew about the situation in
Housatonic except those directly involved. By the 80's so many artists had located in Housatonic, that it
began to have a reputation as an artist community. In the late 80's galleries began to open in the town. The
first gallery to open was called Spazi, Spazi began as an artist studio on the top floor loft space above
Barbieri's Lumber company. The first show in the gallery was a show of work by Housatonic artists.
Almost all the galleries that have existed in Housatonic have been artist run and operated, or cooperatives.
At present there are three commercial galleries in Housatonic, and over thirty artist studios, some in the
mill buildings, and some in individual houses. The town sponsors open studiodays a few times a year, and
with the help of a map obtainable from the galleries, one is able to visit many studios, both in Housatonic
and along Route 183, north of the village. Although cheap, well lit space in the mills is a thing of the past,
Housatonic remains an artist community. There is a gritty, industrial quality about the village, which many
people find a relief after experiencing the quaint postcard perfect towns of Lenox and Stockbridge.
Note: When visiting Housatonic don't expect to find cafe's, restaurants and clothing boutiques, there are
none. To the first time visitor Housatonic seems to be completely without any activity. The qualities that
make Housatonic so unique have to be sought out. The artists who live in Housatonic love it very much and
as one said recently, "It's the best town I ever felt alienated from".
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More than 50 artists will show their work at a church in Tigard
All around the Portland area, 54 artists - count 'em, 54 - are busy right now painting, sculpting, shaping, framing, fashioning and finishing up their best works of art in preparation for the second Celebrate the Gifts Art Festival planned for Oct. 1 and 2 at Calvin Presbyterian Church in Tigard.
The indoor, fine arts show and sale will showcase watercolors, oil and acrylic paintings, ceramics, jewelry, fabric arts and more, and it will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days.
What's more, say organizers, artists will conduct hourlong demonstrations periodically throughout the festival weekend.
Calvin Presbyterian Church is located at 10445 S.W. Canterbury Lane, and it can be reached at 503-639-3273 or by visiting calvinpresbyterian.org.
Saturday evening also will feature a 'celebration concert' performed by Oregon Chamber Singers under the direction of Sandra Miller at 7 p.m. The program includes music from Broadway shows and choral arrangements of pop tunes.
After the concert, there will be an opportunity to meet the artists as they showcase their work. The exhibit areas will open again from 8 to 9 p.m. Saturday for an evening artist reception. Admission to the show, concert and reception is free.
Donations and a percentage of art sales at the event will benefit local mission projects. Those include the Good Neighbor Center, Union Gospel Mission, Affordable Housing, Step It Up Inc, Western Farm Workers, Habitat for Humanity, Jubilee Transition House, HopeSpring Housing and Tigard's St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry.
Hoping to double that
Last year's one-day event raised $4,500, according to artist and church member Dee Rommel, and this year organizers hope to double that.
Rommel, who does oil and watercolor painting as well as collages at her Tigard studio, explained that her church got the idea from the longstanding art show and sale held every year at Southminster Presbyterian Church in Beaverton.
Making money for the good causes is one goal, she said. 'But also it's to celebrate art in its different forms.'
Beaverton artist Roberta Babcock, who works in clay and metal when she's not painting, found her way to this show by being involved in the Southminster show, near the intersection of Hall Boulevard and Denney Road. 'They got my name from being in that church show,' she said.
Not content to stick entirely with any one art medium, Babcock last week confessed, 'This week, all I'm doing is raku.'
The name raku generally is applied to pottery fired at a relatively low temperature and cooled rapidly, then placed in a closed container with combustible materials like straw or paper, which results in unpredictable colors. For Babcock, it means traveling to Salem, where she can do the firing outdoors.
'The reason I'm doing raku right now is because you really can get some wild, unexpected colors in the clay,' Babcock explained in the studio she operates in her Beaverton garage. 'You can't plan it. It's unexpected, and the gifts are really great.'
And the figures she produces are also a bit on the unexpected side. Although she's done more than her share of realistic human and animal figures, lately, she's been making a lot of whimsically distorted horses, cowboys and cowgirls.
'The shorter the better'
'I've been doing clay sculptures for six years,' said Babcock, explaining that after 'many years' of drawing and painting, she took a class at Portland Community College and then studied with an Arizona woman who specialized in working with iron and clay combined.
The result is fanciful figures with long slender legs containing metal rebar, she said. The firing produces some interesting (and unpredictable) crackling on the figures' surface.
The raku firing is 'much shorter,' she said. 'The shorter the better because of the steel in it.'
It's fired at 850 degrees. At that temperature, she added, 'I think you could cook a pizza pretty fast.'
Originally from Santa Rosa, Calif., Babcock came here with her husband Doug in 2005, when he took a job as a consultant for Nike. These days he works for Kaiser Permanente.
'My dad was a saddle maker, so I kind of grew up in a cowboy/western stetting,' she said of her affinity for the subject matter. She's been asked why there are no saddles on her horses, she said, adding, 'They're more about movement and the motion, rather than the hardware.'
Babcock also shows her work at Art on Broadway, 12570 S.W. Broadway, Beaverton.
Dee Rommel, in addition to getting ready for the Celebrate the Gifts show at her church, is scrambling to produce art for two other shows in the next few days, including one at Concordia College, where she'll show seven pieces. In her spare time, meanwhile, she practices on Wednesday nights for the church choir and again on Sunday nights for the Millennium Dance Band, in which she plays saxophone.
And, if that weren't all enough to keep her hopping, she's a principal organizer for the Oct. 1 and 2 show at Calvin Presbyterian.
It 'becomes like a treasure'
A descendant of a pioneer family and born in Portland, Rommel graduated in 1955 from Roosevelt High School.
'I've lived here all my life,' she said. 'And I've lived in Tigard about 45 years.'
All around her in her Tigard studio paintings are drying, including a series of oils showing flowers and tell-tale rock formations from the Steens Mountain area of Southeastern Oregon.
'A lot of the stuff I do is from the vacations I've gone on,' she confessed, explaining that she occasionally works in the field, but is just as likely to bring home photographs and work from those.
'It kind of becomes like a treasure,' she said. 'You appreciate it more as you go through the years.'
Pointing to canvases showing kids and one of a young woman, she admitted they were both of family members.
'I like to do figurative,' she said, adding that both of those would be at the Celebrate the Gifts show. 'I'm doing more landscapes right now, but I also like to do figures.'
A number of other local artists are scheduled to show their work at the Calvin Presbyterian show. For more details, visit calvinpresbyterian.org.


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I am in need of some advice. I am burnt out. I feel like I have nothing left to give and spend much of my day on the verge of tears, unmotivated and feeling guilty about all that I'm not. I am the stay at home mom of 3 kids. I have a girl who just turned 6, a boy almost 4 and an 18 month old girl. I homeschool my oldest. I feel like I have been "ON" since my dd2 was born. All of my kids are high energy, intense and not very good sleepers(the oldest two are pretty good now). I have worn my 18 month old on my back in the wrap for naps and night time nearly her whole life and have just now been working on getting her to sleep apart from me(this is very stressful and sometimes we both end up crying a lot). I don't mind her sleeping with me at night, it's just naptime that is hell. My oldest also has type 1 diabetes and needs a lot of care. I feel like I never get to turn "off" and the constentness of that has become too much. My husband is pretty helpful with getting household stuff caught up but he hasn't been home a lot lately and that will get worse if he is accepted into Paramedic school(we'll find out soon). He is also pretty needy and loves to play games and he needs sex a lot. We have his parents close by and they usually take my two oldest for a sleepover once a week which is nice. And I have just sarted bellydance class again for 1 hr once a week(my in laws come watch the kids for that time). I look after my neighbors kids(ages 6 and 10)4 times a week as well. It is a pain sometimes but my kids love to play with them and I wouldn't want to take that away.
Ok, that was really long. The bottom line is that I feel so irritable, cry too much and feel like I have nothing left. I love my kids with all my being but I worry my emotional state might be affecting them. I need to find a way to recover from this burned out state, to feel like I have resources to draw from when things get crazy instead of feeling like crumpling into a ball or screaming. I don't know how. I don't know what to let go of. How to make time to get myself in a better space. I have thought about putting my oldest back into school....I've thought about asking my husband to have the kids for 4 hrs out of the week so I can go and just be me somewhere. What do you think? I feel like if I don't make major changes I'm going to have a breakdown:(
I think any change for you would be good. Definitely getting out to just "be yourself" for 4 hours a week is helpful for me. I have been and am where you are now and I feel like drastic changes are needed, for me anyway. I was going to homeschool, but put my 5 yo in Kindergarten for my sanity. Also, you could look into supplement, they really help me. I take 4,000iu of vitamin D, a multi and fish oil daily. Plus, I try to eat liver once or twice a week (HIGH in B12). I hope any of that helps! Hang in there, mama, and know that it will get better!
Thank you applecider for your support:) I had a big talk with dh last night about things. He agreed that I need to do things differently...but he wasn't supportive of putting dd back into school. I feel really torn about that one too. I know she'd do ok, she actually went to public kindy. I just hated how much time she spent at school and I felt like she wasn't too keen on learning. But I am only doing the basics with her, reading, math and a little of writing. Plus we read good books. But this isn't anything close to doing what I wanted to do with her. We have only done 2 science experiments and no art projects:( I feel like I can just handle the basics right now and feel bad for her and for my other two that also need my attention. I am going to ask my in-laws to take the kids for half the day every second week so me and dh can have time alone together. The weeks in between my dh has agreed to have the kids for 4 hrs so I can do whatever I want.
I never thought about taking supplements to help me too. I know that I haven't taken care of my health for some time now, I feel like I don't have the time or energy. But I need too, I'll look into the supplements you mentioned(though it would take serious will power to eat liver!). I have become very achy and have daily headaches, which isn't like me at all. I need to make my health a priority too...somehow.
Thanks for letting me know I'm not alone:)
Could you watch the neighbor kids 2x/week instead of 4?
Do you have a YMCA near you? The family membership is really cheap ($100/mo) .... less if you have a limited income. The kids have a great time in the play area, up to TWO hours each day!
At first, you might just want to sit in the hot tub. Once you start taking care of yourself and feeling better, you might walk the treadmill, ride the exercise bikes, or lift weights.
It is so wonderful for my kids - they love playing with the other kids. And it is great for me-time too!!
Regarding supplements, look into "The Mood Cure" or the "Diet Cure" by Julia Ross (I like Diet Cure, but IIRC both of her books contain essentially the same info). She has information that you could find extrememtly helpful. I bought a very cheap copy of the "Diet Cure" recently on Abebooks dot com.
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Cry me a river.
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April 19, 2011
Fri-Sat., April 22-23 -- at Eastern Michigan Twilight Invitational (Ypsilanti, Mich.), 3 p.m./10 a.m.
The outdoor season continues for the University of Michigan men's track and field team this weekend, as the Wolverines compete at the Eastern Michigan Twilight Invitational in nearby Ypsilanti, Mich. The meet begins at 5 p.m. on Friday (April 22) and at noon on Saturday (April 23) at Rynearson Stadium.
Friday, April 22
3:30 p.m. -- Shot Put
5 p.m. -- Hammer Throw
6:15 p.m. -- 3,000-meter Steeplechase
6:45 p.m. -- 400-meter Hurdles
7 p.m. -- Pole Vault
7:30 p.m. -- 1,500-meter Run
8:30 p.m. -- 5,000-meter Run (Seeded)
8:50 p.m. -- Washtenaw Mile Run
9:25 p.m. -- 5,000-meter Run (Unseeded)
Saturday, April 23
10 a.m. -- Discus, Long Jump
Noon -- Javelin, High Jump
12:15 p.m. -- 4x100-meter Relay
12:45 p.m. -- 110-meter Hurdles
1:15 p.m. -- 400-meter Dash
1:45 p.m. -- 100-meter Dash
2 p.m. -- Triple Jump
2:30 p.m. -- 800-meter Run
3:15 p.m. -- 200-meter Dash
3:40 p.m. -- 3,000-meter Run
4 p.m. -- 4x400-meter Relay
TOP TIMES/MARKS (Outdoor Only)
100-meter Dash: 10.54, Matthew Campbell
200-meter Dash: 21.28, Matthew Campbell
400-meter Dash: 47.43, Nick Neuman
800-meter Run: 1:56.68, Dallas Bowden
1,500-meter Run: 3:54.43, Nick Thomas
3,000-meter Run: 8:31.52, Bobby Aprill
5,000-meter Run: 13:59.53, Craig Forys
10,000-meter Run: 29:53.57, Bobby Aprill
110-meter Hurdles: 14.17, Nick McCampbell
400-meter Hurdles: 51.73, Ali Arastu
3,000-meter Steeplechase: 9:08.52, Craig Forys
4x100-meter Relay: 41.16, Robert Peddlar, Matthew Campbell, Aaron Taylor, Nick Neuman
4x400-meter Relay: 3:11.30, Nick Neuman, David St. Amant, Eric Oliver, Matthew Campbell
High Jump: 2.08 meters, Bradley James
Pole Vault: 5.20 meters, Austin DeWildt
Long Jump: 7.36 meters, Robert Peddlar
Triple Jump: 14.52 meters, Erik Braun
Shot Put: 18.40 meters, Cody Riffle
Discus: 54.71 meters, Cody Riffle
Hammer: 54.19 meters, Ethan Dennis
Javelin: 55.23 meters, Joe Strizich
Decathlon: 6,774 points, Kurt Reichenbach
The Wolverines welcomed their long-time rival Ohio State for another edition of "The Dual" last Sunday (April 17) at Ferry Field. Battling cold temperatures and windy conditions, Ohio State left Ann Arbor with "The Dual" pennant, beating Michigan, 109-94. Eight Wolverines won events, with two setting new meet records.
[ Recap ]
Sorry, Older Brother
Sophomore Austin DeWildt (Wyoming, Mich./Catholic Central) set a new meet record in the pole vault, eclipsing 5.20 meters (17-0 3/4 ft.). The previous record was 16-6 1/4 feet, set by DeWildt's older brother, Charles, in 2000.
The pole vault was held indoors because of the windy conditions, but the mark will be observed as an outdoor record.
Riffle Does It Again
Freshman thrower Cody Riffle (Toledo, Ohio/St. John's Jesuit) also set a new "Dual" record, eclipsing 179-6 feet in the discus. It broke the old record by 10 inches, held by former Wolverine thrower Sean Pruitt (2006-10). Riffle's throw is also fifth best in school history for outdoor performances in the discus.
He was named Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week last week after his throw of 60-4 1/2 feet in the shot put at the UCLA Rafer Johnson Invitational two weeks ago.
James Returns
Redshirt freshman Bradley James (East Lansing, Mich./Haslett) returned to the Michigan lineup at "The Dual" and won the high jump with a top mark of 6-9 3/4 feet. James had not competed since the Virginia Tech Final Qualifier on March 5 (injury).
Michigan finished ninth at the Big Ten Indoor Championships, held Feb. 26-27 at The Armory in Champaign, Ill. Robert Peddlar was the team's highest point-scorer, finishing fifth in the long jump and seventh in the triple jump. Michigan did not send any competitors to the NCAA Championships.
Beginning with the 2011 indoor season, USTFCCCA All-America honors will be assigned into first and second teams for all events, both individual and relays. Those individuals and relays that score any portion of a team point at the NCAA Championships will earn USTFCCCA first team All-America honors. The individuals and relays that place between nine and 16 overall will earn USTFCCCA second team All-America honors. Those who participate in at least a round of the finals site for an NCAA Championship will be listed as honorable mention All-America.
For the second consecutive season, the East and West Preliminary Championship competition will be utilized to qualify for the NCAA Championships. Using a descending order list, the top 48 athletes in each event will participate in two rounds (first round and quarterfinals) during the Preliminary Round. Twelve competitors from each individual event and 12 teams from each relay event will advance from each Preliminary Championship competition to the NCAA Championships. There are no qualifying marks used during the outdoor season.
The track and field team returns to permanent captains for the outdoor season but will continue to pick Captains of the Week, as it did during the indoor season. The permanent captains, as selected by team vote, are Carl Buchanon, Craig Forys, Robert Peddlar and Frank Shotwell.
The captains of the week for the EMU Invite are junior Nick Thomas (Bloomfield Hills, Mich./Brother Rice) and sophomore Simon Wenet (Seattle, Wash./Seattle Academy).
2011 Captains
Jan. 8 -- David St. Amant, Erik Braun
Jan. 15 -- Robert Peddlar, Craig Forys
Jan. 22 -- Nick McCampbell, Taylor Voice
Feb. 5 -- Jack Greenlee, Matthew Campbell
Feb. 11 -- Brendon Blacklaws, Kurt Reichenbach
Feb. 19 -- Austin DeWildt, Troy Sneller
Feb. 26 -- Carl Buchanon, Nick McCampbell, David St. Amant
Permanent Team Captains: Carl Buchanon, Craig Forys, Robert Peddlar, Frank Shotwell
March 25 -- Ethan Dennis, Aaron Taylor
April 7 -- Zach Ornelas, Joe Strizich
April 17 -- Bobby Aprill, Nick Neuman
April 22 -- Simon Wenet, Nick Thomas
Each week, the coaching staff will select a few student-athletes who performed the best as "Wolverines of the Week":
Jan. 8 (Eastern Michigan Invitational): Erik Braun, Justin Clarke, Ed Hur, Bradley James, Cody Riffle
Jan. 15 ("The Dual" at Ohio State): Ethan Dennis, Jack Greenlee, Craig Forys, Carl Buchanon
Jan. 22 (Simmons-Harvey Invitational): Erik Braun, Justin Clarke
Feb. 4-5 (ND Meyo Invitational): Robert Peddlar, Ali Arastu, Erick Gavin
Feb. 11-12 (GVSU Big Meet): Austin DeWildt, Nick McCampbell, Matthew Campbell
Feb. 19 (Silverston Invitational): Troy Sneller, Herman Washington, Erik Braun
March 25 (FSU Relays, Stanford Invitational): Ali Arastu, Nick Neuman, Nick Kern
April 7-9 (UCLA Rafer Johnson Invitational): Cody Riffle, Ali Arastu, 4x400 Relay Team (Arastu, Matthew Campbell, Aaron Taylor, Troy Sneller)
April 17 ("The Dual" vs. Ohio State): Austin DeWildt, Cody Riffle, Matthew Campbell, Brendon Blacklaws, Dallas Bowden
Michigan has an abundance of youth on the 2011 roster. Out of the 46 student-athletes on this year's track and field roster, 36 of them are three or more years of eligibility remaining, giving the Wolverines one of the youngest rosters in the country. Here's a look at the roster, broken down by class:
Freshmen: 23
Sophomores: 13
Juniors: 6
Seniors: 4
On Feb. 15, head coach Fred LaPlante announced the signings of four student-athletes to National Letters of Intent for the 2011-12 season. The signees include throwers Brad Bolton (Lake Forest, Calif./El Toro) and Derek Sievers (Byron Center, Mich./Byron Center), distance runner Scott Albaugh (Waterford, Mich./Waterford Mott) and sprinter Philip Washington III (West Bloomfield, Mich./West Bloomfield).
Two more were added to the group on April 12, as head cross country coach and track assistant coach Alex Gibby announced the signings distance runners Mason Ferlic (Maplewood, Minn./Mounds Park Academy) and Jeff Sattler (Byron Center, Mich./Byron Center) to NLIs.
Bolton is ranked as the nation's top hammer thrower, while Sievers, Sattler, Albaugh and Washington III are all Michigan state champions, while Ferlic holds a Minnesota state championships in cross country.
[ Signing Day Release (Feb. 15) ] [ Two More Sign NLIs (April 12) ]
On March 16, the University of Michigan men's track and field coaching staff announced that eight former track and field greats will be inducted into the school's Men's Track and Field Hall of Fame in May. The inductees are Nelson Kellogg (1901-04), John Landowski (1922), Holly Campbell (1927-30), Ralph Schwarzkopf (1938-40), John Ross (1952-54), Dan Heikkinen (1977-81), Jon Royce (1993-96) and head coach Keene Fitzpatrick (1901-11).
The group will be honored at the men's track and field banquet on Saturday, May 7 after the conclusion of the UM Len Paddock Invitational.
[ Michigan Announces Eight-Member Hall of Fame Class (March 16) ]
Head coach Fred LaPlante is in his third season at the helm of the Wolverines and is joined by two new assistant coaches and three new volunteer assistants. Alex Gibby, the head coach of the men's cross country team, will oversee the distance runners. Gibby was hired this summer from William & Mary to replace former men's track and field head coach Ron Warhurst, who retired after an illustrious 36-year coaching career at Michigan. The other assistant is Mohamad Saatara, who will oversee the field events in his first year after being hired from Northern Arizona.
Volunteer assistants Christo Landry and Colin Leak, former distance runners under Gibby at William & Mary, will work under Gibby in the distance group. Shean Conlon (pole vault) is also new to the staff, while former volunteer assistant Tiberia Patterson re-joins the staff and will assist LaPlante with the sprints/hurdles group.
Social Media
Twitter: Simply log-on and search for "michigan_track" and follow us today.
Facebook: Search "Michigan Men's Track & Field" and click the "Like" button to instantly get connected with fellow fans, student-athletes and alumni.
Foursquare: Check in on Foursquare (smartphones only). For home events, fans can check into the Indoor Track Building or Ferry Field. The Wolverine fans can "check-in" to any U-M sports venue and become eligible for giveaways, unlock exclusive offers and learn exciting trivia while connecting with fellow fans.
1. On your smartphone, go to Foursquare.com to find the Foursquare application for your iPhone, Android or Blackberry.
2. Install the program and create a user account to get started.
3. To find special tips and offers for Michigan athletics, add "MichiganGoBlue" as a friend.
To add friends, go to the Me tab, then click "Friends" and select "Add Friends."
4. Start checking-in to Michigan athletic venues and join the fun!
He's back! Fifth-year senior decathlete Frank Shotwell will once again be blogging during the season for MGoBlue.com. Check back to the site towards the end of each week to see what goes on inside the Michigan men's track and field team from one of its most experienced competitors!
For the second year in a row, the University of Michigan athletics department will no longer print media guides. U-M fans and media can still obtain all the information they're used to, only now it's available online. If you're looking for in-depth historical information, statistics, records, archives, etc., the Record Book is what you'll need and it was just added to MGoBlue.com. For more of a general overview of a team, the staff and student-athletes, check out the Yearbook.
[ 2010-11 Men's Track & Field Yearbook ]
Thu-Sat., April 28-30 -- at Penn Relays (Philadelphia, Pa.), 9 a.m.
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It may be time to officially kill the mantra that "defense wins championships." If this weekend's playoff games taught us anything, it's that the NFL is becoming more an offensive pinball game than the frozen tundra playoff games of generations past.
It can still be argued that the teams with the best defenses in the league can maintain success over a series of seasons. Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Chicago and the New York Giants have been able to enjoy sustained success on the strength of a solid defense, but it is becoming more and more clear that the NFL game is being changed and offense is now the unquestioned king.
In the divisional round of the playoffs, the most defensive-minded game was Atlanta's 30-28 win over Seattle. Those two teams combined to score a mere 58 points. New England and Houston scored 69 points. Baltimore and Denver combined to score 73 points. Green Bay and San Francisco scored 76. If defense wins championships, it doesn't win divisional playoff games, where the eight teams averaged 34.5 points over the weekend.
The process of the transfer of defenses winning championships to offenses setting the tone goes back almost 40 years. Jerry Burns and Fran Tarkenton were running a West Coast Offense in Minnesota in the mid-1970s before Bill Walsh gave it a cool name. The 1998 Vikings didn't have a great defense, but didn't need one up until the Atlanta game in the NFC Championship. The 1999 Rams won a Super Bowl with the Greatest Show on Turf, not a shut-down defense.
Changes in the rules to protect players and take away defensive liberties have marginalized defenses to a large extent – by design.
In the first round of the playoffs, where tired teams didn't have a week to rest up and prepare for their next opponent, no team scored more than 24 points. Teams averaged 17 points a game, not 34.5. Whether divisional round weekend of the 2012 season was an anomaly or not, it sent a clear message to a league based on replication what is required to succeed in the NFL, especially in the postseason – a quarterback who can get the job done one way or another.
The eight teams that played had a couple of veteran gunslingers (Peyton Manning and Tom Brady), a couple of pinpoint passers who can extend plays (Aaron Rodgers and Matt Schaub), a couple of cannon-armed QBs from run-first teams (Matt Ryan and Joe Flacco) and a couple of wide-eyed young scramblers (Colin Kaepernick and Russell Wilson).
In one weekend, you can pretty much sum up what every NFL team is looking to as their options at quarterback. There are the veteran gunslingers who have been around for a long time – add Drew Brees, Eli Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Tony Romo, Jay Cutler, Philip Rivers, Michael Vick and Carson Palmer to that list with Manning and Brady. They may be an endangered species, but their numbers remain strong.
You have some dart throwers in Andy Dalton, Sam Bradford and Matt Cassel, but none of them inspire confidence in being able to make a legitimate Super Bowl run.
There are the young guns with the cannon arms like Matthew Stafford, Andrew Luck and Josh Freeman. When you have a QB with a significant gun, anything can happen, so there is reason for optimism.
The growing trend is to go with the mobile quarterback capable of making big plays with his legs or his arm. Two years ago, the only quarterback who fit that description was Vick. Kaepernick and Wilson could have just as easily been meeting next Sunday due to the performances they put in over the weekend. Both made huge plays with their legs against defenses ill-equipped to stop them. They are joined by Cam Newton and Robert Griffin III as the new QB faces of the NFC and a trend that is only likely going to grow as long as those guys succeed and stay healthy.
So where do the Vikings sit on that list? Is Ponder among those other young NFC quarterbacks that can make plays with his legs and force defenses to remain honest? Is he going to be a dart-thrower like Dalton and Bradford? Is his problem as a quarterback in a pass-happy league that he simply doesn't have enough receiving weapons around him? That could be the burning question of early 2013 as the Vikings move forward. He has a pair of dynamic receivers under contract (Percy Harvin and Kyle Rudolph) and may be just one playmaking wide receiver away from having the needed weaponry to elevate to the next level of quarterbacks.
The formula for success in the NFL, whether with the new breed of young quarterbacks that are spreading throughout the league – a third of the league is heading into 2013 with players with one or two years of NFL experience as their likely starting quarterbacks – or the veteran guys with their battle scars, the key is committing to one guy and staying with him. Veterans only become veterans because a franchise stuck with him – for better or worse.
The Vikings did everything they could to make Ponder comfortable in knowing that his job was never in jeopardy. They got rid of the only veteran QB on the roster (Sage Rosenfels) and made it clear that Joe Webb was his backup, which is why Webb never threw a meaningful pass until the playoffs – and made a strong case that he isn't a viable in-house option to complete for the starting job.
The Vikings have to decide over the course of the next year whether Ponder can be the player they envisioned when they drafted him in 2011. He earned the right to be Option A in 2013 with his performance in December, leading his team to a 4-0 record and into the playoffs.
At a time when a lot of teams have already locked down their quarterback plans for 2013, the Vikings are one of the few teams that, in the mind of outside observers anyway, still have questions at that position. This offseason may be the most critical of Ponder's career. If he succeeds in 2013, the starting job is likely his for as long as he remains a Viking. If he fails, the experiment may have the plug pulled, much like it was with Tarvaris Jackson when it became clear the team was winning in spite of him, not because of him.
In his first full season as the starting quarterback, Ponder won enough games to get his team into the playoffs. There aren't too many complaints coming from Vikings Nation on that count. But can he be like one of those eight quarterbacks who played over the weekend in the wild scoring frenzy that took place? If he can, the Vikings made the right decision. If he can't, the team may have to begin the process of how to land a successor. If ever there was an official changing of the guard when it comes to the style of play that wins in the NFL, the landscape in 2013 shows that having a playmaking quarterback appears to be a must. Is Ponder that guy? Check back in December. We'll have a lot more answers than we have now.
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These mint chocolate chip cookies are a twist on the classic sugar cookie recipe and are quick, easy and even whole wheat! Perfect for Christmas!
How was your Thanksgiving? Did you ingest a LOT of gluten free stuffing and roasted sweet potato pie bites?Are you still in a food coma? BECAUSE, if you're not, I TOTALLY take back the opening sentence.
I just can't be friends with peeps who don't eat themselves silly on a day that involves roasty, toasty birdy goodness AND little squares of crunchy but still sort of soft, pieced of carby numnums.
Ours was CRAZY. And by crazy I mean that it wasn't AT ALL, because my family already celebrated Thanksgiving, due to being from the land of snow dogs and Maple Syrup.
Sidenote: I totally typed "Canadian" But then decided that was much too boring, and it needed more DESCRIPTION. Just in case you were wondering how I type these posts.
I made my first WHOLE turkey (see below!) It was actually SO good. But, since there are only 2 of us, we have leftovers for DAYZ.
Not that I am complaining. I also can't confirm or deny that we had stuffing. Like, from a box. Because I am the world's most fail food blogger and I was too lazy to make my own. For the vegetable portion, I made those Balsamic Roasted Brussels Sprouts from a few weeks back.
I'm still stuffed.
You can Judge me for the boxed stuffing. But, it totally rocked my sockies, so I'm good with it.
ANYWAYS, the sequel.
Now that Turkey Day is over, we can go FULL FORCE into Christmas…although we did start early with those Mini Mint White Chocolate Cheesecakes and Mint Paleo Gluten Free Chocolate Cake. Whatever, I had to get PEPPERMINTING all the things out of my system. You understand.
Now, you guys obviously remember that tower of crunchy, chocolatey pumpkin Trifle YUM from a few weeks back amIright? Where I discussed the NEED to Holiday-I-fy my current obsession, Brownie Brittle?
Obviously, we can't push it off the Christmas train. So, today we are being all sorts of Holiday inclusive.
And, if being nice, inclusive humans isn't enough to make you feel good about your life, we're eating cookies.
Which can never go wrong. Even when they do, they're right.
Don't think about that sentence. GO WITH IT.
This sugar cookie recipe is based off another sugar cookie recipe that I posted LAST Christmas, and then I decided to give them some jazzy-chocolate-crunchy-minty-fresh kinda nums by mixing it all up with Mint Chocolate Brownie Brittle.
I have to say, that is my most FAVORITE flavor of the treats. I can't get ENOUGH chocolate and peppermint. In sugar cookies, in White Chocolate Biscotti. I JUST LOVE IT.
The cookies are seriously THICK, soft and chewy (which, in my opinion, is the ONLY way a cookie should be) and then they have that SURPRISE crunch factor.
You know about my texture-freak ways. So, this, it makes me one happy camper.
Except I don't camp in the winter. I ain't no "survival man" or whatever that crazy guy on TV calls himself.
This is my suggestion (read:order): Let's all make Mint Chocolate Brownie Brittle Cookies and then sit around in our comfy Pjs, sipping hot chocolate and watching the Fire Place Channel on TV, so we can pretend like we're being all campy and adventurous.
Don't lie.
I know you watch it too.
Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies with Brownie Brittle
- 1/2 Cup Butter softened to room temperature
- 3/4 Cup Granulated sugar
- 1 Large egg
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp Peppermint extract
- Green food coloring I used 16 drops
- 1 1/2 Cups White whole-wheat flour 6.4 oz
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 1 tsp Cornstarch
- 1/2 Cup Mint Chocolate Chip Brownie Brittle Crushed (Plus additional for topping, if desired)
- 1/4 Cup + 2 Tbsp Mini chocolate chips
- Line acookie sheetwith parchment paper and set aside.
- Using anelectric mixer,beat together the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl until it's light and fluffy. Then add in the egg, vanilla extract, peppermint extract, and food coloring*. Beat until fluffy and well mixed.
- In a separate,medium sized bowl, combine the flour, salt, baking powder and corn starch. Slow stir the flour mixture into the butter mixture, until the dough forms a ball. Then, stir in the crushed Brownie Brittle and chocolate chips.
- Drop the dough onto the prepared cookie sheet, in 1 TBSP sized balls, only pressing down slightly. You want the balls to be taller than they are wide. If you want extra-pretty cookies, press a few extra pieces of Brownie Brittle into the tops of each cookie. Place the cookies in the freezer for at least 2 hours.
- Once frozen, bake the cookies in a 350 degree oven until they are just set, and the edges just begin to harden,** about 10-11 minutes.
- Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to completely cool.
Recipe Notes* You want the butter mixture to be VERY green. Once you stir in the flour, the color lightens substantially.
** The cookies will feel very soft and underdone, but they firm up a lot once cooled. You don't want to over-bake them, as you want them thick and chewy!
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Cloud – people can't agree on exactly what it is, but everyone can agree that they want some piece of it. I have not talked to a single client who isn't doing something proactively to pursue cloud in some form or fashion. This cloud-obsession was really evident in our 2011 technology tweet jam as well, which is why this year's business technology and technology trends reports cover cloud extensively. Our research further supports this – for example, 29% of infrastructure and operations executives surveyed stated that building a private cloud was a critical priority for 2011, while 28% plan to use public offerings, and these numbers are rising every year.
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vmware-hostd is a common library for VMWare products. VMware software provides an entirely virtualised set of hardware to the guest operating system. VMware software virtualises the hardware for a video adapter, a network adapter, and hard disk adapters. The host provides pass-through drivers for guest USB, serial, and parallel devices. In this way, VMware virtual machines become highly portable between computers as every host looks nearly identical to the guest.
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the years from 2000 to 2009
'Have the noughties been "gruelling and terrible"?
In his new year message, Dr Rowan Williams will decry the last decade as "gruelling and terrible". Do you agree with the archbishop's bleak assessment of the noughties, or is he ignoring some crucial advances?'
As the decade of 'Ohs' (00-09) draws to a close, across the media there's been a surge of nostalgic analysis and evaluation. What were the key events of the decade? 9/11? The birth of social networking? Or perhaps the launch of the iPod? Opinions may vary, but one constant in this recent deluge of retrospectives is reference to this period of ten years as the noughties.
the search is on yet again – how should we refer to the next ten years? Amongst a flurry of speculation the 'favourites' seem to be the tens and the teens
The interesting thing about all this is that it's only relatively recently, certainly at the back end of the decade, that we finally decided to plump for the noughties as the recognised English term for this period of time. And just as we've got settled, the expression already refers to an 'obsolete' concept, as we now move into a new decade. So the search is on yet again – how should we refer to the next ten years? Amongst a flurry of speculation the 'favourites' seem to be the tens (a shortened form of the twenty-tens on the model of the earlier nineteen-tens) and the teens. The problem with the latter term is that it doesn't take into account the non-teenage years of 2010, 2011 and 2012. This has led to the suggestion that these intervening years be referred to as the tweens, reverting to teens in 2013, but that all seems a bit untidy to me. With no obvious 'neat' solution, the debate looks likely to continue. A recent naming competition in Australia rejected candidates such as Tennies, Twenteens and Decnos in favour of – wait for it – the One-der Years. If it's taken the best part of a decade for the term noughties to catch on, then I'm not optimistic about One-der Years!
The expression noughties is formed from a derivation of the word nought (meaning 'zero' or 'nothing'), on the model of established references to other decades such as eighties, thirties, fifties etc.
At the advent of the 21st century and the third millennium, there was a whole host of ideas as to how we should collectively refer to the years beginning with zero. One candidate thought to be a front runner was The Aughts, widely used between 1900 and 1909, though this failed to catch on. Among the other suggestions were the Ohs, the Oh-Ohs, the Zeros, the Two-thousands, the Ones, the Nulls and, interestingly, the Naughties. Though in the US the word naught is a common spelling variant for nought, its usage is archaic in British English, which may explain why Noughties was favoured over Naughties.
The ultimate success of the noughties relative to the other candidates may partly be attributable to its catchy phonetic overlap with naughty, originally though to be a disadvantage, but creating the potential for wordplay as in naughty noughties or noughtiness.
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i just recently rebuilt the top end of my 400 small block chevy. after getting it running and breaking in the cam i started to test drive it and it seemed fine. the idle would drop down enough to sit at a stop. but when i decided to drive it home to my house the car would not idle and i would have to ride the brakes and keep the rpms tached up to keep it running. i have been trying to tune the carb but i have had no luck. i can get the car running but have to keep it way up off idle to run. the setup is rebuilt iron heads-1975 305 60cc castings with port work done around the valves to supposedly equal 64cc's. 2.02/1.60 valves, screw in studs, guideplates, 1.25 inch valve springs. i drilled the steam holes in the heads myself. the compression ratio should be right around 9.5:1 maybe a little less. i realize that these heads have very small intake runners as compared to the 76cc heads that i took off the motor. the cam and lifters i used is a comp extreme energy 268H. i used a summit noisy gear drive in it and an edelbrock performer dual plane intake with a Holley 600 vacuum secondary carburetor. i used fel-pro stainless steel shim head gaskets (forget the exact thickness-somewhere above 30 thousandths). the ignition is a pertronix ignitor II module with flamethrower II coil. the oil pump i put in is a melling m155A which is the higher pressure pump. i used moroso wires and autolite spark plugs. i broke the car in with a mix of 87 and 93 octane gas. I thought this could be a possible problem that i might not have a high enough octane number for the motor. but theres no detonation or pinging as far as i can hear (i could definitely be wrong here because ive only run the motor with open exhaust from headers so far). at first i had a bad ground problem which killed my battery every time we ran it. i fixed this problem and have a fresh die hard battery also with plenty of cranking amps. another thing i thought could be a problem was the carburetor size being to small but since this motor probably makes 80 something percent volumetric efficiency at best, this would seem to be the ideal carburetor (i did the math and this motor would draw right around 600 cfm at 6000 rpm at 80% vol. eff. this cam is rated up to 5500 rpm and 400s are not good high winding motors anyway so this motor will probably rarely see those rpms). to make the car run i turn the idle speed screw almost all the way up to warm it up (so far ive only ran it on cold days and the carb has no choke). the car had a water restrictor in it for the break in but with straight water i could not get the temp above 140 degrees. with anti freeze the car got up to 170. i just put a 180 degree thermostat in and the car now hovers around 200 degrees. i have a weian aluminum water pump which seems to move a lot of water and a aluminum rigid 6 blade fan which draws a lot of air.watch the venturis and i can never get the idle slow enough to stop the fan from coming off the venturis. the fan off the venturis isn't quite smooth either and gas drips from them. i started with a 69 jet in front and 72s in the back (i have a secondary metering block kit). since then i have tried going to a 66 jet in the front as well as going from a 6.5 power valve to a 4.5. i don't think that cam is choppy enough to have a low enough vacuum at idle to be dumping in fuel at idle but i have not got to put a vacuum gage on it. i adjusted float levels and found no results. the only thing i overlooked was the idle mixture screws. these were set while the metering block was in a 450 cfm carburetor i had built so i didn't think they would be out of adjustment because the 450 ran PERFECT on the 305 i had. i started to think that maybe having these set for a carb with a much smaller cfm might be starving this motor at idle. it appears to me though that the motor is loading up at idle. ive had two bad backfires which resulted in stalling and flames on top of the carb but i checked the power valve and it's fine. i can drive the car around but cannot come to a stop because i have to ride the brakes. the car has a 2300 stall speed converter yet still is engaged while keeping the engine at the rpm i need to keep it running. im very confused on what is going on with this motor. another thought i had was that the needle and seats are staying open but i cant see why this would happen. they are the small viton tipped needles and seats but they're fairly new and ive checked them and they are clean. there seems to be way too much fuel getting into the motor but when i checked the plugs they are getting very clean indicating a leaner mixture. they blackened a little when we broke the car in but now all 8 are very clean and some look perfectly discolored. the car seemed rich but the plugs are throwing me off. is there a chance im starving the motor at idle causing it to pop? also the timing is set at 8 degrees initial advance with 12 under vacuum advance. the mechanical advance springs are a little quicker than stock but im not sure of total. i think the total is something around 36 degrees with the springs i have in it? im pretty stumped but i am going to tune tomorrow and im going to start by taking the float bowls off for inspection and adjusting the idle mixture screws. another thought i had was a possible vacuum leak. when i put the car into gear the idle drops way down all of a sudden. also when i stab the throttle and let off the engine stays revved up for a second before coming back down. i know this post is very long but anyone who has bothered to read the whole thing and give me their thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
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Cynthia A. Giuliano, 56, of Barrington
Cynthia A. (St. Ours) Giuliano, 56, of Sowams Road in Barrington, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012, surrounded by her loving family, after a difficult battle with cancer. She was the daughter of Mary Hawkins and the late Andrew St. Ours, and the beloved wife of the late Vincent Giuliano.
She leaves three daughters, Meghan, Katie, and Sara Giuliano; a brother, Andrew St. Ours; and her brother- and sister-in-law, Michael and Ann Giuliano.
Cyndi taught math at St. Luke's School for the past five years, and tutored many students throughout the years. She was actively involved in youth soccer, coaching her daughters' teams and serving as the referee coordinator for the town. She enjoyed spending time with her family, going to the beach, and crafting.
A Mass to celebrate Cyndi's life will be held at St. Luke's Church, 108 Washington Road, Barrington, on Wednesday, Nov. 7, at 10 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations in Cyndi's memory may be made to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, 26 Broadway, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10004, or to the St. Luke's School, 10 Waldron Avenue, Barrington, RI 02806.