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More than 500,000 copies of The Da Vinci Code have been sold in China. In particular, the book has been a hot item in Beijing.
STEVE INSKEEP, host:
The Da Vinci Code's official premiere may have been in Cannes, but time zone differences meant the film actually hit screens in China first. And thanks to the movie, the book is selling big in China, both the legitimate and bootleg editions.
NPR's Anthony Kuhn has been reading in Beijing.
ANTHONY KUHN reporting:
At the Wong Fu Jing(ph) bookstore in downtown Beijing, 24-year-old Lee Tung(ph), a student of foreign languages, grabs the top copy of The Da Vinci Code off a two-foot-high stack. Lee is not sure exactly what the book is about. Something to do with the Bible, he says. But he correctly identifies Da Vinci as the man who painted the Mona Lisa.
Mr. LEE TUNG (Student, Beijing, China): (Through translator) I want to understand the story before I go see the film. That way I may be able to get more out of the movie. I don't know who stars in the movie, but I saw previews for it and it looked pretty good.
KUHN: A drama focused on ancient Western religious orders might seem a bit arcane for most Chinese consumers. But this is a country hooked on Hollywood content, often in the form of pirated DVDs, and that in turn pumps up book sales.
Kate Wong(ph) is a marketing manger for the publisher of the book's Chinese version. She declined to provide sales figures for the Chinese edition, but she said her company printed a million copies. In China, she adds, that means a far larger readership.
Ms. KATE WONG (Marketing Manager): With a print run of a million copies, readers sharing the books could mean as many as five million people may actually read it. Also, piracy is quite rampant here, so if you add that on, I don't think it would be an exaggeration to say the book has ten million readers in China.
KUHN: On Wednesday, nearly 400 prints of The Da Vinci Code began to hit local theaters, making it the widest release yet for a foreign film in China.
Anthony Kuhn, NPR News, Beijing.
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Ok but how to I subpoena him for a deposition? Where do I get the subpoena from, workers comp or the circuit court? Do I have to file a new claim or use the claim number I already have?
Actually it was dismissed by the circuit court for being filed a day late while the petition sat in the post office. It has already been to both state appeal courts and the court of special appeals agreed to strike a recording of the witness. I am currently thinking about an appeal to the US Supreme Court and I assume I have 90 days from the Court of Appeals denial of my writ of certiorari to get that deposition.
I had already had 3 wintnesses show up for the work comp hearing but the comissioner wouldn't allow any testimony, only took it under profer what they would say. A couple of years ago before I had a hearing in cumberland MD the comissioner's secretary told me that the comissioner said if I had a recording to bring it with me and something to play it in, but I moved the hearing to baltimore so the witnesses wouldn't have to drive 3 hours.
So, I have never had any witness ever testify and the emplorer/insurer is trying to say the injury never happened. This is the second time around with the very same case. I filed back in like 2002 but that was dismissed, too because my witness was actually in the Iraq war. I know I filed late, the injury ocurred in 1993 but I was told by my boss I wasn't covered under work comp. I believed him because I was caryying my toolbox across the shop floor before my first day of work, when the other mechanic dropped his end, bringing my lower back slamming to the ground as the 400 lb tool box, torn ligaments, cartiledge, muscle and damaged nerves the doctor said.
The judge at circuit court back in like 2003 or so, did say "I believe something occurred on that day in question but without any colaberating testimony, I will have to rule in favor of the emplorer/insurer."
Then I lost again on appeal.
Then I found out my witness, a mechanic there was the new owner and I already recorded him back in 2000, before 911 and the war. I was and am still hoping to defeat "res judicata", because of fraud.
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Cabbage Soup Diet
The very definition of an ill-advised fad diet.
Look up the definition of fad diet and you'll see a picture illustrating the Cabbage Soup Diet. It should not be followed as a long-term eating plan, as it is dangerously low in calories and could do more harm than good. It is possible to lose 10 pounds in a week when you stick to this uber-low calorie plan.
The Cabbage Soup Diet does offer fast weight loss, but it is completely lacking in nutrition, flavor and variety. You'll consume mostly soups of cabbage, onion, celery, carrots, tomatoes and mushrooms. Nutritionists argue that the pounds shed are more likely attributed to the dramatic and dangerous loss in calories and not the proposed fat-burning power found in the cabbage. This diet deprives your body of essential nutrients and has been correlated to difficulty concentrating, feeling light-headed and weak.
- You will lose weight
- Unhealthy
- Dangerously caloric intake
- Primarily losing water weight
- Will regain lost weight if don't stick to healthy eating and exercise following completion
- Does not promote exercise; would be too weak to do so
The one-week Cabbage Soup Diet relies on this simple plan:
Day One All-you-can-eat soup and fruit (no bananas). Consume plenty of water, cranberry juice and unsweetened tea.
Day Two Consume all the soup and vegetables you like (no beans, peas or corn). Have a buttered baked potato with dinner. No fruit today.
Day Three Eat all the soup, fruits and vegetables you like, nothing else.
Day Four Eat your soup, no more than eight bananas and all the skim milk you want.
Day Five Have at least one serving of soup today. You can also have 10-20 ounces of skinless chicken or beef and no more than six tomatoes. Drink plenty of water.
Day Six Eat plenty of vegetables and your servings of beef. Today is the day you can go a bit overboard with the meat (2 steaks if you like) - just make sure to add salad and vegetables. Stay away from the carbs - no fries, potatoes, etc.
Day Seven Have at least one serving of soup. Only eat brown rice, vegetables and unsweetened fruit juice.
No recommendations are made. Given the severely low calories you'll be consuming, you likely won't have the strength for physical activity.CONCLUSION
For rapid weight loss as a jump-start to a more healthy eating plan, the Cabbage Soup Diet could possibly be a solution. However, fasting or liquid diets like Cabbage Soup promising dramatic weight loss results in only a week are typically only helping you shed water weight. This weight will creep right back on once you stop the diet and continue with previous poor eating habits. Finishing the Cabbage Soup Diet and beginning a healthy eating and exercise regimen is the best advice anyone following this unhealthy approach can receive. Be sure to speak with your physician before beginning.Common Misspellings
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The Cabbage soup diet is a radical weight loss diet designed around heavy consumption of a low-calorie cabbage soup over the time of seven days. It is generally considered a fad diet, in that it is designed for short-term weight-loss and requires no long-term commitment. It has inspired several copy-cats based around similar principles.
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Day 7
Im almost done with the diet!
I have lost another pound so I am down 7 lb in 6 days
Day 6 is today - ALMOST DONE!
I lost 1lb since yesterday which isnt too bad. I am officially down 6lb in 5 days.
I really hope this is helping people out.
I have pretty much stuck to the diet. The last 2 days I have ate 1 slice of pepperjack cheese just because I felt like it haha. Also, I have not stopped drinking coffee. Every morning I have about 2 cups with CoffeeMate French Vanilla creamer and a few times a week i get iced coffee from mcdonalds with the cream and sugar.
Maybe if I would have given that up I would have done better but I dont think it would have made that much of a difference
Only today and tomorrow then I am done. I will update on Monday with my final weight loss after a full 7 days.
I plan on going off of it for the next week since I will be at a business meeting, but I am going to try my best to eat very healthy while I am gone and go back on it for the following week.
Day 5 today.
Sad to announce I didnt loose anything. But I am going to keep with it. Its just confusing me how I could possibly loose anymore now with adding meat into the mix for the next 2 days but im going to finish the 7 day thing.
Day 4 Starts today!
I hope this is helping some people who aren't sure about doing this....
I only lost 0.5 yesterday, but its better than gaining. That brings my total weight loss down to 5lb in 3 days.
Today is Bananas and Milk day! I bought 8 bananas and a gallon of skim milk, but I hope I dont use all of it haha it kind of grosses me out.
Anyway - ill check in tomorrow
Day 3 starts today!
I am down to 188.5. (Day 1 lost 2.5lb, Day 2 lost 2.0lb) Down 4.5lb in 2 days!!!
Yesterday was def. hard until dinner time...once I had the baked potato i was so full i just wanted to go to sleep haha.
Today shouldnt be too bad with fruit and veggies
Ill update again tomorrow.
Day 2 starts today
Day 1 was pretty hard but I just pushed thru it. I lost 2.5 pounds in one day. SWEET. down to 190.5
ill report back tomorrow. Today is going to suck with just veggies
So...Im on day 1 and im kind of excited. I made the soup last night. Its ok...doesnt taste like anything but then again I HATE soup in general.
Start Day 1 - 193.0lb
I will check in everyday to compare. I have a wedding coming up and my goal is 175 by July 3. My plan is one week on and one week off with this diet until the wedding. Im not going to work out during the diet weeks, but I will be working out on the off weeks.
Good luck to everyone and you can do anything you set your mind to. Dont look at other food haha and avoid driving by McDonalds at all costs haha
i am on day one of the cabbage soup diet and i am enjoying it i have 51 pounds to lose i am now at 189 pounds and ii am 5.3 in hieght.
Definitely not the easiest diet in the world ... but whay diet IS easy?! It definitely beats counting calories or drinking meal replacement drinks. I messed up on Day 1 because it just wasn't doing it for me, but got mad at myself for doing that and started over again today. Definitely can feel the lack of energy and concentration, but it's refreshing to know that I am only eating fruits and veggies (in the soup). I am so excited for banana/milk day and meat day! If it's only for 7 days, I know I can do it. May be tough, but I think it will get easier in the next day or so. My mom did this diet and was VERY successful - I think the end results will make one week worth it!! Good luck everyone!
I am now on day 6.... I have had lots of energy until today. I kinda pushed to hard yesterday. Almost finished though:) I am down 6 lbs so far. I will be happy to lose just 1 more to meet my 1st goal.
i just started today hope i can make it .
i really need to lose the weight for prom =)))
I am on day 4... mmm banana's.... so good. I have lost 4.5 lbs so far. I have been running 2 miles a day so far on the diet and have had more energy while dieting than I did before. I do have a slight headache today but its not unbarable. I started at 176.5 and am down to 172. Monday will be my last day. After that I plan to break for a couple of days and then start the grapefruit diet for the rest of the month. I have had alot of sucess with that diet, but its a little more gradual. Good Luck:)
I did this diet 11 yrs. ago. I was 212 lb. within 10 months I went down to 134 lb. I was not that same person at all. At that time my waist was the size of my right leg from when I was 212 lb. I was very active though. I gave myself 1 cheat day with moderation. The first week I lost 17 lbs. But I did suffer from head aches and drastic mood swings. With any diet I advise that a well balanced diet is the best way to loose weight. I kept my weight off for 4 yrs but as they years passed and had children all my weight came back. I�??m going to try the diet again on Sunday. I hope I have the same willpower now as I had back then.
Im starting this cabbage soup diet tomorrow but does it really work? Can u eat any kind of nuts like almonds or anything else or just stick to da 7-day plan..can anyone help
I started today, the only thing long time I had a written Cabbage Soup diet recipte and it included some fruits that should not be eaten
i started today !! i'm sooo excited !!!
Morning of day 3 and I've lost 5 lbs!! I know it's hard guys...but you can do it. Just remember...summer is coming and this will all be worth it!
Okay day 4 is easiest so far. The banana's are really filling and I lost my craving for reeses (which i'd been craving since day one). I'm trying the custard recipe from below, I have my banana's freezing right now. :)
I'm on the morning of day three and have already lost 4 lbs. I almost didn't make it through yesterday but after seeing how much weight I lost in 2 days was encouraging. Today should be easier as I can eat fruit and veggies. The soup came out really delicious too! So far no headaches, but I did get diarrea yesterday. The first two days are the hardest I think...


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WBS Penguins Scouting Report
Bridgeport Sound Tigers at W-B/Scranton Penguins
When: 7:05 tonight
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About the Penguins: This is the final game of a five-game homestand for the Penguins. They'll be at Hershey on Saturday night. ⦠The Penguins are 1-1 against Bridgeport this season. RW Paul Thompson had a natural hat trick in the previous meeting, a 5-3 Penguins win Nov. 4. ⦠The Penguins will be collecting meals in a can, canned tuna, peanut butter, protein bars, canned fruits, canned vegetables, canned soup, shelf-stable milk, cereal, diapers and baby food (no glass jars) for the Community Food Bank of New Jersey to aid victims of Hurricane Sandy.
About the Sound Tigers: Bridgeport (8-3-0) is tied for second in the Eastern Conference and has won three in a row. ⦠C Brock Nelson and LW Nino Niederreiter are tied for the team scoring lead with 13 points in 11 games. ⦠Former Penguins RW Colin McDonald will not play. He is serving the first game of a two-game suspension for a boarding incident.
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ROCKY RIVER -- A woman is dead and a man badly injured after a crash just after 1 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 90.
A Lorain woman is dead and a Lorain man is in MetroHealth Medical Center severely injured after they were struck by a white 1999 Chevy Cavalier on Interstate 90.
Antoinette Marie Hamilton, 23, of Lorain died of her injuries at the scene. David E. Latten, 42, of Lorain, was taken to the hospital with incapacitating injuries, highway patrol troopers said.
Hamilton and Latten were inside a vehicle stopped on the left shoulder of the roadway in the westbound lanes of Interstate 90 at 1:15 a.m. Sunday.
Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers say that Hamilton jumped out the vehicle and Latten followed after her.
The Cavalier, driven by a Cleveland man, 19, was eastbound and struck both Hamilton and Latten as they jumped over the concrete divider wall in the left lane, according to troopers.
No one in the Cavalier was hurt but it was badly damaged and had to be towed from the accident scene. The three passengers were two Cleveland men, 19 and 23, and a Shaker Heights man, 18.
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04/07/2011, Thompson Bay, Long Island, Bahamas
We went in to the settlement of Salt Pond today. That is the biggest area of development along Thompson Bay and that is where the government dock is, which means it's where the mail boat comes on this side of the island. Long Island is 80 miles long (and only about 4 miles wide), and I think there are only two government docks and one government basin; here and Clarence Town, which is just a bit south of this and on the eastern side of the island, have docks. Simms, north of here and on the western side of the island has a "Government Basin". I assume the mail boat comes there and anchors and they use small boats to offload goods.
Salt Pond doesn't have a lot. It does have a very nice resort with a restaurant and WiFi, so I'm not even going to try the Sailmail postings while we're here. Bud also went into Harding's Supply and Grocery Store and tried (again) to get a large funnel to replace ours that has a tiny crack. No funnel. He did find non-stainless hose clamps to use in an emergency (no stainless available) and batteries. The last two times we've anchored we had no communicators. I thought the salt water was already getting to them, turns out to be the batteries. We also decided not to keep our batteries in the freezer. Since the temperature in the freezer goes up and down a lot we found the batteries we'd stored there got wet and had started to rust. We also got new batteries for our dive light, so now we have an underwater light that works.
After the shopping we went back to the Long Island Breeze and had a drink and conch fritters (nice dip here) and used the Internet. Like most places down here there was an area of outdoor seating where we could take Fuzzy. Bud took this picture off the deck near where we sat looking out over the government dock and some of the local fishing boats. A cruiser who's been here before told us that the biggest fishing fleet in the Bahamas used to anchor here, but there are few boats left. This may be because they are out fishing, or it may be because the fishing industry has hit hard times with high fuel prices and the economic downturn. The Bahamas really feels any downturn in the US because tourism is the number one industry.
The whole of Salt Pond is about a mile dinghy ride from where we are. I took a picture of the bay when we took Fuzzy ashore. It shows Earendil and way off in the distance, too far to really see, is where we went today. Anyway, Bud and I plan to stay another couple of days and actually do the tourist thing and rent a car and view the island. More in future posts.
04/06/2011, Thompson Bay, Long Island, Bahamas
The Tropic of Cancer circles the globe at about 23 degrees, 26.28 minutes. Today we sailed a bit south and more east to Long Island, and along the way we crossed into the tropics. Yeah! Of course, the time to be in the tropics is January and February, but hey, we'll take what we can get. At least we made it.
We lifted anchor in Elizabeth Harbour, Georgetown at just about 9 AM. We put the main up and motor-sailed out the south entrance. It's a long way out, about 5 miles with 5 separate way points to guide you between the reefs. There are actually 3 channel markers going out this way. We didn't have any trouble, but I did spend most of the time on the bow looking for reefs, coral heads or shallow water. I could see the reefs to either side of us, but there was plenty of room between.
When we got out of the harbor and turned for the first part of our course we put up the jib, but there wasn't enough wind to sail. The jib was giving us about another 0.3 knots, so we left it up. For a while we were using main, jib, staysail and engine. We tried a couple of times to shut the engine down, but each time our speed dropped below 5 knots, and since we needed to get anchored and get Fuzzy ashore by early evening, we put the engine back on.
It was a pretty nice sail for a motor sail. We noticed that the undersides of the cumulus clouds were blue-green from the reflection of the water. I'll put a picture of one of the clouds in the gallery. Then we started to see dolphins. About three different pods came along side and swam at the bow for a few minutes before taking off. I got several pictures, and I'll post the best of them when I get internet again. It shows one of them just under the water looking down from where I was on the bow. You can see the bow pulpit and the anchor (the mighty Rocna) above the dolphin.
Finally, the predicted increase in wind came through, only about 6 miles from the anchorage. We were making about six and a half knots with main and jib, no engine. The wind changed direction by about 30 degrees, and then kept going back and forth for a bit, so I was busy trimming sails. Too bad it waited so long, the whole trip was 34.5 nm; we could have used the wind sooner.
This is a big bay and there are only 12 boats in this part of it, so there was no problem anchoring. Bud came as close to the shore as he dared, so we wouldn't have to go so far with the dinghy to take Fuzzy ashore. The whole bay is less than 10 feet deep, so it was a bit nerve wracking to come this far in. We're in about 7 feet of water and it's low tide now, so we should be good. We got here about 3:30, so we tidied the boat and launched the dinghy (and engine) and then we waited a bit and fed Fuzzy so we could check the anchor when we took him ashore. Bud had already backed down on it with the engine and it was holding. It's fine. I took a picture of the dinghy on the beach and I'll put that in the gallery, too. There were goat prints on the beach and we can hear chickens. I hope we get to see the goats.
04/05/2011, Back at Monument Beach, Elizabeth Harbour
Things were getting desperate for me on board. I was down to my last unread book. We are planning to head out tomorrow to Long Island and I didn't see anything in either guide book about a book exchange there. I needed to get to town. The wind was supposed to be down today, so about 9:30 we loaded up and headed across the harbor to Georgetown. It still seemed rough, so the computer went in the computer bag, and then in the zippered and rubber lined Earendil bag, and then in a black garbage bag with a twist tie. We also took one 5 gallon water jug and three one gallon water jugs, to top off our water. My 6 books to trade at the library (they do lending and trading) were in the Earendil bag. Fuzzy rode in the frontpack. Fuzzy and I stayed dry in the bow, but Bud got splashed pretty badly where he sits.
I'll post a picture of the library when I get a chance. It's open from 10 'til noon, 6 days a week. It seems to be run mostly by and for the cruisers. It cost me $3 for a year's dues and I got to trade in the 6 books I've read for 6 new ones. I'm down a few books because I gave another boater 3 books and she was going to bring me three the next day, but then we missed them and haven't seen them since. Also, at one place on Little Farmer's, they wanted two books to give you one. I had three books to trade, so only took two. That makes me down 4 books from where I started. That may prove to be critical. (I also have a couple of books that were given as
gifts that I won't trade.) Anyway, I also went on-line and got the blog posted and tried to make some phone calls. The phone kept disconnecting, so that was pretty frustrating.
It was still windy on the way back and Bud had trouble again getting the dinghy to plane with the computer, books, a few more groceries and 8 gallons of water. I was way up on the bow with Fuzzy. Again I stayed pretty dry until right at the end. I moved part way back so Bud could slow the dinghy, but then when I thought everything was fine, bud slowed some more and we did the water over the bow thing again, and I got soaked. Happily the computer and books stayed dry inside their layers.
I'll keep trying to post these via Sailmail, you'll see them once I'm successful!
04/04/2011, Back in Georgetown, Monument Beach
I've been having trouble getting connected to Sailmail. It could be bad radio propagation, it could be that my modem was set too low, and it could be that our batteries
weren't charged enough. We've been trying not to run the generator, but the wind has not been that strong, and although the batteries have been OK, they haven't
been totally charged. So today we ran the generator for about two and a half hours and got them completely charge. Of course by then it was noon and that's the
worst time of day to transmit because of atmospheric interference from energy from the sun. So I'm going to try again this evening, hopefully all three entries will go.
We're waiting on a weather window to go to Long Island. There is a front coming through tomorrow night. In the States it brought 60 and 70 knot winds, in the
northern Bahamas the winds might gust to 40 to 50 knots. Here, there may be no squalls at all, but we may get some, so it's best to stay in a harbor that has protection
from all directions. If the front passes by Wednesday morning we'll probably leave then.
Meanwhile, we took another hike up to the monument today. Bud tried to get a picture of how steep the one section of trail is. I'll add the picture he took of me
carrying Fuzzy in the front pack. You can kind of get the idea from that. The weather has been perfect again the last couple of days. Hot in the sun, but cool in the
shade and the wind blows hard enough to keep you from getting uncomfortable. Plus the water is finally getting warm.
Since we were just hanging out today Bud took the time to cook a beef roast he bought. It was only about $5 a pound, which didn't seem too bad. He made a pot
roast, cooking it slowly on the stove for three hours. It came out really good, and because of the breeze, didn't even overheat the boat. We just finished eating and
the sun is going down, so I'm going to wrap this up and hope I can finally connect and post these.
I never got them posted. I came to Georgetown, got on the Internet and copied the entries from my Sailmail entries and emailed them to myself so I could get them from the Windows side of my computer to the Mac side. Argg!
04/03/2011, Back in Georgetown, Monument Beach
Bud and I were hanging out this morning when the folks on Shamrock (yes, another Shamrock) called on the radio. They had mentioned the other day that they had a book that had fish
identification and eating quality. They had invited us to come over and see it and were repeating their invitation, so Bud, Fuzzy and I dinghied over to see them. John and Debby are
anchored right next to us here, so it was a quick dinghy ride. Not only did we get to look up the fish Bud caught (which we narrowed down to one of two edible Jacks) we also got to pick
their brains about other aspects of cruising. John gave me some more tips on using Sailmail, so hopefully this evening I'll get both yesterday's and today's blogs posted.
After a nice visit with them we decided to go back over to Volleyball Beach. Bud joined in a couple of games. I managed to snap a photo of him serving which I'll put in the gallery. We
bought conch salad on the beach. I didn't realize that it was made with raw conch, but they use enough lemon, lime and orange juice and hot sauce to nicely marinate it. It was pretty
good. Bud ordered his hot and mine medium hot. We ended up mixing some of them together, because Bud's was really too hot (even for Bud). We brought Fuzzy's food along with us, so
we could feed him, too.
We had noticed a guy feeding a ray earlier in the afternoon. When we went to leave a ray was still hanging around the beach so Bud asked the guy who made the conch salads about
feeding them. He told Bud you just hold the food flat on your hand and the ray will swim over your hand and take it. He said they have little fish teeth, not big shark teeth, so you could feel
their teeth if you curled up your fingers, but they wouldn't really hurt you. He told Bud he could feed them the conch guts he had on the bench he used to clean the conch. So Bud took a
big piece and waded into the water and the ray came right over. Bud fed it and then the ray let him rub it on it's top side near it's eyes. A second ray came up and Bud got another piece of
conch gut and ended up with two rays at his feet and he fed them both. I got a few pictures, I'll post the best one with this entry when I can. It shows the first ray eating out of Bud's hand.
old address.(Did you get the one on the plastic
pipe for the engine water?) I got a call from Marc
to tell me that Jeff is planning on leaving Florida in may for Belize, just in case you might want to tag along. It appears that the
plane fares are not much more than from Florida. Just notes. Bob
04/02/2011, Back in Georgetown, Monument Beach
First, let me apologize for the blank entry. This time when I wasn't able to send my posting I did not make the mistake of retyping it and having a double posting sent. When I finally got a
clear channel I saw that it wasn't sending the blog entry. So I just clicked on the sailblogs window and clicked send again. And it sent a blog with just the location and author because
that's pre-filled in the format. I still don't know where what I type in this window gets stored or why the last time it was still there and this time it is not.
Anyway, there wasn't too much wind today, so we did make it to Georgetown and I did add in the photos for the blog. We also took all the laundry to town. Bud made a trip back with the
laundry and the computer and brought back the water jugs. He'd again made an early morning trip with them, so had already brought aboard 15 gallons today. This was now his thrid trip
back because he bought some groceries and took those back while I was doing the laundry and going on-line. On the fourth and final trip back for the day there was Bud, Fuzzy, me and
17 gallons of water. It proved to be too much for the 9.8 HP Tohutsu. Bud couldn't get the dinghy up on plane. He slowed down once and we did the whole water over the bow thing
again. This time he bailed us out as we went along. It wasn't that wavy, but it was enough that without planing we were splashed continually. We were all soaked by the time we got back
to the boat. Happily it's hot enough these days that it felt good. Fuzzy and I rinsed off using the cockpit shower and Bud went down and used the shower in the the aft cabin. I tried to
keep my clothes on until they dried, but gave up and changed and hung all our rinsed clothes on the lifelines for the rest of the day. They still didn't quite dry, I'll have to hang them out
again tomorrow.
Towards the end of the day I saw another boat coming towards the anchorage that looked a lot like a Norseman. I got out the binoculars to see if I could tell, but they ended up coming
right by us, so I called out to them as they passed and they confirmed it was a Norseman. This is only the second one we've seen, the first was Miclos III with Tisch and Ellen at Stuart.
We'd wanted to see them again out here, but never had.
Meanwhile, Bud and I were getting ready to go ashore for an ARG meeting. This was announced on the local cruisers VHF net. ARG is "Alcohol Research Group" and the meeting is a
BYOB and munchie to share get together held at irregular intervals on beaches around the harbor. So we prepared our stuff and headed ashore. On the way we went down to check out
the Norseman. It's Barefootin' from Charleston, SC and Bob, Francie and boat dog Kippin were in the cockpit so we got to talk. They had sailed with Tisch and Ellen and another
Norseman. At the time Miclos had emailed us hoping we could make it to where they were, we figured 4 Norseman together on the east coast would be a record. Alas, we didn't make it,
but at least we're meeting Barefootin' now. They were not going to the ARG meeting, having just gotten in from Long Island. We chatted with them and made plans to meet again before
we left the harbor, then Bud and I went ashore.
By now we were late, but of course you can't really be late for something like this so we just joined the group. Since everyone comes by dinghy, there is much less alcohol research than
the name implies. It is a nice time where cruisers get together and talk boats and weather and cruising and anything else that comes up. We met some folks we'd seen here and there
before and set some tentative plans to leave together this week to go down to Long Island. If that happens it will be the first time since leaving Wilson that we have traveled from one port
to another with other boats. It would be nice, I hope it happens. I took a photo of the ARG folks at sunset that I'll post on the blog the next time I get real internet access.


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November 27, 2012
On this occasion
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Hurst qualified after finishing as runners up of the county round of the tournament against state and independent schools at Roedean last weekend.
Having secured progression by defeating all comers on their road to the final, the newly formed side faced Brighton College to decide first and second place.
With the matches just 14 minutes long, the girls kept their energy levels high throughout. In a highly competitive contest, the lead switched between the two sides but Brighton snatched a 6-5 victory in the final seconds of the game.
Hurst girls' sports coach, Carol Adams, was delighted with the team's effort and application, commenting, "This team has only played together this term and with just a few training sessions, so to succeed so early in their time at Hurst Senior School against longer established teams was a brilliant achievement. The girls are thrilled".
Hurst has a good record in the National Schools competition; the girls will be looking to go one better than last year's U19 side who were the highest ranked Sussex team in their section of the regional competition.
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Shares of Polaris Financial Technology Ltd gained more than 17% intraday after the company announced demerger of its product business on Tuesday. The scrip closed 11.57% higher at Rs 152.80 on the BSE.
As consideration for the demerger, every shareholder of Polaris Financial Technology will receive one share of Intellect, the new product company.
Commenting on the restructuring, Arun Jain, executive chairman, Polaris Financial Technology, said, "On one hand, the shareholder will get an additional share of Intellect, a new horizon business. On the other hand, expanded leadership capacity, greater customer centricity and sharper focus will drive higher value in each of the businesses.
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my research reveals there is no personal property abandonment Ohio statute - other than for self storage units which is guided by the terms of the storage agreement. therefore, you need to send a Notice to Reclaim or Forfeit Abandoned Personal Property to the last known address via certified mail with a return receipt requested. state they have 5 days from receipt of the letter to claim the property. you also will want to state that if they designated someone to claim the property, a notarized affidavit shall be presented.
- also, in good faith, you also should post the notice on the door of the premises and you can run the notice in the local newspaper 1 day is probably sufficient, but if you check with the clerk of the county court they can be more specific.
if there is no claim to the property, you can remove it and dispose of it.
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I have a list of objects in Python. I then have another list of objects. I want to go through the first list and see if any items appear in the second list.
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Why: Katrina carved this one. Uncanny!
Answer: To ward off the spirit of a real dick! Here's the legend of Jack of the Lantern:
Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him. True to his name, Stingy Jack didn't want to pay for his drink, so he convinced the Devil to turn himself into a coin that Jack could use to buy their drinks. Once the Devil did so, Jack decided to keep the money and put it into his pocket next to a silver cross, which prevented the Devil from changing back into his original form. Jack eventually freed the Devil, under the condition that he would not bother Jack for 1 year and that, should Jack die, he would not claim his soul. The next year, Jack again tricked the Devil into climbing into a tree to pick a piece of fruit. While he was up in the tree, Jack carved a sign of the cross into the tree's bark so that the Devil could not come down until the Devil promised not to bother Jack for 10 more years.And the English used beets, and Americans use pumpkins (because they grow here).
Soon after, Jack died. God would not allow such an unsavory figure into Heaven. The Devil, upset by the tricks Jack had played on him and keeping his word not to claim his soul, would not allow Jack into Hell. He sent Jack off into the dark night with only a burning coal to light his way. Jack put the coal into a carved-out turnip and has been roaming the Earth with ever since. The Irish began to refer to this ghostly figure as "Jack of the Lantern," and then, simply "Jack O'Lantern."
In Ireland and Scotland, people began to make their own versions of Jack's lanterns by carving scary faces into turnips or potatoes and placing them into windows or near doors to frighten away Stingy Jack and other wandering evil spirits.
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The More You Know: Biologically, pumpkins, squash, zucchini, cucumbers, and all other things that grow on vines (tomatoes, wink) are classified as fruits, not vegetables. Peas are the seeds from inside the pods of the fruit of that plant.
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Georgia Mother's Shooting of Home Invader Puts New Spin on Gun Control Debate
The story of a young Georgia mother's actions during a home invasion is putting a new spin on the gun control debate.
A woman was home with her 9-year-old twins when a man began knocking on the door and persistently ringing the bell. The woman quickly called her husband and while he dialed 911, she grabbed the family's .38 revolver, her twins and shuttered them all in a closet.
The suspect then broke into the house and began ransacking it. He walked upstairs and opened the closet door, bringing the woman and her twins face-to-face with the intruder. She acted quickly, firing six shots and hitting the suspect in the face and neck.
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He was able to get up and stumble out of the home. Police quickly caught up to him and arrested him.
Radio host Lars Larson pointed out that while the woman acted heroically, had there been more than one intruder, she would have been in real danger because she wouldn't have had enough bullets in that type of weapon to protect herself and her family. He said many people want a gun that is capable of holding more bullets, but "this is what the president's plan will go after."
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JACKSON, Miss. - The Jackson State University softball team swept Alabama A&M University Saturday afternoon completing the three-game series and holding an eight-game win-streak at the JSU Softball Complex.
With the sweep, the Lady Tigers improve to 20-23 overall and 11-0 in conference play.
JSU blanked the Lady Bulldogs(9-26, 1-7) the entire weekend.
Game 1: Jackson State struggled at the plate but was able to collect two runs in the bottom of the third inning. Freshman Denisha Knight led the Lady Tigers, going 2-for-2 at the plate.
Junior Kelsey Townsend captured the victory for JSU, improving to 9-13 on the season.
Game 2: The Lady Tigers rallied to score five runs in the bottom of the third inning over AAMU, after recording two early runs in the first, taking a 7-0 lead.
Jackson State added two runs in the fourth inning, capping a 9-0 ballgame over Alabama A&M. Freshman Sybil Lozano catured the win, giving up only one hit to the Lady Bulldogs.
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i havent been able to find them in ages
I have them nearly every morning for breakfast
for breakfast? woah
ive never had them. ive only had the cheese and ham ones......
breakfast hotpockets are pretty nice
no I have the italian meat trio ones for breakfast
for breakfast though? isnt that a tad unhealthy
He's a fat kid, remember?
not having breakfast is unhealthy!!!
breakfast is the worst meal of the day, including brunch
yeah i hate breakfast too. it makes me feel really sick but i have it anyway
only been having breakfast in the past few months..never used to
Le Petite Prince is a really short book, interesting though, the drawings are awesome as much as I can remember. Read it when I was little.Quote:
You've read it? Sounds neat, my French teacher has a copy of her desk and I like to scan in if I don't have anything else to do.
breakfast is probably THE meal of the day. Lunch is way overrated.
man lunch straight up rules
I like them both, so I wake up at 11 just so I can eat breakfast food for lunch so I can combine the experences
I like dinner
this guy was on PD for exactly one day, made 44 posts, and never returned
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It was Giant Squid's alt.
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Android's U.S. market share flatlines, iOS surges
Growth of Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android operating system continues to slow, hovering just above 50 percent U.S. smartphone market share for the third consecutive month, according to new data published by research firm comScore.
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Android-based devices represented 50.9 percent of all smartphones nationwide in May 2012, up from 50.8 percent in April but still down from a high of 51 percent in March. Android's stasis coincides with a recent upswing for Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS: Five years after the retail launch of the first iPhone, the iOS mobile operating system now powers 31.9 percent of all smartphones in the U.S., up from 31.4 percent in April 2012 and an increase from 30.7 percent in March.
Android and iOS now make up a combined 82.8 percent of the U.S. smartphone market. Research In Motion's (NASDAQ:RIMM) BlackBerry continues to crumble, sliding from 11.6 percent market share in April to 11.4 percent in May. After several months in decline, Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows platform held steady month-over-month at 4 percent, with Symbian bringing up the rear at 1.1 percent, down from 1.3 percent in April.
Close to 110 million U.S. mobile subscribers now carry smartphones, up 5 percent since February 2012, comScore reports. Text messaging behaviors remain unchanged since February, with 74.8 percent of U.S. subscribers sending a text to another mobile device. At the same time, 51.1 percent of subscribers used a downloaded app in May, up from 49.5 percent in February, and 49.8 percent accessed the mobile browser, up from 49.2 percent three months earlier. In addition, 36.7 percent accessed a social networking site or blog in May (up from 36.1 percent in February), 33.5 percent played games (up from 32.2 percent) and 27 percent listened to music on their phone (up from 24.8 percent).
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No Joinder Even Pre-AIA: In re EMC and what it means to YOU!
May 4, 2012
The Federal Circuit today required reconsideration of a motion for severance in a lawsuit filed prior to the America Invents Act, issuing a mandamus in In re EMC. The opinion addressed severance under the standard used by the Eastern District of Texas and a minority of other district courts prior to "patent reform" and its "anti-joinder" provisions, holding as follows:
"We agree that joinder is not appropriate where different
products or processes are involved. Joinder of independent defendants is only
appropriate where the accused products or processes are the same in respects
relevant to the patent. But the sameness of the accused products or processes
is not sufficient. Claims against independent defendants (i.e., situations in
which the defendants are not acting in concert) cannot be joined under Rule
20's transaction-or-occurrence test unless the facts underlying the claim of
infringement asserted against each defendant share an aggregate of operative
facts. To be part of the "same transaction" requires shared, overlapping facts
that give rise to each cause of action, and not just distinct, albeit
coincidentally identical, facts. The sameness of the accused products is not
enough to establish that claims of infringement arise from the "same
transaction." Unless there is an actual link between the facts underlying each
claim of infringement, independently developed products using differently
sourced parts are not part of the same transaction, even if they are otherwise
coincidentally identical."
Slip opinion page 15, In re EMC
The order from the Federal Circuit gave the case back to the district court to reconsider severance under the correct test, but the result should be a foregone conclusion. Moreover, the Federal Circuit added that even where joinder might be proper, severance is still an important consideration due to the complexity of multi-defendant patent lawsuits and trials.
Defendants should look hard at severance and/or transfer in pre-AIA cases. The real impact this ruling is likely to have is cases will be severed — but then coordinated pretrial, either in the same district, or, alternatively, where transfers are ordered with severance, re-combined in one court for pre-trial litigation by an MDL panel. An MDL court can handle a case up to and including ruling on summary judgment motions, but then must send the case back to the court where it originated for trial. Separate trials strongly favor patent defendants because each time invalidity is tried as a defense, the patent owner risks its patent — the first time the patent is found invalid, collateral estoppel will apply, and the patent should be invalidated in all cases. Since a patent is valid or not, this means each trial could be the last trial for the patent owner. Equitable defenses or non-infringement defenses or damages issues will also invoke collateral estoppel on subsidiary fact issues if the record is sufficiently clear on the fact issues decided by the jury or court (which may require special attention to the jury charge and questions so that what fact issues were decided and how they were decided is not subject to debate). Of course, the defendant will also benefit from being able to focus hard on its own story, product, and damages scenario, while forcing the patent owner to do the same: Any past advantages to painting defendants at trial with a broad brush to blur important differences between them, or from defendants having to present their case at the lowest common point, are now gone.
There is yet the possibility of a "wrinkle" in what appears to be a rather broad ruling in In re EMC because another mandamus raising the identical issue from the same district court remains pending, In re TD Ameritrade, Misc. No. 107. (It is possible the Court could expand on or narrow or otherwise inject new considerations into the analysis in In re EMC with a decision in In re TD Ameritrade).
Given the backlog of cases filed prior to the AIA, this is now a significant issue, albeit one that is likely time-limited to the next few months….
Whether for better or worse, agree or not with In re EMC, as patent enforcement costs go up, as patent enforcement risks increase, the value of patents goes down…That's the bottom line…The consolidated EU patent is moving closer to reality. Patent protection in the EU and other jurisdictions becomes increasingly important as U.S. patent enforcement and remedies become riskier and more difficult for patent owners.
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I'm not sure if my family's information would be of help to you, seeing as my great-great grandparents most probably fled to the United States during the potato famine, but I am of Flynn ancestory. I live here in the States and have many family members who reside here as well. I am rather fond of my maiden Flynn and was doing some family tree research when i came upon your post. Please le t me know if my family's lineage would be of any interest to you. My email is email@example.com
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My mothers family are Flynns. All from and are still mostly in Dublin, Ireland. I have one uncle, John, living in Yorkshire, England. There were 9 children in all. At the moment I ahve not done much research on my mothers family but am planning to. If I get any connection with America I will pass it on.
My grandads name was Patrick (Paddy) Flynn and his wifes name was Mary, maiden name may have been Cooney. My mother and síblings grew up in Finglas, in Dublin. I believe my grandad was born in or around 1916 but am not completely sure.
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Vanuatu Utilities Minister Signs For Phocea Release
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Radio New Zealand International, Dec. 5, 2012) – Vanuatu's Minister of Public Utilities, Harry Iauko, has signed a deed of release of one million vatu, or nearly US$11,000, to release the mega-yacht Phocea.
The mega yacht has been detained in Port Vila harbour since it was seized in July over an alleged smuggling and forgery operation.
Mr. Iauko says that he has taken legal advice from the Attorney General and the Prosecution that there is no longer a case in Court between the government and the owner of the Phocea.
However Vanuatu's director of Ports and Marine, Morris Kaloran, says that Mr. Yauko has no power to release the Phocea and that he has never been consulted by the office of the Attorney General to release it.
The director says that the Phocea's arrival in Vanuatu breached International Maritime laws and Vanuatu should bring back the claimed owner, Pascal Anh Saken, to be charged.
The forgery case against Mr. Saken was recently withdrawn by the court on the basis that he was not in Vanuatu.
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As is my custom, After commenting here, I popped across to the Daily Mail site.
There, as a full headline, are the words 'What about burning poppies'!
The story concerns a man who, in response to the Islamic militants demonstrating against British soldiers and ostentatiously burning a poppy effigy, decided to set fire to a book.
The Muslims got a tiny fine – the British man got 70 days jail!
Perhaps this is a cunning ploy by the legal profession, to stoke up resentment against Islam – it will certainly have that effect. Pity that the DT seems to have 'missed' the story. Interesting.


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Organic LED technology, the commonly called OLED is a solid state semiconductor light emitting diode having a thickness of 100 to 500 nanometers. It is also called as Organic Electro Luminescent Device (OELD) These devices are currently used in small screen displays such as mobile screen, digital camera etc.
The OLED display is much thinner than LCD and consumes less power. Research in the field of OLED is progressing and many manufacturers are trying to make OLED displays in TV, computer monitor etc.
strong>Organic LED is formed of aggregates of Amorphous and Crystalline molecules without definite arrangement. The OLED has many thin layers of organic material which emit light through the process of Electrophosphoresence. The organic material uses substances that can emit red, green blue and white lights. When a potential is applied to the cathode and anode, OLED creates light which appears as the display.
Structural aspects of the OLED
Organic LED is a solid state device like the LED but composed of several layers .OLED may have two or three layers of organic material along with other layers. The different layers of OLED are
- Substrate layer-It supports OLED and is made up of transparent plastic or glass film
- Anode layer – It is a transparent layer that removes electrons. Indium tin oxide is commonly used as the anode material.
- Organic layer – Layer formed of organic polymers
- Conductive layer – Transports holes from anode. Made up of organic plastic. Polymer light-emitting diodes (PLED), also light emitting polymers (LEP), are used in electroluminescent conductive polymer. Typical polymers used in PLED displays include derivatives of poly(p- phenylene vinylene) and polyfluorene.
- Emissive layer – Transports electrons from the cathode layer. It is made up of organic plastic
- Cathode layer – Injects electrons. It may be transparent or not. Metals such as Aluminium and Calcium are often used in the cathode
OLED Structure
How OLEDs emit light?
Organic LEDs are brighter devices than LED or LCD. They can give clear video pictures and pictures that can be viewed from any angle. The process of light emission in OLED includes different stages:
- When a potential difference is applied between the anode and cathode of OLED, current flows through the organic layer of OLED.
- During the flow of current, cathode layer emits electrons to the emissive layer.
- Anode then gives electrons from the conductive layer creating holes.
- These electrons combine with the holes in junction between the emissive and conductive layers.
- When the electrons combine with holes, the energy of electrons is emitted as photons. Color of the photons depends on the type of the organic material in the emissive layer.
Light Emission in OLED
Forms of Organic LEDs
There are different types of OLED based on the construction.
- Transparent OLED – They have all transparent components like anode, cathode and substrate.
- Top emitting OLED – Substrate layer is reflective or opaque
- White OLED – Emit white light. These can be made into large sheets to make fluorescent lamps
- Foldable OLED – Substrate layer is flexible and foldable. Used in cell phones to avoid damage.
- Active matrix OLED – They have all layers but the anode layer has a transistor array that determines the pixel of the display.
- Passive OLED – Has strips of cathode and anode. External circuit determines the pixel in these devices.
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He could share parts with Cursed Marzo
MOTUC has no Dwarves, and in a world where science and magic rein supreme, i figure there is room for a dwarf somewhere in there and Trog totally fits that bill. He was leader of the dwarves in the ladybird book, "Wings of Doom", helping heman and startos free delora from the vale of caldor. He reminded me of the dwarf from the power and honor book actually. For accessories he should come with his short sword and shield.
He could share parts with Cursed Marzo
MOTUC NA Most Wanted: Kayo, Vizar, Hoove, Lizorr
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Trade my Red Stone He-Ro Staff for a Green one
This guy would be cool for sure, if for no other reason that the two above...Marzo...Gwildor...
Trolls, goblins and dwarves are all painfully missing from out plastic MOTU world. So yes, Ahgo, Tataran and Trog would all be most welcome.
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Big yes, especially to get good mileage out of Gwildor and cursed Marzo!
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Monongahela National Forest
Potomac Ranger District
Route 3, Box 240
Petersburg, WV 26847
Seneca Rocks Visitor Center
Box 13
Seneca Rocks, WV 26884
The Monongahela National Forest is located in eastern West Virginia, 100 miles northeast of Charleston and 8 miles west of Franklin. For more information on the area, contact the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce at 304/257-2722.
Getting There:
From Harrisonburg, Virginia, drive west on U.S. 33 to Franklin, West Virginia. The southern terminus of the trail is 9 miles west of Franklin at ridge crest on U.S. 33.
Seasonal Information:
The recommended seasons are spring and fall. Summers are hot and dry with highs in the 90s. Winters can reach lows of 20 degrees F.
While walking from the trail to the cliffs, you might discover white-tailed bucks lying low in the thick mats of blueberry bushes. Grouse often thunder out of the brush, and turkey vultures soar overhead. There are wild goats that have been startling hikers for years.
Contact park office for information.
Plant Life:
The narrow trail leads under maple and oak trees that shimmer red and yellow when backlit by the high sun. It's a place where such far-north species as aspen and white birch are treated to a little southern hospitality, and warmth-loving magnolias get a Yankee nod of approval for toughing it out so far north.
Like most national forests, these woods have been logged at various times, but the summit of North Fork Mountain was spared the axe. Here the trail passes through an ancient forest consisting of several oak species that are stunted and twisted by the wind. The trail is so isolated and rugged that in places, it's in danger of being overrun by the mountain laurel, vast fern beds, flaming azaleas, and grasses that line the route.
Blueberries and huckleberries can be found in the high alpine openings in the Spruce Knob area. Usually ripening from late June to early July, these morsels are delicious when eaten still warm from the sun. But be aware that snakes may be found in the same rocky locations as the berry bushes and bears are particularly found of berries.
Campgrounds in the Seneca Rocks area include Big Bend, Seneca Shadows, and the privately-owned Yokums Private Vacationland. Sites typically include picnic tables, lantern posts, and fire rings. Piped water and flush toilets are available April through October.
Camping is allowed outside of designated areas, and there are cabin rentals in some areas.
The Seneca Rocks Visitor Center is open April 1 through October 31, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily, and November 1 through March 31, weekends from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Information available from park office.
No permits are required. Fees for developed campgrounds range between $5 and $30.
Information available from park office.
- There is no available water along the trail.
- Only trained and experienced climbers should attempt to scale the rocks.
- Weather in the area, especially on Spruce Knob, can be severe. Be prepared for rain throughout the year and snow in every season but summer. Ridgetop winds can be fierce.
- Be aware that poisonous timber rattlers and copperhead snakes are found in the area.
- Most of the forest roads are narrow and winding, surfaced with gravel, and are often very rough. Watch for other vehicles and use extreme caution when driving.
- During hunting seasons, hikers are urged to dress in high visibility clothing.
Leave No Trace:
- Stay on trail where possible to avoid trampling sensitive plants along the edges of the trail and near cliffs.
- Respect areas of private land; the trail crosses private land in four areas.
- Pack in, pack out.
All LNT guidelines apply.
Forest and trail maps are available from the National Forest office and Seneca Rocks Visitor Center.
"Monongahela National Forest Hiking Guide," a detailed guidebook that contains trail locations and topographic maps, is available for $12.95 from the visitor center and Petersburg Ranger District.
Other Trip Options:
- Located northwest of the Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area, Dolly Sods is comprised of a 10,215-acre wilderness and a 2,000-acre scenic area.
- Flat Rock Roaring Plains offers 20 miles of hiking trails where you can escape the crowds.
- A bird banding station is operated by West Virginia University and members of the Brooks Bird Club from mid-August to early October in the nearby Dolly Sods Scenic Area. You may observe the banders at work as they carefully band thousands of small songbirds.
- George Washington National Forest lies to the east in Virginia.
- Canaan Valley Resort and Blackwater Falls state parks lie to the north in West Virginia.
- For state park information, call 800/CALL-WVA.


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AVYSL CYSA Territory Boundary
The following zip codes and sections of zip codes are included in AVYSL's territory according to the boundaries set by the California Youth Soccer Association (CYSA).
95120 - All
95124 – South of Blossom Hill and East of Harwood
95118 – South of Blossom Hill and West of Almaden Road/ Expressway
95141 - West of Uvas Road and within Santa Clara County
Players do NOT have to be residents of these zip codes to register with AVYSL for recreational or competitive programs.
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An inverted look at the "American Dream", Alma Har'el's Bombay Beach is a beautifully constructed work, ground in emotionally resonating touches that cannot fail to effect and inspire. From the films opening sequence, which incorporates old promotion videos of the vacation resort that the man-made Bombay Beach once was, to the numerous music promo video-esque vignettes that punctuate the picture, Har'el's film is an eclectic work of genuinely profound beauty. A feeling of eerie beauty bounces around the picture, with the landscape, littered by dead animals and lit by fireworks, quite literally the centre of the universe for the denizens of the area (its notable that every locale outside of Bombay Beach is measured in terms of the vicinity/ distance from the titular site).
Slab City, a location previously brought to life on-screen in Sean Penn's Into The Wild, is home to a number of interesting characters. To say the least. Focussing on Red, an old man and life long drifter, we see the world through his eyes, with a surprising poetic streak running throughout his observations. The people surrounding Red are nothing short of misfits, but a Goddamn joyful bunch of misfits. Every single person in the film looks like they have a story to tell, their rugged appearance bearing as many a tease in to a life lived as any of the monologues shared. How do these people end up out there? Why would anyone want to be out there? Some are bound by hereditary situation, while others are brought to the dunes by misfortune, or because they are running away from something. CeeJay falls in to the latter camp. A black teenager attempting to avoid the fate that befell his gangbanger cousin, with aspirations of one day playing football for the NFL, CeeJay is somewhat indicative of a great deal of the people who have taken up residency by the Salton Sea, in that he displays a great determination and hope in the face of the situation they've found themselves in.
Benny Parrish is perhaps the ultimate icon of this candid, spontaneous attitude to life. A bi-polar young boy being brought up in the most dysfunctional of scenarios, Benny is something of a beacon of naïve optimism in the face of the adversities enforced. By the time the credits roll Benny has become an hyper-medicated zombie, a shadow of his former self, failed not only by his parents (although they themselves are arguably trying their best to raise their kids responsibly, in as much as they are barely capable of doing so), but also by the government systems put in place to supposedly help such people. Doctors mis-diagnose the boy to the point of seizure, and are unwilling to reappraise his wellbeing for whatever reason. At times the sight of Benny wandering around the salt desert, clambering around the corpses of dead animals and abandoned trash reminds of Harmony Korine's Gummo, yet while one could at least take respite safe in the knowledge that Korine's work was fictional the same can obviously not be said of the situations faced here in Bombay Beach.
Alas, the genuinely unbelievable story of the Parrish family extends far beyond Benny. As the story of Benny's parents unravels via old home videos, we are given an insight into a story that is difficult to believe is borne out of reality. In the earlier years of the 21st Century Benny's parents were arrested and imprisoned on laws brought in to effect following the events of 9/11. Having built their own makeshift army, apparently in response to the lack of government support in the area, the pair's makeshift bombs saw them branded terrorists by the establishment, and sentenced to several years in jail.
As mentioned afore, the film is punctuated by a couple of designed vignettes, each one scored to a specific music track. Bob Dylan and Zachary "Beirut" Condon provide the audio, with Condon's appearance reminding of Har'el's beginnings as a director of music videos (most notably perhaps for Beirut's Elephant Gun). While the constructed nature of the vignettes goes against the general rules of the documentary, they manage to feel legitimate enough, and downright poetic in parts, for one not to be drawn in wholly. The final vignette is especially moving.
Ultimately though, Bombay Beach reminds the viewer of the vastness of America, and the manner in which, even in the country that is the poster boy for Western society, some people still manage to slip through the cracks. Masterpiece doesn't even begin to cover it.


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Shortly before this picture was taken, Carly asked her to please wear the hated wig if she came to school. On this day Sharon was visiting and Carly said, " Grandma, you don't have to wear the wig if you come to school, I love you just the way you are" Lisa took the picture as Carly kissed her. Sharon said, "If only adults could see the world thru the eyes and hearts of children" THis was my wonderful daughter!!!
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I'm a long-time advocate of Brooks saddles, but I'm looking at a different saddle based on some changes in my ergonomic needs.
Right now I'm using a B-17 Champ Std on my fixed gear and a B-17 Imperial on my long distance bike. The former being 177mm and the latter being 170mm width. In looking over most of the "full center channel" saddles (which is what I need to switch to), I'm not finding anything with a width more than 155mm, except for the over-padded SMP Plus; a full 15mm under the Imperial's measurement. I've ridden suspended leather saddles for the past 6 years, and haven't looked at road saddles for at least 15 years, so I'm putting the call out to the Clydes for some help.
The Specialized BG line of saddles gets high accolades. As do the Selle SMP (drop nose) saddles. Given the following information, which saddle would you choose?
- 6'6" rider, wide bone structure
- Will be used for long-distance/endurance riding, up to 600km/40hrs
- Currently comfortable on 170mm Brooks saddle
- Needs minimal/light cushioning
- Needs maximum central channel area.
I've been eyeing the Specialized Avatar and the Selle SMP Avant or Pro models. The main question I've got regards the width. My sit-indents on the Brooks are well within the back area of the saddle, so I'm not out at (or near) the 170mm width. Is the design of hardshell split saddle like the Avatar or SMPs going to be too narrow at 148 - 155mm when compared to the Brooks? I know the B-17 is wider to accomodate a more upright position and support a wider area of the backside. I don't plan to change my riding position when switching saddles.


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UN agency finds new uranium traces at Syria site
VIENNA U.N. nuclear agency samples taken from a Syrian site suspected of being a secretly built reactor have revealed new traces of processed uranium, the agency reported Thursday.
A separate report by the same organization – the International Atomic Energy Agency – noted a significant slowdown in Iran's efforts to expand its uranium enrichment program. The U.N. Security Council has slapped sanctions on Iran for not freezing enrichment, which can be used to make both nuclear fuel and the core of warheads.
The report did not suggest a reason for the slowdown. But agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei said earlier this week the reason appeared to be "political" – indicating Iran may be waiting for conciliatory signals from the new U.S. administration, which has said it is ready to talk directly with Iran on nuclear and other disputes.
A diplomat familiar with the enrichment program suggested, however, that the reason might be technical, with the program experiencing significant breakdown of the centrifuges used to spin uranium gas into enriched material. He demanded anonymity for discussing confidential information.
Both reports – meant for restricted release Thursday only to the 35 nations of the IAEA board – were obtained by The Associated Press ahead of a board meeting starting March 2 that will have the nuclear activities of the two Mideast nations on its agenda.
The documents paint a generally disheartening picture of the agency's efforts to probe the Iranian and Syrian nuclear programs. Iran says its nuclear activities are peaceful; Damascus denies hiding any nuclear program.
On Iran, the report noted Tehran's "continued lack of cooperation" in agency efforts to investigate suspicions the Islamic Republic had at least planned to make nuclear weapons. It said Iran continued both uranium enrichment and building a heavy water reactor that will produce plutonium – like enriched uranium, a possible component of nuclear warheads.
The Syria report noted the refusal by Damascus to allow agency inspectors to make follow-up visits to sites suspected of harboring a secret nuclear program.
The brevity of the reports – the one on Iran ran five pages, the one on Syria was just three – reflected the lack of progress in the probes.
Still, a senior U.N. official who asked to remain anonymous in exchange for commenting on the restricted reports, described as significant the find of new uranium traces from samples taken during a visit in June to the Al Kibar site bombed in 2007 by Israeli jets.
Minute traces of processed uranium from those samples were found late last year. The official said additional analysis had found 40 more uranium particles, for a total of 80.
Syria has suggested the traces came from Israel ordnance used to hit the site but the report said the composition of the uranium made that unlikely. Israel has denied it was the source of the uranium.
The official said experts were also analyzing traces of graphite and stainless steel found around the site, although he cautioned it was too early to say whether they were related to nuclear activity.
Inspectors at the Al Kibar site were known to be looking for graphite, an element in the type of North Korean prototype that the United States says the Syrians were trying to build with help from Pyongyang.
On Iran, the agency said Tehran was now fully operating 3,936 centrifuges to enrich uranium at its cavernous underground facility at Natanz, about 300 miles (500 kilometers) south of Tehran – only 164 more than at the time of its last report in November.
But it continued building hundreds more centrifuges and linking them into the configurations used for enrichment, said the IAEA.


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The ANR Budget Office is pleased to announce the launch of "Rate and Recharge : Step by Step", a website designed to help Units successfully use recharge rates at ANR. Units that currently operate recharge centers or are interested in establishing them will find useful information including:
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The website can be found from the homepage of the ANR Budget Office website and from the ANR Training website. It was developed in collaboration with Financial Services and CSIT's Instructional Systems Design team. If you have comments or questions about this training, please contact Joni Rippee at firstname.lastname@example.com or (510)987-0136.


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Assuming we can believe this latest leaked image, then it looks like the T-Mobile myTouch 3G is not going to be getting an upgrade to Android 2.1. And while that may sound like bad news, its actually good because the myTouch 3G is skipping Android 2.1 and stepping right in with Android 2.2 Froyo though as for when this will happen remains a mystery.
The details at this point simply state that the update is "coming soon" and that it will be Android 2.2. Other details that are mentioned include that the update will offer a modified version of the Faves Gallery, the Genius Button and full Exchange support for calendar, contacts and email.
If nothing else, T-Mobile and their "no phones left behind" pledge sounds pretty nice about now. In the meantime, I am sure all current T-Mobile myTouch 3G owners will begin frequent checks to see if there is an update available.
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Media Loot 3D Icon set is a gorgeous collection of 3D like Icons with vibrant colors and an amazing attention to detail.
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WordPress is the tool of use of an increasing number of people, be it a developer, clients or just blog enthusiasts. If you fall into one of this categories you should think in optimization your WordPress experience. One way to do that is insert more functionalities into your website / blog. You should be thinking by now – Widgets! Well, widgets are one of the ways to achieve that, but do we really want to depend on widgets to implement all the features on our blog? You can, but you shouldn't. It's pretty obvious that after a certain amount of widgets you will see the loading time of your website increase accordingly.
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Sweet potato pie is something that brings back memories of my childhood. Every year, my grandmother would cook a grand dinner for every holiday and sweet potato pie was among the things she made. Grandma would stay up late at night cooking a huge meal for the family. When you wake up in the morning, you smell the food she prepared the night before lingering in the house. My mom told me stories of my grandfather walking into the kitchen wee hours in the morning tasting a sample of the food grandma made. Both grandma and my mom knew the food was good, because you hear my grandfather smacking his lips as he ate.
Despite my grandma's passing, my family continue the tradition of making sweet potato pie every holiday. One year I broke the tradition and made a pumpkin pie, but I still prefer sweet potato. This recipe is not my grandma's. Every time I would ask her for a recipe she couldn't tell me the exact measurements that goes into a recipe. I made this pie from watching my grandmother bake in the kitchen and based on how her pie tasted like. I would stand in the kitchen next to her as she beat the sweet potato's with her hand mixer while adding the remaining ingredients into the pie filling. As she pour the orange filling into each pie crust and place them into the oven, my eyes would lite up, because I knew it was close to tasting time.
The fact that my grandma didn't know the measurements of the ingredients, I think that what made her great cook. Everything she made was based on her taste, which made things not so complicated. Figuring out the right amount sweetness or saltines or liquids can be frustrating. I know I get frustrated. I know there's a lot of people out there that have family recipes that don't come with the exact measurements or no measurements at all. I think family recipes are the best. They are personal and they have stories behind them.
I want to dedicate this post to my grandma and to all the great cooks in other people's lives.
To the great cooks!
Sweet Potato Pie
3 lbs cooked sweet potatoes
4 tbsp unsalted butter (room temperature)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup evaporated milk
2 large egg (room temperature)
2 Prepared pie crust
Preheat the oven at 350 degrees F.
Place your pie crust dough on to a pie pan. Using a fork, prick the bottom and sides. Bake accordingly to the pie crust instructions.
Using a hand mixer, break up the sweet potatoes in large a bowl. Add butter, sugar, nutmeg, vanilla extract, and evaporated milk. Mix well until all the ingredients are incorporated. Add the eggs and mix well.
Pour your batter into the baked pie crust and baked for about 30 minutes or until filling set. Cool before slicing.


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Sunday night's Screen Actors Guild Awards was full of fun, fashion, and heartfelt speeches from award-winning actors. Jennifer Lawrence's wardrobe malfunction aside, everyone pretty much looked amazing. In case you missed the show, here are a few of our favorite looks and hilarious moments!
Who do you think was best dressed at the SAG Awards this year?