text: Photo Gallery Best New Space Pictures: "Super Earth," Solar Storm, More A snowstorm hammers the U.S., the sun rages on New Year's Day, and a "Super Earth" gets a closer look in this week's best space pictures. PUBLISHED January 5, 2014 0 1 / 6 Everest Reigns Atop the Himalaya High atop the Himalaya, Mount Everest towers over its neighbors in this picture taken by NASA's EOS-1 spacecraft. In Nepal, the mountain is called Sagarmatha, which means "mother of the universe." (See: "The State of Everest: The Climbers Weigh In.")The snowy scene disguises the origins of the Himalaya, built of marine limestone that crumpled upward to form mighty mountains in the collision of Asia with the Indian subcontinent, some 40 million years ago. Photograph by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, NASA Earth Observatory Alien Atmospheres The "Super Earth" planet, GJ 1214b, possesses six times the mass of Earth and high, dense clouds, which are depicted here blanketing its atmosphere. The Hubble Space Telescope team reported atmospheric data from this world and a "Warm Neptune" planet orbiting another star this week. (See "A Banner Year in the Hunt for Exoplanets [2013]."Alien planets aplenty orbit nearby stars, with more than a thousand detected in the last decade. But the clouds that cloak these worlds are only now coming into focus. Ultimately, in their investigations of exoplanet atmospheres, astronomers hope to someday find an Earth-size planet with an atmosphere that might support life. Photograph courtesy Telescope Science Institute Mercury's Battered Face Billions of years of asteroid impacts have shaped the face of Mercury, marking the planet with the cratered hills seen in this image from the space agency's MESSENGER spacecraft. (See "NASA's First Pictures of Mercury Taken From Orbit.") Sharpened by sunlight on the horizon, Mercury's dust-lined ridges come into sharp focus. In orbit around Mercury since 2011, MESSENGER has undertaken a high-resolution mapping campaign of scientifically compelling parts of its surface. The spacecraft will continue operating and taking pictures of Mercury until 2015. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington New Year's Day Flare Happy New Year! The sun greeted the calendar rolling over with a pair of flares, seen in various wavelengths captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.The region of the sun where the two flares originated, called AR1936, has been a hot spot for recent solar activity. It should rotate out of view in the next few days. Photograph courtesy NASA/SDO Rosette Nebula Shines Bright The Rosette Nebula hangs in the sky like a holiday wreath in this Christmas Eve photo submitted to National Geographic's Your Shot.Located some 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros, the nebula takes its name from its rosebud-shaped folds, as seen in this image taken from Berkley, Michigan. Photograph by Jeffrey Sines, Your Shot Lunar Rendezvous With Venus The Swiss Alps serves as a heavenly home for a rendezvous between the crescent moon and crescent Venus, one of the week's sky-watching highlights. Venus heads toward conjunction with the sun on January 12, when it passes on the opposite side of our star as seen from Earth. It will reappear in the sky toward the end of the month. Photograph by Christoph Malin, TWAN Related Stories Week's Best Space Pictures: How Huge Black Holes Are Born Now Is the Best Time to Spot the Space Station This Week's Night Sky: See Mars and Jupiter Compete


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When most people think of the self storage industry they think about an episode of NCIS where the terrorist hid bombs in a storage unit or the scene from Silence of the Lambs where something rather gruesome was discovered. Thanks to reality television, the casual observer now sees it as the possible needle in a haystack; a figurative diamond in the rough.
One self storage company known for its excellence in service and community involvement is prepared to show the community that it also knows how to have a good time.
Amazing Spaces, a self storage company based in the Houston, Texas, area, will be opening a new self storage facility around mid-March near the Medical Center in Houston, and is pulling out all the stops in order to show how happy they are to be there.
The grand opening celebration is scheduled to take place on Friday, April 20. When Amazing Spaces celebrates—they celebrate! The company will have festivities that day from 11 AM to 2 PM. During that time they will open to the public (if anyone wants to just say hi). Prizes (gift cards, 42" plasma TV, gift baskets, etc.) will be given out throughout the day and people can enjoy made-to-order crepes after (or before) they take part in a wine tasting as well.
Amazing Spaces has been around long enough to know that giving thanks to the people that walk through the door is not enough. They want to show their appreciation and joy by also giving back to the community. To do so they have pledged to donate 10 percent of all sales during its first 30 days to the Houston Shriners Hospitals for Children. In addition, the company's other three locations will also donate 10 percent of all sales of moving supplies during the same time frame.
For well over a decade Amazing Spaces has been one of the leading self storage providers in the state of Texas. Its facilities are often recognized as one of the best on a local, state, and national level. The company itself has been rated as one of the top 100 self storage providers in the nation. As could be expected the company is excited whenever it is recognized for its excellence:
"I was thrilled to hear the news that we made the Top Operators list. As a company we are looking forward to continued growth in the years to come. We are always looking at markets to expand in and ways to assist our customers' storage and moving supply needs," Amazing Spaces Vice President Kathy Tautenhahn says.
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I'm not sure which county it is...we plan to get married in Gettysburg. I actually live in Maryland. Also, my fiance does not want to sign a prenuptial agreement. I am not good with that, but she's thrown a fit and threatened not to marry me. There is one more monkey wrench in it - she's pregnant - about six weeks along.
Thank you for your follow-up, William. Please let me respond to each issue you brought up.Gettysburg is located in Adams County, Pennsylvania. You BOTH would need to appear between the hours of 8 am to 4 pm, appear within 60 days of the ceremony date. Here is the address below:Adams County CourthouseClerk of Courts Office117 Baltimore St., Rm. 103Gettysburg, PA 17325 717.337.98068:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. / M - F $60 cash or check. Closed for holidays.Further requirements are: Anyone wishing to marry in Pennsylvania must obtain a PA marriage license. Both applicants must appear together in person to complete the marriage license application. Applicants must have valid identification whichmay be a driver's license, military or Penn DOT photo ID. Birth certificates are required only when applicants have none of the above. All ID must be in english or accompanied by a certified english translation. Applicants must provide a social security number (federal and state mandates for U.S. citizens).Being a resident is NOT a requirement.You brought up other issues. Her pregnancy is a non-issue for marriage purposes. But the disagreement over a prenup may be a very serious precursor. If you both cannot agree, one way or another, it is likely not a good beginning to your potential life together. PA does not require a prenup, and I cannot suggest which opinion is better or stronger, but common ground is a necessity for long-term success.Good luck.
William,Thank you for your follow-up. In your other post you asked:Thanks for your answer - I appreciate the confirmation. I do have another question - she has medical insurance, but it doesn't cover her being pregnant. She wants to get married basically because of the coverage she'll receive due to my military service. However, she is also making a lot of threats, basically saying that if I don't marry her, I'll have to pay for all of her medical costs. What are my financial obligations to her with regard to pregnancy-related medical costs.If the child is hers, she can potentially seek partial compensation (as she herself is also required to cover her own expenses) from you once paternity is assured. But beyond that you have no financial obligations because at least so far there is no proof she is truly pregnant or that the child is legally yours. If you marry, then whomever is born automatically becomes your child, regardless of whether or not the child is biologically yours or not. When single paternity has to first be proven by blood test. This is not an accusation of your fiance, merely an explanation of how this works.Good luck and if satisfied, please do not forget to positively rate my answers as otherwise I do not get credit for my work. Thank you!
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For the sake of argument, let's say the child is mine. My concern is the cost associated with the whole thing. I have a security clearance, and financial stability is a very important part of keeping that clearance. I can ill afford to lose my clearance, which could then force me out of the Army, which would then mean the loss of a retirement.
I'm willing to marry her, just for the sake of the medical coverage that she would receive from the military. We spoke about a prenuptial agreement, and she lost it - I'm afraid of her taking everything I have if I don't get one. It seems like I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't - which really is the lesser of two evils?
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For the sake of argument, let's say the child is mine. My concern is the cost associated with the whole thing. I have a security clearance, and financial stability is a very important part of keeping that clearance. I can ill afford to lose my clearance, which could then force me out of the Army, which would then mean the loss of a retirement.
I am not seeing how this would affect your clearance. As a potential father she could later pursue you for costs, and you could then directly create an agreement with the medical professionals to help pay for part of her expenses. But you are not required to cover them all--this is her child, same as yours, and expenses are shared and not borne by one person.
I'm willing to marry her, just for the sake of the medical coverage that she would receive from the military. We spoke about a prenuptial agreement, and she lost it - I'm afraid of her taking everything I have if I don't get one. It seems like I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't - which really is the lesser of two evils?
I cannot tell you what is the lesser of the two evils here as I am not your attorney. But purely going by what you are stating, it appears this person is not out primary for love but for protection and medical insurance (and later for support). That is typically not a healthy way to start a relationship. Using financial means to hold you is not a good long-term solution, and there is likewise an ability to pay for this without marriage, especially if you are not sure this person has your best interest at heart.
Good luck.
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AZ Bill Would Ban Posing As Others Online, Regardless of Intent
If passed, an Arizona bill would ban individuals from posing as others online, joining about a dozen states with similar laws. This would include punishing users who create parody accounts on sites like Twitter and Facebook.
The state says it could help fight fraud and identity theft. However others, such as Judge Andrew Napolitano, say it's unnecessary legislation. Acts of impersonation with the intent to do harm are punishable by laws already on the books.
This new bill, the judge says, would criminalize the impersonation attempt even if there was no harm done. "I would think the state has better things to do than get involved in this."
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This past weekend, I had to put my 14+ year old dog, Virginia, to sleep. She had a pretty aggressive cancerous tumor in her mouth that was bleeding everywhere and getting too big to live with. It was time, but it wasn't easy.
I should be clear this post won't be about cars. I did manage to connect the loss of beloved dogs with cars a while ago, but I can't bring myself to force any connection here, though I still want to share a bit of Virginia's story, because I miss her and this somehow helps.
Last year I used a chunk of the money I set aside for my Beetle's restoration for surgery to remove the tumor, and I'm happy I did so, as it bought her a good number of pain-free, happy-old-lady-dog months. But the tumor came back in December, and it was growing even faster.
Virginia has been sleeping by my feet in my little office for just about every day I've been writing here at Jalopnik. There's a noticeably dirty corner in here still that I'm not ready to clean just yet. Every dog owner believes their dog is special, and they're all correct. Virginia was profoundly sweet, smart, and loving, and for the last half of her life she was blind, too. To commemorate Virginia, I'd like to re-run this article I wrote for BoingBoing when she went blind. It'll give you a good idea of who she was, and why I miss her so.
One of my dogs, Virginia, went blind late last year. I knew it was coming; she has glaucoma, and lost sight in one of her eyes a while before. We'd been keeping the other eye alive with lots and lots of medicine, but the vet told us it was just a matter of time. So, when the morning came and I found her running around crazily all over the house, nose to the ground, I shouldn't have been surprised.


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Did Jacqueline Laurita Just Spill The Beans On The New Cast Of The Real Housewives Of New Jersey?
October 29, 2013 12:00 PM by Suzy Kerr
There have been plenty of rumors circulating over the last several weeks about the casting changes for the upcoming season of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, and now it seems that we may have some answers. In a recent interview, Jacqueline Laurita dished on the new – and returning – Housewives that will round out the cast.
"There's two twin Italian girls — Teresa and Nicole — and then a girl named Amber," Jacqueline told Us Weekly at the Manhattan Beach Pier on October 27. This confirms what we reported earlier in the month, when rumors were swirling that sisters Teresa and Nicole Napolitano and their pal Amber Marchese were possibly joining the cast.
And guess what else? "I think that my sister-in-law Dina [Manzo] is coming back!" Jacqueline gushed to Us. Now that Caroline Manzo is officially off The Real Housewives of New Jersey and working on her own spin-off series, estranged sister Dina has been rumored to be returning to the series. Sounds like Jacqueline took it upon herself to go ahead and validate that bit of gossip, as well.She also sort of confirmed that Dina's return is directly related to Caroline's exit, saying, "Well, she doesn't really want to do the show with family because it brings unnecessary drama and causes problems. I understand why she doesn't want to do a show with family. I totally get it."
You know what I don't get, though? I don't get it when these Housewives say they like to avoid "unnecessary drama" because HELLO! – they totally thrive on drama. Like, every show. Every show is about the drama, and c'mon, we all know these ladies love it. It's how they get paid, after all.
And speaking of drama, Jacqueline also shared her feelings about co-stars Teresa and Joe Giudice's upcoming fraud trial, where the couple is facing 50 years in the big house for conspiring to defraud lenders and hiding assets, among other charges. "Of course I'm worried," she said regarding the Giudice's February court date. "I'm always there for her if she wants me, I'm there. I'm not going to push myself on anybody. If she wants me, I'm there for her always."
Always and forever…..until she goes to prison, right?
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Condensing the 240-year history of the United States into a 35-minute program, complete with a dozen songs, could be daunting for some performers. However, the second-grade classes at Rocky Mountain Academy of Evergreen was more than willing to share, and their audience was more than willing to listen.
At 73 years old, the fabric is worn and stained in some places. The cap was reclaimed after some pilot left it behind. The blouse was tailored and shortened at the bottom to be a more stylish Eisenhower jacket. The pants were reissued with a 36-inch waist, instead of 38. And the jump boots are gone altogether.
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Marco G. Thorne, former San Diego city librarian, 99
Whether behind the wheel of a rural bookmobile or at the helm of a major city library rapidly outgrowing its shelves, Marco Thorne was a driving force.
During his nearly 30-year career with the San Diego Public Library, Mr. Thorne worked to expand the Central Library and authored the plan that, after decades in the making, raised a grand, new structure last year.
A reversal of fortune saw Mr. Thorne, San Diego's chief librarian for seven years, appointed to the position in 1971. He was serving as acting librarian following the retirement of Clara Breed when the public library administrator of Los Angeles was named to the post — only later to rescind the job offer.
As San Diego's librarian, Mr. Thorne oversaw a library system circulating more than a million books at the main library, about two dozen branch libraries and a bookmobile. He authored library master plans advocating a much larger central library, with expansion projects that aimed to double its space, and the increased capacity of several branches. He was assistant librarian in 1954 when the three-story central library, built for $2 million, was opened at 820 E St., and he urged the city for years afterward to buy the entire block where it sat.
Mr. Thorne died of natural causes June 7 at home in Chula Vista. He was 99.
As the city grew, Mr. Thorne looked for ways to improve public library services, helping to launch the Serra Regional Library System to promote cooperation and book circulation among all libraries in the county, and became an advocate of finding a new site for building a modern structure to replace the undersized 147,000-square-foot downtown building.
"We require a facility about three times this size," the city librarian said not long after he took over. "We need it right now."
Right now was too long in coming, however, and Mr. Thorne died without having been able to visit the $197 million domed structure opened in September to house a collection of 2.6 million books, magazines, DVDs, CDs and government documents.
The downtown library Mr. Thorne directed wasn't always outdated. It took the place of the smaller, turn-of-the-century Carnegie Library. The evolution posed its own difficulties, as the entire library had to set up shop for two years in Balboa Park while the new structure was being built on the Carnegie site. The temporary quarters in the park's Food and Beverage Building, described as a relic of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, proved to be a bit wild.
"We had to capture a squirrel who moved in with us and made a nest of some valuable newspapers," Thorne recalled in a 2010 article in The San Diego Union-Tribune. "However, we did not bother a relatively harmless lizard who lived in our discard books shelving. He only came out in the sunlight once a month and ate the many spiders and other insects that battled us to the very end for possession of the Park building."
Marco Gerson Thorne was born July 13, 1914, in Los Angeles, the oldest of three children to Harry Thorne and Jeannette Fine Thorne. Growing up amid the film industry's transition from silent movies to "talkies," Mr. Thorne's youth was a bit of a Hollywood story itself, from working the soda fountain with his younger brother and sister, Herman and Judy, at his father's drugstore, to being an extra as a Boy Scout in the 1928 Harold Lloyd film, "Speedy." A job at a cigar stand brought him in contact with legendary celebrities, including comedian George Burns.
A 1940 graduate of Stanford University, Mr. Thorne held both bachelor's and master's degrees in history from the school, where he was editor of the Stanford Chaparral, the campus humor magazine. He received a master's degree in library science at UC Berkeley in 1942, then served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, attaining the rank of captain. During that time, he served as librarian at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, and wrote several training manuals.


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Rihanna came out after her performance of "Stay" to join Bruno Mars and Sting in a tribute to Bob Marley with Ziggy Marley and Damian Marley.
The Pop singer set off the performance with a rendition of "Locked Out of Heaven," bringing out Sting to run through a rendition of The Police's "Walking on the Moon."
After they jammed on the stage, Rihanna joined the crew to set off the tribute to Bob Marley, assuming hook duties on the late singer's "Could You Be Loved." Marley's sons, Damian and Ziggy, came out shortly after to join the trio on the track.
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Ofer Ben-Amots was just six when he dared touch the new piano in his Haifa home. It was love at first sound — and they've been married ever since. Fifty-two years later, the world famous composer marvels at the relationship between accident, design and G-d in human destiny.
"The story of how that piano arrived at our house is an interesting one," Ben-Amots explains in the IJN conference room. "My grandfather was Bulgarian and spent three years in an internment camp there during the Holocaust.
"In 1961, he was notified that he was entitled to reparation in the form of money, a car or a piano. He wanted the piano."
Ben-Amots, who was born in 1955 in Haifa, started studying the piano at six, gave his first recital at nine — "Mozart, Bach, Israeli folk tunes" — and composed his first song in the Israeli folkloric tradition at 12.
"That was a very naïve attempt," smiles Ben-Amots, 58. "But I immediately felt that if I could invent melodies that fit with words, it's the best thing I could ever do."
Chair of the Colorado College music department for 19 years and a prolific composer, he has given considerable thought to the human-divine partnership in the creative process.
"I am as secular as you can go on the one hand, and as religious and pious as you can be on the other," he laughs. "I don't know how to put the extremes together. But I love it all."
His numerous compositions — "From Darkness to Light," "Celestial Dialogues," "The Dybbuk Suite," "The Heart and the Fountain" — encompass opera, orchestra, and intimate arrangements for cantor and klezmer.
A student of Israeli composer Ram Da-Oz, who also taught him how to tune pianos in Haifa, as well as distinguished professors at universities in Switzerland, Germany and the US, Ben-Amots flies high the wings of his talent.
Although Ben-Amots clearly loves Mozart and Bach, he gravitates toward Jewish themes. Whether utilizing psalm or legend, the composer gives an exquisite voice to his heritage.
"Every folk genre has its idiosyncrasies," he says. "But Judaism is different because there was a tremendous historical gap. In the beginning you heard incredible music in the Temple: very advanced, the singing of psalms, 'hallelujah.' Then, when the Temple was destroyed, music was suddenly forbidden.


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History of The Electronic Cigarette
2003 Heavy tobacco smoker and pharmacist Hon Lik invented the world's first electronic cigarette in Beijing, China. The 52-year-old inventor created the e-cig after his father, also a heavy smoker, died of lung cancer. Hon then changed is his business name from Golden Dragon Holdings to Ruyan- meaning 'like smoke'.
2005 Europe was introduced to electronic cigarettes by British businessman Greg Carson under the tasteful brand name of the 'Electro Fag'. Their launch and increasing popularity created a heated debate in Parliament before MPs concluded that electronic cigarettes should not be included in the smoking ban, therefore are legal to use in buildings where tobacco smoking is prohibited.
2007 The USA is introduced to electronic cigarettes. Their popularity in the US also created a stir, the FDA banned early imports of the product and claimed that tests proved that e-cigs are a "drug device"; these tests are later deeply criticized by the scientific consultants Exponent, Inc.
2008 WHO (World Health Organisation) states that electronic cigarettes are not to be considered as a genuine smoking cessation aid and insists that all companies remove materials suggesting so.
2009 President Obama gives the FDA power to regulate the tobacco industry after signing the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act 18. Flavoured tobacco cessation products can now be banned and any company wishing to introduce new products must comply with FDA market standards.
States begin individually altering their laws toward electronic cigarettes. New Jersey and Oregon include e-cigs in their public smoking ban, California also attempts to do so until then-governor and ex-terminator star Arnold Schwarzenegger puts a stop to it claiming; "If adults want to purchase and consume these products with an understanding of the associated health risks, they should be able to do so unless and until federal law changes the legal status of these tobacco products."
Trade body the Electronic Cigarette Association ECITA was formed, to represent manufacturers, retailers, and distributors, principally in dealings with the Government and health authorities.


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We've been TTc for 3 years, had a mc in Oct'11. I'm now 8 days late for my period, but having negative pregnancy tests. Am I testing to early? I had stomach cramps around day 20 of my cycle, followed by lots of whitish cm. Now I'm having no real symptoms other than more tired than normal, and one of my breasts has begun to hurt near my arm pit today, along with lower back ache. I'm very worried it's a phantom, has anyone else experienced anything similar such as negative tests at this point? Have I tested to early? Trying not to stress over it, but it's hard. I'm worried it could be a phantom. Going to the doctors tomorrow - just hoping for advice or reassurance. Thank you in advance for any replies x
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Well, your body may not be producing enough of the chemical to actually change the pregnancy test to positive or it could be a phantom. The main thing is to try and remain calm.posted 01/05/2012 by Mum Of 2 Aussies
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A grocery store; organized, stickered, looking beautiful to entice your decision to buy, white hats and aprons weighing and packaging meat and fish. Employees busy stocking boxes of food and products on the shelves. This is where we get our food in the winter. Summer and fall we have the opportunity to enjoy local Farmers markets dotting Eagle County. Face to face and up close we get to meet the farmers and creators of the food laid out on a table before you.
The concept of meeting the farmer has become foreign to many people, especially if you grew up in the city. As a kid, my mother came from the farm so I had that treat many times. It really is a treat and an experience for children and adults. Children learn about where their food comes from, what actually is food (poptart is not) and how truly tasty home grown food tastes.
Sinking your teeth into an heirloom tomato without adding any salt, pepper or some spice will help you understand a tomato is a fruit. Heirlooms are the best, most flavorful and colorful tomato's around. A home grown organic cucumber is a taste bud delight compared to those waxy, perfectly shaped cucumbers at the store, there really is no comparison. I am delighted, at least for a few months, tasting the pure goodness of organic vegetables. Now that fall is inching it's way toward us we have the opportunity to eat Palisade peaches. Peaches grown just down I-70 in Palisades Colorado.
The summer starts off slow and steady with early crops, like rhubarb and romaine lettuce in June; next come the apricots, beets and broccoli in early July; but the real summer gems – peaches, sweet corn, cucumbers and tomatoes – that local chefs and market regulars eagerly anticipate, show up around mid-July.
The Vail Farmer's Market and Art Show, which takes place Sundays from June 16-Sept. 22rd from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., has a tremendous variety of vendors and is the largest market in the county as well as the state. Along with produce, shoppers will find plenty of local painters, photographers, jewelry makers and more selling their crafts. Be sure to check out the Vail Jazz Foundation tent by Solaris where from noon to 3 p.m. free jazz concerts take place (vailjazz.org for the lineup). Visit www.vailfarmersmarket.com.
Insiders Tip: If you should go to the Vail Farmers Market on Sundays, pack a change of clothes and towels for your kids. Why? Inevitably, as your family walks by Gore Creek, the allure of the refreshing, flowing water with swirling patterns will beckon your children with it's mesmerizing movement. The urge to touch the water and feel the sand beneath their toes will be too much. Although the air is warm, Gore Creek is extremely cold and wet clothes in the mountains will turn your kids into icicles.Another source of liquid attraction is the children's fountain, up the stairs and within shouting distance from Gore Creek.
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As an adult, I feel the attraction to the water, it's as hard to resist as samples at the grocery store. Once again, the air will be warm but once the kids extract themselves the chill will set in and they will be miserable without a change of clothes and a towel.
The Minturn Market is the county's oldest farmer's market and has its own unique charm. The market runs from June 29-Sept. 14 and includes children's face painting, a bouncy castle, live music and more than 115 market booths. Visit www.minturnmarket.org.
Insider's Tip: Park in the parking lot by the forest service office, that's to your right as you begin to head into Minturn. Here they do have shuttles which will take you to Minturn. It's a cute little town but does not have an abundance of parking.
What's even more fun for your family is to bring your bikes, park in that lot, cross over highway 6 to the bike path, which is along the river, ride up to the next road, which is a couple hundred yards, take left and ride the dirt road into Minturn. You come up into Minturn behind The Minturn Saloon and they do have a bike rack there to lock up bikes. The ride in, is under 2 miles one way. From there you can explore the market and then when you are done, you can ride to Little Beach Park which is about another 2 miles out.
If you're one of those folks who scouts vegetables and other local foods like a bee to fragrant flowers, then the Edwards Farmers Market, which takes place Saturdays from June 15 through mid September, is the market for you. The focus at this market is on all things edible. Along with vendors selling Colorado lamb, beef, pork, chicken, eggs, honey and cheese, local bakeries sell freshly baked breads, pastries and pies. There's plenty of breakfast and lunch fare (the market goes from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.) as well, including crepes, gyros, tamales and more. Pets are welcome and parking is on site. Visit www.edwardsfarmersmarket.com.
The Eagle Farmer's Market, the newest market of the group, takes place on Fridays from July 1 – Oct 5. Vendors include Osage Gardens, an organic farm in nearby New Castle. The market takes place from 4 to 8 p.m. in Eagle Town Park. Visit www.eaglefarmersmarket.org.
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Throughout the rise in tensions on the Korean peninsula, observers have been heartened by the fact that North Korea's Kaesong factory complex, staffed by South Korean managers and the source of $2 billion a year in annual trade, has remained open.
Until perhaps today.
Reuters reported that North Korea on Wednesday delayed access to Kaesong, potentially stranding hundreds of South Korean workers north of the border. South Korea's Unification Ministry said that additional workers were awaiting entry to Kaesong. "It was not immediately clear if the move was aimed at closing Kaesong," Reuters reported. AFP noted that closing the factory "would mark a clear escalation of tensions beyond all the military rhetoric."
North Korea's latest escalation was its announcement on Tuesday that it plans to restart a nuclear reactor it uses to generate plutonium for its weapons program.
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Tulsa's Woodstock Cabinets is among the businesses participating in the new CNBC reality competition series "Crowd Rules," which premieres at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 14.
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Each week, "Crowd Rules" features three small businesses that compete in front of an audience of 100 that votes to decide who wins a much-needed $50,000 prize. Entrepreneur and jewelry designer Kendra Scott, TV Newsman Pat Kiernan, along with a weekly guest industry expert, lead the examination of the small businesses in order to help a studio audience choose which company wins the $50,000. While the small business owners make their case to the panel of three, the real power lies in the hands of the audience 97 strong whose votes will ultimately decide which business is most deserving of the investment.
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Expert: Elizabeth Chambers, television host, correspondent for E! News and founder and co-owner of the wildly popular Bird Bakery in San Antonio, TX
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· Heartbreaking Dawns; Location: Wyckoff, NJ
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· Mystery Brewing Company; Location: Hillsborough, NC
· DirtyGirl Disposal; Location: Millbury, MA
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Expert: Tom Szaky, founder and chief executive of TerraCycle, one of the 500 fastest-growing businesses in the United States
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Expert: Vincent Porpiglia, founder and COO of Dream Water
· Hand in Hand; Location: Philadelphia, PA
· MIIR; Location: Seattle, WA
· Hendrick Boards; Location: Anaheim, CA
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Expert: Melinda Emerson, "The Small Biz Lady," founder and chief executive of Quintessence Multimedia
· Woodstock Cabinets; Location: Tulsa, OK
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· Klinger Educational; Location: College Point, NY
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we offer live music once a week and karaoke once a week. no food other than snacks....
we have outdoor events planned for the future
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You would want someone who has a connection with TABC
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It would also likely be referred up to the attorney general at that point for a letter opinion, and the closer your attorney is to the AG's office, the better.
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RWAs provide a host of services like maintenance of common areas, facilities including lift, water, health and fitness centre, swimming pool, payment of electricity bills for the common area and lift among other things.
Further, in cases where the RWAs act as pure agents and provide services to its members, like submitting electricity bill of a member to the discom, it will be exempt under the service tax. Electricity has been one of the major issue as in many cases, RWAs have been acting as pure agent on behalf of residents, Sapra said.
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HAMBURG, GERMANY: This Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group play-off between Germany and Australia was widely predicted to be a tight battle, and so it proved on the opening day of the tie at the Rothenbaum Stadium in Hamburg, the day ending with honours shared at one point each.
Earlier in the day, the Australian team's No. 1 player, Bernard Tomic, had put his nation into the lead in the tie with a 26 63 64 76(4) victory over German counterpart, Cedrik-Marcel Stebe.
The 21-year-old Stebe, playing the first Davis Cup live rubber of his career, got off to a good start in cool conditions, breaking the Australian twice to win the first set comfortably, 6-2.
The next two sets, however, went 6-3, 6-4 the way of the tall Australian, who overcame some early shakiness to find stability and a solid grip on the match at 2-1 up.
Early in the fourth set, Stebe rediscovered some of the confidence and touch that had won him the first set, and quickly moved to 3-0. He then struggled to hold serve, a dilemma afflicting both players throughout the set - by the time it reached a tiebreak, the Australian and the German were guilty of being broken three times each.
"It was very heavy and very difficult to get free points on your serve," Tomic said of the clay surface. "So, it was going to get into a battle of who returned better."
In the end, it was the 19-year-old Aussie, winning the tie-break 7-4, and taking the match three hours and seventeen minutes after it began.
The second rubber of the day saw the home team's number one player, Florian Mayer, take on Australia's greatest ever Davis Cup servant, Lleyton Hewitt, playing his 33rd tie.
The 28-year-old Mayer had lost his previous two Davis Cup singles rubbers at home against Argentina in February, and was clearly coming into this tie with something to prove.
His poor form in the competition looked to continue when, after an evenly contested opening stanza, he found himself down 4-5, with Hewitt serving for the first set. The German, however, came back strongly, winning the next three games and taking the set 7-5.
If he played well in the first set, Mayer played ever better in the second, hitting deep into the corners and keeping Hewitt firmly lodged behind the baseline. His backhand stood out on a couple of obvious occasions, stroking two superb drives down the line for winners as well as playing glorious drop shot in the last game of the second set. He eventually won the game and the set 6-3 to go two up in the tie.
Hewitt then started the third strongly, quickly moving to 40-love in his opening service game. If he had thoughts of closing it out, Mayer was soon to set him straight, bringing the game back to deuce with some strong shots, including a lovely forehand that curled in down the line, before eventually breaking the Australian.
By the end of the third set Mayer, ranked No. 25 in the world, appeared to be cruising, making only five unforced errors in the whole set and winning it comfortably 6-2. It was Hewitt's first straight sets loss in Davis Cup tennis in seven years.
After the match, Mayer's captain, Patrik Kuhnen was full of praise for his number one: "I think that Florian just played a perfect match today."
The German captain also reflected that 1-1 in the tie was not a bad result. It was a sentiment shared by Australian captain Pat Rafter, who noted wryly: "It could have been worse, it could have been zero to two."He went on to add that his boys were in with a good chance to win the tie. Kuhnen will go to bed tonight believing the same thing.
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