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Thursday, November 15, 2012
DeKalb School System's Shell Game
It comes as no surprise that the central office folks at the DeKalb County School System are instructed by the Board to do one thing, but ignore those instructions. When students don't follow instructions they fail. When employed by DeKalb, failing to do your job often translates to a pay raise. That must be such a confusing message for students of our fine school district.
So a recent audit has been released. Find it HERE. Lots of tidbits in the audit, but let's take a look at an issue going back to May 10, 2010. On that date the Board decided to cut $11,500,000 via 150 positions. Seems like a straight-forward task. The end result was to cut $11,500,000 in salaries. But that is not what happened according to the audit. Instead, some jobs were "cut", but then rehired or simply moved to a different (new) job in the district. You see, it is difficult to fire people in the Friends & Family program. Everyone is related by blood, by church, or by sorority/college. Here are a few clips from the audit:
As you can see from the clip above, the DeKalb School System and its Human Resources DID NOT make cuts of $11.5 million dollars at the Central Office. They actually spent MORE money! Not only did they not make the cuts, they exceeded the Board's budget by $29 million. Must be that fuzzy math or 'new' math we hear about. Why did this happen year after year? And why doe sit continue? There are a few explanations, including: Fraud, Ignorance, Stupidity, Boldness, Incompetence, Defiance, or perhaps a combination of some/all the above.
Point #5 above shows the Central Office did not cut 109 positions. They simply shuffled people around the Stone Mountain complex. They would eliminate a person's job as Executive Secretary, then rehire as Secretary for an Executive (as an example). What a bunch of garbage.
And can someone tell us why Ramona Tyson still works for DeKalb County School System? More to follow, of course. We are crunching the numbers and will show how the teachers, principals, nurses, coaches, taxpayers, and students get screwed while the central office gets bigger and bigger and bigger.
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Internet Auction for Dunwoody Band Ends Soon
Help the Dunwoody High School band! Many items up for auction (this is not Storage Wars, this is an online bidding format). First, go HERE.
Sign up, confirm by email, then start bidding. Many local items, many items out of town. Some items have a minimum, some do not. Lots of great deals still available. Below are just a few examples. You can view the auction items without signing up.
Sign up, confirm by email, then start bidding. Many local items, many items out of town. Some items have a minimum, some do not. Lots of great deals still available. Below are just a few examples. You can view the auction items without signing up.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Fear the Red Shirts?
|Recent Protest Rally in Dunwoody Village
|Recent Rally at Brook Run (Protestors want an indoor dog park now, as well as a grooming station for dogs)
|Dunwoody Residents waiting on elevator at city hall, trying to get a meeting with city manager
|In a rare Rally of Support, the RedShirts cheer for a Mixed Use Village in the Perimeter area
So why red? It seems that loosely organized citizens of Dunwoody opposed to anything and everything believe that wearing red and sitting at a meeting signals to mayor and council that you are mad, smart, informed, and opposed to the topic at hand. Quebec has its Red Square wearers, Thailand has its RedShirt loyalist group. But why here in Georgia? Is it because red is a color that gets noticed? Perhaps not. It is a little known fact that at least two council members are color blind, perhaps three. Going back 150 years or so a group of Red Shirts appeared shortly after the Reconstruction era. These Red Shirts of the South were liberal Democrats, focusing their protests on Republicans. But fear not, today's Red Shirt group in Dunwoody share no common goals of the Red Shirts of old. In history red was chosen as a protest color as red represented blood, and of course everyone is afraid of blood.
So the Dunwoody Red Shirts have protested the Dunwoody Parkway project, supported a dog park, opposed the Wo-Ver MACK intersection, opposed parks, opposed eating ice cream on Tuesdays, and may even oppose Santa Clause, the most famous red-wearing shirt person in history.
So we have all these complaints of alleged financial waste. I will admit, it is nice for people to be involved in local issues. But it is puzzling to see where and when the Red Shirts protest. Let's look at Dunwoody Parkway. People oppose the removal of trees in a median, trees that shade no one but instead contribute to an accident-laden roadway. And what will this parkway project cost the average Dunwoody resident? Approximately $21. Yes, Dunwoody parkway will cost every household a one-time fee of $21. The roundabout? Perhaps $15 per household when all said and done. Of course the homeowners losing part of their yard will absorb the big hit, no denying that.
A person owning a $300,000 home pays nearly $284 to the city of Dunwoody. All this complaining week after week over $284. A nice red blouse costs nearly $50! Add in matching leggings at $30, red shoestrings $3, red lipstick $6. And you can't own just one red shirt.
So back to that $300,000 house. You pay $265 for trash service. Are there Red Shirts on the streets Monday and Thursday protesting the gas guzzling yellow beasts? Nope.
Now the big one: The average homeowner in Dunwoody is paying $2,500 a year (nearly ten times what they pay the city) to DeKalb School System. Are the Red Shirts at school board meetings? After all, $2,500 is a lot more than $284. Why are the Red Shirts not protesting DeKalb schools over the millions and millions of wasted dollars? Why are the Red Shirts not protesting the trailers at Dunwoody schools? Why are the Red Shirts not protesting the school superintendent? Why aren't the Red Shirts fighting for great teachers and principals in the schools?
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Light Up Dunwoody 2012 and Christmas for Kids
Light Up Dunwoody will be held next Sunday, November 18. Event starts at 3:00 PM with tree lighting at 5:45 PM. The FarmHouse across from Dunkin Donuts is where to take in all the action. Santa and a couple of elves will be there, so a chance for a photo with Santa is highly likely.
A few vendors will be there as well as some music.
The Dunwoody Homeowner's Association will have a booth as will others. This year the Dunwoody Police Department will set up a booth and collect unwrapped toys. Please bring a toy this year.
A few vendors will be there as well as some music.
The Dunwoody Homeowner's Association will have a booth as will others. This year the Dunwoody Police Department will set up a booth and collect unwrapped toys. Please bring a toy this year.
|Random photo of winter in Dunwoody
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Our friends out at Lionsgate sent out another something special for us to review, specifically, a copy of "The Inbetweeners Movie". Though this one will be frequently cringe-inducing and have more facepalms than a discussion of Internet memes, it will still manage to sort itself out and do well by the end.
"The Inbetweeners Movie" follows four best friends–Will, Simon, Neil and Jay–as they set out from their home in England to go to an exotic Greek isle for summer vacation. Yes, our four friends are high school boys, and for those of you who remember being a high school boy, remember dating a high school boy, or actually having a high school boy of your own, you have a pretty fair idea of what will be constantly running through their minds when they go to this Greek isle. Naturally, it doesn't take long for the boys to discover that they're in wildly over their heads, but the four vow to stick together come hell, high water or binge drinking and thus set out to make their dreams of manic debauch come true.
The movie itself is actually based on the British television series, so for those who already enjoy the series you're likely to have a good time here. Meanwhile, there are plenty of comparisons between this and the "American Pie" series, and given that this too is a teenage sex comedy, it's not entirely unfair. Of course, a look at the difference between a British teenage sex comedy and its American equivalent will show plenty of differences. For instance, by way of comparison, even a British teenage sex comedy manages to be a bit more cerebral. I say "a bit" here, of course, because it's a very minor improvement, mostly owing to a bit more subtlety in the jokes, occasionally. For those who like their humor in the straight-up gross-out level, don't worry. Let me put it this way, so I can say it without spoilering and still keeping things reasonably family-friendly: what "American Pie" did for pies, "The Inbetweeners" will do for ham. Shaved, deli ham.
The worst part is, I'm not joking.
As should be expected from this sort of movie, it's jammed so full of awkwardness it should come with a picture of somebody facepalming. It's one long string of awkward and unpleasant that's funny, but often only in a malicious sort of way. I actually feel bad for laughing at these poor schmucks who are just entirely too awkward for their own good. Thankfully, things will end much better overall–much, much better–but still, for that first hour or so, it's going to be pretty much non-stop facepalming and cries of "Oh you stupid (insert your favorite derogatory term here)".
As for extra features, you'll have, as is commonly found, your choice of English or Spanish subtitles. Additionally, there will be a commentary track, a making-of featurette, a slate of deleted scenes and an array of bloopers as well as a featurette entitled "Joe Thomas: Dangerman". Plus, there will be a set of trailers for "The Inbetweeners", "Mancation", "Answer This!", "My Best Friend's Girl", "Blue Mountain State", and of course, a preview for the Epix channel.
"The Inbetweeners Movie" is much like high school. Awkward, regularly disturbing, with a few good memories thrown in. It's also generally much better toward the end than it could have hoped to be in the beginning. But still, for those of you who want a crazy sex comedy with a happy ending–literally, not metaphorically–you'll do just fine here indeed.

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Join us on another great adventure into the Texas Renaissance Festival! This is a weekend long event Oct. 18th-20th. We camp just off the festival grounds, if you have never camped at TRF you are missing half the fun. From the craziness of the happenings in the campground to the naughtiness & fun that can be had back at our camp, you are sure to have a blast. Camping for the entire weekend is $20 per car and you must have your TRF gate tickets to get a camping pass. This year's theme is 1001 Dream: fairies, elves, anything FANTASY! You do not have to dress up but it can be fun to be someone else for a day. If you don't want to camp you are still welcome to join the fun, just get a camping pass and come and go all weekend long & of course join us in the festival that Saturday. We will be offering discounted TRF gate tickets again this year for $21 per ticket and are good for any day the gates are open in 2013 season. There is no limit to how many you can buy, you can get 1-100!!! The deadline to buy tickets is Oct. 3rd and tickets will be mailed out Oct. 7th. You can get all the info and purchase on our website, be sure to RSVP on our site as well! If you have any questions or concerns contact KreweOfSwingtown here on SLS.View the 2013 Texas Renaissance Festival Conquest forum
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The why and how to testing the Electrical Conductivity of Soils
The why and how to testing the Electrical Conductivity of Soils.
In the soil, the Electrical Conductivity (EC) reading shows the level of ability the soil water has to carry an electrical current. The EC levels of the soil water is a good indication of the amount of nutrients available for your crops to absorb.
Think of it like this, all the major and minor nutrients important for plant growth take the form of either Cations (positively charged ions) or Anions (negatively charged ions). These ions that are dissolved in the soil water carry electrical charge and thus determine the EC level of your soil and how many nutrients are available for your crops to take in. Knowing your soils EC can allow you to make more educated farming decisions.
To support these claims, Researchers at Clemson University documented the correlations between EC and different crop inputs, documenting these at multiple sites over multiple years. They found unmistakable evidence showing that yield data have consistently supported the EC correlations with water, fertilizer, and pesticide use.
Using EC data to develop zones, in six on-farm tests, they overlaid yield maps developed after the crops had been harvested over EC maps developed before the crops were planted and found that the two maps match perfectly.
They also found that where EC levels were high (More available nutrients) less fertilizer is needed but more weed control in places where they had a morning glory problem. For example on sandier soils with low EC ratings, it took only a quarter-pound of active ingredient in the herbicide to get 80 percent control morning glory. On heavier soils with higher EC ratings, it took up to five times that amount to achieve the same level of control.
Other factors also contribute to soil EC variability include the connectivity of the soil water through soil density, soil structure, water potential, precipitation, timing of measurement, soil aggregation, electrolytes in soil water (e.g. salinity, exchangeable ions, soil water content, soil temperature). Also the conductivity of the mineral phase affects the EC reading for example the types and quantity of minerals, degree of isomorphic substitution, and exchangeable ions. Regardless of what these multiple causes of EC variability are, what still remains is that EC measurements are consistently correlated to soil properties that affect crop productivity, including soil texture, Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC), drainage conditions, organic matter level and salinity, so knowing your soils EC level is a great predictor of your plants health.
For example if the soil EC is too high, it can be indicative of excess nitrogen based fertilizer or a high level of exchangeable sodium. Soils with an accumulation of exchangeable sodium are often characterized by poor tilth and low permeability making them unfavorable for plant growth. Soil EC is also related to specific soil properties that affect crop yield, such as topsoil depth, pH, salt concentrations and water-holding capacity. Thus EC is a great tool for explaining what your yields could be and taking action to get better yields.
The way that Electrical conductivity can be measured is using an EC meter. The probe or sensor consists of two metal electrodes and a constant voltage is applied across the electrodes resulting in an electrical current flowing through the sample. Since the current flowing through the water is proportional to the concentration of dissolved ions in the water, the electrical conductivity can be measured. The higher the dissolved salt/ion concentration, the more conductive the sample and hence the higher the conductivity reading.
The unit of measurement for Electrical Conductivity is microSiemens per centimeter (µS/cm). Up until about the late 1970's the units of EC were micromhos per centimeter (µmhos/cm) after which they were changed to microSiemens/cm (1µS/cm = 1 µmho/cm). Also a 1000 microsiemans is equal to 1 millisieman (1MS/cm)
Interestingly, the unit "mhos" derives from the standard name for electrical resistance reflecting the inverse relationship between resistance and conductivity - the higher the resistance of the water, the lower its conductivity. This also follows from Ohm's Law, V = I x R where R is the resistance of the centimeter of water. Since the electrical current flow (I) increases with increasing temperature, the EC values are automatically corrected to a standard value of 25°C and the values are then technically referred to as specific electrical conductivity. A good EC meter will have ATC (automatic temperature compensation) so you can get accurate results regardless of sample temperature.
To get a soil extract we recommend a similar method as we do for testing pH so that both EC and pH measurements can be taken at the same time.
- Gather a fresh soil sample in a plastic zip-loc bag. Try to get a profile from the top 6" of soil that the plants will grow in and take care not to contaminate the sample by touching with anything.
- Open the bag and let it air-dry for a few hours until it is mostly dried.
- Mix the soil in the bag to ensure a homogenous sample and then use a sieve with approximate 2mm spacing to remove any large soil clumps.
- Measure out ½ of a cup of the dried soil and put into a glass beaker.
- Measure out ½ of a cup of distilled water and put this into the glass beaker with the soil.
- Stir the mixture gently for 30 seconds. Do not mix to harshly as you may destroy the humus structure and the soil may give up elements that it otherwise would not do in nature.
- Let the soil-water suspension stand for 30 minutes.
- Stir water gently again before taking the EC measurement.
- Insert the EC meter into the beaker and swirl it gently around in the soil-water extract.
- After approximately 30-60 seconds or after the EC reading has stabilized, read the digital display on your meter.
It is difficult to say what your ideal EC levels will be because there are so many variables affecting the EC level that it almost depends on your individual conditions which if you analyze over time, will give you a meaningful set of data based on the performance of your crops and the changes you have made to your fertility program.
As a general guideline however, a good soil EC level will be somewhere above 200 µS/cm and 1200 µS/cm (1.2 MS/cm). Any soils below 200 means there is not enough nutrients available to the plant and could perhaps show a sterile soil with little microbial activity. An EC above 1200 µS/cm may indicate too much high salt fertilizer or perhaps a salinity problem from lack of drainage so keeping your EC within this range. Also watch to see how EC changes over the growing season, you may see it increase as microbes are releasing more nutrients from the soil or you may see a decrease as your crops use up all the available nutrients. Either way you can fertilize accordingly.
Water purity testing: Water purity testers are nearly always conductivity meters. Pure distilled water as very very low EC as it has no contaminants in it. Generally good distilled water is < 20 μS whereas good tap water is < 200 μS. If you find your drinking water above these levels then it is not a good water source.
Compost: You can also use your EC meter to monitor your compost pile and analyze how well your pile is doing. Compost in early stages may have an E.C. number of 10,000 μS as the pile becomes active and At the peak of breakdown it can even reach >100,000 μS. High quality finished compost should have an E.C. number of approximately 1,500 - 2,000 μS.
Foliar Fertilizers: You can use the EC meter to ensure your mixture is not to potent and to also ensure you get a consistant foliar spray potency each time. The potency of your spray should depend on what is in your spray, but as a rule of thumb, 15,000 – 35,000 is good for a normal spray mixture that you use only occasionally.
Leaf sap testing: Measure the leaf sap to find out how many ions are being processed into sugars. As the EC level goes down you can expect Brix levels (sugars being produced by photosynthesis) to go up before being transported around the plant. Expect leaf sap to be between 2,000 - 12,000 µS.
To check out our expanding range of Electrical Conductivity meters, click here.
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EDMONTON - Theres one reason, more than any other, hockey fans in Edmonton and all over the hockey world, for that matter should be hoping the Oilers choose Nail Yakupov No. 1 in the draft Friday.
For the good of the game.
Todays over-coaching of defensive hockey is squeezing the life out of the worlds fastest, yet all-too-often lately, inexplicably boring, game.
Draft Yakupov!
Bring back Oilers Hockey!
Bring back Firewagon Hockey!
Craig MacTavish made an interesting statement last week when he was introduced as VP of hockey operations of the Oilers.
You ultimately win on offence. Prolific offence is always going to win out over defensive-minded teams. From that standpoint the skill set of the team has changed. So its going to be a more dynamic team.
You dont often hear that from coaches.
Especially these days.
But a couple of Montreal Canadiens dynasties proved it.
And so did the most recent dynasty in NHL history.
MacTavish was part of it, a guy winning faceoffs and minding the defensive game as a player in the Stanley Cup era, when the Oilers featured Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Jari Kurri and Glenn Anderson as staples on the top two lines.
Nobody is ever likely to be the second coming of Gretzky and there arent likely to be too many reasonable facsimiles of Messier, Kurri or Anderson to come along.
Quietly, a few of us have made lower-case references to it during the last couple of years because to label any of these guys the second coming of four Hall of Famers is almost blasphemy.
But there are lower-case comparisons there.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is Gretzky.
Taylor Hall is Messier.
Jordan Eberle is Kurri.
They have the same M.O. The same DNA.
And if you were casting for players to play the roles for a modern-day remake, Nail Yakupov, of all the young players out there right now, would win the role of Anderson. He plays the same kind of game.
How can you trade down from a chance to put that piece of the jigsaw puzzle in place?
How can you pass over that to draft for need and take a defenceman instead?
It was like last year with Nugent-Hopkins, the kid who the organization had earmarked to send back to Red Deer for another year in junior while he added a bit more size but tonight may be the first player in Oilers history to win the Calder as the NHL rookie of the year on the same night Eberle could win his first Lady Byng? Either one wins and its the first major NHL Award to an Oiler since Mark Messier won the Hart in 1989-90. Neither wins and its just a matter of time before the next batch.
Remember the stunning quote supplied by Central scoutings Peter Sullivan halfway through the season last year?
A couple people high up in the Oilers organization and Im not naming names said Nugent-Hopkins has the best vision on the ice since No. 99. Thats the highest compliment you can get.
Sullivan had further comment.
Another thing is the way Ryan competes. He never takes a night off and he works as hard in his own end as he does in the offensive zone. It takes a special player with special skill to do that, he said.
Special. That word kept coming up.
The top four or five players are all very good and are all going to be great. But give me the guy who is going to be special, said GM Steve Tambellini the morning before heading to the draft last year.
Thats what Taylor Hall brought something we havent seen here for a long time, the way he plays the game, the aggressiveness, the north, south, the fearlessness, the passion ...
I wrote it heading into the draft last year:
Taylor Hall isnt Mark Messier. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins isnt going to be Wayne Gretzky. But they both have a chance to be special in Messier and Gretzky ways.
The Oilers had to pick Hall. And now they have to take Nugent-Hopkins.
Now they have to pick Yakupov.
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Nigel Pearson to Aston Villa: Ex-Leicester boss holds talks with chairman over taking job
Hollis has made sacked Leicester boss Pearson his No.1 target to replace Remi Garde, according to the Mirror.
Pearson, 52, guided the Foxes promotion from the Championship two years ago.
And Villa think he can do exactly the same job with them to ensure their stay in the second tier is a short one.
Pearson met Hollis last week to discuss how he can inspire a revival following a dreadful season to forget.


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Cuckoo-shrike, any of several Old World songbirds of the family Campephagidae (order Passeriformes). In the genus Coracina (including Edolisoma), found from Africa to Pacific islands, the plumage is gray, often with cuckoolike barring or a shrikelike mask (sexes similar); many of the 41 species are known as graybirds. An example is the large, or black-faced, cuckoo-shrike (C. novaehollandiae), about 30 cm (12 inches) long, of India and China to Australasia. In Campephaga, mainly an African genus, males are glossy black, females brownish and barred. An example is the 20-centimetre (8-inch) black cuckoo-shrike (C. phoenicea, including sulphurata), which has red- and yellow-shouldered races. African forms, sometimes separately classified as Lobotos, have bill wattles. The ground cuckoo-shrike (Pteropodocys maxima) of Australia is the only cuckoo-shrike that is not arboreal.
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Tax Day is almost here! And while I absolutely love living in the USA, like most Americans I dread tax day every. single. year! While this is a stressful time of year for some people, there are some perks. Quite a few business recognize that this time of year is a little rough and to help us soothe our sorrows, they've offered some great freebies! Here are some of the freebies that are available this year!
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Hope this inspires you to create some fun gifts with these stamps!
A woman who works with her hands is a LABORER; a woman who works with her hands and head, a CRAFTSMAN; but a woman who works with her hands, her head and her heart is an ARTIST. ~ Louis Nizer
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Wine Tin with Cards and Charms
Hope this inspires you to create some fun gifts with these stamps!
14 comments:
- Margaret said...
My youngest DD is starting to get into wines. This would make a great gift for her. Good work!!
- April 8, 2009 at 12:47 AM
This is such a great idea, and you did a beautiful job! just darling!
I have several friends that we enjoy wines with and these would make perfect hostess gifts for
Thanks for sharing!
Have a great week!
- April 8, 2009 at 2:34 AM
- Justine said...
As you know, I live in Sicily so this is absolutely PERFECT and I am scratching my head going why didn't I think of that. Love Love Love this idea. TFS
- April 8, 2009 at 3:01 AM
No wine for me but sure love your cute charms!
- April 8, 2009 at 4:31 AM
- CRYSTAL said...
Super fab idea.... I love that sentiment on top of the tin...I painted it on the wall in my kitchen!!!
- April 8, 2009 at 6:36 AM
- Toni K said...
Fantastic idea! Love the little wine charms!
- April 8, 2009 at 6:46 AM
- Gulffire said...
This is a sensational idea! My stamps are on the way and I love shrink plastic, Can't wait to try this one out! Thanks for the inspiration.
- April 8, 2009 at 6:52 AM
- Lori said...
You are so darn creative! What a fun gift for a wine lover or for a wine tasting. The charms are so bright, Copics are awesome, one of these I'll break down.
- April 8, 2009 at 6:56 AM
- Tina Gilliland said...
Oh my goodness... how very awesome!!! Need MY address??? LOL I love it. What a great gift this would make!
- April 8, 2009 at 7:59 AM
- Day Scriber said...
Awesome idea and so elegantly done! Love it.
Jimmye Sue
Texana Designs
- April 8, 2009 at 8:23 AM
- Elaine A said...
Mel -
What a great project! I have tons of those tins. You are a genius.
Elaine Allen
- April 8, 2009 at 11:28 AM
- Gvendalen said...
Your work is gorgeous! There's an award on my blog for you if you want it :)
- April 8, 2009 at 1:28 PM
This is gorgeous!! Such a great gift idea! I hope to see those files soon so I can start working on some Christmas starter gifts! These are such great ideas! Thanks for the inspiration!
- April 8, 2009 at 4:48 PM
- Libby Hickson said...
What a fun gift! I have an entire drawer full of Altoid tins, I saved them for a while "just in case" and never did a thing with them...! I just love how your wine glass looks in polyshrink, too!
- April 10, 2009 at 9:35 PM


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Dozens of people have been killed in a suburb of Syria's battle-scarred city of Homs, reports say, in what activists are describing as a "new massacre".
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The reported killings come a day after the UN's humanitarian chief visited Homs, saying parts had been devastated.
Correspondent Robert Fisk sees many parallels between what's been happening in Homs in the past month and the massacres in Hama in Syria in 1982.
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Hello everyone, in the spirit of Abby's Lane this is a day late 😉
In our house we do celebrate Christmas, and we wish a Merry Christmas to all of our customers who have supported us this year and any of the 7 years past. We also wish a Happy Hannukah, a Happy Kwanzaa and a peaceful Winter Solstice to our customers as well 🙂 While this holiday season is full of peace and joy, there are many of our customers where this season may be full of sadness and anxiety, and I want to offer a special prize for those families. This may be the first year the holiday season is experienced with a divorce or separation, the first season where a special family member is not present due to a death in the family, unemployment, loss of a home, a shaky outlook for 2012. Miscarriage and infertility is present in the homes of many of our customers, your emails and notes over the years drives home how many of our wonderful families suffer with secondary infertility or repeated loss of pregnancy.
I would like to offer a $25.00 gift certificate to one person who comments below, you can share your story of why this season is different than those past, or if you wish to not share, simply comment below with a "entering" so we know to include you. My hope is a mom or dad who enters can use it for diapers if they have one in them, shoes for an older child, or if your babies are done with our store products, a little CJs gift pack to pamper yourself for a few minutes in the next few weeks.
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This oil spill experiment will help you understand the detrimental effects of oil spills to the marine ecosystem.
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We have all heard about the news on oil spills and the devastating effects of this on Mother Earth and the marine life it supports. But we, who do not get to witness these effects on a first hand basis, do not understand the degree of impact of such incidents.
In this experiment, you will be mimicking an oil spill to demonstrate the impact of this on ocean life. You will need:
- Large glass jar
- 1 litre distilled water
- Food colouring
- Cooking oil
- Notepad
- Rubber duck, whale, fish or any marine life bath tub toy
Get the large glass jar and half fill it with distilled water. Add the food colouring, preferably blue to mimic the colour of the ocean, and stir thoroughly to disperse the colouring. Put your marine life bath toys into the jar and let them float freely. These will mimic the marine life living in the ocean. The next step is to pour cooking oil into the jar, avoiding the marine life bath toys. Observe what happens. Move the jar in a swirling motion, as if there are waves in your ocean. Observe what happens.
Notice that when you poured the cooking oil into your ocean, the oil started to gather on the surface of the water because it is less dense than ordinary water. It does not mix in with the water unlike the food colouring you added earlier on because the water molecules are more attracted to each other than they are to the molecules of the oil. This is also the reason why, no matter how hard you stir or try to mix oil and water, it simply does not work.
Now, let us pay attention to your marine life bath toys. What did you notice? The rubber toys were easily coated by the oil, all around, especially when you made waves by swirling the jar. Can you imagine how terrible this would be in the case of real animals? When marine animals swim to the surface of the ocean to catch some air, they will instantly be coated by the toxic oil and it will eventually damage their health.
Oil Spills
Oil spills are products of human mistakes and carelessness. Usually oil spills happen when ships carrying large oil tanks sink in the ocean, causing the oil to leak out of its containers and contaminate the ocean, killing thousands of marine lives.
When this happens, people should take responsibility and take actions to clean up the ocean to minimize its deadly effects to the marine life. Oil spill clean ups may cost a lot. And it may also take a long time before oil is removed from the ocean.
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Resource-rich in every way: How Gulf states can transform their countries into sustainable economies
The Gulf States can lead the sustainable development movement by being the first countries to launch renewable energy models on a large scale (File Archive/Shutterstock)
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The Gulf states can use their prosperity and the opportunity to be early adopters of potentially transformative sustainable technologies to accelerate the adoption of renewable energies and sustainable development internationally, delegates at the recent conference session of the 7th World Future Energy Summit (WFES) and 2nd International Water Summit (IWS) in Abu Dhabi said.
Moderated by Frank Wouters, Deputy Director General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the final day's final conference session invited a panel of industry experts to forecast future efforts to manage world energy and water demand sustainably.
"Neither our water nor our energy can be considered cheap anymore," said Dr Thani Al Zeyoudi, Director of Energy and Climate Change at the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the First Permanent Representative of the UAE to IRENA.
Panelist Samantha Smith, Director at the WWF, said that the effects of climate change were unavoidably linked to the challenges of water, energy and food.
"If we don't do something about climate change all of these issues will become much harder to solve," she warned.
Despite their reliance on fossil fuels, the Gulf states had the resources and the institutions to address sustainability challenges, Smith argued, while the accelerated adoption of renewable energies was one avenue to address the region's youth unemployment.
Besides the technical constraints, Gulf states should think about how to develop and capture the benefits of being one of the first places in the world to introduce sustainable solutions on a large scale, she said.
The World Bank chose the final conference session of this year's WFES and IWS to formally launch its Thirsty Energy initiative, a global campaign to encourage best practice in addressing water and energy challenges and to encourage more involvement from the private sector.
"The long term future of energy and water is fundamental to addressing poverty," said William Rex, Lead Water Resources Specialist at the World Bank's Water Unit, adding that it was time "to move from insights to action".
Opening the session, Dr Al Zeyoudi remarked that a significant increase in the price of natural gas in the GCC had made water costlier too, which could limit economic growth if left unchecked. But the region was "starting to see a cultural change" as forums such as WFES and IWS continue to raise awareness of water and energy challenges and the action needed to address them.
Eicke Weber, Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy, applauded the initiative of Abu Dhabi in bringing the issues of water and energy together during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, and highlighted returning confidence in the global solar panel industry as demand catches up with supply.
"Things are changing," said Weber, a winner in this year's Zayed Future Energy Prize. "We are standing in front of the second gold rush – in photovoltaics."
"The link ([in the Gulf region) between water and energy is very strong," added Dr Mahmoud Dawoud, Water Resources Advisor at the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi (EAD), noting that 30-40 percent of energy consumption in the GCC was for water production.
To tackle this problem, the emirate of Abu Dhabi was exploring the potential of solar-powered water desalination and projects to reclaim waste water, he said.
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Full HD 1080p
The best quality image available on televisions today is Full HD 1080p, where screens display 1080 lines of horizontal resolution progressively. They offer incredibly sharp and detailed pictures, and are the best choice for watching any kind of television content. Blu-ray movies and games consoles like the Sony PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 have a native resolution of 1080p, meaning they look best when displayed on these screens. You can still purchase televisions that do not operate at the Full HD 1080p resolution, but these sets will be able to display significantly less detail than a Full HD television.
Motion Enhancement
Motion enhancement on LCD and LED televisions allows them to smoothly display fast-moving video like sports footage. Many new high-definition TVs have a 100Hz mode of some kind and some have even notched it up to 200Hz, which means the image will refresh many more times per second than on an older screen. The theory is that this helps smooth out motion, because the more frames involved the less jerky it will look. Some manufacturers have done this very well while others often wind up introducing more problems than they fix, so be careful and do your homework. On the plus side you can pretty much always turn these modes off if needed. Note that 400Hz panels will soon be introduced into the TV market, and they should deliver even smoother video reproduction.
Plasma televisions do not require a motion enhancement mode because they are naturally able to refresh faster than LCD and LED panels.
IPTV and Internet Access
Some televisions are available with wired or wireless network access, just like a PC or notebook computer. When connected to your home network (which is connected to the Internet), they can access multimedia services via the Internet like Twitter, Facebook or YouTube. Weather and stock information are also common inclusions. Newer televisions can also support video calls via Skype when an optional compatible webcam is purchased. Higher-end televisions often have the ability to install additional programs, just like a PC or laptop.
Several major television brands have teamed up with Australian media companies to offer video-on-demand services that are directly accessible via the Internet on newer televisions. Depending on the manufacturer, services such as BigPond Movies and Yahoo!7's Plus7 catch-up television are available from the TV without any external boxes required. Many televisions also have access to free libraries of video-on-demand content on a wide range of topics such as cooking or sports.
Televisions that support DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) are able to connect to your home network to access files from your PC, laptop and even your mobile phone. Using either a wireless or a wired Ethernet network to connect to your TV, DLNA technology allows you to watch movies, play music or browse slideshows saved on your computer, for example. If you've got a lot of music or holiday photos on your computer, this is an easy way to display them on your TV for everyone to enjoy.
DLNA is usually found on televisions that are at the more expensive price range, and generally these TVs will also offer IPTV and Internet features.
3D television is a big step forward in TV technology, and it brings the 3D cinema experience into your lounge room. 3D TVs are top-of-the-line LED and plasma televisions which, as well as offering great picture quality for standard television and movie viewing, can also create a 3D effect that adds depth to images when using specialised 'active shutter' 3D glasses.


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It's the time of year when mid-term breaks and, hopefully, serious snowstorms are quickly becoming a gentle memory, and the emergence of spring is an immediate and expected reality.
Some sure signs of spring:
• The Nice Ride bikes are back this weekend. (How to not be a menace on two wheels.)
• The ground — the actual ground — is mostly visible.
• Students are rioting. It's the end of college hockey season. (The Gophers face off against Union College at 6:30 p.m. Central. ESPN.)
In other news: The muddy season's about to get muddier. We've made it. MPR News meteorologist Paul Huttner says spring will solidify its hold on us with a little rain this weekend.
What could be more springlike than temps in the 60s and 70s with rain showers to melt the last of the sooty snow piles pocking the landscape?
• Updraft weather: Mild Friday, record 100 days of sub-zero days up north this winter?
• Your current forecast
• Get daily forecasts on your phone: Text 'weather' to 677677
Staying indoors
Between breaks in puddle-splashing this weekend, there's plenty going on in town to keep your eyes on the it's-getting-better prize -- even a few last-chance options for the bucket-list types.
The Guthrie Theater's Joe Dowling this week unveiled the 2014-15 season, which will be his last as artistic director.
The new season starts in September, but the Guthrie's still busy through the spring and summer.
"Othello," led by award-winning director Marion McClinton, finishes its run in a week and a half. "Hamlet" is on its way. "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is coming in between.
Before you head out...
... check MnDOT. Highway 62 will be closed in both directions this weekend between Highway 100 and I-35W in Minneapolis and Edina while crews demolish the Xerxes Avenue bridge deck. (More on the project.)
The closure will begin Friday at 10 p.m. The road will reopen just in time for Monday rush hour, at 5 a.m.
MnDOT suggests using Highway 100 or I-35W as alternate routes.
• From MnDOT: Statewide traffic status
• Road conditions for your smartphone: Statewide road status, from MnDOT
Ask the Art Hounds
Art Hound Scotty Reynolds recommends an encounter with the next generation of puppeteers and performers at the Open Eye Figure Theatre's "The Platform Series." It's a three-week program featuring different artists each week, running now through April 26.
• Open Eye: The Platform Series
For an unsettling, intimate art experience, Bloomington Theater and Art Center's Andrea Specht recommends the "Girls" exhibition at the Groveland Gallery Annex in Minneapolis. It's a coming-of-age collection of prints and paintings marking the passage of life from childhood to adulthood. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, noon till 5 p.m.
• Groveland Gallery Annex: Girls
On Monday, it's Shakey Graves playing a sold-out show at the Turf Club in St. Paul. Art Hound Tim Hoheisel, who heads the Sterans History Museum, calls the one-man band a cross between Townes Van Zandt and early Springsteen. Shakey Graves -- Alejandro Rose Garcia -- heads to St. Paul from his hometown of Austin, Texas, and plays guitar, bass drum and percussion simultaneously. Not to be missed.
Did you miss Argentine singer Juana Molina's visit to the Cedar Cultural Center this week? Not to fear. She stopped by the MPR News studios before her Wednesday night concert to chat with Daily Circuit host Tom Weber and play a few of her tight, twisting, wiry tunes.
• Juana Molina performs live on the Daily Circuit
Also this week, Duluth's Trampled by Turtles released the first single off their "Wild Animals" album, due out in July. They'll be following up on the sucess of last year's Bayfront Park festival by headlining and organizing a festival at Canterbury Park in Shakopee this September, along with bands like The Head and the Heart, Low, The Apache Relay and others. Get yourself prepped by checking out "Are you behind the shining star?" on The Current's website.
• Trampled by Turtles: Are you behind the shining star? single
• Festival Palomino: Sept. 20
Looking for a little more of an immediate musical opportunity? You are so lucky.
The Minnesota Music Summit began this week and runs through the weekend. It's an annual festival and meetup for musicians and fans, and it's behing held across the city of St. Paul. (Co-sponsored by The Current.) Check out the full schedule, with Friday's noontime keynote address, workshops and happy hour, plus mentoring sessions, film screenings and concerts Friday and Saturday.
• Minnesota Music Summit full schedule
The Duluth band Southwire is scheduled to play at the summit's closing concert on Saturday night. Get a sneak preview with their live Daily Circuit concert this week before heading out to the show.
• The Daily Circuit: Southwire live performance
If Mozart's more your thing, head to the Minnesota Opera, where "The Magic Flute" opens on Saturday. It's a comedy of love, good and evil that the company has reimagined, overlaying modern themes on a 1920s-era staging. A little intimidated by opera? (Or just want to brush up on your Mozart?) Classical MPR has a delightful, animated plot primer for you. Runs from now until April 27.
• Minnesota Opera: "The Magic Flute"
And then there's the Frank Theatre's "Threepenny Opera" performance, showing at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis, which begins Friday and runs through May 4.
• Mack the Knife is back in town for Frank Theatre's 25th anniversary
If you'd rather stay under a different kind of roof this weekend -- perhaps even your own -- it ought to be the perfect kind of weekend for a movie. And there are plenty of theaters around the area, from megaplexes to the charming neighborhood types, to keep you busy.
Stephanie Curtis and Tom Weber talked on this week's Screen Time segment about their favorites -- The Heights in Columbia Heights was one of them -- and offer a few tips on how to not be a terrible movie theater companion.
• Screen Time: What screen's worth going out for?
Prefer to stay home for your movie experience? Celebrate Mickey Rooney. The child actor who continued to perform into his later years died this week at 93. He was a performer so long, there's a Mickey Rooney film for every generation: The latest Muppets movie. Babe. The Care Bears Movie. Pete's Dragon. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Breakfast at Tiffany's. National Velvet. Words and Music. The Bridges of Toko-Ri. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Andy Hardy series with Judy Garland. (And don't forget about his appearances on everything from The Twilight Zone and The Red Skelton Hour to Full House and Murder, She Wrote.)
At your home-theater intermission, take a moment to watch the Metrodome disappear in 45 seconds. Pull it up full-screen. Make it HD. From field to crater in less than a minute.
Planning ahead
The federal government has a plan to save the prairie chickens — but not everyone's happy about it. Don't wait till the mating season to see them in action — head over to Rothsay to see the world's largest booming prairie chicken, just off the interstate. The town says it's the prairie chicken capital of Minnesota.
A canoe found in Lake Minnetonka that was believed to have been just a few hundred years old got a new age this week: Radiocarbon dating puts it at nearly 1,000 years old. Ancient. See it at the Western Hennepin County Pioneer Association Museum in Long Lake. (There's free admission, and it's open Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.)
But Long Lake's not the only place to explore such long-ago Minnesota history. Plan a trip to the Jeffers Petroglyphs site outside Comfrey. Some of the carvings in the quartzite rock there are between 7,000 and 9,000 years old. (It's open from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day, every day but Tuesday -- and the petroglyphs are best seen when the sun is low in the sky, early morning or late afternoon.)
Or visit Pipestone National Monument, just an hour and a half away from the petroglyphs(open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. every day; check for winter trail closures). And the exhibits at Kathio State Park on Lake Mille Lacs depict the same time period when the dugout canoe was made. Beginning Memorial Day Weekend, the park's interpretive center will reopen.
• Jeffers Petroglyphs
• Pipestone National Monument
• Mille Lacs Kathio State Park
Looking to go farther? If you live in the Rochester area, your flight options are about to become fewer. Allegiant Air announced this week it's pulling out of the Rochester International Airport, and will end its weekly flights to Mesa, Ariz., in the middle of May.
Airlines aren't getting terribly high marks these days, anyway. A new survey showed the flights are basically never on time, bags get lost more often than they used to — and travelers are just getting used to it. (For what it's worth: Virgin America got the highest marks.)
Catching up
In case you missed it:
The Gopher women's basketball team gets a new coach in Marlene Stollings.
Groundwater continues to be a giant deal. (Ask an editor.)
St. Paul moved to mixed recycling (no more sorting!) this week.
The Twins' home opener was rough but pretty.
Local jazz musicians wonder if the Dakota's takeover of the closed Artists' Quarter will hold on to the venue's jazz-club vibe.
Heartbleed is not a joke. Change your passwords. All of them.
Colbert is the new Letterman. A compilation of his best Minnesota jokes.
And a few not-to-miss moments from your radio dial this week:
• For Alzheimer's patients, music can be a light in the darkness
• How the CIA tried to use 'Doctor Zhivago' against the USSR
• Rwanda's only ice cream shop challenges cultural taboos
• A reporter reflects on Rwanda: 'It's like a madness took over'


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Take three strangers who all want something more. The Polish shift worker struggling to get a foothold in the new country; a fisherman who needs to make good on a promise to his best friend; and the middle man, determined to make up for lost time and take a little of what he deserves. When a chance comes along, each man must weigh the risk - and then keep his nerve as events take on their own unstoppable momentum. Tightly plotted and sharply observed, this is a gripping… (more)
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HORSE RACING; Bellamy Road Carries Pinstriped Hopes Into the Wood
By By BILL FINLEY
Published: April 9, 2005
The George Steinbrenner who owns a stable of thoroughbred racehorses bears little resemblance to the George Steinbrenner who is the principal owner of a certain baseball team playing in the Bronx. He has never spent lavishly on free-agent horses at the various sales, has always operated under the radar and has never won anything of great significance in the racing game.
It is doubtful that Steinbrenner will change the way he operates his modest stable, but he may finally have a horse that is every bit as talented as some of his millionaire ballplayers. The Steinbrenner-owned Bellamy Road has been installed as the 2-1 morning-line favorite for today's Wood Memorial at Aqueduct.
A victory in the Wood, a race Steinbrenner won in 1985 with Eternal Prince, is important, but the larger goal is to put Steinbrenner in position to win his first Kentucky Derby in what would be his sixth attempt. The Wood will be the stiffest test yet for Bellamy Road, a 3-year-old son of Concerto, a former Derby starter for Steinbrenner, and a strong performance would move him to the forefront of Kentucky Derby contenders.
Also entered in the Wood is the 3-year-old gelding Byanosejoe, who is partially owned by Yankees Manager Joe Torre. His trainer, Richard Dutrow Jr., said yesterday that Byanosejoe was a likely scratch and would probably be pointed to shorter and easier races. Torre vs. Steinbrenner will have to wait.
Bellamy Road, who cost $87,000 at a 2-year-old sale, was trained last year by Michael Dickinson. He did not draw much attention while winning two of three starts, including the Grade III Cradle Stakes at River Downs. Borrowing from at least one aspect of his baseball modus operandi, Steinbrenner fired Dickinson in January and gave Bellamy Road to Nick Zito, who has two Kentucky Derby victories.
Bellamy Road, a colt, made his 3-year-old debut on March 12 in an allowance race at Gulfstream Park and was so impressive, winning by 15 3/4 lengths, that Zito had no choice but to head down the road leading to the May 7 Derby.
''We knew he was a good horse by the way he was training, but you never think one is going to win like that,'' said Zito, blessed this year with four legitimate Kentucky Derby candidates. ''It was an ideal race for him.''
Bellamy Road may be Steinbrenner's best chance yet of winning the Derby. Steinbrenner's only serious Derby contender was Eternal Prince in 1985, but he lost all chance when breaking well behind the field. Steinbrenner's closest finish came with his first Kentucky Derby starter, Steve's Friend, who finished fifth behind the race's winner, Seattle Slew, in 1977. Since then, he has finished 12th with Eternal Prince; 9th with Diligence in 1996; 9th with Concerto in 1997; and 11th with Blue Burner in 2002.
''It would be a great thrill to win the Kentucky Derby,'' Steinbrenner said through the publicist Howard Rubenstein. ''But it would be no more so than winning a World Series in baseball. In my mind, they are equal. It's particularly wonderful to win with a home-bred stallion, born and raised on your own farm. It's something special. It's not like paying $1.5 million for a horse.''
Steinbrenner's son, Hank, runs the family racing operation, Kinsman Stable. The elder Steinbrenner will occasionally breed to some of the game's top stallions, but has never been known to throw around big money at the yearling or the 2-year-old sales. If he ever wins the Derby, it will most likely be with an overachiever like Bellamy Road.
''His family and friends have told me he'd like to win a Kentucky Derby,'' Zito said, ''but he's never put any pressure on me that I have to win it. He realizes you've got to get a horse into the playoffs first. He's a great guy and one of the toughest competitors I have ever met. But he's been fair to me.''
The Wood, which will be run four weeks before the Kentucky Derby for the first time in its history, does not have a particularly strong field this year. But it does include enough talent to provide Bellamy Road with the kind of test he needs to prove he can tackle the Kentucky Derby.
Nine horses have been entered for the mile-and-an-eighth race. The second choice in the morning line at 5-2 is the Wayne Lukas-trained Going Wild, who was second behind the since-injured Declan's Moon in the Santa Catalina Stakes at Santa Anita. From the Shug McGaughey stable, the winner of the Gotham Stakes, Survivalist, is next at 6-1. The first five finishers from the Gotham, who were separated by 1 1/2 lengths at the finish line, are among the entries.
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Ryan on right track in immigration reform
Those opposed to immigration reform should get educated on Paul Ryan's efforts to reform our broken immigration system before criticizing Ryan.
Eleven million undocumented immigrants living in the United States lack legal status. At the same time, immigrants who attempt to come to this country by legal means find themselves wrapped up in endless paperwork and bureaucracy.
Ryan is working on a House bill that ensures an immigration system that upholds the rule of law and helps our economy grow. Ryan won't take up the Senate bill in the House. Instead, he's putting together proposals that will make our immigration system more accountable, efficient and effective.
Most people agree we need to secure the border to have a secure country, and this is Ryan's first priority. We need a greater presence on the border, and we have to give law enforcement the tools they need to enforce the law. We need operational control of the border (stopping 90 percent of illegal border crossings), certified by an independent third party.
Ryan wants to encourage legal immigration with a guest-worker program that meets the needs of our economy, while attracting the best and brightest workers to our shores. He wants no one to work here without legal status.
Ryan believes we need to give undocumented immigrants a chance to get right with the law and be fair to already law-abiding immigrants that are committed to America.
We must secure our borders first, enforce laws and fix our immigration system.


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Originally Posted by xSamhainx
What do you RPG Puritans want to do with a pretty action-RPG anyway, arent you supposed to be playing some shitty Spiderweb game or Fallout for the hundredth time? Why are you even worried about new games at all?
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I agree. I doubt we will ever see another true SP game from Blizzard after all WOW and there fans showed them there future. The next two expansions to finish SC2 will be there last games not on a server and not only focused on mp.


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(KOIN) – Two NASCAR vehicles that were being transported to a race in Washington this weekend were damaged Friday morning when their trailer caught fire north of Baker City.
Oregon State Police (OSP) reports that a Peterbilt truck hauling a semi-trailer was traveling west on Interstate 84 at about 8:30 a.m. when one of its tires overheated and caught fire.
The driver, 51-year-old John Wood of Eagle, Idaho, pulled over into a rest area and Baker Rural Fire Protection District crews responded to find the flames had spread into the trailer.
The fire significantly damaged one of the vehicles and caused windshield and front damage to the other. The trailer itself was also seriously damaged. No one was hurt, OSP said.
The truck was on route to the NAPA Auto Parts/Evergreen 150 event taking place Saturday at the Evergreen Speedway in Monroe, Wash.


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Vintage Biking in Rural Missouri
I'm back to cycling after an 8-year absence. I live way out in the middle of nowhere, so my rides involve at least some dirt riding.
My current ride is a '71 Columbia Sports III. I also have a mid-70's Free Spirit 10-speed waiting for parts.
Hello and welcome to Bike Forums.
I'm sure members in our Classic and Vintage Forum would appreciate pics of your bikes. Drop by there when you have time.
My first bike was a vintage trek,i fell in love with road cycling!!Welcome to BF!!!
Hey - Just checking things out - Is that a sears Free Spirit? - Just finished rebuilding one - When I was disposing of some old bike parts I found a step through that was incredibly light weight - On further exam it turned out to be a SEARS "Ted Williams" Steyr-Daimler-Puch Austria 1976 - I might even have the cottered crank for it laying around somewhere - See my post on the welded on dérailleur hangar - Welcome to the forum...
[QUOTE=sillygolem;11483375]I'm back to cycling after an 8-year absence. I live way out in the middle of nowhere, so my rides involve at least some dirt riding.
What part of Missouri?
I forgot about this post then rediscovered it looking for something else. Better late than never, I guess.
@zandoval It's a Sears Free Spirit, but it has a one piece crank. The range was pretty wide with a few of their top bikes getting aluminum and a few with Campy components. My bike has center-pull brakes and a Shimano Eagle derailleur with its monster guard on the back. Overall they're somewhat better than most of the sewer pipe bikes coming out of department stores at the time.
@AZORCH The SW corner, near Joplin and Neosho.
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Your DH really is a keeper! I have one just like him! Aren't we so lucky?Originally Posted by LoriJ
Enjoy your new machine and table. I'm sure you'll have lots of fun with the machine and your shoulders will thank you and DH for the nice adjustable table. Thanks for sharing.


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Squallis Puppeteers hosted its 10th annual fundraising bash, Puppet Prom, on Feb. 9 at the School of Sharks building on Eastern Parkway.
The event featured large puppets, interactive puppet activity booths, a silent auction of local art, free desserts, Lil' Cheezers food truck, a cash bar, live puppet show, DJ Matt Anthony and music from local band Lady Pyramid.
Squallis Puppeteers use the art of puppetry to free imaginations, create fantastic characters and tell stories that are important to the community.
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Meet the Food Bloggers: Delicious Days
Nicole Stich blogs about unusual ingredients - radish pesto, anyone? - and hearty traditional fare from Bavaria, Germany
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Like a dear friend of mine says, "food always tastes better with a story to it" and I couldn't imagine it any other way. When I discovered food blogs it was like discovering a whole new world, one that provided everything I could possibly wish for: people who could talk about food forever and who were passionate about cooking; who loved to create new recipes and exchanged tips and tricks about how to prepare, for instance, an out-of-this-world pesto.
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I was just wondering everyones thoughts on designer signatures. I usually put my designer mark at the bottom right hand corner of my prints as a symbol to my art.
How do designers/customers feel about buying prints that contain marks or signatures?
I was just wondering everyones thoughts on designer signatures. I usually put my designer mark at the bottom right hand corner of my prints as a symbol to my art.
How do designers/customers feel about buying prints that contain marks or signatures?
Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Most customers honestly don't want t-shirts that have signatures on them unless that's either:
a) a well known thing with that artist or
b) it just fits well into the design or is hidden in the design.
Most signatures detract from the art, especially on clothing. We have a few artists who cleverly hide their "mark" in their artwork sometimes so you don't even notice it unless you go looking for it. Very "Neal Caffrey" and it can be fun to go looking for it.
Yeah, I wasn't speaking about shirt designs- mostly about Prints sold on the site. I mean, eventually I'd like to have my own tattoo-related clothing line which I will include my mark on the shirt somewhere for branding purposes, but I wouldn't put my logo WITHIN the design itself.
Art prints are a different thing entirely. I think customers would be more attuned to seeing signatures in prints, assuming the signature isn't terrible or overly large.
Agreed. I've been experimenting with sizing and placement. I just uploaded my first print-only artwork to DBH yesterday, so that's why I asked.
this isn't a painting. no one wants your name on their shirt. I want art on mine. signing digital art is arrogant
@biotwist I understand that, hence why I was speaking about prints and not shirts.
Perhaps a pictogram signature that can easily slotted in anywhere that wont break the design, korean stamp style, or signature by negative omission that subtly deletes from a heavily filled area so the natural colour of the shirt becomes the signature in that spot
Like this, but obvs more thought put in on design and placement:
Yep that's exactly what I was referencing above. We have a few artists who do that and it's virtually not noticeable unless you go looking for it which is cool.
@BlackFiberGraphics I gotcha. I still think it's stilly. let the art speak for its self
And I agree. If some artists can include it within their art, all power to them. I was referring to a digital mark I use on my prints. This is an example. I'm trying to establish a brand for myself, so getting people familiar with my designer mark and tying it to my style of art is the longterm goal.
I wish you had a shirt version of that art. It's pretty epic as a huge Mass Effect fan myself. If you do it, don't make it a box on a shirt. distress the edges or something so it's not a hard border. Something.
But shirt. Please. Now. Want. Kkkthnxbai.
This print is my #1 selling print on my Etsy shop. As a huge Mass Effect fan myself, I think I'll have to make this a shirt. Just to appease Lord Inked. I don't think it would be the same format though. I'll try distressing it a bit, but I might just use the main shape of the reaper and silhouette of the little girl.
Gah… such an epic teaser trailer they made. Nerdgasm.
I totally agree with you Inked. This design would make a great shirt with a little disruption around the border.
Hmmmmm, What color shirts do you think? Now that I look at it, a black or Navy would look good I think.
I think black and navy would look great. Might want to try putting it on charcoal and silver to see how that looks too.


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