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I'm betting on Liddell getting a TKO early in the 2nd. I ain't seen Liddell fight much but he seems like one tough fighter.
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Here's a video I found about Rampage's technique, do you think he can use this to Liddell on the octagon?
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Well I was wrong, Liddell lost. I haven't seen the fight yet, should be on youtube at some point.
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I had the opportunity this morning to look over a starr 36cal revolver......the pistol functions, actually the action is surprisingly smooth. The revolver shows heavy rust which isnt too surprising considering the pistol was found in civil war battlefield in pennsylvania, apparently. the only part that Im aware of that dosent funtion is the screw on the side of the frame which allows the revolver to swivel down. the revolver is complete including cartoche on the inside grip strap. and the serial number is 4 digits and readable, the rust has obscured the patent pending line, but it is readable except the last two digits of that line. The grips are original and have a chip out of the very bottom of the grip towards the front of the frame and its not that large nor does it take away from the appearance of this pistol.
any idea what price range this would be in?........oh yeah, the lever on the trigger to allow for a "set" trigger or cocking works.....Loading lever is attached.....and works...
One other curiosity---this revolver appears to be very superior to the colt black powder pistols of their day, any idea why it just didnt outclass colt or out sell them at least...tks fubsy.
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Hi, Fubsy,
The .36 Starr Navy revolver is pretty uncommon, as they only made 3000 of them, of which 2250 were bought by the U.S. They were made c. 1858-60. While they bring upwards of $2200 in fine condition, that one sounds pretty much like a relic and probably would be around $400 if that. If I wanted to loosen it up, I would try to remove the grips and then soak it in a solvent. G96 Gun Treatment is a good penetrant and should help.
Starr also made a DA .44 and a SA .44. The Starr's were fairly popular, though the DA is pretty hard and not really conducive to accuracy. They were not liked until the user became familiar with them, then they were considered good, rugged guns.
As you know, the SA is really awkward, requiring first that the gun be cocked with the cocking lever (aka the "trigger"), then the index finger removed from the "trigger" and placed behind the "trigger" to pull the sear or true trigger and fire the pistol. The hammer cannot be cocked with the thumb for SA firing.
All that being said, they were very rugged and reliable pistols. Starr finally gave up on the DA model and went to a straight SA whose hammer could be cocked in the conventional manner. About 23,000 of the .44 DA pistols were made in the same period and about 32,000 of the SA from 1863-65. Most were bought by the U.S. Army, although there were some civilian sales of all models.
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Thankyou, Jim.
I'd pretty much decided that the value inspite of the rarity of the caliber, was not all that high. Glad to know the rest of it.....tks...fubsy.
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We have 3.5 weeks total leaving USA on May 3 2012 How would you divide up our time? Here is what I was thinking
Fly to Berlin
Berlin 3 days total
Munich 4 days total (use these days to take day trips through rhine region) Or would you recommend moving from town to town to see this region)
Prague 3 days
Ljubljana-2 days
Lake Bled Region 2 days
Dubrovnik 3 days
Split 2 days
krakow 3 days
Warsaw 2 days
Our main focus on this trip is croatia and slovenia so I need help with those two places mostly.
that is what we are starting with but are very open to suggestions. Would you add time anywhere? Would you add places? What would you do to this iten? There are 4 of us we like scenic stuff, history and culture
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There is enough to see in Slovenia and Croatia alone to fill 3.5 weeks. If that is your focus, I would de-emphasize the other places on your list (much as I loved Krakow and Prague). Otherwise, it seems you are trying to fit in too many places that are far apart.
In Slovenia, consider adding:
- Triglav National Park (stop at the Kobarid museum if you are interested in World War I)
- Piran, a beautiful coastal town
- potentially Ptuj/Maribor in the eastern part of the country
In Croatia, consider adding:
- Plitvice Lakes National Park (close to Zagreb)
- Rovinj
- islands on the Dalmatian coast (Hvar, Korcula, etc.)
- side trip to Mostar (and possibly Sarajevo) in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- side trip from Dubrovnik down to Bay of Kotor in Montenegro
I recommend picking up a Rick Steves Croatia/Slovenia book to help plan most of this.
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How are you planning on traveling from country to country and city to city? When you say, for instance, you have 3 days in Prague, it looks like to me that you include the day you arrive and the day you leave. You have added up a total of 24 days bsed on what you say in your post. Is this the total for your trip? Or is your trip longer than 24 days?
IMO, you have too many destinations for 3.5 weeks. You will be doing a lot of checking in and out of hotels, traveling by train, bus, plane to destinations. You won't have a lot of time to actually sightsee in your destinations.
Since Croatia & Slovenia are your main focus, maybe you should limit your trip to these two countries & perhaps one other, maybe Czech Republic. Germany & Poland are too far north from Croatia & Slovenia. Or go to Budapest (Hungary borders Croatia & Slovenia), instead of Prague. This will eliminate a lot of wasteful traveling from destination to destination.
Hope this helps.
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What Andrew said. It would make a wonderful trip, and I hope you are renting a car.
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Okay I think we will refocus our trip to Croatia and Slovenia. Can you help me out with an Iten?
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I've posted my Balkans trip reports here; click on my name then go to the bottom to view them. I didn't do 3.5 weeks of one trip, though - I did one trip mostly focused on Slovenia and one focused on Croatia. Look for other trip reports posted here.
Sometimes it's a challenge to fly directly into/out of the Balkans from the US without multiple plane changes. I'd probably start by figuring that out. One way is to fly into a bigger city like Munich or Venice and train/bus in to Slovenia to start. (You wanted to visit Munich anyway, right?) In 2011, I flew into Munich, trained through Salzburg and Graz, Austria to get to Maribor and then trained west to Maribor and Ljubljana and ended in Italy. In 2009 I started in Italy, worked my way over to Slovenia and Croatia by bus and train and car and flew back to Paris from Split via Croatia Airlines.
Do you have a preferred airline? You might be able to start in one of the other cities you had on your list like Munich and head into the Balkans from there. You can also fly between an entry/exit city via easyJet or Croatia Airlines.
With four people, renting a car might work best. If you can find a way to pick up and drop the car in the same country (Slovenia or Croatia), you'll avoid a big drop charge. Maybe start in Zagreb, drive into Slovenia, back down the Dalmatian coast to Dubrovnik, drop the car there and fly out of there somehow.
Try http://www.bahn.com/i/view/USA/en/index.shtml to check train routings between cities. FYI, there is no train service on the Dalmatian coast in Croatia but there is good bus service in the country, should you choose not to drive.
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Off the top of my head, here's a rough car itinerary:
Arrive in Zagreb
Rent a car
Drive to:
Plitvice Lakes National Park
Maribor/Ptuj (optional)
Montenegro (optional)
(drop car in Dubrovnik)
Ferry or bus to Korcula or Hvar
Catamaran to Split
Fly home or fly to staging city.
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Trying to do too much - and it doesn;t appear you have left time for getting from one place to another. So what you have as 2 days is really 1 or 1.5 at most - since 2 full days means 3 nights.
I would concentrate on what you really want to see versus spreading yourself too thin.
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That sounds like it could work! How is the road and driving situation there? What are some not to miss off the top of your head?
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On the "not to miss" list I would put:
- Dubrovnik
- Plitvice Lakes
- Ljubljana
- Lake Bled
I haven't been to Rovinj/Istria but I hear it's terrific. You could potentially skip Piran (which I visited and loved) because it's smaller than Rovinj but roughly similar, I'm told. Zagreb itself offers few attractions though it does have some champions, and you will be arriving there potentially. There are a number of places that are very worth seeing even if "not to miss" that will be easy to see because you will be basically passing through.
I would recommend seeing at least one of the islands (Hvar or Korcula).
A drive through Triglav National Park/over the Vrsic Pass would take a day (from Bled via Kobarid perhaps to Piran) but in May, I'm not sure the pass will be open yet due to snow, depends on the weather next winter.
Again, I highly recommend getting a Rick Steves Croatia/Slovenia book ASAP if you are serious about this trip. It will answer many of your questions. You can also watch Rick Steves's PBS specials for free on Hulu; there are several covering Slovenia and Croatia, if you want to see what these areas look like. Also read the various trip reports here.
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We spent 2 weeks in Croatia and 1 in Slovenia, and wished we had more time in both.
I like Andrew's itinerary, and his suggestion to rent and drop off the car in the same country. Zagreb to Ljubljana is only about 1 ½ hrs, so not a big issue.
We've been to both Rovinj and Piran, and loved them both. But I agree, Rovinj is bigger and has more to offer. I don't remember a beach in Rovinj, but there was one (mostly rocks, not sand) in Piran. Not sure if that is of any interest to you…but in May, it might not matter.
Plitvice Lakes - spend a night there, so you can be there in the morning before the big tour buses arrive
Rovinj – take day trips around Istria, it is beautiful, and the food delicious.
We loved Hvar and Dubrovnik (with a day trip to Cavtat), and they will not be crowded in May.
Both countries are beautiful, with unspoiled nature and wonderful people. We usually don't spend much time in cities, so we only spent ½ day in Ljubljana, but a few days would be great, especially in nice weather (it poured when we were there). Here are our pictures, to give you an idea of what's there:
I think another "not miss" in Slovenia is Vintgar Goge – spend ½ day there when in Bled, and happy planning.
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I would definitely recommend the side trip to Mostar from Dubrovnik or Split and I would suggest spending the night which would give you time to explore in the late afternoon after the tour buses have left and early in the morning before they arrive. We found Dubrovnik very crowded when the cruise ships arrived so be sure to do the walk around the city on the walls early in the day. We did the Eliphite Island day trip and it was a great way to get away from the crowds.
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Thanks! We are going with andrews plan! I will post again once we decide days and activities etc! Your help is really appreciated!
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DRK Group, Inc., (the Company) owns and operates four manufacturing facilities which produce precision mechanical springs, metal forming and metal stamping. The Company was incorporated in California in 1975. The original plant and headquarters was located in Eureka, California to serve the logging and lumber industries in the Pacific Northwest. DRK initially also served the mining and fishing industries prevalent at the time. The Company grew to three plant facilities in Northern California at the end of the 1980s. During the early 1990s, it became apparent to the founders that the demographics of the three industries they served changed dramatically. The market severely contracted which led the owners to decide on both a change in market emphasis and location. The new emphasis would be in serving the high-tech industries including medical and bio-tech. The decision was made to move to the San Francisco Bay Area to both serve these growth industries as wall as be in a more central place to serve national, and perhaps international markets. In 1996, DRK moved all facilities and opened a fourth in the greater Bay Area region. The Company is presently headquartered in Redwood City, California which consists of corporate offices and one of the four plants. The other manufacturing facilities are located in Santa Rosa, Berkeley, and Sacramento, California.
There were four founders of the Company, two of whom have retired. One of the founders, Charles Johnson is CEO and has 45 years experience in metal stamping and forming manufacturing. Charles is 72 years old. The other founder, Judy Thomas, is vice president in charge of marketing and has an extensive background in manufacturing. John Pang is vice president in charge of operations and is 63 years old. Maria Lopez, Chief Financial Officer (CFO), is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with 22 years experience.
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Taste: Full bodied with crisp medium/high acidity. The acidity is absolutely lip smacking and shows through with marshmallows, lemons, pears, red apples, and navel oranges.
Overall: This was served at room temperature and could've used a slight chill. Still, this was showing real class and depth. I would love to see where this goes with age as it feels like there is some baby fat that still needs to be shed.
Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium/high acidity. The structure is very youthful and the acidity is prominent. The feel is on the more nuanced side with white fruits, pears, red apples, navel oranges, rocky minerals, and white florals.
Overall: While this is very much on the young side, it is also a tremendous Chardonnay. This doesn't have the power of the 08, but instead there is a beautiful precision and nuanced side to this.
Taste: Medium/full bodied with tart medium/high acidity. There is a sharpness to the acidity that is a bit overpowering with red apples, pears, white fruits, and some papaya notes.
Overall: This is most certainly on the young side. There are some excellent raw materials here and it needs time to fully show itself.
Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium acidity. The feel shows a much richer side, but it isn't overdone or flabby with roasted marshmallows, vanilla beans, meyer lemons, and some white peaches.
Overall: It wasn't fair having this right after a vertical of Alpine Chards. I did decant this for most of the afternoon to make sure air wouldn't be a problem. While I would like to know where this will go with time, this was my last bottle. It's still a very good Chardonnay, but it did suffer with the company.
Flight 2 - Alpine Pinot Vertical (5 notes)
Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium+ acidity and silky tannins. There is very good structure to the wine with rhubarb, red cherries, roses, baking spices, dark red florals, and earth tones. While there is excellent complexity, this did thin out quickly on the mid-palate and finish.
Overall: This was given an afternoon in the decanter. The nose and complexity on the palate offer up a lot, so, hopefully my next bottles show more flesh on the mid-palate and finish.
Taste: Medium bodied with medium/high acidity and noticeable tannins. The structure shows The feel leans more towards elegance with red fruits, fresh picked berries, currants, roses, and mineral tones.
Overall: This is a very young and elegant pinot. This needs time to allow itself to be as good as it can be. I would love to try this again in another 5 years.
Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium/high acidity and silky, but noticeable tannins. The feel is polished and gorgeous with dark red fruits, rhubarb, wild flowers, spices, and raspberries.
Overall: This is a stunning young pinot. There is much room to grow, but also a ton here already. Given where it's at right now, I can only imagine where it will go from here.
Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium+ acidity and chewy tannins. The structure is really showing itself in this nascent stage along with baking spices, red fruits, red cherries, berries, chalky notes, and some earth tones.
Overall: This isn't ready for primetime right now. There is a ton to like and this has all of it.
Flight 3 - Bearwallow Pinot Vertical (4 notes)
Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium/high acidity and youthful tannins. The structure certainly shows off the youth along with tart red cherries, spice tones, red florals, fresh picked berries, and some hints of earth creeping in on the back end.
Overall: This was a stunning young wine. I can't wait to see where this goes with age as there is a ton of complexity and depth that is there right now.
Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium+ acidity and silky tannins. The structure was on the sneakier side as the tannins and acidity seemed to emerge later on. The feel was polished and silky with dark red fruits, spice tones, dark red cherries, and earth tones.
Overall: The sappiness on the nose didn't follow through on the palate. This needs about 5 years to fully rev up as there feels like a lot of baby fat that needs to be shed.
Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium+ acidity and good tannins. The structure is pretty imposing right now with red fruits, fresh picked berries, currants, red cherries, and spice tones poking through underneath.
Overall: This isn't even close to ready for primetime. The stuffing is really good, it will just take a good while to fully show itself.
Flight 4 - Horseshoe intermezo (1 note)
Taste: Full bodied with medium/high acidity and sneaky tannins. The structure is still quite youthful with currants, berries, licorice, red cherries, earth tones, and some hints of mineral tones.
Overall: While this is drinking very well right now, it feels like that this can give some more with age. This made me take notice and had a real style of its own.
Flight 5 - Family Farm Vertical (4 notes)
Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium+ acidity and silky tannins. The structure lets itself be known, but it melds with the gorgeous tones of tart red fruits, red cherries, licorice, red florals, chalky tones, and minerals.
Overall: This is a real stunner. It's still very young, but ever so gorgeous right now. This really roared from the outset and showed a lot of class and poise.
Taste: Medium/full bodied with medium+ acidity and silky tannins. There is a plushness to the feel, but with real polish and poise to the tones of licorice, red berries, spices, roses, and red fruits.
Overall: This is a gorgeous Pinot. It's can certainly age, but I wouldn't really fault someone for opening a bottle up if they have multiples.
Taste: Medium/full bodied with crisp medium+ acidity and silky tannins. The structure is a little deceiving as it sneaks up on you on the end. There is a lot of polish and class with rhubarb, currants, baking spices, earth tones, cherries, and some whole cluster stems.
Overall: This is most certainly a young wine. I would love to see where this goes when the whole cluster influences integrate more. There is a lot of polish and poise to the wine with a real good core of fruit.
A major thank you to Jay Carroll for making this happen. The class of Rhys most certainly showed through on the night. While we sadly had 3 flawed bottles, there were still plenty of highlights to go around. At the same time, I wouldn't even remotely close to say that any of these wines are close to maturity. There is a ton to like now in many of them and a good ways to go as well.
This tasting made me very happy that I have a good amount of Rhys in my collection. While I haven't been able to buy the past couple of go arounds, I will certainly be a buyer when I can again. There is a reason that Rhys has gotten a lot of accolades, and this is a very positive look into why they have gotten the press they have.


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By Scott Graves
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The world is full of sweet temptations: Pop tarts, cotton candy, Oreo cookies and super-sized sodas for just 20 cents more!
Who can resist?
It's no different at home. Especially for kids, who claim they'll explode if they get too close to a vegetable.
I admit, it's hard to tell your child to pick an apple over a candy bar when you're secretly craving a piece of chocolate cake before dinner. But giving in to temptation only leads you down the road to ... obesity!
That's what the continuous onslaught of medical research, reports and studies keep telling us. And still we munch on. So much so that some studies show that nearly 25 percent of Americans are now obese - that means two out of eight people are likely to become obese. Another 15 percent are just a few french fries short of falling into that category.
Obesity is known to lead to many health problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease.
Think of that the next time your child asks for a second helping of cheesy poofs.
The marketers of junk food are no help. In fact, they've become a sworn enemy in my house.
According to a report from the Center For Science In The Public Interest (CSPI) - the same group that pointed out the hidden fat in popcorn and in Mexican food - some of the biggest culprits of childhood obesity are companies that specifically market junk food to kids.
Well, duh.
Watch a half-hour of any children's show on commercial TV and you'll be bombarded with ads for dino nuggets, fish-shaped crackers and sugary cereals featuring a certain delinquent leprechaun or hyperactive bunny.
And many companies have Web sites and kids-oriented games and contests to attract and keep kids eating junk food. All this marketing puts parents in a unfair position.
We can turn the TV off, and that helps, but it's like fighting a Hydra, the mythical multi-headed serpent who, when one head was cut off, grew two more.
The best defense is a simple, two-letter word: No.
Fast food companies are going directly to kids and saying, andquot;Eat this! Yes, yes, yes!andquot; Parents have to say andquot;No, no, no!andquot;
Of course that often leads to your child turning into a multi-headed Hydra. But at least it's one you can put in a time out.
Parents must lead by example in eating healthy (at least when the kids are awake.) Stand firm and don't let the junk food marketers, with their sleek campaigns, undermine your parental authority, and your kid's health.
At the same time, don't overreact. Nobody likes a junk food exterminator. Moderation is the key - it will help keep the little serpents at bay.
Sometimes, it's okay to grab that candy bar instead of an apple, or eat that piece of chocolate cake before dinner.
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Storm-weary Long Island faces a nor'easter that arrives here Wednesday with the potential to prolong the power outages and gasoline shortage that have plagued recovery from last week's lethal superstorm.
The National Weather Service forecast winds of 25 to 40 mph for Long Island, with gusts up to 60 mph. "Winds of this magnitude will be capable of producing downed trees and power lines," the weather service said.
Rainfall from a half-inch to an inch is expected, with the chance of a rain-snow mix Wednesday night on western Long Island. Though the storm is puny compared with Sandy, unwelcome moderate coastal flooding is forecast, especially around high tide this evening and in the morning Thursday.
Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano on Tuesday stressed that those who live in Nassau's flood zones remain under an evacuation order and said the county can find shelter for those with nowhere to go.
"Now with an impending nor'easter, we appeal to our residents once again for their common sense," Mangano said. "Please leave those residences, find shelter out of the flood zone. It's for your own health, safety and welfare."
Though the storm passed through a week ago, Sandy again proved baleful Tuesday. A Centereach man, Nicholas Lourikas, 66, was helping to cut down damaged trees behind the Hauppauge Palace Diner around 11 a.m. when one fell and struck his head. He was pronounced dead at St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center in Smithtown.
If it's determined that Lourikas died from the blow to the head, rather than some other cause such as a heart attack, his death will be the eighth fatality on Long Island related to Sandy.
The seventh was a homeless woman, Anne Marie Dolan, 57, who lived in the woods behind a Commack Sports Authority. She was found Monday, police said. A tree had fallen and killed her.
With the nor'easter approaching, the Federal Emergency Management Agency temporarily closed 10 of its mobile disaster recovery centers in the metropolitan area at 6 p.m. last night as a precaution until the storm passes.
Three centers -- in Brooklyn, Riverhead and Hauppauge -- were slated to stay open.
FEMA said that as of late Monday it had received 34,834 applications for assistance in Nassau and 12,587 in Suffolk. Including New York City and Westchester and Rockland counties, the agency said it had gotten 122,101 applications and dispensed more than $156 million in aid.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, who oversees FEMA, paid a visit to the Treasure Island Marina in south Seaford Tuesday, arriving in a seven-car motorcade led by New York State Police.
"We can anticipate . . . that we're going to have some more power outages associated with this nor'easter," Napolitano said. "How bad those power outages will be we do not know. . . . Do all the things you did in advance of Sandy; make sure that you get out of harm's way. If local officials tell you to evacuate, please evacuate."
Long Island Rail Road spokesman Sam Zambuto said the service is "monitoring the weather forecast and watching the storm closely." The LIRR will have extra crews out Wednesday to help protect against flooding and wind damage that could impact service, Zambuto said.
Late Tuesday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced that the Holland Tunnel would reopen to commuters at 5 this morning.
At stations pumping gas Tuesday, long lines continued to confound drivers, despite regular gasoline barge deliveries to Long Island terminals. Delivery truck drivers and gas company executives reported long waits to fill their tanks at supply terminals in Inwood and Holtsville, as well as difficulty getting around waiting vehicles to unload at service stations.
Sounding a familiar theme, Cuomo said again Tuesday that progress on gas was being made.
"The fuel delivery system is coming back online slowly," said Cuomo, who added that panicked buying had compounded the problem. "We're now buying more fuel than we would normally be buying."
The governor also said the state had gotten approval from the federal Department of Agriculture to extend certification periods for households getting Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, once known as food stamps.
Residents of Long Island and other areas of the state whose benefits were to end in October or November will get a one-month extension, which should allow them time to recertify and ease the burden on local social service agencies that help manage the SNAP program.
The Long Island Power Authority, which has come under criticism from elected leaders and the public for its response to the storm, said it cut the outages on Long Island to around 200,000 Tuesday.
LIPA spokesman Mark Gross said Wednesday's nor'easter could cause further outages and that the utility has taken preventive steps. "In addition to the 10,000 restoration workers restoring power from Sandy, we are looking at those areas where the system may be vulnerable to high winds, and hardening those areas," he said.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confirmed Tuesday that two breaches Sandy tore through the South Shore barrier beach in Suffolk will be repaired, with planning for the work to start as early as next week.
Two barge operators already in the New York area will be diverted to fill in the breaches near Smith Point County Park and Cupsogue County Park, said corps spokesman Chris Gardner.
With the nor'easter season here, elected leaders had expressed concern that winter storms could widen the breaches and possibly raise water levels in vulnerable back bays.
"The Army Corps' ability to start with work immediately is good news for Fire Island and for all of southern Long Island residents who rely on flood protection from the barrier island," Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement.


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LOS ANGELES, July 30 (UPI) -- Lana Del Rey walks through the woods in a low-cut wedding dress in the video for her new single "Ultraviolence."
The clip of Del Rey's third single off of her new album has a retro grainy film look with washed out colors. The singer appears walking alone for most of the clip and eventually makes her way to the altar where a surprise awaits.
Del Rey's third album Ultraviolence was released in June. The record's first single "West Coast" was unveiled at the Coachella music festival in April and the second single, "Shades of Cool" was released in May.


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NYC Cops Use TASER to Foil Machete Horror
A machete-wielding man barricaded himself and his girlfriend in her Brooklyn apartment yesterday, turned on the stove and threatened to light a match before he was subdued by police, cops said.
The woman, who had been beaten with a baseball bat, was able to escape during the hour-long standoff, police said.
When cops entered the apartment about 1:40 p.m., they found Horsone Moore, 25, holding a machete to his neck and threatening suicide, police said. Emergency Service Unit cops used a Taser gun to overpower Moore, who was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he is in stable condition, police said.
Rescue workers were first called to the Halsey St., Bushwick, brownstone after neighbors complained of a strong odor of gas.
The couple has a child and a history of domestic troubles, a police source said.
"I''m surprised it went this far," said neighbor Eddie Hampton.
Moore has been charged with assault, unlawful imprisonment and reckless endangerment.
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Dear readers: It's not just questions and racist rants that invade the Mexican's mailbox. Your feedback sneaks under my digital fence, también. Let's start with Lean Like a K Street Chola, a former gangbanger turned lobbyist who wrote in a couple of weeks back wondering how she could explain to quizzical pals why Mexican women use lip liner. The Mexican responded that such coloring "attracts men"; here's her response:
Dear Mexican: I LOVE my new moniker! I must get new business cards made. Just one thing, muchacho: Not all women are interested in attracting hombres. I've been pura lesbiana since before I was even a chola. I will grant that using lip liner is probably to attract the mujeres machas. But a friend said she read somewhere that Latinas apply lipstick even more than non-Latinas, so perhaps it's just genetic!
Lean Like a K Street Chola
Dear K Street Chola: Muchas apologies, but what did you expect from a macho Mexican man? I don't know about your amiga's assertion, but a study this year published by the NDP Group found that "Hispanic" women were more likely to use mascara, blush, eyeliner and lipstick than any other ethnic group. Maybe the genetic part is right — or maybe Mexican women (of all sexual persuasions!) just like to look better for their homeboys and heinas than gabachas.
Dear Mexican: During the opening night of The Simpsons Movie, my friend and I were surprised to find that the young group of Mexicans sitting behind us had dropped a loaded .45 ACP clip under our seat. Shocked and vowing to never frequent that theater again, I left with a further disappointment in Mexicans. On the flip side, I ran out of gas on the freeway a week later. While I was walking alongside the freeway, a Mexican gentleman by the name of Lionel stopped and picked me up. Lionel drove me thirty miles round trip to get gas and would only accept my name and deepest gratitude as payment. If it wasn't for Lionel's generosity, I would've been royally screwed. I'm writing this as a plea for people not to judge a group of people just because of a few bad tamales.
Grateful Gringo
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Dear GG: Gracias for your story, gabacho. I concur: love the good Mexicans, nuke the cholos — except K Street Chola, of course.
Dear Mexican: Can you give me a good response when people ask me (often rudely), "What ARE you, anyway?" My mother is Mexican, my father is white. I look sort of vaguely ethnic — hence the question. I like "White-xican" but is there some better answer out there?
Brown-Skinned Girl
Dear Half-Wab: How about "¿A quién chingada le importa?" ("Who the fuck cares?")? Seriously, few things peeve the Mexican more than when someone questions a person's ethnic identity. I don't care if it's gabachos calling American citizens "anchor babies" or Mexican nationalists insisting someone must be born in Mexico to call themselves a Mexican; as I've written before, national character is never static, and anyone who claims otherwise is as deluded as a Minuteman.


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This pie was so good, all traces of it have disappeared. Including photos. (Actually, I'm experiencing technical difficulties on my end, so please bear with me till those are fixed.)
In the meantime, let me tell you to not make this pie, if you're seeking to do your waistline a favor. Because it is SO good that you will want to eat the entire pan. Speaking from experience, you probably will. So the best thing to do would be to forget this recipe ever existed.
However, if you want the sublime creaminess of avocado paired with coconut oil, limes and a graham cracker-date crust, read on.
My friend Dan and I adapted this recipe, which we entered in Furnald's AvocadoFest. We Avocado-Kedavra'd the competition in the creative component of the contest, so I suppose this pie is award-winning. (Even if it weren't, it's still definitely worth eating!) We added more honey and substituted the almond pulp in the crust for graham crackers because they're what we had on had. Also, we melted a layer of Mexican chocolate on top, a token of my last trip home. (If you haven't heard of Mexican chocolate, read about it here. I used Nestle Abuelita chocolate, which is the same thing as Ibarra, but for some reason I couldn't find my usual Ibarra at home over break.) The cinnamon in the chocolate complemented the avocados perfectly!
The best part about this recipe is that it requires no baking. Simply layer the crust and filling, and then refrigerate till firm, or until you can no longer resist!
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Deregulation Produces Nuclear Turnaround
November 25, 2002
The nuclear power industry is undergoing a remarkable turnaround says John Poston, professor of nuclear engineering at Texas A & M University.
- Nuclear power is growing, adding the equivalent of 24 large power plants since 1990.
- Steady improvements in the efficiency of nuclear plants led to the production of 768 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2001, up from 754 billion kilowatt-hours in 2000 and 557 billion kilowatt-hours in 1990.
- Major utilities have been engaged in bidding wars to buy nuclear plants, and virtually every nuclear plant in the United States is expected to seek renewal of its operating license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
One reason for the turnaround is deregulation of the electric power industry.
- Refueling shutdowns that used to last several months before electric-industry deregulation now are completed in as few as 18 days.
- With improved safety and maintenance, nuclear plants run nearly two years without shutdowns.
- Efficiency is at an all-time high, resulting in generating costs that average 1.7 cents per kilowatt-hour, while electricity produced from natural gas costs nearly twice as much.
Another aspect of deregulation has been reform of power plant licensing.
- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has pre-certified the designs of three types of advanced nuclear plants for construction.
- At least three utilities have designated sites for new units and are seeking commission approval.
- Approval under a new review process should take only 18 to 30 months, compared to a decade or more under old procedures.
Even modest growth in electricity demand over the next 20 years will require a 50 percent increase in electric power production, says Poston, and the next generation of nuclear plants can help meet that demand.
Source: John W. Poston Sr., "Nuclear power's comeback proves pundits wrong," Dallas Morning News, November 17, 2002.
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Beckett returns against Indians
Beckett returns against Indians
Josh Beckett, the team's best pitcher this season, hasn't pitched since May 13 and the Red Sox have padded their American League East lead an additional 3 1/2 games since the righty went on the disabled list with an avulsion on his right middle finger.
For the record, Beckett steps back on the mound Tuesday night against the Indians. The Red Sox are a team clicking in every possible way, leading the American League East by 11 1/2 games over the Orioles.
"The biggest thing about our team is we have a lot of depth," said Sox first baseman Kevin Youkilis.
The Red Sox have won 19 of their last 25 games. The 35-15 start ties the 1986 squad for second best in club history.
"To be 50 games into a season and be double digits up on anybody is good," said right-hander Curt Schilling. "It has nothing to do with where we will be on Labor Day, but we are a good team."
Pitching matchup
BOS: RHP Josh Beckett (7-0, 2.66 ERA)
The 27-year-old right-hander still is chasing Roger Clemens' 1986 club record of 14 consecutive wins starting the season, but has never beaten the Indians. In two career starts against Cleveland, Beckett is 0-2 with a 13.97 ERA.
After beginning the season 0-4 with a 7.13 ERA in his first eight starts, Sowers had his best start of the year on Thursday against the Royals. He went seven strong innings and allowed one run on six hits -- all of them singles -- while walking one and striking out one. It was his first victory in 10 starts, dating to Sept. 5.
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Youkilis, who hit an inside-the-park homer Monday night, will try to run his career-long hitting streak to 21 games.
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Wednesday: Red Sox (Daisuke Matsuzaka, 7-2, 4.43) vs. Indians (Paul Byrd, 5-1, 3.81), 7:05 p.m. ET
Friday: Red Sox (Tim Wakefield, 5-5, 3.36) vs. Yankees (Chien-Ming Wang, 3-4, 4.13), 7:05 p.m. ET
Saturday: Red Sox (Julian Tavarez, 3-4, 5.40) vs. Yankees (Mike Mussina, 2-3, 5.86), 3:55 p.m. ET


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Designed mostly to help bird hunters find a place to hunt on their own, WIHA also opens lands that have some deer on them. Through financial incentives, the program encourages landowners to open their lands to hunting. In effect, the state leases hunting rights from them for an amount that depends on the number of acres and the length of the season involved. At this writing, WIHA areas as small as 80 acres and as large as several thousand have been enrolled.
Begun in 1995 with only 10,000 acres, WIHA has now signed up a half million acres. The state's goal is one million. Some WIHA leases run from September through January, while others begin in November to run through January. The lengths depend upon the game available and the open seasons. Those with doves or muzzleloading seasons open in September, whereas those with conventional firearm seasons for deer will not open until November.
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Milk Chocolate Coconut Creme Eggs are a delicious treat for anyone's Easter basket as they are lucsious combination of mouth-watering milk chocolate and creamy coconut, all wrapped up into one delicious, fantastically oversized egg!
Easter eggs come in many shapes, sizes, and flavors, yet few are as irresistible as this delicious Milk Chocolate Coconut Creme Egg, which is so very popular amongst young and old alike. Do somthing a little different this Easter and stuff these in Easter baskets instead of (or inaddition to!) chocolate Easter bunnies. Or, get several different flavors, cut them up and put them out on a sampler platter and let everybody try and pick a favorite!
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Jill Alexander is a fashion designer who specializes in plus-size clothing and has been receiving praise for her recent designs and styles. She will be attending the Full Figured Fashion Week in New York City in the middle of June, according to the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
"Jill's designs are unique and different than most 'plus size' clothing," Sumer Noelle Lucksheider, who has modeled for Alexander, told the news source. "We don't want to wear shapeless muumuus, we want to wear clothes that make us feel good, that celebrate our curves, that make us feel confident and powerful ... and she gets that."
Alexander, who started Jill Alexander designs only two years ago, offers clothing that pops with vibrant colors and is priced in an affordable range, the media outlet reports.
Prospective fashion designers should keep in mind ways to keep themselves and their designs separate from the other professionals out there. Especially because employment in this field is supposed to increase by a small margin over the next five years but a degree with give a considerable leg up, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Rain, temperature and agricultural production: The impact of climate change in Sub-Sahara Africa, 1961-2009
This paper is about the effect of climate change on Sub-Sahara African (SSA) agricultural production in a post-colonial setting. While agricultural production certainly is the result of a multi-dimensional process (influenced by diverse branches of politics, by technology, and also by trade patters and violent conflicts, among others), already the partial analysis of the most obvious factors of influence is certainly valuable in the African case. Since agriculture is not only the single most important sector for the greatest majority of people there, but also a low-tech endeavor in Africa, the impact of temperature and particularly rainfall is crucial – to the point of life-threatening crop failure. In sum, we are able to shown that climate change influenced agricultural production in Sub-Sahara Africa in an unfavourable way. When considering traditional and modern inputs (labour, land and livestock, as well as capital and fertilizer, respectively) in a fixed-effects-model, particularly the effect of rainfall is significantly positive and important. Further, by separating countries into a low- and a med-tech group (with respect to modern inputs), different relationships between the standard factors can be revealed, and by refining the specification with respect to regional climatic differences some complexities in these general patterns can be shown.
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- Mirotchic, Mesfin & Taylor, Daniel B., 1993. "Resource allocation and productivity of cereal state farms in Ethiopia," Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 8(3), March.
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- Im, Kyung So & Pesaran, M. Hashem & Shin, Yongcheol, 2003. "Testing for unit roots in heterogeneous panels," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 115(1), pages 53-74, July.
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Mesh creation around a vehicle body. Image courtesy of SimScale GmbH.
General features of SimScale include in-browser 3D visualization, scalable on-demand computing capacity, and a pay-per-use pricing model. SimScale Platform has tools for structural mechanics, fluid dynamics, and thermodynamics analyses. Structural mechanics abilities include linear static behaviors, modal / frequency analysis, and nonlinear and dynamic simulations. Fluid mechanics simulation capabilities are offered for Laminar and turbulent modeling as well as mass transport within fluid flows. Steady state and transient solvers for time-dependent processes are available. Thermodynamic analysis tools are offered for studying thermo-structural behaviors and conjugate heat flows.
Stress field within a connecting rod. Image courtesy of SimScale GmbH.
The SimScale Platform works by enabling users to upload a CAD model. Currently SimScale supports the formats STEP, IGES, and BREP as well as triangulated STL. After the model is uploaded, it is displayed in 3D.
Mesh creation for a bearing bracket analysis. Image courtesy of SimScale GmbH.
From this point, explains the company, SimScale Platform provides a complete simulation workflow that includes CAD model preparation tools, automatic mesh creation, simulation setup, solving, result visualization, and post-processing. The platform's automated meshing helps users set up a numerical analysis efficiently by analyzing the CAD model and adapting the mesh algorithm accordingly, making it, says the company, well suited for initial simulations. Tetrahedral meshing operations include prismatic boundary layers. Hex-dominant meshing, which is said to provide the capability to generate efficient meshes for CFD (computational fluid dynamics) simulations, is also available.
Eigen model of an airfoil. Image courtesy of SimScale GmbH.
Since the actual computation is done in large computing centers on-demand, the user also has access to scalable computing capacity at any time, according to the company. SimScale Platform also offers project management and collaboration capabilities as well as community features such as a library of free, importable projects, a user forum, and a Wiki. Additionally, the company says it constantly enhances the platform's CAE capabilities.
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The SimScale Platform is available in basic, professional, and individual service levels. The basic level is a free account, limiting users to a single processing core, 20 meshes, and 10 simulations per month. The professional-level plan offers access to up to 16 cores as well as unlimited meshes and simulations per month. The individual plan provides "premium support," such as aid with specific simulation requests.
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