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Dinner and a movie is the classic date that also works perfectly for St. Valentine's Day. Looking into each others' eyes over the table and holding hands in the dark never gets old. Many of the charming restaurants in Georgetown are doing special Valentine menus. Peacock Cafe offers a Valentine Package for $69 per person, including a full-course dinner, sparkling wine, parting gifts and roses for the lady -- www.peacockcafe.com. At Pizza Paradiso, they're doing a "We Love Beer" Valentine's Day Celebration, offering beer brewed with flowers or chocolate and special Valentine's Day pizza pies -- www.eatyourpizza.com. For $45 per person, you can get a romantic three-course dinner at Bistro Francais -- www.bistrofrancaisdc.com.
At the AMC Loews Theater on K Street at the waterfront, several Valentine-appropriate movies are playing . See the lovely Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum work for their love in the romantic drama "The Vow" (1:50 p.m., 4:45 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 10:15 p.m).
For a little more action, Chris Pine and Tom Hardy fight over Reese Witherspoon in the romantic comedy "This Means War" (2:30 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.).
"W.E." is another Valentine-worthy movie, a romantic drama that focuses on the affair between King Edward and Wallis Simpson, and a contemporary romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard (1:05 p.m., 4:05 p.m., 6:55 p.m. and 9:50 p.m.).
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University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Nursing is seeking qualified candidates for positions within the tenure track. The UIC College of Nursing, ranked among the top ten nursing colleges in the country and 2nd nationally for NIH funding for nursing, is dedicated to a rich, innovative, and diverse collaborative culture to transform health, healthcare, and policy through knowledge generation and translation, and education of future leaders from diverse backgrounds. UIC College of Nursing is an exceedingly competitive, research intensive institution and one of seven UIC health science colleges. Our faculty educates highly competent nurse leaders for clinical practice, academic scholarship, and healthcare administration on our five campuses in Chicago, Peoria, Rockford, Quad Cities, and Urbana. We invite applications for tenure track positions at all campuses in the departments of Biobehavioral Health Science, Health System Science and Women, Children, and Family Health Science. Visit our website to learn more about us at www.nursing.uic.edu.
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(Cincinnati)--Ohio's Unsolved Homicides Initiative, is focusing on the unsolved robbery and slaying of a 24-year-old Cincinnati man in 2007.
John Harris was shot on June 7, outside his home in the 4500 block of Fergus Street in Northside. Harris had just returned home, when he was robbed and shot, Harris' car and gold necklace were stolen. The car was later found abandoned near Spring Grove Cemetery,
The initiative was developed in September of 2012 and lead to the creation of a state database that includes unsolved murders from around the state.
Anyone with information, is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (513) 352-3040 or text (513) 352-3050. You can remain anonymous.


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1985-1992 Fleetwood, 1993 Sixty Special, All FWD Forum Discussion, P0300 and C1214 codes in Past Cadillac Vehicle Discussion; Guys, Driving the other day I stopped at KFC and my 02 DTS idle dropped way down, the SES light ...
1985-1992 Fleetwood, 1993 Sixty Special, All FWD Forum Discussion, P0300 and C1214 codes in Past Cadillac Vehicle Discussion; Guys, Driving the other day I stopped at KFC and my 02 DTS idle dropped way down, the SES light ...
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P0300 and C1214 codes
Guys, Driving the other day I stopped at KFC and my 02 DTS idle dropped way down, the SES light came on (didn't flash) and idled was up and down. Been having a like rough idle so I put new Boush plugs in, car drove the same, still had a little rough idle. But then the idle drop and SES light came on. Pulled codes : P0300 and also got the C1214 this time. The brake, abs, and traction lights are on, haven't been able to check it out until now. Was too cold to work on. I am thinking about going to get a new coil cassette today and try it on the front first to see if that fixes the idle problem (then the back if the front doesn't fix). Any other thoughts on this one?
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Re: P0300 and C1214 codes
"Was too cold to work on" where is that happening?
Did you check the battery out?
How is the fuel pressure?
Re: P0300 and C1214 codes
The P 0300 (miss detected) code - Remove the Bosch plugs and install the proper set of AC Delco #41-987 Platinum plugs. Check all 8 plug boots for carbon tracking and all 8 cassette coil towers for cracks and/or tracking. (Tracking - black lightning-like traces on the boot interior or on the spark plug insulator). If the boots are OK, use a bit of dielectric ignition grease in the top and tip of each boot before you seat them on each plug.
A nagging miss and/or rough idle could also be caused by a sticky fuel injector, a loose injector trigger wire connector, a dirty/corroded cassette ICM connector (inner and/or outer) or dirty TB/IAC solenoid valve.
Re: P0300 and C1214 codes
P0300 is a generic misfire code -
our on-board code readers will not display WHICH cylinder/cylinders is/are misfiring -
only that there IS a misfire -
take the car to any large auto parts store - they will check your codes for free -
P0301 is a misfire in cylinder #1 - P0302 is cylinder #2 - P0303 is #3 - etc -
once you discover WHICH cylinder is misfiring - diagnosis becomes much easier -
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OK, I fixed the C1214 code, replaced the EBCM and the code left and the lights are off. I am going now and getting ac plugs, I got a deal on the bosch through RockAuto. Bad choice. The car is no longer misfiring but the rough idle is still there and she will die at a light. I will change the plugs and see what happens. Also, I cleaned the TB and checked the intake for leaks (no leaks). Will let you know once I put new plugs in. I should have known about the plugs, had an old buick that would not run on bosch, only ac.
Thanks A lot guys!! Really appreciate it!
Re: P0300 and C1214 codes
Do the other recommended checks before you drop the coil cassettes back in. Plugs alone are almost never the whole problem.
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Cleaning the TB, anyone the know the right way to clean it? Take it off and clean, try to clean on the car? I see that it does need a good cleaning.
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Posted a million times in here, Engines, and Cadillac Tech Tips.
Lay in a supply of clean rags, throttlebody cleaner spray and an old toothbrush. Use a stick or golf club against the driver's seat front - with adjustment - to force the gas pedal wide open.
Remove the flex intake ducting, place some rags under the TB area and start scrubbing. Don't get liquid cleaner into the intake manifold. After a few minutes of scrubbing and wiping - as far in as you can get - dry it all out, drop in a new pleated paper air filter, and securely button up the intake ducting. ANY air leak at or after your 2002 divorced MAF wil set mixture codes and maybe give a lousy idle.
While you're at it, remove the IAC (2 screws) and clean out the IAC bore and carefully clean off the top hat plunger. Don't lose a screw, and don't lose the O-ring. I like to wipe a smear of dielectric silicone grease on the O-ring.
Just for grins, Google "cadillac forums 2002 deville throttlebody cleaning".
This is a STS, but it's close to your throttlebody area.
Re: P0300 and C1214 codes
Do it on the car. No need to remove anything. As Sub said, it's in Tech Tips and I think it even has pictures.
Re: P0300 and C1214 codes
OK here goes: I have cleaned the TB/IAC and I mean cleaned good. Put the AC plugs in and checked for air leaks; none. The car run great cold, once she warms up she a slight tremble to her. Checked for codes (I do have Scanxlpro in my laptop and it show everything.) There is no SES light, but she will still drop in RPMs once in a while, not all the time. And I also replaced the gas filter just to make sure there was no blockage going on. She has not given any other code but the P0300 ( and yes I know how to read codes to find out which one is bad). So the only thing I can come up with is one of those coils is bad or going bad. She has always had a slight tremble to her since I've her, took to caddy dealer then and there was no codes at all. So I am going to junk yard to find another coil cassette and replace the back one first since these items are not cheap. Will let you know if that fixs the problem. Thanks for ALL the help. will update as soon as I'm done
Re: P0300 and C1214 codesSo I am going to junk yard to find another coil cassette and replace the back one first since these items are not cheap.
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Ok guys found the whole problem!! I checked for air leaks and didn't find any, so I changed the coils and that did not fix the problem. So I decided to changes the phlegm gaskets. When I took the phlegm of I found the that the boot between the phlegm and the throttle body was blown out just enough that went I sprayed nothing would happen. I put a new boot in (40 dollars from dealer) and now the car is running better than the day I got it!!! No more generic misfire code. Also that old tremble that it when I got the car is gone to! The baby is like new again!! So, as they say, trial and error found out that it really only needed that boot! Hope "my" training (LOL) will help others out before they buy parts that they don't really need. But I will keep my ole parts just in case I ever do need them. Thanks to everyone, between you guys and my changing parts I found the real problem.
This is the best place to be if you need help!!


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President Obama and his aides appreciate the positive reviews that economist Mark Zandi gave their proposed jobs bill, but they may be less than crazy about his unemployment projections.
"Under the best of circumstances, I don't think we're below a 9% unemployment rate" a year from now, Zandi told CNN's State of the Union today.
Of course, a year from now, Obama will be within a month of Election Day.
And the unemployment rate currently stands at 9.1%.
Zandi, who has advised John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign as well as several Democrats over the years, did say that the economy overall could be moving in a positive direction "if policymakers do a few right things over the next few months."
"Not only, unfortunately, here in the U.S. but also in Europe," Zandi said. "Because Europe is a very large problem as well."
"But, you know, it's a close call," Zandi said.
Zandi did say he thinks Obama will have some economic news he can run on next year:
"I think it really matters on the trend line.
So think, you know, late next year, coming up to the election, as stock prices are rising, you know, we see more green on our screen than red; the house prices have stopped falling and start rising; and we see some stronger job growth, I think that's something to run on."
David's journalism career spans three decades, including coverage of five presidential elections, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2000 Florida presidential recount and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the White House for USA TODAY since 2005. His interests include history, politics, books, movies and college football -- not necessarily in that order. More about David
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The WESD family welcomed five new members to the Transportation Department in early July. These particular additions have wheels instead of legs, but their impact to the Department and the District is already paying off.
Five used Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) buses were purchased to serve as "parts" buses for the existing fleet at approximately $1,000 each. Since acquiring the units, Transportation has replaced the engine of one of its operating CNG buses, saving the District between $25,000 and $30,000. That particular John Deere engine has less than 40,000 miles on it.
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For the Blazers, freshman Paige Hanks scored the lone UAB (2-15, 1-8 C-USA) goal in the 29th minute off a rebound in front of the net. The goal marks Hanks' fourth of the season.
Along with Hanks' three shots, senior Emma Jane Smith, junior Sam Bradford, and sophomore Johanna Liney added two attempts apiece toward UAB's total of 11 shots.
SMU (8-6-3, 4-2-3 C-USA) scored its first goal of the night in the 17th minute when Shelby Redman headed the ball in off a corner kick. Kenzie Scovill scored the last two Mustang goals in the 52nd and 85th minutes of the game.
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An Ontario trucker who almost collided head-on with another semi truck is facing charges after a harrowing video of the incident was viewed more than 1.6 million times.
The video shows a southbound truck pull out into the northbound lane as its heading into a curve on a snowy highway, just as another semi driver comes around the corner. The footage was recorded by a dashboard camera on the semi truck that was almost struck on Highway 11 outside Nipigon, northeast of Thunder Bay, Ontario
"What the hell are you doing! No! No!" the northbound driver screams, ramming his truck into the guardrail to avoid a head-on collision with the other semi, which was attempting to pass a snowplow.
After the near miss, the driver pulled over and called police. The OPP analyzed the video of the collision to identify the other vehicle and driver. Charges are pending against a 31-year-old man from Milton, Ont., police said.
This incident could have easily resulted in much more tragic circumstances
"I am proud of the dedicated work from the members of this detachment that resulted in the successful conclusion of this investigation and grateful for the concern this case has received from the public," Staff Sgt. Randy Bye said in a statement. "This incident could have easily resulted in much more tragic circumstances."
The video was reportedly posted to YouTube by the wife of the northbound driver. She uploaded it under the user name clginter.
"Thank you to all of you that have showed your support to my husband and our family!!! We will never meet you but are so thankful for you. Physically my husband is okay but his semi suffered a lot of damage. He avoided the other truck by inches," the poster wrote on YouTube.
"This guy needs to be stopped before he kills someone," clginter wrote. "He didn't even care enough to stop. Just took off. Truck drivers have families too."
Police have not released the name of the suspect or details about the charges that he is facing.


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Australia was told not even to bother raising the issue, said Incat managing director Craig Clifford yesterday. "I think that was made quite clear to us at the start," he said from Tasmania.
Mr Clifford said the protectionist Jones Act, which bans the importing of ships for use on internal US routes, was never to be affected by anything agreed under the FTA. "The shipbuilders have a very strong lobby in the US Congress - as strong as the sugar industry," he said.
However, Mr Clifford said the superiority of Australian ships was being recognised in North America, where Incat and Perth rival Austal had sold ships to companies operating routes between the US and Canada across the Great Lakes.


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Sid sits!
I had fun with this one , Marina! :))
Sid sits!
I had fun with this one , Marina! :))
Sweet little pup pup:)
I see freckles!!!!!!!!
I love shelties big little in between I just want to be surrounded by them.
Sid, come on over here & let me get some petting time in with you! What a sweetie, makes me want a puppy.
Perfect sink for a perfect pup.
Cute puppy!
Too much cuteness for one picture!!!
Sid is a sweetie, I wouldn't be able to stop smooching that sweet baby!
Wishing you many happy years together,
Someone does NOT look excited to be getting a bath, they just might as well learn early that is going to happen whether they like it or not so the sooner they cooperate, the sooner it is over. What a little sweetheart Sid is.
What a perfect picture! He is the perfect Poster Pup for taking a Baff! Thanks for sharing this delightful little kid!
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Now that the proof has been posted, the children over on SRT land are calling that SRT-4 in the vid "stock" and that the vid was a lie.
It's unreal how these people are in denial and also how they're turning on one of their own guys. Just goes to show you what kind of as*holes are on the board.
They even go so far as to knock the "slow evo" as they would call it.
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However, now that Head Coach Mike Singletary announced the cancelling of tomorrow's practices, there is officially nothing on the team docket between now and when rookies have to report on July 30th, six weeks of rest and relaxation (but not too much relaxation if they know what's good for them) for everyone affiliated with the team. The only way any news breaks between now and then is if someone does something awfully stupid or gets really unlucky.
As has been the running – or perhaps passing would be more appropriate – theme all throughout the OTAs and minicamps, quarterback Alex Smith was once again excellent these past two days, completing well over 80 percent of his passes during 11-on-11 drills and hitting a staggering number of receivers on all kinds of throws. On the short stuff he has been beyond reproach, as really the defense has no answer for any quick hitters to the tight ends or flares to the backs. However, when the line is protecting Smith like they were on Friday and he's got time to throw, then the fireworks really started.
Whether it was a 25-yarder over the seam to tight ends Vernon Davis and Delanie Walker or a long post to Ted Ginn or just a fly pattern down the sidelines to Michael Crabtree, Smith has been uncanny with his accuracy, leaving frustrated defensive backs in his wake. This is what 49ers executives envisioned when they drafted him first overall six years ago.
Taking all these practices in, three things have become readily apparent:
1. The 49ers have dramatically more talent at receiver than they did a year ago. Crabtree looks leaps and bounds better than he was last year, perhaps the only player in camp who can legitimately claim to be more improved than Smith. Simply put no one can cover him on the practice field, and he's caught everything thrown his way. We thought maybe it was a bit of a fluke, the way he was getting so open during OTAs because he never had to face starting corners Shawntae Spencer or Nate Clements, but once they checked in for minicamps, nothing changed. No one can stay with Crabtree. Josh Morgan, the other starter, has shown great hands as well and has been running more intermediate routes than last year. Ted Ginn's been hot-and-cold with his catching (more cold on Friday), but his speed is opening up a lot of underneath stuff for the others and watching him accelerate with the ball in his hands is a sight to behold. Jason Hill and the rookie, Kyle Williams, continue to make one acrobatic grab after another and constantly find themselves open in the middle of the field.
2. The team will at some point release a receiver – maybe two – that will catch on somewhere else in the league. It's gotten to the point where there's almost too much depth, which is impossible in the NFL. Usually when Wide Receivers Coach Jerry Sullivan wants to drive a point home to his guys about how to run a route properly he tells them to watch Dominique Zeigler, because he's a guy who does everything right, but Singletary plainly admitted that Ziegler will have to "fight like hell" to make this team. Last year if Brandon Jones missed a week of practice with a bum ankle, people would be worried and shaking their heads. Now, nobody even notices that he's not out there. No one cares. It's out of sight, out of mind.
3. The offense knows it's gonna be good. There's just an attitude these guys have, a strut, that's noticeable from the sidelines. It emanates from Smith to Davis and Crabtree, from Frank Gore to everyone else. They're just kicking too much butt every day in practice – against a damn good defense from last year – for them to not notice it or gain confidence from it. Obviously things will be different when the pads go on. Maybe the receivers won't be running down the middle quite as carefree when they've got Dashon Goldson or Michael Lewis bearing down on them, but I'm positive that practice wasn't this sharp at any point last season, and surely not during training camp, where the "quarterback competition" between Smith and Shaun Hill was a daily tally of who was screwing up the least rather than who was making more head-turning plays.
Really, it's all going to come down to the offensive line. If they can find five solid, consistent performers from their pool of seven potential starters, then the team's going to move the ball this year. I'm certain of it. At this point I'm pretty sure rookie Mike Iupati will leapfrog David Baas and be fast-tracked to be the guy on opening day. Anthony Davis at right tackle I'm not as sure about. He's still got a ways to go, at a far more demanding position. The Niners are by no means enamored with incumbent Adam Snyder, but for the moment, he remains the safer option there.
49ers release CB Smith, LB Long
In a bit of a surprise the 49ers waived a couple of players prior to their afternoon practice on Friday. Corner Keith Smith participated in three games last season, mostly on special teams, before spending the previous five seasons with the Detroit Lions. The Niners had re-signed him in February, but he became expendable with the free agent signings of William James and Karl Paymah. It should probably be taken as a good sign for seventh round pick Phillip Adams as well that Smith was jettisoned even before training camp.
Brandon Long, meanwhile, never really was going to have a shot here as the 12th or 13th linebacker on a team that's going to keep eight or nine guys at that position. An undrafted free agent out of Michigan State, Long last played competitively in 2008, sitting out his senior season with an injury. He got a few reps here and there during the OTAs and showed some good awareness and ball skills, but physically he didn't stand out.
Return Engagement of "The Nutcracker" in August
The biggest news of the day was Singletary announcing between practices that he fully intends to bring back the "Nutcracker" drill next training camp. The drill, which is basically a takeoff of the "Oklahoma" drill still prevalent on high school and college teams across the land, called for two players of similar size to square off against one another and seeing which man can drive the other backward. It's fun to watch (and easy to write about) but the drill itself carries a high injury risk. Several 49ers, including linebacker Patrick Willis, corner Tarell Brown, guard David Baas and running back Michael Robinson got dinged up doing the drill last year, with Brown and Baas missing almost all of training camp.
Still, Singletary wasn't swayed, insisting that the importance of the drill is worth the risk, because the "Nutcracker" teaches players about leverage, which is essential to winning football.
"When you do the nutcracker, a player has a chance to understand [leverage] firsthand," explained Singletary. "You can tell them a million times, but until they actually do it and go through it, you can't really see it. It's like taking golf lessons and you tell a guy you've got to do this and you've got to do that and you've got to do this. He's saying, 'Well, I'm doing that.' You put on the film and you see that. Obviously, you're head is not down, it's up. If you don't get it on tape, it's not going to happen. I think the nutcracker has been very beneficial for us. Yes, there were a couple of guys that got hurt, but that's going to happen in training camp."
We'll see. I just don't want to see any 49ers get cracked. Or their… helmets.
A-Mays-ing Attitude
Rookie safety Taylor Mays, like the rest of the defensive backs, has been getting torched plenty in drills. That's to be expected. However, he's also shown surprisingly good hands, which definitely wasn't his reputation coming out of USC. He had two interceptions on Friday and a couple more, earlier in the week as well. If the ball's in his area, he knows what to do with it. What he and the coaches have to work on is making sure he's in the right spot more often, and if it doesn't happen right away with Mays, it won't be for lack of trying.
"He's a breath of fresh air in terms of his work ethic and mindset," shared Singletary. "He's driving [secondary coach] V.J. [Vance Joseph] and [special assistant to head coach/secondary coach] Johnnie [Lynn] crazy. He's called me a few times. He's called them a few times, 'Hey coach, what about this? Hey coach, what about that? Can we get together tomorrow? Can we do this? Can I come in on Sunday?' I know V.J. is like, 'Man, are you kidding me?' That's the kind of kid he is and I'm excited about him." Singletary also revealed that all the one-on-one tutorials between Mays and the coaches when he's not taking reps are the rookie's doing, and not lectures being shoved down his throat for mistakes made in coverage.
"That's him," Singletary said. "That's all Taylor Mays. We're not saying, 'Hey, come over here with us.' No, that's on him. But that's his personality. I knew that before we drafted him. I had a chance to talk to a number of different people about him and they all talked about his work ethic. It's nice to see that he's following through."
Now we'll see how many of the guys follow through on their training during their vacation and how many slack off. By the first week of August, it'll be pretty easy to figure out.


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Italo – now a reality
Issue 4 2012 / 1 August 2012 /
On 28 April 2012, the first passenger-filled Italo train left Naples station heading to Rome, Florence, Bologna and Milan. It was a highly emotional moment for everybody at NTV: the personnel, the partners and, of course, for me. After approximately four years of startup plans, the project finally became a reality.
It was also a historical moment for the Italian railway sector. For the first time, thanks to NTV, passengers now have the option to choose between operators. When a monopoly comes to an end – no matter in which field – it's always a revolution for the market and an advantage for the public.
Tests and simulations are over, and now we face the market as any private company must do. A group of Italian entrepreneurs has invested €1 billion in this project – a huge amount of capital that has never been seen before in Europe by the private railway sector. Further – more, the current situation in Italy will provide a crucial reference point for liberalisa tion and competition across the Continent. If we prove successful, newcomers in other countries may try to take the same path. So it comes with no surprise that we are being observed with great attention by many large railway operators.
Alstom builds on its leading position in high-speed and very high-speed rail transport
Rail industry news / 30 November 2011 /
Alstom has unveiled the latest high-speed Pendolino trains at its Savigliano plant in Italy…
BT helps accelerate NTV's high speed trains
Rail industry news / 31 March 2011 /
BT announced the signature of a outsourcing contract with NTV, to build its communication infrastructure & to manage its ICT services…
The kick-off for Italo has been set
Issue 4 2010 / 3 August 2010 /
NTV, the first Italian private high-speed operator, will start commercial service in September 2011. We officially announced the kick-off date in a press conference we held in Rome at the end of May 2010. We therefore have 15 months of tough work ahead to complete the necessary steps to ultimate the preparation phase of our project.
It's not easy, but we're very excited by this fascinating challenge and we feel confident we'll respect this strict time schedule. Or philosophy can be summarised by our brand new slogan, chosen by our Marketing Division: 'Italo, il tuo treno' ('Italo, your train'). With this claim we'd like to underline that Italo is conceived for the needs of every kind of traveller. The slogan is also the welcome message of the new NTV site (www.ntvspa.it). But to keep this promise we have to work hard every day on each field we're engaged in.


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Of course what would a developer conference sell-out be without some sort of red meat for Apple and Android fans? With apologies to the trolls out there, there just isn't a meaningful way to compare the two this time around. Google's I/O conference did sell out in less time (just under half an hour), but WWDC tickets cost almost twice as much ($1600 vs $900). Apple's conference also lasts several days longer than I/O.
Also unreported is how many tickets went on sale – if one of the conferences sold dramatically more tickets that would need to be taken into account before trying to assert you bragging rights. So in the end, let's be satisfied with the fact that both developer conferences have legions of devoted attendees, and that neither Apple nor Google is pining away for more people to show an interest in developing for their platforms.
One thing that will make for an interesting comparison this year is that Google changed the timing of I/O to summer, so their conference will now follow WWDC by a scant two weeks. Surely that will bring up another round of "who won" topics for fans to mull over…
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Max Payne 3 versus Tessellation, FXAA and MSAA
Subject: General Tech | June 13, 2012 - 03:49 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: gaming, max payne 3, fxaa, msaa, ssao, hdao
Techgage recently took a look at the effect enabling tesselation and antialiasing has on the visual quality of Max Payne 3. Visually the Phong Tesselation seems to only have an effect on close visuals of faces, as well as adding some volume to clothing. FXAA and 4xMSAA had more effect, with FXAA not only offering smoother visuals but also having almost no effect whatsoever on frame rates. They also took a look at SSAO and HDAO but for that you'd need to download their large screenshot to be able to tell them apart and ended by delving into the performance. Check it out here.
"With Max Payne 3 reviewed, how about we take a look at the game from a technical perspective? Wondering what the game brings to the tessellation table? How FXAA compares to MSAA? Whether HDAO is really worth the performance hit? We tackle all these questions and more, so read on."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
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Unreal Engine Samaritan Demo Running On Single NVIDIA Kepler GPU
Subject: General Tech | March 8, 2012 - 12:38 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: unreal, udk, samaritan, nvidia, fxaa
Last year we saw Unreal unviel their Samaritan demo which showed off next generation gaming graphics using three NVIDIA 580 GTX graphics cards in SLI. Epic games showed off realistic hair and cloth physics along with improved lighting, shadows, anti-aliasing, and more bokeh effects than gamers could shake a controller at with their Samaritan demo, and I have to say it was pretty impressive stuff a year ago, and it still is today. What makes this round special is that hardware has advanced such that the Samaritan level graphics can be achieved in real time with a single graphics card, a big leap from last year's required three SLI'd NVIDIA GTX 580s!
The Samaritan demo was shown at this years' GDC 2012 (Games Developers Conference) to be running on a single NVIDIA "Kepler" graphics card in real time, which is pretty exciting. Epic did not state any further details on the upcoming NVIDIA graphics card; however, the knowledge that the single GPU was able to pull off what it took three Fermi cards to do certainly holds promise.
According to GeForce; however, it was not merely the NVIDIA Kepler GPU that made the Samaritan demo on a single GPU possible. The article states that it was the inclusion of NVIDIA's method for anti-aliasing known as FXAA, or Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing that enabled it. Unlike the popular MSAA option employed by (many of) today's games, FXAA uses much less memory, enabling single graphics cards to avoid being bogged down by memory thrashing. They further state that the reason MSAA is not ideal for the Samaritan demo is because the demo uses deferred shading to provide the "complex, realistic lighting effects that would be otherwise impossible using forward rendering," a method employed by many game engines. The downside to the arguably better lighting in the Samaritan demo is that it requires four times as much memory. This is because the GPU RAM needs to hold four samples per pixel, and the workload is magnified four times in areas of the game where there are multiple intersecting pieces of geometry.
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They go on to state that without AA turned on, the lighting in the Samaritan demo uses approximately 120 MB of GPU RAM, and with 4x MSAA turned on it uses about 500 MB. That's 500 MB of memory dedicated just to lighting when it could be used to hold more of the level and physics, for example and would require a GPU to swap more data that it should have to (using FXAA). They state that FXAA on the other hand, is a shader based AA method that does not require additional memory, making it "much more performance friendly for deferred renderers such as Samaritan."
Without anti-aliasing, the game world would look much more jagged and not realistic. AA seeks to smooth out the jagged edges, and FXAA enabled Epic to run their Samaritan demo on a single next generation NVIDIA graphics card. Pretty impressive if you ask me, and I'm excited to see game developers roll some of the Samaritan graphical effects into their games. Knowing that Epic Game's engine can be run on a single graphics card implies that this future is all that much closer. More information is available here, and if you have not already seen it the Samaritan demo is shown in the video below.
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I like video games, (especially retro ones, like on Gameboy, NES, SNES, Sega Megadrive and N64) so much so that I've even helped develop some fangames, such as "Mushroom Kingdom Fusion" and "Mega Man Unlimited".
My most beloved of the classic era is Mega Man! He's my hero and he always will be!
I've always liked drawing comics my whole life, and my username shows how passionate I am about my comic book universe I created. Over 30 years of history and characters to it.
Another type of art that has peaked my interest of late is fantasy art. Thanks to my brother getting me into Dungeons and Dragons years ago I have been a constant gamer on the old school online game Neverwinter Nights. There is an awesome server still doing roleplay called "Amia" and there is where my newest and most awesome of characters thrive: Greta Sólveig.
I'll be using my deviantart page to showcase screenies of her too. Even though I'm an artist, I'm not as good as the many professionals on here so I'm hoping to ask for a few commissions of various characters, and if I'm lucky, I'll showcase them here in my favs!


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FILM pin-up Angelina Jolie is such a fan of Prince William and Kate Middleton
that she has their photo on her wall.
The star put up the framed pic at her £35million
chateau in Brignolle, France, after being bowled over by the couple's
"kindness and sincerity".
Ange, 36, and partner Brad Pitt, 48, are now even considering making a movie
about Kate's life.
A source said: "Angelina's fascinated by her and says she has a wonderful
aura. She loves her look and common touch and says she and William radiate
kindness and sincerity."
Ange and Brad watched TV with their six kids as Wills, 29, wed Kate, 30, last
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It's 2012 and a big year for Fairytale Brownies - we are celebrating 20 years in the gourmet brownie business! Throughout 2012, we will celebrate with contests, events and giveaways. Here are a few things that are planned:
A silver ticket will be inserted into a random brownie, cookie or truffle gift each month. The person receiving this ticket will win a FREE Fairytale Dozen. The ticket will instruct the winner how to redeem the prize.
Also, on the 20th of each month during 2012, we will give away brownie gifts to our Facebook fans. Tell all of your friends to "like" us and they, too, will be eligible to win free brownies. You may be asked to answer Fairytale Brownies trivia, or answer a question that relates to the number "20." The 20th of each month in 2012 will be a good day in Fairyland!
Each week during 2012, we will post a Fairytale Brownies' fan story on Facebook, Twitter and our blog. We have loyal Fairytale fans and many of them have great stories about how they fell in love with our delicious treats. Each fan submitting a story AND a photo of them with their brownies, will receive a little surprise for their submission. (However, a photo is not necessary to enter your brownie story).
All entries will have chance to win a 12-month Fairytale Gift Club membership ($389.95 value) at the end of the year. Fairytale Brownies team members will choose five finalists. Our Facebook fans will choose ONE winner.
We are preparing a display in our retail store that chronicles Fairytale's 20 years of evolution. Visitors to our store will be able to see packaging, photos, media mentions and equipment used throughout our years in business. I will let you know when the the display is ready to be viewed. Of course, you can still visit the Fairytale Bakery before the display is ready. We always have brownie samples to try and gifts to purchase.
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Ha, funny! I'm planning on getting an XDm 3.8 9mm compact soon, and the holster I've decided to get for it is from Alien Gear: Alien Gear Holsters
Because of price ($30 plus shipping).
Because of their guarantee:
Because they sell kydex shells for other guns.
Because they get positive reviews from the fine people here on DC.
Because they're made in America.
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Re: More Graphic Bugs
> Another Bug in Graphics. This one come up totally
> unexpected. In the following code, you will see a red
> dot about 25 pixel in diameter at location {4,.5}. WHERE
> Plot[ { Sin@x }, {x,0, 6},
> AspectRatio->Automatic, PlotRange->All,
> PlotStyle->{{Hue[0],Thickness[.09]}},
> Prolog->{Thickness[.04],Line[{{-1,0.5},{4,.5}}]}
> ]
The Red Dot is a punishment from the Mathematica Gods for using
the horrible notation { Sin@x } instead of just Sin[x]. Ugh!
Seriously, this is a good one. It is apparently some sort of
Postscript problem that starts graphing where the Prolog ended rather than
where the graph starts. It appears to be device-independent. (It happens on my
NeXT, which generally does well with postscript.)
> Btw, should I also send these to WRI tech support? Do
> they read MathGroup?
Yes and Yes.
Steve Christensen has repeatedly said to send bug reports to WRI first.
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Katherine Boo on Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo tells the story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a slum in Mumbai, India. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity is based on three years of reporting, and it gives a glimpse into the lives of Annawadi residents, including Abdul, a Muslim teenager who scavenges for recyclables; Asha, who is seeking a route to the middle class through political corruption; and her daughter Manju, who will soon become Annawadi's first female college graduate. When terrorism and the global economic recession shake Mumbai, suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal.


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Wildlife Photography
As you can probably figure out, photographing the wild comes with many challenges. Yep, capturing wildlife on your camera is a completely different type of photography. It requires tremendous patience, it's a little daring and most of all, you need finely tuned instincts. So, without further ado, below are a few things you can do to get beautiful wildlife photos with ease!
Start Early
Most insects are late risers, which means they can't fly until they're warmed up enough. Because of that, you have the advantage of capturing them in their sleepy state before they fly away. That also means you can get much closer to them to take better photos.
Hide Yourself
It's best to hide yourself while you wait for your subject to arrive. That way, you won't disturb its natural habitat just for the sake of photography. It also helps with your own security, especially when you're in the middle of a large national park where potentially dangerous animals live.
Be Stealth
You also need to be very stealth. Move at a slow pace and stay close to the ground. A sudden movement could frighten your subject and you could miss a once in a lifetime shot. Also, make sure you don't move in too close. You just need to be close enough to fill your frame with the subject. Similarly, when you're done taking your pictures, move back out with the same motions. After all, animals do deserve their privacy and you have no right to alarm them once you're done.
Keep Your Distance
It's agreed that you can get the best detail when your camera is as close to the subject as possible. Yes, that's great, but if you get too close, you're putting your own safety at risk. Wild animals are masters of surprise and you never know what could trigger them to attack. You can still get great photos from a safe distance!
Nesting Principle
If you find a bird nesting in a thick cover, do not try to uncover it! The best thing to do is wait until the bird emerges from the nest. Of course, that demands patience, but you already know that's a requirement of wildlife photography. You can't make things happen. You just have to wait for them to occur. Wildlife photography gives you the chance to observe and learn. Yes, it may take awhile for you to get the photo you're looking for, but if you're patient and you simply slow down, you'll get what you want.
Rules of Composition
You should also strive for balance in your images. Try to incorporate different elements into your picture that have equal weight. For example, something at the edge of your picture will have more appeal than something in the center. Similarly, an element in the foreground has less weight than one in the background. Elements with higher contrast to their surroundings also have greater attraction. Colors play an important part as well, so while you're composing your image, always make the most of compositional lines. They could be a row of trees, a shoreline or a rocky hillside in the background. Special effects like that can really make a photo.
See Better and Think Faster
Wildlife photography requires you to think on your feet and be far more observant than ever before. Some of the things you need to keep in mind include: the direction of light and its effect on your picture, the colors you can balance in your frame and the textures in the scene that could form your foreground/background or the subject itself. You should also think about the animal's direction in the frame. For example, while most photographers are happy with a bird in the center of the frame, it might be even better to capture the bird leaving the frame so that you can convey dynamism and movement.
Focusing Principles
No wildlife photograph is good if you can't capture the eye of your subject. Therefore, it's important to do that with precision, care and skill. You should use either the manual or auto focus on the eye and then use the focus lock to recompose your image. If the eye isn't sharp, your photo will be lifeless. For instance, when a bird is in flight, focus on its head and you'll get one of the best images you've ever taken.
Time of Day
Photographers will tell you it's not wise to go on wildlife shoots in midday when the sun is directly over you. During that time of day, the sun has a nasty habit of forming harsh shadows over your subjects. The best time to go is either early in the morning or past 4 p.m.
Catch the Light
Light is essential in bringing life to your wildlife pictures. If you use flash without forming shadows of your subjects, you are on your way to creating a "catch light" in the final image, which is a localized edge contrast boost that gives a perceived increase in image sharpness. It can also be used to balance the exposure of a back-lit subject.
Watch Your Shadow
It's very easy to get close to an insect, but you should also bear in mind that your shadow can easily fall on the subject. If that happens, your picture will look a little odd and you won't be happy with the result.
Eye Level
Wildlife photography is just like taking pictures of people. Therefore, the same principle of shooting at eye level applies here as well. Not only will it connect with the viewer, but the subject will look far more down to earth and less intimidating. Now, go out there and take some wild photos!
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Major central bank events ** This Diary is filed daily ** ------------------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY, JUNE 7 NEW YORK - European Central Bank Supervisory Board member Ignazio Angeloni to participate in panel discussion at 4th Pan-European Days organized by the European American Chamber of Commerce - 1525 GMT. LONDON - Swedish Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson visits London (to June 8). FRANKFURT - European Central Bank publishes 2016 convergence report - 0800 GMT. BRATISLAVA - National Bank of Slovakia Governor Jozef Makuch to hold a news conference on update of Slovak quarterly macroeconomic forecast - 1100 GMT. SYDNEY - Reserve Bank of Australia holds interest rate meeting - 0430 GMT. PARIS - European Central Bank policymakers Francois Villeroy de Galhau and Yves Mersch speak at a conference in Paris entitled "Financial stability in a digital world" - 1500 GMT. DUBLIN - Irish Fiscal Council publishes biannual assessment report - 2301 GMT.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8 PARIS - European Central Bank Supervisory Board Chair Daniele Nouy speaks at the Goldman Sachs 20th Annual European Financial Conference - 1030 GMT. TORONTO - Canadian Finance Minister Bill Morneau to deliver keynote address at The Economist summit on innovation. Morneau will discuss the role of government in catalyzing innovation, his priorities and most pressing challenges, three months after unveiling a stimulus budget designed to spark economic growth. WELLINGTON - Reserve Bank of New Zealand announces monetary policy statement and official cash rate - 2100 GMT. TALLINN - Estonia Central Bank releases its macro economic forecast. Estonian Central Bank Governor Ardo Hansson to speak - 0800 GMT. Continuación...


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Military Suicides Drop Sharply in 2013
The number of suicides of men and women in the U.S. miltiary is down this year, amid growing concerns over high suicide levels the past four years, 1200 WOAI news reports.
The Army says the number of suicides in its active duty, reserve, and National Guard units is down 22% from 2012.
So does this mean that special programs implemented to combat the disturbing number of suicides in the miltiary are working? Dr. Harry Croft is a San Antonio psychiatrist who works extensively with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder patients.
"The real answer is, we don't yet know exactly why the suicide numbers are down," Dr. Croft said. "We are thrilled that they are down."
The Pentagon implemented several programs as suicides spiked in 2011 and 2012. They have involved programs which urge military members to speak out if they are feeling suicidal, and officers have repeatedly stressed that reporting feelings of suicide will not affect the soldier's chances for promotion and security clearence. The fear of derailing a career or being considered 'crazy' was seen as a major drawback to effective efforts to fight suicide in the ranks.
"There is improved awareness of PTSD and other problems are all very important reasons why the numbers are decreasing," Croft said.
The Army has instituted a worldwide program called 'Ready and Resilient' to urge soldiers to speak out. Post commanders have also been instructed to implement suicide prevention programs, and private psychiatrists, like Dr. Croft, have all become part of the solution.
"The troop strength is drawing down," Croft said. "There are more programs in place to help military members from transitioning out."
Croft and other experts who work on military suicide say treatment and outreach programs must continue, even after the soldier has left the Army. The military says it is committed to making sure that they don't repeat the problems that followed the War in Vietnam, where veterans were too frequently deemed 'dangerous' or 'a potential head case' simply because they had served in the war.


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- 10-15-13 02:02 PM #31Originally Posted by stoveguyy
Different issue, I have it jacked up and it's not high enough to clear the engine once I drop it unto the dolly. What can I do or use in order to raise my car up more???? I don't want to pay a shop to drop the motor and ALL I have is the bolts and bam it drops out.
I'm ready to dig in to my block and see how bad the heads are and stuff.
I found a Guy here in Austin that would do my Stud kit for 300 once I'm able to order it.
His Caddy is still running fine to this day.
I've been looking around in this Head Gasket forum trying to figure out which way should I go with this car. I just learned that I could do a time insets??? Instead of doing the stud kit?
Can any one Mc somebody help me out. This is going to be my first Head Gasket job. I know it's time consuming but some help would be good for me right now, I would ask my dad for help but he's dead . I know that I haft to buy a Head Gasket kit for it and both orileys and Auto zone and Napa haft to order the kit.
Should I do a Block test on my engine before I do anything to it?? I don't know the history of this car sense it was suppose to have a tranny Issue and it does not have one.
Ty guys for the help
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- 10-16-13 12:39 AM #34Originally Posted by stoveguyy
Re: Head gaskets and Time-Serts
You could also use Norm's NS300L inserts. http://huhnsolutions.com/
Do the block test if you are not sure the HG is the problem.
Re: Help - 1993 Eldorado needs new engine
Removing the engine from the top is generally considered more difficult by those who have done it.
If you need to lift the car higher to get the drivetrain out, rent an engine puller and lift it by the radiator support. There is a picture of that operation somewhere in the archives.
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Uh, jacked up? How u doing this? U should use a cherry picker. U lower the subframe onto the Dolly's. Than u lift the car with the cherry picker. U are not lifting motor/trans/subframe. But once u start this u see the legs of the cherry picker are now under the subframe. So there is an interference issue. I ran into this when I used cherry picker to hold motor so I could drop subframe to pull trans. Picker legs were in the way of jacks I used to lower subframe. I should have got a motor support bracket. Only $60 at harbor. But u need to lift car. Different issue.
Re: Help - 1993 Eldorado needs new engine
You desperately need a GM service manual. There's just too much in the way of special procedures to do this job blind.
Your two question/answer posts on heads/gaskets/studs from another thread have been moved to this one.
- 10-16-13 02:33 PM #39Originally Posted by Submariner409
Well I have chiltions book. So far I've gotten good with it.
I just noticed with the stands under it, it's not high enough to drop it out of the car.
I've pretty much have taken every thing off of it.
Heads are concerned, I found water in the oil and that's a head Gasket job.
I herd that I could do the time insets instead.
I wanna do it right the first time.
I feel like a sucker at times, I started it up even tho it barley started. I was ok with that.
6 months later it wouldn't turn over at all.
Here I am now just trying to get it back to normal.
Re: Help - 1993 Eldorado needs new engine
Before someone else says it --- The Chilton is far, far too generic for your car., Find a real GM/Helm service manual. eBay or www.helminc.com. Megabucks now, or consider subscribing the car to www.alldatadiy.com. A multiple year subscription is less than a tank of gas and you get a LOT more than just the GM manuals.
Most engine drops out the bottom see the entire front of the car lifted with a 3 ton engine cherrypicker, using the radiator crossbrace. Drop the entire cradle/powertrain onto a pallet jack and roll it out. Lower the front onto jackstands for the duration.
- 10-16-13 11:30 PM #41Originally Posted by Submariner409
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U can jack up car, lower subframe and than pull trans. That works for driveway trans job. But not so much for motor drop. Not sure of your motor lowering plan
- 10-18-13 08:14 AM #43Originally Posted by stoveguyy
Drop the hole power assem from the bottom. I've found a cherry picker on yesterday. Success Guys!!! I went to harbor fright and they have those wheel dollies, Going to drop the power assem unto that.
Am I missing something else????
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I did mine in my driveway as well. It sucked but got it done. To get the car up I maxed out the jack, set 6 ton jackstands under it (weights not an issue, just taller) and put the jack on top of a block and did it again. If you do this be extremely careful as you jack it up because the jack won't move with the car as it goes up. Set it back on the stands if the block starts to tip or anything and reposition. When lowereing the cradle I placed my motorcycle jack on the rear end as a caster and my 3 ton jack on the front. When I was installing I put the wheels back so I can push on them. Wish I would have tried this for removal as well. Sometimes you have to work with what you got and think like a farmer!
Up Date, I've gotten the GM repair manual for my car. I can't seem to find the page were it talks about removing the power assembly and the cradle???
Transmission any one know if the 93 L-Dawg has the t80 tranny or is it the t60e? Ty guys.
Happy my car was made in my MI plant yay I have a piece of MI History!!!
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I must admit that I am exhausted from the topic intensity of my last two blogs. Thus, I figured that it was time for me to leave you all (and me) feeling nourished and happy with some of my favorite Thanksgiving side dishes. As traditional holiday meal ruts are common, everyone can use a little creativity crusading. If you have some ideas for some great recipes, please share as even I get into those ruts too! Enjoy the recipes, give thanks for all that you have and relish in your family, friends and food this week!
Broccoli Celery Root Slaw
- 1 broccoli stem, shredded
- 1 small celery root, peeled and shredded
- 1 large carrot, shredded
- 1/2 cup purple cabbage, finely shredded
- 1/4 cup flat leaf parsley, rough chop
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon rice vinegar
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 2 tablespoons country Dijon mustard
- Combine all vegetables in large bowl.
- Toss dressing ingredients in small bowl then add to vegetables and mix thoroughly.
Beet and Carrot Slaw
- 2 large red beets, grated
- 2 large carrots, grated
- 2 tablespoons ghee, optional
- 1/2 teaspoon brown mustard seeds
- 1/4 teaspoon asafetida
- 4 dry curry leaves, crushed
- 1 teaspoon red chili pepper flakes, or crushed chili pepper
- 1 large orange, juiced
- 2 limes, juiced
- 1/4 cup cilantro, rough chop
- salt, to taste
- Grate beets and carrots and set aside. Can be done with a hand grater or a food processor.
- In a small sauté pan, melt ghee on medium low then add all dried spices. Toast until aromatic (about 3 minutes). Add to small bowl with citrus and cilantro.
- Right before serving, combine beets and carrots, add dressing and lightly toss. Add salt to taste.
Shaved Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Herbed Dijon
- 4 cups (about 1lb) brussels sprouts (whole), thinly sliced (shaved)
- 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon salt HERBED DIJON
- 1/2 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons brown rice vinegar
- 1 tablespoon mirin
- 1/2 tablespoon fresh thyme, picked, minced
- 1/2 tablespoon fresh oregano, picked, minced
- Preheat oven to 350˚.
- Slice off bottom of sprouts, halve and thinly slice (shave). Place in roasting pan with olive oil and salt. Toss and spread sprouts evenly across pan.
- Bake for 20-30 minutes, turning occasionally, until soft and crispy.
- Prepare Herbed Dijon and toss with Brussels sprouts.
Roasted Butternut Squash Purée
- 1 medium butternut squash, halved and de-seeded
- 2 teaspoons extra virgin olive oil, to coat squash
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
- 1 teaspoon fresh herbs, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup cooconut milk
- Pre heat oven to 350˚.
- Coat prepped squash in olive oil (1 teaspoon per half) and place face down on baking sheet (best to cover baking sheet with parchment or tin oil).
- When done, let cool and scoop out squash. For first stage food, purée until creamy in a blender or food processor (may need a little water).
Drunken Roasted Root Vegetables
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 shallots, rough chop
- 1 large sweet potato, bite size pieces
- 1 medium celery root, bite size pieces
- 2 medium turnips , 1/2 moons
- 2 large red beets, bite size pieces
- 2 large sprigs rosemary, minced
- 6 sprigs thyme, whole
- 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1/4 cup white wine
- fresh ground pepper, to taste
- salt, to taste
- Pre heat oven to 375˚.
- Prep all vegetables and place in baking dish or on sheet pan. Add herbs and toss all with oil and wine. Make sure to mix well. Spread vegetables thinly across pan and roast in oven for 40 minutes. Remove thyme stems and salt and pepper to taste.
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Dear Gene – I am new to the internet camp and have a question: What is the best way to organize strips for a project? I usually cut 20-30 strips of each color I'm using in advance. But as I hook, they all wind up in a jumbled mess and it is sometimes then difficult to tell them apart ("Is this the light-medium green or the medium green?", etc.). Does anyone have any a system that works?
PS: I have already pre-ordered your Dye book. I can't wait.
Dear Lorna – I am glad you are interested in the dye book and did not even know there was a place to pre-order it! You are ahead of me. I won't start taking a pre-order list for another couple of months.
While I am not sure that any one system works all the time for every artist – I always tend to start out organized and then digress to something that is close to being chaotic. However, here are a few ideas and I am sure that IRgC members can offer even more.
1.) If you own your own cutter, I would not pre-cut much more than I needed at any given setting. Less cutting requires less storage and, consequently, less left overs. Unless you are going to use all your wool for a given project, there is no need to over cut. Uncut wool takes less storage space. This approach also gives you more flexibility. If your current project is being done with a #8, don't over cut because your next project needing that wool might call for it in a #6.
All that said, many cutterless students come to my classes with the goal of cutting up enough wool on my Townsend cutters to last them for a month. They would rather have more cut up than run out before the next session.
2.) When I started hooking I bought these plastic forms that were specifically made for holding an 8 value swatch. While I have not seen anyone offer them for sale for a long time, I can tell you that these were made out of plastic "blind" strips – those "hang at one end" patio door blinds on a track. They aren't much more than a hole with a slot to make for easy addition of strips. Should you ever see an old set of blinds or even replacement parts, they could easily be cut with these notches. I have seen people make similar arrangements out of heavy card stock but they don't last overly long.
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As you probably know, Facebook and Amazon are allowing consumers to connect the two sites. What I find most interesting is the care Amazon is taking to inform consumers what this will mean to them and why they should do it. Given Facebook's repeated stumbles on issues of consumer privacy, the approach being taken by Amazon is one every marketer should note and consider. What's important about Amazon's approach is that it's not simply leaving the communication of important information to Facebook.
CNN, for example, lets Facebook do the talking. Below is Facebook's standard "Request for Permission" page, which is the message consumers receive when they click the button to connect CNN with their Facebook profile. What does it tell users? CNN can "access my basic information," but what will they do with it? Will they share or sell it further? Will it be made available to marketers or other users? Will my list of friends -- one of the items mentioned in the list of basic information that will be shared -- receive information from CNN as a result of my actions? And what information will CNN send to Facebook -- every page I visit or only the ones I "like"?


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Miley Cyrus grows up on "Breakout"
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Miley Cyrus is a superstar to millions of teens around the world as Hannah Montana, but it's a more grown-up Cyrus who emerges on her new album, "Breakout."
The set is due for release July 22 via Hollywood Records, and the CD's first single, "7 Thing," shot to No. 10 this week on the Billboard Hot 100, tying her career best ranking on the chart.
"It's grown-up," Cyrus told Billboard in an exclusive interview. "I wrote all the songs except two. My last one, 'Meet Miley Cyrus,' was more just meeting me, finding out who I am, and here it's more getting in depth of what's been going on in my life in the past year."
Cyrus pushed to write the songs herself this time around, saying that, "No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape. I just hope this record showcases that -- more than anything -- I'm a writer."
The 15-year-old star found herself in a media firestorm in April when a photograph showing her bare-shouldered, entwined in a bed sheet, was published in Vanity Fair. The portrait, shot by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, touched off a national furor over the sexualization of young girls.
"I was embarrassed," she says in her rapid, self-assured clip, "but also it's like, every career thing that I do can't be perfect, and sometimes my decisions are wrong. I think that just makes me even more relatable.
"I don't think people will look at me any differently because they're like, 'You know what, I'm going to do stupid stuff too, and I'm going to make mistakes, and that's fine.' It still hurts when I think about it -- but you know what, it doesn't mean that you can't move on."
Cyrus is in the midst of filming the third season of her hit Disney Channel hit show, "Hannah Montana," as well as a "Hannah" movie in Tennessee. Her team is also plotting a successor to her runaway smash 2007 concert tour, which drew nearly 1 million fans. Continued...


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Emily Nicklin '77 to Head University of Chicago Medical Center Board of Trustees
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Emily Nicklin, a lead corporate litigator at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and a trustee of the University of Chicago since 2004, has been named chair of the Medical Center's Board of Trustees.
Nicklin succeeds Rodney L. Goldstein, who was appointed chairman in 2010 and will remain a Medical Center trustee.
"The University is fortunate that Emily is willing to chair the Medical Center Board during this period of significant change in the health care environment," said Andrew M. Alper, chair of the University Board of Trustees. "We have made great strides at the Medical Center under Rod's leadership, and Emily will preserve that momentum while helping us appropriately balance risks and opportunities. She will be a tireless advocate, ensuring the Medical Center's continued leadership in medical education, patient care, community engagement and innovation."
"The University of Chicago Medical Center Board is a key component of the University's capacity for operating an eminent academic medical center in a complex health care environment," said University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer. "Emily's demonstrated commitment and analytic ability, which she brings to this role, will be enormously important for us as we continue to build eminence in research, education and patient care."
Nicklin received an AB (1975) and a JD (1977) from the University of Chicago. Since joining the Medical Center Board in 2007, she has served on a number of important committees, including the Audit, Development, Operations & Patient Care, and Executive committees.
"Emily's skills, leadership and experience will make the transition on the board seamless," said Kenneth Polonsky, executive vice president for medical affairs at the University of Chicago and dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine. "Like Rod before her, she understands the complexities of the current health care environment and challenges ahead. She also recognizes the invaluable contributions academic medical centers make to patient care and research discoveries, and we're looking forward to accomplishing great things under her leadership."
After graduating from the University, Nicklin began her career at Kirkland & Ellis. She is currently a partner and among the firm's top trial lawyers in cases involving professional liability, securities and common law fraud, contracts, product and personal injury cases and constitutional and municipal law for clients ranging from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Accenture, Dow Corning and Morgan Stanley, to name a few.
She is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and was named one of the "Top 250 Women Litigators" by Benchmark Litigation in 2012.
"I'm very honored to follow in the footsteps of Rod Goldstein, who provided great board leadership to a great institution. I look forward to working with the board to support the Medical Center in this time of challenge and opportunity in medical care, research and education," Nicklin said. "The promising breakthroughs from our faculty and staff, and the high quality of education the Pritzker School of Medicine provides the next generation of physicians and researchers, make me optimistic for the future."
The University Board of Trustees approved her appointment, effective June 6. Medical Center and University Trustees James S. Frank and Craig J. Duchossois were appointed vice-chairs of the board.


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Demi Lovato's Broken Leg Blues
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Making for a challenging winter season, Demi Lovato suffered a broken leg after falling in her home recently.
The "Sonny With a Chance" cutie reportedly slipped and fell on a hardwood floor and ended up fracturing her right leg.
Lovato posted a picture of her cast and crutches late last week along with the caption, "This sucks." Later she added, "Needless to say, today was eventful. Hahahaha."
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• Are people's basic qualities like intelligence, personality and creativity fixed at birth?
• Is having to put in lots of effort over a long period of time a sign of failure – or success?
• Can changing your mindset about your abilities shape your entire life?
Growth mindset is a surprising concept discovered by Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck after decades of research on achievement and success. In what she calls a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities are fixed traits. They also believe that talent alone creates success—without effort. They're wrong. In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. This workshop will explore the two mindsets in detail then we'll take time to help you choose your own mindset to enable your maximum success.
Lesson Plan:
• Welcome (5 min)
• What is the fixed mindset? (20 min)
• What is the growth mindset? (20 min)
• Changing your mindset (20 min)
• Breakout exercises (15 min)
• Session Feedback and Q&A (10 min)
This workshop will start with a PowerPoint presentation of the findings related to the mindsets, then we'll move into individual work to examine your own mindset and change it if you want!
About Matt Rampe
Matt Rampe gets people unstuck. He helps groups and individual clients reach their most important goals. Matt's coaching toolkit is based on the latest scientific research in the areas of success, motivation and well-being. Previously, Matt has worked as an accredited business valuation expert for venture-backed companies. Matt has served on the board of various non-profits and is active in social change. He lives in Michigan with his wife and twin boys. Learn more at mattrampe.com.
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Vermiculite is well established as a growing medium.
It is most commonly used in compost formulations, usually in combination with peat/soil. Vermiculite /peat compost formulations provide an ideal condition for plant growth. The presence of vermiculite particles in the compost aids aeration, improves moisture retention and promotes the steady release of added fertilizers while vermiculite itself contributes potassium, magnesium and a number minor elements.
The air / water ratios for vermiculite and peat compost are ideal for the stimulation of root growth and production of healthy young plants. Vermiculite is sterile when processed. Vermiculite is also used as a carrier and extender for fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides. It is also used in a ground form for encapsulating seeds.
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