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Liam Neeson threw himself into work in the months following his wife's tragic death in a ski accident, but the pain of Natasha Richardson's death still haunts him in the middle of the night, the Irish actor said in his first interview on the subject.
The actor opened up for the first time about the experience of losing his wife after the tragic March, 2009 accident and the enduring pain from her loss in Esquire's March issue.
"It hits you in the middle of the night -- well, it hits me in the middle of the night," Neeson said about the grief. "I'm out walking. I'm feeling quite content. And it's like suddenly, boom. It's like you've just done that in your chest."
When 45-year-old Richardson was pulled off of life support after suffering serious head trauma at a Canadian ski resort, Neeson said he buried himself with work to deal with the heartbreak.
"I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.," the "Clash of the Titans" actor said. "Listen, I know how old I am and that I'm just a shoulder injury from losing roles like the one in Taken. So I stay with the training, I stay with the work…. You think you're gonna cry and get it over with. You make those plans, but they never work."
Since the tragedy, the 58-year-old actor has juggled looking after the two sons he had with Richardson with an extremely full (and no doubt agreeably distracting) work schedule, including "The Next Three Days," The A-Team," "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Dawn Treader," as well as the upcoming "Unknown," "The Hangover: Part 2," and the "Clash" sequel "Wrath of the Titans." Neeson has even returned to the Star Wars universe, voicing his "Phantom Menace" character Qui-Gon Jinn in an episode of the animated series "Star Wars: The Clone Wars."
In the interview, the Irish actor also describes the moment in the hospital emergency room in vivid detail. He said when he walked into the hospital, he was frustrated because no one would let him go see his wife.
"I pull out a cell phone -- and a security guard comes up, starts saying, 'Sorry, sir, you can't use that in here,' and I'm about to ask him if he knew me, when he disappears to answer a phone call or something," Neeson recalls. "So I went outside. It's freezing cold, and I thought, What am I gonna do? How am I going to get past the security?"
The actor continues, "And I see two nurses, ladies, having a cigarette. I walk up, and luckily one of them recognizes me. And I'll tell you, I was so f---ing grateful -- for the first time in I don't know how long -- to be recognized."
Selected Reading: PopEater, New York magazine, Esquire


text: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 More Research Needed in Management of Noncyclic Chronic Pelvic Pain Nonhormonal and nonpharmacologic management of noncyclic chronic pelvic pain (CPP) remains understudied, say authors of a systematic review that also found little evidence to demonstrate the effectiveness of surgical approaches for this "commonly occurring and poorly understood condition." Researchers from Vanderbilt Evidence-based Practice Center systematically reviewed evidence on therapies for women aged 18 and older with CPP, focusing on the prevalence of conditions thought to occur commonly with CPP—change in pain, functional status, quality of life, and patient satisfaction resulting from surgical and nonsurgical treatment approaches; harms of nonsurgical approaches; evidence for differences in surgical outcomes if an etiology for CPP is identified postsurgery; and evidence for selecting 1 intervention over another after an approach fails. Of 36 included studies, 18 were randomized controlled trials, most of which were of poor quality; 15 were cross-sectional studies addressing the prevalence of comorbidities in which quality varied by comorbidity. Nine studies of nonsurgical approaches assessed hormonal therapies for endometriosis-associated CPP and reported similar effectiveness among active agents. One exception was an RCT comparing raloxifene with placebo, which reported more rapid return of pain in the raloxifene group. Few studies assessed nonhormonal medical or nonpharmacologic management; benefits were reported in single studies of a pelvic physical therapy approach, botulinum toxin, pelvic ultrasonography, and an integrated management approach. "Improved characterization of the targeted condition, intervention, and population in CPP research is necessary to inform treatment choices for this commonly reported entity," the authors conclude, noting the lack of a uniform definition of CPP and standardized evaluation of participants in the literature.

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Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 8:24 pm
Post subject: Cooking some bacon now (for the sake of cooking bacon)
Every weekend I pull out a pack of Hormel Black Label (UNCOOKED) bacon from my fridge. This is by far the best "supermarket bacon" available, and, if cooked right, tastes like pure heaven (and pure heart attack, but hell, I've got more important things to worry about. Like whether or not I'll have enough bacon next week.)
Be careful, though. I've seen a lot of stores carry Hormel Black Label, but most likely it's fake. Unless you're dirt poor or enjoy this stuff, do NOT get the precooked junk. Definitely not worth it! I'd rather eat the package it came in.
Tip: If you're pan frying, put simply anything over the pan to cover it. If it has a lid, great. Just make sure there's an opening so the steam can get out. This reduces the risk of splatter greatly, although you have to be careful when you're flipping the bacon. (Pretty obvious but I see a lot of you still complaining about it...)
Gotta go. Bacon's done. *om nom nom*
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 3:43 pm
Post subject: Twirly Bacon
I have to give my kids credit for this one. They wanted to make bacon that was twirly--curled around like a corkscrew. I thought about it and decided we might be able to use drinking straws as the form. So we wrapped bacon strips around a straw, like the red stripe on a candy cane. Then we cooked it the normal way in the microwave. It worked quite well and the kids were very excited about the way it looked. The straws will get very melty and sometimes are hard to separate from the bacon. But it's a fun experience for the kids.
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Posted: Wed Nov 26, 2008 7:19 pm
Post subject:
oops! plastic would not have been my choice - it does melt as you learned.
actually when bacon is still sizzling hot - whether you do it in the microwave on pan/griddle, it is very pliable.
cook it up, then quickly wrap it around the handle of a wooden spoon (for example) - allow to cool.
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Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:24 pm
Post subject: Grilling bacon
My next door neighbors put pancake syrup on their bacon when they grill it.
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Stan from Ithaca NY
Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 4:42 pm
Post subject: Bacon cooker for the microwave / Source of good bacon
My brother has a Makin' Bacon, and I am not a fan. The one I have used, with consistently good results for about eight years, is the BaconWave. (Walmart.com has them, but the retail store does not.) It holds the bacon strips on their edges, and quite a lot of fat renders out. It's clear, with a few little bacony bits in it, just as Michael described for the Makin' Bacon. With the BaconWave come skewers to hold the ends of the strips in place, but I've never used them. One caution is that the instructions for the BaconWave generally have too-long cooing times, so be prepared to experiment.
Some folks mentioned how fatty standard American bacon is. I agree. But John F. Martin (based in Lancaster PA, I believe) makes excellent bacon -- a nice smoky flavor, but not overpowering, and significantly less fat than national brands. The bacon comes in regular and low salt, but they taste equally good to me. Only annoyance (a minor one) is that the strips are sometimes not uniformly thick.
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Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:20 pm
Post subject: Use Waffle Iron?
A certain cooking show host recommends using a waffle iron to cook bacon. I tried this, but cleanup is a mess. My waffle iron converts to a panini press. That is the ticket!
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Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 11:29 pm
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John F Martin does make good bacon. I don't live far from there. Wegman's (the best supermarket in the world, imo) sell an applewood smoked reduced salt bacon that is VERY, VERY good!!! Go to Wegmans.com for locations.
I usually bake my bacon on a rack at 350 for about 20 minutes. There's no need to slow cook it and you'll get very straight and evenly cooked bacon. You can even flavor it with spices, maple syrup or whatever you like and get the same results.
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Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 12:16 am
Post subject: my favorite method
400 degrees aluminum baking sheet with parchment paper on it. If you get creative you can fit a whole pound on one sheet pan. Also I find this method keeps the bacon fat fairly "clean" if you want to harvest it for later use.
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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:49 pm
Post subject: Agree with the low oven method
Just in the past month or so, I've discovered the wonders of slow baking bacon in the oven, partially thanks to this site.
One morning, my wife wanted waffles. She's grown accustomed to my raised (yeasted) waffle recipe, which I usually let rise overnight. But I needed it for the morning, and it needs at least an hour for the yeast to ferment.
So I figured it was the perfect time to try out the slow baking method. I put the oven at 200 degrees (as suggested here), and the bacon cooked for about 90 minutes like that. No mess. No burnt stains on the aluminum foil (as I've seen before at high temperature). Perfectly clear drippings.
The bacon wasn't quite done at that point, so I turned the oven up slightly as I started to make the waffles. The flavor was UNBELIEVABLE. Texture was fantastic -- uniformly crispy with just the right amount of chewy. I had a guest for brunch as well as my wife; both said it was about the best bacon they had ever had.
Higher temperatures do the trick, but few comments seem to discuss trying the slow baking method. Yes, you need extra time, but some weekend morning when you're up early and the rest of the family is sleeping in, put the bacon in and just let it slow cook until people get up. You can always raise the temperature to finish it if you need to, but any additional time is worth it.
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 9:47 pm
Post subject: Grilling Bacon
I'm really surprised at how perfect your grilled bacon looked. So much so that it almost doesn't look real. I've grilled bacon before and it doesn't take but two minutes with the grill on low for that stuff to cause a pretty decent flare up and there wasn't one burned spot on your grilled bacon.
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Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 3:57 am
Post subject: Cooking Bacon
The instructions on my box of bacon say if preparing in an oven, cook at 400 degrees for 15-18 minutes. This seems to be in between the broiling method you used in part I and the slow cooking method you used in part II.
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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:01 pm
Post subject: Bacon II
Most painless way for me is to put half-length strips in a cold 12-inch thick- bottomed SS pan (non-teflon). I stumble out of bed, lay in the bacon, turn burner to about 1.5 of 10 (electric burner). Don't use any oil on pan; you want it to stick--the bacon strips are super flat; even the fat is crunchy. Go back to bed. About an hour or so later, smell wakes me up, and 'm happy! While making the breakfast, you can play around with the finishing heat. The remaining bacon fat should be crystal clear.
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Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 2:50 am
Post subject: deep fried
I was getting a bacon and egg sandwich at work, where the cook makes it on the spot. I always ask for 'super-extra crispy' so one day he submerges the bacon in the hot cooking oil that was used for home fries. Delicious! Heavenly! and yes, Super-extra crispy! Soon my other co-workers were asking for it the same way, so he just put the entire package of bacon in the oil every morning.
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Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2010 1:43 am
Post subject: and it's edible frozen
As other have said, in the UK bacon is is 90% meat, with some fat round the edge. I've played with the sugestions on this site (thanks!) to cook cheap bulk offers of bacon from the supermarket. Once cooked, you can scoff a slice straight from the freezer! Sounds nasty but is nice.
The disadvantage is the potential erosion of your economical frozen stash.
If you try it, you won't thank me for this observation... it's so tempting.
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 9:54 pm
Post subject: making "extremely straight" bacon more appetizing
If you're like me, you like the low temperature method, but you find the "extremely straight" bacon a little unappetizing looking. To fix this, take a square of tin foil and crumple it up. Then, un-crumple it and then lay the bacon on top of the tin foil and stick it in the oven.
When done, the bacon will not be really straight, and it will look like what you get when you pan fry it.
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Enlightening and heart-warming video interview with prominent German journalist Dr Udo Ulfkotte, (not surprisingly) former editor of one of Germany's main dailies, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (thanks to Benedict Broere for the hat tip).
In it he says that he does not think that Islam will prevail in Europe because Europeans will fight it back, but it will be bloody.
Asked if there could be a socio-economic problem behind Muslim radicalism, he reiterates the ideologically intransigent nature of Islam and answers that we in Europe have thrown so much money at Islam that this could simply not be the case.
Muslim immigrants in Germany up until 2007, Dr Ulfkotte explains, "have taken 1 billion euros more out of our social welfare system than they have paid into our system". To give a better idea of the magnitude of this figure and put it into perspective, he adds that the total debt of the German government is 1.7 billion euros. Expelling Muslims, therefore, will help Europe fight its financial crisis.
Another subject touched in the interview is the mainstream media which, largely dominated by post-'68 ideologues, have not published criticisms of the current situation out of political correctness.
Regarding his personal involvement and security problems, Ulfkotte explains that twice he had to leave his home because he had received two death threats and still has them, and he had to live under anonymity and under police protection. But he is not the only one, he says, there are many in Europe under threat of being killed by Muslims.
Asked if he is a Christian, the journalist answers that he was born into a Christian family but rejected his Christian roots when he was young. At first he was an atheist and then converted to Islam while he was in Afghanistan and the Middle East covering events there for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
That is why, he adds, he can speak from knowing Islam so well, from within.
He is now a born-again Christian, having embraced the faith out of conviction this time, and not tradition.
The final question is about the future of Europe. Ulfkotte responds that he believes the financial crisis will not go away and history teaches that, when you have economic hardships combined with ethnic tensions and a widespread disregard for the law of the country, the outcome is likely to be civil war.
His story touches me because it reminds me of mine (except the conversion to Islam bit), with his abandonment of Christianity and then return to it when he discovers that it is the best the world has to offer.
His conflictual endgame scenario may seem gloomy, even terrifying, and I hope that it will not come to that. The point is: is Islamization a better one?
We will not need a civil war if we can start addressing the problem freely and without censorship now, before it is too late, and consider different solutions which have so far been prevented even from being mentioned, let alone discussed, by the oppression and thought policing of political correctness.


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Sunday, March 16, 2008
I wish I was a vet
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- Anonymous3:16 PM, March 16, 2008
I almost went the Vet route, missed signing up for Poultry Science on time and ended up in medical school. As someone who still cries during "Old Yeller", it was probably for the best.ReplyDelete
I wrote "pay me vet" because I am a pirate. No, not that kind of pirate, just a regular one.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5:21 PM, March 16, 2008
"My vet goes home at 4:30"ReplyDelete
You have a very lazy vet. Ours is there from 7:30AM to 7:30PM and on Saturday mornings.
Maybe the pets are pristine patients, but the vet customers (their owners)can be a pain too precisely because they have speaking abilities.
Lastly, I think I know where the money is: Emergency vet clinic. We made a $5,000 donation last July. Ouch.
Maybe it's time to cross train? :-)
"We could use a good shit throwing in the ED."ReplyDelete
What, this doesn't happen on a regular basis anyway? What kind of an ER are you in?
We just shelled out $500 for our poor cat. She's still peeing uric acid crystals, or whatever kind of crystals that cats pee, and one day, the prescription feed might help her. The emergency vet where I took her to get hydrated because the clavamox made her barf everytime she looked at me, told me that we needed to get a CC urine culture taken by a needle to the bladder, a sensitivity, and a cytology. But! there was a 98% chance that it was the crystals. Guess which one I place my money on, cause we can't afford kidney/bladder stones, or cancer.
- Anonymous6:59 PM, March 16, 2008
Your DOGMA is a little hard to swallow today.ReplyDelete
woof woof!
You could be a dentist too. My cousin is one and deals with insurance on a limited basis and makes a killing!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:20 PM, March 16, 2008
Abuse the vet for drugs? Rest easy, I trade OTC medicines with a friend in London. All those wacky governments setting up different control schedules means she can get codeine w/out a prescription.ReplyDelete
I've been hearing good things about Canada. Hmmmm...
hey 'cat,ReplyDelete
vets are awesome. monkey girl put up a post on the subject of animal husbandy here. it's worth a look.
monkey girl's link and the picture of the fine gentleman in the story segues nicely to the comment about dentists and the profession of dentistry. try this post out for old time's sake.
and many thanks to ambulance driver for sending us more hits in about 8 hours than NPR has in 72. i love me some paramedics and emts!
- Anonymous9:32 PM, March 16, 2008
ROTFLMAO! So true!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9:36 PM, March 16, 2008
Before I had my kids (3 years ago) I was a vet tech for 12 years. Spent about 4 years in emergency medicine. Unfortunately, it's not as easy as it sounds. If the pets could bring themselves in it would have been golden. As it is, people bring pets in and we'd see a whole lot of crazy. Owners abusing their pet's drugs (then come in begging for more because Fluffy is all out). Clients do come in, especially in ER, with records all over town and not one vet has seen the pet in the last 6 years. Hearing, over and over, that we obviously don't love animals because we won't treat their dog's whatever for free. I've been presented with plain white pills and had the owner say "He ate somewhere between 3 and 97 of these".ReplyDelete
But, we did get to play with puppies and kittens occasionally, and had some really good clients. Like human ER, you take the good with the bad. You roll your eyes at the not so great owners and try your best to hold onto the good ones.
OK, VETS MAY GET BAD PATIENTS, BUT AT LEAST I DON'T ADD TO THE MIX. IF I WERE A VET I WOULD HAVE THEM DROP OFF THE PET AT THE DOOR.ReplyDelete
Then there was the joke about a guy who feeling guilty about sleeping with patients...ReplyDelete
- Anonymous1:51 AM, March 17, 2008
LOL, if owners could just "drop off at the door" vet med would be the best job ever. As it was, even with the "Crazies", I loved it.ReplyDelete
There's always pathology. Sit in your quiet lab in a basement somewhere and the closest you get to patients is the sliver of whatever is on the slide.
(if I could ever figure out how to get my sign-in to work I'd stop commenting Anon)
- Anonymous7:52 AM, March 17, 2008
Truthfully, I chose medical school for the same reason alot of guys did, thinking it would make me a chick magnet like Hawkeye Pierce or Noah Drake. That and a saliva phobia. Its the one part of medicine I can't complain about. Where else will model quality saleswomen bring you free stuff,drugs, and laugh at all your jokes? There were 2 vets and a dentist in my med school class. How many MDs do the opposite?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7:57 AM, March 17, 2008
By "Free Drugs" I mean of course, professional samples of non scheduled medications for recognized medical use.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:29 AM, March 17, 2008
No, I wouldn't agree with the vet route. My husband is a large animal vet, and I am a general surgeon. He works longer hours than I do. He can get kicked by a horse, or a cow can toss him across the room. He may be able to charge extra for emergencies, but how much do you think an owner is willing to pay? Couple of hundred, tops, for a dog, maybe. There is the occasional owner that wants "everything done", but then, they are also willing to travel to the big cities for their vet care. It's harder to get into vet school than med school (fewer schools) and granted, they don't have to do an internship or residency (like dentistry), but the initial pay sucks (unless the vet inherits a practice). I think vet medicine is undergoing the same upheaval as human medicine, they are just not as vocal, because they are smaller in number. The general problem is lack of respect in the population and ownership/responsibility. Had one owner bring in a half dead dog because it had eaten a half bag of M&M's and then when it failed revival, the owner blamed the vet. Just tell your children to go into accounting...ReplyDelete
My ER has a Monkey in it 3 nights a week, and I can sure throw some shit....ReplyDelete
Monkeygirl - hahaha I would love to be a fly on the wall as long as I didn't get hit by your shit.ReplyDelete
Ok, Ok, I don't wan't to be a vet. And no, my children will do no medicine related careers if I have any say in it. Both are starting to play golf, and the more bags they see under my eyes after a string of nights, the more appealing hitting a little white ball for a living becomes. Also, wish me luck with Powerball.
- Anonymous9:14 PM, March 18, 2008
My partner had an elderly lady bring her dog into the ER via the automatic ambulance doors. Yes, ran in with the dog in her arms, frantically looking for help. Yes, the dog was recently deceased. Yes, my partner took the dog and put it on the floor and gently examined it and then gently had the "You did everything you could" conversation with the grief and guilt struck woman. Yes, only in an ER.ReplyDelete
I love monkeys. Monkeys are fucking awesome. Good monkeys will sit on your shoulder, play nice and perform in groups. They are great for birthdays and Bar Mitzvahs. If you so choose, and it seems you do, bad monkeys WILL sling shit. Some days you are just not in the mood for bad monkeys, but then again, they're monkeys they can do what they want.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous11:07 AM, March 19, 2008
HIPAA is not HIPPA....though you may have confused hipp-o while visiting the vet. Ha!ReplyDelete
<"Anonymous" because I'm too lazy to set up an account.>
Hmmmm. First of all, Amy, no, cats usually pee triple phosphate crystals or oxalate crystals - the urates are for the dalmatians :)ReplyDelete
MDOD, I gotta say - point by point:
Animals are compliant: ok sure, if the owners both to give the meds, but do you care to lay odds on that?
Animals don't abuse the vet for drugs: ok, but a colleague of mine recently suffered a major depression subsequent to finding out that a teenager in the family of the dog he'd performed a laminectomy on had OD'd via fentanyl patches stolen from the pooch. Also I have personally had two clients abuse their animal's benzos. These are FAR from rare occurences.
Animals don't take their social problems to the vet: again, no, but , the owners, oh man - "it's so hard to get here, my car got repoed and my boyfriend's a jerk, blah blah" or even worse "my doctor says I have a lipoma on my scrotum - wanna see?"
Animals may not bring relatives but last week my 10:15 appointment for "routine physical" for one pet was actually a routine physical for one pet, a new pet visit for another pet, a "please help this stray dog I found for free because I can't afford to fix his obvious fracture that I ignored overnight" *and* a behavior consult for a pet that the owner didn't bother to bring.
Animals may not bring a bunch of random pills in, but also last week I saw a dog who "ate a bag of medicine," which bag contained "some tylenol and some other stuff." WTF?
Animals may not vet shop, but owners do, and I was going over a patient's record last week and saw NUMEROUS previous entries along the lines of "owner called, requested fax records to Dr. Notasgood," and it was really irritating because they keep calling US for followup after seeing Dr. Cheaperguy for the actual visit.
I'm just saying
- jen bienstock1:57 PM, September 25, 2009
Absolutely hysterical. Thanks for the lift. I am sending this to my daughter as I am hopeful she'll choose veterinary school over medical school.ReplyDelete
large animal vet... the owners are usually farmers and farmers, cowboys, football players, and lesbians are a hard scrabble lot and don't complain much. now a lesbian farmer who plays football... that's who you want as a customer.ReplyDelete


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The Certified Local Government (CLG) Program helps Indiana cities and towns create, promote, and maintain preservation efforts in coordination with their development plans. Indiana currently has eighteen CLGs: Bloomington, Crown Point, Elkhart, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Huntington, Lafayette, LaPorte, Logansport, Mishawaka, Muncie, Nappanee, New Albany, Newburgh, Richmond, South Bend, Monroe County (excluding the incorporated city of Bloomington), and St. Joseph County (excluding the incorporated cities of South Bend and Mishawaka).
The designation "Certified Local Government" is intended to denote that a municipality meets certain state and federal qualifications and therefore "certified" to carry out specific regulatory and administrative preservation activities at the local level. To become certified, a city or town must maintain an active and qualified historic preservation commission and commission staff, enforce state and local legislation for the designation and protection of local properties, maintain an up-to-date inventory of historic properties within its jurisdiction, participate in the nomination of local properties to the National Register, and provide for public participation in its meetings and activities.
The state benefits from this program because CLGs undertake at the local level certain preservation duties and activities that would otherwise be conducted by the Division, thereby reducing the DHPA's workload. For example, these communities can carry out the substantive review of National Register nominations, and certain communities may conduct Section 106 Reviews for projects within their jurisdiction.
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Northside coach Bob Eason was his usual reserved self.
Northside coach Bob Eason was his usual reserved self.
After leading the Monarchs to a 21-14 victory over East Duplin on Friday night that gave Northside the East Central 2-A Conference title, Eason stood on the field with a soda in hand, displaying no emotion whatever.
A conference title and an undefeated regular season is nothing new to him.
Thanks to the victory, Northside recorded its fourth 11-0 regular-season mark in program history as well as winning its fourth ECC title.
Still, this conference crown and unbeaten mark meant a lot to Eason.
�It�s unexpected,� he said. �When you look, we had too many guys who hadn�t had a lot of playing time. We were real inexperienced � so this makes it sweeter.�
This marked the second consecutive ECC title for the Monarchs (11-0, 6-0), ranked second in The Associated Press state 2-A poll. Northside now looks to advance deep in the playoffs.
The NCHSAA will release its playoff pairings today, and the Monarchs hope to have a top seed in the East bracket. Northside beat East Duplin 41-30 last year to also secure the ECC title in the regular-season finale.
�This means everything,� said Northside senior Dewayne Johnson, who rushed for a pair of second-half touchdowns. �People doubted us for so long saying we wouldn�t make it, but now we are undefeated. We want that ring on our finger.�
And seventh-ranked East Duplin (9-2, 6-1) also wanted a conference title, although the Panthers came up short in their quest after yielding a 29-yard touchdown run to Johnson with 6:18 left in the game.
�Our guys played hard and that�s all we can ask for them to do,� East Duplin coach Battle Holley said. �In a tight ballgame, you can�t make the mistakes we made. Hopefully we will have a good week of practice, take care of business and go from there. If we take care of business, we can play on this field in three weeks.�
Trailing 14-6 at halftime, Northside rallied with a pair of long touchdown drives.
The second was an 80-yard, 13-play drive that lasted 7:42 and capped off by Johnson�s 29-yard run to give the Monarchs a 21-14 lead. Northside converted on a fourth-and-short and two third downs on the drive.
�They (Panthers) can�t score if they don�t have the ball,� Eason said. �I was just thinking we needed to score, but when it goes down like that, it certainly is nice because it puts the other team in panic mode.�
East Duplin appeared ready to respond with a touchdown, but a run by the Dijon Poole on fourth-and-5 from the Northside 28-yard line was a foot short. The Monarchs got the ball back at its own 24 with 2:04 left.
The Panthers did have one final possession but turned the ball over on downs, giving the Monarchs a close win, something Northside hasn�t had this season.
�I was concerned about that,� Eason said.
The Northside coach was also worried about how his squad would respond facing a 14-6 deficit. However, the Monarchs opened the third quarter by getting a 49-yard touchdown run from Johnson that capped a 72-yard drive.
Courtney Piatt�s pass to Trey Eason on the ensuing 2-point conversion tied the game at 14-14.
�They (Panthers) beat us in all phases of the game, defense, special teams and offense in the first half,� coach Eason said. �In the second half we needed to beat them in all three phases. We were a little down at the half, but to come back and score and get the 2-point conversion, that made a huge difference.�
The offenses proved to be the best defenses for the two teams.
Thanks to its two long touchdown possessions after halftime, Northside limited East Duplin to 23 second-half plays after the Panthers ran 34 in the first half.
Down 6-0 in the first quarter, East Duplin had a 16-play, 80-yard drive that lasted 8:16 and was capped by a 1-yard touchdown run by Monquel Baker. Poole, who finished with 158 yards rushing on 26 carries, added a 47-yard touchdown run in the second quarter.
�That�s what we had to do,� Holley said. �The offense had to drive and control the clock.�
Conversely, the Monarchs ran 27 second-half plays, compared to 16 in the first half.
The 16 plays was somewhat misleading, however. The Panthers fumbled on the first possession of the game, resulting in a 24-yard fumble return for a touchdown by Northside�s Markel Jones that made it 6-0.
The Monarchs� offense didn�t see the field until 2:26 left in the first quarter.
�In the first half we didn�t have the ball but three times,� Eason said. �It�s hard to score and get into a rhythm and do stuff. Credit East Duplin.�
Yet Northside managed to get things going offensively in the second half. Johnson finished with 136 yards on 25 carries.
�The message at halftime was that we were playing soft,� Johnson said. �We had to turn it up and do what we had to do to get to 11-0.�
Johnson was particularly motivated not to get outdone by Poole. The two backs took turns making big runs for their teams.
�Dewayne is a tough runner,� Eason said. �He got behind his fullback and ran hard.�
Holley was also pleased about Poole�s effort.
�Dijon is a guy who plays hard every down,� he said. �He�s 145 pounds but runs like he�s 200. He always runs hard and gives you everything he�s got.�
But in the end, Johnson and the Monarchs prevailed.
�This was a good ballgame,� Eason said. �I told the guys that a lot of people across the state were not playing a game that meant a whole lot except for personal pride.�
East Duplin 7 7 0 0 � 14
Northside 6 0 8 7 � 21
First Quarter
N � Jones 24 fumble return (run failed) 10:46
E � Mo. Baker 1 run (Parker kick) 2:30
Second Quarter
E � Poole 47 run (Parker kick) 6:37
Third Quarter
N � Johnson 49 run (Eason pass from Piatt) 9:55
Fourth Quarter
N � Johnson 29 run (Eason kick) 6:18
First downs 12 9
Rushes-yards 46-199 42-168
Passing 105 0
Comp-Att-Int 5-11-0 0-1-0
Fumbles-Lost 3-1 2-0
Penalties-Yards 8-50 7-50
Punts 2-43 3-32.6
RUSHING�E: Poole 26-158, Mo. Baker 12-46, Ma. Baker 4-(-2), Stallings 3-(-5), Huffin 1-2. N: Johnson 25-136, Adams 5-14, Piatt 5-(-11), Eason 3-28, Miller 1-4, Markee 2-0, TEAM 1-(-3).
PASSING�E: Ma. Baker 5-11-0-105. N: Piatt 0-1-0-0.
RECEIVING�E: Stallings 3-63, Poole 2-42.


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Welcome to The Ojibway Club
The Ojibway Club is a summer community centre in Pointe au Baril, Ontario. Accessible only by boat, the 42 acre island is just inside the outer shoals and is a few kilometers west of the mainland at Pointe au Baril.
It's where summer Islanders come together to play tennis or bridge or walk the historic trails. They come to shop for food at the Grocery Store or pick up their newspaper and maybe a treasure at the Gift Shop. It's where kids meet every morning for Ojibway Camp to sail, canoe, swim, kayak, play tennis and create arts + crafts. It's where friends, old and new, meet for coffee on the verandah to take in the sweeping views of The Bay and where everyone flocks for ice cream cones on a hot afternoon.
The Ojibway Club is the heart of the Pointe au Baril island community. It's a place where lifelong friendships are formed and maintained and where multi-generations of family gather every summer. It's a place where we create and celebrate summer traditions year after year after year.
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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- "The Hobbit" movie will bring new technology to U.S. movie audiences by screening at 48 frames per second, twice the rate of traditional films, experts say.
Warner Bros. will become the first studio to release a major Hollywood movie in 48 frames a second when "The Hobbit," by "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson, premieres Dec. 14.
Advocates say Jackson's picture will give audiences a picture that is richer and sharper, but some critics who've seen clips of the film have called it jarringly hyper-realistic and too unlike a traditional film, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
Warner Brothers has been running a test reel in hundreds of theaters in the United States and abroad to ensure theaters are ready for the rollout of the new technology.
"When you have something new, you want to make sure it works," Dan Fellman, president of domestic distribution for Warner, said. "This is unique, it's different and we'll have to see how people adjust to it."
The studio is hedging its bet by showing the high-frame-rate version in only 450 of the 4,000 U.S. and Canadian theaters that will be showing the film.


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Orange County voters wait in long line to vote
WINTER PARK, Fla. – Winter Park police are investigating two suspicious packages outside an early voting site.
Police said about 11:45 a.m., someone found a suspicious package along Lyman Avenue at Winter Park library.
Members of the bomb squad used dogs and an X-Ray machine to determine if the package was a threat, before deciding to detonate it just to be safe, officials said.
Tom Pearson, of the Winter Park Police Department, said the package looked like a cooler with exposed wires. Pearson said the cooler was unattended for at least a few hours before an election worker reported it to police.
Authorities said a police dog found a second suspicious package later in the day, which authorities also detonated as a precaution. According to authorities, that device was a backpack containing trash, but was also destroyed by a robot operated by the Orange County Bomb Squad.
Police said they evacuated the library, filled with people waiting to vote, so they could investigate.
Poll workers and police did the best they could to move the line a safe distance from the building, while maintaining the order.
Police also closed several roads in the immediate area to make sure everyone was safe from any possible threat.
At this time, authorities don't know if the packages were a threat or if they were deliberately placed.
Early voters were let back in to vote just before 4 p.m. and the early voting location is operating as normal.
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The Raymond James Women's Symposium kicked off Wednesday with a schedule of events designed to make it clear to women advisors from the newly acquired Morgan Keegan that they are a welcome addition to the firm.
Now in its 18th year, the symposium is seeing its largest attendance ever, at more than 300 individuals, 26 of whom were Morgan Keegan advisors until the merger became final in April. The popular three-day event, held at the Don CeSar Hotel in St. Pete Beach, Fla., also includes eight women advisors from firms such as Wells Fargo (WFC) and Morgan Stanley (MS), who are considering moving their books of business to Raymond James.
Raymond James Financial (RJF) said April 2 that it had completed the acquisition of Morgan Keegan from Regions Financial, paying $1.2 billion in cash. In an interview with Research magazine at the time, Raymond James COO Dennis Zank said he expected most of Morgan Keegan's 1,000 advisors to join Raymond James, and that 98% of the 600 Morgan Keegan reps presented with retention offers had signed a letter of intent to join the firm and that of the 98%, 96% had already submitted their paperwork to do so.
With the paperwork out of the way, the two corporate cultures joining at the Raymond James Women's Symposium focused on the positives of change. The first day's events, held in a sunny ballroom that was filled to capacity, were peppered throughout with laughter, many one-on-one conversations, and a feeling of camaraderie among women who were clearly eager to network with one another.
"Embrace change even when it's uncomfortable," said Susan Goodman, speaker and chief awareness officer of the training firm Pursue Possibilities, during the symposium's first workshop, a relaxed session that encouraged advisors new and old to define their investment strategy and use Raymond James tools such as Wealth Management Solutions and Asset Management Services to get there.
Also on hand to welcome Morgan Keegan advisors were three new Raymond James women advisors who told their own stories of why they decided to join the firm:
Marcia Person of Raymond James & Associates, the firm's employee channel, initially became an advisor because she realized when getting a divorce that she could do a better job than the advisor that her husband had hired. She walked into Smith Barney in 1994 with a psychology background and said, thinking that being an advisor would be equivalent to a sales job, "If you teach me, I can sell anything."
By 2009, when Smith Barney went through a merger, "we saw the culture evaporating," and Person spent 18 months talking to people at Raymond James about making a move before she came on board.
Person decided Raymond James would be a good fit after attending a post-quarterly earnings event at the home office. "When I went to that event, I had a change of attitude. I was surrounded by Raymond James people and I thought, 'Wow, it's 7:30 in the morning and all these people look excited to be here.' I have found Raymond James to be a wonderful alternative to Wall Street. When I hear the client comes first here, it's not just marketing."
Jeannie Holliday and Jodi Perez of Raymond James Financial Services, the firm's independent channel, joined Raymond James on July 18 from a small independent broker-dealer in Tampa Bay. Over the last four years, the small BD was bought out several times, and they grew tired of going through mergers.
"None of the independent firms can compete with Raymond James," Holliday said, asserting that RJ offers excellent securities research, well-priced variable annuities and good bond support. "Our clients weren't crazy about the paperwork, but they've made a lot positive of comments about Investor Access."
Perez added that she didn't want to come to Raymond James in the beginning, but that Holliday convinced her to just go and do the tour. "They showed us everything Raymond James has, and by the end of the day, I was like oh s**t, we're moving, because we had 2,200 accounts and I was thinking of all this paperwork. Everything Raymond James promised us, they came through with."
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First I am sorry for a low ball of a prize. I think designer work is worth much more than I can afford. Right now I am trying to launch a business that I have sunk alot of money, time, and energy in. I hope to work with the winner of this project on other things I have in the works including 3 websites that I will need designed within a month or two. I will be in a better financial stance at that point and will be able to pay what you guys are worth!
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My target audience is any orthodontist office. I will be cold calling offices to let them know about my service and will be referring them to the site for more information. Ultimately this will be my real first "point of contact" so as we all know a Logo is key for first impressions! My spill when calling will basically be ...
"we offer a service that automatically pulls all of your appointments from your patient management system, uploads them securely to our servers, and send out text and email reminders to the patients you will be seeing soon." That's just part of it of course but that is pretty much what the logo needs to reflect.
I was thinking of some kind of reminder reference in the logo itself. Like a clock, or a finger with a bow tie on it? I lack creativity so come up with something clever! I really appreciate the view and interest guys! Good Luck!
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- "Hey, my youth. Some boy dem, dei pon the corner an' ting, an' de boy dem sell some tings and ting, an' I gwa'an, an' I say...oh, dem nah wan' gimme my money an' ting. An' every corner my corner an' I want my money an' ting, ya know?"
- ― Real Badman, explaining the situation
Shadow is a mission in Grand Theft Auto IV given to protagonist Niko Bellic by Rastafarian Little Jacob from his apartment on Dillon Street in the Schottler district of Broker, Liberty City.
Mission objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Go to find the dealer in South Bohan.
- Follow the dealer to his supplier on foot. Stay behind him and try not to be seen.
- You spooked the dealer. Keep following him to the supplier. (if he detects you)
- The dealer is in the apartment block. Follow or chase, but don't attack him.
- Damage the lock to break open the door. (if he detects you)
- Take down the dealer and his suppliers.
- Dealer
- Suppliers
As Niko enters Little Jacob's apartment, he gets a surprise introduction from Badman by being pinned down, and threatened with a box cutter. Jacob assures Badman that Niko is friendly, so he helps Niko up off the floor. Jacob then explains that there are dealers dealing drugs in their turf and they are not getting any profits from them. Badman wants Niko to head to Wallkill Avenue in Fortside and follow a dealer to the supplier.
When he arrives, Niko follows the dealer as he heads back for more product to sell. Niko can go ahead and initiate a running chase with the dealer, or quietly tail him without being seen. If initiated, during the chase, the dealer will narrowly avoid being hit by a car, and will make a few attempts to stop Niko from catching him.
When Niko reaches the dealers apartment the door will either be unlocked or locked, depending on whether or not you spooked the dealer. If the door is locked, Niko will have to shoot the lock to open the door.
There are three men in the apartment that must be taken down.
When the job is done, Niko will call Jacob to inform him that the competition is finished.
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After the Mission
The reward for completing this mission is $250. The mission Russian Revolution is unlocked. (only if The Master and the Molotov is completed first.)
Also, you can now do friend activities with Jacob. You can also deliver packages for his drug operations, selecting the Job option on your phone.
- When entering Little Jacob's apartment, he is seen lying on the couch. It appears that he is watching scrambled porn on the TV with Tuff Gong radio playing over it.
- This mission is the first to involve travelling outside of the Broker-Dukes island.
- Roman Bellic will call during this mission asking if Niko wants to play pool with him, but Niko says that this is not the best time since he's following the dealer. The call serves no purpose other than as an ironic joke, similar to Little Jacob's calls in Have a Heart and I'll Take Her..., Brucie's call in Undress to Kill and Dining Out and Roman's other call in Rigged to Blow.
- When Roman calls, this alerts the dealer. To avoid this go to options on your phone and select silent. The phone will vibrate and not draw any attention to yourself. Or you can simply reject the call as there will be no thumbs down for Roman.
- After this mission Niko became member of the Jamaican Mafia and work as a hired gun and drug courier
- If anyone of them incapacitated on ground and not dead yet, the red dot still in the mini-map. But after all down (dead or alive), the mission will counts as done.


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Here is the latest installment in my Good News Friday series.
My first item comes from my old homeland, England, where the Queen awarded an OBE to British-Israeli Professor Penelope Ur, for her work in promoting the English language:
Prof. Penelope Ur was given an honorary nobility title from Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of her outstanding work as an English teacher, as well as her contribution in promoting greater cooperation between the Britain and Israel, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sunday.
Prof. Ur, 69, was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) Saturday for her work in the promotion of the English language. Buckingham Palace said that "Prof. Ur's fingerprints could be found in books, teaching methods and English education institutions all over the world."
Prof. Ur, better known as "Penny," was born and raised in Britain; but has spent the majority of her life in Israel, where she resides in Moshav Amnon in the Upper Galilee.
She first arrived in Israel for a short stay on a kibbutz as an Oxford Master's student. Since then and for more than three decades she has challenged educators to rethink what it means to teach a language, inspired generations of English teaching specialist as well as influencing English classrooms around the globe.
Ur said Saturday the her initial response was one of surprise and disbelief. However once she was convinced that she was, in fact, going to receive a nobility honor, she immediately expressed her gratitude for the decision.
The decision, she added, represents a recognition of the importance of promoting high quality English education.
Kol hakavod to Professor Ur. As a British-Israeli myself, I applaud your dedication and hard work. Perhaps Prof. Ur could put her services to good use in editing, or rewriting, an English text-book for teaching English as a second language which erases all mention of Israel and replaces it with "Occupied Palestine". (Story updated here).
Still on the general subject of education, my second item relates to group of 66 Indian post-doctoral students who will be coming to Israel for research purposes:
NEW DELHI: Sixty-six post-doctoral scholars from India will travel to Israel in the coming months to pursue research at top universities. The researchers will be sponsored by the government of Israel which has announced three-year scholarships grants for Indian scholars.
According to officials from Embassy of Israel, this is the first programme of its kind, bringing advanced Indian researchers to Israel in a wide range of topics.
In the framework of this scholarship programme, fellows from IIT Delhi, Osmania University, Universities of Delhi, Lucknow, Calcutta, Mumbai and other leading academic institution in India will conduct research in a wide variety of fields, including immunology, genetics, neurobiology, bio-informatics, computer sciences, law and economics.
The research will be undertaken at leading universities in Israel, namely, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv University, Haifa University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Open University of Israel.
Universities in Israel have continued to figure highly in global rankings, with three included in the top 100 universities of the world and a total of six among the top 500 as per 2011 data.
This is great news for both Israel and India. The educational cooperation will certainly benefit both countries, and the Indian students will hopefully become goodwill ambassadors for Israel when they return home to the world's largest democracy, while providing Israel with more insight into their own country. Well done to all concerned for this very bright idea, particularly Education Minister Gideon Saar.
My last item for this week is the excellent news that Israel launched its first major natural gas platform in the Tamar gas field this week.
Israel has launched its first major natural gas platform in the coveted Tamar gas field in the Mediterranean, raising hope of energy independence, Israel National News reported.
The platform, taller than Israel's highest building, is located 24 miles west of the southern port city of Ashkelon and is scheduled to receive gas in April 2013.
"With faith, perseverance, and vision, we have achieved Israeli energy independence," said a jubilant Yitzhak Tshuva, controlling shareholder of Delek Group Ltd., an Israeli energy conglomerate.
"Natural gas will not only make electricity production more efficient, cleaner, and cheaper, it is a giant step toward freeing us from dependence on foreign energy sources, especially Arab oil," said Israeli Infrastructures Minister Uzi Landau.
The Tamar gas field was Israel's first major hydrocarbon discovery within its territory, spurring the discovery of other major fields such as Leviathan.
As Yitzchak Tshuva said, the positive implications for Israel of these natural gas discoveries and their development are enormous. Kol hakavod to everyone involved in this vitally important national project.
And on that happy note, Shabbat shalom everyone!


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|Maintenance that glistens in the light
Performing some maintenance this weekend on the bikes, I set this new cog cluster for the cruisemuter down on a black surface, and was struck by how pretty it was. Even though it is older, seven speed technology, I also wondered if that isn't more gear combinations that I ever need, or use. Even on somewhat hilly rides, I end up using about five combinations, or six: the smallest two or three cogs in the middle ring, a couple of those in the big ring, then a couple of the biggest cogs in middle or smallest ring for bailout combo on a really steep hill. Not even close to 21, let alone 24, or 30. So in that respect, an internally geared hub with 8 speeds should be more than enough for me, generally speaking. But on the other hand, derailleurs are pretty easy to work on, easy to maintain, and reasonable to replace. I don't have to rebuild a wheel when the cogs wear out, or if the derailleur needs replacing.
Does it make sense that I enjoy my single speed, my fixed gear, and my multi-speed bikes in their own ways? That some times when I'm riding the fixed gear I miss the granny gear, and some times when I'm riding a derailleur bike I missed the single speed? Between fixed, seven, eight, and ten speed setups, right now, the eight speed chain would appear to represent the sweet spot of cost, technological evolution, and longevity. Ten speed chains cost too much and wear out too fast. Most single speed setups work fine with an eight speed chains, and they are believed to last longer. The point of mentioning the chain discussion isn't that I am sold on one particular size, but rather that I think it would be better if I could just settle on one size that would work on all my bikes. That's going to be tricky as long as I keep the road bike with 30 speeds. So maybe two sizes. Depending on how many speeds I really need.


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Maine lottery officials decide against instant tickets called 'Kwikies'
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Mainers can still get instant scratch lottery tickets, but they can't get "Kwikies."
The Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations announced Monday that the state's instant tickets will not be branded as "Kwikies."
Director Gerry Reid that the initial response to the new brand name was positive, but that it quickly became apparent that the suggestive name was offensive. The slang term "quickie" refers to a sexual encounter, and the lottery name didn't go over well with clerks or customers.
As Reid put it, "the negative concerns were clear" after getting feedback on the branding proposal. The name was never officially implemented by the Maine State Lottery.


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GOATING GREEN- 16 Tales of Local Backyard Innovation
Bamboo sometimes gets a bad rap as an invasive species that'll take a mile of your yard if you give it an inch, but bamboo gardener Kevin Cox says the plant's just misunderstood. In addition to its utility as a green building material that regenerates faster than traditional hardwoods, the young shoots can be cooked and eaten. Controlling it is key, says Cox, who maintains 18 varieties of bamboo in his own yard in the Woolen Mills neighborhood. The trick, he says, is cutting the rhizomes– the runners that spread just an inch or two underground and off of which come roots and shoots. Using a pick axe, Cox digs a trench around the desired perimeter each late summer to early fall and severs the rhizomes, then knocks down any undesired new shoots that come up.
"I control it and it doesn't go into the neighbors's yard," he says.–Courteney Stuart
If your home's gone green, the next place to look might be the driveway. And if Oliver Kuttner has his way, you could have a vehicle that gets 100mpg parked there sometime in the next few years. Kuttner and his Edison2 team won $5 million in the Progressive Automotive X Prize on Thursday, September 16 with their Very Light Car. Weighing around 700 pounds and designed from scratch and hand-built with recyclable parts, many of which were manufactured in Lynchburg machine shops, the car runs on a combustion engine. Kuttner's next focus is developing the Very Light Car for mass production with a target price of under $20,000.
Winning the X Prize, a thrilled Kuttner promises, "is only the beginning." –C.S.
Harvest Art at The Bridge
"It's the perfect place to have a garden," says Blue Ridge Backyard Harvest co-founder Guinevere Higgins, looking around at a scattering of cardboard tubes behind The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative gallery. "We've had our eye on it for awhile."
The pairing of The Bridge, one of the leading communities supporting local art initiatives, with BRBH, the area's newest backyard gardening consultants, is decided way to welcome fall to Charlottesville. In past years, The Bridge, has hosted "Harvest Month" in October, with different events and exhibits curated with emphasis on local farming and gardening programs. This year, BRBH has set up an outdoor exhibition of their innovative planters. Using tubes donated by Allied Concrete, BRBH will grow fall crops– lettuce, cilantro, beets– in cylinders of varying heights by covering one end with mesh and filling the tube with wood chips and 4-6 inches of soil and compost.
"In October, [The Bridge] is hosting two dinners that Rick Easton of Sub Rosa Bread is doing the cooking for," explains Mike Parisi, co-founder of BRBH. "They'll be Mexican-themed, and the point is to sit down, take your time, eat dinner, have conversations, slow down."
While a majority of the crops grown will be used in the dinners, the rest will be donated to Bridge volunteers– and, with the installation up through November, the entire concept, from seedling to table, will be art. –Stephanie Marie Garcia
Roof reservoir
First the green roof was the conservation rage. Architect Bill Atwood takes it up a notch with roof reservoirs. "The next green is blue," says Atwood. "It's all about water." Atwood's 10.5 West Main project at the site of the former Under the Roof will come with reservoirs and permaculture–- capture your own water, grow your own food. And in a community with a years-long debate about future water supply, Atwood advises putting the new reservoir on the roofs of Charlottesville. "It would cost less," he says, "and it's all here." –Lisa Provence
Spray foam, earn tax credits, too
When the siding and windows on Jim Bain's 1980s house in Raintree needed to be replaced, he further sealed the deal with spray foam in the attic and basement. The spray foam portion of the job cost $2,500–- but the good news is a $1,500 energy tax credit for work done by the end of the year, and reduced electric bills for years to come. And daughter Chloe, 9, got new windows in her room. Bain's upgrade was done in July, and while his most recent electric bill includes only a partial month with the new windows and foam, it moved him into the "most efficient" category in his neighborhood. –L.P.
Recycle your house
Maybe you've raised your family in your classic '60s rancher– or classic 19th-century farmhouse– and want to stay there in your senior years without blowing your fixed income on the electric bill or falling in the tub. That's what Builderfish's Todd Hawkins and Jonathan Fishbeck are talking about when they say recycle your house to meet your current life cycle. For about the price of a year in a nursing home, why not improve the energy efficiency of your aging abode and make it ADA accessible for spending those golden years in the comfort of your own home? –L.P.
Market stamps
Eating local's great and all, but it's long been a luxury for those with expendable income who can shop wherever they choose– and sometimes pay top prices. This year, however, that changed as City Market began accepting food stamps and government subsidy food debit cards– the value of which is then doubled with tokens from the City.
"I was happy to know that I could keep those funds within the city that I live and to be able to provide my family with fresh food," says one shopper who used her government debit card on a recent City Market foray and who asked that her name not be used. –C.S.
Coop co-op
In spring 2009, four north downtown families built a coop and filled it with chickens. A year and a half– and hundreds of eggs– later, "it's working out great," says Gillian Grimm, whose husband, architect Will Grimm, designed the coop to be weatherized, green (it collects rainwater!), and predator proof. It currently houses 11 chickens and each of the families takes turns collecting eggs– it works out to about a dozen per family each week– with shared coop cleaning responsibilities as well.
"It's about the same amount of work as having a cat with a catbox," says Grimm, who says the chicken experience has been a bonding one for children and parents alike.
Apparently, neighbors who get eggs together, stick together. –C.S.
How to: Fall-ify your Chickies
"There's not a lot of seasonal difference for chickens– it's not like a garden in that way," explains Charlottesville League of Urban Chicken Keepers founder Guinevere Higgins. "But eventually it will get colder."
As an avid "chicken enthusiast", Higgins gives chicken owners her top tips for ensuring your birds will have a fruitful fall:
-Make sure your coop is properly winterized. Proper ventilation (i.e., not full of holes) is key.
-Roosts should be 2-4 inches wide to prevent frostbite on little chicken feet.
-As the grass dies and bugs fly south, diet will change– so make sure to supplement bird diet with food scraps and protein (chickens, contrary to popular belief are not vegetarians).
-As the light fades and the day gets shorter, chickens will start laying less– a cost-efficiency point to keep in mind.
-Let your chicken loose in your garden– they'll eat bugs, clear out unruly beds, and add crucial fertilizers to the soil when you're ready to put your beds to rest for the year.
-Another Charlottesville chicken myth: the city ordinance about chickens only mandates that they be enclosed–- the ordinance says nothing about the number of chickens you can keep. So while your neighbors might not like you, you are allowed to house as many chickens as your backyard can hold. –S.M.G.
Power down
It might seem counterintuitive for a company that sells power to try to get you to use less, but that's just what Dominion's doing with several initiatives. The first: a bimonthly addendum to your bill that shows how your home stacks up with similar houses nearby. The graphed data is being sent to half of this area's 50,000 Dominion powered homes, which have been equipped with new "smart meters" that allow the energy company to get real time data.
"What we're trying to find out," says Dominion's Alison Kauffman, "is if we empower you with your data– does the customer feel empowered to make changes?"
The second initiative is known as the Smart Cooling Rewards program in which the power company uses a specially installed sensor to automatically turn off A/C units in intervals during peak hours. While Kauffman says participation may not result in a decreased bill, participating customers are given a $40 voucher as a reward.
Finally, says Kauffman, Dominion has partnered with various local stores including Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and Lowe's to discount CFL bulbs, which use far less energy and last longer than traditional bulbs. –C.S.
Shady deal
A tree on the southwest side of your house is another way to reduce the A/C bill over the years. Ivy Corner's Judy Olson recommends zelkova serrata, a vase-shaped variety brought in from Japan after Dutch elm disease devastated the American elm. "I have two of them over my porch," says Olson. "They provide shade in the summer from the west side, and in the winter when they've dropped their leaves, they let in sun." Better news: the leaves are small and don't make a big mess in the fall. This medium-fast grower can reach 35 feet tall– or more. –L.P.
Plugging the leaks
The blower-door test is a key part of the home-energy audit to find out just how leaky a house is. "A lot of homeowners want to improve their homes' energy efficiency, and don't know where to start," says Key Green Energy owner Laura Fiori. "We make a written report of recommendations in priority order so the homeowner will know which upgrade will save the most energy." The audit can run between $350 and $600– but after repairs, if energy costs improve by 20 percent, the house can by certified by nonprofit Local Area Energy Program. "It can increase the value of the home," notes Fiori. [Wilson Ratliff pictured.] –L.P.
Five Tips for Fall-Proofing Your Garden
Top tips from Blue Ridge Backyard Harvest:
1) Do a soil test– the winter is a great time to build your soil if you have any deficiencies.
2) Grow a fall crop and start from transplants. Kale, chard, lettuce, beets, and carrots are your best options.
3) Grow a cover crop or mulch your garden so it's not bare during the winter time– it will keep your soil in place so it doesn't blow away. Both these options will keep your nutrients in place.
4) Build a cold frame (a raised bed, with a top covered with glass or plastic)– this will extend your season and allow you to grow plants longer into the colder months.
5) Read up, process what happened in your garden over the past season, and plan for the next season! –S.M.G.
Intensive gardening for fun and profit
How does master gardener Diane LaSauce love her organic raised beds? Let her count the ways: Improved crop quality, top-notch soil, fewer critters, great water retention, and easy on the back. And they look good, too. LaSauce places buckets around her beds to capture rainwater, a method that's easier for her to manage than the rain-barrel route. Her beds pack enough produce to make her a regular at the City Market selling her Free Union Produce and Gourmet Edibles, like the chive-artichoke-walnut pesto. –L.P.
No kidding
Goats offer milk, cheese, fertilizer, companionship, and weed-removal. And thanks to a unanimous September 7 City Council vote, they became legal in Charlottesville. Previously, goats— along with swine and sheep— were banned. And that was just fine with St. Clair Avenue resident Naomi Roberts. "Farm animals belong on the farm, not in city yards," said Roberts. But fellow speaker-to-Council Clint Sherrill opined that goats are better than dogs. "If you're in favor of dogs," he said, "you should have no problem with goats." The local chapter of a group called the Goat Justice League spearheaded the law, which limits residents to three goats, which must be dehorned, under 100 pounds, and neutered if male. –Hawes Spencer
Calling all Bikers! Calling all Gardeners!
"We had been doing the garden tours, which is awesome," explains Charlottesville Open Garden Project co-founder Rachel Greer. "But I think there is a certain limitedness about it– there is a lot of other gardening happening in this town, all these great community gardens that no one really knows about."
While the Cville Open Garden Project has found success invading the home gardens of accomplished and innovative local gardeners, co-founders Greer, Mike Parisi, and Guinevere Higgins craved a tour with a bit more interaction for the tourist. With the plethora of community gardens thriving around town, the Open Garden Project found a way to bring visibility to the communal garden by bringing together avid gardeners and bikers together to raise awareness. Their October tour will include five local gardens– the UVA Community Garden, Hereford Residential College Mini-Farm, Buford Schoolyard Garden Project, The Haven's PATCH Garden, and QCC's Garden of Goodness.
"There's a totally different kind of goal for community gardening– a lot more at play in terms of who you're feeding, how you're feeding them," says Greer. "It's really important to see how community gardens are practiced all across town, and to see them in relation to one another."
Biking was a natural vehicle for such a far-flung tour. Greer, Parisi, and Higgins found themselves interested in the various ways the City of Charlottesville has been attempting to make the area more bike-friendly, and found warm reception from officials and community groups to their proposed cross-town tour. The combination of biking and gardening is a multi-pronged approach at creating a healthy, informed, active community, according to Greer.
Reservations for the tour are recommended, and more information can be found at cvillebiketour.blogspot.com. –S.M.G.


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Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made his first appearance on "The Daily Show" Monday, where he discussed his new memoir, his time in office, and starting a think tank that focuses on global and state policy.
Host Jon Stewart started the segment by asking the question that was on everyone's mind since the release of Schwarzenegger's memoir, titled "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story."
"Obviously what everybody's thinking about when they look at this is what were you thinking with 'Jingle All the Way?'" Stewart joked.
U.S. & World
Despite the jest, Stewart did touch on one of Schwarzenegger's revelations in his memoir, namely his affair with the family's longtime housekeeper, and his decision to "dredge up all this terrible stuff."
"Couldn't you just go to the future and then come back and kill that Arnold?" Stewart quipped, in reference to the actor's "Terminator" franchise.
The 65-year-old actor said he was never one to dodge his problems, and the best way to get the details of the affair out in the open was through his memoir.
"My book, it's all about a great immigrant story, about all the successes, but also in there is all my failures and the mistakes that I've made," Schwarzenegger said.
The former governor also talked about his new think tank at the University of Southern California, aptly named the Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, which aims to study "how to bring both parties together to make decisions."
Schwarzenegger said the think tank was inspired in part by his experiences in Sacramento. Citing an example of unfunded pension liability, Schwarzenegger likened it to taking care of things in the past, rather than looking toward the future.
"I keep coming back to this idea if only someone could come back from the future," Stewart mused.
To see Schwarzenegger and Stewart talk shop, check out the clip below, courtesy of Comedy Central:


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James Currier necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 506 diseños de 117 diseñadores freelance.
Ooga or OOGA
We are a creative, fun, intelligent and classy technology greenhouse in San Francisco. We start multiple online consumer internet companies including http://www.wonderhill.com and http://www.medpedia.com. Our current site is very ghetto: http://www.oogalabs.com
This logo will establish our style for everything we do... the website, the t-shirts, the notebooks, and business cards.
The first job of our logo is to give us style that will help us recruit software engineers and designers to be full time employees and build websites. They want a cool, exciting, sophisticated place to work. The second job of our logo is to make us trustworthy yet exciting to the technology investors and press. They want us to look smart, yet breaking new ground with energy.
Software engineers, technology journalists and investors, financial journalists.
The logo should simple say "OOGA" or "Ooga" and have a design that includes dots, circles or ovals. This is the reference source.
That logo won our last contest and we like the flexibility of the concept. But we want some significant variations on that logo:
1) COLORS of the DOTS must be different. We like bright, energetic colors like the ones shown there, but those are Google colors exactly. We need to have energetic, arresting colors, but not Google colors exactly. And we do not like purple.
2) PATTERN of the DOTS can be different. We like this pattern OK, but there are a million different ways to use dots around the OOGA and we'd like to see many explorations of that.
3) SHAPE of the DOTS can be different. We like circles very well, but we'd like to see some other ideas.
4) TREATMENT of the DOTS must be different. The dots in the demonstration logo are flat. The winning dots will look cooler, maybe 3D, maybe like drops on clean surface, maybe like small buttons, the will have something to show quality, intelligence, coolness.
5) TYPEFACE of the LETTERS must be different. We need some type that is strong, confident and easilty readable (this is important), but looks a little bit unique.
6) COLORS of the LETTERS. The OOGA letters can be colored, black or dark grey. Try something different.
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Senate OKs gun bill; House debate goes on
After a six-hour debate on the gun control, mental health and school safety bill Wednesday, the state Senate voted 26-10 in favor of the bill and sent it to the House.
The 151 House legislators debated the bill late into the night.
"The tragedy in Newtown demands a powerful response. It demands a response that transcends politics," Senate President Pro Tempore Donald Williams, D-Brooklyn, said Wednesday.
Legislators in favor of the bill said they recognized that no one was completely happy with the bill, but that it was a response to the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School and would be the most comprehensive bill in the nation to address gun control, mental health and school safety.
Those opposed to the bill said it would not prevent another Newtown tragedy and that mental health issues should have been addressed more strongly.
In the Senate, six of the 14 Republicans and 20 of the 22 Democrats voted in favor of the bill. The two Democrats who opposed the bill were state Sen. Andrew Maynard, D-Stonington, and state Sen. Cathy Osten, D-Sprague.
"I went out and I talked to people on every side of the issue for the last two-and-a-half months, and at the end of that process, I had to cast the most challenging vote of my legislative career," Maynard said.
The people who have committed mass murders in the recent past have been young men who seemed socially isolated and appeared to be taking their frustrations out on the world, he said. This bill addresses responsible gun owners in the state and wouldn't actually prevent a tragedy such as Newtown from occurring again, Maynard said.
"I think people hell-bent on doing these kinds of acts are not the sort of people who will pay much attention to new laws," Maynard said.
Osten said there is a clear problem with mental health services in this state. Adam Lanza was troubled for years and was ignored, she said.
"Adam Lanza was the one who killed those 20 young children and six adults," Osten said. "He is the one we should hold accountable today, not the legal gun owners in this state."
Williams said the bill does address mental health issues and "for those saying we cannot move forward on gun proposals because it (the tragedy) is all about mental health, I would strongly disagree."
If the laws under discussion and vote Wednesday had been in effect before the Sandy Hook massacre, Lanza's mother could not have purchased an AR-15 type assault rifle or high-capacity magazines with more than 10 rounds, Williams said.
Newtown parents attending the session said the bill was a good start, but there is still more to be done.
Nearly in tears, Jessica Pinkney, whose daughter is a first-grader at Middle Gate Elementary in Newtown, said, "My daughter … she starts soccer up again this spring, and it's very sad because there are five girls that won't be playing soccer anymore, and it's just upsetting."
Her niece was in one of the Sandy Hook classrooms during the shooting. She survived, but she heard everything that happened and is now having night terrors, Pinkney said.
"My mom lost her best friend, Mary Sherlach," Pinkney said. "We have been friends with the Sherlachs for 30 years."
Sherlach was the school psychologist at Sandy Hook, one of six adults killed that day at the school.
Her husband, William Sherlach, was one of the family members of Sandy Hook victims who came to the state Capitol on Monday to ask that a ban on the possession of high-capacity magazines with more than 10 rounds be included in the bill.
That measure did not make it into the proposal.
Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, who represents Newtown, said he couldn't adequately describe how he felt after the bill was passed in the Senate.
"There have been a lot of hours put into the bill, a lot of hours put into meeting with people, talking to people, whether it is (a) town hall meeting or public meetings or with experts," he said.
There are still people who think the bill goes too far and others who think it doesn't go far enough, he said. Citizens and elected officials will continue to have the right to advocate for their beliefs, he said.
The Capitol was filled with hundreds of gun advocates throughout the day who opposed the bill. They came to have their voices heard, said Robert Crook, executive director for the Coalition of Connecticut Sportsmen.
Constituents could be the reason senators voted as they did on Wednesday, said state Sen. Andrea Stillman, D-Waterford, who voted in favor of the bill.
"I am sure constituent input had certainly some influence on the way we all voted," she said.
Osten said many from the rural 19th District have reached out to her. This bill puts people who purchase weapons for hunting and competition at risk, she said.
Osten said she would like to say that the bill makes changes so that "no one would have to see another dead 6-year-old, that no one would have to respond to a tragedy as significant as what happened down at Sandy Hook. But this legislation does not provide that protection, in my opinion. It puts at risk legal gun owners."
As a former correction officer, she said one of the problems is that criminals are able to bargain away the gun charges against them. "We can create a registry of those who commit crimes, but if we don't find them guilty of weapons charges, the registry will be left empty," she said. The bill proposes a statewide dangerous weapons offender registry.
She said this bill also does nothing to stop the daily gun violence in urban cities.
State Sen. Art Linares, R-Westbrook, said the bill created "unnecessary harm" for law-abiding citizens.
"I do believe we need to head in the direction of improving our mental health system in the state of Connecticut," he said.
The bill, House Bill 1160, proposes universal background checks, an expansion of the assault weapons ban and a ban on the sale of high-capacity magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. The bill also requires background checks for the purchase of ammunition.
The bill would expand mental health programs and more tightly monitor how insurance companies provide mental health services. Schools would have access to more funds for school security infrastructure and would be required to maintain safety plans.
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A 10 highly detailed and high resolution tree brushes for photoshop!
These 10 brushes are fantastically detailed, and high resolution. All brushes are the maximum allowed brush size for Photoshop (either 2500 wide, or 2500 tall).
They were created by taking High Resolution Raw pictures of trees on a grey cloudy day, to be perfect to make into brushes while preserving the maximum amount of detail of the trees. You can even spot little leaves and birds in them!


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In 1964-65, Eva Hesse lived with her husband, sculptor Tom Doyle, in Kettwig-on-the-Ruhr, Germany, at the invitation of a European art collector. Two datebooks from this period in the Allen Memorial Art Museum's collection are published for the first time as facsimile editions. They are accompanied by a third volume that includes an essay on their significance in the artist's career as well as full transcriptions and annotations.
Yale University Press, published in association with the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. vol 1 (1964): 318 pp.; vol 2 (1965): 183 pp.; vol 3 (transcriptions and annotations): 244 pp. Cloth: $50.00


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My nephew Bill Overman and his son Will are featured.
"We were going to head out this morning but we saw it was going to snow in the higher elevations," said Jeff Ashley from western Tennessee. "We decided to stay another night and see if we could come up here and play in the snow. This just put the topping on the cake."
Ashley and hundreds of others enjoyed several inches of snow from Hurricane Sandy that piled up in the higher elevations of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Monday the distinct line of snow started at elevations greater than 3,000 feet. At least four inches accumulated at Newfound Gap at the Tennessee and North Carolina state line where the elevation is more than 5,000 feet.
Newfound Gap Road eventually closed Monday afternoon with temperatures in the lower 20s and winds of more than 20 miles per hour. The GSMNP frequently shuts down the road between Gatlinburg and Cherokee, NC, during winter because the Park does not use salt on roads for environmental reasons.
"We have sand and snow plows. We keep the road open as long as it is safe. Conditions can change at the top in a very short amount of time, so people should always check our website or twitter feed to make sure the road is open," said Dana Soehn, GSMNP spokesperson.
The park is keeping a close eye on road conditions and also on those who are traveling through the park on foot. This is a popular time of year for long-distance backpackers to come through the park on the Appalachian Trail.
"I'm hiking the Appalachian Trail and it was 80 degrees two days ago. We were sweating. Then this [snow] came down last night," said Will Overman of Virginia Beach, VA.
Overman was joined on this leg of his hike by his father, Bill. Both men became aware of the possibility of severe weather through word of mouth. Yet, sudden snow accumulations of up to eight inches from Hurricane Sandy managed to sneak up on the hikers.
"You hear it through the grapevine. We heard about the hurricane and heard about the cold front. But we didn't know it was going to do this," said Overman. "It's about five days of hiking in the Smokies and you're about 5,000 to 6,000 feet the entire time. There has been a lot of snow and wind."
Backcountry logbooks indicate more than 50 hikers are dredging through the snow and possible roadblocks.
"We're expecting it to be a heavy wet snow that is putting a lot of pressure on those trees," said Soehn. "With the wind gusts it is anticipated we might have some trees coming down."
Fortunately, Overman said both he and his father came prepared enough to push on through whatever Mother Nature and Hurricane Sandy throw their way.
"We've got [snow] poles, boots, gaiters, down jackets, a good tent, and Gore-Tex," said Overman. "You stay warm when you're moving."