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As the darkness grows around us and we shuffle off this mortal coil, the pressure must be on to think of something memorable to sum up your life.
"Christ, was that it?" must somehow seem a little inadequate to your loved ones, and so it is to the world of popular music we look to inspire us. Littered with tragically early deaths, robbing the world of some astonishing young talents, popular music is filled with more heartache than the average school disco. But what of their true legacy, the last release that fans cradled as they read the tear-filled obituaries and awaited the obligatory re-issue series? Clashmusic.com takes a look at the last words of some of music's finest figures.
...Curtis lifted up the stones in his heart to find the insects that crawled underneath
Bon Scott (AC/DC)
While hardly a lyrical genius by any means, Scott's bawdy humour and down to earth charm made him heavy rock's ultimate frontman. A notorious party animal, Scott sadly departed this earth in 1980 after yet another heavy night of drinking. Australian icons AC/DC had just released their stunning album 'Highway To Hell', featuring a salute to the hugely popular TV show 'Mork And Mindy'. Which is how Scott managed to leave his fans the final message: 'Nanoo, nanoo, shazbot'.
Ian Curtis (Joy Division)
Post-punk's prophet of urban alientation, closet Tory Ian Curtis is remembered as one of rock's finest lyricists. His dense poetry verged from the apocalyptic to the kitchen sink as Curtis lifted up the stones in his heart to find the insects that crawled underneath. The last song Joy Division worked on together was 'Ceremony', which ends with the lines "Watching love grow, forever / Letting me know forever".
Phil Lynott
Best known for the anthem of eternal stag nights 'The Boys Are Back In Town', legendary rocker was hard on his luck when he recorded the single 'Nineteen'. An anthem to hard living youth, Lynott was already reaping the results of his many years of drug abuse. With visits to the hospital becoming more frequent, touring was kept to a minimum. Dying tragically young in 1986, the final words many of his fans would have heard are "I'm bad, I'm nineteen".
Janis Joplin
Amongst the almost exclusively male world of 60s rock, Janis Joplin stuck out like a sore thumb. Recalling a blues-woman lineage that stretches back to Memphis Minnie and a hundred other hidden pioneers, her voice still ranks as one of popular music's most powerful instruments. Consumed by the heroin epidemic that would carry away so many of the bright lights of her generation, Joplin's posthumous 'Pearl' LP would go on to become her most successful. Its final words would be the ode to living fast, "get it while you can."
Jimi Hendrix
The ultimate guitar hero Hendrix combined chittlin' circuit performance skills with some serious chops and mystical imagination. Always in tune with another dimension anyway, Hendrix left this world as the 70s opened. The final release in his lifetime would be 'Stepping Stone' – a song that blended references to 60s pop with Eastern philosophy. The message? Time moves on.
Kurt Cobain
Growing up in an atmosphere of strict non-conformity in the American alternative scene, Kurt Cobain would never reconcile his new-found fame with his roots in Seattle's DIY rock scene. His death in 1994 would rob the world of one of its most tender young voices, a man who articulate his pain and self-doubt in a way that millions could recognise. Nirvana's final album 'In Utero' is commonly judged to be their best, although it was apparently originally titled 'I Hate Myself And I Want To Die'. It ends, however, with 'All Apologies' and the singer seemingly at peace with himself, chanting 'All in all is all we all are'.
Lennon had just entered a rich songwriting phase
Richey Edwards
In many ways a British counterpart to Cobain, but without the success, Edwards disappeared in 1995 leaving behind him some stunning rock poetry and a devastated cult following. News that his bandmates in Manic Street Preachers are set to record his lost lyrics shows the esteem he is still held in. The last album he saw to completion 'The Holy Bible' is, to put it mildly, a difficult listen. It finishes with the free-speech anthem 'PCP' and its message of 'unconditional love and hate, pass, the prozac, designer amnesiac'.
Scott La Rock (Boogie Down Productions)
A true pioneer, Scott La Rock emerged from the streets of New York to craft the pioneering hip hop of Boogie Down Productions. The group's debut album 'Criminal Minded' was blistering collage of samples which, despite the name, was the product of a group that advocated non-violence. A true tragedy then when lynch-pin Scott La Rock was senselessly murdered soon after the album's release. Fittingly, he takes the lead on the final track, the lovably daft 'Super Hoe' and its legacy of 'super sperm'. Sometimes the art doesn't quite match the life.
Billie Holliday
One of the truly heartbreaking tales of American music, jazz legend Billie Holliday was arrested for drug possession as she laying dying, and had police guards at the door of her hospital room. Her husky tones and stunningly emotive delivery marked her out as a true original, a woman who lived it like she sang it. With an extensive (and variable) discography, her last major recording is perhaps her best. 1958's 'Lady In Satin' ends with a tear-stained rendition of 'Ill Be Around'. "I'll be around when she's gone", she sings, as her music begins a life without her.
John Lennon
A potent symbol of the peace movement, John Lennon was gunned down outside his home in New York in 1980, his wife by his side. After some years of drifting no the fringes of the music world, Lennon had just entered a rich songwriting phase and was preparing to take centre stage again. On the night he was shot Lennon had just finished recording the song 'Walking On Thin Ice' with Yoko Ono, which finishes:
I may cry someday
But the tears will dry whichever way
And when our hearts return to ashes
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How is it that something girls love so much can also create so much anxiety, paranoia and aggression? I'm talking, of course, about social media. This week, as I continue my tour of BFF 2.0 -- girls' social world online -- I'm talking about the paradox of social media.
On the one hand, social media can ease many of the insecurities girls feel about their identity and relationships. If real life has dealt you a hand you mostly cannot change, a few clicks help a girl control her online appearance. Worried about weight gain or acne? Post a flattering photo as your profile picture on Facebook. Want people to know you listen to cool music? List hip indie music festival pages under your favorite interests. Wish your peers saw you as "different in a cool way?" Upload an artsy still life photo you took. Don't have a boyfriend, but want to show everyone that guys still like you? Change your profile photo to one of you and your best guy friend from camp.
A girl's social networking profile is a persona she constructs, a photoshopped billboard on the information superhighway. It also offers a salve for the anxiety so many girls feel about relationships, providing the answers to burning social questions like, What do other people think of me? Do people like me? Am I normal? Am I popular? Am I cool?
A constant drumbeat of texts, especially from (and in front of) the "right" sort of senders, makes it clear that you are wanted, needed and liked. Photos of you and your friends laughing, posing and partying are a kind of social press conference, an announcement that these are my friends, this is my tribe, I am part of something important.
All this, however, at a cost. Here's where the paradox comes in.
The same tools girls use to alleviate insecurity are just as likely to inflame it. As relationship becomes more public and visible online, we learn things we would rather not know. Meghan, 17, called a friend to go to a movie. The friend said she didn't feel like it; later, Meghan read online that she had gone with someone else.
Social media forces girls to bear witness to painful realities of relationship that were previously hidden from view. It is a new kind of TMI, or "too much information:" publicly posted photographs of an outing or party you did not attend, or a personal web page like Formspring, can send a girl into paroxysms of anxiety and grief.
Where information is power, there can be no filter. Girls click to consume even the most painful social news, because it is just a click away, and because they can. As a result, girls learn to comb the electronic terrain both to connect and protect their social status. Thirteen year old Jessica described her phone as a periscope that offered her intelligence on a conflict she was having with a friend:
"If I didn't have a phone, I would have probably been more scared to go into school, like, that Monday because I wouldn't know what was going on. I wouldn't know who was mad at me and who wasn't, because I wouldn't have been able to talk and ask people. Like, I wouldn't have known if Maureen was on my side, if she was forgiving Jill again. I would know nothing. I would just know that Jill...was going to be so mean to me when I got back on Monday."
This world is not so very different from the video games many boys play. These games recreate dark, unpredictable worlds that reveal lurking enemies and rewards. So does social media. For the self-conscious or insecure girl, technology can become a crippling addiction, an insatiable hunger not just for connection but the elusive promise of being liked by everyone.
In a recent survey, Secret's Mean Stinks found that 87% of girls surveyed agreed that social media sites have the power to be used positively in the fight against bullying. That's why I'm partnering with Mean Stinks on Facebook to create an empowering online platform where girls can find the tools to end the mean streak and start a movement of nice. Next week, I'll be back with more excerpts from the new Odd Girl Out!
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March 17, 2013 04:00 PM by Donna W. Martin
Last month, we learned that Lady Gaga had to cancel the remaining dates of her Born This Way Ball Tour due to a hip injury sustained earlier in the tour and was preparing to undergo surgery to repair a labral tear in her right hip. With the surgery behind her, Gaga needed a new set of wheels to get around in and what better for the So You Think You Can Dance guest judge than a 24-Karat gold wheel chair? Keep reading for more details.
According to E! News, Gaga commissioned designer Ken Borochov of the luxury label Mordekai to create the custom blinged out wheel chair for her. And while he has designed a few crowns for Gaga and even some hand adornments for her October fragrance launch, he had never created a wheel chair before. But that didn't matter, he took up the task and didn't disappoint, delivering a 24-Karat gold plated wheel chair he so aptly named "the Chariot, a chair fit only for a queen," he said.
Borochov fashioned Gaga's new ride using tufted leather seats to closely resemble a motorcycle jacket and added 24-Karat gold spoke rimmed wheels. And let's not forget the stylish canopy for those days when the sun is just too bright for Gaga to endure. She can open up the canopy for hands free shade. Plus the chair reclines in the event Mother Monster becomes too tired or uncomfortable to remain in an upright position. She can simply lay the chair back and an assistant can wheel her with ease from one location to another. Now that's luxury!
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At the bottom of the Earth — the planet's coldest, driest, windiest place — the sky radiates a lavender-yellow hue in the midnight sun.
Whiter than milk, the blanket of ice seems infinite. Amid the Antarctic ice sheets, a mountain rises 6,000 feet near the summit of Mount Terror.
This is Manahan Peak.
"I was in Antarctica and someone said to me, 'Did you know there was a Manahan who explored Antarctica before you? There's a mountain called Manahan Peak,' " recalled Donal Manahan, professor of biological sciences in USC College.
"I had to tell him, 'Well, actually that was named after me.' I'm very humbled by it. It's really an honor."
Manahan Peak is located in a famous part of Antarctica, near where Sir Ernest Shackleton started his trek toward the South Pole during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration at the turn of the 20th century.
But Manahan has added a new dimension to the work of early explorers who roughed the gigantic continent the size of Canada, North America and Central America combined. His is the first formal graduate training program held on the seventh continent that connects young scientists to the last great wilderness.
"I wanted to bring students out of the classrooms, out of the laboratories," Manahan said, "and take them on expeditions literally to the end of the world."
In 2000, an international committee named the peak after Manahan for his contributions to research and education on the continent. He has been the chief scientist on more than 20 expeditions.
In 1994, Manahan founded the National Science Foundation-sponsored International Graduate Training Course in Antarctic Marine Biology, the first of its kind.
The month-long course administered through USC College focuses on integrative biology — the study of organisms from their genes to the functioning of the whole organism. Participants are also exposed to an array of Antarctic disciplines: atmospheric sciences, glaciology, chemistry and geology to name a few. Their team-oriented laboratory and field-based projects probe how life adapts in extreme environments.
"When you take people away from their home institutions and home departments, both physically and intellectually, they are much more willing to work together across traditional boundaries," said Irish-born Manahan, also former director of the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, housed in the College.
"The concept of teamwork in graduate education is a central aspect of this training program."
To date, more than 200 faculty and students representing 30 nations have participated. Of 400 applicants, 25 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are chosen to make the journey each summer, a season in Antarctica when the sun never sets. A dozen professors and teaching assistants nationwide lead the scientific expeditions, with Manahan at the helm.
"We know there are vital connections between the largely uninhabitable polar regions and the rest of our planet," Manahan said. "My hope is that we will raise the awareness of the importance of polar regions for the future of human society."
Manahan's own expertise is animal physiology. He explores how animals thrive in extremely cold temperatures. As a new assistant professor at USC, he began his first scientific explorations in Antarctica in the early '80s.
"What prompted me there in the first place was a simple idea," Manahan said. "I wanted to study the large, cold biosphere on the Earth's surface."
The cold biosphere consists of habitats as chilly as a refrigerator. It is a major environment on Earth, making up approximately 90 percent in volume of the living biosphere (including the deep ocean) above the Earth's surface.
"That's what drew me to the cold."
He was in Antarctica in the mid-'80s when the ozone hole was first discovered. Atmospheric chemists had presented findings showing a very rapid decline of ozone over the Antarctic. The ozone layer in the upper stratosphere prevents ultraviolet light — which can cause skin cancer and damage plants and animals — from reaching the Earth's surface.
The depletion was attributed to chorine in the atmosphere, mainly chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) used in aerosols, refrigeration coolants and electronic cleaning solvents. CFCs are mostly released over the United States, Japan, Europe and Russia but journey up into the stratosphere and distribute around the globe.
The worst ozone depletion occurs in Antarctica because its extremely low temperatures cause cloud formation in the relatively dry stratosphere. These polar clouds are composed of ice crystals that provide the surface for a multitude of reactions, many of which speed the degradation of ozone molecules. Fears of ozone reduction in the Northern Hemisphere have restricted the use of CFCs worldwide.
During a lecture he attended in Antarctica, "I was falling off my chair in shock about how big the ozone depletion was and that they had discovered it was driven by human-made CFCs," Manahan said.
"A week later at USC, I told my undergraduate class, 'I just returned from Antarctica and want to share this important information with you before the world knows about it,' " said Manahan, special adviser to USC College Dean Howard Gillman on enhancing undergraduate studies in natural sciences.
Six months later, the ozone hole had become one of the decade's biggest news stories.
Now, a different problem has put Antarctica under the international spotlight. Scientists have found that the burning of fossil fuels during the past century has increased concentrations of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, preventing heat from escaping to space — somewhat like the glass panels of a greenhouse.
As concentrations of these gases continue to increase in the atmosphere, scientists say, the Earth's temperature is climbing in a phenomenon known as global warming.
Some regions of Antarctica have warmed sharply in recent years, causing ice shelves to break and accelerating the sliding of glaciers.
In the Arctic, experts say, the warming and loss of ice is a serious threat to polar bears. In Antarctica, the number of Adelie penguins is plummeting in some regions. Scientists warn that many cold-adapted species are at risk of extinction during this century.
"For today's organisms, we're trying to figure out who's going to be able to handle tomorrow's problems," Manahan said. "So we're trying to predict the winners and losers. In Antarctica, we have a natural laboratory where things are changing quickly."
Scientists warn climate change and the loss of Antarctic ice shelves will result in rising sea levels in other parts of the world.
"Changes there will affect the entire planet," he said. "People hadn't before been thinking of global connectivity of the entire planet. The general public was saying, 'I know things are changing in the North and South Pole, but is that going to really affect me in Los Angeles?' And the answer is yes."
Near the U.S. Antarctic Program's central base at McMurdo Station, Manahan and his group oversee the collection of a wide variety of organisms — from microbes to fish.
"We're looking for universal principles when we study these organisms," Manahan said. "We hope to answer an important question, 'Can life on this planet adapt quickly enough to the changes that are being induced by humans?' "
For underwater collections, divers carry 100 pounds of gear and plunge into 12-foot tubes of cored ice leading to frigid waters teeming with life. Over the years, Manahan has made such dives himself. Now he lets students enjoy the experience.
David Ginsburg, a lecturer in the College's Environmental Studies Program, participated in this past season's Antarctica expedition for the fourth time. On his initial trip as Manahan's Ph.D. student years ago, he took his first ice dive.
"I was a mess," Ginsburg recounted. "What was I thinking, a guy born and raised in Los Angeles, jumping into below-freezing water through a shoulder-width hole in the ice?"
Despite his angst, he relished collecting species, and has since experienced many successful dives.
"The most drastic thing you notice when diving in Antarctica is the gigantism," Ginsburg said. "Giant sponges, invertebrates — starfish the size of basketballs."
Scott Applebaum had one word after exiting the U.S. Air Force cargo plane from New Zealand on his first trip to Antarctica this year.
The postdoctoral researcher in Manahan's laboratory and his teammates were greeted with a waddle of emperor penguins at the remote ice runway — surprising since penguins rarely stray so far inland.
Applebaum never tired of the Adelie penguins with white rings around their eyes and the taller, bigger emperor penguins with bright yellow-orange patches around their ears. Penguins often waddled by during outdoor research, but the scientists never interacted with them. The Antarctic Treaty protects the flightless birds.
Seals were also a common sight. They sunbathed on slabs of ice and often swam up the long ice holes used by divers and poked their heads out.
Some participants found it difficult to sleep in the perpetual daylight. But even that had its perks. After midnight, the sun was still up and the sky gave off a spectacular glow.
They spent much of their long days in the lab.
Another of Manahan's teaching assistants was postdoc Jimmy Lee. He recalled visiting the hut where the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott stayed during his famous expeditions, his last ending in his death in 1912.
"It was like stepping back 100 years in time," Lee said. "It felt like the whole crew just stepped out and would return any minute. There was a toothbrush still in its tin cup."
In addition, Manahan wants participants to become better versed in the realities of environmental policymaking. At McMurdo Station, they have opportunities to discuss issues with visiting legislators and their senior staff.
"If scientists can't affect environmental policy, then we're not going to be able to make a significant difference," Manahan said. "A big challenge for the next generation of environmental scientists is how well they are able to communicate with policymakers."
That is crucial as the Earth's landscape faces a radical transformation.
"The program introduces students to the part of the planet where changes don't yet directly impact humans," he said. "But such things are coming our way."
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New Galaxy Tab 10.1? Download these apps first
Samsung's redesigned tablet, the Galaxy Tab 10.1, might be the best tablet available that uses Android 3.0 Honeycomb. But the key to any good tab experience is its apps. Apps turn a tablet into an e-reader, a movie player, a game machine, a word processor and more, but stumbling around in places like the Android Market looking for the right tools for the job can be frustrating. So we've searched through compatible apps for Samsung's latest offering to the tablet market and tracked down 10 greats you should download right away when you get your device out of the box, to help make your Galaxy Tab 10.1 into all the cool tools you want. Check them out below.
Read It Later Pro ($2.99)
Among the greatest things a mobile device can do is make reading easier, and Read It Later is designed to do exactly that. After setting up an account and adding its special "bookmarklets" to your computer's web browser, you can save the many articles you come across every day – be they from RSS or news feeds, picked up from Twitter and Facebook, or just discovered through surfing – to a running list that syncs over the Internet with the app on your tablet. So while you might find an interesting article while surfing the web, you don't have to read it on your computer: you can just open Read It Later and, well, read the article later, wherever you've got an Internet (be it 3G or Wi-Fi) connection to download it to your tab. Better still, Read It Later optimizes the articles by stripping out extraneous stuff from the web like ads and culling the article down to just text and images. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 excels as a reading device, and Read It Later makes it extremely useful for web articles.
Kindle (Free)
While we're talking about reading, you'll want to get Amazon's free e-reader app. Kindle allows users to purchase e-books through Amazon and read them on mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets. The books are downloaded right to the app and available offline once they're streamed down, and Kindle is smart enough to track your spot in one of your books and sync that information over the Internet with your other devices, so you can start reading on your Galaxy Tab and finish on your smartphone. You can also annotate and make notes, and purchase more books through the app. Amazon's e-book library has over 900,000 entries, so finding something to read is always easy. The app also features a low-light night-reading feature, which makes it great for reading in bed.
Pulse News (Free)
One more for reading: Pulse News lets you set up a stream of interesting articles from all over the web in one place, based on your interests, your favorite sites, and RSS feeds. The articles are all organized into an easy-to-view mosaic format, where you can see headlines and images and scroll through them quickly and easily. Articles you choose to read are pared-down to just text and images to keep them easy on your eyes, and the app features all kinds of integrations, including with Read It Later, so you can save articles for later. You can also share things you finding interesting with your friends using social networks Facebook and Twitter.
Quickoffice Pro HD ($14.99)
You essentially get a full Office suite on your tablet with Quickoffice Pro HD, which allows you to create and access documents from a variety of popular Office programs like Excel, Word and Powerpoint. You can read and edit files as well as create new ones right on your tab, using either the device's virtual keyboard or Quickoffice's voice dictation features. The app will also sync-up to numerous handy document-sharing and creation programs, including cloud storage service Dropbox, Google Docs and Apple's MobileMe service, giving you access to anything you might have, just about anywhere. Best of all, Galaxy Tab 10.1 owners already have Quickoffice Pro – it comes with the tablet.
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TweetComb (Free)
There's only one Twitter client designed for Honeycomb tablets so far, and that's TweetComb. The rest are holdovers from Android smartphones, and therefore aren't optimized for bigger screens. TweetComb, on the other hand, can handle all the cool features of Twitter and display multiple timelines and columns, allowing users to show their standard feed of updates, as well as, say, all their Mentions and Direct Messages and searched terms on the screen at one time. You also get the full ability to do everything Twitter clients can do on any other devices or computers, like sharing links and photos through updates. TweetComb also supports multiple Twitter accounts.
Google Sky Map (Free)
One of the niftier uses of augmented reality – a technology that uses your mobile device's camera to overlay information on the screen over the images the camera captures – is in Google Sky Map. Hold your Galaxy Tab up and aim it at the sky (or the ground) and Sky Map, well, maps the sky. It shows constellations, celestial bodies and all kinds of astronomical stuff out there, exactly where you'd be able to see it with the naked eye. Sky Map does you the favor of eliminating all the pesky stuff out there like clouds, city lights and even the ground, which lets you see the sky on the other side of the planet as well as the one you're on.
PlayOn Mobile (Free, with a monthly subscription)
Perhaps the biggest bummer about the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is that it currently lacks support for two major online video services: Netflix and Hulu Plus. Both services allow users to stream TV shows and movies over the Internet to their various devices, but there are no apps for the Galaxy Tab. Hulu Plus and Netflix were both recently released on Android, but remain incompatible with the Galaxy tab right now. Fortunately, for a price, there's a workaround – PlayOn Mobile, which allows users to connect their tabs to their PCs over a local Wi-Fi network. That connection basically allows you to stream your Netflix and Hulu content from the Internet to your PC, then to your tab, bypassing the need for native apps from the services. It's not nearly the best way to do things, especially since a PlayOn subscription will run users another $4.99 a month on top of Netflix and Hulu, and it's a bit goofy to use on the Galaxy, but in the end, it works. Until there's a better way, at least PlayOn gets you access to the same services enjoyed by Apple iPad owners.
Adobe Photoshop Express (Free)
Adobe's free photo editing app is a must if you plan to use the camera features on the Galaxy Tab, simply because it's an intuitive way to tweak your photos on the go. The app contains a handful of useful little features, like cropping, adjustments for contrast, tint and brightness, effects and borders, and more. It's not an extremely robust photo editor – don't expect to be photoshopping images together and fooling your friends – but it's a great free way to alter photos before sending them along to services such as Facebook and Twitter. The big screen of the Galaxy Tab makes the photos look great, and touch controls make altering them a snap.
Google Music Beta/Amazon MP3 (Free)
Suddenly, streaming music from cloud-based Internet services has become a really big deal, and for Android users, there are a couple of big-name options that recently hit the scene. Music is Google's offering for users who have access to its Music Beta service, while Amazon MP3 is the Android-only streaming player available to everyone. Both are pretty solid, although they both require users to upload their music libraries to the cloud in order to stream them over an Internet connection to devices such as the Galaxy Tab. That can take a really long time, but the investment is worth it if you'd rather save the space on your tab for other things. Once your music is uploaded, you can access and even download it to your mobile devices any time you've got an Internet connection, which is great for situations like reading and listening to music at the same time.
Dropbox (Free)
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I got my Jeep back and I cannot put the rear window back in due to both zippers missing. I called the dealership they said in order to replace the zippers I have to buy the whole window unit at a cost of $227. Or I can go to a Upholster and have new zippers put in also $$$. I was wonder where I can find or purchase some new/used ones. Or if anyone has a old soft top lying around that they are not using that I could get the zippers off of. The Jeep has a alarm on it but I would feel better having the window back in thanks. 04 Jeep wrangler Rubicon.
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Posted 18 April 2008 - 07:23 AM
Posted 18 April 2008 - 08:47 AM
I used to drive a CJ5 with a soft top. Any decent upholsterer can put new zippers in for you. They should have no trouble finding and installing them. I had all sorts of repairs done to mine and they usually worked better than the factory parts.
Posted 18 April 2008 - 12:26 PM
Buy a Toyota...
Posted 18 April 2008 - 04:59 PM
Problem solved got a sister-in-law going to send me a brand new top in the box. She never used it. Just kept the hardtop on her jeep and she is going to trade it in now.
Buy a Toyota...
Posted 18 April 2008 - 05:29 PM
Look up a Company called " BestTop" they make replacement windows and tops for lots of SUV's. I got an OEM replacement for my Tracker, for alot less than the Dealer.. Good luck !
Posted 18 April 2008 - 06:10 PM
Thanks I will take the freebee from the inlaws.
Posted 18 April 2008 - 08:22 PM
Dude! Enough with the Toyota's already! My neighbor just bought one of those FJ Cruisers with all the gizmos and it's even lifted with the big tires. Now he's afraid to follow me into the rocks because he'll scratch the damned thing. It's become the typical California 4x4. All looks and no action!!! What a waste of money. He should've saved his money and bought an older Jeep TJ.
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So after being absent for some months, Im back with mapping.
For this challenge Ill try to challenge myself and make two kind of things I never did before:
1 - Political Map: I love political maps for their simplicity, but at the same time I find them challenging, because if you make them much simple, they´ll become boring and uninteresting. (For this part I take heavy influence on DA 1 blomma and his awesome tutorial, but with tweaks of my own (1Blomma on deviantART ))
2 - Planet Manipulation: After the political map, I´ll try the other thing I never did, that is creating planets, with textures and effects.
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09/19/2008, Bora Bora
The Gendarme that we checked out with yesterday was a nice guy and told us that we had 24 hours to leave once clearing out. The big task after clearing out is getting your bond back. Americans and Japanese (and most other non EU passport holders) have to post a bond to enter FP by yacht. The bond is approximately equivalent to the amount of a flight home. This made the Japanese bond 176,000 fp francs and the US bond 150,000 fpf. We hit the Gendarmerie at 4PM yesterday but the Socredo bank (holders of our bond) closed at 3:30.
The bank opened at 7:30 this morning so I arrived bright and early to get things handled. In order to make for a fast get away I decided to dinghy over to the Saint James restaurant dock one bay over from the yacht club. The Saint James is in a little plaza with a computer shop and a nice bakery with yummy breakfast items. A half block farther toward town and you are at the big grocery store, the chandlery and the Socredo Bank.
I purchased the bonds with my credit card and thus expected the symmetrical credit. Nothing doing. They would not credit my card. I was very insistent but they would not budge. This is not only inconvenient but seemingly unreasonable. If you can charge the card, certainly you can credit it? The cash amount is over $3,000 US. They suggested I take francs. The last thing we needed was more francs, we had just cleared out!
In the end I had to settle for US and New Zealand Dollars (good in the Cooks, Niue and Tonga). We made about 10% on the US dollar over the three months we were here, not sure whether to be happy or sad about that.
I made my way back to the boat with a stop at the pastry place. It was 10:00 when I returned to the boat. It was getting late to make Maupiti in good stead for clearing the tricky pass. After a nice breakfast, we had the dinghy up and the big boat ready to go by 11:00. Then I noticed that the bank had taken my clearance out and not returned it. They, of course, close from 11:30 to 1:30. So we enjoyed one more day in Bora Bora.
It was choppy in the lagoon but we ran the dinghy over to the Pearl Beach Resort on the motu across from the yacht club just to check it out. It was the only large hotel on Bora Bora we had not yet taken a look at. It was a nice place with the expected over water bungalows and all. The location was not optimal however. This resort, like the Bora Bora Lagoon Resort and Spa, faces the east and there is a fair amount of fetch off the resort beach. This makes the dock and beach of the resort choppy quite often. If you're going to visit Bora Bora and stay in a hotel our recommendation is still #1 Four Seasons or Nui (tie), #3 Saint Regis.
After lunch we returned to the bank to get our clearance papers. We also stopped at the Total station, the only fuel dock I know of in Bora Bora. We picked up a little 5 liter emergency tank for the dinghy that I had been looking for. I was surprised that the station did not take credit cards. Some yachts must run up a pretty serious bill which has to be rough on the cash reserves When we returned to the big boat I downloaded weather over the yacht club's Iorana Net WIFI site (you get one free hour a day with a mooring). The Bora Bora wind guru report among other resources indicated that wind and seas still looked good for Maupiti tomorrow, so we turned in early to prepare for a crack of dawn departure.
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09/18/2008, Bora Bora
It was our three year wedding anniversary today! We were married here in Bora Bora so it only made sense to enjoy our anniversary here as well.
We had a relaxing morning. I made lattes and we thawed out some of the frozen Pain au Chocolat (chocolate croissants which are actually really good) while our recently repaired washer dryer reduced the size of the dirty laundry which had been building for some weeks.
We took the dinghy around to the east side of the island and visited the new Four Seasons hotel for lunch. They just opened on September 1st and it is a really nice place. I still have to give the Bora Bora Nui the number 1 rating here because of its location, laid back style and bar/restaurant with the sand floor. If you are looking for sterling service and great food I would have to give the Four Seasons the nod and it is now clearly my #2 with the Saint Regis coming in third.
It is not only our anniversary but also the anniversary of Chile's independence. There was a group of Chileans at the bar where we had lunch and they were whipping up some crazy drinks with the bar staff made from distilled wine. They graciously included us in their celebration. The beverages were very tasty and very dangerous.
While I could still see to drive we departed the Four Seasons and made a circumnavigation out of it. We dinghied back around Matira point on the way to town to clear out. I think that this is the longest we have been in one country for a few years. It has been over ten weeks in French Polynesia for us. If they would let us stay another six we would. Things as they are we will be off to Maupiti tomorrow on the way to the Cook Islands.
Clearing out was easy and the Gendarmarie guys were very easy going (contrary to the cruiser rumor mill I had heard). They cleared us out even though I told them we were leaving tomorrow. The bank was closed so we couldn't redeem the "make sure you have enough cash to fly home" bonds we purchased upon arriving anyway.
After a quick stop for dog food (it is a long way to the next Purina dealer) we headed back to the Bora Bora yacht club. The cruisers in the anchorage were having a BBQ and we didn't want to miss it.
After a quick turn around at the big boat we headed into the yacht club with a steak to split (still full from lunch) and enough of Hideko's yummy tomato and cucumber salad to feed several cruisers.
We had a great night with a very interesting group of folks. Yachts Honalee, Plan B, God Spede, Slap Dash, and Thulani where there with their crews of two or three. Most are heading west soon just like we are. We look forward to seeing them in the next harbor.
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09/17/2008, Bora Bora
We took a bike ride around Bora Bora today. It was a lot of fun and I've been wanting to do it for a long time. The Bora Bora yacht club has bikes you can use for free and they're pretty nice beach bombers. You get a totally different feel for a place when you ride a bike around it, as compared to taking a car or a dinghy for that matter.
We hit the ATM in Viatape to get some cash (only the Bank of Tahiti seems to work for us). The yacht club only takes cash which is kind of a bummer because we're trying to leave the country with 0 French Polynesian Francs.
We ate lunch at a snack (lunch place in french) on Matira beach. It was a lovely day out and the beach here is wonderful. Before we knew it Patrick came by. He was teaching some kids how to fire dance (without the fire). It was great to see him again.
As we made our way around to the east side a full blow squall came in. It was crazy windy and Hideko and I got cooled down by the stinging rain. It was amazing how fast it went from beautiful to nasty. You couldn't see it coming on the west side. The GFS had predicted overcast and here it was.
It never rained long or too hard. By the time we reached the north side of the island the sun was out again. We made one last stop to pick up a few things at the chandler and grab a 10 pack of frozen chocolate croissants from the grocery before we headed back to the boat.
We were going to leave tomorrow but tomorrow is our 3 year wedding anniversary and we got married here so we figured we'd enjoy tomorrow and take off the next day. Still looks good for a Maupiuti pass entrance so we're looking forward to the next stop as well.
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09/16/2008, Bora Bora
We haven't been around other cruisers for a while. Last time in Bora Bora we were alone on the east side most of the time, although there were charter boats about. There were a few other folks in the yard at Raiatea but we were trying to get out of there with every spare moment. We were also the only cruisers at the Marina Iti, though there were some nice charter folks there also. Everyone has headed west but us stragglers.
The Bora Bora yacht club is a cruiser hang out though. It is nice to talk tourists stuff, routes, weather and official-dom with similarly minded folks again. We have heard that Fiji is having Dengue Fever problems, Palmerston Atoll (in the Cook Islands) has 8 new moorings with comfortable protection from the north around to the south and that the French Customs in Bora Bora are as much of a pain as the ones in Tahiti (you can't check out until 30 minutes before you depart...). It is advisable to double check the factual nature of the cruiser network, yet there is usually some truth to most of the flow.
We are working on the boat a bit today. We removed the aft edge canvas tracks when we finalized our side curtains with snaps. This left holes in the glass and some rust stains. Nothing some gel coat and a little elbow grease can't fix. It is so beautiful here it is hard to work, at least we're outside!
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09/15/2008, Bora Bora
We got the boat set for sea this morning and dropped the mooring to motor out into the bay. Hideko and I were certainly rusty, we haven't sailed in the ocean in over a month! Strange given we live on a sail boat. We have a good preparation check list though so we put it to use.
Once away from the other yachts we turned head to wind and put up the main. I have heard a lot of opinions on how and when to raise the main. Every boat is different but opinions seem to be most relevant when applied to the owners boat, a good thing to keep in mind when considering adopting someone else's ideas.
I have found that on a yacht of 40 feet or less, raising the main at anchor or on a mooring is a reasonable and often easier approach. As the boat approaches 50 feet it becomes a bit more dangerous and less reasonable, particularly in windy conditions. The power behind a 1,000 square foot sail in a gust is not something you can man handle.
After bringing the main up we headed north toward the Paipai pass. This pass is pretty deep and wide and some of the cruising guides make it sound a bit scary. You would have to have some pretty severe southerly weather to make it dangerous in my estimation.
Once out from behind the headland the wind funneling through the cut between the islands picked up into the high 20s. We had to jib half way down the lagoon as the wind was right behind us. Once near the pass we made a gentle turn into the wind bringing the apparent wind back into the 20s.
There was a French Navy ship making its way through the wide pass at the time. We thought about standing off until she was through but the pass is so wide we decided to slow down a bit until the ship was through the breakers and then move on. We waved at the cheerful navy crew on the way by. Tuff life patrolling the viscous Polynesian waters...
Given the forecast, we had some pretty brisk wind on the 20 mile trip across. I think the draw between Raiatea and Tahaa has something to do with it, even out in the channel. The seas between the two groups also get a little mixed up.
The Tahaa Paipai pass exits in a southwest direction and once out we could not clear the south end of the Bora Bora reef on one tack without sailing deeper than 145 apparent. Without the spinnaker we can't really do much better than 145 and double handed with 20 some knots of true wind is decidedly not spinnaker territory.
Once around the Bora Bora southwest reef marker we headed up which brought the wind onto the beam. The wind was gusty on the west side of Bora Bora and although the gradient wind was out of the east, the island seemed to whip it up a bit with some directional variability. Shortly we were surfing down the gentle four footers on the back side of the island as speeds up to 13 knots. This is always fun but things happen fast at 13 knots. We were coming up on the pass and the next thing you know there's a slow sailboat preparing to enter the pass under power, two small power boats exiting, four open fishing boats moving around the area, a sport fisher zig zagging back and forth in front of us and fish aggregation buoys flouting around all over the place.
You do have a lot of steerageway at 13 knots though. Snaking through the various hazards (none of which were apparently interested in our right of way status as a sailboat) took all of our attention. Once close to the pass we rolled up the jib, headed up and dropped the main quickly, so that we didn't run anyone down, and then followed the monohull into the pass.
Though we have spent a fair amount of time in Bora Bora we had never stayed at the Bora Bora Yacht club. This is perhaps the oldest of yacht hang outs in Bora Bora. It is often crowded as well. It is late in the season however and we were lucky enough to find a mooring. Within minutes of picking it up the last two were gone.
The yacht club is in a nice little bay just across from the pass, easy in and easy out. It is a short hop to town but far enough from it that you aren't "in town". The yacht club itself is a mooring field and a nice dock with a bar and grill. The food is supposedly fantastic with a Los Angeles trained chef. They also have bikes for cruiser use and a nice barbeque area for yachts to use.
We arrived on a Monday and the kitchen is closed on Mondays, as are most things in Bora Bora. We met some kindred spirits at the bar, which was open. Thulani, Decorse Spirit and Chante Foc all yachts we have run into at various points along the run from Panama.
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09/14/2008, Tahaa
The weather is finally coming around but this morning it seemed like we ware in for one last gasp of disturbed air. It rained most of the day to day. We spent the day enjoying the beautiful harbor and calm, if wet, conditions. The Marina Iti/Yacht Club is a perfect cruiser hang out especially in these conditions. The manager, Maui, is a very friendly and helpful fellow. He is from Bora Bora but went to collage in California and speaks perfect French and Californian. They have a full bar and fantastic food.
There is a pearl farm base next door to the Yacht Club and you can take a walk through the Marina Iti gardens to visit. They will give you a complete run down and demonstration of the pearl making process.
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09/13/2008, Tahaa
After a rough night with squalls and stink exhaust from the Paul Gauguin, I was woken by a wrap on the hull. It was 7AM and the guy who runs the fuel dock wanted us off. As it turned out we wanted to top up with another 60 liters or so now that our tanks had fully equalized.
I told him I wanted diesel (in French) and he said go in 5 minutes and walked away. We were having communications problems? I asked again to get diesel. He got nasty and once again insisted I get off of his dock (which was really the city's dock).
Of course the wind was up over 20 again and blowing from about 20 degrees off of the port bow with us starboard to. Swingin the stern out would be tough due to how close Jellyfish was behind us, our wide beam and the wind trying to put us back on. Also once backing off I would have to stay on it hard to clear Jellyfish and avoid the dock that curved around on the far side. Springing off by the stern was a no go with the ship on the dock off the port bow.
As I was considering all of this I began stripping the lines down to just a bow and stern. At this point I had apparently over run my allotted five minutes. The owner or manager of the Shell station returned and untied our bow line and threw it aboard the boat without a word. I was standing on the dock watching the 20 some knot wind begin to peel our bow off the dock with the stern still tied up.
After a few seconds on time stop disbelief I jumped on the rub rail and grabbed the bow line and quickly made it fast again. Fortunately the wind hadn't gusted around to starboard and I had enough line to make fast.
So not only was this lunatic not willing to sell me diesel but he was also willing to put our home and the yacht behind us at risk. I was on the fuel dock, yes, but no one was waiting and I wanted to buy fuel! This nut was a westerner as was the guy who owned Raiatea Marine who would not let us stay on his mooring after finding we had done business with the Carenage, I am ashamed to be related. I can't imagine a Polynesian ever acting so.
There was no room for us to slide back and I didn't want to wake the Jellyfish crew. There was a tight spot behind them but given the wind and chop we decided to just head out.
We left a forward spring looped onto a bollard and drove up on a fender. This boat seems big to me only when doing this type of thing with the wind howling. It was really hard to get the stern out in the conditions. Once out is was even trickier to pull back quickly to avoid slipping into Jellyfish. The key is keeping the rudder centered or a little to port. If you let it run to lock it will act like a break.
Once out of the harbor we headed for Tahaa. The channel that runs east of the central bank between the two islands is gusty and choppy in these conditions. I would have preferred to have brought our dinghy up but given the hospitality of the non indigenous business interests we decided to leave it in the water.
We circumnavigated the whole island of Tahaa over the day. It is a beautiful island with deep winding bays which we explored fully. There is a cruiser friendly pension and restaurant in Haamene Bay with a Turtle nursery and free moorings for guests. Tahaa itself is not long on beaches but there are many lovely sand spots on the motus at the north end of the island. You can anchor off of the southern most motu on the west side near the Tahaa Private Island Resort and Spa for a nice but expensive meal. The west pass of Tahaa, Pass Paipai, faces southwest but seemed pretty reasonable even with the 25 knot winds coming through the break in the islands. Late in the day we saw the Paul Gauguin cruise ship come through this pass so I would imagine that it is large enough to serve in most conditions.
We wrapped up our day in Apu Bay on a Marina Iti Mooring (aka The Taravana Yacht Club). The marina is really a restaurant with cruiser services (such as laundry, water, internet and the like) and a mooring field. The moorings are nice since the anchorage is about 100 feet in most spots. The restaurant is also fantastic. Hideko and I went in for a late lunch and greatly enjoyed it. Many of the charter boats bound for Marina Apooiti across the bank in Raiatea spend their last night here, so you may want to radio or call ahead to reserve a spot. Maui runs the Marina and is a wonderful host.
The mooring field is well protected but still has some breeze from the trades. It is a great spot to enjoy a day or two at Tahaa.
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Over the last few years I find I've settled on a route to work that is not the shortest distance between points A and B. I've also tinkered with several different routes to my dad's house, including a new one that looks a bit crazy when viewed on a map. I've got my reasons as to why the direct route is not the route to ride on a bike. How about you?
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About 9 x 57 in. (23 x 145 cm).
For someone who loves purple and loves to show it off! Inspired by the colors associated with the zodiac sign Aquarius, it's sure to impress: purple for independence, dusty purple for inventiveness, charcoal grey for practicality, and eggplant for tolerance. *Note: Picture above is of the crochet version.
15 sts = about 4 in. (10 cm) in pattern. When you match the gauge in a pattern, your project will be the size
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size hook or needles; if more stitches and rows, try a larger size hook or needles.
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15 sts = about 4 in. (10 cm) in pattern.
Yo (yarn over) A yarnover (yo) is worked as follows:1. Bring yarn to front, between the needles. 2. Take yarn to back, over the right needle. This creates the yo.
1. Scarf is worked in wedge-shaped sections changing color following the Color Sequence. The wedges are shaped by working yarnovers (yo's), all of the other stitches are knit. 2. The yarnover's are worked on Row 3, then dropped on Row 4. To drop a yarnover, knit until the yarnover is the next loop on your left hand needle, drop the yarnover loop by simply sliding it off your left hand needle. This will create long strands of yarn across your work. 3. The Scarf is easy to make, but you will need to keep track of which row you are on!
COLOR SEQUENCEWork *4 rows with A, 4 rows with B, 4 rows with C, 4 rows with D; rep from * for Color Sequence.
SCARFWith A, cast on 33 sts.Rows 1 and 2: Knit.Row 3: K11, (yo, k1) 11 times, (yo twice, k1) 11 times.Row 4: Knit across row, dropping all of the yos.Change to next color in Color Sequence.Rows 5-48: Rep Rows 1-4 eleven more times, continuing to change color following Color Sequence.Rows 49 and 50: Knit.Row 51: (K1, yo twice) 11 times, (k1, yo) 11 times, k11.Row 52: Knit across row dropping all of the yos.Rows 53-96: Rep Rows 49-52 eleven more times, continuing to change color following Color Sequence.Continuing to change color following Color Sequence, rep Rows 1-96 twice more, then rep Rows 1-48 once more.Last 2 Rows: With D, knit.Bind off.
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Like Kirby Nickel, my main character in AIRBALL: MY LIFE IN BRIEFS, I grew up in a small town in Kansas and am a rabid Jayhawk basketball fan. I've never played basketball in my underwear, but I used to have a recurring nightmare about walking into the school cafeteria wearing nothing but pajamas. I'm sure the dream meant I was afraid to show people who I really was. In telling Kirby's story, I hope I show readers they shouldn't be afraid to let people see who they are. Who they are is okay.
To write AIRBALL, I drew on two sources of athletic experience. The first was my own. I think I was actually born with a bit of natural athletic ability, but you sure couldn't tell by watching me play. I was so worried about the people in the stands, the people looking at me, that I couldn't focus on anything else. All I could think about was trying not to look stupid in front of all those people. And of course the more I tried not to look stupid, the more likely I was to run into a pole.
The second sports experience is my son's. He's very athletic, and like me, he's very shy. But unlike me, when he steps onto a playing field, he's able to put the people in the stands out of his mind and just play. For him, the love of the game trumps the fear of looking stupid. Over the years, as I've watched my son and his teammates compete, I've realized how important that kind of mental focus is. The kids who excel, the kids who can really play, are the kids who believe they can.
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A Detroit, Mich., native, Gniewek is an industry professional whose career includes years of senior executive experience and a strong leadership background, the company says.
Gniewek most recently served as president of EFP Corp., a producer of engineered products and packaging for the medical, pharmaceutical, food, consumer and building markets. Prior to his tenure at EFP, Gniewek was CEO and president of Durakon Industries, a key supplier to the automotive original equipment manufacturers and aftermarket sector. He has also held executive positions at Johnson Controls Automotive Group, Intertec Systems, TechnoTrim, Allen Industries and Ford Motor Co. Since 2006, he has served on the board of directors at Creative Foam Corp.
During his nearly four-decades-long career, Gniewek has developed a worldwide distribution network covering more than 50 countries. He has opened 17 manufacturing plants and three warehouse facilities throughout North and South America and managed companies ranging from $22 million to $1 billion in sales revenue.
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As the largest room in most homes, the garage has plenty of potential to be one of the most usable spaces. However, in many homes, the garage is more of a cluttered catchall for everything from tools and toys to holiday decorations and sporting equipment, and if you are one of the lucky ones, there may even be room to squeeze a car in there too. But for those who use the garage mainly for storage, after several years of buildup it becomes harder and harder to find and access the things you need without knocking down a pile of boxes or tripping over a skateboard. So, take charge of your garage using these helpful tips to get things organized.
Sort Everything: Begin by sorting everything in your garage. Make piles for similar items such as woodworking tools, lawn and garden supplies/equipment, clothing, spark plugs and air filters, toys and sporting equipment. After you've made your plies, take everything that doesn't belong in the garage and put it in its proper place. This includes returning barrowed items to the neighbors.
Sort Again: Now take the piles you've made and sort them again by season or activity. This will help you group your belongings and separate them into bins or cabinets making everything easy to find. Group all of the ball gloves, baseballs and bats together. Put soccer cleats and the soccer ball together. Your rakes and leaf blower should be in a separate pile. Do the same for toys, clothing, seasonal items and auto supplies and tools.
Get Rid of Unwanted Items: After you've organized everything you want to keep, get rid of the things you don't need. Sell these items on line, have a garage sale, refurbish items that can be reused, take recyclable items to the recycling center instead of putting them in the trash and donate the rest to charity or throw it away.
Evaluate the Open Space: After all that sorting, chances are you have much more usable space than you thought you might. Take a look at the open area. Determine how much space you need for parking the family vehicles and mark it off on the floor. Now look at the remaining space and the piles of sorted items. Determine which piles are best stored or organized in bins, cabinets or other storage containers, on shelving units or on hooks hanging from the wall or ceiling. How much organizational storage space do you need? Will floor cabinets work? Tall shelving units? Overhead cabinets? Can you add a counter along the wall that can serve as a workbench? What works best for bikes and bike helmets, skateboards, and your hunting gear?
Choose and Install Organizational Units: You are in the home stretch. Choose the storage units that will work best in the available space in your garage. There is a wide range of shelves, lockers, bins, hooks, cabinets and more designed specifically for garage storage. Gladiator GarageWorks by Whirlpool and Harley-Davidson Storage Systems by Stack-On are two popular garage storage systems available in a variety of units and sizes that can be arranged to suit your specific needs. For more ideas about storage systems, check with your local home improvement store, a garage design company or search garage storage systems on the web to find what is right for you. Once you've selected the organizational storage units you'll need, it is time to install them. Depending on your experience, you may need help from a friend or neighbor, or you might want to hire a professional to handle the installation.
Store Your Stuff and Park the Car: After all of the organizational units are installed in your garage, store all of your belongings according to the piles you sorted at the beginning of the project. Label bins, cabinet doors, etc., making it easy to find the things you need. Then, pull the cars into that big empty space in the middle and feel good knowing you've taken the necessary steps to organize your garage and give you car a safe place to park.
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CLEVELAND (AP) — Ohio doctors and other care providers are using millions of dollars of federal money to build an electronic health records system.
The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer (http://bit.ly/11VZEdu ) reports that Ohio has received $531.3 million from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as of March 1.
The money has gone to more than 12,500 physicians, hospitals and others.
Dan Paoletti, CEO of the Ohio Health Information Partnership, says the goal of the electronic health records network is for treatment and diagnostic information to follow patients wherever they seek care.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society says the initial cost for a provider to set up an electronic health records systems is $15,000 to $80,000.
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Mr. Olympia is the title given to the winner of the professional men's bodybuilding portion of Joe Weider's Olympia Weekend – an international bodybuilding competition that is held annually by the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (IFBB). Winning is considered to be the highest accolade in the sport of professional bodybuilding. I was always in sports, and I was kind of bodybuilding fan. But, in last 10-15 years this sport became gross – instead of praising human body and health, and trying to reach ideal proportions like those at Michelangelo's David – this beautiful sport became a freak show. Just take a look at those pics that can be find on internet, these guys are scarry! So, we decided to show you some old-school bodybuilders, starting with first ever winner of the Mr. Olympia title in 1965 Larry Scott to 1984 incredible eight-time winner Lee Haney. After that, I have lose all my interest in Mr. Olympia competition, and I'm just thinking how far it will go.
Larry Scott – 1965-66
Scott displayed a physique with defined muscle shape in his biceps, triceps, shoulders and chest, which were all large, rounded and fully shaped. His upper arms measured over 20 inches and were, at the time, among the largest ever displayed at a professional bodybuilding competition. Scott subsequently retired after his 1966 victory.
Sergio Oliva – 1967-69
At 5 ft 10ins and 240 lbs in bodyweight, Oliva displayed a level of muscle mass and definition – including a "V" shape of a large, well-formed upper-body that tapered down to a narrow waist – unlike anything seen in prior competitions. Oliva would go on to win the Mr. Olympia competition in tree years in the row, and in 69′s final he defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger 4 to 3, marking Schwarzenegger's first and only loss in a Mr. Olympia competition. And, his nickname was "Myth", that's enough.
Arnold Schwarzenegger – 1970-75, 1980
Schwarzenegger defeated Oliva at the 1970 Mr Olympia after finishing second the year before. Schwarzenegger successfully defended his title against Oliva in 1972, after which Oliva retired from the IFBB. He went on to win the next three Mr. Olympia competitions, and after winning the 1975 competition, Schwarzenegger announced his retirement from competitive bodybuilding. In 1980, Schwarzenegger came out of retirement to win the trophy yet again.
Franco Columbu – 1976, 1981
Columbu's win proved that height did not matter. Up until that point the bigger man always won. But Columbu, who stands around 1.63m (5'4″), won by showcasing a combination of mass and hardness, that had never been seen before.
Frank Zane – 1977-79
While not as physically massive as previous competitors such as Schwarzenegger or Oliva, Zane developed his physique to highlight symmetry, aesthetics, and definition. As such, Zane was able to defeat opponents who exceeded his own muscle-mass but lacked his level of muscular definition.
Chris Dickerson – 1982
He was not only the first African-American Mr. America, but also the oldest winner, at age 43, of the IFBB Mr. Olympia contest. Dickerson's competitive career spanned thirty years; he was known for both his heavily muscled, symmetrical physique and for his skills on the posing dais.
Samir Bannout – 1983
Bannout took 4th place at the 1982 Mr. Olympia contest and returned the following year to finally take home the title. The extreme muscular definition that Bannout was able to achieve in his lower back region helped coin the term "Christmas tree" when referring the shape made visible during a back pose on the competition stage.
Lee Haney – 1984-1991
Haney had held the record with eight straight titles for an astonishing fourteen years, now it's tied by Ronnie Coleman. Lee Haney is appointed Chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports by President Bill Clinton.


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A person identified as Zheng who claimed knowledge about such calls was quoted by the Chinese daily as saying that he was told by several Uygur school girls about similar phone calls.
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As one of the most respected and enduring alt-rock bands of all time, Guided by Voices almost single-handedly kicked off the decade's "low fi" craze of the 1990's – on the strength of such classics as Propeller and Bee Thousand – making fans out of such renowned artists as Eddie Vedder and the Strokes in the process. And soon, the now-defunct group will be showcased on a career-encompassing DVD of live footage, The Devil Went Home and Puked.
A "video collage," if you will, of nearly every era of GBV and Robert Pollard tours ('94- present) and early GBV studio footage will be featured. Also, The Devil Went Home and Puked will contain nine hard to find full length videos from GBV and Pollard-related projects, including such ditties as "Circle Saw Boys Club," "Winston's Atomic Bird," "I-Razors," "Get Me Extra," and more. Get ready to view GBV in a whole new way with The Devil Went Home and Puked.


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