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This is Link/URL shortening open source project, simillar to services like googl, tinyUrl, bitly etc developed in ASP.Net MVC 5.
MS SQL server is used as database backend.
1. Creates short URL from long URL
2. Create alias for short URL
3. Member management
4. Sharing short URLs within social networks
5. Export/Import URLs
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This rice crispy treats recipe will change the way you make rice crispies forever!!! It is as simple as the original recipe, but with one extra "secret ingredient" that makes them not only sweet, but creamy- Biscoff Spread!
Creamy Rice Krispie Treats
- 3 tablespoons of butter
- 1/3 cup of Biscoff Spread
- 1- 10 oz. package of miniature marshmallows
- 6 cups rice crispy cereal
- Non-Stick cooking spray
- Spay a 13×9 inch baking dish with non-stick spray. Set aside.
- Melt butter and Biscoff Spread over the stove in a large nonstick saucepan.
- Add marshmallows to the butter mixture and stir until completely melted.
- Mix in rice crispy cereal and stir until completely coated.
- Spread the mixture evenly into your greased pan using a spatula sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes, or until cool.
- Cut into squares and serve!
Yep, with just 1/3 cup of Biscoff Spread, your rice crispy treats will go from sweet and sticky to creamy and delicious!
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - This past May, in a story about mortgage foreclosures, we told you about one man's experience renting a home in Fort Lauderdale from the home's owner, real estate agent Sheri Edewaard.
In that story, we reported the home she'd leased to him last year had been in foreclosure, and he'd received an eviction notice a few months after he'd moved in giving him 24 hours to leave the property.
We want to make clear that the home's new owner, who'd bought it at auction, had given the man an extra thirty days to move out.
After our story aired the new owner accused the man of damaging the property, and the two are now in a legal dispute over the condition of the home when he left.
We regret any confusion our story may have caused.
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Trace Adkins has admitted that he was reluctant to join the cast of The Celebrity Apprentice: All-Stars.
The country music star previously finished as runner-up on The Celebrity Apprentice in 2008, but has said that he did not enjoy his experience on the show.
Adkins told reporters at the TCAs over the weekend that he only signed up for All-Stars to raise money for the Red Cross, which aided him when his home burned down in 2011.
"The only reason that I would do a reality television show is because this one at least has a shred of nobility because of the charitable aspect of it," he declared, reports Entertainment Weekly. "That's the only reason that I even considered coming and doing something like this."
He added: "I held [producers] off for a month or so, kept telling them, 'No, I'm not ever going [back]'. The first time I was on The Celebrity Apprentice was one of the most stressful periods of my adult life, and I didn't want to come back and do it again. So it took my house burning down to get me to come back."
(Pictured Above: 'Celebrity Apprentice' cast announced on 'Today')
Adkins went on to insist that The Celebrity Apprentice: All-Stars was also stressful, but much more enjoyable than his first season.
"It puts me in a position where I'm forced to tolerate individuals that I normally wouldn't tolerate. And just I don't live my life like that. I don't have to spend time around people that I abhor," he said.
The musician concluded: "This year wasn't that way... it was a great experience."
His fellow Celebrity Apprentice: All-Stars contestant Omarosa also expressed complaints about the show this week, claiming that guest mentor Piers Morgan unfairly targeted her for firing in the boardroom.
"It wasn't a mentor environment," Omarosa said. "It was the most toxic experience - I mean, to the point where my castmates went - on my behalf - to the powers that be, because it was so vile and so vicious and so personal."
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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/15/review_canon_ixus_950is/
Canon Ixus 950 IS compact digital camera
If anyone can...
Posted in Personal Tech, 15th June 2007 12:51 GMT
Review The new Ixus 950 IS from Canon is an example of a quality, eight-megapixel compact digital camera comfortably sitting at the top end of the mid-range. Known as the SD850 IS across the Pond, it features a 4x zoom lens, with 2.5in LCD display, red-eye correction and a sensitivity of 1600 ISO with auto ISO shift.
Despite being just a little bit chunkier - and heavier - than most other compacts in the same class, it still measures a pocket-sized 9.0 x 5.7 x 2.6cm and weighs in at 165g. The Ixus 950 IS feels solid, sturdy and well-made, despite giving the fragile first impression typical of many shiny, semi-expensive gadgets like compact digital cameras.
Every element of Ixus' casing is kitted out with stylish curved lines and the whole thing is constructed from an aluminium composite with an attractive three-tone metal finish. Filthy fingerprints don't really stick to this shiny surface, except on the LCD, of course, so it's quite easy to keep clean. Only the AV output/USB port has a clip-close plastic cover. Like almost every compact digital camera of this class, it features a textured thumb grip on the back that helps the device to be firmly held.
The LCD monitor comes with a 2.5in, 30,000-pixel resolution display - twice the resolution of the Pentax Optio M30, reviewd here - and is big and bright, adjustable to one of 15 different brightness levels. Most importantly, it has a non-reflective coating that makes shooting in bright sunlight considerably less painful than with other compact cameras currently available.
Honestly, this simple feature can make such a difference if you're remotely serious about photography. If the sun's high and bright in the sky or simply reflecting off snow-covered slopes, the ability to actually see the LCD monitor can be critical in framing a shot.
You navigate through the Ixus' menu system using a combination of a thumbwheel-style mode dial embedded in the upper right side and a more conventional touch control dial positioned below this. A total of 18 pre-set shooting modes are available - through the mode dial you can select one of five operational settings: Playback, Automatic, Manual, Special Scene or Movie.
Playback allows you to view the pictures you've taken. Automatic mode is fairly self-explanatory, but under Manual, the Ixus 950 IS provides access to image manipulation settings rather than the exposure controls you might expect to find. Manual includes th Digital Macro setting, which allows you to shoot when the distance from the lens to the subject is within 2-50cm; Colour Accent, which allows you to keep one colour and transform the others to black and white; Colour Swap, allowing you to change colours around; and under Stitch Assist you can create a long panoramic picture by overlapping many individual images.
And under Special Scene you can opt for Portrait mode, Night Snapshot, Kids & Pets, Indoor, Creative Light Effect, Foliage, Snow, Beach, Fireworks, Aquarium, and Underwater - which requires Canon's waterproof WP-DC15 case, sold separately.
Movie mode lets you shoot VGA - 640 x 480 resolution - movies at 30fps with stereo sound. And in addition, the Time Lapse Movie function can capture changing scenes, for example a flower slowly blooming, drifting clouds or a bustling city street - and accelerate the playback to save them as (relatively) smooth video clips. This feature worked well when we tried it, and the Time Lapse function was fun to play with... for a while, at least. However, if you're serious about using this feature, we'd recommend you consider investing in a tripod. A simple one will suffice, as stability proved to a bit tricky to maintain for an extended period of time.
Finding your way around the menu is reasonably straightforward and everything is more or less where you expect to find it. Through this dual-control dial operation you can select or alter settings and even assign useful functions to the Shortcut button for one-touch access.
Of course, any compact digital camera is susceptible to daily wear and tear. LCD displays can get scratched and shutters can get damaged. The Ixus 950 IS is a camera you'll want to look after. It deserves respect. This is a compact you will be proud to show off and it definitely feels durable enough to withstand a bumpy ride even with minimal, common-sense protection - such as keeping it in a soft case. Naturally, a hard case of sorts is better and it goes without saying that the more you look after it, the better condition it will remain in.
It only takes a second both to power up the Ixus and to shut it down - a telltale sign of the high quality of this camera and one reason among many as to why it's positioned at the top end of the mid-range compact market.
Canon makes a bit of a fuss about its "Face Detection AF/AE/FE" technology: it's designed to automatically detect the subjects in the frame and selects the optimum focus, exposure and flash settings for flesh. You can tag each image based on face detection setting and shooting mode to make it easier to find for future reference.
We ultimately found this worked well sometimes but produced some less impressive results on other ocassions. It is, in essence, a feature that presents the user with a pre-programmed setting of sorts based on surrounding light conditions. Again, we got mixed results especially when photographing drunken punters in a dimly lit pub, although most images were quite reasonable and required only a little post-production Photoshopping to turn them into something resembling respectable.
This was also the much the case when using the auto-focus. It locks on very quickly in good light, often leaving us actually wondering if it had and prompting a double check. But of course it struggled a little more in darkened conditions. When in its continuous shooting mode, the Ixus 950 IS averages a rate of one frame every 1.3 seconds until the inserted SD, SDHC or MMC memory card is full - a 32MB memory card comes bundled with the camera, as there is no internal memory.
Images are generally impressive. Colours look sharp and accurate, even at the Ixus' lowest ISO settings. There isn't any noise until you reach ISO 200, but even this is just a light covering of slightly off-colour splotches that's barely evident on computer displays and won't show on prints. It's much the same at ISO 400, with a just-about-detectable increase that still won't hash up your hard copies. Noise becomes more noticable at ISO 800 resulting in the loss of a little detail, and adding a little grain to prints.
To our surprise darker colours started to become washed out at this point. However, a reasonable amount of shadow detail still remained. At the camera's highest sensitivity setting, ISO 1600, most fine detail is obscured by noise, and a lot of shadow detail is lost. Rather than a fine grain, the noise is larger and causes a blotchy appearance. It's probably a good idea to stay below ISO 1600 if you plan on making prints and below ISO 800 if you plan to make prints larger than about 10 x 8 inches.
Standard landscape auto-focus image taken with the Canon Ixus 950IS
Standard landscape auto-focus image taken with the Casio Ex Z1200
Standard landscape auto-focus image taken with the Pentax Optio M30
Standard landscape auto-focus image taken with the Pentax Optio S30
Standard landscape auto-focus image taken with the Pentax Optio T30
Canon's Ixus 950 IS offers great performance, good image quality and solid image stabilisation, with the convenience of face detection, which seemed to work quite well - better than we expected, truth be told. On the downside, the quality of images at ISO 1600 is a little poor and there is no manual exposure control, plus the on/off button is a little awkward to switch on, though the flipside of that is that it will never get activated by accident. Overall though, the Ixus 950 IS has just about everything you could possibly ask for in a compact camera all contained in a very stylish, durable three-tone metal casing.


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Glorified Hash brown Casserole is a dish you will like if you enjoy the well known Hash Brown Casserole. What makes this recipe different? This one is hearty enough to enjoy as a whole meal. This one features ham, bell peppers, and onions to make this one very hearty.
When growing up I didn't think casseroles with potatoes got any better than that a cheesy potato casserole. This recipe has had a few updates. First off this one really can be eaten as a meal. By adding ham and sauteed vegetables we have a dish that is filling enough for a meal. Also, this recipe is a little lighter in the fat content, we aren't using the sour cream. You won't even miss the sour cream in this one.
Glorified Hash Brown Casserole
Glorified Hash Brown Casserole is an easy to make hearty casserole. Diced ham, sauteed bell peppers and onions really update this classic dish.
- 2 pounds frozen hash browns
- 1 can cream of celery soup
- 3/4 cups chopped onions
- 1 cup bell pepper chopped (you can use red or green)
- 2 cups diced ham
- 8 ounces grated cheddar cheese
- 2 tablespoons butter melted
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large skillet melt 2 tablespoons of butter over medium heat. Saute onions, bell peppers, and ham until the onions are clear, and ham has browned. In a large bowl combine hash browns sauteed ham and vegetables and 1 can on condensed soup. Stir until hash browns are coated. Pour potatoes into a 9 x 13 inch pan that has been sprayed with non-stick spray. Sprinkle half of the cheese over the casserole and cover with foil. Bake for approximately 45 minutes, remove foil, add the remaining cheese and return to the oven, and cook for an additional 15 minutes. The cheese should begin to brown when the casserole is ready.Print Recipe
this sounds good, i can see myself serving this with sunday dinner. thank you for sharing!
This is one of those great recipes for evenings when you've got no time (or motivation) for wrangling the details of a complex recipe. This is simply chopping + sautee'ing a couple of veggies, then dumping all the store-bought ingredients into a pan and baking it up.
Tastes great, and is very satisfying. (Made mine with a can of cream of chicken soup, since we always have those in the cupboard.) As a bonus, it tastes just as good reheated for a microwaved leftover lunch.
I am a big fan of recipes like this. I don't always like putting a lot of effort into a meal. This dish also tastes very good reheated. Which means it is a great dish to bring to work and heat up.
Thanks for this recipe (and video) for glorified hash brown casserole. It looks like quite a delicious dish.
What's the purpose of adding the soup – flavor or consistency? I'm not a fan of using canned soup in my cooking so I'm wondering why it's added so I can come up with a substitution.
It gives the casserole some something to help it all stick together, and adds some flavor. If you don't like this, you may want to add a simple white sauce that is flavored with onion or something like this.
Sounds good, except for the soup. Absolutely hate Cream of Celery soup. I'm assuming Cream of Chicken or C of Mushroom would do?
You can use any creamed soup you would like in this recipe. I suggested a few in the video.


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text: So the new series has premiered on Disney XD. Three episodes were shown next week. Disney XD schedules on new episodes are sporadic at times, so not sure how they plan on releasing new episodes next week. I assume these three episodes were like the show pilot/miniseries and they are going to one episode a week next. The new show was animated by Nerd Corps (Battle Force 5, Slugterra). So the animation is pretty solid for the most part. Now I got to be honest, I never watched the old series or kept up with the toys and storyline or what have you. I only knew about in passing. The new series seems somewhat reminiscent of Generator Rex, except instead of Nanites its "Turbo Energy." It's still not clear to me what the Elementors and the UltraLinks are. I guess the Elementors are aliens. The descriptions make it sound like Steel is an alien, though early on it sounded like he was a lab experiment. I did like that Max's mom turned out to be a secret agent ninja. That was a nice surprise in the second episode. Having to watch Max constantly hide Steel and the steel suit he needs to wear would've gotten tiresome.


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BEACON HILL (CBS) – Mass. lawmakers were set to discuss a bill on Thursday that focuses on bullying in the workplace.
The Massachusetts Healthy Workplace Advocates are pushing legislation that gives employees a legal avenue if they experience bullying on the job.
WBZ NewsRadio 1030's Mark Katic reports
The group says about a million workers in Massachusetts are bullied — either being intimidated by superiors or having their work sabotaged.
The bill not only gives workers a chance to fight legally but does give employers protections if they can show they took steps to stop or prevent bullying from taking place.
If Massachusetts decided to enact the legislation to protect workers from bullying on the job, they would become the first state in the nation to do so.


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The tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma on Monday cut a wide path of destruction through the center of the city. As of Tuesday morning, 51 were known dead. The medical examiner's office says dozens more may have died.
Published at 7:17 AM EST on May 21, 2013 | Updated at 12:10 PM EST on May 21, 2013


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rlgk (614) Göteborg, Sweden | August 16, 2016
Beautiful pub close to Clapham Junction. Great interior with a very special bardisk that goes all around the pub. Quite ok cask-selection and decent service. Was just able to get a seat by a table on a Thursday afternoon.
BeardedAvenger (231) Addlestone, England | July 21, 2016
Really useful pub as a meeting place. Right by the station and always a wide array of beers, real ales if not craft. Have to admit that the last time I was here I walked in through the right hand side door, walked the length of the bar, saw no ticks and then headed out of the left hand door, straight to Brewdog. However would have stayed for some drinks if I was with mates, keeps beer fans and Fosters fans happy. Can get absolutely rammed at peak times. Ate once and it was pretty uninspiring.
Scopey (687) Croydon, England | June 23, 2016
The Falcon is a fairly sizeable Nicholson's pub which is well located right next to Clapham Junction Station (south side). Nice traditional character pub with a large island bar right in the middle. Boasts a fairly impressive selection of cask ales – some 16 hand pumps as well as some decent keg options and a few interesting bottles. Selection is unique to Nicholson's pub chain with plenty of unusual stuff and the odd exclusive fest offering or two. I would say that the styles tend to be fairly safe i.e. hoppy blonde ales, stouts and bitters etc. It does however seem pretty busy most of the time when I visit. A well-located pub worth stopping past for a rate or two.
Leighton (1044) London, England | March 12, 2016
A sprawling Nicholson's pub just a short walk from Clapham Junction station. In terms of beer, one can usually find something new on cask, and occasionally something quite interesting. Very little to offer on keg and in bottle. Attentive service. Average prices. I wouldn't go out of my way to come here, but it would be a convenient spot to grab a beer before heading to the station.
WingmanWillis (1719) , England | March 2, 2016
Visited on 1st March 2016. It's a lovely old pub with a little snug room with nice armchairs and plenty of seating around a central bar. Part of the pub is for dining only which is a frustration if it is busy with drinkers and no diners. Beer range wasn't that exciting on this visit with a fairly bog standard range of cask beer. Interesting beer on keg advertised but had kicked 30 mins previously, it appears too much effort to remove the tag and wipe off the board. Beer I had was decent enough. This used to be a really friendly pub but seems to have gone downhill in recent years. Not one I go too often any more which is a shame as it is a lovely old place.
Rune (849) Tromsø, Norway | December 22, 2015
A monumental well-kept Nicholsons pub almost next door to Clapham Junction. The oval island bar is most impressive, probably the longest bar in the UK. Seating all around the bar, included a separate cozy snug room. There were at least 16 hand-pumps, half of them on at our visit. We had beers from breweries like Truman, Adnams, Loch Lomond, Battersea, Navigation, Roosters, Nethergate, Exmoor, Nottingham and Ting. Soul, Tamla Motown and Waterboys music at our stay. Polite service and nice Christmas decoration (Good drinking session with Finn early on a Sunday, 29.11.2015).
Finn (283) Tromsø, Norway | December 6, 2015
Large, divided, cozy, good-looking corner pub with historical qualities. Small cozy snug.
Brugmansia (666) Jylland, Denmark | November 23, 2015
Visited in august 2015. Large cornerpub, very cosy, as most Nicholsons pubs are. Very large center bar with lots of taps. Easy to find just next to the tube station. Beers served in good condition, ok selection and friendly staff. For sure worth a visit if in the area.
jercraigs (582) Toronto, Ontario | October 5, 2015
2015-09-22. Huge bar around the whole place, with a fairly traditional dark wood decor to it. I like the space but the sheer size and the crowd is a bit daunting today. Good range of casks on but not many are particularly exciting, and the ticks we chose are uninspired. It is absolutely packed at 7:00 on a Tuesday. I suspect this is at least partly due to the proximity to the train station. Decent number of casks but not much exciting today. Toilet is a disaster with busted seats and an empty mini-vodka bottle in the other. I hope that's an exception and not the norm. I would come back to give it another shot at a quieter time, but wasn't overly thrilled today. Agree with the sentiment that it is worth a visit if you are in the neighbourhood but not worth a special trip on it's own.
FatPhil (628) Tallinn, Estonia | September 22, 2015
Bank Holiday monday was not a good day to come here, many of the taps were out (something like 5HP and 3KK taps on, out of the supposed 24). It was also very understaffed, basically one guy doing everything. However, service was professional and friendly. Selection looked decent but "coming soon" on the pump clip seemed to map onto "hasn't even been delivered yet". Have they never heard of "stillage", and little things like yeast? Or maybe "coming soon" is on the clip for a whole week, in which case most of their pumps will be out of action at any point in time, not just on bank holidays. Either way doesn't make sense. Beer quality was not as good as in other Nichelsons pubs I've been in. It fitted into a pub crawl of Clapham quite well, but not worth going out of your way for as it stands.


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Ponton EMERITUS (3)A little too long and underwhelming, but there are some great ideas at work here....Waior (3.5)...SatelliteYears (4)Periphery: Love that shit! Sumerian Records cranks out another winner......taylormemer (4)The brainchild of Misha Mansoor at last presents itself as an album....
Thor (4)Inevitably the sexiest metal album of the year....Madz279 (3.5)Misha Mansoor's mind broken down into the form of an album.
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Album Rating: 3.5This is sooooooooooooooo disjointed and messy.
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Album Rating: 3.0This is indeed a quote from the album. It occurs after Icarus Lives. It's hilarious.
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i dont get the hype over this...maybe it just hasn't "clicked" yet...
it is good not great.
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sup fucka! This review is really fucking awesome!
Album Rating: 3.5actually there is a track at the end of the CD called "Ragtime Dandies" from which the quotes in the summary and at the end of the review come.
Album Rating: 3.5animals as leaders has more virtuosity than this album, this is mostly progressive riffs with changing time signatures
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The Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, expressed his disbelief this week that the U.N., which proclaimed life to be a "solemn right," is promoting immorality—such as abortion—throughout the world.
"For this reason the Church fights in all parts of the world, because there are so many irresponsible people, beginning with international organizations, beginning with the U.N., which was founded in 1948 and proclaimed a solemn, first right: life. Sixty years later a woman has the right to kill her child. What have we come to? That was either a trick or this is just a comedy," the cardinal said during a Mass for the month of the family.
The cardinal warned that "killing children or promoting marriages between all kinds of people, men with men, women with women," leads to nowhere.
The countries that choose to experiment with these things "will sink morally," he added.
"I don't thank the U.N. for anything, nothing, since today it is making such a great effort to spread this immorality throughout the entire world," Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez continued.
Calling on Dominicans to "defend our country," the cardinal exclaimed, "To those who want to come and bring that immorality here, get out! We are not interested. We are quite capable here of figuring out how to live according to our own understanding."


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Berkeley, California (Friday, May 07, 2010) - Over fourteen years have passed since the vanishing of Berkeley High School student, Peter John McColl. The case has had no viable leads since the day McColl disappeared leaving the family desperate for answers.
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On August 28, 1995, Peter John McColl, 16, was last seen around 10:30 a.m. by family members at their residence in the 700 block of The Alameda in North Berkeley. McColl declined an invitation to have breakfast with his mother and told his brother he was going to a bookstore on Telegraph Avenue. At 11:39 p.m., when McColl had not come home, or contacted his parents, the family got worried and called The City of Berkeley Police Department (BPD) to report McColl as missing.
At the time of McColl's disappearance, he was entering his junior year at Berkeley High School and had been a member of the school's crew team. McColl was described by family members as a loving, quiet young man, who shared a passion for music and playing the guitar. McColl is near-sighted and requires corrective lenses for distance vision.Since the day McColl vanished, the family has been haunted by the pain of not knowing what happened to their son, brother, and friend. Peter McColl's father, John McColl, pleaded, "Peter, if you are out there, we still love you please come home. Our hearts ache for you."The family is disheartened by the disappearance of their loved one and urges anyone with information to please come forward. BPD Homicide Detectives are asking the same. Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to contact the BPD Homicide Detail at 510-981-5741 or the BPD non-emergency line at 510-981-5900. Callers can remain anonymous by calling the Bay Area Crime Stoppers Tip Line at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678).
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This is a fantastic spring and summer garden project for all ages. If you enjoy making homemade pizzas, go one step further and plant all the principal ingredients in your garden and make it as fresh as possible. The fun in this project is that you grow the garden in a pizza shape, as well as being able to use all the plants on your pizza!
Choosing the garden space
Preparing the pizza shape
1Tap a stake or stick into the middle of the chosen area. This serves as the center of the shape.
2Attach a string to the top of the stake that is about 4 feet/1.2 meters in length. Walk to the end of the string, in a circle. As you walk around the circle, drop flour around the edge to mark the boundary of the circle.
3Remove the stake.
4Place the rope down the middle of the circle to mark a half. Place flour down this line.
5Make an "X" shape that crosses this halfway line in the middle. The end result will be six quarters that form the pizza slices, where the plants will be grown.
Planting the pizza quarters
2Maintain your garden. Keep it well watered and appropriately fertilised. The beauty of the quarters is that you can attend to each plant's needs separately.
- This is a garden that you can keep growing for quite a while so that you can continue enjoying fresh pizza toppings. Encourage children to collect the fresh pizza toppings every time you make a pizza.
3Help yourself to the pizza garden each time you make a pizza. Not all plants will be ready at the same time, so use what is available at any particular time. As the growing season goes on, there will be a time when everything is ready at once.
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- If you like, you can use bricks, tiles or broken plate pieces to make more formal bordering around the pizza slice quarters.
- The garden is also helpful for other Italian dishes, such as pasta and lasagna.
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- Basil, oregano and parsley seedlings
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Editor's note: The San Diego Opera's decision to close caught many by surprise but the ongoing funding challenge facing all arts groups is no secret. Below, a longtime arts critic writes of the importance and economics of the arts. For the perspective of the opera board president, see Why board made the right decision. For the much different views of a longtime arts supporter, see We must fight to keep it alive.
It's not just the opera and it's not just San Diego. n The surprise announcement earlier this month that the San Diego Opera, despite 27 years of balanced budgets, would be ceasing operations is a vivid warning about the fragility of art. n If the San Diego Opera, seen nationally as an example of skillful arts management, can't survive, who is safe? n All the traditional "fine arts" — music, theatre, dance, painting and sculpture, poetry — are under pressure everywhere as the broader categories of entertainment sort themselves out in this roiling electronic era. n How can such medieval handcrafts even survive?
One way is by adapting to audience evolution. The theatre can be commercial. Music knows how to go pop. Poetry is back and in the streets. The visual world still freshens when filtered through the individual artist's eye. Dance reaches out to everybody.
But, though technology allows reproductions ever more miraculous, fine art's peerless payoff is that it works best in person.
There really is no substitute for the personal exchange between artist and audience.
And that's what has become expensive.
A hybrid art like the opera is particularly vulnerable because of the resources required: the wow combination of big voices, supporting singers and dancers, massed musicians and all the technicians to support them on a stage decorated for maximum input.
When opera took shape four centuries ago, it was the property of the monarchy. It evolved, in its native Europe, into a popular entertainment supported by the state. Abroad, it became the ward of the very wealthy, the perceived peak of sophistication.
Eventually, about half that money came from the box office and the other half from donors, a balance of earned and unearned income. (Or, as a harried fundraiser once muttered, "earned and hard-earned income.")
But budgets are getting bigger and income sources are shrinking. Ticket prices are climbing and politics has all but eliminated government support. Businesses no longer see promotional or tax benefits in supporting art. Thus the wealthy individual donor has become the major support system.
Tastes continue to evolve. It no longer is seen as necessary to flaunt high culture in order to live the good life. Shakespeare, Mozart and Rembrandt must take their chances in the open marketplace.
Except something surprising has happened. In centuries of fine arts, a significant body of masterpieces has accumulated, accessible only with the proper tools.
How long would "Swan Lake" survive without trained ballet dancers? Or Beethoven's Ninth Symphony? Or even "Hamlet"?
Audiences who sample the emporiums of the fine arts often fall in love and then soon find themselves yearning for the quality available only when the price of preservation is paid. And if that price is not paid, the loss may be irrevocable.
Just a couple of examples: There are musical masterpieces written for boys' voices. The dictates of puberty require a constant flow of new singers. Though the choirmaster is in charge, it's the older boys who teach the younger, by example. Break that string for even a short while and it's not at all sure that it can be restored.
In ballet, there are masterpieces not a century old that are lost forever because the hands-on transfer of the movements was interrupted.
Is this really important? If a piece of art doesn't survive, who really cares? Who even knows?
It could be disastrous in ways impossible to imagine.
As biologists say, removing one extinct species from a fragile ecosystem has far-reaching and long-lasting effects on biodiversity. The "butterfly effect" suggests a devastating hurricane can be seen as an end result of a butterfly flapping its wings somewhere.
If the opera fails, immediate ripples would affect the San Diego Symphony, which counts on its contract with the opera to pay for a substantial slice of its musicians' salaries. Opera companies around the country rent and commission scenery from the San Diego Opera shops. The company's professional chorus provides significant wages to help polished singers live and work here.
Who knows what other effects might appear?
One of the rewards of living in a great city is the availability of options, from drag racing and ice-skating to grand opera and major league sports teams. The corresponding responsibility is assuring the survival of all this diversity.
The City Council has tinkered for years with a percentage of hotel tax passed on to the fine arts. It's an investment worth expanding. New wealth usually shows up if the passion persists.
San Diego has faced fine arts disasters before and found ways to cope. Twenty years ago, the San Diego Symphony was being left for dead. But it didn't happen, thanks to a wide variety of supporters giving their time, their expertise, their money and their passion. There are plenty of people who remember how that was done. Just ask around.


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Welcome to the official web site of the City of Sevierville, Tennessee.
We hope you enjoy our site and find the information helpful. Please feel free to look around and discover all that Sevierville, Tennessee has to offer.
It is the mission of the City of Sevierville to provide quality services
If you have any questions about our City, please call us at 865.453.5504.
Earlier this year, we asked residents to participate in our bi-annual Citizen Survey. The results are in and the City received very high ratings for safety of the city, including police and fire services and several Public Works functions, such as garbage collection and sidewalk maintenance.


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Design plans for a new housing estate in Chapel-en-le-Frith have been approved by councillors.
At a meeting last Monday, members of High Peak Borough Council's Development Control Committee agreed a reserved matters application for a site on Manchester Road/Crossings Road.
Submitted by developers Barratt Homes, the application sought consent for 105 residential properties with layout, appearance, scale and internal landscaping to be agreed.
It had been deferred at the last meeting of the committee because members felt they didn't have enough information on a number of issues, including drainage, the siting of three-storey properties and the adoption of roads.
An outline application for houses on the site was refused in 2011 by the council, but was approved on appeal in August 2012.
Cllr Stewart Young said: "I know we've got to have houses on this site because the inspector said so but I still don't like this. I think the three-storey buildings will be out of keeping with the area."
And Cllr Bob McKeown added: "I'm still not happy with some things but I think time is very short to get this application sorted now."


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CUMMING, Ga. — The Ashebrooke Book Club had a treat at their most recent meet-up event.
Jonathan Grant, author of "Brambleman," was welcomed by 14 women in the club and spoke about his book, which fictionalizes real sordid events that happened in Forsyth County.
But the book club event was a sweet gathering.
Once Upon A Cake in Alpharetta custom made cupcakes with edible versions of the author's book.
"I had a wonderful time with the lovely ladies of the Ashebrooke Book Club," Grant said afterward.
The event was hosted by Jenny Barber and organized by Marcy Theobald.
Theobald said an article published in the Forsyth Herald in June inspired the club's choice.
"That got me to go buy the book, read it, then recommend it to our book club," Theobald said. "We all enjoyed the book immensely and it was quite eye-opening to learn about Forsyth's past, which I knew nothing about before moving here 14 years ago."
The book club's next book is "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons" by Lorna Landvik. "We're looking to lighten it up a bit for the next one," Theobald said.
For more information, visit www.brambleman.com.


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The Nets' rotation took another jolt over the weekend.
Kris Humphries, who was exiled by P.J. Carlesimo in much the same way he was exiled by Kim Kardashian, appeared on the court Saturday night against the Clippers. He played 10 minutes, engaged in a jump ball with former brother-in-law Lamar Odom to the amusement of everybody and then mostly watched as the Nets blew a lead in the fourth quarter to get run off the court by the home team.
Humphries' return continued on Sunday night in Phoenix and he put up a season-high 17 points to help the Nets outlast the Suns 102-100 after leading by 12 at the half and as many as 16 overall. The Nets obviously needed every one of those points to beat a Suns team playing without their best forward and one of their best reserves up front, although his presence wasn't enough to help Brooklyn avoid an embarrassingly huge edge in offensive rebounding for the Suns.
The difference between two nights for the Nets can't be the difference in Humphries' output. You can't win consistently in the NBA if your team relies on getting something from a forward who had been benched for weeks, but we've just about given up on the Nets doing anything consistently.
Deron Williams brings it pretty much every night at this point in the season, dishing out plenty of assists on nights when his shot isn't falling and pretty much checking the boxes he needs to check. Brook Lopez had a brief moment when he fell out of favor, but the All-Star has been a reliable source of strong offense and hideous rebounding all year long.
Beyond that, though, the Nets are like a box of chocolates. Maybe Joe Johnson plays, maybe he sits, maybe he hits his shots, maybe he doesn't but the one thing that's clear is that relying on Johnson to do anything more than be a third banana is a waste of time this season.
Gerald Wallace, Keith Bogans, Andray Blatche and C.J. Watson all join Johnson and Humphries into the pile of players whose ever-shifting performance winds up informing the Nets' results in various ways since Carlesimo's rotations remain a nightly guessing game. The former is a problem all teams need to deal with, but the latter is one the Nets should have figured out by now.
The lack of identity can be linked directly to that lack of rigidity when it comes to playing times and roles since the Nets don't know from night to night who they can count on to make plays. On Sunday it was Humphries, but the Nets need something a little more certain to finish off the games against the good teams.
Josh Alper is also a writer for Pro Football Talk. You can follow him on Twitter.


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If Tom Higgins wasn't in such great health, there might be a few more worries about the way his team finishes games.
The Calgary Stampeders have become the CFL's version of the Cardiac Kids, a stay-in-your-seat entertainment product.
Waiting until the last seconds to decide the outcome can put strain on everyone involved, most notably the head coach, and it's happened every time the Stamps have taken the field this season.
By coming back to beat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 23-22 Thursday on a buzzer-beating 45-yard field goal by Sandro DeAngelis, the Stamps have proven they will live and die by keeping things close until the gun.
"I have a lot of people who are hoping that is not the case. They want to have a chance to relax," said Higgins yesterday after tensions had cooled down at McMahon Stadium.
"But if it gets to be a tight game, it bodes well that we have the playmakers to make those tough plays."
The Stamps' first and last drives couldn't have gone any better Thursday and a lot in between was solid.
Almost everything went well in the first half except for a Joffrey Reynolds fumble that was recovered for a touchdown and a Jason Goss interception off Henry Burris he returned 109 yards for a score.
Calgary's offence outgained the Ticats 518 net yards to 292 because of a good effort and game plan from the defence, which limited Jason Maas to short passes.
Burris engineered a great first drive of 80 yards on four passing plays to hit the endzone and give the Stamps a lead.
Yet it all came down to Burris hitting Markus Howell and Ken-Yon Rambo for gains of 13 and 24 to get in DeAngelis' range for the the winner with no time left.
Despite the sloppiness, the team improved to 2-1 in late comebacks and overall record.
"The mistakes were very glaring," Higgins said.
"When we did watch the tape, we saw how well we played in many areas.
"Our opening drive was as good as you could get. The glaring mistakes are the ones that could have cost us.
"We had a chance to dominate a football game but we didn't in the turnover battle. The turnovers made a case where we needed a last-minute heroic effort where we had to pull it out in the end."
For the second time this season, Burris was able to channel some John Elway magic into his game late.
Unlike a week ago when a mixup with Rambo cost the Stamps a win in Edmonton, Burris was able to keep his group calm and full of confidence when driving for a victory.
"I don't know what it is all three games have the same situation," Burris said.
"We never give up. When things go wrong, we will still stick with it and it seems to work for us.
"We have to feel lucky to win for the way we played. The defence played spectacularly for us.
"For us to give up that many points, that's something we can't continue to let happen.
"If there is any time for this to happen, let it be now. Let's learn from it and put it behind us."


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12m. Climb the curving crack to a good ledge then climb the wall on the right passing a slanting crack. The arete to the left of the start is Short and Sweet, V3 (6a).
Phew! what a pumper! big sideways reach for the left hand, right joins it, then a full reach with the right with your left locked off! all this with nothing for your feet! burned me out!
Pretty tough for 5a, and would definately be easier for the tall (I'm 176cm) who can just lank through the crux move to the good holds
HVS 5b
Safe as houses and tough 5b
Single, well protected, slightly reachy move - with a big rest before and after. VS 5a!


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" Genre: Hard Rock & Metal - Heavy Metal / Artist: Sonata Arctica / Audio CD released 2008-04-21 at Universal "
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Sonata Arctica - The Collection.
The Collection is a greatest hits collection from Sonata Arctica. All the songs on this album are top notch and I can find little to complain about. It was released at the end of 2006 and came with a DVD, which I have not reviewed, sorry, but I'm not good at reviewing music videos. The DVD comes with the WOLF AND RAVEN music video and two live performances - THE CAGE and KINGDOM FOR A HEART.
THE RUINS OF MY LIFE is fast paced with powerful melody and drums. The song is about a man who fights for his master in order to keep the girl who he loves alive. Unfortunately the master betrays him. A great start to the album with a meaningful song, but what do you expect from a greatest hits CD. A definite hit originally off the Winterhearts Guild Album.
8TH COMMANDMENT begins with a great riff and some nice drumming. The song is fast paced with a powerful melody. To me the song seems to be about someone who has died and gone to hell for the sins of their lives. This is a great song that really follows on from THE RUINS OF MY LIFE masterfully. A great song from the Ecliptica Album.
Next up is the fifth track from the Reckoning Night album. DON'T SAY A WORD. A rather tastefully done track about wanting to kill a girl, so as to be free form loving her when he knows he shouldn't. This definitely deserves to be on the album with its dark melody and powerful beat.
VICTORIA'S SECRET follows on with a much more up beat sound to it. Seemingly about a girl (Victoria no doubt) who has just escaped the shackles of depression, never to return. A feel good track with a great melody. Another track that defiantly deserves to be here.
TALLULAH is the next track, a sad song about losing the girl he loves and begging for another chance. I love this song although I have seen others say they hate it. The melody is just so powerful and you can feel the emotion being put into the song.
WOLF AND RAVEN is a magnificently dark track with heavy drums. I love it completely. The lyrics are great, if a little hard to hear. It is about a guy who wants to be free from his master and so kills his king. The master won't free him and so he develops a deep hatred for him. This is definitely deserving of its place on the greatest hits album.
BLACK SHEEP is a great, heavy and fast paced track. It appears to be about a were-wolf miller who loves a girl. The song is lost on me, but I love to hear it. I wouldn't have said it was one of their best though...
BROKEN is an epic song "I might be a god" are class lyrics. The entire chorus is amazing. It is a pretty dark song but should be on all MP3 players in my opinion.
KINGDOM FOR A HEART is the next track and has a fast melody and great drum use. It is about a man who is about to die, but the people around him keep asking him to help. He would give anything, even a kingdom if he had one, for one more day, or a heart. This makes me think he is dying from a heart condition. Actually due to some of the later verses suggest he is not dying, but just wants to have a heart so he can fall in love. I find this song a little weak, I don't know why but it just doesn't sit well with me. I really think it should have been left off the album
"Running away from it all" some amazing lyrics are used in this song. You can tell that the band really 'feel' this track. FULL MOON is defiantly belonging here. I mean who doesn't want to hear the story of a were-wolfs relationship with a woman he ends up killing? Epic to the max!!!
MY LAND begins with an awesome intro. The melody is captivating and the drums are brilliant. The song in itself is about a guy who has been kicked out of his home land. He feels that this is unjust and so returns in the future to reclaim it. The vocals are powerful and I feel that this is one of the best songs on the album. Woop!!!
THE CAGE is a song based around wolves. I love this song and it is defiantly one of my favorites and makes me want to throw off my own shackles, which would actually be quite a bad idea so I don't. The melody is uplifting and fast paced. Told from the wolf's point of view, it tells of its wishes to escape its cage. The last verse is a threat to the humans who have trapped the wolf. A magnificent song that is very happy here.
LAST DROP FALLS is a truly awe-inspiring song. It is about a guy who is in love with a woman who is just using him for her own devises. The melody reaches into me and attempts a strangle hold. The lyrics bite into you and anchor the songs place in this best of album. Magical.
UNOPENED is the next track. The beat and melody are instantly recognizable. The song is once more fast paced and wonderful. The sort of song you could listen to over and over. It is about a person who keeps getting letters from someone they had a relationship with at one point, but too much time has passed so they refuse to open it in case they missed out on something good.
SAN SABASTIAN is a speedy little number that really lifts your spirits. It is about a guy who has fallen for San Sebastian's daughter who was too hot to handle. He wishes he had not spent all his life pining after her. A great song and truly deserves to be here.
AIN'T YOUR FAIRY TALE is a magical song. It describes the war between the humans and wolves from the wolves' perspective. It is sung in the style of an old wolf telling young wolves the history of the pack. It is a fast paced song with wonderful lyrics that go right through me. Extremely powerful power metal.
REPLICA comes next. A magnificent song with powerful lyrics. It is about how war changes all of us, especially those directly involved. The man the song is about has been completely destroyed by the war, being unable to even remember Christmas, something that I always remember. The melody is slightly haunting, kind of like the music you would expect at the end of a horror movie. It is a nice slow song that I have kept on my MP3 player since first hearing it on Ecliptica.
This is defiantly the best of Sonata Arctica. The songs on this album are not necessarily what I would have chosen, but you can see that it is a well rounded album of tracks that different people would all consider to be the best. There are songs from each of their albums that they had released at that time. I personally think that they should have included WHITE PEARL BLACK OCEAN, but that is a minor fault, if one at all.
A definite recommend.
An Evil Sam review.
Sonata Arctica is a power metal band hailing from Finland. In one decade, they have managed to produce 4 albums (up to 2006), 2 compilations and a DVD. In 2005, they also released a compilation called The End of this Chapter, then a year later, they release this CD. Why, I wonder. Perhaps the songs on the previous compilation wasn't enough to satisfy the fans so they made another one, or distro label wanted to line their pockets further.
This CD compromises of songs from all the albums pre-2006. There are two songs that have been re-made but all other songs remain untouched; it is for this reason why it isn't suitable for big fans of Sonata Arctica, they may have already got other albums that contains these songs anyway.
The track list are as follows;
01. The Ruins Of My Life
02. 8th Commandment
03. Don't Say A Word
04. Victoria's Secret
05. Tallulah
06. Wolf & Raven
07. Black Sheep
08. Broken
09. Kingdom For A Heart
10. FullMoon
11. My Land [2006 re-make]
12. The Cage
13. Last Drop Falls
14. UnOpened
15. San Sebastian [Revisited]
16. Ain't Your Fairytale
17. Replica [2006 re-make]
I am not too sure if the songs have been carefully chosen to showcase the band's songs, as most of the songs actually comes from the first and second album of Eplictica and Silence. Eplictica was a very good album, I held it in a high regard; perhaps one of the best 'flower metal' album produced in the last decade. 8th Commandment, Replica, FullMoon, Unopened and Kingdom for a Heart was taken from Eplictica, not the best songs chosen but they can't please everyone! What I didn't like what they did with the song of Replica and My Land; they made new versions which in my eyes, ruined the songs forever and shouldn't have been put on the CD at all.
However, the selection from the second album of Silence; was well-thought, more suitable for the newcomers who may pick up the CD as it really shows Sonata Arctica's talents at creating moody but yet heavy songs. The songs as follows are; San Sebastian [Revisited], Black Sheep, Wolf & Raven and Tallulah. Fantastic songs displayed from that album; they are all mid-paced songs that are incredibly catchy.
Now, the third album; Winterheart's Guild. It is a lot of people's favourite album so it couldn't be hard to pick few good songs from this album, right? Which is why I was disappointed to see they have not done so. What I could not comprehend was the fact WHY they chose to put Victoria's Secret; it does nothing for me as a song at all. Utterly useless waste of space on the CD! But the other songs chosen were the Cage. Which is 'alright'. I would have suggested other songs.
Hang on, isn't this too many songs mentioned already when we've still got Reckoning Night to discuss? ....Well, the label decided not to put any of the songs from Reckoning Night; for some unknown reason. So basically, the title is misleading, it is not the works from 1999 to 2006, it is actually 1999-2003, which would mislead a lot of customers who might believe this album would also include songs from Reckoning Night.
The album art is quite striking again; Sonata Arctica is quite consistent in their album style; it always displays a feel of winter (not surprising seeing they come from Finland.) mixed with poignancy (If that's the right word?). The booklet still contains the same style as before, I always love looking at the pictures as I listen to my music so I can really get into the imagery.
In summary, I would suggest that this CD is only for newcomers to this band; definitely not suitable for fans who already have purchased Sonata Arctica's other albums; they will feel that this release is very poor in comparison as the selection of songs does nothing for Sonata Arctica! The remakes that SA have done has lowered the respect I had for them; they should realise the greatness of their songs and not interfere with them.
Thank you for reading.
Disc #1 Tracklisting
1 The Ruins Of My Life
2 8th Commandment
3 Don't Say A Word
4 Victoria's Secret
5 Tallulah
6 Wolf & Raven
7 Black Sheep
8 Broken
9 Kingdom For A Heart
10 FullMoon
11 My Land (2006 re-make)
12 The Cage
13 Last Drop Falls
14 UnOpened
15 San Sebastian (Revisited)
16 Ain't Your Fairytale
17 Replica (2006 re-make)
Disc #2 Tracklisting
1 Wolf & Raven (promo clip)
2 8th Commandment (live in Tavastia 2004)
3 My Land (live in Tavastia 2004)
4 Intro
5 Weballergy
6 Kingdom For A Heart
7 Sing In Silence
8 False News Travel Fast
9 Last Drop Falls
10 Respect The Wilderness
11 FullMoon
12 The End Of This Chapter
13 Replica
14 My Land
15 Black Sheep
16 Wolf & Raven
17 Still Loving You (Scorpions cover)
18 I Want Out (Helloween cover)
19 San Sebastian
20 Shy


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xampp local hosting problemsWhen I try to load my php page, it says 'object not found' and displays an error message. I have turned on xampp apache, MySLQ, and FTP and have correctly entered the directory of the file as http://localhost/user/sites/directory/file.php
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boys clothes
Old Navy for jeans, he loves there jeans. Aeroposlle, American Eagle and Plato's closet are always on our list.
I get most of ds1's clothes at Walmart and Target.
Those are my guys' go to stores. Most of their wardrobes are from Penneys & Kohls. If he likes the clothing and knows what sizes to get, perhaps you can order online for a larger selection?
My son likes to shop online at plndr. It's really reasonable prices and the latest skater fashions.
Marshalls , T J Maxx,
Tommy Hiilfiger, Polo, & J Crew Outlets
My son is 12 and doesn't like JCPenny shirts, they have an old big sleeve look (for short sleeves). He likes American Eagle, more hip. Old Navy is good for little kids like under 10. Once they hit the tweens, they are too old for things that say Old Navy. I get his black pants for Band concerts from Kohls because they have sizes for tall, slim boys. Shorts from Kohls. Hoodies from American Eagle but they are not cheap but good quality and last all year without shrinking.


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Weiser Lock Deadbolt Beverly WeiserBolt with hardened steel roller to resist sawing and prying. It has 1" (25.40mm) projection with a ¼" (6.36mm) hardened steel roller. It consist of heavy duty strike plates with 3" (76.20mm) mounting screws to secure it to the door.


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A South Florida minister says he is afraid to try to get on an airplane because he thinks he's been placed on a terrorist watch list.
Ronnie McFadden, a pastor at the Missionary Evangelist Outreach Center in Miami, said he went to the Social Security Administration after Christmas to try and get a check that has been missing for several years sent to him.
"I went in, I got the Social Security card. No one told me my name was on a terrorist list or a watch or a banned list," he said.
But McFadden said he soon learned from the government that his name had been placed on a terrorist watch list.
"But they said I was on a banned list and I can't be nowhere present in the United States in a Social Security office – matter of fact in the government buildings, and I called and they said not even on the airplanes," he said.
McFadden showed NBC 6 South Florida the letter he sent to Social Security saying that he had been unaware that his name was placed on such a list. He discovered the trouble in December, he said.
McFadden also provided the Social Security Administration's reply to him earlier this month. It said that McFadden was banned from entering any Social Security office in October 2008, and that the agency accepts appeals on ban decisions starting Sept. 6, 2011.
"Because we banned you before that date, you cannot appeal your ban. We will not consider your appeal," the Social Security Administration said in its letter.
It appears from the message that McFadden's trouble stems from a verbal disagreement he had with a Social Security worker five years ago. McFadden said he had no idea the report of the encounter could land him on a watch list with other federal agencies.
Now, the pastor said, he is afraid to even try to fly, and won't go to the airport.
SoFla is Identity Theft Capital
McFadden, who is a born-again Christian, said he is willing to forgive and move on, if he can get the problem has with the government solved.
As for the check for more than a thousand dollars, McFadden said he could use the money – but what's more important for him is clearing his name.
"Hopefully they can rectify the situation, take my name off this terrorist list, where I can be free and not looking over my head and my shoulder," he said.
NBC 6 South Florida attempted to determine exactly what McFadden's status with the government is. But the Social Security Administration's policies prevent disclosing any information about a Social Security cardholder, and the agency that runs the terror watch list doesn't give out specifics.
The letter from the Social Security Administration to McFadden told him he can appeal in September 2014.


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It's a never ending cycle… at least until I've figured it out. Currently it's 'feel bad all day' because I haven't had tea, and/or 'feel bad at night' because I can't sleep because I had tea too late. lol
I still can't figure out if I like this one or not. I made a few mugs over the weekend, and two pots today. It SMELLS like chocolate- like the faint whiff you might get if someone at the next table was enjoying a hot chocolate. But it doesn't taste like chocolate. I kind of wish it smelt like when you're baking brownies and that lovely chocolate smell fills the kitchen. I wonder if there are any teas like that.
Fair enough, I feel like the first steep of this tea always tastes burnt, even if I leave it in for something like 20 sec. I'm probably doing it wrong, which is sad because I have an entire tin of the stuff. The other steeps are like 'what is this? I don't know. What does it taste like? Ummm….". I don't get the mango, I don't get the vanilla, I do get the black tea. Maybe I need to rinse the leaves in cold water first?
On the other hand it smells delicious while it's brewing. And the leaves look soo pretty after you drain them.


text: it seems to me that VC console games should base on the rating/sells of the game when it was around physically i.e. cartiage. look at sim city...thats not really worth 800 pts if it were sim city 2000 maybe. i couldnt imagine anybody paying 1000 pts to download something sorry like SUPERMAN 64 (worst game ever, imo) so basically, nes 500 pts MAX SNES & Sega 800 MAX n64 1000 Max


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Rockland — The following cases were closed in Knox County Superior Court June 30 to July 3:
Caitlyn Ferrar, 20, of Waldoboro, two counts of unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs, $400 fine, three years in jail with all but four months suspended, $1,170 restitution, probation two years; unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs, dismissed; unlawful possession of oxycodone, dismissed.
Joshua Evan Martel, 36, of Augusta, assault, dismissed; aggravated criminal trespass, dismissed; criminal mischief, 10 days in Knox County Jail.
Liam P. Masterson, 24, of Spruce Head, theft by unauthorized taking or transfer, 30 days in jail, criminal trespass, 364 days in jail, all but 30 days suspended, probation one year, $735 restitution; burglary, dismissed.
Andrew Monroe, 29, of South Thomaston, criminal mischief, $250 fine; burglary, dismissed; domestic violence terrorizing, 60 days in jail, all suspended, probation one year; criminal trespass, $250 fine.
John C. Stanton, 23, of Hope, unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs, $400 fine, five years in prison with all but 18 months suspended, probation two years, $120 restitution; four counts of aggravated trafficking of scheduled drugs, dismissed.


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Letter: For Feingold
I have been telling my son he has to live in sin but thanks to Russ Feingold's actions in the Senate my son can now get married! You might ask, WHAT?
My son and his longtime girlfriend are students. Until the new healthcare bill began to take effect he would have lost access to my health insurance had he married. He is now eligible to stay on my insurance up to the age of 26 even if he gets married.
Russ Feingold has the foresight and the guts to vote for a change in healthcare in this country. This alone would be enough for me to support him but he is also a regular guy who is not wealthy.
He stands up for us, not the rich few who are trying to buy this election.


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She's Got Sorcery
"It was a punishment worse than death. A punishment that Xandra was serving today."
For some reason, people treated her like a statue.
A memory of the neopet who had almost single-handedly brought Faerieland crashing down to the ground below, destroying not only the home and lives of faeries and winged neopets alike, but destroying parts of the Haunted Woods as well. Much of Brightvale had also been affected by the wraiths she conjured, adding to the list of damage she had done to Neopia in her quest to rule over the world in the place of the faeries.
She had been moved to the courtyard of Fyora's castle during the rebuild of Faerieland, as if though she was an elaborate garden statue instead of a frozen sorceress. Yes, she was grey in appearance, motionless, and her surface felt like smooth stone. But she wasn't a statue.
Statues lacked the ability to think, to see, to hear, to feel. And though she seemed lifeless, Xandra still possessed the ability to do all of the above. He would know.
The explosion of green light had not only turned Xandra to stone, but himself as well. He had been disorientated at first. Confused. Unable to figure out what exactly had happened to his body. Stabbing the artefact should have killed him, but through one squinted eye he could see still the smouldering ruins of Faerieland, and nothing else. Xandra was nowhere to be seen, as was Brynn. He had no idea whether she was alive, dead, or close to death; alone and injured with no one to help her.
Until he heard her voice.
"Oh, Hanso..."
He felt her take hold of his face, unaware that to her, he just felt like cold stone.
"What have you done?"
He didn't need to see her face to know that she was crying.
And though he could hear her, he was unable to reply. His limbs were unresponsive, frozen. He'd be stuck like this for Fyora knows how long, able to observe and listen, but unable to interact with the world around him.
It was a punishment worse than death. A punishment that Xandra was serving today.
- x -
Hanso sat up in bed, unable to sleep. The recurring nightmares of Faerieland's crash had stopped after a few years and some medication, but he occasionally found his mind wandering back to his moments as a statue. While Hanso had some idea of how it would feel to be trapped in stone for years on end, he was unable to imagine the revenge Xandra would unleash on all of those she worked with during the days leading up to her plan if she were to ever break free
Many had tried to reassure him that it wouldn't happen. That she was simply a statue under Fyora's watch, incapable of moving a millimeter, let alone escaping her stone prison. But they didn't know what he knew. Xandra had plenty of time to think over the years and he was willing to bet a small fortune that she had formed a plan of some sort.
He twisted the thin, gold band on the third finger of his left hand. He had reminded himself many times that marrying Brynn would put her in no more danger than she would be if they had simply parted ways. It hadn't taken Xandra long to figure out how he felt about her while working with the others to put a stop to Faerieland's descent - and in retrospect, it hadn't taken any one else much longer, either - and he was sure that Xandra wouldn't hesitate to hurt Brynn in order to torture him, regardless of whether they were together or not.
But now... now they were expecting a child. They hadn't planned on having children at first, as they spent a lot of time travelling - both for work, and fun. However, after having perhaps a little bit too much to drink at a pub in Krawk Island, they had conceived a child. And Hanso wasn't sure he wanted to know what Xandra would if she were to ever find out.
Casting a glance at Brynn, who was asleep beside him, he thought back to when he had first found out.
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"All I'm saying is that I think you should stay home from work today." Hanso was sitting on the edge of the bathtub, a concerned expression on his face. "Just until you're feeling better."
"I'm fine, Hanso," she replied after he had finished rinsing out her mouth. She set the plastic down on the bathroom counter, and began to gather her red hair into a ponytail. If she hadn't hit the door on her way to the bathroom he'd probably still be sleeping by now, and she could have slipped off to work.
"Brynn, you're sick." He stood up, and moved in front of the bathroom door before she could escape.
"I am not sick, and you're going to make me late for my shift if you don't move out of the way!"
"So you were just throwing up because you felt like it, then?" Hanso ducked as Brynn chucked a shampoo bottle at his head. "Hey, I'm trying to help you, there's no need to throw things at me!"
"I'm not sick," she muttered, wrapping her arms around herself.
"Brynn, you're-"
"-I'm pregnant."
- x -
He had been stunned into temporary silence after she had told him. All his life, he had never imagined himself being a father (with the exception of fathering illegitimate children, perhaps). At first, he hadn't realized what they had done. He was nervous, but excited at the prospect of having a kid of his own. They had the resources for it, and he was sure Fyora would be willing to let Brynn take a maternity leave from work, and the only problem he saw at first was that he had no idea how to be a father - let alone a good father.
But he soon realized that once born, their child would be a target for anyone who wished revenge on him or Brynn.
And he had a lot of enemies.
I don't know what I'm doing with this. I've been thinking about writing a story would show what would happen if Brynn and Hanso had kids (because as fluffy as I like my stories to be, I do think them having a child wouldn't be a completely positive thing; they have enemies).
I'm not sure if I should continue this, or just add it as a chapter to my other story. I don't really have any ideas as to what should happen after this, only that it probably needs a proper conclusion instead of just being a one-shot. So until I figure out what to do I'll just leave it as a separate story. If does disappear, it'll be added as a bonus chapter to Accidentally in Love.


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Loeb takes lead on 1st day of Monte Carlo rally
MONACO—Eight-time world champion Sebastien Loeb took the lead on the first day of the season-opening Monte Carlo rally on Wednesday after Jari-Matti Latvala rolled his car and fell out of contention.
Loeb powered his Citroen to the fastest time in three of the day's four stages, and the Frenchman leads Daniel Sordo of Spain by just over a minute.
"The grip was good and so was the balance of the car, so I attacked," Loeb said.
Petter Solberg of Norway is close behind Sordo in third.
"It was a great day. I'm delighted, that's just how I wanted to start," Solberg said. "I feel sorry for Jari."
Latvala dominated the day's second stage and led Loeb by nearly one minute after three stages, but the Finnish driver crashed his Ford after hitting an embankment early in the fourth.
Latvala and his co-driver were unharmed but had to abandon the race.
Loeb was 1 second ahead of Sordo and 22.2 clear of Latvala after the 22.9-mile first stage from Le Moulinon to Antraigues.
But Latvala won the second stage from Burzet to Saint-Martial and was 52.7 seconds faster than Loeb to take the overall lead, which he held after the third stage -- again from Le Moulinon to Antraigues -- after finishing a fraction behind Loeb.
Loeb easily dominated the day's final stage, again from Burzet to Saint-Martial in an 18.9-mile drive.
There are six short stages on Thursday. The race ends Sunday.


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I have always been nervous about visiting my old neighborhood.
One day, my brother Salomon—a renowned artist—invited me and my two other brothers, Noel and Ismael, to meet him at the Ramona Gardens housing project in East Los Angeles, where we grew up.
My brother had to retouch his mural in memory of Arturo "Smokey" Jimenez, who was wrongly killed, according to many witnesses, by the cops in 1991. The killing sparked days of protests and riots from local residents against a long-time history of police brutality and harassment in the neighborhood.
Two days later after receiving Salomon's invitation, I drive my silver '67 Mustang to the projects.
More than twenty years ago I left the projects to go to UCLA.
I'd feared returning to my old neighborhood ever since, not knowing how my childhood friends and local homeboys would receive me.
I'd abandoned them all: Buddy, Herby, Ivy, Chamino, Peanut Butter, Nayto and Fat Ritchie--there is always a fat kid. I left them in a hostile place. Together, we were safe. Separated we became vulnerable.
My heart pounds as I approach the graffiti-decorated projects. I park at the Shell gas station on Soto. I look at the rear-view mirror as I comb my dark black hair slicked with Tres Flores and remind myself that this is where I come from. I regain my composure and slowly don a stoic look. I re-start the engine, cruise over the railroad tracks and speed bumps, pass the vacant Carnation factory and park in front of La Paloma Market—two blocks away from the Smokey mural.
Getting out of my car, I notice that I am early and am quickly confronted by the homeboys.
"Where are you from, ese?"
Before I can answer, a stocky homeboy replies, "Hey man, leave him alone. I know the guy. We go way back."
"Fat Ritchie, is that you?" I ask, relieved.
"Yeah, man," he says, as he welcomes me with a bear hug.
"Hey bro, how'd you get so buff?" I say, amazed at his transformation from the neighborhood fat kid to the muscular gangster. "Where do you work out? Gold's Gym?"
"San Quentin State Prison."
"Oh," I say. "Hey, man, have you seen Nayto?"
"I don't know what happened to him," Fat Ritchie responds. "Most of the guys are either dead, in jail, on drugs or moved away. Only the dedicated ones stuck around to protect the neighborhood."
As kids, we roamed the projects without scared parents dictating our every move. Life was simpler back then. We were a bunch of kids hanging out, playing sports and getting into trouble. Every time we got into trouble, Nayto seemed to have something to do with it.
I remember the summer of 1981. Baseball season had just started. It was a hot Sunday morning. We met, like always, in front of Murchison Street School. We had no park to play ball so we played on Murchison's hot asphalt playground. We brought our cracked bats, old gloves, ripped based balls and hand-me-down uniforms.
One by one, we scaled the school's eight-foot fence. Most of us climbed like Marines performing boot camp drills. But Fat Ritchie struggled. Like many other times, he found himself sitting atop the fence as Buddy shook it.
"Don't mess around, man," Fat Ritchie said.
"Hey Buddy," said Nayto, "leave him alone or else I'll kick your ass, again."
On the playground, we picked teams. As we did, Nayto ran off without a word. The game was never the same without Nayto. We missed his home runs and wild curveballs. But the game must go on, and we started without him.
Short a player, the captains argued over the odd number of players to pick from. They decided that the team with fewer players got Fat Ritchie.
As the game began, we heard a noise coming from the storage area, adjacent to the empty bungalows with the broken windows.
"It's just Nayto messing around," yelled Chamino from right field.
In the bottom of the third inning, Nayto finally emerged from the storage area. He raced across the playground with his clothes drenched in motor oil.
"Nobody say shit or else," he said, as he ran by.
"What did he say?" asked Buddy.
"Nothing," I replied. "Let's keep playing, it's just Nayto trying to scare us."
"Come on, let's play," said Herby. "I need to go home before I Love Lucy starts."
A few minutes later, a LAPD helicopter appeared over the school's storage area. Five police cars surrounded the school. Before we could run, the cops cut the chained fence and stopped our game.
We knew the routine. We got down on our knees, put our hands behind the back of our heads and waited to be spoken to. "Did any of you punks see a kid run through here a few minutes ago?" said the tall, white cop. "He's about five feet tall and full of oil."
Following the neighborhood code, we all stayed quiet and looked baffled.
"Fine," said the exasperated cop. "I want this playground cleared before I arrest all of you project kids for trespassing."
The cops drove off. We slowly picked up our bats, gloves and balls to leave the school. Out of nowhere, Nayto reappeared on the playground and again broke into the storage room. He emerged carrying a large, oily item. Fat Ritchie checked out the storage room.
"Nayto ripped off Toney-the-Janitor," said Fat Ritchie in a panic.
We all ran home before the cops returned.
Days later, as we played in the parking lot, Nayto cruised by in a gas-powered go-cart. We chased after Nayto in our bikes and skateboards to get a look at what he was driving.
It wasn't a typical, wooden go-cart that had to be pushed from behind. It was a customized, low rider go-cart—cherry red, with velvet seat covers, a leather steering wheel, and small whitewall tires with chrome-plated, spoke rims. The engine was positioned in the back, like a VW bug. It was a gem.
"Where did you get the go-cart?" I asked with great envy.
"I made it myself," Nayto said.
Aware of his tendency to exaggerate, I examined the go-cart. The frame consisted of parts from Nayto's old bike. The seat, under the velvet cover, was a milk crate from La Paloma Market. And I will never forget the steering wheel. Nayto took it from the '85 Cadillac Eldorado convertible the homeboys left in the parking lot before they torched it. It still had the shiny Cadillac logo in the center. The engine looked familiar.
I couldn't figure out where I'd seen it.
"Read what is says on the engine," Nayto said, impatiently.
I took a second look at the oily engine. I read aloud with a look of confusion, "Property of M.E.S."
"Are you a dummy or what?" Nayto asked with a smirk. "Murchison Elementary School."
"Oh, man!" I said like a good detective. "You stole that…I mean you borrowed that from the storage room when the cops were looking for you at Murchison."
"Why do you think they haven't cleaned the play ground anymore," he said. "Do you remember that big vacuum cleaner that Toney-the-Janitor drove after school when he would chase all the kids who stayed late after school."
"Yeah, he almost hit me one time," I said. "How about a ride?"
"Get on before the cops come by," he replied.
We cruised the projects in his customized, low rider go-cart until we ran out of gas. Luckily, Nayto was always prepared. He had a small water hose handy and I volunteered to siphon some gas from an abandoned Toyota truck. I can still taste the gasoline in my mouth. But that ride was worth every drop I swallowed.
Those were the days.


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I have a DataGrid control in my form, and I'm trying to make it show date and time. It is bind(ed?) to a dataset which contains a date/time column (which is filled with data from SQL database, by the way). But, my DataGrid only shows date in that column and not the time(I've tried changing width but that's not the problem). I tried editing DataGridColumnStyle class for that column but couldn't figure it out. I would also like that only hours and minutes are shown, not seconds.
And I guess this question goes in this forum, too. It's basically a question about SQL syntax. How do I update a field in a column which has a multiple word name. E.g, column's name is "Number of elements":
I tried putting it in qoutes but it didn't work. I know that the obvious solution is to simply change column's name, but I don't want to that, and, anyway, it works in Access, so why shouldn't it work with string commands?Code:UPDATE Table1 SET Number of elements=64 WHERE ID=13


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I take the fact that this opens with a finger-gun/sniper scene taken from 'The Losers' when Chris Evans did the exact same thing as a terrific sign! Now that scene has the advantage of being completely unintelligible.
'Expendables 2' finally has a trailer
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Contrary to what some charitable readers might think after reading my New Year's post, I have always been scattered and disorganized. Even before I had three kids in diapers — heck, even before I had any kids, even before I was married — I lived like this.
In fact, I remember a time a few years ago when I was feeling particularly overwhelmed, I asked my 90-year-old grandfather if people were this busy when he was younger. I was sitting on the edge of his couch, glancing at my watch because I was in a rush to get to "important" thing on my to-do list, but I wanted to take a minute to hear about his life on the farm back in the 1920's. Surely there was a ton of work to do to keep a farm up and running — was daily life back then the chaotic mad dash that it is today? Did his mom always seem overwhelmed and frazzled, bemoaning how behind she was on everything?
He replied with an emphatic no.
Life was not rushed and chaotic. They didn't live under the constant feeling of being stressed and overwhelmed that people seem to today, he said. They had their share of worries, and lots of hard work to do, to be sure, but daily life had a peaceful rhythm to it that is utterly lacking today. I wondered if maybe he was looking back through rose-colored glasses, misremembering life back then. Yet when I asked other people of his generation, they all replied with the same answer: life is hectic today in a way it never has been before.
I've always wondered why.
Meanwhile, my husband has long been intrigued by the impact of artificial light on health. Ever since a vacation we took to Costa Rica where we experienced the inky blackness of nights with few artificial lights — and the major impact it had on our physical and mental health — he's been wanting to do an experiment where we try to go a few days without any artificial light, using only candles at night.
A couple months ago he got all excited to make this happen, and when I went to turn on the kitchen light to clean up after dinner he reminded me to light a candle instead. I became increasingly exasperated as I tripped over unfinished cleaning projects and almost knocked over a candle while transferring clothes to the dryer. Then the dusky candle light started to make me feel sleepy, which only added to my irritation. Finally, when I knocked down a stack of folded clothes from trying to put away laundry by candle light alone, I put an end to this crazy experiment.
"This is absurd!" I huffed as I went through the house flipping on every light I could find.
As my husband and I squinted at each other in the harsh overhead light, he suggested that we try the experiment again another time. I chuckled at his naivete — didn't he see from the way things had gone tonight that such a thing is simply not feasible? "It's impossible, " I informed him. "There is no way we could get by with candlelight alone." He pointed out that it is not technically impossible since nobody even had electricity in their houses until relatively recently in human history.
Though of course I knew on some level that that was true, for a split second it struck me as completely incorrect. How could it be possible that people lived before artificial light?, I wondered. I was hardly past the half-way point of my day when the sun had set, not even half way through my to-do list! How did they get anything done?!
"Look, " I replied. "The only way we could possibly do a couple nights without artificial light would be…oh."
Something dawned on me as I spoke. The only way we could get by on sunlight and candles alone would be to completely, totally rethink our expectations for what we could accomplish; to have all major work completed and cleaned up by sunset; to attempt only quiet activities like reading or sewing or family time in the evening hours…to live like our grandparents lived. We'd have no choice but to slash our to-do lists and our expectations of what we could get done in a day. We'd have to get up early and work purposefully and diligently to get the most out of the fleeting daylight. Feelings of panic and rush would be futile since we'd live with a clear sense that we cannot create more working hours than the light allows, that the sun is going to set when it sets, and there's only so much we can do. Life would have a distinct daily and seasonal rhythm.
It would be pretty peaceful.
I've thought about this a lot lately, thinking of the flaming disaster that was our experiment of trying to go even one night without artificial light, and what that says about our lives and how they compare to all the societies that lived without modern technology. Here are some of the things I've come up with:
Just like with modern finances, modern daily life allows us to live under the illusion that we can add working hours to our day at will. Technology allows us to overspend our time just as credit cards allow us to overspend our money.
Life before modern technology was full of hard stops: the work day ended at sunset — if you didn't finish laundry during the day there was no going back outside to the washboard at 9:00 at night; the work day began at dawn — if you got breakfast on the table an hour late that was precious time cut out of you and your family's very finite workday; even finances had hard stops — when you spent your last dollar there were no tempting "0% interest for six months!" credit card offers waiting in your mailbox. And with a life full of hard stops, even the most disorganized, scattered people must have been forced to have some kind of routine, and to limit their to-do lists. Even people as inept at time management as I am must have been gently reminded to get to a stopping point and wind down their projects each day as the sunlight began its slow retreat from the sky.
When I considered also that in many times and places people lived in small villages where the community undertook activities together — e.g. the men all went out to work the fields at the same time, the women did the washing and cooking in a community area at the same time — I started to think that maybe one of the reasons so many people feel scattered and overwhelmed these days is because we're just not meant to have to create our own schedules. Humans are used to powerful forces beyond their control like the availability of light or the momentum of community activities structuring their days. Having an Excel printout just isn't the same. It doesn't provide a true hard stop to simply have a line on a piece of paper. We're free to ignore our arbitrary, self-set deadlines (as some employee at some recycling plant no doubt thinks when he keeps seeing papers with labels like "Jen's Daily Schedule" and "Jen's Daily Schedule – NEW" and "Jen's Updated Daily Schedule" fly by).
I realized that without the structure of cohesive communities and the hard stops of life without technology, people like me are adrift. It is all too easy to float past the arbitrary boundaries I set for myself and lose any semblance of a routine; and by virtue of just flipping on some lights, my workday never really has to end.
There are people out there who are good at self-imposing routines, who have a natural tendency to have a clear end to their work days and observe periods of rest. I am not one of them. I love the idea of creating a "family liturgy, " of "imposing order through structure and ritual"…yet how does someone like me bring structure and order to my days? How do I make it real when modern technology allows me to do drift out of the ritual and do whatever I want whenever I want? How do I make sure that "Jen's Family Liturgy" isn't just one more forgotten piece of paper down at the recycling plant? How do I create hard stops?


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Ford CEO talks up e-car future
Alan Mulally speaks out on platforms, prices and power generation
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With that in mind, 600 miles to the south of Hanover, Ford pulled the dust-sheets of the C-Max Energi and Hybrid models – the Energi is the plug-in version – at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show.
Sadly, technical details were thin on the ground. Ford would only say that the Energi will travel 500 miles on a full charge and full tank but not how that splits down between EV and ICE range and that both it and the Hybrid will use Li-ion batteries and a 2.0-litre Atkinson Cycle - a scheme that trades power output to maximise the energy to be gained from the burned fuel - four-cylinder engine.
Ford wants to help develop charging infrastructure
When I asked Mulally if he saw lithium availability as being a potential limiting factor, his answer was a direct "no". Ford's research show existing Lithium deposits are sufficient to keep the e-cars rolling into the foreseeable future and beyond.
Mulally was also keen to stress that Ford is aware of the whole carbon cost of e-cars. The environmental drum can only be beaten so hard if the electricity used to power an e-car is coming from coal-fired power stations, for example. Running an electric car in Paris is a green option, doing the same in Detroit is less so.
Though power generation goes beyond the remit of a car company even the size of Ford, Mulally emphasised Ford's willingness to forge partnerships to develop charging infrastructure and smart-grid systems. ®
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Blake Wheeler is going to the Olympics.
The Jets winger was named to Team USA, Wednesday, marking his third time playing for his country but his first Winter Games.
Wheeler, traveling with the Jets to Ottawa and unavailable for comment, was also on the U.S. team for the 2006 World Junior Hockey Championship and the 2011 World Championship.
The 27-year-old Minnesota native leads the Jets with 15 goals, including 10 in his last 14 games.
Wheeler is the only member of the Jets named to the team.
Defenceman Dustin Byfuglien was also considered a candidate.
It would be a surprise to see a Winnipeg player named to the Canadian team, to be unveiled next seek.
Goalie Ondrej Pavelec is hoping to suit up for the Czechs.