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Disc Golf, Volleyball, Big Screen TVs are available on Thursday nights 7pm - 11pm, Friday nights 7pm - 12am, Saturdays from 1pm - 12am & Sundays 1pm - 5pm. Disc Golf is $5/person per 18 hole course. 2-18 hole courses are now open and ready for play.
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In Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts , acclaimed journalist Robert D. Kaplan continues his exploration of the American military's challenging and varied commitments around the world. From protecting sea lanes, to providing disaster relief, to preparing for potential military confrontation with North Korea and Iran, Kaplan describes the astonishing, vital, and often unacknowledged operations regularly performed by American military personnel in the air, at sea, and on the ground. Vivid and illuminating, this book takes us deep into the highly technical and exotic cultures of the armed forces, telling soldiers' stories from the perspective of the troops on the ground.
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Chapter One
America's African Rifles
With a Marine Platoon
African Sahel, Summer 2004
In the early summer of 2004, just as the United States was dismantling the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, sending home its effective proconsul, L. Paul Bremer III, U.S. Marines and Army Special Forces were in various stages of deploying to the southern fringe of the Sahara Desert, the Sahel, one of the few battlegrounds left in the Global War on Terror for the U.S. military to enter, as it was already deployed in so many other parts of the world.
Local alliances and the training of indigenous troops have been a traditional means of projecting power at minimum risk and fanfare. This was true of Rome even in regard to adjacent North Africa, to say nothing of its Near Eastern borderlands; and it was particularly true of France and Britain, two-thirds of whose expeditions were composed of troops recruited in the colonies.* As Tacitus writes, "We Romans value real power but disdain its vanities."1 Taking Tacitus to heart, I went to
* See Sallust's The Jugurthine War, composed between 44 and 40 b.c., and Douglas Porch's introduction to the Bison edition of Col. C. E. Callwell's Small Wars: Their Principles & Practice (1896; Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1996). These are but two examples of a vast military literature about how imperial powers used their influence.
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NACHC Joins NHeLP Amicus Brief to the Supreme Court Supporting the Affordable Care Act
WASHINGTON -- Today the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) joined the National Health Law Program (NHeLP) and thirty-eight organizations of health care providers, consumers, and local health officials from around the country in an amicus brief before the United States Supreme Court supporting the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion.
"Community Health Centers and Medicaid share a unique partnership that has fought disease and chronic illness in medically underserved communities for over 45 years," said Roger Schwartz, Associate Vice President and Legal Counsel at the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC). "Health centers provide care to 14 percent of Medicaid beneficiaries for one percent of the cost – and that record of cost-savings and achievement must continue as envisioned under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). To do otherwise means we as a nation will not only unravel the progress made in keeping communities healthy and disease free, but also undermine the future of health care delivery. We are also particularly concerned that a negative decision by the Court on Medicaid expansion could establish a very harmful precedent that limits federal operation of the Medicaid program in the years to come. It is both the threat to the ACA's expansion of Medicaid coverage and the potential of a very harmful court precedent that prompted NACHC to join in this amicus brief."
The NHeLP brief examines the nature and history of the Medicaid program from its enactment. The brief places the ACA's expansion – which extends coverage to eligible persons up to 133% of the Federal poverty level – in this historical and legal context. Since 1965, Medicaid has operated as a voluntary joint partnership between states and the federal government. While Congress has made a number of changes to the program over time, Medicaid's core framework has not changed and is not altered by the ACA.
"Our brief brings together decades of experience and expertise from public health advocates, providers, and health officials from around the nation, working on behalf of and serving vulnerable communities that rely on Medicaid," said Jane Perkins, NHeLP legal director. "For over 45 years, Medicaid has played a critical role in expanding access to health care for millions of low-income individuals. The ACA's Medicaid expansion is consistent with the history and purpose of the Medicaid program and will provide an additional 16 million individuals with health coverage they otherwise would not be able to afford."
Community Health Centers serve over 20 million patients nationwide, nearly forty percent of them are uninsured, and 7 million rely on Medicaid. By the year 2015, it is projected that nearly half of health center patients will have Medicaid. Health centers generate $24 billion in annual savings to the health care system -- $6 billion of which accrues to states and the federal government through Medicaid.
A copy of the amicus brief is available on NHeLP's web site. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for and against the ACA on March 26th – 28th. The challenge to the Medicaid expansion is scheduled for March 28th.
Founded in 1971, the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance and expand access to quality, community-responsive health care for America's medically underserved and uninsured. NACHC represents the nation's network of more than 1,250 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) which serve more than 20 million people through 8,000 sites located in all of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam.
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Sandro, What are you talking about!? Maybe you have just misread my posting. I'm clarifying what I wrote earlier using BLOCK LETTERS. Please read that again because I really don't know what you are talking about! "Olá Fran
----- Now in contrast with the Portuguese language what I really love about English is that the native speakers have a very broad vocabulary but not only that, there's a word for everything IN ENGLISH (mainly I guess) but as FOR ME, AS A NON-NATIVE SPEAKER OF ENGLISH, I feel at times somewhat limited as far as my use of a broad range of words in ENGLISH... ----- The thing with us brazilians is that we use "one" word for a lot of different things even though there are more words in Portuguese TO SAY A PARTICULAR THING NOT THAT THERE MORE WORDS IN PORTUGUESE THAN ENGLISH --- I NEVER SAID THAT, and I don't know why WE BRAZILIANS DON'T LOOK FOR DIFFERENT WORDS IN OUR OWN LANGUAGE. ------ |


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THE ART WORLD about Vermeer's "The Milkmaid" at the Met. "Vermeer's Masterpiece 'The Milkmaid,'" a tiny show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sets an example for recession-era museum practice. A single guest diva, "The Milkmaid," from the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam, heads a cast of local talent: the museum's own five Vermeers and related works from the Dutch Golden Age. Writer describes how he revels in Vermeer's "Young Woman with Water Pitcher" each time he sees it. It is a Sermon on the Mount of aesthetic value, in which the meek—or at least the humdrum, involving trifles of a prosperous but ordinary household, on an ordinary day—inherit the earth. It is an illusion of reality more fulfilling than any lived reality can be. "The Milkmaid" is another of the elect, though it's a mite less absorbing. "The Milkmaid" exercises more dazzling virtuosity than the writer quite knows what to do with. Discusses the catalog essay by the Met's curator of European paintings, Walter Liedtke and considers the erotic content of the picture. Vermeer was about twenty-five when he painted "The Milkmaid." What made him so precocious? The writer argues that it was the locomotive logic of a simple stylistic idea: to recast the conventional genre painting in the terms of a perceptual realism as thoroughgoing as the medium allowed. Loyalty to his technique drew from the artist an approximation of humane wisdom that was probably far beyond his personal capacity as a young man.
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Book Review
Making Associations
- Basil H. Johnston (Author)
Crazy Dave. Key Porter Books (purchase at Amazon.ca) - Thomas King (Author)
Truth and Bright Water. HarperCollins (purchase at Amazon.ca)
Reviewed by Jennifer Andrews
In an essay titled "Godzilla vs. Post-Colonial," published in 1990, Thomas King proposed some alternative categories for discussing Native literature, ones that do not rely on the arrival of European settlers in the New World to mark the beginning of a distinctive literary tradition. Among the terms he offers to describe Native texts, King includes "associational" literature, which he uses to label the work of contemporary Native writers who depict Native communities. Rather than focusing on a non-Native society or the conflicts between Natives and non-Natives, these texts present the "daily intricacies and activities of Native life." According to King, those who write associational literature usually reject the "climaxes and resolutions" that are valued by non-Natives. Instead, they emphasize the interactions of the community without necessarily creating conventional models of the hero or villain; the plot line tends to be flat and to resist formulaic kinds of closure.
In Truth & Bright Water, King clearly reasserts himself as an author of associational literature, creating a picture of a community that is forceful in its critique of nationalist politics and, at the same time, less interested in overturning the foundations of white, Western culture. Truth & Bright Water is a quieter text. Yet King retains elements of the cross-border humour evident in his earlier works. For example, the title refers to the two towns that are at the centre of the narrative: Truth, located on the American side of the border, and Bright Water, situated in Canada. With this framework in place, King explores questions of identity, history, and memory from a distinctly Native perspective.
Truth & Bright Water is narrated by a young boy, aptly named Tecumseh, who spends his summer working for Monroe Swimmer, a locally born Native artist who comes back to the Prairies after gaining an international reputation for his ability to restore paintings. At the same time, Tecumseh is trying to solve a mystery that he and his friend Lum have witnessed at the river that divides Canada from the United States. One night, they watch a woman plunge over a cliff into the waters below, only to disappear from view and, shortly after, they discover a skull that they presume was hers. Meanwhile, Tecumseh aids Monroe in his attempts to restore a lost Native past by literally painting a Methodist church in Truth out of existence and by scattering iron buffalo sculptures across the Prairies. His efforts become part of the puzzle that the boys try to solve, a mystery that involves racial and sexual crossings as well as the symbolic return of the bones of Native children to the reserve—children whose skeletons have been relegated to obscurity in museum drawers by white anthropologists. This conflict with white cultural values is explicitly framed by the day-to-day activities of the Native community, and the narrative unfolds without the "ubiquitous climaxes and resolutions that are so valued in non-Native literature." Although the mystery that opens the story is solved, many other questions posed by Tecumseh remain unanswered. For example, the concluding scene is notably open-ended. Tecumseh finds his mother trimming a vase of flowers from a mysterious admirer, and when he asks her about the source of the flowers, she remains silent; Tecumseh never learns the admirer's identity.
Even King's intertextual references to the Hollywood icon, Marilyn Monroe, are placed within a Native context and read through Native eyes. Lucy Rabbit, a fixture in the local community, is obsessed with Monroe and dyes her dark hair blond, a gesture that leaves her with flaming orange locks. Tecumseh and Lum assume that Lucy is trying to pass as white but, as they soon find out, their presumptions are wrong. Lucy tells them that rather than bleaching her hair to look white, she thinks that Marilyn Monroe was Native and feared the discovery of this secret by the press and the public. Thus, Lucy explains, she dyes her own locks to show the dead movie star "that bleaching your hair doesn't change a thing." This performative aspect of King's text is mirrored and reconfigured through Monroe Swimmer's own use of blonde wigs and other disguises, which comically contests the presumption that Natives—on both sides of the border—really just want to be white.
Basil Johnston's Crazy Dave is an equally quiet and compelling text. It recounts the story of one of Johnston's relatives, Uncle David, an Ojibway man born with Down's Syndrome who lived his life on the Cape Croker reserve and comes—poignantly—to represent the importance of community and the struggle to cope with various kinds of marginality. Instead of simply narrating Dave's life, Johnston creates a picture of his extended family that is inclusive rather than exclusive and avoids reductive judgements or conclusions about the actions of various characters, including Johnston's own father and mother. Much of Johnston's work laments the "passing of tribal languages and cultures" and thus endeavors to record both the past and present from a distinctly Native perspective in a manner that shows tribal cultures as still alive and important today.
With Crazy Dave, Johnston strikes a careful balance between accessibility and inclusion. As he explains in the introduction to the text, "Crazy Dave is not meant to represent the complete story of Dave McLeod or the history of Cape Croker.... [I]t is but a glimpse of the community and its politics and the times that served as the little world in which Dave tried to do what others did, and tried to be what others were, but could not be." Though the book—which blurs the boundaries between history and fiction, familial lines and communal relations—may seem intimate at first, much of Johnston's narrative depends on silences and gaps that maintain a distance between those who are part of the local tribe and White readers who remain outsiders. Johnston highlights this distinction at the conclusion of his introduction when he notes that "[t]he stories and opinions I have used as sources for this book will not be found in the band council minute book, or in the diaries of the clergy ... but are stored in the memories of the older generation still living." The stories that constitute Crazy Dave become snapshots of a community that are never fully accessible or explained. Appropriately, Johnston includes Dave's own language in the text alongside English and colloquial Ojibway words and phrases, all of which remain untranslated. And even when Johnston does explore conflicts between White authorities and members of the Native reserve, he remains focused on the local tribe, without feeling compelled to explain or justify the Native perspectives being put forth.
David's death marks the official end of the text. This abrupt halt to a voluminous life story—the last ten years of David's life and his sudden death are summarized in less than a page—becomes a way for Johnston to subvert formulaic conclusions and ensure that the stereotypical image of the Native as a "dying breed" is not rein-scribed through Crazy Dave. The text's epilogue offers a memorial to Dave. It also becomes an urgent reminder that Dave is a model of stubbornness that the Ojibway need to heed, if they are to retain their unique culture and language in an era of white pressure to assimilate.
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MLA: Andrews, Jennifer. Making Associations. canlit.ca. Canadian Literature, 8 Dec. 2011. Web. 7 Dec. 2013.
This review originally appeared in Canadian Literature #168 (Spring 2001), Mostly Drama. (pg. 151 - 152)
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The Tax Man Cometh and Sooner or Later, He Cometh for Us
(and our entitlements)I know I know, I said I'd let it go until next year, but gimme a break, I am 'on topic' for a change.
Depending on which source you use, between 350,000 and 500,000 more people have stopped looking for jobs. (Inexplicably, that number was not factored into the 7.7% employment statistic released a few days ago)
It actually saddens me to see how many of the unemployed, underemployed, 'non rich' and those who have stopped looking for jobs have bought (with their votes) into the notion that simply taxing the rich at X % would cure their financial problems. They won't see a penny of OPM the government takes from the rich.
"Forget the fiscal cliff. That's child's play compared to what's coming at you next. 'Some politicians' have effectively made the case that it's all about the "rich," "millionaires and billionaires," "private jet owners," the evil "1%". And enough people bought into that dishonest and destructive class warfare argument. But guess what? There isn't enough money in the 1% to pay for everything. Frankly, there isn't enough money in the 1% to pay for much of anything. If you confiscated all of the wealth of everyone in the top 1% of income, it would fund the government for a handful of days. That's it."
Want to know where the money will eventually have to come from? Here's a hint found in:
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/7/government-borrows-46-cents-every-dollar-it-spends/(a fairly non-partisan editorial from a relatively pro Obama newspaper)
"Higher spending on mandatory items such as Social Security, Medicare and interest on the debt led the way in boosting spending compared with the previous year, which also highlights the trouble spots Congress and President Obama are struggling to grapple with.
All sides agreed to discretionary spending cuts and automatic spending cuts last year, but have been unable to agree on ways to control entitlement costs, which are the long-term drivers of deficits and debt."So, what do we do? Tax the rich if it makes people feel better, but it will do nothing for you and almost nothing for the government. Flat tax, fair tax…I don't know, but I do know we can't go on spending this way forever.
If my memory serves me correctly, President Clinton left this country in good shape and with a big surplus.
Some totally unsatisfactory individuals were put in power in 2000.
Clinton used that old tried and true method....ARITHMETIC!
We wouldn't even be talking about all this "stuff" if the proper people had been in the White House. Too Bad.
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In the early 1980s, books packager Richard Gallen published an short-lived imprint of modern, sensual romances with Pocket Books called Gallen Books. These novels, while ostensibly competing with offerings from Pocket Books's own Silhouette imprint and those of Harlequin, not to mention imprints such as Candlelight and Second Chance At Love, were longer and more immediately sexual. They were also distinguished by their artful covers. Jude Deveraux wrote her first novels for the imprint.
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text: August 26 TEXAS: Deal ends man's death row stay in Houston killing Martin Allen Draughon beat the odds Friday when he walked out of jail after nearly 20 years on Texas' death row. "I beat the executioner," he said later by telephone from the home in Livingston where he will live with his fiancee, Joy Weathers. "It's the biggest miracle in my life." Draughon - who will turn 43 on Thursday - was freed on mandatory supervision because of a plea agreement he reached with prosecutors after a federal judge overturned his 1987 capital murder conviction. "Could you ask for a better birthday present?" said Weathers, who met Draughon through her prison ministry about a year ago. But while he is no longer behind bars, Draughon must live under tight restrictions for the next 20 years and could go back to prison if he violates them. He was convicted for the 1986 killing of Armando Guerrero after a botched robbery at a Long John Silver's restaurant in Houston. He maintained that he didn't mean to kill anyone, but had fired several shots to scare people who were chasing him. In overturning the conviction in September 2004, U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal said a ballistics expert had presented evidence in a federal appeals hearing, showing that Guerrero was killed by a bullet that had ricocheted. Rosenthal said that Draughon's attorney had failed to hire a ballistics expert who could have presented that evidence in his trial, noting that it could have persuaded jurors to sentence Draughon to life in prison. The judge also cited "serious questions" about the accuracy of analysis by the Houston Police Department's crime lab, which is still the focus of an independent investigation because of problems in several of its divisions. The 5th U.S. Circuit of Appeals upheld Rosenthal's order in September 2005. Instead of retrying Draughon, Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal said he opted for the plea agreement because ballistics evidence indicated that the bullet was not fired at Guerrero. "The bullet that did kill the complainant, turned out it was a ricochet," Rosenthal said. The agreement called for a 40-year sentence. Draughon already had served enough time to be released under the law requiring mandatory supervision, said Michelle Lyons, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. "It's a blessing," said Weathers. "It's the best one I've ever had." Draughon must wear a monitoring device that tracks his whereabouts with the global positioning satellite system. He also must meet with a parole officer 9 times each month. He can become eligible for release from supervision in 2026, Lyons said, but if he violates his conditions of release before then, he could be returned to prison. Draughon is 1 of 238 condemned inmates who have left death row by means other than execution, while 372 have been put to death since capital punishment resumed in 1982. Of the 238, most got off death row but remained in prison after their convictions or sentences were reduced. At least 14, however, had their convictions overturned, as in Draughon's case. Draughon said that, for a while, at least, he will have to get permission a week in advance when he wants to leave his residence. The rules are tough, he said, but easier than living on death row, where he spent 19 years and 9 months. He said he plans to encourage his former fellow inmates. Weathers said Draughon will help on her radio program for inmates, which is broadcast by KDOL in Livingston and sponsored by All Life Is Precious Ministries, a nondenominational Christian broadcast. "I'm going to prove to people that once you go to death row, you're not irredeemable," Draughon said. "You're not a monster." (source: Houston Chronicle) COLORADO: JonBenet slaying suspect to appear in court on Monday John Mark Karr waited in a private jail cell Friday for a court appearance next week in the killing of JonBenet Ramsey, while his attorney sought to protect any DNA samples taken from his client and a document with Karr's handwriting. A judge scheduled Karr's first appearance in Boulder County Court for Monday afternoon, a proceeding expected to last just moments. Deputy Public Defender Seth Temin filed a flurry of motions asking the judge to prohibit prosecutors and police from conducting any DNA testing without first notifying the court and the defense. Karr, 41, was given a mouth-swab DNA test while he was in custody in Thailand, a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation has told The Associated Press. The results of that test were not known. Temin said if a DNA sample has been obtained from Karr "it was not obtained pursuant to applicable law, the constitutions or by valid consent." He suggested Karr would not provide any further samples without a court order. After meeting with Karr on Friday, Temin said he did not know whether authorities had obtained any DNA samples. District attorney's spokeswoman Carolyn French said she could not comment. French said prosecutors would respond to Temin's court motions after reviewing them. DNA is believed to be a key in solving the 10-year-old slaying of JonBenet, a photogenic contestant in child beauty pageants. Police collected DNA from blood spots in her underwear and from under her fingernails. Investigators have said some of the DNA was too degraded to use as evidence, but some was of sufficient quality to submit to the FBI in 2003. It did not match any of the 1.5 million samples in the agency's database at the time, according to the Ramsey family attorney. Temin did not detail why he took the unusual step of asking the court to seal Karr's handwritten request to be represented by a publicly funded lawyer. Some commentators have suggested that Karr's handwriting in a high school yearbook resembles the writing on a ransom note found in the Ramsey home a few hours before JonBenet was found strangled with a skull fracture in her family's mansion on Dec. 26, 1996. Without referring specifically to the speculation, Temin told the court in a filing Friday that he "is without sufficient knowledge about all the facts of the case to be able to evaluate the prejudice that may be associated with the release of any of the defendant's handwriting." Karr was being held in an 8-by-10-foot cell, though he could have contact with one other inmate by way of a "sub-dayroom" adjoining his cell, sheriff's Cmdr. Bruce Haas said. "His demeanor is calm. He's been resting," Haas said. "He's sleeping and hanging out - pretty uneventful." Authorities once said parents John and Patsy Ramsey were under "an umbrella of suspicion," but prosecutors in this affluent college town at the foot of the Rocky Mountains have never charged anyone in the case that fascinated the nation. Formal charges are still pending against Karr. Boulder District Attorney Mary Lacy has refused to say what led to Karr's arrest, and persuaded a judge to seal the reasons she had Karr detained last week on charges of 1st-degree murder after deliberation, felony murder, 1st-degree kidnapping, 2nd-degree kidnapping and sexual assault on a child. "Despite what may have been disclosed to the public over the many years since the crime, most of the evidence in the affidavit has not been disclosed, nor has the media developed it independently," Assistant District Attorney William Nagel wrote in a court filing this week. Karr's arrest in a low-rent tourist neighborhood of Bangkok followed 4 years of e-mail exchanges with a college professor who has made documentaries on the case, though Boulder authorities said in a legal filing that they learned his name only five days before the arrest. Karr told authorities and reporters in Thailand he was present when JonBenet died, but no one has publicly placed him in Colorado at the time of the crime. A brother, Nate Karr, on Friday issued the strongest alibi statement to date, saying he was certain the suspect spent Christmas 1996 with his family. The brother said he was uncertain where the family spent the holiday that year. "To the best of our recollection, he was either with us in Atlanta or with (his ex-wife) Lara," Nate Karr said. "It's not as easy as you might think to remember 10 years ago." Nate Karr told The Associated Press he was arranging to travel to Colorado to visit his brother in jail. (source: Associated Press) USA/MICHIGAN----federal death sentence Convicted murderer stays on death row The federal government's 1939 purchase of the southern portion of Oxford Lake in Newaygo County will let Marvin Gabrion's death sentence stick, a U.S. District Court judge ruled Friday. Judge Robert Holmes Bell rejected arguments from Gabrion's attorneys, who claimed criminal jurisdiction was never accepted by federal authorities, nor did Michigan cede control of the property. Attorneys Kevin McNally and Margaret O'Donnell contended in a July hearing that the government only sought a limited interest in the land that is now part of the Manistee National Forest. They asserted that should be enough to overturn Gabrion's 2002 conviction for the 1997 murder of Rachel Timmerman. Gabrion killed Timmerman, and presumably her 1-year-old daughter, after the 19-year-old girl accused him of rape, police said. Gabrion sank Timmerman in Oxford Lake, allowing federal prosecutors to enact the death penalty -- the 1st in Michigan since 1937. The state does not allow capital punishment. Bell not swayed "The court is not persuaded by defendant's narrow reading of the statute," Bell wrote in a 19-page ruling. "Nothing in the language suggests that the state intended to reserve for itself the authority to 2nd guess the United States as to what prosecutions it might consider necessary. "The court is also satisfied that the cession of concurrent jurisdiction is sufficiently broad to include the authority to prosecute murders committed on such lands." Kim VerHage, the paternal grandmother of Timmerman's child, Shannon VerHage, expected the ruling to keep Gabrion on death row in Terre Haute, Ind. Case concerns continue But she knows better than to think this is the end of a case that has consumed her family for the better part of a decade. "This will not be the final chapter," VerHage said. "The only way it will ever be done for us is to know where Shannon is. That's our only goal. That's what we need." A $5,000 reward offered after Shannon went missing remains available, VerHage said. Most of the national forest was purchased after 1940 when laws on gaining legal authority over land had changed. At the July hearing, prosecutors showed a map of brightly colored squares showing where the country had control and where it didn't. Gabrion, 52, picked the wrong place, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joan Meyer said. Attorneys acknowledged after the hearing that the case likely will return to the U.S. Court of Appeals and could reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Neither Meyer, McNally nor O'Donnell could be reached Friday for comment. If Bell had ruled for Gabrion, the death sentence would have been vacated and he would have been retried in Newaygo County. (source: The Grand Rapids Press) VIRGINIA: A Prosecution in Virginia----After 2 decades and 1 giant miscarriage of justice, Virginia prosecutors start over. VIRGINIA prosecutors this week brought belated charges against a man named Kenneth Maurice Tinsley in the 1982 rape and murder of a Culpeper woman named Rebecca Williams. Mr. Tinsley, a serial rapist already serving life in prison, was connected to the Williams killing by DNA testing. And his prosecution would be simply a happy resolution of a long-cold case, except for one thing: A man named Earl Washington Jr. served more than 17 years in prison and came within 9 days of being executed for this crime. Mr. Washington's case is a tragedy in a criminal justice system that at every stage refused to admit the magnitude of its error. Mildly retarded, Mr. Washington was convicted almost entirely on the basis of a disturbingly weak confession -- one that a civil jury later found had been fed to him by investigators. He sat on death row until DNA tests in 1993 cast serious doubt on his conviction by showing that someone other than he or the victim's husband had had intercourse with Williams before she was killed. Then-Gov. L. Douglas Wilder responded by commuting his sentence to life in prison, but did not pardon him, arguing that the evidence of his innocence remained inconclusive. Only in 2000, after a second round of DNA testing, did then-Gov. James S. Gilmore III finally pardon him. Yet even then, he acknowledged merely that a jury would have acted differently had it seen these test results, not that Mr. Washington was innocent. What's more, while some of the state crime lab's tests that year identified DNA from Mr. Tinsley on the victim's blanket, the lab erroneously excluded him as a DNA contributor in the samples taken from her body. Not until still another round of testing, this one in connection with Mr. Washington's civil lawsuit, was Mr. Tinsley's DNA found in samples taken from the victim's body. The lessons of the Washington case will be familiar to anyone who has watched the flood of wrongful convictions come to light in recent years. Not all confessions are real; DNA testing should be liberally and swiftly available whenever doubts arise. Most important, there is no place for arrogance in a state's criminal justice system. In any number of cases pending now, including some that seem all too weak, Virginia authorities are certain they have the right man locked up. They were once that certain about Earl Washington, too. (source: Editorial, Washington Post)


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Softball Still Searching for Elusive NCAC Win With just two more regular season games left, the Oberlin softball team is looking for a way to pick up their first conference win. They will have their opportunity with an exciting match-up against Denison University this Saturday. Oberlin was ecstatic during its April 21 match-up against the Wittenberg University Tigers, determined to break its conference slump. Despite a strong effort, the Yeowomen fell in a doubleheader to the Tigers 0-6, 0-17. First-year Lauren Luther led the Yeowomen offensive with two hits, including a double early in the game. Cameron Catalfu and sophomore pitcher Rachael Hatcher led Wittenberg. Catalfu accumulated five hits and four runs, while Hatcher tossed a no-hitter, retiring 21 batters. The following day, Oberlin traveled to Hiram College for another doubleheader. In the bottom of the first, Chastine Romanello put Hiram on the board with a RBI double, giving her squad a 2-0 advantage. Hiram went on to score runs in the fourth and sixth innings to clinch the victory 6-0. Senior pitcher Jenna Nemeth threw seven innings for the Terriers, allowing just five hits in the match-up. In the second game, the Yeowomen got an early 1-0 lead, with a base hit from junior Spencer McCaffrey. The Terriers would go on a hot scoring streak with five runs in the second inning; Hiram would add more runs later in the game as Oberlin fell 1-9. Despite the loss, McCaffrey led Oberlin as she hit 3-6 with a double in both games. Sophomore pitcher Michelle Zanni allowed five hits and no earned runs in three innings. "Offensively, Lauren Luther and Spencer McCaffrey have been leading the way. Both are smart at the plate and have been getting great at-bats," said Head Coach Adrienne Davis. The Terriers were paced offensively by Heidi Gipson and Megan Samuel. Samuel went 6-8 with three runs scored and a stolen base. Gipson was 3-3 at the plate. "Our defense has been unbelievably solid over the past few games. We're still trying a variety of players in new positions and they're all doing a fabulous job," said Davis. "We need to learn to string hits together to get more run production, but that will just come with experience. We've still got a very young team, so I'm super excited for the future." The Oberlin record stands 1-23 overall, and 0-12 in conference play. The team will battle it out on Saturday against Denison University at 1 p.m. Despite the recent slide, Davis remains optimistic the team can claim a couple victories in the final two doubleheaders of the season. "We play Saturday against Denison and Monday at CCC, so hopefully our past week of practices will prepare us to come out strong against these two teams," said Davis. |
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Leon Kirchner: 90th Birthday Celebration
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Saturday, January 24, 2009 8:00 PM Miller Theatre |
Composer Portraits Ayano Kataoka, percussion Claremont Trio Corey Cerovsek, violin Daniel Phillips, violin Jeremy Denk, piano Timothy Eddy, cello Paula Robison, flute Brad Lubman, conductor Duo No. 2 (2001) Flutings for Paula (1973) Trio No. 1 (1954) Sonata Concertante (1952) Concerto for Violin, Violoncello, 10 Winds, and Percussion (1960) THIS EVENT HAS ALREADY OCCURED IN A PREVIOUS SEASON! Onstage discussion with Leon Kirchner Miller Theatre honors New York native Leon Kirchner (b. 1919), who at 90 remains a composer of vigorous and poetic music. He is a performer's composer, championed by some of the world's finest musicians, many of whom are personally joining in the celebration. This Portrait features works written over a span of fifty years, including both his seminal double concerto and recent and early chamber music. Read this concert's program notes by Paul Griffiths. Major support for the Composer Portraits series is provided by the Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trust. Additional support is provided by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music. This project has been made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius. |
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2010 MNTL UIUC Symposium Lecture 1 - Milton Feng at 60 : The Metamorphosis of the Transistor into a Laser
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Nick Holonyak, Jr. (born November 3, 1928, in Zeigler, Illinois) invented the first visible LED in 1962 while working as a consulting scientist at a General Electric Company laboratory in Syracuse, New York and has been called "the father of the light-emitting diode". He is a John Bardeen Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics and Professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he has been since 1963.
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Nick Holonyak, Jr (2010), "2010 MNTL UIUC Symposium Lecture 1 - Milton Feng at 60 : The Metamorphosis of the Transistor into a Laser," https://nanohub.org/resources/9415.
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A scene from Taste of India, March 1, 2013.
A robbery suspect is behind bars after allegedly returning to the scene of the crime to buy cigarettes.
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The men demanded money and cigarettes from the store owner. They were then able to escape the area before police arrived on scene.
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Tan Dhillon's quick thinking led to Wagner's arrest. Wagner told police who his accomplices were.
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[...] An Inconvenient Truth Screening in Mumbai, IndiaThe Guru Nanak English School in Mumbai, India had another wonderful Friends of Live Earth event on December 10th. They viewed An Inconvenient Truth! Before the viewing, students and teacher got together to discuss why it is being . [...]


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Adara the Pathfinder
Was thinking of a new ranged hero; female, agility, weapon: Marksman's bow
First skill idea:
Barbed arrows: (bleeding damage over time, stacks up to 5 times) - similar to huskar from dota's burning spear.)
Second skill idea:
Flare arrow: (fires the arrow at long/or short distances, which produces a flare in the sky, revealing invisible units/increases LOS, also enemies in the AOE suffer a reduced chance to hit [small amount, was thinking along the lines of; 10%,14%,18%,22% etc] "blinded" xD
Third skill idea:
Concusion arrow: Same as priestess of the moon's stun arrow from DotA
Focus fire: Same as Windrunner's ulti from DotA.
Would still need to work on the finer details, suggestions/ideas would be very welcome ^_^
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It is very generic, boring, and the TS arrow would be extremely OP and ruin the interesting flavor that invisibility brings to the game.
Potm is being ported to HoN, you want 2 heroes with the same skill?
lol, this was waybefore i knew potm was being ported, so this is basically useless... :P
how would a truesight arrow be OP?
Its like a ward that lasts for the same time as dust? so its short duration + you can't move it? O_o
don't see a problem with it, its just... yeah
-close the thread-
My bad.lol, this was waybefore i knew potm was being ported, so this is basically useless... :P
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Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor and Jean Hagen and directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography. It offers a comic depiction of Hollywood, and its transition from silent films to "talkies."
Although it was not a big hit when first released, it was accorded its legendary status by contemporary critics. It is now frequently described as one of the best musicals ever made, topping the AFI's 100 Years of Musicals list, and ranking fifth in its updated list of the greatest American films in 2007.
Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) is a popular silent film star with humble roots as a singer, dancer and stunt man. Don barely tolerates his vapid, shallow leading lady, Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen), though their studio, Monumental Pictures, links them romantically to increase their popularity. Lina herself is convinced they are in love, despite Don's protestations otherwise.
One day, to escape from overenthusiastic fans, Don jumps into a passing car driven by Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds). She drops him off, but not before claiming to be a stage actress and sneering at his undignified...


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Choosing to stay in serviced apartments or corporate housing is one way that business travelers can ease the stress of constant travel. However, for executives on the road, a variety of other factors can affect not only how pleasurable a trip will be, but also how productive. According to a recent survey conducted by Business Travel News, the responsibilities of providing executives with amenities while maintaining productivity falls on both the business traveler and their employer.
Sharing the burden There is little doubt that comfort and access to modern amenities can ease the stress of business travel, and hotel chains and serviced apartments alike offer a range of executive suites that cater specifically to the needs of corporate clients.
However, while securing adequately comfortable accommodations is one way for executives to reduce stress while traveling, remaining productive and ensuring that companies are receiving sufficient return on investment is equally important. The survey revealed that, when it comes to meeting the expectations of organizations and their employees, both parties are equally responsible.
"The notion that travelers alone are responsible for their own destiny or that travelers alone can make it what they want is an impossibility," said Steven Mandelbaum, vice president of information systems and travel buyer at Advisory Board Co., as quoted by the news source. "It has to be shared. But to do that, we give our travelers a tremendous amount of flexibility. Travel buyers can do a number of things to make life better for travelers. It depends on your travelers and their most pressing needs and their biggest pain points."
Making accommodations The results of the survey indicate that companies try to make life on the road as easy as possible on executives in a variety of ways. Approximately 59 percent of corporate travel buyers negotiate with airline carriers for elite designations for their employees, while 55 percent do the same for rental car programs and livery services. An additional 42 percent make such arrangements when it comes to hotel accommodations.
The slight decrease in the popularity of executive suites at hotels for corporate travelers could indicate a potential area of growth in the use of serviced apartments and corporate housing as a means to increasing worker productivity and easing the stress of frequent business travel.
Pressure to deliver Although the stress of closing deals, meeting with new clients and forging relationships with suppliers and manufacturers in other countries are frequently cited by business travelers as being a factor in their performance, several other considerations typically affect worker productivity on the road. A recent survey by Carlson Wagonlit Travel indicated that, among all the business travel-related stressors common to executives around the world, lost or delayed baggage topped the list, with a score of 79 on a scale of 100 in terms of resultant stress. Coming in at close second was the lack of a reliable internet connection, and the necessity of traveling in coach class on airlines was the third most stressful factor for frequent business travelers. Delayed flights were also a major stress factor for executives on business trips.
The report also revealed that accommodations are particularly important when it comes to minimizing stress on business travel. The quality of a hotel also ranked highly in terms of travel-related stress for executives, as did poor or inconvenient locations of hotels. This indicates that companies seeking to maximize the productivity of their workers may want to consider adding serviced apartments and corporate housing to business travelers' itineraries to avoid stress and ensure that they are working at full capacity.


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After recently revamping the C-Class, Mercedes-Benz will soon introduce a special edition of its entry-level sedan. The special edition will come equipped the AMG kit, as we had seen on the ML-Class, that just unveiled last month. The facelifted version of the C-Class will get some cosmetic changes on the exterior and the interior. This will include the alloys and maybe a body kit on the outside, while on the inside we can see some AMG touches as well.
This we believe is in response that Mercedes-Benz received as the 100 units of AMG kitted version of ML-Class was sold out within no time after its launch. The recently facelifted C-Class got loads of cosmetic changes on the outside and the inside. The C-class now sports the panoramic sunroof, neckpro, cruise control and electric adjustable driver seat. The engines offered on the car remains the same; however, there has been a change in the transmission. The 1.8-litre petrol engine now comes mated to a 7-speed box than a 5-speeder.
Check out this space for more details, as we will update you with the pricing and maybe also a short quick drive of the car.
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Monique Sullivan understands what she needs to do next. The lone Canadian track cyclist taking part in last week's sprint events at the World Championships in Melbourne, her results may not have caught the eye: a last-32 in the individual sprint, knocked out in the first round of the keirin.
But the 23-year-old Calgary, Alta. native is excited. She knows she has reached a new stage in her career.
Part of that feeling comes from the atmosphere of success around her. Canada picked up silver medals in the men's omnium and women's scratch races, plus bronze in the women's team pursuit, en route to its best-ever medal haul at a track cycling World Championships.
"Watching them train is phenomenal," says Sullivan of her colleagues Zach Bell and Tara Whitten, two of Canadian track cycling's biggest names and both medallists in Melbourne.
"The team was so ready coming into this - we prepared mostly for the London World Cup [in February, inside this summer's Olympic Velodrome] then carried it over to these races. I've been around the national team for almost 10 years now and it's never been like this before, we've never had the support we have now.
"It's incredibly inspiring, when you're a young rider and you see people winning those medals. You think they're so different to you and there must be something special about them. But it usually comes down to a lot of hard work. Look at Zach and Tara, every day they come to training, they put in the work and to me that says: 'This is possible. This is what it takes to get there.'"
There is another side to Sullivan's optimism. Tucked away in the week's results was a personal best for her in the 200m flying start, a race used as a qualifier for the women's sprint finals. Sullivan finished ninth of 29 entrants, ahead of well-established world-class rivals like France's Sandie Clair and Australia's Kaarle McCulloch. That raw pace opens up a new side to her game.
"That's the best qualifying placing I've ever had, I took two-tenths off my personal best," says Sullivan. "I think it's the first time I've had the form to start looking at the tactics.
"Before, tactics didn't mean anything -- they don't, if you're half a second behind the others in qualifying. I've had so much help building up to this year with the support staff, and now I need to start getting the tactics in."
That is where the problem comes. Sullivan was the only Canadian sprint rider in Melbourne for a reason: nobody else on the program is close to her level. The women's sprint finals become an intense cat-and-mouse game between two riders, trying to first lure your opponent into a trap, then beat them to the line. How do you practise that on your own?
"Because there aren't any other female sprinters in Canada, it's tough to get that training in practice -- I can't sprint against anybody," admits Sullivan.
"We've tried bringing in some junior boys but they don't have that experience. So it's figuring out how to get that into my training now, that's more of a priority than before."
The World Championships are all the more important for Sullivan because, in the absence of anyone to train against, she can spend every moment of spare time watching the races, seeing how other people do it - and occasionally trying her hand against the world's best.
"The tactics and confidence are so important," she says. "Bike racing is not just about raw speed and power, it's about racing. That's part of what I love about it but it's also the part causing me the most difficulty to get good at.
"Not making the keirin second round hurts, I'd love to get up and race again, but I went up against [British former keirin world champion] Vicky Pendleton. I had that opportunity, it doesn't come around very often. I tried to make the best of it and it didn't work out for me, but it might next time.
"You just have to know that everyone's beatable. There are relegations that happens, mistakes that are made, and as a newer rider people can underestimate you. If you capitalise on those things it builds momentum for yourself.
"Last year I was in a keirin ride with Vicky and I crossed the line first -- I ended up getting relegated but that was like, 'Man, maybe I can do this.' The steps forward are small but if you keep pushing and keep trying, eventually you'll get there."
The rewards of the trip to Melbourne don't end on the flight home, either. Also travelling with the Canadian team was a member of staff appointed specifically to capture every race on film.
Ahead of the Olympics, for which Sullivan is not yet confirmed though she says selection "is looking good," much of her time will now be spent in front of a screen.
"I will have all the races on my computer at home," she confirms. "It can take 10 minutes to go over one keirin, putting yourself in each person's shoes, seeing what mistakes they made and what they got right, trying to build up patterns.
"You can start to learn those so it's an instinct - not you thinking about those things, you just feel it."


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So, I've always wanted to watch "Religulous" but, as I live in the south, I never had a chance to see it. I'm only like 10 minutes into it, so I'll most likely have more on it tomorrow, but I'm already horribly uncomfortable. Now, I've always really liked Bill Maher; I like people who ask questions (leave me alone. I likes who I likes) and my unease is actually more to do with the people he's asking the questions to. I'm having the same kind of fear watching Bill Maher try to ask, what I think are, really honest questions.
Do you guys remember that episode of Top Gear where Jeremy, Richard and James went through the deep south (like the deep deep south) with things like "Hillary for President" and "Man-love rules OK"(my personal favorite)prominently displayed all over their cars?
Now, I really thought that I was about to witness a murder of, at the very least, one of these guys and their camera crew.
-------------I wouldn't put it past the BBC as I've seen detrimental episodes than that on a regular basis. (Doctor Who: End of Time - Part 2; Britain on that day, we all hated you.)
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So, yeah it's that sort of uneasiness. I know Mr. Maher lives through this, as I have watched his stand-up since this movie was made, but I find myself wanting to cover my eyes in anticipation of some hick sucker-punching him in the face. I really hope that doesn't happen. I actually really like it so far.
Wal-Mart Brawl
-That never actually happened-
So, I'm standing in line, minding my own business, when I notice the man standing beside me in the other cashier line. I actually did a natural double-take (rare in the wild) and realized my eyes were not playing tricks on me. This man looked exactly like Wilfred Mott (Bernard Cribbins).
<-**Doctor Who: Season 4 Finale Ending Spoilers in that link!!**
You have no idea how hard it was for me to stand there and not attack this man. Well, I mean the "character" Wilfred Mott--not the actor. I actually really like the actor BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
Wow, my grammar is more horrible that my last journal entry...Well, it IS 2:30 in the morning. However, if you read my journals for their immaculate grammar you need to turn off your computer and call 911 because you are having a hallucination.
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Gator has just released a new Drywall Sanding Head that's great for this application. In addition to being a solid 4" by 10", the Gator sanding head is smaller than the paper that's made for it which softens the edge for sanding, which is nice and leads to a very smooth finish. The sanding head is also available with an adapter for a broom handle so you can hit the ceiling with no problem.
The sanding head is available on its own or as a part of a nice looking drywall sanding kit which is at Amazon.com
More information on both items at ZipSander.com
One of the first articles on Tool Snob was about the Caulk Buddy, a little caulking tool that comes with one of the Newborn caulking guns. We liked it because it was something, other than our finger, that could make a nice caulk bead. With this in mind, we were particularly interested in testing out the DAP PRO Caulk Tool Kit (As seen on TV!). What it is is a series of little tools that have different radiuses, ranging from standard to 90 degree to a variety of mm sizes (5 to 16). There's even a little nub on one tool that is meant for grouting tile joints.
To test out these items, we banged together two pieces of 3/4" ply at a 90 degree angle and dropped a ragged bead of caulk along the joint. First, we took the standard corner and ran it down the bead. The results were nice and about what we're used to using the finger and rag method. Although this time, our finger stayed clean and there was no rag needed. We were also once again reminded of how much caulk can be wasted by seeing the amount left on the tool. Then, satisfied that the PRO Caulk tools could at least measure up to the old way of doing things, we pumped out a huge line of caulk in order to test out the larger size beads. This time, the results were something that we wouldn't be able to do with a finger and a rag. We started with the 10mm size and got a perfectly even bead with one quick pass of the tool. We then tested the smaller sizes by running them over the same bead, making it smaller and smaller. All of the other sizes we tested had an equal amount of success. As always, click on the image for a larger pic.
And that's the real glory of these little tools. You can make very consistent beads of 'non-finger' sized caulk joints. Sure, you can make a nice standard bead and it's less messy than using a finger and a rag, but you can also play around with different sizes depending on your aesthetic tastes as well as the functional needs at hand. We think these tools are really successful at what they do.
The kit also comes with a caulk removal tool that has all sorts of edges and angles to get in and under crusty old caulk beads. It would be a good item to have if you're redoing the seal on your kitchen sink or something. There is also a mini-tool with all of the smaller sizes. All of the tools are plastic and thus easy to clean off and DAP guarantees them for five years.
These are good tools to have and perfect for that milk crate in your garage marked, "painting and caulking." As a carpenter, we're going to toss ours in the box of finish tools that we carry around. Not only are they a quick and easy way to make your caulk beads look good but they also give a much wider repertoire of making consistently sized caulk beads. The tools are available with a small tube of caulking and run about $18, which we think is a little on the high side (we were hoping for the $10-$12 range), but they are quite useful.
The kit of tools is available with a small tube of caulking at Amazon.com
Gator, a company intent on advancing every single aspect of the sanding world, has released yet another grit-tastic innovation (our reviews of the Zip Sander, Micro Zip Sander, and Sanding Sponge Holder). Their new Sand-Block seems to take the best characteristics of sandpaper and sanding sponges and combine them into one single mighty sanding warhorse. Sounds good to us, but from the picture it looks like the edges don't have any grit on them, which is too bad seeing as we use sponge edges to sand little molding profiles and things like that. But still the longevity of sandpaper compared to sanding sponges makes us likely to go out and pick up a few of these.
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The Wagner TurboRoll isn't the first self-feed paint roller, but it's the first (we've seen, at least) that uses the same vacuum system found in a syringe to both store and release paint. It's an interesting idea and one we looked forward to testing out. Is it effective? It is more trouble than it's worth? Is it a gimmick? We gave it a good run it out in order to answer these questions.
The TurboRoll consists of a roller, a little fill port, a long tube which is the stem of the tool, the handle, and the plunger. The handle has a forward and reverse on it which feeds the plunger through the tube forcing paint to the roller. The TurboRoll also has a manual override, so if the automation is for any reason not practical, you can toggle back to 'old school.'
Newborn, makers of many fine caulking guns (we have a nice old one that we use all the time) have recently released a new gun with an interesting design, one which makes it look as if half of the gun missing. This illusion is due to the fact that Newborn has managed to remove the forward portion of the gun; the half circle which supports the front of the caulk tube as well as the arms that support it. But what holds the tube in now, you say? Well, at the base of the tube, the plunger end, there is a circular ring of plastic 'fish scales' which angle back towards the handle and grip the inside flange of the tube. The design is such that the more pressure is applied to the plunger, the stronger the hold becomes. It's a pretty smart idea.
The main benefit of the redesign is that it lessens the real estate the the gun consumes, but not by all that much. In the storage position with the plunger in, the gun is barely smaller than a standard gun. Other perks include a quick snap-in/pop out loading process of the caulking tube, the ability to easily twist the tube around to get the beveled cut end into corners, as well as a non-dripping tube when the gun is at rest.
According to Newborn, the gun has a force ratio of 10:1 which is the same as any homeowner-level caulking gun, but much less than the really nice ones that carpenters and the other pros are going to be using. The fact that this isn't a job site gun is backed up by the plastic construction of the U-Lite. If this thing gets stepped on, it's all over. So the bottom line is that the U-Lite is going to have no problem with light-duty around the house tasks, but it's going to run into some difficulty with a half frozen tube of PL Premium on a job site. We're not saying that it's a bad gun at all, just that it has limitations.
So with all this in mind, we have to give props for the concept. Like we said, it's an innovative change and one that works well under light-duty circumstances. And it only costs about $10.
At Amazon.com
Ali Industries is at it again with their little bath toy sanders. We've already reviewed the Zip Sander and the Sponge Holder and how it's the Micro Zip Sander's turn.
The Micro Zip is exactly what it sounds like: the Zip Sander's 'mini-me.' Where the Zip Sander sat in the palm, the Micro Zip is sort of a three-fingered operation. As with the other sanders, this one is made of foam and sits very comfortably in the hands.
The Micro Zip is a helpful little item when it comes to the fussy little inside corners, odd edges, or areas where there is very little clearance, such as the floor underneath our baseboard heaters. In this last case, the Micro Zip boldly went where no oscillating tool could go and successfully assisted with our current flooring project. There's no question that the Micro Zip was easier on our hands that the old-fashioned method of the block wrapped with sandpaper, but because of the way that the hand sits on the sander, it was also easier to apply pressure. We wouldn't say that the Micro Zip Sander is an absolutely necessary tool, but it is one that makes sanding a little easier.
There's really not a whole lot more we can say. It works well, it's sort of silly looking, and it doesn't cost all that much. There you go.
The Micro Zip project pack which comes with 30 sheets of color coded sandpaper costs about $10.
UPDATE: Our full review of the TurboRoll is posted here.
Wagner Spray Tech, the people who brought us the PaintEater and the Paint Crew Plus have recently come out with the TurboRoll, a battery operated paint roller that looks like a cross between a traditional paint roller and the largest hypodermic needle you've ever seen. The principal behind the tool is simple; fill the stem with paint, adjust the telescoping handle to the desired length (up to 8') and roll your paint, hitting a little thumb control to flow more paint to the roller head when needed.
According to Wagner, the TurboRoll can hold enough paint to handle a 70 square feet and that it can go for about 15 gallons before you have to change the 4 AA batteries. There is also a manual override, if you want to switch to the more traditional way of doing things.
If the TurboRoll works as advertised, we could see it taking a lot of time off of paint rolling which could easily make it worth the $40 asking price.
DAP is releasing a number of new sealants that are all distinguished by a very quick drying time. The line of sealants is called the DAP 3.0 and once applied, it takes just three hours before they can be exposed to water without being affected.
According to the press release,
"DAP® 3.0™ Advanced Sealants are formulated with Kwik Dry® Technology that allows users to caulk and expose the bead to water after just three hours without washing out; other caulks and sealants may require a 24-36 hour waiting period before exposing to water. This minimal dry time greatly reduces the risk of wash-out from premature water exposure, so both DIYers and professionals alike can save time and money by finishing the job faster and reducing the chance for errors. For outdoor applications, this also means not having to wait for ideal weather conditions to begin or complete a project. DAP® 3.0™ Advanced Sealants can be applied in extreme weather and temperature ranges (-35°F to 140°F)."
A while ago, we reviewed DAP's Kwick Seal, which we're pretty sure is one of the five 3.0 sealants. Our review is here.
The five sealants in this line are (also from the press release):
It's our policy to review everything that gets sent our way; big, small, new, old, normal, or strange, it doesn't matter. Once we get an item, we test it out and try to have something posted up about it within a couple weeks depending on the complexity of the item. We're pretty consistent on this, but every once in a while something slips through the cracks and, thus far, the most egregious of these 'slippings' has been the Spout Popper. We got the Spout Popper over a year ago and since then, we've tested it out plenty, but for some reason, we never gave it an official review (although we did a posting on it before it arrived, here). Well we're happy to say to all you caulking tube fanatics out there, that we've finally gotten around to it and here, with no more delay, is a review of the famed Spout Popper....
It's happened to everyone; you get a new tube of caulk or PL, you use just a little bit of it, then a week later when you try to use it again, the tube is soft but the nozzle is rock hard. We've tried all the same lame solutions that you have, the nail down the end, the blue tape wrapped around the end, and all of the other half-assed attempts at preserving the tube.
A company with the odd name of Ultra Mold Technologies has a new product that is a one size fits all version of the caulk tube cap. The way it works is that instead of capping the nozzle from the outside, it's a threaded, tapered plug that can fit inside any tube opening between 1/8" to 7/16". This not only works for caulk tubes but for other things like cans of spray foam.
A package of five costs about $3, but if you buy more than one, the price drops.
Available online at CaulkSaverPlug and a number of traditional stores listed here.


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lolz - in my defence, I was drunk when attempting to post the screenshot.
It can be seen here (replace xx with tt - obv):
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Let's try this:
It would be great if the online casino industry could adopt some 20th century functionality and allow for the simple upload of documents via secure channels to a to a secure remote server.
888casino has taken this brave 'leap' into the 'future':
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I lived in Manila once. I got about 10% of incoming mail. Even junk mail gets stolen / misplaced. And of course, the operators would be aware of that fact. Why else would they demand it? The first person who says "CS are based there" gets destroyed and ridiculed, by themselves - with my assistance. Good luck!
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It would be nice if online casinos who deliver huge download applications from their servers to your PC in seconds - could also accept a few incoming scans from your PC to their servers.
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