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Santa Clara PAL is pleased to offer several opportunities for players and coaches to enrich their softball skills. These clinics are designed to advance skills in HITTING, THROWING, FIELDING, PITCHING, AND CATCHING. The clinics will be lead by USA Gold Medal winner Gillian Boxx, and former San Jose City College Pitching Coach Toni Joyner.
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In 1946 the dream of two men became a reality. Borge Gabrielsson, President of Astra Pharmaceutical Company in Sweden, and Martin Matsbo, the famous Swedish racer, introduced the world to revolutionary Cross Country waxes under the name SWIX. What made the waxes different from traditional waxes was that they were scientifically formulated from synthetic raw material rather than natural occurring ingredients such as bees wax, tar, pine resin, fats and oils that were varying greatly in quality and difficult to duplicate in production. They were also the first color-coded waxes: red, blue and green.
In 1949 Swix expanded by developing a line of glide wax for alpine skiing. As waxes continued their growth and development, Swix also bought the Norwegian Liljedahl Ski Pole Factory in 1974 that was the largest manufacturer of cross-country poles in the world. Today, Swix is making approximately one million poles a year for alpine, cross-country and nordic walking and eventually in 1987 introduced a revolutionary wax for all disciplines called Cera F that certainly is the most successful single racing wax in ski history! In 1989 Swix added the Norheim outdoor and ski clothing factory. Today the SWIX apparel line also includes sport-underwear, gloves, hats and bags.In 1992 Swix introduced the CERA SYSTEM, as a total glide wax concept, consolidating the leading position of SWIX in all Ski Disciplines.
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Seahawks get another chance to strike fifth-round gold
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The Seahawks won't see any immediate benefits from the two draft picks they're receiving in exchange for quarterback Matt Flynn, but one of them will give Seattle another chance to find a gem in the fifth round.
The Raiders are sending Seattle a 2014 fifth-round pick and a conditional selection the following year as part of the trade that was announced Monday.
The fifth round has been mostly bountiful for the Seahawks under general manager John Schneider and coach Pete Carroll, even despite some misses. That's where Seattle found safety Kam Chancellor in 2010 and cornerback Richard Sherman a year later.
Chancellor is a two-year starter and has a Pro Bowl on his resume. The team is working to sign him to an extension. Sherman was an All-Pro last season and has 12 interceptions in 26 career starts. A case could be made that he's the NFL's best cornerback.
The other two players drafted in the fifth round by Seattle's current regime haven't panned out. Neither safety Mark LeGree (2011) nor linebacker Korey Toomer (2012) made the team out of training camp the year they were drafted. LeGree is with the Falcons. Toomer was on the practice squad before he was placed on injured reserve. He signed a futures contract with Seattle after the season.
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For years, people have been aspiring to the biggest house possible; the mark of success in the United States is, after all, a sprawling manse with multiple bedrooms and baths, a swath of bright green lawn, and a swingset in the backyard. It used to be that the more money you had, the bigger you bought or built, all the better to show off your accomplishments. Today, though, that's changing, thanks to the tiny house and microhome movements.
When it comes to strict definitions for tiny houses and microhomes, you'll get a lot of answers. In a nutshell? Think small. Think really, really small. Many are under 500 square feet, and some barely top 200. They're an exercise in brilliant and extremely careful architecture and interior design to get the most out of every available inch, and many manage to feel surprisingly spacious, given their tiny square footage.
There are a lot of reasons people are turning towards the microhome. For one thing, it's a design trend, and some big names in architecture and design are exploring it; early adopters, people who follow fashion, and trendsetters want in on the ground level, so they're getting interested in microhomes and the tiny house movement. For another, the green ramifications of microhome design are huge. While these homes are not necessarily environmentally friendly by default, their small size makes it easy to make them energy efficient, and smart moves in design and construction can make them even greener.
They're also just plain space-efficient, which is a concern in crowded regions of the world. Japan, for example, has been a pioneer in highly efficient living spaces, out of both aesthetics and necessity.
The microhome is forcing people to rethink not just how much space they need to live comfortably and happy, but how many resources they need. Many of these homes intelligently blur the lines between indoors and outdoors to create a greater sense of space that also deepens the connection with nature for the occupants. And conversations about them are pushing people to confront attitudes about homebuilding and design. Who says you have to go big or go home?
This Spanish microhome highlights some of the key characteristics of the movement: it's tiny, it's beautiful, it's brilliantly well-designed, it has prefab potential, and it's portable. Like many microhomes, it doesn't just challenge interior space, but also the sense of "home." Is home where the heart is, or where your house is? Here's a 65 square foot microhome, small enough to easily bring wherever you need it to go. The Metapod, clocking in at 125 square feet, is designed for off-grid use.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this innovative, creative, and exciting movement. For architects, contractors, and developers, microhomes represent a great deal of potential and an opportunity to work with consumers on creating their dream homes in ways that might be unexpected; we have entered the era of flatpack houses, stylish prefabrication, and so much more.
Designers need to rethink everything from the heating and cooling systems to the roofing. Phoenix and other cities with temperature extremes bring their own demands to microhome design, especially when there's a good chance a home will be on the move at some point during its life.
Organizations and design firms interested in promoting microhomes sometimes have tours or model units available to visit, and they are definitely worth it. Seeing a microhome in real life might just blow your mind and totally reframe the way you think about your housing needs.
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I found Swayzak by their single I Dance Alone (iTunes link). Later I found the album Some Other Country (iTunes link) to be perfect office work background music. They have released a free Ableton Live pack. It's a 50MB download available now: click here
"Swayzak is a tech house duo from the United Kingdom that consists of James S. Taylor and David Brown. They live and work in London and released their first 12" single "Bueno" / "Fukumachi" in February 1997 to much acclaim. It was followed up by the 12″ "Speedboat" / "Low Rez Skyline" to become part of the burgeoning tech-house scene in the UK." – Wikipedia.org
What does the word "Swayzak" mean anyway? Is it some kind of UK thing?


text: Show Hide image Culture 20 February 2013 Learning not to despair when the rot sets in What's the difference between rot and decay? Sign up for our weekly email * In all the houses round here, the humans are in competition with cellar fungus. It moves into the crooks of latticed windows, where it feeds and breeds and throws its spores around and spreads dark patches on to windowsills. As with dental decay, the white laths get softened until finally the whole frame comes apart. Then neighbours are seen with knives and wood hardener, clearing up the damage. In one of these houses lives a writer of ghost stories. "You get wet rot and dry rot, which are basically different kinds of fungus – little organisms that corrupt everything. The brown slime you get on softwood windows, that's actually just organisms eating things – very useful in the general scheme but, of course, if it's your window, it's annoying. Then there are woodworms and death-watch beetles – you can hear them in April ticking; it's rather nice. They're particularly fond of eating oak." There's a certain relish in his voice. Someone who writes ghost stories is not going to be troubled by the thought of rot. After all, ghosts have something in common with fungus. They are saprophytic and light-shy and thrive on rain and secrecy: "A ghost is like a guilty conscience that just won't go away." The dead, so they say, come into bloom on the last day of October. "On 1 November, the rot sets in and it all goes downhill then. Oh, I'm all in favour of it. If we didn't have rot, we'd just pile up. You look at any church; it sits on a great pillow of soil. You see, you have to find a use for everything. Old socks, for example, and pallets, they are the most useful things ever and after they begin to rot you can chop them up and put them on the fire and all the ash goes back into the garden." Out of the window, his kale plants, taller than anyone's, are eating the rotten pallets and dung and peelings and weeds of the previous year. "The thing is that you build your soil up. I've got two compost heaps out there and I take them apart every spring. I don't bother to turn them, just chuck everything in, all the wood ash and chicken straw and manure and the green stuff from the kitchen. You can tell if you haven't put enough in, because your plants come up shrunken. D'you remember the old dead badger? It was wonderful when I buried it. I planted my quince tree over the top of it and it's doing really well now." The image of a quince lowering its straws into a badger and sucking reminds me of the silage bale that rolled from its pile about a year ago and after a while a family of splitgill fungus came to settle on its sides. Now the bale is a surreal, black-plastic boulder covered in pinkish-yellow frills. The fungus (more beautiful than cellar fungus but with the same opportunist streak) is dribbling enzymes into the wilted grass and steadily licking it up with hundreds of thin, brown tongues. "But the trouble with grass is that it rots to a mush and that's useless. The heat bursts through the cell wall and the protein spills out. Then you get that sour smell of too much grass rotting away. Whereas with good compost, you can take a handful and put it under a microscope and still identify all the different bits of plant matter. That's the difference between rot and decay. If you think of a body in a coffin, what's happening is putrefaction." He pauses. "And by the way, the most horrible kind of ghost is a decaying one. You can read about it in the story called 'Limehouse Lane'. The story begins: "That afternoon was beastly hot; as I walked down the lane to the river the brassy heat lay like a shroud on the land. The hedges were thick with dust, even the nettles and brambles were coated. My sandals raised little eddies of fine powder as I walked . . ." Alice Oswald was in conversation with Laurence and Kathi Greene Alice Oswald is an award-winning poet. She writes the nature column for the New Statesman. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 18 February 2013 issue of the New Statesman, Iraq: ten years on More


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Use wall color to turn your rooms from drab to fab!
Using Color on Walls
by Kathy Wilson
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Bring Color Into Your Home
Most people are afraid of using color in their home decorating, and it shows. White and beige are still the most popular choices in wall color. However, I do see the tides changing and for the better. More and more home decorators are realizing that using rich or bright colors on the walls is the fastest and least expensive way to make a big impact on their rooms.
Perhaps people are afraid of using color on their walls because it encompasses such a large space, or they don't trust their own judgment. Remember, it's just paint! If you don't like it, you can paint over it again. Don't be afraid to borrow colors from magazines or decorating books as well. It may give you courage to have seen that color already working in a beautiful room.
Try using a deeper or brighter version of your present color scheme on just one wall to start. If your rooms color scheme is green and white, paint the focal wall a pretty apple green, or perhaps a rich and elegant moss green. Painting just one wall will introduce you to the changes color can make in a room, without making you feel overwhelmed.
If you have always loved an incredible hue such as deep cherry red or chartreuse, try using it in a space that isn't used on a constant basis, such as a guest bath or laundry room. Using an intense color in a room used less often allows you to showcase your creativity, but doesn't allow you to become overwhelmed and tired of a color because of its exciting qualities. Additionally, it's always easier to live with an exciting color in smaller doses.
If neutrals are your thing and you just don't feel comfortable venturing away from them, embrace them. Use a deep chocolate brown, a rich steely gray or a bright cottage white. Neutrals don't have to be boring builders "off white." Add some pattern to jazz it up such as a black and white checked tile floor. Throw in some texture, perhaps a soft fuzzy throw or a richly textured basket and you have an elegant room instead of a tired space.
Finally, consider using artwork to bring doses of color to your walls as well. Large area rugs or quilts can be hung as wall art. Wallpaper murals are easy to find online, or you can paint your own with a paint by numbers mural kit. Paint a dozen frames the same fun color and display them in a wall grouping.
Using a little courage, a little elbow grease and a good can of paint you can turn your rooms from drab to fab in a couple of short hours this weekend!
Kathy Wilson is a home and garden writer, author and consultant and is the home decorating expert for LifetimeTV.com. Visit her for more home and garden ideas at www.TheBudgetDecorator.com and www.TheGardenGlove.com.
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If you asked me what is the most important website to get EBM, goth, synthpop and New Wave news hands down I would say Side-Line. I love when I am mentioned there and they just reviewed my latest album Fire Funmania (link). I am extremely glad they like it. It took me about 18 months to create the songs and even though the initial release came out a month ago the party is only getting started. The cassette, limited German CD and 12″ and merchandise are all forthcoming. I also didn't forget to let you know the behind the scenes production and song writing wise. I will start tomorrow with "Enter the Sex Game" so stay tuned.
"The songs remain simple, but damn efficient. The Horrorist is a sound wizard confirming his genius on "Starving For You". The Horrorist has deployed his entire battery of electronic creativity which resulted in a new fascinating and diversified opus." – Side-Line Magazine
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Gunflint Trail's Original Outfitter.
Over 100 Years of Outfitting.
Clearwater Historic Lodge and Canoe Outfitters is the original outfitter and lodge on the Gunflint Trail in the beautiful Boundary Waters Canoe Area of NE Minnesota. Founded in 1915 by Charlie and Petra Boostrom, they chose Clearwater Lake because they believed its view was the best on the Gunflint Trail. Today, our lodge is the oldest and largest free standing hand-hewn log structure in the region and is listed on the National Historic Register. Our 9 rustic, yet beautiful cabins — each with lake views — are the perfect summer home away from home. For shorter stops on your way through the Gunflint Trail, stay in our quaint bed-and-breakfast suites or rooms. We also have bunkhouse accommodations–perfect the night before a canoe trip through the BWCA. Guests have enjoyed Clearwater's beauty and hospitality for 100 years, and our commitment is to preserve it for guests to enjoy for another century. Clearwater Historic Lodge is proud to be the original Gunflint Trail lodging & canoe outfitters.
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To provide more options for our guests, Patrick's cabin is now available for nightly rentals all season long — with no minimum-stay requirement! This secluded log cabin sleeps six and is a perfect place to overnight on your travels up the historic Gunflint Trail.
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Here is another interesting sequencer for iOS just released called PixiTracker. This is the new baby of Alexander Zolotov who also brought us SunVox. I love the full screen view that flashes the large sound icons!
"No time to delve into the big and serious music apps? PixiTracker is what you need! It is a simple and fun tool to quickly create musical sketches or chip tunes. Without requiring a lot of musical knowledge!" – Alexander Zolotov
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Heifer's Armenian Adventure
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DJ joined Hamaspyur Khachatryan as she fed chickens and turkeys at her home in the Areni Village of Armenia. These animals help people like Hamaspyur provide food for their families!
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Hi all!
I occasionally read through the forums to learn new perspectives and opinions about Theravada, so I thought it was time I joined up! I'm also fairly new to Buddhism, so I'm sure this will give me a chance to learn.
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Accountants are a strange breed. They love math and numbers. Many love the feeling of control. They start out young. Later in their career most experience a "coming of age" and shift from bean counters to bean growers.
We were all once young. We all experienced growing pains. This article is about the coming of age of accountants. Their maturing is an especially painful process.
The common coming of age experience
Since I am a male, ladies you will need to tolerate my setting the foundation for describing an accountant's "coming of age" from the perspective of a boy. However, there will be similarities for a girl.
When we are young there is so much to explore – our neighborhood, our friendships, our bodies. Our bicycles were our start for exploring our environment. Our bikes gave us the freedom to roam relatively great distances compared to just walking. I am 64 years old and grew up in the 1960s. When I was young we had no Internet or MP3. We just went out and played with our friends as long as we returned home when the street lights turned on. We all drank from the garden hose and shared soda pop from a bottle. And no one died from this.
Eventually we discovered girls. Sometimes if we were lucky and had older brothers they would slip us a "dirty" magazine. That was trouble. Now we wanted to ask a girl if we could walk them home. And if we were really bold we'd ask them out on a date. That might have been limited to going the ice cream shop, but it was a big step. The problem was that we were shy. We'd think about this but not always act. How does one build the nerve? What if you are rejected?
Typically if you dated the same person for a while it led to the ritual of "going steady" with a symbolic ring.
If you have not experienced this then you may likely be a young Millenial. So you can stop reading now. Look at your mobile or log on to Facebook. You may not understand or appreciate the rest of what I have to say.
Accountants' coming of age
The accountant graduates from a college or university with an accounting degree. Why this choice? They love numbers and math. They love that the numbers will total up to match another total. If the two totals do not match and equal, then accountants will persevere with relentless energy to find the error. The totals must reconcile. Accountants love their self-interpretation of control.
Many accounting graduates get CPAs and join CPA auditing firms. Their earlier years with their firm involve examining T-account journal entries and sampling documents to seek conflicts with three-way matching of purchase orders, receiving documents and vendor invoices for accounts payables checks. Many accountants are control freaks.
Then they discover the equivalent of the opposite sex! Keep reading to learn what that discovery is.
Accountants in the 21st century
The vast majority of accountants with university degrees who join CPA firms do not successfully get promoted to be a partner or director of the firm. The "up and out" tradition eventually catches up with them. So they take jobs with organizations – often employers that were previously their audit client.
Then the accountants' mission and focus changes. It is no longer about control and fraud detection. Their purpose shifts to enabling good decision making for their work colleagues. They pay more attention to cost accounting. Many of them realize that in commercial companies setting prices for customers is based on strategy and policies but costs are facts. The accountants' focus shifts from external financial accounting (for regulatory compliance with generally accepted accounting principles – GAAP) to internal management accounting (for insights and decision support). Financial accounting is about "valuation" whereas management accounting is about "creating value."
This "shift" is the accountants' coming of age. No more "dirty" magazines. This is the real deal. Their job includes helping their marketing and sales colleagues know which types of customers to retain, grow, win-back, and acquire – and which ones not to. Further, they help them determine how much to optimally spend on each customer or prospect micro-segment to retain, grow, or acquire. They help operations colleagues to manage costs and make better economic decisions.
Accountants are beyond "going steady"
What is my message here? Using a metaphor of boys and girls becoming adults my point is that accountants are now getting past high school dating and petting. Their work is serious stuff. Organizations are more complex today. Volatility is on the rise which leads to greater uncertainty. Accountants are using business intelligence tool to reduce uncertainty.
Managing obviously involves non-financial factors than costs like quality, cycle time, service levels, asset investments, and capacity management. But ultimately money and financial information is the only universal common denominator to evaluate decision alternatives and monitor performance. Accountants can also enable performance improvement for their colleagues – if they come of age.


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25755 Perdido Beach Boulevard, Orange Beach, AL 36561
Our server was very knowledgeable and concerned for our needs. The options were a bit limited and nothing on the kids menu is gluten-free, but the burger was good and the Udi's GF bun made it safe. My 6yo son and I shared it and left satisfied.
4444 1st Ave. NE., Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
Doubting this is a scratch kitchen. Not sure what you're doing to Cole slaw and tortilla chips that make them not gf. GF menu doesn't contain any gf substitutes- only instructions to order a burger with no bun or onion straws. Then you want to charge me for a side of vegetables instead. I won't bother coming back.
4255 South A1A 13 & 14, St. Augustine, FL 32080
Food was great. Decent amount of GF options and seemed knowledgeable with food prep. I had mahi tacos on corn tortillas. Very good.
6370 Cypress Gardens Boulevard, Winter Haven, FL 33884
Their gluten free menu is very limited. They offered steamed veggies and a few dishes. I had their hamburger on a gluten free bun for $10. The people were very friendly and it is "a bar like" atmosphere. Food was too ordinary for the high price.
8025 West Bowles Avenue, Littleton, CO 80123
Absolutely celiac safe. Ask for Mike the owner, but if you mention that you are Celiac he will typically come out to talk to you at your table and tell you "let us worry about your allergy and you enjoy your evening." If you're up for sitting at the bar and watching some sports ask for Brandon, he will also look out for you and take it very seriously. I have been here at least 30 times and never once got any cross contamination. It's one of my local Hangouts and I trust it thoroughly.
25755 Perdido Beach Boulevard, Orange Beach, AL 36561
They have a "gluten sensitive " menu which drives me crazy. As a celiac, I hate that term. Anyway, the menu says that cross contamination is possible and they can't guarantee anything. I spoke with the manager, and he was super helpful. He explained that they try their very best to avoid cross contamination. The manager and my server were great about GF. I was Leary at first, but I was impressed after dinner. I had the Baja fish tacos.
4550 Donald Ross Road, Donald Ross Village, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418
Gluten free bread is delicious
11340 West Bell Road #103a, Surprise, AZ 85378
Update to my original favorable review: Got glutened bad. Food tasted good, but not "gluten friendly" like the menu says - which in hindsight, should have been a tip off. Service was also very slow. Won't be back.
3055 County Road 210 #101, Saint Johns, FL 32259
I was not impressed. Salad was just okay and way over priced. My family did enjoy their food though.
628 Atlantic Boulevard, Neptune Beach, FL 32266
Knowledgeable staff, wings are gluten free and beyond delicious!!!!
15550 Southwest 88th Street, Miami, FL 33196
Good meal, very knowledgeable but ran out of GF buns. Had shrimp entree wit broccoli
630 Stewart Avenue, Garden City, NY 11530
Very knowledgeable and attentive to allergies. Boneless wings are not GF but the bone in ones are! Some of the sauces are not GF but a lot of the main ones are. They have buns for sandwiches too and entire separate menu.
4579 Florida 20 #2, Niceville, FL 32578
very nice! gluten free buns that taste great! knowledgeable staff that will really go the distance for celiacs like me 👍
9 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
I got sick even after ordering off the gluten free menu.
3201 North Miami Avenue #103, The Shops at Midtown Miami, Miami, FL 33127
Nos dijeron que tenían menú celíaco y cuando vinimos al otro día no había nada sin gluten , nos atendieron muy mal, nos dijeron que no tenían personal y teníamos que esperar mucho en la mesa. Pésima atención y lugar, deben quitarlo de la lista.
2401 West State Road 434, Longwood, FL 32779
They have a "gluten sensitive" menu. I spoke with the waitress and told her I had celiac disease and please take all the precautions possible. I had their naked wings and ask for sauce on the side. I did it have any issues.
319 Lovell Road, Knoxville, TN 37934
They have a gluten free menu and when I used to go there one of the bartenders was extra helpful. a fair amount of sauces are gluten free and of course the chicken and proteins are good.
3345 Hempstead Turnpike, Levittown, NY 11756
Had a steak and fries. It was okay. Nothing special.
3351 West Burleigh Boulevard, Tavares, FL 32778
They have gluten free options, but I wouldn't say it is safe for celiacs
9 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
Poor gluten free menu, waitress did not have needed knowledge to ensure I was not served food that contained gluten.
4255 South A1A 13 & 14, St. Augustine, FL 32080
There seems to be a consistent issue irrespective of location where you will get incorrect answers depending on server. I contacted corporate a year ago but based on recent review here, it had ZERO effect.
25755 Perdido Beach Boulevard, Orange Beach, AL 36561
They have an online GF menu. We ordered my daughter's lunch off of that. She loved her shrimp.
9700 Medlock Bridge Road, Johns Creek, GA 30097
This is my second time eating at the Hurricane Grill and both times I've thoroughly enjoyed my meal. They have a very reduced GF menu, but the items on that were varied and I was told they do have a GF bun for the sandwich items. I may try that the next time I'm there. The disappointing thing was their side items. I'd have liked to have the rice that's served on the normal menu, but that wasn't there. And the broccoli was steamed only without the garlic Parmesan cheese. I did express my disappointment about that and the waitress brought me some grated Parmesan. That told me that they will work with you on "improving" what you've ordered. A number of the flavorings used in the cooking are not available (too bad that gluten is added to so many seasonings and sauces!). The price was reasonable, service good. I did ask for a GF menu when I entered and the girl manning the front told me that she didn't think they had one and that the items were noted on the regular menu. I knew this wasn't right, and so I asked the waitress for one and she brought it out to me.
4444 1st Ave. NE., Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
Nice gluten-free menu with several options.
11340 West Bell Road #103a, Surprise, AZ 85378
Great service, knowledgeable about gf and the wings were delicious!!
4255 South A1A 13 & 14, St. Augustine, FL 32080
went today and asked for the gluten free menu. They offer bone in wings with various sauces and rubs. I asked the waitress if the fryer was separate. She said yes. I then asked if they fry other things with the gluten free wings. She hurried to the kitchen to ask. When she returned she told me they do fry gluten containing items with the gluten free wings but the cook told her I shouldn't worry about it because the grease is so hot it'll kill most of the gluten! bahaha! Do not eat here. They have no clue!
4075 FL-7, Wellington, FL 33449
Full gluten sensitive menu and they have gluten free buns
4550 Donald Ross Road, Donald Ross Village, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418
they have a gluten free menu & very yummy gf buns for the sandwiches
25755 Perdido Beach Boulevard, Orange Beach, AL 36561
We were so impressed by the staff and the food that we went back a second day in a row. I've never been to a place where the chef was willing to try something new to see if he could turn a gluten menu item into a gluten free menu item. Also if you want nachos ask them to make kettle chips and use instead of nachos. It's amazing!!!
15550 Southwest 88th Street, Miami, FL 33196
loved the Celiac friendly options
25755 Perdido Beach Boulevard, Orange Beach, AL 36561
Had the grilled chicken on a gluten free bun and steamed broccoli. It was very good! Menu states that food is cooked on same grill so cross contamination is possible.
2027 Crossroads Boulevard, Waterloo, IA 50702
Delicious burgers! They offer great gluten-free buns.
4827 Lone Tree Way, Antioch, CA 94531
When I called to ask about preparing the food and what they cool things he could not answer me very well. They said they cook gluten free items in only that is not gluten free
756 Southwest Pine Island Road, Cape Coral, FL 33991
The atmosphere was laid back and the building itself was beautiful, but the staff completely lacks any knowledge of the seriousness of celiac/gluten intolerance. I asked the waitress for a gluten free menu, which had plenty of options, and emphasized that my sandwich needed to be completely gluten free. After taking a bite of my sandwich, which when it was given to me was declared as gluten free, I knew immediately that it was a regular wheat bun. I asked the waitress to please to go back ask the kitchen if they had used a gluten free bun, and they had not. She offered to bring out a gluten free bun for me to switch the content of my sandwich on to. I politely declined. The waitress admitted that this exact situation had happened to another customer the week prior, which tells me management did nothing to address the issue in the staff which caused this to happen. They took my meal off the bill and offered me coupons for free wings which they make in a shared fryer with boneless wings. Needless to say, I was poisoned due their carelessness, but I truly hope they educate themselves and don't continue hurting innocent customers who just wanted to enjoy a night out, but will instead, suffer through weeks of illness and pain.
4255 South A1A 13 & 14, St. Augustine, FL 32080
Excellent Gluten-free menu that includes a kids item. Awesome food.
10125 Glades Road, Mission Bay Plaza, Boca Raton, FL 33498
Last year I went here after being a loyal customer, only to find out their "gluten free" bone in wings are made in the same fryer as gluten filled items. I had always mentioned my celiac and not being able to have cross contamination but apparently they've given me non gluten free food for a while. Please update this if it changes.
3351 West Burleigh Boulevard, Tavares, FL 32778
They don't understand allergies whatsoever. Perfect place to go if you want a reaction.
1555 U.S. 1 #104, Vero Beach, FL 32962
I won't even give this place one star. This was by far the worst experience I have had with eating gluten free. Stay away if you need to eat gluten free .. It was a horrible experience.
10920 Baymeadows Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32256
Not very helpful. Their options are limited. They don't even have a gf dip or dressing, so the wait person told me. She was almost rude discussing my options.
801 East Pulaski Highway #181, Elkton, MD 21921
Had a seperate menu but not very knowledgeable. Food was nothing special. would not eat here again.
6240 Coral Ridge Drive, Coral Springs, FL 33076
Staff very friendly.. Manger very receptive to idea to add gluten free beer to the menu. Gluten free buns for burger a plus!!
275 Jericho Turnpike, Syosset, NY 11791
they have gluten free buns for the burgers which is a nice touch. food is okay not great
2027 Crossroads Boulevard, Waterloo, IA 50702
Glutened by a salad on the GF menu. Will not return!
1389 Kildaire Farm Road, Shoppes of Kildaire, Cary, NC 27511
I'm not celiac but have an allergy to most grains, especially wheat. Asked for their gluten free menu, the waiter seemed to be pretty nice about it. But was given a regular bun with my burger- even though I had asked for gluten free. We were literally the only people there so its not hard to screw up. Will not be going back.
127 East Montauk Highway, Lindenhurst, NY 11757
Delicious GF wings cooked in a separate fryer so they're safe!! Plenty of other options on the menu as well. A great find!
7450 West Chandler Boulevard, Chandler, AZ 85226
placed take out order for a gluten free bun. confirmed 3 times and when I got back to work it was the same as all the other orders. the person taking the order had no interest in the correct order until I returned it.
10920 Baymeadows Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32256
Had pulled pork on a GF bun with Honey Garlic sauce, 5 Jumbo wings (insanely HOT) they are! and 5 Jumbo wings (honey BBQ). Son had Seafood Bowl and fried green beans. Wife had Large Side House Salad & F. Green beans Very tasty. 3 diners 3 Thumbs Up! Under $60
9700 Medlock Bridge Road, Johns Creek, GA 30097
They have gluten sensitive menu and took the "allergy" very seriously. The manager came over and asked what we needed to make sure the kitchen was prepped the right way. She explained what she was going to have them do to prevent cross contamination. Very friendly and took the time to listen and accommodate us. Did not fully understand what celiac was but was willing to listen/learn and was not dismissive at all. She wanted to ensure that the girls did not get sick. She even came back to check on us.
15550 Southwest 88th Street, Miami, FL 33196
Delicious food the chicken salad lettuce wraps are to die for. The service was even better. Will definitely be back!
17790 Minnesota 7, Minnetonka, MN 55345
No beer, no wings-no dedicated fryer, do have gfree buns though. Service was less than stellar and the place was dirty.
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State AP Scores Rise Along With Participation Rate
OLYMPIA — February 20, 2013 — More Washington students are taking and passing Advanced Placement exams, according to a national report released today.
The College Board's ninth annual "AP Report to the Nation" shows that 20,581 Washington students (or 32.8 percent) in the class of 2012 took at least one AP exam. That number represents an increase of 1,276 (6.6 percent) from 2011 and 12,068 (62.5 percent) from 2002.
Not only did participation increase again this year, so did scores. In 2012, 20.0 percent of Washington's 12th graders scored a three or greater – a score that generally qualifies for college credit – on an AP test. In 2011, 18.4 percent of students scored a three or greater; in 2002, 9.6 percent.
The 10.4 percentage-point increase in the past 10 years ranks Washington eighth among all states. The national average for the same period was 7.9 percent.
"We're seeing great results all over the state," said Randy Dorn, state superintendent. "More students are taking AP tests, and more are passing them. And that's helping them be prepared for college and career."
Compared to 2011 results, the number of test takers and college-ready scores increased for all subgroups:
"Our students are up for the challenge," said Barb Dittrich, supervisor for the AP program at the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. "AP courses and exams are rigorous. Our teachers are doing a great job of helping students succeed at this high level."
AP exams, which are offered in 34 subjects, are given each May and are scored on a scale from one to five. The most popular AP exams for Washington's class of 2012 were (in order): English language, U.S. history, English literature, calculus AB, U.S. government and politics, world history, biology, statistics, chemistry and psychology.
Washington ranked 15th in the nation with the greatest number of 12th graders (20.0 percent) scoring three or greater on AP exams – Maryland was first at 29.6 percent. The national average was 19.5 percent.
For more information and to view the "AP Report to the Nation," including state-by-state results, please visit www.collegeboard.com/apreport.
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Control System Migration
Reduce Costs and Risk by Following These Control System Migration Best Practices
By Nigel James
Control system migration projects go better with best practices. This is not a place you want to be flying by the seat of your pants. The following is a guideline for consistent and accurate planning and execution of control system migration projects. Adopting these practices will reduce project costs, shorten the project schedule, and reduce risk. These practices will also improve plant operation after the migration, particularly in the area of operator efficiency.
Selecting the New System
Once the decision is made that a new control system is needed, the next challenge is to determine the best one. The first rule of thumb is to not allow the selection process to become an emotional debate. Fortunately, there is a specific process that can reduce the subjectivity of the selection by prioritizing needed control system functions and features.
The first step is to build a list of selection criteria. These can range from vendor technical support to HMI features. The designated decision makers should then prioritize these criteria. Assign a weight or use a multiplier to determine prioritization. A matrix of these criteria with weighting factors should then be used to populate the vertical axis of a decision matrix. On the horizontal axis, the various control systems being considered should be listed.
An example is shown in Table 1. A weight of three indicates highest importance, while a weight of one indicates lowest importance. Each vendor is ranked against each criterion on a scale of one to three, with three indicating best performance and one indicating worst performance. Each criterion weight is then multiplied by each vendor's ranking, and these subtotals are added to determine a total score with higher numbers indicating better performance.
Gathering information to rank each control system can be challenging. Corporate engineering groups, engineering firms or independent system integrators are a good choice for assimilating this information because many times facility end users do not have detailed technical information on a variety of vendors. The vendors themselves are not unbiased, and tend to only provide the upside of their products.
Once this data is gathered, populating the remainder of the matrix with scores is the next step. After this is completed, a quantitative score is achieved, and the highest quantitative scores represent the control systems that will best satisfy end-user priorities. While this process is subjective in terms of prioritization of criteria and applying rankings to control systems, it generally reduces debate, documents the decision-making process, and helps a facility or company determine priorities.
Front-End Project Definition
A requirement for successful migration projects is a thorough up-front engineering study to define the detailed work scope, and estimate the overall cost of migration. It's not enough to take an educated guess at the requirements and costs of a migration project, hope for the best, and immediately move to the full engineering phase.
Migration projects are often much more complex than they appear at first glance. If done correctly, a Front-End Loading Study (FELS) should identify any potential difficulties with a migration project, and should provide plans to mitigate risks.
Why Migration Projects Fail
The granularity of the FELS will determine if additional deliverables are needed, and to what level the estimate and scope of work are detailed. The goal of this effort is not to complete detailed engineering, but to verify and quantify all primary functions on a project.
Engineering/Procurement/Construction Checklists
One of the reasons that migration projects often fail to address key components during the engineering phase is that these projects typically occur at 10-15 year intervals. Because they are not common projects, there is less knowledge of some of the hidden gotchas, making it imperative to use comprehensive migration checklists.
Engineering and system integration companies that have these checklists available are often a good resource for the engineering services needed for a migration project. Checklists provide for consistent design and improve overall quality. The checklists serve as information gathering tools to assist in developing a comprehensive scope definition for a migration project.
Detailed Cutover Planning
An effective detailed cutover plan addresses the following questions:
- What methodology is going to be used for cutting individual I/O over to the new system?
- In what sequence is I/O going to be cutover?
- What adjustments will operations need to make during the cutover?
- What staff is required for the cutover?
- What is required from a checkout standpoint to call a point migrated?
The cutover portion of a project is typically the most visible aspect of project execution. The decision to perform a hot cutover or use a window of outage time is always the primary decision that determines the details of the cutover plan. Regardless of plan is used, the cutover plan should at a minimum include:
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INDIAN BIKE"This is a 1915 Indian bike I took across the country in the motorcycle cannonball race. I'm repairing the engine at the moment. I have another race next year with this bike - from Florida to Washington state. That's a long race on this bike!"Leather seat"My friend produces the seats for my bikes. He is also Japanese and we have been working together for nearly 20 years. The seat usually gets finished last, depending on the design."
MY CAR"This is a British car, a 1964 Cortina. I bought it over on the East Coast of America - in Florida. I have owned it for five years. I like old cars."
Motorcycle"This is a Honda CT105 from the 1960s. I've named it the Honda Handsome SS - for obvious reasons!"DUCATI BADGE"I make the badges by hand. This one is in brass."
Knife with Sheaf"I was sent this last week by [my partner] Ayu's uncle who lives in Oregon. I'm not sure what I'll use it for yet but I love the way it looks."Family photographs"This is of my mother, father and my older brother. I come from a family of five children. This is a picture of my father's rivet factory in downtown Tokyo."
Metal sculpture on rail"I make sculpture in my spare time - which is not that often at the moment. This one is made from engine parts and sculpted metal."Racing bike"I love this bike. I have been racing on it for about seven years."
KNITTED TOPS"These tops are both made by an old knitting company in the US - Dehen. It made them especially for me to race in."
MALLET"This is the only tool I use for forming the parts. I like the way it feels in my hands."Tools on wall"I really love tools. They are so heavy and tough. I find many of them in flea markets here in America."BMW TANK"This is a tank I have hand-beaten from sheet aluminum. It's almost finished. The bike doesn't have a name yet - I do this right when it's finished."
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With independent custom shops popping up all over the world's hippest, design-conscious communities, motorcycles are taking the place of the now ubiquitous track bike in the hearts of hungry hipsters looking for a cooler fix. Unlike the majority of pretenders to the scene of customised motorcycle design however, 51-year-old Mr Shinya Kimura is humble and focused, continuing his nearly 30 years of dedicated work beyond both the limelight and flux of trends and impulses - and all despite the fact his bikes are owned by the likes of Mr Brad Pitt.
The founder of Zero Engineering, the Japanese bike studio that jump-started the craze for custom motorcycles back in 1992 with its stripped-back, bare metal and zero styling, Mr Kimura began his current practice, Chabott Engineering, in 2006. "For me a motorcycle is more than art," explains Mr Kimura as he tinkers with his latest project, "it is something that brings out my instincts, the wildness and vulnerability in me." With around a two-year waiting list and a price-on-application format for one of his minimalist, hand-crafted works, his creations certainly have an elitist appeal that make them dream toys for cash-rich, time-rich types.
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Get an overview of this hotelSimplicity near the slopes with a complimentary breakfast
Popular property highlights
Located near the slopes, this Big Sky hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Big Sky Town Center and Big Sky Golf Course and close to winter sports such as cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. Big Sky Community Park and Ousel Falls Park are also within 2 mi (3 km).
Hotel Features
Cozy up to a roaring lobby fireplace at River Rock Lodge after an exciting day on the slopes.
Room Amenities
All 29 rooms provide conveniences like refrigerators and coffee makers, plus free WiFi and TVs with cable channels. DVD players, premium bedding, and free local calls are among the other amenities available to guests.
Guest Highlights
- Good location
- Breakfast
- Helpful staff
- Clean guestrooms
- Guestroom size
- Overall room comfort
- Location was a bit noisy
River Rock Lodge
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Hotel Amenities
Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. Wireless Internet access is complimentary. This ski hotel also offers a spa tub, tour/ticket assistance, and a picnic area. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
River Rock Lodge is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Concierge services
- Conference space
- Fireplace in lobby
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Meeting rooms 2
- Number of floors - 2
- Total number of rooms - 29
- Picnic area
- Free self parking
- Ski shuttle
- Smoke-free property
- Spa tub
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Refrigerator
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Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
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Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
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- Daily housekeeping
- Iron/ironing board
- Free WiFi
- Premium bedding
- Private bathroom
- Refrigerator
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I'd say Slick by far, Bird second, Brown third
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I'd say Slick by far, Bird second, Brown third
Smothered Chicken!
I voted for Larry Legend cause he took us to the finals.
Rick proved nothing except that he took a very talented team and managed to destroy it. Fair or not, it happened on his watch and he had to be accountable.
Larry Brown had the most solid teams in Pacers History and couldn't get it done.
I couldn't vote for Slick cause his NBA years was horrid and well the ABA wasn't the NBA and we live in the NBA era. If you want to talk ABA separately, I'd put Slick as the best ABA coach ever.
Garbage players get 1st round picks, (WTF)! All of the NBA must hate the Pacers! LOL
I don't get the whole "I never saw Slick coach so I can't vote for him" excuse.
I never saw Red Auerbach coach, but that doesn't mean if someone asked, "Who is the best coach on this list: Red Auerbach, Mike Dunleavy Sr, or Jim O'Brien?" I'd not pick him. Hell, if we're gonna play that game, .....I never saw Bill Russell play, so therefore Troy Murphy and Ike Diogu were better players than him.
Slick won hardware here. Multiple pieces. Only 1 other guy came close to winning one, and didn't succeed.
Answer is a no-brainer.
Yeah, like when he chased Neto into the locker room with a broom.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
Hockey stick.
Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you
Okay fine,
I never saw Bill Russell play, so therefore Reggie Miller and Ray Allen were better players than him.
Happy now?
"Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "
I am the same way as a lot of people, as I am too young to remember Slick. I want to say Rick is the best cause we had a solid team with excellent D, something we haven't had since. I choose Larry Brown cause he was the coach that took us from mid-level/bottom feeders to a contending team.
The first thing to do is agree on how to qualify them.
I mean if your #1 priority is final results, Slick has 3 titles.
If your #1 priority is pure knowledge of how to play and coach the game, I'm looking at either Larry Brown or Rick Carlisle.
You could also make the case that Larry Bird was great because he was wise enough to do what he knew how to do (lead, make the big decisions) while finding great people to delegate to with regards to what he wasn't able to do, and he successfully found two great people to do that for him (Dick Harter and Rick Carlisle). He gets major kudos from me for doing it that way rather than try to pretend to be something he was not, plus he got some pretty good results during his 3 seasons.
It seems impossible for me to give a definitive answer because I want to know more about the details of Slick's coaching. If he was the complete package (leader/motivator, decision maker, X's and O's, teacher), then it's no contest. If he had holes, then it becomes more debatable. You could also argue it was easier to win ABA titles than NBA titles back then, so we don't know how things would have gone if the Pacers were always an NBA team. No one likes to think about that, but I think there's truth to it.
Slick, at age 8,392, is still razor-sharp about basketball strategy and the technical stuff. You can tell that during every broadcast. Listen when his mike is turned off and he's have a conversation with a ref, or one of the players, or somebody else and you can hear it over Mark's microphone. He's sharp. In that era, being weak on strategy or x's and o's was a nonstarter. Coaches dealt with whatever roster they were given, or they got fired.
And there's no doubt that his team loved playing for him, drinking with him, smoking cigarettes with him, he was the patriarch of the Pacers family.
Could the modern players deal with him? I don't know, discipline was fairly important for him.
Complete package. He was Brown and Bird combined. Or a version of Rick Carlisle that the players didn't hate.
Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
Till we fall away in our own darkness, a stranger to our own hearts
And life itself, rushing over me
Life itself, the wind in black elms,
Life itself in your heart and in your eyes, I can't make it without you
I'm going to go with Larry Bird. Even though he was only a coach for 3 years, I felt he got the most out of his players. Even though he wasn't an x's and o's type of coach, his leadership and motivational skills were excellent. Advancing to 3 ECF's in a row including a Finals appearance is impressive.
Being unable to close out a game in which you have a comfortable lead in the 4th Q = Pulling a Frank Vogel
I was raised by a UCLA basketball player who taught me Wooden fundamentals all growing up. It was pretty much assumed you wouldn't find that in the NBA.
Then one day in the mid 90s I turn on an NBA playoff game and see the Pacers for the first time. I was entranced. These guys knew how to really play basketball.
It wasn't until about halfway through Bird's second year as coach that I realized I was actually a Larry Brown fan. Bird was a fine coach, but the differences, to me, were clear. However, by that time I had gotten attached to Pacer basketball, involved with the beginnings of an online forum, and caught up in the soap opera of an NBA franchise. So I remained a fan, and have checked into the forum on pretty much a daily basis for 15 years. That's Larry Brown's doing, ultimately.
"Look, it's up to me to put a team around ... Lance right now." Kevin Pritchard press conference


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Salvy gearing up for first All-Star Game start
ST. PETERSBURG -- Salvador Perez says he's excited about getting to start the All-Star Game on July 15 at Target Field as the American League catcher, but probably not more than his mother, Yilda.
"She's happy, she's coming to Minneapolis," he said.
Perez's mother, in fact, moved up her plans to return from Venezuela to visit her son so she could see the All-Star Game.
Closer Greg Holland, who'll join Perez and left fielder Alex Gordon on the AL roster, called the starting assignment well-deserved.
"The only bad part is, I told him he was going to have to catch all nine in case I got to throw," Holland said.
In last year's game at New York's Citi Field, all three Royals entered the game in the seventh and Perez caught Holland as he faced two batters.
"He's a special player, defensively and offensively. He's really just scratching the surface, as far as being a young guy," Holland said. "You don't even realize he's 24, it seems like he's a veteran the way he manages a game, the way he controls the running, the way he blocks balls. I think his capability hitting is kind of undervalued because he's such a good defensive catcher. The kid can really hit, too."
Perez got the starting nod from his fellow players because the fan-elected starter, the Orioles' Matt Wieters, is out for the season. The last Royal to start an All-Star Game was right fielder Jermaine Dye in 2000. The only other Royals catcher to start an All-Star Game was Darrell Porter in 1979.
"It's a special moment for him and it's great that our team is starting to get recognized individually," Holland said.
Dick Kaegel is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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What did you end up deciding last year?
I know football was really important to me and I'm going to reiterate what BSA said. You only get one shot to play football in your life, but you can hunt forever. I guess it depends on how much you like playing and what football means to you.
Just a little personal experience, I played all through high school and even played five years of college football and I still had time to hunt. Not as much time as I would have liked (ie I couldn't do many backcountry, extended trips), but I still hunted hard with the time I had and still shot plenty of animals. In high school it was a little different since rifle season tended to take place mostly after the football season but I still made it out archery hunting too. One day I made it out after practice and was full draw on mule deer buck before dusk. I never shot because I didn't feel comfortable with the shot but I still made it out. Your games will be on Friday nights and you'll have the whole weekend to hunt right? College was quite a bit harder to make time but we always had Sunday mornings and Mondays off. I always made sure to schedule my classes so I had Monday afternoons off in the fall so I could at least get an afternoon hunt in every Monday. I started focusing the tags I put in for around opportunity for high success (antelope units with high numbers for example). One time after an away game, our plane got in past two in the morning, took a quick nap, drove several hours to the hunting area just past sunrise, glassed over a few herds of antelope, made a stalk, shot my first antelope and was back in town by noon, just in time of Sunday workout and film. It wasn't a monster by any means, but I shot nice buck in the midst of a busy schedule. I did stunts like this a lot through college. I didn't have a lot of time, but I still made time. I guess my point is that if you really want to do both, it is definitely taxing, but you can do it. And if you can't do both, you're gonna have to consider how important playing ball is to you. I missed a lot of hunting opportunities because of football, but I really wanted to do both.
Another thing to consider is to apply for later season hunts or switch weapons for a year.


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Thanks for the advice. I'm really curious about which one I'll like better (TI Buzzz, Warship, and Core). I have a feeling it will be between the Warship and the Buzzz, but the Warship will probably win out in the end because it has a cooler name (haha JK). I'm really just trying to make sure my bag is set and I have extra's for everything before I go to the Am Championships on the 28th. I know it will look like Rhynos, Anodes, Rocs, Teebirds, Leopards, Firebird, Banshee, Avenger SS', Avengers, and Kings.
The Warship, Core, and Buzzz will be competing for a spot. The Sword and Blizz Boss will also be trying to make the bag (not really competing though). I'm also trying to get my hands on a blizzard destroyer. Hopefully I can if the trade goes through.


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Analyze this!
Measurement and control of physical properties such as level and flow are the heart of process control. But measurement and control of the molecular composition of a process stream are also of vital importance.
By Dan Hebert, PE, Senior Technical Editor
Measuring physical properties is no longer a problem for most processes. Vendors are able to deliver instruments that are cheap, reliable and accurate. Unfortunately, this is not the case with the online analyzers used to measure the molecular composition of liquids and gasses. They have a well-deserved reputation for being expensive, unreliable and prone to drift and inaccuracy. The good news is that the technology is getting better, and we have some real-world examples to prove it.
Why Go Online?
Process plants have been analyzing liquids and gasses and even solids for a long time, but much of this analysis has been performed in on-site labs. Since most process plants know how to analyze offline, why should major changes be made to go online?
"Real-time viscosity measurement improves our timing, therefore, we end up with less variation," says Danny Cox, corporate process control supervisor at polyester resin maker AOC, Collierville, Tenn. Moving online and measuring viscosity at the reactors allowed technicians to cool the reactor and stop the reactions immediately once they hit a desired viscosity.
Dare County Water of Dare County, N.C., installed online free chlorine residual analyzers at remote pumping stations. "Unlike our prior offline analysis, we now have continuous monitoring of chlorine levels, alarming if chlorination equipment malfunctions and trending capabilities to monitor the effects of dosage changes," reports Dare County Water utilities director Ken Flatt.
Moving analysis online yields real-time measurements and ultimately faster cycle times. "In real-time applications faster cycle times are essential to permit detection of small process deviations," according to Steve Miller, the chief technology officer at Scott's Specialty Gases, Plumsteadville, Pa.
Scott's application is the low-level analysis of moisture in corrosive gases for the electronics industry. The company is evaluating a Tiger Optics analyzer configured specifically for this application. "Our objectives are to determine that the instrument is able to make an accurate, repeatable and traceable measurement of moisture at and below 1 part per million in a corrosive gas matrix. Once it is proven that the measurements meet our quality standards, we will move on to investigate the potential of the analyzer as online unit," says Miller, adding, "For five months the analyzer has survived a steady diet of corrosive gases with no noticeable detrimental effects. The main benefit that we have observed in our testing thus far is that the wet-up (response to moisture with sample or cal gas)/dry-down (with dry purge gas) cycle times are three to five times faster than with other analyzer types. We attribute this benefit to the low wetted surface area of the analyzer afforded by the compact design of the cavity ring-down spectroscopy cell.
Online Measurements Versus Lab Measurements
Challenges of Going Online
"Pressure, level, flow and temperature are physical properties where accurate measurements are considered less difficult to achieve than the process measurements made by analyzers, which must determine the molecular composition of a process stream," says Doug Simmers, worldwide combustion product line manager for the Rosemount Analytical Gas division of Emerson Process Management. "The chemical sensor of a process analyzer is often in direct contact with the process stream to provide accurate molecular composition readings, leaving the sensor unprotected from degradation. Process analyzers also tend to drift more in their readings than physical measurement transmitters because they provide measurements in the miniscule ppm range."
Jason Kuzmiak, the BioTector product manager at Ohmart/VEGA, adds, "Analyzers must take samples that are often corrosive, volatile, oily and/or fatty into their sensing chamber. Their complexity often relates to pre-treating the samples to make them measurable within the sensing chamber. This complexity is even more pronounced when dealing with gas analysis."
Another significant challenge is converting the analyzer's output signal to a format recognizable by the control system. "When we moved our reactor viscosity measurement online, we had to covert the serial output from the analyzer to an OPC format in order to tie it to the control system," says AOC's Cox.
For some end users, the challenges are so great that they are forced to verify online measurements in the lab continually. "For dissolved oxygen analyzers, we have experience with every type of technology, and we have not found any satisfactory for reliability and accuracy," says Philip Daniels, engineering supervisor at the King County Wastewater Treatment Division, Seattle.
"The dissolved oxygen process is not easy to monitor on a continuing basis without a lot of maintenance and continuous equipment attention," he adds. "We make grab samples for the lab several times a day to verify the accuracy of the meters. We then basically use the online analyzers for relative control without real concern for the accuracy, only the short-term repeatability."
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Injured Nolasco throws bullpen with no issues
KANSAS CITY -- Injured right-hander Ricky Nolasco joined the Twins on their road trip through Kansas City and Chicago, and threw a bullpen session without any issues on Tuesday.
Nolasco, who is on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to July 7 with a right elbow strain, is scheduled to throw his next bullpen on Thursday. The right-hander threw only fastballs and changeups in Tuesday's bullpen session.
He's also tentatively scheduled to throw a third bullpen session on Sunday, but he could skip it if all goes well Thursday and he's ready to start a rehab assignment.
"As long as he continues to progress he's getting closer to going on a rehab assignment," Twins assistant general manager Rob Antony said. "He's here with the club. He threw under the watchful eye of [pitching coach] Rick Anderson and everything went well."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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With her recent apology for stating the obvious, that a child of privilege such as Justin Trudeau has some nerve speaking for the middle class, Liberal leadership candidate Martha Hall Findlay should be pulling up stakes now and saving herself another load of debt.
She obviously has no political spine.
Some of the pro-Trudeau media, however, decided to interpret the literal truth of Hall Findlay's statement as an "over-the-top claim," the word "claim" obviously being key to suggesting that Justin Trudeau's privileged status was somehow fiction, and that he is actually more akin to the eldest son of a poor sharecropper who had neither the proverbial pot nor the window.
Now that's over the top, but it's also the kind of how-dare-she hyperbole many in the media were using to castigate Hall Findlay.
Instead of telling the media that was running with such bunk to check out the proof of that comes with Trudeau's reality, however, Hall Findlay immediately went to her website and posted this mea culpa.
"There are some who believe that I overstepped a line in (last Saturday's) leadership debate," she wrote. "To Justin, his family and to those who were offended, I apologize."
This punting on first down was embarrassing to watch, particularly coming from a woman who is trying to convince Canadians she can run a country and, because of this belief in herself, is taking her second kick at the Liberal leadership.
But, as one pundit rightfully noted, Hall Findlay isn't exactly a prize, having lost more elections than she has won, and is such an underwhelming politician that it took her six years to pay off the debt from her first leadership bid in 2006 where she finished, well, dead last.
If Hall Findlay has anything to apologize for, it's for thinking again that she is leadership material.
The facts of Trudeau's inherited wealth and privilege speak for themselves unless, of course, every middle class kid in Canada grew up at
24 Sussex with an iconic father as prime minister, never had a part-time job flipping burgers at McDonald's, and never had to worry about university tuition, let alone the price of staples such as Kraft Dinner.
Last time Trudeau Jr.'s curriculum vitae was checked, there was no degree from the School of Hard Knocks.
Such a degree isn't necessary, of course, but it helps.
It helps the middle class relate.
While Hall Findlay was grovelling for forgiveness from the politically correct and a disconnected liberal media, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney was pulling no punches in calling a silver spoon a silver spoon.
"Mr. Trudeau is not in touch with the values or the real issues that face ordinary Canadians," he said, shortly after Hall Findlay's pullback. "I don't really know what his background is. I don't think he's ever run anything.
"If I were a Liberal, as I used to be, I wouldn't be inclined to vote for a guy who has zero executive experience, zero governing experience and zero record of putting forward substantive ideas to address the tough issues of the day."
In the week that has passed, however, no one in the pro-Liberal, pro-Trudeau media, and certainly no one among the supposed pretenders to the Liberal throne, has stepped outside the love-in to accuse Kenney of making an "over-the-top claim" about the younger Trudeau's lack of legitimate credentials.
Justin Trudeau is what he is, but he's not what he's not.
He's charismatic, he's handsome, he's rich and he's privileged, and he has a mythical name in Canada rivalling that of the Kennedy clan in America. He's so steeped in privilege and entitlement, in fact, that he obviously sees no ethical or moral problem leaving his post in the House of Commons to slip out to make a $20,000 speech here and there, and take the money even if it is coming out of public or charitable coffers.
Yes, he is what he is.
What he's not, however, is deserving of adoration or idol worship.
Yet no Liberal has the courage to be that blunt.
— Bonokoski is Sun Media's national editorial writer
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