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On raising a son on the autism spectrum, progressive politics, pop culture, and coffee addiction.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Linkin', linkin', I've been thinkin'
The very talented Bubandpie has awarded me the coveted Thinking Blogger Award. Okay, so maybe not coveted, as it is actually just a meme posing as an award. It's almost embarrassing that it means so much to me, but there you have it.
As a designated Thinking Blogger, I am charged with the task of linking to five other bloggers who make me think. This is not as easy as it sounds; I read a lot of bloggers who make me think. Many of them currently have links on the main page of my blog.
Here are five who don't:
1. Gretchen from gretchen's blog: I read a lot of blogs written by parents of children on the autism spectrum. Many of their children have shadows of similarity to Bud, but Gretchen's Henry consistently reminds me of him. Bud and Henry seem to be following a similar developmental path, and Henry is the one child I find myself comparing to Bud. Posts like this make me think for days.
2. Liesel Elliott from Dante's Inferno With Children: I love that Liesel writes with a real pseudonym and not a blogger pseudonym like RockinMamaBabe or, you know, mom-nos. I love the photography; I love the posts that read like fiction but probably aren't; I love the soul-searching posts about her childhood; and I love this one - which is really just a post about the nature of thinking itself.
3. Her Bad Mother: Somehow, linking to a blog that regularly gets 80 comments per post and on which I faithfully lurk but never surface feels a little like asking George Clooney to the prom, but, honestly, this piece about posting pictures of our kids has had me thinking for a week. It hasn't changed my own posting decisions, but I really value her perspective.
4. Vicki Forman from Speak Softly...: This is another blog on which I am a committed lurker. Many of her posts, both here and at Literary Mama, have made me think, but this piece absolutely blows me away.
5. Zilari from Processing in Parts: Through Autism Hub I've been introduced to number of great bloggers who are autistic. Zilari is one of them. Her posts are introspective and thoughtful, and she investigates issues in depth. Posts like this one not only make me think, but also make me a better parent.
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- Zilari said...
Glad I was able to write something useful.
I've been very lax about updating links to other pages on my blog (at least in the sidebar), and I'm thinking of just removing that section entirely in case I decide to revamp the whole thing someday.
It still feels really weird that people actually read Processing in Parts. I never really expected anyone to find it or really care all that much!
- February 24, 2007 12:48 AM
- Maddy said...
Excellent - that's a weekend visiting for me all fixed up. Thanks for the invitations.
- February 24, 2007 9:22 AM
you deserve to be recognized - congrats!
thanks for the links - can't wait to explore new sites!
- February 24, 2007 9:38 AM
- Bea said...
You probably make me think more than anyone, Mom-NOS. Not only do you write intellectually rigorous posts, but then you also have these flashes of insight from Bud - this week, for instance, everywhere I look I'm seeing beautiful patterns of light and shade, things I might have overlooked without you and Bud to show them to me.
- February 24, 2007 5:35 PM
- Her Bad Mother said...
See, if you hadn't left that comment chez moi and led me over here I would never have met you and discovered your lovely blog! COMMENTS ARE GOOD.
(I read every single one, btw, and value every single one.)
Am beyond honoured that you were moved to name me. Thank you.
- February 24, 2007 6:04 PM
- MOM-NOS said...
Goodness me! I am feeling the link-love tonight!
(P.S. George Clooney said "yes"!)
- February 24, 2007 7:56 PM
- Liesel Elliott said...
Thank you, I love writing, (and photography), and I've found it too be really amazingly helpful to get my personal stories out there. Once I write them down they don't tend to clog up my brain any more.
It's even better if they make people think. You really made my day!
- February 25, 2007 9:59 AM
Thanks for the links - some really great stuff there! "Her Bad Mother" was really hilarious. My type of humor!
If you like that, you should check out my all-time favorite parenting journal-writer, Catherine Newman. She used to write for Parents.com, I think, but now she's at benandbirdy.blogspot.com (and she links to her journal at Wondertime). Not an autism-mom journal, but great, poignant, hilarious stuff.
- February 26, 2007 9:30 AM
- Leightongirl said...
Thank you!! I am honored.
- February 26, 2007 9:21 PM
- Connie Deming said...
Bud's wonderful photos took me right back a decade or so to the way my son called my attention to those light patterns on the floor.
I'm a dinosaur here (he's 21 now), AND in cyberspace (I've been battling obstacles at the blogger gate for weeks!), but I enjoy reading your posts and these comments so much that
I finally created a space here!
- February 27, 2007 2:19 AM
Thanks for the new blog links. I really, really enjoyed Speak Softly as a mom of premature twins. I enjoyed all of them and feel like I have learned a lot over the past few days. Congrats to all and thanks to all for sharing your favorites.
- February 27, 2007 11:26 AM
- Girlplustwo said...
very nice list, and a very nice spot.
- February 27, 2007 2:51 PM


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Don Cherry hasn't changed his mind — he still doesn't believe women should be in men's locker-rooms.
The CBC hockey commentator reiterated his opinion Wednesday during his Coach's Corner segment of "Hockey Night in Canada."
Cherry defended himself as the first coach in a major sports league to let women in the locker-room, which he did in the 1970s when former New York Times reporter Robin Herman covered the Boston Bruins.
But Cherry said he wouldn't do that if he were coaching today.
"Why have I changed my mind? I'll tell you why I've changed my mind. I have seen things and I have heard of things that go on in the dressing room, when the women are in there, are disgusting," said Cherry, who added interviews with female reporters should take place in another room.
"If (players are) going to act the way they act … not everybody, you would not want your daughter or your sister in there. Believe me."
Cherry's broadcast partner Ron MacLean again disagreed.
"You can't have that though," said MacLean. "It's an office space. The players have got to obey the law. The reporters have to have their workplace."
"I don't care what it is," replied Cherry. "I don't think women should be in there. … You have to have respect for women and that's the way I feel."
Cherry's initial comments went viral Saturday after he discussed a controversy surrounding Chicago's Duncan Keith. The Blackhawks' defenceman was criticized last week for delivering what some considered a sexist post-game putdown in Vancouver to radio reporter Karen Thomson of Team 1040.
Keith later apologized for the exchange, but Cherry said Thomson should never have been in the locker-room to begin with.
The segment was debated on social media with some accusing Cherry of being sexist while others suggested there is a double standard.
Cherry won't be reprimanded by the CBC. A spokesman said Monday that Cherry doesn't speak for the public broadcaster, and added there are no plans to discipline him.

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The Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic trains law students in environmental lawyering. Under the supervision of faculty who are experienced environmental lawyers, students work on behalf of environmental and community groups on litigation and regulatory matters. Working closely with nonprofit and government agency partners and clients, the clinic takes on the most important environmental issues in southern California and beyond.
The Wells Clinic offers excellent opportunities for students to obtain hands-on experience practicing environmental law. Students who take this six-unit course work on large and small cases, involving both federal and state law. The clinic teaches conceptual frameworks that support particular lawyering skills, while at the same time exposing students to real-world environmental law practice through intensive work on particular environmental issues.
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"The Environmental Law Clinic provided me with some of my most valuable, practical experiences in law school. Having the opportunity to ask questions and go through multiple drafts of my legal writing with the professors was invaluable training. Also through the clinic, I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to serve as an NGO delegate at the UNFCCC in Durban, South Africa. It was eye-opening and inspiring to be involved with the daily process of the foremost international climate change negotiations. The clinic also helped prepare me for future environmental law classes, as it gave me context for many environmental law issues. I think that any extra practical experience is helpful for aspiring attorneys, and the Environmental Law Clinic provides a unique opportunity for structured, hands-on experience."
"The Environmental Law Clinic provided outstanding practical experience working for live clients. Working on real legal matters provides incomparable experience and an opportunity to apply doctrinal knowledge and develop legal skills with the guidance of experienced professors. One of my projects in the clinic was a matter under the Clean Air Act in which we investigated an innovative tool to advance cleaning the notoriously polluted air of Southern California. I worked for that client the next summer, and was able to continue working on the project I started that summer. There's no question that the clinics at UCLA Law provide tremendous opportunity and experience."


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An 84-year-old man was killed and his 67-year-old female companion hospitalized after they were hit by a car while crossing Westminster Street (Routes 2A and 31) last night. Timothy J. Connolly, a spokesman for District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr., identified the man as James Aho of 36 East Gardner Road, Westminster, and the woman as MaryAnn LeBlanc of 41 Oakmont Ave., Westminster.
Police Lt. Kevin O'Brien said the couple were crossing the street after having dinner when they were hit by a car.
"They were having supper at Barb's Caf�. They came out of Barb's. They were crossing the street. They were almost across the street and then they got hit," Lt. O'Brien said, "The fellow was on the outside, the female on the inside. He got hit first."
The accident happened around 6 p.m. in front of 131 Westminster St. near Simonds Road. The car stopped, Lt. O'Brien said. Mr. Connolly identified the driver of the car as Debra L. Dunn, 74, of 23 Vernon St., Fitchburg.
Mr. Aho died at UMass Memorial Medical Center – University Campus, Worcester, where Ms. LeBlanc was still in surgery late last night, according to Lt. O'Brien.
Employees and customers at the restaurant said this morning that the heavily traveled section of two-lane road where the accident occurred is hazardous to people trying to cross. It is posted for 25 mile per hour, but they said drivers do not stick to the limit.
"They come around the corner at 50 miles per hour," said customer Trudy Postale of Fitchburg.
Ms. Postale said she was almost hit a few months ago as she stepped off the curb to cross the road.
"I cross here all the time," she said. "I now realize how fast it is," she said.
Employees said the danger is increased by poor street lighting.
"There are two lights out," employee Mary Beth Saro said, indicating with her hands that the lights that are out are on either side of the restaurant
Accident reconstruction crews remained at the scene late last night.


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I'll be honest with you, Nation: Not much of note happened at last weekend's Fight Night event from Seoul, South Korea, so much so that the UFC hasn't even released any actual fight highlights from the event. In the main event of the evening, Benson Henderson did his Benson Henderson thing and outpointed Jorge "GAMEBRED" Masvidal en route to a split decision victory, then both symbolically announced he was leaving the UFC and called out Georges St. Pierre. At least I think he did. It was all a bit confusing, so you'll have to watch his post-fight interview above to get some sense of it.
What else? Oh right, guys named "Dong" — of which there were 3 on the Fight Night 79 card — went a solid (or perhaps firm) 2-1 on the evening, with Dong Hyun Kim scoring a first round TKO over Dominic Waters in the evening's co-main event, Dongi Yang defeating Jake Collier via second round TKO in the "featured prelim," and the other, debuting Dong Hyun Kim suffering a hellacious KO via slam to Dominique Steele in the first bout of the night. So basically, two ….View original article
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Thomasville teen faces 11 breaking, entering felonies
Thomasville Police Department arrested a teenager in connection to a rash of break-ins on Albertson Road and Fisher Ferry Street.
According to Detective Chet Jarrell, Oscar Alvarez, 16, of 501 Albertson Road, was arrested on March 21 following an investigation into a series of car and home break-ins that occurred between Feb. 6 and March 12.
"We started getting reports of car break-ins and house break-ins back in early February all the way up to two or three weeks ago," Jarrell said. "Calls were coming in like crazy. All these break-ins were concentrated in the Albertson Road and Fisher Ferry area."
Alvarez faces 11 counts of felony breaking and entering into a motor vehicle, nine counts of misdemeanor larceny, three counts of breaking and entering, two counts of larceny of a firearm, one count of carrying a concealed weapon, one count of safecracking and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia. Jarrell said Alvarez is charged with breaking into a home on Albertson Road, a residence on Lowery Drive and an outbuilding on Bobo Drive.
"Through our investigation we developed Alvarez as a suspect," said Jarrell. "The investigation led to stolen property being recovered at his house. We began linking up cases from stolen property that we recovered. That's what led to arrest warrants being issued."
Items reported stolen included several GPS units, cell phones, jewelry, guns, a laptop, an iPod, a camera, a DVD player and video game systems.
Jarrell said the investigation is ongoing.
"We believe there are other suspects out there," Jarrell said. "We're still working this case and we think other people are involved. We're trying to get more evidence to see who else may be involved."
Jarrell cautioned that people should lock their vehicles when they get home.
"The cars that were broken into were unlocked vehicles," said Jarrell. "People need to secure their vehicles. It's not hard to forget but not doing it makes it easy for the criminals to get in and out. They grab what they can get and they move on to the next one."
Alvarez was issued a $100,000 secured bond and is scheduled to appear in court on March 27.


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Where I do not make my living from playing professional golf on the PGA Tour, my business does revolve around the sport in the realm of SEO and social media.
With the weather turning colder and twilight coming much too early each day to get in (at the very least) nine holes of golf, I turn my attention to my New Year's resolutions. I'll offer up these initiatives to get you started:
1. Play more golf! This past year, work became the center of my attention. Whereas it is important to concentrate on business, I have to admit that all work and no play makes Stacy a dull girl!
2. Help new golfers get involved and stay in the game. Of course, that is the whole reason that Golf for Beginners is in existence and since we're always learning, let's all take a suggestion from the USGA and Tee It Forward; basically pick the right tee box for your game. Your scores will drop and you'll have much more fun!
3. Practice, practice, practice! Even though I could not play as much golf as I would have liked, I should have made a more eager attempt to get to the driving range. A large bucket of balls for $6 is quite a good deal too! NO EXCUSES!
4. Play golf on at least one new course. It is easy to get into the routine of playing at the local publinks but it is also good to broaden your horizons. That being said, I intend to pick at least one new golf course within fifty miles that I have always wanted to play and get in a round. In 2011 made it to several great courses, including Bethpage Black (playing a yearly round with the MGWA) and meeting up with a few Twitter friends at Putnam National. More to come!
5. Must work on the mental game!! The mental game of golf is not only played on the course, it must also be practiced in real life situations. Not having too many highs and lows during the day, keeping steady as she goes, will certainly help me keep my head about me when the pressure is on, when Nassaus are being waged and when competition is the name of the game.
6. Go through my golf bag...out with the old, in with the new! I'm sure I'm not the only golfer who stuffs way too many golf balls, tees, markers, accessories, etc. into my golf bag. I resolve to go through my Adidas aG Strike stand bag and only keep what is necessary for that day's round. The threesome I played golf with during my last nine holes at Sprain Lake golf course all carried their bags and I felt compelled to do so (I use a push cart). Although my golf bag weighs in at just over 4 lbs, with all of the extras in my bag, I struggled to keep up.
Will I succeed? Only time will tell but resolutions are for the making, not necessarily for the fulfilling. All I can do is try.
What are your golf-related New Year's resolutions?
Voice your opinions on Twitter @Golf4Beginners and friend on Facebook.
Happy New Year to all my golf friends!
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This post is the sixth in a series of articles by guest authors sharing their experience with courses offered at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. Here is the perspective of Denise Spurlock on the American Research and Records course.
After you have researched your ancestor's life through the census, vital records, and perhaps land and probate files, where do you go next to find information that will help you learn even more? To find out, you should attend the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy's track on American Research and Records, coordinated by Paula Stuart Warren, CG. The focus alternates between families and locations. In 2012, the focus was on families.
Paula, and the team of instructors she recruits, are among the most knowledgeable genealogists and popular lecturers in the country. Together they provided participants with a wealth of information about other resources such as:
- Non-population and special census schedules
- Institutional records
- City directories
- Church records
- Passport applications
- School records
- Lesser-used federal records
- Manuscript repositories and special collections
In addition, there were classes on strategies for planning your research, writing your family history, and making the most of online search tools.
A highlight of the week was a project in which the participants were divided into teams and given a snippet of a document to get them started on a research project. A primary purpose was to learn how to take clues from what you have and develop a research plan to learn even more. Each team developed a research focus and plan and reported their findings at the end of the week. It was a fun opportunity to get to know, and work with, other participants in the course. An added benefit was being able to research in records in a state with which I had limited experience.
There was ample time during the week to use the Family History Library to work on my personal research and on the research project. Being able to take what I learned in the morning and put it to use in the afternoon and evening helped me to internalize the concepts and ideas right away. Private consultations were also scheduled in which you could discuss a personal research question with Paula or another one of the instructors. Since Paula is from Minnesota, I was able to get advice from her on a research question I have with an ancestor who lived there.
In 2013, the track will focus on locations. I am confident the course will be equally helpful in learning about how to find and use resources based on the location in which your ancestors lived.
Denise Spurlock
Ancestral Trees Research
Lomita, California


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More Fraud on "Global Warming"
The chairman of the leading climate change watchdog was informed that claims about melting Himalayan glaciers were false before the Copenhagen summit, The Times has learnt.It's clear that the anthropogenic global warming crowd does not consist of disinterested scientists, bureaucrats and citizens. It consists of crusaders.
Rajendra Pachauri was told that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment that the glaciers would disappear by 2035 was wrong, but he waited two months to correct it. He failed to act despite learning that the claim had been refuted by several leading glaciologists.
The IPCC's report underpinned the proposals at Copenhagen for drastic cuts in global emissions.
Dr Pachauri, who played a leading role at the summit, corrected the error last week after coming under media pressure. He told The Times on January 22 that he had only known about the error for a few days. He said: "I became aware of this when it was reported in the media about ten days ago. Before that, it was really not made known. Nobody brought it to my attention. There were statements, but we never looked at this 2035 number."
Asked whether he had deliberately kept silent about the error to avoid embarrassment at Copenhagen, he said: "That's ridiculous. It never came to my attention before the Copenhagen summit. It wasn't in the public sphere."
However, a prominent science journalist said that he had asked Dr Pachauri about the 2035 error last November. Pallava Bagla, who writes for Science journal, said he had asked Dr Pachauri about the error. He said that Dr Pachauri had replied: "I don't have anything to add on glaciers."
The Himalayan glaciers are so thick and at such high altitude that most glaciologists believe they would take several hundred years to melt at the present rate. Some are growing and many show little sign of change.
But the crusaders aren't people who have picked a random cause. A lot are liberals who are always looking around for an excuse to control the economy. And among the scientists the grants, prominence and influence that comes with global warming hysteria are a strong incentive.
Consider, for example, this:
Rajendra Pachauri's Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), based in New Delhi, was awarded up to £310,000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the lion's share of a £2.5m EU grant funded by European taxpayers.In this context, it's hard to believe that things like ClimateGate are just the result of honest misunderstandings or innocent over zealousness.
It means that EU taxpayers are funding research into a scientific claim about glaciers that any ice researcher should immediately recognise as bogus. The revelation comes just a week after The Sunday Times highlighted serious scientific flaws in the IPCC's 2007 benchmark report on the likely impacts of global warming.
The IPCC had warned that climate change was likely to melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 - an idea considered ludicrous by most glaciologists. Last week a humbled IPCC retracted that claim and corrected its report.
Labels: Bogus statistics, Climate Change, ClimateGate, Fraud, Politicized Science


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- We are a completely lol market. So when you buy at the market, you are supporting Manitoba producers
- All our vendors are inspected to verify they are making, baking and growing their own products
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You know, gardening stuff.
**** Hi-pri Threads ****
Now that we have our very own Garden forum, I thought I'd post a thread here on plants, fruits, veggies, etc., that are dangerous to our pets, or even our livestock, so we can make smart decisions when building and planting our gardens.
IIRC cherry tree leaves kills horses, but Summerthyme...
Per membership request, this room has been created to talk about all things gardening. That being said, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE for post volume. If this room dies, I'll fold all posts into Homesteading. Whether it lives or dies depends on you.
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You can read the grand solar minimum thread here:
Gardening, farming, etc., in general are changing due to the lack of output by our Sun. So this thread is dedicated to discussing those changes and how we can help...
I'm looking at Burgess's on-line catalog, and their per-packet prices are very good for a lot of things, but they give absolutely no information on how many seeds are in a packet? Nor do I know anything about their quality. Has anyone ordered from them, and can tell me anything about them?
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Barren days. Fine for clearing, plowing, fertilizing, and killing plant pests
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Extra good for cucumbers, peas, cantaloupes, and other vine crops. Plant peppers, sweet corn, tomatoes, and other aboveground crops in southern...
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Good days for planting peas, squash, corn, tomatoes, and other aboveground crops in southern Florida, Texas, and California.
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A good time to kill plant pests or do plowing. Poor for planting.
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Extra good for vine crops. Favorable days for planting...
Start seedbeds. Favorable day for planting aboveground crops, and leafy vegetables such as lettuce, cabbage, kale, and celery where climate is suitable.
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Do clearing and plowing, but no planting.
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Plant tomatoes, peas, beans, and other aboveground crops, indoors in the...
So this year my father, BIL and I are planted some grains to see how they do. Not a lot. We planted Kamut, Glenn Spring Wheat and Streaker Hulless Oats. 1000 sq ft of each at my father place. The Kamut was just Bobs red mill. My BIL did a germination test and it was almost perfect. The wheat...
Excellent for sowing grains, hay, and forage crops. Plant flowers. Good day for planting peas, beans, tomatoes, peppers, and other aboveground crops in southern Florida, Texas, and California.
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I told a few people my garden has exploded this year and it really has. I have been gardening back to eden style for the last five years in the greenhouse and the last 3 years in the garden. I start everything from seed and put my best plants in the garden as soon as possible. This year with the...
About all I'm going to manage for the fall this year is a bucket garden. I've been starting seeds in the little peat pots that expand when you wet them and the germination rate has not been that great. Plus they are just one more thing to spend money on.
The man in this video put a new twist on...
During spring of this year I got seriously sick. So none of the normal spring pruning and weeding got done. As a result, the house and yard were an absolute disaster area. Grapes, jasmine, and creeping jenny had exploded. Various very prolific weeds had taken over. It looked like I hadn't taken...
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The garden has really produced this year and the tomatoes are abundant and beautiful. I'm trying not to allow any of them to go to waste or rot. Besides giving many away I have found the best way to do that is to freeze them.
Wash them load them up in plastic grocery sacks and put them in the...
They get into the side mirrors in/on my rig. About 5 of them in the afternoon when it's hot in there, I guess there must be some pro creation going on but they have stingers and I don't want to get stung just getting in and of the truck.
My guess is wasp spray but I just want to leave them...
Summerthyme, a LONG time ago you posted instructions on starting carrot seeds with paper towels. I'm looking for that post and am just not finding it. We're dusting off the greenhouse a bit early, since all predictions are pointing to a chilly, wet summer in our neck of the woods.
Limner (using...
Deer eating my garden nightly. Besides a fence does anyone have a remedy.
It is hard to express what I am trying to convey but I give it a try. In a survival situation, the critical thing one needs is a complete protein food intake. Very few vegetables provide much protein. Potatoes are not too bad but you need about 10 medium sized potatoes to get enough protein for 24...
I chitted some potatoes and while I was handling one a long shoot broke off. Just for the heck of it I put it in a shallow bowl of water and it is getting roots.
I'm going to put it in a small pot and baby it along and see what happens.
Have any of you done this before?
July 2019 Planting Guide
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Fall will soon be upon us. I live in Central Iowa, zone 5a(?) and would love to plant some garlic this fall for next summer's harvest.
Suggestions on which varieties to consider, and just how do I plant it, and over winter it for a successful harvest?
Yow! The cottonwood fluff flying around now is insane. I can't really complain too much since when it is cottonwood time, the spruce pollen of death is about done and I can breathe again.
I just can't believe how heavy it is. Maybe I can get a pic for you...it's really insane this year. ...
Well, I have two tomato plants planted in one raised bed, and nothing else because it never stops raining long enough for things to dry out enough to plant.
At what point do I just plant the seeds in the wet soil and hope for the best?
How wet is too wet for planting?
I'll try to get a photo but my green bean plants have huge patches of beige on them, it looks like the leaves are dead in those spots. Fungus, pest, too much rain? I really want to have green beans this year for canning. TIA
When I was a youngin, back in 1961, we lived in Cartersville Ga. My Dad was the Chief Electrical Engineer at the nearby Alatoona Dam. This is about 35 miles North of Atlanta. One weekend, we went to a Farm Festival somewhere nearby. These are some pics of the very cool restored equipment. They all...
As some of you know, I use the Back to Eden method of farming and have turned my red clay into a black, rich and loamy soil. Over the winter I amended my corn plot with the chicken manure everytime I cleaned the chicken coop. Well my corn has outdone itself so far! So has the garlic.
We're pickling beets today.The tough outer leaves and stems went to compost, after cooking, the skin, tops and bottom went to chickens, the greens went to freezer and the pickled beets went on a shelf.
edit to add: 2 half gallon bags of greens and 7 pints of beets from 3' x 7' bed.
Planting timing can make a small garden space much more productive and insulate you a bit from the vulgarities of nature. There are 4 basic types of garden plants, Spring thriving, summer, fall thriving, and full season. I will describe the season and it's plants. You will need to fit it into your...
Well I seem to have lost my companion planting books... they'll show up again this fall after harvest, which is often the case.
So I thought I'd start a thread on companion planting. My neighbor gave me six more tomato plants.
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Speake-Marin, a Geneva based fine watchmaking brand with British roots, creates, develops and assembles mechanical, innovative limited editions with in-house movements and unique complications.Speake-Marin inspires demanding watch connoisseurs who love exceptional timepieces, allowing them to enter the « happy few » Speake-Marin owners club.
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Appeals Court to Consider Benefits of Medical Marijuana
For the first time in 20 years, a federal court will review scientific evidence on the therapeutic value of marijuana, as a legal challenge by a group of doctors, medical professionals and patients makes its way to the U.S. court of appeals in Washington, D.C., next week.
Americans for Safe Access is hoping the challenge will change the government's classification of marijuana from a dangerous drug with no medical benefits, the Guardian reported. Other groups, such as the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Nurses Association, the Federation of American Scientists and the American Academy of Family Physicians support either medical access to marijuana or its reclassification to one that has a medical benefit.
"Medical marijuana patients are finally getting their day in court," Joe Elford, chief counsel for ASA, told the Guardian. "This is a rare opportunity for patients to confront politically motivated decision-making with scientific evidence of marijuana's medical efficacy."
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NEWINGTON — USA Training Centers now has registration open for February vacation camps. Baseball and softball camps for ages 7-12 will be offered the weeks of Feb. 18-21 and Feb. 25-28 from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Registration is available on our website www.usatrainingcenters.com or by calling 603-431-6700.
PORTSMOUTH — Registration is underway for the 64th annual Seacoast Basketball Tournament at the new Portsmouth Middle School Connie Bean Gymnasium.
This year's tournament will be held from mid-March through mid- April. The format will be double-elimination for all divisions.
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DOVER — Dover Girls Softball registration is now open for the 2013 spring season for ages 4-16. You can register online at www.doversoftball.com.
Walk-in registrations are at the McConnell Center in Dover behind the library: 32 Saint Thomas St. They will be held in the cafeteria on March 4 and 6 from 6-8 p.m. and March 9 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. If you have not played before please bring proof of age.
For those new to the league there will be team formation at the end of March. There will be tryouts for team placement only for the 12u and 10u groups. All girls are eligible to play there are no cuts. Dates TBA.
dover — The Dover Arena will once again hold the girls summer high school skate on Sunday nights in July and August. This was a huge success last summer and filled quickly. Every Sunday at 5:30 – 7 p.m. teams will be picked for a full game format with referees. It was very competitive last summer and lots of fun. Every week the teams will change.
All local area high school girls are welcome to register for this summer program. Players can be entering the 9th grade in September of 2013 or graduating in June 2013 and anything in between. This is a game format. Teams will be made each week based on registrations. Space is very limited for skaters only 22 will be signed up each week, and there are 2 goalie spots available. Referee will be provided.
This program was full last summer so sign up early.
For more information contact the Dover Ice Arena 603-516-6060 during weekdays between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
ROCHESTER — The Rochester Police Department would like to announce it's annual charity hockey game on Feb. 15 (moved from Feb. 8) 6 p.m., at the Rochester Arena. This is the 6th year of this game. This hockey game is a great opportunity to support your local heros, while giving back to the community. Admission to the game is non-perishable food items. All donated items will be delivered to Gerry's Food Pantry to support those in need within the Rochester Community.
DOVER — The 2013 Green Wave Baseball Players Clinic will take place March 16 and 17 at Dover High School.
There are two sessions for ages 7 to 12 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2 to 6 p.m. The clinic is being run by Dover High baseball coach John Carver and his staff and players.
The fee is $45 and checks can be sent (payable to Green Wave Baseball Boosters) Ms. Donna Sheldon, 3 Southwood Drive, Dover, NH 03820.
EXETER — FC Exeter seeks experienced high school age players interested in competing for a roster slot on one of our three teams for the upcoming Spring 2013 GSYSL travel soccer season. Teams competing under the FC Exeterbanner this Spring will include U-18 Boys; U-17 Girls, and U-18 Girls.
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DOVER — The Dover High boys basketball program will host their 8th Annual Green Wave Winter Break Basketball Camp for boys and girls Feb. 25 to 28 at Woodman Park School. The camp will be broken down into two sessions. This camp is for all skill levels and will focus on some skills but mostly playing games. The camp will run from 8:45 to 10:15 a.m. for 2nd thru 4th graders (younger kids may attend with director approval) and from 10:30 to Noon for 5th thru 8th graders. The cost for the camp is just $40. For more information please drop by the athletic or recreation department to pick up a registration form (flyer) or call coach Romps at 603-834-0112 or email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Enrollment is limited.
NEWINGTON — Diamond King Productions is hosting a Spring Training Hitting Camp at USA Training Centers on Saturdays from 2 to 3:30 p.m. It will run from Feb. 23 to March 30 and the cost is $300. The camp is for players ages 11 and 12 who want to get ready for the upcoming baseball season.
Camp instructors are Ben Hart and Chris Anderson. Hart played Division 1 baseball at both Vermont and UMass Amherst. He ran the video department for the DeMarini Top 96, where he worked closely with hundreds of college coaches breaking down and analyzing baseball mechanics. Anderson was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in 2006. Since retiring in 2009, Anderson has been involved in coaching throughout the Seacoast.To register, call Hart at 603-969-9034.
NORTHWOOD — Coe-Brown Northwood Academy is seeking the following coaches for the 2013-14 school year: girls lacrosse, boys lacrosse, JV boys soccer.
Interested candidates should send a letter of interest, resume and three references to Matthew Skidds, Athletic Director, Coe-Brown Northwood Academy, 907 First NH Turnpike, Northwood, NH 03261. Email is firstname.lastname@example.com.
DOVER — Dover Little Green Cheerleading League is seeking volunteer coaches for the 2013 season. DLGC is a non-profit recreational cheer program in Dover. The organization includes cheer teams K-8th grade. As a league the athletes cheer at the Dover Youth Football and Dover Little Green Football games. The season extends from May continuing into November including attendance to 3-6 competitions per season. Applicants must have prior cheer coaching experience, strong communication and interpersonal relation skills, as well as have an affinity towards working with children. CPR/first aid training is required and will be paid for by the league. Interested applicants may contact DLGC at the following email address for additional information and submission of resume. email@example.com.
DOVER — Registration is now open for the 2013 season of the fastest game on two feet. Girls and boys teams for pre-K through U15. Sign up by Feb. 28 to lock in last year's prices. Visit www.cochecolacrosse.org for more information on the program and to register.
NORTHWOOD — The Coe-Brown Northwood Academy varsity softball team is hosting a clinic on Saturday, March 9 and 16, from 12 to 2 p.m. for players in grades 5 to 8 at Coe-Brown. The cost of the clinic is $30 for both sessions. The clinic is designed as "hands on" instruction where young players will learn the skills necessary to be a successful softball player. The participants will work on the fundamentals of pitching, hitting, throwing and fielding by interacting with the CBNA coaching staff and the varsity team. For more information and to sign up please email coach Tenasco at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit us online at coebrown.org and click on the athletic link for the clinic brochure. Same-day registrations accepted.
ROCHESTER — Roger N. Allen Baseball's annual meeting is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 16, 9 to 11 a.m., at the Rochester Community Center in the Community Room or Conference Room 1. Parents, coaches, and league officials, etc. are welcome.
DURHAM — The Oyster River Youth Association is hosting tryouts for the 2013-2014 girls travel hockey season for players in ages 8 through 14 on Wednesday, March 6 and 13. Tryouts will take place at Churchill Rink on Old Piscataqua Road in Durham. Players are expected to attend both days from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and wear full hockey equipment each day. For more information, please contact David Smith, ORYA Hockey Coordinator, at email@example.com.
NEWMARKET — Seacoast Sports Club-Great Bay will hold its Tennis Appreciation Day beginning at 12 p.m. on Saturday, March 9, at its Great Bay Facility located at 191 Exeter Road in Newmarket.
The event is free and open to all ages and levels, directly following the tennis clinic there will be free court time open. Attendees will have the chance to work with Great Bay's tennis professionals. Advance registration is required, please go to www.seacoastsportsclubs.com or contact Anthony Sillitta at 603-659-3151, or via email at email@example.com.
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So our mail server got moved offsite, and was upgraded to Exchange 2010 sp1.
Ever since then, we've had issues with the new throttling policy.
Basically, when outlook 2003 is used, exchange 2010 has the tendency to block connections after a certain number of attempts, to avoid a DOS.
We've had the people running the server contact microsoft, and they helped develop a new throttling policy for our 2003 users. However, they advised to only apply it to the users experiencing the issue.
Problem is, once a user is 'blocked' by the policy, applying the new policy doesn't allow them to connect. It eventually works, I'm assuming after a timeout period.
My question is, is there a way to unblock, or reset the user on the server side so they can reconnect without waiting hours? The Admin there seems to think that its all on the client side, I disagree. The latest user affected by this is still unable to connect even after upgrading to 2010. It tries to connect, then goes to a disconnected status right away. The Admin does see the connections being blocked on the server logs due to the throttling policy.
I can go through and re enter the server and user's mailbox name, and it all resolves, so communication is working to the mail server from the affected users machine, it just will not allow them to connect....


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The Weekend Rent: The Best of the 'Kick-Ass' Cast Kicking It in Other Movies
"The Weekend Rent offers quick-hit suggestions of what to watch at home to get psyched for new releases in theaters, on Friday."
The self-made superheroes Kick-Ass (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Hit-Girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) regroup with new friends to take on the Motherf****r (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) and his gang of supervillains in Kick-Ass 2, now playing in theaters everywhere. Taylor-Johnson, Moretz and Mintz-Plasse (then known as Red Mist) all kicked ass in 2010's Kick-Ass, but in the two short years in between movies the threesome have explored other opportunities to kick ass on-screen independent of each other. Before you get your ass kicked by Kick-Ass 2, here are movies to rent by the three leads that surely helped them toughen up for the Kick-Ass sequel.
Chloë Grace Moretz: After surviving the first Kick-Ass, Moretz hung up Hit-Girl's cape to take on the role of Abby in Let Me In, which is the English-language remake of Let the Right One In. Abby is a young vampire living with her guardian in Los Alamos, New Mexico in the early '80s. She strikes up a friendship with a neighbor—a 12-year-old boy named Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who is bullied at school. Abby tells Owen to fight back and that she will help if needed. To drive home the point to the audience that Abby means business, there are terrifying scenes of Abby playing helpless to attract a victim and then going full vampire on locals for blood. By the time Owen is cornered in the school's pool by the bullies, it's clear to the audience that Abby has the limb-severing skills to make sure that no one hurts Owen again.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse: Like Moretz, Mintz-Plasse also starred in a horror remake after the first Kick-Ass. In the 2011 reimagining of the 1985 horror movie Fright Night, Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin) discovers that a suspicious man named Jerry (Colin Farrell) has moved next door to him in their Las Vegas suburb. Mintz-Plasse plays Charley's former best friend, "Evil" Ed Lee—a geek who is the one who suggests to Charley that his new neighbor is a vampire. Charley becomes fed up with Ed, but eventually realizes that Ed knew the truth. When Charley meets Ed again, Ed has transformed into a vampire after having been bitten by Jerry. Ed bares fangs and goes all supernatural on Charley in a violent smackdown high above the Vegas Strip.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson: If you even recognize the scruffy, dreadlocked stoner Ben in Savages as the guy who played Kick-Ass, you'll be floored that he was somehow able to revert to being a nerdy high school student for Kick-Ass 2 after looking all twentysomething and getting violent for Oliver Stone in this 2012 film. Ben is a marijuana grower in Laguna Beach, California who shares a girlfriend, Ophelia (Blake Lively), with his best friend, Chon (Taylor Kitsch). Their polyamorous situation literally goes to pot when they lock horns with a Mexican drug cartel headed up by Elena Sanchez (Salma Hayek). When Elena has Ophelia kidnapped, gentle Ben sees red and goes on a bloody rampage to get his shared woman back.
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ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — On Saturday, Feb. 11, St. Bonaventure University hosted the regional phase of the 2012 MATHCOUNTS competition, a national contest for sixth, seventh and eighth grade students.
Contestants worked both individually and in four-person school teams on questions designed by the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), the main sponsoring organization. The two schools competing at St. Bonaventure, with their coaches, were Allegany-Limestone Middle School (Kathy Stamets) and Cheektowaga Central School (David Guzzino).
Other organizations providing financial support for the contest at the national level include CNA Foundation, ConcoPhillips, U.S. Department of Defense, Northrup Grumman Foundation, Raytheon Company, Texas Instruments, 3M Foundation, ThinkFun, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Locally, the contest was financially supported by St. Bonaventure University and an anonymous grant. The top school teams and the top individuals received trophies. The teams have been invited to the New York State competition to be held on March 17 at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus in Troy. The top individuals from the state contest will advance to the national competition May 11.
Top Individuals:
1st – Rajiv Thandla (Allegany-Limestone Middle School) 2nd – Dan Buringrud (Allegany-Limestone Middle School) 3rd – Ryan Volz (Allegany-Limestone Middle School)
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1st − Allegany-Limestone (Rajiv Thandla, Dan Buringrud, Austin Schlepko, and Ryan Volz) 2nd – Cheektowaga (Jessie Cecere, Andrew Matulich, Sandra Van, and Natalie McGill)
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The current calendar year started with the Steelers and offensive coordinator Bruce Arians parting ways. The Steelers said that Arians had retired.
If Arians did indeed retire, his post-career equivalent of handing out carts at Wal-Mart has worked out pretty well.
Arians, now the offensive coordinator and interim head coach of the Colts, has had a career resurgence. And he's grateful for the fact that he had the opportunity to join the Colts.
"Thank you, Pittsburgh," Arians said at his Wednesday press conference, via the Twitter accounts of multiple members of the local media.
In hindsight, it was a win-win for everyone. The Steelers have done well with Todd Haley, and the Colts have thrived with Arians.
Still, we look forward to the Colts and the Steelers getting together on the field. It could happen in 2013; it definitely will happen in 2014. When that happens, we'll all be saying, "Thank you, NFL."


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- Finely-tuned attack angle cuts at and scrapes ice instead of simply moving snow
- Steel construction means durability and extra strength plowing
- Long-lasting life thanks to corrosion-resistant Powder Coat finish
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- High visibility, low-profile halogen lamps allow you to clearly see the road in front of you
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- Everything you need for installation is included: body mount frame, plow blade, and controller
- Headlight adapter required by law, sold separately
- 2-Year Warranty; Click "Return Information" above for important return policy details
In some parts of the country, it's a foregone conclusion: when the winter months roll in, heavy snow and ice are coming with them. If you live in such a place, attaching a super-strong Curtis Sno-Pro 3000 Trip Edge Snow Plow on the front end of your truck just might make you the savior of the neighborhood.
The Sno-Pro 3000 Trip Edge plow is custom-tailored for your vehicle. Each industrial-strength blade is made of high-grade steel, powder-coated for corrosion resistance, and comes in vehicle-specific lengths ranging from 7' to 9'. This blade's triple-edge bottom gives your plow the power and stamina to last in any blizzard, while precise attack angles cut through ice while shoveling to make roads and driveways totally passable. Plus, its rugged hydraulic system lets you remotely control both the up/down action and side/side angle of the blade.
The heavy-duty Curtis Sno-Pro 3000 Trip Edge Snow Plow also provides fast attachment and detachment thanks to its patented Hitch-and-Run system, while the Hydraulic Jack Stand allows you to keep your blade in the easiest mounting position upon removal until it's time to re-attach. Your blade, frame mount, light kit, and hydraulic controller are all included in one package to get you going.
People have things to do and places to be, even when the weather turns. Clear the way for them through snow and ice with a Curtis Sno-Pro 3000 Trip Edge Snow Plow. Backed by a 2-Year Warranty.
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It's a "Downtown" Abbey experience for this New Year's Eve at The Empress of Little Rock. Guests will be "introduced" and offered their first wine pairing, a glass of Russian River Valley, "J" Vineyards and Wineries- "Pinot Gris" 2011, while enjoying the lilting sounds from the 1870 Steinway piano sporting a very rare African Mahogany soundboard. Gone are the days when elegant clothes, butlers, ladies maids, fine silver, crystal, china, and international "reparte`" are served for dinner. But that opportunity still exists at The Empress of Little Rock where handmade Victorian mementos are on the menu along with fine food and wine. le menu
The Salad Course: Hearts of Romaine with Blackberries, Goat Cheese, Toasted Almond Croutons and Classic Garlic Vinagrette.
The Soup/Palette Cleanser : Apple "Cider" Soup –Wine Pairing: Russian River Valley,"J" Vinyard and Winery, "Pinot Gris",2011
The Main Course: Fig and Bleu Cheese Stuffed Pork Loin; Acorn Squash Rings with Anisette Wild Rise; Asparagus with Hollandaise
Wine Pairing-Cru Beaujolais Morgon, Georges DuBoeuf, Red Burgundy, 2011
The Finale: Fruit Gratinees Matisse with Ruby Port Sabayon; Wine Pairing–Oregon Pinot Gris,Vine Glace`, King Estate, 2007
Join Hosts Robert Blair and Sharon Welch-Blair for their annual gourmet extravaganza and dance and be entertained by classically trained musicians in the Grand Manor of "Downton Abbey". Make your reservations now at 501-374-7966. A few seats are still available for this exclusive gala event. Book a romantic getaway, avoid the drive and enjoy an elegant brunch at 11:00 a.m. on New Year's Day in the Dining Room of The Empress, the Souths finest "old world" experience, compliments of The Empress!
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6/21/2013 – JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas (AFNS) — Eligible Airmen interested in unique scholarships and fellowships must submit completed, endorsed applications by July 31, Air Force Personnel Center officials said.
Opportunities offered annually include the Olmsted Scholar Program, the White House Fellowship Program, the Mansfield Fellowship Exchange Program and the Information Assurance Scholarship Program, each of which has specific time on station and date eligible for return from overseas requirements.
"These scholarship and fellowship programs offer unique developmental experience for Air Force leaders," said Tech. Sgt. Jason Franklin, AFPC officer developmental education. "Program participants garner greater understanding of our global impact and a critical, strategic perspective."
Olmsted Scholar Program
The Olmsted Scholar Program is an opportunity for Air Force line officers to study in a foreign language at a university overseas. Candidates selected for the program will experience cultural immersion in the selected country, including university study in the native language. Applicants must be line officers with at least three years but no more than 11 years of active commissioned service, Franklin said.
Members of some career fields are not eligible to apply, including some medical professions, legal officers, public affairs, finance, chaplain, and contracting. Officers selected for an Olmsted Scholarship will be designated as regional affairs strategists and will serve on a dual career path, alternating between their primary career field and RAS assignments. Go to the myPers website at https://mypers.af.mil, for eligibility information and application instructions. Go to the George and Carol Olmsted Foundation website at www.olmstedfoundation.org for more information about the program.
White House Fellowship Program
The White House Fellowship Program provides promising leaders with first-hand experience in the American government process. Selected candidates work for a year as special assistants or senior executives to cabinet-level agencies or in the executive office of the president. A nonpartisan program, participants experience the process of governing the nation, working with high-level public servants and participating in roundtable discussions with notable private sector and public leaders. Program dates are August 2014 to August 2015.
Applicants must have sufficient retainability to serve an active duty service commitment equal to three times the length of training, Franklin said. Selectees must also be available for reassignment and released by their AFPC assignment officer. Go to myPers for eligibility and application information. Go to www.whitehouse.gov/about/fellows for more information about the program.
Mansfield Fellowship Exchange Program
Airmen interested in cultural immersion in Japan can look into the Mansfield Fellowship Exchange Program. Named after former U.S. Ambassador Mike Mansfield, the program enables federal government employees to develop in-depth understanding of Japan and its government and to develop relationships with their Japanese counterparts. The program has been restructured to allow 10 Fellows to serve for one year, Franklin said.
The restructure includes a seven-week home-stay and intensive Japanese language program in the Ishikawa Prefecture, followed by a 10-month placement in Tokyo. Officers in all career fields except physicians and dentists are eligible to apply for the program. Officers selected for the program will be designated as RAS officers and will serve on a dual career path. Mansfield fellowship opportunities are also open to enlisted members who meet program criteria. Interested enlisted members should contact their respective assignment functions for application information. Go to myPers for eligibility and application information, and to www.mansfieldfdn.org for additional program information.
Information Assurance Scholarship Program
The Department of Defense established the Information Assurance Scholarship Program to meet the growing need for qualified information assurance personnel and to meet America's growing need for secure information technology, Franklin said.
Eligible candidates could earn master's degrees in cyber operations, information resource management, electrical engineering or computer engineering, or a doctorate computer science. Participating institutions have different requirements. Through the Air Force Institute of Technology, the program is open to officers, enlisted and civilian Airmen of any grade, but those pursuing a master's degree must have a bachelor's degree with a minimum 3.0 grade point average. Those pursuing a doctorate must have an appropriate master's with a 3.5 GPA. Active duty military applicants through the National Defense University iCollege program must be majors and above with GPA requirements similar to AFIT's. The scholarship program covers tuition, fees and books, with follow-on placement dependent on Air Force needs. For more information about the program, including eligibility criteria and application requirements, go to the myPers website.
"In addition to exposing Air Force leaders to cultural and political environments outside their normal duties, the special programs support the Air Force continuum of learning model designed to grow leaders throughout their careers," Franklin said.
AFPC will host two webinars for interested Airmen June 27. For the 7 a.m. Central time webinar, go to https://connect.dco.dod.mil/SpecialProgramsAM. For the 4 p.m. central time webinar, go to https://connect.dco.dod.mil/SpecialProgramsPM.
For more information about developmental opportunities, and other personnel issues, go to myPers at https://mypers.af.mil and enter "PSDM 13-54" in the search window.


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Celjska koča (the Celje hut) with its hinterland is a part of a country side on the southern part of the Celje valley, for which the main characteristics is a hilly landscape, typical of this area is also the preserved natural habitat and small density of population. It is relatively close to the city Celje (8,5 km from Pečovnik and 12 km from Štore) and is connected to the valley with roads and hiking paths. Celjska koča (the Celje hut) is a well-known small Slovene ski slope with a long tradition in Štajerska district.
Since 1928 it has been hosting skiing competitions and has been voted the best ski slope in the category of small ski slopes five times in the last couple of years.
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Might be a controversial pick (so what else is new) but if we were to go offense in the first round, I can't think of a much better pick than 6'5 C/G/T Barrett Jones out of Alabama.
I look at him similarly to Max Unger coming out of college. Team leader, good kid, smart player. (He graduated with a 4.0 in 3 years) I really think he can play RT in the league, and at worst you have a guy that can come in and start at RG and be there for the next decade. Moffitt and Paul McQ have done a serviceable job, and who knows what we have in Sweezy, but this guy won't make a lot of mistakes and I can't see how he isn't an upgrade immediately. A guy that can legitimately play 5 different positions isn't easy to find.
I know people want a WR if we went offense in the 1st, but with how deep this WR class is I think you can get a few great playmakers later on in the draft.
I'm not sure if he's a Cable guy (You could argue they seem to prefer maulers over technique guys in the draft) but if we could get a Max Unger RG clone, wouldn't that be well worth the pick?
A Okung/Carp/Unger/Moffit/Jones line with McQ + Sweezy for depth sounds good to me! Anyone else watch Bama this year or have any thoughts on this guy?


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Thread: Thinking of having a go.
25-12-15, 16:00 #1
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Thinking of having a go.
I'm thinking of having a go at racing and have a couple of dumb questions.
I'm thinking of a 450cc bike as I'm 16st so reckon a 250 would be under powered, have been looking at Honda CRF's what other makes would you recommend, is there a good place to look for sorted SM bikes or are crossers with road wheels ok for starting on.
My back ground is road racing in my youth and I stopped trackdays in 2009 when I took up trials so I'm not new to bikes just SM.
Any advice will be much appreciated.
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I find it quite disappointing that over 300 odd people have viewed this and not one to speak up or offer advice. This forum is dead.KTM 520 Supermoto
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Over 2000 views now and still same...... is there another forum somewhere ? That actually has active members ??
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I've just bought a bike myself, not ridden supermoto before, my experience is a bit of off road as a kid and road sports bikes on the road since. I'm 6ft 2 & 14.5 stone, I've gone 450 as i think a 250 would feel a bit flat when your getting on the straights. Saying that though, i haven't ridden one on tarmac so don't take my word for it. Friend of mine is riding supermoto for 7 years now and he helped me out with choosing, i went for an 08 KTM SMR 450. Paid a bit more for it than i would have originally liked but the bike is clean and had recent engine re-build. Not ridden it on track yet as i am still working out the logistics of getting the bike there.
I have spent a lot of time looking, if your going just on the track, get something that has been prepared for the track, not an enduro that's just got SM wheels on it, there not going to handle the same way. Again this is not my experience but i have been in the middle of a lot of discussion with actual racers and i took their advice. Each to their own though.
Hope this helps, good luck with the search.


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My little Countdown Timer application is in need of serious attention - there are a number of features I want to add to it, so I thought it would be a good point to do a new release and draw a line under the current form.
That means a new build for Zaurus (Sharp ROM) and also a Linux x86 AppImage added to the Mac and Windows builds. The only visible difference is I added an "overrun" feature: sometimes you want to count down to an event but keep the timer running so you can see how much time passed since the alarm.
The Zaurus version runs everything in a single thread so if you choose a long sample as the alarm sound then the overrun time won't be very accurate - one of the reasons why the code needs a serious re-write.
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Although she spends the first half talking about what it's good for before she's even used it, she actually powers it up after about 5 minutes.
10 minutes to set up Windows 10.
24 Jul 2017
Long time OESF Member mickeyl, Zaurus developer, OpenZaurus member, Opie maintainer and employee number 2 at OpenMoko gives a history of OpenMoko.
IIRC, I used his source from opie-camera to learn how to access the Sharp CF camera module.
3 Jul 2017
Recently I have been working on ZBedic because I wanted to update it and port it to Qt 5 so I can use it on my desktop. Long story short, porting it was too much hassle so I started a clean implementation. That project is called Frasmodic.
I think it won't be possible to build a Qt 5 version on Zaurus so the best thing to do is to try to update ZBedic. For example, libbedic is statically linked. I can make some improvements to it then build a dynamically linked ZBedic. However, the question is who would use it ? I don't see so many people posting on here saying they are using Sharp ROM and the majority of users seem to use zalarm without GUI (is that correct ?)
I also noticed from web history that someone generated a Japanese-English dictionary from EDICT where they mixed kana and kanji keywords together in the index. I have been generating similar dictionary files myself but I separated the kana and kanji versions. Having a combined index seems very sensible, I think I can adapt my scripts so that is also in my plans.
Some of my other dictionary files can be improved so I will try to get onto that task in the future. I am also curious about converting FreeDict dictionaries to bedic format, or supporting that format directly.
Finally, I am playing with the idea of porting Kanji Nirvana to desktop. I have been poking around the source; it seems doable but I have no idea about a time frame for it.
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Instead of a five-minute trip home, a wrong turn led to an all-night drive for a pair of Germans that ended when police stopped their car in far-away Austria for heading the wrong way on a six-lane bridge.
A police statement says the couple ended up more than 250 kilometers (150 miles) away from their Bavarian hometown.
They were stopped early Tuesday after their car grazed three other vehicles while on the wrong side of a busy bridge in Linz, Austria's third-largest city.
The two told police they apparently took a wrong turn after attending a funeral Monday evening and couldn't find their way back.
Wednesday's statement says the driver's son picked up the unnamed Germans - his 77-year old father and his aunt, 70 - and drove them home.


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Despite snow, rain and mud, wind turbine towers are starting to go up on top of Dutch Hill.
Despite snow, rain and mud, wind turbine towers are starting to go up on top of Dutch Hill.
So far, contractors Mortenson Construction has only started assembling sections of one tower, but more are going up shortly, according to UPC Wind Public Outreach Coordinator Rick Towner.
"Three of the four main sections are up," Towner said.
The tower sections on the site started going up Nov. 19. Site 2A is on top of Dutch Hill near the intersection of Dutch Hill Road and Fleishman Road.
Additional tower parts and rotor blades are being delivered daily to the sites, according to Towner, and most of the parts on-site already are at the 15 turbine sites on Dutch Hill. The parts have been stored off-site for months, with many turbine blades and tower sections sitting behind the 4M Complex in Dansville.
Most of the large concrete pads the 51 turbines will be anchored to have been poured, and some of the pads are ready for tower construction, according to Towner.
"I heard last week they will be done in three weeks," he said.
The pads are 57-feet across and up to 15-feet thick in the center, according to Towner. Only a part of the pad, 16-feet across and two-feet high, will be above ground when topsoil is replaced.
Work on the sites began Sept. 18. Despite progress on the project and limited delays since the project began, there is no firm date for the completion of the work.
"Everybody asks that question," Towner said, "and I have no date."
The unpredictability of weather slows down construction, Towner said, adding high winds make it impossible to install rotors and upper tower sections.
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Comedy Duos – Twice the Fun?
Saturday, October 10, 2009
I'm on ABC Local Radio Overnights tomorrow (Sunday) morning across Australia. As Rod Quinn's guest, I'll be bringing in a bunch of samples as we discuss comedy duos. I'm on from around 4 am EST (which I think is 2am in Western Australia and somewhere in between, when you're somewhere in between the eastern states and WA). Since I'm doing it live, and there'll be talkback, if you're an insomniac do listen and phone in. Don't make the questions too hard – I'm working off the top of my head.My playlist will be drawn from the following:
1. 'The Cuckoo Song' - Laurel & Hardy (sort of)
A logical place to start: Laurel & Hardy are a – perhaps the – seminal comedy team and this ditty – which existed independent of them – became their signature tune.
2. 'Smokers' – Fry & Laurie
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie were Cambridge students who graduated to Edinburgh Fringe shows as part of the Footlights (the student club that gave members of Monty Python and The Goodies there start along with so many others I shan't get caught up listing here), like so many university revue-educated wits before them. They first came to prominence in episodes of Black Adder before landing their own excellent sketch show, A Bit of Fry & Laurie, which is where this sketch originated. Nowadays Fry continues to write books and make documentary series while serving as Twitter's biggest celebrity user, while Laurie enjoys massive success as the main character in the US medical drama series House.
3. 'Pregnant Women Are Smug' – Garfunkel & Oates
How's this for a 'comedy duo'? Their name itself is a joke on 'duos', referring to the 'lesser sidemen' in music duos. The point, in comedy, is that even if it looks like only one comedian in the duo is doing the work, the other one is still necessary for the comedy to work: it's all about the dynamic. ("What was it that Dudley Moore used to do?" the question has been posed. "He made Peter Cook look funny" is the standard answer. He did much more than that – without him as a foil, Cook was more-or-less lost; his work never shone as brightly after cuddly Dudley made it in his own right in Holywood.)
Garfunkel & Oates are two young Californian actors, Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci – Kate's a regular in later episodes of Scrubs. Their sideline are these cute satirical songs. I'm hoping they become popular enough to visit some Aussie comedy festivals, in time.
4. 'Six of the Best' – Peter Cook & Dudley Moore
I could bang on about the genius of Peter Cook & Dudley Moore for days. Suffice to say, as a duo, what they did on stage was magic, and in many ways I see Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh as their present-day equivalent. For its time, groundbreaking social commentary, since Moore plays the elderly schoolmaster, Cook, the arrogant and disrespectful student, reversing the power structure just as the young generation appeared to be taking control – or at least becoming the dominant element in popular culture – in the '60s. It's funny because it was revealing the unspoken truth. Of course a lad on the threshold of manhood could intimidate an elderly schoolmaster, but respect for age, experience, intellect, class and position prevented it from taking place. It's less funny now that the scenario being enacted is one that more-or-less takes place in schools all the time now.
5. 'Chocolate' – The Smothers Brothers
The Smothers Brothers – Tom and Dicky – illustrate why the comic song works so well within the parameters of 'comedy duo'. The 'straight man'/'funny man' dichotomy creates humour through the straight guy trying to deliver the song as it should be performed, while the clown continues to subvert expectations. Within this song, many of the traditional elements of the folk song are turned on their head.
6. 'Bob Geldof' – Mel Smith & Grif Rhys Jones
After working on the sketch show Not The Nine O'Clock News with Pamela Stephenson and Rowan Atkinson, Smith & Jones continued to work with each other on the sketch show Alas Smith & Jones (the title's a piss-take of the early '70s cowboy series Alias Smith & Jones). One aspect of their work together were their 'chats', naturalistic dialogues derived, no doubt, from initital improvisations, not unlike the work Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in 'Pete 'n' Dud' mode – two old mates talking bollocks over beer.
7. 'Sarah Jackman' – Allan Sherman
Allan Sherman was mostly a solo act, coming out of a Jewish television/showbiz background (the titles of many of his albums began with the words, 'My Son…' like My Son The Nut and My Son The Folk Singer – as though his parents were still disapproving). He was a producer of the classic Tonight Show ever so briefly – but not good enough at it. After he was sacked, he returned as a performer, doing what he did best: song parodies. Indeed, the first time you watch the Walt Disney animated masterpiece Fantasia, you may think yourself a little crazy when you realise the melody of Ponchielli's 'The Dance of Hours' (ostriches doing ballet) sounds almost exactly like 'Hello Muddah, Hello Fuddah'; that's because Sherman took 'The Dance of Hours' melody and wedded new lyrics to it. And he did it well – every syllable is where it should be.
For the duration of this song – a parody of the French children's song, 'Frère Jacques' – Sherman's part of a duo with Christine Nelson. The song takes the form of a 'catch-up' phone call, one imagines by someone who has grown up and left the old neighbourhood, catching up with all the comings-and-goings. There's a good deal of social commentary from its time – the early '60s – with cousin Shirley 'married early', brother Bentley 'feeling better mentally', cousin Ida a 'freedom rider' and – my favourite – Sonja's daughter Rita, now a 'regular Lolita'!
8. 'Who's On First' – Abbott & Costello
One of the seminal pieces of comedy from a classic comedy duo. Essentially the Abbott & Costello signature piece, it was recorded a number of times – in various films and on radio and television shows. This is an excerpt.
9. 'Hawk Hawkins' – Smart Casual
Ben and Nick Mattick are Roger David and Fletcher Jones (I may have the charaters in the wrong order), AKA Smart Casual. They first appeared on the Sydney comedy scene a few years ago, getting to the national final of the Raw Comedy competition on the strength of songs that had the good sense to be more than one gag repeated ad infinitem accompanied by 12-bar blues, or all of their jokes, delivered to opened-ended chordal vamping – which is how so much 'musical comedy' is unfortunately presented. (See what I'm saying, comedy n00bs? The tokenistic inclusion of music will fool the masses as easily as any other comedy corners you may find a way to cut. But people who 'know about' music and 'know about' comedy won't be be impressed.)
Part of what makes Smart Casual's material work is something that Garfunkel & Oates also know full well: if the joke is a quickie, so too must be the song. This year Smart Casual featured in Comedy Zone – the show the Melbourne International Comedy Festival puts together from the best new talent around Australia. 'Hawk Hawkins' was their Raw Comedy finale and has served them well. I suspect they'll soon be 'resting' it as they move on to new material.
10. 'Happy Darling?' – Eleanor Bron and John Fortune
Eleanor Bron and John Fortune came to the fore as part of England's so-called '60s satire boom. Bron went to Cambridge University and was a contemporary of Peter Cook's. She also has a major role in the Beatles film Help! – among other things, she's the woman being sung to in the clip for 'You've Got To Hide Your Love Away'. During the 70s Bron and Fortune developed a series of sketches about relationships under the title Is Your Marriage Strictly Necessary? which John Cleese cites as one of the inspirations for Fawlty Towers.
11. 'The Phonebook Song' – Scared Weird Little Guys
The Scared Weird Little Guys are another two-guys-and-a-guitar comedy duo specialising in genre pardies and clever-silly songs. They comprise Rusty Berther and John Fleming, who met in a capella groups, having cut their teeth in barbershop quartets and the like. (Their first shared project was a five-piece a capella combo, 'The Phones'.) 'The Phonebook Song' is a classic live number that demonstrates vocal prowess. At the very end, it refers to another novelty song built around clever rapid-fire syllables.
12. 'Sweet Fanny Adams Part 2' – Mel & Sue
Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins were (and possibly still are) an English comedy duo who, earlier this century, were likened – and perhaps burdened by the comparison – to 'French & Saunders'. The BBC Radio 4 show, The Mel & Sue Thing, and subsequent Edinburgh Fringe shows, demonstrated a clever, funny approach to sketch comedy. 'Sweet Fanny Adams' was a regular feature of the show – the serialisation of Jane Austen's last – and lost – novella, the perfect antidote to the costumed period dramas that still occupy BBC television broadcast schedules. Part of their 'Mel & Sue' persona sees them share a bed in their pyjamas in a very 'Morecambe & Wise' manner. Mel pops up in a Vicar of Dibley Christmas special.
13. 'Bring Me Sunshine' – Morecambe & Wise
Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise met as kids in a touring vaudeville troupe and perfected their comedy in partnership very early on. Being in the right place at the right time, they were the ones who made the transition from the vaudeville stage to television most successfully, becoming the most watched comedians of their age as they broke viewing records, particularly for their Christmas specials, in which regular non-comedic television personalities – news readers and the like – would appear in guest roles. 'Bring Me Sunshine' was, by the end of their long career, established as their signature tune.