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I don't like R helping P with questions...could hurt her if P is competing against her in the Final HOH.
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I don't like R helping P with questions...could hurt her if P is competing against her in the Final HOH.
At this point let her sink or swim on her own.. Hopefully sink... Don't keep giving her the answer cheat sheet..
I wasn't crazy about R going over facial features with P (from earlier this afternoon) but I'm hoping she's just using strategy in trying to stay friendly with P.
I'm also trying to keep the faith that the cozying up R is doing with A and P is because this is what Jordan suggested she do; that she needs to try to be friendly and downplay herself to get herself into the F2. If she needs to talk about stupid stuff with P to do that, then so be it. At least this is what I'm hoping she's doing b/c I really liked her when she was with Jordan and she was a good friend to J and I'm hoping she's not regressing.
I would think that part 2 will be played out tomorrow (the same day that POV is usually played) and you will catch it on BBAD. I think even if BB tells the houseguest not to talk about it....they still will!
I'm not sure if a thread has been made to discuss upcoming BB seasons....If there isn't I'm sure one will be started on "What would you like to see next year on Big Brother" or something like that.
ETA - Rachel and Porshe laying by pool while Adam is planning food for night. They are discussing what is left in the store room.
Sorry if this belongs in the show discussion; I wasn't sure.
But did anyone else wonder if Jordan's effusive praise of Adam last night in her speech was said not only b/c she feels that way (b/c I've no doubt she really does) but perhaps also to help Rachel by luring Adam into believing he'd have Jeff & Jordan's vote over Rachel if he makes the F2 and were to take R with him?
I wondered last night and thought, if so, it'd be a great move by her to help R.
About Rachel and Adam helping her...........:wow............ ..Rachel helping both without the other knowing would be good strategy but sitting there with both is not smart.
She needs to make each one of them think that she would take them to final 2. Rachel is not good multi-playing among more than one person.
Houseguest talking about the paint ball guns that were shooting at them during the comp last night.
Rachel was asking....what did that add....just to make it look cool or something?
She thought they would get wet and it would be slippery.


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Industry analysts and corporate users say Brent Masters of Ink Enterprises Inc. is doing exactly what savvy IT executives should be doing right now -- making the economic downturn work for him.
"I don't think I could have gotten those deals before 2001. It sure didn't seem like I could," says Masters, who adds that the cost savings definitely shed some positive light on him at work. "I needed a new server and workstations. I found a local company that wanted our business...but I had a better price from an online vendor. I kept going back to the local company with that and it worked for us. I saved 10% on the hardware costs, easily, and the service contract was 15% off the normal hourly rate."
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Read these two Special Report sidebars:
10 Tips For Negotiating with Vendors in a Down Economy
and Don't Overlook Used Equipment Market.
There's been an obvious turn in the industry over the past year. Headlines scream of dot-com demises instead of IPO takeoffs, and technology giants are reporting revenue shortfalls instead of stock splits. In April alone, Microsoft Corp.'s earnings came in below Wall Street estimates, Gateway reported a first-quarter loss, and Compaq Computer saw its revenue continue to fall.
In the IT sector, it's no longer all about how to keep your IT staff, but how to get an IT job. More than 200,000 of the country's 10.4 million IT workers are out of work right now, according to a report from the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA).
But there is an upside to all of this.
Analysts say now is the time to stop hand-wringing over stock losses and turn your sights on your vendors. The economic slide means vendors need their corporate customers more than ever. And it also means they'll be more willing than ever to go that extra mile to gain a customer or to keep an old customer happy.
"People are looking at the landscaping and realizing that things aren't so hot in vendor land," says Judith Hurwitz, principal of CycleBridge Technologies, LLC, a strategy consulting firm based in Newton, Mass. "A lot of vendors had been setting prices too high, way too high, because that's what the market would bear at the time. As the market has come down, they've had to reassess whether to close up business or give huge discounts."
More For Your Money
Paul Belsky, director of Enterprise Information Technology at RR Donnelley & Sons Co., a Chicago-based global information services management company, says he has been using this time to renegotiate vendor agreements, getting more for his company's money.
"My sense is that vendors are very willing to work with you," says Belsky. "Look at the total relationship (with the vendor). Price is important, but it's not the only thing."
Belsky says that means he's been negotiating and renegotiating with his vendors to get more meat added to their contract for the same amount of money. For instance, he says he now has vendors that give him monthly reports -- how many products bought, total spent, what products went to which offices -- and that saves RR Donnelley from doing that administrative work themselves.
"It helps tremendously when you get to that level of detail and you can get the big picture of what's going on," says Belsky. "Oh, yeah. I can get that deal much easier now than I could a year or two ago."
Andy Palmer, CIO of Infinity Pharmaceuticals Inc., a Boston-based drug discovery company, says he too has been renegotiating his vendor deals. Actually, he has gone through every one of his vendor contracts and set up short-term and long-term goals for them to work on.
"We're finding that we've been able to achieve dramatic efficiencies," says Palmer, who adds that the technology industry slowdown and the renegotiated deals are simply signs of the market straightening itself out and coming off an over-inflated high. "With the Internet boom, technology became an end in and of itself. It's really not. It's about helping us improve our productivity."
Palmer, for instance, says he pushes his software vendors to make their products compatible with newer technology, such as Windows 2000 server and Windows Explorer 6.0. And for the long-term, he negotiates with them to move to a Web services-based architecture and to deliver applications that can run on a distributed system.
"It's not just about renegotiating a better financial deal," says Palmer. "If I end up paying the vendor the same amount, but I get more of what I want out of them, then I'm happier than if I had saved a buck."

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CSU downs Savannah State 8-4
CHARLESTON, S.C. -Charleston Southern's Alex Tomasovich and Harrison Wilkins each homered as the Bucs scored eight runs in the first four innings and held off Savannah State, 8-4, on Tuesday at CSU Ballpark.
The Bucs had five extra-base hits early to shake off a slow weekend offensively, and start their six-game home stand off on a high note against a Savannah State squad that came in at 9-2.
"We've kind of been slow starters," CSU head coach Stuart Lake said after the game. "It was nice to get going early, but we just got finished talking about how you have to be able to handle it. Savannah State is a good team, as their record indicated, they've beaten a number of good teams already."
Lake made some changes to his lineup to try and get his team to respond after a slow weekend offensively. First baseman Harrison Wilkins responded to his start, going 2-for-3 and lifting a two-run home run to right during the Bucs' five-run third.
Charleston Southern (6-6) led 8-2 through six innings before the Tigers started piling up singles and base runners, as the Bucs committed a pair of errors. Reliever Austin Weekley came in to pitch out of a bases-loaded jam in the eight to get his second save of the season. The Tigers loaded the bases on Weekley in the ninth on an error and a pair of soft singles, but induced a pop-up to Wilkins at first to end the threat.
The Bucs broke into the scoring column first as Tomasovich roped his first home run of the season to straightaway centerfield to give CSU a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second.
CSU broke things open in the bottom of the third as the Bucs' bats came to life with two outs. Bucs' leftfielder John Faircloth doubled to right center to start the rally and scored on a Brian Welch single to build the lead to 2-0.
Starting pitcher Chase Shelton doubled off the fence in centerfield to score Welch and build the lead to 3-0. Tomasovich followed with his second hit, slapping an RBI single to right as the Bucs moved ahead 4-0.
Wilkins followed with a towering home run, his first of the year, to right center as CSU led 6-0.
Savannah State cut the lead to 6-2 in the fourth on a two-run single by Parker Nix, but the Bucs got the two runs back in the bottom of the inning.
Centerfielder Bobby Ison lined a double down the left field line and Faircloth followed with a sacrifice fly as the Bucs scored their final runs.
Junior Stephen Leopard (WP, 1-1) came on in relief to allow one earned run in 3.1 innings of work. He struck out three with no walks.
Tomasovich' big day led the Bucs' offense. He was 3-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored.
Charleston Southern hosts College of Charleston on Wednesday afternoon at 2 p.m. at CSU Ballpark.


text: Last month I start being obsessed in making calotypes. It's been a while I became obsessed in taking photographs and making prints in the most old, traditional and often weird way possible. At the same time I didn't stopped printing my bw prints and occasionally some bromoil. I use only liquid emulsion (generally on paper) and it's very rare for me to print on modern factory-made papers. Anyway, I was running out of emulsion... So I decided to prepare some bromide emulsion myself. I did it once in Denmark with Emil Schildt and worked well. I did it again now and worked still perfectly. I just followed instructions for the only unwashed bromide emulsion described in the "Silver Gelatin" book (the bible of liquid photographic emulsions). This time I attempted to prepare also some "gaslight" silver chloride paper too, but results were odd. I did not investigate on that because I'm happy with the bromide emulsion. Key factors are gelatin type/quality and temperatures. The homemade bromide emulsion is great for regular b+w printing, b+w toning, and even bromoil. Yesterday I had this idea of trying to make a dry-plate... I made wooden plate holder for a 4x5" camera and I couldn't wait too long to try it with a "real" plate. With great surprise it worked very good on ordinary glass. No noticeable frilling on the edges, just a couple of bubbles. And no subbing layer! All kinds of commercial emulsions always lifted from the plate when placed in the developing bath. The exposed and developed plate is now drying and looks soooo nice. It's a bit slow though. Under the enlarger the emulsion took 5 minutes at F4 to deliver a good, contrasty picture. Used as dry plate, with 7' at F8 I had a badly underexposed image (indoor lighting, it was evening time). Anyway I've rated the emulsion ISO 3-5 (like my latest calotypes), which is ok enough to photograph people during daytime. It would be really nice to make positive plates. I know that collodion wet plates consist essentially of an underexposed/underdeveloped negative that looks like a positive when placed over a dark/black surface. While daguerrotypes were real positives, right? And how would it work for a dry plate made out from a silver bromide gelatin? Is there any process for inverting a bw print that will work in my case?


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- Polymer clay rolled into 1.25" balls (one ball will make one maker) – Make sure it's bake-able!
- A baking dish
- Rolling Pin
- Butter Knife
- Mini Rubber Letter Stamps
So cute! I definitely want to make some of these... I can totally see some of these around the plants and gardens the boyfriend has around here! A big thanks to Sasha for sharing this tutorial with us and don't forget to check her and her blog out at Creations by Sasha!


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Provided below is the walkthrough on how to beat The Impossible Test Christmas answers, cheats, and solutions. You can solve, pass, and beat all the levels, puzzles, and questions with easy by following the guide on how to pass The Impossible Test Christmas answer sheet given. This is the complete list of The Impossible Test Christmas walkthrough:
Christmas Level Question 1. Shake your device.
Christmas Level Question 2. Drag the word 'off' on top of the Christmas tree.
Christmas Level Question 3. Tap the snowball to shoot it. Make sure that you only shoot when the snowball is aligned with the present.
Christmas Level Question 4. Remember the price tag on the toy and tap it to continue.
Christmas Level Question 5. Count the days until December 25th and then tap on the square that corresponds to December 25th.
Christmas Level Question 6. Drag the sleigh to the very left edge of the screen, and then go. It will automatically launch forwards if done correctly.
Christmas Level Question 7. Drag the word 'stuff' into the stocking.
Christmas Level Question 8. Drag the word 'snow' into the word 'angel'. Then rub your finger in the middle of the screen until you fully reveal a snow angel.
Christmas Level Question 9. Drag and move each star until you find a red button underneath one of them. Tap the red button once you find it.
Christmas Level Question 10. Turn your device upside-down.
Christmas Level Question 11. FULLY scratch the code area at the bottom of the card and then tap to continue.
Christmas Level Question 12. Tap the icicles before they reach the bottom of the screen.
Christmas Level Question 13. Look for a small pointy nail on the left edge of the screen. Drag the nail onto the door. Then drag the wreath onto the nail.
Christmas Level Question 14. Tap the purple elf, then the green elf, then the red elf, and lastly tap the word 'yellow'.
Christmas Level Question 15. Drag the blue, yellow, and red presents into the word 'chimney'.
Christmas Level Question 16. Drag the mug of hot chocolate and tap the 'Heat' button underneath it.
Christmas Level Question 17. There are a total of 25 points.
Christmas Level Question 18. Tap all the 'right facing' or 'left facing' mittens. This question randomly changes (between left and right).
Christmas Level Question 19. Tap the letters to spell out 'gingerbread'.
Christmas Level Question 20. Tap the word 'bake'. Then increase the temperature to 425 and press the 'Bake' button.
Christmas Level Question 21. Tap order of the lights (from the Christmas tree in question 2) is: orange, green, red, blue.
Christmas Level Question 22. Tap the word 'snowman' twice. Then drag the medium snowman onto the larger one in the middle. Now tap the word 'snowman' again. Drag the small snowball on top of the medium one. Now tap where the snowmans RIGHT arm should appear (along the right edge of the medium size snowball). After the right arm, tap where the snowmans hand should be (the tip of the arm). Now tap the face and top of his head (for a hat). Lastly, create another arm and hand on the left side of the snowman, using the exact same method as the right arm.
Christmas Level Question 23. Tap the chimeny 5 times until it permanently expands. Then drag the word 'down' into the chimney.
Christmas Level Question 24. Keep tapping each new snowflake that appears. You need to tap 15 within the time limit to continue.
Christmas Level Question 25. The correct order is 4,2,1,3 (the price tag on the toy from question 4 said $42.13).
Christmas Level Question 26. Turn your device upside-down until the candy canes fall. Count the candy canes and press submit to check your answer. The correct number is 36 (12 in each pile).
Christmas Level Question 27. To move reindeers around, tap 1 reindeer and then tap a second one. This will swap the positions of both reindeers. The correct alphabetical order is: Blitzen, Comet, Cupid, Dancer, Dasher, Donner, Prancer, Rudolph and Vixen.
Christmas Level Question 28. Touch each ornament to stop it from spinning. Make sure that each ornament is upright (with the hook at the top center). Drag the word 'string' onto each hook (for a total of 3 'string'). Once the ornaments are upright and they have the word string, shake your device.
Christmas Level Question 29. Tap the 4th star on the image (count the white stars from left to right).
Christmas Level Question 30. Tap the 6th star on the Christmas card. The rotation of this star changed from the previous screen.
You can view the answers, solutions, cheats, and walkthrough to all other packages at The Impossible Test online game forum.


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KHN's Mary Agnes Carey talks to Jon Kingsdale about the upcoming Supreme Court ruling on the health law and its implications for the future of health care.
Kingsdale, who helped implement the Massachusetts health law, divides states into three camps when it comes to implementing the 2010 federal law: Some are preparing in earnest to be ready on time, some are taking steps but waiting on others until the Supreme Court rules and the fall elections occur, and other states have done nothing, with hopes the law will be struck down. Kingsdale now consults with states and others on implementation of the federal health law.
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Useful HTML-, CSS- and JavaScript Tools That Do Pretty Much Everything
- By The Smashing Editorial
- June 10th, 2011
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Front-end development is a tricky beast. It's not difficult to learn, but it's quite difficult to master. There are just too many things that need to be considered; too many tweaks that might be necessary here and there; too many details to make everything just right. Luckily, developers and designers out there keep releasing useful tools and resources for all of us to learn, improve our skills and just get better at what we do. Such tools are valuable and helpful because they save our time, automate mundane tasks and hence help us focus on more important things.
Here at Smashing Magazine, we're continuously searching for time-saving, useful HTML-, CSS- and JavaScript-resources for our readers, to make the search of these ever-growing tools easier. We hope that these tools will help you improve your skills as well as your professional workflow. A sincere thanks to all designers and developers who are featured in this round-up. We respect and appreciate your contributions to the design community.
HTML and CSS Tools Link
HTML Email Boilerplate1
This website and its sample code creates a template of sorts, absent of design or layout, that will help you avoid some of the major rendering problems with the most common email clients out there. It also provides some helpful examples and snippets that will keep your email design rendering as true-to-form as possible.
This tool creates a customizable template based on HTML5 Boilerplate. Decide whether you want sample content, choose between JavaScript and jQuery, and specify your compatibility and server configuration needs. You'll get a template based on key features of Boilerplate to start your next project.
Layer Styles5
A nice simple tool for creating CSS in an intuitive way — very much like you would do with a graphics editor. The tool lets you add drop shadow, inner shadow, background, border and border radius and generates cross-browser CSS code.
Mobile Boilerplate7
A template that creates rich and performant mobile Web apps. You can get cross-browser consistency among A-grade smartphones, and fallback support for legacy Blackberry, Symbian, and IE Mobile.
A simple HTML table generator that helps you create a table and throw in row as well as column classes quickly and easily. And if you want a quick tool to generate lists, you might want to take a look at li maker10.
This tool reloads the style sheet (not the HTML) of a page in all browsers, and it can even be configured to reload a page automatically in multiple browsers at the same time. The tool doesn't host your website but rather runs your website's own local server. To use it, you just need to install NodeJS and npm.
LiveReload applies CSS/JS changes to Safari or Chrome without reloading the page and reloads the page automatically once the HTML changes. Alternatively, take a look at Live.js15, a library that makes sure that you're always looking at the latest version of the page you're working on, whether you are writing HTML, CSS or JavaScript.
This tool allows editing CSS properties in the IDE from Firebug CSS editor and also allows the developer to concentrate on CSS styling without having to refresh the browser.
A bookmarklet that lets you test different font stacks to find the best result. It bascially scans the page's CSS and creates a clone page where you can test and analyze different fallback fonts.
LESS.app for Mac OS X21
LESS extends CSS with variables, nested rules and operators. This app makes it very simple to use {Less} by automatically compiling *.less files into standard CSS.
Boilerplate CSS is written in Less and includes a CSS reset, CSS3 helpers, centered column blocks, and much more.
Needle v0.1a125
Needle is a handy tool you can use to test whether your CSS renders correctly by taking screenshots of portions of a website and comparing them with other screenshots. It also provides tools for testing calculated CSS values and the position of HTML elements.
A CSS framework that provides you with the best dev tips, tricks and practices in one handy file.
This application merges multiple images into one and generates CSS positioning for the corresponding slices; by reducing the amount of images and better utilizing the connection, CSS spritemapping can reduce your website's loading time.
Normalize.css takes a slightly different approach to CSS resets. Rather than eliminating all browser defaults, Jonathan Neal and Nicolas Gallagher have taken the time to research how different browsers handle different bits of code and then kept the defaults that are useful. It saves you time as a designer, while also providing consistent results.
Zen Coding33
Zen Coding is an editor plugin for high-speed coding and editing. The core of this plugin is a powerful abbreviation engine which allows you to expand expressions (similar to CSS selectors) into HTML code.
CSS Stress Testing and Performance Profiling34
Andy Edinborough shares the code he uses for his so-called 'CSS Stress Test' for almost all browsers.
CSS Crush35
A CSS pre-processor that is familiar, convenient, intuitive, and much more — everything Pete Boere wants a pre-processor to be.
A PHP-driven CSS preprocessor that helps you unleash the CSS3 power with much less code and features like class nesting, server-side browser specifics, default unit and variables. The tool requires PHP5.
JavaScript Tools Link
Modernizr 238
Modernizr is a widely used open-source JavaScript library that helps you build HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites. With the second version of the tool, you can now combine feature detection with media queries and conditional resource loading. That gives you the power and flexibility to optimize for every circumstance. Developed by Paul Irish, Faruk Ateş and Alex Sexton.
A conditional loader for your polyfills that is very fast and allows you to load only the scripts that your users actually need.
FitText is a jQuery plug-in for responsive and fluid layouts that resizes display text to fit the parent element. A good solution for creating headlines that look good on everything from a small mobile device to a 30-inch desktop display.
jQuery Waypoints42
Waypoints is a small jQuery plugin that makes it easy to execute a function whenever you scroll to an element.
jQuery Plugin Boilerplate44
This boilerplate implements public and private methods, as well as public and private properties, making it very easy when building both simple and complex jQuery plugins.
This Java script lets you convert text patterns into common typographic ligatures by going through the text on a web page and inserting ligatures where appropriate.
Placeholder jQuery Plugin/Polyfill48
This jQuery plugin provides support for the new
placeholder="" HTML5 form attribute in browsers that don't natively support it (IE et al).
A JS library that allows you to specify strongly typed properties of various types (Boolean, Number, String, etc.) and constants (final properties in Java). It uses ES5 getters and setters and falls back to regular, loosely typed properties in non-supporting browsers.
A set of extensions to the JavaScript syntax that attempts to make it nicer to use. It compiles directly into JavaScript that is very similar, readable and line for line equivalent to the input.
A JS routing library inspired by URL Route/Dispatch utilities which are present on frameworks like Rails, Pyramid, Django, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, etc. It parses a string input and decides which action should be executed by matching the string against multiple patterns.
Doctor JS56
Doctor JS analyzes your JavaScript code and provides you with a complete analysis in JSON, whether you're dealing with polymorphism, prototypes, exceptions or callbacks. Tell Doctor JS about it:
A script that speeds up, simplifies and modernizes your site — a concise solution to universal issues. You can load scripts like images as well as use HTML5 and CSS3 safely.
JavaScript Garden62
A JS project that offers advice on avoiding common mistakes and subtle bugs, and lays down performance issues and bad practices that JavaScript programmers might run into on their journey to the depths of the language.
This tool creates bookmarklets from JavaScript code. It removes new lines, tabs, and optional spaces, URL-encodes special ASCII characters and places code in a wrapper function (if not done already).
Bookmarklet Crunchinator66
This great tool helps you quickly create a bookmarklet from any JavaScript code and will automatically be wrapped in a function to make it bookmarklet-friendly.
Grids Link
The JavaScript Grid67
A JavaScript-based grid overlay — just drag the snipplets into your bookmarks bar, open your URL and click the bookmark.
Grid Calculator69
A calculator that helps you easily create your own grid and download it for either Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.
Modular Grid Pattern71
This tool enables you to create a grid template for Photoshop and other image editing applications. Enter the baseline, the module's width and height, the gutter width, and the number of modules (columns), and it gives you a custom pattern to import into Photoshop. A Photoshop extension is also available, and you can download a PNG or transparency map, too.
A Rails framework that enables you to create a completely custom grid based on your mark-up and designs. No more compromises because the grid framework you're working with isn't quite what you need, and no more spending hours tweaking things to get them just right so that the design works the way you want.
A clean and simple way to help you align your layouts. All you need to do is put your dimensions after the URL provided to get a background guide image to work with in your browser. Grids are created on the fly, so any combination should work.
Last Click Link
ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers77
Most programmers would recognize ASCII characters on a website and know how to use them in their own work. But how many know what to call all those characters? This article gives a pretty thorough rundown of common and not-so-common names for ASCII characters. It's a useful guide if you're ever at a loss when listening to another programmer speak about coding.
Weave Silk79
Is your desktop, motivation or even design work in need of something fresh, swirly and remarkable? Just weave some Silk! Yuri Vishnevsky created this experimental, magical interactive gimmick. You can spend minutes playing around with this little technique, based upon HTML5 Canvas: no Flash in use.
No, this has nothing to do with CSS, HTML or JavaScript, but it is just remarkable. On her photography blog, Jamie Beck presents scenes from around the world, memorable events, food, people and small personal universes. The interesting part is that her photos are animated (hence the name); they come to life using good old animated GIFs. Pay a visit to the article Positioning an animated gif over a jpg image82. His short tutorial explains how to save on bytes when putting GIFs and JPEGs together, without losing too much quality.
Related Articles Link
You might also want to take a look at our previous related articles:
- Powerful New CSS Techniques and Tools84 (April 2011)
- Useful JavaScript and jQuery Tools, Libraries, Plugins85 (April 2011)
- CSS: Innovative Techniques and Practical Solutions86 (February 2011)
- Time-Saving and Educational Resources for Web Designers87 (January 2011)
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Footnotes Link
- 1 http://htmlemailboilerplate.com/
- 2 http://htmlemailboilerplate.com/
- 3 http://initializr.com/
- 4 http://initializr.com/
- 5 http://layerstyles.org/
- 6 http://layerstyles.org/
- 7 http://html5boilerplate.com/mobile/
- 8 http://html5boilerplate.com/mobile/
- 9 http://www.askthecssguy.com/kotatsu/index.html
- 10 http://www.limaker.com/
- 11 http://www.askthecssguy.com/kotatsu/index.html
- 12 http://aboutcode.net/vogue/
- 13 http://aboutcode.net/vogue/
- 14 https://github.com/mockko/livereload
- 15 http://livejs.com/
- 16 https://github.com/mockko/livereload
- 17 http://code.google.com/p/css-x-fire/
- 18 http://code.google.com/p/css-x-fire/
- 19 http://ffffallback.com/
- 20 http://ffffallback.com
- 21 http://incident57.com/less/
- 22 http://incident57.com/less/
- 23 http://mgeraci.github.com/Less-Boilerplate/
- 24 http://mgeraci.github.com/Less-Boilerplate/
- 25 http://needle.readthedocs.org/en/latest/?redir
- 26 http://needle.readthedocs.org/en/latest/?redir
- 27 https://github.com/csswizardry/inuit.css/
- 28 https://github.com/csswizardry/inuit.css/
- 29 http://yostudios.github.com/Spritemapper/
- 30 http://yostudios.github.com/Spritemapper/
- 31 http://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/
- 32 http://necolas.github.com/normalize.css/
- 33 http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/
- 34 http://andy.edinborough.org/CSS-Stress-Testing-and-Performance-Profiling
- 35 http://the-echoplex.net/log/css-crush
- 36 http://the-echoplex.net/log/css-crush
- 37 http://pcss.wiq.com.br/
- 38 http://www.modernizr.com/
- 39 http://www.modernizr.com/
- 40 http://fittextjs.com/
- 41 http://fittextjs.com/
- 42 http://imakewebthings.github.com/jquery-waypoints/
- 43 http://imakewebthings.github.com/jquery-waypoints/
- 44 http://stefangabos.ro/jquery/jquery-plugin-boilerplate-revisited/
- 45 http://stefangabos.ro/jquery/jquery-plugin-boilerplate-revisited/
- 46 http://code.google.com/p/ligature-js/
- 47 http://code.google.com/p/ligature-js/
- 48 https://github.com/danbentley/placeholder
- 49 https://github.com/danbentley/placeholder
- 50 http://lea.verou.me/2011/05/strongly-typed-javascript/
- 51 http://lea.verou.me/2011/05/strongly-typed-javascript/
- 52 http://weepy.github.com/kaffeine/
- 53 http://weepy.github.com/kaffeine/
- 54 http://millermedeiros.github.com/crossroads.js/
- 55 http://millermedeiros.github.com/crossroads.js/
- 56 http://doctorjs.org/
- 57 http://doctorjs.org/
- 58 http://headjs.com/
- 59 http://hivelogic.com/enkoder/
- 60 http://mollom.com/
- 61 http://hivelogic.com/enkoder/
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We're excited to announce our 2018 Snowdog Snowshoe Series schedule, with 2 events at our favorite locations:
Winterfest Snowshoe Run and Sun Country Snowshoe Run.
2018 Snowdog Snowshoe Events
Sun Country Snowshoe Run - Cle Elum, WA - Sat Feb 10th
Winterfest Snowshoe Run - Cancelled for 2017 Season
The Snowdog Snowshoe Series is in its 6th year of providing 5K and 10K snowshoe events in Washington State. Our events offer a great combination of convenience and challenge to new and veteran snowshoe runners. All skill levels are welcome, you don't have to have any experience.
Snowshoe Rentals are available for $10, with the shoes available for convienent pickup right at the start location (While supplies last, see specific event page for availability.)
The Tubbs Romp to Stomp Washington is no longer holding their events, but we'd love to have you come try our Snowshoe Run. We offer a similar fun, welcoming environment. All abilities are encouraged to participate, whether you plan on running or walking.
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A typical snowshoe course has rolling terrain, with plenty of ups and downs to get your heart rate up. The course will be well marked with signs, pin flags and streamers, no navigation is required. Our races will have a 5K and 10K course, with the 10K two laps of the 5K course.


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Either the FGF14(V160A) or the FGF14(K74A/I76A) mutation was sufficient to abolish the FGF14-dependent regulation of peak transient Na(+) currents and the voltage-dependent activation and steady-state inactivation of Nav1.6 (show SCN8A Proteins); but only V160A with a concomitant alanine mutation at Tyr (show TYR Proteins)-158 could impede FGF14-dependent modulation of the channel fast inactivation.
study reports on a two-generation French Canadian family affected with autosomal dominant episodic ataxia caused by a frameshift mutation leading to a premature stop codon in FGF14
identified the PI3K/Akt pathway, the cell-cycle regulator Wee1 kinase, and protein kinase C (PKC) as prospective regulatory nodes of neuronal excitability through modulation of the FGF14:Nav1.6 complex.
family demonstrates phenotypic variability of FGF14 deletions (SCA 27), fever sensitivity of ataxia and the added value of SNP-array analysis in making a diagnosis
inhibition of GSK3 reduces the assembly of the FGF14.Nav channel complex, modifies FGF14-dependent regulation of Na(+) currents, and induces dissociation and subcellular redistribution of the native FGF14.Nav channel complex in hippocampal neurons.
THe present study demonstrates that Spinocerebellar ataxia type 27 (SCA27) caused by FGF14 mutation is rare in Chinese SCA patients.
A mutation in the fibroblast growth factor 14 gene is associated with autosomal dominant cerebral ataxia
A G->A variant was found in a single spinocerebellar ataxia patient in the 3' untranslated region, 31 bp to the STOP codon; it did not affect the polyadenylation site. FGF14 mutations are not a major cause of SCA in Caucasians.
Frameshift mutation and polymorphisms in the fibroblast growth factor 14 gene is associated with ataxias
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"Ain't No Party Like a Jon Bon Jovi Party"…Until the Police show up! Apparently,[lastfm]Jon Bon Jovi[/lastfm] knows how to throw a party! This past weekend at his home out in the Hamptons, JBJ was partying so loud and so hard that the police had to show up!There is a report in the NY Post that mentions JBJ had about 60 guests, including Jack Nicholson, at his home and were partying with live music and fireworks past the local 11pm sound curfew. That's when the Police showed up to shut down the stage! When the police officers showed up JBJ invited them in to watch and he was able to perform one last song for his guests!
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Tashawak steps up to tackle Group One opponents in the Prix Jacques Le Marois at Deauville today but John Dunlop's filly is improving fast and can surprise the French on their own territory. Banks Hill, the top three-year-old filly over a mile last year, ran below her best in the Prince Of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot and like some other stars of 2001 - Johannesburg and Sakhee - may have found her run in the Breeders' Cup in October taking more out of her than anyone realised at the time.
By contrast, this will be the lightly-raced Tashawak's first run overseas and it is the form of her win in the Sandringham Stakes at Royal Ascot first time out, rather than her comfortable Group Two win at Newmarket, that suggests that she has the form to score.
At Ascot Tashawak stumbled coming out of the stalls but still managed to concede a stone to Chorist, beating her two lengths. Chorist won a Listed event at Salisbury last week, while third, Reefs Sis, and fifth, Desert Alchemy, have also franked the form. Best Of The Bests needs a longer trip and I expect Tashawak's turn of foot to be decisive.
At Kempton, my nap Tomthevic will be a huge price for the kempton.co.uk Handicap (4.15), but has plenty going for him. He showed blistering pace before finishing sixth to Croeso Croeso over six furlongs at Brighton and the drop to five looks ideal. His draw, 18 of 18, is another big plus. Front-running Sunley Sense looks the one to beat.
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Falls voters approve sale of school district properties
NIAGARA FALLS – Voters have overwhelmingly approved four propositions that will allow the Niagara Falls School District to transfer ownership of unused properties, including the former South Junior High.
Final ballot totals from eight polling were incomplete late Wednesday, but district public relations director Judie Glaser said that preliminary counts showed a margin of nearly six to one in favor of the proposals.
"We're very, very grateful for all the people coming out and voting," she said. "These properties will be occupied and it will be good for the neighborhoods."
As a result of the vote, the South Junior High building, at 561 Portage Road, will be sold for $66,000 to CB-Emmanuel Realty, a Queens-based developer, which will turn it into Niagara City Lofts, with apartments and commercial space.
Housing Visions Consultants of Syracuse now has approval to acquire the former Administration Building and grounds, 607 Walnut Ave., for $10,000, and the former Warehouse Building and grounds, 543 Sixth St., for $10,000. Plans call for both to be converted into affordable housing.
Several other small plots of land on Jerauld Avenue and North Avenue will be transferred to the City of Niagara Falls for $1. A small piece of the former sports field of the Harry F. Abate Elementary School on Portage Road also will be given to the city for $1.


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A DRAMA society is busy with final rehearsals for a female version of The Odd Couple.
Neil Simon's The Odd Couple will be staged by the Durham Drama Society at The City Theatre, Fowler's Yard, Durham City from Sunday, February 2 to Saturday, February 8.
Directed by Teresa Hagger, the play depicts the lives of the messy and chaotic Olive (Lesley Anderson) and neurotic and obsessively tidy Florence (Liz Cooke), who come together after the failure of their respective marriages.
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Sunday's performance starts at 2.30pm while on all other days the curtain rises at 7.30pm.
Tickets are £6.50 (conc £5.50) and can be purchased at the Gala Box Office, Millennium Place, Durham or on 0300 0266600.


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|From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
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At Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:48:06 -0400, David Richards wrote: > (define _bitmap (send _image-snip get-bitmap)) > ; now try to 'release' the bitmap from the image-snip, so it can be > used by bitmap-dc > (send _image-snip set-bitmap (make-object bitmap% 1 1 #f) #f) Instead of trying to release a bitmap, I would normally copy it to another bitmap (using `draw-bitmap'). Having to copy the bitmap is not great, but it's probably better than going through a file. Internally, there's a notion of "read-only dc<%>" that can access a bitmap that's attached elsewhere. I should probably expose this in the MrEd toolbox. Matthew
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Georgia State Law annually awards five scholarships to students who demonstrate an interest in and commitment to intellectual property law. These are a part of a range of scholarships and waivers offered by the college to reduce barriers to pursuing legal education.
Intellectual property scholarships for entering first-year students:
- One full scholarship for a first-year student
This scholarship covers in-state, full-time tuition and mandatory student fees for the first six fall and spring semesters of attendance at Georgia State Law. The recipient becomes an IP Fellow in his or her third year and may support an IP faculty member with scholarly research. In addition, the fellow will receive a $4,000 annual stipend.
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Review for The Women's Mosaic, New York, NY, USA
I met the founder Kristina during my one-woman show at the Philippine Consulate, at that time she brought her members to experience various cultures (food and places). The Women's Mosaic, as the name suggests, consist of women of diverse background and color. For a new immigrant without friends or relatives in USA, it is great to find a professional group of women whose main agenda is self-empowerment and understanding diversity. I found an instant friend in Kristina when I met her, then a whole group of amazing women who made me feel at "home".
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monthly events where I used to bring my li'l girl even to nightclub comedy shows, coz I had no one to leave her with. Kristina arranged for an accommodation, up until last year's Esprit fashion show where my daughter, now 15, was the youngest participant.
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It is very focused on its goal: women empowerment and diversity. There is something new each time, new ideas evolved from having more members but the core structure remains.
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Re: Does Solar hot water heating improve your house price?
I've been thinking about installing solar based heating as well but right now none of the systems I've looked at are within the price-range I can afford so I'll probably wait a few more years...
Re: Does Solar hot water heating improve your house price?
Personally speaking I can't see that they would add much to the value of a house, if I was choosing between two identical houses bar one having solar I wouldn't consider bidding much more for that one. Financially I don't think they are a great investment but from the perspective of 'doing your bit' for the environment and setting a good example and so on for me I think they are worthwhile.
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Great thread, I personally like solar power, as to whether it would be financially worth your while installing them is debatable.
On a lighter note think of the karmic points you would get for helping to save the planet
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Never something that may or may not increase value.
Firstly you don't know when you are likely to sell it, or perhaps you do.
Secondly you don't know if the improvements will still be flavour of the day in time to come.
Thirdly perceived value is, just that perceived in the eye of the beholder. Second guessing a third party is not the wisest way of spending money.
Re: Does Solar hot water heating improve your house price?
In my opinion, you will never see your investment returned, your looking at a good few £k for the basic of installs yet you would be lucky to get a fraction of that back, especially with the property prices at the moment!
Re: Does Solar hot water heating improve your house price?
Well they save on heating costs on the one hand and make your roof look like something from a power station on the other.
As energy bills keep going up solar hot water and PV panels may add value to a home.
More likely a certain person, will prefer a house because of the green credentials, but it is unlikely that the installation cost can be fully added to the house value.
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Source: www.tattoosnob.com Guest post by Mike Moses (On Instagram: @thedrowntown) Those of us with at least a decade in the tattoo industry remember a world quite different from today. As for the old-timers… hell, they probably don't recognize their own shops anymore. The nervous laughter and palpable fear of those yet to be tattooed is gone. Instead, quiet cadres glued to the 5600K light of a handheld revolution occupy our waiting rooms. Prospective clients gain reassurance that the process ahead is "no big deal" from an ever-growing web of search results. What used to be a rite of passage for more questionable members of society (and more than a few good servicemen) is now served up hot to hoodie'd teenagers, housewives and your cousin Frank. You can't even check out at the grocery store without a family of five cooing in unison, forcibly comparing their future projects and former mistakes to yours. I didn't sign up for this – I just wanted some ice cream. At some point, you have to wonder: "What the hell happened?" Coming up in a small town, tattooers in magazines took on a heroic glow. They seemed so far away, their greatness vast and unattainable. As an apprentice, you poured over piles of moldy outdated magazines; tattooer preschool was all about taking notes of the good (and bad) aspects of others' work. Next you began observing the guys you worked with and the dudes down the street; studying their style, approach, and remembering their names wasyour job. In ...Read More »
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Hot Rods Roll into Oakdale
KSAL Staff - July 24, 2015 6:43 am
The 2015 KKOA Leadsled Spectacular Car Show is underway in Salina.
Hundreds of cars gathered for a parade on Santa Fe Thursday night, as a large crowd lined the streets to watch.
Throughout the day, Friday through Sunday, over 1,500 cars will be parked under the shade trees in Oakdale Park. Along with the cars, there will be booths, concessions, and entertainment throughout the park.
Friday night many of the cars from the show will drag race at the East Crawford Recreation Area.
Saturday night there will be an Elvis tribute concert at the Stiefel Theatre.
Hollywood stars Cynthia Pepper and Kevin Dobson will appear at the event in Oakdale Park. Pepper is best known for the TV series "Margie," and was Elvis's leading lady in the movie "Kissin' Cousins." Dobson had lead roles in TV series including "Kojak" and "Knot Landing."


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"We are curling missionaries," Weakerthans singer/guitarist John K. Samson writes. "I am sure it will soon be bigger than NASCAR." The fourth song on his band's new album, Reunion Tour, takes its title from the Tournament of Hearts, the same Canadian women's curling championship that provided a name for the Constantines' 2005 album, Tournament of Hearts. Throw in the fact that Samson appears on the debut from the Constantines-affiliated Baby Eagle project, and visions of a massive pro-curling congress among one's favorite Canadian rock bands begin to arise.
The title Reunion Tour, Samson writes, is "partly a joke, pointing to the fact it took a while to make. I think the real writing began in 2004, when I went and saw a retrospective of Edward Hopper paintings in London." He adds, "I came out of it thinking I would write 12 songs about Hopper paintings. I got two done—'Night Windows' and 'Sun in an Empty Room,' and the record kind of grew from there." Samson also cites his musical appearances outside the Weakerthans as contributing to his songwriting process. "I enjoyed watching other people's writing processes, and have been inspired by them."
Less directly connected to his songwriting is Samson's involvement with Winnipeg-based independent press Arbeiter Ring Publishing, although aesthetically, Samson does comment that independent music or publishing, "seems like the right way to do things. Anything else seems a bit alien to me."
In the four years since the band's Reconstruction Site, Greg Smith has replaced John P. Sutton on bass, yet the group's core sound remains the same: Samson's restrained vocals and densely constructed lyrics atop music that ranges from anthems to sparse, terse elegies. Jason Tait's drumming is steady and anchors the group's tonal shifts, while Stephen Carroll's guitar is equally suited to fist-pumpers and stark mood pieces. Samson's lyrics here are as wide ranging as they've ever been.
"Relative Surplus Value" finds him inhabiting the life of a harried businessman arriving at an airport early, "my heart pumping pure mini-bar," and in less than three minutes, it moves from a sketch of a desperate life to a spot-on extended metaphor to a harrowing moment of humility. Samson draws inspiration from characters both fictitious and real. (When asked whether he seeks out inspiration or vice versa, Samson responds, "I guess they generally find me, somehow.") "Elegy for Gump Worsley" covers the life and career of a veteran hockey goaltender, while "Hymn of the Medical Oddity" draws inspiration from the mistakenly gender-reassigned David Reimer: "If they remember me at all/Make them remember me as more than a queer experiment/More than a diagram in their quarterly."
It's this sense of dignity that inhabits all of Samson's characters, and serves as a constant across the four Weakerthans albums to date. From the brief introductions we receive to stifled lives in Reconstruction Site's "One Great City!," to the narrator of Left and Leaving's "Pamphleteer," the world in which they live isn't an easy one. It's telling that Reunion Tour's cover artwork features a barren Arctic landscape breaking apart, cracks slowly reaching the edges of a city. "Got this feeling that today doesn't like me," Samson sings on "Utilities," the last song on the album. And yet its final line brings the whole work together: "Make this something somebody can use."


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Coming into this year's playoffs, a lot of people would have pointed to Ron Artest and Derek Fisher as potential weaknesses for the Lakers. Both players are battle-tested veterans who bring hustle and toughness to the floor every time they play. However, Artest and Fisher are also a step or three slow for their positions at this point in their careers, and both struggled to make shots all season. (Artest shot 41.4% from the floor; Fisher shot an abysmal 38%.)
Report: Carmelo Anthony would've allowed Knicks to trade him to Trail Blazers if no deal with select three teams
Carmelo Anthony spent most of the offseason saying he'd waive his no-trade clause for only the Rockets.
But as training camp neared and Anthony faced returning to the Knicks, he expanded his list to include the Thunder and Cavaliers.
Just how badly did Anthony want to leave the Knicks?
Marc Berman of the New York Post:
Sources say Anthony would have allowed the Knicks to deal him to Portland if the Knicks struck out with the other three.
Apparently, the Trail Blazers' recruitment almost worked. Of course, the Knicks traded Anthony to Oklahoma City. But this report raises a couple questions:
How many teams would have Anthony approved in a trade? He obviously preferred to leave the Knicks, but he also had reasons to stay in New York. We now know Anthony preferred at least four teams to the Knicks, but how long is that list? Twenty-nine teams?
Did the Knicks err by sending Anthony to Oklahoma City? Maybe the Trail Blazers would've never beaten the Thunder's offer (the Bulls' 2018 second-round pick, Enes Kanter and Doug McDermott). But if New York had played hardball, it could have at least brought Portland into a bidding war.
Damian Lillard, Jusuf Nurkic make plays late to lift Blazers past Nets
NEW YORK (AP) — Jusuf Nurkic apologized to Damian Lillard as they strolled back to their locker room, upset he had missed two free throws with less the three seconds left, giving the Brooklyn Nets a chance to either tie or win it at the buzzer.
All Lillard could care about was Nurkic's heads-up play a couple of seconds earlier that eventually served as the game-winner.
Lillard scored 34, Nurkic added 29 and 15 rebounds, including eight in the fourth quarter, and the Portland Trail Blazers rallied from a six-point deficit late in the fourth quarter to edge the Nets 127-125 on Friday.
"After the game he was telling me, `Man, my bad I missed the free throws, I did this and I this that'," Lillard recalled. "I stopped in the hallway, I said, `I don't care about none of that, the most important thing is you made the biggest play of the game'."
Portland trailed 121-115 with 2:20 left after former Trail Blazers' guard Allen Crabbe floater. The Trail Blazers then scored the next eight points, capped by Shabbaz Nappier's three-point play with 55 seconds left. Brooklyn's Spencer Dinwiddie then evened it 123 with a putback layup after missing his own 15-foot pullup shot.
Lillard then freed himself off Dinwiddie's tight defense as Nurkic set a pick at the 3-point arc, diving to the basket as the Portland point guard served him the ball. DeMarre Carroll then slid in to help on the coverage, blocking Nurkic right under the basket. Caris LeVert briefly had control of the ball before the Trail Blazers' center snatched it away and put it through, drawing a foul and capping a three-point play with 27 seconds left to put his team ahead for good, 126-123.
"I learned never quit," said Nurkic, who had eight rebounds and two of his four blocks in the final period. "There's no lost possession. I see an opportunity to steal the ball and try to make a play. It (went) in."
Despite Lillard's words of encouragement, he was still beating himself for making 5 of 10 free throws.
"I know I am a way better free throw (shooter) than I am showing," said Nurkic.
CJ McCollum chipped in 26 for the Trail Blazers, who found themselves down by 11 in the first quarter in a post-Thanksgiving noon tip.
The Trail Blazers' defense held the Nets 0 for 5 from the field during their key fourth quarter 8-0 run, two days after a disappointing 20-point loss at Philadelphia.
"We made some good defensive stops in the last minute and a half and were able to convert in the other direction," Portland coach Terry Stotts said.
Dinwiddie had 23 for the Nets, who have lost three straight games – the previous two to the defending champions, Golden State Warriors, and Cleveland Cavaliers.
After cutting Portland's lead to 126-125 with 15.7 seconds, he had a chance to put the Nets ahead but missed a 3-pointer with 4:8 seconds left.
"I felt like it was a good look," Dinwiddie said. "It bounced around the rim a couple of times but didn't go in."
Brooklyn had six other players score in double-figures, including Rondae-Hollis Jefferson had 17. Sean Kilpatrick added 14 and Joe Harris scored 14.
Should Cavaliers be interested in DeAndre Jordan? At what price?
In a season ravaged by injuries, the Clippers are stumbling and — especially if the stumbles continue — they will be left with a couple of hard questions. One is the future of Doc Rivers.
The other is the future DeAndre Jordan. He has a player option for next season and almost certainly becomes a free agent. While new Clipper president Lawrence Frank has said he wants Jordan to be a "Clipper for life," other teams are calling Frank to see if Jordan is available. If the Clippers think they may not be able to re-sign him this summer, they have to consider their options. Including a trade.
Should the Cavaliers be one of those teams calling the Clippers? Joe Varden of the Cleveland Plain Dealer had this answer to that question.
DeAndre Jordan's numbers are down this season. He's averaging 10.4 points and shooting .664 from the field (he only shoots twos). Even his blocks — 1.2 per game — are down from the 1.7 he averaged a year ago. Also, Jordan, 29, has a $24.1 million player's option in his contract for next season. So, he could essentially be a rental. That said, you're right, he'd thrive playing alongside LeBron James and Isaiah Thomas. Tristan Thompson was great against the Warriors in the Finals two seasons ago, and struggled mightily last year. A league source believes this move, Jordan for Thompson, is one the Cavs would consider. How the Brooklyn pick figured in remains to be seen (Cleveland also has its own No. 1 pick), but if the Cavs felt Jordan was the only piece missing for them to take down the Warriors they'd have to consider this.
First, Jordan's numbers are down this season because Austin Rivers is feeding him the ball off pick-and-rolls, not Chris Paul. That's a huge talent drop off. Jordan and Paul played well off each other, a decrease in counting stats was to be expected.
Second, it's fair to ask if Jordan actually puts the Cavaliers on the level of the Warriors? I don't see it, and if the Cavaliers don't think he puts them on that tier, they should be careful about what they offer.
Finally, Jordan would be a rental, although the Cavaliers might be able to re-sign him if the price was right and LeBron stays.
What I've heard around the league is that the Brooklyn pick is off the table right now, that Cleveland may be willing to move their own first rounder (likely in the mid-20s). The bottom line on the scenario above, Jordan is an upgrade on both ends of the court over Tristan Thompson, even when Thompson is healthy. If the Cavaliers are all-in for a title this season, they have to seriously consider it.
Would a Thompson and Cavaliers pick get the deal done? Thompson has two-years, $36 million on his contract after this season, the Cavaliers might like to have the flexibility of Jordan's expiring deal over TT (despite Thompson's close ties to LeBron). However, would the Clippers take on that extra salary for just a late first rounder? Not likely. They will demand the Brooklyn pick at first. The question is will the Clippers come around to what the Cavaliers offer? Or will Cleveland decide that this season is more important than future protections and throw the Brooklyn pick in?
Other teams — Washington and Milwaukee are rumored among them — are calling the Clippers, too.
The first question is, will the Clippers want to trade DJ at all, or are they going to stand pat and try to re-sign him. The ball is in Lawrence Frank's court right now.
Kyrie Irving: 'I see you. I see everyone. More than just your physical presence, I see your energy. I feel it. I know it'
Kyrie Irving has done good lately.
Not just during Celtics games. He gave his jersey and shoes to military members in the crowd, and he recently shared a Thanksgiving dinner with Boston families.
Irving also addressed the event.
Irving, via Nicole Yang of Boston.com:
"I see you," he said. "I see everyone. More than just your physical presence, I see your energy. I feel it. I know it."
"I think that the most important thing that I strive to live by is extremely by truth and by consistently giving others the truth, without any judgement, without constraints, without anything extra except the understanding that I see you," he said. "I have family members who come from knowing energy, and it was passed along to me."


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Dare For More Ministries Inc. is a ministry I am proud to be associated with. I have seen the impact it has in both reaching the mass as well as one on one. The ministry has a true desire to reach ladies and teenage girls where they are, baggage and all, and see them grow from within through a stronger relationship with God. Every dollar spent is prayed over and used to impact more ladies for Christ.
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I present seminars to Christian women groups with a particular interest in her walk with God. I also coordinate women's conferences.
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In the midst of an underwhelming Super Bowl game in which the Seattle Seahawks completely dominated the Denver Broncos, Bruno Mars took the stage at half time to offer a lively performance complete with killer vocals, sick dance moves, fireworks, and a posse of his self-proclaimed "hooligans."
Clad in identical gold Saint Laurent blazers, Mars, 28, and his performing posse belted out several of the singer's chart-topping hits including "Locked Out of Heaven" and "Treasure" before the Red Hot Chili Peppers joined them on the arena stage for a high-energy collaboration.
And though Mars' performance created plenty of buzz, it's his attire that has caught some eyes. The classy look is reminiscent of Justin Bieber's look during less troubled times, at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards.
Bieber, 19, wore a similar gold blazer at the awards show, while he was still dating Selena Gomez and before his grownup makeover and various run-ins with the law.
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Anyone got any tips for places with authoritive advice? A bit of googling is just turning up the usual conflicting hear-say and dribble.
We have a tiny back garden. The house is constructed in the newest new-build way - timber frame and half brick skin. I want to grow a single cherry tree espalier against the south facing back wall, as this is the ONLY position it could go in.
I'm sure the above ground growth will not interact at all with the half brick skin (rawled hook and wire) and I'm not going any more than 6ft high.
What I can't seem to get, is any authoritive advice about any possible interaction with the foundations (other than a lot of teeth sucking). Either direct (root infiltration) or indirect (clay/marl contraction). I've assessed services. The house builder and NHCC are useless.
I can't get the root stock much more than 12" from the nominal wall line, and I'm not especially keen on growing in a container - constant mulching and watering is a PITA! I'm not sure root stock constriction would help yeild in a cherry, like it does in some other soft fruits.


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Rory McIlroy produced a back nine flourish to move into contention after the second round of the BMW PGA Championship.
The two-time major winner struggled to find any rhythm over his opening nines holes on Friday reaching the turn in three over 38 but he responded on the back nine and a run of three birdies in his closing four holes saw him sign for a one under 71.
At five under par, Rory is tied for fifth and is just five shots behind the joint leaders Thomas Bjorn and Shane Lowry.
The 25-year-old announced on Wednesday that he had called off his planned November wedding to former world number one tennis player Caroline Wozniacki.
"I was apprehensive going out yesterday, I honestly didn't know what to expect and it was good I had the quick turnaround to get back on the golf course," said Rory.
"I have exceeded my expectations so far. Once you get inside the ropes you are concentrating on your golf and it's almost a nice four or five-hour release to concentrate on the job at hand.
"I stood here yesterday saying that I would be happy to make the cut and I'm in for the weekend, which is nice.
"Hopefully I can make a run at it.
"I feel like I'm playing well enough to shoot something in the mid 60s and get myself in the mix going into Sunday."
Rory has struggled to get to grips with Wentworth over the years but the wet and windy weather that has battered the course over recent days has actually helped his cause.
He added; "I'm still playing quite conservatively for me, but it has helped that it's softer because you can be a little more aggressive.
"You know, the ball isn't bouncing off the fairways. If you pitch it on the fairway this week, it usually stays on the fairway.
"So a little bit of both. I like that it's softer this week, because once it gets bouncy out here, especially around this golf course, it just gets really, really tricky.
"So for it to be a little softer, I think is good for me."
Lowry, an Irish amateur team mate of McIlroy's, loves Wentworth finishing fourth here in 2011 and 12th last year.
He started his second round in some of the worst of the weather but stayed patient and finished strongly to move alongside Bjorn at the top of the leaderboard.
"I was good out there today. I was mentally there, and, yeah, really enjoyed it," said the 2009 Irish Open champion.
"I enjoyed the golf course. It was tough, tough for the front nine with the rain and stuff. But it was a nice back nine, and I managed to take advantage of it."
It has been an indifferent 2014 season up to now for Lowry whose best finish of was a share of 15th in the Spanish Open last week but he is clearly very much at home at Wentworth.
He added; "I just have to go out and keep doing what I'm doing.
"I have got my coach with me this week and so he's quite good at getting me ready to play no matter what situation I'm in."
Ireland's Simon Thornton produced an excellent round of four under 68 to move up 80 places and into a tie for 19th.
Padraig Harrington carded a second round 76 but still made the cut on one over as did Damien McGrane who also made it through to the weekend on two over.
It proved to be an extremely taxing day for Darren Clarke, Peter Lawrie, Michael Hoey, Paul McGinley, Damien Mooney and Gareth Maybin who all failed to make it through to the weekend.


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It is that time again: Time to review your stash, put in a new rotary blade and change the needle on you sew-ing machine. It's challenge time!
This year the challenge is entitled, "IT TAKES A GUILD TO MAKE A VILLAGE".
Now is the time to put your imagination into overdrive. Village is the theme and this is one theme that can be interpreted in many ways. We want to see "thinking outside the box". Here is just a short list of ideas that came to us.
Doll houses Village with a particular architectural style
Bird houses City village
Santa village Downtown of a village with store fronts
Halloween village Farm village
Villages and homes you have lived in County Fair village
Wonky homes Village on the moon
Village under the sea Village in different seasons
Village in space Mushroom village
You get the idea. There is no limit to the type of village you can conjure up and create.
Now for the rules:
#1 RULE: HAVE FUN!!! Use you imagination.
Finished Size: Your challenge can be any finished size you want . . . BUT . . . There is always a but . . . It can be no wider than 45" and no longer than 45" (180" in circumference). Your challenge does not have to be square. It can be any shape. a rectangle, a circle, an oval. It's up to you what shape you make it.
Methods of Construction: You are free to use whatever construction or quilting methods work best for your creation (i.e., machine piece, hand piece, paper piece, machine applique, hand applique, machine or hand quilted, etc.). We encourage you to challenge yourself and be creative.
Fabric Requirement: You can use whatever fabrics you want in your challenge. There is also no limit to the total number of fabrics or kinds of fabrics used in your challenge.
Embellishments: Embellishments are optional.
Hanging Sleeve: The quilt back must have a hanging sleeve (4"). We may use pins to hang your quilt at the show, but we'd like the sleeve in case we decide to hang them on a rod.
Label: Make sure you put a label on the back of your challenge. Give credit to the source that inspired you. Labels will be covered with a piece of paper before voting so it's a secret as to who made it.
Due Date: Finished challenges are due at our April 2017 guild meeting for viewing by your quilt guild peers. All guild members attending the April 2017 meeting will have the opportunity to vote anonymous-ly for their favorite challenge quilt. Ribbons will be awarded to the top 3 favorites.
What is the President's challenge?
The President's Challenge is a challenge issued by our guild president to all members to make a quilt with certain defined parameters.
Why a President's challenge?
We issue a challenge to inspire creativity in our members. So we learn to think and design. So we learn to take an idea and make something of it. So we learn to create and not just follow a pattern.
Where will we share these Challenge quilts?
As in years past, our Challenge quilts will be dispayed at the April meeting . They will be placed or pinned on the stage wall, viewed by all attending members who vote on their favorites. Since 2017 is also our guild's quilt show in June, we will also hang all challenge quilts at the show for everyone to admire.
Who does the challenge?
All of the members are encouraged to make a Challenge quilt. All skill levels: beginners, experienced, professionals. Make it a group quilt, just try it, be creative. This is not a contest. The quilts are not judged: they are admired for their creativity.


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Before the end of the hallowed dungeness crab season in the SF Bay Area, my husband and I put some sunscreen on, woke up at 5 in the morn', filled up our portable coffee mugs, and headed to the Pacifica pier. At least I heard that this is what we did. We cast our crab nets out in the expansive Pacifica bay and gave the local seal known for snatching crabs from people's nets the evil eye.
Although a dear friend of mine insists that a group of our friends and I fishing in a Clearlake trout farm where nearby "fisherman" started aiming at our finned buddies with bee-bee guns counted as true fishing, it did not. This was the first time I was successfully involved in plucking something from the water that ended up on my plate.
And I helped. I refilled our coffee.
I was very proud to take part in this crustacean encounter resulting in not one, or two, but three crabs! Three red crabs and one dungeness. From OUR net!
On the way home, with the fidgeting crabs tapping on the bucket wedged between my legs in the front passenger seat, we considered our dinner options. Crab fritters? Crab lasagna? Crab salad? Nah. We finally decided two simple preparations. The first was angel hair pasta, topped with chopped parsley, butter, and freshly cracked crustacean. The second was pure crab, dipped in a classic Vietnamese dipping sauce made of lime juice, sweet chili and fish sauce.
We just happened to an opened sample of wine and two samples sake from the shop at hand, so we decorated our crab adorned table with the three bottles.
What worked with what?
The wine was a Gascogne wine from Domaine Chiroulet in the southwest of France, made entirely of Ugni Blanc and Columbard. Bright, fresh, with hints of ripe grapefruit and lime, this crisp, mineral wine worked best with the Vietnamese dipping sauce. I thought that it would pair better with the buttery pasta, by cutting some of the richness of the butter and highlighting the sweet crab with its acidity, but it tasted so much better just with the crab dipped in the fresh dipping sauce. It matched the lime one-on-one and the ripe grapefruit qualities happily wrapped themselves around the chiles and touch of sugar.
And the buttery pasty? Sure it was great with the Gascogne white too, I must admit that it was better with the sakés. I know!
Now many of you were introduced to my husband, or at least his chile pepper chef pants, through the Prosecco and Peas post, but I'm guessing that even with this intro, most might not know that my husband is a sake lover who makes his own sake brew at home. Really good, Nigori-style sake. I like sake, but as the main man in my life is so much better suited to discuss the rice drinks with you than I am, I include his insights on the sake and crab pairings below. Enjoy. All accolades for our newest contributer may be left in the comment section of this blog, of course, adressed to me, as my ego is fragile.
Who Has Two Claws and Likes Sake?!
Chiyonosono: Shinriki (Sacred Power) Junmai Ginjo. Kumamoto Prefecture: SMV +2.5, Acidity 1.5.
Located in Yamaga City, which is known for many ancient burial sites, the area is also a well known hot spring resort location and is protected by the magnificent natural environs near Mt. Aso. The nose of this saké gives aromas of fresh-cut grass and hints of tropical fruits with cantaloupe being the frontrunner. The texture of this Ginjo is silky on the palate. A deep and rich yet mellow flavor, which is a little buttery and slightly sweet, with hints of mango and pear. The finish gives a little warmth from the alcohol, which is well appreciated after a hard day of crabbing. This saké paired well with the crab and Vietnamese dipping sauce.
Sudo Honke: Sato No Homare (Pride of the Village) Junmai Ginjo. Ibaraki Prefecture: SMV +3, Acidity 1.3.
This is the oldest active brewery in all of Japan, which was founded in 1147, based on the oldest records available. Mr. Sudo is the 55th generation of his family to brew sake and everything brewed here is junmai ginjo or junmai daiginjo, and almost all of it is unpasteurized. This saké's appearance is clear with only a slight tinge of amber. It gives a light and fruity nose, laced with koji rice, strawberry, pear, violets and grape. This Ginjo is semi-dry and a little syrupy with refined and clear flavor, yet deep with a clean finish. This sake paired best with the dish of crab and buttery pasta.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Crab, Wine and Sake: Claws, Grapes and Rice
12 comments:
- chefectomy said...
K - Not sure what is cooler, catching your own crab or the sake pairing. Really nice post and simplicity often wins with excellent fresh ingredient. I hope to see more sake pairing from you here.
- July 24, 2008 at 4:43 PM
- Jer said...
Nicely done Double K. Sounds super delicious. Siege and I got dibs next crab season. Heh, heh, heh.
- July 25, 2008 at 10:01 AM
- Brooke said...
Great story! I like how simple you went with the crab preparation and what great wine pairings you picked!
Thanks for the inspiration.
- July 25, 2008 at 3:16 PM
- Kirstin said...
Thanks for the compliments!
Chefectomy- Crabbing was awesome. Actually, sometimes it was boring because you wait. A lot. But then you drink more coffee, take a walk along the beach, and everything is okay.
Jer-Normally people have to work for their supper at our place. Bring your crab crackers. Or one of Krista's cakes, and we'll call it closer to even. Okay, bring some cupcakes too, and the deal is sealed.
Brooke- It was hard not to go crazy with the crab prep, but we were soo....tired after waking up at 5 am! I could never be a stock broker. We were happier that we kept it simple anyhow, because the crab was so sweet.
- July 25, 2008 at 5:23 PM
- K what said...
There's not a crab in the sea sweeter than that story. As stated above, the simplicity of the pairings, plus sir chile pantalones read on the saké & crab had me wishing for the return of Grasshopper on College Avenue. Nice teamwork K's.
- July 25, 2008 at 6:49 PM
- Jason said...
Great post! I've done the crabbing-off-the-pacifica-pier thing years ago. Lots of fun. Glad you enjoyed it too!
- July 25, 2008 at 10:12 PM
- Kirstin said...
K what- Never have been to Grasshopper, but I'm wondering if there are good restaurants to go to for sake in the East Bay. When I was in New York, I used to go to this awesome underground sake bar called Decible. Let's get one of those.
Jason- Did you catch more crabs than me?
- July 28, 2008 at 10:12 AM
- Joe Roberts, CSW said...
Holy crab! Who takes your photos? They ROCK.
- July 29, 2008 at 4:19 AM
- Zen Chef said...
But.. but... I wanted that dungeness crab!! I'm so jealous! :-)
These babies are quite hard to find around here but you made the right choice by preparing them simply. Very nice.
The Sake recommendations are just phenomenal. I'll be on the hunt for those. Great job kirstin! I'm addressing the compliment to you Kirstin. Hahaha.
- July 30, 2008 at 12:30 PM
- Kirstin said...
Joe- I take my photos! Thank you! They've been getting much better since a friend and my husband told me about the micro zoom on my camera. Reading instructions can do wonders.
Zen Chef: Thank you for addressing the the comments to me to ease the impact on my fragile ego. We worked very hard on the sake notes. I mean, he wrote them deliciously.
- July 30, 2008 at 2:49 PM
- jack said...
hey you've got the touch! lav and i tried to snag some of these guys on that pier in pacifica a couple of years back, thinking we'd drag in dozens of sweet, delectable dungeness... but all we got after 3 hrs was an empty shell (we think the crafty--and fat--sea otter got to it first).
i miss being able to visit the sc tasting bar on a sleepy weekend afternoon for the great folks and tastes. hope you guys are doing well and please tell jason i say hey.
- August 4, 2008 at 3:42 PM
- Viagra Online said...
I choose the combiantion between claws and rice, crab and sake, but the crab must be prepared in sushi, California rolls with some sake.
- April 18, 2011 at 7:07 AM


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July 9, 2013
A tweet in which a senior Russian lawmaker said former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden had accepted Venezuela's offer of asylum was deleted from his Twitter feed shortly after it was posted on Tuesday.
The lawmaker, Alexei Pushkov, later tweeted that he had seen the news on state-run Russian television channel Rossiya-24, but a representative of Rossiya-24 said it had been referring to Pushkov's initial tweet.
Pushkov, the pro-Kremlin chairman of the international affairs committee in the lower parliament house, could not immediately be reached for comment.