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Hello everyone. Today I am very privlidged to be able to be part of the cover reveal for Greta and the Goblin King by Chloe Jacobs. It looks pretty good doesn't it? I've been following Chloe Jacobs on twitter for a while now because the blurb for Greta and the Goblin King really intrigues me AND she's promised an excerpt will be sent our way closer to the release date...so September ish.
Greta and the Goblin King will be released November 13th 2012 from Entangled Publishing.
While trying to save her brother four years ago, Greta was thrown into the witch's fire herself, falling through a portal to a dangerous world where humans are the enemy, and every ogre, goblin, and ghoul has a dark side that comes out with the full moon.
To survive, seventeen-year-old Greta has hidden her humanity and taken the job of bounty hunter—and she's good at what she does. So good, she's caught the attention of Mylena's young Goblin King, the darkly enticing Isaac, who invades her dreams and undermines her determination to escape.
But Greta's not the only one looking to get out of Mylena. The full moon is mere days away, and an ancient evil knows she's the key to opening the portal. If Greta fails, she and the lost boys of Mylena will die. If she succeeds, no world will be safe from what follows her back…
Sounds fabulous right! I can't wait for it to be released so I can get my hands on a copy :)
More about the Author:Chloe Jacobs is a native of nowhere and everywhere, having jumped around to practically every Province of Canada before finally settling in Ontario where she has now been living for a respectable number of years. Her husband and son are the two best people in the entire world, but they also make her wish she'd at least gotten a female cat. No such luck. And although the day job keeps her busy, she carves out as much time as possible to write. Bringing new characters to life and finding out what makes them tick and how badly she can make them suffer is one of her greatest pleasures, almost better than chocolate and fuzzy pink bunny slippers.
Barnes and Noble pre-order: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/greta-and-the-goblin-king-chloe-james/1040613977
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Cumbuco Apartment - Dream Ocean View / Penthouse
Penthouse in Cumbuco from 64.00 Euros per night
These magnificent new luxury penthouse apartments for rent in Cumbuco are located in a fantastic beachfront complex with incredible sea views and direct access to the fabulous white sandy beach.. There are 8 penthouse apartments on the top floor and each contain three bedrooms.
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These penthouse apartments are situated in a development where all properties have 100% sea view and are all facing the wonderful white sandy beach of Cumbuco. The beautiful swimming pool area (32 meters) is located at the front of the apartments and has separate sections for children.
In the case of DREAM OCEAN VIEW it is not a question of the distance to the beach - it is on the beach.
These apartments are within a few minutes walk of the little fishing village of Cumbuco with a variety of restaurants, small supermarkets and various other shops. Its only 30 minutes by car (45 minutes by bus) to the wonderful city of Fortaleza. Fortaleza offers everything from modern shopping centers to many fabulous bars and restauraunts which give the city a vibrant feel and also create a great night life.
These spacious apartments are on two levels and have a large living room with an open plan kitchen seperated by a breakfast bar. The first level has an ensuite bedroom and other guest bedroom while on the upper level is the master bedroom with ensuite and private balcony with impressive views of the magnificent beach. There is a great terrace which leads from the living area on the lower level to enjoy exterior dining and the fabulous weather.
These apartments are fully equipped with air conditioning, fitted kitchen with all neccessary appliances, modern furniture and radio / TV. Internet is available by WiFi and there is the security of entrance control to the complex and reception 7 days a week / 24 hours.
Discounts will be considered for stays of 3 weeks or longer
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MicroHeli Front Shaft, Gear & Pulley Kit
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This is an optional MicroHeli Front Shaft, Gear and Pulley Kit, and is intended for use with the Align T-REX 450XL and 450SE. The Front Shaft, Gear and Pulley Set is aimed at achieving true operations on the front gear drive assembly. With a bigger, stronger and high quality steel shaft, the new shaft can withstand larger forces making it is less susceptible to bending. This design is improved over stock shaft by eliminating the need of applying glue on the shafts. It also comes with a CNC Aluminum front pulley to eliminate the stripping of the stock plastic front pulley. The front Aluminum pulley fits perfectly on the new tail shaft and is held securely by set screws on the slot of the steel shaft. Plus, the blue CNC gear is made of super strong material and is CNC machined to guarantee roundness and wobble-free operations. This is a must have item for every T-REX owner.
- Stronger CNC steel shaft for less susceptible to bending
- Pre-assembled 3x8x3mm precision bearings to ensure super smoothness operation
- No more gluing the bearings on front shaft!
- CNC machined Delrin blue gear with guaranteed roundness and zero wobbling
- CNC machined Aluminum front pulley to eliminate stripping problem of stock plastic front pulley
- Weight: 4.5g
- (1) CNC Steel shaft
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- (1) CNC Delrin blue gear
- (1) CNC Aluminum front pulley
- (2) Precision ABEC-5 bearings
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Make Your Own Designer Lip Collection Kit
Fun and funky lip balm creations are at the fingertips with the Make Your Own Designer Lip Balm Collection Kit from Creativity for Kids! Kids can layer colors, finishes and flavors to create gorgeous gifts for friends and family. All components in the kit are kid-friendly, safety-tested and paraben free. The complete kit includes eight empty lip balm pots and four tubes, eight boutique gift boxes, a pearl and shimmer base, four flavored lip colors, four mixing cups, spatula, filling tube and instructions. Pucker up and play with this lip balm set!
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- Paraben-free lip balm bases and flavors
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Stitched black trims add a graphic edge to Derek Lam's taupe wool-felt trench coat. Slip this luxe coverup over a color-pop dress and suede knee boots for easy new-season chic.
True to size; fitted by design.
Shown here with: Derek Lam dress, Oscar de la Renta cuff, Christian Louboutin boots, Chloé bag.
- Derek Lam trench coat: taupe wool-felt, hook-fastening collar, button-fastening epaulets, long sleeves, button-fastening tabs at cuff, belt loops, detachable buckle-fastening belt, side slant pockets, back vents, black stitching, partially lined. Button fastenings at double-breasted front. 100% wool; lining: 100% viscose. Dry clean. Designer color: Camel Melange.
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London: Britain's Prince Harry has been beaten in the style department by his smarter grandfather Prince Philip.
Queen Elizabeth II's 94-year-old husband came in at 12th position in 'GQ' magazine's '50 Best Dressed Men in Britain' list, 26 places ahead of his 31-year-old grandson, who was ranked 38th.
"If we look as good as the Queen's consort does when we reach our tenth decade we will be very happy," the magazine said in reference to the Duke of Edinburgh.
The list is topped for the second year running by Oscar-winning British actor Eddie Redmayne, famous for his role as physicist Stephen Hawking in 'The Theory of Everything'.
Prince Charles, who has often featured in GQ's annual list and ranked 7th last year, and his grandson Prince George, who caused a stir with his inclusion at the tender age of one last year, are both absent from this year's top 50.
Prince George's father, Prince William, also fails to make the cut this time.
The Duke of Edinburgh has a reputation for thriftiness, reusing and repairing decades-old favourite outfits, 'The Daily Telegraph' reported.
He has often been seen at naval events wearing the same uniform he wore to his wedding in 1947.
Patrick Grant, the Savile Row tailor – himself featured at number five on this year's GQ list – has previously described how the Duke has "always favoured a simple suit made from heavyweight British cloths: tough twills and twist worsted – never excessively fitted, and always well balanced".
In the 2016 best-dressed list, footballer David Beckham (4th) and his son Romeo (8th) both make the top 10, along with singer Sam Smith (3rd) and Sherlock Holmes star Benedict Cumberbatch (9th).
The list is voted for annually by 'GQ' staff and a panel of experts including fashion designer Giorgio Armani, designer Tom Ford, model Lara Stone and fashion designer Vivienne Westwood.


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Original Art in Oils and Pastels
A famous playwright once wrote, "at times, the soul needs something that reason cannot explain". That defines art for me. Art has always evoked a feeling that goes beyond explanation for me. Beyond the beautiful colors, an interesting scene or a riveting portrait, art produces a feeling inside me. I fervently hope that I might cause that feeling in others who take time to view my paintings. If so, I am a very successful artist.
An exciting life of working in broadcasting and then in the music industry took my time and energy for several years. I still found time to dream about becoming an artist. After ten years as Director of Promotion for Warner Brothers Records in Los Angles and 4 years as founder and publisher of a music business trade magazine, I decided it was time to take the plunge into art. Moving back to my home state of Alabama I have studied and worked steadily to improve as an artist. I have been fortunate to study under Daniel E. Greene at his studio farm in New Salem, New York. Daniel is one of the premier portraitists in the world. He was a student, and is a teacher, at the famous Art Students League in New York City. I have never regretted the decision focus my life on the arts.
I love art and hope that you find something that stirs a good feeling when looking at any of my paintings.
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Being the best that never was can be a drag. Just ask Dead Hot Workshop. They've been Tempe's top alternative band for almost a decade. They've wowed critics, won (and lost) record contracts and watched their work championed by "lesser" local bands like the Gin Blossoms--Robin Wilson wore a Dead Hot tee shirt on the Blossoms' debut David Letterman appearance--and the Refreshments, who quipped about pretending to be Dead Hot Workshop on the single "Down Together." It says something that such big-time acts have long pushed for Dead Hot's success. It says even more that Dead Hot still hasn't made it.
Karma Covered Apple could change that.
The new CD is Dead Hot Workshop's most spirited recording to date, a considerable jump from the solemn, scattershot brilliance of the band's previous efforts. Singer/songwriter Brent Babb has always had a way with melody and poetic suggestion, and his vocals, at once passive and impassioned, have helped shape his angst-riddled efforts. But Babb's past songs also tended to sound weary, especially on disc, as if he and his ever-promising band grew old before they had a chance to be new.
Karma Covered Apple presents a born-again Dead Hot. The CD's opening cut, "Both Ways," kicks with bright dynamics, assertive playing and peppier, more confident vocals. The newer, tougher Babb comes out swinging again on "Push Luck Shove," asserting that "I'm not crazy/My free fall spins farther round/I never wanna come down." This is far from the over-introspective Babb of past CDs, the one slump-shouldered by the weight of his own world.
Even so, Babb's still no Mr. Rogers. There's always been a theme of confused identity in Babb's writing, and it's here, too. "You say I'm the only one/I see a little bit of me in you," he sings in "Push Luck Shove," before adding the inverted question mark, "Are you with me or against me?"
Babb's genius is to couple such near-existentialism with an honest feeling for the lost and the weak, even if he indeed finds it's him he's singing about. The bend-until-you-break ennui makes for an open empathy for fellow souls: "You hide in your room," he sings on "Round Record." "But you're my favorite tune/Somehow sometime soon/I'll hear you."
Karma Covered Apple shines best when Babb literally searches the heavens for answers to his glancing doubts and concerns. "Noam Chomsky," for example, is ostensibly a stunning song of meandering melody and only occasionally sensical word forms. It doesn't matter that you can't actually define "demographic acrobats riding elemental artifacts through realistic kinds of cul-de-sacs." What does matter is how the tune wanders in search of a chorus, settling in on itself like some dwarf star as the Babb "whispers to the heavens through a megaphone." The song's buildup, enhanced by beautiful keyboard work and backup vocals from fellow Tempean Emily Curtis, is a wonder, a cosmic, stargazing goosebumper that proves art exists in the most ambiguous of platforms.
Equally impressive is "Oh Well," a beautifully contemplative song more reminiscent of Dead Hot's older, reticent world view, yet more convincing. Babb sings of himself ("Sometimes you come up short, sometimes not at all"), others ("Every friend in need/I sometimes see 'em come/I sometimes watch 'em go") and the wish to escape it all. Yet even here, by the end of the song's mournful, country-tinged melody, there's a hint of hope: "You pull up your stakes you won't get very far/Maybe there's no reason/Maybe we just are/Oh well."
Babb's touch-and-go reflections are bolstered by his longtime bandmates--bassist G. Brian Scott and drummer Curtis Grippe--who deftly handle the many drop-step melodies and subtle tempo shifts with an ease appropriate to Babb's lyrical shrugs. A small galaxy of local musicians adds to the mix, most notably the aforementioned Curtis, who seems to appear on the CD's best songs, and ubiquitous hard-rock guitarist Michael Johnny Walker, who helps push the sneaky-good "Magic Bullet," and kicks even harder on "K-Tel," the disc's most energetic basher and one of the band's better live tunes. (Also of note: Dead Hot's former lead guitarist, Steve Larson, whose gnarled leads gave added texture to the band's live sound, is featured on only one Karma cut, "Slide Song.")
As solid as the new CD sounds, the packaging is saddled with the type of screw-ups expected of Tempe's prototypical slacker band. The lyrics to "Noam Chomsky," for example, are nowhere to be found on the CD booklet; "Slide Song" is identified as "69" on the lyric sheet; and some of the songs on the back cover are out of order while others seem to be hiding.
All of which is almost forgiven when considering the band's photo in the CD booklet, a goofy portrait of the trio as all-American astronauts. It's an inspired piece of weirdness that somehow makes sense.
But making sense is far from Dead Hot's strength. The band breathes through Babb's wonderfully elliptical songs, and by the end of the CD, he still sounds at once upbeat and confused, his bewilderment and self-assessment good-natured but soul-deep. For instance, on the CD's closing cut, "Strangers," he ponders how we "step outside of ourselves like strangers," adding, "I guess all my friends are strangers in the end." The song sways like an anthem and it works as an all-encompassing take on Babb's muse, an honest mix of hope and genuine wonder at what makes strangers tick even to themselves.
Another local songwriting hero, Bruce Connole, leader of the neo-country act The Revenants (formerly Suicide Kings), asks similar kinds of questions. But whereas Babb stares at the sky to figure himself out, Connole keeps his eyes focused on the nearest mirror, squinting at the greatest mystery he knows. Connole's search for clues is a singular mission and one that marks The Revenants' tuneful new Epiphany CD, Artists and Whores, as one of the best local CDs in years.
Anything less from Connole would be a shock. He's played a prominent role in some of the Valley's best and most popular acts of the past two decades, including Billy Clone and the Same, the Jetzons, and the Strand, all major-league bands that never made it because of Connole's notorious abuse of not-so-controlled substances. Connole, like Babb, should've been more than a contender. But if Babb took too long to find success, Connole simply disappeared, hiding from the big time with bouts of self-medication.
A sad story, but one that inspires a peppy kind of pessimism that hums throughout Artists and Whores. Connole uses a retro-country sound to relate his thinly metaphored views on living and losing, and it's a perfect fit. What better format for a white guy to sing the blues? Connole opens the CD by proclaiming "Mama always called me a child of sorrow," on "Forever," the assessment bouncing along astride a crispy, two-step tempo.
He later asserts that "it's a long and lonely trail/A midnight ride to each new hell I find," again presenting the downer sentiment in upbeat fashion.
The same goes for "Flower on My Grave," a mournful song that comes off as almost playful, the tightly constructed music keeping things from getting too morbid. "Heaven only knows where the broken-hearted go/Will they find peace beyond this misery?" Connole asks. "Angels up above will fill their hearts with love," he answers, but then can't help wondering if they'll more likely "cry for all eternity."
Indeed, as the CD progresses, Connole tries to flirt with standard-issue optimism, as on "She," a danceable song of hope amid the spilled tears and toppled beers. But even here it's still a boy-gets-dumped song: "Nobody looks that good walking away," he sings, and you can almost see the view from the bar stool. Connole goes on to color his baritone, twang-tinged vocals with more ominous tones, as on "Cradle to the Grave," in which he proclaims himself a "leather-wearing Jesus, a bastard son of man." But there's always a hint that such words are aimed at an audience of one, as if the writer only half believes what he says. He can't help letting you know that "I've walked through fire and held my head up high," but the tough talk seems at once a beating of the chest and a drop of the eyes, a soul in search of validation, counting its losses and hoping someone doesn't quite believe the bluster.
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The ambiguity that comes from such an unreliable narrator puts many sides to a song and adds realism to the overwrought imagery. It also helps if it's all carried by a catchy tune, and Connole's no slouch when it comes to hooks. The other Revenants further paint the pictures with sharp, crisp playing that bounces off producer Clarke Rigsby's pristine production.
Guitarist and back-up singer Deke Taylor complements Connole wonderfully, and the rhythm section, bassist Scott Kalkbrenner (who's since been replaced by ex-Freudian Slip slapper Paul Schneider) and drummer Bobby Domings are there at every turn--especially Domings, the kind of steady drummer you don't think about until you concentrate on what he's doing, and then it's hard to keep your ears off him. A slew of stellar studio musicians, led by legendary guitarist Al Casey, adds dollops of subtle but effective sounds, making for a refreshingly under-the-top performance throughout. Indeed, the band and attendant studio pals never seem to be showing off, just doing what they do best with efficient confidence, much different from the laid-back, catch-as-catch-can No Depression movement still favored by most "Americana" country acts.
Connole's preference for an older, slicker kind of country is especially evident as he closes Artists and Whores with "Prodigal Son," a song choked with old-timey sentiment. The depression and despair that have taken him this far take a break as we find the narrator back in his hometown to "see my father and mother/Whose hearts I broke long ago/I waited so long to set things right." But you can feel the clouds roll back in before the first verse ends, and suffice to say that by the closing chords Connole's standing over gravestones and singing of how he simply "waited too long."
If the metaphors in "Prodigal Son" suggest Connole's waited too long to set his musical talents right, he's wrong. Artists and Whores is strong enough to resuscitate a songwriting career that looks far from over.


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Carrying the torch on a big scale tug
Greetings all,
My first post here. I recently picked up a partial kit from Craigslist. It was built to the point it is at by a 92 year old gentleman that passed away. I bought the kit from his good friends. It is a 57 inch long model of the UK tugboat M.T Moorcock. His work is very nice detailed with fine lines. I hope to do it justice in the end. I was joking with my girl about towing us in a canoe with an RC tug after she started having wrist problems while paddling in our kayaks. When I was younger I had two Mr. Darby tug kits in my hands. I never got to build them and being young I sold them to probably pay bills. I still kick myself for that. Last year I missed a complete Mr. Darby in a second hand shop by two hours. So after a 2 hour drive I secured this boat. I have a lot of plans for this winter for it. But I need some help. I am really behind on current products. Like the best glues for wood. As for past experience. I still have my very first wood boat kit I built as a kid. A dumas swamp buggy I eventually converted to RC. I completed tons of plastic kits. I have a fast Vee hull that is not complete yet. I also run an axial scorpion rock crawler. So I have kept up with some of this fun hobby. But as to wood working I am going to have to tool up some and ask some questions. I am reading up on all the threads and projects as fast as time permits. Even my gal was amazed at some of the pictures you folks have posted. My list of questions is down to about 350
I obtained faded and lightly used blueprints with this model. Did this kit come with any wood or did this man scratch build everything I have here? I have an unanswered email to waverly models in the UK with this same question.
What is the best wood glue now? I prefer strength as a first attribute.
What is the best paint to use now?
Is there any type of wood I should avoid when I make the superstructure?
Are there any members here with this model?
Are there any other sites like shipspotting.com (Thankyou!!!) that may have pictures of the real tug?
Are there any RC boating events to attend in Portland Oregon? Soon or next season?
And when building my jeep rock crawler I found Dollhouse miniatures has a really great selection of all kinds of detail items for our models. If you want to put a cast iron fry pan on your galley table this is the site. Garage tools, outdoor camping gear etc. http://www.dollhouseminiatures.net/i...index&cPath=60
I'm grateful to find this site. Model boat mayhem has still not responded back yet. I will try to post some pictures. My build list and parts list including bookmarks so far are several pages. I am eager to get started. I have a few more things to do to prep for winter. My home is off limits due to black mold. So I will be making a spot in a shed to do this. I will post progress pictures. And I am sure I will have some questions. I will keep using the search feature and the links are great!
You can use aircraft ply for the wood or styrene if you are more comfortable with plastic, it looks like the original builder did a great job so you have a wonderful start. As for glues CA, epoxy, or regular old wood glue it's really more of a preference what does it look like was originally used? She looks great and I am sure you will have a great time and learn a lot.
Nice score.
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272 GRT, L34,60m(32,01), B8,74m, Dr3,823m, Dp4,42m (113'6"(105'0")x28'8"(28'3")x12'6.1/2"(14'6"))
1 scr, diesel 2tew 8cyl British-Polar, 1600bhp-1178kW, sp 12kn
1959: Built by "Henry Scarr Ltd" at Hessle (GBR) (YN 763)
1959 -xx/10: delivered to "Gamecock Tugs Ltd", mng "Ship Towage (London) Ltd" at London (GBR)
(GBR flag, regd London, ON 301004, c/s GFJU)
1969: merged into "London Tugs Ltd", mng "Ship Towage (London) Ltd" at London (GBR)
1975: taken over by "ATCL - Alexandra Towing Co Ltd" at Liverpool (GBR)
1981 -xx/12: broken up at Queensborough (GBR)
Great information there. Thank you. I added the pictures to the growing file. I think I have enough to get some resemblance to the real vessel. It looks like the real tug was scrapped in 1981. It looked like it had a lot of life left.
I want to go into town this evening or tomorrow to find some high quality wood drill bits. The holes were so clean on this boat I thought it was a die cut kit. I am understanding it is all scratch built now.
Woodybob Thanks for the spec's. I have looked for a few hours now on the tug. It seems there is always more to discover.
I'll stick with wood for the rest of the build. And thanks for the words on the glue Kcal.
I want to do the upper deck in the dark brown with white trim and stained wood up top. I think that will look ok with the red hull and grey interior. I am considering changing the color to a black hull. Any votes?
One thing I am having trouble locating is the correct size smokestack with the ribbing. I can make one just fine but wondered if any are sold out there already made.
I appreciate anything I can learn about this kit and real boat. So please keep it coming.
I will have some reading to do and questions on motors and batteries later. I have not kept up on brushless tech. Everything I run is brushed. I am assuming 12 volts is the best choice.
try this site for more infop on her. http://modeltugforum.com/index.php?P...e6b6fda4c9af7;
So this boat is quite a find it sounds. The parts were cut so uniformly I would swear they were die cut. I had better email the family back. I asked them if any of the other parts might be misplaced with his airplane stuff. I had better do some good work on it. And woodybob, the links is where I found the shipspotting site where I located the best photo's yet. So I need to keep looking as I nodded off late the other night before I finished seeing everything..
Today I picked up a few things. I bought a ryobi scroll saw and blades. I found some wood bits. I am betting forstner bits make the cleanest cuts? I also stopped at a hobby store in town I have never been to before. They had lots of wood to build with. I picked up three types of glue, several pieces of plywood, and quite a bit of different pieces of wood in many profiles. Some more clamps etc. I have a very extensive collection of metal working tools for intricate metal work, but I see I'll need a few more things.
NPH, I suspected as much on it not being a kit. Thanks for taking the time to post about it. I'm enjoying the learning process. I have some more questions that I will post up later. I'll do some more searching also. This is a great site. I am glad I found it.
[QUOTE=StillH2otug;22924844]So this boat is quite a find it sounds. The parts were cut so uniformly I would swear they were die cut. I had better email the family back. I asked them if any of the other parts might be misplaced with his airplane stuff.
Airplane stuff ????
What other treasures might there be ...
nice finding, well done, keep on the good work
welcome to tug's world
Thanks MP! Tim the mans name was Ken. When Liz and I picked up the boat it was from some close friends of his. I guess Ken was a nut. Jumping horses with two arms in casts, (off a cliff into a river) always looking for fun, things like that. He had planes and who knows what else. His family took most of his RC stuff and it is not able to be asked about. I will absolutely enjoy finishing it from here.
So I have sourced most of the detail things. The electronics and running gear need to be dialed in. I need to read up more.
I have a 4 channel radio on the shelf. I think I am going to need more channels.
Has anyone ever sunk a boat and lost it? That would be upsetting. I plan on a bilge pump with it's own power supply activated by water. I noticed how easily water could enter the hull. I want to install some rails in the hull openings to combat this. I was unsure enough flotation could be put in the hull to keep it on the surface.
I started thinking about putting a mylar balloon (one that says best wishes?) inside the small inflatable boat cylinder mounted on the deck. Connected to a small clear line and a light nylon recovery line fed carefully through the cylinder mount under the deck to a compact kayak life vest inflation system stolen from a life vest. The nylon line would anchor to a mount on one of the hull ribs. In the event of a sinking the system would activate the replaceable pressurized cylinder inflating the mylar balloon and hopefully give a tether to retrieve your boat. It might take out the mast and railing but you would still have a boat.
Fun stuff to think about. I've got enough on my plate already.
Tonight I hope to clear out some more work space. If winter would hurry up I could justify getting started .
No worrys about sinking.
You have a large enough boat that you should notice if it is getting low in the water
prior to it actually sinking.
I used to get sunk once a month. Recovering the boat and getting it running could
be done in 15 minutes, if everything was appropriately protected.
I think my record is being sunk five times in one day.
New rule for that weekend was, "You don't HAVE to battle the heavy cruisers."
I doubt your model will ever experience combat, but
If you are really worried disguise one of these on the deck somewhere...
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Now that looks like fun. I have heard about the warships that can shoot BB's. Hilarious.
I have a PM here from Tim that sent me. I hope he does not not mind the cut and paste. I appreciate the feedback.
Alot of folks will throw in, this model is so important you might consider another new boat project until you have a broader foundation of knowledge.
It should not be "altered" needlessly, its a barn find, like coming across a '52 Ferrari thats unrestored, it should be studied and documented before irreversable changes are made.
I have a lot of ideas and energy. This tug is a very welcome diversion for me. Just this morning I was wondering how many of this model tug existed. From what I am learning this is a rare boat. Maybe this will help set some of you at ease. I also collect military trucks. I bought one years ago with intent to make it a big rock crawler. I could not do it. I ended up with a near museum quality truck well adorned with original correct parts. It made a magazine centerfold with an article I wrote. I sold it for a lot of money after realizing I was living too large. I bought a fancy TIG welder and lots of metal working tools which help me make money today. I enjoyed it's originality big time.
I want to keep this boat correct. I also enjoy inventing things. I apologize if I sounded like I had a chain saw idling in my hand. What you read this morning was indeed caffeine powered...I am fortunate that the hull is done. At 48 years old I doubt I could take the time to build it. I am confident I can do a first class job from the deck up. I have been searching for some pictures of some lowboy trailers I built for a model company. I wanted to show my skill level sort of... And if any of you have a copy of of "Custom Classic trucks august 2012 issue. I built the truck on the front cover. I pledge to make this ship my best work. I am honored to have it. I am also grateful for the feedback. I welcome it while I build also. I am an amateur and I know it. With the help available here, I bet it will be a fine ship when it is finished.
What I would not give for a 52 Ferrari
That does look like a lot of fun. So do you have duct tape in your tool box?
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U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, in a way, agreed Tuesday night with President Obama.
While Obama used his State of the Union speech to call for a five-year federal spending freeze, other than in military programs, the Minnesota congresswoman used a nationally televised response to Obama to ask federal officials to slow down spending.
Talking to voters, Bachmann said that the message from the 2010 election was clear: "Last November, many of you went to the polls and voted out big-spending politicians and you put in their place men and women who have come to Washington with a commitment to follow the Constitution and cut the size of government."
In a speech carried nationally on cable television news channels and the Internet, Bachmann was in the spotlight Tuesday as she apparently considers running for president next year.
Bachmann did not deliver the official Republican response to Obama's State of the Union address, but she received far more publicity than Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan did for his GOP-endorsed speech.
Reaction from other federal Minnesota lawmakers was predictably mixed, with Republicans more likely to side with Bachmann and Democrats on Obama's side. But the tone was calmer than in previous years.
Even with the new atmosphere, Bachmann was critical of Obama.
"After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks that the president signed, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have," her prepared remarks said. "But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt at President Obama's direction, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country."
Bachmann, speaking at the request of the conservative and libertarian Tea Party movement, listed suggestions federal policymakers could follow, including passing a federal balanced budget constitutional amendment to be introduced today by several lawmakers, including new Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D.
Sen. Al Franken, a Democrat, said he agrees with Obama putting a priority on creating jobs.
"I've spent the past few weeks traveling around Minnesota talking with workers, small business owners and educators," Franken said. "And from East Grand Forks and Alexandria to Rochester and Duluth, everyone reinforced that investing in education, job training and innovation is essential to our economic future and creating long-term prosperity."
Franken said that education reform is important this year.
Obama emphasized the economy in the national speech, coming two and a half weeks after U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot. That created a new feeling of compassion in Congress, with Democrats and Republicans sitting next to each other, breaking a long tradition of the parties sitting on opposite sides of the House chamber.
"New laws will only pass with support from Democrats and Republicans. We will move forward together, or not at all - for the challenges we face are bigger than party, and bigger than politics," Obama said. "At stake right now is not who wins the next election; after all, we just had an election. At stake is whether new jobs and industries take root in this country, or somewhere else."
Minnesota's congressional delegation joined the bipartisan atmosphere Tuesday morning by eating breakfast together.
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Academic research has produced conflicting reports on whether heart transplant patients have better survival and less frequent organ rejection if the transplanted heart comes from a donor of the same race.
But a new study from Johns Hopkins Medicine puts the issue to rest. In a review of 20,185 heart transplant patients who had surgery at 140 hospitals, researchers found that recipients of organs from donors with the same racial background did no better or worse than those who received organs from donors of different races.
"It does not matter whether a white, black, Hispanic, or Asian donor heart is transplanted into a patient of any particular race," says senior investigator and Johns Hopkins transplant surgeon, Ashish Shah, MD. "Other factors must be the reason for any differences in how well people do after transplantation, in particular, why blacks have poorer outcomes."
The report is published today in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
The researchers say their report is the largest and most detailed review of medical records ever conducted on the subject. All transplant recipients received a donor heart between 1997 and 2007.
Shah said flaws in the healthcare system, the type of insurance and education levels as well as biological factors likely have more to do with why blacks have disproportionately worse outcomes after heart transplants than whites.
According to their study, blacks had the same death rate, 35%, within five years regardless of whether recipients were race-matched with their donors or not. Likewise, the death rate for whites was the same at 26%, and Hispanics, 28%.
For Asians, there was a difference but researchers said that the number of heart transplants in this racial group was not statistically large enough for validity.
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Lineker joins Chelsea defender and Brazil's vice captain David Luiz and others in supporting 'It's a Penalty', designed to raise awareness of sex trafficking in Brazil this summer.
Large sporting events attract an increase in pimps operating trafficking rings - last year the National Crime Agency's Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Command warned that the influx of visitors to Brazil for the World Cup was likely to result in an expanded child sex market. An estimated 600,000 foreigners are set to travel to Brazil this summer.
"The majority of fans travelling to Brazil for the World Cup finals would be horrified at the thought of causing harm to the nation's children," said Johnny Gwynne, director of the CEOP Command. "However, we know there are significant risks to children before, during and after major sporting events and some people will sexually exploit children for profit."
'It's a penalty' was launched in February in order to raise awareness among fans and tourists who will be travelling to Brazil. The campaign is made up of both secular and Christian organisations including Happy Child International, the A21 Campaign, Europol and the Jubilee Campaign, working in conjunction with the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA).
CEO of Happy Child International, Sarah de Carvalho, told Christian Today how it was borne out of her ongoing desire to protect the children of Brazil:
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"In 2009 I met Rose. Rose was forced to sell herself for sex on the main street of Recife, a city in poorer north east Brazil, late at night outside a motel with a group of other very young girls dressed up to look older than they were.
"Rose told me that she was 11 years old when her mother sent her to the streets to beg for money because there was no food at home in the favela where they lived. On the streets Rose, like other street children, was vulnerable to the pimps and soon became a victim of the child sex trade.
"She told me that her clients came from Europe, America and Africa as well as from Brazil. By the age of 16 she had given birth to two babies who she had given to her mother to look after in the favela.
"Rose had to keep on 'working' to provide money for her family. She had lost all sense of self-worth. As night fell her pimp expected her to sleep with as many clients as possible to make as much money for him as possible.
"She was a silent voice in a world that couldn't hear her cry for help. She had no hope, no future and knew no other way of earning a living. I remember to this day vividly when she looked me in the eye and said, 'PLEASE HELP US!'
"It was because of Rose that I felt compelled to start the campaign as she represents to me the hundreds of other children in the same predicament."
The Football Association is supporting the campaign and will be sending 5,000 'It's a Penalty' wristbands and leaflets to the UK football fans travelling to Brazil asking them to "say something if they see something".
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The campaign's message is clear: compensated sex with a minor (17 and under) is a crime, and will result in prosecution in either Brazil and/or your home country.
"Brazilian children suffer abuse in the commercial sex trade and may have their appearance manipulated to look older," said Johnny Gwynne. "Do not make the mistake of thinking that because they approach you this must mean they are consenting and that you are not responsible. They are children, and they are being threatened and intimidated by unscrupulous people to make money.
"The law will not care whether you knew the person you had sex with was underage. You risk arrest and imprisonment in Brazil or on your return to the UK. If you are in any doubt – don't do it."
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Q: Just replaced my clutch, now when I shift into reverse, it moves forward. on 2001 Hyundai Tiburon
A friend of mine who is a mechanic-in-training replaced my clutch. I have no idea what happened, but after he installed my $450 clutch, it was having engagment issues from the get go (I chalked it up to me getting used to a new racing clutch) and it started slipping less than two months later . So I talked to my dad's friend who is a real mechanic, and long story short had him put in a new clutch from O'Reilly's. He said he could not find anything physically wrong with the first clutch, so I don't know why it was slipping in the first place. After he got everything back together, at first it would not shift into reverse, but now when the shifter does get into the reverse position, the wheels move forward, and it feels like the transmission is actually in 4th or 5th. He has checked and double checked the linkage and he says he is sure everything is hooked up properly. I've got a line on a couple used transmissions to replace this one, but I want to know it's not just going to be screwed up again when I put a different trannie in. The transmission has had problems before now, but nothing like this. It has 165-170K miles on it. Some of the gears were grinding and it could be very difficult to get into 1st and reverse before.
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I have just bought an oly XZ-2. I currently use a fairly old 16 Gb class 6 SD card.
I shoot raw and I have noticed that the buffer takes several seconds to empty.
What card do I need to buy ? Will any class 10 card enough ? I know the throughput can be very different (even for class 10) but I'm not sure it will make any different with this camera.
This question applies to all recent cameras with BSI CMOS sensors and fast processors to match, particularly if you also do video.
Generally, the write speed is determined by BOTH the camera and the card.
I have two Sandisk Extreme SDHC cards. One claims 20 MB/s, the other claims 45 MB/s Class 10. I also have a Lexar PLATINUM II SDHC Class 10 card.
My SZ-30MR does not have RAW, but I do a lot of HD720p video, so both write speed and download times do matter to me.
With prices on SDHC cards having halved between 2011 and 2013, I am going invariably for the fastest I can get, precisely because the card is still a substantial proportion of the cost of the camera ownership. None of my SD type cards have died on me, so they are a one-time purchase.
As to reliably, my Lexar card seemed to hiccup when first put to use. I did a long format in the laptop, after which the camera was happy with it. The Sandisk cards never give me any trouble.
All my three cards are 16 Mega Bytes. Normally I need just one for any occasion, but every year I take part in a week of (Morris) dancing, where I typically fill two cards and a half.
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Slackware 13.0 X86_64 FireFox 3.5.2 problems within KDE 4.2
I'm using KDE 4.2 and don't profess to know much about the environment.
Another issue seems to be the key presses timing. I've set the delay rather high to rid myself of a sticky key pressed. I've got large mits and tend to press lightly at times thus a key bounce.
KWORD presents other issues within KDE. The mouse sensitivity both H & V is tight. If you high light or attempt to select certain pieces of a doc the mouse will move rather quickly in the vertical move. Irritating! I have set the settings but it seems they are not uniform.
Any input? Pun intended!
I have always just highlighted the link in the address bar, then used Ctrl+c. I did notice that right clicking after highlighting that the edit menu shows up.
I have never tried adjusting the key presses timings either.
I opened a .doc file in KWord and did not notice what you experienced. That has to be the first time I have ever opened KWord. I didn't recognize a thing about the program. :)
I ain't much help.
Yes, selecting the address via high lighting works. But my concern is as to why the right click requires that many picks. First right click does high light but I must pick the body then Right click again to be able to copy/cut/paste.
KWORD is fine, I think it's the way the mouse controls are handled.
I haven't paid it enough mind to have determined what applications it affects, and when, but definitely within Firefox, the copy&paste mouse functionality is "different" than I am accustomed to, not in a good way.
(Maybe I ain't no help here either ;) )
if you LEFT-click the address in the bar, it will highlight. Now, you can middle-click to another area or app, and the address will paste with middle-click. Maybe this addresses the exact issue?
The middle button works with no problem at any time. I want my address bar edit window function without that extra pick. I had it before as I do a lot of bar work when getting links. I don't remember anything wrong with previous version of FF for GNU/Linux or even M$.
I may just roll back my FF an see if that's the culprit.
Your test is the norm for me now. Not that way before. I've always, Right Click the address bar and it would high light along with presenting a edit window with copy/cut/paste enabled for selection. Now I must Right Click (which high lights the bar & edit window options are grayed) then pick a place in the body then Right Click & the address bar is high light again along with edit window copy/cut/paste enabled.
Interesting, that I NEVER had that exact underlined behavior ^^^ before -- I've always had to triple-left-click to highlight the full addressbar. And right now, I see what you mean about the right-click edit menu being greyed out.
I am thinking that we should be looking into about:config for settings pertaining to this behavior -- either for existing options, or for options that are not in there yet, which define the mouse actions under certain conditions.
Matter of fact, Imma have a look at my about:config mouse/buttons area, and see if I can't somehow copy that (or the corresponding section of my prefs.js file) to a text file and maybe post it here for comparison with yours?
Will check back later.
I've noticed a difference in the 32 bit Firefox Navigation Toolbar as well.
With Firefox 3.0.14 (KDE 3.5.10) I used to be able to left-click (maybe twice?) on the favicon in the Navigation Toolbar and it highlighted the entire URL. That doesn't work with the new Firefox in Slack 13.0.
Now with Firefox 3.5.2 (KDE4.2.4) I noticed when I right-click in the Navigation Toolbar there is a Select All which highlights the entire URL.
Too much clicking going on but it works for me!
Sasha, I think that I found part of the problem. I chose to use the aero theme instead of default. I'll have to see if the theme can be modified via about:config. Your mouse thought got me to look at the about:config and pop out local_install theme lines reminded me I had modified this version. I've done this in the past with no apparent problems until now. This mouse action has been bugging me for days. I finally started to investigate but in the wrong direction. I really want my mouse actions back the way it was before. Habit!
I know the double click and the middle but the Right Click was nice, one click then cut/copy/paste select. One less action.
I vaguely remember some notation about minor changes to the aero theme so I'll see if things can be modified or in stone.
I'm going to leave the thread open as others may have some addition or solutions.
Hi Onebuck,
I just went through a whack of KB articles on mozilla.org, as well as reviewed the list of (known) about:config entries we can possibly use. I found nothing at all relating to right-click, as far as the url bar is concerned.
I did find a few mouse-related ones, but nothing directly impacting the urlbar highlighting.
@ Onebuck + Chuck -- I am also using a non-default theme (it's called PitchDark) and ALSO, I have my urlbar on the very top of the browser, on the menu-toolbar, and my "navigation bar" un-checked. Not sure if the theme variances would affect how our clicking + urlbars work :p OR for that matter, which toolbar the urlbar is located on..
EDIT - PS - I tried to invent my own option: browser.urlbar.rightClickSelectsAll but to no avail ;)
I thought I tried this earlier but maybe I'm mistaken. When I double-click on the URL in the Navigation Toolbar the URL is fully highlighted and ready for either keyboard or mouse copying. I'm using the Oxygen theme and don't remember changing anything beyond the desktop effects which I've played with a lot. Go figure?
As I stated earlier the double click works but the action I would like to recover the right click combination. I switched to the default theme and the actions are totally different.
I think possibly the authors of the aero theme may hold the answer fro action within the theme.
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By HOWARD W. FRENCH
Published: April 21, 2005 – Copyright The New York Times
SHANGHAI, April 19 – The banners had been carefully printed, the slogans memorized, and the students and young unleashed onto the streets of China's largest, most sophisticated city, where they were to speak sacred truths and make the enemies of the people tremble.
Chinese today have little experience of mass organized protests, so when the Government tolerated – some would say encouraged – a huge anti-Japanese demonstration here that flirted with turning into a riot over the weekend, for many it bore echoes of the mass manipulation of students of another era, the Cultural Revolution.
For hours on Saturday, thousands of Chinese, from teenagers to people in their 30's, lay siege to the Japanese consulate in this city, smashing its windows and defacing its walls with a copious rain of rocks and bottles. But for all the expressions of anger against Japan by people far too young to have memories of China's brutal subjugation by its neighbor, at its most basic level this was a festival of runaway nationalism, of a government-nurtured Chinese-ness.
Declaring themselves to be all one people, the demonstrators proclaimed their love of the police who escorted them as they marched to the consulate, smashing Japanese shops along the way. Banners extolled Chinese greatness, in contrast to little Japan, chanters called for their homeland to stand tall, and talk was dominated by Chinese "feelings," a word repeated over and over, as if no other feelings counted.
Revealingly, people who had lived through the real Cultural Revolution, not the sanitized one taught in China's history books, watched from the sidelines with looks of amazement and worry. They were old enough to remember just how badly things can go when intoxication is the order of the day, and laws are swept aside by feelings.
"I watched the police cars escorting the demonstrators and felt this all looked familiar, like an official event in the Cultural Revolution, but those drew bigger crowds and were more emotional," said Zhu Xueqin, a historian at Shanghai University who emerged from a public library to watch the march go by. "I observed it as a bystander, and the people observing around me looked indifferent, seemingly full of reservations."
Shanghai is the most dazzling symbol of a China that has changed so much since the Cultural Revolution as to be almost unrecognizable. But in some important ways, most notably the government's will to control information and through it people's minds, the events of the weekend here and their aftermath show that this country has barely changed at all.
The Maoist slogans of 40 years ago have been replaced by anti-Japanese watchwords, and then as now, few of those caught up in the excitement paused to examine the relationship of today's slogans to the truth. Here were students mouthing such claims as "Japan has never apologized to China," or "Japanese textbooks whitewash history." Many Japanese textbooks have recently de-emphasized atrocities committed in China, and some have been widely distributed. But in China, the most tendentious of them is the one cited as a representative sample, although it is used by less than 1 percent of Japanese schools.
Others said, trembling with conviction, that Japan wants to keep China down, or even instigate the country's breakup. Never mind that for over two decades, Japan has been a leading source of development assistance for China – to the tune of $30 billion in low interest loans – helping build everything from Shanghai's futuristic airport to expensive highway and water systems in the country's vast, impoverished west.
Few in the Chinese crowds, including many educated in the country's best schools, seemed aware of facts like those, or of any other side to the story save what could be fit into the dichotomy of a China that is essentially good and a Japan that is predatory, evil, conniving or, in a word heard over and over, "disgusting."
Like anything that involves information in China, this ignorance seems the result of careful planning. Since diplomatic relations between the two countries were normalized in 1972, for example, Japanese officials have apologized numerous times to China for the suffering their country inflicted in the 20th century. In 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the war's end, for example, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama spoke of the " tremendous damage and suffering" his country had caused, adding, "I regard, in a spirit of humanity, these irrefutable facts of history, and express here once again my feelings of deep remorse and state my heartfelt apology."
But China's state-controlled media have usually focused on finding fault with each Japanese pronouncement, sustaining the belief that Japan has indeed never apologized.
The largest question, perhaps, is why China would so carefully sustain anger at Japan.
One possibility is that in recent years, the legitimacy of China's leadership has rested on few things so much as the idea of inevitability – a destined ascension of the country to prosperous world-power status and a return to the unquestioned pre-eminence in the East that it enjoyed before the 20th century. In this picture there is little room for Japan, a country that has derailed China's ambitions before, and suddenly seems unwilling to fade.
This could help explain China's reactions to Tokyo's bid for a United Nations Security Council seat and discussions under way in Japan about revising the country's so-called peace constitution, as well as Chinese nervousness about Taiwan, which Japan, together with the United States, recently called a joint security concern.
By midweek, signs were multiplying that China's leaders were rethinking their confrontation with Japan, at least at the level of public relations. With the ugliness toward their neighbor threatening a loss of international sympathy on other issues, China first reportedly made a quiet offer to repair Japan's damaged consulate, and on Tuesday urged an end to demonstrations.
Left aside in the weekend's atmospherics in the effort to dispel them was the question of whether China has done a better job teaching history than its neighbor. In the West, it is accepted as fact that more Chinese were killed by the policies of Mao Zedong than by the Japanese, including many by summary execution and other atrocities that are glossed over in Chinese textbooks. In those books, Mao is still treated with reverence.
China also claims never to have seized territory from a neighbor, but China attacked India by surprise in 1962 and the details of other campaigns, from Korea and Xinjiang in the north to Vietnam and Tibet in the country's south and west, are also absent from textbooks.
More remarkable than any glance at the receding past, however, was the way news of the anti-Japanese demonstrations has been treated in China in the here and now. Chinese authorities televised notices that the protests had not been approved on the eve of Saturday's anti-Japanese demonstration, which served as much as anything else as an announcement of the event. The news the next day avoided all mention of disorder. Similarly there were no images of young people pelting the Japanese consulate at their leisure, within arm's reach of paramilitary police.
The seeming contradictions in all of this were not lost on all Chinese, however. Discussions have raged all week on the Internet, with many questioning their countrymen's behavior and the government's permissiveness toward anti-Japanese violence. "How shameful is it that to release our emotions we damaged the property of our countrymen and bullied the weak," wrote one forum participant? "You call yourselves patriotic? Patriotic what?"
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On Thursday, after weeks of speculation, the Chicago Blackhawks finalized their new deals with young stars Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane and Duncan Keith. In a previous era of Hawks hockey, these three guys likely would have been headed out of town a la Jeremy Roenick and Ed Belfour. Chicago puck fans should be thrilled that Rocky Wirtz is running things a little differently than his dad, the late Bill Wirtz.
Now, the Hawks need to win the franchise's first Stanley Cup since 1961 in a hurry. With approximately $60 million committed to just 15 players for next season (the salary cap upper limit is not expected to rise much -- if at all -- past its current level), the 2010-11 Blackhawks will have a much different cast of supporting characters. In other words, in Chicago, the future is now ... right now.
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On Wednesday, the Census Bureau said that sales of new single family homes[1] dropped sharply last month.
[2]New home sales in March fell to a seasonally-adjusted annual pace of 384,000 units. That was far below the annual rate of 450,000 units forecast by economists and a 14.5% drop from the revised annual rate of 449,000 units seen in February, USA TODAY notes.
The government also said that the median price of a new home rose to $290,000, up 13% over the same time last year.
During March, new home sales sank 21.5% in the Midwest, compared to February. New home sales fell 16.7% in the West and 14.4% in southern states.
However, despite harsh winter weather, new home sales climbed 12.5% in Northeastern states.
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From the back, and a distance, Sarah, a tawny-skinned 25-year-old with green eyes and long, straight brown hair, looks like she's wearing a light-beige thong bikini. Get a little closer and you notice her tattoo of a small purple octopus inked to the left side of her rib cage; budding love handles; and chipped black toenail polish — and that her flesh-toned bikini is actually tan lines.
"This is my first time coming to a nude beach," she says, sprawled out on a Dora the Explorer beach towel, her silver nipple ring sparkling in the sun. "But it's not the first time I've been completely butt-ass-naked in front of a group of strangers."
She lights up a Camel Blue, takes a long pull, ashes on Boots the Monkey's smiling pink face, and continues:
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"An ex of mine used to teach figure-drawing, and one day a model called in sick, like, ten minutes before class started. I just happened to tag along with him that day, and out of desperation, he asked me if I minded posing nude for his students. I didn't mind, so I just did it, and kind of loved it. So, ever since, I'll find any excuse to get naked."
Which is precisely why Sarah and roughly 725 other birthday suit enthusiasts have frolicked to the northern stretch of Haulover Beach Park (10800 Collins Ave., Bal Harbour; 305-940-6719) to partake in the World Record Skinny-Dip Challenge. Sponsored by the American Association for Nude Recreation, this national event — which also simultaneously took place at 3 p.m. Eastern Nudist Time in cities such as Albuquerque, Chicago, and Palm Springs — was set forth by Guinness World Records in order to break the AANR's record of having 13,648 bearers of bronzed nipples and naturally highlighted pubic hairs jump into a body of water at the same time.
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"Personally, I'm really enjoying all the bouncing balls... and I'm not talking about soccer," he says with a sly smile. "But there's also a whole lot of ugly going on around here."
He nudges his chin toward a woman in her 60s. Her stomach is paunchy, and her breasts are beginning to succumb to gravity's cruel will. But she holds her head high, and her entire vibe radiates comfort.
"Hey, Firecrotch," Sarah says to Chad as she gets up for a quick swim in the Atlantic. "Speaking of ugly, I had no idea until today that you weren't circumcised." She walks off toward the aqua water.
And at that, Chad softens, literally and figuratively.
I go talk to the unknowing subject of Chad's scorn.
Norma, it turns out, is vice president of South Florida Free Beaches, a political action committee devoted to education and legislative action on the behalf of nudies all over the southernmost tip of our region's geographic wang. She's also been indulging in the naturist lifestyle since 1986, shortly after her husband read an article in Playboy about a nudist colony in southern Wisconsin.
"Actually, it's a nudist club, not a colony," she explains. "Colony is an antiquated term."
Norma, or better yet, Nietzsche continues:
"For a woman to be nude with someone besides her husband was a concept I couldn't wrap my head around. So I was very curious." She took her husband and her 8- and 9-year-old daughters to the nudist club and instantly dug it.
"I loved that I was standing naked with a complete stranger, who wasn't my husband, just talking."
Norma also notes the need to have to stare into someone's eyes in order to not appear like you're gawking at their no-no areas.
"It makes conversations so much more intimate. I mean, the whole experience for me was pure freedom — freedom from fear, freedom from judgment. You know, as a woman, you feel like your worth is based on your body. Girls grow up thinking that unless their body looks like the ones that the media convinces us are beautiful, that you're not worthy, that you're not attractive. And being able to see all these naked women, with all kinds of different body types, was a really liberating experience for me."
I notice a tattoo of the sun on the outside of her right thigh. I ask her if it's recent.
"Yes, I got it a year ago. To me, it represents the sensual side of nudity — the feeling of having the sun on your body. You know, you should really experience it for yourself."
As a buck-naked Chewbacca waltzes by, I politely refuse.
"That's OK, dear," she says kindly. "You do it whenever you're ready."
Moving on, and trying incredibly hard to make eye contact with people, I slip when running into Harold, a gregarious, potbellied man in his early 50s.
Thankfully, he's wearing tropical swimming trunks, a rarity for Harold, who pulled them on only because he was getting ready to leave. And although he can't give me the exact amount of time he's been copper-toning his nether region ("a couple of years now"), he vividly remembers the first time he bared all.
"I was once walking down this very beach with my son when he brought to my attention that it's clothing-optional. The next day, I came back by myself, walked onto the sand, and just thought, Hey, why not? and took off my pants."
Ever since, Harold has been a big fan of naturism. "There's going to be a potluck here tomorrow," he says eagerly as he tries to get an early RSVP out of me for New Year's Eve, when the nudists supposedly sleep in tents, eat catered food, and roast s'mores. He then leads me to a group of Haulover Beach regulars. They appear to be in their 50s and are actively involved in the South Florida Free Beaches/Florida Naturist Association.
Paul — a lanky, outgoing fellow whose sole article of clothing is a green mesh sun hat adorned with pins and printed with the word "Ambassador" in bright orange above the brim — quickly sums up losing his au naturel cherry.
"Well, I was born nude," he says with a wide grin.
But his girlfriend, Ruth, a recently widowed blonde with ample breasts and the sweet face of a kindergarten teacher, has felt the wind against her bare ass for only the past six months.
Says Paul: "Our first date was at Sun Sports Gardens [a family naturist resort in Loxahatchee], and I told her that if she was coming with me, she couldn't wear clothes."
"At first, you feel weird," Ruth explains in a voice that sounds like she's offering fresh-baked cookies. "I felt especially insecure because I'm older and have scars. But after a while, you get used to it." She chuckles. "Sometimes when I leave, I forget to put my clothes back on."
"You should try it," Paul tells me, "you know, to get the full grasp of your story."
Uh, no thanks.
"You'd really like it," Harold adds.
"A reporter once came down here from the New York Times to do a story about Haulover Beach," Paul says. "And she took off her clothes."
"It's a really liberating experience," Harold presses. "Come on, just do it!"
I turn my attention to Tim, a slender man with intense eyes and white, Steve Martin-esque hair. He's wearing swimming trunks, a baseball cap, and a thin purple rope around his neck.
"What was your first naturist experience?" I ask. He avoids the question with lots of "uh"s and head-scratching. Then, when Shirley, a curvy, mocha-skinned lady in her mid-50s begins to describe her first experience, he quickly leaves.
"I grew up thinking nudity was totally normal," Shirley says. "I mean, when I was 9 or 10 and going to the YWCA for camp, they actually organized a skinny-dip. Back then, we all used to wear wool bathing suits that clogged up the drains in the pool, so I guess they felt swimming naked was more sanitary. We were all the same gender, so I don't think the organization thought of it as that big of a deal."
Tim returns, this time without swimming trunks.
"So, if nudity doesn't make any of you feel awkward, what does?" I ask.
"What makes me feel awkward," Tim says with a snarl, "is someone who comes to a nude beach and refuses to take off their clothes. It's kind of rude."
"I thought it was clothing-optional," I say as Paul, being an ambassador and all, releases his inner spin doctor.
"See, the thing is, when you're nude, you're revealing your energy," he explains. "You can look beyond someone's face when they're naked."
Uh, isn't that kind of rude?
"No, because you're not looking at them in a vulgar way; you're just seeing all of their energy... and with you refusing to take off your clothes, you're hiding your energy."
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I turn to take my energy elsewhere.
Ruth catches up to me and whispers a confession in my ear: "You know, sometimes I still feel uncomfortable taking off my clothes."
I then notice that, like Tim, Ruth has changed. Except instead of taking clothes off, she's now almost completely covered.
And we're only a few feet from the exit.


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EDINBURGH, Scotland, March 12 (UPI) -- Discovery of a previously unseen form of uranium molecule could help improve cleanup processes for nuclear waste, researchers in Scotland say.
The distinctive butterfly-shaped compound is similar to radioactive molecules scientists had said they believed to be key components of nuclear waste but were thought too unstable to exist for long.
However, scientists at the University of Edinburgh have shown the compound to be robust and long-lasting, suggesting molecules with a similar structure may be present in radioactive waste.
Such molecules may have a part in forming clusters of radioactive material in waste that are difficult to separate during cleanup, they said.
Targeting this type of molecule could help the nuclear industry move toward cleaner power generation, in which all the radioactive material from spent fuel could be recovered and made safe or used again, a university release said Monday.
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Well the trigger on my L1A1 is now much more acceptable. Thanks to all who responded. After testing at the range yesterday and adjusting the gas port to handle a variety of ammo I noticed that with some ammo that seemed to have better velocity; I left the chronograph at home; and with the gas port on a lower number, hence a heftier ejection that some brass was being dinged rather good on the neck. I traced the ding to the formost part of the ejection port that is not champhered like the rest. About 1/4 inch or so. The question is; can I champher this like I have done other rifles to give the brass better clearence for ejection or is there something inhearant in the design that would keep the bolt from functioning properly.How about it George or Mad Dog, any experience along these lines. Thanks much, Bob


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This chapter finds a virus loosed on the public that turns them into vampires and lycans upon infection. With no cure in sight, martial law has been declared, with a "mass cleansing" immediately following.
Amid this chaos, vampire super heroine Selene (Beckinsale, Contraband, Whiteout) is captured, only to awaken in and escape from a high-security research compound 12 years later. Overseen by Dr. Lane (Stephen Rea, Blackthorn), its project is creating vampire/lycan hybrids, such as Eve (India Eisley, TV's The Secret Life of the American Teenager), the young girl who frees Selene from Lane's cryogenic tube.
Good thing she does, because Selene is in high demand:
• Eve wants her mommy — yes, it's Selene.
• Fellow vamp David (Theo James, TV's Bedlam) would like her to protect his underground-dwelling coven.
• A police detective (Michael Ealy, Think Like a Man) sure could use her help infiltrating Lane's lab.
• Most pressingly, new-to-Underworld's-world Swedish directorial team of Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein needs to fulfill studio-dictated obligations to showcase Beckinsale's beckoning, beyond-compare bottom as much as possible.
In the department of action, there's certainly no shortage. (And I don't mean of the lycan-on-lycan kind; consult the Blu-ray's three-minute blooper reel for an accidental bit of that.) So swiftly paced is this adventure that it lacks the exposition drag of its big brothers. The best set piece arrives early, in which Selene and company flee in a purloined van pursued down busy city streets by a pack of lycans galloping on all fours; it's a fun take on a tired scene.
Second best is the final showdown — usually the Achilles' heel of such genre exercises — set in a parking garage, with a shout-out to another scenario that should not work in this day and age: the ol' Alien trick of shuffling through the air ducts.
By this round, the special effects are not nearly as smooth, with the
lycans occasionally resembling cartoon cutouts. Even Selene, running in
the background in one early shot, looks lifted from a video game. That's
to be expected when a film shot in 3-D is flattened for home
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stage, such as 1948's classic Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man.
Even franchise newbies can dive right in with Awakening; a prologue serving as a greatest-hits reel fills viewers in on all they need to know. For more, click to the special features menu for "Cracking the Underworld." It's a fine inclusion in theory: a movie-length, multimedia trivia track that incorporates picture-in-picture clips of the preceding trilogy, but is more obtuse and intrusive than it's worth.
I've mildly enjoyed all the Underworld films, even if I almost instantly forget them. I don't anticipate having the same problem with Awakening, as Red Bull-infused it is by comparison. I'd call it the most enjoyable of the series since the beginning, but I barely recall any of that 2003 start. So I'll have to call it the most enjoyable of the series, period. —Rod Lott
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The former teen whom Roman Polanski was convicted of having sex with -- leading to one of Hollywood's most notorious scandals and the director's flight from the United States -- is writing a memoir, The Associated Press reports.
Samantha Geimer, now 47, has a deal with Atria Books for "The Girl: Emerging from the Shadow of Roman Polanski." Atria, a Simon & Schuster imprint, announced Tuesday that the book will come out next fall. According to Atria, Geimer will provide "insight into many dimensions of the story that have never previously been revealed."
"I am more than 'Sex Victim Girl,' a tag the media pinned on me," Geimer, who long ago identified herself as Polanski's victim, said in a statement released through Atria.
Financial terms were not disclosed. Geimer's attorney, Lawrence Silver, will contribute to the book, adding "his insights on the many fascinating and even shocking legal aspects of the story."