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As you know, you can place a wager on nearly anything! And the Super Bowl is no different. It's not just a simple "who is going to win" wager...these are bets like, "What color will Beyonce's shirt be at the beginning of the halftime show?" and "How long will Alicia Keys take to sing the National Anthem (over/under 2 minutes, 15 seconds)?"
Here are some more fun "prop bets" that you could place "friendly" wagers on during your Super Bowl party at home!
- Will the team that wins the coin toss also win the game?
- Will there be a scoreless quarter in the game?
- Total number of penalties during the game?
- Line: over/under 13.5 penalties
- Will Beyonce's hair be curly/crimped or straight at the beginning of the Super Bowl halftime show?
- Which Harbaugh will be shown first on-screen?
- Line: Jim Harbaugh (1/1); John Harbaugh (1/1); split screen of both (4/1)
- How many times will Harbaugh be said during the game?
- Line: over/under 20.5 times
- What will the highest number of Tweets per second be during the Super Bowl
- Line: over/under 15,000 Tweets per second
- What color will the Gatorade (or liquid) be that is dumped on the winning coach?
- Line; Clear/water (7/4); Orange (5/2); Yellow (5/2); Green (13/2); Red (13/2); Blue (13/2)


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Holiday gift guide for visual journalists: Homemade jewelry
Why not toss some of your holiday gift budget toward a visual journalist who might be selling just what you need for that special someone on your list?
Today's topic: Homemade jewelry…
Longtime sports and features designer Reagan Branham makes the most interesting conversation pieces for brainy types: Jewelry made of used Scrabble pieces.
She makes earrings…
…necklaces and bracelets…
…and Christmas ornaments.
Prices on these items range from $30 or so for the larger ones to just eight bucks for that ornament. Which means you can afford to pick up a lot of stocking stuffers at Reagan's Etsy store.
In addition, she has other items as well. Such as drink coasters.
Reagan sells those two for $12, four for $24 or six for $36.
She also has a variety of tyopgraphical-themed wall posters.
Those go for $22 each. And her gorgeous graphic calendars sell for $20 each.
This one features simple but lovely designs…
…but this one is a guide to styles of chairs.
A 1998 graduate of Eastern Illinois University, Reagan interned at the Daily Herald of Arlington Heights, Ill., and the State Journal-Register of Springfield before joining the Sun Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., as a news, sports and features designer. She moved to the Post-Dispatch of St. Louis, Mo., in 2000 as a sports designer and moved to features six years later.
Reagan left the Post-Dispatch in 2011. She's now the marketing coordinator for HOK, an architecture firm in St. Louis noted for designing sports facilities.
Find Reagan's portfolio here and her Twitter feed here.
Recent UNC graduate Kelly McHugh Chtcheprov makes some very interesting necklaces, bracelets and so on with a geographic flavor.
Being a Clemson fan — and being 3,000 miles from home this football season — this one caught my attention mighty fast.
Note the little heart where Clemson should be. Kelly makes these for a variety of states, universities and regions. That particular one is fairly typical of the line. It costs $15.95.
A few more varieties on that same theme: Necklaces for UNC, Duke or N.C. State fans…
…and a few other states you might have heard of.
She even sells one for South Africa! Sweet!
Kelly and Pavel make those out of other materials, with other finishes and with silver or gold chains of various lengths. You'll have to check her inventory at her Etsy store or ask if there's a particular variety you want.
In addition to state outlines, they make monograms…
…snowflakes — this one, by the way, is acrylic and 14k gold and costs $29.95…
…and a variety of Christmas ornaments.
A 2012 graduate of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Kelly spent her senior year as visual managing editor of the student paper there, the Daily Tar Heel. She served an internship in 2011 in the infographics department at National Geographic and then worked as a fellow on UNC's annual Powering a Nation project. She joined Industry Standard Research of Cary, N.C., a year ago as an infographics designer and social media expert.
Find Kelly's portfolio here and her Twitter feed here.
You're reading the third of what I expect to be several blog posts over the next few days, offering up ideas for Holiday gift giving, but with items created by your visual journalism colleagues around the world.
This week's schedule:
MONDAY: Greeting cards
TUESDAY: Cool stuff
TODAY: Homemade jewelry
THURSDAY: Paper and fabric goods and stuff for the home
FRIDAY: Children's books
Also, check out the gifts for geeky collector-types that I wrote for the O.C. Register's Holiday Gift Guide in the Thanksgiving day paper.
Do you know of anything — or anybody — I should add to my list? Give me a ho-ho-holler.


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Whitney are also our legal panel and forensic -- pathologist doctor Jude Law.
Stinging -- defense attorney at Fox News contributor on the right now.
Former prosecutor Julie Jackson and former homicide detective and Fox News contributor mark -- Welcome.
Gentlemen mark.
What conclusions can you draw about the guy that you just heard Morgan Harrington parents talk about suspected -- is now a lot person kill their daughter.
-- I would say that if we have a case it's connected through DNA.
Four years prior he's probably a serial rapists and most probably isn't only operating in this area the chances of him.
Not having.
A victim in four years is remote.
That means that he was either some place where he could not get a victim.
Such is the military.
Out of the country or imprisoned but what.
And he wasn't in prison because there's no DNA in the data bank that would match -- this guys that better rested.
Well doesn't mean he hasn't been a resident means he hasn't been arrested when they took DNN you can be arrested played a lot of bad -- between 25.
And and thirty odd.
That's what a victim set win.
And so we have a victim that is trying to predict somebody's age to where we can't really based anything that we you have to look you have to look at this that.
Collecting DNA is in full proof even now.
So what we have to actually assume one thing he has a career criminal and his -- all might have advanced a homicide but the evidence is not really.
There for that he certainly.
His crime -- by the victims fighting back or not.
And it's interesting that the rape from 2005 which was six and a half hours away from where this murder.
Is in it was in the same area.
You know so but doctor -- gonna go you she's basically Morgan skeleton lies after being in the field for three months.
Now although there was some soft tissue I mean what can you take forensic plea from a body that's been skeleton lies.
It's a pretty much in routine for every cases you have to take actually smoking where an absence of -- and other injuries.
And you have to collect on -- friends captains including DNA blood.
I mean all different in arrears on to get -- from body count if there's anything was -- looking forward behind -- -- -- orange.
Able to tell doctor she had been raped if she skeleton yes.
If you -- -- -- two counts of being right conclusive seeing partly it's not okay and how much soft tissues the -- And is it normal for a body to decompose and three months almost completely.
Yes my understanding he she disappeared in early October that content was -- fairly well.
And actually have to consider factor because indeed expose a -- you know read this animal activity due to winter season -- can happen.
You know what's interesting about this -- -- -- go back to you for second is her body is found in the middle of the 750 acre farm.
All and that whoever took her body to where it was last left had to go through fields and a creek and -- -- The gates and fences what does that tell -- To me it doesn't tell tell me that somebody planned this they might have been familiar with the area but they -- -- because now they know that there is the body is going to be found within a period of time it's a farm.
That's absolute so it to me it and it shows that it was not an intentional homicide that maybe the victim -- and it was the outcome.
Of the rape but it wasn't intentional he got rid of the body.
Okay Arthur you're prosecuting this case we have a -- -- blood on the -- of our victim who's found murdered.
But the body is ten miles from where the -- was he -- convict someone.
You know.
I don't need to tell you with his chief prosecutor how hard it is especially this is the -- -- -- right -- -- your doctor your life your -- And when you have a body that skeletal -- I mean I gave -- this story is heartbreaking.
-- welcome to the parents was riveting.
I keeping it a little Caylee Anthony Wright -- mean.
How hard that case was to prove because nobody was so decomposed when you don't have that soft tissue.
When you can't see whether someone's been choked -- strangled raped it is so difficult.
-- she had some broken ribs broken bones -- yeah yeah.
Well pre -- not post morning you know what.
It's going to be a very difficult case I think to match up.
But there are things that you can do now on the DNA issue you know judge because -- faced this all the time we as defense attorneys argue chain of custody issues right.
Now you have what does that mean it means that you have DNA but you don't have -- on the body and as a result any defense attorneys going to argue that it's not conclusive.
And it cannot show or demonstrate that there is guilty with and.
And mark the T -- is laid out at a fraternity row I'm top of the bush is its -- and it's it's three weeks later.
It hasn't -- they're all three weeks with a million people plants what does that tell you about the.
Tells his students saw -- they're related there for -- recover because it was lost I mean people do do that they do that even you -- or maybe it was a trophy and think maybe this in this turned murderer maybe but let's go back to one thing is it if the suspects going to discard.
A T shirt with -- on up from the victim.
And the victim was killed and his vehicle once they find out a possible suspect there's going to be blood or hair or something in that vehicle that they can match -- -- and another thing this case is gonna come down -- the detective.
And his interrogation -- You of the problem the problem is they didn't release a sketch until July when they had the DNA.
In November they didn't wanna match.
-- I would -- I wouldn't.
Of either.
Because I'd I'd want to try to find the suspect before you fully physically and arraigned -- out there you know what he's supposed to look like you haven't been arrested might let that sketch out.
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Moorhead, MN (WDAY TV) - Dilworth and Moorhead city councils Monday night approved resolutions opposing the requirement to install sprinkler systems in all single-family homes, 4,500 square feet or larger.By WDAY Staff Reports , December 09, 2013
Woman injured as 9-vehicle pileup on I-94 snarls traffic
FARGO – Nine vehicles were involved in a chain-reaction pileup on an icy stretch of Interstate 94 Friday morning, injuring a woman and tangling traffic for more than an hour, according to the North Dakota Highway Patrol.By Archie Ingersoll, Forum News Service, INFORUM , December 06, 2013
West Fargo man, Moorhead woman arrested after fleeing from Alexandria Wal-Mart
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. – A man who tried to wheel a shopping cart full of electronic items out of the Wal-Mart here without paying didn't get very far, police said.By Forum News Service, INFORUM , December 06, 2013
Two car accident Thursday morning slows down traffic on I-94
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Two-vehicle crash ties up traffic on I-94 bridge
FARGO – A two-vehicle crash this morning in the westbound lanes of Interstate 94 near the Red River bridge backed up traffic for a couple of miles.By Forum News Service, INFORUM , December 05, 2013
Andrea Hubbell reporting on road conditions (6:30 AM)
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Despite warnings and no travel advisories, people have still been traveling these tough conditions.By Andrea Hubbell , December 05, 2013
Moorhead Blue Snow District parking reminders
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Simple answer: it's probably MORE important now in your second marriage than it was in your first.
In most second marriages, each spouse comes into the new relationship with "baggage" from the first marriage (and I don't mean "baggage" in the negative sense). They have kids from the first marriage. They have a house from the first marriage. They have a 401k from the first marriage. Maybe they have a business that survived the first marriage.
Other than the "kids," these pieces of "baggage" are all "assets" in the eyes of the law from the first marriage.
Now, usually there's a pretty interesting dynamic that I see surrounding how each spouse feels about these different pieces of "baggage" from the first marriage. Generally, they tend to think of the property, or "baggage," from the first marriage as their own individual property.
It's not necessarily a negative or selfish feeling that they have about these assets – it is understandable – but they tend to have the view that they worked hard for them, they survived the break up of a first marriage and came out with them in tact, so they view them as "mine."
Added to this dynamic each spouse then usually has very strong feelings about how these pieces of "baggage" should be handled when they pass away.
Here's a great "real life" example that many second-marriage couples face. This couple's been married for over 10 years. They both have adult kids from a first marriage. The couple is living together in the home that the wife brought from the first marriage.
Now, they live in this house, which has no mortgage, as if it is "their" home. They act as if it is "their" home. They both contribute to its upkeep. They pay taxes on it. But, if something happens to her, then the wife wants her husband to live in the house for as long as he wants (and for as long as he remains single after she's gone), and then the house should go to her kids from the first marriage only. She doesn't want the house to go to her stepchildren.
So here's the rub: if that wife dies without some sort of estate plan in place, then state laws will determine how that house is passed on. So, the surviving husband will now have part ownership in that house with her kids from the first marriage. If that surviving husband then dies without a will, his kids will inherit his share of the property – a result that the wife didn't want.
For this couple, like most couples in a second marriage, a living trust combined with wills could solve their dilemma and help get them the result that they want.
So as you can see, if you're in a second marriage (or a third or even a fourth), it's imperative that you do some estate planning. If you have questions, contact an estate planning attorney to talk about your second marriage questions.
Attorney Andrew Garcia brings more than 20 years of experience to the SouthCoast, developing comprehensive estate plans for traditional families, couples in second marriages, blended families, domestic partners and cohabiting couples. He's also practiced class action and consumer law in both state and federal district courts across the country and has appeared as a consumer advocate. He's appeared on NBC's "Today Show" and FOX Network's "Fox & Friends" morning program. Andrew's popular audio cd seminar, "Choosing a Guardian for Your Minor Children" has helped local families make better decisions about choosing a guardian for their kids. As an adjunct professor at his alma mater, Suffolk University School of Law in Boston, he helps prepare students to run their own law practices after they've graduated from law school.
A life-long resident of the SouthCoast, Andrew currently lives in East Freetown with his loving partner, Nancy, and their own blended family made up of three kids, a neighborhood "lab" named Casey, and a pet rabbit he likes to call "Clooney".


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Slip and Fall Injuries are alarming!
There were more than 200,000 slip and fall injuries at workplaces in 2006 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The organization also found that the average slip and fall injury costs $28,000. Furthermore, the National Safety Council found that slip and fall injuries are the single largest cause of emergency room visits.
Property owners and businesses have a duty to maintain a safe property for customers, pedestrians, and other visitors and effectively warn them of possible dangers. These types of cases most often involve slip and fall accidents. Examples of New York slip and fall accidents include injuries caused by:
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By Team Sperry Top-Sider's Drew Gregory
Recently a few friends and I were able to take some of our Kayak dealers on a sweet fishing trip down a river filled with some nice rapids and BIG musky!
The first part of the trip we encountered some big rapids (class III) that we decided to a little fun playing in. We all ran the rapid several times until we were content that we "conquered" it! These fishing kayaks (Jackson Coosa and Cruises) are actually made to be able to handle whitewater up to about this level so it really was a good test to see what we and these boats can do. We'd successfully tackled the rapids and now it was time to hopefully tangle with a BIG musky! Read the rest of this entry →


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How far this trend can continue before precipitating some kind of regional or even global collapse in the functioning of the biosphere was considered by the planetary boundaries expert group, which concluded that no more than 15 per cent of the Earth's surface should be converted to cropland in order to protect the Earth system as a whole. We are perilously close to this proposed planetary boundary already, with 12 per cent of land already devoted exclusively to agriculture. This leaves only 400 million hectares of additional land to be brought into production, a major challenge for humanity given population growth and increases in wealth and consumption across the planet. It is a challenge we can still meet, however – but only if we make the right decisions about how to use the planet's land most wisely.
Meat and energy
There are two major current trends that mean the world must continue to produce more and more food from a limited area of land, probably necessitating a doubling of production within forty years. The first is the growing world population, which will reach 9 billion or more people by mid-century. The second is the tendency of more prosperous populations to consume more food in general, and to increase the proportion of meat and dairy in their diets. It is important to recognise that there is almost nothing we can or should do to influence either of these trends inasmuch as they affect the environment.
People's desire to eat more meat as they get more wealthy is so deeply embedded in most cultures (and getting lots of protein may even be a biological impulse inherent in all of us) that it is not something that is amenable to outside influence. As with climate change, the only pragmatic option is to concentrate efforts to fulfil people's desires and demands in a way that protects natural ecosystems as far as possible – not to try to challenge patterns of consumption per se by insisting that they are unsustainable, even if this appears to be the case in the short term. Such an approach has failed in the past and will continue to fail in the future.
Hand in hand with the protection of high-biodiversity and wilderness areas must come a better use of the land that is devoted to human-centred agriculture. Because organic agriculture produces on average only half the yield of crops per unit of land as conventional farming, any mass conversion to organic would end up using much more land. Instead, intensification – producing more yield per unit of existing farmland – using advanced farming technologies and high-yielding varieties of crops offers a more promising route to feeding a larger and more prosperous human population. Even so, some additional land will need to be brought into production to satisfy future increases in demand. The planetary boundaries expert group suggests a focus on abandoned cropland in Europe and North America, together with land in the former Soviet Union and 'some areas of Africa's savannas and South America's Cerrado' for this unavoidable increase in cultivated area.
One trend that can and should be challenged however is the global rush to biofuels. There is nothing inevitable about the increasing use of corn to produce ethanol or soybeans to manufacture biodiesel – these technologies offer no benefits to consumers, and have instead been driven by mistaken subsidies supposedly aimed at tackling climate change, but which instead most likely make it, and a whole host of other environmental problems, worse. Burning food crops for power is the worst use of scarce land imaginable, and has already led to a situation where there is a direct conflict between food and energy: a significant proportion of the food-price spike in 2008 (and a further spike in early 2011), which led to widespread hunger and bread riots in many poorer countries, was driven by crops being withdrawn from international markets to produce biofuels for transport.


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-- -- weeks unsafe for the president you first have a setback on the sequestered then a dramatic filibuster forcing a clarification on killer drones or at least attempting tale.
I welcome to -- you -- happening now I'm generally.
I'm John Scott for that thanks for joining us today.
On the surface it appears the president is changing course trying to win over the opposition by doing something.
Very different from what he's done up till now like sharing lunch with the Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee Paul Ryan.
And dinner with Republican senators the night before.
Politico saying Republicans are forcing the president's hand quote.
Obama is doing things he's never done like dine out this week with a dozen Republican senators at a meal in which they talked fiscal issues.
And to re engage with lawmakers after almost two years of campaigning against them.
House speaker John Boehner calling that a dinner diplomacy -- hopeful sign saying quote.
This week we've gone 180 after being in office now for four years he's actually going to sit down and talk to members.
Meanwhile senator Rand Paul is declaring victory after his filibuster forced the drone issue on -- the front burner.
The administration now stating the president does not claim power to kill Americans on US soil using drones.
Here is politicos -- take on that episode.
The flurry of attention to the issued -- we caught the Obama White House by surprise the White House appears to have misjudged the downside of -- stances on transparency.
And how it could -- existing legal principles to justify the program.
Complicated by political miscalculations fumbles by the attorney general and growing concern among some segments of the public.
Talk about it all -- Joseph Trippi was Howard dean's campaign manager he is also a Fox News contributor so let's start with this sequestered did the president overplay his hand Joseph.
No I look I think the president's dealing now with the new reality we're not in the campaign season and I think what's happening is.
The -- case he I think he's realize he can't move Republican votes in the house from the outside most of these members are in safe district safe Republican districts.
It's not -- -- be by brow beating them into and -- and we've got sitting down and working with them and that's the early strategy worked for his reelection.
And actually you know worked up until now but it doesn't look like it'll work much further than that -- that's why I think he's changed change tactic.
Well he seems to operate as though he got his sweeping electoral mandate he didn't act and in the Electoral College maybe you could say he did but he basically got 51% of the vote I mean it was still pretty close election.
Well he's so lucky it's only the second I -- literally two or three presidents have gotten over 51%.
Both their elections he was one of them I think the other was FDR and I think Reagan so -- I mean it's not that it's it.
It's it when you're pushing off Republicans it helped it helped bring independents to him now the problem is as we go into the 2014.
Each of these members of congress are -- relatively very safe district so the more you push against a Republican.
The more that Republican doesn't have to fear -- primary challenge I mean if it's coming from the president.
He then that Republican is solid fighting the president more sought by fighting on the working with a so I think the president realized the only way to get anything done now.
It's -- change strategies and try to sit down and and win it on the inside not fight from the outside.
Question I guess is is it too late for the president to change -- -- here's what the speaker of the house said John Boehner says.
I'm hopeful that something will come out of this referring to these meetings and lunches and dinners with the president.
But if the president continues to insist on tax hikes I don't think we're going to get very far.
If the president doesn't believe that we have a spending problem I don't know if we're going to get very far but I'm optimistic.
Despite all the sequester cuts and everything the budget the federal government is still going to spend more money this year than it spent last year -- Know that that's right John but I think what I think -- you when you read data but let's point out is that.
That that that this could be 88 between a rock and a hard place for these Republicans because if if the president now looks like hey I'm sitting down we're having dinner we're talking.
And then they vote -- Then we sit down and we talk some more we have dinner and they oppose them on something else.
It could set them up in 2014.
For if you want to get something done you've got to change congress I mean he's not on the ballot in 2014.
So they're there could be a trap here Republicans don't handle.
The handle this you know if they -- with sort of a lead foot I think -- could be a problem.
All right but you know on the on the American people don't seem to much like the way to sequester thing has been going so far that is some of the choices that have been made about things to cut.
It's going to be interesting to see out all shakes out Joseph Trippi thanks for joining us.
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Keyword Exclusive — The Tornadoes of March 2012
by: Nancy S. Grant
Supplement to "FROM THE EDITOR"
The storm, the destruction, the recovery
Storm preparation checklist
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The storm, the destruction, the recovery
By early Friday morning, March 2, 2012, the weather forecasts were already ominous. All the ingredients for a major outbreak of severe weather—including hail, powerful straight-line winds, and tornadoes— were set to meet and mingle in the skies above Kentucky. Warm, moist air streaming up from the Gulf of Mexico in the south, a chunk of cold air moving down from the northwest, a fast-moving loop of the jet stream in the upper atmosphere moving east—all three masses of air moving at different speeds and different levels above the ground would create havoc.
But where?
Advance preparation
Long before warnings were issued for specific counties, Kentucky's electric cooperatives began ramping up their preparations for dealing with any power outages caused by the predicted storms. As operations managers and office personnel planned the day's normal work, they also reviewed their emergency response plans. Regular practice exercises throughout each year and conversations with county and state emergency management teams ensured that everyone knew each other's responsibilities far ahead of time.
At the statewide level, other groups were beginning to move into action. Supervisors at the generation and transmission utilities (Big Rivers Electric Corporation based in Henderson, East Kentucky Power Cooperative based in Winchester, and the Tennessee Valley Authority whose service includes five distribution co-ops in southwest Kentucky) that provide electricity to local co-ops also checked their emergency plans. Their work crews would also be available to assist in the event of storm damage.
David White, safety coordinator for the Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives (KAEC), says, "As usual when forecasts for major storms begin to get specific, we send out reminder e-mails and make follow-up phone calls to our member cooperatives about the kinds of services we can provide coordinating mutual aid if they need help."
Hour by hour on Friday, the weather grew more turbulent. Lineman and construction crews going about their normal work throughout Kentucky kept listening to their radios, watching weather radar scans on their computers, and looking at the sky. In between jobs, they talked about the help they gave and received during the last big storms—and watched the sky again.
Clarence Greene, director of Safety and Loss Prevention for KAEC, says, "The linemen and supervisors all around the state already know each other from the schools and training sessions we put on throughout every year, and they're always ready to help each other."
Damage reports
By late Friday afternoon the damage reports were widespread—and heartbreaking.
An EF2 tornado roared through Hancock and Breckinridge counties, then an EF1 in Warren County, and an EF0 in Meade County. Three separate tornadoes dashed through Trimble County: an EF1, an EF3, and a long-track EF4 that began in southern Indiana and crossed the Ohio River. An Ef2 tornado swept through Owen County. An EF3 tornado, which at times escalated to an EF4 with winds up to 175 mph, crashed across Grant and Kenton counties. An EF2 tornado slashed through Laurel County near East Bernstadt. An EF1 tornado touched down in Bath County.
And then the utter devastation in eastern Kentucky: some sections of the 86-mile-long path carved by the EF3 tornado that barreled through downtown West Liberty were a mile wide. Sections of the 49-mile-long trail of the tornado with 160 mph winds that ripped through Salyersville were three-quarters of a mile wide.
In Licking Valley Rural Electric Co-op's service territory, more than 300 poles were downed or broken, several sections of high-voltage power transmission lines were downed, and four substations were knocked out of service. But the devastation to the area's homes, businesses, schools, and farms was frightening.
And most heartbreaking of all, six people in Morgan County lost their lives. Overall, 24 people died in Kentucky, and hundreds more were injured as a result of Friday's tornado outbreak. Family pets and farm livestock also died as a result of injuries caused by the storms.
Restoring power, rebuilding communities
With land-based phone service out in many areas, and many cell phone towers not functioning, KAEC rushed a satellite phone and manpower to West Liberty to help coordinate restoration work. Within hours of the storm's passing, KAEC had received commitments from five other co-ops to help, with more on standby.
The satellite phone also provided a vital link as Licking Valley Co-op's normal supply of replacement parts was used up during restoration work. KAEC personnel were able to place an order with United Utility Supply to immediately rush materials to the scene. The first semi-tractor loads of additional poles, transformers, and reels of wire arrived Saturday night for use Sunday morning with no time lost waiting.
As damage assessments continued to come in from all areas of the state, United Utility Supply sent customized orders for replacement parts to many other individual co-ops.
In the meantime, KAEC coordinated the movements of crews to the areas most in need, efficiently shifting manpower from place to place. In just one example, crews from Cumberland Valley Electric assisted first with repair work in Big Sandy RECC's service territory, then when those were completed both Cumberland Valley and Big Sandy crews went over to Licking Valley RECC to join crews from Clark Energy, Inter-County Energy, Fleming-Mason Energy, and South Kentucky RECC already on the scene. Work crews from East Kentucky Power Cooperative arrived to help repair the damaged substations and other transmission system structures.
Despite flash flooding in some areas immediately following the tornadoes, then a heavy snowfall over the weekend, within one week the many mutual aid work crews had restored power to all meters still active.
As co-op members complete repairs to their homes and other structures, crews have continued to reconnect service to those meters. All across the state these reconnection activities are ongoing—and all crews have used lessons learned from this latest disaster to fine-tune their emergency response plans for whatever happens next.
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Storm preparation checklist
Now is a great time to give your emergency plan a tune-up. Think about where you might be during the next severe weather event—at home, at work, at school, perhaps at church or a sports event, or driving—and what you need to do in each place.
A few minutes of planning
could save your life.
Know how to get timely and accurate weather information.
• Options include a battery powered NOAA Weather Alert Radio, a battery-powered regular AM/FM radio, as well as Code Red, a free voice and/or text messaging system available in many counties and similar notification services available on the Internet.
• Remember that satellite TV receivers and cable TV systems sometimes do not function during extreme weather events—be sure to have reliable alternatives to national media such as The Weather Channel and your local TV stations.
• Find out what outdoor siren signals in your area mean—and if you will be able to hear them if a storm is already in progress.
Talk together as you make a plan.
• Make sure each person in your group (whether that's family members, co-workers, or your church buddies) understands exactly what he or she should do.
• Be sure to discuss each step carefully with children and grandchildren, and the elderly or others who may need extra help.
• Prepare a grab-n-go disaster kit for each person. Include things such as prescription medicines, contact lens preparations, water, and snacks.
Know where to go and how to get there.
• Figure out ahead of time if a building has a basement, or if you'll need to go to an interior room on the lowest level, such as a bathroom or a closet. In a business, safe spots may include walk-in coolers and freezers, bank vaults, storage areas, and other sturdy places.
• Plan to leave campers, mobile homes, manufactured housing, barns, and work trailers immediately—and know how much time to allow to get to the nearest shelter in a sturdy, conventionally built structure.
• Be sure to tell a family member or friend in a different area where you will go and why. Be sure to discuss how you will get in touch with each other later if phone service is disrupted, and where you'll meet afterward.
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How to get help, how to give help
How to get help
Federal disaster assistance is available to qualified persons in Bath, Campbell, Carroll, Grant, Grayson, Kenton, Johnson, LaRue, Laurel, Lawrence, Magoffin, Martin, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Ohio, Pendleton, Rowan, Russell, Trimble, and Wolfe counties.
• Contact FEMA and Kentucky Emergency Management directly (do not rely on gossip or hearsay) to get accurate information about your situation.
• To determine if you qualify for assistance (consider applying even if you think you won't qualify) contact the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
From a tablet or smartphone: m.fema.gov
Phone: (800) 621-3362. For people with speech or hearing disabilities: TTY (800) 462-7585
In person: FEMA has a temporary office in the Kentucky Housing Corporation Building, 1084 Highway 7, West Liberty, KY 41472
How to give help
Many charitable groups are providing aid throughout Kentucky, including the American Red Cross, Samaritan's Purse, Southern Baptist Disaster Relief, God's Pit Crew, and Christian Appalachian Project.
For more info on charitable relief work for people, pets, and farm livestock, or to find out how you can donate money or your skills, call the Kentucky Emergency Management hotline toll-free at (877) 634-8175 or go online to this Web site:
Bank of the Mountains, P. O. Box 309, West Liberty, KY 41472, has established a fund with all proceeds going to Morgan County Christian Social Services; no administration fee is taken out of the donations. Checks should be made payable to Morgan County Christian Social Services, and in the "memo" line write Morgan County Tornado Disaster Relief. For further information, call Suzie Blevins at (606) 743-3141. Contributions to this fund can also be made through Commercial Bank, PO Box 635, West Liberty, KY 41472. Contact: Ashley Lykins (606) 743-3195.
Special "lost and found" services
The tornado winds that crushed buildings and uprooted trees also snatched papers and other possessions, hurled them up into the air, then carried them aloft for many miles until they dropped back down from the sky, sometimes in another state.
Two sites on Facebook are attempting to return found items to their owners:
I found your memory:
Wedding portraits, baby pictures, diplomas, and other important memories are being matched up every day, so if you've lost something special to your family, you'll want to give these sites a try.
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April 2012 column that goes along with this supplement,
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Energy journalist NANCY GRANT is a member of the Cooperative Communicators Association and the American Society of Journalists and Authors.


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Tips for PR pros to improve pitching skills
Do you have all the facts, know what you're going to say and believe that your message is important, but never get a media placement? Maybe it's the way you are communicating? Yes, it most certainly is. I've listed 4 effective PR pitching tips to improve your communication with the media and efficiently increase media impressions for your company and/or client.
Know the beat
It sounds like a no-brainer, but it's a mistake a lot of PR peeps make. Make sure you do your research. Familiarize yourself with the publication, and make sure you're not wasting your time by pitching to the wrong beat reporter. You will lose your credibility fast and let's be honest, it looks unprofessional. A great way to find the right beat and/or beat reporter is to simply go to the publication Web site. Some news mediums have separate reporter profiles, some do not. I currently use a CisionPoint database (formerly Bacon's Directory). CisionPoint offers individual reporter profiles, but it is costly. A cheaper method? Try Twitter. Twitter is becoming an excellent tool to find out info about media contacts AND it's FREE. Twitter is serving as my new relationship-builder and point-of-contact for my national contacts. If you aren't familiar with Twitter and you're a PR/communications professional … we need to talk!
Make it short and develop "kickers"
Sometimes I'll send an email to a media contact and say something like, "Hey Susie, I see you've been covering a lot of stories on the recession and donation decline. Wondering if you'd be interested in talking to one of our employees who is giving back more—despite trying times. Press release is attached. Call me!" It entices the person to return the message. You're news release can be long and packed with details, but your initial pitch … no way!
Email, phone or fax?
Just because you prefer email over a phone call doesn't mean the reporter or editor you are trying to reach does too. Find out how that particular person likes to receive their news and respect those wishes—otherwise you are wasting your time.
Are you truly available?
Is it easy for a reporter to find your contact information? This tip can go a long way (I should probably blog about how to pitch to difference mediums in the future because it's so important). As mentioned earlier, every reporter, journalist and editor has a different way they like to be pitched to. But make sure it's really easy for them to find you as well! Few ways to do this: Always have contact info at end of emails, phone calls, social media sites, fax communication AND most IMPORTANTLY, on your company or clients' corporate Web site.
Side note: I met a truly fantastic, young communications pro at a Ragan Communications Corporate Communicators Conference in Chicago these past few days. I was so excited to know more, mainly because I know her nitch is somewhat untouched in the corporate communications field. I'll be posting either a guest post or highlight on the information she provided in the upcoming weeks. Even if you're not in the communications, PR or marketing field, I promise most of you will eat her stuff up! STAY TUNED!


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RAP4 [468] Paintball Gun Thrown from a Building
See Omar Macy, the designer of RAP4's newest marker, the 468, stand-by while the marker is thrown off a roof. He then picks it up and fires it without any malfunctions. More torture tests to come! http://www.facebook.com/rap4usa
This article was published on Thursday 14 February, 2013.


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This lovely couple took their wedding invitation from New and Blue into their baker and had their wedding cake designed to match! So darling- had to share!
New and Blue - Wedding Blog
A Bar Mitzvah Save the Date Rap Video... Yes!
Well I have to say this is a first! Daniel Blumen, a soon to be 13 year old, came up with a creative save the date for his upcoming Bar Mitzvah. Instead of mailing out cards or magnets, the family decided to do something a little more creative. They created a save the date video remake of the always popular "Welcome to Atlanta" by Ludacris and Jermaine Dupri.
Rapping his way throughout the city Daniel shows your some of the top monuments in Altlanta. But that's not all, he also has plenty of big star cameos. The list of stars includes Mayor Kasim Reed, Shaq, Barkley, Frank Ski, and even Ne-Yo. Pretty nice line up for a 13 year old.
It's a must watch.
Your New... (Fill in the Blank)
Planning a wedding can be overwhelming at times with so much to think about, plan and book. Not to mention, all the changes that take place after the wedding too! For many couples after a wedding there are lots of new things: name, address, email... Make life a little easier with Moo MiniCards. They are half the size of business cards but the perfect size for all your information. Upload your own images (an engagement picture?) or designs with your new personal information. For 100 mini cards they are only $19.99. Once you receive them you can include the mini cards in your wedding thank you cards. A great price that will save you from having to hand write all your new information.
Shoes! Shoes! Shoes!
Shoes are just as important as the wedding gown and veil. These days there are so many different options for brides, the most important thing is comfort. You will want to walk, dance and feel great all night long. There are many different options for wedding shoes including the hot trends of cowboy boots and ballet flats. Or if you are dying for a killer pair of tall heels, just make sure to bring a backup pair of shoes (might we suggest a wedge) to dance the night away.
Source: SimplyBridal
Wedding Planning with your Groom
According to Brides Magazine, below is a list of wedding tasks that every groom enjoys. We think some of these will surprise you so don't leave your groom out of the planning!
1. Asking his best friend to be his best man
2. Designing your wedding website
3. Working on the play-list
4. Picking out the appetizers
5. Creating a wedding micro-brew
6. Choosing what he'll wear
7. Comparing cake flavors
8. Researching the honeymoon
9. Figuring out the map/directions cards
10. Going to the menu tasting
11. Proofreading invitations, programs, etc.
12. Wielding the scan gun when you register
13. Getting a day-before massage
14. Choosing your wedding day ride
15. Writing his vows (you'd be surprised!)
16. Attending the bachelor party
17. Unwrapping presents
18. Deciding on wines
19. Organizing pyrotechnics of any type - fireworks, sparklers, etc.
20. Practicing the first kiss
Ladies First, right?
Addressing envelopes for a party or wedding can be tricky with so many rules to follow. But let's highlight one very important rule. Ladies first. Yes, whether we are talking about manners or envelopes, a woman should always be first. Right? There is a misconception that men should be listed first out of respect. When we do this however, we are separating a man from his last name. This is the first rule- never separate a man from his last name. By following this rule, addressing envelopes should be a little bit easier. Here are some common scenarios:
Michael and Bethany Johnson
Correction: Bethany and Michael Johnson
Michael, Bethany, Johnny and Katie Johnson
Correction: Bethany, Johnny, Katie and Michael Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Michael and Bethany Johnson
Correction: Mr and Mrs. Michael Johnson
The Groom's List
Today we are seeing more and more men becoming involved in the wedding planning process, and we LOVE it! As more men are growing their to-do list for the big day, there is one List they don't want to miss. The Groom's List. The Groom's List is a comprehensive online wedding resource that provides to the point guidance for men. Everything from the proposal to tips for a healthy marriage- this site has it all.
We just received our 2013 Oregon Groom Resource Guide and it is jam packed with checklists and discounts. Discounts from Leatherman, Game Truck and Koi Fusion are all available... just to name a few. Many wedding vendors (including us) have these books on hand. So make sure to pick one up for your soon-to-be hubby!
What?! Twitch is engaged?!
Does anyone else feel like they have been lied to? I cannot believe these two are engaged!! So You Think You Can Dance all-stars Stephen "Twitch" Boss and Allison Holker announced their engagement on Twitter yesterday. They have been dating for two and a half years- shocker, I am still not sure how I missed this? Well regardless that they forgot call me, I am so excited for these two. They are going to have one heck of a dance party at their wedding!
A Darling Thank You Song
This darling groom posted his wedding speech online. Once you watch the video, you will understand why this is going viral. After admitting he is a poor public speaker, he sings his way through a list of thank you's. A cleaver and cute idea.
Portland Bridal Show
Calling all brides! This weekend January 12 & 13 at the Oregon Convention Center is the always popular Portland Bridal Show. Come on down and visit us along with hundreds of other local vendors. To view a list of all the vendors click here.
The show times for the weekend are as follows:
Mornings: Doors Open 10: 00 am. Fashion Show 12:00 pm
Afternoons: Doors Open 2:00 pm. Fashion Show 3:30 pm
Evenings: Doors Open 5:00 pm. Fashion Show 6:30 pm (Saturday only)
Stop by our booth to check out the latest invitations, favors, and accessories. Hope to see you there!


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If one story recently prompted parents to shake their heads in dismay, it was the tale of Marcy Keelin, the 38-year-old woman who -- according to police -- left her 10-year-old daughter in the lurch in a shoplifting escapade at a Morgan Hill Safeway.
A host of folks sarcastically dubbed her "Mother of the Year,'' suggesting she wasn't fit to have custody of her daughter after driving off when authorities stopped the 10-year-old girl leaving the store with groceries the mother had selected for theft.
I'll let smarter folks than I decide custody issues. I often doubt that the alternative to a biological parent necessarily means an improvement, however flawed the parent is.
What disturbs us,
It's not as though enlisting kids in crime introduces a new precedent. In the past, San Jose gangs have used young teenage shooters because they're likely to face lighter penalties than older teens.
Political ads
In a different sort of con, political ads that deploy children almost always distort the truth, threatening a bleak future for the innocent if so-and-so is elected. This year's presidential election features more than a few such hoaxes.
In Keelin's case, we hardly know all the facts. We do know that Keelin, who also has an 11-month-old child, is accused of loading $160 worth of groceries into the cart her daughter was supposed to wheel outside. She was arrested Friday at a Nevada motel after a sheriff's deputy spotted her Ford Explorer in the parking lot.
The core problem is the abandonment. Had Keelin stopped when she saw her daughter detained at the door, it would be bad, but hardly the stuff of statewide news. It was her decision to flee, leaving her daughter to answer questions from authorities, that moved us to outrage.
Now it's always possible that this was set up beforehand: "Honey, if the heat comes down, I may have to drive off. Don't worry about it. Tell them that you want to go to Grandma's and I'll catch up with you later.''
Daughter's viewpoint
But think of this from the daughter's point of view. If she was distraught at her mother's departure, we could at least say that she wasn't hardened to her role. We could conclude she believed in family loyalty.
If she accepted her mother's decision to drive off, or even understood it, it would be worse. It would say that she knows there is no honor among thieves, no right and wrong, just a path of least resistance, a shrug at a con gone bad.
In the long run, that hurts us as a society far more. We only have to look at Paul Ray Castillo, the killer of radio host Cindy Nguyen, to know how a kid can be inured to crime. When Castillo was a child, his mother taught him to burglarize homes by entering through the dog door.
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Windows - HOW-TO use Logitech Harmony Universal Remote Control without EventGhost
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2010-09-14 16:24
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From looking at EventGhost log, it appears that Harmony is not consistent in the number of codes it sends when I click down or up... I bet this has to do with it being set as a MCE Keyboard... perhaps certain keys send more than 1 string?? With it set to other devices, it seems to work fine.
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2010-09-14 16:47
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WannaTheater Wrote:From looking at EventGhost log, it appears that Harmony is not consistent in the number of codes it sends when I click down or up... I bet this has to do with it being set as a MCE Keyboard... perhaps certain keys send more than 1 string?? With it set to other devices, it seems to work fine. Strange...that happens with me when I use something other than MCE Keyboard. Are you aiming at your USB-UIRT at a really oblique angle? |
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2010-09-14 17:01
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Nope... straight on. Does the same thing for 2 different USBUIRTs on 2 separate machines. You can even see the red light flashing more than once. The harmony is definitely sending more than one signal.
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2010-09-27 13:43
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first of all i have to say a BIG thank you for this thread! It helped me a lot to solve my Harmony/XBMC issues. But some problems are still remaining: I have tested several delay-settings, but i can't solve the problem of "repeating key presses". This always happens when i'm pressing a button (e.g.: direction up, ...) to short. In this case i keeps repeating my last command from my harmony and stops when i'm pressing another key :/ The second "issue" (it's more an annoying difference between keyboard and remote control) could be connected with the first problem. Key presses on my harmony seem to be transfered very slow, it takes ages to scroll through a longer list of films or tv shows. I hope someone can help me, and i'm sorry for my poor english-grammer knowledge cheers |
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2010-10-19 12:56
Post: #165
steelman1991 Wrote:Anybody having difficulty when using Danielocean's tip for start-up? When I first set this up using F7 as start up key everything functioned as expected, however on several occasions since initial set-up the funtion to start-up (F7 in my case) has ceased to work. The only way to refocus the system is to re-boot my PC. Anyone else encountered this problem - or maybe offer a solution? Did you find a solution to this? I browsed through the entire thread and didn't see a answer on it. I just recently ran into this on my machine. I had to reboot my machine aswell to make it work again. |
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2010-10-20 16:59
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Very nice and rewarding thread. My problem is how to map f.ex. F5 to open the favorites list in XBMC. There I have my netradiostations etc. I have seen this in the keymap.file: <browser_favorites>ActivateWindow(Favourites)</browser_favorites> but I don't know how to use it from the keyboard. I had in mind something like this: <keymap> <Global> <keyboard> <f1>ActivateWindow(videolibrary,tvshowtitles)</f1> <f2>ActivateWindow(videofiles,Downloads)</f2> <f3>ActivateWindow(videofiles,Movies)</f3> </keyboard> </Global> </keymap> Egon |
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2010-11-02 02:12
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I just have a tiny question: Does this way (harmony as mce keyboard) work with XBMC when XBMC is out of focus (your surfing or typing or whatever) and XBMC is running in the background on another screen)?
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2010-11-02 09:57
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Short answer: It has to be in focus! Bye, Itzak |
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2010-11-09 00:05
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egon Wrote:Hey. Hi, I'm also interested in this. I'd like to add a button on my harmony to go straight to favourites, movies, music and playlists. Is this possible or do I have to adjust the keymap.xml? thanks |
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2010-11-21 18:38
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johnmerrick Wrote:Hi, Her you can see the endresult, that works. You have to modify the keyboard.xml - <keyboard> <f1>ActivateWindow(musicfiles,musik-plugins)</f1> <f2>ActivateWindow(musicfiles,music)</f2> <f3>ActivateWindow(MyPictures,fotos)</f3> <f4>ActivateWindow(videofiles,movies)</f4> <f8>ActivateWindow(musicfiles,Favourites)</f8> <f5>ActivateWindow(Home)</f5> <f6>ActivateWindow(Favourites)</f6> Egon |
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The product has great quality and durability. The paddings would protect the camera and lenses from shocks and the case is compact and easy to handle for quick shots.
But WATCH OUT, the images shown above also includes that of the bigger Lowepro 170. The 120 can only fit a single camera with a 'not too long' lens.
Flipkart's delivery was good as always.
When I first bought Canon Powershot SX30 IS when it was first released in Dubai,it came with a free Canon carrying case. It could not protect the camera completely as it was open open on sides from dust and bumps. I tried several shops in Chennai and Secunderabad for more than an year but in vain.
Then Flipkart came to my rescue. I studied many reviews - Lowepro models - Rezo,Adventura120,Quick Case120,Stockholm120 & Caselogic models.
The Lowepro Quick case120 fits the camera tightly and though I liked it, I disliked the case weight attached to the camera strap and the spong like feel plus the cost. The top loading Rezo model was put aside as I could not grip & pull the camera freely.
The Adventura 120 acommodates and protects the camera very well. You have to insert the Velcro edged seperator provided with 1.5 inch gap from the left (looking like this " ] " viewed from top with Velcro side towards the case inside and 1 inch deep from top of the case yellow edge. Grip the camera and insert with lens cover towards seperator - Well you are a happy customer.
A word of caution the - Adventura 120 case looks bulky with heavy padding compared to Lowepro Quickcase 120. If are a serious photographer with quick draw and jump to action type, dont bother about cost and pack lightly you may opt for Quickcase 120.
Check it out for yourself.
As for Flipkart.com - undoubtedly they are one of the top and busy sellers with low prices compared to others & watchout the product you want to buy may be sold out the next day and reappear after one or two days later. Take your decision then and there.
This bag is nicely padded and well cushioned and has a adjustable padded separator which can be use to divide main compartment into two. However this is a small bag(check dimension above), good enough to fit SLR camera along with 1 lens only. No space for extra lens. In front pocket there is small space for keeping extra batteries and memory card. Also there are two pockets on either side and one at back, good enough to keep some papers and/or small note book. Overall this a good walk around bag if you intend to carry your SLR with 1 lens, but if you want to carry more than 1 lens or other bigger accessory, such as extra flash, do look for a bigger bag than this.
I am using this bag for my Canon SX20IS. It's compact. My camera perfectly fits in it along with Sony Charger, four Sony rechargeable batteries, four additional alkaline batteries. Nice product.I am using this bag for my Canon SX20IS. It's compact with great quality and durability. Nice soft padding is probably the best feature of it. It helps to protect my camera from jerks and socks. It comes with adjustable padded separator so that you can utilize the full space of the bag.
My camera perfectly fits in it along with Sony Charger, four Sony rechargeable batteries, four additional alkaline batteries. Nice product.
I have been using this product for quite sometime now
I use to keep a Nikon L120, eight spare batteries, a Nikon AA charger with cord, a card reader, a few spare memory cards, a small tripod and a data cable. Stunningly all of this is a snug fit. It's an awesome bag for bridge cameras as well.
Perfectly water proof; being exposed to Mumbai rains and very high quality material, the strap is sturdy, has handy locks and zippers.
Cons: nothing really
its good but please don't go by picture. Nikon cool pix l810 will fit in properly but remember it will only fit the camera not...
Read MoreThe bag is too small, my Nikon D70 barely fits in it. I cannot fit my USB cable, charger and charger cable at all. I will not...
Read MoreAlways remember that you get what you pay for. For the price it is a deal-breaker.I bought it for my bridge camera and it serve...
Read MoreThis product is perfect for my Canon 650D or Rebel T4i with single lens (18-55mm).Its compact and is well cushioned.If arranged...
Read MoreI am using this bag for my Canon SX20IS. It's compact. My camera perfectly fits in it along with Sony Charger, four Sony rechar...
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Coconut Almond Granola Bar Awesomeness
1 cup nuts, blended to powder (I used almonds)
1 cup oats
1/4 cup wheat germ
1 whole coconut, shredded (~2 cups)
1 cup turbinado sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup soymilk
1 teaspoon almond extract
Combine the nut powder, oats, coconut, wheat germ, salt and sugar.
Combine the soymilk and almond extract and add to the dry ingredients.
Mix thoroughly, and firmly press onto a greased cookie sheet (if you don't press it down, they will just fall apart and turn into granola).
Cook at 350F for ~25 mins then raise temp to 450F for another 10-20 mins or until golden. Let cool completely, cut into bars and enjoy!
I greased my cookie sheet with virgin coconut oil cuz it's so yummy, but you can use canola or margarine etc.. just try to avoid olive oil cuz it will give the bars a strange taste..
Also, a mix of almond, pistachio, cashew and macadamia nuts is super delicious too (although very expensive hehe ;) ).
The nuts give a lot of protein, the coconut gives a bunch of medium chain tri-glycerides, the type of fat that's really good for you and your metabolism, and the oats and wheat germ give you fiber. Overall, these are my favorite energy/granola bars ever. They taste so good and are so good for you.
Made this recipe this afternoon, and between myself, my husband and our 18month old daughter, we almost had it finished in a day. This is a great recipe, heatly and easy to make. All I changed was not cooking it for the last 10-20 minutes in the 450 degree heat, only because I wanted it more chewy for my daughter. Thanks for sharing:o)
Ah, how lovely these could have been if they hadn't burned! Since others had also commented on this, I turned the oven up to 400 degrees instead of the instructed 450 and left them in for just 7 minutes - still too much. Maybe next time (sniff, sniff). I threw in a handful of hemp and flax seeds, a handful of raisins, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1/8ish of cocoa powder and subbed 3/4 tsp stevia for the sugar.
these tasted a bit like almond joys :) but the edges were burnt black so i'll adjust the time next time i make these, perhaps with some chocolate
These are excellent, thank you!!!! I added carob chips. Delicious! I can't wait for my fam to try them. I believe they're gonna love it! Where did you get the idea? What role do the ground almonds and wheat germ play? They both act as binders? I'm such an amateur cook.
I made these using pecans and packaged coconut. The flavor is great, because it's so coconuty, but I think the baking times need to be tweaked a bit. Overall, it's a great, simple recipe. Mine can't really be cut into bars, but it's just as good broken into hunks.
Wax paper isn't meant to be baked. Parchment paper is oven safe and shouldn't set off your fire alarm. :)
I recently found gluten free oats in the states and was sooooo excited to try this out because granola has always been my favorite!! I used bagged unsweetened coconut shreds, pecans instead of almonds and vanilla instead of almond extract (almond allergy >:-( ) 1/3 cup agave nectar 1/3 cup xylitol crystals and 1/4 cup finely chopped/smashed dried white raisins instead of sugar, flax instead of wheat germ and used parchment paper to line. omg YUM! I think I am now happy with snack-life again. THANK YOU!
These taste so delicious, but I had such a hard time getting them off the cookie sheet. I oiled it with virgin coconut oil as suggested (because it is incredibly yummy!) really well but they still stuck. Thank you very much to hiimkelsi, for the double boiling idea, otherwise I would have driven myself nuts and destroyed many utensils.
This might have something to do with me overcooking them for a couple minutes, and also that I used packaged coconut. My problem is that fresh coconut is expensive here (I live in the desert and fresh fruit is hard to come by, especially exotic fruits), and I don't think I've even seen an organic coconut, although I've never really looked.
So, my question is to any one who has made these successfully, what can I do to ensure these don't stick again, besides using fresh coconut (which isn't really an option for me) or parchment paper? I swore I oiled the sheet really well.